Churchill Review 2015 by Churchill College

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 52

2015

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CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 52 | 2015

“It’s certainly an unusual honour and a distinction that a college bearing my name should be added to the ancient and renowned foundations which together form the University of Cambridge.” Sir Winston Churchill, 17 October, 1959

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

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FROM THE MASTER

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THE COLLEGE YEAR

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My Career since Churchill

Common People

Bumbo and Judas

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Floral Churchill

Archives Centre: Documenting Churchill’s century and beyond

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IN MEMORIAM

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Condolences

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Professor David Stoddart

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Professor Simon Dentith

Sir Martin Gilbert

MEMBERS’ NEWS

Development Report Donations 2014-15

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Alumni Officer’s Report

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The Møller Centre: CEO’s Report

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New Fellows 2014-15

Overseas Fellows 2014-15

Who’s Who in Churchill

Clubs and Societies

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The MCR Photo Competition

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IN THE BACK COLLEGE EVENTS

Symposium in Memory of Professor Tony Kelly

The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes

Professor Donald W. Cameron – and corrections

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JCR and MCR Reports 2014-15

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WHO’S WHO 2014-15 STUDENT LIFE

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report

The Yuval Story

FEATURES

From our Overseas Fellows

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Senior Tutor’s Report Bursar’s Report

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Information for alumni and past Fellows

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EDITORIAL

This has been a special year in the history of the College: the first in which Churchill has had a woman as Master. It’s a source of pride that Churchill, the first of all the Oxbridge men’s colleges to vote to admit women, now has Athene Donald as its Head. This distinguished and high-profile scientist, campaigner for women in science, is a beacon not only for Churchillians past and present but for everyone who reads her in the national press and hears or sees her in other media. In this issue we have articles on urban sustainability, family history, speech therapy, intellectual property, and on our famous alumnus Andrew Sinclair. And of course we celebrate the building of our new court, Cowan Court. This is the fifth issue of the Churchill Review that I’ve edited and is my last – I’m stepping down as Editor. Retirement and research beckon! To all those who’ve sent appreciative messages and made suggestions for further improvements – thank you. Special thanks go to the many contributors of the last five years; it’s been a pleasure to correspond with you and get to know you. I owe particular gratitude to Mark Goldie, the guardian of the historical soul of the College, who’s given steers of various kinds and written splendid articles for the Review. And finally the Review is indebted to its photographers Barry Phipps and Gavin Bateman; to Noelle Caulfield, the Editor’s right-hand woman; and to the Development Office team, who provide constant and indispensable help. Alison Finch

Review Editor Alison Finch, Fellow of Churchill 1972-93 and 2003 – ; current position: Title G Fellow and Honorary Professor of French Literature, University of Cambridge

EDITORIAL

FROM THE MASTER

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe I had extreme good fortune in taking up one of the best jobs going.â&#x20AC;?

FROM THE MASTER

What a wonderful first year my husband, Matthew, and I have enjoyed in this fantastic College. We moved in during September to the newly refurbished Lodge. It was well I had that month to get oriented and start to get familiar with the ways of the College as, come the start of term, I realised what a fullon and exciting job being Master is. This is a thriving community to be part of and this year has had some bumper successes – or perhaps that should that be bumping, as I’ll explain below. This College is at heart about education, so it gives me enormous pleasure to report that our exam results are even more spectacular this year, the best ever, I am informed by the Senior Tutor.We came a magnificent third in the Tompkins Table, a credit to everyone, students and teachers alike. However, there is nothing to be complacent about, and in particular we have to worry about admissions for the future. Not only is the approaching loss of AS marks, due to changes in government policy, going to make the admission tutors’ jobs much more difficult, but I am concerned that the percentage of young women we admit is a disappointing 35%. We are looking into measures to try to attract the cream of sixth-form girls to apply to the College as first choice. But College life is, of course, not just about results in Tripos and I am pleased to report other successes. Let’s start with the Bumps, to expand on my remarks above: none of the boats got bumped in either the Lents or the Mays. Fantastic in itself, but even better – the College won both the Marconi and Pegasus Cups in the Mays for their spectacular results, with three boats winning their blades. I observed the joyous mood of the Boat Club Dinner myself when Matthew and I attended the meal after the close of the May Bumps, a first for us. On site, the new court is slowly rising to be ready for occupancy next summer. I am really grateful to the many of you who have contributed to the campaign to fund this building and in particular I am grateful to alumnus and Benefactor Fellow Michael Cowan. In recognition of his extreme generosity, contributing more than half of all the funds raised for the building, the building is to be known

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as Cowan Court.The court will add an extra sixty-eight rooms to the stock of accommodation on site, a welcome addition for both students and the conference trade. The extension of the Møller Centre is also now completed. It was opened in May by Ane Maersk Mc-Kinney Uggla, daughter of Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller whose original donation, through the Møller Foundation, enabled the main part of the Møller Centre to be built. The day after the opening Ane was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the College. We are extremely grateful to her and the Møller Foundation for their continued support of the Centre and the College. The extension looks wonderful, completely in keeping with the main building, and we have also been able to refurbish and refresh some of the rooms and enlarge the kitchen space; plus, there has been some substantial landscaping around the building. I have learned, since my arrival, just how important (and successful) both the College’s and the Møller Centre’s conference trade is for the financial well-being of the College. We remain in good shape and are able to continue to provide the support for the students which contributes so significantly to their wellbeing: tutorial, nurse and counsellor support, for instance; bursaries and hardship funds. These matter as much as ever and we need to continue fund-raising at full tilt if we are to ensure the community continues to flourish on all fronts. On that point, I should welcome our new Development Director John Pennant, who arrived in the College shortly after me. He has done sterling work this year already and will have been directly or indirectly, through his team, in touch with many of you.We are constantly trying to work out the best ways to reach our alumni and are running events around the country and abroad (with myself and other Fellows involved) to keep your links with the College strong. This year has been important for the Archives as well as the College. We are delighted to have received the personal papers from the estate of Margaret Thatcher in lieu of payment of death duties. The year was also significant for both Archives Centre and College as the fiftieth anniversary of our Founder’s death was marked. There were events in January, including a wreath-laying in Westminster Abbey, and a special edition of Masterchef featuring our Allen Packwood, Celia Sandys, Professor David Reynolds, Cita Stelzer and Randolph

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Churchill. Allen Packwood has played a major role in co-ordinating the many Churchill organisations to produce the programme of events to commemorate this fiftieth anniversary. The College’s and Møller Centre’s contributions are around Leadership: scientific, in the case of the College; young leaders for the Møller.This commemoration will conclude with a day in November 2015 when reports of all the participating organisations’ events will be brought together in central London. The Archives have been associated with two major exhibitions in this anniversary year: Churchill’s Scientists at the Science Museum in London, and Churchill and de Gaulle at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. However, we were also very saddened by the death of Churchill’s daughter Mary Soames last summer (2014) and I attended the Memorial Service for her in November in Westminster Abbey. It is a source of great regret to me that I never met her, but the links with the family continue strong and Churchill’s great-grandson Randolph Churchill has been elected an Honorary Fellow. I should add here that the other two Honorary Fellows elected this year are alums Sir Philip Sales and Sir Tony Atkinson, and we are delighted they both accepted our Fellowships. I look forward to meeting more of you in the future. This year saw me host events in Boston, New York, Brussels, London and Manchester, and as my travel plans for next year become clear I hope to host further events elsewhere. I believe I had extreme good fortune in taking up one of the best jobs going.

Professor Dame Athene Donald

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Cowan Court under construction

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year saw the opening of one of the most unusual collections ever to have been deposited in the Archives Centre.â&#x20AC;?

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Senior Tutor’s Report 2014-15 has been another excellent academic year. The College’s undergraduates attained our best-ever examination results. Just under 31% of our students were awarded Firsts in Tripos and just under 49% Upper Seconds. Well over 90% of our graduating students took a First or II.1 (against a national average of c. 75% and a Cambridge average of c. 85%). Lower Seconds, Thirds and Fails were at an historic low. Student results across the University continue to improve, and colleagues and I have debated the extent to which general improvement can be accounted for by our having latterly recruited a better, harder-working student body than ever before, the alternative hypothesis being grade-inflation.We have little doubt that sustained investment in UK education over nearly two decades, the growth of applications from Europe and our own heavy investment – in terms of money and especially personnel – in recruitment and selection have brought real benefits. But I know from my work in Cambridge Assessment that grade-inflation is something that has to be actively guarded against if grades are not to creep up marginally each year. So I suspect that there is an element of grade-inflation in our improvement but that this only explains it in part. In any case, comparison with other Cambridge Colleges provides an inflation-proof yardstick on how we are doing: in the Tompkins Table, we have been placed 3rd out of the 29 undergraduate-admitting Cambridge Colleges, which equals our previous highest ranking. Most importantly, students in all year-groups performed very strongly, as did both men and women (which is atypical among Cambridge Colleges), students in Arts as well as Sciences, and students from all social backgrounds. If we add to this the facts that we have among the highest proportions of students from state schools and colleges, and from widening-participation backgrounds, in the collegiate University, and that our intermission rate is the second lowest among the Colleges, we have multiple reasons to be thankful for our students’ sterling efforts, grateful for our good fortune and pleased with our overall operation. I have described before the roots of success, and I hope

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people will forgive some repetition: excellent recruitment and admissions (we were the sixth most heavily applied-to College this year, with some 740 applicants), and equally outstanding Direction of Studies and welfare support – the latter via our Tutors, Counsellor, Nurse and many others, not least the Porters and the College’s domestic staff. But increasingly I see this undergraduate academic success as reflective of our wider excellence as an institution. Outstanding research, a thriving graduate community, sound finances, excellent student accommodation, good food in Hall, the continued dynamism and imagination demonstrated by the Møller Centre (whose new work on leadership is exciting and could in the future have interesting and productive spin-offs for the education with which we provide our students), and the marked development of the College’s “internal” conference business, much of it with an educational focus: all contribute. Nonetheless, 2014-15 was not unclouded. Readers of Rolling Stone or virtually any other serious newspaper or magazine will know that this is the year in which the scourge of misogyny and harassment among students, especially in the US and the UK, came fully to the attention of a perhaps-startled world. In Churchill, as in many Cambridge Colleges, there have been incidents, but we have acted – I hope decisively – to deal with these and to address the underlying causation. At University level significant amendments to the disciplinary code are likely to be made in respect of harassment, in my view entirely appropriately.And latterly our concerns over the difficulty of recruiting and selecting even-handedly, fairly, transparently and effectively in the absence of the now-ditched AS Level (which has been so central to improvements in admissions since 2000) have been compounded by the deletion of Maintenance Grants and the likelihood that we will be faced from 2016-17 by government-backed targets for admission that we may consider unwise or unfair. But naturally the College will fight on, and I am confident that we will make the best of whatever is thrown at us.

Richard Partington

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Bursar’s Report Work is finally under way on Cowan Court, our new undergraduate accommodation building. I have just found the report I wrote for our development committee in May 2005, proposing this new building to house all our undergraduates, including our fourth years. Housing is an important element of the support we offer our students: with the economic boom in Cambridge, the growth of the biomedical campus, science parks and research in the University, as well as the growth in student numbers at Anglia Ruskin University, housing in the private sector is under severe pressure, and increasingly expensive. The workload of our undergraduates makes proximity to the library, dining-hall and other facilities really important. As those of you who have had children at other universities will know, finding and securing private accommodation for students is stressful, expensive and distracting. Thanks to the generosity of Michael Cowan and more than 300 other donors, including over seventy Fellows, we have been able to proceed with the new building, with about half the cost being covered by the private bond issue in which we participated earlier in 2014. Completion is scheduled for July 2016 and we will be posting regular photographic updates in the Development section of the College website. The College will be in surplus again this year. This will be more modest than in the last couple of years because of the disruptive work to extend and improve the Møller Centre during the year, work which was completed in June. The extensions included twenty new bedrooms, a much-improved kitchen and a serious amount of dedicated office space which will transform the operations of the business.The building was re-opened by Ane Uggla, the youngest daughter of the late Maersk McKinney-Møller and Chair of the Chastine and Maersk McKinney Møller Foundation, which generously funded half the cost of this massive project. Ane Uggla is one of our latest Honorary Fellows. Profits from the Centre come entirely to the College. During the year we have continued with work on the College’s longer-term strategy, looking in particular at the role of the College in relation to the new academic community coming to the North-West Cambridge development over the next few years and reviewing our strategy for graduate students. Cowan

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Court will free up about twenty bedrooms in South Court for graduate students, helping to increase our accommodation availability, but we are also now working on outline plans for a new graduate accommodation building at the edge of the site. As I flagged up in my report last year, I am working with our new Development Director John Pennant on support for students as the main theme of our fundraising over the next five years. The means-tested Cambridge bursaries again assisted over 110 Churchill undergraduates, but the College’s contribution to the scheme will increase to over £140,000 a year from 2016. The opportunity to name individual bursaries under this scheme remains, and there are possibilities of supporting particular groups – provided that we do not breach discrimination guidelines. For graduate students, we spent £47,000 from general income and about £137,000 from restricted income in 2014-15 to part-fund studentships. We partially supported twenty-three graduate students in total this year, with grants ranging from £1,500 to £13,000. On top of this, and to repeat what I said last year: we also put money aside to help individuals: those who for various reasons are ineligible for Bursaries (for example, estrangement from parents) or whose families have fallen on hard times, or whose PhD is overrunning and whose funding has run out. We help undergraduates and graduate students with the cost of participating in sport or music at University level (we also fund College clubs and societies to the tune of £55,000 a year). Increasingly we find ourselves being asked to help with costs associated with taking unpaid internships in the vacation, which are becoming a quite significant precursor to job-hunting. There is also a raft of worthy things students wish to do: thanks to the generosity of those who gave to the Tizard Fund, this is one area where we can help, and twenty-six students received grants from this Fund in the last year. We also put aside money each year for graduate students to take part in academic conferences. We have a few special funds for students in certain subjects, including Engineering, Medicine and Veterinary Science, and Law. In total the College paid out to students over £750,000 in student support last year, including contributions from the Winston Churchill Foundation of the

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USA (graduates) and from the University (Cambridge Bursaries), and of this total more than half came from College resources. Some members of the College have asked how wealthy the College is. As at 31 December 2014, the College had £83.5 million under investment. This sum includes just over £9 million invested from net debt from the private bond issue repayable in 2044. The split of investments was 84% in equities (including 11% in exchange traded funds), 0.5% in cash, 10% in commercial property and 5.5% in subsidiary companies. 58% of our equity investments are in the UK. This is driven by the fact that we have one substantial holding which was given to the College, and which has performed very well indeed in the last three years. We are obliged to retain it largely. For all investments, the Investment Advisory Committee, made up of six Fellows and three external members who are investment professionals, selects and monitors the performance of a mix of ten equity fund managers and also eight index-tracker funds. For short-term (operating cash) treasury management, the College employs Royal London Asset Management. Under the UK charity accounting definitions (our statutory accounts are on the College website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/official-documents/accounts/), of the total investments £34.8 million is actually endowment for restricted purposes. The remainder is expendable capital. We invest on a “Total Return” basis (income and capital growth). Following changes to charity law in 2000, the College (like many other larger UK charities) applied to be able to draw down income from its investments on a Total Return basis also.We apply the same formula as the University of Cambridge based on long-term (twenty-year) average returns, with an element of smoothing. The average draw-down is 4.25% of the capital value at the year end. The College has been fortunate to be able to generate at least 15% of its income since the 1970s from use of its undergraduate rooms and facilities during the vacations for conferences and events. The Møller Centre for Continuing Education, the major part of which was a donation from the Maersk and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation, operates as a separate subsidiary company and gifts its profits to the College under UK charity law.

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The College has had operating surpluses in the last three years and has been able to put aside money for the new court (now under construction) and studentships for graduate students, and to increase the endowment more generally. The private bond issue (£11 million), undertaken at the start of 2014 with sixteen other Cambridge Colleges, enabled the College to borrow long-term money to fund some future projects and to re-finance some existing bank loans used to extend the Møller Centre in 2006.The capital has to be repaid in 2044. In terms of the other Cambridge Colleges, Churchill College had the twelfthlargest funds under management at the end of June 2014. The size of total endowments ranged from £5 million to £975 million.The College achieved the highest actual return on investments in 2013-14. Over the last five years our return (capital and dividend income) on investments averaged 16.7%, after allowing for new capital invested. This year we have deployed the Hahn Fellowship Fund to support teaching and research in Economics, with financial support for the appointment of a University Lecturer,Alexei Onatski, as the first Frank Hahn Fellow in Economics in Churchill College, and also support for the research of our other College Lecturer in Economics, Nigel Knight. The College is immensely grateful to those alumni who serve as external members on the Investment Advisory, Finance and Audit Committees and the Møller Centre Board: Michael Cowan, Tim Ingram and Ric Berman on the Investment Advisory Committee, Tim Ingram and Eddie Powell on the Finance Committee and Eddie Powell again on the Audit Committee, to be joined by Neil Canetty-Clarke this year. The Møller Centre Board saw the retirement of David Woods last year and Tim How has joined in his place. Retirements from the staff this year have included Jackie Hayden (bedmaker), and this autumn the College Librarian, Mary Kendall, retires from her post after more than thirty years. Finally, in my capacity as Senior Treasurer of the Boat Club, I can report that the demolition of the old Boat House is now complete. Not only have we managed to set up a temporary (shipping containers) facility next to the

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construction site but we have also managed to house half our boats on temporary racking there. Despite the disruption, three of our boats achieved blades in the May Bumps and none was bumped. The new boathouse is now well under way, and we will be posting updates on the College website.

Jennifer Brook

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Archives Centre: Director’s Report The Power of Archivists This year saw the opening of one of the most unusual collections ever to have been deposited in the Archives Centre. Despite being in Russian, it has also rapidly proved to be one of the most popular, with 888 files viewed by 55 researchers during the last year. Our press release from July 2014 told the fascinating story behind the documents, and it seemed worth reproducing it in full here:

Mitrokhin’s KGB archive opens to public KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as “the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source” – will today open to the public for the first time. From 1972 to 1984, Major Vasiliy Mitrokhin (pictured) was a senior archivist in the KGB’s foreign intelligence archive – with unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence gathering operations. At the same time, having grown disillusioned with the brutal oppression of the Soviet regime, he was taking secret handwritten notes of the material and smuggling them out of the building each evening. In 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he, his family and his archive were exfiltrated by the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service. Now, more than twenty years after his defection to the UK, Mitrokhin’s files are being opened by the Churchill Archives Centre, where they sit alongside the personal papers of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Professor Christopher Andrew, the only historian to date allowed access to the archive, and author of two global bestsellers with Mitrokhin, said: “There are only two places in the world where you’ll find material like this. One is the KGB archive – which is not open and very difficult to get into – and the other

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is here at Churchill College where Mitrokhin’s own typescript notes are today being opened for all the world to see. “Mitrokhin dreamed of making this material public from 1972 until his death; it’s now happening in 2014. The inner workings of the KGB, its foreign intelligence operations and the foreign policy of Soviet-era Russia all lie within this extraordinary collection, the scale and nature of which give unprecedented insight into the KGB’s activities throughout much of the Cold War.”Among the nineteen boxes and thousands of papers being opened are KGB notes on Pope John Paul II, whose activities in Poland were closely monitored before his election to the Papacy; maps and details of secret Russian arms caches in Western Europe and the USA; and files on Melita Norwood, “the spy who came in from the Co-op”. Norwood, codename Hola, was the KGB’s longest-serving UK agent, who for four decades passed on classified information from her office at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association in Euston, North London, where nuclear and other scientific research took place. “The Mitrokhin files range in time from the immediate aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the eve of the Gorbachev era,” said Andrew. “Initially he smuggled his daily notes out on small scraps of paper hidden in his shoes.

Mitrokin’s notebook

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After a few months, he began to take them out in his jacket pockets, then buried them every weekend at the family dacha in the countryside near Moscow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The enormous risks in compiling his secret archive might well have ended with a secret trial and a bullet in the back of the head in an execution cellar. He was a dissident willing to make the most extraordinary sacrifice.â&#x20AC;? Vasiliy Mitrokhin was born in 1922. From 1948, he worked in foreign intelligence before being assigned to the foreign intelligence archives in the KGB First Chief Directorate. From 1972 until 1982 he was in charge of the transfer of these archives from the Lubyanka in central Moscow to a new foreign intelligence HQ at Yasenevo.Â Following his retirement in 1984, Mitrokhin organised much of this material geographically and, in ten volumes, typed out systematic studies of KGB operations in different parts of the world.

One of the pages from the Czechoslovakia files

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After his exfiltration to London, Mitrokhin continued to work on transcribing and typing his manuscript notes, producing a further twenty-six typed volumes, which, together with his notes, provided the basis for his publications with Professor Christopher Andrew.Vasiliy Mitrokhin died in January 2004. Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, said: “This collection is a wonderful illustration of the value of archives and the power of archivists. It was Mitrokhin’s position as archivist that allowed him his unprecedented access to and overview of the KGB files. It was his commitment to preserving and providing access to the truth that led him to make his copies, at huge personal risk. We are therefore proud to house his papers and to honour his wish that they should be made freely available for research.”

Allen Packwood

Archives Centre: Documenting Churchill's century and beyond John Eifion Jones examines the unique role of the Centre in British academic life This article should be read as an addendum to the excellent introduction in the Churchill Guide (p. 21). It takes the story forward. The Archives Centre is nowadays seen as a cornerstone of Churchill College’s work in Humanities subjects, and its unique role within British universities has helped raise the profile of the institution among benefactors around the world. Whereas funds for the College were raised by British and Commonwealth contributions, the Archives Centre was established entirely with American donations. Funding from the Middle East has become important too in recent years. It is a window on the past, but it is now also facing up to the twin challenges of the digital age: the opportunity to make its resources widely

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available; and the challenge of capturing ideas and debate in the ephemeral e-mail age. The Archives Centre is the nearest thing Britain has to an American presidential library, housing the personal papers of four British prime ministers. But it differs from them in being solely a study centre, not a museum or a political memorial. “We’re trying to build up a large interrelated collection illustrating how Britain worked at the top level in the twentieth century and beyond,” said Allen Packwood, Archives Director. In the early days, the Archives Centre was regarded by some as a sidelight to the College’s role as champion of science. But nowadays it is seen as an asset to Churchill, raising its profile among visitors and donors and giving it a unique aspect among Oxbridge colleges. It is a revelation to visitors to see facsimiles of Churchill’s greatest wartime speeches in a display at the College. They are typed out not as conventional prose, but in terse lines of blank verse. Churchill was reading poetry when he rallied the British people and their Allies with those words. It’s just one example of how examining original documents can shed new light on history. Churchill’s papers are kept behind the vault-like doors of the strong-room in around 2,500 boxes in secure storage in a controlled atmosphere. Margaret Thatcher’s papers are here too, in an even larger collection which reflects the massive expansion of bureaucracy within central government. The Centre had to build an extension to house them all, and now there’s space for more political greats. John Major’s collection is here, but not open, and Gordon Brown has pledged to lodge his papers at Churchill. Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s documents are here too, along with those of many other British political figures, left and right: Enoch Powell, Fenner Brockway, Julian Amery and Tam Dalyell among them. And the Archive also holds papers of some top administrators, such as Sir Maurice Hankey, cabinet secretary from 1915 until 1939. He truly must have been a witness to history.The breadth of the collection means the history of the time can be examined from several different perspectives. The collection, used by historians around the world, has given added weight to Churchill as a place to study twentieth-century British history, politics and also

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public policy. Its impact on literature also should not be overlooked. Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953, making him one of the twenty-nine Nobel prize-winners associated with the College. Appropriately, given that the College’s charter stipulates the emphasis on science and technology, the history of science is strongly represented here.The Second World War gave an urgent boost to scientific discovery.The collections of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, are here along with those of three Nobel scientists: Sir John Cockcroft – first Master of Churchill –, Sir James Chadwick and Sir Martin Ryle. “We collect from the Churchill era and beyond,” said Allen Packwood. “We are going after the political leaders of today. Politics, grand strategy and international relations are great strengths, along with the history of science and technology.” There are almost 600 different collections in the Churchill Archives Centre. But how government works is changing. In today’s world emails are taking over from paper memos and may prove to be more perishable. “One of the biggest changes we face is the move from paper to digital... for example, Gordon Brown’s papers become primarily an electronic archive after he moved to the Treasury,” says Packwood. However, the digital age is proving of benefit to historians too. Nobody is allowed beyond those strong-room doors to read Churchill’s papers. But they can now be read digitally in universities around the world.The papers have been preserved, photographed and catalogued in a project that took twenty-five years of archival work. Now the microfilms have been digitised in collaboration with Bloomsbury Publishing – “reinvesting Harry Potter in Winston Churchill” says Packwood – and are available via online subscriptions to institutions around the world, a move which also generates income for the Archives Centre. Around forty universities subscribe at an average cost of around £30,000. The Thatcher papers have also been digitised and are presently being released in stages. The Archives Centre has been self-funding from its inception. It is supported by its own endowments – the initial £1m endowment fund is now worth almost £2m – and by support from philanthropic trusts, individuals, and specific appeals.

