St Edmund Hall Magazine 1992-93

St Edmund Hall Magazine

.AULA S~1 EDMUNDI. IN UNIVERSITATE OXON.

1992-93

The Prin cipal 's Portrait

by David Tind/e R.A.

ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE VOL. XIV. No. 3

October 1993 EDITOR: D. I. SCARGILL

750 years since the canonisation of Saint Edmund and the College intends to celebrate the anniversary in 1996. Last February my colleague John Cowdrey gave a lecture in the Old Library on the life and times of Edmund and in view of the interest which this subject holds for all Aularians, the lecture is reproduced in full in this edition of the Magazine. As College Archivist, John has shed much light on the history of the Hall and he has contributed generously to the Magazine. Readers, this year, will enjoy his researches into subjects as diverse as the rebuilding of the North range of the quad and the enamels in the processional cross.

How does one celebrate a 750th anniversary? That indefatigable Aularian, Farrand Radley, has ideas and it is hoped that readers will respond to his suggestions.

Perhaps the best way of celebrating the past is to ensure the future.

From Oxford, Edmund moved to Salisbury where he enjoyed remarkab le success in raising money to build the new cathedral.

In modern parlance, he could be described as that cathedral's Director of Development. Looking to the future, the Hall has this year appointed its first Director of Development. Read on.

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL the sad news: just before the Reunion, Harry Irving died. His obituary will be found on another page. When J arrived in 1960, Harry was Chemistry Fellow and Vice-Principal. Almost immediately he resigned to take a chair at Leeds. I just had time to appreciate his mildly caustic geniality, so it was a great pleasure to welcome him and his wife back to Christmas dinners in the last few years of his retirement.

At the end of this year, Professor Jack Christian retires. For reasons of health he resigned his University post a few years ago, and since then has been a Senior Research Fellow. He was, for many years, an

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active member of the College, and we all wish him an enjoyable and active retirement.

This year we welcomed a number of new Fellows. Dr David Priestland, who was a Junior Research Fellow here, and then went to a short term Fellowship in History at Lincoln, has returned to become a Tutorial Fellow in Modern History in replacement of John Cowdrey, who resigned his Tutorial Fellowship a year or two ago.

Professor David Pettifor has succeeded Sir Peter Hirsch as the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy and Material Science, but shrewdly without taking on the headship of the department. Mr Grant Lamond has come as a Junior Research Fellow in Law, and is also doing some teaching during the three year period Mr Wyatt is released from some College teaching, so as to devote more time to graduate students on the new Magister Juris Degree; Ms Carol Jackson as a Junior Research Fellow in English and Tutor for Associate Students, and Mr Anand Menon has joined us as a Fellow by Special Election - he is a University lecturer in the Politics of European Integration.

Professor Nigel Palmer has come to us as the new Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, a post which spent a few years frozen after the retirement of Professor Ganz. Finally, Mr Richard Wade has joined us as Director of Development. By this time, most of you will have heard from him (if not, read his contribution). Given the latest news on the fees settlement, (a cut in real terms), I can wholeheartedly wish him every success in his new post.

This year, Mrs Alicia Black has left us after twenty-one years in the Development Office, coping single-handed for many of those years with all donations and covenants, and latterly also organising Reunions and Gaudies. Her knowledge will be sorely missed, but I am sure we all wish her every success.

Theatrical performances have once again been a notable feature of college life. It is particularly appropriate to have Hamlet acted in the graveyard, but the skull, I hope, was a theatre prop. We have also had some enjoyable musical events. Special mention should be made of an organ recital by our quondam Law Fellow, Robert Venables, to mark his gift of two new organ stops. He set out to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the organ, and so successfully supplied instruction as well as enjoyment.

In sport, we have had the worst year for a long time, the only bright spot being the river. The Men's first eight went up five places in Torpids, won a number of regattas, but were frustrated by an inferior, 2

but insufficiently inferior, Christ Church in the Eights. The women's first eight had a disappointment in Eights: they should have gone up each day, but on the second day the boat in front got a bump just before being caught by us; so they had to be content with three. The successes, however, did a lot for morale, and once again, we have to thank the Friends of the St Edmund Hall Boat Club for their untiring support.

The second A. B. Emden Lecture was given by Professor Owen Chadwick, on the subject of getting Italy out of the Second World War, and like the first, was a great success. It was well attended, and gave rise to interesting discussion. Dr Brockhues has given us a further £8,000 so that we may, from time to time, bring a lecturer in from abroad. For next year, we have already booked Sir Keith Thomas, the new President of the British Academy, but we are working for a lecturer from outside the British Isles for 1995. These lectures have got off to an excellent start, and bid fair to prove a most successful annual event.

During this year, we have had to put number 19 Norham Gardens into a safe condition at considerable cost. We have been helped by a donation of £25,000 from the Rhodes Trustees , and have also entered a Business Expansion Scheme to help us cover the costs.

I hope the 40% tax payers among you will consider this investment: in the course of doing repairs, we are also adapting the building by removing an unnecessary staircase, and will acquire an extra ten graduate rooms.

The Old Members Association contributed £1,500 towards the cost of my portrait, now completed, by Mr David Tindle, R.A. David was the Ruskin Master of Drawing, and a Fellow here from 1985 to 1987.

He generously gave us favourable rates, and the result has met with widespread appreciation, as well as some amusement at what is, unknown to me, apparently a very familiar pose . The picture is currently hanging in the Senior Common Room. Old members who wish to see how their money has been spent have only to ask to be shown it. Why not make this an excuse to exercise your right to dine on High Table? If interested, get in touch and discover how to do it.

Bill Miller accepted election to an Honorary Fellowship, and was duly sworn in in March at a ceremony in New York, an occasion described more fully on another page.

I should like to thank all those old members who have volunteered their help, both in money and in time. Our special thanks are due to 3

the members of the Endowments Committee. Their contributions to our thinking are proving increasingly valuable. Recently, John Andrewes arranged an exploratory visit by Cooper Lybrand to advise on efficiency. They will be making some useful suggestions, but the level of inefficiency does not seem to be enough to hold out the prospects of savings to solve all our problems.

With all best wishes from all of us here for Christmas and the New Year.

Jus tin Gosling SENIOR COMMON ROOM NEWS visited the United States in March, a description of his travels appearing in another section of the Magazine.

The Rev H. E. J. Cowdrey has lectured at Gaming (Austria), Spoleto, and Armidale (New South Wales).

Mr J. P. D. Dunbabin attended conferences in Newcastle, on 19th century British history, and at the LSE where he talked on 'International History at Oxford since the 1920s'. During the summer he spent three weeks in Canada and Alaska, including some canoeing in Glacier Bay. Professor M. S. Child made a two-week lecture tour in China in October 1993 under the auspices of the Royal Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr P. J. Collins gave a Plenary Address at the International Symposium on Topology at Szekszard in Hungary in August. He attended Council Meetings of Europa Nostra in Istanbul and Budapest, and presented Europa Nostra awards for restoration work at the Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, and at Whitchurch Silk Mill. He has been invited to become a member of the Council of Europe's Comite International d' Aide Humanitaire et de Sauvegarde de Dubrovnik.

Dr A. B. Warden spent March 1993 as an Andrew M. Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library, and lectured in Los Angeles, Berkeley and Vancouver. He returned to lecture at the Huntington Library in June.

Mr M. D. E. Slater remains Joint Managing Editor of Oxford Economic Papers. He was invited to be a Tutor on the University Business Summer School.

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lished in the spring. It was written in collaboration with the City law firm Norton Rose whose offices were soon afterwards destroyed in the Bishopsgate bomb explosion .

Dr S. J. Ferguson's book. Bioenergetics 2 (with D. G. Nicholls) was published in July 1992.

Dr N. E. Cronk has spoken at a conference held in Beziers, on the subject of Moliere and Bacchus, and also, more soberly, on Diderot, at the Institute of Romance Studies in London. While on leave in Michaelmas Term 1992, he had the delightful opportunity of attending the New York Dinner: the High Table at the top of the U.N. Plaza Hotel is seriously High. Next day's breakfast meeting, hosted by Bill Miller and Bill Sotirovich was lower, but equally memorable.

Mr S. Farthing, the Ruskin Master, was invited by the British Council and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, to make an exhibition of his work during September and October 1993. The exhibition, entitled 'The Knowledge', takes its name from the qualifying examination taken by London taxi drivers. It comprised paintings and drawings of the city made during a previous visit. The centrepiece of the exhibition was a large painting, 4 by 6 metres, depicting edited highlights of the city. Stephen Farthing has carried out similar projects in Oxford, Montevideo and Exeter. The Knowledge: Oxford, is currently hung in the Wolfson Hall.

Dr S. Watson initiated and continues to publish Receptor Nomenclature Supplements for use in pharmacological sciences.

These are widely accepted as the official guides in receptor pharmacology.

Dr J. Johansen has resigned his Junior Research Fellowship with effect from 31 July 1993 in order to move to al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, where he will assume responsibility for surveying and cataloguing private collections of Arabic manuscripts in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Professor R. Harris (Honorary Fellow) gave lectures at a European Science Foundation colloquium in Siena, the University of Copenhagen, the College of William and Mary, Virginia, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. In September 1993 he took up an appointment as Visiting Professor of Modern Languages and Fellow of the University Professors at Boston University.

The Rev E. G. Midgley (Emeritus Fellow) returned safely from an exciting visit to China in January, and made another sun-drenched holiday at Ron Hall's house in Spain.

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Dr R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow) gave a lecture entitled 'J. R. R. Tolkien and Old English Studies: An Appreciation' at the Tolkien Centenary Conference, Oxford, in August 1992. In May 1993 he visited Professor Fred C. Robinson at Yale University in connection with their book in progress 'Beowulf': A Student 's Edition.

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch (Emeritus Fellow) was guest of honour at a conference on 'Understanding Materials ' , held in Oxford on September 14115 1992 to mark his retirement from the Isaac Wolfson Chair, the occasion including a dinner at the Hall. He was Royal Society-Canada Rutherford lecturer in 1992, and lectured at the Universities of Toronto, McMaster (Hamilton), Montreal and British Columbia (Vancouver) in October 1992. He gave the Van Horn Distinguished Lecture Series at CASE Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1993. On 8 July 1993 the University of Birmingham conferred on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering.

Miss Deborah Eaton, the Librarian, lectured in September to the Rotary Clubs of Topsfield, Danvers, and Middleton, Massachusetts on 'Management Techniques - UK v USA'. She also presented two major reports to the Oxford University Committee of College Librarians, one on 'Book Loss and Invigilation in College Libraries', the other on 'Book Budget Stretching- Sourcing from the USA'.

Dr Damian Atkinson, Assistant to the Librarian, has been asked to prepare ten further entries for the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

APPOINTMENTS having completed the usual three years in the office, has been succeeded as Vice-Principal by Dr W. S .C. Williams. Dr P. J. Collins will be Investment Bursar in succession to Mr J. B. Knight from 1 April 1994; meanwhile Mr M. D. E. Slater will be Acting Investment Bursar for two terms. Dr R. J. Crampton is taking over as Archivist from the Rev H. E. J. Cowdrey and Mr R. E. Alton has kindly agreed to extend his period of office as Dean of Degrees by a further four years.

Mr William R. Miller has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship.

He was admitted to his Fellowship by the Principal at a ceremony held in New York in March (below).

Professor Verdel A. Kolve has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship. He holds a chair of English Literature at the University DR D . 1. SCARGILL,

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of California, Los Angeles, and is currently president of the Medieval Academy of America.

Professor J. W. Christian has been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship with effect from 1 October 1993.

Mr Anand Menon was elected to a Fellowship by Special Election with effect from 1 October 1992. He is fixed-term University Lecturer in the Politics of European Integration.

Mr Richard L. Wade has been elected to a Fellowship by Special Election with effect from Trinity Term. Mr Wade is the new Director of Development.

Dr Andrew S. Kahn has been elected to a Tutorial Fellowship in Russian with effect from 1 October 1993.

Mr Paul M. Gartside has been elected to a Claude Jenkins Junior Research Fellowship in Mathematics.

Mr Mark Snell has been appointed Junior Dean to succeed Mr Mark Lauder.

Dr Outi Arnio has been appointed to a Research Lectureship in Economics.

Mile Rousillon has been appointed the new lectrice.

The following have been newly appointed to lecturerships in the coming academic year : Dr I. Rikovska (Physics), Dr E . Styles (Psychology), Mr S. Perry (English), Dr L. S. Wild (Geography), Dr P. A. Mackridge (Modern Greek), Dr R. Whitehead (Chemistry), Ms R. Sweet (History).

HONOURS AND AWARDS THE MAGAZINE CONGRATULATES:

Mr Derrick Wyatt, Fellow and Tutor in Law, on his appointment as Queen's Counsel in April 1993. Mr Wyatt is a specialist in European Law and regularly gives evidence in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

Professor Peter Ganz (Emeritus Fellow) on the award of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg.

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch (Emeritus Fellow) on receipt of an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Birmingham.

Mr A. J. Dickinson on the award of a book prize in the Gibbs Prize Examination in October 1992, and the prize for the best performance in Land Law in the Final Honour School of Jurisprudence 1993 in which he gained a First.

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Ms Rebecca Nanson on being named runner-up for the Vivien Leigh Prize 1993.

Mr Koray Konuk on winning the Barclay Head Prize for Ancient Numismatics. Mr Konuk was also awarded the first annual travel scholarship of the International Numismatic Commission.

Ms V. Joshi on the award of the Frere Exhibition.

Mr G. M. Gribbin, Ms L. E. R. Haynes and Mr C. W. Vickery on the award of John Pearce Memorial Prizes in Surgery.

Dun can A. Watson ( 1944) on being awarded a Knighthood 'for services to blind people' in the Birthday Honours List 1993.

GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE acknowledges with gratitude the gifts made to the College during the past year: The Rhodes Trust has donated £25,000 towards the refurbishment of Gunfield in Norham Gardens.

Dr Frederick Brockhues has given the College 20,000 Swiss francs (£8,864) to supplement the A. B. Emden Lecture Fund so as to permit, from time to time, the choice of a lecturer from abroad. The second A. B. Emden Lecture was delivered by Professor Owen Chadwick on 4 May 1993 in the Examination Schools, his subject being: 'On trying to get Italy out of the Second World War'.

The St Edmund Hall Association has given the College £900 for the beautification of the upper quad with seats and tubs for plants, and £300 for a new Benefactors' Book.

Mr Robert Venables has added to his earlier gift in order that the College can complete the purchase of a grand piano to be sited in the Wolfson Hall. A suitably inscribed plaque will be mounted on it.

Mr L. E. Bath has given the College a copy of Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring with an invitation to sell it in aid of the Endowment Fund. The sale raised £400.

A sum of £500 has been left to the St Edmund Hall Association in the will of the late Mr W. E. Brook.

Dr Cronk has secured the loan of a backdrop painted by David Tindle and used at Aldeburgh to be hung in the Wolfson Hall.

As the Magazine was going to press it was learnt that Mr Jarvis Doctorow (1948) has given the Hall $10,000 to establish a fund to give Emden and Kelly awards to help students, and that Professor

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Simon,Simonian (1962) was to build up a fund to give Kelly awards to help medical students.

The College is, of course, immensely grateful for the gifts from Aularians and others to the appeal for endowment income, some of these gifts being made through the general University appeal (below).

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE JCR my predecessor's report (SEH Magazine 1991-2), I have to admit that I feel a little hard done by; quite frankly, this year does not seem to have been as exceptional as last, though I accept that it may just be that I have not inherited the same rose-tinted nib as was used then. Nevertheless, even a rather mediocre year in the history of the Hall is still one of which many other colleges would probably be proud.

At the start of the year, after the age-old ceremony of matriculation, Teddy Hall hosted for the first time what we hope will soon become a tradition (and certainly should do, judging from its success) in the form of the University Rag Matriculation Event. The temperature in the Wolfson soared as Oxford's brightest young things - together with freshers from other colleges - showed that, well, since it was in aid of charity, they could strut their stuff along with the best of them On the stages of Oxford it was a similar story, as Aularians acted in, directed and produced plays as diverse as Melon and Peter Pan. In Cuppers Drama, last year's Best Actress Award was matched this year as another Aularian became Best Actor, giving all hope that the Hall's thespian tradition will continue to thrive even once the finalists who formed the production company Hot Air have completed their impressive month-long swansong, the 'Oxford Summer Shakespeare Festival', and passed into the ranks of Aularian alumni. Our performing talents have not been limited to the theatre, however, as we can now count the President of the Oxford Operatic Society (who put on a suitably exotic production of Mozart's Seraglio in Hilary) and the producer of the Oxford Film Festival among our numbers, not to mention the twenty or so Hall men who caused friends to gasp and swoon as they allowed BBC Wales to transform them - with the aid of no more than hair clippers, brylcream, sharp creases and patterned tank tops - from the boys we thought we knew and loved into dapper young men we would have been quite prepared to get to know better.

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Indeed, the results were so impressive that the BBC then recorded them and should be screening their version of the Hall c.l931 this autumn. Stay tuned.

While individuals continued to earn their Blues this year, corporately things on the sports field were not so successful. Our rugby teams clearly decided that after their hat trick last year they should give other colleges a chance, and bowed out fairly early in the Coppers competition. We also failed to make the Athletics finals for the first time in living memory, though this was hopefully no more than the exception that proves the rule. It was down to the women to run with the Hall flame as they triumphed in Hockey Coppers, while others rowed with it out on the river, the women with three bumps in both Torpids and Eights, and the men with blades in the former, though no change in their division place in the latter. The summer rowing accolades instead seemed to go to the Syndicate crew as their naked midnight row reached a rather premature end in Osney lock, while disbelieving pub customers looked on ... But enough of this - you will doubtless already have picked up the details from the Sun, the Star, the Mirror, the Telegraph, Channel Four, or even the Dean.

Hall hype on other fronts did not appear to capture the public's imagination in quite the same way, as attendance at the Beady A Ball Teddy Hail Summer Event was not what it had been in previous years, with the unfortunate result that the balance books - as well as the town- were painted well and truly red. Nevertheless, those who did go were treated to a happy blend of hypnosis, hip-hop and Haagen-Dazs, the latter tasting no worse for a little May drizzle; the affection and enthusiasm expressed by many then and afterwards for the Hall Ball was demonstrated by the JCR's willingness to reach deep into its own rather modest pockets to help bail out the Event Committee in the hope that this was no farewell performance. It may be that we have to accept that Hall hegemony in this field is no longer guaranteed and consequently negotiate with other colleges to reduce the competition in any one year.

Meanwhile, we have already been forging stronger links with colleges from the Other Side: three officers from the JMA of Fitzwilliam, our sister college in Cambridge, visited Teddy Hall in Michaelmas, and we hope to make a return trip soon. On other fronts, the JCR had a rather interesting year. After a heated Presidential hustings, and a cheerful Christmas dinner (which not only confounded its critics in avoiding being banned but even made it into the month 10

of December for once), the Old Dining Hall witnessed a rollicking revue which ended with the outgoing President fulfiling his final JCR mandate with a, well, original rendition of 'Wild Thing' dressed though thankfully not only - in a thong. (Unhappy to drop the title of President, Akaash is now ensconced as the premier at OUSU: good luck to him - and them!) Two days after that fine evening a new President would normally have been announced, but instead the Hall electorate decided to flex a new constitutional muscle by voting to reopen the nominations. Eight weeks, another hustings, another election and two polling days later I was able to prove that if you can't outshine your fellow candidates, then just outlast them. My election meant that for the first time, men were outnumbered by women on the JCR Committee by almost two to one, and while no one appeared quite sure what significance to attribute to the ratio, it seemed appropriate at a time when the Hall would soon be celebrating its fifteenth anniversary of admitting women.

In a year when Oxford hit the headlines more often for sad news than good, the JCR and SCR have been working together to attempt to improve welfare provision at the College by, among other things, creating a committee to discuss welfare issues, giving professional training to the pan-common room student advisory panel in peer support skills, and, for the first time, agreeing to hold a full week of induction for those freshers arriving in October '93, although the SCR's simultaneous decision, unprecedented in Oxford, to introduce a higher rate of battels for the first years than for second and third years may well detract from the warmth of the welcome freshers feel the College offers.

And so it is in a rather uncertain atmosphere that we face the future.

With the cost of being an undergraduate becoming increasingly difficult for many to meet, the question of whether Oxford colleges will follow LSE in introducing top-up fees yet to be answered, and proposed government legislation appearing to threaten the current form and function of all JCRs soon to make its way through parliament, our prospects are not entirely rosy. Yet the Hall spirit is far from defeated, and we are still proud to keep the many Aularian traditions alive: perhaps it is the almost unquantifiable achievement of maintaining the friendly and close-knit nature of our under graduate community through less-than-glorious times that is the greatest one of all. Exceptional indeed.

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J.C.R. OFFICERS President: Anna Rentoul; Steward: Matthew Golder; Secretary: Alexander Tate FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MCR of the St Edmund Hall Middle Common Room in this year's University of Oxford Graduate Studies Prospectus states: ' . .. three elected officers keep the graduate community busy with a variety of activities, dinners and social events throughout the year ... ' .

The statement suggests that it it were not for the three elected officers of the Middle Common Room the graduates of this College would have nothing to do and furthermore, it suggests that what keeps the graduate members of this College busy are social events.

I can only imagine that the author of this statement had in mind the words of Samuel Johnson who said: 'All intellectual improvement arises from leisure'.

The Middle Common Room offered plenty of opportunity for 'intellectual improvement' this year.

Michaelmas Term began with the usual warm welcome to graduate freshers during a wine and cheese party at Norham Gardens. The party proved to be a suitable catalyst to the orientation of the newly arrived graduates .

One regular event throughout the year was the lavish dessert nights in the Old Dining Hall that were always a testament to the good taste or otherwise of the MCR officers who did the shopping. Not only were members of our own MCR eager to attend but such was the widespread popularity of dessert nights that members of other colleges made every effort to secure a place. Naturally the MCR was happy to tolerate guests in the hope that others would acquire the high taste and refinement common to our membership. One guest expressed his appreciation by exposing parts of the human anatomy common to classical sculpture. Apart from providing a contrast to classical sculpture I was assured that the person was from a college where it was considered a normal method of communication.

Another regular event throughout the year was the video nights held in the MCR television room. On one such occasion it became apparent that those members attending possibly provided the largest gathering of Oxford Blues holders known. A characteristic of a holder of an Oxford Blue is that they are able to sport a flash of blue in recognition of their achievements. The Oxford Blue is an unfortunate cocktail formulated by the officers of the MCR in an abstract manner. An achievement is the consumption of the cocktail. Those who partook of this concoction acquired blue lips, tongue and mouth setting them apart from ordinary men and women.

There were also the traditional Middle Common Room extravaganzas in each term including the Christmas Dinner that culminated in a Jazz Bop; the Burns Night Supper; the Hearne Dinner where members and their supervisors were entertained by a string quartet; the May Day Brunch; the Valedictory Dinner and the Garden Party.

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Other events this year included the wine tastings in both Hilary and Trinity Terms which were immensely popular. The first was conducted by Dr Collins arid focused generally on French wines. The second offered by the President and the Steward of the MCR took members on a taste tour of both Australian and Californian vineyards. Speaking of tours, the Oxford Motorised Pub Crawl was an event welcomed by many of the foreign students as an opportunity for visiting some of the nearby Cotswold villages.

Several members pursued various activities outside the Middle Common Room at both a College and University level. Members include accomplished rowers, musicians, ballroom dancers, choristers, climbers and tennis players. By contrast there were no prerequisites for membership of the Middle Common Room teams in rowing, cricket and football. The cricket team has organised to play its own test match against a team of touring Australians called the Stragglers. The MCR novice rowing-crew was mainly composed of foreign students and was probably one of the most international teams on the Isis. Due to logistical problems as well as a simple lack of speed there are no major racing results to be reported.

The Middle Common Room continues to be represented on all College Committees and its interests considered in all matters affecting it.

The MCR Steward for 1993 is Dave Williams and the Secretary is Maarten Doude van Troostwijk.

Mark Snell FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION continues to be active in many ways. Much of our activity is of a social nature, its aim, none the-less, is to foster support for the Hall in any way we can, and directly, as well as indirectly, to help sustain and put energy into the Endowment Appeal. It is 40 years since I first joined the Executive Committee of the Association; and for many of these years our prime objective has been to encourage Aularians to contribute towards fund raising for expansion and building projects. Until relatively recently this was against a background of government financial support for Universities . Today the scene is radically different, with the need for colleges like our own to establish financial independence, which will ensure survival irrespective of the economic climate. During its 700 years life, Teddy Hall has known adversity of one sort or another at different times; so there should be no reason why the present difficulties, caused by a less favourable economic outlook, should not be overcome in the same spirit as that which has ensured the survival of the Hall up to now! It won't happen however without a great deal of hard work as well as good will of everyone concerned for its continuing prosperity.

The London dinner last January was once again an enjoyable evening and our guest speaker, Robin Day, was amusing and thought provoking. I intend to continue the practice of inviting a distinguished member to speak at these occasions.

We enjoyed another splendid Reunion on the last Saturday in June. There is nothing better than a balmy June air to extend a convivial evening well into the THE ASSOCIATION

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early hours of Sunday; and I have noted the need for some further extension of opening time in the buttery in the future.

Earlier in the day the Executive Committee agreed to contribute towards the purchase of some garden furniture for the upper quad (over the kitchens of the new dining hall) . It was also agreed that the Association should pay for the cost of a new leather bound Benefactors Book - the present one now being full - and we hope it may take less than the 300 years needed to fill the one about to be replaced. We also decided to make some provision for the celebration of the 750th anniversary of the Canonization of St Edmund in 1996, of which more appears elsewhere in this issue.

At the time of writing I look forward to the 'Three Score Years and Ten , times Three,' party for Reggie Alton, Graham Midgley and Bruce Mitchell, which is due at the end of September; and which will be fully reported in the next issue of the Magazine.

I feel honoured to have been elected President last January and will endeavour to ensure that the Association continues to prosper; and continues to support the Hall in pursuance of the fi nancial security which it deserves and must achieve!

Bob Breese THE CAMBRIDGE LINK last year's events celebrating 25 years of twinnin g between St Edmund Hall and Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge, it may be useful to the readers of the Magazine to say exactly what twinning means. From a practical standpoint it has an enabling role, as any Fellow from either institution can request accommodation and victualling for a few days while visiting the other University for professional purposes. Under a recent agreement this privilege has been extended to graduate students, provided the request is made via the Graduate Tutor. The system works well, as long as the whole College does not want to decamp at the same time and is a congenial way to visit libraries, laboratories or colleagues in the other place.

It was logical that Fitzwilliam College should twin with St Edmund Hall as they share a similar history. The seed for the foundation of Fitzwilliam was planted in 1869, following the Royal Commission of 1852 suggesting that both Universities should have a non-collegiate system of admission for poor students .

Consequently the Non-Collegiate Students Board was set up in which students were required to present themselves at the Board on five days a week and provide an annual report on their work. Not surprisingly students registered in this way began to act collegiately, setting up a boat club, debating society etc. and requesting that they occasionally dine together in a local hotel. Money from student fees was eventu a lly used to buy the freeh old of two houses in Trumpington Street, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum, and in 1886 the Board agreed that the premises be known as Fitzwilliam Hall, late r changed to Fitzwilliam House. Following the end of World War II and the expansion of educational opportunities in general, there was pressure both from the House and within the University towards collegiate status. An eight acre site on the FOLLOWING

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Huntingdon Road had been acquired and a grant from the University Grants Committee for the first stage of building was to hand. In September 1966 the Charter passed under the Great Seal constituting the House as a Body Corporate under the style of 'The Master, Fellows and Scholars of Fitzwilliam College in the University of Cambridge.' It had taken 97 years to reach this point following the formation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, just a handful of years after St Edmund Hall, with a much longer history, had achieved a similar status. It was not long before St Edmund Hall approached Fitzwilliam to suggest pairing.

In the intervening years since then the College has added new buildings, notably the Chapel and New Court, both by Richard MacCormac, The Grove (a 19th century house within the grounds) has been restored and brought into use and the Wilson Building, with more student accommodation and some public rooms, is currently under construction. These, together with the development of the gardens, provides an ideal environment for all the activities associated with a typical Oxbridge college. I hope all those from our sister institution will feel a visit is worthwhile, even if not staying. A quiet word in the Porters Lodge will ensure someone will be found to show you around.

A. W. Cuthbert (Professor Cuthbert, Master of Fitzwillian College, kindly agreed to write for the Magazine to mark the anniversary of our colleges' association. Ed. )

CAN TEDDY HALL MAKE IT TO THE YEAR 2000? a serious question from the Director of Development, Richard Wade you read this I hope you may have already heard from me before not to ask for yet another donation, but to seek your help and involvement in the Hall's predicament. I arrived last May as the new fulltime Director of Development- and, yes, that does mean a good deal more than just 'fund-raiser'.

I came after 3 years as D.G. of the Advertising Association, 3 in Urban Regeneration, and 23 in the BBC as Producer of 'Tomorrow's World' and the Mandarin who planned Radio 4, moved the time-slot of 'the Archers' and nearly caused a riot!

I quickly wrote to all the Aularians for whom we have addresses, to see if they - you - could guide me towards Trusts which might endow the college, Businesses which might sponsor fellowships, or individuals who might befriend an ancient institution and become a benefactor.

A vain hope you might think, but the response was fascinating and heartwarming. Letters came in from far and wide with names of possible contacts, ideas to explore, or simply good wishes from those who love their college but had no current leads . Phone calls offered flats and the use of a London office to this itinerant fund-raiser who must operate at modest cost. I have since met Generals and Solicitors, Photographers and Bankers, Rugby Blues and Artists, Counsellors and Chaps Retired. All wanting to help the Hall. From there I have been able to network, to meet Aularians of various generations, and harness

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their skills and know-how as we begin to work out how to beat what is undoubtedly a serious problem.

In 93-94, St. Edmund Hall may run at a Deficit of up to ÂŁ262,000, not much if we were a medium- sized firm but the difference between good health and serious sickness on a turnover of only ÂŁ3 million. This is not because we are spendthrift. The difficulty is stark - we are dependent on fees for some 50% of our income. The real value of those fees is falling thanks to Government stringency.

Unlike the rich colleges, we have no deep pocket of past endowment to draw on for extra income to fill the gap. A deficit means tighter belts in a college where belts were already uncomfortable. Facilities become sparser, buildings tatty, equipment cannot be replaced, allowances and awards approach bare minima.

We are not alone. Other colleges are in equal poverty, one has even been said to be staring bankruptcy in the face . We could put up our fees unilaterally, but that might bring unwelcome sanctions from Government or a tricky disequilibrium within the University. We are trying to persuade the Campaign for Oxford to put its prime effort into supporting colleges rather than University faculties and new facilities, for, desirable though innovation may be, it would be odd for Oxford to remain a university but sacrifice its collegiate system! We must succeed in raising a substantial endowment for our college if the tutorial and collegiate systems are to survive. For what would Oxford be without those two extraordinary privileges that we enjoyed?

But the simple plea of poverty does not cut ice in the post-Thatcherite 90's.

Perhaps rightly. So what are we, the Fellowship of St. Edmund Hall, doing to make sure that we do not slip back into some secondary status, as prevailed for the centuries up to 1957 when we became a full College? First and foremost we are polishing the proposition that friendships must be nurtured, not assumed.

Many Aularians have fond memories of their small (only physically now) college with its close relationships and gregarious ways. But relatively few can find time to come back regularly to Reunions and the occasional Gaudy. We must find ways to attract a wider cross-section of Aularians to revisit their alma mater. We are discussing a more eclectic series of entertainments - not just Chapel and Dinner when you come back to Oxford. A lecture or two maybe Voltaire revisited, or advances in ductility perhaps? The latest in parallel computing or a new thought about our own St. Edmund? A piano recital in the Old Dining Hall or a nostalgic meander to the Boathouse?

The casual visit to Oxford with spouse or children is equally important. Are you aware that, as an M.A. , you can not only walk on the grass in the front quad, but dine on High Table once a year (for a modest price!)? But it might be nice also if you could bring your family in to lunch perhaps, or join a regular alumnus' mini-tour to show them St. Peter's crypt, the Chapel, the libraries old and new, the dining halls new and old, and of course, the Buttery, now long si nce out of butter. Such ideas would appeal to some and not to all, but we are now actively discussin g ways to make you, our Old Members, feel more inclined to visit us or become again involved in the life and times of the Hall.

We would welcome your thoughts on what you would enjoy and we will then see what we can accommodate successfully . In any case, if you yourself are 16

coming to Oxford, do ask for me at the Lodge and they will find out if I am around. I may, of course be out seeking that crock of gold at the end of some distant rainbow, but if I' m here I'd love to meet you.

