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march 2011 14 JET Photographic Inspecting the New Court plans, in 1985 Coming to open the auditorium in 2004, with the Master, Professor Brian Johnson The 125-year celebrations; unveiling the statue of The First Undergraduate, with the Master, Professor Alan Cuthbert Plaque describing The First Undergraduate Plaque on the auditorium JET Photographic JRAC JRAC
JET Photographic Opening the New Library and IT Centre When the occasion arose for the opening of the new Library and IT Centre, in the spring of 2010, we were very pleased that we again would be honoured by the Visitor. Detailed planning began at the very beginning of the year – nowadays, with heightened security issues, the planning of such an event involves not only numerous members of the College and the Vice-Chancellor’s Office in the Old Schools but also the police and security personnel, as well as the University media office. Eventually the programme was evolved. Security has further implications for the release of information, so that all those outside the central planning group were subject to a fan-dance of successive disclosures – initially advising them to keep dates free in their diaries but providing no information, then inviting them to attend, but telling them only quite close to the date of the event that the Library would be opened by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on the afternoon of Monday 19 April. Burns reminds us of the fate of the best-laid schemes of mice and men, and in this case they would gang somewhat a-gley in consequence of a major force of nature: the volcano in Iceland whose ash closed down air traffic around the UK and, for the day of the opening, marooned Professor Alison Richard, the Vice-Chancellor, in Beijing where she had attended one of the very many alumni events of the University’s 800-year celebrations. An opening ceremony requires brisk and preciselychoreographed movements round a sequence of locations where introductions to precisely-defined groups of people take place. But, as well as making such arrangements for specific participants, we had the particular objective of showing the Library in as nearly normal a condition as was practicable, so that undergraduate and graduate students could work in the Library at all times – despite all the activities that were going on around them. This was achieved: the Library was full of students, and much real work was going on throughout the afternoon. The Visitor was introduced formally to Fellows, undergraduate and graduate officers, College staff, members of the architectural, engineering and construction teams, and College benefactors – but in addition took the opportunity to talk to many students whilst walking round the Library. All was over very rapidly – the Visitor’s schedule placed him within the College precincts for just one hour, and the actual time was not much greater – and at the end of the programme those involved officially retired to the Hall for tea. There, in conclusion, they were entertained by the first performance of Ne Plus Ultra, a composition by music undergraduate Christopher Skipper which turned the builders’ tiresome construction sounds to good effect by combining them with a string quartet. And after that, we could all go back to our normal activities. JRAC The Visitor, the Master and College staff 15
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