St Edmund Hall Magazine 1988-89

St Edmund Hall Magazine

AULA S~1 EDMUNDI. IN UNIVERSITATE OXON.

1988-89

ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE VOL. XIII. No. 4

October 1989

EDITOR: D. I. SCARGILL of editing the Magazine (there aren't many) is the surprise one gets, late in July, when friends and colleagues produce copy. Those hints and suggestions dropped over the year bear fruit, sometimes more abundantly than one had dared to hope. This year has been particularly productive and I am immensely grateful to those who have contributed, especially to Sasha Wernberg-M0ller for her scholarly probes into the history of the Library, to Christopher Wells for his account of a year in the life of the Hall's first ever Assessor, to Francis Finch who finds time to write about the London Dinner as well as organizing it, and to Graham Midgley for describing the birthday lunch in honour of John Kelly, surely the event of the year in St Edmund Hall. A special word of thanks is due to Dr Henry Mayr-Harting, Fellow of St Peter's College, for giving up time in the middle of examining to write a charming and perceptive review of Hall, the collection of memories by Old Members of St Edmund Hall. The only disappointment was that no one has been able to compose anything on the Old Brew's lectures. But the Old Members' Association has the matter in hand and those who kindly sent copies of their lecture notes can be assured that they are in good hands.

ONE OF THE PLEASURES

FROM THE PRINCIPAL SADLY, THIS YEAR saw the death of Rear-Admiral Leslie, onetime Domestic Bursar, whose retirement was announced in the last Magazine. During his last year with us, he contracted asbestosis and he died on 14 November 1988, after a protracted illness. From respect for the family's wishes, we have not held an official memorial service, but we have decided to commemorate his time with us with a tree and bench to be placed between the College Office and the New Dining Hall. An appreciation of Geordie appears later in these pages. Here I can only record my own sense of personal loss. Geordie had the usual quota of maddening

qualities, but above the usual of engaging ones. His company and friendship were things I came to value increasingly over the years.

My immediate predecessor, Sir Ieuan Maddock, died over the Christmas break. His period with us was brief, and marred by mutual misunderstandings, and the long delay in having the Lodgings ready. His relations with students, however, were always warm, and he is remembered with affection by those who were here during his Principalship. My own experience of him was almost entirely of his generosity. It has been my good fortune to have predecessors determined to be blind to faults.

This year, Mr Arthur Marsh retires after 24 years as a Fellow in Industrial Relations. His experience in industrial relations and labour law have stood us in good stead over the years.

A highlight of the year has been the celebration of John Kelly's eightieth birthday. The St Edmund Hall Association organised a lunch, to which only old members were invited. The Governing Body held a dinner as a consolation for those Fellows who did not have the advantage of being educated here. Both occasions called forth the best Kelly stories and the lunch is recorded, Kelly speech and all, for posterity. A fuller report can be found elsewhere.

Some five hundred attended.

Unfortunately, John considers eighty a suitable age to retire as Dean of Degrees. His seniority, doctoral robes and Latinity have made degree ceremonies into St Edmund Hall occasions, and he has been a wonderful host to candidates and their families. We have been lucky to persuade Reggie Alton to succeed him.

Dr Mark Child was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, which has given us all much pleasure and the usual hardly justified sense of reflected glory. Dr Bruce Mitchell has been made a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Arts.

A number of old members with M.A.s have availed themselves of the privilege of an annual dinner at High Table, at their own, not very considerable, expense. It has been decided to extend this privilege to include one guest, and it should be stressed that we are not a college which considers a husband or wife an improper guest. The mechanism is to identify yourself as an old member, in person or by telephone, to the porter, and book yourself in by 10 a.m. on the day you wish to dine.

Mr Colin Mattingley has been appointed Fund-Raiser. The equipment of the Appeals Office is being up-dated, and he is hoping to begin activities in October, reaching top gear early in the New Year.

The year has been vigorous intellectually, culturally and in sport. Paulo Mauro won the George Webb Medley Prize in 2

Economics, Jane Moody was proxime accessit in the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize; D. Mustafa won a Harkness Scholarship, Roy Sellars a Leverhulme Research Scholarship and Wayne Luk has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Oriel.

Although we did not win the Rugby, we won the Men's Athletics by a record margin, in addition to winning the Football five-a-side Cuppers and, once again, the Ballroom Dancing. The Women's first eight went up five places in Torpids.

Finally, I should like to welcome Sir Robin Day and Professor Christopher Thorne to the number of Honorary Fellows.

J.C.B.G. SENIOR COMMON ROOM NEWS has attended the CRAC Conference on 13-14 July 1989 on Building Partnerships in Education at Churchill College, Cambridge.

The Revd H. E. J. Cowdrey has attended colloquia at Cluny and Wolfenbi.ittel.

Dr F. J. C. Rossotti, who was Chairman of the Sub-Faculty of Chemistry in the mid-'sixties, made a record when he became Chairman for the second time in the early 'eighties. He is currently Chairman for the third time.

Dr D. I. Scargill has been appointed to the Oxfordshire Magistrates' Courts Committee.

Dr W. S. C. Williams became Chairman of the Sub-Faculty of Physics in September 1989.

Mr J. P. D. Dunbabin attended a conference on the island of Texel (the Netherlands), July 1988, in connection with a book on NATO and the 'Soviet threat' as perceived in the 1950s and 1980s.

He gave the 'Erasmus' seminar on the European Community in connection with Siena and Bonn Universities (Siena and Oxford legs, Spring 1989). He was on special leave January- March 1989 and in Princeton, N. J., writing a history of international relations 1945-80.

Dr M. S. Child has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society, and has been appointed Aldrichean Praelector in Chemistry, equivalent to a readership, by the University of Oxford.

Dr C. E. Phelps has been nominated by the University as its representative on the Governing Body of Uppingham School.

Dr P. J. Collins was awared two major Science and Engineering Research Council grants in respect of collaboration with Professor A. V. Arhangel'skii of Moscow University and an international THE PRINCIPAL

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Symposium on General Topology held at the College and the University's Mathematical Institute, and attended by mathematicians from twenty countries.

Mr D. A. Wyatt continues to make periodic visits to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, either to plead before the Court, or to take parties of Oxford students on educational visits. He delivered a paper on the Free Movement of Goods in the EEC at a conference in Imatra, in Finland.

Mr M. D. E. Slater has been examining in the Honour School of PPE. Professor Z. A. B. Zeman has spent the academic year on sabbatical leave as an Honorary Fellow of the Austrian Ost und Sudosteuropa Institut, and was a guest of the Bulgarian, Hungarian and Polish Academies of Sciences. He has lectured in several countries in central and eastern Europe, including Austria, and taken part in several conferences.

Dr D. G. Phillips was on sabbatical leave during Trinity Term; he gave papers at the Universities of Harvard and Passau and travelled widely in the German Democratic Republic and Hungary, as well as attending conferences in Canada and West Germany.

Dr S. J. Ferguson was guest lecturer under the British Council!German Academic Exchange Service scheme at the Philipps Universitat, Marburg, in Apri11989. He was also speaker at the joint meeting of the British and Spanish Biochemical Societies, in Bilbao, in July 1989.

Dr S. P. Hesselbo, whose fellowship is funded by B.P., has been elected into a Fellowship by Special Election for the next three years during which B.P. 's support will continue.

Dr J. D. Naughton travelled to Prague in May to interview candidates for Oxford University Postdoctoral Scholarships, helping to bring deserving young Czechoslovak scholars to Oxford for six months each. He attended a conference on 'Great Britain, the United States of America, and the Bohemian Lands (1848 -1938)' in Bad Wiessee, near Munich, in November 1988, organised by the Collegium Carolinum, delivering a paper on 'Czech Literature in Britain: From Bowring to Strickland'.

Dr M. D. Brasier was invited to give both a keynote paper and a lecture on Precambrian- Cambrian boundary stratigraphy and biological events at the 28th International Geological Congress at Washington in July, with Royal Society support. Before this he examined the rocks in Newfoundland for evidence of the skeletal fossil record. During Trinity Term he was appointed an Associate Editor of the journal, Paleobiology.

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The Revd E. G. Midgley (Emeritus Fellow) returned safely from a memorable journey up the Nile, to complete his labours on the Oxford edition of Bunyan's works. He is now preparing to explore the imperial cities of Morocco, the mountains of Atlas, and the wastes of the Sahara.

Mr R. E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow) has continued as member of the Schools Examination and Assessment Committee for English at 18 Plus and as Delegate of the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board. He has acted as external degree examiner at the West Sussex Institute of Further Education.

Dr D. C. M. Yardley (Emeritus Fellow) was eo-Chairman of the 4th International Ombudsman Conference held in Canberra, Australia, in October 1988. He lectured in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in March 1989.

Dr R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow) has lectured in Spain (First Congress of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Studies), Japan (Japan Society for Mediaeval English Studies, Tokyo and Kyoto), and in Switzerland (Groupe de Medievistes des Universites Romandes and the Universities of Basel, Neuchatel, and Zurich). He acted as Official Opponent at the Public Discussion of the Doctoral Dissertation by Matti Kilpib in Helsinki. He has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship by the Leverhulme Foundation and has been elected a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia).

Mr N. C. Pollock (Emeritus Fellow) went to South Australia for three months, February- May 1989, investigating problems of settlement and land use in a semi-arid environment, contrasting this with development in British Columbia, especially on Vancouver Island and the region around Vancouver which, although well-watered, is restricted by a mountainous hinterland and an economy based partly on exports of raw materials such as wood products and minerals.

Mr V. H. Ridler (Emeritus Fellow) completed the hand-setting and printing of a long poem by Jon Stallworthy, The Guest from the Future, to honour Sir Isaiah Berlin's 80th birthday on 6 June.

A copy was presented to him by the President and Fellows of Wolfson College on 10 July. Accompanying the poem are photographs of Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, whose meeting in Leningrad in 1946 is the subject of the poem. He printed 120 copies, all of which were subscribed before pubication, the first time this has happened in the modest history of the Perpetua Press.

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Dr J. D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow) was given a lunch at the Hall by his former pupils on 22 October 1988 and presented with a hi/fi system.

APPOINTMENTS SIR ROBIN DAY, M.A. (1947), television and radio journalist, and

Professor Christopher Guy Thorne, D.Litt. (1955), Professor of International Relations in the University of Sussex, have been elected Honorary Fellows of the Hall.

Mr Arthur Ivor Marsh, O.B.E., M.A. has been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship of the Hall with effect from 1 October 1989.

The following have been elected into Fellowships: Martin D. Brasier (B.Sc., Ph.D. London), University Lecturer in Geology, to a Tutorial Fellowship in Geology (with effect from 1 October 1988); Dr Peter J. Mitchell, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, to a¡ non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship, for the remainder of the period of the former fellowship; Mr Paul H. Dear, to a Claude Jenkins Junior Research Fellowship; Mr David R. Priestland, to a Junior Research Fellowship in Modern History; Mr Terence Tsang, to a C.E.G.B. Research Fellowship in Engineering Sciences; Mr William Cox, to a Junior Research Fellowship in Industrial Relations; Mr Stephen Farthing (B.A. St. Martin's School of Art, M.A. R.C.A.), currently Head of Painting and Course Leader in Fine Art, West Sussex College of Art and Design, to a Professorial Fellowship with effect from the date of his appointment as Ruskin Master of Drawing (1 January 1990).

The Revd Michael Alan Bourdeaux (1954), General Director of Keston College, to a Visiting Fellowship for the academic year 1989-90.

The following have been appointed Lecturers: Mrs Joy Jenkyns (Old English), Mr P. Wheatley (English, 1988- 89), Mr 0. L. Rees (Music), Mrs R. E. M. Williams (French Language), Mr J. A. Rossiter (Engineering, 1988- 89), Mr P. J. Moody (Mathematics, 1988- 89), Miss A. Suerbaum (German, 1988- 89), Dr M. S. Williams (Engineering), Mr B. Bix (Law, M.T. 1989), Mr W. Williams (French, M.T. 1989).

MR A. I. MARSH MR A. 1. MARSH, OBE, MA, retired on 30 September 1989 and was

elected to an Emeritus Fellowship with effect f~;om 1 October.

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College and followed this with war service (Royal Artillery and Intelligence Corps) which was mainly spent in Iran, attempting to make that kingdom secure during the British occupation of the south of that country. Between 1948 and 1964 he was employed as a Staff Tutor with the Oxford University Delegacy for ExtraMural Studies, specialising for much of that time in trade union education. He worked first in Kent, later in Oxford where he started an industrial relations section at Rewley House, building up research information for teaching purposes and devising teaching methods.

Arthur's association with the Hall began in 1964 when money was obtained from industry to establish a Senior Research Fellowship in Industrial Relations. During his twenty-five years' tenure of the Fellowship he has undertaken wide-ranging research, including an enquiry into the motor industry (with Sir Jack Scamp) commissioned by the Ministry of Labour, and research for the Donovan Commission. He has acted as an arbitrator with ACAS, Commissioner on Pay Structure to the Government of Gibraltar, Consultant to the National Board of Prices and Incomes, and was British Steel Corporation Fellow 1971-73. He was awarded the OBE in 1984 for his services in the field of industrial relations. His many publications include four volumes (so far) of the Historical Directory of Trade Unions (with V. Ryan) and a continuing bibliographical production called Employee Relations Bibliography and Abstracts.

His links with industry have ensured that money has been forthcoming to appoint a Junior Research Fellow to continue the Hall's association with teaching and research in industrial relations. Our good wishes to Arthur and his wife, Jess.

HONOURS AND A WARDS THE MAGAZINE CONGRATULATES:

A. Briggs (Fellow) on being joint winner of the Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry Prize for 1988. The prize is awarded to the candidate with the highest marks in any European Community Law and Human Rights paper in the Bar Examinations held in any year.

Dr M. S. Child (Fellow) on his election as Fellow of the Royal Society.

C. E. Dawson on the award of a scholarship by the D.A.A.D. to attend a course in Germany this last summer.

R. M. Gaskin (Claude Jenkins Research Fellow) on the award of a Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship 1988-89.

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D. A. Gillett on gaining a Turbutt Prize.

N. H. M. Haigh on being awarded the Lord Leighton Art Prize 1988 for the most promising young artist in the Kensington and Chelsea Artists Exhibition.

D. 0. Haskard (1970) on the award of the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

A. Horseman (1963) on the award of the degree of Doctor of Science.

D. T. Jackson on the award of a Violet Vaughan-Morgan Prize.

W. Luk on his election to the Rank Xerox Junior Research Fellowship in Information Technology at Oriel College.

P. Mauro on winning the George Webb Medley Essay Prize.

Dr R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow) on his election as a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

Miss J. Moody on being named proxime accessit for the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize 1989.

D. Mustafa on the award of a Harkness Scholarship.

R. J. W. Oliver on being named proxime to the winner of the Herbertson Memorial Prize in the Honour School of Geography 1988.

R. Sellars on his election to a Leverhulme Scholarship.

D. J. Southall on winning the Edgell Sheppee Prize in the Honour School of Natural Science (Engineering) 1989.

C. Tang on winning the Richards Butler Prize in the Honour School of Jurisprudence 1988.

R. M. Taylor on winning the Patrick Mallam Memorial Prize in Clinical Medicine 1989.

GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE Mrs Wernberg-M0ller, has given the College an ornamental cherry tree. This was planted in the Library Garden with due ceremony on 19 December 1988 and it flourishes despite the dryness of the recent summer.

An Old Member, who wishes to remain anonymous, has given the College the very generous sum of ÂŁ10,000. The use to which the money has been put will be announced in the next edition of the Magazine.

Mr C. D. Miller has given the Hall a photograph of the late Lord Stockton for display in an appropriate place.

Mr R. M. Gaskin has provided the College with English translations of all the Latin inscriptions on the wall memorials in St Peter-in-the-East.

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Mrs Ethel Anslow has given the Hall the medals awarded to her late husband, Cyril Anslow, for display.

Mr Robin Eades has presented a large collection of books to the College. Further reference to these will be found in the Aularian Bookshelf report.

The Armourers and Brasiers Company have presented a bursary of the value of ÂŁ1,500 which has been awarded to Miss Sharon Williamson.

A benefactor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has enabled the Ladies Boat Club to purchase a new boat for use by the First Eight. Further reference to this is made in the Clubs report.

At its meeting in June, the Executive Committee of the St Edmund Hall Association decided to give the Hall the sum of ÂŁ500 towards the cost of cleaning the College portraits.

The College is indebted to all the above and wishes to express its thanks to them.

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE M.C.R. made their way through a busy academic year by making the most of a packed social calendar. An international night made the most of the cosmopolitan character of the MCR by requiring the cooking skills of members from such varied places as India, Paraguay, South Africa, Syria, and Australia. A series of dessert nights added a new dimension to formal hall, and the annual wine and cheese, superbowl, and garden parties were well attended. Arguably the most successful event of the year was the Jazz and Cocktail evening featuring the Honkin' Hepcats, which Teddy Hall hosted for several other MCRs. Despite vigorous social activity, the MCR is not without its intellectual interests, as its periodic visits to Lbndon and Stratford theatres attest. Of course, sport remains a vital part of MCR life; although we have yet to match the blade brought back by last year's MCR boat, members enthusiastically backed a number of teams, from five-a-side football to cricket.

The MCR eagerly awaits the completion of a new graduate building whose construction is beginning at the time of writing.

Thanks to the generosity of Dr Brockhues, nine graduates will enjoy spacious new flatlets, and a combined kitchen/common room will provide a place for MCR members to entertain guests.

Of course, no MCR news is complete without thanks to Mrs Brown, whose constant energy and support is indispensable to our daily routine. Naturally, she will be available to help with MCR MEMBERS

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the transition as the newly elected committee- John Basnage (President) and Ursula Kretzer (Steward)- continues another year of colonial rule.

Susan Anderson FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE J .C.R. WELL, IT TOOK a combined St Anne's and St John's team, and an Australian international, to make us lose the rugby (by a very narrow margin). Nine years is a long time and I suppose we ought to give the others a chance, but no doubt the lads will make a calculated effort to regain the title next year.

Hall life goes on as before; the unusual warm weather has led to increased numbers of sun-worshippers in the graveyard and to drinking al fresco in the quad to the consternation of the Dean and of finalists who wished to take part. Many great characters will be leaving this year and we wish them well in the future. There have been improvements in the JCR facilities; the Games Room has now been enlarged by demolishing the defunct JCR shop, and a new Music Room has been developed in a bid to solve the problem of sound-proofing. There is certainly a more cultural side being opened up in Hall. The Music Society has performed in the Wolfson Hall and an increasing number of Hall men and women seem to be getting involved in all aspects of drama and comedy reviews.

The John Oldham Society put on a successful production in the Old Dining Hall in Michaelmas Term which was very well supported by both junior and senior members. This year there have been active college bands which performed numerous party room giggs as well as accomplished individuals who performed at the round of summer balls. Hall did not have a ball this year but chose rather to have a 'mini-event', an experiment which proved to be pleasantly successful, although not as good as a full blown ball.

In the field of sport the Hall has continued to do well. The Athletics team won Cuppers with the largest ever margin and many impressive performances too numerous to mention here.

The Cross Country Club also did well, winning the Teddy Hall relays as usual. The Men's First Eight remain fifth on the river and the Women's Torpid gained blades. Ballroom dancing Cuppers remains a Hall prerogative; victory on our home ground was as sweet as ever, with the B and C teams getting high placements as well. One perceives a widening of horizon and a broadening of perception in Hall. Many more Hall persons seem to be actively engaged at all levels and in many more aspects of sporting and

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cultural activities, and at University level too. We remain very close knit, and yet have managed to avoid becoming insular.

David Gomez

J.C.R. OFFICERS President: D. A. Gomez; Steward: M. T. Jordan; Social Secretary: J. I. Ferguson

FROM THE CHAPLAIN of weekly worship in chapel is maintained by a comparatively small, but loyal, group of students and fellows, but the chapel really comes into its own for special services marking the festivals of the Church and our College. Evensong for St Edmund's Day was well attended and the robust singing manifested the distinctive Hall spirit. The service was printed in a specially produced booklet. The Advent Carol Service was also well supported and we were fortunate in being able to augment the choir for the occasion. A service of readings and music was put together for Passiontide and this service introduced the Taize style of worship into our chapel. A special service , entitled Ends and Beginnings, was put together to mark the end of the academic year and was held on the Sunday of 8th Week in Trinity Term . This service consisted of poetry, meditative prayer, songs, as well as more traditional hymns and scriptural readings.

We have had a number of visiting preachers throughout the year to preach at Evensong, including a Franciscan friar and Rex Mason, an Aularian who is VicePrincipal of Regents Park College, Oxford. Undoubtedly the most memorable service of the year was the baptism and confirmation of one of our undergraduates, Alexandra West, on the Sunday of 7th Week, in Hilary Term.

The chapel was full for this occasion, with extra seats in the antechapel, and we are indebted to another Aularian, Bishop Paul Burrough, who came to celebrate, preach and administer confirmation. The Hilary Term was particularly busy with a University Mission being held in the 6th Week . A good number from College attended the series of talks given by Bishop Richard Holloway. His talks were a model of Christian communication, managing to stir the heart and engage the grey matter too.

The Hall continues to be a happy community, and I am pleased to take my place among the circle of tutors and student advisers in offering support and promoting the well-being of the present members of the College.

As in other areas of college life, there are a number of comings and goings, and I would like to record here our gratitude to Sarah Smith, who faithfully served as chapel warden for two years. We have also had to say farewell to a number of people who have sung in the chapel choir and who sat Schools this Summer. We now look forward to welcoming a new organ scholar who will face the challenge of recruiting and generally revitalising the choir.

THE REGULAR ROUND

Christopher Irvine

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A SUMMER EVENT 'THE SUMMER FLING ' was conceived in the absence of the Hall Ball this year and it took place on Saturday 13 May (Third Week). It was the first of the bi-annual events which henceforth will alternate with future balls according to the current opinion of the JCR that the Hall Ball does not command a large enough market to warrant its operation on an annual basis.

The 'Fling' was essentially a 'mini-ball' in the sense that it only ran until2 a.m . and did not carry all the sideshows, minor diversions and the diversity of entertainments that one associates with a May ball. However, live music was provided by many high calibre performers, notably 'Zoot and the Roots', 'the Jazz Butcher', '1000 Violins', 'the Anyways' and 'the Wild Poppies'. These acts were augmented by an ail-night comedy theatre and a series of other musical entertainments and cabaret, many of which were composed of current members of the JCR. Over 600 people attended the Fling and it was a great success in all respects. The Committee would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Wyatt, our Senior Member, and also to wish next year's Committee good luck in the daunting task of organising the 1990 Hall Ball.

Simon Oakes

AN AULARIAN HISTORY THE MAGAZINE has learned, from an unimpeachable source, that Dr Kelly has completed his short history of the Hall, and that it is now (July 1989) in the hands of the Oxford University Press. The first work of its kind, it traces the fortunes of St Edmund Hall from the last decades of the 13th century until the author's retirement in July 1979. It not only provides sketches of the Hall and its leading personalities at different epochs, but describes in unprecedented detail its successive constitutions from the days of the medieval aularian statutes to the promulgation of collegiate statutes in 1957. An intriguing feature, it is hoped, will be a collection of some fifteen illustrations, several of them entirely fresh to aularian eyes. Publication is expected in November.

A NOTABLE BIRTHDAY St. George, April 22, 1989, a beautiful day in an otherwise uncertain April, there occurred- to echo a favourite phrase of the man at the centre of it all- 'a most extraordinary' occasion, a Grand Celebration by the Old Members of the 80th birthday of Dr John Kelly, Principal from 1951 to 1979.

The St. Edmund Hall Association under its President Roger Farrand, decided a good while ago that this auspicious day in the calendar should not pass unregarded, and for months the huge task of organising a party on a grand scale has been continuing in secret, with Reggie Alton bearing the great burden of administrative work at the Oxford end, and Roger at the London base.

Invitations to all Aularians from John Kelly's years at Hall produced a flood of acceptances, and on the day itself the Front Quad was solid with Old Members, well over 500 of them, far more than anyone had seen at any Reunion or Gaudy.

They had come from every end of England, Wales and Scotland (especially good to welcome the Kellys and the McCrackens from the ancient Kingdom) and even farther afield. I talked to Aularians from Nigeria, and Canada and the States.

John arrived in state in Peter Butler's magnificent British racing green open vintage Bentley (SEH 1) and, somewhat taken aback at the unexpected size of ON THE EVE OF

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the welcoming multitude, took his place on the throne in the Wolfson Hall, while a buffet lunch with plenteous wine was served, in preparation for the Grand Entertainment.

It would take too long and overtax the power of this writer to describe all the wit, the subtlety, the generous words and heartfelt sentiments of the speeches and poems and music which followed, provided by those stars of concert, opera, stage and television which the Hall, a rather surprised and delighted mother, has produced over these years. Rather, for the record, let us preserve the programme notes which chronicle the details of this performance which, a few days before, had been rehearsed in no less a distinguished setting than the Queen Elizabeth Hall; A Fanfare composed by Nigel Osborne (1966) Four Hall horns, Roger Doulton (1968), Peter.Gow (1973), Leigh Lawson (1977), and Paul Willett (1985) will blow. Beyond the solitude of the greeting cadenza we enter an especial place where time hangs on hidden tempi; the musical joke of the third reprise must not put you off the climax of the reconstruction, still less the essentially biographical nature of the conception. The piece concludes with a rousing performance of Saint Edmund followed by 80 musical candles and an appropriate POP. Welcome by Reggie Alton (1938).

A Message from the Chancellor, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, as delivered by Roland MacLeod (1957).

An Interlude by Patrick Garland (1956), poet, intellectual, savant, Garland reveals himself as a man of the people, with a few deft chiches, a nuance of enunciation he blows away all those myths of the hearty 50s.

'Canon for Kelly' by John Gould (1963), with choral accompaniment. A perfumed pot-pourri of words, music and elan from the twinkling fingers and magic tongue of the cabaret artist whose throaty style is redolent of the Besse block's plumbing.

Interlude by Garland. Man of the people Pat, reveals himself as a closet intellectual with a fierce memory of the rowing beer swilling rugger filled fifties.

A Narrative poem 'In Praise of John Kelly,' written and spoken by Nigel Pegram (1962). Appearing on these boards for the very first time the young colonial takes on the artistic establishment of Oxford's most sensitive college- a bravura performance.

Garland again.

A Letter read by John Wells (1957). Mr Wells has spies in the waste paper baskets of the capital; their regular rifflings expose his listeners to the hazards of the official secrets act.

Grand Finale with AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION. The entire company will twice sing the first verse of a new composition: 'Hymn to Kelly'. The identical second verse printed below (which taxed the creative resources of its composer, Pegram, almost as much as the first) will then be sung by the assembled graduate multitude: YOU. Kelly, Kelly, pride of old Teddy Hall.

We bring you our greetings today.

Kelly, Kelly, we love you John Kelly.

God bless you and keep you alway.

After the music of Apollo, Roger Farrand's closing speech was by no means harsh. He presented the Birthday Boy with a gift from well over 900 Aularians.

Firstly a handmade silver water jug, designed by F. C. Bush and made by Wakely

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and Wheeler for Payne and Son, the Oxford silversmiths and jewellers, Peter Payne having matriculated at Hall in 1941. With this was a crystal glass claret jug with silver mounts and a quartz finial, designed and made by Anthony Elson in 1988. As a stand for the claret jug, which it matches perfectly , went a George III silver waiter by Richard Rugg of London, made in 1776, the year of the American Revolution. The elegant inscriptions had been drafted by Reggie Alton and the Public Orator , on the water jug: JOHANNI KELLY VIRO BENIGNISSIMO PRINCIP ALl QVONDAM A VLAE SANCTI EDMVNDI IN VSVM TEMPERANTIAE D.D. A VLARI A VLARES OCTOGENARIO OCTINGENTI M CM LXXXIX followed by a quotation from Pindar in Greek: 'Best of all is water' and on the wine jug: IOHANNI KELLY VIRO BENIGNISSIMO PRINCIPAL! QVONDAM AVLAE SANCTI EDMVNDI IN VSVM LAETITIAE D.D. A VLARI A VLARES OCTOGENARIO OCTINGENTI MCMLXXXIX followed by a quotation from Euripides in Greek: 'The joy of wine dispels pain' John rose to reply amid a great roar, and produced a performance of vintage Kelly . This eightieth year has not dimmed the tone, the timing, the sudden quip which, through all the years represented by this great company, had enlivened innumerable Cupper Suppers, Bump Suppers, Schools dinners and reunions. He ended by recalling the words of Deuteronomy: 'And Moses was an hundred and twently years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.' We accept the omen. All the signs suggest that there are many many happy returns of this day ahead.

