Spring 2004 - Trinity Hall

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TRINITY HALL NEWSLETTER
SPRING 2004
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SPRING 2004
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College Reports ............................................................................ 3
Trinity Hall Association & Alumni Reports ............................. 35
Lectures & Research .................................................................. 53
Student Activities, Societies & Sports ...................................... 75
The Gazette .............................................................................. 109
Keeping in Touch & Reply Slips ........................... Cream Section
Section One:
College Reports
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The Master
Professor Peter Clarke MA PhD LittD FRHistS FBA
Professor of Modern British History
Fellows and Fellow-Commoners
Professor John Denton MA PhD FREng FRS
Vice Master, Professor of
Turbomachinery Aerodynamics
Professor Colin Austin MA DPhil FBA
Praelector, Graduate Mentor, Professorial
Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics; Professor of Greek
Graham Howes MA
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and
Political Sciences; Tutor for Board of Continuing Education
David Fleming MA LLB
Tutor and Staff Fellow in Law
Professor Thomas Körner MA PhD ScD
Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director
of Studies in Mathematics; Professor of Fourier Analysis
Dr David Rubenstein MA MD FRCP
Dr David Moore MA PhD
Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of
Studies in Medicine; Associate Lecturer and
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering;
University Reader in Engineering
Dr Peter Hutchinson MA PhD LittD
Dr Christopher Padfield MA PhD
Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of
Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages;
University Reader in Modern German Studies
Tutor for Graduate Students, Staff Fellow and
Director of Studies in Engineering; Director of the
University’s Corporate Liaison Office
Professor Paul Smith MA PhD
Dr Alison Liebling MA PhD
Professorial Fellow; Professor of Spanish
Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow in Social and
Political Sciences; University Reader in Criminology and
Criminal Justice; Director, Prisons Research Centre
Professor Michael Kelly MSc MA PhD ScD FRS FREng
Graduate Mentor,
Professorial Fellow; Prince Philip Professor of Technology
Dr Simon Guest MA PhD
Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in
Engineering; University Senior Lecturer in Engineering
Dr Michael Hobson MA PhD
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences
(Physical); University Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Dr P John Clarkson MA PhD
Tutor and Staff Fellow in Engineering; University
Reader in Engineering Design
Dr James Montgomery DPhil
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Oriental Studies;
University Reader in Classical Arabic
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Dr Florian Hollfelder MA MPhil PhD
Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director of
Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological); University Lecturer in
Chemical Biology
Dr Drew Milne MA PhD
Fellow Librarian, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in
English; Judith E Wilson University Lecturer in Drama and Poetry;
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of English
Professor Brian Cheffins MA LLM
Professorial Fellow; S J Berwin Professor of
Corporate Law
Dr Juliet Fleming MA PhD
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in English;
University Lecturer in English
Dr Simon Moore MA MEng PhD
Graduate Mentor, Staff Fellow and Director
of Studies in Computer Science; University Senior
Lecturer in Computer Science
Dr Sarah Cooper MA MPhil PhD
Tutor, Staff Fellow, Newton Trust College Lecturer in
Modern and Medieval Languages
Dr R Vasant Kumar MA BTech PhD
Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in
Natural Sciences (Physical); University Senior
Lecturer in Materials Science & Metallurgy
Dr Nick Bampos MA PhD
Senior Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural
Sciences (Chemistry); Assistant Director of Research in Chemistry
Angus Johnston MA LLM BCL
Graduate Mentor, Tutor, Staff Fellow and Director of
Studies in Law; University Lecturer in Law
Dr John Bradley MA DM FRCP
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine;
Associate Lecturer in Medicine and Consultant Physician,
Director of Renal Medicine and Director of Research and
Development, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Dr Louise Haywood MA PhD
Tutor and Staff Fellow in Modern and Medieval
Languages; University Senior Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Studies
Dr Martin Bucher MS PhD
Graduate Mentor, Stephen Hawking Fellow and College
Lecturer in Mathematics
Dr J Clare Jackson MA MPhil PhD
Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in History;
University Lecturer in History
Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm MA LLB PhD
Revd Dr Jeremy Morris MA DPhil
Graduate Mentor, Dean and Chaplain, Secretary
to the Governing Body, Robert Runcie Fellow and
Director of Studies in Theology
John Pegler MA ACA
Staff Fellow, Bursar and Steward
Dr Mario Kozah MA PhD
Dr Andrew Harkins MA PhD
Graduate Mentor, Tutor, Staff Fellow, College
Lecturer and Director of Studies in English
Gott Research Fellow in Oriental Studies
Walter Grant Scott Research Fellow in Mathematics
Dr Richard Baker MA PhD
Fellow-Commoner in Music
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Dr Graham Pullan MA PhD
Rolls Royce Fellow-Commoner in Turbodynamics
Dr Richard Miles PhD FSA
Admissions Tutor, Staff Fellow and College Lecturer in
Ancient and Early Medieval History; Director of
Studies in Classics
John Armour BCL LLM
Staff Fellow in Law; University Lecturer in Law
Dr Ian Wilkinson MA DM MRCP
Staff Fellow in Clinical Medicine; University
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Dr Samantha Williams MSc PhD
Staff Fellow in History; University
Lecturer in History
Dr Cristiano Ristuccia MA DPhil
Tutor, Staff Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of
Studies in Economics; University Senior Research
Associate in Applied Economics
Dr Annette Imhausen PhD
Thole Research Fellow in Egyptology
Dr John Pollard MA PhD FRHS
Archivist and Staff Fellow in History
Matthew Conaglen LLB(Hons) LLM
Dr Dirk Slotboom MSc PhD
John Collier Fellow in Law; City Solicitors
Educational Trust Lecturer in Law
Research Fellow in Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Jan Gilbert MPhil
Research Fellow in Medieval Spanish Literature
Dr Nigel Chancellor MA PhD DL
Graduate Mentor, Fellow-Commoner in History
Dr Kylie Richardson MA PhD
Staff Fellow in Modern and Medieval Lanuages
(Slavonic); University Lecturer in Slavonic Linguistics and Philology
Dr Jerome Jarrett MA MEng PhD
Staff Fellow in Engineering; University Senior
Research Associate in Engineering
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Emeritus Fellows
Richard Newton MA
Dr Bill Grundy MA MD BCHIR
David Marples MA
Dr Malcolm Gerloch MA PhD ScD
Professor Jonathan Steinberg MA PhD
John Collier MA
Clifford Pratten MA
Dr Sandra Raban MA PhD
Dr David Thomas MA LLD QC
Honorary Fellows
Revd Professor Owen Chadwick OM KBE MA DD LittD(hon) FBA
Rt Hon Lord Simon of Glaisdale PC MA LLD(hon)
Rt Hon Sir Robert Megarry PC MA LLD FBA
Sir Robert Honeycombe DSc PhD FRS FREng
Professor William Alexander Deer PhD FRS
Professor Lionel Elvin MA
Shaun Wylie MA
Rt Hon Lord Oliver of Aylmerton PC MA LLD(hon)
Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool KBE MA PhD FRS
Rt Revd Lord Sheppard of Liverpool MA LLD(hon) DTECH(hon) DD(hon)
Professor Stephen Hawking CH CBE PhD DSc(hon) FRS
Rt Hon Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead PC MA
Professor Sir Philip Randle MA PhD MD FRCP FRS
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE MA PhD ScD FRS
Professor Guy Jameson MA PhD
Revd Professor Keith Ward MA PhD DD FBA
Dr Kenneth Miller CBE MA PhD FREng
Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC
Hon Mr Justice Corbett
Hon Donald Macdonald PC LLM
Hamish Maxwell LLD(hon)
Rt Hon Lord Millett of St Marylebone MA PC
Sir Mark Tully KBE OBE MA
Dr Graham Storey OBE MA PhD LittD
Sir Derek Thomas KCMG
The Very Revd John Drury
Brigadier Paul Orchard-Lisle CBE MA TD DL
Graham Ross Russell MA MBA
Professor Sir Roy Calne MA FRCS FRS
Professor Alexander Goehr MA MusD(hon)
Professor John Langbein MA PhD
Sir John Lyons MA PhD LittD FBA
Dennis Avery LLM
His Honour Alan King-Hamilton QC
Rt Hon The Lord Justice Thomas
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Report from the Master
This is the fourth time that I have introduced our Newsletter and it will be
the last – this time next year Maria Tippett and I will have left the Lodge.
We will do so with very mixed feelings: looking forward to more time for
our own writing; looking back upon a very happy time in a College that
was new to us four years ago but is now peopled with so many old friends.
And of course we shall keep in touch. The election of Professor Martin
Daunton as my successor is described elsewhere in the Newsletter and
I will not repeat here what the Vice Master and I say there, except to
give advance notice that it's all very favourable and bodes well for Trinity
Hall.
In the Newsletter two years ago I gave a preview of the Strategic Plan,
which the College was then drawing up. It has guided our planning and
priorities ever since, with the big building project at Wychfield conspicuous at the centre of the picture. So in last year's Newsletter I tried to
explain why it was so necessary for us to go ahead with this expensive
commitment despite all the worries that now cloud any discussion of
university finance. Personally, as you all know, a new generation of
students will face a regime of fees and loans; institutionally, the College
has to reckon with the aftermath of a dramatic decline in equities. But on
both scores the outcome is less fraught than it may have looked a year
ago. In Cambridge we are committed to protecting students from poorer
homes from financial disincentives – indeed they may end up better off
here than they are at present. In this the College will continue to play a
big part, enabled to do so by the generosity of former benefactors.
Likewise, our stewardship of past benefactions is attested to by the way
that our own equity portfolio has out-performed its benchmarks through
astute financial management.
So my final message is a positive one. Can we fulfil Trinity Hall's strategic plan? Can we simultaneously look after our own students and afford
a building of which we will be proud on the Wychfield site? Yes, with
your help, yes!
Professor Peter Clarke
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The Mastership Election
When the Master resigns or retires it falls to the Vice Master to lead the
search for the new incumbent. The statutes dictate that we are not allowed
to elect a new Master more than 9 months before he or she would take
office and so in this instance, when Peter Clarke announced his resignation last July, effective from the end of September 2004, we had plenty of
time to find his successor.
We immediately set up a "search committee" from amongst the Fellowship. In choosing the composition of this we tried to achieve a balance
between senior and junior, arts and science, and male and female
members of the Fellowship. As a result we ended up with a committee of
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committee and in the Governing Body ascertained that we preferred a
working Master with great academic distinction and some knowledge of
the Oxbridge system, rather than a figurehead from Government, the
Civil Service or Industry. We immediately solicited suggestions for the
names of suitable candidates from the Fellowship and from the Heads of
House (Masters) of all other Cambridge colleges. The latter were especially fruitful in bringing forward many promising names. The committee screened these by sounding out all possible contacts via the Oxbridge
"grape-vine" and any with strong support were invited to submit a formal
application.
The position was advertised in the national press in late September and
alumni were invited via the Year Reps to bring the vacancy to the attention of anyone they felt suitable. The advertisement brought relatively
few responses but by that time we already had many promising names
from other sources, including alumni.
By the end of October we had a list of 18 credible applicants and it was
obvious that we had a very strong field. The committee discussed these
in depth, sounded out more contacts, and narrowed the list down, first
to 10 and then to 4 finalists whom we wished to interview. References
were obtained on those 4 and all members of the Governing Body were
invited to view their CV's and to comment on them.
The interviews took place on 13 December. Each candidate was invited
to make a short presentation followed by questions from the committee.
All four candidates were strong and the College would not have fared
badly with any of them. However, we were able to agree on two exceptional candidates whom we agreed to present to the Governing Body who
would make the final decision.
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The intervention of Christmas meant that this had to wait until the 13
January when both candidates gave presentations to the Governing Body
and answered questions from the Fellowship. After the search committee had presented a summary of their findings and their recommendation there was no time for further discussion at that meeting and so a final
discussion, followed by an election, took place at a special meeting of the
Governing Body on the following Tuesday. The discussion was very positive, all present seemed to agree that either candidate would make a good
Master. The statutes decree that the final election must be by secret ballot
and the result of this was not obvious until the votes were counted and
Professor Martin Daunton emerged as the winner.
The whole process from start to finish took place in a very civilised
manner. There was no acrimony at all, quite the opposite of the process
described by C P Snow in his novels. This is very much in the tradition
of Trinity Hall as being a friendly College where decisions are taken by
consensus. It is a tradition we can be proud of.
Professor John Denton
The New Master – Professor Martin Daunton
It is a very good principle that incumbents should not be involved in the
choice of their successors. I therefore played no direct part in the fascinating process that the Vice Master describes above and it came as a slight
surprise to learn that the Fellows had chosen Martin Daunton. A surprise
only because one historian of modern Britain was to be succeeded by
another, as though the Fellows had simply got used to the idea. We
have cooperated closely in the History Faculty since Martin came to
Cambridge seven years ago. We both hope that our experience of working together can be turned to the College's advantage in making this a
smooth transition, at a time when major projects, notably our new building at Wychfield, need continuity to see them through.
Martin Daunton unquestionably fills the search committee's brief for
'a working Master with great academic distinction.' Born in 1949,
educated at Barry Grammar School, he is no ingrown product of the
Cambridge system but has had wide experience elsewhere: in his own
first degree at Nottingham, then as a graduate student gaining his PhD
at Kent, and in his first teaching post at Durham. It was during his eighteen years at University College London, where he was appointed as a
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lecturer in 1979, that his career took off. He published books on urban
history and housing in Britain and on the Royal Mail before tackling a
major economic and social history of Britain since 1700 (the second
volume of which is about to appear). He was promoted, first to a
Readership, ultimately to the Astor Chair of British History. Little wonder
that he was the obvious appointment for the chair of Economic History
at Cambridge in 1997. While in post, he has established himself as the
leading authority on the history of taxation – a more appealing subject in
his hands than it may sound – as has been widely acknowledged in appreciative reviews of his two impressive volumes, published in 2001 and
2002.
It is plain that Trinity Hall will welcome not just a working Master but
a notably hard-working one. For Martin Daunton has simultaneously
held a series of demanding administrative posts in the University, chairing the History Faculty for two years and later the School of Humanities
and Social Sciences. And he has just begun a four-year stint as President
of the Royal Historical Society. Some of his outside commitments will
have to go, as he well recognises; but his ability to carry a heavy load
while maintaining a relaxed composure will stand him in good stead. He
met his wife Claire (also an historian) while they were both at University
College London, and she has carved her own niche in the University here
as Administrator in the English Faculty. They both enjoy a range of
cultural pursuits, from opera to art-collecting, and can be expected to
sustain a lively and outgoing social ambience in the Master's Lodge.
Professor Peter Clarke
Report from the Senior Tutor
Every year presents new challenges for the College and for those who
work to serve the purpose for which it was founded. Borrowing the words
from the commitment made by Fellows and Scholars, the College strives
to be a “place of education, learning and research”. While our purpose
remains the same, the way in which we aim to fulfil our duties is an evolving process, responding to the changing needs of the students, and the
demanding expectations of the community at large.
During the past year, we inevitably bid good friends ‘farewell’. David
Thomas, retired after 32 years of teaching Law, however remains in the
College community as Emeritus Fellow. David has shown a tireless
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commitment to the College and has been a great friend to all who have
had the pleasure of knowing him. Joanna Womack leaves us after 13 years,
having acted as Bursar before moving on to become University Treasurer
and College Professorial Fellow. She now takes on the role of Bursar at
Clare Hall. We wish them both the very best, and look forward to seeing
them at College events in the future. Peter Ellis resigned his Senior
Scholarship not long after he joined us, to take up a position at the world
renowned HGMP just outside Cambridge. But Cambridge being what it
is, every set of ‘goodbyes’ is accompanied by a set of ‘hellos’. A new batch
of young Fellows joined the College over the past year to inject a fresh
perspective into the way we educate our students. The two Junior
Research Fellows are Jan Gilbert in Medieval Spanish Literature, and Dirk
Slotboom in Biochemistry and Structural Biology. History as a subject has
been strengthened by the election of John Pollard to a Staff Fellowship
(previously Professor of History at Anglia Polytechnic University) and
Nigel Chancellor (a great friend of the College and recent Hall graduate)
as Fellow-Commoner. Matthew Conaglen became the first John Collier
Fellow in Law, and joins the talented team of Lawyers in Trinity Hall. We
are very fortunate to have Richard Baker stay on as Fellow-Commoner in
Music. Richard has done a great deal for the musical life of the College,
supporting the choir and organising an excellent series of concerts,
despite his own busy schedule conducting and composing. Jerome
Jarrett, a Hall graduate, joins us as a Fellow in Engineering, while Kylie
Richardson becomes our Fellow in Russian and Linguistics, having been
appointed to a University Lectureship straight out of her graduate
studies at the other Cambridge (Harvard). Angelo Carollo joins us as a
Senior Scholar, based in the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics. His Hon Judge King-Hamilton QC and the Right
Hon The Lord Justice Thomas have been elected to Honorary Fellowships
for the outstanding contributions they have made to their profession.
I suppose one significant change has been my appointment to the
Senior Tutorship. Only a couple of terms into my first academic year, I
appreciate how complex the role is, and how well it had been done by my
predecessors. The College owes its gratitude to David Fleming who
stepped in as Senior Tutor over the past year, and as always, executed his
duties with dedication and professionalism. I personally owe him a great
deal, as he has been a very kind friend and experienced guide when help
is needed. The role of Senior Tutor is impossible to do well without the
support of our fabulous team of Tutors and Directors of Studies. Having
been a member of the Fellowship prior to the appointment to Senior Tutor,
I have had the advantage of knowing people in the College well enough
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to be able to ‘hit the road running’ at the start of the academic year. I
suppose the reason I took on the responsibilities in the first place, was
because of the individuals I knew I would work with. The Master and
Bursar have been outstanding colleagues, and it will be very sad to see
them go at the end of the academic year. While the incoming Master and
Bursar will no doubt commit themselves to our collective objectives, I am
very pleased to be working with Richard Miles as Admissions Tutor and
Christopher Padfield as Graduate Tutor. The relationships we have
forged this year will allow us to work constructively in supporting our
undergraduate and graduate communities. The burden on the Fellows,
acting either as Fellows or Directors of Studies, is becoming more
demanding as they struggle to balance their commitment to the College
and their duties to the University, and I am grateful for their support and
goodwill during the four years I have been a Fellow of this College and
since I became Senior Tutor in October. My gratitude goes to all the staff,
but without Jackie Harmon and Fran Sutton, I do not think I could
manage my commitments from one day to the next.
The JCR, with whom I have dealt personally, have been a wonderful
group of individuals who have put the best interests of the College ahead
of any individual agendas. Such support from the JCR (and the MCR) is
rare amongst the Cambridge colleges, and helps develop the College
community as a place in which people are happy to live and work.
What are the challenges ahead as I see them? Well, the new fee proposals and how we respond to their effect on people applying to university
is most probably the major issue. Making sure students who come to
Trinity Hall are not financially disadvantaged as a result of coming to
Cambridge is also a concern. Providing suitable accommodation in a
traditionally ‘old’ College with a limited number of rooms, which we are
constantly trying to renovate, is a high priority for the College. I believe
that we need to provide the level and quality of support that will enable
our bright students to make the most of their Cambridge experience. This
means both educational support and pastoral support. Thankfully, our
capacity to offer support has been made so much easier by the generosity of our Benefactors and friends of the College. If we can respond to the
needs of our students, then being Head of the River, at the top of the academic tables, and the most popular and exciting College in Cambridge will
be a formality. I look forward to the coming years, and to being able to
report our achievements in future issues of the Trinity Hall Newsletter. I
also look forward to meeting former students of the College, from whom
we can learn so much.
Dr Nick Bampos
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Report from the Graduate Tutor
Another year of intense activity in the graduate community has been, on
the surface, just like any other year, but under the surface it has been, as
ever, utterly unique. It was of course special because it has been made by
talented individuals whose story is unique. It has been a year of sunshine,
but also a year with a long shadow.
In the sunshine we have had a splendid MCR committee, led with character, restraint and charm by Adam Amara, and a tremendous atmosphere. It was a summer like none other for years, with months without
rain, and the community took full advantage. During the Michaelmas
term, elections were held, and Adam and his successful committee gave
way to Daniel Schroth and his. The culture of this new one is much more
explicitly politically active, and they are already reviewing the MCR
constitution with professional thoroughness.
The long shadow of last year was the tragic illness of Raul Rivadeneyra,
which started in February, apparently with flu, but which climaxed in
emergency brain surgery to remove a rapidly expanding tumour. There
followed a long and agonising period of chemotherapy, his repatriation
in October to his native Mexico, and death in November. Raul had been
everyone’s favourite, urbane, warm and friendly. By the end of the story,
everyone also knew his lovely wife Rosie, who had previously quietly
played underscore, but whose devotion to Raul’s care, her resilience
against nightmarish pressures and the quality of unstinting love she gave,
earned her support and love in her turn, from all quarters. We learned to
respect also his agonised parents, who spent quite some time here at his
bedside, and in the end lost their wonderful son. The story had many
ghastly twists, a veritable Greek tragedy, but Rosie has now returned to
Cambridge where she made so many friends, as an honorary member of
the MCR for the rest of the academic year 2003/4. She hopes to get a new
life kick-started from Cambridge as a launchpad. We will celebrate Raul’s
life and mourn his loss at a ceremony in College in the Spring.
Two other practical matters I reported last year have made progress –
the Tutorial Office has been gutted, and, now half rebuilt, is looking
promisingly beautiful. The Wychfield development has been designed,
and Planning Permission has been granted. If all goes to plan, this will be
finished for occupation in October 2006.
During the past year we have introduced a new scheme to link the grads
more closely with Fellows who have professional interests germane to their
own. This is more of an academic link than a tutorial one. When we introduced the Graduate Mentorship Scheme, we anticipated that it might take
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several years to achieve full coverage of the grad community of about 250
students (including all the students who have over-run the deadline for
submission of their PhDs). In the event it appealed to a range of Fellows,
and we achieved full coverage instantly. The Mentors now include some
of our most senior Professors, and some younger Fellows – a complete
range. To my delight it seems to be giving pleasure to the Fellows involved;
and benefit, as well as pleasure, to the grads. Fran Sutton, who until the
creation of the Mentorship scheme was responsible uniquely for undergraduate matters alongside Jackie Harmon, and for all the Praelector’s
administration and protocol, has taken on administration of the mentorship scheme. Fran has emerged as a real entrepreneur, and the scheme’s
success owes much to her enthusiasm and effectiveness, working always
with the wonderful Julie Powley, the central pillar of the College’s grad
provision. Jackie has broken new ground by enrolling, in parallel with her
role in the Tutorial Office, on the part-time MSt course in Local History, and
so becomes at once a grad and a member of College Staff!
During this year too we have welcomed into the Fellowship two new
Fellows who were quite recently leading members of the MCR community.
Nigel Chancellor is now a Fellow Commoner and a Grad Mentor, with a
broad range of mentees. Jerome Jarrett is now a Staff Fellow in Engineering,
and will, I hope in time, extend his engagement with the grads.
Finally, we are proud to note that Callistus Mahama, reading for a PhD
in Land Economy, took with him some money raised by the South African
Fund for Education in Cambridge, when undertaking fieldwork back in
his homeland, Ghana, and used it to build a beautiful new library, called
“Trinity Hall Library”, in his home town Salaga.
Dr Christopher Padfield
Report from the Bursar
In the past, Cambridge colleges have been required to produce their
formal statutory accounts in a format that is archaic and very difficult for
the average reader of the accounts to judge the financial health of the
colleges, or to see how much income the colleges receive and how they
are spending it. Indeed, it is not just the lay reader of the accounts who
will have had difficulty with them: they are extremely difficult for an
experienced accountant to interpret, not least because the balance sheet
is missing.
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But all that is about to change. For the year ended 30 June 2003, as well
as the old-style statutory accounts, Trinity Hall will be producing accounts
in a new format called RCCA. For that year only, the RCCA accounts will
be a “shadow” of the old-style accounts. From 2003/2004 onwards, we
will only be producing RCCAstatutory accounts. These will be much more
like the normal format of accounts produced by other charities, and will
not be hugely different from commercial organisations’ accounts. The
advantages will be twofold: firstly there will be greater openness, something that I personally welcome because I feel that the College should be
accountable to its benefactors for its expenditure; secondly, we can
produce management accounts that are much more consistent with the
statutory accounts, which should be much more efficient.
In advance of the production of RCCA accounts, I shall take this
opportunity to admit that 2002/2003 was not a particularly good year
financially for the College. Trinity Hall has, like nearly every charity, been
affected by the Stock Market decline that started in Summer 2000 and
went on, with the exception of a few temporary rallies, until early 2003.
However, we have benefited from very high quality advice from our
financial advisors. This has meant that we were never quite as badly
affected as the FTSE-100 or All Share indices, and we have recovered
earlier and more quickly than those indices. Even so, by March 2003, we
had seen more than 40% wiped off the value of our equities compared
with their peak value in August 2000, and at November 2003 they were
still more than 20% below their peak.
Perhaps surprisingly, we were able to ride out the investment storm
for both 2000/2001 and 2001/2002, but in 2002/2003 we recorded a small
operational loss as a result of the decline in equity values continuing into
early 2003. But the pundits are advising that the recovery over the last 8
months should continue. Therefore I anticipate that the deficit will be
greatly reduced for 2003/2004 and that by 2004/2005 our income will
once again be equal to our expenditure on operations. In the meantime,
we are exercising financial constraint, which means that some proposals
for new expenditure have to be rejected, at least temporarily, however
worthy the ideas might be. But the size of the College’s endowments
means that we can cope with a small loss for two years without long-term
problems.
Trinity Hall has benefited hugely from a joint venture with Trinity
College to allow the extension of the Science Park onto Trinity Hall’s land
at Milton South, on the north side of Cambridge. Approximately 60% of
the anticipated total proceeds have already been received and further
income is expected in the next few years. The College is planning to use
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approximately 80% of the proceeds from Milton South to fund projects in
the Strategic Plan. The remaining 20% is to be invested in the General
Investment Fund to meet anticipated increases in operational expenditure. The Strategic Plan is split roughly in the ratio of 3:1 between capital
expenditure and investment to generate income. The capital expenditure
is almost entirely on buildings – replacing the Wychfield Pavilion, building new student accommodation at Wychfield, and upgrading facilities
on the historic main site in central Cambridge (see a separate article in
this Newsletter about progress on the two projects at Wychfield). The operational initiatives funded from Milton South proceeds are principally the
employment of additional Fellows and staff.
In addition to the money from Milton South that is to be spent on the
Strategic Plan, the College needs to raise £5 million from benefactors. About
three-quarters of this £5 million will be needed to complete the building
programme. The remainder will be used mainly for student support.
The expenditure on the Strategic Plan will be phased over a number of
years. This is the College’s safety net in case the estimates of costs prove
to be wrong or the outstanding income from Milton South is delayed.
Similarly, the design of the building projects is such that we can still go
ahead with the parts to be paid for from the Milton South proceeds even
if fundraising takes longer than is hoped. Therefore, although there is a
need for financial restraint on day-to-day activities, Strategic Plan projects
do not currently have to be postponed.
At this stage it is impossible to anticipate what the consequences will
be of the Government’s plans to change the University funding regime.
The calculations by the University suggest that existing funds, plus topslicing any additional fees that the University may charge, should be sufficient to provide support for students who experience hardship as a result
of the increased fees. However, the position is fluid and it may be that
Trinity Hall will have to undertake further fund-raising in the future in
order to increase its already generous support of undergraduate and
graduate students.
To summarise, Trinity Hall appears to be in a reasonably secure situation. I believe that we have sufficient funding to cover current and
planned operations. Also, the proposed expenditure on capital projects
can be tailored to respond to any errors in forecasting capital income. But,
if Trinity Hall is to complete all its aims to improve facilities for students
and is to respond to external pressures, additional financial support will
be necessary, especially from our alumni.
John Pegler
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Wychfield Report
Anyone walking through the Wychfield site is likely to be shocked by the
scene of devastation on the playing fields side of the access road. Not only
have we had to fell two truly magnificent beech trees, but also most of the
Pavilion has been demolished. The trees had a terminal fungal attack for
which there is no known cure and which was threatening a third tree.
The Pavilion has been partially demolished as the first stage of the
refurbishment project designed by the architectural practice of Freeland
Rees Roberts. The scheme will give us greatly improved changing rooms
– the old ones had not been significantly upgraded since they were built
in the 1920s – two competition standard squash courts, better spaces for
social activities, and a large room that we hope to use for a gym.
Realisation of the gym is subject to our being able to attract outside funding for buying the equipment and for a fund to provide income to pay for
a gym manager. The work will take the rest of this academic year, but
should be completed by October 2004.
In the meantime, users of the playing fields have to change and shower
in temporary huts, a regrettable but necessary inconvenience, but we
hope a small price to pay for a somewhat overdue improvement to our
sporting facilities. The groundsman, Simon Judd, is at least happy – in
addition to his pleasure at the work to enhance the pavilion, he is housed
in a portacabin that he says feels palatial, against the small room he had
enjoyed for so long in the side of the old pavilion.
There is devastation on the other side of the road too – in the practice
pitch, known to some as “the cabbage patch”. Trial pits have been dug,
and the archaeologists are at work to uncover anything of value before
the College embarks upon a major building project there to provide 155
ensuite bedsits and two flats. Why is this necessary?
The College has expanded over the last decade. The number of undergraduates has increased in line with the gradually increasing population
within the University; additionally there was a steep increase when the
four-year undergraduate course was initiated. The number of graduate
students was also increased ten years ago, in response to pent-up demand
for additional graduate admissions within the University, and it should
start to increase modestly again. Over this period, the College was not in
a position to deliver a proportional increase in its housing stock. The
consequence has been a much greater proportion of students housed in
property that the College does not own, widely separated within the city,
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that is not optimal for the students, and unhelpful for the sense of community within the College.
The College’s Central Site has become seriously in need of updating
and investment to bring it more in line with current expectations, to
reduce running costs, and to improve the College’s provision of rooms
for teaching, meetings, etc. The same holds true for some of the satellite
hostels. The College also needs to increase its overall provision for
disabled students, which has proven difficult in the existing buildings.
Such development and updating will necessarily severely reduce the
number of bedsits available in the city centre, at a time when the College
is struggling to cope with managing leased properties widely dispersed
in the city.
The College’s only developable land within reach of the city centre is
the “practice pitch” at Wychfield, zoned, since the structure plan of 1997,
for student accommodation. This new building needs to be completed
before we can embark upon the much needed, costly and difficult renovation of our Central Site and other city centre properties. As well as
replacement bedsits, the development will include temporary space for
decanting students while the work is ongoing at the Central Site, and
eventually rooms to cope with anticipated expansion.
Planning permission has now been granted for an extremely attractive
development that will enhance the site, improve security, and maintain
the character of the Eastern half of the site as “buildings within an English
Garden”, complementing the pavilion and its playing fields on the other.
Incidentally, the project includes provision of a new, improved hard
tennis court, and will involve the creation of new grass courts near the
road. The new, as-yet unnamed, residential development is planned to be
completed for the start of the academic year in 2006.
This development is absolutely essential to the College’s ability to fulfil
its Strategic Plan. If funds can be raised to complete it, it will unlock all the
rest. Immediately after occupation, work will start to rationalise the use of
the other accommodation at Wychfield, creating for the first time a truly
integrated campus, but deliberately without any communal catering facilities — it is our firm intention that the College’s Central Site should remain
very much the social and academic hub of the College. Strategic options
are already being drawn up for the (as-yet unfunded) next stages on
Central Site. Improvements to St Clements Gardens will follow after the
Central Site work, and will also be dependent upon fund-raising.
Dr Christopher Padfield
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Report from the Development Director
As a result of the recent Strategic Plan, a set of priority projects have been
established for which we now begin to seek the financial support of our
alumni, friends and others.
The Wychfield Site is key to our plans and the Wychfield Report (page
18) sets out the detail of the scheme. One should not underestimate the
cost – or importance – of this project. When completed, the site will
provide an additional 155 student rooms and two flats at a total cost of
£15.15 million.
The College is able to provide funds of £11.25 million which will enable
the first module of 96 rooms and 2 flats to be built, meeting our immediate accommodation needs. This money will also enable the “rationalisation” of the existing Wychfield site buildings (for instance, Wychfield
House will no longer house a mixture of undergraduates, graduates and
Fellows but will revert back to providing 9 Fellows flats).
But we need to raise £2.6 million to meet the medium-term accommodation needs providing a further 42 rooms (Module 2). And looking
further ahead, a further £1.3 million to meet the longer-term needs
providing an additional 17 rooms (Module 3).
Inevitably, there are cost benefits if we can combine the building of the
second and third modules into one construction – and this is particularly
true of Module 2 – but the design is such that we can develop according
to the money available.
Running alongside this is our genuine desire to upgrade and refurbish
some of the old College rooms on our Central Site and we are currently
in discussion with architects to draw up a feasibility plan. Although this
is long over-due, we cannot begin any refurbishment until the new development at Wychfield is complete. And of course, the more money we are
able to raise for the Wychfield Development, the more rooms we will have
to decant students from existing accommodation, which will allow us
greater freedom as we tackle the problem of modernising rooms on a
complex, old and labyrinthine site. At this point we are uncertain of the
exact costs, suffice to say that the College has set aside £1.6 million to
invest in this project and has set a target of £500,000 to be raised from
other sources.
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There are a number of other key on-going fundraising projects:
• we must continue to increase the funds available for Student
Support, particularly for postgraduate and overseas students, by
raising a further £1 million;
• we need to ensure that our computer and internet facilities keep upto-date, requiring an investment of £100,000;
• on the sporting front, the Boat Club requires funds of £8,000 – £10,000
pa to help finance, amongst other things, a rolling programme of
equipment purchases;
• additionally we would like to be able to provide all our resident
members with a gym facility in the soon-to-be newly refurbished
Sports Pavilion. To equip the gym and provide a part-time instructor will require £360,000;
• and we are keen to enhance the profile of music in the college and
to that end we have launched an appeal to raise money to endow a
Choral Scholarship scheme, for which an initial £30,000 is required.
In summary, our goal is to raise upwards of £5 million over the next two
to three years. We know already that there are additional projects requiring our attention for which we have no spare funding and undoubtedly
there will be further appeals in the future. For example, the Old
Elizabethan Library has never been properly catalogued, and many of the
rare manuscripts and books require conservation. To undertake this
would be highly desirable, but is not within our reach at the moment,
particularly when we have other higher priority goals to achieve.
The support of those closest to Trinity Hall will be crucial to the success
of our fundraising. We hope that many of our members and friends
will wish to contribute to preserve and enhance the Hall for future
generations. Your generosity in the past has made a real difference to the
College. We hope you will consider helping us now to enable these important and exciting projects to be completed.
Mrs Jocelyn Poulton
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Roll of Benefactors
1 January 2003 – 31 December 2003
The Master, Fellows and students of Trinity Hall wish to thank the following members and friends who have so kindly and generously made donations or legacy pledges to the Hall during the last year. The College also
wishes to thank those many benefactors who wish to remain anonymous.
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Dr Christopher Hardwick FRCP
1933
Dr Basil Cooke
1934
Dr Guy Turgeon
1942
Mr David Stross
1943
Mr Philip Baines
1944
Mr Dick Butterworth
Mr Hamish Maxwell
1945
Mr Gerry Frank
The Venerable Ronald Scruby
1946
Colonel Ian Lister FRCS
Mr Norman Reeves
1948
Mr Sandy Stephen
Mr John Varga
Mr Michael Walker
1951
Mr Harry Guest
Dr Richard Levy
Mr Russell Marris
1952
Mr Rodney Barker
Mr Brian Gotto
Dr Robert Waterhouse
1953
Mr Michael Howe-Smith
Mr Tony Kay
Mr Martin Morgan
1954
Mr Michael Lucas
1956
Sir John Guinness CB
Hon Donald Macdonald PC CC
1957
Mr John Brown
Mr Brian Donaldson
Mr David Iwi
1958
Mr Patrick Mackie
Dr Roger Reavill
1960
Professor Donald Wesling
1962
Mr Ron Watts
1964
Mr James Hanson
Professor John Langbein
1965
Dr Nick Patterson
1968
Mr Peter Howell
Dr Kent Smith
1969
Mr Robert Watkins
1970
Mr Ben Paster
1971
Mr Robert Brodie
1972
Mr Charles Bird
Dr Ellis Wasson FRHistS
Mr Brian Watson
1973
Mr Martin Howe QC
1974
Mr Frank Morgan II
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1975
Dr John Stroughair
1976
Professor Tom Barton
Mr Stephen Cumberbatch
Mr Mark Dennis
Mr Mark Whitehorn
1977
Mr Pieter Knook
1979
Mr Ian Hawkins
Mr Richard Parrino
Ms Anne Wolff
1982
Mr Paul Vatistas
1987
Dr Lawrence Shields MD
1988
Mr John Naylor
1989
Mr Anthony Falzon
Mr Glen Newman
1991
Mr Jonathan Leiboff
1993
Mr Iain Tuddenham
1996
Mr Matthew Goldin
Dr Akhil Mehra
Organisations
The Aula Club
Cambridge in America
Chase Manhattan Foundation
Procter & Gamble (USA)
Philip Morris Companies Inc
(Altria Group Inc)
Microsoft
Trinity Hall MCR
Friends of Trinity Hall
Mr Jim Brandi
Mrs B F Emerson-Maclean
Ms Sylvia Helfert
Dr Michael Howley
Mr Thad Kemp
Mrs Ronda Gras
Mr Ronald Mansbridge
Current and Former Fellows and Staff of Trinity Hall
Dr Patricia Penn Hilden
Mrs Jocelyn Poulton
Dr David Rubenstein FRCP
If you would like to make a gift to the College, please complete the relevant form in the cream section and further details of our fundraising
projects will be sent to you. All donations of whatever size make a real
difference to the College.
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Commemoration of Benefactors Address
On Sunday 1 February 2004, the Commemoration of Benefactors Evensong
Service took place in the Chapel. The College was honoured by the presence of
the Revd Canon Anthony Phillips, Dean and Chaplain at Trinity Hall from
1969 – 1974, who gave the following address:
From St Mark’s Gospel: ‘And he called the multitude with his disciples, and said to them,”If any man would come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save
his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life, for my sake and the
gospel’s will save it.”’
I wonder what you would say if you had been asked to preach this
evening when we commemorate our benefactors. It would, of course,
depend on your concept of God. If you thought of God as a gentleman
then you would say very little. Your concern would be not to offend. You
would no doubt remark on what a privilege it was to be here, but generally you would do as little as possible to ruffle the feathers of the congregation. Politeness would be the order of the day.
On the other hand, if you saw God as a kind of terrorist, threatening
to exterminate everyone who did not bow the knee to him, you would
encourage the congregation to get on God’s side fast. You would point
out what a threat hung over them, what a risk they were running. Hellfire
would be your theme.
You might, though, see God as a profit-seeking business man who had
created an enterprise known as earth and rewarded those who were
successful in operating it. You would then emphasise the importance of
achievement. Winning – coming out on top would be your buyline.
I do not believe that God is either a gentleman, a terrorist or a business
man. I believe he is love. The reason that I believe that this is so is because
I see in Jesus Christ the very nature of God himself.
And what is that nature? It is to suffer, be rejected, be killed and to rise
again. Our God, far from being impervious to human activity, endures
the pain we inflict. He allows us to wound him by our sinfulness, even
freely to reject him, and yet comes back for more. In Jesus’ passion and
resurrection, God shows that no matter what man may do, he will not let
man go. Even the death of his Son results in resurrection love. We may
wound him, reject him: he cannot reject us and be God – for love knows
no ability to reject. And the chief characteristic of love is to take the other
not as he would like to be, but as he is. Like the father of the prodigal son,
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as soon as we are in sight, God runs out, not just to embrace us, but to
bless us.
God is not then concerned about good manners, nor is he intent on
frightening us home, nor is he interested in our success – he is interested
in us as us, me as me. When week by week in Eucharist I present myself
before God to be fed by Him, I do not come as a good man, an honest
man, a loving man: I come simply as I am, a mixture of light and dark, of
joy and shame, a shade of grey as Jane Austen told her sister Cassandra.
I offer God not what I consider is acceptable, but also what is unacceptable – for to God it is I who am acceptable. He embraces not only that side
of me that most people see, but also that shadow side, which I wish no
one to see. He cannot resist me: that is the Gospel.
You may say – well your concept of God is a pretty comfortable one.
You mean that whatever you get up to, God will still embrace you. Yes –
if you will let him. St Paul knew that. You may remember that contemplating this essential truth that is Christianity, he considers sinning yet
more in order that he can enjoy more forgiveness. But if you think that
that is an enjoyable possibility, then you have never experienced love. For
when one enjoys the love of another, the last thing one wants to do is to
hurt the other. The tragedy is that through our weakness, our own limitations of loving, we do this. Lovers do hurt each other – which is why in
the marriage service they pledge that whatever hurts they cause, they will
go on accepting, go on loving. Sometimes our frailty makes that impossible: but it is not impossible for God. Even though we do not want to
hurt Him, we do – yet God still loves us. He can do no other for He is
love.
The best definition I know of a Christian community occurs in the
prospectus to Chetham’s School of Music, which ends with a quotation
from the then Bishop of Manchester: ‘This building and your school are
places where we dare to admit our failures, fears and fragility…and not
be thought less for doing so.’ That should be true of any Christian institution including this College. What makes an individual or a community
stand out is not how they enjoy success, but how they cope with failure.
Few of us are ever entirely satisfied with what we become. There is
always a wistful longing at what might have been. If only…if only we
had worked harder, loved better, been more disciplined, learnt to forgive.
Yet our failures can be our greatest learning points: they have more influence on shaping our lives than all our successes, for it is these with which
we have to come to terms, both as individuals and a community, if we
would be whole. It is no accident that in the Gospel narratives it is life’s
failures who recognise Jesus for whom he is, and are enabled to accept
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what he offers, his grace. Recognition that we are not as we would like to
be, recognition that we are going to have to live with our shadow side,
recognition that we have failed – such recognition liberates as nothing
else can do. And once recognised we can be consoled. As Scott Peck has
written: ‘A life lacking the emotional upheavals of depression and
despair, fear and anxiety, grief and sadness, anger and the agony of forgiving, confusion and doubt, criticism and rejection, will not only be useless
to ourselves, it will be useless to others’. If this College community is to
be free from all that inhibits, these are issues which dons, graduates and
undergraduates must address. We need not fear our failures: we need
only fear not bringing them to God’s transforming love.
Yet as our text reminds us, there are consequences which follow from
accepting God’s love. If any man would come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross and follow me. It’s common for newly weds
to try and marry off their friends. Once one enjoys that most perfect and
intimate love which marriage brings, one wants everyone else to enjoy it
too. So it should be with enjoying God’s love. Once you experience what
it is to be accepted and loved as you are – and God knows me far more
intimately than my wife – once you are accepted and loved by God, you
want others to share in that love. But there is only one way in which you
can secure that, and that is by becoming that love yourself. It is all acted
out in the Eucharist. You come to God as you are: You acknowledge that
you are not as you would like to be. God embraces you with Himself by
feeding you with the body and blood of His Son – the man who took up
His cross. Then you go out into the world as Christ bearers – go out to
bear His cross which is your cross among all who are unloved and unlovable – until again next week you return conscious of having been and not
been that love, and find that he still embraces you with Himself – wills
you to be that love.
And how are we to be that love? It is certainly not by being a gentleman
– leaving people where they are undisturbed by the radical nature of what
being God’s love means. If as we enjoy the riches with which God
surrounds us, we feel no tension, then we have not understood the Gospel.
God has, of course, given us freedom to use our resources as we choose.
But in both Old and New Testaments, God also has something to say about
our responsibility to those who have no freedom to choose – the widow,
orphan and the alien – the poor and the dispossessed – the unemployed
and the starving. The church can never support freedom to choose at the
expense of others; that is not being God’s love. In the face of so much greed,
which has gripped the first and supposedly Christian world, governments
will only be encouraged to tackle the world’s pressing social issues in so
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far as men and women of good will urge them to do so, and are prepared
to back that urgency with their own resources.
For someone whose ministry has been in a Cambridge and an Oxford
College and then an independent school situated at the heart of the
Anglican Communion, the tension of having in the face of so much nothaving, and of enjoying the having hugely, has at times been unbearable.
But there ought to be this creative tension at the centre of our lives – the
tension symbolised in the ancient Christian practices of feasting and fasting. What is wrong with our society is that we seek to escape this tension,
pretend it does not affect us, think that we have a right to an ever more
abundant feast and end up wallowing in destructive tension as we take it
out on others and ourselves. General Booth, the founder of the Salvation
Army, said that the one thing that he feared for the Army was that it would
settle down. Christianity is not about settling down: it is about creative
tension – taking one’s cross and following Him who allowed Himself to
be stretched in tension on His cross for us. It is in that tension that we have
to be God’s love. There are no easy answers: no quick solutions. We shall
not achieve the coming of that kingdom for which we daily pray by frightening people into church – that is an attempt to save life – when what God
wants is for us to lose it – lose it in love. Nor shall we find the way simply
in success. For one can gain the whole world, and never know what love
is. The only way we shall bring about that peace, wholeness, holiness that
is God’s will is by a greater loving than any of us have yet begun to grasp.
That cannot be achieved by our own efforts: it can be realised by letting
the love that is God spill from us into His divided and distracted world.
He has no other means but this love, no other way of expressing it but
through us. The future of us all depends on whether we will let God’s love
loose, accept the true cost of discipleship.
That is what our benefactors did and why we commemorate them
today. I doubt that all were good, all were selfless, all inspired by faith. But
wherever there is generosity, God who is love is inevitably at work. What
we who have benefited from their liberality need to remember is that it is
not our sins which can defeat God, but our wretched complacency.
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Report from the Chapel
Another year has passed in the life of Trinity Hall Chapel. Some friends
have moved on, having graduated last June, and many new first years
have joined us, ensuring that our Chapel community continues to thrive.
Over the last year we have welcomed many guest preachers to our
Sunday Evensong, where the choir, led by Organ Scholars Edd Capewell
and Gary Davies, set the service to beautiful music. The preachers have
included Peter Sedgwick and Christopher Foster, former students of the
College. Thursday evensong with the choir also continues, and Morning
and Evening Prayer are said Monday to Friday during term.
Sunday morning services continue to be held at 9am, and are followed
by a cooked breakfast. In the last year we have said goodbye to Peter
McIntyre, who was sacristan, and James Cruise, his successor, has now
handed over the reins to Nick Vanston-Rumney. Their valuable contribution in preparing the chapel for services is – as ever – greatly appreciated. Once a term we join with Clare Chapel for a Sunday morning
service, giving us a slightly different worship experience as they celebrate
communion ‘in the round’. Then it is back to Trinity Hall to continue our
fellowship over a hearty breakfast!
Last summer in May Week saw the Chapel outing to Hemmingford
Grey, a very peaceful village just outside Cambridge, where a group of
us picnicked by the river (some chose to swim!!) and then celebrated
communion in St Francis House, a retreat centre owned by the Community
of the Resurrection. It was a gloriously hot day and perfect for relaxing
and meditating at the end of a very busy term.
Commemoration of Benefactors was held in February, a new position
in the calendar, and was celebrated by a large congregation of current and
former students and guests, with a special dinner afterwards. The
preacher in 2003 was Owen Chadwick, former Dean; his sermon caught
the press in time for last year's Newsletter.
Trinity Hall Chapel continues to support a variety of charities, through
Sunday collections and also ‘Charity Lunch’. A popular alternative to a
hall lunch on a Monday, anyone is welcome to join us for a simple meal
of soup, bread, cheese and fruit and then donate what they would
normally pay for their lunch to charity. Over the last year we have raised
money for Armonia, a charity working in South America. Other Charities
supported in the past year by collections during services included
Wintercomfort, Christian Aid, Contact, Tearfund, Fideo, and the Medical
Foundation for the Victims of Torture.
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At the end of Michaelmas term the Chapel was once again filled with
candles for the traditional Advent Carol Service. It was a full house
(standing room only!), and everyone who attended enjoyed welcoming
in the season of hope and anticipation by singing carols and listening to
the choir. Other special services in the year included an equally packed
memorial service for Brooke Crutchley, former Fellow and Vice-Master.
Gifts of new hymn books, and of twenty shiny copies of the Book of
Common Prayer, were gratefully received, and should be acknowledged
here, as should Mrs Womack's generous gift of a silver chalice and patten
as her leaving gift to the College. Thankfully, Joanna and Michael continue
to join us on Sunday mornings.
Now, as we look forward to the coming year, we continue to ask for
God’s blessing on our Chapel community – that it will go from strength
to strength and that every member may be a faithful witness to Him in
every aspect of our lives. As always we would love to see any friends and
former members of Trinity Hall at any service.
Claire Hooper
Chairman, Chapel Council
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College Statistics
Undergraduate Students
During the year ending September 2003, the total number of undergraduates in residence was 361. The numbers reading for degrees in the main
subjects were as follows:
Natural Sciences:
Law:
Engineering:
Medicine:
Economics:
73
36
31
29
11
Modern Languages:
Mathematics:
English:
History:
Social and Political Sciences:
25
19
18
23
24
The number of undergraduates taking classified examinations in 2003
was 331 of whom 63 were placed in the First Class and 241 in the Second
Class. At present, there are 362 undergraduates in residence.
Scholarships
The following elections and awards have been made in the academic year
2003–2004:
Elected to Bateman Scholarships:
Archaeology and Anthropology: E C V Bates
Computer Science: P J McIntyre, M A Nabarro
Economics: S J Stehn
English: W J Turtle (re-elect)
Engineering: R E Green, P Loucaides
History: P A Fairley, I A F Hollingshead, V V Kara-Murza (re-elect)
Law: J Brinsmead-Stockham (re-elect), C D Buckley
Management Studies: R G Smyth
Mathematics: J R Bourne (re-elect), G C Wrennall
Medicine: E R S Elliot, J H Ford
Natural Sciences: G A V Bradfield, J M Dutton (re-elect), E C G Exell (re-elect),
E M Kreysa, R S Paton (re-elect), F Witham
Modern and Medieval Languages: C M S Calimani, M C P Muldoon
Oriental Studies: H Inwood
Philosophy: J A Stewart (re-elect)
Social and Political Sciences: AJ Joseph, T S F Peck, LH Sillence (re-elect) F C Swaney
(re-elect), H A Symonds
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Elected to Scholarships:
Computer Science: S R Horne, M J Johnson (re-elect)
Engineering: R C Harris (re-elect), C L Hooper (re-elect), H J O’Malley (re-elect),
H Pinder
English: H L Crawforth, H E A David
History: K M C Beal-Preston
Law: S Lemer, D D Peters, N S Sivakumaran, S J Tan (re-elect), J C Willan
Mathematics: B Adcock, I N Mathieson, E A Spence
Medicine: H F Davis, K A MacGloin (re-elect)
Modern and Medieval Languages: M Abbot, C M Brookes, J H L Mason, C Schaefer
(re-elect), J A Miller
Natural Sciences: D A M Anderson, A R Barr (re-elect), J Finegold, C P Parr,
M K Pollock, N R Vanston-Rumney, R S Young
Philosophy: D H R Evans
Social and Political Sciences: M R E Gittins, M E Loades
Theology: E J Capewell
Named College prizes awarded in 2003 were as follows:
Angus Prize for Classics: A B Atkinson
Harcourt Prize for Economics: S J Stehn
Baker Prize for Engineering: P Loucaides
R A Hayes Prize for Engineering: R C Harris
Ernst Frankl Prize for Engineering: R Green, C L Hooper, H J O’Malley, H Pinder
E G Harwood Prize for English: W J Turtle
Cressingham Prize for English Essay: H L Crawforth
Graham Storey Prize for English: H E A David
C W Crawley Prize for History: V V Kara-Murza
Kitty Crawley Prize for History: I A F Hollingshead, P A Fairley
Henry Bond Prize for Law: D D Peters
David Clement Davies Prize for Law: J Brinsmead-Stockham
Dr Ellis Lewis Prize for English Law: V Hyde
Ian Malcolm Lewis Prize for Law: C D Buckley
Lovell White Durrant Prizes: N S Sivakumaran, J C Willan
Wylie Prize for Mathematics: J R Bourne, G C Wrennall
Parks Prize for Mathematics: T Weigand
Henry and Irene Dean Prize for Medicine: J H Ford
Bill Grundy Prize for Medicine: E R S Elliot
Elmore Travel Exhibition [Modern Languages]: M Abbot, J A Miller
Sylvia Olive Stearn Prize for Music: Not awarded
Reginald Pillai Prize for Natural Sciences [Physical]: F Witham
Kareen Thorne Prize for Biological Science: G A V Bradfield, E C G Exell
Michael Stobbs Prize for Natural Sciences: E M Kreysa
N R Pillai Travel Scholarship [Oriental Studies]: Not awarded
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Kitty Crawley Prize for Philosophy: J A Stewart, D H R Evans
Dean Nurser Prize for Sociology: F C Swaney
Excelect Awards: H L Crawforth, G C Girdler
Dr Cooper’s Law Studentships: H Butler, K Gunaratna, E Phillips
Trinity Hall Studentships: J Brinsmead-Stockham, C D Buckley, L Crook
Postgraduate Students
At present there are 251 graduate students in College, working on a wide
range of advanced degrees. Of these, 73 are working towards PhD degrees
in arts subjects and 85 in science subjects. Nearly all the remaining students
are pursuing the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, the LLM degree,
the MPhil degree in Criminology, European Studies or International
Relations. There are 12 students enrolled in clinical courses in Medicine or
Veterinary Medicine. The College also has 2 postgraduate students in the
MBAprogramme, 13 in the MEd Programme and 5 in the MSt programme.
In the academic year 2003-2004, College scholarships or prizes were
awarded to the following graduate students:
S J Stehn (1 year 2003-2004)
A N Adebanwi, Honorary Bursary*
A Baghdachci, Honorary Bursary*
T Bell, Honorary Bursary*
T-J Chi, Honorary Bursary*
S R Dolan, Honorary Bursary*
C Lachance, Honorary Bursary*
M Leistner, Honorary Bursary*
X H Lim, Honorary Bursary*
J Marchandise, Honorary Bursary*
A Miller, Honorary Bursary*
T Rajkovaca, Honorary Bursary*
R Singaravelu Naidu, Honorary
Bursary*
Trinity Hall Research Studentships
A Alexandrova (3 years 2003-2006)
B Fellegi (1 year 2003-2004)
W M Hill (1 year 2003-2004)
J Jacobs (1 year 2003-2004)
K J Lane (1 year 2003-2004)
Y Liu (2 years 2003-2005)
H Pedersen-Mjaanes (1 year
2004-2005)
D A Schroth (2 years 2003-2005)
O M Thorne (1 year 2003-2004)
L D Throness (2 years 2003-2005)
T Weigand (3 years 2003-2006)
P Zinn (1 year 2003-2004)
Dr Clark’s Theological Scholarship
K Chatterjee (1 year 2003-2004)
Trinity Hall Research Bursary
V Chondrogianni (3 years 2003-2006)
C Mahama (Michaelmas 2003)
A Rokison (2 years 2003-2005)
P A S Schartau (3 years 2003-2006)
Tidmarsh Studentship
L D Throness (2 years 2003-2005)
*Honorary bursaries are awarded to those to whom we offered a bursary, but who in the event
obtained funding from a Research Council.
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Students who Matriculated in 2003
Undergraduates
Ian Abel
Alexandra Adams
Katja Armstrong
Maxwell Barnish
Simon Beaumont
Clare Betney
Kristie Bewers
Tay Blyth-Kubota
Oliver Bolland
Tobias Brandvik
Thomas Burrell
Bethan Carden
Edward Carr
Robert Clayton
Matthew Clough
Jonathan Cohen
Kathleen Connolly
Helen Craig
Edward Craven
Alexander Crockford
Oliver Cummings
Gary Davies
Laura Dearlove
Alice Debelle
Gareth Dobson
Luke Donnan
Kai Er Eng
Ruth Fasham
Fiona Fee
Bethan Ferguson
Owen Fry
Laura Gardner
Christopher Gee
Thomas Georgiou
Edwin Goh
Alexandra Goss
Charlotte Gray
David Greenwood
Flora Greenwood
James Griffiths
Catherine Gunn
Thomas Hartley
Douglas Heller
Victoria Henderson
Caroline Hickerton
James Hilton
Samuel Hole
Ruth Hughes
Charlotte Hunton
Susan Hutchings
Dafydd Ifan
Daniel Igra
Rhian James
Marie Jenkinson
Victoria John
Lauren Jones
Alasdair Jones
Jennifer Kan
Jonathan Keane
Sarah Keen
Hannah Kilduff
Nadia Klich
Andrew Lane
James Laybourn
David Lloyd
Catherine Malcolmson
Sophie Martin
Muzhafar Mohd Mukhtar
Helen Morgan
Rumbidazi Moyo
Rachel Mundy
Robert Mundy
Waheedullah Mustafa
James Norman
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Emily Paine
Andrew Palmer
Sabine Patarin
David Pearce
Eleanor Penfold
David Pfeiffer
Jonathan Pinner
James Platt
Jisa Prasannan
Rachel Price
Ashley Rowlands
Malcolm Scott
Colin Scott
Helen Scott
Robert Severn
Hannah Shergold
Neil Singh
Jennifer Skene
Amelia Sleat
Rebecca Small
Alison Tesh
David Third
Gwawr Thomas
Helen Thomas
Graham Thompson
Benjamin Titmus
Jennifer Tiu
Laura Todd
Thomas-Leo True
William Turner
Alice Turtle
Philip Wales
Amy Watt
Gillian White
Mark Wrigglesworth
David Wyatt
Louis Yee
Postgraduates
Adewale Adebanwi
Rositza Alexandrova
Amir Baghdadchi
Marius Banica
Camille Barth
Captain Brendan Bartlett
Philip Booth
Claudia Brunner
Oliver Brupbacher
Paula Burn
George Camiller
Stefano Carpani
Krishna Chatterjee
Tsung-Jen Chi
Alessandro Cipollini
Mrs Ann Coggins
Adrian Cybriwsky
Jean de Pomereu
Sam Dolan
Keira Driansky
Suzanne Duke
Tamerlane Edwards
Rebecca Elliot
Borbala Fellegi
Jacques Fournier
Jonathan Gaugler
Ralf Geretshauser
Alison Gilbert
Abigail Goodwin
Joanna Gruder
Douglas Guilfoyle
Benjamin Hardy
Mrs Jackie Harmon
Lucy Hepburn
Weston Hill
Dominic Holland
Rachel Hooper
Craig Hovey
Jordan Jacobs
Sunil Kavuri
Mohammad Khan
Kaori Kuroda
Christian Lachance
Jeffrey Lau
Rebecca Lee
Matthias Leistner
Frances Linehan
Lisa Ling
Pablo Lopez Rios
Mrs Eleanor MackenzieLambert
Elizabeth Madgett
Clara Manzillo
Joachim Marchandise
Mrs Margaret Mather
Michael McKeaveney
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Kaila Mikkelsen
Mladen Miliksic
Anne Miller
Elwasila Mohamed
Thomas Newman
David O'Mahony
Stefanos
Papanikolopoulos
Darci Phillips
Gareth Podd
Craig Prosser
Tonko Rajkovaca
Natalie Ridgard
Abigail Rokison
Matthew Roman
Barbara Sandhoefer
Patricia Schartau
Dr Tonia Schofield
Rachel Scott
Rachel Simpson
Roubie Singaravelu Naidu
Francisco Solorzano
Santos
Olivia Thorne
Jenna Tong
Martin Vechev
Shu Yang
Pamela Zinn
Section Two:
Trinity Hall Association
& Alumni Reports
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THA Committee
Officers
President
Hon Treasurer
Hon Auditor
London Secretary
Cambridge Secretary
Dennis Avery (1980)
Frances Daley (1977)
Rory Silkin (1976)
Barry Lewis (1959)
Dr Clare Jackson (Fellow 2000-)
Committee
Professor John Edwards FRCP FRS (1946)
Sir Alan Donald KCMG (1950)
Martin Williams (1966)
Dr Nicholas Reading MRCP (1973)
Neil Tidmarsh (1978)
Sarah Webbe (1981)
Dr Sarah Barrett Jones (1992)
Amol Prabhu (1998)
Trinity Hall Association
88th Annual General Meeting
In the Chair: Alan Grieve, President
1.
Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting held on 18 May
2002, which had been published in the Newsletter, were approved
and signed by the President.
2.
Mr Dennis Avery (1980), having been duly nominated, was unanimously elected President of the Association for 2003-2004
3.
The following, having been duly nominated, were unanimously reelected to serve as Officers for 2003-2004:
London Secretary
Cambridge Secretary
Hon Treasurer
Hon Auditor
Mr Barry Lewis (1959)
Dr Clare Jackson (Fellow 2000-)
Ms Frances Daley (1977)
Mr Rory Silkin (1976)
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4.
The extension by one further year of the tenure of Mr Martin Williams
(1966) as a committee member, notwithstanding that he had already
served 5 years tenure, was ratified.
5.
The Hon Auditor, Mr Rory Silkin, summarised the Treasurer’s statement (in the absence of Ms Frances Daley who had sent her apologies). Subscription income in 2002 had amounted to £7,020 at £15 per
head. Total income for the year (including net interest) amounted to
£7,073. Expenditure during 2002 had included the Association’s
contribution towards the June event, the welcome party for new
members, the London event and the Annual Dinner held at the
College (in the latter case, the cost to the Association included the
ticket price subsidy for younger members). Overall, there was an
excess of income over expenditure of £4,081. Net assets of the
Association at 31 December 2002 amounted to £13,075, up from
£8,994 at the previous year end.
6.
Mr Martin Williams read out the report from the London Secretary,
Mr Barry Lewis, who had sent his apologies for being unable to be
present at the meeting.
7.
The Master presented a brief introductory report on behalf of the
College, including reference to the recent appointment as Alumni
Officer of Mrs Liz Pentlow, to whom a warm welcome was extended.
He was happy to be able to report that a new permanent appointment had been made to the post of Senior Tutor, Dr Nick Bampos
being due to take up this position on 1 October 2003. Meanwhile, the
College had been admirably served by Dr David Fleming who had
filled the role of Senior Tutor on an interim basis. He was pleased that
the new appointee was an existing tutor, well known to and
respected by his colleagues. Finally, he assured members present that
the College’s need for fund-raising would not cease in the foreseeable future!
The Development Director, Mrs Jocelyn Poulton, briefly outlined
the College’s ongoing fundraising plans, which were to raise a total
of £5 million over a period of 3-5 years. The purpose of the fundraising related principally to the proposed development at Wychfield,
but would also include the provision of improved accommodation
on the central site, improved pastoral support and other matters, the
overall aim being to enhance Trinity Hall for future generations. She
expressed the thanks of the College once again to all those who had
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contributed to the Milestones Campaign, but emphasised that
fundraising had now to be part of the College’s way of life and that
more remained to be done.
Mrs Liz Pentlow, the newly-appointed Alumni Officer, expressed
her thanks to Ms Gina Brown, her predecessor. A number of new
initiatives were currently being developed. Among these would be
an organised MA dining rights evening, which would be aimed at
alumni living in and around Cambridge. Steps would be taken to
secure a closer involvement of the Year Reps. Members were encouraged to visit the College’s website for details of future events generally. Ideas were invited regarding the London event for 2004,
proposed to be held on 25 March (believed to be the date of the inaugural meeting of the Association in 1904), and ideas as to suitable
venues would be particularly welcome. The Annual Gathering for
2004, which would be the main occasion for the celebration of the
Association’s centenary, was likely to be held not on the traditional
date but on 26 June 2004 to enable advantage to be taken of the
marquees that would be used for General Admissions.
8.
C ONSULTATION ON P ROPOSED C HANGES
THE A SSOCIATION
IN THE
S TRUCTURE
OF
Mr Martin Williams introduced a discussion of proposals – on which
the Committee wished to consult members – for some reorganisation
of the way in which the Association works. The background
to the proposed reorganisation was explained and its aims were
summarised as being:
• To emphasise that the Trinity Hall Association is the representative body of all Trinity Hall alumni
• To preserve the independence of the Association as drawing its
being from the alumni themselves rather than from the College
administration.
• To rationalise and streamline the organisational arrangements as
between the membership, the Committee of the Association, the
Alumni Liaison Committee, the Year Reps and the Alumni Officer.
In discussion, comments centred around the question of whether
membership of the Association should become free of charge and on
the preservation of the independence of the Association:
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• Some members disliked the idea of membership being “free”, on
the grounds that people value more highly things that they pay
for, and considered that a modest subscription ought still to be
required.
• Others considered that the existing subscription requirement was
a genuine deterrent to membership for some people.
• Ideas put forward included (i) that subscriptions might be made
voluntary, (ii) that people might have the option of writing in to
say that they did not wish to pay a subscription, and (iii) that the
College might pay over to the Association a percentage of donations received from alumni under its fund-raising programme.
• Support was expressed for the continued independence of the
Association but questions were raised as to how this could be
achieved if the Association were dependent upon the College for
its funding.
• In response to a question as to whether it was necessary to have
an Association at all:
– The President commented that the point was that of “independence”, i.e., in contrast to a system in which alumni
relations were run solely by the College, that the membership
should have a voice.
– The Master envisaged the Association as the “bottom up” part
of the alumni relations structure, with representatives being
elected by the membership in general.
