ISSUE 6 MICHAELMAS 2007 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

The Royal Opening of theStephen Hawking Building

The Zebras of Trinity Street

The Milton Grundy Gift

Six in a Row for Caius Boat Club

George’s Secret Key to the Universe

“A gift to Gonville & Caius College counts towardsthe Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign”

From the Director of Development

The main aim of Once a Caian…, when we introduced this magazine three yearsago, was to increase and enhance links between Caians of all generations livingand working all around the world. We are all part of the same community andshare the privilege of belonging to this remarkable institution, a livingcontinuum of scholarship and fellowship stretching back to the Middle Ages.

All of us have benefited from our association with the College and as a resultmany have been fortunate to find themselves in a position to make a generouscontribution to the wellbeing of future generations of Caians. In this, the sixthissue of Once a Caian… brought to you under the inspired editorship of Mick LeMoignan (2004), the mutual benefit to Caians and their College is celebrated.

The Stephen Hawking Building, our award-winning new studentaccommodation in West Road, is only there because of the generosity of twothousand Caians and friends of the College. Many of these benefactors tookgreat pride and pleasure in coming back to Cambridge to admire the results,both on the occasion of the Royal Opening by the Chancellor, HRH PrincePhilip, and at our May Week Party for benefactors.

In this issue we celebrate links between the College and the Caian communityin many different ways, by commemorating our Catholic martyrs, throughhearing about the relationship of the Cobbold family to the College and byenjoying another student escapade – the ‘Zebra Crossing’ prank. Wecongratulate both the Caius Boat Club on its sixth Mays Headship in a row andAndy Baddeley (2000), a world-class Caian athlete, who hopes for success inthe Beijing Olympics. We also thank Milton Grundy (1944) for giving us anincomparable collection of modern paintings to hang in the Stephen HawkingBuilding and other parts of the College.

We acknowledge, as illustrated in the article which introduces some newprivileges for our benefactors, the great debt the College owes to Caians in allwalks of life who are doing everything they can to support all aspects of aCaius education. Looking forward, Professor Paul Binski (1975) explains howessential that support is going to be to maintain the fabric of our historicbuildings. Caians are increasingly aware of the vital role they play in ensuringthat Caius is able to meet the many challenges of the future and for this theCollege is enormously grateful.

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2 The Royal Opening of the Stephen Hawking Building

6 The Copley Medal – Martin Rees & Stephen Hawking (1965)

8 Care and Restoration for our Heritage – Professor Paul Binski (1975)

10 Commemoration of the Caius Martyrs – Dr John Casey (1964)

12 The Zebras of Trinity Street

14 George’s Secret Key to the Universe – the new book by Stephen and Lucy Hawking

16 “Each Man in his Time…” – an interview with Milton Grundy (1944)

18 The Milton Grundy Gift

20 Publish and be Damned!

22 Cobbolds at Caius

24 The Bursary Team

26 The Annual Gathering – Dr Mike Cannon (1955)

28 Privileges for Benefactors

30 Return to Sender – Address Unknown

32 CaiMemories

34 Six in a Row for CBC & Launching the Simon Suess

36 A Golden Opportunity – Andy Baddeley (2000)

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At the 2007 May Week Party, Ralph Owen(1999) of the Development Office does hisbest to keep the champagne dry!

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His Royal Highness PrincePhilip came to Cambridgeon Tuesday 17 April 2007,to celebrate the thirtiethanniversary of his becoming

Chancellor of the University and to performthe official opening ceremony of the StephenHawking Building in the company of manyCaius Fellows and Benefactors.

Earlier, a hundred or so Caians and friendsof the College, whose exceptional generositymade this building possible, enjoyedchampagne in the Master’s Lodge before adelicious lunch in Hall, where Fellows,Benefactors and those involved in theconstruction process were able to discuss thefiner points of the new building.

Everyone made their way over to WestRoad to see for themselves the distinctiveserpentine shape of the building, theinspiration for which was the welfare of themagnificent Wellingtonia (Sequoia), ScotsPine and Copper Beech in the gardens. All

In a pre-recorded presentation on the bigscreen, Professor Hawking explained that hehad lived at the old Victorian villa on the sitefor fifteen years; he had brought up hischildren and written his popular book A BriefHistory of Time there and at first he was sadto see it go. However, now that he had seensome of the 75 student rooms, eight Fellow’ssets, three supervision rooms and theCavonius Centre, he said “I’m very honouredthat this beautiful building will bear myname… It is, in my opinion, the best recentbuilding in Cambridge and I’m proud to beassociated with it.”

Prince Philip delighted the audience byannouncing: “You’re about to see the world’smost experienced plaque-unveiler at work!”and immediately demonstrated his prowessby revealing the plaque commemorating theoccasion. He stayed in the Cavonius Centrefor some time to speak with Benefactors andFellows and congratulated everyone involvedon a magnificent achievement.

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were assembled in the Cavonius Centre bythe time Prince Philip arrived and went on atour of the building. He was shown around bythe Master, Sir Christopher Hum (2005), thePresident, Professor Wei-Yao Liang (1963) andthe Director of Development, Dr Anne Lyon(2001), before meeting some students andFellows as well as some of the keyBenefactors.

In the Cavonius Centre, the Master paidtribute to his predecessor as Master, NeilMcKendrick (1958), and to around 2,000Caian benefactors who gave more than£10million to fund this splendid new studentaccommodation. Without their generoussupport, he said, the building would not behere today. Professor Stephen Hawking(1965) was unable to attend the event inperson: the Master said it was “characteristicof his indomitable spirit of adventure that heis in Texas, preparing for a flight into near-space, which will allow him to experienceweightlessness!”

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Jonathan Horsfall Turner (1964), Bill Packer (1949), David Malcolm (1950), Dr Philip Marriott (1965) and James Arnold (1993) are presented to the Chancellor byDr Anne Lyon (2001).

John Haines (1949), Annie Haines, David Heap (1954) and Margot Heap meet the Chancellor.

Lady Hum, the former Master, Neil McKendrick (1958), the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education), ProfessorMelveena McKendrick, the Catering Manager, Ed Davey (obscured) and Rita Cavonius (2004) share a jokewith the Chancellor.

The President and the Master with the Chancelloron the balcony of the Fellow’s set occupied byProfessor Simon Maddrell (1964).

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The Chancellor chats with first-year students, Emma Brady, Sam Bishop and Dervla Lynchehaun (all 2006), the President, Professor Wei-Yao Liang (1963), theDirector of Development, Dr Anne Lyon (2001), the Project Manager, Nick Pettit and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard.

The Master presents Dr Jimmy Altham (1965), Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962) and Professor John Mollon (1996) to the Chancellor.

The Chancellor with Rita Cavonius (2004).Dr Dino Giussani (1996), Mick Le Moignan (2004), Derek Ingram (1974) andProfessor James Fitzsimons (1946) with the Chancellor.

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special dinner was held inCaius Hall on Tuesday 6February 2007 to celebratethe latest success of theCollege’s much loved and

most celebrated living Fellow, ProfessorStephen Hawking (1965) – not hisextraordinary journey into near-space, butthe award of the Copley Medal for 2006.

The Copley Medal is the oldest and mostprestigious award of the Royal Society. Firstgiven in 1731, it is presented annually foroutstanding achievements in research in anybranch of science. Professor Hawking is theninth in a list of distinguished Caianscientists to receive the award, whichmarked his outstanding contribution totheoretical physics and cosmology.

Members of Stephen’s family includinghis mother, Isobel, and three children,Robert, Lucy and Tim accompanied him tothe dinner. The guest of honour wasProfessor Lord (Martin) Rees,President of the RoyalSociety, AstronomerRoyal, Master of TrinityCollege and an oldfriend, who gave a verymoving address, whichfollows in a somewhatabbreviated form:

In my first week as a graduate student atCambridge University, I met a fellow student,two years ahead of me in his studies; he wasunsteady on his feet and spoke with greatdifficulty.

This was Stephen Hawking. I learnt thathe had a degenerative disease, and might notlive long enough to finish his PhD. But thisyear, he celebrated his 65th birthday. Meresurvival would have been a medical marvel,but of course he hasn’t merely survived. Hehas become arguably the most famousscientist in the world, acclaimed for hisbrilliant research, for his best-selling books,and, above all, for his astonishing triumphover adversity.

Astronomers are used to large numbers.But few numbers could be as large as theodds I’d have given, back in 1964, whenStephen received his ‘death sentence’, againstthis astonishing crescendo of achievement,sustained for more than 40 years.

At Oxford, he was, by all accounts, a ‘laidback’ undergraduate, but his brilliance earnedhim a first class degree and an entry ticket toa research career in Cambridge. Within a fewyears of the onset of his disease he waswheelchair-bound, and his speech was anindistinct croak that could only be interpretedby those who knew him. But in other respects,fortune favoured him. In July 1965, he marriedJane Wilde, who provided a supportive homelife and with whom he had three children. Hisscientific work went from strength tostrength: he quickly came up with asuccession of insights into the nature of blackholes (then a very new idea) and how ouruniverse began.

In 1974 he was elected to the RoyalSociety, Britain’s main scientific academy, atthe exceptionally early age of 32. He was bythen so frail that most of us suspected hecould scale no further heights. But forStephen, this was just the beginning.

He worked in the same building as I did.I would often push his wheelchair into hisoffice, and he would ask me to open anabstruse book on quantum theory, the scienceof atoms, not a subject that had hithertomuch interested him. He would sit hunched

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Caian Copley Medallists1802 William Hyde Wollaston (1782)

1824 John Brinkley (1781)

1927 Charles Sherrington (1880)

1950 James Chadwick (1919)

1955 Ronald Fisher (1909)

1957 Howard Florey (1924)

1972 Nevill Mott (1930)

1975 Francis Crick (1949)

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Professor Lord Rees,President of theRoyal Society,Astronomer Royaland Master ofTrinity College,presents StephenHawking with the2006 Copley Medal.

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readership. He hoped to earn enough to paycollege fees for his two eldest children, Robertand Lucy. When the US edition of A BriefHistory of Time appeared, the printers madesome errors (a picture was upside down), andthe publishers tried to recall the stock.

To their amazement, all copies hadalready been sold. This was the first inklingthat the book was destined for runawaysuccess. Ever since that book appeared,Stephen has been an international celebrity,featuring in numerous TV programmes, andgiving lectures that could fill the Albert Hallin London, the great Hall of the People inBeijing and similar venues in the US andJapan. He has lectured at Clinton’s WhiteHouse; he featured in Star Trek and TheSimpsons; he has been the subject of booksand plays.

His lectures, whether technical or‘popular,’ have to be carefully pre-prepared.But conversation is slow, because constructing

even a single sentence takesseveral minutes, plainly

intensely frustrating,especially for

someone with sucha quick mind. Hehas to economisewith words. Hiscomments seemaphoristic or

oracular, but areoften infused with

wit.Why has Stephen

become such a ‘cult figure’?The concept of an imprisoned

mind roaming the cosmos has grabbedpeople's imagination. If he had achieved equaldistinction in (say) genetics rather thancosmology, his triumph of intellect againstadversity probably wouldn’t have achievedthe same resonance with a worldwide public.

Stephen himself reminds us that he isn’tanother Einstein, but nonetheless he has doneat least as much as anyone else since Einsteinto improve our knowledge of gravity, spaceand time: he ranks as one of the top ten livingtheoretical physicists.

His later ideas appear, beautifullyillustrated, in his book Our Universe in aNutshell. This wasn’t bought by quite as manypeople as his first book. But it was moreclearly written, and probably more people gotto the end of it.

Now, half-way through his seventhdecade, his schedule is as hectic as ever, andhe has received the Royal Society’s top award,the Copley Medal. Stephen was diagnosedwith a deadly disease when he was only 21.His expectations dropped to zero; everythingthat has happened since then seems to him abonus. And what a triumph his life has beenso far. His name will live in the annals of

science; millions have had their cosmichorizons widened by his best-selling books;and his unique achievement against all theodds is an inspiration to even more.

I came to Cambridge in 1962 to do a PhDin Cosmology. I was attached to Trinity Hall,because it was twinned with UniversityCollege Oxford, where I did my undergraduatedegree. However, Trinity Hall was poor, anddidn’t have a research fellowship the year Ifinished my PhD. In fact, in those days, thereweren’t many research fellowships and thosefew were mostly for internal candidates. Caiusstood out by offering open fellowships thatseemed well paid at the time, with a salary of£700 a year, or £1,075 if you were married.

I had hoped that my fiancée, Jane, wouldtype my fellowship application to Caius, butwhen she came to visit me in Cambridge shehad her arm in plaster, having broken it. I mustadmit that I was less sympathetic than Ishould have been. It was her left arm, however,so she was able to write out the application tomy dictation, and I got someone else to typeit. To my great surprise, I was elected, and havebeen a Fellow of Caius for over 40 years.

The fellowship at Caius was a turningpoint in my life. I had been facing a darkfuture, with increasing disability from themotor neurone disease that I had recentlydeveloped. It meant I could get married, and itenabled me to work on cosmology, at thattime a neglected field with almost no oneworking in it. My colleague, Roger Penrose, andI developed new techniques to study the largescale structure of space-time, and appliedthem to the big bang and black holes. Sosuccessful were we, that we and a few otherssolved most of the qualitative problems ingeneral relativity.

I was at a bit of a loss after that, so Ibegan to investigate how quantum fieldswould behave around a black hole. To my greatsurprise, and that of everyone else, I foundthat black holes weren't completely black afterall. They emit Hawking Radiation. Thisindicates that there is a deep connectionbetween gravity and thermodynamics.Following from this, we developed theEuclidean approach to quantum gravity, whichwe applied to black holes and the earlyuniverse. It led to the idea that the universe iscompletely self contained and withoutboundary in space or imaginary time. I mightnot have been able to do any of these things ifCaius had not given me a fellowship, so I’mvery grateful. Thank you for listening.

