Lt Col James Gordon-Dickson
Annual event since 2000 arranged at the end of June/beginning of July when alumni are invited back to Clare to attend special lectures, concerts, garden tours and for general reminisicing. The Archivist arranged a display in Old Court for each event from 2003-2010; in 2008 a Literary Festival was held instead of the Open Day and then in 2009 an Open Day was again held, but this time arranged mainly in the new building, Lerner Court.
The Alumni Day was renamed Gala Day in 2013.
This is a new section created for the papers relating to the construction of new buildings or the refurbishment (both large and small scale) of buildings from the early twentieth century onwards. For papers relating to the management of College properties for the same period see CCAD/3/7. For minutes and reports of the two main Committees involved see Buildings Committee CCAD 4/3 and Needs Committee CCAD/4/7.
Architects
The Colony comprises several houses or lodging houses, some of which were built by Clare and some were already in existence in the early twentieth century. Castlebrae was built by Agnes and Samuel Lewis in 1889 on land leased by the College and then it passed to Clare College in 1926 and was converted into lodgings. Braeside & Etheldreda were built later and led to the existence of "the Colony"; various refurbishments have taken place since with the most recent being conversion of Castle End to high quality accomodation 2008-2009
Special concert held at King's College Chapel in September 2010 to celebrate Tim Brown's retirement including Beethoven's Mass in C
Movember was an intiative through which money would be raised by sponsoring an individual to grow a moustache during the month of November.
Clare College established a dedicated school liaison officer post in 2003, the role being designed to outreach to children at schools in Warwickshire, Coventry and inner city parts of London including Tower Hamlets and encourage them to apply to a University place at Cambridge.
Note: the Debating Society called itself the Phoenix Society from 1966
Previously known as Amalgamated Clubs (from 1886), Junior Common Room (JCR) significant by 1968-1972; Clare College Student Association (CCSA) from 1972-1989 and later Union of Clare Students (UCS) from 1989. More recently the main business of the UCS (formally JCR) is run by the Executive Committee.