The Vice-Chancellor reminds members of the University that an additional Congregation will take place on Monday, 23 June 2008, at 2.45 p.m., at which the Chancellor will admit the following persons to Honorary Degrees:
The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. JOHN TUCKER MUGABI SENTAMU, M.A., Ph.D., Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Lord Archbishop of York and Primate of England.
DAVID GROSS, sometime Rothschild Visiting Professor at the Isaac Newton Institute, Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Nobel Laureate in Physics.
Sir RALPH HARRY ROBINS, D.L., F.R.Eng., F.R.Ae.S., engineer and industrialist, formerly Chairman of Rolls-Royce plc.
HERMAN WALDMANN, M.A., M.B., B.Chir., Ph.D., F.R.S., formerly Fellow of King's College, member of Sidney Sussex College, Professor of Pathology and Head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in the University of Oxford.
HAROLD PINTER, C.H., C.B.E., C.Lit., F.R.S.L., actor, playwright, and director, formerly Associate Director of the National Theatre, Nobel Laureate in Literature.
CHRISTOPHER JARVIS HALEY HOGWOOD, C.B.E., M.A., Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College and of Jesus College, Honorary Professor of Music, Founder and Emeritus Director of the Academy of Ancient Music.
The Vice-Chancellor regrets to inform members of the University that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Retired) and Chancellor of the College of William and Mary, who has been approved by the Regent House for admission to the title of the Degree of Doctor of Law, honoris causa, is now most unlikely to be able to attend the Congregation on 23 June. It is very much hoped that she will be able to attend another Congregation and will be admitted to her honorary degree on that occasion. Regulations governing admission to degrees do not allow for admission to titular degrees in absence.
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.
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.
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. Monday, 23 June 2008, 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. 188) any member of the University (other than the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, High Steward, Deputy High Steward, Commissary, Proctors, Registrary, Esquire Bedells, the Orator, and 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 Senate-House and Yard will be strictly by ticket only and entry to the Yard on this occasion will be by the South-East Gate, from King's Parade.
All members and all staff (including retired staff) of both 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 by letter or by email, and must give the postal address of the applicant and their University or College affiliation, should be sent to Mr Timothy Milner, Ceremonial Officer, at the Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN or by email (rsvp.honorary.degrees@admin.cam.ac.uk), to arrive not later than Friday, 23 May 2008. Applications cannot be made in person or by telephone.
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 that 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.
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.
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).
The Vice-Marshal
Heads of Colleges
The Regius Professor of Divinity
The Regius Professor of Civil Law
The Regius Professor of Physic
The Regius Professor of Hebrew
The Regius Professor of Greek
Professors who are Doctors
Doctors of Divinity
Doctors of Law
Doctors of Medicine
Doctors of Science and Doctors of Letters
Doctors of Music
The Librarian
Professors who are not Doctors and the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Members of the Council
The Pro-Proctors
A second procession will then form as follows, and will proceed immediately after the first:
The Esquire Bedells
The Chancellor
The Chancellor's Train-bearer
The University Marshal
The Orator The Vice-Chancellor The Registrary
The Proctors
The High Steward
The Deputy High Steward
The Commissary
The Pro-Vice-Chancellors
The Honorary Graduands
The University Constables
The Deputy Proctors