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THE CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2008 - 2009

CONTENTS

Page EDITORIAL 3 MASTER & FELLOWS An informal listing 7 THE MASTER’S MESSAGE 12 Prof MICHAEL MAJERUS Obituary 15 COLLEGE NEWS 19 BENEFACTIONS & GIFTS 41 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION Report from the Alumni Council 48 The Lady Clare Fund 50 THE NEW GATE TO THE FELLOWS’ GARDEN by Howard Griffiths (2002) 52 ANCIENT LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC ICE by Michael Storrie- Lombardi (1993) 62 A MEDICAL STUDENT IN INDIA by Nuala Calder (2004) 66 QUAKERS & POLITICS by Michael Bartlet (Eric Lane Fellow 2009) 69 “OLD CLARE” NEWS 72 OBITUARIES 85 NOTICES and Book Review 108 Send contributions for the next Annual to pfk1@cam.ac.uk or to The Editor of the Annual, Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL

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ILLUSTRATIONS Page Illus 1a Castle End: a bedroom for a disabled student 1b Castle End: the new catering hall 4

Illus 2a Castle End: a communal kitchen area (left end) 2b Castle End: a communal kitchen area (right end) 5

Illus 3 The new ‘kinetic sculpture’ in Ashby Court 8

Illus 4a A river view in December’s snow 4b The apple tree in the formal garden, in snow 9

Illus 5 An early planting of Lerner Court 13

Illus 6 The late Prof Michael Majerus (pictured ca. 1990) 16

Illus 7 The Master formally opens the new gate 53

Illus 8 The designer of the gate is present, and admires the result 54

Illus 9 Professors Brown and Griffiths welcome the new feature 55

Illus 10 The scene of the scientific work, on the frozen lake 56

Illus 11 Dr Storrie-Lombardi prepares to take another core sample 57

Illus 12 A sample of a L.I.F.E. image from an ice core 58

Illus 13 A scene at the Christian Medical College, Vellore 59

Illus 14 Nuala Calder assists at a women’s clinic 60

Illus 15 Michael Bartlet, in the Fellows’ Garden 61 Acknowledgements: Illustrations 10, 11 and 12 by Michael Storrie-Lombardi Illustrations 13 and 14 by Nuala Calder Other illustrations by the Editor.

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EDITORIAL For most of the calendar year 2009, the University has been focussing on celebration of the 800 years since the first record of ‘groups of Scholars congregating at the ancient Roman trading post of Cambridge, for the purpose of study’. Perhaps for this reason, I approach this editorial with my mind on numbers. For the purposes of this page I note that the very first Clare Association Annual related to the academic year 1923-24, and the Clare archive holds (and the libraries of a few alumni have probably held) a continuous run of copies ever since, except for a gap of 8 issues during the war. This is expected to give a valuable historical resource for anyone wishing to study the development of Clare College, or to seek former references to an alumnus. I can also look back and see that this issue is the thirteenth which I have prepared, and that it takes the total number of issues in our archive to 78.

It will be seen that colour pictures are grouped in a manner which has some regard to the expense of colour printing. The moderation of expense only applies in the printed version of the Annual, and includes the presentation of the small pictures in obituaries in grayscale. The website version does not have the same costing as the printed version, and can have colour images throughout. The reader of the printed version will find a familiar sequence of entries, and high in my comments must be our regret at the death of Professor Mike Majerus, noted briefly in the previous issue as we went to press. I am grateful to Dr William Foster for his writing of the obituary (page 15). I offer further thanks to Prof Howard Griffiths for an informative page on the new gate to the Fellows’ Garden, in a later section (page 52). There are three articles of special interest, led by Dr Michael Storrie-Lombardi, who was at Clare from 1993 as Harrison-Watson Senior Student. I hope you will agree that his work has moved into a very interesting area. It has to be really engrossing in order to

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Illus 1a Castle End: a bedroom for a disabled student 1b Castle End: the new catering hall

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Illus 2a Castle End: a communal kitchen area (left end) 2b Castle End: a communal kitchen area (right end)

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undertake the work in such conditions! Then there is a description of the impressions gained by one of our clinical students on her project to visit India, which clearly represented a steep learning curve, and different but also very challenging conditions. Thirdly, we are pleased to have a thought-provoking piece written by Michael Bartlet, who was Eric Lane Fellow at Clare for the Easter term. Michael Bartlet is the Parliamentary Liaison Secretary for the Quakers, a lawyer by training, and has worked on refugee and equality issues in this country. A very noticeable change is evident in “Old Clare” News, where the flow of news from alumni, formerly a very generous source, has all but dried up except for death notices. I have been receiving very few notes of changes of employment, weddings, anniversaries and births, which I have been pleased to record in past years as interesting for contemporaries (and posterity). It may be that alumni have found some other medium for sharing information which would have come here in former years? It may just be useful to mention that ‘news for the Annual’ sent to the alumni in-box, or to the Development Office, only reaches me after some internal transfer. This does work, by transferring sheets of paper or by sending more e-mails, but this may introduce delay. It could be useful to ‘carbon-copy’ to me e-mails which include ‘info for the Annual’; the Development Office could see that this had been done, and omit further transfers. Alternatively, of course, send news directly to pfk1@cam.ac.uk. A lot of the items recorded in this issue of “Old Clare” News are culled from other sources, including the two recent issues of Clare News. The Head Gardener, Steve Elstub, mentions that the new garden space in Lerner Court is being given special attention, and says ‘It will improve, year on year, and I feel will become a noted garden in its own right’. There is now a supply of electricity to the pond in the formal part of the Fellows’ garden, which allows a small fountain to be run. ‘This not only gives movement and noise to the pond, but greatly helps the oxygenating of the pond water, to the benefit of the wildlife in it.’

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The year has included a dramatic refurbishment of Castle End, of which I include four illustrations. The building no longer looks ‘tired’, and has all en-suite rooms (with one on each floor with some adaptation for disabled students). The communal kitchen facilities are better, on each floor. There is also a fully-fitted kitchen and a large dining area, which can cater for 100 people (see Illus 1 and 2). An internal lift from the ground floor has been fitted, and an outside disabled-access lift to the entrance. A new feature has appeared in Ashby Court, in the form of a ‘kinetic sculpture’ by Michael Hischer (see Illus 3). This is on loan from Roche Court for twelve months; it is a relatively delicate artwork, which will need to be treated with care. It is a pity to have such a fence around it, but this may be temporary. The arms are perfectly balanced for weight distribution, but unevenly balanced for air resistance, hence they rotate in the slightest breeze, in the manner of two windmills but somewhat randomly. Lastly, the recent novelty of a considerable snowfall on the 18th December seems worthy of some illustration, with photos taken in the Fellows’ garden (Illus 4). Peter Knewstubb (1950), January 2010

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Illus 3 The new ‘kinetic sculpture’ in Ashby Court

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Illus 4a A river view in December’s snow 4b The apple tree in the formal garden, in snow

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MASTER AND FELLOWS at 1st October 2009

[An alphabetical and informal list is offered this year]

MASTER Prof Tony Badger

FELLOWS not retired (some not in Cambridge)

Prof Philip Allmendinger Mr Neil Andrews Prof Andrew Balmford Dr Andrea Bamberg Migliano Dr Paul Bristowe Mr Tim Brown Dr William Byrne Dr Rodrigo Cacho Prof Paul Cartledge Dr Cathy Clarke Prof Nicky Clayton Dr Nathan Crilly Dr Stephen Dalby Dr Celia Duff Dr Maciej Dunajski Dr Richard Dyball Dr Fiona Edmonds Dr Paul Edwards Dr Patricia Fara Dr Philip Faulkner Prof Paul Fletcher Dr Tamara Follini Prof Philip Ford Dr William Foster Dr Elizabeth Foyster Prof Simon Franklin Dr Andrew Friend Dr Marina Frolova-Walker Dr John Gibson

Dr Josip Glaurdic Prof Robert Glen Dr Jonathan Goodman Prof Malcolm Grant Dr Neil Greenham Prof Howard Griffiths Prof John Guy Dr Rachael Harris Prof Bill Harris Dr Douglas Hedley Mr Donald Hearn Prof David Hodell Dr Nicola Holdstock Prof Andrew Holmes Mr David Howarth Ms Kirsty Hughes Dr Julian Huppert Dr Hubertus Jahn Mr Aylmer Johnson Mr Stephen Jolly Dr Philip Jones Dr Tessa Knighton Dr Marta Lahr Dr Sian Lazar Prof Peter Leadlay Dr Iohannis Lestas Dr Tim Lewens Dr Andrea Manica Mr Rory Naismith Dr Gordon Ogilvie Dr Fred Parker Prof Larry Paulson Mr Mick Petty Prof Richard Phillips Dr Anna Philpott Dr Timothy Potts Prof Jaideep Prabhu

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Dr Andrew Preston Dr Wendy Pullan Dr Colin Russell Dr Helena Sanson The Revd Gregory Seach Dr Robert Semple Prof Alison Sinclair Prof Michiel Sprik Prof Roel Sterckx Dr Anne Stillman Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas Prof Andrew Thomason Dr Helen Thompson Dr Flavio Toxvaerd Dr Adrian Travis Prof Lorraine Tyler Dr Hendrick van Veen Dr Melvyn Weeks Dr Charles Weiss Dr Toby Wilkinson Dr Nigel Woodcock Prof Jim Woodhouse

RETIRED FELLOWS (some of whom still teach)

Dr Bob Blackburn Dr Michael Bown Prof Gillian Brown Mrs Elizabeth Freeman Dr Richard Gooder Dr David Hartley Prof Volker Heine Prof Bob Hepple Mr Don Holister Dr Peter Knewstubb Prof Michael Lapidge Prof Alan Lucas Prof Donald Lynden-Bell Prof Robin Matthews Dr Malcolm Mitchinson Dr Terry Moore

Mr John Newton Dr Ken Riley Dr Malcolm Ruel Dr Roger Schofield Dr Dominic Scott Mr Brian Smale-Adams Prof Timothy Smiley Prof Anthony Snodgrass Dr Roger Tapp Mr Colin Turpin Prof Nigel Weiss Prof Richard West Dr Gordon Wright

BYE-FELLOWS Prof Henry (Skip) Gates The Revd Roger Greeves Prof Polly O’Hanlon Prof Jerry Ostriker Mr Duncan Robinson Dr David Swensen Dr Dorothy Thompson

HONORARY FELLOWS Mr Peter Ackroyd Sir David Attenborough Sir Nicholas Barrington Sir Walter Bodmer Sir John Boyd H.E. Fernando Cardoso Sir Frederick Catherwood Sir Philip Dowson Sir John Gray Sir Tim Hunt Prof Frances Kirwan Sir Roger Norrington Mr Matthew Parris Prof Norman Ramsey Dr John Rutter

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The Rt Revd Mark Santer Prof Jonathan Spence Sir Michael Stoker Prof James Watson Lord Wedderburn Prof Sir Andrew Wiles The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams Lord Wilson of Dinton

ELIZABETH de CLARE FELLOWS

Mr Randy Lerner Dr Alan Gillespie Mr Ian Riley

HONORARY MEMBER Ms Carol Coe

THE MASTER’S MESSAGE I write just after a lunch organized in the Master’s Lodge by Jonathan Lear. Jonathan was a Mellon Fellow, later a Research Fellow of Clare. He is now John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has just been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. Four professors in the United States are named each year. The award of $1.5 million over three years is for the purpose of funding his research. But Jonathan recalls that his ‘academic career really began with the Mellon-Clare Fellowship I had all those years ago’. The reason for the lunch was that Jonathan and Alex Oliver have edited a volume in honour of Tim Smiley, The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley. Seven of the contributors have connections with Clare.

I hope that Clare continues to change people’s lives as it did Jonathan’s and I hope that the College continues to sustain the level of scholarship and commitment to teaching amongst its Fellowship that Tim Smiley has displayed over more than 50 years as a Fellow. That Tim’s model is being followed by Clare Fellows is exemplified by the success of Dr Helena Sanson, our Fellow in Italian, in winning a Philip Leverhulme Prize for 2009. These are awarded in a national competition to outstanding scholars, normally

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under the age of 36, who have been recognized at an international level and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise. In the past six years seven other younger Clare Fellows have been recognized in this way.

This past summer, eight Fellows were promoted in the University; one to a chair, five to readerships and three to senior lectureships. These promotions constituted over ten per cent of all the promotions in the University this year. Clare Fellows have also been successful in winning the Pilkington prizes awarded in the University ‘for teaching excellence’ (six in the past six years, including Andrew Thomason in 2009). It is a matter of great sadness that Mike Majerus won the prize this year posthumously. Mike was not only a world leader in evolutionary biology but he was an inspirational director of studies. His death last January at the age of 55 was an immense loss to the College, his colleagues and the students.

Illus 5 An early planting of Lerner Court

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This past year has seen the formal opening of Lerner Court by the Chancellor and the refurbishment of Castle End. Members of the College who remember Castle End as a grey dismal building will be relieved to know that it has been transformed into a light, airy building with en-suite facilities for everybody.

Other non-academic highlights of the year include an unusual (in recent years) degree of sporting success by Clare students, and the choice by Cambridge in America of the Clare Choir to represent music in the University by singing at the 800th anniversary gala celebrations at Gotham Hall in New York in December. The choir distinguished itself alongside Stephen Fry and Sir David Frost. Maud Millar, one of our choral scholars, brought the audience to its dancing feet with a stunning version of ‘I heard it through the grapevine.’ The New York visit was a fitting part of Tim Brown’s final year after 31 years as Director of Music. Under his leadership, Clare has developed an enviable reputation for producing not only a world-class choir but also a stream of brilliant instrumentalists, composers and conductors. The College’s Campaign for Music aims to make that legacy permanent.

For many members of the College, Riccardo Chieppa is the first person they call to see when they return. Sadly, 2010 will be Riccardo’s last year. Apart from producing a succession of wonderful meals, Riccardo has been a good friend to generations of fellows and students alike – and endlessly patient with their idiosyncrasies.

I hope Clare continues to be a College which inspires the pride and loyalty of its members. I believe that, despite the likely financial pressures of the next few years, it can continue to be a college that cares for its students and can change their lives.

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Professor MICHAEL MAJERUS (1954 – 2009)

Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus had an insatiable curiosity for insects which, harnessed to his magnificent energy and enthusiasm, enabled him to become an evolutionary geneticist and ecologist of world-wide renown. Mike was born in Middlesex in 1954, began collecting butterflies at the age of four and was hooked for life: later on, he sometimes spoke of the “four wasted years”. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and Royal Holloway College, where he completed a PhD on moth colouration. After two years at the University of Keele, in 1980 he took up a position in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, where he remained and was promoted in 2006 as Professor of Evolution. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow at Clare.

Mike will be remembered in particular for his work on Lepidoptera and Coccinellidae, and his major contribution is to have clarified our understanding of some important concepts in biology. He was one of the first to provide evidence that female mating preference could be genetically determined. This work, based on ladybirds, gives support for a critical element in the Darwinian theory of sexual selection. He worked extensively on the biased sex-ratios caused by male-killing bacteria in some ladybird and butterfly species, providing some of the best evidence available of the causes and consequences of sex ratio distortion in natural populations. More recently, Mike led a team working on the invasion of the UK by the Harlequin Ladybird Harmonia axyridis, which is destined to become a model system in which to study the general principles underlying the ecology of invasive species.

The work for which Mike is probably best known is his study of the peppered moth Biston betularia. This work illustrates perfectly Mike’s qualities as a research biologist. It was based on detailed experimental field work, nurtured by over 40 years of general moth trapping. Not for him the quick appropriation of a model species

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Illus 6 The late Professor Michael Majerus (pictured ca. 1990)

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from other experts: he was able to do critical experiments on moths in the context of a deep understanding of their general field biology. It also shows his deftness in choosing an important topic: he could see how vital it was to restore this moth to its proper place in the pantheon of evolutionary biology. And finally, it shows his courage in taking the fight to the enemy, and his ability to engage with the general public on a topic of profound interest to us all.

Mike was a natural as a teacher. His excitement about his subject was infectious: whether it was children, students, colleagues or ancient entomologists marinaded in ethyl acetate, you could see their eyes light up as he explained his latest discoveries and enthusiasms. He took pains over his students: careful to nurture and to encourage them as they made their first steps as researchers. He was also good at spotting aptitude in admissions candidates, often seeing interests and abilities that the rest of us had missed.

Besides his involvement in the admissions process, Mike was a supervisor and Director of Studies for Biological Sciences at Clare. He was hugely popular with these undergraduate students and his fireworks parties were the stuff of legend. He exuded a marvellous blend of enthusiasm, encouragement and dry humour, and was truly a master at imparting “the precious pearl of learning” as Lady Clare might put it. He will be impossible to replace.

One incident on a field course I was running some years ago, in Norfolk, sums up Mike’s life-enhancing qualities. For several years, I had been showing the final-year zoologists how to catch moths at night, but one year I decided it would be good to ask a professional, that is Mike, to help out. He appeared in his van which was bristling with equipment, including several Robinson traps mounted on huge black dustbins. His arrival coincided with a torrential thunderstorm. I was quite keen to retire for a pint, and thought the students might agree with me. But Mike was undeterred. We marched into the pinewood carrying generators, traps and nets. One student fell up to her chest in a saltmarsh drain.

