St Edmund Hall Magazine 1983-84

St Edmund Hall Magazine

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1983-84

ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE with Diamond Jubilee Supplement October 1984

VOL. XII. No. 4 EDITORIAL

there are errors in last year's Magazine which must be publicly apologised for, and corrected.

To Mr. P. B. Morsberger who appeared on page 8 as P. G. Morsberger.

To Mr. R. G. White (1959) and his wife, who were indeed present at the Rhodes Reunion dinner in Hall, but not included in the Magazine's list of guests. Alas they arrived a fraction too late to be in the commemorative photograph, but they were present at the dinner and the subsequent festivities.

This will be the last Editorial and the last Magazine produced by the present Editor, who looks forward with keen anticipation to the excitement of receiving his next copy, which he will neither have written, edited nor copy-read. He sends best wishes to his successor, and hopes that he will always be able to find such splendid Assistant Editors as he has had over the past years. This year I record my thanks to my Assistant Editor, Maggie Hall, who has proved as successful in getting acceptable articles from her contemporaries as in producing beautiful notes from her flute. I also record thanks to the staff of the College Office for a new help- teaching me to use the word-processor to produce a great part of this year's copy.

AS USUAL

FROM THE PRINCIPAL of the year has been the change of admissions arrangements, to take effect in the examinations in 1985. From this date all candidates for the entrance examination will be at the same stage with regard to A-levels, and all home candidates for entry, by whatever route, will be considered at the same time.

Some faculties are happier than others with these changes, but we THE GREAT TRAUMA

all await the outcome with some anxiety, as there are a number of unknowns.

This has been Graham Midgley's last year as a Tutorial Fellow.

Since his appointment in 1951 he has been Dean for twenty-two years, Vice-Principal for nine years, and Chaplain for six years to date. He has been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship from 1st October 1984, and will continue as Chaplain for a further year, so the loss will not be total. In addition, he has just over two years to go as President of the St. Edmund Hall Association. As Chaplain he is probably reflecting on the state of those to whom peace does not come. He can at least be sure of the warm good wishes of all of us for what promises to be only his 'retirement'.

THE NORHAM ST. EDMUND APPEAL A REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE S.E.H. ASSOCIATION LAST YEAR'S MAGAZINE, with its letter from the Visitor and the then- President, Sir William Nield, revived the Appeal, and we can now report on the progress made in the first year of our renewed effort.

In March there was a meeting at the Hall of about 30 Aularians who had agreed to help as activists, to contact others by post, by phone or by holding get-togethers over drinks or food, to persuade others, by personal approach, to contribute. At that meeting those present took under their care

Oxfordshire parts of London North Middlesex Surrey Shropshire Cumbria Cambridge

Berkshire Cheshire Bristol South Gloucester Buckinghamshire South Hampshire Wiltshire

After this, those who couldn't be at the meeting but had written to say they would like to help were written to, and they consequently took over Canterbury Lincolnshire North Kent more of London

Norfolk East Sussex Ripon and Harrogate South Herefordshire 2

The President then selected other names in other unadopted areas and wrote asking for help. There was a most encouraging response, and these approaches secured workers in Merseyside Co. Durham West Sussex Liverpool Sheffield Cheltenham Wakefield/ Huddersfield York Sevenoaks Suffolk Bromley and Tunbridge Large areas still to be activated are Birmingham, Manchester, and the industrial heartland of Yorkshire, and plans are already in hand for setting them alight. Plans for me to visit and plead with Canadian Aularians are in hand, and I may be able to fit in a trip over the border to New York and Washington.

A direct attack on the night of the Reunion, with me sitting at the receipt of custom in the Old Dining Hall, brought in a gratifying ÂŁ4,500.

As with all large-scale efforts such as this, there has been a mixture of failure and success, disappointment and encouragement. On the whole there has been a poor response to invitations to get-togethers- the most discouraging thing being not refusals but simply failure to reply to invitations at all. Even so, some small gatherings, with Jeremy Whiting at York, with Roger Farrand at his London home, at Joe Graffy's house near Oxford, at the Yen .

Kenneth Unwin's house at Wakefield, and in the Old Library in Hall, have been extremely pleasant reunions and profitable to the Appeal. Other workers, using letter and telephone have had some good successes. We need more volunteers in every area, especially in the West, in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, and in Essex, and there are still a great number to be dealt with in London. If anyone is interested, please write to me, at the Hall.

Finally progress. We started, as you remember, with the first phase of the Appeal stopped dead at ÂŁ80,000 from some 420 contributors. At the time of going to press, as a result of the renewed Appeal in last year's Magazine and all our subsequent efforts in the field, we have reached

ÂŁ158,000 This is splendid. We've a long way to go yet, but we're moving and still moving. Keep it up and we'll get there.

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Those who have contributed since the last list was published in the 1982-83 Magazine are: CONTRIBUTORS TO THE NORHAM ST. EDMUND APPEAL (NOVEMBER 1983- AUGUST 1984) J. A., Alder, D. W., Andrewes, J. D., Andrews, Revd. J. V., Asbrey, W. P., Ashton, Revd. T. E. M., Astin, T. R., Bailey, Revd. A. D., Barber, F. L., Baron, L. D. A., Bates, M. G., Bate, R. C. 1., Bath, L. E., Beard, M. J., Beaumont, H. P., Beckwith, Revd. R. T., Beck, A. J., Beehler, Prof. R. G., Bendhem, T., Beresford Barrett, H., Berryman, J. R., Blackbum, J. F., Blackwell, N. S., Blair, P. H., Bloom, D., Boff, J. C., Booker, M. D., Boothroyd, Revd. J. H., Boucher, N. A., Brett, P. V., Brockbank, Dr. J. K., Brown, M. R., Brunskill, A., Budden, P. S. H., Budden, W. W., Bull, G. E., Bumett-Hitchcock, B. J., Burroughs, Dr. W. J., Burrough, E. J. R., Bursell, Revd. Dr. R. D. H., Burt, I. L. R., Butler, S. C., Byatt, Dr. I. C. R., Cain, J. C., Callan, Revd. R. J., Campbell, Dr. M. J., Cansdale, M. J., Carruthers, G., Carver, W. J. L., Catmur, J. R., Cerratti, Dr. R., Chapman, D. R., Chapman, Revd. Canon R. A., Chatterjea, M. K., Christopher, J. F., Clarke, D. R., Clarke, M. J., Clark, R. C. S., Clevely, A. M., Clibbom, D. H., Cloke, H., Coates, B. R., Coghlin, T. G., Coleman, 1., Collingridge, M., Collins, R. 1., Congdon, Revd. J. J., Cooper, D. J., Cooper, R. C. M., Copestake, K. P., Cotton, M. J., Covey, F., Cowles, P. R., Cuff, T. R. H., Cummings, L., Curry, Revd. A. B., Davison, Revd. C. K. H., Dawson, J. A., Day, D. J., Derx, D. J., De Rennes, J. R., De Vere Green, R. H. B., Dudman, A. A., Duncan-Jones, Revd. A. R., Earle, J. F., Ebden, Dr. P., Ellerton, M. F. H., English Property Corporation, Farrand, J. E., Finch, R. A. H., Fisher, Revd . R. St. John, Floyd, D., Foster, A. A. J., Foster, P. T., French, J. G., Gell, S. R., Georgiadis, Alexander, V., Gillman, J. E., Gleave, G. R., Godden, J. S., Gow, P. J., Graffy, J. C., Green, Dr. J. M., Griffin-Smith, C. D., Grindrod, H. N., Grist, J. F., Grocott, M. J., Groves, M. G. M., Gulland, W. G., Gutch, Revd. J. P., Haile, Dr. N. S., Halliwell, Revd.

M. A., Hallsmith, G. H., Hanbidge, F. H., Harris, H. R., Harris, P. H., Havergal, Revd. D. E., Hawes, M. M., Hawkins, J. W., Hayes, P. J., Head, R. M., Heard, E. A. H., Henning, Miss A.-D., Henwood, Revd.

P. R., Herbert, W. L., Hewitson, Dr. J. F., Hobbs, K. S., Hockey, M. S., Hockridge, D. J., Holden, A., Holden, C. W., Hooper, Revd. D. R., Hopkinson, J. M., Housden, J. E. M., Hunt, H. J., Hurren, R. S., Hutchinson, S. M., Ilgren, Dr. E. B., Ingham, K. C. R., Jackson, Dr. N. MCN., Jackson, 1., Jaffey, J. M., James, R. C. T., James, W. R., Jarvis, Revd. W. A. W., Jenkins, E., Jenkins, E. S., Jenkins, Revd. J. L., Jerrom, M. F., Johns, M. C., Jones, D. N., Jones, T. G. P., Kemp, R., Kentfield, E. L. H., Kenworthy, R. A., Kerr Muir, J. R., Kingsley, Dr. A. P., Kingstone, Dr. B. D., Lemon, Dr. A., Lowe, Revd. R. J., Long, C. H. L., Long, H. A. R., Lowenthal, A. S., Lowe, Col. E. E., Lowe, J. AKROYD,

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C., Luddington, R. S., Lunn, R. G., Mabbett, J., Marsh, J. P., Martin, M. D., Matthews, Revd. M. W., Maxwell, H. A., McCann, S. A., McCormac, K. F., McCurry, Prebendary N. E., McDonald, Dr. H. F., McDonald, R. J., McElheran, J., Mclsaac, I. C., McManners, Revd.

Prof. 1., McNaught, G. W., Meade, J. P. de C., Mellish, D. E., Merrylees, N. K., Metters, G. A., Midgley, Revd. E. G., Miller, W. R., Missen, Dr. G. A. K., Mitford-Barberton, Dr. G. de B., Morgan, D. L., Morley, N. J., Morris, B. T. C., Morris, G. R. 1.,- Mosdell, L. P., Mosley, Dr. J., Mudge, J. A., Nicholson, T. V., Norman, A. G., Oakley, M. R., Oliver, R. N., Oilier, Revd. C. R., Owen, D. C., Palmer, M. D., Palmer, Sir John, Parry, V. F. H., Patient, A. 1., Paul, J. R., Paxman, Dr. G. 1., Payne, T. A. R., Peacock, H. H. E., Penn, C. S., Plant, J., Pocock, Dr. F. 1., Pope, H. E., Pope, N. C. 1., Potter, B. G., Price, E. G., Price, G. 1., Purves, J. D. S., Pye, J. A. Charitable Trust, Rainbow, Revd. Prebendary G. A. H., Randall, Dr. M. R. D., Rawlinson, E., Rayner, J. S., Reddick, C. E. A., Redington, H. H., Reid, J. A., Rivas, P., Robbins, P. G. D., Robertson, D. L., Robertson, J. A., Robins, J. M. U., Robson, M. A., Ross, K. H., Rothwell, B. P., Round, 1. K., Rumsey, CanonS. H., Rutherford, J. E., Sands, T. P., Saul, P. B., Shield, G. L. H. R., Shipster, M. D., Simmonds, E. A., Slack, W. H., Smith, D. 1. H., Smith, K., Sprague, Prof. E. deL., Stacey, Revd.

N., Stephens, G. W., Strawbridge, N. F., Suter, Revd. Canon M. E. H., Sutton-Mattocks, C. 1., Symonds, D. R., Taylor, C. F., Ten Bos, F. H., Terry, A. 1., Thome, C. G., Thomton, Revd. J., Timms, Venerable G. B., Tindale, P. 1., Townsend, Revd. Canon J. C., Treacy, M. F., Tyler, 1. E., Urquhart, A. M., Urry, E., Wainwright, D. H. E., Wakelin, F. E., Wall, M., Walser, Venerable D., Warren, M. C., Way, D. D. H., West, D. V. S., Whiting, Dr. J. S. S., Wilmot, A. T. de B., Wilson, Dr. P. D., Worrall, C. C. H., Worthington, N. J., Worth, G., Wright, E. L.

THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS has been nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors as a member of the Visitatorial Board of the University.

Dr. P. J. Collins has visited the universities of Florence, Rome, Munich, Brussels, Antwerp and Rennes on behalf of the European Commission, in order to develop joint study programmes in mathematics between countries of the European Community.

The Revd. H. E. J. Cowdrey has been on sabbatical leave for the academic year. His activities included a period as the guest of the East German Academy of Sciences, under whose auspices he visited the History departments of the Universities of East Berlin, Halle, Jena and Leipsig, A. I. Marsh was honoured with an O.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List, 1984.

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Professor W. B. Matthews has been Sir Ernest Finch Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield in 1983, and was also awarded a Bronze Medal by the University of Helsinki.

Professor Emeritus G. W. Series (Emeritus Fellow) has retired from the University of Reading and is attached to the Clarendon Laboratory, as Honorary Research Fellow.

Dr. A. G. Taylor chaired a symposium on Second Messenger's and Epithelial Transport at the International Congress of Nephrology, Los Angeles, in June 1984.

A. B. Worden addressed the Conference of British Studies in Chicago and Washington, on the tercentenary of the Whig martyrdoms of 1683. He has been appointed to a Radcliffe Fellowship for 1985-7.

Professor Z. A. B. Zeman attended and gave papers at conferences in London and Vienna.

THE GOVERNING BODY have suggested that it would be interesting and helpful for the Magazine to print a list of the Fellows on the Governing Body together with the subjects they profess, and this we gladly do. The names are printed in order of seniority.

SOME READERS

Principal J. C. B. Gosling, B.Phil., MA Fellows R. E. Alton, MC, MA, Tutor in English Language and Literature.

R. B. Mitchell, MA, D.Phil. (MA Melbourne) Tutor in English Language and Literature.

The Revd. H. E. J. Cowdrey, MA, Tutor in Modern History, Archivist and Deputy Dean.

J. D. Todd, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Engineering and VicePrincipal F. J. C. Rossotti, B.Sc., MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Chemistry and Library Fellow.

D. I. Scargill, MA, D.Phil., JP. Tutor in Geography.

J. W. Christian, MA, D.Phil., FRS. Professor of Physical Metallurgy.

W. S. C. Williams, MA (Ph.D. Lond.) Tutor in Physics.

J. P. D. Dunbabin, MA. Butterworth Fellow, Tutor in Politics and Modern History, and Investment Bursar.

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A. I. Marsh, OBE, MA. Fellow by Special Election in Industrial Relations.

Sir Peter Hirsch, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), FRS. lsaac Wolfson Professor in Metallurgy.

M. S. Child, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) Tutor in Chemistry and Senior Tutor.

K. H. Segar, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Modern Languages (Modern German).

J. B. Knight, MA (MA Camb.) Tutor in Economics.

J. D. Hunt, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Tutor in Metallurgy and Science of Materials.

N. J. Stone, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Physics C. J. Wells, MA Tutor in Modern Languages (Medieval German) and Dean.

C. E. Phelps, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Mathematics.

W. B. Matthews, MA, DM, FRCP. Professor of Clinical Neurology.

Rear Adm.(retd.) G. C. Leslie, CB, OBE, MA. Domestic Bursar.

P. J. Collins, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Mathematics.

P. F. Ganz, MA (MA, Ph.D. Lond.) Professor of German.

A. B. Worden, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Tutor in Modern History.

J. M. F. Jaspars, MA, (Ph.D. Leiden) Tutor in Psychology and Tutor for Graduates.

S. R. Blarney, MA, D.Phil. Fellow by Special Election .

D. A. Wyatt, MA (LL B, MA Camb., JD Chicago) Barrister, Tutor in Law. H. C. Jenkyns, MA (Ph.D. Leic., MA Camb.) Tutor in Geology.

M. D. E. Slater, MA, M.Phil. Tutor in Economics.

A. G. Taylor, MA, BM, B.Ch. Tutor in Physiology.

A. Briggs, BCL, MA. Tutor in Law and Tutor for Admissions.

B. Kouvaritakis, MA (Ph.D. Manch.) Tutor in Engineering.

R. W. Daniel, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) CEGB Research Fellow in Engineering Science.

Z. A. B. Zeman, MA, D.Phil. Professorial Fellow.

J. A. Ferguson, MA. Junior Research Fellow in French.

S. L. Harley, MA. (B.Sc. New South Wales, Ph.D. Tasmania) Tutor in Geology.

S. L. Hurley, B.Phil., MA, D.Phil. (AB Princeton) Tutor in Philosophy.

D. G. Phillips, MA status, D.Phil. Fellow by Special Election.

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COMINGS AND GOINGS THIS YEAR we have welcomed to the body of Fellows three

distinguished persons in very varied fields of scholarship.

Susan Lynn Hurley, B.Phil., M.A., (A.B. Princeton), Junior Research Fellow of All Souls College (with the distinction of being the first woman Fellow of that society) has been elected to an Official Fellowship and Tutorship in Philosophy.

Robert John Muir Hughes, B.A. (Cantab.), D.Phil., has been elected to an Official Fellowship and Tutorship in Computation.

David George Phillips, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Educational Studies, has been elected to a Fellowship by Special Election.

George Michael Reed, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Ohio, was elected to a Visiting Fellowship for the academic year 1983-4.

Professor Malvern van Wyk Smith, Professor of English at Rhodes University was also elected to a Visiting Fellowship for the <:.cademic year 1984-5 but was unfortunately unable to accept.

Miss Lucy Newlyn, D.Phil., has been appointed Lecturer in English Literature for the academic year 1984-5.

Two members of the Governing Body left us at the end of the academic year.

The Revd. Graham Midgley, Fellow in English Literature, who was elected in 1951, has retired early from his Tutorial Fellowship.

The Governing Body has elected him into an Emeritus Fellowship from 1 October 1984, and he has agreed to continue as Chaplain to the Hall for one more year.

P. B. Morsberger has resigned his post as Master of the Ruskin School, and departed to become Professor in Fine Art in Minnesota, jointly at St. John's University and the College of St. Ben edict.

IN MEMORIAM: PHILIP GEDDES, 1959-1983 THE DEATH OF Philip Geddes in the car-bomb outrage outside

Harrod's last December moved many thousands of people, not only in the wide circle which knew him personally, but in the nation at large. When his paper The Daily Express started a memorial fund, the response was immediate and impressive, and nearly ÂŁ20,000 has been subscribed to found the scholarships in his memory which are gratefully acknowledged by the Governing Body elsewhere in the Magazine.

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The undergraduates in Hall were deeply shocked by the death of one of their near contemporaries, still fondly remembered by many in residence, and the Magazine reprints for its wider readership, the obituary which appeared in the Hall newspaper, The Aularian.

'Philip Geddes came up to the Hall from Barrow-in-Furness in Michaelmas 1977 and, even before he arrived, was writing in the lively and cheeky way which always distinguished his essays, his letters and his journalism. His schoolboy letter of thanks to the Senior Tutor for his first reading-list acknowledged these "suggestions for occupying idle hours", and he urged that college officer to write at once to his L.E.A. "to appease their veiled suspicions" about him, because they were "spicing their requests with dark reminders that they held the purse strings''.

Once arrived here, he launched himself into Hall and University life with a considerable splash. Politics and journalism were his two main interests, while he read the Honour School of English Language and Literature. He was an active member of the Union and a member of the Library Committee, well known in those gothic halls, but never reaching high office. He was first a news/feature reporter for and then Arts Editor of Cherwell, and particularly interested in cover design. In 1980 he was co-editor of the Cherwell Guide to Oxford. When O.U.D.S. decided to start a theatre magazine, he was in charge of production; when an Edmund Burke Society was founded, he was President; and when a Samuel Johnson Society was formed, he was a founder member.

He even found time to set up MOCKBA, a propaganda campaign against Moscow Olympics!

Little wonder that the weeks were sometimes too short to cover all this activity plus an essay. He had undoubted talent, a sharp mind and a gift for a telling phrase- which he exercised often in amusing if not always tactful letters of apology for academic sins of omission. A man of many parts, a lively and attractive companion, a great giver of parties and a fine host, a chatterbox, a socialite, a stimulating and often infuriating pupil- all of these, and also a man with high ambition, who knew he could make the sort of mark in the world which his Third in Finals wouldn't much affect.

So off he went to see an amazing amount of the world and of life in an incredibly short time. He lived and worked at first in Los Angeles and New York, making commercials, designing and filling in as a film extra. But Fleet Street and his first love drew him back, and in one year he made the top grade in national newspaper 9

work, when most men of his age would still be cub-reporters in the provinces. Working first for the London Standard, he established himself in the Diary world of journalism and then was asked to join the Daily Express as one of the team which compiles William Hickey's column. He covered the world to get his stories, interviewed and hobnobbed with the rich, the bad and the beautiful, and often risked refusal, rebuff and even buffeting to get his story.

It was in the end, his instinctive sense of 'a story' and the excitement of another possible scoop which drew him across the road to investigate, on that fatal 17th December outside Harrod's.

His death came as a terrible shock to his great number of friends, when the hearing of his name on the radio and then seeing his picture on the television screen, brought home to so many of us, with a personal intensity we had not known before, the lunatic horror of these killings. His death robbed his parents of their only child, his friends of a great companion, and his profession of a man of great promise.'

GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE records its thanks to the following who, during the year, made gifts to the Hall: The Boughton Trust, founded by the late Mrs. Dorothy Wharton, for a grant of ÂŁ500 to the Hall for the benefit of the Boat Club.

E. L. Cunnell, for a further gift of a Ceanothus (Trethiwan Blue) for the college garden.

The Chevron Exploration North Sea Ltd., for a grant of ÂŁ3,000 towards the academic purposes of the college, to be decided on the suggestions of the tutors in geology.

The Daily Express and the many friends of Philip Geddes, for creating the Philip Geddes Memorial Fund, to provide scholarships for undergraduates involved in student journalism whilst still maintaining high academic standards in their work, first preference being given to those reading English.

General Electric (UK) for their supporting a Junior Research Fellowship, possibly in matliematics relevant to Bio-systems.

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch for the gift of a fibreglass punt, 'Teddy Hall', for the use of the members of the J.C.R. and the S.C.R. Miss Geraldine Plumtre, the grand-daughter of Principal Moore, for the gift of his silver crumb-scoop.

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The St. Edmund Hall Association for a grant of £1 ,000 towards the expenses of the revival of the Norham St. Edmund Appeal.

The late Revd. Selwyn Cox for a legacy of his portrait and papers for the archives and books for the library.

The late K. D. Thompson for a legacy of £1,000 which will be used to buy books for the library related to parole and probation.

THREE MEN IN A BOAT from our Professorial Fellow, Sir Peter Hirsch, heralded elsewhere in this volume, provided three of his colleagues with a delightful opportunity to mess about on the river. One clear but chill morning in early Spring, Lady Hirsch greeted the intrepid three with coffee and cakes, followed by a celebratory sparkling cup prior to the maiden voyage. For this was the reason why the Principal, the Domestic Bursar and the writer were thus assembled on the banks of the Cherwell: and the punt in which they were to exercise their skill awaited, resplendent in gleaming Hall colours.

A short, expert demonstration was given from both the Oxford and Cambridge ends by Sir Peter, and then our three heroes enthusiastically cast aside their sweaters and prepared for action. I must dispel at once any misgivings about tht! condition of the punt on arrival. Perhaps we had too much in our favour: the Principal is a leader of men, the Domestic Bursar is an Admiral, the wind was behind and the sun shone. In forty or so minutes, with the Victoria Arms and the Cherwell Boathouse behind, the journey from Lonsdale Road to Norham St. Edmund was accomplished.

The Hall punt is an excellent craft, and members of the College will be able to take delight in this splendid gift for many years to come.

A GENEROUS GIFT

P.J.C. HONOURS AND AWARDS The Magazine congratulates: The Revd. Michael Bordeaux on being awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, of £140,000.

N. D. Caddick on being awarded a Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition at the Middle Temple.

P. A. Darling on being awarded a Senior Law Scholarship at the Middle Temple.

M. Erkelenz on being awarded a Violet Vaughan Morgan Commonwealth Studentship.

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P. T. Evans on being Proxime accesit in the Winter Williams Law Prize examination.

S. C. Flood on being awarded a Royal Society Fellowship.

S. J. Gatrell on being elected to a Charter Fellowship in English at Wolfson College, for 1984-5.

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch on being awarded the Arthur von Hippel award given by the U.S. Materials Science Research Society, and on sharing the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics with two American scientists.

The Revd. Canon J. McManners, Honorary Fellow, on being awarded the degree of D.Litt. honoris causa, by the University of Durham.

F. Mendelsohn and E. J. Snape on winning the Oxford Law Society Mooting Competition before Lord Templeman.

A. I. Marsh on being awarded the O.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List.

Professor W. B. Matthews on being awarded a Bronze Medal by the University of Helsinki.

D. Mustafa on being awarded a National Engineering Scholarship.

G. Penny on being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.

G. Redworth on being elected to theW. S. Dingwall Research Lectureship at Christ Church.

A. Ward on being elected to an Official Fellowship at Wadham College, and Emeritus Fellow of St. Cross College.

Miss L. S. Wild on being awarded the Gibbs Prize in ¡ Geography.

A. B. Worden, Fellow, on being chosen as a Radcliffe Fellow in Modern History from 1985-7.

THE CHAPEL little change in the pattern of worship in the Chapel this year, both on our ordinary days and on our feast days.

A particularly lovely Trinity term made the weekday services in the crypt of St. Peter's pleasantly warm as well as deeply devotional.

On St. Peter's Day a good congregation from the parish, including at least one of the old St. Peter's congregation, gathered for the Eucharist there.

Our preachers this year have included the Revd. George Palmer, the Revd. Fr. Anthony Baxter, the Revd. John McManners, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, the Revd. H. R. Smythe, Librarian of Pusey House, the Revd. J. G. Gawne-Cain, THERE HAS BEEN

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Vicar of St. Giles, and the Revd. Rod Symmons, Curate of St. Aldates. On one Trinity term Evensong, instead of a sermon, we had a visit from the Musica Nova choir of Reading University, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Wilson, once our Organ Scholar, which gave a superb and very moving performance of Renaissance religious music.

