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EVENTS & REUNIONS FOR 2006

Lent Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 17 MarchParents’ Feast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 17 MarchTelephone Campaign begins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 18 MarchMAs’ Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 25 MarchCaius Club Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 31 MarchHong Kong Group Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 6 AprilAnnual Gathering (1966, 1967 & 1968) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 7 April2001: “A Caius Odyssey” with Mick Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 8 April

Easter Full Term begins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 24 AprilEaster Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 16 JuneBenefactors’ May Week Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 17 JuneCaius Club Bumps Event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 17 JuneMay Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 20 JuneCMA Meeting and Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 24 JuneGraduation Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 29 JuneAnnual Gathering (up to and including 1955). . . . . . . . . Tuesday 4 JulyAdmissions Open Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 6 & Friday 7 JulySan Francisco Reception and Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 15 SeptemberNew York Group Reception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 18 September Annual Gathering (1963, 1964 & 1965) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 23 September1956 Golden Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 25 September

Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 3 OctoberCommemoration of Benefactors Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 19 NovemberCommemoration Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 19 NovemberMichaelmas Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 1 December

Installation of theNew MasterTopping Out at West Road

The Sandhurst Gun

Mick Rock’s Photos

Stephen Hawking’s Book

ISSUE 3 SPRING 2006 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

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“A gift to Gonville & Caius College is a gift to the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign”

From the Master

I write this as the most recent Caian of all! As the graduate of anotherCambridge college, I was matriculated in Caius just a few hours before I wasinstalled as Master at the beginning of the Lent Term.

Since then I have been busy learning about the College and those who live andwork here – an intricate, busy, purposeful community of fellows, students andstaff. It is a delight to be here, and everyone has been very welcoming. I havecome to a thriving college, riding high both academically and on the river,buzzing with intellectual, artistic, sporting and social activity.

And we are ambitious to do still better in the future.We are planning togetherhow to reinforce our strengths in education and research; how to reach out tothe best candidates across the whole range of the school system; how best tosupport our students while they are living and working in College; how best topreserve our architectural and cultural heritage. For all of that we need thesupport of “greater Caius” – the wider community of Caians including all thoseno longer resident in the College.

That term was coined by E S Roberts (1865), one of my greatest predecessorsas Master and great-grandfather of Richard Duncan-Jones (1963).A photograph by Roberts helps illustrate Richard’s article about Caians andSouth Polar exploration, beginning on page 10. Roberts brought in majorinnovations such as the Caius Club, our journal of record, The Caian, and theregular Annual Gatherings. He was enormously supportive of the Boat Club,and helped to fund and build the Caius Boathouse.

I am sure Roberts would have been delighted by the Telephone Campaign (seepage 23), in which twenty current undergraduates spend three hours a day fornearly two weeks telephoning Caians to bring them up to date with newsfrom the College. I hope readers of this issue will respond when they call, andenjoy this link between the College of today and “greater Caius”.

Christopher HumMaster

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4 The Sandhurst Gun

8 Legacies and our Heritage – by Dr Anne Lyon (2001)

10 Flying the Flag – Caius to the South Pole by Dr Richard Duncan-Jones (1963)

12 Flying for Freedom – Wartime exploits of David Foster (1938)

14 Through the Cai-Hole – The Bedders’ Tales

16 Rock Rocks – The Photographic Art of Mick Rock (1964)

18 A Briefer History of Time – by Professor Stephen Hawking (1965) reviewedby Professor Tim Pedley (1973)

19 CaiMusic: All the ends of the earth – Dr Geoffrey Webber (1989) writesabout Caius Choir’s new CD

20 From the Archives – by College Archivist James Cox

21 Lord McNair recalled by his grandson Dr Jimmy Altham (1965)

22 CaiWorld – New York Reception, November 2005

23 Telephone Campaign 2006

24 List of Benefactors since 1 January 2002

28 CaiMemories

32 CaiKitchen – Recipes from the Caius Kitchen

CaiSport – Football by Nick Greenwood (2002)

Two recent landmark events for theCollege have been the Topping OutCeremony at the magnificent new WestRoad Building on 20 November 2005and the installation of our new Master,Sir Christopher Hum, in the Chapel on16 January 2006.

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There is still much work tobe done to make the newbuilding ready for studentsby September, but thebasic structure is in place

and with its sinuous curves and beautifulAncaster limestone cladding, all rooms ensuite and a state-of-the-art heating andcooling system, the new Caius building at5 West Road is clearly going to set newstandards for student and conferenceaccommodation in Cambridge.

On a cold but clear day, twenty or soFellows, distinguished Caians and membersof the construction team donned hard hatsand climbed to the top floor of the newbuilding, where the President of Caius,Professor Yao Liang (1963), invited threemajor benefactors to lay the final stone inthe wall.

Doug Myers (1958), Rita Cavonius(2005) and Mike Richards (1981) tookturns with the ceremonial trowel andjointly set the final slab in place.The seniorarchitect, Mark Wilkinson of Donald Insall& Associates and representatives ofHaymills construction company then tooksmall groups on a tour of the building.

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The ceremony for theInstallation of the Masterwas attended by nearly200 Fellows, students andstaff.After Evensong,

featuring some particularly heavenly musicfrom the College Choir and lessons read byDr John Casey (1964) and ProfessorChristopher Brooke (1945), Sir Christophermade his formal declaration:

“I, Christopher Hum, do accept theoffice of Master of Gonville & CaiusCollege, and do solemnly promise that Iwill discharge the duties thereof to thebest of my judgement and ability, and willuphold the interests of the College as aplace of education, religion, learning andresearch.”

The President, Professor Liang, thenpronounced him the 41st Master since ourFirst Founder’s time, presented to him thecaduceus, the rod symbolising prudentgovernance which was given to the Collegein 1558 by our Second Founder, John Caius,and conducted him to his stall in theChapel, marking the installation by drawingthe stall-curtain.

1. Professor John Mollon (1996) 2. Sir Keith Stuart(1958) 3. Lady Stuart 4. Andy Hunt 5. RichardLyon 6. Simon Wayland 7. David Elstein (1961)8. Mark Wilkinson (Architect) 9. Sheena Hedley10. Megan Vozila 11. Doug Myers (1958)12. Barry Hedley (1964) 13. Martin Wade (1962)14. David Beaver 15. Rita Cavonius (2005)16. Dr Jimmy Altham (1965) 17. Dr Anne Lyon(2001) 18. Alex Vozila 19. Mark Vozila 20. MikeRichards (1981) 21. Ian Herd (1996) 22. Sarah-Jane Page 23. Nick Pettit 24. Professor Yao Liang(1963) 25. Choo Liang

Mike Richards (1981), Rita Cavonius (2005) and Doug Myers (1958) each with a hand on the trowel.

Hard-hats for all at the Topping Out Ceremony.

The Master, Sir Christopher Hum,receives the caduceus from thePresident, Professor Wei-Yao Liang.

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“What we have here, officer, is anagricultural implement.”Tapp chipped in that itwas a new piece of machinery for liftingpotatoes, at which point the policemanseemed to lose interest. He enquired if theyhad been racing and they assured himtruthfully that they had not.When he askedwhere they were going, they showed furtherpresence of mind and replied “Oxford!” afterwhich seven very relieved undergraduatescontinued on their way.

When they reached Trumpington, theystopped and ran up and down a sports field tomake sure they were awake. At Caius, anotherpolice car was parked outside the Great Gatebut soon drove away. Another sigh of relief!Willmott and Peck used the duplicate key thatMontague-Jones had made with a butter-patimpression of the original, much as G FHopkinson (1919) had done, 38 years earlier.They opened the Gates and started to carrythe dismantled parts of the gun into College asquietly as they could.

Unfortunately for Noel Prowse, the ropethey were using to carry the heavy gun barreleither broke or slipped, depositing it on thetoes of his right foot, causing a considerableamount of noise and pain. Still nobody stirredin the Porters’ Lodge and they carried onthrough the Gate of Virtue to Caius Court.They reassembled the gun in the oppositecorner to where the Jesus Gun had been andtrained it on the Master’s Lodge, where(coincidentally) Nevill Mott (1930) hadrecently taken up residence.

Antony Peck, who had done his NationalService in the Senior Service, and is still quietlyproud of not knowing a colonel from acorporal, was in charge of the key andremembers Bartlett’s stern command to “Takeno prisoners!”Ted Willmott was readingEngineering and knew about rapid-settingconcrete, so at dead of night, he and Peck duga pyramid-shaped hole in the lawn and filled itwith the concrete mix. Once the gun was inplace, a steel loop was passed through the ringat the end of the trail and embedded in theconcrete, which set nicely by morning.

The conspirators, pausing for a faintly-litphotograph or two, went off for a well-earnedrest and anonymity, but this was far from theend of the story. It was clear by now that theinjury to Noel Prowse’s foot was more thansuperficial. His shoe was “awash with blood”and he had left a bright red trail from TreeCourt into Caius Court. Bartlett took him toAddenbrooke’s, where they diagnosed fourbroken toes. The toes have neither bent norgrown toenails ever since.

The Hospital reported the injury toProwse’s tutor, who called him to account, butsince he had clearly been punished already andstoutly refused to reveal the names of his co-conspirators, the investigation petered out.

The ideal university prank attractsthe maximum public attentionto a feat that is original,ingenious, surprising and difficult.It must not cause harm to

people or property and should ideally cock agenial snook at some form of authority. Puttingthe Austin Seven on the Senate House roof inJune 1958 (see Issue 2) is still probably themost successful student stunt of all.

Those who were up at the time or came toCaius soon afterwards realised that it was nolonger enough to pass exams and succeed onthe sports field.Thanks to the surreal sight ofthat little car apparently defying the laws ofNewtonian physics and trundling along theapex of the roof, Caians had a reputation aspranksters and it was up to the next generationof wags and scallywags to maintain it.

The devisers of the following year’s Caianstunt decided that anything to do with carswould be seen as old hat and derivative.Instead, they harked back to a much oldertriumph, still at the time in living memory, theJesus Gun wheeze of 1921 (see Issue 1).

Having kept their identity secret for 46years, six of the nine conspirators came back toa grand reunion lunch in College at the end oflast year.While memories occasionally differedon details, they all enjoyed reminiscing andwere delighted that the President of Caius,Professor Yao Liang, not only attended thelunch but also took their photographs. Hispresence, they felt, “lent an air of respectabilityto an otherwise dodgy escapade!”

Back in the nineteen-fifties, NationalService tended to interfere with the fun ofuniversity life.The government in its wisdomhad decreed that all fit and able young menshould be trained in the fine art of killing fit andable young men from other countries, and evenintelligence was not accepted as an excuse.

Maurice Bartlett (1956) now a ReverendCanon of the Church, had completed hisNational Service and a short servicecommission with the Royal Artillery in “HeavyAck Ack” (anti-aircraft guns) before coming upto Caius. Michael Montague-Jones (1956),sadly no longer with us, had also beencommissioned after training at the MonsOfficer Cadet School at Aldershot. Their firstidea was to “borrow” a Mark 2 Bofors Gun andbring it into College, but when they went toinspect one, they found it was much too heavyand too wide to go through the Great Gate.

There were stories in the newspapers atthe time about “souvenirs” from Sandhurstsuch as swords and muskets disappearing andturning up for sale in markets. Bartlett andMontague-Jones decided to investigate thepossibility of acquiring a souvenir of their own.On a recce to Sandhurst with a friend who wasa serving officer, they noticed three finecannons, captured in the Crimean War,ceremonially guarding the grand entrance toOld College.

For the mission, Bartlett and Montague-Jones gathered a team of nine able-bodied,trustworthy chaps. Roger Barclay-Smith(1955), Dick Tapp (1956), Philip Morgan (1956)(now also a Canon), David Beevers (1957) andNoel Prowse (1957) joined the gun party.Antony Peck (1956) and Ted Willmott (1957)whose Army career later saw him rise to theheights of Major-General, President of theOrdnance Board and Director-General ofWeapons (Army), formed the key party andwould wait at College to open the Great Gatein the early hours of the morning.

The ground around the cannons consistedof gravel on top of tarmac. The Caians realisedthe metal rims of the wheels would make aterrific din, so they prepared blankets with tiesto wrap around the wheels to muffle the

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sound. Transport consisted of a Land Roversupplied by Tapp, whose family farmed inThanet, and a panel van provided by Prowse.The plan was to tow the gun into the groundsof Sandhurst and dismantle it beforetransporting it back to Cambridge in thevehicles. On the recce, they had found a placesurrounded by dense rhododendron busheswhere they could separate the heavy barrel(“the piece” in military parlance) from the trail(“the alligator”) and the wheels.

They calculated that the ideal time for theoperation would be 22.50, as some cadetswould come straight back from the cinemaand others would go to the pub beforereturning and this was the slack time inbetween. Over lunch, 46 years on, RogerBarclay-Smith remembered that they chose anight close to the full moon, so they could see

what they were doing. A chum at Sandhursthad assured them that it was a normalevening. In fact, when the gun party arrivedthere were floodlights all over the place andthe cadets were having a Ball, quite literally,with lots of smartly dressed people millinground and sentries with rifles slung.

“It was time,” as Maurice Bartlett said, “fora bit of dash and spur of the moment”. Bold asbrass, the Land Rover drove right in front of theGrand Entrance and dropped the crew, whopicked up the alligator and swung the cannonaround as the Land Rover reversed up to it.

