Selwyn

Issue fifteen October 2008

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Editors:

The MasterHeather KilpatrickMike GoodHannah Courtney

Photographs courtesy of:

Howard BeaumontClaire Chin-SueAndrew Garrard (Stewart Sage)JET Photographic (2008 May BallSurvivors)Heather KilpatrickIain KilpatrickLing LowChris Morris (Athletics Cuppers)Ben Ramos (Henry Shukman)Bob Whitaker (Medics & Vets)

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May Ball Survivors 1948 & 2008

One of the pleasant surprises ofmy six-month stint, deputising forthe Master during his study leave,has been the number of formerstudents that I have met, and thishas made me more fully aware ofthe affection which so many havefor the College. At the same time,negotiations with the currentMCR and JCR of inevitable rentrises have brought home to mehow different things are forstudents today than they were forthose of us whose tuition feeswere paid as of right and who –in that dim and distant past –might even have received grantstowards maintenance.

Two notable changes of personnelare in place for the coming year.James Keeler has been appointedas Senior Tutor in succession toMichael Tilby who has held theoffice with distinction for morethan a dozen years. In Lent, weheld a search for a new Chaplain,after Joe Kennedy’s departure in

December to become Principal ofMirfield College in Yorkshire.Following a process ofconsultation in which all areas ofthe College were involved, theRevd Hugh Shilson-Thomas,previously based at Church House,was appointed. He joined us inJuly. Sharp-eyed readers will haveregistered that this, potentially, leftthe College without a Chaplain forthe interim. However, into thebreach stepped Bob Hardy, retiredBishop of Lincoln, who movedback into the rooms he formerlyoccupied as Chaplain from 1965-72. With his good humour andastute mind, Bob has been awonderful source of support andadvice (and see page 10).

The 125th Anniversary of theCollege, which promised to beeventful, has, indeed, been so, asyou will see in this edition ofSelwyn. Meanwhile, with theAnn’s Court Phase 1 buildingalready fully absorbed into thelife of the College, Phase 2 isproceeding steadily. The structureis already clearly defined and theroof is on. Although buildingwork has continued all year, thecontractors have gone out of theirway to keep disturbance to aminimum and those closest to thework have tolerated it. A notableembellishment of the hoardingaround the site is a mural painted

by students, from awinning designby Catherine Williams. A furtheraddition to the fabric of the College,rather more permanent than themural, is the stained glass inmemory of Wil Sanders, installedbeside the New SCR, and featuredlater in this edition of Selwyn.

I guess I have learned more aboutthe running of the College sinceJanuary than in my previousthirty years as a Fellow. Certainly,I have a considerably clearerinsight into the College financesand the impressive job the Bursarand his staff do in making themost of what we have, as well asa better sense of the generosity ofalumni in supporting this. My sixmonths as Head of House haveoccasionally been fraught; it has,though, also been enjoyable,thanks to the goodwill of Collegestaff, Fellowship and, indeed,students, former as well as current.

Jean ChothiaActing Master

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The Acting Master Jean Chothialooks back over an eventful six months

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STOP PRESS

Selwyn celebrates its 125th

Anniversary with the news

that we have topped both the

Baxter andTompkins tables,

which measure success in

Tripos results across the colleges.

Ways to give

Selwyn at the Palace

Selwyn has a strong campanological traditionand has, for more than fifty years, been able tomuster competent groups from amongst itsranks to ring peals, which are continuous

performances of 5000 or more changes, takingan average of three hours to ring. In all, a totalof fourteen peals have been rung by all-Selwynbands since 1951.

Most of these peals have been rung to markspecial College occasions: two for thecentenary, two in honour of ringers’presidencies of the Selwyn CollegeAssociation, and one at Lichfield Cathedralfor the centenary of Bishop Selwyn’senthronement there. At the announcement ofthe College’s 125th anniversary, a requestwas made for another peal attempt atLichfield, and thanks are due to the Dean andChapter for agreeing a suitable date, April 12,one day after the 130th anniversary of BishopSelwyn’s death.

The band met in the cathedral refectory andwas then treated to some of the Selwyn historyin the Close before starting on the serious taskof the day. After a slow and slightly nervousstart the ringing settled down and a verycreditable peal was rung in three and a halfhours on these glorious-sounding, but heavyand challenging bells. As photographs werebeing taken of the successful peal band againstthe West Front, it was very pleasing to hear acongratulatory shout of, ‘Well done, thatsounded lovely,’ from one of the cathedralclergy going into Evensong. The ringingtradition of the College had been maintainedand Selwyn’s name duly honoured.

Robin Heppenstall(SE 1956)

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Selwyn band, from left to right: Eric Roberts,Vivian Nutton, Mark Norris, Robin Heppenstall,Nik Bright, Richard Inglis, Camilla Haggett,Paul Seaman, Rod Lebon and Nick Haggett

Among the many celebrations of the College’s125th birthday this year was an invitation fromtheArchbishop of Canterbury, the CollegeVisitor, to come to Lambeth Palace on May 15for a Service of Celebration and reception.

It was a particularly moving occasion for the120 members of the College for whom roomcould be found in the Palace Chapel. Sevendecades of the life of the College from the 1940sonwards were represented; and theArchbishopenjoyed very senior episcopal support from theArchbishop of York (SE 1974), the Archbishopof Wales (SE 1969), the Rt Revd Lord Harries(SE 1958), and ourActing Chaplain, the Rt RevdBob Hardy (SE 1965).

The Archbishop’s welcome includedthe thought that it was perhaps oddthat the Visitor had caused theCollege to visit him! There was nodoubt however that the locationwas enormously appreciated by hiscongregation at evensong, whichwas led by Bob Hardy. The lessonswere read byAnnie Osborne, anundergraduate and the Archbishop’sgoddaughter, and Dr Jean Chothia,Acting Master. The Lambeth Singerssang an Introit composed by SamJackson (SE 2005) using the wordsof the Collect for George AugustusSelwyn, Stanford’s Magnificat andNunc Dimittis in C, and Vaughan

Williams’ anthem Let all the world in every cornersing. The organist was Sarah MacDonald, theDirector of Music in Selwyn Chapel.

The Master read an Act of Commemorationwhich traced in thanksgiving the life of theCollege from its small and tentative beginningsin 1882 to its present lively maturity of whichSelwyn himself would have been proud.

The Archbishop’s address also went back to thehistoric roots of the College, beginning with theheroic and radical work of Selwyn in NewZealand and the martyrdom of ColeridgePatteson, the first Bishop of Melanesia. He thentook words from the second lesson at evensong

(Ephesians 4:10) that Christ ‘might fill all things’to underline the engagement of the Church withthe life of the intellect which the foundation ofSelwyn College represented. Moreover, andimportantly, this required that the Church shouldhave confidence in its own position to engage ina genuinely open way with the wealth of ideasthat academic life is designed to generate.

Evensong was followed by a reception in theGuard Room of the Palace where the ActingMaster expressed the very warm thanks of theCollege to the Archbishop for making possiblea remarkable and very enjoyable event. Shealso brought greetings to the company fromOwen Chadwick and John Sweet who wereboth very sorry not to be able to be present.

