The Record 1986

Queens' College Record 1986

Queens' College as at March 1986 Visitor Patroness President

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER ERNEST RONALD OXBURGH, M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton), F.R .S. Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology

Honorary Fellows:

The Revd Henry Chadwick, M .A., Mus.B., 0 .0 ., D .D. (h.c.) (Glasgow), F.B.A., Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity Sir Thomas Padmore, G.C .B., M.A.

Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., D. Litt. (h.c.) (W. Australia), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Australian National University), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Oxon), D.D . (h.c .) (Manchester), F.B.A.

Lord Allen of Abbeydale, G .C.B., M.A. Alfred Charles Tomlinson, M .A .• Professor of English in the University of Bristol The Rt Hon. Sir George Stanley Waller, o .B.E., M .A ., Lord Justice of Appeal Robert Neville Haszeldine, M .A .• Sc.D., F.R .S. James Arthur Ramsay, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. Cyril Humphrey Cripps, M.A., LLD. (h.c.), D.S.c. (h.c.) (Nottingham) The Rt Hon. Sir Stephen Brown, M.A., Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Ronald Halstead, C.B.E., M.A., Hon. D.Sc. (Reading), Hon. F.I.F.S.T., F.R.S.C .

Friars' at Night: a five-minute lime exposure by R. H. Bland. Many walked through during this time but the inebriate with bike was stopped half-way across. . . .

Fellows:

Edwin Arthur Maxwell, M.A., Ph.D., Life Fellow, formerly Senior Bursar and Director of Studies in Mathematics.

James Arthur Ramsay, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D ., F.R.s. Life Fellow, formerly Vice-President and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Physiology.

The Revd Henry .St John Hart, M.A., B.O., Life Fellow, formerly Vice-President, Dean and Director of Studies in Divinity.

Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., O .Litt. (h.c.) (W. Australia), O.Litt. (h.c.) (Australian National University), O.Litt. (h.c.) (Oxon), o.o. (h.c.) (Manchester), F.B.A., Life Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit.

Douglas Parmee, M.A., Life Fellow, formerly Tutor and Director of Studies in Modern Languages.

John Holloway, M.A .. Litt.D., D.Phil. (Oxon), D.Litt. (Aberdeen), F.R.S.L, Life Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Modern English.

Henry Cohen, M.A., Ph.D. (Dunelm), Life Fellow, formerly College Lecturer in Engineering.

Derek William Bowett, C .B.E., o .c .• M.A., LLD., Ph.D. (Manchester), F.B.A .. Whewell Professor of International Law, formerly President.

Anthony Colin Spearing, M.A., College Lecturer in English.

Sir James William Longman Beament, M.A .. Sc.D .• F.R.S .• F.R.S.A .. Drapers Professor of Agriculture.

James Martin Prentis, M.A .. M.Sc. (Eng), Ph.D. (London), Vice-President and College Lecturer in Engineering.

Norman Francis Hughes, M.A .. Sc.D .• Life Fellow, formerly College Lecturer in Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences).

Kenneth Ewart Machin, M .A .• Ph.D ., Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Physics).

Ajit Singh, M.A., B.A. (Punjab, Chandigarh), M .A . (Howard. Washington), Ph.D. (Berkeley, California), Director of Studies in Economics.

Brian Albert Callingham, M.A., B.Pharm., Ph.D. (London), F.P.S., Librarian and Director of Studies in Medical Sciences.

James Diggle, M.A., Litt.D., F.B.A., Praelector and Director of Studies in Classics.

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Chemistry).

John Tiley, M .A., B.C.L (Oxon), Director of Studies in Law. John Edward Carroll, M .A ., Sc.D., Professor of Engineering.

Peter Gonville Stein, M.A., LLB., Ph.D . (Aberdeen), Dr. iuris (h.c.) (Gottingen), F.B.A., Regius Professor of Civil Law. The Revd Canon Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite, M .A., e.o., Dean of Chapel, Director of Studies in Theological and Religious Studies and in Philosophy. lain Richard Wright, M.A., Tutor, Archivist, Keeper of the Old Library and Director of Studies in English.

John Timothy Green, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Tutor and College Lecturer in Mathematics.

David Barry Sattelle, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biology).

Thomas Henry Coaker, M.A .• Ph.D .. B.Sc. (London). Steward and College Lecturer in Natural Sciences.

William Andrew Phillips, M.A .• Ph.D .. Admissions Tutor and College Lecturer in Physics.

Brian William Napier, M.A., Ph.D., LL.B. (Edinburgh), Assistant Director of Studies in Law. Robin Douglas Howard Walker, M.A .. Ph.D .• Junior Bursar, Director of Studies in Computer Science and Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Mathematics).

Roderick Arthur Smith, M.A., Ph.D., c.Eng., M.1.M., Director of Studies in Engineering.

Andrew Duncan Cosh, B.A., Ph.D., Senior Bursar and Assistant Director of Studies in Economics.

The Revd Brendan Ignatius Bradshaw, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in History.

Richard Robert Weber, M.A .• Ph.D., Tutor for Research Students and Director of Studies in Mathematics.

Allan Nuttall Hayhurst, M.A.. Ph.D., Director of Studies in Natural Sciences and in Chemical Engineering.

Peter Spufford, M.A., Ph.D., Director of Studies in History.

Vani Kant Borooah, M .A., M.A. (Bombay). Ph.D. (Southampton), College Lecturer in Economics.

James Anthony Jackson, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Dean of College and College Lecturer in Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences).

Christopher John Pountain, M.A., Ph.D ., Tutor and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages.

Naomi Dinah Segal, M.A .. Ph.D. (London), Tutor and Assistant Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages.

Philip Anthony Towle, M.A., Ph.D . (London), Tutor for Graduate Students and College Lecturer in History.

Richard Griffith Fentiman, M .A., B.C.L (OxonJ, Tutor and College Lecturer in Law. Charles Russell Matthews, B.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in Mathematics.

Steven Nicholas Botterill, M.A., Ph.D., Research Fellow (Modern and Medieval Languages).

Jane Margaret Bewick, B.A. (Aberdeen), Research Fellow (Modern and Medieval Languages).

Jonathan Michael Holmes, M.A., Vet M .B., Ph.D ., M .R.c.v.s .• Bye-Fellow (Veterinary Sciences) and Lay Chaplin.

Paula Jeanne Durlach, B.A. (Swarthmore), Ph.D. (Yale), Research Fellow (Experimental Psychology).

Peter Howard Haynes, M.A., Ph.D., Research Fellow (Mathematics).

Malcolm David Macleod, M.A., Ph.D., Bye-Fellow (Engineering).

Keith Johnstone, Ph.D ., B.Sc. (Leeds), Tutor and College Lecturer in Biochemistry.

David Cebon, Ph.D., B.E. (Mech.) (Melbourne), College Lecturer in Engineering.

Marissa Virginia McEvoy, Ph.D., M.A. (McGill), Research Fellow (Social and Political Sciences).

Stephen Peter Wade, M.A .• Ph.D., Research Fellow {Social Anthropology).

Hugh John Field, B.Sc. (London), Ph.D. (Bristol), M.R.C. Path., College Lecturer in Pathology.

From the Vice-President If, as has become his custom, the President had been writing this piece, I am sure that he would have acknowledged with thanks the support that he had received in his initial years from his first Vice-President.

Professor Sir James Beament relinquished that office at the end of his agreed term last September. Ever active, he has now taken on the editorship of The Record.

It was for me a great honour to be asked to succeed as Vice-President and consequently to act as President this year while the President himself is on sabbatical ltjave. He is dividing his time between the California Institute of Technology as a Sherman-Fanchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar, and Cornell University as a Snee Distinguished Visiting Professor.

One quarter of my period of locum tenens has now elapsed. The television series on Queens' ensured a mixed and lively post-bag in the Michaelmas Term. The series also provided a regular topic of conversation on all sorts of social occasions. My diplomatic skills were tested from time to time.

The highlight of the Michaelmas term was undoubtedly the visit by our Patroness, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in December. Her Majesty let it be known that after an official visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum, she would like to take a quiet informal lunch at Queens' . And so it turned out. It was delightful.

The President told me just before his departure that one aspect of his job that he found most stimulating and enjoyable was greeting Old Queensmen when they visited the College. This has been my experience too, and I

Dr. N. F. Hughes

welcome this opportunity to let it be known that, notwithstanding the President's absence this year, forwarning by an Old Member of an intention to visit will ensure a warm welcome at the Lodge.

J . M. PRENTIS

The Society Dr Hughes, known to many Queensmen for his deft part in organising the Club Weekend, and recently as Keeper of the Records and Editor of this journal, has retired from his College lectureship and has been translated from Official to Life Fellowship. We are happy and fortunate that he has agreed for a year or two to continue to act as Wine Steward. Dr Hughes ended his University appointment on a high note by the award of a Sedgwick Prize in 1985 for his essay on the re-establishment of the effective use of palaentology in geology.

Dr Cormack has forsaken academic life to return fulltime to the practice of surgery. He leaves, for the time being, a gap in our medical strength. His teaching in anatomy and his tutorial skills have been much appreciated. Two Research Fellows have left. Mr Swaab resigned to take up an Official Fellowship at Corpus Christi College. Dr Davis, was appointed an Assistant Professor in the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

Research Fellowships are for three years and normally we aim ~o appoint two each year. This year we welcome Dr Marissa McEvoy who comes via McGill University and Christ's 'College, and is researching in political philosophy: Dr Steven Wade (1976) who specialises in social anthropology, is about to embark on field work in Columbia, South America.

There have been two other elections to Fellowship. Dr. Hugh Field has joined us as a College Lecturer in Pathology. He is an Assistant Director in Research in the 2

Department of Clinical Medicine. We were very pleased when Sir Ronald Halstead (1945) accepted an Honorary Fellowship last summer.

Mr Spearing's appointment as Reader in Medieval English Literature was noted with considerable pleasure, as was his election as a Trustee of the New Chaucer Society. Congratulations are also due to Dr Diggle on the two-fold distinction of receiving the Cambridge Litt.D. degree and election to Fellowship of the British Academy, and t o Professor Carroll on his election to the Engineering Fellowship.

Fellows have been as active as ever. Professor Beament's latest work, Suite for String Orchestra Op. 47, was well received at the Mumford Theatre of the C.C.A. T. The orchestra was led by J. Kaznowski (1974) now a member of the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. Mr Hebblethwaite has had a volume of sermons entitled Preaching thiough the Christian Year JO: Sermons from Queens' College Chapel published by Mowbrays. Dr Segal's book Narcissus and Echo: v.,omen in the French R ecit is to be published by Manchester University Press.

Cambridge University Press published Mr Spearing's book Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry, and Collected Poems by Mr Charles Tomlinson, another of our Honorary Fellows.

Finally, especial congratulations are due to Dr Humphrey Cripps on his appointment as High Sheriff of Nottingham.

J. M . PRENTIS

The Fa bric Two maj or re-roofing projects were undertaken in the summer vacation 1 985. The slate roof of Essex Building was replaced with new Cumberland slate (20 tons) and the lead gutters and flashi ng renewed (4½ t ons). The old roof had been prone to letting in rain and snow in high wind, and the lead work was deteriorating and of much thinner guage than ought to have been used. The opportunity was taken to remove some rather prominent radio and TV aerials from the ro of, and to install thermal loft insulation in this, the only non-centrally-heated building in College .

Thanks to the efforts of my predecessors, no problems were found with the timber roof-frame.

We had been troubled for some years with leaks from the roof of Phase I of Cripps Court (staircases AA-EE). I reported last year that a pilot re-ro ofing scheme over AA staircase had been successful. In the summer the re mainder was re-roofed. Expert engineeri ng advice has enabled us to use a design which has learnt from all the · unfortu nate experiences over the last few decades. The new roof is going to last many times longer than the old .

I n order t o fit the work into a gap in our conference programme, the contractor worked 1 2 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 3 weeks . The result was an outstanding success. A novel type of temporary roof used during the work attracted considerable local attention in the building trade.

In Cloister Court, redecoration of the restored areas has been completed. An ancient d o orway in the bridge passage uncovered during the restoration work, has been fitted o ut with what seems to be an equally ancient door made redundant from elsewhere in the Lodge. The med ieval woodwork on the western side which was exposed and restored two years ago has been decorated, together with the wall mounted lantern, originally oil, then gas, and finally electrically powered .

During the Easter vacation 1 986, all the University and most of the Colleges will convert to a new centralised electro nic telephone system. Preparatory work has occupied our staff for some ti me this year. A new telecommunications duct was laid in a trench cut across the Round from the Main Porter's Lodge. It passes across the wooden bridge, suspended alongside the main joists , and into the President's Lodge, where it rises up the shaft of a dumb-waiter into the roof space. From there, the new wiring runs around all the old buildings of the College within the roof-spaces . When the changeover is complete, we shall strip off the old telephone wires which have d isfigured the outsides of our ancient buildings for many years. The old exchange occupies a set on V staircase . We h ope to restore this to student occupati on. The new eq uipment is small enough to fit into the Porters' Lodge.

The single computer terminal installed a few years ago soon proved to be inadequate for demand . A supervision room on Q staircase has been converted to house five microco mputers and a printer connected to the Univer­ sity's main computer.

Double glazing to cut out d raughts has been added most effectively to the large wind ows of the Armitage Dining Room, without spoiling the visual effect of the staggered vertical glazing panels when viewed from the court outside.

Routine redecorations this year have included : all study-bed rooms in Friars' Building, the corrid ors and

external paintwork of Erasmus Building, the sprial F staircase in Old Court, Essex 7, the main Porters' Lodge, and various bathrooms and toilets in Fisher Building following the repl umbing of the last few years. In addition a start has been made on the redecoration of the corridors and staircases of Cripps Court where water ingress from the failed roof had caused staining and decay.

R. D. H. WALK ER

C ri p ps C o u rt : Ph ase I l l Planning is well advanced and, by the time you read this work will already have commenced on re-organising th; gardeners' accommodation to make way for the new Squash _Courts . We plan to demolish the old Squash Courts m July 1 986, and start foundation piling in September. The main building contract will begin in October/ November and take about three years.

The development comprises three new Squash Courts and a Games Room on the site of the old Courts, and a M ulti-Purpose Hall on what is currently a car-park behind FF staircase. The Hall will serve as a theatre cine ma o r lecture-room with raked seating or, with th; seating retracted , for parties, discos and receptions .

R. D. H. WA LKER

Ben efa ctio ns a n d Bequests The College has received with gratitude a number of benefactions and bequests during the year. This gener­ osity is very much appreciated not only for its practical value to the College but also for the way in which it demonstrates the esteem and affection with which the College is helci by its Old Members. Mrs Winifred Perry, knowing her late husband's love of his College, has most generously donated £42,000 from his estate. Dr Perry matriculated in 1 927. The income from the Kenneth Perry Fund is to be used for the purposes of scholarship, and, in particular, will be used to support t ravel for academic purposes by graduate and research students.

The Revd B. M. Osman ( 1 933) has very genero usly donated to the Library a rare 1 559 edition of Erasmus's New Testament. A most attractive painting of the Mathematical Bridge has been donated by its artist, the Revd Nor man A. L. Miller ( 1 925). The parents of the late Laurence Peel ( 1 98 1 ) have donated the capital for a prize fund in memory of their son who, sadly, died in an accident shortly after he had graduated in Engineering in 1 984. The Laurence Peel Prize is to be awarded annually to a first-year student in Engineering, taking into account both academic distinction and all-round contribution to College life. Dr and Mrs Peel have also donated a memorial tree now planted in the College sports ground.

Trees have also been planted at the ground in memory of Max B ull following a generous anonymous d onation to the College Union for this purpose.

Very recently, the late Mr P. J. Oldfield ( 1 9 1 2) has left a portion of his estate amounting in value to approximately £200,000 to the College. The particular purposes to which this fine bequest will be directed have yet to be decided.

J . M. PRENTIS

3

The Library 1984-85

Librarian: Mr Wright (Lent Term, Dr Callingham) Assistant Librarian: Mrs E. Machin Undergraduate Assistant Librarians: J. H. Boaden, N. J. Booth, H. J. Busby, R. F. Coombe, P.R. Edwards,

S. M. Hill, M. I. Markham, N . A. D. Stokes.

The cataloguing of the Old Library, sadly interrupted by the death of the former Cataloguer, Mr Harry Torpey, was resumed in 1985, and the College was delighted to be able to appoint Mrs Joan Holloway, wife of Professor Holloway and formerly Librarian of the Faculty of English, as Cataloguer. The work is well advanced and it is anticipated that it should be comp.leted within the next two to three years. The College will then have to turn its collective mind to the question of how and in what form our catalogue - which will be a document of major scholarly interest and importance - should be published.

Scholarly research will be greatly helped if the catalogue is put into a computer, but it is intended that it shall also be published as a printed volume.

Two notable additions have been made to the Old Library collections during the year. The Revd B. M. Osman (1933) generously gave a rare early edition of Erasmus's New Testament. B. P. Bazell (1975) gave Ludolfs Lexicon Amharico-Latinum (Frankfurt, 1699).

There have been a number of most welcome donations to the Members' Archive, which is housed in the Old Library, including manuscript diaries and records of their connections with the College from several Members. The College is always very pleased to receive such items: manuscripts and shorter items, such as articles and offprints, are as welcome as full-length published works.

At the beginning of this academical year, it was decided to divide the duties previously included in the office of Librarian. Dr Callingham has now become Librarian, dealing with all enquiries relating to the War Memorial Library, while Mr Wright has been elected Keeper of the Old Library and College Archivist, and will be glad to deal with questions about the College's older collections of books, manuscripts and archival material.

The Library remains extremely short of space, but a little extra has been found by the installation of closed book shelves in the attics above the Old Chapel, where storage of volumes not in regular use will be possible.