Sadly, when they tried to join the towingring on the end of the trail to the towing uniton the Land Rover, the party “failed ATD”(attention to detail) because they did not fit!Montague-Jones heroically saved the day byholding the two together while they drove outof the grounds past some bemused sentrieswho, to the Caians’ great relief, failed to

challenge them.200 yards down the highway, they had a

stroke of luck, finding a hollow squaresurrounded by lock-up garages, where theydismantled the gun and divided it between thetwo vehicles. The wheels travelled in the LandRover, the alligator in a trailer behind it and theheavy barrel in the van. They were relieved tohear no sound of an alarm being raised atSandhurst, but took the precaution of travellingseparately, rather than in convoy.

The two vehicles met up as arranged inWindsor Great Park and the conspiratorsjoyfully gathered at the roadside tocongratulate each other. At that precisemoment, a police car pulled up beside them.The driver got out and inspected the vehicles:

“What have we got here, a gun carriage?”Barclay-Smith remembers Bartlett stepping upat this point, cool as a cucumber and soundingperfectly innocent:

“ ‘What we have here, officer, is an agriculturalimplement.’ Tapp chipped in that it was a new pieceof machinery for lifting potatoes, at which point thepoliceman seemed to lose interest... When he askedwhere they were going, they showed further presenceof mind and replied ‘Oxford!’ ”


An elderly Fellow, passing through CaiusCourt in the morning, muttered: “Oh, it’sback, then,” and went on his way.

The Dean, later Bishop Hugh Montefiore(1954), who rarely missed a trick, remarked toBartlett after breakfast: “I like your gun,Maurice!” but took no further action.

The late Professor William Frend (1952)an Intelligence Officer in the Territorial Army,informed Sandhurst and another gun partycame to collect their property. The visit wasnot a success: they found the cannon, only tobe soundly defeated by the now-solidconcrete. They went away, promising toreturn the next day.

That night, a completely separate groupof Caians, not unconnected with the CollegeRugby Club, decided on the spur of themoment to extend their unknown colleagues’joke by moving the gun again. Memories arehazy about exactly who took part and it was(they claim) a dark night, but Neil Blake(1958) Bill Newman Sanders (1957) and TonyDixon (1958) seem to recollect they mighthave been involved...

Sawing through the steel bolts, about tenCaians took the gun to pieces, got it over thewall, reassembled it and dragged it toNewnham, where they trained it on the mainentrance to the College. One thought thatoccurred to them (they have admitted tobeing tired and emotional, and it was afterclosing-time on a Saturday night) was that ifthey blasted off the Newnham doors, itwould at least save them the trouble ofclimbing over the wall to visit the youngladies!

The sweetest part of the whole escapadewas that over the next few days, severalnewspapers picked up a completely erroneousstory and made pointed jibes aboutSandhurst’s gun being stolen by a bunch ofgirl students!

The next day, yet another gun party, asergeant and several cadets, came up fromSandhurst to reclaim their property. NoelProwse, who met them, recalled at thereunion lunch that the undergraduates wereall so impressed by the way the sergeantentered into the spirit of the joke, that hewas immediately elected an honorarymember of the JCR and presented with aCaius tie and scarf to take home.

Eventually, the Sandhurst party locatedtheir cannon and took it back, but not beforea rather pathetic attempt at retaliation inwhich they stole a College flag, not fromCaius, but King’s! The Caians found a tameclassicist to help them and posted a DinkyToy cannon to the Adjutant of Sandhurst witha succinct message:

“Stultissimi sanguinei, falsum vexillumfurati!” – “You bloody fools, you’ve stolen thewrong flag!”

David Beevers explains some of the finer points of the operation to the College’s Director of Development,Dr Anne Lyon and Keeper of the College Silver, Dr Michael Wood.

The gun in all its glory in front of the Gate ofHonour, firmly anchored to the lawn of Caius Court.

Revisiting the scene of the crime after the reunion lunch: (left to right) Maurice Bartlett, Noel Prowse,Dick Tapp, Philip Morgan, Roger Barclay-Smith and David Beevers.

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In the early 16th century Anne Scroop, thelast surviving descendant of Edmund Gonville’sbrother, left land to Gonville Hall including fiveacres of meadow, ‘Dame Anne’s Pastures’ onthe Backs, on which Harvey Court and the newWest Road Building now stand. The legacies ofwomen to this once all-male College haveplayed a vital part in our development.

In 1592 Caius received the legacy ofJoyce Frankland, whose only son had beenkilled in a riding accident. The touching storyof how the Dean of St Paul’s rode out to hercountry seat to comfort her and promised herstudent-sons in perpetuity, is told in

At the beginning of this term weinstalled our forty-first Master.We are the beneficiaries ofnearly seven centuries of vision,study and endeavour, entering

the twenty-first century stronger academicallyand socially than ever before. This excellenceextends beyond pure examination andresearch results to embrace the College’s manysuccesses in extra-curricular fields and we areresponsible for ensuring that the College wepass to the generations to come is evenstronger than in our day.

In the lifespan of the College, an individual

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HeritageBy Dr Anne Lyon (2001)

lifetime can seem a mere drop in the ocean,but individuals can make a difference and wecommemorate those who have done so. Sinceour first founding by Edmund Gonville in 1348,the names of far-sighted philanthropists whohave helped to strengthen the College havebecome familiar to all Caians. From the earlybenefactions of William Bateman, John Caiusand Anne Scroop, through to Joyce Frankland,Stephen Perse,William Branthwaite,Bartholomew Wortley,William Drosier andWilliam Tapp, generous bequests in everycentury have enabled Caius to grow as a livelyintellectual community.

Christopher Brooke’s history of the College(and often elsewhere!).When her bequest wasreceived, six new Fellows suddenly appeared(today this would require an endowment of£6million), and the existing Fellows wereseized with panic, fearing that their perquisiteswould be watered down and their authoritychallenged. So, with the connivance of theMaster, a canny lawyer, they invented adistinction between Senior and Junior Fellows,which in a measure is still with us: the twelveSenior Fellows became in the 19th and 20thcentury statutes the elected committee knownas the College Council.

Charming sixteenth century stained glass windows in the Master’s Lodge overlooking Caius Court commemorate the benefactions of Gonville, Bateman and Caius.

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The Charitable Status of the Collegemeans that legacies and bequests to it arefree from Inheritance and Capital Gains Taxes,reducing the total tax liabilities of an estate.In addition, anyone who is a beneficiary undera Will can transfer all or part of theirinheritance to the College under a Deed ofVariation. Gifts thus transferred are free ofInheritance Tax and the College benefitsduring the donor’s lifetime.

A legacy to Caius may be included in aWill either when it is first drawn up orsubsequently by the addition of a Codicil.David Howell-Jones (1957) and his partnersat Bray Walker Solicitors, 36 Furnival Street,London EC4A 1JQ (tel: 020 7430 0473) havegenerously offered a free Wills and Codicilservice for all those planning to leave asignificant legacy to Caius. Anyone who wouldlike a suggested form of wording for a Will, orwho wishes to take up David’s kind offer, ismost welcome to contact me(tel: 01223 766996, email: [email protected])for further information. If Caian solicitors inother parts of the country would like to offera similar service, we would be delighted tohear from them.

At Caius we want to build for the futureas our predecessors did, whilst preserving ourbeautiful architectural and cultural heritage.Our objectives are, and will continue to be,the maintenance and development ofacademic excellence in an environment whichprovides up-to-date educational and socialfacilities while retaining the friendly andintimate atmosphere which is so characteristicof Caius. We are immensely grateful for thewonderful support of many Caians and friendsof the College who have already madeprovision for Caius in their Wills. You may beencouraged by an interesting statistic fromSmee and Ford:

The average person dies aged 69 ifintestate, 79 if testate, and 82 if testate andleaving a charitable bequest!

since 1960, Wilfrid Holland (1946) left hisentire estate to Caius to support music andendow an Organ Scholarship in perpetuity.Wilf, who was the College Organistthroughout his undergraduate years, alwaysretained a deep love and affection for Caius.He was the first of his family to attend aUniversity, and he married Carroll Hele,daughter of the then Master of EmmanuelCollege, in 1948. I was first in touch with Wilfwhen planning my visit to Australia in early2005 and, in appreciation of his generousbequest for College music, the College Choirunder Dr Geoffrey Webber (1989) recordedWilf’s composition Jubilate Deo and sent himthe CD. His great friend John Kain tells us ‘Wilfwas so excited to receive this CD that hejoined in “conducting” his own piece as thechoir performed it, bringing back many happymemories.’ In September last year, he wasthrilled to receive news that Tommy HewittJones (2003) had just been appointed the firstWilfrid Holland Organ Scholar, andenthusiastically showed Tommy’s website tohis visitors. A musician to the end, he spent hislast evening playing the piano and singingwith friends. The choir’s CD of his compositionJubilate Deo was played at his funeral servicein Canberra. Wilf’s name will be rememberedfor as long as there is music at Caius, whichwe trust will be a very long time indeed!

Through such support, Caius grows andflourishes. The College’s success today is aliving testimony to the vision andcommitment of former generations to itsfuture.

The College is aware of many Caians whowould like to give a gift which will make a realdifference to Caius but are unable to do soduring their lifetime because of othercommitments. Leaving a legacy in their Willoffers this opportunity and if, like Wilfrid, youchoose to tell the College of your plannedbequest, then the College will be pleased torecognise your generosity during your lifetime.

Bartholomew Wortley, a Fellow from1679 to 1706, spent much of his life far fromCambridge but in 1749 left the College £7000(a very considerable sum for the time) andlands in Norfolk and Devon. It seems theCollege sheltered him from the consequencesof his loyalty to the Stuarts, for he wasprobably a non-juror, refusing the oaths ofallegiance to William and Mary, which shouldhave led to resignation of his fellowship andmade him ineligible for a benefice. Wortley iscommemorated in the charming statue whichpresides over the staff bicycle shed.

William Drosier endowed the DrosierFellowships and was the senior Fellow mostactive in promoting the change in statutewhich allowed Fellows to marry. Is the storytrue that, when he profited from this changeand married Miss Purchas, she was an heiress?

In 1936, William Tapp left the College£200,000, then the largest bequest we hadever received. Half his legacy was for Law andthe College still owns his Box, widely regardedas being in the best position at the RoyalAlbert Hall.

Today the tradition of philanthropicbequests to the College continues. In 2002, alegacy of £532,000 from Stanley Porter(1928) played a key part in launching theappeal for the new West Road Building, inwhich a room is to be named in his memory.This is an important example of anunrestricted legacy which gave the Master andFellows flexibility to use Stanley’s gift in themost effective way to help further theCollege’s needs at the time.

Lord Bauer (1934) in 2002 left £100,000to the College to fund bursaries. In his Will hepreceded this wish with the words ‘Withoutimposing any binding trust or obligation onthe College, I wish…’, thereby giving flexibilityin case of future changes in either theCollege’s needs or governing legislation.

Last year, a Caian who had been a musicteacher, composer and conductor in Australia


to be even greater. Wilson (known to theothers as ‘Bill’ or ‘Uncle Bill’) seems to haveimpressed and inspired all of his colleagues,not least Scott, who wrote in 1911: “I haveno words to express all that he has been tome, and to the Expedition – the wisest ofcounsellors, the pleasantest of companionsand the loyalest of friends.”

Sledging flags were a regular feature ofPolar expeditions. Wilson in 1910 asked MrsRoberts to make a Caius flag which he couldtake with him. Mrs Roberts, who had alreadymade a flag for the College Boat Club, gladlyagreed, and sewed the Antarctic flag thatnow hangs in Hall (although she later wrotethat she did not feel competent to do theembroidery, so she took it to a professional).

Describing Christmas Day 1910 aboardTerra Nova, Wilson wrote in his diary: “(afterHoly Communion) we decorated thewardroom with all our sledge-flags andmine was most handsome among theothers. I also hung my Caius flag, which MrsRoberts gave me, and the small Jack andNew Zealand flag which Ann Hardy gaveme. We also had Queen Alexandra’s flag upand Lady Islington’s, and everybody else’s.”Then there was a Christmas dinner, withpenguin for turkey, followed by a long sing-song, part of the boisterous jollity ofAntarctic evenings.

Wilson was director of the ScientificStaff. His team included a fellow-Caian, the

Canadian glaciologist Charles SeymourWright (1908), known to his shipmates as‘Silas’, though he was to become Sir CharlesWright KCB and Director of ScientificResearch at the Admiralty. Wright was an1851 Exhibition Scholar at the Cavendish,and Wollaston Student at Caius.

Another colleague was the Australiangeologist Frank Debenham, who had cometo Cambridge with Arts and Science degreesfrom Sydney, and was to join Caius in 1913.Admired in the Antarctic for his cuisine,Debenham was later to be the founderDirector of the Scott Polar ResearchInstitute, a Fellow and Tutor at Caius, andthe first Professor of Geography atCambridge. Wright and Debenham are seenhere as young men in 1913, with thecaption ‘Sledge-mates in Cambridge.’ Seatedare two more Cambridge members ofWilson’s scientific team, Griffith Taylor ofEmmanuel and (Sir) Raymond Priestley ofChrist’s.

