cambridge in america newsletter, issue 24, spring 2013

On March 15, as reported in the Cambridge News, grandchildren

and other relatives of museum founder Robert Stewart Whipple

(1871-1953), ranging in age from 3 to 83, gathered in Cambridge.

The event celebrated the family’s donation of £500,000 – the

Whipple Museum’s largest since its founding, nearly 70 years ago

– to establish a special conservation fund for the Museum’s

internationally renowned collection of scientific instruments.

Among the donors were Kenneth and Anne Young of Skillman,

NJ. Kenneth attended the dedication ceremony, together with other

grandchildren Ian Young, Helen Rowe and Alan Whipple. Ian was

accompanied by his wife, Sylvia, and two of their children, Graham

and Neil Young. Alan was accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and

their granddaughter, Daisy. Two other of Robert Whipple's

grandchildren, Donald Young and Elizabeth-Anne Powell, could

not attend. The six grandchildren have memories of a wonderfully

kind grandfather who always had time for them.

The family’s interest in Robert Whipple’s collection of scientific

instruments and books did not end with his founding gift in 1944.

Over the years many relatives have continued to show an interest

in the maintenance and growth of the Whipple Museum.

They were aware that the original gift did not include funds for

conservation for the collection and realized that many instruments

were very fragile and could not be kept in usable condition. The

task of conservation is particularly difficult because of the huge

variety of materials involved in this superb collection.

It is fitting that they have chosen to set up a conservation fund,

therefore contributing to the preservation of R. S. Whipple’s original

donation. The gift will allow the Museum to commission specialist

care for its varied and ever-expanding collection.

Claire Wallace and Steve Kruse, museum staff members,

explained: “The Whipple Museum has chosen two special objects

as beneficiaries of the inaugural year’s spending. The first is a

telescope (Wh.0012) made by William Herschel for King George

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CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA NEWSLETTERREPRESENTING THE COLLEGIATE UNIVERSITY

ISSUE 24 SPRING 2013

conserving Whipple Museum treasures .................................... 1

new pembroke college summer programs ............................... 3

King’s college choir Visits the us .…......................................... 3

college news ………...............................................................… 4

pitt professors at cambridge, from yale and cal ..................… 18

50 new Gates scholars .........................................................… 19

Conserving Instruments in Cambridge’s Whipple Museum

neil young, Kenneth young, liba taub, Alan Whipple, sylvia young, ian

young, Margaret Whipple, Graham young, helen rowe

the 18th-century “herschel” telescope (Wh.0012)

which will now be conserved

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III and then presented by the King to the Duke of Marlborough,

after a Royal visit to Blenheim Palace on August 17, 1786. It was

kept at Blenheim, eventually given by the 7th Duke to Mr. J.A.

Hardcastle, whose family in turn sold it to Mr. Howard Marryat.

Marryat eventually presented the telescope to R.S. Whipple on the

occasion of the latter’s 1944 gift of his collection of antique

scientific instruments and associated rare books to the University,

to found the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

“Conservation work will also be done on a very rare Portuguese

mariner’s compass made by Joseph da Costa Miranda in 1711

(Wh.0328), purchased by R.S. Whipple in 1928 for £15.5s. This

compass is often requested as a loan for special exhibitions by other

museums; some years ago we even had a request from the

Portuguese government!”

Professor Liba Taub has been the American-born Director and

Curator of the Whipple Museum since 1995; she is also Professor

of History and Philosophy of Science, and a Professorial Fellow and

Director of Studies at Newnham College. She has taught at Loyola

University and Northwestern, and before coming to Cambridge was

Curator and Head of the History of Astronomy at the Chicago’s

Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Discussing the

Whipple’s new Conservation Fund, she told the Cambridge News:

“The Whipple Museum is not just a place to come and visit; this is

a research lab. Objects in our collection are actively studied by

students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science,

as well as other researchers. Of course, some things naturally

deteriorate over time, and this fund will allow us to halt that decline,

and ensure that the collection can continue to be used, studied, and

enjoyed.”

Professor John Forrester, Head of the Department of History and

Philosophy of Science, commented: “This funding is vital for the

work of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, enabling

us to protect scientific heritage that might otherwise decay and

eventually disappear. It’s not every day that donations of such

magnitude are made, and it’s a great cause – the protection of some

priceless, and very significant, objects.”

The museum includes scientific instruments, apparatus, models

and other material relating to the history of science from the

medieval period to present day. It is open from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.

from Monday to Friday. Admission is free and open to all.

Robert Stewart Whipple presented his collection of 1,000

scientific instruments, and a similar number of rare books, to the

University in 1944.

He had a life-long connection with the world of scientific

instruments. His father, George Mathews Whipple, was

superintendent of the Royal Observatory at Kew. Whipple himself

started his working life as an assistant at Kew and later left to

become assistant manager at the instrument maker L. P. Casella. He

came to Cambridge in 1898 as personal assistant to Horace Darwin

(youngest son of Charles Darwin), the founder of the Cambridge

Scientific Instrument Company. Whipple rose to become Managing

Director of the firm and later its chairman. His interest in the

practice of science led him to amass an outstanding collection of

antique scientific instruments. As Whipple himself said: “I little

thought when I bought an old telescope, for the sum of 10 francs

from an antique shop in Tours in 1913, that I was embarking on the

slippery slope of collecting.”

In November 1944 an exhibition was held in the East Room of

the Old Schools to mark the official presentation of Whipple's

collection of scientific instruments and rare books to the University.

The collection was initially stored in various buildings, including

the basement of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Girton College and two

rooms in Corn Exchange Street. The growing collection moved in

1959 to its permanent home, the old Perse School hall in Free

School Lane.

The Museum’s website, www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/, provides

more background about its founder and its history.

Above: portuguese mariner’scompass (Wh.0328)

left: photograph of robertstewart Whipple (Wh.3802)

right: the new Globes galleryat the Whipple Museum

Whipple Museum Main Gallery conservation display

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The summer of 2013 will see two excitingadditions to Pembroke College’s portfolio of summer programs: International Security

and Intelligence and The Art of Writing. Both three-week programs are open to and appropriate for anyone from currentundergraduates to knowledge-seekingretirees, and we are anticipating considerableinterest from alumni based in the UK andaround the world. International Security and

Intelligence will take place 30 June – 19 July2013 (application deadline: 24 May 2013),and The Art of Writing: 21 July – 9 August2013 (application deadline: 14 June 2013).

Drawing on his experience as Chief of theSecret Intelligence Service, the Master ofPembroke, Sir Richard Dearlove, will co-chair International Security and

Intelligence with Professor ChristopherAndrew, one of the leading academicauthorities in the field of Intelligence history.This is a unique offering which is set to breaknew ground in its examination of the role ofintelligence and security agencies in ademocratic society. Other keynote speakersinclude James Pavitt (former Deputy Directorof the CIA), Sir David Omand (formerly

responsible for UK homeland security),Professor Lord Hennessy (pre-eminentinterpreter of the British constitution, cabinetgovernment and intelligence communities),and Lord Wilson (former Cabinet Secretaryand Head of the Civil Service). Speakingrecently, Sir Richard said: “This newPembroke course brings together a uniquelyexperienced group of speakers. For seriousscholars of the world of intelligence andsecurity services and their interface withgovernment this course will be amongst thevery best available anywhere. I am verypleased to be so closely associated with itand it extends the initiative we havedeveloped in Pembroke College to offersummer courses of outstanding academicquality.”

Pembroke College is working with theDirector of the National Academy ofWriting, Richard Beard (Pembroke, 1985),on a second three-week program focusing onThe Art of Writing. The Academy is acharitable foundation “committed toconverting promise into achievement” andthis new course will offer the opportunity forwriters and aspiring writers to hear from

leading literary figures such as Sir MichaelHolroyd, Deborah Moggach, Ion Trewin,and Sophie Hannah as well as Richard Beardand Fiona Sampson who head up theprogram. They will also have the opportunityto develop their own work throughCambridge-style supervisions and seminars.Richard Beard said: “The National Academyof Writing is delighted to be working withPembroke College to design and deliver aCreative Writing course that involves somany distinguished practitioners. The aim ofthe course is to provide a rigorous and wide-ranging approach to ways in which writerscan improve their craft, with the expertise ofthe Academy applied within the wonderfulPembroke setting. I’m confident that noother summer course offers such a winningcombination.”

In summer as in term time, Pembrokewill provide the elegant and serene context for exceptional and exhilaratingconversations.

More information can be found on our website at: www.pem.cam.ac.uk/

international-programmes/summer-

programmes/

New Pembroke College Summer Programs: Writers and Spies

From Julie Bressor, Fellow and Director of

Development, King’s College:

The Choir of King’s College toured five

cities in early April: Chicago, Saint Paul (MN),

Philadelphia, Washington, and Princeton. The

program featured works by Byrd, Bach, Verdi

and Britten, the final piece performed in

celebration of the centenary of Britten’s birth.

The program included Britten’s “Hymn to St.

Cecilia,” composed while Britten was living in

the US, as well as an organ solo by W. Parker

Ramsay, Senior Organ Scholar and the first

King’s Organ Scholar from the United States.

Parker is planning on attending Oberlin for

graduate studies next autumn.

The Chicago Symphony presented the

Choir at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in

Chicago. From the Windy City, we moved on

to Minnesota for a sold-out performance at the

Cathedral of Saint Paul. Andrew Hansom

(Hughes Hall 2011) hosted a Cambridge alumni

drinks reception at WA Frost in Saint Paul,

while a group of Friends of the College held a

small dinner in honor of the visiting Fellows at

the University Club. The performance at the

Cathedral of Saint Paul was introduced by

Michael Barone of Minnesota Public Radio and

broadcast live by MPR. The King’s Men

performed for at a small MPR gathering

following the concert.

In Philadelphia, the Choir appeared in

Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, as part of

the PIFA festival. Josh Mooney (Girton 1993)

hosted a Cantab reception for the Choir and

Kimmel Center members; a wonderful time

was had by all.

Next up was the National Cathedral in

Washington, DC. A. Graham Down (King’s

1949) hosted a lovely lunch at 4000 Cathedral

Avenue before the concert, with 30 people

from a range of Colleges in attendance.

Stephen Cleobury and the Choral Scholars

welcomed the group, and Dean Jeremy Morris

offered remarks and an introduction to the

concert. Following the concert, British

Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott hosted a

reception in honor of the choir at his residence.

The tour concluded with a performance in

the beautiful chapel at Princeton University,

where a number of Cantabs were in

attendance.

Choral Scholar Joel Williams (King’s 2011)

noted, “What a thrilling and rewarding

experience, from start to finish! It was

an honor to perform in some of the United

States’ most prestigious venues, for highly

appreciative audiences. Every concert ended

with a standing ovation, from totally packed

concert halls and churches; the implicit call for

an encore bringing on a performance of

Benjamin Britten's divinely simple ‘Hymn

to the Virgin,’ a moving end to such an exciting

program. Off stage, we were greeted with a joy

and warmth that made performing so gratifying.

I can’t wait to get back to the US!”

Many thanks to our colleagues at

Cambridge in America for coordinating tour

communications and events for alumni and

friends. Tour photos can be found online atwww.facebook.com/KingsCollegeChoir.

