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Personal Details Change of Address & Telephone Number Weekend access to U3AC Premises Art Exhibitions Copy for next Newsletter Problems receiving the emailed version of the weekly BulletinThe U3AC office has recently changed the way in which the emailed version of the weekly Bulletin is despatched and understands that this has led to some problems with members. The most frequently reported problem is that the email is marked as “spam” and therefore not delivered to the “inbox”. Members may find that by adding the email address u3ac@btconnect.com as a new contact this could ensure that the Bulletin is delivered to their inbox. Alternatively other members have been able to access the Bulletin when using web mail. DeathsWe were sorry to hear of the deaths of:
Dr David H Clark All but the most recently joined members of the U3AC will have affectionate memories of David Clark, and will have been saddened to learn of his death, which occurred peacefully at home on 29 March following a prolonged illness. Following his retirement in 1983, he embraced the fledgling U3AC with characteristic exuberance and energy, and relished the almost undergraduate amateurishness of the organisation in those early days. He supported it wholeheartedly in many ways, including the seminars which he ran for many years exploring such aspects of personal experience as “Living in the Third Age”, and which members of the group found highly illuminating. He was Chairman of the U3AC for eight years, from 1987 until 1995, and we thrived under his robust leadership. Leadership was indeed one of David’s outstanding characteristics. The son of the Professor of Pharmacology at UCL and then Edinburgh, he studied medicine at Edinburgh and, for a short period, King’s College here in Cambridge and qualified in 1943 having attempted unsuccessfully to join the Royal Artillery. Embryonic Medical Officers were regarded as too valuable to be allowed to interrupt their studies, and after a six-month spell as a house surgeon, he was duly called up and trained as a paratrooper. He was parachuted into Germany in February 1945 and found himself involved in the “Battle of the Bulge”, and then landed in Sumatra by the same means to help provide medical attention to a camp for 5000 Dutch civilians. He was serendipitously posted to the psychiatric unit of a British military hospital in Sarafand and acquired such a passion for the subject that following demobilization in 1946 he spent three years in a training post under the Professor of Psychiatry in Edinburgh followed by three years at the Mecca of British psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital. In 1953 he was appointed to Fulbourn Hospital, where he pioneered an “Open Doors” policy and the philosophy of the “Therapeutic Community”, and these initiatives earned the hospital, and its medical superintendent (he was to be the last holder of this title) an international reputation. His book The Story of a Mental Hospital: Fulbourn 1858-1983 is a fascinating snapshot of an era in the history of psychiatry, and his account of his wartime experiences Descent into Conflict: a Doctor’s War provides a wonderful portrait of the author as well as of the RAMC at that time. David’s ebullient personality was something of a cloak under which there was an extremely kind man, and I am personally most grateful to him for being one of the most welcoming members of the consultant staff when I was appointed here. The U3AC has lost one of its most colourful and enthusiastic supporters, and our sympathy goes out to his widow Margaret and to his children. Dr Nick Coni |
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