In 1910, to show their fitness for theawe-inspiring labours ahead, Wright andTaylor had walked from Cambridge toLondon in twelve hours flat, leaving Wrightapparently unscathed, but Taylor with sorefeet and a hatred of hard-boiled eggs.Debenham later recalled that Wright’sspectacles gave him a lot of trouble in theAntarctic. But Wright was not easilydiscouraged. Scott wrote of him: “One of

Aphotograph taken100 years ago, inMay Week 1906,shows RobertFalcon Scott, the

celebrated Antarctic explorer, in the LodgeGarden with the family of the Master,E.S.Roberts (1865). Captain Scott hadarrived in time to join the Robertses on theriver to watch the May Races, and attendedthe Scales Club concert on Sunday, but hadto leave before the College Ball the nextday, to Mrs Roberts’ disappointment. Sittingnext to Scott is Caroline Roberts, thepresent writer’s grandmother. The familycalled her ‘Caia’ for short, and her sisterMargaret, sitting next to her, naturallybecame ‘Gonvillia’ for the undergraduates. Ina straw hat is their brother Walter (1908).On the right is Dr Francis Guillemard(1869), the College’s geographer.

Scott had already stayed with theRobertses the year before when taking hisHonorary Degree. His original link withCaius seems to have been through hiscolleague Edward Wilson (1891), whograduated from Caius with a First in NaturalSciences, and took his MB in 1900. Wilson isshown as an undergraduate standing outsideL staircase in the ivy-clad Caius Court ofthose days, where an inscription nowcommemorates him. During his clinicaltraining at St George’s Hospital, Wilson had

stayed at theCaius Mission inBattersea,contributing toits work, but

contracting tuberculosis while in London. Henevertheless took a prominent part inScott’s Discovery expedition of 1901-4 as‘surgeon, artist and vertebrate zoologist’,and his water-colours of Antarctic birds andlandscapes are among its most vivid records.Scott commented that: “his sketches aremost astonishingly accurate; I have testedhis proportions by actual angularmeasurement and found them correct.”

In 1902-3 Scott, Wilson and ErnestShackleton had made up the Southern Party,who, with a 19-strong dog-team, pushedsouth to a latitude of 82° 17’ S. Theyeventually returned to a frantic welcome,but without any dogs, and showing signs ofscurvy. Shackleton soon recovered, and morethan lived down this episode by his famousNimrod expedition of 1907-9, whichreached a latitude of 88° 23’ S. Shackleton,who was knighted on his return, had verymuch wanted Wilson as his second-in-command, but Wilson, now deep in work asan ornithologist for the Commission onGrouse Disease, felt he had to decline.

However, Scott’s call to join the TerraNova expedition of 1910-12 could not beignored, and Wilson's contribution here was

the greatest successes is Wright. He isvery thorough and absolutely ready foranything. Like Bowers he has taken tosledging like a duck to water... Nothingever seems to worry him.”

Sadly, Wright was to be in the searchparty in November 1912, after the tragicend of Scott’s Polar mission. As thingsturned out, it was Wright who locatedthe tent that Scott, Wilson and Bowershad pitched eight months earlier. Onlythe top remained visible above thesnow.

Scott and the sledge party whichstill included Captain Oates and PettyOfficer Evans had reached their ultimategoal on January 17th, and had flowntheir flags at 90° S on January 18th. MrsRoberts’ flag did make its way back toCaius, although Wilson could not be itsbearer. It seems that Wright must havetaken it in his care when returning tothe College, where Debenham soonjoined him. Not long afterwards, GriffithTaylor wrote:

“Dear Uncle Bill will never return tohis rooms in Caius College; but on theold archway through which he reachedhis quarters, are blazoned the names ofWright and Debenham. For Debenhamhas joined Caius and ‘keeps’ just belowhis sledge-mate, between the Gates ofWisdom and Honour.”Edward Wilson outside his room on “L” staircase.

Photograph courtesy of Cheltenham

Art Gallery &

Museum

A centenary photograph ofthe May Week Party of 1906,probably taken by theMaster of Caius, E S Roberts(1865). Seated, left to right:Captain Robert Falcon Scott,Caroline and MargaretRoberts (“Caia” and“Gonvillia”) and Mrs MaryRoberts, wife of the Master.Standing, left to right: WalterRoberts (1908) and DrFrancis Guillemard (1869).

Sledge-mates inCambridge: (standing)

Frank Debenham (1913)Founder Director of the

Scott Polar ResearchInstitute, (Sir) Charles

Wright (1908), wholocated Scott, Bowers &

Wilson’s tent after thetragedy; (sitting) GriffithTaylor of Emmanuel and(Sir) Raymond Priestley

of Christ’s.

Photograph by Stearns & Sons

By Dr Richard Duncan-Jones(1963)

The embroideredcentrepiece of theCaius flag taken tothe South Pole by

Wilson and laterreturned to the

College by Wright.

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David Foster DSO, DSC & bar (1938)interviewed by Mick Le Moignan (2005)

David Foster with his father, mother and sister at Buckingham Palace in October 1943, whereDavid received his first DSC from King George VI.

Lieutenant Commander and sent to the USA tolearn to fly some new, much moremanoeuvrable planes, Grumman Avengers.

The D-Day landings took place while hewas away and on his return to Europe it wastime to focus on a different enemy.A newsquadron was formed, 849, which Foster was tolead in one of the biggest British naval airoperations of the War.

Planes from four aircraft carriers were toco-ordinate in attacking two oil refineries atPalembang in Sumatra, which provided vitalsupport for Japanese forces in the Pacific. Therefineries were heavily defended by fighterbases, anti-aircraft guns and barrage balloons.The plan was to fly in unobserved over 12,000foot mountains, then dive down to 1,500 feetto make sure bombs were aimed accurately.RAF Intelligence was reassuring on one point, atleast: the balloons had never been spottedflying or even inflated.

Even so, it was a mission fraught withdanger.An early morning fighter sweep caughtmany Japanese planes on the ground, but manyothers took off safely.The anti-aircraft fire wasintense and contrary to the RAF report, thetarget was protected by masses of cabledballoons, flying at up to 8,000 feet.

Having come so far and risked so much,Foster was furious about the incorrect adviceand dived straight through the barrage ofballoons and cables to strike the target. NineBritish aircraft were lost but thirteen Japanesefighters were shot down, another 59 destroyedor damaged on the ground and mostimportantly, one of the refineries was hit.

Five days later, when they tried to executethe same plan against the second refinery, theJapanese were better prepared and Britishlosses heavier. Foster’s two wingmen, his twomost trusted pilots and crews who flew oneither side of him, were both shot down,captured and later made to dig their owngraves before being killed.The mission, however,succeeded: the second refinery was hit. Fosterwon the DSO and many of his men were alsodecorated.

Further action followed in the Pacific,breaking Japanese supply lines; here the aircraftcarriers faced bomb-laden “kami-kaze” planesdiving into them. Understandably, after all thecarnage, Foster decided he was no longer anundergraduate and instead joined his father atColgate-Palmolive. He succeeded, of course, onthe same mixture of dogged determination,attention to detail and a generous slice of luck,ending his career as Chief Executive andChairman of the Company.

These days, at 85, he’s enjoying hisretirement: he’s a fine storyteller with someextraordinary tales to tell. If you’re luckyenough to get him talking about the Fleet AirArm, just watch as the years fall away and theold light of battle shines in his eyes.

In May 1941 Foster sailed from Scotlandvia South Africa to Egypt. In the Suez Canal hewas amazed to pass HMS Formidable, the lastBritish aircraft carrier in the EasternMediterranean, heading to the USA for repairsafter being bombed at Crete. Planes were alsoin short supply, many having been lost trying todefend Greece. Desperate to fly, he and a friendvolunteered to deliver renovated planes from anewly-built desert repair yard to forward bases.

On an 18-mile walk back after one delivery,he was badly bitten by mosquitoes. Naturally,when the fever erupted, it was diagnosed asmalaria. In fact, it was paratyphoid, caused bythe decomposing body of a dead Egyptian,dumped in the water tank by his fellowworkers.

It was not quite the brush with deathFoster had envisaged, nor was it the last.Recovered, flying anti-submarine patrols just asRommel tightened his grip on the WesternDesert, an electrical fault set his plane on fire.After crash-landing in the desert, he and hisobserver watched (and photographed!) theresulting firework display as their ammunitionand distress flares exploded.

Foster’s unfortunate habit of volunteeringgot him into more trouble when Intelligencereported that an Albacore had been left behindat one of the hastily-evacuated airfields. He wasgiven a tin of starting cartridges and a driver.When they arrived, it was pitch-black and theycould hear heavy traffic rumbling on the desertroad as the British rearguard kept just ahead ofadvancing German tanks.

The driver remembered an urgentappointment and Foster hurried to find theplane, hoping the starter cartridges would work.Indeed they did, but once airborne, he realisedwhy it had been abandoned: the oil pressurewas falling fast. He climbed to 2,000 feet andfollowed the troop convoys on the desert roadbut soon the engine seized and he had to makehis second crash landing in three days.To hisgreat relief, the soldiers who surrounded himwere not Germans but retreating SherwoodForesters.

Further missions followed thick and fast: inJuly and August 1942, he flew “Pathfinder”missions in Albacores, illuminating targets forattacks by RAF Wellington bombers andbattleships. JU88 fighters closing from behindwere a constant hazard. Knowing the Germanplanes were less manoeuvrable, he developedthe risky technique of waiting until his observerreported them right on his tail, then turnedsharply away. In this way, they survived fifteenmissions before Rommel turned for Tunisia.

Back in England for overdue leave and tocollect his first DSC from the King, he was senton a lecture tour of the North to promote theFleet Air Arm.Then, after a few months flyingmissions from South Coast airbases againsttargets in France, he was promoted to

If there is one value this College woulddefend to the death, it is intellectualfreedom, the right to pursue our ownstudies and thoughts wherever theymay lead us. Most generations of

Caians have to defend this freedom against avariety of threats from the outside world –religious or political persecution, financialstringency or simply mindless materialism,which undervalues intellectual excellence.Exceptionally, some of us are called upon to riskour lives for the cause.

David Foster (1938) belongs to a generationwhose time at Caius was cruelly interrupted bythe Second World War. He passed Part One ofthe Economics Tripos before volunteering andwent on to a distinguished career at Colgate-Palmolive after the war had ended.

His parents were American. His father firstcame to London to swim in the Olympics in1908 and took home a lifelong love of Englandas well as a gold medal.Young David spentmuch of his childhood in England and went toStowe School before coming up to Caius.Whenwar was declared, he was on vacation in France:

“I was happy when they said it’s started:I couldn’t wait to get back to England tovolunteer for the Navy.We all had atremendous enthusiasm for getting rid of thatbastard, Hitler!”

Back in Cambridge, queueing up tovolunteer, he had a stroke of luck: the clerkasked if he’d like to volunteer for the Fleet AirArm of the Royal Navy. He agreed at once butthen had to wait six months to start the varioustraining courses required.

The so-called “Phoney War” went badly forthe Royal Navy.Two of their seven aircraftcarriers were sunk and Foster began to wonderif there would be any planes left to fly or shipson which to land them.Arriving at Royal NavalBarracks, Gosport, in April 1940, there wasanother disappointment:

“I thought I’d get a smart uniform, but theyput me in sailor’s garb!”

Seven weeks later, fully trained in usefulnautical skills like marching, washing-up,cleaning toilets and tying knots, he moved toBelfast and started learning to fly planes. It washis twentieth birthday.

The great strength of the Fleet Air Arm wasits ability to attack with airborne torpedoes.Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiraltybefore the First World War, had insisted on this.They came into their own at the Battle ofTaranto in November 1940, crippling the ItalianNavy in harbour.The Captain of HMS Illustrious,the aircraft carrier which launched the attack,boasted that in one night his planes had causedmore damage to the enemy than Nelson atTrafalgar and twice as much as the entire Britishfleet at the Battle of Jutland. Such storiestended to make trainee pilots even hungrier foraction!

Once a Caian... 13...Always a Caian

Above: David Foster “in sailor’s garb” – NavalAirman, 2nd class.

Left: Avengers returning to the British Fleet after asuccessful attack on oil refineries at Palembang,Sumatra in January 1945.

Fairey Albacore ofthe Fleet Air Armdropping a torpedo.

The day Foster’s Albacore caught fire! He and hisobserver, Arthur Pickthall, had the presence ofmind to photograph the moment.


the standard required: she is relieved to sayshe has never come across a trashed room,just seriously untidy ones!

The Housekeeping team members are aconvivial bunch: they laugh a lot and enjoy achat but get on with the job quietly andefficiently. It’s quite clear that the wholeCollege runs more smoothly, thanks to theircontribution to our lives. Helen Coulson isCamilla’s deputy and Housekeeper at HarveyCourt. Camilla also benefits from the longexperience of Supervisor Sue Gooch andDiane Hills, both of whom have been at Caiusfor 30 years. Paul Farmar, the College’sFurniture Conservator, knows where all thebodies are buried, or at least where all thenicest paintings and pieces of furniture are tobe found, and anyone who fancies newcurtains had better visit the Linen Room andget to know Olive Read, the CollegeSeamstress.

