NO.122
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Old Wykehamist News
Academic
JP Dancy (Coll, 59-64) has
recently been elected Fellow
of the British Academy.
Announcements
MS Travis (K, 60-65) has
married Mrs Bobbie Richards.
Appointments / Elections
In February, NHM Hitchens (A, 76-81)
was elected vice chairman of the Broad
Street Ward Club – the wards are the
small administrative units for the City of
London.
Arts
On 13th October, 2016, SG Aldridge (H,
88-92) attended a reception with the
Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham
Palace to celebrate 50 years of the
Kennedy Memorial Trust. Simon was a
Kennedy Scholar to Harvard in 1996-7,
one of seven British students chosen by a
committee led by Mervyn King, Kennedy
Scholar and then Governor of the Bank
of England. He is now an artist and
architect living and working in New York.
Do you know of any other Wykehamist
Kennedy Scholars?
The Incentive is a bold short film about
climate change directed by RB Callender
(D, 04-09). After Winchester, Rob
trained at the Guildhall School of Music
& Drama. He has played roles in the West
End and on film and TV, including BBC’s
Sherlock and Game of Thrones. CCH
Macnamara (Coll, 08-13) is
producing Rob’s debut film, which takes a
visceral, provocative and novel look
at how we might achieve meaningful
action on global warming. See
www.incentivepictures.com.
G Lo Coco (K, 13-14)
is the founder and
music director of
ROSSINI 2016 and
conducted the festival
orchestra and singers in
their various
performances.
Gaetano is currently studying at Trinity
Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in
London. He was reading English at Oxford
University until an irresistible passion for
opera made him realise that he wanted to
dedicate himself completely to music.
FD Wake-Walker (G, 95-00), Artistic
Director of Mahogany Opera Group, runs
the Mica Mica project in Berlin and works
regularly with the children’s opera
company Jubilee Opera. This season
Freddie directs a new production of Le
nozze di Figaro for Teatro alla Scala, Milan
and the future sees him direct new
productions for the Opernhaus Zürich and
the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg.
Two Toyeites, CPK Edwards (B, 83-87)
and JHSP Dunn (B, 86-91), both appeared
in Downton Abbey, playing Michael
Gregson and Charlie Rogers respectively.
Awards
Lord Saye and Sele (Fellow, 66-84) was
awarded the Legion d’Honneur for
participating in the liberation of North
West Europe 1944-5.
Professor DJ Thouless (Coll, 47-52),
professor emeritus
of Physics at the
University of
Washington, has
shared, with two
other Britons, the
2016 Nobel Prize
in Physics for
15
David Thouless, centre front row, 1952
theoretical discoveries of topological
phase transitions and topological phases
of matter. David was top of Election Roll
in 1947, winning the Duncan Maths
prizes in 1948 and 1950 and the
Richardson prize for Maths in 1951. He is
our second Nobel laureate in Science: the
first was Richard Synge (Coll, 28-33),
who shared the Chemistry prize in 1952
for partition chromatography and died in
1994.
Books
PJ Casement (D, 49-53),
a well-established author
previously writing in a
quite different genre,
that of psychoanalysis,
psychotherapy and
counselling, has
produced Growing Up?
A Journey with Laughter
for an entirely different readership. This is
a fascinating account of his strange
journey from a privileged background,
through schools and national service and
university, avoiding throughout the desire
of his family for him to join the Royal
Navy. He continues on his unpredictable
journey into becoming a psychotherapist
and then a psychoanalyst, what his
mother thought was ‘training to become a
psychotic’. This book is filled with
laughter. The Karnac Library; ISBN: 9781782203155.