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Thoughts of health and safety, death from exposure, raced through my mind, but with a small amount of encouragement from Mike she readily agreed to keep going. The rain worsened but we set the traps up, with Mike coaxing his sodden Benson & Hedges into life. We had the best moth trapping night ever, the students had fun, and Mike wrote a scientific paper about it.

Mike was the sort of man who made things happen. He wrote five meaty books, dozens of highly cited research papers, as well as dozens of probably not quite so highly cited but nevertheless important papers in journals such as The Entomologist’s Record. He changed people’s lives: making them take notice of the natural world, inspiring them to become the evolutionary biologists of tomorrow. And he just loved insects: they were his life, his passion. Entomology has lost a skilful, tireless and doughty champion.

William Foster (1976)

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COLLEGE NEWS

FELLOWS

It is good to be able again to record University promotions for a number of the Fellows. Dr Neil Greenham has been promoted to be Professor of Physics. Dr Jonathan Goodman is now a Reader in Chemistry, and Dr Douglas Hedley a Reader in Hermeneutics & Metaphysics in the Faculty of Divinity. Dr Marina Frolova-Walker is promoted to be Reader in Music History, and Dr Gordon Ogilvie a Reader in Mathematical Astrophysics. There are also promotions to Senior Lectureships for Dr Andrea Manica (Zoology), Dr Rodrigo Cacho (Spanish & Portuguese) and Dr Andrew Preston (History). Prof Anthony Snodgrass has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Chicago, in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of classical archaeology. Prof Philip Ford has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Prof Sir Bob Hepple has received an Honorary Degree in Law from the University of Bari, Italy. Two Fellows were awarded Pilkington Prizes ‘for University teaching’. Prof Andrew Thomason was noted as ‘a shining example of what a University Professor should be; he had the vision to reshape a notoriously problematic part of the Mathematics Tripos, earning the eternal gratitude of hordes of Maths students. Andrew has also developed many fresh courses at the Part III level in the areas of Combinatorics and Algorithms, and played a significant role in the Computer-Aided Teaching of All Mathematics course.’ The other Prize was gained, posthumously, by the late Professor Michael Majerus, who was ‘described by those who knew him as an archetypal Cambridge scientist - a charismatic individual for whom the boundaries between life and work, and teaching and research, were hard to discern. He passed away earlier this year but will be remembered as a world authority in his field, and a tireless advocate

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of science in the media. In 2004 the arrival of the Harlequin ladybird in Britain catapulted Mike into the public eye and onto the front page of the Times! Mike was a natural teacher who leaves behind a lasting legacy in his field, not only through his immense scientific contribution, but in his pioneering teaching and mentoring of the evolutionary biologists of tomorrow.’ Congratulations have also been extended to Dr Helena Sanson on her being awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Modern European Languages, for work on the History of Linguistic Thought and Women’s History. Dr Andrea Manica has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Zoology. Dr Ioannis Lestas has been appointed to a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship. Dr Colin Russell has been appointed to a Royal Society Fellowship for five years, in support of his work on Infectious Disease Epidemiology. During the past year, four Fellows have left the Fellowship, the most regrettable loss being by the death of Professor Mike Majerus, whose obituary appears on page 15. Professor Seppo Honkapohja has returned to Finland, in a new post, and Dr Isabelle van Damme has gone to a law firm in Geneva. Dr Helen van Noorden has moved to a fellowship in Girton College. The number of Fellows has nevertheless increased, with ten new Fellows being elected, bringing the number (including Bye-Fellows) to 124. As in previous years, they are introduced, essentially in their own words, as follows:-

Dr Julian Huppert originally trained as an organic chemist, and earned his PhD in biological chemistry, working with Prof Shankar Balasubramanian on G- quadruplex nucleic acids, performing biophysical experiments and computational analyses. For this study he was awarded a Research Fellowship from Trinity College, which he used in work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, working on population genomics, and was part of the ENCODE project (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) consortium. He then moved to the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics,

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and since 2007 at the Cavendish Laboratory as part of the Physics of Medicine initiative, where he works on the structure and function of DNA, continuing a long line of research at both the Cavendish and Clare! Outside research, he has founded a biotech company and been heavily involved in electoral politics. He is now a member of the National Council of Liberty.

Dr Philip Faulkner joined Clare College in October 2009 as a Senior College Teaching Officer in Economics. He holds a BA, MPhil and PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (Selwyn College) and began his academic career in 2001 as a College Teaching Officer at St. Catharine’s College. For the past five years he has held this position jointly at St. Catharine’s and Clare, before moving to Clare full time in 2009. In addition to his College responsibilities he is currently a Fellow of the Judge Business School, co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Chair of the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust and a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. Dr. Faulkner’s research is primarily concerned with social ontology, namely the study of the fundamental nature of the social realm and of various kinds of social entities. His dissertation focused on the ontology of the human economic agent and considered topics such as the nature of decision-making and the distinction between information and knowledge, while his more recent work has looked at the nature of technology, in particular technological artefacts. His current focus is on the ontology of ‘non-material’ technological artefacts such as computer programs and product designs.

Prof David Hodell, elected in May 2008, is Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences. Prior to relocating to Cambridge last year, he spent over 20 years at the University of Florida in the Department of Geological Sciences. He earned his PhD in 1986 in geological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980 in geology from the University of Vermont.

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He is a paleoclimatologist whose research utilizes sediment cores (i.e., mud) collected from lake and ocean bottoms to reconstruct past changes in Earth's climate, oceans, and environment. He is engaged in research to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for glacial-interglacial cycles of Earth’s climate system in the Pleistocene. He also has a longstanding interest in how ancient civilizations affected their environment and, in turn, how environmental and climate change may have influenced cultural evolution. His current research is focused on reconstructing ancient climate and environmental conditions relevant to the Maya of Mesoamerica, Khmer of Cambodia, and Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley.

Dr. Timothy Potts has been the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge since January 2008. He was formerly Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas (1998-2007), and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia (1994-98). Dr Potts is a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, on which he has written widely. His books include Mesopotamia and the East: An Archaeological and Historical Study of Foreign Relations, 3400 - 2000 BC (Oxford 1994); as co-editor of Culture Through Objects: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of P.R.S. Moorey (Oxford 2003); and as series editor of Cradles of Civilization (Sydney and Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1993-94). He was educated at the Universities of Sydney (BA Hons) and Oxford (D.Phil). He has held academic positions as a Research Lecturer and British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (1985-90) and, in conjunction with his museum directorship in Melbourne, as a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University (1996-98). He was co-director of the University of Sydney excavations at Pella, Jordan, from 1982 to 1989.

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Prof Jaideep Prabhu writes for us ‘I grew up in India, and lived variously in Delhi, Bangalore, Goa, Belgaum and Karwar. I got my Bachelor in Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, before going to Los Angeles to do a PhD in Business Administration at the University of Southern California. Since my PhD studies, I’ve held positions at the University of California (Los Angeles), Tilburg University in the Netherlands, the Judge Institute of Management Studies (Cambridge) and Imperial College London, before returning to the Judge Institute in September 2008. My research interests are primarily in innovation and international business. Specifically, I’m interested in how organisations use new technologies to develop new products and services that make our lives better. I am increasingly interested in the cross-national aspects of the antecedents and consequences of innovation. My most recent published research is on the role of firm culture in driving innovation in firms across nations. My work in progress includes research into how multinational firms organise their innovation activities worldwide, the forces that drive their Research and Development location decisions and the factors that influence the performance implications of these decisions. I am increasingly interested in how innovations can make a difference to the poorest people on the planet, many of whom live in emerging markets like India, China and Africa’.

Dr Stephen Dalby joined the College as one of the annual appointments of two Research Fellows. His work is in the sphere of organic chemistry, and specifically the total synthesis of bioactive natural products for the development of novel therapeutic agents.

Dr Rory Naismith joined Clare in October 2009 as a Junior Research Fellow in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. He completed his BA, MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) between 2002 and 2009. He is a council member of the British Numismatic Society and also a committee member of the British Academy's Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles project. His

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work focuses on the coinage of Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours, and particularly on the contribution of coinage to the understanding of contemporary cultural, political and economic developments.

Dr Nathan Crilly joined Clare College in May 2009. He received a BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southampton in 1999, and a PhD (Cantab) through Hughes Hall in 2006. Nathan now holds a Lectureship in Engineering Design at the Department of Engineering, and is associated with the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. Nathan's research interests are in the areas of design, creativity and communication. In particular, he focuses on how designers intend products to be understood and used, and on how they are subsequently experienced by users. More generally, Nathan has an interest in how different academic disciplines and professional practices can be used to inform the study of design.

Ms Kirsty Hughes joined Clare in October as the Turpin-Lipstein Fellow in Law. She specialises in constitutional, human rights and tort law. Kirsty completed her doctorate at Sidney Sussex College, with a thesis on the right to privacy. During her doctorate she also spent some time at the Australian Law Reform Commission, Sydney, where she drafted proposals for the reform of Australian privacy law. Prior to her doctorate, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Durham.

Prof Philip Allmendinger joined the College in October, and is the current University Professor of Land Economy. He has had concerns with matters of planning and development for nearly 20 years, with posts in both England and Scotland. He has also held honorary visiting positions in South Africa, Germany and New Zealand. He has published nine books on planning and development. He is a member of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Research Grants Board and the Housing and

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Planning Expert panel for the Department of Communities and Local Government. His current research interests include transaction costs in planning, development finance mechanisms and the impact of planning controls upon land and property markets. He is currently writing a book on planning under New Labour. On the 19th of March 2009, before lunch, 24 Fellows assembled in the Combination Room in response to a wish of Diana Hollins, the daughter of the late Prof Kurt Lipstein, that such a gathering might happen to mark what would have been her father’s 100th birthday. A toast was drunk to his memory, and with thanks for Kurt’s long and notable service to Clare. In a very special occasion on 12th of June 2009 there was an official opening of the new Lerner Court by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University, and Statutory Visitor to the College. This addition to our facilities must surely be, for reasons of space, the last major development on the College’s city-centre site. After the unveiling of a plaque, the Clare Choir sang a celebratory anthem to mark the occasion, and the Master led the Visitor into the Gillespie Centre. In the Riley Auditorium, the Duke of Edinburgh was introduced to members of the design team, including the architects, the engineers who worked on the court’s eco-friendly features, and the landscape designer. During a tour around the building, the Visitor also met groups of Fellows, members of staff and students. The £8.5 million cost of Lerner Court was funded entirely by donations from alumni - a remarkable achievement, for which the College is extremely grateful. For pictures of the event, see Clare News 24. A novel item in Clare News 23 reported that Prof Nicola Clayton (Fellow in Experimental Psychology) also enjoys expertise in dance. She has been appointed to the Creative Team of the Ballet Rambert, and with four others will be working on the choreography

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of a new ballet, in honour of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin, called A Comedy of Change.

HONORARY FELLOWS In memory of the late Professor Sir Brian Pippard, Lady Pippard and Pippard family members arranged a concert in the Hall at Clare College on the afternoon of Sunday the 10th of May 2009, followed by a reception at Clare Hall. Sir David Attenborough graciously accepted an invitation to speak at the annual Whiston Society dinner. The Whiston Society, named after the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics who followed Isaac Newton in that post, is the College’s society for those with an interest in Natural Sciences (for more description, including pictures, see Clare News 24). Sir Roger Norrington, CBE, has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the CU Musical Society. In Clare News 23, we note that Dr John Rutter conducted a performance of his Mass of the Children in a concert with the Choir of London and Orchestra, founded by John Harte (1998).

FORMER FELLOWS & VISITORS For the Easter term, we welcomed back as a Visiting Scholar Professor Denis Weaire, FRS (1961). His subject is Mathematics, and after gaining the PhD (Cantab) degree, he went to the USA for some years. A busy and mobile career saw him finally (in 1984) return as Head of the Physics Dept at Trinity College, Dublin. He is also President of the European Physical Society. We regret having to note the early death of Dr Helen Elsom, a Research Fellow in Classics, elected in 1984. A funeral service for Helen was held in Clare Chapel on 29.9.2009. Dr Richard Layfield (1999), elected a Fellow in 2002, moved to a post in Manchester three or four years later, and has now been approved for a Humboldt Research Fellowship, to be held at the

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Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Robin McCaig writes for us :- ‘As of the start of Michaelmas Term 2009, Clare has approximately 300 students studying for a graduate degree. These graduate members continue to contribute to College life with participation in study skills workshops for undergraduates, representation on College committees and even a place on the University Challenge team. The Middle Combination Room remains the centre of grad life at Clare with its excellent facilities, ever-popular Friday dinners in Great Hall, and support for the expanding peer support network. The year 2009 began in style with the annual Burns Supper celebrating the College’s debt to Scotland (it was, after all, at Bannockburn that Gilbert de Clare was slain, leaving his sister, Lady Elizabeth, one of the wealthiest women in England). Grads also played a central role in the organisation of the second Clare Research Symposium in March. Some fine October weather allowed another successful Freshers’ Week to kick off with a lunch in the Scholars’ Garden (having hosted the MCR garden party in June), and Michaelmas Term has seen everything from walking tours of Cambridge to a Ukrainian chocolate evening. Friday night in the MCR is still the place to be for Clare grads, even out of Term. As 2009 comes to an end we are enjoying our Christmas dinner, now extended to two sittings to accommodate our numbers.’ During the year 2009 the following have had theses approved for the PhD degree:- A.Abrusci M.F. dos S.C.Batista T.J.Cluett M.R.Cook C.J.S.Davies

D.P.Doupé S.W.Evans M.J.Graves D.T.W.Jones A.Kahraman

A.Kay C.M.Kipps S.N.Klinge Y.Lu C.L.Mahoney

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D.S.Manning J.A.Mellad W.H.Mok Y.Mok G.A.Owens D.E.Parfitt A.Petrozza

C.L.Phillips S.H.Shah R.A.Sanders N.Shivji J.A.Teufel H.J.Thirkettle D.H.Y.Tse

D.C.Turner J.L.Webb-Williams R.H.West J.M.Wheeler N.P.Whiteley J.M.Wilkinson H.C.Withers

COLLEGE PRIZES

Some comment on the recent performance of current students in the Tripos can be found in the Clare Annual Report 2009. Here we again restore an item which appeared in the earliest issues of the Clare Association Annual, with a report that named College Prizes were awarded for the academic year as follows:- PRIZE given for RECIPIENT(S) Allan History R.G.Abraham Prust History E.Taylor Newnes English D.Kotas, H.Warner William Senior Law Y.Vanderman Mallinson Modern Languages O.N.P.Topping Royalton Kisch Music M.Biggins Davies Economics A.L.Moyses Paine Economics not awarded William Butler Medical Sciences A.A.Theodosiou Owst Classics not awarded Perret Arch & Anth M.E.Brinkley, M.Philo (or Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) Owst Mathematics J.Lamplugh Harry Paten Mathematics J.Lamplugh Amiya Banergi Mathematics Z.Chen Murgoci Physics J.W.S.Lee Owen Physics D.Cannell Chibnall Biochemistry A.L.Slusarczyk Olive Ward Chemistry D.Ponting Godwin Life Sciences A.J.Chettle, K.Mitchell D.R.Williams

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Horne Physical Sciences D.T.O.Belius, J.G.Birch H.R.Brice, Z.Chen, K.Dawkes, H.C.Johanson, A.M.Keating, P.Lowth, G.Martin-Brandis, A.Morgan, D.Ostrev, A.Price, N.J.Sofroniew Pressed Steel Engineering (Year4) Q.Wu, (3) J.Austin, (3) M.L.T.Causier, (2) R./T.Slater, (1) R.F.Jeffers Robins further research G.Smith, C.M.A.Benn Lester Brough College Music M.Biggins Gordon Wright Medicine J.M.Gardner Lady Clare Humanities R.Parker Precious Pearl or Social Science Greene Cup pietatis causa T.C.Boston Greene Cup general learning M-E.Lynall Stephens Theology R.H.Schon Stephens (Reading, by Dean’s nomination) D.J.Ponting Richard Gooder creativity (arts) C.M.F.Hennessey John Northam poetry&prose F.A.Wales Bonner, A.C.Spearman Duncan Robinson art R.M.Papadakis It is likely to be noticed by alumni that several new prizes have been established quite recently. Those which have been added to the list of named prizes since the list for June 2004 are:- PRIZE awarded for Amiya Banerji Prize the best result in Part IA/IB Maths given by Milon K Banerji (1950), former Attorney General of India, in memory of his father. Perret Prize top First in any Part of Archaeology/Anthropology or in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies given by Yvonne Perret in honour of Dr Toby Wilkinson’s contribution to Clare College. Stephens Prize the best in Part IIB Theology/Religious Studies Stephens Reading Prize the best at a competitive reading trial in Chapel both given by the Revd Prof W P Stephens (1952).