– The President added that the Association, as an independent
body, had in the past been able to exert pressure on the College
on matters on which the alumni as a body may have had a
different opinion from that of the fellowship.
• The suggestion was made that, in order to secure its independence,
the Association needed a mechanism for generating its own funds
– which could perhaps be by agreeing with the College for
payments to be made on a “per capita” formula basis.
Whilst time did not allow full discussion of the proposals set out
in the Agenda paper as to the structure of committees, etc., some
dislike was expressed for the idea that the elected members of the
new Alumni Committee (i.e., those elected by Association members
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at the AGM) might meet separately from the full meetings of that
committee.
The President thanked members for their comments, which were
most helpful and would be the subject of further thought on the part
of the Committee. The next step would be for consultation with the
Year Reps at their conference in September. It was not intended that
the timetable should be rushed, but nor should the proposals be
allowed to stultify.
Those present expressed encouragement for there being further
communication with the membership as to the way in which the
ideas were developing, before a final decision was required to be
taken.
9.
C ONSULTATION ON THE C ENTENARY C ELEBRATIONS
Mr Neil Tidmarsh (1978), committee member with special responsibility for the Association’s centenary celebrations, invited members
with ideas as to the form that the celebrations should take to communicate them to him.
10. C ALENDAR D ATES
The dates set out in the Agenda and referred to earlier in the discussions were confirmed as follows:
Annual Dinner 2003
Saturday 27 September 2003
London Event 2004
(venue to be confirmed)
Thursday 25 March 2004
Annual Gathering 2004 and
Centenary Celebrations
Saturday 26 June 2004
Annual Dinner 2004
Saturday 25 September 2004
11. A NY O THER B USINESS
• The President raised as a question for the Master whether, in
connection with the planned fundraising by the College referred
to earlier, it would be the intention of the College to make an open
disclosure of its balance sheet to those from whom it was seeking
funds? The Master referred to the recent joint meeting of the
Development Board and the College’s committee on development, at which the £5 million target had been set as the amount
required to “bridge the gap” and enable the development plan to
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go ahead. He confirmed that the Development Director would be
approaching potential donors on that basis of “opening the
books”.
• On a light-hearted note, His Honour Alan de Piro QC (1938)
referred to the minutes of the previous AGM in which he was
recorded as having been described by the President as Father of
the Hall. He had received an amusing letter on this subject from
His Honour Alan King-Hamilton (1923), who could reasonably
claim precedence in the matter, suggesting that if Alan de Piro was
to be described as Father of the Hall then he, Alan King-Hamilton,
should be accorded the title of Grandfather of the Hall. The
suggestion was warmly received by those present and it was
agreed that the Development Director should write to His Honour
King-Hamilton accordingly.
The meeting was concluded.
London Secretary’s Report 2003-04
This past year seems to have been dominated by the urge to change,
continuing the momentum built up over the past couple of years or so.
This momentum has been fuelled both by the imminent centenary and
by the financial considerations resulting from the Government’s increasing pressure not only upon the University, and hence the College, but also
the students. Ironically, but most laudably, the College’s answer to this
financial pressure is to express the desire that the Association be free to
all members, which means the abolition of the £15 life subscription
payable by every undergraduate and graduate. However modest that
subscription may be, it has always been the source of problems and it is
felt that it inhibits some alumni from joining the Association (or would if
the alumni were alerted to this subscription prior to receiving their
College account). If members of the College do not join the Association,
there is some danger of them losing touch with the College – a danger
best avoided if possible. If they do, then the family of the Hall is weakened, which would be disastrous at a time when everybody should be
pulling together for the benefit of the Hall.
The Association is very fortunate in that, in this centenary year, we
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have a far-sighted and generous President, Dennis Avery, who is arranging things so that the Association shall become financially independent.
The mechanics of this endowment, and it is no less than that, are still being
finalised as indeed are fundamental changes to the structure of the
Association. These changes are aimed at a greater involvement of the Year
Reps and closer inter-action with the College through the Alumni Liaison
Committee, with the Alumni Officer taking a much more visibly active
part in the Association’s affairs. Martin Williams, former Treasurer of the
Association and now a Committee member, is the architect of these new
proposals. He has worked extremely hard to draft them in the first place
and then to refine them, in the light of some very interesting and constructive Committee meetings that have taken place over the past few months.
These proposals are to go to the Governing Body and the Year Reps for
consideration and hopefully approval, subject to any further amendments that may be required. The final “package” will then be presented
to the membership as a whole for approval.
Leaving aside these vital issues, the Association has had an active year
so far. The main functions were the Annual Dinner in Cambridge, the
London event at the Geffrye Museum in East London and the AGM in
Cambridge. The careers event was as ever most successful. The College
online directory (www.THAlumni.net), presented helpfully at the Year
Reps Conference by Mike Hyde (1993) and Bent Grøver (1995), is up and
running. It is an exciting project and must surely be proving most useful
to Association members, furthering the object of keeping members in
touch with each other and the College.
This Report cannot perforce deal fully with the changes within the
Association, since these have not yet been finalised. Suffice it to say that
special thanks are due to our President not only for his extraordinary
generosity but also for the time and energy he has devoted to the
Association, shuttling between San Diego, California and London
and Cambridge, loyally supported by his wife Sally, on a number of occasions for meetings concerning the Association. He has presided over
Committee meetings in a most informed and cohesive manner, preparing fully for each meeting and ensuring a constructive outcome. Thanks
are also due to Martin Williams whose tireless energy in producing viable
and constructive proposals is to be admired. Finally thanks are due to the
Alumni Officer, Liz Pentlow, who has worked behind the scenes, always
cheerfully, to ensure that Association events take place and run smoothly.
The Master, Professor Peter Clarke, and his wife Dr Maria Tippett will
be leaving College at the end of the summer. The Master has been closely
involved with the impending changes and contributed greatly to them.
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Our thanks are due to him and, whilst a little in advance, we extend the
best wishes of the Association to them both for a happy, healthy and, I am
sure, productive retirement. We look forward to welcoming the new
Master, Professor Martin Daunton in October and I feel sure that he will
maintain the high tradition of his two predecessors, Sir John Lyons and
Professor Clarke, by showing the same positive interest as they have in
the affairs of our, what is about to become, venerable Association.
Barry Lewis
Trinity Hall Association London Secretary
February 2004
The Nick Nicholson/THA Careers Seminar 2004
Another well attended careers seminar took place in the Master’s Lodge
on Thursday 29 January, despite freezing weather. We were very pleased
to welcome Jeremy Nicholson QC (1973) representing the Nicholson
family who generously support the initiative. Sarah Webbe (1981) chaired
the seminar, which was introduced by the Master.
The alumni panel was made up of five Trinity Hall graduates with
varying experience. Dr Ralph Elias (2001, MBA Management Studies) is
Head of Planning & Performance Management at Havering Primary Care
Trust; Alessandra Norman (1998, MPhil Latin American Studies) is a PR
consultant with Munro & Forster in London; Fiona Morgan (1995, BA
Modern & Medieval Languages) teaches Spanish and French at Seven
Kings High School in Essex; Dr Mark Griffiths (1994, PhD Biotechnology)
is involved in Medicines Licensing with Proctor & Gamble and Lindsay
Dodsworth (1981, BA Engineering & Music) a former partner at Ernst &
Young, is now Financial Director of a private company and involved with
a charitable trust.
Each alumnus spoke about their career development. Ralph Elias travelled extensively before he came to Trinity Hall, and fell into various roles
in Botswana, including Head of Mining Engineering for the University
of Botswana and Technical Education Officer at the Ministry of Education.
He gave advice on the relative merits of doing an MBA, and of NHS
management structure, stressing that you didn’t have to go straight in to
your chosen career on leaving university.
Fiona Morgan had always wanted to teach and talked enthusiastically
about teaching in a large comprehensive, contrasting her experience with
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colleagues across the education spectrum and talking about the personal
and career benefits which teaching’s media profile rarely highlights.
Knowing he didn’t want more bench science, Mark Griffiths chose to
go for large companies, applying to Proctor & Gamble through their graduate programme. Despite turning up for his interview a day late, he
showed that if you are determined enough about a job you should pursue
it until they give it to you. He has much experience of the milk round
interview process, and encouraged students to get as involved in College
life as possible, as all experiences would help provide examples for the
interview process.
Lindsay Dodsworth planned a music career, fell into accountancy to
fund the music and found she enjoyed doing both. As well as funding
studying and working with music in Indonesia, her accounting skills and
training had taken her to eastern Europe and proved portable enough to
allow a career change to accommodate her young family.
Alessandra Norman had been less sure about what she wanted to do.
Her languages got her a Stage with the European Commission but she
decided that she didn’t want to pursue that track. A recruitment consultant introduced her to PR. She was keen to show how wide the world of
PR reached, and that work experience was a good way to get into it.
The students asked questions and raised concerns they had about the
job market. Supper in the Hall provided a chance for the panel members
to have further discussions with the students, and everyone there found
the experience very worthwhile. I would like to thank Sarah Webbe for
organising the speakers, and the speakers themselves for giving up their
evening to come back to College.
If you would like to take part in any future career seminars (usually
scheduled for the last week in January) please contact Sarah on
[email protected], or get in touch with Liz Pentlow in the Alumni
Office.
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Report from the Alumni Officer
It seems only yesterday that I took up the Alumni Officer reins from Gina
Brown, who did such a fantastic job during her 3 years here at Trinity Hall.
It is in fact almost a year, and an incredibly busy year it has been!
We have enjoyed a record attendance at a variety of events and have
been delighted that so many of you could join us across the world (we’ve
visited Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle) and
closer to home at the traditional events in London and Cambridge. Most
impressively, the Reunion for 1976, 1977 and 1978 attracted over 160
alumni back to College to share their experiences and catch up with each
other. The London Event at the Geffrye Museum provided a unique occasion for a Trinity Hall gathering, and by the time you read this, 140 of you
will have met at the Royal Society of Arts for this year’s reception. The
Cambridge Dinner saw a full house from all generations enjoying
wonderful hospitality in the Hall, and the Annual Gathering gave alumni
another excuse to come back to College (see details of the new look
Annual Gathering to commemorate 100 years of the THA in the cream
section of this Newsletter).
Of course, none of this could happen without the support of the dedicated College staff who welcome and look after us at the various and
many dinners and lunches in Hall, and who ensure the grounds and
rooms look immaculate. The Year Reps too have provided invaluable
support, and this year many year groups will be enjoying informal gatherings, organised by their Reps.
It has also been a year of new initiatives, firstly with the launch on the
Online Directory, www.THalumni.net. Again, the response to this has
been beyond our expectations and we thank those 600 plus of you who
have already signed up. We encourage those who have not yet registered
to do so, as it is a great way to keep in touch with each other and with
College news.
Secondly, the Trinity Hall Association Committee has been working hard
at ensuring that the Association remains vibrant and relevant to the 21st
century by preparing a new constitution for its centenary year. Further
details of this will be circulated before the Annual General Meeting (to be
held on the morning of the Annual Gathering) and we would urge as many
of you as possible to come along and endorse the proposals, which will pave
the way for a very exciting partnership between the College and the alumni.
Additionally, 2003 has seen the promotion of The Hidden Hall, to which
over 1,000 members have already subscribed. It is an amazing anthology
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of articles by academics and specialist writers, together with recollections
of people who have been at the College in various eras. Don’t miss out
on your opportunity to purchase a copy of this book. The subscribers price
is now closed, but you can still buy a copy at a price of £35. An order form
is at the back of the Newsletter and more information about the contents
of the book will be available at the Annual Gathering in June.
With other initiatives growing in strength thanks to the support of the
alumni – the Careers Network being one project that has been relaunched
to the students, and has already prompted many enquiries for help and
advice – I feel that 2004 will be another busy year, and I look forward to
meeting many of you at one or more of our events.
Mrs Liz Pentlow
Year Rep Meeting, Saturday 27 September 2003
The Year Reps gathered in College for their Annual Conference, with
two main issues on the agenda. Firstly, the future of the Trinity Hall
Association, and secondly the new online directory that was launched
soon after their meeting.
Following a quick run through other College news, including forthcoming
events (London Event at the RSA and the revamped Annual Gathering) the
re-launch of the Careers Network, a resumé of fundraising projects, and
information on The Hidden Hall, the discussion turned to the THA.
The London Secretary of the Association, Barry Lewis, presented his ideas
for the reorganisation of the THA. These included the following points –
•
•
•
The THA wished to remain independent of the College
The current THA President, Dennis Avery, had made a gift to the
Association that would allow them to maintain this independence
The Association should work with the College to keep the alumni in
touch
The subject was opened to the floor, and the following points form a
summary of comments made –
•
•
The Association should represent members of the Hall, and have a
voice in College.
Despite holding separate events, the two entities of the THA and the
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Alumni Office are aiming at the same results, following the same
principles.
There was clearly a need to address the constitution of the THA.
The Master explained that he saw the THA as working from “the
bottom-up” in Alumni Relations.
It should be clearly explained where everyone fits in to the College,
whether it be the careers network, the Association, events etc. It was
felt that there was a need to clarify all the different roles.
What is the role of the Alumni Liaison Committee as an interface
between the College and the Alumni? It has become more of a reporting committee, rather than a means for the Alumni to feed back to the
College.
It was felt that for some year groups, alumni didn’t really care how they
were represented, and the Association meant nothing to them. The Year
Reps were seen as the main link between the College and each other.
There should be some rationalisation of communication between the
THA, the College and the Year Reps.
There is a definite need to educate current students as to what is on
offer once they leave the Hall.
The feedback from this meeting has already played an important part in
the reworking of the Trinity Hall Association constitution. It was realised
that the Year Reps are the fundamental link between the alumni and the
College, and should therefore form the basis of the “Association”, working closely together to improve relations with the alumni.
Next on the agenda was the online directory (www.THAlumni.net)
Mike Hyde (1993) and Bent Grøver (1995 and a Year Rep) from FX
Technology gave a presentation of the site, looking at the sample data from
the pilot years of 1979 and 1980, and showing how simple it was to register,
and also what else the site can offer. The site will become the main alumni
website, and will include news and features from the College, and alumni.
The feedback from the pilot groups was extremely positive. There had
been a few suggestions made, such as –
•
•
•
Using the site to send blanket emails to your year.
Having a message board for each year that you see when you log in.
Offering a prize for the most interesting/entertaining feature
It is hoped that the site will eventually become an electronic version of
Black & White News, in that Year Reps will be able to submit news and information relevant to their year, which will then be placed on the front screen.
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It is a hugely exciting project, and it is hoped that the Year Reps will
spread the word, and encourage the rest of their year to sign up.
The conclusion of the meeting emphasised that the Year Reps provide
a vital service to the Alumni Office, and the alumni themselves. The role
will only be strengthened with the changes in the THA, and their help
and support is greatly appreciated by the Alumni Officer.
Mrs Liz Pentlow
Alumni Liaison Committee
The Trinity Hall Alumni Liaison Committee meets twice a year, in January
and September, and reports to the Governing Body. It is made up of
Fellows, staff and alumni and acts as the formal interface for alumni with
the College. A brief summary of what was discussed on 26 February 2004
follows:
•
The Vice Master outlined the process of the search for a new Master,
which had resulted in the election of Professor Martin Daunton. There
had been a strong field of applicants, with the candidates split roughly
two-thirds from Cambridge, and a third from external applicants.
•
Mrs Pentlow reported that there had been a fantastic response to the
THA London Event, taking place on Thursday 25 March 2004 at the
Royal Society for Arts. The programme for the Annual Gathering on
Saturday 26 June is being compiled, and currently includes a lecture
to be given by a current graduate student Amir Baghdadchi on the
playwright Ronald Firbank; a performance of a Chekhov play by the
Preston Society; wine-tasting; musical performances; and costume
interpreters to entertain the children. The hope is to make the event
as appealing to everyone as possible so that a wide range of alumni
come back to celebrate the centenary of the THA. The online directory (www.THAlumni.net) is filling up well, with 600 members
already registered, which is 10% of our connected alumni.
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Mrs Poulton updated the committee on the progress of The Hidden
Hall, to which over 1,100 people had already subscribed and that it
was on schedule for publication in November 2004. The Fellows and
alumni who had contributed to the book were thanked for all their
efforts. Front Court in 2004 is due to focus on medics and vets, and it
has been decided that the 2005 issue will be used to showcase those
contributions that hadn’t made it into The Hidden Hall.
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The Development Director then circulated two papers, one being
the case for support, on which she requested comments from the
Committee, and the other being a summary of current fundraising
projects. It is hoped that the College would once again receive the
support of the Alumni, and that a telephone campaign in the summer
would be used to tell them about the current projects.
The Bursar explained that the College had been successful in
managing its investments so as to realise significant capital sums,
and hence that it was both possible and prudent to provide the £11.25
million needed for the first stage of the Wychfield project.
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Martin Williams presented the current proposals for the future of the
THA, which have deliberately been left open to allow the Year Reps
to have some say in the future of the “Association”, in which they
will play a fundamental part. Sarah Webbe emphasised that the new
system will provide the element of democracy that is currently missing from the Association.
The main objective of the proposals is to create an “Association”
that all alumni realise they are part of. With this in mind, the issue of
the name of the THA was discussed, whether “Association” should
be retained to give some continuity and definition, or whether the
THA should become “Trinity Hall Alumni”, including all and heralding a change. Jocelyn Poulton pointed out the link between this and
the online directory – THAlumni.net. The Committee was not
entirely decided, but what was clear was that the Year Reps should
have the final decision.
The proposals would be presented to the Year Reps at a special
meeting on the 8 May, and would then be circulated to all alumni
before the AGM.
The Committee thanked Martin Williams, Sarah Webbe, and the rest
of the THA Committee for all their hard work on the reorganisation.
Members of the Alumni Liaison Committee: the Master, the Vice Master,
the Bursar, the Senior Tutor, the Development Director, the Alumni Officer,
Dr John Clarkson, Angus Johnston, London Secretary of the THA (Barry
Lewis, 1959), Treasurer of the THA (Frances Daley, 1977), Dr Fiona Cornish
(1978), Rory Silkin (1976), Aula Club Representative (Richard WalkerArnott, 1957), Graduate Representative (Ron Watts, 1962).
Minutes written by the Alumni Officer, Liz Pentlow
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Calendar of Events and Important Dates in 2004–2005
20 April
6 May
8 May
11 June
16 June
24 June
26 June
3 July
18 September
25 September
24-26 September
5 October
21 October
November
3 December
March 2005
2 July 2005
9 July 2005
17 September 2005
24 September 2005
Full Term Commences
Alumni Dining Evening (see p51)
Year Reps’ Meeting
Full Term Ends
June Event
General Admissions Lunch & Graduation
(‘Degree Day’)
THA Annual Gathering & AGM (Centenary
Celebrations)
Reunion Dinner for up to and including 1946
Reunion Dinner for 1979, 1980 & 1981
Year Reps’ Conference
THA Annual Dinner in Cambridge
University Alumni Weekend (further details in
the cream section)
Full Term Commences
Alumni Dining Evening
Milestone Lecture
The Hidden Hall to be published
Full Term Ends
MA Congregation for 1998 matriculation year –
letters will be sent out in December
London Event
THA Annual Gathering & AGM
Reunion Dinner for 1982, 1983 & 1984
(Note change of date from Front Court)
Reunion Dinner for 1987 & 1988
THA Annual Dinner in Cambridge
Please refer to the website (www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk) or
www.THAlumni.net for further details.
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MA Dining Rights
The College has for many years granted High Table dining rights to all
those who have taken their MA as members of Trinity Hall. This includes
those who have taken the PhD (or higher doctorate) or a ‘Master’s Degree’
(LLM, MPhil, MSc, MBA, MEd, MB, Mlitt, MSt) as members of the Hall,
provided that they are not currently in statu pupillari and in residence.The
Governing Body reserves the right to vary the conditions associated with
what we continue to call ‘MA Dining Rights’.
Currently they are as follows: any member of Trinity Hall who has been
granted ‘MA Dining Rights’ is entitled to dine at High Table free of charge
(except for wine) on any four Wednesdays, Thursdays or Sundays each
year during Full Term. There will not be a High Table, however, unless
the Master, one of the Fellows, or one of the resident Honorary or
Emeritus Fellows is there to preside.
Anyone wishing to dine should give notice to the Butler (who will be
able to say whether or not there is to be a High Table) not later than 10am
on the day in question (on Saturday, if it is for dinner on Sunday). The
Butler, Sara Rhodes, can be contacted on 01223 766333.
If you have not taken your MA, but completed your BA degree more
than 4 years ago, it is not too late. Please contact the Alumni Officer, who
will let you know the dates of forthcoming ceremonies, and the choices
that are available to you.
MA Dining Rights Evenings
As it can be difficult to know in advance whether there will be a High
Table on a particular night, and to find out who will be dining, we have
set up one night per term when a High Table and good company can be
guaranteed.
All alumni entitled to MA Dining Rights (see above) are welcome to
exercise them on these set nights in the Hall, together with current
students and Fellows. Unfortunately, guests are not permitted.
The meal itself will be free, but you will be charged for wine if you wish
to drink with dinner (usually around £6). The evenings will begin over
drinks in the SCR from 7pm and the dates for the next two evenings are
on the Calendar of Events. Please contact the Alumni Officer on 01223
332567, or [email protected] if you wish to attend.
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Section Three:
Lectures & Research
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Milestones Lecture, 29 November 2003
Dr Mike Hobson is a Fellow of Trinity Hall and lecturer in the Astrophysics Group
of the Department of Physics. Much of his research is in theoretical and observational cosmology. In particular, he has been involved in a number of Cambridge-led
projects to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB). He is currently head
of the Very Small Array project. This telescope, situated in Tenerife, has recently
provided images of the CMB that severely limit the type of universe in which we
live and tell us how the structure within our universe was formed.
Mike Hobson presented an exciting and extraordinarily visual presentation. Since words alone would not do the lecture justice, we have
prepared the lecture as a pdf or PowerPoint file for you to download from
the website:
http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications.html
The PowerPoint presentation (if viewed as a slide show) gives a more
complete version of the lecture, but the pdf version provides a good
overview. The website also links to the Adobe Acrobat site, so you can
install the necessary software to read the pdf file for free.
We strongly encourage those of you without a PC to beg, borrow or
steal access to a computer from family or friends! However, please get in
touch with the Alumni Office if you cannot get access, as a black and white
print out is available as an alternative.
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Eden Oration, 6 December 2003
A tradition since 1645, the Eden Oration is given by one of the Fellows at
a service in Chapel that precedes the Eden Supper. This year Professor
Michael Kelly was given the honour.
Professor Michael Kelly returned to Cambridge as the inaugural Prince Philip
Professor of Technology and to Trinity Hall as a Fellow for a third time in 2002.
He was here first as a Research Fellow and Staff Fellow 1974-81, and then as a
Staff Fellow during 1989-1992 while working at the Cavendish laboratory on
secondment from industry. For the last 10 years he was a Professor of Physics
and Electronics at the University of Surrey, where from 1996-2001 he was Head
of the School of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics. It is this mixed background of experience in industrial and academic leadership that informs his views
below. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, VicePresident of the Institute of Physics and has been Executive Director of the
Cambridge-MIT Institute since January 2003.
We gather for what would in theory be the 357th Eden Oration, where I
assume that it all started in 1645 and continued annually without interruption to the present day. No doubt colleagues will point out the exact
number. I suspect that I am the first person who has been elected a Fellow
of Trinity Hall on three separate occasions: 1974, 1989 and 2003, having
resigned to leave Cambridge in 1981 and 1992. While I have greatly
enjoyed and benefited from my membership of the Fellowship, I have
spent more of my UK career outside than inside Cambridge, and I want
to use this fact to discuss three matters this evening. Two, the role of
mentors and the IT revolution, may be uncontroversial, but I will have
failed if my third point, the running of our great University, is also considered uncontroversial.
Mentors
I want to begin with a litany of thanks to key mentors, and to consider
the role of mentor a little further.
In March 1967, I arrived as a new undergraduate at Victoria University
of Wellington, clutching a transcript of my marks in the nationwide
University Scholarship Examination of 1966. A maths lecturer took my
transcript and remarked:
‘These results indicate you may have what it takes to be a New Zealand
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academic, but in order to fulfill that ambition you will have to work hard
here for four years and get a scholarship to do a PhD in Cambridge
England or Cambridge Massachusetts, and then come back.’
I was interviewed at Trinity Hall for a Research Fellowship on a
Tuesday in mid-February 1974, and the following day I received an offer
letter from Ernest Frankl. I was a research student at Caius, and was due
to be interviewed there two days later, but Len Sealy, the then Senior Tutor
at Caius who hails from the same part of New Zealand as I do, made an
important observation: ‘A bird in the hand.’
In 1980 I received an approach from Derek Roberts, then Director of the
GEC Hirst Research Centre, and later the Provost of UCL. I made an appointment to see the Master, Maurice Sugden, in his study – the first time I had
been in that room since my interview – and received a great piece of advice:
‘I think if you leave Cambridge now for industry, it may be the smartest
decision that you have made since you came to Cambridge in the first
place’. And so it proved.
In 1996, Eric Ash, former Rector of Imperial College, and one of my
referees on my return here last year advised me: ‘Don’t go back to
Cambridge now, you will do much more for yourself and the UK if you
stay at Surrey for the next 5 years’. He was right.
These are the four key pieces of precious advice I have received from
mentors throughout my career, starting as the son of an Irish Catholic railway worker in a small town in New Zealand to now being the inaugural
holder of the Prince Philip Professorship of Technology in Cambridge,
with the added distinction afforded of being asked to lead the wonderful
experiment that is the Cambridge-MIT-Institute, and the tables at which
it has given me a seat!
Nearly all Fellows act as mentors, whether through the tutorial system,
supervisions, or during other interactions with our students. What do
students look for in mentors? (i) Wisdom, (ii) Knowledge, (iii) Savoire
faire, and (iv) Disinterest and (v) Interest in equal measure. How do we
measure up in practice in giving advice, as there is ample evidence that
students place great store by it? In practice we see others succeeding or
failing with choices they have made, and we subconsciously store all this.
We get feedback from former students about their own progress and that
of their friends, and we store all this up as well. Do we have a conscious
method for updating the advice that we give? Are we sufficiently radical
with our advice? Or do we do our students a disservice by being too
cautious, or out-of-touch? The world of 2003 is greatly different from the
world 10, 20 or 30 years ago when we were in the same position as the
students, and do we adequately reflect the differences when giving
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advice? This applies not only to the advice we give about choices students
face while in Cambridge, but also choices they will make on leaving
Cambridge, and indeed in their subsequent career and life. In many cases
we do not have the breadth of personal experience to give first-hand
advice, but how do we make allowances for this? If we gave some systematic thought to these issues over the next few months, I am sure we could
raise our game as mentors.
The IT Revolution
When I first arrived at Cambridge, the state-of-the-art computer chip
consisted of about 1500 transistors. Since then that number has continued
to double every two years, and over the last decade that doubling time has
reduced to 18 months. Today the figure is over 500 million transistors. My
career as a researcher nicely coincides with the IT revolution. In the late
1960s, a meeting at Texas Instruments dwelt on the fact that integrated
circuits seemed arcane, and it was time that their use became pervasive. At
this meeting the pocket calculator was conceived, and this was the start for
you and me as individual consumers of solid-state electronics. Together,
the IT, electronics and communication (ITEC) sector constituted about 10%
of world trade, and this share has been growing at a remarkably constant
rate of 14% per annum, compared with the same remarkably constant 6%
growth of world GDP over the last three decades. These numbers imply
that the ITEC sector has been doubling its share of world trade every 8
years. Clearly this cannot be sustained, and a new regime must emerge in
the next decade, as man does not live on silicon chips alone.
To date, the doubling of the transistor count on a chip by shrinking the
transistor size has provided the essential empowerment for the IT revolution. In the last two years there has been another leap forward with
working transistors whose gate lengths have shrunk from 0.1 microns at
the leading edge of commercial exploitation today down to 0.015 microns,
or 15 nanometres in advanced prototype devices. Taking recent history
as a guide, these latter transistors are those needed for introduction into
commercial products in 2015 if nothing stops interim progress. Now a
transistor is like a capacitor, storing excess charge in a confined region.
The on/off state of the transistor as a switch is determined by whether or
not excess charge is stored. The number of electrons actually stored in
each transistor has shrunk from 100 million in 1980 to a few hundred now,
with only ten needed for the most recent research transistors. We certainly
have not conceived the switch that works on less than one electron!
Miniaturisation will stop at that point, if not before.
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The other catch is that the investment costs for development, and for
equipment and manufacturing facilities, is also growing exponentially.
The economics of return on investment may kill the further march
forward sooner rather than later. If we wake up in a few years to hear that
there will not be Pentium N (N=10, 11 ….), it will be a combination of
technology and cost doing for silicon just as it did for mass supersonic
transport after the introduction of the jumbo jet in 1969.
What will be the new IT paradigm? Until now raw computing power
has been the differentiator of one product from another. What will differentiate one computer game from another in the era of fixed transistor
count on a chip? That is where it all gets interesting. Some say that the
quality of the display will be the differentiator. Others point to the civil
air transport industry, which had an exponential growth era during the
1950s and 1960s, and say that the IT hardware will diversify and differentiate: more special purpose arrangements of the transistors on each chip
giving an unbroken increase of effective computer performance for
particular applications going forward – one size and shape will not fit all.
Still others point to the utter wastefulness of mainstream software in
using the silicon technology available, and suggest a return to the software writing disciplines of the 1960s and 1970s, when silicon was not free
or infinite. Better software will continue the advance of effective computing power. Whatever happens, we as end users will probably see a steady
increase in performance, but the origin of that increase may be quite
different from just more and smaller transistors. It is beholden on universities to reflect the mix of skills appropriately, and ahead, not behind, time,
if the future IT paradigm shifts. We may need fewer engineers concerned
with silicon and more concerned with architecture and software.
My own main contribution to this IT revolution occurred during my first
absence from Cambridge with the invention and development of a new
generation of sources of microwaves, now used in military and civil radar
systems, the latter including nearly 0.5M high performance European
cars that have on-board cruise control and/or collision-awareness radar
systems. To see at first hand the various stages, and the time lines,
associated with the development from concept to volume product, was an
education in itself. The current view within universities that companies
undervalue intellectual property is in large part a failure by people within
universities to realise the huge investments required in the process of
creating and selling a real product from an initial idea.
In short my career spans, almost exactly, the IT revolution as empowered
by silicon.
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Running a Great University
I have been greatly saddened on my return to Cambridge to see the level
of mistrust between senior academic staff and the central administration.
Until this mistrust is abated, and I am certain that the academic staff must
make the first move in any rapprochement, I believe that this university,
great as many people perceive it both here and outside, will continue to
be punching well below its true weight on the international stage. I am
certain that both authority given and responsibility expected, of a cadre
of high-quality professional administrators, are essential for the future
health of this university. Success should be rewarded, not least with
recompense exceeding standard professorial salaries, but with substantial failure meriting prompt dismissal. I was very pleased to see the
importance of mutual trust as the closing point in the first address by the
new Vice-Chancellor.
I had months of training and supervision in learning to manage and to
lead both in industry and in university. I have found it enigmatic that
Heads of Departments, Faculties, Schools etc, are expected somehow to
rise effortlessly here to master leadership, let alone administration and
management.
One first fact that will bring great change to Cambridge is the introduction of the resource allocation methodology (the RAM). I was one of
those who pioneered its introduction at the University of Surrey seven
years ago. We can anticipate the end of top-slicing, decisions by remote
committees, and arguments about resources at the margins within
departments. Having worked within a system of 100% open transparency
about income and expenditure, I am convinced that better academic
decisions, and much more sophisticated decisions, are made in an atmosphere of utter financial clarity. All money generated by any activity –
teaching, research, consultancy, etc – must go straight to the person, group
or department that generated that money and they have to pay all their
bills. The various authorities can then levy an infrastructure charge to run
the department or the university. The important point is that the debate
of what service is provided for what charge should be the point of an
open, mature and realistic annual dialogue by the giver and receiver of
that service.
In addition, at both the departmental level and the university level,
there needs to be an agreement to take a corporate view, and to require
the most successful to make an added contribution into a central strategic development fund. This extra contribution is not to bail out the underperformers, but rather to give them a time-limited opportunity to get
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themselves away from under-performing. In addition, the university will
need to debate, again openly, the degree of provision of minority subjects,
or funding the botanical gardens, or the museums, where a value must
be placed on a strong element of the university’s contribution to the town
and nation. Otherwise such extra contributions to the central strategic
development fund should be used to invest in new initiatives – today’s
successful initiatives were made possible in part by the strategic investment provided by the university and department in the past. Even so, the
level of that extra central levy should be set sufficiently low that the most
enterprising and energetic still see significant fruits of their labour at first
hand, in terms of being able to reinvest some of their own resources going
forward.