Lord Rees sat down to tumultuous applausefrom a Hall packed with undergraduates(dinner tickets traded at a premium!) Then,to the delight of students and Fellows alike,Stephen Hawking gave an eloquent reply tothe handsome tribute from his old friend:

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motionless for hours. He couldn’t even turnthe pages without help. I wondered what wasgoing through his mind, and if his powerswere failing. But within a year he came upwith his best-ever idea, encapsulated in anequation that he says he wants on hisgravestone.

The great advances in science generallyinvolve discovering a link between two thingshitherto unconnected. For instance, IsaacNewton famously realised that the forcemaking an apple fall was the same as theforce that held the moon and planets in theirorbits. Stephen’s ‘eureka moment’ wasdiscovering a profound and unexpected linkbetween gravity and quantum theory. By theend of the 1970s, he had advanced to one ofthe most distinguished posts in Cambridge,

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Mathematics, once held byNewton himself.

He continued to seek new linksbetween the very large (the cosmos) andthe very small (atoms and quantum theory).He developed an amazing ability to workthings out in his head. Sometimes he wouldwork with a colleague who would write aformula on a blackboard; he would stare at it,and say what should come next.

In 1987, Stephen contracted pneumonia.He had to undergo a tracheotomy, whichremoved even the limited powers of speechhe then possessed. It had been more than 10years since he could write, or even use akeyboard. Without speech, the only way hecould communicate was by directing his eyetowards one of the letters of the alphabet ona big board in front of him.

But technology saved him. He still hadsome use in his fingers, and a computer,controlled by a single lever, allowed him toscan a dictionary of words and spell outsentences. These were then declaimed by aspeech synthesiser, with the androidalAmerican accent that has become histrademark.

More recently, he has lost the capacityeven to press a lever, and instead actuates hiscomputer by twitching a face muscle.

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New building has been theCollege’s recent focus, butCaius has not forgottenabout its outstandinglegacy of ancient buildings,

the Old Courts especially.It is easy for those who work here all the

time to take for granted what we actuallypossess: standing in Caius Court and lookingtowards and beyond the Gate of Honour, wecan see all the important Europeanarchitectural styles – the Tudor Renaissanceof Dr Caius’ gates, the Romantic Classicismof our Library, not to mention the Romangrandness of the Senate House and theultimate Gothic splendour of King’s. Thissuperlative vista shows how Cambridge’sbuildings all hang together with very littleformal planning.

priority, since they house one of Cambridge’soldest College chapels and are amongstEngland’s oldest Renaissance buildings, basedon the study of Italian architects such as Serlio.

Generally they are in fair repair, butinevitably time is taking its toll. The Gate ofHonour has been repaired in recent years andneeds a little light cleaning. But our firstflagship project is the Gate of Virtue, with itsbold (and suggestive) images of Fortunaholding a palm, wreath, money-bag andcornucopia. In Dr Caius’ scheme – unique in16th-century Europe, though owing much toHumanism and English architectural allegory– the student passed from Humility toHonour via Virtue, which assured fame (thepalm and wreath) and prosperity (the horn ofplenty and purse). Virtue has not beenconserved for many years and is need of a

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Our built environment is one reason whymany of our academics are here at all – evenbuying a cup of coffee on King’s Parade is aworld-class aesthetic experience, if wechoose to open our eyes. To appreciate ourbuildings is also to understand why theymust be looked after as a core duty. This isan increasingly uphill struggle, given thatCambridge Colleges are less eligible thanmany bodies for public financial help. We areincreasingly thrown onto our own very hard-pressed resources, and the role ofDevelopment is vital. Our new benefactorsfollow in the footsteps of the many figures inour past who contributed to the picturesqueand splendid architectural growth of ouracademic home.

The historical heart of the College,Gonville and Caius Courts are our special

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The Gate of Virtue showing Fortuna holding (left) a palm and a wreath and(right) a purse and a horn of plenty.

Professor Paul Binski (1975) and, through his window on King’s Parade, “theultimate Gothic splendour of King’s”.

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subtle facelift, since original or early detailsare disappearing and signs of more generaldecay setting in slowly and inexorably. Thetime has come gently to stabilize the carvedstonework and preserve it. The academic year2007-8 marks the 450th anniversary of oursecond foundation by John Caius (1529) andit would be tremendous if Virtue could behonoured in this way – so to speak.

The point is that all our oldest buildingshold together in a beautiful and picturesqueway, for all their different dates and styles.We cannot care for one without thinkingabout them all, and so attention will soonpass to Gonville Court, where the stoneworkand window frames are looking tired, and toAlfred Waterhouse’s extrovert Tree Court,which, like much Victorian architecture of thebolder sort, is now back in fashion.Waterhouse, in erecting in effect a hugeFrench château of the sort found on the RiverLoire, did not stint in providing carvings andstatuary, which in time need conservation. Hisgargoyles (actually useless because they arehelped by drainpipes) have for years beencrumbling or actually tumbling down withnear-lethal consequences. Many otherfeatures on the exterior and interior faces arein need of care.

Almost everyone would agree that dingyor unkempt buildings can lower the sprit. Butit is important to stress that the type ofconservation we envisage is not the sort thatwould lead to dazzling newness or‘restoration’. In the 19th century the Societyfor the Protection of Ancient Buildings(SPAB), founded by William Morris and PhilipWebb in 1877, began a reaction against theinsensitivity of some Victorian ‘restoration’which is still influential. They stressed theneed for a more tactful, less interventionistapproach. Scrubbing bright our Old Courts isnot on our agenda, since their patina isbeautiful and practical. Cleaning andconservation can be much more delicate, butalso more durable.

The state of our buildings, like our books,reflects what our community itself values.Our objective is to see our Old Courts – andour many other interesting and more recentbuildings such as Finella – as a whole, and totreat them together in a harmonious waywhich will ensure their future for the nextfew hundred years. This objective will only begained over several years, and it will requirepatient preparation and work. It will only beachieved with the help of benefaction. TheCollege is putting in place a regular curatorialregime to make sure that our owninterventions will themselves be cared for. Sothis is the first of a series of progress reportson our work and benefaction opportunitieswhich it is hoped will bring our buildings upto the highest standards of preservation.

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A broken volute on the Gate of Virtue.

Tree Court, stonework lost.

Fractured carving on the Gate of Virtue.Caius Court, rotting cornice.

Gate of Virtue, crumbling plaster on the TowerStaircase.

Tree Court, damaged stone.

Decaying early carved detail on the Gate of Virtue.

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Not all members of theCollege will be aware thatCaius was once a famousnest of ‘recusants’ – RomanCatholics who refused to

accept the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559and attend Anglican services. In hisBiographical History of the College, JohnVenn writes: ‘If the reader will glance at theentries during the fifteen years or so,centreing about 1580, he will be struck bythe remarkable proportion of the studentswho were open or concealed Catholics fromthe first, or who, as converts, joined theRomish church during their stay in college.I must confess that I was startled by the factthat whereas our college does not seem tohave furnished a single martyr during thereigns of Henry and Mary, no less than fouror five of our students suffered death fortheir opinions under Elizabeth and James,and at least a dozen underwentimprisonment, or had to take refuge in flight,or to seek concealment for a time…’

It was reading Venn that kindled my owninterest in the Caius martyrs and thepersistence of clandestine RomanCatholicism in the College under both JohnCaius and his appointed successor, Dr Legge.I, too, was startled at the quite remarkableproportion of students of the Collegeofficially described as ‘popish recusants.’ Inthe late 1570s these seem to have amountedto about a quarter of the total intake. Giventhat it was in one’s interest to conceal one’sattachment to the old faith, it is possiblethat the actual proportion of Catholicsympathisers was even higher.

Both Caius and Legge were suspected ofsympathy (at least) with recusancy, and ofharbouring papists within the College –hence the notorious occasion on which thePuritan-minded Fellows, encouraged by theVice-Chancellor, invaded the Master’s Lodge,seized mass books, vestments, preciousvessels and other treasures which Caius hadpreserved, made a bonfire of them and(allegedly) danced around it. Caius resignedthe Mastership soon afterwards.

It was a tragic period for the College. Youread of Catholics who gathered secretlytogether to debate anxiously whether it wasright for them to ‘dissemble’ their faith –presumably by attending Chapel. You findone of them accused to his Tutor of ‘readingpopish prayers’ at the bedside of a dyingundergraduate, John Huddleston, and of hishaving brought ‘wax candles and a red cloth’into his chamber after he died. Another wasdenounced because ‘a silver and gilt crucifix’was seen about his neck as he lay in bed.

Yet a reckless forthrightness sometimesovercame the secrecy that necessarily wentwith persecution. The same student whoprayed with Huddleston wrote verses in

– perhaps impossible – for us to recapture anatmosphere in which such secrecy, suspicion,dissembling – and heroism, were part ofcollege life. In these ecumenical times it isperhaps still harder to understand why somany Caians went abroad, returned, werebanished and returned again to risk a hideous

death simply in order to say the mass.Yet it is these ecumenical times that

made it possible to hold a Roman CatholicHigh Mass and commemoration of themartyrs in the Chapel on 7 June 2007. Themass was according to the Tridentine rite –the one which these priests would havecelebrated. The Catholic Chaplain to theUniversity celebrated the mass, and preacheda memorable sermon on martyrdom aswitnessing to ‘a truth so overriding that itdemands the stand of last resort’ – a motiveas much of Protestant as of Catholic martyrs.The Caian martyrs, however, died for thevisible unity of the Church, believing that‘separation from the Church meantseparation from Christ.’

At the end of the mass, theCommemoration was led by the Master andthe Dean. Invoking the four Caian martyrs byname, the Dean read from the Book ofWisdom: ‘As gold in a furnace he hath provedthem, and as a victim of a holocaust he hathreceived them, and in time there shall berespect had to them.’

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praise of popery. Another, Anselm St Quintin,‘did openly call the Dean of St Paul’s anheretic.’ Very many of the ‘popish recusants’were under the care of an undoubted papist,Dr Swale, Tutor and President of the College.At the time students virtually lived with theirTutor, and so Dr Swale and his flock musthave formed something of a self-sufficientcommunity. Other recusants lived with DrLegge.

Many of our students of the 1580sbecame Jesuits and Seminary priests, at atime when either to be or to harbour a priestwas high treason, for which the penalty washanging, drawing and quartering. A Caianbecame head of the Jesuits in England, andanother the Rector of the College atValladolid. Five were certainly executed.One was John Ballard, convicted for hisleading role in the Babington plot toassassinate Elizabeth. (It was the discovery ofthis plot that led directly to the execution ofMary Queen of Scots.) One priest waspardoned on the scaffold (probably forrecanting in the face of the horrors ofhanging, drawing and quartering.) Anotherescaped from prison to the English College inRome. There can be no doubt that the Bull ofPius V excommunicating Elizabeth andabsolving her subjects of allegiance to herwas fatal to them. Virtually all condemnedpriests were asked on the scaffold whetherthey were loyal to the Queen. All insistedthat they were. Asked to reconcile thatproclaimed loyalty with the Pope’s decree, itwas impossible that any could find aconvincing answer.

There were four others whose only crimewas saying mass and administering thesacraments to their English flock: WilliamDeane, John Hewitt, John Fingley (appointedbutler by Dr Legge), and Francis Montfort. OfWilliam Deane, Bishop Challoner writes thathe was a man of ‘exceptional gravity andlearning’ and that when he came to the placeof execution, he began to speak of the causefor which he and his companions werecondemned: but his guards stopped hismouth “in such a violent manner, that theywere like to have prevented the hangman ofhis wages.” Deane and Hewitt were beatifiedin 1929, and Fingley in 1987.

It was indeed a tragic period. It is difficult

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Professor David Abulafia (1974), Professor Anthony Edwards (1968) andProfessor John Mollon (1996) (obscured).

The Precentor, Dr Geoffrey Webber (1989), conducting the choir.

Celebrating the Roman Catholic High Mass in the Caius Chapel.

“Many of our students of the 1580sbecame Jesuits and Seminary

priests, at a time when either tobe or to harbour a priest was high

treason, for which the penalty washanging, drawing and quartering.”

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Theby Mick Le Moignan (2004)

Bryan Phillips (1951) was the innocentfresher who observed the event froman upstairs window. (Now embellishedwith spikes to discourage perchingpigeons!)

Left: Godfrey Ash (1950), PeterMettyear (1951) and Chris Walton(1951) revisit the scene of theirmisdemeanour, more than half acentury after the event.

For Rag Week in 1952, the Zebras re-enacted their stunt and raised moneyfor charity from passing motorists.Participants included (far left) GeorgePreston (1950) and (on the right) PatBraham (1950) and Godfrey Ash (1950).

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Long, long ago, before“pedestrianisation” hadunleashed the current plague ofkiller bicycles on Trinity Street, agroup of Caius undergraduates

made their own attempt at calming therampant traffic.

Those were the dark days of foodrationing. Nearly seven years after the end ofthe war, each student still went to theButtery on alternate Mondays to claim hisfortnightly allocation of precious butter,sugar and marmalade. Innocent freshmentried to write their names in ink on thegreasy paper and stored their supplies in thecupboards which then lined the Hall beneaththe portraits. After a few butterlessbreakfasts, they learned to take their rationsback to their rooms, like everyone else.

According to Bryan Phillips (1951)“Misappropriation was rife. Missing breakfastwas a serious matter, resulting in four hours’hunger until lunch.” Those who lived in StMichael’s Court were strongly disadvantaged,having to run the gauntlet of ceaselessmorning traffic in Trinity Street, carryingtheir own supplies, to get to Hall in time.

Bryan himself suffered no suchinconvenience, living on an upper floor of theWaterhouse building. But at about 3am inthe morning of Monday 25 February 1952,while answering a call of nature, he wasastonished to see a team of dark-clad figuresswarm out from the cover of St Michael’sgates.

They worked in silence, clearly accordingto a well-rehearsed plan. One sprinted up theroad and lay sentry behind the Senate Houserailings. Two of them unravelled a frameworkof knotted string and spread it out across theroad. Three others each brought a tin of paintand a brush out of the shadows and began topaint three broad, white stripes along theroad.

