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Master

• Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, MA (BA Reading, MA UCL), FRSA, Hon FBA (elected 2013)

Armenian Studies

• Min Chen, MA (BSc Fudan, PhD Wales) FBCS (elected

Professor of Modern History, Tutor in History

• Sandra Fredman, Hon QC, MA, BCL (BA

• Stephen Tuck, MA (BA, PhD Camb) (elected 2003) • Ariel Ezrachi, MA, MSt, DPhil (BBus LLB Tel

Aviv) (elected 2003) Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law, Tutor in Law

Fellows

• Lynda Clare Mugglestone, MA, DPhil (elected

1989) Professor of the History of English, Tutor in English Language and Literature

• Mark David Fricker, MA (PhD Stirling) (elected 1989) Fellow by Special Election

• Timothy Farrant, MA, DPhil (elected 1990) Reader in Nineteenth Century French Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages

• Jeremy Taylor, MA (BSc Bristol, PhD London) (elected 1992) Tutor in Physiological Sciences, O’Brien-Abraham Fellow

• Stephen Whitefield, MA, DPhil

(elected 1993) Professor of Comparative Russian and East European Politics and Societies, Tutor in Politics, RhodesPelczynski Fellow in Politics, Vicegerent

• Helen Small, MA (BA Wellington, New Zealand,

PhD Camb) (elected 1996) Professor of English Literature, Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English Literature

• Owen Darbishire, MA (MS, PhD Cornell) (elected 1996) Tutor in Management Studies, Sue Cormack Fellow in Management • Adrian Gregory, MA (MA, PhD Camb) (elected 1997) Tutor in Modern History, Damon Wells Fellow in Modern History

• Christopher Melchert, MA (AB California, MA

Princeton, PhD Pennsylvania) (elected 2000) Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Abdullah Saleh Fellow in Arabic

• Raphael Hauser, MA (MSc, PhD Cornell) (elected

2001) Reader in Computing Science, Tanaka Fellow in Numerical Mathematics

• Benjamin Davis, MA, DPhil, FRS (elected 2001)

Professor of Chemistry, Tutor in Organic Chemistry

• John Church, MA (MA Camb), CDip AF, ACIB (elected 2003) Bursar

• Theo Maarten Van Lint, MA (MA, PhD Leiden) (elected 2003) Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of

• André Furger, MA (BSc BEd, PhD Bern) (elected 2003) Tutor in Biochemistry, Tanaka Fellow in Biochemistry

• Guido Bonsaver, MA (BA Verona, PhD Reading)

(elected 2003) Professor of Italian Cultural History, Tutor in Italian

• Jonathan Rees, MA (MB, BS, MD Lond), FRCS

(Eng), FRCS (elected 2004) Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Science, Fellow by Special Election

• Rebecca Williams, MA, BCL (PhD Birm) (elected

2005) Professor of Public and Criminal Law, Tutor in Law, Blackstone-Heuston Fellow

• Linda Flores, MA (BA Penn, MA Washington in St Louis, PhD California) (elected 2006) Tutor in Japanese Studies, TEPCo Fellow

2011) Professor of Scientific Visualisation

Witwatersrand) (elected 2011) Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States

• Ingmar Posner, MA DPhil (MEng Aston) (elected 2011), Fellow by Special Election

• Alfons Weber, MA (Dr rer nat Dipl Phys Aachen) (elected 2012) Tutor of Physics, Rokos-Clarendon Professor in Physics

• Peter Claus, MA (BA Durh, MPhil Lond, PhD Open,

Dipl Ruskin) (elected 2013) Access Fellow, Fellow by Special Election • Michael Naworynsky OBE, MA (MA KCL) (elected 2013) Home Bursar

• Andrew Baldwin, MA (MSci, PhD Camb), (elected

2013) FBA, Tutor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Frank Buckley Fellow in Chemistry

• Andrew Orchard, MA (PhD Camb), FBA (elected

2013) Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

• Timothy Woollings, MA (PhD Reading) (elected 2013) Tutor in Physics

• Andrew Seton, MA, BPhil (elected 2007) Strategic

• Justin Jones, MA (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb) (elected 2014)

• Irene Tracey, MA, DPhil (elected 2007) Nuffield

• Guy Kahane, MA BPhil DPhil (BA Tel Aviv) (elected

Development Director

Professor of Anaesthetic Science

Tutor in the Study of Religion 2014) Tutor in Philosophy

• The Revd Andrew Teal, MA, PGC (BA, PhD Birm, • Nancy Braithwaite, MA (BSc Open, MBA Cran) PGCE Oxf Brookes) (elected 2008) Chaplain

• Brian A’Hearn, MA (BA American, PhD Berkeley) (elected 2008) Tutor in Economics

• Eamonn Molloy, MA (BA, PhD Lanc) (elected 2008) Tutor in Management

• Clive Siviour, MA (MSc PhD Camb) (elected 2008) Tutor in Engineering Science, Richard and Ester Lee Fellow in Engineering

• Roger Boning, MA, DLitt (elected 2008) Fellow by Special Election

• Nicholas Kruger, MA (PhD Camb) (elected 2009) Tutor in Biological Sciences

• Nicolai Sinai, MA (PhD FU Berlin) (elected 2010)

Sheikh Zayed University Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Professor of Islamic Studies, Tutor in Islamic Studies, Fellow by Special Election • Hannah Smithson, MA (PhD Camb, PGCE Durham) (elected 2011) Tutor in Psychology

(elected 2015), Academic Director

• Henrietta Harrison, MA DPhil (BA Camb, MA

Harvard) (elected 2015) Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Tutor in Chinese

• Anandi Mani, MA (BComm Bombay, PhD Boston)

(elected 2015), Professor of Behavioural Science, Fellow by Special Election

• Damian Rössler, MA (Msc Zurich, PhD habil Paris) (elected 2015) Tutor in Mathematics

• Pramila Krishnan, MA (BStat MStat Indian Statistical Institute, PhD Florida) (elected 2016), Professor of Development Economics, Tutor in Economics

• Nick Hawes, MA (BSc, PhD Birm)

(elected 2017) Tutor in Engineering Science

• Jeremy Bennett, MA (elected 2017) Bursar • Alice Gosling, MA (BSc Illinois) (elected 2018), Strategic Development Director

Emeritus Fellows

Supernumerary Fellows

Honorary Fellows

Douglas Gray (decs) Peter Cuff Paul Hyams Vernon Butt The Revd Colin Morris Eric Stanley (decs) Zbigniew Pelczynski OBE Colin Leach Gordon Whitham Ian Grant Michael Goringe Raymond Rook Alan Jones The Most Revd Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia John Knowland The Revd John Platt John Eekelaar Martha Klein James McMullen Daniel Prentice Paul Smith Malcolm Godden Brian Howard Brian Rogers Christopher Tuckett Kenneth Mayhew Alejandro Kacelnik

Colin Sheppard John Woodhouse David Eastwood Andrew Keane Robert Gordon Charles Morgan Philip Klipstein Robert Thomson Martin Bridson Pierre Foëx Miri Rubin Janet Smart (Efstathiou) Charles Mackinnon

Ivor Richard, The Rt Hon Lord Richard of Ammanford, PC, QC, MA Robert Carswell, The Rt Hon The Lord Carswell, Kt, PC Richard Lugar KBE Damon Wells CBE Michael Heseltine, the Rt Hon Lord Heseltine, CH, PC Alan Dorey Peter Grose Rt Hon Sir John Mummery, Kt, PC John Kerr, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, GCMG John Cameron, The Rt Hon Lord Abernethy Sir Roger Bannister, Kt, CBE (decs) HRH Princess Basma Bint Talal, DPhil Sir Philip Bailhache, Kt, QC Hon Sir Rocco Forte, Kt Sir Malcolm Sykes, Kt Hon Philip Lader Sir Graham Hart, KCB Walter Isaacson HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Sir Rod Eddington, Kt Robert Stevens The Lord Krebs Kt Simon Blackburn

Foundation Fellows Ian Cormack Michael Leung Abdullah Saleh (decs) David Rowland Stanley Ho OBE Christopher Rokos Michael Wagstaff Patrick Pichette HE Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz Christina Lee Irene Lee Tamar Pichette Julian Schild

Nicholas Mann CBE Sir Peter Ricketts, GCMG His Majesty King Abdullah II Al Hussein of Jordan Jonathan Aisbitt Ian Burnett, Baron Burnett of Maldon, Kt, QC Kenji Tanaka Sir Martin Taylor The Hon Sir Philip Moor, Kt, QC Giles Henderson CBE Maxim Kantor Henry Woudhuysen Rodney Phillips Tarik O’Regan Sarah Miller McCune Advisory Fellows Beatrice Hollond, MA (elected 2008) Michael Wagstaff, MA (elected 2010) Stephen Gosztony, BA (elected 2017) For a complete list of all Fellows and academic staff, please visit: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/academics

Contents Master’s Notes

Home Bursar’s Report

Finance Report

An evolving academic hub: a calendar of intellectual activity

Dame Lynne Brindley reflects on the year in College

Welcomes and Farewells

College Events

Common Room Reports JCR and MCR Presidents’ round-ups

Comings and goings in the Fellowship

Improvements at the GAB, and supporting students with disabilities

Pembroke Revisited: First Impressions of our new Bursar, Jeremy Bennett

Income and Expenditure summary

Balance Sheet summary and analysis

Development

A year of change and great support

Academic Report

Academic Director Nancy Braithwaite’s year in review, plus:

Sports

Meet two of our new Junior Research Fellows

Report on Access and Outreach activities

JCR Art Collection

The Master’s Circle

The Ossulston Circle

The Tesdale Society

Staff Changes

Obituaries

Public exhibitions, special events and more

Academic Achievements

Pembroke People

Highlights of awards and honours for Fellows, Academics and students

Our inaugural exhibition of alumni portraits in Hall

List of prizes and Undergraduate Scholars and Exhibitioners

Wins in rugby, netball, futsal and rowing

JCR Academic Rep Molly Garnett

Donors to Pembroke

Sir Roger Bannister: A Tribute

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Master’s Notes

Dame Lynne Brindley DBE

I write my notes this year towards the end of another whirlwind Michaelmas Term. Our freshers, both undergraduate and graduate, are coming to the end of their first term at Pembroke, no doubt exhausted but also, I hope, motivated and stimulated by the intellectual and supportive environment of the College, and the simultaneous challenge and joy of exploring in greater depth the subjects they are passionate about. This past year has been one year of change and transition for the College. We said farewell to our Bursar, John Church, and our Strategic Development Director, Andrew Seton, who had served the College for 15 and 10 years respectively. We are hugely grateful to John and Andrew for their contributions to the College over the past decade and a half, and I’m pleased to say that they will continue to be a part of the College Community as Advisory and Emeritus Fellows. You can read tributes to them both on pages 5-6. In April we welcomed their successors, Jeremy Bennett, Bursar and Alice Gosling, Strategic Development Director. Jeremy is an alumnus with a deep understanding and empathy with the aims of the College. He is already back coxing the M1 boat in Summer VIIIs, and brings a wealth of financial and investment experience. Alice, who is an experienced Development Director, comes to us from Compton Verney, and was previously the Development Director at Lincoln College, Oxford. Jeremy and Alice have taken the opportunity in the Record to introduce themselves and share first impressions of the College today. Both Jeremy and Alice are working on exciting new projects and initiatives for Pembroke, especially in planning a major new campaign building up to our 400th anniversary in 2024. Plans include an ambitious and visionary new library to meet rapidly changing demands of our student population. We look forward to sharing more about all of these plans with you in the coming months. In September we said farewell to Professor Helen Small. Helen has been elected to the distinguished post of Merton Professor of English Language and Literature here in Oxford. A dinner was held in College for Helen and Professor Irene Tracey, to celebrate their successes and mark their contributions to the College; Irene will join Helen at Merton in 2019 when she takes up the Wardenship of the College.

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We welcomed this year Professor Nick Hawes, Fellow in Engineering. Nick has already caused a stir at the College by bringing his colleague and office manager, Betty the Robot, to open days – much to the delight of prospective applicants, their parents and College staff, including the Master! We have been delighted also to welcome new members of both academic and support staff, whilst bidding farewell to others; I must mention Sophie Elkan, our Alumni Communications Editor who for the past few years has produced (among other publications) our beautiful Record each year, and Lynn Wilkinson, who first joined Pembroke’s accounts department in 2000 and went on to hold the position of Deputy Academic Registrar for many years until her retirement in 2017. Many alumni will have fond and affectionate memories of Lynn, who offered calm reassurance and practical help to generations of students. We were all deeply saddened by the news in March that former Master Sir Roger Bannister (1983-93) had died. Some of you will remember him from your time at the College, in the days when, I’m told, some undergraduates referred to him as the ‘Faster Master’! (He should have been perhaps the fastest Master – his record time over a mile has only been broken 18 times since he ran the sub-4 min. mile in 1954). Sir Roger's legacy will live on in College, through the Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship (for academic and sporting excellence) and the Bannister Medical Scholarship awarded each year, and his memory will continue to inspire future generations of Pembroke students. A special, full tribute to Sir Roger can be found on pages 45-49. Sadly, we also lost three Emeritus Fellows and valued members of the Pembroke Community; Professors Eric Stanley, Gordon Whitham and Douglas Gray. Tributes can be found in the obituaries section from page 35. We weren’t quite able to live up to our outstanding performance in Norrington last year, with the notable exception of History. Nevertheless, 30 finalists obtained first class degrees and 57 a 2i. 24 students received distinctions in their Preliminary/Moderation exams and 13 graduate students reading for taught degrees received distinctions in their examinations. In addition, we had students who achieved stand-out prizes based on their finals results across a number of subjects, particularly a student in E&M who achieved

the best marks across the whole year group. It has been a good year for philanthropy, with the Annual Fund raising over £460k this year, more than £30k above last year’s total which is an excellent achievement. Over 1000 alumni gave to the College this year. Each year, I like to share with you some of the special highlights: Our Fellows and Academics have achieved accolades and prizes: to name just a few, Professor Helen Small was elected to a British Academy Fellowship; Professor Nicolai Sinai received £1.5m European Research Council Grant to Fund ‘Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm’; and Professor Scott Waddell, Senior Research Fellow in Biology, was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.5 million euros to undertake a five-year research project titled ‘single-cell correlates of memory, motivation and individuality’. Our students, likewise, have accomplished some wonderful things this year alongside their regular studies. Nancy Tucker (BA Experimental Psychology, 2015) has published her second book on mental health; Arwed Buchholtz (PPE, 2014) received a prestigious Studienstiftung Scholarship; and Imogen Cowley (MEng Engineering Science, 2013) was awarded a Telegraph STEM Award in the Healthcare category with the ‘SnapVaccine’, a novel vaccine delivery device suitable for use in developing countries. We have enjoyed yet another year of diverse and prestigious events hosted in Pembroke: from distinguished lectures to the launch of new graduate innovation prize; from poetry readings to an acclaimed student musical; from stunning exhibitions in our Gallery to regular concerts; from film showings to student drama performances. For a better idea of the extraordinary number and variety of events which take place in the College see page 11. As Autumn moves towards Winter, and we begin preparations for the next Admissions round, how would I sum up this past academic year? Arrivals and departures, yes, but a strong continuity in that which makes Pembroke special – its enduring values and inclusiveness, its open and welcoming culture, its friendliness and strong sense of community across all the common rooms, alumni and our loyal staff. There is an energy and vibrancy around the College in which I hope you can continue to take pride.

Fellows Welcomes

Professor Nick Hawes

Jeremy Bennett

Alice Gosling

Associate Professor, Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science

Bursar and Senior Fellow for Sports

Strategic Development Director

Professor Nick Hawes arrived in Oxford in September 2017. He is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science, and has joined Pembroke as an Engineering Fellow. Nick did his PhD in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham before moving to the Media Lab Europe in Dublin. After that he rejoined the University of Birmingham where he built his career from a post-doc up to faculty member.

Having grown up in a small village at the foothills of the Black Mountains, Jeremy went to school in Wales. ‘It was as good a place as any to gain an interest in Geography, which is what ultimately led me to Pembroke in 1983. I still recall being dropped off by my parents, coming down the staircase having unpacked and meeting Jim Carroll (Classics 1983). Jim is still a great friend (as are the whole gang from that Pembroke era).’

Alice Gosling has worked in Development for thirty years in the US and UK. Her experience spans the education, culture and health sectors where she has worked with a range of individuals, corporations and statutory funders.

Nick is part of the Oxford Robotics Institute, where he joins another Pembroke Fellow, Ingmar Posner. Nick’s research focuses on providing autonomous robots with the ability to learn from their experiences as they act in the real world, and to plan their actions, exploiting the results of this learning. His research has been evaluated on mobile robots operating autonomously for months at a time in offices and care homes in the UK and Austria. He is currently working applying new developments to situations as diverse as robots inspecting nuclear waste stores, stock taking in supermarkets, and supporting fruit pickers in fields. Nick is a passionate believer in public engagement. He has appeared on the BBC’s Now Show and Horizon, as well as giving talks for TedX, U3A, the Science Museum, Skeptics in the Pub and many other organisations.

After Oxford Jeremy began a successful career in finance. He first headed to Calcutta, inspired by his geographer roots to explore a developing country, and found himself banker to Mother Theresa, among other things. After two years in Bombay, Jeremy spent time working in Hong Kong, Singapore and Brazil before returning to London. Highlights of Jeremy’s career since include serving on the operating committee of Credit Suisse First Boston. At the end of 2007, he took a role in the Financial Services Authority as a senior advisor to Sir Hector Sants, CEO. In 2008 he transferred to HM Treasury to work in the Financial Stability unit as a civil servant. This was the heart of the government’s response to the banking crisis, and Jeremy was the chief designer of the last and biggest of the UK governments bail outs, the Asset Protection Scheme, which finally stopped the decline of RBS and Lloyds, as well as being CEO of the agency set up to oversee it. In 2010 Jeremy joined the board of Nomura, becoming CEO of Nomura International (the main entity for the bank’s operations outside Japan) in 2013. Outside work, Jeremy was Vice Chairman of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) for seven years. ‘In overseeing the international responses and fundraising of this major charities collective, I grew to recognise the crucial role that charities can have when the forces of nature remind us of the fragility of our existence.’ Jeremy is on the board of Oxford University Endowments, the successful Oxford University centralised endowment management company, and has been Chairman of a School.

Nick with Betty the Robot talking to prospective students at Pembroke Open Day, June 2018

Her roles have included being the first Director of Corporate and Foundation Research and Development for the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she pioneered the creation of multi-faceted relationships with companies that included both philanthropy and sponsored research. As the Director of Fundraising for the Oxford University Hospitals Trust, she successfully completed the Oxford Children’s Hospital Campaign that was critical to colocating services for children from the Radcliffe Infirmary and John Radcliffe Hospital, as well as the Cancer Centre Campaign that helped to provide enhanced facilities for the state-of-theart Cancer Centre at the Churchill Hospital. When Alice first moved to the UK, she held the position of Development Director at Lincoln College, Oxford and, more recently, led a transformational change in fundraising at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park in Warwickshire. Alice says, ‘My father was a trustee of the University of Illinois for 24 years, so as a child I was lucky to have met and been inspired by people like John Bardeen who literally changed the world. This has been fundamental to my approach to fundraising. All gifts, no matter how large or small, change the world for the better, whether they enable one gifted student to study at a world-class institution, or improve facilities for study and collaboration to foster a life-long thirst for knowledge in many. I’m delighted to join Pembroke at a critical time in its history when so much possibility and potential lie ahead.’

‘I am delighted to be back helping out at Pembroke. It is a special place. It gave me a great start but most of all it has given me friends for life.’

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Fellows Farewells

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Patient, wise, energetic... The common thread is the genuine warmth that everyone in College feels toward you

John Church

Andrew Seton

College Bursar 2003-2018

Strategic Development Director 2007-2018

John Church retired in March this year after serving as College Bursar and Governing Body Fellow for 15 years. At a dinner given in his honour on 15th March 2018, the Master was joined by Mike Naworynsky, Home Bursar and Richard Sommers, former Treasurer at Lady Margaret Hall, in paying tribute to a committed, valued and well-liked colleague. Speaking of John’s time at Pembroke, the Master said that ‘John has held a crucial role in overseeing the College’s financial affairs and for many years had sole overall responsibility for all non-academic administration.’ ‘He encouraged a more strategic approach to long term planning, which has continued right up to today.’ ‘John will also be remembered for his key role in the successful delivery of the landmark New Build project that resulted in a quite transformational expansion of the College estate.’ In addition, John held the role of Secretary of Amalgamated Clubs throughout his time as Bursar. The Master thanked John’s wife, Jo, for her contribution and commitment to the College over the past 15 years, noting in particular her time as Editor of the College Record from 2006-2013. She ended by saying that ‘John’s enthusiasm and dedication to Pembroke is as strong now as it was 15 years ago. He gets on well with people from across the whole College community and he always takes a genuine and kindly interest in the wellbeing of colleagues and students.’ Mr Richard Sommers, a longstanding colleague of John’s both at Barclays and within the University, spoke about his varied and successful career at Barclays over almost 30 years. He noted how ‘John demonstrated that he had the intelligence to analyse problems and devise solutions which proved to be successful. But just as importantly he demonstrated the emotional intelligence

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to persuade his colleagues to buy into those solutions and carry them out.’ Turning to his time at Oxford, Mr Sommers explained that John served on or chaired a number of University committees during his time as Bursar. The reason he was asked to contribute to so many groups was, Mr Sommers suggested, ‘his ability to distil the essence of an issue and express his views clearly and simply, his ability to adopt a range of influencing styles to help a group achieve a much better outcome than merely the sum of its parts, his empathy, his ability to see where a compromise is needed, coupled with a resilience to setbacks and a quiet determination to succeed.’ The Home Bursar finished the speeches with some light-hearted reminiscences from his time working with John. He concluded by speaking on behalf of the College community, describing John as ‘Patient, wise, energetic and with a calmness and courtesy to everyone you deal with that reflects great experience’ and declaring that ‘The common thread to all of the inputs I received [for my speech] is the genuine warmth that everyone in College feels toward you, both current and past members of staff and of the Fellowship. All are sad to see you leave but delighted to know that you will be back as an Emeritus and Advisory Fellow.’

Andrew Seton retired in April this year after serving as Strategic Development Director and Governing Body Fellow at Pembroke for over 10 years. At the College’s Wightwick Dinner, given in Andrew’s honour on 4th May 2018, The Master spoke of Andrew’s great contribution to the College over the past decade. The Vicegerent, Professor Stephen Whitefield, joined her in thanking Andrew and shared some recollections of his time at the College. The Master began by speaking about Andrew’s background before he joined Pembroke: ‘Born and raised in Oxford, the son of an Oxford don, Andrew gained his MA in Russian and his BPhil in Russian and Eastern European Studies. He might well have become an academic but instead pursued a career in the City – Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – working internationally – Moscow, New York, Ukraine, Paris, Warsaw and London.’ She noted that ‘Pembroke was able to reap the benefit of Andrew’s deep intellectual and cultural understanding of academia and Oxford, as well as his business skills, honed by an international perspective, when he returned to Oxford after 30 years away to become our Strategic Development Director in June 2007.’ The Master touched on some of the many initiatives that Andrew undertook during his time as Strategic Development Director, from the creation of recognition programmes for major donors and special and inventive alumni events to the ‘extraordinarily successful Bridging Centuries campaign’. She spoke of the deep and enduring relationships he forged not only with alumni and donors, but with students, staff and Fellows, adding that ‘his warmth, friendliness and ambition for the College everywhere inspires enthusiasm in alumni and helps keep a strong connection with Pembroke.’

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Andrew’s warmth, friendliness and ambition for the College everywhere inspires enthusiasm in alumni and helps keep a strong connection with Pembroke

The fact that Helen is extremely successful and accomplished in everything she does is something that we can rejoice in, be inspired by, and mostly be in awe of Professor Helen Small Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English Literature, 1996-2018

Professor Whitefield added to the Master’s sentiments, declaring that ‘much of the fun and adventure and achievement that I have had here is owed to working with Andrew’. He paid tribute to Andrew’s wife Anna, a committed and valued member of the College community, suggesting that there was ‘something to my mind very fitting about combining Andrew’s retirement dinner with the Wightwick dinner for spouses and partners because, if I may, it has always struck me that Andrew and Anna are the closest and loveliest couple, so it is a real pleasure to be able to celebrate her here tonight also.’ He spoke in particular about Andrew’s contribution to Art at Pembroke, and the major role he has played in the Fulbright Initiative, especially the annual lecture for which, as Professor Whitefield noted, ‘Andrew has been not only the person who raised the money to support it but has been also deeply intellectually and organisationally engaged with it.’ As the Master concluded, ‘on behalf of myself and the whole College, we owe you [Andrew] an enormous debt of gratitude for all you have done for Pembroke and also for being a wonderful, irrepressible colleague and friend.’

In September 2018 Professor Helen Small, Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English, stepped down from her Fellowship to take up the position of Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. This distinguished Professorship dates back to 1885 and among Helen’s five predecessors in the role is one who made the very same journey from Pembroke Square to Merton Street, namely JRR Tolkien. On 17th November the Master spoke at a dinner to celebrate Helen’s success and mark her contribution to the College. Also honouring Professor Irene Tracey, who will take up the wardenship of Merton in 2019, the theme of the Master’s speech was ‘superwomen’. As the Master remarked, the fact that Helen is ‘extremely successful and accomplished in everything she does is something that we, as her colleagues and friends can rejoice in, be inspired by, and mostly be in awe of ’. The Master began by speaking about Professor Small’s life and career before joining Pembroke in 1996. ‘Helen was born in Wellington, New Zealand and took her BA at Victoria University of Wellington, where she majored in English, and studied other subjects in addition. Her tutor for Shakespeare was, to her lasting inspiration, Don McKenzie, who was just about to take up the readership in textual bibliography at Oxford, bringing him to Pembroke.’ She spoke of the intellectual journey that Helen undertook when she moved to Pembroke College Cambridge, first as a postdoctoral student and latterly as a research fellow. ‘Helen took the opportunity to sit in on postgraduate seminars on literary theory and philosophy, and began to find her way towards the interdisciplinary work which has interested and engaged her ever since.’

A special reception was held at The British Academy in London in April 2018, hosted by the Master, to allow alumni and friends of the College the chance to say their own farewells to Andrew, and to meet his successor Alice Gosling.

Helen expanded her dissertation for publication as a book, Love’s Madness: medicine, the novel and female insanity, 1800-65, and then moved to Bristol University, lecturing in 18th/19th century fiction. The Master noted that ‘Helen’s contribution to the debate on the role of and demise of the public intellectual is very pertinent today and her work on the value of the humanities and associated lectures seem to me a model of what the best of public intellectuals can and should be doing today’. Helen came to Pembroke as a Tutorial Fellow in 1996, holding a major Leverhulme research fellowship from 2001-4. She won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2008 for her book The Long Life. In 2013 she published The Value of the Humanities, which was recommended by Universities Minister David Willets in his review of inspirational reads of the year. Helen’s distinction has most recently been recognised in 2018 with her election as a Fellow of the British Academy. The Master commended Helen as an excellent College citizen, describing how she has embraced her College responsibilities ‘to her students and to shouldering the burdens (and privileges) of being a member of Pembroke’s Governing Body – she has served on numerous committees over her 22 years at Pembroke, and I was privileged to work with her when she was Vice-Gerent from 2014-16.’ She concluded with the hope that Helen ‘will still keep Pembroke alive in some part of your heart. We thank you for everything and wish you well for the next phase of your supercharged career.’

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Academic Report

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When we appoint a Junior Research Fellow, we are offering a star early-career researcher that precious gift of three years to focus on their research

o two days are the same as Academic Director at Pembroke, and I thought this year that I might reflect on part of my job that may be invisible to students and alumni, but which affects every day that students spend in College – and that is the College’s role as academic employer. When we appoint a College Fellow, we may be appointing someone who will spend forty years in the college, educating and influencing generations of students. When we appoint a Junior Research Fellow, we are offering a star early-career researcher that precious gift of three years to focus on their research, offering them a springboard to their future academic career [see opposite]. We are particularly grateful to a range of donors over the years who have supported these posts which bring much stimulation and energy to the College and our students, as well as to the researchers themselves. And when we appoint a College Lecturer, we are appointing someone that we trust to work with our College Fellows to deliver that regular tutorial teaching which is at the core of our academic endeavour. So a typical term will find me serving on panels recruiting academics from all of the subjects we offer – focusing on their ability to communicate complex topics clearly; the quality and ambition of their research agenda and their commitment to play a part in College life and to challenge and nurture our students. 2017-18 was no exception, as we welcomed a new Engineering Fellow; Research Fellows in Economics, Chinese and Japanese, and College Lecturers in Maths, Physics, Law, English, Economics, Engineering and Psychology. All of our new academics are supported by the college’s tutorial team, and the academic office, and we strongly encourage them to get student feedback to enhance their teaching. This year, thanks to Molly Garnett [see right] and a new team of Subject Reps, appointed by College tutors and charged with working with subject tutors to provide feedback about the course and college

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teaching, and to come up with great ideas for subject-based initiatives, we have had higher response rates than ever to our College feedback surveys and some very detailed and helpful comments from our students. Our student satisfaction rates are steadily improving, though there is still some way to go. Our plans for the College library will tackle one of the areas where students are less satisfied. As with last year, I will mention Norrington. Although the college had what may appear to be a vertiginous fall to 25th, there is no cause for despair or crisis measures, rather for sticking to the ongoing work that we are all doing in College to improve performance every day. As ever, we have had some stellar achievements, with students in subjects as diverse as Chemistry, Physics, Theology, Economics and History, coming first or second in their year across the whole University. We have continued to grow the additional activities and support available to students, from the summer Rokos Award internships in science, to three fully funded (courtesy of the Smithsonian) internships for students to study the ecology of Kenya. We have supported visits to exhibitions of the Dutch Golden Age in Amsterdam, and Byzantine churches in Istanbul; undergraduates and graduates attending conferences to present their research all over the world, and our inaugural Estée Lauder Innovation Prize gave our graduates the opportunity to pitch their proposals to an audience of senior executives and College luminaries (see page 9). We believe that this sort of ambitious and aspirational environment, together with a determination to treat our students as individuals and to make their experience here as good as it can be, will enable our students to flourish and realise their potential, whatever that may be.

Nancy Braithwaite, Academic Director

Molly Garnett (2016) JCR Academic Rep From University Challenge, to undergraduatepostgraduate mentoring, to executing ‘Feedback Week’, 2017/18 has been a great year to act as JCR Academic Representative. The year began with the University Challenge trials, open to all students at Pembroke, which featured some niche questions sent over from the team (see opposite). We should all be very proud of the team who came from those initial trials to being aired on television to represent the College. Congratulations to Katherine Perry as captain (DPhil Theology), Louis Morris (DPhil History), Thomas Lambert (BA History and Spanish), Connor McGurk (MEarthSci Earth Sciences), and reserve member Peter Rae (BA Medical Sciences). Working with the MCR was a real highlight of my role. Along with MCR Academic Rep Carlotta Cosulich, we matched pairs of JCR mentees and MCR mentors. The programme, launched last academic year, has been a great success, with undergraduates able to connect with those in similar subjects further along the academic journey. Another key part of my role is ensuring that student feedback is efficiently relayed to College. I worked alongside the cohort of Subject Representatives to organise ‘Feedback Week’, a week of engagement with students to feed back to the Academic Office. Collaboration between College and the JCR, especially on academic matters, is so important to ensure the continuing inclusive and excelling atmosphere here at Pembroke. Thank you to Nancy Braithwaite the Academic Director, and the Academic Office, for all their help and support with this initiative. It has been a great year, and I wish the best of luck to the incoming Academic Rep, Alex Jobson, for the next year.

Academic Report Could you make Pembroke’s University Challenge team?

(Answers at the bottom of this page)

Calcium sulphate and magnesium chloride are among the coagulating agents used in the production of which soft, creamcoloured foodstuff made from soya beans and usually known in English by its Japanese name?

An example being Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, what behavioural disorder, also known as ‘senile squalor syndrome’, is characterised by extreme self-neglect and social withdrawal, and takes its name from a Greek Philosopher associated with cynicism who was said to have lived in a tub?

Michael earned his DPhil and MPhil in Economics at Oxford. Before that, he was an undergraduate at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and spent time at the Catholic University of Chile. He has also lived in Peru and the US. Dr Koelle’s research focuses on firms and labour markets in developing countries. In particular, he is interested in how businesses relate to the market and economic environment they are embedded in, and how potential entrepreneurs choose between running a firm and working in other occupations. Markets and job opportunities in developing countries are particularly uncertain, and often experience great fluctuations that make it hard to plan for the future. His research involves both field projects and big data sets collected by statistical and administrative agencies.

Currently, Dr Koelle collaborates with researchers at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute in Addis Ababa in two field-based projects to study firms and managers in a recently industrialising economy. One project seeks to understand how young graduates can learn managerial skills, and what attributes firms seek in their junior supervisors and managers. The other project studies productivity growth and its determinants in Ethiopian manufacturing firms. In other work in Ghana and Mexico, Dr Koelle looks at how small-scale entrepreneurs fit their business into a wider career, and how they respond to job opportunities in wage work. Michael is part of a research cluster that supports the work of Professor Pramila Krishnan (Tutor in Economics), which is generously funded by a College donor.

Suzan completed her doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute with a thesis on silence in Turkey after the Great War and the Armenian Genocide. She studied at Boğaziçi University and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. An outspoken critic of Turkey’s continuing denial of the Armenian Genocide, Suzan is the first scholar from Turkey to receive the International Raphael Lemkin Award (Armenian Genocide Museum). Suzan is the author of the Silent Book (2011; 2015). Her new book, Reading Silences, on Armenian and Turkish women in twentiethcentury Turkey is under contract with DeGruyter.

Her current research focuses on the role of religion in the biographies of war orphans – the Islamisation of Christian children during the Great War and the Armenianisation of Muslim children after the war – by examining the little-known phenomenon of the integration of babies of Muslim fatherhood into the Armenian national community. At Oxford, Suzan is affiliated to the AHRC– funded project ‘The First World War and Global Religions,’ led by Pembroke Fellow Dr Adrian Gregory. In addition, Suzan is collaborating with Kate McLoughlin, a Professor at the Faculty of English and Fellow at Harris Manchester College, on a major interdisciplinary research project into silence, literature, culture and the arts. The inaugural event of Into Silence took place on November 6th 2018, at Pembroke.

Junior Research Fellows

Dr Michael Koelle is Rokos Junior Research Fellow in Development Economics and joined Pembroke in September 2017.

Suzan Kalaycı, a British Academy International Newton Fellow at the Faculty of History, has joined Pembroke as a Junior Research Fellow.

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Answers: 1. Tofu 2. Diogenes Syndrome

Access and Outreach Graham Mogridge (2016) JCR Access Rep

his year saw OxNet (an attempt to work across colleges to expand the reach of Pembroke-style academically intensive outreach work with schools in UK regions) come under the aegis of the central Oxford University Admissions Office (UAO). It now forms a large part of Oxford’s agreement with the Office for Students (OfS), the new Higher Education (HE) regulator. This requires HE institutions to organise programmes that 'not only have an immediate impact on your own performance', but which are sustained, promoting coordinated activities with potential applicants and communities, with younger age groups and with other organisations to show evidence of collaboration with regional or national coverage while helping to raise attainment among underserved groups and demonstrating deeper relationships with schools. Without an OFS agreement, the University is unable to charge top-end fees. Pembroke Access has acted as a pioneer in this important field, while proof of concept is validated by our model’s adoption by UAO. For Pembroke, our work has widened our networks over these last ten years and remains a comprehensive attempt to tackle the hydra-headed problem of encouraging the disadvantaged from underrepresented groups and regions to make applications to Oxford.

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Four students that came to us via our Access programme have this year graduated with Firsts More effort and resource is needed now to ensure that Pembroke receives its fair share of successful candidates. Should doubts linger that we are somehow compromising on quality or lowering the bar, I am delighted to report (following my remarks in the Pembroke Record last year) that four Pembroke students who came to us via our Access programme have this year graduated with Firsts - one from Hackney in London’s East End won a Gibbs Prize, for the second best result in their subject across the University. We shall need to think more about how we can nurture this obvious talent and put in place funding that would allow an undergraduate from an Access background to go on to doctorate level and beyond. This is a challenge for future years.

This has been an exciting year for undergraduate access at Pembroke. While the student body, University, and College still have a considerable challenge to address, I am pleased that our work has been impactful and, for a number of students, life-changing. Pembroke will be welcoming our first ‘Reach’ Scholar, for over a decade, in Autumn. This is a scholarship open to applicants from economically underdeveloped nations whose family incomes would be a complete impediment to their access to higher education at a university like Oxford. JCR, College and University funding will ensure that all of the student’s academic and living costs are covered, allowing them to fully integrate within the student body while they are here. Family circumstances, and socio-economic backgrounds, should not prevent talented students, from anywhere in the world, from reaching their potential! The student body has also been active in organising and running a North West Roadtrip to visit schools, and developing supportive resources for applicants, with a particular focus on those with disabilities. Both projects, spearheaded by the ‘Access Ambassadors’, will hopefully have long-lasting impacts upon those that they reach. Besides our own work, as usual, student engagement with the College’s access work, particularly the annual residential Access Week, has been profound. Ten years from its commencement, and the student body still thinks that this exactly where the College’s focus needs to be. As the year finishes up, we are pleased to be planning the launch of a new ‘Pembroke Access Society’, a coming together of current students and alumni interested in furthering our Access efforts. We look forward to events which will bring these groups together.

Dr Peter Claus, Access Fellow

Afro-Caribbean Tyler Prize Hope Oloye (2015, Biology and former JCR President) has led the foundation of a new academic mentoring and essay prize scheme for Afro-Caribbean pupils, partnering with schools in London. See page 11 for more on the first year of this new outreach programme. In summer 2018 Hope was included in Powerful Media’s list of the top 10 future leaders of the year, selected from all outstanding students and new graduates of African and African Caribbean Heritage from across UK universities.

www.actylerprize.com

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To watch the JCR-led film about Pembroke and Disabilities please visit: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/equality-disabilities

Academic Achievements A British Academy Fellowship election...

...and two major European Research Council (ERC) grants

In July 2018 Professor Helen Small was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Professor Small has been Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke since 1996, teaching and mentoring many students in the College during that time. In October 2018 she moved on from Pembroke to take up the distinguished post of Merton Professor of English Language and Literature here in Oxford. Professor Small's research and writing has included the themes of British literature and intellectual history, primarily from 1800 to the present; the literature and philosophy of ageing; and the history and ongoing practice of advocacy for the humanities.

In June 2018 Pembroke Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, Professor Scott Waddell, was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth 2.5 million euros to undertake a five-year research project titled ‘singlecell correlates of memory, motivation and individuality’. ERC Advanced Grant recipients are called Principal Investigators; they are active researchers with a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years. ‘I’m totally thrilled to be awarded this ERC Advanced Grant. Cutting-edge genomics is expensive science so these funds are essential for us to recruit new skilled people and to do these exciting experiments.’

In February 2018 Professor of Islamic Studies, Professor Nicolai Sinai, received a major grant of c.£1.5m from the European Research Council (ERC) to fund a project titled Qur'anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP). The project will deliver the first historicalcritical commentary in English on a large portion of the Qur’an, covering the first four chapters or surahs. These include surahs 2–4, the three longest and most complex compositions in the Islamic scripture. The project will last for five years and will involve three post-doctoral positions in addition to Professor Sinai, who is responsible for overseeing the project and writing the commentary.

Pembroke Graduate Innovation Prize Launched in association with Estée Lauder Companies

This new prize, which champions innovation and creativity, offers graduate students the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a judging panel, with a chance to win funding and expert business advice. The 2018 Prize was split between two teams. Ming Li (2014, DPhil Engineering Science) led a team comprising Pembroke graduate, Guowei Tao, and Zhixin Zeng from Balliol College. Their pitch was titled ‘MEMS-Based Digital Coriolis Flow Meter for Industrial Two-phase Applications’. The funds will enable them to convert their ideas and models into real industrial fabrication, alongside publishing patents and papers. Guowei commented: ‘Through the pitch, we received very useful advice from Estée Lauder and other participants. We are excited about our ideas and interested to find what effects our project will have on the industry in improving efficiency, quality control, cost control and so on.’

Julie Dequaire (DPhil Engineering Science, 2014) took part in the competition with team mates Neil Dhir from Wolfson College and Thomas Rawlinson from Lincoln College. Their idea was titled, ‘A mobile sensor package and App to monitor return of muscle activity following neurological injury’. This involves harnessing the power of machine learning to adapt surface electromyography (EMG) monitoring and provide feedback to the patient as their muscle groups are reinnervated. Julie explained: ‘The funding will assist us in purchasing equipment for collecting and computing data, and ultimately setting up clinical trials… as the plan takes shape we intend to organise a workshop to bring together clinicians and engineers in Oxford interested in rehabilitative technology.’

A former holder of Pembroke’s Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship for academic and sporting excellence, Laurence Wroe (2014) was offered a place on the 2018 Laidlaw Scholars Undergraduate Research and Leadership Programme. The scholarship has two main components: an original research project and an innovative leadership development programme. It is delivered through six high ranking UK Universities, including the University of Oxford. Laurence’s project aims to determine and compare the failure modes of medical linear accelerators (LINACs). These complex, intricate machines are most commonly used for external beam radiation treatments for cancer patients. LINACs are the superior technology for delivering external-beam therapy, however, owing to economic, social and infrastructural factors, other technologies are more common in lowand middle-income countries. In his research, Laurence will compare failure modes in both high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on the UK and Africa.

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Academic Achievements University and College Prizes 2017/18 Sidharth Bhushan Thomas Foxton Moana Graham Victoria Lewis Daniel McAteer Alice Mingay Joseph Pollacco Pieter Sayer Isabel Smith Leander Thiele Tat Man (Omar) Tsang Francesca Webb & Lydia Jowitt

BA Economics and Management BCL Law BA Theology BA Jurisprudence BA History BA Oriental Studies (Chinese) MPhys Physics MSc Economics for Development BA Experimental Psychology BA Physics MChem Chemistry MPhys Physics

Lubbock Prize, Gibbs Foundation Prize, John Hicks Foundation Prize x 3 Faculty Prize in Advance Property and Trusts The Gibbs Prize (Theology) Law Faculty Prize for Human Rights Law Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize Faculty of Oriental Studies’ Dissertation Prize for Chinese Studies Commendation for practical work in Physics Prelims The Luca D’Agliano Prize for Best Dissertation Gibbs Prize (Library Dissertation) The Scott Prize for best performance in the MPhys Part B examination AB in Bev Chemistry Prize for top student in Part 1A Both awarded commendations for practical work in Part B Physics

BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics BA Engineering

John Hicks Foundation Prize Institution of Mechanical Engineers Best Student Certificate

2016/17 (omitted from last year’s Record) Connor Hamilton William Pearce

Pembroke Undergraduate Scholars and Exhibitioners Oliver Antcliff, Human Sciences Thomas Ash, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Clare Ashley, Medicine - Graduate Entry Leon Berrisford, Physics Sidharth Bhushan, Economics and Management Rebecca Boyd, Modern Languages (French and Russian) Anthony Boyle, Mathematics and Philosophy Rory Bramley, Mathematics Jack Brocklehurst, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Jon Arwed Buchholtz, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Matthew Budd, Engineering Science Riccardo Casini, Economics and Management Tara Chandrasekharan, History and Economics Yifeng Chen, Engineering Science Thomas Critchley, Economics and Management Thomas Davison, Economics and Management Hollie Eaton, History Jessica Ellins, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Karim Elmestekawy, Physics Daniel Evans, English Language and Literature Isobel Frankis, History Molly Garnett, English Language and Literature James Gnodde, Engineering Science Molly Goldstone, Music Laurence Grant-Forster, Mathematics Laura Hindley, Biological Sciences Rachel Hunt, Mathematics and Philosophy Shakil Karim, History and Economics Duncan Laurie, Mathematics Emma Lisney, Music Krystofer Mackie, Philosophy and Modern Languages (French) Daniel McAteer, History Connor McGurk, Earth Sciences Alice Mingay, Oriental Studies (Chinese) Stefan Molodecki, Chemistry Katherine Monks, Biological Sciences Eleanor Mottram, Oriental Studies (Japanese) Joseph Morton, BA Biological Sciences 10 | Pembroke Record | 2017-18

Elizabeth Munro, Economics and Management John Murphy, Oriental Studies (Arabic) Tsvetana Myagkova, PPL (Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics) Otto Newland, Oriental Studies (Chinese) Cormac O’Malley, Engineering Science Miao Ling Ong, History and Economics Samuel Pace, Medicine - Preclinical (3yr) Cecily Price, Biological Sciences Ronnel Raphael, Theology Thomas Reynolds, Oriental Studies (Japanese) Gabrielle Russo, Oriental Studies (Arabic and Islamic Studies) Caitlin Shepperson, Chemistry Amber Shrimpton, Theology and Religion Isabel Smith, Experimental Psychology Adam Sneath, Biological Sciences David Spiller, History Abigail Spokes, History and Economics Selma Stearns, PPL Matthew Terry, Jurisprudence (with Law in Europe) Leander Thiele, Physics Carolina Toso, European and Middle Eastern Languages (Spanish and Arabic) Isabel Troth, Modern Languages (French and Spanish) John Trusted, Oriental Studies (Japanese) Tat Man Omar Tsang, Chemistry Nancy Tucker, Experimental Psychology Laura Turner, Chemistry Maisie Vollans, Biological Sciences Wanda Von Knobelsdorff, Philosophy and Modern Languages (Italian) Kieran Wachsmuth, Physics Adrien Wald, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Francesca Webb, Physics Esme Wilson, Economics and Management Alexander Wood, Mathematics and Philosophy Yue Shun (Brian) Wong, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Julian Wood, History and English Laurence Wroe, Physics Anna Yamaoka-Enkerlin, Jurisprudence James Youren, Physics

College Events

An evolving academic hub: a calendar of intellectual activity at Pembroke

Michaelmas ‘Quintinshill: 102 Years Down the Line’ Guest Lecture

Rachel Owen: ‘The Inferno Illustrations’ Art Exhibition

The Pembroke College History Society welcomed back alumnus Andrew David (1975, Classics) to deliver a talk titled ‘Victorian Coaching Stock & Britain’s Deadliest Railway Disaster: Quintinshill, 102 Years Down the Line’.

Poetry at Pembroke: ‘Seeds of War’ Book Launch

A display of 34 photographic prints of mixedmedia collage works, created in response to the Inferno in the Divine Comedy, a 14th century poem by the Italian poet Dante. This exhibition marked the culmination of Rachel Owen’s (1968 - 2016) lifelong academic and artistic engagement with the text. Later in the term, Pembroke Retained Lecturer in Italian Dr David Bowe also gave a talk in response to the exhibition.

This special event was the culmination of the Poetry at Pembroke Michaelmas programme (see right), and included the book launch of Seeds of Bullets: A psychological study of war poems by Wilfred Owen and Adnan al-Sayegh by Sura Hussein Mohammed Ali, with a preface by Jenny Lewis.

‘The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: The Problem with Politics’ Guest Lecture

Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and former editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, spoke on the topic ‘From Pulpit to Conversation: How the Language of Journalism Changed Once the Readers Learnt how to Answer Back’.

Lecture by Dr Timothy Fitzgerald. This event marked the occasion of the 2017 Oxford Study of Religion Lecture.

‘How to Speak Journalese’ Guest Lecture

Afro-Caribbean Tyler Prize Hope Oloye (2015, Biology) is Founding Director of the Afro-Caribbean Tyler Prize. She launched the initiative as an access and outreach project, tackling some of the barriers that prevent African and Caribbean-heritage students from applying to Russell Group universities, such as Oxford. The prize aims to improve key academic skills, recognise exceptional writing and build networks between high-achieving students across age groups. In its first year, participants were invited to select a title from a list of possible essays, some dealing specifically with topics around race and class. Students also attended a workshop on essay writing and a prize-giving ceremony at Pembroke in June, which celebrated their individual achievements. The programme also matches current African or African Caribbean Oxford students to participants so they can offer academic mentoring and essay feedback, ultimately acting as role models to the young people. Hope’s role as Director includes equipping mentors with information and resources, creating educational resources for mentees, running workshops and organising the celebration days. The first celebration day at Pembroke featured guest speakers Professor Uvanney Maylor (Institute for Research in Education at the University of Bedfordshire) and Professor Uduak Archibong MBE (Director of University of Bradford Centre for Inclusion and Diversity). With a generous donation from the Tyler Trust, the Prize is set for expansion in future years, and we look forward to seeing the impact that it will have.

‘In The Pink’ Poetry at Pembroke In October 2017 I began a weekly series of poetry readings in Pembroke, open to all, with free admission. Each reading was about an hour long, divided into two slots filled either by a single poet, two poets, or occasionally an open-mic session or some other multi-poet format. The Pembroke Communications and Events Offices were extremely helpful, providing support and helping with advertising, and I created a Facebook page for the series, with an event listing for each reading. The result was very pleasing, with audiences averaging 20-25 people, mostly from out of College. We have heard a wide variety of poets, including the formal (sonnets and sapphics being favourites) and the free, with a range of performers between. We were glad to be able to hear work by some of Pembroke’s own poetic products, including Roz Kaveny, Chris Beckett, Jay Ramsay, and Nicola Harrison, as well as by poets from further afield — from Huddersfield to Ìbàdàn, (Romanian poet Carmen Bugan even flying from the U.S. a day early in order to be able to fit us in before a conference). Work has begun on Hilary term’s bookings, which promise to be at least as varied, stimulating, and entertaining as our audiences have come to expect. Follow our events at: www.facebook.com/poetryatpembroke/ Dr Peter King Lecturer in Philosophy

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‘What Can Family History Teach Historians?’ Guest Lecture In Hilary term 2018 the History Society welcomed Alison Light, a writer, teacher and independent scholar. She writes and broadcasts chiefly on issues to do with British cultural life, literature and history, and is a Senior Associate of Pembroke College.

Mary Fedden: a voice of her own Art Exhibition This exhibition brought together works from across college art collections to present a picture of the much-loved British artist, Mary Fedden (1915-2012). Set alongside artists of influence and inspiration, Fedden’s voice emerged as one distinctly her own.

‘Data Confession, Torture and Truth: Classical Statistics vs. InfoMetrics’ Book Launch This talk by Amos Golan offered a nonmathematical introduction to the field of Info-metrics through several interdisciplinary, real world examples, while providing a brief overview of a new book Foundations of InfoMetrics: Modeling, Inference, and Imperfect Information (Oxford University Press).

‘Negotiated Texts Seminar: Article 32 VCLT and Some Problems of Treaty Interpretation’ Workshop seminar This Seminar explored the potential of the Quill Platform to help scholars, legal advisers, and judges answer difficult questions arising under treatises such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

‘Mary Fedden: A Musical Response’ by Jake Smales Gallery Event A musical response delivered by guitarist Jake Smales (Modern Languages, 2014), inspired by the works in ‘Mary Fedden: a voice of her own’ the JCR Art Gallery’s Hilary term exhibition.

‘Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East’ Conference A 3-day conference that took place across St Antony’s College and Pembroke College, Oxford between 26th and 28th January 2018 and was convened by Pembroke Departmental Lecturer Dr Alex Henley.

‘Egypt in the First World War’ Workshop This workshop was organised by Pembroke Junior Research Fellow Dr Hussein Omar, who sat alongside this panel: Marilyn Booth, Khaled Fahmy, Christopher Rose and Aaron Jakes.

Student Action for Refugees (STAR) Panel Oxford’s STAR (Student Action for Refugees) ran a panel discussion in January 2018 to explore and discuss the process of seeking asylum for refugees in the UK as well as generally in the European Union. We invited three female guest speakers, all experts in their fields, to elucidate the topic and share their own different experiences of refugee-related work. Dr Lilian Tsourdi, a lecturer in International Human Rights and Refugee Law at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre; Helena Cullen, Youth Services Coordinator for Asylum Welcome, a long-standing Oxford based charity supporting local refugees and asylum seekers; and Shaista Aziz, a journalist (whose work frequently appears in The Guardian, amongst many other newspapers), former international aid worker, anti-racism campaigner and now the current Labour party councillor for Rose Hill and Iffley in Oxford City Council.

Skills and Careers Festival Festival In this series of workshops and lectures, Pembroke undergraduates were given the opportunity to hear about internships, gained CV tips and received career guidance from a varied panel, including Pembroke guest alumni.

One of the event’s great successes was how well the three panellists complemented each other due to their own individual standpoints and experiences: Lilian was brilliant in elucidating the legal frameworks and problems that exist in EU law related to the process of seeking asylum, whilst Helena and Shaista gave hugely informative inside views on their experiences working on a more personal basis with asylum seekers. Shaista also explained the links between these issues and the wider social problems that dominate the mediascape of today. Students and other attendees were invited to submit questions beforehand, which made for a very engaging discussion. The end result was a highly informative event that helped to shed light on many of the particularities and faults of the asylum process. Moreover, all three panellists celebrated such attempts to raise awareness about the refugee ‘crisis’ by grassroots organisations as the first steps towards any sort of possible widespread solution. Nathalie Kantaris-Diaz, Modern Languages 2014

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‘Textual Strategies for Elucidating the Universe’ Symposium Early Text Cultures at Oxford presented a day of presentations and discussion exploring the literary and conceptual strategies employed by early cosmogonic and cosmographic texts from across the ancient world. This event was organised by Pembroke DPhil Candidate, Corina Smith.