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The American founders are commemorated in a roll-call of names carved on the walls of the reception hall. A group of around fifty US patrons actively support the Centre’s work, under the chairmanship of Douglas Daft, the former CEO of Coca Cola. They are donors who have given upwards of $50,000 to the Centre. There is also a Friends Appeal and supporters’ names are recorded on the Archives Centre website. “If the College is the national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill, the Archive is the American memorial,” said Allen Packwood. “Churchill and Thatcher – these are powerful brands in the US and Churchill crosses political boundaries in America.” But nowadays the Archives Centre attracts worldwide support. An appeal in 2006 to raise £3m, for example, drew substantial support from the Middle East. Mrs Thatcher helped raise £5.2m in the 1990s for a new wing giving four floors of extra storage space, not only for her papers but for others over the ensuing twenty-five years. That is now 60% full. The Centre’s operating budget is less than £500,000 a year, with two-thirds going on staff costs, supporting the thirteen archivists who manage and catalogue the collections. The Archives Centre serves in a small way as a training centre, employing two or three trainee graduate archivists for a career in universities and museums. What of the future? The University of Cambridge has just established a new lectureship in British Politics linked to a Fellowship at Churchill. “If you have an understanding of the past it gives you an understanding of the present. All the issues we’re facing now, whether the Middle East... terrorism... Russia... All these have their origins in the recent past and in the collections that we house here – of policy makers and the like. So if you want to shape the future you need to know about the past,” said the Director. Now Packwood is excited to be launching a major appeal in conjunction with Cambridge in America to raise £4.5m pounds ($7.5m) to establish a Winston Churchill Professorship in British History and Public Policy, drawing on the material in the Archives. The aim is to establish an endowment to finance the

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Professorship in perpetuity.This also means that a leading Churchill scholar will be based in the college that bears his name. “You need the academic programme using the material to inform current policies.That’s where I think there are exciting opportunities for the University, establishing the Archives Centre as part of a network for the study of public policy and government – and science too. “We have links with the University Centre for Science and Policy, a natural partner in the future. And a Centre for Public Policy is being talked about at Cambridge with a Master’s course already in place. That’s another way of embedding us structurally within the wider university. Another way of taking these collections and using them to inform current debate.” The archivists play a key role in this work. “You can’t pursue digitisation in isolation,” says Packwood. “If you just dump a large collection on the internet, nobody will use it because they won’t be able to find their way around it. So for digitisation to work it’s got to be underpinned by conservation and by proper intellectual control, cataloguing and indexing, and you’ve got to design a website for these. “I think email comes with major challenges, but I do not feel it will be the ‘dark ages’ for archives,” says Packwood. “The challenge is ensuring that there are easy systems in place to capture it, and to index and catalogue it. Archivists will need to become more proactive in persuading individuals to keep and archive their emails, and not just hit delete... but I believe all this is achievable given the right resources.” There is still work to be done, even on collections closely related to Churchill. “We’ve got these other fantastic treasures here... such as his wife’s wonderful private photograph albums showing the man behind the myth. You’ve got the love letters between Winston and Clementine all the way from 1908 to 1960s. “Wouldn’t it be fantastic to make those treasures available as well? To get them into schools and classrooms, into teaching modules, so reaching a wider audience?”

John Eifion Jones

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Development Report (1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015) As the new Development Director since November 2014 it is a great pleasure for me to work at Churchill College and to be warmly welcomed while joining such a special community. In my meetings with alumni and friends many have said what an outstanding place the College is and recognised its many achievements. The College goes from strength to strength academically and, combined with the Møller Centre and Churchill Archives, we have a very compelling case for philanthropic support. This year we have four exciting developments: • The completed expansion and opening of the Møller Centre thanks to the continuing generosity and support of the College’s largest donor, the AP Møller & Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation. • A gift of £1m from Benefactor Fellow Jeffrey Rubinoff towards the new Junior Research Fellowship in Art as a Source of Knowledge. • The naming of the new court development Cowan Court, thanks to another major philanthropic gift from Benefactor Fellow Michael Cowan (U70, Engineering). • A major gift of $757,000 from Dr Gideon Yuval (G67, Physical Sciences) towards the new Gulbenkian-Yuval Studentship (see following article). Gifts in 2014/15 Total funds raised were £3.71 million and £5.71 million in cash received. Funds raised were above the 5-year average of £1.9 million. Thank you to all who gave, including legators and members of the Sir Winston Churchill 1958 Society listed below. Newly Created Development Board We have a newly created Development Board, chaired by Benefactor Fellow Michael Cowan (U70, Engineering) and including Benefactor Fellow Dr Tony

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Wild (G68, Physical Chemistry) and Benefactor Greg Lock (U66, Engineering). The alumni-led Board was created to generate philanthropic income to support Churchill College, and among its aims is to widen participation and increase the number of Churchill alumni giving. Activities Alumni and Development Office staff have organised several alumni events, as well as special activities including a telephone campaign to alumni that generated £120,000.We also held our first annual Enterprise Competition with an alumni Board led by Simon Jones (U85, Economics): fifteen excellent proposals were received from entrepreneurial Churchill students. (See below, Student Life.) Highlights for the year included the Churchill’s Scientists exhibition and event, with 175 alumni attending the Science Museum, and, in partnership with the Churchill Archives Centre, several functions to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston’s state funeral. There is more on this and other alumni activities in the Alumni Officer’s report. The international reach of our excellence is supported by our new Master, Professor Dame Athene Donald, not least during a high-profile trip to New York where she was featured as a key figure in the University of Cambridge’s “Women of Success”, based on a book which she co-authored celebrating the achievements of women at the University.The new Master also met with alumni in Boston and New York this year. We continue to reach out and engage alumni to shape our future. Stay tuned for more information about ways that you can get involved through our monthly e-bulletin. We also have a special initiative to track down the contact details for more than 2,000 alumni and would appreciate any help you can give. Please do let us know if you would like to support College activities and get involved, at development@chu.cam.ac.uk and by telephone: 01223 331546. The next few pages of the Development Report on philanthropy are best told through examples, and the words of some of our supporters, so please read on.

John Pennant, Development Director and Fellow

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The Yuval story Dr Gideon Yuval, an early doctoral student at the college, has given $757K to the Gulbenkian Fund to create a new Gulbenkian-Yuval Studentship at Churchill, open to scholars from around the world. This major philanthropic gift, in memory of his father Dr Adam Yuval, is to thank the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the original donors to the College in 1958, and Churchill. Gideon Yuval was himself one of the beneficiaries of the Gulbenkian Fund in 1967. His gift augments the original fund to enable the College to support a doctoral student permanently. About fifty years ago, while completing his Masters at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,Yuval was looking for an opportunity for a PhD in theoretical physics. “I opened the UNESCO book Study Abroad and paragraph after paragraph said UK only... US only... Commonwealth only... Irish only... or a combination of these. It made for very rapid reading,” he said in an interview. Gulbenkian was the only scholarship that was open to everyone. So when the opportunity came to make donations to good causes, after a successful career as a computer scientist Gideon chose to repay the Gulbenkian. “I discovered they could not give a studentship all the time to a student because there isn’t enough money. So I got in touch with the College and now they can have a new student in as soon as the old one is done. “I feel scholarship and support for Cambridge should be open to all countries. The Republic of Letters... ” He decided against limiting the fund to poorer nations, so-called affirmative action; he is “not saying anything bad” about selective scholarships, but feels Gulbenkian’s openness tips the balance the other way. He had never been to England until he arrived in Cambridge one autumn day in 1967. “For someone who wants to study it was an earthly paradise. All I wanted to do was study,” he said.“And I really liked that small community where you could find your place, but which is part of a much bigger institution with all the resources.

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“Churchill College is just a few hundred. It’s between a clan and a tribe... And the University is many thousands which means it has all the resources. I think that is the way to study. “I am not sure Cambridge changed me much socially. But I loved Churchill because it was a community of scholars. Walking from there to the Old Cavendish through the Backs is a wonderful way to start your working day.” But the Tudor foundations by the river seemed to him not so wonderful. “The Tudor cold...” He was not the first arrival from abroad to appreciate Churchill’s up-to-date comforts. “Churchill had modern heating. It was comfortable in winter.” And he will certainly not be the last returning student to say: “The College porter remembered me – after so many years!” After Churchill, Yuval was a consultant and lecturer before moving into computer software engineering. For the past twenty-six years he has worked at Microsoft in Seattle where he is a senior consultant in the field of cyber security. He has also contributed to numerous mathematical papers on computational geometry and encryption. The American mathematician Michael Ian Shamos, in a memoir in Contemporary Mathematics (1999), affords a glimpse of his approach to work. “Yuval was an intuitive thinker… and had no taste for formal proofs. He had flashes of great insight, and when he turned his mind to a problem for any length of time one could be sure that interesting ideas would emerge... Proof was not Yuval’s strong point. He instead gave an intuitive argument that dazzled me.” Gideon Yuval is dedicating the studentship to the memory of his father, who died in Jerusalem in 2003. His was a life that mirrored the turbulent twentieth century for the Jewish diaspora. He was born in Berlin in 1912 and studied medicine in Heidelburg, fleeing Germany after Hitler came to power. He was in Italy until Mussolini became anti-Semitic, then moved to Cyprus where he was interned as an enemy alien

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because he had a German passport. He got out after a hunger strike and joined the British military, hoping to get to Palestine. In fact he ended up fighting Rommel in the Western Desert as an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps in a hospital which was in the path of the advancing Germans. He was supposed to hand over the hospital to the Germans, but knowing about Hitler he got a phial of cyanide from the dispensary. "He had poison in his pocket because he had a German passport with a big J in it," Gideon Yuval recalled. But in the end the Germans never came. After the war Adam Yuval moved to Palestine and found himself fighting again, this time for Israel's independence. He then worked as a doctor in the newly independent country. In his sixties he served in the Yom Kippur war, as the commander of a prisonerof-war camp in northern Israel. But despite his struggles for Israeli nationhood he would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;very, very upsetâ&#x20AC;? by the political and religious direction taken by modern Israel, his son said. Somewhere along the line Adam Yuval turned up in Cambridge for a spell during the Second World War; his family is hazy about the details. But now his intrepid life will be commemorated in perpetuity by the Gulbenkian-Yuval studentship. From Gideon Yuval:

My father, Dr Adam Yuval

My mother, me and my father

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Donations 2014-15 We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2014 to 30th June 2015. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Review.) Mr E W Addicott 1961 Dr R Aggarwal 1981 Dr J W J Akroyd 1997 Dr U Akuwudike 2002 Mr D Alafouzos 1998 Dr R V Aldridge 1963 Mr N A Altmann 1991 Amazon Associates Ms L Ambrose 1983 Ms G Antoniou 2010 Mr P J S Arch 2002 Dr G Archer Mr C M L Argent 1962 Mr T Armitage 1982 Dr D Armstrong 1971 Mr D Armstrong 1975 Mrs J Armstrong (Hickman) 1976 Mr D M Asbury 1968 Professor N W Ashcroft 1961 Dr H Ashraf 1989 Mr L Ashton 1994 Mr A M F Bailey 1986 Dr A J Ball 1990 Mr J A Ballard 1964 Mr A Bannard-Smith 2001 Dr R C Barklie 1966 Mr J C Barlow 1963 Mr R W Barlow 1961 Dr P Barton 1961 Mr W R S Baxter 1968 Dr D J Bernasconi 1992 Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr J E Berriman 1967 Ms L C Berzins 1995 Mr K Bhargava 1981 Dr G W Bibby 1962 Dr T A Bicanic 1990 Mr L E Bigler 1967 Mr B L Bircumshaw 1997 Mr P T Bird 1975

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Mr J J Bisseker 1990 BG Group Dr R J Black 1987 Miss V Blackburn Ms C E Blackmun 1974 Dr A Blackwell (Leech-Wilkinson) 1981 Professor A Blumstein 1983 Mrs E Booth (Lambert) 2001 Dr G S Booth 1968 Dr P A Booth 2000 Dr S Boss 2006 Mr and Mrs Boss Mr P G Bossom 1970 Mr R Botero Robledo 2000 Mr M J Bowden 1968 Sir John Boyd 1996 Lady Boyd BP Dr I L Bratchie 1976 Mr M T Bray 1964 Mr M R Brazier 1995 Dr R D Bremner 1971 Ms C R Brett 1991 Dr C T Brett 1968 Mr B O Brierton 1994 Mrs K H Brierton (Pratt) 1994 Mr H W Brockbank 1972 Mr R D Brockbank 1996 Mrs J Brook 1999 Bill Brown Charitable Trust Dr A J Brown 1988 Ms T M Brown 1973 Mr J E Bruce 1971 Dr J H Brunton 1963 Mr D M Bundy 1995 Dr W G Burgess 1988 Ms A Calvert 1982 Mrs A A Canning (Jarrett) 1975 Ms A Carlson Mr I Carnaby 1967

The Reverend C Carson Dr P A Catarino 1988 Mr T A Cave 1971 Dr D A Chaplin 1984 Mr D S Chapman 1965 Miss N Chapman Dr C G Chatfield 1969 Mr D B Christie 1996 Mrs S J J Christie (Chou) 1996 Dr S P Churchhouse 1985 Mr P M C Clarke 1961 Mr P R Clarke 1974 Mrs C Cleaver (Martin) 1977 Dr R P Cleaver 1973 Mrs S M Clements (Burton) 1981 Mr D F Coates 1975 Miss J D Cockcroft Professor J R D Coffey 1988 Dr A J Cole 1967 Mr I R Coles 1975 Mr B L Collings 1980 Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. Ms V S Connolly 1987 Professor G Constable 1974 Mr G Constantinides 2003 Mr J Conway 2006 Mr G M Coomber 1964 Mrs J N Corbett (Banfield) 1997 Mr R I Coull 1983 Mr M J J Cowan 1970 Mr W H Cowell 1963 Dr J R Crabtree 1965 Mr M A Craven 1985 Mr N Crews 2000 Mr T J L Cribb 1970 Mr J Cross Mr A Cullen 1975 Mr T S Culver 1963 Mr J A Cumberland 1970 Professor E Cundliffe 1961 Mr J Curry 2006 Professor T W Cusick 1964 Daft Family Foundation Mr D N Daft Mrs D Daft Professor P A David 1977 Mr B M Davies 1973 Professor C T H Davies (Stewart) 1978 Mr D W N Davies 1980

Mr H A J Davies 1972 Mr R J Davies 1962 Mr R M Davies 1969 Mr P C de Boor 1988 Professor S T de Grey 1963 Mr H de Lusignan 1980 Mr A C Dean 1985 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr D R Deboys 1999 Mr F J Deegan Dr E DeMarrais 2000 Mr N J Denbow 1964 Dr D Dew-Hughes Dr S Dinsdale 1982 Dr E J Ditzel 1981 Mrs C Dixon (Strutt) 1994 Miss G L Dixon 2005 Mr R H T Dixon 1985 Dr R M Dixon 1978 Mr K R Doble 1981 Mrs L A Doble (Kendall) 1979 Mr A P Docherty 1966 Mr P A Dornan 1982 Professor J E Dowling 1978 Dr C Ducati 1999 Dr T R Dudley 1983 Mr M E Duerr 1975 Mr A P Duff 1979 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 The Reverend J M Dyer (Lloyd) 1979 Dr D J Eagle 1980 Dr R T Elias 1984 Dr C A Elliott 1973 Professor J Elliott 1973 Mr M L Ellis 1981 Dr R Elsdon 1972 Professor D Epel 1976 Dr G Evans 1968 Mr J R Farrell 1980 Miss T J Fenton 1986 Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Mr P R A Fidler 1991 Mr D M Fineman 1991 Dr M T Fiorini 1995 Dr S J Ford (Masters)1992 Dr G J Forder 1965 Dr C Fraser 1976 Mrs E D French (Medd) 1978 Mr P C French 1978 Mr M R Frith 1969

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Mr T Frost Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Dr F G Furniss 1973 Dr P A Gait 1962 Mrs S C Galloway 1989 Mr N S Gamble 1965 Mr I M Gardiner 1968 Mr P S Gardiner 1996 Mr G Garrison Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Dr M Ghidini 2012 Mr J M Gibbs 1993 Mrs A M Gill (Bradshaw) 1976 Mr S L Gill 1976 Professor O Gingerich 1985 Mr R Giniyatov 2004 Mr C M Glencross 1991 Mr P A D Glover 1986 Professor M A Goldie 1979 Mr G R A Gomberg 1967 Mrs J E Goodland (Terry) 1974 Mr P M Goodland 1973 Dr S G Goodyear 1978 Dr P Gopal 2001 Mr M Gotham 2013 Dr C Goulimis 1977 Miss E M Grady 1983 Mr A P J Gray 2000 Mr H Gray 1964 Dr J I Grayson 1971 Mr S T Green 1961 Mr M D Greig 1974 Dr D R Grey 1966 Mrs M Groen Miss S Gruber 2007 Dr J Grzeskowiak (Ellison)1973 Dr N E Grzeskowiak 1973 Professor Sir John Gurdon 1973 Mrs J Gwilt (Smyth) 1993 Mr A P Hall 1993 Mrs T A Hall (Prosser) 1982 Mr M Hammler 1979 Mr T R F Hankins 1974 Dr S P Harden 1987 Dr C A Harper 1981 Mr M E Harper 1967 Mr P T W Harrington 1991 Mr B A Harris 1980 Mr S J Harris 1996 Dr T L Harris 1994

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The Hart Charitable Trust Mr G F Hart 2000 Professor J Hart 2007 Mr C Harvey 1965 Mr J Hazelden 1966 Mr N J Hazell 1975 Professor A F Heavens 1977 Dr C Helliwell (Powell) 1999 Mr R Helmer 1962 Dr P G Henry 1969 Mr K A Herrmann 1978 Dr C M Hicks 1989 Mr J J Higgins 1984 Mr J A Higham QC 1971 Dr P Hilton 1967 Mr M S Hoather 1994 Dr J R Hobdell 1987 Dr J W D Hobro 1991 Dr D S Hoddinott 1963 Dr P D Hodson 1979 Dr R W Holti 1974 Mr M P Honey 1992 Mr R Hopkin Mr J Hopkins Dr J H Horton 1991 Mr C Howell 1997 Mr M J Hubbard 1994 Mr J C R Hudson 1971 Mrs I Hull (Clark) 1978 Mr A J Hutchinson 1968 Dr M T Hyldon 1970 Mr J Ingle 1972 Dr N F J Inglis 1985 Mr T C W Ingram 1966 Mr A C Innes 1987 Professor R Jackman 1964 Dr P T Jackson 1962 Dr D H Jaffer 1976 Dr A P Jardine 1998 Dr L Jardine-Wright 2012 Mr A R John 1975 Mr D M Johnson 1984 Mr G T Johnson 1961 Ms J E Johnson 1977 Dr M A Johnson 1972 Dr M W Johnston 1986 Ms R Johnston 1973 Mr R V Johnston 1968 Dr D Joinson 1995 Ms V C Jolliffe 1973

Mr A W S Jones 1985 Dr C N Jones 1978 Mr G C Jones 1995 Mr I Jones 1981 Dr R I Jones 1978 Mr T H Jones 1972 Mr I D Judd 1967 Professor T Kailath 1977 Professor P A Kalra 1976 Dr M A Keavey 1967 Mr O Kennington 1996 Mr T A Key 1965 Dr A P Kfouri 1966 Mr M A Khan 2000 Mr P Kindelis 2001 Mrs A N King 1994 Mr D E W King 1961 Mr N G Kingan 1961 Mr L Kinross-Skeels 1996 Mr W M Kinsey 1970 J Kirkbride Mr R C B Klewe 1962 Mr J P Knight Mrs S H Knighton (Spear) 1985 Dr K M Knowles 1973 Dr E A Kohll 1961 Professor M H Kramer 1994 Professor L Krause 1976 Dr S L Kremnitzer 1975 Dr E Krylova 2002 Dr S J Kukula 1984 Ms M Laing Mr A J Lake 1985 Mr H S Lake 1965 Professor J A Lake 1982 Dr L Lake 2000 Mr A J Lambert 1993 Mr R G Larkin 1967 Mr D G Lauener 1971 Mr A G Laugharne 1999 Mr I M Lawrie 1987 Dr G J Le Poidevin 1971 Dr C E Lee-Elliott 1987 Mrs S Leggott (Alexander) 1997 Dr W E Leich Furlong 1977 Mr A E Leigh-Smith 1961 Dr A M Lewis 1983 Mr C B Lewis QC 1978 Mr J C Lewis 1961 Mr M Lewis 1964

Miss F Li 2007 Dr E T Libbey 1966 Mr C G Lipson 1969 Mr R M Little 1993 Dr R K Livesley 1960 Mr D W Llewellyn 1964 Mr L P M Lloyd-Evans 1967 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Mr R R Loe 1964 Professor R V E Lovelace 1994 Mrs M Lovell Professor R M Loynes 1962 Dr G S Lucas 1969 Mr J P Lucas 1989 Professor D E Luscombe 1964 Mr M A Lusis 1963 Dr O D Lyne 1989 Mr T F Mabbott 1977 Professor A V P Mackay 1970 Mr D A Mackenzie 1999 Mr P N Mainds 1984 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr S Maine Dr D C A Mant 1969 Mr C P S Markham 1965 Mr I G Marks 1966 Mr H F A Marriott 1963 Professor J H Marsh 1974 Mr E L Marshall 1979 Dr S G Martin 1977 Mr J R Mason 1963 Dr A N Mather 1979 Mrs S Mather (Maurice) 2006 Miss M Mathes 1984 Dr V E Maybeck 2004 Dr A J McArdle 2002 Dr M G McCabe 1989 Mr M McCarthy Mrs M McCarthy Mr P McCarthy 1995 Mr N A McDonald 1981 Mr J M McGee 1969 Dr C A McGill 1981 Dr T McManus 1965 Dr T Meissner Mr J C Mellor 2003 Mr P Merson 1969 Mr G P Middleton 1985 The Reverend Dr P G Miller 1985

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Mr R J Miller 1983 Mr A J Milne 2000 Mr L A Z Mirza 1980 Mr N R E Miskin 1966 Dr P J Mole 1971 The Møller Centre The A P Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation Dr R Monson 2011 Professor G G Morgan 1974 Mr K P Morgan 2001 Mr K D Morris 1985 Mr S D Morrish 1989 Dr M Morse Mr A W Moss 1962 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Professor T Nagashima 1972 Mrs C H Narracott (Crocker) 1987 Mr S G Narracott 1988 Mr D M Nazarian 2002 Mr P D Needleman 1974 Professor D M G Newbery 1966 Nomura International PLC Dr D J Norfolk 1968 The Rt Hon Sir John Nott Ms G Nurse 1987 Mr T R Oakley 1977 Professor T Oates 2013 Dr P E J O'Connor 1980 Dr R D Oeffner 1994 Dr C O'Kane 1996 Dr S Oldfield 1974 Professor R J Oldman 1961 Dr B R O'Neill 1967 Dr C J Otty 1977 Mr M M Otway 1967 Mr A Packwood 2002 Dr C F Palmer 1972 Mr J W Palmer 1992 Dr J D Parker 1987 Dr P J Parsons 1989 Mr B J Patel 1987 Dr A J Pauza 1993 Mrs S Pearce (Bailey) 1976 Mr P M Pearson 1992 Mr D A Pedropillai 1983 Mr M Pelletier 1988 Mr C R Pennant 1962 Mr S M J Peskett 1961 Mr J R Peters 1990

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DLA Piper UK LLP Dr D J Pinchin 1973 Dr D J Pizzanelli 1975 Dr J Pober 2007 Mr C S Pocock 1970 Mr J M Pocock 1969 Ms S L Poland 1977 Mr A D Ponting 1990 Populus Dr C G Potts 1981 Mr D Potts 1970 Mrs G M Potts (Black) 1972 Dr E W Powell 1967 Dr I C H Pullen 1977 Mr A J Pyke 2001 Mr G C Pyke 1963 Mrs L Pyke (Wheal) 2003 Professor R B Pynsent 1963 Dr S-X Qin 1984 Professor R Radner 1969 Mr J W Ragless 1963 Mr A V Ramsay 1967 Mr M K Redhead 1966 Dr E J Rees 2001 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr T L Rees 1964 Mr J J H Reilly 1984 Dr E J Rennie 1977 Mrs D Resch (Christian) 1998 Dr D E Reynolds 1975 Professor D J Reynolds Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon) 1975 Professor P Rez 1970 Professor T Rice 1960 Mr S Richards 2007 Professor J Riley 1982 Mr D Roberts 1992 Dr J D Roberts 1970 Dr T L Roberts 1965 Mr B H A Robinson 1991 Mrs L S Robinson (Jacobs) 1976 Mr S M Robinson 1976 Mr G K Rock-Evans 1963 Mr H G Rock-Evans 2001 Mr P M Rodgers 1979 Mr T E B Rose 2005 Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Mr T Roskill Mr S D Rothman 1982 Mr A J Rowell 1986

