ISSUE 7 SPRING 2008 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

FIREWORKS over Harvey Court

Judging the BOOKER PRIZE

How GREEN is Your Clothing?

How LEVEL is Your Playing Field?

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ContentsM

ick Le Moignan

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2 Fireworks over Harvey Court: 3 Points of View – Professor David Kunzle (1954)Gabriel Byng (2005) and Dr Jimmy Altham (1965)

4 Judging the Booker Prize – by Dr Ruth Scurr (2005)

6 How Green is Your Clothing? – the work of Dr Julian Allwood (2000)

8 How Level is Your Playing Field? – by Dr Andrew Bell (2006), Admissions Tutor

10 Securing the Supervision System – College Lectureships

12 Foot-the-Ball (1947) – by Douglas Rae (1945)

16 Caius Calling! – Telephone Campaign 2008

18 “Gee, I wonder if...” – interview with Dr Charles McCutchen (1952)

20 Thank You! – To All Our Benefactors

24 The Stephen Hawking Circle

26 CaiNotes

28 The Caius Foundation (USA)

29 The Caius Australian Scholarship Fund

30 A Case of Mistaken Identity – by Hibbert Binney (1939)

32 CaiMemories

36 Two Poems by Stanley Howarth (1935)

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Cover Photographs by Yao Liang (Harvey Court) and Derek Ingram (Fireworks).

Derek Ingram

Yao Liang

Dan White caught the friendly faces of the CaiusPantry team: (l to r) Vlasta Pizarro (Assistant Butler),Paolo Pace (Fellows’ Butler), Sammy Lau (DeputyButler) and Roger Norman (Assistant Butler)

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

From the Director of Development

Welcome to the seventh issue of Once a Caian..., the magazine for all membersof the Caian community. Together, Caians, parents and friends contribute, eachyear, over a quarter of the cost of running the College. We thank you for suchoutstanding loyalty and generosity, an eloquent expression of gratitude for thepast and faith in the future.We are proud that Caius again featured in theannual Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign Report. Last year it recordedthe funding of the Stephen Hawking Building and this year’s Report recognisedthe 95 Caians who showed what can be achieved collectively by raising£1million to endow the Neil McKendrick College Lectureship.

In Once a Caian..., we try to paint a picture of the College in the present,showcasing the current achievements of Fellows and students and inviting oldermembers to reminisce and reflect, to provide a perspective on how thecommunity to which we all belong is evolving over the decades. In this issue welearn about the research of Dr Julian Allwood (2000), whose work is part ofCambridge’s significant and complex contribution to global challenges and thesustainable development agenda. Dr Ruth Scurr (2006) takes us behind thescenes in the literary world as she describes her role judging the 2007 BookerPrize. Dr Jimmy Altham (1965), as Chairman of the College Works Committee,shares the challenges of maintaining Harvey Court.

We understand that our supporters have various priorities: some wish to investin the College’s future while others would prefer their gifts to have animmediate impact, benefitting students today. Accordingly, we have set up anAnnual Fund, where donations will not be added to the Endowment but will beapplied immediately to the College’s current needs.You can read more aboutthis in “Caius Calling!”

Julia Gilbert (1996) has kindly supplied the College with Boat Club programmesgoing back to 1987. I would like to add my support to the appeal in CaiNotesfor earlier programmes from the Lent and May Bumps to complete theCollege’s records.

Many will be interested to read “How Level is Your Playing Field?”, written byour Admissions Tutor, Dr Andrew Bell (2006), who describes how he and hiscolleagues assess candidates solely on grounds of their academic potential.They are also building a Caian community for the future, with contacts,commitments, friendships and loyalties that will last a lifetime.

Dr Anne Lyon (2001)Fellow

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Professor Stephen Hawking (1965)has expressed his delight with thenew Caius building that bears hisname. One wonders whetherWilliam Harvey (1593), the

celebrated discoverer of the circulation of theblood, would have been as thrilled with hisown commemoration. Harvey Court is abuilding which causes many Caians’ blood tocirculate more vigorously than usual.

It is a Listed Building (Grade II*) andtherefore an unimpeachable jewel in ournational heritage; and yet a Caian wholoathes it offered the College a substantial

donation towards a Fund to Demolish HarveyCourt and Replace it with a Humane Building!

Dr Jimmy Altham (1965), who has theunenviable task of chairing the College’sWorks Committee, recently received a hair-raising estimate of costs for the re-wiring, re-roofing and general refurbishment of HarveyCourt. Our day-to-day concern is to provide awarm, safe, welcoming environment for ourstudents – and we succeed, as Gabriel Byngattests on the next page – but we have tostruggle against the constraints which thebuilding and its defects impose.

Harvey Court is generally attributed to

Sir Leslie Martin, but Tim Mathias (1957)remembers seeing the first plans for it on thedesk of Colin St John “Sandy” Wilson, whoworked in Martin’s office. In Wilson’s obituaryin the RIBA journal, it is described as:

“an extraordinary brick acropolis in theform of a raised court surrounded by studentrooms... For Wilson it became a generativeidea in the composition of the OxfordUniversity Law Library (1964) and eventuallyin the form of the British Library.”

Whether Harvey Court is a work of art oran atrocity is a matter of individual taste.Here, three Caians have their say.

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David Kunzle. Dr Jimmy Altham.Gabriel Byng.

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by David Kunzle (1954),Professor of Art Historyat UCLA

R evisiting Caius for the GoldenReunion of my matriculation yearreally set up in me a mood of fond

nostalgia. But I made the mistake of revisitingHarvey Court, which revived the despair I felton first encountering it twenty years ago.

This is worse than a nineteenth centuryprison complex, with its denial of outlook tothe exterior view and the lead coffin view inthe centre. I imagine a gibbet standing there.The inhumanity of the design is an insult tothe landscape, to an otherwise beautifulCambridge with lovely buildings, old and new,and to the poor students incarcerated there.

I doubt that I have ever had so violentand immediate a reaction to sheer, wilful,artful ugliness, bearing the stench of avisionless, bureaucratized capitalist educationsystem. By the latter I mean not Caius orCambridge, or my own education in particular– far from it – but a system that seemeddesigned, especially among scientists, toimprison our minds. “We are not (in the UK orUS) imprisoned for our ideas, because we arealready imprisoned by our ideas.”

Harvey Court resembles a prison from theoutside (whatever joys it may offer from theinside), and symbolizes for me a well-internalized lock on real rebellion, whichuniversities, or the students in them, seemedto offer momentarily in the 1960s, againstnefarious governments that lead us to warand destruction. If Harvey Court is a reactionto that mood of liberation, it has, visually,done its job. Since there are lots of perfectlyand equally horrible buildings around to rivalHarvey Court, I should admit my anger anddistress are much compounded by a sense ofgreat privilege at having lived (and for threeyears, when most got only one year inCollege) in St Michael’s Court, with a lovelyview of the marketplace. So I take itpersonally. How lucky I was!

by Gabriel Byng (2005),Current Caius Student

H arvey Court must be the mostunfairly maligned building inCambridge. Nobody likes it, from

Fellows to students, from visitors toresidents. But I think they’re wrong. I havenot visited, let alone lived in, better studentaccommodation since I left Harvey Courttwo years ago.

Even now, sitting at the stone mullionedwindow of a pretty set in St Mike’s Court, Imiss stepping out on one of the balconiesthat run the length of the building to see afriend or enjoy a stroll. Rather than beconcealed behind a closed door or at theend of a faceless corridor, every student isintegrated into the Harvey Courtcommunity, just a window away from mostof the year-group, but still with their ownprivate space. Built at the start of the1960s, Harvey Court seems to plan for ahopeful future based on community andrationalism, using modern materials,perpendicular lines and a tidy layout. Asense of belonging was not something extrato the modern student’s surroundings, itwas built into them.

This open and welcoming planemphasises that Harvey Court is just that: aCourt. Most modern student blocks aretowering cuboids hidden behind moregraceful older buildings, but at HarveyCourt you face into a broad courtyard, likethe oldest collegiate traditions.

Beyond the sweeping balconies, life isformed into micro-communities of aboutfive or six on each corridor, sharing gyp-rooms and bathrooms that compare prettyfavourably with the Old Courts. Thestunning gardens, the fantastic location,sandwiched between the centre of townand the countryside, and the multiplecentres for socialising made life at HarveyCourt a joy.

by Dr Jimmy Altham (1965),Chairman of the CaiusWorks Committee

W hatever judgements one maymake about the aesthetic andsocial qualities of Harvey Court,

the building itself presents the College with anumber of serious difficulties which will behorrendously expensive to resolve.1) The building is listed as Grade II* byEnglish Heritage, so we cannot make changesthat English Heritage would perceive ascompromising the integrity of the originaldesign.2) It wastes energy, with big picture-windows and little insulation.3) The main roof, which is made of copper, isthought to be coming to the end of its usefullife.4) The terraces and the podium are aconcern. The original brick terraces werereplaced with concrete slabs, which havebecome uneven.5) There is water penetration, either becausethe waterproof membrane is defective orbecause of deterioration in the brickparapets.6) The roof of the recently refurbishedbreakfast-room needs replacing.7) The building needs complete re-wiring.8) The copper heating pipes are beginning tospring leaks – and they are encased inconcrete, so can only be reached with apneumatic drill.9) The downpipes run inside the brick piersand so are also inaccessible withoutremoving the bricks to reach them.10) Lavatory and washing facilities needupdating.11) The picture-windows are suffering fromdecay in the woodwork, with badly wornrunners.12) The parapets are too low. Health &Safety required the College to raise thebarrier, but English Heritage forbade anychanges to the permanent structure. Theunhappy compromise is an ugly post andwire structure along all the tops of theparapets.

The College’s current plan is to renovateHarvey Court so as to improve its amenity,efficiency, and ease of maintenance, but thepossibility that the problems are even moreserious than we think cannot yet be ruled out.

Firework photographs by Derek Ingram.

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I do not have statistics for the number ofpeople who have been asked to judge theBooker Prize and said “No, I’m too busy.” Theremust be some, but I was never going to beamong them. That said, the work involved isonerous indeed. Remuneration for the judgesis £5,000 (a bit more for the chairman). Thenumber of novels varies slightly from year toyear. Every British publisher is allowed tosubmit two; new novels by authors who havebeen short-listed in the last ten years areautomatically eligible; and the judges can callin a dozen or so extra if they want to. OnlyBritish, Irish or Commonwealth writers areeligible. In 2007 there were 110 novels to readbetween April and early August, when thelong-listing takes place; so more or less anovel a day, like vitamins.

I don’t think I could have done it, on topof my teaching and other responsibilities,without the support of my friends in Caius.When I came across something good (or whenone of the other judges liked something Ithought awful) I sought a second opinionamong the fellowship. This led to someexciting conversations over lunch and wasexcellent preparation for the Booker judges’three formal meetings to decide a long list of13, a short list of 6 and finally a winner. Therewere some very tense moments at thosemeetings, but we were always civil. I vividlyremember one judge looking at me coldly andsaying: “Just because some people round thistable are better at arguing than I am, doesn’tmean I’m going to be changing my opinion.”

Another way Caius helped me as a judgewas in allowing me to have a room in Finella.Finella is an extraordinary house the Collegeowns on the Backs. It was rented in the late1920s by Mansfield Forbes who helpedestablish Cambridge’s English Faculty. Withthe help of the architect Raymond McGrath,Forbes transformed an ordinary Victorian villainto a modernist hymn to the mythical queenof Scotland, Finella: “a woman ahead of hertimes” who died when she hurled herself intoa glass fountain. The house has fallen intosome disrepair, but architectural students stillvisit to admire the innovative use of glass.I like to think that Forbes’s shade was pleasedwhen I arranged all 110 Booker submissions in

Iwas asked to judge the Man BookerPrize in 2007 together with SirHoward Davies, the Director of LSE,Wendy Cope, the poet, ImogenStubbs, the actress and Giles Foden,

the novelist. When I told my colleagues inCaius their first response was to congratulateme; their second to ask: “Who chooses theBooker judges?”Which is a polite way ofasking, “Why you?”

The answer to the first question is theManagement Committee that administers theprize first established in 1969; from thebeginning, the committee has been composedof representatives from the literary world(publishers, booksellers, writers) and nomineesfrom the prize’s sponsors (the Man Grouptook over from Booker in 2002).

The answer to the second question is mywork as a reviewer of contemporary fictionover the last decade. As an undergraduate inOxford, I began reading English then changedto Politics, Philosophy and Economics.Reviewing has been a way of staying in touchwith my first academic passion. Typically, Iread two or three novels a month and writeabout them in the Times, the Times LiterarySupplement or the Telegraph. You mightclassify this as a hobby, a part-time job, or aserious intellectual interest. I never expected itto culminate in judging the nation’s mostprestigious literary prize.

Booker PrizeJudging

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Booker contenders.

Dr Ruth Scurr (2006) in Tree Court.

his house in a single bookcase: top shelf forcontenders, bottom shelf for no hopers, andmiddle shelf for ones still to read.

Forbes warned against “a pathologicalcelerity in reading” and here I’m afraid I lethim down. I read the first 100 pages of eachnovel at my ordinary pace, which is very slow.Then I speeded up, unless there was a reasonto slow down again. Rereading turned out tobe crucial. At each stage in the selectionprocess, when we reread the novels we hadchosen, they shifted dramatically. Myexperience was that three of the six novels onthe short list fell apart on the second or thirdreading. One judge objected that this was anunfair test: most readers will only read a novelonce, so it’s the first reading that carries mostweight. I disagree. The aspiration of the Bookerprize has always been to identify not abestseller or beach-read, but a novel that willlast and remain interesting in 20 years time.Hard to predict, of course, but the extremetest of three readings in four months is a goodstarting point.

The book I most wanted to win didn’t.Nicola Barker’s Darkmans is a vehementlyfunny vision of contemporary life set inAshford, Kent. It is a divisive book: onehistorian friend in Caius, a wonderful writerhimself, thinks it is unreadable. Another Caian,the composer Robin Holloway, loved the novelwith me, scene by scene. Meanwhile, myfellow judges, dismayed by the fact thatDarkmans is over 800 pages long, gamelyagreed to place it on the short list and read itfor a third time. One engagingly admitted tobeing “ashamed” of his earlier dismissivecomments, but even so, it didn’t win.