Once departments, and all the people within them, get used to this
view, and learn the discipline that a budget can be spent only once, and
has to cover all costs – staff, buildings and equipment (both purchase and
maintenance) – clear decisions on what can and ought to be done are
easier to make and to justify.
In my previous existence, I worked with computing and electronic
engineering and mathematics; we routinely planned to break even on our
forward budget, but always came in, after all levies, with about an 8%
surplus which went into reserves for future investment. We did this by
exceeding targets on income and controlling expenditure. When SRIF (the
Scientific Research Infrastructure Fund) and other such calls came along,
we had no trouble raising our 25% or 50% share of the costs.
A second important aspect of running a great university is to have a
robust strategy, a clear and agreed framework within which all our activities are undertaken. The decision-making associated with the RAM will
force this issue. I am profoundly out of sympathy with the view that the
best strategy here is to have no strategy, other than to appoint the best
and let them get on with it. What robust checks, I ask, are there at fiveyear intervals that the staff are keeping their side of the bargain? There
are only a few people in Cambridge who have the international gravitas
that should place pressure on us to look after them, whatever they might
do. The rest of us owe it to be accountable to the taxpayer, at least while
we are in annual receipt of £300M+ of public support.
We should choose to organise ourselves, focus, and take on the greatest international universities. What will be the shape of Cambridge in 10,
20 and 30 years? Strategy is about placing bets in the quest of achieving
a desired future. Some object that we might miss great opportunities by
placing our bets: what about all the missed opportunities over the last
three decades because we did not think strategically, and backed things
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too lightly and too late? For much of the last century, strong leaders of
real distinction determined what was right for this university – they
placed bets and won prizes, Nobel prizes come to mind, as a result. It is
worth remembering that the great advances in, say, the physics department, were made 50-100 years ago under strong leadership, where a clear
vision of the subject was held and implemented by successive Heads of
Department. For the last thirty years, I think that we have had far too
much Californian-style democracy, where any and every view is equal,
and look where it has got California.
Let us hope that the new Vice-Chancellor will import the notion of the
strategic imperative that saw the rise of the great US universities in the
20th century. It is only by devoting time and resource to thinking and
deciding about these questions that we will move away from the curse of
being reactive to the pressure of events, and on to being proactive in shaping both our vision and our future.
Hall Matters
It is my great pleasure to be able to thank Dr David Thomas and Mrs
Joanna Womack for their loyal service to this college over 32 and 13 years
respectively, and to wish them both well in their futures. I welcome new
Fellows, Mr Matthew Conaglen, Staff Fellow in Law, Dr John Pollard,
Staff Fellow in History, Dr Dirk Slotboom, Research Fellow, Ms Jan
Gilbert, Research Fellow and Dr Nigel Chancellor, Fellow-Commoner.
It is truly a privilege to have been able to deliver this oration, and now
let us retire to toast Dr Eden, and his beneficence, which has kept us in
good heart and warm fellowship for over three centuries.
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Research in College
Dr Dirk Slotboom was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship in 2003. He
studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Free University in Amsterdam (The
Netherlands). As part of his undergraduate course he spent a year as a research
trainee at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (Germany)
where he became interested in membrane protein structure. In 2001 he completed
his PhD studies in biochemistry at the University of Groningen (The
Netherlands). In the same year he was awarded a Fellowship from the Human
Frontier Science Program for postdoctoral research at the Medical Research
Council in Cambridge, where he still works.
Last year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to two biochemists,
Roderick MacKinnon and Peter Agre. Both of them use methods from
physical sciences to solve basic biological problems of medical relevance;
in other words, they are multidisciplinary researchers. Multidisciplinary
research often leads to astonishing progress in biological sciences, which
on many occasions has been recognised by the Nobel Prize committee.
MacKinnon and Agre received the Prize for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes (www.nobel.se). More precisely, they made spectacular discoveries about proteins in the cell membrane that allow specific
molecules to pass in and out of the cell. X-ray crystallography was one of
the key-methods they used. Their work is in many ways related to my day
to day research and here I will try to explain (1) what membrane proteins
and X-ray crystallography are, (2) why it is relevant for medical and basic
scientific reasons to study membrane proteins and (3) why it is very difficult and challenging to do so. But first I will give a brief overview of the
history of protein X-ray crystallography in Cambridge, which will make
clear why I came to Cambridge in 2001 for a postdoctoral research period.
Cambridge and X-ray crystallography
To be truly multidisciplinary requires great effort, because it is usually
already a full-time occupation to become a specialist in one discipline, let
alone in two or more. Most scientists specialise in one field and then seek
multidisciplinary research through collaborations with scientists in other
fields. Only on rare occasions is a scientist truly specialised in different
fields and such people really make science progress. One scientist who
was truly multidisciplinary was Max Perutz, a Cambridge scientist who
won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1962. He developed the technique
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of macromolecular X-ray crystallography, which allowed the study of
biologically important molecules (proteins, DNA, termed macromolecules because they are so big) at the atomic level. The development of
macromolecular X-ray crystallography required knowledge of physics,
mathematics and biology alike. Furthermore, it required great technical
skills to develop the technique and Max Perutz recognised at a very early
stage (1940’s) that help from computers was indispensable. The result of
his efforts was a landmark in the history of biological sciences: he
provided the first “snapshot” of a protein (together with John Kendrew
with whom he shared the Nobel Prize) and, just as importantly, he
provided scientists with an invaluable new technique, which is still an
extremely important tool in research in biological sciences. Max Perutz
became the first director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
in Cambridge, a unit of the Medical Research Council. The LMB has since
become one of the most successful laboratories in the field of multidisciplinary research in the biological sciences. Max Perutz has written many
essays for a general audience about the history of science in Cambridge
during the 20th century and I can warmly recommend his book I wish I’d
made you Angry Earlier, in which he describes work in the laboratory from
the human point of view1.
Although X-ray crystallography is now widely used in many laboratories around the world, the LMB is still at the forefront of developments
using this method. In 1997 John Walker was awarded the Nobel Prize for
work carried out in the LMB using, amongst many other techniques, Xray crystallography. He became director of a new Unit of the Medical
Research Council, the Dunn-Human Nutrition Unit, which is located next
door to the LMB at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital site. An important line
of research in the unit is to obtain information by X-ray crystallography
about a particular class of proteins (membrane proteins), which are notoriously difficult to work with. These “difficult” proteins, as I will try to
explain below, are extremely important for medical reasons. The presence
of a great scientific environment and the challenging work on membrane
proteins were the reasons for me to come to Cambridge.
Membrane proteins
All living creatures are built from cells: adult humans consist of some
1,000,000,000,000,000 cells, bacteria have only one. All cells are roughly
built according to the same principle, regardless whether they originate
from a bacterium or from a human being or any other living creature: a cell
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is a compartment that is separated from the outer world by a membrane,
a very thin “greasy” layer (the lipid bilayer), which is largely impermeable
and forms an effective barrier between the inside and the outside of the cell.
Inside the cell, the genetic information is stored in the form of DNA,
which is the blueprint for the cell. DNA holds the information to tell the
cells which proteins it can use and also tells them how to make these
proteins. Humans can make over 30,000 different proteins. The proteins
do all the work in the cell and all the observable features of an organism
are the result of work done by proteins. For example, our blood is red
because of the presence of a red protein named haemoglobin inside
certain blood cells. In the lungs haemoglobin binds oxygen, which is later
released in other body parts such as the brain where oxygen is consumed.
A snapshot of how haemoglobin looks and of how oxygen is bound was
produced by Max Perutz using X-ray crystallography2. The snapshot
immediately made clear how the protein works and also helped to explain
what happens in certain diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia.
The proteins inside the cell are named “soluble proteins” because they
are dissolved in water. The membrane separating the inside of the cell
from the outside also contains proteins with highly specific functions. For
example, membrane proteins are often receivers for external signals. We
can smell food because membrane proteins of cells in our nose bind molecules that are spread by the food, which leads to a change inside the cell
and eventually results in a “smell-signal” in our brain. Membrane
proteins are not soluble in water because their natural environment is the
membrane, the greasy layer. About 30% of all the proteins currently
known are membrane proteins.
X-ray crystallography
A microscope can produce an image of a small object using a lens. The
smallest detail that a microscope can resolve is (for optical reasons)
roughly similar to the wavelength of visible light and therefore objects
that are approximately 400 nanometre or 0.0004 mm apart can be distinguished. To understand how proteins work we need information about
the exact position of their atoms. Atoms are usually 0.1-0.15 nanometre
apart and to see such detail we need “light” with a wavelength which is
similar to this distance. Such “light” exists and is named X-ray radiation,
but unfortunately it is impossible to build a microscope that can focus Xrays and produce an X-ray image. Instead photographic film may be used
to measure the scattered (unfocused) X-rays and with the help of mathe64
matics (Fourier transforms) and a computer it is possible to calculate the
image of the molecule. A complication is that the interaction of atoms with
X-rays is very weak and therefore it is necessary to obtain the diffraction
data from many identical proteins, typically about 1012 (one million times
one million), and to calculate their average. The only way to do this is to
make three dimensional crystals of the proteins in which many identical
proteins are packed in regular arrays. Then, it is possible to use X-ray
crystallography to produce an image of a protein. Presently over 20,000
snapshots or “structural images” of all sorts of proteins have been
produced by many different research groups and the information has had
an enormous impact on our understanding of basic biological processes.
X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins
As mentioned above about 30% of all known proteins are membrane
proteins. Notwithstanding their natural abundance less than 0.25% of the
20,000 available structural images of proteins are images of membrane
proteins. Some of the images of membrane proteins were produced by
last years Nobel Prize winner Roderick MacKinnon. The reason that
structural images of membrane proteins are so scarce is that it is very difficult to obtain crystals of these proteins. Membrane proteins normally
reside in the greasy layer of the cell membrane and are not soluble in
water, but in order to obtain crystals of proteins it is an unconditional
requirement that they are dissolved in water. The only way to obtain crystals of membrane proteins is to first dissolve these proteins using soaps
or detergents. The solubilised proteins are then used to produce crystals.
The problem is that the proteins are not always stable when solubilised
in detergent and that the presence of detergent complicates the crystallisation process for membrane proteins as compared to soluble proteins:
detergents often prevent the packing of proteins in regular arrays which
is necessary for X-ray analysis. In practical terms it means that a lot of
effort will have to go into attempts to obtain crystals of membrane
proteins. There are many variables such as the type of detergent used, the
temperature during the crystallisation and the presence of salt or other
small molecules during the crystallisation, which have to be optimised in
order to obtain crystals suitable for X-ray analysis. To be successful up to
100,000 conditions may have to be screened before crystals are found. If
you take into consideration that it is not possible to screen more than 500
to 1000 conditions per week, it becomes clear that crystallisation of a
membrane protein is a lengthy process.
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Why try to crystallise membrane proteins?
From the above it will be clear that it may take many years before a structural image of a membrane protein is obtained. At present an average of
5 years is often considered as a reasonable time scale, but success can not
be guaranteed beforehand and therefore many scientists consider the
work too risky. Fortunately, some laboratories such as the Medical
Research Council Units in Cambridge undertake the effort to obtain structural images of membrane proteins. Such work will eventually have enormous medical implications, because about 70% of the drugs presently on
the market target membrane proteins. If we can understand how these
proteins work at an atomic level we can find better drugs or new cures
for diseases. However, what drives me is not only the medical relevance
of the work, but also the basic scientific importance: I am curious to find
out how these “black-box” like proteins really work.
References
1. Max Perutz, I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier; Essays on Science, Scientists, and
Humanity, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2002)
2. MF Perutz, MG Rossmann, AF Cullis, H Muirhead, G Will & ACT North,
“Structure of haemoglobin. A three-dimensional Fourier synthesis at 5.5Å resolution, obtained by X-ray analysis”. Nature 185: 416-422 (1960).
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Dr Andrew Harkins was appointed Walter Grant Scott Research Fellow in
Mathematics in October 2001. He studied mathematics first at the Open
University, then at the university of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He was awarded his
PhD in pure mathematics in 2001.
My research is in the area of geometric group theory. First I will offer some
explanation of this. Then I will tell you about my own research.
A group comes in two parts. The first part is a set containing the
elements of the group. The second part is the group product, which is a
way of combining two elements to give another group element. A familiar example of a group is the set of real numbers. Here the group product
is the ordinary addition of real numbers. The addition of real numbers
has two special properties that should be noted. First there is an identity
element, this is an element whose group product with any number leaves
the number unchanged. Because the group product is addition, the identity element is zero. Second every element has an inverse element, given
any number n, the inverse of n will be the number whose group product
with n is the identity. So the inverse of n has to be –n, as n +(–n) = 0. In
every group there must be an identity, and an inverse for each element
with respect to the group product. If g and h are elements of a group then
gh will denote the product of g and h, and g–1 the inverse of g.
We can describe more groups using presentations. A presentation P is
given by two sets A and R usually combined in a single notation, such as
P = <A|R>. The set A contains the generators of the group, these can just
be thought of as letters ai. We assume that A contains an inverse a i–1 for
each generator. The elements of the group described by the presentation
P, are to be identifiedwith the words over A, that is, any concatenation of
the letters in A which has finite length (but do note that the length of a
word may be arbitrarily large giving, in general, infinitely many words
over A). For example, if A = {a1, a2, a 1–1, a 2–1} are generators, an example of
a word over A would be w = a1a2a2a 1–1a2a 1–1. To find a word representing
the group product of two elements, take two words that represent our
elements, then the concatenation of these two words, followed by the
deletion of any inverse pairs of generators, aa–1 or a–1a, that may appear
represents the product. There is an identity, represented by the empty
word, this is the word with no letters. To get a representative word for the
inverse of an element, take a word representing our element and first
rewrite so that the generators (letters) occur in reverse order, then replace
all generators by the appropriate inverse generator. Our word w above
–1 –1
–1
has inverse w –1 = a1a 2–1a1a –1
2 a 2 a 1 , you can check that ww is the empty
word when all the inverse pairs are deleted. The reason I have been
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careful not to just identify an element with some word, and talked about
words representing elements instead, is that in general different words
may represent the same group element. This is where the set R comes in.
The set R contains special words over A, called the relators, that represent
the identity element. These can be used to list, via an algorithm, all the
words that represent the identity, or any other element.
Intuitively an algorithm can be thought of as a systematic method that
carries out some task. Algorithms for solving various problems have been
known since ancient times. But the idea of making intuitive concepts like
algorithms, and computations, precise is a modern one beginning with
the work of A Church, A Turing and others in the 1930s. Because algorithms are so important, some extra explanation is in order. Algorithms
are perhaps best described in terms of the problems that they are intended
to solve. An algorithmic problem is an infinite list of fixed and well posed
questions, called the instances of the problem. An example would be: Is
a number n a prime? The list of instances could begin, is 1 a prime, is 2 a
prime, and so on. In the case of constructing a list as above, the nth instance
asks, what is the nth member of the list. An algorithm consists of a fixed
and finite set of possible computations. Given an instance of an algorithmic problem the algorithm is a finite sequence of computations on that
instance. The precise sequence of computations depends on the particular instance, but each computation is taken from the fixed set of computations that defines the algorithm. A computation will end by giving the
next computation to be carried out, or will indicate that the sequence of
computations is over and an answer to the instance of the problem is
given. The solution of an algorithmic problem is given by specifying an
algorithm that solves (correctly) each instance of the problem.
There are problems where one can prove that no algorithm exists that
will solve every instance of the problem. Such problems are said to be
undecidable, as there is no possibility (even in principle) of systematically
giving the answer to each instance. The existence of undecidable problems was first demonstrated by A Church and A Turing (independently)
in 1936.
We note for later that having an algorithm that produces a list of words
representing the identity, does not mean that we can always decide
whether a word represents the identity element or not. Given a word that
we suspect may represent the identity. Then all we can do in general is
list all the words equal to the identity and wait for our word to appear on
the list. But how long do we wait ?
Groups make very many appearances in pure and applied mathematics. But many of the groups that interest geometers arise from the follow68
ing application. In topology one wants to classify all spaces up to a certain
equivalence. (A space is really just a set, but we call a set a space just to
emphasise that we are going to do some geometry. Familiar examples are
the Euclidean plane from school geometry, the surface of a ball or the
universe). One problem is that the same space can have many different
descriptions. To decide whether two descriptions really are the same
space we need invariants. An invariant is a mathematical object attached
to each space. Any invariant must depend only on the space and be independent of any of the possible descriptions of the space. An invariant can
be various things, a number, a group or something more or less complicated. If two spaces have a different invariant, we may conclude that they
are definitely not equivalent.
One invariant is the fundamental group, invented by H Poincaré in
1895, this is a group. It is impossible to identify the fundamental group
of a general space. But if we restrict ourselves to spaces that are
constructed by gluing very elementary spaces together, and there is an
algorithm that describes how our spaces are to be glued together, then it
turns out that we can algorithmically give a presentation of the fundamental group. So in the two dimensional case, this construction can be
thought of as gluing labelled polygons together along edges using a set
of instructions telling us which faces to glue together. Anyone who has
built at-pack furniture has done this. In higher dimensions we have to
glue polyhedra of the appropriate dimension across faces.
A famous application of this method is the classification of surfaces up
to topological equivalence by calculation of the fundamental groups. All
surfaces can be constructed by gluing polygons together according to an
algorithm. So we can find presentations of the fundamental group.
Unusually the presentations turn out to be quite simple, and we can tell
in this case whether two surfaces have equal fundamental group.
We can also do this in reverse. That is, given a group presentation, we
can construct a space by gluing discs or polygons to a graph, so that the
given presentation actually presents the fundamental group of the space.
By a graph I mean a set of vertices that are joined by edges, something
that looks a bit like the molecular models that chemists build with vertices
representing atoms and edges representing bonds. But note that our
graphs may have infinitely many vertices. Let us describe the construction in a special case when a group G has a finite presentation, this means
that the sets A and R are finite. If the presentation is finite we may think
of the group as a graph as follows. There is a vertex for each element in
G. We place an edge, labelled by a generator a between vertices labelled
by g and h if ga = h in the group. This graph is called the Cayley graph,
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introduced by A Cayley in 1878, and for a group G with generators A is
usually written C(G,A). Note that any word in G defines edge paths in
C(G,A). Given a word w start at any vertex and follow the edges whose
labels from A spell out w. The elements of R describe edge paths in C(G,A)
that are polygonal loops. Indeed any word representing the identity will
describe a loop, and conversely every loop describes a word that represents the identity. To complete the construction of our space we attach the
appropriate polygon to each edge path labelled by an element of R. This
space is called the Cayley complex of the presentation. Now we let G act
on the Cayley complex, this means that we think of the elements of G as
moving the points of the space around. Take an element g in our group
G, g will move the vertex labelled h to the vertex labelled gh. As soon as
we know where all the vertices go, the edges are moved so that the
endpoints match positions of the displaced endpoints. Similarly the
polygonal faces are moved so that the edges match up correctly. Now we
take the quotient space of this action. If x is a point of the Cayley complex,
an element g moves x to the point denoted by g:x. We put all the points
g:x, where g varies throughout G together, and call this set the orbit of x.
The quotient space of the action is the space whose points are the orbits.
The quotient space turns out to be our space above with fundamental
group G. Now suppose that we give each edge in the Cayley complex unit
length, and then insist that the attached polygons are identical to polygons with the appropriate number of sides, and with each side of unit
length sitting in the Euclidean plane. Then we may assign a length to any
path in this space. (Given a path, divide it up into segments so that each
segment is contained in a single polygon. The length of each segment will
be equal to the ordinary Euclidean length. The length of our path will be
the sum of the lengths of the segments). Now we have a notion of distance
between any two points in the Cayley complex, and this distance will be
the length of a shortest, or geodesic path between two points. A space,
which has a distance defined between two arbitrary points, is called a
metric space (the distance has to satisfy certain properties that need not
detain us). So whenever G has a finite presentation we can associate with
G a metric space. Having a metric space associated with a group is a
considerable advantage. This is because we can then use geometric tools
to study groups and suggest interesting classes of groups that have
geometric features built in. This is essentially what geometric group theorists do. For example, it is possible to define a notion of curvature for
metric spaces. One notion of negative curvature is this: given any triangle with geodesic sides in our space (i.e no matter how large), if there is
a number, say, such that any point on a side of our triangle is always
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within distance of some point on the opposite two sides, then the space
has negative curvature. By drawing some geodesic triangles in the
Euclidean plane (the sides are straight lines), you will easily be able to
convince yourself that the Euclidean plane does not have negative curvature as described above. Saddle shaped objects are perhaps the closest
approximation to negative curvature (for a surface) that will be familiar
to people. M Gromov has shown that building negative curvature into
the Cayley graph of a group leads to a very large class of groups, that
already includes many groups of interest to geometers. My research has
concentrated on the polycyclic groups, a class of groups that have been
of interest to algebraists perhaps since the thesis of K Hirsch in 1937, who
studied under the supervision of P Hall here in Cambridge. Many of the
geometric properties of polycyclic groups were worked out by A Mal’cev
and G Mostow in the 1950-1960s.
One problem associated with finite presentations, hinted at earlier, is
the so called word problem. The word problem associated to a finite
presentation <A|R>, asks, is there an algorithm that decides whether an
arbitrary word over A represents the identity element in the associated
group. It may surprise the reader to learn that there exist finite presentations such that the word problem is undecidable. This is a famous result
of P Novikov and W Boone, proved (independently) in 1955.
Because the words that represent the identity are associated with
closed edge paths in the Cayley graph, it turns out that the word problem is equivalent to the filling problem in the Cayley complex. The filling
problem asks how many polygons, whose edge paths represent the relators, one needs to fill some region of the Cayley complex bounded by
some closed path. In this application the polygons are called tiles, and one
talks about tiling the region of the Cayley complex. The importance of
this is that the word problem has an equivalent geometric formulation.
Now, it can be proved by straightforward algebra that certain standard
presentations of polycyclic groups have decidable word problem. But
then it is interesting to know what are the lower bounds on the complexity that an algorithm would need to decide the word problem. The
simplest algorithms are described by computer programmes called finite
state automata. A group with a finite presentation, whose word problem
is decided by finite state automata, is called automatic. The many properties of automatic groups were first worked out by J Cannon, D Epstein,
W Thurston and others in the 1990s. Amazingly very many of the groups
of interest to geometers turn out to be automatic, including all the negatively curved groups mentioned above. Because the word problem for
polycyclic groups is decidable and easily solved (for special presenta71
tions), it is natural to ask whether polycyclic groups are automatic. The
main result of my early research was to demonstrate that, apart from
certain elementary examples, no polycyclic groups are automatic. We
know that when a group is automatic the filling problem for the Cayley
complex is decidable. In fact W. Thurston proved that when a group is
automatic, given a region with perimeter of length n in the Cayley
complex, there is a constant C so that Cn2 tiles will always be enough to
tile the region. This is true in higher dimensions as well. Recall that we
build the Cayley complex by attaching our polygons to the Cayley graph.
It may happen that polygons are attached together so that they close off
regions of three dimensional space. Asking how many three dimensional
tiles we will then need to fill a three dimensional void, with a two dimensional boundary consisting of n tiles, gives a new filling problem. When
we fill in all the three dimensional voids in the Cayley complex, we may
close off four dimensional voids with three dimensional boundary, and
there is an associated filling problem. For some presentations this process
continues indefinitely. But, when a group is automatic, D Epstein and W
Thurston proved that the process stops at some dimension, and that there
are finitely many different types of m+1 tiles that will fill in any m+1
dimensional void. Also if an m-dimensional boundary made from n tiles
closes off an m+1 dimensional void, we never need more that Cnm+1 tiles
to fill the void. When a group is polycyclic, I showed that there will be
some dimension where the filling problem, associated to some boundary,
requires an exponential number of tiles to fill the void. We conclude that
a polycyclic group is not generally automatic. We have already mentioned
that geometric group theory suggests how to define new and very interesting classes of groups, however it may also offer new interpretations of
the groups that are traditionally interesting to algebraists.
One approach to this is to say that groups are geometrically equivalent
whenever the associated Cayley complexes are essentially the same
metric space. This does not in general mean that the groups have to be
related algebraically. On the other hand celebrated theorem of M Gromov,
proved in 1981, shows that the property of being nilpotent is geometric.
That is, if a finitely presented group has a Cayley complex that is equivalent to the Cayley complex of a nilpotent group, then the given group
must be (almost) nilpotent. A group is nilpotent when the group elements
satisfy certain algebraic conditions. It is astonishing that in some sense
the complicated algebraic properties are really equivalent to simple
geometrical ideas.
The definition of a polycyclic group is an algebraic one. But it is interesting to ask whether the property of being polycyclic is geometric. This
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problem seems to be a long way from being resolved with present knowledge. I have considered this problem only in the simplest instances where
the problem is unresolved. But even the polycyclic groups involved here
are of great interest to geometers as fundamental groups of certain three
dimensional spaces. Here it is possible to attach an ideal boundary to the
Cayley complex of our group.
To gain an intuitive understanding of the boundary, you imagine that
certain geodesic paths in the Cayley complex appear to converge at some
infinite point, called an ideal point. Just like the parallel lines that appear
to converge in a perspective drawing. Other geodesics may appear to
converge at a different ideal point. The boundary is the set consisting of
all ideal points. For example in three dimensional Euclidean space, there
is one ideal point for each set of mutually parallel lines. Equivalently there
is an ideal point for each direction, so that one thinks of the ideal points
lying on a sphere which would be the ideal boundary. You will recall that
many ancient people imagined that the Earth was inside a sphere which
had the stars fixed on it, so ideal boundaries are perhaps a very old idea.
In the case of our polycyclic groups the boundary consists of two
disjoint copies of the real line. This allows one to use results from real
analysis to conclude that any group that is geometrically equivalent to
our polycyclic group is a subgroup of a certain group whose elements are
functions on the real line. Then geometric methods, in particular a theorem of S Gersten, allow us to conclude that the group must be polycyclic.
Future research will concentrate on extending the proof to all polycyclic
groups. It is possible to define a notion of boundary for many polycyclic
groups, but here the boundary has dimensions greater than one, and the
results used above in the case of the real line do not generally hold in
higher dimensions.
The other strand of my research has concentrated on the nilpotent
groups. As stated above it is already known that being nilpotent is a
geometric property. But it seems possible to describe the invariants that
will distinguish geometrically individual nilpotent groups from one
another. So far I have been able to show that there are pairs of nilpotent
groups that are geometrically identical but algebraically very different.
Future research will concentrate on extending the methods of this proof
to determine all geometric invariants for nilpotent groups.
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Section Four:
Student Activities,
Societies & Sports
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The JCR 2003-2004
Only now, as I hand over the amassed papers, memos, agendas and
minutes to my successor, do I fully understand the almost manic glee with
which Dave Hart passed the millstone that is the JCR Presidency on to
me this time last year. It has been an eventful and at times difficult year;
for myself, for the JCR and for the College; but ultimately it has been a
successful one.
The end of Lent term 2003 – and across the vac and well into Easter term
– the debacle that was the room ballot seemed at times to be an irresolvable crisis. An inability on the College’s part to agree on the number of
students in College, combined with a shortage of rooms, an unwillingness
to alter the status quo of allocation between the various types of College
members, and a lack of procedure to deal with students changing Tripos,
led to the possibility that there would again be less rooms than students,
and the room ballot would not go ahead. Thanks in large part to the quick
response and tireless efforts of the JCR Executive Committee, however, an
eleventh hour solution was found. Unfortunately it remained incomplete,
and it is to the shame of all involved that one student has had to live in
alternative accommodation, and once again the College has failed to
honour its Red Book commitment to house all undergraduates for three
years. It was a difficult experience, but hopefully one which we can learn
from and use to finally put this perennial accommodation problem to rest.
The room ballot hurdle out of the way, things soon picked up. The decision to extend the positions of Treasurer and External Officer to include
the roles of Vice-President (Internal) and Vice-President (External) respectively ensured that, in the event of the abduction of the President, the JCR
would continue to function. Eager to take on the challenges of these and
other JCR Exec responsibilities, a new team of fresh-faced and energetic
people took the reins, allowing the veterans to return to their private lives
and work out how to salvage the distant memory that was their degree.
The modernisation and reform of the Exec continued, with the co-opted
position of Ents Treasurer becoming permanently established, the procedures for co-option being clarified, and the relationship between the JCR
and the Computer Society (who run Hal and the JCR website, and without whom a large part of the JCR Committee’s work would be scuppered!)
being formalised. More recently, the refurbishment of the JCR Office has
been completed, and the position of Services Officer has been created as
a new major role on the Exec. For the first time in some years, the Women’s
Officer was properly ratified as a major role. Continuity, a problem that
plagues Cambridge Student Unions with their annual turnovers, has
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been addressed with the institution of compulsory reports as a final duty
of outgoing JCR officials. Both the JCR website and Constitution are sorely
in need of review and, although far from complete, significant progress
in both these areas has been made. Interaction with the MCR has further
improved, thanks to the dedication of Tim, the Grad Rep on the JCR Exec.
and the addition of the JCR President and External Officer to the MCR
mailing list. Loose ends involving the omission of the MCR Committee
in the JCR Constitution, and anachronistic MCR voting rights in the JCR
Presidential election have been tied up, in principal at least.
The start of the new academic year saw the influx of 100-odd youthful
initiates to the Hall, a highly successful Freshers’ Week, and welcome
developments within the College structure as well. With the appointment
of Dr Bampos, a choice very popular with the student body, a period of
rapid turnover of Senior Tutor came to an end. Just when we thought the
waters were settling, however, we discover that at the end of this academic year we lose both the Master and the Bursar! These key members of
the College have been an integral part of the productive and progressive
relationship the JCR and the College have had over the last few years, and
they will be sorely missed. Fortunately, good relations between the JCR
and the various departments of the College are prevalent. Increased interaction with the Development and Alumni Office is a very welcome and
(hopefully mutually!) beneficial development. Negotiations with the
Bursar brought the unfair system of Gyp Room meter charging to an end.
Relations with the Porters, Joseph and his team, and the other members
of staff remain characteristically strong, a constant reminder of the unique
community feel Tit Hall has. The College Admissions programme has
gone from strength to strength, and the JCR’s absolute and enthusiastic
support for the strategies and excellent work of Dr Miles and Angela
Eason in the Admissions Office continues unabated. More and better
organised Open Days have displayed College life to a vast array of potential students from increasingly varied backgrounds. Current students
have also been increasingly involved in these events, and Morgan French,
the JCR Access Officer, and Tom Bishop, the JCR Academic Affairs Officer,
have worked hard to implement the CUSU access schemes.
The legendary Tit Hall Ents have maintained their position as the backbone of undergraduate social life, but under Louis’ helmsmanship
bravely branched out beyond the traditional boundaries of Viva! cheese
to explore new genres. These ventures have enjoyed varying degrees
of success, but the Open bops have remained hugely popular and the
variety of the programme has far outweighed any potential drawbacks.
Despite displaying what is fast becoming a traditionally apathetic
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response towards CUSU and their major campaign against so-called ‘topup fees’, there was one issue that really stirred us to action. The announcement of the enforced closure of Gardie’s by Caius College resulted in a
cry of outrage around Tit Hall, and our spearheading of a CUSU motion
to mobilise against this most unjust of decisions. Our efforts may have
ultimately come to nothing, but The Gardenia will have a special place in
our hearts for many years. In other areas, Tit Hall continues to lead the
way. Significantly, we are the only College to have achieved the full cost
rents demanded by University Statute, and the quality of the relationship
we as a JCR have with the College authorities and the amount we have
achieved is the envy of JCR Presidents across Cambridge.
The mighty Hall continues to go from strength to strength. With the
plans for development of the Wychfield site moving ever closer to realisation, and the upgrade of Central Site and St Clement’s Gardens hovering in the wings, the College is looking to the future. The opening of negotiations on the increasingly unsustainable Kitchen Fixed Charge, and on
improvements to the disciplinary system, indicate that the College is keen
to remain one of the most progressive in Cambridge and at the forefront
of the University. For its part, the JCR continues to modernise, to improve
its continuity, its accessibility, and its abilities to respond to the needs of
the undergraduate body. A fresh cohort has joined us, melding as seamlessly as always with the Tit Hall way and bringing new talents to the
community. The future seems as bright for the College as it is for those it
is about to unleash upon the world this summer. As for me, my time in
the JCR is done. And there’s nothing left to say, except a huge thank you
to everyone on the Committee, and maybe something that is fast becoming a Tit Hall motto: it’s been emotional.
