N e w s l e t t e rC H U R C H I L L C O L L E G E

Summer 2006

Sir John Boyd retires this summer as Master of Churchill. Here hetalks to Stephen Jolly, Director of the University’s ExternalRelations and Communications, about his decade at the College.

SJ: Well, the end of an era, Sir John. You have been at Churchill forten years and are off at the end of July. Tell me about yourexperiences and what you think is your legacy.JB: I don’t really go in for legacies but I am happy to talk about myexperience. These have been the best 10 years of my – our – life. Mywife, Julia, has absolutely loved the College and Cambridge. I wasborn here so I had certain expectations, Julia had none in particular,but has found it a terrific experience. And I’m just so very glad it wasat Churchill.SJ: Why is that?JB: The inventiveness, the informality of the College, the intimaterelationship with Winston Churchill, the man – his fantastic intellectualcuriosity and feeling that there were things out there in the world thathad to be done. He sent us a message which remains extraordinarilystrong today, right through the British school-age public, across theAtlantic. Last week we had an Indian scholar here investigatingChurchill’s controversial views on India, and even those coming fromChina and Japan are interested.SJ: And of course you are the home to the Churchill Archives, which Igather are designated national archives.JB: I’m glad you’re aware of that! We have the Churchill papers, whichare of course stunning in quality and significance. And the Thatcherpapers, some of which are already open, covering another fascinatingera in British modern political life. This has stimulated a flow of furtherpapers: only in the last few weeks we’ve acquired the first of PeterCarrington’s papers, which will offer a fabulous insight intocontemporary foreign affairs. SJ: You’re becoming a honeypot for political memoirs!JB: Yes, it does mean that if you want a slice through the last 100years, in scientific and military fields too, this is a major place on yourmap.SJ: Your background is as a career diplomat. Has that meant that youhave been able to stamp a significant international impress on theCollege, or was the tradition always there?JB: The tradition was always there, and we were one of the collegeswhich pretty much from day one had an Overseas Fellowship scheme.We have ten or so slots, whether an astronomer, say, from NewMexico or a Chinese historian of science.SJ: You were the British Ambassador to Japan and a very successfulone. Today China is the flavour of the month, but fewer people aretalking about Japan. Are we missing a trick here?JB: I think we lack a little sensitivity. I mean, it is quite clear that Japanfeels the advance of China. Of course it benefits them hugely in aneconomic sense but in a wider sense it is a puzzling new phenomenonfor some Japanese. The College has many structured links. I believestrongly in keeping up our links with Japan, the world’s secondeconomy, and that’s not going to change fast. They have terrificscientific inventiveness of their own, with wonderful collaborationsbetween our guys and their guys. For all those reasons I hope we willnot lose interest. SJ: Do you have many Japanese or Chinese students?JB: Ah, now this is interesting, a different pattern that says somethingabout the two societies maybe? Japanese students and scholarsgenerally don’t come here at undergraduate level, but predominantlycome later. The Chinese come eagerly and at all levels. SJ: You are not by profession an academic, I understand you havesome academic experience, but you are really a career diplomat and Ithink that is a fair characterisation.

JB: I’m just me!SJ: Would being Master have been easier had you been an academic?JB: No absolute answer to that. I mean, there is a pendulum effectacross the colleges generally: a college may want an academic, thenwant a break, then it swings back. We will have a scientist next time,which I think is absolutely right, that’s the root tradition of theCollege, that’s why Churchill set it up – to further British science. ButI don’t think it matters that much. I see the role as that of a teamleader, if that isn’t a naff term. SJ: What will you miss the most?JB: The students, they are terrific. It is a wonderful community, a largefellowship full of interesting people. We have been doing some mixingup of students of all ages and staff. We are one ball of wax, one bigcommunity. That’s where I get my kicks.SJ: Your numbers of students from the state sector are relatively high. JB: Yes, I believe in very, very strong, proactive efforts to excite youngpeople who have not had a university background. The harder part isto get their schools and teachers to believe that it is worth having ago. The still massively revered Senior Tutor Dick Tizard, who died ayear ago, made a great impact here. SJ: It’s about building aspiration.JB: It is absolutely about building aspiration, I don’t think that theadmissions procedures should be loaded one way or the other; weare looking for individual human talent. It is a slightly old fashionedview, but I still believe that perceptive interviewing should be partadmissions. I say that against my public service background. I haveseen it badly done. More often I have seen it well done, as it must be.I think there is another point about aspiration, one very well made bythe Vice-Chancellor – aspiration for the University itself. We mustaspire to be absolutely, totally, world league. That should never beforgotten. The second absolute in my view is, you know, the freemind, the open debate if you like, the principles laid down by JohnLocke. Funding is crucial, but it must follow those two. You have firstto have an idea of what a university is for in this day and age. I amsure that one of the reasons for the success of the 800th campaign isthat we do somehow get it across.SJ: You referred earlier to excellence. Is it possible to have excellencewithout social exclusivity and elitism in your view?JB: Totally, I mean, my view is that you don’t tip the admissionsprocess one way or the other for sociological reasons, but you makesure all bright boys and girls out there think of themselves asCambridge material. Getting them here is only step one. Step two isto make darn sure that your teaching is really, really excellent. InChurchill there is a hugely strong science and technology mandate,and good results in Maths and Medicine, but, somewhat surprisingly,

Welcome to this issueThis sixth issue of the Churchill Collegenewsletter comes with news andupdates on regular activities, but alsoseveral features about changes takingplace and people moving on. Membersof College have been as active and far-reaching as ever, from Graham Perry andhis innovative support for Anglo-Chineseinitiatives to Members such as GrahamThomas, Simon Butler and Trevor Caveenergetically raising the profile and resources of the College BoatClub. We pay tribute to alumnus David Eagle, who passed away lastyear; his friends have written with compelling memories of his valuesand love of his time in College. Membership of College now exceeds9500 alumni, Fellows and other Members, and whilst this numbergrows each year, we also lose contact with some of you as your livesmove on. Please let us know where you are! This issue also saysfarewell to our current Master, Sir John Boyd. John and Julia haveguided the College through challenging times, and they will be muchmissed. Finally, this is also the last time I shall be writing this column. I,too, am moving on, to support secondary education in new andpioneering ways. I will certainly miss working for Churchill College,but to rekindle memories, I will look forward to meeting the manyfriends I have made at future College events. With the Master and Iboth on the move, perhaps I can paraphrase one of our great Britishcomedy duos: ‘It’s goodbye from me . . . and it’s goodbye from him’.