The novel that did, Anne Enright’s TheGathering, has proved a contentious choice.The writing is very beautiful, the subjectmatter depressing and bleak. I remembertalking about it in Caius after my first reading,explaining how haunting and deft the prosewas, but how inconceivable you’d want to buy

Talking with students about individualpassages, I realised with pleasure and somerelief that frantic and fraught as those Bookerjudging meetings were, onerous as the readingwas, we did succeed in identifying a book thatstands up to the scrutiny of Cambridgeundergraduates: a book that will still be readin 20 years.

a story about grief and child-abuse as apresent for yourself or a friend. “Does a bookhave to be cheerful to win the Booker prize?”a Junior Research Fellow asked, astutely. Myappreciation of The Gathering grew with eachreading and continues to do so. I gave anundergraduate seminar on it this term for theinterdisciplinary paper: Gender and Society.

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For many at Caius, research isevery bit as important asteaching. The dissemination ofknowledge is a vital part of theCollege’s work, but so is the

ongoing search for new ideas and newsolutions to new problems. The mostsignificant discoveries often seem to occur inthe no-man’s land between two or moredisciplines. One of the great advantages of theCollege system is that it brings togetherexperts in different fields on equal terms andgives them the opportunity to shareexperiences and learn about each other’swork.

For such ancient institutions, Caius andCambridge are remarkably flexible in focusing

Caius. He is interested in analysing the flow ofraw materials all the way through theprocesses of production, distribution, use anddisposal, to discover ways in whichundesirable environmental and social impactscan be reduced in an economically feasibleway. He is curious to discover whetherconsumer choices can make a real differenceto the global problem of achieving relativesustainability.

Three years ago, he secured funding fromthe Landfill Tax Credit Scheme through Biffa(the largest British waste collection company)with an additional contribution from Marks &Spencer. The task was to examine the presentand future sustainability of the supply ofclothing and textile products to the UK. The

on new issues. There is as yet no Faculty ofClimate Change, but that does not stop ourchemists and engineers, our physicists,geographers, biologists, botanists, medics, andsocial scientists adjusting the aims of theirresearch to see what they can add to ourunderstanding of the defining issue of thetwenty-first century, carbon emissions and theresulting climate change.

Dr Julian Allwood (2000) followed hisCambridge degree with a PhD and MBA fromImperial College, London and worked for Alcoafor ten years, giving him an unusual mixtureof academic and industrial experience. Julian iscurrently a Senior Lecturer in MechanicalEngineering for the University and a CollegeLecturer, Praelector and Director of Studies at

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shredded old cloth and reused the fibres has allbut ceased to operate. If efficient ways can befound of re-cycling waste clothing, it may wellcome back into fashion!

The research showed a significantdifference in the environmental problemscaused by cotton garments and man-made/synthetics. The latter use a lot of energyin production but less for maintenance. Cottonused extra energy by being washed at highertemperatures, so for a cotton T-shirt, 25% ofcarbon emissions came from production and75% from washing and drying. The total life-cycle energy used by cotton garments could behalved by washing them at lower temperaturesand hanging them to dry, rather than usingelectric tumble-dryers.

The conclusion is inescapable: in the caseof the clothing and textiles industry, at least,governments have relatively little influenceover environmental impacts which are theresult of consumer choices and consumerbehaviour. Only individuals can make thedecisions that would redress the currentimbalance.

In the course of Julian’s research for thisproject, the global agenda changedconsiderably, to the point where carbonemissions became the dominant concern.

There are four main drivers of global carbonemissions:

• Heating and cooling of air in buildings

• Transport

• Generation of electricity

• Industry

In the UK, the first three of these dominate,so building on the lessons about consumerchoice from the clothing and textiles project,Julian Allwood says that the message forindividuals concerned about global warming issimple:

“If you really care about global warming,turn down your heating and get out of the car!”

Globally, half of the industrial emissions ofcarbon are due to five materials – cement,steel, plastic, aluminium and paper. Julian iscurrently seeking funding for an even moreambitious project, to investigate the emissionsassociated with these materials over the next40 years. The target that has been set by theInter-Government Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) is a cut of 60% in global levels of carbonemission levels from 1990 to 2050. The UKmanaged to reduce levels from 1990 to 2003but they are now increasing again. The problemfor developing countries is clearly much moreacute.

Like most teaching Fellows, Julian is tornbetween the fascination of his own work andthe duty and privilege of helping to nurture thefinest minds of the next generation. The aim, hesays, is to spend two-thirds of his time onresearch and one-third on teaching; in reality, itis all too often one-third teaching, two-thirdsresearch and two-thirds administration andfundraising – which leaves little time for thepleasures of raising his young family. All thesame, he is delighted to be working in an areawhich is so relevant to the needs and concernsof our times and excited about the potential ofhis research to add to the sum of knowledgeabout this colossally challenging problem.

The fundamental question is whetherindividual action can ever really make adifference. The conclusion of the Well DressedReport is that where clothing is concerned,governments can do little: it is only individualswho can start to solve this problem, bychanging the way they think and behave and bycutting back on the waste of resources.

* The Report “Well Dressed” can bedownloaded from:www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/projectsISBN-1-902546-52-0 Published by theUniversity of Cambridge, Institute forManufacturing, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX

result of five person-years of work on thesubject is a fascinating report* whichchallenges many accepted ideas about ourclothes and other fabrics and how we usethem and suggests a variety of ways in whichwe consumers could alter our currentpractices, to the considerable benefit of theplanet.

In 2004, UK purchasers spent an averageof £625 per head on clothing. Between 2001and 2005, spending grew while pricesdropped; the number of garments boughtincreased by one third in that four-yearperiod. Currently, UK consumers buy anddispose of around 35kg of clothing andtextiles per person, per year, of which about13% is collected for re-use (Oxfam shops,etc.),13% is incinerated and the rest (26kg perperson, less some accumulation in thewardrobes of the nation) is buried in landfill.

The life cycle of these garments hascomplex environmental effects which include:

• a contribution to climate changethrough energy use, both for launderingand for production of man-made andsynthetic fibres

• water and soil pollution from the use oftoxic chemicals in cotton agricultureand garment manufacture

• The use of UK agricultural land forlandfill

• High water consumption – particularlyfor cotton cultivation

Worldwide in 2000, the clothing andtextiles industry was worth aroundUS$1trillion, accounted for 7% of cross-bordertrade and directly (excluding retail) employedat least 26 million people, often low-paidworkers in developing countries. They wouldfeel the impact of any major change inpurchasing behaviour. More than a quarter ofthe world’s textiles production now takesplace in China and the industry provides morethan 70% of the exports of Cambodia,Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The question that Julian’s team setthemselves was: “If we could play God withthe supply-chain for the production oftextiles, how would we make it as sustainableas possible?” (i.e. minimising environmental orsocial damage). The answer they came up withwas very simple: “BUY LESS, WASH LESS!”

But this answer gave rise to otherquestions, such as: “How do we retain a senseof fashion without constantly replacingclothes?” Possibly by spending twice as muchmoney on half as many garments, substitutingQUALITY for NOVELTY. Clothes ascommodities are easy to discard but once anitem has some personal meaning, havingperhaps been given or made or repaired by afriend, they develop an added value and we goon wearing them for longer.

The “shoddy trade” in the UK, which

To test the market for “green” clothing inCambridge, we sent our two CaianDevelopment Assistants, Jo Wood (2003) andJon Langford (2003) out to buy a new (tothem!) spring wardrobe for a budget ofbetween £25 and £30 each. They went to theBritish Heart Foundation’s shop at 10 BurleighStreet, Cambridge and were delighted withwhat they found.

Jo is wearing a Japanese take on that perennialfavorite of designers – the trench coat – made ofyellow felt, £9.99. Underneath is a classic redblouse from Marks and Spencer’s Autograph range,£4.50. She has a red wool pencil skirt by Englishluxury label Aquascutum, £4.50 and red sandalswith a cork wedge (and leopard print lining!),£5.50. The outfit is finished off with a playfulyellow leather clutch bag, £3.75.TOTAL PRICE £28.24

Jon is wearing a navy blazer jacket by designerHugo Boss, £8.25, with a shirt from Marks andSpencer’s Autograph range, the fine black stripesadding to the understated elegance, £4.99. He hasclassic blue jeans styled in the regular fit, £4.99,and his evening dress shoes are vintage by the nowrare British brand Wearra, with leather soles, £9.99.TOTAL PRICE £28.22

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Clothing?is your

Dr Julian Allwood (2000)interviewed byMick Le Moignan (2004)

Dr Julian Allwood (2000).

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Yao Liang

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The national newspapers lovestories about Oxbridgeadmissions but they are oftenfull of contradictory allegations.We are accused by one of

elitism, by another of “dumbing down”.According to the press, candidates from

independent schools either (a) get intoOxbridge easily because they are good chaps,following in their fathers’ footsteps, or(b) have no chance of a place even if theydeserve one, since they are unfairly treated ina clumsy attempt at social engineering.

State school students, the media tellus, either (a) get the best exam results butare turned down because their accents ortable manners are not up to scratch, or(b) are admitted despite poorer exam resultsbecause the university wants to kow-tow tothe government to get its public fundingrestored to former levels.

Colleges are alleged either to be(a) slavishly governed by A-level grades or(b) prepared to turn a blind eye to academicfailings so as to admit anyone who excels atsport.

These stories have just one thing incommon: they are nonsense. The truth is verysimple. Caius, like all Cambridge colleges,admits students above all on grounds ofacademic potential. Applicants are treated asindividuals, not statistics, and we believe thatour processes are robust, fair and that we havenothing to hide.

Let us make no bones about it: entry toCambridge is becoming ever morecompetitive. Applications have increased bysome 35% since the year 2000 and many ofthese ‘new’ applicants are very well qualified.In the last admissions round Cambridgeturned down applications from more than5,000 students who went on to achieve threeor more A-grades at A-level. This certainly wasnot the case when I applied to university in1992 (and I must admit to being rather gladof it – many Admissions Tutors are far from

necessarily better evidence of these qualitiesthan stacking shelves in the supermarket. Insome subjects candidates submit work, inothers they sit written tests, and in allsubjects applicants are interviewed at leasttwice. There is no single magic ingredient in allof this. A very strong written test can lift aless compelling interview performance; a verystrong interview can lift weaker GCSE results.

It is important to emphasize that nocandidate is penalised or rewarded for havingattended a particular school. The quality ofsecondary education available varies widely,and whilst it is not the responsibility ofuniversities to make good the deficiencies ofsome schools, nonetheless it is ourresponsibility to view each application in itsappropriate context. Put simply, school qualityaffects examination achievement.

Of course, we can only choose from thosewho apply. Caius is fortunate in having a hard-won reputation for academic excellence andevery year we receive many applications fromwell-qualified, enthusiastic, dedicatedstudents. But there are also many talentedstudents who simply never think of applyingto Cambridge and Caius. Even allowing for theincrease in applications of recent years, wereceive an average of only four applicants perplace – far fewer than most other selectiveuniversities. Some may be put off by lack ofinformation, or worse still by misinformation;others may not have received appropriateencouragement at the right stage in theireducation. The College goes to great lengthsto offer that information and encouragement.We run workshops in College for schoolstudents and their teachers, Fellows visitschools, schools visit Caius and we collaboratein a number of major outreach events withgroups inside and outside the University. Makeno mistake, this does not arise out of somemisplaced political correctness. We want toadmit those students with the greatestpotential to succeed and we cannot assumethat they will all automatically come to us.

confident that their seventeen-year-old selveswould secure a place at Cambridge in the 21stcentury). Choosing between talented studentsis not at all easy and the College’s teachingFellows spend many long hours deliberatingover, sometimes agonising over, theirdecisions.

How are decisions made? There is muchtalk of declining standards in A-levels andmany believe A-grades are handed out all tooliberally. Whatever our reservations, theCollege takes school results very seriously andhaving access to a candidate’s percentagescores goes some way towards reducing ourreliance on the A-grade itself. We are also veryinterested in a candidate’s GCSEs orequivalents, although we recognise that somecandidates are on an upward trajectory andthat their earlier results may not alwaysindicate their potential.

References and personal statements arevery important, particularly when theydemonstrate that a candidate has alreadybegun to explore his or her chosen subject inearnest. Evidence of organisation anddetermination counts for something, althoughcompeting in county level cricket is not

and Quantum Mechanics’ and ‘Thinking withMilton’.

The students were worked hard – wecouldn’t let them go home thinking thatCambridge is easy – but between classes andassignments some time was found for play.On the first evening, a mercifully mildCambridge summer evening, we went punting.To the students’ great disappointment, andmy great relief, nobody fell in. On anotherevening we saw a playful and energeticperformance of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’in Trinity gardens. Throughout these activities,and during the day-to-day business of dining,finding rooms, drinking coffee in the commonroom and so on, a handful of current Caiusstudents acted as excellent shepherds andambassadors. I am sure that our own students

did as much as anyone to make the event asuccess.

Was it a success? In part the point of theexercise was to show a group of sixth-formstudents and their schools something of thereality of the College. To say that the studentswere astonished by the commitment of theCollege’s Fellows to their teaching andresearch will not surprise Caians, but perhapswhat surprised the students themselves wasthe warmth, approachability and engagementof those who taught them. The students wereall very clear that this is the message theytook home with them.

Perhaps the proof of the Summer School’ssuccess is that more than half of the studentswho attended went on to apply to Cambridgefor undergraduate study, some 30 of whomchose Caius as their preferred College. Seven

have now gained places at this College and ahandful more were successful at otherColleges. In time, they too will becomeambassadors for the University. Thanks to thecontinued support of the Youngs, the SummerSchool will run again this year. Theirgenerosity, together with the commitment ofthe Fellows and students of Caius, means thatwe will again be able to offer this hugelyenriching opportunity to a group of youngpeople who may not otherwise haveCambridge in their sights.

In a piece about admissions which will beread by older Caians, there is one final subjectwhich I should raise, and it can seem a thornyone. Caians are often interested to know howthe College would react to an applicationfrom a close relative of theirs. Would family

association be an advantage or adisadvantage?

