St Edmund Hall Magazine 1991-92

St Edmund Hall Magazine

.AULA 8~1 EDMUNDI. IN UNIVERSITATE OXON.

1991-92

ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE VOL. XIV. No. 2

October 1992 EDITOR: D. I. SCARGILL

PUBLICATION of the Magazine may arouse little enthusiasm within College but it does not go unnoticed in the world outside. First it was Private Eye, most recently The Telegraph, in which Peterborough observed that if last year's list of lost members were correct, the Hall could boast the oldest man alive in Britain. Our ever-resourceful College Secretary, who had the task of handling media enquiries, was heard to say that Aularians were indeed longlived. Perhaps it is the exercise they take, or the relaxed atmosphere of the Hall , or simply the good food. There must be an explanation and somewhere out there there could be a 109-year old Aularian.

The length of last year's missing list is evidence of how easy it is to lose touch. Happily its inclusion in the Magazine has resulted in some contacts being renewed but there are still gaps in our records. Do please let us know if you move, and biographical details or even a matter-or-fact cv would also be welcome. The same applies to obituary notices of Aularian friends . Sad though the task is to write them, the information they contain about the lives and careers of our Old Members is something we appreciate and are pleased to include in the Hall's archives. I am grateful for a number of such contributions which it has been possible to publish in this year's magazine.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL THIS YEAR has seen the deaths of two former Fellows. Shortly before Christmas George Alien died at his home in Devon at the age of 68. Although he had not been in perfect health, there had been no immediate cause for concern. He collapsed suddenly and died immediately. He was a Lecturer in Economics in the early 'fifties, and became a Fellow in 1956. He left us in 1964 to join Grace Brothers in New York, returning later to Britain to a Chair at Aberdeen in 1971, before 'retiring' into private consultancy work.

He was my senior colleague in PPE when I first came, and remained a friend until his death, returning regularly to college occasions.

In April, George Ramsay died, almost as suddenly, at the age of 83. George became a Fellow in 1937 and retired early in 1974 to begin the most productive stage of his scholarly life, a productivity the quality of which was recognised two years ago by election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. George wisely kept his distance from administration, but in his early days, was well known for his contributions, with Harry Irving, to college concerts. We shall all miss his courteous charm.

On a happier note: Dr Child has been awarded an ad hominem Professorship, the University's way of recognising exceptionally distinguished work, - we all, of course, produce distinguished work.

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch, who was elected to the Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy in 1966, retires at the end of this academic year, after which he will join the ranks of Emeritus Fellows. Not only has he built on the foundations laid by his predecessor, Professor Hume-Rothery, to develop a very distinguished department, he has also been very active outside the University. It is unlikely that he will become suddenly inactive.

This year we have welcomed two new Fellows, Dr Fiorangelo Salvatorelli, as Tutorial Fellow in Engineering and Mr (now Dr) Julian Johansen as Junior Research Fellow in Arabic.

In Finals, we have recorded thirteen Firsts. The recent upsurge in theatrical activity has continued. One of our women undergraduates won drama cuppers for solo female performance, and a new group, calling itself 'Hot Air', has supported, with considerable success, a number of productions, auditioning University wide. Music has also continued to flourish, helped by some gifts of pianos from old and current members.

On the sportsfield we won the Rugby League seven-a-side Cuppers again, and also the women's hockey, men's athletics and five-a-side football. We also regained the Rugby cup and went up two places in Eights, so that we now lie fifth. This last was helped happen by the new Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club, mentioned on another page.

In November, I once more visited our group of Old Members based on the east coast of the United States. They have moved to the civilised practice of making the dinner a social occasion and doing business over breakfast the next morning. The vigour and warmth of these occasions always sends me back determined that we should do our job better so as to come nearer to earning such enthusiasm. In September I hope to see a mostly different group in Philadelphia and Washington.

At the end of this calendar year, Mr Colin Mattingly, our 2

Development Director, will be leaving us. He came to get our house in order, helped by Mrs Black, and to put us on a good footing for systematic fund-raising. Matters have now reached a stage where his advice is that we need someone full time. We have been much helped by advice from a number of old members, and hope to have someone in post early in the new year at the latest. We are most grateful to Mr Mattingly for all he has done for us, and hope that we shall be able to build on the foundations he has laid.

The grossed sum from regular giving by old members stands at just over ÂŁ260,000. We have also, as mentioned on another page, received a very generous benefaction of ÂŁ700,000 from Bill Miller (matric. -1949). Half of this is to fund a Tutorial Fellowship in Biochemistry. One feature of Oxford which is under definite threat from recent trends in funding universities, is the tutorial system.

This seems to us Oxford's most valuable contribution to education, but there is no doubt that it is expensive, and it will only survive if colleges can secure the kind of generous support Bill has given.

Other parts of the gift will secure a Junior Research Fellowship, and some graduate awards. Supporting research is an important part of a college's contribution to the University, and these are two ofthe more visible ways of doing it. Quite apart from the direct help, this munificent gift has given a great boost to our morale, and we are more grateful than can readily be expressed in standard English by someone brought up in a British 'public school'.

May I remind old members that during term they are welcome to dine at their not very great expense on High Table, and to bring a guest (spouses are eligible as guests) . The mechanism is to sign yourself in at the Lodge, in person or by 'phone before 10 a. m. on the day in question, making it clear that you are an old member.

It is, of course, wise for your own comfort to get in touch with someone here first, to make sure there is someone you know dining in . A few have taken advantage of this facility, and I believe found it enjoyable. We certainly like it. If you are going to be in Oxford it is worth thinking of.

With all best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Justin Gosling

SENIOR COMMON ROOM NEWS has had an article in the Encyclopaedia of Ethics on 'Pleasure' edited by Lawrence C. Becker. He also gave a paper to the Metaphysical Society at Trinity College, Dublin, on 'How to deal with counter example: some dubious ways'.

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The Vice-Principal, Dr D. I. Scargill, has been appointed to the Oxfordshire County Juvenile Panel of Magistrates and serves on its Executive Committee.

The Rev H. E. J. Cowdrey has lectured in Moscow, Berlin, Serra San Bruno (Calabria) and Palermo.

Mr J. B. Knight used his sabbatical year to conduct research on income distribution in China and labour markets in Southern Africa, spending time in both areas as well as at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and the International Labour Office in Geneva.

Dr P. J. Collins visited Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand during his sabbatical leave in Hilary Term, and from February until April 1992 was Foundation Visitor at the University of Auckland. He also attended Council meetings of Europa Nostra (the European conservation organisation) in Dublin in September 1991, and in Milan in May 1992. He has been Guest Editor of the American mathematics journal, 'Topology and its Applications'.

Dr D. G. Phillips gave the keynote address to the annual meeting of the British History of Education Society and presented papers in Paderborn, Annapolis and Prague. He has been appointed to membership of the scientific advisory council and the Foundation council of the German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt.

Dr A. G. L. Borthwick attended the Hydrocomp '92 Conference in Budapest in May 1992 and visited the Hydrological Research Station at Lake Balaton courtesy of the Hungarian Water Resources Research Centre.

The Rev Graham Midgley (Emeritus Fellow) has not wandered too far afield this year. In June he spent an idyllic fortnight at the house of Ann and Ron Hall (matric. 1949) in Spain. Those many generations of undergraduates, who shared tutorials with William the Labrador, will be sad to know that, shortly after his fourteenth birthday, he was called to the Happy Hunting Grounds.

Dr D. C. M. Yardley (Emeritus Fellow) has visited several countries as a Director of the International Ombudsman Institute and has given papers in Florence, Mexico City, Kuala Lumpur and Reading. He edited the Guide to the Local Government Ombudsman Service, published by Longmans in 1992.

Mr R. E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow) is still a member of the English Committee of the School Examinations and Assessment Council, and a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board. He still edits the Review of English Studies for OUP, and still tries to learn to draw.

Dr R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow) conducted a series of seminars as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna in 4

October 1991. Thereafter he visited Budapest for consultation with members of the English Department and lectured at Charles University, Prague. He attended the opening of the Finnish Institute, London, in December.

Mr A. I. Marsh (Emeritus Fellow) spent much of the year preparing the fourth volume of the Historical Directory of Trade Unions and a new edition of the International Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (with Jay Sherfritz of Pittsburg). His Easter Conference at the Hall, on Employee Relations in Britain and Europe in the 1990s, attracted 46 participants from universities and industry. He continues to carry out research (with Bill Cox, Junior Research Fellow) into discrimination aspects of management restructuring at London Underground.

Mr N. C. Pollock (Emeritus Fellow) has published Tobruk: A Personal Account, an account of his wartime experiences in Egypt and the Western Desert. Copies (ÂŁ4.85, inc. post) can be obtained from Gooday Publishers, 31 St Martins Way, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 3PY. Miss Deborah Eaton, Librarian, lectured on and gave demonstrations in archaeology in July 1991 to fourth and fifth-formers from various Essex state and independent schools, as part of a school initiative to offer their more talented students a broader challenge than that which the curriculum allowed. She has also been appointed to the University committee for the preparation and maintenance of a union catalogue of books to 1800 held in the University's libraries.

APPOINTMENTS MR A. BRIGGS has succeeded Dr A. B. Worden as Senior Tutor. Dr G. M. Reed has been appointed Dean, with Mr C. J. Wells acting as Deputy Dean, and Mr J. P. D. Dunbabin is the new Library Fellow. Dr C. E. Phelps has been reappointed Safety Officer and Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs as well as serving as Tutor for Admissions.

Mr Robert Venables QC, has been elected to a Fellowship by Special Election with effect from" 19 February 1992.

Dr David Rutherford Priestland has been elected to a Tutorial Fellowship in Modern History with effect from 1 October 1992.

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch has been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship with effect from 1 October 1992.

Dr Nigel Fenton Palmer, the newly appointed Professor in German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, has been elected to a

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Professorial Fellowship with effect from 1 October 1992. Dr Palmer was, until recently, Reader in German and a Fellow of Oriel College.

Professor David Godfrey Pettifor, the newly appointed Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy, has been elected to a Professorial Fellowship with effect from 1 October 1992. Professor Pettifor was, until recently, Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics at Imperial College, London.

Ms Carol Jackson has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in English. ¡ Mr Grant Lamond, Magdalen College, has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Law. Mr J. B. Knight, Dr A. G. Taylor and Dr B. Kouvaritakis have been awarded special (University) lecturerships for the academic year 1992-93.

The following have been appointed to lecturerships: Dr Richard Jozsa (Mathematics), Dr Nicholas Crouch (Chemistry), Mr J. Ahearne (French), Ms Danielle Clark (English), Ms Susan Hitch (English), Dr J. Rikovska (Physics), Dr N. J. Crowe (Russian), Dr J. Boardman (Geography), Mr T. Rhys-Jones (Music).

Dr Darnian Atkinson has been appointed full-time Library Assistant. Dr Atkinson has had a variety of teaching posts, from primary school to the Open University, which latter included broadcasting. He obtained his Ph.D from Leicester University and is working on a collected edition of the letters of W. E. Henley (1849-1903). He has also been asked to contribute an entry on Henley to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

During the course of the year, the Fellows elected Mr Bill Miller to Honorary Membership of the Senior Common Room. Bill Sotirovich and Raymond Ullyatt have also been made members of the Common Room.

HONOURS AND AWARDS THE MAGAZINE CONGRATULATES :

Dr M. S. Child on his appointment by the University to an ad hominem professorship with the title of Professor of Chemical Dynamics.

Mr Stephen Farthing, Ruskin Master of Drawing, on the award of a John Moores Prize for his exhibit at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

Professor Cecil Grayson (Honorary Fellow) on the award of CBE in the New Year Honours List for his contribution to Italian studies.

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Professor E. R. Oxburgh (Honorary Fellow), Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence, on the award ofKBE in the Birthday Honours List.

Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson (Honorary Fellow) on his appointment as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

Mr Daniel Brockington who won a Book Prize in the Gibbs Examination in Geography, October 1991, and was runner-up for the Herbertson Prize in· the Final Honour School of Geography 1992.

The following awards to Old Members have also been noted with pleasure: Mr D. J. Day OBE, Mr G. de Deney knighthood , Mr J. R. C. Young CBE, Mr R. L. Hill Hon.D.Litt (Durham).

GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE THE GOVERNING BODY acknowledges with gratitude the following gifts: the benefaction from Mr W. R. Miller, further details of which can be found elsewhere in the Magazine; from the St Edmund Hall Association the gift of £1,500 towards the cost of the Principal's portrait, £100 for thirty prayer books for the Hall Chapel, and a ceramic tortoise for the Principal and Fellows; upright pianos from Mr R. W. Winstanley (1956), Mr Noel Tonkin (1955) and Mr P. R. Lynan (Organ Scholar 1989-91); financial contributions towards the cost of acquiring a grand piano from Mr Robert Venables QC, the St Edmund Hall Association and Mr T. C. Parkinson (1981); plants for the College gardens from Dr F. B. Brockhues; a lectern copy of the New International Version Bible from the College branch of the Christian Union (the Bible was dedicated at Evening Prayer on Sunday 14 June 1992); a benefaction of £10,000 from Dr F. B. Brockhues (Honorary Fellow) to fund in perpetuity an annual lecture in commemoration of Dr A. B. Emden, former Principal (see report of the first lecture in this edition of the Magazine); shares from the Rev R. C. Austin (1946); £500 from the estate of the late Philip Worner (1929); a specially bound copy of 'Child's Play' (suite for piano) composed by Mr Geoffrey Alien, who read Geography at the Hall 1948-51 and was, until recently, Librarian of Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia (the volume, a tape of the first performance and photographs showing the binding of the volume, were presented to the College by Geoffrey Allen's successor, Ms 7

Vicki Williamson, at a tea party held in the Old Library on 3 April 1992);

the Book of Remembrance from the family of the late Harold Brooks (Honorary Fellow) which was presented to the College by Mrs Jean Brooks at an informal ceremony in the Senior Common Room on 12 March 1992; a computer for the use of Arts Fellows from Mr D. S. McCallum (1985), Marketing Manager of Summit Systems; a silver sauce boat from the Liversidge family in recognition of the association with the Hall of three generations of the family (W. J. H. Liversidge 1934, P. W. Liversidge 1964, D. H. Liversidge 1991).

BENEFACTION MR WILLIAM MILLER has given the College a very generous benefaction of £700,000. £350,000 are to be used to fund a Fellowship in Biochemistry, reflecting Mr Miller's long association with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. £250,000 are to be used to fund a Junior Research · Fellowship, alternating in Life Sciences and Physical Sciences; and £100,000 are to be used to fund three Graduate Awards.

This is a sign of confidence in the value of higher education, of the Oxford form of it, and of St Edmund Hall's contribution, which has given a great fillip to our morale at a much needed time.

The College is deeply grateful for this further generosity from someone who has been a considerable supporter over a large number of years.

J.C.B.G.

SIR PETER HIRSCH, F.R.S. became a Professorial Fellow of the Hall in 1966 when he succeeded W. Hume-Rothery F.R.S. who was the first Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy and the Hall's first contact with the metallurgical world. 'HR', as he was universally known, took a lively and very welcome interest in College affairs (see The Magazine, 1965-66) and Sir Peter has similarly been an active member of the Governing Body over a long period. He has brought distinction to the Hall by his scholarship, his Knighthood in 1975, his service as Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (1982-85), his work on many National and University Committees (including the General Board) and his many International medals and awards. These latter include two Royal PETER HIRSCH

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Society medals and the Wihuri International Prize. Many will consider, however, that after the distinction of his individual research, which he has continued to pursue vigorously despite all his other duties and responsibilities, his principal achievement lies in his organization and initiative which led to the very great increase in breadth and depth of the Department of Metallurgy (now the Department of Materials) with a worldwide reputation second to none in Materials Science and Materials Engineering.

All this would seem to leave little time for College activities, and Sir Peter is indeed not best known for the assiduousness of his attendance at G.B. meetings! However, he has somehow managed always to be there for the really important discussions; he has brought his important visitors in to lunch, and his interest in and affection for the Hall have been evident ever since he was first elected. His concern for the physical well-being of the Fellows is illustrated by his very generous gift of a Senior Common Room punt, which has embarked on some famous (or infamous) voyages up the Cherwell. We all wish him well in his well-earned retirement, and hope that he will continue to enliven our Common Room discussions for many years to come.

J. W. Christian THE COLLEGE ACCOUNTANT Graham Wright: 1971-1991 that I report the retirement of Graham Wright, who has served the College for so long as Accountant. His contribution to the Hall was often hidden beneath his self-effacing professionalism, but it can be measured in terms of the change in turn-over from ÂŁ270 thousand to ÂŁ57 million! Graham nursed the accounts through the increases in student population of one third and a fellowship that almost doubled. As Accountant, he was the overseer of the great building and refurbishment programmes for Besse; Staircase VIII and the Principal's Lodgings; the purchase of Norham Gardens and Isis and consequent bed & breakfast business there. He served under three Principals, four Investment Bursars and two Domestic Bursars. In a wider sense, his long service as chairman of the Association of Oxford College Accountants is typical of the esteem of his colleagues in other Colleges. Graham is a wise man of considerable wit and like any other service person is able to communicate fluently at any level and is at ease in most company: I think of him as the jewel of my inheritance from Geordie Leslie. In January this year Graham and his wife Joan were hosted by the Senior Common Room and their health proposed by IT IS WITH SADNESS

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the Vice-Principal. Graham has been elected to the honour of life membership of the Senior Common Room. We wish him every happiness in his much deserved retirement breeding rabbits.

lames Hirst With effect from the beginning of this year the College was joined

by James Hirst FCA who will serve as the new Accountant. Mr Hirst has a long background in accountancy, having worked as financial director of an oil company, an international machinery manufacturer, and earlier, for the Unilever group. James brings with him great expertise particularly in the area of computerization of accounts and we look forward to a long and flourishing relationship. He is married, and has moved to live with his wife and three children near Newbury. In his private life, he is a competent pianist and golfer.

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor A QUARTER CENTURY NOT-OUT DURING THE SUMMER two members of the support staff celebrated over 25 years service to the Hall: Mrs 'Kay' Brown, the Middle Common Room Butler now celebrates 26 years with the Hall. Testimony to her good work is the enormous fan mail she receives daily from all corners of the globe. There can be no member of the Middle Common Room who has not at one time or another received sensitive counsel from Mrs Brown!

Miss Julia Johnson came to the Hall in 1967 to work for R. E. Alton the then Bursar. She has seen many changes in the Accounts Office and is a mine of information on all University rules and regulations. She is now co-ordinating the computerization of accounts and is well known for her zeal in preparing the annual St Edmund Hall art week exhibition. Julia is an accomplished photographer and artist in her own right.

We wish both these stalwart servants of the College many more happy years in their respective offices.

G.B.T.

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE JCR ANOTHER YEAR has passed into memories which will warm us all for decades to come. Could any summary ever hope to do it justice? More than anything else, this year has been characterised by the resurgence of the Hall Spirit, the reciprocating pride and 10

affection which has always bound Aularians together, and the quality for which we are best known throughout the University .

Everywhere, cries of 'Floreat Aula!' and 'Hall! ' awoke past glories and breathed life into new ones.

The charitable nature of Aularians saw the Hall off to a running start of the year, as we rose quickly to become one of the foremost Colleges for Rag, hopping, sponsoring, and embarrassing ourselves until we had raised an unprecedented amount for charity.

The now annual Main Event was the toast of Rag Week, attracting hundreds from across the University . On perhaps a more sinister note, a Rag water pistol assassination game held the entire Hall populace in the grips of paranoia, as friend dispatched friend to watery demise.

Equally as arresting was the sudden resurgence of drama at the Hall. The city found itself papered with posters for our plays, and from one end of the College to the next, the clamour of applause mingled with that of rising and falling scaffolding, as incoming productions trod quickly upon heels of outgoing ones. With plays continuing well into the long vacation, it became clear that the Hall had re-established its dominion over Oxford drama as the University's Green Room.

Other artistic coups were to be seen on the literary front. The Closet Chronicle often found its weekly places usurped by 'pirate' sheets which appeared without warning or explanation. As well , The Aularian magazine, hitherto banned by the SCR for the daring nature of some of its material, made an uproarious if clandestine return; issues churned out by all reports in the dead of night in darkened rooms sprang from nowhere on the very last day of the year, cunningly entitled Not The Aularian and attributed to such dubious authors as Tuesday and the Male Bonding Club.

The onymous achievements of our sportsmen and sportswomen continued to inspire us, bringing back the usual wealth of Blues and Cuppers victories in everything from Athletics to Pool. However, by far the most spectacular triumphs of the year were on the Rugby field. After a few years of allowing the other Colleges a respite from the Aularian juggernaut, the generosity of the Rugby lads found its limit, and we stormed to Cuppers glory in Rugby League, Rugby Union, and Rugby Seconds, unequivocally reclaiming the mantle as the preeminent Rugby College.

Even after such exertion, rest was far from anyone's mind.

Instead, the Summer Event attracted every true Aula'rian, and was as always a great success. No doubt our guests from other Colleges and Universities thereafter found their own institutions staid by comparison. For those Aularians who still had energy to vent, the 11

Memorial Balls of neighbouring Colleges provided ready outlets and challenges. The ingenuity and resourcefulness which one expects of the best and brightest was expressed to the fullest, as everything from brilliantly forged security passes to SAS style assaults (complete with ladders, diversions, and engineered power cuts) allowed Aularians to liven our neighbours' balls with their presence without cost to anyone.

The JCR itself had an equally exhilarating year, albeit in somewhat more confined quarters. General Meetings were on the whole well attended, as debate was often thought provoking and centred on issues with genuine impact on students and the Hall, although the perennial humorous motions provided ample diversion. The lion's share of energy, however, was reserved for the various College committees, as what has proved to be one of the most active JCRs in memory proposed and saw through reforms on issues as diverse as the provision of services for examinees to the penal collections system to University disciplinary procedures. The apogee decidedly came at the conclusion of battels negotiations, as the settlement reached with the Governing Body ended the use of the much loathed Van Noorden Index, froze battels in real terms, and was acclaimed by OUSU as the best in the University .

With the arrival of summer, the focus of Hall life shifted to the church yard, as sun worshippers found that amongst the headstones, both decorum of dress and the urgency of tutorials waned .

Much champagne and the occasional tear were inadvertently spilled there during Finals, but fortunately officials largely turned a blind eye to the former and friends a sympathetic one to the latter.

And so the year came to a close, as they have for seven and a half centuries. We have collectively taken the Hall forward along a path of our own choosing, but in so doing have held fast to our traditions. What has made this year unique amongst the many is that not only have we extended our horizons in new directions, but we have to a large extent recaptured and celebrated many of the virtues which were always an intrinsic part of the Aularian identity.

Perhaps the best way to summarise the year is simply to say that the Hall Spirit showed itself to be alive and well, stronger for whatever rest it may have had. Looking back on the year, one departing Aularian asked if anything could ever hope to be better.

Just wait until next year.

Floreat Aula!

HH Maharaj Akaash of the Brahmanical See of Rajasthan

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J.C.R. OFFICERS President: Maharaj Akaash; Steward: Anna L. Weir; Secretary: P-0. Fletcher

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MCR THIS YEAR nothing in the MCR has been more auspicious than the enthusiasm expressed by the freshers. Taking an active part in many events from the very beginning of the year, the new crop of graduates rapidly succeeded in becoming the vibrant core of the MCR. As a matter of fact, our flourishing community benefited by this new range of personalities originating from different horizons.

As a sign of the times, a fairly large number of Eastern European graduates joined the MCR and they enhanced even more its international character.

To mark the beginning of the first term a cheese and wine party held in Norham Gardens produced a large gathering of graduates. The continentals were particularly pleased to taste something rather different from the college food. The traditional events have continued to flourish and the Christmas and Trinity Term dinners attracted a very high number of people. Throughout the year, gastronomy seemed to have been the major concern of some MCR members. Three of them, a Frenchman, a German and a Chinese, using the splendid kitchen facilities of the palatial Brockhues Lodge, have established a very successful and lively meeting place: The Brockhues Cooking Society. Open to every MCR member, the aim of the society is 'the advancement of understanding between the people of the earth by the means of good cooking'. In order to become a member, each grantee is requested to cook and submit to the society his regional speciality. The successful candidate receives a title in accordance with his country of origin; mine being the 'Pasha of Brussels'. At the end of the year seven countries were represented but despite our efforts to attract native people, not a single Briton has been willing to cook something! The MCR also hosted a series of dessert nights and brunches. Hilary Term has seen the Burns Night Supper where a Canadian was noticed by his facundity and above all by the accuracy of his Scots accent.

The Hearne Dinner was the occasion to seduce our tutors and supervisors who were lavishly entertained to a dinner with a string quartet, fine wines and dishes ...

Besides the pleasures of the festive table, many 'cerebral' events have stimulated our neurones . The Graduate Seminars, instigated and generously organised by Dr A. B. Worden, gave the opportunity to some speakers of high calibre to present to the MCR their topic of research: Jane Moody 'Shakespeare murdered', John Milloy 'How the west was won', Jo Rainbow 'A career of a PR' and finally Jean-Louis Haquette 'More than meets the eyes', who gave us a learned guided tour of the magnificent gardens of Stowe in which Mrs Brown took part. In Trinity Term, we organised a trip to the National Gallery in London to see the Rembrandt exhibition where Paul Gartside mysteriously lost his way.

The sporty reputation of the Hall survived in the MCR and some successes have even been attained. The MCR rowing novice crew managed to win a race in the Christ Church Regatta. More seriously, at the time of writing, the MCR cricket team is qualified for the Cuppers final. Not to mel).tion Chris Todd and Zahid Nawaz who take turns to score more than the rest of the team put together.

For the first time ever we won the traditional football match against the SCR. The squash ladder initiated by Willem Adema has been an important incentive for people willing to meet other players.

Many other events have marked the year such as the pub crawl, the wine tasting, the video nights, the pancake night, the skittles, the May morning

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breakfast, the Garden Party and the memorable punt event with Somerville where Harald Braun having dropped his glasses in the river revealed to us how skilful he was in the art of diving head first! But the last event, the Valedictory Dinner organised for the MCR members leaving this year, was the climax occasion of the year marked by the quality and quantity of speeches as well as the improvisation talents of the speakers.

The MCR would surely not be so lively and friendly without our wonderful butler Mrs Brown who has just celebrated her 25th year at the College. We wish her many more years with us . All the praise goes to her whose everlasting dynamism and enthusiasm always amaze me . Thank you Mrs Brown for being so gentle and kindhearted with us.

Finally, from Michaelmas 1992 I shall be assisted by Peter Benbow as Steward along with Dave Wilson as Secretary.

Koray Konuk

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION has had another busy year with the continuation of a number of on-going activities and the creation of several new initiatives.

Support of the Hall's fund-raising efforts continues with Old Members well represented on the full Endowments Committee, and involved on the more executive Endowments Sub-Committee. Also during the course of the year several Aularians were pleased to attend and contribute to a special meeting of the Governing Body to discuss financial planning and the future evolution of the Development Office.

This participation was a further example of the improving liaison that is taking place between the Association and the SCR of the College, which it is hoped can be further extended to embrace the officers and members of the JCR and MCR. In fact the whole matter of the interface between the Hall and its Old Members' Association has been addressed by a Working Party under the chairmanship of Sir Claude Hayes which has produced some valuable recommendations on 'Representation' for further consideration.

With regard to Grants and Allocations, this year the main donationfrom the Association to the Hall has been a contribution towards the Principal's portrait, with a further small sum allocated to the acquisition of some new Prayer Books (Cranmer version) for the Chapel.

Perhaps the most significant output during the course of the year has been the production of the new Hall Directory which accompanies this Magazine.

Updated about every four years this represents a most valuable publication with an improved and extended format, now listing Aularians by matriculation year and County in addition to the normal alphabetical entry. It is the result of a lot of hard work by Rachel Martel, and will form the basis of future Networking activities, and help in the formation of a Jobs Register, the success of which will be dependent upon Members completing the accompanying simple questionnaire seeking information on what Aularians can do for each other.

On the social front the London Dinner in January proved another resounding success with an all-time record attendance of 143 people crammed into Simpson's. This event represented the twelfth and last to be organised by Francis Finch before he handed over to his successor and son, Richard Finch. Those attending enjoyed an evening of reminiscing, in addition to an informative address by the Principal, followed by some entertaining reflections from Dudley THE ASSOCIATION

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Wood, the Secretary of the Rugby Football Union, on his days at the Hall and more recent experiences with the Rugby World Cup. During the summer Old Members and their families enjoyed the College's generous hospitality at a Garden Party, followed in the evening by the Reunion Dinner at which the ·Principal was presented with a splendid clay tortoise by Arthur Farrand. Radley to commemorate the previous, as yet un-named, occupants of White Hall!

Finally it would be an omission in this my last broad communication as President not to record my appreciation of the support of the Executive Committee members in general and the Executive Officers in particular for their unstinting support during my term of office; a most enjoyable and memorable period of my life.