King’s College Choir Visits the U.S. in April

“We’ve come to expect excellence from

Stephen Cleobury and the King’s College

Choir, and he and they did not disappoint.

The aural and visual presence of these boys

and young men from Cambridge, upholding

an ages-old tradition of English choral

singing, satisfies a special craving. Even

here in Minnesota, where choral singing is

integral to the local landscape, nothing can

compare to the Choir from King’s.”

Michael Barone, Minnesota Public Radio,

Host of Pipe Dreams and The New Releases



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We are delighted to report that the matching scheme for student support, generously established by US-based alumnus Alfred

Harrison (matric 1958), has now been fully funded. Thank you to all members of College who have supported this initiative.

The Christ’s College Choir are once again coming to the US this summer! They last visited the East Coast in 2009 and will be visiting

again throughout July. Touching down on Independence Day, they are scheduled to visit Boston, Cambridge MA, Nantucket, Falmouth,

Greenwich CT, New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington DE, Baltimore, Washington DC and Arlington VA.

We will be emailing all our alumni living in these areas with the details nearer the time, but to see some of the dates and venues they plan

to visit now, please go to the Christ’s alumni website: www.christs.cam.ac.uk. You can also keep up to date with all the latest news from the

choir on their website: www.cambridgechoir.co.uk.

Keep up with all the latest College news on our social media:

@christs_college on Twitter

‘Christ’s College’ on Facebook

‘Christ’s College, University of Cambridge’ official alumni Linked In group

Please do drop by if you happen to be back in Cambridge. Our offices are based in V staircase in Third Court.

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The College is pleased to announce that the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to Professor Sir John B. Gurdon

and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." Sir John was a Past

Fellow (1973) at Churchill and is a current Honorary Fellow. The College now has 28 Nobel Prize Winners among its membership.

The College is saddened to report the death of Professor Frank Hahn, distinguished economist, on the 28 January at the age of 87. Frank

became a Fellow of Churchill College in 1960 as a University Lecturer in Economics and apart from a period at the London School of

Economics in 1967, when he remained a Title E Fellow, spent most of the rest of his career in Cambridge and at Churchill College. He was

married to Dorothy for 66 years. A memorial service will be taking place later this year for which details will be released as soon as they

become available.

We are pleased to announce that the first Churchill Regional Groups are in their early stages of establishment in the USA. Further details

can be found by visiting www.churchillians.net. If you would like to get involved, please email [email protected].

The second of our collaborative events with Clare, King’s and Lucy Cavendish takes place at Churchill and at Lucy Cavendish on Saturday

28th September as part of our Association Weekend. 1972: Conversation features alumnae from the four Colleges speaking on Science, Society

and the Future of Culture and Media, offering them and all present the opportunity to reminisce on life at Cambridge in 1972. To find out

more, please visit www.1972cambridge.co.uk.

The Reunion Dinner for those who joined the College in 1999-2002 will be taking place on Saturday 6th July. Invitations are being sent out

to you in April.

During this year's Association Weekend in September, the 1963 cohort of postgraduates will be celebrating 50 years since their matriculation

with a series of events. The G63 Reunion is being organized by Sir Alan Budd. If you would like to find out more, please contact Alan by

emailing [email protected]. If you were an undergraduate in 1963 and would be interested in getting involved, please

email the Alumni Relations Office at [email protected].

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Celebrations are ongoing for the 60th anniversary of the one of the great scientific discoveries in history: Crick & Watson’s

DNA double helix structure. American James Watson had rooms in Memorial Court at Clare when he was working on this

project. (Caian Francis Crick later settled in California). Their famous announcement in the Eagle Pub on February 28th 1953 was followed by

the publication of the discovery in Nature on April 25th of the same year. Clare is hosting a dinner for James Watson on the eve of this 60th

anniversary. Among the guests are Sir Tim Hunt (Nobel Laureate, Clare alumnus) and Rupert Sheldrake, former Clare Fellow and author of

The Science Delusion (2012).

Judge Business School Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Clare Fellow, gave the Cambridge Judge Business briefing in NYC on March 6th, based

on his new book Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow.

Many American Clare alumni will remember Dr. Gordon Wright (Medical Sciences Fellow since 1958). He turned 96 in December and

was married a few days before this milestone.

Current students: Alexandra Batchelor has been awarded a Kennedy Fellowship; Holly Rees will be the J.D. Watson Scholar at Cold Spring

Harbor this summer; David Wilson has won a Henry Fellowship to Yale; and Ben Liu, a Mellon Fellow, has won a Rhodes Scholarship.

College News



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Many of you may have met the President of Clare Hall, Sir Martin Harris, who travelled to the U.S. in April for a series of Life

Member reunion events in New York, Salt Lake City and Houston. Martin will be retiring this summer and we are delighted that

Professor David Ibbetson FBA has been elected as the College’s eighth President. Professor

Ibbetson says, "It is an exciting privilege to be joining Clare Hall and I look forward to leading

it through the celebration of its 50th anniversary in 2016.”

Looking ahead, this spring’s highlights include the annual Ashby Lecture, on 23 May, given

by Lord Oxburgh FRS, former Chairman of Shell U.K. and former Rector of Imperial College

on “Energy, water, food and the nine billion." Art and music continue to flourish at Clare Hall.

Our annual Glass Exhibition in summer will feature work by Cambridge glass artist Charlotte

Morrison and we have an array of painting exhibitions lined up to follow. The “Intimate

Engagements” chamber-music series at Clare Hall has established itself as a uniquely enjoyable

and stimulating contribution to musical life in Cambridge. We look forward to the final concert

in the sixth series on 8 June by Duo Benzakoun (piano duet).

This November we will be running our second telephone campaign with the goal of

reconnecting with our Life Members worldwide and raising vital funds to support our students

and the College. Almost 80% of our Members live outside of the UK so this campaign will enable us to strengthen our overseas relationships and

hear about your time at Clare Hall. We look forward to being in touch with many of you in the U.S. during the campaign. Thank you to all of you

who currently support the College; you are helping to ensure our future success.

Do let us know if you are planning a visit to Cambridge; we warmly invite you to return to Clare Hall. Get in touch with us at

[email protected]. As always, we look forward to hearing from you.

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During the week of May 4th, the Master, Stuart Laing, his wife Sibella, and Director of Development Elizabeth Winter will be visiting

New York. They will meet as many Old Members as possible, to discuss the College, its news, aims and ambitions, and to garner

support for an annual bursary for a needy student funded by our American alumni. This is something other Colleges are doing and we feel that

Corpus, with its strong loyalties from American alumni, is well positioned to offer a bursary to help a student who would otherwise find it difficult

to come to Cambridge.

On Wednesday May 8th, Guild Fellow Neil Westreich will once again be hosting a party in his stunning Chelsea apartment and all Corpus alumni

and their guests are most welcome to come. The Master, his wife, and the Development Director are looking forward to meeting Old Members,

celebrating all the activity of the College, in particular our extremely high rankings in the league tables, but also hearing the views and news of our

alumni in the US. We would be very interested in arranging a visit to another part of the US if there is sufficient interest for this. Please get in touch

with the Development Office if you are able to offer hospitality or help with arrangements; your support would be greatly welcomed.

On Thursday 21st March, Corpus’s oldest and most precious book, the St. Augustine Gospels (CCCC MS 286), also known as the Canterbury

Gospels, played an important role in the enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Justin Welby, the new Archbishop, was sworn in on

the Gospels. The Gospels were traditionally used for the swearing of the oath in the enthronements of new Archbishops of Canterbury, and in modern

times the tradition has been restored. The Gospels have been used in the enthronements continuously since 1945. The Augustine Gospels have also

been taken to Canterbury for other major occasions, including the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982 and Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.

This copy of the four gospels was made in Italy in the late sixth century. It’s believed to have been brought to Canterbury as part of the mission

of St. Augustine who was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in AD 597 to convert the English to Christianity. Augustine was successful in converting

Æthelbert, King of Kent, and many of his people and was consecrated as the first archbishop of Canterbury. Throughout the Middle Ages, the gospel

book was kept at St. Augustine’s Abbey and venerated as a relic of the saint. After the closure of the abbey as part of the dissolution of the monasteries

in 1538, the book entered the collection of Matthew Parker, the 70th archbishop, and was one of the manuscripts he gave to his old College in 1574.

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In recent weeks Cambridge has been bombarded with snow, rain, wind, hail, fog and freezing conditions;

we can only hope that Spring is on its way; however, the Darwin gardens (a hidden gem that you will

remember so well) are making a real effort, bursting into life with snow drops, daffodils, crocuses and Spring blossom;

the ducks are also ritually chasing each other around the grounds! At this time of year, it is a joy on the good days to

wander around outside looking at the wealth of color that has been missing during the long winter. We even have areas

with palm trees and cacti gracing the grounds; so even in Winter we can imagine being in a “tropical oasis”!

In the last few years our students have started a Vegetable Growing Society in the gardens behind Newnham Terrace;

they are just beginning to plant seeds for this year’s crop. They also keen recyclers; an old punt (Finch) has made a great

planter in which to grow herbs! All the produce grown is enjoyed in gourmet meals made and eaten in Newnham Terrace.

Of course, College life carries on as regularly as the seasons. The recent lecture series on “Foresight” proved very

popular, and hosted two speakers from the USA. Author Robert J. Sawyer gave one of our best-attended lectures on

sir Martin harris with cambridge alumni in houston

A tropical oasis, even inwinter?



“Foresight and Fiction” exploring whether science-fiction literature gives foresight into our future. Terrie Moffitt from Duke University also gave

a fascinating talk on “Foresight and Self Control”. Both can be watched on-line at http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1394326.

Many alumni/ae have told us how much they want to arrange their diaries to allow them to attend some of our 50th Anniversary events next year;

well, the plans are now becoming more formalized. Although the dates are still provisional, we can give you pre-warning of one of the big events

of the year which will be in Cambridge on the weekend of Friday, 11th July-Sunday, 13th July 2014. The weekend will start with a “Garden Party”

on Friday evening hosted by the Master; on Saturday we will enjoy a day of lectures from College Fellows. Finally, on Sunday there will be a

“Family Fun Day.” We are also planning a “50th Anniversary Reunion Dinner” open to all alumni/ae on Friday, 9th May.

In the USA, we are looking forward to hosting dinners in both New York and San Francisco during the Cambridge in America Days. Dates for

these will be advertised as soon as we have them.

It remains as always a pleasure to talk to you and to read your emails and letters, so do keep in touch whatever way suits you best. Our contact

point is [email protected] ; and please remember, if you are ever travelling to the UK, always look at the College events diary. There

may well be something on in College while you are here, particularly during 2014!

