Once a Caian Issue 14

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ISSUE 14 MICHAELMAS 2014 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

That Was The Life That Was Delivering George “ You Can’t Unburn The Toast” A Master Remembered

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From the Director of Development Our College enjoys celebrating the landmarks in its life. Every year, in late November, as required by our First Founder, Edmund Gonville, we remember all those whose benefactions have been essential to ensure the continued success of Caius down the centuries – and every year, the list grows longer. As I write, we are passing a milestone that not even our sharp-eyed mathematicians have drawn to my attention.

Gonville obtained Letters Patent for his Hall on 28 January 1348, so on Michaelmas Eve, 28 September 2014, the College’s age is 666 years and eight months. Two-thirds of a millennium is an awe-inspiring period of time, but as we embark on our next third of a millennium, Caius is in great spirits, with good reason to be highly optimistic about the future.

The second half of the twentieth century was a unique period in the College’s history, when government funding provided a major part of our running costs. Today, like other educational institutions in Britain, Caius is having to cope with a potentially catastrophic drop in government support. Instead of weakening us, it has made us stronger, because it has forced us to remember that membership of the Caian community is for life. Roots put down and friendships made here are being rekindled while sharing in the intellectual community of the College and renewing our commitment to ensure that future generations of Caians will benefit from the same unique opportunities.

More than 25% of Caians now make donations to the College every year. This is the College’s life-blood. Last year, Caius was the top Cambridge College, both in terms of the number of you who gave and the total funds donated. This loyalty and generosity sustains us through all the vagaries of changing government policies and the rollercoaster of the world economy. We cannot thank you enough for believing in the work of the College and supporting our appeals for teaching, buildings, bursaries and research, thereby helping to maintain Caius’ outstanding achievements in education and research.

On a personal note, after more than thirteen years as Director of Development, I shall be relinquishing that full-time role from the end of this year, but will continue on a part-time basis to do everything in my power to ensure that the endowment, on which Caius increasingly depends, will go on growing each year. The College has invited me to continue to direct its major gifts fundraising. Therefore, I am delighted to say, I look forward to staying closely in touch with you. Floreat Collegium!

Dr Anne Lyon (2001) Fellow

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

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Contents 8

Tom Challis

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Alan Fersht

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Yao Liang

Dan White

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Dan White

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2 That Was The Life That Was – David Frost (1958) – remembered by Neil McKendrick (1958) 4 Delivering George – interview with Sir Marcus Setchell (1961) 6 Balancing the Budget – Dr David Secher (1973), Senior Bursar 8 Ladies Bountiful – Alice Cheng (2013) – a new name on the Benefactors’ Wall 10 “You Can’t Unburn the Toast!” – Professor Dino Giussani (1996)

Lida Kindersley of the Kindersley-Cardozo Workshop, with Dr Anne Lyon and Christopher Cheng, supervising as Alice Cheng’s grandson Oliver makes the first cut in the stone that will bear Alice’s name on the Benefactors’ Wall.

12 “Nobel Prize... Nobel Prize...” – Professor Michael Levitt (1970) 14 Shell Shock – Charles Myers (1891) by Professor John Mollon (1996) 16 A Master Remembered – interview with Judith Chadwick & Joanna Batterham 18 Benefactors’ Day 2014 – The May Week Party 20 Extensions of a Verdant Heart – by Dr Jimmy Altham (1965) 22 CaiWorld – Funding the Joseph Needham Lectureship 24 Thanks to our Benefactors 32 CaiNotes

Cover photos, clockwise from bottom right: Alan Fersht,Yao Liang, Tom Challis, Alan Fersht, AP/Press Association Images, UNESCO

James Howell

36 A Trio for Rio? – by James Howell (2009)

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Sir David Frost (1958) – still a hint of the goalkeeper in the young TV presenter

That Was The Life That Was

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s I sat in a packed Westminster Abbey amongst thousands of the great and the good who had come to pay their last respects at the memorial service for Sir David Frost (1958), I cast my mind back to the young man who had arrived in Caius on the same day as me in October 1958, and reflected on the significance of what he had achieved in his remarkable career.

On his arrival at Caius his sole claim to fame was that he had rejected the offer of professional terms to become a goalkeeper for Nottingham Forest. The otherwise rather anonymous young grammar school boy came from a very sheltered and modest clerical home life. Amongst other constraints, his family life involved going to church three times every Sunday, not reading Sunday newspapers, forgoing alcohol, not eating in restaurants and not travelling abroad. It was so sheltered that his first night in Caius was the first night he had spent away from home.

One could scarcely imagine a greater change in life style than that enjoyed by the mature Frost, and yet the change in fame and fortune occurred with breathtaking speed.

At the age of 23 he exploded onto the nation’s consciousness with the spectacular success of That Was The Week That Was. By his

mid-twenties he was commuting to New York three times a week on Concorde.

TW3, as it came to be known, opened with a budget of £3,000 and rapidly attracted an audience of 12 million.

It became the most popular, the most un-missable and the most influential programme on the BBC. It set the tone and often the subject matter for each week’s political debates. More importantly, it changed the face of British television satire, and, in many people’s view, marked a watershed in British society. Its high-spirited and unforgiving mockery signalled the end of the deference that the broadcasting media had previously shown to the British Establishment.

It delighted in sending up the Church, the Monarchy and the Powers that Were.

The mockery so delighted its huge audience that acute anxiety (at times verging on panic) began to spread in high places.

Making fun of the Pope provoked anger; making fun of MPs who had not spoken in the House for fifteen years provoked alarm; making fun of Prime Ministers provoked action. So when David Frost, disguised as Disraeli, delivered a powerful political speech predicting that Sir Alec Douglas Home would prove to be a disaster for the Conservative party and, indeed, for the nation, the BBC decided to act.

Frost’s attempt at impartiality between the parties can hardly have helped: “there is the choice for the electorate. On the one hand Lord Home, on the other Mr Harold Wilson. Dull Alec versus Smart Alec”. With an election looming, it was decided that the show should be axed.

TW3’s final programme ended with a memorable triumph. It coincided with Kennedy’s assassination and, to the accompaniment of Millicent Martin’s haunting lament, Frost delivered what was described as “a brilliant funeral oration on the death of the President”. So brilliant and so memorable was this final programme that Senator Hubert Humphrey called for the script to be entered into the Congressional Record.

Ironically, as British television tried to silence him, American television embraced him. His life as an international star was launched.

The Frost Report, The Frost Programme, Frost over England, Frost on Sunday, Breakfast with Frost, Frost over America, Frost over Canada, Frost over Australia, Frost over New Zealand, Frost on Friday, Frost on Thursday, the David Frost Revue, the David Frost Show, Frost over the World – these and many others kept the Frost name alive and the Frost coffers full.

The other great highlight of his career was unquestionably the Richard Nixon interview

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...Always a Caian 3 in 1977. Described by many as the most momentous interview ever seen on television, it was a personal triumph for Frost and was seen by 45 million viewers. To outbid NBC for the chance to submit Nixon to up to six hours of questioning, Frost had to raise much of the $600,000 himself. He was later told that the LWT shares he sold to part-finance the Nixon deal would have brought him £37 million when they were finally sold. His reaction was “I would still have preferred to do the interview”. His preference was very understandable. Not only did he die worth an alleged £200 million, but his career was also hugely enhanced by Nixon’s electrifying public admission of guilt in the Watergate affair.

The subsequent Frost/Nixon film and the Frost/Nixon play would alone have made him a rich man. They also made him one of the most famous men in the world. His huge gamble had paid off in every possible way.

His memorial service very properly paid tribute to the originality that marked so much of his career. The tribute from David Cameron perhaps best summed up its revolutionary and multifaceted trajectory: “He was involved in so many different

love her?”, or the more obviously provocative question to Enoch Powell, asking whether he would appoint a black secretary.

The range of his interviewing was quite astonishing.

Who else would have access to both Idi Amin and Colonel Gaddafi, to both Robert Maxwell and Emil Savundra, to both Hilary Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, to both Bobby Kennedy and his assassin Sirhan Sirhan? Who else could persuade Bill Clinton and Tony Blair to be interviewed together, as well as separately? Who else would have access to Billy Graham and the Pope, to Prince Charles and the deposed Shah of Persia, to Liberace and Nelson Mandela, to Mohammed Ali, George Best and Elizabeth Taylor, to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, to Yoko Ono and all the Beatles, severally and together? Very few celebrities of any consequence escaped his attention.

Of greater importance, no one can deny the quality of the lengthy political interviews he conducted from the 1970s onwards. No one else could claim to have interviewed eight successive British prime ministers and seven successive American presidents. Very few politicians of any standing escaped his net.

by Neil McKendrick (1958) Dan White

revolutions. The revolution in British satire, the revolution in the commercialisation of television in the UK, the revolution of Breakfast TV, and then also revolutionising what political interviews really meant.”

Others stressed his remarkable talents as an author, a producer, columnist and entrepreneur. He was a television entertainer, interviewer and tycoon all rolled into one.

His versatility was legendary. His mastery of all genres of television was unrivalled. He could effortlessly switch from what Joan Bakewell called his “really, really serious work” to what he himself called his hobby – more than 1000 episodes of Through the Keyhole – which has left a record of the homes and the possessions of over 2000 celebrities.

But, for all his versatility, his most important legacy will surely be his interviews.

Those who think that his interviews were too soft-edged should watch his public evisceration of the odious Dr Emil Savundra, or note Sir John Major’s description of being interviewed by Frost as “like lying back relaxing in a warm bath and suddenly realising that an icy shower lurked immediately overhead”. There are many examples of the unexpected icy shower being turned on, such as the friendly enquiry to Idi Amin, “Mr President, you often say that God speaks to you, what does He sound like?”, or the innocent enquiry to President Clinton “Did you

So perhaps the most perceptive tribute cited on his memorial service sheet came from Lord Birt, who wrote: “When you look at the people whom David interviewed, there never has been, never will be, I suspect, anybody who will have his span… Anybody who wants to understand the second half of the twentieth century is going to have to look at David’s interviews.”

As an historian, I found this a most persuasive assessment because I suspect that the Frost archive will be accorded the significance and importance of one of the great eyewitness chronicles of the past century. Given that his record will be presented in a visual form, future historians will be able to see and hear the subjects they are studying, rather than simply read what they wrote or what contemporaries wrote about them. As we slip deeper and deeper into the digital age, Frost’s archive will assume a unique importance – unique for its span and unique for the stature of its subjects and all the more compelling because of its vivid visual impact. I find it a pleasing irony to think that, in a college of so many distinguished historians, the historical source most quoted in the future might come to be that of Sir David Frost.

What he had achieved in his lifetime fully justified the eloquently simple tribute that made his three sons most proud. It was the single word – LEGEND. The evidential record he has bequeathed to the future will more than justify the equally simple but so much rarer tribute of the memorial stone laid in his honour in the presence of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.

He is only the second broadcaster to have achieved that signal honour.

For all his fame he remained a most loyal Caian. Just as he was never too busy, as an undergraduate, to find time to be an enthusiastic and effective goalkeeper for the Caius football team, so at the height of his fame he was never too busy to appear as a very effective and enthusiastic speaker on our behalf. As Master I found him a wonderfully valuable resource. He never refused a request for help from me, whether it was to give a speech, support a cause or provide an introduction. His presence was always a delight. With his seemingly endless flow of well-polished anecdotes about the great and the good, he was certainly, by some margin, the most entertaining guest we ever had in the Master’s Lodge.

As I listened to the many heartfelt tributes at his Memorial Service, I marvelled once again at David’s ability to attract and keep so many true friends and admirers, and felt very fortunate to count myself among them.

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Delivering

The official notice, signed by Sir Marcus Setchell, on the easel outside Buckingham Palace, announcing the birth of Prince George of Cambridge.

George

by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

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oyal births can be hazardous – and they can have far-reaching consequences for all concerned. In November 1817, Princess Charlotte of Wales, 21 years old and next in line to the throne after her grandfather, George III, and her father, George IV, gave birth to her first and only child.

The boy was stillborn. Charlotte also died, later that night. There was widespread grief; it was whispered that the tragedy may have been averted if the Royal accoucheur, Sir Richard Croft, had used forceps. Three months later, Sir Richard shot himself.

George III’s fourth son, Edward, Duke of Kent, was persuaded to marry a first cousin, produced an heir to the throne and died soon afterwards. 20 years later, on the day when Charlotte would have succeeded, her cousin, Princess Victoria, became Queen.

The former Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Royal Household, Sir Marcus Setchell (1961), who delivered the probable future King George VII in July 2013, tells this story as a cautionary tale. Sir Marcus retired from the position on 1 January 2014, thereby removing himself from any kind of firing line.

It was not the career path he sought or expected, when he came up to Caius as a shy 17-year-old, from Felsted School, to read Medicine. Born in Cambridge during World War Two, most of Marcus’ relations were in agriculture. He might have followed suit, but for a twist of fate: aged 13, he went into Addenbrookes Hospital to have his tonsils removed and promptly developed

appendicitis. It was not spotted soon enough and he spent six weeks in hospital, recovering. There, he was “gripped by the rituals of hospital, the ward rounds, the interplay of personalities”.

Joining Felsted mid-year, after this enforced absence, he found the class was in its second year. He worked hard to catch up.

He was “conscientious, but not perpetually bound to my books!” He took his ‘O’ levels at fourteen and ‘A’ levels at sixteen. He studied science but loved drama. Puberty came late, so he played female parts in the school plays. At his Ruby wedding anniversary, last year, his son produced a photo from those days and amused the guests by revealing that the elegant figure in the glamorous, long dress was not his mother, but his father!

He remembers life at Caius in his first year as “primitive”: “I shared a room in Tree Court. The bedder brought a jug of hot water in the morning. If you wanted a shower, you had to cross the court. After sailing through everything at school, I suddenly found academic work quite tough. I’d gone from being a big fish in a small sea, to a small fish in a big sea. So I worked quite hard and hung around the bright people! I’ll never forget our first essay in Physiology. We had to “Discuss Claude Bernard’s concept of Le Milieu Intérieure”. None of us had a clue!

But it had the desired effect: it sent us to the library, to do some research.

“I remember spending hours and hours in the dissecting room, in that first year, about

ten of us working on each corpse, two students to a limb. The smell of formalin!

I was seventeen, I’d never seen a dead body before. But we worked meticulously, with the aid of a guidebook – Cunningham’s Anatomy.

There was a lot of rote learning: we knew there were twelve branches of this or that nerve, but identifying them was impossible.

It’s now realised there are better ways to learn anatomy!”

Marcus has happier memories of drinking beer at the Eagle and unfeasibly large schooners of sherry at the Berni Inn. In his second year, he had digs in Bene’t Street, handy for labs and lectures but fearfully cold: he recalls finding the hot water bottle in his bed full of ice! So Harvey Court, where he lived in his third year, felt luxurious and modern: every room had a washbasin!

The third year offered some new halfsubjects, like Experimental Psychology and The Psychology of Perception. At the time, he thought them “interesting but not beneficial”. Later, when he had a professional reputation for “understanding women”, he wondered if this may have originated in the study of psychology.

While he still maintains he was naturally shy, he liked to participate and enjoyed performing. He was a keen member of the Caius Amateur Dramatic Club, who put on Pirandello and a Restoration comedy. He even tried to audition for the Footlights, in a comedy sketch with Andrew Makin (1960) when John Cleese was in charge. Sadly, Marcus was a few minutes late. He and Andrew offered to wait to the end to

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...Always a Caian 5 has applied to erect an “ultramodern milky glass-clad building with brightly coloured illuminated glass panels” on one side. Marcus sympathises with the aims of the cancer trust, but the building could easily be relocated twenty yards away, and he is heading a formidable force of campaigning Londoners opposed to the “outrageous philistinism” of the threatened development.

“I’m devoted to the NHS!” said Marcus. “In many cases, patients receive better care, with less waiting and more choice than in the past, and for a lot of clinical conditions, the NHS is where I’d want to be.”

When Barts closed their Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit in 1985, he argued that there would be no more true Cockneys, if the only birth centre within the sound of Bow Bells were to close!

Then he moved to Homerton E9, “the real East End” and started one of the first NHS-funded IVF units at Barts, Sir Marcus enjoying the company of his twin grandchildren. because of his “strongly held belief that IVF was not just for the rich!”

He’s not sure which of his activities caught the attention of the Royal Household, but in 1990, on the retirement of Sir George Pinker, he was offered and accepted the honorary position of SurgeonGynaecologist to HM the Queen. In that capacity, he looked after the Royal family and their staff for 25 years.

Sir Marcus (Surgeon-Gynaecologist 1990-2014) with his predecessors, He was not Sir John Peel (1961-73) and Sir George Pinker (1973-90). called upon when Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie were born, as the Duchess of York already had a gynaecologist, also a Caian, Tony Kenney (1960). Marcus delivered the two children of the Duchess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor (the first royal birth at an NHS hospital) and James, Viscount Severn, and, on 23 July 2013, attended Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge for the birth of Prince George, at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

Almost every newspaper in the land carried the photograph of the gold easel outside Buckingham Palace, announcing the birth, and Marcus was bemused to find himself suddenly a celebrity and the centre of a storm of media interest.

A year on, the storm has abated a little, but in that one year, he had a Ruby Wedding and a 70th birthday, delivered an heir to the throne, was knighted by Prince William and retired. Life will never be quite the same! ©Alan Davidson/The Picture Library Ltd

perform their sketch, but Cleese refused.

Marcus is afraid Andrew never forgave him!

Tennis has always been a passion: he was a member of the Caius First Tennis team, still plays regularly as a member of Wimbledon and was President of the United Hospitals Tennis Club. This is one of many presidencies and charitable activities: he says he’s “not very good at saying no!” Hence, in part, the present interview…

He went to Barts Medical School for his three years of clinical training – simply because the Barts Tennis team came on tour to Cambridge every year and they seemed decent chaps: “Career training was unstructured in those days, so I had a look at obstetrics, found pregnancy and human reproduction fascinating and that was it.”

By 1969, the long years of study were over and he took a twelve month posting in Jamaica: “I was seeking adventure, but not adventurous enough to go to India or Africa!

Well, it was a complete eye-opener: Third World medicine, very sick people, who were also very poor – crisis healthcare. And when I came back, at the first interview, I was asked ‘Well, what have you gained in the Caribbean, apart from a suntan?’ and after one other question, I was politely told I hadn’t got the job.”

Soon after the Caribbean trip, while working in Oxford, he met Sarah, a young doctor from St George’s, who was working in the same department. They married in 1973, and in 1975 he became a Consultant at Barts at 31, living a happy family life in North London, producing four children and a growing number of grandchildren. But the true measure of his success lies in the lives of the many thousand of mothers and children that he helped at a crucial time.

Conscious of his own good fortune, he has always tried to do his share of charitable work, organizing a number of “Hikes for Hope”, to the Middle East, Morocco, Kerala and Kenya, which raised substantial sums for Wellbeing for Women and Prostate UK. The hikers ranged from a Scottish duchess to a checkout girl from Waitrose and they all “mucked in” – quite literally, on occasions!

In retirement, Marcus is still vigorously involved in another good cause, as Chairman of the Friends of the Great Hall and Archive at St Batholomew’s Hospital. The Hall is a Grade 1 Listed Georgian masterpiece designed by James Gibbs, with a grand staircase magnificently adorned with paintings by William Hogarth. It is also a living monument to centuries of free healthcare for the poor, provided by philanthropic donations, the precursor of the NHS. Plans for the restoration and modernisation of this historic building had been approved, but now a cancer caring trust

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Senior Bursar has to be strong enough to say no, adventurous enough to say yes and wise enough to know which to say when.

Dr David Secher (1973), Senior Bursar at Caius since August 2012, recently observed with some pride: “I’m as mean with the College’s money, as I am with my own!”

His wife, Sandra, added: “and he’s as mean as sin with that!” – which is probably better news for the College than for Sandra. But minimizing expenditure is only one part of the Bursar’s responsibility: the other part is managing – and increasing – the College’s Endowment, from which 3-4% a year is drawn to support current expenditure. This includes an effective contribution averaging about £4,500 pa to the costs of each student.

In pride of place in David’s office is a fine portrait of his much-admired predecessor, Air Vice-Marshal Reggie Bullen (Senior Bursar 1975-87), a deliberate reminder from David to himself that parsimony alone is not enough to win plaudits from the College. Vision and originality are also required. It was Bullen who came up with the inspired idea of transforming the dingy passageway of unpopular student rooms in Rose Crescent into the most fashionable run of designer boutiques in Cambridge – resulting in a welcome, multi-million pound boost to the Caius Endowment.