Tony Bannard-Smith

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Farewell to the Master

Alumni Relations is still in its infancy at Churchill but significant stepshave been made over the years to keep alumni informed and involvedin everything the College does and has to offer. The North Americanuniversities do this so well and we continue to follow their lead. In thebuild-up to the celebrations of 50 years of Churchill College, aprogramme is being developed to not only do this milestone justice butto also draw in our alumni to assist.

Events in College and around the world continue to take place,attracting many alumni, such as the recent Hong Kong reception (seearticle on page 5) the San Francisco event (see page 11), not tomention the College Reunions and the Association Weekend inSeptember each year. Alumni sporting events continue to take placealongside nostalgic get-togethers attempting to rekindle the excitementonce experienced as a member of College or University clubs andsocieties. The annual Alumni Cricket match took place in June this yearwhile the ‘boaties’ are keen to get former oarsmen and oarswomenback onto the river (see article on page 5).

The power of e-mail and the internet continues to be exploitedwith a regular E-Bulletin and the Alumni Contact System playing a key

role. These are all fantastic but there is still room for us to do a greatdeal more. The recent Calling Campaign was particularly helpful, as itenabled twelve current students to speak with nearly 3000 of youaround the world about your time at College and provided anopportunity for the students to tell you about life in College. It ishoped that future campaigns will demonstrate a similar success.

It is hoped to hold a series of events at home and internationallyin the lead up to 2010. These events will be subject-based reunions,lectures and seminars, and perhaps conferences, which would culminatein a celebratory event commemorating the College’s 50th anniversaryfocusing on its significance in collegiate Cambridge and the worldtoday. This and the events preceding it should represent Churchill as aleading force in science and technology and the important roles othersubjects have played since its foundation. For this to be made a realitywe need you all to play your part. If you would be interested in gettinginvolved, giving your input or by arranging an event (or even a smallget-together in your locale), please contact the Alumni RelationsOffice.

CCoovveerr ssttoorryyThe 2006 Telephone Fundraising campaign for Churchill College tookplace in the JCR from 20 March to 6 April inclusive. During thethree-week period 12 current students called nearly 3000 alumniacross the globe to share experiences, bring alumni news fromCollege and add financial strength to the Annual Fund, which is nowin its second year. The campaign was a great success. More detailscan be found on page 11. Among the students taking part were (leftto right) Benedict Rickey, Patrick Turner, Rebecca Jones and MirandaJohnston.

Sir John Boyd in conversation with Stephen Jolly: ‘I hope I have got it acrosshow much I love this College’.

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Welcome 2Cover story 2The future of Alumni Relations 2Farewell to the Master 3Boat Club news 4Alumni – get rowing! 5Hong Kong meeting 5Links with China 6David Eagle 1942–2005 7‘Churchill Four’ in Varsity 100 8Reconnecting with lost

alumni 8New recognition for the

Churchill Archives Centre 9

Milstein’s papers placed with theCAC 9

Law students to benefit fromnew bursary fund 10

University honours Churchillalumnus 10

College Members meet up in SanFrancisco 11

Development news 11Points of contact 12The Alumni Association 12Alumni events 12College reunions 12How to give to Churchill 12

PublisherChurchill College, CambridgeStorey’s WayCambridge CB3 0DS.Tel. 01223 336197Fax 01223 336177development@chu.cam.ac.uk

Designed and produced forChurchill College by York &Timberlake Partnershipwww.genrepublishing.co.uk. Editor: Stephen York. Production: Ted Timberlake. Printed in Italy by Printer Trento.Cover: Photography by Robert Massam; layout work by Studio 183.The Editor and the College would like to thank all the alumni, staff,students and other individuals and organisations who gave their timeand co-operation generously to the publication of this Newsletter.Special thanks to Caroline Sankey for drafting and editing the Master’sfarewell interview on pages 3–4.All texts, photographs and illustrative material, except where notedotherwise, are © Churchill College 2006: photo on page 3 byCaroline Sankey; page 5 (Hong Kong meeting) by Dr David Chung;page 7 reproduced courtesy of Gill M Waterhouse; page 9 (left) ©Robert Massam (right) © Allen Packwood; page 10 (left) reproducedby courtesy of Mrs Elizabeth Stokes.

Contents

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It has become apparent over the past few years that quite a few ofyou Churchill alumni who rowed at college hanker secretly afterre-living your time on the Cam at the end of a pink blade. Well,

you can during the weekend of the Association Dinner, 23–24September. There will be no formal University Alumni Regatta until2010 (!) but this frees the Cam for some nostalgic pink paddling andperhaps for something a little more strenuous. There’s room forevery standard and as many as possible. We could, for example,organise an intra- Churchill race or even challenge other colleges thatcan muster an alumni crew, including Magdalene so far. Let’s seepresent active rowers and coxes together with our past heroes andheroines who just come along for a paddle in pink. Husbands, wivesand partners are all welcome and we can gather in Collegeafterwards.

The important thing is to register your interest now by e-mailingTrevor Cave at cave.assoc@saqnet.co.uk and copying me in atgrahamvthomas@ntlworld.com. Trevor offers enthusiasticobservations on his re-acquaintance with Churchill rowing below. Heand I were both members of the, so far only, Churchill Alumni Eight in2002. We know there are more out there who would enjoy a dabbleor a serious race.

By the way, some of us were on the towpath in June to cheer onChurchill crews in the Mays and a few attended the Supper. Nextyear, if there’s no tent arranged, we’ll be meeting at the Penny Ferry(Pike & Eel) around noon on the Saturday. The new club President,World Masters’ Champion Sue Brown (G83) is keen to have an alumnitable at the suppers too. If you’re interested in joining us, please e-mail me.

Trevor writes: Some of you have seen my e-mail about my renewedinvolvement with college rowing. I do urge others to join in too. Themain points are that alumni involvement with College sport is (a)enormous fun and (b) actually very helpful for the present Collegecrews and teams. The 40th Mays Supper in 2001 got me back intocoxing – I hadn’t coxed since 1975 – and, in short, it has been hugefun ever since. I have coxed everything from total novices to formerOlympians and Blues. Coxing CCBC, for training camp and occasionalraces, has been especially enjoyable, and very useful to them too. We

stress how great a figure is WLSC and call up the ghosts of the Canon,etc. We can all take pride in competing for a great College, even it isquite young. (By the bye, leaving aside the biblical dedications, did theother founders make as great a contribution to history? WhichQueens? Whom did Lady Clare marry? And who was the Countess ofPembroke? Even the BBC public voted our Winston to be theGreatest Briton.) Churchill crews are always great because of whomwe commemorate. My unexpected shout of ‘Do it for Winston!’moved W1 up a place in 15 strokes at Docklands Regatta in 2005.