The Archbishop responded by expressing hisaffection for the College which began 40 yearsago when he had the good fortune to besupervised by John Sweet. The office of Visitorhad served to strengthen that good feeling.

Events like the Lambeth celebration do not ofcourse run smoothly by accident, but in thiscase notably through the detailed work of thestaff of the College Development & AlumniRelations Office led by Heather Kilpatrick,to whom many thanks are due.

David HarrisonFormer Master

Ringing in the anniversary

In Lambeth Palace Chapel: R-L Rowan Williams, Bob Hardy and John Sentamu

Saturday 21 June was the longestnight of the year in more waysthan one. Over one thousandguests gathered to celebrate theCollege’s 125th Anniversary at thefirst May Ball for over a decade.All were members of Selwyn andtheir guests, ranging from currentFreshers to those whose memoriesstretch back to the first SelwynMay Ball in 1948. With a carefuleye on the weather – and 1000umbrellas on stand-by – weopened the gates, greeting ourguests with sparkling winebrought from New Zealand, inhonour of Bishop Selwyn himself(the antipodean theme was artfullywoven through the Dinner menuby the College’s Head Chef, MattRowe). Despite carefully plantedrumours about the impossibility offireworks, dusk was greeted witha spectacular display from theLower Gardens, set to music fromthe year of Selwyn’s foundation.After the gardens had been madesafe, the guests enjoyed atraditional funfair amongst thebeautifully illuminated plants andtrees. Meanwhile, in the Hall, atop-notch line-up of bands keptthe younger (and some of theolder) guests dancing through thenight. A fire alarm threatened toderail the performance of ourheadliners, Top 10 artists ElliotMinor, but to everyone’s relief it

was due to nothing more sinisterthan an over-enthusiastic tea urn!In Old Court itself, there wasdancing and comedy, and anauction in aid of Student Support,where Clive Anderson (SE 1972)brilliantly showcased his talents asauctioneer. Finally, the long nightdrew to a close and at 5.30am thebrave survivors gathered for thetraditional photograph. A crackteam of workers removed alltraces of the Ball by lunchtime onSunday, but the memories shouldlast much longer.

Mark Galtrey, May Ball President(SE 2000)

The origins of Selwyn’s first MayBall lie in wartime, when RAFcadets were billeted on theCollege. With the help of SirHubert Sams, Bursar from 1941,the RAF held two open-air dancesin July 1942 and 1943. Studentsreturning after the war thereforehad something of a precedent onwhich to build their case. TheCollege Council had withheldpermission for a ball in 1947 ‘onthe ground that the expenseinvolved was not compatible withthe terms of the Charter withregard to simple living’. Thefollowing year permission wasgranted, albeit at a double ticketprice limit of £7 10/- exclusive of

champagne. So the first ball of 1948had to be a modest and inventiveaffair without a marquee. Itssuccess set the tone for a series ofsmall-scale, intimate eventsthroughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Financial concerns were presentfrom the 1950s, but the balloonwent up in 1969 when a Welshalumnus forwarded his invitationto the Alliance News, a temperancejournal. The offending sentencewent ‘Despite the budget,champagne will still be flowingfreely all night’ and mention of‘roulette tables’ made mattersworse. The journal’s article quotedthe charter on economical andsober living, concluding: ‘Whenthe centenary of the college is heldin 1982 will there be any principleleft to celebrate…?’ The piece waspicked up by the EnglishChurchman, and Fellows becameworried that it might makenational news.

In fact the centenarywas celebrated,the Commemoration Ball of 1983being, in the words of the 1983-4Calendar, ‘the closest the Collegehas come to a full-scale May Ballfor a number of years’. With thetradition re-invigorated, there wasanother May Ball in 1984, andfurther events, initially at two-yearly intervals, throughout the

1980s and 1990s. In 1991, after thefirst December Snowball of 1990,the Bursar became concerned atthe possibility of two ballsbecoming an annual fixture. Inpractice this seems to havehappened only rarely, though theincreasing scale, advertising andappeals for sponsorship worriedsome Fellows who remembered the‘family’ events of previous decades.

Throughout the 1990s Snowballsalternated with May Balls, thelatter becoming more elaborate ina losing battle to compete withother colleges. There wasoccasional cross-fertilization: the1991 May Ball of the Godswasrecycled as the 2005 SnowballCome Play with the Gods. Titles andthemes were often witty,sometimes contrived. The lastSelwyn May Ball was the 1997Thunderball; another was plannedfor 2000 on the somewhat jadedtheme Sin (with a Bosch-styleposter), but was cancelled due tolow ticket sales, despite the headypromises of the application form.The Snowball remains the onlyCambridge winter ball, itsattractions diminished or increasedby global warming, depending onyour point of view.

Mike GoodActing Archivist

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Selwyn Celebrates:

the 2008 May Ball and 60 years of tradition

The team boasted both strengthand depth. Returning fresh fromtheVarsity Match in May werefive University athletes: AlexBates (pole vault, long jump),Greg Dickens (hammer),TomChadwick (javelin), Andy Owen(400m, 800m) and Rich Mathie(800m, 1500m).This provided theessential mix of talent in jumps,throws, short and long distance,which would be the base of theteam. In addition to Selwyn’spool of University athletes therewere numerous College athletesin all events, some of whomrepresented the University inother sports: Mark Baxter andGabriel Sacks (UniversityFootball), Dan Quarshie(University Hockey) and CarlSchroeder (University RugbyLeague), amongst others.

The first day of the competitionshowed the initial signs ofSelwyn College dominance. Onthe track, first place in the 400m,second place in the 1500m andthird place in the 200m collected

solid points. On the field Sacksand Openshaw battled head tohead in the triple jump to collectvaluable points whilst Dickensnetted silver in both the shot andhammer, second only to aUniversity Blue.

By Saturday night, in the interimbetween day one and day two, itwas beginning to show that ourhard work had paid off. Leadingthe competition by 28 points,Selwyn was already starting tocrush the huge and allegedlysporty colleges such asTrinity,Jesus and John’s.

Day two was a day of flair. Ironman Quarshie stepped straightout of a University hockey shirt atthe final whistle and into theblocks for a 200m to produce asolid run.Meanwhile Universitycross-country runner Mathie, notcontent with having run the1500m, 2000m and 3000m enteredas a guest in the 800m to finish aclose second. As the final eventsunfolded Queens’ andTrinity

performed worryingly well… butsadly for them not well enough,as the Selwyn locomotive wasnow unstoppable. In achampagne-style finish, teamscontaining Blues sprinters wereput to shame as Selwyn nettedgold in the 4x100m relay… therelay that sealed our 2007Athletics Cuppers victory!

From champagne performanceson the track we moved tochampagne in the Master’sLodge as the Master and Fellowshosted the team in a celebratorydrinks reception.

Later that evening anannouncement and toast wereheld in formal hall to the team’ssuccess and to the future ofSelwyn sport. A century-old,huge silver trophy now sitsmagnificently in the Porters’Lodge as a reminder of how greatSelwyn College really is.

Engraved on it are the names ofno less than four Olympic goldmedalists - and of course theSelwynTeam from 2007.