David says he’s still waiting for his “Reggie Bullen moment” but is quietly confident that it will occur. He certainly has an outstanding record in the field of maximizing academic assets: as Cambridge University’s first Director of Research Services (2001-2005), he pioneered what is now known as Technology Transfer – maximizing the profitability and benefits that can be drawn from the mass of intellectual property created by researchers. For many years, this potentially transformative source of revenue was neglected and a missed opportunity for many universities, but in the 1990s, David forged closer links between academics and industry and encouraged a much cleverer exploitation of the many valuable innovations and discoveries generated by researchers.

As he wrote in the Spring 2007 issue of Once a Caian... “Cambridge is seen as a model for the commercialization of academic research and the cluster of hitechnology companies around the University is widely seen as the most successful in

An account of the past and present activities of Dr David Secher ‘a Caian to the core’

Dr David Secher, Senior Bursar, with a portrait of his eminent predecessor Air Vice-Marshal Reggie Bullen, holding the symbol of his office, the College Seal of John Caius. David’s own symbol of fiscal prudence is an elderly cash register he acquired in a secondhand shop many years ago.

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Europe.” David paid generous tribute to several Caius researchers for identifying and developing such opportunities, but modestly played down his own central role in leading that process throughout the University. His interest in this area grew out of experiences with his own research – and the story is worth telling from the beginning.

Born and brought up in the Lake District, the son of an Austrian refugee from the Nazis and a Cumbrian teacher, David went to Cockermouth Grammar School and dreamed of studying Chemistry at Cambridge. To give him a better chance of achieving that ambition, his parents sent him to a Quaker boarding school in Reading to do his ‘A’ levels. He was the first member of the family to attend university and his two younger brothers followed suit.

In his first year as an undergraduate at Churchill College, he studied Chemistry, Physics and Maths, as well as a new Cell Biology course, devised by Tom ap Rees (1964), a Caius Fellow who was tragically killed in a bicycle accident. “Thanks to the wonderful Natural Sciences tripos, I was able to do that without even taking ‘O’ level Biology!” David recalls. He remembers sitting next to Anne Lyon in Chemistry lectures: “Well, who wouldn’t? There were only about half a dozen women students with 200 men!” Another lecture had an even more dramatic effect on him – one given to a packed audience at the Chemical Society in Lensfield Road, by Francis Crick (1949), Nobel Laureate (with James Watson) for discovering the structure of DNA: “During that lecture, it occurred to me that I’d been doing Chemistry since the age of seven, and we’d only got up to the nineteenth century! Francis Crick explained the whole of Molecular Biology in an hour and concluded the lecture with: ‘This recent research result is published in the scientific journal, Nature, published TOMORROW!’ Well, that lecture changed my life: I did Advanced Chemistry with Biochemistry in my second year and changed completely to Biochemistry for Part II – and I got a 2:2 at the end of the second year and a First at the end of the third year, just like (Nobel Laureate) Fred Sanger.

“The First came as a big surprise! I never regarded myself as other than a 2:2 student.

I was planning to go into industry and I had a place on the Unilever Management Development Scheme, but my supervisor for Part II asked if I wanted to stay on for a PhD and luckily for me, César Milstein had a space on his team, so I took it and found myself working in the same lab as Francis Crick!”

By the final year of his PhD, David knew he wanted to stay on to do post-doctoral research, but he didn’t win one of the few

college-funded Research Fellowships.

Instead, he accepted an award from the Salters’ Company, one of the old livery guilds that had always supported Chemistry.

He felt Caius had been the most welcoming of the colleges, inviting him to reapply, once he had completed his PhD, so he came to be interviewed by the College Council in 1973, when Joseph Needham was Master and Jimmy Altham the Registrary. He remembers Jeremy Prynne asking him a difficult question, but Needham intervened and answered on his behalf!

Having the Salters’ Company fellowship, he was able to decline the stipend from Caius, no doubt gladdening the heart of the Senior Bursar of the time. He was “so keen to get started” that he joined the College at Easter 1974. Age-old rules defining the matriculation year as 1973 for those who join the College at any time between the Michaelmas (29 September) of 1973 and 1974 mean that he belongs, in fact to the 1973 cohort, rather than 1974, as he has thought for the past forty years!

In the summer of 1975, David and Sandra celebrated their engagement and wedding at Caius with legendary parties attended by no less than five Nobel Laureates or Laureates-to-be. Children arrived but neither of them chose to follow in David’s footsteps: Rachel went to Durham University and is now an events organizer and project manager; Ben read English at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and is the Arts Editor of The Daily Telegraph.

David was still deeply involved with his research and found it difficult to spend the time he wanted on it, with his teaching obligations and all the usual demands of a young family. But it all bore fruit in April 1980, when he published his “most significant research paper” in Nature, announcing the creation of a new molecule, a monoclonal antibody, using a technique invented by César Milstein in 1975, for which Milstein would share the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1984.

David’s breakthrough allowed large quantities of interferon to be produced for the first time, for use in clinical trials of new drugs. He realised the product had enormous potential for commercial development and was disappointed to find the University had no established support mechanism to enable scientists like himself to bring their discoveries to fruition and reap the rewards they deserved. Typically, he set about organising all this himself. To his surprise, the complex task of transferring new knowledge from the lab to the marketplace ultimately displaced his own research and became the main focus of his work for the next 20 or 30 years. In 2002, he co-founded Praxis, the not-for-profit

company that is a market leader in this field, and in 2005, he became CEO of N8, a consortium of research-intensive universities in the North of England.

David feels a deep affection for Caius, so when the opportunity to become Senior Bursar came in 2012, he couldn’t resist it.

Two years on, he’s pleased to have set up closer consultations with the students about financial decisions that affect them, such as setting fair rents for their accommodation, and he’s still looking out for that “Reggie Bullen moment”. His most important initiative to date has been the acquisition of a substantial housing site in East Cambridge, where he plans to build twelve new family homes. The new Close or Court represents a seven-figure naming opportunity for a major College benefactor: according to the City Council’s bye-laws, it cannot be named after a living person, but could carry a family name, perhaps commemorating a loved one.

David is keenly aware that the Endowment has existed, in part, since the time of John Caius’ legacy: “The income from it plays an important role in enabling us to look after the students and the fabric of the College. As much of the burden for financing Higher Education passes from Government to the students, we need that income more and more, if we’re going to continue recruiting the best and brightest students, irrespective of their family means.

“The Endowment also supports our teaching and research. As the Fellowship has grown, demands on the Endowment have increased. If we want to make sure future generations of Caians continue to enjoy the same benefits we once enjoyed, we need to grow that Endowment – not an easy task, in such turbulent times!

“One of the biggest changes I’ve seen, in my forty years as a Fellow, has occurred since the Millennium – namely the growth in importance of fundraising, to secure additional income for the College. Legacies formed the basis of our historical Endowment, but lifetime donations have risen, over the past fifteen years, from less than £250,000pa to over £5 million a year for the past two years, thanks to the generosity of Caians and friends and the professional expertise of the Development Office under Anne Lyon.”

The College is fortunate to have its financial future in the hands of someone who combines considerable commercial acumen and experience with such wholehearted devotion and loyalty to the cause. A Caian to the core, David understands what the College means, not only to the Fellowship, but to the many alumni, parents and friends who care about it and want to help it flourish.

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Dr Alice Cheng with her son, Christopher Cheng, outside the Caius Boathouse in February 2014.

A new name on the Benefactors Wall

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or an institution that was exclusively male for its first 631 years, Caius has been remarkably fortunate in its female benefactors.

The Benefactors’ Wall, just inside the Great Gate, records the munificence of Elizabeth Clere, who paid for the east side of Gonville Court, of Dame Anne Scroop, last surviving member of the Gonville family, who bequeathed precious acres of farmland in West Cambridge in 1500, where Harvey Court and the Stephen Hawking Building now stand, and Joyce Frankland, who consoled herself in the tragic loss of her own son by funding the education of others, so she should have “sons in perpetuity”.

Closer to our own time, the Wall commemorates Lady Berkeley, wife of Sir Comyns, Rita Cavonius (2004), who donated the magnificent Cavonius Centre in the Hawking Building, Shirley Bailey (2009), Ann Haines (2009) and now Alice Cheng (2013), whose name will be remembered with gratitude for many years, for her gift of £1 million to re-build the graduate accommodation at 28 Ferry Path, behind the Caius Boathouse. In recognition of her

generosity, the six new flats for graduate students with partners will be named Alice Cheng House.

Alice has known and loved Cambridge for a long time: she came here first as a student, to learn English. Her husband, Graham Cheng, a geologist, went to the Perse School, her father-in-law, Dr CK Cheng, was a Fellow of King’s College and a Lecturer in Archaeology and her son, Christopher, has memories of being taken to the river as a small child, to watch the Bumps.

Alice came into close contact with Caius when she sponsored Janice Hu (1992), to read economics here. Dr Iain Macpherson (1958) was Janice’s supervisor and Dr Jimmy Altham (1965) was her tutor. Alice knew Janice’s father and grandmother very well and wanted to help the family. She has fond memories of attending a Caius May Ball in the 1990s and decided to make that dream come true all over again, by bringing a party of five from Hong Kong to attend both the May Week Party for Benefactors and the 2014 Caius May Ball.

The theme of the Ball was “A Brief History of Time” and the star guest was the College’s own cosmologist, Professor Stephen

Adrian Nicholas

Ladies Bountiful

Outside 28 Ferry Path, which will be converted to six flats for graduate students with partners.

It will be named Alice Cheng House. (l-r): Architect, Julian Bland, Dr Xiang Yang Li, Dr Jimmy Altham, Dr Alice Cheng, Christopher Cheng, Dr Anne Lyon, graduate student, Roeland Verhallen (2011).

by Mick Le Moignan (2004) Hawking (1965), who visited every section of the Ball and showed quite extraordinary patience and good nature, in allowing himself to be the subject of “selfies” with an apparently endless succession of young revelers. The delight of those who captured their own brief moment with the great man was a joy to behold – and Alice Cheng’s party enjoyed the experience as much as everyone else.

From the moment of her arrival at Caius, Alice bubbled with infectious enthusiasm and set a cracking pace for her younger companions. First, she inspected her name, carved with just thirty others on the commemorative Wall inside the refurbished Great Gate. She was amazed to learn that the names go right back, through the College’s 666-year history, to its original foundation by Edmund Gonville in 1348; she said seeing her name on the Wall was “one of the highlights of her life” and she hoped that, one day, the names of her children would also be carved in stone there.

Alice has always carved out her own path in life, achieving great success in many different fields, and she has always followed the Chinese custom of using her own good fortune to improve the lives of others. Born in

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Shanghai, she moved to Hong Kong at the age of 19, but retains a great affection for her native city. A full-time housewife and mother until she was 40, she then founded the Taching Petroleum Company Limited, wisely naming it after the Taching Oilfield, one of the economic success stories of Mao Zedong’s China. Almost 40 years on, Alice is still the CEO and Managing Director.

By 1978, the Taching Company was successful enough for Alice to return to Shanghai and start work on the first 25storey structure in that city, the Yandang Building. When Deng Xiaoping visited and asked if any major construction projects were taking place, she was pleased to be able to give him a positive answer. She sold the apartments in the building to overseas Chinese, at the very start of the real estate boom in China. She took great pleasure in demonstrating the benefits of capitalism to her colleagues in Shanghai, proving that she only needed an office and a telephone to make a great deal of money!

Next, seeing the potential of the emerging IT industry, she negotiated with the Swedish company Ericsson to open two factories in Nanjing and Beijing, in 1990 and 1994, for which she was decorated by the King of Sweden. Almost everything Alice touches seems to turn to gold – and it’s no accident, but the result of her acute analysis of commercial potential.

Her generosity to Caius is one of many benefactions in the areas of education, healthcare and culture, which include a building named after her at Hong Kong’s City University and an exquisite Qing famille rose enameled peach vase of the Yongzheng period (1723 -1735), which she bought at Sotheby’s in 2002 for US$5.4 million and presented to the Shanghai Museum.

In person, Alice is down-to-earth, charming, vivacious – and highly observant.

She enjoyed her May Week in Cambridge immensely, mixing with other donors at the Benefactors’ Day Party in College, joining the crowds at Caius Meadow to cheer on the College’s boats and dancing the night away at the May Ball. Her joie de vivre was a timely reminder of how lucky we are to share in these annual festivities – and how lucky we are to have the name of Alice Cheng on our Benefactors’ Wall, so that future generations will remember this gracious lady who chose to share her wealth, to benefit many hundreds of young people whom she will never meet.

Dr Anne Lyon, Dr Alice Cheng and James Howell in front of the Benefactors’ Wall.

Left: Alice’s grandson, Oliver Cheng, making the first cut in the stone to bear her name on the Benefactors’ Wall.

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Dr Alice Cheng seated with the Master for Dinner at the Caius May Ball.

Alan Fersht

Dr Alice Cheng’s party with Professor Stephen Hawking at the Caius May Ball.

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ver a timespan approaching half a millennium, this College has made an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of how the human body works. This tradition continues in the 21st century.

In the 16th century, it was John Caius (1529) who brought the new science of anatomy to Britain from Italy. A century or so later, William Harvey (1628) discovered the direction of the circulation of the blood. In the middle of the 20th century, Francis Crick (1949) and James Watson unraveled the structure of DNA. Today, many people question the end-oflife care we provide for the aged and dying, which seems to produce little benefit for the patients at an unconscionable cost. Now, a Caian scientist suggests that a comparatively modest investment in healthcare for unborn

Professor Dino Giussani (1996) with his wife, Kristin, his son, Lucca and his daughter, Gabriella.

“You Can’t Unburn the Toast!”

by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

babies would provide a much better return, in both extra years and quality of life, not only for the next generation but also for generations to come.

Professor Dino Giussani (1996), holder of the 1958 College Lectureship, is principally interested in heart disease, “the greatest killer” worldwide. One in three people will die of cardio-vascular disease, more in the UK, even more in the USA.We know what causes it – an interaction between our genes and traditional lifestyle factors, such as smoking, obesity or a sedentary life. We’ve known for over half a century that these elements increase the risk. But what if the odds were stacked against us much earlier, before we were born?

Our immediate environment has the greatest impact upon us early on: this diminishes progressively as we get older.

We are at our most malleable and vulnerable in early life and during antenatal development. So a challenge to the fetus, perhaps lasting a few hours, may be equivalent to one lasting a few years in later life. But there are two sides to this coin: in science, as in life, every problem is also an opportunity. The greater vulnerability of the fetus early on also provides a greater chance to correct any harm.

This understanding has given rise to a whole new field, known as the Developmental Programming of Heart Disease, which Dino says: “has revolutionized the philosophy of

1958 College Lecturer, Professor Dino Giussani, is researching new ways of preventing later-life cardiac disease through treatment of the unborn child.

Medicine, from treatment to prevention. We can apply preventive medicine at the earliest stage of life, halting the onset of disease at its very origin, right back in the womb!”

Sadly, this will be little comfort to those of us who have already embarked on life’s winding pathway: “You can’t unburn the toast!” is how Dino puts it. But you can make a better job of the next slice – and give future generations a better chance for improved cardiovascular health.

The most common adverse condition in complicated pregnancy is chronic fetal hypoxia, which Dino’s group has been working on. This is where a fetus has less oxygen than it needs to develop normally. An adult hyperventilates when deprived of oxygen but an unborn child cannot. It can only prioritise where the oxygenated blood goes, sending less to peripheral circulations such as those in the limbs, while maintaining perfusion to more essential areas, such as the brain.

This is a short-term adaptive defence: if prolonged, it can cause adverse consequences, becoming maladaptive.

Constricting blood vessels in peripheral circulations in a prolonged manner can restrict nutrients and decrease growth and increase the load against which the developing heart pumps. The fetal heart, being made of muscle, responds by increasing its mass, leading to thicker cardiac and aortic walls – hallmarks of heart disease even before birth.

Chronic hypoxia promotes the excessive generation of “free radicals” (chemicals with an unpaired electron, which are therefore unstable and reactive), accelerating the normal ageing process. Although free radicals are vital for cell-to-cell communication, we need to control and limit their activity. Our bodies produce natural antioxidants – and antioxidant supplementation can help some disease states in adults. Could antioxidant therapy have protective effects in early life?

Dino’s research programmes have used such techniques successfully in animal models and they are currently designing clinical trials for humans, “bringing the research from the lab bench to the hospital bedside.” It is not a panacea: in normal pregnancies, where free radicals and antioxidants are already in balance, the therapy can have adverse effects. As Dino puts it: “Everything in moderation, including moderation!”

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Excitingly, it may also be possible to treat babies after birth with special antioxidants, to repair any cardiovascular damage as soon as possible.

The search for a substantial number of pregnancies undergoing chronic hypoxia took the research team to Bolivia, where the high altitude of a city like La Paz (4,000m above sea level) provides a natural model of low oxygenation at a populational level. Sure enough, babies from La Paz were much smaller than those in the sister city of Santa Cruz (400m.) Interestingly, it now seems likely that pregnant mothers from the Aymara indigenous people, who have lived in the Bolivian highlands for 2,000 years, have developed a mechanism to counter this effect, despite being highly impoverished: “the Aymara placenta has more antioxidant enzymes than the placentae from European newcomers.” Dino refers to this as: “the Andean curse on the Conquistadors”!

There is a synchronicity in this for Dino, who was born in Bolivia. His Milanese grandfather, married to an English woman, took Dino’s father as a child and the famous Bianchi bicycles from the UK to South America and settled in Bolivia. On his mother’s side, he is descended from an old Spanish family, deeply involved in Bolivian politics. When Dino, the fourth of five children, was 13, his father moved the family back to Britain to complete their education.

So Dino attended Rutlish School in Wimbledon and took a B.Sc in Physiology and a PhD in Fetal Physiology at University College London, before postdoctoral fellowships in Santiago, Chile and Cornell University in upstate New York.

A Cambridge Lectureship in Physiology led to an appointment as one of the Directors of Studies in Medicine at Caius. He was attracted to the College, he says, not only because of its groundbreaking tradition in Medicine, but because he would be part of a team with Richard Le Page (1963), David Ellar (1968), Roger Carpenter (1973) and Joe Herbert (1976).

“The College played a huge role in helping me become established within the University” he says, “As a newcomer, it was exactly what I needed. I used to work in the lab until seven and go to dine at High Table, nearly every night. Neil McKendrick (1958), who had just become Master, Iain Macpherson (1958), John Casey (1964), James Fitzsimons (1946), Peter Bayley (1971), Jeremy Prynne (1962), Vic Gatrell

Plate XII from William Hunter’s obstetric atlas, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Explained by Figures), Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774. The opened abdomen exposes the fetus* of a woman near term, with the placenta praevia from which she bled to death blocking the birth canal.

* “Fetus” is preferred, derived from the Latin feteo (I breed), rather than foeteo (I make an offensive smell).

Dino considers the variant spelling, foetus, “gratuitously unkind to the unborn child”!

Professor Dino Giussani is Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology & Medicine at the Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow, 1958 College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Medicine at Gonville & Caius College, a Lister Institute Fellow and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder. He is supported by the British Heart Foundation, The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Isaac Newton Trust.

(1967) and Yao Liang (1963) were very accommodating, in helping me to widen my social circle. And, of course, the process is cyclical, so it becomes your role (quite quickly!) to welcome the new, younger Fellows and help them to settle in.”

Dino doesn’t go to High Table quite so often at present: he and his wife, Kristin, a former physiotherapist at Addenbrookes, now with a private practice in Newmarket, have two young children, Lucca (8) and Gabriella (6). Since 2011, Dino has been Professor of Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology & Medicine, but he still supervises almost 30 new Caius medics each year and he’s deeply grateful to the College for the support it has given him.

If, as seems highly likely, his research ultimately contributes to extending the lives of millions of people as yet unborn, Dino will have left a formidable legacy. A little perversely, as a scientist, he is almost more excited by another possibility: in experiments with laboratory rats and mice, where it is possible to follow generational changes much more rapidly than in humans, Dino’s group have most recently discovered that individuals which were hypoxic in utero can pass onto their offspring beneficial as well as detrimental cardiovascular traits despite normal pregnancy.

This is a much faster process than one might expect: genetic changes are supposed to be much more gradual. It suggests that it may be possible to “switch” genes on or off, without altering the basic genetic code, expanding the understanding of Crick and Watson. If so, there may be interesting implications for the new science of Epigenetics: “What we’re stumbling onto with our discovery of intergenerational inheritance of heart disease and protection against it in mammals is a mechanism that might help to explain Natural Selection – almost marrying physiology with evolution. We never dreamed our research would have such far-reaching consequences, helping not only to improve the health of our children but also their children.”

Dino is too much of a scientist to speculate further, but it’s clear that nothing would give him greater pleasure than adding to the Caius roll-call of gamechanging revelations about how life-forms adapt, to improve their chances of health and survival.

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Professor Michael Levitt (1970) with his wife, Rina, and grandson, Barak, at the Stanford Football Stadium, where he received an unexpected tribute.

