Cambridge University Reporter


Congregation of the Regent House on Tuesday, 27 June 2006: Notice

24 April 2006

The Vice-Chancellor reminds members of the University that an additional Congregation will take place on Tuesday, 27 June 2006, at 2.45 p.m., at which the Chancellor will admit the following persons to Honorary Degrees:

Doctor of Divinity

The Most Rev. and Rt Hon. ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Clare College and of Christ's College, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and Primate of All England.

Doctor of Law

MERVYN ALLISTER KING, M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of King's College and St John's College, Governor of the Bank of England.

NJABULO SIMAKAHLE NDEBELE, M.A., of Churchill College, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town, author.

CHARLES MARSTILLER VEST, President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Doctor of Science

EDWARD WITTEN, Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fields Medallist.

AHMED ZEWAIL, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Director of the NSF Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.

Doctor of Letters

MARGARET DRABBLE, C.B.E., B.A., of Newnham College, author.

Music will be performed by the choirs of Gonville and Caius College and of St Catharine's College.

TIMETABLE

Ticket-holders will need to be in their places in the Senate-House not later than 2.30 p.m. If it is fine, a procession will form up in the Schools Arcade at 2.25 p.m. Those in the categories listed below who wish to process must give notice of their intention, and processional tickets will be issued to them up to the number of places available. The Congregation will end at about 3.40 p.m.

GARDEN PARTY

There will be a Garden Party after the Congregation for all those attending. It will be held on the lawn in Senate-House Yard and refreshments will be served. There will be provision for cover in the event of wet weather.

DRESS

Members of the University attending the Congregation are required to wear academical dress in accordance with the relevant regulations. Other persons attending do not wear academical dress. Tuesday, 27 June 2006, will be a scarlet day, and Doctors in the several Faculties are requested to wear their festal gowns. Hoods are worn at this Congregation. In accordance with Regulation 4 for academical dress (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 187) any member of the University (other than the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, High Steward, Deputy High Steward, Commissary, Proctors, Registrary, Orator, Esquire Bedells, or the graduands) who is a graduate of another university or degree-awarding institution, may, on this occasion, wear the academical dress appropriate to that degree.

ADMISSION TO THE CONGREGATION

Admission to the Senate-House and Yard will be strictly by ticket only and the only entrance on this occasion will be by the South-East Gate, from King's Parade.

TICKETS

All members and staff of the University and the Colleges are invited to apply for tickets. In order to encourage wider participation from within the University, it is regretted that guest tickets will not be available.

Applications for tickets, which must be made in writing, and must give the postal address of the applicant, should be sent to Mr Timothy Milner, Ceremonial Officer, at the Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, to arrive not later than Friday, 26 May 2006. Applications cannot be made in person or by telephone.

Those in the classes specified below, who wish to take part in the procession, are asked to state this clearly in their applications. Processional tickets will be issued up to the number of places available. Only holders of Cambridge Professorial Chairs or Cambridge Higher Doctorates are eligible to process as Professors or Doctors.

Tickets will be allocated strictly in the order in which applications are received and it is regretted that unsuccessful applications will not be acknowledged. Applicants will understand that there may be more applications than places are available. Those who find that they cannot use their tickets are asked to return them so that their seats may be offered to others.

Further details of the arrangements will be included with the tickets.

No tickets for admission to Senate-House Yard will be available on the day of the Congregation. Tickets are not transferable.

ORDER OF PROCESSION

With the assent of the Proctors, the Vice-Chancellor has prescribed the following order of processions prior to this Congregation.

Those listed below (who have tickets to admit them to the procession, as specified above) assemble in the Schools Arcade not later than 2.25 p.m. (entering by the South-East Gate from King's Parade).

A second procession will then form as follows, and will proceed immediately after the first: