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Wolfson College 

CAMBRIDGE 

Magazine 2002–2004 No . 28

Wolfson Snowman February 2003 Lisa Goh

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Contents 

1. From the President 

6. Welcome to the new Dean/Senior Tutor 

8. Examination Results 2002–2003 

18. Examination Results 2003–2004 

24. Prizes 2003, 2004 

26. Summer Frolics 

27. Who's Who in the College Office 

30. Science Colloquium 

38. Lupi 

40. Wolfson Research Colloquium 

44. Wolfson Drama Society 

50. Wolfson Arts Society 

53. Arbuda Film Society 

55. Wolfson's Roller-Coaster Ride on the BBC's University Challenge 

Programme 

58. The Chancellor's Centre 

61. Blues 

62. Wolfson College Boat Club 

74. Boston to Lincoln Marathon 50 km Race 

75. Ski and Snowboard Society 

76. A Unique Piece of Hockey Heritage 

78. Lawn Tennis at Wolfson 

80. Wolfson College Soccer 2003 

81. Wolfson Cricket 

86. Women's Cricket 

89. Basketball 

93. Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand April 2003 

96. Kuala Lumpur April 2003 

97. Oslo Party May 2003 

99. The President's Portrait: Two Views 

102. An Archaeological Legacy: Formal Hall: Excavations at Yeavering 

105. Prince Albert and his Statue 

109. Congratulations to the New Chief

iv 

111. News 

128. Marriages 

131. Births 

134. College Staff: New Appointments 

135. Commemoration Dinner 2004 

136. Fellowship in Order of Seniority 

139. The Honorary Fellowship 

140. Dr Lee Seng Tee 

141. Emeritus Fellows 

142. The Emeritus Fellows Society 

143. An Oral Archive for Wolfson 

144. Visitors 2002–2004 

157. Obituaries 

176. Donations to the College 

180. Children's Christmas Party 2003 

Wolfson College Magazine 2002–2004 No . 28

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From the President 

This edition of the Magazine covers the past two years. We hope that it 

will give members some flavour of College life, although what follows 

gives only a partial account of all that has happened. This has been a 

time of great activity. First, on the building front we have successfully 

completed the Chancellor’s Centre of Graduate Studies and as I write 

a new house of five flats for students with children is nearing 

completion in the far south-western corner of the College. One of my 

most nerve-racking experiences of the year was being chained into a 

bucket lift and then hoisted above the roof-line in order to top out the 

new building. The views across Cambridge made it all worthwhile. 

The Roger Needham Room which sits directly below the Lee Dome 

allows those attending seminars there to see across to the unexpected 

lake which lies behind the houses on the south side of Barton Road. It 

is interesting to reflect that up until the early twentieth century the 

only houses in this part of Cambridge were the one subsequently 

owned by Sir Vivian Fuchs and the little cottage next to it which has 

now been demolished to make way for our family accommodation. 

Both overlooked a brick works and the lake (now the haunt of 

kingfishers and herons) was formed out of the basin left by the 

excavation of clay for the factory. 

The College reached a notable landmark on 19 July 2003 with the 

graduation of its 1000th PhD student. It is similarly gratifying to 

record that Suzanne Cory, our very first research student, was 

awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University in June 2004 

recognising her ‘discoveries of the highest significance’ and as 

someone ‘keen-eyed in the observation of human health, eloquent in 

its description and powerful in its defence.’ 

We have enjoyed heartening sporting successes over the past few 

years. College boats have done well in the Bumps. The first men are 

now securely lodged in the second division, having moved up from 

the bottom of the fourth division over the past ten years. It had been 

thought that the older, and almost invariably novice, crews from the 

graduate colleges would never quite manage to take on young 


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undergraduates at their best, but Wolfson has shown this not 

to be the case. A very large number of our students take to the 

river every year, many for the first time in their lives, and the 

boat club is now supported by an active cohort of Friends who 

help with fund-raising. The purchase of a new eight this past 

summer was made possible by their efforts. Other sports 

come and go, but we continue to play competitive tennis and 

squash and we had a remarkable Basketball Team in 2003-04 

who cruised to the top of the League and were narrowly 

defeated in the final of the Cuppers competition. Cricket, that 

most English and Indian of games, has also thrived, not least 

with the ladies who are supported admirably by Mrs Jo 

Edwards, wife of the Vice President and a member of the MCC. 

The College continues to have a rich cultural and intellectual 

life. The Choir, directed by Lyn Alcantara of the BBC Singers, has 

given us termly concerts and has spun off a group of Chamber 

Singers who delight us with their highly professional performances. The 

achievement is all the more remarkable because the choir continually 

re-forms itself as students graduate and visitors come and go. In the Lent 

Term 2004 Elsa Arcaute and friends gave a brilliant Flamenco 

performance for Music and Madeira in the Lee Hall. Elsa is a student 

here working on a PhD in theoretical physics. She gives weekly 

Flamenco classes in the College. In the summer a magnificent rendering 

of Beethoven’s Archduke Piano Trio (op 97) was performed by Varuni 

Paranavitani, Lisa Goh and Fabien Roques for an invited audience. 

Another striking success has been the Science Colloquia organised by 

Dimitrios Pinotsis: he has put on a varied programme of speakers who 

have consistently attracted large audiences. The Drama Society, the 

Film Society, a newly formed Ikebana Society, a newly created social 

sciences network (LUPI) and many others – all thrive as a result of the 

enthusiasm and hard work of students and research fellows. 

We have seen significant changes in senior staff during the past two 

years. Joan Whitehead stepped down after four years as Senior Tutor. 

She combined with great cheerfulness the burden of this work with 

her teaching and research in the University and her participation in 

the affairs of the University Council. We are very grateful to her for her 

contribution to the College at this time of great busyness and change. 

We also saw the retirement of Judy Lowe after many years service as 

administrator of the Wolfson Course. At her farewell dinner in July 

2003 many past Course members returned to wish her well and 

present her with some intriguing items of police memorabilia. 


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Sadly, we have lost members through death. Roger Needham had 

been a Fellow of the College from its first term of existence and was a 

powerful influence in making it the unfussy and unstuffy place that it 

is. Roger had an enormous range of interests and, at one time, 

reviewed history and literature for the Cambridge Review. He wrote 

beautifully and concisely. For example his essay in the October 1961 

issue encapsulates brilliantly in only 173 words the entire and 

extremely complex plot of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”. I first got to 

know Roger when we were both members of the Wass Syndicate 

(1988-89), a committee which proposed reform of the University (with 

only partial success, it must be admitted, although we did persuade 

our colleagues that the office of Vice Chancellor needed to be 

strengthened to face the challenges of our times). Roger was 

instrumental in bringing me to Wolfson and I shall ever be indebted to 

him for that. The Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge, now 

directed by Andrew Herbert, one of Roger’s pupils and a Fellow of the 

College, generously offered Wolfson a research scholarship in his 

memory. It is to be awarded to a UK student to do a PhD in any of the 

fields in which Roger had made a mark: Computer Science, 

Mathematics, Engineering or Philosophy. The first holder is Rupert 

Gill whose PhD subject is to clarify the philosophical underpinnings 

of entitlement to welfare. 

We were also sad that John Sadler, our Butler, whose retirement was 

noted in the last Magazine, died so soon after stopping work. His 

funeral service was held in Madingley parish church and he is buried 

there in the village in which he had been born and which he loved so 

much. Professor Sir David Williams gave the eulogy and Professor 

Hugh Bevan read the lesson. We lament the deaths of two of our 

students – Gabriel Pallares Prieto from a flare-up of a viral infection 

just as he was starting out on his PhD in astronomy, and Ruijun Guan 

tragically as she was completing her MPhil in Social and Political 

Sciences. 

Faith and I have greatly enjoyed meeting Wolfson members across 

the world and we very much appreciate the generosity of their 

hospitality and the warmth of their welcome. In 2003 we travelled, 

with John Seagrave, to Hong Kong where we celebrated the College at 

a party in the library of the China Club hosted by David C T Lie. From 

there Faith and I went on to Australia and had an agreeable time with 

Wolfson friends in Sydney and Melbourne before re-joining John in 

New Zealand. The “Auckland” David Williams (we have so many 

distinguished lawyers of that name that it’s best to add a geographical 


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tag to keep track of them) had organised a reception in the Northern 

Club, to which over 50Wolfson members came. The Hardie Boys, the 

Douglas Grahams and the Smellies all provided us with further 

hospitality and opportunities to meet many other Wolfson friends: 

past, present and future. From the North Island, Faith and I went 

south to Dunedin to stay with the Suttons and to address a meeting of 

the Oxford and Cambridge Society where we met more friends of the 

College. The Bursar returned to Cambridge by way of Kuala Lumpur 

where, joined by Don Wilson, there was both a splendid Wolfson 

Course re-union and a general reception for Wolfson members. 

Former members of the Course put the Bursar through a day of tough 

outward-bound type activity in the Malaysian jungle. Faith and I 

came back by way of Singapore enjoying once again the company and 

great kindness of Dr and Mrs Seng Tee Lee. 

At the end of May, together with the Bursar and Anne Murray, we 

journeyed north to Norway, where Ole Herman Ambur had arranged 

a reception for Cambridge alumni at the Galleri Arctandria. In this 


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elegant setting, delightful wine and smoked delicacies were served, 

and besides many Wolfson members, past and present, the party was 

attended by the British Ambassador to Norway. Although not yet 

midsummer, the days were long and the quality of the light just 

incredible. We also witnessed an eclipse of the sun in the early hours 

of the morning. 

In early April 2004 Faith and I flew to Chicago where I spoke at the 

Oxford and Cambridge Society Boat Race Dinner, again meeting 

many Wolfson graduates now living and working in the Chicago area. 

Mr John Morrison, an Oxford man, Chairman of the American branch 

of the Rhodes Trust who does so much to foster Oxbridge alumni 

relations in the mid-West, was a generous and genial host. We stayed 

at the University Club situated just across the road from the 

marvellous Art Institute of Chicago: arriving tired and disoriented 

after the transatlantic flight we recovered our equanimity and sense 

of well-being by wandering through the galleries before going to 

sleep. From Chicago we went to New York and from there made day 

trips to Philadelphia and Princeton. In Philadelphia we visited the 

Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of 

Pennsylvania. The librarian, William Keller, showed us round and was 

particularly proud of the reading room which had been refurbished 

following a benefaction from Dr S.T. Lee. Dr Lee studied at the 

Wharton Business School in the late 1940s and the Fisher Library (or 

the Furness as it was called then) was one of his favourite places for 

study. The building is an outstanding example of late nineteenthcentury 

American architecture and its restoration and refurbishment 

has created a wonderful space for readers at Penn. In Princeton we 

were entertained at the Institute of Advanced Studies by Dr J Enrico 

Ramirez-Ruiz and his wife Kristin Truse. Enrico had only recently 

completed his PhD in astronomy at Wolfson and has now joined the 

Institute for his first round of post-doctoral work. 

Next June sees the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the 

College – University College as it was then – and we plan many 

celebrations. The anniversary allows for reflection on the remarkable 

things that have been achieved in such a short span of time, and I am 

sure will give us confidence to step out boldly into our fifth decade. 


Dr David Jarvis 

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Welcome to the new Dean/ 

Senior Tutor – Dr David Jarvis 

Owen Edwards 

The composition of the University is subtly altering with the 

enrolment of more graduate students with increasing focus on 

research and it is predicted that parity in numbers between graduates 

and undergraduates will be achieved in a decade. This demographic 

shift alters the balance between the Colleges and University 

Departments and has profound implications for graduate Colleges 

such as Wolfson, faced with the challenges of expansion and also 

gravitation to the part-time and short courses which are coming into 

vogue. The predominantly graduate Colleges are thus faced with new 

challenges and in addition to their traditional pastoral role, will need 

to address the educational needs of the graduate students in ways 

different from that provided for undergraduates. 

Faced with these challenges, Wolfson decided to appoint for the 

first time in its history a full-time Dean/Senior Tutor. The very title 

shows a measure of ambivalence as 90% of our students have taken 

their first degree outside Cambridge and many are from diverse 

backgrounds overseas, and so have little conception of the function of 

a Senior Tutor but they have clear ideas of what a Dean of Studies 

should provide. It goes without saying, therefore, that the Dean of 

Studies should be innovative, flexible and with a young mindset and 

in David Jarvis, we believe we have found the ideal person. 

David is a modern historian, taking his first degree in History at 

Selwyn in 1986, thence to the University of Lancaster to carry out 

research for his PhD on “Stanley Baldwin and the ideology of the 

Conservative response to Socialism 1918–1931”, and he was awarded 

his doctorate in 1991. His work has included the Conservative Party’s 

response towards women’s suffrage and he has been interested in the 

role of women in 20th century Britain. In 1996, he returned from 

Oxford to become Undergraduate Tutor, Admissions Tutor and 

Director of Studies in History at Emmanuel College. He has had an 

outstanding record, contributing to an increase in general 

applications by 25% and a proportion of state school undergraduates, 

which are over 15% higher, a development which has coincided with 


The President and David Jarvis at the 

17 July 2004 Congregation 

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Emmanuel topping the Tomkins table in 2003. 

In his personal statement, David thought this post offered excellent 

opportunities to work as part of a team responsible for two of the 

most interesting areas of University provision in Cambridge – for 

graduate students and mature undergraduates. He felt that with the 

University’s changing profile, it increases the importance of Colleges. 

On a personal level, David enjoys spectator sports, chess, running 

and the company of his young son. Over the coming terms, David will 

be attempting to meet as many members of Wolfson as possible. 


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Examination Results 2002–03 

Doctor of Philosophy 

Mazen Nabih Abu Khuzam: “Topological problems related to stein 

surfaces and their boundaries”. 

Valentina Albarani: “Oxidative modification of low-density 

lipoprotein and its toxic effects on human macrophages”. 

Gabriel Senyo Amable: “Multi-sensor land cover mapping with 

Landsat TM and ERS-1 SAR Imagery”. 

Ole Herman Ambur: “Investigations of a third D-ALa: D-X Ligase 

Gene Flanking the vanC cluster in vancomycin-resistant 

Enterococcus gallinarum BM4174”. 

Godsway Kwaku Banini: “Studies of Vickers indentations in ceramic 

and semiconductor crystals using cathodoluminesscence and 

photoluminescence techniques”. 

Sylvain Richard Bordet: “Statistical micromechanical modelling of 

cleavage fracture in structural steel”. 

Isabella Borg: “A clinical and molecular cytogenetic study of patients 

with mental retardation, developmental delay and dysmorphism 

associated with an apparently normal or balanced karyotype”. 

Lisa Rachel Brown: “Woman and telenovelas (soap operas) in 

northeast Brazil”. 

Andrew Philip Carter: “Structural Studies of the 3OS ribosomal 

subunit”. 

Yeora C Chae: “Integrated assessment of climate change and acid rain 

control policies in northeast Asia”. 

Yi-Chiuan Chen: “Anti-integrability in Lagrangian Systems”. 

Jin-Lung Chirn: “Developing a reconfigurable manufacturing control 

system – a holonic component-based approach”. 

Woo-Seok Choe: “The Intensification of Inclusion Body 

Bioprocessing”. 

Amanda Jane Cross: “Red meat and endogenous N-nitrosation as risk 

factors for colorectal cancer”. 

Lucia Dacome: “Policing bodies and balancing minds: self and 

representation in eighteenth-century Britian”. 


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Tristan Richard Davenne: “Dilution induced particle nucleation”. 

Mary Marr Donaldson: “Multiple roles of polo kinase in Drosophila 

Melanogaster”. 

Christian Dean Ellson: “The role of phosphoinositide 3OH-kinase in 

the regulation of the neutrophil respiratory burst”. 

Anton James Enright: “Computational Analysis of protein function 

within complete genomes”. 

Jose Ronald Espinoza Babilon: “A study of the molecular basis of the 

chromosome size variation in Leishmania peruviana”. 

Gareth James Evans: “Transport in silicon nanowires”. 

Andrew Nicholas St.Jude Farley: “Quantum amplitudes in black hole 

evaporation”. 

John Colin Field: “Lexical segmentation in first and foreign language 

listening: with special reference to the segmentation of weak 

syllables”. 

Jutta Emma Fortin: “Mechanisms of defence and emotional control in 

nineteenth-century literature of the fantastic”. 

Karel Fuka: “Knowledge Management in Digital Libraries”. 

Ali Umut Genc: “Linear parameter-varying modelling and robust 

control of variable cam timing engines”. 

This group includes the College’s 1000th successful PhD – July 19, 2003. l-r Drs Ambur, Enright, Lyer, [Dr Brian Cox, 

Praelector], Salih, Davenne, Genc, Saldanha, Bordet, Kellas, Ellson, and Khan 


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Raf Maurice Elvire Guedens: “Thermodynamics of Gravitating 

Systems”. 

Jürgen Harter: “π-Allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes: versatile 

tools for asymmetric synthesis”. 

Samiul Hasan: “Prediction and Analysis of Nucleosome Positioning in 

Genomic Sequences”. 

Andreas Heger: “Hierarchical clustering of sequence space”. 

Meir Hemmo: “Quantum mechanics without collapse: model 

interpretations, histories and many worlds”. 

Jeromy Chen-Ran Ho: “Institutionally Embedded Venture Capital: 

Experience from Taiwan”. 

Michael Ting Bong Ho: “Pharmacology of the orphan opioid receptor”. 

Atsushi Hotta: “Dynamics and relaxation of anisotropic elastomers”. 

Caroline Mair Clark Hyland: “Activation and membrane insertion of 

Escherichia coli hemolysin”. 

James Edward Isaac: “Heterogeneous catalysis and emissions control: 

the investigation of idealised and practical systems”. 

Balaji K Iyer: “Region segmentation of images using a scale-space 

approach”. 

Donna Rose Jackson: “The Carter administration and the Horn of 

Africa”. 

Heidi Jane Janicke: “The induction of inflammatory enzymes in 

equine vascular smooth muscle”. 

Mohammad Jankju-Borzelabad: “Effects of competition and resource 

availability on arid-land plants”. 

Fiona Ann Kellas: “Structural Studies of the Peripheral Stalk of the ATP 

Synthase”. 

Md Amirul Islam Khan: “The effects of small-scale persistent flow 

structures on turbulent diffusion”. 

Thomas Klocker: “In-flight behaviour of dense and hollow particles 

during plasma spraying”. 

Débora Maria Marques Koury: “Representations of the Mangrove 

Forests in Four Different School Contexts in the Northeast of Brazil: 

Subsidy for Environmental Education Programmes”. 

Markus Guenther Kuhn: “Compromising emanations: eavesdropping 

risks of computer displays”. 

Naoko Kumada: “In the world of rebirth: politics, economy and 

society of Burmese Buddhists”. 

Ulrich Lang: “Access Policies for middleware”. 

Phumzile Lizwi Ludidi: “Structural studies of components of the 

Toll/IL-I receptor signalling pathways”. 


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Isobel Judith Maddison: “The Geography of Gender: An analysis of 

Female Literary Space with Particular Reference to the Work of 

Elizabeth von Arnim, Katherine Mansfield and Dorothy M 

Richardson”. 

Neelan Joseph Marianayagam: “Experimental and computational 

studies of protein folding”. 

Imran Markar: “An Empirical Study of Corporate Financing in East 

Asia Before the Financial Crisis of 1997”. 

Timothy Lee Massingham: “Detecting positive selection in proteins: 

models of evolution and statistical tests”. 

Andres Felipe Melo: “A state-action model for design process 

planning”. 

Darren John Moore: “Characterisation of G protein-coupled P2Y 

nucleotide receptors in the human brain”. 

Michelle Ann Morrow: “Identification of Genes Controlling B 

Lymphocyte Development”. 

Boon Lay Ong: “Place and Plants in Architecture: an investigation into 

the phenomenon of place, the thermal environment and the effect 

of plants”. 

Catherine Ngonzi Oti: “A case controlled study of the broader 

phenotype of autism”. 

Rebecca Jane Park: “Autobiographical memory and rumination in 

adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder”. 

Boontham Paweewan: “Coking and deactivation of zeolite-based 

catalysts”. 

Lynnsie Philp: “Functional anatomy of gabapentin binding in a 

model of peripheral neuropathy”. 

Lesley Karen Pilgrim: “The functional and neural organisation of 

semantic knowledge: the contribution of right and left cerebral 

hemispheres”. 

Jocelyn Mary Probert: “Organisational change and the strategic 

renewal process: Innovation, stability and inertia in Japanese 

companies”. 

Nalliah Raman: “Optics for flat panel displays”. 

Robert Riehn: “Optical near-field investigations of π-conjugated 

polymers”. 

Ingrid Robeyns: “Gender inequality: a capability perspective”. 

Stephen Richard Rose: “Music, print and authority”. 

Ignacio Ruiz-Feal: “Low dimensional ferromagnetic structures”. 

Benjamin Alan Rusholme: “The very small array”. 

Sanjay Adrian Saldanha: “Studies on pantothenate enzymes”. 


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Dervis Ali Mehmet Salih: “The Role of Insulin-like Growth Factor 

Binding Protein-5 (IGFBP-5) in the Growth and Development of the 

Mouse”. 

Jay Shieh: “Ferroelectrics: Switching and Cyclic Behaviour”. 

George Stavros Stavrides: “Human Chromosome 20q12-13.2: 

Structural, comparative and sequence variation studies”. 

Muralidharan Sukumaran: “Optical sensors for immunoglobulin G”. 

William Weilin Tang: “Chinese industrial reform in the epoch of global 

big business revolution: with special reference to China’s oil and 

petrochemical industry”. 

Claire Jeanne Taverner: “Regulation of Proliferation and Cell Survival 

by Thrombin through the Par1 Receptor”. 

Andrew Erich Teschendorff: “Intersecting branes, calibrations and 

supersymmetry”. 

Wen-Ji Wang: “A genealogy for the psychoanalyst: Bildung, 

experiment, and the training of the psychoanalyst”. 

Nicola Julie Warwick: “Global Modelling of Atmospheric Methane and 

Methyl Bromide”. 

Caleb Paul Webber: “Protein sequence database searching”. 

Roger Charles Wilcock: “The thermodynamics of cooling in high 

temperature gas turbines”. 

Meng Ee Wong: “Post-school education choices of visually impaired 

students: a comparative study of Britain and Japan”. 

Yew Wei Wong: “Wrinkling of thin membrance structures”. 

Piyachat Yimsiri: “The processing of light emitting polymer 

solutions”. 

Master of Arts (under provisions of Statute B,III,6) 

Mary Esther Jennings: 

Master of Arts 

Neil Ackerman Geoffrey David Briggs 

Oliver Coutelle Matthew James Daniels 

Oladiran Olatunji Emanuel Martin Nicholas Fisher 

Thang Sieu Han David Charles Jenkins 

Maxim Borisovich Klimov Jin-Choon Lim 

Bo McKerlie-Hollist Poovanassen Ganessen 

Christopher Thomas Morrisse Mooneesawmy 

John Charles Spencer Mott Richard Keith Powell 

Lucinda Jane Stamp Frank Waldron-Lynch 

Benjamin Cathcart Woolley M Hilmi Bin Yusof 


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Master of Law 

Olayemi Iyabode Anyanechi 

Giovanni Bravo 

Su Cheen Chuah 

Enikö Felföldi 

John Martin Gillroy 

Ka Yan Ip 

Hau Yue Pamela Ng 

Ronald Daniel Ruhweza 

Master of Letters 

Kathryn Cornelia Tyler 

Master of Science 

Bradley William Hardiman 

Master of Philosophy 

Rashad Abbasov Ralph Achenbach 

Monica Alessi Shuhei Amakawa 

Mohammed Medhat Amin James Peter Andrews 

Marios Apostolinas Fernando Arancibia 

Maleeha Aslam Wai Yu Jasmine Au 

Ernest Kofi Awanta Ian Gerard Barclay 

Sean Lawrence A M Bennett Anne Louise Berry 

Alexander Dietmar Ákos Blandl Gavin Maurice Boyland 

Soren Brage Stefan David Brenner 

Andrew Brown Yinyan Cai 

Louise Maire Campbell Fei Lian Cao 

Philippe André Sylvain Chalon I-Chen Victor Chang 

Lee Eng Chua Ho Tung Chung 

Gustav Hugo C. de Chassiron Asis Kumar Dey 

Liang Du Maria Eracleous 

Andrew Jacob Faas Michael Robert Finnell 

Susanne Regina Gaertner Maria Gaiyabu 

Axel Gelfert Bryan Stephen Glass 

Yael Golan Susannah Kay Hagan 

Rebecca Anne Hall Thomas Lange 

Jason August Hodgson Myhrvold-Hanssen 

Chin-Tzu Huang Andreja Inkret 

Jehann Inca Joelle Jack Kelly Laureen Joss 

Esther Muthoni Kamau Midori Kanda 

Wolfson College Magazine 2002–2004 No . 28 

Jehann Jack 19 July 2003 Faith Johnson

Waiting to process to the Senate House – 17 July 2004 Faith Johnson 

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Navleen Kaur Lisa Valarie Marie Kemp 

Tanya Kranjac Sze Man Lam 

Mobalaji Ahmed Lawal Thibaut Lefort 

Diego Gil Leyva Chi Liu 

Lisa Leanne Luedtke Arnaud Lunel 

Tatiana Yurievna Lysenko Ferial Aziz Mansour 

Wassila Mehanna Timothy Andrew Mellor 

Evgenia Mesaritou Arthur Régis Catherin Moncorge 

Ruth Mary Morrill John Dilwyn Morris 

Vinay Swarnalatha Nagaraj Grzegorz Nawrocki 

Samantha Nena Novello Alex James Novikoff 

Ivana Novoselec Alan Patrick O’Leary 

Evelyn Sarah Vanessa Obert Friday Adejoh Ogwu 

Gunn Kar Ooi Panagiota Pantzou 

Jennifer Ann Parkinson Sonja Ruth Patscheke 

Rafael Goncalves Portugal Dawn Pridmore 

Nalliah Raman Jay Paul Reddy 

Norihiro Sakane Maria Sapouna 

Niketas Siniossoglou Tanja Sinozic 

Efthymios Sipetzis Cindy-Lee Store 


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Kentaro Sugiura Meng Tao 

Angeliki Triantafyllaki Taeko Wachi 

Jinyin Chester Wong Chor Wu Yap 

Kin Chim Yong Leila Zeggagh 

Maria Ziouva Irina Zuravlova 

Bachelor of Arts & Master of Engineering 

Tse Leong Hue 

Master of Business Administration (One Year candidates) 

Helina Asefa Contanza Maulhardt 

Vladmir Batiounine Roger Michael Maybury 

Weibin Cai Yin-Mon Myint 

Klas David Eriksson Hideyuki Narahashi 

Andrew David Goodland Yu-tien Peng 

Michaela Hajek Irakli Pipia 

Lloyd Duane Haugen III Poh Li (Rina) Tan 

Jason Michael Howes Chi-Chang Teh 

Master of Education 

Sage Ball Hedwig Judge 

Colin Alexander Gladstone Morag Helen McCrorie 

Rebecca Jane Hawkes Lynda McKenzie 

Sheila Marion Hobday Gillian Mary Smith 

Christopher Ralph Hughes Susan Elizabeth Swaffield 

Karen Linda James 

Master of Studies 

(Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment) 

Alexandra Jane Bailie-Baker 

Ian Dubber 

Mei Wai Teresa Lee 

Haruo Morishima 

Stuart Geoffrey Price 

Mohd. Rizal Al-Amin Sardon 

Kwang Khee Siow 

Eric Webb 

(Manufacturing Leaders Programme) 

Bruno Zefferino Biscaro 

Simon Peter Box 


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David Malcolm Christian 

Anthony Flannigan 

Timothy Melo Gomez 

Maka Khajarern 

Mark Alwyn Phillips 

Joni Kalervo Rautavuori 

Betsy Rodriguez 

Bachelor of Medicine 

Andrea Louise Wraith 

Bachelor of Surgery 

Fharhana Emma Motaleb 

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine 

Katharina Cornelia Puhr 

Veronica Louisa Homem Roberts 

Samantha Woods 

Benjamin Cathcart Woolley 

Bachelor of Arts 

Rosemary Jennifer Akester Andrew William Stratford Looker 

Andrew Counsell Anusha Mahalingam 

Nicholas Cutler Steven James Mann 

Wahan Gasparian Timothy Charles Vandeleur Martin 

David John Howard Huber Prabhu Narasimhan 

Varun Khanna Tomer Schwartz 

Ulrich Kraeling Dana Trang 

Kenneth Tze Shien Kwek Stamatis Vorias 

Bachelor of Theology for Ministry 

Elaine Kathryn Brown 

Gordon Ross Brown 

Diploma in Public Health 2002 

Roberto Vivancos 

Certificate of Advance Study in Mathematics 

William Flanagan 

Lih-King Lim 

Gabriel Pallares-Prieto 


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João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes 

Mohammad Raza 

Postgraduate Certificate in Design, Manufacture and Management 

2002 

Riyadh Aba-Alkhail Martin Edmund Hunt 

Majid Abdullah Al-Issa Ruairi Thomas Luke Kennedy 

Abdullah Saud Al-Sayyari Peter Kowski 

Ahmad Ali Almihdar Daniel James Lawes 

Hashim Abdullah Almihdar Akshay Kirit Mavani 

Simon Nicholas Andrew Andrew Charles Newton 

Rachel Margaret Blackie Swaek Prakitritanon 

Paul Henry Borkowski Christopher Rydgren 

Ian Lewis Coffey David Richard Searle 

Emily Louise Cole Thomas Christopher St Quintin 

Christopher Timothy Collins Salinla Sutanoonpaiboon 

Anders Ingemar Davås Maen Tabari 

Samuel William Hoad Patwan Vachiramon 

Gareth Philip Holloway 


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Examination Results 2003–04 

Doctor of Philosophy 

Kapugama Geeganage Nadun C Alwis: “Accelerated testing for longterm 

stress-rupture behaviour of aramid fibres”. 

Drene Terana Aponso: “A political biography of Don Stephen 

Senanayake (1931–1952): the Farmer Prime Minister of Sri Lanka”. 

Dawn Rungnada Arda: “The sharkskin extrusion instability and its 

minimisation in polyethylene processing”. 

Stephen James Bradshaw: “A Coupled Hydrodynamic and Optically- 

Thin Radiative Emission Model for the Solar Atmosphere”. 

Hsin-Jen Chen: “Routines and Micro-politics in a Taiwanese Primary 

School”. 

Gayoung Chon: “Theoretical Studies of the Cosmic Microwave 

Background”. 

Erin Fielding Delaney: “Promoting federation: the role of a 

constitutional court in federalist states”. 

Veronika Beatrice Dobler: “Biases in the Spatial Awareness of Children”. 

Shechar Dworski: “Atom optical methods for surface studies”. 

Emi Amy Eguchi: “The new wave: Educational alternative approaches 

to school non-attendance in Japan”. 

Sarra Elisabeth Jamieson: “The genetics of susceptibility to 

tuberculosis and leprosy in a Brazilian Population”. 

Vesa Marko Jauhiainen: “’Behold, I am Coming’: the use of Zechariah 

in Revelation”. 

Nigel Charles Kettley: “Gender stratification, and attainment in 

further education”. 

Chrisoph Alexander Kuzmics: “Essays on economic theory”. 

Michael Lappe: “Novel Algorithms for Protein Interaction Networks”. 

Michael Lisowski: “A Three-Level Game Analysis of the International 

Climate Change Negotiations 2000/2001”. 

Adam Robert Lister: “Synthesis of hyperbranched epoxy resins”. 

Christopher Richard Metcalfe: “The statistical analysis of recurrent 

illness episodes in clinical studies of chronic disease”. 


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Arnaud Miege: “Active roll control of an experimental articulated 

vehicle”. 

Panagiota N Mitrou: “Genetic polymorphisms in NQ01, mEH and 

MTHFR, environmental factors and sporadic colorectal neoplasia”. 

Karen Alvarenga de Oliveira: “Climate change and distributive justice”. 

Susan Oliver: “Borderlines: A study of Borders and borderlands in the 

poetry of Walter Scott and Lord Byron”. 

Susan B Pancho: “Contributions of Formal Security Proofs”. 

Beatriz Eugenia Perona: “Conceptualising complexity in economic 

analysis: a philosophical, including ontological, study”. 

Stavroula Philippou: “The European dimension in education and 

pupils’ identity: a study of the impact of a primary school 

curricular intervention in Cyprus”. 

Halleli Pinson: “Rethinking Israeliness: Citizenship education and the 

construction of political identities by Jewish and Palestinian Israeli 

youth”. 

David Andrew Poet: “Dynamical consistency, barriers to transport, 

and mixing, in chaotic advection flows”. 

Kerry Louise Price: “Structural and functional characterisation of the 

S-HT3 receptor extra cellular domain”. 

Amanda Ruth Ridley: “The causes and consequences of helping 

behaviour in the cooperatively breeding Arabian babbler”. 

James Harvey Fitzgerald Rudd: “Imaging atherosclerotic plaque 

inflammation with [ 18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission 

tomography”. 

Thomas Schlitt: “Towards re-engineering gene regulatory networks”. 

Matee Serearuno: “Intelligent data mining technology for improving 

financial return in precious stone clarity grading”. 

Kiva Rafael Silver: “The Limousin Masons of Paris, 1848–1914”. 

Loizos Symeou: “Teacher-family communication in Cypriot primary 

schools: A multiple case study”. 

Matthew Raymond Turvey: “The role of the actin-myosin cytoskeleton 

in stimulus-secretion coupling in pancreatic acinar cells”. 