Floreat Aula.

John Heggadon

CHAPEL 1991-1992 ALTHOUGH the University terms do not easily match the Christian year, the cycle of chapel services has managed to celebrate the incarnation and the resurrection .

Perhaps this is a reasonable achievement when the media emphasises unbelief among the clergy and delights in offering challenges to the tradition of the church. Yet the chapel community is absolved neither of the responsibility to test the credentials of the faith nor to heed the cry of a suffering world. This challenge of incarnation and resurrection was emphasised through our involvement in the University Chaplain's Mission 'Healing in a Broken World' in Hilary Term. ¥any students from College attended the mission sessions led by Jean Vanier of the L 'Arche Community and Dr Sheila Cassidy. Both speakers have deep and long involvement with those who suffer and led us to revalue the meaning of human life in the light of Christ's care for the handicapped and those approaching death. Through Jean and Sheila sombre themes were always revealed to have a hidden joy, which we, too, could discover.

In a more mundane way worship in chapel can leave an impression - on those who sit on the front pews. We have plans to provide a proper kneeler with a rail to complete that part of the chapel. The work will be done in a design and with wood which matches the existing woodwork. So far we have received gifts of almost £1,000 but our target is £7,000. This is a longer term project which we hope will not take too long to complete.

This year Dr Jeanette Sears, an ordinand at Wycliffe Hall, joined us as Chapel Assistant. Jeanette is a graduate of Manchester University '-':here she read theology and did research on nineteenth century apocalyptic movements. Jeanette now moves on towards ordination but in her time with us she took up pastoral opportunities, especially with women students, and was a memorable leader of worship and a good preacher. Among the many other preachers this year Sister Frances Dominica's profound and gentle manner will not be easily forgotten and it was a pleasure to hear an old member of College, Keith Albans, who is now Methodist chaplain at Birmingham University. \ The chapel is in frequent use, for rehearsals , concerts and for private reflection and meditation. But the regular service of prayer and praise is a continual offering to God: one student remarked that it was important in a busy College and a noisy world to worship , to be still, and hear God speak.

Gerald Hegarty

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A ROYAL VISIT a buzz of excitement during the Easter vacation when Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal made a visit on St Patrick's Day to the College. The Ross McWhirter Foundation held its annual conference for youth leaders and young people at the Hall as usual and Princess Anne attended as their Patron; she arrived for lunch and stayed all afternoon, participating in seminars and speaking to many of the young delegates . Her Royal Highness was greeted on arrival by the Principal and Mrs Gosling and, attended by Lord Rippon the Chairman of the foundation and the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Sir Ashley Ponsonby, visited the main parts of the College. A large buffet lunch was served in the Junior Common Room and Her Royal Highness took the opportunity of meeting virtually every person present. Our pictures show her with Lord Rippon and Michael Hooker an old Aularian (1941) and a director of the Foundation, and the reception party comprising the Principal , Mrs Gosling , the Chief Constable and Lord Mayor of Oxford.

G.B.T .

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THE SUMMER EVENT FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS of the formula in 1991, it was decided to hold another Event in 1992. Preparations began in early Hilary Term, so that by 7th Week our colourful red and yellow 'Bear Faced Chic' posters could be seen all over the University. At this stage only the date (16th May), and the price (ÂŁ18) had been set.

On the night, however, there was no shortage of entertainments for the 800+ guests . As usual, the Wolfson Hall was the main venue for bands. Our very own 'Glad ', making yet another final appearance, were admirably supported by the Indy sounds of the up-and-coming 'Bright Young Things' (supplied free of charge by the Women's Officer) . These were followed by the better known 'Special Beat', an amalgam of the '80s 'Specials' and 'The Beat' . This Midlandsbased band offered a brilliant retrospective of 'Ska'. Finally came the all-girl 'Mint Julips', who rounded off the evening in groovy fashion . Meanwhile in the Old Dining Hall, local College bands, ranging from the highly polished 'Big Fish' to the silky melodies of the 'Sholto Byrnes Jazz Quintet',. strutted their stuff.

In addition to this plethora of live sounds, guests had the opportunity to fritter away millions (of raffle tickets!) in the Casino, or to dance the night away in the impressive JCR disco. Perhaps the highlight of the night, however, was to be found on the Upper Quad. Here, grown men and women dressed themselves in sticky suits and threw themselves at an inflatable wall - the Velcro Fly Trap had arrived in Oxford! After their lunatic ordeal, many turned to the Masseurs, housed in the Well, for sensual recuperation. Others were content to idle away their time listening to the wandering minstrels or admiring the multidexterous jugglers.

Refreshments were plentiful and varied. The omnipresent Parmenters Pizzas were complemented this year by Tacos from Baedeckers and Donuts, served by a mysterious couple from Cambridge, calling themselves the 'Yubba Yubbas'!

Popcorn was also sold for Rag. The bars were efficiently (if utilitarianly) run by College members, with the cocktails going especially fast. Beer and Pimrns were also popular, though a little more expensive.

The Committee deserve a great deal of thanks for all their hard work, both on the night and leading up to it. Ed Hobart brought his considerable pecuniary

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skills to bare, and was a sensibly restraining influence on the more profligate mandarins among us. Carolyn Burroughs was an efficient and industrious Seccie, and did much to spread the word. Matt Oakrnan and Chloe Griffiths worked miracles in the entertainments department. Food and drink were ably handled

by Tom Parsons and Fred Burt, the latter approaching Hobart-like zeal as a functionary. Sue Felsted decorated and designed everything - and didn't the flowers look nice? The whole thing was brilliantly publicised by Mark Roberts and Clare Phillips.

All that remains is to thank Mr Mike Green for the excellent work of Safe Security , and Mr Derrick Wyatt for all his advice and encouragement. Good luck to those who follow .

Ben Palmer A NEW PROSPECTUS the College concluded that our prospectus needed attention. The original was a design of Reg Alton and , whilst it had stood us in good stead, it was in need of revision. As Tutor for Admissions, I have taken this on and our new Undergraduate Prospectus will be at the printers soon. An early decision was to produce, in parallel, a Graduate Prospectus since the group to which this is addressed has different requirements for information. This too will be available shortly.

A second decision was in favour of authorship by someone close to the potential market, hence a school teacher. We were lucky enough to recruit Janet Nevin to help us with the undergraduate text, whilst Lorraine Wild has written with graduates in mind. Both versions have been designed by Anthea Pender, and my thanks are due to all these for their considerable efforts, as well as to the Photographic Partnership who spent several days here using much film. My thanks also go to Stephen Farthing, Master of the Ruskin School of Fine Art for his cover design ; a striking, if unconventional view of the front quadrangle.

Copies of this design are available from the Bursary.

Christopher Phelps ABOUT 18 MONTHS AGO

THE FIRST A. B. EMDEN LECTURE Professor John McManners , one of our honorary fellows , delivered the first A. B. Emden Lecture in the Examination Schools. His subject was 'The Cathedrals of Eighteenth-Century France: Splendour and Sinecures'.

The A. B. Emden Lectures, which will be given annually by a distinguished speaker, have been endowed by another honorary fellow, Dr Frederick Brockhues, to whom the Hall is already deeply indebted for: many acts of generosity, including the building of Brockhues Lodge for graduate students. Dr Brockhues has stipulated that the lectures should suitably commemorate our sometime Principal, Dr Emden (1929-51) by having as their subject a historical topic which, while appealing to Dr Emden' s fellow historians, will also attract a wider audience. Junior as well as senior members of the Hall will be represented at the lectures and at the social gatherings that will follow them. John McManners ' s lecture attracted a predictably substantial audience which included many fellows and junior members, as well as a welcome cross-section of the St Edmund Hall Association. We were honoured by the presence of our Visitor and the Chancellor of the University, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, who presided at the lecture and, with Dr Brockhues, came to a reception afterwards in the Old Dining Hall and then to dinner in the Wolfson Hall.

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In his lecture, John McManners recalled Dr Emden as a historian whose interests were firmly centred upon people and their artefacts. The richest among the 131 cathedrals and the major collegiate churches of eighteenth-century France provided a rich field of study for historians with like interests. He evoked the lives of canons who, with their aristocratic backgrounds, comprised the cathedral chapters, and who were often the objects of resentment and criticism on the part of lesser cathedral office-holders and of the parish clergy. It would be all too easy to dismiss them as over-endowed sinecurists, perhaps (like Oxford dons) working hard in their fatuous ways, but spending over-lavishly on architecture and ornament, with respect to which they were vandals, and on music, which they allowed to degenerate into mere worldliness. Dr McManners vividly evoked a 'world we have lost' by drawing upon his unrivalled familiarity with the sources to show that, in architecture, the canons were by no means bemused followers of classical antiquity with no appreciation of Gothic architecture; they had a distinctive theological viewpoint with an underlying sense of the harmony of reason and nature, and they combined it with a powerful liturgical sense which reacted against medieval 'centrifugal piety' to create a dignified worship focused upon a high altar of visually unified churches. In church music, a great liturgical age called for the creation of much new music which was characterized by spontaneous inventiveness on the part of choirs and choirmasters, and in which the historian may recognize genuinely religious feeling and quality. There was an authentic religious culture, involving clergy, musicians, and laity, which, though far from ideal and often exhibiting all-too-human foibles and fallibilities, calls for respect and sympathetic understanding on the part of modern observers.

The A. B. Emden Lectures will henceforth be a major occasion in the Aularian year. We are deeply grateful to Frederick Brockhues for his vision and munificence in initiating them, and to John McManners for getting them off to a memorable start.

John Cowdrey

A MEMORABLE YEAR the Hall had not yet acquired the habit of winning Cuppers in anything.

For sure, it was a time of change, and the odds against bumping into a Blue in the JCR were shortening, but eyebrows were raised in Vincent's when little Teddy Hall surged through the preliminary round, the first round, the second round and the semi-final of Soccer Cuppers to confront a star-studded BNC for the glittering prize. History reveals that we had the chutzpah to win that final convincingly, 3-nil, and that most of the College was on the touchline to see it happen. Heady days, indeed. As A. B. Emden observed in his congratulatory message, we had brought the Cup to the Hall for the first time in 620 years. As a team, we felt we had nothing left to live for.

However, live we did, and diligent research, mostly by our Captain, Ron Hall, revealed that 40 years on we were all still available for selection. He organised us into reconvening at the Hall in April - as likely a bunch of superannuated industrialists, teachers, lawyers and media hacks as you might meet in a day's march. We gathered for an excellent dinner in the Old Library, joined by a mildly bewildered Principal, who had not witnessed our triumph: by John McManners, Graham Midgley and Reggie Alton, who had: and by Colin Hadley and Nick Gill, who represented our strength in depth from the substitutes' bench. The only absentee from the original XI was its inspirational secretary, Donald Forster, frustrated.by ill-health; this was a special sadness, for it had been his enthusiasm IN 1952

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Winners of the Soccer Cup 1952

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and organisational skill, as much as his dashing forays down the left wing, that had brought us our fifteen minutes of fame .

Not all reunions live up to their promise; this one unquestionably did, and it ran comfortably into injury time . We had total recall of the 24 goals we scored, but could remember nothing of the four we conceded; we congratulated one another on our survival and progress through life, and on our appearance, for none of us, of course, had changed. Or so we thought, until the indestructible Gillman and Soame produced a photograph for us to compare with that of 1952.

We were, indeed, thinner on top and thicker round the bottom, but in the small hours of a spring morning in 1992 we were again ready to take on all corners.

And we thought it would be a good idea to reassemble in 2002.

Well, it would ...

Alan Jones THE HALL ARMS- A PERSONAL REPORT ' YOU ARE SETTING a very high standard of omniscience de rebus Aularibus for all future incumbents of your honoured and honorary office' wrote The Abe , Dr A. B. Emden , to me in 1976 when I became the Hon. Secretary of the Association. I had asked him about our Arms, having in mind a handout for Freshmen, and he distilled for me, at the drop of a square, the quintessence of his wisdom.

Perhaps inevitably this never got written up, and although a weighty subcommittee has agreed tentatively on a 'grammar' for future designs, the Association's aim now is 'to establish a preferred norm, not seeking to impose a standard ' . I have therefore been asked to summarise, for the record, what I have done to follow up The Abe's leads in what, let's face it, is a somewhat confused situation.

History What is clearly established and what is still in contention? Well, both The Abe in his classic 'An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times' and John Kelly in the sequel 'St Edmund Hall - Almost Seven Hundred Years' - are at one that St Edmund was born in Abingdon. The year is unclear but the date was 20 November, the Feast of St Edmund King and Martyr (856-70), hence his name. 'He had no coat-of-arms', said The Abe, 'since no cleric in his time displayed one '.

No cleric? Tricky already , since the Rev R. K. Riland Bedford in his 'The Blazon of Episcopy' (1897) has a seal of Bishop Anthony Bek of Durham of 1284, only 44 years after St Edmund died, and a whole complex has built up over the so-called 'alternative arms'(2)*to distinguish them from our cross and choughs. Kelly relates his dream of 'his deceased, but still dominating, mother, who reproved him for demonstrating bizarre geometrical figures in the schools, and on the palm of his hand traced three circles, signifying the persons of the Trinity,' which he took 'as a sign that he must dally no longer with secular learning'. Hence the 'Or three suns in splendour as many annulets' motif which Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1895 noted on the common seal of the now redundant Collegiate Church in Salisbury where he was Treasurer to the new Cathedral 1222-33 (British Museum D.C. F89), and in a heraldic work of the time of Henry VII under 'SANCTUS EDMUNDUS de P.' - presumably Pontigny , where he now rests. St Edmund's College, the Roman Catholic school *Numbers in the text refer to the numbered illustrations .

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at Ware, good friends of ours and who took their name from their re-founding by amalgamation in 1793 on a date which happened to beSt Edmund's Feast, used the cross/chough until after their centenary in 1893 but then switched to the suns. These still blaze away at the Hall on the 1922 panel in the Old Dining Hall (the Magazine that year calling them 'the proper arms of St Edmund'), and on one of the 1978 banners in the Wolfson Hall - thus keeping all our options open.

An Updated Second Opinion Not a word, understandably, from The Abe on all this, so when Canon Derek Hill, the Treasurer Emeritus of Canterbury Cathedral, gave the keynote speech at the Feast in 1990, the 750th anniversary of St Edmund's death, I quizzed him.

Back came an invaluable 'short essay' from the author of two works on AngloNorman Armory and the Principal of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies at Canterbury, Cecil R. Humphery-Smith FSA. From him, no beating about the bush: 'the so-called "alternative arms" seem to be a 16th century invention for St Edmund at Salisbury'. And just as The Abe had lambasted the medieval heralds who 'indulged in a spate of concocting coats-of-arms for saints and royalty of pre-heraldic times, so that even Adam and Eve were made armigerous', Humphery-Smith went with him and pinpointed one of the earliest examples, 'the arms attributed to the Kings of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms' in the 13th century MS in the Bodleian, Douce 341, and this gets us back on the main line.

The Abingdon Arms The Abe gave as precursor to our arms those in the south spandrel of the late 15th century gate to Abingdon Abbey(4): a white field with a black cross and four birds. These featured on another putative seal, that of Abbot William, 1371 (J. Woodward, 'Ecclesiastical Heraldry' (1894)) and The Abe had already commented that 'the monks were governed in their choice' by those heralds.

So they followed the West Saxon presumption appropriate to King Edred, who re-founded them in 955 from ruins, and needed to look no further than Westminster Abbey. Here the 'legendary posthumous arms' of Edward the Confessor (1042-66)(1) - so described in the latest 'Oxford Guide to Heraldry' (Woodcock & Robinson (1988)) - proliferated, particularly in the South Choir aisle where that heraldic enthusiast Henry Ill erected whole rows of shields of his predecessors. The only trouble is that Westminster has five birds and Abingdon four: that is the type of problem whose solution might yet get you that elusive Hon.D Litt.

From Abingdon to the Hall In 1572 Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury 1559-75, 'looked', as The Abe says, 'for St Edmund's arms' to grace his monumental history of all his predecessors ~ince St Augustine, 'De antiquitate Britanniae ecclesiae & privilegiis ecclia Cantuarensis cu eiusdem archiepis lxx' (Lambeth Library MS 959). (His own entry was drafted in his lifetime). For the good reason already quoted, 'he failed to find them', and thus 'appropriated the Arms of the Abbey with tinctures differenced'. Hence that monochrome pen-and-ink depiction(S) heading the printed Chapter 45, 'Sanctus Edmundus' with 'tricks', i.e. abbreviations, Gules (red) for the field and Or (gold, yellow) for the cross. This must be the earliest appearance, and it is confirmed in the delightful small vellum 21

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album MS 555, temp. Archbishop John Whitgift 1583-1604, by an actual painting in colour(6), this time with a full description in both Latin and English.

'Portat de Rubro, Crucem Patentem Auream, intce 4.Picas Marinas, Coloris Proprf - 'hee beareth gules, a Cros patent Or, beetwene three (pencilled 'four' in the margin' - and there are four) seapyes, prop.' And in the 'Etymologia' above, St Edmund is noted as 'of good or gracious countenance'.

It is this version that fetched up at the Hall not all that much later, outside the Main Entrance in 1659(7), in the Benefactors' Book(9) post-1676, and above the Chapel entrance in 1682(8). Or is it? How do you explain The Abe's insistence that Parker went for a yellow field and a red cross, when he clearly didn't, or the fact that the Hall itself went for it all the same? We are in cloud cuckoo land, like Rouge Dragon's account in 1895 of Mr Buckler, Surrey Herald Extraordinary, in the St Edmund's College papers, 'who even went so far as to say that St Edmund took the Cornish choughs from the coat of arms assigned to his great predecessor St Thomas of Canterbury, and as St Edmund had preached a Crusade, had placed a red cross on his shield'. Another doctorate here, I think, but while you admire the shield over the Main Entrance one triumph stands out for all time - The Abe's chronogram, in which the large capitals, taken as Roman numbers, add up to 1246, the date of the canonisation, the 750th anniversary of which is hard on us: SANCTVS EDMVNDVS HVIVs AVLAE LVX

The Arms Themselves Blazon or description. The Abe: 'Or a cross patonce gules cantoned by four Cornish choughs.' There are divers other versions.

Shield. There is no uniformity over the ages.

Cross. As can well be seen from the illustrations, neither is there here, either in description or depiction. A cross patonce (not to be confused with potencee or crutch-like) is quoted in the OED (1989) as of 'unknown origin' but first appearing in Leigh's 'Armorie' of 1563-97 - 'having the ends of the limbs splayed in three points, and normally expanding in a curved form from the centre'. The outside points are not bent back so much as in the cross Flory or Fleury (OED - 'having its limbs tipped with fleur-de-lis, as used for the Royal arms of France since 1352').

To confuse you still further, the Whitgift cross is 'patent', yet the points are surely fleur-de-lis: the Abingdon arms are 'patonce' in 1891 and 'flory' in 1950, and the latter is taking over progressively, as evidenced by a recent award to a Hall man.

Birds in general. What The Abe calls the 'supposititious' arms of the Kings of the East Angles (incl. St Edmund King and Martyr) bore royal crowns, not birds.

The later West Saxons traditionally have martlets (swallows, with no feet since they are always on the wing), though J. H. & R. V. Pinches in their 'The Royal Heraldry of England' (1974) go for doves for Edward the Confessor as the favoured bird, 'perhaps because of their peaceful association as suitable for the ambience of the sanctified King'.

Humphery-Smith demolishes all this: 'there is no reason to call these early representations anything but birds'. He is equally forthright over 'sea-pies or oyster-catchers' as in Whitgift, i.e. Haematopus ostralegus occidentalis, the English species having long orange bills, pink legs, and white wings and back.

Their survival in 1929 was 'solely the invention ofFrancis Pierrepoint Barnard', whose 'Arms and Blazons of the Colleges of Oxford' (OUP) was all the rage 24

then . And The Abe agreed: 'Barnard was a heraldic reformer and among his reforms was the re-drawing of the college coats-of-arms as displayed in the University Calendar(15) . For the Hall arms there' (annually, 1925-84) 'he substituted sea-pies i.e. oyster-catchers, as an alternative to martlets. I never understood why. ' Choughs and Heraldry. Humphery-Smith then sets the cat among the Picas Marinas : 'there is absolutely no excuse for supposing that the Hall birds are choughs. When arms were attributed to St Thomas of Canterbury' (pre-1349, i.e. the ' ancient' arms of the Cathedral, in a spandrel of its Christ Church Gate 1517)(3) 'they were, one presumes, chosen solely because they punned upon his name being leggit and beckit gules (legged and beaked in red)'.

The Abe wouldn't have liked this, as the commentators say: he was definitely a Chough Man, mindful, it has been said, of the Cornish origins of the second and third Principals of the Hall -John de Cornubia 1317 and Robert Luc 1319.

He saw, however, in any case ' no connection between the Cornish choughs assigned by the medieval heralds to St Thomas and our choughs ' . The Abingdon Abbey birds were 'choughs not martlets', and when I once 'expressed agnosticism about the identity of the four sacred birds', as he put it, he laid down 'they be undoubted choughs - and if you opt, now , for martlets I shall shoot them down with my bow and arrow' . I could only reply: Martlets for Aula?

A terrible howler.

Enough of this stuff: Say 'Floreat Chough'!

T. 0. Darke, in 'The Cornish Chough ' (1971) finds it 'interesting to reflect that up to the time of Henry VIII the chough was only given to Cornish families as an heraldic device'. (The chough-bearing Arms of the Cornwall County Council date only from 1889). 'However from about 1550 onwards it was awarded to families outside Cornwall, the man originally responsible for this lack of discrimination being a Garter King of Arms by the name of Barker' (Sir Christopher, 1536-60). 'Cardinal Wolsey had choughs in his arms as a tribute to Thomas a Beckett' - and there are still two in the Ch.Ch. arms.

Woodcock and Robinson (op. cit., 1988) exclude choughs altogether - but then so do they sea-pies and oyster-catchers . . .

Choughs as Birds. Edgar, in Lear, Act IV Sc.vi, tells Gloucester from the top of a cliff: The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles.

He had a point there, since Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (so named onomatopoeically by Linnaeus in 1758) is renowned for its acrobatics on clifffaces and positively thrives on dung beetles. Like many of its sponsors 'its progress ordinarily is by a succession of flaps' and legend has it that King Arthur's spirit entered the bird after his death.

Its Alpine cousin, P. glaculus, ranges over the whole of the Northern hemisphere and was spotted by John Hunt at 26,250 feet over Everest in 1953.

Our bird was last seen in Cornwall in the 1960s, but the Association now supports 'Operation Chough' (Patron, The Duke of Cornwall) run by the Paradise Park Rare and Endangered Birds Breeding Centre at Hayle. 'Friends of the Chough' we are, but the only offspring so far have been rejected by their parents. Perhaps a discreet 'Floreat Aula' at the right time might save the next lot.

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Recognition

The Abe was crystal-clear about this: 'the Hall coat was never granted by the College of Arms. It was confirmed by long user.'

Humphery-Smith cites the records of the Heralds' Visitation of Oxford in 1574 (to remove all false arms and arms devised without authority): ours do not appear, though other Colleges' do. 'This would suggest that the Principal at the time' (Philip Johnson) 'was content with the right to bear arms by ancient user and did not bother to record them with the Heralds'. In Humphery-Smith's view (1991) 'it would now be best to leave well alone'.

Not so The Times Diary of 12 January 1983: under 'Armless Pursuit' it ran: 'Having sneaked last month on 36 public schools with no right to their coats of arms, I now offer some moral tuition to ll equally presumptuous Oxbridge colleges. There is no record of the arms they boast having been granted or otherwise ratified. The guilty Oxford Ten (Magdalene is the sole transgressor at Cambridge) are: Hertford, Jesus, Keble, Lady Margaret Hall, St Anne's, St Edmund Hall, St John's, Wadham, Worcester and Somerville. Some of the establishments argue customary usage, or that their foundation predates that of the College of Arms' (1484). 'But Theo Matthew, Windsor Herald at the College, is adamant: ''There is no such thing as a right to arms by prescription.

Antiquity of unauthorised arms confers no sanction. The longer the use, the greater the abuse" .'

The Present Score

There is considerable diversity in designs of arms in common use at the Hall.

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, the Domestic Bursar, is the most fertile inventor of memorabilia for merchandising in support of College income generally - an initiative not lost on the University, which has now registered its arms as a Trademark. He follows, in the main, existing patterns and if any new creations appear to the ultra-conservatives to warrant Transportation to Botany Bay (as happened when the choughs on a dashing new sporting tie looked more like ducks) he is the first to make amends. For the rest, it's a Market Economy.

'Hall' (the memoir collection) went for the 1708 bookplate(ll), as did the Magazine 1933-78 before switching to the 1750 one(l2); this, deprived of its Rococo surrounds(13), graces the Appeal literature and so goes out to the World.

The OUP simplified some of its designs for the University Calendar in 1985 (reprinted annually) and the Hall one appeared on the cover of the Hugh Casson prints offer that year(16), though - amazingly - not used domestically at the College since except in the Library's Notes for Readers. Dinner(19) and Gaudy papers(20) in the main follow Geordie Leslie, the previous Domestic Bursar: and notelets and Dinner place-cards(18) survive with the same design as in the '30s, the full point after St going in and out like a yo-yo in defiance of its abolition in .all main College productions. The Ruskin Master of Drawing created for the 1990 Hall Art Exhibition a 'Design for a Hall Flag': he called it 'organic and liberal' - others 'The Exploding Goose'.

The Association's declared aim now (as stated initially) is 'to establish a preferred norm, not seeking to impose a standard': the current President has had designed for its headed paper(24) a variant of the arms over the Main Entrance, a source which certainly has my vote as the oldest in view at the Hall.

The Abe's statement in 1976 is succinct(17): 'the designs of the Hall ties are the prerogatives of the Hall JCR'.

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Envoi The College franking machine bears the compelling message: ' CALL THE HALL' . If you, gentle reader etc. , want to do just this about any of the above, please feel free.

Arthur Farrand Radley Honorary Secretary Emeritus St Edmund Hall Association

AN AULARIAN REMEMBERS (The account that follows was prompted by the request in last year's Magazine for information from users of the University Appointments Committee.)

I was 29 when I went to see Charles Escritt , Secretary of the University Careers Service (I was due to take Schools in November) , and told him I was seeking a job with world-wide travel which could lead to my becoming a millionaire. I was determined not to become a schoolmaster, the choice of many of my Vincent's Club friends, hieing their way back to the playing fields of Clifton, Dulwich, Rugby , Marlborough, Sherborne, Teddy's School, and so on.

I had been a battery captain with the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, a staff officer in Second Army Headquarters in Germany, and Deputy (but de facto) Port Commandant of Cuxhaven for the first year of the Occupation.

At St Edmund Hall I had captained the XV, presided over the John Oldham Society, organised the Summer Ball , etc. I had captained Greyhounds sides, played for the University, though not against Cambridge, and was a member of Vincent's Club. I had helped run the O.U. French Society, and my tutors promised me a good Second in Modern Languages, which I got.

Charles Escritt was enormously encouraging and friendly. After he had studied my C.V . he leaned back and said, 'Well, the world ' s your oyster, really; what would you like to do?'

Unilever was the first suggestion, but I fell at the first fence. I had a suspicion that I was being tested to see if I would make a good civil servant. Then Charles produced a strange one - a Monsieur Besse who operated out of Aden, and had an empire that covered the Red Sea, the Horn of Africa, and Ethiopia. He was French, and was in competition with the other French Aden company which had employed Rimbaud.

At the time Monsieur Besse's donation of ÂŁ1,500 ,000 to the University was still anonymous , though after it became public knowledge I used to say that I was the first rugby footballer to be bought for a transfer fee of over ÂŁ1,000 ,000.

Antonin Besse had been recruiting likely young men from Oxford and Cambridge since before the 1939 war. You can read about him, as Monsieur.

Leblanc , in Evelyn Waugh ' s 'When the Going was Good ' . The managing director in Aden was an Oxonian , Jim Beament, who had been recruited just before the war, had risen to brigade major in the army, and then returned to Besse.

With two other Oxonians, Gurth Addington (B.N.C .) and Willie Merson (Exeter) and Antonin Besse' s youngest son, 21-year old Tony, I travelled out to Aden on a company ship, the El Halal , on its maiden voyage from a British shipyard.

As I spoke fluent French and had done a special course in hides and skins with Pittards in Yeovil - Besse was very keen on hides and skins - I was his IN SEPTEMBER, 1948 ,

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favourite , and after a very short spell in Aden was sent off as General Manager, Somalia, in Mogadishu, holding the peace between Mahommed, the Arab buyer of produce and Gandalal, the Gujurati accountant and import agent, and dealing with the British Administration which was hanging on since the war. In 1950 the British moved out and an Italian administration , under U.N. supervision, moved in.