But not everyone can visit Oxford. Most of us, however, whether starting out or in mid-career, would value a sterling set of contacts to network off other Aularians. The Directory you receive every fourth year provides names and addresses, and useful information by region and indeed hemisphere. What I hope we can do is to build on that, if we can raise the sponsorship, to compile a Teddy Hall 'Who's Who'. Many other Universities and colleges have their 'yearbooks' which are regarded as essential career tools by alumni from their twenties onwards and of course as the means to keep up friendships over the decades. This autumn we shall be landing a Questionnaire on every Aularian desk around the world to ask you what you do for a living, details. about your job, about your hobbies and other interests, your family and, well, the sort of things you would expect to see in Who's Who if you are not already in it!

This excellent Magazine comes through your letter-box each autumn. In future I hope we can keep in closer touch. I shall be sending out a regular Newsletter to keep you up to date on some of the other things we are up to in the interim. More news of your contemporaries, of the Hall's academic achievements and its success in sports and the arts, and about this lovely city which is even more beautiful and full of energy than I remember from undergraduate days.

We shall be running a fund raising ca]Jlpaign next year. It will be crucial to the very future of the college - that is no exaggeration. So please do get in touch with any ideas or contacts you may have large or small. We need a great deal more help and involvement. We must succeed to ensure that this ancient, friendly, brilliant, tough institution can survive into the next decade. And I can praise it because I came from a Newer foundation, over the wall beyond St. Peter in the East! Do give me a ring if you have a thought on how to 'win the pools' and if you are in Oxford do come in and say hello. The phone number is 0865 279055 (answerphone) and the fax right next to my elbow is 279092. The name is R.L.W. Richard Wade, Director of Development.

A list of donors appears at the back of the Magazine.

CHAPEL 1992-93 1992, after the end of Michaelmas Term, Dr Jeanette Sears, who was the Chapel Assistant 1991-92, was ordained to a curacy at St Aldate's Church. It had been a significant time in the life of the Church for in November the Synod had agreed upon the measure to ordain women to the priesthood of the Church of England. In due course Jeanette will be priested among the first women to take priest's orders in England. It is one of the great transition times for the Church in England and important therefore that the continuities which link our worship with that of the past are maintained. Without needing to theorise too much about it our Chapel does just that.

In the past year our witness to that continuing tradition has been shown in at least two ways. At the Reunion service this June we were able to dedicate copies

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of the Shorter Praye r Book, basically a 1662 book, the generou s gift of Aularians. This service book is used regularly for Evensong during term and it is good that we have opportunity to absorb the spirituality to be found in no other service book. These days the 1662 services do not always have an immediate appeal to the young but given the opportunity to be exposed regularly to them the liturgy develops a compelling purchase upon the worshipper who desires heart and mind directed towards God. In the office of bishop the Church finds expression of the community of its life with the Church of the ages stretching back to the Apostles and the earthly ministry of Christ himself. It was a great joy therefore to welcome Bishop Ronald Gordon , now at Christ Church but latterly Bishop at Lambeth , to Chapel. He came to baptise and confirm Andrew Skae and Lena Song. In a simple but moving service the profound truth of becoming part of the body of Christ was shown forth.

Also important was the occasion when Chri s Irvine, my predecessor as Chaplain, preached at Evensong. That evening we were joined by John Cowdrey and Graham Midgley to gather four of the six surviving Chaplains together.

A large impact upon worship has been the decoration of the Chapel and additional lighting, but a perhaps even more noticeable impression has been created by the numbers in the choir which, with David Willington' s enthusiasm, tripled to keep up to around eighteen throvghout the year.

In Trinity Term we worshipped several times in the crypt of St Peter-in-theEast. For many it was a new and engrossing experience to be drawn towards the central matters of our faith through the flickering candlelight under arches which have supported a space for worship for over a thousand years. After the last service we came out into a bright summer evening and had a splendid party in the churchyard!

Gerald Hegarty MUSIC AT THE HALL THE MUSICAL YEAR at the Hall has been very full and varied.

Organists will be pleased with the added range to the Chapel Organ. Robert Venables, our former Tutor in Law and now Fellow by Special Election, has very generously provided further stops fo r the instrument. Mr Venables himself gave a recital in Hilary Term of music spanning four centuries, to demonstrate the new range and afterwards entertained the Principal and Fellows to champagne.

Unusually the Music Society initiated two talks, also in Hilary Term. The first was given by Maestro Aldo Ceccato, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Spanish National Orchestra, on 'The Function of a Conductor'. John Cox, our old member and Honorary Fellow, Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, gave the second. Both entranced large audiences with interesting and entertaining insights into the world of performing musicians.

Timothy Jones, our Music Lecturer, gave a most enjoyable piano recital in Michaelmas Term on one of the pianos donated recently by old members of the College: class ical performances of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were followed by an idiomatic rendering of Joplin 's 'Elite Syncopations ' .

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David Willington, our Organ Scholar, is becoming well-known as a conductor and entrepreneur, having organised very successful choral concerts in every term,_including an acclaimed 'Messiah' in Michaelmas.

In Trinity Term, the young professional pianist, Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, winner of several .international competitions, guided us through a number of eighteenth and nineteenth century works, including a memorable performance of Brahm' s 'Variations on a theme of Paganini'.

Prospects for further concerts are bright: no fewer than eleven undergraduates were awarded Instrumental Bursaries by the College this year. A condition of the award is that performances be given at College concerts. The Presidents of the Music Society have taken advantage of the abundance of talent and organised a successful Freshers' Concert, as well as a number of well-received lunch-time recitals.

In Trinity Term, Richard Bratby and David Willington took over as Presidents in succession to Duncan Barker and Tom Parsons. The College appreciates their hard work and enthusiasm.

Peter Collins OXFORD ARTWEEK 1993 Oxfordshire Visual Arts Festival celebrated its eleventh ARTWEEK in 1993, again with several hundred sites (artists' studios and exhibitions) open to the public all over Oxfordshire, but it very nearly did not take place at all.

The funding for ARTWEEK has always been precarious; at the end of the 1992 ARTWEEK festival a decision was taken to close down the ARTWEEK administration. Income from commercial sponsorship and advertising had considerably decreased because of the recession. However, a group of very enthusiastic volunteers refused to allow ARTWEEK to fold. St Edmund Hall continued to sponsor ARTWEEK, along with a growing number of other Oxford colleges and local councils, and ARTWEEK managed to survive.

During the fifth week of Trinity Term, as part of the ARTWEEK festival, there was, for the fourth successive year, an exhibition of a?t agd _craft by fellows, students and staff of St Edmund Hall. This year the exhibition was staged in the Party Room and was a great success as usual. Again a wide range of talents was displayed including painting, drawing, printing, photography, needlework, wood sculpture, glass engraving, pottery, metalwork, jewellery and wood turning. The most notable successes were Rebecca Nanson (3rd year fine art), whose colourful monoprints were in great demand, and Mary Scargill's engraved glass depicting local University scenes. Graham Midgley exhibited, not only wood sculpture for which he is renowned, but also a range of 'dolly food' - painted terracotta culinary delights in miniature. His 'Proctor' and 'Pope on the throne', also in terracotta, attracted much interest too. A new creation by the Ruskin Master of Drawing, Stephen Farthing, entitled 'Bursar's Bondage' greeted visitors at the entrance to the exhibition, and hanging in a darkened corner there was the Domestic Bursar's dramatic metal creation illustrating the violent death of St Sebastian.

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Early visitors to the exhibition were very fortunate to have a preview of the unfinished formal portrait of the Principal by David Tindle RA, former Ruskin Master of Drawing, before it was removed for completion.

Unfortunately not all exhibits can be listed here, but others worthy of mention were 'Queens Canal' by John Knight (a surreal vision of the College entrance in Venetian mode), watercolours of flowers by Sarah Cowdrey, a teddy bear jumper designed and knitted by Bursary Secretary, Margaret Pargeter, baby clothes knitted by college scout, Eunice Lock, and Principal's Secretary, Shirley Dawson, very complicated Arran knitware by Wages Clerk, Eileen Marshall, a recent watercolour 'Spanish Wild Flowers' by College Secretary, Carol McClure, and wood turned creations by boilerman, Peter Chivers and lodge porter John Fry. There were new oils by exhibition organizer, Julia Johnson, Assistant Accountant (Fees), and by Lady Iona Wright, whose teddy bear painting was very appropriate.

Another beautifully illustrated diary by Norman Pollock and his poster-sized record of a Dordogne cottage restoration added to the wide variety of .exhibits along with stained glass by Hazel Rossotti, an embroidered tablecloth by the Mother of Wendy Mabbitt, Assistant Accountant (Finance), jewellery by the Bursar's Secretary, Cl~re Bailey, a very interesting collection of perfin stamps

by Tutor for Admissions, Christopher Phelps, computer drawings by Librarian, Deborah Baton, and architectural drawings by College Architect, Gilbert Howes, and his partner, Robert Montgomery. Other drawings were by the Principal, Justin Gosling, former librarian, Sasha Wernberg-Mo'ller, former Bursar, Reggie Alton, fine art student, Percy Stilwell, lodge porter, Alan Steedman, and by Abhilasha Sahota, daughter of college scout, Rosie. There were examples of printing by former University Printer, Vivian Ridler, and by fine art students Dan Jubb and Percy Stilwell. Photographs were by our recently appointed Director of Development, Richard Wade, and by Andrew Ford, Hazel Rossotti and Julia Johnson, and there were interesting pottery creations by William and Robin Bourne-Taylor, sons of the Domestic Bursar, and by Charlotte, daughter of Assistant Bursar, Pauline Linieres.

Many favourable comments were made by the hundreds of visitors to the exibition including: 'very impressive', 'beautifully presented', 'best exhibition in town' and 'talented lot'!! Even the catalogue, written and designed as usual by the Domestic Bursar, Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, warranted praise.

Congratulations to everyone who contributed to the exhibition for making it a great success. Special thanks must go to the Domestic Bursar for again finding time to hang the exhibition so imaginatively, ably assisted by the Superintendent of Works, Stuart Dutson, to the Bursar's Secretary, Clare Bailey, for spending her weekend typing the catalogue, to the maintenance department for preparing the Party Room before the hanging, and to all those who enthusiastically offered to invigilate the exhibition.

The ARTWEEK organisers intend that the festival will continue in future years and it is hoped that the fellows, students and staff of St Edmund Hall will continue to play a positive role. Please start to think about exhibits for the 1994 exhibition NOW, it is not too early! More exhibits from students as well as from staff would be particularly welcome!!

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TRAUMATIC CHANGES IN THE WOLFSON HALL a flurry of excitement during the summer when the College banner was removed from behind the High Table and the maintenance team began to erect a large scaffolding. A wooden batten was fixed to the ceiling and a rolled carpet, big enough for three Cleopatras, was lifted into a vertical position. By now a small crowd of tourists, conference delegates, members of the SCR and college staff had begun to gather. The 'carpet' was lifted to the centre of the dais and 'midst instructions from the Superintendent of Works below, nervous responses from the artificers above and general helpful comments from the crowd at the back of the Hall, the cylinder was slowly unrolled and attached to the batten.

David Tindle' s backdrop painting for Yolanta - for that is what it was - has now been painstakingly hung behind the High Table. The effect is stunning and worth an inspection when you next come to the college! The backdrop has been loaned to the college for a year or so (with the possibility of purchase), from the Brandler Galleries in Essex, free of charge. It has an interesting history, for the scene was commissioned by The Aldeburgh Foundation from David Tindle for their production of the Tchaikovsky opera Yolanta. The scenery painters expected David to oversee the work, but he hinted that he would prefer to paint it himself but the scoffing stopped when he then did just that. What the company did not know was that David Tindle had worked as a scenery artist much earlier in his career and therefore knew very much about the subject!

The scene is of the gardens of Kenilworth Castle and our own Dr Nicholas Cronk attended the first night of the opera by Tchaikovsky in 1988. It is to be hoped that this will enliven the hall for the immediate future but one wonders how it will affect the behaviour of those who dine beneath it. A colour photograph of the painting is reproduced at the back of the Magazine.

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GUNFIELD of Norham St Edmund as a centre for graduates has come along considerably in the last few years with the refurbishment of Brockhues House and building of Brockhues Lodge in Norham Gardens (both achieved through the g~nerosity of Dr Frederick Brockhues). The latest project, the complete refurbishment and restoration of Gunfield, the fine victorian house nearby, is now underway and should be finished by the end of the summer.

Many Aularians will have read of this building and some may have seen a short rather critical article of the Hall's ambitions for the building in an edition of Country Life last year. The house was in a very dilapidated state and is being converted to provide a number of additional rooms within the very spacious acc9mmodation available and the addition of a small wing. The basement which housed changing rooms, a dark room and laundry have been gutted, the ground floor fellow's flat improved and on the other two floors rooms have been rearranged. The result is that the house now provides 20 graduate rooms and two fellows flats, a great improvement over the previous 9 rooms and one flat.

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The southern elevation of this grand old house (Photographs: Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor)

All windows have been remade; the chimneys have all been rebuilt

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During the planning stage the building was listed and the result is that we stand to save a good deal on VAT. The internal plaster cornices and joinery have been restored and the magnificent staircase remains a central feature of the building. The fabric has also been upgraded to improve fire resistance and proper escape facilities. Now that the scaffolding is beginning to come down, some of the former splendour of the building is beginning to be revealed. The great chimneys which were always prominent from the road have been rebuilt and are now purely cosmetic though internally reinforced; the roof finials have been repaired and in some places replaced with copies of the originals. A fine new slate roof, can now be seen, with its terracotta pierced ridge and many stone gables - originally two of the chimneys had become unsafe and one of the gables was collapsing on the south elevation. The unsightly drainage pipes have been removed from the outside of the building and it has been possible to incorporate two kitchenette/common rooms within the building.

Much of this original splendid building had been despoiled over the years and so its was very exciting to discover two complete sets of de Morgan tile fireplace slips under hardboard panelling. The great ironwork bell pull, which was housed in the main entrance hall is at present suspended on the staircase to the Senior Common Room in College and has certainly been appreciated by the Butler who now rings it for high table meals.

Sadly the garden surrounding the house is not all owned by the College; a large part of it is still retained by Lady Margaret Hall, but I understand that there will be a more formal partitioning of the land later in the year, which may in due course, enable us to lay out the gardens more confidently.

The building, came into College possession in 1979 as part of a parcel of buildings, which were acquired from St Stephen's House. Originally the house was occupied by the Deneke sisters who were well known patrons of the arts and indeed, many people remember the musical evenings they hosted in the music room, which is now used as a graduate common room at Norham St Edmund. I believe that the sisters may have been of diminutive stature for the grand staircase of the building has a most dangerously low bannister rail. Our architect has cleverly designed a bronze handrail which is attached to the inside of the existing bannister, so as to make it legal, while not detracting from the original piece of work.

When Gunfield is complete at the end of the summer it will once again stand balefully eying Fyfield Road, though perhaps with less seriousness, when the polychromatic bricks have been cleaned!

G.B-T. TWO DISCOVERIES have recently been made, one about a Hall treasure and one about a Hall building, which deserve mention in the Magazine. (i) The enamel plaque of St Mark the Evangelist. Many Aularians will remember the processional cross which, in the days of a less light-fingered public, used to be kept in the antechapel and which was given an annual airing

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in the procession that took place on Whit Sunday. Formerly in the possession of H. P. Liddon (Vice-Principal 1859-62), it was presented to the Hall in 1930 by his nieces, the Misses King: see this Magazine, vol. 2 pt. 5 (Dec. 1930), pp.1415, and vol. 3 pt. 2 (Dec. 1932), p. 7 (with plate opposite). It incorporated a number of medieval enamels, none of which had been thought to be of much consequence or value. A recent examination of the cross by Mr Neil Stratford and Mr John Cherry, of the British Museum, established that the lozenge-shaped champleve enamel of St Mark, which was behind the Christus at the centre of the arrangement, is, in fact, a very choice and important piece. It forms part of a series of the four evangelists which was made in Champagne, probably c.ll60, perhaps for the decoration of a book-cover. The enamels of St Luke and St John were found in the mid-nineteenth century on the tabernacle of a rural church at Gault-la-Foret, near Troyes, and are now in the cathedral treasury at Troyes: see the account of them by L. Pressouyre, '"Bertolomeus me fecit", ou les brouillons d'un orrevre inconnu. Note preliminaire sur les emaux du Gault-la-Foret' , Bulletin archeologique du comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, NS 7 (1973 for 1971), pp. 131 -49 , esp. pp. 133-6. Nothing is known about the fortunes of the plaque of St Matthew. Like the two plaques at Troyes, ours has on the reverse a trial sketch which was executed later, in our case of a halfcompleted matrix for an ecclesiastical seal with a figure apparently holding a crosier with his right hand and a book with his left; no doubt he is a bishop or abbot. In the border is cut a somewhat puzzling inscription, also incomplete, which may be transcribed as follows:

+ IOANES -;. LONICVS ¡:¡FECITAVTVM-;. AMNO : I The trial sketches on the reverse of each of the three plaques make it unlikely that, despite the high quality of the figures of the evangelists, they ever left the workshop for whatever destination they were intended. For a provisional notice of our plaque, with illustrations, see N. Stratford, Catalogue of Medieval Enamels in the British Museum, 2: Northern Romanesque Enamel (London: British Museum, 1993), pp. 31-2 and 36 n.83. We shall hope to report further on the British Museum's conclusions about it in a future number of the Magazine.

In the meantime, the Hall is most grateful to the British Museum for having cleaned and restored it. The Trustees currently have it on loan ; since the Museum's fine collection of enamels has no Champenois example of twelfthcentury date, it is on exhibition in the Medieval Gallery. We hope that many Aularians will go and see it in its place among the leading national collection of medieval enamels. (ii) The date of the building of the north r'!nge of the front quadrangle. No one, not even Dr Emden, really knew the precise date when the north range of the front quadrangle assumed its present appearance, although it was known to be owing to the activities of Thomas Shaw (Principal 1740-51). A year or so ago, Mr G. E. Milbum, of Sundeiland, kindly brought to the attention of the Hall the survival amongst the papers deposited by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Northumberland Record Office of letters and other papers of Principal Shaw which provide evidence for his building work and how 24

it was financed. The evidence survives in a letter-book of the Rev. Dr Robert Thomlinson who matriculated from Queen' s in 1686 but graduated Bachelor of Arts from the Hall in 1692. We have always known, from the Book of Benefactors, that Thomlinson provided Shaw with a large part of the money for building the west end of the north range (that is, roughly the part to the west of the sundial). We now have confirmation that, in 1741, Shaw restored at his own expense the east part of the range which Principal Thomas Bowsfield had built in the 1590s. Thomlinson's munificence was the major factor in enabling Shaw to complete the range in the same style during the years 1746 and 1747. Shaw's letters give abundant evidence of his skills and blandishments as a fund-raiser and also of the problems that he encountered in the course of his building programme. They also shed light upon the preparation of the University Almanack for 1747 which featured the Hall. An edition of the letters will appear in due course in the periodical Oxoniensia. In the meantime, both Thomlinson and his widow were given to understand that his name would be permanently attached to the building that he had made possible; indeed, there is evidence that the name The Thomlinson Building survived into the 1920s. Believing that faith should be kept with benefactors, the Governing Body has arranged for appropriate name-plates to be placed at the bottom of Staircases I and 11, which roughly correspond to the building of 1746-7.

H. E. J. Cowdrey ST EDMUND OF ABINGDON that I should make is how very little we know about Edmund of Abingdon. Perhaps I should sketch in the main facts of his life, so that we can get our bearings. We don't know the date of his birth, but it must have been between 1170 and 1185, probably earlier rather than later in this range. He was educated at Oxford and Paris. He pursued the life of a scholar and teacher, until, in 1222, he became treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral. He remained there until 1233 when he was elected archbishop of Canterbury, a see which he held from 1234 until 1240, when he died in France and so was buried at the great Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, near Auxerre. His canonization came remarkably quickly; it was promoted at the council of Lyons in 1245, decided upon in 1246, and proclaimed by a bull of Pope Innocent IV in January 1247. Those are the bare facts; and there is all too little evidence with which to clothe them. The origins of Oxford University are likewise shrouded in uncertainty, and Edmund was educated there in the University's early days . No University records survive to tell us anything about him. Edmund's writings are brief and not at all selfrevealing. No register, or record of the official business, of an archbishop of Canterbury survives until about forty years after his death. Chronicles tell us a little but not much, and that little is subject to prejudice and invention. Most of what we know comes from the material relating to his canonization. There are a number of Latin Lives and other documents relating to it, many of them now conserved at the cathedral of Sens, in France. But the canonization material tells mostly of his miracles, his austerities, and his relevant virtues. There is little of what we would call biography there. There is quantity, but, from our modem THE FIRST POINT

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point of view, not much of the evidence we would desire. So I cannot offer you a rounded and detailed picture of Edmund .

One advantage of medieval hagiographical sources, though, is that they do often tell us about their saints' parents and childhood. If we do not know in what year Edmund was born, we do know that he was born on 20 November, the feast of another St Edmund , the East Anglian king and martyr who was killed in 869 by the Danish Great Army; that is why he was called Edmund. He was the eldest son of a good-sized family. His fa ther, Reginald called the Rich (Dives), was a citizen of the town which had grown up alongside the Benedictine monastery at Abingdon. 'The Rich' is a relative term ; Reginald was probably prosperous enough, although one source conventionally observed of him and Edmund's mother Mabel that 'It was not with worldly riches that they were endowed, but with the riches of virtue, for they abounded immeasurably in every pious work' . Pious Reginald seems certainly to have been. While Edmund was still a child, he entered a monastery (no one knows which), and left Mabel to bring up Edmund and his brothers and sisters. This Mabel was well able to do, not least with regard to religion . It was Mabel, more than Reginald, who formed and continued to inspire Edmund ' s Christian life.

The absolute dates of Edmund's education are as elusive as that of his birth.

Certainly, no school in Abingdon can claim him as an Old Boy! At the age of about eleven or twelve, he was sent to school at Oxford with his brother Robert in order to study grammar. Predictably, the Lives of St Edmund speak of his precocious piety at this time. Playing in the meadows, he once had a vision of the Christ Child. And when he was only twelve, he dedicated himself to Our Lady by a vow of chastity. He bought two rings, both with Ave Maria inscribed upon them, and placed one on a finger of a statue of the Virgin and the other on his own finger. Still while they were at an early age, the ambitious Mabel sent her two sons Edmund and Robert to Paris, then a more prestigious university than Oxford, to take the full Arts course. It comprised the so-called trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, and the more advanced quadrivium of music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. This made him a Master, and he returned to Oxford, where he was regent - that is, roughly, a teaching don - in the Arts faculty for six years or so. One aspect of his activity is of especial interest to us at St Edmund Hall. Hi s piety led him to use his lecture fees and other resources to build a Lady Chapel for the church of the parish in which he was living. We are not told which church it was. But the only ecclesiastical building in the Early English style of the early thirteenth century which it can well have been is the north transept of the church of St Peter' s-in-the-East, which now houses the Law Library of the Hall. There, Edmund used to hear mass every day in the company of the more pious of his pupil s. (At this stage, he was not in major ecclesiastical orders). As a teacher, Edmund seems to have been influential and innovative in introducing into Oxford the so-called New Logic, lately being taught at Paris, which was based upon a fuller use than before of the corpus of Aristotle's writings.

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mother, who had recently died. He was lecturing on arithmetic when she rebuked him; 'My son, what are these figures which you are thinking about so earnestly?' He told her, and showed her some of the diagrams that served him as teaching aids. She forthwith seized his right hand and drew upon it three circles, and wrote in them the names Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 'My dearest son,' she said, 'henceforth apply yourself to these figures and to no others'. (The three circles, often represented as suns, appear in one of the coats of arms invented for St Edmund, though not the coat of arms that is used by St Edmund Hall).

Edmund therefore returned to Paris and proceeded to the study of Theology; whether or not he ever also taught the subject there is uncertain. He returned to England and resided for a year in the priory of Augustinian regular canons at Merton, in Surrey. After a year there, he submitted to his friends' pressure and returned to Oxford, where he now became a theological master. His inception as a theologian must have occurred in, or near, 1214 - one year before one of the most famous dates in English History, that of King John's granting of Magna Carta. This was also just after the hanging of two clerks by the townsmen had led to a gap in the history of the Oxford Schools from 1209 to 1214. Edmund must have helped with starting them up again.

Probably, but not certainly, by about 1220, and therefore during his teaching period as a theologian, Edmund wrote his treatise which is usually known as the Speculum ecclesie- The Mirror of the Church. It survives in various versions and in three languages- Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. So it had a considerable vogue and circulation in England during the later middle ages. The title of the original Latin text is the Speculum religiosorum - The Mirror of the Religious: religious, of course, in the sense of monks and nuns, not of pious people generally. We should not be surprised that Edmund wrote such a treatise. Although there has so far been little occasion to mention monks and nuns, he had already important contacts with a religious order - the Cistercians.

After his mother, Mabel, died, he arranged for two of his sisters to be admitted to the Cistercian nunnery of Catesby, in Northamptonshire. He kept in close touch with them, and after his canonization, Catesby was to become a key centre for the establishment of his cultus. Edmund's treatise is not very original, but his teaching was derived from some of the most vital contemporary trends in devotion and theology, especially those stemming from the great Cistercian writer, St Bemard of Clairvaux.

Edmund offers, in effect, an instruction on how to acquire true self-knowledge through frequent examination of conscience. After it, the religious should proceed by way of meditation to the knowledge of God which is to be found in divine contemplation. This contemplation had three aspects: 'the first', wrote Edmund, 'is in creatures, the second in the scriptures, the third in God himself, in his own nature'. Edmund taught the ascent of the mind to God. Like another of his main mentors, the Parisian writer Hugh of St Victor, Edmund also made much of the so-called tropological reading of the scriptures - how to extract a moral meaning from a text or passage. Accordingly, Edmund reflected at length on the mysteries of Christ ' s life, death, and resurrection; he also digressed into academic and theological reflections about such matters as the doctrine of the

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Trinity. (The don in all of us will come out, sooner or later!) But Edmund ended with an eminently practical chapter on what is a major problem for monks and nuns, as for everyone else - on how to be friendly, lovable, and humble when living close together in community.

Has the Mirror any value nowadays? Yes, I think, if only for the brief but well expressed and moving prayers which Edmund included. The American publisher Cistercian Publications is preparing a modem English version of the Mirror; it will make these prayers, and other things, more readily available than the scholarly, but hardly approachable, edition of the Latin text as published in 1973 by the Oxford University Press.

Edmund, as I said, wrote primarily for monks and nuns, although the later middle ages adapted his text, both in the vernacular languages and by way of a back-translation into Latin, for a wider public. But Edmund's own career did not lie in the cloister; so far as we know, he never had serious thoughts about entering it, and after Oxford, his career continued on the secular, that is on the nonmonastic, side of the medieval church. Perhaps while still teaching at Oxford or perhaps just after his days there, at some time between January and August 1222 he was appointed treasurer of Salisbury cathedral. It was not a surprising move.

Salisbury had a fine scholastic tradition in this age of cathedral schools, and was itself a place of learning. Edmund would have scope there for continuing to lecture. Moreover, in the pattern of enormous dioceses that characterized medieval England, Abingdon, the town of his birth, was, like the whole of Berkshire, part of the diocese of Salisbury. Most important, while Edmund was in Paris, his theological circle there is likely to have included Richard Poore, who from 1217 to 1228 was bishop of Salisbury. He it was who decided to bring the cathedral down from the bleak and windswept height of Old Sarum into the fat smiling valley of the Avon. In 1220 the new cathedral, on the site that Constable painted and that we nowadays visit, was begun. It was to be a canon of this new cathedral, already becoming more than just a gleam in the bishop's eye, that Edmund was invited to move from Oxford. People from Abingdon or from St Edmund Hall who visit Salisbury should recall Edmund's connection with that glorious cathedral in its early days.

Broadly speaking, medieval English cathedrals were constitutionally of two kinds - monastic and secular. The monastic cathedrals, like Canterbury, Winchester, or Durham, had communities of monks as their chapter, the head of which was, in effect, the prior of the monastery. Salisbury was not like that: it was, as we say, secular, with a chapter of non-monks - of canons. In a secular cathedral, by c.1200 there were normally four main cathedral officers - the dean, or head of the chapter; the precentor, in charge of the music; the chancellor, in charge of secretarial matters and of the cathedral school; and the treasurer.

The treasurer was not quite what we might expect - he was not much like our bursar, the man in charge of the money; he was responsible, rather, for the fabric and the altars, and (an important task in days before electricity) for the provision of lights. To such duties Edmund succeeded. Unlike monastic chapter-members, secular canons could hold property. In the secular cathedrals, each canon was given for his personal support a parcel of cathedral estates, collectively called a

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prebend. To Edmund's treasurership was annexed the prebend of Calne, in Wiltshire; Edmund held the treasurership, and so also the prebend of Calne, until1233 , when he was elected archbishop of Canterbury.

As treasurer, he must have had a good deal to do in connection with the building of the new cathedral. In 1225, he was certainly present when the archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton - incidentally, probably another Parisian acquaintance of Edmund, came to inaugurate the new choir. But at Salisbury Edmund may also have shown a certain distaste for, and remissness about, matters of business which were never absent from his career. In 1226, he was one of a number of canons who were noted as being in arrears with their contributions to the fabric fund. On the other hand, he remained a generous alms-giver.

Indeed, an old friend suggested that he might well cut his prodigality in this respect. 'No', replied Edmund, 'it is better to err on the side of generosity, for theologians have a bad reputation for avarice'. I suspect that Edmund preferred his older pursuits like study and almsgiving to the hassles and crises attendant to putting up a new building. Again, modern Oxford dons, not least the more senior fellows of St Edmund Hall , will understand!

And Edmund had scope for doing what he wanted. During Richard Poore's episcopate, the Salisbury chapter's roster of residence left canons free to absent themselves during nine months of the year. He spent much of his time at Calne, of which parish he was rector by virtue of his prebend. But, on account of his poverty, we are told, he also spent time with his old friend Step hen of Lexington, abbot from 1223 of the Cistercian abbey of Stanley in Wiltshire.

(Another point of contact between Edmund and the Cistercians!) Above all , Edmund gained a reputation for being a powerful preacher up and down the country. In 1227, he was a papal preacher of the Crusade. He is mentioned at Oxford (where he preached in the churchyard of his old haunt, St Peter' s-in-theEast), Worcester, Gloucester, and Leominster. It was probably Edmund's fame as a preacher that drew notice to him when the see of Canterbury became vacant in 1231.

In 1231. So he succeeded to Canterbury only eventually: the process of filling the see was a long and difficult one, with three elections being made and quashed before Edmund was elected in 1233 and consecrated in 1234. The electors, in the formal sense, were, of course, the monks of the chapter of Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury. It was some of the monks who eventually rode over to Calne where they told a most reluctant Edmund of his election - made, as one chronicler put it, because Edmund was a man 'in whom could be found no reasonable cause of contradiction'. So Edmund came to a dignity which raised him at one leap to being primate of all England, and, given the medieval interweaving of church and state, to being also the greatest of the feudal tenantsin-chief of the crown. Canonically, he owed subjection and obedience to the pope, Gregory IX; feudally, he owed fealty and service to the king of England, Henry Ill. In medieval times there was always the making of tension and crisis in this double capacity and role of the archbishop of Canterbury.

With a king like Henry Ill on the throne, there was every likelihood that there would, indeed, be tension and crisis. Partly, this was for personal reasons . Henry

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was weak, pietistic, fickle, politically unwise, and easily influenced by others.

People hated and distrusted the Proven<;:al and Savoyard advisers and agents with whom they regarded the king as being surrounded, grumbling about them as 'foreigners'. But the crisis that was ready-made for Edmund upon his consecration went more deeply than personalities and xenophobia. I must try to indicate what was at stake.

It was a matter of deep, and to many disturbing, changes that were happening, with rather bewildering rapidity, in methods of medieval government and administration. It was just a little bit like the coming of computerization in recent decades. Computerization has brought us new and refined, but rather impersonal, methods of communication and accounting. The arm of governments, of banks, of businesses, of 'them', becomes longer and more intrusive.

Too many people we cannot identify know too much about us. (How much junk mail have you received this week?) We feel uneasy and even rather threatened.