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Gordon Wright Prize the best performance in Preparing for Patients given by Yvonne Perret in honour of Dr Gordon Wright’s contribution to Clare College. Lady Clare Precious Pearl Prize the best dissertation in Humanities/Social Sciences, given by David Albenda (1960).

and, for work in College rather than in any Tripos:

Richard Gooder Literary Prize general contribution to literature in Clare John Northam Arts Prize general contribution to literary/artistic endeavour Duncan Robinson Art Prize general contribution to practical/visual art

CHAPEL & CHAPEL CHOIR

The new Dean, The Revd Dr Gregory Seach, writes for us:- ‘During the academic year 2008-9, the continuing round of prayer and praise continued in Chapel, with at least two services taking place every day of the week except Saturday. Thus, all those who work and live in, or are connected to, the College, are continually held in prayer before Almighty God; either through specific petitions, or in general prayers for blessing and well-being. With their usual musical excellence, and under the renowned direction of Tim Brown, at least three services a week (usually Choral Evensong) were led by the choir. The outstanding and dedicated work of the two organ scholars - Simon Thomas Jacobs (now assistant organist and director of music at Christ Church, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA), and Ashok Gupta (now Senior Organ Scholar) - was also an enormous asset to the worship and life of the Chapel.

Sunday Evensong continued as the ‘main’ service of the week, drawing a large crowd of students, some Fellows, parents, regular guests and visitors. Following a series of sermons some years ago which had as its subject ‘Clare Divines’, in Michaelmas term a contemporary variation on that theme was used when all of the preachers were members of the College. In Easter term, inspired by Gospel accounts of women’s role as ‘first witnesses’, a series entitled “First Witnesses to the Resurrection” saw only women

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preachers reflecting on what the Easter faith means to them and to today. Included were both the current and a former Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity, and Ruth Badger, wife of the Master. As usual, all Sunday evening services were followed by dinner in Hall being available for all who attended, allowing further fellowship and conversation.

Pastoral Services continued to be offered to members of the College – with two baptisms, a number of weddings and funeral or memorial services. It is always a great joy to welcome members of the College as they return to mark the beginning of married life, or to celebrate the birth of a child, or even simply to enjoy the beauty and peace of the Chapel. We are especially grateful that a most generous bequest has allowed the Ante-chapel to become a more focused space of meditation and quiet for those of any faith or none – and with the hour between noon and one p.m. of every day set aside, with silence maintained in Chapel.

The welcome and worship of the Chapel would be impossible without the commitment and dedication of a small but faithful band of Chapel Wardens and a team of readers. Able support was also provided by Ben Eadon, an ordinand at Westcott House on attachment in the Chapel. The fabric of the Chapel is splendidly cared for by members of the Housekeeping and Maintenance Department, and beautiful weekly floral arrangements are provided by Steve Elstub, the Head Gardener. That anything happens at all is due to the remarkable administrative and moral support of Kate Littlechild, who generally remains the first point of contact for all Chapel enquiries. Finally, personal as well as corporate thanks are due to the splendid Decani Scholar, James Blackstone (and to the continuing generosity of the donor who makes his presence possible), and to the Fellows of the College who have given such a warm and generous welcome to the new Dean. Special thanks must be expressed to the Master and Ruth Badger, whose constant presence in Chapel and support of all the activities there are an

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enormous boon, and greatly appreciated by the choir, the wardens and by me.’ For the Clare Chapel Choir, the Director of Music, Tim Brown, writes:- ‘One of the challenges facing the Director of Music is to devise a programme for the chapel choir that is of interest equal to the preceding year, introducing, if possible, some element of ‘novelty’, yet always bearing in mind that choir members have academic priorities that must be respected. Financial constraints, which vary greatly, depending on whether a particular project is an ‘own-promotion’ or if it arises as the result of an invitation, must also be borne in mind. To ensure that the programme eventually devised for the choir (over and above the term-time weekly services) is agreed, a small sub-committee of the Council meets twice a term to discuss possible future invitations and projects.

This past year, the drying up of regular projects such as the July Munich Festival concert put on by the Festspielhaus, and the general downturn in global economy, at one point suggested that it would be a ‘thin’ year for the choir. However, in the event, and in part due to some creative thinking at the last minute, the choir’s programme for the year turned out to be particularly exciting. It was dominated by the première of John Tavener’s carol sequence Ex Maria Virgine and two performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, the first of them in Cambridge with a specially engaged baroque orchestra led by Margaret Faultless (1980), and the other in Manchester with the Manchester Camerata.

The sopranos and altos, together with members of English Voices and the Dmitri Ensemble, had the privilege over the Christmas vacation of working with Sir David Willcocks (as energetic as ever, even in his ninetieth year) in a recording of folksongs by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Later in the year the choir recorded another disc of Vaughan Williams, on the Naxos label, featuring the Mass in G minor and including the very individual late

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work, The voice out of the whirlwind.* Three times during the year members of the choir appeared on BBC Radio’s programme ‘In Tune’.

The Michaelmas Term, which included a performance of John Rutter’s Requiem, as part of the Vigil for All Souls, ended in a blaze of Christmas music. Two Advent carol services, the annual carol and mince pie concert in College, and a return visit to the parish church at Great Milton to sing for Raymond Blanc’s restaurant “Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons”, which lies directly next door to the church, were dwarfed by the most ambitious project the choir has undertaken in a long time, namely the preparation and first performance of John Tavener’s Ex Maria Virgine, which Clare had commissioned.

Written for choir and organ, and inviting the kind of spacious acoustic that so much of Tavener’s music demands, we were fortunate to be able to use the chapel at St John’s College for the première, as well as for a special Christmas service for the BBC (the Naxos CD of the work, recorded the previous July, was made in Norwich Cathedral*). In January a highly successful London première took place at The Temple Church. Sadly, owing to the long-term indisposition of the composer, the preparation of this highly innovative setting of traditional Christmas texts (which won the 2009 British Composer Award for liturgical music) had to be learnt without the benefit of the composer’s input. Indeed, it was not until the following July that John Tavener was finally well enough to travel to Cambridge to hear the third performance of the work, given as part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival in the Hills Road Catholic Church.

For the St Matthew Passion, members of the choir were invited to audition for the solo arias, and it is a tribute to their skill and commitment that we were able field soloists for all but the tenor arias. We engaged a professional singer, Simon Wall, for the challenging role of Evangelist, and a last minute substitute, Robin

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Tritschler, from Welsh National Opera, sang the tenor solos with great artistry. The performance was given to a packed Trinity Chapel, and by common consent was regarded as one of Clare Choir’s finest achievements in recent years. In the Manchester performance, that followed shortly afterwards, the choir sang only the chorus parts, but acquitted themselves with equal distinction, as did Ashok Gupta, the junior organ scholar, whose playing of the organ continuo led to a subsequent engagement by the BBC.

Other concerts during the year included an appearance at Easter in the University’s Cantat Festival (promoted as part of the Cambridge 800th celebrations), a performance of Fauré’s Requiem with the Schubert Ensemble at Kings Place, London, and participation in the ‘Cambridge Prom’ on 22nd July, when the three choirs of Caius, Clare, and Trinity sang the orchestral version of Stanford’s evening canticles in A with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

A feature of chapel services over the past few years has been an increasing number of joint evensongs with other College choirs, or with visiting choirs from schools or universities. This year the choir sang with Caius, Trinity, and St John’s choirs, and also with the University Choir of Innsbruck, the choir of St Peter’s School, York, and, in Oundle, with the Oundle School Choir. A return visit was paid to Westminster Abbey to sing Evensong. This proved popular with the choir, not least because of the magnificent reception afterwards in Little Cloisters, hosted by Nick Sagovsky (Dean of Clare 1986-97) and his wife Ruth.

In place of the projected US tour, that for financial reasons was postponed until 2010, the summer tour, generously sponsored by the College, was to northern Germany, as suggested by one of the basses, Tillmann Taape. This was an area of Europe not previously visited by the choir but one whose striking and unique landscape, as well as the beauty of many of its buildings, made a big impact on the choir. Performances in Hamburg, Rostock, Waren and

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Neubrandenburg, culminated with two concerts in Berlin, the second of which was followed by a magnificent dinner in an East Berlin wine cellar, where our expansive host was Clare alumnus Ian Christians (1962), who provided the most excellent wine from his own vineyard in France.’ *Recent recordings: TAVENER Ex Maria Virgine NAXOS 5.572168 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs of the Four Seasons ALBION 10 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Sacred Choral Music NAXOS 8.572465

SOCIETIES & CLUBS

Clare College Music Society had another successful year under the leadership of James Henshaw. The termly orchestral concerts were of an exceptionally high quality, consistently bringing in record audiences, with huge forces taking advantage of the unique opportunity Clare has to mount ambitious projects. The year got off to a flying start at the Michaelmas Term concert, conducted by Carlos del Cueto (2005), Simon Thomas Jacobs (2006) and Nik Myers (2007), with a varied and very ambitious programme, consisting of Verdi's overture to Nabucco, Sophie Gledhill (2006) playing Haydn's Cello Concerto no.2, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony. Despite the very considerable challenge presented by the Vaughan Williams, not least because of its call for huge orchestral forces, difficult solo vocal and choral lines, sung on this occasion by Raphaela Papadakis (2006), Edward Ballard (2005) and a specially-assembled chorus, the musicians, in time-honoured fashion, miraculously brought it all together at the performance.

The Lent Term concert included Mozart's Magic Flute Overture, conducted by Cordula Geck (2008), and continued with Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, played by Cordelia Williams (2006) and ably conducted by James Henshaw (2007). Brahms' Symphony no.3 was conducted with considerable aplomb by Mark Biggins (2006).

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The Easter Term opened with an opera evening which included Haydn's comic opera La Canterina, with soloists Maud Millar (2007), Alessandro Fisher (2007), Eleanor Caine (2008) and Dominic Sedgwick (2008), directed by Imogen Tedbury (2007). The May Week Concert concluded the year’s music-making, with Mozart's Symphony no.41 (Jupiter), Copland's Quiet City, featuring Maisie Anderson (2006) on trumpet, Strauss’ Blue Danube Waltz, Rossini's Overture to The Barber of Seville and Brahms’ Hungarian Rhapsodies.

In addition to these larger concerts, the Monday lunchtime concerts, and other occasional performances of chamber music, demonstrated that Clare’s immensely high standard of instrumental music continues unabated. For the Clare Boat Club, Chris Thompson-Walsh, Overall Captain 2009/2010, writes for us:- ‘The 2008/2009 academic year was a mixed year in the fortunes of Clare Boat Club, but on the whole a positive one: we had a good showing of boats in all events, and went up a cumulative total of 5 places over the year's bumps. Most importantly, in a year where both of the first boats saw a substantial number of rowers in their graduation year, the lower boats, and especially the lower women's boats, had strong results. On the men's side the year was dominated by the contest for the Lents headship. Starting at 5th in first division, the headship was just within our reach and we were determined to make a challenge for it. We were in a good position: with a remarkably experienced crew, we came back in Michaelmas determined to make our mark. The club had three boats in the University IVs competition: coxed and coxless men's boats, and a coxed women's IV. The men's side did creditably, with the IV+ beating Jesus soundly before going out to Fitzwilliam; the light four lost fairly closely to a strong First and Third boat, in the quarter-final of an underpopulated Coxless IV

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event. The women put up a strong fight against Christ's, but sadly went out in the first round. Meanwhile, of course, the next generation of Clare rowers was learning to wield an oar; in the 50th annual Clare Novice Regatta they showed that the future was bright. The men's crews reached the quarter final of the Cup and the final of the Plate; and the women's crew made it to the semi-final, losing only to the eventual winners. The Fairbairns saw a total of four senior boats and four novice boats competing, with some strong results – in particular for the second women, despite spending a minute wrestling a blade back into its gate! Lent term on the whole was bittersweet. After an on-Cam pre-term ‘camp’, the pre-bumps races brought some strong results, especially for the men and the second boats – the first men won Pembroke Regatta immediately before bumps. On the first day of bumps, the first men bumped Jesus I efficiently – despite some rather dire predictions made by the visiting Jesus captain to our first women! On the second day, however, we failed to make an early impression against LMBC in front. Despite a feisty second try on Friday, the tone had been set. We rowed over for the rest of the week – faster, perhaps, than the boats in front; but not by enough. Meanwhile, on the first women's side, things had started poorly with their concession of a bump to Pembroke; and although they crept up on Pembroke the next day, Queens’ caught them more quickly. The week ended with ‘down four’ for the first women. The women's 2nd boat, however, finished ‘up three’, missing out on blades by the narrowest of margins. The 2nd men meanwhile finished net ‘down one’, having first bumped up on day one. In the Easter holidays, the first men went down to London and competed in the Head of the River Race, finishing 162nd out of 410 crews – the best result, I believe, since 2002. Joel Jennings was another Clare rower competing on the Tideway that holiday, having earned a seat in Goldie. Meanwhile, on the women's side, Nicola

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Pocock, Steph Caird and Fionnuala Ratcliffe all represented Cambridge at the Henley Boat Races. We began our training for Easter term with our now-traditional camp at Marlow-on-Thames. Owing to scheduling difficulties we gathered at the slightly unorthodox time of Easter weekend. (We are always on the lookout for possible good alternative venues for our training camps, so if anyone out there has a good idea, do get in touch.) Participation at the camp was excellent, with four VIIIs of rowers attending – we were well set up for the May term. In the May bumps, we had seven boats competing – four women’s crews and three men’s, putting substantial strain on the supply of boats! The first women, sadly, went ‘down three’ – but displayed great grit in fighting off spoons on the last day to draw a line under a difficult year. By way of recompense, the 2nd women won blades, rising four places into the next division, and the third women very nearly matched them, rising three places, also into the next division. The fourth women earned a place in bumps through the getting-on race. They then bounced along in the spectacular and randomly-ordered affair which is the 5th division. They went down two, but rowed over twice, holding off Trinity Hall III. The first men, meanwhile, caught Churchill handily on the first day; and although Trinity Hall eluded us twice, bumping Catz on the last day brought us to ‘up two’. The second men climbed three places, cementing several years of steady upwards progress. Sadly, they were denied blades by a Churchill II crew in the danger of getting spoons. The third men fell three places against strong competition. Although we were unable to put together a Henley crew in 2009, three of the first men’s crew joined Clare alumnus Tom Simpson (2003) and CBC boatman Nick Acock in the Cantabrigian Thames Cup boat, going through one round in that event, and ensuring a Clare presence at the Regatta. For the coming year, we are hoping to bring a number of Clare rowers to the regatta on the

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Wednesday to get to know some of the alumni; and as ever, we will be looking to compete if we can. In sum, 2008/2009 was another successful and happy year for a club which is doing very well, both in terms of participation and enjoyment, and in terms of results. I'm proud to be the captain of a club with such a large following at all levels of college life. I owe this privilege largely to the good work, hard graft and positive attitude of those who came before me. I'd especially like to thank, on behalf of all current students, those who still support the club as donors of keen interest, of time coaching, and of financial support. You really do help support something worthwhile and special. Looking ahead, the following year looks bright. Although results have been mixed on the men's side so far, we have a strong group of very committed and capable guys, and are once again on the trail to the Lents. Meanwhile the first women's boat, drawing in part on last year's excellent lower boats, has had a very strong start to the year. We're once again looking to arrange training camps, and beginning to think about augmenting the women's boats with a better and more modern 2nd boat to reflect the strong numbers and ability of recent years. As ever, if you want to follow the fortunes of the club, the website at www.clareboatclub.org.uk gives up-to-date racing results and reports. I sincerely hope that this time next year, we will be writing to you again about a strong club and a successful set of results from Lents and Mays. Hopefully see some of you on the bank!’ For the Clare Lacrosse Club, Tristan Withers (2008) writes: ‘The performance of the Clare lacrosse team has dramatically exceeded all expectations over the past two years. Not only has the team been undefeated for the past two years, winning the league title in the top division, but this year Clare lacrosse achieved this feat without even a draw. Under the inspiring captaincy of Will Awde (2006) only two goals were conceded over the course of the year and both of these occurred during the early stages of Michaelmas term whilst the players were still getting used to

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playing together. The overall success of the year was rounded off as the triumphant Clare lacrosse team carried home the cuppers trophy, again without conceding a goal throughout the inter-college knockout tournament. This notable string of results was due to collaboration between many talented players. Clare Lacrosse not only boasts an impressive nine members of the Cambridge University Mixed Lacrosse team who played Oxford in the 2009 Varsity match, including the outgoing captain James Clemence (2006), outgoing vice-captain Sarah Carter (2006) and the incoming captain Tristan Withers, but also a member of the Women’s Blues lacrosse team, Han Whittaker (2007). Finally underlining Clare’s dominant specialism in lacrosse is Sam Spurrell (2008), incoming captain of the Men’s Blues lacrosse team. The pressure is on for the team to continue its run of victories in 2009/10 under Tristan Withers, but there is no doubt that Clare is the college best-placed to continue such a spectacular trend! ’

STAFF

Another retirement among the porters this year was that of Brian Elliott, after 10 years’ service. In the Development Office, alumni may notice the departure in mid-October 2009 of Alice Worth. She had a busy seven years at Clare, being involved in the launch of the Alumni Council, the Clare Ambassadors and the Family & Friends programme. Alice is also credited with a transformation of the College’s alumni activities. The College and its alumni are very grateful to Alice for all she achieved.