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o be admitted to Caius is a metaphorical feather in the cap. To win one of the four Research Fellowships awarded each year is the equivalent of a whole head-dress of feathers.

On assuming the Mastership in 2012, Sir Alan Fersht (1962) declared that any reduction in the number of Research Fellows from the current quota of four per year would be “over my dead body!” Fortunately, this has not yet proved necessary.

Many of the stars of the Caius firmament have spent some time as Research Fellows here, including fourteen of the 30 most senior members of the current Fellowship.

The three most recent Caian Nobel Laureates (out of the current total of thirteen) all first came to the College as Research Fellows.

Joseph Stiglitz (1965) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001, Roger Tsien (1977) won in Chemistry in 2008 and Michael Levitt (1970) won the same Prize just last year.

Relatively few Research Fellows are invited to stay at Caius on a permanent basis but completion of such a Fellowship almost guarantees a prestigious position elsewhere.

Academic life may be more competitive than ever, but ability seems to find its way to the surface: thanks, in part, to the gently searching examination that is High Table, Fellows have an uncanny knack of spotting an exceptional intellect, even if it ploughs its furrow in a foreign field.

One of the most likeable characteristics of the Caius community is that Fellows are generous in their recognition of each others’ success. When Professor Michael Levitt’s Nobel Prize was announced, the Master immediately proposed him for an Honorary Fellowship and the General Meeting swiftly agreed.

Michael’s Prize was awarded (jointly with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel), “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems". The work involves accurately predicting what molecules will be formed as a result of chemical reactions. The breakthrough the three scientists achieved, starting in the 1970s, was to use computers to combine both classical and quantum mechanics to determine the courses of such reactions.

Unusually, rather than recognizing a single significant discovery, in this case, the Prize was awarded for initiating a whole new field.

Michael came back to Caius in July 2014, to stay with the Master, Sir Alan Fersht (1962), an old friend and colleague, and to accept his Honorary Fellowship. He describes himself self-deprecatingly as a “geek” but appears to be quite the opposite – outgoing, engaging, lively and curious. The visit was an opportunity to reflect on his time in Cambridge and the significance of his Research Fellowship at Caius in the light of his subsequent career.

Born and brought up in South Africa, Michael came to London when he was sixteen and stayed with his uncle and aunt, who were both scientists. He remembers watching a tv series that started on 4 January 1964, presented by John Kendrew, who had won the 1962 Nobel Prize (with Max Perutz). It presented the modern view of Biology and young Michael “got a thing about doing Physics related to biological systems.” This “thing” turned out to be his life’s work.

On finishing school, he went to King’s College, London, to read Physics, but then decided he wanted to come to Cambridge to do a PhD under Kendrew’s supervision. He was accepted for this on the condition that he spent a year in Israel first, where he not only worked on small molecules but met his wife, Rina, an artist and biologist, and returned with a baby on the way.

A year later, he applied for a Research Fellowship and received offers both from Peterhouse, his first Cambridge College, and from Caius. The Caius offer was all of £50 higher and funds were tight, with Rina and baby Daniel (now 45) to look after, so the choice was easy. Caius further endeared itself to him by lending him a thousand pounds as an unsecured down payment loan on a house at Cherry Hinton.

As he recalls, “I was much less sociable than I am now” but always felt very grateful to the College for helping him out at a vital

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Michael Levitt with Alan Fersht.

Research Fellowships Professor John Saunders (1967), from Australia, is generously endowing a Research Fellowship in perpetuity. Since four new four-year Fellowships are awarded each year, fifteen out of sixteen are still to be secured. The Development Director hopes other benefactors will decide to follow John’s admirable example!

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stage. He now wishes he had devoted more energy to playing sports and meeting people, “but at the time I felt what I was doing was the most important thing in the world!” Francis Crick (1949) once invited him to a Feast at Churchill and created an impression on young Michael by collecting him in a Lotus Elite. He remembers a thin lady in a little black dress asking him what he did in his spare time: “I wash nappies!” he said, at which the lady turned on her heel and left him for more promising company.

He first met Alan Fersht more than 40 years ago, when they were both working on how molecules function. They have always been strong supporters of each other, while approaching the subject from different angles. Michael developed computational biology, while Alan was one of the cofounders of protein engineering. Tongue-incheek, Michael says of Alan: “For an experimentalist, he’s really good with a computer!”

In 1977, Michael left Cambridge and went to California, to take up a second postdoctoral appointment with Francis Crick.

An appointment as Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel followed, then in 1987, he joined Stanford University as Professor of Structural Biology and has been based there for the past 27 years. Happily, he says, “They don’t require my physical presence there all the time!” so he is able to divide his time between his family (three sons and “almost six” grandchildren) in Israel and the USA, and frequent visits to Britain and other scientific conferences.

The Nobel Prize has certainly made a difference to his life, but maybe not in the ways he expected. Making so many public appearances, he now wears Savile Row suits and ironed shirts instead of t-shirts. He still thinks a lot about his work and finds it has become more enjoyable. He’s not such a “workaholic” as when he was younger and has developed a passion for hiking and seakayaking. His advice to keen young researchers is “Take a break!” – believing that may be better for the mind than trying to cudgel it into submission.

The most delightful experience that resulted from his award was an invitation to a big American Football match at Stanford: “I didn’t know anything about it – I had to look up the rules on the internet!”

Nevertheless, he enjoyed the match and was surprised to see himself on enormous screens, all around the ground, at half-time, cheering on Stanford, with his grandson on his shoulders, while the announcer introduced him. The crowd of 50,000 responded with a rising chant: ‘Nobel Prize!...

Nobel Prize!... Nobel Prize!” Now, that’s something that never happens in the lab!

Commemoration Lecture 2015 Professor Michael Levitt has kindly agreed to deliver next year's Commemoration Lecture on Sunday 15 November 2015, to which Members of the Court of Benefactors will be invited.

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t the beginning of August 1914, Charles Myers (1891) travelled back to Cambridge from his customary climbing holiday in Switzerland.

Passing through Paris, he found a city in turmoil, with queues outside the banks. At the Gare du Nord, the conductor of the restaurant car on the Calais train refused admission to passengers unable to settle their luncheon bills in gold or silver. Myers arrived safely home – to his substantial house in Shelford, to his room in Caius, and to his newly-built Psychological Laboratory on the Downing Site.

But he did not settle.

The son of a wealthy merchant, Myers had graduated in Natural Sciences and had then gone to Barts to qualify in medicine.

In 1898, he had joined the celebrated Cambridge anthropological expedition to the Torres Straits and to Sarawak. His especial role was to record indigenous music and to test sensory perception. Still in the possession of the College is a curious brass box, finely inlaid with silver, that Myers brought back from Sarawak: its inscription makes playful allusion to the Kayans, one of the peoples of Sarawak, who had only recently given up their head-hunting traditions after a peace brokered by the British administrator (see Once a Caian, 2008).

In 1907, now University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, Myers set about raising funds for a laboratory to house his infant discipline. A surviving hand-written list

Above: The mature Charles Myers (1891) and the extraordinary scene in the Gaming Room at the Le Touquet Casino, converted to a field hospital in World War I by the Duchess of Westminster. Note the carefully wrapped chandeliers.

Below: Myers published his radical contention that “Shell Shock” was a genuine medical condition in The Lancet.

of subscribers shows that most of the money came from ‘Anonymous’ and much of the balance from Myers’ family and his in-laws, the Seligmans. In fact, Myers had himself paid for his grand laboratory, using part of his inheritance from his father. The University were happy to appoint him Director.

His fine new laboratory was well equipped

by Professor John Mollon (1996)

for the sensory and perceptual research in which he specialised. So it is remarkable that Myers, now aged 41, was reluctant to remain in Cambridge after the declaration of war in 1914. Nor was he held back by the anthropological insights into human conflict that he must have gained in Sarawak.

He offered his services to the War Office, but was told that they were not accepting doctors over 40. He next tried the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and then the Red Cross, but they had many more applications than posts available (success, it was hinted to him, depended on social influence alone). But then Myers learnt – from the Barts journal – that the Duchess of Westminster had taken out a complete hospital unit to France, staffed by doctors and nurses trained at Barts. The Duchess (formerly Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West) was married to one of the richest men in the pre-war world. Their wedding in 1901 was attended by the AustroHungarian Ambassador and a cohort of princes, dukes and counts. Now, in October 1914, the Duchess personally proceeded to France with hospital kit that filled a dozen railway cars.

Hoping to exploit old contacts from Barts, Myers travelled in mufti to Paris, using the Folkestone to Dieppe service – a route open to civilian travellers in October 1914. He secured an interview with the Duchess. In those early days of the war, she too was in a buyers’ market. She promised ‘to do what she could’. Three days later Myers was offered a

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It took the Duchess some time to find a fitting site for her hospital, but soon her persistence and her connections allowed her to secure the Casino at Le Touquet. Myers was appointed Registrar. The staff were lodged at the Hôtel des Anglais and were made honorary members of the golf club. Myers – a Cambridge academic with little clinical experience – confined himself initially to his duties as Registrar, developing a crossreferenced card index that was admired by visiting dignitaries from the Army Medical Service.

Soon, however, casualties began to reach the Duchess’s hospital from the front. Myers, still at this stage the sensory psychologist, entered into a clinical investigation of two conditions increasingly apparent among the flow of patients: trench foot and shell shock.

Swelling and numbness of the feet after exposure to cold and wet was a malady known to nineteenth-century army surgeons, but the hideous conditions of the Great War brought an epidemic of ‘trench foot’. Myers’ characteristic contribution was to use the methods of sensory psychology to measure sensibility in the affected limbs. Prominent in his thinking would have been the famous experiment by Head and Rivers, carried out in St. John’s a decade earlier, in which Rivers plotted the recovery of sensibility in Head's arm following deliberate section of cutaneous nerves. Trench foot brought a similar pattern of results: ‘epicritic’ sensibility (sensitivity to light touch; discrimination of double touches with compass points; discrimination of temperature differences) was completely lost and was the last to recover, whereas ‘protopathic’ sensibility to pain was last to be lost and first to return.

But it was in November 1914 that Myers saw for the first time a case of ‘shell shock’; and the following February he became the first to use this term in print – in a paper published in The Lancet and now seen as seminal in the literature on war neuroses.

All three patients in this first paper had been close to exploding shells (and thus to violent changes in pressure). Case 1, a private aged 20, was crossing open land between trenches when he became entangled in barbed wire and several shells burst around him. One in front ‘blew his haversack clean away’ and one behind gave him a shock ‘like a punch on the head, without any pain after it’.

Strangely, none of these patients showed serious impairment of hearing, but Myers found that their visual fields were constricted and their visual acuity much reduced. All three

showed losses of taste and smell. Thus Case 2 could not identify a strong solution of salt (reporting only that ‘it feels like petrol does on the hand’) and he failed to smell peppermint, ether, iodine tincture or carbolic acid. In Cases 2 and 3 and in many subsequent patients, Myers also observed amnesia, especially for events following the trauma but sometimes more complete. Other patients exhibited spasmodic movements or had been rendered mute. All were emotionally disturbed.

Myers judged that his shell-shock patients were neither malingering nor physiologically injured. The symptoms were ‘functional’, the result of strictly psychological trauma. His patients, he suggested, resembled those that in the civilian clinic of his day would have been labelled ‘hysteric’. In some cases, the patients would fit the modern diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Myers’ view of shell shock was not universally accepted in the wartime literature.

His opponents held that the symptoms arose from ‘minute cerebral haemorrhages’ or other blast damage not externally visible. Without modern brain scans and at a century’s reach, it is difficult to judge. The anosmia seen in the first three cases might well suggest shearing of the olfactory nerve across the bony cribiform plate of the skull. But Myers pointed to his success in curing some of his patients by light hypnosis, especially if he could ensure that they recovered their repressed memories of the trauma.

In March 1915, now Temporary Major, Myers left the Duchess’s hospital and was given a wider brief to supervise the treatment of psychological illness in the British army.

Soon he was a Lieutenant-Colonel, enjoying

the title ‘Specialist in Nerve Shock’. One of his roles was to appear at courts martial and he probably saved many men from execution.

His position was not an easy one: on the one hand, most army officers regarded ‘shell shock’ as an excuse for cowardice, and on the other, neurologists saw Myers as intruding on their domain.

The same year, Myers was elected to the Royal Society, in recognition of his pre-war work. In 1916-17, however, he suffered setbacks. The Army refused him permission to publish a general survey of shell shock; and his role on the northern front was given to the neurologist Gordon Holmes, Myers being confined to the southern front. Later in 1917 he returned to Britain.

Both Myers and the Duchess of Westminster were themselves among the many whose lives were changed irrevocably by the Great War. In 1919 Caius gave Myers the Fellowship that he had probably long hoped for. Yet he no longer had the heart for academic experimental psychology. Wanting to apply psychological knowledge to practical problems of the larger world, he founded the National Institute for Industrial Psychology, becoming its first Director.

And the Duchess of Westminster? She divorced the Duke in 1919 and shortly afterwards married James Lewes of the Royal Flying Corps. According to contemporary newspaper accounts, Captain Lewes had been shot down during the war and had been taken to the Duchess’s hospital to recover. At this wedding, held in Lyndhurst Registry Office, a maid was the only witness.

The Caius graduation photo of 1895 shows Charles Myers (1891) on the far right of the second row from the front and Antarctic explorer, Dr Edward Wilson (1891) on the far left of the same row.

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Left: Sir James Chadwick (1919) as his daughters remember him.

A Master Remembered

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he Mastership of Sir James Chadwick (1919), the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who led the College from 1948 to 1958, is slipping from living memory into history. No Caian under the age of 74 can have any personal recollection of the Chadwick years.

Two people for whom the memory of those years still burns bright are Chadwick’s twin daughters, Judith and Joanna, who were just 21 when they moved into the Master’s Lodge. They came back for the May Week Party for Benefactors in June 2014, observed the many changes in the style and fabric of the College and charmed everyone they met.

They clearly inherited their father’s powers of observation.

For a decade, Judy and Joanna were the only young women allowed to live within the confines of the College. They had a keen sense of who was who and what was happening. In retrospect, they feel the sacrifices their father made for Caius and what he achieved on its behalf were never fully appreciated. His legendary shyness was often mistaken for aloofness: “But he was a lot more fun than people give him credit for! When he had friends round, they’d have a wonderful time. He and our mother were very close to Lord McNair (1906) and his wife – and he had a lot of

non-academic friends, as well. He was completely different with his friends from the lab, or from Liverpool.”

Chadwick was a Lancashire boy, from a family of modest means. The great physicist, Ernest Rutherford, spotted his scientific ability at Manchester University and sent him to Germany to study with Hans Geiger.

So he was interned at the start of the First World War. He told his daughters he was “paraded in front of jeering crowds.” When peace returned, Rutherford moved to Cambridge to become Director of the Cavendish Laboratory and Chadwick came as his deputy.

He enrolled as a postgraduate at Caius and in 1921, as soon as he completed his PhD, accepted a Fellowship. In 1925, he married Aileen Stewart-Brown, the daughter of a Liverpool stockbroker. The twins were born in Bentley Road, Cambridge, two years later. His research culminated in the discovery of the neutron, in 1932, the same year and in the same lab that Cockcroft and Walton first “split the atom”. In 1935, he moved to Liverpool to become Professor of Physics and received his Nobel Prize.

In 1940, the twins were evacuated to Canada, to stay with their father’s friend, George Henderson, Professor of Physics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

They were not alone: they made friends with

Above: A reunion at Caius in 2014 (l-r): Professor Christopher Brooke (1945), Miss Judith Chadwick, Dr Anne Lyon (2001), Mrs Joanna Batterham, Mr Michael Prichard (1950) and Mick Le Moignan (2004).

Sir James with General Groves: “Nobody’s supposed to know we’re English!

Judith with an unknown cat.

Joanna and her father on her wedding day in the Gate of Honour.

by Mick Le Moignan (2004) the Hendersons’ daughters and with British girls from Roedean School, also evacuees, who were studying at the same boarding school, but it was a traumatic upheaval.

Joanna contracted TB, missed her mother and felt dreadfully homesick, but there was no choice: they had to get on with it: “By the time Mum and Dad came over, in 1943, we were regular little Canadians – we spoke and thought like Canadians! The War didn’t affect us, over there; we weren’t conscious of it. They didn’t know what rationing was.”

The visit was more than a family reunion: Chadwick’s research into the possibility of creating nuclear fission, by accelerating particles in a cyclotron, had convinced him that a nuclear bomb was not only possible, but inevitable. Despite huge personal doubts, he wrote the final draft of the Maud Report, which persuaded Roosevelt to commit huge American investments to develop such a weapon, through the Manhattan Project.

Chadwick was appointed to lead the British team in that venture, so the family moved, first to Los Alamos, New Mexico, then to Washington DC. Chadwick established a surprising rapport with the American leader, General Groves. All this was top-secret. Judy recalls her mother saying: “Nobody’s supposed to know we’re English!” The twins laughed: “She was so typically English, no-

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Chadwick did his duty, the Manhattan Project succeeded and he was rewarded with a knighthood in January 1945, but the appalling devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroyed any personal pleasure he might have taken in that honour. He never stopped agonizing over the consequences of his actions and needed pills to sleep, for the rest of his life. As Judy recalls: “Father was absolutely worn-out, at the end of the War. Then Chubby Stratton (1901), the President of Caius, came to Liverpool to offer him the Mastership. He thought he owed something to Caius – it had played an important part in his life – so he accepted.”

Joanna remembers her father as a terrible worrier: “Before he gave a lecture, he was unbearable! But the lecture itself was wonderful, out of this world.” He worried whether he had been right to accept the Mastership. He steeped himself in the writings of John Caius and John Venn, perhaps hoping to steer the post-war College down a more austere, traditional path, but the younger Fellows wanted more of a say – and they organised the so-called “Peasants’ Revolt” at the 1950 election for the College Council.

In their first year in the Lodge, the twins made friends with many of the undergraduates, went punting, played tennis and generally enjoyed the novelty of their position – less so in later years, because the undergraduates kept getting younger! The Master’s Lodge was much less comfortable than it is today: “It wasn’t a real home. We had one end, our parents had the other and upstairs was guest rooms.

Mum said she wouldn’t live in a house without central heating, so they installed it, but Mrs Cameron (the wife of the previous Master) said it was unhealthy!”

Judy took various secretarial jobs in London, then settled at the Bell School of Languages for the final 26 years of her career, retiring as Registrar “just as they were going over to computers!” Joanna stayed in the Lodge while working as a personal secretary at Papworth Hospital and married a banker, Hugh Batterham, at Caius in 1966, eight years after her father’s resignation as Master. Lionel Rumbelow, the College Butler, organised a splendid wedding lunch and Joanna is still pleased that she insisted on having a photograph with her father, at the Gate of Honour, before he gave her away. When Hugh

died, in 1982, she moved back in with Judy, on the outskirts of Cambridge, where they live today.

Chadwick’s actions suggest a more sociable man than his usual reputation. He took a keen interest in College sports, according to his daughters: “If there was a rugger match on, or rowing, he and Mum would always go.” He started the Matriculation Dinner, at which all freshers would be wined and dined by the College and the Master would tell them about Dr Caius. He encouraged and extended the Annual Gatherings, going out of his way to welcome returning Caians.

1958 saw a grand Quatercentenary Celebration of the refounding of the College

by John Caius – but later, piqued by Council’s refusal to approve his nomination of Herbert Tunnicliffe (1917) and Henry Deas (1921) to continue as tutors, Chadwick shocked Cambridge and his colleagues by resigning the Mastership.

Professor Christopher Brooke (1945), in his History of Gonville & Caius College, tells of going to say goodbye to Chadwick, in 1956, when he took up a Chair elsewhere: “’Well, that’s a relief!’, said Chadwick – then his face was suffused with the charming smile which it wore when he really wished to show the face of friendship, and which was the nearest to an apology he could normally muster. For thus he was, a brilliant scientist, a devout lover of Liverpool and Caius, warm beneath a cool, remote exterior, surpassingly gauche.”

Joanna and Judy still feel the last two words are deeply unfair. Christopher was sorry to hear he had given offence: 50+ years on, he still appreciates Chadwick’s many personal kindnesses to him.

The brief account of Chadwick’s life in the College’s Biographical History (Volume VII, pp. 485-502) is gentler but does refer to his “somewhat gloomy exterior and the natural reserve,” commenting: “His sceptical canny north country air was only dropped with those whose attitudes he found sympathetic.”

At this distance, as memory slips into history, it is hard to be sure of the truth. The Biographical History is on safer ground, later in the piece, when it observes: “A common fault of academic societies is extreme parochialism”!