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The Senior Bursar, Susan Lintott, and the Development Director, Gabrielle Bennett, made successful visits to Boston and California

in November 2012. In Boston, Susan met David Collis (1973), Professor at Harvard Business School whom she invited to return to

Downing to talk to our current students, which he duly did to great success on 16th January in The Howard Theatre. Susan was also able to see

David Ballinger (1978) at his firm downtown. In Los Angeles and southern California Gary Blankenship (1968) was an incredibly gracious host to

Susan and Gabrielle and they were also able to visit Keith Schofield (1957) and his wife Kay and Mark Chee (1986). In San Francisco they were

delighted to see Bernard Mayes (1950), John Higham (1961), Peter Ratcliffe (1966), Richard Michelmore (1973), Dennis Dornan (1975), Jonathan

Clay (1978), Joseph Liebeschuetz (1979), Jeremy Woan (1980), Paul Croft (1981), Paul Spencer (1983), Rickmer Kose (1995), Marjin Ford (1995),

Ed Olson-Morgan (2001), Kristin Smith (2002) and former Fellow Kim Silverman at a dinner kindly hosted by Jeremy Woan at the St. Francis

Yacht Club. They were also able to catch up with Scott Wornow (1984) in San Jose.

As many know, Barry Everitt steps down as Master of Downing later this year and 2012 also marked the 25th anniversary of the end of John

Butterfield’s term as Master. On 26th February a reception and private view was held at The Queen’s Gallery in the presence of HRH The Duke of

Edinburgh in support of The Everitt Butterfield Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences, named in honor of two of the College’s most beloved

Masters. Over $1.5 million is required to fund the fellowship in perpetuity to support the early career of an exceptionally talented young researcher,

who will go on to make significant contributions to medicine.

In April 2013 Barry Everitt visits Hong Kong for the last time as Master, accompanied by the Development

Director, to meet and be entertained by the Hong Kong alumni. He will also make a final visit as Master to the

United States in September.

We are delighted to announce the election of Professor Geoffrey Grimmett to be the 17th Master of Downing

College. He will take office at the beginning of October following the retirement of Professor Barry Everitt

who has been Master since 2003.

Professor Grimmett is Professor of Mathematical Statistics and currently a Fellow of Churchill College.

His research interests lie in the field of probability and statistics; he competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics

in Montreal as a member of the Great Britain Men's Foil Team and now enjoys playing the harpsichord and

hiking in deserts and mountain ranges around the world. He is married to Rosine and has a son, Hugo, who is

studying for a D.Phil. at Oxford.

As always, our US based alumni are encouraged to stay in touch with news and updates at

[email protected] or +44 1223 334850.

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Dame Fiona Reynolds, Master, is on leave for 2012–13 but is already discussing plans for travel and getting to know our Members

in the USA. In the meantime, the Emmanuel Society has held meetings in Chicago, New York and Washington in recent months. If

you would like to attend, or can help, please contact the Emmanuel Society Office ([email protected]). To receive early notice

of these meetings, please ensure the Office has your e-mail address; this will also enable you to receive the College’s email newsletter, which is also

available at www.emma.cam.ac.uk/collegelife/newsletter. See also the Emmanuel in America group on Facebook, and follow us on

http://twitter.com/ EmmaCambridge.

The annual Gomes Lecture and dinner, which celebrates the College’s close connections with the USA and Harvard and honors the late Professor

Peter Gomes (who was an Honorary Fellow and Minister at the Memorial Church in Harvard), were held in College in February. We were privileged

to have as the speaker Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, who spoke on “Art Theft: Reality and Fiction.” The text will be

published in the next issue of the College Magazine. The donors, Cynthia and Kenneth Rossano, attended, together with their daughter Penelope.

The College has recently selected three final-year students or recent graduates from a very competitive field to go to Harvard in 2013–14 on

Herchel Smith Scholarships. We have welcomed to Emmanuel many similar scholars from Harvard and Williams College (Massachusetts), and this

year’s Lionel de Jersey Harvard scholar is currently planning the annual Harvard dinner, at which the speaker will be Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve.

Many Members in the US have generously contributed to the College’s New World Fund. Some were contacted as part of the telephone campaign

in December and January, and the students who made the calls very much enjoyed their conversations. Thank you for giving them your time and

professor Geoffrey Grimmett



for your very welcome and encouraging support of Emmanuel.

Please let us know when you are next in the Cambridge area as it would be good to see you in College; a little warning to the Development

Office (+44-1223-330476; fax +44-1223-762793; e-mail [email protected]) is always helpful.

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Big changes are afoot at Fitzwilliam.

The Governing Body has elected Mrs. Nicola Padfield MA, Dip Crim, DES as the next Master,

to take office on October 1, 2013. Professor Robert Lethbridge, Master, said: “The College is delighted and I am

confident that Nicky Padfield, who understands Fitzwilliam from within, will take the College from strength to

strength in all aspects of its life and work. The election of the first woman as Master is a significant moment in our

history.”

Many of you will know Nicky personally as she has been a College Tutor for many years as well as Director of

Studies in Law. She has been a Fellow since 1991 and is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law.

Nicky’s passion for Fitzwilliam is evident and we look forward to working with her in the next phase of the College’s

development and to planning her first US visit.

At the reunion in Washington DC in February, the Master was able to say goodbye to a significant group of our

US alumni and his diary is packed with alumni events for his last six months in office. His plans for retirement

include a return to full-time research, writing and lecturing. He has recently been made Commandeur dans l'Ordre

des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture and scholarship.

We are also delighted to announce the new Chandaria Fellowship in Philosophy. Dr. Shamil Chandaria (Natural

Sciences and Economics 1984), entrepreneur and philanthropist, joined the ranks of Fitzwilliam's Benefactors last

year when he funded the refurbishment of graduate accommodation in Neale House. Professor Michael Potter said:

"Shamil Chandaria's wonderful benefaction recognizes the value of the philosophical training that the Cambridge Philosophy Tripos offers. In

coming years the College's philosophy students will, I am sure, be grateful for the superb teaching that his gift has enabled. And I am looking forward

to having a first-rate philosopher as a colleague." Dr. Louise Hanson, currently Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at both Brasenose College and

Christ Church, Oxford, takes up the Fellowship on September 1.

Fitz teams continue to dominate in Collegiate sport: the men’s football 1st team won Cuppers; the women’s football team are League champions

and reached their final; and the rugby team were runners-up in the Cuppers Plate. In Lent Bumps, the Women’s first boat was the only one in its

division to be awarded blades.

And finally … the 50th anniversary of Fitzwilliam on its present site will be marked by an exhibition “Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013:

An Architectural Journey” running from 26 June to 11 October. The exhibition will look at the ways in which architect Sir Denys Lasdun’s original

vision has been interpreted and transformed by successive architects and imaginative landscaping. Please do come along if you can.

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Last autumn, the Mistress, Professor Susan J. Smith, and the Development Director, Elizabeth Wade, were delighted to meet a number

of the College’s US-based alumni at events in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Also, our thanks go to Dr. Angela Stent

(1966) for hosting a gathering in Washington last summer for Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, Director of Studies in Economics, and to the enthusiastic group

of alumni providing the driving force behind our fledgling alumni network in New York, which started earlier this year.

This year will see a number of Fellows visiting North America including Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan, Tucker Price Research Fellow in

Electrical Engineering, and Chaplain, The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Guite. The Development Office always aims to get in touch with as many alumni as

possible when someone from the College is visiting but do please check our website for up to date information: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-a-

supporters

In September 2013, Girton’s Chapel Choir is coming to the USA on tour. On September 22, the Choir will fly in to Indianapolis, where they will

sing in Christ Church Cathedral – and be reunited with their former director, Dr. Dana Marsh, who is now Director of Music at the Cathedral. The

Choir will then perform in Chicago on September 24-25 before heading over the border to Toronto. Further details will be circulated in due course.

We launched our major new fund raising initiative, A Great Campaign, in March 2012. We aim by 2019, the 150th anniversary of our foundation,

to have achieved financial sustainability for the first time in our history. Donations – received

from alumni across the world - have now passed the £5 million mark. Our campaign aims to fund

three key areas: teaching and research, the living and learning environment and our general

endowment. If you are interested in obtaining more details, please do get in touch with the

Development Office or visit the website: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/supporters/a-great-campaign

Finally, do remember that if you happen to visit the UK, please call into Girton if you can.

There is always plenty to see, including our new Ash Court facility (with 50 en-suite student

rooms), the new public art by Paul Monchaux, and the latest addition to the People’s Portraits

exhibition. With the University now beginning to develop out to the North West, visitors over the

coming years may even be surprised to find the College repositioning itself more at the

geographical center of events. Please do let us know in advance and we can then endeavor to

make your visit as memorable as possible.

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The intervention of Hurricane Sandy prevented US Caians from meeting the new

Master, Sir Alan Fersht, when he visited New York last October. This was a great

pity as Sir Alan had decided to make the United States his first overseas visit, less than a month

after his installation as Master, but it was clearly more important not to put any Caians at risk

from the resulting floods. Sir Alan will be returning to the US this November and a reception is

planned in New York on Tuesday 5th. The Master will be accompanied by the Director of

Development, Dr. Anne Lyon, and the Deputy Director of Development, James Howell.

Caius Boat Club has continued its winning ways. In the Lent Bumps M1 managed to retain

the headship of the river. This means that Caius have held the headship of the Mays or the Lents

no fewer than twenty times, out of a possible thirty, over the last 15 years. Following on from

this success, our men then defeated Balliol College, Oxford at the Olympic rowing facility at

Eton Dorney to hold onto the prize as the top Oxbridge crew. There cannot be a better way to

celebrate this success than to provide the oarsmen and women of Caius with a new boathouse.

The old building, designed by William Fawcett in 1879, is slowly subsiding into the river and permission has been granted to replace it with a new

design, fit for the next hundred years. Dr. Anne Lyon, the Director of Development, and the Honorable Dr. John Lehman, President of the Caius

Foundation and Captain of Boats 1966-67, will be hoping to approach former members of the Boat Club for support for this project.

April 2013 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA by Caian Francis Crick and James Watson of Clare College. The

College is celebrating this anniversary with the unveiling of a memorial to Crick, set into the floor of the Great Gate, and a program of talks from

guest speakers including Nobel laureates James Watson and Sydney Brenner. Caius also plans to permanently endow a Francis Crick Lectureship

at the College.

We are always delighted to welcome our US alumni back to their College and hope to see many of you here during the coming year. For further

information, please contact the Development Office (+44 1223 339676 or [email protected]).

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Homerton is at a time of change – the end of one era and the start of another. Our Principal for the last twenty-two years, Dr. Kate

Pretty, will retire this summer and her replacement, Professor Geoffrey Ward, will take over in time for the coming academic

year. Our Senior Tutor of twelve years, Dr. Peter Warner, is also retiring, and the College will say farewell to both of them at a grand Garden

Party on 15th June.

Professor Geoff Ward is currently Chair of English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, London. American literature and modern

poetry are two of his specialities: his books include Statutes of Liberty (1993) on the New York School of poets, and The Writing of America (2002).

He has lectured in many countries including the USA, and has broadcast work on American writers for BBC Radio 3. Closer to his new home, he

is on the Editorial Board of the famous literary journal Cambridge Quarterly. Geoff will bring great strength to Homerton’s English teaching, and

his breadth of interests in the arts will be a major stimulus for us.

We also have a new Bursar, Deborah Griffin, who won her OBE for services to Womens’ Rugby at Twickenham; she is passionately interested

in developing sport at Homerton and in the University of Cambridge. Those of you who watched that quintessentially English event this Easter, the

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, will appreciate that the cox in the Cambridge boat was a Homerton student, Henry Fieldman, studying Psychology

and Education. Sadly for us, Oxford won, but it is great to see a Homerton student in such a high-profile event. Deborah has already initiated a

number of changes; this Easter the HUS Junior Common Room has been converted into a fitness center and half of the Griffin Bar has been reserved

as a new JCR with an office adjoining. She is planning to extend the Cavendish Bar into a central reception area next to the Dining Hall with a glass

panelled octagon – if the planners will allow. These changes are designed to enhance the core of the College and make it even more vibrant socially.