A total of 204 rooms and six flats in theso-called “satellite courts” are looked after bythe Hostel Keepers, Chris Perkins at HarveyRoad, Freda Marks at Mortimer Road, JaneJohn (whose husband, Ken, is a Porter) at StPaul’s Road, Millie Lay at Gresham Road andCamilla herself at Green Street.

Millie is a Caius legend: only 26 when shefirst joined the College in 1972, she ran theBar for fourteen years and then spenteighteen more as Housekeeper at HarveyCourt. All her three children, Julie, Jackie andGlen, have worked here in various jobs andshe clearly returns the warm affection felt forher by many generations of students:

“I learned a lot from them, over the years,and I always thought I was so lucky to behere. I feel a part of Caius, just like theFellows and the students.”

Millie reels off the names of herfavourites, especially from the early years,together with notes on their careers,marriages, children... “Medics were the bestdrinkers!” she observes, “Especially when theygot their results at Christmas.” She recallsNick Upton and his wife Jane, Nick Dodd, LarsTharp, Tony Cecil, Alastair Campbell and TimKerr-Dineen and their friend Mark Gault, whodied tragically young, Tim Burman, who waskilled at 24 in the Lockerbie air disaster, Ken

40 have a massive job on their hands: theyclean over 900 rooms every day. Aged 25,with a degree in Hospitality and BusinessManagement and experience as Front-of-House Manager for a Best Western Hotel, sheis the youngest of the Cambridge CollegeHousekeepers and seems remarkably unfazedby her responsibilities. She doesn’t usuallyshout or get cross but speaks to anyone who

Older Caians may be surprisedto learn that Bedders nolonger make beds: duvetshave replaced sheets andblankets and the young

gentlemen (some of whom, in another shock,are female) now make their own. Cleaningcontinues, however, and so does the age-oldrole of bedders as agony aunts andconfidantes.

Many Caians have anecdotes about theirbedders but Alastair Campbell’s (1974) isfunnier than most. Hearing that HostelKeeper Millie Lay, who ran the College Bar inhis day, was in the audience when he cameback to Cambridge to do his one-man show,“An Audience with Alastair Campbell” at theArts, he invited her to stand up and ask thefirst question.

“I’m very proud of you, Alastair,” saidMillie, “I’ve followed your career with interestand the more success you’ve had, the moreamazed I am that you’re still alive, knowinghow much you used to drink!” And the king ofspin roared with laughter at being bowled outby such straight talking.

The current Housekeeper at Caius,Camilla Marsh, also values the everydaycontact between her staff and theundergraduates:

“I think it’s good for the students to getto know their bedders. They can talk to themabout all sorts of things. The tutors like it, too.They’re away from home for the first timeand the bedder's a friendly face.”

Students, she feels, can sometimesconfide in the bedders about matters theywould rather not discuss with their friends. Itis a useful safety valve, to have that personalcontact with someone a bit older, down toearth, with some experience of life, who isnot involved in the academic rat-race.

“Bedders see a lot of what goes on in astudent's life. They need to be pretty discreet:sometimes they see things they shouldn’t!” Ifthere was any serious problem, Camilla wouldwant her staff to tell her about it, butotherwise she would expect them to use theirjudgement and act in the students’ bestinterests.

Camilla and her full-time team of about

know who they all were, what they did andwhat was going on, in and around the College.Each issue included a short profile of adepartment and photographs of new arrivalsand departures. One small item from thepenultimate issue deserves a second airing:

“How many Fellows does it take tochange a light bulb?”

– “Change? – CHANGE?”The essential role of the bedders has not

really changed at all: in this sometimesrarefied academic atmosphere, they provide avital counter-balance for young newcomers:they are decent, sensible, unpretentiouspeople from the real world, whose most vitalfunction is to remind us that however earth-shattering and important our study andresearch may be, we all breathe the same air,we all have to work and eat and sleep and weall deserve a bit of fun from time to time. Andit’s worth remembering that youthfulindiscretions can sometimes come home toroost – even in front of an audience of severalhundred people.

not making theirs. And soon that became thegeneral rule.”

Tessa tried to make the rather convolutedbuildings at Green Street as comfortable andhome-like as possible, but she firmly believesthat the most important part of her job wasto listen, to pick up if there was stress or aproblem.

“You’re non-threatening, you see. Youdon’t have to put on an act.”

Over the years, she has observed studentsbecoming more mature. Possibly as a result oftaking gap-years, she thinks they seem moreworldly-wise. Certain temptations, however,have always been irresistible, like the fireescape sling on the top floor:

“The number of times I looked out of thewindow and saw a pair of legs, just danglingthere...”

One of Tessa’s great contributions to thelife of the College from 1994 to 1999 was towrite, photocopy and distribute a newsletterfor (and called) “Caius Workers”, which aimedto let the 100 or so “non-academic” staff

Gradwell, Eva De Sousa Turner (nowStrasburger) and many more.

One of our great institutions here is LifeFellowships – special honours awarded toFellows who have long served the College andcontributed to its life and work. Listening toMillie made me wonder if she should be ourfirst Life Bedder – without expecting her tomake any beds, of course!

Another candidate for such an honourwould be Tessa Elliott. Originally fromNorthumberland, Tessa joined Caius after sheand her husband came back from Swaziland.She retired after seventeen years as HostelKeeper in Green Street but still has one pastPhD student lodging with her. She’s honestenough to admit that at first, she didn't reallyenjoy the work:

“Who likes cleaning? But I got to like thestudents more and more!”

When she first started, she was a bedderas well as a Hostel Keeper, but she was one ofthe new breed:

“I said I don’t make my son’s bed, so I’m

by Mick Le Moignan (2005)

steps out of line. She believes in change butthinks it should be gradual. After 18 monthsin the job, she’s pleased with the way thingsare going.

One problem she has encountered ishaving a bedder come to tell her a student’sroom can’t be cleaned properly because it’s acomplete tip. The form is for the bedder tospeak to the student first, then if there is noimprovement, Camilla first sends an email,then goes to talk to the student herself. If itcontinued, she would involve the student’sTutor – and would expect that to solve theproblem, because of the Tutor’s power to levyfines. She could not fine them herself, butcould charge them for damage caused, suchas Blu-Tack on walls, candle wax on carpetsand the occasional broken chair – it seemsstudents still tend to swing back on them!That said, the vast majority quickly adapt to

“ I learned a lotfrom them,over the years,and I alwaysthought I wasso lucky to behere. I feel apart of Caius,just like theFellows and thestudents ”

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Camilla Marsh and the housekeepingteam in St Michael’s Court

Alastair Campbell (1974), withHostel Keeper Millie Lay, afterhis one-man show at the Arts

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Over the

centuries, Caius has

housed many eccentric geniuses.

One of the most colourful characters of recent

times is our world-famous rock’n’roll photographer, the

fortuitously named Mick Rock (1964), described by The Times last year

as “the music world’s top snapper!”

Mick has an extraordinary knack of spotting great bands or solo artistes first

. He gets close

to them, grasps what is unique about them and then expresses their essential qualities in images that

sear themselves on to our consciousness.

Lou Reed’s Transformer, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Debbie Harry’s Blondie, The Sex Pistols, Freddie Mercury, Syd Barrett,

Bryan Ferry, Iggy Pop and Kate Moss were all lucky enough to have their iconic status revealed by Mick’s lens. Now, new bands compete for

the accolade of a photo-shoot with the master – the Killers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Razorlight, Kasabian, the Editors, the Doves, the Magic Numbers, the

Chemical Brothers, Snow Patrol, the Kooks and others.

In recent years, he has published a series of magnificent books of his classic photographs. Huge retrospective exhibitions of his work have been acclaimed in Tokyo and

Manchester and will shortly open in Berlin. Full details on: www.mickrock.co.uk

Ten years after a quadruple bypass, Mick leads a more sedate life than (rumour has it) he once did, drinking rarely and indulging only in meditation,

yoga and massage.

He loved his time at Caius, recalling that Joseph Needham (1918) treated him with particular generosity of spirit. His heroes are Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire,

Nerval, Rimbaud and Byron but he describes himself as a free thinker, not a rebel:

“I was rebellious by the standards of the time because I was curious. It’s not about being liberal or conservative: it’s about understanding that life must keep changing.”


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The Photographic Art of Mick Rock (1964) All photos copyright Mick Rock 2006 www.mickrock.com


by Stephen Hawking (1965) with Leonard MlodinowBrief Review* by Professor Tim Pedley (1973)

When “A Brief History ofTime” was published in1988, those non-specialists whonevertheless knew a bit

about science thought it was one of theclearest “popular” expositions of modernparticle physics and cosmology on the market.However, feedback from some of the millionswho had bought the book and started to read itsuggested that it was still too difficult.The ideaswere not getting across to the general public inthe way that the notion of the earth goinground the sun had in the seventeenth century.The “Briefer History” is an attempt to rectifythat.

The trouble with theoretical physics is thatthe concepts, of relativity and quantummechanics, are non-intuitive and the evidencein favour of currently accepted descriptions ofthe universe often involves advancedmathematics and is very hard to follow.Thuspopular expositions face the danger of throwingthe baby out with the bathwater and relying inthe end on the scientist’s authority. In thisreviewer’s opinion the “Briefer History” escapesthat danger, on the whole. Most of the baby isstill in the bath (or should I say there is a 90%probability that the baby is still in the bath?).The authors mainly succeed in avoidingtechnical language (though use of the word“model” in an explanation of the nature of ascientific theory is likely not to be understood)and difficult ideas are presented with brilliantclarity (for example, the fact that Heisenberg’sUncertainty Principle is a necessaryconsequence of the existence of a smallestquantum of light, the photon) though someanalogies were somewhat banal (such as the

discussion in terms of a bankbalance of the need for initialand boundary conditions inthe solution ofmathematicalequations).

Someexplanationscould have beenexpanded withoutmany more wordsor a loss of clarity. Forexample, after telling ushow important Newtonianmechanics was in explainingthe orbits of the planets, theauthors fail to point out that achange in the direction of a body’smotion, without change of speed,means that the body is experiencing asideways acceleration and therefore mustbe acted on by a force – gravity in the case oforbiting planets. Moreover several of theillustrations are useless as aids to understandingand seem to have been put in only for the sakeof having a few pictures to break up the text.

However, overall the book is a great success.The reader is led to understand why time travelis impossible, why there must be more stuff inthe universe than can be observed (dark matterand dark energy), why the universe willprobably go on expanding forever, and so on.We are also led to contemplate eternalquestions that are ultimately philosophical or(for some people) religious, in particular the so-called anthropic principle: if the laws of physicswere a bit different, or even if the physicalconstants arising in those laws, that have beenmeasured empirically, had slightly different

values, then it would not be possible for stars,let alone planets and life as we know it, to exist.So why is the universe constructed in exactlythe way required for people to exist and askquestions about it?

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Caius College Choir’s latestrecording, a CD ofcontemporary and medievalvocal music entitled All theends of the earth has recently

been released by Signum Classics. Britishsacred choral music has enjoyed a renaissancein recent years: new works by many leadingcomposers have found a place not only inliturgical performances but also in concerts,broadcasts and on CD, and the Choir’srecording forms part of a particular strandwhich seems to be emerging in the 21stcentury – the neo-medieval.

At the start of the 20th century composerslooked back to the 16th century for inspirationand it is easy to see how the concise, finely-wrought forms of the period would haveappealed to the post-Romantics. But nowcomposers are turning to the medieval period,for inspiration and music from as far back asthe 11th century serves as the fons et origo forJudith Weir, Bayan Northcott, Michael Finnissyand Jonathan Harvey, all of whom feature onthe Choir’s new recording.

The CD opens with Judith Weir’s motet Allthe ends of the earth, based on one of the mostfamous of all medieval compositions, theViderunt omnes by Pérotin, and then presents awide variety of new works alongside freshly-edited music from the medieval period,including two new transcriptions of workstaken from manuscripts in the Caius Library.

The complex rhythms, startling harmoniesand technical innovation of the medieval worksprovided a rich source of inspiration to themodern composers featured on the disc. Itincludes both established names and youngercomposers with growing reputations, such asGabriel Jackson, whose motet Thomas, Jewel ofCanterbury was commissioned for the Choir byCaian Bill Packer (1949) in memory of PaddyHadley (1938), a former Precentor of Caius.Jackson’s work, which takes its text from amanuscript in the Caius Library, wassubsequently short-listed for the BritishComposer Awards 2005.

Like many of the Choir’s recordings, All theends of the earth is very much an ‘in-house’affair. Professor Robin Holloway (1967)adapted two movements of his Missa Canonicaespecially for the CD – the work wascomposed in the 1960s and subsequently lost,until the only copy fortuitously turned up inthe early months of 2004! Counter-tenorsoloist William Towers (1993), a former CaiusChoral Exhibitioner, sang with other soloistsfrom the choir, and the instrumental partswere performed by talented Caiusundergraduates. Another former ChoralExhibitioner, Oliver Phillips (2000) suppliedmany of the translations from the Latin, andthe gigantic role of recording producer andeditor was executed by the Wilfrid HollandOrgan Scholar, Thomas Hewitt Jones (2003).

