Blue Yellow Pages (Last Names beginning with K)
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- KEMP, Helen 1955–1963 (Norris, 2's)
Potter, calligrapher, batik artist, lecturer, retailer, designer
- KENNEY, E J 1935–1943 (Col A, Senior Grecian, Treasurer 1984-86)
The 75th birthday of the Cambridge classicist E J Kenney (CA 35-43, Senior Grecian, Treasurer 84-86) was marked by a festschrift entitled Amor: Roma. Love & Latin Literature (Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume 22, price unknown). The journal Scholia called it 'a tribute demonstrating personal affection, long familiarity, and great care in the making.' Volume 20 of the same series (Juvenal's Mayor: the Professor who lived on 2d. a day by John Henderson) is also about an Old Blue: John E B Mayor (CH 1832/3-36), Professor of Latin at Cambridge from 1872 until 1910.
- KEOGH, Deirdre 1960–1967 (5's & 2's, Governor)
Lecturer in Finance, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
- KEYES, Simon 1965–1971 (Mid A)
Director, St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
- KILLICK, Marjory
Where are they now: Was at Hertford from sometime about 1910 to 1920. Tony Rogers, son of Winifred Woolcott, is researching the family history and would be grateful for any information about his mother. In particular, he would like to trace Marjory Killick who was a school friend of his mother's
- KING, Bill 1965–1972 (Pe B)
Congratulations to Bill King (Pe B 65-72) on his inauguration as Mayor of Torfaen in South Wales.
- KING, Canon Philip 1946–1954 (Ma A)
Canon Philip King (Ma A 1946-54) died on 25 April. He was a former general secretary of the South American Mission Society and secretary to the Church of England Board of Mission.
- KING, Mike 1960–1969 (Prep A, Col A)
Where are they now: Lived in Norwich at that time. Being traced by Steve Webb
- KINGSFORD, Peter 1920–1925 (La A)
Without a Shot in Anger: Army Agitators 1944-46 An autobiographical account of his service in the Education Corps in India and Malaya. 'A searching and sensitive account of imperialism in action.' Up Front Publishing, £11.99
- KIRBY, C F "Bill" 1914–1922 (Pe A, Horsham Staff 1925-63, CH resident until 1999, Governor)
Details of his "bee structure", demolished in 2001, behind the New Science School:
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- KIRKER-HEAD, Carl 1969–1976 (Col B)
Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
- KIRKPATRICK, Randolph 1872–1879 (CH)
A remarkable OB eccentric is recalled in 'Crazy Old Randolph Kirkpatrick', one of the essays in Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (1980). Randolph Kirkpatrick (CH 1872-79), assistant keeper of lower invertebrates at the British Museum from 1886 to 1927, conceived what Gould calls 'the nuttiest of crackpot theories developed in this century by a professional natural historian'. From 1915 he had to publish his works privately as no scientific journal would touch them. He persuaded himself that igneous rocks were made of fossilised nummulites (single-celled shell-secreting creatures) and must therefore be sediments deposited at the ocean bottom, not products of molten material from the earth's core. The same was true of meteorites - in fact all rocks on the earth's surface, including the influx from space, were made of fossils, and the coiled form of nummulites was the architecture of life itself, 'the fundamental structure of living matter'. Gould sees Kirkpatrick as the sort of visionary scientist who is usually wrong but can sometimes be outstandingly right, and points out that his bold early work on the taxonomy of sponges was proved correct, fifty years later.
- KITCHER, Philip 1958–1966 (Pe A)
When Philip Kitcher (Pe A 58-66) was a graduate student, he says, 'philosophy of science clearly meant philosophy of physical science'. Ways of thinking about theory, explanation and the growth of scientific knowledge were developed in relation to a few examples from physical science 'and nobody seemed to worry that they wouldn't apply in biology or psychology.' Hence his collection of essays In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology (OUP, £19.99), which examines (for example) notions of race and ethnicity, genetic determinism, the Human Genome Project and the metamorphosis of 'creation science' into 'intelligent design creation.'
Latest book by the Columbia philosophy professor Philip Kitcher (Pe A 58-66) is Science, Truth and Democracy (OUP, £22.50), an attempt to re-direct the philosophy of science by rejecting both the 'purist' view that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always valuable and necessary and the opposing claim that scientific research always serves the interests of those who hold power. Kitcher proposes instead 'a democratic and deliberative framework for responsible scientists to follow.
- KITSON, Tony (Horsham Staff 1920s)
This may be well known but was news to me: the composer, conductor, broadcaster and journalist Jonah Barrington (Cyril Dalmaine, Horsham Staff 25-30) produced an autobiography (And Master of None, Walter Edwards, 1948) in which he wrote of CH with huge admiration. His portrait of William Hamilton Fyfe (Headmaster 19-30) is instantly recognisable. 'He ruled this vast virile community ... with a velvet glove entirely innocent of any hidden mailed fist. His only disciplinary weapon was an outrageous and awful and irrepressible sense of humour..... He was the true democrat, and Christ's Hospital the true democracy.' Among outstanding staff were Tony Kitson 'who played golf as elegantly as he played the organ', Twinkle Wilkinson (02-29) 'who had a genius for making boys sing in tune' and Dr Friend (Medical Officer until 1946) 'who cured me of boils and all shyness in matters appertaining to the body (he would bark the most intimate instructions at the top of his voice)'. Barrington staged orchestral concerts 'on the slightest provocation', causing much upheaval. 'Fyfe approved, turned up to every concert, and shielded me from the slings and arrows of outraged housemasters.' All the key components of CH are still there, Barrington says, 'and if ever I had a son I would move heaven and earth to see he were there too.' In earlier days at the Royal College of Music, he and Constant Lambert (CA 14-22) - 'a brilliant young modernist with a limp' - were two of the three candidates for the Mendelssohn composition scholarship. Neither won.
- KLUTH, Andrew 1973–1979 (Mid A)
Corporate social responsibility development manager, Royal Mail Group
- KNIGHT, Professor Alan 1957–1965 (Ma B)
The first two volumes of a history of Mexico by Professor Alan Knight (Ma B 57-65) have just been published by Cambridge University Press: Mexico: Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest (£45 hbk, 316.95 pbk) and Mexico: Volume 2: The Colonial Era (£47.50 hbk, £17.95 pbk).
The History of St Antony's College, Oxford, 1950-2000 by C S Nicholls (Macmillan/St Antony's, £47.50) records that the chair of Latin American History attached to the college has been occupied since 1992 by Alan Knight (Ma B 57-65), one of whose books won a prestigious prize in the United States.
- KNOPP, Gregory 1951–1957 (Pe B)
Marketing consultant, textile retailer & Parliamentary candidate
- KRUGER, Andries 2000–2002 (?Th A, ?Gr W, ?Ma B, ?La A)
Where are they now FOUND: Lives in South Africa. Being "traced" by Leon Langton
Medical student, Cape Town, SA. Cricketer