Several of the zebras returned to thescene of their misdemeanour for the AnnualGathering in July 2007 and, perhaps relyingon the statute of limitations, have noobjection to their identities now beingrevealed. Pat Braham (1950) was themastermind who put together the vitalframework of string; Godfrey Ash (1950),looking like a member of the FrenchResistance in a beret, was first over the walland kept watch behind the Senate Houserailings. Chris Walton (1951) looked out inthe other direction from “A” staircase in StMike’s. Peter Mettyear (1951) and DennisSaunders (1951) wielded the paintbrusheswith an unrecollected member of the team(if he should read this and be willing to beidentified, we would be very pleased to hearfrom him) and the team was completed byBrian Jesson (1951), who is sadly still on ourlist of missing Caians (see page 30).

The survivors all seem in great form andthoroughly enjoyed the bizarre experience ofrunning a second zebra crossing over TrinityStreet, this time in broad daylight, andposing, like the Beatles crossing Abbey Road,for the camera of the College President,Professor Wei-Yao Liang (1963).

There was of course, they reflected, a bitof a fuss made at the time, but PeterMettyear recalled with great affection theway the Senior Tutor, EK “Francis” Bennett(1914) made his view of the matterperfectly clear. At the time, Bennett wasboth President (1948-56) and in his finalyear as Senior Tutor. A superintendent ofpolice had the temerity to interrupt one ofhis supervisions:

“Excuse me, Sir, but do you know someof your men have painted a zebra crossing inTrinity Street?”

“Good heavens!” exclaimed Bennett,jovially. “Whatever will the dear boys thinkof next?”

There was a sudden rumbling sound andthey all took cover, with their paint-pots,behind the bushes outside St Michael’sChurch, while an early morning lorry, carryingperhaps a load of cabbages or cauliflowers toCovent Garden Market, thundered down theapparently deserted street. The wheels pickedup some of the white paint and stencilled itagain and again, some distance down King’sParade, slop, slop, slop. The lorry made nopause in its progress: apparently, the driverhad noticed nothing untoward. Thecommando team resumed its nefariousactivities. Soon, there was anotherinterruption; again, the lorry trundled on,slop, slop, slop, and more white patchesappeared on King’s Parade.

Within a few minutes, the paintwork wascomplete, albeit far from dry, and theshadowy figures faded into the night assilently as they had come, leaving thebemused onlooker rubbing his eyes indisbelief at the sight of a smart, new zebracrossing, spanning Trinity Street from theGate of Humility to St Mike’s.

The zebra gang were lucky to escapeundetected. One of their lookouts in a roomon “O” staircase, Gerry Lowth (1950) was justdismantling his signal lights when heoverheard two policemen come round thecorner from Senate House Passage andexclaim in amazement at the brightly paintedinnovation. The authorities sprang into actionwith unusual speed: the zebra gang, on theirway to breakfast, the next morning, from StMichael’s Court, were a little disappointed tofind that their handiwork had already beenoverpainted in black and the traffic waspouring down Trinity Street as ferociously asever. They did have the last laugh later,however, when the black paint wore awayand the zebra’s white re-emerged, with anumber of paler imitations, fading away inthe direction of Trumpington Street.

of Trinity StreetPat Braham (1950) Gerry Lowth (1950) The Mystery Zebra

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At the age of 65, when manypeople are thinking of windingdown their professionalactivities or ceasing themaltogether, the redoubtable

Professor Stephen Hawking (1965) has takenup two new careers, as an astronaut and anauthor of children’s books.

As reported by the Master at the openingof the Stephen Hawking Building (see pages2-5), in April 2007 Stephen took a specialflight from Cape Canaveral in order toexperience weightlessness, a necessarypreparation for his planned journey intospace in two years’ time, aboard RichardBranson’s SpaceShip Two.

He has also embarked on a collaborationwith his daughter, Lucy, to write a series ofthree space adventure stories, intended tomake accessible to everyone over the age ofabout seven the latest scientificunderstanding of the origins and future ofour universe, with particular reference toblack holes. Lucy has been a frequent visitorto Stephen’s Fellow’s set in Caius Court,where she has been working on the firstvolume of the trilogy.

George’s Secret Key to the Universe waspublished in September 2007 and thoroughlydeserves to become a colossal best-seller.

Readers who found the science beyondthem in A Brief History of Time need have nofears about George. Stephen and LucyHawking have made sure the cosmology iscrystal clear, couched in the simplest terms,easily understandable by readers of all agesand undeniably fascinating. The down-to-earth story of George, an ordinary schoolboy

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responsibilities are twofold: we shouldrespond to Global Warming as a deadlythreat to our existence and we should searchthe universe for an alternative home forhumanity:

“I think we are acting with recklessindifference to our future on planet Earth.At the moment, we have nowhere else to go,but in the long run, the human race shouldn’thave all its eggs in one basket, or on oneplanet. I just hope we can avoiddropping the basket until then!”

There is a refreshing optimism aboutthe book and about the way Stephenspeaks of it. When the Times reporter askedabout black holes, Stephen referred him tothe closing passage of one of his recentlectures:

“Black holes ain’t as bad as they arepainted. They are not the eternal prisonsthey were once thought to be. Things can getout of a black hole, both to the outside andpossibly to another universe. So, if you feelyou are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’sa way out.”

Excerpt from George’s Secret Key to theUniverse:

At least, George thought in a strange,dreamlike way, I’ve seen the Earth fromspace. And he wished he could have toldeveryone back home how tiny and fragilethe Earth was compared to the otherplanets. But there was no way they couldget back home now. The fog of dust andgas was so thick that they had even lostsight of the Earth's blue colour. How couldCosmos have let them down like this?

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who happens to live next-door to anextraordinary scientist and ends up flyingthrough space on comets and asteroids, willdelight all who regret the cessation of theirregular annual shots of Harry Potter-styleescapism.

Stephen recently told a journalist fromThe Times that “Children have a naturalcuriosity about why things are and how theywork. I know, because I’m a child myself.” Butfor his condition, he would have spent moretime playing with Robert, Lucy and Tim andwishes he could have had more children. Onthe question of faith, he said “I have no faithin fairy stories of the after life. I think thatwhen we die, we return to dust. But there’s asense in which we live on, in our influence,and in our genes that we pass on to ourchildren.”

The book is a joy to read, with stunningcolour photographs of real space phenomenafrom the Science Photo Library and livelycartoon depictions by Garry Parsons of thecharacters interspersed with separate boxesgiving more details of the science, whichnever interrupts the flow of the narrative.The physics is impeccable and, for this non-scientist, both absorbing and unobtrusive.

As Stephen explains: “The book takesonly one liberty really, and that is Cosmos,the supercomputer that can simulate aninteractive window or portal on the universe.We need that to show the universe toGeorge and Annie. Apart from Cosmos, wehave tried to stick to established science.”

There is, as one might expect, a seriousside to George’s story and it stems fromStephen’s long-held belief that our most vital

Stephen’s evident delight at experiencing weightlessness (accompanied by a symbolic Newtonian apple), aboard Zero G’s parabolic aircraft. www.gozerog.com

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udging from his achievements, youmight think there were several MiltonGrundys: in fact, as far as I can ascertain,there is only one. He discovered early onthat the worst things that happen can

sometimes turn out for the best.In the 1950s, Milton was a young barrister,

surviving on cases of dangerous driving andhire purchase debt, when his father went intohospital for a routine operation, which he didnot survive. Milton was the only son. Fouryears, eleven months and twenty days earlier,his father had given him the unquoted sharesin their family engineering company. After fiveyears, the gift would have been free of deathduties; as it was, the Estate Duty Office sentMilton a bill so large, he thought it was thetelephone number. Abandoning any thoughtsof becoming a tycoon, he went to a legal bookshop in Chancery Lane and asked for a simplebook on small companies and estate duty. Thesales assistant explained patronisingly thatthere were no simple books because it was nota simple subject. Milton decided to write thebook himself.

Once Tax Problems of the Family Companywas published, some welcome tax cases camehis way, but the rest of his work disappearedbecause solicitors thought they could notafford a tax expert! Luckily, the positivesoutweighed the negatives and in 1965, Miltonand another barrister started their own tax

chambers at Gray’s Inn. In time, they took inpupils, who took in pupils of their own, and soit grew…

A great deal of foreign travel followed: taxlaw is necessarily multi-national and manyjurisdictions were starting to compete for ashare of the market. Milton wrote the firstTrust Law for the Cayman Islands. “I supposeI’ve go a lot to answer for!” he remarksinsouciantly. In 1975, he founded theInternational Tax Planning Association, for

which he still chairs three conferences a year,in various parts of the world. His celebratedessays on tax planning (which he self-deprecatingly calls “a higher form of gossip”)are astonishingly readable, intellectual virtuosoperformances, in which he dances nimblyaround the leaden-footed legislators, alwayselegant, witty and urbane.

Professional success gave him the chanceto pursue some of his many other interests.Mediterranean Vernacular is his brilliant book

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Milton Grundy(1944)

Milton Grundy’s Japanese garden in Oxfordshire.

(with Atroshenko’s dazzling photographs) onthe architecture found all the way from Spainto the Middle East and across North Africa,bright, white houses with a hint of blue, builtpractically, beautifully and unostentatiously, bythe people and for the people.

A sixth edition of his 1971 classic, Venice –The Anthology Guide, which conducts visitorsround Venice using the observations andopinions of famous writers and art historiansto enlighten them, was published earlier thisyear. Fascinating as the quotations are, thepersonal voice of the author is stronger: it isMilton Grundy himself who opens our eyes tothe wonders of a city and a culture that heknows and loves.

The achievement which probably pleaseshim most is the vital support he has been ableto give to young artists and musicians. Formany years, through the Warwick Arts Trust, heprovided a gallery for exhibitions where manyhitherto unknown painters and sculptors hadthe first chance to show their work to thepublic.

Caius has been a very fortunatebeneficiary of this process, as Milton was inthe habit of buying one painting from eachexhibition, thereby amassing an almostunequalled collection of works by emergingartists of the late twentieth century. He hasnow generously offered this collection to theCollege, where many have found a perfect

home in the new Stephen Hawking Building,the Master’s Lodge and elsewhere in College.(See centre pages.)

The art gallery also housed a performancespace, seating about 100 people, for recitals byyoung musicians in a competitive format,Young Artists’ Platform. The BBC used tobroadcast the finalists in this until they startedtheir own Musician of the Year competition, sothe Wigmore Hall is now hired for one day ayear, to celebrate and showcase the talent ofthe Platform performers.

It is an impressive list of credits for onelifetime. Milton is unlikely to become thepatron saint of tax collectors, but he will bearthis omission with equanimity. Many people,from artists to financiers, have good reason tofeel grateful for his intervention in their lives.

He recalls his time at Caius with muchaffection. After two wartime terms, he servedin the Education Corps in Palestine, “doing acrash course in Marxism, Chamber Music andHebrew”. Demobbed at last, he came back in1948 and had the good fortune to read Englishat a time when FR Leavis was inspiringstudents to new heights of iconoclasm. Hefound the great man “gentler than his publicimage” but recalls his more startlingpronouncements clearly more than half acentury on: “Tennyson was not that great apoet!” and Leavis had “not much time forEvelyn Waugh and no time at all for JB

Priestley!” Milton went to tea with theLeavises and remembers Queenie as “a difficultwoman” who was fond of observing pointedly:“I don’t approve of undergraduates smoking!”

Another memory involves being directedby Dadie Rylands for the Marlowe Society.Milton had a very small part as a Messenger,with just one long, complicated speech: “Dadie,I don’t understand what I’m saying!” The replycame from deep in the stalls: “Never mindabout that, dear boy, just look up at thenearest spot and speak it beautifully!”

After going down, Milton taught at thePreparatory Department of RADA until an oldfriend from Sedbergh took him to dine atMiddle Temple. It reminded him instantly ofCambridge: “What do I have to do to live inthis lovely ambience?” he asked. The firstanswer was to pass the Bar exams, which heremembers as being rather like learning thetelephone directory. The second answer was toturn an excruciating piece of misfortune into alifelong fascination and career.

One of his greatest personal joys is theJapanese garden at his house in the Cotswolds.Considering the essential metaphysical qualityof a garden to be transience, he made surethere was nothing in it that would flowercontinuously. “People say that if you want todesign a garden, the ideal time to start is fortyyears ago. So I’m very glad I did start fortyyears ago!”

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Milton Grundy (1944) has generouslygiven the College about seventy paintingspreviously exhibited by the Warwick ArtsTrust. The works shown here and manymore are on display in the StephenHawking Building, which they complementmagnificently. Other paintings from thecollection are hanging in the Master’sLodge and various other parts ofthe College.

The Milton Grundy GiftUntitled (1985) by Fritz Duffy.Letters from China (series 2) by Vladimir Atroshenko.

Telo 1 by Vladimir Naumets.

Waterfall byTunc Guchan.

Untitled (1989)by Philip Diggle.

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“An almost unequalledcollection of worksby emerging artistsof the late twentiethcentury”

Buckinghamshire Landscape by Lesley Main.

Horse Series 1 by Ying Yeung Li. Horse Series 2 by Ying Yeung Li.

Untitled (part of Diptych) by Ting Fay Ho.

Untitled by Andrew Williams. Do the Albert Camus by Philip Diggle.

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Everyone has a book in them, sothey say, and judging by theletters and emails theDevelopment Office receives,Caians have more books in

them than most people.In previous issues of Once a Caian…, we

have reviewed books by Fellows – AnthonyEdwards (1968), Stephen Hawking (1965),Vic Gatrell (1967) and Peter Mandler (2001).Now, scarcely a month goes by without anenthusiastic offer from a Caian reader of anew, as yet unpublished novel, biography,history, miscellany or book of memoirs. Theauthors are unfailingly polite, theirexpectations generally modest: they do notexpect a full review, they would be grateful

for a brief mention, they invite us to chooseexcerpts for use in CaiMemories, or wouldappreciate us letting other Caians knowabout their work ... Some simply ask us toread their offering and pass it on to acongenial agent or publisher!

