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Issue 30 | Lent term 2012

St John’s College Cambridge

Editor: Jennifer Baskerville; j.baskerville@joh.cam.ac.uk

Design and artwork: Cameron Design 01284 725292

Print: Esson Print

Cover image: New Court cloisters.

Inside: Laura Plant, Nicola Coles, Stefanie Giblin,

Alice Hardy, John Thompson, David Hope, Adam Storring,

Matthias Dörrzapf, Ryan Cronin, Yuko Okamoto, Kim Sheard,

Andrew Houston, Alex Balfour, Oleander Press,

Samuel Butler archive and Sarah Westwood.

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Welcome to the Lent 2012 issueof Johnian NewsThe Quincentenary year may be behind us, but 2012

promises to be no less exciting as we look forward to the

launch of a new online community for Johnians, the 30th

anniversary of women studying at St John’s and the opening

of the restored Divinity School. Not forgetting the London

Olympics, of course, which will undoubtedly be a fantastic

event and a major talking point for the next few months!

You can read about all of the above in this issue of Johnian

News, alongside some inspiring stories and experiences from

students and Johnians. We hope you enjoy this newsletter;

please do send us any feedback you have so that we can try

to include more of the things you want to read about.

Contributions and ideas for the Michaelmas issue are

welcome up until early August.

the editor

Development Office, St John’s College, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Email: development@joh.cam.ac.uk Tel: 01223 338700

ContentsCollege news............................... 4-7

The greatest show on Earth.......... 8-9

Happy birthday to St John’s ......10-11

Fighting diseases of poverty......12-13

A brighter future .......................14-16

St John’s celebrates 30 years

of women .....................................17

A very mighty pen ....................18-19

Return of the night climbers ......... 20

An Amazonian adventure........ 21-23

The future of rowing at John’s ...... 24

Celebrating LMBC anniversaries ... 25

Glittering Prizes ............................ 26

Big Bob’s legacy ........................... 27

Events calendar ............... Back cover

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College news

Undergraduate rooms: a new dealAs of October 2011, undergraduates studying atSt John’s have been benefiting from new accommodationarrangements worked out by the College authorities andthe Junior Combination Room (JCR).

St John’s is now able to offer accommodation in Collegefor the duration of any undergraduate course. Inaddition, under the new model, our undergraduateswill not have to give their rooms over to other purposesduring the Christmas and Easter vacations. The newlicence, which is similar to that governing manygraduate students’ room allocations, will allow them to

make use of their rooms at any time from lateSeptember to late June. Students and their parents willbe delighted to note that possessions will no longerhave to be transported to and from home at these times.

Waheed Chaudhrey, President of the JCR during 2011,said, ’This model is a tribute to the College’s aims toencourage academic excellence and socialdevelopment. Environmentally friendly and wonderfullyconvenient, the model will make John’s all the morehomely and comfortable for students – albeit a verygrand home!’

St John’s Apprentice Chef, Adam Desmond, received anearly Christmas present in December in the form of aweek’s work experience at a top Lancashire restaurant.

Northcote restaurant in Langho has one Michelin starand is owned by Nigel Haworth, who set up theplacement with St John’s Catering Manager, Bill Brogan.Both Nigel and chef Lisa Allen have been finalists onBBC2’s Great British Menu programme in recent years.Adam is currently on a three-year apprenticeshipprogramme and is learning about all aspects of thekitchen at St John’s – from visiting local suppliers, toseeing those ingredients presented on the plate.

’It was a great experience,’ said Adam. ’The standards[at Northcote] were very high; it was very impressive.The work was rewarding after a long, hard day and thefood was incredible.’

In autumn 2011, two new portraits were unveiled at St John’s– one of the Master, Professor Chris Dobson, and the other ofProfessor Sir Jack Goody.

In modern times, every Master of the College has been invitedto sit for a portrait. In Chris Dobson’s case the artist is PaulHodgson. Like those of his recent predecessors, the Master’sportrait hangs in the Fellows’ Lobby at the foot of the stairs tothe Combination Room.

Occasionally, the College also commissions portraits in oils ofparticularly distinguished senior Fellows. The striking impressionof Jack Goody by Maggi Hambling will hang prominently inthe restored Divinity School when it opens later this year.

New essay prize for sixth-formersLast summer, threesixth-form schooland college studentsbeat off a strongfield to become thefirst winners of thenew WilkinsonQuincentenaryPrizes. Hector Janse

van Rensburg from Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge;John McConnel from Sedbergh School, Cumbria; and RebekahSmith, from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Horncastle,Lincolnshire were presented with their awards by Professor EricMaskin, Nobel Laureate (Economics, 2007).

Each student received £750, with a further £750 going to theirschool or college to purchase academic materials. The prize-winners were also invited to stay in College for a week overthe summer vacation, working in the well-equipped Collegelibrary and in other Cambridge collections on a project oftheir choice.

The Wilkinson Quincentenary Prizes are awarded to the authorsof essays of between 2,000 and 4,000 words on topical subjectsset or approved by the College. Entrants are currently in Year12, or equivalent. The competition assesses entries fordistinction, measured by reference to mastery of relevant detail,the fluency of argument, the level of analytical skills, the degreeof originality shown and evidence of personal initiative.

St John’s was able to launch this prize in its Quincentenaryyear thanks to the generous support of a benefactor: HeatherHancock, née Wilkinson (1984). Eighty-three schoolssubmitted a total of 180 entries in 2011, and it is hoped thatcompetition will be even tougher this year.

Dr Mark Nicholls, College Librarian and one of the judges,said, ’Compiling a shortlist and picking the winners from somany fine essays has not been at all easy. The judges feel thatthe winning entries are a testament to the candidates’flair for writing, to a commendable degree of hard workand mature thought, to excellent research, and to somevery good teaching.’

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Pick a portrait or two

Jack Goody’s portrait.Left to right: Paul Hodgson, Dr Mary Dobson, and the Master.

Chef’s Michelin-starred experience

Have you visited the St John’s website recentlyat www.joh.cam.ac.uk? The site has beenimproved and now contains a wealth ofinformation about the College and its activities,as well as regular news stories.

