St Edmund Hall Magazine 1998-99 by St Edmund Hall

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Amy B. Zavatsky

St Edmund Hall Oxford OX1 4AR Telephone (01865) 279000 Internet: http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/ Development Office Telephone (08165) 279055 E-mail: development.office@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk COVER ILLUSTRATION: Forty years ago: sporting successes of 1958-9. Back, top: The Soccer Cup-Winning Team. Back, bottom: The Head of the River. Front, top: The Rugger Cup-Winning Team. Front, bottom: The Athletics Cup-Winning Team. Printed by the Holywell Press Ltd., 15 to 17 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford

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TO REPORT From the Principal . . . . . . . . From the Vice-Principal . . . . From the Chaplain . . . . . . . From the Librarian . . . . . . . From the Domestic Bursar .. The Senior Common Room . The Middle Common Room The Junior Common Room . Clubs and Societies . . . . . . .

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . St Edmund's Day . . . . . . . . . The Artweek Exhibition . .. A Dean~ Retirement ..... . Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ...................................... Matriculations 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Visiting Students 1998-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Degree Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Awards and Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Degree Days 1999-2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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ST EDMUND HALL

1998-9

Visitor

The Chancellor of the University The Rt Hon. Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, O.M., P.C., D.C.L. Principal (from Trinity Term 1999)

David Michael Patrick Mingos, MA (B.Sc. Mane., D.Phil. Sussex), FRS, C.Chem., FRSC Fellows Scargill, David Ian, MA, D.Phil., JP Tutor in Geography

Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Reader in Politics and Butterworth Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Modern History; Vice-Principal, Library Fellow, and Acting Principal (MT98 & HT99)

Knight, John Beverley, MA (MA Camb.) Professor of Economics and Tutor in Economics

Hunt, John David, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) University Reader in Physical Metallurgy, Professor of Materials Science, and Tutor in Metallurgy and Science of Materials

Stone, Nicholas James, MA, D.Phil. Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics

Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Tutor in Modern Languages (German)

Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Mathematics and Dean

Collins, Peter Jack, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Mathematics

Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Lond.), QC Fellow by Special Election

Blarney, Stephen Richard, B.Phil., MA, D.Phil. Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy

Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb.; JD Chicago), QC Professor of Law and Tutor in Law

Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (Ph.D. Leic.; MA Camb.) Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology and Senior Tutor (MT98)

Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, M.Phil. Tutor in Economics and In vestment Bursar

Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Tutor in Law, and Tutor for Undergraduates

Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (Ph.D. Mane.) Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, and Tutor for Graduates

Reed, George Michael, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc., MS, Ph.D. Auburn) GEC Fellow and Tutor in Computation

Phillips, David George, MA, D.Phil. Reader in Comparative Education and Fellow by Special Election

Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, D.Phil. University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, W.R. Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor (HT99 & TT99L

Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, D.Phil. Besse Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French), Director of the Voltaire Foundation

Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, D.Phil. A. C. Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature

Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Psychology, Tutor for Women, and Tutor for Associate Students

Naughton, James Duncan, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech)

Bourne-Taylor, Geoffrey Dennis, MA Domestic Bursar

Brasier, Martin David, MA (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) Reader in Earth Sciences and Tutor in Geology

Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Modern History

Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA Professorial Fellow, Ruskin Master of Drawing

Watson, Stephen, (B.Sc. Leeds; Ph.D. Camb.) Fellow by Special Election in Pharmacology

Whittaker, Robert James, MA (B.Sc. Hull; M.Sc., Ph.D. Wales) Tutor in Geography

Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA (B.Eng., Ph.D. Liv.) Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, and Tutor for Admissions

Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; Ph.D. Lond.) Professor of East European History, Fellow by Special Election, and Archivist

Pettifor, David Godfrey, MA (Ph.D. Camb., B.Sc. Witwatersrand), FRS Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy

Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, D.Phil., FBA Professor of Medieval German 2

Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, D.Phil. (BA Amherst, MA Harvard) Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) and Deputy Dean

Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) Oxford Molecular Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry

Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (Ph.D. MIT) Tutor in Physics

Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Pennsylvania) Tutor in Engineering

Korbmacher, Christoph, MA (PD, Dr.med. FU Berlin) American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology

Steane, Andrew Martin, MA, D.Phil. Fellow by Special Election in Physics and Lecturer in Physics

Kay, John Anderson, MA (MA Edin.), FBA Peter Moores Director of the Said Business School and Professor of Management Studies

Screaton, Gavin Robert, MA, BM, B.Ch., D.Phil., MRCP William R. Miller Junior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences

Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, MD, D.Phil., FRCPC Fellow by Special Election in Clinical Neurology

Cannon, Christopher David, MA (BA, MA, Ph.D. Harvard) Tutor in English Language and Literature

Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb.) Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History

Mountford, Philip, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. CNNA), C.Chem., FRSC Tutor in Chemistry

Raposo, Clara Patricia Costa, MA (Lie. Univ. Nova de Lisbon; M.Ec., Ph.D. Lond.) Tutor in Management Studies

Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) Fellow by Special Election

Bull, Malcolm Glen, MA (MA Lond.) Fellow by Special Election and Lecturer in Fine Art

Honorary Fellows Wright, Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth, GCMG, MA Wylie, The Rt. Hon. Lord Wylie (Norman Russell Wylie, PC, BA (LL B Glas.)) McManners, The Revd John, MA, D.Litt., FAHA, FBA, F.R.Hist.S. 3

Oxburgh, Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool (Ernest Ronald, KBE, MA (Ph.D. Princeton), FRS) Browne-Wilkinson, The Rt. Hon. Lord Browne-Wilkinson (Nicolas ChristopherÂ·Henry, PC, BA) Harris, Roy, MA, D.Phil. (Ph.D. Lond.), FRSA Tindle, David, MA, RA Day, Sir Robin, Kt, MA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, MA (D es-Se. Paris) Smeth urst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robert, MA Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, D.Phil. (BA Wisconsin) Read, Alien Walker, B.Litt., D.Litt. (MA Iowa) Cooksey Sir David James Scott, Kt, MA Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, B.Phil., MA Garland, Patrick Ewart, MA Marchington, Anthony Frank, MA, D.Phil. Nazir-Ali, The Rt Revd Michael James, M.Litt. (BA Karachi, M.Litt. Camb., Ph.D. NSW) Jones, Terence Graham Parry, MA Roberts, Gareth, MA Emeritus Fellows

Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (LLD Birm.), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Ridler, Vivian Hughes, CBE, MA Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, MA .(B.Sc., MB, Ch.B. Edin.), MRCP (Lond.), FRCP (Edin.) -, Fargher, Richard, B.Litt., MA, D.Phi!.''Pollock, Norman Charles, B.Litt., MA (BA Cape Town) Midgley, The Revd Edward Graham, B.Litt, MA.,,_ Ganz, Peter Felix, MA (MA, Ph.D. Lond.) Alton, Reginald Ernest, MC, MA, Dean of Degrees Mitchell, Raymond Bruce, MA, D.Phil., D.Litt. (MA Melbourne) Matthews, Waiter Bryan, MA, DM, FRCP Todd, Joseph Derwent, MA, D.Phil. Marsh, Arthur lvor, OBE, MA'' ,_ Deceased

Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), FRS Christian, John Wyrill, MA, D.Phil., FRS Cowdrey, The Revd Herbert Edward John, MA, FBA, Old Library Fellow Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, B.Sc., MA, D.Phil., C.Chem., FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, D .Phil. Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM, MA Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (Ph.D. Lond.) Newsom-Davis, John Michael, CBE, MA (MA, MD Camb.), FRCP, FRS Lecturers

