2013 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

OBITUARIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2013 161
was teaching at CPL, a private school where the senior staff of Air France attended to
improve their English. In l964, he married Ida Augustin and in 1970, after the arrival of
his son and daughter, he set up his own school, Studypool English. The school
specialised in using phonetic techniques to teach English to adults.
SEARS, Paul Lindsay (1966) died on 13 September 2012 aged 63.
Paul Sears was born on 24 January 1949 in Watlington, Oxfordshire. He entered the
college as a Scholar from the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, in 1966. He read
Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1969; MA 1973; before embarking on a doctorate in the
Reactivity of Transition Metals; graduating, PhD in 1974. In the mid 1970’s he moved to
Canada working initially as a researcher at the University of Toronto before joining the
Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology.
He married Margaret (Meg) and they had two girls and two boys.
SHEPHERD, William Guy (1955) died on 19 October 2012 aged 77.
Bill Shepherd was born on 21 May 1935 in West Wickham, Kent. Educated at Brentwood
School he came up to Jesus in 1955 following National Service with the Royal Artillery.
He read English, graduating BA 1958; MA 1962. The first thirty years of his working life
were spent in the electronics industry, latterly, with the Plessey Company. In the late
1990s he trained as psychosynthesis therapeutic counsellor and developed his own
private practice for the final fifteen years of his life. He was also a Samaritan for many
years.
He published a number of books of poetry as well as translations – his version of
Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes was published by Penguin Classics in 1983 and
followed by Propertius’ The Poems in 1985. His final venture in Latin translation was of
Statius’ Silvae, undertaken jointly with Anthony Howell and published by Anvil Press
Poetry in 2007.
He married Margaret Anne McGregor in 1959 and they had a daughter and two sons.
SIMONS, Laurence Anthony (1949) died on 9 March 2013 aged 83.
Tony Simons was born on 14 May 1929 in London. Educated at University College
School, Hampstead, he came up to Jesus in 1949 following National Service. He read
Law; graduating BA 1952; MA 1957. He decided not to pursue a career in the legal
profession choosing instead to become a doctor. He graduated, alongside his new wife,
MB BS from the Royal Free Hospital in 1962. After house jobs also at the Royal Free he
completed a registrar rotation in anesthesiology at the Middlesex Hospital in London,
followed in 1967 by a fellowship in anesthesiology at Mass General Hospital in Boston,
Massachusetts. In 1969, he began work as an anesthesiologist at Lynn and Lynn Union
Hospitals just north of Boston MA, where he continued to work for the next 25 years.
Tony was president of the Massachusetts Anesthesiology Society from 1980-1981.
He married Margaret Susanne Frankel in 1961; they had two daughters and two sons.
SPENCE, Ian Richard (1959) died on 2 August 2012 aged 73.
Ian Spence was born on 15 October 1938 in Forest Hill, South East London. Educated at
Dulwich College, after completing his National Service, he came up to Jesus in 1959 with
a scholarship. Whilst at Jesus he took a full part in College life, including being