Recently, some enterprising Caianauthors have sent beautifully bound andprinted books which they have themselvespaid to have professionally produced. Notmany years ago, the cognoscenti would havesniffed at such self-promotion and mutteredabout “vanity publishing” (as if there wereno vanity involved in so-called “commercialpublishing”!) These days, however, there is nostigma attached to refusing to take arejection slip for an answer.

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Four RecentlyPublished Books

John Preston Bell (1951) visiting Cambridge.

A Gap Year or Two by Jeremy MacdonoghPublished by Athena Press Ltd (2007)Available at Heffers and other good book shops and onamazon.co.uk (£14.49)

Jeremy Macdonogh (1967) went on a rumbustious rompthrough Europe in the early 70s, to delay becoming somethingin the city. Armed with only a degree, a dinner jacket andprecocious self-confidence, he charms and finesses his waythrough a hundred hilarious situations, from which spring theinteresting digressions and asides which are the real heart ofthis highly entertaining book. Macdonogh is a good traveller,learning languages, working as a tour guide and indulging hispassion for cathedrals. The blend of snippets of history, myth,gossip, philosophy, personal observation and trivia is reminiscent

of the memoirs of Casanova,who passed this way twocenturies earlier, with moresex and less architecture.

Sir Clifford Allbutt – Scholarand Physicianby Alexander BearnPublished by Royal College of Physicians, London (2007)Available on amazon.co.uk (£11.99)

Dr Alick Bearn, already a Caius Benefactor, has done the Collegea further service by bringing one of the most distinguishedCaians of all time, Professor Sir Clifford Allbutt (1855) vividly tolife in this short biography. Allbutt was a man of wide interests,a classical scholar who switched to science and then medicine.He believed that doctors should not only treat patients butinvestigate the nature of diseases: laboratory research, in hisview, should be a vital part of the work of every hospital. In thisregard and in many others, he was way ahead of his time. He

gave up a lucrative practiceto return to Caius andeducate the nextgeneration of medics andwas much appreciated andadmired.

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oignan Publish andbe Damned!by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

specialise in short-run work. Printing is donedigitally, and the sheets are perfect bound,either as paperback or hardback. The printerscharge a basic fee for putting the book intotheir system (for an average-size book it willbe around £100), plus £10 a year to keep itavailable on file. Copies can then be orderedas required.

An individual quotation for each book isprovided by the printers, the cost dependingon size, number of pages, use of colour, andstyle of binding. But, as an example, a 256-page metric royal 8vo book (234mm x156mm), printed in black, paperback, withfull colour cover, will cost £100 basic fee,and £3.36 to print each copy. An 8pp coloursection would add £40 to the basic fee and£1.20 to the cost of each book. Hardbackbinding (printed paper covered) adds £8 or£10 to the unit cost.

John’s fees for designing and producingthe book depend on the length andcomplexity of the text, but he calculatesthat an average book requires two full daysof work (spread over a much longer period).His standard rate is £200 per day and he haskindly offered to donate 25% of this to theCollege for any books by Caians. He stressesthat he is not offering copy-editing servicesas part of this package: the content should

be finalised by the time he starts work. Ifother Caians would like to offer editingservices for books in their own field at asimilar daily rate, with a similar benefit forCaius, he would be happy to pass on theirdetails to any authors who need them.

A book for purely private publicationdoes not need an ISB number, but if thebook is to be made available to the public itwill probably be useful for it to have one.ISBNs are available through John’s ownimprint, the St Aubin Press, in which casethe St Aubin Press has to appear aspublisher.

Contact details are as follows –Postal Address: John Preston Bell,St Aubin Press, Hook Green, Meopham,Kent DA13 0JB.Tel: 01474 812 229Email: JohnP-B@saintaubin.co.uk

Marketing books to a wider public is, ofcourse, another story, perhaps for anotherissue. But for aspiring Caian authors whowould like to have their manuscript in theform of a book, help is at hand. As fordamnation, it seems unlikely, so long as thebook is worth reading – and surely no Caianwould write a dull book!

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We live in a time of revolutionarychange in the circulation of information andideas. In medieval times, students came toCambridge because books were to be foundhere, rare treasures so valuable, they werechained to desks and lecterns, to be readonly in situ. Nowadays, we have all thewisdom of the world, literally at ourfingertips, but people still enjoy readingbooks and they can now be produced quitecheaply and in small quantities.

At the Annual Gathering in July, I had atimely conversation with John Preston Bell(1951). Having retired after a career in print,he still works as a book designer andtypesetter for individual clients. Manuscriptsare submitted by e-mail or disc, usually inWord or Quark, there will be discussion onthe kind of book required – its dimensionsand general style – and then John will set afew specimen pages for the author to see.When all the typographical details areagreed, he will set the complete book andprovide proofs, make corrections, re-proof,and finally put the book into the hands ofthe printers.

For short run books (from just one copyto a hundred or so) the printing is normallydone by a firm of high-quality book printersin Eastbourne, CPI Antony Rowe, who

“Jacko – Where Are You Now?” –A Life of Robert Jackson by James Gibson Published by Parsons Publishing (2006)Available to Caians at a special price fromPO Box 787, Richmond TW10 7WQ (£20 post paid)

James Gibson (1944) took a Ph.D in Engineering at Caius thenspent 22 years at Covent Garden Opera before retiring as Headof Music Staff to join the civil service. Now 80 years young, hehas turned author and publisher to celebrate the life andachievements of Robert Jackson, whose ability to organisemassive international relief operations saved millions of lives.First in Malta and the Middle East in World War Two, then inBangladesh in the 1970s and Kampuchea in the 1980s, Jackson

was a great, practicalhumanitarian whose storydeserved to be told. Thisgripping, authoritativebiography does justice to theman as well as the legend.

Switching to Digital Television:UK Public Policy and the Market by Michael Starks Published by Intellect Books (2007)Available on amazon.co.uk (£18.95)

Michael Starks (1962) played a leading role in orchestrating theUK switch-over from analogue to digital television services, acomplex process affecting practically every household in Britain,with plenty of potential for disaster. But this is not an exposé:amazingly, thanks to careful planning and research, a genuineconsensus was achieved, leading to an almost unprecedentedlevel of cooperation between public and commercial interests.This accord appears, so far, to be achieving a smooth transition,which will release broadcasting capacity (“spectra”) for the new

technology of thefuture. This is a clearlyexpressed, meticulousanalysis of the wholeprocess.

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Many families have developedpowerful links with Caius bysending their sons (and nowdaughters) here for manygenerations.

There is, of course, no special treatment forrelatives of Caians: admissions are based on themerit of the applicant alone, as judged by strictlyimpartial interviewers. Sadly, many sons anddaughters of Caians do not succeed in winningplaces, but every year, some delight their eldersby maintaining family traditions that are a greatsource of pride and pleasure.

Family loyalty has been hugely beneficial tothe College.

Around 1500, Dame Anne Scroope, the lastdescendant of Edmund Gonville’s brother, left usthe land at West Road where Harvey Court andthe Stephen Hawking Building now stand.

The Locks, one of the greatest Caiandynasties, include a sequence of five consecutivegenerations. J B Lock (1867) was the legendarySenior Bursar who guided the College’s fortunesfor 32 years around the turn of the twentiethcentury.

The Myers family from New Zealand canclaim four consecutive generations, including ourgreatest living benefactor, Douglas Myers (1958),his father, grandfather and son. The Thimont andVigrass families have notched up six membersapiece in recent years, but no Caian dynasty, sofar as we are aware, can compete with theCobbold family, whose record is 21 Caians since1785, averaging about one every ten years.

Thomas Cobbold started the family brewingbusiness in Harwich in 1723 and familymembers retained control of it for the next 266years. His grandson, John Cobbold, took over thebrewery in 1767, when he was only 22, and livedto 90. It was John’s prodigious energy that reallylaid the foundations for the dynasty. He marriedElizabeth, who bore him fifteen children insixteen years. Finding himself a widower at 45,he promptly found himself another Elizabeth(celebrated in fiction as Mrs Leo Hunter inDickens’ Pickwick Papers) who bore him anotherseven children.

John’s twentieth child, Revd Richard Cobbold(1814) was perhaps the most celebrated of theCaius Cobbolds, a gifted writer and illustratorwho produced a classic Victorian bestseller, TheHistory of Margaret Catchpole. This was thealmost true tale of a young servant girl whoworked for his mother. Margaret’s romanticattachment to a rogue led her through a series

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Cobboldsat Caius

A Cobbold family group from 1936 includes five Caians.

Illustrations from The History of Margaret Catchpole

Ipswich, site of the Cobbold brewery from 1746. Margaret is apprehended, trying to sell the stolenhorse in London.

News of Margaret’s reprieve is brought to her inher prison cell.

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2nd Lt Charlie Cobbold(1912), Royal FieldArtillery, born 6 February1893, killed in action3 October 1916.

Three generations atthe Gate of Virtue:Humphrey Cobbold(1983), AnthonyCobbold (1955) andRowland HopeCobbold (1923).

Revd Richard Cobbold(1814).

Margaret makes a rope out of sheets and escapesfrom the prison.

Will Laud resists arrest and defends Margaret butis killed in the process.

The Hawkesbury River, to the North of Sydney,where Margaret settles.

of spectacular adventures. She stole a horsefrom the Cobbolds (a capital offence at thetime), was reprieved, thanks to her mistress,escaped from gaol, tried to flee to Hollandwith her lover, was recaptured and sentencedto transportation to the penal colony ofAustralia. There, she finally achieved wealth,success and respectability in her new home.

Richard Cobbold’s son, two grandsons anda great-grandson followed him to Caius, aswell as two cousins and two nephews. One ofthose nephews was Dr Rowland TownshendCobbold (1838) who has, to date, beenfollowed by his son, Revd Rowland FrancisCobbold (1876), grandson, Rowland HopeCobbold (1923), great-grandson, AnthonyCobbold (1955) and great-great-grandson,Humphrey Cobbold (1983). Humphrey marriedNicola Hacker (1984), so their children areblessed with a double portion of Caius genesand no-one will blame them if they turn up fortheir Caius interviews under assumed names!

Now retired from a successful businesscareer, Anthony has spent a great deal of timeand energy in setting up the Cobbold FamilyHistory Trust, to preserve the pictures, books,papers, artefacts and ephemera connectedwith this remarkable family for futuregenerations. The latest acquisition of the Trust,subject to a successful appeal for funds, is a setof 34 astonishingly beautiful watercolours,mainly painted by Richard Cobbold himself,which were used to illustrate The History ofMargaret Catchpole.

There is much more to the Cobbold familythan our 21 Caian Cobbolds. Other brancheshave arguably achieved even greater heightsof power, pioneering, scholarship, wealthand philanthropy. No fewer than 48Cobbolds died in two World Wars.Anthony plans to collect and conservematerial for a family history book and acomprehensive archive.

As so often happens, the family’smultifarious connections with Caius haveproved to be mutually beneficial. It isimpossible to quantify the benefits received inthe course of more than two centuries by our21 Caian Cobbolds, but the survivors maintainan active involvement with the current Caiuscommunity. Anthony Cobbold has decided toname R3 in Tree Court, a room that has strongfamily associations, and he hopes that hisfamily’s very special links with the College willcontinue for many generations to come.

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The Bursary has always seemedsomething of a Forbidden Citywithin the walls of Caius, arepository of ancient knowledgeand recondite practices, where

the Mammon so essential to intellectual andindeed physical life is always kept firmly in itsplace.

In such a typically Cambridge institution, anew Senior Bursar, flying the flag of change,might have been expected to encounter someresistance, but Julia Collins, who arrived inMarch 2007, seems to have won the loyalty ofher team with remarkable speed.

A state-school-educated Newnhamgraduate in Natural Sciences (1974-77), Juliatrained in accountancy with KPMG, workedwith Taylor Woodrow and Reed Int., and thenbecame a partner at Coopers and Lybrand. Sheis used to going into big corporations as aconsultant and telling them how to mind theirown business more efficiently. Her experienceincludes cost analysis for Heinz and Whitbreadand helping Nokia to replace their financesystems. So the Caius Bursary should be abreeze...

She came here because she believespassionately in education and research andthinks academics should be free to concentrateon their work instead of worrying about how tofund it: “The bursarial side of the College shouldbe invisible – we’re backstage support.” Shepays a warm tribute to the achievements of herpredecessor, Barry Hedley (1964), who arrivedat a much more stringent time for the Collegefinances:

“Barry’s two huge legacies wereprofessional investment management andprofessional fundraising, through theDevelopment Office. These are the financialbedrocks the College sits on.”

Julia’s six staff members have an average ofmore than twelve years’ service to Caius. Eachhas his or her own area of responsibility, whichis carried out with exemplary efficiency. Whenthey go on holiday, no-one covers for them:they simply come back and catch up with theirown workload.

Julia’s view is that “everybody’s job isharder than it needs to be.” More than ten yearsago, several different computerised systemswere brought in. “A more modern system willdo many things automatically: for examplebudgeting and forecasting can be built in to thegeneral ledger.” Her plan is to make the systemsmore efficient and enable more dialogue andcrossover between individuals. It is a tribute toher charm and powers of persuasion that themembers of the team are, at the time ofwriting, strongly supporting this initiative.

They were all asked the same question –what they regarded as the most importantquality they brought to their jobs – and Julia’sown answer was particularly telling: “I need tobe clear and open, and to take everybody with

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The new Senior Bursar, Julia Collins (2006) seated in front of her team (l to r) Margaret Phillips, NeilWilson, Raymond Tait, Carol Whitby, Leslie Cooke and Sarah Cole.

The Bursary team of 1963 in their official photograph in front of the Gate of Honour.

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me as we make changes. There will always bechallenges in the finances of the College – weneed to maintain our excellence in educationand research. Our funding only covers abouthalf of the costs of the College and so we willalways need to focus on fundraising andexcellent investment management. We need tocontinue to attract the best academics –despite the lower UK salaries and thechallenging Cambridge housing market. And,we have wonderful historic buildings whichcontinually need attention. That gives us a lotof different calls on our money!”

