Welcome
Welcome to the second edition of "Landmark", the alumni newsletter of the Department of Geography at Cambridge University. Whenever you graduated we hope that through the newsletter will you help gain a sense of how we are developing and above all to provide you with a means of remaining in contact with us and those who have graduated from the department over at least the last 80 years
The newsletter is now distributed electronically since we feel this is likely to be the speediest and most cost-effective way of sustaining links with the largest possible number of alumni. In the current issue we are especially pleased to publish information about the activities of certain alumni since their graduation. We have received a very pleasing number of responses to our request made in the first newsletter for details of your activities and while we are able to publish but a few of these they are already beginning to generate an intriguing and extremely valuable archive of your experience and achievements are especially revealing about what being a Cambridge geographer implies for a subsequent life course
You will note that this year from 26-28 September we are participating in the university-wide alumni weekend with tours of and exhibitions in the department and during that weekend Professor Bill Adams holder of the Moran Chair of Conservation and Development in the department will be giving a lecture on ‘The Political Ecology of Conservation which we encourage you to attend. We will be delighted to see as many of you at this weekend as possible when we will take an opportunity to gain further feedback on the newsletter and a sense of issues that you feel you would like to have featured in future issues as well as suggestions on how we can best maintain contact with and stimulate the interests of alumni.
We hope that other items in this issue to do with staff whether former or current and student activities will also interest you and provide a sense of how the subject is developing and how those of us in Downing Place are helping to shape it.
Of course you will be able to find fuller details of our activities on the department website.
Professor Richard Smith