And with computerization goes a new kind of official or expert, technically highly skilled, but for a lot of people culturally rather different from and even alien to our perspective of life, whether it is the computer tycoon or whether it is the youthful data-provider in his jeans and tee-shirt who can answer our questions more rapidly and infallibly than we can formulate them. At every level of early thirteenth-century Western Europe, from the papal chancery in Rome to quite small estates, there was a not dissimilar leap ahead in administrative methods, and an emergence of professionals, often quite low-born officials and civil servants who were very good at their jobs. Nowhere was this development more manifest than in the England of Henry Ill's father King John -the Alan Sugar of English monarchs. John has a bad reputation as a king, and rightly. But he was a talented and zealous administrator. He took in hand the 'data processing' of the English government. Just an example or two. In the chancery or writing-office, copies began to be kept, category by category, of all outgoing correspondence. Or a financial example. John tried hard to substitute for the old system whereby sheriffs 'farmed' the shire, that is, paid a fixed lump-sum to the king for being able to make ali that they could for themselves, a system of salaried sheriffs who were paid a salary in return for turning in all revenues to the crown. Two examples of a revolution in business efficiency.

And a new king of official emerged -like, for example, John 's right-hand man , Peter des Roches. Peter was a man of humble origins, and he came from Poitou (so he was a Poitevin , another of the categories of foreigner to whom right-thinking thirteenth-century Englishmen objected). He was very efficient.

In 1205 , he became bishop of Winchester, and he stood by John through thick and thin - through the papal interdict and John's excommunication, and through the Magna Carta crisis of 1215. He remained bishop of Winchester until he died in 1238, and so he was still there as a very senior bishop when Edmund was consecrated archbishop. Against these new methods of administration, against new and thrusting officials, again st the increase of royal power that they facilitated, old-fashioned barons, who thought that they should be the king's associates in feudal, collaborative kingship, felt deep revulsion.

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John died in 1216. Henry Ill succeeded at the age of nine; he did not assume personal rule until he declared himself to be fully of age in 1227. The long minority was a good time for the more old-fashioned sort of barons. Men like William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, could take a lead in the king's council, and not be too troubled by officials who were only over-active when they were executing the will of a ruling, adult king. But from 1227, Henry increasingly asserted his autocratic will. In 1232, the last of the old guard, Hubert de Burgh, at the end of the line of great Angevin justiciars, was deprived of his office. The result of the palace revolution by which this happened was the return to political predominance of the ex-apparatchik Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, now with his no less competent nephew, a man called Peter des Rievaux. After its long quiescence during Henry Ill's minority, the royal household suddenly returned to the centre of government. Its bureaucrats effectively replaced the barons as the king's right-hand men. And especially Peter des Rievaux.

Competent like his uncle in matters of administration, he was unlike his uncle in not being ambitious; he was not interested in a bishopric. He was the archetypal civil servant, who just wanted to make things work. To this end, after 1232 he gathered into his hands a huge accumulation of offices. As keeper of the wardrobe and chamber, he controlled the king's household. As treasurer, he controlled the exchequer. As keeper of the privy seal, he controlled the king's writing office. He was sheriff of no fewer than twenty-one counties, and, most offensive of all to the barons, he was keeper of escheats and wardships- offensive, because baronial estates that for any reason were in the king's hands came under his administration. Empire-building? No. Peter des Rievaux did not accumulate these offices for his own advantage; he sought simply to get control of them, organize them, and then hand them on to good, competent officials like himself for them to run.

But that was not how a large segment of the baronage saw matters. They were radically opposed to the new style of govemment. Their opposition grew, and found a focus in Richard Marshal, earl of Pembroke, son of the William Marshal who had been prominent in Henry Ill's minority council. He had lands in the Welsh Marches, and had seen there at first hand the results of Peter des Rievaux's busy activities regarding escheats. Early in 1233, he led the barons in appealing to the king to dismiss his foreign advisers, Peter des Roches and Peter des Rievaux. The 'foreigners' sought to push him into rebellion, and in August he was declared a traitor. A royal anny besieged his marcher castle of Usk. We can at last return to Edmund, who was elected archbishop in October 1233. By that time, there was virtual civil war between the king and Richard Marshal, whose personal breach seemed irreparable and whose differences went to the heart of different and largely conflicting ideas of how the country should be governed- the old idea and the new, the curial and the baronial. There was an urgent need for the new archbishop to take a commanding lead in promoting conciliation and peace. During a prolonged and difficult crisis, Edmund admirably and successfully did just this.

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once sent intermediaries between the king and Richard Marshal, one of whom was the Franciscan provincial, Agnellus of Pisa. Under Edmund's leadership, efforts were made to persuade the king to revise the curial basis of his government; he was especially warned of the danger of keeping Peter des Rievaux in his present position. Negotiations in the Welsh Marches led to a truce which Edmund would supervise and which would be a prelude to peace. Edmund's consecration on 2 April 1234 strengthened his hand, and at Eastertide he was successful in securing the dismissal of Peter des Rievaux: on 28 April, the king revoked Peter's authority, and thereafter he was stripped of his offices. His uncle Peter des Roches returned to his diocese of Winchester.

Their departure was essentially a benefit for the barons against the king and his concept and practice of government. But during April, another sequence of events came to a head which, in turn, weakened the resistance of the barons.

They lost their leader, Richard Marshal, who was the victim of violence in Ireland. Richard's Irish enemies had taken advantage of his preoccupation with England to attack his estates in Leinster. On 1 April, he was mortally wounded in a skirmish and died a fortnight later. Rumour soon had it that Henry Ill and his counsellors had plotted for his death by sending a so-called 'bloody writing' to Ireland which prompted his murder. Edmund, so the Chronicles say, angrily accused the king or otherwise took up the matter. The royalist plot and Edmund's response are probably apocryphal, though they certainly reflect the passions that were aroused. Probably the effect of the loss of the baronial leader Richard Marshal was to make Edmund's work of conciliation easier. The barons, like the king, had suffered a reverse. Edmund spent May, June, and July 1234 in the Welsh Marches, reconciling the rebels and making peace. Richard Marshal's heir was his brother Gilbert; Edmund himself held Gilbert's main Marcher castle of Striguil (Chepstow) until it, with the rest of the family inheritance, could be restored to the family. In June, a general royal pardon of the rebels and the withdrawal of the sentence of outlawry marked the triumph of Edmund's bid for pacification in England. There remained the baronial rebels' Welsh confederates, and especially Llewelyn-ap-Gryfedd, prince of Snowdon, who was their leader. Edmund successfully negotiated a truce with him at Middle, near Shrewsbury, and so completed his labours, save that he was left responsible for the surveillance of the truce. By July 1234, his work of conciliation was complete.

Few, if any, archbishops of Canterbury have ever achieved so much in the first few months of their reign. Edmund was largely responsible for averting civil war and for procuring a major transformation of government, and he won the gratitude of a large body of the king's major subjects. All this he had done without alienating the king or any large body of political opinion. His resolution of the crisis of 1233-4 is Edmund's principal claim to praise and notice during his six years as archbishop of Canterbury.

For it has to be said that the remaining years of his archiepiscopate produced no comparable achievements. What he did in 1234 by way of conciliation, he did in the very medieval capacity of a 'holy man', in the sense made familiar by Peter Brown. Brown's classic model of a 'holy man' was that of an ascetic star32

performer who, unlike most of mankind, had conquered his body in spectacular feats of mortification. He had thus set himself apart from and high above other men. So he could take courageous action as a spokesman and redresser of grievances. He could also reconcile those who were at odds. Edmund's austerity and otherness rendered him acceptable as a referee and arbiter. It does not mean that he had real skill in political affairs, or that he ever overcame his distaste for business that was already apparent when he was at Salisbury.

Like all medieval great men, both ecclesiastical and lay, Edmund as archbishop had to adapt himself to an itinerant manner of life. The medieval bishop lived out of a suitcase. He was only sometimes to be found in his cathedral city.

Business might take him to London or to court; less often, on the whole. he would be in his cathedral city. For most of the time, he journeyed through his diocese from manor to manor - in the case of an archbishop of Canterbury, through Kent and Sussex. It should be said that the itinerant life of the medieval bishop was, on balance in itself beneficial. It meant that the diocese had two foci. One was the cathedral, static at the principal town of the diocese to which people might come, and the other was the bishop and his household, coming to his people - travelling round so that the bishop might confirm, consecrate churches and altars, know people and be known, in the various localities of his diocese. With a good preacher like Edmund, this mobility would have been especially beneficial. Yet we know little in detail about how Edmund conducted the everyday work of his diocese.

When we do hear of Edmund, there tends to be an undertone of fraughtness about his activity. He was never at his ease at the king's court, which he suspected of being a false place. He once preached a sermon on the story in 1 Kings chapter 22, about how false prophets had urged the king of Israel to go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper; so the king went up, the story goes, only to be defeated and killed in battle. Such false prophets of old were exemplars of false counsellors now - 'grasping persons, flatterers, hard of heart, and oppressors of the poor. With such men', Edmund bewailed, 'the court of every prince and great man is filled. Whoever, therefore, wishes to lead a good life, let him depart from court! ' These are hardly the words of one who was at home and at his ease in the great world of politics. It used to be believed that Edmund's life was deliberately made difficult by the presence in and after 1237 of Cardinal Otho as papal legate in England. On the one hand, Henry Ill was glad to have a legate who would restrict the actions of the archbishop who, in the crisis of 1233-4, had curtailed the powers of the king's ministers. On the other, Pope Gregory IX, the by now nonagenarian pope who will have remembered John's receiving the kingdom of England as a papal fief, was also anxious to vindicate the king's authority, since he was a papal vassal. Needing money for his wars against the Emperor Frederick 11, or so the argument ran, Gregory used his legate to impose papal taxes and papal candidates upon English benefices; as archbishop , Edmund was powerless to resist such exactions but viewed the legate's activities with disapproval. There was probably, in fact, no general antagonism between legate and archbishop; the legate often helped the archbishop, and Otho was a tactful man. Yet Otho was not a popular figure, and if the council that he held at

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London enacted important decrees, there was some derogation of the archbishop ' s authority; and it made things complicated.

Some of Edmund's brother-bishops were uneasy colleagues, too, and for opposite reasons. Some of them disliked his keeping his distance from the king; we have already seen why the curialis! Bishop Peter des Roches of Winchester should have done so. But others, by contrast, thought him too much given to compromise with Henry Ill. The greatest 'high-church' bishop of his time was his fellow Oxonian, Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253 .

At the beginning of his archiepiscopate, there was a furious legal debate in the king's court about whether the subsequent marriage of parents should legitimize a bastard: in the church' s canon law, it should legitimize, but in English feudal law it did not. The matter was of the greatest consequence for the lay baronage, as critical issues of inheritance turned upon it. The barons were adamant that the laws of England should not be changed. Edmund saw that, especially with the major political crisis of 1233-4 in the background, or rather the foreground of events, it was wise not to press the church's law against them. It earned Edmund some very strong letters from Robert Grosseteste: he had sold the pass, and he had compromised both himself and the church by putting political peace and quiet before canonical principle. It has to be added, however, that, later on, Edmund and Robert sometimes worked together, and that Edmund was able to act as mediator between a rigid bishop of Lincoln and an obstinate king.

Edmund's relations with Grosseteste illustrate the perennial problems of an archbishop of Canterbury as having to satisfy the conflicting demands of his ecclesiastical and his political positions. Some archbishops stressed the one and some the other. Thomas Becket ( 1163-70) had put the whole weight on his ecclesiastical position; hence, his exile and martyrdom. Hubert Waiter (11931205), another example of a brilliant administrator, had put the weight on the political side, thus (a bit unfairly) earning himself the reputation of being a timeserving worldling and accomplice of King John. Edmund was neither a Becket nor a Waiter. He took a pragmatic and prudent middle course, which made him right for no one but which at least allowed him to remain something of a mediator and conciliator.

The most fraught and frustrating wrangle of Edmund's years as archbishop was his (from our point of view rather petty) altercation with the monastic chapter of his cathedral at Canterbury. Differences between bishops and their cathedral chapters are a recurring feature of medieval (not to say of later) church affairs, but, especially from the late twelfth century, they bedevilled the life of the see of Canterbury. I cannot now go into the causes and history of the differences. Enough to say that relations between a secular (that is, non-monastic) archbishop like Edmund and a monastic chapter like that of Canterbury would always give rise to problems. And situated topographically where it is, Canterbury has always been an awkward place for the cathedral of the primate of all England. Archbishops were, therefore, often planning to establish a second, secular chapter or its equivalent elsewhere, nearer to Lambeth Palace and to London. Such a chapter would have been a serious competitor for the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury. And, as always when relations are generally 34

strained, essentially trivial and local issues were also liable to crop up; the smaller the issue, the greater the acrimony. The monks of Canterbury were a litigious and often niggling body of men.

Litigation between Edmund and his chapter was almost continuous, often about minuscule issues: expense-claims from the electoral dealings of 1233-4, squabbles about the advowson of churches and the income from manors, the deposition of the sub-prior of the monastery, and such matters. Edmund was determined to pursue the idea of an alternative, secular capitular foundation, and here he had the support of the papal legate Otho. The site chosen this time was at Maidstone, and Edmund's last years as archbishop were full of quarrels about it. The monks appealed both to the pope and to the crown, and an allegation that the monks were using documents that they had tampered with led to a final breach in 1239. Archbishop and chapter were at open war, and the monks were able to frustrate Edmund's plan. There is no better side to relations between Edmund and his chapter, and there was no effective move towards peace and reconciliation. Moreover, at the time of his final departure from England, Edmund was also engaged in litigation with the monks of the cathedral priory of Rochester. All this makes the latter years of his archiepiscopate rather dismal reading. If it opened with a bang, it ended with a lot of whimpering.

Our last topic for consideration must be Edmund's departure from England in 1240 and the circumstances of his death. It used to be thought that Edmund went into exile as a kind of Thomas Becket, standing up for the liberties and principles of the church against a certainly pious, but also a hostile king. There is no doubt that, like all later medieval archbishops of Canterbury, Edmund had a veneration for Becket, the greatest saint of his see, who was canonized in 1173 while in 1220 his relics were translated to a place above the high altar of Canterbury Cathedral. No one could ignore Becket the martyr; Becket's effigy appears upon Edmund's archiepiscopal seal. But, if I have carried you with me so far in my presentation of Edmund, he was himself no Becket: he was not like Becket the zealot who, for all his virtues, pressed to the extreme ecclesiastical principles of which he only half understood the implications, and who opposed an equally strong and obstinate king without regard to the need for peace or compromise. It is one of Edmund's best characteristics that he was a man of honourable peace and compromise. Moreover, fraught as Edmund's archiepiscopate was, there were no issues at stake to set against those which were raised in 1164 by Henry II' s formulation of the Constitutions of Clarendon. There was no crisis of church and state to occasion Edmund's withdrawal and exile. For we can discount the unduly dramatic language of contemporary chroniclers. In 1240, Edmund may have welcomed a break and a change; he did not, by leaving England, make any protest or assert any principle.

By far the most plausible explanation of Edmund's journey towards Rome is that it was basically a pedestrian and routine matter of duty. When in 1234 Edmund had received from the pope his pallium, the vestment which popes conferred upon archbishops in token of their participation in the pastoral commission of St Peter and the apostles to govern the church, his profession of obedience had entailed his accepting a duty of travelling every three years ad

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limina apostolorum (to the threshold of the apostles) at Rome. He had visited Rome in 1238, and, in the late summer of 1240, the time was approaching when he should go again. Moreover, there was a number of matters concerning which an audience with the pope might be opportune - like his lawsuits with the monastic chapters of Canterbury and Rochester, and his tensions with the king.

Nothing like a personal visit to the pope to keep him well informed and aware of one' s case in outstanding business. And, in August 1240, Pope Gregory IX had summoned a general council for the following Easter ; Edmund may have wished to have his say early about the agenda, and to secure a sufficient hearing for his interests. No further explanation of Edmund' s journey to the continent is securely forthcoming, and no other is needed.

Edmund probably left England in October 1240, and he followed the usual route for Rome; his journey took him through Senlis where he visited the French royal court. A little later, he deviated slightly to the great Cistercian abbey of Pontigny. This was a natural place for him to visit, for two of his most famous recent predecessors had been given hospitality there - Thomas Becket during his exile from King Henry 11, and Stephen Langton while King John would not have him in England. That is not, of course, a ground for concluding that the background of Edmund' s stay at Pontigny was as dramatic as theirs had been. In any case, he may have wished to pause because the Alpine passes were in the hands of hostile imperial forces. Had he gone to Rome, it might well have been by the sea route; if so, he might have added another to the more than a hundred bishops on their way to Gregory's council at Rome who, in May 1241 , were seized off Elba by the Emperor Frederick 11' s squadrons and consigned to pretty rough imprisonment in Apulian gaols . Edmund was well out of such a misfortune, and he was prudent to run no undue risks.

After a period of rest at Pontigny, Edmund decided to turn back for England.

This was probably because of his failing health. Making for the Champenois city of Provins as a staging-point, he got as far as a little place called Soisy-enBrie and became too weak to go further. He died in the small Augustinian priory at Soisy on 16 November- the day that, in the church's calendar and in St Edmund Hall's is now St Edmund's Day. Four days later, his body reached Pontigny, where he was buried.

I want to end this talk not in Abingdon or Oxford or Salisbury or even Canterbury, but at Pontigny. For St Edmund's body is still there, now resting in its shrine above the high altar in the abbey church. Pontigny was one of the 'four eldest daughters' of the early twelfth-century reform monastery of Citeaux. The abbey church at Pontigny is the oldest major Cistercian building to remain intact; it has been little altered structurally or visually since the twelfth century.

Its enormous bulk rises sheer from the surrounding fields and orchards. Its stark, unadorned simplicity is a visible witness to the uncompromising, Puritanical severity and authenticity of the first Cistercian monks in their purpose of living arctius - more strictly than other monks - according to the Rule of St Benedict.

The monks have long since gone, and the church is a parish church in what is now a dechristianized part of France. The monastic buildings are a home for

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young men with head injuries after motor-cycle accidents. Edmund would approve the charitable work, but the context of it is far distant from him. Yet the French remember and revere Saint-Edme, whose body has been among them at Pontigny for over 750 years. The shrine of St Edmund, in this great Cistercian church, calls for a visit from citizens of Abingdon, from members of St Edmund Hall, and from all English people who respond to the men and events of the central middle ages.

H. E. J. Cowdrey The above is text of a lecture that was first given to the Friends of Abingdon in the Unicorn Theatre at Abingdon on 31 October 1992; it was repeated in the Hall on 18 February 1993 to a mixed audience of senior and junior members.

My indebtedness to two books will be apparent: A. B. Emden, An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times (Oxford, 1927; repr. 1968); C. H. Lawrence, St Edmund of Abingdon (Oxford, 1960). Those who wish to know more are referred to them; copies of the former may be purchased from the Librarian for the benefit of the Hall funds. For the administrative changes that centred upon the reign of John, see M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (London, 1979; new edn 1992), and for 'holy men', Peter Brown, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (London, 1982), esp. eh. 6.

H.E.J.C.

1996 - THE 750TH ANNIVERARY OF THE CANONIZATION OF ST EDMUND OF ABINGDON was canonized in 1246 and the College will be hoping to play a prominent part in organising the appropriate celebrations along with the many other bodies who have St Edmund at heart.

For the record, a quick round-up shows that these include those connected with his life: the good folk of Abingdon, Salisbury (where he was Canon and Treasurer to the Cathedral 1222-33), Calne (Rector while there), and Canterbury (Archbishop 1233-40), not to mention his University and those institutions bearing his name. In order of foundation the latter are (i) St Edmund's Chapel, Dover (1253); (ii) St Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, Ware, (1568 at Douay, Flanders, amalgamating with Old Hall Green School, 1769, at Ware - after expulsion under the French Revolution - on 16 November 1793, St Edmund's Day and taking his name thenceforward); (iii) St Edmund's School, Canterbury (c.1750 as the Clergy Orphans Corporation, renamed c.1900 by association); (iv) St Edmund's College, Cambridge (1896 as St Edmund's House, offspring of the school at Ware, a College 1975); and (v) St Edmund's School, Dover (1962, name derived from the nearby Chapel q.v., consecrated in his honour by his pupil St Richard, Bishop of Chichester).

A Pilgrimage to France is clearly indicated, and we are in touch with St Edmund's College, Ware, who are, so to speak, the professionals in this field.

The French are, it could be said, even keener followers of ' St Edme' than we here, and the following itinerary selects itself: Soisy near Provins, 45 Miles SE ST EDMUND

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of Paris, where he died on 16 November 1240 (hence his Feast) on the way to Rome; the great Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny some fifty miles further on, repository of his body from 20 November until its 'translation' or enshrinement on 9 June 1247 (and on a secular note, the present Bishop there is a Rugby fan); the beautiful town of Auxerre nearby, along with the archetypal Romanesque church at Vezelay - both incidentally in the Chablis country- and ending up in the significant city of Lyon, scene of the proclamation of his canonization and the subsequent Bull 'Novum Matris Ecclesiae'.

Note this in your long-range diary and start saving up now ... and if you have any suggestions on the subject please send them to Farrand Radley at 157 A Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UX. A.F.R. PRIZES AND GRANTS THE FOLLOWING

Prizes and Grants have been awarded:

PHILIP GEODES MEMORIAL PRIZE

The University Prize was awared to Mr Jason Burke of Pembroke College for a portfolio of photojournalism which included photographs of Iraqi Kurds taken immediately after the Gulf War. The College Prize was awarded toMs Alison Cooley who presented a portfolio of reviews and features published in Oxford undergraduate publications. An additional prize was awarded to Mr Daniel Litvin of Merton College for a portfolio of work published in national newspapers.

MURIEL RADFORD MEMORIAL PRIZE

The prize, of £200 was awarded to Ms Carol Atherton for work on a community education scheme in Page Moss, Liverpool.

RICHARD FARGHER BURSARIES

Ms T. S. Turner (£180), Ms A. H. Sales (£300), C. J. Hopkinson (£150) OGILV!E-THOMPSON PRIZE

Ms E. J. Kirby ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS' TRAVEL AWARD

A. S. Cooper (£1,324) INSTRUMENTAL BURSARIES

T . Clark, A. Clay, S. Cleverley, C. Fox, K. Heeger, C. Hopkinson, R. Lam, K. Murr, J. Penrose, D. Skeet, K. Soga From the GRAHAM HAMILTON TRAVEL FUND C. Ashton (£100) for travel in America and Mexico, R. Lingard (£100) for exploration in the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, Ms J. Rainbow (£100) for a project related to sports medicine.

From the MICHAEL PIKE FUND R. Williamson (£100) for travel across the Andes, D . Hilton (£100) for a Raleigh Expedition to Guyana, P. Wallace (£100) and Ms N. Haines (£100) for an expedition to Nepal.

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From the COCHRANE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Ms S. Schuster (ÂŁ125) for travel to Israel to study Hebrew, D . Willington (ÂŁ125) to study organs in Germany.

POSTGRADUATE AWARDS

K. Konuk, R. A. W. Dryfe, R. Phelan BROCKHUES AWARDS

M. Lauder, Ms E. Chinjaeva, A. J. Dickinson, P. R. Lynan, Ms M. E. Lenochova SCHOLARSHIP ELECTIONS

The Governing Body having decided to elect undergraduates to Scholarships and Exhibitions for the new academic year in October rather than July, it has not been possible to include the list of award-holders 1993-94 in this edition of the Magazine.

AULARIAN CALENDAR THE FOLLOWING DATES

in 1993-94 are of special interest to Aularians:

Saturday 2 October 1993, for matriculation years 1972-76 inclusive.

It is likely that the 1994 Gaudy will be on Saturday 1 October 1994 and that it will be for matriculation years 1977-81 inclusive.

THE GAUDY:

ST EDMUND ' S DAY:

Tuesday 16 November 1993.

preceded by the AGM of the SEH Association at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, Tuesday 11 January 1994.

THE LONDON DINNER,

THE REUNION at the Hall, Saturday 25 June 1994. This year, in addition to those invited every year, invitations will be sent to those who matriculated from the late 1970s.

DEGREE DAYS: (all on Saturdays at 11.30 am): In 1993: 23 October, 6 November, 27 November. In 1994: 22 January, 5 March, 21 May, 11 June, 16 July, 30 July, 22 October, 5 November, 26 November. In 1995: 21 January, 4 March, 20 May, 10 June, 15 July, 29 July. Members of the Hall wishing to make arrangements for taking 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.

DR ROSSOTTI'S RETIREMENT DINNER A DINNER will be held in College on Saturday 24 September 1994 to mark Dr Rossotti's retirement after 33 years' service as Chemistry Tutor. Letters to past chemists (and those metallurgists and biochemists for whom Dr Rossotti had tutorial oversight) have elicited over 50 positive reponses to date. Others are invited to notify Professor M. S. Child at the Hall of their wish to attend.

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THE GAUDY this time for Old Members who had matriculated in the years 1967-1971 inclusive, took place on Saturday 3rd October 1992. E~ensong in a full Chapel was followed by sherry in the Party Room and dinner in the Wolfson Hall. In his speech of welcome the Principal explained that a Gaudy was, above all, a celebration and, in particular, a celebration of the successful transformation of St Edmund Hall over the past 70 years from a relatively obscure hall to a flourishing college. Many of those present had been up at the Hall during the years when the new buildings were completed and the library opened, events which symbolized this transition. The speech was followed by the usual toast of Floreat Aula to continued successes and thanks to the Principal and Fellows was expressed by Lawrence Cummings (1971), member of the Executive Committee of the St Edmund Hall Association.

There were present: the Principal, 22 Fellows (including Honorary and Emeritus Fellows), the Chaplain , the Junior Dean and the following Old Members: 1932 K. D. Luke; 1937 H. D. Eastwood; 1940 Dr G . M. Woodman; 1946 P. E. M. Holmes; 1947 Rev D. J. Paxman; 1949 R. J. L. Breese; 1950 Dr G. J. Paxman ; 1954 J. A. West; 1956 J. B. Clark; 1957 Prof J. B. Walmsley; 1959 D. H. Fielding; 1960 J. A. K. Erskine; 1962 Dr G. V. Davis ; 1965 S. R. Garrett; 1966 P . M. Crystal, R. M. Ridley, D. J. Saunders; 1967 A. F. Boorman, J. L. Cooke, R. A. Kenworthy, P. J. R. Masson, S. M. Miller, Dr J. Mosley, J. E. Orton, P. M. A . Rose, Dr D. J . Spiers , D. J. Tabraham-Palmer; 1968 J. R. Berryman, P. W. Brown, M. J. Daniels, Dr D. J. Hughes, H. J. Hunt, A. N .

Jones, S. A. Kenner, Prof J. Prebble, M. A. Rice-Oxley, I. S. Ridgwell, E . J. Rigg, G. D. Salter, P. R. Sewell, D. Vickers, R. T. Ward; 1969 S. F. Blinkhom, Dr A. W. Butement, Dr I. R. Cox, S. J. Dempsey, P. V. Dixon, K. M. Dodd, J. J. Graley, D. Harrison , J. M. Johnson, D. J . Parsons, P . E. Ramell, D. S. J. Ruszala, P. F. Sadler, Dr S. R. Shield, N. F. Strawbridge, J. R. Whelan; 1970 P. Butler, N. C. Coles, A. R. Craston, J. R. Currall, C. R. Evans, Dr K. M. Fisher, J. B. Hearn, P. S. Malin, E . J. Meynell, R. H. C. Ormerod, J. C. B. Perrott, R. H. Robinson, Dr F. Spooner, C. J. Sutton-Mattocks, W. B. Travers; 1971 D. L. Audsley, R. A. Barker, M. D. Booker, L. Curnmings, N. A. Field-Johnson, N. P .

Gregory, P . D. Lott, C. G. McGrail, R. M. C. McGrath, D. L. Robertson, N. L. T. Williams, 1974 ProfT. R. Herbst; 1980 H. Mayer; 1981 H. H. J. F. Antor; 1986 C. S. A. Costa; 1987 Ms V. C. Hardy, U. Kordes.

THE ANNUAL GAUDY

THE REUNION the Reunion of Members of the St Edmund Hall Association was for those who had matriculated in the years up to and including 1975. Early arrivals had the opportunity of viewing the year's donations to the Aularian Collection in the Library and later in the evening the new portrait of the Principal was on display.

New prayer books given by the Association were dedicated at a well-attended Evensong in Chapel after which the evening followed its customary course, with sherry in the old quad preceding dinner in the W olfson Hall and speeches by the Principal and the President of the St Edmund Hall Association, R. J. L. Breese.

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The Principal referred first to the recent death of Harry lrving and then, on a happier note, to the celebratory dinner that was being arranged in September for the 'Three English Dons'. The new Director of Development Richard Wade, was introduced and reference made to the prominent role played by old members' daughters in the running of the JCR. Theatre and music continued to flourish in the Hall, with productions of Twelfth Night and Titus Andronicus and several ambitious concerts. Amongst the musical events had been an organ recital in Chapel by Robert V enables who had kindly given new organ pipes to increase the instrument's range.

Sporting achievements had been disappointingly few and far between mainly, it was thought, due to lack of cohesion rather than shortage of talent. But the river was the bright spot, with the First Torpid going up five places and the First Eight poised for further progress. The role of the newly-formed Friends in promoting the advance of the Boat Club had been very evident.

A number of benefactors had responded generously to the Hall's needs during the past year. Income from Jarvis Doctorow's gift would be used for awards. Dr Brockhues had added to the Emden Lecture fund in order that some lecturers could be brought from abroad. Bill Miller's generosity had been marked by election to an Honorary Fellowship and he had been admitted to the Fellowship by the Principal in New York in March, the occasion being attended by the Vice-Chancellor who also intended to admit Bill to the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors. Fee income to the colleges was falling and further funding was vital if the tutorial system, the essence of Oxford teaching, was to survive.

The Principal concluded his speech by referring to his portrait by David Tindle RA, drawing attention to a number of its special features . It was 'an affectionate picture' and was clearly much admired.

After the toast of Floreat Aula, the President Bob Breese spoke briefly, thanking the Principal and Fellows for the Reunion and reviewing the main activities of the Association including the gifts that were to be given to the College.

There were present: the Principal, the Vice-Principal, the President of the St Edmund Hall Association (Mr R. J. L. Breese), the Chaplain, the MCR President (M. A. Snell) the JCR President (Ms Anna Rentoul), the following Fellows (including Honorary and Emeritus Fellows): R. E. Alton, G. Boume-Taylor, Dr R. Fargher, Prof C. Grayson, Prof R. Harris, Revd Prof J. McManners, Revd E. G. Midgley, Dr R. B. Mitchell, Dr L. A. Newlyn, Dr C. E. Phelps, Dr F. J. C. Rossotti, Dr F. Salvatorelli, Prof G. W. Series, M. D. E. Slater, Dr N. J. Stone, Dr A. J. Taylor, Dr J. D. Todd, R. L. Wade; and the following Old Members: 1922 R. L. Hill, Revd Canon C. N. Wardle-Harpur; 1930 Sir Claude Hayes, B. E. Toland; 1933 F. H. H. Finch, J. Lee; 1934 F. R. Mountain; 1935 P. N. Le Mesurier, H. A. F. Radley; 1936 H. B. D. Beales; 1937 D. G. C. Salt; 1938 Revd P. P. Bloy, D. V. Johnson; 1939 Revd Canon M. W. Dittmer, A. H. C. Meyrick; 1940 G. J. F. Brain, C. Mounsey, Revd Preb G. Sunderland; 1941 C. W . B. Costeloe, G. W. Flex, W. N. Hillier-Fry, Dr G. A. K. Missen, C. J. Weir; 1942 J. B. Anderson, A. Arthur, H. I. Fuller, C. R. Owston, S. V. Swallow, W. J. Tunley; 1943 W. R. Dunsmore, E. C. Jones, P. N. V. Keep, J. S. Power, J. R. Scarr; 1944 A. H. Foot; 1945 Dr N. S. Haile, V. T. H. Parry; 1946 D. S. Dunsmore, E. M.

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Goodman-Smith , T. M . Le Mes uri er; 1947 Dr J. V. Cockshoot; 1948 P. R. Jones, Revd T . W. Silkstone; 1949 W. P. Asbrey ; 1950 Prof C. M. Armitage, W. J. Elliott , J. C. D. Ho lm es, Rev d Cano n R. J . Lee , B. M . Pe nn , Rev d J. Thornton, Revd M. J. Williams ; 1951 M. K. C hatte1jea, Sir Geoffrey de Deney, R. H. French, The Yen R. H. Roberts, W. H. Slack; 1952 Dr I. C . R. Byatt, D. M. Jacobs, C. J. Jones, Revd E. A. Simmonds, A. J. Waters, D. J. V. Wight; 1953 C. G. Burnham, H. A. Smith ; 1954 S. R. Bi lsland, J. C. Lowe, J. V. L. Morgan , M. D. Palmer, J. M. Preston, Dr R. W. Truman; 1955 Judge J. D. Farnworth , P. R. Lewis , D. Ward ; 1956 B. E. Amor, R. H. Caddi c k, M. J .