Ben Rawlings (JCR President)
JCR Exec Committee: Ben Rawlings (President), Garrett O’Reilly (Treasurer/VicePresident Internal), Tomoyuki Togo (External Officer/Vice-President External), Rachel
Hughes (Welfare Officer), Eddy Davidson (Communications Officer), Morgan French
(Access Officer), Tom Bishop (Academic Affairs/Target Schools Officer), Louis Verdi
(Ents President), Elaine Court (Green Officer), Caroline Roberts (Women’s Officer),
Alex Adams (1st Year Rep), Ed Carr (1st Year Rep), Helen Scott (1st Year Rep), Tim Lewis
(MCR Rep), Ian Dean (LBGT Rep), Ishani Bandaranayake (International Students
Rep), Tris Pedelty (Ents Technical Officer), James Willan (Ents Treasurer).
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The MCR and Graduate Society 2003-2004
Trinity Hall is on the verge of change on many fronts: Trinity Hall has a
new Senior Tutor, who will continue to play a key role in helping the MCR
to maintain good relations with the JCR and the Fellowship. We will also
have a new Master. As we look forward to welcoming the new Master,
Prof Daunton, we will surely miss Prof Clarke as he and Dr Tippett
embark on another chapter. We hope they are proud of everything that
they have achieved for the College. It has been a real pleasure for the MCR
to work with them, and we too are proud of the legacy left behind.
Continuing the theme of change, new accommodation and a new sports
complex are also on the horizon at the Wychfield Site. The Sports Pavilion
has now been torn down with only the Edwardian front remaining. Many
ferocious squash battles were fought within the walls of the old pavilion,
and the MCR is looking forward to resuming its prestigious squash tournament once the building project is finished by the start of the next academic year. The new set of accommodation buildings at Wychfield will take
longer to complete, but some things are worth waiting for.
Last year we reported on Trinity Hall’s brush with international stardom. The talented actress Gwyneth Paltrow filmed parts of her new film
Sylvia at our beloved college. At the time of last year’s Newsletter report,
the MCR was busy brainstorming on ways to spend the money that the
film company gave us for the inconvenience caused by the filming. The
original idea was for the MCR to invest in a punt with a golden plaque,
with the engraving “Gwyneth”, permanently fixed to the punt. After a
careful financial feasibility study, the MCR decided to forego the
extremely expensive punt idea for a DVD player, lovingly called
Gwyneth. By the way, if you see the movie, remember to keep an eye out
for Trinity Hall students.
Trinity Hall’s reputation as one of the liveliest and friendliest colleges
in Cambridge continued with the great work of our own ENTS, headed
by Jennifer Ifft. The team organised events such as bops, exchange dinners
(where we reaffirmed the status of TH kitchen as one of the best in
Cambridge), movie nights, Chinese New Year celebrations, BBQs, a
Sports Day with the JCR, and wine tasting. These are just some of the
activities from what seemed to be an endless list of distractions from
work. Add to this list the usual weekly social staple of Grad Halls, including the special Valentines Grad Hall (where Joseph the Manciple
happily gave out roses to all the ladies) and the Burns Night Grad Hall
(where Frank the Head Porter nostalgically recited an ode to haggis). The
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atmosphere at these dinners was so warm and popular that tickets often
sold out before the closing date.
Looking back it was another successful year for MCR sports teams.
Half-way through the cricket season, the MCR invested in two new
cricket bats. Unfortunately, these new acquisitions failed as miracle workers, and the team did not win the next game. The team, however, can boast
of a very loyal following who always stayed until the very end to cheer
for the players (or until they ran out of fresh strawberries and cream). We
have very high hopes for this year’s cricket team, mainly because we have
fresh new talents, such as Tariq Khan from Pakistan who captained his
university’s cricket team against the West Indies!
The penultimate boat race of the May bumps, took place on the same
evening as the MCR’s Farewell Dinner. Throughout the dinner, everyone
was in suspense. Even the Master could hardly contain himself and kept
on asking the question: Did we do it? Joseph rang the bell to announce
that Trinity Hall had bumped and would be chasing Head of the River
on the last day of the May bumps. This set the scene for an electrifying
final day, with everybody turning up to watch the race. Unfortunately, it
***didn’t happen***, but we are sure that this year’s May Bumps will see
TH grads turning out in full force again to support our boathouse as it
chases down Caius and becomes Head of the River!
This year’s Freshers Week got the academic (and social) year off to a
flying start. Helping new students to find their way not only through the
city of Cambridge but also in navigating some of the quirky traditions of
an old college like TH, has been an interesting experience. Nonetheless,
this year’s Freshers should fare better than most. Not only do they have
the rest of the graduate bodies to lean on, but they are also taking part in
a new graduate mentor scheme set up just this year. This scheme represents part of a grander College vision of a better MCR-SCR integration.
It is here that the MCR must thank our Graduate Tutor Dr Padfield for
his unwavering support for this programme, which fits in well with other
steps taken for greater academic involvement of graduates at College,
such as the McMenemy Seminars. These seminars have continued to
flourish. In the past year the schedule has included, amongst many others,
an energetically optimistic talk by Haakon Pedersen-Mjaanes on hydrogen energy as the next revolution (see http://www.thehaakon.com) and
Bonny Lings moving account on United Nations post-war reconstruction
and peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Interspersing this wide
range of local talents, the McMenemy Team was also able to bring a
number of external speakers to TH. We are still waiting for one TH alum
that has captured so much of the lime light in the present international
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political context, Dr Hans Blix, to come back to his alma mater to give a
McMenemy talk. We know he is busy…
The newly-elected committee that has become operational in
November is actually the biggest MCR Committee ever. This is clearly a
testament to all the great work done by previous committees that have
resulted in so many new students volunteering their time to serve their
fellow grads. The famous MCR Christmas Grad Hall (where we actually
do sing all the known Christmas carols) simultaneously bid farewell to
the old committee and marked the inauguration of the new group of
committee members. This year’s dinner not only contained the traditional
presidential toast to the Queen, but grads also raised their glasses to toast
to news of the former President Adam Amara’s engagement to Bonny
Ling.
New academic year, new MCR Committee, new MCR website
(http://www-mcr.trinhall.cam.ac.uk) containing many new features
such as a notice board and certainly the most fancied of all Cambridge
MCR websites, a new MCR constitution currently under discussion in
order to bring the somewhat outdated constitution in line with new realities such as the wonders of electronic mail. But the same old spirit of
community and friendship remains!
Adam Amara (Ex MCR President)
Daniel-Alexander Schroth (MCR President)
MCR Committee: Daniel Schroth (President), Jackson Armstrong and Pamela Zinn
(Vice-Presidents), Douglas Guilfoyle (Secretary), Shufan Lin (Treasurer), Jonathan
Gaugler and Alex Thorn (Stewards), Kaila Mikkelsen (Ents Officer External), Anne
Miller (Ents Officer Internal), Keira Driansky (External Officer), Tim Lewis (Graduate
Representative), Henry Midgley (Academic Officer), Mohammad Tariq Khan
(Computing Officer), Natalie Ridgard (Women’s Officer), Francisco Solorzano-Santos
(Welfare Officer Male), Amir Baghdadchi (Green Officer), Krishna Chatterjee (Welfare
Officer Female), Jasmine Solomonescu (International Officer), Carolin Moje (LesBiGay
Officer)
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College Societies
Asparagus Club
Trinity Hall without the Asparagus Club would be like a Rolls Royce
motorcar without the walnut dash: still excellent, but lacking that certain
something. Thus it is with relief and pleasure that I offer news of the
Club’s vigour and vitality.
Surely the highlight of May Week 2003 for all the resident members
was the Club garden party and annual croquet extravaganza, held in the
beautiful surroundings of Wychfield lawns. We were blessed with
sunshine and soaring temperatures all afternoon, and the sound of leather
on willow (as the College cricket team took on the Old Boys) was the ideal
background music for a lazy day of good food and dubious cocktails.
Unfortunately, some of the ladies in the group extended the ‘lazy’ theme
to the croquet lawn and gave up halfway through a match, leaving the
men to frown competitively in typical testosterone-fuelled fashion.
As is customary, the following Michaelmas term saw the recruitment
of a group of new and eager members, all of whom acquitted themselves
impeccably at this academic year’s Michaelmas Eating. The Leslie
Stephen Room proved to be a grand venue, if a little less cosy than those
of previous years, and the fine cuisine of Caroline Harding-Edgar and
Kate Ware was a treat for all concerned. Likewise, Tomo Togo’s choice of
champagne, wine and port proved his talents as a wine steward.
Unfortunately, the absence from the Michaelmas Eating of Asparagus
Club favourite, Martin Macleod, could not be helped, since Martin’s
Modern Languages degree has whisked him away to Europe where, I am
assured, he regularly wows the continental socialites with his charms.
Equally impressive however, are the efforts of Asparagan Rona Smith,
who completed her medical studies and became a doctor just before
Christmas, while still finding time to attend the Michaelmas Eating.
Congratulations, Rona.
It is with optimism, then, that I look forward to the Lent term cocktail
party and, of course, the May Week croquet. Thus, with the help of enthusiastic resident Asparagans, frolics in the name of the revered plant
continue apace in 2004.
Alastair Atkinson (President)
Resident Members: Alastair Atkinson, Caroline Harding-Edgar, Kate Ware, Tomo
Togo, Martin Macleod, Samuel Gallagher, Jari Stehn, Rona Smith, Richard Morrison.
New Members: Anna Lerner, Alex Rushmer, Tom Richardson, Sima Varsani, Tris
Hager.
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Chapel Choir
The Chapel Choir this year has continued its regular pattern of singing
two services of Evensong a week on Thursday and Sunday evenings.
We were fortunate in maintaining most of the choir from last year having
lost only a handful of people to graduation following our successful tour
to New York in the summer (report in Front Court). Nevertheless, the
choir has been strengthened by the addition of two new second basses,
three new sopranos and an alto, not to mention our new Junior Organ
Scholar! The total number of the choir is now 22 including the organ
scholars.
I have tried this year to maintain a broad repertoire for the choir,
concentrating on music that will be suitable for the intimate atmosphere
and acoustic of the Chapel. I have thus tried to make the larger Victorian
and Edwardian canticles and anthems the exception rather than the rule,
and moved towards a little more Tudor music and a little more twentieth
century music. In the Lent term we will also be singing a Plainsong
Evensong with just the gentlemen of the choir.
The Michaelmas term is always busy for the choir, this year with a
memorial service for former Vice Master Brooke Crutchley and the
Advent Carol Services both in Chapel and at St Edward’s Church. Both
of these were very well attended and the choir sang a mixture of advent
carols and more traditional Christmas carols, nearly all of which were by
English composers or arrangers. It’s one of the peculiarities of Cambridge
that Christmas is celebrated at the beginning of December as well as on
the 25th! At the end of the term, the choir benefited greatly from a workshop kindly led by Dr Richard Baker at which points of psalm singing,
vocal technique and Tudor music were worked on. We hope to have a
workshop like this at least twice a year led by visiting choral conductors.
Plans for the Lent term include a service of choral mattins on the 29th
February, the service of Lenten meditation and a collaboration with the
College orchestra. A Chapel music list is now produced, copies of which
are available in the ante-chapel, or, alternatively by post. Please contact
the Alumni Office.
Edd Capewell (Senior Organ Scholar)
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Christian Union
As a part of the Cambridge
Intercollegiate Christian
Union, we exist as a group
in College to make Jesus
Christ known to those
around us. The group is
made open to all those –
regardless of background
– who recognise Christ’s
claim on their life and trust
in him.
The group meets each
Christian Union houseparty with Robinson and Fitz
Wednesday evening for
prayer and praise and to
study God’s word together in order to find out how to live for God
and to encourage each other in this. We pray for College members and
College authorities and are involved in the Intercollegiate Christian
Union which puts on talks from the Bible and runs discussion groups
giving anyone the opportunity to investigate the claims of Jesus Christ
for themselves.
Last term we studied John’s Gospel together and learned from the
book of 1 Corinthians in central meetings. We organised a lunch for
Freshers at the beginning of term, and are now preparing for the big
university-wide event called ‘Promise’ – a series of talks presenting the
good news of eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Rachel Saunders
Computer Society
The society was founded at the start of Michaelmas 2002 with the objective of making computing more accessible to students of Trinity Hall. It
also provides a forum for people interested in computers to extend and
explore that interest. We have doubled our membership since last year
and have boosted the number of non-Computer Scientists in the society.
It looks like the Publicity Officer has done a great job.
The society currently has three computers for members to access. The society looks after the student-run webserver (http://hal.trinhall.cam.ac.uk),
which hosts some of the other societies’ pages such as the Chapel’s pages,
RAG and the Ents website. The most popular service on hal is halbook.
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Halbook manages all undergraduate formal and super hall bookings
(using a web page), which has made selecting and booking formal halls
easy. This is a service designed, from scratch, and maintained by society
members for the benefit of everyone.
The society has also had some social events (pub meets and a curry)
this year which give members a chance to relax away from their computers and/or discuss computer issues with friends who’ve had greater
experience.
At the AGM, the outgoing committee handed over the reins to the new
one and a few amendments to the constitution were proposed and
accepted. We’re still hoping Barclays will eventually be able to provide
us with a bank account and are also looking to expand/upgrade the main
student server, hal.
Stuart Rowan (President)
Crescents
2003-2004…a great year for the Crescents…shame none of us can remember any of it!! In all seriousness though, the past year, for me and I’m sure
for most of the society, will be remembered by the faces of 2 truly great
men: “The Marr”…that’s Andrew Marr and Ahmed, the owner of the
Curry King, and if I may say so, a rather good looking Indian man!
Andrew Marr, BBC political correspondent, Tit Hall alumnus and a newly
elected honorary member of the club, passed his initiations with flying
colours by sporting his tie on Prime Minister’s Question Time, which is
now viewed on a weekly basis by all members of the club… congratulations Andrew, or Andy as he likes to be known to his Crescent pals.
Ahmed, or Azif, as I tend to call him after a few too many glasses of
Fleurs de Lys (excellent value at just over £3 from Trinity Hall bar), has
provided some truly fantastic hospitality over the year. As I thanked him
the other day, standing somewhat naked on my chair (the ladies of
Queens’ said they’d never seen anything like it!!), he said in return how
amusing he’d found it that Max von Etzdorf and Ben Smith had taken his
beloved signs and decided to advertise his restaurant outside the doors
of Clems House 7! Indeed JT (and the honorary Vice President) were most
shocked when they were woken up the next morning by Jay BrinsmeadStockham ordering 2 more lamb bhunas. Ahmed, Azif…you are our curry
king.
Suicide Sunday saw the initiation of a fine young breed of sporting
talent…Tom James, international rower; Nathan Mcgarry, blues rugby
player; and Al Rushmer, captain of the Trinity Hall croquet club…well done
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Al. It was a lovely day….the Fellows’ garden awash with beautiful people,
sipping exquisite cocktails in the glorious sunshine…and 10 or so buffoons
performing “Marilyn’s” on the river wall! I have to say that these were very
well executed….you must all be congratulated… apart from Tristrum
Hager, whose thighs being slightly too large, ended up looking like some
kind of hermaphrodite…..in fact, now I think about it, not too dissimilar to
one of the girls Cameron Duncan was chatting up the other week!
Crescents cocktails, sponsored by chekov vodka, proved to be a huge
success this year and I’m so glad that everyone has such fond memories
of the first 42 minutes. The fact that it went on for another 3 and a half
hours is neither here nor there. Currently we are looking forward to the
biennial dinner, Jay Brinsmead-Stockham more than most, which is
“coming up next term!”….(ha ha, chalk it up!!!) I look forward to seeing
all the Crescents (and maybe a few Penguins) then.
In bebendi veritas
Rhys Evans (President)
History Society
The History Society began the year with a drinks reception, as a way for
us all to get to know the new first years and graduates, so that friendly
smiles can be exchanged in the Seeley library throughout the academic
year!
We held two meetings in Michaelmas and will hold two in Lent, continuing the trend set in previous years.
Last term it was a delight to welcome Dr Mark Goldie of Churchill
College. He talked to us about his involvement in a new project within the
History Faculty, to do with the recent discovery of the diary of Roger
Morrice, a previously unknown diarist of Restoration England. He encouraged us to think of it as The Not Samuel Pepys Show! There was a really
good attendance for the meeting and no one left disappointed following
Mark’s fascinating exploration of the process involved in that kind of
research, what he hopes the project will achieve, as well as anecdotes from
the diary itself. The second meeting welcomed Professor Abulafia, from
Gonville and Caius, who gave an insightful talk on ‘Mediterraneans’.
This term we look forward to welcoming Josh Zeitz from Pembroke
College for our first meeting at the start of February. We are also planning
to hold a black tie annual History Society Dinner early in Easter Term,
which should be an enjoyable occasion for all.
Finally, we would like to thank the Master for kindly allowing us to
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hold the meetings in the Lodge, and also Sam Williams, John Pollard,
Nigel Chancellor and Clare Jackson for their support during the year.
Celyn Evans and Jo Stott (Co-Presidents)
Law Society
The Law Society has begun the year with another active term. The
Freshers Drinks Reception was a lively event which provided an opportunity for the Freshers and other members of the Society to meet one
another.
Later in the term, Sarah Gerwig gave an interesting insight into her
career as a US criminal defence attorney and some Law Society members
enjoyed an evening at Chez Gerrard courtesy of Linklaters.
Events planned for next year include the popular Annual Dinner, a
presentation by Clifford Chance and a talk by barristers from around the
country. This year will also see the revival of the Society’s Garden Party.
Leanne Warren and Natalie Robinson (Vice-Presidents)
Corps Missionaria
Trinity Hall Missionaries Society for Sporting Graduate Gentlemen
This year being the (hundred and) tenth anniversary of the Missionaries
Society, it was felt that it was time that its hitherto unpublicised good
works should be brought to light in this publication.
The Missionaries Society was founded in 1894 in the wake of the admission of ladies to the University with the foundation of Girton and
Newnham Colleges, with the express remit of spreading the good word of
Bishop Bateman to the aforesaid ladies, in order that assaults on their purity
should not be made by other, less worthy, societies. Tragically, the early
records of this incarnation of the club were lost in a mysterious cask-punting accident, and the Missionaries Society was re-founded in 1994 by Holy
Brothers Ebo, Scarfie and Mozza, inspired by the activities they witnessed
in the Aula Trinitas imbibing establishment that year. The Missionaries
Society for Sporting Graduate Gentlemen continues its good work to this
day, using the activities of its members on the river and sports pitches as a
foil for their mission to identify ladies in need of their moral attentions.
As well as initiations of some worthy new Brothers, the past year has
seen the “Winter Succour” Lent cocktail party and the May Week 2003
Annual Dinner at the Hawks’ Club, which was accompanied by
Pimms/punting on the river and the usual pre-prandial taking of libations at Wychfield House. Most importantly, of course, our constitutional
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responsibilities were discharged by holding liaisons with Caius Cupids,
the Tadpoles (University swimmers), some fine ladies from Sidney whose
collective moniker is not printable, return fixtures with Pembroke’s
Martletts and the Peterhouse Petals, and with Trinity Hall’s very own
Penguins. We trust that we fulfilled our obligations, even to the extent
that we were credited with being “less messy than the other societies we
have been out with”.
Congratulations must go to Bro Ram-Man (Jimmy Ellis) for his heroic
completion of the London Marathon, and we welcome back to the fold
Bro Enkidu from his year in the wilderness.
17 September 2004 sees the grand (hundred and) 10th Anniversary
Dinner, to be held in Trinity Hall, in the Graham Storey Room. Any past
members who have not been receiving Missionaries emails, and would
like to be added to our email list for details of this and other gatherings
should contact [email protected], [email protected] (Blakeney),
[email protected] (G-Force) or [email protected] (Kov).
Brother Blakeney (Codicier, President 2002-03)
Members in Aula:
Bro Kov (President), Bro G-Force (Fixtures Secretary, President 2001-02), Bro Blakeney
(Codicier, President 2002-03), Bro Bantam, Bro K-Stand, Bro Enkidu, Bro Finger, Bro
He-Man
Members ex Aula:
Jezza, Monty, McTikka, Mixing-Bowl, Dixie, Wizard, Scarfie, Innocent, Ram Man,
Chaz, Unbundler, Nad, Minty, Ebo, Bigsy, Icarus, Obi-Wan, Lezza, Arab, Rhino, Bunda,
Blinky, Ogre, Le Duc, Duchamp, Tactical, Dino, Snoopy, Daid, Posie, Speedy, Mozza,
Mason, Giggsy, Skippy, Darkstar, Prabsy, Grazza, Colonel, Le Pieu, Snorky, Shrimpy,
Keneival, Wojtyla, Finger, Stella.
Members in Honorariam:
Frank Dickson, Junior, Chunks, Salty Dog, Bushy, Top Man, Impy.
Music Society
The past year has seen a very encouraging increase in musical activity
within the College. In the Lent and Easter terms of 2003, the College saw
a concert by the re-formed College Orchestra and other musicians given
in Hall, the annual May Week Concert given in the Fellows’ garden as
well as various solo instrumental recitals.
We were fortunate enough at the end of the Easter Term to secure the
funds for a brand new upright piano in the music room to replace the
existing unusable instrument. We now have, thanks to money from the
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College, a new Schimmel upright piano, which is used for all the recitals
and practise in the music room. At the start of the 2003-2004 academic
year, the committee was re-formed and Dr David Rubenstein became
President of the Society.
We have had a healthy number of new subscriptions from undergraduate and graduate Freshers, some of whom performed in the annual
Freshers’ concert in the Michaelmas term. We have begun a series of regular lunchtime recitals this academic year on Thursdays at 1.15pm. So far
we have seen an array of musical talent from within the Hall and from
outside, ranging from 18th century organ music to the piano music of
Beethoven and Brahms, 20th century Russian flute music and the songs
of Rodgers and Hammerstein!
The College and Society have also been very happy to receive a number
of professional players periodically throughout the year to give recitals
in the Senior Combination Room. Alongside music for unaccompanied
violin played by David Le Page, we have been entertained by Jane
Chapman on the harpsichord and Sioned Williams on the harp.
Planned activities for the Lent and Easter terms include the continuation of the lunchtime recital series, an orchestra and choir collaboration
and a production of Grease in the Fellows’ garden during May Week.
Edd Capewell (Chairman)
Natural Scientists Society
“The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is fully open”.
In only its second year, Trinity Hall Natural Scientists Society is going
from strength to strength. The society began in 2002, when our founder,
Liz Wilcox, organised the first Annual Natural Scientists dinner. Since
then the society has expanded to bring all years of scientists together on
a more frequent basis. Not only do we still have the annual dinner, but
we have also forayed into highly successful book sales and drinks
evenings. Perhaps our highest achievement so far was the visit of
Professor Chris Dobson of the Chemistry department. His talk on protein
folding diseases, such as new variant CJD, truly opened the eyes of everyone who attended and left anyone who had had their tonsils removed
feeling just a little queasy!! After the success of Prof Dobson’s talk, we
hope to bring in guest speakers at least once a term, and with the continued support of Dr Bampos we aim to make the Natural Scientists Society
a true force in College.
Alexis Barr (President)
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Penguins
The Penguins have swelled in size this year with the addition of over ten
sporty young ladies. The new members showed their various talents at
the initiations at the beginning of the Michaelmas term, which were held
at the Penguins and Crescents’ Freshers cocktails. Flexy Dexy showed off
her skill and agility in the cereal box game while Lucy and Hayley proved
themselves to be domestic goddesses by whipping up some seemingly
delicious banana splits to the delight of many. Old and new Penguins got
the chance to get to know each other a bit better over drinks and nibbles
leaving some people wishing they had not revealed quite so much! The
social calendar kicked off with the now-traditional double formal with
the Crescents at Queens’. The Queens’ boys really were perfect gentlemen! The commitment and dedication of the Penguins was demonstrated
as they trekked through the snow to entertain the Pembroke Idlers at a
fine greek eatery. The Penguins are looking forward this term to dinner
at the Master’s Lodge with our honorary president Maria Tippett, which
as always promises to be a wonderful evening.
Next term we will be hosting the Penguins and Crescent’s biannual
dinner, which sees the reunion of Penguins and Crescents who have left
Trinity Hall with those of us still here.
Tara Lyons (President)
Sarah Adams (Secretary)
Honorary President: Dr Tippett
Members: Pippa Dudley, Vicky Copaz, Lucy Preece, Lucy Martin, Rona Smith, Rowan
Lepley, Gemma Girdler, Alexis Barr, Lucy Butcher, Jo Stott, Kate Bailey, Caroline
Harding- Edgar, Kat Young, Kate Ware, Anna Lerner, Ellie Hyde, Hayley Palmer,
Ashna Patel, Louise Boynes, Ellie Berry, Natalie Robinson, Maddy Gowlett, Rachel
Hughes, Amy Watson, Frances Dennis, Charlie Kendall
RAG
Once again Trinity Hall’s RAG team is striving towards making another
impressive donation to Cambridge RAG. Following in the footsteps of
our predecessors, who raised a stunning £7,144.58 for RAG last year, we
realised we had a lot to live up to, especially as our 2003-4 target was set
at £8,000. However, after a highly successful Michaelmas term we have
already exceeded our target, and currently stand as ‘top college RAG’ in
the league tables with £9,188.11. In keeping with tradition, the year kicked
off with the infamous Miss Tit Hall, a cross-dressing pageant entered into
by the Fresher males as a way of introducing them to the alternative side
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of Cambridge life! After spectacular performances by all, Johnny Keane
was crowned best woman! Other events this term have included an eardeafening karaoke, a time-warp bop, and bar quizzes. But by far the greatest sum has been raised in the course of our street collections (called ‘raiding’ in the Cambridge lingo) for various charities including Children in
Need and Barnados. The most spectacular raid this term was undoubtedly in Edinburgh when we sent three of our collectors up to the cold
climes over New Year to collect for Cancer Research UK, in the course of
which we raised over £1,000. For the rest of this year we still have much
to look forward to: with RAG Week occurring in February during which
Trinity Hall will have their own float in the RAG carnival, the RAG blind
date, bingo evenings, and the karaoke will be back by popular demand!
We would like to thank everybody who has got involved with RAG this
year, whether by helping setup at bops, going out raiding, or simply from
attending our events – we hope you have had as much fun as we have!
Special thanks must go to Joseph for his outstanding contribution to RAG
through Super Hall collections. To keep up to date with what we are up
to and to which charities we will be donating, take a look at our brand
new website: http://hal.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/RAG/
May there be a continued era of great achievement for Trinity Hall
RAG!
Katy Carson & Lucy Butcher
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College Sports
Badminton – Men’s
Following promotion from division 5 up to division 2 in consecutive
seasons, our meteoric rise up the university league came to a stop last
year, as against tough opposition and having lost players through injury
we were relegated and found ourselves back where the year had began
in division 3. This was followed by two thirds of the team then having
the indecency to graduate or go on a year abroad, myself and Michael
Brear being the only regular players remaining. So at the start of the new
academic year we were heavily reliant on the new influx of first years to
provide more players.
In a change from previous years we now play our home matches at St
Luke’s Barn, as the journey to Hills Road often tired players out before
they’d even lifted a racquet. Here we’ve been able to get a regular weekly
slot and so can have team training sessions, which have been invaluable
in helping with the selection of players and pairings and working on
improving technique. This is something that hadn’t been possible in the
past, as we wouldn’t play outside matches, so it is hoped that all the players and the team as a whole will benefit. It also gives those players at
Trinity Hall who don’t wish to play competitively an opportunity to have
a social game and pick up any tips that may help them to enjoy their
badminton more in the future.
In our first match of the season, we fielded a team with 4 new players
in untested pairings and came up against stiff opposition in Christ’s, the
eventual league winners, who inflicted upon us our heaviest defeat of the
season. Sadly this set the trend for the season and we lost all our matches,
finishing bottom of the division and being relegated to division 4. The
season was always going to be a struggle without having any tested partnerships to use, but as the season progressed, different combinations of
players were tried and as the pairs gained more experience of playing
together the results improved significantly. The team as a whole has
improved to a great extent and I firmly believe that we have a strong
chance of winning a lot of games against division 4 opposition, with
promotion being a definite possibility. Also, the enthusiasm of the players and their receptiveness to coaching has been outstanding, and it
certainly bodes well for the future. I’d like to thank all those who’ve
played for the Hall this year, especially when only given very short notice!
I would especially like to thank Andy Palmer for the time and effort he’s
put into coaching training sessions, and Gemma Girdler, who volun-
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teered to inaugurate and captain the Trinity Hall ladies badminton team
and has been invaluable in helping with the running of the club.
Mark Abthorpe (Captain)
Squad: Ian Abel, Mark Abthorpe,
Tom Bishop, Michael Brear,
Gareth Dobson, Mads Mani,
Andy Palmer, David Pearce,
David Wyatt
Badminton – Women’s
Michaelmas term 2003 saw the introduction of the first ever Tit Hall ladies
badminton team. With lots of interest from Freshers and willing 3rd years,
a ladies team was entered into the college league in division 4. After a slight
hitch in finding courts close enough to College, the season got underway
and we played our first match against Robinson II. After just one practice,
we stormed to victory, which was brilliant considering this was many
people’s first ever badminton match. The next match was equally as good,
with a few more new players getting a game, again resulting in a win.
However, we seemed to have played the worst two teams first, as we lost
the last two matches of the season, although everyone’s badminton had
improved tremendously to
produce the best performances of the term. Overall
we finished a very respectable
third, narrowly missing
promotion to division 3. I
want to thank all the players
who have helped me in
making this new venture very
worthwhile: Freshers Helen
Thomas and Gill White have
formed a formidable pair
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when not trying to knock each other out; Nicola Gaukroger has given us
invaluable experience and expertise; Laura Gardner, Jo Stott, Natalie
Robinson, Rachel Mundy and Laura Todd have all proved indispensable,
playing well and with enthusiasm; finally thanks to all the men, especially
Mark, who have coached us and offered their support. Promotion is our
aim for Lent term, as we have all gained much more experience, but whatever the outcome I hope that everyone has had as much fun as me this year.
May the ladies badminton team continue to be evermore enjoyable and
successful.
Gemma Girdler (Captain)
Boat Club – Men’s
The hard work of successive captains over the past few years is delivering results as this year the Hall saw some of the best and most exciting
races in a long time. The 2003 Lent Bumps saw the first winds of change
for the Hall. The first VIII showed the effect of integrating college rowers
with schoolboy rowers and established blues by bumping up two. The
destruction of Emmanuel on the Saturday at Grassy corner was particularly pleasing. A special mention must also go to Ben Smith and Tom
James who represented the Hall in the Boat Race.
The May races promised and delivered much excitement. An enormous crowd of parents, staff and alumni gathered at Ditton Corner on
the Saturday for Pimms, sandwiches and successful Hall crews.
The third men set the standard early by bumping up three. Starting
only as a self proclaimed ‘beer boat’ they took their training very seriously and made it pay off. Their dogged commitment in the event of technical failure was exemplary. It was only the cruel twist of a falling poor
crew that stripped them of their blades.
The second men were taken under the wing of Martin and so were
possibly the fittest in the club. They had perhaps the unluckiest bumps
draw possible and were very unfortunate to slip down one at the hands
of Catz.
The first VIII had the most roller coaster term. The many returning
blues promised one of the strongest crews for years. However, their late
return in week seven required a rolling sub programme. The first success
came early in the term at Bedford Regatta where the team won S4. A
significant loss in the ‘99s regatta prompted a change in gear and so it was
with trepidation that the crew approached the Bumps. The first day
destruction of Emmanuel at Grassy was to be a perfect repeat of the Lents.
On the second day we shattered LMBC’s headship hopes in the Gut.
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Friday presented us
with the third station
and a chance at
Downing.
Pacing
ourselves
for
a
longer row we made
our move in the
Plough and bumped
them early in the
reach. Suddenly all
eyes were upon us as
Men’s first VIII at the May Bumps 2003
we prepared for a
Saturday showdown
with Caius for the Headship. As the lighter crew we pulled out the fastest
start on the river taking half a length, but we were unable to hold their
pace and rowed over a comfortable 2nd.
Michaelmas term saw the success continue. The first IV had a particularly pleasing term with solid results in the Autumn Head and Head of
the River IV’s and then with victories in the Winter Head and University
IV’s. Injury set the club back requiring an inexperienced VIII to take on
the challenge of Fairbairns, coming in at a respectable 8th place.
The future continues to look bright, as a record number of novices have
joined the large senior squad. At this stage in term we can expect four
VIIIs training for the Lent Bumps. A first day behind Jesus promises
another eventful term for the first VIII as we set a precedent for the
Headship challenge ahead.
Tom Robins (Captain of Boats)
Boat Club – Women’s
This year has seen Tit Hall women start to pick themselves up out of a
low, with some good, winning crews.
Lent bumps 2003 saw only 2 senior rowers returning, leading to a low
level of experience throughout the club, and the first boat went down 3
(with a gutsy rowover on day 2), and the second boat went down 4,
having been frustratingly close to a rowover on the last day.