Andy Owen(SE 2004)

Calling all HermeansThe Hermes club is seeking to extend itsdatabase in order to maintain better contactwith former members. Thank you to all thosewho have responded to previous requests forinformation. If you have not already been in

touch, please contact Sanjay Patel, Hermes Liaison Officer, atsp437@cam.ac.uk. Hermes will be marking its 90th anniversary in 2010,and plans to celebrate in style.

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Selwyn’s very ownChariots of FireThe Cambridge University Athletics Cuppers Competition is a two-day long event held over the third weekend ofMichelmas term. The event itself is older than the modern Olympics and now draws together all 32 colleges to competehead to head. On October 13-14 2007 Selwyn entered a team with more talent and promise than anyone could remember.

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Rather than be relegated to ajunior position in a traditionalIndian law firm, Mody, who hadspent the previous four years in aNew York City firm, opened herown litigation practice in whatwas then Bombay (now Mumbai)in 1984. The schedule wasbackbreaking (16-hour days, sixand a half days a week) and itwasn’t easy getting cases, butwhen she did, she made sure shewas heard.

Today, she is a top corporateattorney and one of India’s ‘25most powerful women’. Her firm,AZB & Partners, is aninternational powerhouse that isat the table for most of themultimillion-dollar deals in thecountry as well as cross-borderMergers & Acquisitions. Forinstance, AZB & Partners advisedTata Motors in its $3 billionacquisition of Land Rover &Jaguar from Ford MotorCompany. AZB also advisedHSBC in their $261 millionacquisition of IL&FS InvestsmartLimited. If that isn't resuméenough, Mody is also a legalconsultant to investment bankssuch as J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynchand Goldman Sachs, advisestransnational companies on jointventure strategies in India, andworks with foreign institutionalinvestors and venture funds. Itwas the opening of India’s globalmarketplace in the 1990s whichtransformed Mody's firm, and

multinational corporationscurrently make up 80% of herclientèle. The firm has mergedtwice – something previouslyunheard of in India – and today itis the country’s second-largest lawfirm with offices in New Delhi,Bangalore and Mumbai and over200 lawyers on its roster.

Unlike traditional Indian lawpractices, where family membersare often guaranteed partnerships,Mody designed her firm withclear partnership tracks for juniorattorneys. Antiquated nationalstatutes restrict the number ofpartners to 20 (AZB currently hasaround 19). She forbids genderbias in recruiting, although herpartners tease that she favourswomen attorneys, who make upnearly 40% of her legal staff. Shesays she understands the issueswomen face and does try toaccommodate them, but thereality is that when the deal is on,attorneys have to be there nightafter night. And she finds manywomen who marry and havechildren have to drop out becausethey don't have the necessarysupport at home.

Born in Bombay, as the oldestchild and only daughter of thenoted jurist Soli Sorabjee, India’sformer attorney general, Modyalways knew she wanted to be alawyer. She felt she ‘got a bitlucky’ when her mother, whomshe describes as the

decision-maker, insisted heryounger brother become a doctor.‘My father had probably wantedhis eldest son to be a lawyer, but Ithink my mother squashed that.’

She did her BA at Selwyn underProfessor John Spencer andfollowed it up with an LLM atHarvard Law School (1978-9), ‘thebest year of her life’. Afterworking for Baker & McKenzie inNew York City, she returned toIndia to marry. She knew shewanted to continue her career inIndia and felt that luck was on herside again when her mother-in-law and husband, whose fatherhad been a judge, supported her.‘The entire infrastructure in thehouse was geared toward lettingme still go out and work whilethe children were growing up.’

Over the next six years, sheestablished her law practice andgave birth to three daughters,now almost all grown up.Building an institution and raisinga family was not without itsstresses, and the balance betweenthe two was elusive. ‘I chose toprioritize my career simplybecause I had worked so hard toget to a certain level’, she admits.‘Having been recognized in thelegal landscape, I didn’t want todrop the space that I was occupying.’

One of her daughters is nowfollowing in her footsteps, settingher sights on law school. Mody

believes it is getting easier forwomen to succeed in India’s legalprofession. ‘I was one of the veryfew women who were trying totake up for the gender at thattime’, she says. ‘People are muchmore willing to give women achance today and wait for themto perform.’

Business Today listed Mody as oneof the 25 most powerful businesswomen in India in September2004, February 2006 and again inSeptember 2007. She is a recipientof the Financial Express BusinessWomen of the Year Award 2003(Best Knowledge Manager). Shewas named one of India’s 100Most Powerful CEOs by theEconomic Times 2004-8; she isa member of the London Courtof International Arbitration(LCIA) and on the World BankAppellate Tribunal.

Apart from her commitment tothe legal practice Mrs Mody isalso a committed Baha’i byreligion and serves as a memberon various Baha’i organizationsand Baha’i sponsored non-governmental organizations in thefield of education and theempowerment of rural women.

Zia Mody Mike Good(SE 1976)

Zia Mody:legally through the glassceiling in IndiaWhen Zia Mody (SE 1976) started her own law practice in India in the mid 1980s,potential clients had a hard time believing she would be as good as a male attorney, soshe set out to prove she was better. ‘India’s a society which is traditionally male-dominated, and the aggressive woman is not necessarily a popular animal’, she observes.

Marion Janner came to Selwynfrom South Hampstead HighSchool in 1978 to read Law forPart I, and then changed to Socialand Political Sciences for her PartII whilst earning a half Blue infencing along the way.

After leaving Selwyn, Marionwent on to manage communitycare services and then foundedPayback, a criminal justice charity,which she ran for four years.After the project’s conclusion, sheset about starting a new charity –

Bright – which runs ‘socialmarketing’ campaigns inpartnership with other charities,and in particular projects whichincrease the autonomy andinvolvement of people who havethe least social power.

Sadly, Marion became unwell atthis time and was eventuallydiagnosed with borderlinepersonality disorder, characterisedby severe depression. Since thattime she has shown enormouspersonal courage in dealing withher condition, using her adversityfor the good of others. In October2006, she founded the Star Wardsproject, which works with mentalhealth trusts to improve theexperiences and treatment ofpsychiatric inpatients. The schemehas led to improved dailyopportunities for patients, who areencouraged to make the best useof their time and skills whilst staffare urged to do the same. To date,

300 wards have joined the scheme(over half the psychiatric wards inthe country), which has meantthat thousands of inpatients haveenjoyed the benefits of increasedtherapeutic, social andrecreational experiences.

One matron described herexperience of the scheme in thefollowing way: ‘In my opinion,every acute ward in the countryshould implement as many of theStar Wards ideas as they possiblycan. I have never known aninitiative to be met with suchenthusiasm by the staff thatactually work on our wards.Somehow it manages to combineimprovements in the quality ofcare for patients with improvementsin job satisfaction for our front linestaff – a winning combination’.

Marion was both surprised anddelighted to receive publicrecognition for her work when she

was shortlisted for theCampaigning & Public Lifecategory of the Morgan StanleyGreat Britons ‘07 award. Marionfound herself in such esteemedcompany as Sir Ian McKellen,J K Rowling, Sir Ranulph Fiennesand Shami Chakrabarti (directorof Liberty, the civil libertiespressure group).