There must be other Churchill alumni, too, with recent experiencein rowing or – especially – coxing, who could join in the fun: just a fewof us don’t deserve all of it. It has a great impact on current crews.

Come on, too, cricketers, footballers, hockey players, eventheatricals – pitch back in to the College. It is lots of fun. Now that’salumni relations! ■

The University Alumni Weekend this year takes place over 22–24September. If you are interested in making up a Churchill crew to raceagainst other colleges, you can also contact the Alumni Relations Officeron 01223 336083 or at alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk

Alumni – get rowing!An exhortation from Graham Thomas and Trevor Cave

The rowers and coxes ofChurchill College BoatClub continue to train

hard and so far this year haveproduced some good results. Inthe Fairbairn’s races at the end ofMichaelmas term the Men’s 1stVIII finished 4th and the Women’s1st VIII finished 6th. Lent Bumpssaw both crews go up one, thefirst time the women havemanaged this for two years.Men’s 1st are now currently 6thin Division One, the highestposition the club has everreached. As well as racing onCam the club has taken part in

several off-Cam races, even onein Hamburg! In the eightstideway heads the men andwomen both moved upsignificantly, Men’s 1st are now169th and Women’s 1st came91st. Our Easter training camp isnow an annual event: this yearwe braved the wild conditions ofthe Thames at Molesey BoatClub, coached by Chris Martin(who had just rowed across theAtlantic, so no complaining aboutthe weather was permitted!) Atthe time of writing we are allpreparing for May Bumps, whichrun from 14 to 17 June this year.

Off the water, this year wasJim Cameron’s 25th anniversaryas our boatman. We celebratedthis with a surprise tea at theboathouse and a formal meal atCollege in the evening, whichwas attended by many currentand past Churchill boaties,coaches and friends. Churchillalumni also sent messages fromall over the world, which werepresented in a card to Jim at thedinner.

A generous donation, alongwith a contribution from College,has recently enabled us to buythe new women’s eight that we

have been saving for! This new(pink!) boat will be used by theWomen’s 1st VIII, also finallyallowing Women’s 2nd to row ina plastic shell. The boat is beingnamed Dr Jack Miller, as a tokenof appreciation for everything hehas done for the club. Jack wasour president until 2003, whenhe retired, but has continued tobe heavily involved in the club,including pushing off the firstboats for every Bumps race!Lady Boyd has been ourpresident since 2003. She hasbeen fantastic in this role, a greatambassador for the club, as wellas a huge support and inspirationto the members of the club. Sheleaves this year, and will really bemissed. ■If you’d like to receive updatesabout the boat club, includingnotice of events for alumni and off-Cam races, please e-mail KieraMoynihan at km358@cam.ac.uk

Boat Club newsKiera Moynihan, College Boat Club Captain 05–06, brings us up to date on CCBC activities

Below: The hardy Women’s 1st VIII rows the Lent Bumps in a snowstorm. Right: Julia Boyd and Jim Cameron at Jim’s25th anniversary dinner

02 Crew, A few club competitors, several just for fun

On 10 October 2005 Sir John and Lady Julia Boyd hosted areception for Churchill alumni and alumnae at the HongKong Club, a bonus to the Master’s Millennium talk at the

Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The reception was enthusiasticallyattended by a good number of Churchillians from over three decades.For many, it was a time for making new friends, renewing oldacquaintances and reinforcing ties with the College, as the attendeesbrowsed through College newsletters and other literature withgenuine interest, many excited by developments such as the ChurchillArchives and the Møller Centre. Speeches first by Dr Richard Kay andthen by the Master brought a new level of awareness of the College’sroles and challenges in the present ever-changing world. It wasencouraging that all present at the reception vowed to keep abreastof the College’s future. ■

If you would like to help maintain an alumni group in Hong Kong,please contact the Alumni Relations Office, alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk

we are also excellent at Chinese, German, Law and English. SJ: Do you find that you are benefiting from your relative proximity tothe West Cambridge and North West Cambridge sites?JB: In a word, yes. We make a good deal of it, of course; we nowregard ourselves as being the centre of modern Cambridge – we the‘colleges on the hill’. More significant is the way we get together toswap ideas with other ‘modern’ colleges like New Hall, St Edmund’s,Fitzwilliam, Girton, Lucy Cavendish. We have a very good orchestra‘on the hill’, and what began at head of house level, as an occasional,nice thing, is much more structured now, with the senior tutors andbursars getting together, in kind of sub-sets.SJ: Is there any truth in the fact that newer foundations find it moredifficult to engage their alumni? JB: Of course, we’ve fewer millionaires, bishops, and prime ministersthan some. But it’s coming. We’ve tried to have close links with seniorindustrialists who share the view of the College that stimulatingscience and technology is good for the country. What’s changedrecently is the willingness of alumni running small businesses to getinvolved. We’ve been working to fire up alumni about puttingsomething back, buying into the idea that colleges are too precious

ever to let them flounder. It’s working. I had two cheques in the mailyesterday and I couldn’t believe my eyes. We are incredibly gratefulfor all the support we get from alumni.SJ: What are your plans for retirement?JB: There will be a big hole in our lives and I won’t disguise that. Wewill miss the people and the College hugely. We shall base ourselves inLondon; I have one residual thing in Cambridge, one in the LakeDistrict, and one in London. Cambridge will always be near ourhearts, and this College will be in excellent hands. SJ: Finally, if you were asked to give advice to David Wallace whatwould it be?JB: I would wish him good luck. He is, of course, admirably qualified. Ithink I would have to admit to a streak of envy that he is going toinherit this great place. It is physically lovely. It is a great community.And I haven’t exhausted my description of the Archives or mentionedthe Møller Centre. My main piece of advice is: this is a very co-operative place, so listen to the troops.

JB: Stephen , I hope I got it across how much I love this College.SJ: Oh yes, you did, you certainly did …. ■

Hong Kong meetingDr David Chung (PG90) reports on a reception for Churchill alumni in the Far East

students. I suppose my choice of English studies owed something tofamily influences – my mother had studied at an American universityin Peking in her youth.’

After graduating in 1982 Boping taught EFL at universities in Chinaand at China Central Television, and did postgraduate studies inApplied Linguistics at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He arrived inEdinburgh on a British Council scholarship in 1988, gaining an MSc andthen a PhD, before coming to Cambridge in 1992, where he teachesChinese language and linguistics and directs modern Chinese languagestudies. He is the co-author of two Oxford Chinese–English/English–Chinese dictionaries and has also published Developing Writing Skills inChinese (Routledge, 2002).

