The 40th anniversary celebrations at Keele are proving to be a lively acknowledgement that the University is now firmly back on its feet and has a renewed confidence in its baptismal vows. There has indeed been a recovery of Keele's raison d'être to provide multi-faculty education (all students study an arts and science subject), to pioneer a Foundation Year to allow more informed choice of Honours courses, and to accommodate undergraduates as well as many staff on its leafy 18th century estate. The Vice Chancellor has succeeded in putting Keele back in the black, and on the map, and now plans to increase the number of students to 6,000 in the next decade.