In addition to the Star Wardsproject, Marion is involved in avariety of mental health issues,particularly in lobbyinggovernment for better support forsectioned patients. At weekendsshe looks after her two learning-disabled foster sons.

If you would like to know moreabout the work of Star Wards,you can visit their website(www.starwards.co.uk/) orcontact marion@brightplace.org.uk

Marion Janner: from Bright to Star Wards

Henry Shukman (SE 1981) hasworked as a trombonist, atrawlerman and a travel writer. Healso happens to be a prize-winningpoet, joining the select company ofSean O’Brien (SE 1971), three timeswinner of the Forward Prize, andMario Petrucci (SE 1977), the firstpoet to have won the LondonWriters Competition three times.(These last two were profiledrespectively in Selwyn issues 5 ofSpring 2003 and 2 of Summer 2001.)

At Selwyn he read SocialAnthropology, and after graduationhe first went into print as a travel

writer with Sons of the Moon: AJourney in the Andes (1990), TravelsWith My Trombone: A CaribbeanJourney (1992) and Savage Pilgrims:On the Road to Santa Fe (1995). In2000 he won the Daily TelegraphArvon Prize (also won by MarioPetrucci) and a Times LiterarySupplement prize. His firstcollection of poems was In DoctorNo's Garden (2002), which wasshortlisted for the 2002 ForwardPrize for Best First Collection andwon the JerwoodAldeburgh Prize(2003). In an interview by The Poem(www.thepoem.co.uk) hedescribed his light duties as Poetin Residence at the WordsworthTrust, thanked the Trust for the giftof time, and explained why heprefers certain forms and styles toothers. ‘I deplore the idea of poetrybeing steered down some tinytributary where no one goes, andleft there for dead. There wassomething of a mid-century, mid-Atlantic lapse, as I see it, whenopacity and obscurity became not

just acceptable but a hallmark ofcredibility, in certain arenas ofpoetry. It’s a matter of taste, ofcourse: some people like nothingbetter than to chew on a toughnugget of unforgiving highmodernism. Others prefer to knowwhere they are in a poem. Andeasy reading is still hard writing:it’s true of poetry as well as prose.In a way, poetry is really the mostmainstream literary form we havetoday. The novel, for example, is acompromised form – not just itslength, but its shape, the typicalplots, and so on, all have been tosome extent dictated by commerce.Arguably only the short story andthe novella are prose forms thatcould be labelled “UncompromisedArt”. Not that commerce isnecessarily a bad thing for art.Even Pindar had to produce to agiven market demand – Homertoo, of course. I discovered poetryas a young teen, and that cameabout through reading poetry thatoffered things I couldn’t help but

love – wit, wisdom, nostalgia andso on. What I like best issomething I understand enough ata first reading to enjoy, yet whichtroubles me with a sense ofsomething not apprehended. Themaster of this has to be Frost. He,along with Hardy, would beamong my greatest of the 20thcentury – I’d probably even takethem both over Eliot.’

In May 2004 Jonathan Capepublished Shukman’s first forayinto fiction, a collection of storiesabout men failing in love in exoticplaces, under the title Darien Dogs.This was followed by two novels,Sandstorm (2005) which won theAuthors’ Club First Novel Award,and The Lost City (2007), a GuardianBook of the Year. Awriter asversatile and talented as thisshould be worth watching.Currently he lives in Santa Fe,NewMexico.

Mike Good

Henry Shukman: poetry and prose

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Selwyn’s 125thanniversary yearhas witnessed anumber ofcelebratoryevents, both inCollege andaround thecountry.The

festivities began in September 2007 with yeargroup reunions, the Association Dinner, andthe launch of the book Selwyn Celebrated,which continues to sell well. The Medical andVeterinary Society marked its fiftiethbirthday with a dinner in Hall in November,and the 1882 Society was entertained byrepresentatives from the student body inMarch, with a string quartet recital in Chapelfollowed by dinner. Further afield, members

met in Edinburgh at the Merchants’ Hall,where Sir David Harrison spoke aboutSelwyn in the past and the present, offeringhis own reflections from his long connectionwith the institution. In London, a tourfollowed by dinner was held at the RoyalSociety, hosted by Selwyn Fellow JeremySanders, FRS; and later in the year theCollege was delighted to be the guest of theArchbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Williamsat Lambeth Palace, for Evensong and areception, a fitting way to commemorate thefoundation (for a full report see page 3). Thestaff and Fellows were invited to a gardenparty during MayWeek, hosted by theBursar, and were treated to an archivaldisplay about Selwyn staff then and now, puttogether by the Acting Archivist. MayWeekculminated with the May Ball, organised by a

committee of Fellows and current students,which included an auction in aid of studentsupport funds. Under the capable hand ofour auctioneer, Clive Anderson (SE 1972), weraised in excess of £12,000, a very welcomeaddition to our fundraising efforts (fullreport on page 4).

The final garden party of the academic yeartook place during the first weekend of July, aday after the annual Commemoration ofBenefactors. Luckily, the rain cloudsdispersed during the early afternoon, leavingguests of all ages free to enjoy theattractions, including a craft competitionjudged by the Master and Mrs Bowring, withbackground music provided by OllyWedgwood (SE 1993) and his jazz trio.

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Selwyn College Medical and Veterinary Society is 50 years old!In 1957 Larry Baker and Iformed the Selwyn MedicalSociety.We had severalmeetings in the next two years,the most memorable beingwhen we asked the lateProfessor (‘bloody’) Harris toaddress us.

There were sporadic meetings ofthe society over the years butwhen I came back as a Fellow in1987 we linked up with theVets

and renamed ourselves as theSelwyn College Medical andVeterinary Society. ‘Med Soc’dinners are legendary and wedo have educational meetingsand, amongst other events, thereare sessions where the freshersare helped and advised by moresenior students.

To mark the founding of thesociety we held a 50thanniversary dinner on Saturday

17 November 2007. For nostalgicreasons we ran it on the lines ofall those past dinners thatMedics andVets can remember,right down to the awful jokesand, dare I say it – gibbon callsfrom David Chivers. It was greatfun as attested by the manyletters we received afterwardsand calls for a repeat dinner inanother auspicious period oftime. 140 (30%) of the 460eligible graduates and present

students attended – not a badturn out after 50 years!Interestingly, the Medicattendees were divided as athird each of GPs, physicians orsurgeons: only two had leftmedicine to join the media orthe church.

RobertWhitakerFellow

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The Rt Revd Robert Hardy, former Bishop ofLincoln, better known perhaps in College asBob, was dragged out of a peaceful Cumbrianretirement at the start of 2008 to cover a two-term interregnum between Chaplains.Therewas no kicking and screaming – in fact hiswife and children encouraged him to agree tothe request. Although he found himself in thesame rooms he had occupied 1965-72 asChaplain, other aspects of College life hadchanged significantly. Bob takes up the story.

For a start, the whole appearance of the siteand College buildings has improved. In the1960s there were still considerable areas oflinoleum andWorldWar II paint. Old Court,frankly, was somewhat shabby.The Librarywas drab, dusty and uninviting; the gardenslooked tired.There were good reasons for thisapparent neglect: the College hadn’t muchmoney, and what it had was quite properlyearmarked for buying out the leases on theWest Road/Grange Road properties in order

to secure the site for the future. Nowthe gardens are a delight at anyseason, and little touches such as theprovision of railings rather than thewall between the Master’s Lodge andthe Chapel have given the court a betterfeel. The gates onWest Road have addeddistinction to what used to be a dismalpath past the car park for staff andbunkers for garden waste.The modernLibrary extension has replaced the oldcycle sheds.The securing of the corner site,not to mention the handsome Ann’s Court,gives the College new opportunities forlandscaping the grounds as a whole; and therefurbishing of Cripps Court after 40 years isnow on the agenda.

What of the community itself?The greatchange from the 1960s is the presence ofwomen and computers, in addition to thewidespread use of texts and mobile phones.The women have brought both distinction and‘normality’ to the whole community.TheCollege has a relaxed feel about it, though onbalance I think that undergraduates workharder than they did. Perhaps it is the pressureof computers and emails, not to mention themore professional approach of supervisorsand lecturers which encourages this, butcertainly in passing the JCR mid-morning oneno longer notices languid figures reading thenewspapers. More people seem to eat in Hall,albeit in a less formal, more cafeteria-basedstyle (and there are probably more privatedinners and celebrations).

The numbers and the range of nationalities ofpostgraduate students have increasednoticeably; the Fellowship is almost twice thesize it was in the 1960s, younger too, and froma wider range of universities and experience.Few however live in College, so lunch hasreplaced dinner for regular contact, thoughthe same ease and friendliness that Iremember so well is still there. Some oldbarriers have completely disappeared, forexample as Heads of Departments now lunchwith us in College.

Chapel, too, has changed. Attendance is down,musical standards are up (now as good as anyother college outside the ‘big three’ of King’s,

John’s andTrinity). Successive Chaplains havediversified the pattern of worship withoutlosing its basic C of E structure. Students arenow involved in the management and day-to-day care of the Chapel, and are probably moredevout and thoughtful than their counterpartsof half a century ago.

As there is a serious and purposeful feel toChapel life, so there is in the College as awhole. It was exciting to be Chaplain ofSelwyn in the late 1960s, under the leadershipof Owen Chadwick and his Bursar ChrisJohnson. Cripps Court went up, enablingeveryone to live in for the first time. DavidHarrison the Senior Tutor encouraged therecruitment of potential undergraduates froma far wider range of schools than before.Older traditions such as gate hours and thewearing of gowns were passing away.

We bumped along near the bottom of theTripos table, but were determined to improveour standing. Now we have moved steadily upthe table and find ourselves currently at thetop.The diversification of the Fellowship, thedevelopment of the site and its buildings, theunpretentious atmosphere of HighTable, andthe dedication of College staff have allcontributed to the sense of buoyancy andpurpose. Certainly, undergraduates are lessovertly ‘political’ than they used to be, moreinterested perhaps in getting a good degree anda job than they are in changing the world. Butthe community as a whole seems in good heart,and after 125 years, I think that George AugustusSelwyn,with his robust and practical attitude toboth faith and life, would approve and rejoice.

Bob Hardy Mike GoodHonorary Fellow andformer Chaplain

Bob Hardy forty years on:

looking back,looking forward

Selwyn’s renowned andrespected dramatic society theMitre Players has recently beenrelaunched and rebranded as theMighty Players (seewww.srcf.ucam.org/mighty).Older members who mightdeplore this loss of historicalcontinuity should perhaps bereminded that the society’soriginal name before the SecondWorldWar was The Queeries,revived and unimaginativelyrenamed in Michaelmas 1947 asthe Dramatic Society, thenrefounded as theMitre Players inMichaelmas 1953. Its goldenperiod was probably in the1950s-60s – there was also acelebratedMuch Ado aboutNothing in the College gardens inthe early 1970s – and thoseproductions are always going tobe hard acts for any hard-working modern students tofollow. A fine Twelfth Night in theMaster’s garden in Easter 2007marked the reawakening.

Alice: A Fresher's Tale was theSociety’s first musical andpossibly even its first original

piece: it premièred on 26 Februaryin the Chadwick Room to anenthusiastic and packed house, ofwhom I was one.

Alice told the story of theheroine’s new life at a Cambridgecollege in a series of scenesloosely inspired by Carroll’sAdventures inWonderland andThrough the Looking Glass. Full ofexciting and unusual characters(according to the publicity), themusical featured Alice’s dealingswith a talking cat, boisterousFellows and an all-singing, all-dancing Societies Fair. In thetime-honoured tradition of post-war musicals, Alice’s problemswere all happily resolved by theend of the show, and theaudience went home with a songin their hearts. Considering thedramatically inappropriatevenue, the production achievedminor miracles of lighting,staging and co-ordination viaCCTV with the live band nextdoor in the JCR.While the tuneswere just about memorable,lyrics tended to the bland: thefinal chorus enjoined its

undergraduate listeners to ‘forgetwhat you knew and do as we do,it’s OK if we are all living this way’.

There was some gentle humourin the form of lightly-veiledCollege characters (which Fellowdoes gibbon calls for his partypiece, I wonder?) and a starringrole for Gus, the world-wearyCollege cat, as well as the usualclichéd situations of universitylife, but 1960s satire this was not;nor was there any seriousattempt to be historicallyinformed about the College.Bishop George Augustus Selwynappeared fully robed and mitred(a nod to the Society’s formername?) in the opening andclosing numbers, but in hischaracter or life bore noresemblance whatsoever to hishistorical counterpart; the clean-cut Master struck me as anaffectionate send-up of OwenChadwick, but when asked, theDirector replied ‘Owen who?’ SoI must pitch my criticismssomewhere between Kiwi’s spoofreview sight unseen and Varsity’straditional and gratuitous

hatchet-job. I agree however withKiwi that Alice ‘really onlyscratches the surface of theSelwynite existence’ – but thenthat’s what musicals do.With thestage crew and band made up100% of Selwynites, and the castover 50%, this production provedthat theMighty Players are ingood health.

Mike Good

The OliverWymanVarsity 100 is anannual attempt ‘to list 100 of themost influential students in theUniversity’.We thought youmight like to know which currentSelwyn students made the grade,and how the Varsity 100 Editorsassessed their prospects.

Jenny Hall (SE 2007), 1stYear, HistoryFresher hockey player Jenny Hallarrived at Cambridge alreadycapped at U18 and U21 level byEngland and playing regularnational league hockey at Ipswich.An utterly ruthless forward whopacks the attacking power of anuclear doomsday device into herrelatively small frame, her goalsand all round play have propelledthe Light Blues to the summit ofthe BUSAMidlands PremierLeague this season, and looks setto win her first Blue this term,before gaining her first caps as afull England international.

Ben Nicholls (SE 2005), 3rdYear, MusicBen is a Choral Exhibitioner,President of the UniversityMusical Theatre Society and sitson the ADC Committee. Hisproductions have included thehugely successful USTour ofTwelfth Night, and the opera LesIncas du Perou, of which theVarsity reviewer declared, ‘This isthe best thing I have seen inCambridge’. As well as this, hehas conducted and directedconcerts and shows acrossCambridge, including theCharpentier Consort, a new choirwhich he founded last year alongwith his all-female closeharmony group, Sexytet.