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Iwas slow to recognise that mygrandfather was a great man.When Iwas a boy, he was just ‘Grandpa’.There were family gatherings in hishouse in Storey’s Way, where he

would ask from the head of the table whetherwe had heard some funny story. My AuntSheila Barwell would always say ‘No’, and hewould launch into a tale that was already morethan familiar to the rest of us. There came amoment when Sheila would recall that sheHAD heard it before, and we all collapsed ingiggles, Grandpa weeping with laughter morethan any of us. There was one about sloe ginand a pair of underpants that recurredregularly, but the details have escaped me.I was vaguely aware of my mother’s pride inbeing the daughter of Arnold McNair, but myfirst real sense of his importance came whenwe visited him at The Hague, where he was theBritish Judge at the International Court.The atmosphere of order, calm and deepseriousness impressed me, and I began to graspthe Court’s role in the vital effort to solveinternational disputes by peaceful means.

When I came up to Cambridge as anundergraduate, renewed relations got off to abad start. I was invited to Sunday lunch inStorey’s Way in my first term, but the nightbefore, I drank to such excess at a party thatI was unable to walk straight until after 3pmthe following day. I crawled to a telephone toapologise for not coming and Lady McNair’sseverity in receiving my apology has stayedwith me ever since. The matter was nevermentioned again.

When I was elected to a ResearchFellowship at Caius, Grandpa was SeniorFellow. After introducing me to the thenFellows’ Butler, the much loved LionelRumbelow, he gave me a characteristic piece ofadvice, making it clear that to be inconsiderateto College staff was as heinous a sin as aFellow could commit. I keep that admonition inthe forefront of my mind to this day. It was atthis time that I came to regard Lord McNair asan exemplary figure. I realised theextraordinary esteem in which he was held.I learned of the affection and gratitude hisformer pupils felt towards him, and of thegreat help he gave to those who needed it.His encouragement and support of Lord Bauer

and loyalty, in the love and admiration offamily and colleagues.

It gives me great joy that our new Collegebuilding will have a set named for LordMcNair, and I am enormously grateful tothose who have given to make this possible.I must mention here Sir Hersch’s son Sir ElihuLauterpacht, whose prompt and wonderfulresponse to my letter of appeal encouragedme to be confident that the target waspossible, and Simon Morris (1976), whosedonation did more than any to prove that myconfidence was justified. The contribution ofmy cousin-in-law Sandra Bunn-Livingstone isan added delight. Her intellectual biographyof Lord McNair will be published in time forthe opening of the new building, and she toohas given generously towards naming theMcNair set.

(1934) and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, (who in duecourse followed him as a Judge at The Hague)in their early days in the UK, for example, wasinvaluable to them. I could not hope to matchhim, but only strive not to fall too far below.Sir Hersch became one of his great friends, andwas a man from whose transcendentgenerosity I was to benefit. Once as a smallboy I beat him at chess, whereupon hepromptly gave me a carved ivory set from hismagnificent collection.

At Lord McNair’s last family birthday, thecake really did have ninety candles on it, andthe first had burned down by the time the lastwas lit. The College also gave a dinner tocelebrate, and on both occasions he wasradiantly and unforgettably happy, with ahappiness richly deserved by a life well lived, inservice of the utmost distinction, in friendship

A Memoir byDr Jimmy Altham (1965)

Lord McNair (1906)

The Caius First VIII of 1877!A wonderfullly evocative imageof a bygone era, this is myfavourite photograph in theArchives for its beauty, clarity

and information value. How did this treasurefrom the early years of photography survive?– because many years ago, an unknownCaian had the foresight to present it to yourCollege Archives!

Caius has a wide-ranging collection ofmaterials preserved for their historic,

Every era is represented in the CollegeArchives, but we welcome fresh material toenhance and complement our collections.Naturally, storage space is not unlimited andnot every item associated with Caius issuitable for preservation here. I am, however,always pleased to hear from anyone whomight like to discuss making a gift to theArchives, to help us to preserve our College’sfascinating heritage. I can be contacted bytelephone on +44 (0)1223 332446 or byemail at [email protected]

administrative or legal value. All studentsfrom 1560 to the present are recorded in thematriculation books – a unique collection.We also have Manorial Court rolls from the14th century, architects’ plans for theWaterstone building, maps of estates andparishes once in the gift of the College,minutes of Fellows’ meetings, Tutorial andBursary books, oars, photographs, drawingsand all sorts of other material giving apicture of everyday life in the Collegethroughout our long history.

By James Cox,College ArchivistFrom the Archives

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A painting of Lord McNair in 1955 by Phyllis Bliss now hanging in the White Room in Gonville Court.


The College’s annual TelephoneCampaign is becoming a hugelypopular institution for severalvery good reasons. Not only is itan invaluable fundraiser for

Caius at a time of regular reductions in theCollege Fee paid by the government, it alsoserves to build bridges of understandingbetween the Caian students of today andtheir predecessors from all generations.

It is not possible to telephone all Caiansand parents each year. Calls do not, of course,come out of the blue: the Master writes togive advance notice of the Campaign andanyone who prefers to opt out is given theopportunity to do so.

This year, the fifth Campaign will takeplace from 18-30 March. The Green Room willonce again be filled with a hubbub of excitedconversations about all sorts of subjects, fromthe latest successes of our sporting teams tothe advantages and disadvantages of sharingthe College with members of the opposite sex.Older Caians will puzzle over the strangenessof not having to climb in when arriving homeafter midnight and younger Caians will try toimagine what it was like wearing gowns for anight out on the town.

Stories and reminiscences will be

time callers may fear, because there is alreadya shared loyalty, a common belief that theeducational process offered by the College isvery special and worthy of support. For some,the time is not right for such a gift, but manyare delighted to have the opportunity toexpress their gratitude for what Caius meantto them and to help to make it possible forthe next generation to enjoy what theyenjoyed.

The money raised is a vital lifeline formany activities which the College wouldotherwise find it difficult to support. This isthe first generation of students who havebeen called upon to pay for their owneducation; they are grateful for any supportthey may receive from their more fortunatepredecessors.

The first three Telephone Campaigns eachraised well over £200,000. Last year, thanks inpart to the exceptional generosity of oneCaian parent of a current student who gave asix-figure sum, the total generated was over£400,000, with an additional £900,000 inlegacy pledges. Frankly, it will be remarkable ifthe 2006 Campaign is able to beat that record– but the twenty keen young Caians picturedabove are going to be working very hardindeed to try and achieve just that!

exchanged and real contacts made betweenthe generations.

Every year, the young callers start offfeeling some trepidation about ringingcomplete strangers of their parents’ andgrandparents’ generation for a chat, but oncethey have made their first couple of calls, theyrealise that what they have in common, theprivilege of coming to Caius, is much moreimportant than any age difference.

Of course, there is a financial element tothe conversation, in that both sides know thatat some point, the student is going to have tobroach the topic of whether the older Caianor Caian parent would like to make sometangible contribution, preferably on a regularmonthly basis, to the continuing work of theCollege. Even that is not as difficult as first-

TelephoneCampaign

2006

The stunning apartment ofProfessor Peter Walker (1960),high over Fifth Avenue, was thevenue on 9 November 2005for a very special reception.

24 Caians resident in and around New York,together with partners and friends, gatheredto hear the latest news about Caius from theCollege’s Director of Development, Dr AnneLyon (2001) and Deputy Director, Mick LeMoignan (2005). Wuliang and Peter Walkerhad put on a fabulous buffet to match thespectacular views of the city.

The Hon. Dr John Lehman (1965),Chairman of the Caius Foundation,welcomed everyone and announced a recordyear for fundraising from US Caians, whohave supported the College more generously

daughter Nathalie and James Hill travelled infrom Philadelphia. John Lehman and MickRock were particularly pleased to meet againfor the first time since they rowed togetherin the Caius First VIII nearly 40 years ago.

Other Caian guests, with a span ofmatriculation dates of nearly 50 years,included Ajit Hutheesing (1954), JohnGillespie (1964), Stephen Fox (1968), DrJames Wirth (1973) with Robbie Richardson,Anthony Gottlieb (1975), New Jerseyattorney Tom Fellig (1978), Dr Eli Hatchwell(1978) with Amanda Taylor, Guy Brennan(1979), Richard Talbert (1985) with CeliaBergoffen, Richard Chau (1987) who isalready a Patron of the Caius Foundation,James de Bass (1989), Dan Friedman (1990),Fran Cary (1992) with her fiancé, MartinPerry, Dr Yun Lee Too (1992), Dr Simon Dyton(1994), Fred Dassori (1998), Richard

Secretary, Eva Strasburger (1982) flew infrom Texas with her husband, Roy, Mick Rock(1964) the celebrated rock and rollphotographer, brought his wife Pati and

than ever before. Twelve new Patrons of theCaius Foundation had just been elected, inrecognition of gifts totalling at least $15,000and four of them attended the reception:David Heap (1954) came from Connecticutwith his wife Margot, Caius Foundation

Weinberg (2000) and Matt Margrett (2001).As usual at Caian events, lively

discussions sprang up on every subjectimaginable. Everyone was delighted to hearthat such rapid progress was being madewith the new building and many resolved tomake the journey across the Atlantic tospend a day or two at the College in thespring or summer. Anne and Mick promisedthem a warm welcome and the usualgenerous Caian hospitality.

The New York group meets several timesa year for festivities and entertainment andwould love to hear from other Caians in thevicinity who might like to join them.

On 15 September 2006, a reception willbe held in San Francisco at the residence ofthe British Consul-General. The Caius Choirwill perform as part of their West Coast tourand this will be the first chance for manyCaians in the USA to meet our new Master,Sir Christopher Hum. Please let theDevelopment Office know if you would likean invitation.

Caius to New York

Above: Peter Walker

Right: Mick Rock and John Lehman

The Master surrounded by the 2006 Telephone Campaign Team.

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1922Mr K P Pool *

1926Professor R H Hunt Williams *Dr P W Hutton

1927Mr C Graham

1928Mr C A M PeatyMr W S Porter *

1929Professor P Grierson *Mr H B HuttonDr R F JarrettMr J A Seymour-Jones

1930Mr L J BurrowsDr T E Faulkner *Mr F L Kidd *Sir Leonard Scopes *Mr I H Taylor *

1932Mr K BarryMr J D Higham *Dr J M MarchantMr R W Morris *Sir Peter Seligman

1933Dr G C Barker *Dr P P BrownDr J M DrewMr C P FoggProfessor E C Ryder

1934The Rt Hon the Lord Bauer *Mr N F CookeMr M B CoyleDr S C GoldMr G F Hepburn *Lieutenant-Colonel F T Hopkinson *

1935Mr W Brown *Dr A J M Hargreaves *Mr W B Harland *Mr E S HowarthMajor General I H Lyall GrantMr S Marchant *Dr D V MilwardMr H W Morris *

1936Dr J A BlackDr N F CroftsMr D M EvansThe Reverend Dr John FooteMr J B HeighamMajor J G Logan *Mr A Plumb *Dr P M M PritchardDr W RogersSir Peter ThorntonProfessor Sir William Wade *

1937Dr W B AlexanderSir Maurice Bathurst *Sir Alan CampbellMr F A L da CunhaMr T A Davies *Dr G C D DuttonMr R A HoldenProfessor H G KoenigsbergerMr R E M Le GoyMr J H PageMr G N ShannDr J W Squire

Dr J B Wyon *

1938Mr L L BromleyDr M H ClementMr R R DarlingtonMr D R FosterMr W E LaneThe Right Reverend Dennis PageDr M H RussellMr P H SchurrMr M H L Standen *Mr A O Stanesby *

1939Mr J McP AdamsMr C T Bailhache *Mr T C BeswickMr H A H BinneyMr H G CarpenterMr M H ClayeDr J P ClaytonMr C H De BoerMr R N HolmanProfessor I A MagnusMr A R McMurchyMr K L Neal *Dr V R PicklesDr J E M Whitehead

1940Dr C M AttwoodMr D A BaileyDr J E BlundellMr D A H BrownMr R F CrocombeDr J A R Debenham *Mr A A DibbenMr G H DixProfessor A E FlattDr W S GriffithsDr R F PayneDr G S Plaut *Mr W F Poll *Dr D N SeatonMr S K Walker

1941Mr K T BoydMr S Blackford *Mr F H ButlerProfessor I G CunnisonDr W H DaviesMr W M EbdenDr C EdeleanuDr W M EdgarMr V B English *Mr B EvansMr J B FrostMr H C HartDr T M HowellDr J K Hulm *Mr M G ManbyDr J A McDonaldProfessor M A M RobertsMr J L Spencer *Dr W R Throssell

1942Mr P H B AllsopMr G S F AntonMr K V ArrowsmithMr C BillingtonMr D E C CallowMr J D Campbell *Mr K C J CaseMr F N ClayMr R A EscoffeyMr A P GoodeProfessor A HewishDr G A JonesMr A W MallinsonDr K M McNicolDr A R MerrillMr J M Norsworthy *

Mr R J Potter *Dr R H B ProtheroeMr C RavenhillDr M G RolfeDr E V RowsellDr A J RussellMr E R SlaterMr M A H WalfordDr A R H Worssam

1943Mr L R Atkinson *Professor J A BalintDr R BarnesDr D G H DanielsMr A M DanzigerMr C H DevonaldMr W L FryerProfessor R H GarstangDr W M GibsonProfessor R HarropMr A G H HouseProfessor L G JaegerMr C H KelleyDr C KingsleyMr J D F Nichols *Dr D N PhearMr B H Raven RobertsMr J B SelfMr J W H ThomasDr W R WalshDr M Wilkinson

1944Air Vice Marshal Geoffrey CairnsDr E A CooperDr E J CretneyMr N S DayDr B O L DukeMr P J FletcherMr J M GrundyMr P G HebbertMr B S HelliwellMr D J HyamThe Reverend Gordon JonesDr H K LitherlandMr J C MacChesney *Dr S T PicklesMr N T RoderickMr W T D ShaddickMr R C ShepherdProfessor M R Steele-BodgerProfessor P G SteinMr D J StoreyMr G E TurnerMr J H WalfordMr J A Wells-ColeMr E M Younie

1945Dr G P R BielsteinDr M D BillingtonProfessor C N L BrookeProfessor Sir Sam EdwardsMr J J H EverittMr J L HarrisonMr R K HaywardDr J E HerbertMr P A L JonesMr S Jovanovic *Professor B LythgoeCouncillor F R McManusDr R D MontgomeryMr J D PowellMr D E RaeMr I W RobertsThe Reverend Lindesay RobertsonDr F C RutterMr J L Somervell

1946The Rt Hon the Viscount of

ArbuthnottDr D A P BurtonMr G G Campbell

Dr W J ColbeckMr D V DruryDr J R EdwardsMr K GaleMr P N HamiltonMr W M Holland *Mr A J A IrvineProfessor B S JayMr G R KerpnerMr P F OwenMr H C ParrThe Revd Canon Michael

Percival SmithMr R V C PhillipsDr G W SmallcombeThe Reverend Peter TubbsHis Honour Geoffrey Vos

1947The Reverend Brian BarkerThe Reverend John BrockmanMr H T V Churton *Mr J R CowardMr K J GardnerMr F N GoodeThe Reverend Stephen HoughProfessor W H W Inman *Mr J M S KeenMr B J LofflerMr D L LowMr N E A MooreThe Reverend David PhillipsMr A C ScottMr R J SellickMr A C StruvéThe Revd Canon Christopher TubbsMr H G Way

1948Dr P C W AndersonDr A R BakerMr J B BoothMr P J BunkerMr E J ChumrowProfessor N C H DunbarMr E V A EscoffeyMr T GarrettMr M A A GeorgeMr L J HarfieldMr W A O JacobMr D C MayerProfessor J F MowbrayMr T R Norfolk *Mr J B PondProfessor T A PrestonThe Revd Canon Alan PyburnMr J SandersMr R D ShawMr P R ShiresDr M J TurnerMr I Winning

1949Mr A G BeaumontMr A BirchMr D J CairnsProfessor L L Cavalli-SforzaThe Rt Hon the Lord ChorleyDr J T CookeMr K J A CramptonMr R D EmersonThe Reverend Jack FreebornDr J H GervisMr J F Girling *Mr J J H HainesMr M J HarrapDr W R HeatonMr E C HewittMr D H JonesMr J H KelseyMr J C KilnerMr C E C LongMr M G MacGregorMr A M NicolMr M R Noble

Mr J NorrisMr W R PackerMr P M PooleMr I G RichardsonMr A W RileyDr J D SwaleDr D A ThomasMr J F WalkerMr G R W WillcocksMr C M Woodham

1950Mr G A AshDr A E AshcroftProfessor J H BennettMr I D BruceMr M Buckley SharpMr J G CarpenterProfessor F H C Crick *Mr R C DobbieMr R G DunnMr G H Eaton HartMr B L EdwardsDr A C Fernando *Mr W J GowingMajor J R GroganMr D Hanson *Professor J C HigginsMr G S LowthMr D MalcolmMr C J Martin *The Revd Canon John MayburyProfessor D H MichaelMr D L H NashDr S W B NewsomMr A G C PaishMr D S ParaviciniMr J A PottsMr G D C PrestonMr D A SkittDr J M SmythMr D B SwiftMr J S H TaylorDr S G TaylorMr S P ThompsonThe Revd Canon Stephen TrapnellMr W A J TrenemanMr L F WalkerThe Reverend Philip WrightMr P L Young

1951Dr R A AikenMr A C J AppleyardProfessor E BreitenbergerMr J R BrookeMr G H BuckMr J J BurnetDr A J CameronMr P R CastleMr S H CookeMr R N DeanThe Reverend Nicholas DixonMr W L J FenleyMr R B GauntlettDr F B GibberdDr J E GodrichThe Reverend Peter HancockThe Revd Canon Alan HeawoodMr J M HepworthMr J P M HornerMr G S JonesProfessor L L JonesMr R K LaidlawMr I MacleanMr E R MaileMr K MarsdenMr P T MarshallMr P S E MettyearMr J K MoodieMr B H PhillipsDr R S O ReesMr J C RiddellMr W A StephensThe Reverend Timothy Surtees

Mr J E SussamsMr A R TappMr P E WalshMr C H WaltonThe Reverend Ryder WhalleyProfessor M J WhelanMr P Zentner

1952Dr A R AdamsonProfessor J E BanatvalaMr R H BarnesDr M BrettMr D Bullard-SmithMr D ChareThe Rt Hon Lord Cooke

of ThorndonMr C J DakinDr A J Earl *Mr C B d’A FearnMr G GarrettDr T W GibsonMr E S HarborneMr J A G HartleyMr D B HillMr E J HoblynMr A A HooperMr G M B Hudson *Dr T S MatthewsThe Reverend David MayburyDr C W McCutchenThe Rt Hon the Lord Morris

of AberavonMr P J MurphyDr M J O’SheaMr S L ParsonsonMr J W N PettyDr M J RamsdenProfessor M V RileyMr P M RossiterDr J D Sanders *Mr J de F SomervellMr J Woodward

1953Mr A J BaconProfessor R J BerryMr J M Bruce, JrMr P H CowardDr P M B CrookesDr A H DinwoodieThe Reverend Henry FaulknerMr G H GandyMr B V GoddenMr H J GoodhartMr B HiggsMr C B JohnsonDr D H KeelingMr J E R LartDr R A LewinMr H Matine-DaftaryDr M J OrrellMr E C O OwenMr D PiggotMr M H PittardMr J F PretloveMr J ReedMr C J RitchieMr D SavilleMr W G ScottMr I P SharpMr P T StevensMr B J SydenhamMr J TurnerMr J A WhiteheadProfessor Sir Christopher Zeeman

1954Professor M P AlpersMr D R AmlotMr J Anton-SmithMr J L BallMr M A BayerMr P A BlockMr D W BouetteMr D J BoydProfessor C B BucknallMr S A CangDr R J CockerillMr D I CookDr R A F CoxDr J M G DavisDr J R EamesMr J P EdwardsMr D R FairbairnProfessor J FletcherDr A E GentProfessor N J GrossDr J P GurneyDr M HaywardMr J D HeapDr P W Hemmings *Mr R A Hockey

Dr M C HoldernessMr R J HortonMr R W J HubankMr J S KirkhamDr K A Macdonald-SmithDr F P MarshMr R W MarshallDr J H L McAuslanThe Right Reverend Hugh

Montefiore *Mr R W MontgomeryColonel G W A NapierMr D J NobbsMr J O’HeaMr J D PainterProfessor D J RadcliffeMr R M ReeveSir Gilbert RobertsMr T W J RuaneDr J M S SchofieldMr D StanleyMr M H W StoreyMr P E Thomas

1955Mr R B AisherMr C F BarhamMr M W BarrettMr D I BowenMr J A BrooksMr A R CampbellDr M CannonDr P D ClothierMr A A R CobboldDr C K ConnollyMr J R CurrieMr F S CurtisProfessor K G DaveyDr P G DaveyMr J T DeanMr C D DonaldDr R A DuranceMr R J ForsterDr D H Fowler *Mr R HallMr C B C JohnsonProfessor J J JonasDr T G JonesThe Rt Hon Sir Paul KennedyMr M E LeesDr P J NobleThe Right Reverend

Michael NuttallMr G R OramDr J P A PageLieutenant-Colonel C B PritchettMr A R ProwseMr D M RobsonDr A P RubinProfessor L S SealyMr J A B TaylorMr J D TaylorMr H W TharpMr T J ThrelfallDr R B WaltonMr G WassellDr P J WatkinsDr J WinterProfessor I Ziment

1956Professor D BailinMr J A Cecil-WilliamsMr P R Clynes *Professor G H ElderProfessor J A R FriendMr P H GrayMr M L HolmanHis Honour Judge LevyMr R B LewisMr J D LindholmMr B J McConnellDr H E McGlashanMr E N McMillan *Mr B M NonhebelMr T R R O’ConorProfessor L L PasinettiMr A J PeckMr J A PoolesMr J J C ProcterMr J M RiceMr C Ridsdill-SmithMr C J D RobinsonMr T S RowanMr I SamuelsMr R R W StewartMr R C TongueDr J B L WebsterDr D L Wynn-Williams

1957Mr A B AdarkarMr W E Alexander

Dr I D AnsellMr D H BeeversProfessor D L BlakeMr J C BoocockMr T BunnDr T R G CarterDr J P CharlesworthMr M L DaviesDr T W DaviesMr E J DickensProfessor A F GarvieMr W G B HarveyMr J D HenesMr P HenryMr E M HoareMr A S HolmesProfessor F C InglisMr J L LeonardMr J S H MajorMr G D MarshallDr R T MathiesonProfessor A J McCleanMr D MollerMr M F NealeDr M J NicklinMr I H D OdgersDr J R OgleMr R D PerryMr A P PoolThe Rt Hon Sir Mark PotterMr N M B ProwseMr P W SampsonDr G W SpenceMr G A StaceyProfessor J N TarnMr O N TubbsThe Rt Hon Lord TugendhatThe Reverend Professor

Geoffrey Wainwright

1958Mr C AndrewsProfessor R P BartlettMr J E BatesMr A D BibbyMr T J BrackMr J P B Bryce CBEMr J D G CashinDr J M DaviesSir David FrostDr M T HardyProfessor F W HeatleyMr J A HoneyboneProfessor J O HunterMr H I HutchingsDr G N W KerriganDr A J KnellMr R D MartinMr C P McKayMr N McKendrickMr A D MyersMr T S NelsonMr R H PedlerMr V H PinchesMr G D PrattenMr F C J RadcliffeMr M P RuffleLord Simon of HighburyDr F D SkidmoreSir Keith StuartMr A J TauntonProfessor B J ThorneMr C M UsherMr J B R VartanDr G A WalkerThe Reverend John Watson

1959Dr D J BealeMr K N BradleyMr J A BrooksDr D E BrundishThe Rt Hon Kenneth ClarkeMr A T CollinsDr W D DavisonDr A G DeweyMr J E DrakeMr D A DryerThe Reverend Timothy DuffThe Right Reverend David EvansMr G A GeenDr J A GibsonMr T A J GoodfellowMr D N C HainesThe Reverend Dr Robert

Hamerton-KellyProfessor B HarrisMr M J D KeatingeMr C J MethvenMr M M MinogueDr G H PettifordDr G P Ridsdill SmithMr J R Sclater

Professor Q R D SkinnerDr M J SoleThe Reverend Dr David TrippDr I G Van BredaDr A G Weeds

1960Dr N A BaileyMr J G BarhamMr H V BeckMr T D BelopopskyMr B C BiggsDr A D BrewerMr R R ClaphamDr G M ClarkeThe Reverend James CotterHis Honour Judge CowellProfessor E R DobbsDr C H GallimoreThe Reverend Peter GantDr D F HardyDr R M KeatingDr P I M KeirDr J A LordThe Reverend Dr Tony MarksDr P MartinMr M B MaunsellMr R A McAllisterDr H F MerrickMr G R NiblettMr M O’NeilMr W J PartridgeDr C C PenneyDr A T RactliffeMr C W M RossettiDr B M ShafferThe Revd Canon Peter

Southwell-SanderProfessor M S SymesProfessor P S WalkerProfessor M S WalshMr A A WestMr J D WilkinMr D H WilsonMr R D S WylieDr G R YoungsDr A M Zalin

1961Mr C E AckroydMr A D BellProfessor Sir Michael BerridgeDr G A N ConnellMr P CooperProfessor J R Cove-Smith *Dr M D DampierMr J O DaviesDr J S DenbighMr P W DurantMr D K ElsteinDr J M GertnerDr K N Haarhoff *Mr M D HarbinsonMr R T JumpDr A B LoachDr J S McClellandProfessor R J NichollsMr J OwensDr J M PelmoreMr C H PembertonProfessor R H L PhillipsonDr C P Quinn *Mr D C W StonleyDr R I A SwannDr I G ThwaitesDr M P WasseDr N E Williams

1962Dr J S BealeMr D J BellMr M D BrahamMr P S L BriceDr D CarrMr P D CoopmanMr T S CoxMr M EmmottProfessor Sir Alan FershtMr T M GlaserMr J D GrimeMr A D HarrisMr D HjortDr C A HolmesProfessor A R HunterMr P A C JenningsMr J W D KnightProfessor J M KosterlitzMr A J C LodgeMr F J LucasMr A R MartinMr G N MeadonMr A P NicholsonProfessor F G Pyatt

Mr I S R ReynoldsMr G A ShindlerMr R G SimmondsDr R N F SimpsonMr R SmalleyMr M J StarksMr J D SwordMr F R G TrewMr M G WadeMr D R F WalkerMr A P R WallsMr H N WhitfieldMr R G Williams

1963Dr P J AdamsMr P N BelshawDr T G BlaneyMr C D M BoneDr J A ClarkMr E F CochraneMr M H DeardenDr R P Duncan-JonesProfessor S FieldDr H FraserThe Rt Hon Lord Fraser of CarmyllieMr P M G B GrimaldiSir Thomas HarrisMr C F D HartDr M A HopkinsonDr R H JagoMr B L KerrMr M S KerrMr D J LanderyouProfessor W Y LiangDr C W MitchellMr D B NewloveDr J R ParkerMr M J PitcherProfessor D J TaylorSir Quentin ThomasThe Hon Mr Justice TugendhatMr P H VealMr D J WalkerDr R F WalkerMr J D WertheimDr M J WestonDr H M Wieselberg

1964Mr D P H BurgessProfessor D B CitronMr R J CommanderDr H ConnorMr N C CropperMr M Elland-GoldsmithMr A K GlennyMr G A GrayDr R J GreenwoodProfessor N D F GrindleySir John HallDr K O HawkinsMr B D HedleyMr J Horsfall TurnerMr A KirbyDr F P Lockett *Professor S H P MaddrellProfessor J M MalcomsonDr H M MatherMr S J MawerDr L E M MilesDr B V PayneMr J H PooleProfessor N W ReadMr M D RockDr C N E RuscoeMr J F SellHis Excellency Mr F M VendrellMr I R Woolfe

1965Dr J E J AlthamProfessor L G ArnoldMr A C ButlerThe Hon Mr Justice Christopher

ClarkeDr C M ColleyThe Hon Lord Nigel EmslieDr W J FieldingMr J H FinniganMr J K FraserMr A J HabgoodMr J HarrisDr D A HattersleyThe Reverend Paul HaworthHis Honour Judge HolmanMr R P HopfordDr K HowellsDr R G JezzardThe Honorable Dr John LehmanDr P J MarriottHis Honour Judge MorrisDr P B Oelrichs

The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, Parents and Friends of the College who have generouslymade donations since 1 January 2002. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to maintain the College’s excellencefor future generations.

Gonville & Caius College Development Campaign Benefactors


Dr J S PolkinhornProfessor C V ReevesDr P D RiceMr R N RoweMr A C ScottMr I D K Thompson

1966Mr M J BarkerDr D S BishopDr J P CalvertDr C I ColemanDr K R DanielsMr C R DeaconMr D P DeardenMr P S EllistonMr J R EscottMr M N FisherMr D R HarrisonDr L E HaselerMr R E HickmanMr R HoldenDr C J T LewisMr D C LunnMr F K LynessMr M C MansfieldDr A A MawbyMr P V MorrisMr V K PintoMr S M PosterMr N F RiddleMr D SwinsonMr D F WhiteMr S M WhiteheadMr J M WilliamsMr P E Wilson

1967Mr J G AytonHis Honour Judge BaileyMr J L CarterDr A EilonMr B J GlicksmanMr T HashimotoMr D G HayesProfessor D R HayhurstMr C R HaytonMr M D HutchinsonMr J R JonesMr N G H KermodeMr R J LaskoMr D I LastMr T W MortonMr A M PeckProfessor J B SaundersMr H J A ScottDr C ShindlerDr G M StampMr C J ThompsonThe Reverend Dr J D YuleProfessor G J Zellick

1968Dr M J AdamsProfessor P A Brunt *Mr A C CoskerProfessor P R CroftMr J C EsamThe Reverend Dermot FenlonMr D P GarrickProfessor P W GatrellMr D S GlassThe Rt Hon the Lord GoldsmithMr D J LairdProfessor R J A LittleDr D H O LloydMr E J NightingaleMr S ReadDr P G ReasbeckMr P S ShaerfDr B C TeagueDr M McD TwohigDr G S WalfordDr D P Walker

1969Dr S C BamberMr M S CowellDr M K DaviesMr J M DenkerDr M W EatonMr R J FieldDr C J HardwickMr J S HodgsonMr A KeirDr I R LacyMr R G McGowanDr M S PhillipsMr M C N ScottMr P B VosProfessor M S WayneDr N H WhealeMr D A Wilson

1970Mr J AughtonMr R ButlerDr D D Clark-LowesMr G J H CliffMr R P CliffMr D ColquhounMr P S FosterMr L P FouldsMr J D GwinnellDr M B HawkenDr J A S HowellMr C H D JeepsMr J S Kilner *Dr S R KirkhamMr L G KosminDr M J O’B MinogueMr B S MissendenProfessor D J ReynoldsDr I N RobinsMr B Z SacksDr R D S SandersonMr B M ShackladyMr D C SmithDr S A SullivanProfessor R W Whatmore

1971Mr P BoeufMr J P CanterMr H H J CarterMr J A K ClarkMr P D M DunlopMr J A DuvalProfessor D M HausmanMr N R HollidayDr P G MattosMr R I MorganMr L N MossMr I A MurrayMr N D PeaceDr M B PowellDr A J ReidDr P RobinsonProfessor R B SalesDr J H SmithDr P T SuchMr P A ThimontMr A H M ThompsonMr C G Young

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es David Skidmore (1958)In January 1958 I came to Caius for thecollege entrance examination and had along interview with Granville Naylor (1939),Director of Studies in Medical Sciences.Wefound a common interest in ornithology andhe went on to ask about my captaincy ofthe Solihull School swimming team.I mentioned that my quarter-mile timeswere better than those of the universityswimmers in the 1957 Varsity Match. I amnot sure whether ornithology, swimming ormy inventiveness in tackling anincomprehensible chunk of Pliny in the“Little Go” Latin examination (still at thattime a pre-requisite for admission) softenedSenior Tutor Ian McFarlane’s (1947) heartbut in October 1958 I arrived to begin mylong and continuing relationship withGonville and Caius College.

The photograph shows the collegeswimming team of 1958/9 with Steve Pallay(1956), a very handsome Hungarian, as captain.John Wodak (1957) was another swimminghalf blue and having made contact with them Iwent along to the Freshmen’s meeting of theuniversity club, and was duly signed up forsquad training.

The facilities for university swimming wereabsolutely dreadful. The Leys School swimmingpool was closed for rebuilding, and in theabsence of any city indoor pool our only

training facilities were at Bedford ModernSchool, thirty miles away. Mr Angus, theuniversity club Senior Treasurer, lent us hisprecious vintage 1.5l Riley and twice a weekwe drove through the fog to train.

Throughout the Michaelmas and Lentterms there were swimming matches againstmajor London clubs and “redbrick” universitiesevery Saturday evening. In the summer we hada match against Otter S.C. who turned outnine international swimmers against us! Ijoined Otter – on the principle that if you can’tbeat them…

Colleges paid for an hour’s swimmingsession per week at The Leys, and in additionto the college’s competitive swimmers othersenior and junior members turned up for arecreational swim. Joseph Needham (1918)was a regular attender, sedately swimmingbreaststroke in a side lane.

With the advent of the summer termcame the prospect of using the universityswimming sheds on the river up inGrantchester Meadows.

The club employed a custodian, Mr Barrell,a former Cambridge police-sergeant who wasbadly crippled with rheumatism and used toget around in a battery-operated electricinvalid chair. At that time the sheds were of asolid wooden construction with an open frontfacing onto the river.We had cantilevered

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diving boards.Senior members of the university made

regular use of these facilities. Nude bathingwas de rigueur for many of them. One of theregular attenders was Professor Patrick Dean,the Professor of Pathology and a Fellow ofTrinity Hall. He had been an Oxford water poloblue in 1896, and continued to wear aVictorian/Edwardian bathing costume. He hadbeen appointed a Professorial Fellow in 1925before the Statute of Limitation ensured thatprofessors retire at 65. Dean was 83 years old,6’3” tall, and his lectures were hard tounderstand because of problems with his falseteeth.

When he came to swim in the riverSergeant Barrell would whisper to a member ofthe university club surreptitiously to follow theprofessor up the river in case he got intodifficulties. Dean used to get very tetchy aboutthis, and I remember him turning and shoutingat me “go away, young man – I’m not going todrown this afternoon!”

The Varsity swimming match was a

summer fixture at this time, and so we had thecompeting targets of Tripos examinations,swimming matches against LoughboroughUniversity and the Army, our first May week,and then the Oxford match. This took place atthe Seymour Hall Baths in Central London,under the auspices of Otter Swimming Club.

The morning after the Varsity match, wetravelled to Barcelona for the beginning of atwo-week swimming club tour. The sixteen-man university squad won all of its five tourmatches including the big event against theBarcelona swimming club in the MontjuichPool, which would house the Olympicswimming event in 2000.

Caius won swimming cuppers in my firstyear and then, as swimming club Secretary, Ienjoyed the privilege of a second year inCollege. I persuaded Doug Myers (1958) thatdespite his impressive New Zealand rugbybackground he might like to concentrate onswimming and water polo, and he got his Blueand Hawks membership.

Our tour after the 1960 Varsity match wasto Yugoslavia (organised by John Wodak) whichat that time was “a small country a long wayaway of which we know very little”. TheCroatian coast then as now is idyllic and wehad a wonderful fortnight in the company ofhandsome Yugoslav swimmers and beautifullocal girls.Yugoslavia regularly featured in theOlympic water polo finals and although wewere the British university champions, we werecomprehensively thrashed even by small village

teams all along the coast.In my third year, having been elected

college Captain, I am pleased to report that wewon both the water polo and swimmingcuppers.We had four Blues, myself, JohnWodak, Mike Daniell (1959) and Doug Myersand great support from Peter Kent (1960),James Merry (1960), Paul Neuberg (1959), IanSmith (1958) and James Stuart Smith (1960).Again we beat Oxford in the Varsity Match, andcelebrated driving round London in DougMyers’ new Sunbeam Alpine.

At the end of my clinical studentship inBirmingham, I spent three months at theUniversity of Minnesota and became aware ofthe enormous gap in standards between Britishand American swimmers.We would swim5,000 yards a day, while they would swim15,000!

In 1965 I returned to Cambridge as ananatomy demonstrator, having determinedthat I wanted to become a surgeon, and wasdelighted to be invited to become theuniversity coach for two years.

From that time on, wherever in the worldmy career has taken me, I’ve always managedto sort out swimming facilities and continue tocompete in Masters Championships and theWorld Medical Games. Sport was a hugelyenjoyable part of my time at Caius and I’mdelighted that in spite of the pressures ofacademic competition, the College stillencourages students to make the most of theirsporting opportunities.

Douglas Myers in action in the pool.

Caius College Swimming Team (Summer 1959). Back row (left to right): Graham Pratten (1958), DouglasMyers (1958), Roger Bartlett (1958), Front row (left to right): John Wodak (1957), Mike Montague-Jones(1956), Steve Pallay (1956), John Newsome (1956), David Skidmore (1958).

Everything going swimmingly

to surmise who had the most unusualexperiences.

Suffice it to add: Graham remainedfarming in S Africa. For myself, thisexperience combined with the next summerspent with l'Abbé Pierre of Emmaus and inrefugee camps, led me to switch from beinga Chartered Surveyor to overseas aid anddevelopment with Oxfam, VSO and the like.

Off to the Andes fifty years ago...Graham McDougall (1954) whose familyfarmed in the Drakensberg, had recentlyseen a photo of the Andes in Ecuador. Hewas keen to go there as he thought evenin those far-off days that it could be analternative if he had to leave SouthAfrica. As I was brought up to horses andreading Land Management, he asked meto join him to ride up the inter-AndeanSierra. Accordingly, the CambridgeExpedition to Ecuador left Liverpool byship – as one did then – at the start ofthe Long Vacation of 1956.

We duly purchased horses, including apackhorse, and rode 400 milesunaccompanied along the Andes at heightsranging from 3,000 to 14,000 feet. We wereso bold as to call ourselves “littleTschiffleys” after the man who rode 10,000miles from Argentina to New York in the1930s. Sometimes we stayed with thehospitable and stimulating hacienda ownersand sometimes we looked after ourselves inour little tent. It was an epic trip, with manyphotos to prove it.

Our respective cousins also of 1954,Keith McDougall (Caius) and Bill Norton(Magdalene) together with the late BruceAnderson (1954) and others, went duringthe same Long Vacation on a highlyorganised, sponsored mountaineering andscientific expedition to the Elburz in Iran.They were condescending, to say the least,about our effort, but I leave it to the reader

Jeff Alderson (1954)

Graham McDougall asking directions while the villager overcomes his surprise at seeing these itinerant“gringos”.

Jeff Alderson


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George Kerpner (1946)I have lived theselast 58 years withthe certainty thatduring my time atCaius thereappeared one dayan Austin 7 car on

top of a spire of King’s College Chapel,secured to it by a chain or very stout rope.I believe it happened the day after a verywild Guy Fawkes night in 1946, when someof the locked-up market stalls burned likematchwood owing to the over-enthusiasticattention they received from returned ex-servicemen with their home-madefireworks and bombs. By midnight fire-engines had put out the resultingconflagration and there was only an acridstench left.

But all this hullabaloo had merely servedas a smokescreen (literally) to divertattention from the real business in hand. Thenext morning, the first person to look up at

King’s Chapel must have blinked, rubbed hiseyes and looked again; for there was thisAustin “Bath” clearly outlined against the sky,clinging to the stonework as though hastilyabandoned by its driver because of thesteepness of the climb. Days went by beforeit could be removed.

After reading the splendid article in Oncea Caian... about the 1958 hoisting of a similarmodel on to the Senate House roof, I beganto wonder whether I had perhaps strayed intoa parallel universe and had my Austin 7experience in a time-warp, some twelve yearsbefore it had actually happened. I contacted afew of my coevals to ascertain what theyremembered: Jimmy Gibson (1944) could notremember anything sensational, Ken Gale(1946) dimly recalled a chamber potcrowning one of the spires in celebration ofsome event and I was given to understandthat Professor Christopher Brooke (1945) hadbeen aware of a conspiracy to perform somesuch deed, which he did not, however, recall

flowering into action.Before going to see my doctor to have a

test for the onset of senile dementia, Ithought as a last resort to phone Don Drury(1946) in San Francisco, who is a sound, soberand splendid fellow if ever there was one. Andsure enough, he remembered it clearly anddescribed the little car in its unwontedsurroundings, sharply outlined against themorning sky, just as I had seen it. God blessyou, Don, for returning me to sanity!

I hasten to add that I do not wish to takeanything away from the incredibleachievement of the 1958 plotters. It wasindeed only when reading in detail whatdifficulties they had to contend with, that Ibegan to wonder whether the 1946experience could have been real. As it hasnow been corroborated, however, I find itsurprising that the event appears to havebeen so little known – are there no recordskept anywhere throwing light on how it wasdone?

It was a typical lateFebruary evening,following the finalday of the LentBumps. Caius 3rdBoat had notdistinguished itself

but then, which college boat did excel inthose far-off days of 1953 when First &Third, Lady Margaret and Jesus ruled fromDitton Corner through the Long Reach andhome? So it was that a number offrustrated Caian rowers gathered outsideTrinity gates ‘milling about’ as the Policedescribed it. After a few halves in theButtery and an unexciting dinner it wastime to unwind.

There must have been a hundred or sorevellers – boaties of all persuasion andquality looking for trouble (in a gentlemanlyfashion) when the unmarked police cararrived and accused us of causing anobstruction. The police in those days weregenerally huge in stature (sharp front fivetypes in the constabulary rugby squad) butnot so crisp perhaps in the cerebellum region.Not wearing a police uniform put them at aclear disadvantage to those in gowns and Icould sense they wanted to put us in ourplace.

I was in the stalls so to speak when theyturned on Peter Mettyear (1951). “What’syour name?” “Smith AB” he said. “And what’syour Tutor’s name?” “Smith BA” came thereply. At this point, when we challenged for

Godfrey Ash (1950)police identification, Imisguidedly went for thenearest policeman’s trilbyand was promptly bundledinto the rear of the waitingAustin A40. But the policewent back to try and clearthe forecourt – and herewas my chance. I slidacross the seat and outof the door and hared offtowards Caius. But I washigh-tackled by this 15-stone, 6-footer who dumped us both againstthe kerb by Green Street corner.

On the Monday morning I was given asympathetic hearing by H E Tunnicliffe (1917)who clearly had experience of unruly youthand cleared my brow, saying this would go nofurther. Later I was arraigned before themagistrates with half the boat club in thepublic gallery. PC Frederick John Gedge dulytestified that I, bow oar, 10 stone and 5ft 11,had knocked him into the gutter (he shrankback in the witness box to make this appearcredible) and the upshot was a £3 fine atwhich the gallery produced a large bunch ofspring daffodils and assured me ofcontributions to the fine. As Peter said: “sothat the penalty for general high spirits shallnot be borne by Ash alone”. How noble –what buddies! And dear old Tunney wasreported in Varsity as saying I was “a well-conducted young man” in my defence. Howkind. But then, as I remember, how apposite.

There were two unrelated consequencesto this episode. It was only two months tofinals, and one of our neighbours withCambridge relatives had seen the press andmentioned the matter to my parents! Blackmark. Perhaps my final respectable degreehad something to do with their sternlyoffered advice.

Twenty years later in Lisbon, where wewere then living, came the hilarious sequel ata cocktail party to which my wife and I hadbeen invited on board a sleek HM warshiplying in Lisbon docks near NATO HQ. Thecanapés were handed round by two good-looking NATO WRNS. One of these girls worean identity badge bearing the name Gedge.Having established where she was born Icouldn’t resist enquiring: “Is your father byany chance PC Frederick John Gedge?” “Ohno,” she replied in shocked tones, “InspectorGedge, if you please”. I’ve not been back tocheck.

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Dale Hjort (1962)In my day the Cockerell Library wasgloomy and crammed with Dexionshelving, but since acquisition andrenovation by Caius it has been made ajoyful place for study or to visit. Thelibrary staff are welcoming and eager tointroduce the College’s resources, whichinclude much from the First World War, aperiod in which I am particularlyinterested.

The Chief Clerk compiled a record ofCaians serving in the forces or in war work.There were eventually nearly 1,450 ofthem and the “War Lists” published eachterm in The Caian were so detailed that inthe Second World War similar publicationswere officially discouraged.

Study of these lists and associatedmaterial in the archives turns up some

remarkable characters and incidents. Oneprosperous Caian solicitor of middle ageadapted his Wolseley car as an ambulanceand set off for Flanders in October 1914.He was dismayed to hear that a Britishaircraft had been brought down by the riflefire of our own men, who had mistaken theUnion flag wing markings for the enemyMaltese Cross. He was not to know thatthe observer in the plane was also a Caian.This misadventure led to the introductionof the roundel used by the RAF to this day.

In June 1916, a former President of theMusic Society was training with hisinfantry battalion for the forthcomingoffensive when he was transferred to a newunit using microphones to locate enemyartillery. They had found that a musician’sear could distinguish particular guns, and

so the reputation he had earned by playingpieces from London shows on the piano inan Armentières tea-room saved him fromthe slaughter on the Somme.

The largest group to serve, and themost highly decorated, were the medics,and Caians made significant contributionsranging from aircraft production tochaplaincy. Enigmatic details suggestseveral were involved in secret intelligencework.

Those who died are commemorated inthe Chapel. Many were stillundergraduates. I first saw their names as afreshman, in days overshadowed by theCuban missile crisis. I now enjoy myprivilege as a Caian of using the CockerellLibrary to learn about a generation somuch less lucky than ours.

Adrian Taunton (1958)To lose both of one’s Directors of Studiesin a matter of six months is sad indeedand I know I join generations of Caiushistorians in mourning the passing ofWilliam Frend and now Philip Grierson.Philip, in particular, was ever-present andseemingly immortal.

Like most of my generation, I wasassigned to Philip for my first year, sharingsupervisions with Robin Pedler. He got themarks and I remained bemused. Like allthose who had proved their aptitude andability with the potential for a First, Robincontinued under Neil McKendrick, whileDouglas Myers and I continued our studiesof Modern History for two further yearsunder the care of Dr William Frend.Somehow, the Albigensian Heresy creptinto every debate, whether on Wellington’sIberian campaigns or the origins of the FirstWorld War!

I lost touch with both my Directors ofStudies after coming down and did notmeet them again until the College 650thAnniversary celebrations in 1998, when Iwas able to introduce my wife to each ofthem at either end of Gonville Court.Nearly 40 years on and neither man lookeda day older!

“Who took you for supervisions afterme?” enquired Philip. “Dr Frend” I replied.

“So you read Church History.” said Philip.“No,” I replied, surprised, “I read ModernHistory.” “You read Modern History under

Dr Frend? I’m quite shocked. I had bettergo and have a word with him immediately.”With this, Philip sauntered off.

InvitationThe Master and Fellows of Gonville & Caius College

invite you and your friends to an exhibition of recent paintings

by Adrian Taunton (1958)

at the Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge,

from Monday 12 June to Saturday 24 June 2006.

The paintings will be sold in aid of the College Development Fund.

Opening Hours: 9.30am to 5.00pm Information: 01263 588543

From the Director of Development:We were delighted to read in the New Year’s Honours list that Simon Milton (1980) has been awardeda Knighthood for services to Local Government.

...Always a Caian

The CaiMemory contributed byEmeritus Professor Tony Kirby(1956) in our last issue about“the great days of Caius AFC”has prompted a reply from the

current generation of Caius footballers. NickGreenwood (2002) suggests that a new dawnof Caius AFC greatness is upon us…

When the now notorious “Golden Age”speech was given at Football Dinner 2003-4by 1st XI Captain Noel Eves (2001) there werefew dissenters. The club had just seen its 1st,3rd, 4th and Ladies XIs win promotion fromtheir respective divisions, with the 1st XIreturning to Division One after more than tenyears of hurt.

The 2003-4 successes had beenspearheaded by Club President Eves, Club

Division Two, the men currently in charge –1st XI Captain and Club President CharlieManning, the influential Graham “Iceman”Bates and the enigmatic Club Secretary JamieCorby (all 2003) – have every reason tobelieve the success will continue. The 1st XIhave also recently returned from the annualtour to Oxford – a brainchild of Eves – whichserves as a sharpener for the latter stages ofthe season as well as an opportunity to dowhat any modern-day footballer would dowith a bit of free time – sample the localculture.

Although whispers of a “Platinum Age”may be premature until we win the DivisionOne and Cuppers Double (next year lads?),there is no doubt that the Black ‘n’ Blue ofGCAFC is going from strength to strength.

Secretary and solid right-back Adrian Pegg(2001) and Blues footballer Jim Wormington(2001) who together brought in new levels ofprofessionalism and organisation to what wasalready a spirited club.

The 2004-5 season saw the reins pass onto 1st XI Captain Nick Greenwood, assistedably by GCAFC veteran Nathaniel Kelly (2001)and midfield magician Stephen Catton (2002).After a tricky start, the season ended on ahigh with the 1st XI winning the CUAFL PlateCompetition, the 2nd XI, led by DomCeglowski (2002), winning promotion toDivision Three and the Ladies XI, inspired byBlues Captain Alma Donohoe (2002), winningpromotion to the top flight.

With the 1st XI currently 4th in DivisionOne and the 2nd XI angling for promotion to

Cai

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rtsNew Golden Age for

the Black and Blues

The CUAFL Plate-winningteam of 2004-5.

Caius 4 – Trinity Hall 1

A 100-strong crowd of Caianscame to support the team.

Caius 1 – Emmanuel 0

Nick Greenwood (right)watches an ambitious bicyclekick by Nathaniel Kelly(2001) in the crucialpromotion game of 2003-4.

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more RecipesSeared Tuna with Spiced Lentil Salad(serves 4)

MethodCook the lentils insalted water for15-20 minutes oruntil tender, drain andcool. Place ginger in apan with chilli, onion,garlic, ground cuminand cumin seeds. Addthe water and vinegarand simmer with a lidon for a few minutes so that the flavours infuse. Remove from heat and pour into a bowlwith the drained lentils. Add soy sauce, ketchup and sweet chilli sauce. Stir well andgradually add the olive oil and chopped coriander. Season, cover and leave in therefrigerator, preferably overnight.

To serve: Season the tuna and fry on each side in a hot pan with a little vegetable oil.Tuna is ideally eaten blue or rare so this will only take 2-3 minutes. If you prefer cook thetuna until medium rare – 5-6 minutes. When cooked, remove tuna from the pan andleave it to rest for 5 minutes to ease carving. Meanwhile, warm the lentils gently in apan. With a sharp knife, carve the tuna against the grain of the fish into 3 or 4 slices.Serve on a bed of lentils with a rocket salad.

Ingredients

4 x 170g. tuna steaks

100 g. puy lentils (soak for 3 hrs & wash)

20 g. root ginger (peeled & finelychopped)

1 red chilli (seeded & finely chopped)

1 medium red onion (peeled &finely chopped)

1 clove garlic (peeled & crushed)

1/2 tsp. ground cumin

1/2 tsp. cumin seeds

25 ml. water

25 ml. balsamic vinegar

25 ml. soy sauce

1 tbsp. tomato ketchup

1 tbsp. sweet chilli sauce

25 ml. olive oil

15 g. chopped coriander

salt & pepper

Blackcurrant DéliceMethodTo make the base:Combine the crushedbiscuits with themelted butter andpress into the bottomof a loose bottomedring case. Refrigerate,preferably overnight.

To make the filling:Soften the gelatineleaves in cold water. Heat the blackcurrant coulis and add the gelatine, stir until dissolvedthen leave to cool. When almost set fold in the semi-whipped cream until combined andpour the mixture onto the biscuit base. Leave to set.

To make the topping: Warm the coulis and dissolve the gelatine into it. When it’s almostcool pour on to the délice.

To serve: Present a wedge of délice with a little more coulis. Garnish with blackcurrants,a spoonful of mascarpone and a sprig of mint.

Ingredients1/2 packet digestive biscuits crushed

2 oz melted butter

1 small tub of mascarpone cheese

61/2 fl.oz blackcurrant coulis

13 fl.oz semi-whipped cream

4 leaves gelatine

1 oz sugar

For the topping:

2 fl.oz blackcurrant coulis3/4 leaf of gelatine

Blackcurrants to garnish

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CaiKitchenPrepared by Tony Smith,Billy Logan and Brett Bevan from Caius Chefs

Martyn Race

George Yiend

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