I will not dwell on all my reasons for dissatisfaction with the Besse organisation, except to say that Monsieur Besse was a typical tycoon who expected to own his employees body and soul, and was a pastmaster at ingenious loyalty tests which would try the forebearance of a saint, which I am not. My departure from the position of General Manager, Asmara, in May, 1951, was not unconnected with the fact that Jim Beament, an excellent managing director and a friend, was brutally ousted to make way for the now 23-year old favourite son of Monsieur Antonin , young Tony .

I kept Charles Escritt fully posted with all developments, and, if his records have been kept, my letters from 1949 to 1955 are on file.

As this is an account of my dealings with 0. U. Careers, I will skip lightly over 3 years on Wall Street, New York, with Mitchell Cotts, 18 months in Montreal with Canadian Ingersoll Rand, and a spell on the D.E.W. Line in Baffin Island with the Foundation Company of Canada.

Suffice it to say that in the autumn of 1955, I decided to leave the New World (I had turned down an important and well-paid post in Winnipeg) and to take my chance in England again .

Charles Escritt was extremely helpful once more. He thought my experience would be useful in the then new service - Management Consultancy - and put me in touch with Urwick, Orr, a pioneer company in the field. It looked promising, as did also a possible job with a European company trading in iron and steel. My asking salary at the time was around ÂŁ2,500 p.a.

I saw the iron and steel people in London on the morning of the second Tuesday in December. In the middle of the interview, I suddenly realised that I did not want to traipse around Europe buying and selling steel.

In the afternoon I went to Twickenham for the rugby match, and met many old friends who were happily teaching, and coaching rugger and cricket and hockey at schools all round the country.

On the Wednesday I phoned Charles and asked him to pass my file over to Mr Woolley (was it Geoffrey?), who sent me a thick wad of jobs teaching French.

I chose K.C.S., Wimbledon, got the job immediately at ÂŁ800 p.a. (one-third of my potential in the business world), and taught there until I retired in 1978.

After retirement I lived in Paris as an English examiner in the Classes Pn!paratoires aux Grandes Ecoles, then back in England doing G.C.E. French oral examining, and now live fairly penuriously mainly in France with frequent visits to England for important family and sporting fixtures - golf, rugger and cricket.

My first wife having died untimely in 1978, I now have a delightful second wife and an extended family of six children and seven grandchildren.

I quite often sing Edith Piaf's song: 'Non, je ne regrette rien!'

Fred Cosstick (m. 1946)

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EVERY CONTRIBUTION HELPS in the University are engaged upon some degree of fundraising.

The reason is simple. All colleges are suffering external restrictions and difficulties on their income from tuition fees, which have been cut in real terms for 1992/93, board and lodging charges and conferences, and are having to rely on their endowment income to meet often quite alarming deficits. For colleges with a reasonable or large capital endowment, the problem is less severe than for their more poorly endowed sisters. Amongst the latter we must include St Edmund Hall. Our need is the greater because we are less well endowed than all others despite being, as you know, the oldest institution in Oxford admitting and teaching undergraduates. The abridged accounts show our income is still dominated by fees and charges which are the sources affected by Government restrictions.

The squeeze on fees, of course, affects the University at large, and is part of a Government policy to put as many students as possible through university education. It is a policy which has little enthusiasm for preserving the tutorial system, which is looked on as an attractive but expensive luxury; or the collegiate system with its multiplicity of relatively expensive 'student unions'. Both these aspects of Oxford are under threat, but they are both aspects which are considered by the Fellows of St Edmund Hall as important both academically and in respect to the broader experience which university should offer. As Government funding drops off it will become, in differing degrees, important for all colleges to become independent of that support, and this is more immediately important for the Hall than for the richer colleges.

Since the last contributions made to the Norham St Edmund Appeal in October 1989, college efforts in fundraising have been co-ordinated by the Development Office. However, the Norham St Edmund Appeal itself was but the latest of an almost unbroken sequence of appeals to Aularians since 1962. In addition to the contributions - both large and small - in these Appeals, the College received a small number of significant benefactions from the Wolfson Foundation, an anonymous benefactor, Dr Frederick Brockhues, as well as three major legacies from Dr Emden, the Reverend Selwyn Cox and Mr A. C. Cooper. Together with the proceeds of a scheme whereby the richer colleges have helped the poorer, these benefactions and the appeals to Aularians helped the College with an extensive programme of new building, refurbishment and purchase. The accommodation programme was successful. Today St Edmund Hall is able to offer all junior members two years in College and many of them, three. That compares favourably with all but the richest and most fortunate colleges in Oxford.

From the time of Emden, through the principalship of John Kelly, St Edmund Hall was growing from a relatively insignificant 'Hall', with few students and fewer Fellows, into a major college in the University. Expansion in numbers was latterly taking place at a time when traditional lodgings and accommodation in Oxford were disappearing, at least at rent levels affordable by undergraduates.

All colleges, faced with the same problem, sought to house as great a proportion of junior members as possible in their own property. In the case of St Edmund Hall, that task, whilst by no means complete, is certainly well advanced. Oxford is a competitive place, and no college can afford to fall too far behind in the quantity or quality of residential and other facilities that it provides for its Junior Members.

It has to be said, however, that the cost of the building and accommodation programme drained the College's resources and used up the proceeds of appeals MOST COLLEGES

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and major benefactions. The expenditure made it impossible to build up endowment capital. The result is that St Edmund Hall has a totally inadequate capital base (around £2 million) to sustain its future with any degree of confidence. What is considered to be an adequate capital base? A Committee of the University suggested in 1989 that an endowment capital of £7 million was the minimum safe amount. By the year 2000, that figure will surely be £10 million.

The pressing task of the College, and thus of the Development Office, is to raise the endowment capital base. The stated aim is to increase endowment to £10 million by the end of the decade. In the past, Endowment appeals in colleges and schools have tended to be viewed as unglamorous. Especially is this so when compared with appeals for specific new buildings or a new fellowship. But, raising money for endowment need not be unglamorous: nor need it lack for specific and identifiable projects. Think of the prestige that would accrue to the old member, company or other institution which funded a named fellowship in the College. Think also of the potential access to research and expertise that such sponsorship would open up. St Edmund Hall has twenty-four tutorial fellowships which are presently unsponsored and unnamed . The total cost of each of these fellows to the College has to be met from college income. Were any or all of them sponsored and named, either permanently or for a specified number of years, an amount of college capital set aside for that purpose could be released and the income used for other purposes.

By the same token, other items of expenditure could be 'sponsored' in the same way and with the same effect. Underwriting budgeted expenditure on the Boat Club or on books for the library releases college capital and, therefore, income.

Many specific, sometimes glamorous projects can be identified for sponsorship.

Examples, besides fellowships , include a Music Room (£15,000) a Computer Room (£20,000), adding a new study/bedroom in 19 Norham Gardens (£30,000), providing a seminar room in the Front Quad (£35,000), building a Squash Court (£60,000), refurbishing 19 Norham Gardens, known as Gunfield, (£420,000) and many more.

Conceiving ideas for specific projects is relatively straightforward. The more difficult task is where to look for the necessary funds. The Development Office has formulated its strategy on the basis that Old Members hold the key to success in fundraising, both directly and indirectly . That basis appears to be the same with most, if not all, other colleges as evidenced from the interchange of information in the Oxford Forum of Fundraisers to which body development and fundraising officers from most colleges belong.

The strategy for direct contributions from Aularians is founded on inviting them to contribute regularly by whatever means suits each individual best.

Consider! Were a quarter of Aularians to contribute £5 a month under covenant, the College would receive £100,000 each year including the tax refunds. That figure would represent the yield on an endowment capital of nearly £2m!

Contact with Aularians has been made by enlisting the help of a representative for each matriculation year and asking him or her to write to each of their contemporaries. The system owes something to the practice which is highly developed in North American educational establishments. The idea is to make regular, sometimes annual, approaches, although not always asking for financial support.

Where year representatives have been recruited the scheme works well .

Coverage is not complete because in some matriculation years difficulties in enlisting representatives have been experienced. Nevertheless the scheme is continuing and any offers of help would be gratefully received, particularly with years 1948-53 and 1974-81.

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On a more collective level, Aularians are invited to reunions and gaudies at intervals as a means of cementing ties between individuals and the College and as a channel for direct communication between them. The production of regular newsletters on financial matters related to the Hall, has begun and will develop, all designed to help Aularians to keep abreast of college finances and the financial problem facing the College. It is incumbent on the College to be open and honest about its financial affairs in order to create an awareness of the situation amongst its alumni . The publication of abridged accounts is a part of this process and has already been welcomed by many Aularians.

There are undoubtedly some Aularians who are able, if willing, to contribute substantial amounts, and these benefactions are both welcome and essential. The direct approach to most Aularians is to ask for aid on the basis of a 'little and often'. As the previous illustration shows, relatively small amounts given regularly do collectively amount to significant sums.

Many of the major benefactions received by the Hall have come from bequests .

There must be many old members who are reluctant to release capital in their own lifetime for fear that they may need it but who might be able to leave something to the Hall in their Wills. The Development Office proposes from time to time to remind Old Members of the value of bequests in the build-up of capital.

Aularians are also seen as vital in the search for benefactions from nonAularian sources. If an outside source - be it an individual or an institution such as a charitable trust or a business - makes a contribution to St Edmund Hall, it is most likely to have come about as the result of some existing connection with the Hall. That connection is, again, most likely to be a personal one involving an old member of the College. The generous benevolence of Dr Brockhues arose from a friendship he developed with Principal Emden. The College can offer major donors considerable status and prestige and the Principal is always willing to discuss possible collaboration with benefactors. The Development Office constantly seeks potential links with such people through Old Members. Any suggestions of contacts with trusts , companies or other potential donors are welcomed by the Principal or the Development Officer (the Development Office telephone number is 0865 279055 and the Fax number is 0865 279090).

Another significant departure from previous ideas is the structured inclusion of Old Members in fundraising matters. The Endowments Committee, a committee of the Governing Body which is responsible for fundraising matters, has been expanded. In the past two years seven Old Members have been enlisted.

They are: Sir Derek Alun-Jones (1952) J. D. Andrewes (1956) D. Band (1961) J. A. H. Curry (1959) J. G. French (1956) J. M. Heggadon (1961) J. R. C. Young (1956) Each has brought outside experience to the deliberations of the committee and additional Old Members will be enlisted.

Fundraising is vital for the future of St Edmund Hall. The response of Old Members in the past has been generous. The future needs further generosity. It may not be too outrageous to say that the future of St Edmund Hall depends to a great extent upon the continuing generosity of its Old Members.

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SCHOLARSHIP ELECTIONS THE GOVERNING BODY

has made the following awards for the academic year

1992-93: BIOCHEMISTRY

Scholarship: M. A. Wigmore Exhibition: Ms K. A. Vardy CHEMISTRY

Scholarship: D. R. Spring Exhibitions: A. W. Jones, R. J. Rednall, Ms A. M. S. Cookson ENGINEERING (and combined schools)

Scholarships: P. B. Cassidy, G. C. Hinton, A. H. Somalya, T. A. C. Clark Exhibitions: J. W. Lipscombe, M. D. Powe, Ms A. Musson, B. M. Pearson, M. 0. S. Lim ENGLISH

Scholarships: Ms C. R. Gordon, J. L. Howgate, Ms C. E. Atherton, A. R. Lapp in Exhibition: Ms C. Harris FINE ART

Scholarships: Ms S. Koura, D. J. Jubb Exhibitions: Ms R. J. Nanson, Ms S. M. I. Schuster GEOLOGY

Exhibitions: M. J. Goddard, A. J. Skae LAW

Scholarships: J. Chambers, Ms A. C. Howard, A. J. Dickinson, Ms D. C. Hewitt Exhibition: K. J. Mitchinson MATHEMATICS, COMPUTATION (and combined schools)

Scholarships: M. G. Knibbs, A. D. Penn, C. R. Bodycote, G. A. McCusker, S. P. Chatterjee Exhibition: B. V. Arumugam METALLURGY (and combined schools) (All awards given by the Armourers and Brasiers Company)

Scholarships: E. F. J. Shelton, R. J. Grylls, R. J. Sennitt Exhibitions: Ms A. K. Pearce-Higgins, Ms E. E. Broomby MODERN HISTORY

Scholarship: R. J. B. Koe Exhibition: K. G. Knibbs MODERN LANGUAGES

Exhibition: Ms S. R. Emmison P.P.E.

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PHYSICS (N.E. = Nuclear Electric)

Scholarship: D. T. Ryan (N.E.) Exhibitions: P. E. Fry, J. C. L. Clayton (N.E.), F. L. Wong , D. A. Williams , R. A. Peare, M. D. Johnston PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE

Scholarship: Ms S. S. C. Harries Exhibitions : Ms S. N. Khan, G. E. Smith POSTGRADUATE AWARD

K. Konuk BROCKHUES AWARDS

A. Bull , P. R. Lynan, D. P. Middleditch, M. A. Snell

PRIZES AND GRANTS THE FOLLOWING

Prizes and Grants have been awarded:

PHILIP GEODES MEMORIAL PRIZE

Ms Alison Roberts, who is now on the Westminster Press Training Course in Hastings , for an electric typewriter and a crash course in shorthand typing (£1,000) .

Ms Karina Wilson, to visit prisoners on Death Row in Jackson, Georgia, and write an article (£300).

MURIEL RADFORD MEMORIAL PRIZE

Ms C. A. Manby, who will be working as a volunteer at the 'Seven Springs Playground', which provides day care facilities for some 750 mentally and physically handicapped children and adults.

RICHARD FARGHER BURSARY

Ms H. J. Parry, for attendance at a conference in Paris during the Easter vacation.

INSTRUMENTAL BURSARIES

D. J. Barker, R. G. Bratby, S. P. Chatterjee, T. C. Parsons, J. P. Slater ARMOURERS ' AND BRASIERS' COMPANY TRAVEL GRANTS

M. Yun (£800), D. J. Monaghan (£500), R. J. Grylls (£200) From the GRAHAM HAMILTON TRAVEL FUND Ms J. C. Brown (£200), S. Dhillon (£200) From the COCHRANE SCHOLARSHIP Ms N. H. Haines (£200)

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From the MICHAEL PIKE FUND Ms E. E. Coast (£150) 33

PHILIP GEDDES MEMORIAL PRIZE is about seizing opportunities. Winning the Geddes Prize gave me a legitimacy rare to student journalists, and helped me obtain a stint of work experience with the Guardian newspaper. By chance, this apprenticeship period happened to coincide with the beginning of the Gulf War, and I found myself immediately involved in some very exciting projects . One of the articles I worked on with Alan Rusbridger, the paper' s features editor, was mentioned in the annual round-up of commendable journalism by the television programme, What the Papers Say. It was a piece highlighting the linguistic bias in the war reports of Britain's tabloid newspapers: our soldiers 'dig in', their soldiers 'cower in their foxholes' ; our soldiers launch 'first strikes', their soldiers make 'unprovoked attacks', and so on.

I also started writing regularly for the Weekend Guardian, the principal home for longer feature articles in the newspaper. This became my intended destination for my Geddes-winning proposal about the detention centres for Vietnamese ' boat people' in Hong Kong.

Unfortunately , however, when I arrived in the colony after much planning my arrival once again coincided with circumstances beyond my control. This time was not so providential: an argument in Section C of the Shek Kong detention centre sparked a riot that left 22 dead, 10 of them children, trapped in a burning Quonset hut. It was the bloodiest incident in Hong Kong's camps since the beginning of the Vietnamese exodus in 1975, and it made access to the camps impossible to obtain.

But journalists are daily forced to improvise: I wrote a piece for the Guardian questioning the colonial domination of the arts scene in Hong Kong . Realising that Hong Kong 's film industry is the third biggest in the world behind those of America and India, I interviewed two of the colony's top directors - John Woo and Ann Hui - and its biggest film star, Jackie Chan, all of whom are regularly menaced by the Triad gangsters that control their industry . And I crossed the border into China.

The fruits of that trip were published in the Weekend Guardian on July 18, 1992. I discovered modern China's first gay bar, a truly unique place as less than a decade ago homosexuals were still regularly executed as a consequence of their 'spiritual pollution'. 'The rest of the week I have to be careful about everything I say and everything I do,' one youth told me. 'Here I feel safe. It's better than a birthday party. ' That piece has already led to a commission to write an article about the spread of HIV in China for an Aids charity magazine, World Aids, and only today I received a letter offering to introduce me to Professor Pai Hsien-Yung, the first author to include explicitly gay material in a novel published inside China.

I would like to thank Mrs Nora Geddes and all the trustees and judges of the Prize Fund for enabling me to make my trip and for helping me to develop as a journalist.

Robert Leedham JOURNALISM

THE MURIEL RADFORD PRIZE 1990 MT. KANCHENJUNGA in the extreme N.E. of Nepal is the world's third highest mountain (8,856 metres high) . It was only recently opened up to non-climbing groups. Our expedition consisted of two geologists and myself. Our aims were to make the first detailed geological map of the area and to study the effects of high altitude on blood pressure. The area is very remote (18 days ' walk from the

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nearest road) and we had to be totally self-sufficient. This resulted in the expedition costing around ÂŁ12,500 which took 18 months of hard work to raise .

In return the expedition spent 64 days in the field.

The walk-in and walk-out were by different routes and both the northern and southern base camps were surveyed. In addition we accompanied a Korean climbing expedition to Advanced Base Camp on the southern side.

During the course of the expedition a variety of climates were encountered, ranging from trekking through the jungle in the monsoon in high temperatures and humidity, to steep mountain ascents in freezing conditions and winds.

Leeches were a constant problem at lower altitudes. The maximum altitude reached was a little under 6,000 metres. We were privileged to visit a beautiful area of the world which has yet to feel the full brunt of 'progress' and which remains relatively unscathed by tourism.

The expedition had the support of the Scientific Exploration Society and was awarded the top grant by the Royal Geographical Society. The physiological information obtained during the expedition formed the basis for a Finals dissertation . The expedition highlighted the difficulties involved in collecting physiological data at high altitude by small teams. Nevertheless , the data suggest that trekking at these altitudes is a safe activity for reasonably fit members of the public who take time to acclimatise properly. These include subjects who have recently undergone coronary surgery.

In terms of academic research, the geology was by far the most successful project. Two maps of the geology of the region have been published in the expedition report, including one at a scale of 1 : 50,000 which is the best map currently available.

Above all, I learnt about the people of Nepal and gained an insight into their culture and way of life. The research experience has been invaluable and has enabled me to act as an adviser to a number of expeditions since.

I would like to thank Professor Radford on behalf of all of the members of the expedition for his generous help and interest in the project.

Sundeep Dhillon AULARIAN CALENDAR in 1992-93 are of special interest to Aularians: THE GAUDY: Saturday 3 October 1992, for matriculation years 196T-71 inclusive. It is likely that the 1993 Gaudy will be on Saturday 2 October and that it will be for matriculation years 1972-75 inclusive.

ST EDMUND'S DAY: Monday 16 November 1992.

THE LONDON DINNER, preceded by the AGM of the SEH Association at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, Tuesday 12 January 1993.

THE REUNION at the Hall, Saturday 26 June 1993. This year invitations will be sent to those who matriculated before the rnid-1970s .

DEGREE DAYS: (all on Saturdays at 11.30 a.m.) : In 1992: 24 October, 7 November, 28 November. In 1993: 23 January, 6 March, 22 May, 12 June, 17 July, 31 July, 23 October, 6 November, 27 November. In 1994: 22 January, 5 March, 21 May , 11 June, 16 July, 30 July. Members of the Hall wishing to make arrangements for taking their degrees should write in advance to The Dean of Degrees' Secretary, The College Office, St Edmund Hall, Oxford OX1 4AR. The College has a strict quota of places for those wishing to receive degrees in person and early enquiry is therefore advised . Tickets are required by visitors and these are issued through the College. Degrees can be taken in absentia at any ceremony.

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THE GAUDY for Old Members took place over the weekend of 5/6 October 1991, those invited having matriculated in the years 1962-66 inclusive, together with a number who were unable to attend last year.

A well-attended Evensong in Chapel was followed by sherry in the JCR party room and dinner and dessert in the Wolfson Hall. In his speech of welcome, the Principal spoke of the reasons for holding a Gaudy and of the demands placed on the College by its evolution and recent development. The Hall had been transformed physically within the last 20 years but the old friendliness survived as did the College's traditional interest in sport and the arts. Funds to increase the Hall's endowment are urgently needed, however, if this progress is to be maintained and the appeal to Old Members is designed to ensure that others enjoy and profit from the same experience that undergraduates of earlier generations had.

Thanks to the Principal and Fellows were then expressed on behalf of all the guests by John Heggadon, President of the St Edmund Hall Association.

There were present: the Principal, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association (Mr J . M. Heggadon, 1961) , 25 Fellows (including Emeritus Fellows), the Chaplain, the Junior Dean, and the following Old Members: 1946 Rev R. C. Austin, Rev M. A. Halliwell ; 1948 G. H. Winter; 1950 R. A. Adcock, J. Cox (Honorary Fellow) ; 1954 Rev Canon M. A. Bourdeaux; 1956 A. B. Bromley, G. P. T. Whurr; 1961 I. R. K. Rae, A. M. Rentoul; 1962 G. W. P. Barber, R. B. Begy, W. J. Best, D. J. Charman, C. J. S. Cowles, A. J. Davis, J. R. de Rennes, J . H. W. H. Elkins, D. J. L. Fitzwilliams, M. J. Hamilton, H. C. D. Hammond, C. W. Hewitt, Dr J . Hill , Dr N. MeN . Jackson , R. N. Oliver, N. H. Pegram, M. F. Rooker, J . R. Taylor, Dr J . N. Thomas; 1963 A. L. Bond, D. R. Clarke, D . J. Cox, DrM . B. Foxon, P. Hodson, T. J. Jeffers, P. J. E. Jones, J. F. Mew, R. E. F. Moss, R. A. S. Offer, Dr D. B. Rimmer, M. S. Simmie, R. M. Wilier; 1964 P. Adams , D. A. Ashworth, A. C. Barker, A. L. Bucknall, R. Chappell , Dr M. J. Clarke, R. W. Clarke, A. R. Heygate, P. W. Liversidge, G. A. Metters, D. V. Rumbelow , R. W. F. Stoner; 1965 P. W. Badman, R. W. Beckham, J. R. Clarembaux, R. A. Dolman, P. M. Fickling, W. Fay, D. M. Huxley, N. R. Jarrold, P. M. Johnson, I. M. Laing, R. J. McDonald, H. G. Nicholls, C. J. C. Palmer, Dr W . J. Rea, J. A. Sayer, M. P. StM. Sheil, B. Smith, P. H. Spray, W. Walker; 1966 D. W. Broadbridge, A. B. Fisher, F. H. Hanbridge , D. J . Hansom , D. A. Hopkins, T. R. P. Irvin, P. S. Jenkins , J. D. Shortridge, M. S. Stone.

THE ANNUAL GAUDY

THE REUNION as the year of the tortoise, but more of that below . The Annual Reunion of Old Members took place on Saturday 27 June 1992, the dinner, attended by over 200, being preceded by a garden party at which several hundred more Aularians and their families were welcomed by the Principal and Mrs Gosling. It was a perfect, warm June day but the tortoise did not put in an appearance before 10 p.m.

The Principal began his speech after dinner by welcoming a number of Old Members who had made the journey across the Atlantic. He then paid tribute to two former Fellows, Dr George All en and Dr George Ramsay, who had died during the year. The year had also seen the retirement of Professor Sir Peter Hirsch who had brought great distinction to the post of Professor of Metallurgy (Material Sciences). It was hoped that his wide knowledge of the IT WILL BE KNOWN

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scientific world could be used in connection with the Hall's search for further endowment income. Dr Child had been awarded a personal professorship in acknowledgement of his contributions to Chemistry and no fewer than four Aularians had been elected M.P.s at the recent election.

The musical and dramatic life of the Hall continued to flourish, and the pianos given by Old Members were being put to good use, for example at the lunchtime concerts that had become an established feature of term time. Sporting successes were as numerous as ever, a predictable cheer greeting the news of the Rugby Cuppers victory. The Athletics Club had achieved its fourth consecutive victory in Cuppers and the Boat Club had done well in Eights, having now set up a Friends of the Boat Club to help sustain these advances.

A notable event in the year had been the first A. B. Emden Lecture, endowed

by Dr Brockhues, and given by Professor McManners. Further lectures would be given by Professor Owen Chadwick and Professor Keith Thomas. Fundraising continued to be ever more important in order to build up the Hall's endowment. Old Members had generously donated some ÂŁ250,000 (gross) during the time that the College had been served by Mr Colin Mattingly on a parttime basis and he was soon to be succeeded by a full-time development officer.

At this point the Principal announced that the College had very recently received notification of a benefaction of ÂŁ750,000, spread over five years. The name of the donor was, at present, anonymous but would be revealed in due course.

Meanwhile discussions were taking place over the most effective use to which the gift could be put.

Replying to the toast of Floreat Aula, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association, Mr John Heggadon, first thanked the Principal and Fellows for their hospitality over the course of the day. He then went on to describe some of the work of the Association and the contributions which it was seeking to make to Hall life.

Finally, Mr Farrand Radley was called upon to make a surprise presentation to the Principal. There had been much discussion in Aularian circles of the tortoises that had once been a feature of many college lawns, including those of the Hall. It was no longer permissible to matriculate live tortoises but the Principal was invited to accept a very life-like model. Receiving it with obvious pleasure, he promised to look after it devotedly, provided only that the Executive Committee of the Association agreed to keep off the subject of tortoises for at least five years.

There were present: the Principal, the Vice-Principal, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association (Mr J. M. Heggadon), the Chaplain, the MCR President (K. Konuk), the JCR President (A. A. M. Maharaj), the following Fellows (including Honorary and Emeritus Fellows): R. E. Alton, G. BourneTaylor, A. Briggs, Dr P. J. Collins, Dr R. Fargher, S. Farthing, Revd Professor J. McManners, Dr R. B. Mitchell, Dr L. A. Newlyn, Dr C. E. Phelps, M. D. E. Slater, Dr N. J. Stone, Dr J. D. Todd, C. J. Wells, Dr W. S. C. Williams, Sir Denis Wright, Dr A. B. Worden, Dr D. C. M. Yardley; and the following Old Members: 1922 R. L. Hill, Canon C. N. Wardle-Harpur; 1926 T.V. Nicholson; 1927 B. M. Forrest; 1930 Sir Claude Hayes, W. L. Herbert; 1932 D. Floyd, Revd P. H. Rogers, I. M. Sciortino; 1933 Revd T. E. M. Ashton, F. H. H. Finch, J. Lee; 1935 H. A. F. Radley; 1936 H. B. D. Beales, H. E. Pope; 1937 J. P. de C. Meade, D. G. C. Salt; 1938 J. M. G. Halstead, W. P. Smith, Dr C. J. H. Starey; 1939 Canon M. W. Dittmer, G. Harper King; 1940 G. J. F. Brain, C. Mounsey, Revd Preb G. Sunderland; 1941 D. B. Akehurst, A. D. Waiter, A. Ward, C. J. Weir; 1942 J. B. Anderson, A. Arthur, L. H. Elliott, C. R. Owston, S. V. Swallow; 1943 W. R. Dunsmore, Revd P. M. Haynes, 37

E. C. Jones, Revd Preb J. G. M. Scott; 1944 Revd Dr R. A. Mason, Professor A. H. W. Nias; 1945 D. F. Goldsmith, Dr N. S. Haile, J. W. E. Snelling; 1946 D. S. Dunsmore, Revd R. H. Faulkner, T. M. Le Mesurier; 1949 W. R. Miller; 1950 Professor C. M. Armitage; 1951 D. J. Day; 1955 R. A. Farrand, P. R. Lewis; 1963 H. F. Naish; 1974 J. Wilk; 1975 N. J. H. Brornley, P. J. Congdon, A. Davids, Dr B. F. Gasser, M. A. Jones, A. J. Lomas, C. D. Miller, C. Shaw, A. P. Stopyra; 1976 M. L. Abubakar, Dr R. W. Avery, A. B. Denton, R. A. H. Finch, A. J. P. Heslop, M. S. Hockey, C. S. Latimer, P. L. Smith, S. J. Tetley; 1977 C. J. Blount, P. V. Brett, D. J. Cooper, R. A. B. Dalby, Lieut I. J. V. Doherty, I. W. Durrans, N. A. Eyre, D. J. Hope, R. Keeley, L. D. Page, R. C. Pickover, G. D. Robson, J. D. Tullett, S. Vivian; 1978 M. F. Gargan, Major N. J. R. Haddock, S. I. Heilbron, D. A. Hollomby, R. S. Luddington; 1979 A. J. Best, J. R. Catmur, D. J. Cox, M. B. Earls, Ms D. W. Fones, Dr V. C. Grundy, DrT. J. Padley, D. R. Sayers, N. A. Simmonds, A. J. M. Willis; 1980 N. D. Caddick Dr J. T. G. Coutts, Dr K. A. Finucane, Ms S. A. Jennings, S. King, J. S. Madgwick, Ms R. M. Martel; 1981 C. J. R. Barron, M. Betton, Ms F. T. Bick, D. J. Dee, C. P. Farrelly, D. J. Firth, N. P. Jackson, P. Knight, D. J. Levy, A. J. T. Miller, Ms T. Norris, M. R. Owens, Ms W. Pasco, N. D. L. Quick, Ms C. H. Reece, S. Segnit, M. J. Stride, Ms J. B. Turner, M. C. Waiters; 1982 D. Aeron-Thomas, N. I. Cox, Capt P. J. Edwards, J. G. Franks, D. J. Heaps, R. H. Lyndon Morgan, R. J. MacAlister, Ms E. A. Marsh, D. J. Myers, S. J. Roberts, A. J. Sandbach, Ms N. A. Sellars, S. C. Whyte, S. K. ffitch; 1983 S. R. Baker, C. D. Broad, R. C. Collie, R. A. M. Constant, T. Fallowfield, S. J. Freethy, K. A. Hale, Mrs E. A. Hale, M. S. Kell, J. P.A. Larkin, J. J. McGowan, A. M. Till; 1984 C. M. Bowers, M. C. Field, Dr M. J. Jenkins, Ms A. C. McCormick; 1985 Mrs E. F. Bell, Ms C. L. Botting, M. A. Feeley, D. R. Frith, M. J. Hudson, Mrs J. L. Little, M. R. Little, Ms P. W. Rudlin, A. P. J. Scurlock, Ms H. P. Simmonds, Ms A. S. Ulrich; 1986 Ms S. A. Adams, J. R. Allison, I. S. Bedi, Dr P. D. Billyard, M. J. Borrett, Ms A. E. Botting, J. R. Charles, T. P. Dudley, W. S. Fraser, D. A. Gillett, A. T. Harrison, B. Hepworth, P. J. M. Houston, D. S. Hurton, Ms N. C. Inman, N. A. Jacob, J. P. Lindsay, D. Loan-Clarke, A. R. W. Martyn, A. P. Rabin, P. Richards, M. E. M. Snelling, Ms J. E. Thornton, Ms R. H. Trethewey; 1987 C. M. Coltart, D. M. Gruenstein, B. R. Matthews, Ms J. F. H. Walker, Ms H. C. Watson; 1989 D. M. Lauder; 1990 M. G. Liggins.