An exhibition entitled 'Flora and Fauna' was mounted in the Old Library in the Easter Term and for the Club Weekend. It comprised works on horticulture, botany and zoology, and it included an interesting manuscript book on gardening by the Revd Charles Daubuz, a Huguenot refugee who was a Fellow of the College and Librarian in 1694 - 95, as well as Gessner's Historiae animalium (Zurich, 1554), Worm's Museum Wormianum (Amsterdam, 1655), Linnaeus's Genera plantarum (Stockholm, 1764) and several early herbals and gardeners' dictionaries. The Keeper will be glad to send copies of the catalogue of the exhibition to Members on request.

The following Fellows gave copies of their own works: Professor Holloway, The Lion Hunt, The Story of the

Night, Widening Horizons in English Verse, The Proud Knowledge, Blake: The Lyric Poetry, The Establishment of English, The Victorian Sage; Mr Spearing, From 4

Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry; Mr Hebblethwaite, Sermons; Dr Coaker, Advances in Applied Biology, Volume X; Dr Ellory, The Sodium Pump.

Books have also been presented by Professor Bowett, Professor Holloway, Dr Callingham, Dr Botterill, Mr Hebblethwaite, Dr Diggle, Dr Field, Dr McKeown, Dr Twigg, Dr P. P. Sims-Williams, D . Nicol, Dr J. G.Manners (1942), E. Mitchell, D. A. Austin, Bishop Newbigin (1928), Dr H. P. Gi:ay (1942), P. Pouncey, A. Giles, Dr P . Happe (1952), C. V. T. Walne (1961), Dr R. L. Hills{1957), DrD. R . Karlin(1971), K. M . Gardiner, Dr A. J. Sykes (1948), T. R. Spear (1983), S. J. Vollmer (1982), Dr E. Leedham-Green, Lt-Col D. G. B. Boyd (1934), the Librarian of Clare, the Fellows of Wolfson, His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of MalinesBrussels and the Cutlers Company. Drs Maxwell and Hughes presented extensive collections of volumes.

1985-86

Librarian: Dr Callingham (Lent and Easter Terms, Dr Sattelle)

Keeper of the Old Library: Mrs Wright Assistant Librarian: Mrs E. Machin Undergraduate Assistant Librarians: N . J. Booth, G. R. McD Burgess, H . J. Busby, R. F. Coombe, A. Gigante, S. M. Hill, N. A. D. Stokes, M. J. Tindal.

IR WRIGHT

The Chapel The following visiting preachers came to the College Chapel in the course of the year: the Revd Robert Atwell, Chaplain of Trinity College; the Revd Dr Stephen Mayor, Professor of Pastoral Studies, Westmmster College; the Ven. John Long (1932), formerly Archdeacon of Ely; the Revd Roger Combes, Curate of the Round Church; the Revd Canon Graham Routledge, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral; the Revd Canon John Tiller, Canon of Hereford Cathedral; the Revd Nicholas Thistlewaite, Chaplain of Gonville and Caius College; the Revd John Witheridge, Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Revd Dr Alvyn Pettersen, Fellow and Chaplain of Exeter College, Oxford; the Very Revd Bill Patterson, Dean of Ely; Prof. Nicholas Lash, NorrisHulse Professor of Divinity; the Revd Derek Wales, Minister of Emmanuel United Reformed Church; the ¡ Revd Peter Harrison, Rector of St. Luke's, Hickling with Kinoulton; the Revd Canon Dudley Gundry, Chancellor of Leicester Cathedral and Religious Affairs Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The Dean of Chapel, the Lay Chaplain and Dr. Bradshaw also preached.

The preacher at the Commemoration of Benefactors in Full Term was the Revd Fred Kilner (1962), Rector of Milton, and at the visit of the Graduates Club in June, the Revd Canon John Hughes ( I 954), Warden of St Michael's College, Llandaff.

G. D. Quartly was succeeded as Chapel clerk by J. R. W. Young in the Easter Term and by R. Sinnatamby in the Michaelmas Term. The new post of Sacristan was inaugurated by M. T. C. Baynes in the Easter Term and continued by J. R . W. Young in the Michaelmas Term.

The Ryle Prize for reading in the College Chapel was awarded to R. Sinnatamby.

J. S. Gibbons concluded his time as Organ Scholar by taking the Chapel Choir on a most successful tour of Germany in June and July. They sang in Heidelberg, Wurz burg, Ntirnberg and Schwetzingen. They also made a new gramophone record of church music, on whose cover there is a splendid reproduction of the restored central panel of the triptych in the Chapel. P. J . Walsh became Organ Scholar in the Michaelmas Term.

The University Confirmation, by the Bishop of Huntingdon, took place in Queens' Chapel on Saturday 2nd March.

A Memorial Service for Dr Max Bull on Saturday 16th February was attended by a large number of members of the College and the medical profession.

We learned with great regret the death last summer in America of the Revd Lawrence Bowser (1972). Larry Bowser assisted with the Chaplaincy work at Queens' during his time at Westcott House in 1976. After ordination, he went to Ripon as Curate at the Cathedral.

From there he moved to Canterbury as Chaplain of Christ Church College, before returning to his native America at the beginning of 1985. He was a great friend of Queens'.

B. L. HEBBLETHWAITE

The Students 1985 has been another very satisfactory year academically for Queens'. In the Tripos examinations, yet again we were placed very high in the various league tables which compare the performances of Colleges. I have been reporting for some time the high number of applications for each place which we are enjoying. It enables us to choose the very best candidates for Queens' whilst passing on to Jess heavily-subscribed Colleges those who merit a place at Cambridge but have put a popular College as first choice. A large number of first choice applicants are picked up via these pooling procedures and some of the less popular Colleges now tend to rely on our feeding them with good candidates.

The Cambridge Entrance Examination (the old Scholarship Examination) which has run for many many years has now stopped. There will be a new public examination (the Sixth Term Examination Papers or STEP) which will be administered by the GCE boards and sat in June of each year alongside 'A' and 'S' level examinations. The aim is to make Cambridge more accessible to candidates from a variety of academic backgrounds. All entry to Cambridge will be by conditional offer. Colleges will of course be ab le to make an offer at any level they wish: Queens' certainly intends to continue their practice of making offers appropriate to the background of each candidate. We assess most carefully the teaching and experience of the school in which an applicant has been prepared before setting conditions on entry.

Thus candidates who are from schools which have no tradition of sending students to Cambridge and which do not have the teaching resources to provide any help with 'S' level or STEP papers will not in general be made offers which involve grades in those papers. We believe that this is a fair and proper way to assess candidates, and head teacher's reports are crucial in enabling us to do this.

We have made strenuous efforts to ensure that schools are aware of our new procedures: we have continued Open Days at the College which have proved very popular. Intending applicants are invited to Queens' on one of three days each year: they talk to Fellows about individual subjects and are hosted by undergraduates currently in residence. In addition we invite teachers to the College on several evenings, to informal discussions about admissions procedures. We hope that anyone who wishes to visit the College in either of these ways would make contact with the Admissions Secretary. Open Days in 1986 are Wednesday 19 March, Saturday 31 May and Thursday IO July; in 1987 they are Tuesday 17 March, Saturday 30 May and Saturday 11 July.

It would be wrong to report on the students without also referring to our graduate and research students. Over the last five years the number taking graduate courses (such as Diplomas, Certificates in Education, leading to the Master of Law degree) and research courses (mainly those leading to the Ph.D) has increased by over 50%.

There are now some 170 graduate students in the College and they form a very important part of our community.

Within this expansion, there has been a significant increase in the number of overseas students: over onethird of the graduate students are now from overseas. It is particularly pleasing that this increase has come at a time when the Colleges are threatened by all sorts of cuts by central government. This College was mindful to preserve its position by taking steps to ensure that we did have a ready supply of students at all levels and our efforts have been rewarded by tremendous increases in the graduate and research students applying to Queens'. Many more fully qualified graduate and research students apply than we currently admit and we·have seen an increase both in quality and quantity of applications. The increase must reflect the efforts which the College has made through instituting an Overseas Bursary Fund. The College does not have significant sums of money available, but we have made about 10 awards each year to students who find it particularly hard to raise the. funds to pay the level of University fees set for- oversea:s:·students: currently these range from £3,5.00. t·o.almost £8,000. In addition, graduate students have to find a College fee of about £400 per year and on top of all this -they have to pay for their maintenance. Clearly the sums of money are prohibitive for many and particularly for those from third world countries: it is to such people that bursary funds have been aimed, through the University Chancellors' Bursary Fund as well as Queens' own fund .

With this increase in numbers there has also been an increase inactivity in the graduate life of the College. The Middle Combination Room has an important role and is now playing an even more active part in collegiate life.

Mindful of this, the Governing Body has recently taken steps to increase the facilities of the Middle Combination Room, by extending the present accommodation in the Cripps Building.

J. T. GREEN

5

The BBC in Retrospect

College Expeditions

It is now over two years sfnce the BBC film crew first came as flies on our walls. They were with us for just nine months throughout the academic year 1983-4; then they were cutting, pasting and commentating in order to present what has now been seen on BBC2.

There have been many reactions from total disapproval to high praise, from many quarters both outside and inside Cambridge, and many have been adamant that what they have seen has confirmed their worst fears (or highest hopes!). We were led to believe, by the head teachers of the schools who had undergone the same experience, that we would receive a heavy postbag from the public after each programme. In the event this has not been the case and we have had only about one hundred letters in total from members of the public. This reflects the rather low-key treatment from the more sensational elements of the press which we have not enjoyed to the same extent as the schools. But certainly we have attracted a great deal of press coverage: there have been some 97 reviews in the major national papers of the programmes- many have been complimentary and only a few critical. The most often heard criticism both from colleagues in Cambridge, from students as well as from some members of the press, is that academic pursuits were ignored. This of course was the one area about which we were concerned from the outset. However, there were references to academic study in all the programmes and indeed several programmes showed very explicitly the pressures which various activities (work, social, emotional) make on a student.

The letters we have received from the public have in general been at a very superficial level: we have had only one letter making serious points about our academic standing and criticizing our procedures. The remainder of the letters address trivial points ranging from the standard of Fellows' dress to where we buy our wine decanters! And of course alongside these we have had the usual letters from cranks including one from a person who had seen the programme on geology and was particularly concerned because the continued extraction of oil from the earth would eventually mean (by analogy with a motor car) that it would rustily grind to a halt.

No doubt the programmes will have entertained and provoked every one of us in our own particular way. We have had many requests for copies of videos of the series but we are not allowed, by the terms of our contract with the BBC, to sell, give or provide such copies.

The College Expeditions Fund and the Golden Jubilee Fund have continued to grow in capital and it was particularly rewarding to be able to support several expeditions in 1985. Members of the College will recall that the idea behind the formation of these funds was to increase the awareness amongst students of the benefits of travel, particularly to under-developed parts of the world and to less accessible places. Although the support is small in relation to the cost of mounting an expedition, it is significant in encouraging students both to travel and to broaden their minds. Reports on some of those supported in 1985 appear below.

There have been several generous donations to the Jubilee Fund over the past year and we are, of course, always grateful for such contributions.

J. T. GREEN

Thomae Smithi Academia The Thomae Smithi Academia, a discussion group for Fellows, has continued to meet in the Old Senior Combination Room on Monday evenings. Discussions were held on the following topics: (Lent Term) 'Politics and the Economy', introduced by Dr Borooah; 'Quantum Reality', introduced by Dr Phillips; (Easter Term) 'Words and Origins', introduced by Prof.

Holloway; (Michaelmas Term) 'The Ethics of Heart Transplants', introduced by Fellow Commoner, Dr Evans; 'Losing Touch with Shakespeare', introduced by Mr Spearing.

J. DIGGLE

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J. T. GREEN

Ecuadorian Andes Expedition. The expedition was born in a cold tent in the Alps during the summer of 1984.

Once in Ecuador we carried out three scientific projects on the Caldera glacier in the crater of the extinct volcano El Altar. The main project was a study of the heat fluxes on the glacier suface, the aim being to identify the primary cause of the rapid retreat of the glaciers in this region.

Presence of surface moraine and debris covering may mean that solar radiation will turn out to be the dominant energy source due to a lower reflectivity from the glacier than expected. A general survey of the glacier was also undertaken to compare.with data collected in the I 970's.

The second project, which was a follow up study to the work of the 1978 Queens' Spitzbergen Expedition on the formation of dirt cones, could not be carried out due to the steepness of the glacier and the risk of avalanches and ice falls. Finally, a study of the Polylepis incana trees growing on the moraine a few hundred feet below the glacier was undertaken. Three members of the group succeeded in climbing Mount Chimborazo, at 20,800 ft, the highest mountain in Ecuador. We then spent some time in the Upper Amazon and took a 'holiday' on the Pacific coast. We returned to Cambridge, eager to return to the 'field' again as soon as possible.

Sudan Nutrition Study. The prime purpose of this fourperson expedition was to work with the Save the Children Fund in refugee camps in Eastern Sudan, conducting nutritional surveys in order to monitor the success of the food distribution.

This involved weighing and measuring samples of children aged one to five. The results were encouraging, in that they suggested that malnutrition had fallen from previous levels of about 20% to 10% of the population.

We carried out a similar survey on a neighbouring Sudanese village to decide whether its inhabitants should have their own feeding programme. It turned out that they were reasonably nourished but deserved better medical care. We were involved in testing water systems, diagnosis of tuberculosis, helping in the hospitals and running feeding centres for the thinner children.

We began work at Safawa Camp, a day's journey from the major town of Gedaref: conditions in Safawa were good: there are a hospital, clinic, pharmacy, food distribution points, pregnancy clinics and a functioning water system. The camp is maintained by various

agencies, both indigenous and foreign. The people are from Tigray in Northern Ethiopia, and had been there from a few weeks to seven months. We lived with the other relief workers in a compound of mud huts.

Kenyan Antenatal Care Project. Our project took us all over Kenya, visiting four mission hospitals : Gaichanjiou and Chogoria in the Kikuyu tribeland around Mount Kenya (which we climbed), Kapsowar on the edge of the Rift Valley, and Kalokol in the remote Turkavan deserts.

We decided against going to Uganda two days before the coup occurred! The tribes we encountered were fascinating and very different: the Kikuyu are agriculturalists, living in scattered mud huts. Turkana people are nomadic tribesmen living in thornscrub banyattas. They survive mainly on the milk and blood of their animals.

Our project was to discover why up to 75% of pregnant mothers do not attend ante-natal clinics. We attended hospital and mobile clinics, interviewed mothers, nurses and community health workers, and used hospital records. Attendance patterns were difficult to characterise, but failure to appreciate the value of clinics difficult access and ignorance of clinic existance seemed more important than cost, leaving other children at home, being unmarried, or maternal age.

We spent much of our time looking at the work of 'Traditional Birth Attendants'. These are village midwives who conduct up to 75% of deliveries. Many

Riobamba Market (Ecuadorian Andes Expedilion)

hospitals are now running training schemes for them, to try to eradicate undesirable practices and to integrate them into the Community Based Health Care program.

The role, acceptance and training of these 'T.B.A.s' differed in each tribe that we visited.

Cambridge Expedition to Ecuador. Our aim was to investigate the migration into and colonisation of an area of north eastern Ecuador near Lago Agrio. This is a 'frontier zone' on the edge of the Amazon Basin and we looked at the oil industry, the oil palm industry and general agriculture. As this involved talking to a wide range of people, from local farmers to government officials we collected taped interviews for Dr. C. J. Fountain who is concerned with the determination of social status by speech, the use of different languages in different situations by bilinguals, local names for artefacts, and the development of oil related lexicon.

The expedition spent two months in Ecuador, the first two weeks in Quito interviewing people, visiting libraries and company head offices. From there we went to the Oriente, speaking to oil-workers, farmers and local colonists.

We found that colonists came from three main areas; Loja, Manabi and Bolivar provinces. The oil and oil palm industry attract workers to the Oriente but most of these live in Quito and move to the Oriente for two to three week shifts. These industries have done little to encourage permanent colonisation. The process has been haphazard and poorly managed and has failed to develop the full potential of the area.

Colombian A rrow-PoisonFrog Expedition. This expedition was carried out during August and September of'85 by four second-year Queens' undergraduates. The objectives were a collection of arrow-poison frog skins for toxin analysis by the Physiology Department, and collections of whole specimens and behavioural studies for the British Natural History Museum.

When afraid, the brightly coloured and stunningly beautiful inch-long frogs secrete through their skin the strongest natural poison in existence. They are only to be found in small areas of Colombia, deep into the tropical rain-forests where rainfall reaches an 33 feet a year. We travelled for days by plane, bus,jeep, hanging off the back of a truck, hanging onto the backs of mules and finally and exhaustingly by foot, drenched in sweat in the agonising heat and humidity. On the way we were joined

by Jesus Velez, th¡e director of the Manisales Natural History Museum, whose help proved to be invaluable.

The area was sparsely populated by farming Indians whose knowledge of. the frogs (of whom some use the venom to poison their blow-gun darts) spurred us on.

After a weeks' searching we spotted Dendrobates histrionicus and in the end we collected over 150 skins dissected by candlelight, as well as several whole specimens of_two different species. The behavioural study proved much more difficult though. We would like to thank all our friends in Colombia for generosity and hospitality far beyond anything we have ever seen elsewhere.