Pritchard, Gareth John (B.Sc. Lond.; Ph.D. Wales) Chemistry Farlow, Andrew, M.Phil. (MA Camb.) Economics Cannon, Mark, M .Eng., D.Phil. (SM M.I.T.) Engineering Jenkyns, Joy, MA (BA Soton; MA Lond.) English Martin, Priscilla Elizabeth, MA (BA, MA, Ph.D. Lond.) English Stones, Graeme, D.Phil. (BA Durham) English Vance, Sylvia Elizabeth, D.Phil. (BA Alberta) English Waters, David John, MA, D.Phil. (MA Camb.) Geology Clark, James Cordon, MA, D.Phil. (BA Brist.) Modern History Leyser, Henrietta, B.Litt., MA Modern History Baines, Jennifer, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (Russian) Ferrigan, Mark, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (French) Finkel, Mile Anne-Laure Modern Languages (Lectrice) Florio-Cooper, Clara (Dott. Lett. Turin) Modern Languages (Italian) Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (Greek) Mortimer, Geoffrey, BA (B.Sc., M.Sc. Swansea) Modern Languages (German) Plassmann, Sibylle, MA status Modern Languages (Lektorin) Southworth, Eric Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Modern Languages (Spanish) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut, MA status Modern Languages (German) Williams, Renee, MA status Modern Languages (French) Adams, John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh.) Law Daley, John (B.Sc., LLB Melbourne) Law Fisher, Steven Graham, BA, D.Phil. Mathematics Knight, Robin William, MA, D.Phil. Mathematics Black, John Joseph Merrington, FRCS Ed, FFAEM Medicine (MB, BS Lond.) Medicine Lear, Pamela Virginia (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) 5

Trevelyan, Andrew James, D.Phil. (MB, B.Ch. Edin.) Inkson, Beverley Jane, MA status (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Marston, Nicholas John, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Rikovska-Stone, Jirina, MA (Ph.D. Prague) Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA Blau, Adrian, M.Phil. (MA Camb.) Wolfe, Douglas Maurice, BA, M.Phil. (BA Toronto)

Medicine Metallurgy Metallurgy Music Physics Psychology Politics Politics

Chaplain The Revd Duncan MacLaren, MA Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA College Secretary Carol McClure Director of Development Robin Brunner-Ellis (BA Lond.) Head Porter Guy Crofts, MBE

Decanal Staff David R. Skeet, BA Ana L. Unruh (BS Trinity, Texas) John P. O'Doherty (BA Dublin) Jonathan Witztum (BA Ben-Gurion) Gareth A. Fairey, BA * Deceased

Junior Dean Cover Dean Sub-Dean (NSE) Sub-Dean (lsis) Sub-Dean (lsis)

TO REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Principal Mingos May I introduce myself as the new Principal of St Edmund Hall. My wife, Stacey, and I will be moving into the Lodgings at the beginning of September, and I am eagerly looking forward to the challenges presented to me. Since my election I have received many letters from Aularians from all over the world, and I have been heartened and impressed by their affection and commitment to the Hall. During the next couple of years, I shall be doing quite a lot of travelling around the world in my scientific capacity and hope to use this opportunity to meet Aularians living outside the UK. I also hope that you might be able to combine a visit to the Hall with other activities when you visit the UK - you will always be welcome. The Front Quad retains its reputation as the friendliest meeting place in Oxford. 7

For the record, Professor Michael Mingos was elected to the Principalship by the Governing Body at the end of April 1999. Over the past few months, the new Principal has been progressively taking up his duties as Head of House, his first 'public' appearance being at the Reunion in June. Professor Mingos gained his B.Sc. (with First Class Honours) at Manchester, his D.Phil. from Sussex, and he has had post-doctoral experience as a Fulbright Fellow at Northwestern (in the USA). He became a-Lecturer at Queen Mary College, London; then from 1976-92, he was a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. In 1992 he moved to the Sir Edward Frankland BP Chair in Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College, London, where in 1996 he was also elected by his colleagues to be Dean of the Royal College of Science. He has published more than 370 scientific papers and four books. Professor Mingos' research activities span a very wide range of chemistry. He has received many awards, honours, and prizes in recognition of his contributions, including the Corday Morgan (1980) and Tilden (1988) Medals of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992. In an age where many academics regard teaching only as an unwelcome distraction from research, Professor Mingos has always made a point of combining the two. He has always found undergraduate tutorials demanding and interesting. He continued to teach the undergraduates at Imperial, even as Dean, despite his considerable administrative commitments. Professor Mingos served both as Admissions Tutor and Tutor for Graduates at Keble College. The College also chose him to be University Assessor in 1991-2; in that capacity he participated in the government of this University, serving on the key bodies, Council and the General Board, and also chairing the committee on Hardship and Access Funds. Both this experience and his scientific prestige will make him a powerful and effective advocate of the Hall's interests within Oxford University. He will also bring to this task experience and insights from Imperial, where, as Dean, he again served on the major committees; and, as a member of the HEFCE Research Assessment Chemistry Panel, he has taken part in many departmental reviews. The new Principal will now turn his considerable energies to leading the Hall, and the Magazine wishes him every success during his tenure here.