The vintage Bentley returned and, amid a cheering crowd which filled Queen's Lane, he was driven home in state, while the company lingered long into the afternoon, and the talk lingered on memories and friendships of the Kelleian years which have passed but are not lost.

Graham Midgley BELATED THANKS 1 SHOULD LIKE, through the courtesy of the Editor, to take this opportunity of thanking the multitude of Aularians, at home and overseas, who greeted me on my eightieth birthday. At least a hundred wrote or telephoned to me, several hundred turned up to the amazing party in the Wolfson Hall on 22 April, about

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twice as many subscribed to the splendid gifts which were presented to me on that occasion. I wish I could have thanked each one of them individually, for their kindness and evident affection have touched me more than I can say; but that would have demanded an effort which might have seriously impeded my firm advance towards the next decennial milestone.

John N. D. Kelly And finally:

The whole event was captured in millions of magnetic memos. on a long strip of black plastic tape. This record has been edited into a 'video film'- VHS (whatever that may be). The Association, which funded the venture, was fortunate in that Nigel Pegram knew a small skilled firm (Jean-Hicks- if any member wants a commerical video we stro-ngly recommend them, go through Nigel) . He and they gave us some thirty hours editing time and valuable expertise, and we have a superb product; it includes the only recorded Kelly speech. Send ÂŁ20.00 to the Misses Jenny Turner (1981) and/ or Lis. Marsh (1982), 7a, Burstock Road, London SW15 2PW. If you have a different system send an order; we hope to amass sufficient orders to produce variants also for ÂŁ20.00. A programme is being produced to accompany or follow copies; orders so far almost cover the Association's costs; any surplus will go to the Association, whence, like all its income, it will go to the benefit of the Hall.

Roger Farrand A number of Old Members attending the birthday party expressed surprise that their former tutors were not present. The answer is that they were not invited unless they were, themselves, former undergraduates of the Hall. The intention was to invite as many Old Members of the Kelly years as could possibly be fitted into the Wolfson Hall and the Fellows would have taken up space. They, the Fellows, had had a special celebration of Dr Kelly's birthday a few days before.

Mary Anne Martin's photograph of this event is reproduced in the Magazine.

Ed. HALL

How it came to be published: HALL WAS PRODUCED by a committee chaired by Gordon Shield (1933) and completed by Alan Jenkins (1932), Roger Farrand (1955) and Peter Slip (1956).

A notice was inserted in the Magazine asking anyone interested in contributing his or her memoirs of their time at the Hall to notify Peter Slip. A surprisingly large number replied, and the writers were then given details of what was required; common topics, maximum length and so forth. The contributions were edited by Alan Jenkins, whose long experience in the editorial and journalistic world was invaluable. The committee had many happy meetings, reminiscing over the essays, enjoying a glass of wine, and doing a bit of work; it eo-opted Arthur Farrand Radley, the Hon . Sec. of the Association, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of Hall matters and magnificent collection of Hall photographs were of great help. When the format of the book was finally agreed, Roger Farrand undertook to publish the work, and so HALL was born.

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The result is a unique publication in the world of university literature: 60 years in the inner life of a fast-developing college, told by those who worked (and played) there. Peter Slip, who had already done a huge amount of work in collating, arranging and, in some cases typing, the many scripts, then took over the task of handling sales to Hall members. Nigel Blackwell (1966) has given good advice and great help with 'outside' sales. To date the sales of HALL have almost paid off the costs of publication and other expenses. Any surplus, and some is confidently expected, goes to the Association for the benefit of the Hall.

Roger Farrand And how it is seen from another College:

Hall: Memoirs of St Edmund Hall Graduates, 1920-80, ed. Alan Jenkins (1989), must represent virtually a new genre of book about Oxford: the memoirs of succeeding generations of undergraduates concerning a single college. Despite the vaguely sociological character of the writers' brief (how did you get into the Hall, how much money did you have as an undergraduate, etc.), the cumulative effect of these fascinating essays is very much the contemplation of an image, a family image. The father figures of A. B. Emden (the Abe) and John Kelly (the Prince and later Prinny), whose Principalships encompassed the years 1929-79, bestride the pages like colossuses. 'We all accepted the Abe's autocratic rule without question' , declares Sir Claude Ha yes; while John Cox writes, 'John Kelly was a palpable father-figure to us all; around him, like the moons of Jupiter, circled the dons'. The long arm of Emden, who knew what was best for his young men, placed countless Aularians in their jobs, and that kindly scholar helped also to launch the present writer on his academic career.

There are contributions in this book by people one would love to meet (or meet again) and contributions by people one would wish to avoid. Malcolm McDonald is indeed a 'stern critic' of the Oxford teaching system, though many of his points have force, and Robert Lunn (who was so important that his future wife was introduced to him) is a shade too lavatorial. On the other hand Kenneth Muir's delightfully minor-key piece arouses one's sympathy at every point, especially his weekend at a Norfolk bird-sanctuary just before finals, when he was 'too conscious of (his) ignorance of philology to be properly relaxed'. Richard Luddington's finding reassurance in his revision tutorials and 'ultimate solace in the Gate of India' also strikes a nice chord. The latter was tutored by the present reviewer in the Michaelmas Term of his third year, and when asked if he could manage the Tuesday of ninth week for his last tutorial replied that he regretted he would be at Twickenham that day. For the Oxford scrum-half to say no more than that seems to me typical St Edmund Hall modesty. How I was glued to the television that Tuesday!

My favourite vignette in the whole book, by another charmingly modest person, Kenneth Oliver (1926), is as follows: 'My final Summer Term was as joyful as ever. At an Eights Week Ball at Merton, I managed the unusual feat of falling in love in one night with a girl I had never seen before, and never saw again, but whose memory remains with me nearly sixty years after'.

What a delightful variation on the theme of Candide!

To many of these undergraduates, the Hall offered not only a father figure but also a mothers' bosom, in a way that can be true of few colleges (but my own, St Peter's, perhaps more than most). The compact quad enfolding social activity, the brotherly and sisterly affection indicated in the J .C.R. Comments Book

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(showing 'how everyone rejoiced in the success of any Hall man in any sphere'}, the maternal tenderness of the college tutors, all these are much in evidence.

Indeed, to some, the college was a safe haven from the feared university. The lectures in the university were given by persons like the 'booming C. S. Lewis', but by contrast there were 'quiet tutorials' with Ronnie Fletcher. David Goldstein was 'daunted by the university scene' and Geoffrey Smithers of Merton was unable to make him enthusiastic about Mercian dialects; he preferred 'to sit at the feet of Graham or Reg (in their comfortable armchairs actually) and talk in a leisurely, unpressured fashion'. Andrew Mourant, 'torpedoed' by the excoriations of Colin Lucas of Balliol when he 'ventured out of sheltered home waters', convalesced in the gentle tutorials conducted by John Cowdrey, whose response to almost everyone's work, according to him, was, 'very much on the right lines, I think.'

Perhaps this is where sport comes in. The professed philosophy of John Kelly, according to Nicolas Stacey, who is surely right, was that if one could attract outstanding sportsmen to the Hall the scholars would follow (and they certainly have). But one may doubt whether this is all there was to it. We must beware of exaggerating the Hall undergraduates' fear of the university from the evidence of this book, since it lacks contributions by some of the most distinguished alumni who must have felt this fear least. It is there, however; and one cannot help wondering whether over decades, sport has not had the function of providing a corporate means of mastering this emotion and enabling the Hall to get on even terms with the university. Andrew Mourant perceptively asks what is, and will be, 'the influence of female students on a college so proud of its virility'.

Like many pieces in this book, Andrew Mourant's is written with fine insight and honesty, and makes a good read. Did he learn to write so well while studying for his third in Modern History, or more recently on the newspapers for which he has worked? That, rather than Malcolm McDonald's about our system, is the question which sets me thinking about Oxford education- and examining.

Henry Mayr-Harting St Peter's College ASSESSING THE ASSESSORSHIP a College by Royal Statute in 1957, the Hall has appointed two Proctors to represent it in the corridors of University power, and in 1988 I became the College's first Assessor. Who or what is an Assessor, and what does he or she do? This question was put to me times without number during my year as Assessor. I'm still not confident that I can give a plausible answer as to what they are supposed to do, but I shall try to give an account of some of the things I did.

I had certainly expected to liaise between the College and the University, naively hoping to improve the College's position wherever I could. In fact, there was so much business, some of it was, for a time, so sensitive that it would have been tactless in the extreme to reveal what was going on, even if I had quite understood it (which was mostly not the case). Besides, it would have been unkind to deprive my colleagues of a great deal of pleasurable rumourmongering. So I did what seems the done thing: assumed a bland, and what I hoped was a judiciously blank face. For the Assessor, like the Proctors, is privileged to have access to all the papers and deliberations of every University committee, including the faculty boards, sub-faculties and departments. The SINCE IT BECAME

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Assessor may attend, and is sometimes required to attend, every meeting from the Hebdomadal Council to the Curators of the University Parks (where there is a lavish tea in the pavilion in Trinity Term), from the Delegates of the University Press to the Delegacy of Local Examinations, from the Curators of the Examination Schools to the Estates Committee. One is, for the year, a Visitor of the Ashmolean Museum, a Curator of the Bodleian Library, a member of the Delegacy of Military Instruction.

The office of Assessor is uniquely young among the various roles in an ancient University: it goes back to the sixties of the present century at least - which has not prevented its being slotted neatly into the really archaic ceremony for admitting a Proctor or 'procurator', complete with its own Latin formulae. So, the Assessor is one of the University Police Delegates, although, blissfully, the role has no disciplinary functions - not for the Assessor the task of fining erring members, Senior as well as Junior, of the University, not for him/her the task of shepherding the post-examinees away from the vicinity of the Examination Schools and the litter of cold baked beans, flour, foam and 'champagne' they attract. But the Assessor occupies a pleasant, if spartanly furnished office right next door to the tiny office of the University Marshal which is the ante-chamber, literally, to the larger, but double room from which the Proctors operate. In one corner sits an old-fashioned safe housing the 'black books' which chronicle the lapses and proclivities of past members of the University- and of not a few survivors.

Originally, the Assessorship was devised for the benefit of the women's colleges to compensate them for not being able to elect to the Proctorship, it being recognized (these were post-lapsarian, pre-Thatcher days) that no woman could possibly bear the burden of policing men in this University. The graduate colleges, Linacre, St Antony's, Nuffield, St Cross and Wolfson and now Green were similarly disadvantaged, since they were, ostensibly, ignorant of the lore of the undergraduate jungle and consequently ill-equipped to cope with the intricacies of discipine and the conduct both of public examinations and of undergraduate societies. However, perhaps not surprisingly, because the Proctors have access to every piece of University business and are consequently, temporarily, extremely powerful figures, the graduate and women's colleges did not wish to be excluded from this privileged source of information, and so the office of Assessor was created to permit them to send a representative to the central university administration . In earlier centuries, the Proctorial office had sometimes been monopolized by individual colleges for years together, but now a rotating cycle of office has been established, so that every twelve years or so, each college is entitled to elect a proctor or, on each third turn, an assessor. The politicking attendant upon election to the Proctorship has consequently now been regulated and banished from the wider university stage to the familiar planks of the colleges, where there is always ample salt to soothe the wounds.

There may have been a corresponding reduction in the stature- and in the ego- of the candidates for the job, since they do not now have to command support outside the curtilage of their own college. Of course, since the women's and the graduate colleges pressed to be admitted not merely to the manifestly inferior role of Assessor, but also to the Proctorships, the undergraduate men's colleges found themselves obliged to elect assessors on occasion- which led immediately to the role and status of the Assessor being enhanced. Even the dress and protocol have been upgraded. There is an amusing file detailing the sartorial rights of assessors at ceremonies: whether they should wear bands and when, where they should process and when, and so forth. (I note that the wearing of ecclesiastical bands is now progressing apace among the more senior assistant

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registrars of the University, and soon, no doubt, everyone will be wearing them most of the time: similarly, full sub-fuse for academic attenders of Encaenia is also a sartorial solecism.) The Proctors have on their gowns a small cloth tippet, the badge of their office- the Assessor wears a tassel (only one, and worn at the back). The Assessors do not, but presumably may if they wish, attend the regular meetings of Congregation, and would then process in following the VC and Proctors and together with, but apparently, pro forma, taking precedence over the Registrar. In recent years, the Assessor has walked bare-headed when accompanying the Registrar, and this subtle distinction not only reflects the present Registrar's natural preference, but is also practical, since only the VC and Proctors 'cap'- i.e. doff their hats. (I am reminded by all this of the formal parade in Babar the Elephant.) Not for the Assessor the burdensome task of conducting degree-days, attending the university sermons which ensure that for the Proctors many week-ends and parts of the vacation are nicely filled. Statistics on the divorce-rate of proctors are not recorded.

The Assessor has, then, access to every single University committee and its papers- and to its past files. This was so overwhelming a hoard, that simply coping with the papers that came in was well beyond my capabilities. Fortunately the Proctors and Assessor usually collaborate to carve up the committee work for the various bodies, so that they are represented on almost every committee.

Every week, including the week before term and also ninth and tenth week, the Hebdomadal Council met on Monday afternoon at 2.15, (beginning with prayers- taken from the mass, with its old-fashioned formulae dignifying the proceedings with absurdity: 'Prevent us 0 Lord in all our doings with Thy most gracious favour ... ').On Fridays at two p.m. sharp the General Board began, without prayers, and at a very business-like clip: sometimes up to 150 sides of A4 minutes and papers would be dealt with in an hour or an hour and a half, and this experience of tight chairmanship was a revelation, especially when returning to the more relaxed trot of College committees. The Proctors and Assessor are expected to attend both the General Board and Council regularly, and much of the business inevitably overlaps. This gives a pleasant sense of deja oui", and lulls one into a sense of superiority, since one can acticipate many of the sage perceptions of members of the one body by having heard them anticipated by equally perceptive members of the other. Much of the groundwork for both bodies is carried out in committee, of which both the G B and Council have many, so that in one or other of these a rehearsal of the business and perhaps a post-mortem on its failure in the two major bodies provides a further in-depth analysis of any matter of moment in the University. I never actually saw anyone asleep in a committee during the whole year I was in office (and that is more than can be said for our would-be masters in their parliamentary sessions!)- some of the business did drag, but on the whole, apart from the chairman or person delegated to speak to the business, contributions by members were brief and to the point. The business of the General Board was more familar to me, as being more focused on academic policy and provision; Council, by contrast, ranged over many issues affecting the University, local, national and, occasionally, international. Among the more memorable and at times sensitive matters during my time were the future of the Playhouse, the provision of a code of practice on sexual harassment- we were, it seemed, as unsure as to how this word should be stressed as we were of defining the offence- and the extension of the University's Counselling Service.

No individual, not even the Vice-Chancellor or the Vice-Chairman of the General Board can be expected to carry all the business of the University in their

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heads- but I was immensely impressed to see how much they mastered, even given the administrative back-up of the Registrar and Secretary of Faculties and theif:staff~ which was superb and professional to a humiliating degree. In fact, I was re-assured by the quality and dedication of the administrators I met, by their clarity, wisdom, knowledge- and, above all, humanity in their dealings with individuals and sectors of the University which were temporarily in ¡ difficulty. I do not think this view is the result of any brain-washing during my year in office! In fact I sometimes upset one or other of the registrariat by naively blurting out that it was such a pity that such splendid minds were not bent towards some worthwhile academic venture! In fact, in more gentlemanly times (and/ or their feminist equivalent), many of the administrators did pursue academic interests- but that was before photocopying made their offices awash with bumf by the high-tide of Fifth Week.

There were some hard decisions in which one participated without really being able to judge the full issue, and where it was good to have the wise counsels of experts- I mention only one, well-known outside Oxford, which caused me considerable sadness: the closing of the University Press's printing section only a decade after its fifth centennial. I am unable to say that the decision was wrong,- commercially a strong case was made,- but it certainly felt wrong.

Among the few specific duties of assessors is included the chairmanship of the University's Committee on Student Hardship. Here again, the experienced team from the Graduate Studies office provided guidance and information- and were always tactful in advancing sensible proposals via the chair. Some applications for relief from hardship were of extreme complexity, choices had to be made in dispensing resources which were always smaller than one would have wished.

This is an area where the University and the colleges try to work in concert to achieve a temporary alleviation of hardship brought about by unforeseen circumstances. Colleges are required to assure themselves of the financial viability of applicants before accepting them- the Hardship Committee occasionally has to refuse help to deserving cases either because the college admitted them without making adequate enquiry regarding viability or because the college on its part will not contribute adequately to relieve the hardship which has cropped up after the admission of the student concerned. It is difficult to see how present structures could possibly cope with the administration of 'access funding' for those for whom a university education is not viable from the outset ...

In fact, assessors are not quite as autonomous as I have suggested, since they may be, and therefore inevitably always are, required to fulfil such functions as may from time to time be required of them by the Vice-Chancellor or the ViceChairman- usually this involves conducting some enquiry or chairing a committee. In my case, I spent most of the time from September to February examining the role and functions of the Language Teaching Centre: this meant reading through nine voluminous back files, interviewing people, holding committee meetings and then attending the Planning and Development Committee, the Finance and General Purposes Committee and the Resources Committee to discuss relevant matters arising. This task was fascinating, the more so since I was provided with excellent administrative back-up: my professional administrator somehow made wonderfully coherent minutes out of my rambling conducting of the meetings. Although I felt she did all the work, the experience of what administrative back-up could and should be made me appreciate fully the excellent service the University can call on in coping with the manifold demands made on us by an unsympathetic government intent on short-

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term gains at the expense of long-term structures. I also felt I learned a great deal about communication: from the dialogic mode to satellites, from 'chalk and talk' to 'hands-on' technology, and, most important, when to hold one's tongue. At the same time I felt, however briefly, part of the General Board team and I can fully understand its impatience with those who impede the detailed work often of many weeks and hours of committee deliberation on what appear footling points. As my Review Body's report took shape I felt much happier with the assessorial role and I look back to that hectic period with some gratitude.

But there were social distractions too! The Proctors and Assessor are invited to all social functions, plays, concerts, exhibitions, college gaudies- the Rawlinson Dinner at St John Baptist College and 'The Needle and Thread Dinner' at the Queen's College were particularly memorable. My weight, but not my authority, increased by nearly three-quarters of a stone during the year.

Inevitably, these social jamborees were most prominent in the very first term of office when one was least well-prepared for them .

A memorable day for the College as well as for me was the Encaenia- since in 1988 the Hall was the venue for the holding of Lord Crewe's benefaction for Senior Doctors and Heads of Houses of the University. There was a splendid spread in the Wolfson dining-hall: and the front quad in the brilliant sunshine was at its very best, peopled with Oxford's brilliantly-robed academic peacocks, lining up to process along New College Lane to the Sheldonian, a scene captured by some of Julia Johnson's splendid phootgraphs. This time nobody played 'The Teddy Bear's Picnic' as the animated crocodile moved off, led by the Marshal and bedels and the Chancellor and his page, the two Proctors, then the Assessor, followed by the Vice Chancellor and the High Steward, Lord Wilberforce. The Chancellor, Lord Jenkins thoroughly entered into the spirit of the occasion, benevolently capping the crowds at the end of New College lane like the pro he is . Since the honorands that year included the German Bundesprasident, Richard von Weizsacker, my German relatives were startled by unexpected glimpses of me on German TV among the ceremonial trappings ... Then lunch in All Souls' Library, followed by coffee on the oval lawn, then off to change for the Garden Party at St John's with a marvellous tea and colourful company- more wives with bigger and better hats. Then off to change for dinner and a Gaudy at Christ Church. Not a cloud in the clear sky which glowed a pale, luminous turquoise, lifted straight from one of the Renaissance pictures in their own gallery. The buildings stood out as though painted in the sharp shadows of the evening light - Tom Quad lying empty in the warm sun, impeccably swept, and yet foreshortened and reduced to a human scale by the sense of the occasion. It was also a day of vanity and indulgence I shall never forget and I was so high on adrenaline and drink that I was able, for the first time I think, to associate myself with the assessorial role completely and utterly, feeling totally relaxed and happy.

The Assessor's year was filled with fund-raising and publicity of one kind and another as the University drew the consequences of present policy and constraint and determined that it must put itself as far as possible beyond the meddling of any government or other outside body by launching an appeal for some ÂŁ200,000,000. A very great deal of thought and care went into the planning and presentation of the launch and of the co-ordination of all related sectors of the University and, more tricky, of the Colleges. The more exhilarating and visible tip of this very large and at times chilling ice-berg of effort was formed by the public launch/ lunch of the main campaign for Oxford on 26th October 1988- one Wednesday when British Rail trains, including a Special, did run. But overshadowing this in my memory is yet another glorious July evening, Tuesday

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5th, when the Chancellor gave a Reception and Dinner in the Radcliffe Camera in the presence of Prince Charles. This is the first dinner- a magnificent cold collation- to be eaten there since 1814. The menu began with Tartare of Salmon with Caviar, served with a Rosemount Semillon Chardonnay, 1987. Then followed Stuffed Quail Breasts with Truffles and Madeira Sauce, Ebony Rice Salad, Mange-touts and Asparagus, helped on its way by a Chateau Marquis d'Alesme 1983. Then Mixed Summer Berries with Clotted Cream and Sugar Bark with a Chateau de Malle 1981. I shall never work in that part of the Library again without a gastric pang. Prince Charles spoke elegantly and a good deal more frankly about the vital importance of preserving the Library's resources and maintaining its position as a centre of world-rank than any member of the University could ever have done- it was an outspoken and completely focus sed performance which made the occasion honestly what it was: a fund-raising drive.

When, later that evening, he was presented with His unique silver Reader's ticket a distinguished colleague and Emeritus Fellow of this college quipped that His Royal Highness might find it helpful that the Chancellor's Access-card No. was printed on the back.

The very next day, July 6th, the Assessor and his Good Lady were to attend a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, chauffeur-driven in the University Maestro. The day dawned as grey as the evening before had been balmy: by lunchtime it was raining champagne-buckets. Nevertheless we were cheerful enough: to my delight I discover that Nature has endowed me with the right ears to support a top-hat. We had a speedy and comfortable trip, basking on our selfesteem and when we arrived in the metropole we discovered that we also had royal weather: despite a brisk wind the day was fine and dry. Meanwhile lightning was striking in Oxford. The Delegacy of University Police has been driving Proctors to the Palace for years, and the Marshal advised us to park in the Mall and walk in and out, so as to avoid the inevitable lengthy delay waiting self-consciously for 'our' car to be called out over the loud-speakers. So we walked in, part of a would-be elegant line of guests, with the ladies for the most part looking like elegant t!!a-pots, as one hand kept their hat on and the other their hem down . As we came out onto Nash's Terrace there stretched before us on the left side of the Lawn what seemed like two hundred metres of tea-tent, a single line of awnings placed end-to-end in which an army of tea-ladies were serving a lavish tea with a great choice of sandwiches, cakes, ice-cream and so forth . Small tables were set up in front of the awnings and a military band was playing in a small band-stand by the lake. On the right side of the lawn nested a very large single marquee roped off from the rest: this was the diplomatic enclosure.

A Garden Party consists of some 8,000 people, and we decided not to trouble Her Majesty by telling her the latest news of Her loyal subjects in Oxford: Her Son had after all been dining with us the night before. Instead, we walked around the splendid but unpretentious gardens themselves, visiting the Waterloo vase, tennis court, and the flamingoes and the obligatory ablution marquees, complete with mahogany hat-stands. The lawn really is full of camomile. Her Majesty works hard: after nearly an hour and a half She had progressed barely one hundred yards through the loyal swarm of subjects and guests. We were able to observe that She gave those who were presented ample time to ask the questions they wanted. To our amusement a huge be-uniformed German whose tiny wife wore Edna Everage sun-glasses said quite audibly: 'Wollen wir uns nicht ein bil3chen vordriingeln, Mutti?' 'Nein, das ware unfein. ': 'Shall we shove forward a bit, mother?' 'No, that wouldn't be quite fine'. Madam Assessor, smiling

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sweetly, added in German as we slid off into the crowd: 'My dear, how right you are!'

Another fond recollection is the Estates Committee trip to the West Country, with an overnight stay at the Grand Atlantic Hotel, Weston-Super-Mare - where I got stuck in the lift. On this perambulation we met a broad range of farmers from the managerial to the struggling octogenarian who owned some six antique tractors, none of them apparently working, worth probably more than the rest of his stock and possessions put together. The talk was of milk -quotas and slurry, of land-drainage and property developers. I was particularly impressed by the background knowledge of the University members of the Committee, and by the excellent advice given. A brisk walk along the 'hors de saison' front at Weston soon dispelled the noxious odours of agricultural nurture.

And what did I achieve? Well, the University's ship of state did not seem to have rocked, despite my frantic scampering from side to side. The privilege of attending some very difficult business in the committees taught me a lot about the conduct of meetings- and a good deal more about many colleagues. I regretted not having managed to find out as much about the Science Area as I had intended, though I eventually mastered the language of scintillation vials, fume-cupboards and glyco-biology . Nor did I attend the Staff Committee which provides a healthy reminder of the non-academic members of the University's huge team. I did compile a list of some two hundred acronyms in current committee use. Some of these were scurrilous in themselves IRCS, SERCS, NERCS (Wot, no jerks?): the computerizing of the Bodleian involved DOBIS, LIBIS and eventually OLIS, the linking of science libraries led to various database-sharing groups being set up, including the Radcliffe Science Library Advisory and Consultative Committee (RSLACC) and the Science Libraries Information Committee (SLIC) - one only hopes they do not amalgate them ...

The educationalists and librarians seem to be most acronym-ridden in my experience. I abortively tried to get the huge university telescopes kept under the Sheldonian Theatre restored to the observatories in Green College, whose Tower of the Winds is an enviable building. A rare moment of assessorial glory came when I pointed out to the professional advisers of the University's Estates Committee that the particular unit of our shopping mall investment which they had ear-marked as a florist's shop was the only one which was not plumbed-in!

On the basis of such expertise, it would be presumptuous of me to expect to know how the administration of the University should change: I think we should be grateful for the administration we have. However, under-resourcing affects both the administrative and the academic side of the University and a non-novel but nevertheless worthwhile avenue to explore might be to persuade the wealthier colleges to set up a development fund , like the fund to assist poorer colleges, to support those University activities which cannot or do not attract state or business funding. Increasingly, academic decisions taken at the centre will cut across the college interests and ethos, where teaching and college administration and autonomy may come off badly in any assessment of which functions are vital to the University. If the colleges collectively help to fund university structures more openly than hitherto - and there has been a massive hidden subvention of the University's activities by the Colleges through the provision of college-based teaching rooms (including their furnishing and heating and cleaning), telephones, computers, xeroxing and secretarial facilities - they may be better placed to keep it a largely independent national and international, rather than a govenment asset.

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CONCERNING ST PETER-IN-THE-EAST in my work as librarian running the College library in St Peterin-the-East, I have gradually collected various items of interest concerning this splendid building, some of which will be known to many, all of which may be known to some, but which have never, to my knowledge, been collected together.

Scholarly accounts of the history and architecture may be found in volume four of the Victoria County History; the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments volume for the City of Oxford; and Sherwood and Pevsner's Oxfordshire; in addition it is hoped that the report on the archaeological work carried out in 1968 will soon be published. The following article is an attempt to produce a collection of anecdotes, history and legend which may be of interest to Aularians.

It is known that there has been a church on this site since A.D.900, or earlier.

An account published in the Oxford Times for 24th September 1968 tells of ¡ finding the post-holes of a Saxon church under the floor on the south side of the nave. The church is first recorded in 1086, when it was held by Robert d'Oilly, and is one of five churches in Oxford and the vicinity mentioned in Domesday Book- the other four being: St Mary's, St Michael's, St Ebbe's, and St Frideswide's. According to Anthony Wood it was the first church of stone that appeared in these parts; Thomas Hearne wrote in 1712 about visiting a military fortification thought to have been built on the site of an old stone quarry, on a footway from South Hinksey to Foxcombe, and in a footnote says: ' ... perhaps it might have been that out of which the stones were taken for building the Church of St Peter's in the East, Oxford. For I am now convinc'd that these stones were taken out of Hincksey, and not Heddington Quarry. It is certainly Hincksey Quarry.' Hearne re-affirms this in a later entry: ' ... Oxford, where they had begun to have some stone buildings some time before the Conquest, as may appear from St Grymbald's building in St Peter's Church in the East of stone out of Hengesteseiht (commonly called Hinxey) Quarry, Masons being brought for that end out of Normandy'. This quarry was later known as Jinny Bunting's Cave.