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Bishop John Fisher (1469-1535) The 450th anniversary of the death of Bishop Fisher - beheaded on 22nd June 1535 for his opposition to the Reformation of Henry VIII - has caused quite a stir in Cambridge over the last months. In June a varied assortment of clergy and laity, from prelates and beads of Houses to freshers and unbeneficed clergy, packed into St. John's College Chapel for a commemoration service at which Cardinal Hume delivered the address. In late November the university marked the occasion with a public lecture delivered by Professor J. J. Scarisbruick of Warwick. The following day the Faculties of Divinity and History jointly sponsored a one-day seminar, hosted by Queens' at which ¡some forty scholars gathered from universities throughout the country to p.onder the historical significance of Fisher. Why the fuss?

Bishop Fisher himself would not have thought so, but he was rather unfortunate to have become a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. This aspect of bis life - the circumstances of his death - has tended to obscure everything else about him. The dramatic story of his opposition to Henry VIII's divorce, his refusal whh Thomas More to swear the oath of Supremacy, and their final executions within days of one another, these facts are well remembered and regularly retold. However, had they never occurred, Cambridge would have been right to celebrate the memory of someone whose life - whatever of his death - left the university much the richer.

Fisher enriched the university in more senses than one.

Materially he was instrumental in securing the endowment of two of its largest and most distinguished colleges, Christ's (1505-6) and St. John's (1511-24), as well as the endowment of the present Lady Margaret Chair in Divinity (1503) and of a University Preacher (1504). The source of most of the funds was the Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. But it was Fisher, her confessor and friend, who persuaded her to direct her charity towards Cambridge on such a lavish scale; and he also contributed handsomely himself from very limited resources - his diocese, Rochester, was the poorest in England and he possessed no inherited wealth. Apart from material wealth Fisher gave Jong years of service to the university at the highest administrative levels. He became Vice-Chancellor in 1501 and Chancellor in 1504, an office which he held until his death in 1535: the university insisted, against his will, in electing him for life in 1514.

Fisher's length of service as head of the university must be something of a record, and it draws attention to a third and most significant contribution which he made, vision and leadership at a decisive stage in the university's development as an academic institution. It has been pointed out that when Fisher came up to Michaelhouse -later to be absorbed into Trinity - as an undergraduate in 1483 Oxford was the English university and Cambridge was nowhere in the league. When he died in 1535 Cambridge had already entered upon one of its most glorious epochs as a centre of the new humanist learning.

The achievement was in no small measure that of John Fisher. Personally he lent the weight of his influence as Chancellor to the promotion of the New Learning and he helped in very practical ways as well. His two new foundations were designed as humanist colleges and he brought Erasmus, the prince of humanists, to Cambridge

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John Fisher (by courtesy of the Council of St John' College)

for a stay which lasted three years (1511-14). It has to be remembered, however, that for Fisher the most important aspect of humanism was not the promotion of language and literature studies in Latin and Greek but the new conceptions of education which it provided, namely the formation of the whole human being. It was in leading the university away from the medieval view of its function as the transmission of technical knowlEdge and skills to the richer conceptions of a human formation that Fisher made his most notable contribution as Chancellor.

Perhaps enough has now been said to explain the fuss about Fisher in Cambridge 450 years on. Why, however, the fuss in Queens' - which opened its doors - and its larders - to¡ the Fisher seminarists in November? The answer in short is that the Chancellor was also President of the College between 1505 and 1508. It was felt appropriate, therefore, that the College should pay tribute to perhaps its most distinguished President in this way. The attraction of Queens' for him clearly was as a base from which to supervise the foundation of Christ's and to have his royal patrons to stay with a view to further benefactions. Be that as it may, it was Fisher who brought Erasmus to Queens' - which must surely be reckoned the greatest academic coup the College ever made. In any case, the response to Fisher within the college at the time shows no trace of resentment at the exploitation of its resources to advance the general good of the university.

When he tendered his resignation in 1508 the Fellows responded by indicating their distress and inviting him to nominate a successor. Clearly they appreciated the Chancellor's disinterested commitment to the development of the university and were glad to contribute towards forwarding the enterprise. The College was a place of vision in those days.

B. I. BRADSHAW

Alexand er Crumme ll Alexander Crummell (1819-98), a leading figure in the movement for black rights, was active in that cause at different times in the United States, Britain and Africa.

He was born, free, in New York City (slavery was practised in the southern states of the USA until much later) and educated mostly at institutions run by black clergymen and abolitionists. After graduating from Oneida Institute in 1839, he spent several years fighting against racial prejudice in his efforts to become an ordained minister of the Episcopalian Church - he succeeded in 1844 - and then in trying to secure equal recognition within the church establishment. In 1847, on the advice of influential friends, he sailed to England to raise funds to build a church for his poor black congregation in New York.

He arrived in England, in his own words 'full of earnest purpose and bright hopes'. Introductions from his American friends brought him into contact with politicians, churchmen and Uterary figures; he was received everywhere 'with favor and courtesy', was invited to preach in several places, and raised the equivalent of over $8,000 for his new church. However, his efforts were interrupted by 'fits of illness', so that friends suggested 'that I should retire for a season from over-work, and become a student in the University of Cambridge'; he enrolled at Queens'.

After graduating in 1853, he spent many years in Liberia, a nation newly-created specially for former slaves. There he worked as schoolmaster, lecturer, priest and missionary, and, as a 'public Teacher' and 'censor' of the nation's faults when called upon, as he often was, to give his opinions 'concerning national life' and to make public addresses. He returned to the United States in 1873 ¡ and was a minister in Washington DC for over twenty years at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, now a US national monument; in the year before his death he helped to found the American Negro Academy.

His considerable influence as a writer, teacher of moral ideals, and opponent of racial persecution is well recognised today in the United States. Over forty publications by him are listed; one of his pamphlets was said to have sold half a million copies. He was a tireless worker for black rights and, despite many reverses, constantly optimistic. His inspiration was deeply Christian, and strongly moralistic in a typically mid-Victorian way, rather than political. He worked for a moral revolution based on philanthropy, honesty, self-restraint and hard work; industry and education were the principal means by which black people were to conquer racial injustice, raising their own self-respect and giving the lie to notions of white superiority.

Very little is known about Crummell's Cambridge career. According to his own account, he was entered at Queens' in 1851, but this is clearly a mistake: J. A. Venn's biographical register of Cambridge alumni claims that he was admitted on 22nd June -1849, and although the college's admissions register has since been lost, the university archives show that he matriculated in the Michaelmas term of 1849. There is no further reference to him in the college archives until he took his BA in 1853 (in those days, the BA course took nearly four years). W. Wells Brown, a fellow-countrym an and escaped slave who visited England at about the same time, wrote in

Alexander Crummell

September 1851 that he had visited Crummell at Cambridge a 'few months since', but gave no further details. Crummell's own account is scarcely more forthcoming: he statea merely that 'I was often in the hands of doctors. Not seldom I fell into a state of discouragement and despair, on accc,unt of my health.

Now and then my studies were interrupted'.

But there is an anecdote from the very end of his time there. Crummell may have been the first black recipient of a Cambridge degree, and at the degree ceremony in the Senate House 'A boisterous individual in the gallery called out, "Three groans for the Queens' nigger"... A pale slim undergraduate . . . shouted in a voice which re-echoed through the building, "Shame, shame! Three groans for you, Sir!" and immediately afterwards, "Three cheers for Crummell!". This was taken up in all directions. . . and the original offender had to stoop down to hide himself from the storm of groans and hisses that broke out all around him' (Crummell's champion was E. W. Benson who was to become Archbishop of Canterbury).

Crummell's reasons for choosing Queens' as his college are not easy to find. There was no formal admissions procedure then, and personal contacts '!Vere all-important. Crummell referred to 'a personal interest' which arose on his behalf, 'unsolicited, nay, unthought of by myself. He did not reveal who these people were, but we know that he was well connected. Several of his particular friends and patrons were from the evangelical wing of the Church of England. Although nineteenth century evangelicals tended to be Tory in their politics and opponents of parliamentary and religious reforms, the movement had supported William Wilberforce's campaign against 9

slavery. Queens' in the early nineteenth century was famous - or, in some circles, notorious -for its marked evangelical character created by the dictatorial Isaac Milner (President, 1788-1820), who was a close friend of Wilberforce. This tradition persisted in the college into the middle years of the century, although the first signs of growing movement towards higher churchmanship are apparent in the 1840s. One of the friends listed in Crummell's account was Henry Venn, a prominent evangelical of the period who had been a Fellow of Queens' in the I820s; another was the Methodist and distinguished antiquarian T. H. Horne, who had compiled a catalogue of the college library when Venn was a Fellow. These men may not have introduced Crummell to Queens' themselves, but they were part of a widespread network of personal contacts which embraced both him and the college.

Crummell is said to have been one of the finest black American writers before the twentieth century. It has also been claimed that to a large extent this was the result of his Camb~idge education: perhaps it is true, but it is a rather facile assumption. Any contribution that Cambridge may have made to his development as a thinker and prose stylist probably came from extra-curricular activities, for Crummell, in common with about two thirds of his student contemporaries, read for a pass degree only, which was not a very demanding course. And his life at Queens' remains a mystery. Colleges are all too prone to claim credit for the achievements of their famous alumni, and it would indeed be presumptious of Queens' to d~ so in Crummell's case, bu! it seems a legitimate function of a college Record to remember the distinguished career of a former member who might otherwise, in this country at least, be undeservedly neglected.

JOHN TWIGG

I am_grateful for the considerable assistance given me by Dr D . Nicol from S1er~a Leone, Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, who first drew my attention to Crummell and has supplied me with a great deal of information on his life and work.

Overseas Bursaries Scheme In line with the practice of several other Cambridge Colleges, and of the majority of Oxford Colleges, Queens' and Clare, acting jointly, have recently established an Overseas Bursaries Scheme. The purpose of the scheme is to support a suitably qualified overseas student who either comes from an underpriviledged background, or who has been the victim of educational discrimination. It was decided that in the first instance the two Colleges should support a student from southern Africa and the first holder of the bursary (a graduate of the Uni~ersity of Natal) is now in residence, reading for a BA degree in Law as an affiliated student.

The scheme is funded entirely by the two Colleges, partly through contributions from students (over 80% of Queens' students are participating) and Fellows, partly through the College's generosity in waiving all College fees, and is felt to be a very concrete way for the College to express its larger responsibilities as part of the international academic community.

I. R. WRIGHT

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The Solitary Life Those Old Members who accepted the BBC's recent invitation to spend part of their Wednesday evenings in th_e company of some of their present-day counterparts will doubtless have their own memories which struck them as particularly interesting, entertaining, or (surely not?) embarrassing. For me the most thought-provoking moment came in the programme devoted to the Fel!owship. I refer, not to my own fleeting appearance ( of which even my mother could only say that she thought I'd ~brow~ those trousers away long ago), but to a sequence mvolvmg one of my colleagues. The camera roved round an elegant if sparsely furnished room, before focusing on a book-strewn desk at which Jane Bewick was working, on the latest chapter of her thesis on Flaubert. Meanwhile her disembodied voice enumerated some of the drawbacks of the essentially solitary life of a Research Fellow in an A~ts su.bj~ct. !he image which leapt irresistibly to my med1evahst s mmd was that of the scholar-hermit St Jerome in his lonely desert cave - although Jerome is usually accompanied at least by an amiable lion and there was no sign that such a creature lurked in ev;n the dimmest recesses of 14.

I found every word of Jane's remarks both moving and true. Research Fellows in the arts cannot draw on the communal atmos~here of a laboratory or research group for moral and social support. Arts research is generally a lonely pursuit, furtively carried on in dusty corners of the University Library (and its tea-room!), and its conclusions tend to be guarded jealously from all but the most trusted associates (who may or may not, in the case of tho~e still working for higher degrees, include one's supervisor). Nor does much of our work have the reassuring tangibility characteristic of at least some branches of science and engineering. We deal in evanescent things: words, ideas, images, influences relationships, discourses, all the endlessly varied ex~ pressions of the human mind and its shifting perceptions.

Although it is possible to study t hese on a basis of sound theory and with a rigour admiringly called 'scientific' (or, more often, 'pseudo-scientific'), research in arts subjects, and especially perhaps in literature, is not a realm of ce~tainties. ('I don't know how you people can manage', said one of my colleagues once, 'when you can never tell if you're right or wrong'). And in the prevailing conditions in Britain, research of this kind is frequently taken less than seriously in the academic world, let alone outside it and is invariably at the back of the queue for the limited funds in the universities' research budgets. The achievem~~ts of. arts research seem not to show up very clearly on mm1stenal calculators. It is not altogether surprising that resea~chers in the arts should occasionally feel a slight flaggmg of morale, and wonder if perhaps they should have taken auntie Mabel's advice and got themselves a real job.

Most of us, of course, look for a measure of social contact and intellectual challenge in our teaching, and some of us are lucky enough to find it. But the encounter with the (usually!) lively minds of my pupils cannot, I find , counteract the danger of isolation altogether. They

are only in Cambridge half the year and the inbuilt expectations on both sides of the pupil-teacher relationship are too often a hindrance to genuine exchange. It is thus that membership of what is rightly called 'The Society' of Fellows of Queens' becomes so important.

Daily contact with colleagues of both sexes, from a variety of cultures, products of enormously diverse formations and experiences, working on a range of subjects in many individual ways, both saves me from total self-absorption and opens new perspectives on the apparently remote concerns of my own research. I attempt, by reading the work of Dante in the light of his medieval contemporaries, to understand the intellectual and literary assumptions and preoccupations of a culture almost unimaginably different from our¡ own, which is yet an ancestor of it; it is a task of interpretation, assessment, evaluation, comparison, and explication, dedicated to adding to our knowledge of Dante in the hope that this may be a contribution to our knowledge of ourselves. To be able to work in the company of others similarly seeking understanding in their own fields is a source of much-needed encouragement; and if the talk at High Table is more often of television than of teleology, if there are colleagues one would leap over a cliff to avoid, we need not, I think, apologise for that. Like all such societies, Queens' is fallible and imperfect - which is to say, human: which is to say, worthy to be loved.

STEVEN BOTTERILL

A Traveller in China Anticipating the thrill of standing on the Great Wall or crossing the desert wastes of the Taklamakan, it came as a surprise that the finest moment of my two months in China was obtaining a train ticket from Peking to Canton for ÂŁ15. Indeed, the organisation of travel and accommodation dominated our day-to-day thoughts; it is only on reflection that I came to consider the one billion inhabitants of China, the many cultural differences, and the rapid modernisation which is changing the country.

The population was obvious as we walked from Hong Kong into China and were swept through the border crossing by a mass of returning Chinese loaded up with televisions, disposable nappies, and other luxury goods.

Only the countryside provides escape from overcrowding.

Government intention to reduce the population was evident from the numerous posters advertising the 'One Child Policy'; children in China are not a common sight except among minority tribes who are not subject to the same restrictions. Despite the falling rate of population growth it is unlikely that this century will see a system of public transport and hotel accommodation that can cope with demand.

Communication is the hardest cultural difference to master. Not only is Chinese very difficult, but any attempt at sign language is rarely understood by either party: the Chinese gesture for beckoning would in England have the opposite meaning; it was not uncommon for tour group leaders to be abandoned by their bewildered charges.

Ordering a meal is best done by pointing at desired dishes in the kitchen; buying a train ticket is pot-luck either way; but getting a room is sometimes simplified because hotel staff speak some English.

In the last few years there have been many changes: blue jeans, 'Wham', and permed hair. Chinese society seems concerned about its image: possession of a moped, cassette player or camera gains great 'street credibility'.

This is evidence of the changing state of the economy. The greatest opportunities seem to be in the rural areas where farmers are cultivating every square inch to maximise the yield additional to the state quota.

Current interest in China concentrates on its attemptÂŁ at modernisation; but it is the culture of a country with several thousand years of civilisation which endures as memories. As the Peking express skirted the edge of Inner Mongolia, only western eyes took in the dramatic scenery of the Gobi desert; newly installed televisions held the attention of the masses.

R.REOCH

My First Impression of Cambridge Time has elapsed without being aware of having been in Cambridge for about two years. Most impressions of the beginning days of my Cambridge life have faded but I never will forget one October evening I spent with my supervisor, Prof. Roger Needham, at the Eagle.

It was about six o'clock in the evening. While I was about to leave the Computer Lab, Roger came to me and asked whether I would like to go to the Eagle to have some beer. 'Yes', I said, although I was apprehensive of going, since bars and pubs were thought a vulgar place in China, which I had left only several days ago, and I couldn't get rid of the influence of the education I had had since I was a child, perhaps I could never. Then we and another two research students went together.

The Eagle was a small pub and very close to our Lab. When we went in, it was not too crowded yet but rather dark. We sat in a corner round a small table, drank beer, and chatted. Roger talked of his student life, the days he spent with his supervisor at this place many years ago.

Gradually I didn't feel constraint in his presence any more. I felt that he was not only our supervisor but also our friend. I also felt people under such atmosphere could exchange their thoughts and views more freely. I thought perhaps drinking at a pub was part of a Cambridge scientist's academic life, and many inspirations might originate from pubs. I believed that the nice time at the Eagle and the impression I got I would never lose.

Now many months passed, but whenever I go to the Eagle I always like to sit in the same corner if I could reach it. It always brought back to my mind the time, the feeling, and the atmosphere I enjoyed that night.

When I went back home for holidays last Summer, I was often asked what made Cambridge so famous in the world. I don't know whether they were satisfied with my reply. But I believe it's originated from its long, history and its tradition which were created, maintained, continually improved, and carried forward by one generation after another. When I work in the Lab, walk along the river Cam, or across the Mathmatical Bridge from the modern side to the Old Court, I always can feel it in my soul, the Cambridge atmosphere, and the spirit behind it. I love Cambridge.

