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GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE MAGAZINE / ISSUE 23 / MICHAELMAS 2021

GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE MAGAZINE ISSUE 23 / MICHAELMAS 2021

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elcome to your latest issue of Once a Caian. It is packed with interesting articles and pictures illustrating the College: past, present and future. You will find reflections on the College’s experience of Covid over the recent pandemic, presentations of some Fellows’ research, and an introduction to the new Head Porter.

Also, some fascinating memories of the Great Crawl of 1984 and of our beloved boatman Tony Baker. I love to hear what Caians do in a life after graduation, these narratives are so varied and inspirational. They highlight the ways in which an education at Caius can be harnessed to achieve ones best life. Stephen Moss’s career in broadcasting on wildlife and writing on birds is one example. Sir Alan Fersht kept the fellowship in touch during lockdowns with his beautiful photographs of birds taken locally in Cambridgeshire.

This academic year feels already more comparable to one pre-pandemic. Lessons have been learnt, such as the innovations in admissions and assessment discussed by the Senior Tutor and the Tutor for Admissions and Outreach. Over the last year the College has suffered very few infections (less than 30 all told) and even fewer transmissions within the College. We are grateful for everyone’s efforts to keep themselves and others safe, especially the housekeeping and catering teams in College.

Gonville & Caius is a community which knits itself together over good food, good conversation and good company, especially at dinner. For two long years we have been unable to dine in Hall as we usually would.

First, because we were engaged in the critical process of bringing the kitchens into the 21st Century. Secondly, legislation restricted the manner in which Fellows, students and staff were able to eat together (does anyone remember now the “Rule of Six”?) As restrictions have eased we have been able to hold matriculation dinners as normal, and to offer a graduation dinner to the year who missed out due to the first lockdown.

It goes without saying that good physical and mental wellbeing are essential. Sometimes life takes an unexpected downturn, as it did for Georgia Brown.

“I love to hear what Caians do in a life after graduation, these narratives are so varied and inspirational. They highlight the ways in which an education at Caius can be harnessed to achieve ones best life.”

Navigating the various options of studying at Cambridge to find the best outcome can be a challenge. Tutors are available to discuss difficulties as are Directors of Studies, along with the University’s Disability Resource Centre and Cambridge Student Union welfare representatives.

The University has undertaken a Strategic Review of the Mental Health Provision in the past year. The College now employs two College Nurses, a Mental Health Advisor and a counsellor. Students also have access to the University’s central counselling service. The College remains committed to supporting College sports clubs at Barton Road and the Boathouse, College societies such as the May Ball or the Shadwell, and other student events such as the recent exhibition of paintings at the Human Perspectives Exhibition. Extra-curricular and co-curricular activities are proven to help maintain well-being as well as being enjoyable (though I couldn’t enjoy being on the river at 7 a.m. in November).

Communication has been key in 2021. The College has a new Head of Communications, Matt McGeehan.

This version of College news is one way we stay in touch, along with The Caian. You also receive emails from the Development Office with news from the College, particularly of future events for alumni. Keeping the College informed of your postal and email addresses means you will be updated more regularly. You can also find up-to-date news on the College website and other social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram etc. Can I ask any Caian who has an interesting story to share to contact Matt or the Development and Alumni Relations Office.

Much of what the College is able to achieve is due to the generosity of our donors. The Lord Choudrey Scholarship will bring a postgraduate student from Pakistan to study at Caius. Postgraduates are an increasingly important part of the scholarly community at Caius. There is little government or other financial support for them. Thank you.

I very much hope everyone in the Caian family remains well and look forward to welcoming you back to the College.

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College News

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In Memory of Tony Baker

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Home Water Reflections

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Spotlight on Arif Ahmed

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Lessons Learnt

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The Great Crawl of ‘84

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Dr Rachell Sánchez-Rivera

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Dr Geoffrey Maguire

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A conversation with Stephen Moss

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A Second Chance

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Donors 2020–2021

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The Development Advisory Group

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College News

GRADUATIONS ARE BACK! The College’s first in-person General Admission ceremony for two years was held in July, and graduates who missed their in-person ceremonies have since been invited back for a celebration in Senate House and at Caius. Covid protocols dictated small-scale celebrations but we were delighted to come together with graduates and their friends and families in Old Courts, with the ceremonies broadcast live on screens at Caius and around the world.

THE OLD COURTS KITCHEN REFURBISHMENT IS COMPLETE! The 18-month project to refurbish our kitchens for the first time since the 1960s began in 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic provided additional challenges, but the project is now complete. We are thrilled with the results, and so are our students, who are now dining communally together in Hall.

We look forward to welcoming alumni to our events to enjoy our new catering offerings, and experience the Caius community, and thank our donors for their generosity.

The College celebrated the completion of the project with a series of videos, covering everything from what our students think of the improvements, to ensuring our Grade I listed buildings have kitchens fit for the 21st century, with waste heat used to heat water and food waste sent for composting. These can now be viewed on the College website.

JENNIFER PHILLIPS, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, JOINS THE FELLOWSHIP The College was delighted to welcome Jennifer Phillips (English 1996) to the Fellowship in December, by virtue of her office as Domestic Bursar, which she has been transferred into after four years fulfilling the function under the title of Operations Director. Her election as a Fellow reflects her Domestic Bursarship, which carries the rights and responsibilities of a concomitant fellowship.

“We are thrilled with the results, and so are our students, who are now dining communally together in Hall.”

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PROFESSOR ANTONY HEWISH (1924–2021) The College was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Nobel Laureate and Honorary Fellow Professor Antony Hewish on 13 September 2021, aged 97. Professor Hewish was a muchrespected member of our College community. Our flag was at half-mast in his memory, and we offer our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. He was admitted to Caius as an undergraduate on 1 October 1942 to read Natural Sciences and his association with the College spanned 79 years. He became an unofficial Drosier Fellow in 1951, an official Fellow in 1956, and an Honorary Fellow in 1976. He was latterly an Emeritus Fellow of Churchill College.

Professor Hewish won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, together with fellow radio-astronomer Sir Martin Ryle, for their “pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”, according to the award citation.

GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CHOIR ENJOYED A SUCCESSFUL TOUR OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SOMERSET Precentor Matthew Martin said: “Most of the performances we’d been doing during Lent and Easter term had been through our live streaming equipment. It was great to stand in front of an audience and sing to them.”

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“We were delighted to welcome Martin May as our new Head Porter.”

RUSSELL AND YVONNE RETIRE In February we bade farewell to Head Porter Russell Holmes and Tutorial Manager Yvonne Holmes. We thanked them for their long and distinguished service, and wished them well.

We were delighted to welcome Martin May as our new Head Porter. He joined the College after 17 years as a police officer, firstly with the Metropolitan Police and latterly with Hertfordshire Constabulary.

TOM FARDON (1994) CAPTAIN OF BOATS 1997/98

Many Caians may not know the name, but to hundreds of members of Caius Boat Club, spanning over four decades, Tony Baker is The Caius Boat Man. It was with great sadness and affection that members of Caius Boat Club, past and present, gathered at St Andrew’s Church, Histon for his funeral on 6 September 2021.

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first met Tony in 1995. I wandered down to the boat house to ‘have a look’ in Easter term; he was pottering about in the workshop, listening to ABBA on the radio, covered in sawdust. Within an hour he had me in the ‘bank-tub’, on the ergo (the land-based rowing machines with which all rowers have a love-hate relationship) and then out on the water with him in an actual boat. I was just another student who had come down to the boat house, and he was busy working, but his enthusiasm for rowing, for teaching, and his boundless passion for simply being out on the water in a boat meant he had me hooked that day. That hour was the first of many spent in Tony’s company: in boats, around boats, watching boats, talking mostly about boats.

Tony trained as a carpenter in the 1950s. He loved wood, and as an extension, wooden boats. He was always sceptical of these ‘new-fangled plastic boats’ that were produced in the late 90s, insistent that a good wooden boat was as fast, and as stable as anything made of carbon or glass fibre. In 1999 Andy McLean (1994) and I entered the Pairs Head, on the Tideway in London, as a coxless pair. After a challenging race, we returned to the boathouse to find Tony waiting to see how we’d got on. He was delighted to hear that we had finished as the fastest wooden boat in the race. Neither of us had the heart to tell him we were the only wooden boat in the race.

Everyone has a story of Tony fixing a wooden boat.

Every year at least one crew would, on one of the middle days of bumps, have a mishap resulting in bow meeting bank, and a large cracking sound. Each time Tony would phone his wife Joy to let her know that he’d be late home that night as he stayed at the boat house workshop painstakingly repairing the damage. The next morning he would stand by the boat he had repaired overnight, and when asked how on earth he had managed it, he would simply reply: “I’m a carpenter by trade.”

As the boatman Tony was not only a craftsman, but also a coach, a mentor, the architect of training plans, and the inspiration for generations of oarsmen and women. He had an eye for technique, and efficiency in a boat. Captain

after captain knocked on the workshop door to ask for advice on who should take that last slot in the VIII. “Ergos don’t float” he’d say, and neither did egos: he coached Olympic medallists, and first week novices. He valued hard work, commitment to the crew and club, to friends and the rowing family. He was ever present, the bedrock on which the boat club was built.

The focal point for Tony every year was the bumping races. He ‘pushed out’ the first and second VIIIs at Lent and May bumps every year. Once certain the boat was straight, he’d spring onto his bike, grab the megaphone and whistle, and hurtle down the towpath, screaming instructions to the CBC crews as they closed in on the opposition. He loved the excitement, the thrill, and the winning – but most of all he loved being on the river.

In May Bumps 1997 the first men’s boat bumped up to second place. At the dinner on Saturday night Tony made the unusual, for him, decision to say a few words.

He spoke of how he had only once seen a Caius boat at head of the river, in 1987. He spoke of the importance of teamwork, friendship, commitment. He told us all that the hard work we put in would be its own reward, and he was proud of every one of us. But he finished by saying, very quietly, almost as though to himself “But next year, I really want that headship”. In 1998, we claimed that headship, and what David Cassidy, president of CUBC described as a “total domination of college rowing”. We did it for the club, for the College, for ourselves, for Tony.

Tony retired from the role of Caius boatman in 2006.

The then Dean of the College and Boat Club Senior Treasurer, Rev Jack MacDonald, described him as being “a dedicated and hard-working expert who had Caius Boat Club running through him like the lettering in a stick of rock”. Even after retirement Tony returned as a coach and guide to rowers, friend and mentor to captains, and a permanent fixture at Boat Club Dinners. The last of these was the 20th anniversary of the 1998 clean sweep, on 16th June 2018. I sat next to Tony at that dinner. He had the same passion for rowing that he had when I first met him 23 years earlier. He signed my menu – a boat club tradition – with the message “Pull harder”.

His funeral was a celebration of his life in and around boats. Blazers were encouraged – pews full of rowers who had been privileged to know Tony and been inspired, as I was, by his passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge of all things rowing. A guard of honour of Caius Boat Club and Rob Roy Boat Club blades was held aloft by past and present members. Tony Baker, the Caius Boat Man, was laid to rest in Histon wearing his Caius Boat Club blazer and tie. He leaves his wife, Joy, three children, and grandchildren, and generations of people who have taken to the river because of him.

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n April, Caians Bronya Sykes (Natural Sciences 2009) and Ben Dyer (Engineering 2017) competed in the 2021 Boat Race. After the cancellation of the 2020 race due to the pandemic, it was the Cambridge crews who emerged victorious in Ely, on ‘home’ water. Ten days after the race on the River Great Ouse – the venue used due to the pandemic and the structural concerns over Hammersmith Bridge – we asked Bronya and Ben for their reflections on the races.

Caius rowers from across the squads have celebrated another successful year on the water despite the challenges of lockdowns and restrictions which limited participation in many other sports.

Q: What it was like at the start, after

two years of preparation?

BRONYA: We decided before going

into it that we were going to make the most of it and have loads of fun.

We really did that. It was two years of work, so there were some nerves as it upped the ante. We were almost doing it for last year as well as this year. It was our home turf and we were determined to make the most of it.

BEN: We could hear the

commentary of the women’s race as we were warming up. I was surprised to hear Cambridge only a length up as I was expecting them to walk away with it. Oxford women were on the same station we were –

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on the disadvantaged station, because of the cross winds – and that gave us confidence, as we were underdogs like them. I was surprisingly calm at the start. We knew we had prepared well and we trusted ourselves if we performed on the day. We had one opportunity to get it right.

Q: At what point did you think you

were going to win?

BRONYA: I don’t think we doubted

ourselves even when we were behind.

Dylan the cox made some great calls.

When we started to make our move we moved on them instantly, and we knew then we could win it. It felt absolutely amazing crossing the line.

It’s hard to put it into words because it’s been such a long time in the making. It was an initial moment of shock, then a mixture of exhaustion and elation.

BEN: Someone in front of me shouted ‘we’re going to win the Boat Race’ and with 150m to go I thought, ‘yes, he’s right!’ I was cursing the stations through the middle of the race. We had named our kilometres, but Oxford made gains through the ‘Kilometre of Opportunity’, which is mostly exposed to the wind. We felt as the home crew that it would be an opportunity for us, but Oxford used the shelter on the inside to their advantage.

The women’s crew were huddling around a television watching the men’s race.

BRONYA: The first thing we had to

do when we got off the water was de-rig the boat and put it on the trailer, so we had a comedown doing that. When the men made it to the finish line it exploded where we were – everyone was so excited. We were poised and ready for our presentation and celebrations. It made our time on the podium even better the fact we’d watched the men coming through.

BEN: Our celebrations were enhanced by having such a close race.

You can see the emotion in everyone.

Everyone was very proud that we managed to overturn what was on paper a stronger crew; you could see how down Oxford looked – they fully expected to win. It turned out to be so perfect.

Bronya has since been elected Women’s President of Cambridge University Boat Club for the 2022 campaign. She will lead the Cambridge Blue boat into the 2022 Boat Race.

She says: “Rowing for CUBC has been an incredible experience and it means a lot to have been elected as president for the next season.

Towards the end of Easter Term Caius Boat Club also enjoyed tremendous success in the June Eights Regatta, the competition which replaced May Bumps, as five crews won their divisions. Crews raced in a regatta format, side-byside over a one-kilometre course on the Cam, with victories for W1, W2, Novice Women, Novice Men, and M2.

M1 were narrowly denied, finishing second after a re-row in their final race. A blade clash forced a re-row against Magdalene, who prevailed to take the division.

Asked whether Caius will have the title ‘Head of the River’, Women’s Vice-Captain Grace Carson said: “It’s to be negotiated. We will get a University medal, which is usually awarded to the Head of the River and we’re eligible for blades.”

Caius Boat Club captain Henry Bennett, who raced in M2, added: “We’ve got some amazing coaches, a lot of whom have experience with the University squads, and our novice programme through the last few years has been really strong. We do a good job recruiting loads of rowers – normally we have a barbecue combined with a try out – and we’re one of the biggest boat clubs on the Cam.”

“It has also been lovely to receive so much support from everyone at Caius Boat Club whilst I have been trialling. I’m looking forward to another good year!”