And it doesn’t stop there. As part of theredevelopment of the website, the Johnian pageswill be revamped this year. Alumni will soonenjoy a fully interactive section, where you willbe able to book online for events and joindiscussion boards, among other features. Lookout for details in the monthly Johnian enews.

St John’s has also recently joined Twitter.If you’re a tweeter, you can follow us@stjohncam.

Websitegets facelift

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Butler archive project beginsA project is underway inthe library at St John’s tocatalogue the extensivecollection of materialproduced by andrelating to the Victorianpolymath Samuel Butler(1835–1902). The aim isto make the materialsmore accessible toresearchers, schools andthe public through arange of exhibitions,events and activities.

The Heritage Lottery Fund and St John’s College are jointlyfunding the project, which will run for two years.

The collection includes around 100 boxes of papers, articlesand correspondence; more than 650 printed books; around450 paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints; 50 artefacts;and a substantial photographic archive, comprising more than1,500 glass plate negatives, five albums of snapshots and 550loose photographs, plus 125 prints produced more recentlyfor exhibitions.

Rebecca Watts is the Butler Project Associate, responsible for mostof the cataloguing and for organising exhibitions, events and visits.’Butler’s is one of the most varied of the library’s specialcollections,’ said Rebecca, ’and a range of unexpected materialhas come to light in the first few months of the project, from snuffboxes to double-sided picture frames, and an autograph letterfrom a prominent novelist detailing a paper-stealing escapade onthe Isle of Wight!’

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Continuing in harmonyOver a year ago, in February 2011, St John’s launcheda new fundraising campaign to safeguard the future of itscelebrated choir by creating a Choral Foundation. Thecampaign, which aims to raise £5 million by the end of2015, kicked off after a performance by the choir withthe Britten Sinfonia at St John’s, Smith Square. Those ofus who were there remember how the lights of thewonderful Baroque church lit up the chilly London sky,and how the voices of the choir and soloists thrilled theaudience with their performance of Haydn’s Creation.

Since then, over £300,000 has been donated to thefoundation by Johnians and other friends, in gifts that

have ranged in size from £10 to £62,000, and whichhave included the bequest from Mary Fuller of£197,000 (see page 27). Such generosity represents afabulous start to the campaign and is a testament tohow much the choir is valued both within andbeyond the Johnian community.

To find out more about the Choral Foundationcampaign and how you can participate, please contact:Sarah Westwood in the Development Office(s.westwood@joh.cam.ac.uk or 01223 330724), orDuncan Dormor, the President and Dean of the Chapel(djd28@cam.ac.uk or 01223 338633).

Raphael James LoeweMC MA, 1919–2011The College is sad to note the death of ProfessorLoewe, Honorary Fellow of St John’s and formerBye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College,on 27 May 2011, aged 92.

American author andJohnian, Jennifer Egan(1985), won the PulitzerPrize for Fiction in 2011with her inventive andunusual book, A VisitFrom the Goon Squad.

There has been muchdiscussion in reviewsas to whether thework is a novel or acollection of 13linked short stories,but it has been verywell received by critics and isreportedly being developed into a television series byAmerican cable network, HBO.

The Evening Standard review commented that ’almosteverybody who reads [this book] is going to recommend it toeverybody they know’, while the Guardian said, ’This is anincredibly affecting novel, sad, funny and wise, which shouldmake Jennifer Egan’s name in the UK.’

Egan winsPulitzer Prize

New Year honoursThree Johnians featured in the New Year honours listfor 2012:

Professor John wallwork (1983), Honorary Professorof Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of Researchand Development (former Director of Transplantation)at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge received a CBE forservices to healthcare.

matthew norman hawkshaw moss (1990), PrivateSecretary to the Vice-Chancellor of the University ofCambridge became a Member of the Royal VictorianOrder (MVO).

Lieutenant Colonel robaird James (robbie) Boyd

(2008), of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, wasawarded an OBE for command of his battalion duringan operational tour of Afghanistan.

The wait isalmost overIt’s not long until the hoardings are removed and the newly-restored DivinitySchool on St John’s Street is revealed. Hundreds of builders, stoneworkers,bricklayers, plasterers and other specialist craftsmen have been involved, withthe St John’s College Maintenance team holding the project together.

The focus in January was on the stonework and you can see the beautiful workthat has been done in these pictures. Some of the stone features are completelynew, but have been carefully designed and crafted to match the existing parts.The old stonework has been cleaned using high-pressure water and steam, amethod known in the trade as ‘doff ’ cleaning.

In February, the team worked on valiantly, despite the obstacles presented by thewintry weather. The 100-foot crane arrived to place the glass panels for the liftinto the lift shaft from above, and had to start work early in the morning to avoidthe high winds that picked up as the day went on. It also proved to be a goodtime to carry out internal work, such as electrical wiring, insulating pipes, fittingnew timber doors and secondary glazing, while it snowed outside.

Look out for a special feature on the Divinity School in the Michaelmas issue ofJohnian News, with photos from all stages of the project and news on how thebuilding will be used.

Samuel Butler in his room atClifford’s Inn, about 1890.

You can find full details of upcoming events, and follow Rebecca’s progress via her online diary, atwww.joh.cam.ac.uk/samuel-butler-project

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The greatestshow on Earth

how did your career take you from St John’s to

the olympics?

When I left John’s in 1993 I spent a few monthsworking as a researcher for Peter Mandelson MP,enough to disabuse me of the notion that I wanted acareer in politics, and then found a job as a traineefinancial journalist.

A back injury forced me to leave my desk job. Thesilver lining was hours spent lying on the floor of myClapham house-share with a laptop, exploring theinternet. I wrote about emerging internet businesses forvarious publications. I quickly realised I knew as muchas anyone else at the time and moved from writing todoing. In 1997, I helped create the first ever GeneralElection website, put the first government white paperon the internet, joined the team that built the Guardian’swebsites and helped found a cricket website called

CricInfo. CricInfo was serving 20 million users as earlyas 2000 and I sold the site, as Chairman, to the Gettyfamily (who sold it on to ESPN) in 2003. After a briefinterlude in sports marketing, creating the first IndianPremier League franchise, I joined LOCOG in 2006.

what is your daily role like at the moment?