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION MINUTES OF THE 61ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION - 14 JANUARY 1992 was held in the Smoking Room of Simpson's-in-the Strand, 100 Strand, London WC2R OEW on Tuesday, 14 January 1992 at 6.17 p.m., J. M. Heggadon presiding.

THE 61ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

51 members were present.

1. MINUTES The minutes of the last, 60th, held on 8 January 1991, having been published in the Magazine and copies being available, were confirmed and signed by the President. There were no matters arising.

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2. PRESIDENT'S REPORT J. M. Heggadon reported that the Association was now involved with the current fundraising at all levels. He described how money had been allotted to various items to benefit the Hall including the laser printer. The interface between the Association and the College was widening and strengthening.

3. PRINCIPAL'S REPORT J. C. B. Gosling drew attention to the endowment by Dr Brock:hues of an annual lecture in memory of Principal Emden, 1929-51. The inaugural lecture would be given by the Rev Professor J. McManners and possibly introduced by the Visitor. The Principal also announced that there would be a Garden Party this year on 27 June.

4. HONORARY SECRETARY'S REPORT P. R. Lewis said he had nothing to report.

5. HONORARY TREASURER'S REPORT J . R. Paul presented the audited accounts which had been published in the 1990-91 Magazine. These were adopted.

6. ELECTIONS The following were elected unanimously: P. R. Lewis a. Honorary Secretary b. Honorary Treasurer J. R. Paul c. Up to 1934 F. H. H. Finch H. A. F. Radley d. 1935-44 e. 1945-54 D. J. Day f. 1955-64 I. R. K. Rae g. 1965-74 J . D . Shortridge h. 1975-84 Miss J. B. Turner i. 1985- 94 D. S. McCallum A. C. Greenham

re-elected re-elected re-elected re-elected re-elected re-elected re-elected re-elected re-elected elected

7. APPOINTMENT OF HONORARY AUDITOR L. D. Page was unanimously re-appointed Honorary Auditor.

8. DATE OF NEXT MEETING Tuesday, 12 January 1993, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, 6.15 p.m.

9. The President welcomed Anthony Greenham to the Executive Committee and, there being no further business, closed the Meeting at 6.24 p.m.

Paul R. Lewis Hon Sec ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1992 President J. M. HEGGADON MA BSc Lond FCIM FFB (1961) The Principal J . C. B. GOSLING BPhil MA Immediate Past President R. A. FARRAND MA (1955)

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Hon Secretary P . R . LEWIS MA (1955)

Hon Treasurer J. R. PAUL MA FCA (1945)

Representatives by Matriculation Date Groups Up to 1934 SIR CLAUDE HAYES KCMG BLitt MA (1930) G. L. H. R. SHIELD MA (1933) F. H. H. FINCH MA (1933)

1935-44 H. A . F . RADLEY MBE MA (1935) J. P . DE C. MEADE OBE MA (1937) W . N. HILLIER-FRY CMG BA (1941)

1945-54 A. R. J. LLOYD MA (1946) R. J. L. BREESE MA (1949) D . J . DAY OBE MA (1951)

1955-64 I. R . K. RAE MA (1961) M. G. M. GROVES DipEconPo!Sci (1962) A . C. BARKER MA (1964)

1965-74 J . D. SHORTRIDGE MA MSc (1966) R . M. RIDLEY MA (1966) L. CUMMINGS MA (1971)

1975-84 R. S. LUDDINGTON BA (1978) Miss R. M. MARTEL MA (1980) Miss J. B. TURNER BA (1981)

1985-94 D . S. MCCALLUM BA (1985) A. C. GREENHAM BA (1988)

eo-options J. LEE MA CIPM (1933) Rev E. G. MIDGLEY BLitt MA (1941) Rev E. A. SIMMONDS MA (1952) D. I. SCARGILL JP MA DPhil (1954) P. G. SKOKOWSKI MA (1979)

Hon Vice-Presidents Professor F. G. MARCHAM BA PhD (1920) Rev Canon J . N . D. KELLY DD FBA 40

THE LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on Tuesday, 14 January 1992. The attendance was 143, which represented yet again an all time record.

In welcoming a distinguished company the President of the Association, Mr John Heggadon, first warmly greeted the Association's eight guests, the Principal and Mrs Gosling, Professor Alan Cuthbert, Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and Mrs Cuthbert, Mr Robert Jackson, M.P., Parliamentary UnderSecretary of State, Department of Employment, Mr Dudley Wood, Secretary of the Rugby Football Union, Ms J. R. Rainbow, President of the S.E.H. M.C.R., and Maharaj Akaash, President of the J .C.R. Professor Cuthbert, he said, from our sister college in 'the other place' ('where?!') was already well known to us, as he had attended last year's St Edmund's Feast.

John Heggadon added that he had personally invited the Association's two Hon. Vice-Presidents, Professor F. G. Marcham of Cornell University and New York, and Dr John Kelly. Sadly, however, letters of regret had been received from both of them, John Kelly sending his usual affectionate message to all those attending the Dinner. Twelve Fellows were present, among them five wellknown Emeritus Fellows, Mr Reggie Alton, Dr Richard Fargher, the Rev'd Graham Midgley, Dr Bruce Mitchell and Dr Joe Todd. Once again we welcomed three Aularians from across the Atlantic; Leonard Gibeon and Dr William B. Cogar from the U.S.A., while Colonel William K. Megill of the Canadian Army stopped over in London on his way to Vienna.

Before turning to events of the past year John Heggadon wished particularly, on behalf of all those present, to congratulate Justin Gosling on having held the office of Principal for ten illustrious years, and with these congratulations he coupled our appreciation of the very welcome presence each year of Mrs Margaret Gosling and her interest in all things Aularian.

The Association's varied activities had included continued representation on the Endowments Committee and the maintenance of close links with the Senior Common Room. The new S.E.H. Directoty was in active preparation, the intention being to send copies out with the October mailing. The Association particularly valued its involvement with the Magazine and the fact that Dr Ian Scargill had found time to combine his multifarious duties as Vice-Principal with those of Editor. Finally, the Association had given ÂŁ1500 towards the cost of a laser printer. There were still a number of copies of 'Hall', the memoirs of S.E.H. graduates 1920-1980, available for sale.

The Principal then rose in reply and thanked the Association on behalf of the guests and the President for his kind remarks. He preferred once again to defer giving an account of last year's activities until the summer Reunion, which was to take place on 27 June. This year there would be a garden party, to which all Aularians and members of their families were cordially invited. The Principal mentioned the endowment by Dr Frederick Brockhues, Hon. Fellow of the College and member of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors, of an annual lecture in memory of his great friend, the former Principal, Dr A. B. Emden.

The inaugural lecture would be given by the Rev'd Professor J. McManners, also an Hon. Fellow, and it was hoped that the Chancellor as Visitor of the College would preside.

Last year the President had introduced a new feature at the Dinner by asking an Aularian of distinction to address the assembly. The special guest at the 1991 Dinner had been Mr Terry Jones of Monty Python fame, and John Heggadon now took great pleasure in presenting his guest for 1992, Mr Dudley Wood, THE 51ST LONDON DINNER

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Secretary of the English R.F .U., a particularly appropriate choice coming so soon after the Rugby World Cup tournament which he had helped to organise.

Furthermore, it so happened that two of the Secretaries of the four Home Unions were Aularians; Dennis Evans represented the Welsh R.F .U. in this capacity.

Before allowing the audience to savour Dudley Wood's outstanding talent as an after-dinner speaker John Heggadon felt it only right to give a brief account of his guest's career. At the Hall, he said, Dudley Wood had read Modern Languages but felt that his aptitude for assimilating the intricacies of the French language was overshadowed by his propensity for collecting rugby Blues (no fewer than four), a statement with which his tutor, Dr Richard Fargher, happily present at the Dinner, would no doubt genially agree!

On coming down from Oxford Dudley went into industry, spending some thirty-two years with ICI in its petrochemicals division and ending up in a senior appointment from which he took early retirement in 1986. In August of that year he arrived at Twickenham, the first high-powered businessman, according to a recent article in 'The Financial Times', to move from industry into rugby administration, in which 'he has been a brilliant success' .

Dudley Wood then took the floor and regaled his audience with a series of irreverent jokes which his willing victims, &mong them the President and Graham Midgley, thoroughly enjoyed. He cast doubts, for example, on Mr Robert Jackson, M.P . 's capacity for hard work (despite the fact that the latter had to leave the Dinner early in order to vote in the House of Commons and maybe to recycle the best of the evening's jokes in more august circles!). The rest of a highly-entertaining speech was marked by diffuse references to many aspects of the speaker's career at the Hall , in industry and the rugby world; he spoke movingly of some of his friends, among them the late Peter Robbins .

Dudley Wood sat down to a roar of applause, and it only remained for the President to thank him on behalf of all those present and to bring an enjoyable evening to a close.

In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: 1930 Sir Claude Hayes; 1931 Rev R. J. Vaughan ; 1932 D. Floyd; 1933 F. H. H. Finch, J . Lee, G. L. H. R. Shield; 1934 A. T. de B. Wilmot; 1935 H. A. F. Radley; 1938 R. E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow); 1940 G. J. F. Brain; 1941 W. N. Hillier-Fry, Rev E. G. Midgley (Emeritus Fellow) ; 1942 Dr J. D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow); 1945 J . E. Durling, J . R. Paul; 1946 E. M. Goodman-Smith, A. R. J. Lloyd, J. Pike; 1947 G. Castro; 1948 J . S. Clarke; 1949 W. P. Asbrey, R. J. L. Breese, T. P. Kelly ; 1950 C. D. Griffin-Smith; 1951 D. J. Day, J . E. Farrand, C. C. B. Wightwick; 1952 Sir Derek Alun-Jones, P. Brown, D. M. Jacobs , C. J. Jones, Rev E. A. Simmonds; 1953 K. A. Bulgin, J. F. W. Read; 1954 S. R. Bilsland, Rev A. M. Crowe, D. C. Davies , Dr D. I. Scargill (VicePrincipal); 1955 R. A. Farrand, P. R. Lewis; 1956 J . D. Andrewes, M. J. Cansdale, A. F. Ham, D. H. Johnson; 1957 T. R. Ball, M. H. Bottomley, T. D. Day, J. W . Harrison, R. W. Jackson, G. H. Mihell, J. L. Phillips , J. C. Pollock; 1958 J. W . Amos , M. J. Clarke, A. J. Haydon, J. S. Reis; 1959 F. di Rienzo, B. Robson; 1960 P. J. Hayes; 1961 D. Band, S. M. Donald, J. M. Heggadon (President of the S.E.H. Association), J . A. Martin, I. R. K. Rae, A. M. Rentoul, A. St. J. B. Sandringham; 1962 W. G. Gulland, M. J. Hamilton, Col W. K. Megill, N. H. Pegram; 1964 D. A. Ashworth, A. C. Barker, M. J. Clarke, J . A. Coope; 1965 N. J. Cross, W. Foy, B. G. Streather; 1966 A. B. Fisher, D. J. Hansom, D. A. Hopkins ; 1969 L. Gibeon , P. E. Ramell; 1970 W. N. David, F. G. Hansom, P. G. Harper, J. W. Hawkins, L. N. Kaye, J. Poyser; 1971 I. Brimecome, L. Cummings; 1972 K. P. Copestake, A. J. Peacock, G. J. Price; 1973 G. K. Chamberlain, R. E. Cawthorne, P. J. Gow, 42

A. J. Hope, T. R. Lucas; 1974 J. A. B. Gray; 1975 A. Davids, R. M. Osterley; 1976 W. B. Cogar, R. A. H. Finch; 1977 G. D. Robson; 1978 R. S. Luddington; 1979 S. N. Roxborough; 1980 Ms C. P. Ivins, M. C. Walters; 1982 S. K.ffitch, J. G. Franks, Ms A. Hindbaugh (Hart-Davis), Ms N. S. J . Jones, Ms S. M. Lees, P. D. McWilliam, P. J. Murray, D. J. Myers, Ms D. Nicholls (Bhatia), I. S. Tatchell, D. J. Walmsley, S. R. T. White; 1983 M. B. Abbott, Ms C. W. Brown, M. R. S. Irwin; 1984 D. A. Davies, J. M. Day; 1986 A. T. Harrison; 1988 A. C. Greenham. The following other Fellows also attended: G. Bourne-Taylor (Domestic Bursar) , Dr N. E. Crank (Dean), Dr R. Fargher (Emeritus Fellow), Dr R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), M. D. E. Slater, Dr S. Watson, C. J. Wells, Dr A. B. Warden (Senior Tutor) .

F. H. H. Finch

ANNUAL NEW YORK DINNER THE SEVENTH AULARIAN DINNER was held at the Sky Club, Pan American Building, New York City on Friday, November 8th, 1991. Fifteen Aularians, including the Principal, attended.

Alex McCallum William Miller Fletcher Newsum Simon Simonian William Sotirovich John Ward Alan Westaway

John Basnage Warne Boyce David Brenner John Child Simon Costa Leonard Gibeon Nicholas Howard Justin Gosling

Has the Principal's attendance for the third year in a row established another Hall tradition? We would like to think so, because his visits are very much welcomed and keep us closely linked with the Hall, even at 3,000 miles distance.

It was also good to welcome first timers John Basnage and Simon Simonian at our annual gathering.

The Principal was in great form as .he described the Hall's achievements over the past year. Success in Rugby League, he ventured, was no problem 'because the snobs don't play it!' And as for St Anne 's, and their dominance playing the traditional 15-a-side code, 'they fielded a graduate team!' No mention, naturally, of earlier days when the Hall XV was recruited from demobbing National Servicemen, many of them internationals already. Multi-blue Warne Boyce, just back from the World Cup at Twickenham, was heard to say that St Anne's would never have beaten the Hall in his day.

Bill Miller, newly retired as vice chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb but working harder than ever as a director of various companies, arranged the Dinner once again at the Sky Club, which is located on top of the PanAm building with a dramatic view of Manhattan. Believe it or not, the lights illuminating the Empire State Building were in the Hall colours, maroon and gold - a wonderful coincidence for, indeed, nobody at the Dinner claimed responsibility.

As the Dinner is billed as a purely social occasion, discussions on the American Aularian appeal for the new Junior Common Room were held on the following day, November 9th, at the United Nations Plaza Hotel. After the Principal brought us up-to-date with the Hall's overall financial situation, Bill Miller announced that he was going to put new life into the JCR appeal by donating 50 cents for every dollar contributed by an Aularian resident in the United States 43

for a period extending to June 30, 1992. This was indeed a very generous offer, and a mailing was made immediately to Aularians across the country alerting them to it.

Aularians newly-arrived in the U .S . are encouraged to contact Bill Sotirovich so that our mailing list can be kept up-to-date. Please call him at (212) 750-9076 or (212) 254-5085.

The 1992 Dinner will be held in the Sky Club on Friday, November 6.

Alex McCallum

DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM G. M. Aldridge (1970), formerly Head of Chemistry at the American-British Academy, Muscat, Oman, has moved to an International School, called 'The Doha College', in Qatar.

Professor C. M. Armitage (1950) was Visiting Professor in the Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos in the Universidad de Alcahi de Henares , Spain, Jan-June 1992.

S. P. Ashberry (1982) works as a chief reporter with the Telegraph and Argus evening newspaper based in Bradford.

K. H. Auckland (1974) is now a Resident Partner in Chartered Accountants, Auckland Goddard Hampson and Swain's new London office.

R. E. Austin (1943) is Hon Secretary of the Tonbridge Civic Society.

I. S. Bedi (1986) is now with Barin Brothers and Co Ltd. Lt A. Betton (1987) is serving as Navigating Officer of HMS Redpole.

M. Betton (1981) is Managing Director, Lincs. F.M . Radio Station.

A. P. Blain (1981) works for Nalco Limited.

Prebendary P. J. Blake (1952) was appointed Rural Dean ofPortishead in April 1992. He remains Prebendary of Wells and Rector of Backwell.

M. J. Borrett (1986) works for Guinness at Park Royal brewery in the marketing department.

Rev M. A. Bourdeaux (1954) was elected Canon ofRochester and installed on 24 June 1990.

D. F. Bourne-Jones (1951) , having retired from being Mayoral Secretary with Eastbourne Borough Council, has founded B. J. Tutorials, offering language teaching to business people.

C. M. Bowers (1984) works for Salomon Brothers Inc in New York.

G. J. F. Brain (1940) stewards at Basildon House (National Trust), and is Chairman of the Reading and District Home Physiotherapy Service.

Dr J. K. Brockbank (1961) is Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Health, States of Jersey.

N . J. H. Brornley (1975) is in the International Relations Division of the Department of Health.

P. Butler (1970) was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the new seat of North East Milton Keynes at the General Election. He is no longer a Partner with Linnells, Solicitors, but remains a Consultant with them.

Dr A. V. Chambers (1982) now works for A.E.A. Technology, Harwell.

H. W. K. Cheung (1981) is Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. Dr W. B. Cogar (1976) was Visiting Senior Lecturer , Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartrnouth, 1991-92.

I. Coleman (1978) joined the Price Watership Partnership as a management consultancy partner, based in Leeds, in July 1991.

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D. I. Cooling (1970) has been Head of Pen Park School, Bristol, since September 1991.

D. J. Cooper (1977) is a solicitor in the Bristol office ofWansbroughs Willey Hargrave.

P. V. Copley (1970) is Head of Chemistry at Bishop Wordsworth 's School , Salisbury .

Dr J. T. G. Coutts (1980) now works for BP and has been appointed Team Leader for Mathematical Sciences, heading the BP Research applied mathematics and statistics resource.

Clare J. Cowley (1985) is reading Medicine at Edinburgh University .

D . J. Cox (1979) is now with Understanding Industry.

J. Cox (1955) continues to expand the repertoire at Covent Garden; his 1991 production of Caprissio by Richard Strauss was the first by The Royal Opera.

N. I. Cox (1982) has gained his MBA from Warwick Business School in 1991 and is now studying to qualify as a barrister. , K. J. W. Crossley-Holland (1959) took up the Endowed Chair in Humanities at the University of St Thomas, St Paul , Minnesota, in the autumn of 1991. His opera, The Green Children, was given its U.S. premiere.

A. Davids (1975) published Practical Information Engineering: The Management Challenge (Pitman) in June 1992.

R. P. H. Davies (1938) has, after four years and frequent visits to India, ceased to be Director of Project Mala, a project to provide education, vocational training and health care for child carpet weavers in the Mirzapur region of Uttar Pradesh.

D. J. Day (1951) was awarded the OBE in the Birthday Honours , 1991.

T. D. Day (1957) has retired after some 30 years with Ford and plans to take a further degree in Sports Psychology in 1993/94.

J.-P. Debax (1957) is Professor of English Language and Literature and Head of the English Department of the University of Toulouse.

G. I. de Deney (1952) has been created Knight Commander of the Victorian Order.

Elizabeth S. Delacave (Tuck , 1982) works for Citibank, Geneva.

Canon M. W. Dittmer (1936) , though retired, is kept busy in an extended rural ministry.

P. M. Drewell (1981) is General Manager at Sussens Mann Tyson Ogilvy and Mather PR, which is Southern Africa's foremost public relations consultancy, based in Johannesburg.

N. A. Eyre (1977) is a general counsel with the Bristol and West Building Society.

A. J. Farrand (1980) has got engaged to a girl with red hair and fair skin called Erica. She read Geology at Exeter and looks for oil, although she has no green wellies.

D . J. Farrow (1975) has completed an MFA in film (screenwriting and directing) at Columbia University , New York.

C. C. I. Fidler (1978) is distribution manager for Comet Group PLC, having recently completed his MBA at Manchester Business School.

G. W. Flex (1940) has taught Classics at Wellingborough School for 41 years and retires next year.

D. Floyd (1932) has translated I Hope by Raisa Gorbachev and The August Coup by Mikhail Gorbachev, for Harper Collins, 1991.

A. H. Foot (1944) has been invited to join the Council of Charter '88.

P. J. Frankis (1948) lectured under the Erasmus Scheme at the Universities of Ghent in 1988 and Groningen in 1990. In 1991 he retired from his position as Senior Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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W. S. Fraser (1986) is Lecturer in Business Environment, Newcastle Business School, Newcastle Polytechnic .

R. G. Gilbert (1978), still with Procter and Gamble as sales manager, has moved to Staines.

Professor C. Grayson (1938) was awarded the CBE, for services to Italian Studies; in January 1992.

J. F. Grist (1942) is Supervisor of Parliamentary Broadcasting at the House of Commons.

Dr Valerie Grundy (Hendry, 1979) is Managing Editor (English) of a French/English Dictionary Project for O.U .P. E. C. R. Hadfield (1928) published Thomas Telford's Temptation, in the Autumn of 1992.

Dr N. S. Haile (1945) has returned from Malaysia after completing a 2-year contract with the Petroleum Research Institute of Petronas , and is now living in Colwyn Bay .

J. V. Hammond (1981) works as a computer consultant for Tessella, a consultancy based in Abingdon.

Rev D. A. Harding (1951) is Chaplain of the School of St Mary and St Anne, Abbots Bromley , Staffordshire.

A. R. Hargreaves (1974) was re-elected M.P . for Birmingham Hall Green at the General Election.

Claire R. Harrison (1986) has been studying at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague, funded by the Czech/British Government postgraduate exchange programme.

E. C. Hayes (1983) is an assistant solicitor at Nicholson, Graham and Jones, London.

S. I. Heilbron (1978) is a solicitor with Messrs Osborne Clarke at their Bristol office, specialising in commercial and media litigation.

G. L. Henson (1939), who has been Chief Executive of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe, having previously been Deputy Secretary, Local Government, retired in December 1991.

A. J . Heslop (1976) teaches French and Spanish at Southport College of Further Education.

R. L. Hill (1922) received the D.Litt (honoris causa) from the University of Durham on 2 July 1992, his granddaughter, Katharine, receiving her B.Sc at the same Congregation.

Alice Hindhaugh (Hart-Davis, 1982) works on the Sunday Telegraph.

K. M. Hounslow (1954) has moved to the head office of W. S. Atkins Ltd (Consulting Engineers) on taking up a mainboard directorship .

R. V. Jackson (1965) was re-elected M.P. for Wantage at the General Election.

R. C. T. James (1938) remains Chairman of a charity, 'Friends of Treginnis Farm for City Children', near St Davids .

A. S. Johnson (1969) is Head of Modern Languages at Normanton Freeston High School, Wakefield.

R. Keeley (1977) is Head of Geography at Bradfield College.

M. S. Kell (1983), having obtained an M.Phil in Economics at Nuffield College, is now working as an economist in the Treasury.

R. D. L. Kent (1982) is working for Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners on a large construction site in Botswana.

G. E. A. Kentfield (1959) has been appointed Chief Cashier of the Bank of England.

D. Khan (1979) works as an economist with the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation in Rome.

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S. King (1980) is still working in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, on a research project funded by IBM Laboratories Ltd, which was honoured with a Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in April 1992, for the application of mathematical techniques to the development of computer software.

Fiona M. Larkin (Mrs Hayes) (1983) works on academic and international matters for the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics.

T. M. Le Mesurier (1946) has retired from teaching at Lord Williams School, Thame.

Rev A. R. Lewis (1938) published Too Bright the Vision? in the Autumn of 1992.

A. J. Lomas (1975) is Finance Director of Pilkington Micronics Ltd. R. J. MacAlister (1982) is a stockbroker with Wise Speke Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne.

D. N. (1979) and Cathy (Thomason, 1981) Manning are leaving Singapore in August 1992 to take up a post in Auckland, New Zealand.

P. D. McWilliam (1982) is a bond trader with Goldman Sachs Int. Ltd. Dr R. A. Mason (1944) has published Preaching the Tradition: Homily and Hermeneutic after the Exile (1990) and Micah, Nahum, Obadiah, Old Testament Guides (1991).

Y. G. Meshoulam (1982) is a full time artist.

P. N. Moorhouse (1985) works as Foreign Correspondent for Argus Africa News.

F. R. Mountain (1934) still practises as a solicitor but no longer in London.

Christine J. Muskett (1983) is Secretary to the TSB Foundation for England and Wales.

D. J. Myers (1982) completed his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1990 and joined Bain and Co ¡as a management consultant in the same year.

Z. Nawaz (1980) has been transferred from Lloyds Private Banking Head Office Investment Unit to Investment Manager, City of London.

C. A. Newman (1978) is Head of History at Chetham's School of Music, Manchester.

Professor A. H. W. Nias (1944) retired from St Thomas' Hospital in October 1991 and is now Emeritus Richard Dimbleby Professor of Cancer Research, University of London.

Dr S. Old (1977) studied Medicine at Bristol (1982-88) and works as anaesthetist at Southmead Hospital.

Jenny Elizabeth Oliver (Stirling, 1983) is a solicitor.

R. S. Oliver (1981) is a stockbroker with Greenwell Montagu.

J. Owen-Smith (1955) is Chairman and Managing Director of Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd. R. M. Parkinson (1969) works for Mellon Bank in Philadelphia, being responsible for non-performing real estate assets in the Eastern U .S.A. T. C. Parkinson (1981) works for the Hire Division of Transport Development Group PLC. A. J. Patient (1951) has been appointed Audio Visual Officer to the Papua New Guinea University of Technology.

R. Pay (1978) has gained his MBA (with distinction) from the City University Business School and is Director of Marketing for the international law firm, Clifford Chance.

A. G. Pearson (1955) is a business consultant and has advised on capitalism and the free market in Moscow.

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D. J . Picksley (1953), having retired from Rank Xerox, now teaches French and German at Selsden High School, Croydon.

Dr A. J. Pinching (1969) has been appointed to the new Louis Freedman Chair of Immunology in the University of London, tenable at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College.

Rev R. C. Poston (1931) is assisting at local churches in the Colchester area in retirement.

Rev R. M. W. Powell (1938) and his wife, Joyce, celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on 5 June 1992.

Dr M. K. Power (1976) has had his paper, 'From common sense to expertise: reflections on the pre-history of audit sampling' published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, 1992.

Sir Kieran Prendergast, KCVO (1966) is British High Commissioner in Kenya.

Rev R. E. Raynor (1936) gained pass with merit (piano), Grade V of the Ass. Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 1988.

Dr J. Reynolds (1976) has been appointed to a Fellowship in Retail Marketing at Templeton College, Oxford.

C. D. W . Robinson (1966) has been awarded a Ph.D by the University of Reading.

Rev Bryan Rothwell (1978) is Vicar of St Mary's, Preston.

Dr B. P. Rothwell (1977) continues as a partner in general practice.

Susan M. Rothwell (Bourne, 1979) works for Barclays Bank as a manager in the Birmingham Regional Office.