Cansdale, F. J . Fan·e ll , A. J. Featherstone, J. G. French, D. J. Hockridge, D. H. Johnson, M. P. Reynolds, Prof A. W. J. Thomson; 195 7 J. N. Aptaker, D. M. W. Bolton , R. A. Gilbert, J. Ll . Phillips, S. E. Shepley; 1958 M. J. Beard, Dr R. J. Bi shop, L. L. Filby, R. D. Garratt, A. E. J. Phillips, N. A. J. Swanson ; 1959 B. Robson; 1960 P. F. J. lrvine, A. M. Lewis, D. B. Mash, Dr F. J. Pocock; 1961 E. A. Fretwell-Downing, J. M. Heggadon, M. J. Lynch, D. P. Yaughan; 1962 W .

H. Hatcher, Dr N. MeN. Jackson, J. N. Thomas; 1963 P. Hodson, R. M. Wilier; 1964 A. Brunski ll , G. H. Turner; 1965 P. W. Bad man, P. M. Fickling, S. R. Garrett, A. H. M01·gan, M. P. St M. Shei l; 1966 G . N. Fisher, F. H. Hanbidge, D. A. Hopkins, T. R. P. lrvin, J. F. Spell ar; 1967 C. T . Haw ksworth ; 1968 P. W. Brown , M. J. Daniels, L. A. Jackson; 1969 J. J. Graley, D. S. J. Ruszala; 1970 P. Butl e r, R. C. Halt, W. G. Wa lli s, J . Webster; 1971 D. L. Audsley , T. 0.

Godeseth, N. P. Gregory ; 1972 R. A. E. Davey, R. Stephenson ; 1973 Dr K. M. Baxter, S. R. Douglas, T. R. Lucas; 1974 Dr R. Cerratti , Revd M. J. Hooton , D. H. Jennin gs, Dr P. M. Matthews, J. H. Nason , A Patterson; 1975 M. A. Jones, A. C. Kerr, A. J. Lamas, S. R Oxenbridge, A. P. Stopyra, P. M. Watson; 1976 R. A. H. Finch ; 1980 S. Kin g, Ms R. M. Marte l; 198 1 Ms J. B. Turner; 1985 Ms J. C. T ay lor; 1988 D. M . Lauder (Junior Dean); 1991 J. D. A. Willington (O rga n Schol ar).

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION MINUTES OF THE 62nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION - 12 JANUARY 1993 THE 62ND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION was held in the Smoking Room of Simpson's-in-the-Strand, 100 Strand, London WC2R OEW on Tuesday, 12 January 1993 at 6.15 pm, J. M. Heggadon presiding.

48 members were present.

1. MINUTES The minutes of the last, 6lst, Meeting held on 14 January 1992, having been published in the Magazine and copies being available, were confirmed. There were no matters arising.

2. PRESIDENT'S REPORT J. M. Heggadon said he would not repeat his remarks already made at the Executive Committee and which he would be repeating at the forthcoming dinner.

3. PRINCIPAL'S REPORT J. C. B. Gosling said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner.

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

5. HONORARY TREASURER' S REPORT J. R. Paul reported that L. D. Page, the Honorary Auditor, had hoped to be present but had been prevented from so doing. J. R. Paul presented the audited accounts which had been published in the 1991-92 Magazine. These were adopted.

6. PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT It was proposed by the Honorary Secretary, seconded H. A. F. Radley, and

carried that the Constitution be amended at paragraph 6 to read 'The Executive Committee shall have power to eo-opt additional members up to the number of eight', where the number had previously been five. Sir Claude Hayes was concerned that the previously balanced position of eo-opted members would be upset and the number of Past Presidents which the Constitution had emphasized as needing one would be distorted. The Honorary Secretary explained that after the change the Executive Committee would consist of 32 members and two unfilled vacancies. The number of matriculation year group representatives had increased by four since the Constitution was adopted in 1981; the number of eoopted members, all of whom were Aularians, would rise by three. The number of Past Presidents on the Committee would be five.

7. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT G. L. H. R. Shield had proposed R. J. L. Breese as President in writing by the due date, seconded by J. P. de C. Meade. G. L. H. R. Shield said that R. J. L. Breese had matriculated in 1949 and, after being President of the JCR, had, on coming down, served on the Executive Committee almost continuously including four years as Honorary Treasurer. Gordon Shield spoke of his (Bob 43

Breese' s) career with Shell and his work in the Far East. He proposed him as an ideal candidate for the office of President in which he was sure he would serve to the best of his ability. As there were no other candidates, R. J. L. Breese was declared elected. This declaration was greeted with sustained applause from the Meeting.

8. ELECTIONS The following were elected unanimously: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h.

Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer Up to 1934 1935-44 1955-64 1965-74 1975-84 1985-94

P. R. Lewis J. R. Paul G. L. H. R. Shield W. N. Hillier-Fry M . G. M. Groves L. Cummings R. S. Luddington A. C. Greenham

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

9. CO-OPTIONS The following were eo-opted: a. b. c. d. e.

J. Lee R. A. Farrand P. G. Skokowski R. A. H. Finch K. Konuk

re-elected re-elected for one year only re-elected elected elected

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

11. VOTE OF THANKS A vote of thanks to J. M. Heggadon, the outgoing President, was proposed M . G. M. Groves, seconded Sir Claude Hayes, carried unanimously and with acclamation. John Heggadon said it had been a pleasure to serve.

12. DATE OF NEXT MEETING Tuesday, 11 January 1994, Simpson' s-in-the-Strand, 6.15 pm .

13. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.32 pm.

Paul R. Lewis Hon Sec ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President R. J. L. BREESE MA (1949) The Principal J. C. B. GOSLING BPHIL MA Immediate Past President J. M . HEGGADON MA BSc (LOND) FCIM FFB (1961) 44

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 HA YES KCMG BLTTI MA (1930) G. L. H. R. SHIELD MA (1933) F. H. H. FINCH MA (1933) 1935-44 H. A. F. RADLEY MBE MA (1935) W . N. HILLIER-FRY CMG BA (1941) 1945-54 A. R. J. LLOYD MA (1946) D. J. DAY OBE MA (1951) 1955-64 M. G. M. GROVES DIPEcoNPoLSCI (1962) A. C. BARKER MA (1964) 1965-74 1. D. SHORTRIDGE MA MSC (1966) R. M. RrDLEY MA (1966) L. CUMMINGS MA (1971) 1975-84 R. S. LUDDINGTON BA (1978) Mrss 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 BLTTI MA (1941) D. I. SCARGILL JP MA DPHIL (1954) P. G. SKOKOWSKI MA (1979) REV E. A. SIMMONDS MA (1952) R. A. FARRAND MA (1955) R. A. H. FINCH MA (1976) M. A. SNELL LLB LLM (1992) Hon Vice-President REV CANON J. N. D. KELLY DD FBA 45

THE LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at Simpson' s-in-the-Strand on Tuesday, 12 January 1993. As has become customary, the event was a sell-out, with the list closing earlier than ever (by midDecember). The attendance (138) spanned some 66 years. One break with familiarity, though, was the reappearance on the menu of roast beef after more than a decade. For this year at least, such an innovation appeared not to offend even the most loyal supporter of the traditional saddle of lamb.

The President of the Association, John Heggadon, began by greeting the Association's four guests, the Principal and Mrs Gosling, Sir Robin Day and Professor Sir Ronald Oxburgh, Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence, and holder of many other distinguished posts, not least that of John Heggadon's moral tutor! Neither the President of the J.C.R. nor that of the M.C.R. could be present at the Dinner, as sadly was the case with the two eminent Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Association. Professor Marcharn had died in his nineties in December; he had served on the Committee for sixty years and had continued teaching at Cornell University until just two months before his death. On a happier note, Dr John Kelly sent his usual 'affectionate wishes ' to the assembly.

The President then referred to the achievements of the Association over the past year, in particular the publication of the Hall Directory. Rachel Martel was warmly thanked for all her hard work in its preparation. In similar vein Dr Ian Scargill was to be congratulated once again on the Magazine . A portrait of the Principal had been commissioned in recognition of his completion of ten years in office.

John Heggadon concluded by congratulating Bob Breese on his election to succeed him as President of the Association. After forty years on the Committee Bob could have no excuse for not knowing what he was letting himself in for!

In his reply the Principal paid tribute to John Heggadon for his work on the College Endowments Committee and for everything he had achieved during his three years as President. He then referred to the death in April of George Ramsay who was a Fellow of the Hall for thirty-seven years. He was otherwise disposed to say little about the last year's activities until the summer Reunion, but fortunately he relented and confirmed, if proof were needed, that the Hall's achievements continued to be rich and diverse. The success of the Boat Club in Eights, a busy year for drama productions, the arrival of a grand piano through the generosity of Law Fellow Robert Venables, victory in women ' s Rugby Cuppers; the audience was suitably impressed. No less active was the commitment to fund-raising. Another New York Dinner, another Gaudy and now the appointment of a full-time Director of Development, Richard Wade, formerly Director General of the Advertising Association.

After thanking the Principal the President introduced his special guest-speaker, Sir Robin Day, Honorary Fellow and 'dormant volcano' (his own words!). Sir Robin opened with disarming modesty. At Oxford he had been no academic and no athlete but maybe, he said, he had deserved a quarter-blue in pomposity. His had been a golden age of post-war purity when food and women were strictly rationed. Sir Robin recalled with emotion the enfeebled state in which he had THE 52ND LONDO N DINNER

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journeyed from public house to public house, fortified only by South African sherry. Such reminiscences culminated in an affectionate tribute to John Kelly.

In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: 1922 Dr E. P. Brice; 1930 Sir Claude Hayes; 1931 Rev R. J. Vaughan; 1932 D. Floyd; 1933 F. H. H. Finch, J. Lee; 1935 H. A. F. Radley; 1937 Sir John Palmer; 1938 R. E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow) R. P. H. Davies; 1941 W. N. Hillier-Fry; 1942 Dr J. D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow); 1945 J. E. Durling, J. R. Paul; 1946 E. M. Goodman-Smith, J. Pike, M. G. Sarson, D. J. R. Thomas; 1947 J. M. H. Scott; 1949 W. P. Asbrey, R. J. L. Breese, T. P. Kelly; 1950 C. D. Griffin-Smith, J. Wheeler; 1951 D. Bloom, M. K. Chatterjea, D. J. Day, Prof R. Harris (Hon Fellow); 1952 P. Brown, H. W. Goldsworthy, D. M. Jacobs, C. J. Jones, N. F. Lockhart, C. J. Lummis, J. M. Skinner, Rev E. A. Simmonds; 1953 D. H. Giles, A. J. Kember; 1954 S. R. Bilsland, J. C. M. Casale, Dr D. I. Scargill (Vice-Principal); 1955 R. A. Farrand, P. R. Lewis; 1956 A. F. Ham, D. H. Johnson; 1957; M. H. Bottomley, J. W. Harrison, R. W. Jackson, G. R. Mihell, J. Ll. Phillips, S. E. Shepley, Prof J. B. Walmsley; 1958 L. L. Filby, J. F. O' Donnell; 1959 A. P. Gorringe; 1960 J. F. Adey, R. C. S. Clark, D. J. Cook, A. G. S. Douglas, C. H. L. Long, D. A. G. Morris, Dr F. J. Pocock, P. J. R. Sankey-Barker, R. E. Sparrow; 1961 D. Band, Dr W. J. Burroughs, R. I. Chard, J . M. Heggadon (President, S.E.H. Association), G. Marsh, P. M. Newell, I. R. K. Rae, A. M. Rentoul; 1962 D . J. L. Fitzwilliams, M. G. M. Groves, M. J. Hamilton, N. H. Pegram, J. R. Taylor, J. N. Thomas; 1964 D. A. Ashworth, A. C. Barker, Dr M. J. Clarke; 1965 R. W. Beckham, N. J. Cross, C. J. C. Palmer, M. A. Pannell, Dr M. R. D. Randall, B. G. Streather; 1966 P. M. Crystal, P. A. D. Griffiths, D. A. Hopkins; 1968 S. H. Carleston, Dr D. J. Hughes, H. J. Hunt, R. T. Ward; 1969 M. J. Birks, G. J. Coates, J. J. Grayley; 1970 W. N. David, P. G. Harper, J. W. Hawkins, L. N. Kaye, J. Poyser; 1972 J. N. Goater, R. Stephenson; 1973 G. K. Chamberlain, T. R. Lucas; 1974 J. A. B. Gray; 1975 A. Davids, P. M. Watson; 1976 R. A. H. Finch, P. L. Smith, S. A. Staite; 1977 C. J. Blount; 1978 I. Coleman, S. I. Neilbron, R. S. Luddington; 1980 S. King, J. S. Madgwick, Ms R. M. Martel; 1981 Ms C. P. Ivins; 1982 P. J. Edwards, S. K. ffitch, Mrs A. Hindhaugh (Hart-Davis), P. D. McWilliam, P. J. Murray, D. J. MYrers, D. J. Walmsley, S. R. T. White; 1983 M. R. S. Irwin; 1984 J. M. Day; 1986 Dr P. D. Billyard; 1988 A. C. Greenham. The following other Fellows also attended: G. Bourne-Taylor (Domestic Bursar), Dr P. J. Collins, Dr R. B. Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow).

R. A. H. Finch THE AMERICAN AULARIAN REPORT was astonishingly active for US-based Aularians. Three fundraising gatherings organised by Warne Boyce (Pittsburgh), John Child (Philadelphia) and Simon Simonian (Washington DC)- each of them honoured by the presence of the Principal - were immensely successful complements to the Annual New York Dinner held on November 6, 1992.

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the thunder yet again. After all, Bill had hosted the New York Dinner with considerable aplomb through the Reagan/Bush era, receiving plaudits year after year. Now, with luck, the Clinton victory (none of us unaware of Bill's politics) would upset his equilibrium. He would quietly take his leave.

Not a chance in Hades! It was at Simon's elegant party in Washington that the Principal leaked the news that Bill was giving the Hall over one million dollars.

Shortly thereafter the announcement came of Bill's election as an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund Hall. The Miller bandwagon was rolling again. It was not Bill but the rest of us who ended up a little dizzy as we struggled to imagine a million bucks leaving our pockets, albeit for a most worthy cause.

The climax (for those of us in America) of what can only be called Bill Miller's Year came on March 28th, 1993, when he was honoured at a luncheon held at the United Nations Plaza Hotel in New York attended by Aularians and his family and friends. Oxford Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Southwood delivered the keynote speech, while the Principal reduced everybody to laughter and tears with his preamble to Bill's formal swearing-in as an Honorary Fellow. Bill himself, in unorthodox fashion, at least for a member of the Hall, selected Latin for his part in the ceremony. We all agreed he came through with flying colours!

Chief credit for organizing the occasion goes to Bill Sotirovich, Chairman of the American Friends of St. Edmund Hall, who also delivered a speech and presented Sir Richard with a gift of Hugo Grotius' 'De Jure Belli Ac Pacis.' Alan Westaway, Angus McCallum and Christine Ho worked tirelessly to ensure that this well-deserved tribute to Bill Miller was a resounding success.

For once, despite his busy transAtlantic schedule, the Principal could not make the Annual Dinner, but this gave us an opportunity to meet Dr. Nicholas Cronk. He spoke generously of our efforts to fund a new Junior Common Room, and gave us a first-hand report of events back at Teddy Hall.

The Dinner marked the first time that spouses and guests were invited, and the attendee list below attests to the success of this welcome new departure: St. Edmund Hall New York Dinner November 6, 1992

Attendees Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Simmonds Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Alien Walker Read Mr. J. Owen Ward Mr. Gareth Roberts and Ms. Gwenna Robinson Dr. Edward Ilgren Mr. Angus McCallum and Guest Mr. and Mrs. A. Warne Boyce Mr. Alan Westaway Mr. Philip Broadly Dr. Nicholas Cronk Mr. and Mrs . Jarvis Doctorow

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Mr. and Mrs. Alex McCallum Mr. and Mrs. William V. Sotirovich Mr. John Child Mr. Simon Costa Dr. Simon Simonian Mr. John Basnage Mr. Paul Gladen Mr. Fletcher Newsum Mr. Peter Gross bard Dr. David Brenner Ms. Christine Ho Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Howard Alex McCallum VISIT TO AMERICA- MARCH 1993 of 1992, Bill Miller was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his very generous benefaction (see last number of the Magazine).

He had still, however, to be sworn in. On the general principle that it is dangerous to have unsworn Fellows floating free, my wife and I rushed over to New York in March to set matters right. There was an Oxford Campaign jamboree being held there at that time, and the Old Members in New York were first having a drinks party, on Saturday 27th, and then a brunch in honour of Bill Miller on Sunday 28th.

We arrived on the Thursday evening, to be met by Alan Westaway and deposited in our comfortable quarters in the United Nations Plaza hotel. Alan had, with great consideration, decided not to overload our programme. Friday, therefore, only contained a reception for the Campaign for Oxford in the evening. We spent most of the pleasant sunny day in the unaccustomed role of leisured tourists. The reception was well-attended, but the venue was unfortunate: a large, low-ceilinged room at the United Nations in which, with about nine hundred people, the noise was overpowering. Bill Miller rounded up the St Edmund Hall contingent, and we politely assembled at one end of the room to hear the speeches. The reception was in honour of Senator Fullbright, and was attended by Sir David Hanney, the Chancellor, Mrs Fullbright, understudying for the Senator, and the Vice-Chancellor. Each in turn made a noble effort at speaking, but most of those there were unaware that any such effort was being made. The noise continued unabated, so that the occasion was tiring both for those trying to speak, and for those few of us who were trying to listen.

Afterwards, Bill and Irene Miller took us to a delightful dinner at a restaurant specialising in fish. It made a relaxing end to the day, and one not too demanding on the digestion.

The Saturday was another day of relaxation, followed by a drinks party hosted

by Bill Miller at the Grand Hyatt. This was officially for Old Members, but a number of outsiders seemed to have been attracted in, some of whom turned out to be members of Bill Miller's family, and so not so far outside after all. One of IN THE AUTUMN

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the troubles, increasingly, as I get to know more and more of those attending these functions , is that i have less and less time for individual chat. An enthusiastic ' hello ' , followed by two minutes of inadequate updating and an unrealistic determination to have a longer talk later, leaves something missing. Still, it is better than nothing, and does not happen in all cases. With the rest, the meetings at least serve the function of Christmas cards of enabling one to keep in touch, with the advantage that they reveal that others also age. After the party, Warne Boyce shepherded a group of us to dinner (a group of McCallums, not all related, Christine Ho, the Doctorows, Andy Rolfe and Leonard Gibeon), and then insisted on paying, an offer which the assem bled company politely declined to refuse.

This allowed for more leisured talk.

On the Sunday was the brunch in honour of Bill Miller. This was a feat of organisation by Bill Sotirovich, helped by others, especially , I am reliably informed, Alex McCallum. There were about seventy people there, many Old Members, a number of other friends of Bill Miller, and some people from the Oxford Campaign. Somehow , Bill Sotirovich had pers uaded the ViceChancellor to come, and also to say a few words . It emerged that when he arrived in Oxford as a new professor, the first invitation he received was to the St Edmund Day Feast on 16 November. He had fond memories of being entertained by the then Principal, John Kelly. He stressed the importance of the colleges to the university, and of co-operation between the two . I then swore in Bill Miller. For a number of years now this ceremony has been done in College in English, as the demise of Latin in schools made it an increasingly painful occasion. Bill would have none of this. He delivered his undertakings in Latin in a confident (and correct) pronunciation, and an articulation which convinced one that he understood what he was saying. This made the choice of language more impressive, since those who choose Latin undertake more than those who choose English. Bill then said a few words about the Hall, and his reasons for supporting education there.

The whole brunch was compered with aplomb by Bill Sotirovich, - though there was a moment when I thought he had forgotten who I was - , and the organisation was impeccable. My wife and I shared a table with Alien Walker Read and his wife, George Earner and his son, Peter Crossland and Leonard Gibeon. A desultory break-up made it possible to meet a lot of the people there.

On Monday we flew with Alan Westaway and Angus McCallum to Pittsburgh, where we stayed with the Boyces. In the evening, Doreen and Margaret had dinner with Susan Smerd, while the Aularians had dinner at the Duquesne Club and plotted strategy. The next day we attended a Campaign for Oxford lunch for Oxonians, at which Henry Drucker reported on the Campaign.

It emerged from conversation that it is not only our own old members who are concerned about threats to the collegiate and tutorial systems. Apparently, such regional meetings are not that common, and the Campaign' s regional organiser, Susan Anderson, expressed a well-received enthusiasm for more such occasions.

It seemed to me that especially in places where no individu al college had a significant number of old Members, such meetings were likely to be of benefit to colleges.

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After lunch, Warne drove us to the airport, and we set off back home, tired but stimulated and, as usual, with warm memories of the hospitality we had received and the people we had met.

Justin Gosling THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ST EDMUND HALL ¡ delivered by William V. Sotirovich to welcome Professor Sir Richard South wood, F.R.S., Vice-Chancellor of the University and President of the Campaign for Oxford and Justin C. B. Gosling, Principal of St Edmund Hall, and to admit William R. Miller as an Honorary Fellow of S.E.H., on Sunday March 28th, 1993 at the United Nations Plaza Hotel, New York.

INTRODUCTORY SPEECH

Dear Friends and Honoured Guests: 'My name is Bill Sotirovich and I am the Chairman of the American Friends of St Edmund Hall. As most of you know the Hall is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning at Oxford University. It is better known as the Aula Sancti Edmundi in Universitate Oxon, and our St Edmund Hall group in the United States called itself The Aularian Committee in North America. But then, we ran into a problem. Recently a person called to inquire about our group and asked what the name Aularian meant, and when I explained that the name is derived from the word "Aula" he said: "This is disappointing! I thought you are interested in protecting the spotted owls, and concerned about the jobs in forest industry."'

I ignored this incident, but when our committee met in the beginning of this year, the suggestion was made that we rename our group, and while retaining the honorable name of Aularians, take a new name. We then decided to call ourselves 'The American Friends of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University'. This accomplished, to my very pleasant surprise, I discovered only a few days ago that another group of Oxford graduates in the United States have just decided to call themselves 'The American Friends of University College'. The Univ group in the USA is an interesting group, especially since they pride themselves in having famous alumni in their ranks including our President Bill Clinton. St Edmund Hall is equally proud of its own alumni like Justin Gosling, Bill Miller and many others with us here today. This being so, I am planning to ask the Univ people to join forces with Teddy Hall and plan events together.

But, let me tell you about this wonderful event we are having here and now.

We are here to welcome the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Sir Richard Southwood who is also the President of the Campaign for Oxford. He is the Linacre Professor of Zoology and a Fellow of Merton College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the United States National Academy of Science and an author of many books and papers. Above all, in my estimation, he is a fine human being.

Last year most of us attended his lecture on Energy Resources in the Developed and in the Developing Countries, and while following the presentation of the topic, I was indeed impressed by his deep concern for the human beings everywhere, and by his recommendation for developing global energy resources and in this way preserving the world peace. His message at that time was loud and clear: "We must develop solar power systems. We must stop the

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production of weaponry, and replace its production with the production and trade in equipment for the production of energy and its efficient use. We must insist on the application of the biblical command 'From swords to plowshares' and demand the replacement of the weapons guidance systems with the development and application of the solar power systems".

Many years ago when I was in Oxford, I learned about the Law Of Nations which we now call International Law, about Francisco de Vittoria and about Alberico Gentilli, an Italian who came to England four centuries ago and became a professor of Civil Law in Oxford. I also learned about a great man who in his many works outlined the basis for the Law of Nations, called Hugo Grotius whose writings included law, theology, history and many other works in fields of arts and sciences. In his famous book DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS, he outlined the basis for the Law of Nations and in one of his writings he says: "This whole universe makes but one world, in which there is but one thing that exceeds the rest in beauty that is the sun; and in every human being there is but one thing that governs, that is, the mind".

Sir Richard, as an educator, as we all know has been working on cultivating the human mind and on expanding universal knowledge, and as a scientist he has been working on discovering and applying scientific knowledge and exploring the mysteries of the sun as the source of energy. As a human being he has been hard at work in finding the ways of utilizing the solar energy for human progress and development, and in this way doing his best for promoting and maintaining the world peace.

Therefore, as a token of deep appreciation and as a sign of friendship I would like to present Sir Richard, on behalf of myself and of my wife as well as on behalf of all our Aularians and of the American Friends of St. Edmund Hall with this copy of Hugo Grotius' De Jure Belli Ac Pacis. This book, in which the law of nations is outlined, in its early edition of 1670, is in Latin which is quite appropriate coming from an Aularian and the Aula Sancti Edmundi in Universitate Oxon.'

BILL MILLER'S RESPONSE Sir Richard, Justin, Bill Sotirovich, other Aularian friends and personal friends. Thank you very much for being here on what is a very special day for me.

As a young undergraduate at Oxford, I always believed that the ViceChancellor was somewhat close to God and certainly someone I was unlikely to meet. Seeing him here today makes me realize - perhaps belatedly - that I must be moving in the right direction! His leadership of both the University and the Campaign in recent years has been exemplary and, although he will step down as Vice-Chancellor later this year, we are all delighted that he will continue to lead the Campaign for another year.

To Justin I must say that were it not for his welcome visits to the United States for what have become annual St Edmund Hall dinners, this gift of mine THANK YOU

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Bill Sotiro vich (ri ght) congratulates Bill Miller on hi s Honorary Fellowship, New York, 28 March 1993 mi ght not have been made. I say ' mi ght' because one can never be certain and the yellow brochure produced for the annual Gaudy about a couple of years ago laid out in very clear terms how at least one Oxford college operated on a very low e ndow me nt a nd th e re in a n a ppea l fo r a n in c reased ca pi ta l base was eloquently made. I began to think how I might possibly do something about this and it occurred to me that, as a non- sc ie nti st who had managed to build a successful career in a scie nce-based industry, I mi ght put bac k into Oxfo rd resources which could be used for sc ience education at St Edmund Hall. Vari ous di scuss ions and corres po ndence with Ju stin e nsued and he re we are tod ay.

Ju stin, we are deli ghted that yo u and Margaret are with us and I am deeply appreciative of the fact that I am now an Honorary Fe llow of the College.

I would like to recogni ze, es peciall y, two ladies whose late husbands pl ayed very critical roles in my career with Bri stoi-Myers Squibb . Dr Herman Sokol lured me away from Pfizer nearly thirty years ago to j oin Bri stol Laboratories intern ational in Europe and then subsequently brought me to the U.S.A. where I have remained. We are delighted that Margaret is here today . Gav in Macbain became the Chairman of the Board of Bristoi-Myers shortly after 1 came to New York and his support in my career was also very important to me and, incidentall y, our shared interest in the pleasures o f the grape is a very fond memory. Marg ie, thank you also for being with us.

I see many fri ends, old and new, around the room today, re fl ecting my vari ous ac ti v iti es a nd associ ati o ns. My family and I appreciate yo ur presence and support very much .

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as a group over many years to put the annual dinner together in November and Bill and Alan have been key players from the beginning. Bill is also leading the appeal to U.S.-based Aularians to construct a new Junior Common Room at the College and his efforts, I know, are deeply appreciated by all at the College and on this side of the water. Thanks very much, Bill, to you and all who helped you put today's programme together.

ANTIPODEAN AULARIANS 19 NOVEMBER, 1992, retirement celebrations took place in Perth, Western Australia, for Geoffrey Gordon Allen (matric. 1945), Librarian of Curtin University in that city. Representing the Principal and Fellows, Dr Bany Spun (matric. 1974), flew across the Australian continent from Sydney to present Mr Alien with handsomely bound and embossed copies of Dr Emden's and Dr Kelly's histories of the Hall. Mr Alien has presented the Hall with bound volumes of his musical compositions. After the ceremony in the Vice-Chancellery, there was a banquet in a city hotel which concluded with performances of Geoffrey Alien's music for flute and piano and at which the gifts from the Hall were on display and much admired by the large company of librarians present.

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DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM R. A. Adcock (1950) is cunently working as Assistant County Coordinator (Governors) with Devon LEA. J. A. Akroyd (1951) has retired, having taught French for 37 years, most recently at Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall.

G. G. Alien (1945) was joined by Bany Spun (1974) from Sydney University at the celebration dinner to mark his retirement from Curtin University, Western Australia.

D. H. Anderson (1967) works as director of a firm of design and management consultants in the Netherlands.

J. B. Anderson (1942) ends six years' service as a field officer with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in August 1993.

J. D. Andrewes (1956), after 30 years in the City, retired as a partner in Coopers and Lybrand in the Spring of 1993. He continues as a member of the Board of Crown Agents.

B. C. Arthur (1950) works in semi-retirement as Secretary to the Independent Appeals Authority for School Examinations and as adviser to the Education Assets Board and the Manor Chalitable Trust.

Rev T. E. M. Ashton (1933) is now living at Morden College, Blackheath, where he was Chaplain 1975-83.

Rev R. T. Beckwith (1949) received a Lambeth DD from the Archbishop of Canterbury in June 1992.

T. P. Bedford (1965) has been appointed coach of Oxford Rugby Football Club.

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K. D. Belden (1931) celebrated his 80th birthday with the publication of his book 'The Hour of the Helicopter' .

E. Benson (1953) has retired from teaching after 32 years, most recently at Stuart Bathhurst RC High School, Wednesbury.

J. R. Berryman (1968) serves on the Family Panel of the local Bench as well as being Head of Religion and Philosophy at St Bede' s School, Hail sham.

W. J. Best (1962) received a schoolmaster scholarship at the Royal Society in April 1992 in recognition of work done for the British Physics Olympiad, and was invited to be an official observer for Great Britain in the International Physics Olympiad.

D. J. Betterton (1973) is Head of Physics at Colston's Collegiate School in Bristol.

Rev Dr F. H. Bird (1959), Vicar of Rushen, has been made Canon of St Maughold in the Diocese of Sodor and Man. M. J. Birks (1969) is Managing Director of Ad Salis Ltd, a management consultancy and training company, that he has established in Lyme Regis.

N. P. Blair (1965) coordinates Schools and Universities Network and Wessex Research Group Network.

D. M. W. Bolton (1957) writes that Dame Alice Owen's School became a Grant Maintained School in April 1993.

P. Boothroyd (1975) and his wife have their own translation company in Schorndorf near Stuttgart.

Canon M. A. Bourdeaux (1954) is Director of Keston Research which now houses its archive and library at 4 Park Town in Oxford.

D. Bourne-Jones (1951) retired from local government in 1991 and founded BJ Tutorials , giving tuition in EC languages to people in bu siness and the professions.

Helen M. Boyling (Enoch, 1987) is a teacher of languages at St Julie's High School, Liverpool.

C. J. Bradshaw (1970) is Vice President of Finance, Andalex Resources Inc, which mines coal in Kentucky and Utah.

Canon P. G. Brett (1959) has published 'Love Your Neighbour: The Bible and Christian Ethics Today '.

C. M. Brown (1966) is Chairman of Collins and Brown, Publishers, and Chairman of Mortgage Group Holdings.

Deborah A. Brown (Rayner, 1982) is a solicitor, specialising in employment law.

P. W. Brown (1968) is working for General Accident in Bristol.

A. Brunskill (1964) is Division Manager, Chemicals Europe, for Procter and Gamble.

G. E. Bull (1972) is a partner in Robson Rhodes, the chartered accountants.

Rt Rev J. B. Burrough (1934) celebrated 25 years as a Bishop in the Anglican Church in June 1993.

W. J. L. Carver (1980) gained an MBA at London Business School and now works for BZW Corporate Finance. Margaret Carver (Hall) is Personal Assistant to Lord Hollick, Chief Executive of MAl PLC. R. J. Challiss (1964) teaches at St George's College, Harare, Zimbabwe.

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L. A. Chester (1957) has published 'Unreasonable Behaviour' and 'A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art and Graft of Spitting Image'.

A. T. Clark (1943) is involved in the training of Methodist lay preachers for which he is East Anglian District Tutor.

D. A. Clarke (1958) took early retirement in the summer of 1993, on the grounds of ill health, from the headship of Sandbach High School, Cheshire, where he had been Headmaster for 21 years.

M. D. Clifford (1957) has been teaching Biology at St Edmund's School, Canterbury for 31 years.

Dr J. V. Cockshoot (1947) continues to examine for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, both in the UK and overseas.