At the end of Michaelmas Term Andrew Burns retired from being Chapel Warden, after long and faithful service, and his place was taken by Miss Jo Cox who joins Anthony Snook in the care of the Chapel.

A new Organ Scholar, Timothy Hooper, came into residence in Michaelmas Term, to face his baptism of fire. It never ceases to surprise how quickly and calmly our newly arrived organists learn the ropes and take charge of things with so little fuss. Timothy Hooper proved no exception and, with very few hitches, had a choir going and services accompanied right away. We hope very much that next term's freshers will have amongst them a good number of good voices, and that they will come to enlarge and strengthen our faithful core of choristers.

In the course of the year two Aularians were married in Chapel

by Archbishop's special licence, and two Aularian babies were baptised.

A NOTABLE PRIZEWINNER was in 1984 awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which is a most prestigious award, not only in its munificence- ÂŁ140,000- but in the distinction of those who have been honoured by its award.

Michael Bourdeaux joins a company including Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Cardinal Suenans, Dr. Billy Graham and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The prize was presented to him by H.R.H. Prince Philip at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, and the addresses at this twelfth presentation were given before a huge and distinguished audience in the Guildhall on 15 May, when Lord Coggan, John M. Templeton and the Rt. Hon. Edward du Cann, M.P. spoke, and Michael Bourdeaux gave a very fully documented and moving speech. The Principal and the Chaplain were there at Michael's kind invitation.

The prize had been awarded for his work at Keston College, founded and developed by him as a 'Centre for the study of religion and communism that today is one of the most crucial links in religious freedom between east and west'. From a tiny listening

THE REVD. MICHAEL BOURDEAUX (1954)

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post with half a dozen specialist researchers, the college has grown and become the nationally recognized source of information on the faith and the faithful in communist lands. Michael Bourdeaux's closing words in his address at the Guildhall were: 'An essential religious and political initiative for the rnid-1980s is therefore to press the Soviet regime on the issue of religious liberty and human rights. One does not expect praise or popular acclaim for doing so- witness the continuing criticism of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, my immediate predecessor on this platform. And one must accept that pressing the Soviet Union in this way will make immediate relations more difficult. The tactics need careful thought, but I am certain that the eventual change of the Soviet Union into a country which has the right to believe will make it a safer place for its own people and rulers, as well as making the world a safer place for everyone. That is why the work of Keston College, very small though it is in a world context, does stand on the front line.

In the very truest sense, the Templeton Prize has been awarded not to me or to the College, but to believers under Communism.

Theirs is the "progress in religion". The Prize goes especially to those who have sacrificed liberty- and some even life itself- for their faith. It is for them that I speak. Insofar as I have the power and insight to do so, it is their hopes, their sorrows and their joys which I have placed before you this afternoon. God bless them and God bless you all.'

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE J.C.R. what to write for this article, I wondered whether most of the Old Aularians who read it hoped to hear that the Hall remains the same as it ever was. An unchanging atmosphere in any walk of life is a very unlikely occurrence, since situations and faces change. The same is true of the Hall, but such change is qualified by a fair degree of continuity in Hall life, an unchanging spirit of friendliness encouraged by the closeness of our buildings, and an unbroken sporting tradition.

Things have, however, and of course will continue to change.

The introduction of women, and the gradual expansion in their numbers was bound to mellow the atmosphere around collegeand herald the introduction of soft toilet paper. The college is now virtually fully mixed, with each year's female intake rapidly WHEN THINKING ABOUT

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approaching the average of other universities. Such a rapid increase in the numbers of women has raised questions of whom they can turn to with any of their problems, since Hall has only one female don, but soon to have two. This situation has been made all the more apparent recently by the nationally reported scares of sexual harassment in Oxford. Happily I can report that to the best of my knowledge no such scares come from Hall.

Generally, though, things have been running smoothly and successfully. The college has been advancing in all areas, and each advance in areas other than sport is met with a University response, 'But you're from Teddy Hall'. Apart from our success in University Challenge and such things as Arts Festivals in recent years, Hall has moved back into the Union, with Aularians holding the posts of President and Treasurer. Two of our second year lawyers won the University moot, but then unfortunately lost to Britain's second university. An increasing number of Aularians are becoming involved in plays and concerts around the Universjty, and the John Oldham Society is still booming.

Sport is still a strong part of Hall life, but I fear that in future years we may have to struggle harder. The Rugby team agai1,1 won Cuppers in one of the most entertaining finals for a number of years. The footballers for the second year running lost in the final of cuppers. The rowers did well in both Torpids and Eights, and the Water Polo team won their competition. An administrative mix-up meant we failed to enter teams in athletics and crosscountry, and we struggled a little more in some other competitions.

The J.C.R. still does and will continue to work hard for charity.

In the coming year we shall donate ÂŁ800 to various charities as well as organising our traditional kid dies Christmas party.

J.C.R. facilities are also being extended gradually. In recent years we acquired a multi-gym, and we are now in the process of constructing a dark room. There is even talk of a major extension to the J.C.R. itself.

The relationship between the J.C.R. and S.C.R. continues, as it has done in recent years on a very close and friendly basis, the arguments being on the old subjects of food and heating, and not a desire for any revolutionary change.

Altogether Teddy Hall is still a most exciting and enjoyable place to spend three or four years of one's early life.

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TRAVEL GRANTS THE FOLLOWING

received grants from the Graham Hamilton

Travel Fund: Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.

C. Hellier S. Hodges S. D. Myles M. A. Sykes

Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.

P. Bruyns J. Newman D. Rathbone N. Young

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£50 for alpine-climbing in Switzerland £50 for caving in Spain £50 for rock-climbing in Europe £50 for vulcanology and astronomy in the Canary Islands £35 for a cycling tour of Switzerland £35 for a cycle trip to Rome

The following grants from the Cochrane Bequest were also made: Mr. T. H. Burgess £50 Mr. T. Smith £150 for a study tour of India THE HALL BALL announced itself this year as the Tropicana Ball, and willing hands under the artistic direction of John Clark, spent many happy and paint-smeared hours creating palm-trees, exotic fruits, deep-sea corals, silver and coloured fish, idols, palm-thatched roofs and crazy fences, to transform areas and rooms with dull term-time names into Copa Cabana, Coral Cavern, Club Tropicana, Banana Basement, and Shaker Shack.

Over all this the weather remained kind, if not exactly tropical, and the slightest shower in the early hours was its only lapse. The great and elegant assembly- close on 1,000- never felt it.

The noise was just as great and just as varied- though it did not land us in trouble with the Environment Officer as did that of a college in the suburbs which shall be nameless. 'Catch', 'Sade' and the Chevalier Brothers filled the Wolfson Hall with tremendous sounds, but every other corner, including this year the graveyard, found jazz bands, 13 piece orchestras, piano roll singers, Maggie's Quintet, and many more, all making their own peculiar music. The Old Dining Hall and especially the Upper Quad. had music which persuaded to dance, and on the latter the older attenders danced properly to the strict tempo of golden oldies.

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The usual sumptuous cold supper was prepared by Gabriel and his staff, and again the barbecue added steaks to the feast , while all around the most amazing variety of entertainers stalked on stilts, ate fire, did conjuring tricks, presented cabaret, played lutes and I know not what.

A very substantial English breakfast was served after the Survivors' Photo, and the Highland piper led those still awake and able to walk to the punts, and serenaded them downstream.

Every year the Hall produces a chairman and a committee who face mounting and running this very complex affair, with a pretty huge budget, and every year they do it with professional knowhow and success. This year we congratulate Alice Hart-Davis the Chairman of the Ball Committee, her Treasurer Mark Hartshorne, and all her devoted and hard-working Committee, together with the large back-up of all the Hall staff who year by year give their help in a truly Aularian spirit. The Ball is indeed a product of the whole Hall, and few would deny that it does it great credit.

A ROWING OCCASION THE HEAD OF THE RIVER COMMEMORATION DINNER came to Dr. Ron Daniels as he talked to Michael Pelham, a former Captain of Boats, who was in Oxford for an open day at the Engineering Laboratory. Why not organize a reunion for the crew which first went Head of the River 25 years ago, in 1959? And from then on, under the organizing impetus of Michael Pelham, the idea grew and grew to include all those crews who had rowed as Head of the River in Eights, and those which went Head and rowed as Head in Torpids. Add to these the survivors of the 1930 and 1934 Eights which made huge bumps and earned Bump Suppers: add the present 1st VIII; add a number of our former coaches: add the beautiful wives of the gallant oarsmen- and that one-time small reunion had grown into a splendid gathering of 105.

The first event of the day was down at the Boathouse, where cocktails were served and where the 1959 crew, somewhat more portly but still very active, took to the river and rowed beyond the Gut and back, fortified by a glass of malmsey served from a silver salver by Cyril. No doctor was in attendance, and it speaks for the continuing fitness of rowing men that one was never required!

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with the barbaric silver of rowing trophies to augment the Hall's silver. By kind permission of Henley Royal Regatta we had with us the Ladies Plate, the Stewards' Cup and the Visitors' Challenge Cup, while Oriel College kindly loaned the Head of the River Cup, too long in their possession.

The dinner was chaired by the President of the Boat Club , the Revd. Graham Midgley, and attended by the Principal and Mrs. Gosling, the Vice-Principal and Mrs. Todd. Among the guests were Canon Kelly and the Rt. Revd. Paul Burrough. The President proposed 'The Boat Club' and the Captain of Boats, David Aaron-Thomas replied. Paul Burrough replied for The Guests and then Mike Pelham spoke and inaugurated a series of speeches from many voices in the Hall. Reunions and rowing talk went on late into the evening.

It was indeed a fine occasion and, we hope, some inspiration to our present oarsmen, as they feasted their eyes on the great trophies of their sport, and mused on the fact that there are now only three bumps between them and the Headship.

THE DR. WILLIAM URRY MEMORIAL LECTURE Dr. William Urry Memorial Lecture was given to a large audience in the Cathedral Library at Canterbury on 23 February 1984 by Sir Richard Southern. His subject was 'The Monks of Canterbury and the Murder of Becket'. Mr. Cowdrey represented the Hall at the lecture and at the dinner which followed in Eliot College. It is hoped that the lectures will be arranged annually, sometimes at Canterbury and sometimes at Oxford.

THE FIRST

A DEATH MANY GENERATIONS of Hall men will remember Tom Crabbe, gardener to the Hall, porter, and general bicycle factotum, with his secret little rooms in the old Back Quad, affectionately known as the Crabbery. They will remember too his dry sense of humour, his sharp tongue and his fierce rebukes for any gentleman treading on his lawn. They will be sad to know that, after a long retirement, during which he kept fit until near the end, Tom Crabbe died peacefully on 6 December, 1983, aged 89. Percy James represented the Hall at his funeral.

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A RETIREMENT would like to record the thanks of the Hall to Dr. Michael Davies, who retired from being Hall Doctor at the end of Trinity term 1984, after serving in that capacity for thirty odd years. His calm and kindly manner has been of help and comfort to Aularians through those many years. He and his wife were entertained to dinner by the Governing Body, and the Principal expressed our gratitude.

Dr. R. A. E. Spilling, one of Michael Davies's partners in the Summertown Health Centre, will be taking over our medical care.

THE MAGAZINE

J.C.R. AND M.C.R. OFFICERS P. M. DREWELL was President of the Junior Common Room during Hilary, Trinity and Michaelmas terms, 1983. When his term of office finished in December 1983, S. K. ffitch was elected President until the end of Michaelmas term 1984. M. J. Hall was Steward until Hilary Term 1983 and was succeeded by T . J. Smith until Hilary term 1984. M. R. S. Irwin was elected to succeed him and will serve until Hilary term 1985. The Social Secretary, Miss T. Finch, was succeeded in office by Miss S. J. Holmes.

The M.C.R. officers for 1983-4 were A . G. Gillen, President, and Miss M. R. Amouche, Steward. J. T. G. Coutts was elected President, and Miss S. Fountain, Steward, for the ensuing year.

AULARIAN CALENDAR in 1984-5 are of special interest to Aularians: ST. EDMUND'S DAY: Friday 16 November 1984.

LONDON DINNER, preceded by the A.G.M. of S.E.H. Association at Simpson's in the Strand, Tuesday 8 January 1985.

DIAMOND JUBILEE REUNION DINNER AND GARDEN PARTY at the Hall, Saturday 29 June 1985.

RESIDENCE FOR FULL TERM: Michaelmas Term, 14 October to 8 December 1984. Hilary Term, 20 January to 16 March 1985. Trinity Ter¡in, 28 April to 22 June 1985.

DEGREE DAYS: There are vacancies on the following dates: Saturday 1 December 1984, Saturday 26 January 1985, Saturday 9 March 1985, Saturday 20 July, 1985, Saturday 3 August 1985. Degrees may also be taken in absentia at any of these ceremonies and also on the following dates: Saturday 27 October 1984, Saturday 10 November 1984, Saturday 25 May 1985, Saturday 15 June 1985.

Members of the Hall wishing to make arrangements for taking their degrees should write in advance to The Dean of Degrees' Secretary, The College Office, St Edmund Hall, Oxford OX1 4AR. The University has imposed a quota of 14 candidates per college on each ceremony so it cannot be taken for granted that a degree may be taken on a chosen date. On receipt of the application form , candidates will be informed as to whether it has been possible to enter them for the ceremony in question. The summer ceremonies become booked up extremely quickly. This does not, of course, apply to degrees taken in absentia.

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SCHOLARSHIP ELECTIONS THE FOLLOWING ELECTIONS to Open Awards, tenable during the academic year 1984-5, were made in January 1984: ENGLISH

To a Scholarship: WILLIS, Miss F. L. S., Charterhouse

To Exhibitions: GALLIVAN, J. P., King Edward's School, Birmingham JOHNSTON, Miss M. C., Oxford High School MODERN LANGUAGES

To a Scholarship ATKINSON, J. P., St. Peter's School, York

To an Exhibition: KING, M. A., Trinity School, Croydon GEOGRAPHY

To an Exhibition: JONES, A. J., Latymer Upper School P.P.E.

To an Exhibition: MILLER, J. I., Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe MATHEMATICS

To Scholarships: GAY, N. J., King Edward's School, Bath JENKINS, M. J., Forest School, Snaresbrook MciNTYRE, D. W., The Ridings High School, Winterbourne

To an Exhibition: GRIFFITHS, J. R., Warwick School MODERN HISTORY

To Exhibitions: MACAIRE, R. N. P., Cranleigh School OwEN, T. C., King's School, Worcester NATURAL SCIENCE

To Scholarships: HAWLEY, C. J., Eton College, for Chemistry (Central Electricity Generating Board) MOHINDRA, Miss T., Ashford School, for Engineering MURRAY, W. J., The Edinburgh Academy, for Physics SMITH, J. P., Blackpool Collegiate Sixth Form Centre, for Geology

To Exhibitions: GULLEY, J. W., Huddersfield New College, for Physics HELMORE, T. J., Arnold School, Blackpool, for Physics

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JONES, Miss A. H. , Withington Girls' School, for Chemistry LINES, I. G., Portsmouth Grammar School, for Physics (Central Electricity Generating Board) McNAMEE, M. J., Bolton School, for Physics (Central Electricity Generating Board) ROSSITER, J. A., St. Brendan's Sixth Form College, Bristol, for Engineering THE LONDON DINNER THE LONDON DINNER of the St. Edmund Hall Association was held at Simpson's in the Strand on the regular second Tuesday in January, this year the lOth, 1983.

Again we had to use the Ground Floor Restaurant as the alterations- which must be extensive, difficult, or lazily pursued- to our old South Room upstairs, started last year, were still in progress. Even so, our Dinner Secretary, F. H. H. Finch, managed to squeeze in three more than last year, 129 of us sitting down to Simpson's saddle of Lamb.

Sir William Nield, the retiring President, rose to speak, with two hours of office remaining to him. He welcomed the Principal and, for the first time, the Principal's wife. In sadder mood he spoke of the death of Philip Geddes, the young Aularian murdered in the car-bomb outrage outside Harrod' s the previous month, at whose funeral and memorial service the Hall and the Association had been represented. For the last time he spoke of the Appeal (in the reviving of which, we add, he had been instrumental) and showed how easy it really was, if everyone gave the price of a dinner and a bottle, to reach our target right away- a small price to pay for the privilege and joy of those ,three years at Oxford.

The Principal replied, thanking the retiring President for all his work and, with wit and compression, gave the company an account of the year's work and achievement, which the Magazine takes many more words and pages to cover.

Indeed notes taken from that speech have served as an aide memoire to the Editor, and he has taken care that no news in the Principal's 'State of the Union' speech have not been given, no doubt without his dry wit and throwaway manner, elsewhere in the Magazine.

Dr. Kelly was finally called to his feet amid acclamation, to show that the old rhetorical skill is by no means faded. He left us with the happy thought, and a contemporary phrase which will one year need a footnote , that with ¡ Justin Gosling as Principal, Graham Midgley as President, and himself Dean of Degrees, the Hall really was on a Dream Ticket. On that note we descended once again to the Bar below stairs.

The guests of the Association were The Principal and Mrs. Gosling, the Revd.

J. N. D. Kelly, Miss Mary Boak, and S. K. ffinch, President of the J.C.R. The following Aularians attended the dinner: 1924 J. B. Allan; 1927 B. M. Forrest; 1929 Sir Denis Wright (Hon. Fellow); 1930 Sir Claude Hayes; 1932 Sir William Nield (President, S.E.H. Association), David Floyd; 1933 The Revd. T. E. M. Ashton, F. H. H. Finch, J. Lee; 1934 J. C. Cain; 1935 H. A . F. Radley; 1937 L. D. A. Baron, J. P. de C. Meade , D. G. C. Salt; 1938 R. E. Alton (Fellow); 1940 C. Mounsey; 1941 W. N.( Hillier-Fry, The Revd. E. G. Midgley (Fellow); 1942 Dr. J. D. Todd (Fellow), B~ F. Wheeler; 1945 J . R. Paul; 1946 E. M. Goodman-Smith, J. Pike; 1947 P. L. Roussel; 1948 J. C. Graffy; 1949 W. P. Asbrey, Guy Barnett, M.P ., R. J. L. Breese; 1950 B. M. Penn; 1951 D. R. Chapman, R. C. M. Cooper, D. J . Day, J . E. Farrand; 1952 N. F. Lockhart, J.

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M. Skinner, R. M. Trotter; 1953 P. B. Saul, R. G. Thomas, Dr. M. H. Trevor; 1954 0. A. Alakija, I. L. R. Burt, J . M. Casale, The Revd. A. M. Crowe, P. G. D. Robbins; 1955 E. A. V. Casale, R. A. Farrand; 1956 J. G. French, A. F. Ham, D. H. Johnson; 1957 J. E. Aves, L. A. Chester, P. G. Croissant, R. J. W. Fisher, R. L. S. Fishlock, D. E. Mellish, D. A. R. Poole, J. M. Webster; 1958 J. M. Dening, L. L. Filby, J. F. O'Donnell, M. L. Pelham; 1959 J. E. Lawson; 1961 S. G. Bumton, Dr. W. J. Burroughs, S. M. Donald, J. M. Heggadon, I. R. K. Rae, A. M. Rentoul, M. G. Smith; 1962 M. B. Gardner, M. G. M. Groves, J. A. Hall, M. J. Hamilton, A. J. Hawkes, Dr. J. N. Thomas, R. R. Wardle; 1963 R. G. Hunt, M. S. Simmie; 1964 D. A. Ashworth, A. C. Barker, Dr. M. J. Clarke, J. A. Coope, D. J. Tearle; 1965 N. R. Jarrold; 1966 G. Syrpis; 1968 Dr. D. J. Hughes, R. J. Richardson, R. T. Ward; 1969 M. J. Birks, J. J. Graley, S. W. Groom, D. Harrison, R. D. Marsh; 1972 P. R. Gillett, P. N. Mounsey; P . A. Osbom; 1974 R. Cerratti, P.A. Eggleston, C. M. Jones, I. H. Macleod; 1975 E. G. Gray, C. J . Jarvis, W. H. Kingsbury, P. J. McKenna, P. M. Watson; 1976 H .

R. C. Den Dulk, R. A. H. Finch, S. C. Flood, R. A. Wilson; 1977 D. J. Hope, R. Keeley, S. B. Merchant, S. Vivian; 1978 P. J. Bladen, R. I. Collins, R. C. W. Williams; D. L. Zwirek; 1979 D. M. Henderson, M. B. Kenny, R. H. McCreath; 1980 J. G. Hughes Other Fellows also attended, namely Dr. M. S. Child, Dr. P. J. Collins, The Revd. H. E. J. Cowdrey.

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING-to JANUARY 1984 THE 1984 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, 100 Strand, London WC2R OEW on Tuesday 10 January 1984 at 6.25 p.m., Sir William Nield GCMG KCB MA presiding.

31 members were present.

Apologies were received from (inter alios):- Revd Dr J. N. D. Kelly; G. L. H. R. Shield, J. D. Shortridge, and R. Waye.

1. MINUTES The minutes of the last Meeting held 11 January 1983, having been published in the 1982-83 Magazine and copies being available, were taken as read, confirmed and signed by the President. There were no matters arising.

2. HON. TREASURER'S REPORT AND ADOPTION OF THE ACCOUNTS 1982-83 The Hon. Treasurer, R. J. L. Breese, reported a satisfactory position for the year ended 31 July 1983 despite the abnormally heavy donations to the Halla) to assist with the purchase of a word-processor to which the Association would have access for updating and publishing the Directory; b) as a contribution towards the expenses of renewing the Norham St Edmund Appeal.

Turning to the current year he reported a satisfactory position again with likely expenditure being in balance with income.

The Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 July 1983 were adopted unanimously.

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forward thinking. Our expenditure was chiefly on the Magazine and the accumulative cost of the Directory @ one-sixth of its cost each year. Our income was chiefly from subscriptions made during undergraduate days: 'we all pay in our generation'. The Association had given the Hall, in the last year, ÂŁ2,000 over and above its usual grants- ÂŁ1,000 each for the costs of the Appeal and the wordprocessor. Only a Brazilian-Jike growth in the rate of inflation could cause us trouble.

3. ELECfiONS (a) President 1984-86 The President, Sir William Nield, said that the Executive Committee, at its Meeting held just previously, had confirmed its nomination for the Revd E. G. Midgley BLitt MA (matric. 1941) which stood on the Agenda paper. He was willing to stand, and no other nomination had been received. Graham Midgley didn't need much introduction, but his CV showed that he got a First in English after Army service, a BLitt in 1950, and was ordained Priest in 1957 after further study at Cuddesdon. He first joined the Hall as Lecturer in 1949, and after a period with Bedford College, London University, rejoined as Fellow and Tutor in 1951, when he was appointed Dean. He combined this with being Vice-Principal, from 1970, until 1978 when he became Chaplain, and had opted for early retirement in October 1984. He had been a member of the Association's Executive Committee since 1956 and had been recently appointed to the Appeal Committee.

There was only one unusual feature here: the regular criteria for Presidents bespoke experience of life outside the Hall. There was, however, a very good reason for diverging from this at the present time: the Appeal would take up a Jot of time and someone resident in Oxford (as Graham Midgley would continue to be after his impending retirement) would be invaluable. Sir William had a great personal regard for him, and would consider it a very suitable appointment, both on grounds of personal qualifications and his availability in or around the Hall.

He moved from the Chair on behalf of the Executive Committee that the Revd E. G. Midgley be elected President for three years from midnight that day.

This election was made unanimously with acclaim. b) Officers and Executive Committee On the nomination of the Executive Committee, no other nominations having been received and the candidates being willing to stand, the following elections or

re-elections were then made unanimously: Hon. Secretary 1984 (One-year appointment): H. A. F. Radley (re-elected) Hon. Treasurer 1984 (One-year appointment): R. J . L. Breese (re-elected) Members of the Executive Committee by Matriculation Date Groups:Up to 1934: R. Waye (re-elected). Ranulph Waye will have completed, DV, 50 years' service on the Committee on 19 June 1984, a record only beaten by Jack Allan from 23 April 1929.

1935- 44: vacancy, vice the Revd E. G. Midgley, elected President. Names welcome.

1945-54: D. J. Day (re-elected) J . G. Graffy (matric. 1948)- (elected in vacancy vice Breese above) 1955-64: M. G. M. Groves (re-elected) 1%5-74: J. R. Smith (re-elected)

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The President reported that precedents were about even on whether to nominate members to represent the current decade at its start, in mid-term, or towards the end or even later. The problem was now simplified by the presence of 25 women graduates after the initial intake in 1979, and it was clearly desirable to nominate one or two of that sex for election at the next AGM, despite the fact that after three of them had attended the 1983 Dinner no ladies would be there tonight apart from guests, Mrs Margaret Gosling, wife of the Principal, and Miss Mary Boak, the Principal's Secretary. The Executive Committee had entrusted the President-Elect with bringing names to its next Meeting in June 1984 but names would be welcome from any member, as always and particularly at this crucial point in the Association's history.

4. COMPOSITION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The President said he had been thinking hard on this one, and was quite prepared to propose an alteration to the Constitution at the next AGM. In his view the Committee was unwieldy (with 25 members, including 4 eo-options out of the permissible 5) and would be even more so when the 1975-84 decade was represented as above. The principle had always been to have one member per undergraduate generation of three years on average, but there were anomalies already. There were more students during WW 11, since courses were shorter, and a': for the 'Up to 1934' group he could only quote current life expectancies- the lower 70's for men and (although inapplicable here) 77 for women. It was difficult to get rapid decisions out of 25-28 people, however wise and distinguished, especially as it usually took three phone calls to get anyone, and something had to be done.

He would welcome suggestions.

5. RE-APPOINTMENT OF HON. AUDITOR J. R. Paul was duly proposed and seconded and re-appointed as Hon. Auditor for 1984. The President congratulated him: he did it for free- and well!