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S P OTL I GH T O N

Arif Ahmed Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Arif Ahmed was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to education. Here, Professor Ahmed discusses his research and his petition for free speech.

be made in different ways. Decision theory usually picks the best decision by looking at the consequences each way to decide might have.

“My work focuses on one aspect of decision making – making decisions about the future in a way that reflects your diminishing concern for the more distant future,” he says.

Put simply, humans tend to be less concerned with an event in 50 years’ time, than an event which might happen in five years’ time, a prime example of this being the climate emergency.

Since the 20th century, philosophers have developed multiple theories about why human beings make such decisions and whether we can predict or explain this. Professor Ahmed is particularly inspired by the work of Cambridge economist, mathematician and philosopher Frank Ramsey, who was a lecturer at the University in the 1920s and a pioneer in probability and decision theory.

It can also help us to understand how to address issues such as gambling and addiction. As Professor Ahmed explains, his work suggests that gambling websites and bookmakers should use ‘pre-commitment’ devices to curb overspending – that is, paying now to set a limit to how much users can gamble online at a fixed point in the future.

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he walls of Professor Arif Ahmed’s study are decorated with an eclectic collection of items. From the sheet music to an excerpt from a flute quartet composed in his honour by Professor Robin Holloway, to his children’s doodles of Homer’s heroic Odyssey.

In the story, Ulysses instructs his crew to tie him to his ship’s mast, and block their own ears, in advance of his visit to the bewitching sirens. In doing so, he protects himself from their calls and rows to safety.

For Professor Ahmed, this could almost be a case of art imitating life. Having previously studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and Philosophy at Sussex and Cambridge, the Nicholas Sallnow-Smith Lecturer and Fellow now writes mainly on an area of philosophy called rational choice or decision theory. In particular, how we make decisions about the future.

Decision theory is a mathematical theory about how to best reach a decision. These are decisions we make all the time, every day, from consumption decisions, investment decisions or deciding where our children go to school. This is done using probability theory, statistics and logical reasoning. A decision can

“My work focuses on one aspect of decision making – making decisions about the future in a way that reflects your diminishing concern for the more distant future.”

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“As a philosopher, the whole point of philosophy is that your most cherished beliefs are being challenged. Everything needs to be subject to challenge, I can’t do my job unless that’s so.”

“St Augustine expressed it very well when he prayed to God to make him virtuous – but not yet,” Professor Ahmed adds.

One decision Professor Ahmed found easy to make was to accept his MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to education. “I got a letter in May saying that I was on some kind of list, and was asked if I would accept it if it was offered,” he explains of the process. “It was an enormous but lovely surprise.”

Outside of his work on decision theory, Professor Ahmed became more widely known when he opposed the University’s Freedom of Speech policy. The policy was drafted following controversy surrounding previous invited speakers, including in November 2017, when Dr Ruba Salih, a Palestinian academic, was disinvited from chairing a panel cohosted by the Palestine Society and Middle Eastern Society. In March 2019, Cambridge University rescinded the offer of a visiting fellowship to controversial psychology professor Dr Jordan Peterson, whose views on gender have been widely condemned.

Professor Ahmed campaigned for changes to the University policy’s terminology that were passed by 75% of voting academics. He successfully led an amendment in December 2020, saying guidelines requiring opinions to be “respectful” of differing views should instead emphasise “tolerance”.

“I think there’s been a background of increasing either actual or felt restrictions on what people can say in a university setting,” Professor Ahmed adds. “The University Council wanted to adopt a new freedom of speech policy, which I thought was concerning for various reasons. One of it was just to do with the issue about terminology, about respect and tolerance. It was demanding that we should respect everyone’s beliefs and ways of life, but I don’t think we should respect white nationalism or Islamic fundamentalism.

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“Other people don’t think that you should have to respect all kinds of religious forms of life or beliefs. There are political beliefs that I think people shouldn’t have to respect. The policy that I was opposing also allowed the University to cancel speaker events on any grounds.”

The ability to speak freely and discuss different points of view is also something that is central to Professor Ahmed’s academic work.

He adds: “I was concerned it would also affect things that can be said in the classroom.

As a philosopher, the whole point of philosophy is that your most cherished beliefs are being challenged. Everything needs to be subject to challenge, I can’t do my job unless that’s so.”

This is something he has found to be a positive experience during his six years at Caius.

He says: “It’s been a great place. The things that I value most about it are the intellectual seriousness and the fact the academics are all, despite our differences, seriously focused on our charitable mission of education and research.

“But, of course, not only that. The students are terrific. It’s been so good to teach such brilliant, able and hardworking students. Even in the time I’ve been here, they’ve gone on to have careers in law, in academia, in business, and in the army. I’m very excited to see what will happen to them.”

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L e s s on s As the College returns to life again, Senior Tutor, Dr Andrew Spencer, and Tutor for Admissions and Outreach, Dr Chris Scott discuss the lessons we have learnt over the past year and what the future at Caius might look like.

The effect of the pandemic was felt keenly by prospective students, but online interviews offered an opportunity which could continue, says Dr Chris Scott, Caius’ Tutor for Admissions and Outreach.

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any Caians will remember their Cambridge interview vividly, as a seminal moment. The journey to Cambridge. Walking into the Porters’ Lodge and coming out into Tree Court for the first time, a first nervous handshake with their potential Director of Studies. During the pandemic, the University of Cambridge, like many other institutions had a problem – how to interview the many hundreds of students who apply each year in a world where meeting face to face was now an impossibility due to restrictions on travel and physical distancing. The Cambridge interview is a key part of every admissions round and so in December 2020 this meant turning to an online approach.

Though in some ways taking things online may lessen that sense of human connection, many of our interviewers felt that candidates were a lot more relaxed doing their interviews in this way. Applicants were able to be interviewed somewhere that felt more comfortable and familiar to them, such as a quiet place at their school, or in their home.

For some, this was perhaps a less imposing – dare I say intimidating? – setting than the grand wood panelled rooms and courts of a Cambridge college! There were elements of online interviews we would like to retain in future – and certainly, interviews will be held online again in December 2021 – but in the vast majority of cases in-person interviews will be the default procedure.

We used virtual interactions extensively for our admissions events and outreach projects. We are very grateful to our student access ambassadors who made themselves available to answer all sorts of questions; many of them can answer queries no matter how minor via a ‘chat’ function on our website homepage. Although

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“In the future a hybrid model of part in-person, part virtual open day may be something to explore.” these are no substitute for visiting Caius, it provided prospective applicants with the chance to interact with students and learn from their lived experiences.

More broadly, our outreach initiatives benefited from online networking, in terms of the number of students who we are able to see in one go and the number of sustained contact schemes we can develop with our link areas. Through the University’s College Area Links Scheme, schools and colleges across the UK can build stronger relationships with the Cambridge colleges, with outreach work tailored in return. Caius’ link areas are Hertfordshire and Norfolk, and the London boroughs of Barnet, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Newham and Waltham Forest.

Over 100 prospective applicants at a time can attend virtual supervisions and small group teaching on a regular basis in a way that if they were having to come to Caius, they just wouldn’t be able to. There’s also more flexibility during Open Days themselves for students to pick and choose what they want to attend when everything’s online.

The easing of restrictions meant the human interaction, apprehension and enthusiasm of in-person visits returned to Caius when we hosted mini open days in July. Visitors pre-booked and toured in smaller groups, and were given a brief glimpse of life at Caius – crucially not through a screen. In the future a hybrid model of part in-person, part virtual open day may be something to explore.

We’re boosting our outreach team thanks to funds raised during Caius’ first Giving Day in May. Until 2021, Caius has had one fulltime Schools’ Liaison Officer (SLO), despite having the largest link areas of any college.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we’re now able to employ a second, London-based Outreach Officer, Gwyneth Hamand, who started in early October 2021.

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Dr Andrew Spencer, the Senior Tutor, reflects on the changes to assessment and teaching necessitated by the pandemic.

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rom an educational perspective, “All these things remind us the pandemic has expedited just how good that side of some long-awaited changes.

For instance, in assessment. being in Cambridge is and For some time there had been how important they are to talk of moving away from three-hour examinations as the primary our wellbeing.” way of assessment, but making the change proved a stumbling block – until it was forced And that’s a large part of what being a college upon us. The move to a more open book is about. It’s a community and we’re looking style exam has a lot of benefits for students, out for each other. who have generally done very well in this There are lots of different ways in which new format. But there are, of course, things we can support wellbeing. Study space that need to be considered, not solely issues factors into this. There’s been limited of preventing cheating and plagiarism, but capacity in the library and we don’t want also in terms of maintaining standards, and students to spend their entire time in their student welfare. Actually, what does it mean bedroom. So we found different spaces to students to be taking their exams in in College to use for students to come their bedroom? There also remains a place together or work independently, including for three-hour exams in some subjects. in Hall at times. Using spaces in College We’ve also discovered new ways of is something we’re looking to continue. teaching online through Zoom. This has been Of course the thing that we’ve all missed innovative in lots of ways, particularly in this year most of all is the social side. At the the sciences, although laboratory practicals end of the academic year it was lovely to see obviously cannot take place remotely. Instudents coming together with Fellows as person supervisions are still the one of the Formal Halls resumed. Our Boat Club did really key highlights of the Cambridge education and will continue. But a more blended version well in the in the replacement for May Bumps – the June Eights Regatta – and the choir were of teaching and education has possibilities to also able to go on tour at the end of the year. I be explored. was particularly pleased we were able to hold Another thing I think that the pandemic General Admission and in-person graduation has highlighted is the need for more ceremonies to celebrate the achievement of integrated and stronger mental health our students, including those who left in 2020 support. Caius has appointed a College and were able to return to celebrate their counsellor, Nikki Bradley, for the degrees. All these things remind us just how first time, thanks to funds raised good that side of being in Cambridge is and by alumni during our first how important they are to our wellbeing.

Giving Day. The students Out of this we’ve introduced a Coalso participated in a mental curricular Fund so any student can access £150 health survey during Lent of support from the College for any aspect of term and together we can co-curricular activity that they want. We’ve think about how to provide also introduced the Academic Support Grant an integrated mental health this year, which is another £150, which replaced support system within the Book Fund and essentially trebled the College that works for amount of money that the students were able anyone who to get. But recognising, particularly in the needs it.

Covid world, that books are not the only way that students access education is part of a move that’s been accelerated by the pandemic.

It’s been a really hard year and not one that I think any of us want to repeat. But the students have done terrifically and some good things have come out of it for the long run.

We’ve certainly made some really big strides along a pathway that we were previously only making tiny steps along, and we will continue to make progress in future.

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PATRICK WENHAM (HISTORY 1981)

On March 11th, 1984, Gonville and Caius students played a significant part in organising a pub crawl with a difference: a crawl, literally on hands and knees, of the three miles between The Eagle, in Cambridge, and The Red Lion, in Granchester. This event was in support of the Save the Children Fund (SCF) and involved 140 crawlers, royalty and barely any alcohol!

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n the early ‘80s, Caians played a key role in a golden era for Cambridge University’s branch of the Save the Children Fund (SCF), with the Chairmanship of the group successively held by Kevin Taylor, Geoff Davey, myself and Phil Cooper. In my time as Chair, the committee was well represented by different colleges, but was particularly well supported by Caians. Meetings were lively affairs with a real spirit of commitment to the cause and belief in the work undertaken by SCF both in the UK and overseas. It was from the enthusiasm and imagination that characterised these meetings that the kernel of an idea was born: to supersize a pub crawl, on hands and knees, between two pubs.

There were a number of challenges to overcome in order to grow the idea of doing a sponsored pub crawl, the chief of which was how to protect crawlers’ points of contact with the ground. To find a solution to this problem, I spoke to that font of all knowledge: Caius’ Head Porter.

It turned out that he had been a coal miner in his younger days: he suggested I contact the National Union of Mine Workers, as he recalled being issued with pads to protect his knees when working in cramped shafts. I wrote to the President of the NUM (one Arthur Scargill) to ask whether he would be prepared to donate any surplus stock. In spite of the fact that the miners’ strike (6 March 1984 – 3 March 1985) was about to begin, he replied in person, but was

unable to assist with the request. A solution was found when Caian Tim Gray (Engineering 1982) approached his namesake: Gray’s sports shop, the owner of which kindly donated multiple pairs of skateboard knee pads and hand protectors to be used by the crawlers. The committee was overwhelmed with donations to the cause. Caian Colin Cadas (Engineering 1982) negotiated successfully with Greene King who gave several kegs of beer, the contents of which were to be served to those who completed the crawl. Farley’s donated hundreds of rusks which were to be given to all participants who crawled. The committee was tasked with rustling up as many crawlers as possible: Tim Gray was particularly successful, persuading 20 others to join in. Committee members took responsibility for liaising with external organisations, which provided invaluable logistical support, such as Cambridge City Police and St John’s Ambulance. The Cambridge City branch of Save the Children, ably marshalled by Area Organiser Ann Ison and Mike Taylor, Project Director at SCF’s Cambridge Headquarters, provided marshals and much additional support. Caian, Ed Warren (Natural Sciences 1981), designed a route map and organised the marshals at various points along the way.

In advance of the event, I undertook a trial crawl of the course, with skateboard pads donned: it took me three hours to complete. I recall being surprised that the hundreds of students and tourists I passed during this recce barely raised an eyebrow at someone crawling

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on all fours through Cambridge’s hallowed streets. When crossing Garrett Hostel Bridge, the then Dean of Caius, John Sturdy, cycled towards me and stopped to ask, with great concern, if I was all right. I told him I was doing penance: I am not sure what he made of that response!

Publicity was a big feature of the sponsored crawl.

One of the committee members had rooms next door to HRH Prince Edward at Jesus College and arranged for me to meet him there to discuss his participation in the event. When I arrived, at the appointed hour, I was met

by Dick Griffin, Prince Edward’s young bodyguard, who I recently met again when I arranged a talk he gave about his experience as the Queen’s personal bodyguard. Prince Edward was keen to crawl, which was exciting news for the committee. However, a little while later, he contacted me to say that this wouldn’t be possible (had The Palace advised him that crawling wasn’t sufficiently regal?).

He, however, agreed that he would start the event. The Prince’s involvement was a major source of interest for the press, both local and national. Julian Haviland, the father of one of the committee members, Caian Peter Haviland (Modern and Medieval Languages 1980), was a journalist with The Times, as well as ITN’s Political Editor.

He arranged for the crawl to feature in both news outlets.

Most of the other nationals, and newly launched Channel 4, were there for the big day: Sunday, March 11th.

At 10 am, that day, I met Prince Edward at The Eagle.

We walked together to the start line on King’s Parade. As we did so, a wall of press photographers blocked our path and were unwilling to move. This ruffled the prince who, in his address to those participating in the event, delivered through a megaphone, said of the assembled press: ‘You probably have the most professional crawlers in the world standing in front of you.’ Regrettably, this grabbed unwanted headlines: ‘Megamoth gives Press an Earful’ screamed The Mirror the following day. Mercifully, most of the publicity focused on the positive aspects of the event.