OVER THE YEARS

The Crypt The St Grimbald's building is that which is now known quite simply as the crypt.

Grimbald (ea. 825- 901) a Frank, was a monk and scholar who assisted King Alfred with his translations of Latin texts into Old English; there is an early modern legend suggesting that he built the crypt for the accommodation of his tomb, which later he had removed to Winchester.

At a later date, about 1074, Robert d'Oilly, the builder of Oxford castle and notorious in his younger days for pillaging and over-taxing both church and laity, rich and poor, had seized land at Abingdon belonging to the church. According to legend he fell ill and had a dream that he was let out into this meadow which he had seized, and that ' ... a number of vile boys piled burning hay round him, some tossed haybands in his face, and others set his beard on fire' (from an account in C.E.Boase: Oxford, 1903). This dream, and the plaintive cries of his hard used victims, persuaded him to return the land and to repair some of the churches in Oxford, among which was St Peter-in-the-East's crypt and chancel.

Wood gives the date for the crypt and chancel as 884, (although more recent accounts, including the Victoria County History, give it as mid-12th century) and the reason for its construction as probably: ' ... for the reception of schollars to perform divine service in, and more particularly for those of St Neat's Hall,

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then situated on the north side thereof [where New College now stands], and from which place was a vault underground, as part of it not long since was remaining'. Tradition has it that the passage was used by Fair Rosamund when she came to worship at St Peter-in-the-East from Gods tow Priory, to avoid meeting Queen Eleanor. How did she manage the journey to and from Godstow and Oxford without meeting her arch enemy, one wonders? So far no trace of this underground passage has been found since St Peter's became the college library, but I hope that one day some traces may be discovered.

Originally the crypt could be reached from the inside of the church, as the two passage ways at the west end show. These are now bricked up. The main entrance is to the south, through a later built stone buttress, but the flight of stone steps to the north is still usable, and access is possible from a door between the Lady Chapel and the vestry.

The fine carvings on some of the capitals to the stone pillars are well known, and in Leland's De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea there are very clear drawings of the four most elaborate of them. Some of the early 19th century engravings show the crypt under water, and on the base of some of the pillars there is still a growth of moss to indicate former flooding. Other prints show bones lying around, for the crypt was used as a charnel house in the later Middle Ages, and again in the 18th and 19th centuries. In an old, undated, but probably late 19th century guide an account of the crypt tells of: ' ... the entrance into it, with every other avenue for air or light, [being] nearly blocked up with bones and rubbish, till the frequent inquiries for admission rendered it necessary that some attention should be paid to its state', and the writer concludes indignantly: ' ... that tho' every attention has been bestowed to render it easy of access, it is still suffered to be a receptacle for the frigid trophies of death- the ground is scattered with mouldering bones, and ghastly skulls are here and there congregated in promiscuous heaps'.

Various uses have been suggested for the crypt, and precedents have been set for its use as a wine cellar and a carpenter's work-place, for in the 17th century it was let to a vintner and later to a joiner. But it fulfills its function very well at the present as a chapel for special services (in the 1920s, and quite possibly for longer, on the Sunday following St Peter's Day on 19th June, Communion was celebrated in the crypt), and as a much frequented tourist attraction.

The Church and People The extent of the old Norman church is clearly visible by the line of chevron ornament along the south wall coming as far as what is now the main entrance, the west door having been blocked up. There is a Norman window just above the entrance, and all who know St Peter-in-the-East will be familiar with the splendid beak-head decoration round the doorway. In about 1481 the roof of the chancel was lowered (the original line can be seen from the outside on the east gable wall), resulting in the loss of the room which used to be above, and at this time the porch was built over the south door-way, with the little room, or parvis, above, complete with stone vaulting. The vaulting was replaced in the 1950s by a wooden ceiling, and the little room which originally used to hold church records and the St Peter-in-the-East Parish library of 1841 (see the Hall Magazine for 1982), now makes an excellent perch for the librarian, The-Norman window above the south door opens into this room, providing a useful view of the library- occasionally to the surprise of those below.

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From the d'Oilly family the church passed to Henry of Oxford (although there had been an intention to grant it to Oseney Abbey) and then to his son John, who became Bishop of Norwich, until his death in 1200, when it went to the Crown, In 1266 Henry Ill granted it to Merton College, which held the living, although not consistently presenting, until it was closed as a church in 1965.

In the 13th century the living was the wealthiest in Oxford at £40 a year, but in the 18th century the value had fallen to £12, and by the 19th c. the living was so small that no Merton Fellow would accept it. The early rectors were John of Bridport, followed in 1235 by Pontius de Pontibus, and in 1259 by Bogo (or Bevis) de Clare- a pluralist if ever there was one, for he held 20 benefices, and had a great retinue of knights, officers, and musicians. The list of vicars under Merton College numbers 62, the longest serving being Nicholas de Bischopeston, alias Redying, from 1361 - 1397, and Vincentius Wyking, vicar from 1411- 1444. Wyking was the donor of the stained glass in the north window of the Lady Chapel, which depicts the coronation of the Virgin and the heads of St Peter and St Paul. In 1668 was one Josiah Pullen, also serving for many years. On 1 January 17 141 15 Hearne notes: 'Last night died Mr Josiah Pullen, A.M., Minister of St Peter-in-the-East & Vice Principal of Magdalen Hall ... He lived to a very great age, being about fourscore & three, was always healthy and vigorous. He was regular in his way of living, but too close, considering he was a single man & was wealthy. He seldom used spectacles, which made him guilty of great Blunders at Divine Services, for he would officiate to the last'. He is commemorated by Pullen's Lane in Headington, and the Pullen's oak, which was a meeting place for the Huntsman members of the University.

At the west end of the church, which was built in the 14th century, marks can be seen in the plaster on the south wall of the line taken by the gallery erected by public subscription in 1713. Subscribers who were not members of the University must have felt some annoyance when they were informed that this gallery was for ' ... the use of Masters of Art and Batchelors of Law ... and that no other person may sit in that gallery at the time of the University Sermon, unless it be found that the said Masters of Art and Batchelors of Law do not think the Gallery conyenient for themselves'. This was a public announcement from the Vice Chancellor on the 8th February 17 131 14 • The aggrieved subscribers were refunded.

The University Lent Sermons were preached in St Peter-in-the-East up to 1827, with the curious arrangement of the pulpit's having two entrances: one for the University preacher and one for the incumbent and others. Hearne remembers that during one of these sermons in about 1700 ' ... a great disturbance happen'd at St Peter's in the East, occasion'd by some unlucky boys who got into the Tower and threw stones down upon the Church, which made such a terrible Noise that the Congregation presently cry'd out that the Church was falling, and, upon that, there was a most sad Confusion, and the Preacher and all went out, and much Damage was done. The Preacher was Mr. Wm. Stradley of Xt. Ch., and he was got into about the Middle of his Sermon, which was about the Dissolution of the World'!

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The Crypt From: Leland's De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea The Memorials Of those to whom there are memorials in St Peter-in-the-East, the greatest to all Aularians must be St Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury. There is some evidence, although not conclusive, that he devoted his lecture fees to the building of the Lady Chapel, where he came to worship. The memorial to his canonization on 16th December 1246 is on the east wall of the chapel.

Thomas Hearne's tomb is in the churchyard and the words cut into the stone lid, which are now almost undecipherable, are repeated on brass plaque, under a contemporary, if rather unflattering, portrait in the library . Another memorial inside the church is to Benjamin Cutler, Butler of New College, coupled by Hearne with another butler called John Pricket, with the somewhat malicious suggestion that the epitaph of these two should be:

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'Here !yes John Pricket, King Alfred's Butler, As great a rogue as was Ben Cutler'.

Also buried in the graveyard, with a memorial inside the church, is James Sadler.

He was the son of a pastry cook in High Street, and became an assistant in the chemical laboratory in the basement of the Old Ashmolean. At 5.30 a.m. on 4th October 1784 he took off in a hot air balloon from Merton Fields, and became the first English aeronaut, earning the title: 'The King of the Balloon'. This was the first of many flights, and he had some terrifying experiences, but he was an

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intrepid balloonist and in 1811, on his 21st flight, he travelled 112 miles at an average speed of 84 m.p.h., and a medal was struck in his honour. His first flight was commemorated in October 1984 by the Royal Aeronautical Society launching a hot air balloon from Merton Fields.

A memorial to the first Keeper of the Physic Garden, Jacob Bobart, who died in 1679 at the age of 81, is on the south exterior wall of the church; it is a handsome plaque with seed pods and flowers carved in the stone as befits a dedicated gardener. That neither he nor his wife were comely is apparent by the following description of them by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, in his travel book. Oxford in 1710: 'We entered the Hortus Medicus and Professor Bobart was waiting for us. I was greatly shocked by the hideous features and villainous appearance of this good and honest man. His wife, a filthy old hag, was with him, and although she may be the ugliest of her sex he is certainly the more repulsive of the two'. However, the author is highly critical and often very negative about whom and what he saw in Oxford, and even refers to Thomas Hearne as an ignoramus, so his comments may well be best treated with reservation.

There are four early brasses, the earliest is of 1478 to William Robertson, Butler of the Queen's College, and his wife Joan; this is on the floor of the chancel and is very worn, it is now protected by the carpet. There is a fine brass on the top of a large stone tomb to Alderman Richard Atkinson, five times mayor of Oxford; he died in 1574-and is depicted with one of his two wives (the other one being lost), five sons and six daughters. There are portions of an early 16th century Flemish brass on the reverse, which may account for the misappropriation of the second wife. The other two brasses are on the walls: one in the Lady Chapel to Richard Ratcliffe, M.D., who died in 1599, and his wife- perhaps these could be ancestors of John Radcliffe? And there is a splendid coloured brass on the wall of the north aisle to Simon Parret (also known as Perrot or Parrett), a Magdalen man, the third son of Robert Perrot, organist to Magdalen College. Simon Parret died in 1584 and left a bequest of Ss and 4p to be distributed annually on St Mark's Day, with sixteen-pence to the organist; he is still celebrated in Magdalen, on St Mark's Day with a 'Perrot'

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Oration. Also it is noted on the large Benefactors' Board in St Peter-in-the-East, that he gave 1-1-6d yearly to be disposed of by the Preacher and Church Warderts on St Simon and Judes Day, 28th October. Parret is depicted on the brass with his wife, nine sons and 10 daughters, it is hardly surprising that his wife died in childbirth.

There used to be a full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on the north aisle wall, first recorded in 1621. It was kept in good repair until 1807 when it was last recorded, but there are now no traces left. Possibly it was damaged beyond repair by the fire in 1852, when the interior was burnt. Engravings of the church just after this date show an interior bereft of any furnishings: no pews, no pulpit- quite bare.

The Organ, The Bells, & The Font There was an organ in St Peter-in-the-East in the 15th century. An entry in the church accounts for 1488 reads : 'Holy and Ive agayne Christmas and Mendyng Organs ... 6d' It was unusual for churches at this time to have an organ, and that St. Peter's

had one may be attributed to the importance attached to it, and that it was considered to be the mother church to all others in Oxford. In 1725 a new organ was provided for the Sheldonian Theatre, and the old one was offered by the University to St Peter-in-the-East; this was at first refused, and in Hearne's words: ' . .. two reasons were given for not accepting it, viz. first that 'tis a Relic of Popery, and secondly, that to place an old Cupboard there would be a disgrace to their Church. That these people have most sillily declined to accept of what would be for the Honour & Credit of the Church, for which they are much blamed by all nice persons, & some of them, now becoming sensible of their Errour (for 'twould but be to restore what they had formerly, before the Civil Wars . .. ), now pretend 'twould have been a burden and charge to their parish, the contrary whereof is true, because they were under no compulsion, but if they were unwilling to contribute to an Organist for themselves, they might have let the Organ been there only for the University, who one part of the Year go to the Church'. The organ was eventually accepted, and church accounts indicate that a succession of organists were honourably paid, although the first holder of that office after the translation of the Sheldonian organ was said by Hearne to be: ' . . . a very ignorant man in Musick'. The choice of organist was not always fortunate, in 1827 one, Daniel Felden, was dismissed for neglect of duty, and in 1874 C. Harris so upset th_e choir that he was asked to resign within four days.

But one name stands out from all the others, and that is A. R. Reinagle, organist from 1827- 1854, and composer of many hymn tunes which are still sung today, among which is 'How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds'.

In the mid 18th century it was said of the Parish of St Peter-in-the-East that it had 'more to boast of than any one in Europe besides, for it contains - two Peals of ten Bells, and one of Six; and three organs' (quoted from The New Oxford Guide, by a 'Gentleman of Oxford'). It is likely that it was St Peter's church that had the six bells at that time, for in the late 19th century two bells were cast in the Whitechapel foundry for St Peter-in-the-East, to make the number up to eight. One of these was inscribed: 'Ring out the false', and the other: 'Ring in the true'. Of the six original bells, five were cast in 1770, three of which bore the following legends: ' God save the King' . 'Peace and Good

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Neighbourhood', and 'Prosperity to England', and the sixth was re-cast in 1753

by Abel Rudhall. There was also a Saunce, or Sanctus bell, cast in 1777 and inscribed: 'Come at my call and Serve God All'; this was removed to Holy Trinity Church in Nailsea, Bristol, later. After St Peter-in-the-East closed as a church in 1965, the eight bells were installed in the church of St Denys in Stanford-inthe-Vale, and re-dedicated in July 1970.

The original 12th century stone font, with figures representing the 12 Apostles, was, according to an old account: ' . .. conveyed away by an ignorant and sacriligious church warden, and placed over a well on the north side of the church': all that remains now is a fragment set in one of the west side windows of the porch. The replacement was of wood, after a design by Grinling Gibbons, dating from about 1690- 1700, it was in the form of an apple tree flanked by the carved figures of Adam and Eve. This font was sold in 1837 by

Fragment of 12th century stone font

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Waiter Hamilton, vicar of St Peter-in-the-East 1837-1841, to Robert Curzon, who added it to his collection of Jacobean antiquities in Parham Park (Sussex), where it has remained ever since. Perhaps Mr Hamilton, under whose initiative the St Peter's Parish Library was formed, found the ornate carving on the font distasteful, or the marble baptismal bowl too small. The most recent font is of stone, with 12 arches and pillars following the design of the early one, but without the figures of the apostles; this is now in the crypt.

St Peter-in-the-East is rich in both architecture and history, and there is a great deal more to be told about it than is given here. Some of what has been told has been gleaned from sources which may not be truly accurate, but with Anthony Wood and Thomas Hearne as the major guides, and on whom I have relied for the most part, it is hoped that not too many errors will be found, and that the less reliable parts will be tolerated for their colour and piquancy.

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SCHOLARSHIP ELECTIONS THE GOVERNING BODY

has made the following awards for the academic year

1989-90: BIOCHEMISTRY

Scholarship: J. H. M. Simon Exhibitions: Miss R. M. Jones, Miss K. L. Hamilton, Miss S. Shackleton CHEMISTRY

Scholarship: D. W. A. Stewart (CEGB) ENGINEERING

Scholarships: A. J. Boag, P. S. Matthews, D. J. Neal, P. H. Shaw, Miss G. Kerr, R. G. Nixon Exhibition: K. Holder ENGLISH

Scholarships: Miss J. A. Hart, Miss A. Roberts, Miss K. L. Wilson, D. T. Jackson, Miss S. J. Mutkin Exhibitions: D. J. Westgate, Miss H. D. McCallum, Miss L. J. Mullen, Miss S. H. Smith ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES

Scholarship: Miss A. M. Luff EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Scholarship: Miss R. Shafran FINE ART

Exhibition: Miss A. Toop GEOGRAPHY

Exhibition: R. Hodgkins GEOLOGY

Scholarships: V. R. Manville, Miss E. A. Pickett Exhibitions: Miss R. L. Jones, J. W. Wilson LAW

Scholarships: J. J. Brace, A. M. Hunter, Miss A. C. Styles MATHEMATICS

Scholarships: P. M. Gartside, Miss G. Venkataraman Exhibitions: K. M. Gordon, T. R. Watts MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION

Exhibition: T. G. Dieppe METALLURGY

Exhibitions: Miss K. A. Sidebotham (A & B), J. R. Peterkin (A & B), Miss S. A. Williamson (A & B), J. P. Lindsay (A & B) MODERN HISTORY

Exhibitions: N. G. Johnson, D. Gomez

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MODERN LANGUAGES

Scholarships: D. A . Halliwell, Miss C . B. Jardine, Miss A. French, A. J. Vinter, J. R. Charles Exhibitions: W. D. Crerar, B. S. Wilson MUSIC

Organ Scholarship: P. R. Lynan PHILOSOPHY AND MODERN LANGUAGES

Exhibition: J. Hulse P.P.E.

Exhibitions: A. Greenham, J. H. Rudd, J. Phillips, C. J. Tilbrook PHYSICS

Scholarship: A. R. Brown RICHARD FARGHER BURSARIES

Miss S. Mortimer, Miss J. Taylor, A. J. Vinter, Miss D. J. Hunter, Miss H. J. Parry BROCKHUES GRADUATE AWARDS

R. A. N. Khan (Sociology), Miss E . Vibert (Politics), Miss A. M. Volfing (German), P. S. Grant (Metallurgy), D. W. Mclntyre (Mathematics}, M. N. H . Wailer (Physiology) INSTRUMENTAL BURSARIES

Miss H. Barrington-Ward, J. Clark, Miss L. A. Curtis, W. Luk PHILIP GEDDES MEMORIAL PRIZE ON THE RECOMMENDATION of the judges prizes have been awarded to Miss R. H. Trethewey and Miss S. Ahmed . Last year's prize winner, Miss Pernille Rudlin, writes about how she used the award: I spent the year before I came up to St Edmund Hall at Hiroshima University in Japan, improving the Japanese I learnt as a child. There were students from all over the world on the course, but those with the most unexpected nationality were a couple of Brazilian students, Haroldo and Jorge, who had Japanese surnames. They explained that there were many thousands of other Japanese Brazilians in Brazil- part of a long-established Japanese community there. They looked almost Japanese but their command of the language was worse than mine.

I mentally filed their story under 'bizarre facts' and thought no more about it until two years later, when the opportunity came up to apply for the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize. I had edited Isis and The Aularian and written for other student magazines, so I had plenty of work to show the judges, but I needed to think of a project for the £1000 prize money that would 'further my journalistic career'. I remembered Jorge and Haroldo and decided I wanted to go to Brazil and find out more about the Japanese Brazilians. ¡ We headed first for Sao Paulo, where there is a Japantown, much like Chinatown in London. They had just finished celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the arrival of the first ship carrying immigrants from Japan. They had come as labour for Brazil's coffee plantations, but gradually converged over the years on Sao Paulo. There are still Japanese elsewhere in Brazil, however. In a town further south, I stayed in a hotel run by a Japanese family and made firm friends with them after persuading them to tell me their life story.

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In between tracking down Japanese Brazilians, my friend and I went to Rio de Janeiro, the stunning 18th century gold mining town of Ouro Preto and the Iguacu Falls- better than the Niagara Falls, according to some. Here I would like to add a warning to any other Aularians thinking of setting off for South America- avoid Rio. It is beautifully situated but the glamour is most definitely cancelled by the poverty. If you feel you have to go there, stay in a good hotel and take taxis or hotel tours everywhere. We were mugged twice on the buses. Once you have seen the views, leave. The longer you stay the more you are at risk of being robbed.

Despite Rio, the whole trip was very enjoyable and quite unlike any travelling I have done before. I have two articles which I am hoping to get published as a result. I am very grateful to the trustees of the Geddes Prize for enabling me to go on a trip I would never otherwise have been able to afford.

Pernille Rudlin MURIEL RADFORD MEMORIAL PRIZE has been awarded to J. McCarron. Last year's winner, Miss Anna Batting, describes a trip to the Amazon: The ten-week expedition undertaken in the summer of 1988 by myself and two friends from Cambridge University was no ordinary Amazon adventure. That is, in the sense that a jungle trek through miles of unbroken tropical rain forest, interspersed only by opulent and overflowing rivers, can be construed as 'ordinary'.

We had an alternative Amazon adventure in mind when we made the four day bus journey from Rio de Janeiro to Rondonia, in the south-western Amazon, in order to study pioneer settlement for our final year Geography dissertations. For Rondonia has become the arena in which the Western and Third Worlds meet the Amazon jungle. Regional development and colonization programmes begun in the 1970s, and accelerated in the 1980s, coupled with the discovery of gold in the Madeira River, have caused constant spontaneous migration flows to the new frontier. However, planning for such large numbers in such a difficult physical environment has proved inadequate and the state now faces a number of major problems.

In Porto Velho, for example, the capital of the state of Rondonia, the authorities have failed to keep up with the provision of even the most basic infrastructure. In the spontaneous urban sprawl surrounding the centre of Porto Velho most inhabitants live in unacceptable conditions. When we visited Tan credo Neves, for example, discarded tree trunks, coupled with the carcases of dead animals, were strewn on a floor of sand and ash. Smoke, rising from recently burnt forest, surrounded the shacks built of waste products (bin liners and tin) or greenwood or thatched palm. The settlement was devoid of the basic amenities we so readily take for granted- electricity, piped water, sanitation and paved roads. The lack of paving produced considerable amounts of d.ust. At the end of a day out interviewing in the remoter districts of Porto Velho we would all be covered in a fine layer of saffron-coloured powder; sweat-baked it turned into an ochre paint covering our hands, feet, face and necks. We began to understand the proliferation of the washer-women task force amongst the urban favelas.

Six weeks in Porto Velho were followed by two in the outlying rural districts.

Here, it became evident that the deforestation of Rondonia has reached a chronic point. The typical small farmer cuts in May and burns in August, the driest month. By the end of August the moon looked orange at night and Porto Velho THE PRIZE

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airport was closed due to poor visibility. The once clear blue sky had become dark and hazy, and at times it was impossible to see one hundred metres in front of you. Although the Brazilian government has recognized that over-zealous deforestation is threatening the future of its World Bank and International Development Bank loans, any efforts to curb rain forest loss remain underfunded and ineffectual. When our research was completed it was time to see more of the Amazonian region. A visit to a 'garimpo'-a gold-mining camp on the Madeira River-was followed by a whistle-stop trip to Bolivia by speedboat from Brazil.

A more relaxing five days were spent in a hammock on a boat to Manaus up the Madeira to join the Amazon River, during which time we saw vultures, storks, alligators and pink dolphins.

The trip has left me with other exciting memories too numerous to recount here, and I thank Professor Radford for helping to make it possible.

Anna Botting TRAVEL GRANTS THE GOVERNING BODY

has agreed the following awards:

From the COCHRANE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Miss S. Muscroft Mr D. McCallum Miss A. Toop

£100 for travel to Truk to study an aid-dependent economy. £100 for an Arabic course in Egypt. £50 for an architectural visit to Barcelona.

From the GRAHAM HAMILTON TRAVEL FUND Miss R. Jones Mr J. McCarron Mr A. Betton Mr J. Wilson Miss S. J. Smith Mr M. Wailer Miss J. Walker

£70 for travel in Canada. £70 for an Arctic expedition. £70 £70 .-ror trave l.m Af. nca. £70" . Af. £ ror trave1 m nca 70 £70 for travel in Africa.

From the MICHAEL PIKE FUND Miss E. Pickett Miss H. Wills

. m . F.mnmar k . ££7S "ror a wa lk" · mg expe d"1t1on 75 AULARIAN CALENDAR

in 1989-90 are of special interest to Aularians: THE GAUDY: Saturday 30 September 1989.

ST. EDMUND'S DAY: Thursday 16 November 1989.

THE LONDON DINNER, preceded by the AGM of the SEH Association at Simpson's in the Strand, Tuesday 9 January 1990.

THE REUNION at the Hall, Saturday 23 June 1990. This year invitations will be sent to the 'younger' Old Members.

DEGREE DAYS: (all on Saturdays at 11.45 a.m.): In 1989: 21 October, 4 November, 25 November. In 1990: 20 January, 3 March, 19 May, 9 June, 14 July, 28 July, 20 October, 3 November, 24 November. In 1991: 19 January, 2 March, 18 May, 8 June, 13 July, 27 July. Members of the Hall wishing to make

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arrangements for taking their degrees should write in advance to The Dean of Degrees' Secretary, The College Office, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford OXl 4AR. The College has a strict quota of places for those wishing to receive degrees in person and early enquiry is therefore advised. Tickets are also required by visitors attending the ceremonies in Trinity Term, the Long Vacation and October and these are issued through the College. Degrees can be taken in absentia at any ceremony.

THE GAUDY GAUDIES ARE NOW ESTABLISHED as annual occasions and Aularians are invited in groups of a few matriculation years at a time. The purpose, as the Principal said in his welcome to those attending the Hall's Gaudy held on Saturday 1st October 1988, is to keep Old Members abreast of developments ¡and to celebrate the College's achievements and to look forwards to the future.

Most of those attending in 1988 had matriculated in the 1940s but invitations were also extended to a number of Old Members who, for various reasons, had been unable to attend the first Gaudy, held in 1987. In his after-dinner speech, the Principal spoke of the changes of the last fifty years, changes necessitated by the growth of the University and by developments in education in general.

Expansion had been greatly facilitated by the generosity of Old Members, and it had been achieved without destroying the special character arid friendliness of the Hall, but it was not intended to expand further. The College's reputation had been built up because of its support for 'new' subjects in the University, through success in sport, and by the interest it had shown in the arts and music. In all of this a great debt of gratitude was owed to the foresight and skill of Dr Emden and Dr Kelly.

There were present: the Principal, Dr J. N. D. Kelly, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association (Mr R. A. Farrand), the Chaplain (the Revd C. P. Irvine), the Librarian (Mrs Sasha Wernberg-M0ller), the Junior Dean (Ms Heather Wenlock), the following Fellows (including Honorary and Emeritus Fellows): Prof. G. R. Alien, R. E. Alton (1938), G. D. Bourne-Tayor, Prof. H. F. Brooks, Dr P. J. Collins, Dr R. Fargher, Dr S. J. Ferguson, Dr J. D. Hunt, Prof H. M. N. H. Irving, J. B. Knight, A. I. Marsh, the Revd E. G. Midgley (1941), Prof. K. A. Muir (1926), Dr J. D. Naughton, Dr L. A. Newlyn, Prof. J. M. Newsom-Davis, Dr C. E. Phelps, N. C. Pollock (1945), Dr G. D. Ramsay, V. H. Ridler, Dr F. J. C . Rossotti, Dr D. I. Scargill (1954), Prof G. W. Series, Dr J. Spurr (1975), Dr N . J. Stone, Dr A. G. Taylor, Dr J. D. Todd (1942), C . J. Wells, Dr W. S. C. Williams, Dr A. B. Worden, D. A. Wyatt, Dr D. C. M. Yardley, and the following Old Members: 1922 Dr E. P. Brice; 1925 Preb A. S. Chandler; 1926 Revd Canon T. C. Heritage, Prof C. R. Hiscocks; 1929 G. S. Bessey; 1932 D. Floyd, the Revd T. P. Hamerton, I. M. Sciortino; 1933 F. H. H. Finch, J. Park, G. L. H. R. Shield; 1934 the Rt. Revd J. P. Burrough, J. C . Cain, E. G. Curtis, W. J. H. Liversidge, D. V. Orton; 1935 G. Barner, A. Holder; 1936 G. R. R. East, Dr C. H. Jellard, the Revd A. J. Lee, H. E . Pope; 1938 N. S. Belam, J. M. D. Caesar, R. P. H . Davies, D. V. Johnson, Dr C. J. H. Starey; 1939 Air ViceMarshall R. P. Harding; 1940 G. J. F. Brain, P. M. Kirk; 1941 A. C. Garrett, C. N. Gowing, C. J. Weir; 1942 M. Johnson; 1943 A. T. Clark, W. R. Dunsmore, A. J. Pickett, J. R. Scarr, J. G. Squirrell; 1944 R. M. Blomfield, A. H. Foot, Dr P. W. Glover, Air Cmdr J. G. Greenhill, D. J. Hardy, the Revd Dr R. A. Mason, E. Rhodes, Major Gen A. J. Trythall, F. E . Wakelin; 1945 D. F. Goldsmith, Dr N. S. Haile, J. A. Jerman, V. T. H. Parry, J. W. E. Snelling; 1946 F. W. Costick,

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F. R. Crozier, D. S. Dunsmore, E. M. Goodman-Smith, Dr G. L. Hodgson, T. M. Le Mesurier, A. R. J. Lloyd, J. Pike, M. G. Sarson, D. J. R. Thomas, the Yen D. Walser; 1947 the Very Rev C. R. Campling, G. Castro, D. R. V. Chewter, Rev Canon 1. F. Church, Rev M. N. Dobbyn, M. J. Fawcett, R. G. Furnivall, H. N. Grindrod, Rev Canon E. Lewis, P. L. Roussel; 1948 T. E. Dowman, P. J. Frankis, J. c. Graffy, P. R. Jones, R. V. Kings, E. J. Morgan, M. Paterson, Prof C. R. Ritcheson, Rev T. W. Silkstone, R. Tracey, M. C. Winsor-Cundell; 1949 Rev R. T. Beckwith, B. Bigley, M. A. Brown, E. L. Cunnell, A. R. Douglas, A. A. Dudman, P. S. D. E. Gass, J. N. Gill, C. G. Hadley, R. W. Hall, J. McElheran, J. N. McManus, W. R. Miller, D. G. Smith, D. H. E. Wainwright, M. G. Ward, G. S. Windass.