Chadwick’s scientific eminence and the role he played in the war effort, however tragic the consequences, must surely be weighed in the balance. He dedicated a decade of his life to fulfilling what he saw as his duty to Caius. And having one of the great scientists of the century as Master certainly helped to establish the Caius tradition of outstanding research that continues to this day.

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he May Weeks of our memories take place in brilliant sunshine.

Relief at finishing exams and regaining a measure of freedom is fundamental to that pervasive sense of wellbeing. The river features strongly in these memories, punting, cherries from the market, yes, a judicious or even injudicious amount of alcohol, by way of celebration. And a triumph or two for the Caius Boat Club always adds to the occasion.

These days, older Caians celebrate something else as well. We meet on the final Saturday of May Week to confirm our commitment to a quiet revolution that is revitalising the College’s finances and ensuring that the educational excellence of Caius will continue long into an otherwise uncertain future.

Over 25% of Caians now make regular monthly or annual donations to the College.

We do not do this out of nostalgia, nor from a desire to perpetuate the warm glow of adolescent May Weeks into our dotage, but because we believe our College transforms young lives and makes the world a wiser place.

Naturally, donors give according to their means, but most give a sum that is not insignificant to their own situation. It is not a token gesture but a statement of belief in an ideal – an investment in the College’s future.

Many are motivated, not only by gratitude for the past, but by an altruistic desire to help gifted young members of the next generation to realise their dreams.

For the May Week Party, the College invites as many benefactors and spouses as the courts will accommodate. This year, 550 guests enjoyed drinks in Tree Court, lunch in Gonville Court, musical entertainments in the Chapel and the Bateman Auditorium, tours of the Library and the Archive and tea in the Master’s Garden.

After lunch, the Master, Sir Alan Fersht (1962) welcomed everyone and thanked them for their support for the College, making special mention of Martin Wade (1962) for the key role he had played as President of the Boat

Benefactors’ Day

The May

All photos by Professor Yao Liang (1963).

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The Master’s traditional address to Benefactors.

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Club during the recent successful Boathouse Appeal. He thanked Alice Cheng (2013) from China and John Saunders (1967) from Australia, not only for their donations, but for travelling so far to join the party. Other Caians present had come from the USA, China, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Germany and France.

The Chair of the Development Campaign Board, David Elstein (1961) noted that Caius was the only Cambridge College to have raised over £5 million per year in donations for two years in a row. Furthermore, the £700,000 raised by the two-week Telephone Campaign was more than twice the amount raised by any other Oxbridge college and “surpasses anything ever achieved in any similar campaign by any UK higher education establishment!”

David acknowledged other generous gifts and pledged bequests: “I have always said on these occasions that it is deeds, not words, that matter, so I am delighted to report that one of your number has taken that literally, and bequeathed the deeds of his house in Hampstead to the College in his will: the largest bequest in modern Caius history. So our great thanks to John Chumrow (1948), for his benefaction and also for being with us today.”

He also thanked Dr Anne Lyon (2001), Director of Development: “In her dozen years, she has raised over £80 million in gifts received and pledges made. The funds raised and the income from the growing Caius endowment provide 50% of the cost of running the College.”

After tea, many of the guests hurried to the river, to cheer on the Caius First Women’s VIII as they bumped up to second place in the May Bumps and the First Men’s VIII as they retained the Headship of the River for the fourth year in succession.

May Weeks, these days, may lack the insouciant irresponsibility of our salad days, but they are, nevertheless, great fun and all the more enjoyable for their new sense of purpose and achievement. A true celebration of everything Caius represents.

David Elstein (1961) explained why he prefers deeds to words.

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have sometimes seen visitors to the College experiencing a kind of epiphany when they enter the Old Courts from the bustle and crowds of Trinity Street and King’s Parade.

They see our trees, shrubs, lawns and flowers complementing our historic buildings, and are instantly convinced, as they whip out their cameras, that this is how a College Court should be. Buildings and plants enhance one another, and the first role of the gardens is to contribute to a beautiful ensemble. A court with no plants would be too austere, however distinguished the architecture.

Our gardens are also for use and recreation. May Balls, the Benefactors’ Day party, and Graduation Day would be diminished if held on a mere expanse of paving stones. Students relax on the lawns on the West Road site, and the Mrs Cameron’s Day Nursery is all the better because the children can play outside, but the ultimate justification is that gardens are essential to civilised life.

Horticulture predates farming, and all civilisations across the globe have cherished

traditions of gardening. There is also Biblical support for the primacy of gardens: When God created Adam and Eve, he did not place them in woodland, nor on a savannah or a steppe; paradise was a garden. ‘Paradise’ comes from a Persian word meaning ‘enclosure’ – perhaps like a College court.

I first became a member of the Gardens Committee when Neil McKendrick (1958) was Chairman. Early in my term of service, the Head Gardener, Charles Stuart, left. We had to decide what to do about replacing him, and agreed to make Philip Brett, who was already on the staff, Acting Head Gardener, to see if he was ready for the position permanently.

Philip quickly showed he was more than equal to the challenge, and he was confirmed as Head Gardener. This has proved one of the best decisions I have been involved in at Caius. Philip is not only very knowledgeable about plants, and skilful in selecting and arranging them to make the best effect, but he is also an excellent manager of his staff and his budgetary management is exemplary. Since he took over, the gardens, including those of the many outlying College properties, are better looked after, at a lower cost.

Philip has made most aspects of the Committee’s work easy. We usually look at

Dean Pammenter.

Kevin Cooke.

his planting proposals, ask a few questions, and approve them! The Committee has, however, found ways of having its own input. When I joined it, the beds along the West side of Tree Court largely consisted of annual bedding plants, with a strip of grass between them and the path. We decided this was a fussy arrangement, and abolished the strips of grass to make wider beds, which were then planted with perennials – to Philip’s design. Bulbs are planted to make a Spring display before the perennials come into flower. The result goes much better with the trees in Tree Court.

The next step was to realise that the Atlantic Blue Cedar in Tree Court was becoming too big for its position, and threatened to damage the foundations of the Chapel Apse. Also, the birch had never been a good specimen. These were felled, giving the Court a more open feel, and benefiting the splendid walnut.

When I became Chairman, I and others gradually became unhappy with the planting on either side of the Gate of Honour. This consisted of a selection of conifers. They were outgrowing their space, and did not respond well to cutting back. The Committee proposed to the General Meeting that they be removed, but

Michael Ford.

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The refurbishment of Harvey Court required the relocation of the gardeners’ store.

The College took the opportunity to build a new compound in the SW corner of the garden there. The new building there is tucked away, and there is no general access to it, so it is little known, which is a pity, as it is an attractive structure with a shingle roof. After this compound was established, I had an exciting message from Fellow Dr Liz Harper (1983). She asked whether we might permit her and her son Tristan to establish a bee hive there. The Committee and Philip Brett were happy for this to go ahead, and some us have had the privilege of being presented with a pot of delicious Caius honey.

There is a sequel to this that came about through my being Senior Treasurer of the Boat Club. I learned that Justin HowardSneyd (1985), who had been in the men’s VIII that won the first Mays Headship of modern times, in 1987, has his own vineyard in SW France, called Domaine of the Bee. His best wine is called ‘Les Genoux’, and he likes to seal the cork with beeswax. We have just been able to provide him with a small quantity, so in the next vintage the Caius bees will seal the bees’ knees! The wine itself has been highly praised, by Hugh Johnson among other experts, and is drunk

at the Boat Club Dinner by any crew that wins a Headship.

Another recent innovation was the establishment of a small allotment site in the gardens of Harvey Road, to be tended by the graduate students there.

The Gardens Committee starts each meeting by walking round a part of the College gardens.

This always results in warm appreciation of our gardeners, who work very hard and to excellent effect. The Committee initiates changes from time to time, but the credit for the beauty of the gardens must mainly go to the staff, under the leadership of Philip Brett. In tribute to our gardening staff, I quote from the designer, Russell Page: “Green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.”

I had a happy time on the Gardens Committee, but have now completed my term. The Committee is in safe hands, under the watchful chairmanship of James Fitzsimons (1946).

by Dr Jimmy Altham (1965) Philip Brett, Head Gardener.

Chris Ford.

Peter Brown in front of Harvey Court.

Photos by Yao Liang (1963) and Tom Challis.

the Fellows at first turned the proposal down. We had made the elementary mistake of not coupling it with any idea of what should take the conifers’ place.

The Dean and I exchanged some preliminary ideas about having a planting of shaped box, but the breakthrough came when we learned that one of our Research Fellows, Sarah Howe (2010), had a chapter in her dissertation about Tudor gardens. Sarah supplied an appealing sketch for a design, mainly of box, and this won over the Fellowship. For the detailed implementation of her ideas, we used the garden designer, Anthony Messent. The new scheme is now in place, but box grows slowly, so it will be a few years before its full effect is manifest.

There are Fellows who regret the removal of the conifers, but I am confident that in due course Sarah’s design will prove its worth and win general admiration. We owe her much gratitude.

Changes have also taken place on the West Road site. A new planting scheme was needed for the site of 5 West Road, when the Stephen Hawking Building was put up. We thought Philip Brett was perfectly competent to provide a design, but the planning officials insisted that the College go to the expense of employing a well-known professional from outside the College.

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Right: Joseph Needham (1918) as a young biochemist.

Below: Joseph Needham’s portrait

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For all our Nobel Prize winners, celebrated in this and other issues of Once a Caian…, history may judge another Fellow and Master to be the outstanding visionary of the twentieth century.

Joseph Needham (1918), (aka Li Yuese) whose extraordinary life and work were so vividly described by Neil McKendrick (1958) in our ninth issue (Spring 2009), set himself the task of bridging the gaps between Arts and Science, East and West, Capitalism and Communism, Christianity and Taoism.

Needham realised, half a century sooner than anyone else, the need for the West to begin to understand and embrace the knowledge, wisdom and culture of China. He was arguably ahead of the Chinese themselves, in reevaluating their astonishing scientific and cultural heritage.

In 1943, when the rest of the world was focused on quelling fascism, Needham contrived to have himself sent by the British Government on a one-man diplomatic mission to China, ostensibly to try and work out ways of helping Chinese universities to survive the Japanese occupation. Naturally, he completed his original brief, but he also set to work on a private quest, using all the methodical skills he had developed as a distinguished biochemist.

He sought to prove his outlandish contention that almost all of the scientific and technological inventions and discoveries claimed by European civilization had already been developed and used in China, sometimes several centuries earlier!

Over the next half-century, Needham would produce volume after volume of his encyclopedic Science and Civilisation in China, as ultimately incontrovertible proof of his amazing thesis. In his obituary, in 1995, The Independent described it as “the greatest work of scholarship by one person since Aristotle”.

In China, Needham’s fame continues to grow. He is seen as the exceptional scholar who first opened the eyes of the West to China’s achievements. It was therefore in China that the Master and Director of Development began their own quest for funding to endow a Joseph Needham Lectureship at Caius, to commemorate this uniquely far-sighted Caian and Master.

There is already a well-established Caian network in Hong Kong. Caians and friends of the College there look forward to hearing the latest news from Cambridge during the regular, annual visits by the Master and the Director of Development. On 24 March 2014, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Administrative Region, CY Leung, and his wife, Regina,

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The Leung family with Dr Anne Lyon on the lawn of Tree Court after the General Admission ceremony in June 2014.

generously hosted a magnificent dinner at Government House. The proceeds from the sale of tickets for this event and an auction held on the same evening will go towards the Joseph Needham Lectureship. Arrangements were made by a local committee of Caians, Nick (1969) and Lora (2012) Sallnow-Smith, Ray Leung (1986) and Julia Ford (1995).

CY and Regina Leung have a close connection with Caius: in June 2014, they came to the College to celebrate the graduation of their daughter, Chung Yan (2011), who has just completed a degree in Economics.

In Shanghai, on 28 March 2014, Michael Humphries (1972) and Guang Li (1990) generously hosted a cocktail reception and splendid dinner for the Master, Director of Development and other guests at No. 1, Waitanyuan, the grand, historic home of the former British Consulate in Shanghai.

American Caians also admire and respect Joseph Needham’s unique contribution to world peace and understanding. The Caius Foundation is keen to gather support for the appeal to fund the Lectureship. On 9 June 2014, Professor Peter Walker (1960) and his wife, Wuliang, invited Simon Winchester to their spectacular apartment in New York, to speak to Caians and friends about his popular biography of Needham, The Man Who Loved China (UK title: Bomb, Book & Compass).

Peter writes that the talk “not only revealed Needham’s monumental academic achievements, but brought him to life as a complex personality, with many singular qualities and passions. By the end of the evening, it was impossible not to have been influenced, impressed, and touched by his biographer’s eloquent account of the life of Joseph Needham.”

All contributors to the Joseph Needham College Lectureship will be invited by the College to an event to mark its establishment.

Further details from the Development Office.

A magnificent dinner for Caians and friends, hosted by CY and Regina Leung at Government House, Hong Kong, on 24 March 2014.

Caians and friends of the College gather on the grand staircase of No. 1, Waitanyuan in Shanghai, after a Reception to welcome the Master and the Director of Development.

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Thank You! Gonville & Caius College Development Campaign Benefactors The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, Parents and Friends of the College who have generously made donations since 1 July 2010. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to maintain the College’s excellence for future generations.

1929 Dr R F Jarrett *

Dr F C Rutter † Dr J C S Turner

1936 Mr J D L Drower * Dr P M M Pritchard Sir Peter Thornton † *

1946 Dr D A P Burton Mr G G Campbell * Dr W J Colbeck * Mr D V Drury Dr J R Edwards † Professor J T Fitzsimons Mr G R Kerpner † Mr H C Parr Dr R F Sellers * The Revd P A Tubbs † His Honour Judge Vos †

1938 Mr R L Bickerdike Dr M H Clement † * Mr R E Prettejohn * Mr M M A Ramsay Mr P H Schurr † 1939 The Revd Canon R S C Baily Mr H A H Binney Dr J P Clayton † Mr C H de Boer * Professor A E Flatt Mr J P Phillips 1940 Dr C M Attwood Dr J E Blundell Mr R F Crocombe † Dr R F Payne † Dr D N Seaton † Mr F P S Strickland 1941 Mr D M C Ainscow Mr F H Butler * Mr J B Frost Mr H C Hart † Dr J M S McCoy * 1942 Mr K V Arrowsmith † Mr D E C Callow Mr A A Green Professor A Hewish Dr G A Jones † Dr K M McNicol † * Dr R H B Protheroe Mr C Ravenhill * Mr M A H Walford Dr A R H Worssam † * 1943 Professor J A Balint † Dr R Barnes Wg Cdr D H T Dimock Dr W M Gibson † Professor R Harrop Mr G E Heald * Mr A G H House Mr C H Kelley Dr C Kingsley † Dr P W Thompson Dr W R Walsh 1944 Dr E A Cooper Mr P G Hebbert Mr D J Hyam † Dr H K Litherland * Dr J L Milligan Mr N T Roderick * Mr W T D Shaddick Mr R C Shepherd * Mr M R Steele-Bodger Mr D J Storey † * 1945 Professor C N L Brooke Mr K Hansen Mr R K Hayward Mr F R McManus Mr D E Rae †

1947 Mr F N Goode † Mr J M S Keen † Mr D L Low * Mr R J Sellick Mr A C Struvé Dr P C W Anderson † Lord Ashley of Stoke * Dr A R Baker † * Mr D G Blackledge Mr P J Bunker Mr E J Chumrow Mr D P Crease Mr D E Creasy * Mr E V A Escoffey Mr T Garrett Mr L J Harfield † Mr R C Harris Professor J F Mowbray † Dr M R K Plaxton Mr J B Pond † * The Revd Canon A Pyburn † * Mr P R Shires * Dr R S Wardle 1949 The Hon H S Arbuthnott Mr A G Beaumont † Mr E R Braithwaite The Rt Hon the Lord Chorley Dr J T Cooke Mr K J A Crampton Mr R D Emerson Dr J H Gervis Mr J J H Haines Mr M J Harrap † Mr E C Hewitt † Mr D H Jones Mr J H Kelsey Mr J C Kilner † Mr C E C Long Mr J Norris † Mr P T M Nott Mr K J Orrell Mr W R Packer Mr I G Richardson Mr A W Riley † Sir John Robson Dr J D Swale Mr D J Sword Dr D A Thomas Mr J F Walker 1950 Mr G A Ash Dr A E Ashcroft * Mr D R Brewin Mr M Buckley Sharp Mr J G Carpenter † Mr R G Dunn † Mr G H Eaton Hart Mr W J Gowing † Dr A C Halliwell Professor J C Higgins Dr O W Hill

Dr M I Lander Mr G S Lowth The Revd Canon J Maybury Mr D L H Nash Dr S W B Newsom Mr A G C Paish Mr D S Paravicini Mr J A Potts † Mr G D C Preston † Dr A J Shaw Mr D A Skitt Mr D B Swift Mr J S H Taylor Mr S P Thompson † Mr W A J Treneman Mr L F Walker † The Revd P Wright † Mr P L Young † 1951 Dr R A Aiken * Professor E Breitenberger Mr J R Brooke * Mr G H Buck † Dr A J Cameron † Mr P R Castle Mr J M Cochrane Mr S H Cooke Mr A T G Cooper Mr R N Dean The Revd N S Dixon † Dr V C Faber Mr R B Gauntlett † Dr F B Gibberd * Dr J E Godrich Dr N J C Grant The Revd P T Hancock † Canon A R Heawood † Mr R M Hill Mr J P M Horner † Mr G S Jones * Professor L L Jones † Professor P T Kirstein Mr M H Lemon Mr I Maclean † Mr E R Maile † Mr P T Marshall Mr P S E Mettyear † Mr J K Moodie † Mr J J Moorby Mr B H Phillips Mr O J Price Mr S Price Dr R S O Rees Mr M A C Saker Mr D M Sickelmore Mr W A Stephens The Revd T J Surtees Mr J E Sussams † Mr A R Tapp † Mr S R Taylor Mr P E Walsh † Mr C H Walton † Professor M J Whelan Mr P Zentner † 1952 Dr A R Adamson † Mr J S Bailey Professor J E Banatvala † Mr G D Baxter Lt Gen Sir Peter Beale Dr M Brett Mr D Bullard-Smith † Mr C J Dakin Mr H J A Dugan Mr C B d’A Fearn Mr G Garrett † Dr T W Gibson † Mr E S Harborne Mr J A G Hartley †

The Development Campaign Board meeting, February 2014 (l-r) Back row: Alan Fersht, Ruth Scurr, Christopher Clarke, Martin Wade, John Mollon, James Fox, Chris Hogbin, Sam Laidlaw, Stephen Zinser, James Howell, Keith Stuart, Yao Liang.

Front row: David Secher, Andrew Reicher, David Hulbert, David Elstein (Chairman) Anne Lyon, Humphrey Cobbold, Simon Bax.