According to Boping, the difficulty for English speakers in learningChinese is no greater than for Chinese students learning English. How

are students selected for undergraduate courses in Chinese?‘Examination successes in modern languages count, but are notessential. More important are a good background in arts subjects andsolid skills in essay-writing and written expression.’ He paid tribute tothe role of the Wing Yip Chinese Studies Fund in enablingundergraduates to spend the third year of their four-year ChineseStudies BA programme at Chinese universities.

Cambridge University looks set to maintain a leading role inAnglo–Chinese educational relations, with Churchill College to thefore. In this respect one should also recognise the part played by theMøller Centre, which frequently hosts training courses for Chinesegovernment and commercial organisations, such as a recent course inhealth service management practice for Chinese hospital directors. ■

Dave (David John) Eagledied on 16 March 2005,succumbing to the

prostate cancer he had fought forfour years. Fortunately it wasonly in the last few weeks that hewas in really significant physicaldistress. His funeral a week laterwas attended by many friendsand relatives, including eight of uswho arrived at Churchill withDave in October 1962.

From the outset Dave stoodout as a stylish and classy guy:not for him the standard’uniform’ of denim shirt, jeansand donkey jacket; he wore aproper shirt, pressed trousersand a leather jacket – thesophisticated London boy! Davealways wore a jacket even onvery hot days, so he didn’t needto carry things in trouserpockets, which would havespoiled the cut!

Dave was probably as near toa polymath as I’ve ever known.His range of interests and theclarity of his thinking were quiteremarkable. Over the years Ihave benefited from his adviceand opinions on a whole range of

topics. An early indication to methat Dave was ‘different’followed a first term Churchilldrinks reception, when he – ascientist – told me that he andRichard Adrian had discussed amutual love of the works ofAlbert Camus . . . I had nevereven heard of him!

Dave arrived at College with awell thought-through set ofstandards, attitudes, likes anddislikes from which he rarelywavered. I don’t mean that hehad a closed mind but he wassomehow more mature than therest of us, and very much hisown man, not one to bend topeer pressure to conform.

Sometimes, indeed, this couldalmost lead to contrariness. Ofour crowd at Churchill, Davewas the only one who neverrowed, feigning boredom at theinevitable dinner discussions eachevening about the day’s outing.In truth, Dave simply dislikedphysical exercise beyondswinging a croquet mallet, thetable football machine, pub dartsand raising a pint glass!

In College years most of usborrowed our father’s car butDave actually bought one, a 1946MG TC – mind you, he onlydrove it once, from London tohis parents’ cottage atPeacehaven. There he took it topieces, worked on it from timeto time and eventually sold itwithout getting it back on theroad. Later, when we were allbeginning to progress in careersand buy better cars, Dave went

the other way and for a perioddrove only clapped-out Fordvans costing a maximum of £25!

Dave had a wonderfullywicked and satirical sense ofhumour, and disliked arrogant orpretentious behaviour. Airs andgraces were often put down withcaustic mimicry.

He was a tall man, 6ft 3in.,with a voracious appetite, who,sickeningly to most of us, neverput on weight. In College days hehad a sixth sense for whenever afood parcel containing fruit cakearrived from Trevor Warburton’smum. Dave was an enthusiasticconvert, as were we all, toTrevor’s Yorkshire habit of eatingfruit cake with cheese!

Dave was incredibly thoroughin everything to which he put hismind. Early in our Churchill lifehe stated that he was one of theUK’s foremost orchid expertsand in later years I came torealise that that claim wasprobably true. He researched hisillness and its treatments in suchdepth that I’m sure he eventuallyknew more than some of hisdoctors. The mirror image of thischaracteristic was a desire forindependence and not to rely onpossibly poor quality work byothers, particularly builders!Hence his decades-long projectto renovate his home inHampstead Garden Suburbwhich, sadly, he did notcomplete.

Despite a career in computingwith Glaxo and Vodafone, Dave’slove of botany led him to

become a founder member ofThe Friends of Kew, and tospend a great deal of time there.A couple of years ago he tookMike Upton and me around Kew,and Dave’s knowledge andenthusiasm made it fascinating.

He was a lifelong Arsenal fan;had an eclectic musical taste witha strong base in early rock ‘n’ rollwhile in later years enjoyingBach; and had quite a collectionof teddy bears, a few of whichwould always accompany him onvisits to friends’ houses!

Though he never married andled quite a solitary life, it clearlysuited him. But maintaining awide circle of friends was veryimportant to him; and of coursefor the last sixteen years of hislife his partner Gill brought himgreat happiness.

Dave was a special personwhose warmth, fun and wisecounsel will be much missed bymany people. ■

David Eagle 1942–2005Graham Smith pays tribute to a remarkable Churchill alumnus

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Above: David Eagle at a Founder’sEvent evening at Kew. Below: Theyoung David at Graduation Day inCambridge in the 60s

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One of the legacies of Sir John Boyd’s term as Master ofChurchill is the College’s strong links with China; Sir John’sdiplomatic career took him to China and Hong Kong in the

1960s and 70s. The People’s Republic, possessor of immense naturalresources, not least of which is its people (1.3 billion, the world’slargest population) is managing the challenge of harnessing anenterprise economy to a centralised political system, and the resultsare impressive: World Bank figures for 2004 place its economy assixth-largest in the world (GDP US$1,931 billion), or second in theworld by the Purchasing Power Parity measure. Its GDP growth rateof 9% is nearly twice the world’s average, indicating the rapidity ofthe economic change in today’s China.

In the words of Graham Perry (see feature box below), ‘There isnot a FTSE 100 company without a China strategy’, and so it isunderstandable that British universities are looking to forge links witha country destined to play an ever-growing role in the world’s politicaland economic future. Nottingham University, for instance, has alreadyset up a campus in China, and Liverpool is said to be contemplatingthe same.

Cambridge can claim the lead among British universities in Chinesestudies and the number of Chinese students. The China connectiongoes back a long way – although the University’s Institute of EastAsian Studies is only four years old, the Department of ChineseStudies has a much longer history, dating back over 80 years.Cambridge began to accept students from China in the early years ofthe 20th century. Among its alumni it can claim, for instance, the poetXu Zhimo, little known in the West but revered in China for bringingthe values of the English Romantics to Chinese poetry; he studied atthe University in the early 1920s and commemorated his time there ina poignant elegy, Goodbye Cambridge. Today there are over 300University alumni in China and Hong Kong, sustained by flourishingsocieties in Beijing, Shanghai and other centres.

Churchill College is fortunate not only in the Master’s interest inChina but also as a beneficiary of donations from Mr Wing Yip, whichallow regular placements of students both to and from China, andvisits from leading Chinese academics. Wing Yip arrived from HongKong in 1959 and with his brothers built up a business which is nowBritain’s leading wholesaler and specialist retailer of Chinese foods,and the owner of business centres serving the Chinese community inBritain. The W Wing Yip and Brothers Charitable Trust has made

possible several initiatives. The Wing Yip Scholarships

enable two Chinese students toreceive scholarships to study atChurchill each year, one fromPeking University (the oldest inChina, dating back over 100years) and the other fromTsinghua University. Theirsubjects are very often scienceand technology; the Chinesegovernment places a strongemphasis on this sector ofeducation, and students areattracted to Churchill’straditional strength in the

subjects. A second scheme, the Wing Yip China Overseas Fellowshipprogramme, enables a senior Chinese scientist to come to Churchillfor a three- or four-month stay as a visiting Fellow. The latest toarrive, this May, has been Professor Zhao Xinsheng, Director of theInstitute of Chemistry and Biology at Peking University. The thirdprogramme, the Wing Yip Chinese Studies Fund, supports Churchillstudents of Chinese Studies for their study trips to China.

In addition to those arriving through the Wing Yip programme, theCollege hosts other Fellows from China; for instance Professor LiuDun, Director of the Institute of the History of Science in the ChineseAcademy of Science, is currently a Visiting Fellow of Churchill.

Most of the 30–40 Chinese students at Churchill (not only from thePeople’s Republic but also Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore) arepostgraduates. A recent Times article estimated that although thereare around 50,000 Chinese students in Britain at the moment, thenumber of British students studying in China is much lower. Anotherarticle reported the controversy over what some see as theimpossibly high standards set in UK school examinations in MandarinChinese – almost 8,000 students sat GCSE and A-level Mandarin lastyear. The question has important implications for British education, asthe Chinese government is working hard to ensure that Chinesereceives the same status as an international medium as that of Englishand other widely spoken languages.

A Fellow of Churchill plays a leading part in Chinese Studies atCambridge. Dr Boping Yuan is Director of Studies in Oriental Studiesat Churchill, and University Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language andLinguistics. His early career is perhaps rather more colourful than thatof many Chinese scholars now working in Cambridge. As he told theNewsletter, ‘My secondaryeducation was ratherunsatisfactory and after leavingschool I began work as acarpenter. This was in the days ofthe Cultural Revolution, and Ibecame a Red Guard. Ironically, itwas at this time that the RedGuards burnt down the BritishEmbassy, one of whose staff wasSir John Boyd, though I assureyou that I had no part in that!When the universities re-openedat the end of the CulturalRevolution I was able to join oneof the first intakes of new

Links with ChinaCollege and University connections with the world’s most populous nation

TThhee IIcceebbrreeaakkeerrssThe 48 Group Club, informally known as The Icebreakers, promotestrade between China and Great Britain through social and networkingactivities. It is one of the successors of a group of 48 companies thatin 1954 pioneered Chinese–British trade relations in an ‘icebreaker’mission to China to break through what was then known as theBamboo Curtain. Churchill alumnus Graham Perry (U64, Economics),a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, sits on thecommittee of the Club (of which his brother Stephen is Chairman).he told us: ‘The Club was responsible for the historic visit of theLord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, to China in 2005 to address theNational People’s Congress on the subject of the rule of law in thedevelopment of a modern economy; more recently, we promoted avisit by China’s Minister of Education to inform UK campuses aboutdevelopments in Chinese education; I was glad to play a part inensuring that the Minister chose Cambridge as one of the twouniversities he included on his tour.’

Dr Boping Yuan

Mr Wing Yip

The stature of the Churchill Archives Centre as an archiveresource of national, and indeed international, importance wasrecognised publicly this year when it was awarded Designation

status by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, one of 38collections in England to be so identified. The MLA is a public bodysponsored by the British government’s Department for Culture,Media and Sport, which works to develop greater use of the nation’swealth of information resources. Its Designation Scheme gives officialrecognition to collections of outstanding national and internationalmerit which form a significant part of the country’s cultural heritage.

The Archives Centre now houses collections of papers of over 570important contemporary and near-contemporary figures, and inparticular is a major international resource for the political history ofthe 20th century, containing not only the world’s leading archive ofdocuments by and about Sir Winston Churchill, but also the papers ofMargaret Thatcher, Quintin Hogg and many other major figures of20th-century history. As Allen Packwood, Director of the ArchivesCentre, said at the time of the award: ‘The Centre provides peoplewith an opportunity to learn more about some of the most influentialpeople in modern history.’

The fact that such a centre of excellence is much more than a staticcollection has been underlined in the past year by the ArchivesCentre’s close involvement in conferences on contemporary history.On 6 February the Centre hosted a seminar on ‘Foreign Policy in theThatcher Era’, one of a short series of ‘Thatcher Era Witness Events’privately funded by Ronald Gerard. The seminar was in part aretirement tribute to Sir John Boyd, whose diplomatic career spannedthe years covered and who was able to welcome 180 of his former

colleagues, including three former British Foreign Secretaries, to theevent.

The following month, on the other side of the Atlantic, theChurchill Archives Centre and the Howard H Baker Jr Center of theUniversity of Tennessee jointly staged a two-day conference inKnoxville entitled ‘The United States and Great Britain: The Legacy ofChurchill’s Atlantic Alliance’. The idea for the conference arose fromcontacts made during the Centre’s major exhibition Churchill and theGreat Republic at the Library of Congress in 2004 (as reported in theNewsletter of that year); a committee was formed to organise a high-profile event and profits from the conference’s Gala Dinner havebenefited both the Churchill Archives Centre and the Howard BakerCenter. Speakers included Henry Kissinger (who gave the keynoteaddress) and Winston S Churchill, grandson of Sir Winston. (For moredetails of the conference, visit http://bakercenter.utk.edu/churchill.html)

The Tennessee conference is just one example of the value of theLibrary of Congress exhibition in raising the profile of both theArchives Centre and Churchill College in the United States. Another isAllen Packwood’s recent lecture tour of South and North Carolinaand Virginia, organised by the English-Speaking Union. ■

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MMiillsstteeiinn’’ss ppaappeerrss ppllaacceedd wwiitthh tthhee CCAACCThe Archive Centre’s collections are also strong in scientific archives,as was demonstrated by the return this year of over 125 boxes ofpapers forming the personal archive of Nobel prize winner CésarMilstein (1927–2002). The collection was given to the Centre by hiswidow Celia in 2003 and after having been catalogued by theNational Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of ContemporaryScientists in Bath has now returned to Cambridge.

César Milstein CH FRS was born and educated in Argentina.Milstein studied at Cambridge for his PhD in the late 50s andreturned in 1963 to join the Medical Research Council Laboratory ofMolecular Biology, from which he retired as Deputy Director in 1995.His pioneering work in immunology, in particular the structure ofantibody proteins, led to his winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in1984 jointly with Georges Köhler and Niels Jerne for the discoveryof monoclonal antibodies.

Another collection of scientific interest is the Lise MeitnerPhotos, 1458 individual photographs now arranged and cataloguedin detail, containing images not only of Lise Meitner and her closestcollaborator, Otto Hahn, but also of some of the most famousphysicists of the early 20th century, including Albert Einstein, MaxPlanck, Niels Bohr, Max von Laue, James Franck, Erwin Schrödingerand Werner Heisenberg.

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New recognition for theChurchill Archives Centre

CAC designated as of ‘outstanding national and international importance’

Below: The February conference was attended by three former ForeignSecretaries. Left to right: Geoffrey Howe, Malcolm Rifkind, the Master andDouglas Hurd. Right: At the Tennessee conference on 30 March 2006. Leftto right: Mrs Linda Petersen, Ambassador Howard H. Baker Jr, Mrs NatalieHaslam, Sir John Boyd and Lady Boyd

Natalie McGoldrick5th year; Veterinary Medicine;Upper Second; Portsmouth HighSchool; from Horndean; sport.

As you will know from the2005 Newsletter, Natalie iscurrently top of the BritishStudent Rider leader board,having won the World UniversityEquestrian Championships in2005. She also won individualgold for showjumping at theStudent Rider Nations Cup andattained overall silver. She hascaptained the Cambridge teamsince 2004, winning the BUSANationals in 2004. She isshortlisted for the WorldUniversity EquestrianChampionships of 2006 todefend her title. Varsity’sSportsperson of the Year in 2005.

Hanna Osmolska2nd year; History; Upper Second;Llandaff Church-in-Wales HighSchool; from Cardiff; creative arts.

The queen of the techie hive,Hannah has been a manager,publicity designer, producer andproduction electrician for a widevariety of shows in Cambridge,including Matilda Liar! and theADC/Footlights pantomime,Spartacus. In her spare time,Hanna can usually be found in theADC bar. She tour managed forthe Footlights in 2005 and hasworked in Cardiff, Cornwall, andat the London Fringe. She sits onthe ADC committee as the StageManager/Producers’representative and on theFootlights committee as JuniorTreasurer.

Luke Roberts2nd year; English; Royal GrammarSchool, Newcastle; fromNewcastle; creative arts.

Luke resents the Varsity 100for its divisive and elitist nature,but would be bitter and resentfulnot to be in it. ‘This makes me ahypocrite.’ His writing has beendescribed by Varsity as ‘fresh,edgy, witty, and askew’. Luke isauthor of both The HoomitConversations, staged at the ADC,and Auctioneer, winner of the2005 Harry Porter MemorialPrize. He has acted in severalshows, as well as performing andwriting regularly for Footlightssmokers, and has just beenawarded the John Kinsella andTracy Ryan Other Prize fortheatre writing, in a competitionjudged by the RSC.

Catherine TubbPhD; Organic Chemistry; OxfordHigh School; from Witney; sport.

Catherine has a number offirsts to her name. She competedin the first female Varsity boxingmatch, became the first femaleboxer to win a Blue, and is nowthe first female President of theBoxing Club. She has a fightrecord of one win and one loss,and she reached the semi-finalsof the British University BoxingChampionships. She has alsorepresented Cambridge Tigers(Women’s 2nd XV) rugby side,playing in the last three Varsitymatches. She commented: ‘Iwouldn’t say being in the Varsity100 is the pinnacle of my careerquite yet, although it’s an honourto see so many Churchilliansthere!’ ■

‘Churchill Four’ in Varsity 100 Mark Goldie reports on Members of College who have been making a name for themselves

Varsity newspaper (in association with Mercer Management Consulting) put together in January 2006 a list of 100 people currentlymaking a big impact in the university. Four Churchill students figured. Not bad, among thirty-one colleges. Here we summariseVarsity’s profiles.

Over the past threeyears, it has been agreat pleasure to find

those of you who were forwhatever reason, lost to theCollege. This feeling of joy wasreciprocated. Understandably, itcan be difficult to keep in touchwhilst moving home or travellingfrom place to place and Churchillmay well be the last place youwould think of during this period.I’d like to encourage you tomake the College one of yourfirst thoughts.

Benefits to Churchill alumniare many, particularly theopportunity to return for thefive- and ten-year reunions, events which are relished by many whoreturn to College to reconnect with their peers and tutors and torevive their fondest memories. You will always be a Member ofChurchill College, a part of a huge community which grows from dayto day. There are currently more than 9500 Churchill alumni aroundthe world. The bad news is that we have lost touch with nearly 3000

Members and we would love to regain contact with you all. I am reminded, while writing this, of a ‘lost’ alumnus who had made

contact with us recently by leaving a message on an answeringmachine in College expressing his interest in reconnecting with us andattending the Association Annual Dinner in September that year. Hismessage unfortunately was unclear and prevented us fromdeciphering his surname. Armed with only a few syllables of his nameand a few clues, a search of the College records ensued. After anumber of amusing phone calls and e-mails later, we were able totrack him down, update his information, send him an alumni pack andfinally inform him that he was too early to book for the dinner! It isnotable that we were able to find a further three missing alumniduring this process.

Last summer, we produced a lost alumni booklet which we hopeyou will all have seen. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank thoseof you who have helped us, those who have made themselves knownand even those of you who were not in fact lost but were on ourdatabase under a different name! May I urge those of you who havenot already done so to contact us and let us know of the whereaboutsof your peers. A piece of information (however insignificant) such as aknown former location can be enough to help us track down a lostMember and let them rejoin the fold. My thanks to two particularalumni who have managed to locate nearly 50 of their peers! Copiesof the booklet are available by contacting alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. ■

Reconnecting with lost alumniAlumni Relations Officer James Adamcheski-Halson on tracing the missing Members

In November 2005, as the Vice-Chancellor visited the west coast ofthe USA to meet Cambridge alumni at the launch of the 800thAppeal and anniversary programme, so Members of Churchill

College came together at various locations around the Bay area. With over 170 Churchill Members with Californian addresses, it

was no surprise that nearly 50 Members and their partners turned upat the several College events staged that week. College’s very gratefulthanks go again to Neil Laird, whose home in Redwood City attracted10 Members from the Palo Alto/southern Bay area. Thanks also again

to David and June Stoddart, who welcomed 15 Members to join themin their home in Berkeley. At each of these evenings, an audiovisualmessage from Sir John Boyd was relayed followed by a few facts andfigures from the Development Director on College today and itsdevelopment programme. Members heard about College’s need forfurther student accommodation and the intention to make this a focaltarget of the forthcoming 50th anniversary in 2010.

In San Francisco on the Saturday, 13 Members and partners cameto the seminars, not only to hear the historian Dr David Starkey orcosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking, but to meet each other andshare memories of Churchill College around the lunch table in theGrand Hyatt Hotel, Union Square.

Assisting with welcoming Members at all these events was one of theAnnual Fund’s co-chairs, Julian Gee. Flying in especially from Wyoming,he commented ‘It would be nice to see Churchill College andCambridge University visit California and the Western United Statesmore often. There is clearly significant interest amongst our alumni inthis area of the States in events which bring Members of Collegetogether.’ The week included a delightful dinner with Jonathan and NinaKitchen, a typically Cambridge Saturday night wine bar evening (thanksfor the chocolates, Brinda), and for me personally, as member of theCollege Wine Committee, an absolutely action-packed trip up NapaValley with Niall and Isabel MacCormack, just squeezed into the gapbetween sunrise and flying back to the UK. ■

Judge David Stokes QC, who died in 2004, is to be commemoratedby the founding of a new bursary specifically for Law students atChurchill College. David Stokes studied Law and History at Churchill before joining Gray’s Inn in 1964. He practised at the bar

for over 30 years, becoming a Recorder in 1985, Queen’s Counsel in1989 and a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1998. In 1999 he was appointedas one of the permanent judges at the Old Bailey.

The Judge David Stokes QC Memorial Bursary Fund has been set upby a group of his family, friends and colleagues to aid needyundergraduates reading Law; a target has been set for an initialendowment of £30,000, to enable College to award one bursary eachyear of at least £1000.

Three of the judge’s close friends, John Stuttard, Peter Beaumontand David Penry-Davey, launched the appeal for the Fund at areception in November 2005 at the Old Bailey. Even before that dateenough money had been raised to establish one Stokes Bursary.

David Stokes was for many years an inspired teacher of advocacy tostudents and young barristers in England and Canada, and so it is

particularly fitting that he should be commemmorated by this newFund. ■

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Law students to benefit fromnew bursary fund

Memorial Fund set up in memory of Judge David Stokes

Churchill College Annual FundAs all Cambridge colleges have united behind the University for the800th Anniversary, and as the campaign to raise £1000m gets underway, most Colleges are applying additional resources to expand theircontact with alumni and raise funds. This includes each college runningan Annual Fund. For your College, and today’s Churchill students, thismeans a modest flow of gifts from Members to support students,teaching and the social environment of the College. The Annual Fundenables financial aid to be given to individual students for access,hardship, research and new facilities, not forgetting vital services suchas the library and computing resources. An Annual Fund allows aCollege to address problems as they arise and to seize the immediateopportunities.

In 2005, the second year of the Churchill College Annual Fund, theUSA co-chairs set a target of $200,000 to test Members’ consistencyin their affinity to College. With one month to go before the end ofthe College’s financial year, I am confident we will exceed this figure,perhaps even exceed last year’s $212,000.

The Master and Fellows hereby send their congratulations to theco-chairs of the 2004/5 Annual Fund USA: Dr Julian Gee, Molly KerHawn, Admiral Don Pilling and Dr Tony Wild. For all alumni locatedelsewhere, our thanks go to co-chairs Miles Craven, David Dutton,Clare Froomberg and Zafar Karim.

Telephone campaignFor a number of Churchill alumni, a telephone campaign wasundertaken during the Easter 2006 vacation by 12 current students

under the tutelage of Gilb Fletcher and the Cambridge UniversityDevelopment Office team. We had some fantastic conversations andan excellent stream of gifts promised. We also found that over half ofyou are registered with the Telephone Preference Service, and just asmany have telephone answering machines that intervene between youand a conversation with a current Churchill student! We knowChurchill alumni have very busy work and social lives, some withtravel and business commitments taking them away from home eachweek. We apologise to any we wrote to who are still waiting for acall. We could not get through the full list of alumni in the three-weekprogramme. Please call in now, and we will arrange for a student tocall back as soon as exams are finished!

Some of the development messages relayed during the telephonecampaign were:

‘College has to cut its cloth according to its means.’‘Tell us how can we make College relevant to you today’‘How do current graduating students feel they belong?’ We’ll let Eva Pantazaka, one of the students who took part in the

campaign, have the last word: ‘You all responded so positively andwere so keen to share your experiences, that you made our taskreally enjoyable. I never thought I would have so many commonexperiences and interests with people who had matriculated 10, 20 oreven 30 years ago. And we heard many exciting stories about the lifein College back at those days. On a personal level, the chance tocommunicate and connect with so many former students through thisscheme was priceless. This was the most rewarding “project” I'veever undertaken!’ ■

Development news

College Members meet up inSan Francisco

Tony Bannard-Smith recalls a memorable alumni meeting in California

Kasee and Michael Menke with Julian Gee in the home of David Stoddart,Berkeley.

Left: The late Judge David Stokes, QC. Right: The Hon. Mr Justice Penry-Davey speaking at the launch of the Fund appeal

Every year the Universityawards honorary degreesto half a dozen eminent

people, academics, and achieversin public and business life and inthe creative arts. Among thehonorary graduands this year wasa Churchill alumnus, whoreceived his degree from theChancellor, the Duke ofEdinburgh, on 27 June.

Njabulo Ndebele is one ofSouth Africa’s leading prosefiction writers. His work isdiscussed alongside that of NobelLaureate Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee. His masterly Foolsand Other Stories depicts life in

the black townships underapartheid. It won the award forthe best book published in Africain 1983. It was filmed in 1998.His influential essay, ‘TheRediscovery of the Ordinary’,raised the eyes of fellow writersto horizons beyond apartheideven before the regimecollapsed.

There is much else toNdebele’s achievements besideshis fiction. He is an academic andleading university administrator.Currently Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Cape Town andchair of the Association ofAfrican Universities, he haspreviously been Vice-Chancellorof the Universities of the Northand of the Western Cape,professor in the department ofAfrican Literature at theUniversity of Witwatersrand, anddean of the English Departmentin the University of Lesotho.