THE REUNION which followed the garden party on Saturday 24th June was a familiar affair despite the unfamiliar form of the seating plan which acted as a challenge to the less numerate amongst the 139 visiting Old Members. After dinner in the Wolfson Hall the Principal referred first to the death during the year of Geordie Leslie and of leuan Maddock. In contrast with these sad occasions there had been the party to celebrate John Kelly's 80th birthday and a video of the lunch and entertainment contained the only known example of an uncut Kelly speech. Having attained this anniversary, the former Principal was now to hand over responsibility as Dean of Degrees to Reggie Alton; the robes may be different but the flowing Latin would continue as before.

The Principal spoke next of the honours accorded to Bruce Mitchell (Leverhulme Research Fellowship) and Mark Child (FRS) and to the several prizes won by junior members. The spirit of exploration was still alive in the Hall, undergraduates travelling abroad to undertake studies as varied as the impact of tourism in Micronesia and the intricacies of the European legal system. The Music Society remained vigorous and had arranged several good concerts, whilst the John Oldham Society had revived. The Rugby Club had finally agreed to let others in with a chance, but there had been successes by the Women's First Eight in Torpids as well as in Ballroon Dancing and Athletics. The gift of money from a parent towards the cost of a new women's boat had been much appreciated.

Plans were well advanced for the new graduate building in Norham Gardens which was being paid for out of Dr Brockhues' generous gift to the College. But money was still urgently needed for endowment income and the Endowments Committee had recently appointed a fund-raiser, Mr Colin Mattingley. His office would be in top gear by the end of the year. Old Members giving money to the Oxford Appeal could also ask for this to be earmarked for St Edmund Hall.

Finally, the right of M.A.s to dine in Hall once a year at their own expense should not be forgotten, the welcome extending to guests, including husbands and wives.

In his response, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association, Roger Farrand, first expressed the thanks of Old Members for the Garden Party as well as the Reunion itself and the Gaudy held earlier in the year. He also welcomed the large number of Fellows attending the dinner. The President went on to speak about the publication of Hall, the video of the John Kelly birthday celebrations, and the party to mark Joe Todd's retirement. The Old Members Association had agreed to give the Hall ÂŁ500 as a contribution towards the cost of cleaning the College portraits and it was hoped that further gifts could be made to ensure that this was a continuing programme. The coat of arms over the Chapel door had been repainted and gilded but it was a matter of regret that no position had been found to instal a new flagpole.

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There were present: the Principal, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association (Mr R. A. Farrand), the Chaplain, the Presidents of the MCR and the JCR, the Organ Scholar, the following Fellows (including Honorary and Emeritus Fellows): R. E. Alton, Dr P. J. Collins, Dr R. Fargher, J. B. Knight, the Revd Prof J. McManners, the Revd E. G. Midgley, Dr R. B. Mitchell Dr J. D. Naughton, N. C. Pollock, Dr G. D. Ramsay, Dr D. I. Scargill, Prof G. W. Series, Dr N. J. Stone, Dr J. D. Todd, C. J. Wells, Sir Denis Wright, Dr D. C. M. Yardley; and the following Old Members: G. W. H. Adcock, B. E. Amor, J. B. Anderson, B. C. Arthur, C. J. G. Atkinson, D. L. Audsley, J. E. Aves, P. Balmer, J. E. Bayliss, M. J. Beard, P. J. Bentley, D. Bloom, D. M. W. Bolton, A. L. Bond, M. D. Hooker, D. S. Botting, J. G. F. Brain, P. W. Brown, R. H. Caddick, Dr J. M. Catherall, Dr R. Cerratti, R. Chappell, M. K. Chatterjea, N. J. Clarke, P. R. F. Clemence, D. J. Day, S. J. Dempsey, P. Desmond, G. I. de Deney, T. E. Dowman, J. D. Duncan, J. E. Durling, S. P. Edrich, A. J. Featherstone, L. L. Filby, F. H. H. Finch, B. M. Forrest, A. A. J. Foster, J. F. Foster, Dr M. B. Foxon, P. R. Gillett, D. F. Goldsmith, J. C. Graffy, Dr N. S. Haile, J. M. G. Halsted, M. A. Harbron, D. J. Hardy, Sir Claude Hayes, J. M. Heggadon, C. W. Hewitt, W. N. Hillier-Fry, K. M. Homer, D. M. Jacobs, B. K. Jeffery, A . Jenkins, D. H. Johnson, C. J. Jones, Dr S. F. Kapoor, D. J. Kelsey, T. S. Lavender, J. Lee, P. R. Lewis, P. W. Liversidge, W. J. H. Liversidge, M. J. Lynch, Major A. P. Martel, Ms R. M. Martel, R. McAdams, D. S. McCallum, C. G. McGrail, G. R. Mihell, Dr G. A. K. Missen, R. S. Monro, C. Mounsey, R. N. Oliver, R. S. Orchard, P. A. Osborn, D. C. Owen, C. R. Owston, J. R. Paul, A . E. J. Phillips, N. C. J. Pope, J. S. Power, H. A. F. Radley, E. Rawlinson, M. P. Reynolds, E. Rhodes, R. M. Ridley, B. Robson, the Revd P. H. Rogers, Major P. L. Roussel, B. J. Rushby Smith, D. S. J. Ruszala, G. D. Salter, J. A. Sayer, J. R. Scarr, I. M .

Sciortino, W. B. Shaw, G. L. H . R. Shield, Mrs P. E. Skokowski, P. G. Skokowski, H. A . Smith, I. N. Smith, W. P. Smith, Judge R. J. Southan, B. R. Spaven, N. K, Staite, R. Stephenson, A. L. Stewart, Dr T. P. C. Stibbs, M. Stroud, K. L. Suddaby, S. V. Swallow, C. J. Tromans, P. G. Tudor, Ms J. B. Turner, E. Urry, D. P. Vaughan, A. J. Waters, R. Waye, B. F. Wheeler, the Revd M. J. Williams, Dr C. R. Wilson, G. H . Winter, G. T. Woods C. C. H. Worrall, D. J. V. Wright.

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION MINUTES OF THE 58TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION -10 JANUARY 1989 THE 58TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION was held in the Smoking Room of Simpson's-in-the-Strand, 100 Strand, London WC2R OEW on Tuesday 10 January 1989 at 6.27 p.m., R. A. Farrand presiding.

28 members were present.

Apologies were received from (inter alios):- Canon Dr J. N. D. Kelly: Miss S.

C. Anderson (MCR President), D. J. Day, G. R. M. Drew, S. R. Dunlap, B. M. Forrest, A . R. J. Lloyd, Miss R. M. Martel, Sir William Nield, R. M. Ridley, D. G. C. Salt, Dr D. I. Scargill, J. D. Shortridge, B. F. Wheeler.

1. MINUTES

The Minutes of the 57th Meeting, held on 12 January 1988, having been published in the 1987-88 Magazine and copies being available, were taken as read, confirmed and signed by the President. There were no matters arising.

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OBITUARY

The President recalled the death, on 29 December 1988, of Sir Ieuan Maddock CB OBE FRS (Principal 1979-82), and, on 14 November, of Rear Admiral G. C. Leslie CB OBE MA (Domestic Bursar 1970-88), asking that the following be included in the Minutes:SIR IEUAN MADDOCK Though Principal of St Edmund Hall for a comparatively short time, Sir Ieuan Maddock earned a position of great respect among the undergraduates, especially the scientists of the late seventies and early eighties. He saw the entry into the college of the first women undergraduates; a great advance for the Hall. He also brought Nor ham St Edmund into full commission, and found a way to retain the unity of the Hall though physically split.

Sir Ieuan's contribution to the development of the college its old members so love is greatly appreciated by them .

GEORDIE LESLIE Geordie quickly established a warm relationship with the Association.

Members who remembered earlier bursars with affection soon realized that here was a man of great character. He made us welcome at all functions at the Hall; and indeed at every casual visit. Reunions are always happy, Geordie made them more so. He advised us sagely on matters of joint concern to the Association and the Hall; many an Aularian in business and academe has used his conference arrangements. We also remember his artistic talent-exercised for the benefit of the Hall. He became, and there is no higher praise for us, a Hall man.

We remember a cheerful friendly man, a steady man. We also saw the courage with which he accepted his very painful illness.

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PRESIDENT'S REPORT

In his brief review of the year's actiVItieS R. A. Farrand highlighted the attendance of representatives of the Association at meetings of the Hall Endowment Committee and the luncheon in honour of Dr J. D. Todd on his retirement- these were typical of the narrowing of what gaps there had ever been between the Association and the Hall.

He apologised for the delay in publishing the reminiscent volume 'Hall', for which many advance orders had been received, but it would be good when it came: he also commended the forthcoming Luncheon in honour of John Kelly for his 80th Birthday.

4. PRINCIPAL'S REPORT

J. C. B. Gosling had pleasure in announcing that the Governing Body had agreed to organise and fund a further Garden Party before the Reunion at the Hall this year on Saturday 24 June 1989: all would be invited (irrespective of whether they would be coming to the Dinner) with their families.

He was grateful to the Association for the assistance given by E. A. Simmonds and P. G. Slip in advising undergraduates looking for jobs.

The Hall Endowment Committee had decided to engage a professional fundraiser from October 1989, and he would be expanding on the relationship between this endeavour and the University's 'Campaign for Oxford' in his remarks at the ensuing Dinner.

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eminently qualified in all other respects. The Charity Commissioners' directive on the subject did not insist on full professional status and there was no known objection to the pluralism involved in I. R. K. Rae's simultaneous membership of the Executive Committee. Moreover, said the President, he was prepared to do all that was necessary to help, and that was good enough for him and indeed all of us, quite apart from the fact that he had served on the Executive Committee ever since the inauguration of the St Edmund Hall Association (as the successor to the Aularian Association) in 1966.

9. APUD NOVOS EBORACIENSES P. G. Slip conveyed fraternal greetings from the St Edmund's Feast held on 18 November 1988 at the Sky Club, New York NY. 10. DATE OF NEXT MEETING Tuesday 9 January 1990, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, 6.15 p.m.

There being no further business authorised to be transacted at an Annual General Meeting the Meeting closed at 6.36 p.m., an overall duration of under 10 minutes and thus beating the all-time record yet again. It has been said that if this progress is maintained there will shortly be no need (for those who find it inappropriate to vacate the Bar at all) even to gaze in the general direction of the Meeting, since it will all have been taken as read.

ARTHUR FARRAND RADLEY Hon. Secretary

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1989

President R. A. FARRAND MA, (matric. 1955), London The Principal J. C. B. GOSLING BPhil, MA, Oxford Immediate Past President The Rev. E. G. MIDGLEY BLitt MA (1941), Oxford Hon. Secretary H. A. F. RADLEY MBE, MA, (1935), London Hon. Assistant Secretary (from June 1989) P. R. LEWIS MA (1955), Kent Hon. Treasurer J. R. PAUL MA FCA (1945), Surrey Representatives by Matriculation Date Groups Up to 1934 (4 places, 2 only to be filled) SIR CLAUDE HAYES KCMG BLitt MA (1930), Kent G. L. H. R. SHIELD MA (1933), Herts

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5. HON. SECRETARY'S REPORT H. A. F. Radley had nothing to say, he said, prompting the President to comment that there had never been a better Secretary.

6. ACTING HON. TREASURER'S REPORT J. R. Paul, the Hon. Auditor, said that he had been invited by the President, last October, to hold the fort until this Meeting after D. J. Day had resigned for personal reasons as Hon. Treasurer. The Accounts had however been prepared by D. J. Day, signed by him and the President, duly audited and published in the 1987-88 Magazine, and the Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account for the financial year ended 31 July 1988 were, after due proposal and seconding, unanimously adopted.

The President then said that he could not let this occasion pass without paying a tribute to J. R. Paul for stepping into the breach at such short notice- and not for the first time either, since he had already done a retrospective overdue audit of the Accounts for 1966-8 before being substantively appointed as Hon. Auditor in 1969, since when he had served continuously in that capacity and deserved our full acclamation.

The same also applied to D. J. Day, who was unfortunately away ill, since he had taken over as Hon. Treasurer in April 1986 when R. J. L. Breese was posted overseas. He had continued in an acting capacity until his election at the 1987 AGM and had been a tower of strength throughout.

Both these tributes were warmly endorsed.

7. ELECTIONS On the nomination of the Executive Committee- no other nominations having been received in response to the invitation contained in the distributed AGM Agenda paper, and the candidates being willing to stand- the following

elections/re-elections were made unanimously:Hon. Secretary 1989 (one-year appointment)- H. A. F. Radley (re-elected) Hon. Treasurer 1989 (one-year appointment)-J. R. Paul (elected in a vacancy vice D. J. Day, resigned)

Members of the Executive Committee by Age Groups (dates of Matriculation as shown):Up to 1934:- Sir Claude Hayes (retiring by rotation, re-elected) 1935-44:- D. G. C. Salt ) 1945-54:- D. J. Day (member 1960-87, Hon. Treasurer 1987-8, elected in vacancy) (retiring by rotation, re-elected) A. R. J. Lloyd 1955-64:- I. R. K. Rae ( ) 1965- 74:- J. D. Shortridge ( ) 1975-84:- Miss J. B. Turner (elected in a vacancy vice Miss C. M. Bridgwood, resigned) 1985-94:- D. S. McCallum (elected as the first in a staggered representation of this decade now producing its first graduates) 8. HoN. AUDITOR 1989 (one-year appointment, vice J. R. Paul, elected Hon. Treasurer) I. R. K. Rae was unanimously appointed, the President having made the point that although he was not a qualified accountant like his predecessor he was

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1935-44 (this decade and the following, 3 places each) J. P. de COURCY MEADE OBE MA (1937), Glos D. G. C. SALT MA (1937), London W. N. HILLIER-FRY CMG BA (1941), Surrey 1945-54 A. R. J. LLOYD BA (1946), Surrey D. J. DERX CB MA (1948), London (resigned Feb 89) D. J. DAY MA (1951), London 1955-64 P. R. LEWIS MA (1955), Kent (also Hon. Asst. Sec.) I. R. K. RAE MA (1961), Cheshire (also Hon. Auditor) M. G. M. GROVES DipEconPoiSci (1962), Merseyside 1965-74 J. D. SHORTRIDGE MA MSc (1966), Shropshire J. R. SMITH MA (1966), New York NY, USA R. M. RIDLEY MA (1966), Staffordshire 1975-84 G. D. WATTLES MA DPhil (1978), London Miss R. M. MARTEL BA (1980), Lincolnshire Miss J. B. TURNER BA (1981), London 1985-94 (2 vacancies to be filled on a staggered basis) D. S. McCALLUM (1985), Essex

eo-options (max. 5) Canon J. N. D. KELLY DD FBA (until Jan 1990), Oxford F. H. H. FINCH MA (1933) (until June 1992, Hon. Dinner Sec.), Surrey

SIR WILLIAM NIELD GCMG KCB MA (1932), (until Jan 1990), Bucks J. LEE MA CIPM (1933) (until Jan 1990), Surrey D. I. SCARGILL JP MA DPhil (1954), (ex officio as Magazine Editor), Oxford

Hon. Auditor (also on Committee) I. R. K. RAE MA (1961), Cheshire

Hon. Vice-Presidents of the Association Professor F. G. MARCHAM BA PhD (Cornell)-(appointed 20 June 1933), New York NY, USA Canon J. N . D. KELLY DD FBA (appointed 1 Nov 1966), Oxford

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THE LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on Tuesday, 10 January 1989. The attendance (111) was slightly down on previous years, although not for the usual reason, the bad weather which tends to prevent members at the last minute from coming along to this enjoyable event. On this occasion a number of regulars preferred to await the promised excitements of Dr John Kelly's eightieth birthday celebrations in April.

The President of the Association, Roger Farrand, first warmly welcomed the Association's four guests, the Principal and Mrs Gosling, Ms Christina Hardyment and David Gomez, the new President of the S.E.H . J.C.R. The President of the M.C.R. was unfortunately still away in the U.S.A. In introducing Ms Hardyment, Editor of 'Oxford Today', he congratulated her on an excellent first issue and for recognising that the Hall front quad had after all never formed part of the University's Botanical Garden! He regretted that once again Dr John Kelly was not with us in the flesh but only in spirit. He (Roger Farrand) too was looking forward to the forthcoming 'wild bash' in John Kelly's honour; there had already been a tremendous number of applications from those wishing to be present.

Turning to other matters, the President confidently expected 'Hall' to be ready for distribution within the next three months. He thanked all those who had helped him during the past year and once again pledged the full support of members of the Association to the University Appeal.

The Principal started off by referring to two sad occurrences, the recent deaths of his predecessor, Sir Ieuan Maddock, and the former Domestic Bursar, Rear Admiral Geordie Leslie. Sir Ieuan, he said, was always approachable and contributed much to the advancement of the College. Geordie Leslie's death from asbestosis contracted as a result of his naval service sadly never allowed him to enjoy his final retirement. As mentioned in the last issue of the Magazine, he brought a refreshing naval flavour to all he did, and not least during his outstanding eighteen years as Domestic Bursar. Characteristically, as the Principal said, Geordie Leslie's 'No' to an undergraduate's request definitely meant 'No' for the first time, but 'try again ... !'

The new Domestic Bursar was Mr Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, who had had a distinguished career in the Metropolitan Police, a fact which duly impressed the audience. The Principal then referred to Dr Joe Todd, who had taken early retirement. He, the Principal said, 'enjoys retirement disgustingly and has a positive lust for leisure.' His distinguished career and long service to the College in many capacities are described in detail in the Magazine.

Among the new items of interest was the appointment of Mr C. J. Wells as Assessor (a recent addition to the Proctorial team) for the academic year 1988/ 89.

Another Gaudy took place on I October, 1988; once again a most enjoyable and successful affair attended by many Aularians from overseas.

Twelve firsts had been obtained in Schools. In sport the College had again won the Rugby cuppers, and there were further successes in both the men's and the ladies's cross country cuppers and in ballroom dancing.

The Principal concluded by referring to the Oxford Appeal. The apparent dichotomy between the demands of the University and those of the individual colleges would be overcome, as would be shown by the Campaign for Oxford brochure shortly to be published, by the opportunity given to all donors to indicate that they wished all or part of their gifts to be passed on to their old colleges.

THE 48TH LONDON DINNER

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In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: 1922 Dr E. P. Brice; 1930 Sir Claude Hayes; 1931 the Revd R. J. Vaughan; 1932 D. Floyd; 1933 F. H. H. Finch, J. Lee, G. L. H. R. Shield; 1935 H. A. F. Radley; 1938 R. E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow); 1941 W. N. Hillier-Fry, the Revd E. G. Midgley (Emeritus Fellow); 1945 J. R. Paul; 1949 W. P. Asbrey; 1950 C. D. Griffin-Smith, J. Wheeler; 1951 D. Bloom, M. K. Chatterjea, M. J. Kelly; 1952 D. M. Jacobs, C. J. Jones; 1954 S. R. Bilsland; 1955 R. A. Farrand (President of the S.E.H. Association), R. S. Hurren, P. R. Lewis, D. M. Nelson; 1956 D. H. Johnson, P. G. Slip; 1957 J. N. Aptaker, M. J. Archer, J. W. Harrison, R. W. Jackson, G. R. Mihell; 1958 Dr R. J. Bishop, M. J. Cotton, L. L. Filby, J. H. Phillips; 1959 J. R. Kerr Muir, J. E. Lawson, Dr M. A. Voisey; 1960 P. J. Hayes; 1961 D. Band, J. M. Heggadon, I. R. K. Rae, A. M. Rentoul; 1962 S. 0. Burgess, J. R. de Rennes, M. G. M. Groves, M. J. Hamilton, A. J. Hawkes, J. R. Taylor, N. H. Pegram; 1963 R. G. Hunt, R. A. S. Offer, M. S. Simmie; 1964 D. A. Ashworth; 1966 P. A. D. Griffiths; 1969 M. J. Birks, G. J. Coates; 1970 J. W. Hawkins, J. Poyser; 1971 I. Brimecome, L. Cummings, Dr J. W. Stead; 1972 R. Stephenson; 1973 G. K. Chamberlain, A. J. Hope, T. R. Lucas; 1975 J. G. Hamilton, C. B. Sunter, D. D. H. Way; 1976 R. A. H. Finch, N. J. Worthington; 1977 C. S. Homer, M. O'Sullivan; 1978 I. Coleman, Dr G. D. Wattles; 1980 N. D. Caddick, A. J. Farrand, Dr K. A. Fiinucane, Dr A. S. Lee, S. King, Dr J. C. Scott, Miss D. L. Wright; 1981 D. J. Dee, P. M. Drewell, Miss C. P. Ivins, Miss J. B. Turner; 1982 Miss D. Bhatia, W. W. Cabral, T. G. Christopherson, N. I. Cox, S. K. ffitch, Miss N. S. J. Jones, Miss S. M. Lees, P. D. McWilliam, P. J. Murray, Miss N. A. Sellars, I. S. Tatchell, Miss E. S. Tuck, D. J. Walmsley, S. R. T. White; 1983 M. R. S. Irwin; 1985 D. S. McCallum.

Three other Fellows, Dr P. J. Collins (Acting Senior Tutor), the Revd H. E. J. Cowdrey (Senior Research Fellow) and Mr M. D. E. Slater (Dean) also attended, together with Miss H. Wenlock (Junior Dean).

F. H. H. Finch NEW YORK AN AULARIAN DINNER was held at The Sky Club, Pan American Building, New York City on Friday, November 18th, 1988. A record twenty-six Aularians attended including two visitors from the U.K.

Anthony G. Best Warne Boyce David Brenner W. R. Bristowe Michael Brookes Craig Laird Alex McCallum *Andrew J. T. Miller William R. Miller Fetcher A. Newsum William Patterson Anthony G. Pearson Hugh Ranee

Roger Callan Michael Chadwick Robert Gaffey Nicholas P. Howard Christine Ho Alien Read William Sotirovic *Peter Slip Revd. Andrew L. Sloane Elmer Sprague Steve Vivian John Ward Alan Westaway

*Visitors from U.K.

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Greetings were extended from the Principal and 'Floreat Aula' followed. Bill Miller, who convened the gathering for the fourth consecutive year discussed the Hall's need for funds and specifically the Principal's article on the Endowment Fund on pages 15-17 of the 1987-8 St Edmund Hall Magazine. There was a strong feeling that the Aularians resident in the USA should be more pro-active in generating support for the Hall and a sub-committee chaired by Tony Best was established for this purpose.

From the 1987 Dinner $881.54 was raised and transmitted to the Hall via the American Trust Fund for Oxford University, and from the 1988 Dinner a further $734.00 has been remitted.

Fletcher Newsum continues to do a splendid job in keeping our records. His current addresses and telephone numbers are below and Aularians coming to the USA are encouraged to contact him and get on our mailing list.

Home: 211 Central Park West New York, N.Y. 10024

office: Xerox Credit Corporation 100 First Stamford Place P.O. Box 10347 Stamford, CT. 06904-2347 Phone: (203) 325-6648

Phone: (212) 362-2178

Peter Slip discussed 'Hall', his forthcoming publication and took some orders for future delivery.

Altogether this was the best of the dinners organized to date. Those present unanimously agreed to reconvene on Friday, November 17th, 1989 for the next celebration in the U.S.A. of St Edmund's Day. Floreat Aula!

William R. Miller AND NOW THE WEST COAST we mused over the significance of Aularians having a reunion just outside the Gates of Hell. The surroundings and conversation were otherwise more elysian at the first West Coast Aularian Reunion held in the Rodin Sculpture Garden on the grounds of Stanford University in California. Present were Charles Switzer (62), David Belden (67) and his wife Debi, Paul and Paula Skokowski (79 & 80), Shannon Stuart (86), exFellow and honoured guest Philip Morsberger, and several Burghers of Calais. It was a perfect summer evening for the event, which featured local wines, many wonderful cheeses, and, as always in gatherings of Aularians anywhere on the planet, scintillating and erudite conversation.

Some topics of particular note in this gathering were an announcement of the publishing of Dr Belden's second novel, and the opening of an exhibition in San Francisco of recent paintings by Dr Morsberger. A history of the Hall written by John Cowdrey was distributed, as was a letter from the Principal.

This reunion was small, but interest was shown both by those attending, and by other Aularians throughout California, in having similar events in the future.

By that standard alone this first-ever gathering should be judged by future S.E.H. historians as a success. Aularians interested in attending asimilar reunion during the next year are encouraged to contact Paul Skokowski, who will be happy to give details, if any are to be had. Perhaps with a little more interest we could force a visit to California on the Principal or some other unlucky Fellow of the Hall, who

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could then mesmerize the gathering with oratory detailing the Hall's continuing rise to prominence back in Oxford.

Paul and Paula Skokowski AUSTRALIA TOO? R . M. SUTTON writes

to say that the first Australian Vincents Club Dinner will take place this coming December or in March 1990. He would like to hear from any Hall members of Vincents who would like to come to this and future dinners. His address is 6 Anita Street, Beaumaris, Victoria 3193, Australia and his telephone numbers 589 2051 (home) and 670 7131 (office).

DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM J. F. Adey (1960) has been managing director of Baxter healthcare since 1986.

Rev Dr K. R. Albans (1974) was appointed Methodist Chaplain to Birmingham University in September 1989.

M. J. Archer (1957) left London Weekend Television in July 1989 and is freelancing in T.V. production, scriptwriting and journalism.

B. C. Arthur (1950) has been Chief Inspector, H.M. Inspectorate since 1983 and was awarded the CBE in 1988.

Rev T. E. M. Ashton (1933) celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his ordination at Winchester Cathedral on 4 June 1989.

J. E. Aves (1957) returned from Brussels in 1986 to set up a management consultancy, European Communication Management Limited.

A. R. F. Banks (1974) is a Director of Davis International Banking Consultants, based in St James's, London.

Rev D. C. Barker (1924) retired as Master of Hugh Sexey's Hospital, Bruton in 1988.

D. M. P. Barnes (1963) left Barclays Bank PLC in January 1988 and now works as a financial training consultant with ACF Consultants Limited.

N. W. Barr (1945) retired in 1988 from his position as Secretary for Education, Cornwall County Council.

R. C. I. Bate (1958) whilst remaining Group Managing Director of Coxmoore PLC is now a member of the parent company, Oakwood Group PLC. P. J. Bentley (1958) is Managing Director of Jackson-Stops and Staff.

J. R. Berryman (1968) continues as Head of Religions, Ethnical and Philosophical Studies at St. Bede's School, Hailsham.

C. Bird (1979) has left his position as director of an International Advertising Agency and works as an International creative consultant.

Prebendary P. J. Blake (1952) was appointed Rector of Backwell, near Bristol, in December 1988.

Rev P. P. Bloy (1938) has retired from the Chaplaincy at London-Gatwick Airport and from his Honorary Canonry of Chichester Cathedral.

A. L. Bond (1963) is General Manager of Churchill Safes and Security Products Limited which, since October 1988, has been a subsidiary of Tunstall Group PLC. M. D. Booker (1971) has returned to private practice as a solicitor with the City firm of Marshall and Alimo after 9 years with the Freight Transport Association .

He is a Director of a transport consultancy firm and of the Tunbridge Wells and Bridge Railway Preservation Society.

I. Brimecome (1971) is head of Insurance Corporate Finance with Salomon Brothers International, London.

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A Notable Birthday Photograph: Mary Anne Martin

FRESHMEN 1988 FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

Back Row: Finch G. J., Field E. K., MeUhuish K., Suh S. R., Fok R. M. K., Qizilbash M. A. K., Stirrat K. A., Kassirnis J., Kirn H-W., Saunders U. P., Donkin T., Herold D. M. 6th Row: Basnage de Beauval J. M., Ferera L. N., Waters S. A. 1., Moult C. A. , Macro A. M. E., Bullock M. J., Tomin M., Fraser I. J., Tabinor J., Wilson B. S., Peto W. J., Powell C . 1., Brace J. J., Finke J. U. R., Cane D. A., Howard K. R., Ixer H . K., Hamilton K. L., Dieppe T. G., Murray D. G., Mattoo A ., Wong, C. G. S. , 5th Row: Rowe D. 1., Stewart D. W. A., Whittaker M. A., Lam W. M. E., S nders G. H. W., Holden J. D., Curtis L. A ., Ouzman J. V. A., Campbell E., Sibson L. R., Bromfield M. R., Woolley S. K., Westgate D. 1., Webster Z ., WadeR . C., Mann S. 1., Rudd J. H ., Adu-Ampona L., Fowler J. R., Williams D. P., Styles A. C., Gillham L. W. I 4th Row: Pettitt J. N., Wenlock H., Chait E., Mann C., Neale D. 1., Johnsorf N. G., Devetta D. M. 1., Kilgarriff R. K. 1., Hunter A . M., Haworth M. D., McCallum H . A., Mavrikakis N. A. , Newman C. 1., Binks D. 1., Parry H. J. , Holdsworth K. E., Sharp S., Shaw P. H., Archer C. L., Watts T. R., Sidebotham K. A., Milligan J. C., MartinS. J. E. 3rd Row: Powell P. G., Williams J. M., Harrison B. J., Riaz M. I. U., Boyd-Heron A. M. D., Wilson M. C. A. , Greenham A. C., Cochrane S. W. J., Gordon K. M., Vibert E. , Langstaff N. J., Boag A. J., Luke S. A., Dawson C . E., Hulance J. R., Browning M. J., Dougan P. T. , Luckraft R. T., Dhillon S., Massey G. K. A ., Adlington H. C., Sparrow S. R. 2nd Row: Jordan M. T., Sery M. G. A., Matthews P. S., Braunsfurth M. G., Garrison C. S., Bell A. B., Crerar W. D., Howe R. P. T., Reese J. M., Stinson N. A ., Tuckley J. E., Ferguson J. 1., Peterkin J. R., Turrell P. R., Othen P. J., Halliwell D. A., Ford S. A. L., Laws A. D., Michaelis A. P., Lewis M. P., Franco Salum A. G., Fox M. R., Himes J. A .

Front Row: Hart J. A., Warren E. J., Humphreys G. C., Roberts A., Gidson I. T., Candy S. C., Davies K. 1., Penrose J., Perrett R. J., Breese S. E., Ensor J. J., Anderson S. C., Dr. J. N. D. Kelly, Jenning P. I. H., Ventkataraman G., Kretzer U. M. H ., Jones R. M., Clark N. E., Harvey L. E ., Bilsborough K. L., Briggs H . R. K., West A. M., Wilson K. L., Jardine C. B., Shafran R. L.

J.N.D.'s Gifts

Claret Jug and Waiter

Silver Water Jug

P. W. Brown (1968) now works for General Accident PLC in Bristol.

W. W. Budden (1957) is now a District Land Registrar in H.M. Land Registry at Gloucester.

R. H. Caddick (1956) resigned as Head of Emesford Grange School and Community College, Coventry in August 1989, is now 'Consultant Headteacher' for the City of Coventry LEA. The Very Rev C. R. Campling (1947) has been appointed Chairman of the Council for the Care of Churches.

A. Cash (1954) is a freelance television producer, working on the 'history of music' series for Channel 4.

Prof J. K. Chadwick-Jones (1948) has been appointed a Director of the Cambridge Canadian Trust.

R. Chappell (1964) is now Assistant Stock Accounting Manager, London Networks Organisation, British Telecom. He founded Spenser Books London (Publishers) in 1989 and has translated Boris Pasternak's The Year Nineteen-Five.

D. J. Charman (1962) has been appointed Headmaster of Sexey's School, Bruton, Somerset.

P. R. F. Clemence (1969) began training for ordination at Wycliffe Hall in September 1988.

A. M . Clevely (1969) is now garden correspondent for 'Country Times'. He published two books in 1988: 'Topiary' (Collins) and 'The Integrated Garden' (Barrie and Jenkins).

Rev S. H. Coulson (1979) is Curate of Christ Church, Summerfield in Birmingham.

F. R. Crozier (1946) and his wife celebrated their Ruby Wedding anniversary on 14 August 1988.

L. Cummings (1971) is now General Manager of the seafreight Division of MSAS Cargo International. His division received the 'Seafreight Forwarder of the Year Gold Award' from the Institute of Freight Forwarders, presented by HRH the Princess Royal, in January 1989.

Rev A. B. Curry (1950) moved from Tavistock in 1985 to Brasted Rectory, Westerham, Kent.

Dr J. S. Daniel (1961) chaired the planning committee for the Commonwealth's new distance education agency, The Commonwealth of Learning. In 1988 he was awarded an honorary D.SC. by Canada's College Militaire Royal (St Jean).

D. J. Day (1951) became Under Secretary Pastoral to the Church Commissioners in December 1988.

J. B. W. Day (1944) having retired as Chief Hydrogeologist with British Geological Survey is now Vice-President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.

P. J. Day (1964) won the Wincott Award for business reporting on 'Today', BBC Radio Four, in the first year this award for financial journalism has been extended to journalism.

S. J. Dempsey (1969) is currently completing an Executive MBA course at the Cranfield School of Management.

C. J. Dew (1978) is a business accountant with ICI in Lancashire.

P. V. Dixon (1969) has been elected Chairman of Common Room at St Dunstan's College, Catford.

J. M. E. Dobson (1968) is a Principal Auditor with Suffolk Count y Council.

S. M. Donald (1961) is a Director, County Natwest Limited.

A. R. Douglas (1949) has retired from teaching.

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T. E. Dowman (1948) retired from the Headmastership of Carlton le Willows School, Nottinghamshire, in August 1988.

P. W. Driver (1972) is working as a music critic for the Sunday Times.

J. E. Durling (1945) has retired from the Northern Ireland Office after 32 years in the Northern Ireland Civil Service. He has joined the Crown Prosecution Service in South Yorkshire.

S. P. Edrich (1974) is working for BP Exploration in London.

L. H. Elliott (1942) is lay chairman of Richmond and Barnes deanery and serves on the archdeaconry pastoral committee of Wandsworth.

R. A. H. Finch (1976) has joined Citicorp Scrimgoeur Vickers, stockbrokers, as an Investment Analyst in the leisure and transport sectors.

R. L. S. Fishlock (1957) joined Telemundi as U.K. Marketing Director in May 1988. He has been responsible for training several Olympic teams including British Intermational rowing.

A. H . Foot (1944) is organizing the sponsored cycle ride for the Cornwall Historic Churches Trust.

J. G. French (1956) retired early from the International Banking Division of Lloyds Bank PLC and has set up his own Personnel Consultancy, specialising in recruitment/selection work and in redundancy counselling.

R. A. Fryer (1974) is Group Chief Accountant for the Rank Organisation PLC. R. D. Garratt (1958) continues to work half-time as social worker with Barnet Council dealing with geriatrics/mental health and has enrolled as a part-time student of advanced postgraduate metal-smithing in the jewellery department of Harrow College of Further Education.

Dr S. J. Gatrell (1965) is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. The Clarendon Press has published his book Hardy the Creator: A Textual Biography.

P. Gent (1973) has left the Independent and joined The Daily Teleg~aph as sub-editor.

Yen D. K. R. Gerrard (1958) is Archdeacon of Wandsworth, being installed on 11 March 1989.

S. E. Ghani (1982) has moved from St. Anne's College to a post with the Uranium Institute in London.

D. F. Goldsmith (1945) gave up the Headmastership of Cokethorpe on 31 August 1989 and is teaching Maths at Cranleigh School.

J. S. Golland (1946) retired from Harrow School in 1985.

R. J. A. Golland (1973) is in the British Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Buenes Aires.

R. R. Green (1952) has retired from Crawley College of Technology and is now running a small business, Robin's Computer Services.

N. P. Gregory (1971) teaches science at Gosford Hill School, Kidlington.

D. A. Hamilton (1972) is Production Director, Blick Communications Ltd. of Exeter.

R. J. L. Harandon (1973) is Head of French and Housemaster at Yarm School, Cleveland.

Rev J. C. L. Hawkins (1937) has been retired since 1983.

J. W. Hawkins (1970) is Group TI"easurer of TI Group PLC of Curzon Street.

J. M. Heggadon (1961) has been appointed Sales and Marketing Director of Lesser Design and Build, Teddington.

C. W. Hewitt (1962) is leaving state comprehensive secondary education with a disability pension and taking up part-time employment.

A. D. Hill (1966) was appointed Managing Director of Sage Publications, London in 1988.

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D. J. Hockridge (1956) has taken early retirement from his post as Senior Lecturer in French at Leicester Polytechnic. He continues as freelancer translator and actor.

Very Rev R. T. Holtby (1939) resigned the Deanery of Chichester on 1 October 1989.

Dr M. A. Hooker (1941) is executive director of The Jerwood Award.

R. A. Hoyle (1972) is a Wycliffe Bible Translator, working in the Sind, Pakistan, with the Parkari Koli people.

R. G. Hunt (1963) is a Sector Development Manager for the Group Accounting Utility of Midland Bank PLC. R. H. Irvine (1950) has been writing the marketing section of UNIDO's Manual for the Preparation of Industrial Feasibility Studies, Second Edition.

N. R. Jarrold (1965) has been appointed Counsellor and Head of Chancery, H .M. Embassy, Havana.

D. H . Johnson (1956) started his own business consultancy in 1979 and more recently a gift business specialising in high quality luxury foodstuffs, The Regency Preserve Company.

D. C. W. Jones (1958) is now working as Joint Creative Director with an advertising and design consultancy called, Genesis, in Victoria, London.

R. Jones (1972) is producing videos with Quay Productions in the North East.

A. J. Kember (1953) has left his job as General Manager of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority and taken up an appointment as Communications Adviser to the Department of Health.

M. K. Kelly (1951) retired from Tate and Lyle in 1988 and is now a self-employed business consultant.

P. R. W. Kelly (1968) is a controller with the Weir-Jones Group.

Rev J. M. S. King (1945) retired in September 1988 after 38 years in the parochial ministry.

R. V. Kings (1948) is a business counsellor.

T. S. Lavender (1969) is Assistant Secretary to Lloyd's Underwriters Nonmarine Association.

Dr C. J. Lawless (1956) has, since September 1988, been Director of the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University where he has worked since 1971.

Dr I. G. Layton (1961) is a university lecturer at Umea University, Sweden, mainly engaged in research within the field of Historical Geography.

T. J. S. Learner (1948) has begun a 3 year postgraduate course at the Courtauld Institute of Art, specializing in conservation of paintings.

P. S. Leathart (1938) is holder of the MBE. J. S. Lee (1966) has been Headmaster of Trent College since September 1988.

Rev R. J. Lee (1950) has been appointed an Honorary Canon of Liverpool Cathedral.

I. B. Maclnnes (1957) is teaching English to Turkish civil servants in anticipation of Turkey's joining the EEC. A. P. Martel (1974) is Fip.ance and Administration Manager, International Baccalaureate Organisation Examinations Office, relocated from Bath to South Wales in August 1989.

J. A. Martin (1961) has worked for the BBC since leaving Oxford and has been Head of Sport since 1981. He is now responsible for events TV coverage as well, eg. Trooping the Colour, Remembrance Day and other State Occasions.

R. McAdams (1941) is still working to convert his Open University B.A.(Maths) into an Honours degree.

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R. A. McCullagh (1959) has been appointed a County Court Registrar and District Registrar of Birkenhead, Liverpool, Southport and St. Helens.

P. A. McDonald (1977) has been appointed Head of Languages, Montsaye School, Rothwell.

J. R. McGovern (1941) has retired from Procter and Gamble Limited.

G. R. Mihell (1957) is now Treasurer of the Guildford Diocesan Readers Board.

Dr G. A. K. Missen (1941) has recently retired after 17 years as Head of Diagnostic Histopathology at Guy's Hospital, London. He is now Honorary Consultant Histopathologist to the Histopathology Unit run jointly by the Royal College of Surgeons and Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn .Fields.

R. S. Monro (1972) was one of the founding partners of Theaker, Monro and Newman, a new top-level Executive Recruitment and Personnel Consultancy with offices in Manchester, Birmingham and London.

D. A. G. Morris (1960) presently Solicitor to the board of Southern Electricity has been appointed Company Secretary and Solicitor to Southern Electric PLC. I. F. C. Murray (1974) took up a partnership with Wilkins Kennoy, Chartered Accountants, in May 1989.

Dr D. Mustafa (1983) represented Cambridge University in the 1989 London Marathon, completed his Ph.D and was awarded a Harkness Fellowship which he took up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in August 1989.

Rt Rev M. J. Nazir Ali (1972) has been working as coordinator of studies for the Lambeth Conference.

H. G. Nicholls (1965) is founder and chief executive of Murchison Association Limited providing continuing care communities for the frail elderly.

Rev T. P. Nicholson (1955) is Vicar of Cape!, near Dorking and Diocesan Inspector of Schools.

T. V. Nicholson (1926) retired from his position as organist at Berwick-uponTweed parish church on 31 December 1988.

Rev R. H. Norburn (1954) is still Rector of Ingham with Ampton and Great and Litter Livermere. He is President (and founder) of St Nicholas Hospice, Bury St Edmunds and Charman of Bury St Edmunds YMCA. Rev M. J. Notley (1960) was ordained priest on 2 October 1988 and is serving as Honorary Curate at St Peter's and St Paul's, Oadby, near Leicester.

R. N. Oliver (1962) is still pursuing an acting career.

Rev A. H. Overell (1946) retired owing to ill-health in August 1989.

C. R. Owston (1942) has retired as Head of Academic Studies at York college of Arts and Technology.

M. D. Palmer (1954) was appointed Archive Development Officer for Surrey County Council in September 1989.

Rev T. H. J. Palmer (1963) is rural Dean of Netherwent in the Diocese of Monmouth.

V. T. H. Parry (1945) retired at the beginning of 1989 from his dual academic post of Director of Central Library Service and Goldsmiths' Librarian of the University of London Library. He is now doing some consultancy work for the University.

M. Patterson (1973) is working for Morgan Grenfell in their Hong Kong office as a corporate finance director.

Rev D. J. Paxman (1947) is Principal of the Moray Ordination Course and Rector of St Andrew's Scottish Episcopal Church, Tain, Ross-shire.

J. H. Phillips (1958) is involved in developing a new consultancy for shopping centre development, planning and marketing, The Retail Factor, working in the U.K., Europe and S.E. Asia.

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Rev J. D. D. Porter (1954) is Secretary of Litchfield Diocesan Pastoral Committee in addition to his work as Rector of Chapel Chorlton, Maer and Whitmore.

Dr S. R. Porter (1967) is Bursar of Nuffield College, Oxford.

W. J. Powell (1964) has been appointed Headmaster of the Licensed Victuallers' School on its move to Ascot in 1989.

J. D. S. Purves (1950) retired as Legal Services Director, The Distillers Company, and is now Legal Adviser to Arthur Young, Chartered Accountants.

R. S. Repper (1967) is Headmaster of Wisbech Grammar School.

E. Rhodes (1944) is working as a travel courier.

M. A. Ritchie (1949) continues to direct The Institute for English he founded in 1976 which, as well as still doing research on the King James Bible as the centre of the English language, now also helps people by mail with their English.

Rev J. P. Robson (1954) became Chaplain of The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy on 1 October 1989.

M. A. Robson (1951) developed for television and wrote 8 of the 13 episodes of 'Hannay' transmitted by Thames TV in 1988/89. He is currently writing a screenplay, based on Dr. John Treherne's Book 'Dangerous Precincts'.

P. J. Rogers (1972) is a corporate planner with ICI Pharmaceuticals, Alderley Park, Cheshire.

P. L. Roussel (1947) retired in 1984.

M . J. Rowan (formerly Rowbotham) (1957) has recently sold his manufacturing and trading businesses to a public company. He travels the world playing Real Tennis and writes that, after four more courts, he will have played on every court in the world.

Prebendary E. Royle (1923) completed 60 years as priest in 1987.

J. J. R. Rycroft (1967) has moved within BNFL from Head of Personnel to Administration, Fuel Division, based near Preston, to Head of Administration and Corporate Affairs, based at the head Office at Risley, Warrington.

I. M. Sciortino (1932) after twenty years working on the programme of Moral Re-Arrangement in Malta is now returning to the U.K. to continue working with Moral Re-Armament here.

R. H. Sellars (1983) has been awarded a Study Abroad Studentship by the Leverhulme Trust to study literary theory for two years at Marburg University in West Germany.

M. J. Senter (1957) was awarded the OBE in the 1988 New Years Honours List for services to British commercial interests in Czechoslovakia. He moved to Cairo in June 1989 to take over !Cl/Export Ltd., Egypt.

D. R. Shenton (1951) is one of the Financial Times crossword compilers, aka 'Highlander'.

M. D. Shipstar (1969) is First Secretary, British High Commission in New Delhi.

Dr R. M. Sibly (1966) has been awarded the Scientific medal of the Zoological Society of London for his applications of optimal theory to the study of both animal behaviour and life history strategies. Dr Sibly's was one of two such medals awarded in 1988 to zoologists of 40 years of age or under.

E. A. Simmonds (1952) was ordained Deacon in St Mary's, Aylesbury, on 2 July 1989, to serve in the parish of St Michael at the Northgate in Oxford.

E. P. Smith (1958) retired on health grounds from the Woolwich Building Society and is now running his own clock repair and restoration business.

R. H. Smith (1962) was appointed Queen's Counsel in April 1988.

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W. P. Smith (1938) has retired as Director General of the Ordnance Survey. He has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government Committee of Enquiry into the handling of Geographic Information.

Judge R. J. Southan (1949) was appointed a Circuit Judge in 1986.

B. Spurr (1974) has received his Ph.D from the University of Sydney where he is Senior lecturer in English.

N. K. Staite (1971) is branch Crown Prosecutor, South Humberside.

T. E. Statham (1969) became a partner of Farrer and Co., Solicitors, in Lincoln's Inn Fields in October 1988.

Dr J. W. Stead (1971) left Shell International Petroleum Co. in 1988 to do an MBA at the Cranfield School of Management. He now works for SIAR Planning, a firm of International Management Consultants.

Dr T. P. C. Stibbs (1969) is Principal and Warden of Dalton and Ellis Llwyd Jones Hall, Manchester.

K. L. Suddaby (1954) is Chairman of Gold Crown Foods Limited, following a management buy-out from the Argyll Group.

R. M. Sutton (1956) is Manager of Kleinwort Benson's Stock and Sharebroking company in Melbourne.

S. V. Swallow (1943) made his attempt to fly solo to Australia but had to abandon the adventure at Brindisi owing to engine failure and other problems.

N. A. J. Swanson (1958) is National Sales Manager for Rackham Housefloors Limited.

P. R. Sykes (1949) retired in May as Senior Partner of Meade-King, solicitors of Bristol, but is continuing to work as Clerk to the General Commissioners for the divisions of Bristol City and Bedminster.

R. K. Taylor (1978) is Operations Manager at Daiwa Europe Ltd. L. P. Tempest (1956) is still with Shell International Petroleum, London, where he is Head of Public Affairs (Energy Division).

B. F. W. Thomas (1947) has retired from the Avon hospital service.

J. C. Thomas (1979) is in television news in Hong Kong.

Sir Brian Tovey (1944) retired from government service (Director GCHQ, Cheltenham) in 1983 and joined the Plessey Company, first as Defence System Consultant and later as Defence and Political Adviser. On leaving Plessey, he established with Lady Tovey, Cresswell Associates Limited, a consultancy advising companies on problems arising at the interface between industry and government.

M. D. Triggs (1983) is working for Christian Outreach in Thailand.

C. J. Tromans (1961) continues to act as Deputy Chairman of the Governors of Truro School where colleagues include two Aularians, Rev G. M. Burt (1950) and J. R. Heath (1960).

C. R. Ullyatt (1941) has given up the Chairmanship of Coats (Canada) Inc. Anne Ulrich (1985) has taken up a graduate award at Wolfson College.

D. Vear (1943) retired from teaching and housemastering in 1985 and now devotes his time to antique porcelain, ornithology, gardening and music.

W. G. Wallis (1970) joined the Carron Group of Companies to establish a northern office in Liverpool.

A. Ward (1941) resigned his fellowship of Wadham College in 1988 and was elected Emeritus Fellow. He continues to edit the Wadham College Gazette.

A. J. Waters (1952) is President of the International Methanol Producers and Consumers Association. He is Manager, Raw Materials Purchasing, BP Chemical Limited, London.

M. H . P. Webb (1954) took early retirement from the Bank of England a year

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ago. He is now concentrating on music, the Philharmonia Chorus and conducting his own choir in Tunbridge Wells.

J. c. Wells (1957). After playing Justice Overdo in Bartholomew Fair at the National Theatre, he directed The Mikado for D'Oyley Carte. He is making a documentary for the BBC about the East/ West German Border.

D. B. White (1952) following illness and surgery in 1987, has taken early retirement from Allied-Lyons and is living near Totnes in Devon.

J. A. G: Whitehead (1940) has completed his autobiography, School for Life, and sent a copy to the Hall. He retired from teaching because of illness in 1981.

Rev M. J. Williams (1950) is semi-retired, working in the Crediton-Sandford Ministry Team.

Dr C. R. Wilson (1971) was elected to the Council of the Royal Musical Association in 1988. He has been elected Warden of Mansfield Hall at Reading University.

R. C. Wilson (1970) is working -for the Hong Kong Government on the Joint Liaison Group, a diplomatic body overseeing the transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

Rev E. B. Wood (1943) retired from the parochial ministry and took a retirement ministry as Master of Hugh Sexey's Hospital (founded 1638) at Bruton, Somerset, in October 1988.

R. T. Wycherley (1965) is now working at Allestree Woodlands School, Derby.

MARRIAGES P. A. J. Broadley to Gillian Barlow, at St Mary's Church, Kennington, Kent, on 24 June 1989.

K. N. Broninski to Ann G. Harrison, on 30 April 1988.

S. H. Coulson to Rebecca Tuck at St Stephen's Church, Selly Park, Birmingham, on 4 February 1989.

J. G. Franks to Alison, at St Peter's Church, Delamere, on 12 August 1988.

Alison Hepworth to John Fairclough at St Brougham's Church, Anfield, Liverpool, on 9 June 1989.

J. H. McManners to Deborah Louise Maid well-Smith, at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on 15 July 1989.

T. J. Padley to Nicola Wright at St Nicholas Church, Marston, Oxford, on 29 July 1989.

P. St John Parker to Gail McDowell, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon, USA, on 9 June 1984.

S. R. Porter to Rosalyn A. Haigh, on 1 April 1989.

P. J. Rogers to Pauline Hennessy at Dean Row Chapel, Wilmslow, on 30 December 1987.

D. G. C. Salt to Frau Eva Kiesling, at St Ingen, Styria, Austria, on 1 July 1989.

J. W. Stead to Lindsay Bibby in the Hall Chapel, on 15 October 1988.

R. K. Taylor to Magdalena, on 22 June 1985.

G. D. C. Tytler to Sachiko Matsushita, on 23 April 1988.

BIRTHS A. W. Ayres, a son, David Caillin, on 5 March 1989, a brother for Charlotte and Megan.

H. A . Beales, a son, Michael Harry, on 7 May 1989.

D. C. Belden, a son, in October 1988.

P. G. Brett, a son, Thomas James Gadsby, on 21 May 1988, a brother for Anna.

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I. Brimecome, a son, Andrew Ian, in January 1988.

P. R. F. Clemence, a son, James, in September 1987.

N. J. Clarke, a son Edmund (Teddy) John, on 10 January 1988.

S. P. Edrich, a son, Thomas Steven, brother to Katie and Emma, on 31 March 1989.

P. R. Gillett, a daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, on 23 August 1988.

R. J. Godden, a daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, on 1 March 1989.

D. A. Hamilton, a son, Thomas John, on 29 October 1988.

L. W. Jones, a son, Alexander Lewis, on 11 November 1986.

P. St John Parker, a daughter, Elizabeth, on 2 May .1985.

M. Patterson, a daughter, Camilla Lucy, on 22 October 1987.

G. J. Price, a third son, Edward Rawe Charles, in February 1989.

D. S. J. Ruszala, a son, Matthew, brother to Simon and Katy, on 30 June 1988.

M. H . Sibson, a son, Philip Michael Nicholas.

R. Stephenson, a third son, Edmund George, on 18 November 1988, baptized in the Hall Chapel by the Revd . Graham Midgley.

A. P. Stopyra, a daughter, Maria Teresa, on 12 May 1989.

R. K. Taylor, a daughter, Tara Jennifer, on 5 November 1987 .

D. M. Tomlinson, a daughter, Rebecca Helen, on 16 February 1988.

D. Vickers, a daughter, Catherine Jean, on 24 September 1987.

DEATHS SIR IEUAN MADDOCK CB, OBE D.Sc, FRS, C.Eng, F.Inst.P, FIERE Principal 1979-82 notice appeared in The Daily Telegraph of 2 January 1989 and is reproduced ¡ with permission:

THE FOLLOWING OBITUARY

who has died aged 71, was a senior Government scientist for more than 30 years, first in weapons research and later as Chief Scientist at the Department of Trade and Industry.

Much of his research was into nuclear weapons, and he liked to recall the occasion when a new minister arrived at the DTI and introduced himself to his civil servants with a boast and a challenge: 'By the time I was 36 I had made half a million pounds. What had any of you done?' Maddock replied: 'I don't know about half a million pounds, but I had let off five atom bombs.'

He was a small man, but an imposing character none the less: he often disagreed with politicians and was highly critical of the way industry managed technological change-especially the big defence companies.

Maddock had a profound influence on industry, persuading companies to take better advantage of the results of scientific research. In 1972, far ahead of his time, he introduced a system to charge industry the real price for the research done in his department's laboratories.

After his retirement from the Civil Service, Maddock became a Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which seeks to create better public understanding of science.

While fostering the acceptance of applied science and technology, however, he warned of the consequences of its misuse and of growing opposition to new technologies which were dangerous and dehumanising.

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Ieuan Maddock was born in Gorseinon, near Swansea, in 1917, and was educated at Gowerton Grammar School and the University of Wales in Swansea, where he took a First in physics and began to study for his doctorate.

In 1940, however, the Swansea physics laboratories were turned over to explosives research, and so was Maddock.

He continued to work in weapons after the 1939-45 War, and in 1949 was appointed principal scientific officer at the Armament Research Department of the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead in Kent.

In 1957 Maddock moved to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, to direct the British research programme for the nuclear test ban treaty. There he explored the physics of detecting nuclear explosions underground and in space.

Three years later he also became Head of Aldermaston's Field Experiments division, in charge of the British bomb tests.

Maddock joined the then Ministry of Technology in 1965 as a deputy controller, and became the Controller of Industrial Technology in 1967.

In 1971 he was appointed Chief Scientist at the Department of Trade and Industry, where he stayed until his retirement in 1977. In his final year in Whitehall he also took on the Directorship of the National Physics Laboratory.

Maddock was a member of the Scientific Consultative Committee to the BBC from 1969 to 1980 and later of its General Advisory Council. He sat on the boards of several companies and the courts of Brunei and Surrey Universities, and was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from 1979 to 1982. He was knighted in 1975.

He is survived by his wife, Eurfron, and their son.

REAR-ADMIRAL G. C. LESLIE, CB, OBE Fellow and Domestic Bursar 1970-88 notices appeared in The Daily Telegraph of 19 November 1988 and The Times of 3 December 1988 and are reproduced with permission:

THE FOLLOWING OBITUARY

REAR-ADMIRAL 'GEORDIE' LESLIE, who has died aged 68, was the central figure in one of the most dramatic incidents in the Russian convoys of the 1939-45 War. -As a young lieutenant, Leslie was in command of the destroyer Cassandra escording convoy RA62 from Russia when on Dec 11 1944 she was torpedoed by the German U-boat U365. Her bows were shattered and there were many casualties among the sailors in the forward mess decks.