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BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS

Do you value the education you received at Clare? Do you wish to see the College continue? In the current economic circumstances, these questions loom large against a background of significant financial challenges for the College. The individual attention we give to students in academic and pastoral matters is the hallmark of a Cambridge education, but it is expensive. Our beautiful Grade 1 listed buildings are rightly celebrated and integral to the Clare experience, but they are extremely costly to maintain. State funding for universities and colleges is likely to contract as public spending is squeezed across the board. Yet Clare’s endowment is small compared to many other Cambridge colleges and the leading American universities. All of this means that benefactions and gifts are crucial to Clare’s continued success. Since its foundation nearly 700 years ago, the College has depended upon the generosity of its members, well-wishers, parents and others to sustain teaching, learning and research of the highest quality. This tradition of philanthropy has never been more important.

Donations in 2008–09 amounted to £2.4 million, representing one-fifth of the College’s income. Modest gifts from large numbers of individuals made up much of the total. For the second year running, donations exceeded fee income from the government. Endowment income and donations – in other words, past and present benefactions – are now essential elements of Clare’s finances. Without them, sustaining the supervision system of small-group College-based teaching would be impossible.

In the academic year 2008–09, 17% of all alumni made a gift to Clare. The challenge remains to increase the percentage of members supporting the College on a regular basis, since this will be the key to Clare’s future wellbeing. A complete list of donors is published annually in a supplement to the spring/summer edition of Clare News.

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The principal achievement of 2009 was the completion of the College’s new court, on time and on budget. The entire £8.5 million cost of Lerner Court has been met by alumni and well-wishers, representing a magnificent achievement by the whole Clare community, for which the College is enormously grateful. Lerner Court not only provides additional student accommodation and educational facilities. It also generates additional income through greater conferencing activity; this income helps to support teaching, learning and research. The official opening of Lerner Court in June 2009 marked the College’s major contribution to the University’s 800th anniversary celebrations.

The Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign – which aims to raise £1 billion for the University and Colleges by 2010 – continues apace. All donations to Clare College count towards the Campaign. A gift to Clare is therefore also a gift to Cambridge.

DONOR RECOGNITION

Clare is happy to recognise benefactions by naming bursaries, scholarships, Fellowships, and other aspects of College life according to the wishes of the donor. The College has established special forms of recognition for benefactors at different levels:

Elizabeth de Clare Fellow (£500,000) The Governing Body of the College elects Elizabeth de Clare Fellows on the recommendation of the Master, to recognise individuals who, through generous benefaction, contribute to the present and future life of the College. Elizabeth de Clare Fellows are officially recognised as senior members of the College. As full members of the Senior Combination Room, Elizabeth de Clare Fellows enjoy the same rights and privileges as Honorary Fellows.

Master’s Circle (£100,000) Members of the new Master’s Circle will be invited to an annual private dinner hosted by the Master in the dining room of the Master’s Lodge. This event will

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provide a unique opportunity for individuals to strengthen their involvement in the current and future life of Clare.

The 1326 Society (£25,000) The 1326 Society recalls the year of the College’s foundation. Members are invited with their spouses/partners to the annual Benefactors’ Dinner and to periodic special events in College.

Benefactor (£10,000) Benefactors are invited with their spouses/partners to the annual Benefactors’ Dinner in Hall, preceded by a concert in Chapel.

The Samuel Blythe Society is named after the 17th century Master of Clare whose generous bequest to the College guaranteed its continuing success and prosperity. The Society has been established to recognise during their lifetime those who have made provision for Clare in their Will. Members of the Society are invited with their spouses/partners to an annual lunch in College, hosted by the Master and Fellows, on the second Saturday of May.

MAKING A GIFT OR BEQUEST

Gift forms may be downloaded from the College website (www.clarealumni.com) and are also available on request from the College Development Office.

The College is a registered charity which means that gifts to Clare by UK taxpayers count as charitable gifts. For cash donations of any amount, UK taxpayers can take advantage of the Gift Aid scheme, under which a donation of £80 is worth £100 to the College but costs the donor just £60 (if he or she pays income tax at 40%). Regular gifts by Banker’s Order can also be made under the Gift Aid scheme.

US taxpayers can support Clare by making a tax-efficient gift to ‘Cambridge in America’, P.O. Box 9123 JAF BLG, New York, NY 10087-9123. When sending your gift, you should include a covering note suggesting that the Directors of Cambridge in America exercise their discretion and allocate your gift to support Clare College.

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Canadian taxpayers can make tax-efficient gifts directly to Clare College.

Taxpayers in many European countries can also make tax-efficient gifts to Clare – please contact the Development Office for further details.

For further details on tax-efficient giving, visit www.clarealumni.com and click on ‘Supporting Clare’.

Legacies to Clare may reduce the inheritance tax payable on your estate, because of the College’s charitable status. When you make or update your Will, please consider leaving a legacy to Clare. Sarah Harmer, Head of Individual Giving, is happy to talk confidentially to members and friends of the College who are considering leaving a legacy. Detailed information, including answers to frequently asked questions, is available on the legacy pages of the College website: www.clarealumni.com/legacy.

The Development Office Clare College

Cambridge CB2 1TL

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333218 Fax: +44 (0)1223 362473

Email: development@clare.cam.ac.uk Website: www.clarealumni.com

CLARE PARTNERSHIP FOR SCHOOLS

The ninth year of the Partnership is noted in a Report to Sponsors as ‘a great success, with formal recognition in the form of another nomination for the Lord Mayor of London’s Dragon Awards. The second full-time Schools Liaison Officer (Tom Wilks, Clare 2004) has been able to build on previous successes and reach out to yet more schools in yet more varied ways. This year has seen the initiation of serious music outreach work in Tower Hamlets, working in conjunction with the Tower Hamlets

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Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES). The main events were a series of opera workshops run by the cast and crew of Cambridge University Opera Society’s production of Eugene Onegin, which took place at Raines Foundation School over four weeks at the beginning of 2009. Students in year 10 were given an introduction to opera and classical music, showing them how they can identify with and access the music and understand the themes running through the opera itself. This highly successful scheme finished with a trip to Cambridge to see the performance – it is hoped that this will now become an annual event. Clare Choir is also hoping to link itself with several school choirs in Tower Hamlets.

Last year’s academic priorities have largely been met, although work still needs to be done on building stronger links with the City of London KPMG Academy in Hackney – a large visit is planned for the Autumn to kick-start this relationship. School visits have mainly been focused on the Gifted & Talented cohorts, with a pleasing increase in the number of schools visiting the College. This year, Clare has also begun reaching out to more primary schools and year 7 students, and it is hoped that this will continue in the year to come’.

For the year 2008-09 there were two undergraduates from Tower Hamlets studying at Clare: one for a degree in Law; one for a degree in Classics. The College has admitted two others, starting in October 2009, to read Mathematics and Law respectively.

CLARE AND BERMONDSEY

For many years, the College has supported the Bede House community centre in the London district of Bermondsey, which was this year especially celebrating its foundation in 1938, over seventy years ago. The centre has several Clare alumni on its management committee, and the College sponsors recent graduates on six-month internships at Bede House each year. This year, the intern is recent

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history graduate Maisie Anderson (2005), who is working in the Youth Project, particularly with young people who are struggling to attend school. To find out more about the placements sponsored by the Clare Bermondsey Trust, contact the Director, Nick Dunne, at nickdunne@bedehouse.org.

QUEENS’-CLARE OVERSEAS EDUCATION FUND

A current description of this fund is taken from the website at the address www.srcf.ucam.org/qcoef/. The Editor has no specific information about projects supported in the past year.

‘The Queens’ and Clare Overseas Education Fund (QCOEF) is an open committee of students and Fellows from Queens’ and Clare Colleges. QCOEF raises and allocates funds for education-related projects in economically lesser-developed countries. Within the last year we have pledged funds to all kinds of projects across the world.

The Queens’ and Clare Overseas Education Fund was conceived in 1984 as the “Queens’ and Clare Joint Overseas Bursary Scheme” to fund the education of one Southern African student at the University every year. More recently QCOEF’s focus has changed and the new title was adopted in 1991 to demonstrate our interest in educational projects from all parts of the developing world.

Applications for funding generally come from student contacts and, ideally, projects are small, community-run and not supported by larger bodies. However, QCOEF has funded projects with other organisations such as Link Africa, Cambridge University Southern African Fund for Education (CUSAFE), or Cambridge Fund for Female Education (CAMFED). Links to projects often arise from years out or through old College members. For more information please download our Application Guidelines.’

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ERIC LANE FUND The fund was established by a generous gift from Mr E.A. Lane (Clare 1920) for the support of projects relevant to the advancement of peace and social harmony. It is used to support a visiting Fellow for one term each year, and to give an award and grants for student projects that fall within the Fund’s remit. The Eric Lane Fellows are not usually academics, but people who work closer to the ‘coalface’, and the college community gains greatly from engaging with their experience and concerns.

The Eric Lane Fellow, in the Easter term, was Michael Bartlet, the Parliamentary Liaison Secretary for the Quakers. He is a lawyer by training, and has worked on refugee and equality issues in this country. While at Clare, he worked on a book titled ‘Just Peace’, examining the Quaker contribution to conflict resolution, for example in Uganda and the Middle East. Both Fellows and students were glad of the chance to have discussions around his interests.

The Award and grants go to projects which the students organise on their own initiative before applying to the Fund for support. The projects are hugely varied and give a sense of the effort, dedication and sometimes sheer courage shown by Clare students, sometimes in facing very difficult challenges.

The Eric Lane Award for 2009 was given to Stephanie May (2005), to contribute towards her serving for two years on a Mercy Ship, a hospital ship which moves from port to port on the West African coast and provides free treatment, as well as help with community development projects. Stephanie is using her Engineering expertise to work on the ship as a biomedical trainer, visiting local hospitals to refurbish equipment and train people to maintain and use the machines to their full capacity. Stephanie is planning to build on this experience to go on to work in biomedical engineering aimed particularly at developing low-cost, accessible solutions to medical problems in the developing world.

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The grants were given this year to support medical electives in Zanzibar and India (see page 66), and field research on community relations in Nicosia, children in Malawi, missionary influence in Kenya, equality issues in the US, and climate change.

THE CLARE ASSOCIATION REPORT OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL 2009

The Alumni Council comprises:

Chairman: The Master, as President Deputy Chairman: Dr Ian Hill OBE (1966) Secretary of the Association: Dr. David Hartley (1956) Editor of the Clare Assoc’n Annual: Dr. Peter Knewstubb (1950) Development Director: Dr Toby Wilkinson

with all Year Group Representatives and representatives of the Boat Club and Friends of Clare Choir, and representatives of the Union of Clare Students and the Middle Combination Room.

This is the fifth annual report of the Alumni Council, published to all members in accordance with the constitution of the Alumni Association. The Alumni Council met on 16 December 2009 to review the past year, and in addition received and discussed reports on several topics of major importance.

The Council agreed to re-nominate Dr Ian Hill (1966) as Deputy Chairman of the Council, following the three years he has already served in this role. The Council also agreed the proposal that the constitution of the Clare Association be amended so that the Secretary of the Association, who is nominated by the Governing Body, would be Secretary of the Council ex officio. This position is currently held by Dr David Hartley (1956).

The Council noted the proposed procedure for the appointment and reappointment of Year Group Representatives, which had been circulated to Council members and had received general support. There had been extensive consultation among Council members on the procedure of nominating the recipient of the Alumnus of the

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Year Award, but there was a general view that the procedure should be left unchanged for a further one or two years and kept under review. The Alumnus of the Year Award for 2010 was made to Mr John Thompson (1959) who had been elected by a clear majority of first-preference votes.

Reports were provided on the Annual Fund Committee and Events Committee as well as on the Clare Alumni Website and the Clare Ambassadors.

Reunion Dinners in 2009 were held on 20 March (1956/57; attendance 110), 26 June (Decade Reunion Dinner for the 1980s; attendance 54), 25 September (1966/67; attendance 96) and 26 September (Special Reunion Dinner for 1960/61; attendance 115). The Clare Boat Club once again provided opportunities for alumni to have a gentle row on the morning after the 1956/57 and 1966/67 Reunion Dinners.

The annual MA lunch was held on 21 March 2009 with 96 attendees. The annual Benefactors’ Dinner was held on 9 January 2009 and the Samuel Blythe Society Luncheon on 9 May 2009.

The Development Office organised successful Clare City Network events. Professor Sir Mark Walport (1971) gave a talk on ‘Medical Ethics’ and Wing Commander Bryan Hunt (2004) introduced the Director of the Air Staff, Air Commodore Mark Roberts, who spoke on ‘RAF Air Power - Past, Present and Future.’ The annual Clare City dinner this year took place at The Bank of England on 12 November 2009.

The year 2009 also saw the official opening of Lerner Court on 12 June by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, which was a splendid occasion. The annual Alumni Day at the end of June was also a great success with almost 200 attendees.

Clare alumni in the US were invited to drinks hosted by the Master in Seattle and New York in March 2009 and the Mellon Fellows’ Dinner took place in NYC in September 2009. A new

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initiative aimed at younger alumni saw the introduction of the first London Drinks for Clare Alumni event in November 2009, which proved very popular.

The Fellows’ Lecture Series continues to thrive as a showcase for the College’s academic excellence, with talks by Dr Patricia Fara, Professor Nigel Weiss and Dr Helen Thompson. On 10 December 2009, the College was delighted to host the fourth Clare Distinguished Lecture in Economics and Public Policy, given by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank.

THE LADY CLARE FUND

Council of the Lady Clare Fund Chairman: The Master College Members: Dr. Ken Riley, Prof Tim Smiley,

Mr.Colin Turpin, Prof Alison Sinclair Members elected to represent the Association:

Dr. Gordon Wright, Prof Paul Austin, Dr. Michael Bown, Ms. Elisabeth

Marksteiner Hon. Secretary: Mr. Colin Turpin Hon. Treasurer: Dr. Michael Bown

The Lady Clare Fund was founded in 1934 by members of the Clare Association to provide help on a strictly confidential basis to alumni of the College, or their dependants, who find themselves in financial difficulties. 'Dependants' include those of deceased members. Need may arise through old age, ill health, widowhood or natural disabilities; temporary help may be needed with completion of professional training or with expenses arising from taking up new work, perhaps following redundancy. These latter may be met by quite large interest-free loans. For the Fund to carry on its work effectively, continuing support from donations and bequests is needed. Contributions should be

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sent to the Honorary Treasurer, Dr M.G. Bown, at Clare College. Support is the more valuable if it can qualify for Gift Aid, and the Treasurer will provide the necessary information. The Fund is a registered Charity and reports annually to the Charity Commissioners. Applications for assistance should be made to the Honorary Secretary, Mr C.C. Turpin, Clare College, or to the Master or one of the Tutors. Anyone who thinks that another alumnus or a dependant of one may be in need of help is asked to get in touch with one of these officers or encourage a direct application. This form of help is most valuable in enabling trustees to carry out the purposes of the Fund.

Financial note: in the year ending 30th September 2009 the Fund's income from dividends, bank interest and recovered tax amounted to about £15,700, much the same as in 2007-08. Donations and repayment by members of their interest-free loans totalled only £5,900, however, compared with £9,400 last year. Expenditure on new loans of £43,500, and outright grants of £19,300, add up to £62,800. This very considerably exceeded our income, so we had to sell more investment units. The current assets of the fund at 1st October 2009 are valued at about 18% less than last year, in addition to which there are outstanding loans amounting to £97,800.

By its reports in last year's Clare Association Annual, and through the Clare News, the Fund has informed past members about how to apply for financial help. Despite the above figures, the Fund's finances at the present time are still in a healthy state, which means that we remain able to give financial assistance, in cases of real need, consistently with the aims of the Charity.

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THE NEW GATE TO THE FELLOWS’ GARDEN A prestigious new gate on the Avenue, designed by Wendy Ramshaw CBE, was formally opened by the Master on 23 June. An original bequest from the designer of the garden, Professor Willmer, was generously augmented by additional gifts, to allow the design and installation to be fully realised. The gate has a striking contemporary design, with a strong reference to the curved gates at the entrance to Memorial Court, and with the gateposts capturing the style of the lamp-posts along the avenue. Opening from the Avenue into the Fellows’ Garden, the steps down into the garden are now flanked by handrails similar to those at the entrance to the Hall. The gate was constructed by Richard Watkins, Wendy’s son, also a talented artist, and he used computer design and novel technology to cut individual steel components, prior to forging in his workshop in Suffolk.

The design of the gate reflects both the interests of Wendy Ramshaw and the vision of Neville Willmer, for such a unique location. It incorporates a central lens which, on close approach, allows a panoramic vista to unfold, providing an additional ‘window’ through which the garden may be viewed from the Avenue (and this also recalls Willmer’s interests in optics). The gate is a fine addition to the garden, aligned as it is with the central steps and entrance to the sunken garden, and replacing a rather unsightly swinging wooden hurdle which was neither functional nor practical. In time, the gate will be flanked by Irish yew pillars feathering into the gateposts, an adjoining yew hedge and associated estate fencing.