Sq Ldr J N Hereford Mr D B Hill † Mr E J Hoblyn Mr A D E Howell * Mr G M B Hudson * Dr F A MacMillan Dr C W McCutchen † Lord Morris of Aberavon Mr P J Murphy † Sir Graeme Odgers Mr S L Parsonson † Dr M J Ramsden † Professor M V Riley Mr J K Rowlands Dr N Sankarayya Mr J de F Somervell † Mr R P Wilding 1953 Dr N A Atalla Mr A J Bacon * Mr S F S Balfour-Browne Mr D W Barnes Mr I S Barter Mr P F Bates * Mr K C A Blasdale Professor A Brock Mr J M Bruce Mr T Copley Mr C H Couchman Mr P H Coward Dr P M B Crookes † Dr D Denis-Smith Dr A H Dinwoodie † * Mr P R Dolby Professor S A Durrani The Revd H O Faulkner † Professor C du V Florey Mr G H Gandy † Mr B V Godden †

Mr H J Goodhart Mr C G Heywood Mr M A Hossick Mr C B Johnson Dr D H Keeling † Professor J G T Kelsey Dr A G Kennedy-Young Mr J E R Lart † Dr R A Lewin Mr R Lomax Dr D M Marsh Dr H Matine-Daftary Dr M J Orrell † Mr D H O Owen Mr E C O Owen Professor B Porter Mr T I Rand Mr J P Seymour Mr I P Sharp Mr P T Stevens Professor B O West Mr J A Whitehead Professor J S Wigglesworth Mr P E Winter Prof Sir Christopher Zeeman 1954 Professor M P Alpers Mr D R Amlot Mr J Anton-Smith † Dr J K Bamford Professor J H J Bancroft Mr D G Batterham Mr D W Bouette Mr D J Boyd Professor C B Bucknall † Dr R J Cockerill † Mr D I Cook † Dr J M G Davis * Dr J R Eames

Mr P H C Eyers Mr D R Fairbairn Professor J Fletcher † Professor J Friend Dr A E Gent † Professor N J Gross Mr M J Harding * Dr M Hayward Professor R J Heald OBE Mr J D Heap Mr J D Hindmarsh Mr R A Hockey † Mr R J Horton Mr R W J Hubank † Mr A G Hutheesing Wg Cdr C J Hyatt Mr J S Kirkham Dr K A Macdonald-Smith * Mr R W Montgomery † Col G W A Napier Mr D J Nobbs † Mr J O’Hea Mr B C Price Mr R M Reeve † Sir Gilbert Roberts † Dr J M S Schofield Mr M H Spence Mr D Stanley Mr M H W Storey † * Mr K Taskent Mr P E Thomas 1955 Mr C F Barham † Mr M W Barrett Mr J A Brooks Dr J H Brunton Mr A R Campbell † Dr M Cannon † Professor P D Clothier †

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...Always a Caian 25 Mr A A R Cobbold † Dr C K Connolly † Professor K G Davey Dr R A Durance † Mr J M H Gluckstein Dr F R Greenlees Mr R Hall * Professor R E W Halliwell The Rt Hon the Lord Higgins Mr C B C Johnson Professor J J Jonas Dr T G Jones The Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy

Mr A H Kidd Mr M E Lees † Dr L Lyons Mr J R S McDonald Mr J J Moyle Dr P J Noble Professor N D Opdyke Dr J P A Page Mr C H Prince Lt Col C B Pritchett Mr A R Prowse Mr A B Richards Dr A P Rubin Professor L S Sealy Mr J A B Taylor Mr J D Taylor † Mr H W Tharp † Dr R B Walton Mr G Wassell † Dr P J Watkins † 1956 Professor D Bailin Canon M E Bartlett Mr J A Cecil-Williams Mr G B Cobbold Dr R Cockel Dr J P Cullen Professor J S Edwards * Mr J A L Eidinow Professor G H Elder † Mr J K Ferguson Mr M J L Foad Professor J A R Friend Mr R Gibson Mr M L Holman Mr G J A Household Professor A J Kirby His Honour Judge Levy Mr J D Lindholm Dr R G Lord Mr P A Mackie Mr B J McConnell † Dr H E McGlashan The Revd Canon P B Morgan Dr B E Mulhall

Mr B M Nonhebel Mr T R R O’Conor Professor L L Pasinetti Mr A J Peck Mr J A Pooles Mr J J C Procter † Mr J V Rawson Mr J M Rice Mr C Ridsdill Smith Mr C J D Robinson † Professor D K Robinson Mr I Samuels Mr I L Smith

Mr R R W Stewart Mr D F Sutton Mr J R S Tapp Mr A A Umur Mr H de V Welchman Dr R D Wildbore Dr D L Wynn-Williams † 1957 Mr A B Adarkar Mr W E Alexander Dr I D Ansell † Dr N D Barnes Mr D H Beevers Mr T Bunn Dr T R G Carter Dr J P Charlesworth † The Reverend David Clark Mr M L Davies † Dr T W Davies † Mr E J Dickens Professor A F Garvie † Mr J D Henes † The Very Revd Dr M J Higgins Mr A S Holmes Mr J D Howell Jones Professor F C Inglis † Mr A J Kemp Mr J L Leonard Mr T F Mathias Dr R T Mathieson † Professor A J McClean Dr B J McGreevy Mr C B Melluish Mr D Moller Mr M F Neale Mr A W Newman-Sanders Dr M J Nicklin Mr T Painter Mr R D Perry † Professor J E Phillips * Mr G R Phillipson Mr A P Pool The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter Dr R Presley Mr N R B Prowse

Mr N M B Prowse Mr H J H Pugh Mr P W Sampson Dr G W Spence Dr J R R Stott Professor J N Tarn † Mr O N Tubbs † The Rt Hon Lord Tugendhat † Mr C B Turner The Revd Prof G Wainwright Dr D G D Wight Mr R Willcocks

Dr A Wright Mr C M Yates 1958 Mr C Andrews Professor R P Bartlett Mr J E Bates Mr N B Blake Dr J F A Blowers Mr T J Brack † Mr J P B Bryce Mr J D G Cashin † Professor A R Crofts Dr J M Davies † Mr J A Dixon Mr K Edgerley Mr D H M Foster Sir David Frost * The Rt Hon the Lord Geddes Mr D T Goldby Mr W P N Graham Dr M T Hardy Professor F W Heatley Mr D M Henderson Mr J A Honeybone Professor J O Hunter Mr N A Jackson Mr J R Kelly Dr G N W Kerrigan † Dr P E King-Smith Dr A J Knell Dr R P Knill-Jones Mr E A B Knowles Mr R D Martin † Mr C P McKay † Dr D R Michell Sir Douglas Myers Mr T S Nelson Dr C S A Ng Mr R H Pedler * Mr E A Pollard Mr G D Pratten † Mr F C J Radcliffe Dr G R Rowlands Mr M P Ruffle † Sir Colin Shepherd

Lord Simon of Highbury Dr F D Skidmore Mr A Stadlen Sir Keith Stuart Mr A J Taunton Professor B J Thorne Mr F J W van Silver The Revd J L Watson 1959 Mr C J C Bailey Dr D J Beale Mr J A Brewer Mr J A Brooks Dr D E Brundish Mr J H D Burns Mr J L Cookson Dr W D Davison * Dr A G Dewey Mr M J Dodd Mr T H W Dodwell Mr J E Drake † Mr B Drewitt The Revd T C Duff Mr W Eden * The Rt Revd D R J Evans Professor J E Fegan Mr G A Geen † Dr J A Gibson † Mr T A J Goodfellow † Mr D N C Haines Mr P M Hill Mr A E H Hornig Mr H S Johnson Mr M J D Keatinge Dr C J Ludman Mr G U E Mbanefo Mr H J A McDougall Mr R G McNeer Mr C J Methven † Mr M M Minogue Dr C T Morley His Honour Judge Mott Mr P Neuburg Mr M H O’Brian Mr A F Oliver Professor G S Panayi Mr B MacL Pearce Higgins Mr R O Quibell Dr G P Ridsdill Smith Mr J H Riley Mr J M Roberts-Jones * The Revd D G Sharp Professor Q R D Skinner Mr G S H Smeed Mr D K Thorpe Mr J E Trice Professor P J Tyrer Dr I G Van Breda Mr F J De W Waller Dr A G Weeds Mr J T Winpenny Dr M D Wood Mr P J Worboys 1960 Mr J G Barham † Mr B C Biggs Mr A J MacL Bone Dr A D Brewer The Rt Hon the Lord Broers Dr D I Brotherton Dr G M Clarke Mr M G Collett * His Honour Judge Cowell Mr D H Crossfield Dr P Donnai Mr D J Ellis Professor R J B Frewer Dr C H Gallimore † Mr N Gray Mr R C F Gray Dr D F Hardy Dr R Harmsen Mr J J Hill Professor F Jellett Dr R M Keating Dr P M Keir Mr A Kenney Dr J A Lord Professor J S Mainstone * Dr P Martin Mr M B Maunsell † Dr H F Merrick † Dr E L Morris Mr G R Niblett Mr J A Nicholson

Dr C H R Niven Mr M O’Neil Mr W J Partridge Mr P Paul Professor A E Pegg Mr A C Porter Dr J D Powell-Jackson The Revd Professor R K Price Dr A T Ractliffe † Mr P G Ransley Dr R A Reid Mr D J Risk Mr C W M Rossetti Dr B M Shaffer The Revd P Smith Mr R P R Tilley Mr H J M Tompkins Dr M T R B Turnbull Professor P S Walker Mr A A West Mr D H Wilson † Professor F A H Wilson Mr N J Winkfield Mr R D S Wylie Dr G R Youngs † Dr A M Zalin

Mr F J Lucas † Dr P J Mansfield Mr A R Martin Mr J R Matheson * Prof Sir Andrew McMichael Dr C D S Moss The Revd Dr P C Owen Mr T K Pool Mr N Redway Mr G A Shindler Dr R N F Simpson † Mr R Smalley † Dr P J W Smith Mr M J Starks Mr R B R Stephens Mr A M Stewart Mr J D Sword † Mr W J G Travers Mr F R G Trew † Mr M G Wade Mr D R F Walker † Mr D W B Ward Mr G J Weaver Mr H N Whitfield † Mr R G Williams Mr R G Wilson

1961 Mr C E Ackroyd Professor G G Balint-Kurti Mr A D Bell Professor Sir Michael Berridge Professor R S Bird Professor G A Chew Mr A C G Cunningham Dr M D Dampier Mr J O Davies Dr J Davies-Humphreys Dr J S Denbigh Mr D K Elstein Mr J A G Fiddes Mr M J W Gage Dr J M Gertner Mr M D Harbinson Mr P Haskey Mr E C Hunt Mr R T Jump † Dr A B Loach Professor R Mansfield Mr R G McMillan * Professor P B Mogford Dr R M Moor Mr A G Munro Professor R J Nicholls † Mr J Owens Dr R M Pearson Mr C H Pemberton † Sir M E Setchell Mr D E P Shapland Dr R I A Swann Mr J Temple Dr I G Thwaites Mr R E G Titterington Mr V D West Dr N E Williams Mr P N Wood Mr R J Wrenn

1963 Dr P J Adams † Dr A J Barnes Mr P N Belshaw Dr T G Blaney † Dr B H J Briggs Dr C R A Clarke Mr R M Coombes Professor A W Cuthbert Mr M H Dearden Dr J R Dowdle Professor M T C Fang Dr H P M Fromageot Mr J E J Goad Mr A J Grants Mr P M G B Grimaldi Mr N K Halliday Mr C F D Hart Dr M A Hopkinson Dr R H Jago † Mr N T Jones Dr D H Kelly Dr P Kemp Mr B L Kerr † Mr M S Kerr † Dr V F Larcher Dr R W F Le Page Mr D A Lockhart Mr J W L Lonie Miss C D Macleod Mr W S Metcalf Dr C W Mitchell Mr V L Murphy * Mr D B Newlove Dr J R Parker † Mr M J Pitcher Mr J M Pulman Dr J S Rainbird Mr P A Rooke Mr I H K Scott Professor T G Scott Mr P F T Sewell Mr C T Skinner Dr J Striesow Professor D J Taylor † Sir Quentin Thomas The Hon Mr Justice Tugendhat Mr P H Veal † Mr D J Walker Dr R F Walker Dr J R C West Dr M J Weston Mr A N Wilson

1962 Mr M S Ahamed Dr J S Beale † Mr D J Bell Dr C R de la P Beresford Mr J P Braga Mr P S L Brice Mr R A C Bye Mr J R Campbell Dr D Carr † Mr P D Coopman † Mr T S Cox Col M W H Day Mr N E Drew Mr W R Edwards Mr M Emmott Professor Sir Alan Fersht Mr J R A Fleming Mr H M Gibbs Mr T M Glaser Dr C A Hammant Mr A D Harris † Mr D Hjort † Professor A R Hunter Mr P A C Jennings Mr J W Jones Dr D M Keith-Lucas Mr J W D Knight * Professor J M Kosterlitz †

1964 Consul General N Adali Mr P Ashton Mr D P H Burgess † Mr J E Chisholm Dr H Connor Dr N C Cropper Mr H L S Dibley Mr R A Dixon Dr P G Frost Mr R D Gallie Mr J S Gillespie Mr A K Glenny Mr G A Gray † Dr R J Greenwood †

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Professor N D F Grindley † Professor J D H Hall † Mr M J Hall Professor K O Hawkins Mr B D Hedley Professor Sir John Holman Mr J Horsfall Turner † Mr P T Inskip Dr S L Ishemo Mr A Kirby Dr R K Knight Dr T Laub Professor S H P Maddrell Professor J M Malcomson Dr H M Mather Mr S J Mawer Dr L E M Miles Professor D V Morgan Mr G L Morley Mr R Murray Mr A K Nigam Dr B V Payne * Mr J H Poole Dr W T Prince Dr D L Randles Professor N Y Rivier Dr C N E Ruscoe † Mr J F Sell Dr N M Suess * Dr R Tannenbaum Mr K S Thapa Mr R A Wallington Dr T B Wallington Dr F J M Walters Mr R C Wells 1965 Dr J E J Altham † Professor L G Arnold † Professor B C Barker Mr J M Buchanan Mr A C Butler Mr D E Butler Mr R A Charles The Rt Hon Lord Justice Clarke Dr C M Colley † Mr G B Cooper Mr H J Elliot * Mr J H Finnigan Dr A J S Folwell Dr N Gane Mr A J Habgood Mr J Harris Dr D A Hattersley The Revd P Haworth His Honour Judge Holman † Mr R P Hopford Mr I V Jackson Dr R G Jezzard † Mr K E Jones Professor A S Kanya-Forstner Mr J R H Kitching Dr H J Klass The Hon Dr J F Lehman † Dr M J Maguire Dr P J Marriott Mr S R Marsh Mr J J McCrea His Honour Judge Morris Mr T Mullett Dr P B Oelrichs * Mr A H Orton Mr C F Pinney Dr C A Powell Professor C V Reeves Dr J G Robson Mr R N Rowe Dr R D Sharpe Professor J D Skinner * Mr M L Thomas Mr T Thomas Mr I D K Thompson Dr R E Warren Mr H Weatherburn Mr I R Whitehead Mr C H Wilson Mr D V Wilson Lt Col J R Wood 1966 Mr M J Barker Mr J D Battye Dr D S Bishop † Mr S A Blair Dr J P Calvert Professor D L Carr-Locke

Mr P Chapman Dr C I Coleman † Mr S J Cook Dr K R Daniels † Dr T K Day Mr C R Deacon † Mr D P Dearden † Mr P S Elliston † Mr J R Escott † Mr W P Gretton Mr M Hamid OBE Mr D R Harrison † Dr L E Haseler † Mr R E Hickman Mr N C Hircock Mr R Holden Dr R W Howes Professor R C Hunt Dr R Jackson * Dr W E Kenyon Professor S L Lightman Dr W J Lockley Mr G G Luffrum Dr P I Maton Dr A A Mawby Professor P M Meara Dr D J Munday Mr S Poster † Dr H E R Preston Mr J N B Sinclair Dr R L Stone Mr J A Strachan Mr D Swinson † Mr P C Turner Mr J F Wardle Canon B Watchorn Mr W J Watts Mr D F White Mr S M Whitehead † Mr J M Williams The Revd R J Wyber 1967 Mr G W Baines Mr N J Burton Dr R J Collins Mr G C Dalton Dr W Day Mr A C Debenham Mr G J Edgeley Dr M C Frazer Mr P E Gore Mr T Hashimoto Mr D G Hayes Professor R G Holloway Dr W Y-C Hung Mr N G H Kermode The Hon Lord Kingarth Mr R G Lane Mr R J Lasko Mr D I Last † Dr I D Lindsay Mr D H Lister Mr R J Longman Dr G S May Mr T W Morton Dr E A Nakielny Mr W M O Nelson Mr A M Peck Dr A J Pindor Professor N P Quinn Mr S D Reynolds Mr P Routley Mr M S Rowe Professor J B Saunders Mr H J A Scott Mr G T Slater Mr P R Watson Mr C A Williams The Revd Dr J D Yule † 1968 Dr M J Adams † Mr P E Barnes Dr F G T Bridgham Mr A C Cosker † Mr J P Dalton Mr J C Esam Mr C Fletcher Mr J M Fordham Mr R J Furber Mr J E J Galvin Mr D P Garrick † Dr E M Gartner Professor P W Gatrell Mr D S Glass Professor C D Goodwin

Dr G W Hills Dr P W Ind The Revd Fr A Keefe Mr D J Laird Dr N J Lewis Professor R J A Little Dr D H O Lloyd Dr R C H Lyle Mr B A Mace Mr S M Mason Mr J I McGuire Dr J Meyrick Thomas Mr E J Nightingale Mr J Norton Dr I D A Peacock * Mr M E Perry Dr T G Powell Mr S Read Professor P G Reasbeck Professor J F Roberts Mr P S Shaerf Mr P J E Smith Dr B Teague Dr M McD Twohig Dr G S Walford Dr D P Walker Mr P E Wallace Dr P R Willicombe Dr P Wilson 1969 Dr S C Bamber Dr M Bentley Dr A D Blainey Mr S E Bowkett Mr A C Brown Mr M S Cowell † Mr S H Dunkley Dr M W Eaton † Professor D J Ellar Mr R J Field † Dr J P Fry Dr C J Hardwick Professor A D Harries Mr J S Hodgson † Mr M J Hughes Mr D R Hulbert Mr T J F Hunt Mr S B Joseph Mr A Keir † Mr R L Kottritsch Dr I R Lacy † Mr C J Lloyd Mr S J Lodder Mr R G McGowan Dr D W McMorland Dr T J Meredith Mr A N Papathomas Dr C M Pegrum Mr P J M Redfern Mr N R Sallnow-Smith Mr I Taylor Mr A P Thompson-Smith Mr B A H Todd Mr P B Vos † Mr A J Waters Mr C R J Westendarp Dr N H Wheale Professor D R Widdess Mr C J Wilkes Mr D A Wilson † Mr P J G Wright 1970 Mr J Aughton † Dr M E Boxer Mr D Brennan Dr C W Brown Mr R Butler Dr D D Clark-Lowes Mr G J H Cliff † Mr R P Cliff † Mr D Colquhoun † Mr J Edmunds Professor P J Evans Mr M P Forrester Mr L P Foulds † Professor J G H Fulbrook Dr D R Glover Mr O A B Green Mr J D Gwinnell † Dr G L Harding Mr N A J Harper Mr D P W Harvey Mr J W Hodgson Professor J A S Howell Mr G P Jones

Mr S D Joseph Mr C A Jourdan Mr N R Kinnear Mr M J Langley Professor M Levitt Professor J MacDonald Mr B S Missenden † Dr S Mohindra Mr A J Neale Mr J C Needes Mr C G Penny Professor D J Reynolds Mr W R Roberts Dr I N Robins Mr J S Robinson Mr B Z Sacks Dr R D S Sanderson † Mr B M Shacklady Mr D C Smith Dr S A Sullivan † Dr S W Turner Mr N F C Walker Mr I R Watson Professor R W Whatmore † Professor G Zanker 1971 Dr J P Arm Mr M S Arthur Mr H A Becket Mr R N Beynon Mr S Brearley Dr H H J Carter Mr J A K Clark Dr R C A Collinson Mr P D M Dunlop † Mr J A Duval Mr J-L M Evans Dr T J Gibbs Dr S H Gibson Professor M A Graveson Professor D M Hausman Mr N R Holliday Professor B Jones Professor M J Kelly Dr P Kinns Dr N P Leary Dr P T W Lyle Dr P G Mattos † Mr R I Morgan † Mr L N Moss Mr N D Peace † Professor D I W Phillips Dr M B Powell Dr A J Reid Professor P Robinson Mr P J Robinson Mr A Schubert Dr J H Smith Mr T W Squire Dr P T Such Mr P A Thimont Mr A H M Thompson † Dr S Vogt Mr S V Wolfensohn 1972 Mr M H Armour Mr A B S Ball † Mr D R Barrett Mr J P Bates † Dr D N Bennett-Jones † Mr S M B Blasdale † Mr N P Bull Mr S N Bunzl Mr I J Buswell Professor J R Chapman Mr J G Cooper Mr C G Davies Mr P A England Mr J E Erike Mr P J Farmer † Mr C Finden-Browne † Mr B B W Glass Mr R H Gleed † Mr I E Goodwin Mr P G Hadley Mr R S Handley † Dr R A Harrad Mr P K C Humphreys Mr A M Hunter Johnston Dr W L Irving Mr J K Jolliffe Professor S M Kanbur Mr P B Kerr-Dineen Mr D E Lamb Mr M J Lane