We have delivered our Games-time website, mobileapplications and Twitter, Facebook and Googleintegrations for final testing, to make sure they are readyto serve an online audience potentially bigger than thetotal number of internet users in North America. We haveover 200,000 pages to test across 305 different sportingevents comprised of more than 7,000 heats. And the smallmatter of over 10,000 events, which are part of theOlympic Torch Relay and Festival 2012. I’m trying not topanic and, with my best Clive Dunn impression, regularlytelling my team not to panic.

how much interaction have you had with past organising

committees to learn from their experiences?

We had very generous help from our predecessors in thelast [winter] Games in Vancouver in 2010. Looking backany further, the landscape has changed so much that it’shard to learn from the past. In 2008, there were only 100million people on social networks and not manysmartphones. There are almost 3 billion people on socialnetworks today and by next year more people will accessthe internet using phones than computers.

Presumably you will be working long hours while the

games are on, but will you get a chance to see any sport?

I’ll be on shift so will be unlikely to see much, unless it’s ona screen. As a former vice captain of LMBC and morerecently a competitive cyclist, I’ll be watching out for therowing eights and road races. I’m also looking forward tothe Paralympics which, as I learnt in Beijing, is often abetter spectator experience than the Olympics.

how are you coping with the international demand

placed upon London 2012 new media?

There are 205 competing teams – more countries than arein the United Nations – and 15,000 athletes. We will onlyoffer services in English and French but it’s essential that

we provide comprehensive and unbiased results, andappeal to all audiences, irrespective of location, ability,age, background and level of sporting knowledge.Therefore, we have spent a lot of time in user testing andaccessibility testing to ensure that ordinary users can andwill use our services.

what level of traffic are you expecting to the website and

other new media while the olympics are on?

We are planning for a billion visits to the website,www.london2012.com, and over 5 million downloads ofour apps. The Vancouver 2010 site reached 50% of allCanadians online; we hope to top that.

what’s the best part of your job?

It’s simply a massive privilege to be part of a teamdelivering the largest and, I’m certain, best sporting andcultural event this country has ever staged. It makes meextremely proud to be British.

Alex Balfour (1990) is Head of New Media for the London Organising

Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). He joined the

project as employee number 73 in 2006; by July, Alex will be one of

100,000 staff and volunteers making the Games possible.

It makes me extremelyproud to be British.

AutumnSeptember had a sporting theme to it, starting with theLMBCA Regatta and Dinner, which filled the College withred blazers! This was followed a few weekends later by theField Clubs Dinner. A second Quincentenary Weekcompleted the month of events and we were delighted towelcome Hugh Dennis (1981) and Sir Derek Jacobi (1957)as speakers. Hugh Dennis, unsurprisingly, had the audiencein hysterics, and the question and answer session withSir Derek was full to bursting.

A magician, a caricaturist, hidden prizes and ‘I love St John’s’cupcakes were the order of the day for the UnbirthdayParty in November. Over 50 alumni joined us at BroadgateCircle for this informal event. Party bags were dished outand a BBQ wasn’t that out of place with the unseasonablymild weather!

WinterA flurry of events greeted us in December. In College, we heldthe Family Lunch for first year students and their families. TheHall looked very festive with the Christmas tree fully decoratedand it was nice to see so many guests.

Once again John’s was at Twickenham for the Varsity Match.Although Cambridge lost, the food and company in the CarlingRoom was excellent and we were delighted so many Johniansand guests could make it. Roger Smith (1951) attended his 60thVarsity Match, having not missed one since the age of 20.

The Quincentenary year was brought to a fitting close with aperformance of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast. The concert, whichwas held at the Royal Festival Hall, also featured the choirs ofClare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus and Trinity colleges. Before theconcert, St John’s had a reception for 150 alumni and guests onthe Roof Pavilion. There were beautiful views of night-timeLondon – illuminated by the Christmas street decorations.

SpringSaturday, 9 April 2011 marked the 500th anniversary of thefoundation of the College, and Johnians were encouraged toorganise their own events to celebrate. In Exeter, Dr DavidSmith (1968) and his wife, Christine, generously hosted agarden party at their home for 40 Johnians and guests – whono doubt enjoyed eating the two beautiful, homemade cakes,each featuring an image of the College.

April took the choir on tour to the US and we held a receptionhosted by the Master, Professor Chris Dobson, after theirperformance in New York. Needless to say there was a rush fortickets, and the concert and reception were a huge success.The next day, the Master travelled on to Toronto, where hejoined alumni for a dinner at the University Club.

Just two days before the Royal Wedding, HM the Queen andthe Duke of Edinburgh made the journey to St John’s tocelebrate the Quincentenary with us. They had lunch withFellows and students in the Combination Room, after whichthey headed to the Backs for a special garden party.

SummerJune began with a family garden party at Barrow Court, justoutside Bristol. The event was hosted by the Johnian Society’sHonorary Secretary, Graham Spooner (1971), and his wifeVirginia. Guests enjoyed tours of the garden and a strawberryafternoon tea, and there was entertainment for the childrentoo. Meanwhile, back in College, we held a unique lunch forover 160 former and present Title A Fellows – a chance formany old friends to catch up.

Fireworks filled the night sky for the May Ball. Each courtyardwas turned into a tribute to a prominent Johnian from history;daffodils were on display in Second Court for Wordsworth andNew Court was decked out in Indian finery for ManmohanSingh. By Kitchen Bridge, the punts spanned the river sopeople could watch the tremendous display in style.

The first Quincentenary Week in early July was packed full ofactivities. Over 1,000 Johnians and their guests attended, fromas far afield as Australia, South Africa, the US and Canada. Theweek started with a welcome from the Master, followed byHonorary Fellow, Professor Eric Maskin, who posed thequestion ’How should members of Parliament be elected?’ ThePol Roger, Adnams, port and wine tastings all went down verywell, and July finished with the Choir Reunion Weekend in apacked-out Hall.

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Happy birthday to St John’s!

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After a thrilling and exhausting Quincentenary year, Alumni Relations

Assistant and organiser of many of the fantastic events, Nicola Coles,

finally gets a chance to put her feet up and look back over the highlights.

Thank you to everyone who helped make these eventshappen, and to all those who attended for making themsuch a success.