The crawl itself is a blur of memories, as I attended to multiple matters. Of the 140 individuals and teams who took part in the event, approximately one hundred completed the three mile course. It was fortunate that representatives from St John’s Ambulance were present, as there were lots of injuries. In fact, I spent the two weeks after the event visiting the injured in their rooms, and one in hospital, as they recovered from the experience.

Over £3000 was raised, mostly from the pockets of impoverished students: a fantastic effort. The money came in in dribs and drabs and was stored in a suitcase in my room in Green Street, mostly in the form of coins and notes. After a couple of months, I decided the funds should be banked. With great difficulty, I lugged the suitcase from my second-floor room to ground level.

“Prince Edward was keen to crawl, which was exciting news for the committee.”

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Crawlers in Senate House Passage

On the way to NatWest, the handle of the suitcase broke and I had to drag, with great difficulty, the increasingly battered case through the streets of Cambridge to the bank. The teller told me I couldn’t deposit such a large amount all at once, so I had to drag the suitcase all the way back to Green Street, then back up to my rooms.

I then spent the following days taking the money to the bank in smaller portions.

The crawl continued to garner widespread publicity after the event, including an article, written by Basil Boothroyd, in Punch, whose opening paragraph of a lengthy article was: ‘You were not, I hope, one of those who threw the paper down and his eyes up on reading about that sponsored crawl from Cambridge to Granchester. If so, it dates you: especially if you got off a few crusty and empurpled comments on what today’s young people were going to get up to next, God almighty, and how the University Grants Committee was applying the year’s slice of £600 million from your hard-won income tax.’

I was invited to speak about the sponsored crawl at the Save the Children Fund annual conference at a packed Queen Elizabeth II Concert Hall, on the Southbank. I

was joined there by Caian committee members Peter Haviland and Christian Renton (Natural Sciences 1981). The crawl was clearly very different to SCF’s stock fund raising events and those in attendance very much enjoyed hearing about the event and the other mad-cap fund raising enterprises the Cambridge University SCF committee had undertaken during the course of the year. It was great to celebrate what had been such a successful and fun event to such an appreciative audience. I was introduced to the SCF Royal Patron HRH Princess Anne afterwards who was, I think, rather tickled by the crawl.

I remain in touch with most of the Caians mentioned in this article and was delighted to meet (a now 90 year old) Julian Haviland again a year or two ago at his home, delightfully situated near Blair Atholl. Caius has a firm place in my heart. My father, uncle and a cousin all attended the College, so G&C runs through my veins. The sponsored crawl is a treasured memory amongst many that linger from a terrific three undergraduate years.

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Dr Rachell Sánchez-Rivera RESEARCHING RACE & ANTI-RACISM

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In addition to the Research Fellowship competition in the arts, humanities, and sciences, the College awarded its first Research Fellowship in the Study of Race and Anti-Racism in 2021. Dr Rachell SánchezRivera took up their post in October.

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iscrimination and representation across a spectrum of race, (dis) ability, sexuality and more is being scrutinised by Dr Rachell Sánchez-Rivera, who in October began a Research Fellowship in the Study of Race and Anti-Racism at Gonville & Caius College.

With representation high on the global agenda, Dr Sánchez-Rivera’s research explores topical subjects, building on their PhD, which was titled: ‘What Happened to Mexican Eugenics? Racism and the Reproduction of the Nation’.

Their project explores the origins of eugenics in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century and traces its continuity and evolution into the present day. Using a mixture of archival materials and contemporary activists’ reports, this manuscript shows how central the role of eugenicists was to the creation of the Mexican nation-state. This project will be the first book manuscript dedicated to Mexican eugenics that is written in English, providing a global context by broadening our understanding of transnational connections of eugenics and its contemporary legacies.

“Scholarly accounts of eugenics in Mexico have treated it as a field that became defunct following World War Two,” Dr SánchezRivera says.

“My exploration of Mexican eugenics as part of a broader international network offers a framework for demonstrating the interconnectedness of eugenic ideas globally, and their impact on the everyday lives of individuals.”

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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Dr Sánchez-Rivera adds: “As a queer/nonbinary researcher and a scholar of colour from Puerto Rico, a colonised background, I am passionate about contributing to the task of untangling social inequalities, gender disparities, and human rights violations in the United States and Latin America, and have made a significant contribution to the discourse surrounding the intersections of race, gender, and social inequalities.

“This fellowship will give me the opportunity to expand on one of the most recurring topics of my PhD dissertation.

Disability studies and critical race theory are fields that are often overlooked in Latin American studies and critical studies of eugenics in Latin America.

“And current research on eugenics usually overlooks the transnational connections of historical eugenics and its contemporary legacies.”

Dr Geoffrey Maguire was elected as a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College and College Lecturer in Spanish from Michaelmas 2021. His diverse research interests were shaped by his upbringing.

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rowing up in Northern Ireland towards the end of the Troubles seems a world away from studying Spanish at the University of St Andrews and developing an interest in Latin America. But Dr Geoffrey Maguire believes his formative experiences helped shape his work.

His PhD, undertaken at the University of Cambridge, became his first book, The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Argentine Culture (2017). It examines how new generations of Argentines remember the trauma of the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, a period of violence that they were either too young to recall or which had finished before they were born. He is fascinated by how societies and cultures remember – and re-write – their pasts, which, he explains, is no doubt fuelled by growing up in Northern Ireland during the 1990s.

He says: “Argentina and Northern Ireland are worlds apart in many ways, but certain words, concepts and images are shared in how they remember their pasts: the figure of the ‘Disappeared’, for instance, which appears in poetry and film from younger generations in both contexts and serves as a focal point for the violence that took place.”

Previously the Lorna Close Lecturer in Spanish at Murray Edwards College and a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in MML at Peterhouse, Dr Maguire specialises in contemporary Latin American film, literature and visual art, with particular interests in cultural memory, queer representation, and sexuality and gender.

“I’ve been interested in Latin American literature since my undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews. After several years and degrees at St Andrews, La Sorbonne and Madrid, I came up to Cambridge for a PhD in Argentine literature, which eventually turned into my first book,” he says.

Alongside his Fellowship at Caius, Dr Maguire will teach at Emmanuel College, and seek to complete his latest book, which looks at how contemporary Latin American directors and artists use water to express queer subjectivities and the fluidity of sexuality.

Bodies of Water is scheduled to be published in early 2023 and explores Dr Maguire’s interests in how the natural spaces of lakes, oceans and rivers are used to represent non-normative sexualities and genders as natural expressions of human identity.

Having been involved in the interview process at Caius in recent years, Dr Maguire is well aware of the calibre of students that the College attracts. He now looks forward to

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Dr Maguire specialises in contemporary Latin American film, literature and visual art, with particular interests in cultural memory, queer representation, and sexuality and gender.

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working with our students in Spanish and Portuguese throughout their degrees.

“Caius has an outstanding reputation for the study of Modern and Medieval Languages, and I am excited to work with the wonderful students and Fellows in the subject,” he says.

“I’m particularly pleased to be able to complete the set and add Spanish and Portuguese to Caius’ established strengths in French, German and Italian.”

One of the initiatives that Dr Maguire will continue to work on is the University of Cambridge’s lgbtQ+@Cam Programme, which draws together researchers from across the University working on projects on LGBTQ+ topics.

He adds: “We have had a wonderful three years of workshops, conferences and social events, all designed to promote research on and by LGBTQ+ people across Cambridge.

“We have also worked closely with several colleges in order to increase tutorial support for LGBTQ+ students, and I look forward to working with students at Caius to continue to make Cambridge a welcoming place for students of all gender identities.”

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In good feather A conversation with Stephen Moss CATHERINE QUINN

Chances are you’re probably already familiar with Stephen Moss’ work without even realising it. The Caius alumnus (English 1979) and author of several successful bird biographies spent over 15 years working behind the scenes of the nation’s best loved wildlife programmes. From Springwatch to Big Cat Diary, Titchmarsh to Attenborough, Stephen has worked with some of the greats.

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tephen Moss’s love of wildlife can be traced back to before he can remember, after a life changing outing with his mother to feed the ducks.

“I didn’t know what some of them were, so I came back and identified them in a little book, The Observer’s Book of Birds, as Coots,” he says.

A self-confessed “very precocious reader”, Stephen read the book from cover to cover, eventually going on to read English at Caius, which he still considers fundamental in forming his career in broadcasting.

He adds: “I’m fascinated by the cultural importance of birds so in my bird biographies and in books I’ve done on bird names or the history of bird watching, I’m more interested in that interplay between people and wildlife, particularly birds, through time. And Caius certainly helped with that hugely.”

So how do you land a career working on some of the best-loved television programmes in the UK? Well, it turns out, a combination of hard work, perseverance, and a sprinkling of luck.

He says: “I’ve always been interested in birds and I thought about turning my hobby into a job, but in the 80s there wasn’t an obvious path to do that. I wanted to work in the media so I ended up getting a traineeship at the BBC and making education programmes and documentaries. Every year I would pitch ideas for a bird watching programme with Bill Oddie. And for 13 years in a row, they didn’t accept it and then, suddenly, they did.”

Even after this initial breakthrough, Stephen still thought this would be a one-off. However, it proved such a hit that he was later invited to join the BBC’s Natural History Unit, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or, as Stephen puts it, “like playing for Yeovil Town or Cambridge United and being asked to go and join Manchester City!”

The saying goes “never work with children or animals,” and Stephen has definitely found that the latter can prove unpredictable during his time in television.

“I’m more interested in that interplay between people and wildlife, particularly birds, through time. And Caius certainly help with that hugely.”

Stephen, aged 8 and sparrows in 1968

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“The golfer, Gary Player was asked if he was lucky when he played golf and he said ‘yes, up to a point luck comes into it. But it’s funny, the harder I practise, the luckier I get.’ We spent a lot of time out waiting for things to happen and they didn’t. We went to see dolphins in Scotland and it was one of those mornings where they just didn’t show when we’d been promised that they were always there.”

Hungry and deflated, they ventured to a local café for lunch, where they overheard the story of the local otter. “‘Ooh we get a little otter, a wee otter comes out on the beach, oh, there it is,’” he recalls, expertly affecting the waitress’s Scottish accent. “And we were out, filming this otter which sat there and fed in front of us for the next hour. And it was completely unexpected. You couldn’t possibly have otter on your hit list!”

Another time Stephen travelled to Patagonia with Bill Oddie, in the hopes of filming elephant seals, when on their very last day they spotted a pod of killer whales in pursuit of a seal pup.

“Normally then you’d have a problem because they would rip it to bits and you wouldn’t be able to show it,” he adds. Luckily the pup escaped.

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“Nature’s always unpredictable, that’s the joy of it. Annoying when you’re trying to film it, but lovely when it works.”

Despite working in all seven continents in search of wildlife, Stephen’s first love will always be the Great British countryside and all it has to offer.

“My favourite place abroad is either the Okavango Delta or Masai Mara, where I filmed Big Cat Diary,” he says. “When you leave Africa, you leave a little bit of your heart behind.

My favourite place in the UK is not somewhere I’ve ever filmed. It’s here.

It’s where I live in Somerset, and it’s wonderful that Somerset has become this absolute hot spot for birds. So it’s a really special place. And I love Speyside, Shetland and Norfolk too.

Great Britain is fantastic for wildlife.”

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“Despite working in all seven continents in search of wildlife, Stephen’s first love will always be the Great British countryside and all it has to offer.“

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certain birds will come by at certain times of day and certain times of year. They’ll sing in spring, they’ll feed in winter, and they might have youngsters,” he explains.

“So you can learn a lot about birds from your garden. You can learn to identify a lot of the finches, the tits, the thrushes – the common birds that come to your garden. Then get a local patch, whether a local park or a nature reserve. But the closer it is to where you either live or work, the better, because then if you go once or twice a week, then that will expand your knowledge. And the same is true of birdsong, which is much harder.

Everyone says they can’t identify birds by song, but it’s like learning a language you just have to knuckle down.”

At which point Stephen burst into a display of collared dove and wood pigeon song, which I wish I could convey into words. Speaking of birdsong, Stephen identifies a very

interesting changes in bird behaviour which the public have become more aware of during the pandemic. Our changing lifestyles and the new calm in the inner city has led many commuters to believe that birds have seemingly become louder, when in fact, as Stephen explains, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

“I had a lot of friends from London ringing me and asking if the birds are singing more loudly than normal, because of course, they’ve never noticed it,” he says. “They’ve not noticed it because they were very busy. They were going to and from work, rather than doing that one hour’s walk a day. Actually, given the lack of aircraft noise and traffic noise the birds were singing more quietly.”

For many, lockdown provided the opportunity and time to become better acquainted with nature. Those who would never have considered themselves bird watchers or even nature lovers were tuning in to nature in a way they never had before, as Stephen notes “I did a regular slot on the Today programme during the first lockdown, and we got some really interesting feedback from people saying they had never really noticed wildlife before, which was lovely and so hopefully that will carry on,” he adds.

“You can learn a lot about birds from your garden.

You can learn to identify a lot of the finches, the tits, the thrushes – the common birds that come to your garden.”

It is clear from speaking to Stephen how passionate he is about wildlife, and he has spent his life communicating this through writing, his TV work and now radio.

“My love is writing and so writing books is the most pleasurable for me,” he adds. “Television was wonderful in a different way. It’s very much a team effort, lots of very skilled, very talented people. When we made Springwatch, we had over 100 people there. Funnily enough, the one I think I’d prefer, but I’ve done least of, is radio!”

Stephen is now a regular on BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day, alongside recording his own radio series with his colleague Brett Westwood a few years ago, the Guide to Garden Birds. “Radio has the immediacy of television but the intimacy of writing,” he explains. “It’s a lovely hybrid between the two.”

His next project, a book about swans, takes him back to his roots. As many Cambridge alumni can attest to having encountered the city’s more infamous residents over the years, they’re nothing short of characterful.

“They’re a sort of national treasure, like the Queen or Judi Dench or David Attenborough, but they’ve got a bit of an edge to them...”

Stephen with a Regent Bowerbird in Queensland in 2014

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A second Chance Georgia Brown (History and Politics 2018) shares her experience of studying at Caius with Inflammatory Bowel Disease – and how starting again can be a positive experience.

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eorgia Brown described herself as Schrödinger’s Fresher, but she has grasped her second chance and is now entering her final year as an undergraduate at Caius.

She is fully immersed in College life as Vice-President of the Gonville & Caius Students’ Union, a cox with Caius Boat Club, and with an active social life (Covid permitting).

Georgia had to intermit – take time away from study in a process to support mitigating circumstances such as physical or mental illness, or bereavement – and returned the following October due to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

Her matriculation date is 2018, although her full experience at Caius began a year later.

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change happened and I had to wait another year,” Georgia says.

“It was heartbreaking at the time, but it was definitely the right decision.

“The intermission process can be quite isolating and confusing.

The Disabled Students’ Campaign are absolutely fantastic with their intermission advice. So many people intermit that you don’t realise.

“I thought I was in quite exceptional circumstances; now I’ve learnt people

intermit for so many reasons and it can be a beneficial process.

“Sometimes you have to intermit – for me, I don’t think there was any way I could’ve caught up. And a year off was good, because I ended up having further surgery.

“I nearly died, so a year off was probably the right thing.”

IBD affects over 300,000 people in the UK, and Georgia, who is from Manchester, reported her symptoms to her GP in October 2017, and received her diagnosis in January 2018, ahead of her A-Level examinations.

Blood loss and low haemoglobin saw her become tachycardic (high heart rate), and the steroid medication caused side effects which included waking in the early hours.

Her experience with IBD has coincided with her Cambridge journey, as she experienced symptoms during the application process and ahead of her interview in Year 13, which took place on her 18th birthday.

Within days of receiving her offer, she had to have a sigmoidoscopy (an exam used to evaluate the colon) in January 2018. She taught herself ahead of her A-Level exams, but exceeded the entry requirements with three A* and enjoyed a memorable summer. She then had a colonoscopy a week before moving to Cambridge, where she was ready for a new start.

However, Georgia fell ill soon after her arrival, and was admitted to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in October 2018.

“It was my dream to go to Cambridge, and Freshers’ Week was great, but then I started to become really poorly, losing a lot of blood and being up in the night,” she adds.

“I was really tachycardic and went to the GP. I was told to go to A&E and was admitted – it’s a very strange experience being admitted to a hospital as a fresher, in a place you’ve not been to before. It was quite a traumatic experience – my mum did come and visit me, but she was a fourhour drive away.”

After being stabilised, she was out of hospital for a week before being readmitted on Halloween. She had two blood transfusions prior to having emergency surgery (sub-total colectomy) in November 2018. After being discharged, Georgia had to intermit and in July 2019 she had her second surgery (proctectomy).

An ostomy bag has given her a second opportunity.

Georgia in hospital

“Body image is a huge thing, and people have said to me ‘oh, you’re so brave’. It shouldn’t be a brave thing to do. If you’re confident it shines through.”

“There’s a massive stigma attached to Inflammatory Bowel Disease and stoma bags in general.

People don’t like talking about it,” Georgia says.

“I was in hospital on death’s door before I had my bag, and now I’m in Cambridge doing everything. It gives you your life back, definitely.”

Georgia was the GCSU disability and mental health officer in 2020, and is keen to tell her story to educate and support others.

She adds: “People on social media sometimes say ‘I’d rather die than have that (a stoma bag)’ – well, that was the choice. It’s always hurtful to read or hear those comments, which come from a place of ignorance.

“A stoma bag gives people their life back, and the fact I chose to make it permanent rather than go through other surgeries which could have reversed it shows it’s not as bad as you think it is.

“There are so many body positive people on social media too – that does help. I’m friends with so many people who show off their bags on social media.

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a brave thing to do. If you’re confident it shines through.”

Georgia also believes she was fortunate with the timing of her intermission.

“Because I intermitted in first year, I think it’s easier, because you join again as a fresher, nobody knows each other and everyone’s trying to make friends,” she adds.

“I was lucky I could start afresh again.”

RESOURCES Caius’ Accessibility Information is available on the College website: www.cai.cam.ac.uk/discover/visitingcaius/accessibility-information The University of Cambridge Disability Resource Centre: www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk Crohn’s and Colitis UK: www.crohnsandcolitis.org.uk Cambridge University Hospitals IBD pages: www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services/ gastroenterology/inflammatorybowel-disease-ibd

Meet Martin the Porter When one member of the Gonville & Caius Students’ Union was asked to share their favourite thing about the College on social media, their answer was ‘Martin the Porter’.

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eet Martin – Martin Rule: Cambridge born and bred, wearing a permanent smile and a welcoming friendly face to all in the Caius community and beyond.

Martin has been a Caius Porter since January 2019, and is often seen at the Lodge on Trinity Street or West Road. Whether visitors are delivery drivers, colleagues or students, the warm reception is the same.

His zest for life has followed chronic illness. Martin was diagnosed with colitis in 2001 and bowel surgeries in 2009 and 2011 mean he now has a j-pouch, where two parts of his small intestine were joined to take the place of his removed colon. The alternative did not bear thinking about for Martin, who is full of admiration for Georgia Brown (featured on the previous pages).

“I went through a stage where I was going to the loo 40 times a day. You become almost trapped wherever you live,” the 47-year-old says. “(But) I pushed against surgery for a long time.

“They said the operation needs to be done and we’ll schedule it in for October 14. I said ‘I can’t, it’s my daughter’s fourth birthday’. They said ‘it’s your choice, but if you don’t have it on her fourth birthday, you probably won’t see her fifth’.”

His daughter is now 15, and another is 21, similar ages to the students which Martin helps daily.

“I’ve always loved people, but more since the surgery,” he adds. “You realise what’s important and it’s the people that matter.

“The College is gorgeous, but it’s a load of old buildings. When the students are here it’s a college. That’s what I love: the students and the way they speak to us.

“This last year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, they’ve been incredible. They’ve worked so hard to get to Cambridge, and for what they’ve lost, it’s very, very rare that any of them have ever been angry. They’ve been stressed, sad and upset, but they’ve got on with it. It just goes to show the sort of people they’ll be.”

The pandemic has provided a sense of perspective for many. For Martin that came with his illness, and after learning of an 18-year-old girl whose j-pouch failed, adhering to her bladder and womb, which both had to be removed.

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“She came out with two bags and infertile. And yet she was the most positive person I’ve ever known, because she was alive,” he said.

“I made a pledge in my mind at my first surgery. I made a pledge that if the surgeon did his bit I would do my bit to do everything I could to be positive and help people.

“My mental health is better since having surgery. Small things tend to worry me a lot less.

“I do this job that I love and I’m a qualified counsellor.

It’s because of the illness. I wouldn’t be doing it otherwise.

In a way it’s been a benefit.”

Martin is a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor, “dealing with all sorts of different neurotic conditions”, and at Caius he is happy to listen to students and to support them. He often wears a mental health badge or a rainbow flag on the lapel of his Caius jacket.

“I have two daughters, and I’m separated from both their mums, because I’m gay,” he says.

“I always knew, from the age of about 13. But when I was 13 it was 1986, 1987 and times were very different for a working-class boy living on an estate in Cambridge.

“I always thought it would be OK and I’d pretend it didn’t exist. But as I got older, I found my own mental health was struggling because of that.

“My recent ex-wife – we still live in the same house – has known for years now. We’ve lived separate lives, but in the same house.

My daughters know, my family knows, everyone knows and it’s great. My daughters think it’s really cool having a gay dad.

“I’ve spoken to students about it before. During pride I’ll wear a pride pin on my jacket. For visibility. It’s not to say ‘hi world, I’m gay’. It’s to say ‘if you need to talk to me it makes that conversation easier’. I also wear a mental health one.”

University is often a coming of age experience and Martin’s advice is simple.

“Just be yourself. Certainly in this day and age. Don’t be afraid or embarrassed,” he says.

“Because of the way I was brought up I thought there was something wrong with me for years. That’s not anything against my parents, it’s just how times were.

“University’s a great place to be able to be yourself.

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THANK YOU The Master and Fellows wish to express their warmest thanks to all Caians, parents and friends of the College who have generously made donations in the period between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to maintain the College’s excellence for future generations.

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Dr W M Gibson† Mr A G H House*†

1944

Mr D J Hyam*

1945

Professor C N L Brooke* Mr F R McManus* Dr J C S Turner†

1946

Dr D A P Burton Mr D V Drury* Professor J T Fitzsimons His Honour Judge Vos†

1947

Mr F N Goode†

1948

Dr P C W Anderson*† Mr A C Barrington Brown* Mr T Garrett†

1949

Mr A G Beaumont Mr K J A Crampton Mr J J H Haines* Mr A M Morgan Mr J Norris† Mr A W Riley†

1950

Mr D R Brewin Mr G H Eaton Hart† Dr A C Halliwell† Dr M I Lander† Mr G S Lowth† Mr D L H Nash† Mr A G C Paish† Mr J A Potts† Dr A J Shaw Mr D A Skitt† Mr S P Thompson† Mr W A J Treneman

1951

Dr A J Cameron† Mr P R Castle† Mr R N Dean* The Revd P T Hancock† Mr J P M Horner*† Professor L L Jones†

Dr R W King* Mr E R Maile† Mr J K Moodie† The Revd T J Surtees† Mr J E Sussams† Mr S R Taylor† Mr P E Walsh† Mr C H Walton*† Mr P Zentner†

1952

Dr A R Adamson† Professor J E Banatvala† Mr G D Baxter† Dr M Brett† Mr D Bullard-Smith† Mr C J Dakin† Mr H J A Dugan*† Dr T W Gibson† Mr D B Hill† Mr E J Hoblyn Dr C W McCutchen* Lord Morris of Aberavon Mr P J Murphy† Mr S L Parsonson† Mr P S Pendered Professor M V Riley† Dr N Sankarayya Mr R P Wilding†

1953

Mr S F S Balfour-Browne† Mr K C A Blasdale† Mr P H Coward† Dr P M B Crookes† Mr P R Dolby† Mr B Ellacott* Professor C du V Florey† Mr G H Gandy† Mr B V Godden† Mr H J Goodhart† Mr C B Johnson Dr D H Keeling† Professor J G T Kelsey Mr J E R Lart† Dr R A Lewin† Mr R Lomax† Dr D M Marsh† Dr M J Orrell† Mr T I Rand† Mr J P Seymour†

1954

Professor M P Alpers Mr D R Amlot† Mr J Anton-Smith† Mr D W Bouette† Mr D J Boyd Professor D P Brenton Professor C B Bucknall† Dr R J Cockerill† Mr G Constantine

Mr D I Cook† Dr R A F Cox Mr P H C Eyers Professor J Fletcher† Dr A E Gent† Professor R J Heald Mr R A Hockey Mr J S Kirkham Mr R W Montgomery† Mr B C Price Mr R M Reeve† Mr M H Spence† Mr D Stanley† Mr K Taskent Mr P E Thomas† Mr B Tytherleigh

1955

Mr C F Barham† Mr A L S Brown Dr J H Brunton† Mr A R Campbell† Dr M Cannon† Mr D J Clayson Professor P D Clothier† Mr A A R Cobbold† Dr C K Connolly† Dr R A Durance† Dr F R Greenlees Professor R E W Halliwell† Dr T G Jones Mr M E Lees† Mr J H Mallinson Mr J J Moyle† Dr P J Noble† Mr A B Richards† Dr A P Rubin Mr J D Taylor† Mr H W Tharp†

1956

Mr J A Cecil-Williams*† Mr G B Cobbold Dr R Cockel† Dr J P Cullen Mr J A L Eidinow Professor G H Elder† Mr J K Ferguson Professor J A R Friend Mr R Gibson† Dr H N C Gunther Mr M L Holman† Mr G J A Household† Professor A J Kirby Dr R G Lord† Mr P A Mackie Mr B J McConnell† Dr H E McGlashan Canon P B Morgan† Dr B E Mulhall Mr B M Nonhebel Mr A J Peck† ...ALWAYS A CAIAN

Mr J A Pooles† Mr J J C Procter† Mr J V Rawson† Mr C J D Robinson† Professor D K Robinson† Mr I Samuels Mr R R W Stewart Dr R D Wildbore† Mr J P Woods Dr D L Wynn-Williams†

1957

Mr W E Alexander Dr I D Ansell† Dr N D Barnes Dr T R G Carter Dr J P Charlesworth† The Revd D H Clark Professor A D Cox Mr M L Davies† Dr T W Davies† Mr E J Dickens Dr A N Ganner Professor A F Garvie† Very Revd Dr M J Higgins† Mr E M Hoare† Professor F C Inglis† Mr A J Kemp† Dr R T Mathieson† Professor A J McClean† Dr B J McGreevy* Mr C B Melluish Mr A W Newman-Sanders† Mr T Painter Mr G R Phillipson The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter† Mr H J H Pugh† Mr P W Sampson† Professor J N Tarn*† Mr O N Tubbs† The Rt Hon Lord Tugendhat† Dr J Wodak Dr A Wright

1958

Mr C Andrews† Professor R P Bartlett Dr J F A Blowers† Mr J P B Bryce† Professor A R Crofts Dr J Davies Mr W P N Graham† Professor F W Heatley† Mr D M Henderson† Mr J A Honeybone Dr P F Hunt Professor J O Hunter† Mr J G Jellett Dr R P Knill-Jones† Mr E A B Knowles† Mr R D Martin

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Mr C P McKay† Dr D R Michell Dr C S A Ng Dr J V Oubridge Mr G D Pratten† Mr M P Ruffle† Sir Colin Shepherd† Mr A Stadlen† Sir Keith Stuart† Mr A J Taunton† Mr F J W van Silver† Dr G A Walker

1959

Professor D S Brée Mr J A Brewer Dr D E Brundish† Mr H R G Conway Dr A G Dewey† Mr M J Dodd Mr T H W Dodwell Mr B Drewitt† The Revd T C Duff† The Rt Revd D R J Evans† Mr G A Geen† Dr J A Gibson*† Mr P M Hill† Mr M J D Keatinge† Mr H J A McDougall† Mr C J Methven† Mr P Neuburg† Professor G S Panayi Mr J H Riley† The Revd D G Sharp Mr G S H Smeed Mr J E Trice Professor P Tyrer† Dr I G van Breda† Mr D J Wagon Dr A G Weeds† Mr J T Winpenny Dr M D Wood Mr P J Worboys

1960

Dr N A Bailey Mr J G Barham† Mr B C Biggs† Mr R A A Brockington Dr D I Brotherton† His Hon Peter Cowell† Mr J M Cullen Mr T E Dyer Professor R J B Frewer Dr C H Gallimore† Revd P R Gant* Mr N Gray Dr D F Hardy Dr P M Keir Mr A Kenney† Dr P Martin† Mr M B Maunsell†

Dr H F Merrick† Dr C H R Niven† Mr M O’Neil Professor A E Pegg† Dr J D Powell-Jackson Dr A T Ractliffe† Dr R A Reid† Revd P Smith† Dr F H Stewart Dr M T R B Turnbull† Professor P S Walker Mr A A West† Mr D H Wilson Mr N J Winkfield Dr G R Youngs Dr A M Zalin

1961

Mr C E Ackroyd Mr A D Bell† Professor R S Bird† Mr P A Bull Mr J O Davies Dr J Davies-Humphreys Dr J S Denbigh*† Mr T Ducat Mr P W Durant Mr D K Elstein† Mr J A G Fiddes† Mr M J W Gage Dr J Gertner*† Dr A B Loach† Mr A W B MacDonald Professor R Mansfield Professor P B Mogford† Dr R M Moor*† Mr A G Munro Professor R J Nicholls Mr J Owens Mr M J Potton Sir Marcus Setchell Mr D C W Stonley Mr V D West† Mr P N Wood Mr R J Wrenn†

1962

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 W R Edwards Mr M Emmott† Mr T M Glaser† Dr C A Hammant† Mr A D Harris MBE† Mr D Hjort† Dr J B Hobbs Professor A R Hunter† Mr P A C Jennings† Mr J W Jones† Dr D M Keith-Lucas Professor J M Kosterlitz† Mr A R Martin

Caius distributed 112 Cambridge Bursaries in 2020–21 to a value of £335,000.