MIAN WEI

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Distinctions and Awards FIRST YEAR

C. M. Armstrong (Bedales School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

P. B. Ashwin (Fortismere School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos; College Exhibition.

I. D. Chapman (Eltham College): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos.

J. E. F. Eliot (Radley College): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

A. P. Goldstone (Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood); Class I in fart IA, Medical Scienqes Tripos.

S. J. Goringe (Magdalen College School): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos.

M. J. Green (Sandbach School): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos; College Exhibition.

S. J. W. Hamilton (Leys School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

P. R. Head (St. Albans School): Class I in Part I, Economics Tripos; College Exhibition.

S. J. Head (Beacon School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos; College Exhibition.

U.S. Kambhampati (Homsey School for Girls): Class I in Part I, Economics Tripos; College Exhibition.

R. A. Keiller (Dean Close School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

I. J. Morrison (Nottingham Boys' High School): Class I in Part IA, Engineeri.,ng Tripos; College Exhibition.

E. B. Nasatyr (William Ellis School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

N. J. R. O'Gorman Lalor (Kingston Grammar School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

J. S. Richer (Bradford Grammar School): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos.

I. S. Turner (Kingston Grammar School): Class I in Part IA, Engineering Tripos.

J. A. Viner (Malvern College): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

SECOND YEAR Elect~d to Foundation Scholarships: N. J. Booth (Sevenoaks School): Class I in Part IB, Law Tripos.

D. Christensen (Portsmouth Grammar School): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

J. A. Dominey (Aylesbury High School): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

P. E. Dorey (Abingdon School): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

C. M. Edwards (Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

D. G. Goldberg (University College School): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

M . C. Hudson (North London Collegiate School): Class I in Part I, English Tripos.

M. J. Liley (Godolphin and Latymer School): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos.

R. K. Lowes (Newcastle Royal Grammar School): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

P. S. Marshall (Merchiston Castle School): Class I in Part IB, Law Tripos.

D. N. Moore (Royal Grammar School, Guildford): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

A. P. McD. Orchard (University College School): Class I in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos.

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D. M. B. Reed (Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle): Class I in Part I, Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos.

H. K. Smith (The Manchester Grammar School); Class I in Part I, Classical Tripos.

M. J. Streetly (Tonbridge School): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos.

J. J. Tanner (Bradfield College): Class I in Part I, Classical Tripos.

P. S. Wells (Bradford Girls' Grammar School): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos.

N. Wood (St. Dunstan's College): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos.

THIRD YEAR

R. W. Brown: Class I in Part II, Social and Political Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

T. J. Duckworth: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Chemistry); Foundation Scholarship and Bachelor Scholarship.

D.S. Forrester: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Physics and Theoretical Physics).

C. E. Harre: Class I in Part II, Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos and Distinction in Advanced Oral Examination in Spanish; Bachelor Scholarship.

W. B. Harrold: Class I in Electrical Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship and Bachelor Scholarship.

P. L. Hastings: Class I in Electrical Sciences Tripos.

B. F. Langford: Class I in Part II, English Tripos.

W. W. Loh: Class I in Part II, Mathematical Tripos.

P. D. Newnham: Class I in Electrical Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

L. B. Peter: Class I in Part II, Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos and Distinction in Advanced Oral Examination in Russian.

J. C. Porter: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Pharmacology).

C. E. Richardson: Class I in Computer Science Tripos.

N. V. J. Robins: Class I in Part II, Historical Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

S. M . Sisodiya: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Anatomy).

J. Simmons: Class I in Part I, Production Engineering Tripos; Foundation Scholarship and Bachelor Scholarship.

R. M . V. Sturt: Class I in Part II, Engineering Tripos.

A. P. A. Tan: Class I in Part I, Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

C. J. Travis: Class I in Part II, Engineering Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

GRADUATE STUDENTS D. N. J. Bass: Class I, Diploma in Architecture.

P. C. G. Beard: Class I, Diploma in Architecture.

P. M. Bruce: Distinction in Part III, Mathematical Tripos; Bachelor Scholarship.

P. R. Edwards: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

M. W. Forsyth: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

J . E. Gregory: Special Merit for Animal Parasitology in Part I, Final Veterinary Examination.

K. S. Ibrahim: Class I in LLM. S. A. Melton: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

S. A. Melton: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

M. P. O'Connor: Class I in LLM

D. Parker: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

A. C. Pertoldi: Class I in LLM. M.Phil.

R. J. Wainwright, (Archaeology); P. A. Robiolio, (Biochemistry); P. Phaal, (Control Engineering and Operational Research); D. A. F. Bray, T. J. S. Tuovinen, (Criminology); R. Massaro, (Economics); R. V. Batista C. A. Besen, (Economics and Politics of Development); I. Kynigou, (Education); D. M. da Cunha, H. Davis, K. M. Gardner, S. L. Pardau, L. A. Reeves, (International Relations); R. A. Lewis, (Pharmacology); P. J . Hensley, (Soil Mechanics); M. L. Nash (Diploma in Legal Studies).

Ph.D. G. P. Aylett, (Botany); A. J. Bailey, (History); G. Benos, (Law); T. R. Charlton, (Physical Chemistry); D. W. Gibbons, (Zoology); A. C. Lennard, (Biochemistry); S. P. Oakley, (Classics); M. K. Osborn, (Physical Chemistry); J. G. Pickering, (Chemical Engineering); S. P. Wade, (Social Anthropology); J. E. B. Walker, (German); N. Yokokawa, (Economics and Politics).

Special Prizes Joshua King Prizes: C. E. Harre, C. E. Richardson, R. M. V. Sturt.

Hughes Prizes: M. C. Hudson, A. P. McD. Orchard, J. J. Tanner, P. S. Wells.

Venn Prize: J. S. Richer.

Chalmers Prize: D. S. Forrester.

Lucas Smith Memorial Prize: N. J. Booth, P. S. Marshall.

Openshaw Prize: D. N. Moore.

Melsome Memorial Prize: J. C. Porter.

Braithwaite Prize: R. A. Keiller.

A. B. Cook Prize: D. M. B. Reed.

Colton Prize: C. M. Edwards.

Prigmore Prize: M. W. Forsyth aeq, P. D. Newnham aeq.

Bibby Prize: P. R. Edwards.

Ryle Reading Prize: R. Sinnatamby.

University Awards H. ~- Chadwick Prize, 1985: A. P. McD. Orchard.

Civil Engineers Baker Prize, 1985: R. M. V. Sturt.

Bartle Frere Exhibition: A. M. Johansen.

William Harvey Studentship: P. I. Hornick.

John & Margaret Henderson Memorial Prize: P. I. Hornick.

ICI Pharmaceuticals Division Prize in Pharmacology, 1985: J. C. Porter George Long Prize for Jurisprudence: D. G. F. Ellins.

Issac Newton Studentship 1985-86: T. R. Marsh.

North Carolina State University Prize, 1985: S. A. Melton, D. Parker.

Philosophical Society Research Studentships: I. C. Harding, J. H.J. Penny.

Pitt Scholarship and a Henry Arthur Thomas Prize: H.K. Smith.

Rayleigh Prize: A. S. Lewis.

Betha Wolferstan Rylands Prize, 1985: M. C. Hudson.

James William Squire Scholarships: N. J. Booth, P. S. Marshall.

John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in Greek and Latin: J. J. Tanner.

Olga Youhotsky Prize: L.B. Peter.

The College Union and JCR The Union now faces the most serious problem of recent years. The income from the LEA capitation fee has not kept pace with inflation and no longer covers the expenses incurred in providing the facilities and services which members of the College have been accustomed to expect.

This year we have taken radical steps to reduce the Union's commitments in several areas. However, we are constrained by the high costs of the boathouse, the sportsground, NUS and CUSU affiliation fees and other such essentials. In an effort to reduce the sportsground costs, we have agreed to share our winter facilities with Robinson College by extending the area to provide two each of the major sports pitches.

The College Union has also considered many other issues including the problems faced by students living in College during vacations, the organisation of punts and plans to compensate those students who will be inconvenienced during the building of Cripps Phase III. The JCR Committee has likewise been inhibited by lack of funds. Open meetings have been relatively wellattended although the issues have tended to be related more to government policies on grants and other topical external questions than to its other roles, such as the organisation of the shop and loans of JCR property.

1984-85 Council of College Union President: S. E. Walking Vice-President: Mr Wright Senior Treasurer: Dr Napier Fellows: Dr Jackson, Dr Matthews United Clubs Representatives: S. N. Blake, S. 0. Sage, E.T. Burr The JCR Committee President: S. E. Walking Treasurer: A.G. Williams Secretary: J. R. Fague/ External Officer: M. J . Hobday Bar Steward: J. Simmons Governing Body Observers: T. J. Pritchard, D. Wolffe Third Year Representatives: S. M. Dore, P. N. Hook Second Year Representatives: W. H. Stoddart, A. R. Trisoglio First Year Representatives: C. Mortimore, R. M. Perring Graduates: M. E. Leeser, G. Sayiner, S. B. Young

1985-86 Council of College Union President: W. H. Stoddart Vice-President: Mr Wright Senior Treasurer: Dr Jackson Fellows: Dr Napier, Dr Matthews, 'Dr Segal United Clubs Representatives: S. 0. Sage, J. Davis The JCR Committee President: W. H. Stoddart Treasurer: S. C. Bowater Secretary: S. J. Forster External Officer: C. Mortimore Bar Steward: J. H. S. Denham Governing Body Observers: P.A. J. Watson, N. Fredericks Third Year Representatives: S. Holland, J. R. Liver Second Year Representatives: S. Edkins, A. P. Goldstone First Year Representatives: N. G. Portwood, D. A. Vickers Graduates: S. 0. Sage, D. K. Waymont, J. E. Prince 13

The Bats

The MCR 1984-85

1984-85

President: Dr Machin Chairman: S.. B. Young Secretary: G. Sayiner Treasurer: M . E. Leeser Steward: E. T. Burr Entertainment: N . Vaughan-Thomas The disappointing response of the large membership of the M CR to functions last year was countered this year by a comprehensive introduction for new graduates, including a welcoming letter from the committee, an MCR guide to Cambridge: social and sporting, and two parties at the beginning of the Michaelmas term, aimed at encouraging graduates living out of college to participate.

This resulted in very successful events later in the term, including Hallowe'en and Christmas parties, and a Woodville Feast. A cheese and wine party was hosted for the Fellows, to introduce the graduates and hopefully to repay the President and Fellows a little for their kind invitations to dine at High Table. The MCR also thank Dr and Mrs Machin, Dr and Mrs Towle, and Dr Weber for hosting functions.

With graduates now representing one third of junior members, the Governing Body have agreed to extend the Woodville Room next Summer and take in most of the ground floor between AA and BB staircases. The remaining room is to be allocated to a Committee member.

The Woodville Room now presents a busy, cosmopolitan atmosphere, and helps to overcome problems created through graduates having to live far and wide around Cambridge. However there is the shadow of the threat that the Research Councils will withdraw payment of the College Composition Fee. Such a move would be likely to reduce the intake of UK students and thus change the composition of the MCR.

President: R. M. V. Smart Secretary: A. R. C. Stokes!

Senior Treasurer: Mr. Wright Junior Treasurer: J. W. Renshaw Equipment: N. C. A. Evans Costumes: J. K. Brooks 1985 has seen modest but significant shifts in our policy.

A large proportion of our output has been new work by students, in varied locations. We have also made greater efforts to pool resources with other Cambridge groups.

This has proved mutually profitable, artistically and financially, and has strengthend BATS' position within the University drama scene.

BATS' first presentation of the year was Dulcima is a new chamber opera by Giles Chaundy. Directed and produced by Tim Hopkins, with a focus on exploring the coupling of drama and music, we were joined by the Mummers in staging it. Quality and vision was everywhere apparent in Sarah Dobbyn's production of Andorra. A thoroughbred BATS show, with heavy Queens' involvement, this production used a lot of previously untapped talent, bringing many people together in college with great energy and success.

The traditional flagship of BAT S, the Mayweek show, met with heavy seas with this year's production of The Tempest, under the direction of Barry Langford.

Mayweek offers great opportunities: fortunes can be made and reputations enhanced. But the Director has to dissipate post-examination fatigue and produce a convincing version of a usually well-known and often difficult text, all within a fortnight. With last year's Measure for Measure fortune was kind. This year however no amount of diligence could stop the rain, the cancellation due to injury, and the depression that set in.

With adroit management from Martin Moore and Nick Evans, financial disaster was averted. A successful formula that accommodates the scale of Mayweek productions with limitations of time and money has yet to be found; our debate so far has provisionally led us to consider a smaller scale of production for Mayweek 1986, with the possibility of a different location.

Armed with its lessons, we put Mayweek behind us, and successfully sponsored Tabitha Morgan's adaptation of The Wide Sargasso Sea at the Edinburgh Fringe. In the autumn in Old Hall, Chris Geelan's direction of The Visit produced complete commitment from a large cast, and exhibited an energy that won enthusiastic audiences, revues and finacial rewards. Katharine Way's long association with BATS continued with her production of Vinegar Tom, which introduced the 'promenade' performance to Old Hall.

Lexi Dodds Price directed her new play based on Emily Dickenson's life and work Our Self Behind Our Self Concealed. This ambitious piece was deftly and beautifully presented in a studio format in front of the Morris

1985-86

President: Dr Machin Chairman: S. 0. Sage Secretary: J . E. Prince Treasurer: D . K. Waymont Stewards: R. A. Lewis, N. Vaughan-Thomas.

Committee Members: M. Lefebvre, L. de La Fayette.

The E Society Three meetings of the Society were held in the Lent Term and three in the Michaelmas Term. The speakers were Dr Hughes on 'Of Dinosaurs and Bolides'; Ms. Bewick on 'Parroting Flaubert'; Prof. N. L. A. Lash, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, on 'Christianity and Marxism; the Limits of Dialogue'; Mr N. B. Vincent, Fellow of Trinity Hall, University Lecturer in Linguistics, on 'Grammar and History'; Dr Durlach on 'Animal Epistemology'; Dr Callingham on 'Thoughts on MAO - an intrigumg enzyme'. The Dinner was held on Saturday 30 April.

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fireplace. BATS joined with other groups in presenting another new work, Modern Dreams / Ancient Nightmares, a performance of poetry and music by Fred Goodwin and Dan Warburton, at the Robinson Auditorium. 1986 will start by presenting Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore at the ADC Theatre.

1985-86 President: T. J. Hopkins Senior Treasurer: Mr Wright Junior Treasurer: N. C. A. Evans Equipment: J. Nichols

Secretary: K. White

wntmg, and suggested their replacement by a more sophisticated approach, which he demonstrated in his comparative analysis of the societies of the Chinese and Roman empires. It was a particular pleasure to welco me back Stephen Oakley, once an undergraduate at Queens' and now a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, to give a very stimulating and.lavishly illustrated introduction to 'Samnium and the Samnites'. We are indebted to Dr Diggle for his hospitality and continued support for the society.

Costumes: K. White

President: H. K. Smith

1985-86

Secretary: J. J. Tanner

Engineering Society Christian Union

1984-85 Vice-President: J.C. M. Bates Treasurer: R. V. Loeb!

1984-85 College Representatives: A. R. Tiller, C.A. Noble.

President: B. F. Devlin Secretary: A. Plaice

1985 was an encouraging year, with a large and active group of freshers joining us. The group has blended together very well to provide a lively and supportive Christian community. Weekly prayer meetings, Sunday lunches, Bible study groups and a discussion group open to those with no stated Christian belief have continued.

Special events have included a CICCU mini-mission, led by Revd Peter Lewis. We look forward to a CICCU very big-mission this Lent Term. Our houseparty resumed at Hengrave Hall; our speaker was Max Bridger, a stockbroker from Exeter. In the Michaelmas Term the speaker at the dinner in Old Hall was Phil Parker, from St. Helen's Bi.shopsgate, and after dinner entertainment was provided by that fresh new talent - Rampton Jazz.

Past members can obtain a prayer letter from us.

The Annual Dinner, complemented by a talk on Aeronautical Engineering by the guest, Mr G. Bacon was followed later in the Lent Term by the ever-popular brewery trip. On this occasion we enjoyed the kind hospitality of the Greene King brewery in Bury St. Edmunds.

We maintained the tradition of attending Formal Hall before the Annual General Meeting, and at the end of the Easter Term bid farewell and thanks to Dr R. A. Smith as he travelled to the Orient on sabbatical.

At the Michaelmas Term squash several non-engineering members of College expressed interest in our activities. We also welcomed Dr Cebon, our new Director of Studies. Later in the term a very instructive visit to A & R Cambridge, manufacturers of electrical components, was organised.

1985-86 College Representatives: J. P. H. Grinyer, L. J. Hewett.

Classical Society

1985-86 President: D . J. Oldham Vice-President: R. P. Caton Secretary : P. P. Kluth Treasurer: P. M. Clarkson

Medical Society 1984-85 Secretary: R. Sinnatarnby

1984-85 President: L. J. Smallwood Secretary: H . K. Smith

President: M. Johansen Treasurer: J. T. Gilbert

The society continues to flourish, and held six meetings last year, as well as the annual dinner. Highlights of the year were Dr Mary Beard's provocative talk on 'Nudity in Ancient Art' which enjoyed a record attendance, Professor Snodgrass' examination of approaches to 'The Archaeology of Rural Greece', espousing the cause of surface-survey as the most effort-efficient means of acquiring information about rural settlement in classical antiquity; and a Roman food t&sting, at which we sampled a number of pseudo-Apicius recipes, including ham in fig and honey sauce, spiced tuna, hot apricot stew, and dates stuffed with nuts. The new Professor of Ancient History, Keith Hopkins, spoke under the title of 'Rome and China', which he used as a vehicle to attack the traditionally accepted standards of ancient history

The Society has had an active year again. The Lent Term began with Professor Ian McColl of Guy's Hospital, London, asking 'Can Doctors Be Audited?' He came to the conclusion that they could and should be, and did so in a way that was both informative and entertaining. The second meeting was presented by Dr A. Butterworth of the University, who considered 'Prospects for Vaccination against Schistosmiasis'. This was of particular interest to members involved in third world aid, aware of the prevalance of this parasite on the African continent.