This year we are again extending our telephone campaign to the US. High on our list of priorities is the funding of masters students, largely

because sources of funding for MA courses in the UK have dried up. At her request, a Kate Pretty Fund has been set up in memory of our retiring

Principal to support graduate students at Homerton who would not otherwise be able to afford the fees, particularly for those going on to do a Ph.D.

We hope that all those students who attended Homerton under Kate will want to give something to support her objective. After thirty-three years at

Homerton, Peter Warner will take over from Ian Morrison as “Keeper of the Roll” – keeping in touch with our alumni. Alison Holroyd, has moved

on to Murray Edwards College where we wish her every success; consequently we will be appointing a new Development Director, to work closely

with our new Principal. At the same time we have appointed a new Conference Officer, and with the retirement of Mr. Dhiru Karia, also this summer,

a new College Accountant. It is indeed all-change at Homerton; a new era has begun.

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The President of Hughes Hall, Sarah Squire, was delighted to visit New York and Washington DC in April. The President was joined

in New York by Hughes Hall Fellow Dr. Mark Turin, who is currently based at Yale, at an alumni event organized by Hughesians

Widge Devaney (1994, LLM) and Sonali Pathirana (1998, MPhil). Dr. Turin, who recently hosted a successful series for BBC Radio 4 on endangered

languages, kindly gave a talk at the reunion event about language endangerment and cultural diversity, entitled “Collect, Protect, Connect:

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Documenting Voices of Vanishing Worlds.” On her visit to the US the President also visited Washington DC where she met with alumni for dinner

at the University Club.

Earlier this year students and Fellows at Hughes were lucky enough to meet not only the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on their recent royal

visit to Cambridge but also the new Chancellor of the University, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, when he visited Hughes Hall. The new Chancellor is

also a “Visitor” of Hughes which gives him a particular interest in the progress and welfare of the college.

In January we were honored to host the first-ever Cambridge Graduate Course

in Medicine Society (CGCM) Medical Alumni Dinner in conjunction with Lucy

Cavendish and Wolfson College. The candlelit evening brought together staff,

alumni and current students from all three colleges, enabling old friends and

colleagues to reminisce and reconnect.

More recently we had our Annual Boat Club Dinner which saw much cause for

celebrations as the Boat Club rejoiced in the news that they had received not one

but two new rowing boats, kindly donated by President Sarah Squire and Dr.

William Squire and Dame Veronica Sutherland. We were also extremely proud of

our American rowers, Niles Garratt (BA, History) and Ty Otto (MPhil, Nuclear

Energy), for their great effort in the recent Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

We are always really pleased to hear news from our US alumni and to welcome

them back to College at any time. If you are planning a visit then please do contact

us at [email protected], as we would be delighted to show you round.

Finally, if you haven’t already ordered yourself a copy of our award-winning college

book Hughes Hall 1885-2010 written by Honorary Fellow Prof. Ged Martin, there

are still copies available to order at: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/book

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As a result of the restoration of the Sutton Organ to its former glory thanks to a generous benefaction, Jesus College now possesses

a unique instrument, reflecting – through the spirit of the casework, the 17th century pipes from Durham, and the reinstatement of the

original specification – an important period of English music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The organ is due to by blessed by the

Bishop of Chelmsford at a service in early May.

We have also been lucky enough to receive the very generous donation of a concert-standard Steinway piano for the Chapel. Along with the

Hudleston organ, the newly restored Sutton organ, the Rawlinson chamber organ, and the harpsichord, the College now has – in the words of our

Director of Music, Mark Williams – one of the finest collections of keyboard instruments in one room in England.

At the time of writing, the Jesus College Choir is in India to perform for, and work with, slum children in Mumbai as part of an ongoing project

with the charity Songbound, which aims to change the lives of deprived children through music.

This year’s Sculpture in the Close Exhibition features the work of, among others, Miroslaw Balka, Theaster Gates, Damian Ortega, Doris Salcedo

and Harland Williams. The College is well known for these marvellous exhibitions of contemporary sculpture. The exhibition is open daily until

mid-September, so for those planning to visit Cambridge before then, it is certainly well worth paying a visit to the College to see these striking

sculptures for yourselves.

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From Julie Bressor, Fellow and Director of Development:

The Choir of King’s College toured several US cities in early April, including Chicago, Saint Paul, Philadelphia, Washington

and Princeton. See page 3 for more information on the tour. You may also visit the Choir’s facebook page for photos and more information:

www.facebook.com/KingsCollegeChoir

Of course there is a great deal of other College news, but space limits us to a few snippets. The Choir recently released our new label's second

compilation, Mozart/ Requiem Realisations. This double CD is an exploration of the history and influence of Mozart's famous Requiem; it is available

at your favorite record store or through the Shop at King’s (www.shop.kings.cam.ac.uk). This follows the 2010 Festival of Nine Lessons and

Carols, released in November.

We have seen many NRM’s and Friends at recent events, including Easter at King’s, anniversary and subject events, and the 1972 celebration.

Forthcoming events include the Munby Conference and the May Bumps event and KCBC dinner in June. You can keep current with all of our

events and news by visiting www.kingsmembers.org.

Thanks to all who were able to speak with a caller during our annual Spring Telephone Fundraising Campaign – your support makes a great

deal of difference to King’s, and the students appreciated the time you spent with them on the phone (we had several midnight to 2am BST

calling shifts!).

The Boat Club has had a very good year, including a historic M1 Fairbairn Cup win in December and blades for M1 in Lent Bumps. KCBC has

high expectations for the Easter Term; to follow the teams, visit www.kingsboatclub.com.

Provost Ross Harrison completes his term this summer, and Mike Proctor begins as Provost in October. Mike and I expect to visit the eastern

US in December 2013. In the meantime, we look forward to hearing from you or seeing those of you who are visiting Cambridge in the coming

months; keep in touch via [email protected] or phone +44 (0)1223 331313.

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Lucy Cavendish College President Professor Janet Todd has recently visited

Singapore at the invitation of the Scholars’ Programme at the National University

of Singapore. Professor Todd gave a lecture at the University on Jane Austen: “Bliss it was on

that lawn: Jane Austen and the Private Moment” and discussed the Cambridge collegiate system

with faculty and students. While in Singapore, Professor Todd was also asked to represent the

University as Deputy Vice-Chancellor in a series of meetings with institutions of higher education.

The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, particularly asked her to explore possible

collaborative opportunities in the humanities. She had very productive meetings at Nanyang

Technical University, Singapore Management University, as well as at NUS. Professor Todd

commented, “I had a wonderful time in Singapore; people were hugely hospitable and very keen

on making or cementing ties between their institutions and Cambridge.”

Professor Todd was also in Singapore on behalf of College and enjoyed meetings with several

LCC alumnae and friends of the College. She was delighted to make contact with a number of

people who took a kind interest in the College and with whom she hopes to develop a longer connection.

Lucy Cavendish College has once again hosted some fascinating talks by leading female figures including Ffion Hague, Professor Susan Sellers,

and charity campaigner Camilla Batmanghelidjh. The talks were extremely well attended and prompted lively debate. The program of Thursday

Evening Talks continues in the Easter Term.

Dr. Tiffany Bergin will be leaving Lucy Cavendish College in the summer to take up a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the

Department of Sociology at Kent State University in Ohio, in August 2013. “I have really enjoyed my time at Lucy Cavendish College. The fellows

have been so welcoming, and it has been a privilege to teach such interesting and talented students. I am particularly grateful to have met Dr.

Emanuela Orlando, another research fellow at the College, as she and I have since organized an international conference together, and have

collaborated on a research article. We will continue this collaboration transatlantically next year. I will miss the many friends I have made at the

College, and hope to come back to visit often.” Dr. Bergin would be very happy to connect with Lucy Cavendish College alumnae in the Northeast

Ohio area. (She was featured in the “Don’s Diary” column of CAM magazine no. 68, Lent 2013).

Congratulations to Amanda Richter who was part of the Cambridge team taking part in the Jessup World Moot Court Competition. Amanda’s

team won the Preliminary Rounds and the best Memorials, and consequently went to Washington in March representing the UK (and Cambridge)

in the world's largest and most prestigious court competition.

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The highlight of the year so far at Magdalene has been the

admission and the installation of the new Master, Dr. Rowan

Williams. Dr. Williams – or to give him his full title, Lord Rowan Williams of

Oystermouth – was welcomed to much fanfare by Fellows, students and staff in a

brief admission ceremony on the 17th January followed by his installation on

Sunday 20th January.

The Master and the Development Director, Mrs. Corinne Lloyd, are hoping to

see many of our Members at this year’s Annual Dinner in New York on Friday 25th

October, which will be preceded by a dinner in Washington D.C. on Thursday 24th

October. Please save the date! Further details will follow in due course.

The former Master, Mr. Duncan Robinson, and the Development Director were

delighted to meet some of our Members for the first time at the recent Magdalene

Dinner hosted by Mr. Robert Chatterton-Dickson (1981), the British Consul-

General for the Mid-West, and his wife at their residence in Chicago. The Annual

Dinner in New York was a pleasure as always and we are grateful to Mr. Robert

Chartener (1982) for his continued efforts in making it such a success. More thanks

are due to Mrs. Diana Coatney (1991) and Mr. Alex Schultz (2000) in California

for kindly assisting with the organization of a dinner in San Francisco and making great efforts to get the more widely scattered Magdalene crowd

together for what was a really enjoyable evening! Dr. Williams and Mrs. Lloyd are planning to visit the West Coast during 2014 so watch this space.

By the time of going to press, the Magdalene Telephone Campaign will have come to a close. Our Members and friends in the USA have always

been generous in their support towards Magdalene, and we hope that the Campaign, as part of the Magdalene Annual Fund 2013, will prove popular

with you all. Please remember that every gift, large or small, makes a real difference.

We welcomed five American graduate students this year from Harvard University, George Washington University, Wellesley College, UCLA

and the University of Wisconsin – Platteville, all of whom are reading for MPhil and MST qualifications in a number of subjects ranging from

Politics and Economic & Social History to Jewish-Christian Relations.

We very much hope that you will be able to attend one of our forthcoming events. Please make sure of an invitation by giving us your up-to-

date contact details via email: [email protected]

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In March, the College was delighted to announce that Dame Barbara

Stocking had been elected as its fifth President. Dame Barbara is one of the

College’s most distinguished alumnae and, in February this year, stepped down as Chief

Executive of Oxfam GB where she provided strong leadership within the organization,

including the Oxfam International confederation, and across the international development

sector. She was also a member of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, and

a member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ High Level

External Committee on Millennium Development Goals. In December 2010 she was

appointed as a non-executive board member by the Cabinet Office.

With a significant track record of leadership within the NHS before joining Oxfam,

Dame Barbara was awarded a CBE for services to health in 2000 and made a Dame for

humanitarian service in 2008. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2010.