Pernille Rudlin (1985) works for Mitsubishi Corporation in exports/marketing and is being transferred to Tokyo for two years. She is working on a book about Mitsubishi's 75 years in London.

A. J. Sandbach (1982) works for Nuclear Transport Ltd, Risley, performing safety related assessments for the nuclear industry.

Prebendary J. G. M. Scott (1943) has retired from full-time ministry and lives in Totnes.

S. Segnit (1981) presents The Breakfast Show for a West Yorkshire radio station, 'The Pulse'.

Dr R. H. Sellars (1983) is working as an Assistant in the English Department of the University of Geneva.

C. Shaw (1975) is a managing consultant with C.E.S. Associates, a consultancy focusing on the interaction between property, people and technology .

E. A. Simmonds (1952), ordained priest in 1990, has been licensed as Assistant Curate (non-stipendiary) to the parish of St Cross with St Peter in the East, September 1992.

Dr S. J. Simonian (1962) has been President, Vein Institute of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., since 1990.

P. G. Skokowski (1970) was awarded a Ph.D in Philosophy of Mind by Stanford University, and is pursuing research in pen:eption and neural networks at Stanford University and the University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Paula E. Skokowski (1980) now works for a new start-up in Silicon Valley, Echelon Corporation, in Palo Alto, California, and was recently named Program Manager.

Z. Sliwowski (1942) now lives in retirement in Australia.

A. S. Smellie (1982) joined Biocad Corporation, Palo Alto, California, as senior staff scientist.

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Visit of the Princess Royal during the Ross McWirter Foundation conference

FRESHERS 1991 FROM LEFT TO RIGHT : Back Row: Koura, S., Khan, S. , Gordon, A., Greaves, K., Sharma, M. , Johnson , K., Morgan, H., Steele, S., Hails, G ., Evans , T. 7th Row: Goulding, H. , Magee, J., Sullivan, L. , Bessa , J. , Willett, A. , Sales , A., Davies, E., Betts, B., Griffiths , C., Harries, S. , McQuillian , L., Beecham, S. , Wroath, K., Howard , A. , Bird , W ., Harris, C. E. , McGill , D., Seymour, C ., Smith , D. 6th Row: Fletcher, P.-0. , Wenbourne, N., Powell , L., Willis, T ., McDer~'lOtt , _ M. , Oswald , D. , Wong, F.-L. , Benbow , P ., Han , Q. , Milhailov , D. , Engel , S. , Ch1m, W. , Bell, A., Nakano, T., Serbena , F. , Ashelford, M. , F•eldmg, A., P1ckard , S. 5th Row: Mun , J ., Cheung , T ., Clark , A., Hordern, M., Chambers, J ., ~rown , S. , Keeley , A. , Willington, J. , Bratby , R. , Peach , A. , Perkins , T. , Arumugam, B., Liversidge, D., Duncan, R., Marshall , A. , Searle , A. , Wvodfine, D. , Barker, D. , Wallace, P. 4th Row: Glassey , B., Fussell , C. , Chatterjee, S., Peer, E. , Houghton, T. , Aharoni, D. , Cater, J. , Hamilton, J. , Melford, S. , Bastin , A. , Prince, A., Tilling, C . , Weir, A., Sangwin, V., Little, K., Rentoul, A. , Rodier , M., Phillips, C. , Turner, T. , Atherton , C. 3rdRow: Harris, C., Redpath, G., French, L. , Smith , C ., Rutherford , P. , Toll , S. , Collier, R., Bodycote, C. , Ashton , C ., Burt , F. , Naisby , R. , Little , M., Cunliffe, R. , Madhuku , L. , Morley , M., Cattell , B., Lappin , A., Ward , P. , Williamson , R. 2nd Row: Thompson , A., Lester, A. , Clayton , J. , Fry , P. , MacDonald , R. , Rhodes , C. , Skae , A. , Britz , D. , Parsons , T. , Blezard , S. , Reekie , E. , Lipscomb , J., Cassidy , P. , Goddard, M., Bowden, B., Cadiz, F., Clark , T., Cole , J. , Gradwell , D., Watson , T. Front Row: Anderson , D. , Armstrong , A. , Wellings , R. , Chadwick , S. , McCreery , S., Braun , H. , Haquette , J.-L. , Konuk , K. , Rainbow , J. , Alton , R. E. , Pill , M., Golde, C. , Fishlock , A. , Wilson , D. , Barker, A. , Eccles , T. , Lane , N. , Davies , C. , Byrne, N.

The Princess Royal, Lord Rippon, Dr Michael Hooker

Mfning and MBA from Manchester Business School in 1992, has, from July 1992, been a financial analyst with Proctor and Gamble (U.K.) .

T. J. Smith (1982) is Far East Operations Manager for P+OCL in Singapore.

J. W. E. Snelling (1945) is still Security Adviser to British Airways.

J . F. Spellar (1966) was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Warley West at the General Election.

Dr B. Spurr (1974) is to be University of Sydney Fellow in English at Sydney Grammar School for 1992/93.

Dr C. J. H. Starey (1938) has published Stokenchurch in Perspective.

M. J. B. Stride (1981) is Managing Director of Careers in Industry Ltd. M. J. 0. Sutherland (1955), having sold his company, Mardev , to Reed International, has formed a new company, Idem S.A., in Geneva, to provide international strategic consultancy services in the direct marketing field.

Sir Brian Tovey (1944) has been Chairman of Cresswell Associates Ltd since 1988.

M. D. S. Triggs (1983) is on the sports desk of the Shropshire Star as writerI sub-editor.

J. G. Trotman (1972) is Deputy Head of the Leys School, Cambridge.

Jennifer Turner (1981) and Nicholas Caddick (1980) are converting a redundant church in Suffolk.

The Venerable K. Unwin (1945) retired from being Archdeacon of Pontefract in June 1992.

M. G. J . Upton (1982) took an LL.B (magna cum laude) from Edinburgh University in 1988. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates on 12 July 1991 , and is in practice at the Scottish Bar. He is a part-time tutor in Mercantile, Property and Constitutional and Administrative Law at Edinburgh University and the Scots Law reporter for The Times.

S. Vivian (1977) is a Director of C. T. Bowring.

J. Warner (1976) teaches Economics at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus.

Professor J. W. Welch (1970) has been appointed editor of Brigham Young University Studies, a quarterly journal, having been editor of the recently published Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

D. V. S. West (1979) works for Bovis Program Management in the Manchester office.

Dr Lorraine S. Wild (1981) has been appointed to a Lecturership in Geography at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

P. A. Wilde (1942) sells timber from trees he planted himself.

Elizabeth M. Wilkinson (Rudd, 1984) has qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and works as a business analyst with Norwich Union Insurance Group.

Dr J. H. B. Williarns (1948) is Medical Director of Mt Edgcumbe Hospice, Cornwall, and Consultant in Palliative Medicine.

Dr M. B. Williarns (1976) received his Ph.D from Berkeley University, California, in May 1991 and is teaching Japanese at Leeds University.

A. T. de B. Wilmot (1934) delivered the 7th Graduation Address at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology on 18 July 1992.

T. D. Worsfold (1976) is a Senior Probation Officer in Leicester.

Sir Denis Wright (1929) delivered the Royal Society for Asian Affairs Anniversary Lecture on 13 June 1991 on 'Ten years in Iran - some highlights' , and lectured to the Iran Society on 18 December 1991 on 'Sir Percy Sykes in Persia' .

J. R. C. Young (1956) was awarded the CBE in the Birthday Honours 1992.

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MARRIAGES K. H. Auckland to Ambra Edwards, in the Chapel of St Edmund Hall, on 8 September 1990.

Lt A. Betton to Bettina Pfeiffer-Harden, on 1 August 1992.

A. P. Blain to Michaela Sonja Price, on 21 September 1991.

Nicola Edwards to Simon Hart, at Chislehurst Methodist Church, on 21 September 1991.

N. A. Eyre to Pauline Prince.

T. Fallowfield to Alison Claire McCormick, on 12 September 1992.

S. K. ffitch to Sally J. March, on 6 July 1991.

C. C. I. Fidler to Angela D. Wright, on 4 May 1991.

P. T. Foster to Loren Segal, in Sausalito, California, in September 1990.

S. J. Freethy to Louise Tucker, on 4 August 1990.

A. Fukuda to Yoshiko Fujiwara, at Gakushi-Kaikan, Tokyo, on 10 November 1991.

N. M. Harley to Katy Elsdon-Dew, at St Margaret's Church, Chipstead, on 17 August 1991.

Alison F. Harrington to Timothy Ashby, on 2 May 1992.

G. M. Lawrence to Soon Ok Kim, at the St Andrew's College Chapel, Aurora, Ontario, on 14 September 1991.

A. J. Lomas to Anna Crinnion, in December 1991.

Elizabeth A. Maybury to Kari A. Hale, on 31 March 1990.

P. N. Moorhouse to Angelique van Engelen, on 9 May 1992.

P. D. O'Connell to Helen Ferguson, at Folkestone Parish Church, on 13 July 1991.

R. S. Oliver to Jenny Elizabeth Stirling, in October 1991.

Dr D. S. Ormerod to Alison Mary Lambourne, at St Luke's, Parkstone, on 15 September 1990.

Sian Elizabeth Owen to Peter Grahame Henderson, at St Luke's Church, Goostrey, Cheshire, on 11 September 1992.

T. C. Parkinson to Maria Camile Rodrigues, in the Chapel of St Edmund Hall, on 25 May 1991.

M. D. S. Triggs to Susie Harris, on 24 October 1992.

M. Wall to Nesta Audrey Taylor, in August 1990.

D. J. Walmsley to Fiona Armstrong, on 2 May 1992.

J. Warner to Lynda Roedts, at St Andrew's Church, Kyrenia, North Cyprus, on 2 February 1991.

Helen Susan West to Tarquin Grossman, on 6 July 1991.

T. D. Worsfold to Dr Emma Ritchie, on 14 April 1990.

BIRTHS H. C. Alien, twin sons, Charles Derek Thaddeus and Sebastian Hugh Edmund, on 5 October 1988.

S. P. Ashberry, a daughter, Tilly Blaise, on 4 February 1992.

K. H. Auckland, a son, Thomas Howard, on 26 November 1990.

M. R. and Julie S. Broughton (nee Slee), a son, William Edmund Slee, on 15 January 1992.

I. Coleman, a son, James Edward, on 21 October 1990.

D. J. Cox, a daughter, Jessie, in February 1992.

A. B. Denton, a son, Timothy James, on 23 December 1990.

I. J. V. Doherty, a son, Thomas James Alexander, on 2 May 1991.

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I. W. Durrans, two daughters, Claire Louise on 11 August 1989, and Lucy Jane on 20 July 1991.

N. A. Eyre, a daughter, Antonia, on 15 March 1992.

C. C. I. Fidler, a son, Benjamin David, on 6 February 1992.

S. J. Freethy, a son, Alexander James, on 27 April 1992.

R. G. Gilbert, a second son, Barnabas James, on 7 August 1991.

J. V. Hammond, a daughter, Madeleine Harriet Claire, on 1 March 1990.

N. P. Jackson, twin sons, Max and Chris, on 21 May 1991.

Josephine (Cox) and Richard Kent, a son, Michael John, on 15 October 1991.

J. S. K. Madgwick, a son, James Alexander.

G. C. Nissen, a son, James Henry, on 10 February 1992.

Dr M. K. Power, twin sons, Giles and Oliver, on 25 May 1992.

P. M. Ridd, a son, Oliver Singleton, on 25 February 1991.

Rev Bryan Rothwell, a son, Jonathan, on 14 June 1991.

R. M. Russell, a son, Frederic James Michael, on 23 December 1991.

I. M. Sciortino, a first grandchild, Arnica.

T. J. and Helen (Duckworth) Smith, a second daughter, Hannah Harriet, on 14 February 1991.

S. A. Staite, a son, Thomas Simon, on 5 April 1992.

S. Vivian, a daughter, Lynsey Ann, on 24 April 1991.

M. C. Waiters, a second daughter, Amy Claire, in January 1992.

DEATHS Professor G. R. Allen, MA; Emeritus Fellow 1964-91, aged 68, on 4 December 1991.

J. N. Appelbe, MBE; commoner 1931-33, aged 82, in November 1990.

Rev T. J. W. Baker, MA; commoner 1956-59, aged 56, on 28 June 1992.

R. H. Barff, MA; commoner 1927-29.

R. W. Britton, BA; commoner 1926-29, aged 83, on 26 August 1991.

M. R. Brown, MA; commoner 1931-35, aged 79, on 1 April 1992.

W. G. F. Dewar, BA; commoner 1918-21, aged 89, on 15 August 1987.

Waiter Dewar was associated for over 30 years with St George's College in Zimbabwe.

J. D. Duncan, MBE, MA; commoner 1939-41, aged 69, in 1991.

J. Dunleavie; commoner 1952-55, aged 57, on 5 September 1990.

G. R. R. East, MA; commoner 1936-39, aged 74, on 1 June 1991.

P. T. Ford, MA, D.Phil; commoner 1949-52, aged 62, on 20 October 1990.

P. J. Gow, MA; open exhibitioner 1973-76, aged 36, on 22 March 1992.

Rev D. E. Havergal, MA; commoner 1922-25, on 16 January 1992.

J. R. Hughes, MA; commoner 1937-39 and 1946-47, aged 73, on 3 February 1992.

Rev P. N. Longridge, MA; commoner 1932-34, aged 80, on 20 March 1992.

G. W. Mason; commoner 1930-31.

W. A. Osman; commoner 1947-48, aged 67, on 11 May 1992.

N. J. H. Penny, MA; Rhodes Scholar, 1980-83, aged 31, in June 1992.

A. J. Phillips, BA; commoner 1928-31, aged 83, on 20 May 1992.

L. T. Podmore, MA; commoner 1933-36, aged 78, in January 1992.

G. D. Ramsay, MA, D.Phil, FBA; Tutor and Fellow 1937-74, Emeritus Fellow 1974-92, aged 83, on 11 June 1992.

W. V. Reynolds, MA; commoner 1927-31.

A. M. Riley, D.Phil; commoner 1980-83, aged 34, on 2 January 1992, in an accident in his research laboratory at Stanford, California.

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J. L. Riley, B.Sc; commoner 1940-44, aged 70, on 25 April 1989.

Rev Canon S. H. Rumsey, MA; commoner 1932-35, aged 77, on 31 July 1991. Canon Rumsey was Vicar of St Peter's, Whetstone 1947-78 and Canon Emeritus of Leicester Cathedral.

B. J . Rushby-Smith, MA; commoner 1925-29, aged 84, on 26 July 1991.

Basil Rushby-Smith was Head of Southwell Minster Grammar School1945-71.

W. H. A. Sanderson; commoner 1950-53, aged 61, on 2 December 1991.

C. A. H. Skelton, BA; commoner 1947-49, aged 66, on 1 February 1992.

P. D. Stobart, MA; exhibitioner 1938-40 and 1946-47, aged 71 , on 3 December 1991.

Professor C . G. Thorne, MA; commoner 1955-58, Honorary Fellow 1989-92, aged 57, on 20 April 1992.

I. F. F. Webb, MA; commoner 1923-26, aged 85, in 1991.

Rt Rev E. R. Welles, MA; commoner 1928-30, aged 84, on 15 April 1991.

J. A. G. Whitehead, MA; commoner 1940-44, in June 1989.

W. T. Wilson, BA; commoner 1925-28, aged 84, in 1991.

G. H. Winter, MA; commoner 1948-50, aged 66, on 12 June 1992.

G. R. ALLEN 1923-1992 of a farmer, George Allen was a countryman at heart. After a First in P.P.E. and a Senior Studentship at Exeter College he joined the Oxford Institute of Agricultural Economics, combining that post with a Fellowship at the Hall from 1956 to 1964. In that year, after repeated invitations, he felt obliged, as the father of four children, to accept a lucrative appointment as agricultural economics adviser in the USA. He and his wife Jean offered generous hospitality there to Aularians. As neither of them wished to relinquish their British identity, they returned in 1971 , first to Aberdeen, where George held the chair of Agricultural Economics, then to a farmhouse near Barnstaple, whence he continued to make frequent journeys to third-world countries, especially Africa and the Indian sub-continent, on behalf of the United Nations World Food and Agriculture Organisation. He always remained in touch with the Hall, which had made him an Emeritus Fellow.

His pupils at the Hall found in him a broad-minded and devoted tutor. His often brusque, no-nonsense manner, and the vigorous expression of his views , could not conceal his kindliness and warm human understanding. Among his endearing traits was a willingness to admit that he might be wrong. He was a sound, practical and conscientious member of the Governing Body. His wide interests included English literature (under the curious Oxford war-time regulations he had done a course in it), music and the theatre . It is no fault of his that the Hall lacks a swimming pool.

Throughout his adult life he was a campaigner. He won the Belt of Honour as a Royal Armoured Corps officer cadet at Sandhurst, and took part in fierce fighting during the Ardennes offensive in Belgium. He was Liberal candidate for Abingdon and Bath at parliamentary elections. With the active support of Jean, he refused to be hampered by ill health. One of the earlier of his many publications was 'The Geography of Liberty' in an Oxford economics symposium The Unservile State. A traditionalist as well as a liberal, at the time of his death he was a member of the Deanery Synod and Chairman of the North Devon Council for the Preservation of Rural England. He died suddenly, in his garden.

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GEORGE RAM SAY GEORGE RAMSA Y was primarily an economic historian but always keenly aware of the political and social aspects of his subject. His academic career was entirely spent in Oxford, but his work - always written with style, grace and clarity and grounded principally on British overseas trade from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries - won him increasing recognition in the Low Countries, Germany , and Italy. At home his election in 1990 to a fellowship of the British Academy gave him and his friends great pleasure. But he remained selfdepreciative, refusing an entry in Who's Who. Born in Dublin in 1909, Ramsay belonged neither to the Catholic majority nor to the Protestant ascendancy. His family had migrated from Scotland, and his father had built up a prosperous nursery business; Enid Starkie remembered that Ramsay ' s was the best flower-shop in Dublin. On account of the Troubles , Ramsay was sent to school at Rossall, to which he had an abiding loyalty. His loyalty to Worcester College, Oxford, was no less strong, not only because of his progress to first-class honours in Modern History, but also for the musical life fostered by his tutor, Vere Somerset: 'a friendly and cultivated tutor' , as Ramsay later kindly described him. Ramsay could have been a concert pianist and he had a good tenor voice; musical appreciation and performance were always more than a hobby.

Ramsay would never have admitted to engaging in historical research . He was committed to further study; whereas teaching and research are commonly thought to conflict, Ramsay's studies and teaching supported and complemented each other. He did, indeed, prepare a doctoral thesis on the Wiltshire woollen industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with Eileen Power amongst his mentors, but he for long disowned the title of doctor. In 1943 , the thesis was published as a monograph .

In 1957 Ramsay completed English Foreign Trade During the Centuries of Emergence, a survey of English overseas trade in what he defined as the centuries of its emergence which mapped out the lines of all his future work . He defined his period as extending from the revival of trade in the later fifteenth century until, some 300 years later, a series of revolutions such as the French ushered in the modern world. The concentration of English trade upon the Antwerp mart, which made the Tudor period the heyday of the Company of Merchant Adventurers, ended by 1582. With the settlements of Virginia and New England under James I, there emerged a British Atlantic Community (English until the early eighteenth century) which assumed a balanced form with the occupation and development of the Caribbean Islands. It was disrupted politically by the revolt of the British mainland colonies in North America; economically, its ghost survived until it was laid, a few generations later, by high US tariffs upon manufactured goods.

Although a stream of publications followed , it was only during his sixties and seventies that Ramsay's true stature as a historian was manifest. His major work was in the Tudor portion of his period. Two volumes on English trade with the port of Antwerp, The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor (1975) and The Queen's Merchants and the Revolt of the Netherlands : the end of the Antwerp Man (1986), offered a masterly account of the decline of the Antwerp mart, with especial attention to the role of the English government and crown, and to the continental events which culminated in the revolt of the Netherlands. Ramsay was equally at home in English and continental sources. But his favourite preoccupation was with London merchants like John Isham, whose account books he published in 1962 for the Northamptonshire

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Record Society with a magisterial introduction. He was delighted when his research in the archives of the Mercers' Company unexpectedly yielded evidence for the commercial activities of the young Thomas More.

In 1982, a short but impressively comprehensive book, The English Woollen Industry: I500-I750, marked a return to the subject of his thesis. He surveyed the production and marketing of wool throughout this period and assessed the place of clothmaking in the economy, society, and politics of England. With these aspects of history , Ramsay was fully at home; he was less so with intellectual and religious history.

In 1937, the perceptive eye of the principal of St Edmund Hall, A. B. Emden, observed his potential as a teacher of undergraduates. Except for voluntary war service with the RAF in Scotland, Ceylon, and India, Ramsay was a fellow of St Edmund Hall during and after its transition from aularian benevolent autocracy under Emden, to the constitutionalism of collegiate status.

A man of strong but never overbearing personality, Ramsay was always an individualist; by temperament he was not well suited for administration. But his unshakeable integrity , transparent honesty, and sense of duty, which were tempered by unfailing natural courtesy, enabled him to make his distinctive contribution to the shaping of the college. He was an admirable vice-principal.

In college business, his judgement was shrewd and realistic. His common-room repartee was rapier-sharp; he challenged and penetrated but never wounded.

With no particular line to thrust on other people, he was a good listener who readily deferred to others. He was without enemies.

To his pupils he was devoted. A nervous freshman invited in his first essay to discuss a proposition like 'Cranmer was a pusillanimous timeserver' scurried to a dictionary, knowing that henceforth he must think for himself. The Dictionary of Cliches that was always to hand warned of his impatience of shoddiness in thought or language. But his underlying kindliness and concern won him lifelong friendships with his undergraduate as with his graduate pupils.

Especially in his younger days, the college's musical life was a prime delight for Ramsay. On a summer evening, its front quadrangle was the perfect setting for his playing, whether of a Beethoven sonata or of the triangle part in the Toy Symphony. In sporting matters, and especially cricket, he professed uninterest; when a new fellow asked who his pupil Nicholas Stacey, an Olympic athlete, was, he replied: 'an antelope' . He was nevertheless for long a fair and respected senior treasurer of amalgamated clubs, and he was no mean tennis player, if in the Stephen Potter tradition.

Into his forties Ramsay remained a genial bachelor living in college. His engagement, announced after a college ball, to another Dubliner, Patricia Clarke, took his colleagues by surprise. It led to the happiest of marriages; in middle and later life, Patricia and their children encouraged and supported him in every aspect of his academic and social activities.

John Cowdrey George Daniel Ramsay, economic historian, born Dublin 25 May I909, Fellow and Tutor St Edmund Hall Oxford 1937-74 (Emeritus), FBA 1990, married 1952 Patricia Clarke (two sons, one daughter), died Oxford 11 June 1992.

Reprinted, with permission, from The Independent, 16 June 1992.

J. D. DUNCAN, MA, MBE, 1921-1991 of Dougal Duncan leaves us bereft of a refreshing personality who helped as an undergraduate to keep alive some spirit of continuity and normality

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during the grim years of the phoney war, the fall of France and the bombing of London. Rejected on medical grounds for military service, he remained in residence to take his modern history finals in 1941, after which he filled various administrative posts elsewhere. With the return of peace, his career was spent as a teacher of history in Somerset and subsequently as a headmaster, though he was perhaps most widely known for his public service in the county. At Wells, where he lived, he was for fifteen years a city councillor and alderman, serving as mayor in 1961-3. He was a member of the Somerset County Council 1964-7 4 and a county J.P. 1961-72. Then and later, he was involved with innumerable local committees of one sort or another, where glad use was no doubt made of his keen sense of the absurd and his suspicion of the pompous. He was not a selfseeking person, but sought by others for his good sense and general competence.

He is survived by his widow.

G. D. Ramsay George Ramsay wrote the above obituary of his friend and former pupil in October 1991.

CHRlSTOPHER THORNE CHRISTOPHER THORNE, professor of international relations at the University of Sussex, was one of its most original and inventive of voices in British historical scholarship. Despite, or perhaps because of, his title, he was in the forefront of the transformation of international history from the formal study of diplomatic relations between governments and their representatives to the study of contact and conflict between political cultures. He helped make the reputation of British international historians stand as high as it does in the world today.

Thorne's reputation was greatest in the United States and Japan, unsurprisingly, since he abandoned European study in favour of that of events in the Far East soon after his belated entry into university life. A succession of books, beginning with his study of the Far Eastern crisis of 1931-1933, The Limits of Foreign Policy, the West, the League and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1933 (1972), brought him advancement to a readership in four years, a professorship in nine years, the British Academy Raleigh lecture in 12 and a fellowship of the British Academy in 14 years.

He also took the Bancroft prize, one of the most prestigious of American awards. This was given for his second book, still perhaps his most original achievement, Allies of a Kind, the United States, Britain and the War Against Japan 1941-1945.

Thorne's originality lay partly in his indefatigable quartering of the globe in search of new archival material. But it was also based on his intelligent raiding of the then new school of American theorists on international relations for tools and concepts which might enable him to understand the political and cultural dimensions of the conflict in the Far East. His subsequent books, Racial Aspects of the Far Eastern War of 1941-1945; The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945; and American Political Culture and the Asian Frontier 1943-1973, show how far this had benefited his understanding of the impact of the second world war on peoples and politics - not only of the belligerents but of those societies over whose prostrate bodies the fury of war was to rage.

Thorne was educated at King Edward VI School, Guildford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. From 1959 to 1967 he taught history first at St Paul's School and then at Charterhouse. To the end he retained the simplicity and innate decency of the best of the traditional public school masters; he retained, too, some of the

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manners and style of the breed. In 1966, he joined the BBC as head of further education, leaving in 1968 to join the international relations department at Sussex at the age of 34.

He was a large, strong and handsome man in every sense of those words, with the build of a second-row forward, a rich bass-baritone voice, a considerable musical talent, a large convivial nature, an irrepressible warmth of manner and an unquenchable energy. Wherever he went he made friends. He will be mourned as much in New Jersey, Canberra, Tokyo and Amsterdam as in his own university or his own country.

Christopher Thorne is survived by his wife, Beryl Lloyd Jones, and two daughters.

Christopher Thorne, historian and expert on international relations , died on April 20 aged 57. He was born on May 17, 1934.

Reprinted, with permission, from The Times , 5 May 1992 .

CHRISTOPHER THORNE - A PERSONAL APPRECIATION in The Times (above) , The Guardian and The Independent all celebrate Chris Thorne 's international eminence as an historian . They also warmly rehearse his personal qualities.

These notes recall him as a fellow undergraduate at the Hall in the late 'fifties.

We were up together; like many contemporaries I cherish fond memories of him . Ours was one of many happy friendships formed at the Hall, which one can take up on occasional subsequent meetings as if no time had intervened. We had opposite rooms at the top of Principal's staircase. Thus our scout was Cyril and help with the more impenetrable parts of Bede (most of it) came from JNDK. How often one remembers friends in the context of wider relationships; our shared delight in Cyril's washing and drying rugger kit overnight, or John Kelly coming up to tell us about a Spanish novel he was reading .

Chris was cheerful, supportive, warm, and vigorous in all he did: a visual memory of a Moriarty-like pose on the Hall's rugger tour of N. Italy , an auditory memory of a bawdy song to do with Lux while washing shirts at the top of our staircase, helpless laughter at a speech by Reggie at a rugger cuppers' dinner.

Chris was a good back row forward, in the cuppers team in all three years when first we won it and again and again - Internationals struggled for a place. He was also a very good quick bowler. Respected and popular across the Hall , he was elected President of the JCR in our last year ('57-'58) . His last two terms were disciplined by the inspired whispered intelligence that four historians in our year might get firsts 'if [only] they worked'. Chris did - with a singlemindedness and a discipline which surprised even us who knew him well. He rationed his time between his books, his duties to the JCR and his odd evening with his betrothed, the delightful Beryl (late afternoon chattering, tea brewed

by Beryl in the JCR President's room, was a joy), with a ruthlessness which excluded cricket and gave even Beryl less time than lesser men could have supported. I think his purposefulness, surely the foundation of his later renown, sprang from a feeling of guilt - a need to make amends for being alive: in August 1952, he went, with his father (also a Hall man), to Lords to play for England Schoolboys, leaving his mother and younger brother on holiday in Lynmouth.

They drowned in the disastrous flood on the night of the 15th.

Chris was a fine school-master and then became an outstanding teacher of undergraduates . His reputation was based on thorough research and meticulous scholarship. By chance I know one who sat at his feet at Sussex, by which time OBITUARIES

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he had a personal chair. She was bowled over by his presence, charmed by his helpfulness, he tut'ed and taught by suggestion (some work to be done here, a book to be read there) not by spoon-feeding. She also recalls, on one level, his enthusiasm for the new discipline of International Relations and the host of graduates who came to Sussex to work with him; and on another level, his meticulous attention to details of spelling, grammar, and - shades of George his eye for a cliche.