Professor Sir Andrew McMichael† Dr C D S Moss Dr R N F Simpson† Mr R Smalley† 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 G J Weaver†

Professor B C Barker† Mr R A Charles The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Clarke Dr C M Colley† Mr G B Cooper Mr J H Finnigan† Mr J Harris Dr D A Hattersley The Revd P Haworth† His Hon Richard Holman† Mr R P Hopford† Dr R G Jezzard† Mr K E Jones† Dr R R Jones Mr J R H Kitching Dr H J Klass The Hon Dr J F Lehman† Dr M J Maguire† Dr P J Marriott† His Hon Judge Morris Mr T Mullett† Dr J W New Mr R N Rowe† Dr D J Sloan Mr M L Thomas Mr I D K Thompson† Professor J S Tobias Mr I R Whitehead Mr A T Williams Mr C H Wilson Mr D V Wilson† Lt Col J R Wood

1963

Dr P J Adams† Dr T G Blaney† Dr B H J Briggs Mr P J Brown Mr E F Cochrane Mr R M Coombes† Dr J R Dowdle Professor M T C Fang Dr S Field Mr J E J Goad† Mr P M G B Grimaldi Mr N K Halliday Mr J L Hungerford† Dr R H Jago† Mr M S Kerr† Dr R Kinns Dr V F Larcher Dr R W F Le Page Mr D A Lockhart Mr J W L Lonie Mr J d’A Maycock Mr D B Newlove Dr J R Parker† Mr M J Pitcher*† Mr I H K Scott Mr P F T Sewell Dr J B A Strange Dr J Striesow Professor D J Taylor† Mr P H Veal† Dr M J Weston

1966

Professor D Birnbacher Mr D C Bishop Dr D S Bishop† Professor D L Carr-Locke Mr P Chapman† Dr C I Coleman Dr K R Daniels† Dr T K Day† Mr C R Deacon† Mr D P Dearden† Mr R S Dimmick Mr P S Elliston† Mr J R Escott† Mr W P Gretton† Mr D R Harrison† Dr L E Haseler† Mr R E Hickman† Mr R Holden Dr R W Howes Professor R C Hunt† Dr W E Kenyon† Mr R Leeming Mr D C Lunn Dr P I Maton Dr A A Mawby† Professor P M Meara Mr P V Morris Mr K F Penny Mr S Poster† Mr J N B Sinclair Dr R L Stone Mr N E Suess Mr D Swinson† Dr A M Turner Mr J F Wardle† Mr W J Watts Mr S M Whitehead† Mr J M Williams† The Revd R J Wyber

1964

Mr P Ashton† Mr D P H Burgess† Mr J E Chisholm Dr H Connor Mr H L S Dibley Mr R A Dixon Dr P G Frost† Dr R J Greenwood† Professor N D F Grindley† Professor J D H Hall† Mr B D Hedley† Professor Sir John Holman The Revd Canon R W Hunt Mr P T Inskip Mr A Kirby† Dr R K Knight Dr H M Mather† Mr S J Mawer† Mr J R Morley Mr R Murray† Mr A K Nigam† Mr J H Poole Dr W T Prince Dr C N E Ruscoe† Mr J F Sell† Dr R Tannenbaum† Mr A N Taylor Mr K S Thapa Mr C W Thomson Dr T B Wallington† Dr F J M Walters† Mr R C Wells†

1967

Mr G W Baines Mr N J Burton† Dr R J Collins Mr C F Corcoran Mr P G Cottrell Mr G C Dalton Dr W Day Mr A C Debenham† Mr G J Edgeley

1965

Dr P J E Aldred Professor L G Arnold†

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Mr P E Gore† Mr D G Hayes Dr W Y-C Hung† Mr J R Jones Mr N G H Kermode Mr R J Lasko† Mr D I Last† Dr I D Lindsay† Mr D H Lister† Mr R J Longman Dr G S May Dr D McK Mitchell Dr E A Nakielny† Mr W M O Nelson† Mr A M Peck Professor N P Quinn Mr J S Richardson Mr P Routley† Mr M S Rowe Professor J B Saunders Mr H J A Scott Mr G T Slater† Mr C A Williams The Revd Dr J D Yule

1968

Dr M J Adams† Mr P M Barker Mr P E Barnes Dr F G T Bridgham† Mr A C Cosker† Mr J P Dalton† Mr C Fletcher Mr J E J Galvin Mr D P Garrick† Mr M D Hardinge Mr G McC Haworth* Dr P W Ind† Professor R J A Little Dr D H O Lloyd† Dr R C H Lyle Mr B A Mace Mr J I McGuire Dr J Meyrick Thomas† Mr J A Norton† Mr M E Perry† Dr T G Powell† Mr S Read† Professor P G Reasbeck Professor J F Roberts Mr E Robinson Mr P S Shaerf Mr P J E Smith† Dr G S Walford† Mr C Walker Dr D P Walker† Mr P E Wallace† Dr P R Willicombe†

1969

Dr S C Bamber† Dr A D Blainey Mr S E Bowkett Mr A C Brown† Mr M S Cowell† Dr M K Davies Mr S H Dunkley Dr M W Eaton† Mr R J Field† Professor J P Fry† Dr C J Hardwick Professor A D Harries Mr J S Hodgson† Mr M J Hughes Mr T J F Hunt Mr S B Joseph Mr A Keir† Dr I R Lacy† Mr C J Lloyd† Mr S J Lodder Mr R G McGowan† Professor P A C O’Connor Dr C M Pegrum Dr D B Peterson Mr P J M Redfern

Mr B A H Todd Mr P B Vos† Mr A J Waters† Dr N H Wheale† Professor D R Widdess† Mr C J Wilkes† Mr D A Wilson† Mr P J G Wright†

1970

Mr R B Andreas† Mr J Aughton† Mr D Brennan† Mr R Butler Dr D D Clark-Lowes† Mr G J H Cliff† Mr R P Cliff† Mr L P Foulds† Professor J G H Fulbrook Dr D R Glover Mr O A B Green† Mr J D Gwinnell† Mr D P W Harvey Mr J W Hodgson Professor J A S Howell Mr S D Joseph† Mr C A Jourdan† Mr N R Kinnear† Mr J H Lambie Mr R T Lewis Mr B S Missenden† Dr S Mohindra† Mr A J Neale Professor D J Reynolds† Mr J S Robinson† Mr B Z Sacks† Dr R D S Sanderson† Dr S W Turner Mr I R Watson Professor R W Whatmore† Professor G Zanker

1971

Dr J P Arm Mr M S Arthur Mr J P S Born Mr S Brearley† Mr J A K Clark† Dr R C A Collinson† Mr J A Duval† Professor A M Emond Mr J-L M Evans Dr S H Gibson Mr L J Hambly Professor D M Hausman Professor B Jones Dr P Kinns† Dr G Levine Dr P G Mattos† Mr R I Morgan† Mr L N Moss† Mr N D Peace† Mr S R Perry Professor D I W Phillips Mr K R Pippard Dr M B Powell Mr P J Robinson Mr A Schubert Dr P T Such† Mr P A Thimont Mr A H M Thompson† Dr S Vogt† Mr S V Wolfensohn† Mr S Young*

1972

Mr M H Armour Mr A B S Ball† Mr J P Bates† Mr S M B Blasdale† Mr N P Bull Mr I J Buswell† Professor J R Chapman Mr C G Davies

Mr P A England Mr J E Erike† Mr P J Farmer† Mr C Finden-Browne† Mr W J Furber Mr R H Gleed† Mr R S Handley† Mr A M Hunter Johnston Professor W L Irving† Mr J K Jolliffe Mr D E Lamb Dr D R Mason† Mr C H Metcalfe Mr J R Moor† Mr S J Roberts Mr M D Roberts† Mr J Scopes Professor A T H Smith† Dr T D Swift† Mr P J Taylor The Revd Dr R G Thomas Mr R E W Thompson† Dr A F Weinstein†

1973

Dr A P Allen Dr S M Allen† Mr J P Cockett Professor P Collins Mr S P Crooks† Mr M G Daw† Mr P C English Mr A G Fleming Mr D J R Hill† Dr R J Hopkins Mr F How Mr W A Jutsum Mr J S Morgan† Mr J S Nangle Dr G Parker Professor T J Pedley† Mr J F Points† Dr M W Senger Dr D Y Shapiro Dr W A Smith Mr J Sunderland† Mr H B Trust Mr G A Whitworth

1974

Dr D F J Appleton Mr H J Chase Revd Dr V J Chatterjie Mr A B Clark Professor C Cooper Dr L H Cope Mr M D Damazer Professor J H Davies† Professor A G Dewhurst† Dr E Dickinson Mr C J Edwards† Professor L D Engle Mr R J Evans Professor J Gascoigne Mr P A Goodman† Dr P J Guider† Mr S J Hampson Dr W N Hubbard Mr P Logan† Mr R O MacInnes-Manby† Mr G Markham† Dr C H Mason† Mr P B Mayes Professor B Reddy Dr J J Rochford† Dr D S Secher† Mr C L Spencer† Mr W C Strawhorne Dr A M Vali Mr D K B Walker† Mr S T Weeks†

1975

Dr C J Bartley Mr P S Belsman

Mr S Collins† Sir Anthony CookeYarborough† Dr M J Franklin† Mr N R Gamble Mr M H Graham† Professor J F Hancock Mr R L Hubbleday Dr R G Mayne† Mr K S Miller† Dr C C P Nnochiri† 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 Dr J M Thompson† Mr B J Warne†

1976

Mr G Abrams Mr J J J Bates† Mr S J Birchall Mr L G Brew† Dr M P Clarke† The Revd Canon B D Clover Mr D J Cox† Dr G S Cross Mr R J Davis† Dr P H Ehrlich The Hon Dr R H Emslie† Dr M J Fitchett Mr S D Flack Dr K F Gradwell† Dr G C T Griffiths Dr F G Gurry Dr I C Hayes Professor J Herbert† Dr A C J Hutchesson† Mr R A Larkman† Mr S H Le Fevre Dr B E Lyn Dr P B Medcalf† Dr D Myers Dr R H Poddubiuk Mr J S Price Professor S Robinson Mr S J Roith Mr P L Simon† Dr S G W Smith Mr S Thomson† Mr J P Treasure† The Rt Hon N K A S Vaz Professor O H Warnock Mr A Widdowson†

1977

Mr J H M Barrow† Mr R Y Brown Dr M S D Callaghan† Dr P N Cooper† Professor K J Friston† Mr A L Gibb† Dr D J Gifford Mr K F Haviland Mr R M House† Professor G H Jackson Mr K A Mathieson† Dr P H M McWhinney† Mr H N Neal Dr R P Owens† Professor A Pagliuca† Dr K W Radcliffe Mr I M Radford† Mr P J Radford† Dr L F M Scinto Mr S A Scott Dr P A Watson† Mr D J White† Dr A N Williams† Mr M J Wilson† Mr L M Wiseman† Professor E W Wright†

1978

Mr J C Barber† The Revd Dr A B Bartlett Dr T G Blease† Mr M D Brown† Mr B J Carlin Mr C J Carter† Mr J M Charlton-Jones Mr S A Corns Mr M J Cosans Mr A D Cromarty Dr P M Dickson Dr P G Dommett† Dr J A Ellerton Mr J S Evans Mr R J Evans† Mr P G S Evitt Professor P M Goldbart Dr M Hernandez-Bronchud Dr C N Johnson† Mr P R M Kavanagh Mr D P Kirby† Mr R A Lister† Dr D R May Dr J B Murphy Mr A J Noble† Mr T D Owen† Mr S Preece Mr P J Reeder† Mr M H Schuster† Mr P A F Thomas Dr D Townsend† Mr R W Vanstone Dr W M Wong† Mr P A Woo-Ming†

1979

Mr D J Alexander Mr T C Bandy† Mr A J Birkbeck† Dr P J Carter Mr W D Crorkin Dr A P Day Mr N G Dodd Professor T J Evans† Dr J R Flowers Mr P C Gandy† Ms C A Goldie Dr A R Grant Dr M de la R Gunton† Mr N C I Harding† Mr R P Hayes† Mr T E J Hems† Professor P W M Johnson† Mr P J Keeble Dr M E Lowth Mr A D Maybury† Mr D L Melvin Mrs A S Noble Dr J G Reggler Ms A M Roads Dr C M Rogers Dr K C Saw Rabbi D R H Silver Ms H Tierney Professor R P Tuckett

1980

Mr C P Aldren Mr A M Ballheimer Dr L E Bates† Dr N P Bates† Mr J Bond Mr C R Brunold† Dr C E Collins† Mr A W Dixon The Revd Dr P H Donald Ms E J Frostick Dr S L Grassie† Dr E M L Holmes† Dr J M Jarosz Mr S J Lowth Mr A May Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery† ...ALWAYS A CAIAN

Caius spends twice what it receives in tuition fees – equivalent to £5,000 per student per year.

