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2014
News
November
Update
Mrs
Rita Steffensen, who founded “Cambridge Kuren” in Denmark
in the 1980s as the
first of a number of successful Scandinavian franchisees of the
“Cambridge
Diet”, has recently died, and the address given at her Memorial
Service can be
read here.
The
Nutritional Research Laboratory at Waterford Institute of Technology
part-funded by Howard Foundation is due to be officially opened in
mid-February
2015.
The
book on Downing College by Tim Rawle will now be published in September
2015 to
allow a further cycle of photography depicting the seasons and College
life;
the refurbishment of Howard Building having been completed in readiness
for the
Michaelmas Term on schedule, photographs of the exterior and interior
as
refurbished, (copyright of Tim Rawle and Lewis Sinclair) can be viewed here
The
Foundation has organised for the Regency Society, of Brighton, to stay
in the
College for the weekend of 16th/17th July 2016 as
part of
a visit to Cambridge, to include a lecture on College history and
architecture,
and a classical concert in the Theatre, both of these to be open to the
public.
September Update
In August the Foundation established
the Howard Chair in
Human Nutrition at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), with the
first
incumbent with tenure selected as John Nolan, currently the Principal
Investigator of the Macular Pigment Research Group (MPRG) there.
HF Chairman, Dr Alan Howard said
“We have worked with the
MPRG for over six years, and have been impressed by the novelty and
importance
of their research involving macular carotenoids. We wish to
ensure this
work continues on a permanent basis and that WIT continues to develop
as a
leading scientific and academic centre in the south east of
Ireland.”
The Foundation has also agreed to fund
a two year Howard
Fellowship, also at WIT, for Dr. Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, who will study
the
origins of the nutrients in the human eye which make up the protective
eye
pigments. The Fellow has now taken up his post, and the
Foundation wishes
to thank its commercial partners in the manufacturing and marketing
sectors of
macular carotenoid supplementation for their support towards this
Fellowship.
The Foundation has also agreed to
support the establishment
of a new laboratory at Carriganore House on WIT’s west campus, to
be named the
Howard-Darwin Laboratory, offering a unique facility in carotenoid
research. Joint funding and a design is now secured, enabling
construction to proceed.
The Foundation has agreed to support a
play reading event by
the diplomat, historian and writer Henry Butterfield Ryan, who writes
as Duke
Ryan (www.henrydukeryan.com)
to be
held at the Howard Theatre on the evening of Friday, 17th
July 2015.
June Update
The Foundation is
delighted that Waterford Institute of Technology,
Ireland, has accepted the Foundation’s offer to establish
and fund the
“Howard Chair in Human Nutrition” at its School of Science,
through a
Memorandum of Agreement completed on 13th May 2014, with the
first
appointee Professor John Nolan, previously Howard Fellow for Science at
the
Institute since May 2010, and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College,
Dublin
since February 2013. Professor Nolan specialises in the study of
macular
carotenoids and is the Principal Investigator of the Macular Pigment
Research
Group:
see further www.mprg.ie
The Foundation
mourns the loss of Ian McLean Baird, MD, FRCP, the former colleague of
Dr Alan
Howard, who co-invented the Cambridge Diet with him, and who died on 20th
April 2014 aged 90. The funeral was held at St Andrews Church,
Cobham,
Surrey, at which Dr Howard gave the address. Please follow the
link to Dr
Baird’s obituary here
Cambridge
Weightplan, the current owners and suppliers of the Cambridge Diet, are
celebrating their 30th anniversary of the founding of their
organisation
at an event in the Cotwolds on 14th June, to which
Foundation
members have been invited.
The Foundation has
agreed to sponsor the Cambridge Summer Music Festival for a performance
in the
Howard Theatre, at Downing College on Saturday, 26th July
(see www.cambridgesummermusic.com).
The Foundation has
offered to sponsor the Hugh Shirreff Lecture, held annually by Historic
Houses
Association (www.hha.org.uk), for
their
next Lecture, to be held in the Howard Theatre, at Downing College on 7th
July 2015. The Speaker will be Tim Rawle, who will give an
illustrated
talk on the history of Downing College (following the anticipated
publication
of his book); this event is open to HHA Members and Friends, College
members
and upon application to the Foundation. The Lecture will be
followed by a
lunch in Hall, and guided tour of the College.
The 3rd
Macular Carotenoids Conference will be held at Downing College,
Cambridge 8-10th July 2015, again organised on behalf of the
Foundation, see www.macularcarotenoids.org
The Foundation has agreed to support the refurbishment of the Howard
Building at Downing College with ongoing work due to be completed in
Summer 2014.
The Foundation has commissioned the acclaimed Cambridge photographer
and writer Tim Rawle (see www.timrawle.com) to write and photograph a new
book on the architectural history of Downing College to be published
April, 2015.
The
Trustees encourage use of the Howard Theatre at Downing College by any
University or other local amateur groups, who should discuss facilities
and
availability with the conference office at the College (www.downing-conferences-cambridge.uk). We have a small budget to support the
facility-hire fee, applications to our Postbox please with details of
intended
productions. Preference will be
given
to any event which co-ordinates with the Georgian Tercentenary, to be
marked in
2014 (Downing being the only Georgian Oxbridge foundation, and
containing the
most complete neo-classical architecture from that and subsequent
periods).
Sponsorship of a Concert by Cambridge
Early Music Society in the Howard Theatre at Downing College, on the
evening of Friday 4th July, to include reception facilities in the
Grace Howard Room (www.cambridgeearlymusic.org).
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