Sven Palys (SE 2006), 2ndYear,Oriental Studies (Japanese)As co-editor of The CambridgeStudent, he has instigated acomprehensive redesign of thepaper and is behind the

innovative weekly magazine‘Thursday’. He has alsospearheaded the idea of the‘Bursting the Bubble’ section,created to inform students aboutmatters happening outsideCambridge.

The editors of Selwyn would liketo make their own addition tothis list.

Frances Gregory (SE 2004), 4thYear,Oriental Studies (Chinese)Frances took the top prize at the7thUKVarsity ChineseCompetition on 15March 2008.Thecompetition strives to find theUK’sbest young scholar of Chineselanguage and culture. Judges andaudience alike werewon over withan impressive display of Chinesesword-dancing and amaximumscore inmost question categories,as well as an admirableunderstanding of architecture inBeijing and a knowledge of ancientChinese proverbs. Frances was alsocommended for her in-depthawareness of Chinese currentaffairs and gave a speech, inChinese,which used examplesdrawn both fromWestern andEastern societies in support of equalrights betweenwomen andmen.

Mike Good

Alice and the Mighty Players: through the looking glass

Selwynites in the Varsity 100: names to watch

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Ben Nicholls Sven Palys

12 Selwyn 2008

I am still something of a new boyon the Fellowship at Selwyn,having arrived in the summer of2006. However, I am old hand inCambridge terms, having spentthe previous quarter of a centuryat the other end of SidgwickAvenue in Queens’. I went up toQueens’ in 1981 to read NaturalSciences and after taking myPart II in Physiology I stayedin the Physiological Laboratoryto do a PhD. I then became aResearch Fellow at Queens’ in1987, a Royal Society UniversityResearch Fellow in 1989 anda University Lecturer inPhysiology in 1994. I wasappointed Reader in CellPhysiology in 2003.

My PhD research was onintracellular calcium signallingmechanisms in human bloodplatelets. Platelets are thesmallest cells in the blood andthey play a key role in bloodclotting. When you cut yourself,normally covered elements in theblood vessel wall are exposed,and along with various chemicalsgenerated locally, these stimulatecirculating platelets to undergochanges resulting in theirclumping together to form ablood clot. This is good newswhen it results in sealing adamaged vessel preventing

blood loss and helping in vesselrepair (a process known ashaemostasis). It is not good newswhen the clot formsinappropriately resulting inthrombotic disorders such asheart attack or stroke. The WorldHeath Organisation estimatesthat almost 13 million (22%)deaths worldwide result fromthese disorders annually.Although my research is verymuch on the pure side, betterunderstanding of plateletactivation mechanisms may helpin the long-term search for newways of tackling thrombosis.

My particular area of interestconcerns the mechanisms bywhich calcium ions enterplatelets from the surroundingblood plasma. Together withmy research students, post-doctoral workers andcollaborators in the Netherlandsand Spain, I’ve published nearlyninety papers on this topic,along with a couple of dozenreviews and over a hundredconference abstracts. Most ofmy funding has come from theBritish Heart Foundation andthe Wellcome Trust.

Outside of my research, my mainUniversity responsibilitiesconcern lecturing on the kidneyand body fluid physiology tofirst year Medical and Veterinarystudents, and all three years ofNatural Scientists. At the collegelevel I presently supervise firstand second year NaturalScientists in Selwyn, first yearMedics and Vets at Magdalene,and second year Medics in bothcolleges. I serve on the EditorialBoard of Cell Calcium and am apast Chairman of the EditorialBoard of the Journal of Physiology.

My spare time, such as it is, ismainly devoted to croquet, real

ale and tiddlywinks, though notalways in that order. I took upwinks on my arrival atCambridge, having been told(wrongly) by my college ‘parent’that almost everyone in mycollege played the sport.Contrary to popular belief, theadult game bears little relation tothat played by children, being asmuch about strategy and tacticsas physical skill. It is bestthought of as a combination ofchess and croquet. I winkregularly with CambridgeUniversity Tiddlywinks Club,now based in Selwyn and ofwhich I am Senior Treasurer. I amalso Vice President of the EnglishTiddlywinks Association andplay in most nationaltournaments, currently beingranked 20th in the world. I canbe found in the Fellows’ Gardenmost Sunday evenings insummer when the weatheraffords putting to use the croquetset Dr Thompson and I presentedto the Fellowship on my arrivalin Selwyn. It is not unknown foreither a game of croquet or winksto end in a glass or two or realale. As a life member of theCampaign for Real Ale(CAMRA), I can usually be

spotted at beer festivals in theregion hunting down brews I’venot tasted before. I keep briefnotes in a ‘beerbase’, so I know Itried my 2500th at theCambridge Festival this spring.

Stewart SageFellow

Sage reflections

As Fellow in English between1968 and 2001, Wil Sanders madean impact on generations ofstudents. Following his untimelydeath, many contributed toprizes which are now awardedannually for Shakespeare anddissertation work. Denise Leone,a prominent American stained

glass artist and family friend,whose husband Matt was taughtby Wil, offered to make awindow in his memory, to bedesigned by Wil’s widow, Jenny,a professional artist.

Denise is based in Hamilton,New York, and Jenny travelled tothe States to identify the exactcolours of glass for her designand to work with Denise oncutting, painting andsandblasting the glass for whatwould now be two narrow panelsseven foot high. The designincorporates abstract images ofmountains and water and thecolours and the shapes at the topof the left-hand panel wereinspired by a painting muchloved by Wil and Jenny, Titian’sgreat altarpiece of the Assumptionof the Virgin in the Frari, Venice.The inscription, ‘impatient as theWind’, is from Wordsworth’ssonnet Surprised by Joy.

Despite attempts by Americanairport security to confiscate thepanels, Denise was able to makethe transatlantic crossing withthem in Michaelmas 2007 and seethem installed at the top of thestairs to the New SCR. Theirvivid colours and intriguingdesign transform whatpreviously was a somewhatbland space. Although they weredesigned to be seen from insideby daylight, it is worth alsocatching them from Old Court,by night, when the colours,illuminated from inside, glow. InDecember, Wil’s family,colleagues and some formerstudents gathered to thank theartists and celebrate the receptionby College of what has quicklybecome a cherished addition toits fittings.

Jean ChothiaActing Master

Wil’s Windows: insightthrough stained glass

On Saturday 19 April, an eventtook place which marked a newdeparture for the College.Parents of first- and second-yearundergraduate students wereinvited to a lunch, with theirsons and daughters, in order toexperience dining in theCollege Hall at first hand, andto have the chance to meet someof the Fellows and hear from analumnus about life at, andsince, Selwyn.

A total of 170 people attended,and a hot buffet lunch ofchicken and salmon was

enjoyed with a tasty dessertselection of chocolate mousse orapple pie and cream. Thespeaker was Mr Nigel Newton(SE 1973) who kept usentertained over coffee withtales of his arrival at Selwynfrom California to read Englishin the ‘Winter of Discontent’,and learning very quickly of theinteresting ways of the English.He told of his move intopublishing on graduation, andhow he was inspired by thepioneering spirit of Bob Geldof(with whom he had thepleasure of working) to set up

Bloomsbury Publishing.We were amazed to hear of themere £1,500 advance paid toJ K Rowling following hersubmission of three chapters ofthe first Harry Potter book toBloomsbury, of Nigel’s pride inhaving published The EnglishPatient and his chagrin athaving turned down Bravo TwoZero by Andy McNabb.

Following the success of theevent we look forward tofurther gatherings in the future.

Launch of Parents’ lunch

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The Student Lunch Committee(L-R Heidi Gastall, Tom Kemp andChristine Norman) welcomes NigelNewton to Selwyn

Jenny Sanders at the window dedication

The College was delighted when,on the day of the openingceremony for Phase I of the newdevelopment in September 2005,Dr Chris and Mrs Ann Dobsonannounced their intention todonate £5 million from the Ann DFoundation to enable work onPhase II of the development tobegin.Their earlier gift from theFoundation of £5 million, alongwith the many hundreds ofdonations from generous alumniand friends, made possible thebuilding of Phase I.

On 4 March, the College celebrated the start of Phase II with aceremony at which Chris and Ann laid some concrete (see above) andwere presented with a memento of the occasion. Chris Dobson came toSelwyn from St Julian’s High School, Newport, to read Natural Sciencesfrom 1957 until 1960, and went on to found Electrotech (later TrikonTechnologies) which made equipment for the manufacture ofsemiconductors. He returned to Selwyn in 1998 to read for a PhD inMaterials Science. Since that time Chris has retired and, along with hiswife Ann, has taken the opportunity to become involved in both Collegeand University life.

The building will provide a further 41 en-suite student rooms and willalso house a new JCR in the basement.This is a significantdevelopment: it will not only define the three courts on the main site,but will also move the centre of gravity of the College to the north, andre-establish close ties with Cripps, the ‘fourth court’ across GrangeRoad. It is anticipated that the building should be completed in April2009.The current JCR space will then be converted into a new SeniorCombination Room which will provide an improved working and socialenvironment for the Fellowship.

Whilst work on the new building was providing College residents withplenty of interest, the large expanse of white hoardings surrounding thesite had been looking decidedly uninteresting. So, in Lent Term acompetition was run to find a design to be painted onto the hoardings.The venture was co-ordinated jointly by the College Art Society, theCollege Paintings Committee, Morgan Ashurst and the Development &Alumni Relations Office.The winner wasVeterinary student CatherineWilliams whose design was applied by a hardy group of intrepid artistsin appalling weather conditions at the end of Lent Term.

The College is grateful to have received support, and sponsorship,from the building contractor for the project, Morgan Ashurst, who notonly assisted with preparation of the boards for painting, but alsoprovided the paints and materials and offered generous prizes for thewinning designs.

Heather KilpatrickDevelopment Director

Building update: thehoardings and beyond

14 Selwyn 2008

The hoardings

On Friday 14 March 2008 we were visited by our daughter institutionin Canada, Selwyn House School, Westmount. This prestigiousprivate school for boys was founded in 1908 as Lucas School by aSelwyn alumnus, Algernon Lucas. In 1912 he transferred ownershipto a Selwyn contemporary and friend, Colin Macaulay, at which pointthe school acquired its present name of Selwyn House and eventuallymoved to its present premises in a Quebec suburb. As we celebrateour 125th Anniversary, they are celebrating their centenary, and thatwas the occasion of a visit by over 20 boys and over half a dozen staffto London in March, with a day trip up the M11 to pay their respectsto the Alma Mater of their founder and first Headmaster.

After a tour of the College and gardens by Heather Kilpatrick andSarah MacDonald (who speaks Canadian) the latter demonstrated theChapel organ (another Quebec connection) before the whole partymoved to the Chadwick Room for the official welcome by the SeniorTutor Dr Tilby and a talk by Mike Good. As well as providing acrash-course for Canadian teenagers on the early history of SelwynCollege, the mysteries of University and College life and the historyof England at around the turn of the nineteenth century, Mike displayedphotos and correspondence from the Archives of Messrs Lucas andMacaulay in their student days, and speculated on the reasons fortheir emigration, careers and (in the case of one at least) untimely end.

We are fortunate in that the Archives preserve substantial records andgood photographs of both men, largely because they were finesportsmen; it was probably sport that brought them together in thefirst place. Remarkably, the Archives preserve the entire Collegeadmissions correspondence for Lucas, including a testimonial fromhis vicar: ‘always well behaved and well conducted when homeduring the holidays’. At any rate, one hopes that those distant dayswere brought to life for the boys by the images on screen; there wascertainly a lively question-and-answer session after the talk, as well asa vote of thanks from the school, followed by an opportunity for theboys to buy copies of Selwyn Celebrated and other merchandise. Weare grateful for the gift of an oil-painting of Selwyn House as well asa copy of the school’s anniversary book Selwyn House School:celebrating 100 years. The party finally adjourned to Hall for a heartylunch before a brief walking tour of tourist Cambridge.

Mike Good

AlmaMater and daughter reunited Year Group Representatives1947 Stan Bunnell Tel: 020 8455 33791954 Michael Day daysludlow@yahoo.co.uk1959 Alfred Waller alfred@wallerfawley.co.uk1960 James Trevelyan jwitrevelyan@yahoo.co.uk1962 David Denton tripled@fsmail.net1963 Andrew Millinger andrew.millinger@virgin.net1964 Roger Le Clercq rogerleclercq@btconnect.com1965 Mike Walton mike.walton@waitrose.com1966 John Barnard therealjb@tiscali.co.uk1967 Michael Rowles michael.rowles@bristows.com1968 Michael Folger mfolg@aol.com1969 Nick Mercer nick.mercer@london.anglican.org1974 Nigel Hirst nhirst@hadenfreeman.com1976 Charlotte Carey Matts ccareymatts@aol.com1977 Malcolm Burwell mcburwell@aol.com1978 Gareth Quarry gareth.quarry@ssq.com1979 Kevin Brown selwyncambridge@epublish.co.uk1980 Peter Spargo spargosindeal@aol.com1981 Catherine Wightwick (née Carr) catherine@wightwick.co.uk1982 Stephen Speak stephen@speakfamily.com1984 Peter Thacker peter@pthacker.com1985 Vanessa Webster vanessa@vanessawebster.com1986 Mark Carey m.carey@moodmedia.com1987 Anna-Louise Brown (née Parkin) anna-louise@wealthbuild.com.au1991 Sian Walters walterssian@hotmail.com1992 Karen Knighton karen_knighton@hotmail.com1993 Graeme Daykin graeme.daykin@mac.com1994 Mary Clegg marylclegg@hotmail.com

Charlotte Dalton charlotte.dalton@btinternet.comLiz Ross Martyn liz.rossmartyn@jcdecaux.co.uk

1995 Jonathan Halliwell hallisax@yahoo.com1996 Ruth Longmaid ruthlongmaid@hotmail.com

Matthew Cheeseman egp05mjc@sheffield.ac.uk1997 Claire Wood c_e_wood@hotmail.com1998 Rebecca Candy (née Chesson) becky.candy@cantab.net1999 Dominic Ashcroft dominic.ashcroft@gs.com2000 David Cockayne dcockayne@humana.com2001 Amit Bhola amit.bhola@citi.com