Raymond Tait, the Finance Manager, aShetland Islander, read English and History andtaught before training as an accountant. Sincecoming to Caius in 2001, he has beenresponsible for producing the College’sstatutory accounts in a much more accessibleform. In addition, he has introduced formalbudgeting processes, management accounts,and all College committees now have financialstatements relating to their own area, so theyknow what they can afford to spend.

“Everything at Caius tends to take a longtime,” observes Raymond, “because it’s acomplicated organisation with a long history.You need to like the richness and complexity ofit. It’s no good railing against antiquatedpractices and the weight of tradition. Dealingwith intelligent, demanding people takespatience and diplomacy.”

An unusual aspect of his job is the need togo back to the past and interrogate it.Generally, in accounts, people concentrate onthe current year, perhaps in comparison withthe previous one, but in Caius it is not unusualto have to look back five, ten or even twentyyears. Caius has many trust funds, set up tobenefit different areas of the College’s work.It’s part of Raymond’s job to make sure theyare all properly managed and used inaccordance with the original intentions of thebenefactors.

Leslie Cooke is in charge of the monthlypayroll and college pensions and is not afraidto speak up for the lower-paid members ofstaff. Leslie believes “it’s human nature tothink back to the days when we were twentyand the world was glorious and we thoughtour parents and grandparents were miserableold toads. Now we’re the miserable oldtoads!” Leslie has seen a lot of changes in histwenty years at Caius but he has high hopesfor the future: “The new Bursar is taking a lotmore interest in the accounts: that’s going tobe a breath of fresh air!”

Sarah Cole has been Secretary/PA to theSenior Bursar since 1990, in which time shehas served with three Bursars with verydifferent personal styles and interests: “Theex-stockbroker, steeped in history and coin-collecting, came first; then there was theGeordie management and strategy expert,enthusing about football, fast cars and plushyachts, and now the financial consultant, wellversed in accountancy and auditing, whoseinterests include sculpture and growing herown vegetables.”

Sarah is also secretary to the CollegeRegistrary, which requires her to prepare allthe papers for Council and General Meetings.“So I’m constantly switching hats!” Her keyquality is the ability to cope withinterruptions, moving from one thing toanother in quick succession. Almostunflappable, Sarah is one of the College’s greatorganisers, dealing with Fellows’accommodation, greeting guests to theBursary and earning the gratitude of all byacting as a one-person box office to distributeProm tickets for Fellows and staff to enjoy theCaius Box at the Royal Albert Hall.

Margaret Phillips, who deals with StudentAccounts, thinks she has one of the mostenviable jobs in the College, because itinvolves constant contact with the students.She can recognise all of them by the end of

the Michaelmas Term.Margaret is a Caius institution, first

brought in by Bob Moseley, back in 1974. Sheleft for a few years to care for her two sons,now 28 and 29, and returned in 1987, at firstonly in term. She says 99.9% of the studentsare wonderful. The other 0.1%? Well, they’re“challenging”!

She tries to be “understanding but firmand very fair.” “Whatever they say, I take itseriously and never belittle them. I’d soonerexplain to a student twenty times over thanhave them not understand their bill.”

Margaret is one of those fortunate peoplewho really enjoys her work: “”I do just lovethem all. By September, I’m thinking ‘Back youcome!’ I wouldn’t have done this job so long,otherwise!”

Carol Whitby also has children in theirtwenties. She previously worked for theUniversity, then St John’s College and theZoology Dept. Carol runs the Purchase Ledgerand collects the rents on College properties. Inher work, she values accuracy above all.

Her office, always immaculately tidy, actsas a corridor from one part of the Bursary toanother. At first, she thought this wouldbother her, but now she simply concentrateson what she is doing and takes no notice ofpeople passing through unless they speak toher first. She likes College life and appreciatesbeing trusted to work on her own initiativeand do the job on time.

Like all the members of the team, Carol isa staunch defender of the age-old Bursarytradition of having a coffee break together at10.30am and a tea break together at 3pm.“It’s good to get away from the computerscreen and let your mind have a break.”

Neil Wilson is the youngest member ofthe team. A keen sportsman, he joined inJanuary 2007 and says he finds Caiushistorically and architecturally fascinating,after accountancy jobs in retail andmanufacturing. His experience has been veryhelpful in making improvements in areas suchas the management accounts and will also bevaluable as other changes are made. His othermain responsibility is to take care of all thepayments for supervisions, of which manythousands take place each term, both insideand outside the College. There is a great dealof information to be collated and he needs tobe methodical, numerate and able to work onhis own initiative.

It was interesting to hear the views ofeach member of the team in turn. At present,they are all slightly surprised and pleased withtheir apparent willingness to embrace thechanges anticipated. Their new leader ischarismatic, persuasive and disarmingly opento discussion. But it would be a very braveSenior Bursar who ever dared to tamper withthe tea-breaks: that, they all feel, is clearly aCaius tradition worth preserving!

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When I came up to Caiusin 1955, I began a loveaffair with CambridgeUniversity that hasstood the test of time.

All who have experienced the wonders of thismagical place retain a vast array of imagesand memories. There is so much to admire inits beauty, history, tradition, academicexcellence and vibrancy.

I came from Bolton School which also hasa proud history and, like Caius, has neededover the years the vision and generosity ofbenefactors to sustain its continuity andgrowth. The greatest of these was theindustrialist, William Hesketh Lever. Born inBolton in 1851 he retained anextraordinary devotion to the town,and Bolton School is his greatestmonument to the place he loved.The School was on the DirectGrant list and I was fortunateand privileged to gain a free placein an establishment whose ethoswas to promote a greater and fairereducational opportunity for all.Admission was based onmerit and on potential, butqualities other thanacademic prowess wereregarded as important. TheHeadmaster, a Downinggraduate, fully realized howmuch his boys wouldbenefit from an Oxbridgeplacing and after muchencouragement from himI entered Caius to readNatural Sciences.

The place was awe-inspiring and I wasapprehensive. Could I copewith the academic demands?Could I mix with entrants fromEton or Harrow? Would theyhandle my Lancashire accent?I immediately found an ally inmy room mate who camefrom West Hartlepool and had

Street was frenetic. What a delight, therefore,to step into Tree Court and be enfolded by asense of permanence, dignity and calm. Seatedin the Chapel and surrounded by seeminglygrey-haired clones was a surreal experiencebut the hymn singing was magnificent and wemade a marvellous sound. Retiring for pre-dinner wine in the Combination RoomsI arrived to find something that resembled aloose maul in rugby. Surely all of this lot werenot in Chapel? Would I recognize any of mycontemporaries in this sea of faces? It didn'ttake long!

The seating plan for dinner was amasterpiece of planning. To my left was agood friend with whom I shared a room at anow-distant time when we both successfullyendured the College Entrance Examination.Opposite was another good pal from myCollege days whom I had not seen for almost20 years. It didn’t seem to matter. Othersnearby from the 1955 brigade I hardly knewbut their presence and conversation enrichedthe occasion. An admirable College strategywas revealed. In our vicinity was a charming,attractive young lady from the DevelopmentOffice – and she is a Caian – Joanna Wood(2003). This move was a stroke of genius. Notonly did it convince us that allowing the entryof ladies into our establishment was a greatidea but it also made us feel that we should,perhaps, make an increased donation to theCollege’s coffers.

The College Hall radiates a uniqueatmosphere, evoking vivid memories ofcompanionship, conversation, learning andtradition. To attend a special dinner thereremains an unforgettable experience, thesetting encouraging reflection on thepleasures and problems experienced when inresidence. I received superb tuition and waslucky and privileged to be in Caius during aperiod when the University had some trulygreat scientists who made massive individualcontributions to their subjects. In 2007scientific research is frequently much more ofa team game with contributions from avariety of disciplines with, perhaps, lessopportunity for a Eureka moment.

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a similar background to my own. Together, wewere ready to meet the Public School chaps!The welcoming, family atmosphere of Caiusfacilitated my smooth integration intoCambridge life and I readily communicatedand formed friendships with others whom Ihad initially perceived as being from a rathermore upper-class background than my own.This revealed one of the great strengths ofCaius which is still apparent in 2007. Everyresident Caian seemed to be an integral partof the College fabric. We all shared somethingthat was unique and very precious. This gaveus the confidence to appreciate an amazingmix of backgrounds, personalities andaspirations that made our time in College sucha stimulating, learning and fruitful

experience.Over the years, I have attended and

enjoyed many College functions, thelatest being the Annual Gathering onTuesday 3 July 2007. Arriving at WestRoad attired in my Dinner Jacket,I crossed into the grounds of King's.

Even after 52 years, the sightingof the Chapel with its

glorious position onthe Backs raises bothmy spirits and thehairs on the back ofmy neck. What awonderful vistathis is, the veryessence ofCambridge, andmy entry intosome sort of

paradise.I arrived at Caius

just in time for theCommemoration Servicein Chapel. Cambridgewas busy even at6.30 pm and theatmosphere in Trinity

GatheringAnnualThe by Dr Michael Cannon

(1955)

Robert Ireland

Dr Michael Cannon(1955).

My thoughts were stimulated by theportraits on display in the Hall. A painting ofSir Ronald Fisher (1909) gazed benignly uponme. A Caius Professorial Fellow from 1943to1962, he was an eminent mathematicianbut his academic career was as a geneticistand it was in this subject that he lectured sovividly. A master of statistics, he fascinated allwith his brilliant analyses. Also portrayed isJoseph Needham (1918), the Master of Caiusfrom 1966-1976 and a Fellow of both theRoyal Society and the British Academy. Had Ireally attended lectures from this intellectualgiant? The striking portrait of StephenHawking (1965) is perhaps the most inspiringof those on display. Here indeed is a greatindividual scientist with an extraordinarymind. How fortunate for Caians that he is amember of our College.

The dinner was enjoyable, the winesparticularly so, and I was at the High Table fordessert. Perhaps the wine was responsible,but the Hall now seemed to be an even moreagreeable place than it was two hours earlier!I was in the company of a particularly dearfriend from my College years. We have muchin common, he a fine musician and a formerChoral Scholar and I a trumpeter. The CollegeChoir, positioned in the gallery, had alreadydemonstrated its musical prowess –particularly so in the hauntingly beautifulGrace. This musical gem was written byCharles Wood (1888) who was the Collegeorganist before becoming a Fellow in 1894.

The Choir also sang a Wood anthem – themusic so beautifully suited to the setting andthe occasion.

I recalled my own musical experiences inCaius and in particular my last Collegeconcert in 1958. Performing the HaydnTrumpet Concerto with the orchestra, I cameon stage to be confronted by an amazingsight. On the front row and only a yard or sofrom my trumpet were seated Patrick Hadley(1938) and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the latterwell into his 80s and sporting an impressive-looking ear-trumpet. Paddy Hadley wasProfessor of Music in Cambridge from 1946-1962 and music in Caius greatly flourishedunder his influence. He had an impish senseof humour. As I completed the 1st movement,Paddy turned to Vaughan Williams, put hismouth close to the ear-trumpet and bellowed“Can you hear all right Rafe?”.

The dinner was drawing to its close but adaunting challenge lay ahead: the CarmenCaianum. Ominously, our ‘programme notes’under this heading stated – ‘All standing andsinging’. Convinced that the ‘all singing’command was a little unrealistic we,nevertheless, swung into action, with theChoir now in full voice. Fortunately, the musicand the words were to hand, including anEnglish translation, the latter proving to beuseless as the Latin version prevailed.I realized, albeit belatedly, why in myundergraduate years a pass in Latin atOrdinary Level was a requirement for entry

into College. We needed the qualification tohandle the Carmen. As we approached thefinale a charming elderly Caian to my rightwhispered – “Thank God it’s the last verse”.Charles Wood and Benjamin Drury (1835)must have turned in their graves.

Leaving College I lingered awhile in CaiusCourt to admire the Gate of Honour sobeautifully illuminated against the night sky.A friendly “Good Night” from the Porters andI was back in a now totally-deserted TrinityStreet. I had enjoyed a remarkable evening offriendship and nostalgia. We live in a troubledworld and to step back into the Old Courts ofour great historic College is to step back intime, thereby allowing a welcome respitefrom the problems that beset us all.

Caius, of course, has concerns of its own.There is forever a need to improve facilities,strengthen teaching and research andmaintain the buildings – and these thingscost money. The College has receivedgenerous support from many benefactorsover the years but no Caian should assumethat this state of affairs will continueindefinitely. I am immensely proud of myCollege, of what it meant to me as anundergraduate, what it did for me and what itis now. I am also immensely grateful. It isheartening to know that so many Caiansappear to share this pride and gratitude.Indeed, 25% of us give financial support tothe College. It would be splendid indeed ifthis percentage were to increase.

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Annual Gatherers up to matriculation year 1955 assembled in Caius Hall before dinner.

Photograph by kind permission of Eaden Lilley

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Privileges forBenefactorsG

onville & Caius College hastraditionally chosen toexpress its gratitude tobenefactors by recognisingtheir generosity, often by

naming scholarships, lectureships, rooms andbuildings after them. The very name of theCollege commemorates the vision of ourmajor benefactors and founders, EdmundGonville and John Caius. Since 1348, eachsuccessive generation of Caians hasbenefited from the gifts of our predecessorsand it is right to acknowledge the centralimportance of that continuity.

In addition to the levels of recognitionoffered by the College to Associate Members,Members and Founders of the Court ofBenefactors and Gonville Fellow Benefactors,the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaignnow offers recognition for gifts at the£250,000 and £1 million levels.

In July 2007, the College Council set afurther level of recognition for those makingtotal lifetime gifts of £50,000 and above. Thisis to be known as the Stephen HawkingCircle. Every Lent Term, new Members of theCircle and their partners will be invited toattend a private lecture given by StephenHawking (1965) on his work. The lecture willbe followed by a dinner with Professor

have made a gift to the College in the previousyear.

