2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 65
sorting out problem contracts at Birmingham International Convention Centre, the
London Ark and EuroDisney, before selling the businesses. In 1993 Christopher became
the first full-time Bursar of Fitzwilliam College. He oversaw the addition of 226 student
rooms plus an Auditorium and a Library/IT Building. The conference income grew from
£225,000 to £1 million, investments from £7.4 million to £26.6 million and the bottom
line of the College Balance Sheet from £6.8 million to £46.5 million. After retiring he
took on a variety of consultancy tasks, and was Acting Bursar for St Edmund’s College in
2010-11, to be followed by a year from 2011 as Acting Senior Bursar at Jesus College. He
has been Chairman of the Cambridge Bursars’ Committee, participating in negotiations
with Government over fees and with the Charity Commission over the change from
Exempt to Registered charity status for the Oxbridge Colleges. Christopher is devoted to
the Colleges he has served, but even more so to Claire and to five children – two boys and
three girls, Emily and Fleur at 14 and 8 being positively the last of the line.
Outgoing Fellows
Dr Rebecca Weir is working on a digital edition of Civil War newspaper poetry,
in collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Lorang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
Dr Shaul Tor has been appointed to a Lectureship in Classics and Philosophy at
King’s College, London.
Dr Gerry Kearns has been appointed to a chair in Geography at Maynooth University,
Ireland. ■