FROM THE VICE-PRINCIPAL Last year my report began, very properly, with our academic successes. Actually it understated these by omitting Oliver Dahin's Gibbs Prize in Music; the 1997-8 total should therefore have been 10 rather than 9. This year's Schools will be remembered for a number of reasons: the water board chose the previous weekend to excavate around the clock outside the Besse Building; and one law candidate, on a very hot day, managed, by invoking the principle of eiusdem generis, to stretch the usual permission to remove gowns (during the writing of a paper) to cover a change into shorts and T-shirt. More generally, we had hoped the competition would be intimidated by the performance of a New Zealand Rugby haka on the steps of the Examination Schools; but there was a last minute failure of nerve. Perhaps for this reason, our performance was, statistically, slightly less good than last year, though still very creditable. It includes 19 undergraduate and I B.C.L. Firsts; 4 University Prizes (including the Gibbs Prize in Geology and the Herbert Hart Prize for the best B.C.L. performance in Jurisprudence and Political Theory) plus 2 proxime accessits, 13 D.Phils. (in disciplines ranging from Archaeology to Zoology), 3 M.Phils., and Distinctions in the Master of Business Administration and the M.St. in European Literature. Two of the more notable undergraduate performances came from the twins Tracey and Michelle Pratt, who both obtained during their time here an assortment of Netball Blues and a prize for their 'Practicals' work; Tracey gained a First in Physics and will be continuing to do a D.Phil. here; Michelle likewise secured a First in Chemistry and will be continuing with a D.Phil., but over the wall in New College, and they will, next year, be respectively the President and Treasurer of the University Atalanta Blues Club. Nor were they the only Blues to have secured a First Richard Woodfine similarly combining excellence in Rugby and Geology. The Blues Committee has not yet produced its definitive list for 1998-9. But, by our count, SEH secured 15 Full and 9 Half Blues. It would be a very dangerous college to attack, since these included Archery, Karate, and Fencing - in which sport Eloise Smith won two Gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. 1998-9 also saw two 'Cuppers' victories, in netball and in women's rugby (though my personal enthusiasm for the latter was dimmed by the earlier breaking of one of my pupil's ribs and leg). Nor, of course, was the Hall distinguished only in sport: our B.C.L. student, John Peterson's, play War of Words defeated 31 other entries to win the prize for the best production in the Cameron Mackintosh awards, organised under the aegis of OUDS; and our former Choral Scholar (and Music First) Natalie 9

Raybould (now at the Royal Academy of Music) returned in Trinity Term to give a memorable recital. Over the last couple of years, the Hall's financial prospects have been clouded by the government's wish to align Oxford's funding with that of other universities by discontinuing the payment of college undergraduate fees (which account for over 40 % of the Hall's income). After long negotiation between the Vice-Chancellor, HEFCE, and the Department for Education and Employment, a settlement was reached that, though it will reduce Oxford's grant progressively over ten years, will do so by less than had at one time been feared . The settlement was conditioned on an increase of inter-collegiate financial aid within the university so as to reduce the impact on the poorer coileges; since discussions are still proceeding on the extent and nature of this increase, we cannot yet say how seriously the Hall will eventually be affected. But we obviously need to seek safety by increasing our endowment as much as possible. That will be one of the most important tasks awaiting Principal Mingos. But I can report several pieces of good news. Firstly the 'college contributions fund' (inter-collegiate aid) was sufficiently impressed with our management to raise their 1998-9 capital grant to ÂŁ900,000 (though we probably cannot expect as much in future years, since the scheme is likely to expand to cover more recent colleges such as Mansfield). We are also heartened by very many instances of more personal generosity, exemplified by the recent endowment of no fewer than three Fellowships: the (Sir Ron) Oxburgh Fellowship in Geology (currently held by Hugh Jenkyns), the Oxford Molecular Fellowship in Chemistry (David Manolopoulos), and the American Fellowship in Physiology (Christoph Korbmacher). Bill Miller unveiled a plaque in the lobby of the Wolfson Dining Hall recording the no fewer than 242 subscribers to the latter; and we are planning a lunch (on Saturday 3 June 2000- Eights Week) to thank and honour as many contributors as we can encourage to cross the Atlantic to revisit us. The year has been one of earnings and goings. The most notable coming is, of course, that of Michael Mingos to be Principal. But 1998-9 also saw the arrival of three Tutorial Fellows - Philip Mountford (Chemistry), Clara Raposo (Management), and Nicholas Davidson (History), and of two Fellows by Special Election- our former Junior Dean Joanna Ashbourne, and Malcolm Bull (who will also be our College Lecturer in Fine Art). We have elected no fewer than three Honorary Fellows: the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, a keen cricketer who gained his B.Litt. in Theology here in 1974, and has since proceeded to higher things; Terry Jones, who made the second XV, toured with the John Oldham Society, took his degree in English in 1964, and has since flourished as actor, writer, 10