Tanaka Symposium 2018 Utopia and the Everyday in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Literature Made possible through a generous grant from the Tanaka UK Japan Educational Foundation Limited, this symposium brought together students and scholars from Japan, Europe, the US and the UK. It was organised by Dr Linda Flores (Fellow in Japanese) and Dr Thomas Garcin (Tanaka Junior Research Fellow). From grassroots social movement to utopian villages, many in modern Japan have participated in initiatives expressing ‘the desire of a better way of being’ (as Ruth Levitas has comprehensively defined utopia). Japanese postmodern space is also laden with sites which, whilst narrowly inserted in the temporal and spatial network of working life, nevertheless offer their users respite from the everyday (convenience stores, hostess bars, hot springs resorts, amusement parks, etc.). Using Foucault’s neologism, we can define these places as heterotopias: sites that are real and tangible and yet ‘contradict all other sites’. Our objective was to investigate how these enacted utopias, closely related to everyday life, are represented in various works of postwar and contemporary writing.

Pembroke Graduate Innovation Prize: The Final Competition The inaugural Pembroke Graduate Innovation Prize in association with Estée Lauder Companies, which champions innovation and creativity, saw five finalist groups pitch their idea for a chance to win funding and expert business advice! Read about the winners on page 9.

The day opened with a presentation by Dr Linda Flores on the relationship between sound, space, and subjectivity in the Akutagawa prize-winning Konbini ningen (Homo Convenience, 2016), a novel set in the heterotopia of the Japanese convenience store. Stephen Dodd (SOAS) then spoke about representations of heterotopia in Yukio Mishima’s popular novel Inochi urimasu (Life for Sale, 1968) as a critique of Japanese postwar society. The morning session ended with a presentation by Thomas Garcin on the reader as the locus of utopia in Abe Kazushige’s Indibijuaru purojekushon (Individual Projection, 1997). Filippo Cervelli (University of Oxford) opened the afternoon by discussing how utopia was portrayed in the anime series Psycho-Pass (2012-2013). Seiji Lippit (UCLA) followed with a presentation on Black Markets as heterotopic spaces in the immediate postwar period, drawing on work by writers such as Tamura Taijirō and Hayashi Fumiko. The day ended with Thomas Lamarre (McGill University), who spoke about the representation of school clubs in contemporary media franchises and their relationship to the disappearance of the concept of utopia in education-related discourse in Japan.

Easter Vacation

‘A Beautiful Journey: Prestige Beauty Science at The Estée Lauder Companies’ Guest Lecture Lisa Napolione, Senior Vice-President & Leader of Global Research & Development at The Estée Lauder Companies, provided an insight into Research & Development at The Estée Lauder Companies and her personal career path.

Lunchtime Music Recitals Recitals Throughout the year, recitals have taken place weekly in term time, in The Pichette Auditorium. Organised by Dr Guy Newbury, Lecturer in Music, these have featured Pembroke students, alumni and other musicians. They are open to all members of the College as well as attracting members of the public from the Oxford area.

‘Science, Imagination and Wonder – Robert Grosseteste and His Legacy’ Conference The Ordered Universe Project hosted a conference in association with the International Robert Grosseteste Society between 3rd – 6th April 2018. It celebrated the works of Grosseteste, especially their response to natural phenomena, and the extended legacy of this thought in the Middle Ages and beyond. The keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Jim Al-Khalili titled ‘On the Shoulders of Giants: Optics Before Newton’. Pembroke PembrokeRecord Record| |2017-18 2017-18| | 13

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Annual Fund Series 2018 Guest Lecture This year the Annual Fund Series presented alumnus Stefan Gates (1986), television presenter, author, broadcaster and liveshow performer who delivered a talk titled ‘Revolting Science’.

‘A Certain Sense of Order’ Opera Performance and Q&A A Certain Sense of Order is a work for two female singers exploring the American poet Anne Sexton. Using the text of a single poem—‘For John, Who Begs Me Not to Inquire Further’—the piece reflects on Sexton’s life and work, including her practice of recording and listening to tapes of her therapy sessions. The event was organised by Pembroke Junior Research Fellow Dr Victoria Van Hyning and took place in the Damon Wells Chapel.

‘Light Embodied’ Art Exhibition

Pembroke Arts Festival Festival

Light Embodied united the two seemingly opposite worlds of medieval science and contemporary art practice. Glass and ceramic artists from the National Glass Centre in the University of Sunderland created works in response to medieval ideas on colour and light, as articulated by the remarkable medieval thinker Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253) who considered colour as ‘light incorporated in a transparent medium’.

The JCR ran a host of successful events, from dance workshops and life drawing sessions to poetry evenings. It finished off with an entertaining production of the Importance of Being Earnest to a full house in Rokos Quad.

Annual Tolkien Lecture Guest Lecture Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the number one New York Times, and Indie bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and This Savage Song. She delivered the 2018 Annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College.

‘A Meeting Of Minds’ A scientist and an artist in conversation This event brought together Pembroke Fellow Professor Irene Tracey and contemporary artist Angela Palmer to discuss the convergence of their respective practices. The pair addressed an attentive audience and participated in a lively question and answer session. Professor Tracey is Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Professor of Anaesthetic Science. She leads the FMRIB Pain Analgesia-Anaesthesia Imaging Neuroscience (P.A.I.N) Group, which aims to understand pain perception, analgesia and altered states of consciousness through advanced neuroimaging. Angela Palmer is an artist who works with medical imaging processes to create intriguing glass sculptures that show objects floating as threedimensional drawings in glass cubes. The event marked the launch of Light Embodied, Pembroke’s JCR Art Gallery’s Trinity exhibition, which united the two seemingly opposite worlds of medieval science and contemporary art, through artistic responses to the works of medieval thinker Robert Grosseteste (more on p18). The subject matter offered an opportunity to display Pembroke’s only glass work, a sculpture by Angela Palmer, alongside some of our rare books and manuscripts. Palmer’s “self-portrait”, based on an MRI scan of her own head, found a deep resonance across the centuries, placed next to a medieval diagram of the brain as it was understood in the 14th century. Clara Chivers, Curator of Art

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The Newman Lectures Lecture Series Pembroke hosted three Newman Lectures in Trinity term. Prof. Vincent Gillespie, the J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language and Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford delivered the first lecture, titled ‘Julian of Norwich: the Terror of the Time’. The second Newman Lecture was delivered by The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He spoke on the topic of ‘The idea of a university in the 21st century’. The Revd. John Jenkins CSC, President of the University of Notre Dame spoke on the topic of ‘The University in Society: what is it for?’

Pembroke Musical: ‘Dogfight’ Musical Performance The JCR put on a stunning musical performance of the hauntingly beautiful Dogfight. The production took place in The Pichette Auditorium, transformed by lights and scenery.

‘Muslim Women’s Movements and the Campaign to Reform Islamic Family Laws’ Panel Discussion Pembroke Fellow, Dr Justin Jones, organised a panel discussion bringing together two of the world’s most prominent so-called ‘Islamic feminists’, both of whom campaign for the reform of family laws in Islam: Zakia Soman, co-founder of the Indian Muslim Women’s Movement of India (BMMA); and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, legal activist and academic, and co-founder of Musawah.

Diversity Week Festival An annual student-run festival to celebrate diversity and difference, raise awareness of challenges, and foster an inclusive spirit. Events included film showings, open mics, an international food festival and a discussion panel.

The Eighth Annual Fulbright Distinguished Lecture ‘The Best of Centuries or the Worst of Centuries?’ The Fulbright Distinguished Lecture was given this year by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, who continued the now well-established tradition in the series of powerful and thought-provoking engagement with important issues of our day. Professor Stern’s title was ‘The Best of Centuries or the Worst of Centuries: Leadership, Governance and Cohesion in an Interdependent World’.

Global History of War Lecture Guest Lecture Professor Wayne E. Lee (University of North Carolina) delivered a talk entitled ‘Reaping the Rewards: How the Governor, the Priest, the Taxman, and the Garrison Secure Victory in World History’. The event was co-hosted by Oxford’s Centre for Global History and the Changing Character of War Centre (CCW).

Each year’s Distinguished Lecturer is asked to speak to a broad brief on the intellectual and political legacy of Senator William Fulbright, an alumnus of Pembroke College. Senator Fulbright is best known for the extraordinary set of academic and cultural exchanges that have proceeded for the past 70 years under the programme that bears his name. He was also famous for standing up to power, against McCarthy and the Vietnam War. Professor Stern paid warm tribute in his talk therefore to the role that Fulbright played in building the post-War internationalist and rules-based order which did so much to drive economic development and peace in most of the world. Professor Stern plays a major role himself in responding to the challenges that have accompanied this extraordinary global development, most notably through his work on the economics of climate change. His lecture focused on the governance challenges and the institutional change that is now required urgently to manage an interdependent world. His view however was not from a great abstract height, but rather fixed on the middle ground of articulating practical solutions that can win broad support. As such, he left those in the room not only of the view that ‘yes we must’ do something to avoid the potential calamities that face the world, but equally that ‘yes we can’. A full version of the talk can be found here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/fulbright-lectures Professor Stephen Whitefield

Summer Vacation

“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde Musical Performance Monica Molinaro (pianist) and Jean-Paul Audrain (actor) performed The Ballad of Reading Gaol from Oscar Wilde, accompanied by Brahms piano music in an event organised by Pembroke DPhil candidate Julie Dequaire.

Access Week Conference Throughout the year, Sixth Form pupils from our link schools work on various academic courses and attend academic events in London, the North West and now the North East. The Access Week at Pembroke is the culmination of these programmes. This special week of studying and living at Pembroke is hosted by undergraduates who act as mentors and advisers, and by postgraduates and Fellows who teach.

International Colour Vision Society Summer School Conference Pembroke hosted the second International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) Summer School on Colour from 30th July – 3rd August 2018. The school has selected students and young researchers from around the world and focused on colour vision and its applications. Courses, lectures, experiments, laboratory visits, and hands-on workshops, provided opportunities for formal and informal interactions with world-known researchers.

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Common Room Reports

JCR

MCR

Carolina Earle (2016), JCR President

Augustus Porter (2016), MCR President

It has been another exciting and high-powered year at Pembroke, with a range of positive developments to report at a JCR level. As the academic year kicked off, newly elected Subject Representatives were asked to make contact with incoming Pembrokians. Representatives shared course-specific advice and information, helping to make the transition to a new academic environment smoother for the new 2017/18 cohort. For the first time, an LGBTQIA+ talk and workshop were held as part of Freshers’ Week, too.

This year was one of evolution for the MCR, culminating in the Common Room’s complete refurbishment. The revamped room retains its original classic feel, conserving the iconic wood panelling, but is now updated with modern lighting, decoration and carpets, and a renovated Blue Room. The work has been a complete success with the MCR community, and I warmly invite all alumni to come back to have a look.

Initiatives focused on highlighting and improving Pembroke’s accessibility were pushed forward. A video presenting Pembroke’s provision for disabled students, and mock interview videos were filmed, and we hope these will be a valued resource for current, and prospective students alike. Building upon the work of previous committees, the REACH Scholarship was approved this year, and with large pledges of funds from the JCR and the College, the Scholarship will support a scholar — now selected — on their course of study at Pembroke. The JCR took on its commitment to charitable causes with verve, with pilot events such as an Auction of Promises raising hundreds for charity, alongside our traditional Charity Ballot. A simulated Blind Football game was held to raise awareness and funds for a local blind football club; and welfare, awareness, and fundraising were brought together when local Guide Dogs and their owners made a visit to Pembroke. Focusing on our College community, too, a Staff Appreciation Tea was held in late Michaelmas for students to celebrate all of Pembroke’s Staff and was attended by Fellows, Scouts, Porters, etc. Our Arts and Diversity weeks provided a range of exciting and illuminating events open to all, with music, talks, and films presented, screened, and discussed. Further focusing on our college community, in order to ensure involvement in college life of Pembroke’s students abroad, too, our Husts for the 2018/19 JCR Committee were live-streamed (under strict regulation), and watched by Pembrokians as far afield as Jordan. The JCR also celebrated momentous successes. Pembroke’s women’s and men’s Rugby teams both won their final games in a wonderful moment for the College; our University Challenge Team succeeded in reaching the televised stages of the programme; and the first Pembroke musical in three years was staged to great acclaim. Our Pink Times magazine also underwent a fresh re-formatting. Following concerns raised by students, the JCR and College worked together to push for new lighting on the path to Pembroke’s off-site Geoffrey Arthur Building, which was installed this year. With many more fantastic moments than can be chronicled here, it has been a wonderful year and absolute honour to work with such a fantastic and driven committee for undoubtedly one of the best colleges in Oxford.

Refurbishment is not the only thing to have happened this year; after all, it is the people rather than the physical space that make Pembroke MCR a vibrant community. In Freshers’ Week we welcomed 100 or so new members from over 30 countries, our most international year yet! My personal highlights were the annual dinner with the Master and our new Ghost Tour of Oxford – spooky! We continued to host regular events, including Welfare Tea & Cakes, and Second Desserts of port and cheese after Sunday’s formals. Our MCR bar, to which I directly ascribe our strong sense of community, is still going strong, with the addition of regular karaoke nights and Bops. We also hosted and visited 10 different colleges for both MCR exchange dinners and social events, many of us meeting great new friends. We strengthened our relationship with our sister college, Queens’ College, Cambridge, by hosting and visiting them for a day each. With the support of the Annual Fund, we organised a summer day trip to Bath for our DPhil and MPhil students, to visit the Roman baths and soak up the town’s atmosphere. While we enjoyed ourselves, we also kept up our academic pursuits. Our Academic Reps, Carlotta and Louis, organised the now termly MCR Research Symposia, where we heard all about the interesting academic work done by our community – I greatly enjoyed hearing about things from the business practices of CERN and NASA (which, as a physicist myself, I find I never think about!) to the political implications of Martial Arts in Modern Japan. We also used our academic skills for public good, with many of our MCR members taking part in the College’s Access Schemes for students applying to Pembroke from non-traditional backgrounds. This included acting as Tutor for the students in Access Week, and giving them mock Oxford interviews through the Pembroke Scholars scheme. This important work is relished by MCR members, and also gives our budding academics exceptional experience in university teaching. Something new this year was the MCR allotment in Port Meadow, where the community tried its hand growing beetroots and pumpkins. Another continuing success is the annual Pembroke Tolkien Memorial Lecture on Fantasy Literature, organised by MCR members and generously funded by College’s Annual Fund, which this year was given by Victoria Schwab. The video of the lecture on YouTube has been viewed over 12,000 times, demonstrably spreading the Pembroke name around a wide general audience. So, in all, Pembroke MCR continues to be an engaged and active community, looking forward to another eventful year!

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Sports

PCBC

Awards

Sam Gisby (2016), JCR Sports Rep

Ed Rolls (2014), PCBC President

Blues, Half Blues and College Colours

The sports scene at Pembroke is fantastic, and this wouldn’t be possible without the support of College. The past year has been particularly successful, with fantastic achievements by College teams.

The season started in Michaelmas when, led by hard-working vice captains, a large group of inspired novices hit the training hard and with enthusiasm, providing inspiration for the senior squads. This culminated in a stunning Christchurch Regatta performance where our women narrowly lost in the final to long-running rivals Wadham and the men suffered a heart-breaking loss in the quarterfinals. Managing to qualify one boat for the Saturday of the regatta has eluded PCBC in recent years, so to have two was a seriously impressive achievement.

Thanks to a legacy received from the estate of alumnus Rodney Fitzgerald (1942), the College has been able to substantially increase the awards made to those achieving a Blue or Half Blue for representing the University in their sport, as well as funding College Sports Colours Awards, and providing special grants for out-ofpocket expenses to those who compete in any sport at University level or above.

Pembroke Rugby enjoyed a double victory in April, with College packing the Iffley rafters to watch the Men’s team beat a strong Exeter side to the Bowl trophy, followed by the Women’s team, under the amazing leadership of Alice Mingay and Hazel Ellender, lifting the Cuppers trophy. The Netball team also upset the odds to reach the semi-final of Women’s cuppers, knocking out a much-fancied St Catherine’s team full of university players on their way, and later lifted the Cuppers trophy in the mixed competition a College first. Pembroke also ended a 30 year wait for some form of football Cuppers silverware by winning the Futsal competition (entered by 80 college teams), thanks to a last minute winner from Laurence Wroe in his final game for College. Over 50 students also enjoyed a trip to our sister college in Cambridge, Queen’s, competing in a range of sports in what was a great day out. Of course, Pembroke also excelled in many other sports such as Cricket, Squash, Badminton, Tennis, Pool and Rowing (which you’ll hear more about later). This year’s Sports Personality was awarded to Jen Ehr. Jen took both the Football and Netball teams to the Cuppers semi-finals as their top scorer, as well as the Tennis team to the final. She also coached the PCBC novice coxes, was women’s squash captain, and coxed M4 to an all-time record number of bumps in summer eights. Incredibly, at University level she has also coxed the men’s blues boat to victory in the Boat Race, played in lacrosse varsity and played for the University tennis team. Beyond College, Pembroke students represented the University in several sports, from football to rowing to netball to water polo. The support and funding offered by Pembroke enables the College to have so many players at University level, and is highly appreciated by all of the athletes.

The many early mornings and tough erg sessions of Hilary bought us to Torpids, an experience somewhat overshadowed by the bitterly cold conditions leading to racing below -5 degrees on the Wednesday and cancellation of Thursday and Friday’s racing due to safety. The weather was the only thing that could get in the way of our rampaging women’s first boat rolling towards headship, bumping up to third across two days of racing. After the gutsiest of gutsy rows by the men’s first boat on the Wednesday to hold off Oriel by the smallest of margins, the six year run of headships sadly came to an end on Saturday, getting bumped outside of the boathouses by the maligned Oriel. At Summer Eights in Trinity, following three years of rowing over second, the women’s First Eight led an inspired campaign to overthrow Wadham at the head of the river, bumping them along greenbanks – with the subsequent three days rowing over then securing the headship. The men’s First Eight stuck to the script of the past few years, by rowing over all four days and having a jolly good time in the process. There were successes up and down the club, which managed to enter eight boats showing fantastic depth, as well as blades for M4. As outgoing President, I would like to thank the committee for all their hard work organising things, our coaching team for their efforts, College for their ongoing support but most of all the rowers for their hard work and dedication making this all possible.

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7 Blues Awards across rugby, cricket, taekwon-do, netball, cross country, golf

9 Half Blue Awards across ski racing, water polo, triathlon, rifle shooting, rugby fives, karate, handball, football

30 College Colours across football, netball, rugby, cricket, rowing, pool, tennis, badminton

17 special Fitz Awards across sailing, rowing, squash, netball, tennis, golf, rifle shooting, water polo, rugby, football

£7,000 total in awards and grants to high-performing sportspeople

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JCR Art Gallery and Collection

JCR Art Joseph Mead (2016), President The JCR Art Gallery has enjoyed another successful year, acting with the collection’s founder, Anthony Emery’s, intentions of bringing ‘The Art of Our Time’ to students of Oxford and audiences beyond. Under the guidance and efforts of Clara Chivers, our curator, we sought to bring a greater number of exhibitions to the public this year. I am happy to say that we succeeded, having hosted a variety of works within and beyond our Collection every term. Firstly, in Michaelmas we held Rachel Owen: The Inferno Illustrations - a series of 34 photographic prints created in response to Dante’s Inferno in the poet’s Divine Comedy. Prior to her death in 2016, Rachel taught Italian as a retained lecturer at Pembroke, and these works represent a culmination of her long standing engagement with the Divine Comedy. We thank Dr David Bowe, retained lecturer in Italian at Pembroke, for providing insight into the works of Dante and Owen during lunchtime talks in the Gallery, and also undergraduate Ronni Blackford, who also provided insight for visitors. In Hilary term we shed new light on our post-war British collection, with an exhibition

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featuring the vibrant works of Mary Fedden in Mary Fedden: voice of her own. We displayed works by Fedden and her husband Julian Trevelyan from our own collection, alongside loans from New College and Nuffield College, Oxford, and five works from the New Hall Art Collection of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. We hope that this event has set a precedent for future collaborations between colleges and institutions within Oxford and further afield. The exhibition focused on the relationship of the artist couple and their contemporaries, bringing together works spanning several decades. We are especially thankful for the artistic responses by Pembroke undergraduate Jake Smales and staff member and designer Lucy Walters, with Jake’s guitar performance and Lucy’s literary response providing wonderful interpretive accompaniments to the works exhibited. Trinity saw the Gallery treading new ground once again in Light Embodied, a fascinating exhibition of glass and ceramic pieces by artists based in the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. As part of the Ordered Universe Project, the artists responded to the writings of the medieval thinker, Robert Grosseteste, and his theories of light and colour. Comprised of mainly three-dimensional works, the exhibition transformed our space

and marked a commitment to bringing a greater diversity of artworks into our collection and exhibitions programme. A thought-provoking conversation between contemporary artist Angela Palmer and Pembroke Fellow and neuroscientist Professor Irene Tracey was held in response to the exhibition during an evening entitled A Meeting of Minds (more on p14). The Art Fund associated with the gallery continued to provide financial support for Pembroke’s student body, with over £4,000 of Travel and Hardship grants awarded during the year. At the Gallery we have introduced paid positions for the first time, recruiting students as part time invigilators to ensure our public openings are sustainable. This was also the inaugural year of the Emery Prize, which is awarded to a student of outstanding ability from either the Ruskin’s BFA or MFA degree shows. We were very pleased to award this year’s prize to Nour Jaouda, who has now exhibited with us in Michaelmas 2018. This year has seen a significant development of the collection and gallery, adding another chapter to our flourishing history. I’m looking forward to remaining involved as a Trustee of the JCR Art Fund Collection this coming year.

Pembroke People An exciting new initiative to celebrate the life and achievements of recent generations of Pembroke students by hanging a selection of photographic portraits on the east and west façades of the Hall was implemented in Michaelmas 2017.

The alumni have been chosen by the Art Committee in consultation with all Fellows. They represent former students who have successful professional careers, have achieved prominence in the public eye, or have been significant benefactors of the College. Every year, six new portraits will be hung to keep the display vibrant and continuously updated. We hope that these images will provide a lively picture of the many walks of life in which Pembroke students have successfully found their place in the wider world.

The Inaugural Display

Patience Agbabi (1983 – English)

Matthew Freeman (1979 – Biochemistry)

Desirée Cox (1987 – Rhodes Scholar)

Patience Agbabi is a British poet, performer and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. Her poetry, which emphasises the spoken word, deals with contemporary themes including racial and gender identity issues. She has been poet-inresidence at both a tattoo parlour and Eton College. Her work, equally influenced by rap and dead white poets, has been published, broadcast and featured on Poems in the Underground.

Professor Matthew Freeman is the Head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Dunn School is one of the top biomedical research departments in the UK and is involved in researching the cell and molecular biology that underlies human disease. His own research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms and medical significance of how cells communicate with each other.

Desirée Cox was the first Rhodes Scholar from The Bahamas and the first female British Caribbean Rhodes Scholar. She trained as a medical doctor at Oxford. She also has a PhD in History from Cambridge is a published writer and poet, an artist and a singer/songwriter. She is currently a global consultant on issues relating to healthcare and education.

Tarik O’Regan (1996 – Music)

Michelle Peluso (1993 – PPE)

Oz Clarke (1967 – Theology)

Tarik O’Regan is a contemporary classical music composer. His work has been recognized with two GRAMMY® nominations and two British Composer Awards. He has composed music for a wide variety of ensembles and organizations, and is currently working on a full-scale opera about the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte commissioned by Houston Grand Opera.

Michelle Peluso is IBM’s Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing global marketing and brand initiatives for the IBM company. She also currently serves on the board of directors for Nike, Technoserve and Tech:NYC. Michelle has previously held a number of executive roles in a variety of organisations including Technology Crossover Ventures, Gilt and Citigroup. She also served as CEO of Travelocity and Site59, which she co-founded.

Oz Clarke is one of the world’s leading wine experts and has won countless International Awards. He is also a television presenter (BBC Food & Drink, Oz & James) and a broadcaster on various subjects, and has written numerous award-winning books. He is also an actor and singer, previously playing such roles as Sweeney Todd and Evita’s General Peron in the West End, and is currently heading up a series of concerts featuring wine and Baroque music with the Armonico consort.

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Home Bursar’s Report

ast year, I majored in my piece on how important the ‘people’ element of the College is: the support that all staff unflinchingly provide; the friendship they offer and the determination they have to be part of the most supportive College environment possible. This has of course continued and our student feedback has continued to be positive – challenging where necessary but helpful in making sure we stay focused on the wider College needs. See below for this year’s support staff Long Service Awards, and p34 for the full list of welcomes and farewells in the wider staff community this past year. Early in this academic year we worked hard with the JCR and MCR domestic reps to take stock of the facilities we provide and what we might do to improve. In particular, we were all keen to see some investment in the Geoffrey Arthur Building (GAB) to address some long standing areas of concern. For example, one popular route to the GAB involves crossing the river but during winter the area was felt to be dark, gloomy and threatening. A major crime incident nearby did nothing to dispel this uncomfortable feeling and, while there was no firm evidence to suggest a high crime rate, it was clear that some of our residents did not feel safe. We therefore engaged with the City, Council, Police and local community and together we managed to find a way to upgrade the lighting in the area and to install some CCTV (on behalf of the community but using our building). We have also helped fund another light stanchion on ‘our’ side of the bridge which was installed in October ahead of the dark nights; an excellent example of College and Community working together – and an

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Listening to the student voice has become a natural part of all our processes. environmental win as the new lighting is LED using 10% of the power of the old lamps! It was also clear that the GAB Common Room was under-utilised. In its original state, the room had become unpopular, cold and well overdue an upgrade. Having spoken to the students, we asked a local design team to refurbish the room and to provide more electrical sockets (it seems that you can never have enough when it comes to mobile devices). The result has been extremely popular, with the area being used daily for study space and collaboration. The new furniture, upgraded heating, new lights and modern decoration have proved a great success. Indeed, we have been able to use the GAB for summer schools this year to generate enough income to pay for the upgrade. We also installed a new network printer/copier which means that the print facilities are as good and as flexible as the main site. The continuation of our staircase refurbishment – another two this summer – means that the GAB is an excellent choice for our students who want to self-cater and who want a bit more independence but in a College environment.