Born in a Johannesburgtownship in 1948, Ndebele wentto school in Swaziland, and tookhis first degree at the University

of Lesotho. He then came toChurchill College as an affiliatedstudent to read English for asecond degree. He was high-powered: his Director of Studiesremembers an essay on JaneAusten as like seeing the familiarEnglish landscape from thecockpit of a TSR2. That was in1973–5, when he was the firstholder of the College’s SouthernAfrican Bursary, a schemelaunched by the JCR around1969, and still in being. Designedto raise funds from CollegeMembers to bring non-whitestudents to Cambridge, thescheme had a bumpy early ride:finding candidates and gettingthem visas involved playing catand mouse with the apartheidregime. Ndebele was residenthere with his wife Mpho andtheir two children. Mpho workedfor World University Service andhad to move in a hurry whentipped off that WUS had beeninfiltrated by the South Africansecret service, BOSS.

Ndebele went on to a

doctorate at Denver and thenreturned to Africa. His mostrecent work is The Cry of WinnieMandela, which fuses fact andfiction and is a poignant portrayalof black South African women.

Interviewed recently by theGuardian, Professor Ndebele saidthat ‘British universities havebeen a model for many otherinstitutions around the world.They still occupy a position ofrelative prominence in the world,but I think they have to fight tomaintain that position. They nolonger enjoy it easily.’ He wenton: ‘In terms of increasing fees, Iwould simply welcome Britishuniversities to the club.Institutions around the worldcharge fees and people have gotused to that. Britain is no longerable to command enormousresources to support universitiesas they have done in the past.Universities are increasinglyhaving to find ways of supportingthemselves’. ■

Mark Goldie

University honoursChurchill alumnus

Cambridge to confer honorary degree on South African author

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TThhee AAlluummnnii AAssssoocciiaattiioonn

The Association’s constitution tells us that its purpose is to ‘promotegood fellowship among resident and non-resident Members of theCollege and to encourage non-resident Members of the College tomaintain links with the College and with each other’. We need yourhelp to do this. All alumni are automatically members of theAssociation when they graduate and Members of the College for life.Hopefully, you will remember your time at Churchill with pleasureand will feel that you would like to give something back. Particularlywith the College’s 50th Anniversary drawing near, continued alumniinvolvement will be integral as plans are made to provide a fittingcelebration to the anniversary of the foundation of the College. Weneed your help by offering time (as little or as much as you feel youcan manage) and assistance in organising events, gatherings in yourown part of the world or even just encouraging your peers to comeback for the Annual Dinner. Just a little bit of time will go a long wayto making the 50th Celebrations a great success.

We also need new volunteers to join the Executive Committee. Itmeets just twice a year but is already responsible for a number ofevents including the Annual Dinner in September each year, Pubnights in London and soon in Cambridge, a Careers Evening inCollege to benefit current students and a wine tasting, not tomention various sporting fixtures. These events are fantastic but wecould always do more. It doesn’t seem fair that such a small numberof us are having all the fun!

If you are interested in getting involved in some way, pleasecontact us at Churchill.Association@chu.cam.ac.uk or by contactingthe Alumni Relations Officer, James Adamcheski-Halson (see panelabove for contact details).

PPooiinnttss ooff ccoonnttaaccttAll phone numbers are area code 01223 (Overseas: +44 1223)

Accommodation 336164(All alumni with internet access are asked to book accommodation byvisiting http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/members/alumni/contact?sp=29and completing the online form.)Alumni Association 336083 Churchill.Association@

chu.cam.ac.ukAlumni Relations Officer 336083 Alumni@chu.cam.ac.ukArchives Centre 336166 Archives@chu.cam.ac.ukConference Office 336233 Conferences@chu.cam.ac.ukDevelopment Director 336083 Development@chu.cam.ac.ukChurchill Review Editor 336083 Review.Editor@chu.cam.ac.ukNewsletter Editor 336083 Nleditor@chu.cam.ac.ukHigh Table Bookings 336083 High.Table@chu.cam.ac.ukMøller Centre 465500 Reception.Moller@chu.cam.ac.ukPorters’ Lodge 336000 Head.Porter@chu.cam.ac.ukSenior Tutor & Admissions Tutor 336208 Admissions@chu.cam.ac.uk

Tutor for Advanced Students 336157 TAS@chu.cam.ac.uk

AAlluummnnii eevveennttssEEvveerryy ttwwoo mmoonntthhss,, TTuueessddaayyss Alumni Association Pub Night, OldBanke of England at 194 Fleet Street, EC4 2LT

88 JJuullyy 22000066 Reunion Dinner for years 1973–1977 inclusive99 JJuullyy 22000066 Reunion Lunch for years 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991,2001

2222––2244 SSeepptteemmbbeerr 22000066 Churchill Alumni Association Weekend andUniversity Alumni Weekend

2233 SSeepptteemmbbeerr 22000066 Churchill Alumni Association Annual Dinnerand AGM

DDaattee ttoo bbee aaddvviisseedd Inaugural Churchill Alumni Golf Day2211 FFeebbrruuaarryy 22000077 The Roskill Lecture, given by Lord May

CCoolllleeggee rreeuunniioonnssRReeuunniioonn DDiinnnneerrEvery ten years or so, you should receive an invitation to come backto the College for a Reunion Dinner. This year’s Dinner, for thosewho matriculated in 1973–1977, is on Saturday 8th July. If you donot receive an invitation by the end of April for your Reunion year,please contact the Alumni Relations Officer either by telephoning01223 336083 or by e-mailing alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. Forthcomingdates are as follows:

July 2007 for those who matriculated in 1982–1985 inclusiveJuly 2008 for those who matriculated in 1966–1970 inclusiveJuly 2009 for those who matriculated in 1995–1998 inclusiveJuly 2010 for those who matriculated in 1978–1982 inclusive

RReeuunniioonn LLuunncchhEvery five years or so, you should receive an invitation to come backto the College for a Reunion Lunch. This year’s Lunch, for those whomatriculated in 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001, is on Sunday9th July 2006. If you do not receive an invitation by the end of Aprilfor your Reunion year, please contact the Alumni Relations Officereither by telephoning 01223 336083 or by e-mailingalumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. Forthcoming dates are as follows:

July 2007 for those who matriculated in 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002

July 2008 for those who matriculated in 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993 and 2003

July 2009 for those who matriculated in 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2004

July 2010 for those who matriculated in 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2005

HHooww ttoo ggiivvee ttoo CChhuurrcchhiillllThere are a number of ways to give to your College - a full list withfurther instructions can be found at:http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/supporting/how_you_can_help.php

• A single gift by cheque or credit/debit card or via the CharitiesAid Foundation (CAF).

• A regular gift by Direct Debit.

• A gift of shares.

• A gift of property.

• A payroll gift and matching giving via your employer.

• A legacy.

Information on tax-efficient giving (e.g. the Gift Aid Scheme) is alsoavailable on the above web page.For advice on giving to Churchill College, further details on Collegefunds or to receive a donation form, please contact the DevelopmentOffice.

Association pub night at the Old Banke of England