6. PRESIDENT'S REPORT a) Personal Tributes Sir William paid a heartfelt tribute to the work of the Executive Committee and its Officers, who had helped him so much over the last three years. None of them had a sinecure, since the Hall was a registered charity and we had constantly to be careful over our position. This applied particularly to the Hon. Treasurer, causing him a lot of work, especially on the handling of joint finances shared with the Hall. Bob Breese was now well into his stride and a worthy successor to Brian Forrest, who had only felt content to retire when he was 75, after 15 years' devoted service. Arthur Farrand Radley was not, if he might say so, just a Secretary: he not only coped with the very considerable amount of paperwork- Agendas, Minutes etc. -but was a most effective guardian of our Constitution and also something of an Archivist and a mine of information, culling the Press and a variety of sources to maintain a continuous record of Aularian activity. Roger Farrand (the name connection goes back to the Huguenots or, some would say, to the Conquest- it just means Smith in French) was a tower of strength to the Appeal Committee. Francis ('Bish', Heneage, or even 'Bishop Heneage') Finch ran the London Dinners and it was amazing the amount of work that man went through in arranging them. Sir William's own wife had told him: 'You ought to pay that man!'. So here he was paying a one-man vote of thanks to everyone.

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b) His Presidency

His predecessor Jack Lee had handed over with the impression that all that was involved was 'just a couple of meetings and speeches a year'. He now looked back: we had lost a Principal (Sir leuan Maddock) and gained a new one: lost a Treasurer (Brian Forrest) and gained a new one equally: had lost a computer and· gained a word-processor: inherited an Appeal that had run out meeting only twofifths of its target. And now the President had had two major operations and was in line for a third. He rested his case. c) The Renewed Appeal

There were three major points here. The renewal was: i) necessary- only £80,000 had been received when it ran out of steam. Some pickings had been gleaned from surrender of balances of State grants on going down (when there is an option to pay them to the Association)- but not much: and of straight donations less than one-tenth of the possible contributors had subscribed anything at all. ii) justified- Norham St Edmund had indeed been a wise purchase: it housed over 50 graduates and 7 dons, and its cost of £700,000 had acquired something now worth, with inflation and property super-inflation, well over a million. iii) reasonable- the £300,000 appealed for could be raised at the drop of a hat if only 1 in 3 took out a 4-year covenant for £20 p.a.- and this was exactly what one London Dinner cost including a bottle of wine (or even more).

The Association, said Sir William, didn't think that the response up to last year had been good enough, and the Association decided to do it. Hence the articles in the 1982-83 Magazine: they were only the backdrop to get the money in. It was simply not true that people were not so willing now to give as before: only the unemployed. The Appeal must go out to individuals through the help of Activists, and if successful then the Hall would be sitting on a real asset.

The last Appeal (for the Emden/Kelly extensions) used professional fundraisers, who took a considerable share of the proceeds as their fee: this time the organisers were the Executive Committee and their Sub-committee, whose main expenses are confined to absolute necessities, such as the Freepost reply envelopes.

The Hall, thanks to its tremendous corporate spirit, had always had an outstanding record in sport and work. The Times had commented on it and, said Sir William, his own son and daughter regarded it as 'the liveliest college in Oxford'. 'Let us not let down our record in the financial Cuppers', he appealed. d) Valedictory

He had now put in three years 'hard', but the Officers and Committee members did it for much longer. It had been a privilege to be at the Hall and Oxford and he had been glad to do it all.

7. TRIBUTE BY THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT When he proposed Bill Nield at the 1981 AGM, said Jack Lee, he had referred to his guest appearance on the Soccer field (as basically a Lacrosse man with a half-Blue) as a 'dirty wing-half'. In current parlance this would be a 'sweeper', a grafter- and the Appeal had brought out his best. Only the Executive Committee knew what he had really done, but he spoke, he knew, on behalf of everyone in saying 'thanks for a damned good job'. A recent piece of graffito on the Hall's walls had said: 'we all know about matriculation- what about a bit of patricula-

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tion?' Bill had been a father to us all, and he, Jack Lee, was proud of his own marvellous job in having proposed him for President.

Bill Nield thanked his way out: an emotional moment.

8. DATE OF NEXT MEETING Tuesday 8 January 1985, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, 6.15 p.m.

There being no further business, the Meeting closed at 7.09 p.m.

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- MEMBERS JANUARY 1984 President: Revd. E. G. MIDGLEY BLitt MA (1941), St. Edmund Hall, Oxford OX1 4AR. Tel: Oxford (0865) 245511.

Principal: J. C. B. GOSLING BPhil MA St. Edmund Hall, Oxford OX1 4AR. Tel: Oxford (0865) 241039.

Immediate Past President: SIR WILLIAM NIELD, GCMG KCB MA (1932), 'South Nevay', Stubbs Wood, Chesham Bois, Amersham, Bucks HP6 6EY. Tel: Amersham (02403) 3869.

Hon Secretary: H. A. F. RADLEY, MBE MA (1935), 157 Holland Park Avenue, London Wll 4UX. Tel: 01-603 6062.

Hon Treasurer: R. J. L. BREESE, MA (1949), 4 Sandy Lodge Way, Northwood, Middx HA6 2AJ. Tel: Northwood (65) 22712.

Hon Auditor (not on Committee): J. R. PAUL, MA FCA (1945), Orchard End, Lower Farm Road, Effingham, Leatherhead, Surrey KT24 5JL. Tel: Bookham (31) 58757.

Members by Matriculation Date Groups: Up to 1934: J. B. ALLAN, MA (1924), Home Farm House, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5PX. Tel: Oxford (0865) 862149.

R. WAYE, MBE TD MA (1928), Curly Cottage, Brewers Lane, West Hendred, Wantage, Oxon OX12 8RR. Tel: East Hendred (023588) 284.

SIR CLAUDE HAYES, KCMG BLitt MA (1930), Prinkham, Chiddingstone Hoath, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 7DN. Tel: Cowden (034286) 335.

G. L. H. R. SHIELD, M.A. (1933), Westfield Lodge, Westland Green, Little Hadham, Ware, Herts SGll 2AL.- Tel: Much Hadham (027984) 3218.

1935-44: D. G. C. SALT MA (1937), Flat 6, 38 Holland Park, London Wll 3RR. Tel: 01-727 0287.

J. P. de COURCY MEADE OBE MA (1937), 10 Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Surrey CR2 3AG. Tel: 01-660 5864.

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1945-54: D. J. DERX, CB MA (1948), 40 Raymond Road, London SW19 4AP. Tel: 01-947 0682.

J. G. GRAFFY, MA, MCAM, FRSA (1948), The Malt House, Aston Rowant, Oxon OX9 5SS. Tel: Kingston Blount (0844) 51279.

D. J. DAY, MA (1951), 39 Jocelyn Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2TJ. Tel: 01-948 2614.

1955-64: R. A. FARRAND, BA (1955), 50 Ferry Street, Isle of Dogs, London E14 9DT. Tel: 01-515-7322.

I. R. K. RAE, MA (1961), The Keeper's House, Long Green, Great Barrow, Chester CH3 7JW. Tel: Mickle Trafford (0244) 300446.

M. G. M. GROVES, DipEcon & PolSci (1962), Banks Farm, Caldy Road, Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside L48 2HZ. Tel: Liverpool (051) 625 8982.

1965-74: R. A. G. WHITE, BA (1965), 12 Powis Grove, Brighton BN1 3HF. Tel: Brighton (0273) 21469.

J. D. SHORTRIDGE, MA (1966), 92 London Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 6PN. Tel: Shrewsbury (0743) 56986.

J. R. SMITH, MA (1971), 158 Culford Road; London N1 4HU. Tel: 01-254 3780.

Go-opted: For Life: REVD J. N. D. KELLY, DD FBA, 7 Crick Road, Oxford OX2 6QJ. Tel: Oxford (0865) 512907.

Till January 1987: SIR DENIS WRIGHT, GCMG MA (1929), Duck Bottom, Flint Street, Haddenham, Aylesbury, Bucks HP17 SAL. Tel: Haddenham (0844) 291086.

Till June 1986: F. H. H. FINCH, MA (1933)-Hon. Dinner Secretary, Whiteoaks, The Fairway, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 ORZ. Tel: Byfleet (91) 46409.

Till January 1987 J. LEE, MA CIPM (1933), Meadway, Danes Close, Oxshott, Surrey KT22 OLL. Tel: Oxshott (037284) 2493.

THE REUNION THE ANNUAL REUNION of old members was held on Saturday 30 June 1984. In the afternoon the Governing Body had thrown the now triennial garden party ('All we can afford' they said, quite reasonably) and perhaps the Association might consider helping to mount one next year to mark the Diamond Jubilee of its foundation in 1925. There were over 600 Aularians, wives, sweethearts and friends, from 80 upwards (E. G. Price, matric. 1921, and A. C. Corlett and Canon M. M. Martin 1922) down to babes in arms. They overflowed the Quad. into the graveyard, and there was a massive consumption of tea 'citrus drinks' , cakes (but no ale till much later) ices and genuine English strawberries.

John Kelly held court at the Well, preferring for once this occasion to a crowded Hall at dinner. It certainly was full (45 foolish virgins turned away), but four of the wise ones were there, all from the first intake of women in 1979. Katharine Gibbons, Jill Gilderstone and Janet Nevin were femmes soles, but Caroline

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Morgan brought her father (1948)- the Hall's very first father-and-daughter team. The High Table gained, not only from them, but from a goodly sprinkling of recent male graduates, a nice gesture also enabling the older hands to put in some invaluable audience research.

And so to the speeches. The Principal again showed his mastery of technique -a comprehensive review of the year's goings on at the Hall, without a note and seemingly off the cuff. Our recently-enobled Visitor, Harold Macmillan was now over 90, and after the loss of his son had been ordered a long rest, thus missing a Hall occasion and Encaenia. We were losing Graham Midgley. Sometime Dean and Vice-Principal and now our Chaplain, he would be continuing as Chaplain for another year, as well as being President of the Association, a_fitting climax for one who had taught a little English in his time and gained a distinction in G.S.C. Art in his youth . Vice-Principals now did only a four year stint, and Reg Alton had bowed to Dr. Joe Todd, another Aularian and the first Tutorial Fellow in Engineering in the whole University. By a similar mechanism the Senior Tutor was now Christopher Wells, one of our German Fellows. We even had now a Fellow in Computor Science, funded by the E.E .C. With all this back-up, he assured us, the Hall would one day do something really brilliant academically.

Our lawyers had won the inter-college Moot at Oxford but in the Moot against Cambridge did well but not quite well enough. Prizes and honours had been showered on us by Professor Sir Peter Hirsch, Dr. Emden's long-standing friend Dr. Brockhues, and now the grand-daughter of Principal Moo re had presented us with his silver crumb-scoop . It only needed the Appeal to succeed for us all to have damask tablecloths to match. He subsided to a mighty manifestation of the Hall Hwyl.

Graham Midgley craved due respect for his maiden speech as President. The presence of the younger generations on High Table was symbolic. The Association must not become merely a machine for nostalgia, but unite memory with the present, and look forward rather than back. We must face the fact that most of our members now were of the post-Emdenian generation. Yet.it was absolutely in order for the Hall to have held a great reunion dinner for all the former Head of the River crews and their wives, a genuine celebration of past triumphs to stimulate action and pride in the present generation. Inevitably he could not escape the Appeal. Bill Nield his predecessor, had spent hundreds of hours in setting the grand strategy: and then, like any well-bred Whitehall man, had handed over to the Executive. It was now up to 'you lot', he said, to help him achieve his ambition of handing over to his successor in 1987 an Appeal-free era. He would be sitting at the receipt of custom after dinner in the Old Dining Hall, the Tent of the Covenant, to greet any who might feel moved by a sense of guilt or just Aularian spirit. The Association was entitled to admonish or rebuke the Hall when it went wrong, but in return it behoved it to help the Hall when help was needed . And this was now.

How could we resist this cri de coeur? His post-prandial session raked in -a goodly haul of covenants, and gave the Hon.Sec. the excuse for showing off his Alba, scrapbooks of Aulariana since 1935. The evening safely survived the arrival of firecrackers from the direction, it seemed, of Queen's new quad, that intruder on our righteous lebensraum.

Those present were: The Principal, Mr. J. C. B. Gosling; Dr. J. D. Todd (1942) Vice-Principal; The Revd. E. G. Midgley (1941), President of the St. Edmund Hall Association.

Mr. G. W. H. Adcock (1942); Mr. J. B. Allan (1924); Mr. R. E. Alton* (1938); Mr. C. L. Amor (1973); The Revd. T. E. M. Ashton (1933); Mr. P. J. Aspden

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(1976); Dr. R. W. Avery (1976); Mr. A. W. Ayres (1972); Dr. P . Balmer (1971); Mr. L. D. A. Baron (1937); Mr. D. F. Baxter (1963); Mr. M. J. Beard (1958); Mr. J. F. Blackbum (1961); Mr. P. J. Bladen (1978); Mr. C. J . Blount (1977); Mr. D. M. W. Bolton (1957); Mr. M. D. Booker (1971); Mr. R. J. L. Breese (1949); Mr. P . R. Britton (1973); Dr. J . K. Brockbank (1961); Mr. A . B. Bromley (1956); Mr. W. E. Brook (1946); Mr. F. A. Brown (1974); Mr. P. W. Brown (1968); Mr. P. S. H. Budden (1974); Mr. P. Bumell (1967); Mr. E . J. R. Burrough (1930); Mr. I. L. R. Burt (1952); Mr. R. H . Caddick (1956) ; Mr. A. J . Calvert (1978); Mr. M. J .

Cansdale (1956); Dr. J. M. Catherall (1972); Dr. R. Cerratti (1974); Mr. S. S. Chandler (1972); Mr. M. K. Chatterjea (1951); Mr. R. C. S. Clark (1960); Dr. P. J. Collins*; Mr. R. I. Collins (1978); Mr. J. M. Colocotronis (1971); Mr. P. J. Congdon (1975); Mr. A. C. Corlett (1922) ; Mr. L. Corrigan (1967); Mr. F. W .

Cosstick (1946); Mr. C. W. B. Costeloe (1941); The Revd . H. E. J . Cowdrey*; Mr. L. Cummings (1971); Mr. E. L. Cunnell (1949); Mr. J. A. H . Curry (1959); Mr. M. Cvetkovic (1975); Dr. R. W. Daniel*; Mr. M. J. Daniels (1969); Mr. R. P . H. Davies (1938); Mr. D. J. Day (1951); Mr. A. B. Denton (1976); Mr. J. R. de Rennes (1962); Mr. D. J . Derx (1948); Mr. R. de Vere Green (1956); Mr. N . A. Dromgoole (1948); Mr. C. I. Drummond (1952); Mr. W. R. Dunsmore (1943); Mr. R. G. Emery (1956); Mr. B. England (1961); Dr. R. Fargher**; Mr. J. D. Farnworth (1955); Mr. J. E. Farrand (1951); Mr. R. A . Farrand (1955); Mr. A. J .

Featherstone (1956); Mr. F. H. H. Finch (1933); Mr. R. A. H. Finch (1976); Mr. S. K. ffitch (President of the J .C.R.); Mr. B. M. Forrest (1927); Mr. A. A . J. Foster (1945); Mr. J. F. Foster (1952); Mr. M. C. Foster (1946); Mr. J. G. French (1956); Mr. E. A. Fretwell-Downing; (1961); Mr. R. S. Friend (1975); Miss K. A .

Gibbons (1979); Mr. R. G. Gilbert (1978); Miss G. R. Gildersleve (1979); Mr. A. G. Gillen (President of the M.C.R.); Mr. P. R. Gillett (1972); Mr. G . R. Gleave (1954); Dr. P. W. Glover (1944); Mr. T. 0 . Godeseth (1971); Mr. M. A . Good (1979); Mr. S. D. Graham (1952); Mr. R. S. Grainger (1979); Air Commodore J. G. Greenhill (1944); Mr. M. G. M. Groves (1962); Mr. J. Hackney** ; Mr. J. M. G. Halsted (1938); Mr. D. A. Hamilton (1972); Mr. D. J . Hardy (1944); Mr. R. C. Hatt (1970); Sir Claude Hayes (1930); Mr. J . M. Heggadon (1961); Mr. D. M. Henderson (1979); Mr. A. D. Hill (1966); Mr. B. D. Hill (1978); Mr. R. L. Hill (1922); Mr. T. A. Hill (1978); Mr. W. N. Hillier-Fry (1941); Mr. D. J . Hockridge (1956); Mr. D. A. Hollomby (1978); Mr. J . C. D. Holmes (1950); Mr. T . M. Hooper (Organ Scholar); Mr. H. J. Hunt (1968); Mr. A. C. Hunter (1979); Captain G. Hutchinson (1971); Mr. D. M. Huxley (1965); Mr . M. E . lnglis (1961); Mr. D. M. Jacobs (1952); Mr. C. J. Jarvis (1975); Mr. A. Jenkins (1932); Mr. P. S. Jenkins (1967); Mr. D. H. Jennings (1974); Mr. D. H. Johnson (1956); Mr. M. Johnson (1946); Mr. P. M. Johnson (1965); Mr. C. J. Jones (1952); Dr. S. F. Kapoor (1968); Mr. R. Keeley (1977); Mr. A . W. Keith-Steele (1929); Mr. A. J. Kember (1953); Mr. R. Kemp (1959); Mr. R. A . Kenworthy (1967); Mr. W. H. Kingsbury (1975); Dr. D. A. Kinsley (1949); Mr. J . B. Knight*; Mr. N. D. Laing (1973); Mr. C. D. R. Langton (1966); Mr. C. S. Latimer (1976); Mr. L. St. L. Lawson (1977); Mr. P. S. Leathart (1938); Mr. J. Lee (1933); Mr. J. P. Le Pelley (1944); Rear Admiral G. C. Leslie*; Mr. P. W. Liversidge (1964) ; Mr. W. J . H .

Liversidge (1934); Mr. A. J . Lomas (1975); Mr. C. H. L. Long (1960) ; Mr. J . C. Lowe (1954); Mr. R. G. Lunn (1951); Mr. R. McAdams (1941); Mr. R. J. McDonald (1965); Mr. J. McElheran (1919); The Revd . Professor J . McManners*** (1935); Mr. J. N. McManus (1949)~ Mr. S. B. Marchant (1977); Mr. G. Marsh (1961); Mr. J. P. Marsh (1961); The Revd. Canon M. M. Martin (1922); Mr. H. G. Mason (1972); Mr. P. J. R. Masson (1967); Mr. J . P. de C. Meade (1937); Mr. P . A. Meadows (1978); Dr. A. J. Middleton (1966); Mr. G. R. Mihell

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(1957); Mr. D. G . Miles (1972); Mr. C. D. Miller (1975); Mr. R. S. Monro (1972); Miss C. J . Morgan (1979); Mr. E . J. Morgan (1948); Mr. J. V. L. Morgan (1954); Mr. G. R. J. Morris (1961); Dr. J. Mosley (1967); Mr. C. Mounsey (1940); Mr. D. K. Murray John (1957); Colonel P. S. Mylvaganarn (1972); Miss J . M. Nevin (1979); Professor A. H. W. Nias (1944); Sir William Nield (1932); Mr. R. S. Orchard (1925); Mr. J. E. Orton (1967); Mr. N. J. Orton (1978); Mr. P. A. Osborn (1972); Mr. D. C. Owen (1953); Mr. A. C. M. Panting (1951); Dr. A. J. Petros (Junior Dean); Mr. J. Pike (1946); Mr. M. W. Pitt (1938); Dr. M. K. Power (1938); Mr. E. G. Price (1921); Mr. G. J. Price (1972); Mr. H. A. F. Radley (1935); The Revd. Preb. G. A . H. Rainbow (1934); Mr. T. W. Rarnage (1978); Dr. G. D. Rarnsay**; Mr. F. R. Rawes (1934); Mr. H . H. Redington (1961); The Revd . J. S. Reynolds (1938); Mr. S. I. Reynolds (1975); Mr. E. Rhodes (1944); Mr. C. S. Richards (1975); Mr. M. J. Rider (1956); Mr . A. G. Rix (1961); The Ven. R. H. Roberts (1951); Mr. P. K. Rossiter (1977); Mr. P. F. Rothwell (1978); Mr. B. J. Rushby Smith (1925); Mr. D . G. C. Salt (1937); Mr. A . St.J. B. Sandringham (1961); Mr. J. C. Saunders (1973); Mr. J. L. Scott (1950); Mr. C. Shaw (1975); Mr. G. L. H. R. Shield (1933); Mr. M. D. Shipster (1969); Mr. R. E. J. Silkstone (1978); Mr. A . P. L. Slater (1933); Mr. M. D. E .

Slater*; Mr. A. N. Smith (1972); Mr. I. N. Smith (1953); Mr. J . W. E. Snelling (1945); Mr. N. K. Staite (1971); Mr. S. A . Staite (1976); Mr. M. C. Stevenson (1978); Dr. T. P. C. Stibbs (1969); Dr. N . J. Stone*; Mr. A . P . Stopyra (1975); Mr. N. A. J. Swanson (1958); Mr. C. F. Taylor (1954); Mr. S. J. Tetley (1976); Mr. D. M. Thomas (1934); Mr. C. J . Tromans (1961); Mr. R. M. Trotter (1952); Dr. R. W. Truman (1954); Mr. P. G. Tudor (1951); Mr. E. Urry (1926); Mr. D. P. Vaughan (1961); Mr. S. Vivian (1977); Mr. A. C. Wadley (1972); Mr. A . B. Wathey (1976); Mr. D. D. H . Way (1975); Mr. R. Waye (1928); Mr. R. C. W. Williams (1978); Dr. W. S. C. Williarns*; Mr. A. T. de B. Wilmot (1934); Mr. P. J. Wilson (1961); Mr. G. T. Woods (1956); Dr. A. B. Worden*; Mr. C. C. H. Worrall (1930); Sir Denis Wright*** (1929); Mr. E. C. C. Wynter (1937); Dr. D. C. M. Yardley**; Mr. D. L. Zwirek (1978). *Fellow

**Emeritus Fellow

***Honorary Fellow A.

FARRAND RADLEY Hon . Sec.

DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM G. W. H. Adcock (1942) has now retired from a long career of schoolmastering.

P . F. Alien (1961) is a regular presenter of B.B.C. 's 'Kaleidoscope' and is having his twentieth play performed at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield.

J. C. Anscombe (1977) is on the management staff of Proctor and Gamble Ltd. M. J . Archer (1957) is still with I.T.V. as senior producer of 'The World of Sport' with London Weekend Television.

J. D. Armistead (1978) has been appointed Senior Technical Officer in the Signal and Telecommunications department of British Rail at Doncaster.

T. E. M. Ashton (1933) retired from the active ministry of the Church in October 1984.

D. Aukin (1961) is now Director of the Leicester Haymarket theatre.

R. C. Austin (1946) has been appointed Vicar of Llantilio Crosseny and Penthos and Rector of Llanvetherine and Llanfapley.

K. R. Albans (1974) has graduated B.D. from Manchester University and has begun work as a Methodist Minister in York .

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C. L. Amor (1973) has been called to the Bar and is in criminal practice.

J. E. Aves (1957) is now Vice Chairman of Benton and Bowles and is at the European office in Brussels as European Business Director._ A. W. Ayres (1972) has been appointed Head of Chemistry at Wisbech Grammar School.

J. Ayton (1980) has been articled with Richards Butler and Co. P. E . R. Badger (1975) has captained the Barnet Chess Club which won the Herts. Cup. J. P. N. Badman (1966) works for B.P . Minerals Worldwide, based in New bury.

A. R. F. Banks (1974) is now Chief Accountant for The Arab Bank Ltd. S. H . Beamish (1971) is working as Export Manager for Souza Cruz in Florianopolis, Brazil.

M. J. Beard (1958) has started trading as M. J. Beard (Electrical Services) carrying out electrical contracting and consultancy.

A. D. Beck (1958) has returned to the U.K. after working in the Institute of Education in Singapore. He is a Lecturer and Deputy Warden of Royal Ford Hall at Manchester Polytechnic.

H. J. A. Beechey-Newman (1954) is a private jeweller and valuer of jewellery and silver.

I. B. Beesley (1960) is Under-Secretary in charge of the Prime Minister's Efficiency Unit.

N. S. Belam (1938) is enjoying retirement and the pleasures of fishing.

J. R. Berryman (1968) has returned from l3 years in the Bahamas and is now on the staff of St. Bede's School, Sussex.

A. J. Best (1979) is working in the bond department of Simon and Coates stockbrokers.

W. J. Best (1962) has been elected to membership of the Institute of Acoustics.

P. J. Bevan ( 1976) is Assistant Priest in the parish of Chapelthorpe, and Chaplain to Bretton Hall College of Higher Education.

B. P. Bewlay (1980) is reading for a D.Phil. in Metallurgy.

J. M. Bilton (1975) is Product Marketing Manager with Comag, the country's leading magazine marketing and distribution company.

P. N. Blakey (1976) is now a Senior Project Leader at Wiggins Teape Ltd. J. F. Blackburn (1961) spent nine weeks in 1983 walking the length of New Zealand, raising money- over ÂŁ37,000- for Child Cancer Research.

P . H . Blair (1959) obtained his Ph.D. in linguistics at Exeter, on the phonetics of Sudanese Arabic.

M. D. Booker (1971) is now Legal Officer for the Freight Transport Association .

R. W. Breckles (1967) is Priest in Charge of the parish of Lady Bay in the Diocese of Southwell.

I. Brimecombe (1971) is head of the European Insurance Unit of the Bankers Trust Company in London .

M. J. Birks (1979) is now economist with Buckmaster and Moore, stockbrokers.

C. M. Brown (1966) is now Managing Director of the Investment Bank Brown Goldie and Co. F. A. Brown (1974) is General Manager of D. B. Honing Equipment, and director of David Brown Gears.

0. T. Brown (1938) has retired , with much relief, from local government.

P . W. Brown (1968) is now Industrial Relations Officer for Crane Packing Ltd.

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P. S. H. Budden (1974) is still with the Costain Group, and is working on the sewer renovation research project at Godalming.

P. C. M. Burns (1972) is a Housemaster at Ampleforth College.

J. S. Burrows (1959) has been appointed Associate Professor of Opera at Temple University in Philadelphia.

I. D. C. Button (1969) is microcomputer support team leader for Calderdale M.B.C. Finance Department in Halifax.

R. J. Callan (1969) is Headmaster of Gonzaga College High School, in Washington, D.C. A. J. Calvert (1978) is working for a Ph.D. at the Bullard Laboratories in Cambridge.

C. R. Campling (1947) has been appointed Dean of Ripon.

R. J. Challis (1965) has been working in Zimbabwe in recent years, obtained a D.Phil. degree in history there, and has been appointed to a lectureship in the Ministry of Education in Harare.

S. S. Chandler (1972) has joined Cooper and Lybrand as local audit manager, in Norwich.

A. S. Chandler (1925) has retired from his post as Team Rector of Ilfracombe Ministry, after 31 years.

B. A. Clarke (1980) has joined the history staff of Putney High School.

S-J. Chen (1971) is now an Instructor at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Hokkaido University, Japan.

P. R. F. Clemence (1969) is now working with Leeds City Council as a Town Planner.

D. J. A. Cockerill (1972) after working at CERN, Geneva, for 3 years, has returned to Oxford to work on the decay of the Universe at Rutherfords Laboratory, Chilton.

J. V. Cockshoot (1947) was made redundant after 26 years as Head of the Music Department at Westminster College, Oxford. He now works free-lance as an examiner and tutor for the Open University.

B. A. Collins (1966) is in his tenth year as a missionary in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

J. Collyer (1981) is now Manager of the Music Publishing Department of Forsyth Bros. Ltd., Manchester.

P. J. Congdon (1975) is now European Management Accountant with Bell and Howell Ltd. D. J. Cooper (1977) is an Account Executive in the Life and Pensions Department of Bain Dawes, international insurance brokers.

T. G. Cooper (1967) is now Assistant Education Officer (Schools/FE) with Cornwall LEA. K. P. Copestake (1972) is Head of Physical Education at Shrewsbury House School, Surbiton.

R. I. Corner (1973) is running a small organic farming co-operative, working horses and growing mainly strawberries.

S. H. Coulson (1979) is teaching in Isamilo School, Mwanza, in Tanzania.

A. J. Cowan (1962) is Information Systems Manager for the PA Consulting Group.

N. R. Cowling (1962) is now Head of Economic and Social Division of the Northern Ireland Office, Whitehall.

D. J. Cox (1963) is now Deputy Headmaster at Noulsham High School, Chelmsford, Essex.

T. M. Crossley (1974) has nearly completed his training as a G.P .

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L. Cummings (1971) is now Director of McGregor Cory Cargo Services, and has recently organised small Hall reunions in Tokyo, Singapore and Seoul.

J. S. Daniel (1961) has been appointed President of Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

P. D. Davies (1963) has been re-elected Labour member of Winchester City Council in May 1984.

R. P. H. Davies (1938) has travelled extensiveiy on Anti-Slavery Society business.

B. P. Dawson (1969) is now Head of French at Homelands School, Derby.

A. G. Deakin (1972) is Financial Controller with Deutsche Oiltools GMBH. D. J. Dee (1981) is a graduate trainee with Jardine Matheson in their Airfreight Forwarding Department.

S. J. Dempsey (1969) is Group Publicity Manager with APV Holding, PLC, a process engineering group.

K. D. P . Diamond (1977) is working in investment banking for Nomura.

A. G. S. Douglas (1960) runs Presight Ltd. with D. J. Cook (1960) a New Product Development Consultancy, and one of the leading firms in its field in Europe.

S. R. Douglas (1973) has left the Ministry of Defence and is working in the corporate finance department of the Orion Bank.

S. C. H. Douglas-Mann (1965) is Corporate Finance Director with Charterhouse Japhet, Merchant Bankers.

N. A. Dromgoole (1948) is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, City of London Polytechnic J. H. Ducker (1956) is Warden of the Carnoch Outdoor Centre, Glencoe.

A. A. Dudman (1949) is now Deputy Headmaster of the new Whitehaven School.

T. N. Durlu (1970) has been appointed Deputy Dean of the Science Faculty of Ankara University, Turkey.

J. H. A. Eames (1940) is now a full-time voluntary guide at St. Paul's Cathedral, and a lecturer on London studies to adult education classes.

M. J. Eccles (1979) works in the Applications Programming Department at Kodak Ltd. L. H. Elliott (1942) has retired as Head of Geography at Latymer Upper School.

B. England (1961) has been posted to the British Embassy at Berne.

A. F. R. Evans (1951) has been appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.

J. R. Exton ( 1963) is now District Inspector for English with the Inner London Education Authority.

M. J. Fall (1961) is working in Geneva.

A. J. Fell (1979) is teaching at Guildford High School.

R. A. Farrand (1955) launched the Farrand Press in September 1983 and will shortly be publishing its first book on 19th century art history.

S. B. Fisher (1971) is Head of Middle School at the Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School.

K. M. Fisher (1970) is now Materials Scientist with Qualcast Lawnmowers Ltd., Derby.

D. W. Fones (1979) is Head of Modern Languages at Bothal School, Ashington, Northumberland.

A. W. Foot (1944) is retiring after 34 years at Royal Russell School, Croydon.

P. T . Foster (1977) continues exploring British waters with Shell UK Expro, and has given up rugby in favour of parachuting.

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B. H. Forster (1960) has been elected Honorary Secretary of the Justices' Clerks' Society.

A. W. Fowler (1937) has retired from the staff of Shrewsbury School.

M. B. Foxon (1963) is working with Volvo in Holland, as a consultant with International Automotive Design.

P. R. Franklin (1974) is Fuel Oil Manager, Commercial Fuels Strategy with Shell UK Oil. S. P. Frostick (1972) has been elected FRCS and is now Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery in the University of Oxford.

R. A. Fryer (1974) works in the Group Financial Services Department of the Rank Organisation PLC, London.

A. B. Gardner (1966) is a software engineer with Systems Designers of Camberley.

S. R. Garrett (1965) is a Lecturer in the Department of Adult Studies at Hendon College of Further Education.

S. J. Gatrell (1965) has been promoted Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Coleraine University.

K. A. Gibbons (1979) is now second in charge of chemistry teaching at The Langham School, Tottenham.

R. D. Gillingwater (1974) works for Kleinwort, Benson Ltd., merchant bankers, as a corporate finance executive.

P. C. Godfrey (1979) has been directing in the theatre since he went down, with a production in the West End, and has received an Arts Council Director's Bursary.

P. A. Godfrey (1976) teaches modem languages at a Bedfordshire comprehensive school.

J. C. Goff (1973) is a Senior Geologist in the Petroleum Engineering Division of the Department of Energy.

R. Golland (1973) is First Secretary at the British Embassy in Budapest.

E. G. Gray (1975) has been posted to the Hong Kong office of Richard Butler, and would be delighted to see Aularian visitors.

S. D. Graham (1952) has become a member of the Insolvency Rules Advisory Committee.

J. A. B. Gray (1974) still works in Singapore as manager of 'Princess Mamsuri', a luxury cruise liner.

J. G. Greenhill (1944) has retired from the R.A.F. and works for the N.H.S. C. A. Gregory (1971) has taken an M.A. in Romance Languages at the University of London.

R. J. Grey (1967) is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

D. W. Grice (1973) is now an Assistant Solicitor with Denison Suddards and Co., York.

J. R. W. Gove (1975) is now on the Whipps Cross Hospital Surgical Rotation, in East London.

T. P. Hamerton (1932) has retired from the active ministry of the Church.

D. A. Hamilton (1972) is now an Inventory Analyst with Motorola Communications Ltd. F. H. Hanbidge (1966) has been elected a Schoolteacher Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge for Easter Term 1984.

S. M. Haniff (1977) is now an Assistant Solicitor with Slaughter and May. A. R. Hargreaves (1974) works for Sanwa Bank (Underwriters) Ltd. J. S. M. Harpham (1959) composed the music for another series of 'Tenko' on B.B.C. 1 and his 'Northamptonshire Overture' received its first performance this summer.

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H. R. Harris (1960) is Principal of Harrow College of Higher Education.

C. M. Harrison (1967) is Factory Manager, Metal Box Plc at Portsmouth.

M. A. B. Harrison (1947) has retired from the Headship of Monks' Dyke High School, Louth.

R. Hatt (1970) is Marketing Controller of Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society.

A. J. Hawkes (1962) is First Secretary at the British Embassy, Islamabad.

J. S. Herlihy (1974) works for Unilever. After three years as Chief Accountant in Zambia he is now Commercial Manager at U.A.C. International Ltd. J. F. Hester (1945) has been appointed a Chaplain to the Queen.

A. D. Hill (1966) is now Editorial Director of Sage Publications Ltd. H. A. Kirby (1974) works for Midland Bank International.

C. J. Hodgkinson (1972) has passed his Solicitors Finals.

A. B. Holdsworth (1958) has been appointed Manager of Ferrous and Alloy Supplies with British Steel Corporation.

R. G. Hunt (1963) is now Manager, Financial Reporting and Planning, Midland Bank Plc, Group Treasury.

D. M. Huxley (1965) is Director of Studies, Herbert Carter School, Poole.

H. M. Hyde (1968) is Head of Modern Languages at St. John's School, Leatherhead.

R. V. Jackson (1965) was elected to the House of Commons as M.P. for Wantage, and gave up his seat in the European Parliament.

D. M. Jacobs (1952) has been appointed Sales Associate with Allied Hambro.

R. C. T. James (1938) has finally retired from his job as a Countryside Officer.

C. J. Jarvis (1975) has been appointed Senior Application Engineer at Gerker Systems.

A. L. N. Jay (1951) has been appointed Captain of the British Olympic Fencing Team at Los Angeles 1984.

P. S. Jenkins (1967) is Assistant Secretary in V.A.T. Administration in Customs and Excise, after a 2 year spell in the Treasury as P.S. to Sir Geoffrey Howe.

D. H. Jennings (1974) is Senior Management Accountant with HewlettPackard Ltd. M. Johnson (1946) has retired from his post as Director of Education, London Borough of Harrow.

P. M. Johnson (1965) is now Managing Director of Redland Bricks Ltd. D. N. Jones (1969) continues to serve on the Social Policy Committee of the 'British Association of Social Workers, and has been elected a Governor ofthe National Institute for Social Work.

K. J. Jones (1976) teaches history at Hillcrest School, Hastings.

G. Josipovici (1958) has been appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Sussex.

M. 0. C. Joy (1959) has been appointed an Honorary Canon of the Diocese of Lesotho.

A. J. Kember (1953) is Regional Administrator of the Southwest Thames Regional Health Authority.

M. B. Kennaway (1938) has been appointed an Honorary Canon of Truro.

A. J. Knight (1945) has retired early frpm teaching.

B. J. Lamb (1957) is now working for ~B.M. in Tokyo.

C. S. Latimer (1976) has left the Ministry of Defence, received his Diploma of Archive Administration and is now Assistant Archivist at the Greater Manchester County Record Office.

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A. W. Laughton (1954) is now Joint Managing Director, Berisford Group Plc. T. S. Lavender (1969) has joined Lloyd's Underwriters Non-Marine Association.

E. R. M. Lavin (1962) is classics master at Liverpool College.

P . D. Lawrence (1950) has accepted premature retirement from his post at the Purbeck School.

J. E. Lawson (1959) has been appointed Managing Director of Alien Brady and Marsh Ltd., Advertising Agency.

J. P. Le Pelley (1944) has retired from his post as European Director of Marshall Field and Co. and plans to return to Florence.

N. M. Lloyd (1961) formerly editor of the Sunday People, is now editor of The News of the World.

A. J. Lamas (1975) works for Booth Ainsworth, Chartered Accountants in Manchester.

N. A. Lovatt (1966) is a Financial Consultant with Knight Williams and Co. in London.

B. J. L. Lowe (1969) is an Attorney and Counsellor at Law (United States) and is in practice in Cleveland, Ohio.

A. S. Lowenthal (1972) joined Morgan Guaranty, and is now a Vice-President of the bank .

A. R. J. Lloyd (1946) is now Chairman of John Lloyd and Partners Ltd., management consultants.

J. McCabe (1978) is a full-time evangelist in the parish of Christ Church Addington, PO Box 18088, Point 4069, Durban, Natal, R.S.A. R. McAdams (1941) has retired from teaching and embarked on an Open University degree in Mathematics!

R. J. McDonald (1965) is now a Senior Principal Inspector at the Inland Revenue Special Office, Bristol.

J. McElheran (1949) is now an Under Secretary (Legal) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

R. M. McGrath (1971) is now teaching at Whitgift School, South Croydon.

P. C. Machen (1956) is a Senior Research Associate at Newcastle University, working on the SERC's Marine Technology Programme.

J . MacKinnon (1975) is now Surgical Senior House Officer at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

P.A. McLaughlin (1979) is a trainee accountant, Eagle Star Group.

A . R. H. MacLeod (1953) is now Vicar of Shipton Bellinger in the Diocese of Winchester.

J. McNulty (1973) is working for Burgess Salmon, Bristol.

J. L. Mallett (1970) is a translator with the E.E.C. A. P. Martel (1971) continues to serve in the Sultan of Oman's land forces, in ArlllY H.Q .

R. M. Martel (1980) has accepted a post with Wiggins Teape.

A. Martin (formerly A. M. Pratt. 1964) still works for Dominion Press Ltd., and wishes to inform Aularians of his change of name.

A. M. Mathieson (1955) is Senior Personnel Officer with the South Lincolnshire Health Authority.

A. D. Maxwell (1969) is Assistant Controller at Bankes Trust in New York .

R. A. J. Mayer (1964) is an Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Environment.

J. P. De Courcy Meade (1937) has retired from being Managing Director, Industrial Training Service Ltd., and is working as an independent consultant.

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C. Miller (1975) is now teaching History and Social Studies at Rossington Comprehensive School, South Yorks.

W. R. Miller (1949) has been elected to the Bristol-Myers Company Board of Directors, and as Master of the Honourable Company of Freeman of the City of London of North America, presided over their banquet at the Mansion House.

J. M. Milner (1966) is now Personnel Manager for the Copper Tube Division of I.M.I. Yorkshire Imperial Ltd: D. C. Monkcom (1969) is a translator with the E.E.C. in Brussels.

E. J. Morgan (1948) is now Director of the Civil Service Selection Board.

J. V. L. Morgan (1954) has been Mayor of Reigate and Banstead, 1983-4.

N. J. Morley (1963) has been posted to the British Embassy in Ankara.

S. P. Moroney (1978) is now Assistant Publisher for IC Publications.

D. J. Morris (1964) has returned to Oriel College as its Fellow in Economics after three years away as Director of the National Economic Development Council.

G. R. J. Morris (1961) has been awarded a Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex.

I. P.C. Murray (1974) is working with F. L. Rouse and Co. chartered accountants, as a manager.

J. H. Nason (1974) works for Memorex International, in London.

J. M. Nevin (1979) is teaching English at The Heathland School, Hounslow, Middlesex.

C. A. Newman (1978) has left industry and is studying for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at York University.

R. Norton (1962) is studying for an M.A. at York University.

R. N. Oliver (1962) produced and directed a revival of 'Engaged' by W. S. Gilbert at the London Arts Theatre, and acted with the Oxford Playhouse Company in 'The Duchess of Malfi'.

P. A. Os born (1972) is now manager of the small business section of Thomson McLintoch and Co., chartered accountants.

P. St. J. Parker (1969) is working at the Regional Research Institute for Human Services, Portland, Oregon, and working for a Ph.D. in his spare time.

J . C. Palmer (1951) is now teaching French and German at Downe House School, near Newbury.

A. C. M. Pantin (1951) is a Marketing Consultant with Forum Chemicals Ltd., Reigate.

J. Parr (1971) is now Vicar of St. Mary's, Lower Ince, Wigan.

C. B. B. Parselle (1960) has qualified as a member of the California Bar, and is practising law in Santa Monica.

D. J. Paxman (1947) has been appointed Parish Priest of Lakenheath, Suffolk.

H. H. E. Peacock (1932) was installed as Dean of Leighton in Co . Carlow, Eire in November 1983.

C. A Penwarden (1974) is an audit manager with Price Waterhouse.

R. Peskett (1975) has been awarded the degree of D.Phil. at York, where he has been working on the development of communicative skills by Down's syndrome children.

H. Petrie (1964) is now working for Costain Process as a computer development manager.

D. J. Picksley (1953) is business planning manager with Rank Xerox, Eastern Export Operations.

J. Pike (1946) has retired from the L.S.E. and has been elected to the Councils 37

of the International African Institute and the British Schools Exploring Society, and also to the Visiting Committee of the Royal College of Art. M. K. Power (1976) was awarded a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Girton College, Cambridge in January 1984.

G. J. Price (1972) is now Head of History and a Housemaster at Sexey's School, Bruton, Somerset.

M; J. Price (1970) is a Director of Friends of the Earth Ltd. T. W. Ramage (1978) is Assistant to the Senior Partner of Grenfell and Colegrave, Stockbrokers.

H. H. Redington (1961) is now Head of Geography at Norwich High School.

C. H. Reece (1981) has accepted a management trainee post with Barclays Bank.

J. R. Rennison (1969) is now an Austrian citizen, and a lecturer in the department of Linguistic of Vienna University.

S. I. Reynolds (1975) is still with the Geophysical Co. of Norway, and has returned to the U.K. from New Zealand.

R. S. Rhodes (1978) is now lecturing at Sunderland Polytechnic.

J. V. Roberts (1955) was appointed Rural Dean of Childwell (Liverpool) in 1983.

R. H. Roberts (1951) was awarded the C.B. in the New Year's Honours List 1984, and has retired from his post as Chaplain of the Fleet.

D. L. Robertson (1971) is now a partner of Turner ¡Kenneth Brown, solicitors.

M. A. Robson (1951) dramatised for television Arthur Ransome's novels 'Coot Club' and 'Big Six'.

P. H. Rogers (1932) is Director of Ordinands and Warden of Lay Readers in the Diocese of Clogher.

P . L. Roussel (1947) is Sponsorship Consultant for the National Theatre, and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

F. E. Rusby (1951) is now incumbent of Home and Outwood, Surrey.

T. P. Sands (1979) is teaching at Woolverston Hall, Ipswich.

J. C. Saunders (1973) is working for the Office of Fair Trading.

L. U. Scholl (1970) has lectured at the First International Conference on Business History, in Japan.

J. G. M. Scott (1943) has moved to Hampton near Tiverton, and is in charge of Hampton with Clayhanger, Morebath and Petton. He has been appointed a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.

T. J. Shield (1981) is an actuarial trainee with the Friends Provident Society.

S. Simonian (1962) is President of the Greater Delaware Valley Society of Transplant Surgeons, President of the Armenian Medical and Dental Association of Greater Philadelphia, and President of the Philadelphia County Medical Society Center City Branch. He was Visiting Professor of Surgery at Oxford and Harvard, and has been elected a Fellow of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery.

A. W. B. Simpson (sometime Junior Research Fellow) has been elected F.B.A. R. J. Slade (1966) is now Deputy Headmaster, John Warner School, Hoddesdon, Herts.

J. S. Slee (1980) has been appointed English mistress at Godolphin School for Girls, Salisbury.

M. G. Smith (1961) is now a partner in a small private investment broking firm called Phoenix Securities Ltd. C. R. Sneddon (1963) has been re-elected as Liberal Councillor for St. Andrews on the North East Fife District Council.

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J. McG. Sowerby (1935) is now Technical Consultant to British Aerospace, and Director of Melville Technologies, Letchworth.

C. P . Spencer (1962) has been elected to the University of Sheffield's central policy review group.

M. 0. Spilberg (1968) is now Headmaster of Lyndhurst School, Hampstead.

B. Spurr (1974) has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sydney.

S. A. Staite (1976) is an Assistant Solicitor at Herbert Smith and Co., London.

M. Stallworthy (1970) is lecturing at the School of Law at Preston Polytechnic.

R. Stephenson (1972) is employed as the Attorney, Hewlett-Packard Ltd .

M. H . Stevenson (1981) has taken up a post with Peat Marwick Mitchell.

N. Stevenson (1981) has taken up a job at AE, Rugby.

A. R. Stewart (1949) has retired from his post as Head of MOT. Diploma Studies at Leicester Polytechnic, due to ill health.

W. Strang (1981) has been accepted as an Administration Trainee with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

A. E. A. Sulston (1927) celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a Priest at Michaelmas 1982.

D. L. Summers (1959) has completed tl:le Programme for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.

E. F. A. Suttle (1933) has retired from H. M. Inspectorate and is teaching at the Cathedral School, Hereford .

P . J . Swindells (1953) while remaining Rector of Clop hill has taken up the appointment of priest-in-charge of Upper with Lower Gravenhurst.

M. R. Tanner (1965) is now Head of Geography at Carre's Grammar School, Sleaford, Lincs.

G . S. Taylor (1968) is now Software Editor for Collins.

J . A . Taylor (1974) is now Head of Biology at Hereford Cathedral School.

L. P. Tempest (1956) has completed a 2 year secondment from the Bank of England to the British Gas Corporation and has since been a consultant on energy finance with the World Bank in Washington.

A. J. Terry (1965) has returned from Yugoslavia and is working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

C. W. Thomas (1973) is metallurgist for D.S.I.R. Private Bag, Petone, New Zealand.

M. J. Thomas (1971) is a Data Management Consultant for International Computers Ltd., New Zealand.

D. N. Thompson (1952) is a solicitor with Messrs . Hallam and Co . of Burgess Hill.

J . A. Tice (1979) has obtained an M.A.(Econ.) at Manchester University.

J. S. Tinkler (1973) is Software Engineering Manager at Gresham Lion (PPL) Ltd ., Thatcham, Berks.

P. J. Toogood (1941) has retired from his post as Senior Assistant Education Officer (Schools) with the Dorset Education Department.

A. J. Trythall (1944) has retired from the Army and is now Managing Director of Brassey's Defence Publishers Ltd .

S. Vivian (1977) has joined Thomas A . Greene (Reinsurance Intermediaries Inc .) in New York.

S. E . Walduck (1957) has set up his own company, Alliance Development and Training, to design and run management courses.

W. G. Wallis (1977) has joined English Estates as Property Surveyor, to establish a new office in Harrogate covering North Yorkshire.

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K. L. Walsh (1979) is working for a Ph.D. in geology at Witwatersrand University.

J. Waiters (1959) is now Chief Probation Officer for the Middlesex area of Greater London.

A. Ward (1942) has been elected a Fellow of Wadham College and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Cross College.

M. C. Warren (1966) is now in charge of the Singapore office of Davy Corporation plc, the centre for metal and mineral engineering in the Far East.

J. C. R. Webb (1938) has retired from the active ministry of the Church.

P. J. Webb (1963) was awarded the Royal Navy Reserve Decoration in 1983.

A. S. Weir (1977) at the moment holds a short term Tutorial Fellowship in Philosophy at Balliol College.

J. W. Welch (1970) has been appointed Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University.

J. C. Wells (1957) is currently playing the wicked Sir Evelyn Blount in Warner Brothers' 'Greystoke'.

T. E. West (1973) is Regional Sales Manager for Pedigree Petfoods U.K. Ltd. J. B. A. Weston (1947) has retired from his post as Head of Modern Languages at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School.

J. P. Wheeler (1977) is now a Computer Programmer/Analyst with Page Bros.

(Norwich) Ltd. M. G. White (1969) has been appointed Site Purchasing Manager with Showerings Ltd., Shepton Mallet.

G. P. T. Whurr (1956) is now a Co-ordinator, Organisation and Personnel Planning, in the Salaried Personnel Department of Jaguar Cars, Ltd., Coventry.

S. C. Wilkinson (1959) has been appointed Headmaster of St. Albans School, Hertfordshire.

J. H. B. Williams (1948) was awarded his F.R.C.G.P. in 1982.

M. B. Williams (1976) is studying for a Ph.D. in Japanese studies at Berkeley, University of California.

H. A. P. Wills (1943) has been appointed Rector of Flax Bouston and Barron Gurney in the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

A. T. deB. Wilmot (1934) has retired from the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology and has returned to Kent to become Support Development officer of the School.

C. R. Wilson (1971) has been appointed the 1984-5 Research Associate for the Shakespeare Music Catalogue, University of Victoria, B.C., funded by the Research Council of Canada.

D. G. Wilson (1958) is now International Chaplain to Faith and Light, a Christian movement for mentally handicapped people, their families and friends.

G. T. Woods (1956) has started selling chemistry T-shirts by mail order.

N. B. Worswick (1945) has retired from the Headmastership of the Royal Hospital School at Ipswich.

N. J. Worthington (1976) is still with British Rail, and re-writing the Scottish Region timetable.

J. R. C. Young (1956) has been appointed Director of Policy and Planning of the Stock Exchange.

R. N. Young (1958) now owns and directs 'The Landscape Overview' and the Centre for the Enjoyment and Understanding of Landscape at Moreton Bampstead, Devon.

D. L. Zwirek (1978) having spent 3 months working as a Foreign Exchange dealer in Denmark for Citibank, is now back in the London branch.

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MARRIAGES J . C. Anscombe to Jane Cooper on 26 June 1982.

C. L. Amor to Stephney Charlton in April1983, followed by service of blessing in the Hall chapel.

I. B. Beesley to Elizabeth Wigley in 1983 .

P. G . Brett to Judith Ann Robertson in the Chapel at Church House Westminster, on 16 July 1983.

M. R. Broughton to Julia Slee, both Aularians, at St. Michael's Church, Bishop's Stortford, on 28 July 1984.

S. Butler to Penelope Birch Campion in the Hall Chapel on 24 March 1984.

R. E. Cawthorne to Catherine Ann White of Kansas City, Missouri, on 21 May 1983.

P. R. F. Clemence to Mary Mitchell on 28 May 1983.

K. D. P. Diamond to Melinda Charmian Bell on 21 May 1983 .

T . E. Dowman to Mrs. Margaret Buck on 21 July 1984.