Listening to the student voice has become a natural part of all our processes. The JCR and MCR domestic reps have helped us with ideas for upgrades to rooms, adapting menu choices in Hall to new tastes and requirements, and we have all worked together to support students with disabilities in College. Indeed, we are proud of what we can do and the recent video put together by students emphasises how seriously we take this element: a visiting student from the USA last year who had some pretty tough challenges – she has Cerebral Palsy which requires a 24 hour carer to accompany her – summed it up: ‘Pembroke provided every element of support I could possibly think of, and everyone made it so easy…’ Upgrades to the kitchen, renovations to some of our older buildings and initiatives designed to include our students in the decision making have all been a feature of the year and we are now looking at other exciting options to improve our graduate accommodation offer. On top of the normal workload we have hosted numerous academic, political and corporate conferences this summer which has meant an enormous challenge for the domestic team. Generating muchneeded income, while in parallel renovating infrastructure (a completely new roof on the Macmillan Building, and redecorating two other buildings), has presented challenges that, without such adaptable staff, most organisations would struggle to make happen. Another busy but immensely satisfying year.

Mike Naworynsky OBE, Home Bursar

Long Service Awards 15 Years Wendy Rowland, Scout Martyn Winfield, Maintenance Assistant

10 Years Allison Phipps, Accounts Assistant Hans Raj Chand, Kitchen Porter Wendy Rowland (sixth from left) and domestic team colleagues celebrating her 15 Years Long Service Award

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Finance

Pembroke revisited - first impressions

ature people always say they don’t feel old. I used to think this was slightly wishful thinking, but given my own recent ‘back to the future’ moment, this really does have some merit. Picture A is JB at Pembroke in 1985 and Picture B is today back at Pembroke as Bursar in 2018. Clearly my body has been beaten up by the years, but nevertheless I am not feeling fundamentally any different. So I coxed again at Eights week, got thrown in, had probably too much Pimms and we came 4th which even out-gunned our 7th in 1985. I still bike everywhere and so far am not in trouble yet with the Master or the Dean. So what has changed since the 80’s? Well the College is bigger, better, and more diverse. We have Rokos Quad, Brewer Street bridge and we have the GAB. Student welfare is better. The students are much more organised than we ever were. Academic rigour is more thorough and although we were certainly no slackers in the 80’s, both library and laboratory appear to me even more of a focus today. Graduates have become a major part of College life and society, whereas in the 80’s they were rare. Pembroke dropped Geography shortly after my departure, but at least I have some additive value in the SCR lunch room in the unlikely event that the conversation turns to rivers.

the optimal ability to invest in students, in research and in facilities. We need a new library. Despite the digital age, people still don’t want to work alone in their rooms. Despite search engines, people still need support to access resources. We are neither wealthy nor poor in College terms, but we have a unique platform on which to build. For example, we have a fantastic opportunity given our geographical location in Oxford. Pembroke is extremely central. Unlike many it is not boxed in by other Colleges, by the University or by the Parks. Take a look at Google Earth and you will see that the South West corner of central Oxford is undergoing a rapid transformation.

Although much has changed, crucially much remains as it was. The traditions that make Pembroke exceptional thrive undimmed by the increasing quality of the SCR, MCR and JCR. It was and remains a friendly place. It is a caring place. Not that other Colleges aren’t friendly, but I get the impression that Pembroke is particularly special in this respect.

Today through the hard work of the whole community here we are financially sound. We have a balanced budget. This means whatever we do going forward can be built on sound financial foundations. I will manage the College resources prudently, but I will also undertake to make these assets work hard to build a better future. Despite my temptation to say it was so much better in my day, it is so much better today. We should aim very high.

If I am to be fussy, the music scene (the little of it around) isn’t as cool or as edgy as it was in my day. The bar is a distant second preference to the café. The raw but exciting politics of the Thatcher era is not on show despite the tensions of student fees, pay and pensions. So I do hope that students still have time to dream and talk nonsense, but they seem so talented that I am sure they do this as well.

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We are neither wealthy nor poor in College terms, but we have a unique platform on which to build.

Jeremy Bennett, Bursar

The College finances are sounder than they were, but there is a long way to go to achieve

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Finances Income and Endowments

For the year end 31st July 2018

2018

2017

ÂŁâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;000

ÂŁ'000

1,708

1,667

Tuition fees - Overseas students

734

737

Other fees

676

578

782

920

2,742

2,621

6,268

6,605

Other trading income

1,738

1,498

Legacies and donations

2,150

2,781

Investment income

2,097

2.216

5,985

6,495

12,711

100

13,100

100

547

538

1,228

1,191

271

437

2,046

2,166

Charitable activities Teaching, research and residential Tuition fees - UK and EU students

Other Office for Students support Other academic income College residential income

Other income

Total Income

Expenditure Generating funds Fundraising Trading expenditure Investment management costs

Charitable activities Teaching, research and residential Scholarships, prizes and grants

478

352

Bursaries and hardship awards

Other teaching, research and residential costs

6,692

6,320

Support costs

2,360

2,416

9,625

9,186

11,671

100

11,352

100

Total Expenditure Net Income before gains

1,040

1,748

3,461

4,706

Net movement in funds for the year

4,501

6,454

Fund balances brought forward

81,630

75,176

86,131

81,630

Investment gains

Funds carried forward at 31 July

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Finances

Consolidated balance sheet as at 31st July 2018

2018

2017

Group

£’000

£'000

31,398

31,859

Fixed assets Tangible assets Property investments Other investments

4,519

2,757

60,302

57,891

96,219

92,507

212

199

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Governing Body of Pembroke College on: Wednesday 28th November 2018 Master: Dame L J Brindley Bursar: Jeremy Bennett

Current assets Stocks Debtors

2,153

2,408

Deposits and other short term investments

1,502

Cash at bank and in hand

2,835

3,285

6,702

5,892

2,211

1,894

Creditors: falling due within one year Net current assets Total assets les current liabilities Creditors: falling due after more than one year Defined benefit pension scheme liability Net assets

4,491

3,998

100,710

96,505

12,658

13,048

1,921

1,827

86,131

81,630

58,477

54,975

4,401

4,104

Funds of the College Endowment funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds 1,433

1,172

General funds

Designated funds

23,741

23,206

Pension reserve

(1,921)

(1,827)

86,131

81,630

The financial year to 31st July 2018 represented another substantial step forward for the College with a strong financial performance. College Funds overall rose from £81.6 million to £86.1 million. Performance relative to budget in the core activities was good and the investments of the College performed well, enabling Pembroke to increase its academic activities and to continue to invest in the College’s infrastructure. Fellows, Researchers, Students, Commercial Partners and Staff alike all played their part in expense control and prudence. As a result cashflow was robust and stable. Whilst there remains much more to do, the College is on a sound financial footing, enabling it to have confidence about its future plans. The College still needs to build its long-term investments. We have made progress in increasing the returns on our real estate investment portfolio. The return on these core long-term investments will generate the recurring income we need to deliver academic excellence. There are many exciting plans for the coming year from new areas for research, increasing our graduate accommodation provision, improving our investment portfolio mix and building our Endowment. My thanks to the Finance Team including in particular Nigel Bird (our Director of Finance, who is retiring in the coming year) and to Helen Joynson who will be taking his place. My predecessor John Church retired earlier in the year and has left the College a better place for his many years of excellent service.

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Development

t was a year of great changes for Pembroke as Andrew Seton and John Church both bade the College farewell from their official roles as College officers, and transitioned to new roles as volunteers and Emeritus Fellows. The transformation that they helped to drive during their tenure with the College is nothing short of amazing, or so it seems to me, having last known Pembroke twelve years ago when the College had had a few very difficult years and morale, it seemed to me, was not high. At that time I was the Director of Development for Lincoln College and worked with John to set up Oxford Planned Giving, a consortium of twenty-some colleges and the University designed to facilitate the creation of planned gifts for US-based donors. The wonderful late John Barlow (1952) was Development lead, and two more open and collaborative colleagues would be hard to find. Fast forward to April 2018 and I found a College that is actually full of just such people, from students and staff, through to the Fellows and alumni. With a stunning new Rokos Quad, the College has shown that not only has it triumphed over adversity, it has done so with verve – creating a new space that not only serves students and Fellows remarkably well, but does so while making sound financial sense and providing a warm welcome to hundreds of people each year who attend conferences, concerts, theatrical productions, art openings and lectures. External experts are involved in every aspect of College management from the Investment Committee to the Governing Body itself and the endowment, while not flush, is sufficient to cover ongoing costs. Before I recap highlights from 2017-18, perhaps a bit more about my background. I am originally from Illinois and have worked in universities, museums, hospitals and galleries for thirty years. I feel extraordinarily lucky to do this job as it is so varied - writing a magazine one day, organising a gala event the next, interspersed with odd highlights like landing on an aircraft carrier at sea and eighteen-course dinners in Taipei. What really makes it special, though, is working with people who care deeply about and want to support something that they believe in, whether that is through wisdom, wealth, work or advocacy. I have inherited from Andrew a remarkably engaged pool of volunteers ably led by Ian Cormack who chairs the Alumni Advisory Panel and Stephen Gosztony who chairs the

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Board for the upcoming campaign. Both bodies are helping us to devise a range of new outreach and communication methods to better serve our international community. In the coming years I hope you will enjoy watching us develop more web content, a crowdfunding platform, an opportunity to help with research via a Pembroke space on Zooniverse, more regional and year group activities and a new student-alumni engagement programme. We want to be of real service to our whole community, and that includes you.

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We are especially grateful to all those loyal donors who continue to support the College. Of course, as Andrew mentioned in last year’s Record, we are indeed moving slowly into another campaign. We’ve seen from Bridging Centuries that partnerships between the College and those who believe in the teaching, research, personal development and scholarship fostered at Pembroke can create a better world. Chatting with students who were involved with this year’s telethon, the range of what Pembrokians have done is remarkable. Scientific discoveries have been made, books have been written, charities have been founded, patients have been healed, recipes have been invented, children have been raised to value education and imagination, and wine has been aged in oak. I look forward to working with you over the coming years to ensure that Pembroke remains what you value, but also fulfils its potential to achieve, inspire and lead.

Alice Gosling, Strategic Development Director

2017-18 Donations Capital (£'000s) 17/18

16/17

Endowment

502

1041

Legacies

147

Bursaries

Scholarships

250

Fellowships

Major Buildings

Other

Total

742

1460

17/18

16/17

565

542

AF General

462

418

Scholarships

103

124

Revenue (£'000s) AF Inc. Scholarships

Fellowships & Academic Resources

367

261

Legacies

Access

370

366

Total

1,408

1,321

Grand Total

2,150

2,781

Other scholarships & Student Support

In this year of transition for the Development operation, we are especially grateful to all those loyal donors who continued to support the College. Revenue donations, which directly support the work going on here in the year in which they are given, are key for the College’s financial health and it was wonderful to see these increase in 2017/18. Capital donations, which are added to the longer term investments on which Pembroke also relies for the income they produce, support the long term future of the College. This past year we received more than £500k in unrestricted capital which will make a great difference in this regard, and we are very grateful to the donors who have made this happen.

Development Legacy Giving A large bequest from the estate of Gordon Dickinson (1956) was received, which has been added to the long term investments of the College. Those who remember Pembroke in their will in this way make a great contribution to its long term future, and we are grateful to all those who inform us of their intentions in this, and are delighted to welcome them to membership of the Tesdale Society (see list on page 33).

The Annual Fund In revenue donations, the Annual Fund continued to grow and more than 1,000 alumni together generously gave over £460,000 to support the College in this way. In addition to underpinning the core academic activities and facilities needs of the College, a small amount each year is made available to worthy student projects, distributed by a committee of JCR and MCR members. Last year saw grants made towards a student run symposium on ‘Early text cultures’, a ‘History of War’ conference, sponsorship of the JCR’s Diversity week, support of music, art and sports societies and a grant to a student to help build a prototype that won the Telegraph STEM award.

Graduate Scholarships Graduate scholarship donations in the past few years have allowed us to offer much more attractive packages to talented postgraduates who are considering their College choice. With over £100k donated for this purpose last year we were delighted to be in a position to offer more than 50 of our graduate students some form of financial support (in total more than £280k was spent on this purpose in 2017-18).

Quill Visit Washington

Plaque Unveiling for Reginald Graham

Dr Nicholas Cole, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Quill Project at Pembroke (pictured centre), travelled to Washington DC to demonstrate his research team’s digital humanities software. The Quill platform provides a contextual space for the study of negotiated texts, with an initial focus on the 1787 US Constitutional Convention. It models the formal negotiations which took place, providing visualisations of legislative and quasi-Parliamentary processes, and showing how the drafting process informed and shaped the final document. The Quill project is a collaboration between the research team in Pembroke and Utah Valley University’s Centre for Constitutional Studies. The special launch event was hosted at the US Capitol Building by Senator Mike Lee (Utah) who commended the project’s potential to improve constitutional literacy across the world. Quill and Pembroke are grateful for the financial support which has been provided to the project by UVU.

In June 2018 we were joined by members of the Graham family for the unveiling of a special plaque on North Quad which marks the munificence of the late Reginald S Graham (1935, Law, and Honorary Fellow). “Reggie”, as he was known, was a highly successful real estate businessman, who was devoted to Pembroke. He wanted others to have the opportunity to experience the education which he felt had so benefited his own life, and gave much of his time to helping and advising the College.

Special Donations As ever Pembroke has been fortunate in the generosity of individuals and charitable foundations in 2017/18. Highlights have included gifts from The Tanaka Foundation for a Japanese Studies Junior Research Fellowship, graduate scholarship and symposium; continuing support for academic internships for students of STEM subjects, alongside broad financial support for undergraduate scholars from Chris Rokos; a new BCL Scholarship for an incoming student provided by the Sants Charitable Trust; funding for our Access Fellow and the College’s outreach activities from Matthew Kirkby, Andrew Pitt and SAGE Publications.

Partnering with the Lee Hysan Foundation The Master and Andrew Seton made a visit to Hong Kong and were pleased to sign a memo of understanding with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Lee Hysan Foundation. This new partnership has led to the recent (autumn 2018) arrival at College of two post-doctoral researchers who are working in the area of neuroscience and will spend two years in Oxford labs. While here they will be members of Pembroke, and we look forward to the contribution which they will make to our community. In 2019 we expect to be joined by a further two researchers on the same basis and we hope that this new partnership will lead to continuing academic exchange and all the benefits that brings to both Pembroke and CUHK. We are very grateful to the Lee Hysan Foundation for their generous support for this new initiative.

Reggie also gave very generous gifts of funding for many and varied areas of College life. He supported the Blackstone Lectures (in Law) for many years, as well as giving to rowing and other sports, and paying for portraits of past Masters. The impact which Reggie’s donations made on the College’s site has been very significant – in the shape of the Bannister Building which was the first purchase made in the area which later expanded to become The Rokos Quad, and in the North Quad itself where he was instrumental in bringing about the vision to create that “New” Quad from the former Pembroke Street houses. The College’s connection to the Graham family has continued through generations, with Reggie’s son Andrew (1969, History) and granddaughters Natasha Boucai (1998, History) and Emma Haguenauer (2001, Theology) following him in matriculating at Pembroke. We were delighted to welcome the family, and be joined by Emeritus Fellow John Eekelaar, for this special occasion.

Pictures Above left: Dr Nicholas Cole (centre) with UVU President Matthew Holland (left) and Professor Rodney Smith of UVU (right) Above right: members of the Graham family, who joined the Master and John Eekelaar at the plaque unveiling Left: Dame Lynne Brindley and Andrew Seton with members of the Lee Hysan Foundation, including Irene Lee (front left) and Anthony Lee (centre back)

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Donors to Pembroke

1st August 2017 - 31st July 2018 *

We offer sincere thanks to all alumni and friends who have made gifts to the College, for whatever purpose, during the past financial year, and are pleased to list their names below. In addition to the names listed, we have received donations from 30 alumni and friends who prefer to remain anonymous, or have asked us not to place the new loyalty symbol by their name. Our thanks to them as well.

1952

1939

The Rt Hon the Lord Robert Carswell PC Mr Donald Gordon Mr Roger Howells Mr Duncan Kelly Mr David Prichard MBE Mr Dick Williamson

Mr Basil Garland*

1943 Mr John Whitworth OBE

1944 Mr Roff Rayner

1945 Mr Tony Price* Mr Francis Read Mr Peter Thacker

1946 Mr Michael Godley The Revd Canon Michael Wolfe

1947 Mr Bob Tanner

1948 Mr Michael Andrews Mr John Bowen Mr Dicky Drysdale Mr Brian Wilson

1949 Mr Peter Batchelor Mr John Hann Professor Jeffrey Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Riordan* Mr Chris Roberts

1950 The Revd Brian Adams Mr Dennis Buchanan Dr Donald Niblett Sir Peter Phillips OBE

1958

1954

1955 Mr Martin Bates Dr Harry Bramma Mr Bill Capps* Mr Julian Crispin Mr Alan Grant Mr Anthony Hall Mr Geoffrey Harbridge Mr David Lilley Mr John Lyon Sir Peter Wallis KCVO CMG

1956

Mr Gordon Dickinson* Mr Timothy Gillin The Revd Dr John Platt Mr Philip Revill Mr Michael Riegels Professor Nicholas Round Mr Geoffrey Taylor*

1957 The Revd David Bartlett Mr Martyn Berry The Revd Malcolm Cooper

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Colonel David Eking Mr Peter Ferguson The Revd Martin Francis Mr David Lanch Dr George Lilley Mr Kenneth Wills

1953

1951 Mr Don Gillis Mr George Inglis Dr Hugh McKinney Mr Bill Potter Dr Miles Rucklidge Mr Peter Stokoe* Professor Michael Tombs Mr Basil Ungoed-Thomas

Regular donations are what make Pembroke secure, regardless of their amount. We value loyalty and wish to recognise our loyal donors. This symbol marks the unbroken commitment of those current donors who have given consistently for five years or more. All donations are gratefully received.

Mr Michael Beaumont Mr Ron Limbrick Mr Bob Side Dr Colin Wiggins

Mr David Arnold Dr Alan Bellringer Mr Brian Bissell MBE Mr Richard Covill Mr Peter Harbidge Mr John Metcalf Mr Steve Shipley Professor David Speller Mr Tony Stirratt Mr George Summerfield Mr Peter Summerfield Mr Revan Tranter Mr John Warburton

Indicates deceased

Mr George Baugh The Rt Hon Lord Abernethy PC Mr Patrick Coulson Professor Miles Dodd Sir Graham Hart KCB CB Mr Hugh Ibbotson Mr Bob Ing Mr David Jago Dr Grant Lee The Revd Alistair McGregor Mr David Mitchell Dr Mike Picardie Mr Brian Saperia The Hon Conrad Seagroatt Mr John Walker Mr Brian Winkett

Professor Bruce Fetter* Mr Dirk Fitzhugh Mr Erwin Fuller The Rt Hon Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG The Revd Canon David Kirkwood Professor Chris Lewis CBE Dr Chris Manning The Revd John Nightingale Mr Bill Shardlow Dr Bruce Wakefield

1961

1962

1959

Dr Andrew Buxton CMG Mr Michael Carlton Mr Lewis Coles Mr Chris Craig Mr John Dixon Mr John Ellis Mr John Graham Mr Patrick Harrington Professor Peter Herriot Professor Derek Jewell Mr Derek Jones Mr Derek McAvoy Dr Edgar McGinnis Professor Lionel Pike Mr Jon Pullinger Dr Malcolm Seddon Dr Richard Southam Professor Joe Wearing Mr Bill Webster Dr Brian Williams Mr Charles Wood OBE Mr Tony Yablon

1960 Dr Tony Antonovics Dr Nigel Campbell Mr Colin Clark Mr Neil Cohen Dr Oliver Dickinson

Dr Robin Atherton Mr Jeremy Baker Mr Martin Blogg Professor Graham Good Mr Kenneth MacKenzie CB Mr Digby Murphy Mr Robert Pick Dr Michael Pinto- Duschinsky Mr Norman Vaughton Professor Frederick Williams

Mr Martyn Baker OBE Mr Keith Bamber Mr Jim Barlow Professor Bernard Capp Mr Gautam Chakravartty Dr Robert Crane Professor Bob Felix Mr John Govett LVO Mr Vincent Guy Dr Michael Hwang Mr Denis Lyons Mr Martin Monk Mr Marcus Nelson Mr William Rees General David Roe Mr Barry Romeril Mr David Shipton Father Liam Tallon Mr Humphrey Walker

1963 Professor Joshua Bamfield Mr Peter Blaine Professor Dennis Cashman Dr Peter Chamberlain Mr Martin Corley Mr Jim Dalton Dr Roy Damary* Mr Richard Essam Dr Angus Fraser

Donors to Pembroke

Dr Nigel James Mr Tony Jasper Mr Christopher Kerr Mr Andrew Lawson Lieutenant Colonel Tym Marsh Dr Roger Maskill* Mr Paul Norris Mr Adrian Read Mr Robert Rhodes Mr Julian Roach Mr Brian Slater Mr James Smith Mr Peter Stevenson Dr Jim Thomson Mr David Twigge-Molecey Mr Anthony Walker Mr Martin Whitley

1964 Mr Roy Alder CBE Sir Philip Bailhache Mr Gordon Beever Mr Andrew Brydon Professor Peter Campion Dr Graham Clarke Sir Robert Crawford CBE Mr Andrew Creese Mr Richard Graham Mr David Griffiths Mr John Hamer Mr Mark Kemp-Gee Mr Mike Miller The Revd Canon Alan Payne Mr Alan Smith Mr Malcolm Wright

1965

The Revd John Clarke Dr Chris Ford Mr John Futcher Mr Mike Gardner Professor James Grantham Turner Mr James Houghton The Hon Dr Jonathan Hunt Mr Peter Johnson The Revd Paul Kelly Mr Martin Sykes Mr Dick Ware Dr David Yates

1966 Mr Neil Arnold Mr Desmond Burton Mr Ian Cormack Mr Richard De Ste Croix* Dr Maurice Dixson Mr David Faris Mr Peter Farley Mr Ian Ferguson Mr Giles Gostwick Judge Andrew Goymer Dr Jeffrey Graham Dr Chris Higley Mr Nicholas Hill Mr Chris Hodson Mr Alan Hooker

Mr Michael Sayer Dr Michael Silverberg Professor Geoff Squire Mr Ian Tinsley Dr John Withrington

1967

Captain Mike Barritt Mr Peter Cuthbertson Mr John Dixon Mr Mike Flanagan Mr Martin Heddy Mr William Horsley Dr Ian Hume Mr Tom Hutchinson Mr Martin Lacey Ambassador Phil Lader Mr Edward Lee-Smith Dr Ian McGowan Professor Jim McLaverty Professor Richard Morris OBE Mr David Rikert Mr Ian Russell Mr Theo Steel Dr Michael Thompson Mr Mike Woods

1968

Dr Wilson Angerson Mr Douglas Dale Mr Charles Dodson Mr Dick Fleming Mr Jerry Gotel* Professor Peter Green Mr John Hales MBE Mr David Jeffcoat Mr Mike Lloyd Mr Christopher Lusby-Taylor Mr Paul Monk Mr Geoff Morries Mr Adam Peat OBE Mr John Pinsent Mr Nigel Rumfitt Mr David Scrase Dr Bob Viles

1969 Mr Christopher Bond Dr Roger Boning Mr Andrew Carruthers Major Roger Chapman MBE Mr Trevor Cooke Mr Michael Denham Dr John Duckworth Mr Andrew Graham Dr Maurice Headon Dr Robin Jackson CBE Mr Michael Kennard Professor Alan Paterson OBE Judge Michael Ponsor Mr Richard Rees Canon Brian Stevenson Judge David Stockdale Mr Laurent Stokvis Dr Graham Swan Mr Ian Wells Mr David Williams Mr Peter Williamson

1973

1970 Mr Alan Bennell Mr Clive Edginton Mr Simon Frost Mr Tom Hart Mr Tony Hodgson Mr Jan Karpinski Dr Richard Meyrick Thomas Dr David Minter Mr George Nasmyth Mr Malcolm Ord Mr Rhodri Price Lewis Mr Mike Rapps

1971

Dr Chris Bishop Mr Martin Carr Professor Hugh Collins Mr Graham Coombs Mr Jonathan Davies Mr David Dunstan Mr John Ennis Mr Peter Harrold Mr Tom Herman Mr Michael Kill Mr Malcolm Kitchen Mr John Knowles Mr Rob Langley Mr Timothy Langley Mr Keith MacLean Mr John Patmore Mr Kenneth Paul Mr Geoff Peattie Mr Buzz Rochelle, in memoriam of Professor Douglas Gray Professor Rob Smith Mr Robin Steel Dr Michael Turnbull Judge Christopher Vosper The Revd Professor Thomas Watkin Professor Peter Wright

1972 Mr Christopher Earnshaw Mr Clive Edwards Mr Mark Evans Mr David Fell Dr Antony Fisher Mr Dan Gordon Mr Nicholas Green Mr Mark Herbert-Smith Mr Jeremy Hicks Mr Jeffrey Hobbs Mr Keith Howick Mr Kenneth Hoxsie The Revd Richard Jones Mr Steve Kay Dr John Langham-Brown Mr Steven Leigh Mr Samuel Mullins Mr Patrick Palmer Mr Simon Rostron Dr Graham Simpson Judge Bernard Wallwork Mr Neville Watkins Mr Neil Zoladkiewicz

Mr Steve Atkinson Mr Cal Bailey Mr Rod Burgess Dr Christopher Dennis Mr Michael Duckworth Dr Donald Duggan Mr Mark Fairweather Mr Randal ffrench Professor Stephen Harding DSC Mr Jonathan Hulme Mr Charles MacKinnon Mr Mike Nevin Dr George Paige Mr Terence Phebey Mr Nicholas Sayers Dr Steven Sweetman Mr Andrew Toley Dr Peter West Dr Michael Williams Professor Henry Woudhuysen

1974 Mr Andrew Allott Mr Stephen Bamber Professor John Charmley Mr Tim Evans Mr Mike Forsdick Mr Roger Hampson Mr Christopher Howe Ambassador Jaebum Kim Mr Matthew Milnes Mr Simon Richards Mr Kim Stuckey Mr Kim Taylor Mr Martin Williams Mr Jonathan Youdan

1975

Mr Andy Anderson Mr Mark Annesley Mr Keith Booth Mr Martin Bowdery Mr Peter Bradford Mr John Brandow Mr Hugh Carnegy Mr Will Childs Mr Andrew Galloway Mr Robin Hobbs Mr Steve Houlding Mr Ian Irvine Mr Nigel Jackson Mr Nicholas Kingsland Mr Anthony Lipmann Mr Michael Lynas Mr Ioannis Petrakakis Mr Timothy Poole Mr Steven Pope Dr Stephen Rothera Mr Chris Schuler Mr Mark Yeadon