It was early on a black, Arctic morning with the wind rising to gale force and for a time there seemed a danger the ship might founder. But Leslie got her under way again, steering, stern-first, for Murmansk 190 miles away.

Later Cassandra was taken under tow by the frigate Bahamas but such was the force of wind and sea that after 24 hours they were actually 30 miles further from land than when they started. As time passed, many of the sailors' injuries threatened to become gangrenous.

Bahamas passed morphine and other drugs across by heaving lines. A Russian tug finally towed Cassandra, still stern first, into Kola inlet days later.

The ship had been saved, with her wounded, few of whom would have survived

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if they had had to take to the life rafts. Leslie was appointed OBE-an award which, in the circumstances, was not over-generous.

The youngest son of the 15th Laird of Kininvie, Banffshire, George Cunningham Leslie was born in 1920 and was educated at Uppingham before joining the Navy as a Special Entry cadet in 1938.

He served in the cruiser York and the destroyer Harvester, and he was First Lieutenant of the destroyer Volunteer, leading the escort for convoys SC122 and HX229 in March 1943, when they suffered the worst convoy disaster of the war.

In a running battle during which no fewer than 38 U-b.oats were in contact, 13 ships from HX229 and nine more from SC122 were sunk. Only one U-boat was sunk but Volunteer and her consorts damaged five others and with more luck might have sunk them.

In this midst of this carnage, Leslie noted some bizarre happenings. The captain and crew of the American liberty ship Willian Eustis abandoned their ship while she was still afloat and without destroying her code books.

Volunteers had to sink her with depth charges. Her cargo was about 7,000 tons of sugar. Leslie worked out how many cups of tea that sugar could have been used to sweeten and, as he said, 'was horrified to think we had just sunk three weeks' sugar ration for the whole of Great Britain.'

Leslie was essentially a sea-going officer. After the war he commanded the destroyers Wrangler and Wilton, the despatch vessel Surprise, the frigate Duncan when he was captain of the Fishery Protection Squadron and the guided missile destroyer Devonshire.

He was hardly ashore until near the end of his career when he was Commodore of HMS Drake, the Royal Naval Barracks Devonport, from 1964 to 1965, and president of the Admiralty interview board selecting young men for commissions in the Navy, from 1967 to 1968.

Leslie's easy manner and sense of humour helped many a nervous candidate to show himself in the best light. His last appointment was Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic's representative at Nato HQ in Brussels from 1968 until he retired in 1970.

In retirement he was domestic bursar and a fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

He was appointed CB in 1970.

In 1953 he married Margaret Rose Leslie, who survives him with a son and three daughters.

REAR-ADMIRAL GEORGE CUNNINGHAM LESLIE, CB, OBE, Domestic Bursar of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from 1970 until last September, who died on November 14 at the age of 68, had been the doyen of Oxford Domestic Bursars.

During the 1939-45 War he saw service in the North Atlantic and Arctic areas, serving on a succession of destroyers.

After the war he had a spell as executive officer at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and in the 1950s and 1960s he commanded a number of ships, including HMS Devonshire, the first of Britain's guided-missile destroyers.

On his promotion to flag rank in 1967 he was for a year president of the Admiralty Interview Board and for two years prior to his retirement in 1970 he served in various capacities at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

'Geordie', as he was familiarly known, was a Highland Scot by birth. He was educated at Uppingham and had entered the Navy in 1938.

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After leaving the service Leslie made the transition to a second career at Oxford with zest and enthusiam. It fell to him to oversee the buildings and domestic life of St Edmund Hall during a prolonged period of growth and change.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, a son and three daughters.

SIR JOHN FLETCHER-COOKE, CMG, MA 1911-1989 J. F. COOKE, as he was then called, came to the Hall as a Commoner from Malvern College in October 1929. He began by reading Modern Languages, switched after a term to Law, and then to PPE, achieving what I believe was the Hall's first PPE First in his Finals. He was then appointed a Senior Exhibitioner at the Hall, spending 1933 in economic research at Oxford before abandoning thoughts of a higher degree. Instead he went to London, taught modern English history to evening classes at the Mary Ward Settlement and sat for the Home Civil Service Administrative Class open competition in 1934, being listed second of the thirty-one successful candidates. He opted for the Colonial Office rather than the Treasury usually chosen by those at the top of the list.

But John found Whitehall life uncongenial and in 1937 managed, not without some difficulty, a transfer to the Malayan Civil Service. He was in Malaya when war broke out, and joined the RAF as an Intelligence Officer early in 1942. He vividly describes in his very readable The Emperor's Guest 1942-45 (Hutchinson 1971) how he was captured by the Japanese in Java and transported under appalling conditions to Japan where he spent the next three years as a Prisoner of War. The book has been described as 'a fair and even magnanimous account of his experiences'.

After the War John undertook a variety of missions and appointments under the Colonial Office-in Malta, Palestine, New York and Geneva (at the United Nations), in Cyprus (as Colonial Secretary) and Tanganyika (as Chief Secretary).

In the last two countries, at a critical time in their history, John found himself acting as Governor from time to time.

Made a CMG in 1952 John was knighted in 1962 on his retirement from the public service the dissolution of Empire having all but closed the door to further advancement iri the Colonial Service. Thereafter he embarked on another varied career which included two years (1964-66) as Conservative Member of Parliament for the Test division of Southampton; Visiting Professor (African Affairs) at the University of Colorado; Director of Programmes in Diplomacy with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and a mission for the British Government to the Anglo-French Condominium of New Hebrides in 1969.

John and I were exact contempories at the Hall where he was a popular figure, played hockey for the 1st XI, and became my closest friend. He tells in his book how we together joined the Cavalry Squadron of the University OTC where we were taught to ride and enjoyed ourselves enormously. In the Long Vac of 1931, when we were both tutoring on the Continent, we joined forces for an adventurous week in Vienna. Later, when working in London, we had digs together in Bayswater. After the war our paths occasionally crossed- in London, Chicago, Addis Ababa (where we both attended the inaugural session of the Economic Commission for Africa) and Tehran which John visited as Vice Chairman of an international team to review the structure and organisation of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of Rome.

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John was three times married and leaves a widow and three children. He was a complex character who somehow never quite fulfilled the promise of his brilliant start. Perhaps he was too restless and self-centred, moving too often from one difficult and testing assignment to another. Even in retirement he never settled for long anywhere. In his last years he suffered from the hardships he had endured as a POW in Japan.

Denis Wright REV CANON M. J. D. CARMICHAEL, MA 1916-1988 MICHAEL CARMICHAEL was born in Umtata on 9th November 1916. He was educated at St Andrew's College Grahamstown and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, trained at St Stephen's House and ordained deacon in 1940. After a curacy in Leeds he returned to South Africa in 1943, surviving being torpedoed en route, and worked briefly in Kimberley, then at All Saints Mission in the Transkei 1945-9. During this period he suffered back pain from ankylosing spondylitis, which was to recur intermittently over thirty years, and was treated in hospital in Cape Town. He was invited to return to Oxford and was vice-Principal of St Stephen's House 1949-54. This was in preparation for becoming vice-Principal, 1954-56, and Principal, 1957-71, of St Bede's College, Umtata. He was then made Provincial Executive Officer, with his office in Johnnesburg, 1972-81. He was Secretary to Provincial Standing Committee, coordinated the Provincial departments, had responsibility for publishing and for press and government relations, and travelled widely to diocesan synods. Already a Canon of St John's, on retirement he was made a Canon of the Province. He represented southern Africa on the Anglican-Orthodox Conversations, which took him to Moscow and Greece. He served on the Executive of the South African Council of Churches, of which he was made a life member. In 1975 he married Liz, a young doctor, and joyfully shared her appreciation of the lifestyle and music of Taize, and of inclusive and informal ways of worship and of seeking and expressing truth and justice, in a celebration of love that radiated out into wide friendship. In 1981 he accompanied Liz, via a year in Cambridge, back to Oxford, where she took a degree in theology and began research while he did locum chaplaincies in two colleges and assisted in the parishes of St Giles and St Margaret's, in which he was still active until the end of his earthly life which came swiftly but not unexpectedly on Friday 25th November 1988.

John Cowdrey

LYNN DEBRA GILBERT, BA 1963-1989 LYNN DEBRA GILBERT died tragically in a car accident at Lymington, Hampshire on 1st July 1989. She was just 26 years old. Lynn matriculated in 1981 and completed Finals in Metallurgy, Economics and Management in 1985. Always energetic and committed, she ran the University's Industrial Society for a time, and represented the Hall at squash and hockey. Since leaving the Hall, she had worked for various subsidiaries of Cadbury Schweppes in the USA and UK, completed her accountancy exams and commenced an MBA at London Business School. In December 1988 she had become engaged to Richard Scott Oliver, also

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formerly of the Hall, where they had met as freshers at Clubs Dinner in 1981.

They were to have been married on 4th August 1990.

I would like to thank warmly our many friends from the Hall who attended the funeral on 13th July or who have written since.

R.S.O. R. 0 . Barritt, OBE, MA; commoner 1933-37, aged 74, on 25 February 1989.

Robert Barritt was a Civil Servant who started in the old Ministry of Labour and became a specialist in labour relations, serving at times with the Control Commission, the ILO and at various British embassies as Labour Attache.

A. J. Beck, BA; commoner 1933-37, aged 76, on 16 May 1989.

E . J. Bowden, MA; commoner 1930-33, aged 78, on 7 March 1989.

M. H. A. Boyd, MA; commoner 1936-39, aged 71, on 9 October 1988.

W. W. R. Clotworthy, MA; commoner 1925-28, aged 89, on 22 October 1988.

L. A. Coker, commoner 1958-59, aged 69, on 12 April 1989.

T. R. H . Cuff, MA; commoner 1936-39, aged 70, in October 1988.

J. M. C. Curton, BA; commoner 1927-30, aged 77, on 1 October 1985.

D. W. Hall, BA; commoner 1945-48, aged 61, on 6 April 1989.

C. de N. Hill, BA; commoner 1935-38, aged 72, on 21 January 1989.

J. W. Hurford, BA; commoner 1935-38, aged 72, on 5 May 1989.

Rev Canon J. N. Keeling, MA; commoner 1926-29, aged 80, on 24 December 1987.

Rev Canon M. B. Kennaway, commoner 1938-40, aged 69, on 23 November 1988.

P. Nichols, OBE, BA; exibitioner 1948-51, aged 60, on 11 January 1989. Peter Nichols went to live in the Mediterranean in 1957 and remained for 30 years as correspondent of The Times, acquiring a humane and profound appreciation of Italian life and of the Roman Catholic church which he conveyed in two books of exceptional quality ... He was certainly the most prominent Englishman in Italy and was probably the best ambassador Britain has had in the country for three decades. One day he will be numbered among the greatest of English writers who made Italy their home. He was a truly civilised man (The Independent, 12 January 1989).

D. J. Parsons, MA; ,commoner 1919-21, on 27 May 1988.

E. G. Price, BA; commoner 1921-24, aged 85, on 28 August 1988.

C. L. Robathan, MA; commoner 1938-41, aged 68, on 9 October 1988.

Rev Canon A. Sargent, MA; commoner 1914-19, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1942-68, aged 94, on 5 January 1989.

Rev Canon E. C. Whitaker, MA; commoner 1935-38, aged 71, on 21 March 1988.

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THE BOAT CLUB Captain: RICHARD SMALMAN-SMITH Vice-Captain: lAMES HULSE Treasurer: DAVID LILLICRAP Secretary: RICHARD HODGKINS Social Secretary: DAN BEARD Steward.¡ STEVE ASPLIN

THIS PAST YEAR has had some memorable moments and some highly successful crews; but also a few disappointments. The most important advance however was the attitude of the club as a whole:-without doubt the exceptional commitment shown by all the club should be commended.

Our wins in external open regattas were the first for many years. Back in August, Richard Smalman-Smith won the Novice Sculls at City of Oxford regatta, and the week before Summer Eights the 1st VIII won both Novice and Senior C at Wimbleball Spring Regatta. In college competition, Richard Smalman-Smith also won the Oxford Ergometer Sprint Lightweight event, Cherwell Regatta Open Sculls, and Oriel Regatta Championship Sculls. We had two representatives in the University Lightweight crews (half-blue)- Richard Smalman-Smith in the Mens' crew and Penny Allison in the Womens' (both lost ... ). Ian Grant yet again narrowly missed selection for lsis.

Our top crews have all been very fast, and mostly successful. The Junior VIII lost their quarter-final to the winners, but produced some exceptional exciting finishes to beat quality opposition. The 1st Torpid, stroked and led by Jim Himes, had one of the fastest starts on the river and a lot of fitness. However after a bump on Pembroke on the first day, disaster followed on the third. The crew was bumped by St. Catz on the Greenbank and then hit the bank whilst trying to avoid Hertford who had bumped out ahead. Little sympathy was got from OUBC and we were placed at the bottom of the 1st division again.

The 1st Summer Eight started with an inexperienced but enthusiastic squad.

They trained hard and won the respect of everyone on the river as they not only held on to 5th position with some ease, but even gained distance on Christ Church over the first half of the course on each day. The rapid improvement over the six weeks is a reflection of the dedication and expertise of our cox (Andrew Shortland) and our main coaches (Hugh Thomas, Nick Caddick, Niall Haigh). The strength and fitness of Jarnes Hulse, Brendan Harnett, Ed Caddick, Pat Jennings Paul Billyard and Steve Asplin quickly learnt from the technique, experience and power of Jim Himes and Richard Smalman-Smith in the stern. The evergreen Steve King substituted for James Hulse for the last two days and fitted in brilliantly.

The Second VIII, stroked by Matin Wailer, deserved to get blades-they were fit, keen and above all fast! They were sometimes mistaken for the 1st VIII whilst training on the lsis. That they only got two bumps is an injustice to their ability.

They are now the 7th second VIII on the river.

At the intermediate level, we had a second Junior VIII in Christ Church Regatta for the first time, and it even won a couple of races. The 2nd Torpid combined some experienced rowers with some promising novices and sometimes moved very fast, but only achieved one bump. The Syndicate rowed as the 3rd VIII in Eights and got two bumps to lead Div 6.

At a lower level we had three men's novice crews whose performance was unexceptional. But they too showed an enthusiasm to train and compete despite numerous equipment problems.

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The successes of the year owe much to the enormous help the Captain has received. The Committee has surpassed all expectations in terms of energy and efficiency. We are very thankful for our quality coaching (Jim Himes, Niall Haigh, Steve King, Andy Brown, Andy McJannett and Ian Grant) and to Chris Morgan for endless repairs and friendly advice. Thanks to the generosity of the Amalgamated Clubs we how have our own rowing ergometer and a tub pair.

Finally I would like to wish Ian Grant the best of luck with the City of Oxford crew attempting the Thames Cup at Henley, and to Jim Himes as he takes over as Captain.

C.R.S-S. THE LADIES BOAT CLUB

Captain: DELIA HUNTER

THIS YEAR has been a very successful one for the Ladies' Boat Club, beginning with Christ Church Regatta, where the First Ladies' crew reached the final of the Junior Eights competition, unfortunately then losing to a more experienced crew.

After this encouraging start to the year, Torpids term proved not to be easy for us, as injuries plagued the Ladies' First crew, forcing us to rearrange the Second and Third crews just two weeks before the start of Torpids. Despite these problems, the First Eight showed great determination and went on to win their blades, bumping five times within three days. Trinity Term saw a return to college rowing of Penny Allison and Jenny Taylor, whose achievements in university rowing brought experience to an enthusiastic First Eight, of which the performance during Summer Eights reflected the term's efforts. Three bumps enabled us to climb to the highest position ever reached by our College Ladies' crew during Summer Eights. The Second Eights also trained hard throughout the term, rowing on in a very fast time, thus giving twice as many women in College the opportunity of experiencing bumps racing.

With the recent improvement in the standard of ladies' rowing in College, the pressure on our equipment has increased accordingly. Thanks to a very generous donation, received during Trinity Term, the Ladies' Boat Club has been able to acquire an Aylings Boat for the use of the First Ladies' Eight, whilst retaining the former first boat for the use of the second crew. Thus the Ladies' Boat Club is now better equipped than ever before, placing us in a strong position for future successes.

I would like to thank James Hulse, Simon Mills, Matthew Uffindel and Andrew Shortland for their coaching of ladies' crews throughout the year, Ann Taylor for her support and enthusiasm, Richard Smalman-Smith and Chris Morgan for their help in finding the new boat and, of course, our benefactor without whose generosity this purchase would not have been possible.

D.H.

THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB

Captains: TIM WILLIS (Cuppers) ALEX ASHEN (League) Secretary: PHIL DOMINY

THE 1988/89 SEASON, in which both the League and Cuppers competitions were won, was always going to be a hard act to follow, and so it proved to be. The exodus of nine of last year's Cuppers team and similar holes in the ranks of the League team meant that we were going to have much rebuilding to do.

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This was the task facing Alex Ashen as he skippered the League side through Michaelmas Term. Fortunately, there was a strong intake of freshers, especially in the backs, an area unknown to recent years of Hall rugby. Perhaps it was the unfamiliarity with this radical new concept of the fifteen-man game which threw us, as we slipped to a final position of third in the League competition. The Second team also suffered mixed fortunes, but I am pleased to report that the Third team, the Hilarians, maintained their one hundred percent record in a devastating win over Lady Margaret Hall, due mainly to the good handling and distribution of Simon Crawford, a fly-half who must be a great prospect for future years.

The Cuppers competition started with comprehensive victories over Christ Church and Worcester, the only points conceded (3) being due to over-enthusiastic play on the part of a highly motivated Hall pack. The referee stopped the Worcester game ten minutes early at the behest of an exhausted captain, much to the dismay of Kynan Massey and Jason Tuckley, the fresh-faced wingers, who were enjoying a field-day against a pretty ragged opposition defence.

In the third round we met St Anne's who, due some suspect to their recruiting policies, were fielding their strongest side for many years. We went down 25-16, but not before scoring two excellent tries by Kynan Massey and Steve Ferguson, and leading the game well into the last quarter. Although there was great disappointment (even tears) at not retaining the title, the spirit shown on the field was fantastic. This was epitomised by Neil Jacob's uncompromising tackling of Brian Smith, the Australian international and St Anne's fly-half. The closest any other college got to St Anne's was University College who lost 33-6 in the final.

My thanks to all who participated in squad sessions and represented the Hall at whatever level. Thanks should also go to Mark Sedwill, the coach, and of course to Reg in the Buttery for his Morrells support.

T.G.W. THE HILARIANS Captain:

T!M FELL

from the ever-increasing seriousness of University rugby the Hilarians' ability to play a relaxed, good humoured and festive game was again their hallmark during the 1988/ 89 season. The Hilarian XV won all their fixtures convincingly, never conceding a point. Their performances were a tribute to their no-training policy which produces flamboyant and spontaneous rugby the like of which is seldom seen in more disciplined teams.

The high point of the season was the 40-0 destruction of LMH first XV in a match which saw a remarkable try scored by Alex Welby on the wing and a memorable performance from Inspector Maxwell playing enthusiastically at prop in his first excursion onto a rugby pitch.

With last year's restructuring of the inter-collegiate League, fixtures are becoming more difficult to organise but preparations for a Cambridge tour next season are looking promising. Finally many thanks to Reg the Barman for helping with refreshments.

UNDER PRESSURE

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THE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB

Captains: D. J. SOUTHALL, M. G. EVANS (Cuppers) Secretary: D. LOAN-CLARKE

JUST ONE ADDITION was made to the Teddy Hall trophy cabinet this season; the Five-a-Side Cuppers competition, won in Trinity Term following a splendid cup run by the 'B' team. The Hall was only permitted to enter two teams for this competition, with both reaching the semi-final stage where they had the misfortune to be drawn against each other. The 'B' team followed up an excellent 6-4 victory over the W team by handsomely defeating a Christ Church unit 7- 3 in the final. This is the first time that the Hall has held the 'Stern Trophy'.

Although the Eleven-a-side season produced no silverware, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms saw some excellent displays by all 3 College XIs. The First XI performed creditably to advance as far as the semi-final stage in the full Cuppers competition, becoming many people' favourites for the trophy after despatching a very strong Oriel team at the second round stage. The 3 -1 scoreline suitably reflected what was probably our best performance of the season. Sadly a disappointing first half performance against a modest St Catherine's side in the semi-final meant that for the third year running the Hall had fallen at the penultimate stage of the competition.

The Second XI had an excellent season under the admirable captaincy of Andrew Vinter, finishing as runners-up in the Second XI League. They managed to win all but one of their matches, succumbing only to Linacre, the eventual champions, by a single goal. Third team football once again flourished under the captaincy of Tim Dudley. Tim deserves a special mention for his stalwart efforts over the past two seasons, remaining as Captain of the Thirds when his talents may have seen him playing for a higher team. During his tenure, Tim has selected 45 different players to represent the Hall, an indication of the present size of the football community.

As light relief from the serious competition in Oxford, a combined First/Second team spent a weekend in Cambridge during Michaelmas Term, playing Magdalen and Girton Colleges. This was a most enjoyable tour, and we hope its success will be repeated in future years.

The Hall was well represented at University level this year, with three members of the full University side, and one other in the Centaurs. Danny Westgate and Stuart Ford should be strong contenders for Blues next year. We wish them well, as we do all the teams next season under the captaincy of Peter Matthews.

D.J.S. M.G.E. THE CRICKET CLUB

Captain: CHRIS COLTART Secretary: DAN BAYLEY

THE 1989 SEASON proved to be one of mixed fortunes as far as the cricket side was concerned, the XI eventually winning and losing about the same number of matches. Like the Hockey Club, the cricket side suffered from a lack of experienced players, although finalist Andy Watson consistenly played to a high standard, his 94 against Magdalen in the first round of Cuppers being the best knock of the season. He is to be congratulated also for having scored over a thousand runs for the College during his time at the Hall. Overall, though, lack of experience was largely to blame for the Hall's defeat by a strong Worcester side in the second round of Cuppers, after an excellent performance in the field.

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However, the performance of the freshers was encouraging. Jan Milligan and Duncan Holden both played well all season and several others should perform better next summer when the threat of exams is not looming. Ifty Riaz, next year's Captain, is worth a special mention. He scored a handful of half-centuries for the College this summer, represented the Authentics in the Varsity match and is, without doubt, one the University's most gifted players. With luck he should establish himself a regular place in the Blues side next year. Finally, I would like to thank Dan Bayley for all the hard work he put in as Secretary which enabled the summer to be such an enjoyable one on the field.

C.M.C. THE HOCKEY CLUB Captain: C. M. COLTART Secretary: DARREN BAKER

WHAT PROVED OVERALL to be a fairly disappointing season got off to a reasonable start with a comfortable win over Jesus in the first round of the Cuppers competition. Unfortunately, however, the XI was drawn against a powerful St Catherine's side in the subsequent round and an enthusiastic performance could not prevent the side from losing 2-1.

The League side, newly promoted to the First Division last year, could not sustain the consistent standard of play that had merited this promotion and we find ourselves back in the Second Division for the forthcoming season. The team definitely suffered froi)l a lack of talented senior players, with the notable exception of David Waring who is a powerful player at the back and a prospective Blue for the 1990 Varsity match. Despite this, there were encouraging signs from the freshers. David Neal also has high University aspirations and Jan Milligan and David Stewart, next year's Captain and Secretary respectively, both turned out consistent performances. A good influx of Hall hockey players this year would provide the basis for a very strong side.

C.M.C. THE LADIES HOCKEY CLUB Captain: KATE NUSTEDT

Secretary RUTH JONES

THE WOMEN fielded a very strong side this season and were unfortunate not to pick up any trophies. They were knocked out of the Wadham Tournament by St Hilda's College at the semi-final stage. And they once again lost their semi-final Cuppers match on penalty flicks, to Keble. A women's league tournament was successfully formed this year. St Edmund Hall played extremely well in this and retain their first division place for next season.

K.N. THE ATHLETICS CLUB Captains: MARTIN BORRETT, HALCYON WILLS

THE ORGANISATION of the Men's Cuppers competition underwent a reversal of the unwelcome change made last year. A return to the format of heats in Hilary and final in Trinity was generally agreed to have restored the college spirit missing in last year's event and so important in Cuppers competitions.

The final saw Teddy Hall romp to victory with a hundred point winning margin, 329 to Keble's 227. Cherwe/1 reported this as being the largest winning

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margin ever. Victory was achieved by a solid all-round team performance, with several outstanding individual efforts. These came from Simon Briggs in the throws, Marcus Browning in javelin, long jumps, sprints and the relays, and Jeremy Lai in the hurdles. Very good performances were achieved by Graham Worth in the throws, Del Hurton in the sprints, middle distance and relays, Andy Martyn and Stewart Martin in the middle distances, David Stewart in the hurdles and Tony Rossiter in the steeple-chase.

At University level, Simon Briggs, Marcus Browning and Jeremy Lai continued to perform well and all achieved Full Blues in the 115th Men's Varsity Match.

The Women's Cuppers match was also a good day for the Hall. The match was held on a hot, sunny day two days before the men's in Trinity Term. The Hall produced another respectable and enthusiastic team. This helped considerably when it was found that, due to injury, not all the original team could compete.

Several members already doing several events had to fill the gaps, often at short notice. In all we had every event except the 'B' string 400 metres hurdles covered.

The Hall came a very creditable fourth . Notable performances were from Sarah Smith, especially in the 400 metres hurdles and the 800 metres, Penny Allison in the 3,000 metres, and Delia Hunter and Alice Lawson in the field events and 1,500 metres. Thanks and congratulations also go to Kate Nustedt, Sharon Williamson, Sophie Murphy, Heather McCallum and Zeulika Webster.

M.J.B., H.W. THE CROSS COUNTRY CLUB

Captains: ANDREW MARTYN, DELIA HUNTER THE MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM had an excellent season, both winning Cuppers and retaining the League title. The interest generated in the League last year continued, and with every runner scoring points, the number taking part was crucial. A large Hall turnout in all the four League races, ranging from serious runners, to fit rowers, to smoking third team football players, ensured victory.

This was only clinched at the last League fixture however, the Teddy Hall Relays, with a very strong challenge from Brasenose being held off to win the two barrels of beer prize.

With only five runners to score for the actual Cuppers competition, this victory, by a large margin of forty points, indicated the superiority of the best Teddy Hall runners as compared with the best the other colleges had to offer, and was perhaps the most satisfying. Our four-man 'A' team was also the first college team home in the Teddy Hall Relays.

At the top level, the team was greatly strengthened by the addition of junior steeplechasing international, Kenny Stirrat, who turned out for every college race and also secured a Blue for cross country. Del Hurton made a remarkable improvement this season and consistently solid performances were put in by Andy Martyn, Tony Rossiter, Waiter Fraser and Stewart Martin.

This year saw an increase in the number of participants in the Ladies' cross country events. Our team for Cuppers in Michaelmas 'Term consisted of First Eight rowers, whilst in Hilary Term, a large turnout of rowers, together with runners recruited from various other college sports, achieved a very creditable third position in the League. The final event of the year, the annual Teddy Hall Relays, once again produced an enthusiastic response. Four teams competed, reflecting an increasing interest in the Club, which bodes well for the future.

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THE TENNIS CLUB

Captain: ADRIAN LEWITI

AS IN PREVIOUS YEARS the Hall courts were devastated by the Parks' mole population; thus all teams played away in League and Cuppers matches whenever possible. Despite this drawback, the Hall still played some very good tennis. The Men's First team reached the quarter-finals of First Team Cuppers, whilst the Second team reached the final of their event, losing narrowly to St Catherine's.

The First team was chosen from Rodrigo Villareal, Chris Cummings, Alex Tause, Adrian Lewitt (Captain), Jon Wilson and Leon Ferara. Special thanks to Rodrigo and Chris in not losing a match all season, beating players of Blues standard. The Second team consisted of Stewart Hopper (Captain), Steve Mann, Jeremy Leese, Tim Wiles, Dan Bailey and Stef Wickham. Leon Ferara has accepted the captaincy for the 1990 season. The whole team wish him the best of luck and hope that St Edmund Hall will continue to obtain good results next summer.

A.L.

THE SQUASH CLUB

Captain: DAN BEARD

Vice-Captain: JON WILSON

HAVING LOST FOUR of last year's League-winning First team squad, it was left to former Second team members Gari Harris, John Day-Jones and Dan Beard, with fresher Duncan Holden to join veteran Mark Little, to hold our place in Division One during Michaelmas Term. Although the enthusiasm more than matched that of last year's squad, our skill and consistency were not yet sufficient. consequently we were demoted to Division Two, albeit by the narrowest margin.

We found the difference in standard between the first two divisions to be great and finished a creditable fourth at the end of Hilary Term.

The Second team suffered the knock-on effect of last year's squash-playing exodus. Jon Wilson, though of First team standard, stayed with the Second team to provide the necessary leadership. This team also suffered demotion in Michaelmas Term but gained fourth place in Division Four in Hilary to remain one of the highest placed college Second Teams. This year's period of reconstruction and building now leaves next year's Captain, Duncan Holden, in a most favourable position for success in Michaelmas Term.

D.B. THE CROQUET CLUB

Captain: ANTHONY ROSSITER

CROQUET HAS CONTINUED to be popular this summer with many new people taking up the game and interested in representing College. A 'come and learn croquet' afternoon was attended by over twenty people.

Cuppers was a great disappointment. The Second and Third teams were knocked out in the first round, though both games were fairly close, one match going to 25- 26. The First team had high aspirations; having four good players they would have beaten last year's winners. But misfortune struck and, in the third round, they met a team with four University players, and lost 26-21 and 26-24, both matches being very exciting. However all the players, An drew Steane, Tim Fell and Dave Neal, should be available next year, and with many of the Second team improving, we have reason to be hopeful.

A.R.

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THE BASKETBALL CLUB

Captains: PHILIP W ALDNER, PENNY TAYLOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR, carrying on from achievements from the previous one, we fielded both a strong men's and women's team. Practices started in Hilary Term with many new people being introduced to the sport, the idea being to come along and play more for enjoyment rather than competitiveness.

Cuppers was its usual organisation fiasco with match times arriving out of the blue three days before the event. Our first games against St Anne's and Queen's were won by several baskets and proved that practising a bit beforehand counts more than having a few University players. Unfortunately this philosophy didn't work against Brasenose with their huge American squad. We were leading by one point at half time after playing very toughly against their height advantage, and into the second half their captain hit a succession of outside shots which we found it impossible to pull back. Although we lost, we all felt it was the best game we had played; we really pulled together but were stretched by a more experienced team.

The organisation of women's Cuppers was even worse than for the men's and again Teddy Hall was the only full team to turn up. The competition was basically the University first team split into the respective colleges, namely Brasenose and St Hilda's. We lent both teams some players so that they could play each other, we beat St Hilda's (who used borrowed Brasenose players) and lost by just two points to Brasenose (who used borrowed St Hilda's players). No Cuppers dinner, but we definitely won the moral victory.

Thanks to all those in the two teams for encouragement and effort put into the practices and matches and good luck to Stuart Ford who takes over captaincy next year.

P.W., P.T. THE NETBALL CLUB

Captain: HEATHER MCCALLUM THE TEDDY HALL Netball Club continued in a light-hearted vein this season.

There was considerable enthusiasm amongst the first years and increased participation in the other years, resulting in a large number of people enjoying a game. The acquisition of our own netball has certainly helped.

The relaxed attitude did not detract from the standard of play. We managed to maintain our position in the First Division of the League, competing against teams which had substantial numbers of University players. This was mainly due to a finely developing and generally consistent sense of team work. In Cuppers we were narrowly defeated in the quarter-final, by a strong Christ Church team. I feel that St Edmund Hall netball will be able to look forward to a promising season next year, and would like to wish the new Captain, Rhian Jones, every success.

H.D.M. THE BADMINTON CLUB

Captain: DAN McCALLUM THE COLLEGE MEN'S TEAM once again had a very successful season, finishing fourth in the First Division. The Cuppers side also did very well to reach the final, no doubt inspired by the addition to the team of a first-year from St Hilda's.

In the final we were beaten 6- 3 by a combined Merton/Mansfield side. Alex

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Scurlock must go down as a Hall hero for playing his last two matches with what was later diagnosed as a broken ankle. For the League I would like to thank Andy Harrison, Gavin Flook, Paulo Mauro and Richard Freeman. The Cuppers side was Paul Bill yard, Neil Stinson, Mark Sed well and Alex Scurlock. Dan McCallum was awarded his Half Blue and was Captain of the University side.

D.M.

THE TABLE TENNIS CLUB

Captain: STEFAN WICKHAM A VERY PLEASING PERFORMANCE was given by all three College teams in the League. The First team of Stefan Wickham, Edward Lam and Simon Briggs gained promotion, with much credit going to Edward Lam our resident Hong Kong international, losing only one match all season. The lower teams held their position, with notable performances from Kevin Johnson and Paul Gartside for the Second team and Simon Waters and Michael Whittaker for the Third team.

In Cuppers the Hall could sadly field only two-thirds of a team when playing Wadham. The score was closer, however, than when Wadham won the final.

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THE CHESS CLUB

Captain: ANDREW BROWN THE TWO COLLEGE TEAMS performed reasonably in the League this year, finishing mid-table in their respective divisions. Unfortunately our interest in the Cuppers competition was shortlived. Drawn against a strong St John's team we went down 5-1 in the first round. Most of this year's players, and a Linguist back from foreign parts, will be returning next term, so the prospects for the Club look good.

A.B.

THE DARTS CLUB

Captain: GAVIN

FWOK

THE DARTS CLUB improved upon last year's performance in terms of victories, yet finished four places below that achieved last year when we were placed a creditable fourth. Where last year we managed to retrieve draws out of often desperate situations, this year we lacked resolve. Crucially, in a game which can fluctuate wildly during the course of an evening, we failed to once come from behind to obtain a result.

There were some good performances, particularly against Oriel, with our number one player, Vernon Manville, throwing the best darts of the season, and Wolfson, where the sedate atmosphere of the postgraduate bar was disturbed for an evening by an inspired Hall team determined to enjoy their season. And enjoy it we did, this perhaps being a major reason for our mediocre results. With a majority of finalists in our team, we played primarily for enjoyment, not worrying unduly when things were not going our way. This year sees the departure

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of a number of Darts Club stalwarts: Simon Briggs, Martin Harris, Giles Rogers, Mark Bedser, John Turner, Phi! Richards and Paul Sanders, as well as myself. We all wish next year's Captain, Jon Williams, along with this year's other newcomer Marcus Browning, all the best for the forthcoming season.

Won-4; Drawn-1; Lost-7.

G.F. THE SAILING CLUB

Captain: SARAH MUSCROFf THE HALL having proven itself for many years on the river, pitch, track and court, now turns to the reservoir to reveal its sporting prowess.

The advent of Trinity Term and the hint of sunshine stirred many Aularian sailors to 'haul on the haliyards', 'harden up the sheets' and 'set their sails', as this year we managed to muster two very respectable teams for Cuppers. Despite the benefit of two Blues sailors and the University windsurfing champion, matched against the likes of Wadham and Brasenose who monopolise the Blues helmsmen, the aim was simply to enjoy and not aspire to championship title.

Conditions were glorious for basking, but the virtual flat calm provided little opportunity for good competitive sailing and a great degree of luck was involved.

Our First team was drawn against a New College/Jesus/ Lincoln composite team and their first race saw a fantastic start for the Hall with all three boats over the line clear ahead. However the fickle breezes worked against them and they were beaten at the line. The Second race was a little more competitive but failure to realize the course change allowed Jesus to gain the advantage and despite some valiant tactical colliding, with Jesus taking a 'green', they unfortunately lost on points.

The Second team, captained by Dan Beard, rose to great heights, storming through the first round with a bye and then convincingly defeating St Hilda's with one of their four boats not even reaching the first mark, to earn themselves a place in the semi-finals.

Special thanks are due, in particular, to Julie Penrose, for organising this year's entry, and to Catherine Jardine, Jan Milligan and Sundeep Dhillon for providing transport to Farmoor.

S.L.M. THE BALLROOM DANCING CLUB

Captain: WrNNIE

Fo~o

UNLIKELY AS IT MAY SEEM, St Edmund Hall has, over the years, built up a very creditable reputation in ballroom dancing and has produced dancers of very fine calibre.

Having in the past years won Cuppers with great flair and enthusiasm, the College managed to score yet another triumphant win this year, thereby winning the shield for the fourth successive year. We also had the privilege of hosting Cuppers in the Wolfson Hall, and though we lacked the support of a 'joke' team a la Hall, there was much support from members of the College (most of whom got a free view from the raised quad) for our three teams comprising members of the JCR, the MCR and the SCR. The Wolfson Hall is a well-known venue for absolute beginners classes conducted by the University team coach. The past few years have also seen Teddy Hall dancers in the Blues team, there being two this year.

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We are very glad that the Principal has accepted the post of Senior Member of the University Ballroom Dancing Club. Special thanks must go to Dr Phelps for sanctioning the much-needed funds from Amalgamaged Clubs for Cuppers and to Adam Rabin for his time and fantastic footwork. We look forwards to another exciting year next year.

W.F. THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY Representative: DAVID GOMEZ

AFTER WHAT SEEMS an interminably long time, drama has reappeared in Hall.

Seventh Week of Michaelmas Term witnessed a successful production of Jean Anouilh's 'Becket' in the Old Dining Hall. With an all-Hall cast and production crew (apart from the two leads), the Old Hall was effectively transformed into Becket's tomb for the atmospheric opening scene; a confrontation between Henry II and the ghost of Thomas Becket creating an added frisson. Indeed, despite difficulties in booking and rigging up lights and scenery, the Old Dining Hall is really an excellent venue for rep theatre, the wooden gallery providing ample opportunity for balcony scenes and dual sequence action on stage.

This production, thanks to an intensive advertising campaign, achieved for the John Oldham Society the esteemed position of runner-up in the Cherwell poster competition, and gained large audiences, being sold out on Thursday and Friday, and seeing seventy turned away on the Saturday. A ÂŁ350 profit was made, a hundred of this going to charity. The John Oldham Society would like to express its gratitude to all those who helped in this play in Hall, Dr Phelps for money and safety advice, Alice in the Bursary, Chris Irvine for costumes, props and enthusiasm, and the production team of Robert Leedham, Stefan Wickham and Jo Brown. With luck the Old Dining Hall may gain cult status as a venue for Oxford drama, rivalling even the monopoly of Balliol's Lindsay Rooms.

D.G. CHOIRS AND MUSIC Organ Scholar: PAUL CAREY

MUSIC IN ST EDMUND HALL has continued to flourish with a number of major choral and orchestral concerts, together with various lunchtime recitals.

Michaelmas Term was extremely busy with, in particular, a large-scale performance of Mozart's 'Requiem', together with the Haydn Trumpet Concerto (soloist: Duncan McNaughton) in St John's Church, Iffley Road. The College Choir, the 'Aularian Choir', now has a membership of approximately one hundred singers, so we are rarely short of voices in reheasals.

Hilary Term saw a performance of Bach's B Minor Mass in Merton Chapel by a choir and orchestra of invited players and singers which proved popular with the punters, and several lunchtime recitals in the Holywell Music Room from various instrumentalists which did not. Trinity Term, naturally, was a good deal quieter but we still performed major works in an orchestral concert in the Holywell Music Room. The programme included Bach's first orchestral suite and a Mozart Piano Concerto (soloist: Mary-Kate Wilkinson). For this concert my thanks must go to the two guest conductors, Mike! Toms and Nicolas Heppel.

For the past year I am grateful to the two outgoing Music Society Presidents, Claire Harrison and Andrew Taylor, to the orchestral leader Tim Cronin (and fine alto solist when required), to Alexandra Bellamy the Music Society librarian, and

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to our Secretary Helena Rakowski. People like her only appear once in a blue moon. Not least we must all thank Dr Collins for his continued help and support.

P.C. ROCK N ROLL

Representative: ADAM HAWKES OVER THE PAST YEAR increasing numbers of Hall members have participated in the practice of rock/pop music. Despite its dubious reputation, this kind of electric guitar music has brought pleasure to many and amusement to others.

There are perhaps five College bands who practise their art to varying degrees of success. The oldest and most controversial band, the 'M. Harris Lads', have played at St Hilda's events and continue to entertain or appal. The 'Sherbert DibDabs', whose spelling ability is surpassed only by their powers of self-publicity, have also had their successes. After the nadir of coming last in last summer's Oxford Battle of the Bands competition, they reached some degree of triumph in the Autumn. A film crew from Japan filmed them playing live on a roof top in central Oxford to an audience of surprised shoppers and policemen. Their infamy was spread by pictures on the front of Cherwell and the Oxford Mail.

'Smitty's Chopper', a group of multitalented first-years, have gone from strength to strength; they began humbly supporting the 'Dib-Dabs' in the Party Room. Since then they have played at the Jericho Tavern, home of live music in Oxford, and have been invited to play at the St Hilda's Matriculation Ball in the Autumn. 'Captain Feedback', the newest College band, were born Phoenix-like from the ashes of 'Pat Reid and the Ricochets'. They are novel in that they play songs that were written by members of the band.

In College the bands have played to audiences in the Wolfson Hall and in the Party Room during the Summer Event. Money was raised by the bands for Comic Relief; 'Smitty's Chopper' actually toured the streets of Oxford on the Hall float.

The authorities have shown some support for this popular pastime, buying a P.A. System, badly needed for events. The Music Room has been moved, after complaints about the noise, .to a sound-proofed subterranean chamber beneath the Kelly block. Some bands though will die with the exit of finalists from the Hall but others will continue to thrive and evolve, and may ultimately appear on Top of the Pops.

A.H. THE CHRISTIAN UNION

Leaders: ALAN AKEROYD, CLARE RHODES.JAMES, HALCYON WILLS THE PAST ACADEMIC YEAR has been one of consolidation for the Hall Christian Union, with an increasing awareness of the many challenges that Jesus places before us. 1988/ 89 began with an exremely well attended house party before Michaelmas Term, laying stress on the importance of prayer and worship. Over the year, worship in particular has been at the focus of much innovation and experiment, helped by the glut of musicians in our total membership of fifty. As the group grows, many members find fellowship in smaller groups such as prayer triplets and lunchtime Bible study groups.

Evangelism has remained vital. Our chief contribution to the OICCU minimission was the booking of Pastaficio Restaurant at which well over fifty non-

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Christian members of the College heard the Christian message. Five people have become Christians over the year; one was baptised in the Hall Chapel.

Trinity Term has seen three new leaders- Rosie Wade, Tim Dieppe and Paul Thwaite-who have started their year with much enthusiasm and innovation.

A.A., C.R-1., H.W.

THE WOMEN'S GROUP

Women's Officer: HELEN IXER THE ST EDMUND HALL Women's Group was formed three years ago out of a general feeling of unease among some women about the sexist attitudes in the University. Informal discussion meetings are held weekly, occasionally with an outside speaker, on a range of topics from prostitution to women in comedy or eating disorders. Issues concern both women and men and selected meetings are mixed. All opinions are welcomed regardless of political persuasion or views on ¡ feminism.

We have managed to obtain free rape alarms for all female members and have produced a code of practice on sexual harassment in conjunction ¡with Ann Taylor, the Women's Tutor. Although not strictly related to the aims of the group, a lunch for women is organised yearly, to help College women, particularly those in the first year, to meet each other.

H.I.

THE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF 1988/1989 THE COLLECTION has been augmented over the past year with many interesting and diverse publications, and grateful thanks are due to the Aularian authors for these welcome gifts: D. C. Belden (1967) M. A. Bourdeaux (1954) D. F. Bourne-Jones (1951) M. G. Braunsfurth (1988) R. L. Brown (1966)

M. R. Buckley, (1961)

To warm the earth. New York, 1988.

Ten growing Soviet churches. Keston College, 1987.

'Behold the Man', a poetic sequence in contemplation of the Stations of the Cross.

Eastbourne, 1989.

A long term, computer based, investigation of sleep unrest in the dog. (In: Tierdrztliche Umschau, 44, Feb. 1989, p. 63).

The parish of Ffestiniog with Maentwrog- the tribulations of three nineteenth-century incumbents. (In: Journal of the Merioneth Historical Society, I, pt. 3, 1987/8).

Farm output loss in land use planning decisions (In: Department of Town Planning, Occasional Paper 2, 1987).

Multicriteria evaluation measures, manipulation, and meaning. (In: Environment and Planning B-Planning and Design, 15, pp.

55-64).

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- The Royal Town Planning Institute Distance Learning Course- Planning Course 2, 1988- Planning Methods unit. 5. Bristol and Leeds Polytechnic, 1988.

R. M. Burns (1963) - The agent intellect in Rahner and Aquinas (In: Heythrop Journal, 29, 1988, pp. 423-449).

- Bernard Lonergan's proof of the existence and nature of God. (In: Modern Theology, 3, 11, pp. 138-156, 1987).

- Meynell's arguments for the intelligibility of the universe. (In: Religious Studies, 23, pp.

183-197).

J. P. Burrough (1934) - Angels unawares. Worthing, 1988.

- God and human chance. Lewis, 1984.

- 'B' Company, 9th Battalion, the Border R. A. Cooper (1937) Regiment. One man's war in Burma 1942-1944, recalled in hospital in 1945.

London, 1978.

H. E. J. Cowdrey (Fellow) - Death-bed testaments. (In: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Schriften, Bd. 33, IV: Fiilachungen im Mittelalter, T. IV, Diplomatische Fiilachungen (Il), pp. 703/724.

Hannover, 1988.

- The Gregorian papacy, Byzantium, and the first Crusade (In: Byzantium and the West, c. 850-1200. Proceedings of the 18th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford 1984, ed. 1 H Howard-Johnston, pp. 145 -169).

- Hugh of Avalon, Carthusian and bishop. (In: D. S. Brewer- De Cella in Seculum, pp.

41-56).

- Towards an interpretation of the Bayeux tapestry, (In: R. A. Brown -Anglo-Norman Studies X, pp. 49-65, 1988).

K. J. W. Crossley-Holland (1959)- The Anglo-Saxon world. Oxford, 1987.

- Axe-age, wolf-age. A selection from the Norse myths. London, 1985.

Beowulf. Illustrated C. Keeping. Oxford, 1987.

- Beowulf. Translation. Wood bridge, 1987.

- British folk tales. New versions. London, 1988.

- The dead moon, and other tales from East Anglia and the Fen Country. Illustrated by S. Felts. London, 1982.

- The dream-house. Poems. London, 1976.

- Folk-tales of the British Isles. Illus. H. Firmin.

New York, 1985.

- The fox and the cat. Animal tales from Grimm . Illus. S. Varley. London, 1985.

- the Norse myths. London, 1987. editor: The Oxford book of travel verse.

Oxford, 1986.

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- The painting-room, and other poems. London, 1988.

- Storm. Illus. A. Marks. London, 1988.

- Time's oriel. Poems. London, 1983.

- The Wanderer. Translation. Illus. J. Dodds.

Jardine Press, 1986.

- Waterslain, and other poems. London, 1986.

- Which eye can you see me with? Interpreting folk-tales a writer's perspective. Toronto, 1988.

- Wulf. Illus. G. Floyd. London, 1988.

G. V. Davis (1962) - Arnold Zweig- Poetik, Judentum und Politik. (edited with D. Midgley and H . H. Muller).

Bern, 1989.

Zweig- Robert Neumann: - Arnold Correspondence. (In: GDR Monitor, No, 17, Summer 1987, pp. 1- 29).

- Towards liberation: culture and resistance in South Africa. Edited with M. Manaka and J. Jansen. Gottingen, 1988.

- I.!Auto-governo locale nell'lnghilterra J. P. D. Dunbabin (Fellow) dell'ottocento. (In: L'Organizzarioni delta politica cultura, istitaz- ioni, partiti nell'Europa liberate, pp. 397-428, Bologna, 1988).

S. P. Edrich (1974) - Geologic evolution and hydrocarbon habitat of the 'Arctic Alaska Microplate'. With R. J. Hubbard and R. P. Rattey. (In: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 4, no. 1, 1987, pp. 2-34).

J. Ferguson (one-time J.R.F.) - Papa Doe, Baby Doe. Haiti and the Duvaliers.

Oxford, 1988.

P. F. Ganz (Emeritus Fellow) - Wolfenbiitteler Cimelien: das Evangelier Heinrichs des Lowen in der Herzog August Bibliothek. Edited with others. Wolfenbiittel, 1989.

S. J. Gatrell (1965) - Hardy the creator. A textual biography.

Oxford, 1988.

P. C. Godfrey (1979) - Inventing a new colour. A play. (In: First Run: New plays by new writers, pp. 39 - 84. London, 1989).

P. J. Graves (1965) - The kite, the plains, and some further moralizing. (In: G.D.R. Monitor, No. 19, Summer 1988, pp. 85- 90).

- Reiner Kinze: some comments and a conversation. (In: German Life and Letters, Vol. 14, no. 3, April 1988, pp. 312-322).

R. T. Holtby (1939) - Robert Wright Stopford, 1901-1976. London, 1988.

J. B. Knight (Fellow) - A comparative analysis of South Africa as a semi-industrialised developing country. (In: The Journal of Modern African Studies, 26, 3, 1988, pp. 473-493).

C. S. La timer (1976) - Sister Dora. ( Walsall Chronicle, No. 10, 1988).

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Y. R. Lovelock (1960)

A. I. Marsh (Fellow)

P. B. Matthews (1977)

E. G. Midgley (Emeritus Fellow) R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow) J.-C. Muller (1975)

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (one-time Lecturer) M. D. Palmer (1954) D. G. Phillips (Fellow)

- A scattering folder. Poems. Durham, 1985.

An edition of: A vanishing emptiness. Selected poems of Willem Roggeman. Translated from the Dutch. London, 1989.

Employee relations bibliography and abstracts.

Supplement V. Oxford, 1988.

Employee relations bibliography and abstracts journal, Vol. 1, No. 1. Oxford, 1989.

- with Victoria Ryan: The seamen; a history of the National Union of Seamen, 1887-1987.

Oxford, 1989.

Consolidation, coroners and democracy. (In: The Law Society Gazette), No. 2, January 1989, pp. 28- 33).

The efficacy of trustee exemption clauses in English law. (In: The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, Jan.-Feb. 1989, pp. 42-54).

English and Channel Island trust laws compared. (In: Trust Law and Practice, July 1988, pp. 2-6).

Jervis on the office and duties of coroners. lOth ed., First supplement. London, 1988. editor: John Bunyan- Solomon's temple spiritualized; In the house of the forest of Lebanon; The water of life. (Mise. Works Vol. VII) Oxford, 1989.

On Old English. Selected papers. Oxford, 1988. with J. Kettel: 'That Luxuumburgher . . .'

James Joyce in Luxembourg in the year 1934.

(In: Le Luxembourg et l'Etranger, pour less 75 ans du Professeur Tony Bourg, pp. 220-226, Luxembourg, 1987.

Richard Rolle: prose and verse. (Early English Text Society, No. 293) Oxford, 1988.

Elizabeth I. London, 1988.

Attitudes towards diversification. Results of a survey of teacher opinion. Oxford, 1988.

British educational policy in occupied Germany: some problems and paradoxes in the control of schools and universities. (In: International Currents in Educational Ideas and Practices, ed. P. Cunningham and C. Brock, pp. 75-88, History of Education Society, 1988).

Classified information: some German compendia of educational knowledge. (In: Comparative Education, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp.

405-409, Oxford, 1988).

Gibbon Redivivus: eighteenth-century Oxford.

(In: Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1988, pp. 263- 267).

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- Josefina Bello: Spanish as first foreign language in schools; past and present perspectives.

Oxford, 1989.

- Buchdahl and Rorty on Kant and the history of M. K. Power (1976) philosophy. (In: R. S. Woodhouse, ed., Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries, pp. 265-279. Kluwer Academic, 1988.

J. Prebble (1968) - Canadian and Swedish procedures for advance rulings in income tax cases. (In: Australian Tax Forum, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1987, pp. 217-240).

- New Zealand's 1988 international tax regime for trusts. (In: Australian Tax Forum, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1989, pp. 65- 87).

- Tax reform in New Zealand. (In: Economic Papers-The Economic Society of Australia, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1987, pp. 61-96).

- Taxation of companies and shareholders dividends from capital sources. Wellington, 1986.

F. J. C. Rossotti (Fellow) - with M. A. Hughes: A review of some aspects of the solution chemistry of technetium. Oxford, 1987.

D. I. Scargill (Fellow) - Bypassing the bypass. (In: Oxford Magazine, 2nd Week, M.T. 1988, pp. 13 -16).

- Implications for the Oxford Green Belt. (In: Oxford Polytechnic- School of Planning: Roads in Central Oxfordshire- Working Paper No. 109, pp. 35-45. Oxford 1988).

- Review: Modern France, theories and realities of urban planning; by P. A. Phillips, 1987. (In: Urban Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, Aug. 1988, pp.

349-350).

K. H. Segar (Fellow) - The death of reason: narrative strategy and resonance in Schnitzler's Flucht in die Finsternis. (In: Oxford German Studies, Vol. 17, 1981, pp. 97-117).

- Hofmannsthal's 'Elektra': from drama to libretto.

(In: Salome/Elektra-Richard Strauss: Opera Guide Series, 37, pp. 55-62. London, 1988).

G. W. Series (Emeritus Fellow) - editor: The spectrum of atomic hydrogen Advances. A collection of progress reports; incorporating 'The Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen' 1957. Singapore, 1988 .

B. Spurr (1974) - Alienation and affirmation in the poetry of Philip Larkin. (In: Sydney Studies in English, Vol. 14, 1988/9, Sydney, 1988).

J. Spurr (Fellow) - 'Rational religion' in Restoration England. (In: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 49, No. 4, Oct./Dec. 1988, pp. 563- 585).

A. J. G. Teller (1981) - with others: Guide to the sources for the history of the Jews in Poland in the Central Archives. Jerusalem, 1988.

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G. Thomas (1931)

Laughter from the dark; a life of Gwyn Thomas, by Michael Parnell. London, 1988.

N. R. Thorp (1963) The glory of the page. Medieval and Renaissance mss. from Glasgow University Library. Glasgow, 1987.

Studies in black and white: Whistler's photographs in Glasgow University Library.

(In: Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 19, 1987' pp. 85 -100).

M. H. Trevor (1953) Just-in-time systems and Euro-Japanese industrial collaboration. Frankfurt am Main and Boulder, 1988. with I. Christie: Manufacturers and suppliers in Britain and Japan. London, 1988.

R. Venables (one-time Fellow) - A contribution of the Finance Bill 1988 (In: Financial Provision and Taxation on Divorce, by M. O'Dwyer and G. Goodfellow, London, 1988.)

First cumulative supplement to Inheritance Tax Planning 2nd edition. London, 1988.

First cumulative supplement to ltusts and Estate Planning, London, 1988.

Inheritance Thx Planning. 2nd ed. London, 1988.

Non-resident trusts. London, 1988.

Preserving the family farm. 2nd ed. London, 1989. with J. Kessler: Tax planning and fundraising for charities, with precedents. London, 1989.

The Sonnenschein v. Jespersen controversy.

J. B. Walmsley (1957) (In: Udo Fries and M Heusser: Meaning and Beyond, Ernst Leisi zum 70. Geburtstag, pp.

253-281. Tiibingen, 1989).

John Horsey of Martin and his kinsmen at the P. J. Webb (1963) time of the dissolution of the monasteries. (In: The Hatcher Review, Spring 1986, pp. 10-22).

School for life. Denbigh, 1988.

J. A. G. Whitehead (1940) A. B. Worden (Fellow) Literature and political censorship in early modern England. (In: Too Mighty to be Free: Censorship and the Press in Britain and the Netherlands: by A. C. Duke and C. A. Tamse, eds., pp. 45-62. Zutphen, 1988).

The local Ombudsmen: Annual Report D. C. M. Yardley 1988/ 1989. London, 1989.

(Emeritus Fellow)

As well as the books and articles from Aularians there have been other very welcome gifts to the library. We are again indebted to Andrew Peacock (1972) and the Morgan Guaranty Trust of New York for money to purchase books on International Relations; and the Florida State University Law Summer School were pleased for their generous annual gift of money for the library to be put towards the setting up of a Music Cassette Library. We are also grateful to Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Domestic Bursar) for giving a donation towards the

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purchase of cassettes for the music library, and not least to the Governing Body for giving financial support to this enterprise. The law section benefitted once again from a prize-winning paper on International Trade, and special thanks are due to Christopher Tang (1985) for writing the paper, and to the firm of London solicitors, Richards Butler, for supplying the prize money.