Miss A. J . Fell to John D. Rae of Edinburgh on 25 October 1980.

P . R. Franklin to Catherine Franklin in December 1978.

E. A. Fretwell-Downing to Sarah Jane Micklethwaite on 25 September 1983.

S. P. Frostick on 15 June 1978.

P . R. Gillett to Geraldine at St. George's R.C . Church, South Croydon, -on 6 August 1983.

R. G. Gillingwater to Helen Davies in the Hall Chapel on 25 April 1983.

N. P. Gregory to Caroline Logan, at St. Helens Church, Abingdon, on 3 September 1984.

S. J. Granger to Jane Elizabeth Slater at St. Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton, on 21 July 1984.

J. A. B. Gray married Inge on 13 August 1983.

N. J. R. Haddock to Annabel Kate Bradford on 9 December 1983.

H. A. Kirby to Cathryn Sillence on 10 January 1981.

D. J. Hope to Janet Brown of Boliver, Missouri, in Missouri on 22 May 1983.

K. J. Jones to Laure Anne Jacqueline Mamblona of Le Pecq, France.

J. D. Kesby to Sheila Anne Gregory at the church of St. Dunstans with Holy Cross, Canterbury, on 3 September 1983 .

P. A . McLaughlin to Miss C. L. Dimmick on 28 July 1984.

A. D. Maxwell married in 1983.

I. J . Midgley to Rosanna Romano on 11 August 1979.

D. Muckersie to Susan Diane Vaughan on 17 December 1983.

H. P. Orme to Judi Harris on 28 July 1984.

A. Pearce to Lorna Hitchin on I October 1983.

S. I. Reynolds to Rolinda Jacoba Les of Melbourne, Australia, in March 1984.

A. N. Ridley to Miss J. Camilleri of Sliema, Malta, in Malta, on 15 August 1983.

T . P. Sands to Geraldine Alien at Gold Hill Baptist Church on 14 August 1982.

R. R. Speed to Marian O'Neill on 28 July 1984.

S. A. Staite to Miss J . Davis at St. Stephens Church, Clanfield, on 2 June 1984.

K. S. Walmsley to Judith Pedley on 31 March 1984.

J. Wilk to Anne Lesley Laver, in the Hall Chapel, on 28 July 1984.

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BIRTHS H. C. Allen, a daughter, Rosemary Scarlett, on 13 February 1984.

J. C. Atkinson, a son, Philip George, on 2 August 1983.

K. R. Albans, a daughter, Naomi Katherine, on 23 June 1983.

A. W. Ayres, a daughter, Charlotte Louise, on 15 October 1983.

J. P . N. Badham, a son, Charles Edward.

R. Baker, a daughter, Karis Helen, on 19 October 1983.

I. B. Beesley, a daughter, Sophie Blake, on 17 September 1983.

J. Berryman, a son, Mark Edmund.

J. M. Bilton, a son, Simon Lewis , in October 1982.

S. C. Burrard-Lucas, a son, William Benjamin, on 2 September 1983.

S. S. Chandler, a son, Christopher Selwyn, 29 August 1983.

A. M. Clevely, a daughter, Sarah Janet, on 26 December 1982.

B. A. Collins, a son, Thomas Daniel, in 1982.

B. P. Dawson, a son, John Luke, on 11 May 1984.

A. Doulton, a son, Hugh, on 19 January 1984.

P. ¡Ebden, a son, Philip Lloyd, on 13 December 1983.

P. R. Franklin, a son, Jeremy Philip, on 26 April 1984.

S. P . Frostick, a daughter, Emily Jane, on 14 April1983.

A. B. Gardner, three daughters, Helen born in 1976, Ann born in 1977 and Elizabeth born in 1981.

P. A. Godfrey, a daughter, Hannah Joy, on 22 January 1983.

D. F. Goldsmith, a third son, William David John on 8 November 1983.

D. W. Grice, a daughter, Stephanie Jane, on 27 September 1983.

D. N. Holmes, a son, Tom, in June 1983.

H. J. Hunt, a daughter, Lucy Rosalind, on 29 October 1983.

R. G. Hunt, a son, Jerome Edmund Richard, on 21 September 1983.

P. M. Johnson, a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, on 8 September 1983.

D. N. Jones, a daughter, Bethan, on 29 April 1983.

L. W. Jones, a daughter, Clare Mary, on 15 January 1984.

M. P. Littleton, a daughter, Amy Jane, on 2 November 1983.

K. V. Mackenney, a son, Richard James, on 30 January 1984.

P. W. Mayne, a son, Edward James, on 7 October 1983.

I. J. Midgley, a daughter, Giovanna, on 29 September 1983.

R. E Novak, a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on 5 July 1983.

C. A. Penwarden, a son, Jonathan, on 7 October 1983.

J. C. B. Perrott, a son, Richard Henry Matthew, on 19 March 1983.

J. G. Philip, a son, lain, on 9 March 1984.

G. J . Price, a son, James William Edwin, on 30 November 1983.

T. W. Ream, a son, Richard Jack, on 21 January 1984.

C. Shaw, a son, Robert Cameron, on 7 July 1983.

R. J. Slade, a son, Geoffrey Railton, on 3 October 1982.

R. de la Bat Smit, a daughter, Genevieve, on 23 June 1983.

M. Stallworthy, a daughter, Emily Jane, on 7 May 1981.

R. Stephenson, a son, Duncan Andrew on 6 April 1981, and a second son, Thomas lan, on 27 April 1984.

N. F. Strawbridge, a son, Thomas Raphael, on 17 April 1984.

G. D. Summers, a daughter, Laura Jane, on 8 December 1981.

M. J . Thomas, a daughter, Eleanor Jane, on 23 October 1983.

T. Ho (nee Tse) a son, Geoffrey, on 2 November 1983.

T. West, a son, Joshua Charles, on 9 May 1984.

M. G. White, a daughter, Miranda Jean, on 27 March 1984.

G. E. L. Williams, a daughter, Harriet Ann, on 20th October 1983.

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DEATHS R. Barber, commoner of the Hall 1921-24, died on 20 October 1980.

Gerald Anthony Leonard Bennett, M.A., commoner of the Hall1951-54, died in early 1984, aged 52.

The Revd. James William Blair, commoner of the Hall 1922-26, died on 21 November 1983.

John Bradley, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1930-34, died on 15 September 1983, aged 72.

John Barkeley Bowes, M.A., commoner of the Hall1949-52 died in May 1984, aged 54.

The Revd. Canon George Thomas Brett, M.A., commoner of the Hall1931-4, died on 17 September 1983, aged 71.

John Herbert Thompson Clarke, M.A., commoner of the Hall1925-7, died on 12 August 1983, aged 78.

Philip Gedes, B.A., commoner of the Hall 1977-80, was murdered by the I.R.A. in the Harrods car bomb outrage on 17 December 1983, aged 24.

Waiter Wilfrid Edward Giles, M.A., commoner of the Halll926-30, died on 9 April 1982, aged 74.

Alan James, M.A., commoner of the Hall1967-70, died on 4 December 1982, aged 33.

The Revd. Canon Jack Lyth, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1935-38, died on 3 December 1982, aged 66.

The Revd. John Lionel Mortimer, commoner of the Hall 1934-36, died in 1983, aged 67.

Sir Ralph (Francis Ralph Hay) Murray, C.B., K.C.M .G., commoner of the Hall1927-30, sometime Ambassador to Greece, died on 11 September 1983, aged 75.

Stanley Frederick Parsons, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1931-34, died on 12 February 1984, aged 70.

Colin Ernest Passey, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1927-30, died on 20 March 1983.

The Revd. Canon Maurice Woodforde Scott, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1930-34, died in September 1983.

Sir Harold Shearman, M.A., commoner of the Hall1919-21, first Chairman of the Greater London Council, died on 24 March 1984, aged 88.

Arthur Geoffrey Slemeck, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1936-39, died in January 1984, aged 66.

Cecil Douglas Smith, O.B.E., M.A ., commoner of the Hall1923-27, died on 10 December 1983, aged 79.

Michael Probart Whitaker, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1937-39 and 1946-9, died on 21 May 1983, aged 64.

Frank Boyce Wood, M.A., commoner of the Hall 1935-38 and 1948-50, died on 22 July 1979, aged 63.

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THE BOAT CLUB President: THE REv E. G. MIDGLEY. Captain: D. AERON-THOMAS Vice Captain: E. A. MARSH Ladies Captain: N. A. S. SELLARS Secretary: R. M. SCHOFIELD Treasurer: T. P. L. HOLMAN Steward: W. W. CABRAL

THE SEASON BEGAN in Michaelmas Term with the training of eager young Freshers. With the O.U.B.C. Octalog in dry-dock for repairs, the S.E.H. banktub sunk without trace, and the tub-pair gracefully wrapped around Magdalen Bridge and now standing in the boathouse in two halves, we had to improvise.

The solution? The clinker VIII was moored alongside our raft and used to banktub. As it had only stroke-side riggers, we were left later on in the season with rather more strokeside oarsmen than bowside.

Halfway through term the Captain made a trip to London on the back of the Oxford City Rowing Club trailer and returned triumphant with a clinker tub-pair.

This was put to immediate use to train bowside oarsmen, and coxes, though some people found it hard to adapt to rowing in a boat with pink fittings .

Christchurch regatta was the first test of our strength, and we were found wanting. As well as a depleted first VIII, we entered two men's and two women's novice VIII's . The women's second novice VIII, led by the athletic duo of Maggie Hall and Liz Bliss, surprised everyone by rowing their way through three rounds to the semi-finals, despite Sally Jones, at no.5, being off her seat through all three races.

With the idea of buying a much-needed second-hand coxed IV, the intrepid crew of Ian McEwan, Nick Cox, Nick Caddick and Ron Daniel, amply coxed by Jenny Turner, set off to London to try out a Westminster School boat in the Tideway IV's Head. They started 294 and finished 268. This was in midNovember. Needless to say the next day saw them all down with flu. Despite the tempting cooking of the 'Mother of the Boats', all vowed never to return to the Tideway.

Hilary Term started with more enthusiasm. With the prospect of blades, many Hall finalists were persuaded back to the joys of rowing. The interest, though, was on our Freshmen, the budding stars of the future who had yet to peep shyly through the foliage of Bumps. With the apparent lack of success and resources, the two-and-a-half VIII's that we had been able to put out in Michaelmas had dwindled to one-and-a-half VIII's in Hilary. The Freshman VIII which was chosen for Torpids trained hard throughout the term. Unfortunately for them they failed by one second to gain a place in the rowing-on. The women's First Torpid rowed on successfully, whereas the women's Second Torpid, their usual boat being laid up without a stern, thanks to some nifty coxing by Exeter, rowing in a strange boat, failed to row on. Torpids were marked by the steady rise of the Hall crews up the ladder. The First Torpid rose four places to seventh place and their blades, the Second Torpid rose a magnificent five into the Third division and their blades, and the Hilarians narrowly missed their blades with their three bumps.

After Torpids it was a case of a little light relaxation for all crews, except the emerging First VIII. The crew drove up to the Tideway on Friday afternoon in time for an outing to practice for the Tideway Head of the River. The Tideway did it again. Two hours of waiting in the freezing wind and pouring rain gave the

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Captain and crew good reason to thank the bubbling cauldron of porridge they had finished off a 7.15 that morning. The race itself was enjoyable, a solid row over the distance to finish 123, four places up on last year. The next day the Hall went to Henley in yet more wind and rain, this time to support Elizabeth Marsh who was rowing for Osiris (The Oxford women's second crew) and beating Blondie (the 'Tab equivalent).

Training and selection for Eights begin in Oth week of Trinity term, and for the ftrst time in some years, we had the great beneftt of an outside coach for the First VIII- Ernie Jelfs. The First VIII went to Thames Ditton Regatta. Just to give the stern four a bit more racing experience, they were entered in Senior A Coxless Fours, where they were narrowly beaten by the eventual winners in the first round . The VIII did better with Rob Schofield rowing instead of David AeronThom~s. beating a Twickenham crew in the ftrst round, followed by St. John's, Oxford in the second. It was a tired S.E.H. crew which lost to Staines R.C. in the semi-ftnal.

In Eights the First VIII took a long time to settle down and ftnd their rhythm.

The frrst two days were rushed and anxious. Only on the third day the crew settled down and made a quick and easy bump on Magdalen. The Saturday saw a relaxed - perhaps too relaxed- row over behind New College. The Second VIII had an unlucky time with one good bump followed by two row-overs and then a bump down on the Saturday. The Third VIII- most of them in their ftrst bumping races- came down three places before getting into their stride. The Fourth VIII, starting bottom but one gained four bumps, all before the Gut , which was as well, because they wouldn't have made it any further, so tough and demanding had their training been, in true Hilarians fashion .

Coming to non-rowing matters, we owe a great deal to the Steward, Warren Cabral, for his dark and stormy rum-punches, his well chosen menus for club dinners, and rriore importantly the bars he opened at the boathouse which made healthy proftts, enabling this year's committee to keep boats repaired, regattas entered and last year's debts paid off.

Even this could not help us with the important need of a boat for the third VIII and more coaches. We owe a lot to those of the Hall who gave time, energy and experience in coaching, namely Gurdon Wattles, Nick Cox and Kath Finucane. If we are seriously to challenge the Headship, win at Henley or even consolidate the Hall's positions on the river, we need coaching help at all levels from outside the college.

Finally I would like to thank the Rev. Graham Midgley and Ron Daniel, for, without their guidance and support, the Boat Club's progress through college and S.C.R. life would not have been so untroubled.

Crews were: 1st VIII Bow S. King R. W. Daniel 2 I. D. McEwen 3 4 D. G. H. Ansley T. P. L. Holman 5 D. Aeron-Thomas 6 7 I. S. Tatchell Str. N. D. Caddick Cox W. W. Cabral

2nd VIII J. C. Scott D. C. Stokes A. S. Lee J. Hull R. M. Schofield T. P. Haywood S. J. Worthington J. P. Larkin J. B. Turner

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3rd VIII R. M. Skipper/J. S. Sinrms E. C. Hayes C. D. Broad C. W. G. Tritton P . J . Marwick D. Mustafa W . M. Connolley M. J. Iddon S. P. Hodges

4th VIII

Ladies VIII

S. Dowling T. J. Smith D. Pratt T. G. Christopherson N. I. Cox D. T. Robb 7 A. W. R. Mitchell Str. P. M. Drewell Cox. D. C. Eckley Bow 2 3 4 5 6

A. F. Harrington R. M. Martel C. R. Tracey F.T.Bick J. Cox C. W. Brown E. A. Marsh N. A. Sellars T. A. Grossman

2nd Torpid Bow 2 3 4 5 6

S. J. Worthington D. T. Robb P . J . Markwick M. J. Iddon R. M. Schofield T. P . Haywood 7 T. J. Reston Str. J. P. Larkin Cox W. W. Cabral

1st Torpid I. D. McEwen T. P. L. Holman N. I. Cox D. G. H. Ansley W. M. Johnson R. W. Daniel N. D. Caddick I. S. Tatchell J. B. Turner

3rd Torpid 0. R. Murphy N. M. Harley J. C. Scott D. C. Stokes S. Dowling A. S. Lee A. W. R. Mitchell J. Hull D. C. Eckley

Women C. R. Tracey C. W. Brown E. A. Bliss K. E. Heald E . A. Maybury F. T. Bick T. Finch E. S. Tuck T. A. Grossman D.A.T.

THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB

Captain: M. J. BISHOP

Secretary: M. HARTSHORNE

BY THE HALL'S STANDARDS the 1983-4 season was a disappointing one, with the first team finishing 2nd in the League, and with the seconds relegated for the second year running.

On paper the 1st XV should have been a far better side than last year, with many old players remaining and several useful freshers arriving to strengthen the team. But a combination of injuries, bad luck and an inability to turn possession into points, meant the team lost twice, to Oriel and Christ Church.

The Cuppers team, captained by Neil Stephenson, strolled to yet another victory, averaging over 50 points a game, and comfortably defeating Univ. in the final.

But in a way more impressive was the 2nd XV which only narrowly missed meeting the Hall 1st XV in the semi-final.

The Sevens team also ran up another victory.

Congratulations to Hugo MacNeil, Stuart Barnes, Martin Gargan and Sandy Findlay on their Blues.

Many thanks to Mark Hartshorne for his work as a totally non-playing Secretary.

M.J .B. THE CRICKET CLUB

Captain: SIMON HART

Secretary: RICHARD KENT

THIS SEASON HAS BEEN one of unfulfilled promise. An excellent run in Cuppers culminated in a narrow defeat at the hands of New College when our batting failed

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FRESHMEN, 1983

Back Row: J. Stirling, M. Triggs, J . Wills, E . Wilkinson, T. Burbridge, K. Penney, S. Owen, R. Saraby, C. Broad, C. Brown, S. Sirn, S. Holmes.

Second Row: E. Wade, H. MacLeod, B. Markham, C. Cunnane, R. Singh, T. Grossman, D. Whelan, M. Wilkinson, D. Woodhead, R. Constant, R. von Bethmann-Hollweg, E . Maybury, J. McKay, D. Reed, T . FaUowfield C. Bray, W. Thomas, E. McAtee, R. Lambert, D. Ashby, A. Hepworth, C. Tan .

Third Row: C. Muskett, M. Pate!, I. Dutta, H. Saunders, M. Hawkins, J . ox, S. Baker, W. Connolly, I. Gazidis, R. Sawyer, P . Markwick, I. Jones, K. Morrison, I. Hawkes, K. Hale, J . McGowan, D. Sankey, R. Skipp , R. Giles, M. Glen, J. Evans, C. Colernan, P . Mitchell.

Fourth Row: R. Collie, E. Walker, A. Carnpbell, C. Colchester, A . N. Other, f. Gosling, C. Hellier, M. lddon, R. Bishop, M. Young, P . Birch, S. Basket!, P. Magyar, A. Till, D. Mustafa, P . Moody, N. Clarke, J. Sharples, C. Suter, F. Larkin, H. Bonsall, S. Hedges.

Fifth Row: M. Irwin, A . Hurn, D. Trevis, A. Stone, T. Hooper, A. Vadher, A. Wong, W. Roberts, T. Reston, M. Erkelenz, M. Wilson, D. Hogg, M. Abbott, C. Wilkins, R. Glynn, M. Welby, K. Heald, C. Wynter, S. Coates, K. Rees, R. Taylor, J . Larkin, R. Sellars, T . Burgess.

Front Row: T. Jennings, A. Marshal!, J. Clark, N. Lawrence, S. Clifford, B. Khan, R. Quick, P. Mitchell, A. Mattoo, R. Johns, P . M. Drewell (J .C.R. President), Revd. Dr. J. N. D. Kelly, A. G. Gillen (M.C.R. President), S. Browne, S. Freethy, A. Macdonald, E. Hayes, G. Jafferji, S. Sarra, S. Kim , M. Kell, C. Tritton, K. Lee.

to match the quality of our bowling. This has been the general trend all term.

Despite some good knocks by Dave Trevis and a brilliant century by Dusty Miller in a Cuppers game against St. John's, our batting has been distinctly erratic. Our bowling, on the other hand, has shown great promise. Andrew Marshall, next year's captain, and Bill Jones, have led the opening attack with accuracy and occasionally with venom, while Mark Disney has emerged as a fiery first change.

Special mention must also be made of Robbie Constant who has persistently overcome the obstacle of ill-fitting cricket trousers to keep wicket with balletic grace.

A trip to Guernsey two weeks after the end of term might have provided its normal quantity of high frolics, but, alas, it had to be cancelled at the last moment.

S.H. THE ATHLETIC CLUB Captain: DAVID ECKLEY

Ladies Captain: ALISON HARRINGTON

CUPPERS TEAMS were not fielded this year, but congratulations go to Paddy Nbu and Maggie Hall who represented the Blues, and to David Eckley and Sandy Findlay who represented the Centipedes, in Varsity matches.

M.H. THE SQUASH CLUB Captain: J. D. H. B. ROTHMAN

Secretary: T. G. CHRISTOPHERSON

THE HALL was able to field two teams in both Cuppers and the League this year, which is a fair indication of the strength and depth of talent in the club.

The first V was unlucky to miss promotion on 'game difference' from Division Two in Michaelmas. However injury and other commitments resulted in a less consistent performance in Hilary, so we remain in the second Division next term.

With Jones, Quick and Rothman leading the Cuppers team, prospects were promising. We were, however unable to field a full team for any of our matches, owing to injuries, with the result that we were defeated in the semi-finals against Univ., 2-3, after victories over Worcester, Queen's and Osier House.

The second V gained promotion from the 5th Division to the 3rd. over the year, and cruised through to the semi-finals of the Second Team competition, before losing to St. John's, the eventual winners.

Next year's Captain is Christopherson, and S. Baker will be Secretary.

T.G .C. THE MEN'S LAWN TENNIS CLUB Secretary: M. B. CRAWFORD Captain: S. J. WORTHINGTON ONCE AGAIN THE TEAM had mixed fortunes, the team itself varying from week to week owing to injuries, cricket and Finals. Hopes were high at the start of the season for winning the second division, after last year's unfortunate relegation.

The nucleus of the re-built Hall team has been Mike Young the University no. 3, Warren Thomas an ex-county squad player, and Webster O'Brien over from the States for a year before leaving for Harvard. After a crushing victory over Trinity in Cuppers, these three, together with Andy Leigh, Dave Clayton and Rick Smith from the league-winning side of two years ago, were very unlucky to lose to a strong Wolfson team, when Dave Clayton developed elbow trouble early on. We

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may have won anyway, but Wolfson, all graduates and only one of them English, refused to let us play a substitute.

Much weaker teams have played in the League matches and the Captain was able to select himself occasionally. But despite strength in depth, we only won five out of seven league matches and, at the time of writing it isn't certain whether that will be enough for promotion. Many thanks to those who played, especially J. K. Stephen, M. J. Glen, R. L. Quick, and D. R. Gleave. Commiserations to Mark Crawford who could only play once owing to a wrist injury sustained while rock-climbing.

S.J.W. THE LADIES TENNIS CLUB Captain: SARAH VICKERS 1984 PROVED TO BE a heartening and highly successful year for ladies tennis at the Hall. Having disposed comfortably of Queen's in the first round, we were unfortunate to encounter a strong Worcester team who removed us from Cuppers after a good battle, but in the new Ladies League the Hall excelled itself. Placed initially in Division 5, the League team won all its matches to rise to Divsion 4 by fourth week, and then proceeded to repeat its performance in the second half of term, to be promoted finally to the dizzy heights of Division 3.

Special thanks go the Christine, Dinya and Shana for their endless enthusiasm, and also to Joy, Jenny and Linda for their participation in our short-lived Cuppers career. If the tremendous enthusiasm displayed this year survives into next season, the Hall's future in Ladies Tennis looks bright indeed.

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THE LADIES' CROSS-COUNTRY CLUB Captain: E. A. BLISS FOR THE SECOND YEAR running the Hall entered the largest team for Cuppers, with eighteen runners. Despite some good running however, the Hall came in third place after Queen's and St. Hilda's. Liz Bliss represented the Ladies Blues.

The S.E.H. relay was a great success this year. Many thanks are due to David Eckley for all his organisation, and to all those who helped on the day.

Congratulations to Liz Maybury who will be Ladies' Captain next year.

E.A.B. THE SWIMMING AND WATER-POLO CLUB Captain: R. J. MACALISTER WATER-POLO CUPPERS were held at the end of Michaelmas Term, and the Hall, with an inexperienced side, managed luckily to win through to the semi-finals.

Here we met the favourites, Queen's, and pulled off the surprise of the tournament by winning 4-2. The Hall emerged triumphant in the final with a 7-1 victory over Balliol. Gareth Penny played particularly well in this tournament.

Swimming Cuppers were not held this year owing to the closure of Temple Cowley pool in Hilary term.

Congratulations to Richard MacAlister for his water-polo half-blue, and commiserations to Dave Casson for missing the Water Polo Cuppers Dinner.

R.J.M.

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THE DARTS CLUB

Captain: D . WALMSLEY AFTER A YEAR of mismanagement and little team spirit, the darts team emerged as a major force in the inter-college League this year.

The team was a curious mixture of youth and experience; the nerveless grit of Ashberry, Knight, Holcroft, Romaine and Walmsley contrasted with the newcomers Ab bott, Coates, Baker and Birch, who produced flashes of individual brilliance tempered with a certain immaturity, which often led to an inability to produce the good darts under pressure.

1983-4 saw the return of Nigel Holcroft who, having served his apprenticeship to Bremen's own Dogger Vagekovicz in the German Bundersleague, started to prove to his critics that he had finally begun learning his trade. A 65 dart finish against Somerville (including a double 8 outshoot), a 6 dart start against Queen's all add weight to this argument.

Finally a word for the second team who performed gallantly under the captaincy of Dave Rob b. With a nose like a shark's fin and a chin for breaking rocks on, he was often seen leading his troops from the rear. Although the 2nds failed to win any trophies this year, they certainly managed to find a few.

D.W.

THE HOCKEY CLUB

Captain: STEPHEN WHYTE

Secretary: TIM LAUGHTON

THE HOCKEY CLUB has again had a somewhat varied season, with a combination of exhilarating victories and disappointing defeats. In Michaelmas term, we were knocked out of Cuppers in the first round but reached the quarter-finals of the Oxfordshire County Cup where we faced, and were beaten by, the Oxford Hawks- formidable opponents by any standards! In Hilary term, we held on to our newly gained position in division one by some very determined play in our league fixtures .

The team saw some changes this year with the arrival of quite a number of promising new players . Mark Triggs and Martin Glen proved to be reliable and creative in mid-field, whilst Andy Marshal! and Roger Sawyer aided veterans like John Stephen and Neil May on the forward line. Will Bristowe again provided us with a plenitude of goals and our regular goal-keeper, Tiro Laughton, was well defended by Neil Maidment at full-back.