1976 Mr Paul Archer Mr Bill Brundage The Rt Hon Sir Ian Burnett Mr Jim Clark Mr Paul Gerrard

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Donors to Pembroke

Mr John King Mr Guy Michelmore Professor Vernon Palmer Mr David Parry Dr Tim Patten Mr Graham Pink Dr Ted Rose Mr Paul Shinnie Mr Peter Smith Mr Percival Stanion* Professor David Stern Mr Steve Watson Mr Paul West

1977 Mr Ian Bakewell Mr John Bates Mr Mark Blundell Mr Hugh Duncan Mr Robert Eiss Mr Adam Fairhead Mr Nigel Foster The Revd Ross Garner Professor Dick Gerberding Mr Keith Goldsmith Dr Jonathan Goodchild Mr Robert Hardy Mr Jeremy Hill Mr Dolf Kohnhorst Mr David McLaughlin Mr Peter Niblett Mr Simon Quin Mr Andrew Rosenheim Mr Julian Schild Mr David Thompson Mr Mark Tomlinson Mr John Woolman

1978

Mr Michael Boyd Mr Elliott Cairnes Mr Tim Cockitt Dr David Fyfe Dr Steve Hall Dr Alan Howling Mr Ian Lamdin Sir Philip Moor Mr Simon Pearce Professor Ed Rock Professor Clive Stainton Mr Andrew Tabor Dr Neil Todd Mr Masayoshi Tsuchiya

1979

Mr John Brann The Revd Tony Bushell Ms Jean Collier Mr Geoffrey Cotterill Mr Geraint Davies Dr Susan de Vries Mr Richard Eccles Mr Glenn Fine Mr Patrick Forbes Mr Tim Gilchrist Mr Rupert Haynes Ms Beatrice Hollond Mr Paul Long

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Mr Simon Oldfield Mr Graham Parsons Mrs Mo Percival Ms Max Phillips Mr Jon Watson

1980

Mr Vernon Clarke Mr Matthew Evans Mr Mark Fidler Dr Melanie Isherwood Mr Peter Jones Mr Andrew Jowett Mr Bob Long Mr Charlie McAndrew Mrs Rosalind Northern Mrs Claire Oldfield Mr Giles Sarson Mrs Sarah Seacombe Mr Tony Szczepanek Mrs Sue Watson

1981 Mrs Gill Coates The Revd Dr Bob Cotter Prof Mark Fricker Mr Richard Funnell Mr Stephen Gosztony Ms Nicola Harrison Mr Simon Howard Mrs Zillah Howard Mr Paul Johnston Mr Alex Kinmont Ms Lyndsey Marriott Mr Peter Moroz Dr Judith Mountford Mr Jonathan Poirrette Mr Peter Rapley Mr Peter Robson Mr Chris Roles Dr Bryony Soper Lt Gen Sandy Storrie CB CBE Mr Roger Wilkinson

1982 Ms Deborah Auty Mr Robert Cottingham Mrs Sarah Dickinson Ms Helena Djurkovic Mr Mark Enzer Mrs Natasha Finlayson The Revd James Forde-Johnston Mrs Julia Harrington Dr Jason Hepple Mrs Carol Hopper Mr Desmond Kuek Ms Kathrin Meyrick Mrs Lyn Morgan Mrs Jenny Moroz Mr Sean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Regan Dr Joanne Philpot Mr Rick Saunders Mr Fraser Skirrow Mr Christopher Smith Professor Corinne Spickett Mrs Alison Stevens Mr Douglas Taylor

Mr Graham Tomkinson Miss Alison Whitney Mr John Wilkinson Mrs Elaine Williams Mrs Terry Slesinski-Wykowski

1983 Mr Stephen Apted Mr Jonathan Atack Mr Jeremy Bennett Mr Roy Calcutt Mr Graham Cox Dr Mary Faldon Mr Mike Gibbons Dr Isabel Hanson Mr Donald Jackson Mr Julian Johansen Dr David Morris Mr Jonathan Prynn Ms Christine Raeside Mr Steven Salmon Dr Robert Scoffin Mrs Lizzie Wieser Dr Andy Winter

1984 Mr Martin Adkins Ms Tanya Beckett Mr Robin Bevan Mrs Siobhan Cooke Ms Annabel Eyres Ms Susan Hazledine Mr Bernard Howard Mr David Lee Mr Angus McCullough Mr Andrew Pitt Mr Jan Poklewski Mr Christopher Riley Mr Rob Rydon Mrs Isobel Smales Mr Simon Smales Dr David Sperry Mr Kevin Thurm Mr Iain West

1985 Mr Frank Armour Miss Debbie Barton Mrs Ruth Bleasdale Mr Paul Bromfield Miss Maggie Case Mr Mike Dooley Mr Andrew Dymond Mr Pietrojan Gilardini Dr David Gollins Mr Simon Gruselle Dr Liz Maughan Dr Simon Meecham-Jones Mr Simon Mills Professor Andrew Pitt Mr Paul Rew Mr Danny Shaw Mr Mark Stables

1986 Mr Andrew Allen Mrs Sue Brown Mr Gordon Buxton

Ms Emma Caseley Mr Michael Coleman Mr Matthew Cumberpatch Mrs Claire Davies Mr Hugh Davies OBE Dr Stuart Doole Dr Roger Duck Dr Melanie Dymond Harper Mr Dan Flint Mr Richard Gilkes Mr Chris Hilditch Mrs Sue Mortimer Mr Brian Mulholland Mr Roger Price Mr Tim Richardson Mr James Southgate Mr Anthony Tabor Mr Malcom West Mr Ivor Williams Ms Sarah Wilson

1987 Ms Vivienne Artz Mr Ben Bennetts Mrs Emma Brining Mrs Jane Chesters Mr James Dewar Mr Roger Eatwell Dr Adam Fein Mrs Jane Finlayson-Brown Miss Fiona Herron Mr Rob Holland Mr Gregory Hume Ms Sarah Kane Mr Matthew Kirkby Mrs Vanessa Norman Mr Simon Palethorpe

1988 Ms Sophie Brookes Miss Anna Claybourne Mr Duncan Crowdy Miss Nikki Crumpton Mr Iain Gravestock Mr Ian Green Dr Holly Hutson Mr Andrew Kirk Mrs Catherine Lay Miss Tam Lewis Dr Ian McAllister Mr Duncan Miller Ms Rachel Morgan Mr Gordon Rayner Mr Ming Shao Mrs Jane Somerville Mr Andrew Stevens Mr Simon Tyler Dr Anne Winther

1989 Mr Douglas Barnes Mr Richard Baty Mr Ross Berridge Dr David Biro Miss Natalie Burge Mr Nicholas Callaway Mr Martin Geddes Mr Richard Hepplewhite

Donors to Pembroke Dr Dale Heron Dr Lis Kendall Mr Iain King Miss Helen King Mr Dan Knowles Mr David Lunn Miss Caroline Norris Mr Daniel Nother Ms Juliette Parsons-Spencer Dr Nancy Rector-Finney Mr David Regan Mr Chris Rimmer Mr Chris Rokos Mr Mark Russell Dr Shannon Russell Mr Richard Teather Mr Tim Winther Dr Theodore Wong

1990 Mr Aidan Bocci Dr Pete Buston Mrs Sarah Crowdy Mr Ronan Daly Mrs Clare Donnison Ms Jen Easterly Ms Lucy Findlay Mrs Claire Foden Mr Daniel Gitterman The Hon Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin Mrs Liz Heron Dr Isabelle Mast Dr Ben Murphy Ms Kirkland Newman Smulders Dr Garry O’Connor Dr Gayathri Perera Mr Will Price Mr Matthew Shaw Mr Robert Smith Mr Alexander Tarran

1993 The Revd Dr Edward Bampton Mr Tim Beard Dr Kris Borg Dr Victoria Bracey Dr Richard Brown Ms Sarah-Jane Gabay Mr Vinay Ganga Miss Esther Gottschalk Mrs Catherine Hall Mr Giles Horridge Dr Maia Linask Mr Nick Mace Mrs Siàn Macfarlane Mr Rajan Marwaha Ms Andrea Paterson Dr Eui-Sik Suh Judge Kate Suh Mr Andrew Summers Mr James Tarry Mr Nick Winther

1994

1991

Professor John Armour Mrs Sophie Bain Mr Malcolm Crabbe Ms Julia Dowsett Mr David Forest Mr Neil Hartley Mr Jon Hill Dr Lucy Holloway Mr Kevin Holmes Mr Rob Jardine Dr Katie Lacy Dr Ed Mitchell Mr Martin Payne Dr Subramaniam Sabesan Mr Michael Steel Mrs Charlotte Tisdall Dr Lisa Wall

1992 Mrs Charlie Ashley Mrs Sam Bamert Mr Gordon Banner Mr Hugh Campbell Professor Nobutaka

Fukuda Mrs Clare Haden Mr Peter Haden Mr Andi Hindle Dr Stuart Hunn Ms Nicky Lumb Miss Hannah-Jane McNamara Mr Andy Morris Mrs Jane Rice-Bowen Mr Guy Seeger Mr James Sleeman Professor Robert Thomson Mr James Trafford Mrs Sarah Trafford Mr Anthony Wilson

Mr John Boumphrey Mr Albert Chan Miss Helen Clarke Dr Marianne Cunnington Mr James Dickinson Dr Ian Gadd Mrs Razeena Gall Mr Aruna Karunathilake Mrs Claire Karunathilake Mr Chris Llewellyn Mr Ian Mills Mr Seb Monk Dr Alistair Pask Mr Mark Paskins Mrs Katie Roberts Mrs Sarah Tolson Mrs Katie Wallace

1995

Mr Stephen Alexander Mrs Carina Bauer Mr Tom Bauer Mrs Liane Dabbous Dr Ed Hawkins Dr Eric Huang Mr Samir Sayed Dr Richard Turner

1996

Mr George Aitken-Davies Mr Alex Dabbous Dr Robert Henney Mr Olly Holbourn Mr Chris Manners Ms Anna Mazzola Mr Tarik O’Regan Dr Kirsty Penkman Mr Benjamin Ritchie Mr Peter Seymour Mr James Wiseman-Clarke

2000

1997 Mr Steph Gray Mr John Hall Mrs Rebekah Martin Miss Claire Moore Mr Peter Nixey Mr Taufik Omar Ms Andrea Schoor Mr Mathew Slatkin Mr Jonathan Stevens Mrs Marie Stevens Mr Jake Wetherall Ms Jackie Yap

1998

Mr Timothy Andrews Mr Andrew Cornick Mr Andrew Crank Mr Joseph Dore Mr Jarett Edwards Mr Sam Enoch Mrs Emma Ford Mrs Kedra Goodall Dr Dani Hall Dr Sarah Hyde* Professor Charles Kiamie Miss Olga Koepping Mrs Anna Norman Mr Richard Pilsworth Mrs Abi White

1999 Mr Kerem Atasoy Mr Guy Burman Mr Josh Butts Mr Ed Conway Mr Anthony Davidowitz Mr Nick Edelman Dr Alex Formstone Mr Nicholas Gilodi-Johnson Mr William Griffiths Mr Robin Hough Mr Sameer Jagetia Miss Thomasin Kemp Mr Andrew Leyland Mr Alex McRae Dimsdale Mr Joseph Mulvaney Mr Greg Neale Mr Bill Nickerson Mr Matthew Powell Mr Peter Reynolds Mr Mark Sayer Dr David Shipway Ms Gemma Stevenson Miss Joanna Wintle

Dr Jeremy Bartosiak-Jentys Mr James Cook Mr Richard Darbourne Mr Bicrom Das Mr Henry Drysdale Mr Lewis Edwards Mr Philip Harper Mrs Jen Hawes-Hewitt Mr Kevin Hind Mr Sameer Khan Mr Peter Nortved Mr Markus Rasswallner Mr Jason Rodrigues Mr Guy Rogers Mr Konstanty Sliwowski

2001

The Hon Sam Arora Mr Paul Bagon Mrs Laura Birnbaum Mr John Bradley Mr Benjamin Bury Mr Elton Chan Mr Ga Lok Chung Mrs Laura Cross Dr Catherine Crowe Mr Benjamin Dean Mr Dominic Desbiens Mr Ciarán Hayes Mrs Sarah Holland Mr Vincent Indelicato Miss Louise Morgan Mr Emmanuel Ngwengi Mr Jonathan Powell Mr Jimmy Samartzis Mr Sam Williams

2002 Mr Chris Aldred Dr Rebecca Brady Dr Richard Brixey The Revd Dr Marion Drobig Mr Andrew Fabricius Mr David Flower Mrs Emma Flower Mr Jamie Fowler Mr Tom Frost Mr Dom Hammond Mr Timothy Jones Dr Evan LaBuzetta Dr Jamie LaBuzetta Miss Anne Maguire Ms Caroline Murray-Lyon Mr Paul Ramsay Mr Simon Rothenberg Miss Anne-Marie Sim Miss Hannah Slee Dr Clare Westcott Dr Alexander Woods

2003 Mr Kevin Au Miss Amy Bilton Mr Simon Dawson Dr Luke Dias Mrs Shan Dias

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Donors to Pembroke Mr John Gethin Mr James Gillies Dr Linda Heffernan-Stroud Mr Philip Howard Mrs Katie Ivens Mr Rob Johnson Mr Richard Marshall Mrs Sarah Marshall Ms Laura Moran Mrs Catherine O’Kelly Mr Ronan O’Kelly Mr Sam Patel Miss Charlotte Pattullo Mr Tassos Recachinas Mr Amit Suman Miss Louise Turner Miss Eleanor Wade Dr Jocelyn Walbridge Dr Amanda Welford Dr Eleanor White

2004 Miss Juliette Adams Ms Claire Addison Dr Robert Avis Dr David Blagden Mr Paul Dallyn Professor Stephen Gilmore Mr Emmanuel Grenader Mr Shai Gruber Mr Paul Hinds Mr Thomas Holder Mr Michael Johnson Miss Sarah Kessler Mrs Selina Krespi Mr William McFarland Miss Alice Millest Mr Steve Mills Mr John Pemberton-Pigott Mrs Elizabeth Rothenberg Mr Alex Solomon Miss Ashley Steinberg Ms Candice Sun Dr Dawn Swan Dr Soo-Yong Tan Miss Kate Worthington

2005 Mr Yonatan Brafman Mr Alexander Brett Mrs Danielle Candfield Ms Danni Fountain Mr Matthew Frampton Dr Jonathan Harris Mr Edward Morgan Mr Dmitri Ramzaitsev Mr Robert White Ms Nina Yee His Hon Dr Christopher Young

2006 Dr Anna Forbes Mr Ari Freisinger Mr Marcelo Gigi Mr Timothy Horrocks Mr Chris Kelleher Mr Zulf Khayum

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Miss Neelofer Korotana Mr Freddie Krespi Mr Andrew Mort Mr Tom Ricketts Mr Dean Rodrigues Dr Jonathan Ross Mr Charlie Spencer Mrs Vicky Spratt Mr Matt Turnbull

2007 Miss Katie Allen Mr Harry Biddle Mr David Bowkett Miss Caroline Daly Miss Jennifer Ellis Mr Mark Forshaw Miss Saara Hanif Dr Paul Holligan Mr Daniel Knowles Miss Mary Li Dr Kevin Liu Mr Nicholas Lloyd Mr Milos Martinov Mr Jigar Patel Mr Richard Payne Mr Alex Sants Miss Nishita Singhal

2008 Dr Faizan Ahmad Ms Ida Barlow Miss Myra Bou-Habib Dr Ellie Decamp Miss Rosie Duckworth Mr Patrick Elder Mr Alexi Esmail-Yakas Mrs Alexandra Evseeva Mr Jedidiah Francis Ms Libby Freisinger Mishkin Mr Harminder Gill Mr Douglas Hall Miss Ellie Higgins Mrs Emily Kopieczek Mr Anthony Lewis Mr Foad Mohamed Mr Alexander Sandkamp Dr Laura Taylor Miss Shih Yen Wan Mr David Webster Mr Jamie Williams Miss Claire Marie Withers

2009

Miss Margot Arthur Mr Murray Cox Mr John Gale Mr David Hanvidge Mr Joshua Harris-Kirkwood Mr James Ingram Mr Alex Joynes Mr Nicolas Kokkinos Mr Jens Krause Miss Lydia Levy Mr Noble MacFarlane Mr Fred Macmillan Miss Matilda Smith Mr Shinn Tan

2010 Ms Eva Adelseck Mr Ilya Anchevskiy Dr George Blessley Mr Michael Bodansky Mr Max Boonen Mr Alastair Cook Mr Alex Fisher Miss Charlotte McCutcheon Mr Laurynas Pliuskys Mr David Thorstad Mr Dyfan Williams Ms Emily Woodwark

2011

Mr Kristopher Blake Dr Rachel Lin Miss Yu-yu Lin Mr Alex Loo Ms Millie O’Driscoll Mr Gareth Owens Mr Daren Pietsch Miss Francesca Schild Mr Peter Simon

Mr Alexander Fisher Mr Anish Hazra Mr Martin Knibbs Mr Donald Martin Mr Mark Samuels

Mr Robert Coles Mr Tony Denison Ms Stuti Trikha Mr Johnny Trischler

2012

2013

2014 Dr Martin Arumemi-Ikhide Baron George Way

2015

Mr Richard Atienza-Hawkes Mrs Olga Harte Dr James Hayhurst Mr Keith LaRose Mr Peter Wang

Pembroke Community, Including Governing Body, Honorary and Emeritus Fellows Dame Lynne Brindley DBE Dr Vernon Butt Mrs Jo and Mr John Church Dr Miguel dos Santos Professor Ariel Ezrachi Professor Mark Fricker Professor Ian Grant Mr Giles Henderson CBE &

Dr Lynne Henderson Professor Alan Jones Dr Martha Klein Mr Andrew Seton Professor Hannah Smithson Professor Alfons Weber Professor Rebecca Williams

College Friends

Professor James Basker Dr Steven Bellin Mrs Anne Burgess Mrs Uta Dee, in memoriam of Roger Dee Ms Katharina Franz Mr Ruthven Gemmell Mr Basil Green* Mr Heinz Hauperich Professor John Hirsh Dr Humphrey Ko Mr Philip Millar Ms Sara Miller McCune The Revd Professor Colin Morris Dr Francesca Newman, in memoriam of Roger Dee Mr Jeremy Prescott Mrs Sheila Rees Mr Philip Sorensen Mr Andrew Sutcliffe Mrs Jill Tilsley-Benham Mr Desmond Watkins, in memoriam of Roger Dee Professor Howard Weinbrot Mr Anthony Wieser Mr Peter Williams, in memoriam of Sir Bob Clarke

Organisations, Trusts and Foundations

Atlas Fund Bank of America Merrill Lynch Charles Koch Foundation Estée Lauder Companies Helen Roll Charity Overstock.com Inc. Patrick Byrne Foundation, Inc. Pembroke College Foundation of North America Inc. RJGH Foundation SAGE Publications Santander UK Plc Sants Charitable Trust Slaughter and May Tanaka Memorial Foundation Tanaka UK Japan Educational Foundation Ltd UBS Investment Bank Utah Valley University

The Master’s Circle

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Mr Jonathan Aisbitt, 1975 Mr Amer Al Tajir, 1980 Mr David Andrews CBE, 1953 Mr Alan Archibald, 1968 Mr Neil Arnold, 1966 Mr Phil Bentley, 1977 HE Mahfouz bin Mahfouz, Lord & Baron of Abernethy CBE Mr Martin Bowdery, 1975 Mr Wolter Brenninkmeijer, 1987 Dr Patrick Byrne Mr Ian Cormack, 1966 Mr Douglas Cox, 1980 Mr Michael Crystal The Hon Sir Rocco Forte, 1963 Mr Stephen Gosztony, 1981 Mr John Govett LVO, 1962 Mr Andrew Graham, 1969 Mr Mike Hall, 1971 Mr Giles Henderson CBE & Dr Lynne Henderson The Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine CH PC, 1951 Mr Jeremy Hill, 1977 Dr Stanley Ho OBE Ms Beatrice Hollond, 1979

Membership of The Master’s Circle is exclusive to leading donors who are invited to an annual event in College to discuss strategy and academic priorities. The Master’s Circle met this year on 15th June 2018 at the Master’s Lodgings. The programme of events featured a welcome from the Master, Dame Lynne Brindley, and an introduction from the new Bursar and Strategic Development Director. Following this were research presentations by Dr Victoria Van Hyning, Junior Research Fellow in English, and Ms Julie Dequaire, a Junior Dean at Pembroke and a graduate student within the Oxford Robotics Institute. Attendees were also treated to a music recital by Mr KenEe Choong, a first year undergraduate student reading music at Pembroke.

Mr Christopher Howe, 1974 Mr Keith Howick, 1972 The Hon Dr Jonathan Hunt, 1965 HM King Abdullah of Jordan, 1984 Mr Walter Isaacson, 1974 Dr Thomas Kaplan, 1982 Mr Matthew Kirkby, 1987 Mr Dolf Kohnhorst, 1977 Mr David Krischer, 1985 Mr David Lee, 1984 Mr Anthony Lee Ms Irene Lee Dr Deanna Lee Rudgard OBE Mr Michael Leung Mr George Link, 1985 Mr David Mitchell, 1958 Mr Paul Monk, 1968 Mr Charlie Moore, 1970 Ms Kirkland Newman Smulders, 1990 Mr Patrick & Mrs Tamar Pichette, 1987 & 1986 Mr Andrew Pitt, 1984 Mr BC Poon Mr Robert Rhodes, 1963 Mr Chris Rokos, 1989 Mr Alex Sants, 2007

Mrs Judith Mc Cartin Scheide Mr Julian Schild, 1977 Mr James Sleeman, 1992 Professor David Speller, 1954 Mr Revan Tranter, 1954 Dr Christopher Tyler Ms Makiko Tanaka Mr Mike and Mrs Hilary Wagstaff, 1980 & 1981 Mr Anthony Walker, 1963 Dr Damon Wells CBE, 1961 Mr Iain West, 1984 Mr Brian Wilson, 1948 Mrs Terry Slesinski-Wykowski, 1982 Mr Antony Zacaroli, 1982 Mr Zain Azahari Zainal Abidin

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The Ossulston Circle The Ossulston Circle recognises those who have given significant amounts to Pembroke College. Members join the Master in College for Luncheon on a biennial basis.

The Rt Hon Lord Abernethy PC, 1958 Mr George Aitken-Davies, 1996 Mr Jim Barlow, 1962 Mr David Barratt Captain Mike Barritt, 1967 Mr Richard Baty, 1989 Mr Michael Beaumont, 1953 Mr Nigel Beevor, 1960 Mr Neil Berragan, 1978 Dr David Biro, 1989 Mr Stephen Booth, 1990 Mrs Natasha Boucai, 1998 Dr Martin Bowman, 1956 Mr Patrick Boyle, 1990 Mr John Brandow, 1975 Mr Jim Bratton, 1952 Mr Peter Burge, 1965 Mr Rod Burgess, 1973 Ms Alisa Burke, 1986 Dr Andrew Buxton CMG, 1959 Mr Andrew Carruthers, 1969 The Rt Hon the Lord Robert Carswell PC, 1952 Dr Gerald Chan Mr Paul Chantry, 1965 Mr John Church Dr Hilary Connor, 1987 Mr Graham Coombs, 1971 The Revd Malcolm Cooper, 1957 Mr Julian Crispin, 1955 Mr Ben Crystal, 1998 Mr James Davidson, 1976 Mrs Claire Davies, 1986 Mr Hugh Davies OBE, 1986 Mr Roger Davis, 1974 Mr Richard Deeble, 1949 Mr John Dixon, 1967 Professor Miles Dodd, 1958 Mr John Drysdale, 1947 Dr Donald Duggan, 1973 Mr Richard Eccles, 1979 Mr Bader El-Jeaan, 1995 Mr Tim Evans, 1974 Mr Robert Farquharson, 1970 Mr David Fell, 1972 Mr Josh Fields, 2009 Mrs Jane Finlayson-Brown, 1987 Mr Dirk Fitzhugh, 1960 Mr Andrew Galloway, 1975 Mr Ed Gentle, 1977 Mr Tony George, 1965 Mr Pietrojan Gilardini, 1985 Mr Jeremy Goldring, 1990 Mr Peter Grose, 1957 Mr Peter Harbidge, 1954 Mr Richard Harding, 1986 Sir Graham Hart KCB CB, 1958 Mr Paul Hasse, 1976 Mr Chris Hawley, 1993

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Ms Susan Hazledine, 1984 Dr Maurice Headon, 1969 Mr Robert Heathcote, 1982 Mr Jonathan Helliwell, 1982 Mrs Paula Helliwell, 1983 Mr Tom Herman, 1971 Dr Dirk Hertzog, 1970 Mr Jeremy Hicks, 1972 Mrs Carol Hopper, 1982 Mr Graham Hutton, 1979 Dr Michael Hwang, 1962 Mr Hugh Ibbotson, 1958 Mr David Jeffcoat, 1968 Mr Mark Joelson, 1961 The Revd Richard Jones, 1972 Mr Leandros Kalisperas, 1995 Mr Duncan Kelly,1952 Mr Michael Kennard, 1969 Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG, 1960 Mr Nemir Kirdar Mrs Quita Kirk-Duncan Ambassador Phil Lader, 1967 Mr Adrian Lajtha, 1975 Mr Stephen Lam Mr David Lanch, 1957 Professor Graham Layer, 1971 Mr Andrew Le Messurier, 1969 Mr Wade Lewis, 1968 Mr Eric Lonergan, 1990 Mr Bob Long, 1980 Mr Mark Loveday, 1962 Senator (Ret) Richard Lugar KBE, 1954 Ms Nicky Lumb, 1992 Mr Denis Lyons, 1962 Mr Robert Lyons, 1961 Mr Andrew Ma Miss Jenny Ma, 2000 Mr Kenneth MacKenzie, 1961 Mr Charles MacKinnon, 1973 Mr Mark Magowan, 1976 Mr Neil Mahapatra, 1999 Mrs Carol Malone Dr Chris Manning, 1960 Mr Olivier Meyohas, 1989 Mrs Paula Michtom Sir Philip Moor, 1978 Ms Rachel Morgan, 1988 Mr Robert Morgan-Williams, 1981 Mr John Morrissey, 1980 Mr Tim Morshead, 1988 The Rt Hon Lord Justice Mummery PC DL, 1959 Mr Digby Murphy, 1961 Mr Nigel Newton Mr Charlie Parsons, 1976 Mr Bradley Peacock, 1992 Ms Michelle Peluso, 1993 Mr Edward Pickard, 1964 Mr Kent Price, 1967

Mr Will Price, 1990 Mr Rhodri Price Lewis, 1970 Mr David Prichard MBE, 1952 Mrs Elizabeth Reeve, 1997 Mr Paul Rew, 1985 Mr Simon Richards, 1974 Mr George Rivaz, 1981 Mr Lee Rochford, 1985 Mrs Lisenne Rockefeller Mr Barry Romeril, 1962 Dr Ted Rose, 1976 Mr David Rubenstein, 1992 Dr Miles Rucklidge, 1951 Judge Anthony Russell, 1970 Mr Simon Sackman, 1969 Mrs Daphne Schild Mr Christian Schneider-Sickert, 1990 Mr Roman Scott,1985 The Hon Conrad Seagroatt, 1958 Mr Ming Shao, 1988 Mr Fraser Skirrow, 1982 Professor Rob Smith, 1971 Dr Tom Solis, 1960 Dr Julian Sternberg, 1965 Mr Peter Stevenson, 1963 Mr Tony Stirratt, 1954 Dr Ian Sunderland, 1951 Mr David Tagg CBE, 1959 Father Liam Tallon, 1962 Mr Martyn Taylor, 1956 Mr Kevin Thurm, 1984 Mr Ian Tinsley, 1966 Dr Bob Viles, 1968 Ms Caroline Wagstaff, 1982 Mr John Walker-Haworth, 1963 Mr Ian Wells, 1969 Miss Alison Whitney,1982 Mr Nick Winther, 1993 Mr James Wiseman-Clarke, 1996 Mr Francis Witts, 1960 Mr Charles Wood OBE, 1959 Mr John Woolman, 1977 Mr Tony Yablon, 1959 Mr Khuram Yousaf, 1993 Mr David Yu

The Tesdale Society The Tesdale Society is open to all alumni and friends who have notified us of their commitment to leave a legacy to Pembroke. Members are invited to College for a biennial event.

Lord Abernethy PC, 1958 Mr Francis Aldhouse CBE,1965 Mr Michael Andrews, 1948 Mr Jeremy Baker, 1961 Mr Martyn Baker OBE, 1962 Mr Stephen Bamber, 1974 Professor Joshua Bamfield, 1963 Mr Jim Barlow, 1962 Captain Mike Barritt RN, 1967 Mr Peter Batchelor, 1949 Mr Michael Beaumont, 1953 Mr Nigel Beevor, 1960 Mr Peter Bell, 1950 Mr Brian Bissell, 1954 Dr Martin Bowman, 1956 Dr Harry Bramma, 1955 Mr Jim Bratton, 1952 Mrs Emma Brining, 1987 Mr Rod Burgess, 1973 Mr Brian Burns, 1960 Mr Desmond Burton, 1966 Mr Graham Butler, 1952 Mr John Byrne Mr Andrew Calvert Mr Michael Carlton, 1959 Dr Peter Chamberlain, 1963 Major Roger Chapman MBE, 1969 Mr John & Mrs Jo Church Mr Colin Clark, 1960 Mrs Gill Coates, 1981 Dr Arnold Cohen, 1944 The Revd Malcolm Cooper, 1957 Mr David Cope-Thompson, 1958 Mr Ian Cormack, 1966 Dr Peter Cox, 1953 Mr Brian Crabtree, 1964 Mr Chris Craig, 1959 Mr Andrew Creese, 1964 Dr Russell Crisp, 1975 Mr Julian Crispin, 1955 Mr Peter Cuthbertson, 1967 Mr Jim Dalton, 1963 Mr Richard Deeble, 1949 The Revd Lorne Denny, 1977 Mrs Esme Diamond Mr John Dixon, 1967 Professor Miles Dodd, 1958 Dr Paul Ellis, 1952 Mr John Ennis, 1971 Mr Martin Evans, 1967 Mr Tom Everett, 1948 Mr David Faris, 1966 Mr David Fell, 1972 Mr Paul Ferguson, 1974 Mr Randal Ffrench, 1973 Mr Mark Fidler, 1980 Mr Dirk Fitzhugh, 1960 Mr Simon Frost, 1970 Mr Jeremy Gentilli, 1945 Mr Michael Godley, 1946 Mr Philip Goldenberg, 1964 Mr Manny Gonzalez, 1985

Professor Graham Good, 1961 Mr Giles Gostwick, 1966 Mr John Govett LVO, 1962 Mr Vince Graff, 1987 Professor Ian Grant, 1948 Mr Nick Grantham, 1954 Professor Peter Green,1968 Dr Nicholas Griffin, 1992 Mr Vincent Guy, 1962 Mr Mike Hall, 1971 Ms Nicola Harrison, 1981 Mr Peter Harrison, 1949 Mr Paul Hasse,1976 Dr Colin Haydon, 1975 Mr Dick Hayes, 1957 Mr Peter Hayward, 1977 Mr Francis Hazeel, 1964 Dr Chris Higley,1966 Mr Nicholas Hill, 1966 Mr Geoffrey Hoffman, 1958 Mr Keith Howick, 1972 Professor Abbie Hughes, 1959 Mr Hugh Ibbotson, 1958 Mrs Alice Idle Mr Philip Jagger, 1949 Dr Nigel James, 1963 Mr Tony Jasper, 1963 Mr Peter Johnson, 1965 The Revd Richard Jones, 1972 Mr Duncan Kelly, 1952 Mr Michael Kill, 1971 Miss Helen King, 1989 Mrs Jane Kirkby Mr Matthew Kirkby, 1987 Mr Malcolm Kitchen, 1971 Ambassador Phil Lader, 1967 Mr David Lanch, 1957 Professor Graham Layer, 1971 Dr Grant Lee, 1958 Mr Richard Leman, 1960 Mr Howard Letts,1973 Mr Peter Letts, 1954 Professor Chris Lewis CBE, 1960 Mr Ron Limbrick, 1953 Ms Nicky Lumb,1992 Mr Christopher Lusby-Taylor, 1968 Mr Denis Lyons, 1962 Mr Kenneth MacKenzie CB, 1961 Mr David MacKilligin CMG, 1958 Dr Chris Manning, 1960 Mrs Charlotte Martins, 1972 Dr Howard Maskill, 1961 Dr Edgar McGinnis, 1959 The Revd Alistair McGregor, 1958 Dr Hugh McKinney, 1951 Mr David Mitchell, 1958 Revd Canon Michael Moore LVO, 1956 Mr Michael Murphy, 1956 Mr Marcus Nelson, 1962 Mr Derek Oakley, 1959 Mr Graham Palmer, 1962 Professor Stephen Perkins,1969

Dr John Pether, 1952 Mr Will Price,1990 The Revd Christopher Pulford, 1978 Mr Roff Rayner, 1944 The Revd Antony Rees, 1952 Dr Michael Rees, 1968 Mrs Sheila Rees Mr Robert Rhodes,1963 Mr Simon Richards, 1974 Mr Philip Richardson, 1958 Mr Marcus Roberts, 1986 Dr Miles Rucklidge, 1951 Mr Dennis Rudd, 1953 Mr Nigel Rumfitt, 1968 Judge Anthony Russell, 1970 Mr Geoffrey Samuel, 1949 Mr Julian Schild, 1977 Mr Conrad Seagroatt, 1958 Dr Malcolm Seddon, 1959 Mr Jules Sheahan, 1989 Professor Rob Smith, 1971 Professor David Speller, 1954 Dr Robert Stevens, 1952 Mr Peter Stevenson, 1963 Mr Matthew Stibbe, 1988 Mr Tony Stirratt, 1954 Mr John Stoker, 1962 Mr Dick Stopford, 1952 Mr George Summerfield, 1954 Mr Peter Summerfield, 1954 Dr Ian Sunderland, 1951 Professor Keith Sykes Dr Andrea Tanner Mr Arnold Taylor, 1956 Mr Martyn Taylor, 1956 Professor Walter Timperley, 1955 Mr Ian Tinsley, 1966 Mr Nick Tomlinson, 1981 Mr Peter Toomey, 1956 Mr Revan Tranter, 1954 Mr Norman Vaughton, 1961 Mr Roy Vernon, 1955 Dr Bruce Wakefield, 1960 Mr Anthony Walker, 1963 Mr John Walker, 1958 Mr Jeremy Wall, 1956 The Most Revd Dr Kallistos Ware, 1952 Mr Howard Webber, 1946 Dr Damon Wells CBE, 1961 Mrs Ella Whitehead Mr John Whitworth OBE, 1943 Mr David Williams, 1973 Mr Justin Wills, 1964 Mr Brian Wilson, 1948 Mr Charles Wood, 1959 Mr Derek Wood, 1952 Dr John Wroughton, 1955 Mrs Terry Slesinski-Wykowski, 1982 Mr Peter Wynne Davis, 1974 Mr Tony Yablon, 1959

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Staff Changes

Welcomes

Farewells

Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Associate Prince Bashir, Computing Technician Fiona Bassett-Jones, Finance Officer Leo Boonzaier, Stipendiary Lecturer in Law Wendy Calcutt, Lodge Support Receptionist Alessandro Carlucci, Retained Lecturer in Italian Laura Capuano, Stipendiary Lecturer in Maths Andrei Constanin, Stipendiary Lecturer in Maths Alexandra Cox, Conference Manager Charlotte Elves, Stipendiary Lecturer in Law Claire Ferone, Weekend Lodge Receptionist Amos Golan, Associate Rachael Kemp, Head of Events (maternity cover) Thomas Kidney, Strategic Development Officer Tika Khimding, Scout Manjusha Kuruppath, Stipendiary Lecturer in History Bruno Lacerda, Associate Junaedi Marcelius Petrus, Kitchen Porter Annette McCormack, Academic Registrar Gustavo Mellior, Stipendiary Lecturer in Economics Luke Milkovic, IT Officer Alberto Paganini, Stipendiary Lecturer in Maths Luke Parsons, Catering Assistant Ebrahim Patel, Stipendiary Lecturer in Maths Farah Raza, Stipendiary Lecturer in Law Elizabeth Robson, CCW Administrator Kirstie Smith, Academic Administrator (Undergraduates) Anete Swiderska, Catering Assistant Mathew Thomas, Maintenance Assistant Andrew Thompson, Associate Victoria Varosi, Catering Assistant Philippa White, Academic Administrative Assistant

Nikoloz Aleksidze, Junior Research Fellow in History Emilio Bonfiglio, Oriental Studies David Bowe, Stipendiary Lecturer in Italian Alex Budzier, Retained Lecturer in Economics & Management Ivan Campeotto, BTP Research Fellow in Biochemistry Alessandro Carlucci, Associate Megan Cavell, Associate David Cole, Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics Luis Correia, Stipendiary Lecturer in Economics Matthias Dilling, Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics Sarah Dragonetti, College Nurse Sophie Elkan, Alumni Communications Editor Naomi Freud, Retained Lecturer in Human Sciences Stephen Goddard, Stipendiary Lecturer in French Alexander Henley, Departmental Lecturer in Theology Nicky Hills, Administrative Assistant David Humble-White, Senior Fundraiser Susan James (Relly), Senior Associate Elise Maes, Stipendiary Lecturer in Law Ramiro Martinez, Kitchen Porter Heinrich Matzinger, Senior Associate Natalie Mrockova, Stipendiary Lecturer in Law Sophie Nicholls, Stipendiary Lecturer in History Lavanya Rao, IT Officer Oliver Rashbrook-Cooper, Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy Nick Rawlins, Senior Associate Kilian Rieder, Stipendiary Lecturer in Economics Julian Robertshaw, Weekend Porter Camilla Romaine, Academic Registrar Hannah Smidt, Associate Justin Sutherland, PCBC Head Coach Julie Tolley, Scout Victoria Van Hyning, Junior Research Fellow in English Aled Walker, Stipendiary Lecturer in Pure Mathematics James Wigfield, IT Officer Gareth Wilkes, Stipendiary Lecturer in Economics Lynn Wilkinson, Deputy Academic Registrar Wenzhe Yang, Stipendiary Lecturer in Maths

Pictures Above (L-R): Alexandra Cox, Ebrahim Patel, Annette McCormack, Luke Milkovic, Kirstie Smith, Thomas Kidney

Pictures Below (L-R): Victoria van Hyning, Lavanya Rao, Lynn Wilkinson, Matthias Dilling, Sophie Elkan, Emilio Bonfiglio

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Obituaries Professor Douglas Gray FBA, Emeritus Fellow 17th February 1930 12th December 2017 Douglas Gray was the first J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language in the Faculty of English, and held the chair with great distinction from 1980 to his retirement in 1997. During these years, he was a professorial fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and before that had been a Fellow of Pembroke College and University Lecturer in English Language. The following was received from a former student of Professor Gray: ‘As an undergraduate at Lincoln College in the early 1960s I was ‘farmed out’ to Doug, as were most of my peers reading English, for the language component of the BA degree. His little tutorial room in Pembroke where we met as a small class had books and papers everywhere but was mainly dominated by the multi-volume OED, the shelves beneath it bent to breakingpoint under its well-used weight. The room was always wreathed in tobacco smoke - I think from Gauloises to which, of course, we added copiously, unaware of the damage we might be doing to ourselves or each other. We all looked forward to our tutorials with Doug and worked hard under his guidance. His knowledge of Middle English literature was formidable and he would often fill in our gaps by telling us the stories of romances we had yet to read in his simple and unaffected way in that soft New Zealand accent which was his hallmark. It was the grown-up equivalent of being read to and we loved it. He even made our struggles with the Middle English language less burdensome. I don’t suppose any of us told him anything he didn’t already know but I do remember adding a tiny morsel to his knowledge on one occasion (a Gawain seminar) by pointing out that the ME word ‘misy’ was not archaic but current as the proper name for a lake on the Earl of Derby’s estate - called the Misy Dam - and preserving its Middle English meaning of ‘dark and miserable‘. I just happened to know that but Doug picked it up with real interest. I heard him lecture only once - his termly series on Literature of the 15th century - and was struck by his patience in trawling through so much which even he did not rate highly if it led to just one or two nuggets of excellence. He will be remembered, I am sure, with respect for his scholarship and with great affection for his enthusiasm for his subject and his profound knowledge of all its highways and byways. He really had read all the books and forgotten none of them. But, as I look back, I think those who knew him, albeit only slightly, really warmed to him as a man - modest, easy-going, sociable and (I might add) a very capable drinker!’ Vincent Paul Wrigley

Professor Eric Stanley, Emeritus Fellow 19th October 1923 - 21st June 2018 Born in 1923, Professor Stanley was a scholar of Philology and Medieval Literature. He joined the Fellowship at Pembroke in 1977 when he arrived in Oxford as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, a post he held until his retirement in 1991. Professor Andy Orchard, current Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo Saxon at Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke paid tribute: “Eric’s published work is prodigious in its scope, scale and impact, comprising more than 600 items on Old and Middle English language, metrics, and literature, as well as on Anglo-Saxon history and law, the perception of medieval topics in modern literature, and especially in lexicography, detailing lost or obscure words and phrases.”

Dr Gordon Whitham, Emeritus Fellow 5th September 1929 - 22nd November 2017 Dr Whitham arrived at Pembroke in 1965 and served the College and its students tirelessly until 1996, when he retired from his Fellowship in Chemistry. During his time as Senior Tutor the tradition of an annual Scholars Dinner was introduced, and he worked hard to put Pembroke firmly on the Oxford map as a College of choice for Chemistry. Dr Whitham was an excellent and well-loved tutor. He instilled in many hundreds of students over the years a great love of Chemistry, and while they ended up all over the world many kept in touch. In 2013 a group of former students together honoured Dr Whitham by donating a room to the College’s new buildings which now bears his name. Memorial services for Professors Stanley and Whitham will take place in 2019 – please contact development@pmb.ox.ac.uk if you would like to attend. Full tributes will be published in the next edition of the Record.

Basil Garland, 1939 30th May 1920 – 13th September 2017 Basil was the only child of Herbert and Grace Garland, born in Camberwell, Surrey, and his early childhood was in East Dulwich. During the 1920s the family moved to Dulwich Village where Basil and his family stayed until the 1970s. He was educated at Dulwich College from where he gained a place at Pembroke. In 1940, Basil enlisted in the Royal Artillery. His training took him to the firing ranges and army bases in the South West ending up in St Ives in Cornwall. It was here that he met Dora Hope, a teacher whose school had been evacuated there from Shoreham in Sussex. They were married on 2nd August 1942, the wedding having been brought forward from 4th August, the day of his embarkation overseas. His regiment sailed from Plymouth to Gibraltar where the Coastal Battery was expected to be key to limiting the movement of Axis naval shipping. However there was very little action seen and the troops were able to take in the sights of North Africa and spend time in the adjoining towns in neutral Spain. Basil was the first to recognise that his was a very easy war compared to many of his contemporaries. Basil became Adjutant to the Commander of Gibraltar and took the honorary post of Commodore of the Gibraltar Yacht Club. On cessation of hostilities in Europe, Dora managed to gain a teaching post in the Army school in Gibraltar, omitting to tell them that her husband was stationed there. They spent their free time sailing in the harbour and around the Rock of Gibraltar. On his return to England and de-mobilization in 1946 Basil returned to his chosen profession of the law. He was called to Bar in 1948 and had chambers in 1 Mitre Court Buildings in Middle Temple. Basil’s career as a divorce barrister in the 1960s went from strength to strength with a number of high profile cases in the days of fiercely contested divorces and complex probate actions. He was appointed Junior Council [Probate] to the Treasury in 1965. In 1969 he was appointed as Registrar in the Principle Probate Registry of the Family Division of the High Court. One of Basil’s great loves was the theatre and, along with many barristers, he was himself a good performer. He founded a local amateur dramatic group in Dulwich, ‘The Village Players’ Pembroke Record | 2017-18 | 35

Obituaries and then with others in his legal circle ‘The Bar Theatrical Society’. That latter society grew rapidly in size with plays performed in the Great Halls of the Inns of Court as well as the smaller London Theatres. One of Basil’s proudest claims was that the Bar Theatrical was the only amateur society to have their productions reviewed in The Times newspaper. The prominence of the society was such that Lord Denning, then Master of the Rolls, became Hon. President and Princess Margaret Patron, the latter attending at least one of the plays at Lincoln’s Inn. Boating became his second passion, not in a small part from the encouragement of his wife. Now with a young son in the 1950s a start was made with hire cruisers on the Norfolk Broads, followed by the purchase of Mancuna a 28 foot gaff topsail rigged broads cruiser which Dora could remember being built in the 1920s at Jack Powels boatyard. In the 1960s they ventured onto the coastal waters of Suffolk, initially with a bilge keeled MacWester cruiser named Ardeola. A Fisher 30 motor-sailer named Porzana was their next craft, based at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club at Wolverstone on the Orwell. Cruises were made to the Netherlands and Belgium to enjoy the sheltered waters and picturesque towns of the Scheldt Estuaries and the Ijsselmeer. Porzana took Basil and Dora through to the 1980s. They kept a lugsail rigged open boat on the Walton backwaters for day-sailing with their sea-sailing satisfied by flotilla charters around the Greek Islands and Turkish coast. In 1975 Basil and Dora moved to Dedham, which although in Essex had Suffolk just across the river at the bottom of the garden. Here Basil returned to his love of theatre with the Dedham Players. He directed many of their shows and his writing also came to the fore with a number of his parody sketches and poems being performed both by the Dedham Players and at various readings. When, in 1986, Basil retired from the Principle Probate Registry, he and Dora could spend more time travelling. In addition to the flotilla holidays in the Adriatic, they took the opportunity to visit the Maldives for their golden wedding anniversary in 1992. By the late 1990s they were increasingly aware that their ability to drive was limited and as the house in Dedham was a mile from the village and with no public transport decided to move again, this time to Wivenhoe in 1999. Dora became seriously ill in 2006 and Basil cared for her, the last year bed-ridden, at home until she died in 2008. Despite losing his companion of 66 years Basil retained his love of theatre, travel and boating, taking trips on his son’s narrow boat and European river cruises into his 90s. Basil was a man of great wit, a word-smith and superb story teller, talents which stood him in good stead as a barrister, able to stand and give two day summing up speeches at the end of six week long hearings. 36 | Pembroke Record | 2017-18

He turned that serious side to his directing and acting ability as well as to his writings of limericks and parodies of poems and Gilbert & Sullivan songs. His stories and his drawings entranced his grand children during their frequent times together. He lived on his own and retained good health until a stroke in August 2017, but even that did not dim his wit, the nurses during his time in hospital being regaled with tales of his time in Gibraltar. He died peacefully on the morning of 13th September 2017 in Colchester Hospital. Terry Garland, son

Professor Kenneth Philip Drew, 1946 16th January 1925 11th January 2018 On Sundays at church the main feature Is the sermon compiled by our preacher. It’s two thirds John Wesley, One fourth Elvis Presley, And just over eight percent Nietzsche. Like the preacher in his limerick, Philip Drew was a polymath, equally at ease writing limericks, puzzling out mathematical curiosities, discussing the history of ideas, explaining English Literature in lucid elegant prose, or being enthusiastic about the early works of Fred Astaire & Arthur Askey. He was born in London in January 1925, the son of Arthur Drew and Ruby Ellisdon. Philip attended Haberdashers’ Askes School, and was evacuated with the school to Oxted near Biggin Hill. There, he was befriended by Bill Thorne, a senior manager at the Bank of England and a stalwart of the Reform Club, who took Philip into his family, and through frequent Poetry Evenings introduced him to many of the poets Philip came to admire. It was Bill’s genial liberality that informed both Philip’s tolerant political opinions, and – as importantly – his belief in the value of a really good party. Although he had been elected to a King Charles scholarship to read Classics at Pembroke, Philip was instead called up in 1943 to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, as a 5’9” midshipman. Over the next three hungry years of active service, he read as much poetry as he could find, most of which

he memorised so completely that, in hospital a few days before he died, he was able to recite many of his favourites: Housman, de la Mare, John Donne. Demobilised as a 6’4” lieutenant in 1946, he found his Latin and Greek were too rusty to allow him to read Classics, but Pembroke generously allowed him to change to English. In October 1946, living (barely) on his £100 scholarship, he went up to Oxford, where his lecturers included Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He was proud of having rowed in Torpids and, as a lightweight lock forward, described himself as being “uncatchable over the first six or seven yards” but even his greatest admirers would admit that, in spite of his height, he was not a natural sportsman. Instead, he concentrated on winning university essay prizes, and in June 1949 he gained one of only eight First class degrees awarded. Philip’s tutor, Leonard Rice-Oxley, wrote to congratulate him afterwards, observing that Philip had given him some nervous moments during the viva. “ ‘Damn,’ I thought, ‘my horse is running backward!’ However, after that, my horse went along grandly gathering speed. The impression you made was (a) profound intellectual honesty (b) a genuine interest in matters literary.” After he scored the top result in the 1949 Civil Service exams, Philip chose – for reasons that even he admitted were misguided – to join the Board of Trade as an Assistant Principal and spent the next excruciatingly slow year dealing with very poor quality Balkan timber: “full of bullets,” he recollected. Fortunately, he met Rice-Oxley in the street one day and confessed how bored he was. Rice-Oxley turned to his companion, Norman Davis, a war-time hero who was then teaching English at Glasgow University. “Norman, surely you can find room for Drew in Glasgow?” Norman could. During his 60 years in Glasgow, Philip met and married Lindsay McCormick in 1953, raised his three children, and threw himself into the preservation of the West End’s unique Victorian townscape, founding and leading the Glasgow West Conservation Society. He became an authority on Robert Browning, historically regarded as a “difficult” poet: one critic wrote “"We all want to like Browning, but we find it very hard." Philip’s clear thoughtful books were well-received and are still referenced as seminal critical works. In 1977, by now Emeritus Professor, he started on his most important book, “The Meaning of Freedom”, which uses the lens of English Literature to consider whether man is governed by a pre-determined Fate, or whether he has any genuine Free Will. It demonstrates the extraordinary scope of his interests and scholarship, in balanced and wide-ranging arguments, all expressed in simple cogent language. His other writings of this time included stories for Jackanory, and limerick competitions:

Obituaries Said my cabby, “Who needs perestroika? Your average communist woiker Would trade it all in For a bottle of gin And a goil in the back of a troika.” In 1984, he took early retirement from the University, partly to make way for a new generation of lecturers. He was also – presciently – a little wary of the political changes on the way for all universities. After his wife’s death in 2008, Philip moved to Northampton and then Oxfordshire, where he died in January 2018, after a mercifully short illness. He is survived by his three children, Sarah, Kate and John.