C. J. Coleman (1983) is now at Warburg Securities, London.

A. S. Cowell (1965) is Bureau Chief in Rome for the New York Times.

Dr. A. G. Crosby (1974) is General Editor for the British Association for Local history, has been awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of History, University of Liverpool, and is Managing Editor for Camegie Publishing Ltd, Preston.

L. Cummings (1971) was appointed Managing Director of MSAS Kimpton Paris in January 1993.

E. L. Cunnell (1949) teaches part-time at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls.

P.A. Cunnell (1980) works at Credit Suisse First Boston, Canary Wharf.

P. D. Cutting (1944) retired as Chief Investigation Officer of HM Customs and Excise in December 1984 and was awarded the CBE at that time.

M. J. Daniels (1968) is the Senior Quality Engineer for Software at Thorn EMI Electronics, Crawley, specialising in radar and electronic warfare systems.

R. A. Daugherty (1961) has been Chairman of the Curriculum Council for Wales since 1991 and becomes Professor of Education at UCW, Aberystwyth, in October 1993.

J. N. Davie (1958) retired as Assistant Head of English and Media Studies, Trent University, in August 1992 but continues to teach there part-time as well as at the Open University.

Sir Geoffrey de Deney (1951) has retired from the Clerkship to the Privy Council and has been appointed Chief Executive to the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

J. M. Dennis (1965) is Commercial Director of Clarke Hooper Communications Ltd, a leading marketing services agency.

J. F. Dixon (1943) retired in 1988 from Linotype-Paul.

S. C. Downie (1963) attended the inaugural dinner of the Uganda Oxford and Cambridge Society at the Sheraton Hotel, Kampala, in August 1992.

S. Dyer (1959) is Director General of the Automobile Association.

M. J. Eames (1962), having taught at Nelson and Colne College since 1972, during rriost of which time he was in charge of Modern Languages, has been obliged to take early retirement on health grounds.

HH Judge J. D. Farnworth (1955) was appointed a Circuit Judge in 1991 and has retired from practice as a solicitor.

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F. P. Ferguson (1952) works for the Church Missionary Society, Christian Aid and the African Pastow Fellowship.

G. W. Flex (1941) has retired after teaching Classics at Wellingborough School for 41 years.

J. F. Foster (1952) was awarded the OBE in the 1991 New Year Honours. He returned from the USA in July 1993 and works as an educational consultant.

E. P. Fox (1953) now works as an overseas examiner for Trinity College, London, in Speech, Drama and English as a Foreign Language.

Canon J. D. Fox (1925) still takes regular duty each week.

A. Fukuda (1989), having gained his M.Litt, has been appointed associate professor of the History of Political Theory in the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo.

Dr M. Garrett (1975) edited 'Massinger: the Critical Heritage' (1991) and is working on 'Greece: a Literary Companion' and 'Sidney: the Critical Heritage'.

S. R. Garrett (1965) is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of General Education Science and Technology, Hendon College, Middlesex.

R. A. Gilbert (1957) works for Thames Water Utilities on the London Water Ring Main.

D. F. Goldsmith (1945) has retired from Cranleigh School but does part-time teaching there as well as tutoring at Surrey College in Guildford.

E. J. H. Gould (1963), until recently Headmaster of Felsted School, has been appointed Master of Marlborough College from August 1993.

R. H. T. Gozney (1970) is British High Commissioner in Swaziland.

R. J. Grey (1967) has left Eagle Star Insurance and is an independent consultant in the field of European insurance development.

Captain P.A. D. Griffiths (1966) has completed five years in BT International and is currently involved in the training of BT managers.

Dr N. S. Haile (1945) has completed his contract with the Petroleum Research Institute, Petronas, Malaysia, and is living in Oxford.

J. G. Hamilton (1975) continues practising as a barrister in the Temple.

D. J. Hansom (1966) is Managing Director of Opinion Research Corporation.

D. A. Harding (1959) has completed 20 years' service with the National Rehabilitation Board in Dublin.

Canon J. C. E. Hayter (1933) has published the second edition of 'Priest in Prison'.

D. Henderson (1956) has taken early retirement from Kodak Ltd after 30 years in manufacturing and employee relations.

Prof T. R. Herbst (1974) is Professor for English Philology (Linguistics) at the University of Erlangen.

Dr J. Hill (1962) has contributed 'The ILP in Lancashire and the North West' to The Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party.

D. G. G. Hoare (1951) has retired as Headmaster of Perrott Hill School, Crewkerne, after 23 years.

D. J. Hockridge (1 956) has taken early retirement from his post as Senior Lecturer at Leicester Polytechnic but continues translating the adventures of Asterix .

J. C. D. Holmes (1950) is now a freelance book production consultant.

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Very Rev R. T. Holtby (1939) was Visiting Fellow, West Sussex Institute of Higher Education in 1993, and has published 'Eric Milner-White, Dean of Y ark, 1884-1963'.

Dr D. G. Howitt (1968) is Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Aeronautical, Materials and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Davis. After coaching the university rugby teams for five years, he is now devoting his sporting energies to rowing and is currently Vice-President of the River City Rowing Club, Sacramenta.

G. J. Burst (1975) is Programmes Development Manager, Manchester Open Learning.

Prof R. Illsley (1938) was awarded the honorary degree of Dr Med by the University of Copenhagen in November 1992.

P. H. Ince (1975) is Principal Housing Officer (Projects), Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council.

M. G. A. Jack (1944) retired from The Guardian in 1987. He is involved in the Barnet National Trust Association and the Newsvendors Benevolent Institution.

D. M. James (1982) works as a software engineer for Davy International in Poole.

R. C. T. James (1938) remains active as Chairman of 'Friends ofTreginnis'.

A. L. N. Jay (1951) has retired from private practice as a solicitor. He has been re-selected as team manager for the British fencing team for the Atlanta Olympics and the World Championships 1993, 94, 95.

R . 0. P . Jones (1969) is Headmaster of Amman Valley Comprehensive School, Ammanford, Dyfed.

W. J. Judd (1970) is currently Artistic Director, 'The Garden Venture', at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and continues as freelance theatre/opera director.

Dr S. R. A. Kelly (1968) works for the British Antarctic Survey as a palaeontologist.

T. P. Kelly (1949) is a director of two commercial radio stations, Choice FM in South London, and Tristar Broadcasting, awarded the Slough, Maidenhead and Windsor licence.

Canon M. P. Kent (1949) retired in August 1993.

P. E. Kent (1972) is Head of Sixth Form, Kingsmead High School, Hednesford.

A. C. Kerr (1975) works for Arab Bank PLC in London.

P. D. Lawrence (1950) now works part-time as a teacher of English as a foreign language at the International Language and Sports Centre, Harrow House, Swanage, tutoring A-level English at the Adult Education Centre, Purbeck School, Wareham, and giving home tuition.

A. M. Lewis (1959) has been Senior Partner of Taylor Joynson Garrett, the City law firm, since 1986.

Rev A. R . Lewis (1939) has published 'Too Bright the Vision? African Adventures of an Anglican Rebel'.

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A. R. J. Lloyd's (1946) company, John Lloyd and Partners, has been retained by the Civil Service to provide Outplacement Counselling Services to released senior administrative staff and is listed by the DTI as an approved consultancy in Business Planning, Financial and Information Systems, Marketing, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance.

H. A. R. Long (1948) has retired from the Department of Land Managt;ment and Development, University of Reading. He remains a consultant for Smiths Gore and manages some local estates.

A. A. M. Maharaj (1990) has been elected President of the Oxford University Student Union for the year 1993-94.

S. J. Manners (1965) now teaches at Bethlehem College, Tauranga, New Zealand.

G. Marsh (1961) is Head of Dulwich College Prep School.

R. D. Marsh (1969) is a partner of Hoffmann Eitle and Partners of Munich and London, working as a European Patent Attorney.

H. G. Mason (1972) has been seconded from British Aerospace to the European Aerospace Industry Association in Brussels to develop electronic trading methods across Europe.

Dr P. M. Matthews (1974) has returned to McGill University (Montreal Neurological Institute) after three years back in Oxford.

P. W. Mayne (1969) is Vice-Principal of Rutland Sixth Form College, Oakham, and has co-edited 'Effective Learning- Into a New Era'.

The Ven N. G. L. R. McDermid (1945) retired as Archdeacon of Richmond in August 1993.

R. P. Meeres (1962) is Managing Director of Ridsdale and Co Ltd and of its associated company Bureau of Analysed Samples Ltd. G. R. Mihell (1957) has been appointed Clerical Registrar for the Guildford Diocese. He retires from Shell International Chemical Company in 1994.

P. N. Moorhouse (1985) works as Middle East correspondent in the Cairo bureau of the BBC. Sarah L. Muscroft (1987) has spent the last two years teaching in Ghana under the Voluntary Service Overseas scheme.

Rev M. J. Notley (1960) is honorary curate at St Peter's and St Paul's, Oadby.

R. C. O'Keeffe (1984) has been working for Shell Exploration and Production since 1987, initially in Holland, now in Aberdeen as a Project Engineer.

Sqn Ldr D. F. Orchard (1942) spent a career in the RAF and then flying for British Caledonian Airways and Royal Jordanian Airways. He is currently cruising his yacht worldwide.

Sir Alan Outram (1958) is Under-Master, Harrow School.

S. R. Oxenbridge (1975) is a director of Morgan Grenfell, responsible for the bank's securitisation activities.

F. H. Pedley (1938) is still active in the University of the Third Age. P. D. Periton (1970) is Assistant Head of the Department of Economics and Public Administration, Nottingham Trent University.

R. B. Phillips (1964) is Chief Executive, Somerset Training and Enterprise Council.

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Rev J. D. D. Porter (1954) is Team Rector ofWednesfield.

Sir Kieran Prendergast (1966) has been British High Commissioner to Kenya since October 1992 where A. J. Hawkes (1962) is Political Counsellor.

H. A. F. Radley (1935) , having served in Malta 1941-44 at the time King George VI awarded the George Cross to the Island Fortress, has been awarded the Malta George Cross Fiftieth Anniversary Medal by the President of Malta, with permission to wear by HM The Queen.

M. A. Rice-Oxley (1968) is Head of Theatre Studies at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby.

D. L. Robertson (1971) is a partner of Memery Crystal, Solicitors, in London of whom P. M. Crystal (1966) is Senior Partner.

Rev J. P. Robson (1954) was appointed a Chaplain to the Queen and a member of the Royal Household in April 1993.

J. Rowell (1956) is Director ofDalgety PLC. J. R. Scarr (1943) is still busy researching and writing articles on genealogy.

His history of the Scarr family was published in 1992.

K. R. Scott (1976) has moved to Nottingham and is working for Halfords Ltd, part of the Boots Company, as Business General Manager, responsible for their cycling business.

P. R. Sewell (1968) is Treasurer of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.

S. E. Shepley (1957) has formed a new company, Brodie Crawford and Co Ltd, for the international marketing of Scotch whisky.

R. M. Sherratt (1963) was elected FRCP in 1992 and is Head of Neurophysiology, Luton and Dunstable Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital.

Dr R. M. Sibly (1966) has been promoted to a personal chair in Behavioural Ecology in the University of Reading.

R. M. Siedle (1957) has his own management and public relations consulting firm in Melbourne and is secretary of an exclusive Melbourne Old Aularians Club which includes amongst its members Jerry Bell and Roger Sutton.

Professor A . R . Slabas (1971) is Professor of Plant Sciences in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Durham.

A. N. Smith (1972) has left Hammersmith Hospital to become Secretary of the Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

D. J. Southall (1986), after three years working for Shell in Amsterdam, is studying for a Masters degree at Sydney University assisted by an Australian Bicentennial Scholarship from the Sir Robert Menzies Centre.

T. E. Statham (1969) has left Farrer and Co, solicitors, and is Secretary of the City and Guilds of the London Institute.

R. Stephenson (1972) is Company Secretary and Director of Legal Affairs, Anglia Television Group PLC. M. St Maur Sheil (1965) has just visited his 60th country as a photographer and in 1993 undertook a three-month assignment for the EC covering environmental problems and research projects.

Canon R. D. Strapps (1949) has resigned as Rural Dean of Chevet after 12 years and was appointed Canon of W akefield Cathedral in 1992.

N. A. J. Swanson (1958) presented a paper in May 1993 at the PRECAST

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FRESHERS 1992 FROM LEFf TO RIGHT:

Back Row: Malt L., Antunes da Silva C., Slater M., Bhattacharya R., Glaser E., Prowting S., Wyndow R., Yamazak.i N., Foster T., Rosier S., Aiyer S., Soga K., Ho H., Beery J., Ayers D., Webb C., Petrova E., O'Neill A., Greaves K. , Taksz I. 7th Row: Calabrese A., Saalehi A., Caley A., Spooner C., Painter A., Hitchins J., Booth C., Ball C., McWhirter S., Hui C-K., Price N., Clowes L., Doran M., Hamilton J.; Richards F., Clay A., Pate) P., WoodS. 6th Row: Cheng C., Hwang J., Hannah 0,. Penrose J., Jackson H., Turner ., Broughton J., Davis D., Young P., Meuus F., Murphy N., Russell E., . . .

Galvagni F., Foo Y., Sanmugarat~am S., Lam R., Leung M., Milner M., O'(r eill S. .

5th Row: Demke E., Doran D., B1ver M., Weldon H., Heaney W., Scholey u., Math1eson A., Blenske H., W1llett M., Miller P., Surpm B., Bruun G., Smith W., Hopkinson C., Staley A., Weaver M., Whitehouse C., FisherS., Middleditch D., Davie L. 4th Row: Akle Z., Taggarse A., Watkins J., Paige M., Thomas G., Elliot M., Robbins M., Harriman J., Bames A., Hewitt N., Woodcock A., Koh D., Plumstead J., Roy T., Groombridge M., Rothfield M., Taylor G., Golder M., Militzer B., Fox C. 3th Row: Mills R., Shattock R., Snell M., Hart D., Dinsdale A., Shingler G., Harrison C., Nuttgens F., Taylor C., Haslam K., Stafford R., Grant F., Power R., Gottwald K., Brophy V., Bourmina T ., White K., Georgiadis V., Prelle S. 2th Row: Maclay A., Cole A., Stilwell P., Purcell M., Cosgrove R., Bryars T., Koh Y., Skeet D., James C., Mehta S., Fisher M., Stanage N., Kilmartin B., Richards J., Tate A., Webster M., Hughes B., Sackree J., Adamou B., Morrison S. Front Row: Osborne N., Jelfs J., Farrand T., Zervas I., Kettle J., Cleverky S., Doude Van Troostwijk M., Weiss T., Konuk K., Mr R. E. Alton, Akassh M., Riley S., Dennis T., Murr K., Miller R., Kelly S., Gladstone T. , Heeger K., Hooper E.

Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club September 1992

Back row: S. King, B. T. C. Morris, [. D. McEwen, D. M. Lauder 2nd row: N. MeN. Jackson , T. R. R. Richards, D. B. White, P. J. Reynolds, A. J . Bastin , A. L. Weir, J. D. Todd, R. M. Martel, J. A. West, J. F. Mew, R. L. S. Fishlock

3rd row: D. G. Smith, A. F. R. Evans, C. N. Ashton , E. M. Goodman-Smith, D . H. Fitzwilliam-Lay, J. Wheeler, N. H. Haigh, D. AeronThomas, T. R. Lucas, R. C. T. lames, A. J. Shortland, P. D. Billyard Front row: M. R. Fox , S. W. J. Cochrane, V. J. Sangwin, J. C. L. Clayton, J. C. B. Gosling, K. A. Finucane, B. M. Forrest, A. G. Taylor, E. G . Midgley, R. D. Clegg, S. V. Swallow.

Absent: D. R. Wilson ( 1991 )

Four Aularian Members of Parliament Peter Butler, Robert Jackson, Anthony Hargreaves, John Spellar

1993 International Symposium on Investment Casting at Brno in the Czech Republic.

A. J . G. Tellar (1981) continues research for his doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in medieval Polish-Jewish history.

N. Teller- (1952) became Chairman of the Broadcasting Committee of the Society ofAuthors in November 1992.

R. H. M. Teller (1979) became a general practitioner in North London in August 1992.

D. R. Thomas (1954) retires at the end of 1993 after 28 years with the British Council. He was awarded the OBE in 1990.

D. P. Tidy (1948), after many years managing clubs in South Africa, moved to the USA in 1990 and is living in Roanoke where he is writing an autobiographical novel.

C. J. Till ( 1979) has been decorated with the Gulf War Medal 1990-91 and is now Principal Staff Development Officer for all Saudi Arabia with British Aerospace.

C. J. Tromans (1961) has been appointed Joint District Judge of the High Court and County Court, the Plymouth group of courts.

Major GenA. J. Trythall (1944) has run Brassey's, the publishing company, since he retired from the Army in 1984.

Canon E. G. H. Turner (1937) celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood with a eucharist of thanksgiving at St James the Great, Colchester, in December 1992. The Hall was represented by Charles Taylor.

D. P. Vaughan (1961) is Human Resources Manager Overseas for British Airways.

Professor J. B. Walmsley (1957) has been Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge.

The Ven D. Walser (1946) retired as Archdeacon of Ely in March 1993.

Canon C. N. Wardle-Harpur (1922) celebrates the 65th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on 20 December 1993.

D. C. Warner (1965) is Senior Partner of Warner Cranston, solicitors, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards for the year 1992/93.

P. J. Webb (1963) is recovering from the removal of a benign tumour (acoustic neuroma) and would be pleased to hear from any member with similar experience. He is now early retired from Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury.

J. Webster (1970) has joined BT Payphones and is working on facilities for the disabled.

D. A. A. Weston (1948) has returned to Oxford after his service as a United Nations Volunteer in China.

C. C. B. Wightwick (1951) retired as Stafflnspector for Modern Languages in HMI in 1991 and is now an educational consultant.

G. M . Wilcox (1967) is a Senior Probation Officer, managing the Community Service Order scheme for Wiltshire.

Dr J. C. Wilkinson (1954) has been awarded the degree of D.Litt by the University of Oxford.

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G. T. Woods (1956) of Monmouth School won the 1992 Royal Society of Chemistry annual Education A ward for Secondary Education, being cited as 'distinguished for his teaching and popularising of chemistry to a wide audience, both within schools and beyond' . He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

AULARIAN AT LARGE on an extremely tough job.' With these words the British Council supremo, Sir Paul Sinker, sent me off into the Bengal jungle, there to preside over the birth of a Cadet College. Briefly, these colleges were the brainchild of President Ayub Khan, who considered- so rightly- that Pakistan needed leaders, and that boarding schools on the British pattern were the most promising training-grounds. Brits were recruited to launch the ships - in due course Pakistanis would take over.

In those days- the early 'sixties- Pakistan was split into two wings, West and East, the vast bulk of India in between. Our patch was in the latter, in East Bengal, a comparatively small area, yet one of the most densely populated in the world. In dead-flat, delta countryside, millions of peasants cultivated tiny strips of rice and jute, struggling against poverty, hunger and harsh economic factors over which they had positively no control. We lived in their midst, 40-odd miles from the capital, Dacca- a good two-hour journey by car, so appalling were the roads.

We arrived to find not only the buildings unfinished, but also no staff and no materials whatever, not so much as a drawing-pin. The supremo was right- this was a tough job indeed, an unceasing battle against one of the world's most entrenched bureaucracies, against an acute shortage of supplies (rather like U.K. in '45), against a taxing climate. The best counter to the innumerable frustrations was laughter; happily we were constantly meeting such remarkable characters that laughter was not hard to come by.

A few spring to mind : my secretary, Mr Ahmed, in appearance a touch grotesque - his head looked as if it had at one time fouled a wine-press - with a graveyard cough and a boundless belief in his ciwn abilities; the sinister Mr Malik, who inspired mistrust even when viewed from behind; 'our' Mr Barbuyhan, the catering manager, a former military man who was forever springing to attention; Mr. Alam- 'all seasoned wood, sahib, best working men' - as deft at mendacity, as he was incompetent in his role of furniture supplier; Carruthers, the whisky-soaked government architect, straight out of the pages of Somerset Maugham; the Director of Communications, East Pakistan, a whiterobed figure which would have caught the eye of any casting director on the lookout for someone to play the Venerable Bede; Bishop James Blair.

If these characters, and a host of others, crowd one's memories, incidents too, fit readily into the frame: the College' s opening day when both the electricity and the water supply failed ; our first football match which almost ended in a riot; a visit to Dacca Gaol; a box-and-cox row with, of all people, H .M .

Government; the Battle of Curzon Hall, which was no more nor less than a near disastrous entrance exam; the Arrival of Gertie and Gilbert; a narrow escape from a mob armed with sticks and a propensity for bunging bricks; all in all, there was seldom a dull moment. 'you'RE TAKING

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The business of our final departure was a little saga in itself. The Bengali takes such occasions very seriously indeed; we were swamped with gifts, illuminated addresses, farewell parties. One' s main reaction was a feeling of inadequacy. What had one really done to ease the burdens of these gentle people, most of them desperately poor? The encomiums, seemed so undeserved .... . . .

On our last morning a huge crowd assembled outside the house; heavily garlanded, we were towed through the campus by a team of cadets, past a big banner 'Fear Well', past one's office with the admin. staff waving frantically from the verandah, down the college driveway for the last time. Had it been worth it?

To the extent that one had been taught a whole crop of lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of human nature- not least one's own- there could be only one answer: emphatically yes.

Michael Pitt (Michael Pitt's book, Mad Dogs and Englishmen - A Bengal Adventure, was published by The Pentland Press in April1993.)

MARRIAGES Catherine L. Archer to Jason R. Hulance, summer 1992.

A. S. Cowell to Sue Cullinan, in St Bride's, Fleet Street, in 1992.

Helen M. Enoch to the Rev Mark Boyling, on 26 October 1991.

A. J. Farrand to Erica Jane Smart, at St Nicholas Church, Chiswick, on 24 April1993.

J. G. Hamilton to Jenny Sandall on 10 December 1992 in Fleet, Hampshire.

D. M. James to Angela Mellors-Hall, on 12 September 1992.

R. C. O'Keeffe to Julia Wilson, at Old Deer Church, Aberdeenshire, on 24 August 1990.

Deborah A. Rayner to Ian R. Brown, on 28 August 1992.

BIRTHS M. I. Adlestone, a daughter, Tara Rebecca, on 2 September 1992.

P. A. J. Broadley, a daughter Anna Ruth, on 26 September 1992.

W. J. L. Carver, a daughter, Siena Elisabeth Sophia, on 20 June 1993.

Kathryn J. (Penney) and C. J. Coleman, a daughter, Rosanna, on 5 October 1991.

P.A. Cunnell, a son, Thomas Llewellyn, on 3 December 1991.

N. P. Gregory, a son, Alastair Logan, on 6 September 1991.

D. J. Hansom, a daughter, Sophie Branwen, on 27 December 1991.

S. and Nicola (Edwards) Hart, a daughter, Emma Rachel, on 19 August 1992.

P. H. Ince, a son, Luke Redmond, on 20 August 1991.

M. C. Lovick, a son, Jacob Hubert John, on 13 January 1993 .

Major J. H. McManners, a second son, Joseph Peter, on 3 December 1992.

I. F. C. Murray, a daughter, Sophie Victoria, on 7 August 1992.

Christine R. Nunes (Beynon) , a third son, Matthew, on 7 January 1992.

R. C. O'Keeffe, a daughter, Grace Elizabeth, on 20 June 1992.

T. W . Richmond, a daughter, Sage, on 7 September 1992.

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P. G. and Paula (Foster) Skokowski, a daughter, Rachel Athena, on 19 November 1992.

P. J. Trowles, a daughter, Susannah Rose, on 10 June 1991.

P. M. Watson, a daughter, Victoria Rosemary Elizabeth, on 11 June 1992, sister to James .

R. C. W. Williams, a son, Gideo~ Philip Henry, on 9 July 1992.

DEATHS G. W. H. Adcock, MA; commoner 1942-43 and 1946-49 (when he was Captain of Boats), aged 68, on 7 July 1992. The funeral, on 13 July, was attended by his contemporaries, J. B. Anderson and S. V. Swallow.

Rev L. C. Baber, MA; commoner 1926-29, aged 90, on 18 March 1993 .

W. E. Brook, MA; commoner 1946-49, aged 71, on 18 April1993.

G. A. D. Calderwood, MA; commoner 1929-33, aged 81, on 22 March 1993.

G. Carruthers, BA; commoner 1936-39, aged 74, on 9 November 1992.

A. S. Chandler, MA; commoner 1925-29, aged 86, on 8 July 1992.

R. W. Couzens, MA; Rhodes Scholar 1960-62, aged 52, in December 1992.

Prof S. R. Dunlap, B.Litt, D.Phil; Rhodes Scholar 1935-38, aged 81, on 16 December 1992.

Rev R. St J. Fisher, MA; commoner 1924-27, aged 85, in 1990.

The Yen D. E. M . Glynne-Jones, MA; commoner 1926-29, retired Archdeacon of Montgomery, aged 85 , on 5 March 1993.

J. B. Harvey, commoner 1934-36, in October 1992.

J. H. Heal, MA; commoner 1950-53, aged 59, in 1989.

Prof H. M . N . H. Irving, MA, D.Phil, D.Sc, FRSSAF, LRAM; Tutor and Fellow 1938-51, Vice-Principal1951-61, Emeritus Fellow 1961-93, aged 87, on 20 June 1993.

A. Jenkins, BA; commoner 1932-35, aged 78, on 24 February 1993.

B. M. Kelly; RAF probationer 1942-43, on 21 October 1992. Brian Kelly's career was in the tax inspectorate in Hong Kong from which he retired a few years ago and had been living in London.

J. H . Kempster, MA; commoner 1952-55, aged 60, on 12 October 1992.

D. N. F. Kempston, BA; commoner 1936-39, in 1989.

D. I. Levett; RN probationer 1945-51, aged 65, in June 1992.

W. J. H. Liversidge, MA; commoner 1934-37, aged 78, on 29 March 1993.

Bill Liversidge was Mayor of Abingdon 1975-76 and was made a Freeman of the town shortly before he died.

Prof F . G. Marcham, BA, Ph .D; commoner 1920-23, aged 94, on 16 December 1992.

D. J. Marsden, BA; commoner 1948-51, aged 62, on 1 November 1992.

Major A. P. Martel, MA; commoner 1971-74, aged 41, on 8 February 1993.

R. McAdams, MA; exhibitioner 1941-42 and 1946-49, aged 69, on 21 June 1993.

Rev Prebendary N. E. McCurry, MA; commoner 1937-40, aged 74, on 4 June 1993. Norry McCurry had been made a Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 64

1980 in recognition of his work as Area Dean of Tower Hamlets and his ministry as Rector of St Dunstan ' s, Stepney.

Rev A. H. Overell, MA; commoner 1946-49, in 1992, from leukaemia.

J. C. Palmer, MA; commoner 1951-54, aged 61, in Aprill992.

T. R. A. L. Pemberton, commoner 1980-83, aged 31 , in March 1993.

C. A. Plaxton, MA; commoner 1921-23, aged 90, on 1 February 1993.

I. R. K. Rae, MA ; commoner 1961-64, aged 53, on 18 February 1993.

F. G. Roberts, MA; exhibitioner 1925-29, aged 85, on 9 May 1993 .

J. F. G. Sootheran MA; commoner 1938-40 and 1946-48, aged 64, in 1983.

M. Stroud; commoner 1958-61 , aged 54, on 1 June 1992. Martin Stroud had recently been running an agency which raised funds for charitable organizations.

He died suddenly whilst on holiday in Spain.

H. Taberner, MA; commoner 1935-39, aged 76, on 10 May 1992.

H. R. Thomas, MA; commoner 1934-36, aged 78 , on 29 May 1992.

A. D. Walter, MA; commoner 1941-43, aged 60, on 26 November 1992.

J. D. Whiteman, MA; exhibitioner 1976-79, aged 35, in 1992.

E. C. C . Wynter, MA; commoner 1937-39 and 1946-48, aged 73, on 5 October 1992.

The following deaths have also been brought to our attention since the publication of the Directory: R. A. Chell (1941), A. Brain (1953), L. G. Holmes (1932), M. A. McCanlis (1924), D. C. Kennedy (1936).

PROFESSOR HARRY IRVING, 1905- 1993 HARRY IRVING crossed Queen' s Lane in 1935 to become (the) Science Tutor at St Edmund Hall and, when the 1937 Statutes came into operation, one of the first Fellows. In those early days, he was, in contemporary terminology, both organising and moral tutor to all scientists at the Hall. Harry Irving succeeded John Kelly as Vice-Principal in 1951 , when the latter was appointed Principal. He was extremely proud of that appointment, which was less ephemeral than in recent times and which he held until his resignation from the Hall in 1961. As an Emeritus Fellow, he remained fond of the Hall and made the acquaintance of many of the newer members of the Senior Common Room during subsequent annual visits .

Post-war appointments of tutorial Fellows in other physical sciences at the Hall enabled lrving to concentrate his efforts to building up two Honour Schools first in chemistry and later in metallurgy. He was a stimulating tutor and witty lecturer. Indeed, his lectures were sometimes akin to music-hall turns. Similarly, in private he was a lively (often rather wicked) raconteur. He was an accomplished pianist, with a performer' s L.R.A.M. awarded in 1930, the same year as he obtained his D.Phil. Some will recall Harry lrving and George Ramsay at the piano with Graham Midgley declaiming Facade through a megaphone to a dinner-jacketed audience in the front quadrangle on a glorious summer evening in 1953. He was a keen ice-skater, a silver medallist and, later, an official judge for the English National Skating Association. In addition, he was an accomplished ballroom dancer.

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Irving's early career at The Queen's College from 1924-35 was distinguished, as an undergraduate, D.Phil. student and Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. His first fruitful researches were carried out in collaboration with the redoubtable Dr F. N. Chattaway on organic compounds containing nitrogen . When The Queen's Laboratory closed down, Irving was somewhat surprisingly made a University Demonstrator (i.e. Lecturer) in Inorganic Chemistry. This necessitated a complete reorientation of his research activities: notwithstanding, organic chemistry always remained his first love. lrving used his expertise in synthetic organic chemistry to develop the study of complexes of metal-ions with organic ligands and, in particular, their applications in analytical chemistry. By 1950, his research group had achieved international recognition. His name is widely known to chemists and biochemists, undergraduates and researchers alike, in the Irving-Williams series, a well-nigh universal order of stabilities of certain metal complexes in solution.

Irving left the Hall in 1961 to become Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at"Leeds, where he rapidly built up another flourishing research group.

His first retirement at the age of 65 was followed (to the amusement of himself and his friends) by a year as Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Cape Town, but this was merely the prelude to the foundation of a new chair in Analytical Science, which he held from 1979 until his second retirement in 1985.

Irving was in high demand as a lecturer around the globe. He was active in a number of national chemical societies: he served on their committees, held high offices and received their gold medals and other awards. He was equally active in the commissions of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was largely responsible for many of their recommendations on nomenclature. Most recently, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.

Harry Irving was married to Monica Wildsmith in 1934 and cared for her devotedly through periods of ill-health until her death in 1972. In 1975, he found deep happiness together with scientific companionship in a second marriage to a chemical eo-worker, Dr Anne Mawby, who survives him.

Francis Rossotti ALAN JENKINS ALAN JENKINS died on 24 February 1993 at the age of 78 after a long and courageous battle with Parkinson's Disease.

Alan entered the Hall in 1932 as an exhibitioner from Bishop Vesey ' s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, and was soon recognised by his contemporaries as a man of exceptional intelligence and ability. He would undoubtedly have obtained a first in English if he had concentrated his energies solely in that direction, but, as he says in 'Groves of Academe', the chapter in his best-selling social history 'The Thirties' which so brilliantly evokes memories of Oxford in the early nineteen-thirties, he came up to enjoy the Hall and the University and all that they had to offer and to display the 'requited love for Oxford' which never left him. 'The ideal world we once lived in of delicious memory,' as he wrote in the fly-leaf of the writer's treasured copy.

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his interest in politics in the company of future prime ministers and party leaders .

He had a passion for music, for which he evinced catholic tastes. He was an accomplished piano player, and it was a great blow to him when increasing illhealth compelled him to give up his own beloved piano. It was this prowess which introduced him to the social scene at Oxford, particularly after he joined the University dance-band, The Bandits, which, attired in white mess-jackets, played at college dances and other festivities and acted as relief band at Commemoration Balls. Accounts of parties in the 'lsis' gossip columns often ended with 'and Mr Alan Jenkins was at the piano.' His contemporaries at the Hall will, however, remember him for his impromptu renderings of Gershwin, Cole Porter and Coward melodies on the famous old JCR upright piano, which was apparently never tuned during the whole of its forty-year existence. Another of Alan 's interests was the O.U.D.S., for whose 'Smokers' he wrote a number of songs.