Mr C J Marley Dr D R Mason Mr E F Merson Mr J R Moor Dr B H Morris Mr D J Nicholls Mr R E Perry Mr M D Roberts Mr S J Roberts Dr P H Roblin Mr J Scopes Mr P R Seymour Professor A T H Smith Dr T D Swift † Professor N C T Tapp Mr P J Taylor The Revd Dr R G Thomas † Mr R E W Thompson Dr A F Weinstein Canon Dr J A Williams 1973 Dr A P Allen Dr S M Allen Mr P R Beverley Professor J V Bickford-Smith Mr N P Carden Professor R H S Carpenter Dr S N Challah Mr J P Cockett Professor P Collins Mr S P Crooks Mr M G Daw Dr P G Duke Mr P C English Mr R Fox Mr G M Gill Dr C T Goh Mr F R Grimshaw Dr J A Harvey Mr D J R Hill Dr R J Hopkins Dr W F Hutchinson † Mr D A Irvine Mr M H Irwing Mr K F C Marshall Mr J S Morgan Mr J S Nangle Dr C G Nevill Dr S P Olliff Dr G Parker Professor T J Pedley Mr J F Points Mr A W M Reicher Dr A F Sears Mr C P Stoate Mr J Sunderland † Mr H B Trust Mr R A Wallace Mr S J Waters Dr J B Wirth 1974 Mr J E Akers Dr D F J Appleton Professor A J Blake † Dr M J Bleby Dr C W G Boys Mr R Z Brooke Professor C Cooper Dr L H Cope Mr P J Craig-McQuaide Dr N H Croft † Mr M D Damazer Professor J H Davies Dr M A de Belder Mr J R Delve Dr A G Dewhurst † Dr E J Dickinson Mr C J Edwards Professor L D Engle Dr R D Evans Mr R J Evans Dr M G J Gannon Mr T D Gardam Professor J Gascoigne Mr P A Goodman † Dr P J Guider † Dr M C Harrop Dr W N Hubbard Mr W S H Laidlaw † Mr C H R Lane Mr R I K Little Mr P Logan † Mr R O MacInnes-Manby Mr G Markham † Dr C H Mason

Mr P B Mayes Professor D Reddy Mr N J Roberts Dr J J Rochford Dr D S Secher Mr A H Silverman Mr C L Spencer Dr D K Summers Mr G K M Thompson Mr G S Turner Mr C Vigrass † Mr D K B Walker † Mr L J Walker Mr S T Weeks Mr F Weighill Dr R M Witcomb 1975 Mr E J Atherton Mr S L Barter Dr C J Bartley Mr C J A Beattie Mr P S Belsman Mr D A L Burn Mr A J Campbell Mr H R Chalkley Mr S Collins Mr A E Cooke-Yarborough Mr J M Davies Mr C J F Edwards Dr M J Franklin Mr N R Gamble Mr A J Gottlieb Mr M H Graham Professor J F Hancock Professor R Hanka Mr D A Hare Professor K Hashimoto Mr R F Hughes Mr D M Mabb Mr L G D Marr Mr D Marsden Dr R G Mayne † Mr K M McGivern Mr K S Miller † Mr G Monk Professor A J Morgan The Revd M W Neale † Dr C C P Nnochiri Dr H C Rayner † Mr D J G Reilly Mr P J Roberts Professor I C Ruxton Professor J P K Seville Mr G R Sherwood Dr F A Simion Canon I D Tarrant Dr J M Thompson Professor M J Uren Dr P K H Walton Mr B J Warne † Mr R S Wheelhouse Mr J R Wood Sir William Young 1976 Mr G Abrams Mr J J J Bates † Mr C A K Benn Mr S J Birchall Dr H D L Birley Mr N G Blanshard † Mr N S K Booker Mr L G Brew Dr M P Clarke Mr D J Cox Dr G S Cross Cllr R J Davis † Mr P H Ehrlich The Hon Dr R H Emslie Professor M Faure Dr M J Fitchett Mr M W Friend Dr K F Gradwell Dr F G Gurry Professor J Herbert Dr J R E Herdman Dr A C J Hutchesson Mr R A Larkman Mr S H Le Fevre Dr C J Lueck Dr C Ma Dr O D Mansoor Mr A J Matthews Dr P B Medcalf Dr S J Morris Mr D A Mruck

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Dr D Myers † Mr D C S Oosthuizen Mr J S Price Mr S J Roith Mr P L Simon Dr S G W Smith Dr J A Spencer Mr P C Tagari Dr E V J Tanner Mr S Thomson Mr J P Treasure The Rt Hon N K A S Vaz Professor O H Warnock Mr A Widdowson Mr R C Zambuni

Mr M A Prior † Dr B A Raynaud Mr P J Reeder Mr M H Schuster The Revd A G Thom † Dr D Townsend Dr W M Wong Mr D W Wood † Mr P A Woo-Ming

1977 Mr P J Ainsworth Mr P D Baker Mr J H M Barrow Mr S T Bax Mr R Y Brown Dr M S D Callaghan Mr J D Carroll Dr P N Cooper Dr S W Cornford Dr D Eilon Dr K J Friston Mr A L Gibb Mr A M Hanning Mr K F Haviland Mr N J Hepworth Mr G C Heywood Mr R M House † Dr M S Irani Professor G H Jackson Mr B J Kettle Mr K A Mathieson Mr R D McBain Mr K H McKellar † Dr P H M McWhinney Dr L S Mills Mr H N Neal Dr R P Owens † Professor A Pagliuca Dr R Purwar Dr K W Radcliffe Mr I M Radford † Mr P J Radford Professor T A Ring † Dr G S Sachs Mr A J Salmon Dr L F M Scinto Mr C Sideris Mr M J Simon Dr P Waddams Dr P A Watson † Mr D J White Dr A N Williams Mr M J Wilson Mr L M Wiseman Mr R C Woodgate † Professor E W Wright

1979 Dr R Aggarwal Mr T C Bandy Mr N C Birch Mr A J Birkbeck Dr G M Blair Mr G T P Brennan Mr W Calleya-Cortis Dr P J Carter Mr W D Crorkin Mr M H Davenport Dr A P Day Mr N H Denton Mr N G Dodd Dr J S Drewery Mrs C E Elliott Mr J Erskine Professor T J Evans Dr J R Flowers Mr S R Fox Mr P C Gandy Ms C A Goldie Dr A R Grant Mr J B Greenbury Dr M de la R Gunton Professor E Hagelberg Mr N C I Harding Mr R P Hayes † Mr T E J Hems † Ms C F Henson Dr A W Herbert Dr A D Horton Ms C J Jenkins Professor P W M Johnson Mr S C Lambert Mr R W Lander Dr M E Lowth Mr C L Marsh Mr A D Maybury Mr D L Melvin Mrs A S Noble Dr R A A O’Conor Mr T Parlett Mrs A E Porter Dr J G Reggler Professor C T Reid † Ms C Reitter Ms A M Roads Dr K C Saw Dr J Strässler Professor P C Taylor Mr N A Venables Professor E S Ward

1978 Mr H M Baker Mr J C Barber The Revd Dr A B Bartlett Dr T G Blease † Dr G R Blue † Mr M D Brown † Mr D S Bulley Mr B J Carlin Mr C J Carter † Mr S A Corns Dr A J Davidson Dr A P Delamothe Dr P G Dommett † Mr E G Dow Dr J Edwards † Mr R C S Evans Mr R J Evans † Mr P G S Evitt Mr T J Fellig Mr P N Gibson Mr A B Grabowski Mr A D Halls Dr C N Johnson † Mr D P Kirby † Mr R A Lister † Dr D R May Mr A J Morgan Dr J B Murphy Mr A J Noble Mr T D Owen Mr C S Porter Mr M H Pottinger

1980 Dr N P Bates Dr L E Bates Mr C R Brunold Mrs J R Burry Dr C E Collins Dr L S E G Davenport Mr A W Dixon The Revd Dr P H Donald Dr S L Grassie Ms C G Harris Mr P L Haviland Mr T L Hirsch Dr E M L Holmes Professor J M Holmes Dr J M Jarosz Mr E F Lewins Mr S J Lowth Dr J Marsh Mr N P McBride Sir Simon Milton * Professor J R Montgomery † Mr A N Norwood † Dr J N Pines Mr J H Pitman Mr J P Ponsonby Mr R N Porteous Ms J S Saunders Mrs M S Silman Mr J M E Silman Professor M Sorensen Dr A F Tarbuck Professor J A Todd †

Professor Stephen Hawking (1965)

Mr R L Tray Dr C Turfus Dr G J Warren 1981 Mrs J S Adams Mrs A M Barry † Mr A J L Burford Dr M A S Chapman Dr W H Chong Mr G A H Clark Mr S Cox Dr D J Danziger Mr J M Davey Mr N D J Denton Mr D P S Dickinson Mr J L Ellacott Mr N J Farr Mr R Ford Mr P G Harris Mr W S Hobhouse † Mr R H M Horner Mr C L M Horner Mr P C N Irven Mr B D Jacobs Mr A W R James Professor T E Keymer Mr P W Langslow Ms F J C Lunn Mr P J Maddock Dr J W McAllister Dr A P G Newman-Sanders Dr O P Nicholson Mr G Nnochiri Ms C L Plazzotta Mr G A Rachman Mr M W Richards Mrs B J Ridhiwani Dr R M Roope Mr T Saunders † Mrs D C Saunders † Professor F R Shupp Dr J L d’E Steiner Mrs P C Stratford Dr D M Talbott Mr K J Taylor † Mr C J Teale Ms L J Teasdale Mr C J R Van de Velde Professor C R Walton Mr R A Warne Dr E A Warren Ms S Williams 1982 Dr A K Baird Mr D Baker Mr J D Biggart † Dr C D Blair Dr H M Brindley

Dr M Clark Mr P A Cooper Mrs N Cross Dr M C Crundwell Mr G A Czartoryski Mr P L Dandiker * Dr P A Fox Dr R M Hardie Dr I R Hardie Mr P D Hickman Mrs J Irvine Mrs C H Kenyon Mr M J Kochman Mr P Loughborough Mr J S Mair Ms E F Mandelstam Mr D J Mills Professor M Moriarty Dr J N Nicholls Mr J G T O’Conor Mr D H O’Driscoll Mrs R E Penfound Mr R J Powell Ms M K Reece Professor D Reynaud Mr A A Shah Mrs A J Sheat Ms O M Stewart Mrs E I C Strasburger Dr J G Tang Professor M J Weait † 1983 Dr M D Allwood Dr R F Balfour Dr D B Bethell Dr J E Birnie Mrs K R M Castelino Professor S-L Chew Professor J P L Ching Mr G-H Chua Mr H M Cobbold † Dr S A J Crighton † Mr J Dempsey Dr A Dhiman Dr N D Downing Mr A L Evans † Mr M J Evans Mr T M Fancourt Mr P E J Fellows † Ms B G Gibson Mr H E Gillespie Dr W P Goddard † Professor D R Griffin Mr W A C Hayward Mr J St J Hemming Mr D M Hodgson Mr R M James Mr S J Kingston Mr J F S Learmonth

Recognition of Benefactors Caius makes formal recognition of its Benefactors in accordance with the level of total gifts made to the College in an individual’s lifetime.

Accurate records are kept and no gift is forgotten. Members of the Court of Benefactors, who are invited to attend the annual Feast for the Commemoration of Benefactors in November, have made lifetime gifts of at least £20,000.

From time to time, these recognition levels need to be adjusted. The College’s Development Committee has decided that, in future, the names of donors will be added to the Benefactors’ Wall in recognition of lifetime gifts amounting to £1.5 million, instead of the present £1 million. For the benefit of anyone who may be considering making such a gift to the College in the next few months (and, needless to say, Dr Anne Lyon would be delighted to hear from them!), the increase will not take place until 1 July 2015.

From the same date, Founder Members of the Court of Benefactors, who can be identified at College events by their distinctive blue and gold gowns, will be appointed once their total lifetime gifts (including firm pledges) have exceeded £250,000.

Donors who reach the current lifetime level of £100,000 before 1 July 2015 will become Founders and retain that privilege for life – on the time-honoured principle: “Once a Founder, Always a Founder...”

Donors who have made lifetime gifts of at least £50,000 become Members of the Stephen Hawking Circle. Next year, Stephen will complete his (first!) fifty years as a Fellow of Caius and ALL the Members of his Circle and their spouses will be invited to a very special event in College. Members are advised to save the date – SATURDAY 30 MAY 2015 – for an unforgettable celebration.

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Mrs H M L Lee Mr C Loong Mr J B K Lough Mr A J McCleary Ms H J Moody Mr R H Moore Mr R M Payn † Mr A B Porteous Professor A G Remensnyder Mr K C Rialas Mrs S D Robinson Mr A Rzym Mrs N Sandler Mr C J Shaw-Smith Mr H C Shields Dr C P Spencer The Revd C H Stebbing Mr A G Strowbridge Mr R B Swede Miss A Topley Mr C H Umur Ms D K Wadia Ms H E White Mr P G Wilkins Dr K M Wood Dr S F J Wright † 1984 Dr H T T Andrews † Dr L P Bennett Ms S J Brady Mr J A Brodie-Smith Mr R A Brooks † Mr G C R Budden † Dr S E Chua Mrs N J Cobbold † Dr A R Duncan Professor T G Q Eisen Mr A Gage Dr A S Gardner Mr J W Graham Dr M Harries Dr J C Harron Mr L J Hunter Dr S Ip Mr M A Lamming Dr J R B Leventhorpe Mr G C Maddock Dr K W Man Mr A D H Marshall † Mr H C S McLean Mr S Midgen Ms A J Millar Mr E P O’Sullivan Mr I Paine † The Hon Justice A I Philippides Mr J R Pollock Mrs J Ramakrishnan Ms A H Richards Dr K S Sandhu Dato’ R R Sethu Dr R A Shahani Mrs K S Slesinger Mr T C Tench Prof W A Van Caenegem Mr M L Vincent Mr A J Walters Dr T C M Wei Professor C Wildberg Mrs K L Wilson Dr H E Woodley Dr S H A Zaidi 1985 Dr S K Armstrong HE Mr N M Baker † Ms C E R Bartram Mr G K Beggerow Dr I M Bell Mrs J C Cassabois Mr A H Davison Dr J P de Kock Dr E M Dennison Mr M C S Edwards Mr J M Elstein † Mr K J Fitch Mrs E F Ford † Mr J D Harry † Professor J B Hartle † Ms P Hayward Mr P G J S Helson † Dr S A Hopkisson Mr J A Howard-Sneyd Mr J M Irvine Dr C H Jessop Ms N Kabir Dr L J Kelly

Mr C L P Kennedy † Mr A J Landes Mrs N M Lloyd Mrs S Metherell Dr G K Miflin Dr J J N Nabarro The Revd N C Papadopulos Mr K D Parikh Professor E S Paykel Dr R J Penney Mr C R Penty Mr J W Pitman Ms S L Porter Mr M H Power Dr D S J Rampersad Dr J M Sargaison Mr R A Sayeed Miss J A Scrine † Mr A P Seckel Dr A M Shaw Dr P M Slade Dr G P Smith Mrs E M Smuts Mr W D L M Vereker Dr M J J Veselý Mr I R Ward Mrs J S Wilcox Mrs A K Wilson Ms I U M Wilson Mr R C Wilson Dr E F Worthington

Dr G M Grant † Mr J W M Hak Q.C. Ms C M Harper Mr S L Jagger Dr M Karim Professor R M Keightley Ms M L Kinsler Dr P Kumar Mr D M Lambert Mr W E Lee Mr C A Levy Mrs M M J Lewis Dr J O Lindsay Ms E A C Lock Mr A W Lockhart Mrs U U Mahatme Mrs R R N Miller Mr D C Padfield Mr J Porteous Mr S L Rea Mr F C Redpath Dr W P Ridsdill Smith Ms J M Rowe Dr M Shahmanesh Mr D W Shores Mr A B Silas Mr J M L Williams Mr A N E Yates

1986 Dr L M Allcock Mr H J H Arbuthnott Ms R Aris Dr A S Arora Ms C B A Blackman Mr A J F Cox Dr H V Davey Professor J A Davies † Professor R L Fulton Dr K Green Mr R J Harker Mr T Hibbert Dr M P Horan Professor J M Huntley Mr N J Iles Dr M Knight Dr J C Knight Mr B D Konopka Ms A Kupschus Professor J C Laidlaw Mr R Y-H Leung Dr A P Lock Ms J R Marsh Dr D L L Parry The Hon Justice Melissa Perry Mr H T Price Mr C H Pritchard Dr R M Rao Dr P Rhodes Mr H J Rycroft Dr J E Sale Mr T S Sanderson Mr J P Saunders † Professor A J Schofield † Dr R G Shearmur Mr C D Sheldon Mrs E D Stuart Mr J W Stuart Dr C J Taylor Ms A J Tomlinson Dr M H Wagstaff Dr A J Waters Professor J Whaley Mr T H Whittlestone Mr R C Wiltshire Mr J P Young

1988 Dr P Agarwal Dr M Arthur Professor N R Asherie † Mr R S P Banerji Dr I M Billington Mr H A Briggs † Mr J C Brown † Dr A-L Brown Mr N J Buxton Ms C Stewart Mrs M E Chapple Vicomte R H P G de Rosière Dr G B Doxey Mr B D Dyer Mr A J Emuss Mr N D Evans Dr N L Fersht Dr W K P Hackenberg Ms S K Hails Mr E T Halverson Dr E N Herbert Mr L D Hicks Ms A E Hitchings Ms R C Homan Dr A D Hossack † Dr A P S Kirkham Mr F F C J Lacasse Mr F P Little Ms V H Lomax Dr I H Magedera Dr M C Mirow † Dr A N R Nedderman † Dr D Niedrée-Sorg Mrs K J Pahl Mr S J Parker Mr W A Shapard Mrs R J Sheard Dr R M Sheard Mrs A J L Smith Mr A J Smith Mr R D Smith The Revd J S Sudharman Dr R M Tarzi Ms F R Tattersall Mr M E H Tipping Mrs L Umur Mr A G Veitch Mr A E Wellenreiter Ms J B W Wong Dr F J L Wuytack

1987 Dr G R Alexander Mr J P Barabino Mr J R Bird Mr O R M Bolitho Dr K L Bradshaw Mr N R Chippington † Dr E N Cooper Mrs H J Courtauld Mr A J Coveney Dr L T Day Mrs J L Dendle-Jones Dr H L Dewing Dr K E H Dewing Dr M D Esler Dr A J Forrester

1989 Dr L C Andreae Dr C E Bebb Professor M J Brown † Dr J T Chalcraft Dr E A Cross † Dr S Francis Mr P E Gilman Mr G R Glaves † Dr C D Green Mr S M Gurney Dr A J Hart Mr S M S A Hossain Dr P M Irving Mr N C Jacklin † Mrs L Jacklin †

Mr G W Jones † Mr T E Keim Mr J P Kennedy Dr V A Kinsler Mr J R Kirkwood † Mr T Lim Dr R B Loewenthal Mrs L C Logan Mr I M Mafuve Mr B J McGrath Mr P J Moore Ms J H Myers † Mr H T Parker Dr K J Patel Dr S L Rahman Haley Dr A J Rice Mr N J C Robinson † Mrs C Romans Mr S C Ruparell † Mr A M P Russell † Professor Y Sakamoto Mrs D T Slade Dr N Smeulders Mr J A Sowerby Dr K K C Tan Ms S Vassilikioti

Dr A D Henderson † Mr R D Hill Mr M B Job Mr H R Jones Dr P A Key Dr S H O F Korbei Mr S A Kydd Mr G C Li Ms A Y C Lim Mr M C Long Dr M B J Lubienski Mr J S Marozzi Miss M L Mejia Mr T Moody-Stuart † Mr G O’Brien Mr S T Oestmann Ms M E J Pack Dr C A Palin Dr J M Parberry Mr R Rajagopal Dr S J Rogers Dr K P Sainsbury Miss S Satchithananthan Mr P C Sheppard Mr L Shorter Dr J Sinha

Dr A H Deakin Mrs C R Dennison Dr S Dorman Dr A Dunford Dr C S J Fang Dr S C Francis Ms L R Gemmill Mr I D Griffiths Mr A Heckmann Mr N W Hills Dr A J Hodge † Mr A R Horsley Dr N I Horwitz Mr W G Irving Dr J P Kaiser † Professor F E Karet Mr J R Kaye Professor K-T Khaw Mrs R R Kmentt Dr H J Lee Mr I J Long Mr D F Michie Dr H R Mills Dr C A Palmer Mrs L P Parberry Mr D R Paterson

The Stephen Hawking Circle Dinner, May 2014 (l-r) Back row: John Fordham, Christopher Clarke, Peter Vos, Sam Laidlaw, Andrew Peck, Humphrey Cobbold, Hasan Umur, Barry Hedley, Alan Fersht, Graham Hills, Ian Henderson, William Andresen, Simon Jagger, John Mollon, Yao Liang, James Howell. Front row: Cynthia Peck, Nicola Cobbold, Sioned Vos, Anne Lyon, Stephen Hawking, Deborah Laidlaw, Marilyn Fersht, Jane Hills.