The Club Dinner, held in seventh week of Hilary term, proved to be a great success and rounded-off what has, for me, been a thoroughly enjoyable season.

Best wishes must go to Mark Triggs, Martin Glen and Andy Marshall in their new posts as Captain, vice-captain and secretary for next season. Congratulations, also, to Stan Hum and Andy Sumnall for their Blues and, finally, thanks must go to the secretary and to all those who have played for the club this season.

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THE CROQUET CLUB

Captain: N. I. K. K. YOUNG

Fixture Secretary: G. GRAINGER

THIS HAS BEEN a season of mixed fortunes . Again our five Cuppers teams were reduced by the Cuppers Secretary to four. The first team won through to the Quarter-finals to be beaten by the Lincoln 1st team on an essentially biassed lawn.

Amalgamated Clubs were kind enough to subsidise our visit to Pembroke,

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Cambridge, which could best be described as wet. The weather also affected our friendly fixture against the Old Bancroftians. We now look forward to the easy matches left in Trinity Term, including the J.C.R. v. S.C.R. match (if they can raise a team), and a fixture with St. Aldates Secretarial College.

N.I.K.K.Y. THE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB

Captain: T!M EvANS

Secretary: BILL JONES

THE FOOTBALL CLUB has enjoyed another marvellous season. Led once again in unique style by inspirational skipper Tirn Evans, the First XI finished as runnersup in both League and Cuppers competitions.

During Michaelmas the team was built around Fresher !van Gazidis, and, with messrs. Beulay, Disney and Smythe returning from Centaurs and Blues duty, the prospects for Cuppers looked very good. The midfield soon moulded into a formidable unit, and with pint-size AI Blair surpassing even his own estimations of his goal-scoring ability, the passage to the final was comparatively easy. Then, at Oxford City's ground, St. John's took a 3-0 half-time lead, only for a Gazidisinspired Hall to stage a marvellous comeback to eventually go down 3-2.

The 2nd XI also found great success under the benign leadership of Andy Wilson. Relying on the experience of wise- and in several instances, balding- heads, the team won their league division and reached the 2nd XI Cuppers Final only to lose to Balliol in extra time. There can be little doubt that cruel injuries to Gary Evans and Norm Clayton, together with a heavy session on the eve of the match, played a major part in the final result.

The club dinner was enjoyed by all who attended.

T.E. THE HILARIANS RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB Captain: DAN LEVY Secretary: THE OVERWORKED CAPTAIN

THIS HAS BEEN another successful seas.on. In Michaelmas Term the Hilarians won their division of the league, compensating for a draw with Corpus Christi (later revenged) by putting 82 points past Worcester College 2nd XV in a match shortened by an altruistic Teddy Hall referee.

Hilary Term saw a series of friendly matches which began in the pub, ended in the Buttery, and included half-time gin and tonics. Not surprisingly in one match against a team of tourists from St. Mary's Hospital, nobody remembered to keep the score. The visits of the Macaws and the Old Hilarians both ended in narrow, if dubious, victories for the visitors, which were quickly forgotten in the Buttery when the advantage of playing salaried opposition became clear.

Despite half-time team talks consisting almost wholly of four-letter words, the Captain is genuinely grateful to all those who played. At the Annual Dinner, Mr. Mark Haftke was appointed Captain of the Club for the 1984-5 season, in order to establish a tradition of elegant, handsome and short Captains.

D.J.L. THE RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB

Captain: P. KNIGHT

Secretary: P. SHARPLES

ALTHOUGH, AT THE TIME OF WRITING , Cuppers has not been played, the Club can be pleased that 5 players and I substitute were in this year's successful Blues side which defeated Cambridge 18-14 at Craven Cottage. Congratulations to Phil

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Knight, Paul Sharples, Dave Pratt, Gary Evans and John Sharples, and commiserations to Tarquin Grossman, who can count himself unlucky not to have taken the field, and especially to Pete Romaine who broke his leg in the game before.

P.K. THE NETBALL CLUB

Captain: HELEN BONSALL THIS SEASON SAW a premature change of Captain, due to Debbie Rayner's unfortunate injury. Under her captaincy the team won the majority of its matches during Michaelmas term.

The end of the netball season was marked by Cuppers held during the eighth week of Hilary term. Hall was placed third in its section, losing narrowly to St. Catherine's and not so narrowly to Jesus.

Thanks to both those who played regularly and to those who filled in when a team was hard to find.

H.B .

THE TABLE TENNIS CLUB

Secretary: HARRY TRA VERS

Captain: PETE MURRA Y

UNDER THE LEGENDARY reign of King D. J. Fisk, 'Peeng-pang' established itself as one of the most popular minor sports in Hall. This season all 3 teams were promoted, while the first and seconds teams failed to lose a match in the League, with Pete Murray for the first team having a lOOIIJo record. Cuppers started off well with a victory against St. Catz. from Division three, but the team of Pete Murray, Harry Travers and John Rothwell was pipped 5-4 by Balliol of the First Division in the next round- for which the Secretary takes full responsibility!

Still, it was an impressive season, and all three teams, in Divisions 5, 5 and 10 respectively are obviously all too lowly cast. As a result of its triumphs this year, there is a good chance of the first team going straight into Division 2. Other regular players were Martin Glen, Harry Cheung (who threw the ball up into the ceiling when he served), Simon lnges (infamous for his habitual anguished cry of 'Oh no!), Martin Ridall, John Evans, Christine Muskett, Timothy Haywood and Richard MacAlister.

H .T. THE BADMINTON CLUB

Captain and Secretary: D. J. HEAPS ON THE WHOLE the season was a disappointing one for the badminton club. After a promising start in the league we drifted out of contention due to an inability ever to field our strongest team. A glimpse of our true strength was shown on the one occasion on which we did manage to put out a full team- we easily defeated St. Peter's, traditionally the strongest badminton college who, prior to that match, had not dropped a single rubber.

The Cuppers campaign was even worse; in fact it never got off the ground. A combination of injuries, illness, interviews, work commitments and plain apathy meant that only three players turned up for our first match. Although we won all three rubbers which it was possible to play it still meant a 6-3 defeat for the Hall.

My thanks to Roger Quick for his heroic efforts to arrive on time and to

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Warren Thomas for continuing to turn out in Hilary term despite the proximity of exams. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish next season's captain David Woodhead the best of luck .

D.J.H. THE BRIDGE CLUB

Captain: I. MCEWEN

Secretary: T. HOLMAN

THE CLUB HAS HAD AN active year at many levels. A lot of people have enjoyed a social game over a bottle or so of port and we have also played competitive bridge against other colleges. Two teams entered cuppers in the Hilary term. The seconds went out in the third round to a strong Oriel side, while the firsts had a poor match in the fourth, losing to Jesus 2. We plead injury-one man had just played in a victorious varsity rugby leage side- another came fresh from a judo match and was unable to sit upright- while a third developed a migraine.

Honour was restored in the intercollegiate simultaneous teams. We qualified in fourth place for the final where a great late surge brought us overall victory. My thanks go to G. Grainger, J. Newman and T. Grossman for being able and sympathetic teammates.

I.D.M. THE MUSIC SOCIETY

President: MAGGIE HALL

Secretary: RICHARD JONES

IT HAS BEEN a highly successful year for the Music Society. The traditional end-ofterm concerts remained the backbone of the concert calendar, catering for a wide range of musical tastes. Boosted by a few glasses of reasonably priced port at the interval, these were all very enjoyable concerts.

In Michaelmas Term a choir and orchestra assembled in the Old Dining Hall to perform an excellent concert of Vivaldi's 'Gloria' and 'La Notte' flute concerto.

The conductor was Tim Hooper and the flute soloist Maggie Hall.

Hilary Term saw the innovation of lunch time concerts. These informal halfhour recitals continued successfully throughout Trinity Term. A band concert was held in the Old Dining Hall, comprising Mark Haftke, 'Marsh and the Mallows' and 'The Pale'. This was well supported and congratulations must go to Richard Johns as the only survivor of the sonic boom of the last band.

A jazz concert by 'Night in Tunisia' which had been planned to be held in the Graveyard in Trinity Term was sadly rained off.

Many thanks to all those who have contributed this year. We look forward to the performance of Faure's ' Requiem' which is planned for the University Church at the end of Michaelmas Term.

M.A.M.H. THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY

President: SIMON HART

Treasurer: ROGER SAWYER

DESPITE THE MINIMAL INTEREST in drama within the college, a minority of dedicated members have kept the John Oldham Society alive and florishing this year. In Hilary Term a major production of 'The Ruling Class' by Peter Barnes was mounted in the Old Dining Hall, and the show enjoyed considerable artistic

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and financial success. Directed by Simon Hart and produced by Nicola Edwards , the play was cast from university members from outside the college, but practically all the back-stage crew was drawn from Teddy Hall. The growing bank-account of the J.O.S. and the co-operation of Amalgamated Clubs means that the Society is now in a position to expand. Plans are already underway to back two productions next term, which will give a directing debut to Tom Burges and provide ample opportunities for those in college interested in production. With a number of stalwart actors leaving the college, one of whom, Paul Sharples, is going on to higher things at R.A.D.A., there is now a shortage of extroverts willing to tread the boards. Hopefully an intake of keen freshers will give the Society a supply of actors and actresses to complement its back-stage expertise, and we will continue to enjoy the success of the last few years.

S.H. THE LUCREZIA BORGIA SOCIETY

President: CLARE REECE

Secretary: LINDSAY SNELLING

AFfER MUCH DELIBERATION on the part of the President and Secretary, a choice band of the heartiest and most salubrious, or was it notorious, Hallmen were selected as guests at this year's Annual Dinner on the 5th Wednesday of Hilary Term.

Once again the spirit of Lucrezia Borgia brought delight to the guests as they contemplated what they could wear this year that had not been worn by their predecessors too many times before. There were a number of interesting designs this year but the members returned to the usual Black Tie requirements after last years sortie into the military.

The evening got off to a high pitched start over sherry and continued in uproarious fashion at dinner in the Old Dining Hall. The food and wine were, as always, delicious and our after-dinner speaker, Mr. David Cox, kept the jokes flying.

The traditional Boat Race in the Buttery afterwards was fittingly won in style by the members and the revelry continued with both members and guests taking an active part.

The reins of power were passed on to Ms. Naomi Sellars and Ms. Sally Jones who will doubtless carry on the true spirit of this most notorious of the College's dining societies, in the -manner to which we have become accustomed.

C.R.

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THE AULARIAN, THE HALL MAGAZINE

In past years a note on this lively and younger relation of this Golden Oldie has appeared from the hand of the Editor, but The Aularian has now become such a firm and popular part of Hall activities that a report on it now appears with the other clubs and societies. Roger Sawyer, one of the Trinity Term editors, writes: Obviously the main problem in producing and editing a college magazine is that of attempting to please everyone involved in the college. In the past, attempts have been made to produce a completely serious issue, and while this is admirable in intention, it does not satisfy all. Likewise, less admirable attempts to produce totally controversial issues are not universally appreciated. A balance must be maintained: Aularian is not a magazine with any one nature-a high turnover of editors ensures this. The more diversity, the better; everyone is permitted to ¡submit articles and is encouraged to voice opinion, as this leads to an essentially democratic magazine which does not discriminate. The serious will be treated seriously and anyone worth the satire or any amusing or ridiculous events fresh in the mind will be satirized, or perhaps more simply 'made fun of'. It is unfortunately unavoidable that some of the more serious-minded will not appreciate the humour and vice-versa, and interested or maybe injured parties may be offended to varying degrees, but it must always be remembered that there is the next issue in which to obtain revenge!

So, if there is anything to write about, please write! If there is anything to complain about (including the editorial board) do complain! All copy, whether witty or serious, is gratefully received and seriously considered.

Editors for 1983-4 have been: Michaelmas Term 1983: Alice Hart-Davis and Cathy Brocklehurst.

Hilary Term 1984: Peter Walton and Others.

Trinity Term 1984: Simon White and Roger Sawyer

THE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF

1983/ 1984 continues to flourish, and we would like to record our thanks to the following for sending their publications, which are always welcome:

THE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF

G. G. Alien (1945)

J. Barnes (1968) K. D. Belden (1931) N. Blair ( 1965) H. A. Blair (1921)

- The funding of college libraries in Australia (with J. Brockman); in Australasian College Libraries, I, No. 3, Nov. 1983, pp. 109-131.

- Interim report on a study of the users of academic and research libraries in West ern Australia (with F.C.A. Exon); Perth Library, 1983.

Sports and the law in Canada; Butterworth, 1983.

Reflections of moral re-armament; Grosvenor Books, 1983.

Wessex Research Group Network, Programmes 1982/3, 1983/4; Broadsheets 1-5; Sherborne.

The true Gnostic. An Athenian philosopher of Alexandria (Clement); Wessex Broadsheet 6; 1984.

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M. H. Bottomley (1957) M. Bourdeaux (1954) D. Bourne-Jones (1951)

A. Briggs (Fellow)

R. J. Challiss (1964)

D. Clarke (1963) F. W. Cosstick (1946)

H. E. J. Cowdrey (Fellow)

G. V. Davis (1962)

I. P . Foote (Lecturer)

D. C. Ford (1955)

- Personnel management; Macdonald and Evans, 1983.

- Risen indeed. Lessons in faith from the USSR: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1983.

- editor: The Downlander, no. 26; Eastbourne, 1984.

- 1883 meliora sequimur 1983, a poem to commemorate the centenary of Eastbourne; in Eastbourne . .. 1982-1983, p. 6.

- editor: Four selected poets- Charles Austin, Joan Howes, Terence Moore and Eric Vio; Eastbourne, 1984.

- Hands; in Catholic Gazette, August 1982, p.

27.

- Only time will tell; in The Writer's Voice, Spring 1984, pp. 7-10.

- Three poems- Bosham, The Casket; Stone Head and Blue Stone Ring; 1983.

That living flame; 1983.

- The staying of action on the ground of 'forum non conveniens' in England today; in Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law. 1984, pp.

227-249.

- What did Boys v. Chaplin decide? in AngloAmerican Law Review, 1983, pp. 237-247.

- The European educational system in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930; suppl. to Zambezia, 1980.

- Powers of expression; Holmes McDougall, 1983.

- Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, K. G. 1422-1482; in St. George's Chapel; Report of the Society of the Friends. Vol. VI, no. 2, 1980/81, pp. 65-69.

- Not a bad place to retire to (Dieppe); in Times Educational Suppl. 27 January, 1984.

- The age of Desiderius: Montecassino, the papacy, and the Normans in the 11th and early 12th centuries; Oxford, 1983.

- Popes, monks and crusaders; Hambledon Press, 1984.

- 'Wie der Schriftsteller Bertin fi.irchtete, zu spat zum Weltkrieg zu kommen': A . Zweig's novel 'Die Zeit ist reif'; in Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 3, 1983, pp. 161-178.

South Africa- the privileged and the dispossessed (with M. Senior); Schoningh, 1983.

- Translation of: M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's 'The History of a Town'; Meeuws, 1980.

- editor: M. E . Saltykov-Shchedrin - Selected satirical writings; Oxford, 1977.

Castleguard Cave and Karst, Columbia

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P. J . Frankis (1948)

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B. Gasser (1975)

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S. J. Gatrell (1965)

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R. L. Hill (1922)

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D. H. H. Isitt (1953) G. Josipovici (1958) J. B. Knight (Fellow)

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W. J. H. Liversidge (1934)

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Y. Lovelock (1960)

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C. W. Luke (1966)

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A. I. Marsh (Fellow)

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lcefields area, Rocky Mountains of Canada: a symposium; Univ. of Colorado, 1983.

Word-formation by blending in the vocabulary of Middle English alliterative verse; in Five Hundred Years of Words .and Sounds, ed. E. G. Stanley and D. Gray; pp. 29-38, Brewer, 1983.

Four reviews: 'English Literature and the Great War with France', by A . D . Harvey; 'D. H .

Lawrence, Short Stories' by S. Gill; 'The Story-Teller Retrieves the Past' by M. Lascelles; 'American War Literature', by J. Walsh; in Notes and Queries, Vol. 30, no . 2 April 1983; Vol. 30, No. 4, August 1983; Vol. 30, no. 6, December 1983; and Vol. 31, no. 2, June 1984.

George Herbert Housman: a letter from the Front; in Housman Society Journal, Vol. 9, 1983, pp. 7-12.

Herbert Housman's military career: some details; in Housman Society Journal, Vol. 8, 1982, pp. 3-5. editor: Thomas Hardy-Tess of the d'Urbervilles (with J. Grindle); Clarendon Press, 1983. editor: The Sudan memoirs of Carl Christian Giegler Pasha, 1873-1883, trans. K. Kiipper; O.U .P ., 1984.

Crazic, menty and idiotal. An inquiry into the use of different suffixes -al, -ic, -ly and -y in modern English; Goteborg, 1983.

The echo chamber; Harvester Press, 1980.

Migrations; Harvester Press, 1977.

Practitioner's corner. A simulation alternative to the comparative R2 approach to decomposing inequality, (with others); in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 45, no . 3, August 1983, pp. 307-312.

The 13th century chapel of St. Edmund in Abingdon; (Typescript, 1984).

Building Jerusalem (poems); Rivelin Press, 1984.

The colour of the weather, and introduction to Belgian dialect poetry; Menard Press, 1980.

The grid (poems) ; Sow's Ear Press, 1983. editor: 'Forest Echo', Vol. 1 (1), Vol. 2 (1); Forestry Training Inst., Monrovia, Liberia, 1980-1982.

Communications in Trade Unions; Personnel Review, Autumn, 1984.

Historical directory of Trade Unions, Vol. 2 (with V. Ryan): engineering, coal mining, iron and steel, agriculture, fishing and chemicals: Gower, 1984.

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- Trade Union Handbook, 3rd edition; Gower, 1984.

- The involvement of line and staff managers in industrial relations (with J. G. Gillies); in

Thurley and Wood. eds.: Industrial Relations and Management Strategy, eh. 5, pp. 27-38;

P. Matthews (1977)

R. B. Mitchell (Fellow)

E. E. Murphy (1948)

Cambridge, 1983.

- Trade Union Journals Revisited (with J. G. Gillies); In Industrial Relations Journal, vol.

14, no . 2, pp. 52-59, 1983.

- Information as a trade union strategy (with H. Hartman); in Labour and Society, Vol. 8, no.

3, July-Sept. 1983, pp . 209-224.

- (French translation of the above) - Communications: the UK Post Office, British Telecom and the law: in Science and Public Policy, Dec. 1983, pp. 304-306.

- A heresy and a half in certainty of objects; in The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, JanFeb. 1984, pp. 22-31.

- Ignorance of the law is no excuse? in Legal Studies, Vol. 3, no. 2, (1983).

- Mistaken payments and estoppel defences; in The Law Society's Gazette, 29 June, 1983, pp.

1643-1644.

Property, pensions and double punishment: the Forfeiture Act 1982; in Journal of Social Welfare Law, May 1983, pp. 141-151.

- Trustees as Judges; in New Law Journal, Oct. 14, 1983, pp. 915-7.

- Trusts to maintain animals; in The Law Society's Gazette. 5 Oct., 1983, pp . 2451-2.

- Whose body? People as property; in Current Legal Problems. 1983, pp. 193-239.

- A vances Bibliograficos: Old English Syntax (O.U.P.), a preview; in Revista Conaria de Estudios Ingleses, Vol. 7, pp. 155-158; Tenerife, Univ. de La Laguna, 1983.

- A note on negative sentences in Beowulj; in Poetica (Tokyo), 15-16, 1983.

- Review: Greenfield and Robinson; A bibliography of publications on Old English literature to the end of 1972; in The Review of English Studies, n.s., Vol. 34, no. 135, pp.

320-1; Oxford, 1983.

- Review: Opland: Anglo-Saxon poetry; in The Review of English Studies, n.s., Vol. 34, no .

134, pp. 200-1; Oxford, 1983.

Review: McLaughlin: Old English Syntax, a handbook; in The Review of English Studies, n.s., Vol. 35, no . 138, pp. 217-8, Oxford, 1984.

- The search for justice (with W. H . Webster and others); Univ. of Texas Press, 1983 .

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A. Pearce (Jun. Dean)

- Troubadours and transposition: a computeraided study; in Computers and the Humanities, 16, pp. 11-18; North Holland, 1982.

D. Phillips (1966) - editor: Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 10, no. 1- (with J. L. Wilson); Abingdon, 1984- What future for German? in Treffpunkt, Vol. 15, no. 2, June 1983, pp. 4-7.

- British University Officers in Germany after the war; in Int. Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 65-76; Pergamon Press, 1984.

- The second foreign language (with V. Stencel); Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.

- Zur Universitatsreform in der britischen Besatzungszone, 1945-1948, Bohlau, 1983.

R. J. Sapsford (1966) Life sentence prisoners; Open Univ., 1983.

- Mental handicap and motherhood (with P . Abbott); Open. Univ. '83.

D. I. Scargill (Fellow) - Urban France; Croom Helm, 1983.

- The ville moyenne, a French strategy for town expansion; in The Expanding City, for J. Gottmann, ed. J. Patten, Ch. 11, pp. 319-153; Academic Press, 1983.

G. W. Series (Em. Fellow) - Laser spectroscopy; in Contemporary Physics, Vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-29; 1984.

E. P. Smith (1958) - A dictionary of classical reference in English poetry; Brewer, 1984.

B. Spurr (1974) - Ecclesiastical apostasy, an address given to the Prayer Book Society of South Australia; Mitcham, 1983 .

N. Teller (1952) - British Architectural Design Awards 1983, editor; Templegate.

C. J. Till (1979) - White angels (poems); 1984.

J. B. Walmsley (1957) - Phase and phase-sequence ; in Modern Language Journal, Vol. 63, no. 3, March 1979, pp. 106-116.

- Quousque tamden, Wilhelm Vietor's language instruction must do an about-face; in Modern Language Journal, Vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 37-44, 1984.

P. J. Webb (1963) - John and Jasper Horsey, two Tudor opportunists; in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural Hist. and Archaeol. Society, Vols. 99 and 100, Feb. and Sept. 1980, pp. 28-32 and 22-30.

- The technetium-catalysed oxidation of P. D. Wilson (1957) hydrazine by nitric acid (with J . Garraway); in Journal of the Less-Common Metals, 97, pp.

191-203; Elsevier, 1984.

D. C. M. Yardley (Em. Fellow)- Introduction to British Constitutional Law, 6th ed; Butterworths, 1984.

- The local Ombudsmen: report for the year ended 31 March, 1984; Comm. for Local Admin . in England.

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Z. A. B. Zeman (Fellow)

- editor: William Geldart- Introduction to English Law, 9th ed.; Oxford, 1984.

- Heckling Hitler, caricatures of the Third Reich; Orbis, 1984.

- Selling the war- art and propaganda in World War II; Orbis, 1978.

Again we are indebted to Andrew Peacock (1972) for giving a further sum of money to buy books for the library on International Relations, and also to the Morgan Guaranty Trust of New York, who have generously matched these sums with an equal amount; we wish to record our thanks for these munificent gifts.

We would also like to make special mention of the continuing flow of books for the Emden Collection from Dr. R. T. C. Worsley (1939); we are very proud of this interesting and potentially invaluable collection, which is well on the way to filling the shelves of one whole Tower landing.

The Library is a benefactor from a bequest of Kenneth Douglas Thompson (1913-1982), who was the Chief Probation Officer of Oxfordshire; he left a legacy to be invested and the interest used to purchase law books on subjects in which he had a special interest, for example: books on parole and probation. We are very grateful for this, and also to Vivian Ridler (Emeritus Fellow) for designing and printing special book plates for the books purchased from this legacy.

Also we have again received a gift of money from the Florida State University Summer School, which enabled us to purchase the fine two volume set of 'Tudor and Jacobean Portraits' by Roy Strong.

We give thanks to the above, and also to the following, for their generous gifts to the library: R. E. Alton (Fellow); Miss M. Ammouche (Lectrice); A. K. Barton (1929); A. Briggs (Fellow); W. Cabral (1982); J . P. D. Dunbabin (Fellow); R. Farrand (1955); R. H. Findlay (1968); Florida State University Summer School; P. Franklin (1974); E. M. Goodman-Smith (1946); M. J. Hall (1981); M. van Hasselt; N. P. Jackson (1981); R. B . .Jacobson; J. M. F. Jaspars (Fellow); J. N. D. Kelly (Hon. Fellow); N. Kirkbride (1979); G. C. Leslie (Fellow); A. I. Marsh (Fellow); E. G. Midgley (Fellow); Z. Nawaz (1980); V. Ridler (Em. Fellow); A. Rudrum; T. Saxby (1972); J. B. Walmsley (1957); W. S. C. Williams (Fellow); A. B. Worden (Fellow).

Sasha Wemberg-M.0ller.

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THE SCHOOLS

TRINITY TERM 1984

Honour School of Natural Science: Biochemistry: Part I (Unclassified Honours): P . Gale, A. 1. T. Miller. Part If: Class If: Miss C. A. Boulter, Miss L. M. Shepherd. Chemistry: Part I (Unclassified Honours): A. P . Blain, A . C. R. Burns, P. 1. Houghton, S. Inger, D. 1. Penny, Miss C. M. Walmsley. Part If: Class II: 1. 0. Davies, D . L. Rathbone, P . Sharma, R. A. Smyth, 1. Newman.

Engineering Science: Class I: A. R. Fraser. Class If: T. 1. E. Bayne, D. Brown, A. C. Findlay, A. C. Gould, W. M. 1ohnson, W-C. Luk, A. P. Russell. Class Ill: 1. K. Stephen. Geology: Class I: Miss F. T. Bick. Class II: Miss C. L. Clarke, Miss G. M. Cole, 1. V. Hammond, D. S. Ormerod, C. N. Waters. Metallurgy: Part I (Unclassified Honours):- 0. R. Murphy. Part II: Class I: N. Stevenson. Class II: B. P. Bewlay, D. N. Clayton. Class Ill: C. B. Ewart. Metallurgy, Economics and Management: Part I (Unclassified Honours): Miss L. D. Gilbert. Physics: Class I: H. W. K. Cheung. Class If: C. 1. R. Barron, Miss C. 1. Brocklehurst, D. 1. Fisk, M. 1. Ridal, A. I. Stansfield. Class Ill: M. Betton, N. P. 1ackson, K. Parker, D. Pratt.