Chris took enormous pleasure in his well-deserved honorary fellowship at the Hall.

We last met happy, chatty, and laughed a lot (not having seen each other for some years made not a scrap of difference - we just carried on where we had left oft) at John Kelly's 80th Birthday party . It was fun .

Roger Farrand CHRISTOPHER SKELTON who died on 1 February at the age of 66, was a fine printer in the sense of good rather than precious. A nephew of Eric Gill, he worked for a time at the Hague and Gill press at Pigotts, before moving into the large commercial printing house of Hazell, Watson & Viney in Aylesbury, where he was given a thorough grounding in the wider aspects of the craft. In 1963 he moved to another firm in Wellingborough. It was in that town that he eventually set up his own business, Skelton's Press, where he printed pamphlets and catalogues as well as books, all to his own high standards .

His most distinguished work, and probably best known, was The Engravings ofEric Gill, published in 1983 . In the following year he gave up the Skelton Press to go into partnership with Alan Bultitude as the September Press. Under that imprint they produced a handsome facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels. In 1989 he retired to Abergavenny with his wife Elizabeth, but illness prevented him from continuing with the work he loved and did so well.

Vivian Ridler CHRISTOPHER SKELTON,

G. H. WINTER HIS CONTEMPORARY AULARIANS will learn with sadness of the death of Harry Winter on the 12th June 1992.

Harry entered the Hall as a commoner to read Law in 1948 after RAF service and gained a good Second in the Honour School in 1950. Called to the Bar in 1951, he decided to become a solicitor and was admitted to the profession in 1957, having joined the solicitors' branch of the Pearl Assurance Company.

From 1969 he was a senior member of that company's litigation department and in that year was elected to be a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Loriners, later becoming a member of the Aldersgate Ward Club. He was also a member of the Reform and Hurlingham clubs. To those who were fortunate to enjoy his warm friendship he was a good friend and loyal companion and he enlivened many a reunion at the Hall and other gatherings. His witty and convivial presence and gentle humour will be greatly missed by very many.

(An example of his perhaps less well-known and quainter interests was his membership of the Manorial Society of Great Britain as the Lord of the Manor of Ireby.)

After retiring from his work at the Pearl , he acted as a Deputy District High Court and County Court Registrar. He is survived by his wife, Amna, who was at Somerville during his time at the Hall.

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PETER GOW PETER oow died on 22 March 1992 after a long and courageous fight with cancer.

Peter came up as an Exhibitioner in English Literature in 1973 and graduated in 1976. He then joined Guinness and worked in their marketing department before moving on to Yellowhammer, a West End advertising agency. Peter subsequently became planning director for Axle Generator, a spin-off agency of Yellowhammer before finally going independent as a marketing consultant working from home . The business was just starting to get underway before the onset of his illness.

Peter was a fine and active musician: he was a first-class French horn player, performing regularly with the University orchestra. Whilst at the Hall he applied his hand to conducting. After coming down he was extremely active in music making in the village community of Wye in Kent where he and his family made their home.

Peter leaves a wife, Jane, and three young children - Elinor (9), Alexander (6) and James (2).

Though very ill he had been able to join me for the London Dinner at Simpsons in January . The funeral service was held at Wye Parish Church on 27 March where Peter has been buried. He was just 36 years old.

Robert Cawthorne

NICHOLAS PENNY was lost in severe weather conditions, and is presumed to have died, in the Cape Mountains of South Africa, some time after 22 June 1992. A Memorial Service was held at the Diocesan College (Bishops) on 29 June . The following extracts are taken from the Saturday Star (Cape Town) of 27 June: Nicholas Penny - a Bishops old boy, Rhodes Scholar, Fulbright Fellow and Oxford Exhibitioner - was regarded as an authority on African indigenous art.

He had been a Wall Street merchant banker, industrial relations researcher and economic adviser to the KwaZulu government. He collected 1950s Cadillacs.

He was equally at home in the mansions of the establishment and sleeping on the floor of mud huts of African friends. His absorbing interest in African art led him to explore remoter parts of Africa. Angola had become his special interest.

It was his intention to use his training in economics and business management to participate in the development of that huge country. It is difficult to number his talents. He spoke Afrikaans as if it were his first language. He was fully at home in Zulu and he was rapidly acquiring a fluent command of Portuguese.

Nicholas was deeply concerned with the uplifting of his fellow man and particularly the implanting of a love of nature in children. He was a quietly committed Anglican and capable of unusual acts of generosity. He wrote with great perception and tenderness on nature, and cogently on economics and business situations. The enthusiasm and power of his personality swept others along with him .

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THE BOAT CLUB Presidents: REVD GRAHAM MIDGLEY & DR ANN TA YLOR Captain of Boats : MARK LAUDER Ladies Captain : MELISSA HOLDEN Vice-Captains: TIM HARWOOD & ALISON COOLEY Secretary: MA TI SPENCER Treasurer: SIMON HENDERSON Senior Coxswain: NIKKI HAINES Steward: ANNA TRIGELL

THIS YEAR has been a turning point for the Boat Club both off the water, and, finally , on the water too . Last year's Captain, Steve Whittington, launched an appeal to help safeguard the financial position of the Club : I am happy to report that through a handful of donations and covenants, by 1994 the Boat Club will have an annual income of around ÂŁ1 ,000 from the ÂŁ13 ,000 endowment for the Club the appeal has established. However, it takes more than money to maintain and further the interests of a boat club. This year, positive steps were taken towards achieving this .

Boat Club News

We started the year with a newly decorated Boat House, with a bank-tub on its way for novice coaching (thanks to the Principal who allocated us some money from the Rackham Fund), with two new sets of blades (mens' 4th VIII and womens ' 2nd VIII), and two bank accounts which were discovered by Graham Midgley. Some of this money was spent on a rate meter for the womens ' 1st VIII, and, taking advantage of this windfall , two blades presented by Richard Fishlock were finally illuminated with the names of all Hall Captains from 1939 onwards.

This was to continue the list of Captains from 1861 onwards which had already been put onto two blades before the Second World War. As well as the many practical and cosmetic changes made to the Boat House and the Hall's equipment, a more far-reaching step was taken . With the help of the Principal, the Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs (Dr Christopher Phelps), Colin Mattingly and Alicia Black of the Development Office, and the Boat Club's ever faithful Presidents, the Captain approached certain Aularians who had helped the Boat Club in the past with a view to organising help in the future . Out of the lunch which took place on the Saturday of Torpids came the Working Group towards the Friends of the St Edmund Hall Boat Club. The 'Friends' have been meeting regularly since, and if you ever rowed for the Hall (even in the 9th rugby VIII!) you will no doubt have heard from Elisabeth Marsh about becoming a friend . The launch of the 'Friends ' on September 5th will, I hope, start a prolonged period of successful rowing at the Hall. As the 'Friends' is intended to provide support for the Club of a practical rather than financial nature, I hope you will be encouraged to become a 'friend' . Even if you didn't row! My hope is that, with Aularian support, the Boat Club can achieve the sense of history as well as the necessary continuity which will take the Hall to the Headship once more.

The Ladies ' Boats

Novice term began with two crews full of enthusiastic first years, who were coached by Alison Cooley, Anna Trigell and Matt Spencer. Although much time was spent on the water, both crews were knocked out in the early stages of the Christ Church Regatta (but at least this year everyone managed to stay on the Isis!).

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With Melissa Holden training with O.U.W.B.C., Alison Cooley effectively took over the Ladies' Captaincy during Hilary Term. The two women's torpids crews lacked sufficient coaching to bring them up to their full potential, but what was lacking in experience was made up for by enthusiasm. The 2nd Torpid failed to row on, leaving the 1st Torpid, filled mostly with novices, to represent the Hall women. The high spirits with which the crew entered Torpids prevailed over the four days regardless of the results. On the first day the crew bumped Lincoln, only to lose this by a controversial bump on the Hall awarded to Somerville.

Rowing over on the second day, the crew fell two places on the third, and rowed over at the head of the third division on Saturday.

Summer was to be different. Melissa Holden returned from O.U.W.B.C.'s reserve crew Osiris, where she rowed at 6 against Cambridge's reserves in the Henley Boat Races. With her experience in the stroke seat and with better coaching (partly organised through the 'Friends'), the results were outstanding.

The 1st VIII were fortunate to have Tim Waters (Pembroke and O.U.L.R.C. 's stroke man) to guide them through the first two weeks, putting the crew through its paces. Then came the experience of Aularian and Blue, Kath Finucane, before Dave Wilson (SEH 1st VIII and Isis) kindly took on coaching for the week before racing.

Starting off head of division three (due to Oriel being moved up a whole division), the Hall rowed well clear of the rest of the division, but failed to catch the crew ahead in their second race as sandwich boat as it had bumped out.

Thursday brought the bump on Trinity which took the Hall into the second division. On the Friday, the crew rowed over, but caught Lincoln on the Saturday in style on the green bank for the supporters at the boat house to see. This was a great end to a most enjoyable term's rowing. This year's first VIII were Vanessa Sangwin, Debbie Hewitt, Anna Weir, Gill Pottinger, Anna Briffett, Mary Beth Gelbuda, Emma Broomby, Melissa Holden and cox Julian Bessa.

Chris Seymour, a Hall first year undergraduate, coached the women's 2nd VIII, who trained as hard as the 1st VIII, but unfortunately failed to row on. The 2nd VIII, however, displayed its characteristic enthusiasm and were undaunted when, at Birmingham Regatta, they were drawn in Novice VIIIs against the Hall 1st VIII. Both crews took the event seriously, both with points to prove. As expected the 1st VIII rowed well clear to win, but the gutsy determination of the losers bodes well for Hall crews next year.

Vanessa Sangwin takes over the captaincy next year. I wish her every success and am sure that the standard of women's rowing at the Hall will continue to improve.

The Men's Boats Michaelmas Term had a promising start, with two senior mens crews training at Godstow and five novice crews training for Christ Church Regatta. The Hall also had two rowers training with O.U.B.C., Simon Henderson, a second year undergraduate, and graduate fresher Dave Wilson. The Captain, Mark Lauder, was training with the O.U.L.R.C. squad.

The Novice crews, coached by the senior rowers, trained with varying degrees of seriousness, reflected in the results in the novice regatta, but everyone had fun, and seemed keen to trial for the torpids crews. The two senior crews were entered for the Fairbairn Cup Races on the Cam in Cambridge. Coxed by novices Kate Johnson and Brittany Betts, on an unfamiliar and winding stretch of river, both Hall crews acquitted themselves well, finishing 31st and 45th out of a field of 51 which largely consisted of the Cambridge College 1st VIIIs. The Hall's senior

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'A' crew was the fourth fastest Oxford Crew behind Oriel 'A' and 'B' and Pembroke. Coached by the Captain (when squad training permitted) and by former Halllst VIII cox Andrew Shortland at weekends , both crews trained until the end of term when trials for the Torpids crews began. Three crews were selected, with enough interest for a possible fourth to be put out at the start of the following term. The Hall rowers left to enjoy Christmas and long lies in bed, but had a fitness challenge to meet, the gauntlet having been thrown down by the Captain - if the oarsmen amassed an average score which was more than half the Captain's personal score, drinks in the buttery were on him after being chucked in the Isis!

Hilary Term arrived, so did the rain, ice and snow, and the Hall's bright future looked less promising . The fitness challenge was won by Dave Ryan, but the average score was well below the Captain's. Home comforts had obviously softened those who left fired up for their first bumps racing, for as First week approached, the Captain had received too many work-conscious notes for a 4th and even a 3rd Torpid crew to be feasible as the first years dropped out. Pleased that the College would perform better in academic matters if the letters he received were accurate, he also noticed with interest how the numbers in the pool and darts team had been swollen along with the bar profits.

Two mens crews entered Torpids, a Schools torpid boat failing to gain entry to the boat house never mind the rowing on divisions! Coached by the Captain, the 2nd Torpid bumped Hertford 11 on Thursday and Wolfson 11 on Friday, rowing over the first and last days. They emerged as the Hall success story, being filled with 6 novices. The realisation that a bump is more rewarding than a bullseye or sinking the black began to filter through.

The first Torpid's chances met with disaster, as after rowing over comfortably the first day, gastric ' flu struck down Andy Laws, the 6 man, and subs had to be found. Dave Wilson interrupted his squad training on Thursday, jumping into the boat at City Rowing Club 5 minutes before the start gun was fired , but the unsettled crew fell to a blades winning Worcester 1st VIII. Aularian Martin Wall er took over on Friday , but the Hall fell again, this time to Hertford. On the Saturday, Richard Smalman-Smith, who had come to Oxford for the Friends of the Boat Club lunch, was asked by the Captain to demonstrate his friendship immediately as he handed across his rowing kit. Shortly afterwards , with Richard as the fourth successive 6 man, the Hall rowed over, narrowly missing Hertford.

The Hall is now 2nd in the 2nd division .

The nightmare had ended for the crew, but the Captain had to wait until the next day , when, having to seat race for the last bow side seat in the lightweight boat against two oarsmen who had rowed for Great Britain, he lost by a second, and became the spare man for the first lightweight crew to beat Cambridge in 15 years. Simon Henderson had unfortunately dropped out of the O.U.B.C . squad for work reasons, but Dave Wilson was selected for a seat in the Is is crew.

Torpids had been disappointing . If the Boat Club was to win 'friends', success in the summer was needed . The Hall's pride had to be restored. With Dave Wilson and Mark Lauder back for the 1st VIII, and with coaching prospects much improved due to the 'Friends', prospects once again looked bright.

A training camp on the Tideway based at Thames Rowing Club proved successful. Many thanks to Liz Marsh , Richard Lyndon-Morgan and Jenny Turner for giving the 1st VIII homes for the five days . Thanks also to Andy Shortland, Richard Smalman-Smith, Nick Caddick, Richard Lyndon-Morgan and Liz Marsh for coaching us.

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Henderson , Mark Fox, Mark Lauder and cox Simon Waters. With Chris Morgan coaching for the first week at Godstow, Hugh Thomas once again made a huge effort to coach the Hall for the next two weeks, having recently moved further from Oxford. Finishing the crew was taken on by Richard Lyndon-Morgan, who travelled from London (which must have been unbearable for him in his Lotus Elan), an ex-lightweight for both Oxford and Cambridge. With Hugh's brand of solid common sense coaching coupled with the aggressive determination and confidence of Richard , the Hall 1st VIII , having won senior Ill at Birmingham Regatta, and with stern 4 having won senior Ill coxed fours at the same event (beating bow 4 in the final), became faster and more confident of success.

Eights Week arrived, and the sun brought out the fun crews. The Syndicate rowed on in spectacular style (as their article will explain) . Unfortunately, the Potentate and the MCR VIII failed to row on despite training seriously. Two mens rowing on divisions were cut this year due to a Proctor's ruling that no rowing should take place before noon, cutting 25 places out of Eights and disappointing many crews like ours. The Frigate, a Schools VIII , took the 3rd VIII fixed place, and though they were bumped on the Thursday, they came good on the Saturday, maintaining the 3rd VIII at 3rd in division VI. The 2nd VIII's success in Torpids was not to be repeated . A division higher, the same crew found the opposition too much, falling to Oriel Ill , and on the last two days to blades crews from Pembroke and Worcester. Despite their being bumped, their spirits were characteristically high after the Pimms began to flow and they began to enjoy Eights Week.

Having gone down a place each year for several years , the 1st VIII was immediately ahead of some of the hotly tipped crews for blades this year. One of the Captain's goals was to stop the rot of the Hall slipping down. Rowing over would achieve this. His ambition, however, was to put the Hall back in a position from where the Headship was obtainable. Rowing well clear of an arrogant Balliol 1st VIII, a bump on New College outside 'O.U.B.C. and in full view of the New College boat house achieved the goal. On Thursday, the cox kept his own line through the gut, and the Hall , cruising away from the crews behind, calmly rowed to three-quarters of a length up on John' s who were on the other side of the river, before moving in for the kill. John 's conceded before we even touched blades, acknowledging the fact that they had been outpowered by the Hall, and, despite having the Isis cox, that they had been trapped by the coxing of Simon Waters.

Bumping St John 's at the Univ Barge achieved the ambition. 5th on the river - 4 bumps to go head. Could the Hall go fourth? Friday and Saturday saw the Hall try but fail, despite having overlap past the boat houses on Christ Church.

That Liz Chick, this year's Blue Boat cox, was steering may have helped them just a little. She's abroad next year, and, as our boatman told the House 1st VIII, every House should have a Hall in front of it. We intend to help them with this building proposal next year! Fifth in the first division was a satisfying end for a crew and a college written off by others in terms of its rowing prowess. Next year, for their own sake, our rivals had better not be so dismissive .

The Forrest Awards The year ended, as always, with the Annual Eights Dinner. After the traditional SEHBC v. the Old Boys race on the Isis (won, as usual, by the treachery of the old boys!), the Club made for the Oxford Moathouse to celebrate the end of the Hall's rowing year. This year, several awards were made to members of the Club, as a result of the generosity of Brian Forrest, who coxed the Hall 1st VIII

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from 1927-31. Mr Forrest presented the Club with four pewter tankards which will be awarded annually at the Eights dinner. This year the awards were made as follows: The Mawdesley Fours Cup 1927 - Best novice cox - Wendy Bird (mens 2nd VIII) The Mawdesley Fours Cup 1928 - Outstanding performance by a cox in Eights - Simon Waters (mens 1st VIII) The Mawdesley Fours Cup 1929 - Outstanding contribution to SEHBC by a non-rowing member - Matt Spencer (Boat Club Secretary) The Plumptre Fours Cup 1931 - Presidents' award for outstanding achievement/contribution - Mark Lauder (Captain of Boats) Mr Forrest also gave his Cox's cap, blazer and sweater to the Club, and this year, the 1st VIII cox, wearing Mr Forrest's blazer and cap, steered the Hall through its most successful Eights Week since the '70s. We were delighted that Mr Forrest was able to watch the Hall's progress from the Boat House.

Finally, looking ahead, prospects for the coming year are good, with this year's 1st VIIIs returning. Dave Wilson rowed this summer for Isis at Marlow and Henley; Tim Harwood and Mark Fox were both selected for places in the Lightweight summer development crews, and Mark Lauder, finishing as Captain of Boats, moves on to his new post as President of the Oxford Lightweights, rowing (finally!) in the Boat Race crew at Marlow, Henley and the National Championships. Jon Clayton takes over as the Captain of Boats, and we wish him every success. Perhaps, with a little help from his 'Friends', next year Jon will be able to send the Hall 1st VIII to Henley once again. It's been too long in the offing, don't you agree?

M.G.L. D.M.L.

THE FRIENDS OF ST EDMUND HALL BOAT CLUB ON SATURDAY of Torpids, 29 February 1992, a group of Aularian rowing enthusiasts gathered in College at the invitation of the Presidents of the Boat Club, the Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs, and the Captain of Boats.

The common interest was a successful future for the St Edmund Hall Boat Club, and discussions centred around how this might be assured by the foundation of a permanent organisation through which support from Aularians could be channelled.

As a result of these discussions a Working Group was formed with the task of founding The Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club. Thanks to the efforts of all those involved this task is well under way and on 5 September The Friends will be formally launched, with a dinner in College.

The Friends of SEHBC will have one overriding aim: to help the Hall to get more bumps in Men's and Ladies' Divisions. This will be achieved by providing support, guidance and, most importantly, coaching, together with a continuity of contacts with useful Aularians that has not been available before.

The Working Group 'Towards the Friends of SEHBC' are: The Rev Graham Midgley, Dr Ann Taylor, Elisabeth Marsh, David Aeron-Thomas, Stephen King, Mark Lauder, Richard Smalman-Smith, Andrew Shortland, To by Lucas and Niall Haigh. Thanks are also due to Hugh Thomas, Mike Pelham and Dick Fishlock for advice and support.

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THE SYNDICATE ROWING CLUB President: MIKE LEMON Captain: BEN PEARSON Treasurer/Secretary: TOM LEMAN

THE SMELL of ripening soft fruit, the sound of fresh cream being gently whipped and the popping of corks announced that it was May and the Season had begun.

Wimbledon , Henley and Ascot may be the established favourites, but Society has quickly come to recognise that the Syndicate's annual summer splash down the river is very much the main event of the social calendar.

Delighted debs, tourists from across the world, and quite a few of the crew's friends thronged the riverside to sample the reassuringly large sausages, hot off the Syndicate barbecue, washed down with their plum and gin cocktails. All this served to whet the appetite of the crowds for the customarily dashing displays of rowing and dancing , which were delivered in full and generous measures . The graceful ease of the performances on and off the river, however, perhaps belied the many difficulties that this year's Syndicate encountered on its path to Eights' week glory.

The term began with quiet confidence. Surely no eight finer men ever walked on earth? This may have been true, but the transition from earth to water was to prove somewhat problematic. The committee had picked the crew with keen attention to jaw size and the ability to wear a cap at a cocky angle, but startlingly neglected to enquire as to past rowing experience. The consequence was an apparent inability to make the boat travel at an even moderate speed. Realising that 'rowing on ' was going to be a struggle, the Syndicate invested in the expert coaching of Justin Wateridge (Captain of Boats, Univ) and Jonny Clayton (Captain of Boats, SEH). In the shelter of the 'Isis Tavern' both coaches imparted pearls of theoretical wisdom. We absorbed them all attentively, but unfortunately at a slower rate to our absorption of alcohol, which rendered us incapable of putting their advice into practice.

With 'rowing on' looming, the crew resorted to the unprecedented use of a 'bank-tub ' session, which quickly turned into a witch-hunt as to who was unbalancing the boat. It did prove useful in revealing that Steve Noone had in fact been backing down for the previous four weeks, and that Dan Smith had misunderstood rowing to be a bat and ball game - explaining the innumerable air-shots he had been playing with his oar.

With these initial problems ironed out the crew approached 'rowing on' with new found confidence. On the day itself, Ben Pearson at stroke picked a gloriously leisurely rating to ensure that the Syndicate was the very last eight to qualify. The crew celebrated with quite magnificent largeness that evening, only to find the next morning that OUBC had made a mistake and the Syndicate was plum out of the running . Cotton, crew choreographer and cox, had fortunately had the presence of mind to clip a St Hilda's eight during rowing on, not so hard as to impede our rowing, but sufficient for us to lodge a complaint. The case was put forward that the 'collision' with St Hilda's delayed us by exactly three seconds, which was coincidently the exact time reduction we needed to qualify, OUBC declared that we should row off against Christ Church IV and St Anne's Ill to determine who should have the last two places in eights week. This seemed stacked with risk for the land-loving Syndicate, who persuaded all involved to accept a drawing of straws. Before the day was up Christ Church IV was out and the Syndicate was celebrating its first sporting success of 1992.

The first two days of Eights week saw the Syndicate conserving their energy, and generously satisfying two 'serious' eights' hunger to bump. Friday, however, found the Syndicate resplendent in their new tin helmets, and the crew

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rose to the obvious importance of being a sandwich crew. Romping home in the morning as head of the bottom division, the crew saved its best rowing for the afternoon. Johnny Cotton picked a cunning path close to the bank, which combined with a particularly enormous start placed us with a real chance of bumping. The sides of the bank blurred and narrowed as our cox tried to master the brute force of the Syndicate. The wooden hulk loomed before Cotton's watering eyes, which he steered us in to for our only bump. On coming to a halt we realised, to our disappointment, that the wooden hulk we had bumped was in fact a tree, and that the boat we had been chasing had long since made an escape. The crew unanimously blamed Cotton - a rowing phenomenon known as 'cox-abuse'. Saturday's rowing failed to live up to the previous day's standard, but the crew played to the crowds outside the boat houses by feigning a total inability to row or manoeuvre the boat. This joke continued for at least ten minutes, by the end of which much of the crowd were beginning to question Cotton's comic timing. More cox-abuse followed.

The dance performances were well received, with the Syndicate extending its repertoire from three to four songs. We must take this chance to thank Brittany and Lydia for their assistance in choreography - their moves were well suited to a team of nimble and dexterous dancers, but the Syndicate soon found that they could be reduced to a simple pelvic thrust. Also to be thanked are the Syndicate members of yesteryear who, in a desperate attempt to regain their former vigour, assisted throughout. And finally our coaches who were particularly vital for this year's hydrophobic Syndicate. The committee and all leaving members wish next year's crew continued success in all they turn their hand to.

C.O'R.

THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB Captains: TOM LEMAN (Cuppers) MICHAEL BALL (League) Secretary: EDWARD HOBART

THE 1991192 SEASON saw the return of the glory days to Hall rugby - winners of both First and Second XV Cuppers, runners-up in the League, winners of the Rugby League Cuppers and an undergraduate rugby Blue.

The pre-season trials created as many problems as they solved. Although a huge number of freshmen turned up, it was Seventh Week before we found our bext XV. Despite being far superior to most of our opposition, the League competition was a history of very narrow victories. Only in Seventh Week did we do ourselves justice, with a 31-0 demolition of Univ., auguring well for the final match decider against Brasenose. Unfortunately a huge level of commitment was not quite enough and the score of 19-17 was a fair reflection of merit on the day.

Cuppers promised much. At Noughth Week training with coach Sporron the combination of experienced older players and dedicated younger players promised well. However, after a first round bye, this invincibility was challenged by weaker teams from St Peter's, then Oriel. The Hall XV stepped up a gear for the semi-finals and comprehensively outplayed Univ. 24-9. The final drew on all the spirit and commitment of the Hall. Facing a Keble team packed with Blues and Greyhounds, the Hall played superbly to take a lead of 17-3, then let Keble come back to 17-15. A nailbiting finish produced no more scores and Teddy Hall were restored as Cuppers winners. The Second XV repeated this Cuppers success. Under Richard Linguard (Cantab.) they beat Brasenose 8-0.

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The season was very successful in individual terms. Luke Jones won a deserved undergraduate Blue, whilst James Peterkin and Richard Sennitt were Greyhounds. Tom Leman captained the Under 21 side containing Mike Woodfine and Toby Watson , and Andy Pickford represented the reformed Whippets. Rugby League was also strong - Jason Tuckley, Chris O' Reilly and Pete Schulze won Full Blues and Lee Howgate a Half-Blue. Success in Rugby League Cuppers was never in doubt. Edward Hobart was an excellent Secretary.

He restored the finances of the Club and his organisation removed many of the pressures of captaincy.

The season was a remarkably successful one, based on a depth of talent and, more importantly, pride in the Hall. All players owe a great deal to the support they receive; its effect is invaluable. Best wishes to David Liversidge and Chris Ash ton who take over as Captain and Vice-Captain respectively. Finally, many thanks to Arthur Anderson & Co. who generously gave a set of splendid Cuppers shirts to the Club.

M.J.B.

THE LADIES RUGBY CLUB Captain : VICTORIA FISHER WOMEN 'S RUGBY is a very young sport within the University but already the Hall is establishing a solid reputation, reaching the final in this year's Cuppers competition. The semi-final against Oriel was a gruelling match. With an even scoreline after extra time the game went to sudden death, where the stamina and determination of the Hall girls broke Oriel's forward line and earned us a 3-2 victory.

We met New College in the final and they clearly had a weight advantage in the scrum. Some good running and passing by the Hall and the determination of Sharron Joffe (University player) to keep the ball out of New College hands resulted in an even scoreline at half time. Unfortunately New's power and size gradually wore down a tired Hall side and we were unable to prevent a 4-1 defeat.

I would like to thank the team for the enthusiasm and dedication they have shown over the season, and also Chris O'Reilly for taking on the pleasurable(?) task of coaching us.

V.L.G.F.

THE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB Captain: KilVIN KNIBBS Secretary: JAMES LINFORTH THE 1991 /92 SEASON ultimately proved another triumphant year for Hall football.

Playing with a flair admired throughout the University, all the sides overcame the occasional lows with the help of that indefinable quality coveted by others, the Hall spirit.

The First XI suffered several setbacks in Michaelmas Term, being handicapped both by injuries and by the anomalies of the fixture list. This deprived the team of influential Blues players and thus prevented the development of the continuity vital for a successful League campaign. A meagre two draws in the first half of the season and an early Cuppers exit meant that the widespread praise for their purist 'total' football proved little consolation.

On returning from the Christmas break, the threat of relegation saw a more competitive edge supplement the skilful football the team continued to play.

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A glorious unbeaten run in Hilary Term was the result, and saw the team to safety. Having beaten Cuppers finalists Queen's and Keble in fine style, the Hall secured First Division status with a comprehensive 3-0 defeat of Balliol.

Essentially, it was a series of magnificent team performances that transformed the season, but there were many individual highlights. These included the cultured defending of Simon Pickard and Micky Goddard, the tenacity of Dan Smith (next year's League Captain) in midfield and the predatory forward's instincts of Ben 'Dobber' Walker. Special mention should also be made of veterans Lewis Pearson and Pete Matthews, who served the Hall well in their final season.