Illus 7 shows the opening ceremony, and in Illus 8 we see Wendy Ramshaw, the Master and Steve Elstub (Head Gardener) and Professor Howard Griffiths (Chairman of the Gardens Committee). Illus 9 shows Professor Gillian Brown (Chairman of the Arts Committee) and Professor Howard Griffiths after the gate had been opened.

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Illus 7 The Master formally opens the new gate

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Illus 8 The designer of the gate is present, and admires the result

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Illus 9 Professors Brown and Griffiths welcome the new feature

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Illus 10 The scene of the scientific work, on the frozen lake

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Illus 11 Dr Storrie-Lombardi prepares to take another core sample

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Illus 12 A sample of a L.I.F.E. image from an ice core

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Illus 13 A scene at the Christian Medical College, Vellore

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Illus 14 Nuala Calder assists at a women’s clinic

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Illus 15 Michael Bartlet, in the Fellows’ Garden

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ANCIENT LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC ICE

I have recently described the use of a very sensitive technique called Laser-Induced Fluorescence Emission (L.I.F.E.) to detect photosynthetic micro-organisms living in ice and snow. Strong illumination with a green laser beam (532 nm) produces a yellow fluorescent response from such photosynthetic micro-organisms. In November of 2008, I produced the first in situ L.I.F.E. images of photosynthetic cyanobacteria living inside the ice of an Antarctic lake. Illus 12 was obtained during a test with a 0.5 mm diameter laser beam passing through one assemblage of microbes, dirt and ice, and then illuminating a second assemblage, both about 1 mm diameter. Such mixtures of life, dirt and ice are known as cryoconites.

I was serving as expedition physician, diving medical officer, and astrobiologist for the Tawani Foundation 2008 International Antarctic Expedition to the perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee, and the frozen lakes of the dry valleys of Schirmacher Oasis, in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. The scene is well shown in Illus 10. The expedition was a joint project funded by a private philanthropic foundation and supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The effort united 13 scientists and teachers from the United States, Russia, New Zealand, and Austria in a two-month expedition to explore a seldom-visited region of the Russian sector of Antarctica, offering conditions somewhat analogous to those on the planet Mars. The astrobiologists, microbiologists, limnologists, geologists and paleontologists and teachers on the expedition worked closely with other teachers and their students following the research by satellite phone from classrooms in their home countries.

The ice coverings of Antarctic lakes, once thought to be frozen deserts devoid of life, are actually home to rich microbial communities capable of significantly altering the Earth’s carbon

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budget. These complex microbial food webs are so highly sensitive to environmental change that they serve as proxies of planetary-scale stress. Until this report, these organisms have been studied by laboriously coring out ice samples (2 metres long) from the lake surface and then transporting the frozen cores thousands of miles back to a home laboratory. The samples must then be melted before analysis, destroying their fragile habitat and often killing microbes adapted for extreme cold. Illus 11 gives an impression of this ice coring procedure.

The central goal of my work in Antarctica was to test equipment capable of remotely monitoring how this microbial life survives and evolves in the ice during times of climate change, without taking away ice samples and without damaging the organisms or disturbing their environment. In our experiments, detection of microbes is accomplished immediately on site by shooting the laser beam through the ice surface and detecting the fluorescence with either a camera or a spectrometer. Using lasers to produce fluorescence from specific microbial chemicals and then photographing the fluorescence response is a highly sensitive technique used for decades in microbiology laboratories, but such systems are normally expensive, fragile, heavy, and power-hungry. Recent advances in L.I.F.E. imaging and spectroscopy made it possible to build a robust, inexpensive system capable of detecting and monitoring the photosynthetic cyanobacteria dominating this ecological niche.

Photosynthetic cyanobacteria, the microbes responsible for changing Earth into an oxygen-rich ecosystem and arguably the most ancient life known to inhabit our planet, ride the winds and the icy clouds of our planet on dust rich in organic material. When the sticky organic grains land on ice, solar energy absorbed by the dark dust melts the underlying ice and the assemblage of dirt and microbes sinks. Liquid melt water covers the dust and freezes, but solar photons continue to pass through the clear ice, warm the dust, and produce a thin layer of liquid water around the grains. The

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combination of dust, water, photosynthetic microbes and sunlight creates a tiny ecosystem acquiring both liquid water and useable energy from solar photons. The effect of laser illumination of such dust grains is seen in Illus 12. I was able to photograph this fluorescent response using a unique digital camera capable of obtaining true colour images without using the filters and false colour algorithms employed in most commercially available digital cameras. For a complete description of the technique see the cover story in the October 2009 issue of the journal Astrobiology or visit the institute website.

Photosynthetic microbial communities trapped in ice contribute significantly to the annual availability of new organic carbon, which in turn supports higher forms of life on our planet. The deployment of inexpensive, non-destructive, field survey technology will be increasingly important for monitoring the impact of climate change. To search for evidence of life on other worlds, L.I.F.E. may be the single most efficient probe not requiring sample preparation, sample destruction, or the use of irreplaceable consumable resources. The L.I.F.E. technique can even probe different molecular species by varying the colour of the excitation source. Laser wavelengths in the deep ultraviolet (220-250 nm) excite nucleic and amino acids. I and my colleagues have employed L.I.F.E. techniques at these wavelengths to find life 1.3 kilometres below Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. We have recently investigated the use of a L.I.F.E. system using a 375 nm laser to produce fluorescence in the blue and green portion of the spectrum from critical metabolites found in all life and from small interstellar organic molecules such as the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). We have proposed L.I.F.E. imaging and spectroscopy as the techniques of choice to search for life on Mars and to look for PAHs beneath the surface of Mars. Blue, green, and red lasers probe the larger, more complex photosynthetic systems common to all cyanobacteria, algae, and plants.

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illuminate millimetre-scale targets might evolve first into airborne and then orbital systems capable of monitoring thousands of square kilometers of a planet’s surface. In May 2009, my colleagues Birgit Sattler at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, Art Mortvedt, a veteran Antarctic and Arctic pilot and explorer and I achieved the first airborne L.I.F.E. signatures from river ice and snow, flying about 30 meters above a series of Arctic lakes and rivers near Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. Plans are now underway to mount a L.I.F.E. system on a single-engine Cessna 185 to survey life in sea ice during a solo flight to the North Pole by Mortvedt in April of 2010. I am also a participating scientist on the European Space Agency’s panoramic camera team and am currently working with colleagues at University College, London and the Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory to install an ultraviolet L.I.F.E. system on the camera. With continued global warming the ability to monitor carbon availability and to quantify cryosphere microbial growth will be of critical importance for human life. If orbital deployment of L.I.F.E. technology is feasible, the technique would open the way to monitor the impact of climate change on Earth’s cryosphere and also to search remotely for life in the icy poles of Mars or terrestrial exo-planets orbiting nearby star systems.

While at Cambridge, and Clare, as the Harrison Watson Senior Student from 1993 to 1996, I worked with Ofer Lahav and Michael Irwin at the Institute of Astronomy developing artificial neural networks capable of learning to identify galaxy images, stellar spectra, and DNA sequences. I have continued to apply those pattern recognition techniques to identification of microbial extant and fossil life, meteorite alteration, and horizontal gene transfer in viruses and bacteria. I am currently the Director of the Kinohi Institute in Pasadena, California, a non-profit institution supporting research into the origin and evolution of life. Further information appears on our institute website (http://www.kinohi.org). My e-mail contact is mike@kinohi.org. Michael C. Storrie-Lombardi (1993)

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A MEDICAL STUDENT IN INDIA My elective was an excellent opportunity to experience medicine elsewhere in the world and to focus on an area of particular interest. I chose India due to its developing world status, endemic tropical disease, poorly distributed medical resources and huge population. These features contrast with its current rise as a global economic and political power, and its excellent medical education system. Within India there are many challenges to health and the provision of care - a prominent wealth gap, an ingrained caste system, a mix of many different cultures and religions spread over a large land mass and prominent diseases; notably HIV, malaria and TB. There are also difficulties from poor sanitation, nutrition and education. I split my elective between two hospitals in India; the Christian Medical College, a large tertiary hospital in Vellore, a town in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, and the Baptist Christian Hospital, a small missionary hospital in Tezpur, a transport hub town in the far North Eastern state of Assam. The choice of these two hospitals was to sample, amongst other aspects, the disparity in provision of care. I chose two very distinct areas of India, which offered different endemic diseases, different health challenges and different cultural practices and values. During my involvement, at the Christian Medical College, in the community based projects (Community Health and Development, and the Low Cost Effective Care Unit) I had the opportunity to visit a slum with the community doctor. This was an exceptional experience and a clear illustration of urban poverty. Open sewage, lack of waste disposal and toilet facilities, combined with a high population density of both humans and animals, explained the high level of disease and highlighted the challenges facing any healthcare programme. Running water was only available once per week. I had the honour of meeting people in their homes and appreciating the effects of poverty on health. Furthermore I met patients who were unable to work due to illness or accidents and it

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was an interesting parallel with the equivalent UK patients - the lack of social support having devastating effects. We held an outreach clinic in a church hall which had two primary goals: a GP-type service as well as an education programme. I had the opportunity to sit with ten elderly women and ask them about their health problems and also the social problems of living in the slums. Additionally, I helped to run a discussion group for recently-married young women. Here a Tamil story was read out about looking after elderly people and then learning points were drawn from it. This was culturally very interesting due to the strong Indian tradition of arranged marriages and caring for your husband's family. I was able to describe British cultural values - many women were shocked that by age twenty-three I had not had an arranged marriage and planned to look after my own family. Another prominent issue in both the urban slum and rural villages was domestic violence. Due to the lack of female education combined with the reliance on men as bread earners, plus the family stigma of a failed marriage, women become trapped in a vicious circle of violence. I additionally attended the weekly Christian teaching group of which the particular lesson was the role of the wife; this stated the wife should be submissive to her husband and that this was expected. Such cultural attributes make domestic violence a challenging issue to manage. Attempts at management by such community projects have been lessons for newly-weds, to encourage discussions regarding the expectations within marriage. However, it generally appears to be a poorly tackled problem within India. My time at both hospitals, but particularly the Baptist Christian Hospital, illustrated the harsh reality of endemic disease combined with poverty, and this entwined with lack of education. Assam has endemic resistant P. falciparum malaria and Japanese encephalitis. Each day presented a disheartening clinical situation, one of which I shall focus on. A 3-year old girl was admitted to casualty in status epilepticus as a result of what was clinically diagnosed as Japanese

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encephalitis. Although the seizure was controlled, the child remained in a comatose state and needed to be ventilated. However, the hospital did not have a paediatric ventilator and the only adult ventilator was already in use by a patient who had attempted suicide by organophosphate poisoning. The family did not have enough money to take the child to a larger, better resourced hospital four hours away. The only solution was to intubate the girl and ventilate her using a bag. Due to lack of staff, her father had to be the one to ventilate her and sat by her bedside for two days until she tragically died. His face was one of absolute fear, uncertainty and hope, with full concentration on each squeeze of the bag, and is an image that I will never forget. India has given me a greater understanding of the attributes of different structures and priorities of organisations in delivering medical care, with limited resources, to a large and poor community. Whilst at the Baptist Christian Hospital I was able to produce a suggested protocol for managing status epilepticus for a poorly resourced hospital in rural India. Here I considered both the British and Indian guidelines and tailored my suggestions to the resources available. Furthermore, my elective has increased my knowledge of key transferable public health concepts and I have been able to see how they can be applied within a certain social and economic context. Additionally, I have learnt about the barriers facing implementation and how these may be overcome. As a doctor it is important to consider medicine within its national framework as well as at a patient level. My elective has been an invaluable experience. I thank the Eric Lane Award committee for their financial assistance. Nuala Calder. Sept. 2009.

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QUAKERS & POLITICS Quakers have had a rather ambivalent relationship with politics, being more comfortable in “speaking truth to power” than with the messy compromises inherent in Government. In the United States, William Penn drafted the first constitution of Pennsylvania, but the ‘holy experiment’ foundered over raising taxes to pay the militia. In the UK, the Quaker MP John Bright was at his most eloquent in opposing the Crimean War with the immortal words: "The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land. You may almost hear the beating of his wings." He later resigned from Government over the bombing of Alexandria, holding the “moral law (as) intended not for individual life only but for the life and practice of states.”

In the twenty-first century there are no Quaker MPs active in the current Parliament. My work as Parliamentary Officer for the Society of Friends is to find ways of expressing a Quaker voice in contemporary politics. This has involved expressing support for the Human Rights Act and the legal recognition of same-sex marriages made in our Meeting Houses, opposition to a replacement for Trident and the recruitment of sixteen year olds into the British army on a contract that binds them for four years beyond their 18th birthday1. After nearly fourteen years working for Quakers it has been a huge privilege and pleasure to spend the Easter term as Eric Lane Visiting Fellow at Clare College. It was also something of a relief to be on sabbatical while the furore of MPs expenses descended into the fandangle of comic opera.

During my term at Clare College I was able to write, relax and reflect in the warmth and hospitality of an academic and student community. One part of my research drew on the experience of our overseas work in attempting to answer the question ‘how do you

1 See for instance Quaker submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, 29th report on Children`s rights, November 2009.

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balance interests of justice and peace, in deciding where strict judicial accountability should be relaxed in the interests of a longer-term sustainable peace?’ Transitional justice in states that are overcoming violence raises deep dilemmas at a local, national or international level. In South Africa, Northern Ireland, or Uganda punitive justice may risk re-igniting past conflicts while impunity can create future resentment.

Another aspect of my research has been writing on the theme of ‘accompaniment’ - the idea that the most creative way of working for a just peace may be walking alongside those living in situations of conflict. Listening to and learning from those suffering injustice may in the long term be more liberating than seeking to impose or impress an external vision - however well intentioned. Current Quaker work with the World Council of Churches in the ecumenical accompaniment programme in Palestine and Israel is an eloquent testimony both to this way of working and makes a compelling case for the need for a negotiated peace to end the occupation of Palestine.

In any job, however fascinating, there is the danger of burning out or of ‘compassion fatigue’. At worst this can lead to the moral astigmatism of mistaking institutional aims as definitions of the public good and losing sight of the wider picture. My sabbatical at Clare gave me a wonderful opportunity not just to think, but to think differently. Release from the pressures of rising quanta of e-mails, and the support of an educational community that values academic integrity, have helped to shape my priorities afresh.

Being in Cambridge during the Darwin commemorations was a powerful reminder of the need for religious faith to be nourished by scientific fact. Without recognising the scientific and geothermal limits of the biosphere we risk turning today’s biodiversity into tomorrow’s deserts. But a political system that depends for its authority on four-yearly general elections, based on media-driven perceptions of self-interest, makes it hard to muster the political

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momentum for the hard political choices that depend on limiting growth. Immature religion offers a distorting vision in which humanity is absolved of the consequences of its actions. A reasonable and scientific faith, valuing the richness of sufficiency, offers us the hope that it may not be too late to learn from our mistakes. The financial economy has become disconnected from the physical environment in which it is rooted and sustained. We need to recreate that link and recognise that the true health of the economy is in the eco-systems that support it and not the chimera of the balance sheets of financial institutions. Today, we face a stark choice between a political economy based on greed and one based on sustainable and just relationships with our neighbour and reverence for life. If we are to leave a habitable world for future generations, that which is scientifically necessary must become politically possible. Michael Bartlet (Eric Lane Visiting Fellow 2009)

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“OLD CLARE” NEWS

1931 Maurice F.L.Clarke (The Revd)—news reaches us of his death,

‘peacefully’, on 12.11.2008. 1932 Ian R.Carrick—news reaches us of his death on 27.2.2009, aged 95;

see obituaries. T.Keven Meredith—news reaches us of his death on 28.7.2009. K.M.Stoddart (Sir Kenneth)—(KCVO, AE); at one time Lord

Lieutenant of Merseyside, news now reaches us of his death on 26.12.2008; see obituaries.

1933 1934 David John Finney—one of the oldest Clare alumni to have a book

in print, has recently had a reprint in paperback of Probit Analysis, (C.U.P.), first published in 1947.

W.M.(Max) Robertson—news reaches us of his death on 20.11.2009, aged 94; see obituaries.

1935 M.Peter Whitlock—news reaches us of his death on 1.5.2009, at the

age of 92. His son writes ‘He was clearly a keen student of the alumni news: a doctor who was called to treat him only a couple of months ago was a little taken aback to be told (correctly) “You were at Clare, weren’t you?” ’

1936 C.M.P.Brown (Sir Max Brown)—news reaches us of his death on

13.8.2009, aged 95; see obituaries. Ian R.Garlick—news reaches us of his death.

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Eric J.Holborow—news reaches us of his death on 3.2.2009. A.K.Hollings (Sir Alfred)—news reaches us of his death on

27.12.2008; see obituaries. 1937 Walter Parkes—news reaches us of his death on 26.2.2009. Miles W.Pitts-Tucker—news reaches us of his death. James B.Satterthwaite—news reaches us of his death on 23.1.2008. 1938 Gordon G.Dean—news reaches us of his death on 16.8.2009. We

are told that Gordon had found ‘immense interest’ in publications sent by the College over the years.

