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THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY<br />
Celebrating 50 Years<br />
In our 50th anniversary year, it has been clearer<br />
than ever that <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s is held together by<br />
much more than Arne Jacobsen’s distinctive yellow<br />
bricks. It is the sum <strong>of</strong> the talents and ambitions<br />
<strong>of</strong> a flourishing community <strong>of</strong> Alumni, students,<br />
parents, Fellows and friends. We were delighted<br />
that that community was able to take part in a<br />
year <strong>of</strong> celebrations held throughout 2012.<br />
The programme reflected the global nature <strong>of</strong><br />
our community with events across the world. In<br />
March, the Master hosted drinks receptions in<br />
Hong Kong and Singapore, before travelling to<br />
New York to host a dinner in the Harvard Club.<br />
Reflecting the strength <strong>of</strong> our Danish connections,<br />
the Danish Ambassador, Anne <strong>St</strong>effensen, kindly<br />
hosted our London Party at the Danish Embassy<br />
in May. Warm weather allowed guests to spill<br />
out onto the balcony <strong>of</strong> the Ambassador’s<br />
Residence, which had been designed by Arne<br />
Jacobsen, to enjoy exceptional views <strong>of</strong> a<br />
summer evening across the capital.<br />
In June, face-painters, jugglers and stilt-walkers<br />
transformed the <strong>College</strong> for our inaugural Family<br />
Day, with story-telling by alumna MG Harris (1984,<br />
Biochemistry), and a captivating cryptic Treasure Hunt<br />
devised by <strong>College</strong> Enigmatist Chris Maslanka (1973,<br />
Physics).<br />
London Party and Exhibition<br />
photographs by Guy Bell<br />
(www.gbphotos.com)<br />
The Out <strong>of</strong> Architecture Exhibition<br />
celebrated the inextricable relationships<br />
between the <strong>College</strong> buildings and the furniture<br />
that resides within them. First displayed in<br />
Arup’s London <strong>of</strong>fices and opened by the Danish<br />
Ambassador, the Exhibition moved to Catz in<br />
September where it was exhibited in the <strong>College</strong><br />
Library.<br />
The architecture <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s attracted<br />
coverage from across the globe in our 50th<br />
anniversary year. From Japan to Italy, Germany,<br />
the Netherlands, France and Denmark, the<br />
international design media have noted the<br />
importance <strong>of</strong> our buildings and their contents as<br />
masterpieces <strong>of</strong> 20th century design.<br />
Germany’s A&W magazine praised Arne Jacobsen’s<br />
union <strong>of</strong> the ‘seemingly irreconcilable’ in designing<br />
a college which had both ‘preserved <strong>Oxford</strong>’s great<br />
traditions’ without recourse to ‘grand architectural<br />
gestures’. Denmark’s Rum magazine charted<br />
Jacobsen’s ‘countless references to nature’ and praised<br />
the <strong>College</strong> as a ‘place which feels warm and welcoming<br />
fifty years on’, while Danish broadsheet, Jyllands-<br />
Posten, interviewed Emeritus Fellow Barrie Juniper who<br />
assisted Jacobsen in designing the <strong>College</strong> gardens. n<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2012/29