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REPORTS

Report of the General Board on the Professorship of Clinical Gerontology

The GENERAL BOARD beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The recommendations of the General Board's Report on the establishment of a Professorship of Clinical Gerontology, dated 14 May 1986 (Reporter, 1985-86, pp. 496-7), were approved by Grace 2 of 4 June 1986. In that Report the Board indicated, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, that the field of Clinical Gerontology should be interpreted widely, ranging from fundamental biological to sociological aspects of ageing and in order to attract candidates from a correspondingly broad field the Board agreed that the assignment of the Professorship to a particular Department within the Faculty should be deferred until a later date, once the interests of the Professor were known.

2. At the time of that Report, such urgency was attached to starting this work in gerontology at the earliest opportunity that the East Anglian Regional Health Authority agreed to contribute an annual sum equivalent to the stipend and associated costs of the Professor for an initial period. In their Report, the Board stated that the University had received funds to support the establishment of the Professorship through a bequest of £150,000 from the estate of the late Lord Amulree and a gift of £250,000, over a period of five years, from the Grand Charity of Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge in England, in association with the Masonic Province of Cambridgeshire. The Board made reference also to the possibility of a substantial donation from the charity Help the Aged, and to their belief that these funds, together with expected further donations, would be sufficient to establish a fund for the permanent endowment of the Professorship in due course.

3. The Professorship was therefore established for a single tenure, with effect from 1 January 1987, placed in Schedule B of the Statutes, and assigned to the Faculty of Clinical Medicine. Professor K.-T. Khaw was elected to the Professorship with effect from 1 May 1989. The Faculty Board, with Professor Khaw's concurrence, have now recommended to the General Board that from 1 October 2002 the Professorship of Clinical Gerontology be reassigned from the Faculty to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care for the remainder of her tenure of the Professorship.

4. The Board are pleased to be able to report that following further generous donations of £860,000 from a local benefactor, Samuel Strauss, and £250,000 from Help the Aged, the accumulated funds are now more than sufficient to endow the Professorship permanently and provide for support and other costs associated with the Professorship. They have agreed to concur in the view of the Faculty Board that future elections to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors.

5. The General Board accordingly recommend:

I. That, with effect from 1 October 2002, and for the remainder of Professor Khaw's tenure, the Professorship of Clinical Gerontology be assigned to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

II. That the Professorship be established as a permanent Professorship in the University.

III. That regulations for the Professorship be approved, as set out in the Schedule to this Report.

2 October 2002 ALEC N. BROERS, Vice-ChancellorMALCOLM GRANTA. C. MINSON
 P. J. BAYLEYJ. C. GRAYKATE PRETTY
 N. O. A. BULLOCKS. LEATONGRAY M. SCHOFIELD
 KATIE CHILDSPETER LIPTONS. J. YOUNG
 ANDREW CLIFF  

SCHEDULE

Professor of Clinical Gerontology. 1987. Public Health and Primary Care

1. The sums received for the endowment of a Professorship of Clinical Gerontology shall form a fund called the Clinical Gerontology Fund.

2. If and whenever the income of the Fund shall exceed the amount required for the payment of the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of the Professor payable by the University, the excess of income above that amount may be applied in support of the work of the Professor in such manner as may be approved by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine.

3. Any unexpended income in a financial year may be accumulated and may be expended in any subsequent year in accordance with Regulation 2.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 9 October 2002
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