Jack Butler jack@future-foundations.co.ukJames Thompson james_thompson44@hotmail.com

2002 Kelly Bond klb49@cantab.netShiraz Masood shiraz@cantab.net

2003 Tom Parks tomparks@mac.comAlison Dickson alibalibee85@hotmail.com

2004 Joe Braidwood joe.braidwood@cantab.netAlice Howell alice.r.howell@gmail.comNick Wright nick.wright@cantab.net

2005 Maria Staiano-Kolaitis mariask@cantab.net

USA Mark Denne [SE 1979] C/o alumni-office@sel.cam.ac.ukJacqueline Adams [SE 1987] jacqueline_adams@yahoo.comRuth Saunders [SE 1978] ruthsaunders@yahoo.comJohn Whitehead [SE 1972] j_whiteh@bellsouth.net

France Karen Williams williams.karen@tiscali.fr(née McDermott) [SE 1978]

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Selwyn House School pupils and staff outside the Hall

Hockey XI 1901: Lucas and Macaulay middle row first and second left

Future eventsPlease contact the Development &Alumni Relations Office if you would like to enquire about any of the following events.Booking forms and further details are available on the College website at www.sel.cam.ac.uk/alumni/EventsCalendar/index.html.

Keeping in TouchWe are always very happy to hearof your news and achievements,so please stay in touch bycontacting the Development &Alumni Relations Office or bylogging into our recently launchedOnline Directory atwww.alumni.sel.cam.ac.uk. Thisdirectory replaces the printedCollege Directory and is a greatway to ensure that you are lookingat the latest contact informationfor your contemporaries andfriends. All members for whomwe hold valid contact details willhave been provided with log-inuser names and passwords. If youhave not received this information,have lost your password, or areonly recently back in touch withthe College, please contact theDevelopment &Alumni RelationsOffice at:alumni-office@sel.cam.ac.ukor 01223 767844. All details thatyou enter in the directory willautomatically be passed onto theCollege’s main alumni database,but please note that if you directlyinform the office of changes byother means (e.g. by email orphone), these updates will not betransferred to your directory entry,since you have control over thedata appearing there.

Dining RightsThose of you who are MAs orwho have taken any other mastersor higher degrees are entitled todine at High Table on threeevenings per year on Tuesdays orThursdays, providing there are atleast six current Fellows present.You may bring a guest at yourown expense. To book, pleasecontact the Catering andConference Office on 01223 335855or at catering@sel.cam.ac.uk.

Staying in CollegeWe have a small number of guestrooms available to alumnithroughout the year. These arebasic rooms and are usually in oneof our hostels. To book, contact thePorters’ Lodge on 01223 335846 orporters@sel.cam.ac.uk.

Monday 17 NovemberReception, National Liberal Club,LondonA reception will be held at theNational Liberal Club, London, forall alumni and former Fellows.Further details will follow in lateSeptember.

Saturday 7 March 20091882 DinnerAll those who have madeprovision for the College in theirWill and are members of the 1882Society are invited to dine inCollege on the evening of 7 March.Partners are welcome. Bookingforms will be mailed in earlyDecember.

Saturday 21 MarchMADinnerAt the start of 2009, the TutorialOffice will be in touch with all ofthose who matriculated in 2002,with details about the MACongregation and College dinner.For further information, pleasecontact the Praelector’s Secretary,Mrs Margaret Hay, on 01223335897 or at mmh29@cam.ac.uk.

Saturday 4 April1989 ReunionAdinner will be held in Collegefor those celebrating 20 years sincematriculation, with a chance tomeet up in Cambridge during theafternoon. Partners are welcome.Overnight accommodation will beavailable in Selwyn. Furtherdetails will be mailed in duecourse.

Friday 3 JulyCommemoration of BenefactorsAll members who matriculatedbefore 1960 or in 1964, 1974, 1984or 1994 are invited back to Collegein July for evensong followed by areception and black tie dinner inHall. Booking forms will bemailed in April.

Saturday 4 JulyDonors’ Garden PartyAn informal garden party, open toall donors, will be held in the Collegegrounds. Live music and children’sentertainment will be provided.Guests, including children, are mostwelcome. Booking formswill bemailed inMay.

Selwyn CollegeMailing PolicySelwyn College keeps in touchwith members and friends with anumber of mailings throughoutthe year.

We hope that you are happy forus to contact you in this way, but ifyou would prefer not to receivemailings, please contact theDevelopment &AlumniRelations Office.

Saturday 5 September1969 and 1979 ReunionAdinner will be held in College,marking 30 and 40 years sincematriculation. Partners arewelcome. Overnightaccommodation will be availablein Selwyn. Further details will bemailed in due course.

Saturday 12 September1959 ReunionAn anniversary dinner and otherevents are planned. There will besome alumni of 1958 and 1960who may wish to share with usthis weekend event. Please makea note in your diaries. Furtherinformation will follow beforeChristmas. Please contact AlfredWaller (alfred@wallerfawley.co.uk)or the Development &AlumniRelations Office for more details.

Chapel Choir,Michaelmas Term 2008Wednesday 17 September, 6:00 p.m.Evensong, St Giles’ Church,CripplegateTo mark the 400th anniversary of thebirth of John MiltonPreacher: the Archbishop ofCanterburyMusic by John Milton Senior, as onthe Choir’s latest CD releaseSunday 9 November, 8:30 p.m.Remembrance Sunday Requiem,Selwyn College ChapelMusic by Tomás Luis de VictoriaSunday 23 NovemberLaunch of the Friends of the Choir,Selwyn CollegeEvensong, conducted by Sir DavidLumsden, followed by light supperRehearsal: 3.00pm; Tea: 5.00pm;Evensong: 6.00pm; Supper: 7.00pmWednesday 3 December, 7:30pmJohn Armitage Memorial 10thAnniversary ConcertTo be performed at St Bride’s Church,Fleet StreetTuesday 9 December, 1:10pmChristmas Concert, Bury St EdmundsRC Church

For further information about thechoir, or any of the above choirengagements, please contact theDirector of Music in Chapel,Sarah MacDonald, on 01223335877 or at seam100@cam.ac.uk.

Friends ofthe ChoirWe have been delighted by theresponse to the letter from theDirector of Music in Chapel sentout earlier this year. Manypeople have expressed interest inkeeping up-to-date with theactivities of the current ChapelChoir, and so we are pleased toannounce that we will be settingup a Friends of the Choir scheme,with the launch taking place atSelwyn on 23 November. For asmall subscription, all friendswill receive regular updatesabout the choir, and have thechance to come back each year tosing with other choir alumni.Anybody who did not sing withthe choir, but is interested injoining, would be most welcome.

The launch will be in the form ofevensong, sung by the currentchoir, followed by a light supper.Any Friend who would like tojoin the choir for this servicewould be most welcome:timings are listed above.

All who have already contactedus to say they sang in the choirwill receive further informationabout the Friends, and benefitsassociated with the scheme. Ifyou did not reply, and wouldlike to be added to this mailinglist, please contact SarahMacDonald or the Development& Alumni Relations Office.