Cassandra Helen Van Krinks: “Characterisation of Dendritic Cells in 

Inflammatory Joint Disease”. 

Ya-Hsuan Wang: “Ethnic identity and ethnic recognition: a study of 

Taiwanese Teachers’ Biographies, Curriculum, and Pedagogy”. 

Joanna Gwendolyn Williams: “Screening for autism spectrum 

disorders”. 


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Master of Arts (under provisions of Statute B,III,6) 

Sally Kathryn Church Aidan Foster 

David Charles Frost Anne Murray 

Thomas William Ridgman Susan Elizabeth Swaffield 

Master of Arts 

Doreen Elizabeth Burgin Karl Norman Coulby 

Monique des Rosiers Fleur Renee Adele Gepp 

Jonathan James Gunzi John Ieuan Jones 

James Paul Kennedy Fharhana Emma Motaleb 

Hiroko Omori Lynda Jayne O’Reilly 

David Malcolm Richerby Corin Vaughan Ricketts 

Kah Wing Tang Mark Jurgen Alan Turner 

Master of Law 

Ilaria Accorsi Chamindri Suhani Marian 

Antoine Bailleux Fernando Arseculeratne 

Michelle Leanne Butler Mysty Sybil Clapton 

Alexandre Cloutier Arnar Thor Jonsson 

Georgios Konstantinou Karagiannis Glen Loutzenhiser 

Laura Oana Stefan Raphael Van Steenberghe 

Aisling Marie Wall 

Master of Philosophy 

Edin Agic Karim Lourdes Anaya Stucchi 

Liova Walters Anderson Emenike Anyaoku 

Jukka Petter Aurikko Stephanie Ann Bell 

Warren Allan Bentley Patrizia Brusaferro 

Akarapat Charoenpanich Geoffrey Chepiga 

Nicolas Alain François Clairo Anna Caroline Folly Collar 

Claudia Jane Cyganowski Irina Davidovici 

Adriana Duque Justyna Dymerska 

Natasha Terry Elva Elpida Evripidou 

Emilie Victoria Frybarger Yu Gao 

Carolos Georgallis Jay S Golden 

Emmanuel Nicolas François Grand Yipeng Guo 

Britta Harper Sarah Elizabeth Hewitt 


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Leo Hornak Mark Howdle 

Jennifer Yuan-Jean Hsu Ryo Ikeshiro 

Eric Robert Jensen Hope Waverly Johnston 

Prisdha Jumsai Louise Karikstad 

Natalya Stanislavivna Knish Deepa Kumtakar 

Michelle Kuo Partha Lal 

Hwee Keng Rachel Lau Ye Liu 

Maja Mandic David James Mason 

Anita Joy McKinna Blerta Faik Mustafa 

Seng Puay Ong Keiko Ota 

Alessia Pannese Eleni Papacosta 

Hugo Reinert Shelley Ann Rhodes 

Etienne Jean Roesch Jan Hendrik Roosen 

Fabien Roques Lavanya Sankaran 

David Schmeisser Chuan-Kuo Shan 

Kiva Rafael Silver Jagjit Singh Srai 

Cassandra Mehlig Sweet Didian Vutsentu Tsongwain 

Xianghua Tu Julien Georges Robert Vincent 

Emily Sophie Eglantine Walch Romain Weber 

Fuganto Widjaja Alice Wood 

Ai-Chi Yang Yumeng Yao 

Liwen Yue 

Master of Science 

Christoph Johannes Neugebauer 

Master of Business Administration 

Alexey Aristov Delphine Chantal Bradshaw 

Valia Larisse Davy Jayanti Durai 

Ruben Javier Escalona Silva Ali Soner Guney 

Yansong Hu Vincent-Jean Jegou 

Paraskevas Karakitsos Adrienne Lee 

Huihui Li Wenzhen Syndi Liang 

Chan Kit (Henry) Ma Gareth Julian Monteath 

Ajith Sukumaran Pokkureeparambil Son Chan Christina Sou 

Jonathan Michael Stone Catherine Szeto 

Wei Xiong Karen Kiet Ju Yoong 


Setting out for the Senate House 

17 July 2004 

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Master of Education 

Anne Frances Carr Simon James Clark 

Jacqueline Elizabeth Easter Richard Anthony Hayes 

Lorraine Hughes Carol Margaret Jones 

Sarah Louise Lightfoot Kathryn Jane Little 

Jennifer Margaret Mary Simon John Marriott 

Malone Clare Ann Patricia 

Graham John Metcalfe McDermott 

Elizabeth Helen Mitchell Deirdre Mary Vaughan 

Gregor Laurence Sutherland O'Sullivan 

Paul Taylor Warwick Matthew Graeme Wilson 

Master of Studies 

James Michael Christopher Scot D Allen 

Allen Mauro Andolfo 

Graham Patrick Beadle Yi Chen 

Daniel Orson Dawson Charles Egger 

Leon Furness Jason Martin Gardner 

Angela Gent Richard Graham Hay 

Anthony Higham Muzaffar Iqbal 

Nicholas Jenkins Paul Kennedy 

David James Kent Colin Richard Lapsa 

Sophie Laurence Le Bourva Honey Elizabeth Lindsey- 

Robin Michelle Mathy Barr 

Susan Hester Miller Victor Manuel Navarrete 

John Rignall Michael William Sackett 

Michael James Stych Celine Karin Hélène 

Kek Kiong Yin Worth 

Ming Yuan 

Bachelor of Medicine 

Adjoa Obenpomaa Appiah Elena Ann Cook 

Ari Ercole Alice Charlotte Griffiths- 

Jones 

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine 

Rebecka Louise Bold Melanie Evans 


Romi Paek and family with the President and Mrs 

Johnson before General Admission 26 June 2004 

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Bachelor of Arts 

Derek Westwood Adams Kirstin Ann Armstrong 

Tamsin Stephanie Blyth David Glover 

Martin T Greenup Kamal Sanjiva Hapuarachchi 

Joseph Hayward Danielle Hinton 

Janet Kozij May Lee 

Alexander Patrick Henry Wing Kwan Christie Mok 

McCarthy-Best 

Evan Nacke 

Gaurav Nayyar 

Christoph Johannes Neugebauer 

Mark Norman 

Romi Paek 

Manasi Pande 

Kelly Phelps 

Akram Sarwat Sadek 

Deepa Narendra Shah 

Florian Waldmann 

Mai Yasuhara 

Bachelor of Theology for Ministry 

John Andrew Cook 

Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics 

Ardavan Alamir Qajar Shalom Gershom Benaim 

Stephen Randolf Glassman Michael Cliett Greene 

Arnaud Hallier Nan Liu 

Tamer Marwan Tlas 

Diploma in Computer Science 

Zheng Chen Hamish Alexander Maclean 


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Prizes 2003–2004 

University Prizes 

Cambridge Quarterly Prize Martin T Greenup 

Sheikh Zayed Prize Carlo Cogliati 

Theological Studies Prize Carlo Cogliati 

College Prizes 

Jennings Prizes 

2003 

Mr Andrew Counsell 1st in History of Art Tripos 

Mr Timothy Martin 1st in English Tripos 

Prof. John Gillroy 1st in LLM 

Mr João Penedones Fernandes Distinction in Part III Mathematics 

Ms Emma Lees 1st in MB BChir Part II 

Ms Sally Wood 1st in MB BChir Part II 

Ms Elisabeth Watson 1st in Veterinary MB Examination 

Part II 

2004 

Ms Ilaria Accorsi 1st in LLM 

Mr Shalom Benaim Distinction in Part III Mathematics 

Ms Tamsin Blyth 1st in Medical and Veterinary Sciences 

Part IB 

Miss Rebecka Bold Merit in Final Veterinary Examination 

Part III 

Ms Surabhi Chopra 1st in Law Tripos Part IB 

Mr Nicholas Clark 1st in SPS Part IIA 

Mr Carlo Cogliati Distinction in Diploma in Theology 

and Religious Studies 

Mr Xiaofeng Jiang 1st in Computer Science Tripos Part IA 

Mr Georgios Kragiannis 1st in LLM 

Mr Glen Loutzenhiser 1st in LLM 


Mr Guarav Nayyar 1st in Economics Part IIB 

Mr Christoph Neugebauer 1st in Natural Sciences Part III 

Mr Stewart Piggot 1st in Prelim for Part I Oriental Studies 

Mr Tamar Tlas Distinction in Part III Mathematics 

Sir David Williams Prize 

2003 Mr Andrew Looker 2004 Ms Surabhi Chopra 

Bevan Prize 

2003 Professor John Gillroy 2004 Mr Glen Loutzenhiser 

Donald & Beryl O’May Student Alan O’Leary 

Wolfson Studentships Mr Douglas Brown 

Mr David Barrowclough 

Miss Andrea Vincent 

Mr Kai F Kang 

Mr Zhi X Ke 

Millennium Scholarship Mr John Christopher Bispham 

Processing to the Senate House Faith Johnson 

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Photo: Jet 

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Summer Frolics 

2004 


2003 

Photo: Jet

Jonathan Beart 

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Who’s Who in the College Office 

Jonathan Beart 

There are some things in life which are hard to avoid. If you are a 

Junior Member of Wolfson one of these is a visit to the College Office 

at some time in your student career. Those of us who work in the 

office like to think that your visit is a pleasant experience: that you 

leave us better than when you came, that if you were perplexed you 

leave enlightened, that if you were worried you leave reassured, but 

deep down we know that you come to the office rich and leave poorer. 

Enter that small domain the wrong side of the counter, and it is like 

driving a car into a car park – no way will you get out without first 

paying your fees. 

And yet we don’t appear to be talked about in whispers. If there 

are complaints they are often that we don’t stay open long enough, 

so there must be some good reasons for visiting the College Office. 

One of these is to receive grant cheques – then you arrive poor and 

leave richer. Another could be something to do with your room, 

from telling us how long you are staying to whether you want to use 

the college’s linen or have the phone disconnected. We even 

provide picture-hooks. These are of the old-fashioned type, for use 

on a picture-rail and yet many of the new blocks don’t have picturerails. 

It can be taken as a sign of the good-will prevalent among 

members that the number of picture hooks counted back at the end 

of a year is very much the same as the number counted out at the 

beginning. 

As you can see, the College Office is also the 

Accommodation Office, supervised by Marilyn 

Motley who is assisted by Katia Averina. Marilyn 

and Katia deal with all requests for rooms and, 

steady as the scales of justice, allocate these 

without fear or favour, blind to all but the most 

legitimate request. As they also handle the 

booking of the public rooms and private meals, 

by members and outsiders alike, it is not 

surprising that they are much in demand. Marilyn Motley 


Bridget Evans 

Anita Stone 

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Bridget Evans is also much in demand from students when it 

comes to exams and graduation. She processes the exam forms 

required by the University and, as the Praelector’s secretary, makes 

the arrangements required for the graduation ceremony, meal and 

guests. College dinners and their seating plans are also part of 

Bridget’s responsibilities. 

If you are reading this as a Fellow or Senior Member, you may have 

come to the office counter about your bill or the 

college card and be used to speaking to Pat 

Carling. Pat retired in April 2004 after eighteen 

years’ excellent service and her place has now 

been taken by Natalia Ponomarchouk. Those in 

the know should ask for Natalia in order to have 

their photo taken and printed on their college 

card, or to have that card issued, re-enabled, debugged 

or have its password re-encoded. 

Natalia is also the person who will look at the Natalia Ponomarchouk 

booking form for any Formal Hall for which you 

have been charged and which you believe you did not attend and 

present you with the irrefutable evidence that you were there. She will 

tweak software to give you access to the library and computer rooms, 

etc., enable your card for photocopying, as well as take payment from 

you for any charges you may have to meet. 

Anita Stone will also take payments by any reasonable means: cash, 

cheque, banker’s order, debit card and credit card, but not by credit 

card for fees. Anita bills the academic fees for both the College and the 

University and is the person to see concerning any aspect of course 

fees. She it is who will send you an invoice for a private booking and 

never eschew the charging of VAT. Her desk is close to the window at 

the back of the college and it is not unusual for transactions to be 

conducted through the window after the office 

has closed. 

Wendy Slade has a different role to play in 

that she is responsible for spending rather than 

collecting the college’s money. That is to say 

that she processes all payments to our 

suppliers and to supervisors, directors of study, 

expense claimants, etc. This entails analysing 

the invoices on which we pay, without which 

we would never know if the college is keeping 

to budget. 

Wendy Slade 


Sally Cullen 

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Sally Cullen, who has been here the longest and can remember 

when data was recorded using a pen, looks after the payroll and 

personnel records. Every member of staff, bar workers, fellows and 

officers who receive a stipend know how important Sally’s work is to 

them. They are reminded once a month on pay-day and frequently at 

other times when they need to consult her about holidays, sickness 

benefits or pensions, or actually – anything! 

Lastly there is the College Accountant, but the less known about 

him the better. Suffice it to say that he inhabits the back office where 

he spends time listening to the hum of the servers as they generate 

automated interfaces to the accounts of unsuspecting members, or 

the strange quiet emanating from the main part of the College Office 

when Marilyn, Katia, Bridget, Natalia, Anita, Wendy and Sally are all 

intent upon their work. This contrasts with those occasions when 

laughter breaks out in the office or even, dare it be said, a celebration; 

we have been known to drink sherry before lunch – but only on a 

Friday. 

Of course, so much of what we process is automated now that we 

could conduct affairs by e-mail, post or phone, and never see a face, 

but that would be a loss as we try to get to know as individuals all who 

have reason to visit the College Office, be they student, fellow, visitor 

or other senior member. Long may that continue. 


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Science Colloquium 

Dimitrios Pinotsis 

In 2003 a new series of Colloquia started for the first time at Wolfson. 

Our College has a rich tradition of organizing events where both 

junior and senior members participate. The Science Colloquium 

made a contribution towards this direction by bringing together all 

the members of the College who are interested in science. 

The talks attracted a large number of people. Beginning from a 

basic introduction to their subjects, the speakers followed a long and 

difficult path exposing their own research. Therefore people with 

different backgrounds, whether or not relevant to the field, were able 

to attend the presentations. The Science Colloquium has thus given 

the opportunity to all the members of the College to learn about 

topics other than their own. Moreover, it has been successful in 

bringing together members who work on relevant areas and also gave 

them the chance to present the breadth and impact of their research, 

enriching in this way the academic life of the College. In the following 

we include summaries of the talks in chronological order, often in 

words of the speakers themselves. 

The first talk was given by Dr Frank Sobott, (Chemistry 

Department), who spoke on “Mass Spectrometry for the Biological 

Sciences”. Frank began with a pedagogical introduction to mass 

spectrometry, making the largest part of the talk easy to follow even 

for non-scientists. Then he went on to show how the increased 

complexity of higher organisms derives from a complicated network 

of protein interactions, either stable or transient, within the cell. He 

then presented the mass spectrometric methods developed to enable 

examination of both transient and stable macromolecular complexes 

and analysed how it has now become possible to monitor dynamic 

interactions such as those involved in the assembly of complexes 

from individual proteins or the disassembly of macromolecular 

complexes. His remarkable talk was enriched by a large amount of 

recent examples to illustrate those methodologies. 

The second talk was about “Coloured-Music Synaesthesia”, a very 

interesting topic of active research in Neuroscience. Julian Asher 


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(Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology) first 

defined “Synaesthesia” – from the Greek syn (union) + aisthesis 

(sensation) – as a neurological condition where stimulation of one 

sense evokes sensations in another. He also demonstrated the most 

well known form of synaesthesia, which is coloured hearing, and in 

which colours are evoked by words (coloured-word) or music 

(coloured-music). Afterwards, he mentioned musicians and artists 

throughout history, including Olivier Messiaen and Wassily 

Kandinsky, who have claimed to possess or have been attributed with 

coloured-music synaesthesia and often presented their own words 

about that. The most interesting thing, however, was that having long 

posed a particular challenge, the substantial study of the colouredmusic 

synaesthesia has only recently become possible. Julian 

finished by focusing on the first systematic study of coloured-music 

synaesthesia being conducted and its potential links with absolute 

musical pitch and eidetism (photographic memory). It was 

impressive that the duration of this talk (30 minutes) was 

approximately as long as the duration of the follow-up discussion. 

A very entertaining presentation was the one held by Dr Rainer 

Spiegel (Department of Computer Science) about “Human and 

Machine Learning of Sequential Information”, which consisted of two 

parts: the first one was about human learning. Rainer specialises in 

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the study of information processing. He presented his experiment, 

where participants typically sit in front of a computer screen on 

which visual signals appear at different locations; then they are asked 

to react to these signals as quickly as possible by pressing keys 

designated for that purpose. What they initially do not know is that 

the signals flash in a particular sequential order, where previous 

signals predict following ones. Speeded reaction times and improved 

accuracy can tell which signals are anticipated. Rainer showed the 

results of analysing the strategies that humans typically apply when 

learning the sequences of signals, both for easy problems as well as 

for complex ones. In the second part of his talk, Rainer talked about 

machine learning. He focused on the implementation of his own two 

computational models. In the first, one attempts to predict the way 

humans learn these sequences and how they generalise their 

knowledge to novel sequences. This was merely inspired by the 

strategies that humans verbalised after the experiment and has then 

been programmed to apply these strategies to novel problems. The 

second one, however, is not inspired by human strategies and tries to 

find the best possible way to solve a problem on its own. 

The last two talks for Easter 2003 attracted more than thirty people. 

“The most ancient light in the universe”, delivered by Gerasimos 

Rigopoulos (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical 

Physics), crossed the boundaries of the terrestrial sphere. The whole 

universe is glowing in microwave light, a tell-tale sign of a medium at 

a temperature of 3 degrees above absolute zero. This is the Cosmic 

Microwave Background, a relic of an epoch when the whole universe 

was as hot as the surface of a star. After presenting the basic notions of 

General Relativity, he reviewed the history and significance of the 

CMB, as well as the latest findings that point to the beginnings of the 

cosmos. He clearly explained how the ‘Hot Big Bang’ model for the 

evolution of the universe, discovered in 1965, gained credibility for the 

first time and how today, 38 years after it was first observed, it still 

gives us information about the basic parameters of the universe, as 

well as clues for events occurring within fractions of a second after its 

birth. He finished by illustrating its connection with the present state 

of the universe, according to principles of modern science, and how 

the initial conditions that give rise to the structures we see around us 

today were set at those early times. 

A presentation from the area of Social Sciences concluded this first 

series of seminars on a wide variety of scientific topics. Naude Malan 

(Centre of African Studies) spoke about “Civil society and the 

Transformation of social security in South Africa”. Naude started by 


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examining the social security situation in South Africa. This 

presentation pointed at the need of comprehensive reform of the 

social security system, not only because of the poverty and inequality 

still existing in the country, but also because social security is a 

human right in South Africa. He then moved on to showing why both 

internationally and in South Africa social security has become more 

like poverty relief than social insurance and has opened up to the 

market and civil society, in order to play a role in its design, 

implementation and monitoring. He finished his talk by exploring 

how this necessitates a new conception of what human rights are and 

what direction they can take. 

The talks went on during the past academic year with the same 

success. The first talk for Michaelmas 2003 was delivered by Professor 

Jon Crowcroft of the Computer Laboratory. He focused on the design 

mistakes of the Internet. This exciting talk has probably been the best 

way to initiate the second series of talks. Professor Crowcroft first 

revisited the goals that were set by ARPA in the original requirements for 

sharing computer resources and showed how the original military goal 

of survivability at high cost has warped into a model of deployability at 

near to no cost. He then examined some of the emergent structures for 

the organisations that run the Internet from standards, engineering and 

deployment, through to content delivery and applications software. He 

finally wrapped up with a brief look at work carried out in the Computer 

Lab which is seeking to address some of the shortfalls in these systems, 

in the area of wireless access, p2p and public computing, as well as 

associated problems of trust and accountability. 

It was an honour for the Science Colloquium to welcome during 

the same term Professor Peter Weissberg (BHF Professor of 

Cardiovascular Medicine) as a speaker. Professor Weissberg gave an 

excellent and pedagogical presentation on how to find a cure for 

cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the foremost cause 

of premature death and morbidity in industrialised societies and is 

increasing in developing countries. Professor Weissberg explained 

how the perception that atherosclerosis, the built up fatty deposits on 

the inside of arteries causing heart attacks and strokes, was a slowly 

progressing and degenerative disease that could not be modified, has 

given way to the realisation that it is, in fact, a highly dynamic process 

that is amenable to modification. He reviewed the cell biological basis 

for this change in perception and discussed how a greater 

understanding of the cellular pathogenesis of the disease is leading to 

diagnostic and therapeutic innovations that are likely to have a major 

impact on cardiovascular health in the future. 


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There have also been delivered two interesting talks on Neurology 

by young scientists of the Department of Clinical Veterinary 

Medicine, one in Michaelmas 2003 and another in Lent 2004. Dr 

Andras Lakatos spoke about “Recent Advances in Experimental 

Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury”. Spinal cord injury and the 

subsequent paralysis are devastating problems, especially for young 

people during the most productive period of their lives. The 

underlying cause of disability is mainly attributed to the failure of 

restoration of the disrupted neuronal network. This condition has 

been viewed for decades as irreversible with therapeutic options 

offering very little hope. However, the development of new 

experimental strategies has been increasing hope, at least, for a 

partial restoration of function. Andras reviewed the most important 

recent advances in experimental strategies that are to promote 

functional recovery, as well as the goals that may be realistically 

achievable in the foreseeable future. He finally aimed at revealing the 

progress in translating such therapeutic approaches from the 

laboratory research to controlled human clinical trials. 

The second talk on Neurology during the past academic year was 

given by Dr Divya Chari who spoke about Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS 

is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system where the 

insulating sheath encasing nerve cells- the Myelin Sheath, is 

destroyed in a process termed demyelination. This sheath is essential 

for impulse conduction along nerve cells and this is how 

demyelination results in serious clinical consequences. MS, however, 

is unusual among neurological diseases, because demyelination can 

be followed by a spontaneous regenerative process called 

remyelination. Experimental studies have revealed that the key 

cellular player in remyelination is an enigmatic cell called the 

oligodendrocyte progenitor cell. Divya examined the dynamics of 

colonisation and repair undertaken by oligodendrocyte progenitor 

cells within the context of areas of demyelination and progenitor loss. 

She also showed how an understanding of these dynamics has 

provided insights into potential causes for the failure of 

remyelination undertaken by progenitors situated around areas of 

demyelination in the adult nervous system. 

Jamil Bacha (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) gave two 

entertaining talks on Genetics, one in Michaelmas 2003 and another 

in Easter 2004. In the first one, which had the attractive title “The 

Devil in the Details: What We Can Learn From Our Genetic 

Differences”, Jamil examined what form the genetic differences take 

and how they actually exert their effects. “The Black Sheep of the 


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Family” was the title of his second talk, where he studied the role of 

bacteria, which, despite the many diseases that they can cause, are 

not most of the times pathogenic. This is the reason why, although 

humans carry a whole menagerie of microorganisms around with 

them, they are not constantly ill. Then the following question arises: 

how is it that one species of bacteria can be perfectly harmless and its 

close cousin can kill? Jamil answered this question and explained how 

such microorganisms evolve and acquire their deadly tools. 

The list of talks for Michaelmas 2003 ended with the talk the author 

gave about “Nonlinear Waves, Integrable Systems and the Dbar 

problem”. The majority of phenomena taking place in nature can be 

described by nonlinear equations. A large class of such equations can be 

treated analytically and are called integrable. Among the most wellknown 

one-dimensional integrable equations are the Nonlinear 

Schroedinger and the Korteweg-de-Vries equations. Their solutions are 

called Solitons, they are localized in space and have the important 

characteristic that they retain their shape upon interaction with any 

other localized disturbance. Every one-dimensional integrable 

equation has several two-dimensional versions. These give rise to 

Nonlinear Waves with similar behaviour to Solitons. The main 

mathematical tool used to solve them is the Dbar problem. In that talk, 

the author reviewed the above and introduced a novel aspect of the 

Dbar problem, namely its applications to elasticity and hydrodynamics. 

Among all talks delivered until now the one with the highest 

attendance –around 45 people- was the first talk for Lent 2004 

delivered by Dr Friedemann Pulvermüller (MRC Cognition and Brain 

Sciences Unit). This talk dealt with “Brain connections of language 

and actions” and answered the difficult, as well as fascinating, 

question of when and where is word meaning processed in the 

human brain. Dr Pulvermüller investigated words referring to actions 

involving muscles of the face, arms and legs, respectively and showed 

that the reading or acoustic perception of these words activated brain 

regions that normally process their referent actions. The results show 

that information about word meaning can be processed in the frontal 

lobe and that activation in motor and premotor areas is important for 

the cortical processing of action-related words. Dr Pulvermüller then 

mentioned that the time-course information indicates that semantic 

processing takes place near-simultaneously or in close temporal 

succession with word form processing. Results suggest that words 

and the actions they refer to are stored in distributed cortical systems 

of neurons that bind lexical and semantic information and have 

specific cortical distributions. 


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Professor Paul Murdin (Institute of Astronomy), well-known from 

his many appearances in the British media, gave a talk with the title 

“The Reality of Black Holes”. Although its topic might seem 

sophisticated, I think that this talk was equally interesting for 

specialists and amateurs of the field. Professor Murdin began his 

amazing presentation by mentioning that, for two hundred years, 

black holes have been a solution looking for a problem. He then went 

on to showing how they are described nowadays in terms of general 

relativity and quantum mechanics. He also described the ways that 

Nature makes black holes and gave evidence, hopefully convincing, 

that they really exist. 

Microsoft, the world leader in computer software, has developed 

five research labs around the world. The European one is situated at 

Cambridge where Dr Andrew Herbert is acting as Managing Director. 

Dr Herbert is a fellow of our College and we were lucky enough to 

have him as a speaker last February when he spoke about “ The 

Economics of Distributed Computing”. Distributed Computing is the 

umbrella term for using networked computers to share information 

and computing resources. e-Commerce, e-Science, e-Government, 

“business-to-business (B2B)” and “peer-to-peer (P2P)” are all 

applications of distributed computing. At the present time there is a 

great deal of focus on using distributed computing to build “virtual 

organizations”, with many proposing the concept of utility 

computing (or in e-Science “Grid Computing”), where the resources 

required to support the virtual organization are obtained “on 

demand” from network service providers. In his exciting and 

elucidating talk, Dr Herbert explored these models of distributed 

computing and questioned the viability of the utility computing 

model in the light of the economic trends for computer technology 

(processors, networks, storage devices). 

It was a great pleasure to initiate the talks for Easter 2004 with a 

remarkable presentation by Dr Victor Whittaker which had the title 

“How to smash up brain tissue and still learn useful things about 

brain function”. The speaker explained his discovery of how to isolate 

presynaptic nerve terminals from brain tissue. He named these 

‘synaptosomes’. They are sealed structures which preserve almost all 

the physiological, morphological and biochemical properties of 

presynaptic nerve terminals in situ. The synaptosomes have proved 

most useful as a tool for understanding the synthesis, storage, release 

and inactivation of chemical neurotransmitters, as well as the mode 

of action of drugs on these processes. They are also useful as a source 


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of the component parts of the synapse namely, the intra-cellular 

storage sites of neurotransmitters, which are called synaptic vesicles, 

and the pre-synaptic plasma with which vesicles interact during the 

stimulus-induced release of transmitter. 

Dr Luis Hueso (Department of Materials Science) was the following 

speaker. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were discovered around ten years 

ago and are interesting from the point of view of both applications 

and fundamental science. For example, field emission screens made 

using CNTs have already been demonstrated by Samsung Electronics. 

Moreover, more than 25 papers in the most prestigious physics and 

chemistry journals are published every week. One of the most 

important issues is the electrical properties of CNTs: how do the 

electrons propagate along the tubes? Are they insulating or metallic? 

How can we study and vary their electrical properties? Are they going 

to be useful in future commercial electronic devices? After addressing 

the above fascinating questions, Luis discussed general important 

results obtained by several groups in the last few years. This very 

interesting talk also included some results from the preliminary 

research carried out in Cambridge employing carbon nanotubes and 

electrons in a special (fully spin polarized) kind of state. 

The final talk for the past academic year was presented by Carolin 

Kosiol (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust). 

Proteins are sequences of amino acids. The analysis of protein 

sequences is an important tool to understand the relationships 

among species and to construct trees presenting the evolutionary 

history of species. During evolution we observe mutation from one 

amino acid to another. In her talk, Carolin clearly explained how, 

using mathematical modelling and a large amount of computer 

simulations, she tries to answer why the patterns of amino acid 

mutations are today different from those millions of years ago. 

It was a great pleasure to organise this new series of Colloquia. 

Along with the many people that came to the talks, I was delighted to 

realise that the people we meet everyday at Wolfson are doing 

remarkable work -I do not refer only to the speakers, but also to the 

people who attended the talks and actively participated by posing 

questions and initiating discussions both during and after each talk. 

Many thanks are also due to the College for their continuous support 

and encouragement. 


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Lupi 

Elton Barker, Elinor Payne, Francesca Tinti 

November 2003 saw the launch of ‘LUPI’, the Wolfson Network for the 

Humanities, an initiative aimed at nurturing an exchange of ideas, 

advice and support among scholars, researchers and students in the 

Humanities at Wolfson. A main motivation for forming ‘LUPI’ was the 

desire to break down barriers between students and senior members 

and so it was most encouraging to see such a wide range of people at 

the launch event. The party provided a good opportunity for people 

to meet in a pleasantly informal atmosphere (and we would like to 

thank the College for laying on such a delicious spread!). The launch 

event also coincided with the completion of the ‘LUPI’ Directory, a 

Who’s Who of people in the Humanities in Wolfson. This is a real 

testament to the breadth of interests and expertise in the College, and 

we strongly encourage all involved to make the most of this valuable 

Professor Robin Osborne leading the tour of Parthenon frieze 


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resource. Anyone who either does not have a copy or has not given 

their details and would like to, please get in touch with Francesca 

Tinti (ft213@cam.ac.uk). 

In January 2004 we had out first cultural activity, a tour of the 

Parthenon Frieze at the British Museum in London, led by Robin 

Osborne, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge. 

Professor Osborne gave a fascinating introduction about problems of 

interpretation – such as what the Frieze appears to be depicting and 

why it was originally displayed as a frieze running along the inner 

portion of the temple and thus obscured by outer columns – and the 

contemporary debate about the way it is presented by the British 

Museum. Afterwards he took us on a tour of the frieze and the 

metopes, concentrating on elucidating individual scenes, and 

questioned thoroughly by LUPI members! 

Future activities planned include a visit to the Kettles Yard Art 

Gallery in Cambridge, talks by Professor Peter Burke and Dame 

Professor Gillian Beer and another trip to London for a concert. We 

are also planning further social events, such as a wine-tasting 

evening. We welcome any ideas for events and participation in the 

organisation of these, particularly from students. 


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Wolfson Research Colloquium 

2002–04 

Cordula van Wyhe 

John Henderson 

The Wolfson Research Colloquium continued to be a great success 

with attendance very often well beyond the seating capacity of the 

Quiet Room or the Old Combination Room. We were pleased to see 

that the Colloquium not only has an extensive regular audience, but 

also has started to attract guests from other colleges and faculties. The 

Wolfson Research Colloquium is thus well on its way to establishing a 

University wide reputation. 

2003’s presentations were particularly exciting with topics ranging 

from history and literature to modern issues of cultural conservation. 

As a response to political events in the Lent and Easter term, the 

papers of the Colloquium focused on questions of war and terrorism 

in Europe’s recent past and present, nationhood and minority 

politics. All speakers succeeded in presenting their cutting-edge 

research in a lively and lucid way, so that even non-specialist 

members of the audience were soon involved in stimulating 

discussions of each paper. 

The Wolfson Research Colloquium certainly has become a valuable 

forum for the presentation of latest research. For PhD candidates and 

research fellows, in particular, the Colloquium is a testing ground for 

new ideas and presentation skills. This year visiting fellows and exmembers 

of the college also enriched the programme with their 

papers. In this way, the Colloquium helps to strengthen and preserve 

Wolfson’s relations to members who are not permanently involved in 

college life. 

The highlight of the programme for 2003/04 was the lecture on the 

“Implications of Iraq” by Tony Brenton (British Chargé d’Affaires in 

Washington during the Iraq war, British Ambassador designate to 

Russia) on 3 June. More than eighty people attended this lecture 

which took place in the Lee Hall. The presentation concluded a string 

of highly stimulating lectures as follows: 


Organisers and some of the speakers of the Research Colloquium 2003–04. From left to right: Annabel Keeler, Francesca Tinti, 

Cordula van Wyhe (Organizer), Hannelore Hägele, John Henderson (Organizer), Elinor Payne 

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Michaelmas Term 2002 

Francesca Tinti (Faculty of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) 

Relations between England and Rome in the early Middle Ages: the 

evidence from the papal letters 

Jon Walker (History Faculty) 

Spy, Photographer, Historian with reference to Venice 

John Henderson (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and 

Social Structure) 

Hospitals in Renaissance Florence 

James Davis (History Faculty) 

The Image of the Victualler in Medieval Literature 


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Lent Term 2003 

Olga Demetriou (Department of Anthropology) 

Social relations and radical politics among Turkish minority 

members in Greece 

Halleli Pinson (Faculty of Education) 

Constructing the relationship between citizenship and nationhood: 

perspectives of religious Jewish, secular Jewish and Palestinian- 

Arab students in Israel 

Jonathan Ashley-Smith (Victoria and Albert Museum) 

Sustainable Heritage: uncertainty and precaution. 

