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The Selwyn choir is enjoying chart success with its latest CD. "Eternal Ecstasy" has risen to number 8 in the official specialist classical chart, which can be viewed here:

Hundreds of people - family, colleagues, alumni and friends - attended the funeral service for our former Master, Owen
Chadwick, at Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge on August 3rd. Professor Chadwick died in July in his hundredth year.

Here are the addresses delivered at the service. The first was by another former Master of Selwyn, Sir David Harrison:

Members of the Selwyn College choir dedicated a concert in Victoria, British
Columbia, on July 18th to the memory of Professor Chadwick. The news of his death had come while they were on a tour of the
Pacific Northwest.

It was with great regret that we heard on Friday 17^th July, that Owen Chadwick had passed away - peacefully, and surrounded by his family.

Alumni and friends met the Master, Roger Mosey, and development director Mike Nicholson at a reception and dinner in San Francisco on Tuesday July 14th. Selwynites are well represented in California in jobs ranging from finance and the high-tech industries to advising the British government on climate change.

The College welcomed back alumni for its annual Commemoration of Benefactors service and dinner on Friday July 3^rd. This marks our thanksgiving for the people who founded the College in 1882 and our appreciation for those who have supported it over the past 133 years. The toast at the dinner was proposed by Sir Simon Hughes, the former Liberal Democrat MP and Justice Minister, who became an undergraduate member of Selwyn in 1970.

Two Selwynites appeared on BBC Radio 3 this week. On Monday Clare Walker Gore spoke on ‘Free
Thinking’ about disability in the works of Trollope. Clare is one of the Radio 3 New Generation
Thinkers, and will be broadcasting on the network throughout the next year. You can hear the
programme via the BBC iPlayer: href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zmjs">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zmjs

Selwyn College is delighted to announce that Dr Mike Sewell will become its Senior Tutor in
succession to Dr James Keeler. Dr Sewell, who is a long-standing Fellow of Selwyn, is currently
Director of Admissions for the Cambridge Colleges and a University lecturer at the Institute of
Continuing Education. He will take up his new role at the start of the calendar year 2016.

Two books are being published by Selwyn authors this week. Wednesday July 1^st is the date for an
account by the Master, Roger Mosey, of his time in broadcasting. ‘Getting Out Alive: News, Sport
and Politics at the BBC’ also includes a chapter about Selwyn and Cambridge. All the
author’s
proceeds from the book will be donated to supporting less well-off students in their studies here.

Selwyn students were awarded their degrees in the Senate House on Friday June 27th. The College congratulates all those who graduated this year, and wishes them well in their careers or further studies. It was the last General Admission for Praelector David Chivers, who is shown below leaving the Senate House – to the cheers of Fellows and students assembled outside.