Reflecting on her new role within her undergraduate Cambridge College, Dame Barbara

said: “It is a huge privilege to take up the Presidency of a College that not only offers the

excellence of a Cambridge education, but that also puts a genuine emphasis on seeing

women grow and develop to achieve their full potential and exceed even their own

expectations. This College gave me the confidence and self-belief to make a contribution on the global stage and I am immensely grateful for that.

I want to help today’s talented young women play their part shaping our future as tomorrow’s thinkers and leaders. There is still much to be done for

women to achieve true equality in the world, whether in the UK or internationally, and I am very excited to have this opportunity to continue to

contribute to empowering women to reach the highest levels.”

Dame Barbara will take up her post in College on the 15th July 2013.

Also in March, we celebrated the third annual International New Hall Society Day with a Formal Hall in College attended by over 110

alumnae and guests. Alumnae also met up in smaller groups around the UK and all over the world, including gatherings in France, the Netherlands,

Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Two groups had been planning to meet up in the USA, in Denver and Boston, but had to postpone due to

snowstorms!

In April we welcome a number of our donors to College for a garden party to thank them for their support, and we are already looking forward

to Family Day on the 7th July and Alumnae Weekend from the 27th – 29th September. A trip to meet our USA alumnae will be a priority for our

new President, as we firm up commitments in her diary over the coming months, and we look forward to bringing you further news in due course.

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From Penny Hubbard, Development Director:

In 2010 Roll Committee member Tracy Smith wrote in the Roll Letter of her vision of Newnham’s alumnae community. She

saw every woman who comes to Newnham as forming a stich in its fabric and imagined that fabric spread around the world as a network. Each

time an alumna connects with Newnham in any way her individual stitch lights up. Our US alumnae have been busy lighting up the fabric over

the last six months and we celebrate your strengthening connection with the College.

Our new Principal, Carol Black, received a warm welcome in Washington DC from Elizabeth Cropper (NC 1963) and Heather Wolfe (NC

1993), both members of the US Alumnae Committee; Carol enjoyed cocktails with our alumnae in New York City kindly hosted by the

Committee’s Chair, Margaret Campbell (NC 1966); and a group of West Coast alumnae were treated by Audrey Richards (NC 1959) and Jane

Perera (NC 1982) to a delicious lunch in Carol’s honor. Guests ranged from Peggy Musgrave (NC 1942) to the more recent Catherine Bidart

(NC 2004). Jane reports: “The memories were almost all good (bathroom memories excepted) and the gardens evoked the sweetest of them.”

Carol was grateful to receive ideas for the College’s communications strategy and website.

Committee member Jennifer Delaney (NC 2000) organized lunch in a restaurant for a group of New York alumnae before the CAM Day,

Saturday March 9th.

Please continue to send us your news. Congratulations to Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, a Fulbright Scholar at Newnham in 1951, who

received the 2012 award of the American Rosalind Franklin Society, which celebrates our alumna Rosalind Franklin and her important

contributions to science. (Prof. Dresselhaus, emerita of MIT, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Cambridge in 2011).

Four of our US community are returning for our biggest annual reunion at Commemoration: Bronwen Gates (NC 1963) from Michigan,

Rosalind Seneca (NC 1963) from New Jersey, Dorothy Thadani (NC 1963) from Oklahoma City, and Committee member Antonia Von Gottberg

(NC 1988) from Boston.

We are delighted that Zoe Trodd (NC 1998), who taught at Columbia and is now Professor of American Literature at Nottingham University

(the largest department of American Studies in Europe), will lead one of Newnham’s seminars aimed at inspiring women to the top. Zoe, a former

Kennedy Scholar, will talk to students about the prestigious Kennedy Scholarships, available at Harvard and MIT. They are more than purely

academic prizes, being intended as a spur to closer trans-Atlantic relations.

Our US Committee continues their own support for trans-Atlantic relations, generously funding the US Travel Award at Newnham again.

Two exceptional candidates were shortlisted for the $4,000 prize and we are very grateful indeed for this continuing initiative. For news

about the winner, go to newnhaminamerica.org. Thank you to all who connect, in whatever way, thereby “lighting up the fabric” of Newnham

in the USA.

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On 5 December 2012 Sir Richard Dearlove hosted a reception for Pembroke Members at the Princeton Club of New York. 43 people

attended the gathering, including Emeritus Fellow Michael Kuczynski and Nami Morris, the College's Deputy Development Director.

The evening was a great success and Pembroke would like to thank Bill McCowen (1957) for his help securing such an impressive venue.

The College Choir will be performing in Boston, New York, Newport RI, and Providence in July and we will be sending out further information

about this tour shortly.

We would like to congratulate Ben Wescoe (2010), who won the 2013 President’s Putter in January. An annual knockout golf tournament

between members of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society, the competition was first held in 1920. Ben is only the second American - and

sixth Pembrokian - to win the competition.

Although the weather in Cambridge has been distinctly gloomy, several American graduate students have shone through the murk. Grant Wilson

(2012), formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, was selected at bow for this year's Blue Boat. Grant is reading for an MPhil in Nuclear

Technologies and we look forward to him rowing for PCBC 1st VIII in the May Bumps.

Talented middle-distance runner Mark Nelson (2012) won the 2013 Pembroke Mile, run between the sports pitches and the Mill Pond, in a time

of 6:23* -- ten seconds ahead of his closest competitor. Mark, who was selected as Oklahoma State University's Outstanding Senior in 2012, is

reading for an MPhil in Nuclear Energy.

Fordham University graduate Peter Morrissey (2012) won the 2013 Brian Riley Declamation Prize. Peter, an MPhil Politics student, impressed

the judges with his witty and thoughtful essay, “Catalonia, Flanders and Scotland; is Europe in for a series of successful secessions?”

In Fellowship news, the College has been very fortunate to welcome two renowned US-based academics as holders of its Visiting Professorship

in International Finance. During Michaelmas, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Professor of International Finance at UCLA, held the post. He was

succeeded in Lent Term by Andrew Karolyi, Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.

If you would be interested in organizing an event for Pembroke Members in your state or city, we would like to hear from you. Please contact

Sally March in the Development Office at [email protected] or on +44 1223 339079.

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Work on the Whittle Building is making good progress. They have poured the concrete for much of the basement and a crane is on

the site, looming over Fen Court. Small windows have been cut into the wooden fence and there is a regular stream of staff and

students going to take a look! In the center of Gisborne Court a small wall has been built to finalize the choice of bricks and pointing to match as

closely as possible the Cambridge yellow bricks of the original buildings. Gifts towards the Brewster Room continue to come in. We have been

delighted and touched to receive a number of leadership gifts; those donors can expect to receive an invitation to the opening we are planning for

the summer of 2014. If you are planning a trip to Europe, come and see for yourself the progress we are making! We would be delighted to see you.

If it is during term time you will be most welcome to dine, and we can usually arrange for a Fellow to bring anyone accompanying you in as their

guest. With enough notice it may also be possible to reserve one of the Fellow’s Guest Rooms for you. The Boat Club is thriving; both M1 and W1

are doing very well. M1 is probably the fastest boat we have had on the river for many years. If you are in the UK on May 15 you should definitely

come and watch them in the Bumps! We are also very proud to have been represented in the Light Blues boat by Milan Bruncvik rowing at No. 2.

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Event News: Our 2013 program of events including full details and booking forms is now up on the Alumni section of the College

website: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/2013-events. Anniversary Celebration Invitation Dinners will be held this year for those

who matriculated in 2003, 1993, 1983, 1973, and 1963, and a lunch for those who matriculated in 1953 and before. Please help us to ensure that as

many matriculants attend your Reunion Dinner as possible and make your celebration dinner an evening to remember.

The President and his wife were thrilled to entertain over 60 Queens’ alumni and their guests at a brunch held in New York City on 14 April.

This popular event attracted members of all ages with matriculants from the 1940s upwards.

Development News: We have made a significant start to achieve our aim of raising £30million by 2023. Generous gifts from Queens’

alumni include:

New Fellowships established in 2012

Pang Kam Ping Fellowship for a University Teaching Officer in Medical Science funded by Dr. Joseph Pang (1969).

El-Erian Fellowship in Macroeconomics funded by Dr. Mohammed El-Erian (1977) and Mrs. Jamie El-Erian.

Two new Fellowships to be established from the legacy of Anthony Lyster (1949).

New Student Bursaries established in 2012

The Professor Ajit Singh Graduate Bursary supporting a student studying for a PhD in Economics funded by Professor David Beatty OBE

(1965). Queens’ members are invited to add to and help endow this fund in honor of Professor Singh.

The Munro-Greaves Graduate Bursary in Pure Mathematics funded by a gift from Ms. Joanna Munro (1981) and her husband.

A gift from Dr. Jamie Shotton (1999) to help Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate students study at Queens’ regardless of

their financial means.



The Queens’ Estate

Stephan Farrant (1956) has made a gift to Queens’ to relight the College Chapel.

Work is nearing completion to redevelop the Porters’ Lodge and the Round. Photographs of building work may be seen at

www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/round-project

Thank you: Queens’ is proud of the generosity of its members and is deeply grateful to our Alumni donors. Your commitment is crucial to the

future of this College and we would like to thank those donors who supported Queens' in 2012, a list of whom can be found here:www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/donors-to-queens

Keeping in touch: Thank you to all those Members who have updated their contact details. Please let us know of any changes so that we can

keep you informed with event invitations and college news: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/update-your-contact-details

Our website also has a list of Members with whom we have lost contact: www.queens.cam.ac.uk/alumni/list-of-lost-members. If you can put

us back in touch we would be grateful to hear from you; please email [email protected]

Please join our thriving Queens’ College Cambridge Members LinkedIn group.

roBinson colleGewww.robinson.cam.ac.uk

Lord Lewis, first Warden of Robinson College, gave the inaugural Pegasus Society Seminar on Saturday 23rd March 2013. He spoke

in detail about the founding and construction of the College and paid tribute to everyone who had been involved in the process. After

his talk, Lord Lewis answered questions from members and guests about the naming of the College, its official opening, and working with Sir David

Robinson and his team of expert advisors. Other members who were involved in the founding of the College were also present and added their

memories and anecdotes, amongst them Henry Woolston, Chris Hughes and Mary Stewart. More than 60 people attended the seminar, including

many alumni who were amongst the pioneer students at the College. The Seminar was followed by the Society’s AGM and annual Dinner and it

kept members and guests talking all evening and long after dinner in the bar, despite steady snow falling outside (or perhaps the snow encouraged

them to stay even longer, knowing it was a chilly dash along Long Court back to their rooms later!). The Society intends to hold a seminar annually

from now and details of the 2014 subject and booking details will be available on the College website in due course; please keep a look out for this

and for many College alumni events on www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/alumni2/viewnews.php.

For any US-based alumni visiting London over July Fourth, the annual Robinson Reception will take place on 3rd July at the Liberal Club in

Whitehall. Use the link above for more details and booking. The Reception is open to all Robinson members and their guests and is free to attend;

it is a chance to mingle with fellow Robinsonians over champagne and canapés and catch up with College news and old friends.