Li Chien-Hui (History Faculty) 

Selfish science and the sacrificial spirit of Christ: The movement 

against animal experimentation from 1870 to 1919 

Easter Term 2003 

Alan O’Leary (Department of Italian) 

Contesting memory/Contested spaces: Turin and terrorism in La 

seconda volta 

Donna Jackson (History Faculty) 

Votes and Vietnam: LBJ, the Tonkin Gulf and the 1964 Presidential 

Election 

Andrew Webster (History Faculty) 

A New Idea for Peace: The Pursuit of International Disarmament 

During the 1920s 

Michaelmas Term 2003 

Hannelore Hägele (History of Art) 

Polychromy-A Cultural Phenomenon 

Nigel Kettley (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) 

Gender, Stratification and Attainment in Further Education 

Colm Ó Cofaigh (Scott Polar Research Institute) 

Unravelling Past Ice-Sheet Behaviour in Antarctica: Insights From 

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Brigitte Bauer (Department of French and Italian, The University of 

Texas at Austin) 

Why do languages have vigesimals? 

Lent Term 2004 

Elinor Payne (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of 

Linguistics) 

Secret motifs: investigating language change 

Bill Lubenow (Stockton College, New Jersey) 

The Royal Society, the British Academy, and the Invention of ‘Two 

Cultures’ 

Don Wilson (Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College) 

Disease as a Terrorist Weapon – Responding to the Threat. 

Easter Term 2004 

Annabel Keeler (Faculty of Oriental Studies) 

Sufi Hermeneutics and a Plurality of Meanings in the Qur’an 

Gabriel Moshe Rosenbaum (Hebrew University Jerusalem) 

Football, Popular Culture and Literature in Egypt. 

Julia Poole (Fitzwilliam Museum) 

Ceramic figures – design, use, and meaning 

Tom d’Andrea (Department of Philosophy) 

Why We Need the Virtues 

The foundation of the Humanities Network of Wolfson College (LUPI) 

in the Michaelmas Term 2003 shows that the research culture of 

junior members is thriving. Thus, the Research Colloquium will 

continue to support and assist the exciting academic life at Wolfson 

College in years to come. 


Felix and Pigeons 

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Wolfson Drama Society 2002/03 

Mahesh Menon, Gregor Sutherland, Susi Gärtner and Neil Archer 

The drama society’s shenanigans began as usual in October. The 

enthusiastic recruitment campaign at the Wolfson freshers’ fair 

meant we had large numbers of people for the improvisations, and 

even more people regularly getting ‘spammed’ with email invitations 

to our Sunday evening sessions. 

Most of the Michaelmas term was spent doing improvisations and 

playing short theatre games, many shamelessly stolen from the 

television show ‘Whose line is it anyway?’. The purpose of these antics 

(contrary to popular belief), was not to scare the living daylights out 

of the uninitiated. Rather, it was hoped that getting people on stage, 

would help them feel comfortable about acting, improvising, or at 

least make them less embarrassed about doing silly things in front of 

others. 

As a fringe benefit, it afforded an opportunity to indulge in such 

joyous (if seemingly pointless) activities as acting out a scene in the 

style of an adverb of your choice, which provides a crucial lesson in 

grammar, and allows you to enjoy the surreal experience of watching 

three people act out a scene from a science fiction movie, in the style 

of ‘patronisingly’, while one unlucky and unknowing member has to 

guess the adverb. 

Towards the end of the 

Michaelmas term, we also 

began to consider different 

options for the play, which 

would be our tour-de-force 

at the end of the Lent term. 

After some debate and 

trying out different bits of 

various plays, we ended up 

with Neil Simon’s “The 

Odd Couple”. 

The comedy, which was 

directed by Mahesh 


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The Cast 

Menon, revolves around two friends – Oscar and Felix (Gregor 

Sutherland and Ken Kwek), who move in together after Felix is thrown 

out by his wife. However, things go hilariously wrong as Felix’s well 

meaning but obsessive tidiness, and quirky behaviour drive Oscar 

and his Friday night poker buddies (played by Neil Archer, Jan-Eric 

Stroh, Alex Wilson and Sally Wood) to despair. 

After the tough call of casting, we started rehearsing in January – 

perhaps later than would have been desirable. Many hours spent on 

stage giggling and fumbling through lines later, and the play was 

ready to go. However, there is a lot more to it than just the efforts of the 

people in front of the lights. Behind the scenes a production team 

dealt with the massive task of transforming the Lee Hall stage to an 

Upper East Side Manhattan apartment and students into jaded 

gamblers and ditzy Californian chicks (the Pigeon sisters, played by 

Emilie Frybarger and Anusha Mahalingam). 

While on stage Felix and Oscar fought their highly entertaining 

domestic battle, hidden from the audience’s eyes a bunch of zealous 

elves were invisibly (yet noticeably) scampering to and fro: Carmen 


Oscar 

Production Team 

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Kettley attended to costumes and make-up, while stage 

and set designers (Abhi Veerakumarasivam, Lisa Goh and 

Arne Morteani) made sure the right props were in the 

right place at the right time. The latter turned out to be a 

rather gastronomic affair, as behind the scenes food 

props were abounding in the form of sandwiches, crisps, 

cans of beer, coke and juices, all sorts of titbits and, not to 

forget, the plate of linguini that went flying across the 

stage every evening. Besides Felix’s notorious pots and 

pans, his ladle and room spray, the play also featured a lot 

of furniture plundered from all over the college, most 

prominent of all, the President’s wonderful yellow sofa! 

Other invisible helpers included poster-designer Philip 

Paul imported from St. Edmund’s, Frank Sobott as 

programme designer, as well as friends and actors who 

helped with the production of the play, all of whom combined to 

become a formidable production team under the lead of first-time 

producer, Susi Gärtner. 

The play was shown on four nights to audiences that filled the Lee 

Hall and who seemed to laugh in all the right places, and a few of the 

wrong places, like when Felix’s braces popped in perfectly 

unrehearsed and unexpected comedy style on the first night. 

Particular fun was to see how the cast found their character’s ‘voice’ as 


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Poker Players 

the run developed: Ken and Gregor bouncing lines off each other like 

a crazy tennis match; Alex as Speed growing more and more 

exasperated, or Jan-Eric’s concentration-threatening mania, inspired 

apparently by memories of his asthmatic dog. Despite the odd hiccup 

and imperfections each night’s audience seemed to leave entertained 

and satisfied, which is what we’d hoped for. The most rewarding 

aspect of the enterprise though was to have people come up 

afterwards and say, ‘hey, that was really great.’ Sometimes amusing 

your peers on stage is not so hard a task, but surprising them is a 

bonus. 

All in all, putting on a production at Wolfson proved to be an 

enjoyable and rewarding experience for all that took part, and it 

typified much of what Wolfson is and represents as a college – a 

diverse community of people working creatively together. 

and 2003–04 

Alex Wilson & Abhimanyu Veerkumarasivam 

It has been tradition for the Drama Society to produce a play annually. 

We are lucky to have a broad cross-section of people, contributing 

their many different talents and skills. It is therefore not surprising 

that the Wolfson Drama Society’s play has managed to produce 

quality plays that everyone enjoys and can relate to. In 2004 our 

Drama society tested the limits of its talents, by putting on the play 

‘London Suite’ by Neil Simon. This play tells four stories which all take 


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place in the same suite of a London hotel. The four stories included a 

cautionary tale of daylight robbery and deceit, a mother’s 

unforgettable romantic interlude, the poignant reunion of an 

estranged couple and the hilarious antics of the guests who lost their 

Wimbledon tickets. The attractiveness of this is that each story is 

different, both in humour and tone, providing a fast pace and a great 

deal of variety throughout. Although laced with Neil Simon’s typical 

humour, he still manages successfully to incorporate serious drama, 

portraying a wide variety of emotions into the play, giving the 

audience a rollercoaster ride, and keeping them on the edge of their 

seats. The play was put on over three consecutive nights in February, 

performed by a ten strong cast and supported by eight members of an 

enthusiastic production crew (see below). The long hours of sweat, 

blood and tears were all worth it in the end, the result being a very 

professional, polished performance. Over those three nights, the 

performances certainly satisfied the appetite of approximately 400 

people, who came to watch the show. The show also managed to 

attract a large outside audience, thanks to successful publicity and 

the growing reputation of the Wolfson amateur drama scene. The 

responses from the crowds were very energetic and enthusiastic, 

bringing this successful project to an end. The cast and production 

crew all thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We all hope that Wolfson 

Drama Society continues to thrive and evolve further as more talent 

and expertise pass through the College gates. 

Abhimanyu Veerkumarasivam (Producer) and Alex Wilson (Director) 


The Cast 

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Cast Production Team 

Act 1: Settling Accounts Producer 

Brian: Peretz Partensky Abhimanyu Veerkumarasivam 

Billy: Edward Mills 

Stage Manager & Designer 

Ulrich Paquet 

Act 2: Going Home 

Mother: Oakleigh Welply Light & Sound Engineer 

Lauren: Ilaria Accorsi Chris Neugebauer 

Act 3: Diana and Sidney Logistics 

Grace: Sally Wood Eamonn Long 

Diane: Rosena Khan 

Sidney: Gregor Sutherland Make-Up Artist 

Zara Shirwan 

Act 4: The Man on the Floor Prompter/Backstage Voice 

Mark: Gregor Sutherland Shalini Chopra 

Annie: Hebe Gouda 

Mrs Sitgood: Emma Heseltine Photographer 

Bellman: Edward Mills Philip Paul 

Doctor: Alex Wilson 

Programme Designer 

Directed by Frank Sobert 

Alex Wilson 


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Wolfson Arts Society (2002–2004) 

Asela Samaratunga and Sarah Jones 

The Wolfson Arts Society now meets every Sunday evening as it was 

found that this increased attendance. The weekly programme is very 

varied, initially with still life drawing using different settings to learn 

natural forms and perspective. Then Shechar Dworski introduced 

drawing of the ‘Mandala’ using a handbook of Mandalas so one could 

progress from a simple cross to its final complex form. We had 

Mandala workshops for two sessions followed by two free sessions. 

Next we tried calligraphy, having to buy a calligraphy handbook and 

the basic equipment of flat nib pens and ink. This session 

was a great success with our largest attendance. It is 

difficult to find time in a busy academic life for art and it 

requires much administration and constant cajoling by email. 

Changing the theme weekly made for greater interest. 

The annual Wolfson Arts Exhibition held in June is the 

focus of our activities; some members paint, others draw 

and not all at the society’s routine weekly meeting. The 

society has carried out art sessions in the outdoors which 

has its drawbacks as our first meeting in the Botanic 

Gardens was cancelled because of rain but the following 

week was sunny and much enjoyed with excellent drawing 

of the flora. 


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Later in the Easter term, exam and thesis writing and the academic 

pursuits curtailed the society’s activities but all members were invited 

to exhibit at the annual Exhibition. We had an enthusiastic response 

of over fifty works including oils, watercolours, acrylics, and 

photographs. In essence all the media were represented, making the 

exhibition a wonderful event. 

The Arts society would like to acknowledge all the support given by: 

the College staff, especially Wolfson Accommodation Officer, Marilyn 

Motley, Oliver Bowen for his help to arrange the exhibition room, Lee 

Library Librarian, Hilary Pattison, Wolfson College Students 

Association (formerly AMAL), Samuel Hussan and Hiro Omori for the 

support they have given to the society during the past year. Also 

special thanks to Stephen Rizzo and May Lee for their support. 

Further we appreciate invaluable support given by Uli Kraeling for the 

exhibition at the beginning. 

During 2003–04 the Art Society has met regularly, allowing 

members to pursue their own particular interests as well as to 

experiment with new media. We tried 

everything from watercolour and oil 

painting to more exotic activities such 

as ‘fully clothed’ life drawing and 

candle carving. At Christmas we even 

relived our childhoods; making 

Christmas cards with glitter, cotton 

wool and lots of glue! There are many 

memorable highlights of the year, such 

as: Asela deciding to draw his lunch as 

he was eating it and producing a 

wonderful life cycle of an apple entitled 

‘Life’; the discovery that oil painting is 

actually really easy and not as 

complicated as professional artists 

would have us believe; the discovery 

that calligraphy isn’t so easy and 

involves becoming covered in ink; and 

of course our Art Society trips to 

cheerlead Wolfson’s basketball team: 

Mamta took photos and photography is 

art! 

June 2004 saw us holding our annual 

exhibition. We decided to try 


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something new this time and joined forces with the Photography and 

Ikebana societies. The result was a very interesting and successful 

exhibition and all who were involved should feel very proud. 

Photographs of contributors’ work can be seen on our newly updated 

website: www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/students/artsoc/ 

This year I have a bike, so we are planning some sketching / 

painting trips to Grantchester and the Botanic Gardens. In true 

Famous Five style we shall be packing up sandwiches, and 

paintbrushes, and peddling off in search of suitable scenery, and 

everyone who wishes to join us is very welcome. 


Arbuda Film Society 

Neil Archer 

Sol Gyung-gu in Oasis, one of the films showcased by 

ARBUDA in 2003 

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2002–2003 was a benchmark year in Wolfson cinema culture, with 

three societies providing weekly showings: Hollywolf, WCC and 

Arbuda. A resident PhD student, though somewhat under the 

influence, was only partly exaggerating when he called it ‘the best rep 

cinema in the world!’ 

The intention behind Arbuda when it was set up in 2001 was to 

provide a weekly showcase for Asian film, forming an eastern 

supplement to the existing Hollywolf. The name – chosen by Honza 

Vihan, the society’s original founder – is that of a snake from Hindu 

mythology. I liked the fact that, when curled up, he looks like a roll of 

film: consequently it became the society’s logo. I also liked the 

meaning of his name in Sanskrit: ‘beautiful’. 

Why have an Asian film society? First and foremost, because I find 

that the machinery of publicity that dominates our cinematic culture 

tends to work against films that are either independently produced or 

not made in English. Mediocre western films will always take 

precedence over superior foreign fare; with the result that a whole 

area of cinematic experience and language often lies neglected by all 

but the initiated few. Arbuda was therefore conceived, in my view, as a 

cinematic rather than educational experiment. I am only too aware 

that the ‘World Cinema’ tag hangs round the neck of a lot of Asian 

film, but it’s always been my opinion that there is only good cinema 

and bad cinema, and that films of ‘ethnographic interest’ only stand 

up if they’re good into the bargain. This society was to reflect quality 

rather than obscurity. 

I felt then that in the first year of the society 

we concentrated too heavily on films from 

China and the Indian subcontinent. In the 

last academic year, our second, I wanted to 

expand the range to embrace a greater 

diversity of film industries, from the 


established (Japan, Hong Kong) to the 

emerging or unknown (South Korea,

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Thailand). The result was an unparalleled mix of brand new and 

classic Asian cinema, from the profound simplicity of Edward Yang’s A 

One and a Two to the wild physical comedy of Jackie Chan’s Police 

Story. 

That is not to say there wasn’t room at times for the topical or the 

academic. In October 2002 I introduced Joint Security Area, a Korean 

thriller focusing on the tensions between the North and the South, in 

light of the Sunshine policy of co-operation between the two Koreas. 

The film would go on to have a sinister relevance, with the prospect of 

a conflict to come in the North that would jeopardise the security of 

the whole peninsula. We were also able to show a brand new 

documentary – Wheel of Time – that explored the cultural Diaspora of 

Tibetan Buddhism, not only providing a prelude to the talk given in 

Wolfson by Kalsang Dorji, but providing a reminder of the constant 

but overlooked fate of a whole race and their way of life. And on the 

sunnier side of things, Sayaka Maeda provided one of Arbuda’s 

biggest audiences with an entertaining and enlightening 

introduction to the religious and cultural imagery of Hayao 

Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning Spirited Away. 

Arbuda was also in a privileged position to be able to show films 

either unreleased or still awaiting distribution. Festival screenings 

aside, Spirited Away, Hero and Oasis all received their unofficial UK 

premieres at Wolfson. For this I have to thank Prish Jumsai here in 

Cambridge, and Kim Jisun in Korea, who helped me to obtain copies 

of the films unavailable here in the UK. 

All things must pass, however, and after two years we had covered 

enough ground to call it a day. A film society has to be wary of getting 

stale or predictable. But maybe after this year off, with new films 

having been produced and a few more ideas in the bank, Arbuda 

might be back for another go. 


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Wolfson’s Roller-Coaster ride on the 

BBC’s University Challenge 

Programme 

Andrew Brown 

After an eight-year absence on British television screens, the popular 

quiz show, University Challenge was reintroduced in 1995 with the 

BBC’s Newsnight host, Jeremy Paxman, taking over from Bamber 

Gasgoine as presenter. During the nine subsequent years, Wolfson did 

not feature on any of the televised contests. This is not surprising, 

considering the relatively small size of our College, coupled with the 

fact that only twenty-eight of the three hundred or so candidate 

universities and colleges make it to the televised stages of the 

competition. Our situation is made even more difficult by the 

additional fact that whilst many of the questions are biased in favour 

of contestants who were raised in the UK, a considerable proportion 

of our students are from overseas countries. However, in spite of these 

difficulties, Wolfson became one of only five Cambridge Colleges to 

make it to the televised stages of the most recent series of the 

competition. 

Representing Wolfson were Chris Metcalfe, Will Billingsley, Rob 

Crampton and myself as team captain. Our opponents were the 

University of Sussex which is one of the nine universities or colleges 

that have won the competition twice during the forty year history of 

the programme. As Sussex were striving to be the first institution to 

claim three series victories, they unsurprisingly turned out to be 

formidable opponents. Indeed, when they raced to a sixty points to 

zero lead, we began to worry that we may suffer the kind of 

humiliating defeat that was infamously inflicted on New Hall by the 

University of Nottingham in 1998. However, following our rather 

shaky start, we managed to fight back and were actually ahead for the 

majority of the second half of the contest. But with only eight seconds 

remaining, Sussex went into a 140–135 point lead and, in so doing, just 

pipped us at the post. 

The drama, however, did not end at the point when the gong 

signalled the end of the contest. Whilst travelling back to Cambridge 

from the television studios in Manchester, Will became convinced 

that one of his answers to a question on vectors, which had been 


University Challenge Panel 

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deemed to be incorrect at the time, was in fact correct after all. If we 

had been awarded the five points for this particular bonus question, it 

would have meant that the contest would have been tied at 140–140 

and a tie-breaker question would have been necessary. I therefore 

decided to email the producer of the show the following day in order 

to ask him to investigate Will’s query. Three days later, the producer 

telephoned me to inform us that the question setter had actually 

agreed that we should indeed have been awarded the additional five 

points for the vector question. Our opponents and ourselves were 

then invited to return to the television studios the following month 

(when filming of the next round of the competition was due to take 

place) in order to take part in a tie-breaker question which would 

have settled the contest once and for all. As the producer’s intention 

was to edit the show in such a way that it would appear as though the 

tiebreaker question had taken place at the end of the original filming, 

we were asked to wear the same clothes as previously and not to 

change our hairstyles. 

Following the decision that a tie-breaker question was required, we 

were understandably delighted to be given a ‘second bite at the 

cherry’. However, euphoria turned to despair eight days later when I 

received a second telephone call to inform us that the producer had 

changed his mind and that we were not, after all, to be offered a tiebreaker 

question. The reason given was that although the question 

setter had decided that we deserved the points for the vector 

question, the show’s science ‘consultants’ had argued otherwise. 

When I subsequently asked several of Cambridge University’s experts 

in this area how they would have scored Will’s answer, the majority 

view was that the decision not to award us the five points had been an 

extremely harsh one. Our sense of injustice was further exacerbated 

by the fact that during the show, I 

had actually owned up to hearing 

one of our other answers 

whispered by a colleague (who 

temporarily forgot the rules under 

the intense pressure of the 

situation) even though the answer 

which I gave was actually the same 

as what I would have given had I 

not heard the whisper. Although 

Jeremy Paxman commended us for 

being so open and truthful about 


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the matter, he still chose not to award-us the ten points for this starter 

question and so instead of winning by a least five points, we ended up 

losing by five. 

Following the televised screening of the show on 17 November 

2003, I have been asked many times if I regret being completely 

honest about the above incident rather than lying or offering a 

deliberately vague, ambiguous or incomplete answer which would 

almost certainly have given us the victory. My answer to such 

suggestions is an emphatic ‘no!’ for the following reason. Although we 

ended up losing the match, our team and College have subsequently 

received much praise for conducting ourselves in the manner that we 

did. In addition to describing our handling of this incident as ‘very 

honourable’, Jeremy Paxman thanked us at the end of the show for 

giving the viewers a ‘good example of how to play the game’. Many 

people within the College, around Cambridge and throughout the 

country as a whole have offered similar comments. It may be worth 

considering the alternative for a moment. If I had not been 

completely honest and candid about this incident, our team would 

almost certainly have won the contest but a dark cloud of suspicion 

would probably have hung over our victory. This is because it became 

apparent after viewing the show that some whispering had been 

going on during that particular question. And so rather than ending 

up as honourable losers, we would have come out as winners – but 

winners with dubious moral credentials. Thus, when I reflect on our 

conduct during the match, it tends to reinforce my general view that it 

is better to lose with honour than to win without it. 

All in all, our University Challenge experience was extremely 

enjoyably, exciting, dramatic, truly unforgettable and one which I 

would unreservedly recommend to anyone who has the opportunity 

to give it a go. Speaking of which, because the rules state that anyone 

who has participated in one series of the show may not do so in any 

subsequent series, Wolfson will need four new team members for the 

2004–5 series. Please, therefore, be sure to email me at 

ab412@cam.ac.uk if you’re interested in representing Wolfson next 

time round! 


The Chancellor’s Centre 

H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh (Chancellor of Cambridge University) laid the foundation stone for the new Chancellor’s 

Centre at Wolfson on 3 February 2003 

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The Chancellor with members of the College. 

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The Chancellor’s Centre 

Topping Out Ceremony 18th December 2003 

In the basket, from left to right Cherry Picker Operator, Professor Mike Gregory, Institute for Manufacturing, 

Miss Judith Portrait, Gatsby Foundation and Dr Gordon Johnson, President of Wolfson 

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Blues 2002/04 

Basketball 

Andrew Dougherty (Full Blue) 

Efthymios Sipetzis (Half Blue) 

Women’s Basketball 

Agathe Devaux (Half Blue) 

Margaret Martin (Half Blue) (2002‒03) 

Margaret Martin (Half Blue) (2003–04) 

Ingrid Staudenmeyer (Full Blue) 

Boxing 

Vasilis Sarafidis 

Golf 

Kenneth Hannah (Full Blue) 

Hockey 

Marie-Louise Daly (Full Blue) 

Life Saving 

Sian Clement (Full Blue) 2002–03 

Sian Clement (Half Blue) 2003–04 

Ice Hockey 

Andrew Ashcroft (Full Blue) 

Alexandre Cloutier 

Women’s Ice Hocky 

Sian Clement (Half Blue) 

Windsurfing 

Alexis Rideau (Half-Blue) 


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Wolfson College Boat Club 2002–2003 

Kate Shipman 

WCBC Captain of Boats 2002–2003 

Michaelmas Term 

The new academic year saw another sixty students sign up to learn how 

to row – some aspiring to emulate Steve Redgrave, others because it’s a 

quintessential Cambridge sport and it has to be experienced, and a few 

because it was the easiest way to escape the blue and gold press gang. 

A few early morning wake-up calls, cold wet weather and blistered 

hands saw a quick reduction in keenness, and coupled with some new 

restrictive rules on novice outings, we managed to put together three 

novice crews (two men’s and one ladies’). An award for perseverance 

should go to Frank and the three members of the third men’s VIII, who 

kept interested in rowing despite their outings being cancelled every 

single time because of the weather. A new lightweight Tub pair, bought 

by the Friends, saw frequent use both by novices and seniors, and 

brought up the standard of rowing considerably. 

Crews competed in the Queens’ Ergo competition (with Adam 

Pletts achieving fastest individual time in his category) and the 

Fairbairn Cup, where an “old-boys” IV were placed an excellent sixth. 

In the Clare Novice Regatta, Wolfson Ladies went out to the eventual 

winners. In the Men’s Plate competition Wolfson won by a generous 

margin in the first round, and were drawn against eventual finalists, 

Christ’s in the next, but a couple of crabs meant they were pipped to 

the post by the narrowest of margins. 

Lent Term 

Pre-bumps Races 

The newly-selected senior crews entered several races during the 

term. The men performed well in the Spring Head to Head, the 

Newnham short course and the Robinson Head, whilst the ladies won 

the first round of the Pembroke Regatta in understated style, only to 

have to scratch from the rest of the competition because of injury, 

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Mike Hurley, 2nd Men’s Lent’s VIII 2003 Faith Johnson 

Lent Bumps, 25th February – 1st March 2003 

First Ladies’ Lents VIII (Boat: Tom, Dick & Barry) 

Bow: Ally Shipley 5: Natalya Knish 

2: Lisa Marlow 6: Dani Sahlender 

3: Lynsey Russell-Watts (Newnham) 7: Karen Day 

4: Danielle Hinton Stroke: Julia Horn 

Cox: Tom Hardcastle (LMBC) Sub: Shelley Rhodes 

Coaches: Chris Ellson, Karen Day, Uli Kraeling 

Two rowovers then bumped by New Hall II and Newnham II 

First Men’s Lents VIII (Boat: The Black Horse) 

Bow: Soren Brage 5: Matt Hutchinson 

2: Adam Pletts 6: Uli Kraeling 

3: Mathew Peet 7: Stephen Livermore 

4: Stephen Jull Stroke: Rusty Japikse 

Cox: Christopher Kelly (Robinson) 

Coach: Eric Kerrigan 

Rowover, bumped by Queens’ II, technical bump by Churchill II (did 

not start), bumped Churchill II back. 

Second Men’s Lents VIII (Boat: Sally Williams) 

Bow: Mike Hurley 5: Arnar Jonsson 

2: Nick Cutler 6: Andy Troup 


Chris Ellson with 2nd Men’s, Faith Johnson 

Lent Bumps 2003 

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3: Gregor Sutherland 7: Frank Sobott 

4: Will Bond Stroke: Francisco del Rey 

Cox: Helen Morrogh- Chamorro 

Bernard 

Coach: Chris Ellson 

Bumped LMBC IV, St Catherine’s III, Christ’s III, rowover. 

Third Men’s Lents VIII (Boat: Ronan) 

Bow: Jonathan Coe 5: Paris Karakitsos 

2: Jan Eric Stroh 6: Jerome Gallacher 

3: Jay Reddy 7: Jules Korsten 

4: Evan Nacke Stroke: Edmund Oh 

Cox: Anna Cestari 

Coaches: Alex Wilson, Stephanie Rehkuh 

The first time a Third Men’s crew have entered for the bumps! They 

had to compete for one of only seven places available, and 

unfortunately missed out by a small margin. Perhaps next year… 

Post-bumps Races 

The First Men made their annual pilgrimage to the Thames to enter the 

Head of the River Race on a grey day in March. It is held on the same 

course as the Varsity Boat Race, but in the opposite direction. Although 

crews start in single file, at some points over the 4.5 mile race, there may 

be as many as ten boats abreast, all overtaking at different speeds – a far 

cry from the Cam, where in places it’s hard to fit two VIIIs. Over 400 

crews competed, and the Wolfson boat finished 18th in their category. 

Easter Term 

Three crews entered the 2.6km Head of the Cam on 3rd May, with the 

First Men placed 6th, the Second Men 4th and the First Ladies 7th in 

their respective divisions. The ladies improved to 5th in the 2 x 2.6km 

Head to Head the following weekend. 

May Bumps, 12th – 15th June 2003 

First Ladies’ Mays VIII (Boat: Tom, Dick & Barry) 

Bow: Ally Shipley 5: Lis Watson 

2: Lisa Marlow (Capt) 6: Ronnie Roberts 


First Men’s May’s VIII 2003 ©Jet 

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3: Lisa Goh 7: Sam Woods 

4: Dani Sahlender Stroke: Julia Horn 

Cox: Hayley Fisher (LMBC) 

Coaches: Adrian Boyle, Karen Day, Chris Ellson, Stephen Jull, Nick 

Cutler, Jason Brown, Uli Kraeling, Eric Kerrigan 

Bumped Homerton on Day 2 and three gutsy rowovers, crossing the 

finishing line with overlap for the bump on day 4. 

First Men’s Mays VIII (Boat: The Black Horse) 

Bow: Soren Brage 5: Matt Hutchinson 

2: Rusty Japikse (Capt) 6: Uli Kraeling 


4: Arnar Jonsson Stroke: Stephen Jull 

Cox: Christopher Kelly (Robinson) 

Coach: Eric Kerrigan 

Bumped by LMBC II on day 2 and three rowovers. Every day though, 

Wolfson closed on the boat ahead, before they bumped out leaving 

nobody to chase – it could so easily have been blades… 


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Second Men’s Mays VIII (Boat: Sally Williams) 

Bow: Arne Morteani 5: Jules Korsten 

2: Will Bond 6: Francisco del Rey Chamorro 

3: Jerome Gallacher 7: Mike Hurley 

4: Andy Troup Stroke: Nick Cutler (Capt) 

Cox: Helen Morrogh-Bernard 

Coach: Chris Ellson, Saeema Ahmed 

Bumped by Hughes Hall, CCAT II and Selwyn III. 

Third Men’s Mays VIII (Boat: Ronan) 

Bow: Edmund Oh 5: Paul Coleman 

2: Paris Karakitsos 6: Jay Reddy 

3: Jan Eric Stroh 7: Jonathan Coe (Capt) 

4: Wu Yap Stroke: Evan Nacke 

Cox: Anne Dye (Trinity Hall) 

Coaches: Lisa Marlow, Frank Sobott, Mike Rose 

Bumped by St Edmund’s II, Peterhouse III and Emmanuel V. 

Following the success of last year, Wolfson First Men and Ladies 

consolidated their positions in Division 2. The second and third men 

were unlucky, but there’s always next year… Wolfson Third Men 

would especially like to extend their thanks to Tom from 1st &3rd, who 

swam across the river on day one to pull them off the bank, where an 

over-keen Eddie’s crew had ensured they were well and truly stuck! 

The 2.6km X-Press Head, June 17th 

This was to be the date for the first clash between Wolfson Cambridge 

and Wolfson Oxford for the coveted Wolfson Seat, complete with 

planned guest appearances from Linacre and Darwin. Unfortunately 

as the date grew nearer, the opposition grew quieter, so we will have to 

wait another year for the showdown. Wolfson entered a scratch Men’s 

VIII, with rowers drawn from all three Mays crews, and a mixed IV 

with Corpus. Both crews won their categories, with t-shirts and beer 

all round. 

Summer Rowing 

Undergraduate Colleges empty over the summer, leaving the river 

clear for other crews. The new captains have already started the 

preparations for next year, with novice crews out training in the 


sunshine, blue and gold blades flashing through the water. Some of 

the more experienced rowers have also been spotted in town crews, as 

they took part in Town Bumps with varying success. 

Lisa Goh, Lisa Marlow, Karen Day and Julia Horn entered a Ladies’ 

IV into the St. Neots Regatta on 26th July, winning through to the 

second round against stiff competition. 

Preparations are underway to send two crews to the Boston 

Marathon in September – a 31-mile, 4-hour long race. I’m sorry, did 

someone say summer rowing was supposed to be relaxing fun? 

Men’s First Boat June 2003 ©Jet 

Ladies May Races 2003 ©Jet 

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Wolfson College Boat Club 2003–2004 

Lisa Goh 

WCBC Captain of Boats 2003–2004 

2003–2004 was a year of triumphs and disappointments, with both 

blades and spoons awarded, but the year finished with strong crews, 

several potential Blues trialists, and looked promising for future 

years. We hope that everyone involved enjoyed this year’s sense of cooperation 

and community spirit within the boat club. The sense of 

openness, friendship, and commitment kept many people rowing 

and allowed Wolfson to put together five crews for both Lent and May 

Bumps. 

Michaelmas Term 

Fresh off the success of the fresher’s fair, which involved a prize for 

fastest erg scores and drew a number of new recruits to the boat club, 

Wolfson was able to enter five novice crews in Fairbairns, which ran 

December 4–5: three novice men’s crews and two novice ladies’ crews. 

There were numerous promising rowers, with several men and 

women making the first boats by Lent term. The second women’s 

novice crew was awarded University / Jesus blades for winning their 

division. We also fielded one of the strongest senior women’s VIIIs in 

recent years, placing 12th. Wolfson also had great success in the 

Queens’ Ergo Competition, with the women making it to the finals. 

Lent Bumps 

February 24–28, 2004 

Wolfson first boats had a great showing in Lents, with the first men 

getting blades and the first women going up two places. The second 

men suffered from the misfortune of being surrounded by strong 

crews, and were bumped by two crews on their way to blades. The 

third men and second women both put in strong showings in the 

getting-on races, but failed to qualify. 


2nd Ladies’ Mays VIII with Ophelia looking on 2004 Faith Johnson 

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First Men Lents VIII (Boat: The Black Horse) 

Bow: Andy Troup 7: Mathew Peet 

2: Maxim Littek 6: Evan Nacke 

3: Ivan Tsanev 5: Gerhard Hancke 

4: Mike Hurley Stroke: Stephen Jull 

Cox: Lisa Goh 

Coach: Dr Tom Davies 

Bumped: Christ’s III, Emmanuel II, Corpus Christi, and Jesus II. 

Blades were awarded. 

First Ladies’ Lents VIII (Boat: Tom, Dick & Barry) 

Bow: Livia Keller 5: Emily Manning 

2: Lisa Marlow 6: Julia Horn 

3: Tamsin Blyth 7: Lis Watson 

4: Amelia Dunlop Stroke: Bronwen James 

Cox: Dom Summers 

Coaches: Adrian Boyle, Chris Ellson 

Bumped New Hall II and LMBC II. 

May Bumps 

June 9–12, 2004 

Successful getting-on races for the third men and second women 

meant that Wolfson had five crews entered in the bumps for the first 

time in recent memory. A strong first men’s crew went up two places, 


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while the first women held position in a field of strong boats. The 

second men were the success story, bumping up three positions, back 

up into the fourth division. Wolfson’s first women, and first and second 

men are all at their highest-ever position in May bumps. The third men 

and second women were bumped by stacked crews around them, with 

the second women also rowing over four times due to being the 

sandwich boat. The end of May Bumps also marked the retirement of 

the (old) Sally Williams, which had proved to be a workhorse boat 

throughout the years. With the purchase of a new boat for the first 

men, the Black Horse will now be used by the second men. 

First Men Mays VIII (Boat: The Black Horse) 

Bow: John Prendergast 5: Gerhard Hancke 

2: Rusty Japikse 6: Evan Nacke 


4: Maxim Littek Stroke: Stephen Jull 

Cox: Joanna Mulvaney 

Coach: Dr Tom Davies 

Bumped Emmanuel II and LMBC II. 

First Ladies’ Mays VIII (Boat: Tom, Dick & Barry) 

Bow: Lisa Goh 5: Emily Manning 

2: Lisa Marlow 6: Gail Hayward 

3: Amelia Dunlop 7: Bronwen James 

4: Kate Franko Stroke: Julia Horn 

Cox: Alison Shipley 

Coaches: Adrian Boyle, Chris Ellson 

Bumped Caius II and bumped by Pembroke II. 

Second Men Mays VIII (Boat: Sally Williams) 

Bow: Jason Harriman 5: Antonio Alberola-Catalan 

2: Chris Henderson 6: Gregor Sutherland 

3: Rex Hughes 7: Andrew Tate 

4: Andrew Krivak Stroke: Frank Sobott 

Cox: Josephine Miller 

Coach: Chris Ellson, Lisa Goh 

Bumped Jesus IV, Girton III, Corpus II 


Wolfson Bank Party May Bumps 2004 Faith Johnson 

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Second Ladies’ Mays VIII (Boat: Hippolyta) 

Bow: Alison Shipley 5: Gabrielle Robilliard 

2: Janet Gibson 6: May Lee 

3: Elena Hristova 7: Gabriella Rustici 

4: Tamsin Blyth Stroke: Karen Anderson 

Cox: Nina Banerjee 

Coaches: Jason Brown, Chris Ellson, Mike Hurley 

Bumped by Queens’ III and Magdalene III. 

Third Men Mays VIII (Boat: Ronan) 

Bow: Andy Troup 5: Mark Blumenthal 

2: Soren Brage 6: Havaard Halland 

3: Hussein Mehanna 7: Francisco del-Rey-Chamorro 

4: Dom Summers Stroke: Mike Hurley 

Cox: Julia Horn 

Overbumped by Queens’ IV and bumped by Queens’ V. Spoons were 

awarded (much to the chagrin of the rowers and to the amusement of 

the rest of the boat club) 

Beyond Baitsbite:Venturing outside Cambridge waters 

A women’s summer IV entered St Neot’s regatta in July 2003, making it 

into the second round. The first men entered the Head of the River 


Wolfson Bank Party May Bumps 2004 Faith Johnson 

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Race in London on March 20, but the race was cancelled due to high 

winds, which made for unsafe rowing conditions. The first women 

also competed off the Cam at the Bedford Regatta in February. 

This year’s novices got a chance to row beyond Baitsbite lock in 

December by doing a fundraising row to the Bottisham lock and back, 

past Clayhite, in support of two Cambridge men rowing across the 

Atlantic. Two full VIIIs rowed the entire distance, taking turns at 

coxing duties. During the Easter vacation, Wolfson ventured further, 

rowing all the way to Ely and back, to raise funds for a new boat. One 

crew rowed upstream and another back to Cambridge, encountering 

a variety of weather conditions along the way. This effort supported 

one of our current priorities, which is to support the boat club 

financially through fundraising events. Events such as these help to 

renew our fleet of boats for future generations of rowers, and we hope 

that these efforts will continue in the future. To read more and see 

pictures of the boat club’s activities, please visit our web page at 

http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/students/BoatClub/ 


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2003–2004 Boat Club Committee: 

Boat Club Captain: Andy Troup 

Men’s Captain: Mike Hurley 

Women’s Captain: Lisa Goh 

Novice Captains: Evan Nacke, Lis Watson and Alison Shipley 

Secretary and Webmaster: Mathew Peet 

Junior Treasurer and Kit Officer: Stephen Jull 

Social Secretary: Frank Sobott 

Thanks go to the College, the Wolfson College Students’ Society 

(formerly AMAL) and particularly the Friends of Wolfson College Boat 

Club for their continuing support. As well as the new tub, this year 

saw the arrival of a new wooden VIII for the Novice Ladies (to be 

renamed Hippolyta, after the Queen of the Amazons.) Lent term also 

saw the purchase of three slides to fit the ergometers in the gym. 

These allow the machines to be fitted together, simulating the feel of 

the boat, so two rowers can work on their technique and timing. Land 

training became suddenly more popular following their introduction 

– let’s hope the novelty doesn’t wear off too soon! 

You can find out more about the Boat Club – its history, current 

members, races entered and a wealth of pictures – on the website at 

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/students/BoatClub/. If you are interested in 

joining the Friends, you can find information there, or contact Tom 

Davies at Wolfson College, email: twd10@cam.ac.uk 

Help us to realise the dream: Wolfson Headship 2010. 

Boat Club Committee 2003/04 Eaden Lilley 

l-r standing: Evan Nacke, Frank Sobott, Mike Hurley, Stephen Jull, Andy Troup, Matthew Peet, 

l-r seated: Kate Shipman, Lisa Goh, Elisabeth Watson 


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Boston to Lincoln Marathon 50km 

Race 

Julia Horn 

Mike Hurley, Frank Sobott , 

Andy Troup, Saeema Ahmed, 

Julia Horn, Lisa Marlow and 

Karen Day. 

Photo ©Cambridge Evening News 

Both the men’s and the women’s coxed fours from Wolfson are proud 

to have completed the Boston Marathon 50km race. 

The weather seemed promising first thing as the women’s boat left 

Lincoln at 10am, but after the first 9 km we found ourselves rowing 

into a head wind which stayed with us for most of the next 25km, and 

then came and went for the end section. These conditions affected all 

crews competing that day and so the men’s four also encountered 

these winds when they set off two hours later just before midday. 

Anyone who has rowed down the reach in a head wind I hope will 

sympathise for both crews for carrying on in these winds! As a 

consequence, all results are sharply down this year, with only 7 crews 

completing in under 4 hours, compared with 36 last year, and with a 

higher number of competitors than usual retiring before completion. 

With this caveat, be proud that the men’s four finished in 5hrs 12 

minutes and 56 seconds, and the women’s four finished in 5hrs 48 

minutes and 58 seconds. These times are probably at least 45 

minutes slower than they might have been on a calm day. 

We could not have competed either without our coxes, 

Karen and Kate, and thanks must go to them for braving it 

out for so long in a teeny tiny space with nothing but 

grimacing rowers to look at. Many thanks also to all who 

helped out in one way or another: Chris for coaching, Paco, 

Mikey for coaching and coxing, Adrian for a coaching 

masterclass, those who subbed for the men, and probably 

many more. 

We have raised £1210.94 for East Anglia’s Children’s 

Hospices. Thanks to all who have donated money. It 

certainly made the painful sections more manageable! 

Womens IV: Julia Horn, Lisa Marlow, Lis Watson, Saeema 

Ahmed, Cox: Karen Day. 

Mens IV: Mike Hurley, Andy Troup, Frank Sobott, 

Mathew Peet, Cox: Kate Shipman. 


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Ski and Snowboard Society 

Rosie Akester 

The society was formed in March 2003, and was officially launched 

during Freshers’ week in October. Our aims are to run a yearly 

affordable and fun ski & snowboard trip for all abilities; to open up the 

sports to a wide range of Wolfson members by holding race nights and 

socials in Cambridge; and finally, take trips to dry ski slopes and snow 

domes in the area, providing access to ski-ing sessions and lessons. 

We will be affiliated to the British Ski Club, providing various benefits 

to all the members. Members of a high standard will be encouraged to 

compete where possible. 

So far our activities have involved the organisation of the ski trip, 

which is a joint venture with St Edmunds College, to allow increased 

numbers. Trips to ski slopes in the UK commenced in the Michaelmas 

Term. 


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A Unique piece of Hockey Heritage: 

Life as a Cambridge Captain 

Andrew Ashcroft 

Being amongst the first group of Gates Scholars in 2001 was the 

greatest thrill of my academic career, allowing me to study as a PhD 

student at Wolfson. While it was obvious upon my arrival that 

studying at Cambridge would provide me with many academic 

opportunities, I had no idea that something non-academic would 

define my time as a member of the University. 

As a member and Captain of the Cambridge University Ice Hockey 

Club (CUIHC), I have taken part in one of the most storied rivalries in 

existence. Most people are shocked to hear that Cambridge and 

Oxford have been playing ice hockey against each other for more than 

100 years. With the first encounter in 1885, the Hockey Hall of Fame in 

Toronto, Canada, recognises the Cambridge-Oxford Varsity Match 

(VM) as the longest running ice hockey challenge match in history. 

The rivalry is honoured with an exhibit containing memories from 

the 85 matches that have been played over the years. Most recently, 

the HHOF was pleased to add one of the oldest trophies in the world 

to the exhibit after the 1910Varsity Match was returned to the team in 

the summer of 2002 after being misplaced during the First World War. 

Thanks to a grant from Wolfson College, I travelled to Toronto last 

summer to take part in a wonderful ceremony that brought together 

more than 70 years of alumni from both Cambridge and Oxford. 

Having caught the interest of the Canadian National media, the 

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation filmed the entire event and 

recently spent a week in the UK filming a documentary on the 

rivalry entitled “Hockey Night in England”. 

What is it about the Cambridge vs. Oxford rivalry that is so 

special? With the history between the two universities, it is not 

difficult to comprehend how even the friendliest of events can 

evolve into a grudge match. I must admit however, that I did not 

fully understand the rivalry until I participated in my first Varsity 

Match in 2001. The noise in the arena was deafening, but what 

can you expect from a sold-out crowd of screaming students? 

With the closest ice rink more than an hour away, something 


Andrew Ashcroft (left) 

presenting the 1910 

Varsity Ice Hockey Match 

Trophy for exhibit in the 

Hockey Hall of Fame in 

Toronto. 

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certainly entices a group of dedicated students to spend the 

twilight hours travelling to and from games and practices or 

rising at the crack of dawn to perform sprints on Parker’s Piece. 

Perhaps it is the annual weeklong Swiss training camp when the 

team returns to the site of the original Varsity Matches, or all the 

good times along the way. One thing for certain, it is the rivalry 

that fuels the burning desire to succeed. Four years on, I’ve had 

the wonderful opportunity to face Oxford 4 times, the last 3 as 

Cambridge Captain. Following victories in 2001 and 2002, defeat 

in 2003 was like no other feeling I had ever experienced. Some 

say that it is unfortunate that the success of a season rests on the 

outcome of a single game; then again, it is only unfortunate when 

you lose. Cambridge’s 5-1 victory in the 2004VM, my final match 

in a Cambridge jersey, was the icing on the cake. It certainly put my 

four years as a student athlete into perspective – 3Varsity Match 

victories, 2 Cambridge Varsity Match Man of the Match awards, 1 

Game MVP, and enough friends and memories to last a lifetime. 

One of the perks of being part of something so special is that it 

provides opportunities to give back to the game. Every fortnight, a 

group of Cambridge players travel to the Alexandra Palace Ice Rink in 

London to participate as instructors with the UK Ice Cats. The 

London based charity, thanks in part to a grant from the University of 

Cambridge and the dedication of Cambridge Ice Hockey players, is 

working to provide girls and boys from low-income neighbourhoods 

in London with the opportunity to learn how to play ice hockey in a 

fun and encouraging environment. In addition to providing access to 

the sport, the Ice Cats aim to encourage the development of 

character, self-esteem, and confidence. The Ice Cats recently 

participated in their first organised scrimmage in between periods at 

the 2004 Men’s and Women’s Varsity Matches in Oxford. In its first 

year, the tradition has a long way to go before it compares to the main 

match. However, due to the smiles on people’s faces, there is no doubt 

in my mind that this partnership will continue for years to come. 

If I have learned but one thing as a member of the CUIHC – where 

there is ice, there is a way. 


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Lawn Tennis at Wolfson 

Karan Kumar 

2003 saw the revival of tennis in the College with the formation of the 

Wolfson College Lawn Tennis Association (WLTA). The society 

promotes the sport within the College as well as organising matches 

against other colleges in the League and Cupper’s tournaments, 

making use of Wolfson’s extensive tennis facilities such as the court on 

the East side of the campus. The society was set up with Karan “KK” 

Kumar taking up the role of President, Prabhu Narasimhan that of 

Secretary, and Henning Ringholz and Orlando Johnson as members 

of the Tournament Committee. 

The society started off with inaugural singles, doubles and 

beginners tournaments held during the Lent and Easter terms. All 

were outstanding successes with a large number of participants from 

throughout the Wolfson tennis playing community. Alongside the 

amusement the doubles games had to offer, the tournaments helped 

the selection process of the players to represent the College in 

competing against others in inter-college League and Cuppers 

games. Enthusiasm for the sport was apparent from the beginning as 

the sheer number of interested players meant that two teams of 6 

players each were set up. As this was the first time in quite a few years 

that the college had put forward any team whatsoever, both had to 

start in the lowest (5th) division. 

The division comprised of teams from 

Girton, Kings, St. Johns and Wolfson. The 

format of the league matches was of 

three singles and three doubles games, 

to be played against each of the other 

teams in the division. The race to 

winning the division and grabbing one 

of the two promotion spots meant some 

really good tennis from all players. As a 

result, competition in all games was 

fierce, as there was little margin for error 

l-r: Hiro Omori, Adriana Duque, Eric Jensen, Marco Iamoni 

to make it in the top two. 


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For Wolfson’s highest placed team (cunningly named ‘Wolfson II’) 

the League competition ended victoriously, as they beat Girton to the 

top spot by a single point. This was achieved by whitewash victories 

yielding maximum points in the final two matches, which came hot 

on the heels of a particularly tempestuous and hostile match against 

then division leaders, Girton. In the face of severe provocation and 

questionable sporting ethics, Wolfson II kept their heads and 

composure to emerge with both the moral and Division victories. 

Congratulations to the players, Carolos, Diego, Orlando, KK, 

Margaret, Prabhu, Chris, Carlos and Henning. 

Meanwhile, the Wolfson First Team, had some fun whilst securing 

fourth place in the division, just behind Kings. The team saw 

appearances by Neil, Anna, Adriana, Gino, Magui, Rex, Marco, Eric, 

and Hiro. 

Whilst rumour may suggest otherwise, nightfall meant that 

inevitably, the regulars on the Wolfson tennis court were unable to 

play for twenty four hours in every day. However, this afforded the 

opportunity for a couple of social gatherings during the course of the 

season, culminating in a barbecue to mark the successes of WLTA’s 

inaugural year. It was a great year for tennis at Wolfson, thanks to 

everyone who organised, participated and got involved in the 

activities and games. Long may it continue! 

Wolfson Lawn Tennis Team Barbecue in the President's Lodge garden 

l-r front row: Adriana Duque, Anna Collar, 'KK' (Karan Kumar), Orlando Johnson 

l-r middle row: Rex Hughes, Hiro Omori, Steve Mann 

l-r back row: Marco Iamoni,Neil Archer, Prabhu Narasimhan 


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Wolfson College win Cambridge 

MCR Football Silver Plate 

Eamonn Long 

This year, the Wolfson College football team won the MCR silver plate: 

a prestigious graduate football competition. Wolfson overcame the 

skill of St. Edmunds and the tenacity of King’s along the way to final, 

where they met a combined team from Pembroke and Hughes Hall. In 

a tough and gruelling encounter, Wolfson won 2–0 to claim the plate 

for the first time in convincing fashion. It seems that more honours 

may await next year. 

2003 Successful Soccer Team 

Back row l-r: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Eamonn Long, Orlando Johnson, Jan-Eroc Ströh, Dylan 

Sutherland, Paul Guest 

Front row l-r: Ignacio Escribano, Gustavo Niz, Itzam De-Gorturi, Pana, Medhat Amin 


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Wolfson Cricket 2002–2003 

Todd Bridgman 

2003 was another memorable year for Wolfson Cricket. The goals for 

the season were to grow the player base, to defend our title as MCR 

League Champions and to do our best in the highly competitive 

Cuppers Knockout. And of course, we were going to have plenty of fun 

along the way. 

The 2002 season was always going to be a tough act to follow. We 

were without our star performer of last year, Sajeev Asok and the 

timing of the season (May and June) meant many of our leading 

performers from last year were focussing on their final exams. 

Thanks to a successful recruitment drive at the societies fair in 

October and an increase in funding from AMAL, we were able to start 

indoor training in November. There was never a shortage of 

enthusiasm shown at practice, illustrated by the regular trips made to 

the Addenbrokes accident and emergency department. Luckily, no 

permanent damage was done, so by the time the season proper 

started in late April we were raring to go. 

Following a Wolfson v Wolfson match where all 22 squad members 

were able to show their talents, we played friendly matches against 

Corpus Christi and Peterhouse as a warm-up for Cuppers. While both 

matches resulted in narrow defeat, we knew we could compete with 

the best of Cambridge’s more established cricket colleges. 

Our first round opponents in the Cuppers were Churchill. 

Nadun Alwis led the way with 39 runs and we posted a 

competitive total of 130 for 5 from our 20 overs. Churchill batted 

aggressively in reply but a middle order collapse had them 

teetering at 109 for 7. With plenty of overs remaining, the Churchill 

batsmen seemed satisfied to slowly crawl to the target, and it 

appeared that they would do so. In what can only be considered 

one of the tensest overs you are likely to see on a cricket pitch in 

Cambridge, Christy Williams took two wickets with his first two 

balls to bring their last man to the crease. Unfortunately their 

batsmen managed to pierce the field to bring the scores even, 

before doing so again on the last ball of the over to give Churchill a 

winning total of 134 for 9. It was a tough defeat to stomach. 


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With our Cuppers chance gone, we turned our attention to the 

MCR League. Our first match against Downing brought the long 

awaited first win of the season. After being sent in to bat we posted a 

very healthy 157 for 5 off our 20 overs, with Todd Bridgman top scoring 

with 51 retired. The game was all but over after 10 overs of the Downing 

innings following some tight bowling from Steve Mann and Prabhu 

Narasimhan. Although no wickets were taken, Downing were left 

needing 100 off the last 10 overs. Danny Dawson recovered from a 

horror first over which cost 14 runs, to rip through the Downing 

batting, taking a rare 5 wicket bag and finishing with 5–28. 

Our next match against Magdalene MCR was won by a massive 

margin of 92 runs. Nadun and Simon Husson dominated the bowling 

and were both retired after reaching their 50s. Despite a comedy of 

errors by the remaining batsmen, we finished with a very healthy 170 

for 6 off the 20 overs. This was never a total Magdalene were going to 

seriously challenge, and they ended at 78 for 8. The wickets were 

shared amongst the six bowlers, with Steve having the best figures 

of 2–10. 

After the ease of the Magdalene win and 

our batsmen nearing top-form, we entered 

our next league match against St Edmunds in 

confident mood. However, what should have 

been a comfortable victory ended in our first 

MCR league defeat in two years. Inexplicably, 

we were bowled out for 73, made worse by 

the fact we only batted for 15 of the allocated 

20 overs. We were determined to put things 

right in our next match against Trinity. We 

welcomed Varun Khanna back to the team, one of our best bowlers 

from last season who had been previously unavailable due to study 

commitments. Varun who got back into the ‘swing’ of things quickly 

and picked up figures of 4–17 from his 5 overs of outswing bowling. 

Trinity were restricted to 77 and the game was won with ease. 

Entering the final round-robin match against the highly ranked 

Gonville & Caius, we needed a win to secure a semi-final spot. Caius 

won the toss and batted first on an excellent batting pitch, but we 

never gave them a chance to score freely, thanks to a testing opening 

spell by Varun. Danny let the pressure off by conceding 8 runs off his 

first over, and it would have been no surprise if captain Steve had 

taken him off. Thankfully, he didn’t, because in his next four overs 

Danny took 6–6, including a hat-trick. His final figures of 6–14 is, 

according to our records, the best ever bowling figures for Wolfson. 


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Caius were dismissed for 74 and we knocked off the total for the loss of 

3 wickets, thanks to 41 not out from Andrew Counsell. 

Victory against Caius meant we topped our group and proceeded 

to the semi-finals to meet Clare/Clare Hall. They batted first and 

posted a challenging 130 for 4 wickets off their 20 overs, but with a 

good pitch for batting and a fast outfield we knew we had a good 

chance. Nadun and Todd opened the batting and caused anxiety in 

the dressing room by not scoring a run until the third over. Slowly they 

increased the tempo and their century opening stand (Nadun 50 

retired, Todd 43) put the result beyond doubt and sent us through to 

the final to play Hughes Hall/Christs. 

Hughes Hall/Christs batted first and our bowlers were unable to 

contain their aggressive batsmen. Their total of 149 for 8 was a 

daunting total, especially since we were without our key batsman, 

Nadun. David Larsen kept our hopes alive with a gutsy 48, but we 

were bowled out for 131. This was a match both teams were desperate 

to win and it was played with a competitive edge that bordered on the 

unsportsmanlike. It is sad when college cricket descends to this level, 

but until these matches have neutral umpires there will always be the 

potential for arguments. We can’t use this as an excuse however, 

because Hughes Hall/ Christs were the better team on the day. 

Apart from the Cuppers and MCR League competitions, we played 

a number of friendly matches. A highlight was the annual Presidents 

Match against Wolfson staff and fellows. Steve lost his 10th 

consecutive toss (the odds of that are 1 in 1024) and we were sent 

in. Alex Monro (24) got the ball rolling with some lusty blows, while 

Patrick Cullen (53 retired) provided the anchor. After the loss of 3 

quick wickets Patrick and Todd (52 retired) got the innings back on 

track and then Gaurav Nayyar (28 not out) played a lovely cameo at 

the end as we finished with 203 for 5 off 30 overs. The game was put 

beyond doubt after the early departure of Richard Gordon (14), thanks 

to one of Varun’s trademark outswingers. James Davis put up stiff 

resistance with a fine 48, but we always felt the game was under our 

control and the Presidents XI finished 8 wickets down and 50 runs 

short of the target. 

The season drew to a close with the annual dinner and prize giving. 

Each player was presented with a gift that characterised their unique 

contribution to the team, the funds for which were raised through a 

system of fines that operated throughout the season. The fines system 

is an excellent way to maintain team discipline and provides many a 

laugh at the post-match briefings in the Hat and Feathers. For 2003 

we introduced several new fines, including ‘dissent’, following the 


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reluctance of some players to leave the crease after being 

given out and ‘lack of concentration’, because of a tendency 

to focus more on what is happening in the sky and in the 

paddock next to the ground than what was happening on 

the pitch. The final act of the season was to hand out the 

awards following a vote by the players. Todd, who will 

captain the team in 2004, collected the batting and fielding 

awards and Danny won the bowling award. 

Sadly, we say farewell to many of the core players from the 

past few years. We said farewell to Nadun in 2002, but were 

fortunate to have him around for another season. Next 

season we won’t be so lucky. Steve, our captain for 2003, will 

leave a big gap. Persistent injuries meant we didn’t see the 

best of him this season, although his form off the field, in 

organising the social side of Wolfson cricket life, never faltered. Also 

missed will be Andrew Counsell and three key bowlers; Varun, Prabhu 

and Danny. 

The loss of our entire frontline bowling attack means it will be 

difficult to repeat the success of the last two years in 2004. 

Nevertheless, we have retained a group of real enthusiasts and will 

hope for good things in the October recruitment. Whatever happens 

in 2004, we know that cricket at Wolfson is here to stay. 

Team Results 

Played: 16 Won: 9 Lost: 7 

Top 5 Run-scorers 

Name Runs Average High Score 

Todd Bridgman 402 36.5 91 

Nadun Alwis 268 38.3 52 

Simon Husson 203 18.5 53 

David Larsen 165 27.5 48 

Patrick Cullen 130 18.6 53 

Top 5 Wicket-takers 

Name Wickets Average Runs Per Over Best 

Danny Dawson 21 10.7 4.85 6–14 

Prabhu Narasimhan 17 13.4 5.24 3–37 

Varun Khanna 11 12.1 4.59 4–17 

Todd Bridgman 11 14.6 5.27 3–26 

David Bray 8 8.9 4.22 3–31 


Presentation of The 

President’s Cup by 

Mrs Jo Edwards 

16 June 2003 

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President’s Cup Cricket Match 

Gordon Johnson 

2003 

and 2004 

The 2004 match was played on the Caius ground as a 25 over match; a 

splendid tea was provided. 

The President’s XI won the toss and batted first, achieving a 

formidable 143 runs in their 25 overs. The top scorers were the captain, 

David Bray (25) and James Davis (21). The best bowlers were Alex 

Monro, 3 for 17 off 4 overs, Gaurav Nayyar, 2 for 8 off 5 overs, and David 

Glover, 2 for 42 off 5 overs. 

The Wolfson XI batted well but cautiously until the sixteenth over 

when, faced with the prospect of needing to score more than nine 

runs an over to save the match, a partnership of Todd Bridgman and 

Alex Monro lifted the strike rate considerably, Todd scoring 53 retired, 

and Alex hitting a magnificent and winning six off the last ball of the 

24th over. The best bowlers were Steve Mann, 2 for 13 off 5 overs, and 

Joy Bhattacharya, 1 for 18 off 5 overs. So the Wolfson XI won with 145 for 

7 wickets with an over in hand. 


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Women’s Cricket at Wolfson: 

Do they let you bowl underarm? 

Sonia Bicknell 

‘Do you use a soft ball?’ 

‘Do they let you bowl underarm?’ 

‘Women and Cricket? Women… playing cricket?’ 

Just a few of the questions I have been asked since playing cricket and 

the answers are no, no and YES! There is nothing quite like taking 

people by surprise and women playing cricket really does seem to be 

a talking point. I began to play cricket two years ago and as Captain of 

the team this year I would like to put some of the myths about female 

cricket to rest and give you an insight into what a great game cricket is, 

words I would never have dreamt I would have written two years ago! 

We have had another great year for Wolfson Women’s Cricket. It has 

been a season of highs and lows. The highs are many. We began the 

season with indoor nets sessions in the Lent term under the 

supervision of our first coach, Adam Lister. The excitement of a new 

year of cricket, a new group of women taking on what is often a new 

sport and a the forming of a new team with myself and Rosie Akester 

at the helm. The indoor nets allowed the beginners to get started and 

gain confidence in both batting and bowling. It also helped the ‘old 

hands’ remember the basics! Unfortunately, Adam was plucked from 

his Cambridge existence to pursue his commercial career so as we 

waved good bye to one coach as we welcomed another. The arrival of 

our new coach, Thomas Christopher, who has not only shown great 

patience but also expert instruction and, above all, humour, was a 

particular highlight. He has turned up to all of our outdoor nets 

training sessions without fail and given us the benefit of his advice as 

a great cricket player. We have finished the season with a 100% success 

record in matches. Okay, we only played three matches, but still, we 

are unbeaten! Our first match against Trinity Hall started out tense, 

but once we got going and the nerves subsided we claimed our first 

win. Laura claimed her first scalp as a great bowler and also ran up our 

run score showing herself to be a great all-rounder. Kathreen after 

some frustration switched the side from which she bowled and 


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immediately took a wicket. Finally, Blanca ensured a calm and steady 

hand as wicket-keeper and Helen and Adriana fielded their hearts 

out. 

The informal Cuppers tournament was a great day of cricket. Due 

to exams we had to call upon more of our previous team members 

and they rose to the challenge. Starting out playing Christ’s with them 

opening the batting, we took a wicket in the first over. Much to my 

relief, it was me, going some way to making up for the ‘wide-fest’ that I 

had demonstrated in our first official match. We bowled them all out 

at 53 and went into bat completing the victory in five overs thanks to 

our left and right hander combo, Kathreen and Karen. Our next match 

was against the organisers, Emmanuel. Dressed in matching bright 

pink t-shirts and with equally loud vocals, they represented a 

daunting opponent. Winning the toss, they chose to bowl first. Again, 

Kathreen and Karen the deadly combo took to the crease and put in a 

great score, with Karen scoring an impressive half-century. They 

chased us with gusto and it was only due to excellent teamwork that 

we held them off and won by a narrow but definitive margin. We were 

crowned winners of the ‘unofficial’ Cuppers Tournament, so I would 

like to thank all my team mates who risked bruised knees, grazes and 

unsightly sunburn in the name of cricket on the day of the Wolfson 

Ball – now that’s dedication. 

Finally one of the great highlights for all of us is the dedication of 

our team members over the summer and the camaraderie 

demonstrated by both new cricketers and ‘old hands’ in both 

practices and match situations. Relations between the men’s team 

and the women’s team has also served to strengthen our College 

cricket and make for some great social occasions. We continue to 

practice at Christ’s net on a Monday evening throughout the summer 

under the watchful eye of Thomas and are hoping that practice will 

make perfect. In any event we are still having fun and recently took 

part in an East of England tournament playing alongside an array of 

female cricketers and recruited more to the Wolfson Women’s cricket 

cause in the process. 

So the highs are many and the lows are few, in fact singular, it is 

quite simply not seeing as many women as we would like offering 

their services for cricket, both in Wolfson and on a College-wide basis. 

I am hoping that this piece will go some way to changing this for our 

future Captain, Laura Cobb. Apart from the questioning and, at times, 

incredulous looks when you mention that you play cricket to men 

and the unflattering white trousers, if you take up the challenge of 


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cricket at Wolfson I can promise great fun, the guarantee of 

representing your college in a team with a history of success and 

above all the chance to say, ‘no we don’t use a soft ball, I don’t bowl 

underarm, and yes, I am a woman and I play cricket!’ 

Women’s Cricket Squad 2003 

Rosie Akester Adriana Duque 

Sonia Bicknell Helen Morrogh-Bernard 

Laura Cobb Uschi 

Jane Cuthbert Kathreen Ruckstuhl 

Karen Day Blanca Truyols 


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Basketball – Team Activities Report 

2002–2003 

Efthymios Sipetzis 

The academic year 2002–2003 could be characterised as a very 

successful year regarding the performance of the Wolfson College 

Basketball team. During the previous year, the college basketball 

team had normally one practice session per week (which was usually 

held at the Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall) and at least one official game 

per week. 

In Michaelmas term, the basketball team began its performances 

participating in the second division of the inter-collegiate 

championship. By the end of the Michaelmas term the college 

basketball team had a record of 3 wins and 2 losses. The 

championship went on during the Lent term, within which the 

regular season finished and the playoffs began. The Wolfson College 

team finished the regular season of the championship in second 

place, with a record of 5 wins and 2 losses. During the playoffs, the 

team performed outstandingly and in knockout games, beat the 

Fitzwilliam, Jesus and Selwyn/Girton College teams in turn, finishing 

the inter-collegiate championship as the champions of the second 

division. At the same time, the Wolfson College basketball team was 

promoted to the first division, which is the highest division of the 

championship and at which our team will be competing during the 

academic year 2003–2004 against traditionally very strong teams 

from other large colleges. 

During the Easter term, the college basketball team participated in 

the inter-collegiate Cuppers tournament and we got promoted from 

the first (group) phase of the tournament. In the second phase, we 

were beaten by the subsequent winners of the tournament 

(Sidney/St. Edmunds) in a very tough and close game. It was 

characteristic that the players of our opponents were saying after the 

end of the tournament that the Wolfson College basketball team was 

by far the hardest opponents they faced on their way to winning the 

tournament. 

Five players from the college team have been selected to represent 

Cambridge University as members of the Cambridge University 


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basketball teams, either as Blues (Andrew Dougherty, Mike Lisowski) 

or as Lions (Henning Ringholz, Ruwan Silva, Efthymios Sipetzis). We 

are proud that the performance of the Wolfson College basketball 

team during the 2002–2003 academic year was one of the most 

successful in the recent history of the team. At the beginning of the 

new academic year, we are planning to continue practising once or 

twice per week. With the addition of new talented players, we are 

looking forward to a very promising season, during which we are 

going to compete at the highest level of the inter-collegiate basketball 

championship. 

Basketball Team Activities Report 2003–04 

The academic year 2003–2004 could be undoubtedly characterised as 

one of the most successful periods regarding the performance of the 

Wolfson College Basketball team. In this year, Wolfson team won the 

intercollegiate championship undefeated and reached the final of the 

intercollegiate cuppers tournament. Normally, during the year the 

college basketball team had at least one practice session per week 

(which was usually taking place at the Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall) 

and one official game on Sundays. 

Wolfson v. Trinity, Cuppers semi-final 9 May 2004 Faith Johnson 

(Woflson team in dark blue T-shirts) 


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After getting promoted into the top division last year, in 

Michaelmas term 2003, Wolfson basketball team began its 

performances in the first division of the inter-collegiate 

championship with the intention being to compete against the best 

college teams and have a decent presence. However, the end of 

Michaelmas term found the college basketball team with a surprising 

record of 7 wins and no losses. The championship went on during the 

Lent term 2004, with the second round of the regular season and by 

the end of which Wolfson College team was established as the best 

team in the league. 

The final standings found Wolfson college at the first place with an 

unprecedented record of 14 wins and no losses and of course, which 

left no space for doubts as to who deserved to win the title. Key results 

towards winning the championship were the consecutive and 

convincing wins against the teams of Darwin, St. Johns and Trinity 

College, teams that have traditionally been competing for the league 

title over the previous years. 

During Easter term 2004, the college basketball team participated 

in the inter-collegiate cuppers tournament and we managed to play 

in the final of the tournament after a series of very challenging 

knockout games. More specifically, the team performed 

outstandingly and disqualified the teams of Trinity Hall, Churchill 

and Trinity in turn, only to suffer a narrow defeat at the final of the 

tournament by Queens in a very tough and close game. However, it is 

characteristic that this defeat was the only one during a whole season 

in the college league and cuppers and this alone reflects the winning 

spirit that characterised the team. 

Regular trainings every week and a lot of hard work helped us to 

make great progress over the year. Key points to successful results 

have been co-operation, a lot of effort and determination towards 

accomplishing the best. Furthermore, one of the characteristics of 

this team is that most players were already playing together since the 

previous year and they were all available and ready to play since the 

beginning of the season. Of course, together with these players there 

were new persons added to the team that helped a lot with their talent 

and enthusiasm. It was also very fortunate that several players from 

the college team were selected to represent Cambridge University 

and they were active members of the Cambridge University 

basketball teams (Andrew Dougherty, Margaret Martin, Efthymios 

Sipetzis). But the most important of all is that during this year the 

whole team had a lot of fun playing together. Apart from teammates, 


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the members of the Wolfson basketball team firstly became friends 

with each other and this offered stability, motivation and “team 

chemistry”. 

With the beginning of the new academic year, Wolfson basketball 

team will have no choice but to try to maintain their position at the 

top of the intercollegiate basketball league. Practice sessions and 

weekly games will resume at the beginning of Michaelmas term and 

we are all confident that the mixage of experienced players and new 

talented players that will be added to the team will further sustain the 

already existing commitment to win that there is in this team. 

Therefore, our expectations for next year are to create a team that will 

constitute a model team to which we all should aspire and that will 

perform equally impressive as last year’s team. 

We certainly hope to continue the series of successful results in the 

forthcoming tournaments and obviously have a lot of success and fun 

as a team. Thus, we hope to establish Wolfson College basketball team 

as one of the best college teams in Cambridge and give one more 

reason for members of Wolfson College to be proud of. 


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Wolfson Reception Hong Kong 3 April 2003 

Reception in the Library of The China Club 3 April 2003 John Seagrave 

Australia and New Zealand April 2003 

Charles Schencking and the President in the Yarra Valley 

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Sir Michael Hardie Boys and the President 


The Reception for Wolfson Members at the 

Northern Club, Auckland 

Wolfson Members 

in New Zealand 

A Reception was held for 

members in New Zealand 

at the Northern Club, 

Auckland on Friday 11 

April 2003. The party was 

organised through the 

good offices of David 

Williams whose law 

chambers lie adjacent to 

the Northern Club. Over 

fifty Wolfson members 

were present, including 

Professor and Mrs Webb 

who had been amongst the 

earliest visitors to the 

College, The Rt Hon Sir 

Douglas Graham who had 

given the Smuts Lectures 

in Cambridge on the 

Waitangi Treaties and 

their consequences, Yvonne 

van Dongen a recent Press 

Fellow, many graduates 

and a fine array of legal 

luminaries including five 

of the country's most 

senior judges. The 

President, Mrs Johnson 

and Dr John Seagrave 

were very warmly 

welcomed and generously 

entertained. 

The Reception in Auckland 

was followed by visits to 

Sir Michael and Lady 

Hardie Boys in Wellington, 

and Professor and Mrs 

Sutton in Dunedin. The 

President spoke to the 

Cambridge Society in 

Dunedin which was well 

attended by Wolfson 

members working at the 

University. 

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Kuala Lumpur April 2003 

Wolfson Course Reunion April 2003 

Wolfson Alumni Meeting April 2003 

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Oslo Party 31 May 2003 

The President with Professor and Mrs Høpner Petersen of Copenhagen John Seagrave 

Blanca Truyols and Magnus Thorvik (Wolfson) Thor Leegaard 

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The President with HM Ambassador Mariot O’Leslie and Ole Herman Ambur Thor Leegaard 

The Bursar, Robert Amundsen, Blanca Truyols and Louise Kaarikstad Faith Johnson 

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The President’s Portrait: Two Views 

Kristin Truse 

Walk into this room, see the portrait, and feel an immediate sense of 

calm. This is not an ordinary painting of a college president. The artist 

recalls David Hockney of the late 1970’s when Hockney was painting 

cool serene scenes in Los Angeles. The subject is not stiffly posed 

gazing out at the viewer with authority and he is not wearing the 

obligatory business suit. The subject sits back from us instead of 

dominating the whole canvas. The colours are not dark blues or 

brown, but as if off Hockney’s palette – cool bright and yet still with 

warm undertones. Cold austerity is transposed by warmth of colour. 

There is a clarity that clears away all possible pretenses. 

In this painting as the viewer we are sitting across from the 

President. We view him in a moment of reflection. He is unaware of 

us; his thoughts are his own. We can either watch him or join with 

him in a reflection of our own. If we choose to watch, we will note 

that the artist gives us clues as to who the subject is. The book on 

India makes reference to his field of study, and the other, a favourite 

of his wife. There are items of luxury – the orchid, the velvet trousers, 

the abstract painting –that situate themselves in the overall 

simplicity of the room. And then there is the President’s pose, one 

that seems familiar to him, and one that reflects that the artist knows 

his subject well. Perhaps only the son of this man would be able to 

capture his father as he has. We, as the viewers, are immediately 

familiar to him. He feels no need to engage with us; we do not disturb 

his train of thought. 

The artist uses the light to enhance this moment of reflection. The 

morning light that the President gazes into possibly hints at a sense of 

optimism. The light falls gently onto his hand that extends as if almost 

to touch what is only in his mind. There are no hard edges but edges 

that soften, blend, and join. In this manner, we become more aware of 

the texture. The texture lends to the sensuality of the surroundings, 

especially the couch on which the President sits. We can almost feel 

the soft comfort of the cushions and envy him for occupying them. 

The size of the painting gives it a feeling of openness. And as the artist, 


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following the tradition of Hockney, is not overly concerned with 

detail, thus the shapes or lines are more evident. 

I imagine that there has been many a Sunday morning where the 

artist has entered into the room to find his father posed like this – a 

thought distracting him from reading the paper or perhaps the paper 

inspiring one. Now we have the opportunity to view him away from 

his role at the college and see a contemplative personal side. 

Cambridge, California 

Neil Archer 

Orlando Johnson’s portrait, like many others before it, seeks its 

inspiration from portraits of the past. In doing so, the painter not only 

pays homage to another artist, but in turn lends the subject – 

occasionally ironically, though in this case affectionately – qualities 

derived from and implied by the original work. In this instance 


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Johnson has looked to the recent past; more specifically David 

Hockney’s portrait of Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood 

(1968). The positioning of Johnson’s subject is instantly recognisable 

as being that of Hockney’s depiction of Bachardy, notably in the 

crossed legs and the movement of the upper body in counterpoint 

towards the left of the canvas. Moreover, Johnson has kept a similar 

feel to the work in his use of primary colours, those most frequently 

found in Hockney’s palette. 

It is appropriate that Johnson should choose this artist as his 

source. Unlike the younger painter, Hockney is not half-American, 

but both Johnson and the Yorkshire-born artist share a fascination 

with the sharply-defined colours and light of the American landscape, 

and especially that of the coasts (Johnson spends much of the year in 

Maine, while Hockney has lived in California since the late sixties). 

Consequently the painting has a sense of space and delight in colour 

untypical of many academic portraits. This contrast with the rather 

grave paintings of yesteryear is further highlighted by its inescapably 

modern motifs, such as the music system, replacing the books of 

Hockney´s portrait. 

The result of this, rather than a mere pastiche of another work, is a 

painting that reflects both the nature of Wolfson College and the 

relationship of the painter to his subject. It is fitting that Wolfson, a 

modern college with a truly international student body, should have a 

painting in keeping with these characteristics. Furthermore, the fact 

that the artist’s subject is his own father – in the same way that 

Hockney was painting his close friends and neighbours – affords the 

work a rare intimacy. The position of the feet, the light reflecting on 

the shoes, the movement of the hand towards the light; all are 

indications of an informal and above all personal perspective: the 

depiction of someone at ease, perhaps caught unawares, captured in 

a moment of thought. 


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An Archaeological Legacy: Formal 

Hall: Excavations at Yeavering 1 

David A Barrowclough 

Oil Landscape (detail) by Faith Johnson 

Brian Hope-Taylor 

Hope-Taylor collection, Wolfson College 


The heroic poetry of Beowulf conjures up a 

dramatic image of an Anglo-Saxon warrior 

aristocracy, idling their time in feasting and 

story-telling, in the comfort of a Great Hall. So 

vivid is the picture that it is seldom realised that 

the archaeological evidence for the existence of 

Anglo-Saxon buildings, on such a large scale, 

was non-existent until Dr Brian Hope-Taylor 

(1923–2001), University Lecturer in Archaeology 

and Fellow of Wolfson College, first identified 

the existence of a Royal centre at Yeavering in 

Northumberland, complete with the first 

Anglo-Saxon hall ever to be excavated. 

Over a period of ten years (1952–1962), Brian 

Hope-Taylor led excavations on the site which 

came to mark an important watershed in the 

development of British archaeological 

technique. The principles of area excavation, 

and the careful identification and dissection of 

overlying timber buildings, were successfully 

applied here, making this a pioneering 

scientific excavation. 

The Venerable Bede records that in the 

seventh century, a visit was made to the Royal 

villa at ad Gefrin by Edwin, king of the 

Northumbrians, shortly after his formal 

1 The work of Brian Hope-Taylor (Fellow 1966–1977) came to the fore at an archaeological conference 

held in Jarrow at the end of March 2003. The conference was organised by Professor James Graham- 

Campbell of the Institute of Archaeology at University College, London. The papers presented 

findings of new work from the site at Yeavering, which is where Brian Hope-Taylor did his brilliant 

work which changed our understanding of Anglo-Saxon archaeology and history. 

Alongside the conference, there was an exhibition at Bede’s World Museum in Jarrow 

commemorating the work of Brian Hope-Taylor and the College lent some pictures from its Hope- 

Taylor collection.

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conversion to Catholic Christianity in the late 620s. He was 

accompanied by his queen and the missionary bishop, Paulinus, who 

occupied his time converting the local population, whom he baptised 

in the river Glen nearby. 

Bede wrote his account some 100 years after the events he records, 

which has led to some debate over the precise location of ad Gefrin. 

The similarity between the sound of the name and that of Yeavering, 

taken with the proximity of the river Glen to the site excavated by 

Brian Hope-Taylor, left him in no doubt at the conclusion of his 

research that the site ‘appears beyond reasonable doubt to have been 

that Ad Gefrin of which Bede wrote’. 

Publication was delayed when, in 1960, a brief-case containing the 

original manuscript for the monograph was stolen on the 

Hauptbahnhof in Hamburg. Hope-Taylor was later to look back on 

this incident, reflecting on it as a blessing, for in the process of 

reconstituting the manuscript, he had to totally review the evidence 

from the excavations. It was during this second forced engagement 

with the data that he ‘unexpectedly’ came upon the idea that, 

“British” traditions (of the indigenous Romano-British population) 

played a significant part in the development of an “Anglo-Saxon” royal 

township. This suggestion injected fresh life into the biggest question 

in Anglo-Saxon studies: to what extent had the migration of people 

from the shores of the North Sea to England been a large scale 

migration, or the movement of a small, yet powerful, élite? Before he 

made his views on indigenous British (Celtic) influence public, he 

wanted to first justify it to himself by testing it against archaeological 

excavations from another site. So it was that publication was further 

delayed whilst excavations were undertaken at Doon Hill, Dunbar 

between 1964 and 1966. These excavations allowed him to hone his 

argument before it was finally presented in the finished version of his 

report in 1977 [YEAVERING. An Anglo-Saxon centre of early 

Northumbria. London: HMSO]. 

The site of Yeavering continues to be formative in our 

understanding of royal power at this early date. It seems that the Hall 

functioned to provide short-term accommodation for the king and 

his household, perhaps once or twice a year. During the day he would 

doubtless undertake the duties of meeting his subjects, hearing their 

disputes and imposing justice. He would also pursue the royal sports 

of hunting, and in the evening would feast and listen to the music and 

stories of the time. It is out of these traditions that we must look for 

the origins of our very own Formal Halls. 


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With the sad death of Brian, archaeology has lost an innovative and 

forward thinking archaeologist. His legacy will be seen in the 

identification of the ‘academic no-man’s-land between archaeology 

and history’ and his advocacy of ‘the need for more fundamentally 

interdisciplinary studies of early literate societies’ which has become 

widely accepted. Next time you are dining in Hall, pick up your glass 

and toast the memory of the man who discovered the first Formal 

Hall: Brian Hope-Taylor. 

Reconstruction of the hall at Yeavering, based on Brian Hope-Taylor’s excavations. 


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Prince Albert And His Statue 

Owen Edwards 

On Friday, February 26th 1847, by the slim margin of 116 votes, Albert 

Prince Consort was elected Chancellor of the University of 

Cambridge. The election had been conducted amongst tumultuous 

and rowdy scenes with students hurling missiles at senior members 

attempting to cast their votes in the Senate House. The Prince, 

mortified both by the slimness of his majority and by the fact that it 

had been contested, contemplated refusing the election, but he was 

persuaded by the robust advice of Queen Victoria who thought him 

by far the best man for the post and indeed any post. 

How had this embarrassing situation 

arisen and what was its significance? The 

previous Chancellor, the Duke of 

Northumberland, died on February 12th 

1847. Very soon afterwards, the President 

of St. John’s had proposed the Earl of 

Powys, a talented but conservative peer 

who had recently fought a campaign to 

keep the ancient Welsh bishopric from 

being absorbed into an English see. This 

feat endeared him to the conservative 

faction who felt that he was the person 

who could best protect the University 

from the winds of change and reform 

that were sweeping the great institutions 

of the country at the accession of the 

young Queen. The progressive faction (if 

one can call them that) led by the Master 

of Trinity, Dr Whewell, proposed Prince 

Albert as one under whose protective 

cloak the University could carry out its 

own modest reforms and stave off a 

proposed Royal Commission into the 

The Prince Consort, Chancellor of the University Owen Edwards 

state of both Oxford and Cambridge. 


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But what was the state of Cambridge University in 1847? It has been 

described as a vast theological seminary with a dominant purpose of 

training men for the Anglican clergy (non-conformists and Roman 

Catholics were not allowed to proceed to degrees) and the main 

subjects taught were mathematics and classics. Half the students 

were at Trinity or St. John’s, of which all the fellows were clergymen, as 

were all the heads of all the Cambridge Colleges. The University was 

vastly proud of its roll call of great minds; Newton, Milton, Harvey etc. 

These glories lay in the distant past. There was not a great press of 

foreign students coming to sit at the feet of its Professors, of whom 

there were barely 12, and whose lectures were hardly attended. Yet the 

German Universities of Bonn and Berlin were the most enlightened 

and advanced in Europe and only Edinburgh could match them in 

the breadth of their studies and spirit of liberal scholarship. The 

flavour of the Cambridge mindset was that Dr Whewell, of whom Sir 

Robert Peel wrote on November 2nd 1847: 

The Doctor’s assumption that a century should pass before our 

discoveries in Science are admitted to the course of Academical 

Instruction exceeds in absurdity anything which the bitterest enemy 

of University Education could have imputed to its advocates. 

Are the students at Cambridge to hear nothing of Electricity or the 

Speculations concerning the mysterious influence, its possible 

connection with the nervous system and with muscular action, until 

all doubts on the subject are at an end? Will they be at an end after a 

lapse of 100 years? 

If the Principle for which Dr Whewell contends to be a sound one, it 

would be difficult to deliver a Lecture on Theology. 

Prince Albert was astonished at the state of Cambridge University 

when compared with that of Berlin, Bonn and Edinburgh. He 

commissioned a detailed list of studies and scientific inquiries 

pursued at Cambridge at this time and was appalled by the result. 

There were no studies in history, political economy, law, psychology, 

modern languages, geography, chemistry, art, astronomy, natural 

history or science and the students’ highest hope of future 

preferment were not in the University but in the Church. With the 

help of the new Vice Chancellor, Robert Phelps, a Moral Science 

Tripos involving philosophy, political economy, modern history, 

general jurisprudence on the laws of England, was established in 


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1848, and it was proposed for compulsory attendance to a much wider 

variety of lectures for all undergraduates. A further proposal was to 

establish a Natural Sciences Tripos. These revolutionary 

developments were to drag Cambridge, and by default, Oxford, into 

the 19th Century, but they were overtaken by the action of Lord John 

Russell, the then Prime Minister, in instituting a Royal Commission 

on the Universities. In 1871, the pernicious religious tests which 

effectively debarred Roman Catholics, Dissenters and Free Thinkers 

were removed, allowing Cambridge to access a wider student 

population. 

On November 25th 1861, as he wrote in his diary ‘am full of 

rheumatic pains, feel thoroughly unwell’, the early stages of his fatal 

illness, typhoid fever contracted from the unsanitary drains of 

Windsor Castle, he journeyed to Madingley Hall to visit his son Bertie, 

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who was then an undergraduate at 

Trinity, with palatial student digs at the Hall. This was a painful 

meeting as Bertie had disgraced himself by having an affair with a 

Nellie Clifden during the long vacation at Curragh, a military camp 

outside Dublin. On December 14th, 1861, Prince Albert died at 

Windsor. Queen Victoria was inconsolable and the Nation had lost a 

wise counsellor, and the University its greatest Chancellor. 

Under the Chairmanship of the next Chancellor, the Duke of 

Devonshire, the man responsible for funding the Cavendish 

Laboratory, a subscription to erect a statue in his honour was started 

but 20 years were to pass before it was inaugurated by Albert Edward, 

Prince of Wales, at the entrance of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Even then 

it was controversial as the original site was to be in the Senate House 

but by a Grace, this was prevented. The peregrinations of the statue 

did not end, as in 1954 he was again moved to the head of a pond 

beyond the outhouses of Madingley Hall on the specious ground, as 

this was the place he had last visited shortly before his death. There 

the statue rests, a forlorn figure covered in lichen, missing fingers due 

to frost damage. For many years a visit entailed wearing stout 

Wellingtons and hacking ones way through nettles. No longer is this 

so, as the pond is now used for fishing so there is a path and the plinth 

is a convenient ledge for bait boxes and sandwiches. 

However, the University has recently agreed that the statue should 

move to be housed once more indoors, protected from the elements 

under the cupola of the new Chancellor’s building at Wolfson. 

But why Wolfson? Let us look at the challenges facing the University 

in the 21st century. These are not top up fees, adverse publicity on 


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College entry, or even the recent rejection of the modest changes in 

University Governance, but a subtle inexorable demographic shift in 

the balance between the graduate and undergraduate students of the 

University. In a decade, the graduate numbers will have equalled that 

of undergraduates, only 10% of whom have studied for their first 

degree in Cambridge and many are from abroad and unfamiliar with 

the collegiate system. If the collegiate system is to continue, then two 

more graduate colleges will need to be founded but this pre-supposes 

that the graduate colleges establish an educative role as potent as 

successful as that of the undergraduate colleges. Further, much of the 

educational development of the graduate student occurs in the 

departments and laboratories shifting the emphasis away from 

colleges. Additionally, as a research-based University, competition in 

international advancement for individual academics will not come 

from the ability to teach but from the quality of their research and 

papers published. Will young graduate students working side by side 

at the same bench understand the disparity of financial provision 

between colleges? So the major challenge facing the University is 

whether Cambridge will keep the collegiate system and is this still 

relevant in the 21st Century? 

Hence the symbolism of housing Prince Albert at Wolfson, a 

College unique by being founded by the University, welcoming, 

outward looking, innovative, a sort of adhesion molecule of the 

University. These are the ideals Prince Albert would have approved of 

and the reforming Chancellors who followed him, and our current 

Royal Chancellor, Prince Philip, who has taken a major interest in our 

University. 


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Congratulations to the new Chief of 

the Royal Malaysian Air Force 

Don Wilson 

On the first Tuesday of each term the College 

arranges a reception before Formal Hall to 

welcome visitors who will be with us the 

following nine weeks. At the reception in the 

Easter term 1999, the newly arrived participants 

on the Wolfson Course included a serving air 

force officer from Malaysia, Brigadier General 

Dato’ Nik Ismail Nik Mohamed. All who met 

Nik, as he became known, will be delighted with 

the news that he has recently been promoted to 

the rank of four star General and appointed 

Chief of the Royal Malaysian Air Force. 

The attainment of this high office has come 

as no surprise to those who worked with Nik on 

the Wolfson Course. In only eight weeks he 

completed an outstanding original paper on 

The Contractorisation of Defence Support 

Services and also found time to delve into British 

Decolonisation, Hindu Fundamentalism and 

Criminology. He combined this heavy work-load with enthusiastic 

involvement in many social aspects of College life where his good 

humour and courteous demeanour made him a popular and highly 

regarded member of our community. 

Nik Ismail’s career path to the top makes interesting reading. He 

was commissioned as a pilot officer in 1969 and after graduating from 

the Malaysian Flying Training School, served as a jet pilot before 

undertaking advanced training at the Royal Australian Air Force 

Central Flying School. His next posting was as a flying instructor until, 

after a series of operational duties, including command of fighter 

squadrons and the Labuan Air Force Base, he was appointed to the 

Directing Staff of the Armed Forces Defence College. Then, having 

achieved the rank of Brigadier, he embarked upon something 

completely different – a term in Cambridge where he was free to study 


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subjects of his own choice. This “sabbatical” was made possible by the 

generous financial support of Sime Darby Berhad, one of Malaysia’s 

leading companies, which has for many years sponsored on the 

Wolfson Course officers from the Malaysian army, navy, air force and 

police forces. On returning to Kuala Lumpur, Nik was soon promoted 

to Major General and a sequence of senior management posts 

followed, including Assistant Chief of Staff for Air Defence Operations 

and Training and Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel Services at the 

Armed Forces headquarters. In March 2003 he was appointed Deputy 

Air Force Chief with the rank of Lt. General. 

Climbing the promotion ladder in a modern fighting force requires 

high academic attainment in addition to the traditional qualities 

usually associated with success in a military career. Nik Ismail has 

attended the United States Air Force University, the Joint Services 

Staff college in Australia where he obtained a Diploma in Strategic 

Studies, and the National Defence College in India, which gained him 

a Master’s Degree in Defence Studies from Jahalabad University. It is 

gratifying to note that despite this wide international experience of 

higher education and the initial surprise on discovering that he would 

need to re-train to operate a bicycle rather than a fighter plane, he 

describes his time as a member of the Wolfson Course as “one of the 

most memorable experiences I have had”. 

General Nik Ismail continues to keep in touch with the College, as 

do the other excellent Malaysian officers who have studied here, and 

he never fails to find the time to meet and entertain senior officers of 

the College who visit Kuala Lumpur. We congratulate him on his new 

role and look forward to seeing him at Wolfson again soon. 


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News 

The editors have received news of members of the College as follows: 

1966 

Suzanne CORY was elected an Associate Foreign Member of the French 

Academy of Sciences in 2002. Professor Cory is the first Australian 

woman to be so honoured. Also in 2002 she was awarded the Royal 

Medal of the Royal Society in recognition of her distinguished work on 

the molecular basis of cancer. In 2004, Professor Cory was appointed 

an Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and had the 

Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) conferred on her on 

Encaenia Day in June at the University of Oxford. 

H John HARVEY is Head of Nature Conservation, The National Trust, 

Cirencester. In 2001 he became Secretary of Euronite, a Europe-wide 

organisation for land owning nature conservation organisations. 

1968 

Bill KIRKMAN appointed Chairman of CAMREAD from 2004. 

Sandy M RICHARDS (neé Thatcher) married Wyn Richards in 1969. 

After having two children, living and working in various countries 

around the world, she has been working as a behavioural 

psychologist with the NHS for the past five years. 

1969 

Philip M MARCELL was Master of the Worshipful Company of 

Chartered Secretaries & Administrators 2001- 2002. 

Anthony SWAIN has been awarded a Royal Society Industry 

Fellowship at UCL, the James Forrest Medal and Premium and also 

the Russell Allen Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers. 


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1971 

Dominique DREYER appointed Swiss Ambassador to China in 1999. 

M E L FERNANDO appointed Sri Lankan Ambassador to the 

Netherlands. 

Eva LLOYD-REICHLING has returned to academic life after fifteen 

years in the voluntary sector, the last four of which were spent as 

Chief Executive of the National Early Years Network. She is now 

Senior Lecturer in early childhood studies in the School for Policy 

Studies at the University of Bristol. 

1972 

Barbara BROWN has been awarded a Royal Society History of Science 

grant to investigate the legacy of Professor Stanley Gardiner to coral 

reef research. (Professor Gardiner was Professor of Zoology at 

Cambridge and built Bredon House). 

Wafik GHONEIM, married to Dr Ingrid Ghoneim-Graf with two 

children, has been a Professor at the University of Salzburg since 

2000. He was Professor at the King Saud University in Riyadh from 

1977 to 2000. He has also undertaken excavations at Al-Fao and Al- 

Rabatah in Saudi Arabia as an Egyptologist and archaeologist. 

Robert GRUDIN’s novel, The Most Amazing Thing, was a finalist for 

the Ben Franklin Award for Popular Fiction 2002. 

John M MITCHELL, a freelance translator working from home, is 

President of the Institute of Linguists 

John TOYE has published, as part of the United Nations Intellectual 

History Project, The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance 

and Development. The book is written jointly with his son Richard, 

who is a Fellow of Homerton College. 

1974 

Neil T GORMAN appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Nottingham Trent 

University from October 2003. 


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Louise MIRRER, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the 

City University of New York (CUNY) and Professor in Hispanic, Luso- 

Brazilian and Medieval Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, was 

appointed President of the New-York Historical Society on 1 June 

2004. She is the author of, among other books and articles, Women, 

Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile, and has also 

served as President of the CUNY Economic Development 

Corporation. 

1976 

Rudiger AHRENS appointed OBE in April 2004. The honour was 

conferred on him by the British Ambassador, Sir Peter Torry, at his 

residence in Berlin. 

Clive D HOLES, Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab 

World at the University of Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the British 

Academy in 2002. 

Rima HOOJA awarded a Royal Asiatic Society Visiting Fellowship to 

the UK. 

Wijesinghe J S KARUNARATNE appointed Secretary to the President 

of Sri Lanka in August 2003. 

Sachithan SATHANANTHAN produced his first feature film entitled 

“Khamosh Pani” (Silent Waters) in 2002/03. The film won the Golden 

Leopard for Best Film, Leopard for Best Actress and three other 

awards at the 2003 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. 

The film was shot in Pakistan and directed by Sabiha Sumar (his wife) 

who read for the MPhil degree at Wolfson 1984/85. 

1977 

Charles S OKOYE appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive 

Officer of UBN Property Company Ltd – a subsidiary of Union Bank of 

Nigeria plc. 

Philip Lars OTTERNESS awarded the 2003 Dixon Ryan Fox 

Manuscript Prize by the New York State Historical Association 

Editorial Board. This was for his monograph, The Unattained 


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Canaan: The 1709 Palatine Migration and the Formation of German 

Immigrant Identity in Colonial New York, published by Cornell 

University Press. 

1978 

Brian E MAHONEY, appointed Judge of the Queen’s Bench of Alberta, 

Canada. 

1979 

D G (Ben) GUNN, former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire, was 

appointed Independent Chairman of a British Horse Board/Jockey 

Club review group in November 2002 to examine the security of 

racing. 

S VAN DER ZWAAG was appointed to a personal chair at the Faculty of 

Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He is to 

research the development of novel materials and material concepts 

in aerospace and space technology. 

1980 

Chaudri Mueen AFZAL retired in October 2002 after serving three 

years as Secretary General, Finance and Economic Affairs, 

Government of Pakistan has. He was awarded Hilal-I-Imtiaz by the 

President of Pakistan for public service. He is now working on several 

board of directors/trusts of companies and appointed non-executive 

Chairman of Union Bank, a small private sector bank in Pakistan. 

Roger David BANCROFT is working with Dr Anna Snowdon as a 

forensic Post-Harvest Plant Pathologist. 

Andrew HERBERT was appointed Managing Director of Microsoft 

Research in Cambridge in succession to Professor Roger Needham. 

Sir David WILLIAMS QC was involved in late 2003 as a member of a 

Peer Review Panel conducting a quality evaluation of research in all 

New Zealand universities. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of 

the Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, in December 2003 

and in the same month, was appointed to the International Advisory 

Board of Sunway College, Malaysia. In January 2004, he was elected 


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to an honorary fellowship of St John’s College, University of Hong 

Kong and he delivered the Shann Lecture there. In June 2004, he 

received a Special Award from the Harvard Law School Alumni 

Association at its World-Wide Congress in London; in July 2004, he 

served as a member of the Quality Review Committee of he 

Australian National University in Canberra and in September 2004 

he was honoured by a laudation dedicated by the European Group of 

Public Law based in Athens. 

1981 

Muhammad Saleem KHAN is Director General, Aliens Registration 

Authority, Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan. 

1982 

David CADMAN gave the Annual Baha’I Lecture at the University of 

Maryland in April 2003: Eternal Wisdom in an Age of Illusion. 

Tony MINSON, follows Chairmanship of the Council of the School of 

Biological Sciences with appointment as Pro-Vice-Chancellor 

(Planning and Resources) for three years from 1 August 2003. 

1983 

Stanley D HOTOP appointed in 2002 as a Deputy President of the 

Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal 

Brian C J MOORE awarded the Silver Medal in Psychological and 

Physiolgical Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America in 

Nashville, Tennnessee in April 2003. The award has only been given 

seven times since its inception in 1977 and awarded “For 

contributions to understanding human auditory perception”. 

Frank P WHITFORD awarded the German Cross of Merit in 2002. 

1984 

Robert J GARLANT retired from Lincolnshire Police as Chief 

Superintendent in July 2000. He gained a Certificate in Higher 

Education – Archaeology in September 2002 and is now following a 2 

year part-time course at Nottingham University School of Continuing 

Education. 


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John ROLFE has been appointed Chairman of the Cambridgeshire 

Federation of the Workers Educational Association. 

Sabihar SUMAR is a film director. With her husband Sachithanandam 

SATHANATHAN (1984), as Co-producer, she has had great success at 

the Locarno International Film Festival 2003. Her first feature film 

Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) was awarded four prizes; Golden 

Leopard Best Feature Film, Leopard Best Actress (shared), Grand Prix 

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and a special mention by the FICC/IFFS 

Jury. 

1985 

Geoffrey J LINDELL has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Law at 

the Universities of Adelaide and the Australian National University 

and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In 

December 2002, the University of Melbourne Law School and the 

Australian Association of Constitutional Law held a conference in 

honour of his retirement. He retired as Secretary of the Australian 

Association of Constitutional Law in February 2003. 

Kevin SCHURER has been Professor of History at University of Essex 

since 2000 and in 2003, became the UK representative to European 

Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructure. 

1986 

Barry John HYMER. The International Council for Philosophical 

Inquiry with Children presented him with the 2003 Award for 

Excellence in Interpreting Philosophy for Children. 

Calum LYON is Consultant Dermatologist at York District Hospital 

and was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004. 

1987 

Stuart HALLAM, Chaplain, Royal Marines, was awarded the ‘Green 

Beret’ on 11 July 2003. 

Colin JONES, lately Superintendent in the South Wales Police, was 

awarded the Queens Police Medal in the 2003 Birthday Honours list. 


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J M McCLENAHEN was a member of the eight person team that won a 

Neal Award (the “Pulitzer Prize” of American business journalism) in 

March 2004, for a seven-part series in Industry Week entitled “The 

Future of Global Manufacturing”. 

1988 

John Drysdale JOHNSTON elected a Fellow of Royal College of 

Physicians of Ireland (FRCPI) in May 2004. 

Kai Hong LUO was appointed Professor of Computational Fluids and 

Combustion of the Queen Mary University, London in 2002. He was 

the recipient of the prestigious Sugden Award in 2000 and the Gaydon 

Prize in 2002 from the international Combustion Institute (British 

Section). 

Trivedi V N PERSAUD, Professor Emeritus at the University of 

Manitoba, was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, 

Canada “for significant contribution to Canada, community and 

fellow Canadians” in 2002. 

1989 

Conor BOWMAN writes fiction and recently won an award for a novel 

in the Irish language in the National Literature Competition. His wife, 

Sylvia (née DRAPER), a Wolfson PhD student, is now a senior lecturer 

in Trinity College, Dublin, Department of Chemistry. 

Leo FLYNN joined the Legal Service of the European Commission in 

April 2002. 

Gordon PITTS is Senior Writer with The Globe and The Mail, Toronto, 

Canada. 

1990 

Susan M CHADWICK is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of 

Land Economy in October 2002. 

Niti DUBEY-VILLINGER appointed Associate Professor of 

Management at Hawaii Pacific University. She was awarded a 

Fulbright Hays Award to study in Brazil in 2003. 


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Colin GREENHALGH received a CBE for services to further education 

in 2003. The honour comes after he was appointed an OBE for 

services to education in 1997. He is a Trustee of the Cambridge Centre 

for Sixth-form Studies and Vice-Chairman of Addenbrooke’s NHS 

Foundation Trust. 

Kenneth POPE is lecturer in Engineering at Flinders University, South 

Australia. He and his wife Anna (who is a freelance architectural 

historian and writer) have three children – Eleanor Freya (b 1997), 

Margaret Anna (b.1999) and James Stirling (b 2003). 

Jonathan STANKLER was promoted to Managing Director of London 

Investment Bank on 1 April 2004. 

K S VENKATIYER, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Ulster was 

called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in March 2003. 

Yuhiko YASUNAGA has become Treasurer of the Cambridge & Oxford 

Society of Japan. 

1991 

The Hon Robert SMELLIE is Acting Judge at the High Court of New 

Zealand, Judge at the Court of Appeal in Fiji, Judge at the Court of 

Appeal of the Cook Islands and Vice-Chancellor to the Archbishop of 

Melanesia. 

Eva LUBWAMA runs a Media Service Company. After her time as a 

Press Fellow at Wolfson she undertook further study on human rights 

questions in Geneva and the University of New South Wales. She has 

successfully completed a Diploma in Public Relations at London 

University, and Master’s degree in journalism at Cardiff University. 

M J ZAINAL AZNAM is President of Malaysia Society of Animal 

Production and President of the Asian-Australasian Association of 

Animal Production Societies. 

1992 

Muhammad ADAM appointed Consul-General of Ghana in Jeddah, 

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in 2000 


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Richard G BARKER, was appointed Director of the Cambridge MBA 

programme from September 2003. 

R N DUPLOCK was awarded a PhD from London South Bank 

University in June 2004. 

Ghislaine T M HARLAND married Major Matthew Thorp of the Royal 

Regiment of Fusiliers at The Royal Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula at the 

Tower of London in 2002. They are currently posted to the British 

Embassy in Washington D.C. 

Thanos MITRELIAS, Research Associate at the Cavendish Laboratory, 

Cambridge, has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship by the 

European Union. 

Dave RAVAL is Head of Research & Development for five lines of the 

London Underground. 

Richard SHERVINGTON appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County 

of Essex. 

Peter WEISSBERG appointed Medical Director of the British Heart 

Foundation in succession to Sir Charles George. 

David T WILLS completed his PhD on twentieth century travel writing 

about Greece at the University of Roehampton in June 2003. 

1993 

Tim D AKROYD has been appointed Global Product Manager for two 

of Ferring Pharmaceuticals drugs. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

The Rt Hon. Thomas M GAULT, Judge at the Court of Appeal of New 

Zealand, was awarded the DCNZM for services to law in 2000 and 

appointed President of the Court of Appeal in 2002. 

Michael A GEIST, Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa has 

been appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E- 

Commerce Law and been named one of “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40” 

for 2002. 


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M ISSAHAQ, Journalist with Ghana News Agency, has gained 

promotion to rank of Senior Editor. 

Christopher Adrian JOHNSON, as President of the Lions Club 

International, was awarded a Melvin Jones Fellowship in February 

2004, the Lions Club International’s highest award. 

1994 

Mohammed S ABDULKADIR was appointed Professor of Economic 

History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, from October 2000. He 

became Fulbright Scholar at St Paul’s College, Virginia, US, as from 

September 2004. 

Bidyut CHAKRABARTY has been appointed Professor of Political 

Science, University of Delhi. 

Paul A CHAMBERS,Specialist Registrar, Maxillofacial Surgery with the 

Yorkshire Region Rotational Training Program was admitted as a 

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow on 26 March 

2003. 

Robert GATENBY, Corporate Manager at Barclays Knightsbridge 

Business Centre, completed an MBA with the Open University in 

2001. 

Mateja JAMNIK was appointed University Lecturer in the Computer 

Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 2003. 

Gordon JOHNSON became a Freeman of the City of London and 

Liveryman of the Stationers’ Company. 

Jian KANG was appointed Professor in the Department of 

Architecture, University of Sheffield in 2003. 

Matthew E K NEUHAUS appointed Director, Political Affairs 

Division, Commonwealth Secretariat in London. 

Francis SIAH, after six years (1996–2001) in active party politics serving 

as Secretary-General of the opposition State Reform Party (STAR) in 

his home state of Sarawak, has now returned to journalism. He joined 


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Malaysiakini.com Malaysia’s only on-line daily, in May 2002 as its 

Weekend Editor. 

Thomas WEGERICH appointed Honorary Professor for National and 

International Commercial Law at the Brandenburg Technical 

University in Cottbus. 

1995 

Thabo R SABELA is now Vice Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and 

Administration at the University of Zululand. He reports that his 

Department of Political Science and Public Administration has 

started short courses on capacity building for chiefs in the Province of 

KwaZulu Natal. As no other university in the country has ventured in 

this area because of political tensions and constitutional changes to 

the role, status and functions of chiefs, including communal land 

issues, this is quite a challenge. 

Kate A M SHAW (née Morris) is Assistant Directorate Manager 

Women’s Services at the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust. 

James (Yudong) YAO has a permanent position at the IMF, working on 

the Mauritius/Seychelles desk in the African Department. 

Ineta ZIEMELE has, since 2004, been a member of the Executive 

Board of the European Society of International Law and in 2004 was 

appointed by the President of Latvia to the Strategic Analysis 

Committee. 

1996 

Alessandro ARCANGELI was Villa I Tatti Fellow at the Harvard 

University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, and 

Lecturer in Renaissance and Early Modern History at the University of 

Verona. Recent publications include Recreation in the Renaissance: 

Attitudes towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, 

c 1425–1675 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). 

Stephanie BELL has numerous publications in refereed journals and 

an edited book entitled The State, the Market and the Euro : 

Chartalism Versus Metallism in the Theory of Money, published by 

Edward Elgar in 2003. 


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Iain E BUCHAN completed training as a consultant in public health 

Medicine at the end of 2002 and took up a new academic post in 

public health informatics at the University of Manchester Medical 

School in January 2003. 

Fatuma CHEGE, appointed Senior Lecturer at Kenyatta University in 

2003 and chairperson of the Educational Foundation and a member 

of the University Senate. 

Andrew F CHRISTIE became Davies Collison Cave Professor of 

Intellectual Property at the University of Melbourne Law School in 

September 2002 and was appointed Founding Director of the 

Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, University of 

Melbourne in March 2002. Prior to this he was a Fulbright Senior 

Scholar at Duke University School of Law from June to December 

2001. 

Karen DAVIES has married and is working as a postdoctoral research 

scientist at Cardiff University. 

Paul GATES is Mass Spectrometry Facility Manager in the School of 

Chemistry, University of Bristol. 

Julia E POOLE was promoted Keeper of Applied Art at The Fitzwilliam 

Museum on 1 April 2004. 

Julia SHAW was awarded her Ph.D. in Indian Archaeology in July 2002 

while at Darwin College, Cambridge. From April – July 2002 she was a 

Visiting Lecturer at the Archaeology Center and Center of Buddhist 

Studies at Stanford University. From September 2002 – September 

2005 she is British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Merton College 

and the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford. 

Andrea WRAITH combines medical practice in London with an 

accredited lecturer appointment at the University of Stellenbosch, 

South Africa. 

1997 

Dató ABAS BIN MOKMIN has been promoted to Major General and 

assumed the appointment of Assistant Chief of Staff – Personnel 


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Services at the Malaysian Armed Forces Headquarters in Kuala 

Lumpar in March 2003. 

Jonathan J GUNZI obtained a PGCE in Geography at the Institute of 

Education in 2001/02 and now teaches Geography at Mill Hill County 

High School. 

Lawrence A HAMILTON was Paul Mellon Research Fellow at Clare 

Hall, Cambridge. His first book, The Political Philosophy of Needs was 

published by Cambridge University Press in September 2003. In 

August 2003 he took up a Senior Lectureship in Political Science at the 

University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. 

Azlina JAAFAR is Senior Attorney with Exxon Mobil Exploration & 

Production (Malaysia) Inc. 

B TUSASIRWE has been Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, 

Makerere University, Uganda. In February 2003 he was elected a 

Member of the Governing Board of the East African Law Society. 

Traci WILLIAMS completed her Master of Arts (International 

Relations) at Deakin University in 2000. In 2001 she joined the 

Foreign Service (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Following 

this she commenced a diplomatic positing to London as Third 

Secretary (Political) in June 2002. 

1998 

Choon Chong Jimmy LOH was awarded by the Sultan of Selangor – 

Darjah Kebesaran Setia Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (SSA) in 

2000. Awarded by His Majesty the King – Kesatria Mangku Negara 

(KMN) in 2002. Elected Vice-President of the Institution of Surveyors, 

Malaysia 2003/04, and elected President, Principal Members 

Committee FIABCI. 

Amanda J CROSS is a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Cancer 

Epidemiology & Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, National 

Institutes of Health, USA. 

Samuel JACKSON has resigned from his position at UBW-Warburg in 

London to set up his own company. 


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Meirion LEWIS elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 

in 2002. 

Henning SIRRINGHAUS won the 2003 Royal Society Mullard Award 

for outstanding academic scientific work that is being 

commercialised successfully in the UK. 

Koen STEEMERS appointed Reader in Environmental Design at 

University of Cambridge in October 2003. 

1999 

John VAN TIGGELEN. Pan Macmillan published his first book: Mango 

Country, A Journey Beyond the Brochures of Tropical Queensland in 

September 2003. 

2000 

Gary BEAUTRIDGE was promoted in April 2002 to Superintendent 

and made Area Commander of Canterbury Policing Area. In January 

2004 promoted to Chief Superintendent and now Head of the Area 

Policing Directorate. He is studying for an MSc in Business 

Administration at Canterbury Christchurch University College. 

Sonia Ofelia FALASCHI-RAY is a Church of England Ordinand at 

Ridley Hall from October 2003. 

Stephen HARRIS has recently moved from Area Commander at South 

East Kent to Detective Superintendent, Head of Major Crime, based at 

Kent Police Headquarters in Maidstone. 

Ulrich KRAELING became Scottish Champion in the Men’s Coxless 

Pairs and is now trialling for the Scottish national rowing team. 

Jianbo LOU appointed Visiting Associate Professor at Peking 

University Law School and made co-director of the Centre for Real 

Estate Law there. 

Anthony J PEARSON received a CBE in 2002. 

REDA, Giovanna (M00/01) has recently been assigned to Bangladesh 

working as Company Director of an Italian NGO. Their main project is 


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concerned with helping women victims of acid throwing. The project 

is funded by the Italian Government. 

Antti-Veikko ROSTI appointed post-doctoral researcher at the IBM T J 

Watson Research Center 

Lisa Monika SAMPSON appointed Lecturer in the Italian Studies 

department at Reading University, beginning October 2003. 

Karen SPÄRCK-JONES won the Award of Merit of the American 

Society for Information Science and Technology in 2002. Awarded a 

Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 by the International Association 

for Computational Linguistics. 

Yvonne VAN DONGEN received the Magazine Publishers’ Association 

Award for Journalist of the Year (lifestyle) 2003, and the Qantas Travel 

Writer of the Year Award 2003. 

WANG, Gungwu is Professor & Director of the East Asian Institute, 

National University of Singapore. His new book, Anglo-Chinese 

Encounters since 1800 – War, Trade Science & Governance was 

published by Cambridge University Press. It is based on his lectures 

delivered while he was the Smuts Memorial Lecturer and a Visiting 

Fellow of Wolfson. 

Hartmut ZICHE appointed Lecturer in Ancient Litany at Université 

des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG) from September 2004. 

2001 

Paul H BORKOWSKI began the Industrial Design Engineering Course 

at the R.C.A in London in October 2002. 

The Hon Justice G L DAVIES appointed an Officer of the Order of 

Australia for service to the judiciary and to the legal profession on 26 

January 2003. 

Mohammed R HOQUE appointed Assistant Professor of Law 2002. He 

was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship (2003/04) to study for his 

PhD in Law at the University of London. 


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Trevor W R LEE appointed Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, 

University of Manitoba, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, 

Manitoba, Canada and in 2004 received certification in Perioperative 

Transesophageal Echocardiography by the National Board of 

Echocardiography, USA. 

M Alejandro RODRIGUEZ elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of 

Humanities at the University of San Pablo-Ceu, Madrid. 

William SOUTH, Chief Inspector with Cambridge Constabulary, 

awarded a long service medal in June 2003 after completing 22 years 

in the Police force. 

Chi-Chang TEH after completing his MBA at the Judge Institute he 

became Head of Equity Investment Research at Hwang-DBS Vickers 

Research (Malaysia) in August 2002. 

2002 

Hongkyu A CHOE received the 8 th Grand Prix for Poetry from the 

Society of Korean Life Literature on 5 December 2003. 

Jay GOLDEN has been appointed Director of 

SustainableTechnologies, Consortium for the Study of Rapidly 

Urbanizing Regions, Arizona State University. 

Susannah HAGAN has been appointed Reader in Architecture at the 

University of East London from 15 May 2004. 

Jehann JACK appointed research economist in the Eastern Caribbean 

Central Bank 

Friday Adejoh OGWU has been elected to the Committee of 

Cambridge Commonwealth Group. 

Susan OOSTHUIZEN, staff tutor in landscape history and field 

archaeology at the Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing 

Education, has been awarded one of the four national awards for 

History Teaching in Higher Education. This was made by the 

Historical Association, History at the Universities Defence Group and 

the Royal Historical Society, the Subject Centre for History, Classics 

and Archaeology. 


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David A R WILLIAMS QC admitted to the English Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) 

in 2003. 

Elaine WILSON University Lecturer in the Faculty of Education 

awarded a Pilkington Prize Teaching Prize 2004. 

2003 

Karen J NUTT won the American Society of Mammalogists A Brasier 

Howell Award. 

Angeliki PAPAPANAGIOTOU-LEZA appointed President of 

Thessaloniki Administrative Court, Greece. 

Samuel Martin Bailey WELLS is the new Vicar of St Mark’s Church, 

Newnham and he has become a Senior Member of the College. 

2004 

Anthony HUBBARD has won the Best Newspaper Feature Writer 

award at the Qantas Media Awards. 


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Marriages 

Over the past two years we have been informed of the following 

marriages: 

1992 

Ollivier, Philipe to Margreet de Leth 

Hayhurst, Daniel to Michele Denise 

1998 

Morris, Miss Kate to Peter Shaw 

White, Stephen C T to Samantha 

2000 

Aberth, Dr John to Laura Hamilton 

Boucé, Prof. Paul-Gabriel to Dr Elizabeth Durot 

Duteil, Herve to Marilys Aran 

Jamnik, Dr Mateja to Dr Gavin Bierman 

Yamaguchi, Miss Naoko to Kojin Karatini 

Yeo, Dr Giles See How to Dr Jane Goodall 

2001 

Chivasa, Dr Stephen to Delly Dlamini, in Swaziland 

Fowler, Marcus to Delyth Evans 

Hamir, Mr Mohammed Osman to Samiya Seedat 

Henin, Pierre-Jerome to Mrs Pauline Favier 

Jayawardhena, Dr Chanaka to Kawshala Peiris 

McKeating, Alison to Christian Bryant 

Williams, Ms Karen P to Alister L J James 


Ms Dawn Leeder and Professor Howard Chase, 

16 May 2003 

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2002 

Bell, Dr Anthony to Shelley Walsh 

Bravo, Dr M to Emma Farrer 

Harland, Miss Ghislaine to Major Matthew Thorp 

Ninan, Ms Silva to Sean Taylor 

O’Neill, Dr Jacqueline to Dr Toby King 

Singh, Ms Rita to Dr Praveen Singh 

2003 

Bonnefoi, Nicholas to Laititia Maupate 

Bridgman, Todd to Maria Gregory 

Chadwick, Miss Sue to Rev. T Mead 

Eldridge, Christopher 

Giglio, Francesco to Nicola Everitt 

Gunzi, Jonathan to Elisabeth de Lima 

Hallam Mr Stuart, to Laura Millman 

Harter, Dr Jürgen to Catherine Oti, living in Cambridge 

Hoque, Mohammed to Sawghat Sharmeen Monalisa 

Johnston, Dr John to Sally Etheridge 

Kannan, Miss Visalakshi to Sanjeev Raman 

Leeder, Ms Dawn to Prof. Howard Chase 

Lin, Mr Keng-Hsien 

McFeely, Gareth to Sarah Florenz 

Padley, Dr Steven, to Jill Coates, at Tonbridge Castle 

Rodriguez, Dr M A 

Rose, Dr Felicity to Juan Pablo 

Guevara 

Sampson, Dr Lisa Monika to 

Erik Landis 

Toms, Mr Nicholas, to Andrea 

Wong, Albert to Sara 

Ziemele, Dr Ineta to Gudmunden 

Alfredmon 


Shuhei and Takako Amakawa 27 June 2004 

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2004 

Shuhei and Takako Amakawa, at 

Kamakura, living in Yokohama 

Cook, Miss Elena A, to Mr Baker Glenn, 

in Edinburgh 

Davy, Miss Valia L, Whistler, Canada 

(name now Thorburn) 

Edwards, Miss Judy-Ann to Antti-Veikko Rosti, 

in Cambridge 

Preston, Miss Zoe A, to Patrick Smith 

Wood, Miss Emily Thayer to Edward Frixos 

Demetriou, in Boothbay Harbor Maine 


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Births 

Over the past two years we have been informed of the following births 

and adoptions: 

1998 

Ali, Mrs Suryna, a daughter, Tasmin Syalurah 

Staniforth (née), Mrs Elisabeth and Peter Gordon, a son, Nathaniel 

David 

1999 

Le Bras-Brown, Robert and Tanya, a son, Parker 

Sutcliffe, Catherine, a daughter, Joy 

White, Stephen and Samantha, a son, Alexander 

2000 

Cohn Odza, Dr Ellen, a son, Eric Adam 

Erlebach, Dr Christopher, a son, Joshua Nathan 

Sutcliffe, Ms Catherine, a daughter, Joy 

Hayhurst, Daniel, a fourth child and second daughter, Abigail Mary 

2001 

Ali, Mrs Suryna, a son, Muhammed Hazim 

Asaka, Prof. Yoko, a son, Hiro Kazu 

Mühleisen, Martin, a daughter, Fiona 

Rose, Dr Felicity and Juan Pablo Guevara, a daughter, Amy Gabriela 

Schmiesing, Dr Ann and Axel Reitzig, a daughter, Stephanie 

Sharpe, Dr Pamela and Derek Pennington, a daughter from South 

Korea, Mee-Yeon Frances 

Staniforth (née), Mrs. Elisabeth and Peter Gordon, a daughter, 

Charlotte Grace 

Sutcliffe, Ms Catherine, a daughter, Anna 

Yeo, Dr Giles See How, a son, Harry 


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2002 

Arancibia, Fernando and Magdalena Plaza, a son, Inigo 

Cross, Mr William (Sandy) A M and Helen Duffy, a daughter, Isabelle 

Mary Lera, 

Duteil, Herve and Marilys, a son, Thadeé 

Ehinger, Andreas and Britt, a daughter, Dorothea Marie 

Erlebach, Dr Christopher, a daughter, Naomi Grace 

Fowler, Marcus and Delyth, a son, Hugo 

Henin, Pierre-Jerome and Pauline, Virgile 

Jaafar, Miss Azlina, a daughter, Dina Hani Sofea 

Jamnik, Dr Mateja and Dr Gavin Bierman, a daughter, Hana 

Jauhiainen, Marko and Merja, a son, Max Mikael 

Kundu, Tirthadip and Barna, a daughter, Tirna 

Le Bras-Brown, Robert and Tanya, a son, Hudson Luc 

Lee, Dr Tevor and Cheryl Jerome, Samuel and Isabella 

Morris (née), Mrs Kate and Peter Shaw, a daughter, Jessica Mary 

Nayar, Dr Pramod, a son, Pranav Nayar 

Nuyts, Arnaud and Carol Moal-Nuyts, a daughter, Tess 

Serra, Dr Renata and Alioune Sow, a son, Emile 

Shelley, Dr Judith, a daughter, Madeline Alys 

Sutcliffe, Catherine, a daughter, Anna 

Ueda, Massaya and Yuko, a daughter, Asuka 

Vasciannie, Dr Stephen and Lisa, a son, Sean Andrew 

White, Stephen and Samantha, a son, Nicander 

2003 

Abela, Ms Sharon, a son, Harry Palmer 

Bousquet Wu, Mrs Christelle and Dr David Wu, a son, Nathau 

Benjamin Lesheng 

Bowman, Mr Conor and Sylvia, a third child, Ruth Jane 

Cohn Odza, Dr Ellen, a daughter, Emily Beth 

Flynn, Leo, a daughter, Meabh Eilís Flynn O’Halloran 

Galluzzo, Dr Geoff and Mrs Ann, a first grandson, and a first 

grand-daughter 

Gordon, Mrs Elisabeth, a son, Joshua Peter 

Hamir, Mr Mohammed Osman and Samiya, a daughter, Zadiyyah 

Huntbach (née), Dr Julie and Dr Brian Thompson, a son, 

Ruaraidh James 

Ida, Professor Takanori, a daughter, Asuka 

Johnson, Dr Christopher A, a first grand-daughter 

Ninan, Ms Silva and Sean Taylor, a son, Samuel 


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O’Brien, Dr Claire and Dr Richard Prager, a daughter, Agnes Rose 

O’Sullivan, Dr Patrick, now at University of Canterbury, a son, Luke 

Reavell, Mrs Anna (née Campbell) and Duncan, a son, Benjamin 

William 

Rose, Dr Felicity and Juan Pablo Guevara, a daughter, Elena Alexandra 

Satomi, Mr Susumu, a second son, Nobuaki 

Schmiesing, Dr Ann and Axel Reitzig, a daughter, Elizabeth Ingrid 

Stankler, Mr Jonathan, a son, Benjamin Isaac 

Taylor, Dr Paul and Elizabeth, a son, Reeves 

Yao, Dr James (Yudong) and Jiaping, a daughter, Emma Qinglei 

2004 

Dodgson, Dr Neil and Catherine Gibbs, a daughter, Rebekah Miriam 

Higginson, Dr Roland, a daughter, Alexandra 

Jimenez, Mr Juan Pablo, a third son, Simon 

Marshall, Mr Alex R W, a daughter, Lucy Ann 

Seet, Mr Pi-Shen and Patricia, twin daughters, Min-En and Wei-En 

Whittington, Mrs Joyce, a first grandchild, Xander Alan Kaj 

New Arrivals in College 

On 23 March 2004, Pi-Shen and Patricia Seet, who have a son Kee-An, 

born on 23 February 2000, became the proud parents of two very 

small bundles of joy when their twin girls, Min-En and Wei-En 

arrived. Pi-Shen (from Singapore) is a Wolfson student doing a PhD in 

Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management, and he is 

often to be seen walking the girls around the College, to much oohing 

and aah-ing by female members of staff! 


Min-En on the left and Wei-En on right

Harry doing Spring Painting 2003 

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College Staff – New Appointments 

Mrs Michelle Searle was appointed as the Registrar’s Assistant in June 

2003. 

Miss Charli Smith left her post as President’s Assistant in December 

2003 to return to America. (She is replaced by Mrs Chris Gilbert.) 

Mrs Hilary Pattison, the College Librarian, left Wolfson in August 2004 

to join her husband in Oxford and to work at Magdalen College 

library. Her successor, Ms Anna Jones joins this College on 1 January 

2005. 

Mrs Martine Mockford, undergradute admissions Secretary left the 

College in May 2003 and her post has been taken by Mrs Amy Barnett. 


Mr Alan Hawkins joined the Maintenance 

Department in July 2004. 

Mrs Sheila Betts succeeded Mrs Judy Lowe 

as Administrator of the Wolfson Courses on 1 

October 2004 

Mr Trevor Pellegrini has joined the Porters’ 

Lodge team from May 2004.

Professor Karen Spärck-Jones, Dr Joan Whitehead, President, Vice-Chancellor, Andrew Dougherty 

Commemoration Dinner 2004 

l–r President, Andrew Troup, Professor Lipstein, the Vice-Chancellor, Faith Johnson, Margaret Martin, the Bishop of Ely 

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The Wolfson boat house by Tom Davies 

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Fellowship in Order of Seniority 

as at 1 October 2004 

Title (A) = Professorial 

Title (B) = Reserved (University post holders only) 

Title (C) = Official (University or College post holders) 

Title (D) = Research 

Title (E) = Extraordinary 

Sir Lawrence Collins (E) 

Dr O M Edwards (C) 

Dr J Cathie (C) 

Dr Marie Lovatt (E) 

Mr E Johnson (E) 

Prof. A C Minson (A) 

Dr M Dupree (E) 

Prof. J Hughes (E) 

Prof. W F Blakemore (A) 

Prof. B C J Moore (A) 

Dr J M Whitehead (B) 

Dr Sheelagh Lloyd (B) 

Prof. N R M de Lange (A) 

Mr C G Gill (B) 

President 

Dr. Gordon Johnson 


Dr J Henderson (E) 

Dr S S Large (C) 

Prof. D H Hargreaves (E) 

Dr J K H Rees (B) 

Mr D P F McCallum (C) 

Dr J Seagrave (C) 

Dr A Karpas (B) 

Dr P M R Beaumont (B) 

Dr J H Brackenbury (C) 

Dr I Day (D) 

Mr B J Kemp (B) 

Prof. M Burrows (A) 

Prof. J Naughton (E) 

Prof. P L Weissberg (A) 

Miss P Hyndman (E) 

Prof. I M Goodyer (A) 

Mr A K Wilson (E) 

Dr D W B MacDonald (B) 

Dr I Cross (C) 

Prof. G Khan (A) 

Dr R V Mason (C) 

Dr N Peabody (D) 

Dr S T Smith (E) 

Dr C M C Allen (C) 

Dr J S Davis (C) 

Dr F Orsini (C) 

Dr T W Davies (C) 

Dr R Barker (C)

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Dr J R Flowerdew (B) 

Dr E A Lord (C) 

Prof. N Oliver (A) 

Dr T Mead (A) 

Dr N A Stelmashenko (C) 

Prof. D Maskell (A) 

Dr K Steemers (C) 

Mr T W Ridgman (C) 

Dr S K Church (C) 

Dr P M Sewell (D) 

Dr C R Barker (B) 

Dr S Hand (C) 

Mr P Kirby (C) 

Dr J H Sinclair (C) 

Dr R Bujdoso (C) 

Dr R J Mynott (E) 

Mr M R Bienias (C) 

Dr C A Jones (C) 

Mrs S Bowring (C) 

Dr W R Paterson (B) 

Ms C Counsell (C) 

Mr D J Hall (C) 

Mr G P Allen (C) 

Ms A Murray (C) 

Dr P D D’Eath (B) 

Prof. G P C Salmond (A) 

Dr S P Brooks (C) 

Prof. W Marslen-Wilson (D) 

Dr M Chhowalla (D) 

Dr D Grivev (D) 

Dr S Otto (D) 

Dr J D A Clark (C) 

Dr A Webster (D) 

Dr C Van Wyhe (D) 

Miss K A Day (C) 

Dr R Serra (C) 

Dr D Grant (E) 

Prof. A J Pollard (A) 

Dr S G Thompson (D) 

Dr J D Firth (C) 

Dr D Frost (C) 


Prof. M Bobrow (A) 

Dr A J Herbert (E) 

Dr A A Copestake (C) 

Ms A McGowan (C) 

Dr M G Kuhn (C) 

Dr E C Kerrigan (D) 

Dr G Held (C) 

Prof. J A Bradley (A) 

Dr E Payne (D) 

Dr C Grey (C) 

Mr T J Winter (C) 

Dr D J Parker (D) 

Dr H Hägele (D) 

Ds D Jackson (D) 

Dr E A S Keeler (D) 

Mr N C Kettley (D) 

Dr V Paranavitane (D) 

Mr D M Richerby (D) 

Dr F Tinti (D) 

Dr R Spiegel (D) 

Dr M Webster (D) 

Mrs L Alcantara (C) 

Prof. E Bullmore (A) 

Mr A Reid (C) 

Dr J Zhang (D) 

Dr J Davis (D) 

Dr T D’Andrea (D) 

Dr T Grant (D) 

Dr M J Dauncey (D) 

Dr A P A Kent (C) 

Dr B Laurent (C) 

Dr S M Oosthuizen (C) 

Dr R De Marco De Hormaeche (D) 

Dr C Hormaeche (D) 

Dr N J Wareham (C) 

Dr C H Chothia (D) 

Prof. J A Crowcroft (A) 

Prof. G Murphy (A) 

Dr P J Bennett (D) 

Mr A J Brennan (D) 

Mr A A Faisal (D)

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Dr L E Hueso (D) 

Dr Y Krishnan-Ghosh (D) 

Dr R G Lacerda (D) 

Dr F M Marchetti (D) 

Dr C Ó Cofaigh (D) 

Dr A Schekochihin (D) 

Dr F Pulvermüller (D) 

Mr F M Carreira Da Silva (D) 

Prof. P B Jones (A) 

Prof. R E Dewar Jr (D) 

Dr I H Gregor (D) 

Dr R E Empson (D) 

Dr P Arestis (D) 

Dr V Koronakis (C) 

Dr D Jarvis (C) 

Tom Davies painting 


Ms F Cornish (C) 

Dr D Adams (D) 

Mr T N Bridgman (D) 

Dr G Carlet (D) 

Ms A-A Cohen (D) 

Mr P M F J da Costa (D) 

Ms K J Dean (D) 

R A Georgiou (D) 

Mr P Goyal (D) 

Dr K L Rennie (D) 

Ms J M Thomson (D) 

Mr C B Van Dixhoorn (D) 

Mr A Morteani (D) 

Dr R Alexander (D) 

Ms J-H S Yang (D)

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The Honorary Fellowship in 

Order of Seniority 

as at 1 December 2003 

Lord Wolfson 

Professor W Owen Chadwick 

Lord Richardson 

Dr Lee Seng Tee 

Mr Michael Mennim 

Sir John Sparrow 

Lord Bridge 

Sir Christopher Benson 

Sir Hans Kornberg 

Judge Malcolm Wilkey 

Professor Hugh Bevan 

Rev Dr Ernest Nicholson 

Sir David Williams 

Professor Mary Hesse 

Mr Jack N King 


Professor Leslie Zines 

Sir Michael Hardie Boys 

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 

Baroness Scotland of Asthal 

Professor Suzanne Cory 

Professor Kurt Lipstein 

Sir John Stevens 

Professor William A Brown 

The Rt Rev Dr Anthony Russell 

Sir Leszek K Borysiewicz 

Professor Andrew von Hirsch 

Professor Karen Spärck-Jones 

Professor Alison Richard 

Sir Michael Jackson 

Lord Soulsby 

Honorary Fellows Mr Jack N King and Mr Michael Mennim at the Commemoration Dinner 2004

Dr Lee Seng Tee and Mrs 

Betty Wu Lee with their 

grandaughter Ms Dawn 

Chan (Newnham) and 

her father Mr Gaston 

Chan at General 

Admission 2002 

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Dr Lee Seng Tee 

The President on the steps of the Fisher Fine Art Library 

(formerly the Furness Library) University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr Lee made possible the refurbishment of the library 

when he studied there in the 1940s 


Dr Lee Seng Tee and the President Singapore 2003

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Emeritus Fellows in Order of Seniority 

as at 1 October 2004 

Dr Ralph H J Brown 

Mr Frederick M Algate 

Dr Alan Burgess 

Dr David Briggs 

Dr David Franks 

Mr J Graham Pollard 

Dr Bridget Allchin 

Dr Arthur R Jennings 

Dr Peter D Storie-Pugh 

Dr Chu Hsiau-Pin 

Mr Bill P Kirkman 

Dr John T Abrams 

Mr Richard V Nicholls 

Mr Terence P Waldron 

Mr James V Kinnier Wilson 

Dr Donald V Wilson 

Mr Bill J Ridgman 

Dr D’Almero Kok 

Professor Paul H Hirst 

Mr David R Wilson 

Dr Henry W West 

Dr David W B Sainsbury 

Dr Peter Whittlestone 

Mr A Roger Akester 

Dr Cecil S Treip 

Dr David Briggs 

Dr Henry T Tribe 

Mr Peter Turner 


Dr R Stuart McGregor 

Dr Eric L Miller 

Dr Thomas J L Alexander 

Mr Stephen Bragg 

Mr J Mike Sharman 

Dr Rudolph Hanka 

Dr Ian M S Wilkinson 

Mr Graham W J Rennie 

Dr Roger M Connan 

Mr Witold F Tulasiewicz 

Professor V Roy Switsur 

Dr David E Bostock 

Professor E J Chris Polge 

Mr John G Snaith 

Dr David Clode 

Mr Mac Dowdy 

Dr Malcolm Warner 

Mr Rex A Walford 

Professor Michael L G Redhead 

Dr S Keith Eltringham 

Dr Alexander D Tait 

Dr Janet West 

Mr Michael E Richardson 

Dr John W Maunder 

Dr Margaret E Shepherd 

Dr Norma Emerton 

Dr Brian D Cox

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The Emeritus Fellows’ Society 

2002–2004 

Norma Emerton 

The Society has 53 members. During the 2003 we were saddened by 

the deaths of Roger Needham and Nigel Wallace, but we were glad to 

welcome as new members Alan Burgess, John Maunder, Margaret 

Shepherd and Karen Spärck-Jones. The members are a varied group. 

Many are retired in name only, and all seem to have strong interests. 

Varied as they are, they all have in common their intellectual curiosity 

and sociability. They have joined the Society in order to keep in 

contact with Wolfson and with one another. 

Our programme of outings and social gatherings reflects these two 

characteristics. In December 2002 Janet West took us to the Scott 

Polar Research Institute where she works on scrimshaw – sailors’ 

engravings on bone, ivory, etc.- and we admired these delicate and 

expressive pictures. In May 2003 we went to the enigmatic Bronze Age 

archaeological site at Flag Fen, Peterborough, with its thousands of 

posts from an ancient fen causeway that has puzzling religious 

connotations. After a visit to the fine mediaeval wall paintings of 

Longthorpe Tower we travelled on the Nene Valley steam railway, a 

nostalgic trip to the more recent past. 

In February we enjoyed Gordon and Faith’s hospitality at lunch in 

the President’s Lodge. He gave an interesting talk on the College and 

the University, their plans and prospects, and we valued the chance 

for questions and discussion. Two pleasant social occasions with 

guests were the March Spring Luncheon and the June Annual Dinner 

at which the speaker was Michael Richardson, the Director of 

Continuing Education. He spoke interestingly on the University’s 

commitment to extension teaching from the nineteenth century to 

the present. 

I am glad that Bill Kirkman, who suggested the Wolfson oral history 

project to the Emeritus Fellows, has written a note (below) 

commending it to any members or friends who remember the earlier 

times of the College. 


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An Oral Archive for Wolfson 

Bill Kirkman 

When University College began its life in 1965 it was small, and 

everybody knew everyone. Even in the early 1970s it was possible for 

most members of the College to know each other, and to know how 

the College was developing. Yet of course we all tend to forget the 

personal and anecdotal detail as the years go by. 

The Society of Emeritus Fellows decided to take the initiative in 

creating a record of the memories, anecdotes and personal 

reminiscences of the early members of the College. We have begun to 

record these recollections in the hope that, over time, we shall 

assemble an extensive oral archive which will be useful when 

someone comes to write the history of the College. 

The “official” information exists, in minutes of meetings and so on. 

What we hope to gather is the unofficial material: the “what it was like 

... how I saw it” memories. 

If you remember the College in its early days, please consider 

taking part. We shall record your memories in informal conversation. 

If you would like to discover 

more, get in touch with Norma 

Emerton, the Honorary 

Secretary of the Emeritus 

Fellows’ Society, or with Bill 

Kirkman – just leave a note in 

the pigeon hole. 

Refurbished Parlour 


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Visitors 2002–2004 

Col. Karim bin Abdul WC Royal Malaysian Airforce 

Prof. Michiyo Adachi VS Osaka Women’s University 

Mr Gray Africa VS Manufacturing, Gatsby 

Prof. Purushottam Agrawal VF Hindi 

Jawaharlal Nehru University, 

New Delhi 

Dr Seema Alavi VF Smuts Visiting Fellow, Jamia 

Millia Islamia University, New 

Delhi 

Prof. Kazuo Aoki VS English Renaissance literature 

and culture Chuo University 

Dr Charles Ivan Armstrong VS English Literature 

University of Bergen, English 

Department 

Dr Luca Antonio Asmonti VS Analysis of the orations of 

Demosthenes and Isocrates, 

focused on political ideology 

Mohd bin Mohd Zinin Bakri WC Royal Malaysian Police 

Dr Leslie John Bank VF Urban life in 20th Century 

Africa 

Rhodes University, Institute 

of Social and Economic 

Research 

Mr George Barr WC Cambridgeshire Constabulary 

Prof. Allan Douglas Barton VF Economics/Accounting 

The Australian National 

University 

Mr Rob Bastable WC City of London Police 

Dr Michael Belgrave VF Race Relations History, 

Massey University, 

New Zealand 

Mrs Barbara L. Bell VS Reference Librarian 

Andrews Library, College of 

Wooster, Ohio 


Mr Anthony Brenton 

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Prof.Vicente Bellver Capella VS Bioethics and natural law 

University of Valencia 

Dr J. Boyd H. Black VF The interaction between 

national culture, legal 

systems, financial markets 

and labour markets 

Queen’s University, Belfast 

Dr Catharina Maria Blomberg VF Initiation rites among the 

samurai in feudal Japan 

University of Stockholm 

Mr Anthony Russell Brenton VF International Studies 

British Embassy, Washington 

Dr Dolores L Burke VS Archaeology 

University of 

Arkansas/Yarmouk University 

Archaeological Expedition 

Dr Fiona Ruth Burns VF Law 

University of Sydney 

Mr Shiu-keung (Ellis) Chan WC Hong Kong Immigration 

Department 

Ms Suet Mui Jacqueline Chan WC Hong Kong SARG Immigration 

Department 

Ms Nora Chandler WC Kent County Constabulary 

Mr Jim Chapman WC M.O.D. Police 

Mr Kin Wah Edmund Cheung WC Immigration Department, 

Hong Kong 

Prof. Hongkyu A Choe VS Philosophical Background of 

English Romantic Poetry 

Chung Ang University, Korea 

Prof. Leonard Li Chu VF Media and Development in 

China 

Hong Kong Baptist University 

Centre for Media and 

Communication Research 

Ms Deborah Coddington PF North and South Magazine, 

Auckland 

Dr Eran Solomon Cohen VS Linguistics 

Hebrew University of 

Jerusalem, Department of 

Linguistics 


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Dr Kim Mikkel Cohen VS Quaternary Geology 

Max-Planck Institute for 

Biogeochemistry, Jena, 

Germany 

Prof. Robert Frank Conti VF Management Studies 

Bryant College, Rhode Island 

Dr Kate Victoria McDonald VF Arabic Literature 

Daniels CU Faculty of Oriental 

Studies 

Mr Samuel Bran Daws VF International Law 

Executive Office of the 

Secretary-General, United 

Nations 

Prof. Elisabetta De Antoni VF Dissenting Economists in 

Monetary Theory 

Università degli Studi di 

Trento 

Ms Anna Diallo VF Democratic Governance 

Strategic Objective Team 

Leader, USAID/Bamako, 

Republic of Mali 

Mr Ashley D’Mello PF The Times of India, Mumbai 

Dr Anita Doraisami VS Growth and Recovery in East 

Asia after the Financial Crisis 

Monash University 

Dr Emorc Cyril Emordi VF Town life in the 20th 

Century 

Ambrose Alli University 

Dr Ignacio Escribano PF Journalism 

La Nacion, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina 

Mr Fai-Hung Fong WC Hong Kong Customs and 

Excise 

Mr Michael Stephen Fowler WC Cambridgeshire Fire and 

Rescue Service 

Mr Paul Fredericks WC Cambridgeshire Fire Service 

Prof. Akira Fujimadi VS English Literature 

Rikkyo University 

Mr Karsten Gaede VS Rights of the Defence (Human 

Rights Act 1998) 

University of Zurich 


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Mr Keith Garwood WC Becfordshire Police 

Prof. Ian James Gentles VF English Revolution, 1632–52 

Glendon College, York 

University, Toronto 

Prof. Carl Gerbrandt VF Spanish music Theatre 

Zarzuela form 

University of Northern 

Colorado, Greeley 

Mohd Ghazi Ismail WC Royal Malaysian Navy 

Mr Goutam Ghosh PF The Hindu, Chennai 

Prof. Frank Giarratani VF Economics 

Pittsburgh University 

Prof. Charles Glassick VS Higher Education 

Administration Carnegie 

Foundation for the 

Advancement of Teaching, 

Reinhardt College, GA 

Mr Richard Gummery WC Kent County Constabulary 

Prof. Frederick A H Hale VF History 

University of Stellenbosch 

Prof. Charles Hampton VS Philosophy of Mathematics 

The College of Wooster 

Professor James Hanrahan VF McGill University, Dept of 

Educational and Counselling 

Psychology 

Mr Benjamin bin Hasbie WC Royal Malaysian Police 

Professor Mitsuru Hatsukawa VS Professor of Human Rights, 

Yokohama City University 

Mr Seamus Patrick Heaney WC Cambridgeshire Fire and 


Dr Janet Hiebert VS Associate Professor of Law, 

Queen’s University, Kingston, 

Canada 

Prof.William Hudson Herman VF Genetic Epidemiology of type 

2 diabetes 

University of Michigan 

Mr Neil Charles Herriott WC City of London Police 

Dr Janet Lee Hiebert VS UK Human Rights Act 

Queen’s University, Kingston, 

Canada 


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Ms Sayuri Hiwatashi VS English Literature 

Meiji University, School of 

Agriculture 

Mrs Meredith Hooper VS The work of seabird ecologists 

in the Antarctic 

Dr Tatjana Hörnle VF Criminology 

Universität München, Institut 

für Rechtsphilosophie 

Mr Brian Leslie Howe VF Implications of life course 

transitions to social protection 

University of Melbourne, 

United Faculty of Theology 

Dr Renate Thelma Howe VF Settlement House Movement 

in Britain – Australian/USA 

comparisons 

Deakin University, Australia 

Mr Anthony Hubbard PF Sunday Star-Times, 

Wellington, NZ 

Mr Robert Clive Hull WC Beds and Luton Fire and 


Dr Syed Ejaz Hussain VS Medieval Indian History, 

Numismatics, Epigraphy, 

Manuscriptology 

Visva-Bharati University, 

Santiniketan, India 

Prof. Alan F Johnson VS Biblical Studies 

Wheaton College 

Ms Rachel Wawjiru (Kangethe) VF Special needs education 

Kamau Kenyatta University 

Dr Artemis Karnava VF Visiting Research Student, CU 

Faculty of Classics 

Prof. Ajit V Karnik VF Economic development and 

public economics 

University of Mumbai 

Mr David Kerr PF BBC Newsnight 

Dr Moo Kon Kim VS Political Communication and 

the Role of Media: a 

comparative study of East 

Asian Countries 

Dongguk University, Korea 


Dr Benjamin Kipkorir 

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Mr Sang Do Kim VF Providing, managing and 

improvising social housing 

Ministry of Construction and 

Transportation, public 

Participation Division, Korea 

Prof.Toshimichi Kimura VS History of British Political 

Thought (Francis Bacon) 

Kyushu University, Faculty of 

Law and Politics 

Dr Benjamin Edgar Kipkorir VF Consulting archival materials 

in the UK 

Dr Menahem Kister VS Rabbinic literature 

Institute for Jewish Studies, 

The Hebrew University of 

Jerusalem 

Professor Seiei Kobayashi VS English Literature 

Chuo University 

Dr Paul Nzinga Komba PF/ Kinshasa 

VF 

Prof. Arnold Koslow VS City University of New York 

Mr Petros Krystalakos PF Journalism 

Naftemporiki, Athens, Greece 

Mr Ranjit Kumar PF Navbharat Times, New Delhi 

Mr Shashikumar Velath PF Journalist 

Kumaran New Delhi, India 

Ms Nimi Kurian PF The Hindu, Chenai 

Mr Boon Siew David Lee PF News Editor, The Malay Mail, 

Kuala Lumpur 

Dr Seung-Ah Lee VS Applied Linguistics 

Professor William Bruce Leslie VS Professor of History, SUNY at 

Brockport 

Mr Chi-Chiu William Leung WC HK Customs & Excise 

Mr Kwok-hung Leung WC Hong Kong Immigration 

Department 

Mr George W. Liebmann VF Biographical studies of 

American writers on legal 

subjects 

Practising Lawyer, Maryland 

Prof. David Joseph Linden VF Neuroscience 

The Johns Hopkins University 

School of Medicine 


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Mr Cheun-shing (Alex) Liu WC Hong Kong Customs and 

Excise 

Chief Inspector Stephen WC Cambridgeshire Police 

Clifford Lodge 

Dr Kodira Monnapa Lokesh VS South Asian Studies 

Prof.William Lubenow VF History 

The Richard Stockton College 

of New Jersey 

Mrs Angela Mary Lucas VF English, National University 

of Ireland 

Prof. Peter Jeremy Lucas VF English 

National University of Ireland, 

Maynooth 

Mr Andrew Thomas Lyttle WC Kent Police 

Dr Benjamin Macias VS National University of Mexico 

Mr Christiaan Pieter Malan VF African Studies 

Rand Afrikaans University, 

Dept. of Athropology and 

Development Studies 

Mr Stephen James Martin WC Northern Ireland Police 

Service 

Dr Reuben M Matheka VF History of Wildlife 

Conservation in Kenya 

Egerton University, Njoro, 

Kenya 

Mr Ken McGoogan VS/ Arctic History 

PF 

Mr Carl Sorab Ratan Mehta WC Metropolitan Police 

Mr Gopakumara Menon PF Malayala Manorama, 

Kottayam, India 

Ms Meena Rukmini Menon VF Job losses in the textile 

industry in Bombay, Bombay 

Mrs Clare Mitchell WC HSBC 

Prof. Kazuho Mizuno VS Theoretical (English) 

Linguistics 

Hiroshima Shudo University 

Prof. Reuben T. Mondejar VS Teaching of Entrepreneurship 

in the context of cross-cultural 

management studies 

City University of Hong Kong 


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Mr Richard Leigh Morgan WC Lancashire Police 

Mr Arpan Mukherjee : PF The Hindustan Times, Kolkata 

Mr Tendai Mutseyekwa PF The Standard, Harare, 

Zimbabwe 

Ms Isabel Nanton PF Journalist 

Nanton Group 

Mr Andrew Albert Neal VS Methods of studying Asia in 

the school curriculum 

Bacchus Marsh Grammar 

School, Australia 

Col.Nik Zainin Abdul Rahman VS Training Management 

Dr Karen Joyce Nutt VF Assessing whether mice 

choose their mates based on 

genetic dissimilarity 

CU Department of Zoology 

Dr Satoshi Ohoka VS Management Studies 

Nihon University 

Dr Kenneth Samson Ombongi VF Urban life and disease in 20th 

century Kenya 

University of Nairobi, 

Department of History 

Mr Frederick Baffour Opoku PF Journalism 

The Ghana Times 

Judge Helen O’Sullivan VF/ Practising Judge 

VS District Court, Queensland 

Prof.Victor Benjie Owhotu VS Education 

University of Lagos, Faculty of 

Education 

Dr Mathias Samuel VF South Asian Studies 

Soundra Pandian Centre for the Study of 

Developing Countries, Delhi 

Mrs Angeliki VF Asylum Law and Human 

Papapanagiotou-Leza Rights 

Thessaloniki Administrative 

Court of First Instance 

Prof.Wen Pei VS Theoretical Linguistics, 

Sanskrit 

Nanjing University 


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Miss Nina Persak VS “Harm Principle” and its 

bearing on Slovenian criminal 

law 

CU Centre for Penal Theory 

and Penal Ethics 

Prof. Ray Petridis VF Economics 

Murdoch University, Western 

Australia 

Mr Stefan Plasa VV Universität Greifswald 

Mr Mark Ponting WC Kent Police 

Prof. Joseph Michael Powell VF Historical Geography 

Monash University 

Mr John Pratt WC Tyne & Wear Metropolitan Fire 

Brigade 

Prof. Qiong Qu VS Three Gorges University, 

College of Foreign Language 

and Literature 

Col. Abdul Rani bin Ismail WC Royal Military Police Corps 

Prof. Paul Murray Redmond VF International Corporate 

Responsibility 

University of New South Wales 

Prof.Virginia Marie Richards VF Auditory perception research 

University of Pennsylvania 

Prof. Raymond Edwin VS Choral Music 

Robinson Palm Beach Atlantic College 

Prof. Jarlath Ronayne VF Historical background to 

religious discrimination in the 

Universities 

Victoria University, Australia 

Professor Jerome Rose VF Anthropology, University of 

Arkansas 

Prof Gabriel Moshe VF Modern Egyptian 

Rosenbaum language, literature and 

drama 

Hebrew University of 

Jerusalem 

Mr Abdul Rashid Roslan WC Malaysian Armed Forces Staff 

College 

Professor William C Rounds VF Computer Science, University 

of Michigan 


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Professor Kathreen Ruckstuhl Large animal behaviour, CU 

Department of Zoology 

Mr Norihiro Sakane VS British Planning System from 

the viewpoint of 

environmental management 

Ministry of Land, 

Infrastructure & Transport, 

Japan 

Dr Jordi Sánchez Martí VS Middle English Romances 

Institucio de les Letres 

Catalanes, Barcelona 

Dr Eleni Sakellariou VF Southern Italy and the Central 

and Eastern Mediterranean in 

the Late Middle Ages 

University of Ioannina 

Prof. José Alberto Sanz VS International Financial Law 

University 

Prof. Beth Barton Schweiger VF Literacy in early 19th Century 

America 

University of Arkansas 

Prof. Kurt Karl Seelmann VF Penal Theory and Penal Ethics 

University of Basel 

Prof Masahisa Seguchi VS Philosophy of gerontology in 

the ancient world 

Nagoya Institute of 

Technology, Graduate School 

of Engineering 

Prof Aleksander Piotr Sek VV Perception of modulated 

sounds by hearing impaired 

listeners 

Adam Mickiewicz University, 

Inst. of Acoustics 

Dr Gregory Edward Philip VF UK and European 

Shailer corporate governance 

developments and conflicts 

Australian National University 

Mr Mark Shaw WC South Yorkshire Fire Service 

Professor Kazumi Shimodate VS English, Tohoku Gakuin 

University, Sendai 

Prof. Stuart Sillars VS English Literature 

University of Bergen 


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Prof. Andrew Perry Simester VF Legal Philosophy 

University of Nottingham 

Mr Habhajan Singh PF Focus Editor, Malaysia in 

Business 

Mr Kwok Leung Paul Sit WC Hong Kong Customs and 

Excise 

Mr Krishnan Srinivasan VF Deputy Secretary-General, 

Commonwealth Secretariat 

Dr Gerd Strohmeier VS Political Science 

University of Passau, 

Department of Political 

Science 

Ms Christina Stucky PF Johannesburg, South Africa 

Dr Sundar Sundar VF War and the Construction of 

Patriotism and Citizenship in 

South Asia 

Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Centre for Law, and Governance 

Dr Pauli Tuukka Talvio VF Numismatics 

National Museum of Finland 

Ms Lyndal Ann Taylor VS Law, University of Technology, 

Sydney 

Dr Paul Malcolm Taylor VF Law 

The Rt. Hon. Emund VF Review of the Judicial 

Walter Thomas process in New Zealand 

Court of Appeal of New 

Zealand 

Mr Kgathatso Tlhakudi VS Manufacturing, Gatsby 

Visiting Scholar 

Dr Lovemore Togarasei VF Religious Studies 

University of Zimbabwe 

Dr Jan Toporowski VS Biography of Michal Kalecki 

(1899–1970) 

South Bank University 

Dr Aradhna Tripati VF CU Department of Earth 

Sciences 

Mr Tadami Uemura VS English Culture and 

Literature, with particular 

reference to the poet William 

Blake 

Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, 

Japan 


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Prof.Takeshi Uno VS English Language and Culture 

Meiji University 

Mr Arun Varma PF Journalist 

Indiasyndicate Limited 

Dr Dirk Axel Verse VF Research on “wrongful 

trading” 

Max-Planck Institute, 

Hamburg 

Dr Ekaterina Vyazova VF Russian Art History 

Russian Institute for Art 

History 

Mr James Njoroge Wachai PF Journalism 

The People Newspaper, 

Nairobi, Kenya 

Prof. John Wall VF John Donne and St Paul’s 

Cathedral 

North Carolina State University 

Prof. Haihua Wang VS Applied linguistics 

Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

Mr Peter David Wedlake WC Kent Police 

Ms Mariola Wiktor PF Dziennik Lodzki, Lodz, Poland 

Prof. David Clair Williams VF Law 

Indiana University School of 

Law 

Mr Stuart Williams WC Lancashire Constabulary 

Prof. Susan Hoffman Williams VF Law 

Indiana University School of 

Law 

Dr Akemi Yaguchi VS Literature in Transition from 

19th Century to 20th Century 

Hiroshima Shudo University 

Dr Shoji Yamada VS Applied Informatics 

International Research Center 

for Japanese Studies, Kyoto 

Emeritus Prof.Tashiki VS British and American Studies, 

Yamamoto Keisen Jugakuen College 

Prof. Susumu Yamauchi VS British and European Tax 

Systems 

Fukuoka University 


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Ms Mun Ching Yap PF Journalism 

Malaysiakini.com, Kuala 

Lumpur 

Mr Koon Hing Richard Yu WC Hong Kong 

YB Tun Daim Zainuddin VF MP for Merbok, Malaysia 

Prof. Stephen Addam Zeff VS International Accounting 

Standards 

Rice University, Houston, 

Texas 

Dr Ying Zhu VS Management 

Division of Philosophy and 

Law, Australian National 

University 

Prof. Leslie Zines HF Law 

Division of Philosophy and 

Law, Australian National 

University 

Prof. Ezra Zubrow VF Anthropology 

SUNY at Buffalo 

Dr Tom Zwart VF Constitutional and 

Administrative Law 

University of Utrecht 


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Obituaries 

Professor Paul-Gabriel Boucé 1936–2004 

Janet West 

With the greatest sorrow we learnt of the death of Paul-Gabriel on 

12 July. 

As Professor at the University of Paris, Institut du Monde 

Anglophone, Sorbonne Nouvelle 111, he first came to Wolfson College 

as a Visiting Fellow in the summer of 1974. For his research on the 18th 

century novel, he found it easier to use the Cambridge University 

Library than the Bibliothéque Nationale. Conventional obituaries will 

testify to his formidable scholarship and encyclopaedic knowledge: 

perhaps they will also mention his success in representing France in 

the “Round Europe Quiz” on the BBC Radio. 

This is to pay tribute to Paul as a friend. He gracefully accepted our 

truncation of his name and took to announcing his return with “the 

Frogs are back”. Political correctness was not for him. Paul was a 

person with great warmth, charm and a sense of humour which made 

him a welcome companion. He was generous and thoughtful of 

others. He was never exclusive in College: anyone nearby would be 

included in the conversation, should they wish. Naturally, he 

acquired a wide circle of friends. He also shared with us his French 

colleagues, creating more friendships. As with swallows in summer 

we welcomed his return. 

Paul is survived by his wife Elizabeth, son Hugh, daughter Anne 

and the grandchildren. 

Dr Chang Hsin-Chang Elected Fellow 1972 Emeritus Fellow 1983 

Jack King 

The College has been informed that Dr Chang died during the past 

year but no other information about his death is known. Dr Chang 

was a University Lecturer in Chinese in the Faculty of Oriental Studies 

and had been in Cambridge for many years with his wife and family. 

He was awarded the Stanislaus Jubilee Prize for 1975 by the Academie 


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des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France for his book 

‘Chinese Literature: Popular Fiction and Drama’. He and his wife were 

keen musicians and violin players. His wife, Nien-Chuang Chang, had 

also taught Chinese Language at the University. He had gained his 

Ph.D from the University of Edinburgh. 

Professor John Clayton 1943–2003 Visiting Fellow 

1988–89 and 

May–July 2002 

Professor John Clayton died on 22 October 2003. He 

was one of the very few Americans to reach the 

highest levels of institutional life and intellectual 

accomplishment in the British academic world. A 

Texan by birth and conviction, he once described 

his extended stay in Britain as driven by a wish to 

understand the British. He studied for his doctoral 

research on Paul Tillich in Cambridge, under the 

supervision of Dorothy Emmet. Her selective and 

critical employment of the methods of analytical 

philosophy and the introduction to the world of 

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations 

were an enduring influence on Professor Clayton’s style of doing 

philosophy. He was at the heart of a revolution in British Religious 

Studies. Appointed a lecturer in 1972 in the Department of Religious 

Studies at Lancaster University, he became Professor of Religious 

Studies in 1991 and Head of Department in 1993 and transformed the 

department with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and comparative 

studies, focused particularly on problems of religion and modernity. 

Under his leadership, the department received prestigious national 

rankings. He stayed there for 25 years but he always remained faithful 

to Cambridge and Cambridge to him and in 1991–92 he was invited 

back as Stanton Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion and as Hulsean 

Preacher 1996–97. 

As a teacher, visiting lecturer and conference speaker, Professor 

Clayton’s stock-in-trade was his wry humour and subtle irony. When, 

in the last months of his life, after having fought and conquered one 

life-threatening illness, he had to deal with another, even more 

destructive than the first, humour continued to be his companion. 


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Sidney William Douglas MRCVS DVR Elected Fellow 1968 Emeritus 

Fellow 1979 

Jack King 

Mr S.W. Douglas died in May 2004 aged 87. He qualified MRCVS at the 

Royal Veterinary College, London in 1939. He remained on the staff of 

the RVC until he was appointed to a Lectureship at the new Cambridge 

Veterinary School in 1954. He became interested in the comparatively 

new tool in veterinary medicine, at that time, of radiography and in 

developing this field helped to found the British Veterinary Radiology 

Association which led to the International Veterinary Radiology 

Association and eventually to the Diploma in Veterinary Radiology in 

which he was a prime mover. He spent time in Melbourne engaged on 

radiological work and examining. At the Cambridge Vet School over 

the period 1954 until 1979 when he retired, he was also engaged in 

another interest, namely that of Small Animal Medicine for which he 

taught, examined and established a consultative service. His 

publications were in the small animal and radiological fields. He left a 

widow, five married children and eleven grandchildren. 

Guan Ruijun (1981–2004) 

David Jarvis 

Ruijun Guan arrived at Wolfson in September 2003 to begin 

her M.Phil. in Modern Society and Global Transformation, 

in the Social and Political Sciences faculty. She had just 

successfully completed her B.A. in Political Science at 

Peking University, where she had emerged as one of the top 

students in her class. On first arriving at Cambridge, she 

attended the EAP (English for Academic Purposes) presessional 

course based at St Edmund’s College, and it was 

there that she made initial contact with a wide circle of 

fellow Chinese students, many of whom became her close 

friends over the following year. 

Ruijun’s cheerful and friendly personality impressed itself on all 

who met her in Cambridge. Even those students who had the briefest 

acquaintance with her were struck by her cheerfulness. News of her 

sudden death on 14 July 2004 was, therefore, all the more devastating to 

her friends and colleagues. Many of those who knew Ruijun were able 

to come together for an informal memorial service in the College the 

day after her death; many more attended her funeral later in the 

month, including her parents, aunt and cousin. 


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Ruijun’s premature death was a tragedy that has touched all 

members of the Wolfson community, and our grief is shared by many 

others across the University, particularly in her Department and at the 

Language School. Ruijun will not, however, be forgotten. A memorial 

tree, planted at a moving ceremony after her funeral, stands in a quiet 

corner of the Lee gardens. In addition, a Guan Ruijun Memorial 

Bursary is to be established at Wolfson in conjunction with the 

Cambridge Overseas Trust. This prestigious Award will be offered from 

October 2005 for an outstanding student from China to study in 

Cambridge, with preference being given to graduates of Peking 

University. We hope in the future to welcome Ruijun’s family back to 

the College as our guests, and to enable them to meet some of the 

scholars who will benefit from this bursary. 

A friend writes: 

A few days after I heard the sad news about Ruijun, I was walking in the 

street. People were drinking coffee, people were shopping in the 

market, people were talking with each other …. I could not help 

thinking about Ruijun: what are you doing now, my friend? 

Ruijun loved to smile. Every time I saw her, in class or on the road, 

she would show me that wide, distinctive smile of hers. She was pure 

and natural, and in her smile people could find a sense of peace: she 

was always a peaceful person. I can still remember when we went 

home together after class, she told me many stories of her family. She 

said that her father is a very peaceful person, and that she learned from 

him to treat life with serenity. She loved her family and she was always 

happy and proud to talk about her parents. She was also a warm friend, 

who organised the Spring Festival for a friend of ours in Wolfson 

College, and who made sure we had an enjoyable and memorable 

time. 

Ruijun was full of imagination and creativity. I always felt I was 

learning in my discussions with her. Having graduated from the best 

Politics Department in China, she developed good insights into many 

social issues. She was particularly concerned about the weak in 

society. She researched and wrote about youth deviance, and was 

brave enough to face the gulf of understanding between East and 

West. 

Ruijun – as I walk in the crowd and see happiness in the faces of 

others, the wonderful memories I have of you come flooding back. 

Ruijun, you must wish all your friends a happy life. I should be strong – 

I will smile, but still the tears come …. 


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Michael Charles George Littlewort, B Sc MRCVS Elected Fellow 1972 

Emeritus Fellow 1983 

Jack King 

Mr Michael Littlewort died in August 2003 aged 84. A former colleague 

of his, Bob Cook from the Vet School ‘with whom Mike shared an 

interest in matters ear nose and throat and enjoyed using each other 

as sounding boards for new ideas over the next 20 years’ has written 

an obituary, from which the following is an extract: 

“Michael Littlewort was a valued colleague, a good friend and a 

true gentleman. He will not be forgotten. He was not very keen on 

games but nevertheless it was his ambition to play polo that took him 

to India in 1937 aged 18. He wanted to join the Army but the Quaker 

influence in his family steered him into the Indian Mounted Police. 

When war broke out he was unable to return as the policy was to 

retain a police force in India against the possibility of a Japanese 

invasion. He stayed on and as a Superintendent of Police received the 

formal surrender of the Japanese forces in the Andaman and Nicobar 

Islands. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and the Veterinary 

College of Ireland. In 1954 he applied for a post at the new Veterinary 

School at Cambridge; was interviewed by Professor Leslie Pugh and 

became a Demonstrator. He was appointed University Lecturer in 

1960, was a member of Magdalene and became a Fellow of Wolfson in 

1972. He retired in 1982. He had earlier teamed up with Peter Rossdale 

in Newmarket with whom he carried out pioneering work in equine 

cardiology.” Bob Cook added that ‘between us we encountered 

almost an epidemic of a ‘new’ disease that we subsequently named 

‘progressive ethmoidal haematoma’. In his retirement Mike pursued 

an interest in antiques and for many years was President of the 

Cambridge Antique Collectors’ Society’. He left a widow, Audrey, to 

whom he had been married for 51 years, and three children. 

Professor Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923‒2004) FRS. Elected as 

an Honorary Fellow in 1977 

Jack King 

Christopher Longuet-Higgins died in March 2004 aged 80 (only 2 

weeks short of his 81st birthday). He was a distinguished scientist who 

could almost as easily have become a musician. His obituaries in the 

press have made much of his outstanding contributions to theoretical 

chemistry and artificial intelligence. He won a scholarship to Balliol 

(and also later became organ scholar) where he became a Research 


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Fellow before going to his first university post at Manchester in 1949. 

After 3 years as Professor of Theoretical Physics in London he became 

Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in Cambridge in 1954 until 1967. 

During this time he gained his FRS, was elected a Fellow of Corpus 

Christi and became Warden of Leckhampton House – the Corpus 

Christi contribution to the, at that time, problem of provision of 

accommodation, tuition and welfare for graduate students. The 

University’s own contribution to this issue was the foundation in 1965 

of a graduate college called University College (which in 1973 became 

Wolfson) and because of Christopher’s interest in graduate students 

and experience at Leckhampton he was invited to become one of the 

founding Trustees of the new College. The Trustees of the College 

continued as the principal holding authority of the College until in 

January 1977 they relinquished their Trusteeship ‘in the knowledge 

that the College then had fine buildings and sufficient endowment to 

perform the role intended for it’. Christopher then became, as did all 

Trustees, an Honorary Fellow of the College. 

He left Cambridge in 1968 for the Royal Society Research Chair at 

Edinburgh University where he worked on artificial intelligence and 

continued this work at Sussex University 1974–88. He was an 

accomplished pianist and was delighted that amongst his honorary 

degrees conferred because of his eminence in science, the one from 

the University of Sheffield was in Music. 

Betty Morrison (1909–2003) 

Jack King 

Betty Morrison died on 7th May 2003 aged 94. Betty was the widow of 

John Morrison (first President of the College) who had died in 

October 2000 aged 87; his College Magazine obituary was printed in 

the 26th edition in 2001. 

Betty (a member of the Shulman family) was brought up in Sussex 

where her family owned and ran a preparatory school with which she 

was intimately connected for 40 years and which her own five children 

had attended. It was here that she first acquired her life long interest in 

children afflicted by the reading and learning difficulties associated 

with dyslexia – a word she thought was misconceived. She came to 

believe that all young children should be given preventative rather 

than remedial instruction. These beliefs were later expressed in her 

book ‘Reeling, writhing and dyslexia’ which was published in 1980. 

Her earlier life was full of incident. She traveled to India in 1934 


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where she had written to apply for a post as governess in a school; she 

did not stay long and went on to be matron at two other schools 

before leaving India in 1938. She had, though, become a keen 

horsewoman which she remained for the rest of her life. Skiing was 

another activity which she kept up into her seventies. 

In 1940 she was appointed governess to the young King Faisal II of 

Iraq, then aged 5. She had an adventurous journey to Iraq, crossing a 

chaotic France in May 1940 after the German invasion of the 

Netherlands had started, and managed to board the last ship full of 

Colonial troops at Marseilles from which she eventually disembarked 

at Beirut. From Beirut she went to Damascus and traveled across the 

desert for the 500 miles to Baghdad in one of the ‘Nairn’ buses – a bus 

route which had been started by two New Zealanders in 1923. She did 

not have an easy time in the Royal Palace in Baghdad but won the 

affection of the young boy King and was also successful in 

introducing him to swimming, riding and to taking part in games 

which had been denied him previously. In addition, as part of the 

upbringing which she thought he lacked, she brought, for the first 

time, other children into the Palace to meet the King and play with 

him. Although the Hashemite Royal Family were pro-British, the 

senior officials and army officers were pro-German and in 1941 there 

was an attempted coup which resulted in Betty with 200 others 

gaining refuge in the US Embassy where they stayed under 

unpleasant conditions for some weeks. 

The coup was ended by British troops and by this time Betty had met 

John Morrison who worked for the British Council in Baghdad where he 

taught English to cadets at the Military College and officers at the Iraqi 

Army Staff College. They became engaged and married in Baghdad in 

1942, after which they soon decided that the time had come to leave 

despite there having been a possibility that John would become the 

King’s Tutor. John was then offered the post as British Council 

Representative for Palestine and Transjordan and in 1943 they left 

Baghdad to set up their new household in Jerusalem. The second part of 

Betty’s book published in 1995 covered her time as Governess to King 

Faisal II of Iraq 1940–1943; the first part of the book being about Jane 

Penelope Herring, one of Betty’s antecedents and entitled “Jane 

Penelope’s Journal: being the unique record of a sea-captain’s wife in the 

Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf in the opening years of the nineteenth 

century of the voyages in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf”. 

King Faisal II, then aged 22, was assassinated in 1958 in another coup. 

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Professor of Greek at Durham University in 1945 before returning to 

Cambridge as Senior Tutor of Trinity; then Vice-Master of Churchill and 

became the first President of this College in 1965. Betty took her duties 

as the President’s wife seriously and arranged various gatherings for 

Fellows and members of the College and particularly their wives and 

children. The acquisition in 1968 of Granhams – their house in Great 

Shelford – was an event relished by the whole family, parents, children 

and grandchildren which gave them opportunities for all kinds of 

activities; gardening, writing, ponies, livestock of varying kinds, 

hospitality for friends and colleagues (which included inviting the 

whole College membership to garden parties), even the first mock-up 

of the seating for the trireme. Betty found that she could also keep 

sheep which, despite trial and error, she enjoyed – John less so. 

Betty’s funeral was held at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great 

Shelford, on 15 May 2003. She is survived by her three sons, two 

daughters and their families, including fifteen grandchildren. (The 

Times printed an obituary on 23 May 2003). 

Professor Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS, 

Fellow since 1966 (Professor of Computer Systems, 

University of Cambridge; Managing Director, 

Microsoft Research Limited, Cambridge died of 

cancer aged 68 on 28 February 2003. 

An Informal Memoir 

Karen Spärck Jones 

Roger was the only child of Len and Mollie Needham, 

who met as chemistry students at Birmingham 

University. He had a happy childhood in Sheffield, 

going to school there and later in Doncaster. He 

learnt to read early and was a lifelong and wideranging 

reader, surprising some professional 

historians, for example. 

Roger had a good background for computing. His father was an 

engineer, familiar with all the problems of making complex systems work 

(albeit for processing coal); Roger was thoroughly trained in maths 

(though to the point of surfeit after two years in Cambridge); and he had a 

year of philosophy (but with the then fashionable post-Wittgensteinian 

gloss). 

In 1956, his last year as an undergraduate at Cambridge, he 

encountered the Cambridge Language Research Unit, originally a 


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lively discussion group interested in language and translation, 

subsequently funded to do research on automatic translation. Roger 

became interested in computing and took the Diploma in Numerical 

Analysis and Automatic Computing in 1957 (the last year of the EDSAC 

1). He worked at the Unit from 1957–1962, also doing research for his 

PhD. The Unit’s projects focussed on the use of a thesaurus, not only 

for translation but for other information processing tasks like 

document retrieval, and Roger’s research was on automatic 

classification and its application to (automated) retrieval. Automatic 

classification was an exciting research area at that time, bringing 

together people with very different backgrounds and interests but a 

shared concern with sound general models and computationally 

viable procedures. Roger applied his theory of clumps to document 

index terms, lexical data, prehistoric pots, girls’ puberty rites, and 

diseases. 

Roger married Karen Spärck Jones in 1958, and they set about 

building a house, working on site in the mornings and at their 

respective PhD researches in the afternoons and evenings. In 1961 

they bought their first, small and primitive boat. 

Roger obtained his PhD in 1961. He had become increasingly 

interested in computing itself, and joined the staff of the University 

Mathematical Laboratory (now the Computer Laboratory) as a Senior 

Assistant in Research in 1963, becoming an Assistant Director of 

Research in 1964. The Laboratory, under Maurice Wilkes, was engaged 

with the TITAN project, providing the software for hardware built by 

ICT/ICL. Roger first worked with David Wheeler on design 

automation, and then became involved in building the operating 

system. This was initially a multi-processing system, but 

subsequently became a multi-access system as well. Much of the 

work was done in marathon night sessions, or in an office shared with 

David Hartley and Barry Landy which resembled a prairie dog colony, 

with heads peering above the mounds of dump printouts. In 1967 he 

had the idea of storing passwords with a one-way function, and 

implemented what is now a very common practice. 

As a member of staff Roger taught for the Diploma, as he did 

subsequently for the undergraduate degree course, and began to take 

PhD students. One student commented on his ability to produce 

completely well-formed paragraphs without referring to his notes, 

and also on his ability to mesmerise his audience by walking to and 

fro while doing so. It has been suggested that his greatest teaching 

pleasure was in giving the Data Structures and Algorithms course, 


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which he did for many years, taking it as a challenge to interest the 

students in its necessary but not always sexy content. Roger also 

began his public service career in the 1960s as a member of the 

Science Research Council’s Computing Science Committee and, in a 

different way, as a village Parish Councillor and then South 

Cambridgeshire District Councillor, continuing with the latter till the 

1980s. 

In 1966 Roger spent some months as a consultant at the Rand 

Corporation in Santa Monica, the first in a series of long-standing 

connections with Californian research centres which he greatly 

valued, where he had enjoyable collaborations and good friends and 

colleagues. He was a visiting consultant at Xerox PARC from 1977–84, 

and at DEC Systems Research Centre from 1984–97. He was involved 

with the GRAPEVINE project at PARC (on which he later lectured as a 

case study), and did research with Mike Schroeder on encryption and 

authentication, published in 1978, and with Mike Burrows and Martin 

Abadi on a logic of authentication, published in 1989. He was also 

able, on these visits, to observe the business of running a research 

centre – how, and also how not, to – at first hand, widening his 

experience in the 1990s as an advisor for Hitachi’s Advanced Research 

Laboratory. 

In the late 1960s Roger began to concentrate more intensively on 

protection, working with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler on the 

CAP computer, an experimental machine with memory protection 

based on capabilities implemented in hardware that was constructed 

in the Laboratory during the early 1970s, and which received a British 

Computer Society Technical Award in 1977. 

Roger’s research was also affected by organisational changes in the 

Laboratory. From the days of EDSAC 1, the Laboratory had provided a 

university-wide computing service on its machines, and the TITAN 

system was built for this purpose. In 1970 supporting institutional 

computing was hived off onto IBM machines with a Service division 

within the Laboratory. Roger remained devoted to the engineering 

notion that systems should be designed to do useful things for real 

people, but was able to explore system ideas with less immediate 

constraints than those imposed by sustaining a large regular service. 

The Laboratory’s research activity expanded during the 1970s, and 

Roger was involved in the Cambridge Ring and Fast Ring projects with 

Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler and Andy Hopper: the 10 megabit per 

second Ring and 100 megabits Fast Ring were leading efforts in highspeed 

local area networking and distributed computing. Roger 


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developed his interest in distributed systems in work with Maurice 

Wilkes and Andrew Herbert on the Cambridge Model Distributed 

System, providing an innovative distributed software environment on 

top of the Ring that prefigured current ‘thin client’ computing. This line 

of work was carried further with Ian Leslie and others in the UNIVERSE, 

and then UNISON, projects in the 1980s on satellite-connected LANs 

that could support real-time voice and video applications. 

Roger had been promoted Reader in Computer Systems in 1973, 

and when Maurice Wilkes retired in 1980 became Head of 

Department. He was made Professor in 1981 and elected to the Royal 

Society in 1985, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Academy of 

Engineering in 1993. He was awarded the CBE in 2001. 

The 1980s were a period of further expansion for the Laboratory. 

This was the time when government, parsimonious everywhere else, 

believed in the white heat of information technology and poured in 

the cash without much restraint. Roger referred to the halcyon days of 

five new posts, money for research and none of the external 

interference that, as the audit culture or under the pressure for 

national wealth creation, has oppressed universities since. 

The UNIVERSE and UNISON projects were large collaborations 

with industrial partners. Roger had had company connections since 

the 1960s, not only through his Californian consulting, but through 

lecture courses and discussion clubs (doing what is nowadays 

referred to as technology transfer), and sometimes as a director. 

Spinoffs from the Laboratory began in the 1970s, making significant 

contributions to the Cambridge Phenomenon. Roger encouraged this 

when he became Head of Department, welcoming Jack Lang’s idea of 

a Laboratory Supporters Club and becoming one of the ‘Godfathers’ 

for Cambridge entrepreneurs. 

Roger continued in the 1980s and 90s to be interested in all aspects 

of computer systems, but was especially concerned with security. He 

participated for many years in the ACM Symposia on Operating 

Systems Principles, and was involved, with Ross Anderson, in 

Cambridge events including a security programme at the Newton 

Institute and Protocols Workshops. He recently combined his 

intellectual and (left wing) political interests as a Trustee of the 

Foundation for Information Policy Research. He also emphasised, in 

a related spirit, in his 2002 Saul Gorn Lecture at the University of 

Pennsylvania and Clifford Paterson Lecture at the Royal Society, that 

doing system security properly is as much about people as about 

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Though many in the University (and elsewhere) were slow to accept 

the idea of Computer Science, the Laboratory continued to grow – in 

staff, undergraduate and graduate students, research projects, and 

range of interests, during this time. It was also able to take advantage 

of an anomalous formal position as a department independent of any 

faculty. The Laboratory has been consistently rated in the top grade in 

the national university Research Assessment Exercises. Roger was able 

to feel, when he handed over as Head of Department to Robin Milner 

in 1996, that the Laboratory was in a flourishing state. He was also 

happy to step down, as he felt he had been Head for quite long enough. 

Roger’s public service activities ramified in the 80s and 90s, 

extending into all kinds of government and other boards and 

committees. He found some of them fun – the Alvey Committee, for 

example, had the opportunity to drive a large national computing 

research programme; some were interesting, like the Research 

Councils’ Individual Merit Promotion Panel; and some were keeping 

a particular show on the road. Roger felt the obligation to do these 

things; he also enjoyed learning and deploying the skills required to 

do them effectively. His most recent challenge was chairing a Royal 

Society Working Party on intellectual property. 

Roger was able to exploit the skills he had developed, and what he 

had learnt about the University while Head of Department, as Pro 

Vice-Chancellor from 1996–1998, with a remit on the research side of 

the University’s operations. This had all kinds of interesting sideeffects, 

like chairing Electors to Chairs across the University and so 

getting snapshots of what’s hot in pharmacology, or economic 

history, or Spanish. 

But Roger felt that University life, with ever more auditing and ever 

more financial pressure spreading like the nastier sort of fungus, was 

becoming less and less attractive. On retiring, Maurice Wilkes joined 

DEC, and said that if he had known what fun he could have in industry, 

he would have done it sooner. Roger never forgot this, and when he 

was invited in 1997 to set up and run Microsoft’s new research 

laboratory in Cambridge, he seized the opportunity and never looked 

back. He agreed to do this on the same day that he and Karen viewed 

and decided to buy a new house (regretfully abandoning their old self 

built, as too small and too invaded with traffic noise, for a large old 

barn): as he said: ‘I’ve rebooted my whole life’. 

He also said that, contrary to many people’s beliefs about 

companies and universities, he had a lot more freedom to get what he 

wanted done in his Microsoft Research laboratory than in a 


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university. He had the remit to get good people, and provide them 

with the context for good work. That implied thinking long-term, and 

taking risks: he was very happy with the message from Redmond that 

he wouldn’t be doing well enough if none of his projects failed, 

because that would imply he wasn’t pushing the research boat out far 

enough. At its fifth anniversary in autumn 2002, the laboratory had 

about 60 researchers and had moved into its new building in West 

Cambridge, next to the Computer Laboratory’s own new building. 

The only downside about a company laboratory is not having 

students, especially bright research students, around all the time. 

Roger’s former students became friends around the world. 

Roger loved his work. He also loved sailing. In 1972 Roger and Karen 

bought an Itchen Ferry Cutter built in 1872, 22 feet long with an 8 foot 

bowsprit, and for thirty years sailed her round the East Coast, happily 

but also sometimes rather unnervingly: on one occasion when Roger 

was singlehanding in a high wind and towing a dinghy, the dinghy just 

took off from the water and twirled round in the air on the end of its 

rope. 

Roger became a Fellow of Wolfson College, one of the new graduate 

colleges in Cambridge, in 1966, and always enjoyed its society, just as 

he enjoyed much else in Cambridge. He and Karen sometimes 

wondered whether they should take off for greener pastures on the 

other side of the Atlantic, but found the two body problem too hard to 

solve (Karen became Reader and subsequently Professor of 

Computers and Information in the Laboratory, and is a Fellow of the 

British Academy). They remained colleagues from the time they 

collaborated and wrote together as students, reading one another’s 

draft papers, working together (most recently in connection with a 

joint British Academy/Royal Society Discussion Meeting in 1999), and 

talking about their research. 

Late in 2002 Roger was diagnosed with incurable cancer. His 

colleagues were anxious to celebrate his contributions to computing, 

and organised a meeting in Cambridge on the 17th of February 2003 – 

“Roger Needham: 50 and 5’’ – marking Roger’s fifty years in 

Cambridge and five at Microsoft Research. The meeting, with both 

technical talks and some more personal items, was attended by 

colleagues from far and wide. At its conclusion Roger was presented 

with a volume, ‘Computer systems: papers for Roger Needham’, with 

46 contributions from colleagues in the field, ranging over the whole 

systems research area. He very much appreciated this evidence of his 

colleagues’ regard, just before he died. 


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Dr George Kozmetsky (VS 1989) Harvard graduate, co-founder of 

Teledyne, Inc. and Founder of IC 2 , died on 30 April 2003 aged 85. 

Sir David Williams 

Dr George Kozmetsky first came to Wolfson College as a Special 

Visitor in the summer of 1989. He was accompanied by his wife Ronya. 

The visit was a great success, Dr Kozmetsky maintained contact with 

the College, and in recent years he was a generous benefactor. 

George Kozmetsky, who was born in Seattle to Russian immigrant 

parents on 5 October 1917, had an unusually distinguished career 

which embraced university education, management studies, high 

technology and public service. His death on 30 April 2003 was 

followed by obituaries which emphasised the scale of his 

achievements, drawing attention to his 16-year tenure as Dean of the 

College and Graduate School of Business of the University at Austin; 

to his creation of the IC 2 Institute (“a think tank charged with 

researching the intersection of business, government and 

education”); to his earlier part in the foundation and expansion of 

Teledyne, Inc. which eventually grew into a conglomerate of 130 

companies “making everthing from stereo speakers to airplane 

parts;” to his award from President Clinton in 1993 of the National 

Medal of Technology; to his impressive war record, to his numerous 

publications, and to much else. 

The visit in 1989 came about through the initiative of Nick Segal and 

Bill Squires (both of this College) and Dr Kozmetsky later wrote about 

a “delightful and stimulating” time at Cambridge and at Wolfson in 

particular. He was a good friend of Charles Alan Wright, and I met 

both of them during a few days when my wife and I spent time in 

Austin, Texas in April 1992. They were co-hosts at a major reception 

held at Bauer House, the official house of the Chancellor of the 

University of Texas, on 15 April, and George Kozmetsky’s continuing 

interest in Cambridge was reflected on that occasion by his keen 

interest in the early development of the new Isaac Newton Institute. 

On the following day he was host at a small luncheon at the 

Headliners Club and he spoke at some length about the possibility of 

developing closer links with the University of Cambridge. 

Unfortunately his visits to Cambridge were not as frequent, as he or 

we would have wished, but he was in regular correspondence with 

Dr Gordon Johnson and his and Ronya’s generosity to the College was 

immensely appreciated. He also served on the Board of the American 

Friends of Cambridge University from 1995. 


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Dr Kozmetsky was a modest, friendly person of considerable 

stature, and Wolfson College is proud to have had a special 

relationship with him and Ronya for so many years. 

Gabriel Pallares-Prieto (M02/03 – Part III 2003 and PhD 

student in Theoretical Physics) died on 8 October 2003 at 

Wolfson College aged 27 from natural causes. 

Gabriel’s death was a true shock. He was so young and full of 

life and promise. Being a very skilled swimmer and salsa 

dancer, his untimely sudden death (from a heart attack) at 27 

reminded us all of how fragile life can be. His death also 

made us realize how lucky we are and that we should not 

take anything for granted. We should act today for things we 

think we should say or do. It also made us realize how 

important our friends are to us. 

Gabriel looked at peace after he died, just as he was a 

person who was at peace with the world and himself when he was 

with us. His ashes have been sprinkled in the sea in his native Mexico 

and so his body returns to the earth and the cosmos where it first 

came from. Having studied Physics, he successfully completed his 

Part III course and was set to begin his PhD in Astronomy. Just as his 

mother said “He has always wanted to study the cosmos and now he 

has returned to it – he is now part of the stars.” 

We will remember Gabriel forever. His spirit will live on in us and 

with us. 

Terence Romeanes Wolfson Course Michaelmas 1983 

Jack King 

Terry Romeanes, a Chief Superintendent (acting Assistant Chief 

Constable) in the Cleveland Constabulary died in May 2004. He was a 

popular member of his Course who made the very most of his time in 

the College. His Course has returned to the College annually for a 

reunion but sadly, through his illness, he was prevented from 

attending the 20th anniversary in 2003. 

Dr David H Scarisbrick Senior Member 1969–1974 

Jack King 

The College has been informed that Dr Scarisbrick died in July 2003. 

At the time of his election as a Senior Member he was a Demonstrator 


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in the Department of Agriculture (which became Applied Biology). He 

moved to Wye College, Ashford, Kent in 1972 and was engaged there in 

research allied to that of the late Dr Alice Evans (Botanist and Fellow 

and Tutor of the College) who died in 1981. 

Dr John I B Tanner CBE KSt.J FSA Ph.D Visiting Fellow 1985/86 

Jack King 

John Tanner died in May 2004 aged 77 after a long battle against illhealth. 

He had been the principal fund raiser and Founder Director of 

the RAF Museum at Hendon which he made into one of the great 

service museums of this country and which is his lasting memorial. He 

obtained the funding for this museum on a world-wide basis and was 

very proud of producing a national museum without government 

funding. His success led to other museums such as the Battle of 

Britain(which received a Special Museum of the Year Award ), Bomber 

Command and the Aerospace Museum being founded and at one time 

he was Director of them all. He was a Fellow of Pembroke 

College,Oxford but much enjoyed his Wolfson connection. His funeral 

was at Brompton Oratory on 27 May and he left a widow Andrea – his 

daughter Sarah Jane having died only two months previously. 

Nigel Glyn Wallace MA (Cantab) CEng FIEE (F 1982/94,EF1994/03) 

died suddenly after suffering a heart attack on Thursday 5 June 2003 

aged 73. 

A snapshot of the life of the late Nigel Wallace 

Alex R Cook 

I have been asked to pen a few words about my long time friend and 

colleague, Nigel Wallace, whose death occurred suddenly on 5 June 

2003 shortly before his 74th birthday. It is a privilege to undertake this 

task and I realise that I will only touch on just a few of the massive 

contributions he has made to so many people during his lifetime. 

In 1967 he was appointed to his major life’s role as Superintendent of 

Workshops at the Cambridge University Engineering Department in 

Trumpington Street. He remained there until his retirement in 1994. I 

was involved in his search for a suitable Cambridge home for his wife, 

Anthea and their two daughters and one son, all now grown up. Hence 

our first meeting and, as a transferee from Manchester it was my 

privilege to bring him into Cambridge Granta Round Table until, at the 

age of 40, in 1969 one was “retired” and in which year he re-joined me 


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as a member of this Rotary Club. He was also a fellow Cambridge 

Magistrate from 1974 to 1999 – again the retirement age ended his 

relationship with those courts above the multi-storey car park. 

Following on after Felsted School he completed a three year 

sponsored engineering apprenticeship with Metropolitan-Vickers 

Electrical Co. in Manchester before coming to Trinity College, 

Cambridge reading Mechanical Sciences. Then followed a final year 

in Manchester with Metropolitan-Vickers receiving his MA Cantab in 

1952. 

From 1953 to 1955 he served his National Service in the Royal Navy, 

Electrical Branch as a Sub-Lieutenant and was fortunate enough to 

see service world-wide. 

From 1955 through to 1967 he progressed from a role as 

development engineer through to superintendent of department 

with Associated Electrical Industries in Manchester and then 

returning to Cambridge for the final time in 1967 to the University 

Engineering Department. As Superintendent in Cambridge he was 

responsible for up to 1,000 undergraduates obtaining the mandatory 

practical experience in his department and this involved contacts 

with industry at home and abroad. The lead up to a Single European 

Market involved him in intensive collaboration with engineering 

schools in France and Germany. 

Nigel was elected a Fellow of Wolfson in 1982 and, from 1995, was 

Industrial Tutor, East Anglia Region in the Industry Programme for 

engineering students. There are two patents in Nigel’s name and at 

least three publications. 

As Founder Chairman of REMAP (Rehabilitation Engineering 

Movement Advisory Panel) countless disabled and handicapped 

people benefited from his work. Our paths crossed again with his 

technical help to the Cambridge Talking News to the Blind, which I 

chaired for many years. 

For many years Nigel lived in Foxton with his second wife, 

Rosemary, who brought him a delightful trio of step-sons and I well 

recollect the Church blessing to the marriage in the quaint Foxton 

village church. Some two years or so ago Rosemary and Nigel moved 

to a new house in Grantchester and, having viewed his study, one is 

immediately reminded of the number of continuing interests that 

made one wonder how he ever had time to hold down a full time job 

until his 1994 retirement. 

We have all lost a dear friend. He was a quiet but determined man, 

never one to push himself forward yet achieving eminence in his 


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career and in life by his determination to improve the lot of those less 

physically, or mentally able, than himself – as well, of course, as 

training countless generations of engineering students. Even in 

retirement Nigel was successful in continuing with his community 

service in all manner of walks of life. To his wife and our fellow 

Rotarian Rosemary and to his extended family I am sure that I speak 

for us all when I express our sincere sympathy to them in their loss. 

A memorial celebration for his life was held on Monday 6 

September 2003 at the Lee Hall, Wolfson College. 

Sir Geoffrey Wilson KCB CMG Elected as an Honorary Fellow in 1971. 

Sir Geoffrey Wilson died in July 2004 aged 94. He was an Oxford man 

(Oriel), won a scholarship to Middle Temple and became a pupil in in 

the Chambers of Sir Stafford Cripps in 1931. Called to the Bar in 1934 he 

practised until 1939 when he resigned to accompany Cripps on a tour 

to the Far East before Cripps was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. 

Wilson became Third Secretary at the Embassy there. In February 1945 

he was a member of the British Delegation to the Yalta Conference. He 

later served with the UN, Treasury, Colombo Plan and World Bank 

before becoming Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas 

Development following the death of Sir Andrew Cohen. He was 

therefore of help to the College at the time of the negotiations for, and 

the formation of, the Course on Development for administrators from 

Commonwealth countries. The Course started here in 1969 under the 

Directorship of Dr Paul Howell. 

Geoffrey Wilson’s career was fully covered in his obituaries in 

national newspapers including his post-retirement positions such as 

Chairman of the Race Relations Board, Oxfam and the World 

University Service. He enjoyed his connection with this College and 

visited it many times particularly during the days of the Course on 

Development. 

Ronald Sobey (member of the Maintenance Staff) died after a three 

year battle against illness on 18 June 2003. 

The College has also been informed of the following deaths but 

without many details: 

Ms Lesley Anne Bursnall (FJM) died in September 2003. The cause of 

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Dr Cheng Man Wei (WC) 

Mr C S Cheung (WC) We were notified of his death on 10 November 

2003. Exact date unknown. 

Professor James T Cushing (VF 1995) died on 29 March 2002 in his 

South Bend home. The cause of his death is not known. 

Mr Sidney William Douglas (EF) died on 14 May 2004. 

Mr Derek Herbert (WC) notified on 23 June 2004. Exact date 

unknown. 

Dr P H S Jäkel (VS)We have been notified that he died in January 2004. 

Exact date unknown. 

Professor Masao Kaiho (VS) We were notified his of death on 13 

November 2003 via letter from Japan. 

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Donations to the College during 

2002–04 

We are very grateful to the following: 

MrsD Adamson 

Mr P L Agar 

Mr A R Akester 

MissR J Akester 

Mr T D Akroyd 

Mr A Alberola 

Mrs L M Alcantara 

Mrs J E Aldridge 

Mrs S Ali 

Mr G P Allen 

Dr S Amakawa 

Mr R Amundsen 

Dr J Arrowsmith 

Dr R G Barker 

Prof A Barton 

Mr F Bautista-Palacio 

Dr N Baylis 

Mr J M Beart 

Dr PWR Beaumont 

S Bennett 

Benson Charitable Trust 

Prof H K Bevan 

Dr S Bieber 

M R Bienias 

Dr G F Bigelow 

Dr G Black 

Mr E Bonyhadi 

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz 

Mrs S Bowring 

Prof S L Bragg 

Dr A L Brown 


Prof E T Bullmore 

Mr L Burt 

Mr A J Butt 

Prof D Cadman 

Cambridge Computer 

Systems Ltd 

Cambridge Foundation 

Cambs Society Singers 

Ms L Campbell 

Mrs P A B Carter 

Prof W O Chadwick 

Dr A J E Charman 

Dr C Cheah 

Prof J D Cherry 

Ms S Chiam 

M Church 

Wesley Clymer 

Prof & Mrs RS Clymo 

Colin Brooks Associates Ltd 

Mrs M H Collard 

Sir Lawrence Collins 

Dr Robert F Conti 

Dr A A Copestake 

Mr H A Corbett 

Dr B Cox 

Mr Collin J Cox 

Prof J A Crowcroft 

Mr N Cutler 

Dr D M C Dale 

Dr M J Dauncey 

Dr T Davenne

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Dr T W Davies 

Dr P B Davis 

Cllr Robert Davis 

Dr J L Dawson 

Mr K A Day 

Mrs B L de Smith 

Mr F Del Rey Chamorro 

Dr M Devey 

Mrs L Dingle 

Dr N A Dodgson 

Mr W R Doe 

Mr P R Donovan 

Mr A Du Plessis 

Dr Niti Dubey-Villinger 

Mr R N Duplock 

Dr M W Dupree 

Prof G E Edwards 

Dr O M Edwards 

Mr R Ellison 

Dr C Ellson 

Dr H F Elson 

Dr S K Eltringham 

Prof D Engels 

Mr G Feakes 

Mr M Findley 

Dr J Firth 

Prof T C Fischer 

Mr D Fisher 

Sir Ronnie Flanagan 

Herbert Foltinek 

Mr Foster 

Prof A Fujimaki 

Mr L J Gallagher 

Gatsby Foundation 

Prof F Giarratani 

Miss J Gibson 

Mr A C Gilfillan 

Mr B S Glass 

Prof C E Glassick 

Miss L Goh 

Dr T D Grant 


Mr C A Greenhalgh 

Dr C J Grey 

Dr C Guettler 

Mr B Guttridge 

Dr E Haberlin 

Dr H Hägele 

Prof MO Hall 

Mr P E Hall 

Mr D J Hall 

Mr G P Hancke 

Dr R Hanka 

Mr B Hardiman 

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Prof D H Hargreaves 

Mr J G B Heal 

Dr P J Heaney 

Mr R M Henry 

Mr R Holman 

Ms J R Horn 

Prof J Hughes 

Mr M Hurley 

Mr M Jakob 

Mr S Jayakumar 

Dr A R Jennings 

The Jerrehian Foundation 

Mr E Johnson 

Dr G Johnson 

Mr J I Jones 

Mr S K Jull 

Prof S Kawanishi 

Prof M Kawasaki 

Dr E C Kerrigan 

Dr E D Kessler 

Mr J N King 

Mr J Kinnier-Wilson 

Mr W P Kirkman 

Prof G L Klein 

Mrs R Kozmetsky 

Mr U Kraeling 

Dr A J Krivak 

Mr G Kwan

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Prof P Landrock 

Rev’d D Lane 

Dr S S Large 

Mrs J Lash 

Dr S T Lee 

Miss M Lee 

Prof K Lewis 

Dr M Lewis 

Mr G Liebmann 

Dr Weng Hee Lim 

Susannah Linaker 

Prof G Lindbeck 

Mr J Lou 

Dr M B Lovatt 

Henry Lumley 

Prof J A Mabbutt 

The Hon. Mr Justice B E Mahoney 

Dr M Makino 

Mr P M Marcell 

Ms L Marlow 

Prof T L Marr 

D G Marshall of Cambridge Trust 

Prof W D Marslen-Wilson 

Mr P H Martin 

Dr T L Massingham 

Mr A McCarthy-Best 

Dr L M McGinnis 

Dr R S McGregor 

McKesson HBOC Foundation 

Prof F K McKinney 

Prof P McReynolds 

Dr T J Mead 

Mr R C Meade 

J E Mills 

Dr L Mirrer 

Prof L Mooney 

Mr R I Morgan 

Mr G M Morrison 

Mr G M Morrison Charitable 

Trust 

Revd B P Moss 


Mr J Mott 

Mr A C M Moyes 

Mr S C R Munday 

Dr P Murdin 

Prof K Naito 

Dr A Nakamura 

Mr P Narasimhan 

Prof J Naughton 

Dr A Neal 

Needham Charitable Trust 

The Newton Trust 

Ms S Ogale 

Prof S P Ogden 

Prof Y Okayama 

Lady Oliver 

Prof S G Olswang 

Dr I K O’Neill 

Judge Helen O’Sullivan 

Dr P L Otterness 

Dr M Pagano 

Mrs A Papanagiotou-Leza 

Mr A Pascual Ramsay 

Paul & Elisabeth Taylor Trst 

Mrs K A Pearce 

Mr M J Peet 

Mrs H R Pennington 

Mr P H Perry 

Prof R J Phillips 

Prof M Picker 

Dr W S F Pickering 

Mr R C Pilsworth 

Prof J H Poivan 

Prof A Pollard 

Dr J E Poole 

Mr R W Post 

Mr J Prendergast 

Dr G Price 

Mrs R M Quadling 

Prof R J Rabelais 

Dr S Redpath 

Dr J Rees

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Dr A M Reid 

Dr D Renner 

Dr H H Reynolds 

Mr N W M Richards 

Mr M E Richardson 

Mr W J Ridgman 

Mr T W Ridgman 

Dr R Riehn 

Miss V L H Roberts 

Dr A N Roberts 

Ms G Robillard 

Prof A Robinson 

Prof J C Rose 

Mr M C Russ 

Mr A P Sainer 

Dr D W B Sainsbury 

Mr S Saito 

Mr S Satomi 

Prof W A Schaefer 

Dr J H Schreiner 

Dr J R Seagrave 

Dr J A Shadduck 

Marshall Shapo 

Dr J S Shepherd 

Prof Robert E Shepherd Jnr 

Mr R A Shervington 

Mr S Tyrell Smith 

Mr M W Smith 

Dr A Snowdon 

Dr F Sobott 

Prof R Sohal 

Prof K Sparck-Jones 

Sir John Sparrow 

Prof M Spevack 

Dr R C Spiegel 

Mrs A Stone 

Mrs M Sullivan Kennely 

Prof R J Sutton 

Mr A J Tate 


Mr D M Thompson 

Prof R R Thompson 

Mr N Tippler 

Dr Gianpaolo Tommasi 

Dr J Toporowski 

Trinity College 

Mr V I Tsanev 

Mr W Tulasiewicz 

Mr P Turner 

UCLES 

Prof T Ushiyama 

Dr C van Wyhe 

Wolfson College Cambridge 

Association of Japan 

Mrs R J Wallace 

Prof M Warner 

Mr S M Waters 

Mrs A M Watkins 

Dr H G Wayment 

Dr W J S Webb 

Prof P R H Webb 

Dr P H N Webster 

Dr J West 

Dr J M Whitehead 

Dr F Whitford 

Prof V P Whittaker 

The Hon Malcolm R Wilkey 

Prof H B Willey 

Mr A K Wilson 

Mrs S Wiseman 

Wolfson Foundation 

Miss S Woods 

Dr A Wraith 

Mrs Eleanor Custis Wright 

Prof Takashi Yagi 

Dr E G Zahar 

Dr J Zhang 

Prof Li-Li Zheng 

Prof L R Zrudlo

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Children’s Christmas Party 2003 

A highly successful Children’s Party was held on Sunday, 14th 

December, when about sixty-five children attended, including five 

year old Chichiro seeking refuge from Darwin where the children’s 

party had been cancelled at the last minute. Father Christmas coped 

admirably with a leftover present from last year, and a good time was 

had by all. Chihiro’s father sent a very appreciative note but we were 

glad to be able to help. 

Thanks are due to all those who helped with the preparations, 

decorations and celebrations, including: 

Master of Ceremonies, Ed Johnson Faith Johnson 


Emma Lees, Bridget Evans, Lucy Algeo, Oscar, Harriet and Eva 

Johnson, William Littlejohn, Guillaume Bascoul, Roy Switsur, 

Siobham McTigue-Reardon, Simon Chan and Serena Mockford, 

daughter of Martine. 

The maintenance staff also did a great job moving furniture and 

cleaning the clubroom beforehand. 

Christmas Party in Club Room 14 December 2003 Faith Johnson 

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