Mays saw our luck turning, as a few senior rowers appeared out of the
woodwork, and we got off to a good start, reaching the finals of Bedford
regatta. For the Bumps, Kate Grose sorted out an excellent team of finishing coaches for us, which made such a difference. The first VIII were
bumped by LMBC while they had overlap with Catz on the 1st day, had
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a brilliant rowover
on the second day,
which left us to
bump Catz on
Grassy on day 3.
Then we rowed
over again on the
4th day, leaving us
in the same place
overall. The second
VIII had problems
with commitment,
Women’s first VIII at the May Bumps 2003
not managing to
have as much training or coaching as would be hoped, and they just weren’t as big as the
girls around them, and ended up going down 4. The third VIII was made
up of grads. They were awarded technical rowover on day 1, then due to
injured stroke girl didn’t make it to the start in time on day 2, and were
technically bumped, then they were bumped on day 3, leaving them a
well fought gutsy rowover on day 4, with Emma constantly on their tails.
There was a very positive feeling within the club, with many keen to carry
on this year.
During the summer, we entered a scratch IV for the Cambridge Autumn
head, winning our 1st round, losing to the winners in the semi-finals.
In Michaelmas term quite a few rowers returned, so we could put out
2 competitive IVs, and a non competitive grad and undergrad IV were
also training.
The first IV raced the IVs head in London, and had a good row;
although bow’s seat broke and stern pair had to row the last kilometre or
so alone, we still managed to beat quite a few crews. We came 3rd in the
Cambridge Autumn head, and won our division of the Winter head
comfortably, with the 2nd fastest time of any coxed IV entered. We did well
in the Uni IVs races, with both IVs rowing well in the initial rounds, and
reaching the finals of their division.
For Fairbairns we combined the two IVs, and the VIII went well.
Unfortunately we hadn’t finished overtaking Sidney by Ditton corner,
and were forced to take a wide line round. Then the 2 boats clashed in the
gut, so we didn’t get a good time and came 20th. Both IVs raced again in
the afternoon, coming 7th and 18th.
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We had a great novice intake this Michaelmas: our 3 women’s novice
boats came 9th, 28th and 55th in novice Fairbairns. There is a lot of potential and keenness amongst the novices, which is very encouraging for the
women’s side of the club.
For Lent term 2004, many of the novices have carried on, and we have
3 VIIIs in training.
Frances Denniss (Women’s Captain)
Trinity Hall Boat Club 2003-2004
Captain of Boats & Men’s Captain:
Women’s Captain:
Secretary:
Junior Treasurer:
Captain of Lower Boats:
Tom Robins
Frances Denniss
Charlie Kendal
Elaine Court
Hayley Palmer
First May Boat
Chris Balmer (cox), Doug Perrin, Ben Smith, Louis Verdi, Cameron
Duncan, Andy Simmonds, Tom Robins, James Wright, Ross Williamson
First Women’s May Boat
Jenny Trapp (cox), Charlie Kendall, Charlotte Gill, Frances Denniss,
Tracey Nelson, Ali Mitchell, Ellie Berry, Hayley Palmer, Riccarda Torriani
First University IV
Eddy Davidson (cox), Ross Williamson, Miles Loveday, Tom Robins, Phil
Reed
First Women’s University IV
Susan Hutchings (cox), Charlie Kendall, Frances Denniss, Hayley Palmer,
Ellie Berry
Fairbairns VIII
Eddy Davidson (cox), Neil Burkett, Wes Hill, Danny Rolands, Tom
Robins, David Peters, Doug Mc Ilwraith, Phil Reed, David Ranc
Fairbairns Women’s VIII
Jenny Trapp (cox), Hayley Palmer, Laura MacFarlane, Charlie Kendall,
Frances Denniss, Tanuja Rudra, Ellie Berry, Rebekah Sherwin, Julie
McKittrick
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Cycling
With the departure, a week before Cuppers, of the best cyclist in College
and University, Duncan Alexander (his impressive record includes five
half-blues and at least two full blues, three individual and four team victories in the Varsity Match, the double in the BUSA 10 and 25 miles time
trial last year and a collection of individual and team victories in other
BUSA events), Trinity Hall was left with very little experience.
Nevertheless, we were able to enter a record number of 8 people in
Cuppers in early March (with a puncture eventually forbidding Oli May
to take part). The Bottisham course proved extremely windy and slowed
down most people considerably. Emma Pooley deserves a very special
mention as she put on the best women’s performance in the University
and beat most of the men with a good time of 30:20. Unfortunately, there
were not enough women in the race this year to rank them separately. The
best times from Trinity Hall riders were recorded by Tom Bishop and
Bernhard Payer. The three College teams ranked 6, 7 and 9 (out of 14).
All in all an encouraging performance – we hope to see more people
on the road next year.
David Ranc
The following people took part in cuppers: Emma Pooley, Tom Bishop, Bernhard
Payer (2nd participation), Ben Adcock, John Freed, David Ranc (2nd participation),
Aidan Reilly, Oli May (DNS: puncture)
Football – Men’s
For what is known as both “the nation’s” and “the beautiful” game, I often
wonder why rugby is often considered the College’s premier ball game.
That may well be about to change as the Association Football club goes
on ever upwards. The previous captain remarked in his report that “this
club is steadily improving”. I fear he may be correct.
Although last season looked pretty messy at times, division 3 status
was retained mostly thanks to the 4-2 win over Catz – two total wondergoals from Paulinho (even Becks would have been proud of that free kick)
and a star performance by captain Rogers showing them how we really
can play. The final (02-03) league table actually places us 3rd from bottom,
a touch deceptive since we were 12 points above the drop zone; bearing
in mind the champions, Caius, against whom we put up a good fight, only
had 21 points in total, shows it wasn’t too bad after all. In fact it was quite
encouraging really.
And so to the new season: sadly our only season-ticket holding spectator Marian Luff has graduated, thus causing our gate receipts to plum98
met dramatically. Nevertheless, thanks to a healthy grant from the JCR
(hang on a minute, doesn’t the JCR Treasurer play Centre-Mid…) a new
Nike kit sponsored by alumni entrepreneurs “Gal•peck” was acquired.
Sadly Peck is the only man who can fit into the kit: the shirts are so big
that were they all sown together they could act as a tent for a small army.
New faces this season include Malcolm the Porter who has refereed at
professional level, Adrian the grad in sticks when “the wall” is away;
Griffo marshalling defence; Tobias joins Evo in the middle (Little and
Large reunited); Irish maverick O’Mahoney on one flank with the man
the oppo love to hate Sami Lua-bility on the other; Palmer, Pfeipfer and
Turner look pretty handy too. A touch of new blood seems an understatement – a transfusion perhaps.
As I write things are looking frighteningly good for the 1st XI. 3 wins on
the trot with 14 goals scored and a Cuppers quarter-final looming. We
nearly took points off Hills Road, something no side in Cambridge has done
for two seasons. Af alone put 5 past the Magdelene keeper and a brilliantly
gutsy 4-1 win at Long Road (a notoriously difficult fixture) shows we really
are a tidy outfit this year. As long as injuries stay away: (yours truly is stuck
giving it the “Jonny big spuds” on the side lines due to a rodded back, while
last year’s skipper and Murph nurse dodgy shoulders, plus Tom “Sailor”
True’s wonderful form of pulling a gluteal when climbing the rigging
before getting knocked out on his debut after 3 mins)…we really could go
places. How good it would feel to see our photo up in the bar!
So England won the rugby world cup…well I still have no doubt that
the balls most frequently confiscated outside the Jerwood this summer
by Alan the Porter and his colleagues will be round ones.
James Thomas (Captain)
Squad: James Thomas (Captain/Coach), Robert Paton (Vice-Captain), Tobias
Brandvick, Chris Brookes, Angus Chudleigh, Eddie Craven, Adrain Cybriwsky, Paul
Davies, Rhys Evans, James Griffiths, Dan Igra, Vladimir Katunin, Gorazd Kert,
Richard Kowinecki, Sami Lua-bility, Paul Murphy, David O’Mahoney, Garrett
O’Reilly, Afolabi Oliver, Andrew Palmer, David Pfeipfer, James Rogers, Ashley
Rowlands, Michael Roy, Tom True, Will Turner, Aled Williams, Aiden Wilmott (2nd
team captain), Rob Wylie.
Football – Women’s
Although the results in the league may not reflect it, the women’s football club has made a fantastic start to the season. With a squad large
enough to support two teams (and more!) our commitment puts many of
the larger colleges to shame. With training sessions under the guidance
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of our new coach/manager Malcolm the Porter many of us have discovered skills we never knew we had. Our confidence and ability has grown
over the Michaelmas term and with the majority of league matches and
Cuppers to look forward to in Lent term, it promises to be a good season.
The size of the squad reflects members from all years. Many players
have remained committed to the team from previous years such as Kate,
Jasmine, Rowan, Vicky, Gemma, Ellie, Mags, Lois, Julia, Jenny and Rona
– providing a wealth of experience and a solid base to build a team
around. This plus a fresh influx of talented first years including regular
first team players Ruthie, Astrid, Helen and Catherine has formed a fun
first team whose effort in matches is always 100%. But lets not forget the
second team! Traditionally a team for those who have never kicked a ball
before, second team matches are always lots of fun. But although many
have never played before this is not to say that skills are lacking – most
players find they have hidden talents and nearly all second team players
progress to the first team. Under the guidance of their ever energetic and
enthusiastic captain Ellie, the second team has maintained its element of
fun. Second team starlets include Anna, Vicky, Flora, Yuni, Sophie, Fran,
Lucy, Amelia, Jisa, Sophie, Vix, Elaine, Laura, Maddy, Rosie and Ellie H.
A special thank you should go to Malcolm for his enthusiasm and effort
and also to Nick, Morgan and Garrett for their support and refereeing
skills!
Alexis Barr (First Team Captain)
Hockey – Men’s
After seeing a number of players leave at the end of last season, this year
has been one of consolidation. The team is always dependent upon
Freshers coming through to fill the ranks of those that have headed off to
pastures new, and the new faces are beginning to gel in what looks like
promising fashion. After drawing Jesus (who presently reside at the top
of division one) in the Cup we were left to concentrate on the league with
it looking increasingly like a year that would finish mid table – if only
Wanderers’ striker Jay Brinsmead-Stockham could find the net as often
for us as he does for them we’d be laughing. With Eddie Craven moving
in to fill Vlad ‘The Wall’ Katunin’s shoes between the sticks and Ashley
Rowlands showing increasing promise in the middle (once again)
perhaps next year will be the one Tit Hall Hockey has been waiting for.
That said, for a small college, when so many others fail to get out a team,
we can still hold our heads high when we run out on the pitch.
Tom Ebbutt (Captain)
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Hockey – Women’s
With memories of a somewhat disheartening relegation from the 1st division at the end of last year, I sought comfort in the fact that we were now
top of division 2 and in with a chance of a very successful season… if only
we could find replacements for the 3 core players we lost to the real world
in the summer. My hunt for new members produced Alice, Amelia,
Rumbi and Clare, all of whom have proved themselves thoroughly dedicated to the pursuit of black and white glory.
As with any newly formed squad the first match becomes a matter of
throwing everyone in at a position, seeing what happens and working from
there. Well an 8-1 victory over Selwyn was what happened and special
mention here must go to Charlie for her amazing tally of 5 goals in one
match! League matches so far have produced results that don’t truly reflect
the quality of many players or our potential as a team. I’m not normally
one to make excuses but if Churchill hadn’t made us play on their grass
pitch “with an incline and one or two rabbit holes” and if APU hadn’t made
us cycle all the way out to Abbey Pool (Abbey where?) to play them then
things may have been different. However the 1st round of Cuppers saw us
drawn against our neighbours, Clare and we rapidly saw them away with
a 6-0 win. Round 2 brought us up against a Girton side fully padded out
with University players. We held our own but an unfortunate lapse in
concentration towards the end of a tiring first half led to the single goal that
ended our quest for the cup. Stuck on the sidelines for most of the term due
to injury I found myself in the unique position of being able to watch each
match from an outside perspective, not the kind of opportunity a captain
gets very often. And what I saw was a team that improved every time they
played. There was dedication from Alzeena in goal, bags of enthusiasm
from Ellie and real team spirit from all. It was great to see the return of many
for their 2nd season in a row, along with the well established ‘oldies’. With
all to play for in the league this term I am confident that we will see
ourselves in a good position for attacking the top colleges once more.
Louise Boyns (Captain)
Squad: Louise Boyns (Captain), Charlie Kendall, Alzeena Bata, Alice Turtle, Amelia
Sleht, Caroline Roberts, Rumbi Moyo, Melissa Milner, Clare Pemberton, Kate Bailey,
Vicky Copaz, Tory Hallett, Fiorien Bonthius, Rebecca, Ellie Hyde, Shufan Lin, Samia
Mantoura, Ishani Bandaranayke, Hannah Shergold, Anna Lerner.
Hockey – Mixed
The mixed hockey team has seen a couple of outings this year. Mixed
Cuppers once again saw us take a raw draw coming up against Robinson
in the first round and going down fighting against a team which contained
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three Blues in what was a brilliant performance by the Hall. We now head
on to a season of social friendlies with Queens’ being held to a draw far
too early one Sunday morning and fixtures against Clare and Catz to come.
In addition this year also saw the return of the 1989-90 Tit Hall league
winning team, on tour and facing up to both the men’s and the women’s
teams on grass and astro on a two day extravaganza. The result?
Resounding success for the students. Better luck next time guys, hope you
enjoyed your weekend, oh, and breathtaking dancing at Saturday night’s
Viva.
Rob Harris and Louise Boyns (Captains)
Netball
The 2002-2003 netball season
came to a magnificent end with
both the Women’s team and the
Mixed team carrying away the
winning trophies at the Netball
Cuppers Tournament. The
prize giving at the end of the
year was made even more exciting for Trinity Hall because the
Mixed first team ended at the
very top of the league table for
Mixed Netball team preparing for a match
division one.
The 2003-2004 season started off with the Women’s firsts and Mixed firsts
in the premier divisions of their respective leagues and the women’s
seconds and the Mixed seconds being in the third and second divisions
respectively. After more than a term of netball, players from all years and
at different stages of their academic life at Cambridge have gelled wonderfully together to form teams which are not only fun and very enjoyable to
play in, but also competitive whilst at the same time friendly to play against.
The enthusiasm of the players and their determination (especially of the
boys) to fight till the very end makes playing netball and organising
matches that much more rewarding.
With more than half a term of netball left for the league matches and
with the Cuppers tournament in the near future, I, together with Maddy,
wish the teams the very best of luck because they deserve nothing less!
Ishani Bandaranayake (Captain)
Madeline Gowlett (Secretary)
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Squad: Anouk Lang, Anna Lerner, Cerian Hatton, Ashna Patel, Camilla Klich, Charlie
Kendall, Ellie Hyde, Gemma Girdler, Henry Pinder, Hugh Lloyd-Jukes, Ishani
Bandaranayake, Jim Selemetas, Jo Stott, Lauren Jones, Kate Ware, Louise Boyns, Lucy
Martin, Lucy Preece, Madeline Gowlett, Nathan McGarry, Nick Vanston-Rumney,
Olivia Thorne, Rachel Hughes, Rhian James, Rob Wylie, Sarah Adams, Seb Oram,
Sophie Martin, Sima Varsani
Rugby – Men’s
For the second year running, Trinity Hall’s drive for promotion to the first
division was thwarted by bureaucracy and politics. At the end of the
2002/2003 season, Girton, Fitzwilliam, and Trinity Hall all had the same
number of points at the top of their table, yet only two could proceed
to the promotional playoffs. As it stood, Girton and Trinity Hall should
have taken first and second spot respectively with regards to points
difference but the powers that be decided to hold a ‘revolutionary’ 3-way
play off instead. Reluctantly the black and white army trudged onto
Wychfield to play two back to back 40 minute games. On a sombre day
the Hall ended up losing both matches and being unceremoniously
dumped from the playoffs altogether. Swallowed by bitterness and with
their pride hurt, Trinity Hall’s men had to postpone the idea of promotion for another year.
So what of the 2003/2004 season? With the loss of many gutsy veterans and the acquisition of only a handful of Freshers, the season started
inauspiciously. Furthermore, random injuries and the ineligibility of
certain key players left a threadbare squad in a difficult pool. Although
Anglia were dispatched 41-0 in our first game, this was shortly followed
by a lacklustre display against our perennial archrivals Trinity that saw
us lose 24-17. A draw against Christ’s before the Christmas break left our
team needing two wins in our remaining three matches to be assured a
place for the promotion playoffs.
A difficult task, but who dares to bet against the men from Trinity Hall?
Returning with a stronger and deeper squad, the Hall was baying for
Trinity blood. Thundering tackles from the two centres, Al and Gee, stifled
the attack of Trinity whilst the grit and determination of our forwards
kept us firmly on the offensive throughout the game. The 15-5 scoreline
belied our dominance but revenge was exacted. This epic victory was
followed by an equally solid 22-0 win against Christ’s and a walkover
against Anglia. Having secured second place and a playoff position in our
pool, all that stands between Trinity Hall and the 1st division are two
games, the first of which is against the whipping boys of last year,
Pembroke.
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With greater power in the forwards, a plethora of flair and gusto in
the backs, and an awesome defence, could this finally be our year? After
2 years of agony and frustration, is it third-time lucky?
Tomo Togo (Captain)
Squad: Tomo Togo (captain), Paul Murphy (secretary), Max von Etzdorf, Alastair
Atkinson, Rhys Evans, Ben Musgrave, James Rogers, Ben Smith, Yorick Moes, Miles
Loveday, Daf Jones, David O’Mahoney, Rob Wylie, Rosario, Richard Breen, Nick
Vanston-Rumney, Tris Hager, Cameron Duncan, Louis Verdi, Nathan McGarry, Ben
Maude, Tom Barnes, Chris Jeffreys, Tom Richardson, Chris Parr, Daf Ifan, Chris Gee,
Oli Cummings, Dan Igra,
Rugby – Women’s
Tit Hall Women’s rugby started its second season in the 7’s league after a
slight delay due to the very hard ground. Following our promotion at the
end of last season we had a lot to prove in the first division. The majority
of last year’s successful team had deserted us so we were forced to almost
start from scratch. Recruiting Freshers proved to be a problem, the impact
of the rugby-mania that followed the World Cup was yet to be felt in early
Michaelmas! We decided to join forces with the Clare team, also struggling with numbers. Luckily we have gained the experience of a couple
of University players who have been a real asset to the team. Training
from Murph in the initial stages was much appreciated for our beginners,
Fran, Charlie and others. Lucy and Julie, still with us in their fourth year,
have continued in their front row positions.
So far we have won half our matches! This is, however, something to
do with the fact that we have only played two! We lost to Churchill, with
only six players and a brutal wind to battle against. The undoubted
achievement of the season to date has to be the defeat of Trinity, the score
was 17-12 and victory was sweet. Matches and training have been fitted
in alongside the multitude of other things everyone on the team takes part
in, which makes the atmosphere really fun. With only one blow to the
nose we have done well on the injury front so far too! Thanks to everyone for turning up and enabling the team to continue!
Joanna Stott
Ski Trip
Skiing: The one time of year when man can truly be at one with the
elements, listening to the music of the slopes as the beautiful people carve
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their way down an expanse of exquisite snowflakes in glorious harmony.
One rises bright and early, eats a hearty breakfast before enjoying a darn
good ski, interrupted only by luncheon. In the evenings, one samples the
local restaurants and cocktail bars, perhaps indulging in the odd glass of
fine vintage, but never too much that it might compromise one’s ability
to make the first ski lift in the morning.
The Trinity Hall Ski Trip: The one time of year a student can truly be
at one with the elements, listening to the cries of anguish and subsequent
laughter as an unwisely attired member of the group (nice hat by the way
Rhys) wipes themselves out whilst attempting to showcase their talent,
and then claims that they were much better the last time they were on the
slopes…or was it the time before Jeffreys? One rises bright and early to
the hammering of satan inside one’s temples, having slipped over and
accidentally consumed a litre of Zubrowka, misses breakfast entirely, and
has a darn good ski, interrupted firstly by a moment of epiphany when
it’s no longer necessary to hold back the bile and pray, and then by the
need to eat a hearty meal, but being unable to find one is forced to go the
nearest overpriced café. In the evenings, one is fortunate enough to
sample the gourmet offal of Petit Danois, before visiting the local club and
its democratic drinks prices – can’t we all afford £8 pints? This was of
course if it was possible to walk to the club after imbibing several beverages with the digit that was not one’s dominant hand (that’s the right one
for you Mr Rogers in case it’s been a while) during a very simple game
of 21s where one was not allowed to emit a profanity of any sort.
There were tears, there was laughter, but most of all there was just a
lot of fun, and despite hearing disturbing things about everyone on the
trip during a marathon session of ‘I have never’, I know that I will take a
lot of great memories away from the trip. I’m sorry I can’t say a lot about
the skiing, but you will all remember I’m sure that I was restricted to the
modest heights of the nursery slopes for most of the trip (due to chronic
ineptitude). I did, however, complete the 10 days due to my decision not
to vastly overrate my own ability and attempt to master the snowboard
having never set foot on the slopes before. But I’m told the skiing was
absolutely wonderful. Muzza and Lilly snow-ploughed La Face, everyone but me skied down it at least 64 times and the other slopes it seems
were REALLY good as well. But did they take out a small child in the
queue for the nursery slopes (Rosie)? Did they heck.
The 2004 trip to Val d’Isere was organised by
Anna Lerner and Nathan McGarry
Report written by Tris Hagar
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Table Tennis
Last season, with the return of old captain David Gillingham, Trinity Hall
Table Tennis Club managed to gain some vital wins and stay in division
2 of the league. Despite the loss in the league match, we were quite
successful in Cuppers, beating King’s to enter the quarter-final stage,
unfortunately then being defeated by Trinity.
This season, the club gets even stronger with the addition of a couple
of good new players. Our team was able to defeat Trinity 2 by 8-1 in the
league match. Tom Burrel is one of the new players to the team who has
demonstrated great table tennis talent by winning all the games in his
very first league match. Robert Severn is another new talent who has
played for the club in several matches. I expect them to do very well in
the future. Also, I would like to thank our old members: Ben Wylie, Ye
Liu and David Gillingham, who have been playing for the club for years.
I am sure as we all work together as a team, Trinity Hall Table Tennis club
will enjoy more successes in the future.
Chu Chen (Captain)
Team: Ben Wylie, Chu Chen, David Gillingham, Robert Severn, Tom Burrel, Ye Liu.
Tennis – Women’s
For the Trinity Hall tennis players, last summer term was not all about
time spent in the Jerwood library! The girls got off to a good start in both
the tennis college league and the Cuppers event. The Fresher talent was
clear to be seen at trials and we managed to select a very strong squad for
the subsequent games. After a number of good matches, Trinity Hall
succumbed to the Christ’s team who went on to play in the Cupper’s semi
finals. Hopefully next year we will have similar enthusiasm and tennis
will continue to provide a welcome relief from the stresses of exam term.
Chrissie Readman (Captain)
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Waterpolo
It is said that if you agree to play sport you have to accept that some days
you will be the pigeon, and other days you will be the statue. Water polo
is no exception and this year proved to be a tumultuous one with
exceptional competition drawn against us in the league games. Having
made an excellent start with several promising new Freshers joining the
team, the Hall beat Trinity, Churchill and Caius in our first three matches
and then put up extremely good defences to the St Catharine’s and
Addenbrookes teams but were narrowly beaten by strong sides anchored
by solid Blues players. Nonetheless our efforts were rewarded and,
having started the season in the lower half of the league, the Hall gained
ground over our closest rivals. At the time of writing the Trinity Hall team
was in fifth position in the league tables. With the Cuppers competition
approaching at the end of Lent term there remains all to play for and the
team will be going into the competition knowing that while the early bird
catches the worm, it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese!
Sebastian Oram (Captain)
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Trinity Hall Representatives
The following have represented Cambridge against Oxford since the
publication of the last Newsletter:
Athletics
Louise Boyns
Anna McKay
Cross-Country
Emma Pooley
Cycling
Emma Pooley
Dancesport
Sarah Adams
Gliding
Claire Hooper
Hockey
Charlie Kendall (1sts)
Fleur Swaney (3rds)
Jill Goodier (3rds)
Charlotte Gray
Karate
Chrissie Readman
Lacrosse
Emma Pooley
Orienteering
Ben Smith
Tom James
Rowing
Doug Perin (1st VIII)
Ross Williamson (2nd VIII)
James Wright (2nd VIII)
Lightweight Rowing
Alastair Atkinson
Rugby – Men’s College’s XV
Vicky Copas
Pippa Dudley
Rugby – Women’s
Euan Spence
Swimming
Alan Godfrey and the Cambridge RAG Team raised more money than
Oxford over a week’s competition
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Section Five:
The Gazette
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The Master, Fellows, Honorary and Emeritus Fellows
and Fellow-Commoners
Elections, Retirements & Resignations
Dr Richard Baker was admitted as a Fellow-Commoner in Music with effect from
1 October 2003
Dr Nigel Chancellor was admitted as a Fellow-Commoner in History with effect
from 1 October 2003
Matthew Conaglen was elected the John Collier Fellow in Law with effect from
1 October 2003
Ms Jan Gilbert was elected into a Junior Research Fellowship in Medieval
Spanish Literature with effect from 1 October 2003
Dr John Pollard was elected into a Staff Fellowship in History with effect from 1
October 2003
Dr Dirk Slotboom was elected into a Junior Research Fellowship in Biochemistry
and Structural Biology with effect from 1 October 2003
Dr Jerome Jarrett was elected into a Staff Fellowship in Engineering with effect
from 5 January 2004
Dr Kylie Richardson was elected into the Fellowship as Director of Studies in
Linguistics with effect from 5 January 2004
Dr David Thomas, Staff Fellow in Law, retired after 32 years teaching Law and
has become an Emeritus Fellow.
Mrs Joanna Womack left after 13 years to become Bursar of Clare Hall; she began
her time here as College Bursar and then, in 1993, became a College Professorial
Fellow and University Treasurer.
His Honour Alan King-Hamilton QC was elected as an Honorary Fellow with
effect from 9 July 2003
The Right Hon The Lord Justice Thomas was elected as an Honorary Fellow
with effect from 27 January 2004
Senior Scholars
Dr Angelo Carollo was elected as a Senior Scholar with effect from 1 October 2003
Dr Peter Ellis resigned from his Senior Scholarship to take up a position at the
Sanger Centre.
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Honours, Appointments & Personal News
Professor John Denton was awarded the James Clayton Prize 2002 by the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his “outstanding contributions to, and
impact on, the design of turbomachinery largely through the development of practical computational methods which have been adopted throughout the world”.
Professor Colin Austin published Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae, edited with
introduction and commentary by Colin Austin and S Douglas Olson (OUP, 2004)
Dr Peter Hutchinson has published an article on Thomas Mann and edited a
volume of essays on German short prose.
Dr Alison Liebling has been appointed to a University Readership in
Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has also written Prisons and their Moral
Performance: A Study of Values, Quality and Prison Life, Oxford: Clarendon Press
(2004)
Dr Simon Guest has published papers in both the International Journal of Solids
and Structures and the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Dr Mike Hobson has been appointed to a University Readership in Astrophysics
and Cosmology. He has published numerous papers in Astrophysics Journals.
Dr Florian Hollfelder received the MRC Career Establishment award (2004-2009)
Dr Vasant Kumar has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Material’s
Journal on “Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy”from 1 January 2004,
and has become the Director of Environmental Monitoring and Control Ltd, a
spin-off company set up in Stafford.
Angus Johnston has been appointed to a University Lectureship in Law from 1
January 2004. He also published Markesinis & Deakin’s Tort Law (5th edition, OUP,
2003) with Simon Deakin and Basil Markesinis, and “Draft Constitutional Treaty
of the European Union” (2003) 28 European Law Review 3
Dr Clare Jackson was appointed a co-editor of The Historical Journal from 1
January 2004. She also published Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690. Royalist Politics,
Religion and Ideas (Boydell, 2003) 258pp as well as “Revolution Principles, Ius
Naturae and Ius Gentium in early Enlightenment Scotland: the contribution of Sir
Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (c1660-1726)” in T J Hochstrasser and Peter Schröeder
(eds) Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Contexts and Strategies in the Early
Enlightenment, (Kluwer, 2003) pp107-40
Revd Dr Jeremy Morris published “The strange death of Christian Britain:
another look at the secularisation debate” in Historical Journal, 2003
Dr Richard Baker’s recent compositions (all published by BMIC/Contemporary
Voices) include Breaking the Ground (2003) for solo piano, commissioned by the
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Leamington Festival, Huiusmodi sunt omnia (2003) for women’s voices, commissioned by the BBC for the winners of their international choral competition ‘Let
the Peoples Sing’, and The Key to Songs (2003) for Oboe and String Trio.
John Armour and Catherine Daniels announced their engagement in February
2003. During the year, John also co-edited Vulnerable Transactions in Corporate
Insolvency (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003) to which he contributed three chapters, published several journal articles and took up a short visiting appointment
at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the Easter Vacation.
Dr Ian Wilkinson was the British Pharmacological Society Australasian Visitor
for 2003. He has also been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of New
South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and published Hypertension – your questions
answered and the Oxford Handbook of Medicine. In March 2003 he married Dr
Phillippa Lawson at Trinity Hall.
Dr Annette Imhausen published Ägyptische Algorithmen. Eine Untersuchung zu
den mittelägyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten [Egyptian Algorithms. A
Study of Middle Egyptian Mathematical Problem Texts], Wiesbaden: Otto
Harrassowitz, 2003 and wrote the following articles, “Egyptian Mathematical
Texts and Their Contexts”, Science in Context 16, 2003, p 367-389; “Calculating the
Daily Bread: Rations in Theory and Practice”, Historia Mathematica 30, 2003, p 316; and “Zahl, II. Ägypten”, in: Hubertus Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (eds.),
Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, Vol 12/2 Ven-Z, Stuttgart 2003: p 668-669.
She also married Mr Paul Warner on 4 April 2003
Brooke Ernest Adenbrooke Crutchley CBE died on 31 August 2003
Dr Joseph Anthony Cremona died on 19 March 2003
Dr Jonathan Steinberg finished his term as chair of the Department of History of
the University of Pennsylvania at the end of June 2003 but continues as Walter H
Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. His translation: Lilian Karina
and Marion Kant, Hitler’s Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich,
(Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003) was published in November
2003. He has also just completed “European History and European Lives: 1715 to
1914”, a series of 36 recorded lectures published by the Teaching Company
[www.teachco.com] in audio and visual form.
Dr Sandra Raban published “Edward I’s other Inquiries” in eds. M Prestwick, R
Britnell, R Frame Thirteenth Century England, IX, 2003, 43-57
Professor William Cochran FRS DSC died on 28 August 2003
The Right Revd Lord David Sheppard saw his autobiography Steps Along Hope
Street published in paperback.
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne was awarded an honorary DSC from Marquette
University. He also published Living with Hope, SPCK, 2003
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Hon Donald Macdonald received an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from
Carleton University, Ottawa on 16 November 2003. He also welcomed his 10th
grandchild, Sydney Beatrice Carty, on 2 December 2003, daughter of Christopher
Carty and Althea Macdonald Carty.
Brigadier Paul Orchard-Lisle received an Honorary LLD from the University of
Reading. He has also become Chairman of the Falcon Property Trust, and
Chairman of the RICS Foundation.
