Admission Court 2018
At the end of October we held our annual Admission Court in our Hall, where the new Master and Wardens were admitted
At the end of October we held our annual Admission Court in our Hall, where the new Master and Wardens were admitted. They are (l to r): Senior Warden Professor Ken Grattan OBE, Master Ken Sanders, Junior Warden Martyn Wheatley.
Our new Clerk, Dr Misha Hebel, was also admitted on the same evening. Misha joins us from the Worshipful Company of Educators where she also held the position of Clerk. She takes over from Neville Watson who is retiring after having been our Clerk for the past 18 years.
At the Court meeting we also admitted five new Liverymen, three new Freemen, three new Honorary Freemen and three new Apprentices.
Liverymen (l to r): Ian Gilbert, Susan John, Roger Goldsbrough, David Howarth, Richard Williams OBE
Freemen (l to r): Lucy Hogarth, Jingyuan Gao, James Kung
Apprentices (l to r): Hina Rajah, Joshua Mitchell, Finlay Watson
New Honorary Freemen (l to r): Jean Dixon, Elizabeth Saunders Singer, Maureen Smith
The dinner following the Court was one of the best attended for a long time, with some 180 SIM members and their guests.
The principal guest was Warren East. A colleague of Ken Sanders at Texas Instruments, Warren became Chief Executive of Rolls Royce in July 2015, after being appointed as a Non-Executive Director in 2014. Prior to that he worked for Arm Holdings plc where he was CEO from 2001 to 2013.
Warren talked about the challenges facing technology-driven industry, of the rapidly accelerating pace of development, the consequent need for more young people to be trained in modern technology and to enter the field, and the challenges of sustainability. Many people commented afterwards about how good it was to hear a technology CEO also talking about the environment.
After the dinner, the Deputy Master, Professor Ron Summers, presented this year’s SIM scholars and military award winners with their certificates. They were as follows:
Major Lee Lawrence, Royal Engineer
Best Student on the Geospatial Course for Masters of Science 2018 at the Royal School of Military Survey
Lance Corporal Timothy Dudley, Royal Engineer
Best Student on the Science in Applied Computing 2018 at the Royal School of Military Survey
Lieutenant Commander Patrick Kelly, RN
Best student at the Royal Navy Hydrographic School 2018
Corporal Alun Williams, RAF
SIM/Bowen Award Winner 2018, Royal Air Force Cosford
Able Cadet Katherine East
Cadet of the Year 2018, T/S Cossack, Southwark Sea Cadets
The Deputy Master also presented certificates to the SIM Scholars for 2018:
Elizabeth Carr - UCL
Edward Talboys - City
Michelle Nomoni - Cohen Award Winner at City
Joseph Hosken - Cohen Award Winner at UCL
James Macdonald - Hertford College Oxford
Colum O’Leary - Imperial College
and to the Beloe Fellow 2018 who is Dr Jamie Marland (pictured below) from Edinburgh University.
All photos are copyright Ben Fisher.
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