Physiological Sciences: Class I: 1. Hull. Class II: Miss H. C. Duckworth, C. P. Streather. Zoology: Class II: Miss S. F. Sternberg.

Honour School of English Language and Literature: Class I路 N. P. Purdy. Class Jl路 Miss H. 1. Bedford, Miss 1. P. Beresford, Miss V. C. C. Blomfield, S. Dowling, D. 1. Firth, Miss C. M. A. Hall, A. 1. Henderson, C. L. 1ones, Miss C. D. Novy, Miss L. 1. Snelling.

Honour School of Experimental Psychology: Class I: D. 1. Wilcox. Class Ill: P. A. Kingston.

Honour School of Geography: Class If: R. M. Davidson, M. 1. Hall, N. M. Harley, Miss E. R. Quick. Class Ill: Miss 1. 1. T. Tonge.

Honour School of Jurisprudence: Class I: A. Beare, Class II: N. D. Caddick, E. A . Coates, D . C. Dees, P. T. Evans, P. H. McCarthy, P. B. Mbu, A. W. R. Mitchell, Miss C. L. Morley, 1. C. Murkett, 1. S. Pathak, P. 1. Sharples, P. K. Stowers, Miss 1. B. Turner. Class Ill路 1. 1. McAleer.

Honour School of Modern History: Class II: A. A. Barrett-Greene, R. A. Lambert, D. 1. Levy, N. P. Maidment, N. P. May. Class Ill: S. Barnes.

Honour School of Modern History and Economics: Class Jl路 Miss M. H. Stevenson.

Honour School of Modern History and Modern Languages: Class II: N. 1. 1.

Ho!croft.

Honour School of Modern Languages: Class I: T. Miles, Miss 1. M. Smith, W. F. G. Strang. Class II: Miss A. Blow, Miss A. 1. Coult, A. 1. Fox, Miss 1.

Hibbins, Miss V. F. Isaac, 1. A. Leakey, Miss R. M. Martel, P. Walton, Miss D. L. Wright.

Honour School of Oriental Languages: Hebrew: Class If: A. 1. G. Teller.

Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Class I: A. L. Wilson.

Class If: P . A . Aston, M. K. Campbell, W-R. Daetz, D. 1. Dee, P. M. Drewell, G. A. Evans, C. P. Farrelly, G. P. Houghton Clarke, C. R. 1ones, N. D. L. Quick, Miss C. H. Reece, M. 1. Stride, Miss R. E. Webster.

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Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology: Class//: J. D. H. B. Rothman.

Honour School of Theology: Class//: M. J. Bishop, T. J. Edmonds.

Bachelor of Fine Art: Pass: J . P. Chapman, Miss C. R. Sayers.

MATRICULATIONS 1983

Scholars: Clarke, Neil Roderick (Harrogate Grammar School) Connolley, William Michael (Berkhamsted School) Hellier, Coel (Hereford Sixth Form College) Hooper, Timothy Mark (Bournemouth School) Larkin, Fiona Mary (Holy Trinity Convent, Bromley) Sankey, Duncan (Exeter School) Stirling, Jenny Elizabeth (The Maynard School, Exeter) Commoners: Abbott, Mark Bernard (Colchester Royal Grammar School) Ashby, Dunstan Brian (Vyners School) Auerochs, Bernd (Erlangen University) Baker, Simon Robert (Portsmouth Grammar School) Baskett, Simon Patrick Firth (Bristol Grammar School) Birch, Patrick John (The King's School, Macclesfield) Bishop, Roy Lennox (Eastbourne College) Bonsall, Helen (Birkenhead High School) Bray, Claire Margaret (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge) Broad, Christopher David (The Judd School, Tonbridge) Brown, Catherine Wendy (Stowe School) Browne, Sara Hope (Cape Town University) Burbridge, Teresa Jane (Walton High School, Walton-on-the-Hill) Burgess, Thomas Henry (Poole Grammar School) Campbell, Angela Gillian (St. Swithun's School, Winchester) Chow, Edmund Paul (Lancaster University) Clark, John Peter (Cotham Grammar School, Bristol) Clifford, Stephen (Magdalen College School) Coates, Stephen John (Newcastle-under-Lyme School) Colchester, Chloe Alexandra Rozanne (Marlborough College) Coleman, Christopher John (Oundle School) Collie, Robert Cyril (Tiffin School) Constant, Robert Ashley Meyricke (Ripon Grammar School) Cox, Josephine (Bilborough College) Cunnane, Car! (Kenilworth School) Dutta, Ishan Chandra (Winchester) Erasmus, Gavin Mark (Natal University) Erkelenz, Michael Joseph (Toronto University) Evans, Jonathan David (Marling School) Fallowfield, Timothy (Berkhamsted School) Freethy, Simon Julian (Harrow School) Gazidis, Ivan Efthimios (Manchester Grammar School)

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Giles, Richard William John (Myton School, Warwick) Glen, Martin John (Tonbridge School) Glynn, Richard Ian (Leeds Grammar School) Gosling, Thomas Lenten (Epsom College) Grossman, Tarquin Adam (Leeds Grammar School) Hale, Kari Antony (Merchant Taylors') Hawkes, Ian Renford (Clifton College, Bristol) Hawkins, Marion Elizabeth (Portsmouth High School) Hayes, Edward Charles (Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith) Heald, Kate Elizabeth (South Wolds Comprehensive, Nottingham) Hepworth, Alison (St. Hilda's C. of E. High School, Liverpool) Hodges, Sean Patrick (Gillingham Technical High School) Hogg, Dominic Francis (St. Brendan's Sixth Form College, Bristol) Holmes, Sarah Jane (Charterhouse) Hum, Aubrey Stanley (Natal University) Iddon, Michael James (Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn) Irwin, Maxwell Robert Stewart (Durham School) Jafferji, Ghalib (Sussex University) Jennings, Timothy Edward Daniel (Buckhurst Hill County High School, Chigwell) Johns, Richard Lawrence (S.E. Essex Sixth Form College) Jones, loan Aerlyn (Amman Valley Comprehensive, Ammanford) Kell, Michael Stuart (Poole Grammar School) Khan, Bashir Ahmad (London School of Economics) Kim, Sei Ung (Korea University) Lambert, Robert Ian (Chesterfield School) Larkin, Jonathan Peter Andrew (The King's School, Worcester) Latchman, Haniph Augustus (University of the West Indies) Lawrence, Nicholas (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) Lee, Kyung Soo (Yomsei University, Seoul) Macdonald, Andrew Duncan Hay (Radley College) McGowan, Justin Joseph (St. Edward's College, Liverpool) McKay, John Oscar Scott (Peterhouse, Marandellas) Macleod, Helen Rhoda (Royal High School, Edinburgh) Magyar, Peter Miklos Edmund (London School of Economics) Markham, Belinda Jane (Wycombe Abbey) Markwick, Paul John (Worthing Sixth Form College) Marshall, Andrew Nicholas (King Edward's School, Solihull) Mattoo, Aaditya (Delhi University) Maybury, Elisabeth Anne (Reigate College) Mitchell, Paola Carla (W oodford County High School) Mitchell, Peter John (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) Moody, Philip John (Lawnswood School, Leeds) Morrison, Kirsteen (Colchester County High School) Muskett, Christine Joy (Goffs School) Mustafa, Deniz (Farnham College) Owen, Sian Elizabeth (Westlands High School, Congleton) Pate!, Minal Indrakant (Malvern Girls' College) Penney, Kathryn Jane (Lancing College) Quick, Roger Lindsay (Southampton University) Reed, David Kenton (Pocklington School) Reed, George Michael (Ohio University)

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Rees, Kevan Andrew Richard (Brentwood County High School) Reston, Timothy John (King's College, Cambridge) Roberts, William Thomas (Liverpool University) Saraby, Ramin (Winchester) Sarra, Suleiman (Damascus University) Saunders, Helen Irene (Manchester High School) Sawyer, Roger Alexander (Charterhouse) Sellars, Roy Henry (Solihull School) Sharples, John Edmund (St. John Rigby VI Form College) Sim, Susan Lee-Koon (Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore) Singh, Ravinder (Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore) Skipper, Richard Michael (Poole Grammar School) Stone, Adrian Mark (Leicester University) Suter, Carolyn Margaret (Yeovil College) Tan, Cheng Hoon (Bury Grammar School) Taylor, Richard Matthew (Leeds Grammar School) Thomas, Warren (Dr. Challoner's Grammar School) Till, Andrew Michael (Llanilltud Fawr Comprehensive) Trevis, David John (Birmingham University) Triggs, Mark David Stanbury (Aldenham School) Tritton, Charles William George (St. Paul's School) Vadher, Atul (Surrey University) von Bethmann-Hollweg, Rebecca (West Somerset School, Minehead) Wade, Elizabeth Caroline (West Kirby Grammar School) Walker, Jane Emma (Manchester High School) Welby, Max Hyman (Wycombe Royal Grammar School) Whelen, David (St. Kevin's Comprehensive) Wilkins, Christopher John (Charterhouse) Wilkinson, Elizabeth Sarah (Tonbridge School) Wilkinson, Mark (John Leggott College, Scunthorpe) Wills, Julia Rosemary (Bramhall High School) Wilson, Martin William (King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford) Wong, Ho Yuen Andrew (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Woodhead, David (Goole Grammar School) Wynter, Clare Dorothy Crewe (Brighton & Hove High School) Young, Michael Graham Edward (Princeton University)

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DEGREES B.A.: 22 October 1983 P.A. J. Broadley, *P. V. Bruyns, *G. Clempson, S. J. Granger, J. L. Hallett, C. I. Hardy, Elizabeth A. Lee, D. R. Symonds, *F. ten Bos, Genevieve A. Warwick; 5th November 1983 Juliet A. Busby, S. J. Charters, *R. P . Clark, *B. F. W. Cottrell, *J. P. Holmes, A. N. Marsh, Polly Marshal!, Tatyana J. Meadows, I. D. Myson, *R. H. Price, A. H. Smith, J. E. Tyler, S. C. Whatling; 26 November 1983 N. P. Adam, P. M. M. Buechel, P. L. Burrell, J . T. G. Coutts, A. J. Graham, G. K. Hall, J. N. Hodgkinson, S. J. Kelly, M. J. Partridge, C. S. Penn, D. M. Tomlinson, Christina R. Tracey, M. A. Windridge; 21 January 1984 *Christine R. Beynon, P . Cubbon, Carole Fleming, Helen J. Hadkins, Nicole L. Harvey, P. S. Parker, J. C. Saunders; 3 March 1984 M. R. Butler, J. G. Clark, *G. A. B. Conway-Gordon, *R. G. P. Ellis, Susan J. Hillman, A. Lee, R. Montague, S. A. Morley, J. P. North, J. Scott, N. C. Williams, Lynne H. Worton; 26 May 1984 A. K. Busby, W. J. L. Carver, S. Cavalier, W. R. S. Chevis, A. J. Farrand, Katherine A. Finucane, N. S. Hodge, G. H. Levy, A. R. Pigott, Lindsey Shaw, Faith H. Wainwright; 16 June 1984 G. C. Alcock, J. A. C. Ayton, T. H. Bartlett, B. P. Bewlay, Beverley A. Clarke, D. N. Clayton, J. 0.

Davies, D. N. Manning, P. M. Mason, J. R. O'Connell, S. L. Ramage, M. J. Rothwell, Julia S. Slee; 21 July 1984 *G. M. Aldridge, H. C. Jennings, *W-C. W. Luk, J. R. B. Lyle, R. K. Taylor, *A. J. G. Teller; 4 August 1984 D. Climie, J. B. C. Radcliffe.

M.A.: 22 October 1983 * J. N. Bond, N. J. H. Bromley, *M. Garrett, *C. Gautrey, *M. J. Hooton, P. W. Jennings, A. I. Johnston, *P. Matthews, A. H. Phillps, *S. I. Reynolds, *P. Rivas, *F. ten Bos, *J. J. Wisdom; 5 November 1983 S. J. Charters, P. J. Congdon, *B. F. W. Cottrell, P. R. Franklin, C. S. Richards, *S. J. Shepherd, *M. J. Unsworth; 26 November 1983 *C. G. S. Eley, N. P. Howard, *R. J. Moore, *C. A. Roach, *1. Rushton, *T. J. Shanahan; 21 January 1984 *A. R. F. Banks, R. A. Chadwick, H. D. Evans, *G. A. Fallon, J. R. W. Gove, *H. H. Redington, J. C. Saunders, B. St.J. Trafford, *J. B. Watson; 3 March 1984 *G. A. B. Conway-Gordon, R. A. Fryer, J. P. Holmes, *A. J. Hope, *C. E. A. Reddick, *P. G. Winch; 26May 1984 *A. J. Carter, *A. R. Ellis, R. A. Farrand, *M. C. Gluckman, *S. W. Hedley, *R. C. Holt, *1. M. Kirk, *N. J. Spring; 16 June 1984 A. J. Lomas; 21 July 1984 *P. N. Blakey, R. M. Head, *J. R. Henderson, H. C. Jennings, *P. R. Kane, *J. S. Thurston, J. D. Whiteman; 4 August 1984H. D. Evans, P. M. Hulmes, T. R. Lucas, C. Shaw, R. K. Smith, *A. Stockman, P. D. Vaughan.

D.Phil.: 22 October 1983 *P. Matthews; 5 November 1983 A. R. Walker; 26 November 1983 A. N. McGilvray; 21 January 1984 G. W. Ketley; 3 March 1984 *A. Y. Ameloko, A. G. Crosby, D. G. Phillips; 26 May 1984 *M. Garrett, Y. Maghsoodi, M. I. Wood; 4 August 1984 W. B. Cogar.

B.M. & B.Ch.: 21 January 1984 B. P. Rothwell; 21 July 1984 *D. G. Ansley, *R. C. Armstrong, *M. R. Ashton, *M. F. Gargan.

B.C.L.: 22 October 1983 Sarah J. Asplin; 4 August 1984 R. J. Moon.

M.Phil.: 22 October 1983 M. J. Addison.

B.Phil.: 3 March 1984 *P. G. Winch.

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M.Litt.: 22 October 1983 1. V. J . Hogan.

M.Sc.: 22 October 1983 N. A. Edwards; 5 November 1983 K. Barrett; 21 January 1984 P. J. Edwards; 3 March 1984 *G. Feuillet; 21 July 1984 P . N. Blakey, N. Kirkbride, E. Moyo .

B.F.A.: 21 January 1984 *Setareh B. P. Campbell, Katharine J. Miller; 26 May 1984 Claire Du Bosky.

B.C.L. by Incorporation: 21 July 1984 *S. W. Hedley.

B.A. by Incorporation: 22 October 1983 *A. G. Sumnall. *In Absence

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Balance Sheet 31st July 1984 1983

1984 £

ASSETS EMPLOYED Investments at Cost: £2,000 Exchequer Stock 13\12 OJo 1992 Green well Nominees Ltd Premium Savings Bonds

£

£

1,920 135 150

1,920 209 150 2,279 58

Bank Balance

2,205 99 £2,304

.£ill.

REPRESENTED BY: Accumulated Funds: General Fund at start of year Surplus/ (Deficiency) from Income and Expenditure Account ...

2,971

1,596

(1,375)

32 1,628 709 £2,337

Directory Fund

£

1,596 709 £2,304

R. J. L. BREESE (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31st July 1984. In my opinion the above Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account give respectively a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association at the 31st July 1984 and of the excess of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

28th August 1984

JOHN R. PAUL (Honorary Auditor)

8 St. Bride Street, LONDON EC4

Binder Harnlyn Chartered Accountants

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the year ended 31st July, 1984 1984 £ INCOME Memberships subscriptions Loan Interest ... ... ...

Interest from Emden Bequest Premium Bond Prize Sale of old magazines

£

2,255 344 200

1983 £

£

2,346 486 240 50

6 2,805

EXPENDITURE: Grants Magazines Postage Stationery Secretarial Wreath

2,200 1,125 826 64 282

1,300 861 329 259 24

Surplus/ (Deficiency) carried to General Fund on Balance Sheet ... ... ... ...

3,122

2,773

4,497

£32

£(1,375)

These Accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 8th January 1985.

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THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF THE ST. EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

1925-1985

A COMMEMORATIVE SUPPLEMENT

SIXTY QUITE GLORIOUS YEARS THE BEGINNING AND THE PAST 'Someone's lost the earlier Minute Book' confessed John French when he handed over to me as Hon. Secretary in 1976. 'Here's the current one on the St. Edmund Hall Association from 1966, but I never had the Aularian Association which grew into it'. So there was a real gap in the otherwise unbroken continuity of spirit from 1925 on, since the two Associations are one and indivisible apart from the change in name and minor amendments to the Constitution in 1966, when the Abe, Dr. Emden, felt them to be essential 'in view of long establishment and growing size and importance'.

But the Hall didn't appoint its first official Archivist, John Cowdrey, for nothing, and he found it in 1982- in a cupboard under the Chapel organ: and with a little help from the Magazines (Vol. I No. 1 appeared in November 1920) we can reconstruct the whole story.

GENESIS The Association grew out of the early Reunions at the Hall after the First World War. The 'First Reunion' of 1923 was a misnomer.

'Without the rally of old members ten years ago' went the 1924 Magazine 'the Hall would inevitably have gone the way of all its kind- seventy Halls in Oxford in 1438, nine after the Reformation, four in 1881, two in 1901: today, one. For every college in Oxford it can be claimed that the support of old members is necessary for its welfare: for the Hall, such support is essential for its existence'.

But for the 44 priests and 11 laymen on St. George's Day 23 April 1923 (the first Chairman, Sir Mark Hunter, was later to 'express himself nervous in the presence of so many Reverences') there was a special significance as they entered Chapel past the 1921 War Memorial panels. Evensong was at 6.30 and Holy Communion 8.30 next morning: a pattern had been set. Dr. Allen, the Principal, wrote that the occassion was 'characterised throughout by the fraternal intimacy which specially marks the relationship of a small and closely-knit society such as our own. It was obvious that for many of our older members the changes of recent years which have aimed, one and all, at preserving as well as improving our ancient heritage, added not a little to the pleasure of their return'.

And at the Dinner the sometime Principal Dr. Williams, now ii

Bishop of Carlisle, expressed his conviction that at no time in history was the historic aularian system better suited to serve the educational needs of a most important and hard-pressed section of the community. 'In these days, when few gentlemen have money, it is of the utmost importance that there should exist in so flourishing a condition an institution which provides the most economical education of any Oxford college, combined with such venerable traditions of service to Church and State'.

So they all agreed to meet next year, and the Principal hoped that it would 'not be long before these gatherings lead to the formation of an Old Members' Association, an invaluable aid to our society which has such important constructive work ahead of it'.

AIM AND OBJECT Only 29 (26:3 this time) turned up for the 'Second' Reunion on 22 April 1924 but Dr. Alien put forward definite proposals for an Association. He set out its objects: a) To rally round the Hall all old members who wish to uphold and assist the Hall in any way they can: b) To enable old members to keep in touch with one another and with the Hall, especially by means of the Hall Magazine and Reunions.

It is a measure of continuity that these objects stood unchanged in the first Constitution of 1926; were only paraphrased in the St. Edmund Hall Association Constitution of 1966 ('to enable all members to keep in touch with the Hall and with one another, and to co-ordinate their efforts to uphold and sustain the Hall'); untouched in the minor revise of 1975: and only stripped of their vigour and poetry by the Charity Commissioners and the Inland Revenue in 1981 when Brian Forrest, the Hon. Treasurer, performed his masterstroke to get us charitable status. We now have to revert to the Hall's objects, since they insisted on a simple 'to further the charitable purposes for which St. Edmund Hall was established'.

THE ACTUAL FOUNDING What happened next is a lesson to all amateur archivists. The 1964-65 Magazine stated categorically that 'it was at the second Reunion, on 22 April 1924, that the Aularian Association was instituted', and this would have been taken as gospel and justifying iii

a Diamond Jubilee in 1984 (we seem to have missed out on our Golden) has I not appealed to the Hall for a ruling. And this came swiftly, from our professional John Cowdrey again; Dr. Alien only made proposals in 1924, and the definitive foundation date was 21 April 1925, when the Minute Book opens with the record of the Constituent Meeting held in the Hall after the third Re-union Dinner. So our 1985 Garden Party rests on the surest of grounds, and this Appendix is unchallengeable.

THE CONSTITUENT MEETING, 21 APRIL 1925 In the Chair was Sir Mark Hunter, knighted in 1923 on retirement as Director of Public Education in Burma and now devoted to promoting a revised Spelling of the English tongue. His Acting Hon. Secretary was the Rev. Ronald Fletcher, then Chaplain and later Senior Tutor, his lozenge proudly embedded in the stone floor of the Chapel. The Meeting declared that membership was 'open to all Officers, ex-Officers and all old members of the Hall': it established a Committee consisting of a President, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Secretary and 12 other members, empowered it to define the Constitution and aims, and then elected it. The Principal, Dr. Allen, was the first President: the Vice-Principal, Mr. Emden, Hon. Treasurer, and Mr. Robert Sayle Hon. Secretary. Note the relative seniority of the last two offices, which has continued to this day- not, I venture to submit (as an Hon. Secretary myself), from any job-evaluated superiority of task but simply because the Abe was the Abe- and also Vice-Principal!

THE FIRST EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING They met next day to draft the Consititution, based on the outlines before the Constituent Meeting, and this was formally approved at the first AGM on 20 April1926. This must have been quite a party, since it was held immediatelyafter the Dinner, a softening-up process which continued right up to 1960, when it moved to before.

But at least it added the predictable nuts and bolts- holding of AGMs and the like and can we not detect the Hon. Treasurer's hand in the provision that 'an abstract of the Accounts shall be placed before the Association at the AGM and published in the Hall Magazine'- with no formal requirement for their adoption.

All you had to pay was half-a-crown for membership, a minimum of five bob for the Activities Fund, or a life composition fee of two iv

no less than four Ladies sat down in 1984, including one part of the very first Father and Daughter team of Ted (1948) and Caroline (1979) Morgan.

FINANCE: INCOME AND EXPENDITURE The initial two guineas 'all-in' composition fee was rapidly overtaken, rising to £3 in 1930 for the over 60s with £4 for those 45-60 and £5 for those under 45. After the War it stuck at nine guineas until 1974, when it became £13.50 or £1.50 per term, £2 in 1979: and now it will be proposed that it go up £3 after Graham Midgley has sensed undergraduate opinion.

Since 1974 the Hall has met half the Magazine costs, with latterly a most welcome subsidy from the Emden Bequest. In 1962 the Dean (none other than our present President, Graham Midgley) was reported as having 'by a judicious use of the blue pencil, succeeded in reducing the size, and hence the cost'. Later attempts at economy required the Hon. Secretary to condense the AGM Minutes, with their deathless prose, into a mere Report, but peace has now been restored.

The Directory has always been a problem, despite generous contributions from the Hall. After a long period in which it appeared annually the 1948 AGM wanted it biennial: but the Abe 'strongly opposed the suggestion that economy might be effected by making it biennial or triennial'. And that was that until his successor got it biennial in 1953. Since 1967 it has been irregular: 1974 and (after a nation-wide questionnaire initiated by President Wright) 1981.

The Hon. Treasurer Brian Forrest was most zealous in making annual earmarkings but not even the Hall's Word-processor (partly paid for by the Association) has come up with the ideal solution, although it may be thata really radical re-look at the problem will shortly be initiated in the Executive Committee by the President.

On other fronts, Bob Breese gives elsewhere a resume of the Association's manifold contributions to the Hall's economy.

There has also been a constant stream of tankards etc, including one in honour of M. J. K. Smith's three consecutive centuries against Another Place in 1954-6. Ranulph Waye presented an early Georgian silver piece to commemorate the Charter, and H. A. Freeth a portrait of Professor John McManners. Perhaps the most blissful occasion was when the Abe as Hon. Treasurer was forced to admit that he had committed 30 guineas in 1929 for a portrait of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle without Executive Committee authority. ix

guineas including a lifetime's Magazines. But then came a sinister element- I wonder whose bright ideas this was. Rule 9 laid down draconially that 'any member of the Executive Committee who fails to attend the stated Annual Meeting of the Committee shall be considered to have lapsed, but shall be eligible for re-election'.

There was an element of poignancy here: the first elected Hon. Secretary, Robert Sayle, pulled out after ten years' 'hard' and was gratefully eo-opted. But after a further four years he, like eight others before him missed just that once: and his name was 'removed from the list of the Executive Committee', despite the Committee's earlier 'most hearty appreciation of his services since the foundation of the Association'. This, in 1939, was the last time Rule 9 was invoked, since there were no meetings during the second World War until 1947 and by then it had been forgotten, along with any thought of rehabilitation.

THE ORGANISATION AND ITS PERSONALITIES The President was ex-officio the Principal until the St. Edmund Hall Association opted for elections: Dr. Alien until1929, when he retired to become Bishop of Sherborne; the Abe until his own retirement in 1951; and John Kelly until his compulsory retirement under the new rules in 1966. All were made Vice-Presidents. The first elected President was Charles Broadhead, a senior Personnel Officer who died after only two years in office: then (1968-70) Jack Allan, a Bank Manager who had been Hon. Treasurer for a surely unbeatable term of 40 years: our first two Knights, Claude Hayes of the Civil Service (1971-3) and Denis Wright of the Foreign Office (1974-7, his term¡ extended . since his successor Neville Williams, Secretary of the British Academy, died in office like Charles Broadhead, but this time after only 11 days): Jack Lee, a President of the Institute of Personnel Management (1978-80): our third Knight, Bill Nield. a former Permanent Secretary (1981 -3): and now Graham Midgley, described by the current Principal Justin Gosling at the 1984 Dinner as having 'taught a little English with a Distinction in GSC Art'.