A final decision has not yet been made, butregrettably, it seems likely that in future it willnot be possible to invite all of the previousyear’s donors (with their partners). It may benecessary to set a minimum gift of £150 (£10per month + Gift Aid). We are reluctant toimpose a limit, since the all-inclusive nature ofthe May Week Party is one of its attractions, butsadly, there is a limit to the number of guestswe can physically accommodate and we do notwish to overload our very loyal College staff.

Free Will Service for CaiansFor some time, David Howell Jones (1957) haskindly arranged a free will-writing service forthose leaving a legacy to the College.

The law firm for which which David is aconsultant, Bray Walker, has now becomeBevans, but the same service will be provided byboth their London and Bristol offices.

Contact details are as follows:Philippa Fawcett, Bevans Solicitors46 Essex Street, The StrandLondon WC2R 3JFTelephone: 020 7353 9995Email: pfawcett@bevans.co.uk Website: www.bevans.co.uk

Hawking, hosted by the Master, in thePanelled Combination Room.

Professor Hawking has said he hopes thisnew initiative will help to provide asignificant boost to the College’s fundraisingefforts.

Another innovation has kindly beenprovided by the Hon Dr John Lehman (1965),President of the Caius Foundation. He hasgiven small rosettes in Caius colours for oursenior benefactors to wear in their lapels atCollege events such as Annual Gatherings,the May Week Party and theCommemoration Feast. These will be sentout later in the year.

The May Week Party for Benefactors isheld, with impeccable Cambridge logic, in themiddle of June, on the final Saturday of theMay Bumps. It includes a drinks reception, asplendid buffet lunch on the lawn of GonvilleCourt, various concerts and entertainmentsand then tea in the Master’s Garden before adash to the river to watch the top Caiusboats in action.

The May Week Party has provedextraordinarily popular, growing in numbersattending each year and stretching theresources of our hardworking kitchen staff tothe limit. Until now, the Master and Fellowshave been pleased to invite all donors who

For once, the 2007 May Week Party was punctuated by brief but vigorous showers of rain (see page 1).During the Master’s speech, the guests took shelter in the Gonville Court marquee.

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Gonville Fellow Benefactor ............................£500,000The Master and Fellows confer the title of Gonville Fellow Benefactorin recognition of exceptional munificence to the College. GonvilleFellow Benefactors are invited to all College Feasts and to Fellows’Guest Nights. They are admitted in the College Chapel in a ceremonyduring the service for the Commemoration of Benefactors precedingthe Commemoration Feast.

Non-Caians are elected in recognition of donations over £1 million.

The Vice-Chancellor’s Circle ........................£250,000Members of the Vice-Chancellor’s Circle are invited to a reception at anexclusive London venue, often Buckingham Palace, each autumn inrecognition of benefactions to the Colleges and the University.

Founder of the Court of Benefactors.....£100,000Founders of the Court of Benefactors of Gonville & Caius College have allthe privileges of Membership of the Court of Benefactors and are entitledto wear the fine gown traditionally worn by the College’s aristocraticFellow Commoners.

The Stephen Hawking Circle...........................£50,000New members of the Stephen Hawking Circle are invited, with a guest, toan evening in College with Stephen Hawking, which includes a lecture byProfessor Hawking and a dinner in the Panelled Combination Room.

Member of the Court of Benefactors .......£20,000Members of the Court of Benefactors are invited to the College to takepart in the service for the Commemoration of Benefactors and to dinewith the Master and Fellows at the Commemoration Feast. They also enjoythe privileges of Associate Members.

Associate Member of the Court of Benefactors ....................................................................................................£10,000Associate Members of the Court of Benefactors are given an exclusive option to book the Caius Box, which is in the centre of the Grand Tier atthe Royal Albert Hall. They are also invited to the annual College May Week Party.

All Benefactors are entitled to use the College punts during the summer months. As many as possible of those who have made a gift toCaius during the previous year are invited to the College May Week Party, including a buffet luncheon and tea and musical recital. This is usuallyheld on the Saturday to coincide with the last day of the May Bumps.

The Edmund Gonville Society was established to recognise during their lifetime those Caians and friends who have madeprovision for a bequest to the College. Members are invited to the College on Benefactors’ Day during May Week and are given specialrecognition in the Benefactors’ Book. Those indicating especially generous legacies are invited to take part in the annual Commemoration Servicefollowed by the Commemoration Feast.

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ick Le Moignan

Rosemary Beatty in the gown of a Founder of theCourt of Benefactors. Rosemary, the daughter ofReginald Cox (1901) and sister of Lynton Cox(1931), is a loyal and generous supporter of theCollege, who has named rooms in the StephenHawking Building to commemorate both the Coxfamily and their friends, the Teichman family.

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1936Dennis Hayne-Upson (Bernard)

1938Dr John Thomas

1939Randolph Bull

1940Peter EllisonDavid OwenPatrick Turner

1941Ian CalderAnthony DaviesSamuel Dennis-RoseGabriel HartJohn HelpsBoris KidelBernard MossAlexander Perrin

1942John AshtonJoseph BurnsJohn BushellDr Edward CookeJohn DickinsonPercy DysonJohn EavesJohn EdwardsDavid GouldGeoffrey HarrisonJack LeachGeorge NeighbourLeslie RendellEdmund RowlandMichael SmithAllan Swain

1943Norman AllsupCdr Graham ChambersDr Desmond CotterillKenneth DuckworthJohn JamesNoel JonesJohn NelsonWarren Partington

1944James BurkeRobin DannattRichard GeorgeBrian MitchellWilliam MorgansDavid Morris

1945Denys ButcherDonald FreemanAlastair GrayVernon GrimshawGordon HendryHenry MartenDr Kenneth MartinCharles ScottDr David Smellie

1946Charles BaggallayWalid BeydounJohn Bickford SmithJohn Blackburn

Richard GardinerAusten GreenJohn TattersallDavid ThomasJohn Yorke

1947Thomas BondAnthony CullumRobert DavidsonJames HarrisRonald LumbVincent LumbJames MacGillKenneth MacKenzieJohn MaggsJohn RussellLionel Stretton

1948Stephen AlexanderWilliam AthertonGuy BoltonThomas FifeThomas GardnerChristopher GossettPeter HerringHidayat HussainJames HutchisonJames JoslinCharles NortonAlwyn ParfittJohn RaynerLt Col Dr James RoystonRalph ShafranIan WhiteDr James Wylde

1949Anthony AllisonDavid BinghamPaul BradleyCharles CresswellCharles HolmesEvan JonesMichael MorrisonJohn OliverHarold Smart

1950Theodore CrozierDr John FoulkesRobin HazardNeville SassoFrancis SimmonsSrinivasan VenuJohn Westacott

1951Maurice AckroydBin AzmanRobin BarracloughOwen ButcherChris CalsoyasDavid CooperAndrew CowanAnthony FearnBrian JessonJohn MitchellRobert MurrayRichard SmallJohn Wooldridge

1952Shariff bin HassanDr Christopher Clayton

Martin DavisRobert DawsonReginald De MelRoger EverettProfessor Ian GillamThomas LambertDavid PikettH ReynoldsTerence SamuelsDavid Wileman

1953Dr Ezra Ben GershomPeter DolbyGeorge EdmondProfessor Reuven KitaiDavid LloydDavid MedhurstAshford MoarProfessor Brian PorterLt Owen SaundersIan SeymourAlan SykesDr Michael TaylorBichara Yared

1954Michael BarrettDerek CarterRobert DeaneMichael FurberPeter JoyceJames LuckingStephen PonsonbyJohn RaeNorman SysonBarry WoollardPaul Wright

1955Alan BaileyDr Thomas BlackEdward CooperDaya DhaonJohn GoodmanPhilip GreensladeDavid HugginsHoward JayBrian KeebleDuncan McDonaldJohn O'CallaghanGuy PaschalWalter WhittallPaul YaredTimothy Yarnell

1956Michael BradshawDr Prakash DheerRonald DoddsJames FrancisAlan FrankAndrew HeatonDavid PassHugh PercyPrem ShunkerMark WellsJohn Williamson

1957Samuel ArthurRobert ClarksonSam CohenPatrick DoyleRoderick DuchesneAnthony Harper

Brian HurstBrian JohnstonThomas KempinskiNorman LeesMichael PriorJeremy SeabrookAhmad SiddiqiWilliam SouthernRobert StewartSakharam SurangeM Townsend

1958John CrankshawDavid GaineDr Louis La GrangeDr Alexander LoudonRobert MoritzThomas RichardsonWoolf SilverAloysius SsentongoPeter ThorntonRichard WeeksJohn Williams

1959David BaintonDavid BurnettPhilip CaruanaAsoke ChandaProfessor Brian ChappellPaul CostaDavid FletcherDr Geoffrey GoodyearMichael GrantWilliam HensonColin JonesRevd John KeeleyAidan MacdonaldDavid NixonLutfar Rahman KhanJohn Roberts-JonesDarryl RobeyDavid SheltonRobert ThomasDerek WalklinDavid Wilson

1960Mohammed ChaudriDavid CrossfieldDavid MorganReinaldo MunozPearn NiilerEdward ParryRobert ParryPrem SarinChristopher Thompson

1961William CampbellDr Anthony ChallinorMichael CollierRobert DaviesAndrew GoodmanMichael HenryAlexander HowieDr John KellyDouglas MaccollHugh MacDonaldBernard MkatteMalcolm PikeGraham PritchardPeter TaylorGeoffrey Yarwood

1962Dr Alan BeattieRodney ButtleMarh ChonaJohn ClaytonGregory CulleyColin DeanAndrew Duncan-JonesAlan GummersonChristopher HolladayDr William IsherwoodJohn JonesGraham LindsayMichael MeredithRoger MitchellDerek PoutDr John RobertsAlbrecht SchultzPeter TravessAnthony Waters

1963Lawrence BaderPeter BarkerBrian BinderDavid BurtDr John CribbDr Michael FortuneProfessor Theodore FriedmanRolf LassMichael LockWinston McIntoshKenneth McIntyreJohn PooleJohn RaynerRobert SeymourDr William SherwoodJohn StrangeDr Gijsbert van SteenisJames Wanyanga

1964John AttwoodYuri AzarovDavid BrammerChristopher BrowneChris ColeRichard EllisRichard GrossmanAlbert HarrisWilson IshemoDr Klaus LunauJohn MayneDr Denis O'BrienAustin O'RourkeRoy ShortRoger Sleeman

1965John CouperDr Winfried ForsterBernard HansonEdward HastingsJohn HendryPhilip HowellAlan JonesVictor MurphyRoger PettyMichael RichesRaymond SteadKeith WatkinsJames WeeksAlexander Wilson

1966Brian Ashbee

Return to Sender – Address UnknownEvery time we send out an issue of Once a Caian… a significant number of the 10,000 copies are returned because therecipients have moved house and not yet advised the College of their change of address. In recent years, the DevelopmentOffice has made great progress in keeping track of Caians’ postal and email addresses and telephone numbers, so that weare now in contact with about 93% of our members. Still, there are some in every matriculation year whose whereaboutsare unknown and we would be very grateful if readers would check the following list. If you do know any of these missingCaians, please either pass on their contact details to us or let them know the College would be delighted to hear from them.

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Jonathan AshbyJohn BaintonFu ChaiRichard CorfieldPeter CusackKai DruhlMartin GanePhilip HolmesChristopher JonesAlistair LoganAlan MichaelDr Herbert PrestonDuncan SimpsonBob TapsfieldPaul TurnerDr Donald Wigglesworth

1967David BrownDr Jean DerclayeMichael GarrettTimothy HardinghamPatrick HughesJohn JamesDr Johann KeithBernard MalauzatJohn PhillipsBrian PopeDerek RobinsonPankaj ShahBrian SpearingRichard VinsonDr James WilsonJohn Wood

1968Yves AbriouxDavid EntwistleThomas GutmannGeoffrey PagetDr Julian RobertsRobert RutherfordRennie SimpsonDavid StephensonBrian WilliamsDr Peter WilsonSam WolfAnthony Wright

1969Leslie BakerMichael CroslandDr Andrew DennisPaul EvansMichael GordonDr Richard HumphreyMartin JonesIan MacraeRobert MonroeAndrew MullineauxMartin O'LearyFrancis PerryMartin RichardsStephen RoskamsAnthony Tennant

1970Andrew BowdenMichael CornerJonathan EdmundsAnthony GrovesJohn HanlonRobert HathawayJames HeafPeter LucasJames MacDonaldZafer MahmudJulian PinfoldRoland TyrrellMichael Van HoveRobert WalkerDerek Ward

1971Andrew BellMichael BerryJohn BownAnthony BrawnPaul CarneMichael CryneGary GormanMauri Valtonen

Dr Stephen WatsonStephen Webster

1972Paul CastlesNigel GibsonJonathan GreenDavid GregoryGeraint HughesDavid LambSolaiman MaghsoudlouChristopher MetcalfePrasanth NairAnthony NicholsonMichael ReynoldsStephen RogersRichard StrachanStephen VincentNigel WattRalph Whitney

1973David AmeryAndrew BainesDr William GoughGraham KirbyFazlolah NikayinMichael PierceArthur SchmidtIan SmithAndrew Wilson

1974Stefan BasinskiDr P'ei-Liang KuanPatrick MilesPeter NorrisGavin PartridgeWilliam PeacockIan ReidNorman RobertsBenedick WatsonRob WatsonChristopher Young

1975Dr Bill BramptonDavid BurnDr Leonardo Castillo RamirezAndrew ClarkRobin CouplandChristopher EdwardsTimothy FlemingJ N K GibsonMark NealeMatthew PartridgeMichael ReganGraham TaylorMichael ThompsonMichael Wheals

1976Vladimir BrezinaSimon CookRobert ForsterDr John GriffithsMartin HallStephen KeenlysidePeter SmithDouglas Turnbull

1977Dr Robert BeddowBenjamin BowenMichael BowlesAidan ConstableAndrew CummingsRuben MartinezDuncan McBainMichael McGintyAdam More GordonDr Philip RiggDr Duncan WebsterJames WhalleySteven Whitt