Alan Jenkins decided early on to follow a literary career, and with this end in view he determined, on coming down from Oxford in 1935, to start straight away in Fleet Street. He first joined Nash's Magazine and subsequently the Hulton Press, publishers of 'Picture Post' and 'Lilliput', with which he held various editorial posts. During the 1939-45 War he saw service as a Captain in the R.A., mainly in the Middle East; while in Cairo he edited an Army magazine called 'Aim' .

After a total of twelve years in Fleet Street, mainly with the Hulton Press, Alan broadened his horizon by joining the firm of Mather and Crowther to specialise in publicity and public relations. In this capacity he was responsible for the Milk Marketing Board's campaign and invented the slogan 'Drinka Pinta' as the title of his story of the dairy industry. In addition, he wrote many short stories and newspaper articles, as well as television and radio scripts which were published both in the U.K. and the U.S.A. In 1951 he did a short stint in Hollywood.

It was , however, as a writer of books that Alan best displayed his outstanding talents. He is perhaps most widely known for his three companion volumes of social history, 'The Twenties,' 'The Thirties ' (mentioned earlier) and 'The Forties'. 'The Twenties' also reached the top of the best-seller list. He had hoped to write 'The Fifties ', but was forestalled. He was commissioned by the London Stock Exchange to write a hi story of the Exchange and by the Corporation of London for his 'The City- London's Square Mile' published in 1988. Earlier he had produced 'The Book of The Thames' and, for the sake of variety, 'The Rich Rich ', a history of what Arthur Marshall termed 'the Croesus First XI' (the Rothschilds, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers et al; twelfth man: Paul Getty) and ' Stephen Potter: Inventor of Gamesmanship', a study of that eccentric character's rise to fame.

During the latter part of his literary career Alan wrote the histories of several prominent companies and even found time to edit and contribute to the various Shell Guides. His last major undertaking, and one which is of the greatest interest to Aularians, was the editorship of 'Hall ' - 'Memoirs of St Edmund Hall graduates 1920-1980'.

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It must be left to the critics of 'The Times ' and other national newspapers to sum up Alan Jenkins' s literary qualities. One wrote 'Mr Jenkins's natural gifts are curiosity, opinions, good judgement and the ability to organize his text with a ruthlessness that remains entirely concealed. The effect is not unlike Alistair Cooke ... ' Another critic wrote of his 'great wit and shrewdness' and his hatred of bad English.

His friends can speak of Alan 's personal qualities. He was kind, quiet and gentle and far too modest and self-effacing; he described himself as a ' pop ' historian! His range of interests was very wide, and he was entirely devoid of conceit and any propensity to sit in judgement on anyone with whom he disagreed. He had a great sense of humour and an affinity with young people, as shown by the many who attended his funeral at the parish church of Effingham, Surrey, near his home.

Alan Jenkins is survived by his wife Margaret and daughter Annabel with her three children, of whom he was the proud and devoted grandfather.

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to pay a personal tribute to Alan Jenkins in connection with his editorship of 'Hall'. I had the privilege of being associated with him in its production, as chairman of the sub-committee which dealt with this. Alan had the very pleasurable yet demanding task of going through the many memoirs that came in for 'Hall' in response to our request for them from old graduates. He was already suffering from Par~jn son's Disease whilst he was working on 'Hall ' but this in no way detracted from the immense amount of meticulous care that he put into his work.

Athough a master of his craft, with his usual modesty he would always ask our opinion on any matters which he considered needed discussion. The result of his labours speaks for itself. 'Hall ' has been a very successful publication indeed and is still selling, and his vast circle of friends recognize it as a lasting memorial of his affection for his beloved Hall.

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matriculated at the Hall in 1961 , reading PPE. He rowed for the First VIII and kept up this interest throughout his life. He also represented the Hall at many other sports, was Steward of the JCR and, as John Kelly once said of him, 'was in the thick of everything that is going on in college' . His wider interests , especially in Commonwealth affairs, were reflected in his membership of the Raleigh Club which met at Rhodes House. After the Hall he had a highly successful career with Courtaulds.

The bald facts do not do justice to the man whose warm and kindly personality, infectious enthusiasm and impish humour made him an unmistakable figure, loved and admired by a wide circle of friends, including his Hall contemporaries. I have recently read a collection of letters written by these friends and published in The Chough. Reading them one is left in no doubt of the affection and regard in which he was held.

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Ian served for many years on the Executive Committee of the St Edmund Hall Association in whose councils he will be sadly missed. As one of his friends wrote in The Chough, 'he was the very apotheosis of the Hall man'.

D.I.S. ANTHONY MARTEL died on 8th February 1993, aged 41, after a courageous battle with cancer.

Anthony matriculated in 1971 as an Exhibitioner in Jurisprudence. He won the Francis Bennion Essay Prize and was Captain of Tennis and a spin bowler for the Hall. In 1974 he graduated in the Second class and went to Sandhurst to join the 3rd Battalion of The Royal Greenjackets . With the British Army , Anthony served in Germany and Northern Ireland and attained the rank of Captain. He then left to join the Sultan of Oman's Land Forces, in which he was promoted to the rank of Major. After nine years in the Gulf, Anthony returned to Britain and became Director of Finance for the International Baccalaureate. He was instrumental in setting up their efficient new office in Cardiff.

Anthony excelled at whatever he chose to learn, be it Arabic, golf or ski-ing.

He was generous, a great wit and always ready to help those less capable than himself, for he enjoyed nothing better than to 'crack' a difficult problem.

Unfortunately, cancer was the one problem he could not solve, the one campaign for which no strategies or tactics would work. Yet he faced his illness with characteristic determination and humour, always in control of the situation and keeping up the morale of all involved.

Anthony's death is an incomprehensible waste of a talented man and a great loss to his family, friends and colleagues.

We were both looking forward to the 1993 Summer Reunion - I have my brother to thank for introducing me to the special atmosphere of St. Edmund Hall and Oxford University .

Rachel Martel ANTHONY MARTEL

FREDERICK MARCHAM FREDERICK MARCHAM was born in Reading in 1898 and attended Christ's Hospital. After war service he won a veteran's scholarship to Oxford and obtained a First in Modern History at the Hall in 1923. He then went to Cornell University where he spent the rest of his life, apparently still teaching in October 1992 within a couple of months of his death at the age of 94 in December.

His subject was English constitutional history on which he published extensively. He was keen on sport and the outdoors, a boxing coach and supporter of intercollegiate athletics . He also found time for local government and was mayor for 32 years of Cayuga Heights near the New York city of lthaca.

Frederick Marcham had been a Vice-President of the St Edmund Hall Association since 1933. This long link with the Association was acknowledged in the letter which John Heggadon , as President, wrote to Ann Marcham , Professor March am's daughter.

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RHODES DUNLAP RHODES DUNLAP was born and had his early education in Texas. He moved to the University of Iowa as a graduate student and it was from there that he came to the Hall as a Rhodes Scholar and was awarded a D.Phil in 1939. He returned to Iowa and apart from war service in the U.S. Navy he remained in the English Department at the University of Iowa, becoming a full professor in 1953. His publications included the Edited Poems of Thomas Carew and Studies in English Renaissance Drama. He directed the honours programme at the university for many years and was an accomplished pianist. In his youth he had been tempted to become a concert pianist and in Oxford he was described by the then Warden of Rhodes House as the finest amateur pianist he had ever heard.

Margaret Dunlap (sister)

HAROLD T ABERNER came up to the Hall at Michaelmas 1935 from Wigan Grammar School in what is now curiously described as 'Greater Manchester'! It was then in Lancashire.

He was a protege of W. S. (Bill) Mills, himself a brilliant classicist. 'Tab', however, was of a rather different bent. He read modern languages, settled quickly and comfortably to Hall life and became a popular member of the Soccer XI in the days when the great Jack Lee was still in residence.

It is in that connection that I remember him best, not only as a constructive wing half but also as a dressing-room entertainer with a ripe line in quiet cracks delivered in that sharp native dialect which he could assume or take off like a glove, to the hilarity of his team-mates.

Speaking of the domestic arrangements of a couple known to his family he said 'They geet wed when they'd getten all 't' childer'. Students of Old English would catch on quickly to that. Or, of my own performance in a soccer match, he remarked 'Tha' were laike a pregnunt 'en o' 't' wing' - all delivered with a sly, endearing grin that has no malice.

After Army service his life was spent teaching - a career in which he evidently excelled and in which I understand he was well-loved. I can well believe it although, alas, I never met him after Oxford.

F. R. Mountain HAROLD TABERNER

DAVID WALTER DAVID WALTER came up to the Hall from Lancing as an Army cadet and read Geography in the form of a war-time short course. In 1943 he was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals and later seconded to the Royal West Africa Frontier Force, with which he served in Nigeria, India and Burma.

In 1948 he joined H.M. Colonial Service in Nigeria. On returning to England he became a member of Gray 's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1961, but did not practise. Instead he turned to teaching and later founded a popular and successful tutorial establishment. He also wrote instructional courses for students of law.

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David's aularian contemporaries will remember him as a friendly , sociable and energetic character and as a splendidly entertaining raconteur. His marriage to Daphne Gilliat was a happy one. They and their son, Alexander, were all members of the Red Cross, in which they served with enthusiasm.

David also helped his wife in continuing the successful breeding of pedigree black labradors of the Holton strain , which had been established by her father many years before.

A few weeks after the birth of their son, David suffered a heart attack of such severity that his life was despaired of for a while. However, he made a successful recovery, such that he was able to work for the next 20 years and to have the satisfaction of seeing Alexander in his final year at Sussex University. David died suddenly and peacefully on 26th November, 1992, while working in his study. Although brought up an Anglican, he was later received into the Roman Catholic Church, of which he remained a staunchly traditionalist member. He leaves his widow and son.

Tony Missen E. C. C. WYNTER TED WYNTER was an Aularian through and through , like Brighton rock. He matriculated in 1937 and finally went down with his MA., Dip. Ed. and rugger blue in 1948. Though officially in statu pupillari for nearly all those years, he took a long sabbatical from 1940 to 1945 to help deal with an annoying interference.

As Sussex as he was Aularian, he was born in Lewes in February, 1919. Left fatherless at the age of six, he seemed naturally to assume responsibilty for his three younger brothers and his widowed mother from an early age. Although there was a master of St John's, Oxford, among his forebears, his path to Oxford was via scholarship to Lewes County School, and by County and Kitchener scholarships to the Hall in 1937.

Before the war he played many times for the Greyhounds and also boxed for the university . By no means a natural militarist, he enrolled in the Royal Artillery in 1940, was commissioned into the Pembrokeshire Yeomanry, and fought with distinction in the North African landings and Italy, where he was awarded the Military Cross.

Released in mid-1945, he was persuaded by the Abe to return to Oxford, and joyfully resumed his rugby, if not his boxing. Very unlucky not to be in the 1946 team versus Cambridge, having played in almost every match including the Stanley game, he made it in 1947, while doing his Dip. Ed., more than ten years after his freshers' trial in 1937. In the meantime he had played for the Barbarians and was on the short list for England.

Incidentally he had picked up a second in History, thanks to George Ramsay, and after completing his Dip. Ed. went to Dulwich College, soon training an unbeaten 1st XV, while captaining Blackheath and Sussex and occasionally sitting on the England reserve benches.

From Dulwich he went as headmaster of Midsomer Norton Grammar School, whose academic standards he improved out of all measure. At the same time, he did not neglect the school's rugby, and was perhaps proudest of the fact that at one point no fewer than nine of the Bath first XV were his Old Boys.

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But Sussex called him back, and from 1962 he took over Haywards Heath Grammar School, and saw it through painful politically induced metamorphoses to the status of Sixth Form College, of which he was principal until he retired in 1982.

His participation in rugby matters waxed. The 'Mr Rugby' of his old county, he was president of Sussex R.F.U. and, for eighteen years, the county representative on the R.F.U. at Twickenham, dealing particularly wth the selection of international referees .

A typical prop forward in build, and with a boxer's face, he was, nonetheless, a very gentle giant, strict but always fair, regarded with respect and affection by generations of ex-pupils from south-east London, Somerset and Sussex, to say nothing of his countless friends in all walks of life. A keen Rotarian, and a dedicated Anglo-Catholic, his associations and friendships spread well beyond the worlds of education and rugby .

From his early fifties he was plagued with heart trouble and other illnesses, and was often on the brink of beyond , but he soldiered on with immense courage to attain even more than the biblical span. It was of his nature that in his last year he undertook an arduous voyage to New Zealand to visit one of his staunchest old rugby comrades, Sir Alan Stewart (University), also a member of the 1947 team at Twickenham. In August, he and I sat in deck chairs approving the developing skill of young Ian Salisbury at that same Hove cricket ground where, some sixty-odd years earlier, we had together marvelled at the feats of Maurice Tate, Duleepsinghi, Arthur Gilligan and eo. In October he was building a bonfire in his garden in Warninglid when the final call came.

To the end he was the most loyal of Aularians, often making a supreme effort, despite severe pain, to attend the annual reunions. He was not a keen supporter of the move to admit women, and yet was eventually delighted that his daughter, Clare, became an Aularian in her turn, and achieved the distinction of a First in History and French.

He is also survived by his widow, Margaret, an accomplished historian and teacher in her own right, without whose support he could never have coped with the difficult later years of his life.

Frederick Cosstick GEORGE CARRUTHERS GEORGE CURRUTHERS was the seventh and youngest son of a poor tenant farmer in Cumberland. He was preceded by two half-sisters. He came up to St Edmund Hall in 1936 from Nelson School, Wigton where he read History and played rugby for the University. He served with the Border Regiment and Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) for the whole of the Second World War and was mentioned in despatches before release with the rank of Major.

Joining Eastern counties Omnibus Company in 1946, George eventually became Assistant General Manager of the combined Wilts and Dorset and Hants and Dorset Bus Companies. After six years as Director and General Manager of United Welsh, George moved to the National Bus Company headquarters as Group Executive (Public Relations) and in 1981 became Deputy Chief

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Executive of NBC, working mainly in London and Brussels. From the late 1960s he had been a Director of a number of ex-Tilling and BET bus companies, an association he kept to his death.

George was awarded an OBE in the Birthday Honours List, 1979, for services to industrial relations and EEC transport matters. Other interests since his retirement at the end of 1982 included regular worship at Salisbury Cathedral and much involvement with its spire appeal.

John Carruthers (nephew) PERCY GEORGE BURGE JAMES [Address given by Dr Bruce Mitchell at the thanksgiving service held at St Andrews, Linton Road, Oxford on 8 June 1993.]

WE ARE MET together to give thanks for the life of Percy James and through our presence to express our sympathy for Valerie, for Percy' s sons and daughter, and for their families. We are met to pay tribute to the worth of a good man, a man who moved in many circles and made his presence refreshingly felt in them all through those special qualities with which he was blessed. There are many of us . But many more who cannot be here today share our memories, our feelings, and our recognition that Percy was a good man.

Percy George Burge James was born on 9 March 1917 in Celli, near Treorchy in Wales - hence his nickname 'the Welsh Wizard' , his love for the works of Dylan Thomas, and the singing voice familiar to those who joined with him in after-match celebrations. He came to Abingdon at the age of fourteen to work in the Pavlova Leather Works with his brother Cecil, to whom he always acknowledged a great debt. After that, he became an inspector with Monis Radiators in North Oxford. On the outbreak of war in 1939, he joined the Royal Air Force as a physical training instructor, reaching the rank of sergeant and adding boxing to his accomplishments. After the war, he pursued a career in football until he accepted the post of Steward at St Edmund Hall in 1958. There he remained until his retirement in 1985 .

A natural ball-player and a distinguished sportsman, he won county honours in soccer, cricket, and table-tennis. As a footballer, he was a Welsh amateur international ; a professional for Luton Town; player-manager of Worcester City; manager of Oxford City for thirteen years during one of their best periods; and county coach when Oxfordshire won the Southern Counties Championship. As a cricketer, he was modest about his ability with the bat. But he was a prodigious leg-spinner and, when called upon, a sharp in-swinger. He played for many club s, topped the Incognito 's bowling averages in 1970, and represented Oxfordshire. He was a sound performer at tennis and squash, always ready to put the Fellows of St Edmund Hal1 to the sword with amiable aplomb. In his later years, he enjoyed bowls and snooker, took a keen interest in promoting sport among the young people of Oxford, and derived much pleasure from his duties as Assistant Secretary of the Oxford University Cricket Club. Peter Sturges, writing in The Oxford Times in December 1985, rightly characterized him as 'a quietly-spoken Welshman with a mischievous grin which masks a droll sense of humour and a true sportsman's outlook.'

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Reggie Alton, with whom Percy served at St Edmund Hall for many years, wrote with similar perception on Percy ' s retirement: Above all he was a great player-manager, someone with a genius for getting a side on the ground in the most adverse circumstances. It was this quality which in 1958 made us start to persuade him to leave his job as Manager of Oxford City F. C. and come to the Hall as Steward.

He was invaluable. The 'conference business', without which the College would not have been financially viable, was rapidly increasing, and much of the burden, outside the kitchen, of servicing these new demands fell on Percy. He cheerfully responded to all demands: late changes, cancellations, additions, new dates, new times, anything, including acting as chauffeur to Heathrow for the Senior Tutor. Nothing was too much trouble for him, and he became as popular with our visitors as he was with junior and senior members of St. Edmund Hall.

Percy enjoyed happiness with his first wife Barbara, by whom he had three children - Louise, Brian, and Neil. His life was clouded by her untimely death.

But his marriage to Valerie brought him new sunshine. A good family man, he took delight in his grandchildren and pride in their achievements. And he lived to rejoice in the birth of his first great-grandchild Erica Lee, born in USA in February this year.

Boys of Percy's generation and mine were brought up familiar with a couplet which is perhaps not so often heard today: When the one Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the game.

Percy will find a good score against his name. Life sparkled within him, enthusiastic and wholesome and radiant. I never knew him say or do a mean thing. We admired him as a man. We valued him as a friend. Each of us cherishes some special intimate memory of words exchanged, of triumph or disappointment shared, of happiness experienced together. We thank God for the privilege of knowing him. We extend our sympathy to Valerie and to his family. We pray that they will derive comfort from our tributes and from their memories.

MAY HE REST IN PEACE.

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Bruce Mitchell

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THE BOAT CLUB Captain of Boats: IoN CLAYTON Michaelmas Term FALLING golden leaves descended into the front quad, happy new faces jaunted merrily into the Hall, and Michaelmas Term arrived. Of course with the onset of Michaelmas came the annual Boat Club recruitment in the form of the 'Boat Club Drinks'. The event could only be described as a lively occasion and needless to say served its job remarkably well, not only because the Captain fell over, but because a vastly increased number of Novice rowers signed up. Was this due to the devilish good looks of the Captain, or the feminine charm of the Women' s Captain? ... I'd like to think, both!

Novice rowing started in earnest at the beginning of 1st week as 4 men ' s VIIIs and 3 women ' s VIIIs descended on the boathouse to christen the new bank tub. This was acquired last year thanks to the entrepreneurial skills of Richard Fishlock, who.sold some old boats to a Japanese Sushi bar. Alongside banktub coaching, all novices got the chance to train at the Iffley Road indoor rowing tanks thanks to the donations from Friends. They have given the novices a solid background to rowing, receiving coaching from Blues coach John Pilgrim-Morris. Unfortunately as the term progressed, the river conditions deteriorated further, and with a red flag raised in 7th week, Christ Church Regatta was cancelled.

The junior men's boat improved at an impressive rate, on a diet of land training and quality water outings when conditions allowed. They entered the Fairburns head race at Cambridge where they acquitted themselves well, finishing ten places above their starting position.

A good Michaelmas Term's training is essential for the success of a 1st VIII, and invaluable for a crew with the summer Headship in sight. We were in our strongest position for years, with a wealth of talented oarsmen. We had the entire lst Boat back from last year (arguably the fastest VIII on the river last summer), although two members were doing their preparations with University crews. Alongside this we attracted a US varsity oarsman, a junior home international, a Radley College 1st VIII rower, and not to mention last year' s 2nd VIII, including the Captain and a University lightweight trialist. As we were 5th on the river, the summer headship began to look like a real possibility.

With this in mind, the senior VIII began an intensive training programme drawn up by Isis rower, Dave Wilson. With coaching from Richard Fishlock the training went well and the Cambridge Fairburn's provided a good test of progress. We started 32nd and had a good row, passing one Cambridge college crew. The results were a great reward for the hard training. We finished 12th, ahead of two Oxford crews both of whom are in front of the Hall in VIIIs: Pembroke and University College (whom we beat by 35 seconds).

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laid for the term, despite curtailment due to yet again, a rain-closed Thames.

With the red flag flying into 1st week, the 1st Torpid de-camped to the Tideway, where training was just about able to continue, thanks to assistance from Thames Rowing Club, and the University Lightweights. In 2nd week, red turned to amber so that the 1st Torpid could return to the Isis, but it was only after an emergency Captains meeting in 3rd week that other crews were allowed out under the amber flag, and with that decision, all rowing-on divisions were cancelled.

The 2nd Torpid, consisting of 4 experienced and 4 novice oarsmen, benefitted from their extensive land training, and it was a powerful and fit crew which finally took to the water, under the coaching of past Captain, Steve Whittington.

Despite losing their stroke, Chris Ashton, to the 1st Torpid due to an injury, a former 2nd VIII rower, Scott McCreedy, was persuaded to come out of semiretirement, and the crew fitted together well.

The final crews were: Men ' s 1st Torpid - Blake Hughes, Richard Miller, Collin Madden, Chris Ashton, Dave Ryan, Jon Clayton, Sean Cochran, Mark Fox. Men ' s 2nd Torpid - Eirik Hooper, Mark Pluck, John Cole, Adam Martin, Scott McCreedy, Alfonso Daniels, Ashley Rule, Andy Green.

Lucy Malt coxed both boats, as new safety rules require coxes for bumps to have sufficient experience - Mary Abusief, the orginal 2nd Torpid cox didn't have that experience due to the earlier closure of the Isis to novice crews.

The 2nd Torpid had a bad start to Torpids, as late boating on Wednesday left them spinning at the one minute gun. They recovered remarkably well, but could not complete their bump on Lincoln before being caught themselves

by Linacre. On the second day Linacre bumped out, leaving the Hall to chase after an overbump on St Catherine' s. Despite a spirited chase, they had to wait until Friday to finally make the bump on Catz, which they did just after Donnington Bridge, and completed the week in fine style, bumping Corpus 1st VIII on Saturday.

The 1st Torpid boated on Wednesday with the job of getting back into the 1st Division. Having lost Rugby Cuppers to St Catherine's the previous week, the chance of revenge on their 1st Torpid was not to be missed, and with a bump just before the gut, the Hall rowed into the sandwich boat position to chase Hertford later in the day. Hertford were despatched before Donnington Bridge, and on Thursday, short work was made of LMH 1st Torpid. This left Hall supporters back at the boathouse complaining about not seeing the crew race, so on Friday when chasing Balliol the cox took the precaution of colliding with the wall at Donnington Bridge, slowing down the crew just enough to save the bump on Balliol for the green bank.

So blades were in sight on Saturday, as was Orielll, and the crew were determined that the 'Graham Midgley' should end her career as a 1st VIII Boat in style. With a very impressive piece of acceleration just before Donnington Bridge, a 1-length gap was reduced to overlap, and a bump in a matter of 20 strokes. A tumultuous reception awaited the crew at the boathouse.

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Trinity Term The summer preparations for the first Eight began with a training camp on the Tideway with large help and thanks to Liz Marsh and Richard Lyndon-Morgan who helped with accommodation. Coaching throughout the week was given by Chris Jones and Jenny Turner. Through this help the crew settled remarkably quickly, and the preparations for summer Eights began with an air of optimism.

In second week the crew was put to its first test, when we entered Wallingford regatta. We were drawn against one of our targets for the summer, University College. After what can only be described as an eventful race we lost by a canvas, this even after a severe blade clash which unsettled the crew.

Unperturbed by this, the crew continued with wins at Bedford and Birmingham regattas, where wins against high class oppositions were achieved in both. After a committed year's training, under the coaching of Hugh Thomas and Richard Lyndon Morgan, we were ready for Eights. With the crew causing heads to turn and indeed many to worry whilst on the Isis, our assault on the head of division one had started in earnest.

The Second Eight looked as solid as the previous term's results indicated, with past Captain Steve Whittington, 3 ex-First Eight and Torpid crew members and the new talent from this year. The term's training went well, with coaching from the Captain, and the crew looked as determined and powerful as any crew on the Isis. They entered Eights with a tough task with a classy Pembroke 2nd Eight in front and a blades winning Linacre crew behind. They acquited themselves well, moving to within 112 a length of Pembroke on the first day before Pembroke bumped out, rowing over comfortably. Bumps on the following three days were to reward the crew and give the Boat Club the backbone a good Second Eight should give.

This year, entries to Eights were at their highest for a few years, with eight men's eights and four women 's eights trying to qualify to row over into one of the Eights divisions. With only two men's crews and 2 women's crews failing to qualify, this meant we had eight participating crews in Eights. This was not only the largest number of crews rowing to a high standard at the Hall for a number of years but the most crews qualifying for any college in the University. Surely an indication of the level of commitment and sporting skill ever present in the College. All crews acquited themselves well, with 14 bumps made during the week and only 2 bumps made on the Hall. This despite there being 2 days, Thursday and Friday when only the First and Second Eights could row .

The men's First Eight's task on Wednesday was to bump Christ Church. The crew, feeling confident and indeed producing some of its best rowing, put in a gutsy and determined row yet failed to make the bump, having moved to within a canvas all the way from the green bank in. Yet again on the Thursday disappointment struck with the crew moving to within a foot of the Christ Church Eight. This was to be the theme of the week, and despite changes in gearing, race plan and the sheer commitment of the Eight we failed to make the bump. This left all in the Hall disappointed, especially as Christ Church were within 112 a length on Univ, who were 112 a length on Pembroke. We were without a doubt the fastest Eight on the river this year, with even the Telegraph

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recognising this talent in its write up, describing the Teddy Hall Eight as the most attractive crew on the river. I feel as Captain, with the resources available, we had the best crew and indeed achieved its maximum possible potential throughout the year. We were desperately unlucky in Eights yet, conversely, lucky in Torpids. That's the nature of the Bumps.

Looking forward to next year I feel we must build on what solid foundations have been laid these last few years. With this in mind I have picked as my successor an undergraduate who has rowed at school and represented his country as a junior international, Blake Hughes. With all the boat from this year still around, with five out of the eight doing university squad preparations, it again looks like it will be another memorable year.

J.C.L.C. THE LADIES BOAT CLUB Captain: V ANESSA

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began with an unprecedented number of Freshers keen to get out on the water which resulted in three very enthusiastic women's novice boats.

Unfortunately the unbelievably bad weather conditions soon led to the raising of the amber flag which restricted the river to 1st VIIIs only and confined all novices to the indoor tank at Iffley Gym. Unsurprisingly the annual Christ Church regatta was cancelled leaving many disillusioned aspiring oarswomen wondering whether rowing really was such an essential part of the Oxford experience.

Meanwhile the Senior Eight were training hard and benefitting from the unusually empty Isis. For the first time we accompanied the men's boat to Cambridge for the Fairburn's Cup at the end of November and, with our stroke labouring bravely with bronchitis, managed to finish a very respectable 27th.

January saw the return of sixteen girls, a mixture of senior and novice rowers, for a 5 day training camp before the start of Hilary Term under the guidance of Steve King and Kath Finucane. However we were once again plagued by stormy weather and the amber flag was soon replaced by the even more depressing red which closed the river entirely. We therefore launched into a heavy land training schedule involving many hours of running, swimming, circuits in the gym and even aerobics in the parks which continued for two weeks.

We eventually got out on the water at the end of 3rd week but, as rowing-on di visions were cancelled, the 2nd Torpid was forced into early retirement and once again much enthusiasm was wasted. The 1st Torpid began the real work with coaching from Steve King, Dave Sherwell (Captain of Boats at Brasenose) and Rory Morrison (a squad rower from Oriel who at 6'10" certainly got us noticed on the water if not for our speed!) . Our run of bad luck reached a peak a week before Torpids when our bow-woman trapped a nerve in her neck and No. 4 frac tured her elbow on the same day leaving the crew, which had been developing very well, with two subs and a mere five outings left. Undeterred we rallied together and despite being caught by Lincoln on the first day went on to bump St Hugh' s, Somerville 11 and Balliol, a result which we were very happy with especially considering the disasters which we had faced throughout the term.

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Summer Term saw the return of several experienced rowers including Anna Weir who had rowed at No. 3 in the O.U.W.B.C. reserve crew Osiris at the Henley Boat Races. Anna put a great deal of time into coaching the 2nd VIII who trained very hard but once again their patient enthusiasm was hardly rewarded when they failed to row on.

For the first time for several years the Hall women produced two fun crews in addition to the two senior eights although neither of them were attempting to pose any serious threat to the status of the Syndicate! One of these, consisting mainly of ex-Ist VIII rowers (and named the 089 VIII) did succeed in rowing on and on the two days which the rowing-on divisions were permitted to row, due once again to bad stream conditions, they did well despite the frustratingly inadequate state of the boat, the 'Paramata'.

The 1st VIII had returned a week early for a full programme of land training and water work and continued to train hard under a programme drawn up by Dave Wilson who also coached for the first two weeks. Indeed our success in this term was largely due to the quality of the coaching that we received from Dave Wilson, Mark Lauder and Richard Fishlock and for the last week Bruce Robertson of Keble, Olympic gold medallist in the Canadian VIII in Barcelona and Blue in the 1993 Boat race. Two very satisfying victories in the senior 3 divisions at Birmingham and Bedford regattas were the first indications that our commitment and training were paying off and our confidence was further boosted after spending 4th week rowing up at Godstow away from our rivals and the general carnage on the Isis.

We started Eights Week at the bottom of the second division and our calm determination to move upwards was rewarded on the first day with an early bump on Worcester before Donnington Bridge. Admittedly this was made all the more sweet by the sight of Lincoln who had been directly behind us struggle resignedly past- ample revenge for Torpids! Thursday saw the two crews in front of us bump out very early leaving us to row over and in fact come within a length of the over-bump. It was hard not to be very disappointed by this despite the fact that we probably rowed better than ever before on this day. On Friday the pressure was really on with Lincoln behind us once again but we had no difficulty in catching Hertford and on the Saturday, after a particularly gruelling slog we smashed Somerville 11 in a controversial bump just before the Gut which was only finally confirmed ten days later. Three bumps in Eights, although slightly frustrating is certainly a result to be proud of and establishes us firmly in the middle of the 2nd division. Particular recognition should go to our cox, Jessica Beery, who despite starting the term as a novice, proved impressively calm and capable. This year's 1st VIII were Sue Rosier, Kara Little, Karuna White, Clare Harris, Anna Weir, Jenny Taylor, Vanessa Sangwin and Gill Pottinger.

Looking back it has been one of the most successful years in a long time for women's rowing in the Hall. I owe many thanks to several people who have made my job easier, notably Steve King, Dave Wilson, Richard Fishlock and Dr Ann Taylor who, as President of the women' s Boat Club, provided constant support and encouragement. It would be good to think that in future years the

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success of Hall rowing could be judged by the achievements of the whole boat club and not just those of the men' s 1st VIII, especially as we have proved ourselves willing and able to devote just as much time and effort to our training.

The prospects for next year are excellent with several girls planning to trial for O.U.W.B.C. Congratulations are already due to Jenny Taylor who has been selected for a squad VIII training for Women's Henley. Gill Pottinger is to take over the captaincy and I wish her, and the continuation of a high standard of women' s rowing at the Hall, every success.

V.J.S. THE FRIENDS OF ST. EDMUND HALL BOAT CLUB THE 'FRIENDS' were finally launched at a very enjoyable dinner in September 1992. This was attended by a group of enthusiasts with the aim of giving help to the Boat Club to achieve success on the river. Present were the Principal, several Fellows, various present members of the Boat Club as well as some with only distant memories of their days rowing on the Isis. Funds have been raised by subscriptions and donations and we wish to thank all those who have so generously contributed. These funds have been used for many important projects. The sessions paid for at the O.U.B.C. rowing tank, allowed novices to be introduced to rowing when the Isis was shut due to severe weather in Michaelmas Term.

Money donated by the Friends helped toward the purchase of a new ergometer.

This has already proved extremely useful for land training.

In the run up to Torpids and Summer Eights, we were pleased to be able to provide help with coaching for both the first mens and ladies eights. This was amply rewarded by the commitment displayed by the crews and by their eventual performances in the races.