…the Queen and the Duke of Edinburghmade the journey to St John’s to celebratethe Quincentenary with us.

Fighting diseasesof poverty

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Leprosy is one of the world’s forgotten diseases. The WorldHealth Organization claimed in 2000 to have eliminated it,but defined ’elimination’ only as reducing incidence to lessthan one case in 10,000 people. At the end of 2008, over213,000 people across the world had leprosy, and hundredsof thousands more, although cured of the disease, still sufferfrom disabilities caused by it. Meanwhile, the widespreadperception that leprosy no longer exists has caused a fall-offin funding to combat it.

I worked in LEPRA’s head office in Hyderabad – a teemingmetropolis of nearly seven million people that exemplifiesmodern India. A technology city, it has an increasinglywealthy middle and upper class. On its chaotic streets, thepopulation routinely risk life and limb among swarms ofmotorcycles (India’s favourite mode of transport) andthree-wheeled auto-rickshaws.

With no medical training, my work was mainlyadministrative: helping with strategy development, writingpapers and administering LEPRA’s governing board.What I really enjoyed, though, was visiting the field tosee the extraordinary work being carried out throughLEPRA projects.

LEPRA is one of the few organisations in the world that stillhas expertise in treating leprosy. It trains doctors indiagnosis, as the disease is no longer a standard part of themedical curriculum and must be diagnosed early before itcauses disabilities. LEPRA clinics perform reconstructivesurgery by repositioning muscles to replace those witheredby leprosy and giving patients back the use of their handsand feet. Technicians make rubber sandals to allow thosewho have lost the feeling in their feet to walk withoutdeveloping ulcers.

Adam Storring (2001) took leave from the Civil Service to workfor seven months as a volunteer for LEPRA India – a charityspecialising in leprosy and diseases associated with povertyand social discrimination.

LEPRA is also an expert at engaging with communities,including some of the poorest and most marginalised in India.It pioneered work with India’s tribal people, including sometribes that are very hostile to outsiders. On one field trip to aproject teaching HIV prevention, I was introduced to a roomfull of male and female sex workers, who were asked byLEPRA staff to spread messages about safe sex to their peers.In another project, picture books were used to teach basic sexeducation to illiterate rural women. Many women learnt forthe first time the mechanism of sex determination inreproduction, and that it wasn’t their fault if theygave birth to a girl!

My time in India gave me a whole new perspectiveon things we take for granted in Britain. Theproblems of the NHS seem small when you learnthat, in remote parts of India, government clinicsare often unable to recruit doctors at all, andthere is one auxiliary nurse/midwife for every5,000 people. What inspired me most wasthe skill and commitment of the people Iworked with, and the dedication theyshowed in helping some of the poorestpeople in India. Helping to supporttheir work was one of the mostrewarding experiences of my life.

You can find more information about LEPRA India’swork at http://leprasociety.orgTo donate to LEPRA in the UK, please visitwww.leprahealthinaction.org/category/donate

There is one auxiliarynurse/ midwife for every5,000 people.

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Can you remember your first day at university? even if you’d

rather not admit it, it was probably a little bit daunting –

living away from home possibly for the first time, having

those awkward first conversations with your new room-mates

and getting lost on the way to your first lecture. attending

St John’s may well have added to those first day nerves, knowing

that you were walking the same corridors as great Johnians such

as william wordsworth, John dee and manmohan Singh.

Imagine how Peter Muriuki will feel on his first day at St John’sthis autumn. Peter comes from Nairobi, Kenya and will be thefirst student to benefit from a new scholarship arrangementenabling him to study here for an undergraduate degree inEngineering; a dream he probably never thought possible. TheMoody-Stuart Scholarship (founded through the generosity ofSir Mark Moody-Stuart, 1960, and his wife Lady Judith) is opento students from the Starehe Schools in Kenya, which offeracademically-talented children from impoverished families acompletely free secondary school education.

Even though some Kenyan secondary schools now waivetheir fees, there are still many associated costs in the formof boarding, uniforms, books and other materials; Stareheis the only opportunity for orphans and children whosefamilies cannot afford such luxuries. Founded as adormitory for orphaned street children in 1959, Starehehas grown into a thriving boys’ school with around 1,000pupils, and a separate girls’ school 20km north of Nairobiopened in 2005.

Competition is fierce: there are around 23,000 applicationsfor 200 places at the boys’ school each year. It thereforecomes as no surprise that many of the determined and brightindividuals who make it to Starehe go on to great things.One third of trainee doctors at public universities in Kenyaare alumni of Starehe. Other former students have studiedat Stanford and Harvard, and hold positions in investmentbanking, law, the Kenyan High Commission in London andthe BBC World Service.

Senior Tutor at St John’s, Dr Matthias Dörrzapf, visitedStarehe in September 2011 and conducted 12 interviews(with six boys and six girls) to find the recipient of the veryfirst Moody-Stuart Scholarship place.

’Every student comes from an extraordinary background,’said Matthias. ’Every CV you see is heartbreaking. Theschools actually go out to the families, once they’vedecided who to take. They go out and check that it’sindeed as they say – that they have no money. They reallytry to reach out to the poorest in the whole of Kenya.

‘I was very much impressed about how confident all thecandidates were. They were very confident and very hardworking. Almost all the candidates were either interestedin Engineering, Law or Medicine, which is probablyunderstandable. It would be nice to have a musician or ahistorian, but I can see this is something they probablywouldn’t consider.

’I asked them if they would consider studying Biology, butthey didn’t see the point in studying Biology. They want todo Medicine. They didn’t want to do Medicine to invent anew drug or something that would ultimately cure millionsand millions of people; they wanted to do Medicine to beout there on the ground. And they considered helping thepeople as being there and helping, say, five people a dayrather than helping millions.’

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A brighter futureFollowing on from the success of other internationalscholarships, a new partnership has been formed betweenSt John’s and one of the most successful and inspiringschools in Kenya.

Afternoon assembly at the boys’ school.

I was very muchimpressed about howconfident all thecandidates were.

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In line with a number of other colleges, John’s explored the

possibility of admitting women in the late 1970s.

on 1 october 1981, dr Kathleen wheeler became the first

female member of College to be admitted to the fellowship.

on the same day, seven female graduate students matriculated.