1978Antoni BasinskiIan CondronStuart FleetRichard HansomFrank Mellmann

Stephen Williamson

1979Rupert Brotherton-RatcliffeEve de GrywinJohn GloverCarolyn HensonProfessor Siu LamSimon ReaRichard Turvey

1980Andrew BrothertonPeter DallyRobert ForbesDeborah Henderson (Clark)Martyn JenningsJonathan PrawerDr Andrew Sherley-Dale

1981James BourneTim Burge

1982Giles ChaundyJohn HallMartyn HughesJennifer JuryAlan MillerDr Stephen PenningtonBruce RoxburghFlt Lt Nigel StarlingJanet Wood

1983Dr Eluem BlydenDominic CoxKenneth DarcyNikhil DhaonAlexander Hay-WhittonKaren MorrisDr Martin RollerHeather RyeDr Jeremy Wells

1984John CornwellGeorge FaradayMattias FfytchePhilip Glyn-DaviesPhilip HarmerGeoffrey LeachPatricia MartinMarie-Helene Morisset (Revest)Kathryn PhillipsIna RothacherAndrew RuddockAnne ShewringPaul ShutlerTimothy Tench

1985Jake DaviesBrigitte HieberNathan HodgesHitesh JariwalaAlan KiddAndrew LawJudith MintyTommi MuttonenPeter OrmshawNicholas RosefieldJohn SinclairBernhard UsselmannJonathan Winter

1986Christopher DonovanReinhold FoersterPer LindstromLucy Miller

1987Brett ArendsChristopher CorneyRichard HaighDr Alfonso Martin del CampoLaurentsDr Paul MatthewsDr Juanita RocheJoanna Rowe

Andrew SmithAlan TrewarthaDavid Venour

1988Emily DowlerRuth Gill (Godden)Angela HayesSusan HorsefieldAsif HusainDr Anand KumarCharlie MeyerDr Suzanne RaittSalman ShoaibJennifer Tucker

1989Emma BayesSusannah Bolton (Smyth)Dr Andy DownesSa'ad HossainVictoria KaulbackPraveen MomanCatherine Paice (Neylan)Professor Yoshiharu SakamotoBenoit TadieLeonardus VerhoevenSteven WassermanWilliam Wootten

1990Andrew DrakeEmma DrewDr P EvansHoward FrancisFazli HananSusan HutchinsonDavid KimGertraud KonradtChee LimMark LongBruce MartinKiran NistallaGary O'BrienSusanne ScharnowskiDr Kathryn SmithGerrit WiesmannJoycelyn Williams

1991Dr Xihua ChenCharlotte CutlerDavid Henig-ElonaSean HughesJon LambDouglas LynchNor MadrosDr Peter MorganDr Suzanna Scott-Drew

1992Mike GrimshawNicholas LynchStephen MarsdenTracy MartinPierre Mella-BarralDr Kevin OliverAribert ReimannDr Jennifer RoperGuy VeyseyDr Simon WhiteheadCatherine Wickens

1993L AsfourDr Bela BhatiaHelen Di-Stefano (Millward)Jon Di-StefanoRonette EngelaPaul EnglandElisabetta FeruglioKaveh GuilanpourJonathan HaddockJohn HowellRamøn Jaimez ArellanoDr Muhammad KhanDr Steve LakinCraig LangfordSamson PhiriRebecca SaulDanielle SepulvedaIlan Shoval

Dr Julie Tucker (Sanderson)Charlotte WilliamsDr Bin ZhuLiwei Zhu

1994Ruth BarrettPhilippe ClaudinDr Paul GrayPhilip HudsonDr Nabi KhatibiDr A J LarnerGabi Maddock (Woolf)Victoria MeddHyun ParkReena PatelSreten SimacKarlien Van Den BeukelCarl Van Litsenborgh

1995Esteban BurroneGloria ChenSusan FloodDr Andrew LewisBenjamin ManleyRichard NevillDr Astrid ReinhardtMichele RyanGabriele Stilla-Bowman

1996Tom BallDavid BillingtonRowland ByassMartin FisherDr Graham ForsytheBenjamin GuralnickJennifer HillElsa SacksickAlexander SilcoxStephen WarrSuzannah Win Maung

1997Elizabeth Barnford (Fairley)Dr Charlotte Brierley (Behan)Ed JaramDr Jane JonesAna NelsonXiao PointerDavid PooleyNancy Sadi

1998Katharine ArneyKate BoccadoroDr Daniel BradleyLeemark CopleyDr Jennifer FogartyLaura HucksDr Brian HuntlyHugues JuliéRobert LeeCaroline McGregorDan ParkinsonNicola PattrickJohn Stewart

1999Neil ClarkAnne-Christine FarstadJames GrantRoderick JacksonKristina KolbDr Sarah Sangster

2000Thomas BirtchColin CampbellDuran GokemreFiona MarsdenKian O'Grady

2001Eleanor HamlynDr Lauren MackenzieGiora Moss

2002Dr Ali Binazir

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Dr Andrew Soddy (1957)I enjoyed the article in the Spring issue onbringing the M1 to Cambridge. The M1 signwas going to hang between Tree Court onone side of Trinity St and my room at thetop of K staircase, St Michael’s Court on theother. When the sign arrived, it was clearthat the tatty bits of wire Bill NewmanSanders brought to suspend it were totallyinadequate and I don’t remember much of aplan of how we were going to do it. Whilewe were carrying it away down SenateHouse Passage the policeman stepped outof the shadows and said what he said (I onlyremember “good evening gentlemen”), wedropped the sign with a huge crash and ranfor it. I quite agree David Howell Jones wasno sprinter. I was interested to seeelsewhere in that edition is a picture ofDavid at the Trooping of the Colour wearingexactly the same glasses he wore in 1957!Remarkable.

Another exploit I enjoyed was liberating arowing eight from the St John’s Collegeboathouse. A lot of the usual suspects wereinvolved and Tony Ganner (1957) revealedsome worrying expertise in the removal andreplacement of a pane of glass in theboatshed window. We then rowed it up theCam and set it up in Tree Court with oarssuitably displayed. The night life in Cambridgearound 3.30 am (just getting light) was

impressive: rows of punts moored along theBacks were full of bodies – well, perhaps onaverage just two. One head popped up toexclaim “My God, that’s a long punt” andpopped down again. There were people withclimbing ropes wound around them andothers just wandering about, with purposeunknown. Getting the eight out of the waterat the Garret Hostel Lane Bridge was tricky, aswas getting it around the sharp corners in toSenate House Passage. Someone had obtaineda key to the Great Gate under the Tower inTree Court which opened with startling creaksand groans. Luckily, we seemed to be the onlyones startled and we set the tableau upwithout interruption. St John’s rescued theirboat the next day and, as far as I know, no onewas any the wiser.

We are alwayspleased to receive

CaiMemoriesfor publication at:

caimemories@cai.cam.ac.uk

Damien Bertrand (1998) invites Caians visiting Cognac to sample thedelights of Cognac Meukow.

Damien Bertrand (1998)I was flying to Glasgow with my girlfriendand another friend, when we missed aconnection and were stranded at StanstedAirport with no onward flight until noonthe next day.

We caught the last bus to Cambridge andit was late in the evening by the time wearrived. We called at the Caius Porters’ Lodgeto ask for advice and the porter on dutyrecognised me, even though I had left twoyears earlier. He said there were some guestrooms but we should be invited by a Fellow.

I telephoned the Dean, the Revd Dr JackMcDonald (1995), whom I remembered fromthe Caius Boat Club. Jack very kindly tookcare of everything, so we had a room for thenight, where we could rest and leave ourbelongings.

We went out to find some dinner and bychance I met an old friend from Caius whowas still completing his PhD. He wascelebrating his birthday that night in a baron King’s Parade. He invited us to join theparty and I was amazed to meet lots of oldfriends from my time at Caius. It was amagical night which could not have beenbetter if we had planned it!

The next day, we took breakfast in Hall,thanked everybody again and continued onour journey. For me, this story is a perfectexample of what it means to be a Caian. I’mvery happy and proud to be a member of thisgreat family and I will always be delighted tohelp other Caians.

If any of you should happen to visitCognac in the South West of France, it wouldbe my pleasure to treat you to an incredibletasting experience of the fine Cognacs in ourParadise Cellar at Cognac Meukow.

Email: d.bertrand@cdgcognac.com Website: www.meukowcognac.com

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Dr Andrew Soddy is evidently enjoying hisretirement in Australia – but there’s a catch!

Roger Martin (1958)Dr Iain Macpherson (1958), my Director ofStudies in Economics, was always ahead ofhis time in cutting down on wastage. Afterone supervision, he announced that he wasgoing to collect the baby’s free NHSorange juice, adding ‘The baby doesn’t likeit, but it goes very well with my gin!’Perhaps he was one of those involved inthe famous Aberdeen incident, recorded inthe local newspaper as: ‘Two taxis collide;31 injured’.

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David Childs(1949)I wondered if theCollege would beinterested in thesephotos. They weregiven to me by myGodfather, the Revd

Reginald Jeffcoat (1891) – a Caian from theVictorian Era.

My father Reginald Childs (1919) was atCaius and one of the footsoldiers in the JesusGun episode. Mr Jeffcoat married my parentsin 1926 and I remember him (in the mid1930s) as a large man with a beard and hisBristol house like a museum, filled withartefacts. I remember especially a room fullof Zulu clubs, spears and shields. Heemigrated to South Africa in 1938, giving hiseffects to Bristol Museum where sadly theywere destroyed during the Blitz. He died inCape Town aged 102 in the 1960s.

Sadly, I am no longer fit enough to comeup to the Annual Gathering, but I enjoykeeping in touch via ‘Once a Caian…’

EDITOR’S NOTE: the first of these photographsis published here and others will appear infuture issues.

Traditionally, the student placed first in the Maths Tripos was designated Senior Wrangler. In thisphotograph, Arthur Shillito (1891), who took the LAST place in the Maths Tripos, is lifted on theshoulders of Reginald Jeffcoat (1891) and Francis Martin (1891) carrying the wooden spoon “inappreciation of his College” to mark this achievement.

Dr Iain Macpherson (1958).

Bryan Phillips (1951)A Lear Jet is a magnificent feat ofengineering designed by an extremelyskilled team of aerodynamicists, structuralanalysts, experts in thermodynamics andother highly educated and thoroughlyexperienced engineers led by a chiefdesigner at the very peak of his profession.

Yet, the caption on page 14 of yourSpring issue says: “the Lear Jet designed byDonatella Versace” i.e. the painter anddecorator.

Publish a retraction Sir, ere a thousandCaius Engineers arise and smite thee!

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On the last day of the MayBumps, the Caius First Men’sVIII once again provided theperfect climax to theCollege’s May Week Party for

Benefactors by rowing over to become Headof the River for a scarcely believable six yearsin succession (nine of the last ten). First &Third Trinity, who had bumped their way tosecond spot by the final day, were never withina length of Caius, who rowed as majesticallyand powerfully as the large crowd of Caiansupporters on Caius Meadow could wish.

On the previous evening, a ceremony hadtaken place at the Caius Boat House, whereNick Suess (1966), on behalf of the wholeSuess family, presented a magnificent, state-of-the-art, Carl Douglas pair to the College,which the Master named in memory of Nick’slate brother, Simon Suess (1971). Nick made avery moving and eloquent speech to theassembled company:

Simon was by no means the first Caian todie way too young, and sadly I’m sure hewon’t be the last, but he was the youngest ofthree Caian brothers, and that in itself isspecial. So it was that last year, with the tenthanniversary of his death approaching, I beganto think there ought to be some special Caianmemorial for him.

Something else happened last year. Caiusmen retained the headship of the Mays for afifth successive year, which will surely beextended to six tomorrow. I was in CaiusMeadow that Saturday afternoon, just aminute or two before that final triumphantrow-over, when I received a phone call. It was

a small business which he ran successfully ifnot spectacularly for over fifty years. But I amabsolutely sure that the thing of which he wasmost proud in all his time in England was thathis three sons all came to Caius. Firstly Nigelwith an Exhibition, lastly Simon as a Scholar,and in between there was me, a Commoner,but I think that was about right for me.

How did we choose Caius? Well, we hadnever heard of Gonville and Caius College, butour Maths master at school was a Caian, andwhen Nigel was thinking of applying toOxbridge he said “Why not give Caius a go?It’s a good college.” And he was damn right!And so this small piece of serendipity broughtus all to the best college in Cambridge.

I’m saying this now especially for theyoung people here, most of all for those whoare about to graduate and leave this beautifulplace for new life challenges in new locations.38 years ago I stood where you are. That’swhen I graduated, and I hope that in 38 years’time you will all feel about Caius as I do now.Our family is scattered to the four winds.Nigel has lived in Scotland for 30 years and hisdaughter Clara is as Scottish as can be. Simonhas sadly gone. I live in Australia, and mydaughter Eleanor is an Anglo-Australiantemporarily exiled in London.We have lost allconnection with the area of suburbia wherewe grew up, and so if there is one place onearth that could today be considered thespiritual home of the Suess family, it isGonville and Caius College.

In saying this, I am paying tribute to theexcellent work done over recent years by AnneLyon and her development team, with theirpromotion of the “Once a Caian…” message.Yes, fundraising is a primary goal for Anne inher work, and she has done a great job in thatarea, but she has also helped promote andenhance our sense of identity as part of aglobal family of Caians. As I said, I live inAustralia. I love my home in Perth, I love ourbeautiful climate and our laid-back outdoorway of life. It’s where I want to grow old, andwhere one day my ashes will be scattered. ButI can never step off Trinity Street through theGate of Humility and into Tree Court withoutexperiencing a strong sense of belonging. Andthat’s a very powerful message for life to allyou young Caians.

My other very strong message is “Keeprowing!” I learnt to row here at Caius in 1966,under the personal tutelage and mentorship ofan inspirational Captain of Boats, now a greatbenefactor of this college, whose name is onone of the eights that has been out theretoday. I refer to John Lehman (1965). Johncomes from an impeccable Philadelphia rowingpedigree, his grandfather having been anOlympic gold medal sculler, the legendary JackKelly. But in keeping with the notion of Caiusas a family, he nevertheless found time to takeunder his wing the skinny 18-year-old fresher

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from the hospital in Southend where myfather had been a patient for the previousthree weeks.We thought he was on the roadto recovery. Only the previous day they hadspoken of him possibly going home thefollowing week, but this call was to say thathis condition had deteriorated rapidly, and weshould come as soon as possible. He died 24hours later, at the ripe old age of 88.

I began to realise over the ensuing daysand weeks that these two events combined tomake possible this memorial. Some of themodest legacy Dad left us, money whichwould have been Simon’s had he survived,could be donated to Caius to buy this boat.

Since this weekend marks the anniversaryof his passing, please permit me to take aminute or two to tell you about my Dad. Oursurname, uncommon in this country, derivesfrom the fact that Dad was born and raised inLeopoldstadt, the old Jewish quarter of Vienna.He was the youngest by some years in a largefamily, and had several nieces and a nephewwho were almost his own age. He and thatnephew were inseparable as boys, but theywere finally separated when the Nazismarched in at the Anschluss, and Dad fled toBritain as a refugee. His nephew never made itout, and died in the Holocaust. That nephew’sname was Simon. My brother was named afterhim, and so it is doubly fitting that Dad’slegacy has provided a memorial that bears thename “Simon”.

Yes, Dad came to Britain as a refugee,landing on these shores without a penny in hispocket or a word of English in his head. Hevolunteered for the British army and servedthroughout the war, then in peacetime set up

Six in a Row!

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The Caius First Mens VIII rowed over as Head of the River in the May Bumps for the sixth year in a row.

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who turned up right here at the Boathousethat October, nervously wondering if he mightbe able to give rowing a go. Right from thatfirst day, John was at all times totally insistentthat I could learn to row, I could become avery useful member of Caius Boat Club, andI would gain a lot of enjoyment andsatisfaction from doing so.

John was right, and I am still rowing today.I row in veteran events for my club in Perth.For some years we had the champion over-50smixed eight for the State of Western Australia,and Eleanor’s mother was also a member ofthat crew. And I coach. In recent times I havespecialised in coaching beginners who didn’tlearn at school or uni, those no longer in thefirst flush of youth, and these are often menand women in their 50s, 60s or even 70s. Andfor me it’s very fulfilling to see the satisfactionand sense of achievement they gain fromacquiring new skills in this wonderful sport.I recall at Caius Boat Club’s “Eustace” dinner inMarch that the Master in his speechapologised for having never rowed. He said hedidn’t have the build. I have to ask you, ladiesand gentlemen, which of us two standing herehas the build for rowing?

And so, Master, it may be seen as aninvitation, it may be seen as a challenge, butany time I’m in the UK, you are most welcometo give me a call and I’ll pop up here and takeyou out in this beautiful boat, and I promiseyou that in under an hour you will be rowinglike you never thought possible!

Now let us return to Simon. The singleword most appropriate to Simon is “Loyalty”.In his life, Simon displayed an incredible senseof loyalty. Loyalty to his family, loyalty to hisfriends, loyalty to his college.You see here hisCaius blazer and scarf, which after his deathI found right there amongst all his everydayclothes, 22 years after he had graduated. That’show important Caius remained as an integralcornerstone of his existence.

And Simon loved sport, any sport.I remember him sitting me down to watchgrid-iron football on late night TV, explainingall its intricacies, which I confess I never quitegot. He loved soccer, and most of all he lovedcricket, and I could not possibly count thehuge number of very happy days we spentsitting together watching cricket, both hereand in Australia. He truly understood theconcept of good sportsmanship that weassociate with the phrase “to play cricket”.

And so what could be more fitting as amemorial to Simon than a living memorial, thegreat pleasure young sporting Caians will havefor many years to come as they train andcompete in this beautiful boat? Soon, thoseCaians will be young people born after Simon’sdeath, and his name will daily be on their lips.What better tribute to him could we everhope for?

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Dr Jimmy Altham (1965), Senior Treasurer of the Caius Boat Club, with Nick Suess (1966), the Master andMartin Wade (1962) Boat Club President.

The new boat, which can be used as a pair or a two, skimmed beautifully across the water.

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Dr Anne Lyon (2001) with Nick Suess.The Master pours champagne for retired boatman, Tony Baker.

Boatman Simon Goodbrand pushes out the “Simon Suess” for its maiden voyage with Captain of Boats,Brendan O’Donoghue (2003) and Nick Suess.

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Since Martin Wade (1962) andDavid Bell (1962) set up the Bell-Wade Bursaries “to encourageexcellence in scholarship andsport” in 1999, dozens of Caius

sportsmen and sportswomen have benefitedfrom their generosity. Martin and David aredelighted that one of their protégés, AndyBaddeley (2000) is now the outstandingBritish 1,500m runner, aiming for Olympicmedals, next year in Beijing and then inLondon in 2012.

Andy received support from the Bell-Wade Fund in all of his four undergraduateyears. This, he says, was vital in helping himto train and compete, finally as Captain ofthe Cambridge University Cross-Countryteam. Studies were not neglected and he wasrewarded with a Double First in AeronauticalEngineering. When he continued supervisingon a part-time basis, further help came inthe form of a small grant from the CaiusEngineering Trust.

At College, it was never easy to reconcilethe often conflicting demands of study,training and maintaining some sort of sociallife. Andy recalls with gratitude thesupportive attitude of his Tutor, Dr DinoGiussani (1996) and three Directors ofStudies, Dr Tom Bligh (1988), Dr JulianAllwood (2000) and Dr David Holburn(1993).

Now, as the British 1,500m champion(2006 and 2007) and having reached thefinal of the World Championships in Augustand the 2006 Commonwealth Games andEuropean Championships, Andy has decidedto be a full-time, professional sportsman. Hebelieves becoming the best in the world inhis event, or even stepping up from the topten to the top three, is not possible as apart-timer. In order to succeed, he will needto find a company to become his majorsponsor, guaranteeing his basic living costsfor five years, in return for a publicassociation with that company’s brand orimage. It would be hard to find a morepersuasive or intelligent advocate.

As a loyal Caian, he would be delighted ifhis sponsor had a Caius connection!

A relative newcomer to the very highestechelons of the sport, this has already been abig year for Andy, who first set a PB(personal best) over 3,000m in Sydney andthen ran third in the famous Oslo Mile(where Ovett and Cram both set worldrecords) in another PB, 3’ 51.95, the twelfthfastest time ever by a British athlete.

At the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Sheffieldin July 2007, he took another giant stepforward by beating the silver and bronzemedallists from the Athens Olympics, the2007 World Champion at 1,500m and5,000m, Bernard Lagat (USA) and IndoorChampion, Rui Silva (Portugal) by more than

strange race and I didn’t read too muchinto it.”

Then came a difficult choice. Offeredthe chance of doing a PhD at Caius, heturned it down. He went on supervisinghere, one day a week, but also took a part-time job, lecturing in Sports Science(Biomechanics) at St Mary’s College,Twickenham. The attraction was that StMary’s is the home of the High PerformanceCentre run by UK Athletics and the English

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ten metres, in a PB of 3’ 34.74.This victory sparked considerable

coverage in the quality press, who weredelighted to discover something to cheerabout in British middle-distance running. Itis, after all, more than half a century sinceRoger Bannister’s four-minute mile and overtwenty years since the great rivalry ofSebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cramin the 1980s.

For all athletes, dreams of glory fuel theday-to-day routine of training – and middle-distance training is regular and relentless.Andy runs twice every weekday and once onSundays, averaging 14 miles a day, breakingthe routine with gym work, hill training,track and “threshold sessions”.

Threshold sessions are a relatively newidea, where the athlete runs for twentyminutes or half an hour at his “lactatethreshold”. This is the point at which thebody produces lactic acid because it hasinsufficient oxygen. Muscles become moreacidic and contract less effectively. Therunner feels pain and slows down. Andy’slactate threshold is about 170 heartbeats perminute. Running at this level produces themaximum aerobic effect, where muscles useall the oxygen the heart can deliver, withoutoverstraining into an anaerobic condition.

How would it feel, to sit on the shoulderof the world champion, as Andy did inSheffield, on the last bend before the homestraight, knowing you have more in the tank,thanks to all those punishing months ofpushing yourself to the limit? Then you pressthe button: lactic acid or not, the legsrespond, and you fly past in fractions of asecond. You know you’ve won it long beforethe tape. There’s even time for a cool glanceover your shoulder, just to make sure, andthen you float across the line, leaving twoOlympic medallists floundering behind you.How satisfying is that?

For Andy, it all began in the early 1990s,when he went to Calday Grange GrammarSchool in the Wirral, where his father teachesbiology. His parents were always supportive:they stood in muddy fields, watching himcome a regular seventh or eighth in his year.He might have given it up, but the crosscountry teacher urged him to go on, for thesake of the team. In his last three years atschool, there was a flicker of hope: he camefifth, fourth and sixth in the English SchoolsChampionships. Not bad – but no medals.

At Caius, he always knew he could trainharder, but there were so many otherdemands on his time. In his fourth year, alawyer, Andy Hobdell, offered to coach himand (thanks to the Bell-Wade) he was ableto go on a warm weather training trip toPortugal. At the end of that season he wasrewarded with second place in the 2004 AAAChampionships: “It sounds good, but it was a

Caians who would like to followAndy Baddeley’s progress maylike to visit his own website:http://www.andrewbaddeley.co.uk

Institute of Sport, so services on offerincluded a physiologist, physiotherapist,strength and conditioning adviser,nutritionist and psychologist. In the 2005AAA, he came second again and missedqualifying for the World Championships by0.2 of a second. “But that was a blessing indisguise, because I was competitive in theWorld University Games” – another secondplace, but this time against a strong field ofrunners from all over the world.

Andy’s athletic career has been doggedby more than his fair share of major healthproblems and accidents. Back in 2001, afterhis first-year exams at Caius, he sufferedfrom a stress-related complaint called HSP(Henoch-Schönlein purpura) which caused arash, weight loss and severe swelling of hisjoints, putting him into hospital for a weekand costing him a whole summer ofathletics.

In 2004, after going down, he suffered

from fairly severe heart palpitations.Diagnosis required the surgical implanting ofan ECG chip into his chest, which is stillthere. He’s waiting for the right moment inhis running career to have it removed. Whatit revealed sounds forbidding but is not life-threatening – AV nodal re-entranttachycardia, a secondary pathway in thetissue of the heart that conducts electricalimpulses in the wrong direction, so extraheartbeats are sometimes triggered atrandom.

More mundane but still infuriatingmishaps include being tripped in the Final ofthe AAA Indoors 800m and breaking his wrist– and being tripped again in theCommonwealth Games 1,500m Final, fallingawkwardly on the broken wrist, which wasstill in plaster.

Andy brushes off these misfortunes andregrets that journalists give them so muchprominence, compared to his successes. Now,he is at the turning point of his career.Athletes are not paid like footballers, golfersand tennis players, but Andy knows this is thetime to give up lecturing at St Mary’s, withall the perks, and become fully professional,“because I don’t think I can achieve what Iwant to achieve with a commitment to apart-time job.”

“This is my job now. Some days it’s hard.I don’t want to do it every day, but I do do itevery day because that’s how you get to bethe best. I want to be at the start line withthe other guys, knowing that I’ve doneeverything I can do.”

In athletics, the days of the giftedamateur are over. Andy realises that thesponsors he needs will look for value formoney and he is happy to work with them toensure that they also benefit from theirassociation with him:

“Hopefully, in return, as my profile risesand the London Olympics get closer, thebenefit to them will be obvious.

There are many staging-posts on the longroad to London. The most important isBeijing, next year, after which Andy plans ashort break in his training regime, to marryhis fiancée, celebrated Caius sportswoman,winner of the Lock Tankard, Louise Craigie(2001). They’re hoping the Dean will agree tothe wedding being held in the College Chapel.

Many Caians are high achievers, but AndyBaddeley, just past his twenty-fifth birthday,has the drive and determination to succeedin any field he chooses. Fortunately for therest of us, we can all bask in the reflectedglory of his triumphs without feeling thepain!

I asked Andy what his real ambitions are,in his heart of hearts:

“Any medal at Beijing. Any colour at all.Then I’ll know how realistic the Gold inLondon is.”

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by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

Andy Baddeley (2000) leaves the 2007 World Champion and 2004 Olympic silver medalist, Bernard Lagat(USA) and Olympic bronze medalist, Rui Silva (Portugal) floundering more than ten metres behind him.

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EVENTS & REUNIONS FOR 2007-2008

Annual Gathering (1994 & 1995) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 15 SeptemberDevelopment Campaign Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 26 September

Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 2 OctoberNew York Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 22 OctoberCommemoration of Benefactors Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 18 NovemberCommemoration Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 18 NovemberFirst Christmas Carol Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 28 November (6pm)Second Christmas Carol Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 29 November (4.30pm)Michaelmas Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 30 November

Lent Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 15 January 2008The Stephen Hawking Circle Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tba FebruaryDevelopment Campaign Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 MarchParents’ Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 13 MarchParents’ Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 14 MarchLent Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 14 March

MAs’ Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 28 MarchMumbai Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tba AprilHong Kong Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tba AprilTelephone Campaign begins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 5 AprilAnnual Gathering (1975, 1976 & 1977) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 11 AprilCaius Club Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tba April

Easter Full Term begins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 22 AprilEaster Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 13 JuneMay Week Party for Benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 14 JuneCaius Club Bumps Event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 14 JuneMay Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 17 JuneCaius Medical Association Meeting & Dinner . . . . . . . . Saturday 21 JuneGraduation Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 26 JuneAnnual Gathering (up to & including 1956). . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 1 JulyAdmissions Open Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 3 & Friday 4 JulyAnnual Gathering (1984, 1985 & 1986) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 20 September