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Professor Jeffrey O’Riordan, 1949 27th March 1931 9th October 2017 Jeffrey was born in Newport, Wales in 1931, the younger of two sons of a Welsh mother and an Irish father. Jeffrey always said that his time in Oxford was a turning point in his life. He left grammar school in Newport South Wales and headed as a scholar to Pembroke College to read medicine. He rapidly settled into life in Pembroke and thoroughly enjoyed the dinners and social life. He could not believe his luck that every morning there would be a discreet knock on the door and a voice offering him a choice of breakfast including, “a fat juicy kipper, Sir?” As he was studying medicine, his timetable was very full but he made the most of his Wednesday afternoons, learning how to sail at Port Meadow. He had many a congenial weekend travelling around the country racing in fireflies with the Oxford Sailing Club. This was the start of a lifetime spent enjoying the sea and sailing. Jeffrey thrived on hard work and loved his tutorials with particularly fond memories of those with Percy O’Brien. When he had finished his degree he managed to prolong his time in Oxford by doing further studies

and research into respiratory medicine with John Cunningham. On leaving Oxford Jeffrey went to the Middlesex Hospital in London for his clinical years. He was to remain at the Middlesex for the rest of his working life except for a brief time at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. On qualification, Jeffrey did his national service. This involved nine months in the Southern Cameroons, West Africa. The main army camp was in Buea, 3,500m up in the foothills. The soldiers were a healthy bunch so Jeffrey was allowed to make the perilous journey down to the coast and the government hospital in Victoria. Here his help was needed but he soon realised that patient care was shared with the medicine man and the juju man. The hospital did what it could with limited facilities. There was one doctor, occasionally two, and they had to be generalists. “Doctors who go out to Africa,” he wrote in the Lancet in 1962, “should do so in a spirit of humility, realising their ignorance of the diseases and the people they will meet.” Jeffrey’s work spanned the biology of parathyroid hormone (PTH), calcitonin and vitamin D metabolism, and abnormalities of these in bone diseases and genetic abnormalities. He established a world class research programme in these areas according to the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, of which he was a long time member. The society said, “His contributions to human disease were especially notable. He was an innovator in clinical assay development, which enabled definitive studies of the metabolic disturbances in patients with parathyroid disease and dysregulated vitamin D metabolism. His later work was instrumental in identifying PHEX gene mutations in x linked hypophosphatemic rickets.” In 1964 he began a stint in the US at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, working with Gerald Aurbach, whose studies were opening up the specialism of parathyroid hormone research. This experience, say colleagues, had a big effect on his career in preparing him to apply basic science to clinical questions in calcium and bone metabolism, and helping to form his own skills as a mentor. In 1966, on his return from the US, he returned to the Middlesex and established the calcium laboratory, introducing the latest concepts and methods to investigate physiology and disease to UK endocrinology. He developed the earliest high quality, specific, and sensitive assays for PTH, including the first immunoradiometric assay, and introduced the approach of localising parathyroid tumours by obtaining multiple samples for assay by venous catheterisation. Many of those trained by Jeffrey, or “Professor PTH” as he was often known, went on to become international leaders in bone and mineral research themselves. Rajesh Thakker, who worked with him at the Middlesex and is now May Professor of

Medicine at Oxford University’s Radcliffe department of clinical medicine, told the BMJ Jeffrey was “ahead of his time” in the way he pursued excellence in clinical care, gathering doctors and research fellows together at patients’ bedsides during Saturday morning ward rounds. “They were an opportunity to discuss clinical problems and to teach but also to figure out where our knowledge ended and where research began,” says Professor Thakker. “Nowadays, we talk about translational medicine and personalised medicine. Jeffrey practised those things in the 1980s before the terms were invented. It was bringing research to the bedside and taking the bedside back to the bench.” Jeffrey established procedures for isolating bovine, porcine, and human PTH from glandular material. These provided the foundations for developing PTH assays, determining the peptide and DNA sequences of PTH, which ultimately resulted in the synthesis of recombinant human PTH that is used now for the treatment of osteoporosis. Jeffrey’s other major research focus was vitamin D, including genetic abnormalities in the vitamin D pathway as a cause of disease. Professor Thakker says, “Methods of gene analysis had begun to be developed at about this time, and Jeffrey knew that among his patients were many who would make it possible for him to bring clinical problems to the laboratory in the search for solutions.” He maintained his interest in vitamin D long into his retirement and wrote an entertaining account of the history of rickets. Jeffrey, say friends, was dedicated to his patients—many of whom struggled to find treatment for their disorders— and modest about his achievements. He collaborated widely and generously. His research in the 1980s and 90s was truly multidisciplinary, spanning the genetics of phosphate homoeostasis, the molecular regulation of PTH synthesis and secretion, and the immunobiology of vitamin D. Colleagues say Jeffrey’s warmth and good humour showed in the way he encouraged “active socialising as an important part of research training.” He remained intensely interested in, and quietly proud of, the career achievements of his trainees, with whom he maintained lifelong friendships. Jeffrey kept in touch with patients too, and when he retired held a party for them, encouraging them to introduce themselves as having high or low calcium levels. His sailing career after Oxford gradually developed from small dinghies to a 36ft cruising boat, sailing many thousands of miles with family and friends. He spent 10 years exploring the Mediterranean and in one memorable journey sailed from Turkey to Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. This is not a voyage one could do safely these days. He also sailed the Atlantic with one trip to the Azores and another from the Canaries to St Lucia. Latterly he cruised around Ireland and Scotland. He liked nothing more than pottering happily on his boat and he

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Obituaries is remembered fondly by many maritime friends. To his delight, both his children and grandchildren have followed his lead and are to be seen on the water in boats of various sizes and shapes. Jeffrey was predeceased by his son Mark (aged 16) and leaves his wife, Sally, five children, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. He is sadly missed by them all. Cait O’Riordan, daughter

Preston Prichard, 1950 1st February 1932 16th July 2018 The Book of Proverbs has a sentence “The Spirit of man is a candle of the Lord.” Preston was born on 1st February 1932 in the Rectory of Whippingham, Isle of Wight. His Father was also Chaplain to Osborne House so it was not surprising that HRH The Princess Louise agreed to become his Godmother. Preston’s Christian names always provided interest. Preston, traditionally the eldest son since the 17thc ,when the family fled the Civil War from Wales to Preston in Lancashire. Caradoc, another name for Caractacus, whose daughter Claudia is mentioned by St Paul in his letter to Timothy, was given by his Father to remind Preston of his connections to Caractacus found in the 19c Welsh pedigree compiled with the help of the College of Heralds. Hardinge was from his Mother’s family. Our great Uncle was Charles, Viscount Hardinge, Viceroy of India whose grandfather was also Governor General of India, a Field Marshal and the recipient from Wellington of Napoleon’s sword after Waterloo. The family moved to the Vicarage of St Anne’s Kew in 1938, and exercised in Kew Gardens since the Vicar had the key to a private gate opposite the Vicarage. His first school was at Gibbs in Sloane Square. When war came he was sent to board aged seven in Goudhurst, Kent near his great aunt, who had lost her only son in WW1. She largely funded his education. A parishioner in Kew had a son, Headmaster of Swanbourne House so in May 1940 he boarded there with fifty five others until 1945 when he passed to Radley. His congenital heart problem denied him National Service, thanks to his Father who had been in the 1920s The Precentor at Holy 38 | Pembroke Record | 2017-18

Trinity Church Sloane Square under The Rev Canon Homes Dudden. That connection meant that Preston made contact with the Canon since he was then Master of Pembroke College, Oxford where Preston read Law and played in the College 1st Squash Team. During that time he became a Debs Delight featured in Tatler and enjoyed lavish pre dance dinners in London and balls at stately homes. His charm, courtesy, conversation and culture were always valued. For the first thirty years of married life his parents had to take in paying guests to eke out a parsons stipend, so funds for the summer Balls at College were not possible so he advertised for a paying partner and greatly enjoyed interviewing the ten applicants. He joined The London Life Association and served at head office in King William Street, in the City. While there he wisely took out life membership of The Hurlingham Club. Later the company moved to Surrey and finally Bristol from where he retired to Sherborne with his wonderful wife Barbara (né Caulfeild), rejoicing in being a grandfather to Alice, Oliver and Jamie and father to Julian and Diana, who had married the son of Dr Geoffrey Wilson, an old Pembrokian. As a son of a priest he inherited little but dispensed hospitality graciously, surrounded by silver and furniture much of which had been wedding presents to his parents from 1000 parishioners who attended their 1931 wedding at Holy Trinity then the most fashionable church in London. Details of the gifts and donors were printed on the front page of the old style Daily Telegraph. Preston worked on behalf of the King George Fund for Sailors, and was Master of his Old Radleian Lodge. He was Vice President of NADFAS, Churchwarden and treasurer when at Burrington Combe, chief server at Castleton and a guardian at the Abbey. Preston was polished, polite, never swore, never showed anger, was always kind, willing and cheerful. Some may have considered him laid back but his life time malady did not permit much exertion. He was one who exemplified “The Lord will provide”. The Lord did for he was a wonderful brother, devoted husband, affectionate father, supportive grandfather, true godfather, honourable friend and a comforting neighbour. His final three years in Abbey View nursing home, Sherborne were surrounded by love and care from consistently cheerful staff. The Spirit of my brother was indeed a candle of the Lord. D C M Prichard, brother

Roger Howells, 1952 8th March 1930 23rd April 2018 Probably the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s longest serving volunteer, Roger took great pleasure in working on RSC production records of shows he had been involved in during his 32 years with the company (1962 – 1994). With 21 years as a volunteer Roger was a core member of the SBT family, his warmth and generosity of time making him many good friends. His detailed knowledge of the RSC was unique and he helped numerous researchers in their work, often being sought out for advice and receiving acknowledgment in publications. Roger was a regular presence not just in the stacks but also the James I lounge where he was often found, mug of coffee in hand, regaling animated stories mainly of the theatre, but also his family and the country of his birth, Wales. Roger was born in 1930 in the small village of Skewen, near to Swansea, son of a local solicitor and his wife who were involved in the Neath Little Theatre. He attended Neath County School and while a pupil first visited the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. After his National Service, serving in the Royal Engineers, and studying Law at Pembroke, he worked briefly in the legal profession before moving to London. Throughout this time he continued to be active in amateur theatre, and in 1962 was offered a temporary job in stage management with the newly-formed RSC in London, initially in the Studio Theatre and then at the Aldwych Theatre. He went on to become Stage Manager at the RST in Stratford, touring with the company to the USA, Europe and the USSR. Eventually he became the theatre’s Production Manager before taking on the same position with the newly opened Swan Theatre in 1986, a role he enjoyed until retiring in 1994. Some two years later he started volunteering at the SBT and in 2011 won the Outstanding Volunteer category at the Renaissance West Midlands “Best of the West” Awards 2011, at which point it was estimated he had volunteered over 10,000 hours of time to the SBT. Between 2011-15 Roger took on an additional volunteer role on Dig for Shakespeare, the archaeological

Obituaries dig which shaped Shakespeare’s New Place. In February this year Roger took part in an SBT Research Conversation with Paul Edmondson which focussed on specific productions from during his tenure as RSC Production Manager. Roger is survived by his wife, Ann, his daughter, Kate, his son, David, and his three granddaughters. Julia Howells, daughter-in-law

Gary Flather QC, OBE 1958 4th October 1937 – 9th October 2017

Humphrey Bowen, 1958 15th May 1939 26th September 2017 From Abingdon School Humphrey went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, to study Chemistry and he also completed his D. Phil. at Oxford. He began his career with ICI, working at the Central Research Laboratory in Runcorn and at Pharmaceuticals Division, Alderley Edge. He then worked at Plessey, Roke Manor and at Radio Rediffusion (later BET) in Leatherhead. At ICI he worked at the cutting edge of technology, managing a team developing, designing and installing the first multi-computer controlled batch plant, and using computers to control mass spectrometers. Throughout his life he was an active Anglican, serving on Parochial Church Councils in Frodsham, Chelford and Fetcham and on deanery and diocesan synods in Guildford Diocese. His faith and his passion for social justice inspired many voluntary activities including chairmanship of Fetcham United Charities and several stimulating years as trustee for research for the Meniere’s Society, expanding their activities and raising the profile of their research programme. He was married to Helen and leaves two children - Andrew who followed him into the scientific field, and Rachel who, in studying Politics, pursued another of his great interests. A second stroke in 2015 robbed him of his mobility and much else but he bore it all with stoicism and patience, still taking delight in contacts with family, friends and the local church. He died peacefully at home on 26th September 2017. Rachael Wheeler, daughter

Gary Flather, who sat for 10 years as a Deputy High Court judge, uncomplainingly battled multiple sclerosis (MS) for more than 30 years, turning his disability into a means to promote greater awareness of the needs of wheelchair users, and serving himself as a role-model for continuing to achieve ‘while sitting down to work’, as he liked to put it. Flather came up to Pembroke from Oundle School in 1958 to read jurisprudence, reportedly the first from his family, a leading Sheffield steel family, to go onto university studies let alone Oxford. He belonged to that mature post-war generation who did two years of National Service, serving in the infantry in Aden, from where his letters home regularly talked of dodging gun-fire and of dangerous manoeuvres. He stayed on in the TA for three years. Friends recall he cut a dashing figure at Oxford, running a green MG sports car about town – a useful signal to his many friends of his whereabouts - spending as much time in local hostelries and inns as in the Radcliffe law library. After a first year in college, he was able to move to splendid digs on Boars Hill with Tony Hughes and others. He was one of a distinguished group of law undergraduates, whose tutor R F V Heuston clearly amused and stimulated them, including Miles Dodd and Alastair Cameron, later Lord Abertheny in the Scottish Supreme. He spent many happy afternoons on the river, rowing bow in the college boat. His many lifelong friends, including Malcolm Cooper and Glyn James, remember he enjoyed ‘good living, an active member of The Teasel Club, which enjoyed dinners with wines of distinction!’ Like many in those days, he enjoyed a smoke, and was a regular in ‘the submarine’, Pembroke’s converted cellar where smokers revised for Schools with the camaradie of fellow smokers, and the sustenance of ‘commons of marmite’ in the JCR. After Pembroke, he had a short stint in the family steel business, before he was called to the bar in 1962, taking silk in 1984. He made many lifelong friends in the law along the way, Sir Robin Auld for 18 years, alongside Lord (Michael) Howard and Lord (Donald) Anderson MP, and had many pupils of great distinction, including Sir Andrew Collins.

Gary always had a great love of travel, and indeed met his future wife, Shreela, now Baroness Flather, the first Asian Peer, on a visit to Delhi as part of a world tour. While skiing in Chamonix in his early 40s he first experienced instability, later dramatically confirmed during a climb to the top of Kilimanjaro, when his toes started to curl. With typical tenacity, and the help of other climbers, who became firm friends, he still made it to the top, his certificate proudly displayed in his downstairs toilet. From then on he became increasingly dependent on sticks, and, soon after, his wheelchair. Over the years he became increasingly immobilized, so that by the end, he had to be hoisted into bed, and into the shower. He was supported throughout by his wife, who also helped organise his care, and he was fortunate to have had a clutch of devoted carers. His first canine partner was Gracie, dubbed the ‘Countess of Woof’, and latterly, Mac, who sat many weeks outside Gary’s door in the mornings after his death. They allowed him some independence, able to open doors, pick up things and summon help. Gracie once came to the house to ring the doorbell when Gary’s wheelchair jammed outside. His indomitable spirit, and quest to live life as fully as he could, was illustrated on a family trip to Disneyland in Florida, when he made it clear he wanted to go on a major rollercoaster, Thunder Mountain. When staff said he could only ride if he could assure them he could climb down more than 50 steps from the peak in the event of a power cut, he thought for a moment before asking if there was a time limit. When he was told there was none, he said he could do it - and thrilled to the ride several times with the wind ruffling his hair as he was sped around the mountain strapped into his cart. He later confessed it might have taken hours – even days - to do. He was moved to tears when Nelson Mandela came down the steps in Westminster Hall, after his speech to MPs and peers, and approached Gary first to thank him for coming all the way to hear him. Gary could only stammer that he had come only 30 miles while the former President had come many thousands. His dogs also served as a magnet, sitting quietly by him in court, regularly helping to relieve tensions when tempers frayed or people shouted. Gracie would also yawn to order around lunchtime, especially helpful when someone in court appeared to be going on. Gary turned his disabilities to advantage. He founded the Bar Council Disability Committee, chairing it for 10 years, campaigning for improved access in courts and rights for disabled students, rewarded with an OBE for his work. In some courts, he just had to sit as a judge at the same level as the rest of the court. Today all courts are being designed with disability in mind, and there are grants for disabled student lawyers. Such interests saw him appointed Commissioner for the Chelsea pensioners; chairing the local Rotary committee, working with ADFAPT promoting access to theatres, and equal Pembroke Record | 2017-18 | 39

Obituaries opportunities on the Bar Council; and ultimately working for what became perhaps his favourite charity, Canine Partners for Independence. He continued an active practice, even though his disability barred him from the very senior appointments, sitting as a Crown Court Recorder for 27 years, and taking on a dizzying array of tribunals, dictating his judgements using voice recognition software. These included the Mental Health Review Tribunal, where he was a chairman for 23 years; the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, where he standardised procedures; the Police Discipline Appeals; the ILEA Teachers Disciplinary tribunal, including the controversial inquiry into William Tyndal Junior School; and a DTI insider dealing bank inspection. He served as a Deputy High Court Judge from 1997-2007. He was always reading history voraciously, and was a keen member of the Samuel Pepys Society. In his final week he was tackling a graphic history of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. He continued his lifelong zest for travel: in Egypt his wheelchair was carried down to see the bottom of a tomb. He attended international Bar Council conferences all over the world and followed the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia. In his latter years, he enjoyed extensive and somewhat challenging cruises, the easiest mode of travel for him, including the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the Fjords, the Baltic, and earlier last year to the Pacific, where he contracted a bout of pneumonia. He remained loyal to his college, right to the end, a regular at gaudies, and active in recent decades in the Pembroke Society and actively supportive of college development plans. He is survived by his wife, who continues to attend the House of Lords regularly, now a crossbencher having resigned the Conservative Whip twice; and his (step) sons, Paul, a Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford, and the first head of the Central European University, and Marcus, Professor of Medicine and Clinical trials at the University of East Anglia. Paul Flather, son

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John Cruickshank, 1958 8th November 1938 23rd January 2018 John was born in Oxford in 1938 and attended St Andrews school in Headington. He won a scholarship to Magdalen College which was the start of his great love of sport, playing rugby, tennis and hockey for the school. He was in the church choir and spoke of his bell ringing days with affection. It was during this time that John watched Roger Bannister run the four minute mile, they would later go on to work together at St. Mary’s Hospital, London. In 1958 John won an open scholarship to Pembroke to study Physiology. He played on the right wing for the college Rugby 1st XV as well as the OURFC Greyhounds and took his degree in 1962 later acquiring his BM, BCh and MA after completing a three year clinical training at St. Mary’s Hospital London. He gained experience as a house surgeon and senior house officer in London and Warwick, qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1968 and was appointed as Sheldon Clinical Research Fellow at Warwick hospital where he worked for his thesis. In the same year he married Honor having two sons Haydn and Alistair. Two years later he became Registrar in General Medicine with a special interest in cardiology at Birmingham General Hospital. He was awarded his Doctor of Medicine Degree (DM, Oxon) in 1971. John joined ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1974 as Cardiovascular Projects Manager whilst also working as an honorary consultant at Wythenshawe hospital, Manchester, treating patients there weekly. It was during this period on a visit to Pembroke that John once again met with Roger Bannister and they set up a Junior Research Fellowship for the college funded by ICI. His great love of medicine inspired his first book ‘Beta Blockers in Clinical Practice’, it was five years in completion. In 1985 at the time the first draft had been completed John was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, an honour rarely conferred on members of the medical profession working in industry, in recognition of his clinical

work on beta-blockers. He became widely recognised as a world expert on betablockers and his clinical and experimental research also focused on left ventricular hypertrophy, hypertension, cardiovascular drug treatment and lifestyle effects on the heart in particular obesity and diabetes. He authored eight medical books and over two hundred cardiovascular publications, recognising and coining the aptly named J-curve phenomenan which highlights the relation between low blood pressure and cardiovascular complications. He elaborated on the history and importance of beta blockers in great depth and was unafraid to differ with the opinions of the NICE committee. In 1988 John began research on the link between air travel and blood clots which he dubbed the ‘economy class syndrome’ in a Lancet article. This interest was in part provoked by a serious pulmonary embolism he suffered as a result of the tireless air travel demanded of him whilst lecturing. He appeared in a Panorama documentary on the subject in 2001 and questioned the airline companies’ lack of seriousness on the issue. John later moved to Long Melford, Suffolk, marrying Moira. During this time he worked as an independent cardiovascular consultant also teaching at Southampton and Nottingham Universities, the Royal Brompton and National Heart Hospitals and was an honorary member of University College Hospital, London. He contributed greatly to the scientific community and was still travelling the globe lecturing only months before his death on January 23rd 2018. His final book ‘The Beta Blocker Story Getting it Right’ was published just a few months earlier. He suffered a brief illness but ironically had a massive heart attack before his treatment had been completed. He dearly loved travel, nature, history, literature was a great sportsman, competitor and humanist. A lover of life, he lived it to the full, he was humorous and a great entertainer. John was greatly loved and will be dearly missed as Grandad, Dad and husband. Alistair, son

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Nicholas Wrigley, 1959 16th August 1938 – 22nd November 2017 Nick had a special gift for making close friendships with a wide range of people and showing them his generosity and hospitality. I met him when we were both in our first term at Pembroke in 1959. Towards the end of our first year, he invited me to join him for Whitsun weekend at his family home in Forest Row in Sussex, where his mother (the late Dorothea Sprang) taught at Michael Hall, a Steiner School, which Nick himself had attended. Dorothea had been born in Germany and in 1944 became a widow with two children when her husband was killed in Italy in a war that pitted her native country against that of her husband. Nick entered enthusiastically into college life at Pembroke. He rowed in the college second eight and played the cello in chapel at special musical events. Lionel Pike, Pembroke’s organ scholar, remembered their time together in the same staircase in North Quad: “I was on the ground floor; he was two levels above. But the floors were so thin that he used to call out to me ‘Time for dinner, Pike.’ Nicky, Derek and I played the Schubert Piano Trios. He played the cello and used to sing the bits he found too hard to play!” For two years before he went up to Oxford, Nick had worked at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment. He read Physics at Oxford and, having decided that nuclear physics had become a threat to humanity, he got a job with the Medical Research Council at Mill Hill. In 1966, he got leave to do a Ph.D. in electron microscopy at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1964, I had the honour of being best man at his wedding to Christian Taylor, who was also a former Michael Hall student. They had three sons and a daughter, but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1978, he married a fellow Mill Hill employee, Judy Auger. They had two children and lived in Wheathampstead. Ever since his time at school, Nick had always had a keen interest in the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. His two youngest children attended the Kings Langley Steiner school and while at Mill Hill, he began to teach part-time at their school.

In 1988 he took early retirement from Mill Hill in order to be a full-time teacher. A former colleague, Robin Cook, remembered Nick’s contribution in raising standards and achievements in the physics department: “He was a great support in the Upper School, singing each morning, along with being in the parent/teacher choir and helping out in the cello section of the school orchestra. It was not long before he became a class sponsor - or guardian - along with getting hold of a shed from his previous employment which still stands, as a room for Class 13. I believe it originally housed chickens, but was easily adapted with Nick’s ingenuity and unwillingness to waste anything...[H]e did not suffer idiotic behaviour lightly! He could certainly make his views plain, to staff and pupils, but it was also very apparent that he loved them all deeply, and that is surely what we all remember.” After thirteen years of teaching, Nick retired and he and Judy moved to a long deserted 15th-century farmhouse at Lower Beeney near Boscastle in Cornwall. Restoring the house and adjacent barn into livable quarters for him and Judy as well as for the frequent visits of his friends and extended family was Nick’s last major undertaking. I have fond memories of a week there in 2012 together with about a dozen members of my own extended family. We were received most warmly by Nick and Judy. Fortunately, my partner and I were able partly to repay Nick and Judy for their frequent hospitality when they joined us in an apartment we had rented in Lisbon in 2015. Nick invited us to come again to Lower Beeney for his 80th birthday in August of this year. But sadly that cannot happen until we are all reunited in the Great Beyond-Cornwall. Joe Wearing, 1959, friend

Bill Vincent OBE, 1960 1st January 1942 – 9th January 2018 On 9th January Bill Vincent died after a short illness. His pioneering contribution to judicial IT is legendary, especially in the fields of civil and family case management, judicial IT training and electronic communications. William Arthur Vincent was born on 1 January 1942 in Wigan. He was educated at St Michael’s Primary Wigan, Merchant Taylor’s Boys School, Crosby, Merseyside and Pembroke College Oxford on a Classics Scholarship. Bill was articled in 1964 to his father’s firm, Vincent and Co. Wigan. He qualified as a solicitor in 1966, became a partner in the firm and took it over when his father died in 1973. Encouraged by Judge Reg Lockett of Preston, Bill was appointed County Court Registrar in Sheffield and Rotherham in 1979 and in 1994 became District Judge in Worcester and Evesham. He was one of the 25 pioneering judges issued with laptops by a hesitant Court Service charged with the task of piloting a judicial IT network, FELIX. The kit was eventually dispensed to all judges with every conceivable accessory save for the vital IT training. Bill came to the rescue and led informal self-training sessions throughout the county. He developed FELIX into an indispensable judicial tool, setting up and moderating conferences on every aspect of judicial work. If we posted a question about some bothersome riddle, Bill was the first to post the right answer, often within minutes of the request. His output and energy were prodigious; pioneering FELIX — the only successful judicial e-network, catching trains at 5am to London to contribute to every IT committee, editing Jordan’s family procedural bible, the Red Book, and later the Brown Book and other legal texts. He encouraged District Judge Geoff Edwards to take the Lord Chancellor’s shilling and with him created and developed the judicial civil and family case management templates that are now an indispensable part of our work. It was typical of Bill that he constantly consulted with all of us for feedback on the templates to ensure they were fit for our purpose as judges on the front line. Pembroke Record | 2017-18 | 41

Obituaries Bill was appointed OBE in June 2004 in recognition of this huge effort. Shortly afterwards, he retired from the day job but continued to devote himself to our IT needs for years afterwards. Married 1965 to Shirley, the family had two delightful daughters- Melanie and Charlotteof whom Bill was very proud. There are three grandsons and one granddaughter. All are now adults and doing well in their chosen careers. Bill’s tireless work, help, advice, encouragement and companionship touched all our lives directly or indirectly. He was the best of the best and will be sorely missed by his many friends and colleagues. Monty Trent, colleague

Roger Maskill, 1963 9th April 1944 – 11th December, 2017 Roger, like his parents and grandparents before him, was born and brought up in Castleford, an industrial town in Yorkshire where most families had some connection with one of the half dozen or so collieries in and around the town. Roger’s paternal grandfather was a foreman colliery blacksmith and his maternal grandfather was a collier who died young following a workplace injury; Roger’s father’s first job after leaving school at 14 was as an apprentice colliery blacksmith. At school, Roger was academically very able and fully involved in the games and sports available to him - principally rugby (league at his junior school, union at the grammar school), cricket, and athletics. At Pembroke where Roger read Chemistry, he continued playing rugby and cricket but also took up squash and, one summer, rowed in one of the less serious eights. He even represented the College on the judo mat when, with no previous experience whatsoever, he was prevailed upon to fill a gap in the team. After graduation, Roger moved to the University of Kent at Canterbury to work

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under the supervision of Bob Gillard. It was also during his time at Canterbury that he married Bernice, a teacher who had been in the same class as Roger at Castleford Grammar School. With a PhD in inorganic chemistry, he then took a Research Fellowship in the Chemistry Department at the University of Liverpool working with Ken Holliday, and developed an interest in chemical education. After three years in Liverpool, Roger moved to the Open University in Milton Keynes, where he stayed for one year and became increasingly involved in chemical education. In 1975, Roger was appointed to a lectureship in the School of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia (UEA) at Norwich where he joined several other chemists with Pembroke connections (Alan Katritzky and Frank Wilkinson, both former Fellows at Pembroke, and Malcolm Seddon who had read Chemistry at Pembroke a few years before Roger). At the time, UEA was one of the UK’s principal centres for chemical education with training and research connections to schools, colleges, and universities in the UK and abroad. As a member of the chemical education sector led by Malcolm Frazer, Roger was popular with students, especially those involved in the School’s foundation year, and with chemical education graduate students from many parts of the world. His international connections with former students and colleagues led to working visits to African, South American, and continental European institutions. Roger was regarded as a very competent and reliable colleague, and was fully involved in the running of the School, serving terms as Deputy Dean and manager of the School’s finances. He kept fit playing, for example, five-a-side football, badminton and squash (at which he could give his son in law a good game well into older age). As the academic profile of the School of Chemistry at UEA developed over the years, chemical education became increasing less prominent and Roger took early retirement in 1999. However, for many more years he was regularly called upon to teach in the School’s foundation year courses, especially those involving laboratory classes. During his retirement, he took up competitive croquet, a game he had played casually at Pembroke, and spent more time bird-watching with Bernice. In May 2016 following a routine blood test, the early stages of leukaemia were detected; he died at home in December 2017 and is survived by Bernice, three daughters, and eight grandchildren. Howard Maskill, brother

Jerry Gotel, 1968 January 1946 3rd October 2017 Jerold ‘Jerry’ Gotel was born in January 1946 to Holocaust survivors in New York City. He received a Yeshiva education before studying at Brooklyn College, and later at Pembroke College, Oxford, and the Sorbonne in Paris. It was an unusual path, but Jerold was unusual, and he took New York City with him to Europe; in the 1980s he established an American restaurant on what was then the wasteland of London’s south bank. Visitors to this gloomy area were surprised to see, twinkling from the window of a converted Victorian house, a neon sign: American Bar and Grill. This was Studio Six, the first of his successful restaurants. If restaurants were his business, scholarship was where his heart lay. In the early 1980s, his passion for Jewish history led to his becoming involved with the nascent Spiro Institute, later the London Jewish Cultural Centre (LJCC). His encyclopedic knowledge of traditional Judaism and Jewish history, and his electric personality, made him a superb teacher. As the Spiro Institute developed a Modern Jewish History program at schools such as Eton, Harrow and St Paul’s Boys School, Jerry became integral to its teaching. He taught adults and students all over the country. Jerold and his colleagues were asked by Sir Martin Gilbert if a dozen teachers, each going once a year, could go to Russia and to teach Jewish history to refuseniks. Jerry’s allocated subject was Zionism. He gave lectures in Moscow and St Petersburg in private homes. But he was betrayed and hauled into KGB headquarters where, after an uncomfortable interview, he was told to be a tourist. Jerry’s charisma was often effective in thwarting the bureaucrats of the former Soviet Union. He was proud that his exploits were written up in a Russian newspaper, where he was accused of propagating nationalism amongst the minorities. He also took children from deprived backgrounds to the death camps, to teach them about prejudice.