College Staff
Arrivals & Departures
Appointments
Rebecca Davies
Suprana Ghose
Malcolm Pearman
Ginny Barrett
Marcia Bird
Tracy Williams
Victoria Fangen
Heidi Golding
Nancy Wu
John Holden
Vivien Hill
Ting Chen
Nicholas Porter
Roger Blows
Sonia Pires
Dean McParlan
Kim Brown
Svetlana Baibekova
Steven Hipkiss
Sarah Munemo
Dion Barrett
Bedmaker
HR Assistant
(fixed term 6mths)
Porter
Master’s PA
Assistant Accountant
(fixed term 6mths)
Bedmaker
Development Assistant
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
Admissions Assistant
Bedmaker
Porter
Trainee Chef
Bedmaker
Kitchen Porter
Porter
Assistant Bar Manager
Kitchen Porter
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
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17 March 2003
24 April 2003
28 April 2003
28 May 2003
19 May 2003
2 June 2003
2 June 2003
2 June 2003
14 July 2003
1 September 2003
15 September 2003
15 September 2003
13 October 2003
20 October 2003
29 October 2003
4 November 2003
1 December 2003
19 January 2004
20 January 2004
26 January 2004
26 January 2004
Departures
Mark Jenkins
Wendy Mitchell
Anna Robinson
Gina Brown
Victoria Horton
Ashley Wright
Deborah Smith
Moria Wolfe
Peter Valentine
Ian Anderson
Rebecca Davies
Judith Brown
Leis Arroul
Nicholas Porter
Dean McParlan
Graham Squires
Assistant Bar Manager
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
Alumni Officer &
PA to the Master
Assistant in the
Master’s Office
Assistant Archivist
Trainee Chef
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
Porter
Bedmaker
Bedmaker
Kitchen Porter
Porter
Kitchen Porter
Carpenter
6 June 2003
6 June 2003
20 June 2003
27 June 2003
7 August 2003
29 August 2003
5 September 2003
12 September 2003
3 October 2003
3 November 2003
21 November 2003
2 January 2004
Retirements
Peter Oakman
Ian Plumb
John Farish
Bedmaker
Painter/handyman
House Porter
6 September 2003
28 November 2003
27 February 2004
Housekeeper
Porter
Boatman
Deputy Clerk of Works
Head Porter
Asst. to Residential Manager
February 2003
May 2003
June 2003
August 2003
September 2003
September 2003
Manciple
October 2003
Sylvia Davidson
Long Service Awards
Kay Arnold (10 Years)
Paul Kidman (10 Years)
Martin Fordham (30 Years)
Ron Peachy (10 Years)
Frank Dickson (10 Years)
Elizabeth Maksymowicz
(10 Years)
Joseph Risino (10 Years)
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7 March 2003
7 March 2003
4 April 2003
11 April 2003
16 May 2003
Other Members of Trinity Hall
Honours, Distinctions and Awards
1933
1956
1966
1988
1984
1991
1994
1998
1999
Dr Basil Cooke was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal 2003
Sir Cyril Taylor was awarded a Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the
British Empire for services to education in the New Year’s Honours
Francis Annett received an MBE for his services to education on 27
November 2003
Dr Simon Fisher received a University Research Fellowship from the
Royal Society (October 2002 onwards)
Dato Dr Dennis Ganendra received the DIMP award on 24 October 2003
from the Sultan of Pahang, Malaysia, in recognition of, inter alia, achievement in the field of engineering and infrastructure development.
Dr Emma Tovey (neé Ridler) became a chartered civil engineer in
December 2003
Dr Chak Hong Lee was awarded the silver award for outstanding innovation and technology products by the Hong Kong Electronic Industries
Association in October 2002
Professor James Passamano received the Mediators Certificate from
Harvard University Law School in November 2002
Mr Julian Hunt was awarded the Lord Denning Scholarship by Lincoln’s
Inn in May 2003
Recent Appointments
His Honour David Marshall Evans QC has been promoted to Senior
Circuit Judge
1957
The Hon Mr Justice Anthony Hooper was appointed a Lord Justice of
Appeal with effect from March 2004
1960
Right Hon Mr Justice Richard Gibbs has been appointed the new
presiding Judge of the Midland Circuit
1961
Khurshid Kasuri has been appointed Foreign Minister of Pakistan
1962
Colin Hayes has been appointed Captain of the Great Britain Match Rifle
Team to tour Australia in 2004
1963
Professor Brian Hoskins CBE FRS was elected as a Foreign Associate of
the US National Academy of Sciences, and as a Foreign Member of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002
1964 (F) Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Harcourt AO FASSA was awarded Doctor
of Commerce, honoris causa, by the University of Melbourne on the 8
March 2003
1966
Nik Van Leuven was appointed QC and HM Attorney General in
Guernsey on 7 October 2002
The Hon Mr Justice Roger Thomas was appointed a Lord Justice of
Appeal.
1956
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Richard Kinchen MVO was appointed Ambassador to Belgium
Chris Sadler was elected to Elmbridge Borough Council as a Member
for Walton Central Ward in 2003
1970
Allan Gore was appointed QC in April 2003
1972
Professor Ron Leslie was appointed Professor and Head of the
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the Faculty of Medicine
of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada
Dr Anthony Ward was appointed Master of Darwin College, University
of Kent in 2003
Dr Ellis Wasson FRHistS has been appointed Visiting Fellow of Wolfson
College, Cambridge for Michaelmas Term 2004
1973
Tony Narula MB FRCS FRCS (ED) was appointed Honorary Professor
at Middlesex University
1977
Professor Jon Bowen has been appointed Professor of Modern English
Literature at Keele University
John McCaughran was appointed QC on 1 April 2003
(F) Rev Dr Barrie Williams has been appointed Honorary Fellow of the
University of Hull from 1 March 2004
1978
Meryll Dean has been appointed Professor and Head of Law at Oxford
Brookes as from 1 April 2004
1982
Tony Pagone QC has been appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow
in the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne from 10 March 2003 until
8 March 2008. He was also Special Counsel of the Australian Taxation
Office from July 2002 until December 2003
1983
Dr Tim Barringer will hold a Senior Fellowship at the Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles in 2004–5
The Very Revd Peter Bradley was appointed Dean of Sheffield Cathedral
from October 2003
1984
Jane Pepperall was appointed Senior Health Advisor for Africa in the
UK Department for International Development in February 2003
1985 (F) Professor A Jonathan Bate FBA was appointed Professor of Shakespeare
and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick in April 2003.
He was also appointed to the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company
in 2003.
1988
Dr Simon Fisher was appointed University Research Lecturer at the
University of Oxford from February 2003 and Royal Society Research
Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford from
October 2002
1994
Dr Fiona Griffiths was appointed the Walter Jackson Bate Fellow in
History at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
1967
1969
Dame Brenda Hale became the first woman to be appointed Lord of
Appeal in Ordinary
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Recent Publications
Professor Geoffrey Stagg published “Don Quijote and the ‘Entremés de
los romances’: A Retrospective” in Cervantes, vol XXII, no 2, 2002 and
“Entremés de los romances” Ed Geoffrey Stagg et al in Cervantes, vol
XXII, no 2, 2002
1933
Dr William Kirkaldy-Willis FRCS published An Atlas of Back Pain with
S Haldeman and T Bernard, 2002, The Parthenon Publishing Group (CRC
Press), New York
1947
Revd John Whitehorn published One Hundred Paiwan Texts, with Robert
Early, 2003, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, Australia
1956
Professor John Fletcher published About Beckett (Faber & Faber, 2003)
1957
Dr Graham Martin published “A History of the Institute of Linguists,
1970-2000” in The Linguist [in 3 parts] ‘Part IV: 1970-1979’, Vol 42 No 2,
2003; ‘Part V: 1980-1989’, Vol 42 No 4, 2003; ‘Part VI: 1990-2000’, Vol 43
No 1, 2004
1964
Professor Emeritus Geoff Harcourt AO FASSA published “Whatever
Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies?” with Avi
Cohen in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol 17, no 1, winter 2003,
pp199-214
1965
Dr Ted Lankester published Travellers’ Good Health Guide (Sheldon, 2002);
Setting Up Community Health Programmes (Macmillan, 2002); and Urban
Health & Development (joint author, Macmillan, 2001)
1968
Dr David Billett FRSC published “Understanding Electrode Potentials”
in Chemistry Review, vol 12, no 1, 2002 and “Using Electrode Potentials”
in Chemistry Review, vol 12, no 2, 2002
1971
David Paul published Teaching English to Children in Asia (Longman) and
Communication Strategies (Thomson) in 2003
1972
Dr Ellis Wasson FRHistS published “The New Peerage: Recruitment
to the House of Lords, 1704-1847”, The Historical Journal, vol 46, 2003,
pp1-38
1974
Alan Griffiths published Quicksilver Companies: The Battle for the Online
Consumer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) and Digital Television Strategies:
Business Challenges and Opportunities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
1976
The Hon Daniel Janner QC edited the Criminal Appeal Reports 2003
1985 (F) Professor A Jonathan Bate FBA published John Clare: A Biography
(Picador, October 2003)
1988
Dr Simon Fisher wrote several journal articles, including joint first
author on Lai & Fisher et al. “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a
severe speech and language disorder” Nature, vol 413 pp519-523; Fisher
et al. “Independent genome-wide scans identify a chromosome 18
quantitative-trait locus influencing dyslexia”, Nature Genetics, vol 30
pp86-91; co-author on Enard et al. “Molecular Evolution of FOXP2, a
gene involved in speech and language” Nature, vol 418 pp869-872; Fisher
1931
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1989
1995
1998
2001
& DeFries “Development dyslexia: genetic dissection of a complex cognitive trait”, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol 3 pp767-780; Fisher et al.
“Deciphering the genetic basis of speech and language disorders”,
Annual Review of Neuroscience, vol 26 pp57-80; and Marcus & Fisher
“FOXP2 in focus: what can genes tell us about speech and language?”
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol 7 pp257-262
Ms Penny Davenport published A Practical Guide to Collateral
Management in the OTC Derivatives Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Dr Barry Blades published his PhD Thesis “Deacon’s School,
Peterborough 1902-1920: A Study of the Social and Economic Function
of Secondary Schooling”
Andres Garin published “The Impact of International Humanitarian
Law on Armed Stand-Offs Opposing Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian
Authorities: An Overview of the Oka-Kanesatake Crisis” in Revue du
Barreau, vol 62, p161, 2002, with Christian Beaulieu
Professor James Passamano published “County Law Library Funding
Challenges in the 21st Century” in Houston Lawyer, vol 40 p54, August
2002 and Representing Americans with Disabilities Act Plaintiffs with Beth
Sufian, (2003, James Publishing, Cosa Mesa, California)
Jackson Armstrong has written Seven Eggs Today: The Diaries of Mary
Armstrong, 1859 and 1869 due to be published by Wilfrid Laurier
University Press in April 2004. See http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/
for further details.
Dr Andrew Lacey (Librarian) wrote The Cult of King Charles the Martyr
(Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2003)
Marriages, Engagements and Anniversaries
1947
1948
1959
1968
1971
1975
1976
1982
1983
Revd John Whitehorn married Elizabeth Bruce on 13 July 2002
Humphrey Buckler married Jan Galbraith on 5 October 2002
Dato Mustafa Mohamed Ali and Yun celebrated their 40th wedding
anniversary in 2003
Dr David Billett FRSC and Susie celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on 1 June 2003
David Paul married Yumi Uchikoshi in 2002
Ian Freer married Ramona on 25 January 2003
The Hon Daniel Janner QC and Caroline celebrated their 20th wedding
anniversary on 15 May 2003
Richard DiNardo married Dr Susan Busch on 16 August 2003 in Dwight
Chapel on Old Campus at Yale.
Andrew Dowden married Jocelyn Lucy Shinner Rees on 2 November
2002
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1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
Stephanie Dyster and Malcolm Gray became engaged in 2003
Dr David Foord married Victoria Kay Price on 22 March 2003
Martin Franks married Christine in Mont Tremblant, Quebec in August
2003
Dr Bodil Holst became engaged to Christoph Freiherr von Campenhausen
Helen Trinder married Patrick Pakes on 5 July 2003
Dr Chak Hong Lee married Yi Ping Chui (Downing College) on 10
November 2002
Andres Garin married Vonda Marie Peach on 22 September 2001
Linda Johnson became engaged to William Hayllar (1996)
William Hayllar became engaged to Linda Johnson (1995)
Alexander Stoddard married Beth Blauvelt in Philadelphia, USA on
16 August 2003
Clare Wibberley and Robert Merrifield became engaged in May 2003
Simon Halliwell became engaged to Emma Waring, proposing in
Newnham gardens after the 2003 Cambridge Dinner
Professor James Passamano and Beth Sufian celebrated their 15th
wedding anniversary on 2 July 2003
Julie-Anne Marie Bosich married Craig Andrew Ryan on 22 February 2003
Births
1974
1978
1979
1980
1982
1983
1985
Nicholas Crocker welcomed daughter Xenia Elizabeth Crocker on 28
July 2003
Martin Hall and Sarita Uribe welcomed daughter Olivia Blythe Hall on
22 December 2002
Gavin Purssell welcomed son Edmond Purssell on 8 December 2003
Dr Tom Alderson and Louise welcomed daughter Annabel Lucy
Alderson on 31 May 2003
Tim Steele and Angela welcomed son Benedict (Ben) Iain Thomas Steele
on 4 January 2004
Carl Ward and Heather welcomed son Cian Ward on 11 December 2003
Kate Barker and Phillip Joe welcomed son Finn Ju de Joe on 26 August
2003, a brother for Eli
David Foreman and Leah welcomed son Joshua Alan Jack Foreman on
11 May 2002, a brother for Samuel
Mrs Chantal Amoore Cox (neé Amoore) and Mark welcomed Romilly
Ellis Cox on 8 July 2003
Mrs Alison Hanson (neé Fears) welcomed son Andrew Richard Hanson
on 2 March 2003, a brother for James
Philippa Stacey and Patrice Negre welcomed son Benjamin Louis Negre
on 15 November 2002
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1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
Iain Bartram and Mrs Wendy Bartram (neé Rogers, 1990) welcomed
daughter Emily Jade Bartram on 11 July 2002
Mrs Alison Fanagan (neé Farrell) welcomed son Stephen Jody Fanagan
on 13 March 2003
Dr Simon Fisher and Vicky welcomed daughter Sophie Alice Fisher on
3 May 2003, a sister for Thomas
Cameron Mellor welcomed son Ashdon James Mellor on 28 February 2002
John Naylor and Emilia welcomed son Joseph Mathew Naylor on 20
September 2003
Jon Thornber and Liz welcomed son Benjamin Edward Thornber on 9
April 2003
Justin Wise welcomed Lior Ilan on 12 February 2003
Mrs Wendy Bartram (neé Rogers) and Iain Bartram (1988) welcomed
daughter Emily Jade Bartram on 11 July 2002
Dr Ebo Grant welcomed Somerset Grant on 28 October 2003
Dr David Foord and Victoria welcomed son Luca Joseph Yannic Foord
on 5 December 2002
Richard Snell and Mrs Suzanne Snell (neé Lynch) welcomed daughter
Emily Jane Snell on 16 February 2003
Dr Emma Tovey (neé Ridler) and Martin welcomed Abigail Grace Tovey
on 19 November 2003, a sister for Lilian
Dr Sarah Barrett Jones (neé Barrett) and Lindsay Jones (1995) welcomed
daughter Brooke Margaret Barrett Jones on 13 March 2003
Dr Wendy Goolcharan-Kumeta and Satish welcomed son Ajay Kumeta
Reddy on 22 November 2003
Wendy Russell Barter (neé Russell) and Gary Barter welcomed daughter
Evelyn Grace Barter on 21 February 2003
Assistant Professor Mary Bosworth and Anthony Gerbino welcomed
daughter Ella Michal Bosworth-Gerbino on 9 December 2003
Mrs Eiko Heffer (neé Shiomi) and Christopher welcomed son Reuben
Mizoguchi Heffer on 2 April 2003
Dr Rebecca Macfarlane (neé Ebsworth) and Iain Macfarlane welcomed
son James George Julian Macfarlane on 9 March 2003. He is a grandson
for Julian Ebsworth (1960)
Dr Nicola Saunders (neé Perkins) and Nicholas welcomed daughter
Olivia Emily Saunders on 8 January 2003
Mrs Felicitas Fletcher (neé von Selchow) and Harald welcomed daughter
Emilia Donata Felicitas Fletcher on 18 September 2003
Andres Garin and Vonda welcomed son Juan Carlos Garin on 24
November 2002
Mrs Nathalie Gleisberg (neé Lohse) and Thilo welcomed daughter
Margaux Gleisberg on 2 June 2003, a sister for Antoine
Martin Hurcomb and Clare welcomed son Matthew Charles Hurcomb
on 11 June 2003, a brother for James
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1996
1998
1999
2002
Lindsay Jones and Dr Sarah Barrett Jones (neé Barrett, 1992) welcomed
daughter Brooke Margaret Barrett Jones on 13 March 2003
Jaap Ora welcomed daughter Marta on 3 December 2002
Donna Smith and Declan Murphy welcomed daughter Caitlin Sophie
Murphy on 26 May 2003
Julie-Anne Bosich welcomed son Craig Andrew Ryan on 22 February
2003
Kim Field and Frantz welcomed daughter Audrey Grace Field on 25
February 2004
Sons & Daughters
It is well known that relatives of alumni of Trinity Hall cannot be given any preference in the admissions system, but the following students, currently in residence, are now ready to reveal their hitherto well-kept secret:
Sarah Bolton (2001) is the daughter of Dr Peter Bolton (1971)
Steven Cooper (2002) is the son of Andrew Cooper (1971)
James Griffiths (2003) is the son of Paul Griffiths (1976)
Zoe Lunnon (1997) is the daughter of Robert (Bob) Lunnon (1970)
Christobel Readman (2001) is the daughter of Peter Readman OBE (1966) and
granddaughter of Major John Readman TD (1933)
Alice Turtle (2003) is the sister of William Turtle (2000), daughter of Trevor Turtle
(1971), niece of Tim Guest (1971) and granddaughter of Gordon Guest (1941)
Ben Wylie (2001) is the son of Bartow Wylie (1969), nephew of Malcolm Wylie
(1967) and grandson of Shaun Wylie (Fellow 1939-1958, Honorary Fellow
1980-)
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Deaths
1925
1926
1928
1929
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
Lieutenant-Colonel William Robert Reeves DSO died on 26 November
2003
Lieutenant-Colonel A D Hunter died on 19 October 2003
Hon Sir Ralph Kilner Brown DL OBE TD died in June 2003
John Starke McGavin MC died on 16 March 2003
Gideon Elliot Pott died in July 2003
Colin Drake Yarrow died on 9 April 2003
Brigadier W Michael Eastwood White CBE died on 15 February 2003
William Douglas Wilson died on 5 April 2003
Peter Blandford died on 3 October 2003
Colonel David Archibald Campbell CBE died in 2003
Dr George Fraser Purves FRCA died in October 2003
Harold Wilberforce Roe Wardlaw died on 12 March 2003
Dr Keith Digby Young OBE died on 25 May 2003
Patrick St John Back QC died on 26 April 2003
Dr Cyril Brynmor Davies died on 5 November 2003
Peter Richard Oliver CMG died in January 2004
Professor Garth Chapman died in 2003
Theodore Sanger died in Spring 2003
Dr John Harley-Mason died on 1 October 2003
Michael Robert Hill died in March 2003
Thomas Symington McLeod died on 12 August 2003
J F Merceron died in May 2003
Donald Humphrey Spark died on 17 October 2003
Dr Eric Henry Walter Burt died on 13 June 2003
C Hugh Kinder FRCS died on the 22 December 2002
Francis Gordon McFarlane died on 20 March 2003
Dr David Berkeley Cathcart MRCGP died on 12 January 2003
Dr Leonard Haas FRCP died on 29 May 2003
Rt Hon Lord Milner of Leeds died on 16 September 2003
John Vaughan Wynne-Jones died in November 2002
John Drex Bush died on 30 January 2004
Professor Arthur Hubert Terry died on 24 January 2004
Edward John Carleton Wynne FRCS died in September 2003
Peter Henry Orme died on 7 October 2002
Revd Bill Seymour Skelton DSO DFC died on 24 May 2003
Norman Leonard Webb died on 8 March 2003
Ian McCulloch died in March 2003
David William Ruffell died in March 2003
Sir Antony Fyson Buck Kt QC died on 6 October 2003
James Beswick died on 1 April 2003
E J Trevor Davies died on 2 June 2003
Revd David Leonard Stevens died on 3 January 2004
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1955
1956
1958
1959
1961
1964
1965
1970
1972
1991
2000
Andrew Arthur Bishop OBE died on 18 November 2003
William Gwynne Hopkin died on 31 October 2003
Basil Fullelove Mogridge died in April 2003
J Roger Tresias died on 17 February 2003
J Michael Jackson died on 22 December 2003
Professor David Edmund Newbold died in 2003
Professor Simon Daniel White Collier died on 20 February 2003
Clive Michael Richard Wills died in July 2003
Dr Michael St John Arnold died in 2003
Stephen Laurence Richard Kellett died on 21 January 2004
Professor Leon Edward Wein died in 2003
Anthony Hemens died on 14 December 2003
David James Cattle died on 25 January 2004
Douglas Brian George Curtis died on 3 September 2003
Nicholas Adrian Meadows died on 8 July 2003
Jonathan Leiboff died on 13 October 2003
Raul Rivadeneyra died on 17 January 2004
Ex-Fellow, Professor Geoffrey Stephen Kirk FBA died on 10 March 2003
Obituaries
Brooke Ernest Adenbrooke Crutchley (Emeritus Fellow)
Brooke Crutchley’s 28 years as university printer at Cambridge saw enormous changes both in the University Press and in the wider printing
industry. Crutchley, who has died aged 96, oversaw not only a great
expansion of University Printing – and the move of the printing house
from its cramped city-centre site to new factory buildings on the edge –
but also the shift from hot-metal composition and letterpress printing to
filmsetting and offset.
Crutchley was born in Bedford Park, London, the son of a civil servant.
After Shrewsbury school and Trinity Hall, where he later became ViceMaster (1966-70), he worked for a year as a journalist on the Yorkshire
Post before being invited to Cambridge as assistant university printer in
1930.
Walter Lewis, the man who took him on, was a master-printer of the
old school, and was making the press one of the most highly regarded
printing houses in the country – both for its design and its presswork.
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Lewis retired in 1946, and Crutchley took over, himself retiring in 1974.
In those three decades, the University Press finally outgrew the Pitt
Building site, where the printing workshops were crowded cheek-byjowl with the editorial offices. The move to Shaftesbury Road was made
in 1963.
Crutchley’s organisational ability and interest in people made him the
ideal person to plan the new factory, supervise the change of location and
oversee the enormous developments in printing technology and working practices. But his respect for learning and typographical tradition
ensured that the University Press’s reputation for good design and high
production standards was maintained.
After his retirement, Brooke wrote an autobiography, To Be A Printer
(1980), adding to his memoirs of a working life, which had begun with
the 1968 Christmas Book, Two Men. He was made a CBE in 1954.
Brooke Crutchley is survived by his wife Diana, whom he married in
1936, two sons and a daughter.
Taken from The Guardian (5 September 2003)
Dr Joseph Anthony Cremona (Emeritus Fellow)
Asked once what his native language was, the Romance linguist Joe
Cremona, who has died aged 80 of a heart attack, replied that he was
unsure. He was born and raised in Rome, where he spoke Italian, along
with some Maltese at home, and French at school. At 17, he came to
London to study English; in time, only the keenest ear could tell that he
was not a native speaker.
Yet it was not always apparent that he would be a linguist. He studied
medicine at St Bartholomew’s hospital before joining the Royal Navy
in 1943, where he wrote technical manuals on radar equipment and
developed an enthusiasm for language teaching, giving private lessons
in French and Italian.
This growing inclination led Joe, in 1946, to read French with Spanish
at University College London. He took his PhD (on a dialect of the
Pyrenees, under the supervision of W D Elcock) at Westfield College
in 1956, having become, the previous year, the first lecturer at Cambridge
University in Romance philology, a subject covering the history and
structure of languages derived from Latin. He became a Fellow at Trinity
Hall in 1966, and retired in 1989.
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Joe was a great and dedicated teacher and in time became chairman of
the Faculty Board of Modern Languages and Vice Master of Trinity Hall.
His name became known to a non-specialist public through his
involvement in the highly successful BBC French, Italian and Spanish
courses. His research flourished in retirement, with a series of studies on
the history of Maltese, the Mediterranean lingua franca, and the use of
Italian as a diplomatic language from the 16th century.
He was at his most memorable in small tutorials. His speech was
clipped, and so quiet that he was sometimes inaudible. Frequent puffs on
his cigarette were accompanied by characteristic interjections, such as
“Do you follow?” and “Listen”, which could give more timid undergraduates the impression that they were being reproached, but actually
reflected his concern that students really should understand.
Joe firmly established the study of Romance linguistics at Cambridge,
and was justly proud of the fact that a great many of those currently
teaching the history and structure of Romance languages in British
universities had been his students (or, latterly, had been taught by his
students). If the subject is buoyant and flourishing today, then a very large
share of the credit goes to him.
He favoured no particular language, and no particular theoretical
approach, encouraging a tolerant, but critical attitude to all aspects of the
subject.
This genial spirit is the hallmark of what has become the principal
forum of British Romance linguistics, the annual Cambridge Romance
linguistics seminar, which Joe, together with a group of graduate
students, founded more than 30 years ago.
A devoted family man, he leaves a widow, Pamela, two children by his
first marriage, and three stepchildren.
Taken from The Guardian (23 April 2003)
Professor William Cochran (Honorary Fellow)
William Cochran, who died on 28 August 2003 at the age of 81, was a
distinguished physicist of international renown. During the 1950s and
1960s he did pioneering work on many of the problems that underpinned
Nobel prizes won by others, including the structure of DNA, so-called
‘direct methods’ for determining the arrangement of atoms in crystal
structures, and the interpretation of the way atoms vibrate in solids. He
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was also responsible for major advances in the theoretical understanding
of the way crystalline solids transform from one structure to another,
often accompanied by important changes in physical properties.
Bill Cochran was born on 30 July 1922 and was educated at
Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh before going to the University
of Edinburgh to read physics. After receiving a First Class degree he
became an Assistant in the Department of Natural Philosophy in
Edinburgh, but soon realised that his research would be better pursued
in the Chemistry Department. Here he worked with Arnold Beevers on
x-ray crystallography, and determined the crystal structure of sucrose and
its derivatives, combining this with his wartime obligations as an air-raid
warden. He was awarded his PhD in Chemistry in 1946 and left
Edinburgh in 1948 for the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge where he
held a succession of posts as Demonstrator, Lecturer and Reader until
1964.
In this period he performed much of the research for which he is well
known. His interest and skills in the determination of complex crystal
structures of organic molecules led Francis Crick to seek his assistance
with the problem of understanding the diffraction patterns of DNA, and
together they worked out a solution for the scattering from a helical structure that enabled Crick and Watson to obtain their Nobel prize-winning
structure of DNA.
In 1964 Bill was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of
Edinburgh, and established a new research group on condensed matter
physics. In 1975 he became Professor of Natural Philosophy and Head of
Department, leading to roles as Dean of the Faculty of Science and then
Vice-Principal.
Bill was also a Fellow and then Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall. As a
teacher he was revered by all students for the clarity of his explanations
of even the most difficult topics, leavened by humour and an annual
limerick competition.
He was a keen Scotsman, with interests in Scottish literature and
heritage, and an enduring affection for the Scottish landscape. He will be
sorely missed by his son and two daughters, and by his wife, Ingegerd,
whom he married in 1953.
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Lieutenant-Colonel William Robert Reeves (1925)
Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Reeves, who has died aged 97, played a leading part
in one of the crucial actions fought by the British Expeditionary Force near
Dunkirk and was awarded one of the first DSOs of the Second World War.
On 21 May 1940, 3 Royal Tank Regiment received emergency orders to
proceed immediately from England to Calais. On the night of 23 May,
Reeves was ordered to reconnoitre the road to Gravelines and to report
on the strength of the enemy forces. After clearing some unmanned roadblocks, he found himself passing between a column of German tanks, half
tracks and artillery parked at the roadside. It would have been suicidal
to engage them, and he ordered his crews to keep down in their turrets.
Some of the German troops, mistaking the tanks for their own, waved to
the British, who returned the greeting.
At 2am the troop got through to Gravelines, where Reeves contacted
the French garrison commander and strongly advised him to destroy the
three main bridges over the canal to the west of the town. The commander was not prepared to do this, and the next morning, as Reeves
deployed his tanks overlooking the bridges, the Germans signalled the
start of the battle by bombarding the town with mortars.
The Germans, determined to break through the Allies’ rapidly shrinking defensive perimeter, made repeated assaults throughout the day in
an attempt to get their tanks across the canal; but Reeves, continually
moving his tanks to keep the enemy in ignorance of the size of his tiny
force, beat them back again and again. He finally withdrew after dark on
the orders of the garrison commander, his ammunition almost exhausted.
Hitler’s order to halt the German Panzer forces was sent out “in clear”
at midday. Had Reeves and the French troops at Gravelines not stopped
the Germans, the 1st Panzer Division might have been in Dunkirk that
morning. On 26 May, in a special order issued by the Commander-inChief, Field Marshal Lord Gort, Reeves was awarded an immediate DSO
in recognition of the part that he had played in these events.
William Robert Reeves, always known as Bill, was born at Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, on 26 May 1906. The son of an officer in the Field Artillery, he
was educated at Monkton Combe, near Bath, before going up to Trinity
Hall to read Geography. He was a good runner, rowed in the College VIII
and, after serving in the OTC, was granted a Direct Entry Commission
into the Royal Tank Corps.
In 1942 Reeves took command of 4 RTR in Palestine where the regiment, which had suffered heavy losses at Tobruk, was being reinforced
and retrained. 4 RTR was ordered into Tobruk on 19 June and, the next
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day, after the Germans broke through the outer defence, Reeves was
ordered to counter-attack. Despite being dive-bombed, outnumbered and
outgunned, 4 RTR inflicted heavy losses on the German armour before
all their tanks were destroyed.
Tobruk having fallen, the survivors of the regiment attempted to make
their way along the coast on foot; but Reeves, like most of his comrades,
was captured within a few days and handed over to the Italians. He
escaped from the PoW camp in Italy and spent several months on the run
in the Appennines. He was re-captured and, after the Italian Armistice,
transferred to Oflag 79, near Brunswick, where he spent the rest of the war.
Having retired in 1949, Reeves farmed in Wales until he was 75. He was
a gentle, unassuming man with a great love of music, and throughout his
life, at moments of stress, he would turn to his piano and Chopin. Until
well into his nineties, he kept geese, hens and bees.
Bill Reeves married, in 1929, Joan Jarvis, who predeceased him. He is
survived by a son and a daughter.
Taken from The Telegraph (27 November 2003)
Hon Sir Ralph Kilner Brown (1928)
Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, who has died aged
93, served during the Second World War as a
Brigadier on Field Marshal Montgomery’s
staff planning the Normandy landings, and
later concluded a varied judicial career as a
kindly and fair-minded judge of the High
Court, Queen’s Bench Division.
When war broke out Brown was a barrister
of five years’ standing and a Young Liberal
noted for his impassioned speeches denouncing appeasement. Also an outstanding athlete,
he was British 440 yards hurdles champion
and had competed at international meetings on the Continent. His greatest
disappointment was missing the Berlin Olympics in 1936 due to injury.
Brown enlisted in the South Staffordshire Regiment as a private and
was commissioned the next year. In 1941 his application to transfer to the
RAF for pilot training was rejected on the grounds that he was “too old
and too intelligent”, and instead he was chosen for Staff College.
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In January 1942 Brown began work on the detailed planning of crossChannel operations, with particular responsibility for questions of buildup, supply and maintenance. This was the planning team that would lay
the foundation for the ultimate “Overlord” invasion of Europe in 1944.
When the war ended he was kept on by Montgomery to help oversee
the transfer to military government, during which time he compiled the
official Army textbook on Administration in the Field of War. He was
mentioned in dispatches and appointed OBE (military) in 1945.
After retiring, he wrote a book, Top Brass and No Brass (1991), in which
he challenged the view that a vigorous America had won the war for a
spent Britain.
Ralph Kilner Brown was born on 28 August 1909 in Calcutta and spent
his early childhood 100 miles north of there at Bankura. In 1915 Ralph’s
mother took him and his three younger siblings back to England. After
six months they all returned to Bengal apart from young Ralph, who was
left with his maternal grandparents. He was educated at Kingswood
School, Bath, and at Trinity Hall, where he was Squire Law Scholar,
runner-up for the Presidency of the Union and leader of the Young
Liberals. He represented Cambridge three times at athletics and only
narrowly missed a Blue at cricket.
Called to the Bar by Middle Temple as a Harmsworth Scholar in 1934, he
began practising in Birmingham at the chambers of Donald Finnemore, a
nonconformist and teetotaller who expected his juniors to take on a company
of the Boys’ Brigade. Brown duly formed a company at Kingstanding, a new
estate on the outskirts for families from the slums of Aston.
When Brown resumed his mixed common law practice at the Bar after
demobilisation in 1946, he took over the command of the Birmingham
Battalion of the Boys’ Brigade, whose 40 companies trained 2,000 boys
over the next 10 years. He also contested four general elections for the
Liberals, polling well but without success.
At the Bar Brown was known as a measured, skilful advocate and a
brilliant mitigator. He took Silk in 1958.
His judicial career began with his appointment in 1954 as deputy chairman of Warwickshire Quarter Sessions; he became chairman 10 years later.
Always fair and likeable, he was Recorder of Lincoln (1960-64) and
Recorder of Birmingham (1964-65) before being appointed as an Additional
Judge of the Old Bailey and then as Recorder of Liverpool (1967-69).
After being appointed to the High Court bench in 1970, Kilner Brown
spent five years as presiding judge on the Northern Circuit.
He was elected a Bencher of Middle Temple in 1964, knighted in 1970
and was Master Reader of Middle Temple in 1982, when he published
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The Office of Reader in the Middle Temple. He served for many years as
a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire.