At the annual dinner Professor Cuthbert of the University's Pharmacology Department provided an amusing speech. On this occasion we commemorated with sadness, the death of Dr Max Bull, a vice-president and great supporter of the Society.

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No meetings were held during the Easter Term, with Tripos looming large. However, all gathered at the finish of exams for the perennial garden party, which proved to be an enjoyable and memorable occasion.

The Michaelmas Term commenced with a book sale and squash. Meetings were soon under way, the first being led by Dr John Oxford of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control who assessed 'Influenza epidemics in Boarding Schools, Carmelite Nuns and Families'. This intriguing title was matched by Dr. Oxford's fascinating talk which gave some insight into this most capricious of diseases.

Sir Reginald Murley, ex-President of the Royal College of Surgeons, took as his subject: 'Fifty Years of Medicine in Peace and War'. This turned out to be a highly entertaining evening with a plethora of anecdotes.

Professor Ivan Johnstone of Newcastle University was the final speaker of 1985, with the title 'Give and Fake: Future Prospects in Transplantation Surgery'. Many found this very thought provoking: there was some debate as to the ethics oftransplan tation in the question session afterwards. We express our gratitude to Drs Callingham and Field for their great support over the past year.

1985-86 President: R . Sinnatamby Secretary: 1. E. Montgomery Treasurer: S. Kheterpal

such as K. J. Neale have doubtless helped various members decide which field of law interests them most, at the same time revealing the numerous difficulties facing today's lawyers. Contemporary issues were also broached by talks on 'The Legal Aspects of the Miners' Strike' and 'The Case for the New Crown Prosecutions Service'.

In an attempt to break away slightly from the traditional format of Queens' Bench meetings, the Committee invited two speakers to talk at the same meeting on connected topics. (The 'Pearce and Pierce' meeting is well remembered by all those who attended).

The current Committee hopes to continue to provide some meetings which are slightly out of the ordinary; for example, to meet with speaker over a picnic in Grantchester meadows, or to invite a selection of those who studied law to defend their subsequent careers and thus help current students select their own careers.

Ors Tiley and Napier, Prof. Stein and Mr Fentiman have helped and supported throughout the year.

1985-86 College Representatives: J. P. H. Grinyer, L. J. Hewett.

Record Library 1984-85

President: D. A. Shaffer

Photographic Society 1984-85

President: S. A. Melton Treasurer: R. D. Reoch

Secretary: D. C. Parker

Our main effort to popularise photography has been to reduce cost. In particular we have introduced the new service of supplying film at bulk prices. 'Rolling our own' means we can now offer film at half its normal retail price.

This and other improvements have resulted in considerable first year interest, and we hope to reap the benefit with an increase in original and experimental work.

1985-86

President: C. Daboo Treasurer: R . H. Bland

Secretary: M . G. Holly

Queens' Bench 1984-85

President: J. H. Davey Treasurer: I. Kalid

Secretary: D. Ruffley Social Secretary: D. Tarsh

Over the last year the Queens' Bench Society has continued as a most active, informative and entertaining society, maintaining a large membership. Six formal meetings were held over the 1984-85 period, and the members of the society would like to express their thanks to all the outside speakers. Talks given by guest speakers

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Secretary: 1. C. M. Bates

Members of the College Record Library continue to enjoy an ever expanding selection from well over 3,000 titles. Present stock and new acquisitions cater for all tastes. The physical condition of some records has prompted the suggestion that there should be a Compact Disc service. This would seem a trifle premature: there are only four players in College.

1985-86 President: J. C. M . Bates

Secretary: C. Britten

St. Margaret Society 1984-85 President: Dr Pountain Vice-President: 1. R. Petter Secretary: D . M. Anderson Treasurer: S. 0 . Sage Publicity: K. R. Wood Ex-officio: J . S. Gibbons Committee: P. M. Bruce, K. P. Jenkins, C. S. M. Lawrence, J. Spooner, M. J. Taylor, P. S. Wells, K. R. Wood.

1985 was a very busy and successful year. It began with a resounding performance in the West Road Concert Hall on March 14th of Vaughan-Williams' Sea Symphony.

This was conducted by the Organ Scholar, John Gibbons; the soloists were Kathryn Wood and David Anderson.

The main event of the Easter term was the May Week Concert on June 8th, in the Chapel. This consisted of Haydn's Symphony No. 77 in B flat conducted by Matthew Taylor, and the rarely heard Tuba concerts by Frackenpohl played by freshman Chris Lawrence. After strawberries and cream on Walnut-Tree lawn, there was a much enjoyed performance of Walton's 'Fai;:ade'; Katie Hiles and David Anderson were the soloists.

The highlight of this year must be the perfomance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, The 'Choral', together with Schubert's Mass in G, directed by Matthew Taylor (who also conducts CUMS JI this year) to a packed concert hall at West Road on December 5th. It was greatly enjoyed by all participants and audience alike.

Other activities during the year included a 'Face the Music' competition, the ever-popular 'Smoking Concert' and lunchtime recitals in the Chapel.

1985-86 President: P. S. Wells Senior Treasurer: Dr Pountain Secretary: K. R. Wood Treasurer: S. 0. Sage Ex-officio: P. J . Walsh Committee: T. D. Gee, K. P. Jenkins, C. S. M. Lawrence, S. Rimmington, M. J. Taylor.

Wine Society Convenor: J . H. S. Denham The inaugural meeting of the (refounded) Society, after a lamentably long interval, was held in the Armitage Room on Tuesday 12th November I 985. Dr Hughes conducted the tasting of 12 clarets, preceded by an introductory talk with maps. All twenty-one members present appreciated not only the Chateau de Pez (St. Estephe) 1966 but also the illuminating comments of Dr Hughes, as well as the invaluable help of Mr Croxon. After the tasting the remaining wine was drunk, Mr Reoch displayed his knowledge of oriental language and Judge Argyle was toasted repeatedly. We look forward to tastings in the Lent and Easter terms.

Women's Group 1984-85 President: S. M. Dore treasurer: L. E. C. Dennis

Secretary: A. Roper

The Women's Group report that interest in its activities increased; men also attended the 'speaker' meetings.

In February, a large audience from within and outside College was privileged to hear Dame Mary Warnock explain and discuss her Royal Commission's report on embryo research and surrogate motherhood. This ethical discussion contrasted with the practical insight given to us later in the term by an Indian woman into the status of women in the paradoxical culture of India, where a woman ruled for many years yet where there still exists the practice of bride-burning. During the Michaelmas term, there was a debate led by the Revd Tom Mendal and Deaconess Vivienne Faull on the ordination of women, which helped to clarify the arguments of both sides.

Finally, Dr Allison Morris of the Criminology Institute shared with us some of her expert knowledge on the attitudes of the courts and the prison service to female suspects and criminals.

1985-86

President: S. Hill Treasurer: M. Liley

Secretary: S. Charron

r::teports of the Clubs Officers of the Clubs 1985-6

Captain/ President Association Football Badminton Basketball Boats

D. N. Moore P. D. Vecchione G. Pope M. J. Streetly (Ladies) K. E. Furley Bridge T. Nicolle Chess H. K. Tsang Cricket S. R. M. Etchell Croquet N. A. D. Stokes Cross Country J. Richer Diving B. F. Devlin Hockey T. Nicolle (Ladies) J. Osbourn Lawn Tennis C. R. Simms (Ladies) K. Silove Netball H. J. Ryland Rugby I. M. Notley Squash 0. D. Burton (Ladies) N. Fredericks Swimming and Water Polo J. A. Viner Table Tennis M. G. Holley Tiddlywinks B. F. Devlin Unicycles R. P. Caton

Secretary

Treasurer

T. J. Adams

A. M. G. Scott

K-S Cheng A. Young C. MacDonald

T. Ullmer M. Green

S. J. B. Aylwin J. A. Young T. J. Harvey-Samuel

S. J. W. Hamilton

M. J . Liley J. Davis

M. J. Tindal C. Ramsey

M. T. Jolly P . J. R. Ward

P. L. Sketcher

P. M. Clarkson I. S. Turner E. B. Nasatyr R. P. Selway

T. G. Bell

D. N. Moore

A. C. Smith D. J. Oldham

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Association Football

Boat Club

The year kicked off with a Cuppers confrontation with St. John's, a strong side with substantial Blues experience. A spirited team performance by Queens' held the scores level at half-time, with Potts seemingly unbeatable in goal. However, Queens' could not stop the onslaught in the second half and finally went down 4-1, having played their best football of the season.

In other matches the Captain E. J. Sheen, leading from defence, was ably supported by the solid Prichard and Adams, and by the karate skills of Brader, much to the misfortune of our opponents. In midfield Moore, Robins, Obertelli and Scott worked hard whilst up front Bray and Ross netted regularly with the help of Warsop's gentlemanly skills. The two-match tour to Trinity College, Oxford saw the team hammered on and off the field, Sheen leading by example.

In the Michaelmas Term six of the 1st XI had left, but of the Freshmen, only Morel and Strong played regularly.

Queens', now led by D. N. Moore, suffered several narrow defeats in the league, the most disappointing being a 6-5 loss to Trinity Hall. A superb team effort led to a 2-0 victory over Magdalene, the goals coming from Strong and the vociferous Scott. At the time of writing the relegation battle against Clare had still to take place.

The 2nd XI, in great contrast, won all but a single match under the guidance of N. J. Warren, but narrowly missed promotion from Division 5 after losing to a suspiciously strong Caius 2nd XI. that great footballing institution, the 3rd XI, achieved a staggering goal difference of 10-69 in seven games, thanks to Yates' continual inspired leadership and team selection. 1985 saw the inauguration of Queens' College Ladies Football Club, organised and captained by N. Fredericks. After a shaky start enthusiasm built up and they achieved their first victory, largely due to the powerful shooting of C. P. Britten.

Congratulations to Potts who collected his third 'Blue', captaining Cambridge to a fine 2-0 victory over Oxford at Wembley.

For most people memories of this year's rowing will be forever scarred by the Mays. The general direction, though not scale, of the results could well have been predicted at the beginning of the year, primarily because so few 2nd years returned willing to continue to row.

In the Lent Term the 1st boat trained hard and in the Bumps lost one place to Churchill, finishing 13th. The 2nd boat was composed largely of Novices and fell four places into the 3rd Division. The 3rd boat bumped up on the first day but were caught by a fast King's II on Saturday after a lucky escape on Friday. The Ladies were more successful, the 1st VIII moving up three places after rowing over on the first day and the 2nd VIII going up two after training very hard.

The Mays saw the 1st VIII further weakened by loss of experienced oarsmen and two days before the Bumps one member of the crew was injured. A substitute had to be brought in for the first two days but morale was at such a low ebb that they were bumped every day.

As a res ult of replacing all the experienced oarsmen for the 1st VIII, the 2nd VIII was composed entirely of Novices. But their morale and commitment were high; they trained 6 days a week all Term in the knowledge that they would be racing crews which, in some cases, had rowed together for 2 years. Wit h a few more weeks the result might have been different for they progressed well with good coaching. However on the day experience told over enthusiasm and they went down four places.

The transfer of talent upwards similarly affected the lower boats who could all have performed respectably in the right divisions yet had to suffer the indignity of being bumped 3 or 4 times by more expertenced crews. The single exception was the 4th boat composed largely of oarsmen with 1st and 2nd boat potential who went up IO places with two bumps, an overbump, and a double overbump thus earning their oars.

The Ladies were not able to follow up their success in the Lents. The 1st IV after an unfortunate start on the 1st day went down and met several of the better boats lurking below. The 2nd and 3rd IV's both put a lot of time into their rowing and were unfortunate not to get on due to equipment failures during the getting-on race.

When faced with such a whitewash, the natural reaction might be profound pessimism. However there is great encouragement in the enthusiasm and commitment of the present 2nd years and as we move into another year's rowing we can already see the fruits of this.

In the Clare Novices we fielded four men's VIII's and three women's VIII's. All the men's crews reached the quarter finals of the Plate, two reached the semi finals and one the finals losing to Sidney A. One of the Ladies Vlll's also reached the quarter finals of the Plate and came 9th in the Fairbain's. Much is owed to Chris and Louise for their organisation, despite which the whole racing programme was delayed because of the number of Queens' crews involved throughout, who couldn't get in and out of boats fast enough for the programme.

In the Fairbairn's the Men's 1st VIII was in a much stronger position and hoped to improve substantially on last year's position (24th). In the race we lost 2's seat for four minutes and thus rowed a quarter of the race as a six, still finishing 20th - ahead of most of the crews which are around us in the Mays. The 2nd VIII had a good row and moved up from 33rd to 31st.

Badminton The beginning of Lent Term 1985 saw all four College teams (three mens' and one ladies') battling bravely to avoid relegation from their respective divisions. Unfortunately all the mens' teams lost this battle. However the ladies' team maintained its position in the first division.

The Lent Term Cuppers exposed the lack of strength in depth of the squads, and both the mens' and the ladies' teams had an early exit from the competition.

Michaelmas saw the arrival of many keen and talented players. For the first time two ladies' teams were entered in the league. All five teams have fought hard in a new season thanks to a fine team spirit. Half way through the season all the mens' teams and the ladies' first teams are comfortably placed in their respective divisions particularly the mens' first team which is fighting for promotion.

The Ladies' second team is improving after a bad start.

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The Ladies IV finished 8th in the Fair bairn's (beaten by two trial IV's among other College boats). They also performed well in the University IV's knocking out Fitz, Girton and Churchill. Also we congratulate McMahon on making the Blondie Squad.

Chess Club 1985 has been a qualified success. The end of the May Term saw the first team maintain a respectable position in the second division, although they never fulfilled the potential shown towards the end of 1984. In Cuppers, Queens' lost by the narrowest of margins in the quarterfinals to a lucky St John's team - the scores were level, but St John's won on board count. The second team, however, made amends by winning promotion from the fourth division, overcoming some surprisingly good opposition from the likes of St Catherine's first team, and the Jesus seconds.

The new season has seen the first team play with magnificent precision and consistency to lead the second division by a considerable margin. 1985 ended with the pleasurable sight of a despondent Peterhouse first team, previously second in the division, leaving Queens' after having been beaten by four points to one. Meanwhile, the second team have improved the standing of Queens' further by maintaining a consistent place in the upper half of the third division. However, strong new teams such as Darwin in the fifth division means the third team have been plodding along in a position which threatens neither relegation nor promotion.

lose the ball. He smote a mighty sixty and we lost in the final over.

Yet the team won every other match and could have been very good. Simon Etchell batted in cavalier style, to make him the obvious choice for captain in 1986. It was, as ever with Cambridge cricket: a soggy, frustrating time.

Yet there was enough success and laughter to remind us that, despite any hazards, the 'noble game' remains quite the only form of exercise in the summer term.

Croquet 1985 was another memorable year for Queens' Croquet Club, with many enthusiastic novices taking to the lawns in preparation for yet another record breaking'Cuppers turnout. Despite a rather disappointing start, when Queens' I, represented by Nigel Stokes and Mike Streetly suffered an early 2nd round defeat, we remained strong contenders for the trophy until Rob Yates and Hamish Stoddart as Queens' XXXVIII were finally crippled by Corpus I in the semi-finals Towards the end of term play became increasingly difficult by day as red and peeling bodies littered the pitch. Undeterred however, the more serious players continued operations until well into the night, i:naking the Croquet Lawn Queens' most utilised facility during that month. The officers of the club would like to thank the residents of Erasmus for the floodlighting provided and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Cross Country Club Cricket Standing ankle deep in water, the Captain and Secretary of QCCC threw a squidgy tennis ball at each other and deemed that Gents of Suffolk CC, ten minutes late already, would not be turning up. Hence to the Bar where these two poor fellows muscled into the Norwich Pale Ale and those marvellous chocolate-coated rice krispies before cycling back to Queens' to beat the pneumonia.

It was, indeed, another abortive season. It did have its moments: no one, for instance, could possibly forget the awesome collection of primaeval men who represented Darwin in Cuppers. Bizarre deliveries in the nets always kept the batsmen wondering whether or not the ball would land in the cage, let alone on a length. And the subtle quality of the abuse from wicketkeeper and slips kept the team in mirth for the length of any innings.

The playing record was dominated by the elements: played 15, won 5, lost 1, cancelled 8 and abandoned 2 (one of which, with the score at 120-odd for 3 against Camdem was curtailed by snow!). Yet our cricket could have been so very good - we lost in the final over of the second round of Cuppers to Magdalene who, much latet, were to be the narrowest of victors in the final. This was a fine team effort. Andy Jones the captain batted with customary panache for a sober 80, so, while Dave Moore, Jacking technique but with a bothan eye, made his own half-century as the team mustered 185 in our 40 overs.

Simon Blake, bowling at fiendish pace, ' had the opposition reeling, and after 25 overs the game seemed to be ours. Enter the gladiator. The Magdalene No 8 was a mammoth of huge forearms and a strong propensity to

Despite some spirited individual efforts during the Lent Term, particularly by Tim Fellows and Mike Shepherd, Queens' could not recover from its poor start in the Michaelmas Term and was relegated at the end of the season into the second division.

The season started with the Hare and Hounds Freshers Race, in which Queens' had three runners in the top thirteen, which was encouraging for the season ahead.