Mrs E H Wadsley Mrs T E Warren † Ms G A Wilson 1990 Dr S A S Al-Yahyaee Mr M C Batt Dr T P Bonnert Dr A M Buckle Mr C H P Carl Mr M H Chalfen Dr S-Y Chan Ms V N M Chan Dr L C Chappell Mrs Z M Clark Dr A A Clayton Mrs J F Clement Mr I J Clubb Mr P E Day Mr S G P de Heinrich Mr A A Dillon Dr D S Game Mrs C L Guest Mr A W P Guy Mr R J E Hall Dr C C Hayhurst Mr A D Hedley Mr I D Henderson †

Mr J F Skinner Professor M C Smith Mr G E L Spanier Professor S A R Stevens Dr M H M Syn Mr C Synnott Dr J C Wadsley Dr G D Wills Mr K L Wong 1991 Mr M W Adams Ms J C Austin-Olsen Dr R D Baird † Dr A A Baker Dr P Bentley Mr C S Bleehen Mrs M S Bowden Mr D H B Burgess Mrs C J Burgess Mr C R Butler Mr A M J Cannon Mr D D Chandra † Mrs B Choi Mr N C Cockrell Dr P A Dalby Dr C Davies Mr T R C Deacon

Dr A Reichmuth Mrs C J Richards Dr D A Rippon Ms I A Robertson Miss V A Ross Dr A F Routh Ms P N Shah Mr A Smeulders Mr J A Spence Mr J G C Taylor Ms G A Usher Mr M J Wakefield Mr C S Wale Mr S J Wright Sister H M Wynne * 1992 Dr M R Al-Qaisi Ms E H Auger Mrs S P Baird † Mr A J Barber Ms S F C Bravard Mr P N R Bravery Mr N W Burkitt Ms J R M Burton Mr N R Campbell Mr C R G Catton Mr P E Clifton

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...Always a Caian 29 Mr W T Diffey Dr A A G Driskill-Smith Dr R S Dunne Dr I Forde Dr E M Garrett Mr T A Gould Mr R A H Grantham Ms L K Greeves Dr F M Haines Ms K A Harrison Dr S L Herbert Mr O Herbert Ms J Z Z Hu Mr J Kihara Professor C Kress Mr W Li Mr J Lui † Mr T P Mirfin Dr C R Murray Mr R L Nicholls Mrs J A O’Hara Dr K M Park Mrs P L Power Dr A J Power Dr A J Prendergast Mr R A A Qureshi

Mr J D Saunders Mr H E Serjeantson Mr D P Somers Mrs R C Stevens † Mrs D E B Summers Mr R Tarling Dr S R J Taylor Maj D M Thomas * Dr D I Thomson Mr G S J Veysey Mrs J M Walledge Mrs K Wiese Mr C M Wilson Mr L K Yim 1993 Mr A S Basar Mr M T Biddulph Mrs F C Bravery Dr A C G Breeze † Ms A J Brownhill Dr C Byrne Mr P M Ceely † Mr P I Condron Dr E A Congdon Dr E C Corbett Mrs J L Crowther Mr B M Davidson Dr R J Davies Mr O S Dunn Mr P A Edwards Mr M R England Dr A S Everington Dr I R Fisher

Professor M Galdiero Dr A Gallagher Dr F A Gallagher Mr A Gambhir Mrs N J Gibbons Mr C E G Hogbin Ms S J Holland Dr R C Holt Mr E J How * Dr A Kalhoro Dr G A J Kelly Mr C S Klotz Mr M R Nogales Mrs A J M Novak Professor A D Oliver Dr A J Penrose Mr R B K Phillips Dr J F Reynolds Mrs L Robson Brown Mr C A Royle Professor A P Simester Mr D R Stoneham Dr T Walther Mrs K Westphely Miss S T Willcox Mr R J Williams

Dr F A Woodhead Mrs A J Worden Mr T J A Worden 1994 Mr J H Anderson Mr A Arthur Professor G I Barenblatt † Dr R A Barnes Ms R D Barrett Ms I-M Bendixson Professor D M Bethea Mrs S A Biddulph Dr S A Board Dr W E Booij Mrs C H S Catton Dr L Christopoulou Dr D J Crease Mr N Q S De Souza Ms V K E Dietzel Dr T C Fardon † Dr E H Folwell Mr S T Folwell Dr J A Fraser Mr S S Gill Mrs C E Grainger Mr R S Greenwood Mrs E Haynes † Mr R J M Haynes † Ms C E Kell Mr A P Khawaja Mrs R A Lyon Mr R R Mehta Ms C E Paradise

Mr J P Petevinos Mrs C L Petevinos Dr S G A Pitel Mrs R L Quarry Mr P D Reel Mr P H Rutkowski Dr M J P Selby Mr L R Smallman Dr P J Sowerby Stein Dr M Staples Professor M A Stein Dr K-S Tan Dr R R Turner Mr M A Wood Dr B D Zalin 1995 Mr B J H af Forselles Dr K J af Forselles Dr M C Baddeley Mr M E Brelen Mr J S D Buckley Mr D F J-C Chang Mr C Chew Mr C-H Chim Dr A C Cooke

Mr E Cota-Segura Mrs E B Del Brio Dr K J Dickers Mrs J A S Ford Dr K F Fulton Dr M R Gökmen Professor J Harrington Dr E A Harron-Ponsonby Mr A J G Harrop Mr J R Harvey Dr N J Hillier Ms L H Howarth Ms J Kinns Mr J M Lawrence Dr Y Liu Mrs R F T Lynn Dr N Mace Revd Canon Dr J D McDonald Mr D E Miller Dr M A Miller † Dr D N Miller Mrs C H Mirfin Dr T J Nancoo Mr G E P Norris Dr K M O’Shaughnessy Mr S M Pilgrim Dr B G Rock Ms T J Sheridan Mr M J Soper Mr S J Taylor Mr S S Thapa Dr G Titmus Dr S Vermeren Mr A Walmsley

Mrs S A Whitehouse Dr C H Williams-Gray Mr E G Woods Mr S S Zeki 1996 Ms E J Barlow Mr S T Bashow Mrs R S Baxter Mrs S E Birshan Miss A L Bradbury Miss C E Callaghan Mr K W-C Chan Major J S Cousen Mrs L N E Curtis Mr J R F Dalton Dr M C Davey Mr G D Earl Mrs J H J Gilbert † Professor D A Giussani Mr I R Herd Dr S J Lakin Miss F A Mitchell Professor J D Mollon Mrs L V Norton Dr I D Plumb Dr S Rajapaksa Mr A J T Ray Mr J K Rea Ms V C Reeve Mr P S Rhodes † Mr J R Robinson Mr D Scannell Mr D C Shaw Mr C M Stafford Mr C C Stafford Mr A H Staines Mr R L Summers Mr D J Tait † Ms E-L Toh Mr B T Waine Mr C G Wright † Mr K F Wyre † Mr W R Younger 1997 Dr U Adam Ms A Ahmad Zaharudin Mr G H Arrowsmith Mr A J Bower † Mrs C Chu Mrs R V Clubb Mr A J D Craft Dr K O Darrow Mr I Dorrington Mrs J R Earl Mrs P G Eatwell Dr E J Fardon † Dr P J Fernandes Dr T M Fink Dr S P Fitzgerald Mr J Frieda Dr J P Grainger Dr D M Guttmann † Dr A E Helmy Professor C E Holt † Mr L T L Lewis Mr A W J Lodge Mr G D Maassen Ms E A Martin Ms V E McMaw Dr A L Mendoza Ms H M E Nakielny Dr S Nestler-Parr Miss R N Page Miss R Patel Mr H D Pim Ms E D Sarma Dr D R Secker-Walker Dr G A M Smith Dr J H Steele II Mr S J Stretton Mr B Sulaiman Dr R Swift Dr K S Tang Mr A Thakkar Mr T J Uglow Mr E Zambon 1998 Mr I K Ali Miss E H Barker Ms H M Barnard † Mr D M Blake Mr A J Bryant Miss S K-V Chan Dr A P Y-Y Cheong

Mr D W Cleverly Miss C E Cookson Mr F W Dassori Mr B N Deacon Dr P J Dilks Mr J S Drewnicki Miss L E Eaden Mrs L E Etherington Mr J A Etherington Mr T S B Fletcher Dr S E Forwood Mr L M Franklin Mr D G Hardy Dr A N Harman Mr H M Heuzenroeder Revd Dr J M Holmes Dr C Lo Nero Mr M H Matthewson Dr K J Metcalf Ms E Milstein Mr H R F Nimmo-Smith Mr A J Pask Mr I T Pearson Mr P S Roberts Professor R P L Scazzieri Dr O Schon Dr T Shetty Dr D P Smith Dr H I Taylor Dr P B M Thomas Ms S C Thomas Dr D B Whitefield Mr R A Wood Mr D J F Yates † Mr J K L Yau 1999 Mr P J Aldis Mr M N Ashley Mr M Baroni Mr R F T Beentje † Miss C M M Bell Mr D T Bell Miss C C Beresford Mr P Berg Dr C L Broughton Mrs J E Busuttil Ms J W-M Chan Mr J A Cliffe Mr J D Coley Mr A M Combes Ms H B Deixler Miss L M Devlin Mr G T E Draper Mr A Fiascaris Ms S Gnanalingam Mrs F C Harding Mr A P Holden Mr R H J Holden Mr B Holzhauer Ms J M James Dr L Jin Mr A F Kadar Dr C M Lamb Mr M W Laycock Mr I Maluza Mr J W Moller Dr C Parrish Mr M A Pinna Dr J S Rees Miss S J Reynolds Mr A M Ribbans Mr A C Sinclair Dr J D Stainsby Professor T Straessle Mr J H T Tan Mrs K L Tuncer Ms A P Walker Dr G L Walmsley Mr H-S Wong Mr A R R Wood Mr M I Wright Dr P D Wright † Ms Y Yamamoto 2000 Professor J M Allwood Mr R D Bamford Dr M J Borowicz Mr J F Campbell Mrs R A Cliffe Mr M T Coates Mr S G Dale Miss J L Dickey Mr T P Finch Mr E D H Floyd Mr M J Harris

Dr W J E Hoppitt Mrs J M Howley Mr J M Hunt Ms C A Hunt Mrs V King Mr G P F King Miss M Lada Mr F Y Lai Miss C N Lund Dr V P Madeira Dr I B Malone Mr A T Massouras Dr A R Molina Dr A G P Naish-Guzmán Major D N Naumann Mr H S Panesar Mr D D Parry † Mr O F G Phillips Dr C J Rayson Mr C E Rice Mr M O Salvén Mr A K T Smith Miss C E Smith Mrs K E Symons Miss S Tandon Mr J A P Thimont Dr M Tosic Dr G S Vassiliou Miss C H Vigrass Dr D W A Wilson Dr H Zimmermann 2001 Dr S Abeysiri Dr M G Adam Miss R L Avery Mr D S Bedi Mr B Bednarz Miss A F Butler Mr J J Cassidy Dr J W Chan Dr C J Chu Miss E S Collins Mr E H C Corn Ms J L Cremer Dr M G Dracos Dr S M Fairbanks Mrs A C Finch Dr C F K Ghidini Mr C M J Hadley Miss L D Hannant Ms Y He Mr G A Herd Dr D P C Heyman Mr D Hinton Mr O A Homsy Mr A J P House Mr A S Kadar Dr M J Lewis Dr P A Lyon † Professor P Mandler Miss J J-W Mantle Mr M Margrett Mr A S Massey Dr A C McKnight Mrs J C Mendis Mr R J G Mendis Professor R J Miller Mr D T Morgan Miss S E Mrowicki Mr G R F Murphy Mr H M I Mussa Mr J Z W Pearson Mr A L Pegg Dr R A Reid-Edwards Miss A E C Rogers Mr C G Scott Mrs J M Shah Mr K K Shah Dr S J Sprague Mr S S-W Tan Miss F A M Treanor Mrs S J Vanhegan Dr C C Ward Dr R A Weerakkody 2002 Mr C D Aylard Mr E Z Blake Ms S E Blake Mr A M Boreland Dr J T G Brown Mrs S J Brown Dr N D F Campbell Ms J H Ceredig-Evans Miss H M Cooke Miss C F Dale

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Miss A L Donohoe Mr J-M Edmundson Dr J D Flint Ms K M Frost Mr A P W Gale Dr E Galinskaya Mrs J H Gilbert Mrs J L Gladstone Dr E A Gonzalez Ocantos Miss A N Grandke Mr N J Greenwood Ms G L Haddock Ms K A Hill Dr A C Ho Mr T A Hodgson Mr T R Jacks Ms S A Jamall Miss E R James Ms H Katsonga-Woodward Ms H D Kinghorn Miss M F Komori Mr T H Land Ms C J Leblond Mr R Mathur Ms E J McGovern Mr P S Millaire Mr C J W Mitchell Mr C T K Myers Dr A Patel Dr A Plekhanov Mr S Queen Mr M B Race Professor D J Riches Mr A S J Rothwell Mr D A Russell Dr R E Shelton Mr A Singh Mr D W L Stacey Dr S Ueno Ms H C Ward Ms L L Watkins Mr A J Whyte Mr C J Wickins Miss R E Willis Ms N Zaidman Mr H T Zeng 2003 Mr R B Allen Mr J E Anthony Mr T A Battaglia Mr A R M Bird Mr C G Brooks Miss M Chadha Dr E A L Chamberlain Miss V J Collins Mr A L Eardley Miss C O N Evans Miss E M Foster Mr S N Fox Mr T H French Miss R E Gilman Mr J P S Golunski Mr T W J Gray Mr J K Halliday Miss A V Henderson Mr T S Hewitt Jones Mr T G Holden Dr M S Holt Mr R Holt Miss J K Jennings Mr J J Kearney Mr T N Lambert Mr J P Langford Dr A R Langley Mr J A Leasure Miss J S Lee Miss Z W Liu Miss J Lucas Mr C A J Manning Dr D J McKeon Mr K N Millar Mr M J Minichiello Mrs S S Murphy Miss R Patel Dr L M Petre-Firth Mr H-H Poon Miss F Qu Miss M-T I Rembert Miss C O Roberts Mr A C Safir Miss V K C Scopes Miss N N Shah Miss Z L Smeaton Miss M Solera-Deuchar Dr A E Stevenson Mrs Z T Swanson

Mr G M B Thimont Mr J L Todd Miss V C Turner Mr R C Wagner Mrs J A Walker Mr D A Walker Miss K A Ward Miss A N C Young Dr C Zygouri 2004 Miss A L F Alphandary Mr S R F Ashton Mr M G Austin Miss J K Beck Mrs A J Blake Dr S Bracegirdle Mr S D Carter Mrs H L Carter Mrs R C E Cavonius Ms H E Cheetham-Joshi Dr J A Chowdhury Dr A Clare Mr C W J Coomber Dr A V L Davis Mr B C G Faulkner Miss L C B Fletcher Mr R J Gardner Mrs H A Hall Mr R Hamlin Ms R G Howe Mr M A E Jayne Mr N E Jedrey Miss N J M-Y Koo Mr M J Le Moignan Ms C L Lee Mr W S Lim Miss C M C Lloyd Miss E F Maughan Ms G C McFarland Mr P E Myerson Mrs F L Pilcher Dr R A Russell Mr A J S Sharp Mr G B H Silkstone Carter Mr B Silver Ms S Stantchev Dr H G Stickland Mr D J Supperstone Mr A W Swan Mr G Z-F Tan Ms E M Tester Dr C J Thompson Dr I van Damme Mr H P Vann Miss L R Wordley 2005 Miss K L Adams Dr C Baloglu Mr D P Chandrasekharan Miss H Chen Dr G C Clarke Dr J M Coulson Mr D G Curington Miss E M Fialho Miss J M Fogarty Dr E Y M G Fung Miss K V Gray Miss J Hajri Dr P Hakim Mr J S B Hickling Mr K Huang Dr H Hufnagel Sir Christopher Hum Mr J McB Hunter Mr G Jaggi Miss K Kudryavtseva Miss J C Ledger-Lomas Dr E Lewington-Gower Dr A H Malem Mr P D McIntyre Mr H T Miall Mrs E F Miall Dr T J Murphy Mr D M Normoyle Mr L J Panter Miss N Piera Mr J L J Reicher Dr R G Scurr Mr T-N Truemper Mr J F Wallis Mrs A L Watson Mr T A Watson Mr C Yu Mr K J Zammit-Maempel Dr J A Zeitler

2006 Mr C D Campbell Miss T F M Champion Miss N Chang Mrs J A Collins Mr R D Cox Dr D K Cox Mr B E N Crowne Mr L De Kretser Dr V Dokchitser Mr R N Dover Mr M A Espin Rojo Mr C González Lopez Mr R J Granby Mrs T D Heuzenroeder Mr V Kana Miss N Kim Miss Y N E Lai Mr S Matsis Mr E P Peace Mr J R Poole Miss C Qin Mr R K Raja Rayan Mr W L Redfern Mr E C D Rice Miss S I Robinson Miss H K Rutherford Mr W J Sellors Mr S S Shah Mr G P Smeaton Miss S K Stewart Mr E P Thanisch Mr J Z Weng Miss T R Young 2007 Miss M B Abbas Dr M Agathocleous Mr H Bhatt Dr E J Brambley Mr S J A Coldicutt Miss N R Di Luzio Mr D W Du Mr J P Edwards Mr A D Felton Mr M E Fletcher Mr P G Khamar Dr F P M Langevin Dr A B McCallum Miss S Mezroui Mr G E G Moon Dr H R M Parkes Mr T J Pfister Mrs S X Pfister Mr I A Rahman Miss S Ramakrishnan Miss C A Reynolds Mr D G R Self Miss E C Skinner Dr B D Sloan Dr H Svoboda Mrs R E Tennyson Taylor Miss S I Thebe Miss J F Touschek Miss J F Toynton Miss R I Tun Mr O J Willis Mr Z W Yee 2008 onwards Mrs C J C Bailey Mr G M Beck Dr J M Bosten Mr O T Burkinshaw Mr F A Carson Miss X Chen Dr A Cheng Mr O R A Chick Mr E D Cronan Mr C P Egan Mr J E Eriksen Mr J E Goodwin Mrs A W S Haines Dr M A Hayoun Mr J H Hill † Mr J R Howell The Revd Professor D H Jones Mr M S Judd Mr S D Kemp Mr A J B Kennedy Dr J A Latimer Dr K-C Lin Dr I L Lopez Franco Mr J M B Mak Mr J M Oxley Mr N Patel Mr J O Patterson

Mrs K E Pawlett Mrs Ryder Mrs L W S Sallnow-Smith Miss D Shen Dr M C Stoddard Mr A J Teare Mr W D Tennent Mr I Y Wang Dr A P T Wilson Friends & Parents Mr & Mrs R A Agass Mr K Aherne Mr & Mrs J Aibara Mr A M Aldridge Mr & Mrs D A W Alexander Mr & Mrs S V Ali Mr & Mrs K Al-Janabi Dr P S & Dr R Allan Mr & Mrs D F Andrews Mrs W ap Rees * Professor E J Archer † Mr & Mrs M R Armond Ms W K Arnold Mr & Mrs R H Ashenden Mr & Mrs M Ashraf

Dr S G & Dr L M L Blake Dr R M J Bohmer & Mrs L A Smith Dr & Mrs J J C Boreham Mr H J & Dr S E Borkett-Jones Mr & Mrs S H Bostock Mr & Mrs J A Boulden Mr A Boxall Mr & Mrs I G Bradley Mr & Mrs A J Bradshaw Mr & Mrs P J Bramall Mr A C W Brandler Mr & Mrs G Britton Mr S Brookes Mr & Mrs R C P Brookhouse Mr & Mrs A Brown Mr & Mrs R C Brown Mrs J E Brown Mrs S Brown Professor W Brown Mr & Mrs J Browse Mr R L Buckner Mr & Mrs J Budjan Mr & Mrs M C Burgess Mr & Mrs J W Butler † Mr & Mrs R J M Butler Mr & Mrs B C Byrne

Mr & Mrs C Constantinou Mr & Mrs P Cookson Dr S J Cooper Mr & Mrs D W Copley Mr & Mrs A Corsini Mrs A F Crampin Ms D A Crangle Mr D Crawford Mr & Mrs M W Crawford Mr & Mrs J Crewdson Dr & Mrs W S Cronan Mr & Mrs R N Crook Mr & Mrs S J Crossman Mr & Mrs S J Croucher Dr & Mrs T G Cunningham Mr & Mrs I J Curington Mr & Mrs P F Daniel Mr & Mrs M J Daniels Ms E Davidson Mr & Mrs T E Davidson Mr & Mrs A R W Dawe Brigadier & Mrs A J Deas Mr & Mrs S P DeBoos Mr & Mrs L Desa Mr & Mrs D Dewhurst Mr & Mrs R S Di Luzio

The Caius Foundation Board meeting in New York, November 2013 (l-r): Peter Walker, Anne Lyon, John Lehman (President), Alan Fersht, James Hill, Francis Vendrell, Eva Strasburger.