R.O’Brien (Sir Richard)—(MC and bar, DSO) news reaches us of his death on 11.12.2009; see obituaries.

1939 R.L.(‘Robin’) Plackett—news reaches us of his death on 23.6.2009.

His widow, Carol, generously wished to donate to the College his academic dress for Sc.D(Cantab), ‘worn two or three times’.

1940 William F.Nesbitt—news reaches us of his death on 3.4.2009. William H.Tankard—news reaches us of his death on 12.1.2009. 1941 James H.Kerr—news reaches us of his death on 19.1.2009. David C.Morley—news reaches us of his death on 2.7.2009, aged

86; see obituaries. T.E.R.Torrance—(CBE); news reaches us of his death on 7.6.2009. 1942 year representative: Mr Alan Swindells

John F.Bance—news reaches us of his death. John Davoll—news reaches us of his death on 14.12.2009.

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Oliver Stonehouse—news reaches us of his death on 24.1.2009; see obituaries.

George B.Wright—news reaches us of his death on 26.3.2009. 1943 year representative: Mr John Appleton Richard V.Grange—news reaches us of his death on 8.10.2009. John M.Stockbridge—news reaches us of his death. 1944 year representative: E.D.Laverack—news reaches us of his death on 17.10.2009; we

hear that he enjoyed reading the College publications. William G.Walker—news reaches us of his death on 7.9.2009. Barnes Winstanley Wallis—(son of the great inventor); news

reaches us of his death in 2008. Leonard Whitehouse—news reached us of his death in time for the

last issue; now see obituaries. 1945 year representative: John F.Douse—news reaches us of his death on 23.9.2009. Patrick N.F.Niven—news reaches us of his death, ‘peacefully at his

home in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa’, on 3.7.2009. David G.Stern—news reaches us of his death. 1946 year representative: Ian F.Smith—news reaches us of his death on 27.9.2009. 1947 year representative: Dr Duncan Poore

Derek A.L.Paul—chaired the committee directing the Global Issues Project (GIP) in 2009, which held its fourth expert roundtable in November 2009 – on food and population. The prospectus of the GIP can be found at www.scienceforpeace.ca or at www.pugwashgroup.ca. Derek, jointly with his wife, also published a little book His and Her Verses (Trafford Publishing, 2008).

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D.E.Waters—news reaches us of his death; ‘He retained a strong interest in the College, and was glad to receive the newsletters’.

1948 year representative: William J.Clark—news reaches us of his death in May 2009. William Shenston Ellis—news reaches us of his death on

16.5.2009. Julian D.M.Henderson—news reaches us of his death. R.Michael C.Martin—news reaches us of his death on 1.1.2009; see

obituaries. Derek George Newton—news reaches us of his death in the early

part of 2009. Michael E.O’Brien—news reaches us of his death on 2.8.2009; he

was pictured in the Annual for 2004-05, receiving a Greene Cup under novel circumstances; see obituaries.

Patrick S.Shone—news reaches us of his death on 21.1.2009. Victor H.Watson—has published The Waddingtons Story, a unique

insider’s view of the company behind such family favourite games as Monopoly and Cluedo. Victor was Chairman of the company, in succession to two earlier generations of the family (for more, see Clare News 23).

Michael S.Young—news reaches us of his death on 16.3.2009. 1949 year representative: Mr Andrew Stuart CMG R.A.(‘Roger’)Fletcher—news reaches us of his death ‘peacefully at

home’ on 16.11.2009; see obituaries. Peter J.Landin—news reaches us of his death on 3.6.2009, aged 78;

see obituaries. David A.Ross Stewart—news reaches us of his death on 30.3.2009;

see obituaries. 1950 year representative: Prof Alan Gillett OBE DSc R.G. (Robin) Conway—news reaches us of his death, ‘peacefully’,

on 5.4.2009.

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David W.R.Evans—news of his death was offered last year; now see obituaries.

Alan H.P.Gillett—awarded an OBE in 2008, was recently decorated with the honour at the Palace (for more, see Clare News 23).

Alan G.Hughes—sends the sad news of the death of his wife, Clara, in July 2008.

John G.Marks—awarded the honour of OBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours list, for charitable services.

1951 year representative: Mr Dermot Hoare D.D.Harris—news reaches us of his death. Derek B.T.Lattey—news reaches us of his death on 3.6.2009; ‘he

had been confined to a nursing home for several months, after two severe strokes’.

Terrence C.Pearson—news reaches us of his death at the beginning of June 2009.

1952 year representative: W.P.Stephens (The Revd Prof Peter)—gave the annual lecture of

the Cornish Methodist Historical Association on ‘Richard Trewavas Senior and Junior’; he also acted as superintendent minister for the Redruth circuit in 2008-09. Peter has also been elected President of the newly-autonomous Methodist church in The Gambia.

1953 year representative: Mr David Kirkman 1954 year representative: Mr Michael Woods R.A.C. (Sir Roger) Norrington—appointed by the Cambridge Univ

Music Society as its Principal Guest Conductor, and Artistic Advisor to the society (for more, see Clare News 24).

Thomas H.Spreadbury—news reaches us of his death on 9.6.2009.

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1955 year representative: Mr Michael Sullivan John L.Beeby—news of his death on 4.1.2009 was given in the last

issue; now see obituaries. Donald M.McLean—presented a paper entitled California

Serogroup Viruses at the 50th anniversary Symposium of the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses in November 2009.

1956 year representative: Dr David Hartley, Mr Stephen Jakobi OBE 1957 year representative: T. Derek V.Cooke—an orthopaedic surgeon based in Canada, has

taken his skills to Poona, India. His company will assist in image analysis relevant to bone and joint clinical applications, especially knee replacement surgery. This move drew particular comment because three generations of Derek’s family had been born and had worked in Poona.

Graham R.Serjeant—in his retirement, is chairman of the Sickle Cell Trust in Jamaica, and seeks to educate the public about the disease (for more, see Clare News 24).

1958 year representative: Mr David Brighty CMG CVO

Stephen G.N.Green-Armytage—has published Extraordinary Leaves, which ‘ignores flowers and just celebrates the beauty and strangeness of foliage’. Stephen has published a popular series of ‘Extraordinary’ books of glamorous photographs of unlikely subjects (for more, see Clare News 23).

1959 year representative: Mr Brian Hughes David A.H.Goddard—news reaches us of his death. John C.Smith—news reaches us of his death on 3.7.2009. John M.Thompson—elected Alumnus of the Year 2009 at the

Alumni Council meeting on 16.12.2009, on the general principle of ‘recognising and celebrating the contributions that Clare alumni make to wider society’.

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1960 year representative: Mr John Biggs Christopher J.Todd—news reaches us of his death on 5.6.2009. 1961 year representative: Prof Hugh Macmillan, Mr Robert Wootton Paul S.Byard—news of his death was noted in the last issue; now

see obituaries. Anthony E.Langford—awarded the honour of OBE in the 2010

New Year’s Honours list, for services to the knitwear industry. Denis L.Weaire—(FRS); now Head of Physics Dept at Trinity

College, Dublin and President of the European Physical Society. He spent the Easter term as a Visiting Scholar at Clare, working at the Cavendish Laboratory and at the Dept of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

1962 year representative: Dr Christopher Hindle Ian D.Christians—is noted as reaching the 10th anniversary of the

music festival ‘Orpheus & Bacchus Experiences’, which he initiated (for more, see Clare News 24).

Ian G.Halliday—appointed CBE in the 2009 New Year Honours list ‘for services to science’ (for more, see Clare News 23).

1963 year representative: Mr John Clare 1964 year representative: Mr Robert Whitfield P.C.Mohan Munasinge—has been appointed Director-General of

the Sustainable Consumption Inst at the Univ of Nottingham; he is also Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

1965 year representative: The Revd Roger Stokes John H.Shattuck—apppointed President and Rector of the Central

European Univ in Budapest, from 1.8.2009 (for more, see Clare News 23).

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1966 year representative: Dr Ian Hill OBE, Mr Norman Dawson Richard I.Bauckham—with his recent work Jesus and the

Eyewitnesses, has won the 2009 Michael Ramsey award ‘for theological writing that enriches the Church through freshness and originality’. Richard received his award from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

1967 year representative: Dr Dennis Sherwood Stuart D.Baker—news reaches us of his death on 26.7.2009; see

obituaries. 1968 year representative: Dr Laurence Gerlis Gerald H.Clarke—news reaches us of his death on 23.5.2009; see

obituaries. Allan S.Clayton—news reaches us of his death. Robert J.Mair—(FRS); appointed as CBE in the 2010 New Year’s

Honours list, ‘for services to engineering”. He is hailed as an expert on tunnelling, and has been involved in the work of the Jubilee Line, the Channel Tunnel rail link and other projects in European cities.

John J.Symons—has published Stranger on the Shore (Shepheard Walwyn), the cover of which quotes words of Charlie Moule, one-time Dean of Clare: ‘The writer is a consummate artist in style, with a poet’s eye for detail. The story is exceptionally vivid,... expressing a deep faith and perception of the meaning of life, moving to tears and searching.’ John also works as a personnel advisor and arbitrator in industrial disputes and management breakdown.

1969 year representative: Mohammed Amin—in July 2008, appointed chair of the Business

& Economics Cttee of the Muslim Council of Britain; in July 2009, appointed a member of the advisory board of Good Business Practice.

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D.N.Cannadine (Sir David)—was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours List, ’for services to scholarship’ (for more, see Clare News 23).

Alan R.Gillespie—elected in 2008 as Elizabeth de Clare Fellow; appointed the new Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council by Lord Mandelson (for more, see Clare News 24).

1970 year representative: Mr R J Croucher CBE ADC David C.Lehman—has three books in press in the autumn of 2009:

The Best American Poetry (vol 22); A Fine Romance:Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (div. of Random House); and a new book of his poems Yeshiva Boys (Scribner).

1971 year representative: Prof Alison Sinclair, Mr Peter Jones TD Philip D.Marshall—news reaches us of his death in September

2009, aged 56, following an illness; see obituaries. A.J. (Tony) Venables—appointed CBE in the 2009 New Year’s

Honours list ‘for work as chief economist at the Dept for International Development (for more, see Clare News 23).

1972 year representative: Prof Paul Austin Martyn J.Hodge—news reaches us of his death. 1973 year representative: Mr Andrew Stott, Lady Jackson 1974 year representative: Ms Yvonne Jerrold Deborah J.Leonard—news reaches us, not previously recorded, of

her death in April 1997. 1975 year representative: Dr David Livesley M.(Mike) P.Williamson—now a biochemist at Sheffield Univ,

using NMR to study protein structure, and in 2009 is on sabbatical leave in Japan; he ‘recently completed his 100th peal in change-ringing’.

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1976 year representative: Michael T.Smyth—appointed CBE ‘for services to legal pro bono

work’ in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list (for more, see Clare News 24).

1977 year representative: Mrs Jocelyn Miles, Mr Harvey Brough, Dr Theo Zemek 1978 year representative: Mr Martyn Smith, Mr Simon Sammons Simon P.Judge—recently spent a further two years in the education

system, getting a qualification in accountancy; he has now moved to be Finance Director at the Dept for Culture, Media and Sport.

1979 year representative: Mr Derek Sweeting QC 1980 year representative: Mr Dominic Haigh 1981 year representative: Mr Aylmer Johnson, Mr Anthony Davis, Dr David Smith Loretta C.R.Minghella—awarded the honour of OBE in the 2010

New Year’s Honours list, for services to the Financial Services industry.

1982 year representative: Dr Neil Raha C.N.M.Tofts—approved for the degree of DSc (Cantab). 1983 year representative: 1984 year representative: Mr Robert Damms Helen E.Elsom—news reaches us of her death on 17.9.2009. 1985 year representative: David M.Landsman—has taken up his post as British Ambassador

to Greece.

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1986 year representative: Dr Ratul Roy Peter D.Bowron—news reaches us of his death on 18.1.2009; see

obituaries. Marcel R.Theroux—his new novel Far North (Faber and Faber,

2009) became available in March 2009. 1987 year representative: Mr Fabrice Ward Grant M.Campbell—awarded the Frank Morton Medal of the

Institution of Chemical Engineers, ‘for excellence in chemical engineering education’.

1988 year representative: Mr Prem Sundaram 1989 year representative: Mr Benjamin Rigby 1990 year representative: Dr Matt Walpole 1991 year representative: A.D.MacKenzie Ross—his thesis offered in study for the MD

degree has been accepted. 1992 year representative: Mr Christopher Withers 1993 year representative: Miss Melanie Gerlis, Ms Sally Hotchkin 1994 year representative: Dr Anna Dempster, Ms Jessica Spence 1995 year representative: Mrs Anna Forrest 1996 year representative: Dr Thomas Counsell 1997 year representative: Mr David Evans E.(Ed) J.Gummow—married Dr Toni Weller (Newnham 1997) on

10.5.2008.

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1998 year representative: Miss Alison Tattershall, Mrs Kristin Byng Nelson, Dr Neal Morgan

1999 year representative: Dr Richard Flower, Mr Peter Marshall 2000 year representative: Mr James Bench-Capon 2001 year representative: Mr Richard Eyre

Susanna J.Pinkus (née Plotnek)—writes ‘Susi and Andrew were thrilled to welcome their son, Bailey, into the world on 10.10.2008.’

2002 year representative: Mr David Doupé

2003 year representative: Mr Joshua Alexander

K.R.(Katie) Armitage—received the Roger Morris award for Medicine and Surgery in the Final MB examination.

Philippa C.Holmes—news reaches us of her sudden death, from cardiac arrest, on 21.6.2009.

2004 year representative: Mr Matthew Clifford

2005 year representative: Mr Calum Davey, Mr Johnny Langridge Alice E.Howick—moved to Ramallah after graduation, teaching the

violin to Palestinian children for the music school there (for more, see Clare News 24).

Anthony D.Law—continues his involvement with cars powered by solar energy, managing the construction of a second such vehicle (for more, see Clare News 23).

Joshua Rubenstein—awarded the Rose Prize ‘for original work on the history of General Practice in the British Isles’ (for more, see Clare News 24).

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Oliver N.P.Topping—awarded the Mrs Claude Beddington prize for the best performance in Part II of the Modern Languages Tripos; also the Whalley prize for his knowledge of reading Medieval Languages (Old Church Slavonic); also the Olga Youhotsky and Catherine Matthews prize, for an outstanding performance in Russian.

2006 year representative: Mr Jonathan Austin, Mr David Williams Giles Smith—awarded the David Roberts Memorial prize for the

highest dissertation mark in the Architecture Tripos; he was also nominated for the RIBA Architect prize.

2007 year representative: Yvonne C.Bristow—gained the N.K.Chadwick prize for the most

outstanding performance in Part I of the Anglo Saxon Tripos. E.R.P.(Ed) Chadwick—gained his Blue in boxing, competing

against Oxford at middleweight. Karen L.M.Sim—gained the BP prize for her overall performance

in Part I of the Chemical Engineering Tripos. 2008 year representative: Oliver Soden—won a Winchester Reading prize, for reading in

public specified English texts including extracts from the Bible. Claire White—won a share in the Postgraduate Prize awarded by

the Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes for French and Francophone studies (for more, see Clare News 24).

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OBITUARIES STUART DAVID BAKER, of Brisbane, Australia, died on 26.7.2009. We hear that he matriculated at St Catharine’s in 1963, and read Law and Economics. After graduating, he came to Clare in 1967, read Natural Sciences and trained in Medicine. He eventually became Chief Medical Officer at Botwood Hospital, Newfoundland, and was later a ship’s doctor on the QE2, before joining, in 1991, the Ipswich Medical Centre, Annerly, Brisbane. JOHN LESLIE BEEBY, a Professor of Theoretical Physics at

Leicester University and an ardent supporter of Leicester rugby club, died suddenly on the 4th of January, 2009, as the result of a totally unexpected heart attack, which occurred whilst he was returning home following a Tigers’ victory at Welford Road. Ken Riley (1955) writes that John came up to Clare in 1955, from King Edward’s School, Birmingham, as an Open Scholar, and went on

to justify that award by being classed as a Wrangler in Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in his second year, and reading Part III of that Tripos (nowadays almost invariably taken as a postgraduate course) in his third undergraduate year. Following one postgraduate year in Cambridge, he moved both his location and field of study to begin research in solid-state physics under the supervision of Dr (now Prof. Sir Sam) Edwards in Manchester. He also married Ginny, whom he had known from before his Cambridge days, and so started a very happy marriage that lasted nearly fifty years, and was sadly brought to an end by his untimely death. John was very much a family man and he will be greatly missed by Ginny, their three sons, Ian, Christopher and Martin, and by all of his grandchildren.