A year later, in October 1982, 44 female undergraduatesjoined the College. These pioneering women threwthemselves wholeheartedly into College life andsimultaneously changed it forever. The number of women atJohn’s has grown steadily each year to reach the equaldivision of male and female students that we have studyingin the College today.

To celebrate the contribution of women to the life ofSt John’s, we are holding a special event on Saturday,26 May. The day will consist of a series of talks and discussions.This event is generously supported by Baillie Gifford, whoalso sponsored the 25th anniversary symposium in 2007.

Invitations have been sent out and further details areavailable on our website at www.joh.cam.ac.uk For fullcoverage of the event, check out the Michaelmas issue ofJohnian News.

Our first women’s networking event was held in October2011 at The Soho Hotel, with the kind support of Kit Kemp.Over 100 Johnian women gathered to hear from ClaireCraig (1979), Deputy Head of the Government Office forScience, and Jennifer Jonas (1983), Founder and CEO ofNew Real Films, before networking over drinks andcanapés. The second event will be held in autumn 2012 –keep an eye on the website for details.

This year marks the 30th anniversaryof the admission of women into theCollege and a celebratory event willbe held in May.

During the interviews, it became apparent thatthe male candidates were much stronger thanthe girls, which is understandable given thelength of time that each school has been open.In order to help the girls’ school, one of theirteachers, John Mwaura, visited St John’s inDecember, so that he can give his studentsfirst-hand insight into what student life is likehere. It is hoped that the girls’ school will, intime, help to inspire more girls to study andchallenge the traditional stereotypes that areholding them back.

’It’s probably even more important to have thegirls’ school than the boys’ school,’ explainedMatthias. ’In Kenya, the families very often takea view that for girls education is wasted,because ultimately they will marry and will runthe family. If families have a bit of money, theywill send the oldest boy to school, but they willcertainly not send girls.’

Matthias was quick to point out that the Starehestudents were not treated any differently fromother applicants and will certainly have plenty tooffer during their time at John’s.

’These were proper interviews; I asked interviewquestions of the same standard that I would askapplicants here. There were, of course, otherswho performed extremely well, but Peter isclearly very bright and he’s certainly up to thestandard to come here. I was very muchimpressed by his mathematical skills. I am quiteexcited really.

’No doubt at some stage the Kenyan presidentwill be from the school. Perhaps not in the next10 or 20 years, but the children at these schoolsare of that kind of calibre to at some stage runthe country.’

Matthias Dörrzapf at Starehe Girls’ Centre on the day of the interviews,

with teacher John Mwaura and the Director’s Assistant Regina Mitheu.

(Left to right) Matthew Kithyaka, Director of the Boys’ Centre;

Joseph Gikubu, one of the three founders; and Maryana Munyendo,

the Director’s Assistant.

Every CV you see isheartbreaking.

…A brighter future

St John’s celebrates

30 years of women

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why create a cartoon strip on corporate rip-offs and

government sleight of hand? why not one about daft cats, or

relationships instead? well, cats are surprisingly hard to draw,

and navel-gazing on relationships is a sure way to lose all

interest in the real thing. anyway, there are far too many of

them already and, amazingly, Britain has only three properly

news-led political cartoon strips: ’If’ in the Guardian, ’alex’

in The Telegraph, and ripped-off Britons. It seems all the

others are sort of soap operas about relationships. or cats.

There is another reason. Stopping Britain’s two biggest rip-offsalone would easily pay off our £50 billion annual nationalstructural deficit – the main cause of government cutscurrently causing us all so much pain. The biggest ones arethe taxpayer subsidy of banks, and tax evasion andavoidance. The £50 billion of taxpayers’ money still requiredto underwrite high-risk ’casino’ investment banks is just one

big, fat example of many rip-offs by the banks. Tax evasionand avoidance is estimated at between £35 billion and£100 billion, but nobody can know for sure whilst we allowtax havens to keep their secrets. Other sectors are responsiblefor further billions: the airline industry’s questionableexemption from VAT and fuel duty costs us all £10 billion,and overpriced bills from the cartel of energy suppliers add£4 billion. No one has yet calculated the sum total of all therip-offs perpetrated across all sectors of the economy.

What we don’t cover is common fraud. Merely worryingabout dodgy double-glazing salesmen can be a persistentdistraction. We go after the people, companies, sectors andregulators that are the true rip-off rain-makers. This lets thestrip cover just about every aspect of our lives: leisure, food,the media, transport, taxes and benefits, education,employment, pensions, housing and property, and more.

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My degree course had little difficulty convincing me that Iwould not shine as a physicist. My first job was as a studiomanager at BBC World Service, then a news and currentaffairs producer, ending with a long reporting stint in India.Aged 30, I left the media (temporarily, as it turns out) and setmyself up as a business consultant focusing on the salesproblems of small, specialised companies that sell to largecompanies. The cartoon strip is my other job.

The strip is the work of myself and my brother, using thepseudonyms Hari and Jake. It all started with an attempt towrite a book about dastardly sales techniques. The ideameandered into writing a comedy, which we submittedunsuccessfully to the BBC. As we dug deeper, we wereshocked by the scale and ubiquity of rip-offs perpetrated byour most respected businesses. We went back to the book andadded cartoons in our own cheap attempt to liven it up. Bypitching it as ’Freakonomics plus jokes’ (Freakonomics was thesurprise 2005 bestseller that made forensic economicsaccessible to the lay reader) we secured an agent. While hestruggled (and continues to struggle) to find a publisher in anon-fiction book market that is only interested in ’cookeryand celebrity memoirs’, we noticed our cartoons stood up ontheir own. So we tailored 30 cartoons and pitched them atthe Guardian just after the 2010 general election.

Soon after our debut in the Guardian, we launched our ownindependent blog of articles that dig deeper, authored by usas well as guests with expert knowledge. Some of the mostimportant and baldest facts and insights are too often ignoredby, or buried in, the mainstream media. We have successfullygot campaigners to write angrier stuff than they would allowthemselves to write in a newspaper, and have found an

undercover banker willing to spill his beans. We would dearlylove to have whistle-blowers from every major sector. We arenow doing our best to learn how to drive traffic to the blogusing Twitter, Facebook, Zonk (I just made that last one up)and any other social media that we had never heard of twoyears ago.