The answer is, of course, neither. If aCaian recommends the College to others,then we are pleased to infer that we must bedoing something right, but lineage simplydoes not play a part in our consideration ofapplicants. In truth, we are happiest notknowing that an applicant has a familyconnection until after all admissions decisionshave been made. That way, there can be nosuspicion that any candidate has gained theirplace other than on their own merits in anopen competition (and who would want aplace gained any other way?). A glance at TheCaian will show that approximately 10% offreshmen each year are still related to Caians.As to the role that genetics may play in all ofthis, well, I leave that to others to discuss.

The summer of 2007 saw our mostambitious outreach event to date. Thanks tothe great generosity of Thomas and HelenaYoung, parents of Alice Young (2003), theCollege was able to run a four day residentialSummer School for sixth-form students instate schools. Our aim was to give talentedstudents a meaningful experience of theacademic and social life of the College,without charging them a penny, in the hopethat this would boost their ambitions andencourage them to think seriously aboutapplying to Cambridge and Caius.

The Summer School was advertised toschools a few months in advance and studentswere invited to apply to study one of fivesubjects. We were confident that we would fillour 75 places but were somewhat bowled

over to receive three applications per place.We chose on academic merit and wereparticularly pleased that we were able toselect a good number of students fromschools which do not routinely sendapplicants to Cambridge.

As everyone who has experienced itknows, the great benefit of a Cambridgeeducation is not the buildings and thetraditions, wonderful though they may be:it is the teaching. The Summer School was asplendid showcase for what the College has tooffer and some thirty Fellows gave up theirtime to offer lectures, classes andsupervisions. Sessions included ‘Medicine,Monsters and Mortality in Early ModernEurope’, ‘The Brain as a Survival Machine’,‘Flaubert and the Nineteenth Century Novel’,‘The Biology of Cancer’, ‘Reflection, Navigation

Playing Field?Level is your

by Dr Andrew Bell (2006),Admissions Tutor

All work and no play. . .Members of the first Caius Summer School on the steps of Harvey Court. Spot the Admissions Tutor!

How

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debt we owe to our heritage, to those whocame before us, as well as to those who willcome after us.

Our predecessors left us many gifts –stone, glass, silver, works of art and many,many books, but more precious than all ofthese, they gave us an ideal: that gifted youngpeople should be free to read and study andthink, and that wiser, maturer minds shouldhelp and nurture them. This is our College’score value and we have a duty to ensure itscontinuance.

There are two great successes to report insecuring the future of the Caius supervisionsystem: John Haines (1949), who wasadmitted as a Gonville Fellow Benefactor inthe Chapel in November 2007, has given£300,000 to endow a College Lectureshipwhich will bear his name; and 95 formerstudents and friends of Neil McKendrick(1958) have together given £1million toendow a College Lectureship in History whichwill honour his phenomenal success overalmost forty years as Director of Studies inHistory and nearly another decade as Master.

John Haines (1949) first came toCambridge at the suggestion of his lifelongschool friend, the late Dr Brian Gibberd (1951)who was applying to read medicine at Caius,and invited John to join him for a “break fromschool” to take MB Part II Physics in 1947. In abrief interview, the Senior Tutor, E K “Francis”Bennett (1914) pronounced: “Well, as long asyour Higher Certificate’s good, you would havea place.”

In the event, John did rather better thanthat, winning an Open Exhibition to readMedicine. “I thought I would give it a go, butyou have to be a very driven person to enjoyAnatomy. It’s a bit like learning the telephonedirectory.”

After the first term, he went to see histutor, Stanley Dennison (1945), and arrangedto continue with Human Physiology but toreplace Anatomy with Botany. When the Triposcame along, he got a First (“probably only amarginal one”). It was sufficient to win himone of twelve coveted places in Microbiologybut he felt the others on the course were

One of the beauties of Caius isthe diversity of ourcommunity. From thebenefactor who endows abuilding, to the chef who

creates a Feast, the Fellow who gives a talk,the student who sings or the gardener whoplants a flowerbed, each member can make acontribution which will bring pleasure andbenefit to others.

When our students succeed, whether onthe river, the rugby field or even in the Tripos,we are all entitled to feel a little pride in theirachievements. The cutting edge of ourresearch is vital, too: we can all bask in thebrilliance of the late Francis Crick (1950) orStephen Hawking (1965), simply because weare fortunate enough to have them as fellow-members of our intellectual community. Theheart of the matter, however, is the quality ofour teaching: that is what we offer thenewcomer who walks through the Gate ofHumility and that is the standard by which weshall be judged in the future.

It is hard enough to achieve excellence –but even harder to continue it, as any recentCaptain of the Caius Boat Club knows. One ofour ambitions is to lay as firm a foundation aswe can for the teachers of the future, toprotect them, as far as we can, from thepolitical, social and financial pressures thatmay be brought to bear on them. This is a

Securing theSupervisionSystem

Dr Melissa Calaresu (1997).

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the Cambridge Department of Genetics andDirector of Studies in Biology at Caius. Davidis a Caian through and through: his wife, DianaSummers (1992) and their son John Summers(2002) both did post-graduate degrees here.After David’s undergraduate time at Caius, hewent to Oxford for three years and Glasgowfor six but despite never planning to comeback to Caius he found himself, in the end,unable to escape its gravitational pull.

As a Director of Studies and a College

Lecturer, one of the aspects of his work thathe most enjoys is the opportunity provided bythe College system to get to know hisstudents as individuals, from the day of theiradmission interviews to the day of graduation.The regular weekly supervisions enable him tofollow closely their growing understanding ofthe subject and consequently to guide theirprogress in a way that would be impossible ifhe were teaching a larger group.

Neil McKendrick (1958) was a legendaryCollege supervisor, whose rigorous intellectualdiscipline inspired his students to achieverecord numbers of Firsts and starred Firsts. He,too, took the trouble to get to know whatmade his students tick, so that he could helpthem to achieve their full potential.

Neil McKendrick’s former pupils andfriends have given over £1million to endow aCollege Lectureship in History at Caius incelebration of his exceptional dedication. Theirgenerosity has secured the position of the first

Neil McKendrick Lecturer, Dr Melissa Calaresu(1997), allowing her to concentrate on herteaching and research.

Melissa is a Canadian, born in Scotland,who won a Commonwealth Scholarship to doher doctorate in the UK. An historian of theEnlightenment in Italy, her research has nowmoved towards a broader cultural history.

Curiously, this mirrors the development ofMcKendrick’s own work, from economic historyto social history, through his study of JosiahWedgwood and his central perception that“The seismic change in eighteenth centuryBritain was not the Industrial Revolution, butthe explosion of consumerism which fuelled it.”

Melissa, who is a Graduate Tutor as well asDirector of Studies in History, relishes theprivilege of working with outstanding studentsand teachers: “What’s great about CaiusHistory is the intellectual energy and sense ofcommunity among historians at all levels.”

Director of Development, Dr Anne Lyon(2001) says: “The College-based supervisionsystem which emphasizes individual learningand encourages argument and debate is underthreat. Governments question the cost ofgiving students so much individual tuition on aweekly basis.

“We believe that this small groupsupervision system is vital to maintaining theexcellence of a Cambridge education, whichgives our students the flexibility and breadth ofoutlook needed to succeed in a rapidlychanging world. By making such generousdonations to endow our College Lectureships,Caians and friends of the College are helping toensure that the supervision system willcontinue.”

Personal tuition given by first class teachershas always been one of the hallmarks of aCaius education. The process requires acommitment by both teachers and students toan experience which is intense, demanding andexpensive, in terms of time and money.Currently, we have 9 College Teaching Officersand 38 University Teaching Officers, thedifference being that the latter also haveuniversity appointments which pay part oftheir stipend.

Over the next few years, the College hopesall these appointments will be separatelyendowed, to ensure that the high level ofpersonal attention given to our students ismaintained in the future. Caians whomatriculated in 1956 resolved at their GoldenReunion Dinner to give £300,000 to endow aCollege Lectureship commemorating their timehere. The latest news, as we go to press, is thattheir fund is nearly complete. Such loyal andenthusiastic support from older Caians sends aclear message: we care about our College andwe are determined to ensure that futuregenerations of Caians will continue to benefitfrom the finest education available in the yearsand centuries to come.

more intellectually committed, even thoughthat area interested him greatly. Anothercordial chat with Stanley Dennison securedhim a place to read Economics Part II underDennison and Peter Bauer (1934). AfterNational Service as a Gunner in Malaya, hedisappointed Dennison, who disliked bigcompanies, by joining a subsidiary of ICIdealing with pesticide development, initially inWest Africa and subsequently in South-EastAsia. After seven years, John left to join a small

management consultancy company.One way to gain consultancy business as a

small company was exposure throughconferences, which gave John and one of hispartners the idea of developing commercialbusiness conferences. Initially, this was part-time with no overheads but it expanded, withJohn mainly focusing on product. The range oftopics increased from law, tax and property toenergy and technology. John felt there shouldbe a natural synergy between conferences andpublishing and so the business moved intonewsletters. There were some serious setbacks,even disasters, during the progress of thecompany but it survived and went public,expanding initially into Europe and thenglobally, adding exhibitions to conferenceswhere appropriate. International BusinessCommunications (IBC) merged with a similarsized company in 1998 to become Informa,which, after two further mergers, is now an FT200 company.

Kind and perceptive friends invited him ona blind date with a vivacious and strikingAmerican whom he pursued withcharacteristic determination and John, whoretired from Informa at the age of 70, hasbeen happily married to Annie for eighteenyears: they live in rural Devon.

He still feels a huge loyalty and affectionfor Caius and is delighted that the newlectureship he has so generously endowed hasbeen awarded to the Director of Studies inone of the many subjects he studied.

Dr David Summers (1974), the new JohnHaines College Lecturer, holds positions inboth Caius and the University: he is Head of

David Summers (1974) with John Haines (1949) and Annie Haines.

Neil McKendrick (1958).

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by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

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About the time of the last issueof this publication, I discoveredin an old photo album aphotograph of a number ofyoung men, including myself,

in top hats and other old-fashioned clothes,and wearing false beards or whiskers,standing outside Keble College, Oxford.The picture was labelled “Foot-the-Ball” anddated Trafalgar Day, October 21st, 1947.It occurred to me that the editor might beinterested, so I sent him a copy of the photoby e-mail. He responded with questions suchas “where was it played?” and “who won?” –baffling me, 60 years after the event.Fortunately he did not ask “who are theyall?” After 60 years it is a tough job puttingnames to faces, even without false beards.

In December I sent a Christmas card toAlan House (1943) who had been at Caius atthe same time as myself. I enclosed a copy ofthe photo, and asked if he had any memoriesof the event, although I did not think he hadparticipated himself. This was not strictlytrue, and to my surprise I learned that he hadsquirrelled away several more photographs,and a large wall poster, 10 inches wide and30 inches long, advertising the event (seeoverleaf). The poster implies that a similargame to the one advertised had taken placein Cambridge the previous year. Alan also hada miniature poster of what seems to havebeen a companion to Foot-the-Ball(opposite), which took place in June 1947, aboat race between Caius and King’s Collegeoarsmen dressed in mid-Victorian apparel.Not being a rowing man, I have norecollection of it, but there must have been alink to Foot-the-Ball. A subject for moreresearch, perhaps.

Foot-the-Ball in 1947 was organised byBill Howell, DFC (1945). At this date many ofthe student population were young menenjoying themselves after active serviceduring, or in a few cases throughout, theSecond World War. At Caius, Bill studiedarchitecture, leading to a career in thatprofession, and in 1973 was appointedCambridge Professor of Architecture.Appallingly, he was killed in a motorway car

crash in the following year. He is theprominent stocky man with the moustachein one of the photos.

The poster tells us that the game wasplayed on the playing-field of MertonCollege, Oxford, against a team of 15Oxonians. The Caius team of 15 travelled toOxford by train, using the old cross-countryroute via Sandy (“The Brain Line”), now nolonger existent. At Oxford, we were kittedout with our top-hats and frock coats,possibly from some wardrobe stock at theSheldonian Theatre, outside which one of thephotos depicts us. From here, apparently,preceded by a band, we went to lunch at theRoebuck Inn, and afterwards on to the sportsground. Members of the Caius team includedDavid Donald (1940), Richard Darlington(1938), John Arbuthnott (1946), MikeO’Hanlon (1941), Geoffrey Neame (1942),John Younie (1945) and Donald Mothersill(1941), some, sadly, no longer with us. AlanHouse claims he was “chirurgeon” to theteam, without, so far as I know, any specialmedical knowledge.

Apart from the costumes worn, the primeeccentricity of the game was that it wasplayed with three footballs simultaneously,each supervised by a separate referee. Eachside, however, had but one goalkeeper, whomust have been kept pretty busy. The playersremoved their frock coats but retained theirhats. One rule was if you were going to headthe ball, you had first to remove your hat.Players were not permitted to “maul, lame ormutilate” other players.

I don’t recall the result. According to theposter, the prize for the winners was to be akilderkin of ale. A kilderkin is two firkins, i.e.eighteen gallons or 144 pints. The agreementwas that it should be paid for by the losingteam and consumed by both, after thematch. Since I don’t remember forking outlarge amounts of cash to pay for it, perhapswe won!

Author’s acknowledgement: This article couldnot have been written without the materialand recollections supplied by Alan House.Many thanks to him!

Foot-the-Ball

by Douglas Rae (1945)

An Important1947 Event

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Bill Howell (1945) enjoying his role as chief organiser.

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by Dr Emma Beddoe,Alumni Relations Officer

Dr Emma Beddoe, the College’sAlumni Relations Officer, with HilaryFraser (2004), Supervisor for thisyear’s Caius Telephone Campaign.