Dr J N Pines† Mr J H Pitman Mr R N Porteous† Mr T N B Rochford Ms J S Saunders† Mr J M E Silman† Mrs M S Silman† Professor M Sorensen Dr A F Tarbuck Professor J A Todd† Mr R L Tray Dr C Turfus†

1981

Mrs J S Adams Dr M A S Chapman Mr G A H Clark Mr J M Davey† Dr M Desai Mr D P S Dickinson† Mrs E M Finch Mr R Ford† Mr A W Hawkswell Mr W S Hobhouse† Mr R H M Horner† Mr P C N Irven† Mr B D Jacobs Professor T E Keymer† Mr P W Langslow Ms F J C Lunn Mr P J Maddock† Dr M Mishra Mr T G Naccarato Dr A P G Newman-Sanders Mr G Nnochiri† Mr J M Owen Mr G A Rachman† Mrs B J Ridhiwani Mrs M Robinson Dr R M Roope† Mrs D C Saunders Mr T Saunders Dr D M Talbott Mr K J Taylor Mr C J Teale Ms L J Teasdale† Ms A M Tully† 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 M Clark Mr P A Cooper† Dr M C Crundwell† Mr G A Czartoryski Professor S M Fitzmaurice Mr D A B Fuggle Mr T K Gray Dr I R Hardie Dr R M Hardie Mrs J Irvine Mr P Loughborough Ms E F Mandelstam Professor M Moriarty† Ms N Morris† Mrs R E Penfound† Mr R J Powell

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Professor S A T Redfern Dr C E Redfern Professor A Roberts Mr J P Scopes Mrs A J Sheat Ms O M Stewart† Mrs E I C Strasburger† Dr J G Tang† Mr A M Williams

1983

Dr J E Birnie† Mrs K R M Castelino† Professor S-L Chew Professor J P L Ching† Mr H M Cobbold† Dr S A J Crighton† Mr J C Curtis Dr A Dhiman† Dr N D Downing Mr A L Evans† Sir Timothy Fancourt† Mr P E J Fellows† Dr W P Goddard† Professor D R Griffin Mr W A C Hayward† Mr R M James Mr S J Kingston Mr S A Kirkpatrick Mrs H M L Lee† Mr J B K Lough† Dr R C Mason Mr A J McCleary† Mr R H Moore Dr L S Parker Mr R M Payn† Mr J A Plumley Mr K C Rialas Mrs S D Robinson† Mrs N Sandler Mr H C Shields Mr C J Shore Dr C P Spencer† The Revd C H Stebbing† Mr A G Strowbridge Mr R B Swede† Mr C H Umur Mr M R White Mr P G Wilkins Dr K M Wood† Dr S F J Wright†

1984

Dr H T T Andrews† Dr K M Ardeshna Mr D Bailey Mr R A Brooks† Mr G C R Budden† Mr A H Chatfield Dr R E Chatwin Dr S E Chua Professor H W Clark Mrs N J Cobbold† Dr A R Duncan† Professor T G Q Eisen Dr A S Gardner† Dr J C Harron Mr L J Hunter† Mr D K Kennedy Mr M A Lamming Mr G C Maddock† Mr A D H Marshall† Mr E P O’Sullivan Mr J R Pollock† Dr K S Sandhu†

Mr P M E Shutler Mrs K S Slesinger Mrs E J Staples Dr H E Woodley† Dr S H A Zaidi

Mr R C Wilson Dr J M Wilson Mr N A L Wood Dr E F Worthington† Dr A M Zurek

1985

1986

HE Mr N M Baker† Ms C E R Bartram† Dr I M Bell† Mrs J C Cassabois Mr A H Davison Dr J P de Kock Professor E M Dennison† Mr M C S Edwards† Mr J M Elstein† Mr K J Fitch Mr M J Fletcher Mrs E F Ford† Mr J D Harry† Professor J B Hartle Ms P Hayward Mr P G J S Helson† Mr J A Howard-Sneyd† Mr J M Irvine Dr C H Jessop Mr C L P Kennedy Mrs N M Lloyd The Very Revd N C Papadopulos Dr A Parkes 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 L J Roberts Mr R Sayeed Miss J A Scrine† Mr E J Shaw-Smith Dr P M Slade† Mrs E M Smuts Mr B M Usselmann Mr W D L M Vereker Mr M J J Veselý Mrs J S Wilcox† Mrs A K Wilson

Dr H L Dewing Dr K E H Dewing Mr C H Dodwell Mr C P J Flower Mr J W M Hak Mr S L Jagger† Dr M Karim Ms M L Kinsler Dr P Kumar† Mr D M Lambert† Dr J O Lindsay Ms P A Nagle Dr W P Ridsdill Smith Ms E A C Rylance Dr J Sarma Dr M Shahmanesh Mr D W Shores† Mr A B Silas Mr J M L Williams Dr T J A Winnifrith Mr A N E Yates†

Professor K Brown Mr J H F & Mrs A I Cleeve Mr A J F Cox Professor J A Davies† Dr S D Farrall Professor R L Fulton Brown† Dr K Green Mr R J Harker† Dr M P Horan Professor J M Huntley Mr M C Jinks Dr H V Kettle Professor J C Knight Professor M Knight Mr B D Konopka Ms A Kupschus† Professor J C Laidlaw† Dr A P Lock Dr G H Matthews Dr D L L Parry† Mr S K A Pentland Mr H T Price Dr R M Rao Dr P Rogerson Mr H J Rycroft Dr J E Sale Mr J P Saunders† Mrs E D Stuart† Mr J W Stuart† Dr A J Tomlinson Mr S A Wajed Mr T H Whittlestone Mr J P Young Mr C Zapf

1988

Dr P Agarwal Dr M Arthur Dr K J Brahmbhatt Mr H A Briggs† Dr A-L Brown Mr J C Brown† Ms C Stewart† Mrs M E Chapple† Mrs A I Cleeve Dr S R De Mr N D Evans Dr E N Herbert Ms A E Hitchings Ms R C Homan† Dr A D Hossack† Dr O S Khwaja 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 R J Sheard Dr R M Sheard Mr A D Silcock

1987

Mr J R Bird† Mr N A Campbell Mr N R Chippington† Dr E N Cooper Mr A J Coveney† Dr L T Day

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Dr R C Silcock Mrs A J L Smith† Mr A J Smith Mr R D Smith† Ms T W Y Tang Dr R M Tarzi Ms F R Tattersall† Mr M E H Tipping Mrs L Umur Miss C Whitaker Dr F J L Wuytack†

1989

Dr L C Andreae Professor J J E M Bael Mr S P Barnett Dr C E Bebb Professor M J Brown† Dr A M Bunyan Dr E A Cross† Mrs L M Devine Dr S Francis Mr G R Glaves† Mr S M S A Hossain† Dr P M Irving† Mr G W Jones† Mr T E Keim Mr J P Kennedy† Mr J R Kirkwood Dr H H Lee Dr S Lee Mrs L C Logan† Mr B J McGrath Mr P J Moore† Ms J H Myers† Dr S L Rahman Haley Dr A J Rice Mr N J C Robinson† Mrs C Romans† Mr A M P Russell† Mrs D T Slade Dr N Smeulders Professor L Smith Mr J A Sowerby Mr A S Uppal Mrs E H Wadsley† Mrs T E Warren†

1990

Mr A Bentham Mrs C M A Bentham Mrs E C Browne Mr C H P Carl Mr M H Chalfen† Professor L C Chappell† Dr A A Clayton† Mr I J Clubb† Mr P E Day† Mrs S V Dyson Associate Professor M K Elahee Dr D S Game† Mrs C L Guest† Mr A W P Guy† Dr C C Hayhurst Dr A D Henderson† Mr I Henderson† Mr R D Hill† Mr H R Jones† Dr P A Key QC Mr D H Kim Dr S H O F Korbei† Mr G C Li Ms A Y C Lim Mr J S Marozzi† Mr T Moody-Stuart† Mr G O’Brien Mr S T Oestmann† Dr C A Palin Dr J M Parberry† Dr S J Rogers Mrs L J Sanderson Dr J Sinha† Professor M C Smith Mr G E L Spanier

Professor S A R Stevens Dr J C Wadsley† Ms R M Winden

1991

Mr B M Adamson Ms J C Austin-Olsen† Dr R D Baird† Dr A A Baker† Dr P Bentley Mr C S Bleehen† Mrs C J Burgess Mr D H B Burgess Mr C R Butler Mr A M J Cannon† Mr D D Chandra† Dr N-M Chau Ms J E Cove-Smith Dr C Davies Dr A H Deakin† Mrs C R Dennison† Dr S Dorman Dr C S J Fang† Dr S C Francis† Mr I D Griffiths† Mr N W Hills Dr A J Hodge† Dr A R Horsley Dr J P Kaiser† Professor F E Karet Dr A D Kippen Mr I J Long Mrs L P Parberry† Mr D R Paterson Mr S J Quickenden Miss V A Ross† Dr S M Shah Mr A Smeulders† Mr J G C Taylor† Ms G A Usher† Mrs H-M A G C Vesey Mr C S Wale† Mr M N Whiteley Mrs M J Winner Mr S J Wright†

1992

Dr M R Al-Qaisi† Ms E H Auger Mr D Auterson Mrs R Auterson Mrs S P Baird† Mr J P A Ball Ms S F C Bravard Mr P N R Bravery† Mr N W Burkitt† Ms J R M Burton† Justice N R Campbell Mr W T Diffey Miss A M Forshaw Dr E M Garrett† Mr R A H Grantham† Mrs F M Haines Mr O Herbert† Dr S L Herbert† Mr E M E D Kenny Dr R M Lees Mr J Lui† Mr A K A Malde Dr C R Murray Mr M R Neal Ms C H Nicholls Dr E H Nicholls Mrs J A O’Hara Dr K M Park Dr M S Sagoo Mr J D Saunders† Mr P Sinclair Mrs S L Sinclair Mr D P Somers Mrs R C Stevens† Mr R O Vinall Mrs J M Walledge† Mr L K Yim Dr J C-M Yu

1993

Dr H Ashrafian Mrs F C Bravery† Dr A C G Breeze† Ms A J Brownhill Dr C Byrne Mr P M Ceely† Dr E A Congdon Mr B M Davidson Dr R J Davies Mr P A Edwards Mr M R England† Dr A S Everington† Dr I R Fisher Dr A Gallagher Dr F A Gallagher Ms V R Harrison-Mirauer Mr J C Hobson Mr C E G Hogbin† Dr A Kalhoro Mr C S Klotz Ms A J S Lanes Mr J D R Lloyd Dr A B Massara Dr S B Massara Mr T P Moss Dr A J Penrose Mr R B K Phillips† Dr J F Reynolds† Mrs L Robson Brown† Dr R Roy Dr T Walther Dr F A Woodhead

1994

Mr J H Anderson Mr G S Atwal Dr R A Barnes Professor D M Bethea Mr R P Blok Dr L Christopoulou† Dr D J Crease Dr D J Cutter Mr N Q S De Souza† Ms V K E Dietzel Dr S C Dyton Mr D R M Edwards Mr S E R Evans Dr T C Fardon† Mr S S Gill† Mrs C E Grainger† Mr R J M Haynes† Mrs E Haynes† Dr P M Heck Miss J K Jowitt Dr A P Khawaja† Mrs R A Lyon Dr D C O Massey Mr M J McElwee Professor S G A Pitel† Dr N Puvanachandra Mr P D Reel† Dr M J P Selby Dr D Smith Ms K-J Smith Dr K-S Tan Dr R R Turner† Mr M A Wood Dr Q J Zhang

1995

Mr C Aitken Mr M E Brelen Mr C Chew† Dr S L Dyson Mrs J A S Ford† Dr Z B M Fritz Dr M R Gökmen Professor J Harrington Dr E A Harron-Ponsonby† Mr J R Harvey† Dr N J Hillier† Ms L H Howarth† Dr A L Jones Ms J Kinns

Dr P Krishnamurthy Mr M E Langley Mr B J Marks Canon Prof J D McDonald† Dr D N Miller† Dr M A Miller† Dr C A Moores Dr K M O’Shaughnessy Mr S M Pilgrim Dr B G Rock† Ms T J Sheridan† Mr M J Soper Dr S Vermeren Mrs S A Whitehouse Dr C H Williams-Gray† Miss M B Williamson Dr X Yang Mr S S Zeki

1996

Mr S T Bashow† Mrs S E Birshan Dr J R Bonnington Miss A L Bradbury† Ms C E Callaghan Mr K W-C Chan† Maj J S Cousen† Mr G D Earl† Dr D A Evans Professor J Fitzmaurice Mrs J H J Gilbert Professor D A Giussani† Dr V P Gunasekera Mr I R Herd† Dr O A R Mahroo Miss F A Mitchell Ms J N K Phillips 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 C M Stafford Dr P G Velusami Mr B T Waine† Mr C G Wright† Mr K F Wyre†

Dr P J Dilks† Mr J A Etherington† Dr S E Forwood Mr M M Garvie Mrs J M Grabowski The Revd Dr J M Holmes Dr L Knutzen Mrs I E Luckett Mr H R F Nimmo-Smith† Mr A J Pask† Dr O Schon† Mrs J C Wood Mr R A Wood Mr D J F Yates†

1999

Mr P J Aldis Mr I Anane Mr R F T Beentje† Mr D T Bell† Miss C M M Bell† Dr C L Broughton† Mrs J E Busuttil† Ms J W-M Chan† Mr J A Cliffe† Mr J D Coley† Mr J R S Coupe Ms H B Deixler Ms L M Devlin† Mr P M Ellison Mr A Fiascaris Ms S Gnanalingam Dr O P Guttmann Mr A F Kadar† Mr C M Lamb† Mr M W Laycock† Mr N O Midgley Mr M A Pinna† Miss A J C Sander Dr J D Stainsby† Professor T Straessle Professor V P Tomasevic Mrs L N Williams Mr P J Wood Dr P D Wright†

2000

Mr G H Arrowsmith Mr A J Bower† Mr J D Bustard† Mr P J E Charles Ms S L Charles Miss J M Chrisman Mrs C Chu Mrs R V Clubb† Ms R F Cowan Mr I Dorrington Mrs J R Earl† Dr E J Fardon† Dr S P Fitzgerald Mr J Frieda Dr D M Guttmann† Mr L T L Lewis† Dr E A Martin† Ms V E McMaw† Dr A L Mendoza† Dr S Nestler-Parr Miss R N Page† Ms E D Sarma Mr B Sulaiman† Dr R Swift Dr K S Tang Mr J P Turville

Dr M J Borowicz Mrs S L Bradbury Mrs R A Cliffe† Mr M T Coates† Dr A H K Cowan Miss J L Dickey Mr E W Elias Mr T P Finch† Mr E D H Floyd Mrs S Hodgson Mrs J M Howley† Dr N S Hughes Dr J L P Järvinen Mr G P F King† Mrs V King† Ms M Lada Dr R Lööf Dr I B Malone Dr H J Marcus Dr A G P Naish-Guzmán† Maj D N Naumann† Mr H S Panesar† Mr O F G Phillips† Dr C J Rayson Mr C E Rice† Dr P Saikhwan Mr M O Salvén† Mr A K T Smith† Dr S Tangphatsornruang Dr D W A Wilson†

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Ms H M Barnard† Mr D M Blake† Mr A J Bryant Dr A P Y-Y Cheong Mr D W Cleverly† Miss C E Cookson

Mr D S Bedi† Miss A F Butler Mr J J Cassidy† Dr J W Chan† Dr C J Chu† Mr E H C Corn ...ALWAYS A CAIAN

For 36 hours on 5–6 May, 2021 donors and 27 ambassadors came together to raise £138,400 during our first Giving Day Caius Gives.

