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DOWNING COLLEGE 2009–2010(individual medley), Louise Tan (butterfly), William Wong (individual medley)and our men’s relay team, Downing came joint 2nd overall (out of 15 colleges).D OWNING’ S F ENCING T EAM, consisting of Anthony Crutchett, IanReekie, Felix Wood and Chris Vibert competed in the annualCuppers Competition on the 7th May. And they won it! Special mentionfor Chris Vibert who stepped in on the day with little previous experienceand beat several of his opponents.T HE C OLLEGE C HOIRThe College Choir led by Camilla Godlee, Senior Organ Scholar, toured theUSA in June and July 2010 and sang at the following events:New York:Alumni event at the Yale ClubA concert in Saint Paul’s ChapelA eucharist service in the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Times Square.A concert in the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue MountainLake, NY.At the Liturgy Festival – Woodstock, VTEvensong and Eucharist at St James on a number of days and a concert.Finally a concert in Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, Danvers,Massachusetts.T HE M AITLAND H ISTORICAL S OCIETYSecretary: Nick KingThis year has been a good year for the Maitland Society with four illustriousspeakers, the introduction of Maitland Society attire, a field trip to Bury StEdmunds, and the Maitland Annual Dinner in Easter Term – as always, inhistorical fancy dress!Proceedings began in October with a paper delivered by Professor PaulCartledge entitled ‘Revisiting Ancient Greece – via Marseilles’ – a veryinteresting analysis of the ancient Greek world taken from his recentpublication. This was followed in November by a talk by Dr Gillian Sutherlandwho gave a fascinating account of the changing contours of book provision forchildren in nineteenth century Britain entitled ‘Fantasy becomes respectable’.Professor Anthony Badger resumed Maitland’s activities in Lent Term with apaper which asked ‘Has Obama learnt from FDR?’, and Dr Richard Rex endedthe year’s speaker events with a talk on ‘Luther and the Word of God: theReformation as a crisis of authority’ which attracted more people than therewere chairs!123