This promise was fulfilled in the league races during the Michaelmas Term in which the College produced consistently good results. Particularly impressive was our performance in the Madingley Road Relay, where our team of six came an overall fourth, being beaten by only two of the first division teams. The term also brought Cuppers, in which Neil Watson and Tom Morrish were placed 20th and 24th respectively. The Club has never been lacking in enthusiasm or effort, but has not always had as many experienced runners as it would like. In this

Diving The year took off with a diving display at Crystal Palace, during the Varsity Games. For many, it was a chance to dive in a strange and famous pool in front of an audience for the first time. The British Universities Games saw Bruce Devlin win a bronze in the springboard, but a disastrous final dive due to a back injury caused him to drop from a comfortable second to fourth, in the highboard. Unfortunately, few freshers took up the sport this year, and I986 seems likely to be the club's final year when the coach (hopefully) graduates.

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Hockey At the start of '85 we had more problems with snowcovered pitches than our opposition. The 1st XI continued to win some, lose some and consequently ended up in the middle of the league table. The 2nd XI despite having lost every league game but one, managed to battle through to the final of Cuppers but were narrowly defeated by St John's. The ladies also had a good Cuppers run, making it through to the semi-finals where they lost to an extremely 'butch' Robinson team.

The Annual Dinner was held at the Blue Boar, hut somehow ended up in St John's Cripps Bar! The Larry Peel cup was awarded to Dave Wolffe, as the best player of the season and for his captaincy of the team.

A very wet Easter weekend made the pitches at the Clacton Festival nice mud-baths and the driving rain forced us to spend our time between matches in the beer tent! The men managed to return with several trophies, though not for playing hockey!

The start of the new season saw a largely depleated 1st XI but the welcome return of Gary 'Dark Horse' Dodds, and newcomers helped fill the gaps. Injuries at the start of the season further setback the team. After a shakey start the team had some encouraging victories, although for the third year in a row went out of Cuppers in the first round.

The 2nd XI having been demoted actually won some games, the ladies had their ups and downs; nevertheless we expect some good Cuppers performances from both these teams in '86.

Lawn Tennis The Mens' 1st team had a good season winning three out of five league matches. The team was improved by addition of Simon Burr, a graduate, who played excellently with Adrian Lewis in the first pair, and Richard Simms, a first year who played with Captain Oliver Burton in the second pair. After a good first round win. against Christ's in Cuppers, the team was unfortunately knocked out by a strong Jesus team in the second round.

In spite of a season of water-logged courts and several postponed matches, 1985 proved to be a very successful year for the ladies teams. The 2nd team managed to hold its position in the Fourth Division, whilst the 1st IV, boosted by the addition of new talent, were promoted into the First Division. The consistently good standard of play

by Rowena Bevan, Kym Silove, Sofia Volmer, Sarra Kaye, Natalie Fredericks and Fiona Cubitt helped to make this possible. A somewhat lower standard of tennis (attributable perhaps to the alcoholic refreshments?) was seen at the finale of the season: the annual mixed tournament at Barton Road which was enjoyed by all.

The Rugby team which made the Cuppers Final.

Back Row Left to Right: P.M. Ay rey, A. Orchard, G.C. Pope, W. Milliken, J.C. Downs, M.K.D. A11field, J.R. Meadows, M. D. Po11s, M.O. Dean.

I.M. Notley, M. W. Forsyth, J.H. Boaden (Treasurer), S.N. Blake (Captain), B.J. Rigg (Secretary), S.J. No1/ey, G.S. Watson.

Front row: J.H.S. Denham, M. T. Jolly, R. N. Bynl, P.D. Newnham.

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Netball This season sees two significant events in the progress of netball as a college sport. Firstly we have been able to expand and enter two teams in the League and secon?lY congratulations must to to Jane Osbourn for being selected to play for the University. . . . .

Having gained promotion to the Second D1v1S1on with an unbeaten record from last year, the 1st team continued to do well having won three out of four matches so far; 18-7 against Christ's, an incredible 40-1 against Sidney Sussex (a result which indicates the League system may be in need of rearranging), 17-9 against Newnham II and losing 11-16 to Jesus. We remain hopeful of further good results next term. The second team have had less success narrowly beating Churchill and losing to Emmanuel, T rinity Hall and Addenbrookes, but they remain keen and are improving with practice. Unlike the first team which has a constant composition, the second is hampered by changing membership making it difficult for them to practice together as a team. They also suffer from inexperience and need constant practice which is difficult to provide when the College does not possess its own court. However the enthusiasm remains and while the League suffers from players also required for more major sports such as rowing and hockey, it should be possible to enter two competent teams for Cupper in March and we look forward to an enjoyable and successful tournament on the day.

Rugby In the League: with a couple of draws against Pembroke and Trinity and a win over Emmanuel to end the season, Queens' finished near the top of the 1st division.

The old-boys game was played in good spirit. The veterans were defeated on the pitch, some were on good form¡ in the club house an<;! won at draughts.

In the Cuppers: Huge wins over Corpus (23-0), Selwyn (53-3) left a very strong Queens' side facing Magdalene in the semi-final. Luckily Hastings (G) and Moon (R) had too many national squad commitments to play. Clough and Harriman, nevertheless, were present.

The game went well with good tackling in the backs.

The only points on each¡ side were scored through penalties. Mike Potts eventually scored five for Queens'.

The Magdalene kicker, after a lot of attempts, only managed four and so Queens' were victorious ( 15-12) - a noteworthy performance.

The final, against the might of John's was played at Grange Road in front of a sizable crowd. Queens' played outstandingly with centres Ayrey and Meadows making their mark and at half-time John's were ahead by two penalties to one (6-3). John' stretched their lead to 9-3 in the second half but Queens' fought back and scored an excellent try in the corner through Forsyth. The score remained like this until the final whistle and Queens' had lost 9-7, a gallant effort though!

The evening's entertainment was memorable, as was Professor Bagly's contribution!

This is the best performance from Queens' for many years. Unfortunately most of the team were final year students and the 1985-86 season started with a very smalJ number of players. It has not been very successful although the chance or relegation is slim.

Finally, the club would like to thank all those who appeared in the Queens' TV serial especially Simon Blake, for getting the name of his local paper wrong and John Downs for his starring role. We wish him luck in Hollywood!

Squash 1985 was another solid season for the squash teams. The lst's stayed in Division I and the 2nd's were promoted to Division 3.

How the I st team scraped through we don't know as we were beaten five to nothing in most matches and by mid-season alcoholism was rife amongst the members.

We gather other teams ended up with negative points from giving away walk-overs so attendance rather than performance was rewarded.

The lower teams held together thanks to old campaigners and enthusiastic newcomers, particularly Carlos Fritsch who surprised all with his compulsive play.

Sometime in the coming year, probably after the May Balls, the Squash Courts will be demolished to make way for Phase III of Cripps Court. We hope for three new courts, two glass-backed, carpeted interiors and changing rooms.

Swimming and Water Polo Club After last year's demise to the second division in the water-polo league, the squad maintained consistency in the Lent Term by losing its first Cuppers match.

Easter Term brought out the swimmers who took Queens' to a creditable overall victory in Swimming Cuppers, beating Caius by just one points. The men's team was third with James Viner taking the mens' backstroke and Bill Milliken putting in a valient effort at butterfly. The Ladies' were also third with strong performances by Karina MacMahon (1st Jndividual Medlay, 3rd Breast-stroke, 4th Butterfly), Louise Semple (1st Backstroke) and Ann Tan (3rd Freestyle).

The Michaelmas Term brought fresh blood to the Water-Polo team in the form of Julian Halcox and Mark Hodgson which added renewed vigour to the squad as did Tim Bell's newfound goal-keeping skills. This added up to an unbeaten record for the team's league matches with 50 goals for and just 6 against, despite our rarely fielding more than five players (a team is seven). This put us back into the first division and made us second seeds for the Lent Term Water-Polo Cuppers, bringing credit on everyone who took part.

Table Tennis In the 1984 / 5 season Queens' had six teams in the University Table Tennis League. All the teams performed well and the first team were promoted to the 1st Division.

This season the Club is again fielding six teams and an influx of good freshers should give us depth and strength.

The table is currently situated in the derelict Old Kitchens which has presented a number of problems including lost balls and freezing temperatures but the teams have performed well so far and we have great hopes in Cuppers.

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Tiddlywinks Queens' has yet again demonstrated its importance in the Winking World by staging many National and International events. Within the College our singles ladder was won by Nick Inglis (who appeared on page 3 of the Sunday Times while participating in the National Singles), while Stew Sage pulled his weight by leading the University Club and its committee of Queensmen.

Cuppers proved to be a disappointment (again) with Queens' I obliterating allcomers until the final, which was staged the morning after a rather heavy winks cele­ bration. Performances were not up to scratch, and 'The Rest of the World I' (a mixed college team) were victorious.

The new year saw a large number of freshers keen to exercise their squidging fingers. The Welsh Challenge Trophy was won by Jon Prince (ex-Prez) and Graeme Skidmore, who beat Bruce Devlin (Prez) in a game that depended on the last shot.

Prospects for 1986 look very good with plenty of publicity for the sport appearing in the press.

Unicycling Club Sunday afternoon behind the squash courts is the time when a dozen or so unicyclists can be seen pedalling gracefully around, occasionally dismounting headlong into the hedge. Weeks of practise later, the Rag Parade sees Queens' unicyclists out collecting money for charity on a marathon ride around the city centre. Two members this year caught the eye of the dramatists: Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark' received rave reviews (in spite of them).

A large influx of freshers attracted to this seemingly impossible sport reflects the Queensman's attitude to try anything once. For those riders who are finding the challenge of one wheel too trivial, juggling is becoming increasingly trendy. Who knows what the club will be doing by next year!?

Queens' College Club President: Secretary: Treasurer:

E.R. Oxburgh, F.R.S. A.N. Hayhurst N.F. Hughes

Until 1986

1950 J.M. Riley R.G. Jones 1956 M.M. Scarr, G.M. 1933 D.C. Horton, D.S.C., S.S., K.Y.T. 1933

Committee Vice Presidents: 1982 1957 1937

Until 1987

K.C. Bailey N. De B. Corbin P.A. Kitchin D.K. Prosser

The Rt Revd C.R. Claxton H.C. Belk L.V. Chilton D.W. Bowett, C.B.E., Q.C.

Until 1988

1928 1942 1962 1947

1920 F.F.C. Edmonds O.D.H. Cox 1951 J.W. Sutherland md, 1941 C.B.E. 1951 D.M.A. Hook

1923 1921 1923 1948

1989

A.S.F. Butcher J.E. Gordon H.R. Nye M.K.S. Willis

1944 1958 1957 1960

The Annual Meeting was held on Saturday 15 June 1985. The Treasurer reported that 219 new members had joined. Over 200 people were present at the Dinner. The date of the next meeting will be Saturday 21 June 1986.

Deaths W e regret t o record the follo wing deaths: The Revd C. W. Smith ( 1 905) P. lngleson, C. M.G., M.B. E., M .C. ( 1 9 1 l ) H . L. Watkinson, B.Sc. (London) ( 1 9 1 1 ) i n 1974 P.J . Oldfield ( 1 9 1 2) The Revd F.G. Laverick ( 1 9 1 3) J. North, F. 1.C. E. ( 1 9 1 3) A.I. Gregory ( 1 9 1 5) R. M. Savage, Ph.D. (London) ( 1 9 1 8) Canon R . B. Jackson, C.B.E. ( 1 9 1 9) W.D. John ( 1 9 1 9) C. H . Jones ( 1 9 1 9) in 1 983 W.T. Marsh, O.B.E. ( 1 9 1 9) G. V.J. Maxted ( 1 9 1 9) E.H. Sale ( 1 9 1 9) H. Scudamore, M . B . , B. Chir. ( 1 9 1 9) G.H. Taylor ( 1 9 1 9) G.C. Diamond, O. B. E. ( 1 923) 0.1. Simpson ( 1 923) The Revd Father C. Dymoke-Marr ( 1 925) R.J. Marsh ( 1 925) J.H. Pope, V.R.D. ( 1 925) H .T. Pearce ( 1 926) in 1 984 A.B. Habibullah ( 1 927) in 1 982 J. A. R. Moffatt, T. D. ( 1 927) K. M . A. Perry, M . D., B. Chir., L.R.C. P., M. R.C.S. ( 1 927) in 1 984 D. C.C. Roberts, F.C. A., F.1. 0.B. ( 1 927) C.A.J. Barrington ( 1 928) in 1 983 22

F. W. Sibcy ( 1 928) in 1 979 R . E. Rodgers, M.D., F. R.C. P. ( 1 929) The Revd S . H. Chase, M.C. ( 1 930)' A. P. Kitchin, M.B., B . Chir., F. R. C. S. (Edin) ( 1 93 1 ) H . G. Campbell, T.D. ( 1 933) in 1 984 J.A. Hulme ( 1 933) in 1 982 R . S . Cranston ( 1 934) The Revd D.T. Whitaker ( 1 935) G.E. Londt ( 1 936) Lieut.-Col. E. R. Paterson, M.B.E., R.E. ( 1 938) The Rt Revd G.J. Paul, M . Th. (Lond), A. K.C. ( 1 939) in 1 98 3 E . E . Bayne ( 1 94 1 ) R . E. Kirby ( 1 94 1 ) i n 1 984 H . C. Parker, D . S . C. ( 1 945) J . A. Booth ( 1 946) E.L. French ( 1 946) The Rt Hon. Lord Vaizey ( 1 948) in 1 984 J. Danvers ( 195 1) in 198 1 B.R. Stanford ( 1 95 1 ) in 1 984 l.D.B. Millar ( 1 953) D .J. Thorne ( 1 953) The Revd J.M.C. Yates ( 1 956) F.J. Hazlewood, Ph. D. (Lond), D.I.C., A. R.I.C. ( 1 959) G. Harrison ( 1 960) in 1 972 P.W. Howard ( 1 960) P.G. Carter, M.Sc. ( 1 963) in 1979 The Revd L. C. Bowser ( 1 972) S . A.T. Mzembe ( 1 982)

Queens' Men in the South-West The thirteenth Annual Dinner for Queens' Men in the South-West was held on April 26th 1985 at the County Hotel, Taunton, there being 23 present including the President who was our guest.

The dinner was preceded by one of the President's receptions for the Heritage Appeal so that altogether we learned a great deal about the present state of things at the College as well as hopes for the future. We were also forewarned of the television series.

Twenty members of the College were present representing the years 1933-1975. There were apologies from about a dozen others who have frequently atte9ded.

E.W. Chanter of Malsover, Calverleigh, Tiverton EX16 8BA, Tel Tiverton (0884) 253315 will again be responsible for arrangements for the I 986 dinner on Friday April 25th at the Co1mty Hotel, Taunton. ""Dr Prentis will be the guest of honour.

Queens' Members in the North-West The Thirty-fifth Annual Dinner for Queens' Men in the North-West was held at the Old Vicarage Hotel, Stretton, near Warrington on Friday 29th March 1985. The Revd Bryant F.F. Crane presided and twenty members of the College were present. The Guest of Honour was Dr B.A. Callingham who replied to the toast to the College, proposed by W.J. Rhodes.

The next dinner will be Friday, 14th March 1986 at the same hotel at 7.00 for 7.30 pm. The Guest of Honour will be Dr R.A. Smith.

Enquiries should be addressed to the Revd B.F.F. Crane, 6 Ridgefields, Biddulph Moor, Stoke-on-Trent, Staff, ST8 7JE. (Tel Stoke-on-Trent (0782) 513752).

May Ball: 1985 and 1987 The May Ball Committee wishes to thank the Governing Body and all who contributed to the smooth running of the 1985 Ball. It was the largest in Queens' history and entertainment was particularly varied. Music ranged from "Bad Manners" in the rock tent to string quartets in Old Hall and jazz bands in the Walnut Tree Court marquee. Cloister Court was the venue for a Covent Garden-style theatre, with comedy revues in nearby Old Hall and a fairground ride in The Round for more energetic ballgoers. The evening started with a splendid buffet dinner in New Hall and 9 hours later there was still a surprisingly large number of survivors at the 6.30 a.m. photo.

The Committee wishes to advise Members of the College that they should make applications for tickets for the 1987 Ball in February of that year to ensure reservations. All enquiries should be addressed to the President of the May Ball Committee at the College address.

College Telephone Numbers The introduction of the new University and Colleges centralised electronic telephone exchange necessitates a change in the College's number. After 31 March 1986 it will be: Cambridge (0223) 335511 28

College Invitation Dinners for Old Members The Governing Body has initiated a series of invitation dinners in College for members of selected groups of years in rotation. These dinners are separate from the Queens' Club functions and are planned to be complementary to the Club Weekends in June. All members of the matriculation years 1963 to 1966 were invited to the first of these dinners, which was held on Saturday 21 September 1985.

Members of the matriculation years 1949, 1950, 1951 and I952 will receive invitations in June / July of this year to a dinner on Saturday 20 September I 986. A further dinner is planned for Saturday 26 September 1987 when the matriculation years 1967-1970 will be invited.

Old Members Visiting the College For the last seven years the College has operated a control system for visitors to the College in the months March to October. The visitors pay a small charge (at present 30p) and are given an attractive pamphlet about the College.

The effect of this scheme has been to reduce the total number of visitors in the courts from an estimated 60,000 a year in 1977 to a regular average of about 25,000; this has made the College a much more pleasant and quiet place to live and work in and is also appreciated by the visitors themselves. We have installed a small shop, open to visitors, in the Old Porters' Lodge in Queens' Lane.

The Visitors Control Scheme is not intended in any way to inhibit entry of old members to the College. The Main Porters' Lodge is now situated in the Round immediately west of the river in Silver Street, and old members are customarily welcomed there by the Head Porter Mr Webb and his staff, from whom the pamphlet may also be purchased. Old members wishing to enter the College from Queens' Lane by the Old Court Gate are asked simply to identify themselves to the Gate Staff who operate the Control System there in the summer months.