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Following the completion of his PhD, John became, in turn, an ICI research fellow at the University of Manchester, a research associate at the University of Illinois, and a Principal Scientific Officer at Harwell, making many important contributions to the theory of semi-conductors and the physics of surfaces. In 1972, following a short period at the University of California (San Diego), he was offered and accepted the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Leicester, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. In 1995 John was awarded the Glazebrook medal by the Institute of Physics (IOP), in recognition of his contributions to the field of solid-state physics. But being an outstanding scientist was not John’s only forte; he also possessed a clear and organised mind, an ability to think a plan through and to get others to help implement it, and, unlike many other mathematicians, a head for actual numbers! Whilst he was at Leicester the University made full use of these talents and he became the Head of his Department, the Dean of Science and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor. The IOP also called upon his skills, and as an Honorary Officer of the Institute he served with his natural integrity and fair-mindedness on many Boards, taking particular interest in IOP Publishing and the Institute’s Benevolent Fund, a fund which benefited significantly from the collection made at his Thanksgiving Service. John’s contributions to physics, both scientific and organisational, were not restricted to the UK, and since the early nineties he had been deeply involved with the European Physical Society (EPS), and in particular with the Condensed Matter Division. Here also, his executive talents were recognised and he became the Treasurer of the EPS and a member of its Executive Committee. At the Thanksgiving Service, Prof. Wagner, the current President of the EPS, gave well-merited and heart-felt thanks for John’s warmth and wit and for his contributions to the work of the Society. In particular, he mentioned the financial plans aimed at securing the Society’s financial future that were devised by John and accepted by the Committee in September 2008.

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Back in 1955, it was as the only two mathematics undergraduates in Clare that year, and therefore inevitable supervision partners, that John and I began a lifelong friendship. We also played in the same college rugby team, the Clare Unemployed. Originally a hockey and cricket team [motto: They toil not, neither do they spin (Matthew 6:28) ], by the mid-fifties it had become Clare’s 3rd rugby XV, populated by a mixture of rather better players playing out of position and relatively unskilled enthusiasts. John, who on occasions captained the side, would readily admit to belonging to the latter camp. His enthusiasm never left him and when back trouble – not to be confused with trouble with the backs – brought his playing days to an end, he was doubly fortunate to find an academic job that he loved, located in a city with such a formidable rugby club. He and his woolly hat supported Leicester RUFC for 35 years, and, if the worst had to happen, he could hardly have wished for a better final memory than having seen the Tigers come from behind to win a thrilling victory. PETER DAVID BOWRON tragically died on 17.1.2009 at the

early age of 40. Colleagues write that the strength of his character was at the root of his all-too-short life, and made him so loved and admired. He was educated at Sedbergh School, which was thought by some to require strenuous exercise in extreme conditions, but he found it no obstacle to progress. Peter came to Clare in 1986, and read for a degree in History. Reading and books had

always been important in his studies, and it seemed a natural progression for him, after graduation, to apply to join the Hodder & Stoughton graduate trainee scheme. Out of hundreds of applications, he won one of the three places offered that year. After six months working across the business, he won a permanent job in the Marketed Books division. Here his talent for dealing with many

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different disciplines with extraordinary confidence, and apparently little effort, was revealed. Peter made further rapid progress in a career of bookselling, moving into the international market as a European Sales Manager with Simon & Schuster. It was here that he met a fiction editor called Clare, whom he married in 1997. Peter advanced further in a move to the Penguin Group, and in a few years became the youngest-ever member of the Penguin Group UK Board. Finally, as it now appears, he accepted an approach from the Random House Group for him to become Group Managing Director for them. The reasons for his success in this remarkable career lay in his genius with people, based on instinct and empathy, which allowed him to draw out the best from them. Alongside this career success, it was clear that he gave great attention and love to his wife and three children, who were, for him, far more significant than all his professional achievements. His was a great life, and sad only in the feeling of his family and friends that greater things were yet to come, had he not died so young. Sir CYRIL MAXWELL PALMER BROWN was a civil servant with a long career in the senior ranks; he died, at the age of 95, on 13.8.2009. He came to Clare from Wellington, NZ, in 1936, and is said to have had contact with John Maynard Keynes, the celebrated economist, among others. He became an economic advisor to the Midland Bank in 1938, and was diverted from returning to his native New Zealand by the outbreak of war. He stayed in the UK to assist the war effort, and at the end of the war took the offer of a job in the Civil Service, as a Principal Private Secretary in the Board of Trade. He worked with Harold Wilson, later Prime Minister, and with other well-known politicians. In 1961, Sir Max (as he seems to have been known) was promoted to be responsible for all European policy work within the Trade Department, and he advised Edward Heath on Britain’s pursuit of membership of the European Economic Community.

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With Michael Heseltine as a junior trade minister, Sir Max worked on the establishment of the Civil Aviation Authority, a body designed to operate free of political control. Many other matters, of course, came under his oversight. He retired from the Civil Service in 1974, and for a while held other posts, including a return as deputy chairman to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, where he had worked in the early 1950s. He met his wife, Margaret, in Cambridge, and they married in 1940; sadly, Margaret died in 2006. He leaves three sons and a daughter. PAUL SPENCER BYARD, a lawyer who retrained as an

architect, died of cancer on 20.1.2009 at the age of 68. He graduated from Yale in 1961 and came to Clare as a Mellon Fellow. He gained a BA in Law from Cambridge and a further degree from Harvard Law School. His legal career in New York State until 1977 centred on development and land-use, but moved towards the preservation of existing buildings. The Graduate School of Architecture

and Planning at Columbia awarded him an architectural degree in 1977, and he moved to join a firm of architects, becoming a partner there in 1981. He worked on the renovations of Carnegie Hall, the former US Customs House and the Villard Houses on Madison Avenue. Paul’s last big project in Manhattan was the renovation of the New York Historical Society building on Central Park West. He criticised the front entrance as being ‘so tiny’. A linked proposal for a new 23-story apartment tower was strongly opposed and was dropped in 2009. It is known that Paul did not regard preservation as a total avoidance of change. In his book The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation (W.W.Norton, 1998) he wrote ‘Every act of preservation is inescapably an act of renewal by the light of a later time, ...’

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In 1965, Paul Byard married Rosalie Starr Warren; she survives him, as do his sister, Margaret, his daughter and son, and two granddaughters. The Reverend Canon IAN ROSS CARRICK died on 27.2.2009, aged 95, having served the Anglican Church as a priest for 70 years (and 71 years since his ordination as deacon). He came to Clare from Uppingham School in 1932. For 25 years he belonged to the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, a community of priests taking vows of celibacy for varying periods. He served in a variety of parishes in England, from slumland Hull to an ammunition factory, and later in a North London parish. After 12 years he was unexpectedly offered a parish in South Africa, which he eagerly accepted. Soon, he was again uprooted and found himself in charge of a mission in Sekhukhuniland, a large unevangelised area in the middle of the Transvaal. There he ran a small theological college for mainly black priests and ordinands, within the very limited facilities in apartheid South Africa. He entered into the task with his usual sense of adventure and energy, adding basic plumbing to his skills, and later planning and building a new church in a neighbouring village. It was here that he met his future wife, and with her returned to parish work in Pretoria, playing a leading part in the diocese and pioneering a joint venture building a church centre with the Presbyterians. Ian had a great zest for life, enjoying the outdoors, camping and climbing, and was an avid gardener. On retirement he continued to teach, and in his writing made a determined effort to move the Church into understanding its responsibility to God’s creation, and in making the Gospel relevant to the present times. A few weeks before his death he had Christian Prayers for the 21st Century printed and distributed locally. He was ‘a good and faithful servant’.

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GERALD HENRY CLARKE, a cricket-loving teacher of History, died suddenly on 23.5.2009, at the age of 58, while on his way to watch a game. He came to Clare from Bedford Modern School in 1968, to read History. Besides a passion for history, he also loved music and learnt to sing and play the organ near his home. While at Clare he sang in the Clare choir, meeting John Rutter there. After his graduation, he taught at two schools in Oxfordshire, then moved to Sidmouth for five years. Finally he arrived at Torquay Boys’ Grammar as head of the History department. He was esteemed as an enthusiastic teacher and a good leader. He was also in demand for his musical talent, and was asked to become organist and choirmaster at Pinhoe Church, Exeter. Another skill was to serve as umpire in village cricket, which he did at Whimple, near Exeter, for 20 years. There were many tributes from colleagues, saddened by ‘his untimely death’ as he prepared to set off for Taunton to see the Somerset team play. He had taken early retirement in 2008, but was still very active in this short retirement. He was a bachelor, and of course ‘he will be sorely missed’. DAVID WILLIAM RUSHBROOKE EVANS was born into an

army family, in what is now Pakistan. Archie Hunter (1949) writes that David came from Winchester to Clare in 1950, and read Agriculture. At Winchester he was head of school and Captain of cricket and fives. A football knee injury required a serious operation in April 1948, but in June he was back on the cricket field in dazzling form, making 65 runs in an hour against Eton, who were then beaten for

the first time since 1920. At Clare, David Evans was prominent in his year, becoming secretary of the JCR. He was noted in Lady Clare Magazine (LCM) as a strong addition to the Rugby fives team and gained a

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Blue in Rugby fives (noted in Clare Association Annual for 1953). In 1952, LCM records an award to him of College colours for squash. As secretary of College cricket, his persuasive powers enticed E.W.(Jim) Swanton to bring his famous Arabs cricket side (including three ex-test players) to play the Clare team; we were strong, but lost! On going down from Clare, David’s life centred on farming and his family. In 1953 he joined Lord Rayleigh’s Farms and Strutt & Parker Farms, and four years later was appointed to both their boards, advancing in due course to be managing-director. At his funeral, he was described as ‘one of the most technically expert farmers of his generation ...’. Yet he was always practical, and it was recalled that, in a situation of staffing difficulties, he had turned up at 4.30 a.m. to help with the work of the farm. His wider interests were evident in his involvement in the world of education, where he sought continually to improve opportunities for the young. He was on the Board of Governors of Felsted School, and its Chairman for 14 years, and was also involved with Essex University. He would arrange gatherings of both school and university students at his house, the wheels of debate there being oiled by the fare provided by his devoted wife, Diana. He spoke very supportively to the staff at Felsted School when there was a decision for the school to be co-educational. David was concerned with the scouting movement for 48 years, becoming county commissioner for Essex, and ultimately being awarded the honour of Silver Wolf for ‘his exceptional services’. His sensitivity for the environment was reflected in his interest and work for the Essex and Suffolk water companies; in time, he was a deputy chairman of the joint company. It is no wonder that David Evans was a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, and served for a year as High Sherriff. He lived for over 50 years at Terling, where he was active in parish and church affairs. He always had joy in his family life, where he and Diana had three children and nine grandchildren. In 2002 he had a nasty cycling accident, from which some doubted if

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he would recover; but he did so, completing a long charity walk shortly before his death on 3.10.2008. A natural leader, David’s fine judgement inspired great trust among those with whom he worked. Yet he was not proud, and would have been self-deprecating about any attempt to sing his praises. He once told a friend, after his accident, that he had been ‘very lucky indeed’. ROWLAND ARTHUR FLETCHER died peacefully at home on

16.11.2008. Archie Hunter (1949) writes that Roger, as he was always known, came up to Clare in 1949, from a Yorkshire farming background, to read Agriculture. He had just spent four years in the Royal Navy, the last tour of duty being as a Lieutenant on the training ship H.M.S.Ganges. At Clare, he was a prominent and gregarious figure among his contemporaries, and shone as a sportsman. He

captained at soccer for Clare, and in 1951 played regularly at centre forward for the university, narrowly missing a Blue. He was also a talented sprinter, and enjoyed his cricket. A man of deep faith, and high principles, he was a notable supporter of Clare chapel. In 1954, Roger joined Shell in their agricultural side, not sure how long he would stay - but he stayed with the firm for 31 years! Much of his early time was spent in the West Indies; in Jamaica (as he loved to relate) he lived in a club that featured in the opening scene of the film ‘Dr No’. Later, as a senior manager based in London, he travelled widely for Shell and visited no fewer than 85 countries. As Shell representative in Romania he had a brush with the Securitate while staying at the firm’s country house outside Bucharest. Two secret police called with an instruction to Roger to stop using the Shell motorboat on the lake; use of the boat disturbed his lakeside neighbour, President Nicolae Ceausescu. Roger’s immediate reaction was to take the boat for another spin. This was

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typical - he was the least likely person to be pushed around by a dictator! In his retirement in Sunningdale, Roger and his wife, Elvira, were involved in many local and charitable activities. Also, in his later years, he had become a competent golfer. He never missed a Clare reunion. It was particularly gratifying to him when the youngest of his three sons, as a postgraduate student at Cambridge, won his Blue at golf. Sir ALFRED KENNETH HOLLINGS, MC, a High Court judge,

died on 27.12.2008 at the age of 90. He was educated as a boarder at The Leys School, and accepted a place to read Law at Clare in 1936. Graduating in 1939, he enlisted in the Army as soon as the war began, serving with the Royal Artillery. Kenneth gave distinguished service, especially in the fighting in Italy in 1944. The award of the Military Cross was linked to action

south of the River Arno, where his party came under fire from a self-propelled gun. After securing the safety of his comrades, Kenneth Hollings took it upon himself to ride a motorcycle through enemy fire to a better position. From there, he was able to destroy the gun, and also a nearby Tiger tank. In 1947, Kenneth was demobilised as a captain, and was called to the Bar by Middle Temple. He was also awarded a Harmsworth Scholarship, and joined chambers in Manchester. He built a strong practice in civil law, and particularly in matters of personal injury, and in Sale of Goods Act cases and commercial contracts. Many unusual cases are quoted, but all speak of his calm and quiet confidence, and of high esteem for his judgements. He retired in 1993 and was able to enjoy his passion for music, and enjoyment of walking holidays well into his eighties. In 1949 he was married to Evelyn Fishbourne, who survives him, along with their son and daughter.

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PETER JOHN LANDIN, computer scientist, who has died of

prostate cancer on 3.6.2009 at the age of 78, was a complex character. He came to Clare in 1949, and took the first two parts of the Mathematics tripos in two years. He was awarded an Exhibition in his third year, and he offered Part III Mathematics. He entered the field of computing at a time of remarkable growth and development. He made an outstanding contribution to this in a burst of

creativity in the 1950s and 1960s, in which he laid the foundations for the software that runs the laptops, desktop PCs and the internet of today. In the early days of computing, software written for one make of machine would not run on any other. Peter had insight that the intended meaning of a computer program could be pinpointed in mathematical logic, and so be liberated from the control of the manufacturer of the device. Thanks to this insight, it is now normal that the software of the internet (and other software) can run on every kind of computer. This intense work was done partly in London, partly in New York, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1967 he returned to take a chair at Queen Mary College, London, where he remained for the rest of his career. He still taught students and postgraduate workers enthusiastically, but increasingly lost interest in the direction of computer science. Peter Landin had other interests and was a radical in political matters, a regular protester and once arrested on a demonstration by an anti-war group. He also threw himself into the politics of the Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970s. He married his wife, Hanne, in 1960, and they had two children, but Peter separated amicably from them in 1973. He maintained contacts with them, but pursued and facilitated gay politics for the rest of his life.

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Peter was also noted as an accomplished pianist, but was said to be interested in understanding a composition rather than in its performance. Towards the end of his life, Peter became convinced that computing had been a bad idea, giving support to profit-taking corporate interests and a surveillance state, and that he had wasted his energies in promoting it. However, his ideas survive, and not many computer users would share that thought. PHILIP DEREK MARSHALL, a highly-regarded Swansea barrister, died in September 2009, at the age of 56, after an illness. He came to Clare in 1971, gained a first-class degree in Law, and was called to the Bar. He then moved to Swansea, in Iscoed Chambers. Initially, his career covered a broad base of civil, employment, family and criminal work. In recent years Philip specialised in cases involving personal injury, professional negligence and employment, as well as complex criminal cases. This also led to his involvement in health and safety cases, especially those involving fatalities. He sat as a Recorder – a part-time judge – in the Crown Court and County Court, and was involved in setting up the Wales and Chester Free Representation Scheme. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, a barrister in the same chambers, and his four children. RICHARD MICHAEL MARTIN died suddenly on New Year’s

Day 2009, at the age of 80. His early years were spent in Egypt, and he was aged 8 when the family returned to England. He came to Clare from Winchester College in 1948 and read Mechanical Sciences, which led him into an important career in civil engineering. Before that career, Clare College rejoiced that Michael had been brought up with a great interest and skill with boats and boating. He

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made a notable contribution to College success on the Cam, and in 1951 won most of the Senior Sculling events on the Thames. Lady Clare Magazine for Easter 1951 records his winning the Colquhoun Sculls. The interest in boats continued throughout his life: he was even photographed sculling on the Cam at the age of 70. He owned a sailing dinghy and a sculling shell, both called The Lady Clare. After his graduation, Michael worked for periods with the Atomic Weapons Research establishment, the dry docks of Southampton and with ICI in East Anglia. In 1956 he visited his sister in California, and was so impressed by the rapidly-growing region that he emigrated there the following year. Within two years, he had met and married Maria, and they settled in Sacramento, where they have lived for the last 45 years. Michael’s professional involvement in Californian civil engineering began with roads and bridges, particularly the Bay Bridge being converted to motor traffic on two levels. Later he moved to the area of dams and aqueducts, no less important with the growing population of the state. In a further departure, he returned to college and studied for an MA in Civil Engineering, writing a thesis on California’s energy dilemma, which was officially adopted as a report on the problem. He was one of the founding employees within the California Energy Commission, devoting 35 years to the work, even to some relevant matters on the last day of his life. It hardly needs emphasis that Michael was highly respected in his work, and in his sincere Christian faith, strongly influenced and supported by a meeting with Billy Graham, many years ago. He is survived by his wife, Maria, a sister, a son and two daughters, some of whom live, with their families, in the South of England. DAVID CORNELIUS MORLEY, a child physician, died on 2.7.2009, aged 86. He came to Clare, from Marlborough, in 1941 and read Natural Sciences, leading to Medicine with further training at St Thomas’s in London. He then did some military service in Singapore.

