2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

Development Office
Richard Dennis, Development Director
COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 87
It has been a year of considerable change in the Development Office. Miranda Seymour,
Ghizala-Ruth Modood (2009) and Liam Richardson (2005) have all departed for fresh
pastures and been replaced by Hannah Perks, Nikki Williams, Stephen Bland and Natasha
Brice (2008).
Under the leadership of our new Master we are currently re-assessing the College’s
future priorities, but it is already clear that as a result of the new higher fees regime we are
going to have to increase our fundraising efforts for undergraduate bursaries. The levels
of debt that our new undergraduates face are unprecedented. Similarly, the need to be able
to help fund scholarships for graduates is increasing significantly as we strive to ensure
that our graduates gain fully from their time at the College. A particular concern to us is
the plight of UK students already burdened with high levels of debt from their
undergraduate years.
Philip and Joanne (née Moore) Yates (1978 and 1980) have, with outstanding generosity,
endowed a college teaching Fellowship in Law. They were both admitted to read Law when
Peter Glazebrook was Director of Studies in that subject, and the Fellowship is to be known
as the Yates Glazebrook Fellowship. The first holder will be Dr Findlay Stark who, like
Glanville Williams and Peter Glazebrook, is principally interested in Criminal Law. This is
the fourth named Fellowship to be endowed by members of the College in recent years. The
first, in History, was established by Gurnee Hart (1994) and is held by Dr Michael Edwards;
the second, in Polar Sciences, was created by Brian Buckley (1962) and is held by Prof Julian
Dowdeswell; the third, in English, is held by Dr Christopher Burlinson and was funded by
the legacy of Vivian Cox (1934). The endowment of fellowships is of particular value to the
College as we seek to preserve the college-based teaching system in the face of an
undergraduate funding regime that covers only a proportion of the costs of the education
we provide.
I am delighted that so many Old Members have chosen to support the Chapel
Court project. We will continue to accept names for plaques in rooms until the New
Year. We hope to have the plaques installed in time for the Donors’ Garden Party next
summer.
Bequests
The College wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received during
the year 2011-12: Ronald Ray (1950) £100,000; John Steane (1948) £61,317; Kenneth Yates
(1936) £20,000; John Robertson (1938) £3,064; Alan Wood (1943) £10,000; and James
Meadows (1956) £52,840.
Membership of the 1496 Society has now grown to over 150 as evermore Old Members and
other friends have notified us that they have included the College in their Will.