The Hon. Treasurer was the Abe until 1929 when he became Principal: Jack Allan 1929-68: Brian Forrest for a mere 15 years until 1983 (if he had emulated Jack, he said, he would have ended up aged 100): and now Bob Breese, the least of whose contributions being getting his firm, Shell, to provide the Executive Committee with a meeting room there before the London Dinner ever since 1969.

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The Hon. Secretary was first Robert Sayle: Lars Hanson, Keeper of Printed Books at the Bodleian, for a record 32 years to 1966: Geoffrey Brain, a solicitor beset by illness and stood in for

by Graham Midgley till1967: John French of ICI, who only left in 1976 for a Paris posting as a linguist, and whose daughter I snapped at a Garden Party sinking her first pint aged 4: and yours truly.

The Hon. Auditor was first H. C. lngle (like Jack Allan a Bank Manager) for 25 years to 1949: J. F. A. Porter to 1961: H. A. Leverett to 1966: and now John Paul, of Binder Hamlyn for the last 18 years.

Our Vice-Presidents (Hon. under the 1966 arrangements) have comprised the original Chairman, Sir Mark Hunter: Past Principals: three sometime Vice-Principals- The Bishop of Newcastle, H. L. Wild 1895-1903, Canon S. L. Ollard 1903-13, Canon Professor L. Hodgson, the Regius Professor of Divinity 1914-19, and Bishop J. C. W. Wand.

On Executive Committee members no fewer than 60 have served for varying periods, the record (apart from Jack Allan) held by Ranulph Waye, who has now graciously stood down after over 50 years from 19 June 1934. 'Administration', said President Allan in 1970, 'should not be a rubber-stamping exercise' and a charge of inbreeding might conceivably be sustained were it not that a contested election was imminent at the AGM of 1978, after which the Committee decided to publish its nominations in the Agenda papers to give a genuine opportunity for new names to come forward. Moreover there have been two occasions when notorious long-term absentees at Meetings have been sacked, albeit with good grace on both sides. Membership has always represented Aularians by decades, a method used from the outset in 1925, when the earliest was 1865-74 and the last of six 1915-24. There were two per group until1947, when three, and new decades were added progressively. There was, however, no standard practice on the point of time during the decades at which new representatives were elected, and this is typified by the current 1975-84 for which nominations will be made at the 1985 AGM retrospectively, to include, it is hoped, a woman for the first time to mark the matriculation of persons of that sex (as full members of the Association) in 1979. It is the senior end which has seen most changes in organisation: it was 'not found possible' in 1936 'to elect anyone to represent the decade 1865-74' and this lapsed, the three decades 1875-1904 were combined into an 'Up to 1904' in 1950 and later, 1966, with the two 1915-34, into an 'Up to 1934' which still stands, although the practice henceforth will be to VI

reduce the representation from four to three in response to Bill Nield's feeling that the Committee is becoming unwieldy. Under the Revised Statute of 1926 the Bishop of Carlisle Dr. Williams (Principal 1913-19) became one of six Trustees and was reappointed under the 1938 Statute as specifically representing the Association, serving till 1950 when he was succeeded by the musicologist Dr. Percy Scholes. This arrangement lapsed in 1957 with the New New Statutes'. This gives me the excuse for commenting that not even the New New Statutes of 1957 turning the Hall into a College have persuaded the older members into referring to the Hall as anything other than the Hall. What does the latest franking machine print on the envelopes emanating from the Bursar's office? 'Call the Hall'.

LOCAL DEVOLUTION The Abe tried his hand at this in 1937 in supporting the appointment of local Secretaries. He had 'attended a dinner in a subterranean tavern on the invitation of London Aularians. A very pleasant informality attended the proceedings, and he came away feeling it would be a real gain if Aularians living in other places could be given the opportunity of attending local gatherings of the same kind'. He got the Executive Committee to play, and a Subcommittee of 2 (himself and the Hon. Secretary Robert Sayle) was set up to go into it all. But Sayle failed to act and then resigned so that was that for the time being. There was however a Merseyside Dinner on 13 December 1938, at the 'Bear's Paw', Liverpool- and a strange interlude in 1937 which must be quoted in full from the Magazine: 'APUD TRANSFRETANSES- at a chance meeting of three fog-bound Aularians, Messrs. Ian Besley, F. H. H. Finch and S. G. Rees, in s.s. LORINA on August 29 a mid-channel Branch of the Aularian Association was formed ad tempus and cordial greetings sent to the Principal: Tam per mare quam per terram Aula floret.' The title, of course, was the Abe's. The present President remembers attending at least two most enjoyable Northern dinners held at Leed's Grammar School, when the Headmaster there was an Aularian, but with his leaving the school, the dinners ceased. The Magazine also records an Aularian dinner at the Turks Head Hotel in Newcastle in September 1953. Bill Nield reopened the matter when President and felt very keenly that this was something to be desired and encouraged. The rather cool response to invitations to Appeal reunions suggests caution, but perhaps when the begging bowl is removed from the table, more will want to attend! vii

EVENTS AND TIMES Up to 1929 the Executive Committee meetings and the AGM were held in April at the Hall but the Abe felt this clashed inconveniently with Exhibition examinations and after one daring sortie to the Great Western Hotel at Paddington they switched to June. It was left to the new-fangled St. Edmund Hall Association to establish them in January. Reunions at the Hall alternated for a period between Fridays and Saturdays, Friday being a more possible day for our clerical brethren, but with the growing number of laymen in the Association and the diminishing of the clergy, Reunions now have stuck to Saturdays except for a Thursday in 1950 and in 1947 there was 'a warm welcome' for a further unofficial reunion in July, which never got off the ground. Sir Ieuan Maddock as Principal 1979-82 had to face some sniping from Fellows in that our traditional date on the '9th' week of Trinity conflicted with plans to transfer the Hall Ball to that week to avoid disturbance to late examinees, but he weathered it- 'a real test of my Principalship', he said. The Garden Party function started in 1970, thrown then as now by the Governing Body initially as a means of thanking contributors to the earlier Building Fund Appeal. It continued biennially until1974, and from 1975 has been triennial (i.e. once in each Presidency, that of 1981 being at Norham St. Edmund as part of the launching of the latest appeal.

It is hoped that the next will be in 1985, as adumbrated, when the Association will be the host for the Diamond Jubilee.

The London Dinner started on 11 January 1933 at the Griffin Tavern in Villiers Street, where 'the size of the assembled gathering' (43) 'proved something of a tax on the resources of the unambitious hostelry'. It also taxed the Editors' Latin, as it appeared the Magazine first as 'Apud Londonienses' until changed for 1938 only to 'Londinienses'. In 1934 it was at the Boulogne and from 1935 on at the Florence until 1939, after which the War put paid to it until1949 when it was revived at Pinoli's. From 1950 it met at Simpson's-in-the-Strand and has never left since, despite other suggestions and the plaint in 1958 that 'admirable as their arrangements were, charges had risen steadily year by year'. The Hon. Secretary's idea of serving that traditional English dish, fish and chips (in the interests of economy) has always been rejected with contumely by the episcopal Hon. Dinner Secretary. We welcomed our first Lady guest there in 1980 with the Principal's Secretary, Mary Boak: and at the Hall Reunion Dinner precedent was also set with the Organ Scholar Christine Benyon, .after which

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'His action was reprehensible' he confessed, 'though it was a special opportunity: how great was the temptation to which he had succumbed'. Others of the Abe, the 'Old Brew' and John Kelly (after 25 years at the Hall) were however, you will wish to be assured, fully authorised.

THE ASSOCIATION AND THE UNDERGRADUATES Good works do not stop at pure finance, however, and the Association has been to the fore in its efforts to 'uphold and sustain the Hall', as the original objects specified. It has always been sensible of undergraduate opinion, 'built-in' through the Hall representation on the Executive Committee, and although it has never acceeded to proposals for direct membership by undergraduates in its lists it has latterly been at pains to ensure invitations to the Presidents of the JCR and MCR to its Dinner functions. One particular ploy deserves record: on the recommendation of one Mr. Graham at the 1971 AGM from the floor of the House a serious attempt was made to launch a Careers Advice Panel, cashing in on the experience of Aularians successful in the Outside World, and this ran for some time to great appreciation.

The present undergraduates are our future members: their present contributions constitute our income as well as ensuring their life membership, and the more the Association can know of their needs and opinions, the better it can serve the Hall.

THE MINUTE BOOKS These books, except the one in use, now safely in the keeping of the Hall Archivist, make fascinating reading and the temptation to quote from them is great. The editor has restricted me to far too few.

J. J. G. Walkinton, for long an Executive Committee member, said at the 1927 AGM that 'he would be glad to receive the names of members who would be willing to join him in making up a crew next day'.

The Abe referred at the 1933 AGM to the purchase of suitable chairs for the Hearne Room. 'Some old members', he knew, 'would be relieved to know that in deference to Hearne's memory it had been decided to describe the chairs as Caroline, not Cromwellian'. He also regretted that the Hon. Treasurer, Jack Allan, could not be with them- he had not yet been made a Director X

of Lloyds Bank and had, therefore, to take his holidays at a time not of his own choosing'.

And in 1956 it was pointed out that St. Edmund was not among the saints mentioned in the University Diary. John Kelly 'regretted that he was powerless to change the ecclesiastical calendar'. He did, however, persuade the University Authorities to add Edmund of Abingdon's Day to the University Calendar.

A POSTSCRIPT ON APPEALS 'There is', as the Preacher said, 'nothing new under the sun,' and, with that text in mind, I end on a typical Emden pronouncement.

He referred in 1962 to his plan for an Endowment and Extension Fund for quite a different project, this time for the opportunity of extension into the High. He hoped that 'Aularians with no more immediate ties would remember that Hall when they came to make the final disposition of their resources and so give the Hall occasion for ever to remember them. The Hall had seen more than six hundred years of useful life. Its survival was one of the miracles of University history. Without the devotion of its old members that miracle would never have happened. Its future also was largely in their hands'.

Where have we heard this before? Just look back to the 1924 Magazine quoted under 'Genesis' earlier on: the continuity is absolute, as is that of the Association.

Arthur Farrand Radley Hon. Secretary

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THE OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION 1925-1985 PRESIDENTS (Ex-officio the Principal until the new Consitution of 1966, when the President was elected for three years, subsequently serving for a further three years as Immediate Past President.)

1925-28 The Rev. Dr. G. B. Alien DD, Principal 1920-28, Bishop of Sherborne 1928-36, Bishop of Dorchester 1939-52. (d. 1956).

1928 The Rev. G. B. Cronshaw MA, Principal 30.5.28. (d. 20.12.28).

1929-51 A. B. Emden MA (Later Hon.DLitt, Hon.Litt DCantab, FBA) Principal 1929-51. (d. 1979).

1951-65 The Rev. Canon J. N. D. Kelly MA (later DD, FBA) Principal 1951-79.

1966-7 C. Broadhead MA, first elected President. (d. in office).

1968-70 J. B. Allan MA. 1971-73 C. J. Hayes BLitt, MA (Sir Claude Hayes KCMG 1974) 1974-76 Sir Denis Wright GCMG MA. 1977(Jan.)Dr. N. J. Williams MA DLitt FSA FRHistS (d. in office).

1977 Sir Denis Wright re-assumed office for the year.

1978-80 J. Lee MA CIPM. 1981-83 Sir William Nield GCMG KCB MA. The Rev. Graham Midgley BLitt MA, Fellow 1951-84, 1984Dean 1956-78, Vice-Principal1969-78, Chaplain 1978-85.

1925-32 1925-61 1925-40 1925-49 1926-55 1929-56

VICE-PRESIDENTS (From 1966 onwards, HON. VICE-PRESIDENTS) Sir Mark Hunter MA DLitt (Rangoon) Chairman of the Consituent Meeting on 25.4.25.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. H. H. Williams DD, (later CH)Principal 1913-20, Bishop of Carlisle 1920-46.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. H. L. Wild DD, Vice-Principal 1895-1903, Bishop of Newcastle 1915-1929.

The Rev. Canon S. L. Ollard MA (later DLitt, FSA) Vice-Principal1903-13.

The Rev. Dr. (later Professor) D. C. Simpson DD, Chaplain and Tutor 1906-23.

The Rt. Rev. G. B. Allen, as retiring Principal and President. xii

1930-68 1930-77 19331946-55 1951-79 1966-

The Rev. (later Canon) L. Hodgson MA (later DD, STD, Hon.DCL) Vice-Principal1914-19.

The Rev. (later Rt. Rev.) J. C. W. Wand MA (later DD, KCVO and PC) Bishop of Bath and Wells 1943-5, Bishop of London 1945-55.

Professor F. G. Marcham BA (later PhD Cornell).

G. R. Brewis MA, as retiring Senior Tutor.

A. B. Emden, as retiring Principal and President.

The Rev. Canon Dr. J. N. D. Kelly, Principal, as retiring President under the new Constitution.

PRINCIPALS (Ex-officio Presidents 1925-66: ex-officio on the Executive Committee under the 1966 Constitution) 1920-28 The Rev. Dr. G. B. Alien.

1928 The Rev. G. B. Cronshaw.

1929-51 A. B. Emden.

1951-79 The Rev. Canon Dr. J. N. D. Kelly.

1979-81 Sir Ieuan Maddock CB OBE FRS. 1982J. C. B. Gosling BPhil MA.

1925-29 1929-68 1968-82 1983-

HON. TREASURERS A. B. Emden, as Vice-Principal.

J. B. Allan.

B. M. Forrest TD MA. R. J. L. Breese MA.

TRUSTEES OF THE HALL (Representing the Association under the 1937 Statutes until the new Statutes of 1957) 1938-50 The Rt. Rev. Dr. H. H. Williams, Bishop of Carlisle.

1950-57 Dr. P. A. Scholes OBE BMus MA DLitt Hon.D.Mus Dr es Lettres (Lausanne) FSA. (d. 1958).

1924-5

1925-35 1935-65 1966

HON. SECRETARIES The Rev. R. F. W. Fletcher MA, Chaplain (later Senior Tutor) from the Reunion of 22.4.24 to the Constituent Meeting of 21.4.25. appointed by the Principal. (d. 1950).

R. Sayle MA, the first to be elected. (d. 1971).

L. W. Hanson BLitt MA. (d. 1966).

G. J. F. Brain, resigned through illness. xiii

1967 The Rev. E. G. Midgley (acting) 1968-76 (June) J. G. French BA. 1976 (June) H. A. F. Radley MBE MA.

1929-49 1950-61 1962-66 1968-

HON. AUDITORS H. C. Ingle MA (d. 1949) J. F. A. Porter MA (d. 1967).

H. A. Leverett BA (d. 1978).

J. R. Paul MA FCA (acting 1966-7).

HON. LONDON DINNER SECRETARIES (An office established in 1949. Before the war this work was undertaken by a Committee from 1933) 1951-57 C. Lummis MA (acting Sec. from 1949. d. 1963) 1958-66 Dr. N. J. Williams (Joint) Dr. N. J. Williams and R. A. Farrand BA. 1967 1968-73 R. A. Farrand BA. 1974-79 J. D. Shortridge MA. 1980F. H. H. Finch MA.

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winning the Ladies' Plate at Henley, the IV winning the Visitors' Cup, the first double from one college since 1883.

With this our presentation of silver came to an end, one sad reason being that those many fine silver tankards are no longer used. Now that the untidy haste of the cafeteria system of feeding has replaced the formal dinner when the Buttery man and his boys had time to serve gentlemen with the beer they had ordered with their dinner, they remain, beautifully kept but seldom damp, except when some strong-minded Don demands ale with his meal at High Table. Only one further presentation of silver can be recorded, a silver rose bowl, presented in 1978 through the Association from an anonymous donor, to Dr. Emden at a luncheon to celebrate his 90th birthday, which has now reverted to the Hall. The Association still sends red roses for it on the occasion of his birthday, and in it Aularian babes are baptized.

Perhaps less well-known are the gifts of portraits of former Principals which the Association has commissioned or helped to buy. In 1929 the Hon. Treasurer of the Association, no less a person than Dr. Emden, commissioned a portrait of the Rt Rev. H. H. Williams, Bishop of Carlisle, Principal1913-20, by Richard Murray, and the Association subsequently approved the commissioning! In 1949 the Association commisioned a portrait of the Rt Rev. Dr. G. B. Alien, Principal1920-28, by Allan Gwynne-Jones, and in 1965 we contributed towards the cost of a portrait of the Rev. Dr. Edward Moore, Principal 1904-1913.

An interesting and respectable record. Never fear Aularians even when they come bearing gifts!

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GIFTS AND GRANTS Throughout these sixty years the Association has found a great variety of ways to fulfil the second aim of its founders- to give help and encouragement to the Hall and its activities. It can look back on a generous record, without boasting, but with justifiable pride. The archives of our Hon. Treasurers reveal that as early as 1929, when numbers were small and income smaller, the beginning of a continuing pattern was established. We already made modest grants to support the publication and distribution of the Magazine, and to other Hall activities both sporting and academic.

Since then, and up to and including 1984, we have given just on £42,000, which can be broken down under various headings: £13,000 for the printing and distribution of the Magazine, an increasingly expensive but much valued part of the Association's life, and of which the Hall itself now bears half the cost. £6,000 towards the expense of printing and distributing the Directory. £7,600 to provide Scholarships and Exhibitions at the Hall. £1,000 to the Boat Club, to buy equipment and, in the Heady Days, to help with the expenses of the annual visit to Henley. £1,600 to augment the Graham Hamilton Travel Fund, thus enabling the Hall to give more and larger travel grants to undergraduates setting off on strenuous and adventurous types of Long Vacation holiday. £1,000

to the New Building Fund in 1962 as our contribution to the Appeal which helped to build the Kelly/Emden extension to the Hall.

£1,000

to bear our part in the 1983 renewal of the Norham St. Edmund Appeal, for which we are still strenuously campaigning. towards the purchase of one of the Hall's two word processors, hoping that they will be able to help the Association's work in maintaining a much more up-todate record of addresses for the Directory, and assist in the production of the Magazine, address labels, regional lists etc.

£1,000

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£575

to the Old Library, to help in the important task of rebinding and restoring some of the most precious elderly books in that lovely room, the results of which work are now clearly visible on the shelves.

We have made quite a thing of tables · and chairs. The earliest gift ofthis sort was of seven Caroline chairs for the furnishing of the Hearne Room, restored and refurbished by Dr. Emden. When a room was set apart and specially decorated for social occasions and given the commemorative name of the Emden Room in 1953, we furnished it with an expanding oak dining table and a set of twelve leather covered dining chairs and armchairs to match.

When the Wolfson Dining Hall was furnished, we provided the High Table and its chairs, with a Principalian throne and two subthrones for his honoured guests on right and ·left, a gift commemorated on a small plaque to the left of the dais and also celebrating Dr. Emden's 80th birthday. When the New Library in St. Peter in the East expanded its reading space into the .hitherto unused chancel in 1980, we paid for one of the additional reading tables to match the old, and to that same library, to commemorate Dr. Emden's 90th birthday, we gave £300 to be spent on books. Of the £1,000 we gave to the Nor ham St. Edmund Appeal, part was earmarked to furnish the J.C.R. there, a plaque marking our gift. .

Silver has, of course been our other interest, and we have given many gifts to expand the Hall's small inheritance Of more ancient treasure. We find pleasure in listing, on this Diamond Jubilee, what is in effect a silver record of the outstanding achievements of some of those sixty years.

PLATE TO COMMEMORATE 1955 . A silver tankard (a 'Bruton Mug by the celebrated craftsman A. E. Pitman, of Wakely & Winning the Hockey Cup for the Wheeler, London') first time.

A silver tankard with the special hallmark of King George V's Jubilee year, 1935.

Winning the Soccer Cup. A pair of silver-plate candelabra.

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1956 A silver tankard A pewter tankard 1957 A silver tankard A silver tankard A silver tankard A silver tankard

1958 A silver tankard A silver tankard A silver tankard

Winning the Rugger Cup for the first time.

D. M. Sutcliffe's record walk from Cambridge to Oxford.

Winning the Rugger Cup. Winning the Soccer Cup. Winning the Lawn Tennis Cup for the first time.

M. 1. K. Smith's 'notable achievement in scoring three successive centuries in the matches against Cambridge 1954-6'.

Winning the Rugger Cup. Winning the Lawn Tennis Cup. Winning the Athletics Cup for the first time.

A silver tankard (1724,

by Thos. Tearle of London) by Ranulph Waye MBE TD MA, through The Charter and the visit of the Association HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

1959 A silver tankard A silver tankard A silver tankard

Winning the Rugger Cup. Winning the Soccer Cup Winning the Athletics Cup again.

A silver water jug for the High Table, designed by F. 1. Leggatt, and made by Wakely and Wheeler, with a Latin inscription by T. F. Higham sometime The Boat Club going Head of the Public Orator.

River in Eights, 1960 A silver tankard A silver tankard A silver tankard

Winning the Rugger Cup. Winning the Soccer Cup. Winning the Athletics Cup. xvii

1961 A silver tankard A silver tankard

The Boat Club retaining the Headship of the River for the third year.

'Other sporting achievements of the year', now becoming too numerous to be honoured separately!

1962 A silver tankard

'Sporting successes of the year' including the regaining of the Rugger Cup and the Athletics Cup and going Head of the River in Torpids.

1963 A silver tankard

Winning the Squash Cup for the first time.

'General sporting successes' including the first winning of the Cross-Country and the Swimming Cups and the Boat Club being in the final of the Ladies Plate at Henley for the first time.

The late J. C. Toland (d. 1960) and C. Lummis (d. 1962) from a collection at the London Dinner 8 January 1963.

A silver tankard

A silver tankard

1964 A piece of silver

1965 A silver tankard (from F. H. H. Finch through the Association)

1966 A silver steeple-cup

'Sporting achievements of the year', the Boat Club being Head of the River in Eights and Torpids, and the winning of the Cups for Rugger, Soccer, Athletics and Hockey.

In memory of M. Y. FfrenchWilliams (d. 1963) the Hall's only Olympic representative for swimming, 1932 and 1936.

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THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE From the President I used my maiden speech at this summer's Reunion to stress the need for the Association to look forward rather than back, to come more and more to terms with the present and the possibilities of the future, and not to wallow nostalgically in a past which, to most post-1951 Aularians, is book-history and not a world of living memory. And so I must confess to some sense of irony that my first contribution, as President, to the Magazine is to put together a piece to be part of what- in another disguise as the Editor- I have edited, a Diamond Jubilee Supplement, looking firmly, extensively and proudly backwards, with an unashamed and indulgent sense of achievement in having done something successfully for 60 years, a sense possibly akin to that which our dear Queen Victoria must have felt as she drove in triumph to St. Paul's not so very long ago.

And having faced up to that apparent irony and self-betrayal, I am unashamed, for these years which we are celebrating are the springboard from which we now go forward, rather than a bolthole into which we rush when the present seems brash, unfriendly and unpromising.

The values established in the past of the Association -loyalty to the Hall, affection for it as a place, gratitude for what it gave us, friendships which are firm and lasting, service given freely and willingly- these must remain, and our knowledge of this history helps us to recognise them and to carry them forward in a Hall which has changed so much, in buildings and domain, numbers and sex and the social and academic backgrounds of Aularians, both junior and senior; in a world which offers a much wider choice of careers, a world more complex, both in technology and organisation, a more demanding one, which will produce a quite different breed of Old Aularians from those who make up these earlier decades, different because of the different life they have known in Hall and in Oxford, different also because of the difference of world and work in the world into which they have moved.

How then to carry them forward in this changed world? The first thing is to bring in more youthful minds to our councils and decisions, and in this we have started to move, bringing onto the Executive Committee representatives of the most recent decades, and reducing- by what is now coyly called 'natural wastage' -the representatives of earlier and, alas, diminishing generations. It XX

may well be that the voice of those still in residence should also be heard, and that the Presidents of the J.C.R. and M.C.R. might help us to feel the pulse of present-day Hall life and opinions, if they were brought more closely into our deliberations rather than, as at present, only joining us for the dinners at the Reunion and in London.

Coupled with this, we must do what we can to persuade the younger Fellows of the Hall to take a greater interest in the Association and a greater part in its activities, especially at the London Dinner where the same old faces- much loved as they are - appear each year, and where it would be better if more of what is now a large, but for many a faceless S.C.R. could become better known. For our part we must be more outgoing, whether at Oxford or London, to our hosts and to our guests, especially to those Fellows in their early years of appointment who will know few of us, and we must make the going. We might then in a small way, help to produce from our dons the great 'college men' of the future, rather than reminiscing endlessly of the Old Brew, the A be, and the dear old deans.

It may be too that we should be prepared to become less polite, less proper, less concerned with our dignity and propriety. And here I must admit a slight unease, for I am as old-fashioned as the rest and cautious of change, and yet the undercurrent is strong and I suspect not to be resisted for too long. An opinion recently passed on the Executive Committee that 'those old so-and-so's' just aren't in the twentieth century' may be a crude shot, but may be close enough to make us watch our course. New ways of publicity, of fund-raising, a greater use of the techniques of the advertising and publishing world, a greater involvement in commercial enterprises in so far ' as they are permissible considering our charitable status- all these are being put forward as possibilities by younger voices, encouraged very much by our increasing awareness in our present Appeal work, that the oldfashioned 'Do help the Hall, old chap' approach doesn't cut ice in as many quarters as it did.

Lastly, I would like to see far more comment, criticism, suggestions, ideas, coming up from the great body of Aularians who are in fact the Association, rather than ideas being generated by and passed down from the Executive Committee, who only represent you as best they can. Any such communication, let me assure Aularians, will be welcome and seriously considered and replied to. I hope that some may supplement the few ideas I have put down here on our future, to help make that future a worthy XXI

continuance of the 60 years we celebrate, a future which the President of 2025 will be proud to write of in the Centenary Supplement!

Graham Midgley

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