This all took around five years. It just goes to show that thereis no point sticking to a grand plan. Just keep stubbornlybreasting forward and see what happens.

In case you were wondering, we are not anti-capitalists, andneither are our three cartoon characters – Chris, Fee and KJ.While the world looks for the right mix of public and privateenterprise, everyone should be fighting rip-offs. Expose andstop the rippers-off, and the benefits will be felt by all, notleast the private sector. Every pound spent on over-priced andsometimes useless products and services, is a pound not spenton genuinely useful and innovative businesses. Who on Earthwould object to that?

You can read Ripped-off Britons atwww.guardian.co.uk/money/series/ripped-off-britons andfollow the blog at www.rippedoffbritons.com

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A very mighty penArasan Aruliah (1985) studied Natural Sciences (Physics). He andhis brother script and draw the ’Ripped-off Britons’ cartoon stripfor the Guardian, and publish their own independent blog.

We go after the people,companies, sectors andregulators that are thetrue rip-off rain-makers.

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our trip came about because of a project conceived by Stuart

Clenaghan (1976), who is one of the London-based directors of

green gold forestry (ggf) – a sustainable logging company in

Iquitos, Peru. Stuart wanted to launch a scientific investigation

into the environmental effect that responsible, low impact

logging practices are having on the rainforest.

Green Gold Forestry was set up in 2007 and currentlyoperates 110,000 hectares of forest concessions granted bythe Peruvian government. It is the only Forest StewardshipCouncil (FSC) certified company in the Loreto region of Peru,which covers around one-third of the country. Unfortunately,most of the logging companies in the region are localoperators that have low capital, and so they lack equipmentand do not implement best practice, at the expense of theenvironment. FSC certification criteria include fair pay andsafe working conditions for employees; protection forindigenous communities within the company’s concession;and also that environmental costs are taken into consideration.

Examples of this in the field include, only harvesting treesabove certain diameters, cutting lianas (vines) prior to fellingto prevent pulling down other trees linked by the climbers,directional felling, and the creation of conservation andregeneration areas.

An assessment of the sustainability of the practices of a forestrycompany seemed like a large task for us, as Natural Sciencesundergraduates whose previous fieldwork experience consistedof the odd department visit to the South Downs. However,armed with 100% DEET mosquito repellent and thick wellies(the footwear of choice for the discerning rainforest-dweller)we set out for Iquitos, in the heart of the Amazon jungle in thenorth of Peru. Iquitos prospered at the start of the 20th centuryduring the rubber boom and despite being the largest city inthe world without road access (you have to reach it by planeor boat), it still sustains 370,000 inhabitants and lively eco-tourism and hallucinogenic, traditional jungle medicineindustries (note: we did not experience the latter!).

Summer 2011 saw two intrepid Johnians, Laura Plant andTomos Prys-Jones (both 2009), head out to the Amazon jungleto set up what is planned to be a long-term environmentalproject. Laura sent us her report.

An Amazonian adventure

The feature on ‘The Night Climbers of St John’s’in the Michaelmas 2010 issue of Johnian Newsprompted several Johnians to contact us withtheir own stories. Dr Richard (Dick) Bramley(1959) reveals his daring escapade.

I was only ever a night climber through necessity rather than

choice, but possibly have the distinction of being the only Johnian

to climb out of College and back in, twice in the same night.

The occasion was the night of a King Street Run, when‘Schoolie’ Cobb, the Education Sergeant in my army unit inMalaya, came over from Oxford to do the Run. Just to make iteasy, he arrived on crutches with his leg in plaster. No problem,he duly accomplished the drinking feat and set off into the nightwithout a gown (which we were required to wear after dusk inthat era) to seek out the proctors, so that when asked if he was amember of ‘the university’ he could proudly answer ‘yes’ andgive his college as ‘Brasenose’!

On returning to College after the pubs had closed, someoneenquired what had happened to my friend. We had arrangedthat, if he got lost and didn’t make it back into College bymidnight, he would wait outside North Court gates for me –and there he was.

This, I thought, was going to be easy because in my freshmanyear I had discovered that one of the bars in my gyp roomwindow, which overlooked the Master’s Garden, was looseand that, rather than climbing over the railings, an easierafter-hours way into College was to enter via the gate to theMaster’s Lodge and climb up the drain pipe into my gyp room.

After first making sure the window was open, the next taskwas to climb out over the Forecourt railings. After escortingthe newly-qualified nine pint (one penalty pint) King StreetRunner into the Master’s Garden, then came the rather morechallenging task of getting him and his pot leg up thedrainpipe. First, he got on my shoulders and got sufficientpurchase on the ivy to pull himself onto the roof of thecorridor that ran behind what was then the Palmerston Room.After passing up the crutches, I followed and then climbedinto the gyp room before hauling Schoolie up with the aid ofa crutch. The noise of his plaster cast clattering on the slateswas enough to wake the dead, let alone the Master or anypatrolling porters. Mission accomplished! Well, almost –we both let go of the crutch at the same time and it wentclattering back down the roof into the Master’s Garden.

Apart from the effect of the loss of a crutch on Schoolie’sambulatory ability, which was already somewhat impairedby alcohol, leaving it there until morning risked it beingfound. So, there was no option but for me to climb out againand retrieve it. This was duly achieved and, I like to think,a new record was set.

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Return of thenight climbers

Nares Craig on top of the

‘wedding cake’ in New Court.

Sadly, Nares died in February

this year, aged 94. He took

part in many daring night

climbs during his time at

Trinity in the late 1930s.

Image taken from The Night Climbers ofCambridge by Oleander Press

www.oleanderpress.com

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Having arrived safely and been welcomed by GGF’s Iquitos-based (but fervently Welsh) CEO, Gareth Hughes, we settleddown to discuss our plan of action. Our chosen method was toestablish permanent plots in the concession that each contain atree of commercial species and size. Half of the plots will beharvested, and all plots will be monitored over the next fiveyears of the project to analyse growth rates and compositionof the trees. This is with the expectation that the growth ratescould then be extrapolated to show that at the end of onefelling rotation period – 20 years – the forest would haverecovered to a sufficient level to sustain re-harvesting.