Ralph Kilner Brown was a gentle and modest man of complete integrity,
as popular with other members of his profession as he was with friends.
In 1943 he married Rosemary Breffit; they had a son and two daughters.
Taken from The Telegraph (20 June 2003)
Donald Humphrey Spark (1939)
Donald Spark, former senior partner of long-established Worthing solicitors Verrall and Son, died on 17 October, after falling asleep while on a
cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean, a style of holiday he loved. He was
82. He was at Trinity Hall from 1939 to 1941 and again in 1945/6. He
played hockey for the Hall, and the College awarded him the Squire law
scholarship after he passed the law tripos with first class honours starred.
At the start of the war, young men did not join the Forces till they were
20. This led Cambridge to offer two-year degree courses. Donald Spark
did a year of history and then a year of law before going to an officer cadet
training unit and being commissioned into the Royal Artillery. He served
in North Africa and Italy from late 1942 until 1945, taking part in the
assault on the Mareth Line in Tunisia and the landing at Salerno. He
narrowly escaped serious injury when the Germans lobbed a grenade on
to the parapet of his observation post near an Italian river.
When the war ended, Trinity Hall got him released early from the army
and he spent a year studying for his bachelor of laws degree. Then he
served articles with Freshfields.
On qualifying, he decided to give up commercial law and deal with
people. He joined Verralls soon after his marriage and dealt with the legal
problems of anyone who came into the office off the street, hundreds of
clients in all. A colleague describes him as “an absolutely cracking good
lawyer”.
He became senior partner in 1976, at a time when legal practices were
merging to form larger ones. The Verrall practice is now part of Thomas
Eggar, one of the largest in the South-East.
His wife Ruth died in 2001, shortly after they celebrated their golden
wedding. He leaves two daughters, Judy and Hilary, and three grandchildren.
Written by his brother, David Spark
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C Hugh Kinder (1940)
Hugh Kinder died just before Christmas 2003. He died as he had lived:
bravely, and with the full support of an army of friends and a loving
family. Indeed he chose to allow himself to die from malignancy in much
the same way as he chose to retire from urological practice – at a time of
his choosing. And such was the man that he shrugged off his first two
primary malignancies and it took a third one to finally fell him.
He was born in 1922, the son of a civil engineer in Egypt and his early
days were spent in Alexandria. As a boy, he returned with his family to
England and the rest of his childhood was spent in Kent. After preparatory school in Seaford, he went to Sherborne where he developed three
of his many interests in life outside medicine. He became a sportsman, he
learned about falconry and he learnt to paint. From Sherborne he went to
Trinity Hall, shortly after the outbreak of the second world war. He
enjoyed himself enormously, not least because that is where he met
Audrey, his wife to be. He was a prop forward in Ronald Sinclair’s very
successful Cuppers XV, and rowed in the Rugger boat.
As an undergraduate he was already firmly committed to a career in
surgery, and in 1942, he went from Cambridge to Guy’s for his clinical
training – and also to further his career in rugby football. Much as he
enjoyed playing rugby and boxing for the hospital, which seems to have
taken up much of his time, he developed his interest in surgery. He then
spent two years in the Royal Air Force before returning to Guy’s.
He became interested in urology as a result of working with Kilp (Mr F R
Kilpatrick) who was urologist at Guy’s and at St Peter’s Hospital (as it was
then). In 1958, he became Consultant Urologist at Guy’s and with Kilp turned
Guy’s into one of the best departments of urology in London. He retired in
1986, after being involved in almost every activity he could have been
involved in and chairman of almost every committee at one stage or another.
The central focus for Hugh was always his family. Hugh and Audrey
had a happy and enduring marriage, celebrating their Golden Wedding
in 1999. They had five children – all of whom have been prolific in providing grandchildren – and one of whom, Richard, also became a urologist.
But more than anything he was just a great guy. He encouraged,
cajoled, persuaded his junior and senior colleagues to work, to learn, to
develop and particularly to work together.
On retirement he and Audrey moved to South Walsham in Norfolk to
pursue his interests: his family, sailing, gardening, painting and in village
life around him. Norfolk had become the major family focus for the
Kinder family many years ago because of his love of sailing and it was
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the obvious place to retire to. He raced sailing dinghies for 64 years and
was still racing a few months before he died. Living just down river from
Hickling, Hugh was a founder member of the Hickling Broad Sailing
Club, and was a highly skilled and successful helmsman.
He and Audrey became very active in local village life and as in every
other thing he had ever done, he became Chairman of that too – specifically Chairman of the Parish Council.
Despite cancer, he fought off ill health all his life until his last few years
when he developed a third primary tumour and he fought that off too
until he finally decided he had had enough and died with his family all
around him on 22 December 2003.
Written by A R Mundy, a friend and colleague
Rt Hon Lord Milner of Leeds (1942)
Lord Milner of Leeds, who died on August 20 aged 79, combined a career
as a solicitor, specialising in property, with that of being a busy, if modest,
member of the House of Lords.
He served as a junior Labour whip during the Heath government from
1971 to 1974. When Tony Blair introduced his constitutional changes in
1999 he was one of the two hereditary Labour peers elected.
Arthur James Michael Milner was born on 12 September 1923 into a
family of Leeds solicitors. His father was a solicitor and Labour MP for
Leeds, who became the 1st Lord Milner of Leeds and a Deputy Speaker of
the Lords. Young Mike was brought up in Leeds and sent to Oundle before
going into the RAF. After the war, he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to
read Law and, as a member of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, flew Spitfires
with 609 (West Riding) Squadron at weekends. In 1952, he came out to
specialise in property law with the family firm, based in London.
A rally driver in his younger days, Milner was a useful member of the
Lords swimming team. Although broadly supportive of the Blair government’s constitutional changes, he was bemused by the way they were
introduced. His own death creates a by-election in the Lords amongst
Labour hereditaries.
Milner married Sheila Margaret Hartley in 1951, who died in 2000; in
2002, he married Helen Cutting Wilmerding. There were two daughters,
one of whom predeceased him, and a son, Richard James Milner, who
succeeds in the peerage.
Taken from The Telegraph (15 September 2003)
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Revd Bill Seymour Skelton (1946)
The Rev Bill Skelton, who has died aged 82,
was part of a highly successful night-fighter
team during the Second World War; later he
was ordained an Anglican priest and was
drawn to the liberal tradition often called
“South Bank religion”.
Known as “the night hawk partners”,
Skelton (as navigator) and Branse Burbridge
(as pilot) were officially credited with
destroying 21 enemy aircraft. Skelton’s
brilliance with airborne radar over Britain
and Germany was recognised with the awards of a DFC and Bar in 1944
and a DSO and Bar in 1945.
Frank Seymour Skelton, always known as Bill, was born at Pirbright,
Surrey, on 26 August 1920 and educated at Blundells. He enlisted in the
RAF in 1940, and was commissioned the following year to rise to the rank
of acting squadron leader.
After the war, he read History and Theology at Trinity Hall, and
came under the influence of Launcelot Fleming. Skelton, a moderate
evangelical, completed his training for the ministry at Ridley Hall,
Cambridge.
From 1950 to 1952 he was a curate at Ormskirk, Lancashire, then
returned to Cambridge as chaplain of Clare College. Skelton shared in
devising one of the early new ways of celebrating the Eucharist, and also
in the re-ordering of the College chapel to make this possible. But his
primary responsibility was pastoral work among the undergraduates,
and he exercised this more widely in the Cambridge pastorate.
Also at Cambridge then, as Vicar of Great St Mary’s, the University
church, was Mervyn Stockwood. When Stockwood moved to Southwark,
where he founded “South Bank religion” with Robinson, Skelton, whose
own beliefs were now becoming more liberal, followed him.
From 1959 to 1969 he was Rector of the large parish of Bermondsey
where, aided by four curates, he carried out a vigorous pastoral ministry,
with much civic involvement throughout the area.
In 1963 he became one of Bishop Stockwood’s honorary chaplains,
which mainly involved walking with him on Saturday afternoons; two
years later Skelton was appointed Rural Dean of Bermondsey. Stockwood
tried, but failed, to persuade him to become suffragan Bishop of Kingston
upon Thames, and later Skelton declined the offer of the Bishopric of
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Liverpool. In the circumstances this was probably wise, for in 1969 he had
a severe emotional breakdown.
On his recovery, Skelton decided not to return to the direct service of
the Church, and became director of the Lambeth Endowed Charities.
Over the next 16 years he administered with considerable flair an old
housing estate, almshouses and several other charities, laying the foundations of their present financial strength.
He also became involved in the charitable work of the Coopers’
Company, of which he was a Liveryman for many years. Skelton served
as Master in 1985, and was associated with St Botolph’s Church, Aldgate,
which provided him with a spiritual home in retirement.
Skelton, who died on 24 May, was unmarried; but for the last 21 years
of his life he found emotional fulfilment with his close friend Christopher
Eldridge.
Taken from The Telegraph (31 May 2003)
Norman Leonard Webb (1947)
The statistician Norman Webb invented TAN-ratings in the early years of
television audience measurement. As an executive working for the
market research firm Attwood Statistics, conducting consumer polls, he
was instrumental in devising a system in which recording equipment was
fitted on to a representative number of television sets scattered throughout Britain in a social mix to measure the week’s viewing. The data was
processed studiously by housewives enjoying a pocket-money cottage
industry.
From Attwood, Webb joined Gallup Poll, and could be seen at night
pacing the corridors of The Daily Telegraph, clutching a bunch of damp
galley-proofs relating to the latest Gallup results. The poll was under
contract to the newspaper, and one of Webb’s functions was to liaise with
its leader writers as to how best to interpret the results.
Webb rose to be chief executive and international secretary of Gallup
in Britain, visiting the Soviet Union to open up new business.
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Sir Antony Fyson Buck (1949)
Smiling Sir Antony Buck QC, who has died aged 74, was, for 31 years, the
Conservative MP for Colchester (1961-83) and Colchester North (198392), and a former navy minister. His smile, which could lighten any room,
was powered both by good nature and gullibility. This gullibility was
shown in both his professional and public life.
While he was an active politician, he swallowed, in 1968, the PR men’s
gloss about the loyalty to the Nato alliance of the semi-fascist Greek
colonels. He even welcomed the Turkish army’s takeover of northern
Cyprus. He was gullible, too, about President Reagan’s star wars’ proposals in 1987. But these could be understood as the naivety to which orthodox Tories, superloyal to the Atlantic alliance, were prone.
What destroyed his reputation, within two years of his 1992 retirement
from the Commons, was his incredible gullibility about women. His brief
marriage (1990-93) to the Spanish-born adventuress Bienvenida PerezBlanco was an expensive misadventure. Within months, Bienvenida had
moved on to another marriage, and Sir Antony had acquired a persistent
Russian widow, Tamara, as his third wife.
The exposure of Buck’s inappropriate private life was all the greater
because, until then, his career had seemed the epitome of middle-ranking orthodox Tory establishment achievement, crowned by a knighthood.
He was born in Cambridge. After King’s school, Ely, he went into the
army for his national service, serving in Berlin during the Soviet blockade. On his return, he read history and law at Trinity Hall, and was chairman of the University Conservative association and College captain of
swimming. He became a barrister in 1954, and a QC in 1974.
He tried unsuccessfully to become the Conservative candidate for
Cambridge in 1960, but was elected for Colchester in 1961. Initially, he was
a seldom-heard, dull but courteous, clubbable right-ish loyalist with a heart.
Under Edward Heath, he served as parliamentary under-secretary of
state for defence (Royal Navy), from 1972 to 1974. In the contest for the
next leader, in 1975, he strongly backed Sir Geoffrey Howe instead of
Margaret Thatcher.
Tall and bony, a jolly, wine-drinking charmer, he seemed to have a weakness for foreign women. His first marriage, to an Australian, Judy, lasted
from 1955 until 1989; his divorce compelled him to sell his Georgian house
with its swimming pool. The next year, he was scooped up by the socialclimbing Bienvenida. His 1994 on-off marriage to Tamara lasted until his
death. She survives him as does Louisa, a daughter of his first marriage.
Taken from The Guardian (11 October 2003)
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Andrew Arthur Bishop (1952)
Andrew Bishop entered Oundle School in Dryden House in 1946. He left in
1950 to do his National Service in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment before
going up to Trinity Hall in 1952 to read Natural Sciences. He played rugby
and rowed for the College and was a member of the Asparagus Club (of
which he was “Chief Chef” in 1954/55). On going down from Cambridge
he went to teach chemistry at Harrow School. Before going to Harrow he
had married Margaret whom he had met at Cambridge. They went to
Harrow with a young daughter. A son and a second daughter followed. He
was following a family tradition set by his father, and proudly taught from
his father’s text book. The large and tired lecture room in which he first
taught was ideal for his large and inspirational personality. His lectures were
full of exciting demonstrations – flames, phosphorescence, bangs and even
his own voice raised in pitch an octave or two by inhaling helium. He set
high standards for himself, his colleagues and his pupils.
In 1958 he was appointed Head of Chemistry and then in 1966 Head
of Science. He was an excellent organiser whose administrative skills
were extremely sound. From an early stage he was active in curriculum
development both inside and outside the School. The Nuffield
Development of Science revolutionised the way science was taught in
schools and he became the first chief examiner for Nuffield ‘A’ level chemistry. He wrote his own ‘0’ level course in ‘Environmental Science’, feeling strongly that all pupils had the right to have an education in Science
up to the age of 16, but that syllabi were not always appropriate. In 1981
he felt that he knew all the answers on School Chemistry and so he
switched to teaching Physics; this he did to all levels with considerable
success, moving into the new Physics block which he had helped to
master-mind when it was built in 1971.
Andrew was active in general education outside the School for most of
his teaching career and early on he became involved with the School Science
Review. In 1966 he became the editor of this august and excellent quarterly
journal for Science teachers. He was chairman of the Association for Science
Education for a year in 1976. For his many services to Science education he
was honoured with the OBE in 1994.
In 1973 he was appointed House Master of Rendalls where he ruled
with a firm hand for fifteen years. When he entered Rendalls, his family
were in their teens and this gave him a balanced outlook on the problems
of young people.
Andrew was also a sincere and enthusiastic Freemason. He was initiated into the Universal Lodge in 1964 and later became its Master. He
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joined the Old Harrovian Lodge in 1972 and was later appointed to Senior
London Grand Rank and Senior Rank in the Province of Middlesex.
Andrew was one of the great tradition of inspirational schoolmasters. He
was loved by all with whom he came into contact and will be greatly missed.
Written by Patrick Cooke-Priest MA FRICS, Harrow School (1952-1957), Christ’s College,
Cambridge (1960-1963)
Professor Simon Daniel White Collier (1958)
The prime academic interest of Simon Collier, who has died aged 64, was
Chilean political history, and he co-edited the groundbreaking Cambridge
Encyclopaedia of Latin America and The Caribbean (1985). Yet it is for his
passion for Argentinian tango, and his The Life, The Music and Times of
Carlos Gardel (1986), and his biography of composer Astor Piazzolla (2000)
that he will be best remembered.
Collier was part of a generation that emerged from Cambridge University
in the 1960s to establish Latin American studies in British universities. His
first book was a history of Chilean independence, while his latest (forthcoming this year) is on the making of the Chilean republic in the 19th century.
As one of the first academics to talk about popular music and culture,
notably the intertwining of the history of the tango with the city of Buenos
Aires in the work of Gardel, his seminars were insightful and hugely
entertaining. “I love it as it is an opportunity to play records and have
fun,” he would say. And like any historian, his hugely rich collection was
meticulously catalogued. As consultant for Harlequin Records, his sleeve
notes for 20 of their tango history collections are a major contribution to
tango recording history.
Collier’s evocative biography of Gardel was the first in English, and
undoubtedly one of the best in any language, and if his Gardel was an
accessible, popular book, Collier’s biography of Piazzolla, written with
his Argentinian colleague María Susana Azzi, was a tour de force. It
followed Tango (1995), which he and Azzi had co-authored, and which
Collier described as a serious, coffee-table book.
The eldest of seven children, born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, he
inherited his father’s passion for history and literature, and his mother’s
for music. He played the piano by ear, and entertained his family with
popular hit songs. He went to Bedford school and, after national service
in the RAF, read history to postgraduate level at Trinity Hall, where he
led the Hourglass debating group.
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He taught history at Essex University (1965-91), during which time he
had four spells as a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin. In
1991, he was tempted away to become Director of the Centre for Latin
American and Iberian studies, and chairman of the History Department,
at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. In his Essex farewell speech, ever
informed by popular music, he cited Hank Williams: “No, it ain’t Dallas,
it ain’t Dynasty, It’s jest knocking out a living down in Tennessee.” And
he always ensured his visitors got a rich taste of Nashville’s music scene.
Warm, generous and full of wry humour, Collier was supportive and
encouraging to his colleagues and friends, and cherished by all. Collier’s
honours included the Order of Andrés Bello from the Republic of
Venezuela. In 2000 he became a Knight Commander of Chile’s Order of
Bernardo O’Higgins.
He died peacefully, the songs of his beloved Carlos Gardel playing
softly in the background. He is survived by his six brothers and sisters.
Taken from The Guardian (11 October 2003)
Nicholas Adrian Meadows (1972)
I cannot remember exactly which year Nick Meadows first entered my
life, but it marked an unforgettable and important moment. It may have
been when he came for interview or when he first arrived at Trinity Hall,
but what I can remember as if it were yesterday is that he had long hair,
Granny Smith round glasses and wore work clothes. The Trinity Hall style
had changed. The year before, cavalry twills, checked shirts and tweed
jackets had been the mode; Nick represented something different. And I
knew it at the time. Nick reminded me of that passage in Goethe’s autobiography, Poetry and Truth, where he describes how in 1770 he and his
fellow students “went natural”, took off their powdered wigs and French
cravates and allowed their hair to grow long. They opened their shirts
and loosened their belts. It was the beginning of Sturm und Drang, an early
version of Romanticism. As I looked at Nick, I knew I was looking at one
of those mysterious sea-changes in human affairs, a break in sensibility.
Now with hindsight, I know that Nick represented the 1960s, its new
sensibility, its political engagement, its rejection of bourgeois morality
and convention.
As you mourn him, I mourn with you and not only for the person but
for that whole generation whose hopes rose in 1968 only to be crushed
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and who lived to see the world of Bush, global McDonaldism, religious
fundamentalism, inequality and despair. Nick died as he lived, looking
for and working towards a better future. There are worse fates. His friends
and family, can be proud of what he represented.
Written by Professor Jonathan Steinberg (Fellow, 1966-1999) for Nick’s Memorial Service
Professor Geoffrey Stephen Kirk (Fellow)
Professor Geoffrey Kirk, who died aged 81,
held the Regius Chair in Greek at
Cambridge from 1974 until 1982, and revolutionised the study of the Presocratic
philosophers and, later, Homer; he was also
one of the band of classicists involved in
cloak-and-dagger operations around the
Greek islands during the Second World War.
Throughout his career his main interests
were in early Greek literature, especially
philosophy, Homer and myth, and on these
often murky and always much disputed subjects he shone a bright, clear,
cool-headed and well-focused light.
In 1954 he produced Heraclitus: the Cosmic Fragments, a brilliant and
quite new attempt to penetrate this most interesting and obscure of
Presocratic natural scientists. This was followed in 1957 by The Presocratic
Philosophers: a Critical History with a Selection of Texts (with J E Raven), in
which he and Raven attempted an analytical coverage of all the
Presocratics, based on the surviving fragments, which were all quoted in
Greek and translated.
This was an immediate success, bringing these fascinating but difficult
early thinkers within the scope of anyone with an interest in the subject.
Constantly revised, updated and re-edited, it is still the standard work on
the subject.
During his war service with the Levant Schooner Flotilla, Kirk landed
at many points on the Greek islands and along the Turkish coast. On
Andros, he quelled a rebellion by German prisoners over their rations by
offering to present them to the starving Greeks nearby (who planned to
pull out their fingernails before killing them). This move immediately
calmed German and Greek discontent. He was awarded the DSC for his
work in 1945.
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Geoffrey Stephen Kirk was born on 3 December 1921, and was
educated at Rossall School and Clare College, Cambridge. After the
outbreak of war, Kirk enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1941, and was
commissioned the following year.
After the war, Kirk graduated from Cambridge in 1946 and was immediately offered a Research Fellowship, and then a full Fellowship, at
Trinity Hall, which he held till 1970. Kirk was a breath of fresh air in the
Classics faculty.
On the strength of the precocious brilliance demonstrated in Heraclitus
and The Presocratic Philosophers, Kirk was appointed a youthful Fellow of
the British Academy in 1959 and Reader in Greek at Cambridge in 1961.
In 1962 he produced another deeply influential work, The Songs of
Homer, a superbly clear and well-reasoned survey of the state of the
Homeric studies.
Now a scholar with a world-wide reputation, Kirk took up the chair of
Classics at Yale in 1965, and in 1971 returned to Britain to take up the chair
at Bristol.
When he returned to Cambridge in 1974 as Regius Professor of Greek
and as a Fellow of Trinity, a degree of disillusionment had already set in.
Prone to a degree of cynicism about academic decision-making
anyway, he became something of an alienated and detached figure, not
helped by the fact that he had chosen to live in Suffolk where he could
sail.
As a result, he retired early from the chair in 1982, and devoted his next
10 years to the brilliant Cambridge six-volume commentary on Homer’s
Iliad. General editor of the complete series, he contributed the first two
volumes (Books 1-4, 1985, and 5-8, 1990) and was a generous and sympathetic adviser to the international team of scholars which completed the
series in 1993.
He married Barbara Traill in 1950; they had a daughter. The marriage
was dissolved in 1975, and that year he married, Kirsten Ricks (née
Jensen). She survives him, together with his daughter and his four stepchildren.
Taken from The Telegraph (13 March 2003)
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Trinity Hall Year Representatives
1935
Michael Page MC
1936
Bevis Sanford
1937
Dr Robert Miller FRCP
1938
Dr Peter Trier CBE FREng
1940-46
d’Arcy Orders MBE
1947
Dr Michael Mynott
1948
Roy Barter
1949
Ian Romer
1950
Bob Ely
1951
His Honour Angus Macdonald
1952
Dr Keith Humphreys CBE
1953
John Russell
1954
Dominic Brooks
1955
Miles Halford
1956
Michael Shipley
1957
Martin Wolferstan
1958
Peter Hill RD
1959
Richard Devit
1960
Julian Ebsworth
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1961
Andrew Medlicott
1962
Colin Hayes
1963
Professor John Pollard
1964
Dr Tom Bigge RD
1965
& Frank Conley FRSA
David Bell
1966
Martin Williams
1967
Chris Angus
1968
Henry Poole
1969
Simon Jones
1970
Tim Stevenson
1971
John Ellard
1972
Geoff Gardiner
1973
Roy
1974
Guy Brannan
1975
Nick Eastwell
1976
Rob Highmore
1977
Andrew Burr
1977
Lizzie Irons
1978
Christopher Grigg & Dr Fionna Grigg (née Stirling)
1979
Roger McKinlay FIEE
1980
Dr Geoff Parks
1981
Sarah Webbe
1983
Year Rep Wanted
Warden
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1984
Andrew Moore
& Mrs Sue Whalley
1985
Jackie Horne
1986
Tim Bennett
1987
Dave Johnson
1987
(Grads) Dr Harry Bradshaw
1988
Mrs Helen Powell
1988
(Grads) Mrs Rosalind Lane
1989
Arwen Handley
& Dr Andrew Pauza
1990
Mrs Helen Chalk
1991
Paddy Doris
1991
(Grads) Dr Mark Field
1992
Chaz Dheer
1993
Miss Lee Davidson
1993
& Liz Phillips
(Grads) Wendy Russell Barter
1994
Chris Hancock
1994
(Grads) Dr Sarah Barrett Jones
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1995
Nick Forbes
1995
(Grads) Dr Alex Schroeder
1996
Helen Barraclough
& Mary Wilson
1996
(Grads) Dr Eric Breton
1997
Kirsten Etheridge
& Dan Smith
1997
(Grads) Bent Grover
1998
Laura Jeffery
& Richard Morrison
1998
(Grads) Dr Marina Terkourafi
1999
Amy Burchell
& Tim Nixon
1999
(Grads) Dr Andrew Lennon
2000
Anna McKay
& Jill Goodier
2002
(Grads) Jenny Ifft
Regional Reps:
John Edwards (Singapore)
Jackie Horne (Hong Kong)
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Keeping in Touch
Reply Slips
Keeping in Touch
If you are, or have ever been, a graduate, undergraduate or Fellow
of Trinity Hall, you are a member of the College. The Development
& Alumni Office, together with your Alumni Association, the THA,
seeks to keep all members in touch with the College and with each
other by sending out publications, organising events and maintaining a database and website for all members, friends and staff of
Trinity Hall.
If you therefore have a change of address or job to report to us, or
if you would like to get involved in the Careers Network, or if
you have any news suitable for the next Newsletter, please use the
forms on the following pages to let us know. Alternatively, send your
news via email to [email protected], via the website at
www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/update or through the online directory
www.THAlumni.net.
Remember that your news can also be included in Black & White
News, the next issue of which will be included in Front Court in the
Autumn. Please contact your Year Rep or the Alumni Officer by early
July 2004, if you have any interesting news to tell your year group.
THAlumni.net also provides a forum for sharing information and
keeping alumni informed of events and news within your year.
Trinity Hall Association Annual Gathering
Saturday 26 June 2004
Centenary Celebrations of the Trinity Hall Association
The planned programme for the Annual Gathering this year is as follows:
11.00am
AGM (with coffee) in the Graham Storey Room
Coffee in the Master’s Lodge for those not at the AGM
12.30pm
Light sandwich lunch
2.00pm-5.00pm
Events in College to include:
Amir Baghdadchi (grad student) – “Ronald Firbank,
Mad Genius of Trinity Hall”
Professor Jonathan Steinberg (Emeritus Fellow) –
“The View from 0.4: Reflections on historial studies
at Trinity hall in the 20th Century”
theatre
the Preston Society & the Music Society present Grease
music
Performance by the choir & an open concert
wine tasting
by Cambridge Wine Merchants (£5 a ticket)
silver on display to include THA pieces
Victorian costumed interpreters to entertain kids (& adults!)
lectures
There will also be a display of The Hidden Hall and the Wychfield development
in the marquees, which will be available all afternoon
3.30pm-4.30pm Tea
5.30pm
Drinks followed by Buffet Dinner
If you would like to take part in a concert of student and alumni performances, please indicate this on the reply slip
There will be some accommodation available in College on a first-come, firstserved basis, at a cost of £30.00. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
We hope that as many members (and their guests) as possible will attend the
Annual Gathering. Please return the reply slip to the Alumni Officer as soon
as possible, and no later than Friday 18 June.
Please note that parking is not available in College. Parking is available in
Lion Yard and Park Street Car Parks, and the Park & Ride scheme runs all
day on Saturdays.
This programme is correct at the time of going to print, but may be subject
to alteration
Trinity Hall Association
Annual Dinner in Cambridge
Saturday 25 September 2004
The cost to members will be:
For dinner only
£15 for members and their guests matriculating in and since 1996
£35 for all other members and their guests
With room and breakfast
£38.50 for members and their guests matriculating in or since 1996
£58.50 for all other members and their guests
Guests (one per member) are welcome to attend the Dinner in
College.
The reception will commence at 7pm with dinner at 7.30pm.
Dress is black tie/smart
At 3pm in the afternoon, John Wells (1983) will be offering an
introductory talk on the Manuscript Poetry Exhibition at the
University Library for Trinity Hall alumni. As under-librarian in the
department of Manuscripts and University Archives, he is curator of
the exhibition, and this would therefore be a great opportunity to
learn more about the collection. Please contact the Alumni Office for
details of opening times, and indicate on the reply form if you would
like to attend the special talk.
Please return the reply slip to the Alumni Officer by Monday 20 September
2004
Trinity Hall Association Annual Gathering Reply Slip
Saturday 26 June 2004
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age restrictions may be indicated on some activities. Please indicate how many
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(Please tick the events that you would like to take part in. We will endeavour to meet all your requirements, but you will be contacted if this is not
possible. Individual programmes will be sent out in June.)
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Trinity Hall Association AGM at 11.00am
Lunch
Amir Baghdadchi lecture on Firbank
(over 10s only)
Professor Jonathan Steinberg on the
History of History at Trinity Hall
(over 10s only)
Wine Tasting (£5 a ticket & over 18s only)
Theatrical Performance
Musical Performances
Dinner
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Please return this completed form with payment as soon as possible, and no later than
Friday 18 June, to the Alumni Officer, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ.
Trinity Hall Association Annual Dinner Reply Slip
Saturday 25 September 2004
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Guests (one per person) are welcome to attend the Dinner.
The reception will commence at 7pm with dinner at 7.30pm.
Dress is black tie.
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Please return this completed form with payment as soon as possible, and
no later than Monday 20 September, to the Alumni Officer, Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ.
Trinity Hall Membership Update Form 2004–2005
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The Hidden Hall
Due to be published in November this year, The Hidden Hall is a must for all, so don’t
miss out on your chance to order a copy!
Please fill in the form below and return to Victoria Fangen in the Development Office,
Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ
The price is £35 including post and packaging for UK orders. For continental Europe
add £2.50 per book, and for all other international addresses add £7.50 per book.
Payment will be accepted either by a £ sterling cheque or credit card.
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Alumni Weekend 2004
The threats & hopes posed by science
24 – 26 September
Why not return to Cambridge and join us for the
14th annual Alumni Weekend? Explore the latest
developments and discoveries through a stimulating
mix of lectures and tours, and participate in social
and sporting events. There might even be time to visit
an old haunt or two …
Lectures include:
• Professor Sir Christopher Frayling –
The Image of Scientists in the Movies
• Professor Paul Cartledge – The Agony
(and Ecstasy) of the Ancient Olympics
• Dr Eileen Rubery – Truth and Uncertainty:
Health Crises in the 21st Century
• Professor Simon Conway-Morris –
Life’s Solution: Does Evolution Have a Destiny?
• Professor Tim Blanning – The Triumph of Music
in the Modern World
Tours include:
Parker Library, Institute of Astronomy, Herbarium,
Turing Archive, Wren Library, Madingley Hall, Selwyn
College Gardens, Cambridge University Press, Botanic
Gardens, Kettle’s Yard, Law Faculty, New Hall Art
Collection, Cavendish Laboratory and Judge Institute
of Management.
Ed Stourton will chair a special edition of Question
Time – Where’s it all going to end? – with Professor
Sir Martin Rees, Professor Onora O’Neill, Professor
Steven Rose and Professor Sir David King discussing
the threats and hopes posed by science.
To receive the full programme and booking details
please complete the form below and return it to the
Alumni Office. Places are limited so please book early
to avoid disappointment.
The University of Cambridge Development Office, 10 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332288 Fax: +44 (0)1223 460817 Email: [email protected]
www.foundation.cam.ac.uk/alumni
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Contact Details at Trinity Hall
College Telephone Switchboard and Mail Address
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332500; fax: +44 (0)1223 332537; website: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk
Note: Telephone messages for Students, Staff and Fellows may be left on this
number and all mail should be sent to this address.
Master’s Office
Ginny Barrett, PA to the Master
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332540; email: [email protected]; fax: +44 (0)1223 765157
Tutorial Office
Dr Nick Bampos, Senior Tutor
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332510; email: [email protected]
Mrs Jackie Harmon, Tutorial Officer
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332564; email: [email protected]
Fran Sutton, Tutorial Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332518; email: [email protected]
Undergraduate Admissions
Dr Richard Miles, Tutor for Admissions
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332524; email: [email protected]
Angela Eason, Undergraduate Admissions Officer
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332535; email: [email protected]
Graduate Office
Dr Christopher Padfield, Tutor for Graduate Students
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332532; email: [email protected]
Julie Powley, Graduate Officer
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332517; email: [email protected]
Development Office
Mrs Jocelyn Poulton, Development Director
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332563; email: [email protected]; fax: +44 (0)1223 765157
Victoria Fangen, Development Assistant
Tel: +44 (0)1223 766345; email: [email protected]
Mrs Laura Ley, Data Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332555; email: [email protected]
Alumni Office
Mrs Liz Pentlow, Alumni Officer
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332567; email: [email protected]
Bursary
Ros Cole, Bursarial Officer
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332531; email: [email protected]; fax: +44 (0)1223 462116
Mrs Margaret Chadwick, College Accountant
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332528
Conference & Housekeeping (for booking Guest Rooms)
Mrs Josephine Hayes, Conference & Domestic Manager
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332533; email: [email protected]
Ms Kerry Tapp, Conference Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332554; email: [email protected]
Buttery
Ms Sara Rhodes, Butler
Tel: +44 (0)1223 766333; email: [email protected]
Joseph Risino, Manciple
Tel: +44 (0)1223 332506; email: [email protected]
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