If you matriculated in 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 or 2003 you should also have heard from the Robinson Development Office about your forthcoming

reunion dinner on 28th September 2013, which will coincide with the University’s Alumni Festival offering a program of lectures and tours around

Cambridge. We very much hope you may be able to make a nostalgic trip back to Robinson and Cambridge to enjoy this special occasion with your

friends and peers. If you have not received your invitation, please find details on our website at www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/alumni2/viewnews.php,

or contact [email protected].

If you are visiting London or Cambridge at a time that does not coincide with an event, please contact the Development Office (on the email

address above) if you would like an update in either city, or a tour around College, and we will always try to accommodate such requests to fit with

our visitors’ schedules.

st. cAthArine’s colleGewww.caths.cam.ac.uk

From Deborah Loveluck (2007), Fellow and Development Director:

On behalf of the Master and Fellows of St. Catharine’s, I would like to thank Members of the College based in the US for their

generosity since the beginning of St. Catharine’s Campaign in 2009; your gifts and pledges today stand at approximately £2.5 million. There are

many charitable causes which you may wish to support, but please consider continuing to make St. Catharine’s a priority. St. Catharine’s graduates

contribute immensely to national and international life, to our economic and cultural strength, and to the advancement of knowledge.

I would like to thank Michael Davies (1979) and Chris Jones (1979) for hosting College supper parties in December, in Boston and New York.

I am visiting the US again in April with historian Professor Chris Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, just published

in the US to great acclaim.

Past and present Members of the St. Catharine’s College Boat Club braved the elements on 16 March for the official opening of the newly

refurbished boathouse, for which we are continuing to seek support. The fundraising and re-design is being led by our long-term Boat Club sponsor,

Herb Bate (1963).

We are delighted that the new building in Chapel Court – the McGrath Centre – named in recognition of the major contribution made by Harvey

McGrath (1971) will be opened by the Chancellor of Cambridge University on 19 June. This modern, multi-purpose building houses an auditorium,

a new JCR and bar, and an informal study area, bringing together function and space to socialize and learn. St. Catharine's is enormously grateful

to its members who have donated the full £7.2 million for the building as part of the St. Catharine's Campaign.

The College reunion program is continuing, with future scheduled dates as follows:

Reunion Date/Matriculation Years

6 April 2013: 1972-1974

28 September 2013: 1990-1992

5 April 2014: 1954-1959

13 September 2014: 1993-1995



The College hosts an annual Garden Party on June 15 for Members who matriculated between 1951 and 1958, donors to the College and Members

of the Woodlark Society (those who have remembered St. Catharine’s in their wills). As ever, the event coincides with the last day of the May

Bumps. We will be hosting a College marquee by the Cam, offering a fantastic opportunity to watch the races.

If you are passing through Cambridge, please call into the Alumni & Development Office: we are located in A1 next to the Porters' Lodge. In

the meantime, please feel free to contact the Office by telephone (+44 1223 338337) or email ([email protected]) and we will

be happy to help you.

st. eDMunD’s colleGewww.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk

St. Edmund’s has some good news to share: the College has been fortunate recently to receive over £829,000 from the estate of Fellow

Commoner Professor Toby Jackman. The capital is to be held as a permanent endowment, with income used to fund up to two Toby

Jackman Research Fellowships. Toby was born in California in 1925, to an American father and a Canadian mother, although he spent much of his

life in Canada. This is the largest legacy that the College has ever received.

In September, the College signed a legacy agreement with another American, Prof. Leland Smith Burns, which will ultimately result in another

large legacy for the College and will be used to support scholarships for members of the Anglican communion to study and undertake research at

St Edmund’s.

In order to recognize those alumni and friends who notify the College that they are leaving a legacy to St. Edmund’s in their will, the College

has recently established the “Edmond Nolan Society.” Please let us know if you have included a legacy to the College in your will so that you can

join this Society. Also, to thank all those who have regularly given their support to the College's fundraising projects, St. Edmund’s is launching

“The 1896 Society”; the name commemorates the date when Father Edmond Nolan established the embryonic St. Edmund’s House.

In sporting news, one of our current American students, University of Wisconsin alumnus Steve Dudek, was one of two St. Edmund’s students

rowing for the second time against Oxford in the Boat Race on Easter Sunday, 31 March.

We remain indebted to all the St. Edmund’s alumni and friends who continue to support the College through their advice and help, or through a

gift to the College. We extend our warmest thanks to you all for your support and interest in St. Edmund’s and its future.

We hope to organize an event in the US next year, to mark the final year of Prof. Paul Luzio’s Mastership. In the meantime, if you travel to the

UK, we do hope your schedule will allow you to return to St. Edmund’s, where a warm welcome awaits you. Over the summer there will be several

events in College at which alumni are especially welcome, including the College Garden Party on Sunday 16 June and the May Ball on Friday 21

June. Finally, as part of the Alumni Festival (formerly known as the Alumni Weekend) the College will be hosting a concert and dinner on Saturday

28 September.

We would love to hear your news. If you have any comments or questions, please do contact the Alumni and Development Office on

[email protected]

st. John’s colleGewww.joh.cam.ac.uk

The Master, Professor Christopher Dobson, met with Johnians at a drinks reception at the Racquet & Tennis Club in New York City

in March. Over 30 alumni and their guests met at the Club to enjoy this spring event. Development Manager Julia Thaxton was also

travelling in the area at this time and met with Johnians in Washington DC for a reception at the St. Regis Hotel shortly after heading up to Toronto

to host an event for Canadian Johnians. Julia plans to travel to Washington State, Texas and Illinois later in the year; check your inbox for details.

The College has appointed Jennifer Egan (1985) as an Honorary Fellow. Jennifer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit from

the Goon Squad in 2011.

The College was honored that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, delivered the Linacre

Lecture in late April. The Vice-Chancellor spoke on the subject of “Improving the Health of the World” to a full house in the recently redeveloped

Divinity School. As always, the summer months are packed with events in College. Johnians based in the US who will be in the UK are always very

welcome to join us.

In April the Development Office launched a new-look interactive website for Johnians. Alumni can now update their details online and find out

comprehensive information about our activities. Later in the year online events booking and forums for careers and networking will be launched.

You can also find us on Twitter, @stjohnscam, as well as on Facebook and LinkedIn. Please ensure that we have your preferred email address

so that we can keep you up to date about College news and events.

selWyn colleGewww.sel.cam.ac.uk

The year 2012 – 2013 has turned out to be a year of milestones for Selwyn. Cripps Court is in the middle of a long-awaited and much

needed refurbishment; we welcomed the first year of undergraduates under the new £9,000 fee; and the Master, Professor Richard

Bowring, will be retiring from office on 30 September 2013. Professor Bowring became Master in 2000 and has served the College with energy and

vision throughout an important phase in its development.

We have also had several milestones in sport and music, both of which are flourishing at the College.

Although the Light Blues were defeated at the Women’s Varsity Boat Race, we were delighted to have very strong representation from Selwyn

on the team. Vicky Shaw (SE 2009) rowed for Cambridge in the Blue Boat, while American Alexandra Kamins (SE 2009, Gates Scholar, Emory

alumna) was in the Lightweight Boat and Lizzy Johnstone (SE 2007) was a reserve.



Selwyn Men’s Football team won the Cuppers Plate Championship, beating Christ’s College 4-3 in a nail-biting final. Two members of the

team, Chris Hutton (SE 2010) and Ben Tsuda (SE 2012), played for the victorious (score 3-2) Cambridge University Association Football team

in the Varsity Match on 30 March. Ben, from Shrewsbury, Mass., is doing an MPhil at Selwyn, coming to us from Harvard where he played

varsity soccer. The Cambridge Student newspaper wrote: “At last the talented playmaker Ben Tsuda…was showing his ability on the ball. It

was his gorgeous reverse pass that brought about the Blues' second [goal].”

Selwyn’s organists have also been recognized recently by the Royal College of Organists. On Saturday 9 March, Oliver Hancock (SE

2010), Timothy Parsons (SE 2011) and Ian Tindale (SE 2008) received their FRCO (Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists) in Southwark

Cathedral. It is the top diploma available anywhere in the world for organists and Selwyn is extremely proud of them.

Finally, if you haven’t visited our new website, please do so at www.selwynalumni.com. One of the most recent additions is a new Virtual

Tour of Selwyn, which allows you to re-visit your favorite haunts from the comfort of your armchair through 360-degree panoramic images. We

hope it will bring back many memories!

As ever, if you have plans to visit Cambridge or London, please do let us know. We would be delighted to welcome you back to College or

drop down to London to say hello.

siDney sussex colleGewww.sid.cam.ac.uk

Sidney Sussex College is delighted to announce the election of Professor Richard Penty MA, PhD, FREng, as its 27th Master to

succeed Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill in July 2013. Professor Penty is currently a Fellow and Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex

College and a distinguished electrical and electronic engineer.

After reading engineering and electrical sciences as an undergraduate (with a First in Part IA, Part IB and Part II) and post-graduate student

at Sidney, Professor Penty was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He subsequently moved to Lectureships

in Bath and Bristol Universities, culminating in the Chair of Photonics in Bristol, before returning to Cambridge where he has been Professor

of Photonics since 2002. His current research interests include optical data communications, MMF systems (digital and analogue), high-speed

optical communications systems, optical amplifiers, and optical switching. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering

in 2012.

The College looks forward to welcoming Richard, his wife Victoria and their children to the heart of Sidney.

In other news, Dr. Yannis Galanakis, Fellow in Classics at Sidney and University Lecturer in Greek Prehistory at the Faculty of Classics, has

been awarded the prestigious Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Samuel H. Kress Lectureship for 2014-2015. The AIA has also honored

Sidney’s outgoing Master, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, with the Felicia A. Holton Book Award for his publication Herculaneum: Past

and Future.

Several Sidney Fellows have also visited the USA recently. Professor Christopher Hill visited San Francisco, taking part in an invited Round

Table on Foreign Policy Analysis at the International Studies Association Annual Conference. He also discussed his forthcoming book,

The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy making in Multicultural Societies, at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and Rider

College, New Jersey. Professor Michael Lamb was recently honored by the American Psychology-Law Society in Portland, Oregon, receiving

the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and Law. Meanwhile, Dr. Tom Simpson, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, is

currently spending time as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT where he is continuing his work on the

notion of trust.

Informal alumni drinks were recently held in New York at Connolly’s on 47th between Madison and Fifth. We are hoping to arrange another

event in New York later this year; if you would like to help or to find out more information, please contact Mollie Cherson (2010) at

[email protected]

trinity colleGewww.trin.cam.ac.uk

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the Annual Fund via our brochure appeal or our Telethon. You may have been one

of the many members with whom our calling team of current students had the opportunity to speak during our Telethon in April;

thank you for taking the time to talk to them and share your stories of Trinity. We hope you will have had the chance to read the Alumni Relations

& Development Office Annual Report for 2011-12 which was circulated to Trinity Members in February. Our annual List of Donors was included,

together with details of how your support is making a difference to the College.

The Fountain was recently sent to all Trinity members and is also available to view on the Trinity Members Online website. This issue

includes an interview with Lord Deighton KBE, Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,

and an article from Edward Stourton about the wartime exploits of J.W. Hopkins MC. The autumn edition of The Fountain will be published

in September and the 2013 Annual Record will be sent to all Trinity members in December. To submit your news for inclusion in the Annual

Record, please visit the Trinity Members Online website http://alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk/.