We also decided to monitor the fauna of the areas. It is knownthat mammals are very sensitive to forest disturbance and sothe presence or absence of mammals could be used to assessthe impact the forest harvesting is having on the jungle.However, it is also well-known that sightings of largemammals in the rainforest are rare and therefore unlikely toyield good data. Instead, we measured the diversity of dungbeetles as a proxy for the abundance of mammals in the areathat were producing the dung.

The first problem we encountered was that in order to trapdung beetles, we needed bait and the obvious bait required isdung. What is the best source of dung in a jungle camp full of

human workers? Sadly, Tom and I realised that it was notgoing to be pleasant to use a mixture of sign language andour poor Spanish vocabulary to request the excrement of ourfellow workers. Relief came upon the discovery of a smallzoo in Iquitos where, after much hilarity, the zoo-keeperallowed us to remove dung from the cages of a variety ofjungle mammals including monkeys, pumas and jaguars.

Once all the equipment was assembled, including a box ofdung, we met up with a group of workers to begin our four-day boat ride out to a newly-leased concession, where wewere to set up camp for three weeks. Living in the jungle iscertainly an experience; the description ’basic bathroomfacilities’ would be a wild over-exaggeration of the poles ofwood balanced across a small stream where you perched andscooped water out of the stream with a Tupperware tub.However, after a hard day of walking through jungle bogscarrying equipment in near 100% humidity, the first dousingfrom the Tupperware tub was heaven.

Other moments to treasure included the wildlife. We sawmany species of hummingbirds (whose rapid wing movementssounded like car motors starting) and monkeys, as well as aherd of stampeding wild boar (Huangana). The plants wereformidable, with their dense canopy effectively blocking outthe sky from our view, and their aggressive ant or pricklydefence systems made them a danger to anyone who had ahabit of tripping over and grabbing them for support.

Some definite low points included the insatiable army ofmosquitoes that were unfazed by the 100% DEET, whichwould melt plastic if you weren’t careful to wash your handsafter application, and the occasional stomach illness that wasmade more uncomfortable by the fact that the nearestbathroom was four days’ journey downriver.

Ultimately our time in the jungle was made bearable by threecamp workers who acted as our jungle babysitters and lookedafter us as we adjusted to life under the canopy, as well asteaching us a lot of Spanish vocabulary (most of it rude). Wemanaged to identify, tag and measure 337 trees and collect1,146 dung beetles, which we are still trying to get exportedback to the UK to be identified by experts.

We hope that students in the coming years will be able tocontinue collecting data and generate an interesting insightinto how forest dynamics are altered by GGF’s attempts tosustainably harvest tropical timber.

We would like to thank Stuart Clenaghan and Gareth Hughesof Green Gold Forestry, and Dr Chris Jiggins and Dr TobyGardner of the Zoology Department, Cambridge.

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The first problem weencountered was that inorder to trap dung beetles,we needed bait.

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The campaign aims to build up an endowment of £5 million to sustainand develop the club’s activities. This continues a tradition of Johniansupport for rowing through the LMBCA, which has been an economiclifeline for the LMBC since 1913.

At the event, the Master, Professor Chris Dobson, reiterated the need tosafeguard the LMBC and ensure that it remains a centre of rowingexcellence and participation for future generations of Johnians.Annamarie Phelps (1984), member of the LMBCA committee andDeputy Chairman of British Rowing, spoke of the many sporting,professional and personal benefits of being part of the LMBC.Annamarie noviced in her second year and went on to row in the 1996Olympic Games.

The campaign launch followed a wonderful afternoon on the river,where over 160 Johnians participated and cheered on the crews at aScratch Regatta. In between racing, the Panamanian Ambassador to theUK, Gilberto Arias (1986), officially named the newest member of theLMBC fleet – the Dame Margot. Congratulations to Guy Pooley’s crew,who won what was a fiercely contested race all the way to the finish.

Thank you to all those who were involved in making this such anunforgettable reunion.

LADY MARGARETBOAT CLUB

The future ofrowing at John’s

Celebrating LMBC anniversariesAfter such a memorable day in September, we wanted to reflect further on thewonderful past achievements of LMBC crews. Below are some of the anniversariessent in so far. Please keep us posted with your news and memories, and we willdo our best to include them in future issues of Johnian News.

The crew went Head of the Mays with Goldie stroking. Onthe last night when they had chased Trinity First Boat for fournights and not made the bump, Goldie hired a coach to takethe crew down to the start to conserve energy! Proof of thepudding, ’they made the bump’. LMBC rowed over easily onthe last night. Contributor: John Hall-Craggs (1953).

First Boat crew: F Harris (bow), 2 H Brooke, 3 W Burnside,4 EE Sawyer, 5 HD Bonsey, 6 PH Laing, 7 PJ Hibbert,JHD Goldie (stroke), FC Bayard (cox).

At the Marlow Regatta, the First Boat retained The GrandChallenge Cup for the third successive year, after a hard racein the final. Contributor: John Worlidge (1948).

Crew: HH Almond (bow), 2 JSM Jones, 3 JR Dingle,4 DD Macklin, 5 EJ Worlidge, 6 RFA Sharpley, 7 NBM Clack,CBM Lloyd (stroke), P Prestt (cox).

The crew stayed Head of the Mays and at Henley, won theLadies’ Plate with virtually a 2nd VIII. There were 10 membersof the club in the GB Olympic rowing squad, all of whom hadbeen up in 1951. What a year! Contributor: John Hall-Craggs (1953).

The Lady Margaret Boat Club’s 50th anniversary event tookplace at Henley in July 2011 giving the 1961 First Boat crew(pictured above) the perfect opportunity to get together withthe Ladies’ Plate, won on 8 July 1961. Contributor: David Hope (1959).

Crew: NJC Walkinshaw (bow), 2 MJ Gallop, 3 JB Peddie,4 JR Simmons, 5 Hon RA Napier, 6 AJ Collier, 7 RS Symonds,J Parker (stroke), JAD Hope (cox).

The first women joined the LMBC.Contributor: John Hall-Craggs (1953).

The Lady Margaret women went Head of the Lents and wereHead of the Mays.Contributor: John Hall-Craggs (1953).

Finally, congratulations to the Minotaurs, who are celebrating

their 25th anniversary this year.

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Wednesday, 13–Saturday, 16 June: May Bumps

Wednesday, 27 June–Sunday, 1 July: Henley Royal Regatta

Look out for weekly fixtures on the new LMBC website,going live in April!

The LMBC Reunion event held onSaturday, 3 September 2011 served asthe launch of the EmbracingParticipation and Excellence in Rowingcampaign. This marks the beginning ofa long-term commitment to secure theLMBC’s future at a time of increasedpressures on College funding.

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At the third annual Beaufort Societymeeting in Quincentenary year, wewere delighted to welcome FredericRaphael (1950) – one of the College’smost celebrated alumni. The Oscar-winning screenwriter and author ofThe Glittering Prizes trilogy of novels,spoke movingly and hilariously of hismemories of St John’s from the 1950sand the inspirational Johnians he metthere. Here are his own reflections onthe day:

’I relied, rather rashly, on the geniusloci, to supply suitable words withwhich to amuse, if I could, the eminent(and somewhat greying) company ofJohnians who attended the BeaufortSociety luncheon on 29 October and,fortunately, it was enough to enter Hallfor memories and verbosity to be served on the same plate, so tosay. Merely to hear that Latin grace being read, with itsCiceronian timbre and sonorous clausula, recalled with whatpride I stepped up, as a Major Scholar in Classics, to deliver it inmy first year – 1950. I was reminded also of how much better ascholar my friend, the late Professor John Patrick Sullivan, soonshowed himself to be and with what relief I ceased trying tohold a candle to him. It is the way of these occasions toalleviate solemnity with a joke or two, and this I did. I was toldafterwards that I may have been the first person to utter theword “penis” coram publico in such surroundings. The LadyMargaret Beaufort did not fall from the wall, nor did the ghost ofRichard Bentley denounce my brazenness. I was, in truth, tellinga joke which John Sullivan had threatened to tell, in the sameplace, some 50 years ago, and refrained.’

John Sullivan graduated in 1953 with a starred double first inClassics and went on to become the Professor of Classics at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara and Chair of theDepartment. Glittering prizes indeed.

Julian Gregory (2009), accompanied by John Challenger(2008), rose to the unenviable challenge of followingFrederic’s speech with a moving performance on the violin,after which members chose between four opportunities tolearn more about St John’s – its history, portrait collection,catering operations or financial management. Membersreunited for tea in the Master’s Lodge with Professor andDr Dobson, and many stayed on for Evensong in the Chapel,drawing a day of enlightenment, music, good food andwine, and much laughter to a close. Long may suchtraditions endure!

The Beaufort Society meets next on Saturday, 13 October2012. Membership is open to anyone who has madeprovision for St John’s in their will.

For more information, please contact Sarah Westwood inthe Development Office (s.westwood@joh.cam.ac.ukor 01223 330724).

Glittering PrizesConscious of its heritage, the Beaufort Society is buildingtraditions of its own, one of which is to invite distinguishedJohnians to speak over lunch.

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Bob and Mary married in 1945 after a wartime courtship. Bobrelished his time in the army, despite four injuries that left himcarrying shrapnel for the rest of his life. Mary forbade any returnto military service for Bob after the war, much to hisdisappointment. He later wrote that ’settling down was hell’.The couple lived for a time at Corpus Christi College, whereMary was in service to the Master, and Bob found work atSt John’s in the vegetable garden. This role was not to his tasteand Bob was pleased to be appointed New Court Porter in1960, which suited him much better: ’It was like being alance-corporal in the army again.’

Known as Big Bob on account of both his stature andtemperament, Bob became Head Porter in 1969 and loved theincreased contact it brought with students and Fellows.His motto was, sensibly, ’See all,hear all and say as little as possible.’In 1974, Bob and Mary wereappointed keepers of the graduatehostel at 12 Madingley Road, wheretheir kindness to the students in theircare was exceptional.

Bob’s career at St John’s was notwithout controversy and hisopposition to the admission ofwomen was well known, although hegrudgingly conceded on hisretirement that the womenundergraduates were ’not so bad’.It seems that his initial antipathy wasnot shared by the new intake ofwomen, and Bob blushed at beingreferred to as a ’cuddly bear’ by oneof their number in a BBCdocumentary. He remarked later thathe never lived this comment downamongst his fellow head porters.

The Fullers’ long relationship with St John’s did not end withBob’s untimely death a few short months after he retired.Mary outlived her husband by 25 years and on her death, atthe age of 93, she made the couple’s final gift to the College.Bob and Mary had been devoted attendees at Sundayevensongs in Chapel and this had clearly meant a great dealto Mary. She specified that her bequest should be used toestablish the Bob and Mary Fuller Fund, with the aim ofproviding a gift to every chorister leaving the College School,commemorating their time in the choir. The generosity ofMary’s bequest will enable the College to fulfil her wishesand also support choristers’ bursaries, which enable giftedmusicians who might not otherwise be able to afford thefees of the College School to join the choir.

Souvent me souvient:Big Bob’s legacyBob Fuller, Head Porter 1969–1985, and his wife Mary were amuch-loved team, and it seems that the College’s affection wasmore than returned. On Mary’s death in 2010 she bequeathedthe couple’s estate, a total of £197,000, to the Choir of St John’s.

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5 Port Latin Feast17 Johnian Evensong18 MA Dinner 19 MA Lunch23 Johnian Entrepreneurs Networking Event 26 30 Years of Women Day

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15 Johnian Society London Drinks19 May Ball 21 New York event21 Garden Party for Graduands 30 Johnian Dinner (1957, 1973, 1975 and

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1 Johnian Lunch (1967 and 1968)7 Larmor Award Dinner 8 Donor Day 15 Family Day 26-27 Johnian Society golf competition

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3-17 Telethon8 25 Year Dinner (1987)15 50 Year Dinner (1962) 21-23 Alumni Weekend22 Johnian Society Day

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TBC Women’s networking event13 Beaufort Society eventTBC Winfield Society event16 Johnian Evensong

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15 Johnian Entrepreneurs Networking Event22 Thanksgiving Dinner

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1 Family Lunch TBC London Christmas Drinks TBC Varsity Match

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