1. Tom Davie 2. Tanya Kohli 3. Mark Austin 4. Natalie Lilienthal 5. Irfan Rahman 6. Oliver Willis 7. Roland Stewart 8. Gillian McFarland 9. Xiao Zhang

10. Ruairidh Villar 11. The Master 12. Haukur Heimisson 13. Yue Miao 14. Barbara Leeney 15. Heather Fleming 16. Charlotte Heales 17. Tom Dodd

18. Charlotte Lee 19. Joshua Baker 20. Rachana Narayanan 21. Raphaele Clement 22. Miles Rowland

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The Annual TelephoneCampaign has become afamiliar part of the year atCaius and is enormouslypopular with both the callers

and the recipients, who enjoy the chance toshare their love of Caius with other Caians.For this, our seventh campaign, we are verylucky to have another Caian supervising it:Hilary Fraser (2004) read History and washerself a Telephone Campaign caller in 2006and 2007. This year, our student callers arestudying a diverse range of subjects,including Natural Sciences, History, Law,Modern and Medieval Languages, Classics,Economics, Oriental Studies, Biochemistry,Social and Political Science, English andEngineering.

Donations made in response to theCaius Telephone Campaign can be directedeither to the Endowment for perpetuity orto the Annual Fund for immediate use. TheAnnual Fund encourages Caians, parents andfriends to remember and revitalise their tieswith Caius by making gifts to projects whichwould not be able to move forward this yearwithout such support.

In this way, Caians can demonstratetheir affection for the College, their affinitywith the Caius community and their wish tohelp current students. This custom of givingback connects Caians of all ages. The AnnualFund helps to translate ambition into action:it ensures that the College can continue to

particularly welcome, since giving by directdebit enables us to plan ahead. We are verygrateful for gifts at all levels.

The campaigns we conduct each year arenot solely concerned with attractingdonations. For many participants, thecontact and connection made betweenCaians of different generations is just asimportant as the fundraising. This personalinteraction with current students is awonderful way of enabling older Caians toengage more directly with the College today.

We would like to thank all Caians,parents and friends who have supportedCaius so consistently and generously duringprevious campaigns: your help is muchappreciated. The total from last year’scampaign was just under £400,000 andsupported a variety of projects, includingstudent bursaries, building maintenance andthe supervision system. Your donation isimportant and will make a real difference tostudents’ lives.

The campaign will run from Saturday5 April to Sunday 20 April inclusive. If youwould like to receive a call, please contactme by telephone on 01223 339 574 or byemail at alumni@cai.cam.ac.uk. I will bedelighted to arrange for one of the studentsto call at any time that suits you. The CaiusTelephone Campaigns rely on theenthusiasm and knowledge of our studentcallers and our fantastic team is very keento make this the best year ever!

maintain the high standards set by itsfounders. Every gift makes a difference andis very much appreciated.

As Professor Christopher Brooke (1945)has observed, a College is not just acollection of fine buildings but a communityof people: it is our responsibility to ensurethat the most able students can come toCaius, regardless of their financial situation.We then have a duty to continue providingthem with world-class facilities through ourteaching, research, buildings and libraries.

This year, we have a range of projectsthat we wish to support through our AnnualFund, including Bursaries for undergraduates,a postgraduate Research Studentship, aCollege Teaching Officer and a ChoralScholarship. We also hope to fund a newroof for the Sports Pavilion, to restore someof the Library’s medieval manuscripts andearly printed books and to refurbish astaircase in the Old Courts.

Although donors to the Annual Fundmay specify how they would like theircontribution to be used, the most valuablegifts are those which can be used at thediscretion of the Master and Fellows.Unrestricted funds allow the College to beflexible and to direct money strategically tothe greatest need.

Regular support from Caians, parentsand friends is essential to the continuedwellbeing and prosperity of our College.Contributions on a regular monthly basis are

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Curiosity may be fatal to cats,but it is essential forscientists. Charles McCutchen(1952) has been askingquestions beginning with

“Gee, I wonder if. . .?” for a long time, but hisenthusiasm for scientific enquiry burns asbrightly as ever. He recalls with greataffection the decade he spent at Caius.

These days, Charles divides his timebetween Princeton, NJ, Bethesda, MD and ahundred glorious acres of forest on the shoreof Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountainsof Upper New York State. Luckily for me,“Global warming is still working” and I foundhim, also still working, late in the Fall, at thestunningly beautiful Lake Placid, twice hometo the Winter Olympics. He had postponedhis annual exodus, as an obscure piece ofmathematics was slowly yielding to hispersuasive powers (at the rate of about “onegood idea a day”). Charles met me at a built-up bay of the Lake and ferried me across tohis family retreat, Camp Asulykit, in animmaculately preserved, one-hundred-year-old wooden motor boat.

We paused to gaze in wonder at thepurposeful flight of a bald eagle – the firsthe’d seen that year. On arrival, no less thanfour boathouses greeted us, containinghydroplanes, designed for skimming acrossthe water at breath-taking speed.A windsurfer lay idle – he gave it up after aheart attack, which seems a pity, as he isonly 78, but he has plenty to keep his mindand body sprightly. Whitewater kayaking, hesays, is less strenuous!

His schooldays were spent inLawrenceville, New Jersey, where heremembers a schoolmaster who tried to keephim quiet by saying “Those who talk themost have the least to say!” Charlesremembers pointing out what an unwiseremark that was, for a teacher to make!A physics degree at Princeton followed, buthe spent too much time riding motorcyclesthrough the woods on endurance runs andemerged under a cloud. He managed to dowell enough in final maths exams, however,by reading the text book like a novel, theprevious day.

A Master’s degree at Brown Universitycame next, then Charles surprised himself bygetting into Cambridge, first as a PhDstudent under Otto Frisch (and as amotorcycle scrambling or motocross studentunder Brian Stonebridge), then as a contractresearcher, and stayed for ten years. It washere that his eclectic, enquiring mind wasallowed its freest rein.

His doctoral thesis was on radioactivity.He used a Proportional Counter (a cousin ofthe Geiger counter) filled with mercuryvapour to observe the spectrum of gammarays from radioactive atoms. He says that

of the motorised helicopters he launchedinto the air, in one case so successfully thathe never saw it again.

He remembers going to Cambridge’sapproved area for model aircraft, StourbridgeCommon, which had both cows and thistles.“This made for interest: when an engine didnot run right, you had to dive out from underit and avoid both thistles and cow pies!”

He achieved the celebrity of a featurearticle in Aeromodeller magazine. Heremembers working on a helicopter with thelate Deboorne “Buzz” Piggot (1953), anothervery loyal benefactor to the College: “Piggotand I, the Wrong Brothers, built a model,11 feet from engine end to wingtip, whichwas powered by an ED Racer model engineof 2.5 cc pulling sideways. The wing was solidbalsa with a 69-inch span and a 3-inch cord.The model screwed its way upward throughthe air like an apple corer through an apple,but it was weak and soon broke on a landing.Making airplanes larger makes them moreefficient but less rugged.”

being an experimental physicist was likebeing “in trade” because it was necessary tobe practical!

Next came an attempt to measure thegyro-magnetic ratio of free electrons, but theexperiment failed because the vacuumavailable at the time was inadequate.A colleague “got his degree out of thewreckage” but Charles was not happy. Thereare, however, consolations in having a mindthat speculates on many different problemsat once, because there are always successfulprojects to counterbalance the failures.

One of Charles’ great, lifelongfascinations is flight, for example the kind offlight represented by the sycamore or mapleseed, which parachutes to earth on onerotating wing. On vacation at Lake Placid inthe summer before he came to Caius, hewondered: “Gee, I wonder if the wing couldspin fast enough to take it up instead ofdown?” This was an idea he revisitedfrequently over the years, constantlydevising, designing and making new variants

At this point, Charles tried to give theidea away to David Tabor (1936), but“Serendipity happened!” Charles was living indigs and the bath water was heated by anAscot one floor down. “To get hot enoughwater in the bath, you had to psychoanalysethe invisible Ascot!” So he used to put hissponge-bag, towel and a change of clothes ina knapsack and come to Caius, to use theshowers in the basement under the oldLibrary, in Gonville Court.

He had some of the cut pieces ofRubazote in his pocket and while playingwith them in the sink, he realised thatincreasing the pressure on the Rubazote hadvery little effect on the frictional force,consequently lowering the frictioncoefficient.

“David Tabor had done nothing with theidea, so I took it back!”

Soon, Charles was using a letter scale totow a 100lb weight across a glass plate,supported by three half-inch square pieces ofcut Rubazote, lubricated with soapy water.

There was more good luck: Charles wentto the Anatomy School to find out aboutcartilage, and the second person he met wasPeter Lewis, of Corpus. Peter made it clear thatcartilage was not a closed cell sponge, likeRubazote, but an open cell sponge, i.e. that itdid not have pockets in its surface, but wasporous. Lewis demonstrated that extra-cellularfluid was expelled from cartilage if onesqueezed it. They called the result weepinglubrication. Together, they wrote theirdiscoveries up in two letters, published inNature.

Philip Bowden (1926) told Charles thatthe editor of Wear magazine wanted topublish the story again. Charles refused butoffered to conduct further research. Bowdenoffered a salary but had no space. Charlesfound that Colloid Science had a defunctunheated aircraft factory to work in, located aregular supply of pig and cow joints from alocal sausage meat factory and spent thewinter of 1960-61 doing experiments whichinvolved sliding loaded cartilage along asmooth glass surface. When the cartilage wasfirst put under pressure, the friction was verylow, but it increased progressively as theminutes passed and its fluid was wrung out ofthe cartilage.

As lubricant, he compared water with thenaturally occurring synovial fluid. Synovialfluid was much the better, but its advantagefaded as time passed under load.

He hoped to see the pores in cartilagewith a microscope, so he diverted long enoughto invent and build the RefractometerMicroscope, but, as it turned out, thepermeability measurements showed that thepores are only about 60 angstroms indiameter – too small for optical microscopesto see.

Another idea spun off from this: “TheRefractometer Microscope had an aperture inthe form of a thin ring – and I wanted toknow what the image would be like. So I hadto learn about diffraction theory, in the courseof which I wondered if the three-dimensionaldiffractional image was the three-dimensionalFourier transform of the lens pupil, bentaround the unit sphere. It was. So the cartilageresearch took me back to mathematics – butI’m no mathematician. I just wondered if...”

Now joint replacement is commonplace,and more is known about the lubrication ofnatural joints, but Charles is still not satisfied.He says they did the physics years ago, butthe chemistry remains incomplete. Inparticular, he wants to know more aboutLubricin, a vital molecular species in synovialfluid: why does it lubricate? Why does it workso much better than several other long-chainpolymers? Charles is no chemist, but he has asmall family foundation that supports work onthese puzzles. And he certainly hasn’t stoppedwondering . . .

Charles is entitled to speak with someauthority on this subject: a McCutchen-typehelicopter made and flown by Steffan Puriceof Romania set FAI records in 1963 for modelhelicopter altitude and duration that stillstand today.

During his contract research interval,Charles read an article on the lubrication ofanimal joints: “The thesis was that jointcartilage must be inherently low-friction –a sort of super-Teflon. I thought if I wereGod, I wouldn’t do it that way!”

He went on to think “Suppose cartilagehad little, liquid-filled pockets on itssurface?” The liquid would have no friction.At this point, “Good luck entered!” Charles’friend, Tony Broad, had made a gasket out of“Rubazote”, a substance like rubber whippedcream, a closed cell sponge. “By cutting thesponge, I created my material with pockets –and found that the pocketed surface, whenlubricated with soapy water, had 30% lessfriction than the smooth, unpocketed surfaceof the Rubazote.”

Professor Charles McCutchen (1952)interviewed by Mick Le Moignan (2004)at Lake Placid, New York State

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1982Mr D BakerMr J D BiggartDr M A S BlackburnDr N C CampbellRevd Dr Eric CloustonMrs N CrossMr A R FlitcroftDr P A FoxMr J E M HaynesMr P D HickmanMr M J KochmanMr P LoughboroughMs E F MandelstamMr D J MillsProfessor M MoriartyMs M K Reece ThomasMr A RobertsMr A A ShahMrs A J SheatMrs E I C StrasburgerMr J P TaylorDr M J Weait

1983Dr R F BalfourDr D B BethellMr H M CobboldDr S A J CrightonMr A L EvansMr T M FancourtMr P E J FellowsDr W P Goddard

Mr N J HammondMr W A C HaywardMr S A KirkpatrickMr J F S LearmonthMr C LoongMr J B K LoughDr R C MasonMr R H MooreMr R M PaynDr A G RemensnyderMr S C RowarthMr A RzymMr H C ShieldsMr A G StrowbridgeMr R B SwedeMr N J Taffinder *Miss A TopleyMr C H UmurMs H E WhiteDr S F J Wright

1984Dr H T T AndrewsMs S J BradyMr R A BrooksMr G C R BuddenDr H W ClarkDr A R DuncanProfessor T G Q EisenMr L J HunterDr J R B LeventhorpeMr G C MaddockMr A D H MarshallMr I PaineMr J R PollockDato’ R R SethuDr R A ShahaniMr M L VincentProfessor C Wildberg

1985Mr N M BakerMr G K BeggerowDr I M BellMr P R ClarkMr A H DavisonDr E M DennisonMr J M ElsteinMrs E F FordMr J D HarryProfessor J B HartleMr P G J S HelsonDr K M HockDr C H JessopMr C L P KennedyMr A J LandesMr W P L LawesMrs N M LloydDr J J N NabarroRevd Nicholas PapadopulosMr K D ParikhMr T M S RowanProfessor I D W SamuelDr J M SargaisonMiss J A ScrineMrs L K SharpeMrs C P SimmDr P M SladeMr W D L M VerekerMrs J S WilcoxMrs A K WilsonMr R C WilsonDr E F Worthington

1986Dr K BrownDr J A DaviesMr A N GrahamDr K GreenDr C J HolmesMiss M P HoranProfessor J M HuntleyMr N J IlesMr D P JellinekMr B D KonopkaProfessor J C LaidlawMiss L M MillerDr D L L ParryDr A A PintoMr T S SandersonMr J P SaundersProfessor A J SchofieldDr K SehatMr J W StuartMs A J TomlinsonMr C J WatsonDr J Whaley

1987Mr J J M BaileyMr J P BarabinoMr J J BattersbyMr O R M BolithoMr N R Chippington

Mr A J CoveneyMrs J L Dendle-JonesMs S L DeVineDr A J ForresterDr G M GrantMs C M HarperDr S C HsuMr P KumarMr C A LevyMr A W LockhartDr R MenghamDr R A PerryMr S L ReaMr L A Unwin