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Professionally, he was a resolute promoter of child health, whose research and ideas helped to shape several global programmes. He identified key scientific principles, which could be used to develop simple answers to medical questions, and often could be developed on a large scale. David is first noted for work in Nigeria in the 1960s, studying the growth of children. Out

of this work came a prototype chart for the monitoring of the growth of children. The Road to Health charts enabled parents and doctors to estimate the effect of a health event (particularly an illness) on the growth of a child. It became apparent that infectious illnesses could exert as much influence on child growth as diet. It also became evident that measles was among the worst influences, leading David to campaign for vaccination against this disease. Another demonstrable aspect was a connection between faltering growth at a young age and brain development of the young child. Appreciating the effects of nutrition, David was an early campaigner for the importance of breastfeeding. He also pioneered the use of health clinics for the under-5s, which were cheap to run, and could be offered in isolated communities. He returned to London in 1964 and became a tutor at a recently established WHO-UNICEF course for senior teachers of child health. Sponsored by the two international agencies, it was designed to co-ordinate training in medical schools of the developing world. David published, in 1973, Paediatric Priorities in the Developing World, a guide considered to be well ahead of its time. He also established a charity, Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC), to provide medical teaching material as cheaply as possible to doctors and others in the developing world. David’s work is credited with the saving of millions of lives, and he received many honours and awards. He was appointed CBE in 1989. In retirement, he continued to lecture at the Institute of Child Health, and to work for the success of his charity TALC.

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Colleagues recall that he loved to devise and refine simple but potentially life-saving gadgets, such as a plastic spoon with two ends, of different capacity. With the larger scoop measuring sugar and the smaller measuring salt, a tumbler measure of clean water could be prepared as rehydration solution. There were many other devices in a similar vein. He is survived by his wife, Aileen, two sons and a daughter. MICHAEL EDWARD O’BRIEN David O’Brien writes “My brother Michael came up to Clare in 1948 from Sedbergh School after National Service. His passion for vintage motor vehicles, which lasted to his dying day on 2nd August 2009, became apparent during his National Service with the Royal Engineers. His company was deployed in Scotland, building Bailey bridges after the devastating storms of 1947. He was reprimanded by his Company Commander for insisting on driving the army trucks rather than allowing the allocated drivers to do so. At Clare he read Engineering. A renowned Fellow of Clare and at that time Head of the Mechanical Sciences Faculty, Professor Sir John Baker, and his wife, became long-time friends to Michael and his family. Michael joined Clare Boat Club when it achieved the height of success. David Jennens was stroking the 1st VIII and Clare went Head of the River. The following year David Jennens stroked the Cambridge boat in a classic victory over Oxford by overtaking Oxford on the outside of the bend at Hammersmith. Michael won a trial cap but had the doubtful honour of being the last man in Goldie not to be selected for the Blue Boat. He was President of CBC in his third year (the title reverted to ‘Captain of Boats’ in the mid ’50s) . He met and wooed Diana during his graduate apprenticeship with The 600 Group in Stevenage. They married in 1954 after Michael had returned to the family engineering company in Kendal, and they lived near Kendal all their married life. Diana, their four children and twelve grandchildren survive him.

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There is an interesting footnote to Michael’s time at Clare. Peter Knewstubb (1950) wrote the history of the Greene Cups in Clare Association Annual 2003-04, listing the awards back to 1921. In the following issue of Clare Association Annual it was reported that Michael O’Brien had seen his name in the list of winners as having been awarded a Greene Cup by the College Council in July 1952 for ‘regularity of conduct’. He had never received the cup. His mentioning this to the Editor revealed a College error. Hence, in November 2005, the College made up for a 53 year omission at a special ceremony of presentation by the Master followed by a very pleasant lunch for him and Diana with some Fellows.” Sir RICHARD O’BRIEN, MC and Bar, DSO, once a personal assistant to Field Marshal Montgomery, died on 11.12.2009. He was the only child of a Derbyshire doctor, and came to Clare from Oundle in 1938, and read Law. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war and, in 1941, he was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters. He took part in the Battle of El Alamein as a platoon leader, and in the early hours of 2.11.1942 his company was halted at the edge of a minefield, and came under heavy artillery fire. Several mortar bombs fell close to his truck. His platoon sergeant was killed, several of his men were hit, and Richard himself was wounded by bomb splinters in his thigh, neck and arm. He lost a lot of blood but, having evacuated the wounded men, refused to go back to have his own wounds dressed and led the rest of the platoon, in their trucks, through the enemy minefield. By first light, he was too weak to stand unaided but continued to give orders from his vehicle. A medical officer, who was brought to him, dressed his wounds but found that he still had splinters in his thigh. Richard begged to be allowed to remain with his men, but was ordered by a senior officer to get himself to an ambulance. He was awarded the first of his immediate Military Crosses. Richard O’Brien served in Iraq in 1943, and in 1944 he was in the campaign in Italy, and there are more stories of ‘courage and

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determination of the highest order’. That was the citation for the Bar to his MC. The battalion of Sherwood Foresters suffered such heavy losses in Italy that it disbanded, and Richard joined the regiment of the Royal Leicestershires. In further fighting in Italy, he was awarded the DSO. Shortly before the end of the war, he was appointed as a personal assistant to Field Marshal Montgomery; they got on well together, and maintained a friendship after the war. It was Richard O’Brien who presented the terms of surrender to German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, who initially kept him waiting. Keitel thought he should have had an emissary from the Allied C-in-C, Eisenhower, but he didn’t get this wish. Richard continued to serve in Germany with ‘Monty’ for 18 months. At one time he was taken to 10 Downing St and met Clement Attlee. Among other discussions, the Prime Minister told Richard of his involvement with Boys’ Clubs before the war. When Richard retired from the Army, with the rank of major, he remembered this, and spent two years as a development officer with the National Association of Boys’ Clubs. He then began a career in engineering, in which he was a success, and by 1961 had risen to a post as director and general manager of a prominent engineering firm. Richard O’Brien was now building a reputation as a superb negotiator in industry, and used this talent in a succession of troubled industrial situations. In 1976 he was appointed chairman of the Manpower Services Commission, and he guided important advances in skills training and access to employment for 16- to 18-year olds. In 1979, Mrs Thatcher confirmed his appointment as the first chairman of the Crown Appointments Commission to appoint an Archbishop of Canterbury. Richard recommended Robert Runcie as the replacement for Donald Coggan, on the retirement of the latter in 1980. The Commission’s report Faith in the City, (in 1985) triggered an extensive public and media debate about the inner cities, relations between church and state, and the perceived

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growing divide between rich and poor. Richard ensured that every claim in the report was backed by evidence. A lifelong Anglican of moderate progressive sympathies, Richard combined his industrial interests with work on numerous church committees. He was also a sociable man, enjoyed giving dinner parties at his home in Kensington, and played tennis, golf and squash. He was knighted in 1980. In 1951 he had married Elizabeth Craig, who survives him, with their two sons and three daughters. WILLIAM MAXWELL ROBERTSON, a popular and well-known broadcaster, died on 20.11.2009, aged 94. He was born in East Bengal, but had schooling in England from the age of 5. He came through Haileybury College to Clare in 1934, but the university records show that he only resided for one term. Other sources show that he joined an expedition to Papua New Guinea to pan for gold, but didn’t find any. Max Robertson, as he was most popularly known, tried working as a schoolmaster in Sydney, Australia, then ‘hit gold’ in another sense, in a job with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He covered the Australian Open Tennis event in 1937, which was the first of many such successes in his life. Max served in the Army during the war years, then joined the BBC in 1946, initially as a sports reporter covering athletics, skiing, motor racing and swimming, as well as tennis. Later, he became one of the BBC’s foremost presenters, ably playing his part in such events as the funeral of King George VI in 1952, and in the coronation of our Queen in the following year. He had other involvements, notably with a programme ‘Going for a Song’ (a forerunner of ‘Antiques Roadshow’), but perhaps was most widely known for commentary on sport. He was found to have a very attractive and effective style, which was employed in every Olympic Games from 1948 until 1982, but most memorably in many Wimbledon tennis battles in the 1970s and 1980s.

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He was twice married, first to the Australian Nancy Suttor, with whom he had two sons; then, after divorce, to the writer Elisabeth Beresford, who is best known as the author of the Wombles children’s books. One of the Wombles characters, MacWomble, was based on Max. They had two children, but the marriage was again ended and Max retired to Guernsey, with a close friend. DAVID ANDREW ROSS STEWART died in Edinburgh on 30.3.2009, aged 78. His father, Major General Ross Stewart, served in India, returning to Scotland at the outbreak of war in 1939. He was educated in Scotland until he won a scholarship to Rugby, from where he came to Clare in 1949. He read Classics and Law. His first employment was with paper manufacturers Alex Cowan, which took him to various branch offices, and eventually to London. Here he met, and eventually married, his wife, Sue, and their first married years were spent in New Zealand. In 1968 he returned to the post of Managing Director at Bartholomew & Son, the Edinburgh map publishing and printing company. His business abilities brought him success, and many other management-style appointments. These other calls on his time continued after his retirement from Bartholomew & Son, and make an impressive list. In spite of these many commitments, David found time for his fishing, with a special passion for the salmon rivers of Scotland. And moreover there was always time for his family, where he evidently found his greatest happiness. His wife, two sons and their children survive him. Sir KENNETH MAXWELL STODDART KCVO, esteemed as a patriot, died on 26.12.2008 at the age of 94. He gave distinguished war service, and was noted throughout his life for his courtesy, modesty and sense of fair play. He came from Sedbergh School to Clare in 1932 but, sadly, we have no note of his activities here.

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After graduation, he joined the West Lancashire Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force, which led naturally to his wartime service with the RAF. He flew spitfires in the Battle of Britain, and his final posting was as Wing Commander. In 1942 he had received an Air Efficiency Award (AE). After the war, he continued to command a wing of the Air Training Corps, to be active in the family business and to serve as a magistrate. In 1958 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, transferring this appointment to Merseyside when the new county was created. He was Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside for ten years (1979-89) and oversaw 80 royal visits. He was knighted in 1979 and appointed KCVO on his retirement in 1989. He is survived by his wife, Jean, and two daughters. OLIVER STONEHOUSE died very peacefully on 24.1.2009.

John Peake (1942) writes that Oliver grew up in Wakefield, was educated at Uppingham school and came to Clare in 1942 to read Mechanical Sciences. Together with three of his contemporaries at Clare, he joined the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. Following the death of his brother, he gave up his career as a naval architect in 1947 to join the family business, known as MPS. He ran the

company successfully for over 40 years and built up one of the finest and best-managed textile businesses in Yorkshire, pioneering wonderful needlework and carpet yarns. As a highly articulate, inventive and interesting newcomer into the Yorkshire industry, he was considered to be very different from the conventional worsted manufacturers, a beacon in an otherwise sometimes provincial West Riding industry. Apart from his business responsibilities Oliver had many other outside interests. As well as serving as Chairman and President of Wakefield Chamber of Commerce, following tradition set by his father and grandfather, he was for many years Mayor of Horbury,

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long before local politics became dominated by party political interests. He was also a very influential Chairman of the Friends of the Wakefield Art Gallery and of the Wakefield Permanent Art Fund for 27 years. During his tenure the Gallery acquired several valuable paintings and sculptures. Always an intrepid sailor, he crossed the Atlantic in 1978 in his 31 ft sailing boat Miranda to reach Road Town, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands for Christmas Day, having covered 4,005 miles in 44 days. Oliver married Julien Coward in 1953 and over 40 years they built up two waterfront homes in Tortola, long before it became the popular Mecca it is now. After his retirement from the mill, they embarked on 10 years of travel in their very modest camper van, covering nearly 100,000 miles across Europe. Oliver is survived by Julien, their two daughters and seven grandchildren, though very sadly they had suffered grievously through the loss of their two sons, Matthew and, much later, John. LEONARD WHITEHOUSE died on May 15th, 2008, aged 81. He came up to Clare in 1944 from Thames Valley County School, with an Exhibition to read Mathematics, finishing among the Senior Optimes. Professionally, he became a civil servant, working as an Examiner in the Patent Office, but his predominant and all-abiding interest was in Music. In this latter interest he was very much a late-starter, being a self-confessed ‘growler’ at school and therefore overlooked by his music master. However, at Cambridge his membership of the Music Society (CUMS) enabled him to borrow from their motley collection of orchestral wind instruments. Residents of Castlebrae at that time heard weekly, through the walls, a succession of varied distressing sounds as he attempted to produce something approaching musical noises from unfamiliar instruments. He settled on the bassoon; the right choice for his height and the length of his fingers. Within a few years he had mastered the complexities of musical notation and had understood sufficiently

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the vagaries of the two rival systems of bassoon fingering to become a reliable member of London amateur orchestras and chamber music groups. He had a long association with the Morley College Orchestra, was a very active member of the London-based Oxford and Cambridge Music Club, and for years attended Bernard Robinson's Music Camp, where, amongst other important works, he was able to experience Wagner's Ring cycle, an Act at a time, over a three-year period. Every year he visited the Edinburgh Festival and he was a founder member of the Edinburgh Rehearsal Orchestra. He was also a founder member of the Galpin Society for the study of historic musical instruments, and this became a life-long interest, which occasionally overlapped with his professional work. Several times a week he used to attend concerts and operas, and his knowledge of the personnel of the wind and horn sections of London and visiting orchestras became legendary. Also interested in the history of film, he regularly attended showings at the National Film Theatre from its inception in 1952. Although rather shy, nevertheless his interests meant he had a wide circle of friends dotted all around the country. Friendships were revived when he found that there was to be a particular opera production that he wanted to catch, and his visits were always a pleasure, with his dry wit well in evidence. The writer of his obituary in The Guardian recalls his comment, after playing in a performance of the original version of Handel's Fireworks music with 27 oboes and 14 bassoons, that his part was ‘a sort of oboe gravy’.

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NOTICES MA LUNCH 2010 Saturday 27th March: those matriculating in 2003, and taking their MA in person on 27th March. REUNION DINNERS 2010 Friday 19th March: those matriculating in 1976 and 1977. Friday 17th September: those matriculating in 1986 and 1987. Friday 24th September: those matriculating in 1996 and 1997. REUNION DINNERS 2011 Friday 25th March: those matriculating in 1958 and 1959. Friday 23rd September: those matriculating in 1968 and 1969. REUNION DINNERS 2012 Friday 23rd March: those matriculating in 1978 and 1979. Friday 14th September: those matriculating in 1988 and 1989. Friday 21st September: those matriculating in 1998 and 1999. Invitations will be sent by the Development Office well in advance. DINING RIGHTS Clare alumni are entitled to dine on High Table once a term, free of charge. Bookings are subject to availability and must be made in advance with the Fellows’ Butler (tel: 01223-333224). Members may dine on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday evenings during Full Term, and may bring a guest at their own expense. For further information, please contact the Steward, Mr Mick Petty (e-mail mp448@cam.ac.uk). COLLEGE CONFERENCE FACILITIES The College provides facilities for residential conferences during the Long Vacation and at Easter. Enquiries should be made to the Conference Manager on 01223 333203.

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BOOK REVIEW

UNDER RUNNING LAUGHTER Burma – The Hidden Heart

by Liz Anderson

This book would properly be shelved with biographies, but that would not reveal its essential nature. It tells the story of an alumnus of Clare, born in 1876, coming to Clare as undergraduate in 1894 and being elected to a Clare fellowship in 1900. The story of this section of his life will have many resonances for today’s alumni, but there is much more, all told in a manner commanding eager pursuit of the developments. The book itself will reveal to the diligent reader the source of its main title, and the reference to Burma in its subtitle arises from the career of the protagonist in that country, where his principal labour was in translating most diligently the whole Bible into Burmese. The essence of the book is to tell the story in a very free form, so that it might be regarded as a novel, though the author guarantees that all the significant events and main characters truly happened and existed. The authority for this is that she has written about her father and mother. The style of the book is most engaging and excellent. I don’t guarantee to read the whole of any book which I review, but I did read this one, from cover to cover. And I bought one for a Christmas present to a family member. Clare is glad to have a copy in the Forbes-Mellon Library. P.F.K. UNDER RUNNING LAUGHTER by Dr Liz Anderson pp328 ISBN 978-1-848760-677 Troubador Publishing Ltd, Leicester