Mr H C P Dawe† Dr M G Dracos† Mr N A Eves Mrs A C Finch† Mr D W M Fritz Dr T J Gardiner Mr C M J Hadley Miss L D Hannant† Mr G A Herd Mr A S Kadar Mr A J Kirtley Mr C Liu Dr P A Lyon† Mr A S Massey† Dr A C McKnight† Professor R J Miller† Mr D T Morgan Mr H M I Mussa Miss W F Ng Mr J Z W Pearson Mr A L Pegg† Dr R A Reid-Edwards Dr C L Riley Miss A E C Rogers† Mrs J M Shah† Mr K K Shah† Professor A Sinha Dr S J Sprague† Mr S S-W Tan Ms F A M Treanor† Dr C C Ward Dr R A Weerakkody Dr H W Woodward

2002

Mr C D Aylard† Mrs E R Best† Ms S E Blake† Mrs S J Brown† Mr M L C Caflisch Dr N D F Campbell Dr C-W Chang Miss A L Donohoe† Mr J-M Edmundson† Mrs K M Frost† Mrs J H Gilbert† Mrs J L Gladstone Mr S D Gosling Mr N J Greenwood† Dr A C Ho Mr O J Humphries Mr T R Jacks† Ms H Katsonga-Woodward Miss H D Kinghorn† Dr M J Kleinz Dr M F Komori-Glatz Mr T H Land† Mr P S Millaire Mr C J W Mitchell† Mr C T K Myers† Mrs C M E Nwokoro Dr A Patel† Dr A Plekhanov† Mr S Queen† Mr R E Reynolds Professor D J Riches† Mr A S J Rothwell† Mr D A Russell† Dr N Sinha Mrs H C C Sloboda Dr S Ueno Miss H C Ward Ms L L Watkins Mr C J Wickins Miss R E Willis

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Mr R B Allen Mr J E Anthony† Dr T M Benseman Mr A R M Bird Ms C O N Brayshaw Mr C G Brooks Dr E A L Chamberlain Ms S K Chapman Ms V J Collins Dr T E Cope Dr B J Dabby Mr A L Eardley Mr T H French† Mr T W J Gray Ms Y Han Miss A V Henderson† Dr M S Holt Mr D C Horley† Dr S M Huisman Mr D J John Mr J P Langford† Dr A R Langley Mrs J Lucas Sammons Mr C A J Manning† Dr D J McKeon† Mr K N Millar Dr B O’Donoghue Dr C D Richter Miss V K C Scopes† Miss Z L Smeaton Ms M Solera-Deuchar† Mr T N Sorrel Dr A E Stevenson† Mr S Tandon Mr J L Todd† Dr V C Turner Dr R C Wagner Miss K A Ward† Mr C S Whittleston Mrs S S Wood† Professor Z Yang

2004

Mr S R F Ashton Dr E F Aylard† Miss P J M Brent Mrs D M Cahill Mrs H L Carter† Mr S D Carter Mrs R C E Cavonius Dr T M-K Cheng Dr A Clare Dr R Darley Dr A V L Davis Mr B C G Faulkner† Dr L C B Fletcher Mr R J Gardner† Miss V O H Garnett Dr N S Ghais Ms C L Lee Mr W S Lim Ms C M C Lloyd-Griffiths Ms G C McFarland Mr P E Myerson† Mr J W G Rees Dr C Richardt Mrs L R Sidey Mr G B H Silkstone Carter† Mr B Silver Mr G Z-F Tan† Ms E M Tester Miss N J M-Y Titmus

Mr H P Vann† Mr L B Ward Mr H Y-H Wong

2005

Miss K L Adams Ms P D Ashton Mr B Barrat Dr D P Chandrasekharan Mr M W Evans Miss E M Fialho† Miss J M Fogarty† Mr K Huang Mr J M Hunter† Mr M T Jobson Dr E D Karstadt Ms A F Kinghorn Dr K Langford† Dr E Lewington-Gower Dr S A Li Miss F I Mackay Dr A H Malem Dr T J Murphy Mr R R D Northcott Mr L J Panter† Miss N Piera Mrs E L Rees Mr J L J Reicher† Ms N Sheng Miss O A Shipton Mr H M N Thimont Mr J F Wallis Revd A L Watson Mr T A Watson Mr J H Willmoth Professor J A Zeitler

2006

Dr T F M Champion Miss W K S Cheung The Hon H Z Choudrey Mrs R M de Minckwitz Mr P C Demetriou Miss C A Easton-Jones Mr M A Espin Rojo Mr R J Granby Miss N Kim Miss Y N E Lai Mr S Matsis Mr E P Peace Mrs H C Pepper Mr J R Poole Mr E Rosenthal Miss H K Rutherford Dr T G Scrase Mr W J Sellors Mr S S Shah Dr S K Stewart Dr E P Thanisch Miss S E Vigrass Mr H L H Wong Miss P M Yau

2007

Mr P Y Bao Mr H Bhatt Dr K J Boulden Dr E J Brambley† Dr J P A Coleman Mr J E Diviney Dr J P Edwards Miss A E Eisen

Dr E Evans Dr S S Huang Miss N R Lilienthal Dr A B McCallum Mr D T Nguyen Miss S K A Parkinson Dr S X Pfister Dr T J Pfister Miss S Ramakrishnan† Mr D G R Self Dr B D Sloan† Mr O J Willis Dr S E Winchester

Mr P M Randt Miss J D Tovey Dr E Y X Walker Miss C M C Wong Mr L M Woodward

2011

Mr A S Bell Mr F A Blair Mr A J C Blythe Miss L G Bolton Mr J A Cobbold Mr J W A Johnson Mr T G Khoury Mr I Manyakin Mr J C Robinson Miss M H C Wilson

2008

Ms L Bich-Carrière Dr J M Bosten Mr O T Burkinshaw Mr F A Carson Dr H C Copley Mr H G Füchtbauer Mrs J A Goodwin Mr J E Goodwin Dr M A Hayoun Mr K K M Ho Dr R S Kearney Mr K R Lu Dr A W Martinelli Ms K J McQuillian Mr J M Oxley Dr C L Parker Dr M E M Ring Miss E C Robertson Dr J P Rogers Mrs W C Ryder Miss J E M Sturgeon Mr I Y Wang Mr X Xu

2012

Mr M A W Alexander Dr L K Allen Mr J M B Mak Dr H R Simmonds Ms C S Spera Dr B Stark Mr B R Swan

2013 onwards

Dr J D Bernstock Mr M J T De Tommaso Miss C E Gascoigne Dr P A Rowicka Mr V A Vaswani Mr H J R Thompson Mr E Adair Mr T B Ashworth Mr Y Y C Chan Mr M Coote Miss A E M Edwards-Knight Dr T A Fairclough Mr H Faull Dr J Fermont Mr D Lilienfeld Mr T J Selden Mr B A Tompkins Mr A R J Ward-Booth Mr K Aydin Professor P Chinnery Mr L D Fitzgerald Mr S A Mollov Mr M Sanguanini Ms J Cheng Miss S L Frisby Miss E N Matthews Miss M C Perrin Miss A Biju Mr Z Chen Ms E Wagner Mr D J Webb Dr A An Miss C A Mayers Dr T B B Tregear Dr M Amatt

2009

Mr G M Beck Ms X Chen Dr S E Cope Mrs A W S Haines Mr J H Hill† Mr J R Howell† Mr J F Johnson Mr A W C Lodge Miss F G Sandford Dr C E Sogot Mr A D Stacey-Chapman Mr J P J Taylor

2010

Mr B D Aldridge Miss M A Avery Mrs J H E Bell Mr H A Carson Dr C Chen Ms H R Crawford The Honorable Dr J M Dean Dr T A Ellison Miss A A Gibson Dr S Gupta Miss L M C Jones Mr S D Kemp Dr J A Latimer Miss C E Oakley Dr M G S Palayret Miss H M Parker Dr J O Patterson

Parents & Friends

Professor J V Acrivos Mr D & Mrs F Akinkugbe Mr D A W & Mrs H P Alexander Mr D F & Mrs A F Andrews† Professor E J Archer* Miss T Arsenault Mr R Aylard Mr K & Mrs M Azizi Mr A M & Mrs K Bali† Mr N J & Mrs A E Balmer† Mrs A J Barnett Mr S & Mrs S L Barter† Ms N Bell Mrs L M Bernstein† Mr S M & Mrs A Bhate† Mr M Biju Dr J J C & Mrs D G Boreham†

Donors to the Caius Fund, the College’s annual fund, provided funding for six undergraduate bursaries, and 29 existing named funds contributed to supporting our undergraduate bursary provision in 2020–21.

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Mr J Boyle & Dr P Mills Mr R L Buckner Mr M C & Mrs C M Burgess† Mrs S Butler Mr J W & Mrs A Butler† Mr D M & Mrs A J Cassidy† Mr N F & Mrs M Champion Mr A C F & Mrs Y W Chan Dr M D & Mrs E A Chard† Mrs R A Chegwin The Lord Choudrey Dr K M Choy Mr T J E & Mrs H Church† Mr A & Mrs G Corsini† Mr R N & Mrs A J Crook Mr P & Mrs E Crowcombe Dr T G & Mrs A J Cunningham Mr C & Mrs M D’Almeida Mr C H Jones & Mrs E L Davies Mr D & Mrs C E J Dewhurst† Mrs E M Drewitt Mrs E C B Dugan Mr P Evans† Mr P J & Mrs S M Everett Mr M J C & Mrs S L Faulkner† Mr T & Mrs A Fletcher Dr D & Mrs H Frame† Mrs K Gale* Mrs A Galea Mr N & Mrs V M Gordon† Dr P W Gower & Dr I Lewington Dr P Gu & Ms S Zhong Mr A K & Mrs R Gupta Mr T & Mrs A Hajee-Adam Ms E Hamilton Mrs D M Hart* Mrs E A Hogbin Mr J Hollerton & Dr J Hollerton Mr N C Holloway & Mrs I N Terrisson Mrs Y R Horsfall Turner Mrs A E Howe† Mr M & Mrs E Howells Mrs C E Jackson-Brown† Dr T & Mrs S Jareonsettasin† Mrs A Kelly† Ms Y Kim Mr P & Mrs V Kordzinski Dr A & Dr U Kumar Mr T W J Lai & Mrs M F Lai Leung Mr M J T Lam Mr D W Land & Mrs F Land Mr C D & Mrs R Last Mr K W & Mrs L Lau† Mr G Lawrenson Mr J M & Mrs E M Lester*† Dr L R & Mrs R M Lever Mr A & Mrs A Lilienfeld Mr P J & Mrs K L Magee Dr H & Mrs V J Malem† Dr K S & Dr V Manjunath Prasad Mr M M Marashli & Mrs N Din-Marashli Mr P C & Mrs S M Marshall Mr W P & Dr J O Mason† Mr D Maughan Mr M McGeehan Mr I & Mrs V Miller Mr J & Mrs E Miller† Mrs P Monck Hill Mrs H Moore Mr J E Moore Mrs J Morgan Mr J & Mrs S A Mutsaars Mrs L Naumann Professor P E Nelson

Mr P F & Mrs S J Newman† Ms T D Oakley† Mr A & Mrs H L Parker Mrs B Parry† Miss E H Parton Mr K G Patel† Mr V A & Mrs H V Patel† Dr D L & Dr E M Pearce Mrs E A Peace† Mr S Perera Mrs K E Plumley Mr C J & Mrs P Pope Mr E Quintana† Mr D H Ratnaweera & Mrs R A Nanayakkara Mr S M & Mrs L M Reed Mr G D Ribbans Mr D E & Mrs H M Ring Mr J P & Mrs C J Roebucksc Mr P M & Mrs L F Sagar Dr G & Mrs D Samra Mr T J & Mrs H B Scrase Mr A & Mrs C Scully† Dr J V & Mrs C Y Shepherd Mr D P & Mrs S Siegler† Mr M S H Situmorang & Mrs S T I Samosir Mr D Smith Dr D J & Mrs A G Sorrell Mr G T Spera & Professor J C Ginsburg Mr M & Mrs L J Spiller Ms A Stefan Mr R & Mrs S E Sturgeon† Mrs K Suess Mr P R & Mrs W P Swinn† Mr J E Thompson† Dr A Thrush & Dr H Bradley Mr M S & Mrs C A Uwais Mr T R & Mrs G A Wakefield Mrs A J Walker Mr P & Mrs C Walker Mrs S Walker Mrs J Watson Mr D Webb Mr R B & Mrs C M Webb Mr G A & Mrs A Wemyss Mr M & Mrs V Wood Mr P M & Mrs J A Woodward† Dr A R & Dr H A Wordley† Dr S A & Dr A A Zia Mr S M Zinser

Corporations, Trusts & Foundations Amazon Smile Apax Partners LLP Apple Barclays Bank Basil Samuel Charitable Trust Bestway Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Deutsche Bank Genentech, Inc. Google LinkedIn Michael Miliffe Memorial Scholarship Fund Rothschild & Co Sir Simon Milton Foundation T. Rowe Price Tancred’s Charities Visa, Inc.

William Vereker

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Alumnus William Vereker (History 1985) is settling into his new role as chair of the College’s Development Advisory Group, supported by knowledge learned in his business career.

W

illiam Vereker is no stranger to diplomacy.

The current chairman of Santander UK, has spent the majority of his post-Caius career working in business and banking for some of the world’s leading firms.

After graduating in 1988, William established himself in the world of investment banking, even relocating to Venezuela in his early twenties to run the Treasurer’s Office in Caracas.

“I got a C in my Maths O-Level and ended up running investment banks!” he says.

“But I always had an interest in the finance world and in my summers I did some internships in financial organisations. My Director of Studies, Neil McKendrick, was very supportive and helped me when I got my first job at Schroders.”

William then spent a decade at some of the biggest names in banking, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers.

“I was actually doing that when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. So I

The Development Advisory Group found myself in the middle of one of the great financial crises!”

More recently he spent a year in Downing Street as Theresa May’s business envoy, strengthening relationships following the Brexit vote in 2016, “which was a very different and very interesting time to be in government and very different from obviously being in the financial services world.”

Now, as Chair of the Development Advisory Group, he has turned his attention to forging relationships of a different kind between Caius and its alumni community.

“I very much see it as a bridge between the College and the alumni,” William explains.

“Of course, when people leave Caius, they’re very focused on what they’re going to do next, how they’re going to develop their career and so it’s quite easy to lose contact with the College. One of the things that we’re going to be looking at over the next year or two is to be having a series of events which will bring together alumni and connect them to the College.”

William is particularly passionate about encouraging as many Caians as possible to get involved with the

Development Advisory Group to build a stronger connection between the College and its alumni.

“I’m very encouraging of any alumni who’d like to be involved to please put their hand up, because the more interest and support we get, the more effective we’re going to be able to be,” he says.

For William, giving back to the College can take many forms, and often time and advice is just as valuable as funds raised. In particular, he’s passionate about recognising how his time at Caius shaped the man he is today, and hopes to offer his own advice to Caius students who may be considering a role in the financial sector.

“Follow your heart in terms of what you really want to do,” William says.

“If you have the energy, the passion and the commitment and you put real effort into it, you’re always going to find the opportunity. Success, in my experience, has been a lot about being passionate to follow a particular path and being completely committed to it. And secondly, be ready to take risks. If you’re not going to take risks in your twenties, when are you? You only regret the things in life which you don’t do.”

“If you have the energy, the passion and the commitment and you put real effort into it, you’re always going to find the opportunity.”

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One of William’s aims as Chair is to attract a diverse group of alumni to join the Development Advisory Group, to ensure that they reach the widest group of people within the alumni community.

Here, we introduce a few more members.

Catherine Lister (Economics 1985) has been on the committee since she was invited to the Caius Club dinner in 1987 as the cox of the successful Head of the River men’s VIII, and was persuaded to join what was then an all-male committee. She became Treasurer in 2005 and Chair in 2018.

After leaving Caius, Catherine embarked on a career in marketing.

She worked initially in sales promotion and then moved into retail marketing with stints at Tesco and WH Smith Travel head offices.

In an attempt to make work fit around family life, (two boys, Joe and Hamish) she left the corporate sector in 2006 and set up her own domestic IT support company, At Your Fingertips, helping local residents to find their way around all their home technology. Alongside this, Catherine joined her husband’s branding consultancy as a specialist in spirits innovation, which led to many interesting projects developing (and tasting!) new vodka and rum brands.

In 2018 Catherine changed course and took a full time job as Marketing Manager at Latymer Upper School, where her sons had studied, moving to North London Collegiate School in 2021 where she is now Director of Admissions, Marketing and Communications.

of marketing and communications experience to the group.

Kate’s most recent role (until Summer 2021) was that of Publishing Director at Condé Nast Britain, where she ran, successively, the Condé Nast Traveller, House & Garden, Tatler and Vanity Fair brands across print, digital, social and events platforms.

Her 27-year career at Condé Nast includes eight years on Vogue, where she rose to the position of Associate Publisher, helping steer the flagship title to record-setting circulation figures and commercial success.

Having started her professional life at J Walter Thompson in London and New York, Kate’s business background combines advertising and marketing knowledge with sales, public relations and media expertise. Kate has served on several fundraising committees before joining Caius Development Advisory Group, among them the Prince’s Trust Invest in Futures and the Design Museum Development Committee. Kate still manages to find some spare time to take on endurance challenges, the most recent being the Engadin Cross Country Ski Marathon.

“I was keen to join the DAG because I recognised the renewed energy that the recently-appointed Development team at Caius under Master Pippa Rogerson’s leadership were putting into the business of fundraising and outreach,” Kate says.

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“Alongside the appointment of William as DAG Chair, it felt like a good moment to bring my professional experience and network to help achieve a welldefined set of goals. I am hoping we can remind Caians around the world of what a special College we share in common, and tap into generosity not just financial but also in terms of the resources of time and connections.”

Sally Dyson (Law 1990) was in one of the first cohorts to have Pippa Rogerson as Director of Studies.

Sally’s rebellious streak took the form of trialing a variety of College sports for which she was singularly unsuited, including rowing, women’s rugby and mixed lacrosse.

After Cambridge, Sally qualified as a solicitor at Slaughter and May before continuing her career as an in-house lawyer. Turning her focus to the business of law, Sally founded Firm Sense, a legal sector specialist consultancy bridging the communication gap between law firms and their clients to enhance the effectiveness of lawyers and the success of their firms.

Education is a theme running through Sally’s professional and pro bono activities. Sally is a commercially published author, business trainer and executive coach. She has also been a university governor and is currently Chair of governors of a school.

Since her days in the City of London, Sally has been an active member of the Haberdashers’ Livery Company, which supports schools in both the maintained and independent sectors and is now part of their governing body. Sally’s bond to Caius was strengthened further when she met her husband, Steven, who came to Caius in 1995 for his PhD in developmental biology.

UBS, eventually becoming Executive Director.

He then spent time at BlackRock, Credit Suisse and Caarrhae Capital, before becoming Managing Director of asset management company Leucadia in 2019.

Sally studied at Caius at the same time as fellow DAG member Veryan Exelby (History 1991). Veryan joined Caius in 1991 as a choral scholar. After graduating with a degree in History, she went on to establish a successful career as a solicitor with Farrer & Co and was made a partner in 2005.

Like Sally, Veryan’s professional interests are echoed in her volunteering. Veryan is a senior counsel within Farrer & Co’s Safeguarding Unit, with a particular focus on safeguarding in schools.

Alongside this, Veryan is a Governor of Downe House School, and she is the Safeguarding Governor at St Paul’s School and of a local primary school. She also volunteers weekly at a family law clinic in west London. Although her career took her to all corners of the world, her connection to Caius never wavered.

“I’m very grateful for the impact Caius has had on my life, my closest friends are my friends from Caius.

I was part of the Caian community during my time in Tokyo and Hong Kong and enjoyed maintaining links with the College, so when I was asked to join the committee I of course said yes!” she says.

A fellow Caius graduate from the early 1990s is Rob Kirkwood (Economics 1989), who graduated from Caius with an MPhil in Economics in 1993. A keen rower and rugby player during his time at Caius, Rob began his career at

After graduating from Caius in 1972, David Hulbert (Mathematics 1969) pursued further study at Stanford University where he was among the top 10% of his class. He then established his career at McKinsey and Company, where he spent six years focusing on international strategy, post-merger integration and pricing strategy.

From 1995, he spent 10 years with Walt Disney TV International.

Before leaving as President in 2005, he led the team which established the Disney Channel in all major markets and was overseeing all of Disney’s distribution and television investments outside America.

Since co-founding Ravensbeck, a media advisory firm in 1986, he has led a number of successful media ventures. In 2005, he established and led Sparrowhawk Media, a private equity-backed buy-out of Crown Media’s international TV assets, including the Hallmark Channel international. He is currently Chairman of an early stage FinTech business – Hoptroff.

Chris Aylard (Engineering 2002) was invited to join the Development Advisory Group to help give a greater voice to the younger Caiain community.

At Caius, Chris was involved in numerous societies on both at a College and University level, mostly notably organising the annual Varsity Ski trip and captaining the ski team.

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Scheme at Citigroup in equity broking. He then spent 13 years trading across both global credit and equity markets at a hedge fund before moving to a fixed income brokerage, Park Walk, at the end of 2020, where he is the Managing Partner. After firmly establishing himself in his chosen field, he understands the importance of giving back.

“I firmly believe that those who have enjoyed the privilege of studying at Caius, and who now find themselves in a position to be able to do so, should do whatever they can to afford that same privilege to the next generation,” Chris says.

It’s not only former Caians who have been welcomed as new members of DAG. Stephen Zinser, a successful CEO specialising in asset management, became involved with the group after his two daughters graduated from Caius.

“Caius gave two of my daughters, Emily (a Medic who is now a Consultant in Immunology) and Katherine (an Historian who became a lawyer) such an extraordinary education that I wanted to assist the College and was kindly invited to join the Development Board,” he says.

“I firmly believe that those who have enjoyed the privilege of studying at Caius, and who now find themselves in a position to be able to do so, should do whatever they can to afford that same privilege to the next generation.”

Fundraising News THE LORD CHOUDREY SCHOLARSHIP In July, the College was delighted to accept a donation of £975,000 from the Bestway Foundation to fully endow a PhD scholarship for a student from Pakistan to study at the College, named in honour of Lord Choudrey.

Sir Anwar Pervez OBE H Pk, Lord Zameer Choudrey CBE SI Pk and The Honourable Haider Choudrey, who read Economics at Caius from 2006 to 2009, attended a lunch at the Master’s Lodge to present the gift on behalf of the Bestway Foundation.

Her Majesty’s former High Commissioner to Pakistan His Excellency Sir Nicolas Barrington KCMG, CVO, Caius Master Professor Pippa Rogerson and Caius Senior Bursar Robert Gardiner were also present.

The total endowment will be £1.3m, as a balance of £325,000 will be matched from the University of Cambridge and held within the Cambridge Trust.

Founded in 1987, the Bestway Foundation is the charitable trust of the Bestway Group. The Bestway Group donates 2.5% of its profits annually to the Bestway Foundation, which focused its charitable efforts predominantly in the health and education sectors.

Caius Master, Professor Rogerson, said: “We are thrilled to receive such a generous gift and to name a PhD scholarship in honour of Lord Choudrey.

“The Bestway Foundation has a history of supporting students from the UK and overseas to further their

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Haider Choudrey (Economics 2006), Sir Anwar Pervez, Professor Pippa Rogerson, Sir Nicolas Barrington, Lord Zameer Choudrey and Robert Gardiner in Caius Court

studies. We look forward to welcoming further students from Pakistan who win this scholarship. They will add to the diversity of our already cosmopolitan MCR. “The Lord Choudrey Scholarship will have a lasting impact at Caius and shows the importance of philanthropic donations in allowing students from underrepresented backgrounds to continue their studies.”

“The Lord Choudrey Scholarship will have a lasting impact at Caius and shows the importance of philanthropic donations in allowing students from underrepresented backgrounds to continue their studies.”

CAIUS GIVES Together we raised £138,400 for vital student support and outreach initiatives at Caius on our first Giving Day – thank you!

Thank you to our 290 donors and 27 ambassadors who helped make Caius Gives, which took place on 5 and 6 May 2021, a huge success. A Giving Day is a fundraising challenge which encourages contributions in a condensed period.

The support for Caius’ mission is powerfully motivating, and will enable our College community to make a truly positive impact. This quotation from one lovely donor just about sums it up: “This gift is to help you, whether you are struggling to reach university or struggling to stay, and for whatever reason. Life has many twists and turns and it is never entirely smooth for anyone, even if it does not seem that way. You are not alone!”

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“This gift is to help you, whether you are struggling to reach university or struggling to stay, and for whatever reason.”

BURSARY SUPPORT An enhanced bursary scheme will enable more students to enjoy the benefits of a Caius education, regardless of their personal financial circumstances.

The University expects 25% to 30% of students to be eligible for bursaries of up to £3,500 per year from October 2021 – an increase of up to 10% of students – after raising the household income threshold. An additional award of £1000 per year will be made to all students of lowincome backgrounds who qualified for free school meals, contributing to a bursary of £4,500 in each year of their undergraduate studies.

The bursaries, paid for by philanthropic donations to Caius and the University, are grants which do not need to be repaid.

Caius distributed 112 Cambridge Bursaries in 2020–21 to a value of £335,000. Donors to the Caius Fund, the College’s annual fund, provided funding for six undergraduate bursaries, and 29 existing named funds contributed to supporting the College’s undergraduate bursary provision in 2020–21.

Caius Senior Tutor, Dr Andrew Spencer, said: “We’re delighted that under the enhanced bursary scheme more students than ever before will get money to help support their studies and facilitate wider engagement with all the opportunities Cambridge offers. This is a key part of ensuring that students at Cambridge have the support necessary to help them succeed and thrive at Caius. The College and the University have worked hard together to make these enhanced bursaries available to a wider range of students.”

“Caius distributed 112 Cambridge Bursaries in 2020–21 to a value of £335,000.”

WORKING WITH WINGS OF HEALING Bell-Wade, Tancred & Ackroyd Scholar John Louca (Medicine 2017) spent two weeks of the summer working with the charity Wings of Healing in Ethiopia, carrying out medical and humanitarian work.

John was part of a surgical mission, alongside a consultant urogynaecologist and the project coordinator and director. They travelled to work in a Catholic hospital in Wolaita, a city in the south of the country. Over the course of the week the team performed 54 operations with the help of the local general surgeon.

In addition to the medical work, John also visited several homeless shelters both in the south and in Addis Ababa, the capital, including some compounds set up

by Mother Theresa. He served food and provided care packages for children.

The trip was eye-opening for John, who hopes to become a surgeon in the future. Whilst the 54 operations were a great success, what is perhaps an even greater triumph is the fact that the local surgeon can now carry out this essential operation which will hopefully let him treat hundreds of patients in the coming years.

John says: “The trip was an amazing experience and is something I plan on doing again in the future. I am currently planning my medical elective with the charity.

We will focus on safe surgical practices and how they can be better implemented in a low-resource setting.

“Ultimately, I would like to become a surgeon and I intend to continue working with the charity as we try to gradually improve the healthcare system in Ethiopia.”

“Ultimately, I would like to become a surgeon and I intend to continue working with the charity as we try to gradually improve the healthcare system in Ethiopia.”

John Louca, second left, with medical colleagues in Ethiopia

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CONTINUE A POWERFUL TRADITION WITH A GIFT IN YOUR WILL After providing for family and friends, a gift to the College in your will is an effective and enduring way of supporting future generations of Caians.

“Without the student support funds available at Caius, my experience at Cambridge would undoubtedly have looked very different. Any financial anxieties I might have had about living and studying at Caius were entirely alleviated, and I could focus my energy on academic and social possibilities.

A further grant allowed me to attend a literature course in Berlin at the end of my first year. I returned to Berlin on my Year Abroad and continue to be supported by generous financial help from Caius. This has been particular helpful given the precarious situation over the past year, enabling me to make the best of a difficult set of circumstances.”

–JACK GRAVENEY, 4th Year History and Modern & Medieval Languages student and undergraduate bursary recipient

A SIMPLE ACT NOW COULD TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF FUTURE CAIANS.

• T he College is grateful to receive 20% or more of its annual income in the form of donations.

• G ifts in wills support all aspects of College life, and typically account for almost 50% of annual gift income.

• T he College is a charity registered in England and Wales, making gifts in wills exempt from inheritance tax and reducing overall tax liability.

Legacy gifts also receive favourable tax treatment in the United States, Canada and elsewhere.

For more information on leaving a gift to the College in your will, please contact Mr Guy Lawrenson, Deputy Director of Development, on +44 (0)1223 766996 or guy.lawrenson@cai.cam.ac.uk.

Accommodation at Caius Just a short walk from the heart of the city our comfortable ensuite accommodation is perfect for a leisure break or business trip.

Located on our West Road site just a ten-minute walk from Old Courts and Cambridge city centre, all the rooms include free WiFi, tea and coffee making facilities and toiletries with a full English and continental buffet breakfast included.

Gonville & Caius offers 174 ensuite bedrooms between the Stephen Hawking and Harvey Court Buildings with a mix of singles, doubles, twins and triples, as well as five purpose-designed accessible rooms. There is an extensive area of beautifully landscaped gardens and furnished patios, which make a delightful addition to your stay.

• C heck-in is from 2pm and check-out is by 10am. Secure luggage storage outside of these times is available via the West Road Porters’ Lodge.

• B reakfast is served from 7.30am to 9.30am Monday to Friday and from 7.30am to 10am on weekends.

• Parking should be pre-booked via the Meetings & Events Office as availability is limited due to our city centre location. This is charged at £15 per night.

• West Road Porters’ Lodge is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• Laundry facilities and bike storage also available.

Please note: Availability is limited to Easter, Summer and Christmas vacation periods.

The College also has a small number of single and twin guest rooms that are available for students’ guests and alumni. These are basic rooms, with a bathroom shared with students. Members of the Court of Benefactors are able to stay in Fellows’ guest rooms. For more information, and to book a guest room, please contact the Development Office.

EVENTS AND REUNIONS FOR 2021/22 WED 1 DECEMBER

First Christmas Carol Service

SAT 26 FEBRUARY

College Concert

FRI 8 APRIL

THURS 7 JULY & FRI 8 JULY

Annual Gathering (1973, 1974, 1975)

Admissions Open Days

THURS 21 & FRI 22 APRIL

SAT 9 JULY

THURS 17 MARCH THURS 2 DECEMBER

Second Christmas Carol Service

Parents’ Hall

FRI 18 MARCH

Parents’ Hall

FRI 3 DECEMBER

Michaelmas Full Term ends

Lent Full Term ends

Annual Gathering (1981, 1982, 1983)

FRI 25 MARCH

TUES 18 JANUARY

SAT 26 MARCH

MA Dinner MA Lunch

Easter Full Term begins

SAT 24 SEPTEMBER

FRI 17 JUNE

Easter Full Term ends

Annual Gathering (all years up to and including 1970)

SAT 18 JUNE

SAT 24 SEPTEMBER

Benefactors’ Day TUES 21 JUNE

May Ball

SAT 2 APRIL

Annual Gathering (2007, 2008, 2009)

Annual Gathering (1999, 2000, 2001)

TUES 26 APRIL

FRI 18 MARCH

SAT 11 DECEMBER

Lent Full Term begins

Fisher Conference

THURS 30 JUNE

Graduation Lunch

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September Open Day

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