1988Dr P AgarwalProfessor N R AsherieMr R S P BanerjiDr I M BillingtonMr M BispingDr T P BlighMr H A BriggsMr J C BrownMrs C ChancellorMrs M E ChappleVicomte R H P G de RosièreDr G B DoxeyMr A J EmussMr L D HicksDr A D HossackCaptain J S IrishDr A P S KirkhamDr A-L LivermoreDr I H MagederaDr M C MirowDr A N R NeddermanDr D NiedreeMr S J ParkerMr A P ParsissonMr M B PritchettDr C I J SandersMr D SchwartmannMs N M SmithMr T H SnellingRevd J S SudharmanDr R M TarziMr M E H TippingMrs H M TrumanMr A G VeitchMr A E WellenreiterDr F J L Wvytack

1989Dr G M W AdamsMr A M Barnes-WebbDr R P BlakesleyMrs A S BrothertonProfessor M J BrownDr J T ChalcraftDr E A CrossMr J R F de BassDr S FrancisMr P E GilmanMr G R GlavesMr S M GurneyMr N C JacklinMr G W JonesMr J P KennedyMr P J KerrMr J R KirkwoodMrs L C LoganMr B J McGrathMs J H MyersMr N J C RobinsonMrs C RomansMr J C RouxMr S C RuparellMr A M P RussellDr L StranksMr A S UppalMrs T E WarrenMr N D J Wilson

1990Dr C E H AikenMs L M BeesonDr L C ChappellMs Z M ClarkMrs J F ClementMr I J ClubbMr A A DillonMr N W EdmondsMrs V N M FungMr R J E HallDr C C HayhurstMr I D HendersonDr A D HendersonMr M B JobDr S H O F KorbeiProfessor N G LewMr G C LiMs A Y C LimMr J S Marozzi

Mr T Moody-StuartMr S T OestmannDr J M ParberryDr K P SainsburyMr P C SheppardMr L ShorterDr J SinhaMr G E L SpanierMr H K SuniaraMr D S TurnbullDr J C WadsleyDr G D WillsMs R M WindenMr R C Young

1991Dr R D BairdMr D D ChandraMrs B ChoiDr P A DalbyDr C S J FangDr S C FrancisDr I R F GraingeDr A J HodgeMr W G IrvingDr J P KaiserMr J R KayeMrs V K LeamonMiss C R SaundersDr S M ShahDr M D TarziDr E J TophamMrs H-M A G C VeseyMiss J H Ward

1992Professor A S AlexandrovMr D AutersonMr P N R BraveryMs J M CarpenterDr A A G Driskill-SmithDr R S DunneDr H M JohnsonProfessor C KressMr W LiMr J LuiMr R L NichollsDr F H PerryDr A J PowerMr H E SerjeantsonMrs R C StevensDr S R J TaylorMajor D M ThomasDr D I ThomsonMrs K Wiese

1993Mr J D H ArnoldDr A C G BreezeMr P M CeelyDr E A CongdonMr P A EdwardsMs G J HallamMr C E G HogbinMr E J HowDr A KalhoroDr G A J KellyMr T P MossMr R B K PhillipsDr J F ReynoldsMrs L Robson BrownDr C I RotherhamMr C A RoyleMr L N TaliotisMiss S T WillcoxMrs A J WordenMs R P Wrangham

1994Professor G I BarenblattMs I-M BendixsonProfessor D M BetheaDr L ChristopoulouDr T C FardonMr S S GillMr R S GreenwoodMr R J M Haynes, JrDr S F W KendrickMr E O NagelDr S G A PitelMr P D ReelMr P H RutkowskiDr P SharmaDr G M ShoibProfessor M A SteinDr K-S TanMr K S Tang

Mr M A WoodDr H L W Yau

1995Dr K J af ForsellesMr C AitkenMr C ChewDr J F L CobboldDr A C CookeDr P A CunninghamDr S L DysonDr J S FeuersteinMrs J A S FordDr M R GökmenProfessor J HarringtonMr A J G HarropDr A E JenkinsRevd Dr Jack McDonaldDr M A MillerDr D N MillerDr T J NancooMr S M PilgrimCllr H C S PipeDr T C PorterMiss M-J RheeMs J K RoseMs T J SheridanMr M J SoperMr S J TaylorMiss C J Thorpe

1996Miss C E CallaghanMs S E CraigMr J R F DaltonMrs J H J GilbertMr J D GoldsmithMiss E E GoodacreMr I R HerdMiss K J HoyleMr P MacBainMs J L NixonDr I D PlumbMr P S RhodesMr D ScannellMr D C ShawMr C M StaffordMr P M SteenMr D J TaitMs E-L TohDr L H A WatkinsMr C G WrightMr K F Wyre

1997Dr U AdamMr A J BowerMr R Chee-A-TowMrs C ChuDr M P ClarksonMrs R V ClubbMrs J R EarlDr E J FardonDr J P GraingerDr D M GuttmannProfessor C E HoltDr K G JohnsonMr G P LyonsDr J B MorrisProfessor N MrosovskyDr S NestlerMiss R N PageMr H D PimDr K S TangMr T J UglowMr E Zambon

1998Mr I K AliMs H M BarnardMr I D CoxMr L DeardenMr J A EtheringtonMrs K M GrimshawMr H M HeuzenroederMr J R MarshallDr R I R MartinMr M H MatthewsonMiss O M MihangelDr N A MorehamMr H R F Nimmo-SmithMr J C P RoosProfessor R P L ScazzieriDr T ShettyMs S C ThomasMr D J WiseMr D J F Yates

1999Mr R F T BeentjeMr D T BellMr P BergDr C L BroughtonMr J A BrownMr J A CliffeMiss A S GreenwoodDr L JinMr M W LaycockMr J W MollerMr R H OwenMr M A PinnaMr A M RibbansMiss J E StaphnillDr P D Wright

2000Mr D D ParryMr J A P Thimont

2001Miss R L AveryMiss A F ButlerMr A C McK ButterworthMr J J CassidyMiss L C ChapmanMiss J L CremerMr T J GardinerMiss E R HarriesDr P A LyonMr C P Wood

2002 - 2006Mrs R C E CavoniusMrs J A CollinsMr A L EardleyMr J-M EdmundsonMr J K HallidayMr T S Hewitt JonesMr T A HodgsonSir Christopher HumMr J McB HunterMiss E R JamesMiss M F KomoriMr M J Le MoignanMs Z OwenMs L A ShaferMiss J C Wood

Friends & ParentsMr & Mrs D J AbbottMrs M P J Ackroyd *Professor J V AcrivosDr & Mrs M B Al-GailaniDr P S & Dr R AllanProfessor E J ArcherMr & Mrs A W ArcherMr J G ArmstrongDr & Mrs R E AshtonMr & Mrs W J BabtieMr & Mrs E R BarkerMr & Mrs I B BarrMr & Mrs M J G BatesMr & Mrs R E BaylissDr A G BearnMrs R BeattyDr & Mrs H J BeckMr & Dr C R BerryMr & Mrs A R BestMr R L BiavaMr & Mrs L P BielbyMr & Dr P J BillingsMrs S BlakeMr G N Block & Miss P M

BeaumontMr M Bogaardt & Ms P M F

NjissenMr & Mrs W R BoneMr & Mrs C C W BraceyDr A BratkovskyMr M BrennerMr & Mrs M H BrentProfessor & Mrs T M BrownMr & Mrs G BrownMr & Mrs R C BrownMr R L BucknerMr D R & Dr S L Bunn-

LivingstoneMr P J & Cllr A J BurrellMr & Mrs J W ButlerMr & Mrs R J M ButlerMr & Mrs M C ButterworthMr & Mrs G B CampbellMr & Mrs L F CampbellMr C CarrollMr & Mrs A A Carruth

Mr & Mrs A J CattonMr & Mrs N F ChampionMr & Mrs G S ChanDr & Mrs S ChandrasekharanMr & Mrs C P ChapmanMr & Mrs I C CheethamMrs R A ChegwinDr & Mrs W C W ChengMr & Mrs D N ChesterfieldDr & Mrs J J CheungMr & Mrs M R CollinsMr & Mrs R CopeMr & Mrs J M CoxMrs A F CrampinMrs O Crick *Mr & Mrs T W B CullenMr & Mrs P R CullineyMr R R T CummingsMr & Mrs I J CuringtonDr & Mrs P G DarraghMr & Mrs I B DavidsonMr & Mrs G J DavieMr & Mrs F J DavisMr & Mrs A R W DaweMr & Mrs J R de FonblanqueMrs J de GrootMrs J H de Marigny-LagesseDr & Mrs H P B T De SilvaRevd & Mrs D G DeeksMrs M DemetriouMr & Mrs J P DoddingtonMr & Mrs R H C DoeryMr & Mrs A DracosMr & Mrs R A EardleyMr & Mrs C N EdelmanMr & Mrs D J EdmundsonMr & Mrs A ElahiMr & Mrs A EspinMr & Mrs P EvansMr & Mrs J FanshaweMr & Mrs M J C FaulknerMr & Mrs P V FellowsMr & Mrs S FerdiMrs M FieldMr & Mrs A J FinlaysonDr & Mrs E FishwickMr & Mrs F FletcherMr & Mrs H D FletcherMr & Mrs P E FletcherMr & Mrs C D FloydHon Judge & Mrs N

ForwoodMr & Mrs M G FosterMr J FriedaProfessor & Mrs M GhadiriDr M C GibberdMr & Mrs M J GilfedderMr H & Mrs H GoldingMr & Mrs J P GolunskiMs P Gooch RobertsonProfessor J B GoodenoughMr & Mrs J GoslingDr P W Gower & Dr I

LewingtonRevd & Mrs W S GrahamMiss J GriersonMr & Mrs I T GriffithsMr & Mrs A HadjipanayisMr & Mrs J S HallidayMs E HamiltonMr & Mrs M J HamiltonMr B Sheng & Professor X

HanMrs V HarrisonMr & Mrs P G HarrisonMr & Mrs R HashimotoMr & Mrs S J HaydenMr & Mrs M HealesMr & Mrs I A HendersonMr & Mrs T Hewitt JonesDame Rosalyn HigginsMr J H HillDr J S & Dr J J HilliardMr & Mrs A HitchinsDr F & Dr J A C HollowayMr & Mrs V J HoltMr & Mrs H S HooMr & Mrs N A HorleyMr & Mrs A J HoweMrs P M HudsonMrs J A B HulmDr and Mrs Jean André

Sylvain Marie HuysMr & Mrs R ImpeyMr P G & Dr J E JenningsMr & Mrs R S JohnsonMr & Mrs V Joshi

Mr & Mrs P KarstadtMr P KelleyMr & Mrs J C Kilburn-ToppinMr & Mrs J S KinghornMr & Mrs S A KingsleyMrs M KirkhamMr R A KitchDr & Mrs M P KnightMr & Mrs S C-S KoMrs F A MacE KomoriMr & Mrs S K KooMr N J & Dr C M KrollMr & Mrs D W LandMr & Mrs J P LangfordMr & Mrs N A LangleyMr & Mrs P LanoMr & Mrs P D LawMr & Mrs P A Le VershaMr & Mrs M E LeeMr & Mrs H LennardMr & Mrs A W LeslieMr & Mrs J M LesterMiss P LewisDr & Mrs J M LewisMr B H Lim & Mrs S K TeohMr & Mrs M J LloydMrs J D LockettMr & Mrs J D LynchehaunMr & Mrs N R W MacDonaldDr & Mrs H MalemMr & Mrs G D MarshMr & Mrs M A MasonMr & Mrs S MatsisMr & Mrs P J McDonaldHis Honour Judge & Mrs D K

McFarlandMr & Mrs C J M McGovernMr K V McKayDr C K McKnight & Dr J E

McKnightMr A MelchiorMr & Mrs J MiallMr & Mrs P S MidgleyMr & Mrs J E MillsMr & Mrs A MinichielloMr & Mrs D J MoseleyMr & Mrs G A MossDr & Mrs S MothaMr & Mrs M MoynihanMr & Mrs R E MrowickiMr M & Mrs L J MunroMr & Mrs J MurphyDr & Mrs J D MurphyProfessor G D & Dr L S

MurrayDr & Mrs K R MyersonProfessor P E NelsonMr & Mrs R NichollsMr & Mrs R W NorthcottMr D F O’DonoghueDr & Mrs J P O’DriscollMrs C M OmandMr & Mrs B E PadleyMr & Mrs S G PanterMr & Mrs D A ParryMr & Mrs K G PatelMr A D & Dr E PenmanMr & Mrs F A PensonMrs F C PhillipsonMrs R A PickeringDr & Mrs P PilavakisMr W F Poon & Ms W L

ChanMr & Mrs V D PopatProfessor & Mrs W S PowellMr & Mrs M S PrevezerDr A ProchaskaMr & Mrs B D QueenMr E QuintanaDr G J G & Dr C A ReesMr & Mrs G D RibbansMr & Mrs M D RiceMr & Mrs J C RichardsonDr & Mrs J RichardsonMr & Mrs M RichardtMr & Ms J R RidgmanMrs J C RobertsMr & Mrs I R RossDr S & Mrs S McC RussellMr & Mrs P RutherfordDr Y M SaleemMr & Mrs M D SaundersDr & Mrs P K SayalWing Commander & Mrs G

T ScardDr & Mrs W G H SchartauMr & Mrs K R Schneider

Dr & Mrs A J SchurrDr & Mrs L R ScottMr & Mrs T J ScraseMr A P SeabrokeMr & Mrs R S D SharpMr & Mrs S J SharrattDr & Mrs J V ShepherdMr & Mrs T J M ShiptonDr B K & Dr R SinghDr D S & Dr S SinhaMr J A Kerr & Mrs C SmeatonMrs B SmithMr & Mrs A R SmithProfessor R J SokolMr & Mrs M J SpragueMr & Mrs N F St AubynDr & Mrs P S StantchevMr L E Stokes & Dr Z StokesMr W Summerbell & Ms M J

DresserMr & Mrs M A SupperstoneMr S & Professor J E Svasti-

SaleeMr & Mrs N S SwanMr & Mrs R J SweeneyDr & Mrs B TanMr & Mrs D C Y TanDr & Mrs P F ThanischMrs E T ThimontDr R H M & Dr A M ThomasMr & Mrs J E ThompsonMr & Mrs K H TickellMr & Mrs G L ToddMr W G TophamMr B N P Garvey & Ms A C

ToppingMr & Mrs G TosicDr S J TreanorMrs G M M TreanorMr & Mrs P TreanorMr & Mrs J P TunnicliffeMr P W VannDr G Venkat-Raman & Mrs K

RamanMr & Mrs R von Eisenhart RotheDr S von MolnárDr & Mrs J D WalkerMrs A J WalkerMr & Mrs M J WalshMr & Mrs P R WaltonDr & Mrs P WardMr & Mrs M T WardDr & Mrs WarnerMr & Mrs R H WarringtonMr & Mrs I G WhyteMrs J WightMr & Mrs R E WillisMrs A S WillmanMr & Mrs W R WilsonMs C S WindheuserDato’ S J WongDr A R & Dr H A WordleyMr & Mrs R J C WrightMr & Mrs J A Z WrightMrs M YanagishimaMs E S G YatesMr T F B YoungMrs H E M YoungProfessor & Mrs I S YoungDr W Yu & Ms B ChenMr & Mrs E K J ZehProfessor & Mrs H ZimmermanMr S M Zinser

Corporate DonorsAllen & Overy LLPAltria Group, Inc.American International Group,

IncBidwells Property ConsultantsCaius ClubCambridge Summer RecitalsCambridge Wine MerchantsDeloitteLivanos Charitable TrustLinklatersMBNA International BankMerck & Co.Michael Miliffe Memorial

Scholarship FundMicrosoftMondrian Investment PartnersStour Valley Antiquarian SocietyTancred’s CharitiesUBSWessex Fine Art Study CoursesWolfson Foundation

24 Once a Caian...

In the past few years, the financialbasis on which the College operateshas undergone a radicaltransformation. The almost completedependence on Government support

which applied for the last half of thetwentieth century has been swept away.