Our events program for 2013 is available on the Trinity Members Online website http://alumni.trin.cam.ac.uk/. The Trinity Family Day

will take place on Sunday 14th July and the Annual Members’ Luncheon will be held in College on Sunday 29th September. This year there will

be Annual Gatherings for those who matriculated in 2002-2003 (6th July), 1992-1993 (20th September) and 1962-1964 (25th September). Please

visit the Trinity Members Online website for further details.



trinity hAllwww.trinhall.cam.ac.uk

Spring has been slow to arrive this year, but the lighter evenings have brought

with them much needed and much missed blue skies and sunshine. Cambridge

looks spectacular.

The Trinity Hall events program for the next 12 months has an international flavor: the Master

was recently in Sydney and Singapore, and will be visiting Hong Kong in September. You will

be pleased to know that we have not forgotten America: we are currently planning an event in

New York for Spring 2014, likely to be April, and we will keep you all posted of arrangements

as soon as all details are confirmed.

The memorial service for Dennis Avery (TH 1980, Honorary Fellow and president of the

Trinity Hall Association 2003 – 2006) will take place on Saturday 1 June 2013 at 2:30 p.m. in

the Chapel, followed by a reception in the Master’s Lodge. Details of the service are available

on the website; if you wish to attend, please let us know.

Over the last few years, a major refurbishment program of College staircases is being

undertaken. It is a huge project, with P, G and A now complete. This year sees a break in the

schedule to allow the refurbishment of the Dining Hall. Work will start in early July when the

Hall will enjoy a complete redecoration, a rejuvenation of existing furniture and new chairs, and

a re-hanging of those familiar portraits of Masters and Fellows. Dr. Jonathan Steinberg (Trinity

Hall Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Modern European History at University of Pennsylvania)

has written an informal guide to the portraits in the Hall which will be published to coincide with

the completion of the Hall project. In preview of this guide, our website will feature occasional

extracts and illustrations, and we leave you with words from Dr. Steinberg: “These Cambridge

and Oxford colleges give us an identity too. We become part of that invisible fabric we call ‘our

college’. We become ‘Hall men and women’ and share in the inheritance which our founder,

Bishop William Bateman, and his successors passed on to us, and we in turn pass on to the next

generation. A place like Trinity Hall fulfils that wish in all of us to leave some remembrance of

our transitory time in this world, to remind others that we too once lived and loved and had an eye for beautiful things. In a wonderful essay on

Benjamin Jowett, the famous Master of Balliol College, Oxford in the nineteenth century, Leslie Stephen, a Hall man and a great biographer, put

the proposition perfectly:

A man who is swallowed up in a corporate body, which will outlast him, acquires a kind of derivative immortality. His own life is only an

element in the more permanent life. His work could be carried on by his successors, as the buildings which he helped to erect would remain

for future generations.”

We remain indebted to all the Trinity Hall alumni and friends who continue to support the College through their advice and help, or through a gift

to the College. We extend our warmest thanks to you all for your support and interest in Trinity Hall and its future.

– Jocelyn Poulton, Development Director

Tel: +44 1223 332563. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk.

Wolfson colleGe www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk

From Karen Stephenson, Fellow and Development Director:

There is excitement in College as we launch our much-anticipated film about Wolfson, named, of course, “Ring True.” A year

in the making, the film tells the story of the College from its humble beginnings, with one building and funds to last for ten years, to the present day.

Wolfson members, from the Chairman of the original Board of Trustees through to current students, Fellows and alumni, all take part to paint a

picture of Wolfson then and now, as we look forward to our 50th Anniversary in 2015. Copies of the limited edition DVD (in US format) are available

for a small cost; you can buy online at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/merchandise, or contact Kate Hampson at [email protected]

for your copy.

We are also very much looking forward to working towards our goal of £5m ($7.5m) for our 50th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign. The

Campaign has our students at its heart, and we aim to raise the funds to increase scholarship and bursary support, conference grants, academic prizes

and student accommodation and facilities. We are thrilled with our Campaign logo, conceived by George Bickers, one of the talented students on

our Development Committee; the most straightforward ideas are often the best! I am delighted to share it with you here. Many thanks to our designer

and Wolfson Senior Member Binney Hare (originally from Boston, MA) for her creativity in bringing George’s idea to life.

We are planning a wide range of events for 2015, including a series of 50-minute lectures on “The last 50 years in…”. A number of Fellows,

including the President, have already volunteered to give lectures on their subject in College and it would be marvellous if we could include podcasts

of similar lectures throughout the world on our website during the 50th Anniversary year. Do please

let me know if you would like to be involved.

And, as always, my last word must be one of thanks. Our alumni in the US continue to be the

largest group giving back to their College, and for that I am enormously grateful. Thank you so much

for your support: it really does make an immense difference.

portrait by James thornhill of sir nathanael lloyd,

Master of trinity hall 1710 – 1735, which dominates

the college’s Dining hall.



The distinguished procession of eminent

visiting scholars from U.S. campuses to

Cambridge, taking up the post of Pitt

Professor of American History and

Institutions at the University of

Cambridge, continues apace. Following

historian and biographer Alan Brinkley

(Columbia) in 2011-2012, profiled in CAm

Newsletter no. 21 (Autumn 2011), this

academic year 2012-2013 has brought

Jeffrey C. Alexander (below),the Lillian

Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology

at Yale, where he is also Co-Director of the

Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS).

Jeffrey Alexander works in the areas of

theory, culture and politics. An exponent

of the “strong program” in cultural

sociology, he has investigated the cultural

codes and narratives that inform diverse

areas of social life. He is Co-Editor of The

American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

He earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1969,

cum laude and a Ph.D. from the University

of California, Berkeley, in 1978. He has

taught at UCLA, Berkeley, and since 2001

at Yale. Regarding his current research,

Prof. Alexander comments: “Expanding

the research program generated by civil

sphere theory, I am developing a concept

of ‘societalization’ to explore financial

crisis, church pedophilia, and media phone

hacking. Continuing the cultural sociology

of democratic politics, I am researching

‘Why Obama Won’ in his last presidential

campaign. I am preparing a book-length

treatment of ‘iconic consciousness’,

continuing my explorations in the

materiality of meaning.” Jeff’s latest books

are Trauma: A Social Theory (2012) and

The Dark Side of Modernity (2013).

In 2013-2014 Cambridge will welcome

Yale historian David W. Blight (above),

well-known to American viewers as a

“talking head” on historical documentary

programs on PBS-TV and elsewhere and

to NPR listeners, especially regarding

slavery and the Civil War. He is Class of

1954 Professor of American History and

Director, the Gilder Lehrman Center for

the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and

Abolition, at Yale. He earned a B.A. at

Michigan State in 1971 and an M.A. in

1976, then a Ph.D. at the University of

Wisconsin, Madison, in 1985. He taught

high-school history in his hometown of

Flint, Michigan, then at North Central

College (IL) and at Harvard, followed by

thirteen years at Amherst, and joined the

Yale faculty in 2003 as professor of

history. He is a frequent speaker, book

reviewer, and teacher at summer institutes.

His latest book is American Oracle: The

Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2011)

which analyzes how the Civil War was

viewed, studied, and interpreted at the time

of its centennial, fifty years ago. Prof.

Blight’s HIST 119: The Civil War and

Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 video

course is available on Open Yale courses

at http://oyc.yale.edu/ history/hist-119

In 2014-2015 it will be the turn of

Economics. Barry Eichengreen (above),

who has been called “the best modern

economic historian in the U.S.,” will visit

from Berkeley. This past February 28th he

delivered the Clare Distinguished Lecture

in Economics and Public Policy, talking

about the internationalization of the

Chinese currency, “Renminbi Inter-

nationalization – Good for China? Bad for

us?” Says Tony Badger, Professor of

History and Master of Clare, “He made his

reputation with a brilliant book, Golden

Fetters, on the Gold Standard and the

Great Depression and has been much in

demand for his work on financial crises.”

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee

and Helen N. Pardee Professor of

Economics and Political Science at the

University of California, Berkeley. He was

formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the

International Monetary Fund (Washington,

D.C.), fellow of the Center for Advanced

Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo

Alto), and fellow at the Institute for

Advanced Study (Berlin). He writes a

monthly column for Project Syndicate and

periodic columns for Estadao Sao Paulo

(Brazil), Finanz und Wirtschaft

(Switzerland), Handelsblatt (Germany),

and Eurointelligence. He has been named

one of the 100 most important public

intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine. For more about the Pitt Professors, see

CAm Newsletter no. 11, October 2006, at

www.cantab.org/publications.

Pitt Professors at Cambridge, From Yale and Cal



This fall 50 newly minted Gates Scholars from

U.S. colleges and universities (or with U.S.

hometowns) will matriculate at Cambridge.

They are part of the twelfth contingent of Gates

Scholars, 90-strong, from 22 countries around

the world, who will embark on graduate work

there. U.S. colleges and universities with first-

time Gates Scholars include Binghamton

Univ. (NY), Case Western Reserve (OH),

Christopher Newport Univ. (VA), DePauw

(IN), Franklin W. Owen College of

Engineering (MA), Greenville College (IL),

Lewis & Clark (OR), Naropa (CO), Salisbury

Univ. (MD), San Juan College (NM), Univ. at

Buffalo (NY), Univ. of Maryland – College

Park, San Juan College (NM), Univ. of New

Mexico, Western Illinois Univ., and, and

Worcester Polytechnic / WPI (MA).

Profiles of each of these Scholars-

designate follow, below. More details on

each individual, including personal

statements about what they’ve done and what

they hope to accomplish at, and after,

Cambridge (from which the quotes below are

excerpted) can be viewed at www.

gatescambridge.org/our-scholars/new-

scholars.aspx

If you know someone who might be a

worthy candidate for a Gates Cambridge

Scholarship, please encourage him or

her to investigate and apply. Application

procedures can be found at the Gates

website: www.gatescambridge.org/apply/

(Ms.) Nouran Abdelfattah, from Egypt;

Worcester Polytechnic Instititute (WPI);

MPhil, Clinical Science (Translational

Medicine and Therapeutics). “I intend to

contribute to the growth of translational

research and become a leader in the oncology

field.”

Genevieve Barrons, from Bellingham,

WA; Univ. of British Columbia; MPhil,

Education. “For the past three years, I have

spent summers in Malawi… My goal is to

return to Malawi and create a school.”

Paul Bergen, from Cooper City, FL;

Auburn; PhD, Pathology. “I hope that my

research and involvement at Cambridge will

provide additional groundwork to save the

lives of those afflicted by Salmonella and

similar pathogens around the world.”

Evelyn Boettcher, from Tulsa; U. Penn.,

Harvard; PhD, Politics and International

Studies. “I will arrive at Cambridge in the fall

after studying in Inner Mongolia, China…I

am committed to applying my studies to a

career in public service.”

Erica Cao, from Chesterfield, MO;

Princeton; MPhil, Music Studies. “I envision

the increasing use of music in hospitals and

rehabilitation settings both to alleviate

suffering and for therapeutic interventions to

help overcome various neurological

conditions and sensory impairments.”

