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celebrating “Salute the Soldier” in honour of the two battalions of theCambridgeshire Regiment who had spent over three years as prisoners of war. SoI turned round and went the other way: the most important “about turn” in mylife, as it happened. I walked past Christ’s and Emmanuel and came across aporter’s lodge in Regent Street. I asked the porter the name of the college andwhen he said “Downing” I remembered that several boys from my school had beenthere. I nervously asked the porter if the tutor dealing with engineering wasavailable and, after telephoning, he said Dr Wild would see me.The first thing Dr Wild said to me was how pleased he was to see I was wearingthe Eighth Army medal ribbon. He explained that he had been responsible fordeveloping the thermite bomb we left on the engines of abandoned vehicles. Thatwas a good start but then the questions got sharper. When I said I had got a placeat Oxford just before the war to read Chemistry which had to be declined forfinancial reasons, he replied “You don’t think getting a place the read Chemistryat Oxford cuts much ice here, do you?” About ten minutes later he said he wouldgive me a place and signed a letter saying so. I couldn’t believe my luck!So I came up to Cambridge and sat down again to lectures after a break ofsix years.I well remember our first practical period. Six of us were assigned to a hugeRobey Uniflow steam engine with a demonstrator sitting by the fly-wheel. Hewas standing no nonsense and after ordering one undergraduate to remove hisscarf handed us cards telling us to measure the dryness of steam in the cylinder.Then someone whispered in my ear that the demonstrator was the Master of StCatharine’s College [Col. Donald Portway, a Downing man. Ed]. In my room thatafternoon trying to work out the “dryness of steam” I wondered where I had cometo. A generation later my son came up to Downing to read Natural Sciences by amore testing route!My purpose in writing this account is to record my appreciation of the manto whom I owe the most – Frank Wild.Editor’s note: The author graduated in 1948 with a first in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos and waselected to the title of Exhibitioner.35
DIECI PER TAVOLA GRANDE(Ten for High Table)An Opera Buffa in Five ActsMusic: Mendelssohn,Verdi, Berlioz, Mascagni, Puccini, Orff,Sibelius,Wagner, Beethoven, Balakirev,TchaikovskyLibrettist: John DickinsonCastRay Wilson (Admiral of the Fleet)Val Wilson (Admiral’s mate)Variously Captains, Midship-persons, Mates, and Quarter-persons:Alan BillingHelen BillingJohn DickinsonChristine DickinsonFrank GilchristHilary GilchristHoward TurnerJen TurnerWith Guest appearances from Fellows and students of Downing College,And a cast of thousands……36
Page 1 and 2: Downing College 2007
Page 4: ContentsDowning College Association
Page 7 and 8: The President. Julian Childs MA
Page 9 and 10: President’s ForewordThe aim durin
Page 11 and 12: Cufflinks in solid silver£68 plus
Page 13 and 14: understanding! The music recitals i
Page 15 and 16: 14Fellowship and students in reside
Page 17 and 18: e hung! I was also honoured and del
Page 19 and 20: Development Director’s ReportThe
Page 21 and 22: ‘Smaller’ building tasks includ
Page 23 and 24: 1807: The Laying of the Foundation
Page 25 and 26: underpinned by shared secular exper
Page 27 and 28: the digging out of foundations; the
Page 29 and 30: Earl to give support to his nephew,
Page 31 and 32: and other residents. This is the sc
Page 33 and 34: The Schieffelin Leprosy Research &
Page 35: proposed the establishment of a Boa
Page 39 and 40: sailors’ attempts to steer in a s
Page 41 and 42: Act 5Scene 1: Near MarchThe final A
Page 43 and 44: The Literary Larrikin (biography) -
Page 45 and 46: MarriageAndrew Macintosh (2003) mar
Page 47 and 48: ObituariesStephen Allcock (1952)Ste
Page 49 and 50: papers and Oral English, examining
Page 51 and 52: But he hankered after something to
Page 53 and 54: Claire Louise Cutler, née Morgan,
Page 55 and 56: John Raynes (1954)We learned from J
Page 57 and 58: Martin Ward (1957)Martin Ward came
Page 59 and 60: Editorial acknowledgementsThis publ
Page 62: Downing College2006 - 200761
Page 65 and 66: IAN RICHARD JAMES, M.A., M.A. (Warw
Page 67 and 68: The Wilkins FellowsGODFREY MICHAEL
Page 69 and 70: James Norman Birch (Fellow Emeritus
Page 71 and 72: Memorial service for the late Dr St
Page 73 and 74: 200 Years the Symbiotic Architectur
Page 75 and 76: 74In contrast, Jefferson was a Pall
Page 77 and 78: The consequence was that when Jeffe
Page 79 and 80: In December 2006 Ian Roberts was aw
Page 81 and 82: Women’s BadmintonThe first team b
Page 83 and 84: Semi Final). It was a pleasure to s
Page 85 and 86: Music SocietyPresident: Mark Browne
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competition for the fourth time in
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Scholarships, prizes and awards 200
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College prizesArchaeology & Copsey
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ArchitectureTripos Part IALeung M Y
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Land Economy Tripos Part IAManji I
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Natural Sciences Tripos Part IACart
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Graduate examinationsDiploma in Com
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LawBailey-Munroe, S JBansal, N KBel
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Graduate admissions 2006Anglo-Saxon
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Loizidou, C CLoo, T MMargaronis, S
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