Now, roughly half of the £9million annualbudget comes from income and the otherhalf from interest on the Endowment. Thegenerosity of those who care about Caius isvitally important. Donations, whetherdirected to the Annual Fund for immediateuse or to the Endowment to help to securethe future, are equivalent to more than aquarter of annual expenditure.

Since this change in financing began, theCollege has tried to express its gratitude to allof its supporters, many of whom did notstudy here themselves, but are parents ofstudents or friends of the College. Of thebenefactors who have made a gift to Caiusduring the previous year, as many as we canaccommodate are invited to the May WeekParty, which includes a buffet luncheon,musical recital and tea.

In addition, those pledging lifetime giftstotalling over £20,000 are invited every year,with a partner, to the magnificent Service andFeast for the Commemoration of Benefactorsin November.

StephenHawkingCircleby Mick Le Moignan (2004)

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took place when he was getting into bed, afew days after the birth of his daughter,Lucy, in 1970. He had been developing atheory of causal structure for singularitytheorems and suddenly realised that thesame theory could be applied to black holes.For the layman, it is hard to follow thethought processes that would enable anyoneto calculate the origins, shape and future ofthe universe, but Professor Hawking’s zestfor his subject is infectious.

As in his bestseller, A Brief History ofTime, there is a strong element of thedetective story in the way he describes theprogress of his research. He brings a veryhuman touch to these abstruse matters andhe is wise enough to pepper his morecomplex observations with a dry wit that isvery appealing. He concluded:

“It has been a glorious time to be alive,and doing research in theoretical physics.Our picture of the universe has changed a

great deal in the last 40 years and I’m happyif I have made a small contribution. I want toshare my excitement and enthusiasm. There’snothing like the Eureka moment ofdiscovering something that no one knewbefore. I won’t compare it to sex, but it lastslonger!”

After the lecture, the audience movednext door to the Panelled Combination Roomfor a magnificent dinner, with wines tomatch, including a 1990 Chateau Latour anda 1945 Croft Port for dessert. Many of thoseattending were visibly moved by theopportunity to spend a private evening witha man who has achieved such a spectacularintellectual triumph over such appallingadversity. At the end of the evening,Professor Hawking presented all of the guestswith a special illustrated edition of A BriefHistory of Time carrying his own personalthumb-printed “signature”. It was the perfectmemento for an unforgettable evening.

Fortunately for Caius, there is anincreasing number of benefactors who havegiven over £50,000. For them, the College’smost celebrated living Fellow, ProfessorStephen Hawking (1965) gives a privatelecture about his work and his time at Caius,followed by a splendid candle-lit dinner in thePanelled Combination Room.

The first meeting of the Stephen HawkingCircle was held on Friday 15 February 2008and was a resounding success. A champagnereception, at which each guest or couple wasphotographed with Professor Hawking, wasfollowed by his lecture in the White Room:“My life: Caius and Physics”.

In his familiar electronic voice, ProfessorHawking explained that being awarded aFellowship at Caius had been a turning pointin his life. Despite the recent onset of MotorNeurone Disease, it had enabled him tomarry his fiancée, Jane, and continue his workin cosmology. He felt he had been fortunatein his choice of field and in his timing. Unlikemany of his contemporaries in Mathematics,he had avoided the study of particle physicsand within a few years, in collaboration withRoger Penrose, had solved most of theoutstanding problems in General Relativityand then moved on to Quantum Theory.

He described a “Eureka moment”concerning his study of black holes, which

The guests attended a Champagne Reception in the Colyton Hall followed by Professor Hawking’s lecture,“My Life: Caius and Physics” in the White Room, before enjoying a splendid candlelit dinner in the PanelledCombination Room.

Main group (l to r) Standing: Peter Kerr-Dineen (1972), James Arnold (1993), David Malcolm (1950), DrPhilip Marriott (1965), John Kelly (1958), Sir Christopher Hum (2005), Peter Walker (1960), Lillie Cavonius,Alexandra Ackroyd, Christopher Ackroyd (1961), John Haines (1949), Jonathan Horsfall-Turner (1964), SirKeith Stuart (1958), Bill Packer (1949), Dr Anne Lyon (2001), Charles Steel (1993), Mick Le Moignan (2004),Professor Wei-Yao Liang (1963). Sitting: Susan Dodd, Janet Malcolm, Valerie Marriott, Hazel Kelly, ProfessorStephen Hawking (1965), Lady Stuart, Yvonne Horsfall-Turner, Rita Cavonius, Annie Haines, Wuliang Walker.

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New Caius PuntsDespite the dreams of many generations ofMasters and Bursars, Caius still has no riverfrontage along the Backs. Even more seriously,for the past few years, we have also been aCollege without punts! The two deficienciesmay not be unconnected: the last Caius puntswere moored at Garret Hostel Lane, wherethey were, with the benefit of hindsight,perhaps too accessible. Sad to relate, theydisappeared.

To the rescue came Alan Flitcroft (1979) aPartner with Ernst & Young and the Head oftheir Media and Entertainment Group.

At an Annual Gathering, when told aboutthe missing punts by Ellie James (2002), thenof the Development Office, he generouslyoffered to replace them. Moreover, he bothremembered and repeated his offer nextmorning, subsequently commissioning twobrand-new, magnificent, mahogany punts, oneof normal size (6-seater) and one “chauffeursize” (9-seater) with comfortable cushions inCaius colours.

Our friends at St John’s College have

kindly agreed to provide secure moorings intheir Cripps Pool, in return for space in CaiusMeadow for their supporters to watch therowing races on the last day of the MayBumps.

The punts are available from mid-April tomid-October for 2-hour sessions (9-11am,12-2pm, 3-5pm and 6-8 or 9pm in highsummer). They can be reserved at the Porters’Lodge by ALL members of the Caiuscommunity, students, Fellows, staff and non-resident Caians. A donation towards the fairlyconsiderable costs of official registration andmaintenance is requested, at the modest rateof £5 per two-hour session for the standard-sized punt and £10 for the larger one.

Proper boats need proper names and Alanhas been persuaded to name them after hisyoung daughter, Emma Louise IsabellaFlitcroft, so Caius 1 is to be known as Emmaand Caius 2 as Bella. Now we are hoping for adrier summer than the last one, so that oursplendid new punts can be enjoyed by largenumbers of Caians and friends!

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The Bauer MemorialBenchLord (Peter) Bauer (1934), the distinguishedeconomist who was a Fellow of Caius formany years, left £100,000 as an expendablefund to provide student bursaries tocommemorate the names of two friends andcolleagues, Richard Goode (1934), an RAFpilot who was killed in action at the age of26, and RA Fisher (1909).

Now, Lord Bauer is commemorated in histurn, by his executor, Sally Yates, who hascommissioned a magnificent, circular, oakbench, custom-built to surround the base ofthe tall copper beech tree at the NE cornerof the Stephen Hawking Building.

At a tranquil, shady spot, overlooking thegardens of Harvey Court, the bench will soonbecome a firm favourite with students andvisitors. It is a beautifully elegant andpractical memorial to an outstanding scholarwho loved Caius and was always immenselygrateful for the welcome he received whenhe first arrived in 1934 as a Hungarianrefugee from Nazi-dominated Europe.Sally Yates with the Master on the new Bauer Memorial Bench.

Emma Bella Flitcroft, after whom the two new Caius puntshave been named.

Caius 3rd Rugby VIIIBow Mr Sleepy

2 Mr Tall3 Mr Noisy4 Mr Strong5 Mr Greedy

6 Mr Tickle7 Mr Strange

Stroke Mr HappyCox Mr SmallCoach Mrs Polygamy

Calling Mr Happy!The official programmes from the Lent andMay Bumps do not always contain as muchinformation as our College Archivist wouldlike. This is a fairly typical example, from theMay Bumps of 1988:

If the Mystery Men of the Rugby Boat wouldcare to make themselves known, their realnames will be added to the record forposterity. In fact, the names of many BoatClub members who have represented Caius inthe Bumps over the years are still unknown,especially before the late 1980s: if you haveBumps programmes from those years andwould be willing to give or lend them to theCollege, please call Sarah Preston on+44 (0) 1223 339676. She would love to hearfrom Mr Tickle or even Mr Noisy!

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Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962) writes ...I was Secretary of the Caius Chess Club in1963-4 and Match Captain in 1964-5. In thesame years, respectively, I was Secretary andPresident of the Cambridge University ChessClub. In November 2004, a Jaques chessboardcame up for auction in Newmarket, whichwas the trophy for the Cambridge UniversityIntercollegiate (Cuppers) ChessChampionship. Small shields all around itgave names of players in the winning teams.

I heard about the auction too late tocancel a medical appointment, and rushed toNewmarket, where the Professor ofTheoretical Chemistry was instructed to bidon my behalf. The actual lot was being bid onas I entered the saleroom, and I took over butwas finally outbid by a dealer. After theauction, I saw the first winners were Gonvilleand Caius in 1890-1, and the last shield wasalso for Gonville and Caius in 1960-61. I toldthe winning bidder about the board and hesaid he would probably donate it to theUniversity. The auctioneer subsequently toldme it had been found on a rubbish tip. It hadclearly been lost or stolen in about 1962.

So I kept my eyes open for the board forthe next 4 years, determined to get it backfor Caius, whatever the cost. It resurfaced forsale at Bonhams in January. I tried to find out

The Disappearing Chess Trophywhat had happened to the board after 1961,but with no success. The Secretary andPresident of the University Club from1961-63 could remember nothing about theboard, and neither could I for the next periodof two years. Of the 5 members of thewinning Caius team in 1960-1, two had diedand the two I contacted didn’t know thetrophy existed, despite their names being onit. Within months of its last being awarded,the board had faded from memory. Ipersuaded Bonhams to negotiate with thevendor for a private sale before the auction.Bonhams were extremely helpful, waivingmost of their fees, and the vendor withdrewthe board from sale.

There are some great old names engravedon the winners’ shields, including famous oldBritish Chess Champions and Masters, such asHE Atkins, ARB Thomas, B Goulding Brown, PSMilner-Barry and CHO’D Alexander. Theillustrious physicist Paul Dirac is there, as areMichael Atiyah (former President of the RoyalSociety and Master of Trinity College) and LSPenrose (the brother of Roland Penrose,father of many times British championJonathan Penrose as well as Sir Roger Penrose,and formerly Galtonian Professor at UCL –what a family!), as well as HPF SwinnertonDyer. The names will repay future study.

Stars Struck!To date, Once a Caian... has resisted thetemptation to provide our readers withastrological forecasts based on theirbirthdates and the apparent “movements”of the constellations as seen from Earth,but we may consider doing so in the lightof a gap that has recently appeared in themarket.

The Times recently reported that thejournal The Astrologer, published monthlysince 1931, has ceased publication with itsDecember 2007 issue, “due to unforeseencircumstances”.

A Portrait of Gonville &Caius CollegeMany readers have already pre-ordered copiesof the magnificent book about Caius to bepublished by Third Millennium International Ltdin September 2008. It will contain over 200wonderful photographs of all aspects of Collegelife, the work of our Pulitzer Prize-winningPhotographer in Residence, Dan White, togetherwith the story of Gonville & Caius from 1348to 2008, written by our distinguished Collegehistorian, Professor Christopher Brooke (1945).

The College has commissioned the book,not as a profit-making venture, but in order tomake Dan White’s extraordinary gallery ofphotographs available to all Caians and friendsof the College at an affordable price that isvery close to the cost of production.

The names of all subscribers who order acopy before July 2008 will be printed in thebook in recognition of their support for thisproject. The advance purchase price of £34.50+ p&p represents a saving of £10.50 on the fullpublication price. Orders should be placeddirectly with Third Millennium Ltd, either onthe enclosed form or by visiting their website:www.tmiltd.com

A Marathon SwimShortly before Christmas, a messagecirculated among Fellows and staff, to theeffect that Christine Newton, our KitchenOffice Administrative Assistant for 18 years,was embarking on a swimming marathon inaid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Over a period of 20 days, Christinesucceeded in swimming 26 miles. It was notalways a pleasure, she admits, finishing workon cold evenings, only to plunge into evencolder water, but she is delighted to haveraised a total of £1,335 towards this veryworthwhile cause. Christine Newton of the Kitchen Office.

Left: Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962) and RobertDover (2006), the current Captain of Chess, withthe Inter-Collegiate Chess Trophy. Happily, theCaius Chess team won Cuppers yet again last year.