Mr & Mrs J Aspinall Mr & Mrs T M F Au Mr & Mrs A V Avery Dr S & Dr S Azmat Tan Sri W Azmi Mr & Mrs J O Bailey Mr & Mrs A M Bali Mr & Mrs N J Balmer Dr & Mrs X Bao Mr & Mrs R W Bardsley Mr H S Barlow Ms C Barnes Mrs & Mr S L Barter Mr & Mrs H R Bartlett Mr & Mrs C Bates Dr & Mrs J G B Baxter Mrs A P Beck Mr & Mrs M A Bennett Mr & Mrs B Bergman Mr J J Bernstein Mrs L M Bernstein Mr C R & Dr P M Berry Mr & Mrs A R Best Mr & Mrs S M Bhate Mr & Mrs T Bick Mr & Mrs L P Bielby † Mr & Mrs C P Bignall Dr K G & Dr H J Bilyard Mr & Mrs S K Binning Mrs M E Birch † Mr & Mrs T N Birch Dr A & Dr A B Biswas

Mr & Mrs G B Campbell Mr & Mrs L F Campbell Mr & Mrs P B Campbell Mr R & Dr M Carothers Mr I W Carson & Ms S L Hargreaves Mr & Mrs P Carson Dr H S Casey Mr & Mrs D M Cassidy Mr M J Cassidy Mr & Mrs M Cator Mr & Mrs A J Catton Mr & Mrs D I Chambers Mr & Mrs N F Champion Mr H Y Chan Dr & Mrs M D Chard Mrs R A Chegwin Mr & Mrs L Chen Mr R T C Chenevix-Trench Ms S J Chenevix-Trench Dr C Cheng Dr & Mrs W C W Cheng Mr & Mrs D N Chesterfield Mr & Dr T L Chew Mr & Mrs A P Chick Mr K Ching Mr W S Chong Mr D M H Chua Mr & Mrs T J E Church Mr & Mrs I P Clarke Mr & Mrs P Coleman Mr & Mrs M P Collar

Mr T P Dignan & Mrs V C Sackur Mr J Dixon Mr & Mrs J P Doddington Mr & Mrs R H C Doery Revd Dr A G Doig Mrs W Dotson Mr & Mrs D P Drew Mr & Mrs L Du Mrs S J Duffy Mr & Mrs D Dunnigan Mrs C E Edwards Dr & Dr K M Edwards Mr & Mrs P Edwards Mr & Mrs P J Egan Mr & Mrs A Elahi Mr & Mrs H Elliot Mr & Mrs J Emberson Mr & Mrs N K Erskine Mr & Mrs P Evans Mr & Mrs P J Everett Mr & Mrs M J Eyres Mrs V S R Falconer Mr & Mrs J H Fallas Mr & Ms J F Fanshawe Mr & Mrs M J C Faulkner † Mr & Mrs M Fawcett Mr & Mrs B M Feldman Mr & Mrs S Ferdi Dr Y Fessas Mr & Mrs R B Filer Mrs C L Fitzgerald Mr & Mrs F Fletcher

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...Always a Caian 31 Mr & Mrs H D Fletcher † Mr M Savage & Mrs K M Fletcher Dr & Mrs R G Fletcher Mr N Foord Mr & Mrs L G F Fort Dr & Mrs D Frame Mrs D Freeborn Mr & Mrs C G Freeman Mr G Frenzel Mrs I Frenzel Mrs D Garnet Mrs J Gibbons Mr & Mrs M J Gibson Mr C J & Dr C Glasson Tan Sri Datuk & Puan Sri Datin G Gnanalingam Mr & Mrs J I Goddard Mr & Mrs N Gordon Mr & Mrs A Gottschalk Dr P W Gower & Dr I Lewington Mr & Mrs P J Graham Mr & Mrs D J Grainger Mr & Mrs A P R Gray Mr & Mrs D M Gray Mrs M W Gray Mr J Green

Mr & Mrs I F Hepburn Dr G N Herlitz Dame Rosalyn Higgins Mr & Mrs Y P Ho Dr R C J Horns & Dr L Y Chak Mr & Mrs L Howai Mrs A E Howe Dr M K Hsin Mr & Ms S Hu Mrs P M Hudson Miss S J Hullis Mrs J A B Hulm † Mr N Hunt Mr & Mrs P E Hussey Dr & Mrs T Jareonsettasin Mr M I Jeffreson & Ms J M Thomas Dr & Mrs D Jeffreys Mr & Mrs R Jeffs Mr & Mrs A P H Johnson Mr & Mrs P A C Johnson Mr & Mrs R S Johnson Mrs K Jones Mr M D Jones Mr R F E & Dr V Jones Mr & Mrs N D Judd

Mr & Mrs G R Langridge Mr & Mrs K W Lau To’ Puan Lau-Gunn Chit Wha Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht Mr & Mrs P D Law Mr & Mrs T M Lawrence Professor I & Dr S Lazanu Mr & Mrs A Leal Güemes Mr & Mrs H Lennard Mr & Mrs M Lentrodt Mr & Mrs J R Leonard Mr & Mrs A W Leslie Dr J L Lesniarek Mr & Mrs J M Lester † The Honourable C Y Leung & Mrs R Leung Mr & Mrs L R Lever Miss P Lewis Sir David Li Mr & Mrs X Liao Mr & Mrs M A Lindsay Mr S N M Lindsey Mr & Mrs D J Little Dr T Littlewood & Dr K Hughes Mr & Mrs M C F Lock Mr & Mrs J R Lodge

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Mr & Mrs S Green Miss J Grierson * Capt & Mrs P J Griffiths Mr & Mrs I T Griffiths † Professor P J Grubb Mr & Mrs L J Haas Mr & Mrs G Hackett Mrs J C Hagelberg Mr & Mrs K S Hairettin Mr & Mrs T Hajee-Adam Mr & Mrs A M Hall Ms M Hall Mr T & Dr H Halls Ms E Hamilton Mr & Mrs M J Hamilton Dr J Han & Dr Y Wen Mr & Mrs M S Handley Mr & Mrs G I Hansom Professor G Harcourt Mr & Mrs H Hardoon Mr & Mrs J P Harland Mr P Harris Mr & Mrs J K Harrison Mr & Mrs A J Hartley Tan Sri T Hashim Ms A L A Hawkins Dr & Mrs M Hawton Mr M C T Hendy

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Challenge Met! It was a very particular kind of terror. The four of us had never met. We had been thrown together by the never-explained choices of an omnipotent University Challenge producer, and before we even began to think about dealing with Jeremy Paxman we had to work out whether we would come to blows or opt for solidarity rooted in a mutual sense of vulnerability. We opted for the latter course and the Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser (1986), Dr Helen Castor (1986), Quizmaster Jeremy Paxman, Mark Damazer (1974) and Lars Tharp (1973). nicest thing about the entire adventure was that we became friends.

We had one desultory pre-match conference call where you could smell the nerves. Lars was the jolliest – possibly because he privately knew that he could cope with the upmarket picture questions. Our elaborate game plan was to pretend that we were enjoying it, not get cross with one another and remember to hit the buzzer when you knew an answer.

Armed with this sophisticated strategy we arrived for the first recording in Manchester – against Christ Church’s glitzy team. To our mild amazement we each knew different things, a key to success, and accumulated points rather rapidly. We were, however, unable to buzz when asked by an incredulous Paxman how to spell ‘woollen’. Whenever we got an answer wrong we covered our tracks by proclaiming ‘of course’ when Paxman read out the answer. This he regarded with contempt.

We returned the following week for the semi-final intoxicated by the facts that we had avoided total failure, would not have to hide and Caius was not to be disgraced. Indeed for much of the semi-final we were struck dumb – in part by the shirt of Lancaster University’s captain – some tropical concoction. We woke up just about in time.

The final against Emmanuel seemed to have been won quite quickly. Again, each of us was able to contribute something. The chickens having been counted – we went quiet again. But a late spurt secured victory. We asked if there was a trophy. Paxman retorted with a snort you could hear in Caius Court.

Mark Damazer (1974), Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford

New Challenge In the first round of the new series of University Challenge, in August 2014, the Caius student team gave a very impressive performance, defeating St Anne’s College, Oxford, by a margin of 305 points to 105.

Thursday, December 11th • Kick Off 14:30 In 2009 a party of 280 Caians attended the Varsity Match, and five years on we’d like to see if we can do the same. We have managed to secure a package which includes a match ticket, a 2 course hot buffet in a private room with ½ bottle of wine per head and tea and coffee for £92.00 per head.

If you would like to join us at the 133rd Varsity Match, please complete the form that can be found at www.cai.cam.ac.uk/varsitymatch and return it to the Development Office along with your payment.

Left: Sam Alderson (2011) walking out to represent Cambridge at the 2013 Varsity Match. We hope that he’ll make the squad again this year.

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Gentlemen Geneticists The article in last year’s Once a Caian… (Issue 13, p.20) on the parts played by Caians in the development of Genetics prompted some reflections from Professor Sam Berry (1953), probably the oldest survivor of Genetics Part II, which he studied under RA Fisher (1909) in 1955-6.

Sam Berry writes... Henry Bennett (1950) was my supervisor for the first term of my Part II, but disappeared to Australia at Christmas 1955. (I tell people he got engaged to the daughter of the High Commissioner for Australia, and was given the Adelaide Chair the next day. I suspect this is apocryphal, but it is a good story.) Henry tried to get me to Adelaide some years later for Andrewartha’s Zoology Chair, but I wasn’t tempted enough.

Fisher’s lectures were given jointly to Part II Geneticists and Part III Mathematicians.

We were told we would not understand them – if this was still happening 2 or 3 years later, perhaps Anthony Edwards (1968) did – but we were advised that our attendance would be Sam Berry. a mark of respect for the Professor.

In those palmy days of the mid ’50s, there was not enough Genetics about (or at least, not in the Cambridge Department) to teach a whole year’s worth, so “gentlemen were required to chose another cognate subject.” Most people opted for cytogenetics with Harold Whitehouse; I did embryology in Zoology.

I had to leave Cambridge before Fisher discovered I couldn't do calculus. The last conversation I had with him was when he asked me what I was proposing to do after Cambridge and I replied a PhD at UCL. He grunted, “I don't think much of your choice.” End of conversation.

JBS Haldane was Head of the UCL Department at the time and Lionel Penrose had Fisher’s old Chair. After my PhD and a post-doc at UC (mainly spent catching rats living on radioactive sand in Kerala), I moved to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for 14 years, where I was the first Lecturer in Genetics at any of the London Medical Schools. There had been geneticists Rat catching in Kerala. previously, but they were always appointed for other reasons – such as statistics or paediatrics.

After that, I went back to UC – first as joint-head of Genetics, then to Zoology with Av Mitchison.

Despite teaching in a Medical School – or perhaps because I needed an excuse to escape as often as possible from London – my research studies became largely ecological, investigating genetical processes in natural populations. This led me to catch mice in somewhat esoteric places, including Enewetak Atoll (which was used as a nuclear bomb testing site by the US), Hawaii and the Antarctic, together with many Scottish islands.

I was led into all this by Bernard Kettlewell (1926), a GP who developed from a keen amateur entomologist into a professional, and carried out classical experiments on melanism in the Peppered Moth. I went with him to work on non-industrial melanism in the Shetland Islands, and was seduced by genetics outside the laboratory or clinic. For better or worse, I spent the rest of my working life as an ecological geneticist.

Kettlewell was a co-lepidopterist in Caius with Cyril Clarke (1926), who went on to become President of the Royal College of Physicians and is noted for devising the method to prevent human “rhesus disease”, coincidentally an interest of Fisher’s. Well into his distinguished medical career, Clarke returned to his early passion for butterflies when he teamed up with Philip Sheppard, the Professor of Genetics in Liverpool (where Clarke was Professor of Medicine). He claimed that his ideas about rhesus incompatibility came from his studies on mimicry and super-genes in Swallow Butterflies.

All this is very trivial (except for me) – but it all started in Caius.

Baked Sea-Bass in Banana Leaves By special request from guests who attended the Caius Benefactors’ Feast in November 2013, here is Tony Smith’s recipe for the fish course.

The dipping sauce is not optional!

Dipping Sauce

For the Sea Bass

Ingredients: 25ml sesame oil 1 or 2 chillis, finely chopped 35g ginger 1 lemon grass, finely chopped 3 lime leaves 2 cloves garlic, crushed 125ml dark soy sauce 100ml light soy sauce 1 tsp sugar

Method: Heat the sesame oil in a pan and fry the garlic, chilli, ginger, lemon grass and lime leaves for one minute.

Then add the dark and light soy sauces and the sugar, cool and put in individual dishes.

Dan White

Executive Chef Tony Smith

Ingredients: 35ml sesame oil 3 chillis finely chopped 3 sticks lemon grass roughly chopped 80g ginger roughly chopped 4 cloves garlic, crushed 8 lime leaves, roughly chopped 15g coriander 8 x 200g sea bass fillets 2 banana leaves

Method: Preheat the oven to 200°C, heat the sesame oil in a pan and fry the chillis, garlic, ginger and lemon grass.

Add lime leaves and let the mixture stand for a couple of minutes. Then put it in a food processor with the coriander and chop finely. Spread the paste on each fillet and wrap it in the banana leaf like a parcel.

Bake for 10-15 minutes and serve.

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The Tour de France 2014 This year, the organisers of the 83rd Tour de France, having belatedly realised that Cambridge is the capital of the cycling universe, started Stage 3 here. Our photograph, taken by the Master, Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962), shows the peloton streaming past Chateauneuf de Caius.

Below: The photographer photographed by James Howell (2009).

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In Memoriam, George Bolton Jeremy Prynne (1962), Caius Librarian from 1969 to 2006, sent in this brief tribute to George Bolton, the Library’s principal conservator of books for many years. It seems appropriate to publish it in Jeremy’s “own fair hand”.

The Sherrington Society at Caius Alan Fersht

At a meeting of the Sherrington Society at Caius in the Easter Term of 2014, Professor Lord (Martin) Rees, the Astronomer Royal, past President of the Royal Society and past Master of Trinity, engaged in a lively exchange with his old friend, Professor Stephen Hawking (1965) about the existence of multiple universes.

Afterthoughts...

Overheard from a cyclist, riding the wrong way down Portugal Place, on being reproached by a pedestrian: “This is Cambridge – we do as we like!”

Arguing with an Engineer is like wrestling with a pig: after two hours, you realise the pig is enjoying it!

Anon

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Readers of Once a Caian… will be well aware of the fantastic achievements of Caius oarsmen and women over the last 20 years, and will share our excitement at the prospect of getting a new Boathouse for the Caius Boat Club.

Many of our top sporting stars go on to represent the University, but three young Caians have shown that they can perform on the national and international stage and have realistic chances of representing Great Britain at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

by James Howell (2009)

Event. She says “the ultimate goal is to bring an Olympic medal home from Rio 2016 and, looking beyond, to do the same in Tokyo 2020”.

Melissa Wilson (2011) was a novice oarswoman when she arrived at Caius, but by the Lents she had shown such promise that she had already made it into the Caius first boat. After further success in the Mays at the end of her first year, Melissa decided to trial for the University squad and by January 2013 she was in the Blue Boat which went on to win the gold medal at the British Universities and College Sports Head the following month. Melissa won her first Blue when the Newton Women’s Boat Race took place at Eton Dorney, her second at Henley last year and is hoping to be back in the Blue Boat when the Women’s Boat Race moves to the Tideway for the first time on April 11th 2015. Each morning until then, she will catch the 5.55 am train from Cambridge to Ely, for one of the twelve training sessions of the week, seven on the water, three on ergometers and two weight training.

Last October Melissa stroked the Blue Boat to a Bronze Medal at the national championships, behind the two Great Britain crews, after which she decided to trial for the national squad. She was selected to represent her country at the Under-23 World Championships in Varese, Italy, this July, where she won a Silver Medal after a narrow defeat by the USA. Her mission is now to break into the senior squad which will assemble at the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake at Caversham in September 2015 to begin its build-up to the Olympics.

“There are already two settled GB crews” says Melissa, “but if I can build on the experience I have gained with the Under-23’s, who knows…?”

Eamo nn D eane

Hannah Snellgrove (2009) learned to sail at the Salterns Sailing Club in Lymington, and progressed to competing on a National and International level in a Laser Radial as a member of the RYA National Youth Squad.

She has been a member of the British Sailing Team since 2009, campaigning a Laser Radial – the women’s single-handed Olympic class of boat. Hannah was forced to take two years out from sailing when she contracted the Epstein Barr Virus and M.E. at the age of 16.

This also affected her schooling, but not enough to stop her gaining a place at Caius.

Taking a Gap Year to recover from her illness, she returned to sailing and had considerable success in the International summer events of 2009 culminating in her selection for the Skandia Team GBR Olympic Training Group.

She completed her first year at Caius in June 2010 and then deferred for a year in order to train for and participate in the trials for a place in the British Team for the London Olympics. With only one spot for each country in each class of boat, she narrowly missed out on a place for the London Games, but returned to Cambridge even more determined to make the team next time. The first competition she has to win is with her own team-mates, saying: “I could be second best in the World, but if the World number one is British, I won’t go to the Games”.

In the summer of 2012 Hannah became the first female ever to become the British Laser Radial Champion. Given the amount of time she was expected to dedicate to her sailing, one might think her academic work would suffer, but Hannah gained a First class degree and won the John Reekie Memorial Prize for the best geology dissertation in the year.

Since leaving Caius last year, she has been training and competing full time, with the aim of representing Team GB in Rio 2016.

She came 9th in the Laser Radial Women’s European Championships 2013, won Bronze at Copa Brasil de Vela in Rio de Janeiro and came 8th at the Hyères ISAF World Cup

Trio Trio Tri for Rio? Rio?

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Left: Hayley Simmonds (2012) competing in the national 50 mile Time Trial on the Upton to Bere Regis course in Dorset in June 2014.

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Hayley Simmonds (2012) is a graduate student who moved to Caius from Newnham to do a PhD in Chemistry. As an undergraduate she was a successful rower, stroking the University’s Blondie crew against Oxford at Henley in 2009, but in the following year she gave up the river for the road, and took up cycling. This year alone, Hayley has won nine British Universities and College Sports (BUCS) Championship medals (8 gold and 1 silver) and was awarded a second full Blue for her part in securing a Varsity win for Cambridge.

Hayley is now building towards a career as a professional cyclist when she finishes her PhD in 2016. Over the summer she has been road racing with the Velosport-Pasta Montegrappa team, and made a guest appearance in the Tour de Bretagne Féminin for Pearl Izumi Sports Tour International, but she is probably best known as a time trialist. She has won two national titles, over 10 and 50 miles and came second in the 25 mile event behind cycling legend, Dame Sarah Storey. Her personal best time of 20.28 minutes for 10 miles works out at an average speed of 29.58 mph, and over 10 or 25 miles she is the fourth fastest British woman ever.

Getting to the Olympics in 2016 is her goal, but she admits it won’t be easy.

Having taken up the sport late, she’s not on a National Lottery funded training programme, so she says “I’ll just have to get a major result that they can’t ignore”.

She would need to do this in an international time trial or at the British Championships, securing a place in the British Team for the World Championships and then possibly Rio. Melissa, Hannah and Hayley were all recipients of Bell Wade awards, a fund established to support students at Caius who are pursuing excellence in both scholarship and sport. To train at this level, while at the same time keeping up with their studies, requires immense dedication and commitment, often financial. All three young women were keen to acknowledge the support they had received from the College and to thank Martin Wade and David Bell (both 1962) for their generosity and vision in endowing the Bell Wade fund, that does so much to enable elite sports men and women to study at Caius.

Christopher Chitty

Above left: Hannah Snellgrove (2009) on her way to becoming Laser Radial National Champion in July 2012.

Left: Melissa Wilson (2011) third from left, on the Silver Medal podium at the Under 23 World Championships in Varese, Italy.

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EVENTS AND REUNIONS FOR 2014/15 Development Campaign Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 2 October Caius Club London Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 3 October Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 7 October Caius Foundation Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 November New York Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 November Patrons of the Caius Foundation Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 November Commemoration of Benefactors Lecture, Service & Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 16 November First Christmas Carol Service (6pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 3 December Second Christmas Carol Service (4.30pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 4 December Michaelmas Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 5 December Varsity Rugby Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 11 December Lent Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 13 January Development Campaign Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 26 February Second Year Parents’ Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 12 & Friday 13 March Lent Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 13 March Telephone Campaign begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 14 March MAs’ Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 20 March Annual Gathering (1972, 1973 & 1974) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 27 March Hong Kong Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 13 April Hong Kong Dinner for Members of the Court of Benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 13 April Singapore Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 16 April Easter Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 21 April Stephen Hawking Circle “50 Years a Fellow” Celebration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 30 May Easter Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 12 June May Week Party for Benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 13 June Caius Club May Bumps Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 13 June Graduation Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 25 June Annual Gathering (up to & including 1963) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 30 June Admissions Open Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 2 & Friday 3 July Annual Gathering (2001, 2002 & 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 19 September Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 6 October Commemoration of Benefactors Lecture, Service & Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 15 November

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