Hall players also excelled in the University teams. Kevin Knibbs and Des Anderson both won Blues, the former scoring in a 2-1 varsity match win. Mark Johnston represented the Centaurs, and will captain them next season.

The Second XI's form was sporadic, excellent performances being mixed with unfortunate lapses. However, under the canny tutelage of Captain, Ronan Breen, the team finished in a safe, mid-table position. Led by the tactically astute Dave Gauke, the Third XI remained the arena for those with more recreational footballing ambitions. Retaining the traditional relaxed attitude, the Thirds also enjoyed a tremendous season. League success was complemented by a thrilling run in Second XI Cuppers. Several supposedly superior sides foolishly underestimated the strength in depth of Hall football and, in particular, the prolific forward partnership of Andy Mitchell and Andy Cooper.

The women's football team, captained by Elaine Noone, also acquitted itself honourably throughout the season, reaching the semi-final of Cuppers and showing equally impressive form in the League.

Trinity Term saw two teams entered in the popular five-a-side Cuppers competition. The First Five swept all before them, defeating Hertford 1-0 in a closely fought final. Finally the season reached a climax with the ever popular Annual Dinner.

I must thank James Linforth who, as Secretary, covered up my organisational shortcomings and also all those who supported the teams through thick and thin .

As always our vociferous support was the envy of other colleges.

K.G.K. THE CRICKET CLUB Captain: S. M. J. SURREY Secretary: D. M. GAUKE

was one of unfulfilled expectations, although several positive points have emerged. In Cuppers, the Hall suffered defeat in the first round against a determined and enthusiastic New College side. Our players were perhaps suffering from a combination of over-confidence and a lack of match practice, and the only players to emerge with any real credit were Blues players Dave Sandiford and Simon Pickard, next year's Captain, who batted and fielded excellently.

Relieved from competitive cricket, the team performed more successfully in friendly matches, with a number of emphatic victories being recorded. The allround performances of Tim Perkins (next year's Secretary) and Chris Ashton, both first-years , have been notable.

The Second XI have had another outstanding season, with a large number of players representing the team. An overwhelming victory against Hertford included a mammoth 184 not out from Dan Smith, whose average for the season was 299. At time of writing, the Teddy Bears look set for another unbeaten THIS SEASON

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season, thanks largely to the formidable batting of Alex Boag and the inspired (or intoxicated) captaincy of Mike Lemon.

At University level, both Dave Sandiford and Des Anderson have a good chance of gaining Blues, whilst a number of our players have represented the Authentics, with Rob Salter captaining the side on a number of occasions.

All in all, it has been a season of mixed fortunes for the Club, but with our talented players we should make a stronger challenge on Cuppers next year.

S.M.J.S .

THE LADIES CRICKET CLUB Captain: VICTORIA FISHER

UNFORTUNATELY, due to match cancellations and difficulties finding a ground, the Hall girls' assault on Cuppers never really got off the ground . More positively there are two College members representing the University in this year's varsity match, Amanda Pearce-Higgins and Victoria Fisher.

V.L.G.F. THE HOCKEY CLUB Captain: M. J . 0AKMAN Secretary: D. L. ISON

ONCE AGAIN the Hall received a good influx of new players, resulting in an impressive victory in the first round of Cuppers over St Anne's. Expectations had run high this year, resulting in a degree of over-confidence that contributed to a close-run victory in a thrilling second round match against Exeter. The ensuing 2-1 defeat against Worcester in the quarter-finals can be put down to a string of excellent goalkeeping and a saddening lack of team cohesion and morale.

The League season was to prove equally frustrating since, after an exciting 4-3 victory over Keble, the potential was there to win the First Division.

Unfortunately, a string of mediocre results followed, leaving the Hall in midtable despite some fine individual performances.

A very strong women's team combined with the men's team in a Mixed Cuppers side that was unfortunate not to progress to the quarter-final stage after some unlucky breaks.

The prospects for next year remain high, with Ed Reekie taking over as Captain and Chris Davies as Secretary, though we lose last year's Captain, Mike Chandler, whose commitment to the Club has been invaluable. Congratulations must go to Ben Palmer for successfully captaining the University Second Team, to Rob Salter for gaining a second Blue, and Dave Neal for completing a hat-trick of Blues.

M.J.O. THE LADIES HOCKEY CLUB Captain: VICTORIA FISHER Secretary: DEBBIE HEWITT

LAST YEAR'S Cuppers success was a hard act to follow but this year the Hall girls made it two in a row, winning both the Wadham tournament and Cuppers.

I didn't think it was possible to raise the already high standard of hockey at the Hall but this year's First Xl was an absolute stormer. The arrival of some skilled and talented freshers reinforced an already strong side which cruised through to the Cuppers semi-finals. Our opposition, New College, fielding an 68

equal number of Blues to ourselves, fought a gallant battle, taking the match to extra time, the final result being 3-2. The final, against Queen's, proved to be a tense and exciting match, Alex Cookson (Blue) scoring from a short corner in the second half to give us a 1-0 lead which seemed secure until Queen's miraculously equalised seconds from full-time. The Hall, full of determination, ran rings round the opposition in extra time, Debbie Hewitt and Jo Rainbow (Blue) both scoring in the first ten minutes , shocking Queen 's into submission.

I would like to thank the whole team for the dedication and commitment they have shown throughout the season, and congratulations must go to Amanda Pearce-Higgins who scored the winning goal in this year's varsity match .

V.L.G .F .

THE ATHLETICS CLUB Captain: MARCUS BROWNING Secretary: CHRIS TODD

THE HALL extended their run of successive Cuppers victories to four this year in an exciting final which displayed a very high standard of athletics. Tough opposition came from Exeter and a highly motivated Worcester team which was determined to end our reign as champions. As usual, it was enthusiastic participation in all quarters that gave us the depth we needed for victory . Great performances from Frank Cadiz, Luke Jones and James Carr in the jumps and sprints, complemented those of a strong middle distance squad including Chris Todd, Richard Collier, Stewie Martin and Ronan Breen, whilst Marcus Browning did much of the work in the throws events.

After the Blues Athletics Match, won by Oxford, Chris Todd (800 m), Richard Collier (3000 m steeplechase) and Marcus Browning (long jump) were awarded Full Blues. Stewie Martin, Ronan Breen (both steeplechasers) , Dan Brockington (400 m and 400 m hurdles) and James Carr (100 m) were selected for the second team match.

Congratulations and thanks to them and everyone else who represented the Hall this year.

C.F .N.T.

THE LADIES ATHLETICS CLUB Captain: NIKKI HAINES

HAVING MISSED OUT last year in Women's Cuppers, Teddy Hall women were determined to have a go at this high-class event this year. Our assorted team of hockey players, rowers, football players and others showed a remarkable willingness to try their hand at any and every event. Several performances were to be commended for their entertainment value, others for their high standard. ¡ Well done, especially, to Vicky Griffiths-Fisher for being an all-round star in several running events and the high-jump, and to Elaine Noone who won the javelin event and later went on to represent the Oxford second team in the varsity match, with a throw of 31.12 m, only 5.38 m off the Blues standard.

Despite our definite advantage in numbers, we were beaten in the end by Somerville by a mere five points after a nail-biting 4 X 400 m relay . Still, we had a great team spirit and a lot more fun than them I'm sure.

N.H.H .

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THE CROSS-COUNTRY CLUB Captain: RONAN BREEN

ONCE AGAIN the Hall showed that it is the college to be beaten, due to a combination of both talented individuals and great team spirit. Defending our Cuppers title, we were widely thought to be favourites. However, on the day we were beaten into second place by an inspired Magdalen team that contained the winner and runner-up from the varsity match. We were led home by OUCCC Captain, Stewie Martin, closely followed by fellow Blue, Richard Collier. The other three scorers were Chris Todd, Ronan Breen and Sean Cochrane, yet again running well despite being a 'boatie'.

Motivated by the loss of our crown, we prepared well for the annual Teddy Hall Relays. On this occasion, after a fine first leg from Richard Collier, the rest of the team was able to cruise to victory well ahead of our collegiate opposition and many university teams as well.

At University level, Stewie Martin got his Blue at long last and was considered to be one of the best OUCCC Captains in memory as he led his team to a crushing victory. His boundless enthusiasm and genuine talent will be sorely missed next year. Richard Collier also gained a Blue, a very unusual feat for a fresher. He then followed this up by being selected for, and running in, the U.K. Junior Team at the World Cross-Country Championships in Boston.

R.A.M.B.

THE LADIES CROSS-COUNTRY CLUB Captain: NIKKI HAINES

DESPITE having no Blues runners in Teddy Hall, we did very well this year, mainly through a strong representation in intercollegiate races, ending a very respectable second place in the Oxford Colleges Running League. We fielded ten boaties/runners in Cuppers, with Nikki Haines, Christine Braban and Melissa Holden leading the College into second place. Although there seem to be more Teddy Hall Relay t-shirts around College than there were runners, we entered four teams, coming in third place this time.

At University level, Nikki Haines won the second team varsity match, in which Christine Braban also took part. I would like to thank all who ran, both by choice and by force. Will the prospect of a Cuppers supper encourage enough women to run so that we can beat Somerville next year?

N.H .H.

THE SWIMMING CLUB Captain: ANTHONY BASTIN

SWIMMING CUPPERS this year was a well attended and enjoyable event. The Hall fielded a sizeable team, many of whom were freshers which bodes well for the coming years. Overall the team was placed a very respectable fifth, with several fine individual performances. David Doran, a hardy member of the team, reached the finals of breastroke and butterfly, and finished third in both; Anthony Bastin finished sixth in both freestyle and butterfly finals. Other finalists were Christine Braban (backstroke) and the men's and women's relay teams. There were spirited performances, including those from Jonathan Chambers and Helen Spink, but unfortunately to no avail. Congratulations to all those who swam. The 70

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A.J.B.

THE SQUASH CLUB Captain: S. M. J. SURREY

TEDDY HALL'S FIRST FIVE has had a highly successful season, winning promotion to Division Two in Michaelmas Term and then acquitting ourselves well in this higher standard of competition during Hilary. This achievement is all the more commendable since the side has been missing three players from last year. Sam Surrey was unbeaten at first string for a term, while Ed Reekie (next year 's Captain) won a number of crucial matches .

The Hall was not always able to field its ideal side due to problems of availability, and a number of replacements have stepped in, which reflects well on the strength in depth we have in the College. The general enthusiasm for squash in Hall has also been demonstrated in the establishment of a very able women ' s side, led by the enthusiastic Julie Sirnner.

S.M.J.S .

LACROSSE THE MAGAZINE is pleased to note that Richard Owen has represented the University at Lacrosse and has been awarded a Half Blue.

THE TENNIS CLUB Captain: RICHARD KoE

A MAVERICK half-dozen players have defied Teddy Hall's fourth division status this term by sweeping all before them in the League. Four opposing teams lost without winning a set, whilst the rest could scarcely gather a point amongst them.

Third division Templeton , and then second division Trinity were brought crashing down to the Hall's onslaught. Finally we came to grief on the manicured lawns at Christ Church with the Captain having 'one of those days' . Some of the stars included Jamie Carr and his beamer forehands , Scott McCreery and his devastating one-liners, the Aryan god Pete Hocknell, James Linforth ' s withering second serves, Kieran Clifton and his clinical grunts, and of course Richard Koe with his backhand cross court drop volley. Thanks also to Ed Reekie, Richard Williamson, Leon Ferera, and not forgetting Matt Lim who was an enthusiastic replacement when needed. Last but not least, a brief mention of the unpassable Walker, who fought long and hard for team selection. Good luck to Scott who will be next year's skipper.

R.J .B.K.

THE NETBALL CLUB Captain: JOANNE CORRY

FOLLOWING a highly successful season, Teddy Hall Netballers have proved that they are a force to be reckoned with. Both 'A ' and 'B ' teams provided outstanding performances and were promoted from Third and Fourth Divisions to First and Second Divisions respectively in the League.

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The use of Iffley Courts for weekly practices paid handsome dividends, as our opposition were frequently flummoxed by well-executed tactics and the high skill-level of Hall players. Despite the loss of Caroline Brown, a much valued player, through injury, the Hall produced several talented players. Natasha Walker and Lydia Harrison (Vice-Captain) were a winning combination with consistent shooting, backed by the solid defence of Vicky Petersen, Jo Howat, Sue Felstead and Carrolyn Burroughs. The 'B' Team also possessed much talent and enthusiasm and put up a spirited fight in their Cuppers matches.

Jo Corry was the Secretary and will be next year's Vice-Captain of the University teams . Lindsay McQuillian also represented the University on many occasions and, playing with remarkable skill in college matches, made a special contribution to the season. With Lindsay holding the reins of captaincy and with continued support, the Hall looks set to reach untold heights of netballing brilliance!

J.L.C.

THE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Captain: ROBERT MCBAIN

THE 1991192 SEASON was a tremendous success for the First Team, sweeping undefeated to the third division title. This achievement was largely due to the brilliant attacking flair of Qingyou Han who emerged at the end of the season having won every set he played. This spearhead was strongly supported by Rob McBain whose greatly improved forehand drive made mincemeat of numerous opponents. Luke Powell and Matthew Powe offered determined efforts and Paul Drummond produced a stunning display in a crucial match against St Catherine' s, fighting back from the dead to win two of his sets.

The Second Team, captained by Ian Oswald, fared well in their respective division and were unlucky to miss out on promotion by a couple of points.

Excellent performances were produced by the Captain, Simon Blezard, Ben Miller and Chris Davies.

Unfortunately Cuppers saw both teams fall at the initial hurdle in desperately close matches. The First Team lost 5-4 to eventual beaten finalists, Wolfson, and the Second Team were edged out by Wadham Seconds. I would like to thank everyone for their efforts and enthusiasm, particularly Ian Oswald who was superbly efficient as Second Team Captain, and is set to continue the good work next year. I wish Luke Powell every success as the new First Team Captain and sense the First Division title on the horizon with the inspirational Qingyou Han in our ranks.

R.J.M.

THE BALLROOM DANCING CLUB Captain: LINDSA Y MCDONALD

ONCE AGAIN, Teddy Hall has proved successful on the ballroom dancing floor.

The Hall entered two teams in the Cuppers competition in the summer, and many of the dancers were absolute beginners who, as is the norm, were trained up to compete in the competition. The determination of these beginners to learn the waltz, quickstep, cha-cha or jive is to be commended and Bruce Richardson, the OUBDC coach proved invaluable once again.

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Braun and Sarah Davison won the cha-cha competition with style; Dave Stewart and Anna Trigell finished third in the jive competition, and Lindsay McDonald and Chris Manby finished second in the quickstep. Special mention goes to Chris and Anna who started as absolute beginners and managed to dance so well.

Mention must also go to Dr Maryanne Martin and Chris Dawes who, as the 'B' team waltz couple finished sixth in the waltz final.

The College also had a successful year with five of its members being selected for the University team: Harald Braun, Sarah Davison, Fiona Macdonald, Lindsay McDonald and Dave Stew art. Dave has been awarded another Half Blue for his dexterity and style on the dance floor after Oxford beat Cambridge in a thoroughly decisive victory in this year's varsity match. Thanks to Dr Phelps for providing the Club with funds for Cuppers competition this year. With the Hall finishing third last year and second this year, the stage is set for us to win next year.

L.S.M .

THE MUSIC SOCIETY Presidents: DUNCAN BARKER, THOMAS PARSONS

TWO SPLENDID MUSICAL EVENTS took place in Michaelmas Term. The eminent Dutch lutenist, Fred Jacobs, gave a candle-lit recital in the Old Library.

Memorable also was a performance of string quartets by Haydn and Beethoven by the Aularian Quartet which included old members John Palmer and David Hughes . There was a very good freshers' concert in November in which most of the Instrumental Bursary holders took part.

There was no concert in Hilary Term but , in compensation, a two-week series of lunchtime recitals proved most successful. Solo performances were given by Peter Lynan (organ), Tom Parsons (tenor) and Duncan Barker (piano) and, in the second week, three ensembles played - the Choughall Wind Trio (Claire Smith, Peter Fry and Duncan Barker), the Soisy String Quartet (Tim Clark, Gemma Burnett, David Willington and Richard Bratby) and trumpet duets by Simon Chatterjee and Jeremy Goodwin. We even managed to entice the odd tourist passing down Queens Lane to come in and listen. Our thanks also go to the Chaplain for the use of the Chapel.

A week later, the Organ Scholar, David Willington, organised a concert held in the Wolfson Hall at which were performed Mozart's Coronation Mass and some verse anthems by Purcell and Pelham Humfrey. This was a great success; there was a large audience, and many compliments were received on the performance . I hope that this heralds the start of a new series of large-scale concerts each term in College.

Thanks as always go to Dr Collins for his help in the running of the Society and also to the outgoing Presidents, Peter Lynan and James Burn.

D.J .B.

THE CHAPEL CHOIR Organ Scholar: DAVID WILLINGTON

CHOIR MEMBERSHIP has been growing slowly and we have had some interesting music in Chapel this year. A new setting for the Communion Service has been introduced, and we have, on a few occasions, been joined by instrumentalists from the Music Society who have accompanied the anthem. At the end of Hilary Term a service of Choral Evensong was organised, and singers from around 73

Oxford and beyond descended on the Chapel to give a roof-raising performance of Noble's Evening Canticles and Lotti 's Crucifixus. This must be one of the few services to have taken place at St Edmund Hall at which the choir has vastly outnumbered the congregation.

Somewhat ill-timed was the organ's breakdown ten minutes before the start of our St Edmund's Day service in November which, consequently, had to be accompanied on the piano. At the time of writing there is still no sign of our new pipes and it is to be hoped that they will arrive before the next Magazine is published.

P.R.L.

THE CIDLDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY Chairman: CHRISTINE MANBY Treasurer: SARA BANTGES

DECEMBER 1991 saw Teddy Hall host its tenth Children's Christmas Party.

Forthose not in the know, the party provides an afternoon of fun and games for 100 local children, rest and relaxation for their parents and a nervous breakdown for the students of S.E.H.! This year the children were entertained by a juggler, a bouncy castle and the traditional visit from Santa, though throwing jelly and ice-cream at the paintings in the Wolfson still proved to be the favourite pastime.

To raise the money needed to host the party we decided to take a rather different approach from the usual sponsored events. After a few drinks in the bar and a loan from Dr Phelps, Oxford's first beauty contest, 'Mr University ' , was born. Twenty-four assorted rugger boys and rowers volunteered, 'reluctantly', to strut their stuff in front of a panel of judges from Somerville and St Hilda's.

Local businesses provided clothes for the contestants to wear and prizes for them to win. On the evening, five hundred students crammed into the Wolfson to see Teddy Hall's own Nick Wenbourne take the title and promptly donate his £50 prize money to the Children's Party Fund.

The event was covered in the national press and subsequently restaged at the Oxford Union for television by Channel 4's 'The Word' . Though the title of 'Mr University' was snatched from Oxford's hands by a 'Mr Bristol', the televised competition raised a further £300 to add to the £700 raised by the original competition.

Thanks to the 'Mr University' competition, a teddy bear raffle and the 'penny jar in the bar', enough money was raised to enable us to hold this year's party, put aside sufficient funds for the tradition to continue in '92 and make donations to the N.S.P.C.C. and the Oxford-Kilburn Club. All that remains is to thank all those who put aside their modesty to compete in 'Mr University' 'for the kids' and those who helped at the party itself. Hope your bruises have healed!

C.A.M.

THE CHRISTIAN UNION Representatives: LUKE FERRETTER, JAMES LINFORTH

ALTHOUGH ATTENDANCE was down in Trinity Term, a houseparty in Noughth Week ofMichaelmas was a time of powerful renewal for us all. Hugo and Sharon Anson, evangelists and church-planters, who were the College Assistant Missioners during last year's University Mission, spoke on the Book of James , with an emphasis on fellowship in the Holy Spirit.

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really rewarding meetings , with talks on the Father, Son and Holy Spirit motivating everyone to praise God. After a successful freshers' lunch, nine people signed up for a discussion group , looking at the claims and teaching of Jesus . Two of these people later gave their lives to Christ, and the following term , another four people became Christians.

The weekly lunch and Bible-study has been increasingly popular and a forum for close friendship amongst the Christians in College. For the first time we now have three women C. U . reps who are doing the job far more efficiently than their predecessors.

L.F., E.J.L. THE WOMEN'S GROUP Women's Officer: LYDIA HARRISON THE WOMEN'S GROUP has remained active in College during the past year. The informal group meetings have continued, covering a wide range of issues, from women and travel , to safety aspects around the College and the city. Memorable events have been an afternoon of aromatherapy with representatives from the Body Shop, and an insight into reflexology and faith healing given by a guest speaker. Next year we hope to welcome the freshers with the Annual Women 's Lunch , and try to swell attendance at the Women's Group with more social events and informal gatherings, as well as continuing to address the serious aspects of women's life at Oxford.

L.C.H. DOUBLE, DOUBLE BOILER TROUBLE CLEAR THE TOWER AT THE DOUBLE TO ALLAY any reader's alarm at the mangled Shakespeare in the title, let me say straightaway that there was no flood from a burst pipe causing a frantic removal of books from the Library Tower. That was in my office ovf!r the South Porch, but no harm was done to paper or electronic information: the offending radiator was isolated and drained, and will be replaced when a new high-tee gas boiler heating system is installed on the third and fourth floors of the Tower. This is why space must be made in the Tower this Summer.

When it became apparent that the boiler of the heating system that now serves the Hall was beyond cost-effective repair, and after a variety of possible replacement scenarios was examined, the Governing Body decided to replace the one central boiler with three: one for the main Library, one for the Old Library and Chapel, and one for the remaining buildings, with specifications suited to the unique needs of each of these areas .

When the site for the Library system was considered, although external placement was by far the ideal choice, high cost and aesthetic considerations weighed against this and , following the suggestion of Rev H. E. J. Cowdrey, the Senior Research Fellow in Modern History and Archivist, the Governing Body chose the Tower of St Peter-in-the-East. While the Bursar consulted with the architects, the Diocese, the Oxford City Council, and heating engineers in order to arrive at a specification optimum in price and suitability to the needs of a heavily-used Library, I had to take a look at what sorts of books were housed in the Tower and choose which would cause the least damage to the collection from the point of view of undergraduate use, if they were removed.

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I was helped in this choice again by John Cowdrey who said that since the College would no longer offer Theology, Literae Humaniores, or Oriental Studies to either undergraduates or graduates , books in these disciplines should form the bulk of those to be withdrawn. To these was added the Risborough Collection which contains one of the most comprehensive selections of books and pamphlets on the Labour Party and the trade union movement in Britain. I put this proposal to the Academic Policy Committee, who agreed, with no amendments. Now I had to identify the best way of disposing of the books to be discarded.

The Risborough Collection posed a special problem because of the invaluable nature of its contents to researchers in industrial relations and the labour movement. It was finally decided, in consultation with Mr Arthur Marsh, an Emeritus Fellow and member of the Industrial Relations Unit, and Mr J . P. D. Dunbabin, the Politics Fellow, that, after I had written a biography of Ernest Risborough focusing on his trade union involvement and a bibliography of the collection for Oxoniensia, we would then approach , first Nuffield College and then Warwick University to see if one or other would be willing to accept the Risborough Collection.

I thought that the remaining discards would be of most use to universities in one of the Eastern European countries. And, as it happened, I had for some time been discussing with Dr Richard Crampton, the Contemporary East European History and Politics Fellow, whether we could use his contacts in Bulgaria to find a way to get books we withdrew over to them. Early in June, then, I had a meeting in the Library with the Bulgarian Ambassador, Mr Ivan Stancioff, and his Cultural Attache, Ms Aglika Markova. They were delighted with my proposal and would send a van to collect any books we had for them whenever we were ready . So enthusiastic were they that they took the first four boxes of books with them in the boot of the Ambassador's car.

Thus the unfortunate necessity of discarding so many books to improve the environment in the Library for both study and the conservation of the collection was turned into good fortune, both for our academic colleagues in Bulgaria and for researchers in industrial relations.

Deborah Eaton Librarian THE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF 1991-1992

the Hall is very grateful to Aularians who have made gifts of their publications to the Library. The following have been received during the year:

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G. (1945) Child's play; suite for piano, opus 13 .

ALLEN,

C. (1950) Anne Wilkinson and her works .

ARMITAGE,

Rev R. T. (1949) Thomas Cranmer after 500 years.

Daily and weekly worship: Jewish to Christian.

Cautionary notes on the use of calendars and astronomy , in Chronos Kairos Christos by Vardaman & Yamauchi .

BECKWITH,

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The vegetarianism of the Therapeutae, in Revue de Qumran 13 (1-4) 1988.

The Old Testament canon of the New Testament church .

BELDEN, K. D. (1931) The hours of the helicopter.

BORTHWICK, A. G. L. (Fellow) 15 articles on engineering.

BOURNE-JONES , Derek (1951) 'Brief Candle' , 2 copies.

CHADWICK-JONES, J. K. (1948) The social contingency model and olive baboons, in International Journal of Primatology 12 (1991) .

CHILD , M. S. (Fellow) Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications.

COWDREY , H. E . J. (Fellow) The English background of Stephen Harding , in Revue Benedictine 191 (101, 3-4).

Review of Vol. XIII of Studii Gregoriani per la storia delta 'libertas ecclesiae ', in Literarische Berichte und Anzeigen.

EASTON, Rev D. F. (1966) Was Schliemann a liar?, in Heinrich Schleimann ed . J. Herrmann 1992.

Troy before Schliemann, in Studid Troica Bd 1 1991.

EA TON, Deborah (Librarian) Who is Catullus? What is she?, in Pegasus no . 34, (1991).

FORD, D. C. (1955) Karst geomorphology and hydrology .

FRANKJS , P. J. (1948) The great vowel-shift and other vowel-shifts, in An Historic Tongue ed .

G. Nixon & J . Honey .

Middle English ideophones, in Language usage and description ed. I. T.-B. van Ostade and J. Frankis.

ILGREN , E. B. (1976) Initiation and promotion in skin or liver neoplasia .

JACKSON, Laurence (1968) Achieving change in business culture, in Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 23, no . 4.

KNIGHT, J. B. (Fellow) Public sector employment, rent seeking and economic growth, in The Economic Journal 101 , 3.

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The evolution of development economics, in Current Issues in Development Economics.

LEARTHART, P. S. (1938) Whence our trees?

MARSH, A. (Fellow) Employee Relations Bibliography and Abstracts Journal.

Trade Union Handbook, 5th ed.

MITCHELL, R. Bruce (Fellow) Review ofR. J. S. Grant, The B text of the Old English Bede in MediumAevum LIX, 2.

Prefatory notes to Niwa, Y: The function and development of prefixes and particles in three Early English texts.

Literary lapses, in RES ns XLIII, no. 169.

A guide to Old English 5th ed.

A critical bibliography of Old English syntax, supplement 1985-1988, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XCIII (1992).

MITCHELL, P. J. (1983) The late Pleistocene early microlithic assemblages of southern Africa, in World Archaeology 20 (1) 1988.

Preliminary report on the later stone age sequence from Tloutle rock shelter, Western Lesotho, in South African Archaeological Bulletin 45 1990.

Human adaptation in southern Africa during the last glacial maximum, in Prehistoric cultures and environments in the late quaternary of Africa by Bower and Lubell.

The archaeology of Lesotho, in Phutheho ea sechaba ea paballo le tlhakiso ea moetlo oa Basotho 1992.

NAUGHTON, J. D. (Fellow) Translation of Miroslav Holub, The Jingle Bell Principle.

NAWAZ, Z. (1980) Lloyds Bank Tax Guide, 1991192.

NIAS, A. H. W. (1944) Rate of metastasis from C3H mouse mammary tumours, in Clinical Experimental Metastasis Vol. 10, (1992).

NIXON, Bruce (1952) Developing a new culture for organisations in the 90s, in Management Education and Development Vol. 23 (1992).

W. H. Smith develops a new approach to developing senior managers, in Industrial and Commercial Training 23 (1991).

Developing a new approach to leadership, in Management Education and Development 19 (1988).

PHILLIPS, D. G. (Fellow) Oxford Studies in Comparative Education (editor).

In defence of the second foreign language, OXPROD occasional paper No. 6 (1992).

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POLLOCK, N. C. (Fellow) Tobruk: A Personal Account.

PRICE, James (1949), publisher Hemans: Records of woman.

Lamb: Elia.

Tennyson: Poems, chiefly lyrical.

Price: A discourse on the love of our country.

Paine: The rights of man Pt I. Coleridge: Christabel.

Owen: A new view of society.

Wordsworth: The Excursion.

Hazlitt: The round table.

Southey: Thalaba destroyer.

Mant: The simpliciad.

Shelley: The cenci.

Shelley: Posthumous poems.

Smith: Elegiac sonnets.

Tighe: Psyche, with other poems .

Clare: The shepherd's calendar.

Keats: Endymion.

Campbell: Gertrude of Wyoming.

RHODE, E. (1953) On birth and madness.