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Caius Foundation

T he Directors of the CaiusFoundation have decided toraise the level at which US-

based benefactors are invited to becomePatrons of the Caius Foundation. Since2002, this honour has been conferred inrecognition of gifts and pledges (over alifetime) totalling at least US$15,000.With effect from 1 July 2008, thisrecognition level will be increased toUS$30,000.

All those who pledge before thatdate to raise the total of their lifetimegifts to US$15,000 will become Patronsat once. On the time-honoured principle,“Once a Patron, Always a Patron”, theyand all other Patrons will, of course,retain their title and privileges. Any US-based Caians who would like to becomePatrons of the Caius Foundation beforeJuly 2008 are invited to contact theCaius Development Office on +44 1223339676 (voice) +44 1223 766702 (fax)or email development@cai.cam.ac.uk forfurther information.

Gifts or pledges should be madepayable to the Caius Foundation andsent to the Treasurer, James Hill, at thefollowing address:

Mr James HillTreasurer, The Caius FoundationMondrian Investment Partners (US) Inc.Two Commerce Square2001 Market Street – Suite 3810PhiladelphiaPA 19103-7049USA

James Hill is the new Treasurer of theCaius Foundation. James is a financierand a loyal supporter of the Collegewho attended a summer course at Caiusin 1969.

An ImportantAnnouncementfrom the CaiusFoundation

Dr Alessandra Polara (2002), the Hon Dr JohnLehman (1965), the Master, Dr Lisa Maier (2001)and Elmar Nagel (1994) at the Caius New YorkReception.

Some of the most brilliantCaians of all have come to ourCollege from Australasia.Perhaps the most celebratedwas the Australian, Sir Howard

Florey (1924) who shared the 1945 NobelPrize for Medicine with Fleming and Chainfor discovering the uses of penicillin, butthere have been many others.

The first few Douglas Myers Scholars,from New Zealand, who come up each yearas undergraduates, have set a formidablestandard of Firsts and sporting achievementsfor their successors to emulate. Australiansstill tend to come to Caius later in theiracademic careers, to study for Master’sdegrees or doctorates, and they, too, are highachievers.

Thanks to charitable tax concessions,Americans and Canadians can receive taxbenefits in respect of their support for theCollege, just as UK taxpayers do, but therehas, until now, been no way for AustralianCaians to support the College tax-effectively.

Now, with the help and cooperation ofDr Anil Seal, Director of the CambridgeCommonwealth Trust (CCT) and ProfessorAllan Barton, past Pro-Vice-Chancellor andTreasurer of the Australian NationalUniversity (ANU) and Treasurer of theCambridge Australia Trust (CAT), the Collegeis pleased to announce the establishment ofTHE CAIUS AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARSHIPFUND.

Any Australian taxpayers who make giftsto this Fund, which will be held on trust bythe ANU, will be able to claim theircontributions against their income tax. Allcontributions will be transferred via the CATto the ANU, where the funds will be investedas part of the University’s endowment. Theincome generated will be used to supportoutstanding Australian students coming toCaius. In the first instance, the Scholarships

Naturally, the College hopes thisScholarship will attract Australian applicantsof the very highest calibre. The CaiusAustralian Scholarship will be awarded by theAcademic Committee of the CAT when theymeet to award other scholarships. The finaldecision on the admission of the CaiusAustralian Scholar will be taken by theCollege in the normal way.

The Fund will be administered inAustralia by a committee of Caians, incooperation with the CAT and the ANU. Thecapital will be held as part of the ANU’sEndowment. Professor Henry Bennett (1950)

has kindly agreed to be the Chairman ofthe Fund and Henry Heuzenroeder (1998),the South Australian State Chair of CAT,will be the Treasurer, with otherappointments to be announced.

Professor Bennett has alreadygenerously endowed the R A FisherScience Research Scholarship forAustralian PhD students atCambridge, to commemorate hisfriend and colleague, thedistinguished statistician andbiologist, Sir Ronald Fisher (1909)who was President of Caius from1956 to 1959 and spent his lastyears at the University ofAdelaide.

The Master, Sir ChristopherHum (2005) said “We aredelighted that, for the firsttime, this new arrangement willallow the many loyal Caiansand friends of the College who

live in Australia to receive a tax benefit inrespect of their gifts to a Scholarship Fund tosupport Australian students at Caius. Ouraim is for outstanding students to be able tocome to this College irrespective of theirfinancial means. The proposed Scholarshipswill help to achieve that aim and willenhance the already strong links between theCollege and Australia.”

Donations to the CAIUS AUSTRALIANSCHOLARSHIP FUND should be madepayable to the Australian National Universityand sent to the following address:

Henry HeuzenroederTreasurer, The Caius AustralianScholarship FundTorrens Chambers78 Angas StreetADELAIDE SA 5000AUSTRALIA

Every donation should be accompaniedby a written request from the donor that theANU should use the gift for THE CAIUSAUSTRALIAN SCHOLARSHIP to be awardedunder the auspices of the CambridgeAustralia Trust.

will be awarded to candidates readingfor a PhD. It is hoped that eventually fundswill be sufficient to widen the scheme toinclude Australian candidates for Masters’degrees. (Many Australian lawyers come totake LLM degrees.)

The first scholarship will be awardedonce the Fund has reached Aust$350,000(about £159,000 at £1 = Aust$2.20). Thesum awarded will be in the region of$25,000pa, sufficient to cover living andtravel expenses. Assistance with College andUniversity fees will be sought from otherfunding bodies.

CaiusAustralianScholarshipFund

As each year goes by, theCollege has even more reasonto celebrate its relationshipwith our overseas friends andmembers, who become both

more numerous and more generous in theirsupport for this remarkable educationalinstitution.

This year, the main event in the annualvisit by the Master and the Director ofDevelopment to North America was a hugelyenjoyable party, hosted by the Hon Dr JohnLehman (1965) and his wife, Barbara, in theirmagnificent New York apartment. The ages ofthe Caian guests ranged from 86 to 26 andyoung and old found they had much incommon and many stories to share.

American Caians are proud of havingsupported the College generously (throughthe Caius Foundation) for many years:although UK Caians are catching up fast,there is still a higher participation among ourUS-based members than in any othercountry.

In 2006-7, the Caius Foundation, a tax-exempt educational and charitableorganisation under section 501(c)(3) of theUS Internal Revenue Code, which is licensedto receive donations tax-effectively,celebrated a notable achievement: theCollege Council elected no fewer than four ofthe Caius Foundation’s contributors to beFounders of the College’s Court ofBenefactors, in recognition of lifetime gifts tothe Foundation totalling at least US$200,000each. David Heap (1954), Peter Walker(1960), John Lehman (1965) and JohnBarabino (1987) have all paid an eloquenttribute to the central significance ofCaius in their lives and careers.

John Lehman, the indefatigable Presidentof the Caius Foundation, was not about torest on his laurels, however, instead exhortingevery one of the partygoers to join him insupporting the College by donating (tax-effectively) to the Foundation, according totheir means.

Caian guests at the New YorkReception included:

Professor Adrian Flatt (1939) Alan Nicol (1949) David Heap (1954) Ajit Hutheesing (1954) Professor Peter Walker (1960)Dr Joseph Gertner (1961)Andrew Orton (1965)Martin Fisher (1966)Charlie Corcoran III (1967)Cliff Losh (1973)Dr Jim Wirth (1973)Simon Bax (1977)Timothy Allen (1981)Emily Mandelstam (1982)Dr Marius Maxwell (1982)Eva Strasburger (1982)Richard Talbert (1985)Dr Fran Perry (1992)Dr Yun Lee Too (1992)Dr Simon Dyton (1994)Claire Grainger (1994)Elmar Nagel (1994)Dr Teena Shetty (1998)Quentin Huys (1999)Dr Ruth Johnson (1999)Dr Helen Nickerson (1999)Dr Daniel Wolf (1999)Dr Lisa Maier (2001)Dr Alessandra Polara (2002)James Hill

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was introduced to Nancy Irvine and had readthe biography that she had researched andwritten. These letters are now all in theMitchell Library in Sydney.

Molly Haydock was born in May 1777 ofyeoman farmers near Bury/Blackburn in SouthLancashire. Being strong non-conformists, theyhad no connection with Caius – they wouldhave been given short shrift if they hadapplied to enter the College. Both her parentsdied when she was young and she wasbrought up by granny. After leaving school, sheand another girl ran away from home, Mollydressed as a boy and assuming the name of aboy who had recently died. When they got toChester, they separated and Mary stole ahorse. On getting to Stafford in August 1791,she tried to sell it but was apprehended andthrown into Stafford gaol being tried,convicted on good evidence, condemned todeath and recommended for transportationfor 7 years. All this had been somewhatconfusing to her biographer as all the courtrecords were in the name of the ‘boy’.

It seems that the authorities were veryconcerned by the mortality and sickness ratesof the early convict ships (run like slave ships)and were trying to improve the health ofconvicts before leaving: it was only then thather true sex and name were discovered. Thisresulted in an appeal by some 17 citizens ofBlackburn (including her uncle – my moredirect ancestor) but this was rejected and sheset sail in the Royal Admiral (an East IndiaCompany ship used to transport people overlong distances) arriving at Sydney in October1792. (The colony was founded in 1788.) Itseems that she was taken on to the householdstaff of Maj. Grose (a senior officer of the

Iwas most interested to read thearticle in Issue 6 of Once a Caian...,about the Cobbold family, andparticularly about MargaretCatchpole, because a distant

connection of mine, Mary Reibey, wastransported to Australia for stealing a horse inremarkably similar circumstances.

Having come across a reference toMargaret in the biography of Mary Reibeywritten by Nancy Irvine, I thought I wouldcarry out a little elementary research of myown as to who Margaret was. Apparently, bornin March 1762, and enduring the eventshighlighted in your article, she was ultimatelytransported to Sydney aboard the ‘Nile’,arriving in December 1801. She was employedfor some time as a cook with the commissaryand subsequently on various duties in thehouseholds of several well-known families,achieving considerable respect for her work.She ended up running a small store inRichmond (founded in 1810 on theHawkesbury River about 60 miles NNW ofSydney and near Windsor, one of the earliersettlements, also on the river) acting as anurse and midwife. She died from influenza inMay 1819. Although, judging from the fewextracts from her letters that I have seen, shewas only semi-literate, she is considered to beone of the few true convict chroniclers withan excellent memory and a gift for recordinggraphically the countryside, the aboriginalsand the savagery and immorality of theinhabitants. Her writings are considered tohave added richly to Australia’s early history.

I had inherited a shoebox (literally!) ofletters from the early days of Australia, butwas unaware of their true significance until I

original military force), but in September1794, aged 17, she married Thomas Reibey, ajunior officer on an East India Company shiptrading from Calcutta. She became known as‘Mary’ rather than ‘Molly’. He/they got a grantof land near Windsor on the Hawkesbury. Hestarted to trade with small boats up the river- coal, furs, skins and cedar beams – and tookraw materials round to Sydney, owning 3boats in 1803. In 1804, they leased the farmand built a substantial new house in Sydneyand bought several more farms along the river(presumably from bankrupt farmers). In 1805he went into partnership with a Mr Wills, hada schooner built in Sydney and started totrade with some of the Pacific Islands andCalcutta – it is said that he even got to China.In 1809 he fell ill in Calcutta and died in April1811 in Sydney.

By this time, Mary had seven childrenand the business affairs to deal with in herhusband’s absences. After his death, sheopened a new warehouse and bought twomore ships. She got involved in sealingoperations in the Bass Straight and becamea founding member of the first Bank of NewSouth Wales. In 1820, she took her twoeldest daughters to England to further theireducation and to visit many of her relatives.Extant was a record which reported that shethen owned 10 farms on the HawkesburyRiver and one in the Airds District, just over2000 acres in Tasmania on which there were20 farms (it was on this land that she builtEntally House near Launceston – nowTasmanian National Trust) as well as allthose ships. She was boasting an income of£1,000 p.a.

On her return to Sydney, she launchedseveral new buildings and in 1825 wasappointed a governor of the Free GrammarSchool.

On reaching 50 years of age, she began towithdraw from business activities,concentrating more on social issues. She diedin May 1855 aged 78.

The biography has a section headed “TheCatchpole Taradiddle”. In 1849 the bestsellerby Rev. Richard Cobbold (1814) reachedSydney and a rumour started that it was notMargaret Catchpole who was buried atRichmond in 1819 and that Margaret wasidentical to Mrs Reibey, thus makingMolly/Mary feel that the bottom had fallenout of her carefully built respectable world.She enlisted the help of the then Bishop ofTasmania but it seems that he fluffed his lines– nevertheless, the rumour was scotched.

Margaret and Mary were indeed twovery different people, although they bothsuffered the misfortune of beingtransported to Australia for stealing ahorse while dressed in boy’s clothing andboth survived the voyage and prosperedin the new colony.

A Case ofMistaken Identityby Hibbert Binney (1939)

Margaret Catchpole, in male clothing, riding at speed fromIpswich to London.

A sailing ship overloaded with convicts, ploughing throughthe Bay of Biscay.

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Three more of the delightfulwatercolours painted byRichard Cobbold (1814) toillustrate his book, TheHistory of MargaretCatchpole, are shown by kindpermission of AnthonyCobbold (1955), whowrites… “As evidence of theextent of the confusion, afamily member told me withgreat enthusiasm that it wasMargaret Catchpole’s imageon the A$20 bill and Ibelieved him until I heardfrom Hibbert Binney!”

The only surviving image of MaryReibey, painted on ivory, shown

courtesy of the Mitchell Library,Sydney, was used as the basis for the

engraving on the banknote.

Margaret after her change of fortune in Australia,driving a fine coach and pair.

Hibbert Binney (1939) was amazedto discover historically importantletters in a shoe box in his attic,written by the celebrated convictsettler, Mary Reibey, who iscommemorated on the currentAustralian $20 note. Mary has oftenbeen confused with MargaretCatchpole, eponymous heroine ofthe Victorian bestselling biographyby Richard Cobbold (1814).

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esBill Newman-Sanders (1957)The ringleader of two student escapadesdescribed in recent issues exercises his rightof reply:

1. As a result of the criticism by Dr AndrewSoddy (1957) of the equipment supplied tohang up the M1 signs our youngest son, whois an engineer with Ove Arup, now tells me hemust have got his engineering abilities fromhis mother!

2. When we borrowed the eight from the StJohn’s boathouse, once Tony Ganner (1957)had removed the pane of glass, which wasonly about a foot (0.3m) square, there was theproblem of getting through the hole. The onlyperson slim enough to do this was Martin“snake hips”, “built for speed” Penney (1957)who, having flattened his hair (the widest partof his body), managed to get inside andunlock the door.

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We are alwayspleased to receive

CaiMemoriesfor publication at:

caimemories@cai.cam.ac.uk

Dick is no stranger to the Letters column ofThe Times, having had another offeringpublished on 3 April 2006. This letter toldthe story of the aftermath of a convivialnight out in London with three othermedical students from Caius, Denis Elphick(1929), Dr Noel Gosse (1929) and oneother whose name he does not recall.

The Newman-Sanders clan. Bill (1957) andBrigitte, who first met at 1 West Road inCambridge, are surrounded by their fourchildren with their spouses and twentygrandchildren. Eldest son Anthony (1981), onBill’s right, with his wife Louise, and theirdaughter Sophie (2007), back row, centre, havecontinued the family connection with Caius.

John Pugh (1957) left and BillNewman-Sanders (1957),

co-conspirators in relocating theM1 road signs and a St John’s

College VIII to Caius, enjoying arecent sailing holiday.

Brian Whitaker (1957)In 1958 I was fortunate enough to be amember of the Caius team which wonAthletic Cuppers. Furthermore, this was theCollege’s first victory in 30 years and theGuest of Honour at the celebratory dinnerwas none other than Harold Abrahams(1919) who had been the Captain of thatearlier winning team. The stars of our teamwere the two Ronnies – Forster (1955) whowon a Blue for distance running andThomson (1955) who won one for thesprints – long before Barker and Corbettwere beamed into the nation’s living rooms!

The particular significance of the eventfor me was that my academic pedigree wasthe same as Harold Abrahams (Repton andCaius), and it had been at Repton where aChemistry teacher, another Caian, John‘Boris’ Banes (1949), who had been Presidentof CUAC, had not only nurtured my interest

in Athletics but had also encouraged me toapply for Caius. In those days the choice ofuniversity was relatively simple – if you weregood at the Arts, you applied to Oxford andif you were good at the Sciences you appliedto Cambridge!! Much more complex was thechoice of College and so I am grateful toBoris both for his athletics coaching and forhis insistence that I should apply to Caius.

InsuranceEtiquette

Sir, Years ago I was drivingdown Piccadilly after a night out

with fellow medical students when,just before a crash, I shouted:

“Watch out, chaps, there’s astationary taxi backing into us!”

As this was 1932, I handed thetaxi driver cash in compensation, andshared the cost of repairing mymother’s car with my three friends.

DR R F JARRETT,Painswick, Glos

Baked bean bombs

Sir, Further to your previous correspondence, in

1929 I had rooms in Caius College, and had

invited two friends to lunch. I put a large tin of

baked beans in a saucepan of water on the coal

fire and went out to buy slices of cold ham.

While I was out there was a large fall of soot

which spilt all the water out of the saucepan,

and the tin of baked beans under a foot of soot

became red-hot and exploded.

My late father (b 1858) enjoyed two years of

correspondence with the college over the cost

of redecorating the room and the furniture.

DICK JARRETT FRCP,

Painswick, Glos

Dr Dick Jarrett (1929)Dick Jarrett, a friend and contemporaryof Philip Grierson, sent his CaiMemoryto The Times, where it was published on15 August 2007:

Dick Jarrett’s local paper, the Gloucestershire Echo, marked his ninetieth birthday by photographing himwind-surfing. Dick plans to celebrate his ninety-eighth birthday in July 2008 in the same way!

Gloucestershire Echo

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As a Roman Catholic graduate of Caius,I was very interested to read your recentarticle on the Catholic Martyrs.Christopher Brooke (1945) told me yearsago that one of the College stewards hadbeen martyred, but I had no idea therewere so many. I must admit that I wouldrather have been hung, drawn andquartered under Protestant Elizabeth thanburnt alive under Catholic Mary! But howcould they do these things, knowing theGospels and Christ’s teachings?

Thankfully, now things are different; youhave had a Roman Catholic mass in yourchapel. I was Abbot at Prinknash Abbey fortwelve years and when I had my abbatialblessing, the Dean of Gloucester generouslyinvited us to have the service in thecathedral as our church is rather small andwe expected a large congregation. At theend, the Catholic bishop, the Anglicanbishop and the new abbot gave the blessingtogether.

An Oxford colleague to whom I lentOnce a Caian... told me I should be proud tobelong to Caius. I am! I am also proud tobelong to the College of Stephen Hawking,even if he does think that life after death isa fairy tale!

Re-reading this, I realise I have aweakness for exclamation marks!

Donald Cameron-Brown (1950)(now known as Father Aldhelm) I was fortunate to be in the last year to

complete a three-year course before theoutbreak of war in September 1939. MyNatural Sciences course in Anatomy,Physiology, Organic Chemistry andPathology during my first two yearsoccupied me too fully to have room formuch College activity, though I playedrugby once in my first year.

My tutor was the kindlyE K ‘Francis’ Bennett (1914), then SeniorTutor, to whom as a Tancred Student,I presented myself in May and onMartinmas (11 November) to obtain a letter

of good conduct which was sent to the solicitors, Frere Chomeley, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.For my third year I decided to take Part II in Physiology, rather than repeat parts of

Part I. It was a great privilege to be taught by such talented people as (Sir) Alan Hodgkinwho was beginning his studies on nerve conduction, for which he was later awarded aNobel Prize.

Though it was generally accepted that war with Germany was likely there was moreconcern about the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) and there was much activity byCommunists such as J D Bernal, who supported the Spanish Government against Franco,as did my circle of friends, who were involved in providing for refugee children from theBasque region.

One of the most impressive Fellows of the College was Joseph Needham (1918), atthat time working on Chemical Embryology; it was only after his wartime visit toChunking as Scientific Adviser to the Chinese Government that he published hismonumental “Science and Civilization in China” (CUP 1954 – 1984). He gave a talk atCaius and I was greatly impressed by his breadth of knowledge.

Due to wartime service and professional commitments it was some years before I wasable to renew my acquaintance with the College at Annual Gatherings and otherfunctions, which I have since enjoyed.

Dr John Black (1936)

I would like to pay tribute to a long-departed member of the College, Dr OscarTeichman (1898), who merited a VC for bravery in the field of battle, but never got it.I was delighted to learn that he was a graduate of Caius. My father, Col. Godrich, was afellow soldier with him in the Worcestershire Yeomanry (Territorial Army) throughoutthe campaign in Palestine from 1914 to 1918.

Oscar was a hero to him: he told me that the Doctor was always ready to listen toanyone who was desperate and found life in the desert intolerable. He had the unpleasanttask of burying the remains of 50 men who were killed during a night attack by the Turksat Oghratina, 60 miles East of Suez. His close friend from Worcestershire, Capt. TobyAlbright, was killed in the famous cavalry charge on the Turkish guns at Huj in Israel.

In 1917, the Allied Army under Allenby captured Jerusalem and so ended the Ottomanrule of the Holy Land. Teichman returned to England on leave and was then posted back toItaly to join the British Army.On arriving in Padua, therewas no sign of a militaryunit, so he did a tour ofNorthern Italy looking for hisattachment and ended up inGenoa, to work in a militaryhospital. In 1918, manyvictims succumbed toinfluenza, hepatitis andmalaria, which killed asmany victims as thehostilities. He came back toEngland in 1919 and wrotehis memoirs, which werepublished in 1921.

Dr John Godrich (1951)David Ellis (1960)In order to play in a university chesstournament, I came back a week early forthe Lent Term, 1963, to find a mop and apail on bare floorboards in my sitting roomin B2, St Mike’s. Porters explained that aburst pipe at the top of the staircase hadgone undetected for 24 hours, by whichtime there was six feet of water in B6.I was assigned to a guest room on Astaircase, small but cosy and just right forthe weather that persisted for the next fewweeks, with the thermograph outsideGreat St Mary’s gently undulating between2º and 5ºF.

The Cam froze and all who could wentskating on it. A friend and I bought a pair ofskates and screwed them onto his old RAFboots, taking turns to shuffle along the ice. Itwas rumoured that a duck had been frozenupside-down at Grantchester.

One fine afternoon I dragged RolandPrice (1960) from his maths in Harvey Courtto cycle up-river. Skirting the weir at Byron’sPool, we explored a further two miles or so,until the stream got too narrow to continue.With branches poking through the ice andone wheel going one side and one the other,spills were inevitable, but we were well

padded by warm clothing. Of course we hadearlier cycled a few times up and down theBacks, under all the bridges, which for mefulfilled a strange ambition from earlier yearsto do just that!

King’s may well boast the mostmagnificent college chapel in Cambridge, ifnot the world, but Caius must have one ofthe nicest. Central to the College, and thusconvenient for Hall or breakfast afterwards,and with a direct entry for the Master, it is afitting edifice for a College founded by a

clergyman and maintained by his Bishop:small enough never to seem empty, but largeenough for a good congregation, as when‘half the College’ came to hear, in a series offour sermons on fundamental issues of theChristian faith (later published as BeyondReasonable Doubt), what the Dean, RevdHugh Montefiore (1954), “really believed”.

At that time Canon Joe Fison was Vicarof Great St Mary’s; he invited bishops andwell-known laymen to preach at the Sundayevening services, but when he preachedhimself it seemed to me that he transcendedthem all. So it was no surprise that he wasappointed Bishop of Salisbury. Announcinghis move and the name of his successor oneSunday evening in 1963, however, he saidwhat we heard as “Hugh Montefiore, Dean ofQueens’”. Several Caians were not going tostand for that. So, just as we wereaccustomed to doing when lecturers mademistakes, we hissed. “What was that?” Wehissed again. “This never happened inMervyn’s* day!” When I spoke to CanonFison later he said he thought he’d correctedhimself in time; probably it had come over assomething like “Quaius”. . .

*Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark

When the snows finally melted, David Ellis (1960), then the Chairman of the University Photographic Society, went out with his camera in the hope of catchingsome rare reflections, and was rewarded to find a vast pool over the big lawn at the back of King’s. The resulting colour slide, turned upside-down and back tofront to give an ‘Impressionist’ picture of the famous chapel, as shown above, was included in the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain’s “1965 Exhibition ofPictorial Photography”.

David Ellis

Yao Liang

Dr John Black (1936) with his daughter,Gabriel Black.

Mark Leightley

Donald Cameron-Brown (1950)(now known as Father Aldhelm). Dr John Godrich (1951).

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Stanley Howarth at home in his garden in Rotherham.

Stanley Howarth (1935) read French and German at Caiusbefore volunteering for the Army before World War Two. Hehad an unenviable wartime experience: after manning the Eastcoast, armed with a Bren gun to repel the Germans, hetravelled in a troopship with the British 18th Division past

Iceland, across to Canada, down to the Caribbean (within sight of SouthAmerica), then across the Atlantic again, to South Africa, on to India andfinally Singapore, where he arrived just in time to be captured by theinvading Japanese. He remained a prisoner-of-war until 1945, buildingrailroads and bridges and surviving on an occasional handful of rice.

Stanley was Head of Modern Languages at Mexborough School inYorkshire. He was happily married to Nora, who was Head of Arts atanother school nearby, until she suffered a debilitating stroke and finallydied in 1990.

by Stanley Howarth (1935)

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Illuminated letters by W G Challis, aged 14, Penistone Grammar School 1931.

e saidfarewell

to her for meThe priest was all a man of God should be,A steadfast man of generous mind and heartAnd soul, his gentle mission to impartHis own sweet faith in immortality.

Knowing my non-belief he did not speakOf glad reunion, but found a wayIn simple, seemly words somehow to sayWhat I could not, by grief made numb and weak.

“We know she was much loved”, I dimly heardHim say, but did not see his lips, his face,Or other listening faces in that place;The portent of the words unsaid had blurred

My sight. But then he spoke of gratitude– (and not of loss!) – for having known a whileThe blessing of her grace, her love, her smile,Her laughter, lovely skills and varied mood. . .

And so he said farewell to her for me,Less as a priest, I think, than as a friend.Did love of man in him perhaps transcendHis love of God? I only know that he

Brought me relief when I expected none.Self-pity died. I wrapped her deep insideIn softest shrouds of love and care and pride,And faced my time of mourning now begun.

And if one day, among the seraphim,That priest claims just reward for piety,I pray his God may somehow prove to beWorthy of him.

When in a long and weary night,sleepless and tense, with troubled thoughtchoking the throat with great unease

you go downstairs, turn on the light,and, sitting, wait for all the taut--strung tendons of the mind to ease,

yet still your thoughts find no respite,encaged like starving rats which, caughtwithin the skull, nuzzle and tease

and gnaw the barren bones of care,and lead-foot fears still activate,the aching treadmill of the mind,

seek sanctuary then elsewhere;relinquish your too conscious state,leave chair and room and light, and find

sweet solace in your garden, wherenight, sleepless too, will loosen straightthe knots that hold your brain confined.

* * * *

Breathe deep, breathe slow, stand motionless;stroke smooth your weary-eyed distresswith night’s cool-fingered calm caress.

Measure one small and separate plightagainst the canopy of nightin all its majesty and might.

No moon as yet. Immaculate,dispassionate, the stars will letoblivion efface regret.

More intimately, on the breeze,the friendly gossip of the treeswill gently chide, cajole, appease.

Drink deep of air so cooled with dew,so filled with scented residueit spills into the heart of you.

Swell every alveole of lungwith exhalations from the youngsmooth buds. From every tiny tongue,

each tiny glistening tongue, upthrustfrom honey-mouths of flowers that lustwith slack wet lips for pollen dust

lick essences of sweet desiresweet tastes of summer’s slumbering fireto soothe the spirit and inspire.

* * * *

Breathe deep, breathe slow,let sorrow go;soon you will knowrelease from painand sleep again.Breathe slow, breathe deepand sleep, sleep, sleep.

Nora Howarth.

nsomnia