I would like to thank the members of the committee for all their hard work over the past year. These are: Toby Lucas (Secretary), Jonny Seccombe (Treasurer), Stephen King (membership secretary), David Aeron-Thomas, Hugh Thomas, Vanessa Sangwin, Jonny Clayton, The Rev Graham Midgley and Dr Ann Taylor. We are always looking for new members and would welcome all those who wish to join us to help continue our work with the Boat Club.

Anybody interested should contact the membership secretary, Steve King at The Hall. This year's dinner is to be held on the 4th of September 1993 at St Edmund Hall.

Katherine Finucane THE SYNDICATE ROWING CLUB President: B EN WALKER THIS YEAR's selection meeting was, as usual, an unparalleled success. On inviting the new crew members to the Randolph Hotel we realised that we had two self-confessed boaties, a 16-stone cox and Jim Gill, none of whom we really wanted in the boat. The excitement of the first syndicate outing was compounded by anxiety and wonder. Would the enormous cox fit in the boat? It was tight, but with the aid of some crew members we managed to squeeze his 16-stone bulk into the appropriate space. With this added momentum, the quting itself was a roaring success.

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In Eights Week the Syndicate once again captured the hearts and imagination of an ever growing fan club. Fine row overs on the first and last day made up for being unable to row on the other days due to the swelling of the river. Rumour had it that the river authorities were worried about the added swelling were the enormity of the Syndicate to be allowed on the river. The dancing on the Saturday was again precise and inviting, applauded by the masses.

The annual evening visit was to The Perch and the row back was crowned with a spot of skinny dipping in the lock at Osney. As the headlines poured in telling how a naked St John's eight sank a boat in the lock, the truth gradually emerged that the Syndicate had again been at large. After much Press hassle the crew eventually agreed to appear on the aptly named TV show , The Big Breakfast. This live broadcast got record ratings and the favourable publicity more than compensated for our failure to forge closer links with St John' s.

B.M.W. THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB Captains: MIKE WOODFINE (Cuppers) DAVID LIVERSIDGE (League) Secretary: CHRIS ASHTON THE 1992/3 teams were always going to have a hard act to follow after the outstanding successes of the previous year, and this season saw the Hall maintain its League status but falter in Cuppers.

Michaelmas Term began encouragingly. After a constructive pre-season trial which unearthed some considerable freshman talent, we won our first game and things promised well until a defeat by Pembroke in a dour second match. We soon found our best XV, however, and won our next two matches well, but without looking entirely convincing, before facing Brasenose in Sixth Week. A huge triumph of spirit secured a win by 13-7 against a Brasenose team which had demolished all its previous opponents and did not lose again. although we won our remaining matches, Brasenose eventually won the League from us on points difference. In the Second XV League, however, this was avenged as the Hall team led by James Linforth beat Brasenose to clinch the League.

The Cuppers competition was overshadowed by the might of Keble, last year's defeated finalists. Despite not enjoying the strength of the 1992 side, the Hall First XV gradually improved after a series of friendlies until it faced St Catherine's in the quarter-finals. In a rescheduled match at Iffley Road a depleted Hall team lacking, among others, several influential forwards, was outplayed by a strong St Catherine's team in a forward-dominated game. St Catherine's went on to lose to Keble in the final. In the Second XV Cuppers competition the Hall was defeated in the semi-finals by Keble, the eventual winners.

Teddy Hall again provided players for the University teams. Richard Sennitt and Toby Watson were Greyhounds, while Toby Watson was also a member of the Under-21 side captained by Mike Woodfine. Their individual achievements are to be applauded, while the expertise derived from Iffley Road is also highly beneficial to college rugby.

Although not as successful as in 1991/2, this season showed that the Hall is still a force in League rugby and, perhaps more importantly, that pride in the

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College is still considerable. The support for all teams was excellent throughout the season and its value is recognized by all the players. Chris Ashton was a very reliable Secretary and he managed the Club's finances efficiently and productively. Best wishes to Scott McCreery and Matt Elliott who take over as Captain and Vice-Captain respectively.

D.H.L

THE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB Captain: DAN SMITH Secretary: MIKE GODDARD

THE 1992/93 SEASON will be remembered as a truly successful year for the Hall and we are now firmly established as a major force in University football.

Throughout the Club there was a feeling that this was our year; League survival was never an issue as all three teams began the year with title aspirations.

The First XI soon overcame their unfortunate defeat in the opening game to a Keble side who, fully aware of the threat the Hall posed, fielded several illegal players. This experience only served to strengthen our resolve and the side began to string together a magnificent run of victories with old pros such as Matt Oakman and Sam Surrey setting the tone for a team hungry for victory on the pitch and a desire to celebrate off it. The most encouraging aspect of the team's success was the manner in which we won, often coming from behind to win in the final minutes. Instigators of this courageous attitude were our forward partnership of 'Dobber' Walker and 'Psycho' Seymour, both of whom were prepared to die for the Hall. Our Cuppers campaign also got off to a tremendous start when we beat the tournament favourites, Jesus, in the first round . Our emphatic victory was, however, to be our downfall, as the Christ Church bogey then sent a complacent Hall side out of the Cup in the very next round.

After Christmas the side soon get back into their winning ways, thrashing Wadham 7-0 with a display of football better than any current Hall player can remember. We then suffered a loss of form and went to Magdalen for the final game of the season needing a victory to clinch the title. Alas it was not to be our year; some refereeing decisions went against us, but in the final analysis we could not produce the skill needed. Nevertheless a very successful season culminated in a tour to Cambridge where the 'Gaffer', Steve Noone, had his first taste of first team football, and the Hall clinched a lucrative sponsorship deal, providing new kit for the First XI. Hall players also excelled in university teams. Mark Johnston captained the Centaurs with much success, despite injury, and Simon Pickard, the Hall player of the year, regularly represented the Centaurs. Kevin Knibbs deserves a special mention, not only for gaining his second Blue, but perhaps more importantly for his unswerving dedication to college football.

The Second XI had a tremendous year. Under the leadership of the pugnacious Ian Murphy the team comprehensively won their League, only dropping three points aloJ;~g the way. The Third XI were determined not to miss out this year and, proving the strength in depth of college football, they too won their League title.

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I would like to thank 'Foghorn' Mike Goddard for his tremendous input to the Club both on and off the field . I wish Ryan Mills every success as next year' s Captain. The vast amount of support the Hall attracts to every game is not only the envy of other colleges, it alone has sometimes made the difference between winning and losing.

D.A.S.

THE CRICKET CLUB Captain: SIMON PICKARD Secretary: TIM PERKINS

YET AGAIN it has been a year of mixed fortunes for the Hall Cricket Club. The season got off to the worst possible start with Tim Perkins, our Secretary, being put out of action for the term with a broken leg. The introduction of a league system for the first time in many years gave a proper focus for the First XI. With one match still to play, it seems certain that next year' s First team will be competing in the top division. Early wins against Merton, who were dismissed for 26 runs, and St Peter's, were followed by a disappointing defeat against Queen's . However, a thrashing of Corpus/Linacre set up a successful end to the season.

Cuppers proved once again to be a disappointment. Excellent batting by Rob Salter, Chris Ashton, Sam Surrey and James Carr enabled us to post a large total against Hertford before AI Maclay , who made his Blues debut versus Glamorgan in his first year at Oxford, bowled us to a convincing win. However, the team under-achieved all round against St John's and a poor batting display led to a six-wicket defeat. The second XI have again been successful this term under the captaincy of Dan Smith, who has scored highly once more for both teams . The Teddy Bears have been unable to beat the weather so far, to everybody's chagrin.

I would like to thank everyone who turned out for the College teams, in particular the numerous finalists who put an afternoon in the sun before their examination revision. Sam Surrey, Matt Oakman and Rob Salter - who scored an excellent century in his final match - all deserve a mention, not just for this season' s effort but for three years' contribution.

S.N.P.

THE HOCKEY CLUB Captain: CHRIS DAVIES Cuppers Captain: BEN PALMER

THIS YEAR the Hall has looked extremely promising and at last has fulfilled some of its potential. A good influx of first years provided depth from which to draw good sides throughout the season. The loss of Ed Reekie (who was due to be Captain) because of first year exams was unanticipated and a blow to the team.

In the Cuppers competition the team did not really perform true to its calibre, going out to Lincoln in the second round due to low morale and a lack of camaraderie in the side. However, even after the loss of two players because of injury, the League side proved to be an entirely different proposition. Beating Lincoln, and then Keble, in the first two matches, the base was laid to lead the division throughout the season. Victory was finally secured with a side

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comprising almost entirely Second XI members who put in an inspired performance to produce a 1-1 draw against St Peter's. The list of performances, putting the Hall at the top of the First Division was impressive and gave a results column as below: Played: 6, Won: 5, Drawn: I, Lost: 0, For: 21, Against: I Next year looks promising but the departure of Matt Oakman, Rich Koe, Ian Murphy, Rob Salter and Ben Palmer is sure to have a big impact on the side.

In all a good season, and good luck to Eiric Hooper who will be captaining the side next year.

C.M.D. Addendum by the Second XI Captain: DAVID JoRDAN AFrER A transitional year, the 2nd XI was again involved in the League, this time in Division C. An extremely hard first game against St. Hugh' s ended in a draw, and was followed by a spectacular series of results. St. Peter's collapsed to an 8-0 defeat in what was undoubtedly our best performance, and Balliol went down 7-3 in the final game of the season. The team's reputation preceded it to Trinity, who conceded a 5-0 walkover on the grounds that: 'You' ll beat us out of sight anyway.' Only one defeat was suffered, and the team ended the season on top of the Division to complete a double for the Hockey Club.

Individually, Chris Dawson must be mentioned for his superlative performances throughout the season. He and Dave Jordan ended the year as the team' s top scorers, and attention should be drawn to Phil Ward's superb hat-trick against Balliol. I must wish Nick Byrne every success as next year's Captain, and thank fellow 'old-timer' Ian Murphy for his support as Secretary. Finally, special mention must go to Club Captain Chris Davies; not only did he fos ter the team spirit to restore the club to its former glories after an indifferent year last year, he provided the sort of support that a second team captain can usually only dream about, and for that the whole 2nd team gives him its thanks.

D.J.J. THE LADIES HOCKEY CLUB Captain: SALINA TOLL Secretary: LINDSEY McQUILLIAN WITH the two previous Cuppers successes under our belt the pressure was on for the Hall girls to make it a hat-trick. The high standard of hockey at the Hall was maintained with the arrival of some skilled and talented freshers and, consequently, this year's First XI cruised through the Cuppers semi-finals after beating St Hugh's 11-0 in the quarter-finals. A sterling performance by the Hall in a close and exciting semi-final against Lady Margaret Hall was rewarded with a 1-0 victory. Our opponents in the final, Oriel, scored an early goal. The Hall fought back courageously, having the majority of the play and keeping Oriel on the defensive for the rest of the game. However at the final whistle the Hall had to admit defeat, although their standard of play had been superb.

I would like to thank the whole team for the dedication and comitment they have shown. Our four Blues players, Amanda Pearce-Higgins, Alex Cookson, Elaine Noone and Vicky Griffiths-Fisher, put in some fine performances and the Hall team spirit shone through during the entire season.

S.C.T.

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THE ATHLETICS CLUB Captain: RICHARD COLLIER Ladies Captain: NIKKI HAINES

FRESHER Matthew Weaver enjoyed an excellent first season in Oxford. On the Oxbridge tour of America, for which Weaver and Richard Collier were selected, Weaver became the first Englishman ever to win the pole vault in the lOO-year old match against Harvard and Yale. He went on to score a victory in the Varsity Match with a new Oxford record of 4.80m. Collier was also a member of the Blues in the 1500m.

Teddy Hall were sensationally knocked out of Cuppers heats for the first time in living memory. James Carr performed brilliantly in winning the lOOm and in competing to a very high standard in all his events. Richard Sennit and Chris Todd also proved to be tireless performers who gained a huge amount of points for the Hall. However, this individual excellence was spoilt by bad luck. Last minute drop-outs and Collier missing the start of the 1500m meant that Teddy Hall fell at the first hurdle.

Despite our virtual non-participaton in Cuppers, the Hall was represented in the Women's Varsity Match by Nikki Haines (1500m) for the Blues and by Melissa Holden (hammer) and Ruth Wyndow (Javelin) for the second team.

R.W.C

N.H.H

THE CROSS-COUNTRY CLUB Captain: RICHARD COLLIER Ladies Captain: NIKKI HAINES

WITH THE LOSS of several university athletes, Teddy Hall's long-running domination of inter-collegiate cross-country came to an end. In Cuppers the team finished a distant eleventh despite great effort by all concerned. Individually, Richard Collier finished second and went on to gain his third Blue and also be a member of the University team which gained a silver medal in the national junior cross-country championships. Teddy Hall Relays were once more a great success with over 200 teams competing. The Hall finished well down but the turn-out was excellent, with several 'boatie' teams and the College A-team, led

by Jim Gill, all posting respectable times.

This year our women's team was reduced to a much smaller number of sportswomen than usual, with the Women's Boat Club conspicuous by their absence.

Still, success was achieved in Cuppers, with Nikki Haines, Vicky GriffithsFisher and Debbie Hewitt coming 1st, 17th and 31st respectively, to earn the Hall second place overall. A couple of teams also took part in Teddy Hall Relays. In the Varsity Match, Nikki Haines ran for the Blues team, whilst Vicky Griffiths-Fisher and Fraz Woodward had very good runs in the second team match.

R.W.C. N.H.H.

THE SWIMMING CLUB Captain: ANTHONY BASTIN SWIMMING Cuppers, the only event in the College swimming calendar, took place in Michaelmas Term. The team repeated its successes of last year, again

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coming fifth. The most notable performance of the evening was that of Dave Doran who won the breastroke event for the third time in four years, by the nanowest of margins. Anthony Bastin fini shed fifth in both freestyle and butterfly finals and Claire Webb was placed sixth in the butterfly. Other finalists were Christine Braban (backstroke) and both men 's and women's relay teams. The latter of these finished third due to a good final leg by Gillian Duncan, pulling up from fifth place. Thanks and congratulations to all who swam. I hope that next year we will field a larger team and improve our position by finishing in the top three.

A.J.B. THE SQUASH CLUB Captains: ANDREW KEELEY; MARY McDERMOTT

TEDDY HALL's celebrated rugby reputation has been closely rivalled this year by the prowess that both the men' s and ladies' teams have displayed on the squash court. The men's first five has had a highly successful season, consolidating their position in the upper echelons of university squash. Notable performances include James Carr's long unbeaten run at first string and a startling debut from the Jahangir Khan of Oxford, Ziad Akle (next year's Captain).

Despite an irregular line-up, the men's Seconds have held their own, nearly gaining promotion.

In only its second year, the Teddy Hall ladies' team has excelled in all spheres. Star performances have included those of Alice Clay (next year's Captain), Chloe Griffiths - the Welsh Wizard - and Melanie Rodier, who has successfully made the transition from the tennis circuit. Victory in the Cuppers final proved elusive, however, following an unfortunate accident involving Elaine Noone's contact lens. But, all in all, the Hall 's future as a driving force in university squash seems assured.

A.J.K. M.B.M. THE TENNIS CLUB Captain: ScoTT McCREERY THIS WAS an exciting year for Teddy Hall tennis. In League the first team won Division Three without losing a game and the newly formed second team gained promotion from Division Five.

The backbone of the team was Scott McCreery and James Carr, even in the matches where the talents of Matt Lim and Georg Bruun, both of whom played in the Varsity B Match, were brought in. The other mainstays of the team were Kieran Clifton, Ziad Akle, Jeff Yasuda, Nick Osborne and Dan Koh who must receive special thanks for always being available at short notice.

This team looked as though Cuppers would be within their grasp, especially after disposing of last year's runners-up, Worcester. However, in the quarterfinals, against a St Catz team containing two Blues, we found ourselves understaffed: Matt in his finals, James last seen in Cambridge, Kieran and Jeff out of Oxford, and Ziad called up late only after celebrating the end of his exams in the King ' s Arms. Inevitably this shadow of our strongest team lost.

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The second team very nearly upstaged the first. Having gained promotion with a side packed with freshers , it met the favourites, Christ Church, in the quarter-finals of Cuppers. The side was strengthened by Richard Koe, who had finished his finals and the new find, postgraduate Simon Kelly. This seemed to inspire the side who fought bravely before going down 6-3 . The scoreline flattered Christ Church who had to keep their nerve to win many close games.

Even with the worst courts in the university, the Club is prospering thanks to the commitment of the players who must all be congratulated.

S.B.M.

THE LADIES TENNIS CLUB Captain: BRIDGET GLASSEY

DESPITE initial enthusiasm at the start of term, the ladies ' tennis team produced only an average overall performance this year. Losing very narrowly to Wadham in the first round of Cuppers - the deciding set being lost on a tie break - we went on to lose our first League match against Hertford. Rallying slightly we then won against St Peter's in spite of dubious weather conditions.

All set for a re-match against Wadham in the League, we were ready for anything. However they failed to make contact within the appointed time, so victory was claimed. In our final match we suffered defeat at the hands of a very strong team from Keble, against whom we only won three sets. Even though overall success was lacking, strong individual performances were produced throughout the term by Chloe Griffiths, Alice Clay, Bridget Glassey and Melanie Rodier.

Thanks must also go to Mary McDermott, Vanessa Sangwin, Caroline Ball, Darlisa Crawford and Sarah O'Neill for able support when needed. Good luck to Alice who will be next year's Captain.

B.J.G.

THE NETBALL CLUB Captain: LINDSA Y McQurLLIAN

THE A-TEAM, still heady from the sweet smell of promotion success, unfortunately let the glory go to their collective heads during Michaelmas Term. This resulted in a First Division demise nearly as spectacular as our earlier two division leap.

The B-team maintained its usual high standard, captained by the trusty, smiling Emma Broomby who fought regularly and fiercely with Kirsteen Clarke for the least taxing position on court. Extra impetus was added to the B-team by the head-turning shooting of Alice Clay who Vice-Captain' s the squad next season.

Thus at the beginning of Hilary Term the Second Division was graced with the presence of not one, but two, Teddy Hall teams. We looked forward to proving ourselves and thus utilised the Iffley Road courts for practices. The opposition were impressed by our tactical brilliance, not to mention the exceptional skills of perhaps our most talented player, Dave Williams . The match most looked forward to by both teams took place in Fifth Week, an all Teddy Hall confrontation. It was memorable for the appearance of a few , though not numerically significant, male supporters. The solid defending of Carolyn Burroughs

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and Sue Felstead resulted in victory for the A-team, aided by the spectatorinspired sharp shooting of Lydia Harrison.

Lindsay McQuillian was Club Captain this year and will be next year's ViceCaptain of the University teams . She is succeeded as Captain by Louisa Turner in whose capable hands the A-team will hopefully become a more permanent feature of the First Division. We say goodbye to a number of seasoned netballing stawarts, including the formidable Alex Musson, but retain a core of great players, Kathryn Wroath (Vice-Captain), Rachel Grant and Lucy Malt, being particularly worthy of mention.

L.H.M. THE DARTS CLUB Captain: FRED BURT

THE YEAR has been one of mixed fortunes for the Darts Club, both on and off the oche. A boisterous fresher intake provided only two first team players but an outrageous number of spectators. The support was too much for Keble, home of the O.U. Darts Society this year, where the bar had to be closed after the barman refused to serve seventy non-college members .

After an embarrassing defeat by Hertford in the opening match of the League, the form displayed by last year's team appeared to be returning . Victories followed against Worcester, University and Pembroke, where Sam Surreys faultless finish in the final leg, was the highlight. The support by this stage had reached unmanageable proportions, prompting one Univ player to declare, 'trying to hit a double at the Hall is as intimidating as taking a penalty in front of the Kop'.

Two narrow defeats to eventual League winners Oriel and runners-up Lincoln, were initially demoralising, and an unfortunate lack of discipline at Pembroke resulted in all home matches being banned, away support being prohibited , and fines on the Club . This effectively killed the season .

We slumped to an eventual eighth in the League and a humiliating defeat in the first round of Cuppers.

Sam Surrey will be a tragic loss to the squad next year, but we can look forward to the inspirational leadership of new Captain, Julian Jelfs.

F.M.B. THE JOHN OLD HAM SOCIETY President: AARON SIMPSON THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY has been as active as ever with a variety of plays being produced, directed and acted in by Hall members. The first of these was a highly successful production of Macbeth staged in the Crypt under the library.

The realisation of this show highlighted the enthusiasm that has purveyed through the Hall's JCR for dramatic production for the last couple of years.

Performed during the winter term of 1991 , the response was electric, with the show selling out every night, and turning many away. Notable performances were made by Miss Ruth Phillips (Lady Macbeth) , and Mr. Kieran Clifton (Banquo) and Mr. Nicholas Bell who provided the lighting. The revitalisation of the JOS continued at a pace with more and more undergraduates becoming

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involved in its fruition. One of the more prominent of these is Jon Slater who wrote and directed his own play 'In the Rose Garden' under the flag of the JOS, and presented it in the now re-opened Burton Taylor Theatre. This was a first outing as a director for Jon, and was acclaimed by the University as some of the best new writing of that year. The cast also included members of the Hall, including Annelli Howard who won Drama Cuppers in 1991. The Hall has now consecutively won Drama Cuppers for the second year with Samir Mehta taking an acting award for his portrayal of characters from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Thus success in Cuppers has reflected success elsewhere on the stages of Oxford, with Hall members taking part in an array of spectacles.

The summer term last year brought a 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to the Library Gardens (otherwise known as the graveyard) and again was a triumph for all. The cast included Miss Gabrielle Hails (Titania), Miss Emma Jane Kirby (Quince), Miss Sue Felstead (Helena) and many others. The show ran for over two weeks and sold out every night, gaining the society not only recognition amongst the University but also amongst the local population of Oxford and incoming Conference members. This success is hopefully to be repeated this summer as St Edmund Hall becomes one of the venues for the first ever Shakespeare Festival coordinated and run by Hall members, with the casts being made up from many University colleges. We hope that the growing successes of the JOS will flourish into the future, with many first and second years already showing that productions of plays are essential to a complete rounding of college life. Whilst our sportsmen and women succeed on the pitches, many of our members succeed either as production crew or directors or actors. It is important that this is kept in the forefront of Teddy Hall life, as we have the potential to become the most prominent college in Oxford for the dramatic arts.

A.T.S. THE BALLROOM DANCING CLUB Captain: BEN! SURPIN

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 and Vicky Cunniffe, the OUBDC coaches provided invaluable once again.

Sadly the Hall were beaten by a very narrow margin, coming second once again to Merton's 'A' team. Four of our 'A' team couples made it to the finals.

Beni Surpin and Sarah Davison won the cha-cha competition in style; David Williams and Anna Trigell finished fourth in the jive competition; Mark Fox and Chris Manby finished second in the quickstep, and Chris Dawes and Dr Maryanne Martin finished fifth in the waltz. Mention must also go to Lee Richardson and Claire Edgar who came fifth in the cha-cha final and to Kaz Soga and Ildiko Katsz who came fifth in the jive final , both couples belonging to the Hall's 'B' team.

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The College also had a successful year with five of its members being selected for the University team: Sarah Davison, Chris Manby, Beni Surpin, Anna Trigell, and David Williams. Sarah has been awarded a Half Blue for her dexterity and style on the dance floor at the Cambridge v. Oxford Varsity Match.

Thanks to Dr Phelps for providing the Club with funds for Cuppers competition this year. With the Hall finishing third two years ago, second last year and this year, the stage is now set for us to win next year.

B.S.

THE CHAPEL CHOIR Organ Scholar: DA YID WJLLINGTON THIS YEAR has seen a vast increase in choir numbers from 2 to as many as 20 singers. Initially numbers were not steady but we now have 12 regulars who turn up each Sunday almost without fail, and without whom the choir would not exist. My main concern is that there are a lot of other good singers in the College who are not prepared to sing in their own chapel choir but are prepared to sing regularly at other colleges. With them the standard of the choir would increase as dramatically as the numbers have.

Most of the works we have sung have necessarily been unaccompanied, partly due to lack of a second organist (which should be rectified next year with the arrival of Huw Morgan), but mainly because the organist cannot see or hear what is going on in the chapel. A simple video camera system would solve this problem and allow the organist to at least see what is happening in the chapel.

At the moment I am trying to persuade the College to get one, but have had no success so far.

Finally, thanks must go to everyone who has helped make the chapel choir what it is, and in particular to Richard Bratby without whom the chapel choir termly parties may never have happened, and to Dave Skeet who, I am sure, will do an excellent job as chapel choir President next year.

J.D.A.W.

THE CHRISTIAN UNION Representatives: BRIDGET GLASSEY, HELEN MORGAN, ANNA WEIR IT WAS a great shame to lose many regular Christian Union attenders and friends at the end of Trinity Term. However, we began the new academic year in a very positive way with a houseparty , held jointly with New College, in Worcestershire, The teaching was on Colossians and we were reminded to remain rooted in Christ, never forgetting our first love for and awe of Him. With several freshers we began term working for fellowship and friendship , getting to know one another well. Continued contact with New College also helped to break a college-centred view of Christianity and, for the first time for a long time, many members were able to benefit from regular attendance at the central OICCU meetings.

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Christian organisation, to taking an active role in a Bible study led by one of the Christian Union members. It has proved to be a good opportunity to learn from one another and to develop confidence in our faith in Christ.

B.J.G. H.E.M. A.L.W.

THE WOMEN'S GROUP Women 's Officer:

LIBBY DAVIES

THE WOMEN's GROUP has enjoyed a raised and positive profile in College during the past term. The weekly group meetings have continued, with issues such as safety and health being discussed, and have been supplemented by popular fortnightly lunches. The main events of the term were the holistic massage workshop and the self-defence class, which have set a firm foundation which can be built on over the forthcoming year. Future events include guest speakers and debates, culminating in a celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of women at the Hall.

L.D.

GIFTS TO THE LIBRARYTHE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF AND BEYOND THIS YEAR, as those of you who attended the Summer Reunion and paid a visit to the display in the Library will know, was a year rich in the number and variety of gifts, for which I and the College offer our great thanks.

To the Aularian Bookshelf were added these publications: ALTON, R. E . (m. 1938 & Emeritus Fellow) 'The Sorceress', with F. Warner, in Temenos 13 1992.

ARMITAGE, Christopher (m. 1950) Ide, R. S. & Wittreich, J. (eds): Composite orders, the genres of Milton's last poems .

BIRD, H. (m. 1959) An island that led- the history of Manx education, Vol1, Port St. Mary, n. d.

BRIGGS, A. (Fellow) Norton Rose on civil jurisdictions and judgments, London, 1993.

BROWN, A. (m. 1987) Advocacy Briefing, No.l, January 1993.

BURROUGHS, W. J. (matric 1961) Watching the world's weather, Cambridge, 1991.

Weather cycles: real or imaginary?, Cambridge, 1992.

CARPENTER, P. (m. 1942) Kurt Hahn and the Cambridge scholarships.

Churchill and his 'technological' college, in Journal of Educational Administration and History, Vol. XVII, 1985.

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CLARKE, D. A. (m. 1958) The attack upon and defence of the Old Elvish Kingdom of Vassia against the river witch and her grim horde, London, 1992.

COLLINS, P. J. (Fellow) Topology and its applications, Amsterdam, 1992.

COWDREY, H. E. J. (Fellow) ' Pope Gregory VII and La Chaise-Dieu', in Maison s de Dieu et hommes d'Eglise, 1992.

'Canon law and the first crusade', in B. Z. Kedar, The Horns of Hattin, Jerusalem, 1992.

CRONK, N. E. (Fellow) 'The celebration of carnival in Moliere-Lully 's Les Amants magnifique' , in Moles, E. & Peacock, N.: The seventeenth century, Glasgow, 1992.

CUMMINGS, Lawrence (m. 1971) Customer demand for total logistics management: myth or reality?, Bedford, 1992.

CURRALL, Julian (m. 1970) 'Educational rights under the EC treaty ', in Mobility of people in the European Community, Dublin, 1990.

Artikeln 117 bis 128, in Kommentar zum EWG-Vertrag, Baden-Baden, 1991.

'Some aspects of the relation between Articles 30-36 and Article 100 of the EEC Treaty, with a closer look at optional harmonisation', in Yearbook of European Law 1984, Oxford, 1985.

'La Communaute et les fonctions publiques nation ales', in Fonctions publiques nationales et imperatifs communautaires, n. p., n. d.

'Le fonds Europeen de developpement regional des origines jusqu ' a l'acte unique Europeen', in Cahiers de droit Europeen, Bruxelles, 1988.

'Unlawful discrimination in employment - an outline of the European Community rules and case-law', in Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 20, 1990.

Article 130A-E EEC, n. p. , n. d. ' Bildung und Ausbildung im Recht der Europaischen Gemeinschaft, in Recht der Jungend und des Bildungswessens, Neuweid, 1991.

Education and vocational training in European Community Law, Brussels, 1990.

DAVIDS, Alexander (m. 1975) Practical information engineering, London, 1992.

DAVIDSON, C. H. (matric 1949) Sir John Sutton: a study in true principles, Oxford, 1992.

DAVIS, Geoffrey V. (m. 1962) Neuseeland im Pazifischen raum, Aachen, 1992.

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Kanada: Gesellschaft, Landeskunde, Literatur, Wurtzburg, 1991.

'Repainting the damaged canvas ', in Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Voll4, 1991.

'The iconography of landscape in Australian film', with G. Collier, in Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, No. 6, 1991.

German translation of the last, in Mensch und Natur in Australien, edited by Gerhard Stilz, Bern, 1991.

Introduction to Rive, Richard, District Six, Rome, 1990.

Review of A-R Glaap, Literature in English New Territories, in Sokomoko ed Werner Graebner, n. p., n. d.

DUNBABIN, J. P. D. (Fellow) La Gran Bretagna all'inizio del ventesimo secolo: il tramonto del night watchman state, in Richerche di storia politica, Milan, 1992.

EATON, Deborah (Librarian) ' Catullus and psychoanalytic criticism ', in Revue Luxembourgeoise de Litterature Generale et Comparee, 1992.

FERGUSON, Stuart J. (Fellow) Bioenergetics 2, London, 1992.

FRANKIS, J. (m. 1948) ' St. Zita, St Sythe and St Osythe', in Nottingham Medieval Studies, XXXVI (1992).

GOSLING, J. C. B. (Principal) Mad, drunk or asleep?- Aristotle's akratic, in Phronesis, XXXVIII/I (1993) .

GRAVES, P. (m. 1965) East-west memories of a lost summer: Christa Wolf and Sarah Kirsch, in German literature at a time of change: 1989-1990, Bern, 1991.

The erosion of hope, or: what remains of Christa Wolf, in German Monitor 29 Geist und Macht.

Christa Wolf's Sommerstiick: an intensified June afternoon, in The Modern Language Review, Vol87 (1992) .

HEGARTY, G. (Chaplain) Chapter in Evangelical Anglicans, edited by R. France and A. E. McGrath, London, 1993 .

JONES, G. H. (m. 1947) Convergent forces , Ames, Iowa, 1990.

MANN, C. (m. 1970) Kites and other poems, Cape Town, 1990.

Mann alive!, Cape Town, 1992.

Mann Alive! (video tape), Cape Town, 1992.

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MARSH, Arthur (Fellow) The trade union movement in the UK 1992, with Bill Cox, Oxford, 1992.

MATTHEWS, P. (m. 1977) Discovery (with others), London, 1992.

MATTHEWS, Melvyn (matric 1960) God's space in you, (Alresford, 1992) Finding your story, (London, 1992) The hidden word, (London, 1992).

McKENziE, G. D. (m. 1972) offprints of 11 articles on geology.

MITCHELL, P. J. (m. 1983) 'Ntloana tsoana: a middle stone age sequence from western Lesotho' , in South African Archaeological Bulletin 47, 1992.

'Implications of some recent radiocarbon dates from Western Lesotho', in Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir \wetenskap, Vol88, 1992.

MITCHELL, R. B. (Emeritus Fellow) 'How to study Old English syntax?', in History of Englishes, edited by Matti Rissanen et al. , Berlin, 1992.

'J. R. R. Tolkien and Old English studies : an appreciation', delivered at The Tolkein Centenary Conference, Oxford, 1992.

'Parataxis and hypotaxis' , in Neuphilologische Mittelungen, Vol. XCIII, pt. 2 (1992).

'Five notes on Old English syntax' , in Annales Turkuensis, 1993.

MORGAN, J. V.~- (matric 1954) 'Term, scope and territory', in Dennis Campbell & Marl Abell, International Technology Transfer for Profit, Deventer, 1992.

MuLLER, Jean-Claude (m. 1975) 'Luxembourgers in the New World', in Voila 1992.

NAUGHTON, J. D. (Fellow) Hrabal, B: The little town where time stood still (translator).

NEWLYN, L. A. (Fellow) Paradise Lost and the Romantic reader, Oxford, 1992.

PALMER, N. F. (Fellow) Review of Der Meister des Lehrgespriichs und sein 'In-principio-Dialog', in The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol43, pt. 2 (1992) [Also contains 1 review by Rev J. N. D. Kelly and 2 by Rev H. E. J. Cowdrey.]

PARSONS, D. J. (m. 1969) Pension schemes and best estimates, London, cl991.

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PHILLIPS, D. G. (m. 1966, Fellow) 'Transitions and traditions .... ', in Education and Europe, No. 47 (1992).

Education and economic change in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (Vol 2, i Oxford Studies in Comparative Education), Wallingford, 1992.

Diversification in modern language teaching, London, 1992.

PoLLOCK, Norman (m. 1945 and Emeritus Fellow) Tobruk, a personal account, Thetford, 1992.

ScARGILL, D. I. (m. 1954 & Fellow) ' Regional France - some lessons for England? ', in Town & Country Planning,Vol 61, No. 11112, 1992.

ScHOLL, Lars (m. 1970) The container terminals in Bremerhaven and Bremen, in Holm, P. & Edwards, J., North sea ports and harbours- adaptations to change, (Esbjerg, 1992).

The Harriman-Hamburg-American Line agreement of June 1920, in Research in Maritime History, No. 2, (St John' s, 1992).

SMITH, A. E. (m. 1926) Another Anglican angle, Oxford 1991.

SMITH, Rodger Hayward (m. 1962) Jackson's matrimonial finance and taxation, London 1992.

SPURR, Barry (m. 1974) The poetry ofTennyson, Glebe, 1993.

The poetry of Philip Larkin, Glebe, 1993.

The poetry of Andrew Marvell, Glebe, 1993.

'Sable-stoled Sorcerers', in Milton Quarterly, Vol. 26, 1992.

'Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs', in St Mark' s Review, 1993.

The poetry of Robert Frost, Glebe, Australia, 1992.

The poetry of Denise Levertov, Glebe, Australia, 1992.

The poetry ofWilliam Wordsworth, Glebe, Australia, 1992.

The poetry of John Keats , Glebe, Australia, 1992.

'Expert beyond experience', in Oxford Today, Trinity, 1992.

STALLWORTHY, M. (matric 1970) 'Local government lawyers: the 1980' s and beyond' in Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 19, pt. 1 (1992).

TULLETT, J. D. (M. 1976) 'Gas kick modelling', paper given February 1992.

'Application of the research gas kick simulator 'R' model .... ', in IADC Third Annual European Well Control Conference, 1992.

'Progress on the validation programme for the 'R' model gas kick simulator' , published by APS, n. p., n. d.

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TYTLER, G. (m. 1954) Martha Lacey Hall, Louisiana short-story writer, in Regional Dimensions, Vol. 10, 1992.

Heathcliff' s monomania, in Bronte Society Transactions, Vol. 20, 1992.

VENABLES, R. (Honorary Fellow) Non-resident trusts, London, 1993, 5th ed.

WARNER, Jonathan (m. 1976) 'The Environment' and 'Global Change: Socio-economic trends in the 1990's', reports of conferences at Eastern Mediterrenean University, Cyprus , 1991, 1992.

WYATT, D. A. (Fellow) Yearbook of European Law 1991 , Oxford, 1992.

European community law, London, 1993, 3rd ed.

We were also fortunate to have the books below given to us, many of which have been included in the undergraduate and local history collections: COPPER DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 'Equilibrium diagrams,' Potters Bar, 1993.

Cox, M. The story of Abingdon, Part II, Abingdon, 1992.

CRAMPTON, R. J. (Fellow) many Historical Association pamphlets.

CRONK, N. E. (Fellow) d'Urfe, Honore: L' Astree, Paris, 1984.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de: Histoire Naturelle.

Byram, M.: The 'Attistant(e) d' Anglais' preparing for the year abroad.

DUNBABIN, J. P. D. (Fellow) Bull, H.: The anarchical society.

Bogdanor, V. & Butler, D .: Democracy and elections.

EATON, Deborah (Librarian) Fleeman, J. D.: A preliminary handlist of copies of books associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson.

FARRAND, R. A. (m. 1955; publisher) Subscription to Printmaking Today .

Burn, I. & Wellwood J. McK.: Operative Cancer Surgery Vol I. Burn, I. & Wellwood, J . McK.: Operative cancer surgery; volume 1 the gastro-intestinal tract (London, 1992).

HART, Richard Hart, A. T.: 5 volumes of Studies in English Church History. : Murder in the Church of England.

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:Murder and the monarchy. : Further studies in English Church History. : Elizabethan and Stuart church studies.

HA YES, Sir Claude (m. 1930) 2 volumes of Societe des textes

fran~ais

modemes.

KIEFFER, R. Allegory old and new. Actes du Colloque International, special number of RLLGC, Luxembourg, 1992.

Pays clement dans la fureur des vagues, Luxembourg, 1993.

LOADES, Mrs J. Hicks, Michael: False, fleeting , perjur'd Clarence, Bangor, 1992.

MACDONALD, C. I. French language book.

McMANNERS, J. (Honorary Fellow) Aston, N: The end of an elite.

McQUADE, A. M. & B. V. Hubbard, L. Ron: Dianetics.

NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTRE Geremek, B. et al: The idea of a civil society, North Carolina, 1992.

0GAWA, H. Anglistica, XXVI: 'Old English modal verbs ' Copenhagen, 1989.

PRICE, James (m. 1949; publisher) Coleridge, S. T.: Conciones ad populam.

Wordsworth, W.: Peter Bell.

Shelley, P. B. : Adonais.

Godwin, W.: Political justice, 2 vols.

De Quincey: Klosterheim.

Hazlitt: Liber amoris.

Maturin: Beri;ram.

Wordsworth, J.: Visionary gleam, Oxford, 1993.

RHONE-POULENC (chemical manufacturers) Diamond, J.: The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee.

RIDLER, V. H. (Emeritus Fellow; publisher) Brown, George Mackay, Brodgar Poems, Oxford, 1992.

ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE The Richard Storry Memorial Lecture, No. 5, Oxford, 1992.

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VARSITY PUBLICATIONS The May anthology of Oxford and Cambridge short stories, London, 1993.

The May anthology of Oxford and Cambridge poetry, London, 1993 .

WHITBREAD BREWERS Ritchie, Berry: An uncommon brewer, London 1992.

Y ARDLEY, D . C. M. (Emeritus Fellow) Local government ombudsman Annual report 199111992, London, 1992.

Also, in the words of the donor, in order to inspire other Old Aularians to do the same, ÂŁ800.00 was given to restore some of the more important books in the Old Library, at least 50% of which are in urgent need of repair.

Deborah Eaton Librarian THE SCHOOLS TRINITY TERM 1993 Honour School of Natural Science: Biochemistry: Part I!: Class 2/I: A. R. Pickford. Class 212: Ms J. L. Gault, Ms R. Hamlani, Ms R. Quinlan. Part I (Unclassified Honours): J. R. M . Harris, Ms K. A. Vardy, M. A. Wigmore.

Chemistry: Part I!: Class 2/I: J. R . Cattell, Ms A. M. S. Cookson, Ms S. J. E. Davison, M. R. Pluck, R. J. Rednall. Class 212: I. J. Murphy. Class 3: D. J. Walker. Part I (Unclassified Honours): D. L. Ison, A. W. Jones, A. J. Lee. Engineering Science: Part I!: Class I: A. H. Somalya. Class 2/I: M. N. Hedges , Ms A. Musson, C. I. Vigars. Part I (Unclassified Honours): H. A. C. Bruce-Gardyne, A. S. L. Green, G. C. Hinton, M. D. Powe, C. P. Webster.

Engineering and Computer Science: Part I (Unclassified Honours): J. A. Alderton. Engineering and Materials Part I!: Class 2/I: Ms S. L. Massey.

Part I (Unclassified Honours): J. M. Bailey, M . 0 . S. Lim, Ms E. L. Noone.

Geology: Class 2/I: E. M. Burr, Ms V. L. Griffiths-Fisher, T. C. Harwood, R. Law , R. K. Mills, Ms S. J. Ranee. Class 212: D . Grey. Metallurgy and Science of Materials: Part I!: Class I: R . J . Grylls. Class 2/I: D. Hilton.

Class 212: A. S. Cooper. Part I (Unclassified Honours): Ms C. F. Braban, Ms E. E. Broomby, E. F. J. Shelton. Physics: Class I: D. T. Ryan , D. A. Williams. Class 2/I: M. D. Johnston. Class 2/2: S. C. Barnett, R. J. McBain.

Physiological Sciences: Class 2/I: Ms G. R. Pottinger, A. M. Rule, G. E. Smith.

Honour School of Engineering, Economics and Management: Part I!: Class 2/I: B. M. Pearson, M. W. Spencer. Class 2/2: Ms B. J. Reed. Part I (Unclassified Honours): S. A. Henderson.

Honour School of English Language and Literature: Class 2/I: Ms S. L. Chevis, Ms S. E. Felstead, Ms C. R. Gordon, J. L. Howgate, Ms E. J. Kirby, A. K. Mitchell, J. P. Slater. Class 2/2: Ms C . J . Brown, Ms C. M. A. Buchanan, Ms A. C. Cooley, M. D . McColl.

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Honour School of English and Modern Languages: Class 2/1: Ms K. V. Catpenter, Ms F . M. D. Woodward.

Honour School of Experimental Psychology: Class 1: Ms S. J. Bishop. Class 211: Ms A. Trigell. Class 2/2: Ms C. A. Manby.

Honour School of Geography: Class 1: P . R. Hocknell. Class 2/1: Ms N. H. Haines, Ms L. C. H . Harrison, J. M. Kelly, E. J. Linforth, Ms E. E. Pinches, J. P. Probert. Class 2/2: A. T. Simpson.

Honour School of Jurisprudence: Class 1: A. J. Dickinson, Ms D. C. Hewitt, J. A. Zemmel. Class 211 : Ms S. J. Bantges, P. J. Brady, P. T . Drummond, D. M. Gauke, S. A. Noone, C. F. N. Todd. Class 212: D. Ditch.

Honour School of Mathematics: Class 211: M. G. Knibbs, A. D. Penn.

Honour School of Mathematics and Computation: Class 1: G. A. McCusker.

Honour School of Metallurgy. Economics and Management: Part I!: Class 211: R. J. Sennitt.

Honour School of Modern History: Class 1: R. J. B. Koe, R. M. Salter. Class 2/1: Ms K. V. B. Clark, Ms J. R. Coulson, E. A. B. Hobart, K. G. Knibbs, M . C. Woodfine. Class 212: D . J. Jordan, S. M. J . Surrey , Ms R. WynWilliams. Class 3: M . J. Oakman.

Honour School of Modern Languages: Class 2/2: Ms E. P. A. Biagioni, Ms A. J. Carysforth, Ms L. C. Donovan, Ms S. R. Emmison, Ms A. H. McKenna.

Class 3: Ms A. C. Wells.

Honour School of Philo sophy and Modern Languages: Class 211: S . P. Whittington.

Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Class 211: Ms J. C. Brown, J. E. Carr, K. 0. E. Clifton, H. I. Georgeson, D . S. Guha, B. E .

Palmer, S. J. Schooling, B. M. Walker, C. F. A. Watts , J. D. J. Wickham.

Class 2/2: M . J. Ball, Ms C . S. Burroughs, A. Maharaj , Ms R. C. Phillips, M. G. Roberts.

Honour School of Physics and Philosophy: Class 2/2: M. J. Janezic.

Honour School of Psychology. Philosophy and Physiology: Class 2/2: Ms C. Georgiadis.

GRADUATE DEGREES 1992-1993

D.Phil.: W . Adema, Ms G. A. Akponasa, C. E. Dawson, T . S. Fell, S. Ghosh, Ms M . E. Hawkins, S. D. Hodgson, A. Mattoo, A. J. O'Connell, P. J. Othen, M. G. Shepley, A. Tchoudnowsky, Ms A. M . Volfing, G. A. Worth, H. K. Yalci, M. Yun. 99

M.Juris.: Class 2: H. R. Blenske, V-P. Brophy, Ms K. E. Gottwald; Ms A-F. Meeus, Ms A. K. Taggarse, I. Zervas.

M.Litt. : A. Fukuda.

M.Phil.: Ms V. C. Hardy .

B. CL.: Class 1: H. L. Ho._Class 2: J. A. Kettle.

B.M. B.Ch.: G. M. Gribbin, Ms L. R. Haynes, A. D. Martindale, Ms J. R. Rainbow, C. W. Vickery.

Postgraduate Certificate in Education: D. Brockington, L. J. Dennett, Ms T. J. Foster, W. J. Heaney, Ms N. H. Murphy, Ms E. P. Russell.

DEGREES B.A.: 24th October 1992 Ms T. D. Betts, Ms K. J. Davies, Ms L. E. Eburne, Ms L. W. Gillham, K. M. Gordon, D. A. Halliwell, Ms K. L. Hamilton, Ms R. M. Jones, *C. P. J. Kerrison, P. R. Lynan, B. M. S. K. Miller, D. J. Neal, E. H. Rose, *M. Rynja, Ms K. A. Sidebotham, R. Surpin, Ms E. J. Warren, Ms A. M. West, M. A. Whittaker; 7th November 1992 S. K. Atkinson, A. J. S. Borrie, Ms J. E. Brookes, D. A. Doran, R. S. Dunne, I. J. Fraser, R. P.

Goodson, R. M. Goulder, Ms G. G. Griffiths, Ms M. A. Jaskulski, M. C. McCorkell, J. D. Melling, J. Methven, S. E. Orbell, D. A. Pain, Ms C. F. Smith, E. J. Wilson; 28th November 1992 J. Cox, Ms A. Hambleton, J. S. Herbert, *J. C. Holleyhead, L. S. K. Torry; 23rd January 1993 T. W. Argles, Ms C.Ashley-Smith, R. D. Barber, *T. H. Burgess, *J. M. Cleverley; 6th March 1993 S. W. J. Cochrane, S. Dhillon, J. I. Ferguson, Ms S. E. Ferguson, M. R. Fox, *J. T. Lowenstein; 22nd May 1993 A. J. Boag, J. C. Cotton, W. D. Crerar, L. Ferretter, Ms C. Holme, Ms J. L. Howat, Ms N. P. Hugh, Ms C. B. Jardine, L. E. Jones, T . R. Leman, M. A. Lemon, Ms C. Mann, G. K. A. Massey, C. N. J. O'Reilly, (Posthumous)N. J. H. Penny, J. R. Peterkin, Ms C. J. Plowman, C. J. Powell, D. C. Sandiford, C. J. Sawyer, S. R. Sparrow, J. E. Tuckley, *J. R. C. Young; 12th June 1993 Ms G. C. P. Baird, M. J. S. Bates, M. Browning, Ms E. E. Coast, D. M. J. Devetta, Ms C. E. George, Ms M. G. Holden, P. J. Leman, Ms H. J. Parry, Ms V. E. Peterson, W. J. Peto, Ms M. C. Pill, Ms L. R. Sibson, C. R. Smalman-Srnith, *C. J. Smith, S. A. J. Waters, Ms K. L. Wilson; 17th July 1993 Ms R. Hamlani, J. A. Lloyd-Williams, Ms R. M. Makin, *J. F. Myhill; 31st July 1993 Ms A. M. Briffett, J. R. Cattell, M. A. Chandler, Ms J. Penrose.

M.A. : 24th October 1992 J. G. Franks, *N. J. Haddock, M. R. Haftke, *C. P. J. Kerrison, *Ms J. S. Moody, H. M. Rose, *D. D. Talbert, *Ms C. J. Thomason; 7th November 1992 .*J-P. Debax, *R. Singh; 28th November 1992 *B. Battye, I. M. Billing, Ms J. M. Cowan, J. Cox, Ms K. D. M. Filby, N. J. Gay, *J. C. Holleyhead, Ms S. A. Hynes, *J. P. Le Pelley, I. G. Lines, N. J. Parkes, P. N. Pearson, Ms E. M. Rudd, A. J. Shortland, Ms J. E. Stirling, R. N. Ward; 23rd

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January 1993 *T. H. Burgess, *J. M. Cleverley, *N. C. Williams, *P. J. J. Woodhouse, *R. A. Wright; 6th March 1993 A. J. Ballsdon, *A. C. Bing, S. M. Ferguson, *E. C. Hayes, *Ms M. A. Hyre, M. R. S. Irwin, Ms C. P. Ivins, *Ms F. M. Larkin, *J. T. Lowenstein, *Ms B. M. Walker; 22nd May 1993 *N. R. Cleminson, *C. J . Hawley, *M. C. Jeffery, *G . P . H. Penny, (Posthumous) N. J. H.Penny, *D. C. Starbuck, *J. R. C. Young; 12th June 1993 G. P. Brazendale, Ms A. J. Cooke, Ms C. L. Johnson, Ms M. T. Kennedy, *C. J. Smith; 17th July 1993 Mrs J. L. Little (nee Cannon), I. P. Cheffy, P. A. Edge, M. A. Feeley, D. R. Firth, P. J. Gladen, B. D. Hicks, *J. R. W . D. Jones, C. W. M. Kay, M. R. Little, D. C. Whitmarsh, *N. I. K. K. Yeung; 31st July 1993 A. P. Blain, *A. Dale, D. A. Gillett, *S. R. Goodyear, A. H. Harwood, *M. I. Hill, D. M. James, N. G. Laird, *E. J. Marsh, C. A. Sentance, M. J. Senter, K. J. Stannard, Ms C. R. Tracey, *R. Tracey, M. C. Waiters. A. M. Watkins.

B.M. & B.Ch.: 17th July 1993 G . M. Gribbin, Ms L. E. R. Haynes , A. D .

Martindale, Ms J. R. Rainbow, C. W. Vickery.

D.Phil.: 24th October 1992 *H. K. Yalci; 7th November 1992 Ms H. G. Davis, T. S. Fell, Ms E. T . Kaar; 28th November 1992 Mrs G. A. Akponasa; 6th March 1993 M. Yun; 22nd May 1993 *M. G. Shepley; 12th June 1993 P. J. Othen; 17th July 1993 W . Adema, *Ms R. E. Tait.

M.Phil. : 24th October 1992 P.A. C. Hillier; 28th November 1992 C. A. Cahall.

M.Sc. : 24th October 1992 *F. M . L. Cadiz; 28th November 1992 *Ms K. M. Tilling; 6th March 1993 *T. W. Cheung, *T. R. Watts; 22nd May 1993 D. J. Anderson.

M. St.: 28th November 1992 *A. Perras.

M.Litt.: 31st July 1993 A. Fukuda.

B.C.L. : 28th November 1992 A. M. Hunter; 31st July 1993 H. L. Ho. M.Juris.: 31st July 1993 H. R. Blenske, Ms K. E. Gottwald, Ms A. K. Taggarse, I. Zervas. * In Absence.

MATRICULATIONS 1992 Adamou, Boubakar (Ahmadu Bello University) Aiyar, Shekhar Shankar (Delhi University) Akle, Ziad Lucien (Westminster School) Antunes da Silva, Carla Alexandra Severino (St Julian's School, Portugal) Ayers, Dominique Patricia (King Edward's School, Bath) Ball, Caroline Louise (Westcliff High School for Girls) Barnes, Antonia Nicole (King Edward VI High School for Girls) Beery, Jessica Bevington (The Godolphin and Latymer School)

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Bhattacharya, Ratna (Haberdashers ' Aske's School for Girls) Biver, Marc (Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg) Blenske, Holger Ralph (University of Frankfurt-am-Main) Booth, Caroline Rachel (Hills Road Sixth Form College) Bourrnina, Tatyana (Moscow Regional Pedagogical University) Brophy, Vincent-Paul (University of Bordeaux) Broughton, Jacqueline Marie (Canford School) Bruun, Georg Marten (University of Arhus) Bryars, Timothy William Hudson (QueenMary's Grammar School, West Midlands) Calabrese, Andrew Antony (St Serf's School) Caley, Anne Rachel (Surbiton High School for Girls) Cheng, Chung Wai (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) Clay, Alice Clare (Cranbrook School) Cleverley, Stephen Charles (Dover Grammar School for Boys) Clowes, Lucy Anne (Cheltenham College) Cole, Adam Barrett Norman (Winchester College) Davie, Lucy Anne (South Wolds School) Davies, Hilary Julia Murray (James Alien's Girls' School) Davis, David Ewart (Methodist College) Demke, Elena (Karl-Marx-Universitat) Dennis, Thomas Henry (Goffs School) Dinsdale, Adrian Martin (King Edward VII School, Lanes) Doran, Matthew Timothy (Halesowen College) Doude van Troostwijk, Johannes Maarten (University of Amsterdam) Elliott, Matthew Kieron (Epsom College) Farrand, Thomas Benjamin (Cricklade Tertiary College) Farrar, Jeremy James (University of London) Fisher, Mark Grenville (Ratcliffe College) Fisher, Steven Graham (The Haberdashers' Aske's School) Foo, Yuk Yee (Llandovery College) Foster, Tiffany Jane (University of Durham) Fox, Catherine Elizabeth (Honley High School and Sixth Forrri College) Galvagni, Federico (University ofPadua, Italy) Georgiadis, Vassos John Antony (The King's School, Kent) Gladstone, Thomas Xenophon (Gordonstoun School) Glaser, Eliane Rebeka (Camden School for Girls) Golder, Matthew Richard (Laxton School) Gottwald, Katharina Elizabeth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat) Grant, Rachel Lindsay (Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College) Greaves, Deborah Mary (University of Bristol) Groombridge, Martin Peter (Ruskin College) Hamilton, Julia Louise (Kingswood School) Hannah, Olivia Ruth (St Bede's School) Harriman, Jason Michael (Stockport Grammar School) Harrison, Christopher Mark Woodville (Eton College)

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Hart, Daniel James (Malvern College) Haslam, Kathryn Jill (The Ashcombe School) Heaney, William John (University of Cambridge) Heeger, Karsten Miklas (Schiller-Gymnasium Witten) Hewitt, Nicholas Gordon (The Royal Belfast Academical Institution) Hitchens, Janina Maya (St Paul's Girls' School) Ho, Hock Lai (National University of Singapore) Hooper, Eirik John (King Edward's School, Birmingham) Hopkinson, Christopher James (Nottingham High School) Hughes, Blake Gareth (Monmouth School) Hui, Choon Kuen (Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore) Hwang, Yih-Jiau (Culture University, Taiwan) Jackson, Hilary Jane (Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education) James, Ceri Gomer (Bryncelynnog Comprehensive School) Jelfs, Julian Philip (Exeter School) Kelly, Simon Roger (University of Cambridge) Kettle, John Andrew (Trinity College, Dublin) Kilmartin, Benjamin Anthony (St Edward' s School) Koh, Kok Yu Daniel (Raffles Junior College, Singapore) Koh, Young (University College, London) Lam, Royan (Durham School) Leung, Francis Man Chung (Ratcliffe College) Maclay, Alasdair Worsfold (Winchester College) McWhirter, Simon James (Sullivan Upper School) Malt, Lucy Caroline (St Swithun's School) Mathieson, Alistair David (Poole Grammar School) Meeus, Anne-Francoise Jean Marie Corneille (Queen's University Belfast) Mehta, Samir Pravin (The John Lyon School) Middleditch, Darren Paul (University of Keele) Militzer, Burkhard (University of Berlin) Miller, Philip David (Bloxham School) Miller, Richard James Andrew (Radley College) Mills, Ryan George (King Edward VI Grammar School) Milner, Michael James (Birkenhead School) Morrison, Sarah Jane (Merchant Taylors' School for Girls) Murphy, Noeleen Hannah (University of London) Nuttgens, Flora Daphne (Wycombe High School) O'Neill, Aideen Therese (Queen's University Belfast) O'Neill, Sarah Siobhan (Stockport Grammar School) Osborne, Nicholas George (Winchester College) Paige, Marcus Nigel Alexander (Bryanston School) Painter, Alexander Robert (The Norton Knatchbull School) Pate!, Purva Tapaswin (North London Collegiate School) Penrose, Jane Katharine (Hedingham School) Plumstead, Julian Edward De Vine (Sherborne Boys ' School) Power, Robert Alexander (Brentwood School)

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Price, Nicholas Jason (Royal Grammar School, Worcester) Prowting, Sarah Joy (Lincoln Christ's Hospital School) Purcell, Matthew Ian (Crossyceiliog Comprehensive School) Richards, Fiona Louise (New College, Shropshire) Richards, Jonathan Glyn (Abingdon School) Riley, Steven (Holy Cross College) Rob bins, Michael Andrew (Bishop of Llandaff High School) Rosier, Suzanne Mary (University of Reading) Rothfield, Mark Lionel (City of London School) Roy, Tunin Hamish (City of London School) Russell, Elaine Patricia (University of Liverpool) Saalehi, Ahmad (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran) Sackree, Jonathan James (Wisbech Grammar School) Sanmugaratnam, Sasidaran (Dulwich College) Scholey, Gareth Mark (Monmouth School) Shattock, Robin John (Ballyclare High School) Shingler, Giles Brian (King' s School) Skeet, David Richard (Royal Grammar School, Worcester) Slater; Martha Caroline (North London Collegiate School) Smith, WayneLeslie (Adams' Grammar School) Snell, Mark Anthony (University of Western Australia) Soga, Kazumasa (Nagoya University) Spooner, Catherine Louise (Wyke Sixth Form College) Stafford, Rachel Lois (Bolton School Girls' Division) Staley, Alan Daren (Poole Grammar School) Stanage, Niall Graham (Methodist College) Stilwell, Percy James Tate (Harrow School) Surpin, Beni (J F S Comprehensive School) Taggarse, Anjana Kishore (University of Bangalore) Taksz, Ildiko (Budapest University of Economics) Tate, Alexander Nicholas John (Pangbourne College) Taylor, David Stuart (Royal Belfast Academical Institution) Taylor, Mark Lee (Bolton School Boys' Division) Thomas, Geraint Roger David (St Cyres Comprehensive School) Turner, Louisa Mary (Alton College) Watkins, Jennifer Mary (Eastbourne Sixth Form College) Weaver, Matthew James (King Edward's School, Bath) Webb, Claire Louise (Mount Carmel School) Webster, Mark Mallyon (Abingdon School) Weiss, Timothy Francis (Hills Road Sixth Form College) Weldon, Henry Daniel (Rugby School) White, Karuna Anne (Nonsuch High School for Girls) Whitehouse, Christopher Simon (King Edward VI College, West Midlands) Willett, Mark William (Thetford Grammar School) Wood, Susanna Mary (Truro High School) Woodcock, Adrian Stuart (Katharine Lady Berkeley's School)

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Wyndow, Ruth Deborah (Coventry School) Yamazaki, Naho (The Lady Eleanor Holies School) Young, Peter (Watford Grammar School) Zervas, Ioannis (University of Chicago)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

Balance Sheet as at 31 May 1993 31 May 1993 £

31 May 1992 £

£

£

ASSETS Bank balances ............................. .

Debtors

826 5,673

8,958 2,281

Less: Creditors .... .........................

6,499 2,700

11,239 6,445

3,799

4,794

REPRESENTED BY Accumulated funds General fund at start of Year .... ....

Surplus from Income Account .... .

1,794 1,476

1,478 316 1,794

3,270 Directory fund at start of year ......

Appropriation this year ............... .

Less: Half cost of production & mailing of 1992 Directory ....... .

3,000 2,000 5,000 4,471

3,000 3,000 529

3,000

3,799

4 794

R. J. L. BREESE (President) J. R. PAUL (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 1993. 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 1993 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

3 August 1993 The Coach House 29a Bennett Park · Blackheath London SE3 9RA

LINDSA YD. PAGE (Honorary Auditor)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT For the year ended 31 May 1993 Year ended 31 May 1993 £ INCOME from Subscriptions .............................

Bank interest ..... ........ ..... ... ........ .

Emden bequest interest.. ............

'Hall' publication surplus ..........

£

Year ended 31 May 1992 £ £ 6,150 299 240 450

8,578 215 200 125

7,139

9,118 EXPENDITURE Magazine production (half) .......

2,625 Magazine postage & mailing (half) 1,100 Magazine postage & mailing (full) Honorary Secretary's expenses.

331 AGM notice printing .................

186 141 Hall Arms research ....................

Letterhead overprinting ...... .......

31 Bank charges .............................

20 Executive Committee meeting expenses 8

2,575 2,036 315 188 62

4,442

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5,223 1,9 16

4,676 Less grants: Provision of outdoor furniture for Upper Quad ..........................

Benefactors Book ......................

Contribution to Principal's portrait Hall chapel prayer-books .... .......

900 300 1,500 100 1,200

1,600

3,476 2,000

316

Appropriation to Directory fund Surplus to General fund on Balance Sheet

1,476

316

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 11 January 1994.

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EDMUND BEAR REPORTS The Bursary and College Shop have had another good year and many hundreds of Hall mementos have been sent to the four corners of the globe. Following the success of the Stephen Farthing print (which is still available of course) both Corpus Christi and University College have tried the same thing, not surprising in the case of the latter in the year of Bill Clinton!

The latest venture, Teddy Bear handkerchiefs, taken from an early Hall tie design (kindly loaned by the Principal) have been an outstanding success with hundreds having been sold. They have been particularly popular as table napkins and come in the usual Hall colours, burgundy and gold and a sort of Oxford blue. We are pleased to report that the experiment with the shop did survive the summer and is now open again for the second year; please, if you come to the College do pop up and have a look, there may be something that takes your fancy. The shop also carries a representative range of the Oxford Collection at discount prices.

Once again this year there will be a Hall Christmas card; sales are now at a level which means that they can be produced economically, so 'thank you' to all our regular subscribers to this venture: order a batch every year and they will be sent to you in time for Christmas. They are formal cards, ideal for business use as well as appropriate for serious friends . This year's print is shown at the back of the magazine.

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Dear Aularian, A short note to keep you up to date with memorabilia available by mail order through the Bursary.

The tear off form below shows prices and details ; if you are interested please complete it and send to us with your cheque.

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Domestic Bursar With my best wishes.

SEH Umbrellas: very high quality Briggs with double Fox frame, crook handle and 'by Royal Appointment' label. Maroon and Gold livery with cross flory on each panel at £35 each No required .... ..... ......

Porcelain Mugs: white bone china & gold leaf bearing full colour coat of arms. beaker style (straight sides) £4 No required .............. . tankard style (waisted) £5 No required ....... ....... .

Copper etched Coasters: Magazine cover arms set of six £6

No required .. .. ......... .

Christmas Cards: order a batch to be delivered and invoiced each October - each year a different print of the Hall.

No required ......... .. .. .

Silk Ties (black with red cross) or (gold & Chough) always available at Type ... ...... .. ..... .. .. .. ... .... £17.50 Norequired .............

Silk Bow Ties (ready-tied or self-tie) Type... ..... .. ...... ............ .

£10 £10

Edmund Bear in two sizes size ....... ...................... .

No required .............

£16.00 £8 .50

No required ............ .

£30.00

No required .. .. .. ... .. .. ..

Blazer Buttons Boxed set of six large & six small Chough Jewellery Stirling silver earrings, stick pins, brooches tie pins, cufflinks, etc. please send for full list.

Table Mats Boxed set of six (heat resistant) with Hall prints £45.00

£1.00

Maroon Leather Book Marks

No required .. ..... ... ... ..

No required .......... .. ...

Hankies Pack of two (one blue, one maroon with gold teddy) large enough for table napkins £4 per pack No required ............ ..

Poster by Stephen Farthing in cardboard tube limited signed copies

£3 £25

No required ...............

No required ............ .. .

PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO 'ST EDMUND HALL'

POST & PACKAGING UK please add 50p for ties; £1.00 for other items.

Overseas, add approximately £1 .00 for ties; £3.00 for other items (if you think it will be more please add more)

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THE CAMPAIGN and fellows would like to thank those who have made donations to the College in recent years : K.A. Boyce Barker D. C. Abdul-Mawla A. Boyd D. P. Earner G. R.A. Adcock Boy ling H. M. Barnes A. S. Aeron-Thomas D. Bradley H. Barnes D.M.P. G. A. Akponasa G. J. F. Brain Bate R. C. I. Akroyd J. A. R. J. L. Breese Bates M. G. G. A. Alaghbari D.J. Brenner .Bath L. E .

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