Royal Dutch Shell Mr M W Rudin 1979 Rushbrook Charitable Trust Professor N J Russell 1966 Mr P Russell 1977 Professor D B Rutledge 1973 Mr M T Rutter 1982 The Hon. Mr Justice Sales 1980 Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie) 1976 Mr G K Sampson 1965 Mr R J Sandford 1965 Miss L M Saul 1980 Mr M Schapiro Mr A C Schofield 1973 Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Dr D M Schwartz 1966 Mr M H Schwarz 1980 Mr A J Scott 1978 Dr E R D Scott 1965 Dr I R Scott 1971 Miss A C M Scott-Bayfield 1993 Admiral F P Scourse 1964 Dr C D Scrase 1983 Dr D S Secher 1967 Mr G R A Sellers 1970 Mr N R Seymour-Dale 1964 Mr D Sharkov 2005 The Reverend A W Shaw 1963 Mr J H Shields 1969 Professor S D Silver 1994 Dr J H Silverman 1984 Mr W Silverman 1962 Ms K T Siwicki (King) 1977 Mr A E Slater 1988 Mr T C C Sleigh 1997 Dr C J Slinn 1970 Mr C W Smick 1993 Mr P R J Smith 1980 Mr R P Smith 1992 Mr S C Smith 1967 Mrs E Snell Ms M Q Song 2004 Professor F J Sottile 1985 Professor R C Spear 1965 Mr J G Speight 1975 Mr S D Spreadbury 1999 Mr R F Squibbs 1969 Mr R G Stamp 1994 Mr I M Standley 1978 Mr J A Stark 1984

Professor M J R Stark 1973 Mr E M J Steedman 1984 Mr R J Steemson 1969 Dr I Stelzer Dr A W Stephenson 1989 Dr I Stephenson 1988 Professor D L Stern 1994 Mr G S Stewart 1995 Dr N Stewart (Parker) 1995 Mrs S L Stewart (Crampton) 1977 Dr R L Stoll 1961 Mr A L Strang 1969 Dr M A Stroud 1962 Sir John Stuttard 1963 Mr J P Swainston 1989 Mr C E Sweeney 1979 The Reverend R P Symmons 1974 Mr R J Tarling 1963 Mr C J Tavener 1961 Dr A Taylor 2006 Dr D A Taylor 1967 Mr G R Taylor 1963 Mrs J Taylor (Gunn) 1973 Mr W G Taylor 1971 Mr I Temperton 1992 Dr P H Tennyson 1976 Mr D K S Thomas 1981 Mr R J Thomas 1986 Mrs I A Thompson (O'Hara) 1977 Mr A F Thomson 1961 Professor D J Thouless 1961 Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley) 1994 Mr B J Tidd 1994 Mr G R Tillman 1984 Dr J Toner 2013 Mr F E Toolan 1963 Toshiba The Constance Travis Charitable Trust Dr D R Tray 1993 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Dr M E Trout Mrs S Trout Dr W Y Tsang 1981 Dr C Tubb 1999 Ms J Turkington 1987 Mrs C L Turner (Adcock) 2003 Mr P A Turner 2003 Mr A J Tylee 1988 Mr M A Upton 1962 Mr R W Upton 1970

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Mr C J Village 1964 Ms H A Vyse (Ellis) 1981 Mr J M F Wadsworth 1987 Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large) 1987 Mr J C Wainwright 1980 Mr R M Walker 1963 Sir David Wallace 2006 Lady Wallace Dr B R Walters 1970 Mr P F Ward 1999 Mr R G Warden 1991 Dr I Wassell 2006 Mr J Waters 1964 Mr P J Watkins 2000 The Lord Watson of Richmond Mr M Y Watterson 1982 Professor A J Webber 1990 Mr A A Weiss 2000 Dr W G Welland 1970 Miss P L Welsh 2003 Mr R C Wenzel 1972 Dr W Wheatley (Cooper) 1993 Mr L Whewell 1981 Mr T P Whipple 2000 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Mr J S White 1965 Mrs M Whittaker Dr A S Wierzbicki 1980 Dr A H Wild 1968 Dr D R Williams 2001 Dr E D Williams 1963 Mr H E Williams 1962 Mr R E Williams 1973 Dr S F Williams 1984

Dr D L T Wilson 1972 Mr I S Wilson 1970 Dr P J Wilson 1990 Mr F J Wilton 1963 Winston Churchill Foundation Wolfson Foundation Dr D R Woodall 1962 Mr A R Woodland 1972 Mrs I M Woodland (Waghorne) 1972 Mrs K A Woodward (Samy) 1981 Mr E A Workman 1968 Mr A C Worrall 1986 Mrs J R Wrigglesworth (Cannell) 1989 Professor P Wright (Wright) 1972 Mr N E Wrigley 1963 Dr S E Wunsch 1992 Mr J J Wylie 1984 Dr M-Q Xia 1988 Mr B Yates 1962 Professor I Yates 1992 Miss L-L Yeoh 1997 Dr C Yeung 1998 Mr W Wing Yip Mrs J M Young 1999 YourCause LLC Dr B Yuan 1998 Dr G A Yuval 1966 Dr M V Zammit-Tabona 1968 Ms B Zygarlowska 2003

+ 45 anonymous donations

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Members of the Winston S Churchill 1958 College Society We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College by leaving a gift in Will. All those listed below have been formally admitted to the WSC 1958 Society at the annual gathering of members, and have given permission for their names to be listed. Dr E Allan Mrs J K Bacon 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 † Mrs B Bielstein Dr G Bielstein Sir John Boyd Lady Boyd Mr J H Burton 1961 Mrs M Burton Mr M A Craven 1985 Dr A J Crisp Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mrs J M Donora 1980 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mr G Farren 1966 Dr A-M T Farmer 1980 Dr H Farmer Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mr R Gregory 1979 Mrs P Green Mr S T Green 1961 Mr S Gupta 1983 Mrs D Hahn † Professor F Hahn Professor A Hewish Mr J Hopkins † Professor A Kelly Mrs M Ker Hawn 1989 Mr R G Larkin 1967 Mr M A Lewis 1964 Mr G S Littler-Jones 1965 Mr G H Lock 1966

Mr P N Locke 1966 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mrs M Miller Dr S A Mitton 1968 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Dr C G Page 1965 Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr M A W Prior 1974 Mr G C Pyke 1963 Dr P J Reed 1961 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Mrs B Salmon Mr R Salmon Mrs N Squire Mr D Stedman Mr V Stedman Miss R C Stott 1987 Sir John Stuttard 1963 Lady Stuttard Dr M Tippett Sir David Wallace Lady Wallace Dr A J Walton 1960 Dr W G Welland 1970 Dr A H Wild 1968

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Alumni Relations Officer’s Report It’s been an exciting year in the Alumni and Development Office.We welcomed the new Master, Professor Dame Athene Donald, in October and our new Development Director, Mr John Pennant, in November. We’ve offered an exciting array of events in the UK and around the world and have been amazed by your response – over-subscribed events and very positive feedback.We aim to continue working hard into 2016 in order to provide you with ample opportunities to engage with the College. College Events Association Weekend in September 2014 was particularly special as we welcomed back groups of 1961 and 1964 matriculates (some of whom also attended the large reunion dinner in July) and it was attended by our, at the time, Master-Elect Athene Donald. The weekend officially honoured the 1964 matriculates and Dr Anthony Bainbridge (U&G64) hosted their 50th reunion. The weekend began with a wellattended drinks reception, held in the newly refurbished Cockcroft Room and hosted by Athene and Dr Matthew Donald, followed by High Table. On Saturday alumni and Churchill staff played golf at the Cambridge Meridian Golf Club while others enjoyed the delights of the Alumni Festival hosted by the University. Mr John Moore, Head of Grounds and Gardens, gave a stunning talk on, and tour round, the changes to the College grounds and gardens over the past twenty years, and the Bursar, Mrs Jennifer Brook, reported on the progress of Cowan Court, our new student accommodation, which broke ground in January 2015.The Annual Dinner on Saturday evening was attended by over 100 alumni and past Fellows and everyone was highly entertained by the guest speaker, Ms Stella Dudzic (U80).The evening honoured changes at Churchill over the past year: the retirement of Sir David Wallace as Master, the retirement of Mrs Sharon Mather as Development Director, the retirement of Mr Nigel Bacon (U74) as Chair of the Association Committee, the election of Ms Rosie Johnston (U73) to Chair of the Committee and the election of Professor Dame Athene Donald to the Mastership of the College. We were delighted to welcome back to College so many alumni and we do hope many of you returned to Cambridge for Association Weekend 2015. The year 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s death.The Archives Centre and Alumni Office organised an event at the Royal Automobile

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Club in London in January to recognise this anniversary, and they teamed up again to host alumni and supporters at the Musée de I’Armée and British Embassy in Paris in July. Also in January Fellows, staff, students and alumni were invited to a private screening and Q&A with alumna Ms Sally Angel (U79).The screening was a huge success, with fifty-four people viewing Night Will Fall in Wolfson Hall. Athene has been enormously supportive of our attempts to engage alumni. At the end of February she dined with the Belgium, Italy, France and Switzerland (BIFS) Alumni Group in Brussels and later that week she had breakfast with alumni in Manchester. In March, in New York, she participated in Cambridge in America’s event The Meaning of Success: Insights from Women at Cambridge, and attended an alumni dinner afterwards. She also participated in a joint Cambridge in America, King’s College and Churchill College drinks reception in Boston, followed by a Churchillians’ dinner. I’m pleased to report that other Fellows have also had the opportunity to meet with alumni. Professor Colm-cille Caulfield hosted a dinner in Los Angeles in November, Mr Richard Partington had drinks with alumni in Geneva during his recruitment travels and Professor Markus Kraft organised dinner with alumni in Singapore in June. Positive feedback highlighted the success and importance of planning events outside the UK and the added benefit of having the Master and Fellows in attendance. We were delighted to host 170 alumni and guests at the Science Museum in London in June.Attendees enjoyed an exclusive visit to the museum, seeing fellow graduates, hearing about the background to the exhibition from Athene and viewing the Churchill’s Scientists exhibition with the lead curator. In July we welcomed back over 100 alumni to the 2003-2006 Reunion Dinner. We were thrilled so many were able to come back to College and enjoy the Archives exhibition, drinks reception on the Jock Colville lawn, dinner and the opportunity to stay in College accommodation once again.There was a fantastic atmosphere in the Dining Hall and Athene had the opportunity to introduce herself and speak to relatively recent alumni.We received very positive feedback following the event – and many appreciative “thank-yous”. Churchill College Association The Association promotes friendship between resident and non-resident members – Fellows, students and alumni – and committee members have been

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busy organising a plethora of events for alumni to get together. A visit to Bletchley Park in April attracted forty alumni spanning a number of decades and subjects. A new lecture series was launched in May at the Old Bank of England pub, and the first event featured Dr Warren Dockter, former Archives By-Fellow. Alumni toured Blenheim Palace in October and enjoyed a special tour concentrating on Winston Churchill at the Palace. There were also a number of pub gatherings in London and Cambridge. Communications I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all now had the opportunity to view our new website: chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni, and to create your alumni profile. Please do take a moment to read our latest news, update your contact details, peruse your alumni benefits and scan our events page. Livia Harriman in the Development team works hard to deliver an exciting monthly news e-bulletin and keep you up to date through a variety of social media platforms.We hope you remember your time at College fondly and feel as though College has remained a part of your life well past graduation.

Dr Sarah Fahle

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The Møller Centre: CEO’s report “Give us the tools and we will finish the job.” Sir Winston Churchill 2015 saw us “finish the job” of an eighteen-month building upgrade and extension project. Thanks to a generous £3.5m donation from The AP Møller and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation and the support of College we now have new “tools” – two new purpose-designed collaborative learning suites, an incredible new kitchen, twenty-one additional bedrooms and a beautiful Hans J Wegner Lounge. The growth project reinforced the significance of the unique connection between Sir Winston Churchill and shipping magnate Maersk McKinney Møller, whose vision and benefaction created the Møller Centre here at Churchill College, and so it was fitting that our new facilities were officially opened on 11 June by Mr Møller’s daughter, Ms Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, Chair of The AP Møller Foundation Board, vice-chair of global conglomerate Mærsk. To mark the occasion, around twenty-five senior business leaders contributed to a Practical Leadership Symposium which formed part of the Churchill 2015 Global Leaders Programme – a unique international celebration of the life and legacy of Sir Winston Churchill fifty years after his death. We also supported Churchill 2015 by designing and launching a unique young leaders’ programme which has seen us invest in twenty-four outstanding 19- to 25-year-olds. This programme addresses issues that were close to Churchill’s heart – future generations and leadership – and is being delivered in three modules in partnership with Learn to Lead, the UK’s principal provider of leadership development for young people; the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; and the British Council.We plan to run the programme annually and are actively seeking corporate sponsors interested in supporting the development of outstanding young people to be tomorrow’s game-changers. The connection between Churchill and Møller also provides the context and inspiration for the leadership development we deliver. With a strong focus on impact, we work with leaders and aspiring leaders through a special combination

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of practitioner, academic and experiential learning to enable them to excel, and reach their potential to the benefit of the organisations for which they work and society as a whole. Our new facilities, coupled with additional recruitment, have strengthened our ability to design and deliver bespoke leadership development programmes for senior leaders. I am very proud of the Møller Team, who have worked through significant change to enable the business to develop. We appreciate the involvement of many Fellows who have supported us this year and enhanced the experience of our guests in the Churchill community while at The Møller Centre. Fellows and Alumni have hosted our welcome and certification dinners, presented on our programmes and acted as advisors and experts in different areas of the business, including on our Board of Directors. We continue to grow our business whilst covenanting all of our profits to Churchill College. In 2014-15 we covenanted nearly £900K to College, making us one of its largest donors.

Gillian Secrett, CEO, Møller Centre

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“Pancakes, waffles and doughnuts provided on a weekly basis were very welcome as JCR members faced exams.”

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JCR Report 2014-15 President: Freddie Downing Well, here we are: another year done and dusted.We’ve had our ups and downs, our moments of drama and celebration, but we’re still standing. The academic year began on a historic note for Churchill College with the inauguration of Professor Dame Athene Donald as the first female Master. In addition, of course, October saw the arrival of a new batch of undergraduates. I remember the Saturday well: it was somewhat grey and drizzling with rain. Arguably, the meteorological conditions, coupled with the Winston headline “Welcome to Hell”, did not herald an auspicious start. Nevertheless, Freshers’ Week proved to be a rip-roaring success; Churchill’s “zero fatalities” record survives for another year.The week was packed with various activities, from icebreakers to nights out. It was great to see so many of the Freshers quickly establish friendships which have lasted throughout the year. At the end of November 2014 I took over from Ellie Miller as JCR President. Being JCR President has been rather like trying to herd cats with a ball of string. I am very pleased to report that attendance at Open Meetings and engagement with JCR issues has been incredibly strong throughout the last year, and long may it continue; not so long ago we couldn’t even get the proverbial man and his dog to show up at Open Meetings. In the JCR elections in February almost every position was contested and turn-out was at its highest for several years. Without question, for me the highlight of the JCR Committee calendar was the JCR pantomime in December. The scriptwriters described Pav Wars as a “hilarious spoof of a popular sci-fi franchise”. Although I feel the use of the word “hilarious” was somewhat misleading, the pantomime certainly had its moments and enabled some of the more theatrical members of the Committee

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to shine.There were moments when I really believed Fergus Vickery was “Hansso-alone” rather than just the JCR Communications Officer. Through a combination of panto ticket sales and our JCR trunk room sale, we were able raise a staggering £546.05 for Winter Comfort – a local charity which supports homeless people.The money the JCR raised would be enough to fund 250 hot breakfasts for rough sleepers or provide over 35 hours of maths/literacy tuition. There has been a vast array of events organised since then too. The Welfare team has been particularly active during the last term as JCR members faced exams. I know the pancakes, waffles and doughnuts the team provided on a weekly basis were very welcome.The year finished with the JCR Garden Party, which was a great success and a testimony to what can be achieved when the JCR, College and the weather work together. It was also a wonderful way to end my time as President. To the relief of all interested parties, my three years as a History undergraduate have come to an end. Nathan Hardisty, who was previously Winston Editor, will take over as JCR President for the remainder of my term. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all those within College whose support has been so valuable over the last year, in particular Richard Partington, Jennifer Brook and Shelley Surtees.

MCR Report 2014-15 President: Sonke Hee The MCR is a fantastic place to be! Writing this short article to summarise what we have been doing, and how wonderful it is to be a part of it, will not even begin to touch on the amazing activities, sense of community and research atmosphere that we students are fortunate enough to take for granted every single day at Churchill... really, the best thing to do is for you to come back for a visit and see it for yourself! ;-)

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Having extolled the virtues of the MCR so passionately, hopefully I can give a quick convincing flavour of why it is so exceptional! So firstly, we continue to hold our signature events at the end of every term, the MCR Guest Nights, but now, instead of these being a formal dinner and after-party for 320 Churchill students and guests, we fill Churchill College with 400 happy party-goers! As far as I know, we proudly host the largest “formal” in Cambridge, and do so every term! And of course the students work incredibly hard to warrant these play-hard events.This is really showcased by the extraordinary talks and posters presented at the annual Conference on Everything in April, as well as the various seminars throughout the terms taking place around the Sandy Ashmore room. In fact, if you are the curious type, you can catch up with all these talks on Churchill College's CHUtalks pages, and see for yourself the impressive dedication, innovation and diversity of Churchill College’s postgraduate research! We have had many other smaller events this past year too, including puppycuddling days, a Botanic Garden picnic, poker nights, subsidised massages, whisky tasting, Chinese New Year celebrations, BBQs, a baby-sitter evening, gardening days, a cocktail party, and so many more that it's not really possible to list them all here.With such a large variety of activities, we aim for all the students to be well entertained and de-stressed... hopefully helping them to maintain their amazing thirst for research and learning, which is no doubt central to ensuring that Churchill College continues to be one of the best Colleges in one of the world’s best universities. In short, it’s been a fantastic year!

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Clubs and Societies Basketball Vahe Tshitoyan (Captain) Churchill College Basketball Club is one of the most rewarding societies to be a part of in the College. In addition to being a fun team game, basketball is a very athletic sport.This means that by joining the club you will have a lot of fun and develop physically at the same time. It is also a good way to meet people who love the game as much as you do, or possibly even more! We have players of all levels of skill, ranging from University Lions players to people who are just trying to learn the game and have some fun on the court.The College team plays in the College League as well as in the Cuppers, which is basically the University basketball cup. This means eight to fourteen competitive games per year, depending how we perform. On top of that we do one or two weekly practice sessions, and have occasional friendlies with other colleges. In the last couple of years we have made a lot of progress and have had substantial support from the College, constantly improving our game as well as looking better â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we got ourselves awesome new team jerseys this year! Additionally, with the brand-new open-air basketball court on the College grounds (possibly the best outdoors basketball court in Cambridge at the moment), the club has a lot of potential to grow and become very successful in the coming years. But after all, it is all about fun and enjoying the amazing game of basketball!

Boat Club Jeremy Parker (Captain) This has been a fantastic year for Churchill College Boat Club. In the May Bumps, our M2, M3 and W2 all won their blades, and in the Lent Bumps M1 won their blades, moving up an impressive five places, now well inside the first division. Off the Cam, our first boats have also been representing the College well: both M1 and W1 did well at the Head of the River races, M1 did well at BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) and now look towards Marlow and Henley Royal Regattas, and W1 won their division at Nottingham Regatta.

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As a club we won both the Marconi and Pegasus Cups for the best college in the Lent and May Bumps (respectively). This is the second time in three years that we have won the Pegasus Cup. All this without the use of our Boat House, which is now being demolished! David Roche, former Captain, expands on this in his report to members of the Boat Club, which some readers will have seen already: This has been an incredible year of results for Churchill College Boat Club, the most successful in a good number of years, with Churchill winning both the Marconi and Pegasus cups for most successful crew in Lent and May Bumps 2015.The crews managed to earn four sets of blades this year, without a single crew getting bumped once this year.With a fantastic influx of new and dedicated rowers, everyone at CCBC is hopeful that these positive trends may continue for years to come. M1 have just returned from Henley qualifiers, having just missed out on a place in the Temple in a hugely competitive field (up against a field of mostly university crews from around the world) – congratulations to them all for representing Churchill on the Henley course. It has been over fifteen years since a Churchill crew attempted to qualify for Henley, so we hope this will become a more regular occurrence in future. This year marked the first year the University Women’s crews rowed alongside the men’s boats on the Tideway in the annual varsity race. One of our W1 women, Gabriella Johansson, sat in the 3-seat in the CUWBC reserve boat, Blondie, as part of the first women’s crew to take on Oxford on the Thames. Several members of both the Men’s and Women’s squads are also currently trialling for the University Development Squads over the coming weeks, so the best of luck to them all.

Croquet Nicholas Taylor (President) Following the Daily Telegraph report that “Croquet will die out in twenty years unless younger people pick up a mallet”, James Mathieson and I decided to form Churchill

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College Croquet Club. With just three days to go before the Cuppers entry deadline, we hastily filled out and submitted our funding application to the College Finance Committee. With the kind support of Dr Ludlam, the application was approved and the Croquet Club was up and running. Our inaugural match against the Peterhouse 1st team was something of a daunting prospect, given that they regularly field fifteen teams into Cuppers. Using a somewhat dilapidated set (borrowed at the last minute, as our shiny new set had not arrived), our first team headed to Peterhouse with high hopes of a David and Goliath upset. Predictably, the result did not go our way. Unfortunately our second team fared no better when they faced a very strong Pembroke team.We may not have played at the very top level but we certainly played in the very best company. With a little more practice, equipment and our own lawn the future looks bright for Churchill College Croquet Club.

Football Nick Waller (Captain) Churchill College Football Club has continued to prove one of the most popular clubs in Churchill, with a wealth of new talent joining the three male and one female undergraduate teams in College. In particular, the 1st XI had a specially strong campaign, with five new players boosting ranks and helping the side to win the Division 2 title without losing a game. A good cup run was also enjoyed by the side, but we were unlucky losers in the semi-final against eventual champions St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The second team were looking to avenge a disappointing relegation last season; however, despite a promising start, unfortunate defeats meant that they just missed out on promotion, whilst the third team also enjoyed a good season and will remain in their division next year. On the crest of their cup victory last season, the MCR team were looking to add the league title to their silverware cabinet, but were defeated in a crunch final-day match, resulting in a runner-up position.

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Music Sean Telford (Music Sizar) The Music Society has enjoyed an eventful year of music-making, with a wide variety of events taking place at Churchill. We’ve had the pleasure of hosting many recitals throughout the year, featuring new by-fellows Adrian Bradbury (cello) and Oliver Davies (piano), the Churchill College Piano Quartet and a baroque harpsichord-soprano recital given by Edward and Helen Lilley. Churchill Chorus, formerly the college choir, sang in several concerts this year, including performances of Bach’s Magnificat in Michaelmas and Haydn’s Nelson Mass in Lent, as well as various smaller works. The highlight of the society’s year came in May Week, when the Chorus was joined by the Chapel Choir, the St Faith’s Singers and the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra for a stunning performance of Mozart’s Requiem alongside other works by Bach, Brahms, Barber, Elgar and Mark Gotham. The concert also marked the long-anticipated release of the College CD! The Choir of the Chapel at Churchill College has also had a busy year of musicmaking. They were joined by Homerton for a performance of Fauré’s Requiem for Remembrance Sunday and visited them for a service in Lent. In Easter Term, they sang in an inter-faith service with members of the Beth Shalom Synagogue and the Kol Echad Hebrew choir. As for other events, the termly “Jazz in the Bar” has been as well received as ever, and in Michaelmas, the Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College (CIMACC) hosted a talk and concert at Churchill as the College's contribution to the BIBAC (Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures) 2014 conference.

Pool Kam-ting Tsoi (Captain) Churchill College Pool Club is a relatively new (and reborn!) society with a team of good players. We were on our way to being promoted to the first

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division, only to be hindered by our neighbouring college Fitzwilliam, to whom we lost by a narrow margin, with their American pool players on a British table. Someone says it is fate, others think we were just unfortunate; we were halfway in Cuppers when we lost a deciding frame to the same college. For the less serious players, practice sessions are held every weekend, and students always enjoy taking time off study for a game or two of pool.

Simon Jones (U85, Economics) writes:

Churchill College Enterprise Competition 2015 This is a piece to celebrate the inaugural running of the Churchill Enterprise Competition.We opened up applications in January and received fourteen highquality submissions, involving twenty students from Churchill. All the student applicants must be congratulated on the calibre of the ideas, their focus on commercialisation as well as the way they presented their ideas on paper, and ultimately, for those it concerned, the final in-person pitches. The submissions covered a broad spectrum of interests from biotechnology to retail, from the internet of things to renewable energy. The judges had the unenviable task of selecting a short-list from the initial entries to present in the Final – we got down to eight, and then the judges were available to coach each entry prior to the Final. Although all judges say it, the task of selecting a winner was not easy – so many of the pitches deserve to be progressed further and have a great chance of achieving commercial traction with the right support and backing. In the end we were delighted to announce that Memobox, presented by Meichen Lu, was the runner-up: a passionate pitch with clear execution momentum. The winner was UroLogic, led by Igor Romanov, with a well-structured pitch,

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addressing a known need with a large market opportunity. (See below for Igor’s comments and explanations.) UroLogic win £1,000 to help develop their proposition further and to assist access to suitable free mentoring from the alumni network, depending on their precise needs. We hope that all the other entries will be able to develop their links further with both the judging panel and other alumni to help them fulfil their entrepreneurial aspirations. I would like to extend my thanks to a number of people – firstly, the alumnus supporting us with the £1,000 prize money; the support the Fellowship has given to getting this going; the tremendous efforts of the Development Office to keep the process moving and stimulate interest within the student body; and last but not least the fantastic alumni judging and mentoring panel, who have already committed a lot of time to ensuring the rigour and fairness of this process. We look forward to building on this initial competition in future years and aim to launch the second iteration of the competition in the next academic year. No doubt that entrepreneurial endeavour is alive and well at Churchill. The winning entry in the Churchill College Enterprise Competition: UroLogic Igor Romanov (G12, Natural Science) writes: In the UK alone, there are over 250,000 serious urinary tract infections per year contracted from long-term urinary catheters.This accounts for up to 40% of all hospital-acquired infections resulting in an annual mortality rate of over 500 cases and costing the NHS in excess of £0.5 billion per annum. A major contribution to this is believed to be flaws in the Foley catheter design. UroLogic introduces a novel urinary catheter design based on smart material blends that will reduce the number of urinary tract infections. In addition, it does not require any retraining of nursing staff and can be produced at an affordable cost. The prize money from the Churchill College Enterprise Competition will definitely help us in our entrepreneurial journey. For a young start-up every penny counts, and the £1,000 prize will allow us to implement new developments in our business. The financial support will allow us to carry out some more tests in the lab. But the prize will not only help us to advance our business on the financial side. The Churchill College Enterprise prize was one

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of our first recognitions, and it has boosted our confidence and increased our motivation to continue growing our business. Furthermore, this recognition has also increased our credibility in investors’ eyes, as it shows that an experienced panel has evaluated our idea and decided to back us. In addition to all the aforementioned gains, we also benefited from truly excellent mentorship. We got clear, concise and easy-to-implement advice on how to make our idea real.

Other student news Levent Alpoge, one of this year’s Churchill Scholars, has won the AMS-MAA Morgan Prize of the American Mathematical Association and the American Mathematics Society for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student in 2014. This is the highest award for an undergraduate in the field.

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The MCR Photo Competition The theme of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MCR Photo Competition was Nature and Nurtured. We reproduce here the three winning photos.

First Prize: Giorgio Diviniti, Life from Sand

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Second Prize: Zhiyuan Pan (untitled)

Third Prize: Karolis Misiunas, A Thought on Civilisation

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“The poem is shaped like an up-ended bottle as an indication of Tony’s enjoyment of the good things of life.”

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Many gripping and moving College or Churchill-related events have taken place in the last twelve months, a number of them mentioned by other contributors to this 2015 Review. Here, we feature a symposium held to celebrate Professor Tony Kelly’s life and achievements (see also In Memoriam, Churchill Review, 2014). Another conference was held in Churchill on 20 February 2015 on the theme “Moving Mountains: Making the impossible possible with exercise”.The conference explored the impact of exercise and sport on the body and mind and their positive implications for chronic diseases and disorders. It was spearheaded by, among others, our Fellow Anny King. Her son was an inspiring speaker: Dr Jonathan King, himself a sufferer from cystic fibrosis with extraordinary stories to tell. Professor Stephen Hawking attended the dinner afterwards and received a standing ovation. This is also the place to mention that Churchill, and more particularly the Alex Hopkins Memorial Fund, support an annual lecture on chemistry in memory of Dr Alex Hopkins, our Chemistry Fellow who died tragically young in 2006.These lectures, held in March, are aimed at a wide public as well as at specialists; they attract large audiences, which include schoolchildren. Among many outstanding Alex Hopkins lecturers in the years since the inauguration of the series have been our own Honorary Fellow Professor Dame Carol Robinson, and Professor Mark Miodownik, who has regular media appearances and who currently holds the post of Professor of Materials and Society at University College London. Founding Fellow Sir Colin St John Wilson – the College’s first Fellow in Architecture – has had his magnificent British Library (at King’s Cross) awarded Grade 1 listing by the government. Designed in 1975-78 and built 1982-99, this £500-million building joins just a tiny handful of post-war British buildings that are Grade 1 listed: that is, of outstanding architectural importance. Finally, a keen-eyed alumnus, one of the College’s very first students, spotted a few errors in the names we supplied last year as captions to the photograph of the first dinner in Hall (see College Events, Churchill Review, 2014). His corrections and suggestions appear in the article at the end of this section, and have been passed on to the Archives team.

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Symposium in Memory of Professor Tony Kelly Colleagues from within and outside Churchill gathered to honour Tony on Saturday 21 February 2015. Speakers included our own Fellows Professor Archie Howie and Dr Kevin Knowles, who had organised the symposium; many other internationally renowned figures from the world of metallurgy and material sciences; and those who knew Tony during his time as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey.The afternoon ended with personal recollections from the audience.The whole occasion was a fitting and informative tribute. Readers can find the book of abstracts, a video of the event and a poem by Archie Howie dedicated to Tony at https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/events/professor-tony-kellymemorial-event/ The poem is shaped like an up-ended bottle as an indication of Tony’s enjoyment of the good things of life. (It was written for the College celebration of his 80th birthday and appeared in the 46th issue of the Churchill Review (2009; pp. 5253) in somewhat mangled form: it was displayed with lines left-justified instead of centred, and spread over two pages rather than fitted on to one, so that the shape of the bottle was lost. Readers will find the original bottle-shaped layout on the website.) Archie writes: “The custom of referring in the Review to more extensive accounts on the College website could turn out to be a final example of the many innovations that Tony engineered during his life” – an appropriate note on which to end.

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The John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prizes This year’s Prize winners and runners-up were: Poetry prize winner: Flora de Falbe (Clare), Miseryguts The “Other Prize” winners (joint): William Hutton and Jamie Rycroft (both Corpus Christi), Living Quarters The “Other Prize” runner-up: Lilly Posnett (Homerton), Pink Congratulations to them all.

The Master with the 2015 Prize winners Flora de Falbe, Lilly Posnett and William Hutton

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The Master and Flora de Falbe

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Professor Donald W. Cameron – and corrections Readers will remember that in last year’s Review we printed a black-and-white photograph of the inaugural dinner in Hall which took place on 26 March 1964. (See Churchill Review, 2014, pp. 66-69.) We had to leave a few blanks and questionmarks among the names supplied in the captions; Don Cameron has written with further information. Don himself has had a distinguished career in Chemistry. He was one of the very earliest Advanced Students at Churchill (1960-61), and was a Fellow from 1962-68.A special issue of the journal ARKIVOC (2001 (vii), pp. 1-7) was dedicated to him to honour his retirement from the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne, and another special issue of The Australian Journal of Chemistry celebrated his 65th birthday and acknowledged his contribution to Australian science through his exceptional achievements in natural products chemistry. Don’s daughter, Dr Jenny Cameron, wrote a fitting tribute for this eminent scientist that was reproduced in the dedicated issue of ARKIVOC, a short extract of which we reproduce below. (Don has been Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne since his retirement; to add some personal information, sent by him: he married Lynette Marjorie Weeks in Brisbane in 1958; their three children were all born in Cambridge: Bruce (1962), Neil (1964) and Jenny (1968). Lynette died suddenly at home in 2008.) Donald W. Cameron: A Tribute Don was born on 11 September 1935 in Gympie, Queensland, where he attended Gympie State High School. From there he went to the University of Queensland in 1953 as an Open Scholar, and in 1957 he gained First Class Honours in Organic Chemistry. In 1958 he completed his MSc under the supervision of Maurice Sutherland, who introduced him to research. In that same year he also was awarded a University Medal. His early work involved the chemistry of Australian flora and their essential oils, terpenoids and lignans. He then joined Arthur Birch at the University of Manchester as an 1851 Exhibition Scholar to undertake the PhD. He participated there in elaboration of Birch’s polyketide hypothesis and associated chemistry on antibiotic structure determinations.

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On completion of his PhD in 1960, Don moved to Cambridge and spent his first year there as a Salters’ Fellow in association with Alexander Todd, working on the aphin pigments. Todd had maintained a strong interest in natural colouring matters from the time of his own work on fungal pigments, carried out with Robert Robinson in the 1930s. The Salters work led to correction of the originally proposed structure of the protoaphins, xanthoaphins, chrysoaphins and erythroaphins, and their derivatives. In the early 1960s these complex quinones represented a major experimental challenge, owing to their sparing solubility and limited availability (being derived from insects individually weighing no more than 0.1 mg), with the additional handicaps that the work predated both thin-layer chromatography and 1H n.m.r. spectroscopy above 40-60 MHz. Don remained at Cambridge until 1968, having been appointed a University Demonstrator in 1961 and a University Lecturer in 1966; during that time he was also successively a Fellow, Lecturer, Director of Studies and then Tutor at Churchill College. He then returned to Australia as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. The Vietnam-War era and its aftermath were times of great change and uncertainty. Through his leadership, and traditional view that placed importance in senior academics being closely involved in early-year teaching, organic chemistry at Melbourne has flourished during his 32 years’ service there, offering courses popular with students. […] Don’s scientific reputation has been acknowledged through a number of awards and responsibilities. In 1971 he was awarded the Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of the Chemical Society of London, as then it was. In 1977 he chaired the Chemistry Section of the ANZAAS Congress in Melbourne. He was Royal Society of Chemistry Lecturer during 1984. In 1994 he received a Citation from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and in 1998, the Institute’s most prestigious award, the Leighton Memorial Medal. He has served as External Advisor in Chemistry for several universities in the Asia-Pacific region and for 12 years was a member of the Medical and Scientific Committee of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria.A Fellow of the RACI since 1968, he served successively as Vice-President and then President (1974) of the Victorian Branch.At various times he has served on the RACI Council and Executive Council; he was a member of the Institute’s Qualifications Committee for 14 years, for five of them (1992-1996) as its Chair, overseeing the most comprehensive accreditation/reaccreditation of Australian chemistry-based tertiary courses for many years. He chaired the Division of

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Organic Chemistry during 1979-1980, as well as the Division’s Sixth National Conference at Melbourne in 1980. He has maintained strong pastoral involvement in the Annual Synthesis Symposia of the Victorian Organic Group, held at the University of Melbourne, since their inception in 1976 and for many years run cooperatively with parallel meetings at other Australian centres. In 1999 he co-chaired an Inaugural Chinese-Australian Organic Chemistry Symposium held in Melbourne. A reciprocal meeting is expected to be held in Shanghai in 2001. Don’s publications number over 180. At various times he has been Head of Melbourne University’s Department of Organic Chemistry and School of Chemistry. He has lectured there to all years of the Science curriculum, as well as to students of all cognate Faculties, and will be remembered for excellent undergraduate teaching skills. At graduate level, at Cambridge and Melbourne, he has exercised scrupulous supervision (singly or jointly) of 91 BSc (Hons) students, six MSc students and 42 PhD students, many of whom now hold significant appointments worldwide, in academia, industry and elsewhere.To this number should be added 20 postdoctoral and other senior collaborators. In December 2000 Don Cameron retired from his University appointment. His friends and colleagues will remember his great enthusiasm for chemistry and his even-handed approach, accompanied by a sense of strong and fair leadership. His dry wit will be missed. Through this special issue, we congratulate Don on his contributions to chemistry, as a leader, researcher and teacher.We thank him for his friendship and support, and wish him well in his retirement.

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As for the corrections: we ask interested readers to refer to last year’s Review with this page from Don in hand: Back row: Denys Armstrong, Brian Cherry, Raymond Allchin, John Gibson, ?, Kenneth McQuillen, John Pateman, ?, Tony Hewish, Jack Miller, Francis Crick, Richard Sheppard, Sir John Cockcroft, ? [DC: I share the compiler’s doubt about this lady being Lady Cockcroft], Richard Keynes, John Morrison, John Killen, Dick Tizard, ?, Peter Squire, ?,Tony Kelly, […]McDowell*, Joe Quartey, Don Cameron [yours truly], Jan Michalski* Front row: Colin Campbell [uncertain], Graham Allen, ?, Joyce Wells, ?, ?, ?[not Denys Armstrong], ?, ?, ?, Jack Pole, Capt Stephen Roskill, ?, CK Phillips [uncertain], Frank Hahn, Richard Adrian, Natasha Squire, ?, ?, Desmond McConnell, ?, Michael Hoskin, Richard Hey, Martin Wells, ?, Sir Edward Bullard Side table: as shown *[Note from Don:] I could have sworn that Professors McDowell (UBC, Canada) and Jan Michalski (Lodz Polytechnic, Poland) each had a College affiliation under some Title, and was surprised not to find them among Overseas Fellows. [Editor:] Regarding the Professors McDowell and Michalski to whom Don refers: the Development Office tells us that Professor Michalski was an Overseas Fellow in 1964 in Organic Chemistry, but that neither Professor McDowell nor any similar variant of the surname could be found on our system, nor is he listed among our Overseas Fellows (a complete list of whom was very recently compiled). Mysteries remain! Step forward, other detectives. Meanwhile, many thanks to Don.

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From our Overseas Fellows Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Cities As a student of cities and sustainable transport systems, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my past year in Cambridge. Coming from California where we drive anywhere to everywhere, living in a walkable, bike-friendly place like Cambridge has been both liberating and healthful. My carbon footprint has shrunk and hopefully my waistline has as well. Sedentary living, tied in part to dependency on cars to get around, is a major contributor to rising obesity levels in affluent countries like the United States. As cities have expanded outward and multi-lane thoroughfares have replaced footpaths and bikeways, walking and cycling have gradually disappeared from the daily lives of many Americans, with serious public health consequences. Much of my academic life has focused on measuring the benefits – not only public health but also social, environmental and economic advantages – of designing cities like those of yesteryear: compact places with mixed land uses that are walkable and bikable, enjoy good public transport, and are socially inclusive, at least more so than today. Take one of today’s most pressing public policy challenges: climate change. Urban form strongly influences carbon-dioxide emissions, a primary contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.With 1/25th the land area, the city of Barcelona supports about the same population (some 5.3 million inhabitants) as one of America’s most car-dependent cities, Atlanta. Because many of its residents travel short distances, walk a lot and take public transport, Barcelona’s annual carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the transport sector is one-tenth that of Atlanta. One of the best ways to create low-carbon, healthy cities is to redevelop stagnant, centrally located urban districts. One of the first and most successful examples of urban regeneration is London’s Docklands. The creation of an enterprise zone that offered tax breaks to developers and infrastructure investments like a new light-rail line triggered a mammoth commercial and

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residential building boom on eight square miles of land that two decades earlier was dormant.Transit-oriented places like London’s Docklands stand in marked contrast to the UK’s master-planned, car-oriented new towns built in the postsecond world war era. New towns like Milton Keynes, while economically prosperous, have witnessed a steady rise in the average length and volume of car trips, and correspondingly in tailpipe emissions, partly because these towns are geographically isolated and far less self-contained than planners had hoped. Large-scale redevelopment on former brownfields – whether docklands or factory sites – is a different breed of new town: a “new town/in-town”, in the words of urbanologist Harvey Perloff. Brownfield redevelopment, however, is far riskier and more expensive than building on pasturelands and open greenfields. Remediation of contaminated industrial sites, factory demolitions, updating worn-out and obsolete utilities and paying urban wage rates to construction crews can triple the cost of a brownfield redevelopment versus a comparable size greenfield new development. The economic case for urban regeneration projects, therefore, must be strong and convincing. One way to measure the economic benefits of urban regeneration projects is to study real estate and labour markets. My students at Berkeley and I have done this for several notable projects. One is the Cheonggyecheon corridor in Seoul, South Korea. As part of an ambitious land reclamation scheme aimed at making Seoul a more livable city, attractive to high-skilled workers, between 2003 and 2005 former mayor Myung-bak Lee removed a six-kilometre elevated motorway in the heart of Seoul, restoring and day-lighting an urban stream and building a pedestrian-friendly greenway in its place (see Figure 1). New metrorail lines and busways accommodated many displaced motorists. Our research showed that both commercial and residential land markets attached higher value to being near the greenway than the former motorway, with premiums as high as 25 per cent. Moreover, the urban stream-greenway was found to attract “creative class” workers to surrounding neighborhoods: high value-added workers in fields like finance, engineering, design and maths who, according to economist Richard Florida, drive the twenty-first-century economies of first-tier cities. Overall, we found higher economic rates of return for urban regeneration projects like Cheonggyecheon than for most of the master-planned new towns built on Seoul’s periphery over the past three decades.

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Figure 1. Transformation of Cheonggyecheon from an elevated motorway (left, 2003) to a day-lit stream and greenway (right, 2005) Stockholm, Sweden has become a global leader in building eco-friendly communities on former industrial sites. One notable example is Hammarby Sjöstad, a zero-waste, energy-self-sufficient community on the edge of Stockholm’s core. On-site conversion of organic waste to bio-fuels, cogeneration of electricity and hot water, car-sharing, and the conversion of asphalt car parks to community gardens and tot-lots have, along with other measures, driven down Hammarby’s annual kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions per apartment unit to 40 per cent of that of traditional Stockholm suburbs with comparable household incomes and socio-demographics.While it was designed and marketed to appeal to eco-conscientious millennials and empty-nesters, Hammarby Sjöstad actually has a higher share of families with young children than most Stockholm suburbs, partly because parents prefer common areas given over to gardens and playgrounds rather than to surface parking. The biggest fault of urban regeneration projects to date has been the pricing out and displacement of low-income, working-class households.To critics, urban regeneration is synonymous with elitist development. Dislocation effects can be mediated by granting density bonuses in return for affordable housing units. This was done at London’s Central Saint Giles, a mixed-use transit-oriented project near a Soho underground station whose tenants include Google and NBC Universal. The project was granted two additional floors of commercial space in exchange for selling residential units below market rate.

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I thank the Churchill College community for providing a welcoming home for me to think, reflect and write this past year. Being in the eminently walkable, bike-friendly place that is Cambridge has made me all the more committed to contributing to the practice of regenerating cities to emphasise quality-of-place, even if it means drastically slowing down cars.

Robert Cervero Friesen Professor of Urban Studies and Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

My Career Since Churchill For the first time in this section, we bring together the career stories of a couple who met as students at Churchill: Nic (Nicola) Martin, nee Young (U89), who read Modern Languages, and Leigh Martin (also U89), who read Law. The photos show Nic, Leigh and their three children Matthew, Alison and Flora. Linguistics fun in a caring profession! I was one of those rare specimens: a linguist at Churchill. I remember sitting in a general linguistics class as the lecturer played us a crackly tape-recording of the disordered speech and language of someone post-stroke.That was my first exposure to aphasia and the career-choice light bulb switched on! Speech and Language Therapy became an obvious solution to the type of work I was looking for: linguistics fun in a caring profession! I have since met and worked with many people living with aphasia and continue to find it fascinating on both an academic and a human level. After graduating from Cambridge, I trained as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) on a two-year postgraduate course at City University, London. I found

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that my undergraduate general linguistics and phonetics papers helped me enormously on a course which had a lot of theory to cram into two years, as well as the clinical placements required to gain the practical skills needed to qualify as an SLT. My first post set me on course for a career working with adults with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties due to neurological illness or injury such as stroke, head injury, brain tumour or progressive conditions like multiple sclerosis or Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. My first post was in an NHS neurorehabilitation unit in Surrey, where I was part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) made up of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians and of course other SLTs. Neurorehabilitation is about individuals. Although there will be common themes and presenting conditions, there is no room for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;conveyor beltâ&#x20AC;? approach to the job. As well as the story of their presenting needs, every person I work with brings his or her own back-story: family, friends, work, interests, struggles, achievements, and their own personality and approach to dealing with their situation. It is the job of therapists to use their clinical expertise in partnership with service users to work towards goals which they find meaningful and empowering. Although this can be emotionally tough at times, it means that the work can never be monotonous and means it demands an ongoing consideration of how to apply theory in a way useful and accessible to each service user. Working as a member of an MDT is also key to the work of any therapist in rehabilitation. I have always enjoyed being able to learn from and contribute to the work of other health professionals, each of us with a different but complementary focus on our patient, the centre of our work. As a newly qualified therapist, I had found the field I wanted to specialise in. I managed to gain a grounding in neurorehabilitation across a number of settings through London-based jobs in medium-stay in-patient rehabilitation, acute neurosurgery and community-based therapy.This was a time when there were plenty of jobs to choose from. New SLT graduates currently find the NHS job market a more barren place, with competition for posts fierce.

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A move to Leeds then saw me working as a locum therapist on hospital stroke and general medical wards. A lot of this work involved initial assessment of people only a few hours post-stroke, and advising family and medical staff as to

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the patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communication needs and any strengths which could be optimised to enable the patient to engage in conversation in any way. A key part of the SLTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role at this stage is also to assess and guide management of disorders of swallowing (dysphagia) caused by stroke. It is perhaps little known outside the medical profession how much the SLT is involved in this field.There is certainly nothing in the job title to suggest this, and indeed when I first trained there was little mention of how much this aspect of the work would feature for any therapists going into neurology, care of the elderly, learning-disability or head and neck cancer specialisms. I can say I have found dysphagia interesting. It is satisfying to work with patients who begin their rehab journey completely unable to swallow without risk of chest infection or choking. Here the SLT works with the patient to redevelop skills or identify compensatory strategies which will enable oral feeding to resume. The SLT will liaise closely with the medics and dietician over a period of days, weeks and often months as the patient moves away from a dependence on tube-feeding and back to eating and drinking. Dysphagia, however, is not my passion, and I very much prefer working with people who face disorders of speech and language. I work with patients who have unclear speech due to muscle weakness and inco-ordination. Others have language-processing difficulties where perhaps syntax is lost or no language can be produced despite a fully functioning speech mechanism (aphasia). Some have been left with more cognitive communication difficulties which impair their ability to concentrate in conversation, or to grasp subtler meaning and inferences in spoken or written language. My next post in Leeds was as lead clinician on a research project offering group therapy to people with aphasia. This job also encompassed supervision of SLT students from Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University). The students were the main work force for delivering the group therapy required for the project. There followed a break from speech and language therapy for eight years to bring our three children up to school age (and to keep a close eye on their speech and language development!). Returning to work required a period of

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voluntary work in order to reboot my professional registration. I managed to be in the right place at the right time, and on re-registering secured a stroke specialist post on a neurorehabilitation unit in Leeds. It was invigorating to see that my interest in aphasia had not lessened. As well as the usual clinical work with stroke and brain injury survivors, I have in the last few years pushed to develop the role of the SLT as a communication supporter (almost like an interpreter). This side of the SLT’s role was greatly emphasised by my lecturers at City University, who have themselves become prominent figures in the field of research into and empowerment for those living with communication disability. It is now the norm within the MDT where I worked most recently for the SLT to be called upon to support both service user and non-SLT colleagues (for example consultant, social worker, occupational therapist) to optimise the effectiveness of important conversations on subjects such as discharge planning, control of finances, understanding of treatment and therapy or emotional issues. The SLT is seen as the expert in communication in general, as well as in each service user’s specific communication strengths and needs. The “quasi-interpreter” techniques used by the SLT are given the umbrella term “supported conversation”. A supported conversation can include communication via speech, writing, drawing, gesture, mime, pictures and photos. It will also include frequent opportunities for each participant in the conversation to demonstrate that they have understood what has been conveyed and that they have conveyed their intended message. This form of communication is well suited to me as a languages graduate. I have had the experience of having to survive in conversation using any means possible. I have developed a certain immunity to embarrassment when it comes to stepping outside the expected norms of conversation: a situation which can hold a significant “cringe factor” for many people. Supported conversation has become an area of special interest to me as the specifics of these techniques still vary widely from therapist to therapist and have not yet fully been described in detail in the healthcare setting. I was fortunate in being able to contact an old friend from Churchill, now at the University of York, who put me in touch with a Conversation Analysis colleague in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.As clinicians, my colleagues

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and I were able to collaborate with her as she began to look more deeply into what it is the SLT does to make conversations with people with communication disability work when such conversations would otherwise fall apart. My fascination with finding ways to optimise communicative interaction for people with speech and language impairment, and with the impact of this on human interaction, has not waned. However, I have recently left my NHS post, as I was feeling increasingly tethered by the administrative and non-clinical demands of working for such a massive and over-stretched organisation. I am in the process of setting up my own independent SLT practice, offering a service to people with communication needs resulting from stroke or brain injury. I also have continuing research and university teaching links, and look forward to this new chapter in a career which unites two of my favourite things: applied linguistics and real people’s stories.

Nic Martin (Young) (U89, Modern Languages)

Intellectual property: the nuts and bolts My first port of call after Churchill was the College of Law in Chester, where I completed the one-year Solicitors’ Final course and had the chance to do another year of rowing after taking up the sport for only a couple of terms in third year. Any thoughts I had of a career as a single sculler, though, were soon put right after my speed and promise in training turned into a crash into the bank in my first race in Chester. Law school was a great year socially, but the course wasn’t that challenging; we were pretty much spoon-fed for the year, and for most people it was just something to get through. Then it was a year off before my two-year solicitor training contract. I started the year with three months in Nepal to do some trekking and generally have a look around. One of the stand-out moments there happened in Pokhara after a three-week walk up to 5,800m – sitting outside a café I bumped into a friend from law school who was riding his bike from Delhi to Kathmandu.This inspired me also to do some riding, so after I’d paid $10 to borrow a local bike we set out together to pedal up to the Chinese border. Despite being continually

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chased by dogs, this was great fun, and it rekindled my childhood joy in cycling which has inspired a number of subsequent trips, and which I still feel each day as I ride to work and back in Leeds. Solicitor training started in 1994 with a commercial firm in Leeds, but I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there long, as after six months I was seconded to Swiss Bank Corporation in London and, apart from an obligatory six months back in Leeds to finish off the training, I stayed in London for the next six years. On qualifying as a solicitor in 1996 I achieved an early career ambition by moving to a media law firm in the West End. Here I specialised for four years in defamation and privacy work for various MPs and international political figures, as well as for a number of tabloids and a well-known satirical magazine. I also gained my first experience in my current main area of work, intellectual property (IP), acting for various music business clients, and also for the fashion retailer French Connection after it launched its then controversial fcuk brand. It was under the guidance of some great lawyers here that I learned the importance, as a solicitor, of honing and trusting my judgement, and the value of crafting careful, accurate and pointed correspondence. These two qualities have stood me in good stead during my entire career to date, and I will always remember the fine on-the-job teaching I received. From my first day I was working on relatively high-profile cases, whether representing a well-known actor, visiting a foreign embassy or taking a witness statement from an MP. It was constantly interesting and enthralling, and the cases I worked on were often on the front pages of the newspapers. I recall one of the highlights which was most fun was when we took action against a political party on the eve of its party conference after it had rebranded its youth wing as cfuk. Nic and I married in 1998, and a couple of years later we decided to move up to Leeds after I had taken Nic out for a meal to inform her that I was about to accept a job offer to move in-house to a digital music broadcaster in London. In response to my exciting news Nic informed me that she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wish to bring up a family in London. So the quest for a job up North began, and a few months later we moved to Leeds where I joined a large international law firm to become an IP lawyer. In no time at all I had my sleeves rolled up with a screwdriver taking apart various mechanical and electrical items on a number of patent cases. I found this a little ironic but also really quite interesting, after having applied to Churchill in the

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first place to read Engineering and changing to Law before starting my degree after the obligatory pre-university year in industry. To ensure I had the necessary detailed but broad legal knowledge in my new trade as an IP lawyer, I studied part time for a postgraduate diploma in intellectual property law, with the final exam coming a week after the birth of our first child Matthew in 2002. Nic and I have three children: Alison followed Matthew in 2004, and then Flora in 2006. The hours and culture in large law firms can be tough and are not what I was looking for as Nicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, as a father of three young children, or generally as someone who wanted a balanced life. So in 2005 I decided it was time to look for somewhere a bit more human in scale and attitude, and I moved to a smaller law firm in Leeds where I became a partner and set up and developed an international trade mark practice as part of our IP offering. I was headhunted from there in 2009 to join my current firm, a relatively small business which had been formed in 2007 in a management buyout by a dynamic group of individuals from an older Leeds practice.This new firm had survived a couple of tough years in the early part of the recession, and was now looking for someone to set up an IP practice at the firm as part of its growing full service offering. I felt a real alignment with the motivated and energetic partners at the firm, and an affinity with its relaxed and independent, almost â&#x20AC;&#x153;media firmâ&#x20AC;?, culture, which I had been used to in (and missed since) London. And this is where I still am, getting on for six years later. I currently head up a two-partner IP team which has six specialist IP lawyers in it, and which works for local, national and international clients in the UK and across the world. The work is varied and challenging, encompassing patents, trade marks, designs, copyright and confidentiality, covering litigation and noncontentious deals, and working for multi-billion-dollar-turnover multinationals and for local SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). New recruits from other firms, or those who have worked in other areas of the law, are often amazed at the breadth of specialist matters we cover, and the extent of the knowledge in each area which we need to have. I very much enjoy the technical detail of working in IP; I must admit that practice development, and recruiting, managing and motivating people is not something

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which I felt immediately comfortable with as I took on these responsibilities in my current role. Now, though, what I enjoy most is the multi-faceted nature of my role: the discipline of having constantly to switch my mind from a complicated client job to a management issue, to finances, to a client relationship issue, to the development of a colleague, and back to an IP problem. I find it a real pleasure working in a law firm with a large number of intelligent and professional people of all ages who are constantly having to keep on their toes to meet the challenges around them. In the last few years I have also come to notice the professional satisfaction of nurturing others and helping them to grow and develop in their career.

Leigh Martin (U89, Law)

Common People Alison Light (U73) is a writer and critic who is also currently Honorary Professor in the Department of English at University College London, Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities, and a Senior Associate of Pembroke College, Oxford. She was born in Portsmouth, read English at Churchill, and was awarded a DPhil from Sussex University. She has worked at the BBC in adult education, and also lectured at Royal Holloway and University College London. She spent several years establishing the Raphael Samuel History Centre in London. She writes regularly for the press, and also frequently broadcasts on BBC radio and on television. Among her books was the highly praised Mrs Woolf and the Servants (2007). She was a consultant for a three-part documentary series Servants: The True Story of Life below Stairs, in part a response to the hugely popular Downton Abbey series. In 2014 she published Common People: The History of an English Family (Fig Tree/Penguin), which uses her own family history to explore the lives of the working poor

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and to reflect on the search for ancestors. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in Non-Fiction and acclaimed in the media. We print below the review by Melanie Reid published on 4 October 2014 in The Times, where it was Book of the Week.Thanks to Alison, to Melanie Reid and to The Times for permission to reproduce the article. Common People:The History of an English Family, by Alison Light Others may be as surprised as I was to learn that the third most popular activity on the internet, after shopping and porn, is family history. And it is just as addictive as the first two, says Alison Light, the author of this remarkable, haunting trek into her own past. Be warned, family sleuths: for what we find can sometimes be almost too distressing to stomach. Tragedy, and the torment of the ordinary, will always ambush us and if it can reduce as stern a rationalist as Jeremy Paxman to tears, what will it do to us? We must be prepared to discover, as happens frequently on the BBC One programme Who Do You Think You Are?, that our forebears were mired in poverty, much more likely to have been ditch-diggers, labourers and unmarried women than landowners and ladies. Light warns against the human tendency to aggrandise: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We misremember the memories we inherit; their fabric is covered by our own desires.â&#x20AC;? Most of our ancestors, inevitably, 200 years ago, were part of the vast, anonymous, often itinerant working poor. They are silent and invisible, leaving no footprints and certainly no mansions stuffed with letters, diaries and photographs. Every family tree has many branches, and inevitably some have desperate events attached to them. These are the forebears who were either discarded or fabricated by their relatives, for fear of coming down in the world. The story of Lightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maternal great-grandmother, therefore, has a Dickensian intricacy to it. Sarah Hill, the family was led to believe, was a servant who had been impregnated by their high-born great-grandfather, causing him to be disinherited. It was a lie. The awful truth behind the convenient gothic melodrama was that Sarah was the lowest of the low, born and orphaned in the Cheltenham workhouse, dying aged 53 in a madhouse. It was not some mythic fortune that was disinherited

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from the family memory, but she herself who was discarded. Light’s research uncovered descriptions of the workhouse in the 1850s that remind one of the Romanian orphanage scandal in the 1980s – children sitting motionless, closepacked against the wall, deprived of toys, “dull and stupefied”. Juvenile paupers, as they were called, were without utensils and forced to eat from troughs on the floor. One workhouse official noted piously that their appearance “verges on the repulsive”. Sarah went into service and later married a carter. Her babies arrived in a rural slum on the edge of the Carshalton tanneries, an industrialised wasteland near Epsom in Surrey. In 1911 she was admitted to an asylum and died “after 16 days of mania”. Eighty per cent of asylum admissions were for mania, which could cover high fever, brain damage, cancer, exhaustion, epilepsy, senility, psychiatric illness and depression.Those were the days when “pauper lunatics” like her were held in Victorian warehouses of up to 2,000 people. It was only after 1913 that they were issued with toilet paper. In such detail lies unfathomable pain. Inside every branch of every family, Light says, there is a saga, a novel in miniature. None is without drama. She found a missing paternal grandmother, Evelyn, in an unmarked common grave – and, behind the disappearance, the story. Evelyn was the daughter of rural migrants, originally needle-makers from the area in Warwickshire called Needle-land in the 1860s, from where 50 million needles a week were sent all over the world. She was in the Forage Corps, the forerunner of the Women’s Land Army, during the First World War. “Our soldiers’ horses must have hay”, said the recruiting slogan. She travelled from farm to farm with a steam baling machine, packing the fodder and dispatching it to France. Wearing corduroy breeches covered by a smock, the trouser-clad women were regarded with hostility. “It isn’t decent to come out dressed like that,” said one villager. Evelyn died in 1930, aged 39. As befits a professor of English literature, Light writes beautifully. With such colour and with perception and lyricism she clads the past. In yet another family branch she found hellfire Baptist preachers. Shrewton in Wiltshire, on a bleak chalk plateau now inhabited by the MoD, was then one of the poorest agricultural areas in England. Here lived the Lights, bricklayers by trade, who built, lived in, preached in and depended on a Baptist chapel. And here 350 out

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of the village’s 500 souls worshipped, fiercely defying the Church of England. Driven out by poverty, the Lights took both trade and religion to Portsmouth, where they built chapels and houses for the burgeoning dockyard. A century later, in 1910, the author’s grandfather, rebelling against the chapel, joined the Royal Navy, and started drinking and seeking the pleasures of the flesh. Venereal disease was declared a national emergency in 1917.A reactionary Royal Navy decided that handing out protection would only make “the ignorant class” consider “sexual indulgence a necessity”. The ignorant class just got infected regardless and the Navy had to set up Blue Light depots, where sailors had their penises painfully irrigated with the chemical Protargol. Light’s grandfather was invalided out on grounds of gonorrhoea and had to beg his religious father for work to survive. He continued to drink. People like to know where they come from.We all possess that solipsistic streak, a sense of ego, which makes our own background fascinating. And, safe to say, lots of people have already written personal epics, either as fact or fiction. Had Light merely traced her own roots, her book, however moving, would be derivative. What takes it to quite another level, giving it weight and importance, is that it is as much an exploration of why we search as about what we find. Her skill is to grasp not just the “historical freight” – lovely expression – but the emotional freight of the process. Common People is part memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the Industrial Revolution, but above all a work of quiet poetry and insight into human behaviour. It is full of wisdom.

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Bumbo and Judas This piece by Mark Goldie is a tribute to Founding Fellow Andrew Sinclair, FRSL, FRSA, film-maker, historian and author, to mark his eightieth birthday in 2015. Andrew Sinclair was a celebrity within months of graduation. He wrote a hip novel, The Breaking of Bumbo (1958), when still an undergraduate, and quickly followed it with another, My Friend Judas (1959). Then he became a founding Fellow of Churchill College, where he was the first Director of Studies in History. His doctoral thesis on 1920s America yielded a still standard monograph, Prohibition (1962). But he did not stay long in academe, turning instead to a career that combined authorship of novels and popular history books, and film-making. Students of film are indebted to him for the series of classic screenplays issued by Lorrimer Publishing: Eisenstein, Bu˜nuel, Polanski, Bergman. A second moment of celebrity came when he directed the 1972 film of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, a couple as famous for their tempestuous marriage off-screen as for their acting prowess on. The year 2014 was a hectic one for Sinclair – Dylan Thomas’s centenary. He took his Milk Wood on a world tour with the British Council, and published Down Under Milk Wood: Of Burton and Taylor, O’Toole and Others, Dylan and Me. His first encounter with Thomas’s work occurred while he was at Churchill: “When I became a don at the building of Churchill College, I was summoned from my Portakabin to adapt The Skin Trade for the stage”. Sinclair’s early CV looks impeccably “upper middle”, for he went to Eton and served in the Brigade of Guards before going up to Trinity College in 1955. “I secured a Double First in History and dashed off a second novel about contemporary Cambridge.” But – or should that be And? – he was, by the late 1950s, self-consciously a rebel. “Always bite the hand that feeds you.” There is no space here to discuss Sinclair’s long career or his total output of over forty books, so I confine myself to his two early novels, because they capture the spirit of rebellious youth circa 1960. He was quickly dubbed one of the Angry Young Men. The second novel is a rich evocation of avant-garde student life around the moment when Churchill College was born. The first novel, The Breaking of Bumbo, is a tragi-comic tale of National Service. Bumbo is a recruit in the Coldstream Guards. His fellow officers are posh upper

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middle, but he is from a suburban villa in Penge: “I wasn’t born into your world.” The narrative moves between his barracks and two varieties of London social life: the guttering remnants of the debutantes’ Season and the Espresso bars of the King’s Road. Bumbo beds a vapid deb in Sloane Square, and then falls for a feisty model in Chelsea, but she dumps him at a vulnerable moment and compounds a problem of a larger kind that he now has to confront. It is 1956 and the Suez Crisis has broken. Bumbo has a fit of conscientious objection over Britain’s malodorous late imperial folly, and decides he cannot fight.Worse, more or less accidentally he incites squaddies to mutiny. He could be courtmarshalled and shot. But that would embarrass the regiment, so he is discharged, facing only a volley of platitudes about duty and honour. Unnerved by this act of repressive tolerance, he fails to take a stand. With few prospects, he speedily marries the deb, and his new father-in-law finds him a sinecure in the City. He duly disappears into mediocrity. Bumbo’s drunken tirades against Empire, Establishment and Class fizzle out in ignominious retreat.The boy from suburbia is too easily flattered and then unmanned by “the racket”, despite its manifestly “phoney” and “pernicious” values. The book opens with “And”, and there’s “bleeding” ten times in the next five lines. Having grabbed our attention, it moves to a default setting of ennui, alienation and cynicism. The humiliations and absurdities of Basic Training are evoked; so too is the genteel boorishness of the officers’ mess – talking dirty, and circulating the port. Likewise the inanities and hypocrisies of the uppercrust London Season. The “ragbags of puppy fat, and easy meat, that answered to the name of debutantes” all too regularly found themselves having to disappear for hastily arranged “stays in appendix wards, or long vacations in Switzerland”. As the story progresses, sexual hypocrisy is overhauled by political. Guards officers like Outram Utterluck are all for bombing Egypt: “he talked about oil. Shell and Suez. … Men ruined, because of Suez. … bloody Nasser. Just like Hitler. … tin-pot gyppos … wogs”.The only character without side is Susie, the model from Chelsea. “Nice bitch … You just did, no pretence.” Sinclair’s second novel followed within a few months; its setting is different but its structure similar. My Friend Judas is set in the final weeks of a Cambridge undergraduate career in the summer of 1958. Ben Birt belongs to the new wave of classless youth – that is to say, he is middle-class masquerading as proletarian, though he has cast-iron provincial roots, hailing from South Wales.

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He is self-made, in that we learn nothing of those roots, beyond the Cardiff provenance and a mention of Woolworths and a holiday job in a factory. His college is “St Mary’s”, a thinly-disguised King’s. Ben writes for the student magazine Effete, designs sets for the Footlights, studies and writes essays in brief spurts of academic duty, and is a serial seducer. Having cast aside an Italian au pair, he makes the mistake of actually falling – at least half – in love with a fellow undergraduate, a Girtonian called Jude. He gets caught in the labyrinth of an incestuous student circle, for Jude had, and has, other entanglements, and his male friends turn out to be his sexual rivals. Ben’s life rapidly unravels. Jude dumps him; the latest issue of Effete includes a blasphemous essay falsely attributed to him; and his revision for Tripos exams is exiguous. He faces being expelled by the university disciplinary court just a couple of weeks before failing to get a degree in any case. Ben reaches for the knob on the gas fire in his college room and makes a half-hearted attempt at suicide. The dénouement is little more satisfactory. When the Effete forgery is exposed, he is exonerated, and he graduates with a Second. Instead of notoriety and ignominy, he merely faces a return to suburban Cardiff, followed by a grim and pointless two years of National Service: in sum, ordinary life. The book is in part a Bildungsroman: Ben is older and wiser and gentler after this odyssey. It is in part an aspiring existentialist novel: Ben’s final words are that, at Cambridge, what mattered was simply that he and his friends “did things. And we did ourselves, good and proper.” And, again, the book is a campus farce, of the sort later perfected by Tom Sharpe in Porterhouse Blue: Mrs Slythe the bedder and Doggie the porter are comic turns. Jude, inevitably, is caught naked by the bedder and climbing college walls by the porter: but both prove indulgently deferential.There are hints, too, of a cultural pessimism – or elitism – that could equally be haute Leavisite or Left-leaning Raymond Williams-cumRichard Hoggart, for there are comments on the grim rising tide of mass mediocrity, represented by New Towns, Odeons and Woolworths, and by alliterative litanies of suburban inanity: Penge, Pinner, Potters Bar. There is a moment of arch self-referencing when Ben alludes to his friend Augustus, high up in his garret at Trinity College, who has had the indecency to “have a novel accepted at twenty-two”. Whereas in CP Snow’s novels students are conspicuously absent, here it is the dons who are practically invisible. Ben has a soft spot for the only don who is

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characterised here, who wearily attempts to encourage him to do some studying, and extracts from him a dashed-off essay on the “Withering Away of the State”. The don’s chief thoughts are of the “why do I bother” sort. Devotees of Cambridge’s haunts will enjoy Ben’s regular circuit: the famed and long-since demised Whim café in Trinity Street, the likewise superseded basement tea-room in the University Library, the Arts Bar at the ADC Theatre, the Gardenia in Rose Crescent. Visiting the Fitzwilliam Museum for the first time during the final week in Cambridge remains true to contemporary undergraduate experience. What I suspect especially captured a publisher for these novels is the cleverness of the language. It is often written – as its characters live – in a hectic, pell-mell, syncopated style. Puns, jingles, jargon, alliteration, and wordplay abound. “Flat on the Backs”; “all puff and no pastry”; “the powers that pee”. There are whole passages of barely incomprehensible patois riffs.The inspiration here is Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. My Friend Judas captures well the detail of what it was to be hip just then. Ben wears jeans (this was very new on students in 1958), and sneakers. For smart: drainpipe trousers and a narrow knitted tie. He is an aficionado of jazz, hi-fi, Martini, Nescafé,Woodbines; Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker; Bardot, Brando, Garbo. The authors one must read, or rather be thought to be reading, include Beckett, Dos Passos, Ionesco, Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Salinger. A poster of Heironymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights hangs on the wall. There are bits of gimcrack philosophy: Sartre and Wittgenstein. The ultimate fashion accessory is Ben’s Vespa, which zips him from King’s Parade up Huntingdon Road to Girton in no time. These are set off against a Cambridge of idiotically restrictive regulations, patrolling proctors, and dons who are routinely addressed as “Sir” and serve Tio Pepe sherry. Some of the references remind us of the ubiquity of familiarity with the War: in the opening paragraphs Ben pees into the Cam, “like Patton peeing into the Rhine”. Other remarks point to the international anxieties of the moment:“worse than the early Yank sputniks”. But, for the most part, the undergraduate world is hermetic and self-absorbed. The novel trades on sharply drawn stereotypes. Ben’s principal alter ego,Winkie Lloyd-Lumsden, is Effete’s editor, and is upper-class and wildly camp: velvet

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jacket, suede shoes, and “Darling Benjamino”. Winkie actually wants to be sent down, as a springboard to a life of glittering metropolitan celebrity. His college is “one vast queenery”, all “frail emotions and delicate relationships”. (Here the novel is in Brideshead mode.) Less fully drawn are the wider population of students, who are divided into “hearties” (all sport and no work), and “swots on government grants” (all work and no fun). Ben is arrogant and cynical. Practically everyone whom he disdains, which is most people, is a “pill” (i.e. pillock). His views, when he bothers to think, are anti-religious (he avoids the college’s “god box”), and anti-Establishment. He asks of an adult “what particular sort of grave your generation is digging for us”. The man at the Appointments Board (as the Careers Office used to be called) is desperate to fit Ben into a round hole, and suggests the Somaliland Police Force (indicating the Establishment’s ludicrous attachment to dying Empire), or a marketing job with a soap manufacturer. Formal politics is a merely boring fraud: Labour offers Wykehamists in opposition to Tory Etonians. Some of the irreverence would today succumb to the publisher’s blue pencil: a casual remark about Belsen; a racial taunt involving British troops torturing Greek Cypriots; a high-heeled girl tottering “like a spastic on stilts”. Both novels are, by later standards, breathtakingly sexist.They surely win some sort of prize for their pullulating variety of epithets for women. Chicks, cuties, janes, poppets, popsies, tooties, totties. Here a “lush thrush”; there a “New Hall ugly”.“I had to open a new bottle of vermouth.The cork was as tight as a virgin.” Ben’s Italian au pair is “dead from the neck up, comfy from the neck down”. And so on, and on. Ben’s machismo is unsurpassed. In mitigation, it should perhaps be added that Sinclair went on to publish a pioneering history of the American feminist movement, The Better Half: the Emancipation of the American Woman (1965). Bumbo was turned into a musical, and then a film starring Joanna Lumley and John Bird; and Judas was staged too. By 1964 Sinclair was gone from Churchill College and Cambridge, had bought a tiny terrace in Limehouse, and embarked on a freelance life of film and writing. He left a visual legacy of, and to, the College: the recently rediscovered twentyminute film of its construction.The rest of his razzmatazz odyssey through the

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Swinging Sixties may be read in his autobiography, In Love and Anger (1994). He was in Cuba and North Korea; wrote Che Guevara for the Fontana Modern Masters series; and, in London, whom didn’t he know among the film-makers, actors, authors and intellectuals of that dazzling decade? As he remarked, “My nonchalance and arrogance and the attention of the press had made me a voice of my generation.”

Mark Goldie

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Condolences The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of the following: Mr Gruffudd Jones (U70), who died on 29 June 2013 Mr Alan Mingay (U69), who died on 11 December 2013 Dr James Naughton (U&G68), who died in February 2014 Mr William Topham (U63), who died on 6 March 2014 Dr Peter Butt (G69), who died in April 2014 Mr David Llewellyn (U64), who died on 29 April 2014 Professor Frank Marble (Overseas Fellow 1972), who died on 11 August 2014 Professor James Gilbert (Overseas Fellow 1972), who died on 15 August 2014 Mr Michael Howden (U61), who died in September 2014 Mrs Sarah Jane Stephens (nee Cusdin) (U90), who died in September 2014; see following remarks Mr David Davies (U72), who died on 7 September 2014 Mr Brian Scragg (Past Fellow 1965), who died on 11 September 2014 Professor Hirofumi Uzawa (Past Fellow 1966), who died on 18 September 2014 Mr Ken Targett (U74), who died on 20 September 2014 Dr Ivor Wilks (Past Fellow 1968), who died on 7 October 2014 Mrs Elizabeth Reynolds (nee Birkby) (U77), who died on 19 October 2014

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Professor Kristian Jeppesen (Overseas Fellow 1987), who died on 14 November 2014 Professor David Stoddart OBE (Past Fellow and DoS in Geography 1966-87), who died on 23 November 2014; see following appreciation Professor Simon Dentith (U70), who died on 23 November 2014; see following appreciation Dr Diane Galletly (G97 and former staff member), who died on 17 December 2014 Mr Ronald Gerard OBE (Archives donor), who died in January 2015 Dr Jan Graaff (Overseas Fellow 1964), who died on 6 January 2015 Professor Andrew Szent-Gyorgyi (Overseas Fellow 1973), who died on 27 January 2015 Sir Martin Gilbert (Honorary Fellow), who died on 3 February 2015; see following appreciation Professor Donald Low (Past Fellow 1983), who died on 12 February 2015 Mr David Holgate-Pollard (U&G65), who died on 28 February 2015 Lady Christine Bondi (widow of the former Master, Sir Hermann Bondi), who died on 2 March 2015 Miss Sarah Buxton (U78), who died on 13 March 2015 Dr Andrei Brezianu (Past By-Fellow 1984), who died on 19 March 2015 Mr John Hawley (U&G68), who died on 24 March 2015 Mr Graham Lord (U62), who died on 13 June 2015 Professor Charles Correa (Past Fellow 1985), who died on 17 June 2015 Mr Guy Gross (U64), who died on 16 July 2015 Dr Donald Pinchin (G73), who died on 29 July 2015 Professor Chris Marshall (U67), who died on 8 August 2015

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Sarah Jane Stephens (nee Cusdin) (U90) Sarah’s husband Gavin Stephens (Robinson 1990-93) writes: Upon graduation Sarah completed her PGCE at Homerton College, Cambridge and went on to teach in Suffolk and Surrey. We married in 1996 and had our son, Milo, in 1999. Sarah was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011 and following a long and brave fight died in September 2014. I know that Sarah would want to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis of ovarian cancer, for example through www.targetovariancancer.org.uk. We were supported at Sarah’s service of thanksgiving by a number of University friends, including Churchill alumni.

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Professor David Stoddart, 1937 – 2014 Grandeur in this view of life: a Geographer in a great tradition1 David Stoddart, geographer and coral reef scientist, was an outstanding advocate for geography within the natural sciences; an exceptional field scientist; a commanding lecturer; and an inspirational PhD supervisor who insisted on the highest standards of research practice. Many of his students now hold prestigious academic positions in physical geography in the UK, USA and Australia. He was a Fellow of Churchill between 1966 and 1987 and Director of Studies in Geography. He was the driving force behind the setting up of the quadrennial International Coral Reef Symposia, the first President of the International Society for Reef Studies – founded at a meeting in Churchill in 1980 – and the first Coordinating Editor of the international journal Coral Reefs. His awards included: OBE (1979); Founder’s Gold Medal, Royal Geographical Society; Davidson Medal, American Geographical Society; Darwin Medal, International Society for Reef Studies; Herbert E. Gregory Medal, Pacific Science Association; and Prix ManleyBendall, Institut Océanographique de Monaco. David Ross Stoddart was born in November 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees; even at school he was reading WM Davis’s The Coral Reef Problem. He entered St John’s College, Cambridge as an Exhibitioner in 1956, progressed through the Geographical Tripos with distinction, and then proceeded to graduate studies on the Belize Barrier Reef under the direction of Professor Alfred Steers, completing the PhD degree in 1964. He was a Demonstrator in the Department of Geography from 1962 to 1967 and University Lecturer from 1967 to 1988, before being enticed away to a Professorship (and Chair of Department) at the University of California at Berkeley. Short but powerfully built, with a shock of sandy hair, piercing blue eyes and an impressive beard, Stoddart was in his element in the field. While still an undergraduate, he travelled overland to India, took ship passage to West Africa and trekked through the jungles of South America. Once in the security of a University post, he went everywhere that he could in the reef seas; by his own estimate, he averaged at least three field trips a year to the Tropics, a pace he kept up for more than three decades. When he wasn’t on the “big jets”, as he called them, he was always on the telephone, at the typewriter, by the fax machine or involved in research, expeditionary logistics and advocacy at the

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David Stoddart in Fiji in the mid 1970s (by kind permission of June Stoddart)

David Stoddart and Tom Spencer surveying raised fossil coral reefs on Mauke, southern Cook islands, South Pacific Ocean in 1985 (photo: Colin Woodroffe)

David Stoddart surveying the immediate aftermath of the southern North Sea storm surge of 11 January 1978 on the North Norfolk coast: snow and sleet from Spitsbergen (photo: Tim Bayliss-Smith) great London learned institutions, in that triangle between Carlton House Terrace, Regentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park and Exhibition Road. His breadth of on-the-ground experience, and his encyclopaedic knowledge of the geological, biogeographical, zoological and botanical literature on reefs, gave him huge advantages when it

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came to “reading” and making sense of newly-encountered coral reef and reef island landscapes. The subsequent reports, often in the Smithsonian’s Atoll Research Bulletin, were enhanced by a deep knowledge of the reports of early explorers and travellers. In a pre-internet era, his wheeled card index of physical geography references and his “island files”, jammed into some fourteen filing cabinets, were legendary. Strong and sustained support for this work came via the Royal Society of London, from opportunistic visits with small teams (where participants were referred to by nickname: “black dog”, “scruffy”, “the vicar”…) to large, multi-disciplinary ventures – such as the marine programme of the Solomon Islands Expedition (1965; led by the botanist EJH Corner) and the Northern Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1973; led by Stoddart himself) – ranging widely, lasting for many months and leading to impressive synthesis volumes in the Society’s Philosophical Transactions. To Stoddart it was entirely appropriate that “the Royal” should be involved in this way, as from its beginnings the Society had wished to expand knowledge of the world’s oceans, issuing “Directions to seamen bound for far voyages” in the first volume of the Transactions. He thus traced his own scientific lineage back to the great voyaging naturalists: Joseph Banks, Johan Reinhold Forster and, of course, Charles Darwin, whose original notes on the structure and distribution of coral reefs he unearthed in the Cambridge University Library. “Four handshakes from Darwin”, as he memorably told delegates at an international coral reef meeting in Cambridge in 2002.The most significant outcome of this Cambridge-London collaboration, which involved advocacy at the highest levels of government, in both the UK and USA, was the saving of the near-pristine, now World Heritage Site-listed, island of Aldabra Atoll, SW Indian Ocean, from development as a military staging post. Stoddart was responsible not only for the initial rapid reconnaissance which established its ecological significance, and the authoritative briefings that followed, but also for pushing through the construction of a field station and overseeing a decade-long, fifty-person-year research effort on the atoll’s geology, geomorphology, climate and ecology. His legacy is probably the best understood oceanic coral island in the world. He continued to support scientific research on the atoll after management was transferred to the Seychelles Island Foundation, returning there for one last time in 2007 to celebrate twenty-five years of in-country support. David was a gifted and natural speaker, with a deep, booming voice and a true sense of comic timing. As early as the 4th International Coral Reef Symposium in 1981 in Manila, his plenary entitled “Coral reefs – the coming crisis” outlined the fragility

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Wind against tide: June and David Stoddart in the Geography Department dory leaving Scolt Head Island, North Norfolk coast (photo: Tim Bayliss-Smith) of reefs in the face of anthropogenic pressures and the need for improved international co-operation at the level of both governments and reef scientists. Stoddart never filled in a risk assessment form in his life and occasionally sailed a bit close to the wind in terms of the safety of his field parties.Thus on the UK North Norfolk coast, often in winter and sometimes in darkness, he deployed teams of students to measure tidal flows in salt marsh creeks. This involved the erection of tall, spindly towers of “dexion” to keep monitoring equipment above water (a similar bridge,“value engineered” by an interfering Head of Department, collapsed in spectacular fashion on the Essex marshes; the resulting black and white images of the wreckage bore an eerie resemblance to the remains of a burnt-out Zeppelin) and marooned students on platforms to record, in the predatalogger era, water levels and current flows by hand. All this relied upon a correct reading of the tide tables, which was not always the case… The detailed directing of undergraduate studies was not his strong point. A large queue of students always formed up outside his office door in Geography on the first day of Full Term to find out what arrangements had been made for them;

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often these arrangements turned out to be rather minimal. However, as one of his last Churchill students, Clive Barnett, has remarked: “I learnt that Geography was an intellectual vocation… his teaching was focused on ideas, ideas, and ideas. His model of teaching was to send you off to read something for next time, and then when next time came round, you would find yourself talking about something else entirely.” 2 There was little interest in paperwork. This could be disastrous when it came to Tripos. On one occasion, as Chair of Examiners, he managed to lose the signed class-list within half an hour of the closure of the final meeting. This was unfortunate (the list turned up a week later, having been posted to Edinburgh); perhaps rather more unwise was cycling down Senate House Passage, past lines of anxious undergraduates peering at the screens, while shouting “You’ve all failed.” Stoddart was a heavy drinker, often starting the Departmental day with a 100ml lab beaker of sherry and pressing the Chinese spirit “Maotai” on dinner guests. In later years, the un-PC postcards of Tahitian ladies were replaced by lurid photocopies of his latest afflictions, as the years of hard living and hatless mapping under the tropical sun resulted in diabetes, erupting skin cancers and foot problems. As he became increasingly housebound, he built a remarkable library full of rare books and old maps of the world’s oceans and islands. He leaves behind memories of an intense camaraderie, much laughter and many schoolboyish pranks (or “tee hees”, as he called them),3 but also a certain sadness for a world of broad knowledge and deep scholarship which has almost completely vanished in physical geography. He is survived by his wife June, a constant stabilising and supportive presence in his life since his early years in Cambridge, a daughter (Aldabra, named after the coral island), son (Michael, who narrowly escaped being called “Diego Garcia”) and granddaughter (Kathy). Dr Tom Spencer Reader in Coastal Ecology and Geomorphology, University of Cambridge Professor Archie Howie adds: I certainly remember David’s taste for sherry and indeed several other tipples. He was an avid exploiter of the rule that (with Head of Department

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permission) University Teaching Officers could push off to pursue their research elsewhere after the division of term without this being counted as sabbatical leave. David used to dash off to Aldabra or Galapagos pretty well every term and of course also took his full entitlement of sabbatical leave. With the more relaxed rules we have now, anyone can leave Cambridge at any time provided satisfactory arrangements have been made about teaching.4 [Editor: Current members of Churchill may like to know that a copy of David’s book Geography and Its History is available in our College library and conveys vividly his blend of deep scholarship with a rather racy style.]

1 “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved” (Darwin, 1859, p. 490). In 1982, the year of the centenary of Darwin’s death, David used the closing paragraph of On the Origin of Species to himself close a conference paper where he reflected on Darwin’s scientific method. He finished with a typical Stoddartian rallying call, embodying his own feelings on research practice: “we ought to think more deeply in education and research about the importance of ideas and the triviality of facts: too many books, too much xeroxing, too many examinations, too little thought, too little contact I fear – and that too remote – with the great world of nature... We need to rediscover Darwin’s vision, both the profundity and intensity of his response to the world of nature, and the daring of his speculation” (published in Stoddart, DR, 1983, Bulletin of Marine Science 33, pp. 521-27 (p. 526)). 2 https://clivebarnett.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/on-stoddart/ 3 These practical jokes had a habit of going spectacularly wrong. At the end of one field trip, he contrived to feed a hosepipe through the open window of an outside urinal at The Jolly Sailors in Brancaster Staithe, North Norfolk, aimed at discomfiting an unsuspecting graduate student. But he chose the wrong window and managed to soak a leading local politician. Fortunately, the get-away vehicle had the engine running… 4 Dr Spencer provides the following related anecdote: “On one occasion, David was leading an undergraduate field-course to Dorset when the call came through to go immediately to Fiji. He phoned the then Head of Department, the historical geographer HC Darby, in Cambridge: ‘Don't worry, Professor, Mr Goudie [then a graduate student who rose to become a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford] will take over with immediate effect.’ To which Darby replied: ‘That is very interesting, Dr Stoddart, as Mr Goudie is standing right next to me.’”

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Professor Simon Dentith, 1952-2014 In a long and eventful career as a literary scholar and educator, Professor Simon Dentith’s work was characterised by a passionate advocacy for the discipline to which he contributed distinguished research. Simon was educated at The John Fisher School, Purley, between 1959 and 1969. He studied English at Churchill College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in June 1973.After a brief period as a schoolteacher, he undertook postgraduate study at the University of Leicester, and in 1981 was awarded his doctorate for a thesis on “Ideology and the Novel in the 1850s”. While at Leicester, he was part of a vibrant and learned circle that met to debate Althusser, Macheray, Structuralism, Feminism, Marxism and other matters urgent to this particularly theorising moment in English Studies. Its most lasting marks upon his intellectual formation can be found in his committed William Morrisinfluenced socialism, his championing of Raymond Williams’s work and legacy, and his writings on the theorist of dialogic and carnevalesque literature, Mikhail Bakhtin. He will also be long remembered for his stubborn and passionate debating of cases and causes, a debating that frequently dissolved differences in recognitions of shared presuppositions, understandings and aspirations. He did not argue for victory, but for the vitality and fellowship of intellectual exchange. From his first academic appointment at the University of Liverpool in 1980, Simon established his reputation as an engaged academic and a loyal colleague. His sustained publication record is impressive, including the volumes George Eliot (1986), A Rhetoric of the Real (1990), Bakhtinian Thought (1995), Parody (2000) and Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2006). Simon’s contribution to Victorian studies is widely recognised and his latest book, Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now: Reading with Hindsight, published early in the year of his death, has already been well received and, among other plaudits, has been described as “a major landmark in serious, fresh thinking about the massive issue of how to read literature in time”. Simon was also an invaluable supporter in the early days of the British Association for Victorian Studies.Though BAVS now has an established presence in the lives of Victorian researchers, it was founded as recently as 2000, Simon being among the key scholars involved in making this happen. He was, likewise, a great supporter of

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the English Subject Centre where he worked closely with Ben Knights and Nicole King to explore and promote the values, and extend the influence, of the discipline. When the English Subject Centre closed in 2011 he was chairperson of its Advisory Board and one of its greatest champions. At the final Board meeting, he bid farewell to his colleagues with the warmth and passion that were his trademarks. During the first three months of 1995, Simon was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He had moved from Liverpool in 1994 to a Readership at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.There he worked with Professor Peter Widdowson, appointed in the same year, to establish the vibrant research culture that was a prerequisite of the institution’s subsequent elevation to being the University of Gloucestershire in 2001. The following year he was promoted to a Professorship. During this period, Simon’s contribution to this culture included the supervision of research students, many of whom remain profoundly grateful for his extensive and committed support. His professional and personal values remained steadfast, and he is remembered for his advocacy of returns to first principles in curriculum formation and the defence of library holdings in the Humanities. When Simon moved to the University of Reading in 2007 he agreed to take on the role of Head of Department, which he duly did in August 2008. It was a period of great change, which involved the Department’s incorporation, during the threeand-a-half years of Simon’s tenure, into first one and then another School structure, including a short-lived merger with the Department of English Linguistics. Throughout all these changes Simon guided those above and around him with diplomatic tact, skill and vision, being particularly concerned for the welfare of colleagues undergoing personal difficulties, which he did without reference to his own. Simon will also be remembered from his time at Reading as an ardent sustainer of values in literature, criticism and the humanities, as well as a gifted teacher, a great raconteur and an administrator righteous in defence of core cultural standards both in and outside the academy. In 2011 he organised a conference on The Good of Criticism which explored a language to articulate the value and purpose of researching and teaching literature at university, and which gave him an opportunity to speak alongside long-cherished peers such as Dinah Birch and Isobel Armstrong.As the son of the distinguished character actor Edward Dentith,

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of whose filmography he was evidently proud, Simon showed himself thoroughly attached to the performative and intonational aspects of speech and writing, one ambition left unfulfilled being the introduction of a module that based the teaching of poetry on its recitation out loud. He was a vital presence in the world, ready to challenge and to contribute, a person both fierce and tender, who cared about ideas and people with equal force, only too aware of how neither can thrive without a nurturing of the other. Many were the days made more cheerful, more illuminating and illuminated because Simon had given intellectual stimulus, practical advice and personal support.Â Â Simon Dentith was born on Saturday 22 March 1952. He died in his sleep and without pain in the early hours of Sunday 23 November 2014. He leaves his wife, Kath, and their two children, Imogen and Jack, to whom profound condolences are offered. Peter Robinson Peter Robinson is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of many books of poetry and translation for which he has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize, and two Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Among his other publications are volumes of aphorisms, short stories, and literary criticism. He is the poetry editor at Two Rivers Press. This obituary also appears in Key Words, the journal of the Raymond Williams Society (Autumn 2015).

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Sir Martin Gilbert, 1936-2015 Eminent historian who wrote the definitive biography of Winston Churchill By Richard Gott Sir Martin Gilbert, the distinguished historian and official biographer of Winston Churchill, has died aged 78. The author of more than 80 history books and atlases, he often wrote on Jewish themes and was a committed Zionist, though was quietly critical of today’s Israel and the dominance of the Likud party. He was as interested in geography as in history and his many historical atlases are strikingly original and have often been imitated. Most recently, he had been a member of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. I first met Gilbert when we travelled through Poland together on a student trip from Oxford in the summer of 1959. This gave us both a lasting interest in the history of central Europe. Our bible at the time was Lewis Namier’s Diplomatic Prelude, a history of the months leading up to the second world war, written from the diplomatic blue books published at the time.When we realised that entirely fresh volumes of official documents were being published, we resolved to write together a new version of Namier’s history.

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Published in 1963, called The Appeasers, it was written in six months, with each of us taking an alternate chapter. The book, highly critical of British pre-war foreign policy, captured the political mood of the early 1960s and was translated into several languages. It also caught the eye of Randolph Churchill, who was working on a biography of his father, and in 1962 he asked Gilbert to join his small team of researchers at his country retreat at East Bergholt, Suffolk. When Randolph died in 1968, with only two volumes completed, several contenders put themselves forward to continue the work, including Randolph’s son Winston, and Robert Rhodes James, the historian and Conservative MP.The publishers, Heinemann, had invested a huge sum in the project and thought – rightly – that Gilbert was the only candidate with the knowledge and energy sufficient to carry it through to a successful conclusion. Their confidence was amply rewarded. Gilbert added six volumes between 1968 and 1988, and the mega-biography and its innumerable companion collections of documents from the Churchill archive are among the great achievements of historical writing. Gilbert saw himself as a chronicler, carving a historical narrative from the documents and the archives, and allowing readers to make their own judgements. He was a master of detail but his particular genius, at first with Churchill and later with the Holocaust, was to bring into his books as many ordinary people as he could. He used to say that Churchill was such an impossibly large figure that his biography needed to be leavened with the presence of all the lesser mortals surrounding him. Gilbert made it his job to locate every surviving secretary and chauffeur, every pilot and gardener, who had ever worked for the great man. He maintained a huge correspondence with the totally unknown as well as the great and the good, and was endlessly generous to other researchers. Son of Peter and Miriam Gilbert, he was born into a Jewish family in north London. His sister, Margaret, became a philosopher of sociology. Their father was a jeweller in Hatton Garden. Gilbert was brought up in the Jewish faith, something that became stronger as the years passed, encouraged by his close friendship with Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Gilbert was evacuated to Canada during the war, returning on a liner bringing American troops to Britain in preparation for D-Day. He went to Highgate School, where his history teacher was Alan Palmer, later a distinguished author.

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After national service in the intelligence corps, a scholarship took him to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he fell under the spell of AJP Taylor, although he also valued the influence of Karl Leyser, John Stoye and Angus Macintyre. He was disappointed not to win a Fellowship at All Souls College, but was soon awarded a senior scholarship at St Antony’s and later elected a fellow at Merton, where he found a friend and ally in the historian John Roberts. After Churchill, the second theme of Gilbert’s life’s work was the Holocaust. He had visited many of the concentration camps sited in occupied Poland as a student, and a concern with the story of the Jews of central Europe and Russia led to a fresh stream of works about Israel and Jerusalem, including Auschwitz and the Allies (1981), an account of the allied failure to respond to news of the death camps, and his magnum opus, The Holocaust:The Jewish Tragedy (1986). In the 80s Gilbert was also active in the cause of the Soviet refuseniks, writing The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today (1984). This was followed by Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time (1986), written to help the campaign for the release of the human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky, although Gilbert came to regret Shcharansky’s subsequent drift to the right once he had arrived in Israel and specifically criticised his hostility to the Palestinians. Gilbert was a member of Sir Ronald Cohen’s Portland Trust, which sought to improve conditions for the Palestinians on the West Bank. As a young student visiting India, Gilbert had met Fori Nehru, the wife of BK Nehru, a senior Indian diplomat. He later discovered that she was born a Hungarian Jew. She encouraged him to write to her, explaining what she should know about Jewish history. Letters to Auntie Fori (2002), a collection of 140 letters, subtitled “The 5,000-year history of the Jewish people and their faith”, was one of his most delightful and original books, though its overtly Zionist stance was not without its critics. Gilbert’s enthusiasm for historical mapping was such that he called his wonderful modernist home on the hills above Oxford the Map House. He used to complain that most books containing maps suffered from what he called “Gilbert’s law”: if a place appeared in the book, it was not to be found on the map, and if it appeared on the map it would be omitted from the book. He sought to remedy this, publishing more than a dozen historical atlases, all

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notable for the way in which extensive texts complement the mapping. His atlases of Russia and of the two world wars were exhaustively researched and contained much original material. Gilbert’s familiarity with the battlefields of northern Europe was legendary; fortunate were those who accompanied him on his occasional tours. His feelings were as much engaged with the fallen of those wars as with victims of the Holocaust. He was a keen traveller and in later years he lectured on cruise ships. He was an inveterate sender of postcards, often mailing hundreds on any particular trip to his wide circle of friends. On several occasions, travelling with him on the transSiberian railway from Beijing to Moscow, I watched while he jumped off the train to thrust yet another bundle of cards into the hands of a bemused stationmaster. An encyclopaedic knowledge of Churchill and of twentieth-century history, and his own considerable amiability, gave Gilbert easy access to successive prime ministers and American presidents, and he had many friends among the Israeli political elite. He was a frequent visitor to Downing Street and helped Harold Wilson with his memoirs. He had little time for Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair, but was close to Gordon Brown. His real friend at No 10 was John Major, who would often summon him for an evening chat. He was used by all of them as an informal adviser on Middle Eastern affairs, and his knighthood in 1995 was for services to both British history and international relations. An avid note-taker, Gilbert would one day have written a wonderful account of his eventful life. He did, however, leave a detailed and amusing account of life with Randolph and his subsequent work on the biography In Search of Churchill (1994). An ardent opera-goer in London and Salzburg, he became a close friend of Plácido Domingo, whose biography he had been asked to write, another task he would have loved to complete. An article by him in The Observer in 2004 was jumped on by critics when Gilbert was chosen by Brown to join the panel of the Chilcot inquiry in 2009. Gilbert had suggested that, just as Churchill and Roosevelt had gone up and down in historical fashion, so too might Blair and Bush be judged less harshly by historians “with the passage of time and the opening of the archives”. Brown had asked Gilbert during one private meeting whether he knew any historians who might be suitable members of the inquiry and he said he would go home and think about it.

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As he was led out of the room, the private secretary said to him gently: “I think the prime minister did not make himself quite clear. He wanted you to join the inquiry.” The government’s archives on the Iraq war were opened for Gilbert and for three years he worked on them as once he worked on those of Churchill. He had finished writing the story when, on a trip to Jerusalem in March 2012, he suffered an arrhythmia of the heart from which he never recovered. He is survived by his third wife, Esther Goldberg, whom he married in 2005; and by a daughter, Natalie (named after the artist Natalie Bevan, Randolph’s last love), from his first marriage, to Helen Robinson, which ended in divorce; and by two sons, David and Joshua, from his marriage to the historian Susie Sacher, which ended in divorce. Martin John Gilbert, historian, born 25 October 1936; died 3 February 2015 This article first appeared in The Guardian, 5 February 2015, and is reproduced by kind permission of Richard Gott. The new website celebrating Sir Martin’s work and life has just been launched: www.martingilbert.com. It includes information on each of Sir Martin’s 88 published books, grouped by theme, including his six volumes of the Churchill biography and twelve volumes of related documents, his seventeen books on other aspects of Churchill’s life and career, the First and Second World Wars, Twentieth Century, the Holocaust, and Israel and Jewish History, along with his historical atlases. The new website also highlights his early life, education and honours, his philosophy and guidelines in writing history, his travels including excerpts from his unpublished travel diaries, and excerpts from some of his other published writings. A monthly newsletter will focus on suggested good reads with one book and an atlas that have historical resonance with that month: www.martingilbert.com/sirmartins-book-club-newsletter. Subscriptions to the newsletter are also accessible on: www.facebook.com/sirmartingilbert. As Sir Martin writes: “As a historian of the human condition, I have always tried to give a place and a name to those on whose shoulders fell the burden of the decisions of others – their rulers and their commanders – and those who did their duty without questioning, or seldom questioning,

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either the cause or the plan. Their stories deserve to be told in every generation, as an integral part of war, and as a testimony to human suffering and to the human spirit.â&#x20AC;?

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Butler, Simon (U61) has both started and runs www.wessexecoproducts.co.uk and www.wessexecofuels.co.uk. Many of the products can be bought on ebay or through the web sites. Paton, Keith (G63): see Life in Belgium at the end of this section. Luscombe, David (Fellow, 1964-72): Professor David Luscombe received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Sheffield in 2013 and the British Academy Medal in 2014 for outstanding academic achievement: the publication of The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise (Clarendon Press, 2010). Wynter, Mark (U65): It happens that two of the five flag officers at the Island Sailing Club, Cowes, are College alumni. Mark Wynter is Commodore and Mike Peskett (U61) is Rear Commodore Sailing. As such he has responsibility for running the annual JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. This, we believe, is the largest participating sporting event in the country after the London Marathon and one or two other marathons. It is also the largest yachting race of its type in the world. The College has always had a uniquely strong sailing Left Mike Peskett, right Mark presence and this extends to all age groups. Wynter Jeffrey, Ram (G67) is a Professor of Physiology at Wayne State Medical School Faculty; his research is on invasive species and how to control them. He has been part of the re-opening of the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit following its closure in 2005. In October 2014 the aquarium re-opened with new exhibitions on invasive species and a laboratory in the basement. As well as educating the public his goal is to encourage young scientists through field trips and summer programmes.

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Robertson, John (U&G68; Current Fellow) has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society in recognition of his sustained contribution to the production and development of electronic devices. Professor Robertson is Professor of Electronics in the Department of Engineering and has been a Fellow of Churchill College since 1996. Minet, Graham (U69) has worked in education since leaving Churchill, as a Head of Languages, Head of Sixth Form and Assistant Head of an 11-18 Comprehensive School in West Sussex (although not all at the same time!). He is still working at the school in a part-time capacity with responsibility for creating the timetable and data analysis. He completed a two-year parttime MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester a few years ago; he was signed up by the Ampersand Agency and has a two-book deal with Bonnier in London. The Hidden Legacy, a psychological mystery, will be published as an e-book in the autumn and as a paperback in early 2016. The Goose Drank Wine (working title) is scheduled for publication in both formats towards the end of 2016. A crash course in social media is looming large on the horizon for him. Kinghorn, Anthony (U75) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012, and in September 2014 the University of Edinburgh appointed him Visiting Professor to the School of Engineering. Miller, William (Past Overseas Fellow, 1975) was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He will be giving the opening address at a Faraday Discussion (on Chemical Reaction Rate Theory) in Cambridge on 19-21 September 2016. Turok, Neil (U77), a mathematical physicist, was awarded a Doctor of Science for his contribution to education and development from the University of Stellenbosch. In 2008, he exchanged Cambridge for Canada, and is now a director of the leading Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is also a Professor of Physics at Stellenbosch University as well as a visiting Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Robinson, Carol (G80 & Honorary Fellow) has been named the 2015 European Laureate in the 17th annual L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science

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Awards, which celebrates the outstanding achievements of women in science and is recognised as one of the premier international science awards. Jaspars, Marcel (U84) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh this year in recognition of his work on the discovery of new pharmaceuticals and enzymes from marine biodiversity. Caulfield, Colm (G87 & Current Fellow) has been promoted to a Professorship in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Spence, Jonathan (Past Overseas Fellow, 2000) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his innovative world-leading contributions to both biology and materials science and as a world leader in the development and application of atomic-resolution electron microscopy. Bredsdorff, Thomas (Past By-Fellow, 2001): in April of this year the Swedish Academy bestowed on him the Nordic Prize, also referred to as the Little Nobel. Weiss, Antonio (U05), together with Matt Brown, has recently co-founded Thomas Clipper, a new men's grooming start-up making shaving oil, flannels and classic single-blade razors. Samuels, Marc (U06) is now a barrister practising commercial litigation and international arbitration at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. Quider, Anna (G07): Northern Illinois University announced the appointment of award-winning policy professional Anna Quider as Director of Federal Relations, reporting to the Vice-President of Research and Innovation Partnerships. Dr Quider will work towards this shared goal, advancing Northern Illinois University’s mission by building relationships with government agencies and congressional leaders involved with all aspects of the university, including education, innovation, industry partnerships and scientific research issues. Vorley,Tim (Past Fellow, 2008): since leaving Churchill College in 2010 to join the University of Sheffield, he has been appointed to a Chair in Entrepreneurship, starting 1 June 2015.

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Dockter,Warren (Past Archives By-Fellow, 2013) has pubslished a new book, Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East. Using material from the Churchill Archives Centre, Dr Dockter’s book challenges the popular depiction of Churchill as an ignorant imperialist when it came to the Middle East, showing how he left a lasting legacy in the region, which continues to be felt in Middle Eastern politics and British policy today. Warren Dockter is currently a Research Fellow at Clare Hall.

Dr Keith Paton (G63, Computer Science) writes: Life in Belgium I have been fortunate enough to spend time both in Canada and in Belgium. Now that I have renewed links with Churchill, I thought it a good time to tell you about life in Belgium and contrast it with life in Canada and in the UK. My wife and I retired from jobs in Montreal, Quebec (she from police administration and I from software development). We came eventually to her home country of Belgium, where we settled in Mechelen, a city dating to medieval times, halfway between Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium’s two most important cities. In between, we spent a fairly miserable year in Canterbury, where we discovered that you get very little house for your money compared to Canada and Belgium. We also found the people distinctly cool and stand-offish, a great contrast to the warm and engaging friends I had left behind in South-East London in the 1980s. Mechelen was very famous in the sixteenth century as the seat of power of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, whose name is now remembered primarily through the Gouden Carolus, well-deserved winner of the title “World’s Best Dark Beer” in 2014.This is brewed at our local brewery. Mechelen has many medieval buildings and is also famous as the residence of the father of Beethoven. I should add that I would remember Charles V better if the history I learned at my highly regarded Scottish “grammar school” had included a little more of the history of Europe and a little less of the history of England. Charles V was a very important contemporary of Henry VIII, but how many Brits really know much about him?

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It is somewhat ironic that we left behind a country with linguistic tension between the English speakers and the French speakers to come to a country with linguistic tension between the Dutch speakers and the French speakers. In the twentieth century Mechelen was infamous as an assembly point in Belgium for cattle-cars carrying Jews to Auschwitz. Perhaps in atonement, the city has established a magnificent Jewish Museum; outside it in the street stands a cattle-car. Mechelen was not bombed as severely as Antwerp or Brussels and hence retains several interesting medieval buildings, such as St Rombout’s Cathedral; this has a very tall tower which would have been even taller if the money had not run out in the fourteenth century. Mechelen is small enough to be comfortable, yet large enough to provide most of the objects and culture we need. Our house is a four-bedroomed two-storey house with a long thin garden about 100 by 10 yards, including a fenced enclosure for fowl (two hens and a cockerel) and an orchard with several fruit-trees.The house seemed adequate at first sight when we moved in, but we soon found that it had been neglected ever since it was built in the 1950s. Now, after replacement of oil furnace, fridge, stove-top, oven, washing-up sink and dishwasher, it is in good shape. Our house is well outside the city walls. Procter and Gamble’s factory is just up our street.We are lucky enough to live right opposite Vrijbroek Park, the largest provincial park in Antwerp, which boasts a wonderful rose-garden, a cricket pitch, tennis courts and miles of tracks through the abundant woods.You can see it at Google maps by searching Vrijbroek Park Mechelen. To see the top view of our house and garden, look just below the k in Hombeeksesteenweg. Our street is in financial trouble. In the past year we have lost the newsagent, the shoemaker, the baker and the charcutier; all that remain are the pharmacy and the launderette. One reason for this may be that the city is renovating several streets in the centre and small businesses seem to succeed only if they are near to these renovated streets. In a recent referendum, we were invited to choose whether or not to re-install a magnificent clock on the tower of St Rombout’s Cathedral. The original had been removed during World War I. The vote was a resounding “No”.

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Traffic is carefully controlled in the centre, with only a few roads accessible during the day. Extensive (and expensive!) underground car-parks have been built in the centre. The Belgian terrain is very flat, with just a few rolling hills in the Ardennes. The coastline on the North Sea is short, so coastal property in such places as Knokke-Heist is expensive. People tend to go to a coastal apartment for the weekend just as Montrealers go to a cottage in the Laurentians or the Eastern Townships. There are many canals where the water level is controlled to prevent flooding in wet weather. The Belgians take their food and drink seriously. Beer comes almost always from a bottle rather than a barrel.There are several styles, cherry beer (Kriek), wheat beer (from Brugge), blonde beer (like a weak lager), brown beer and dark beer (like Newcastle Brown). Many of the breweries are in abbeys. Most beers are about 4% but others can reach 9%. Our local brewery has just started making single malt whisky, which is pleasant but hardly up the standard of a genuine Scotch. On Sunday mornings people traditionally go to the local baker for “pistolets” (white rolls) and “keuken” (coffee cakes). Although supermarkets are important, Belgium retains its small independent bakers, greengrocers and charcuteries. Belgium is also famous for chocolate, horsemeat and eels. Belgians seem to be well-housed, with the typical house larger and much better value for money than in the UK or the adjacent Netherlands. You see fewer homeless people in the streets of Brussels than in those of London. Brussels is much smaller than London and there are many green fields quite close in to the city.Traffic is not dense in most parts, with the exception of the ring road which regularly has congestion, although not at all on the scale of London’s M25. The transport network is effective; public transport is cheap relative to the UK. At the weekend you can travel by train to anywhere in Belgium for five euros. Belgium is too small to need a TGV on the French model, although the highspeed Thalys runs from Brussels to Paris and Brussels to Amsterdam. We live twenty minutes’ easy drive from Belgium’s major international airport at Zaventem, a suburb of Brussels. Health care is effective. There is no trouble getting an appointment with your

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GP or your hospital specialist. Accident and Emergency services are not at all stretched. I had a modification to my right hip carried out at a magnificent orthopaedic clinic at the University of Leuven; I also recently had an artificial knee installed in Mechelen. (Leuven is the site of an outrageous incident of nationalism when in 1966 the Flemish government expelled the Francophone staff and students, who then founded their own university at Louvain-la-Neuve with federal government help.) Patients pay the GP or hospital for a visit and recover most of this amount from their mutuality (political party), such as Socialist, Liberal, Christian Democrat; here the political party of your choice runs the finances of healthcare. Prescriptions are likewise paid for at a very reduced rate, the balance being met by the state. If you are very poor you receive a special card entitling you to health care free at the point of service, which is of course the norm in Canada and the UK. Education begins at the age of two-and-a-half. University education is very cheap compared to the UK. A much smaller fraction of the population goes to university in Belgium than in the UK; some would argue that UK universities have been devalued by the enormous expansion in recent years, but of course the good UK universities remain good. Belgium is one of the highest taxed countries in Europe, no doubt to pay for such goodies as mentioned above. Wages are pegged to the cost of living. This fixes the position of the workers in the economic scale, so strikes are rarer; when they do occur they are about safety or the pension age. Retirement age is 60 or sometimes 55, which adds to the cost of welfare. We came to Belgium to escape the severe winters of Quebec. We succeeded in this respect, though in Belgium it rains a lot.The climate is friendly with little snow, mild winters and summers not too hot. From March to May and again from September to November we sit in a very pleasant enclosed verandah. In times gone by (the first half of the twentieth century) economic activity lay mainly in the smokestack industries in the French-speaking part (Wallonia). At that time the stronger Wallonia subsidised the largely agricultural Dutchspeaking part (Flanders). The boot is now on the other foot. Smokestack industries are in terminal decline, while light industries such as pharmaceuticals, electronics and white goods have risen in importance in Flanders. These

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industries are mostly situated on industrial estates outside the town and along the minor highways, leaving town centres more attractive. Now it is the turn of people in Flanders to complain that they are supporting an economically weaker group, and calls for Flemish independence are regularly made by a party called Vlaams Belang which recently peaked with several seats on the City Council in Antwerp. They have no seats in Mechelen, which is run by a very progressive mayor, Bart Somers, who is also a leading light in the National Liberal Party. Socialism exists only in Charleroi, a formerly important town in Wallonia and now an airport for Ryanair. Economic historians may see a parallel between twentieth-century Belgium and nineteenth-century Britain; for Wallonia read Manchester and for Flanders read West London. In the immediate post-war era, Italians were brought in to work in the coalmines where Belgians declined to work, and similarly for Moroccans. Nowadays we have widespread unemployment, and as in other countries there is unjustified resentment directed at the children and grandchildren of those immigrants. Mechelen is in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. After several courses in Dutch at the local school for adults and twice-weekly attendance at the Conservatory and two Flemish-speaking choirs, I have reached the point where I can confidently make myself understood in most situations.When it is my turn to listen I am occasionally flummoxed. There are so many political parties that coalition governments are the norm. Parties include Socialist, Liberal, Christian Democrat, NVA and Vlaams Belang, the latter two pretty right-wing and the last a frankly neo-Nazi outfit, to which my brother-in-law belongs. His wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father was briefly imprisoned after the war for collaboration with the Nazis. The national pet in Belgium is the Jack Russell terrier.There are very few places where dogs can legally be allowed off the lead, so I cheat and let our dog run about by the shore of a lake near Hombeek, a little village just north of Mechelen. Mechelen has several artificial lakes, all in places where soil has been taken for expressway construction.We have a West Highland White Terrier, a breed once used for ratting. Needless to say, it is purely a pet, though it becomes quite excited when it discovers our hedgehog just emerging from hibernation in the woodpile. Our Westie comes from the Czech Republic. When we are away on

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vacation it boards at a wonderful kennel where the dogs are formed into compatible groups and run about for three hours each morning and afternoon in very large fields, one per group.The kennel is run by a pioneer in the study of dog behaviour who gives lectures on his methods at the University of Antwerp. There is an Anglophone bubble in Brussels that owes much to Brussels’s place as the headquarters of the EU. Many talented Brits make their home here as Eurocrats. As a by-product there are several English-speaking organisations, including the Brussels Light Operatic Company and international schools, some of which charge annual fees of 30,000 euros. We receive four BBC channels here, with the result that I am much better informed about British than Belgian politics. I note that Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia) used to be a very Catholic country, like Quebec; the influence of the Church is still strong, though less so than before. Many of the schools were based on convents, and the education in these was hidebound by Catholic orthodoxy. In this there is a similarity to Quebec, where likewise the Silent Revolution took power away from the clergy and put it in the hands of the professional classes. I went in December to hear the Messiah sung by the Brussels Choral Society, with orchestra. With maturity there has come to me the realisation that, contrary to the beliefs instilled in me by my Yorkshire (and Huddersfield at that!) grandparents, the Huddersfield Choral Society is not the only group capable of doing justice to this work. In February each year there is a bring-itand-sing-it Messiah held with choir and orchestra in Holy Trinity Church, Brussels, under the direction of one Pamela Clements MBE, who is delightfully down-to-earth for one who holds such a distinction. I went recently to My Fair Lady, very convincingly done by the Brussels Light Opera Company. The part of Eliza Doolittle was excellently played by one of our sopranos from the International Chorale, a Geordie lass who has a day job as an international lawyer. BLOC is easily the best amateur musical theatre group I have ever encountered.This has much to do with the presence, as noted above, of a large community of talented ex-pat Brits working in Brussels as Eurocrats. (Yes, that’s where some of your UK taxes are going, folks!)

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At the Mechelen Conservatory I enjoy vocal technique lessons, given by a wellknown professional baritone, who has played many operatic roles on the stage. I recall one occasion when I was practising “Love Unspoken” from The Merry Widow: he took me aside and whispered “Not at all bad, Keith, but more seductive!” Part of the deal at the Conservatory is that you must enrol for two courses, one of which must be sight-reading. This is not quite so enthralling, and I suffer from not really understanding all the lessons, which are delivered in Dutch by a magnificent soprano who had to give up the concert stage because of illhealth. The Mechelen Conservatory is a splendid institution for a city of a mere ninety thousand people. It runs classes in music, theatre and dance, and has over fifty teachers, all of a high standard. I am now in my second year of what could be a nine-year course.This is certainly a project with tenure. I am considering taking up the guitar there to complement my singing as a troubadour (see below). I belong to three choirs, two near Mechelen and one in Tervuren, a leafy suburb of Brussels, much favoured by Eurocrats. This latter choir, the International Chorale of Brussels, is a sixty-strong, mainly Anglophone, group.Tervuren is home to a splendid African Museum established by Leopold II, the instigator of another shameful event in Belgian history, the conquest of the Congo and the subsequent exploitation and indeed genocide of the Congolese. During 2014 the choir sang a summer concert, including medleys from Les Misérables and West Side Story, and an autumn concert of A Little Jazz Mass by Bob Chilcott, one of the King’s Singers. Our director is a former director of the Oxford Gilbert and Sullivan Society who works in IT at a multinational company. Our pianist is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Leuven; her husband is known as the “singing architect”; in addition to his day job he is much in demand as a bass soloist. Many of the international choristers are attached in some way to the European Commission. “Sing G&S”, a forerunner of BLOC, holds a sing-through of a different Gilbert and Sullivan operetta every six weeks. There is a shortage of men (isn’t that always the way?), so I usually get to sing a role. Last time out, we sang Trial by Jury and for a change the ladies’ parts were played by men and vice versa; I was lucky enough to be cast as the Plaintiff; whenever Gilbert runs short of ideas he has the Plaintiff fall in tears on to the manly bosom of one of the male characters such as the Judge, Counsel for the Defence, the Usher, or the Foreman of the Jury: lots of fun.

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The Kam Klub in Wezembeek-Oppem (a suburb north-east of Brussels) offers opportunities for amateur musicians to perform on stage in front of a live audience.This audience is pretty friendly, so you are sure of a good hand unless you’re really rubbish. Competition for places as floor-singers is quite keen, so I felt I was lucky in 2014 to be allowed to sing three Scottish songs at Burns Night; three songs from Oh What a Lovely War in September; and in December “On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at” and “Albert and the Lion”. I also carried in the haggis at the Burns Night as I was the only one there in Scottish evening dress. The Zennegat Eethuis, a canalside pub/restaurant near Mechelen, was the scene of my debut in June 2014 as a solo “folksinger”. That’s in quotes because my definition of folksong includes modern “folk songs” by Ralph McTell and composed ballads like My Ain Folk by Laura Lemon, in addition to real “folk songs” such as those collected by Cecil Sharp and Francis Child. My accompanist played piano and accordion. The audience was about 95% made up of my fellowchoristers from Mechelen. They generously paused in their eating, drinking and conversation to listen to my spoken introduction (in Dutch) and to applaud at the end of each number. What more could you want? When we passed the hat we received forty euros from forty people, so it is clear that this style of entertainment is not a money-making exercise. After a working lifetime spent in software development I am now seeking to establish a second career as a strolling troubadour. As all Review readers will know, the troubadours were medieval singers at the great houses maintained by the wealthy. They were well educated, writing their own songs in Norman French. Each would stay at the manor house, receiving board and lodging in return for a delivering a nightly entertainment. A troubadour was a man; sometimes he would be accompanied by a woman who would play a second stringed instrument and also indulge in tumbling. I have no plans to recruit any such person to accompany me in my entertainments. Enough, I hear you cry, why all this background? It is to set in context my own efforts in this direction. After spending some months looking for concert opportunities as a solo singer, I realised that there are very few calls for solo singers on the concert platform and that Brussels already has many highly trained singers.Thus, concert opportunities

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are very hard to obtain. I have therefore decided to sing on my own as a “troubadour”; I offer to go to an otherwise non-musical event such as a dinner, a lunch, a cocktail party or even a lecture, such as one on World War I, which are two-a-penny at this time and in this place.At such an event I will seek out a group of nine or ten people and sing one song to them. By the end of the song (or perhaps even earlier!) I will have established which groups liked the song and which did not.This allows me to return later to the former group, and avoid the latter. I realise that people who go to a dinner or lunch or a cocktail party do not go to hear music; they go for the food, the drink, the company and the conversation. Nonetheless, I have found that many will gladly listen to a little singing if it is offered to them. To sing at such occasions, I have built up a repertoire from many song varieties, such as British and American “folksongs” and ballads, songs from American and European musicals, songs in tribute to famous singers, songs of the sea, drawing-room ballads, remembrance songs and comic songs. Since deciding to travel this musical route, I have sung in this style at two functions, both on October 25 2014: a Trafalgar Day lunch held by the Friends of the Royal Navy at the aptly-named Lord Nelson Hotel here in Mechelen; and a barbecue held on the Saturday evening preceding the Highland Games at Torhout, West Flanders. As an aside, you may be interested to know that Highland Games are very popular here in Flanders. There are no fewer than ten such events during the course of the summer, each held in a different host city. The cities compete through the summer in the usual events: the stone, the sheaf, the hammer, the shot and tug-ofwar.They dress in what I can describe only as very drab mud-coloured kilts. In February 2015, when my Boboto choir in Mechelen held its intensive weekend, the director graciously allowed me half-an-hour of recording time to make a video of the troubadour in action with an audience of choir-members, who were all appropriately enthusiastic; all, that is, except my wife, who was so frightened that I was going to make a fool of myself that she had a very long face throughout. I am happy to record that the long face was not justified. This concludes my news of life in Belgium and my musical life there. I hope you have had the courage to get this far, enjoyed it and learned something about Belgium en route.

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New Fellows 2014-15 Dr Jack ALEXANDER-WEBBER (Junior Research Fellow) Jack Alexander-Webber graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2009 with an MSci in Physics. After a summer studentship working for the National Physical Laboratory he began his DPhil in the group of Prof Robin Nicholas at the University of Oxford, where he was a member of Christ Church. His doctoral research was on the properties of low-dimensional nanostructures such as graphene, carbon nanotubes and III-V semiconductors with a particular focus on high magnetic field effects, studied both in Oxford and at the European Magnetic Field Laboratory facilities in Grenoble and Toulouse. After completing his DPhil in 2013, Jack undertook an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at Oxford. He is a Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College and a Post-doctoral Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering in the group of Dr Stephan Hofmann. His current research interests lie in exploring the nature of low-dimensional nanomaterials such as graphene and boron nitride and exploiting their exceptional properties for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Dr Ross ANDERSON FRS, FREng (Senior Research Fellow) Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge, where he teaches at the Computer Laboratory. His work is often driven by the problems arising in real-world systems such as payment networks, medical record databases, industrial control systems, next-generation networks and mobile phone software. His research interests have ranged from cryptography and protocols through hardware tamper-resistance and software reliability to the social-science aspects of security, such as security economics and the psychology of deception. He is also engaged with policy issues such as privacy and consumer protection online. Dr Mike BLAKE (Junior Research Fellow) As an undergraduate, Mike studied Natural Sciences and Part III Mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge, for which he was awarded the Mayhew Prize in

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Dr Jack Alexander-Webber

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2011. He has recently completed his PhD in High Energy Physics under the supervision of Professor David Tong at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Mike’s research focuses on understanding physical systems, such as the quarkgluon plasma or the cuprate superconductors, where strong interactions are believed to play a crucial role. In particular, he hopes to use his Junior Research Fellowship to develop novel techniques to describe the transport properties, for instance the electrical conductivity, of these systems. Dr Mia DE KUIJPER (Title G) Mia de Kuijper has been appointed as Director of Executive and Professional Development at the Møller Centre. She is the CEO of the strategy advisory firm Cambridge Global Partners, based in New York and London. Mia is a Fellow of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and also serves on the Alumni Council of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has been a Senior Managing Director in investment banking on Wall Street, where she made a career in Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston. She has focused on advising major corporations and private equity investors regarding financial strategy as well as mergers and acquisitions, and has held senior management positions at PepsiCo, AT&T, and Royal Dutch Shell. Dr Mark HOLMES (Title A) A Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Mark Holmes leads a research group whose current focus of research follows their discovery of a new livestock-associated MRSA harbouring a mecA homologue (now named mecC). He is also part of a collaboration developing new evidence-based animal welfare indicators to provide a better understanding of the impact of diseases in sheep on animal welfare. Mark also has interests in clinical research (including animal welfare) and evidence-based veterinary medicine and has published a number of papers and books in these areas. Dr Xavier MOYA (Senior Research Fellow) Xavier Moya is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. He received a BA in Physics in 2003, and a PhD in Physics in 2008 from the University of Barcelona. He is interested in

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phase transitions in functional materials whose structural, magnetic, electrical and thermal properties display strong coupling. His research focuses primarily on caloric materials for cooling applications and magnetoelectric materials for data storage. Dr Alexey ONATSKI (Title A) Dr Onatski is a University Reader at the Faculty of Economics. His research interests lie in the econometrics of high-dimensional data. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Econometrics and the Econometrics Journal. Dr Onatski previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Mr John PENNANT (Title A – Administrative) John Pennant is the Development Director of Churchill College. Dr Eric REES (Title A) Eric Rees develops software for extracting quantitative measurements from optical image data with the highest possible accuracy. He mainly works with fluorescence microscopy, especially optical nanoscopy methods for superresolution imaging – the 2014 Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to three groups in this field who pioneered the use of light microscopes to measure structures far smaller than the wavelength of light.There is currently huge scope for improving on the mathematical methods that underlie this field, and applying it to new materials and disciplines. He is working on new nanoscopy methods for studying shell structures such as viruses and spores, and on applying fluorescence methods to rheometry. Dr Andreas SOMMER (Junior Research Fellow) Andreas Sommer is a historian of the human sciences with a background in philosophy, psychology and medical history, interested in historiographies of the sciences and the occult. He graduated from UCL with a Wellcome Trustfunded doctoral thesis investigating the co-emergence of international psychical research and professionalised psychology in the late nineteenth century, which he is currently revising and expanding into a book manuscript. His new project is concerned with the links between unorthodox science,

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philosophical Pragmatism as represented by William James and Ferdinand C S Schiller, and the psychology of belief. Mr Tim OATES (Title A) Tim Oates joined Cambridge Assessment in May 2006 to spearhead the rapidly growing Assessment Research and Development division. He was previously at the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency, where he had been Head of Research and Statistics for most of the last decade. Work included advising on a pan-European 8-level qualifications framework. He has advised the UK Government for many years on both practical matters and assessment policy. He started his career as a research officer at the University of Surrey. He moved to the FE Staff College in 1987 where he helped run the Work-Based Learning project. London University’s Institute of Education then appointed him as NCVQ Research Fellow. In 1993 he joined one of the QCA’s predecessor bodies, the National Council for Vocational Qualifications, as Head of GNVQ Research and Development. Promotion to Director of Research followed two years later. He joined Churchill as a By-Fellow in 2013 and was elected to a Title A Fellowship in 2015. Mrs Shelley SURTEES (Title A – Administrative) As Domestic Bursar Shelley Surtees is responsible for all catering, domestic and commercial activity on site, including the operation of the Porters’ Lodge. Appointed in 2009, Shelley was elected to a Staff By-Fellowship in 2010 and to a Title A Fellowship in 2014. Prior to joining the College Shelley held a number of senior facilities management and procurement posts within both the public and private sectors, including, latterly, the Ministry of Defence. She is a passionate believer in all forms of equality and has a particular interest in the facilitation of those with disabilities to fulfil their full potential. Shelley holds Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Advanced Certificates in Food Hygiene, Health and Safety, and Group Training, along with a WSET Higher Certificate and a diploma in nutrition.

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Away from College Shelley campaigns for gender equality, with a particular interest in the impact of gender stereotyping in the formative years. She is also an active gym user and Senior Treasurer of Churchill Gym, and assists with coaching at a local children’s athletic group.

Overseas Fellows 2014-15 Dr Daniela CALZETTI (Overseas Fellow, Michaelmas Term 2014) Daniela has a passion for “dusting off” galaxies. She has devoted much of her research effort to understanding how the dust found in the interstellar medium of galaxies operates to alter our perception of the galaxies themselves.The results of her research have been used to “remove” the dust from galaxies at all cosmic times, and therefore unravel the evolution of galaxies and other structures. Daniela also studies star formation, which is part of the reason we have dust inside and outside galaxies. She has worked on many observational projects involving data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, and from many ground-based facilities. Professor Robert CERVERO (Overseas Fellow 2014-2015) Robert Cervero is the Friesen Chair of Urban Studies and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) and the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC). Professor Cervero’s research centers on the nexus between urban transportation and land-use systems. He has authored or co-authored six books, more than fifty research monographs, and over 200 journal articles in these areas, including the justreleased book Transforming Cities with Transit (World Bank, 2013). Professor Cervero currently chairs the International Association of Urban Environments and the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson

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Foundation’s Active Living Research Program. He also serves on the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is a contributing author to the 5th IPCC assessment. He is also a lead author of the 2013 Global Report on Sustainable Mobility for the UN-Habitat. In 2013, he was ranked among the top 100 City Innovators Worldwide, with UBM’s (United Business Media) Futures Cities writing “Cervero is an inspirational and influential long-time leader in the realm of transit-oriented development (TOD) and a strong proponent of car-sharing and land-use policies that favour sustainable transportation.” Professor Christophe PICHON (French Government Overseas Fellow, January – July 2015) Christophe Pichon’s research activity focuses on gravitational dynamics, with a special emphasis on the dynamical measurements of dark matter. What is its geometrical distribution? How does it influence the structural and dynamical evolution of the environment? He has, in particular, analysed the instability mechanisms which drive the evolution of self-gravitating systems. This investigation leads him to explore various topics such as the dynamics of largescale structure, intergalactic and interstellar media and the dynamics of galaxies and black holes. He has also acquired some knowledge of inverse methods, numerical simulations (N-body, hydrodynamical) and polarised radiative transfer. As a theoretician he has always had as a priority to connect measurements with the underlying physical process, relying on extensive mathematical descriptions. Professor Timothy HECKMAN (Overseas Fellow, Easter Term 2015) Timothy M Heckman, the inaugural Dr A Hermann Pfund Professor, is the Director of the Center for Astrophysical Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. In this role he is responsible for promoting and supporting research in astrophysics, for nurturing large-scale astronomical projects and providing them with an organisational structure, for providing a forum and a focus for strategic planning, for fostering co-operation between the different elements of the local astrophysics and space science communities, and for providing a structured career path for the non-tenure-track research staff. The Center comprises nearly 80 PhD-level faculty and research staff and 40 graduate students and receives $10 million annually in NASA grants and contracts. Timothy Heckman has been elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, named by Thomas Reuters as one of “The World’s Most

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Influential Scientific Minds”, and appointed as the Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visitor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. Heckman’s research has focused on observational studies of the evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes. His best-known work includes studies of the causes and effects of the activity associated with the growth of supermassive blacks, of the physical and dynamical properties of galactic winds and their impact on galaxy evolution, and of the nature of the nuclei of typical galaxies in the present-day universe.

Dr Daniela Calzetti

Professor Robert Cervero

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Who’s Who in Churchill This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2014; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2014-15. Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows Honorary Fellowships: an honorific position bestowed on outstanding figures; Title A: our main teaching Fellows and senior College Officers such as the Senior Tutor and Bursar;Title B Junior: Research Fellows, usually immediately post-doctoral;Title B Senior: Research Fellows, usually advanced in their careers; Title C: Fellows who hold a Cambridge University Chair (but any such Fellows who opt to continue with a full teaching stint remain Title A); Title D: Retired Fellows ("Emeritus/Emerita"); Title E, “Extraordinary": Academics or writers of distinction whom the College wishes to include in its number but who may not be resident in Cambridge; Title F: Overseas Fellows (staying in Churchill as academic visitors and normally collaborating with Churchill Fellows in the same subject, for periods of time ranging from a term to a year, by invitation); Title G: "Supernumerary" Fellows (those who do not belong to any of the above categories but who are performing an important function in the College). Teaching By-Fellows: academically highly qualified (post-doctoral status; may be Fellows of another College) and assisting in specific areas of teaching need; Academic ByFellows: visiting researchers elected by the Archives Centre or by Fellowship Electors (the Churchill Committee that elects to most non-teaching Fellowships); Professional or Møller By-Fellows: those who have industrial or other professional links particularly relevant to Churchill (maximum number 4); Staff By-Fellows: non-academic staff members with senior managerial positions in the College administrative structure. Master Donald, Professor Dame Athene, DBE, FRS

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Biographer Microbiology Economics Chemistry Literature Literature Economics Law

Benefactor Fellows Cowan, Mr Michael, MA Rubinoff, Mr Jeffrey Wild, Dr Anthony

Alumnus (U70) Alumnus (G68)

Fellows in order of precedence Broers, Rt Hon Lord Alec, PhD, ScD, FRS, FREng

Microelectronics

Boyd, Sir John, KCMG

Modern Languages

Wallace, Professor Sir David, CBE, FRS, FREng

Theoretical Physics

Livesley, Dr R K, MA

Engineering

Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS

Physics

Hewish, Professor A, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS

Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA

Comparative Literature

Brunton, Dr J H, PhD

Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD

Applied Mathematics

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

Engineering

Newbery, Professor D M G, MA, PhD, ScD, FBA, CBE D

President of SCR; Economics

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA

Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD

Computing Service

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD

Pure Mathematics

Palmer, Professor A C, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng

Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS

Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, ScD

Aerodynamics

Hoskin, Dr M A, PhD

Pre-History

Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Cribb, Mr T J L, MA

English

George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE

Bursar 1971-90

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD

French

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

Physiology

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS

Astrophysics

Echenique, Professor M, MA, DArch, BLet, OBE

Architecture

Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD

Organic Chemistry

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD

Pharmacology

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD

Social Psychology

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD

Physics

Barnett, Mr C, MA, DSc, CBE, FRSL

Military History

Wood, Mr H B, MA

Music

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FREng

Engineering

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD

Praelector; Computer Science

Goldie, Professor M A, MA, PhD

History

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng

Engineering

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

Genetics

Mascie-Taylor, Professor C G N, MA, PhD, ScD

Biological Anthropology

Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD

Vice-Master; Biochemistry

Hurst, Mr H R, MA

Classical Archaeology

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD

Engineering

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD

Physics/Radio Astronomy

Allen, Mr M J, MA, OBE

English Literature

Gregory, Professor Sir Michael, MA, CBE

Manufacturing/Management

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil

Mathematics

Amaratunga, Professor G, PhD, FREng

Engineering

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD

Materials Science

King, Professor Dame J E, MA, PhD, CBE, DBE, FRSA, FREng

Materials Science

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD

Statistical Consultancy

Webber, Professor A J, PhD

German

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA

Pathology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS

Neurobiology

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE

Physics, Education

Crisp, Dr A J, MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP

Clinical Medicine

King, Mrs A N, MA

Linguistics

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD

Law/Philosophy

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL

History

Soga, Professor K, PhD

Civil Engineering

O'Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD

Genetics

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD, FIEE

Engineering

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Boksenberg, Professor A, MA, PhD, FRS, CBE

Astronomy

Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

Biochemistry

Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD

Poet

Yuan, Dr B, PhD

Chinese and Linguistics

Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA

Bursar

Kraft, Professor M, MA, Dr. rer. nat.

Chemical Engineering

Sirringhaus, Professor H, PhD, FRS

Physics

DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD

Archaeology

Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD

Politics

Tout, Dr C A, MA, PhD

Astronomy

Mathur, Professor N D, MA, PhD

Materials Science

Gopal, Dr P, MA, PhD

English

Webb, Professor A R, PhD

Plant Sciences

Harris, Professor P A, LLM, PhD

Law

Kendall, Miss M, MA

Librarian

Packwood, Mr A G, MPhil, FRHistS

Director, Archives Centre

Thornton, Professor J M, PhD, CBE, FRS

Computational Biology

Hicks, Dr C M, MA, PhD

Engineering

Fawcett, Dr J, MA, PhD

Computer Science

Schultz, Professor W, PhD, FRS

Neuroscience

Kingston, Dr I B, PhD

Tutor for Advanced Students; Pathology

Ozanne, Professor S E, PhD

Biochemistry

Englund, Professor H M, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Caulfield, Dr C P, MASt, PhD

Mathematics

Reid, Dr A, MSc, PhD

Geography

Ducati, Dr C, PhD, RSRF

B (SRF) Materials Science

Pedersen, Professor R A L, AB, PhD

Regenerative Medicine

Wassell, Dr I J, PhD

Engineering

Ludlam, Dr J J, MA, PhD

Mathematical Biology

Taylor, Dr A W, MA, PhD

English

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD

Architecture

Boss, Dr S R, PhD

Chemistry

Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD

Social and Developmental Psychology

Liang, Dr D, PhD

Engineering

Ralph, Professor D, PhD

Operations Research

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS

Astronomy

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Engineering

Goldstein, Professor R E, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Wickramasekera, Professor N, PhD

Mathematics

McEniery, Dr C M, PhD

Physiology

Spiegelhalter, Professor Sir D J, PhD, OBE, FRS

Winton Professor: Statistics

Partington, Mr R J, MA

Senior Tutor; History

Russell, Dr P, PhD

Mathematics

Phipps, Mr B J, MA, MSt, MPhil

Curator

Knight, Mr N V, MSc

Economics

Frayling, Professor Sir Christopher, MA, PhD

Historian, critic and broadcaster

Stevens, Dr M, PhD

Zoology

Leader-Williams, Professor N, BVSc, PhD, ScD, MRCVS C

Geography

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD

Biological Sciences

Monson, Dr R, PhD

Dean; Cell Biology

Denault, Dr L T, PhD

History

Rowland, Dr H M, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Ron, Professor D, MD, FMedSci

Metabolic Science

Smith, Dr N P, FRCS, MA, MB, BChir

Paediatrics

Cutler, Dr N, MA, PhD

Geography

Rubinov, Dr M, MB, BS, BMedSci, PhD

B (JRF) Psychiatry

Luzzatto-Fegiz, Dr P, PhD

B (JRF) Aerospace Engineering

Durbin, Dr R M, PhD

B (SRF) Human Genetics

Biberauer, Dr T, MA, MPhil, PhD

Linguistics

Secrett, Mrs G

Director, Møller Centre

Davies, Dr T, DPhil

B (JRF) Biological Anthropology

Honerkamp-Smith, Dr A, MSc, PhD

B (JRF) Physical Chemistry

Jardine-Wright, Dr L J, MA, MSci, PhD

Physics

Stott, Dr K, PhD

Biochemistry

Skrebowski, Dr L, PhD

History of Art

Curry, Dr H, MA, PhD

History and Philosophy of Science

Davies, Dr N S, PhD

Earth Sciences

Carter, Dr A J, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Owens, Dr T, MA, MSt, DPhil

B (JRF) English

Gagne, Mr C, MPhil

French

Akroyd, Mr J W J, MA, MEng

Chemical Engineering

Ross, Dr O, MA, PhD

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Hasan, Dr T, MEng, PhD

Engineering

Toner, Dr J, PhD

Classics

Mei, Professor J MSc, PhD

B (SRF) Historical Metallurgy and Materials

Moya, Dr X, PhD

B (SRF) Materials Science

Sommer, Dr A, PhD

B (JRF) History & Philosophy of Science

Blake, Dr M, MA, PhD

B (JRF) Applied Mathematics

Alexander-Webber, Dr J, PhD

B (JRF) Electrical Engineering

Surtees, Mrs S

Domestic Bursar

Oates, Mr T, MA, CBE

Education

Onatski, Dr A, PhD

Economics

Rees, Dr E, PhD

Chemical Engineering

Anderson, Professor R, PhD, FRS, FREng

B (SRF) Computer Science

Daunton, Professor M, PhD, FBA, FRHistS

History

Pennant, Mr J

Development Director

De Kuijper, Dr M, PhD

Economics

Holmes, Dr M, PhD

Veterinary Medicine

Kabeshov, Dr M, PhD

Computer Science

Calzetti, Dr D, PhD Cervero, Professor R, PhD O’Rourke, Professor T, PhD

F F F

Pichon, Professor C, PhD

Astronomy Architecture Civil & Environmental Engineering Astrophysics

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD

TBF

Engineering

Ali, Dr J, MB, BChir

TBF

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Allen, Dr A, MSc, PhD

TBF

Chemistry

Benton, Dr A, MSci, MA, PhD

TBF

Computer Science

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA

TBF

Spanish

Bostock, Dr M, BA, MSci

TBF

Chemistry

Dantzer, Dr B, MSc, PhD

TBF

Biology

Ghidini, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Materials Science

Overseas Fellows

Teaching By-Fellows

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Hanson, Dr L, MA, DPhil

TBF

Philosophy

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD

TBF

Biology of Cells

Hubbard, Dr K E, BA, PhD

TBF

Biology

Hunter, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Earth Sciences

Opalka, Dr D, PhD

TBF

Chemistry

Rubinstein, Ms H, BA

TBF

Psychology

Tasker, Dr A, MB, BChir, MRCP

TBF

Medical Sciences

By-Fellows Bittleston, Dr S, BSc, PhD

Professional

MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research

Brown, Dr G, PhD

Psychology

Dutton, Mr D M, BA

Professional

Economics Biographer and Historian

Farmelo, Dr G, PhD

Gill, Dr David, PhD

BF (Archives)

History

Gotham, Mr M

BF (Artist)

Director of Music-Making

Halson, Mrs P, BA (Hons), Assoc CIPD, FRSA Staff

College Records Officer

Hazlehurst, Dr Cameron, DPhil, FRSL, FRHistS

History

BF (Archives)

Keller, Dr Julien, PhD

Mathematics

McMeekin, Mrs S, BA (Hons)

Staff

Finance Manager Mechanical Engineering

Olfert, Dr J, PhD

Parker, Dr G T, MASc, PhD

Sharjah

Environmental Engineering

Pier, Dr B, PhD

Applied Mathematics

Quinault, Dr R, PhD

History

van Helvoort, Dr T, PhD

Materials Science

Xu, Dr Y, PhD

Electrical Engineering

Zheng, Dr B, PhD

Chinese Translation Studies

Post-Doctoral By-Fellows Amunts, Dr A, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Apostolopoulou, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Geography

Blake, Dr L, MPhil, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Psychology

Cai, Dr W, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Chem Eng and Biotechnology

Campbell, Dr H, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

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BF (Post-doctoral)

Paleoclimatology

Charteris, Dr C, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

English

de la Roche, Dr M, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Deusebio, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Applied Mathematics

Dutton, Dr S, MA, MNatSci, DPhil

BF (Post-doctoral)

Physics

Enriquez, Dr R, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Applied Mathematics

Feldman, Dr A, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Biological Sciences

Fuchs, Dr J, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Chemistry

Kiss, Dr D, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Statistics

Lopes, Dr J, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Chemical Engineering

Masuda-Nakagowa, Dr L, MA, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Genetics

Thacker, Dr V, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Physics

Vecchi, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Computer Science

Worley, Dr C, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Astronomy

Zou, Dr X, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral)

Engineering

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

Chapel Trustees’ Chaplain to the Chapel at Appointee Churchill College

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The Churchill College Association Chair: Ms Rosie Johnston (U73) From the day you join Churchill College as an undergraduate or become a member of the MCR or SCR, you are a member of the Churchill College Association automatically, free and for life.The Association promotes friendship throughout the College across all generations and disciplines, resident and nonresident alike. Please visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/association/ for more information about the Association, and visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/association/benefits/ to learn more about our range of benefits. The Association is joining the Archives Centre in developing a new oral history/memory lane project about the College and is looking for interviewers and transcribers. If you would like to join our team, please contact the Chair through the alumni office at churchill.association@chu.cam.ac.uk. Thank you.

Reunions A Reunion Dinner (for those who joined the College in the years 1983 – 1987 inclusive) will be held on Saturday 2nd July 2016. Invitations will be sent out by the College during the Lent Term to those for whom we have an email or postal address on our database. If you have recently changed address or plan to move in the near future, please contact the Alumni Relations Office: alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. Future Reunions July 2017 1993 – 1998 July 2018 2007 – 2009

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News and Contacts We are always pleased to hear about the careers and achievements of Churchillians and welcome your contributions. Please write to or email the Alumni Relations team at the College: alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. The postal address of the College is: Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS. Contact Details Porters’ Lodge: +44 (0)1223 336000 (Please note that all High Table enquiries must go through the Alumni Relations Office and not the Porters’ Lodge.) Alumni Relations Office: Alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 331546/336083 Conference Office: Conferences@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336233 Development Director: Development@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336197 Editor of the Newsletter: Newsletter.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk Editor of the Review: Review.Editor@chu.cam.ac.uk Fellowship Secretary & Master’s PA: Masters.PA@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336142 Human Resources Manager: HR@chu.cam.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 336077 Praelector: +44 (0)1223 331672 Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutors: +44 (0)1223 336208 College Fax: +44 (0)1223 336180 College website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk

Members’ Benefits DINING PRIVILEGES After becoming eligible to achieve MA status (six years and one term after matriculation), Alumni of the College may dine at High Table, joining current members of the Fellowship.They are entitled to up to four dinners per calendar year at College expense. Following the introduction of a drinks charge to current and former members of the Fellowship at High Table, from January 2014 a nominal charge of £9.00 per head will be applied to all categories of non-resident member

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wishing to take drinks with their meal.This will provide a pre-dinner drink in the Senior Combination Room (SCR) and two glasses of wine during the meal. Past Fellows and Past Overseas Fellows are eligible for four meals per month and six guests per quarter at College expense. Past By-Fellows are entitled to up to four High Table dinners per calendar year at College expense. For all categories of Past Fellow: wine is not included with your meal. Please see above. Dinner is at 7.30 p.m. Members should gather in the SCR from 7.15 p.m. Members should introduce themselves and their guest(s) to the presiding Fellow. If invited by a Fellow to join the company after dinner, other drinks taken in the SCR should be signed for by writing your name on the list. If the Fellow in question retires for the evening, you are kindly asked to vacate the SCR and visit the main College Bar. High Table To dine at High Table, please email alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1223 331546/336083. At least one Fellow must be present to preside; otherwise High Table will not take place. In the event that your meal is cancelled, you will be contacted by the Alumni Relations team.You may use the Dining Hall self-service facilities at any time and pay by cash. Please note that there is no High Table on any Saturday, nor on Sundays outside Full Term. Unused member entitlements may not be carried forward to the next year. Please visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/faqs/2/3/ for more information about dining at High Table. ACCOMMODATION Alumni Alumni are entitled to stay in College guest rooms throughout the year (subject to availability) at their own expense.Alumni may book up to two rooms at a special rate per visit. Additional rooms will then be charged at the commercial rate.

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Those who graduated in the previous twelve months and are Scholars (that is, gained a First Class in their final year) may stay for up to four nights in the year following their graduation (consecutively or spread over a number of visits) at College expense.They may then stay for additional nights at their own expense. Past Fellows and Overseas Fellows As a former Fellow of the College, you may stay in College free of charge on four nights over the academic year (1 October to 30 September), and stay at other times at your own expense (subject to availability). A special rate is available to Past Fellows and Overseas Fellows. Past By-Fellows As a former By-Fellow of the College you may stay in College at your own expense throughout the year (subject to availability). A special rate is available to Past By-Fellows. Bookings Accommodation bookings should be made by contacting the Accommodation Office on +44 (0)1223 336164 or by email: accommodation@chu.cam.ac.uk. Special rates are also available for Churchillians at the Møller Centre; a maximum of five rooms per year can be booked at this rate. Please contact the Møller Centre directly on +44 (0)1223 465500 or email: Moller.Reception@chu.cam.ac.uk.

Taking the MA and Other Degrees Information about Congregations (dress, procedure, etc.) is sent to members when they qualify for their degree. The College holds a lunch for graduands at College expense on the day of most congregations, and guests may attend at their own expense. Retrospective Admission to MMath and MASt Degrees for Part III Students successfully completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in Easter Term 2011 and subsequent years will be admitted to a Master of Advanced Studies degree if they come from outside Cambridge or a BA/MMath if they

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successfully complete four years’ undergraduate study (including Part III) at Cambridge. The University has also announced that many students who took Part III in previous years will be able to receive these degrees retrospectively. Please check the College website for details.

Weddings and Christenings Alumni are especially welcome to hold their wedding or children’s christenings in the Chapel. Enquiries can be made either to the Chaplain, Rev Dr John Rawlinson, or through the Alumni Relations Office. Fees are payable to defray the costs of weddings in the Chapel, and alumni are entitled to a reduced rate.

Forthcoming Events 2016 9 March: WSC 1958 Society Lunch 2 July: Reunion Dinner 1983 – 1987 23 – 25 September: Churchill Association Weekend and Golf Day; University Alumni Festival

Future Publications May 2016: Churchill Newsletter December 2016: Churchill Review

Index to the Churchill Review An on-line index to the Review, 1963 on, may be found at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/publications

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