The generations of Adam.

ROSE, E. P. F. (1960) A .Field Guide to the Geology of Gibraltar.

The Tunnels of Gibraltar.

Royal Engineer Geologists and the geology of Gibraltar.

German military geologists in the second world war, in The Royal Engineers Journal 1980.

Geological map of Gibraltar.

SCARGILL, D. I. (Fellow) Regional inequality in France: persistence and change, in Geography 1991.

Studying French regions in the National Curriculum, in Teaching Geography, Vol. 17 (1) 1992.

SCHOLL, Lars U. (1970) Felix Schwormstiidt, 1870-1938.

Zwischen Kooperation und Konfrontation, in Sjefartshistorisk Arbok 1990.

SPURR, B. (1974) Eliot and the C17th in Hellas 1991 (vol. 2, ii) .

A revaluation of Sylvia Plath, in Hellas Vol. 2, no. 1.

Questions of Language, in St Mark's Review no. 146.

The poetry of Sylvia Plath.

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Reading poetry.

The poetry of T . S. Eliot.

The poetry of Ted Hughes.

The poetry of W . B. Yeats.

The poetry of John Donne.

The poetry of Robert Lowell .

STALLWORTHY, Mark (1970) Insolvency.

Data protection: regulation in a deregulatory state, in Statute Law Review (1990).

STAREY, C . J. H . (1938) Stokenchurch in perspective.

TAYLOR, J. R. (1962) Contributions in A practical approach to the administration of leisure and .recreation services , 2nd ed .

TODD , J . D. (Fellow) Engineering Tables and Data, 2nd ed .

TYTLER , G. D . C. (1954) Katherine Mansfield's 'The Voyage ', in Explicator 50 (1991).

VENABLES, Robert (Fellow) Comments on the Inland Revenue Consultative Document on Trusts.

Non-Resident Trusts.

The Company Car. Capital Gains Tax Hold Over Relief.

WHITTAKER, R. J. (Fellow) 3 articles on physical geography.

WRIGHT , Sir Denis (Honorary Fellow) Ten years in Iran - some highlights , in Asian Affairs 1991.

WYATT , D. A. (Fellow) Yearbook of European Law 1992 (editor).

ZEMAN, Z. A . B. (Fellow) The making and breaking of communist Europe.

Thanks also to those Aularians, Fellows and others with a special interest in the Hall Library who gave books for undergraduate use: ASHLEY-SMITH, C. (1989) COWDREY, H . E. J. (Fellow) FUKUDA, A . (1989) GILL, Brian (Father of James Gill , undergraduate) HEGARTY , G. (Chaplain) HOLMAN , P. KIEFFER, Rosemarie 80

LYNAN , P. (1989) MACKA Y, Catherine (1985) MIDGLEY, E. G. (Emeritus Fellow) MITCHELL, R. B. (Emeritus Fellow) NEEDHAM, G. I. (1947) PHILLIPS, D. G. (1966) SUMMERS, D. L. W ARD-PERKINS, K. S. (Fellow) WESTGATE, D. (1988) WORDEN, A. B. (Fellow) WORSLEY, R. T . C. (1939) WRIGHT, Sir D. (Honorary Fellow) Special mention must also be made of J. Dunleavie (1952) who died this year and bequeathed to the Library his collection of books. Several of these will be added to the Old Library, and because the rest were not of interest to undergraduates , they were sold, the funds from which will be used to enhance our collection of American literature and criticism.

Deborah Eaton THE SCHOOLS TRINITY TERM 1992 Honour School of Natural Science: Biochemistry: Part I/: Class 211: Ms K. L. Hamilton, Ms R. M. Jones , Ms V. E. Peterson. Part 1 (Unclassified Honours) : Ms J. L. Gault, Ms R. R. Harnlani, A. R. Pickford, Ms R. Quinlan.

Chemistry: Part I/: Class 1: D. W. A. Stewart. Class 211: A. M. D. BoydHeron, M. J. Browning, W. J. Peto, G. H . W. Sanders, J. E. Tuckley. Class 3: M. T. Jordan, L. Pearson. Chemistry Part 1 (Unclassified Honours): J . R. Cattell, Ms A. M . S. Cookson, S. J. E. Davison, I. J. Murphy , M. R. Pluck, R. J. Rednall, D. J. Walker. Engineering Science: Part I/: Class 1: P. S. Matthews. Part 1 (Unclassified Honours): M. N. Hedges, Ms A. Musson, A. H. Somalya, C. I. Vigars. Engineering and Computer Science: Part I/: Class 211: P. H. Shaw. Class 3: D. J. Rowe . Electronic and Structural Materials Engineering: Part I/: Class 211: D. J. Neal. Class 212: E. W. M .

Lam. Part 1 (Unclassified Honours): Ms S. L. Massey. Geology: Class 1: T. W. Argles, M . A. Chandler. Class 211: Ms A. M. Briffett, R. M. Goulder, Ms R. M. Makin, Ms C. J . Smith. Class 212: M. J. Doggwiler, P. T. Dougan, Ms L. E. Eburne. Metallurgy and Science of Materials: Part I/: Class 211: Ms K. J. Davies. Part I (Unclassified Honours): A. S. Cooper, R. J. Grylls, D. Hilton. Physics: Class 1: R. S. Dunne. Class 2/1: D. A. Doran, J. A. Lloyd-Williams, J. Methven, T . Spitz. Class 212: N. G. Corrie, A. P. Michaelis, D. A. Pain. Physiological Sciences: Class 211: R. D. Barber, R. A. M. Breen, Ms D. A. Cane, Ms A. Hambleton, Ms M. G. Holden, M . A. Lemon.

Honour School of Classics and Modern Languages: Class 211: M. A. Whittaker.

Honour School of Engineering , Economics and Management: Part I/: Class 1: A. J. Boag. Class 211: A. D. Laws , G. K. A. Massey . Class 212 : M. J. Bullock, Ms J. Penrose, S. A. J. Waters. Part I (Unclassified Honours) : B. M .

Pearson, Ms B. J. Reed, M. W. Spencer.

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Honour School of English Language and Literature: Class 1: Ms C. E. George, L. Ferretter. Class 211: I. P. Biswas, Ms J. L. Howat, C. N. J. O'Reilly, A. G. Sunderland. Class 2/2: Ms C. Ashley-Smith, R. P. Goodson.

Honour School of English and Modern Languages: Class 211: D. M. J . Devetta.

Class 2/2: Ms K. Mellhuish.

Honour School of Experimental Psychology: Class 211: Ms T. D. Betts. Class 2/2: L. E. Jones.

Honour School of Geography: Class 1: D. Brockington. Class 211: Ms E. E. Coast, Ms F. Macdonald, J. D. Melling, Ms M. C. Pill, D. C. Sandiford.

Honour School of Jurisprudence: Class 1: D. A. Halliwell. Class 211: A. J. S. Borrie, J. C. Cotton, Ms G. G. Griffiths , Ms C. Holme , T. R. Leman, S. R. Owen, C. J. Sawyer, P. R. Schulze. Class 2/2: P. A. Lacey, M. J. Rynja, Ms M. Sarda, R. Surpin.

Honour School of Mathematics: Class 1: B. M. S. K. Miller. Class 211: J. S. Herbert, Ms N. P. Hugh, E. J. Wilson.

Honour School of Mathematics and Computation: Class 211 : S. E. Orbell. Class 2/2: S. K. Atkinson.

Honour School of Metallurgy, Economics and Management: Part 11: Class 1: J. R. Peterkin. Class 211: Ms K. A. Sidebotham. Part I (Unclassified Honours): R. J. Sennitt.

Honour School of Modern History: Class 211: Ms G. C. P. Baird, M. C. McCorkell, E. H. Rose, I. A. W. Sandles, Ms C. F. Smith, L. S. K . Tarry.

Class 2/2: Ms J. E. Brookes, R. J. de Rennes, R. J. D. McRobbie, Ms K. L. Samuel. Class 3: Ms M. A. Jaskulski, S. R. Sparrow.

Honour School of Modern History and Economics: Class 211: J. G. D. Larsson.

Honour School of Modern History and Modern Languages: Class 211: Ms A. M. West. Class 2/2: Ms C. L. Archer.

Honour School of Modern Languages: Class 1: Ms C. B. Jardine. Class 211: W. D. Crerar, L. N. Ferera, C. J. Powell. Class 2/2: Ms L. W. Gillham, Ms C. Mann, N. A. Mavrikakis, Ms H. J. Parry. Class 3: B. S. Wilson.

Honour School of Music: Class 211: J. R. Burn, P. R. Lynan.

Honour School of Philosophy and Modern Languages: Class 211: Ms S. C. Candy.

Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Class 1: M. J. S. Bates.

Class 211: Ms S. E. Ferguson, M. G. Liggins, S. Nagpal, Ms C. J. Plowman.

Class 2/2: C. M. Emerson, Ms A. H. Gray, A. T. Naylor, 0 . E. Otunnu, M. I. U. Riaz.

Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology.: Class 211: P. J. Leman.

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GRADUATE DEGREES

1991-1992 D.Phil. : J. G. Campbell, Z. Chaudhary, Ms H. G. Davis, P. S. Grant, S. P. Hodges, J. E. Johansen, Ms E. T. Kaar, H. Kim, Z. Nawaz, D. R. Priestland, I. G. Richardson, A. Vadher.

M.Phil. : J. L. Hafetz (Distinction) , P. A. C. Hillier, J. F . Marino , I. Nanayakkara, D. Oh. M. Se.: A. P. D. Brem, X. D. Lebeault, M. N. H. Wailer, J . I. Wheatley.

M. St.: A. Perras (Distinction).

B.C.L.: Class 2 : A. M. Hunter.

B.M., B.Ch.: A. J. Chalmers, A. W. Fogarty, C. J. Wilkins.

Postgraduate Certificate in Education: Ms A. Gordon , Ms K. Inglis , Ms A. Prince.

DEGREES B.A.: 26 October 1991 M. G. Braunsfurth, *A. J . Cave, T. G. Dieppe, Ms I. T. Gibson, *W. A. E. Hirst, Ms K. R. Howard, D.-D. W . Kelly , *D. J. Picksley, *Ms S. L. K. Sim, *S. S. D. Tucker, *A. J . Vinter, J. M. Williams; 9 November 1991 Ms L. Adu-Ampoma, A. B. Bell, J. J. Brace, J. D. Holden, A. M. Hunter, Ms S. M. Sharp, Ms A. C. Styles; 30 November 1991 Ms N. E. Clark, S. D. P. Gerrish , S. E. C . Wickham; 25 January 1992 *Ms J. M. H. Davies, D. M. Gruenstein, K. A. Johnson, *D. J. Monaghan, N. E. Read, N. A. Stinson, R. C. Wright; 7 March 1992 C. S. Garrison, B. J . C. Harrison; 23 May 1992 S. J. Asplin, D. T . Bayley, D. Beard, *C. G. P. Beaven, Ms C. L. Craig, *I. C. Dutta, *C. Elvin, Ms L. A. Foister, Ms. E. L. Hall, S. M. Hopper, *C. L. Jones, J. Leese, S. Mann, J. A. Martin, S. J. E. Martin, D. G. Murray, Ms I. E. G. Rickard, *M. Rimini, Ms R. C. Wade, *T. P. Wyles; 13 June 1992 H . C. Adlington, D. J. Binks, Ms E. Campbell, *T. R. Elliott, S. A. L. Ford, A. C . Greenham, J. D. Harrison, R. K. J. Kilgarriff, Ms A. Roberts, B. Sarosi, D. R. Smith, D. J. Westgate, J. R. A. Wooltorton; 18 July 1992 Ms S. C . Candy, Ms L. A. Curtis, L. N. Ferera, Ms D. J. Hunter, Ms G. Kerr, M. S. Lewis , Ms A. M . Luff, Ms K. Mellhuish, J. C. Milligan, Ms C. A. Moult, Ms T . J. Perrett, P. G. Powell , J. H. Rudd, Ms S. Shackleton, Ms R. L. Shafran, P. H. Shaw, Ms P. M. Taylor, Ms S. M. Thomas; 1 August 1992 J. M . Basnage de Beauval, M. J. Bullock, K. Holder, E. W. M. Lam, R. G . Nixon, *Ms T. Norris , *I. A . W. Sandles, T . Spitz, K. A. Stirrat, A. J. Taylor.

B.F.A.: 13 June 1992 J. Tabinor.

M.A.: 26 October 1991 *A. K. T. Au, *R. L. Bishop, Ms T . J. Burbridge, *A. J. Cave, W. M. Connolley, R. I. Glynn, *P. A. Godfrey, *W. A. E. Hirst, D. W. Mclntyre, *G. A. Maddocks, *S . Moore, *Ms S. J. Nicholas, 83

*Ms M. I. Patel, *D. J. Picksley, *A. Rigby, *C. Sherlaw-Johnson, *Ms S. L. K. Sim, Ms C. M. Suter, *R. M. Taylor, M . H. Welby, *C. J. Wilkins,

Ms E. S. Wilkinson, *C. Wymer, Ms C. D. C. Wynter; 9 November 1991 *J. Webster; 30 November 1991 *K. J. W. Crossley-Holland, J. N. Goater, *P. J. Trowles; 25 January 1992 *M. R. Ashton, *A. M. J. Curtis , *Ms J. M. H. Davies, *P. M. Simpson; 7 March 1992 *M. K. Campbell, S. P. Crummett, *R. M. Eades, C. M . Giles, R. F. Heaton, Ms S. A. Hughes, M . J. Iddon, N. A. James, B. A. Major, *H . G. H. Mathias, S. Maw, Ms E. A. Parsons; 23 May 1992 S. R. Baker, *C. G. P. Beaven, *Ms E. F. Bell, Ms A. L. Charlton, *J. G. Clark, *N. R. Clarke, *Mrs K. Davey (nee Holuba), *M . P. Dunn, *I. C. Dutta, M. C. Field, *C. L. Jones , Ms A. C. McCormick, J . A. Martin, *M. Rimini, *Ms C. Z. Ysrael ; 13 June 1992 A. A. Brimelow, W. S. Coleman, *T. R. Elliott, *J. S. M . Harpham, I. R. Hawkes, *Dr M . J. Jenkins, Ms M. C. Johnston, P. J. Mott, S. P. Purdy, S. A. Rose, D. R. Smith, *J. C. R. Wray ; 18 July 1992 *T. M . Hooper; 1 August 1992 Mrs L. J. Baker (nee Snelling), *N. G. Bamber, Ms H. F. Coombs , *Ms S. H. Graham , N. H. Haigh , *D. J. Hope, *J. D. Morbey , *Ms T . Norris, *G. W. J. Smith, Ms H. Y. Sultan, M. R. Tanner.

B.M . & B.Ch .: 18 July 1992 A. J . Chalmers, *A. W . Fogarty, C. J. Wilkins.

D.Phil.: 26 October 1991 W. M . Connolley, S. P. Hodges, H.-W. Kim, D. W. Mclntyre, P. J. Moody , *K.-C. Yap; 30November 1991 *S. M. Fries, *R. H. Sellars, I. G. Richardson ; 25 January 1992 Z.-U.-H . Chaudhary , P. S. Grant; 7 March 1992 Z. Nawaz; 23 May 1992 A. S. Hurn; 1 August 1992 P. D. Billyard, J. G. Campbell, R. J. Evans, J. E. A. Johansen.

M .Phil. : 26 October 1991 *Ms V. Joshi; 18 July 1992 *B. D. Gilley , *D. Oh; 1 August 1992 *J. L. Hafetz .

M .Sc.: 9 November 1991 J. Wang .

M .St.: 26 October 1991 P. Bortone, G. J. Kitchen.

B.A. by Incorporation: 23 May 1992 *C. M . Goringe . *In Absence

MATRICULATIONS 1991 Aharoni, Daniel Phillip (Cheltenham College) Anderson, Desmond John (University of Reading) Armstrong, Andrew William (Merchiston Castle School) Arumugam , Balakumar Vigneswaran (Haberdashers' Aske's School) Ashelford, Mark Robert (Tonbridge School) Ashton, Christopher Nicholas (King Edward's School, Birmingham) Atherton, Carol Elizabeth (St Aelred's R.C . High School) Barker, Andrew David (Whitgift School) Barker, Duncan James (Hills Road Sixth Form College) Bastin, Anthony John (Rydal School) Beecham, Sara Elisabeth (Gosforth High School) Bell, Adam Warwick (University of Aberdeen) 84

Benbow, Peter Keyes (University of California) Bessa, Julian Lindsay (University of Bristol) Betts, Brittany Allen (St Julian's School, Portugal) Bird, Wendy Suzanne (Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne) Blezard, Simon Edward (Bishop's Stortford College) Bodycote, Charles Richard (Monkton Combe School) Bowden, Benjarnin James Edward (Loughborough Grammar School) Bratby, Richard Geoffrey (Calday Grange Grammar School) Britz, Daniel (Clifton College) Brown, Simon Alexander (Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School) Burt, Frederick Munro (Dulwich College) Byrne, Nicholas (Sale Boys' Grammar School) Cadiz, Frank Michael Lawder (University of Natal) Cassidy, Paul Brian (Weymouth College) Cater, Julian Charles (King's College School, Wimbledon) Cattell, Brian Andrew (Trinity School, Croydon) Chadwick, Simon Michael (Totton College) Chambers, Jonathan (Down High School) Chatterjee, Simon Prodip (Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School, Blackburn) Chinyaeva, Elena Vladimirovna (University of Moscow) Cheung, Tim Wai (University of Warwick) Chim, Wing Ming (University of Hong Kong) Clark, Alex James (Sale Boys' Grammar School) Clark, Timonthy Alexander Corbett (Haberdashers' Aske's School) Clayton, Jonathan Charles Llewellyn (Batley Grammar School) Cole, John Anton Harrison (Keswick School) Collier, Richard William (South Wolds School) Cunliffe, Robert Neil (Royal Free Hospital) Davies, Christopher Michael (Ardingly College) Davies, Elisabeth Sian (Builth Wells High School) Duncan, Rorie Michael (Worth School) Eccles, Toby Ha! Michael (Bryanston School) Engel, Stephan Emil (Kolleg St Blasien, Germany) Evans, Tessa Ruth (The Cedars Upper School) Fielding, Andrew Charles William (St John Rigby Sixth Form College) Fishlock, Alexander Hannibal Czernin (St Edward's School, Oxford) Fletcher, Pierre-Olivier (John Lyon School) French, Lucy Victoria (King's Manor School) Fry, Peter Elliot (Colyton Grammar School) Fussell, Clive (Dauntsey's School) Glassey, Bridget Jane (Withington Girls' School) Goddard, Michael John (Shrewsbury School) Go! de, Christian (Karlsruhe University , Germany) Gordon, Anna (University of Cambridge) Goulding, Helen Claire (Bradford Grammar School) Gradwell, Duncan James (Stockport Grammar School) Greaves, Katharine Rose (King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls) Griffiths , Chloe Gwynne (Radyr Comprehensive School) Hails , Gabrielle Karina (Camden School for Girls) Hamilton, Jamie McDonald (King's College School, Wimbledon) Han, Qingyou (University of Science and Technology, Beijing) Harries, Samantha Sharon Clare (Loughborough High School) Harris, Colette (Queen Mary School, Lytham)

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Harris, Clare Elizabeth (Hymers College) Hordern, Michael Robert (Settle High School) Houghton, Timothy Jude (Warwick School) Howard, Anneli Claire (Cheltenham Ladies' College) Johnson, Kate (The Maynard School) Keeley , Andrew John (The Judd School) Khan , Sadia Naseem (Wycombe High School) Konuk, Koray (University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Koura, Sasha (Chelsea College of Art and Design) Lane, Nicholas Reginald (Mount St Mary's College) Lappin , Andrew Robert (Friends' School) Lester, Adam Paul (Chigwell School) Lipscomb, John William (Blackpool Sixth Form College) Little, Kara Margaret (Guildford High School) Little, Mark Graeme (Park Barn School) Liversidge, David Howard (Oundle School) McCreery, Scott Ronald (The Perse School) McDermott, Mary Bernadette (St Aidans St John Fishers Associated SFC) Macdonald , Ruari Beaton (Lenzie Academy) McGill , David Richard (St Edward's School, Oxford) McQuillian, Lindsay Helen (Merchant Taylors' School for Girls) Madhuku, Lovemore (University of Zimbabwe) Magee, Janine Roslyn (Assumption Grammar School) Marshall, Andrew Gary Llewellyn Warburton (Wellington College) Melford, Steven Keith (Burnley College) Mitchinson, Kieron John (King Edward VI School , Chelmsford) Morgan , Helen Elizabeth (Olchfa Comprehensive) Morley, Michael Edward (Batley Grammar School) Mun, Je Do (National University of Seoul) Naisby , Richard Tom (Baines School) Oswald, David Ian Alan (Conyers School) Parsons, Thomas Christopher (Simon Langton Boys ' School) Peach, Andrew James (Queen Mary 's Grammar School, Walsall) Pearce Higgins, Amanda Katherine (Perse School for Girls) Peer, Edward Neil (King ' s School, Canterbury) Perkins, Timothy Richard (Truro School) Phillips, Clare Louis Hood (Godolphin and Latymer School) Pickard, Simon Nicholas (Goffs School) Powell, Luke Jan (Brentwood County High School) Prince, Alison Louise (Oxford Polytechnic) Redpath, Georgia Daines (Lincoln Christ's Hospital) Reekie , Edward James Robert (Radley College) Rentoul, Anna Lucinda (The Lady Eleanor Holies School) Rhodes , Christopher James (Outwood Grange School) Rodier, Melanie Victoire Helene (Westminster School) Sales, Anna Hayden (Maidstone Girls' Grammar School) Sangwin, Vanessa Jane (South Wilts Grammar School for Girls) Searle, Dominic Geoffrey (Brentwood School) Serbena, Francisco Carlos (Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil) Seymour, Christian William Edward (St Edward's School, Oxford) Skae, Andrew James (King Edward VI School, Chelmsford) Smith, Claire Louise (Allerton High School) Smith, Daniel Andrew (Millfield School)

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Spring, David Robert (Taunton's College) Steele, Sandra Louise (Bury Girls' Grammar School) Sullivan, Lindsey (Chelmsford County High School for Girls) Thompson, Adam Lockwood (Radley College) Tilling, Kathleen Muriel (University of Warwick) Toll , Salina Clare (Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School) Turner, Tracey Suzanne (Haywards Heath College) Wallace, Peter James (Bolton School) Ward, Philip Brian (Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall) Watson, Toby Clive Sutherland (Radley College) Weir, Anna Lilian (Casterton School) Wellings, Richard James (Hymers College) Wenbourne, Nicholas John (Dartford Grammar School for Boys) Willet, Audrey (University of Edinburgh) Williamson, Richard John Langford (Westminster School) Willington, John David Austen (Bradford Grammar School) · Willis, Trevor (Dane Court Grammar School) Wilson, David Robert (University of McGill, Canada) Wong , Fook Loy (Raffles Junior College, Singapore) Woodfine, David Edward (King Edward VII School, Lytham) Wroath, Kathryn Gemma (Eggbuckland School)

By Incorporation - Trinity Term 1992

Goringe, Christopher Michael (University of Cambridge) Migrations

Jubb , Daniel James · Oh, Donghoon

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

Balance Sheet as at 31 May 1992 31 May 1991 £ £

31 May 1992 £ £

8,813 2,325

8,958 2,281

11,138

11,239

6,660

6,445

4,478

4,794

ASSETS Bank balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . ...... ... ... .. .. ....... ... .

Debtors Less : Creditors

.. . ......... .. ... .. . .

REPRESENTED BY Accumulated funds: General fund at start of year Surplus from Income Account

1,441 37

1,478 316 1,794

1,478 Directory fund at start of year . . . . ..

Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

1,990 1,010

3,000 3,000

3,000

4,478

4,794

J. M. HEGGADON (President) J. R. PAUL (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 1992 . 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 May 1992 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

10 July 1992 The Coach House 29a Bennett Park Blackheath London SE3 9RA

LINDSAY D. PAGE (Honorary Auditor)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the Year Ended 31 May 1992

INCOME from Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . .

'Hall' publication surplus Bank interest .. . .. . .. . .. .

Em den bequest interest Video production surplus Investment sale surplus

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ......... . ....... . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . . .. .. . .. . .. . .. . ... .. ... . .. ... . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. .

Year ended 31 May 1991 £ £

Year ended 31 May 1992 £ £

6,135 1,181 611 290 225 130

6, 150 450 299 240

8,572 EXPENDITURE Magazine production (half) ...... ... ..... .

Magazine postage and mailing .. . .. . . .. .. .

Administration .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . . .. .. .

AGM notice printing .. . . .. .. ... ..... .... .

Letterheads .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . . .. .. .

Less grants: Contribution to Principal's portrait Hall chapel prayer-books .. . ... .. . .. ... . .. .

Laser printer .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . . .. .. .

2,350 2,200 652 480 343

7,139

2,575 2,036 424 188 6,025

5,223

2 ,547

1,916

1,500 100 1,500 1,500

1,600

1,047

316

1,010

Appropriation to Directory Fund ...

Surplus to General Fund on Balance Sheet

37

316

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 12 Jalmary 1993.

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Have you thought of booking the Hall for your company conference, wedding reception, party or other function?

Many facilities available from intimate dinners to banquets up to 275.

Call the Hall (Pauline Linieres, Assistant Bursar on 0865 279006)

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EDMUND BEAR REPORTING to report that there is still a thriving trade in mementoes of the Hall with many successful new artifacts being produced. The long vacation 1992 saw a trial of the St Edmund Hall shop on Staircase VII in the Front Quad and by the time this magazine is circulated we shall know whether or not this will become a permanent feature during vacations. At the back of the magazine you will find the usual order form for what is available through the Bursary . During the last year the following new items have been produced: many hall-marked silver pieces of jewellery including 'choughlinks' (selling very fast and available both in Silver or solid Gold; brooches with the silver chough motif on the dark red comelian stone; gilt blazer buttons (which were a complete sell out on the first run of 100 sets!) and a fine poster from a new piece of work from the Ruskin Master of Drawing , Stephen Farthing - a photo montage of the Front Quadrangle. This poster is available as a limited signed edition of lOO at ÂŁ25 .00 each or generally unsigned at ÂŁ3 .00 including the protective tube and a photograph is shown (not in colour) below . This is the first of a series of posters that will be produced for other Oxford Colleges . I am pleased to record that Blackwells Poster Shop have already asked to handle the sales of this poster to the general public. Please remember these small Hall Enterprise gifts for Christmas and other special occasions; all profits to go towards much needed Hall funds.

1 AM PLEASED

Stephen Farthings' picture is in full colour

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HALL TIES 'Chough' -on a gold background , chough repeat Polyester £ 6.00 Silk £17.50 Polyester self-tie bow £ 5.00

pattern No required ....... .... . .

No required .... ..... ... .

No required ....... ... .. .

'Red Cross' - formal black tie with red cross flory repeat pattern Polyester £ 6.00 No required ...... ... .. . .

Silk £17.50 No required ...... ...... .

Silk ready-tied bow £10.00 No required ........ ... . .

Silk self-tie bow £10.00 No required .... ........ .

EDMUND BEAR: Cuddly bear with Guernsey sweater, Hall bow tie and exclusive label 24 cm £ 8.50 No required .......... .. .

35 cm £16.00 No required ...... .. .... .

ETCHED COASTERS: Copper with magazine cover arms Set of six £ 6.00 No required .... .. ... ... .

TEA TOWELS: Printed with a design produced from an early engraving Pure Cotton £ 3.00 No required .... ... ... .. .

MUGS: white bone china and gold leaf bearing full colour coat of arms Beaker style (straight sides) £ 4.00 No required ........ .. .. .

Tankard style £ 5.00 No required ..... ....... .

SEH UMBRELLAS: Briggs with double Fox frame , crook handle and 'by Royal Appointment' label; maroon and gold livery with cross flory on each panel £35.00 No required .. ..... ..... .

TABLE MATS: Boxed set of 6, heat resistant, Hall arms on box , £45.00 No required .... ........ .

College prints CUFF LINKS: Boxed hall-marked silver with chough design £35 .00 No required ..... ....... .

Various other items of silver jewellery, please send for details BLAZER BUTTONS: Boxed set of 6 large and 6 small buttons with chough design £30 .00 No required ............ .

CHRISTMAS CARDS: order a batch to be delivered and invoiced annually late summer. A different print of the Hall every year. No required .. ...... .... .

POST AND PACKAGING UK please add SOp for ties ; £1.00 for Bears and Mugs; £3 .00 for Umbrellas ; £5.00 for Table Mats Overseas, add approximately £1 .00 for ties ; £5.00 for other items (if you think it will be more , please add more).

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This is the 1992 Hall Christmas Card. Why not place a regular order for some? Each year features a different print from the College collection.

This is the third in the current series.

See order form at the back of the magazine.

Printed by The Holywell Press Ltd, 16 & 17 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford