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The Edition St Edmund’s College ST EDMUND’S COLLEGE NEWSLETTER MICHAELMAS 2014 | ISSUE 13 Cambridge In this issue: Interview with the College Development Celebrating the life new Master Update of Dr Richard Laws Page 4 Page 8 Page 16 A Message from the Master I have only been Master now for 6 weeks, so this is very much an initial message. However, they say that first impressions count for a lot, so let me start with mine... The most important of these is the The transaction itself has some warmth and friendliness of the complexities, but the prospect of Fellowship – towards me and my wife, securing such a modern facility right Anna, towards each other and towards on our doorstep is a “once in a lifetime the students. There is much talk of the opportunity” and this keeps the Bursar Eddies Family around the world, which and his support group of fellows begins with one’s first hall and runs going as they slave through the through the family lunches and the design, legal and financial discussions children’s Christmas party and – so I needed to reach agreement with the have yet to experience – the Christmas developer and funders. It will be worth dinners and pantomime, and out into it when the building is finished for the the alumni groups. This warmth and start of 2017/18. approachability is very different from some of the other colleges that I am This further expansion of student which, with the North West expansion acquainted with, and is something to numbers to around 650 will in turn of Cambridge, will increasingly be treasure.