Hannah Carlan, from Monroe, GA; New

York University; MPhil, Social Anth-

ropology. “My future research will continue

to explore the relationship between

conversational structures and tropes in Hindi,

including joking, and the way speakers view

themselves and their social world.”

Natalia Chapovalova, from Pleasantville,

NY; Binghamton University; MPhil, Polar

Studies. “My ultimate goal is improve health

through the integration of traditional and

western medicine, thereby fostering health

care systems that are accessible to

underrepresented populations.”

Jose Ciró Martinez, from San Juan, PR;

Williams College; PhD, Politics and

International Studies. “My proposed research

project seeks to dissect the numerous

intersections of nationalism, Islamism and

monarchism in the construction of statehood

in Morocco and Jordan.”

Alessandra Colaianni, from Baltimore,

MD; Duke, Johns Hopkins School of

Medicine; MPhil, Social Anthropology.

“Ever since I started medical school I have

been fascinated by ethical and

anthropological aspects of medicine.”

(Ms.) Amrita Dani, from Newtown, PA;

Harvard; MPhil, Education. “I will explore

how the arts and creative thinking can teach

students to engage across difference… I hope

to translate my experiences as a student and

teacher into a career in education policy.”

Christopher Devine, from Ramsey, NJ;

Harvard; MPhil, Clinical Science

(Translational Medicine and Therapeutics).

“[My studies] will prepare me to become a

leader in ‘bench to bedside’ medicine and

focus on regenerative therapies for patients

with diseases such as ALS and spinal cord

injury.”

(Ms.) Christy Edwall, from Minnetonka,

MN; Greenville College (IL); MPhil, English

Studies. “My research will pursue the

perception of ‘mad poets’ in 18th century

discourse; private and public modes of

writing (and suffering) madness; translation,

especially of the psalms; hymnody; and

religious enthusiasm.”

Krzysztof Franaszek, from Gaithersburg,

MD; Univ. of Maryland – College Park;

MPhil, Biological Science (Pathology). “I

have spent my research career working in

molecular genetics, on programmed

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ribosomal frameshifting, which I will

continue to study at Cambridge.”

Wesley Hazen, from Farmington, NM; San

Juan College (NM), New Mexico State

Univ.; MPhil, Criminology. “After

Cambridge I plan on attending law school

to study business law and later joining

and establishing rehabilitation and

reintegration programs for incarcerated

individuals.”

Isaac Holeman, from The Dalles, OR; Lewis

& Clark College; PhD, Management Studies.

“My work suggests that technologies do not

cause predictable, uniform health

outcomes… Cambridge’s Judge Business

School is an ideal home for this research.”

Daniel Jimenez, from Chantilly,VA; MIT;

MPhil, Engineering for Sustainable

Development. “[The] MPhil program at

Cambridge will support my mission of

bridging the gap between engineering

solutions and the people who need them most

around the world.”

(Ms.) Dominique Kunciw, from Berlin,

MD; Salisbury Univ.; PhD, Chemistry. “I

plan to pursue a research-oriented career in

drug development with an emphasis on

finding cures for diseases prevalent in

underdeveloped countries, especially

diseases with antibiotic resistance.”

Rachel Kurchin, from Rochester, NY; Yale;

MPhil, Materials Science and Metallurgy.

“I’m pursuing the MPhil in order to gain

perspectives from a broader range of

scientific fields to inform my understanding

of the science behind renewable

technologies.”

David Kurz, from Princeton, NJ; Princeton;

MPhil, Biological Science (Zoology).

“[S]tellar faculty, dozens of excellent

conservation NGOs, and the mentorship of

Dr. William Foster will provide an incredibly

stimulating context for my maturation as a

conservation scientist.”

(Mr.) Bo Shiun Lai, from Vancouver, BC,

Canada; Univ. of Chicago; PhD, Pathology.

“At Cambridge, I will work in Dr. James

Ajioka’s toxoplasmosis laboratory. My

project will help decipher the molecular

pathways involved in stress response.”

(Ms.) Devinn Lambert, from Howell, NJ;

Rutgers; MPhil, Biological Science (Plant

Sciences). “The Scholarship will provide me

the opportunity to expand my study of

molecular biology and biochemistry…I will

pursue a position in academia and conduct

research related to renewable energy

production.”

(Mr.) Holden Lee, from Taiwan; MIT; MAst,

Pure Mathematics. “Besides being a math

professor, I want to be a writer. To me,

mathematics and writing have a lot in

common: they both call on us to be precise,

and to ask and answer the ‘why’ questions in

the world.”

Jerry Lee, from San Diego; Stanford; MPhil,

Epidemiology. “I hope to become a physician-

scientist, eventually developing and

standardizing the treatment of cardiovascular

disease with stem cell therapies.”

Elijah Foo Keat Mak, from Singapore;

University at Buffalo; PhD, Psychiatry.

“While administering neuropsychological

assessments for dementia patients, I became

fascinated by the global challenge to halt the

disease. I decided that fighting against

neurodegenerative disorders would be my life

endeavor.”

William Marks, from Hollywood, FL;

Harvard; MPhil, Materials Science and

Metallurgy. “I hope to be able to transfer

much of my work in the lab to practical

applications in the clinic to help improve

access to quality, affordable healthcare

solutions worldwide.”

Kelvin Mei, from Flemington, NJ; Rutgers;

MPhil, Physics. “Having worked with data

from the Large Hadron Collider throughout

my undergraduate career, I will work on a

different aspect of experimental physics:

actually building hardware for the next

collider.”

(Ms.) Saalika Mela, from Pakistan; Univ. of

Chicago; MPhil, Education. “The MPhil will

instruct me in various leadership techniques

and how they may be adapted to progressive

Islamic schools, and will prepare me to take

the employment offer I have been made at

such a school.”

Nicholas Murphy, from Berkeley, CA;

Pomona; MPhil, Biological Science

(Pathology). “I will pursue an MPhil

conducting research on the Trypanosome that

causes African Sleeping Sickness…I look

forward to simultaneously contributing to the

scientific community and global health.”

(Ms.) Lindsey Murray, from Warsaw, MO;

Michigan State Univ., Univ. of Missouri;

MPhil, Criminological Research. “I would

like to concentrate on NATO’s training of

Afghan police and security forces, the rise of

their forensic capabilities, and sustaining them

once NATO support departs.”

Justin Park, from Berkeley, CA; UC-

Berkeley; MPhil, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and

Celtic. “I intend to continue researching

Anglo-Saxon hagiography, the representations

of slaves and criminals, and the connections

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law codes.”

Erin Plisco, from Aberdeen, NC;

Christopher Newport University (VA);

MMus in Choral Studies. “I am excited to

immerse myself in a culture that places such

a high value on choral music and music

education, steeped in a timeless tradition that

has thrived for centuries.”

Michelle Quay, from Irvine, CA; Univ. of

Chicago, UCLA; PhD, Asian and Middle

Eastern Studies. “I will begin work in Persian

literature to open up a cross-cultural dialogue

more complex than the filtered images of Iran

we receive abroad.”

Ethan Rubin, from Brookline, MA; Boston

Univ.; MPhil, Education. “I intend to study

how supportive social environments can be

deliberately cultivated in a variety of schools,

with the explicit aim of integrating character

education into the daily lives of students.”

Shaina Saint-Lot, from Albuquerque, NM;

Univ. of New Mexico; MPhil, Development

Studies. “My future plans are to work in

community development in underserved

countries by establishing sustainable and

strong foundations for local economic growth.”

Rebekah Scheuerle, from Austin, TX; Univ.

of Texas – Austin; PhD, Chemical

Engineering. “I aspire to apply the skills I

acquire at Cambridge to develop affordable,

efficient, and novel therapeutics that can

improve healthcare globally.”

Matthew Shafer, from Augusta, GA; Yale;

MPhil, Political Thought and Intellectual

History. “I hope to produce serious theoretical

contributions that will shape the discursive

contexts of real-world policy debates and

activist movements.”

Rachel Silverman, from White Plains, NY;

Stanford; MPhil, Public Health. “[My]

interests lie at the intersection of global health

and economics, particularly regarding efficient

and equitable resource allocation, priority

setting, and incentive structures to maximize

‘value for money’ in health policy.”

Kaitlin Stouffer, from Potomac, MD;

Princeton; MPhil, Medical Research. “I hope

to pursue an MD/PhD so that as a scientist I

might help further our understanding of

complex diseases, but as a physician I might

never lose sight of the real patients I’m trying

to help.”

Tara Suri, from Scarsdale, NY; Harvard;

MPhil, Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies. “I

seek to build on existing scholarship mapping

the policing of prostitution in the British

Empire with a view to understand the

contemporary legacies of colonial discourses.”

Jason Tabachnik, from Beachwood, OH;

Case Western Reserve; MAst, Applied

Mathematics. “I hope to become a condensed-

matter physicist focused on the development

of new materials.”

Mohammad Usman, from Bronx, NY;

DePauw Univ. (IN), Naropa Univ. (CO);

MPhil, Urban Planning, Growth, and

Regeneration. “[O]btaining this degree would

greatly advance me toward my goals of

serving my community by improving the

policies that govern it.”

Collin Van Buren, from Lasalle, IL; Western

Illinois Univ., Univ. of Toronto. PhD, Earth

Sciences. “I will study how mass-extinction

events have affected past ecosystems by

examining ecomorphology, diversity,

disparity, and other metrics of taxa within

these ecosystems.”

Kaitlin Veenstra, from St. Paul, MN; Univ. of

Notre Dame; MPhil, Architecture and Urban

Design. “I will examine how historic buildings

can impact the environment and surrounding

community, uniting my design background

with independent research toward redefining

truly sustainable architecture.”

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, from Portland, OR;

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

(MA); MPhil, European Literature and

Culture. “I hope to eventually combine my

interests in engineering, philosophy, and

literature. This could be an academic or a

political endeavor.”

Eric Washkewicz, from West Orange, NJ;

U.S. Naval Academy; MPhil, Energy

Technologies. “I hope to research means of

integrating alternative and renewable energy

into a national energy grid, before returning to

the fleet.”

Leah Weiss, from Moreland Hills, OH;

Harvard; MAst, Physics. “In addition to

research I am passionate about science

education. Building on previous teaching and

mentorship experiences, I look forward to

getting involved with educational outreach at

Cambridge.”

Mariel Williams, from Fort Smith, AR;

Univ. of Arkansas; MPhil, Human

Evolutionary Studies. “I look forward to

becoming a university professor and

researcher in paleoanthropology…I intend to

be an advocate for thorough and unbiased

scientific education.”

Naomi Woo, from North Vancouver, BC,

Canada; Yale; MPhil, Music Studies. “I want

to use performance as a means of informing

and enriching musicology, treating works of

music as experiences rather than merely as

texts.”

Christina Woolner, from Kitchener, ON,

Canada; Univ. of Notre Dame; MPhil, Social

Anthropology. “After my MPhil I plan to

continue to doctoral studies, and an eventual

career as a peace studies educator and

‘engaged’ social anthropologist focused on

war and peace.”

Catherine Bingchan Xie, from Canada;

Caltech; MPhil, Clinical Science. “I am

committed to becoming a physician-scientist,

translating my findings into more effective

healthcare and providing people with the

knowledge and treatments to battle

diseases.”

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