The library is greatly indebted to the anonymous donor of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary; this splendid 20 volume set containing all the first edition and the subsequent supplements, would not have been within the means of the library budget, and it is already proving to be a much used asset.

We are also very pleased to have some more books from Roger Farrand's (1955) press: A. Sanderson- Smallpox is Dead, and P. Stone and S. J. Curtis- Pharmacy Practice, and most noteworthy of all a very handsomely leather-bound copy of Hall: Memoirs of St Edmund Hall Graduates 1920-1980, edited by Alan Jenkins (1932), being the first of the 26 leather-bound copies printed, this one for the Aularian Bookshelf, and also two cloth-bound copies for more general circulation.

Thanks are also due to James Price (1949) for giving the library copies of books from his series of facsimile reprints: Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834, published by his firm 'Woodstock Books'; these will be of value not only to students of English literature but also of history. Geoffrey Needham (1947) sent us a copy of Charles Voysey's (19th c. Aularian) revision of the Prayer Book (1892), which we are pleased to have for the Old Library. We were also pleased to have some photographs connected with Oronhyatekha from Mr G. A. Pearce, and another batch of valuable postage stamps from Arthur K. Barton (1929).

Richard Gaskin (Junior Research Fellow) has provided a very useful and welcome translation of all the Latin inscriptions on the wall memorials in St Peter-in-the-East, and many thanks are due to him for this; it is hoped that a fuller account of these memorials with Richard Gaskin's translation might be written up later.

A varied and very interesting collection of books has been given to the library

by Robin Eades (1955). The books have been in his family's possession for many years, and one or two deserve special mention: a Memorabilia from 1779-1811, this vellum bound Irish-related manuscript contains information which could be of significant historical interest to the Northern Ireland Public Record Office.

Another early work is The Compleat English Scholar, by E. Young, 1609, it is the ninth edition of a work on 'Spelling, Reading and Writing' and was probably a very popular work, but of this edition only two other copies are recorded, and none of the earliest editions seem to have survived. Other early works include eight children's books (bearing signs of many readers), now passed to the Bodleian Library for inclusion into the Opie Collection. There were a number of books concerning Bristol, a good collection of John Ruskin and a run of The Spectator. Also a first edition of Burke's French Revolution, a two volume set of A Sentimental Journey by 'Mr Yorick' (Sterne), and a number of 17th and 18th century early printed books which will be incorporated into the Old Library.

Grateful thanks are given to all those mentioned above, and also to the following for their generous gifts of books and journals: R. E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow), D. Bourne-Jones (1951), H . F. Bradford, M. A. Branch, A. Briggs (Fellow), S. H. Browne (1938), N. E. Crank (Fellow), G. V. Davis (1962), C. E. Dawson (1988), R. A. Farrand (1955), R. H. Findlay (1968), Florida State University Law Summer School, P. B. Hirsch (Fellow), D. F. Jones (1952), M . Kell (1983), J. N. D. Kelly (Honorary Fellow), the late G. C. Leslie (one 78

time Fellow), S. C. Marlow (1984), E. G. Midgley (Emeritus Fellow), Z. Nawaz (1980), D. G. Phillips (Fellow), P. H. Rogers (1932), J. W. Sanders, J. Spurr (Fellow), J. D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow), K. S. Ward-Perkins (Lecturer), C. J. Wells (Fellow), S. E. Wernberg-Mflller, A. B. Worden (Fellow), R. T. C. Worsley (1939), D. A. Wyatt (Fellow).

Sasha Wernberg-Mflller

WHAT? NO BEETHOVEN QUARTETS? is pursuing a new initiative. Galvanized into action by the Librarian, Sasha Wernberg-Mflller, and supported by generous initial donations from the Governing Body and the visiting Florida State Law School, a Music Cassette Library has been established which now boasts more than one hundred tapes of classical music. The aim has been to include only what are judged to be the very best available performances, and given our early limitations and restraints, there were at the outset some rather curious gaps and omissions ... as well as a useful title for this article! In the meantime, these gaps are being successfully plugged, and a steadily increasing membership of the 'club' of borrowers indicates that this venture has been more than worthwhile. We thank many for gifts and apologise for not acknowledging each by individual mention.

Mrs Wernberg-Mflller is to be applauded for putting forward and administering this welcome and valuable addition to library and music facilities.

Is there anyone willing to provide us with funds for more cassettes- or even C.D.s?

P.J.C.

THE COLLEGE

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THE SCHOOLS TRINITY TERM 1989

Honour School of Natural Science: Biochemistry: Part II: Class 211: J. S. Lai, Miss S. R. Mortimore, Miss J. C. Taylor. Part I (Unclassified Honours): P. N. Ahrens, J. H. M. Simon, Miss D. Wong. Chemistry: Part II: Class 1: Miss A. S. Ulrich. Class 211: M . R. Little, G. A. Worth. Class 212: A . J. Barwise, Miss J. L. Cannon. Class3: M. A. Feeley. Part /(Unclassified Honours): M. J. Borrett, D. A. Gillett, Miss N. C. Inman, C. W. Kay, T. J. Lister, S. P .

Mills, G. F. Mott, A. P. Rabin. Pass: N. E. Greensmith. Engineering Science: Class I: D. J . Southall. Class 211: I. S. Bedi, M. B. Fitzgerald. Class 212: Miss P. Allison. Class 3: N. A. Jacob. Engineering and Computing Science: Part I (Unclassified Honours): A. T. Harrison. Electrical and Structural Materials Engineering: Part I (Unclassified Honours): E. H. Caddick. Geology: Class I: A. D. Smith. Class 211: Miss R. L. Marsden. Class 212: Miss A. M. Barker, M. Harris. Class 3: J. C. D. Waldron. Pass: P.A. Saunders. Metallurgy and Science of Materials: Part I (Unclassified Honours): Miss P. 0. Griffiths, J. P. Lindsay, D. J. Monaghan, Miss S. A. Williamson. Physics: Class 1: P.A. Boasman, D. R. Denholm, S. D. Hodgson, P. Richards. Class 211: G. J. Turner. Class 212: P. I. H . Jennings, S. A. H. Saeed, P. W. Shek.

Physiological Sciences: Class 1: A. Chalmers. Class 211: Miss B. L. Purcell, Miss A . C. Stark.

Honour School of English Language and Literature: Class 211: Miss S. Ahmed, Miss C. C. Bird, S. G. Lee, R. Robinson, D. C. Streatfeild-James, Miss E. E. Williams . Class 2/2: J. F. Myhill, Miss S. J. Smith. Class 3: A. R. Gamble, Miss P. Glynn. Aegrotat: Miss J . S. Moody.

Honour School of English and Modern Languages: Class 211: Miss C. J. Taylor.

Honour School of Geography: Class 211: Miss A . E. Botting, M. S. Stanislawski. Class 212: T. P. Dudley, N. E . Sharrock. Class 3: G. A. Rogers.

Honour School of Jurisprudence: Class 1: I. H . Mackie, N. D. Midgley. Class 211: J. R. Allison, Miss L. C. Booth, Miss S. H. Bradford, P.A. F. Clifford, S. P. Crawford, Miss L. A. Hardiman, R. A. Meakin. Class 2/2: Miss L. J. Beresford, A . R. J. Maxwell.

Honour School of Mathematics: Class 211: M. N. H . Waller. Class 2/2 : J. A. C. Clark, D. Psillos.

Honour School of Mathematics and Computation: Class 1: P. D. Cugley. Class 2/1: M. W. Bedser.

Honour School of Metallurgy, Economics and Management: Class 211: A. P. J. Scurlock. Class 212: S. C . Cox, Miss R. E. Pegram.

Honour School of Modern History: Class 1: R. W. Jenkins. Class 211: Miss S. A. Adams, J. A. Akeroyd, A . R. Hawkes, Miss R. H. Trethewey. Class 2/2: A. D. Balfour, S. P. Haslehurst, A. H. Johnson, A. R. W. Martyn, Miss J. E. Thornton. Class 3: N. R. Hawton.

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Honour School of Modern History and Modern Languages: Class 1: R. A. N. Khan. Class 2/1: Miss A. J. Weiner.

Honour School of Modern Languages: Class 211: Miss C. S. W. Crombie, Miss I. M. Fry, A. J. Watson, T . G. Willis. Class 2/2: Miss J. A. James, Miss J. R. J. Lacey, Miss E. C. Palmer, R. H. Upton. Class 3: P. N. Moorhouse.

Honour School of Oriental Studies; Arabic: Class 212: A. L. Small.

Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: Class 1: S. R. Easton, P. Mauro. Class 211: C. R. Carter, G. Flook, P. J. M. Houston, D. S. Hurton, J. R. W. Jones, D. N. Kassler, A. J. McJannet, Miss S. M. E .

Murphy. Class 212: S. D. Briggs, W. S. Fraser, D . Loan-Clarke, Miss S. M. Smith.

Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology: Class 212: Miss S. H. Moran.

Bachelor of Fine Art: Pass: Miss C. R. Harrison, Miss H. M. Juffs.

GRADUATE DEGREES 1988-1989

D.M.: Dr D. 0. Haskard.

D.Sc.: Dr A. Horsman.

D.Phil.: C. J. Ashworth, S. M. Fries, P. Gale, R. Gaskin, Mrs V. C. Grundy, P. J. Lewis, W. W. Luk, M. C. Pienkowski, Mrs M. M. Quaid-Ahlstrand, D. Shangguan, D. M. Weary.

M.Phil.: Miss S. C. Anderson, Miss M. A. Betley, C. S. A . Costa, Miss V. Joshi, C. R. Orchard, M. P. Sedwill.

M.Sc.: T. M. V. Chow, M. J. Davis, A. P. Deamer, J. M. Fothergill, N. J. Gay, J. R. Griffiths, Miss V. C. Hardy, P. S. Williams.

B.C.L.: R. P. T. Howe.

B.M., B.Ch.: N. D. Downing, A. J. McCleary, R. M. Taylor.

Certificate in Education: Miss K. H. Bilsborough, Miss L. E. Harvey, Miss J. S. Howard, Miss G. C. Humphreys, G. A. Maddocks, C. A. Sentance.

Special Diploma in Social Studies: S. M. Ferguson, J. Kassimis.

DEGREES B.A.: 22 October 1988 A. J. Ashelford, Miss A. J. Cooke, P.A. Harding, M. J. Hudson, Miss C. L. Johnson, A. D. H. Macdonald, *P. J. Markwick, *Miss P.C. Mitchell, *J. M. B. Pitt, Miss E. Walker, Miss F. L. S. Willis, Miss R. C. S. Willis. 5 November 1988 Miss V. L. Drew, *P. M. Ellwood, S. R. Goodyear, A. H. Harwood, M. I. Hill, *T. Holman, *Miss C. V.

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Hutton, Miss A. H. Jones, N. G . Laird, E. J. Marsh, R. M. Russell, C. A. Sentance, K. J. Stannard, A. M. Watkins, C. J. Wilkins, R. A. Wright. 26 November 1988 S. N. Fisher, P. Gale, C. Gee, M. J . Gorrod, J. Griffiths, J. J. McGowan, M. J. McNamee, A. J. O'Connell, C. Tang, S. R. Vinter. 21 January 1989 A. J. Ballsdon, C. G. Bone, *R. H. Edge, S. M. Ferguson, K. Kodama, Miss H. Y. Sultan, Miss M. E. Teo, P. S. Williams. 4 March 1989 Miss S. E. Beatt, K. S. Cooper, A. J . Gowans, Miss S. A. Hodgson, Miss S. A. Hughes, N. A. James, *C. R. Jones, W . Krone, Miss C. V. Mackay, N. C. Peacock, D. C. Savage, P. R. Smith, *A. A. G. Snook, S. J. Waygood, D. C. Whitmarsh, M. R. Wood. 20May 1989 J. P . Atkinson, J. M. Bloomer, Miss C. J. Cowley, Miss J. Elliott, N. C. Hall-Palmer, C. J. Hawley, M. A. Hazelwood, Miss F. A. B. Houston, T. J. S. Learner, Miss T . L. Oglesby, T. C. Owen, *W. J. Shaw, Miss H. P. Simmonds. 10 June 1989 S. Bartlett, C. M. Crane, P.A. Edge, D. R. Firth, Miss A. Fletcher, B. D. Hicks. 15 July 1989 J. M. Risman, *N. C. T. Rogers, M. F. T. Stephenson, J. A. P. Ray, *J. J. McPartlin. 29 July 1989 *P. Mauro, C. R. Richards, Miss P. W .

Rudlin, Miss S. P. Thurell.

M.A.: 22 October 1988 *Miss H. E. Aston, *W. Baston, *E. M. Eames, *R. Gaster, *S. A. Gilbert, *A. Horsman, A . F. Johnson, *J. M. B. Pitt, *D. R. Symonds, *A. J . G. Teller, *R. H . M. Teller, Miss R. C. S. Willis. 5 November 1988 *P. M. Ellwood, *P. T. Evans, *D. J . Firth. *J. J. O'Brien, *J. C . Murkett, J. C. Senogles, M. Widdowson. 26 November 1988 D. J .

Fisk, P. Gale, G. R. Gildersleve, *K. F. McCormac, Miss C. R. Nunes, *A. N. Ridley, *D. M. Tomlinson. 21 January 1989 C. G. Bone, *R. H. Edge, *A. J. Ewart, K. Kodama, *I. D . Myson, *Mrs J. A. Myson (nee Busby) *M. J. Partridge, *P. E. Ramell, *B . F. Taylor, G. Taylor. 4 March 1989 W. W. Cabral, *D. Griffiths, *D. N. Manning, *M. R. Owens, *Mrs S. M. Rothwell (nee Bourne), *Miss A. M. Volfing. 20 May 1989 *D. Aeron-Thomas, *S. Agrawal, *P Bruyns, *E. W. Entwistle, *G. P. Lewis, *W. C . W. Luk, *N. J . Orton, *J . L. Toole. 10 June 1989 Miss S. E. Heath, *A. W. R. Mitchell.

15 July 1989 *A. Beare, A . C. R. Burns, *W. R. Daetz *D. C. R. Harding, *T. P. Haywood, *J. J. McPartlin, G. C. Nissen, J. A. P. Ray, *N. C. T. Rogers, *G. P. Slater, *J . K. Stephen, M. F. T. Stephenson. 29 July 1989 C. J. R. Barron, M. Betton, Miss F. T. Bick, Miss C. L. Clarke, S. Dowling, A. J. Graham, P. M. Hess, C. S. Penn, R. G. Waple, M. Windridge.

D.M. : 22 October 1988 S. P. Frostick D.Sc.: 15 July 1989 D.Phil.: 22 October 1988 *R. Gaskin, Mrs V. Grundy. 5 November 1988 S. E. Ghani. 26 November 1988 A. G. Norman. 4 March 1989 P. Gale, *R. Mukherjee. 20 May 1989 *D. Shangguan, D. M. Weary. 10 June 1989 Mrs M. M. Quaid-Ahlstrand. 15 July 1989 P. J. Lewis, W. C. W. Luk. M.Litt.: 10 June 1989 Miss K. Cooke.

M.Phil.: 22 October 1988 *M. B. Ledden. 5 November 1988 S. E. Ghani. 20 May 1989 *C. J. Williams . 10 June 1989 J. G. Campbell. 15 July 1989 Miss S. C. Anderson, C. S. A. Costa.

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M.Sc.: 22 October 1988 *E. M. Eames. 26 November 1988 V. T. M. Chow , J. Griffiths . 21 January 1989 M. J . Davis, *Miss V. Hardy. 10 June 1989 1. M. Fothergill. 29 July 1989 A. P. Dreamer, N. J. Gay. B.A .: by Incorporation: 22 October 1988 *Miss C. J. Roberts.

B.C.L. : 26 November 1988 Miss C. J . Band, 10 June 1989 Miss J. F. Ivinson.

BFA: 10 June 1989 Mrs E. F. Bell.

B.M., B.Ch.: 15 July 1989 N. D. Downing, A. J. McCleary, R. M. Taylor. *In Absence.

MATRICULATIONS 1988 Adlington, Hugh Christian, Solihull School Adu-Ampoma, Letitia, Queens College Taunton Archer, Catherine Louise, Sir John Lawes School Barilla, lames, Macalester College Basnage de Beauval, John Muhlenberg , Pennsylvania University Bell, Adam Bradley, King Edward VI Birmingham Bilsborough, Kathryn Helen, Nottingham University Binks, Douglas John, Judd School Boag, Alexander Jason, Bradford G .S. Boyd-Heron, Angus Mark Donald, Tonbridge School Brace, James Jackson, Lincoln Christ's Hospital Braunsfurth, Manfred Gerhard, Bonita Vista High School Breese, Sop hie Eleanor, Godolphin & Latymer Briggs, Helen Rebecca Kirsten, Barnsley S.F.C. Bromfield, Mary Rachel, King's College Taunton Browning, Marcus lames, Alton College Buckland, Paul Andrew, Exeter University Bullock, Matthew lames, Eastbourne College Campbell, Elise, The Queen's School Chester Candy, Sara Catherine, St. Brendan's S.F.C. Cane, Deborah Ann, Kingston G.S. Chait, Elisa Anne, Wellesley College Cochrane, Sean William lames, St. Mary' s College Crosby Crerar, William Drummond , Edinburgh Academy Curtis , Lucy Alexanra, Wellington College Davies, Kirsty Jane, Lady Manners School Dawson, Christopher Edward, Reading University Devetta, Dominic Marc John, Charterhouse Dhillon, Sundeep, Epsom College Dieppe, Timothy Geoffrey, Stockport G.S. Donkin, Timothy Liam Francis, Cardinal Newman School Dougan, Paul Thomas, Poole G.S. Ensor, Joanna Jane, King's School Canterbury Ferera , Leon Nicholas, St. Paul' s School Ferguson, Jonathan Irvine, Royal Belfast Academical Institution Field , Emma Katharine, Solihull S.F.C.

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Finch, Gabriel John, Cardinal Newman School Finke, Jens Ulrich Richard, Parrs Wood High School Fok, Ronald Man Kwan, Hong Kong University Ford, Stuart Anthony Luke, Liverpool Bluecoat School Fowler, James Richard, Royal G.S . Worcester Fox, Mark Robert, Colyton G.S. Franco Salum, Arturo Gerardo, Universidad Catolica do Parana Brazil Fraser, lain James, Largs Academy Garrison, Christopher Sinclair, Dr. Challoners G.S. Gibson, lngrid Tina, Bryanston Gillham. Lucia Wilma, King Edward VI College Totnes Gordon, Keith Michael, Haberdashers' Aske's Greenham, Antony Crosby, Poole G.S. Halliwell, David Arthur, Hautlieu School Hamilton, Kathryn Lindsay, Stockport G.S .

Harrison, Benedict Jonathan, Bryanston Hart, Justina Alison, King Edward VI Girls High Harvey, Lee Elizabeth, Oxford Polytechnic Haworth, Mark Derek, King's School Worcester Herold, David Marc, Cornell University Himes, James Andrew, Harvard Holden, John Duncan, Skinners' School Howard, Jill Sandra, Nottingham University Howard, Karen Ruth, Manchester Girls High Howe, Robert Paul Thomson, Cambridge University Hulance, Jason Robert, Poole G.S. Humphreys, Gillian Carol, Bristol University Hunter, Andrew Michael, Royal Belfast Academical Institution Ixer, Helen Kay, Loughborough High Jardine, Catherine Belinda, Haileybury Johnson, Nicholas Guy, Radley Jones, Rhian Mair, Caereinion High Jordan, Mark Timothy, Bromsgrove School Kassimis, James, St. Andrew's University Kilgarriff, Richard Kingsley John, Leeds G.S. Kim, Hyun-Won, Michigan University Kovacs, Zoltan, Kossuth Lajos University Kretzer, Ursula Maria Hildegard, University of Western Australia Lam, Wai Man Edward, Kirkham G.S. Langstaff, Nigel Jeremy, King's School Macclesfield Laws, Andrew David, Hills Road S.F.C. Lewis, Mark Stephen, King's School Worcester Luckraft, Richard Torring, Truro School Luke, Simon Aubrey, Barton Peveril College McCallum, Hamish Alexander, Ingatestone Anglo-European Comp.

Mackey, Paul Michael, Macalester College Macro, Angela Mary Elizabeth, Kelly College Mann, Catriona, Haywards Heath College Mann, Susanna Jane, Dr. Challoner's High School Martin, Stewart John Edmund, Dr. Challoner's G.S. Massey, George Kynan Ardern, Eton

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Matthews, Peter Stuart, Goffs School Mattoo, Amitabh, Jawaharlal Nehru University Mavrikakis, Nicholas Andreas, Portsmouth G.S. Mellhuish, Kate, Chichester Girls High Michaelis, Anthony Peter, Radley Milligan, Jan Charles, Magdalen College School Moult, Celia Ashbrook, Manchester High School Murray, David Gerard, Gunnersbury School Neal, David Jonathan, Warwick School Newman, Clive Justin, Loughborough G.S. Othen, Peter Jeremy, London University Ouzman, Jacqueline Valerie Anne, Bury Metropolitan College Parry, Heather Jane, Goffs School Penrose, Julie, Colchester County High Perrett, Tracey Jane, Maidstone Girls G.S. Peterkin, James Robert, Chichester Boys High Peterson, Victoria Elizabeth, King's School Canterbury Peto, Warren James, Sheredes School Pettitt, Jeremy Nicholas, Leeds University Powell, Craig Jonathan, Brentwood School Powell, Paul George, King Edward VI Chelmsford Qizilbash, Mozaffar Ali Khan, Cambridge University Reese, Jason Meredith, London University Riaz, Mohammad Iftikhar Uddin, Winchester Roberts, Alison, Hitchin Girls' School Rowe, David John, Bexley G.S. Rudd, James Henry, King Edward VI Chelmsford Sanders, Giles Hugo William, John Lyon School Harrow Saunders, Ursula Penelope, Chichester Girls High Sery, Marc Georges Albert, Abidjan University Shafran, Rosamund Lucy, North London Collegiate Sharp, Sally Mary, St. Bede's School Shaw, Philip Hugh, Queen's College Taunton Sibson, Lucinda Raphaelle, South Hampstead High School Sidebotham, Katherine Abigail, Withington Girls School Sparrow, Stephen Roger, St. Edward's School Stewart, David William Alastair, Aberdeen G.S. Stinson, Neil Andrew, Manchester G.S. Stirrat, Kenneth Alexander, Highlands G.S. Halifax Styles, Anna Charlotte, Coventry School Bablake Suh, Seung Ryol, Seoul National University Tabinor, Jonathan, Newcastle-under-Lyme School Tomin, Marek, Radley Tuckley, Jason Edward, Vyners School Turrell, Paul Richard, Portsmouth G.S. Venkataraman, Geetha, Delhi University Vibert, Elizabeth, University of East Anglia Wade, Rosemary Caroline, Chelmsford Girls County High Warren, Emma Jane, Caerleon Comp.

Waters, Simon Anthony John, St. Edward's Watts, Terence Roy, Coopers' Company & Coborn School Webster, Zuleika, Bearsden Academy

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West, Alexandra Mary, Droitwich High Westgate, Daniel Jason, Varndean S.F.C. Whittaker, Michael Amos, Newcastle-under-Lyme School Williams, David Philip, Ridings High Williams, Jonathon Marsh, Queen Mary's G.S. Walsall Wilson, Barry Simon, St. John Rigby S.F.C. Wilson, Karina Louise, Ashlawn School Rugby Wilson, Mark Christopher Alexander, Worth Wong, Christopher Gar Son, University of Auckland W oolley, Simon Kelt, Winchester

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Balance Sheet as at 31 July 1989 ASSETS EMPLOYED Investments at Cost: £2,000 Exchequer Stock 13 .5% 1992 ... .. . ........ .

Tyndall & Co Deposit ..... . ..... . ....... ...... ..

Premium Savings Bonds ..... ......... ......... .

1989 £ 1,920 2,435 !50

1988 £

Debtors ... .. ..... .. ......... ... ............ .. . .. . . . . . .. .. . .. . .. . .. . . . . . .. .. . .. . .. .

8,874 169 9,043 9,043 5,761 £3,282

--REPRESENTED BY Accumulated Funds: General Fund at start of year. ....... . ....... .... .

(Deficit) from Income and Expenditure Account .. .

1,028 ~

Directory Fund at start of year ................. . .. .

Net amount incurred during year. .. ... .. ......... .

Appropriation during the year. .......... . ... ..... .

2,254 (1 ,025) 500

£

1,920 6,804 !50 4,505 45 4,550 2,850 7,400 4,734 £2,666

Bank Balance . . . .. . .. . . .. .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .

Less: Creditors

£

- --

2,432 (1 ,404)

937

1,028 2,500 (746) 500

1,729 £2,666

2,254 £3,282

RA FARRAND (President) J R PAUL (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 July 1989.

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 31 July 1989 and of the deficit of expenditure over income for the year ended on that date.

24 August 1989

IAN R K RAE (Honorary Auditor)

The Keeper's House Long Green, Little Barrow Chester CH3 7JW

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the year ended 31 July 1989 1989 £ INCOME Subscriptions and Donations .... ... ............ . .

Investment Income ................ ........ ... .. .

Interest from the Emden Bequest ........ ... ... . .

Premium Bond Prize ..... ..... ... ... ............ . .

£

3,619 517 160

1988 £ 3,597 562 213

50 4,296

EXPENDITURE Magazine ....... .... . ...... ........ .... ..... .

Postage on Magazine ............. .... ......... .

Secretarial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Sundries ..... ............. ..... ......... ...... ... .

Excess of Income over Expenditure ... ... ... .... .... .

Less grants: Restoration of portrait in Dining Hall Refurnishing the 'well area' of the ancient JCR. Bench outside present JCR .................... .

Contribution to Music Fund ...... ..... ..... .... .

New Flagpole- cancelled ....................... .

Repainting of Hall Arms and associated work .. .

4,422

1,875 1,569

1,725 1,406

134

131

19

64 3,597 699

3,326 1,096

490

(200) 290

Appropriation to Directory Fund . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

£

1,200 300 200 200 100 2,000

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(Deficit) carried to General Fund on Balance Sheet .. .

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 9 January 1990.

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Something about Edmund Bear SOME AULARIANS may have read in the 'Yorkshire Post' about Edmund Bear who has become something of a money raiser at the Hall and I am grateful to have the space to thank the many old and present members who have given such overwhelming support to this and the other enterprise ventures from the Bursary.

As a trial, a number of reproductions of Hall prints were offered for sale at the John Kelly luncheon in April- they were a sell out and following up a number of other suggestions at that event, Edmund Bear was born. He has proved to be a winner and, with other lines, has brought in over ÂŁ6,000 to date.

Unfortunately, we cannot supply any more framed prints by post for fear of breakage, but there is an order form at the back of this magazine on which you will find details of items that are available by mail order.

I have received a number of enquiries about ladies' silk squares with one of the popular St. Edmund Hall prints. My enquiries show that we could produce them at about ÂŁ20 each, but I should need about 100 orders. Any Old Members interested, please drop a line to me.

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Domestic Bursar

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ST. EDMUND HALL ENTERPRISES HALL TIES 'Chough'- on a gold background, chough repeat pattern, available as a sporting/ weekend tie £6 .00 each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or as a self-tie bow £5.00 each ... ... .. . ... ... ... ... ... .. . ... ... ... .. .

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'Red Cross'- formal black ground with red cross flory repeat pattern £6.00 each ... .. . .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

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'Coat of Arms'- formal black tie with Hall coat of arms and 'St. Edmund Hall Oxford ' scroll below knot £6.00 each .. . .. . ... ...

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These ties are exclusive to St. Edmund Hall and are not available elsewhere.

EDMUND BEARS Cuddly bear 35 cm high, moving limbs with exclusive label and gold Hall bow tie @ £8.00... .. . ... ... ... .. . .. . ... ... .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

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ETCHED COASTERS Copper coasters, etched with coat of arms, set of six £6.00

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A VAILABLE BEFORE CHRISTMAS CERAMIC MUGS White bone china, with coat of arms and scroll, £3 .50 each

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TEA TOWELS A very high quality printed tea towel, design produced from an early engraving, £3 .00 each... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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POST & PACKING UK please add 50p for ties; £1.00 for other items .

Overseas, add approximately £1.00 for ties; £3.00 other items (if you think it will be more, please add more!) *PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO 'ST. EDMUND HALL'

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