Obituaries Fifteen years ago, the Hong Kong expatriate Jewish community decided to commemorate Yom Ha’Shoah. They had borrowed exhibits from the Sydney Holocaust Museum, but had no educator. Jerry stepped up, and was surprised to discover that a thousand Chinese people a day were coming to see the exhibition. It was at that time that he met Xu Xin, Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nanjing. This marked the beginning of Jerry’s last great work. In the past 17 years, he was at the forefront of Jewish education in China. His legacy at Henan University, where he was an associate professor at the Centre for Jewish Studies, includes more than thirty students with PhDs in Jewish history; twelve with jobs in Chinese universities; the Shalom Library, the biggest collection of books in China on Jewish history; study of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust; and the institution’s Centre for Jewish and Israel Studies, which has become the research base for Israel Studies designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Jerry was very proud of his Chinese students, and exceptionally fond of them. Jerry adored his children Jared and Natalie, and was very close to them. Natalie describes her father as “larger than life. He left a powerful impression on everyone who met him. His passion for knowledge and living made him outspoken, energetic, magnanimous, bold, defiant, inspiring, argumentative and, of course, he was always right. He was never a spectator, always impatient and could not help being the life and soul of many occasions”. His background had made him a wanderer, but he loved London, where he died, in October. A version of this obituary was originally published on May 17, 2018 by the International Centre for Jewish Studies, and is reproduced with kind permission here.

Percival Stanion, 1976 19th October 1957 29th March 2018 One of my fondest memories of Percival is at a dinner party in 1987. He was then making his way in the City, but all my other guests belonged to what would now be termed the metropolitan liberal media elite. Late in the evening someone made a disparaging comment about the intellectual calibre of Ronald Reagan, then US President. Percival bridled at this commonplace and countered that Reagan was in fact the greatest and most successful US politician since the Second World War. The table rose in protest, but he forcefully defended the idea. Backed by a formidable range of reference, with relentless patience and courtesy (and a hint of mischief), Percival, possibly not entirely sober, demolished every objection offered, so that after 20 minutes everyone had been reduced to silence. It had been a typical bravura display. Percival loved arguments. And he loved winning them. To a remarkable extent his powerfully analytical mind was disinterested, free from secular bias. He could set aside preconceptions, concerned only to go where the facts led. But equally remarkably he was willing to change his mind if presented with a more persuasive argument or better information. He had an innate modesty about his abilities and appreciated how much luck plays in human affairs. His choice of a quotation for a room in Pembroke’s new quad was: “Neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all”. Percival was born in Manchester in 1957, the fourth of five children. The most fateful event of his childhood was his father’s unexpected death in 1963. All the children had been educated at home up to this point, but now entered the state school system. Percival thrived there, eventually winning a full scholarship to William Hulme Grammar School.

He came up to Pembroke College in 1976 to read PPE and immersed himself in college and university life. He worked hard, but not too hard (he was certainly the only undergraduate I knew to miss a 4pm tutorial and apologise with the truthful excuse that he had slept in.) The Oxford Union played a large part in his social life - he didn’t take part in the debates, but eventually became the returning officer, presiding over the Union’s notoriously fractious termly elections. After a hedonistic second year he took a year out to repair his finances and in order not to alter his nocturnal lifestyle he worked as a croupier in a Manchester casino — an experience which created a lifelong aversion to gambling. He came down to London in 1980 to work as a Building and Construction analyst at the stockbroker, Simon & Coates. Back then a career in the City was not considered particularly exciting, glamorous or even well-paid. Percival however from his early teens had expressed a precocious interest in finance. In 1983 he moved to NPI as an American analyst and then in 1986 to MIM. In 1993 he went to Pictet Asset Management, where he honed his skills as an Asset Allocator. He then moved to Paribas in 1998 and in 2001 he became Head of Asset Allocation at Barings Asset Management where he became a pioneer of the Multi-Asset funds business. He returned to Pictet in 2014 and was honoured to be made an equity partner in 2016 - as distinguished as you can be at Pictet without actually being Swiss. Since his death, many colleagues have expressed their gratitude for his support and advice - he was a disinterested mentor to many. They also mentioned his wide cultural interests - notably history, politics, architecture, gardening. But very often they used the unfashionable term “gentleman”. And shedding its class connotations, this is accurate - his integrity, courtesy, modesty, responsibility and generosity together approached the traditional ideal. He re-established a relationship with Pembroke College as a member of their investment committee. He also contributed financially to various development projects and this involvement, and his inclusion in the Master’s Circle, resulted in his decision to fully fund the Stanion Biochemistry Graduate Scholarship in perpetuity. Percival’s life was transformed by meeting Liz in 2001 and the last 17 years were the happiest of his life. Their marriage in 2003 and the birth of their daughter Pip in 2008 brought him intense happiness and content. This mutual love allowed the creation of an idyllic domesticity at their homes in Hook Norton and Hampstead, which always brought to my mind John Ruskin’s observation that there is no wealth but life. Ian Irvine (1975), friend

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Obituaries

Daniel Emmerson, 2001 22nd September 1977 30th July 2018 Daniel (Dan) Emmerson, who has died, aged 40, from complications following treatment for leukaemia, was a post graduate DPhil student in Organic Chemistry at Pembroke from 2001 until 2005. He was a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Leicester before undertaking a similar role at Imperial College, London, where he contributed to no fewer than 13 publications. In 2011 he joined the staff of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) becoming a Portfolio Manager in the Energy team. He is survived by his wife Laura Godwin (Matriculated 2002) who was a fellow member of the Pembroke College Boat Club and by their son, Sam. In addition to his ability as a scientist, Dan will be remembered for his intellectual curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity; and - above all – his sense of humour. These qualities made him a popular member of every team he joined. He threw himself into everything that caught his interest, determined to know everything there was to know and to be the best he could. Enthusiasms included travel, literature, cooking, music and, in particular, sport. Dan started rowing at Durham University, where he took his MSc in Chemistry. At Pembroke, he rowed for the 1st and 2nd Eights. At Oxford, he began to cycle seriously and was soon participating in endurance races, completing the 2016 RideLondonSurrey 100 Sportive a few months before his diagnosis. Living near an indoor climbing wall in London, he became interested in this sport and rapidly became proficient, eventually tackling technically quite difficult climbs in Switzerland. Ever loyal in everything he did, he remained a supporter of Birmingham City Football Club from schooldays. As one friend has pointed out, these are all sports that lend themselves to several pints of Real Ale in the pub afterwards! Above all, his family will remember his kindness, sense of fun and his infectious laugh. Despite his long illness, Laura, his family and his young son continued to bring him great joy

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in the last months of his life. Dan’s family have set up an online fundraiser in his memory: see https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/ SomeoneSpecial/DanielEmmerson3

Deaths Notified

Peter Emmerson, father

Former Master

Emeritus Fellows

Sir Roger Bannister

Professor Douglas Gray Professor Eric Stanley Dr Gordon Whitham

Professor Ben Davis, Fellow in Chemistry, writes: ‘Dan was a member of our group for almost 6 years, initially at Durham, where until October 2001 our group was based, and then here at Oxford. The first thing that I noticed about Dan was his considered, intellectual approach – paused analysis and then deep insight. In an era where everyone is moving perhaps too quickly, too superficially, his ability to think deeply was striking. This ability was borne out in his undergraduate degree. His tutors and supervisors at Durham were universal in their approval of his ability as a chemist. I was Dan’s DPhil supervisor from 2001 until the end of 2005. I remember his relaxed consideration of the fact that we were moving to Oxford as a group, which many would have found disruptive, and that we wanted him to join us. As with most things, he simply took this in his stride and made the utmost of this new circumstance. During his DPhil he showed a drive and ability that made him perfectly suited for research. His lateral thinking and ability to see more than one side to problems was the key to his constant progress. Indeed, I did not encounter a situation either theoretical or practical in which he did not have a helpful contribution to make (to his project or those of others). His gift for pragmatic scientific research was in my experience at a rare level – the gift of being able to see the whole of his project, in terms of the general aims and goals, and yet have sufficient grasp of all aspects of the detail to ensure precision and effective, efficient experimental design. His project investigated the use of carbohydrates as ligands and reagents for generating asymmetry during, for example, fundamental carbon-carbon bondforming processes. His 2006 ‘Organic Letters’ paper on additions of alkynes to aldehydes (controlled by carbohydrates wrapped around zinc in >99% enantiomeric excess) was an elegant gem of a study: systematic, logical, brilliant. This is still regularly cited by key players in the field. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was loved by the group: rarely phased and always willing to explain and to listen. Above all, the thing that I will always think of first was his excellently dry wit, the ability to make a perfectly judged, subtle, funny comment at just the right time. He was someone you couldn’t help to smile at - or with - whenever he was around. We will miss him greatly.’

Alumni

Ben Ainsworth John Allen Thomas Barden Lewis Bernstein Michael Bettaney The Revd Professor Richard Bonney Rachel Boulding Dr Humphrey Bowen Josh Brayman Professor Douglas Brewer David Bright Kenneth Cordner Alexis Corker Geoff Crookes Dr John Cruickshank Dr Roy Damary The Rt Hon Mr Denzil Davies Terence Denton Professor Philip Drew Daniel Emmerson Tony Farmar Alan Fell Professor Bruce Fetter Gary Flather OBE QC Jerry Gotel John Guilor Roger Howells Dr Sarah Hyde Dr Peter Lornie Phil Manning Dr Roger Maskill Dr Andy McKinlay Trevor Messenger Stanley Metcalfe John Mortimore Nick Morton Rebekah Nahai Professor Jeffrey O’Riordan Lester O’Shea Professor Allan Patmore CBE JP Sir Leonard Peach Tony Price Preston Prichard Parick Reilly The Hon Lord Ivor Richard PC QC David Rubenstein Dr Peter Scott Percival Stanion Peter Stokoe Wassim Suliman Geoffrey Taylor Sara T’Rula Peter Ungoed-Thomas Frank Vallender Bill Vincent OBE His Honour Kenneth Willcock QC Elisa Williams Dr Harry Wilson Dr Nick Wrigley Alan Yeates

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Sir Roger Bannister, CH CBE: A Tribute College had led him to believe they considered him as a Master ideally placed to advance the College’s academic standing, he himself foresaw his role as addressing the issue of fundraising. Two years later, the foundation stone of the New Building, which was to become the Sir Geoffrey Arthur Building (GAB), was laid by Senator Richard Lugar, former Rhodes Scholar, at a ceremony attended by the new University Chancellor and College Visitor, Lord Jenkins. The scale of the project drew comparisons with the vision of former Master Francis Jeune, under whose Mastership Chapel Quad and the College Hall were constructed.

Born in 1929 in Harrow, Roger Bannister came up to Oxford in 1946 to study Medicine at Exeter College. It was eight years later, while practising as a junior doctor, that he famously made history by running the first sub-four minute mile (in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds). His talents on the track brought him to the attention of many, but his professional career as a neurologist was no less distinguished. In combining his passion for running with his outstanding physiological learning his contribution to both was immeasurably enhanced. At Pembroke, Sir Roger will particularly be remembered for the great contribution he made during his term of leadership. He took up the Mastership in 1985, making his Declaration to the then College Visitor, the Right Honourable Harold Macmillan. In his first Master’s Notes for The College Record, he observed that, although the Fellows of the

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His legacy lives on in College, where it will continue to inspire new generations of students and visitors alike to achieve great things. The impact of the new buildings on completion in 1990 was manifest, but there was to be no resting on laurels as in 1990 planning had already started with a view to expanding the College site to neighbouring Brewer Street. This new annex was eventually embraced within a major project two decades later which saw The Rokos Quad, complete with transformational new facilities and joined to the historic main site, opened in 2013.

Pembroke’s debt to Sir Roger extends beyond the changes to the estate effected during his time with us as Master. Links with our American students were strengthened by the relationships famously nurtured by Sir Roger and Lady Moyra. The social side of College was further enhanced by the introduction of the College Garden Party, now firmly established as a favourite fixture in the College calendar. During his time in College more than 100 Firsts were achieved by undergraduates and around 80 sporting Blues were awarded (official records state that half blues were too numerous to count). All of which is testament to his strong fostering of Pembroke as a challenging yet supportive environment for study. After his retirement in 1993, Sir Roger continued a close relationship with Pembroke as an Honorary Fellow, and was a regular attendee at College events. His name lives on in College: The Bannister Building in Rokos Quad is a permanent tribute to his Mastership. Not only his portrait, but also many of Sir Roger’s sporting trophies and awards are on display in the College Hall. The Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship is awarded annually to an undergraduate showing excellent performance in both academic and sporting activities, and the Bannister Medical Scholarship goes to the student giving the most distinguished performance in Final Honours School examinations. Sir Roger and his family lived in the Master’s Lodgings in College and took a deep interest in each student and their successes. He sustained that interest right up until the end, and his legacy lives on in College, where it will continue to inspire new generations of students and visitors alike to achieve great things.

How we remember Sir Roger at Pembroke The Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship is awarded annually for all-round sporting and academic excellence, normally to undergraduates at the end of their second year. It may be split between more than one recipient. It was established in 1995 with a donation from Sir Roger.

The Bannister Medical Scholarship is awarded to pre-clinical medics after FHS results. It was established in 1993 with a donation from an alumnus.

Trophy collection

Master’s portrait

on display in the Hall gallery

on display in Hall

The Bannister Building

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Sir Roger Bannister, CH CBE: A Tribute The Pembroke Years - Highlights 1985

Sir Roger makes his declaration to Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of Oxford and Visitor of Pembroke, on taking up the Mastership (below)

1986

Regular visits to America result in formation of North American Alumni organisation

1987

Laying of Foundation stone, Sir Geoffrey Arthur Building (GAB)

1988

First annual Pembroke Garden Party held on Saturday of Eights Week

1989

Election of first female Fellows, Lynda Mugglestone (English) and Miri Rubin (History)

1990

Purchase of 7 and 8 Brewer Street (now The Bannister Building), which are then refurbished to provide graduate accommodation

1991

Pembroke wins Best College Gardens in the Oxford in Bloom Competition

1992

Record number of firsts achieved in finals (20)

1993

19 students win Blues and both men’s and women’s crews reach 2nd on the river at Summer Eights

Sir Roger at his Retirement Dinner

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Who can forget the sunlit…days when we had the garden party. There was the noise of children, Fellows and members, which was just heard above the strains of the very elegant quartet that was playing in the corner of the tent...

“...Then after the garden party we streamed down to the river to see the eights and the boathouse was bursting with cheering. Would Pembroke go head of the river? I can remember the music society and the orchestra and each year seemingly a more distinguished performance than the previous year. I can remember the annual MCR/ SCR cricket match…The SCR members despite their flannels having grown smaller and the pitch having grown longer usually managed to win. I remember student plays - the Canterbury Tales, a bawdy but bright performance on the lawn.

1985 Master’s Notes

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My wife and I have now moved into the Lodgings and the last of the packing cases has just been cleared from the hall...

“Samuel Johnson looks down from his portrait on a magnificent rocking horse…for our three grandchildren. We want to show that the Lodgings are now our permanent home, where Old Members of the College are welcome to visit us and take us as they find us. Under the stone fireplace in the hall, decorated with Tudor roses and the carved Wolsey hat, we have kindled a log fire which gives a blaze to drive out Oxford’s mists and fogs.”

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Another memory is of special College occasions, the annual round of students’ Christmas Dinners, a boisterous party where, incidentally, buns and brussels sprouts could not be served for obvious reasons… And then we remember the great occasion of the opening of the new building at Grandpont. When Fulbright was in his 85th year, he stood in the quadrangle which was named after him and despite his anguished understanding of the horrors of the wars he had lived through, he could still voice his optimism for the future, and that was a deeply moving moment for the younger audience that heard him. The best memory of all is a myriad of staunch, lasting Pembrokian friends…I am just one in a line of 22 Masters of this College, each one, as it were, standing on the shoulders of a predecessor, so that a college like Pembroke embodies Burke’s thought of a partnership between generations past, the present generation and generations yet to come.”

Sir Roger Bannister, CH CBE: A Tribute David Fleeman, Vicegerent - Speech at Sir Roger’s Retirement Dinner

Messages at the Time of Sir Roger’s Retirement From Damon Wells, alumnus “Almost eight years ago to date I welcomed the incoming Master at the Pembroke Society Dinner in the Hall with these words: “If we expect Sir Roger to run his best race ever here at Pembroke, let him in turn at the end of the day be able to say about the College Alumni that through our support we kept the faith with him”. His was a grand race; indeed it was a triumph, here at Pembroke. As Sir Roger and Lady Bannister now move on to other interests and activities, they take with them the affections of the Pembroke family around the globe.”

Photo by Ankers Photography

“The arrival of every new Master is met by some unease lest he should turn the house upside down and set the Fellows by the ears…Apprehensions there were lest the introduction of a different and perhaps more athletic regime should be established by a four minute miler. Luckily, especially for those of us who had formed an early aversion to cold baths and early morning runs, no such eccentricities arose.”

From Senator Lugar, alumnus (pictured above, left)

From J William Fulbright, alumnus (pictured above, second from right)

“All of us who treasure the heritage of Pembroke College feel deeply grateful to have witnessed and enjoyed your leadership as Master of our college. Your achievements have been extraordinary, and the dreams which you have articulated so well have inspired many of us to take an unparalleled interest in Pembroke College.”

“I am particularly disappointed to learn that you are retiring. It seems to me much too soon… You have had a remarkably successful tenure at Pembroke, and I am sure it will be a great source of pleasure in the years to come.”

From Sir Robert Clarke, alumnus “What a tremendous contribution you have made to Pembroke over the last eight years! I am sure that the College, and everyone connected with it, has tried to persuade you to change your mind and stay on longer, but we must respect your wishes and be very thankful for the many things you have achieved for the College during your Mastership.”

From Kallistos Ware, Fellow 1970-2002

“The College has many reasons to be profoundly grateful for your leadership as Master…As well as guiding the outward expansion of the College, you have strengthened the spirit of friendship and mutual trust among the Fellows and within our College community as a whole.”

From Piers Mackesy, Emeritus Fellow “The loss, of course, is Pembroke’s. Under your Mastership the College has made great advances academically, in sport and in resources. You will be greatly missed.”

On the occasion of Dame Lynne Brindley’s installation as Master of Pembroke in 2013, Sir Roger (right) attended a special welcome dinner for her alongside other former Masters, Robert Stevens (left) and Giles Henderson (second left).

Excerpts from Dame Lynne’s Tribute Dame Lynne Brindley, Master, gave a speech about Sir Roger’s great contribution to Pembroke at a special event held in Oxford to celebrate his life. This occasion brought together members of the Bannister family, and of Oxford University, with representatives of the City of Oxford and distinguished figures in sport and medicine, as well as the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. It was held in the Sheldonian Theatre in November 2018. A video is available online: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/sirroger

“Sir Roger was elected to the Mastership of Pembroke College in 1985 and served for eight years. He writes eloquently and amusingly in his autobiography about the mysterious process of the election of Masters, reflecting that Fellows are looking for the Archangel Gabriel, but as reality prevails they may find their breadth of choice narrows. He concludes that the role is no longer the sinecure it might have been half a century ago but involves hard work, continuous fund-raising, and many and varied responsibilities. He also remarked that each day was highly unpredictable – each morning he knew there were going to be surprises but had little idea of the direction from which they would come.

Buildings, and fundraising for them, did not get in the way of Sir Roger’s interest in each undergraduate. All students had opportunities to come to the lodgings, with a final term party for 3rd and 4th years before they became submerged in work for finals. On his retirement there were many wonderful messages of good will and affection from old members [see above]. Sir Roger’s engagement with Pembroke continued unabated and there were always young people wanting to speak with him. His rich legacy lives on in College.”

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Online Tributes Following Sir Roger’s death in 2018, many alumni and friends of the College paid tribute to him online. This is a small selection.

Natalie Harney

Kat Howarth @KatLouHaworth | 2013, BA Law

#sirrogerbannister was a fantastic athlete and an inspiration to many for his sporting achievements. He was also a much loved, well respected Master of @PembrokeOxford and will be missed by many for his academic achievements too, during his time as master and subsequently #RIP

@natalieharney | 2013, BA English Language and Literature

So very sad to hear of the passing of Sir Roger Bannister and so grateful to have met such a great man while I was at college

Kate Adlington @kateadlington | 2002, MA Human Sciences, Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship recipient

Incredibly sad to hear about Sir Roger Bannister. Was privileged to share a lunch with him once @PembrokeOxford, where he had previously been master - he was lovely & charming & self-effacing. Lisa Hartley @Drlisa30 | 1991, BA Clinical Medicine

Such sad news. Sir Roger was the reason I applied to Pembroke in 1991. So many happy memories of him as Master and I was lucky to have some neurology teaching from him too. Condolences to his family. Simon Mills @SimonMills1 | 1985, MA History

Sad to hear of the loss of my former @PembrokeOxford Master Roger Bannister. Unfailingly bright and charming to hapless students like me. Jonathan Prynn @JonPrynn | 1983, PPE

Very sorry to hear this. I interviewed Sir Roger for the then college magazine Coalscuttle when he was appointed Master in 1985. He was generous with his time, charming and highly quotable. Thoughts are with his family and friends.

Jane Rice-Bowen @JaneCircus | 1992, BA Law

RIP #sirrogerbannister aka The Faster Master @PembrokeOxford Fond memories of a Christmas dinner in hall where the cry of “Roger Roger run us a mile” resulted in him rising from his seat & gamely miming running & breasting the tape. Privileged to have met him.

David Allen Green @davidallengreen | 1990, MA Modern History

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Photos (left - right) Sir Roger at USA dinner with Senators Lugar (left) and J William Fulbright (second from right) (photo by Ankers Photography); with Blues-winning students in 1986; with Harold Macmillan (University Chancellor, right) and Ian Grant (Vicegerent) on admission as College Master; with Lady Moyra in the Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lodgings Garden; hosting US alumni at a Lodgings Garden Party; portrait in Hall (artist: John Stanton Ward); with benefactors to 7 and 8 Brewer Street refurbishment; at home in North Oxford (photo by Nicholas Posner); at the boathouse, Summer Eights 1992; celebrating the 50th anniversary of his sub-4 minute mile in 2004; at the river near the newly opened Sir Geoffrey Arthur Building (GAB); showing GAB model to Harold Macmillan; with Governing Body 1990; at the opening of The Rokos Quad in 2013 with Lady Moyra; laying the foundation stone for the GAB with Roy Jenkins (University Chancellor) and alumnus Senator Lugar (photo by Oxford & County Newspapers); celebrating the naming of the Sir Roger Bannister with members of the boat club and successor Master Robert Stevens; with 17th Earl of Pembroke in 1990 (photo by Stuart Bebb)

Front (left - right) Quill visit to Washington DC; The Importance of Being Earnest; Master visits Southmoor Academy; Open Day 2018; mixed netball cuppers winners; Baddeley Dinner for visiting students; Diversity Week; Dogfight; Tesdale Lunch exhibition; Prof Lord Nicholas Stern gives the Annual Fulbright Lecture; Inaugural Pembroke Estee Lauder Graduate Innovation Prize pitch event; Pembroke on the Sofa participants; Light Embodied exhibition; Garden Party; lunchtime music recital; Clara Chivers, JCR Art Curator, addressing alumni at Saatchi Gallery reception; Master with Honorary Fellow Sara Miller McCune who received a lifetime achievement award at London Book Fair

Back (left - right) Women’s and men’s rugby win cuppers; MCR allotment; University Challenge team 2018; alumni portrait display in Hall; retiring Strategic Development Director Andrew Seton with Alumni Advisory Panel Chairman Ian Cormack; pupils at Afro-Caribbean Tyler Prize workshop in London; opening of Rachel Owen’s Inferno Illustrations exhibition; Biochemistry Fellow Andre Furger receives funding cheque from Tanaka Foundation; students at Careers Fest; STAR Panel event; Alumni Weekend Dinner; Undergraduate Leavers’ Dinner; Summer Eights; winners of Pembroke Tyler Essay Prizes; Master with members of the Lee Hysan Foundation; Stefan Gates at the Annual Fund Series event; Arts Week; VE Schwab gave the annual JRR Tolkien Lecture in Fantasy Literature; pupils at Access Week; Angela Palmer at Meeting of Minds