Old members may also introduce guests with them by either route. Any old member who proposes to bring a party of more than six people should please write in advance to the Visitors' Liaison Officer at the College to arrange a suitable time.

Editorial Notes There is no simple way of discovering which Old Members have received honours or other distinctions and titles, and we often have to record these well after the event. They will gladly be listed if the Keeper of the Records is informed The cost of sending The Record by airmail to addresses outside Europe is now prohibitive. Of the functions it announces which might be concerned with planning a visit, tickets for a May Ball need to be booked before The Record is printed; a letter from an overseas member to the Secretary of the Club will suffice to make initial arrangements for the Weekend. For long-term planning, members overseas may note that in 1987 the Club Weekend will be 19-21 June; the May Ball on either 15 or 16 June.

The Queens' Heritage Appeal 1 wrote to all old members in November 1985 to report the progress of the Appeal. I was able to record then that we were more than two-thirds of the way towards our target of £500,000. It is my pleasure to report that this generous support has continued and that we are now in sight of a total of £400,000. This splendid result has been achieved almost entirely through the efforts of a very large number of old members, each contributing as he or she could. This is most encouraging and it is certainly a reason for some congratulation. In particular the Governing Body and the Appeal Committee join me in thanking all who have responded so readily in support of the Appeal. It is most heartening to know that so many old members continue to be actively concerned about the well-being of the College and the preservation of its ancient buildings.

We are especially grateful to the following, who so kindly hosted Appeal Receptions held subsequent to February 1985: Professor P. Mathias (1948), C.F.C. Simeons (1940), The Rt. Hon. the Lord Allen of Abbeydale (1930), E.W. Chanter (1928), J.D. Walne (1955) and the Earl and Countess of Scarborough. Our thanks are also due to several old members who have made personal follow-up approaches in support of the Appeal.

This is not, however, a time for hesitancy. There is still some way to go before our target is reached and, one hopes, exceeded. If you have not yet been able to contribute to the Heritage Appeal may I urge yo to do so now?

E.R. OXBURGH The College is most grateful to the following who have contributed to the Queens' Heritage Appeal since the last edition of the Record was published. The list does not include those who have given their support through the American Friends of Cambridge University (listed separately below) or those who have contributed after January 1986. An asterisk denotes friends of the College or relatives of members. Brackets denote a gift in memory.

Mr F. Aanesen Mr A. R. Abraham Mr G.L. Abraham Mr M.J. Abrams Mr W.B. Adam Mr T.S. Adams Mr R.E. Adeney Mr H.J . Agnew Mr D.J . Aidley Mr W.M. Ainley Mr A.J. Ainsworth Mr J .A. Airey Mr M. M.W. Aitken Mr A.H. Alexander Mr A.T. Al-Khalil Mr J .H.P. Allan Mr M.D. Allen Mr B.T. Allison Mr M.P. Anderson Mr M.D. Anson Mr S.R. Armstrong Mr C.J. Arnold Mr D.W.H. Ashton Mr G.W.T. Atkins Mr E.B. Atkinson Mr B.J. Aylett Mr D.W. Backhouse Sir Ranulph Bacon Mr C.H. Bailey Mr D .K. Baines Mr M.P.B. Bale Mr J.P. Baker Dr J.E. Baldwin Mr M.R. Baliman The Rt Revd M.T. Ball Mr F.R. Bamforth Mr P.A. Bancroft Mr J .M.M. Banham Mr T.M. Banham Mr P.J. Bareau Mr R.M. Bark Mr D.L. Barker Mr G.V. Barker Mr T.R. Barker Mr D.P. Barnard Mr J.P.L. Barnes Mr M.S. Bartlett Mr S.L. Batiste Dr J.W.D. Baugh Mr H.J. Beach

Prof. Sir James Beament Mr D.R. Beatty Mr N.C. Beck Mr M. H. Beckett Mr A.H. Bedford Mr C.E. Beer Mr B.E. Bennett Mr E. Bennett Mr D.G. Benson Mr P.F. Benton Mr R. Bettley-Smith Mr J .C. Bevington D r C. Bibby Mr C. Bicknell •Mrs M.B. Binney Mr H.A. Bird MrG. Biron Mr P.N. Blackaby Mr G.N. Blackbum Mr T. M. Blackburn Mr D.L. Blackhurst Mr J. Blake The Revd Canon L.D. Blathwayt Mr M.D. Blencowe Dr A. M.J. Blow Dr P.L. Boardman The Revd M.l. Bochenski Mr J.G. Boddy Mr B.B. Bolton Dr M.A. Bond Mr S. St.C. Bostock Mr P.O. W. Bottomley •M rs P.W. Boult and Mr T.G. Pearce (H.T. Pearce) Mr M.J.D. Bown Mr A.T. Bownas Mr D.G. B. Boyd Mr R.H. Bradbury Mr A.N . Bradshaw Ms P.J. Bradshaw Mr N. Brailovsky Mr J.C. Braithwaite Mr R.S. Branch Mr C.D. Brant Mr P.T. Brass Mr R.E. Bream Mr J.D. Brett Mr D. R. Briggs Mr A.J. Bristow

Mr H.T. Brown Mr M.E. Brown Mr R .W. Brown The Revd J.B. Browne Mr M.C.R. Browne Mr R .N. Brummitt Dr D. Bryant Mr W.H. Buchanan Mr G.L. Bucknell Mr S.K. Bull The Revd J. A. Burness Mr J .D. Burton Dr B.A. Callingham Dr D.J. Campbell Mr W.A. Campbell The Revd R.G. Carter Mr R .J. Carter Mr N.D.Q. Candler Mr D.J . Canning Dr J.P. Canning The Revd D.T. Casson The Rt Revd Bishop of Southampton J.K. Cavell Mr C.M. Chabrel Mr S.F. Chadwick Dr A.H . Chalmers Dr D.A. Chamberlain Mr R.E.J. Chambers Mr E.W. Chanter The Revd Canon W.O. Chantler Mr F.G. Chapman Prof. H.A.K. Charlesworth Dr D.W.F. Charlton Mr T .R. Charlton Mr J. Chatburn The Very Revel J .L. Chater Mr S.R. Chipping Mr C.D. Chitty Mr P.J. Christian Mr C.M. Clapham Mr M.H. Clark Mr N.l.K. Clark Dr P.B.S. Clarke Dr I.F.C.S. Clayre Mr P.N. Coad Mr P.J. Cockroft Mr J. Cohen Mr E.G. Coleman

Mr J.S. Coleman Mr N.V.S. Coleman Mr M.A. Collings Mr C.D. Collins Mr J.M. Collinson Mr M.C. Connell Ms D.M.E. Cook Mr J.B. Cooke Mr J.H.S. Cooke Mr N.J. Cooksley The Revd K. C. Cooper Mr M.P. Coultas MrJ.V. Cowen Mr P.G. Cox Mr P.J. Cox Capt. A. Coxan RN Dr J.C.A. Craik Mr D.H. Crawshaw Mr P.E. Crawshaw Dr A.L.N. Creed Dr S .M. Crosse Mr L.H. Crowther Dr G.T. Cubitt Mr F. H. Culpin Mr A.J. Cupples DrO.J. Curl Mr C.J. Curling Mr D. Curtis Mr D .N. Cuthbert Dr E.C. Czepulkowski Judge A.A.D. Dajani flt Lt. J.P. Dale Mr H.G. Dales Mr M.J.A. Daniels Mr D.H. Darling Mr E.L. Darton Archdeacon Daunton-fear Mr G. Davison Mr C.H. V. Davies *Mr H.S. Davies Mr S.T. Davies Mr J.M. Davis Mr H.S. Davi Mr J.S. Dawes Mr J.R.G. Dean Mr T.E. Dean Mr P.A. Deane Mr M.G. de Courcy-Ireland Mr J.L.M. Denham Mr R.C. Dickinson

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MrH.R. Dixon Mr T.S. Doggett Mr G.F.S. Dolman Mr J.R . Doubell Dr H .G. Dowler Mr H.J. Downton Dr J.H. Dowson Mr A. Dryden Mr L.A. Duffield Mr S.L. Duffield Mr W.M. Duggan Mr R.M. Dunnett The Revd P.M. Duplock Prof. G.G.S. Cutton Mr R.M. Dyer Mr. C.W. Dyment The Revd Father C. Dymoke-Marr Mr J.C. Eagle Dr J.V . Earle Mr ff.A. Easton Mr J.H. Eaton MrC.T. Eddy Mr M.M . Edge Dr M.C. Edmond Mr D.T. Edwards Mr J.H. Edwards Mr J . K. Edwards Mr P .J . Edwards Mr H.B. Egerton The Revd Canon L.A. Elliot The Revd B.S. Ellis *Ely Webster Trust Mr R.E. Emms Mr S.P. Emson Dr G.R. Enever Mr J.F. Epps Dr S.P .E. Erskine Mr C.C. Evans Mr E.J.S. Evans Mr W.E. Evans Mr 0 .0 . Ewart-James Mr R.D. Eyre Prof. C.F . Fahy Mr P.I. Fairbotham Mr P.A. Fanning Mr F.G. Farman Mr J.B. Feehan *Mr & Mrs G.J . Fellows Mr J . R.L. Fellows * Mr D.R. Fentimao Mr G. Findley Mr R.K. Finnimore Dr I.C. Fletcher Dr R. Fletcher Mr R.C.L. Footman Mr I.J. Forsyth Mr M.C. Foster Mr P .W. Foster Mr R.H. Foster Mr R.R. Foulkes *Mrs H.E. Fowler Mr J.S. Fowlie Mr A.J.G. Frith Dr P .J .B. Frith Mr J.N. Fuller-Shapcott Mr I. Fyfe Dr P.D. Gadgill Dr J.A. Galletly Mr N.A. Ganly Mr C. Gannon Mr M.J. Gardiner Dr C.J . Garforth Dr F.W. Garforth Mr D.J.C. Garnett Mr G.S . Garnett Mr J.S. Gaskell Mr D.K. Geddes *The George Wimpey Charitable Trust

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Mr A.F.B. Gibson Mr P .R. Gibson Dr J .A.C. Gibson Mr G . Gneditch Dr A.M. Golding Mr S.J . Gomersall Dr W.P. Gorman Mr G.B. Gosney Mr T.H. Gossling Mr T.C. Graham Mr B.D. Graver Canon E.M .B. Green Dr G.F. Green Mr S.L. Green *Greig Fester Ltd The Revd Preb. W.R. Griffiths The Ven. G. R. Grobecker Mr C.M. Guilford Mr E.J.W. Gumpert Mr T. M. Guy The Revd E.W.R. Guymer Mr R.J . Guymer Mr P. Hagenbuch Mr J .W. Haig-Ferguson Mr J.R. Haigh Mr D.J. Hall MrD.W. Hall T he Revd R.J. Hall Mr N.J . M. Hamilton Mr R. N. L. Hamm Mr K.J. Hard Mr C.G. Hardman Mr D .R.W. Hares Mr R .P. Harker Mr G.D .B. Harkness *Mr A. Harries Mr M.C. Harries Prof. M.B. Harris The Rt Hon. Lord R. Harris Prof. G.B. Harrison Mr J.L.S. Harrison Dr R .A.P. Harrison Mr J.L. Hartstone Mr R.J . Hartz.ig Mr J.M . Hatherly Mr C.J . Hayward Dr R.J. Heanley Dr D.C. Heap Mr W.A. Heap Dr K .W . Heaton Mr A.K. Hellier Mr G.E. Hemmings Mr T.W.D. Hendry Mr G.J. Henley-Price Dr J . R. Heritage Mr R. Hewitt Mr B.L. Higgins MrJ.W. Higgins Mr J .M. Hill MrJ. M.R. Hill Mr R.O. Hillard Prof. J.N . Hillgarth Mr R. Hills Dr C.C. Hird Mr J .F. Hobbs Prof. H.D. Holland Mr W.P . Holland Mr G.A.M . Hollis Mr P.F. Holman Mr J .M. Holmes Mr P.B. Holmes The Revd D.R. Holt Mr D.M.A. Hook Mr J .B. Hooper Mr J.H.L. Hopkin Mr A.G.W. Hopkinson Dr D.H. Houseman Mr R.S. Howard MrT.D. Howard Mr M.J . Hoy

The Revd J.W.P . Hubbard Prof. K.F. Huckemann Prof. R.L. Huckstep Mr J.A. Hudson Mr F.M. Hughes Mr D .E. Hutchinson Dr J .H. Inskip The Revd E.H . Isaac The Revd D.R.E. Jackson M r F .0.N. Jackson Mr G.B. Jackson Mr G.W.S. Jackson Mr M.R. Jackson Mr R.O. Jackson Mr T.A. Jackson Capt. J. Jacobsen RN Mr D.K.M. James Dr N. T. James Mr J.D. Jaques Mr D.N. Jenkins Dr A.E. Jephcott Mr G.L. Johnson Mr R.D. Jones Mr R.G. Jones Mr N. Joseph Mr L. H. Jowett Dr D .R. Karlin Mr C.Q. Keiller Mr J .P.B. Keith Mr C.H. Kemp Mr C.R. F. Kemp Mr R.A. Kendall The Very Revd N.M. Kennaby Mr H. Kenney Mr J .S. Kershaw Mr P.J .H . Kershaw The Revd B.J . Kett The Revd J . Kiddle Wing Cmdr. N.D . Kilpatrick Mr C.P . Kimbell Mr C.D . King Mr R .P. King Mr S.R. Kirk Mr P.C. Kirkpatrick Mr C.J. Kirwin Mr A.P. Kitchen Dr E.H. Kitchen Mr P.A. Kitchen Mr G.D. Kitchener Dr M.R. Klaber The Revd R.J. Knell Mr J . Kovanda Mr B. K. Lambkin Col. R.C. Langford Dr J.G. Latimer Mr J .M. Law Mr P.G. Law Dr I. B. Lawrence Dr J .H. Lazarus Mr J .A. Leather Mr A.W. Lee Mr D .S. W. Lee Sir George Lee Mr M.P .W. Lee Mr N.H.W. Lee Mr P.E. Lee Mr P.W. Lee Mr S.M. Lees Brig. A.C. Lewis Prof. C.T . Lewis Mr D .C. Lewis Mr D.J .D'A Lewis Mr E. J . Lewis Mr R.E. Lewis Mr S.J . Ling Mr J . Linney Dr W. M. Lomer Mr D.R. Losse Dr J.R. Lowes Mr N.A. Lydon

Mr G.F.M. Lyster Dr D. MacFarlane Dr J.F. Macfarlane Mr C.D. Mackay Mr I.D.M . Mackenzie Flt Lt. K. Mackenzie Mr M.B. MacLean D r R.W.J . Maclure Mr N.J. Macnaughton Mr J .R.V. McAulay Mr N.P.D . McClea Mr I. McCombe Mr T.F. McDermott Lt. Col A. McDonald Dr I. McDonald Dr R.A.W. McDowall Mr J .C. McEntegart Dr D.J. McLaren Mr W.M . McKerracher T he Revd N.H.P. McKinnel Mr R.T. Magson Mr H. Mainwaring Mr A.C.J. M anley *Mrs J .E. Mantell (Mr J.C. Mantell) Mr K.H. Mantell Mr K.C. Manterfield Mr A.H . Marks Mr D.B. Marshall Dr J.D.C. Martin Mr G.W.W. Mar kwick Mr H.D . Marquis Mr M.A. Marsh Mr R.M. Marsh M r T.R. Marsh M r C.H . Marshall Mr D.B. Marshall T he Rt Revd B.J. Masters Prof. P. Mathias Mr R .R. Matthews Mr JK . Maude M r B.A.A. Maynard Mr K.B.J. Meaby Mr S.L.C. Medrington â&#x20AC;¢Mercers' Company Educational Trust Fund Mr R.A. Meredith Mr A.P. Miller Mr C. Miller Mr D.J.T. Miller Mr D .P. Miller The Revd N.A. L. Miller Mr A.G. Mills Mr B.H.G. Mills Mr J . Milnes-Gaskell Dr J.A. Milson Mr G.H. Mitchell The Revd N.E. Mitchell DrG.F. Modlen Mr R.A. Molyneux-Johnson *Montague Drayton Charitable Trust Mr R. L. Moorby The Revd D.R . Moore-Crispin Mr P.J. Morgan Dr W.S. Morgan Mr J .M. Morgans Mr R .E. Morphett Mr A.R. Morris Mr R.D. Mor rish Mr R. V. Mosseri Mr R . Moulton Mr J.M . Muldoon Mr T.D. Mulrey Mr H.S. Nagpal Dr P.H . Nash National Trust Cambridge Branch Mr G.K. Needham Dr J.F . Neil Mr D.A.S. Neill

Dr J.M. Newbery Mr L.A. Newbery Mr R.H.J. Newey Mr A.M. Newman Mr P .E. Newman Mr P.O. Newth Dr E. R. Niblett Mr G.R. Nicholas Mr E.H. Nichols Mr I.J. Nichols Mr P.R. Noakes Mr A.P.R. Noble Mr S.M.G. Norcross Mr J.L. Norden Mr P.H. North Mr W.R.S. North Mr W.A.C. Nurden Mr J. Nutter Mr P.W. O'Brien Dr T. O'Keefe Mr H.B. Orchard Mr T.M. O'Rorke Dr D.J. Osler The Revd W.H. Oswald The Revd S.W. Pakenham Mr M.L. Palin Mr D.S. Palmer Mr M.J.F. Palmer Dr J.A.C.K. Pang Mr G.R. Parish Mr J .D. Parkin Dr G.H. Parkinson Dr D.R. Parry Mr J.G.D. Parsons Mr M. Parsons The Revd R.M. Parsons Dr J.E. Pater Mr J.M.A. Paterson Dr R.C. Peatfield Mr R.L. Peel Mr D. Pemberton Dr J.M. Pendlebury Mr C.D. St. J. Penney Mr P.R. Percival Dr F.S. Perry Mr R.M. Peskin Mr P. Peterzan Prof. M.T. Pheils Mr C.W. Phillips Mr J.C. Phillips Mr M.V. Phythian-Adams Mr S. Pickard Cdr R.K. Pinhey Mr D.A. Pitt Prof. D.C. St.M. Platt Mr J.M. Pocock Mr P.G. Pointer •Mrs E. Polden Mr J .D. Porter Mr G.P. Potter Mr J.A. Potter Mr D.D.R. Pouncey Mr P.M.R. Pouncey Mr J.W. Powell Mr T.G. Pratt Mr G. Prescott Mr I.O'D. Preston Mr M.J . Prichard Mr R.H. Priest Mr T.J. Proctor Mr M.J. Pugh Mr A.C. Furches Mr A.E. Pusey Major G. Pyper Mr N.P. Quenby Mr M.H. Quin.Ian

Mr J. McK. Rae Mr H.C. Snow Mr J .J. Raper Mr D.H.K. Soltau Mr J.E.F. Rawlins Mr P.J.R. Souster Dr K.L.Q. Read Mr P.H.D. Sparling Mr J. Redfern Brig. C.E.H. Sparrow Mr J . Reece Mr P.R.J . Spear The Revd Dr. W.D.C. Rees Mr R.D. Spear Mr A.C. Reid Mr K.A. Spearing Mr D.L. Reid Mr R.B. Speirs Mr S.J. Speirs The Revd !.J.M. Reid Mr T.H. Reitman Dr R.G. Spencer-Jones Mr P.H. Springford Mr J.A. Revill Mr E. Reynolds Mr R. Stephens Mr T.H.B. Reynolds Mr P.H. Stern Mr R.B. Stevenson Mr W.J . Rhodes Mr J.A.V. Richard *Mr L.W. Stiles Mr T.E. Richardson Dr A.W. Still Mr J.W. Ridgway Mr M.R. Stone Mr T. Ridsdill Smith Mr J.C. Stott Mr J.K.F. Rigby Mr D. Stratford Mr M.P. Ripley Mr G.J. Streetly Mr C.R. Rivers-Moore Mr J . Strong Mr J.E. Robbs Cdr R.F.C. Struben Mr M.C.E. Sturt Mr B.A. Roberts Mr J.R. Sutcliffe Mr G.E. Roberts Dr P.T. Robertshaw Mr F.M. Sutherland The Re.vd H.T. Robins Mr P.D. Swan Dr R.H.C. Robins Dr R.H. Swanton Mr J . Roche Dr A.H. Sykes Mr B.K. Rogers Mr J. Sykes The Revd C.M. Rogers Mr J.G. Syme Mr l.F.H. Rogers Mr J.P. Taberner Mr J.R. Rose Mr N. Tabemer Dr M.B. Rose Mr J.C. Talbot Mr T.D. Ross Mr I.F. Tannock Mr M.J. Rowland Mr G.H. Tatham Mr C.J. Rowlinson •Mrs G.H. Taylor (Mr G.H . Taylor) The Revd J.C. Royds Mr D.G. Royle Dr G.K. Taylor Mr A.A. Rumbelow Mr J .T.W. Taylor The Revd T.V. Russ Mr N.J. Taylor Mr W.F. Russell Mr S. Taylor Mr W.R.A. Taylor Mr R.A. Russian Mr J.H. Ruston Dr G.H. Tee Prof. J.S. Ryland Mr S.C. Telford *St. Marks R.C. School Hounslow Sir Peter Tennant Mr C.D. Saitch Dr D.F.E. Thallon Dr J.D. Salmon Mr P.M.R. Thiemann Mr V.P. Sams Mr C.H. Thomas Mr B. Samways The Revd R.F. Thomas Dr S.J. Thompson Mr C.S.M. Scott Dr R.A. Scudamore Mr A.J.W. Thom Mr K. Seacroft Mr D.J. Thome Mr M.F. Seddon Mr D. Thorp Dr S. Seed Mr J.G. Thurlow Dr R.O. Selby Mr R.D. Tidey Mr G.H. Shaw Mr G.M. Tingle Miss K. Shakir-Khalil Prof. J .R. Todd Sir Thomas Shankland Mr S.H. Todd Mr P.G. Shilston Mr K.R. Tomkins Mr M. Shirley Sir Geofroy Tory Mr J. Short Prof. J.R. Trevaskis Mr R.J. Short Mr P.R. Trigg Mr D.J. Silk Mr C.R.D. Tuckey Mr J.D. Simmonds *The·Tudor Trust Mr D.A. Simpson Mr D.A. Turner Mr D.V. Skeet Dr D.M. Turner Mr D.C. Small Mr H.B. Turner Mr J.L. Smeall Dr P.J. Turner Mr B. Smith Mr S.C.O. Turner Mr E.J.G. Smith Mr S.R. Turner Mr K.J . Smith Capt. B.V.W. Tyler RN Mr M.H. Smith Mr B.W.A. Tyrrell Mr M.R. Smith Mr F. Upton Mr P.G. Smith Mr C.J . Vallance Mr J.R. Sneyd Mr C.J. Van der Lande

Mr R.A. Vander-Steen Mr R.W. Vaughan-Williams Mr R.S. Viner Mr M.P. Waken Dr J.M. Wales Mr J. de G. Walford Mr J .G. Walker Mr P.J. Walker Mr T. Walker Mr C.V.T. Walne The Revd Canon D.M.I. Walters The Revd Preb. E.E.F. Walters Mr H.M. Walton Mr F.R. Ward Mr D.A. Warmington Mr E.S. Washington Dr M.J.G. Watkins Mr J.N. Watson Mr R .M. Watson MrJ.R. Watt Mr G.F.T. Watts Mr G.G.C. Weaks Mr J.W. Weatherley MrB.A. Webb Mr J.A. Wedgwood The Revd R. de B. Welchman Mr R.J. Wellings Dr M.R.B. Wetherall Mr A. Whaley Mr D.J. White Mr G.J.A. White Dr T.J. White Prof. F.A. Whitlock Dr H.S. Wigfield Mr G.D.N. Wilcock Mr G. W. Wilde Mr D.C.H. Williams Mr J.R. Williams Miss J .R. Willett Mr N.K.S. Wills Mr A.N. Wilson Mr J .H. Wilson Mr R.N. Wilson Mr R.B. Wilson Mr R.E. Wilson Lt. Col. E.A.N. Winship Mr F.D.D. Winston Prof. M.G.J.G. Woitrin Dr H.G. Wolske!

DrC.M. Wong The Revd D.A. Wood Mr D.J. Wood The Rt Revd The Bishop of Norwich M.A.P. Wood MrW.M. Wood Mr H.G. Woodhouse Mr M. Woolveridge Mr J .K. Wright Mr A.W. Wyatt Mr J .A. Wygard Dr A.P-C. Yim Dr K.M. Younger Dr H.R. Youngman

The College wishes to express its gratitude to Mr G.S. Banwell, Mr D .N. Jenkins, Mr A.R. Pender and Mr A. W. Wyatt, who are continuing to support the College through covenants made to earlier Appeals and subsequently renewed, but whose names were inadvertently omitted from the 1985 list.

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Contributions to the Heritage Appeal from America The following have generously supported the College through donations to the American Friends of Cambridge University since the last edition of the Record was published: Mr Domingo E. Acevedo Mr Patrick G. Barker Prof. Max Black Prof. Barry Blackwell The Revd Lawrence C. Bowser Mr Andrew J . Butler Prof. Jose A. Cabranes Mr William L. Clough Mr Gary R. Cohan

Mr Frank M.G. Combs Mr Danield N. Copp Dr Alan Coulson Directors of the Americans Friends Cambridge University Mr James P.C. Dumont Prof. Derek C. Dyson Mr Nicholas J. Glakas Mrs Sheila Farr (Mr H.F. Farr)

Dr John D. Finneriy Mr Randall Greene Mr Vikram Jayaram Mr Christopher G. Jesudason Mr James E. Mallinson Mr Wayne S. Moss Prof. Eric W. Nye Mr Richard S. Orr Mr P.M. Phibbs

Mr Stephen C. Price Mr Andrew C. Quale Prof. Rvbert R. Raymo Mr William M. Shaw Dr Delbert D. Smith Prof. George A. Starr Mr Walton Sumner Mr Jack F. M. Taylor Mr Liam J. Wa;sh

Addresses Unknown The Keeper of the Records seeks the addresses of the following members of the College, ordered by year of Matriculation.

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H.R. Baugh A.S.J. Boyce F. M. Edwards H.D. Boultbee F. K. Brownrigg G. Gemmell R.I. Blackburn J.P.K. Groves S.B. Baron S.C. Blackden W.N. Craigs G.P.A. Dixon K.J. Bowman T.A. Butcher J.D. Borham D.R. Gadgil S.N. Agg-Large A.J. Betts G. Boehler G.L.R. Brown D.G. Burns H. de B. Ballance P. Brookes A.O. Dickinson E.A. Black J.K. Bowden P.F. Davis K.V. Evans R. Billington P.J. Darr G.E. Barrow E. Bradbury T.F.S. Brass G.F. Evans J.C.K. Everett W.B.C.W. Forester R.H. Garforth C.E. Allen E.H. Burbidge J.E. Blanchett D.H. Bruton G. Gray D.G. Allen J.K. Anderson C.E.H. Boys R.G. Bullen E.K.R. Aserappa J.L. Beevers A.T. Brock A.M. Elliott A.N. Ellis J .C. Frost

J. Drummond R.E. Ellmer J.A.C. Gordon 1932 J.R. Bigsby M. Blazeby 1933 J.E. Breyer B. Dhingra T.E.C. Early 194l(L) 1934 J.M. Beloe 194l(E) G. Fingland G.A. Ford 1941 E.B. Greene A.T. Al-Khalil 1935 C. L. Bod van-Griffith E. Butterworth G.S. Chua M.N. Evans M.B. Folker 1942(L) 1936(L) R.C. Elliott 1942(E} E.R. Bevington 1936 J.B. Brownlow 1942 L.E.C. Bruce R.F. Evans F.E. Brown 1937 J.G. Buckingham J. Dainty W.J. Dalrymple R.H. Freak C. W. Furneaux I. Gan G.E.C. Baron 1938 K.V. Borg R.F. Bury O.B. Clapham 1943(E) W. Durham F.A.O. Gaze 1943 J.H. Gibson S.R.S. Godkin A.G.M. Greenland R.T.L. Allen 1939 J.D. Barker P. Bromhead R.I.L. Chisholm P-F. Chuh R.L. Downes M.G. Field R.A.R. Flint J. de C. Guillaume 1944(E) A.K. Gupta 1940(L) Abdul Hamid Bin Abdullah J.E. Clapham A.J. Bennett 1940 1931

F.D. Biddle C.M.G. Blair A.T. Churchill C.M. Davey S.N. Dingley J .A.P. Friedlander J.A.V. Gibson P.J. Gould F.B. Chatburn D.F. Gilson P.R. Glasbey W.F. Ashton R.E. Bradley E.M.M.F. Burlton G.C. Cowling J.W. Dickens G.L. Duffet H.G.C. Graham H.H. Frank N.C.P. Buddin G.H.M. Clissold N.R.L. Bristow T .S. Brody A.F. Brown A.J. Burridge P.A. Chard J .M. Cummings J.G. Davidson P.A. Fearnhill R.K. Finch J.L. Firth K.T. Garland M .H. Grace J.E. Griffiths P.F.W. Clarke G.H. Down C. Bainbridge D. Bennett W.A. Blackstock D.H. Bradburn D.R. Brooks P.C. Clay D.J. Cockerton P.W. Donaldson C.L. Duff E.D. Elford J. Elliot C.F. Ford D.B.A. Brasier-Creagh R. Colbeck C.J. Erskine C.A.S. Grose

A.M. Grummitt R.S. Bingham C.G. Birchall R.C. Blake P. Bryan-Brown J .S.W. Chambers R.N.D. Clark S.H.J. Crout J.C. Deeley D. Fearns D.W. Gapes S. Gomar G.G. Allott 1945 B.K. Ashie M.A. Brimer D.S. Brown N.P. Burns L. H.C. Clarke D.T. Cross P.D. Gardner 1946(L) D.l. Clements R. Ashton 1946 D.W. Atterbury C.W. Binns L. Blond J .A. Boys R. Dawson A.B. de Clercq D.A. Ede G.J.L. Edwards G.M. Enriquez G.G. Gurr T.G. Butler 1947 P. L. Chignell G.M. Cochrane J .S. Collins R.I. Crawford D.E. Cronin C.J. Cross D.J. Edwards J.W. Ford F.L. Greenland 1948(L) A.D. Fraser P.L.G. Barber 1948 D.S. Birley M.D. Blake V.P. Bowen O.A. Brunt E.N. Button L. Clarke C.C. Dixon P .V. Dodge

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J.R. Goldsack I.D. Anderson A.J. Bee K.E. Bodenham E.C. Capey G. Cardwell G.E. Chen A.N. Coe C.E.W. Coleman B.W. Crisp R.A.M. Dale D.F.R. Dingle A. Fish D.J. Gilman C.E. Griffin D. Edenis W . Amos J.C. Battrick T.N. Bell C.F.M. Boddington D.J. Buckton M.J.W. Caven A.P. Chamberlain L.E.W. Cole J.F. Cunningham J.D. Evans F.S. Goldby R. Aldred A.R. Atherton C.D. Atherton J.R. Beaumont D.B. Benton P.W.H. Dommett S.D. Drackley J. Elliott E. Fiddy A.F. Florence M.H.A. Fuchs R.H. Goodall M.S. Gordon A.J. Appleby K.N . Bascombe J.H.E. Cotton B.M. Garton L.V. Appleyard D.S. Bousfield J.R. Brock N.W. Browne P.I. Campbell C.J.M. Clement G. Collard J.A. Dawes J.A. Evans J.A. Gatt-Rutter J.A. Grant H.P. Gray M.T. Aye L.B. Barham F.J. Beasley M.J.W. Bloxham P.J. Bradley R.S. Dawson S.A. Fairbank K.M. Green W.A. Griffiths H.M. Adeney l.R. Aspden J.N. Christie P. Clinquart A. E.W. Cooper R.D. de Berry B.M. Done M.A. Elliott R.A. Franks J.P.A. Galvin F.C. Allen R.F. Barker F.J. Buck I.A. Cheluget J.R. Chuto

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l.M.l. Clegg T.J. Cornford A.D. Crockett R.A. Crooks P.L. Davies C.W. Davis C.S. Dolman N. Dowuona J.B. Gold G.W. Goldby P.W. Grant N.D.W. Armistead A.E. Bass G. Benyon Tinker J.S.A. Brichieri-Colombi C.H. Davies S.M. Freake M.B. Arnold V.V. Bodsworth P. Bond N.S. Clarke T.J. Dore E.E. Ebai D.W. Findlay F.E. Gard P. Griffiths L.C. Gunn R.A. Burley S. Cartmell D.G. Collinson J.B. Crippin P.G.D. Dawson P.J. Fetner J.A. Fielden M.J. French l.M. Godfrey A.G. Green B. Guerin A. Bargery M.J .M. Bevan P.R. Bloodworth S.J. Braithwaite K. Chakravarthi S.A. Clarke C.W. Cowan P.N. Daly D.J . Duff W.M . Ellison D.N. Gilbert R. Gilbert R.D. Allen S.O. Andersen K.B.P.A. Barnard G.l. Bye R.A.F. Caird M.J. Clarke D.J. Cohen 0. Crichton C.J. Dalley A.J.C. Davies S.J.R. Dawkins l.F. Dyer S.J. Fox W.T. Gribbin S.C. Bell W.S. Brereton D.M. Bristow A. B. Cammaert J.J.S. Coxon A.F. Drury B.R.C. Fitzpatrick M.T. Glover J. Goldup D.G. Allen D.A. Axtell J.G. Barnes D.M. Bond D.P. Chapman P.H. Clendenning P. Coolbear

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C.G. Cordy C.S. Coughlan J.R.A. Cragg B.J. Cullen H.A. Davies J-M. De Prats J. W. Dumbrell D.P. Gadd D. Graham T.F. Bergin J .M. Bradshaw C.J. Bruce J-L. Cayatte J.H. Constable C.C.L. Evans C.L. Falconer C.D. Floyd L.J. Francis C.G.A. Aiken N.K. Alston A. Anderson P.Axon P.G. Barber G.R. Biggs D.L. Brown W.B.J. Davis A.J. Deboo A.A. El Naiem P.G.L. Gilmore S.R.B. Goss N.C. Grimshaw D.W. Gunstone R.M. Ballard H.S. Bradshaw M.G. Clement D.J. Connearn R.A.I. Cooke J.S. Davies L.J.K. Davis T.H. Dockley R.P. Dunne A. Goldstein P.M. Allan D.N.S. Allen C.N. Booth P.W.A. Brown D.J . Cockerell A.S. Crease M. Da Mata N.A. Dent M.R. Gritten C.A. Becker R. Brackenbury C.W. Brown P.M. Carew W.M. Cohen M. Davidson P.W. Forsythe M.T.K. Franco J.S. Glynn P. Greengrass S.J. Baker K. Barker R.F. Bayliss S.D. Cook D.P. Fleming M. Blumental E.B. Braman R.F. Crellin R.F.A. Fuller J.M. Gravells J.J. Bell D.K. Camp C.A. Akerele B.F. Cassidy R.S. Auffret G.P. Bolwell H.C. Dalton T.N.M. Campbell M.D. Drinkwater M.G. Forsyth

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