and film director, with repertoire extending from Monty Python to Chaucer and a Who's Who recreation of "sleeping"; and Gareth Roberts, an oarsman who took his Geology degree here, also in 1974, and has since put it to good use in Texas, culminating in the foundation of a high-tech oil company that can work territory abandoned by the majors. But if there are comings, there are also goings. John Kay has left the Directorship of the School of Management Studies and with it his annexed Fellowship at the Hall. This summer will also see the retirement of Christopher Phelps, who first came in 1970 as a Senior Research Fellow, and who has later been a Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics, Secretary of the Governing Body, Dean, Safety Officer, Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs, etc., etc.; indeed it proved almost as difficult to find replacements for the various offices that he combined single-handed as to find a new Principal. Another 'retirement' is that of our Fellow by Special Election Andrew Steane, who is moving to an Official Fellowship in Physics at Exeter College. Similarly after many years as a friendly and most efficient Assistant College Secretary, Claire Morris decided it was time to move on to become a senior P.A. at Alders. Much sadder were the two sudden and quite unexpected deaths that struck us in Trinity Term. One was of the Head Porter, Guy Crofts, a relatively recent arrival, but a man who had made an enormous impression and whose popularity was evidenced by the packed and very moving memorial service arranged in Chapel by the Presidents of the MCR and JCR. The other was of Graham Midgley, who had been here, as it seemed for ever - he first came to the Hall's attention in 1941, when Principal Emden allowed his late application to sit the Exhibition Examination, - as it proved, successfully. Graham specifically asked that we not have a memorial service. But there will be a celebration of his life, art, and writing in the Wolfson Hall on 30 October; and it is likely that we shall launch a Graham Midgley Memorial Fund to support the Hall's activities in the multifarious fields that were dear to his heart - 'such as were' English, Fine Art, Rowing, the Chapel, Welfare, and Drama . Lastly, just as I was writing this, news arrived of Arthur Marsh's death on 2 August. Arthur came to the Hall in 1964 as Senior Research Fellow in Industrial Relations; and our first photocopier arrived shortly afterwards, his sponsors being so shocked that he should be at an institution without one that they donated it. Later Arthur was instrumental in securing us a more substantial benefaction from the Hoover Foundation. Arthur rapidly made his mark here, taking over as Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs- in 1970 he decided that the eating of steaks was no longer the best way for sports teams to train. For many years he oversaw people taking the Special Diploma in Social Administration. And he could always be relied on for good advice, fascinating anecdotes, and a broad smile. 11

FROM THE CHAPLAIN Michaelmas Term in St Edmund Hall Chapel began with a bang and a whimper. The Revd Dr Michael Green provided the bang, preaching in his usual engaging way to the congregation at the Freshers' service, and, after dinner, speaking to the Christian Union. The whimper was entirely my own, as I was prevented by illness from attending. The Rt Revd Kenneth Cragg conducted a service of baptism and confirmation (for Graham McKinnon) the following week. The hat-trick of illustrious preachers was completed by Ian Scargill a week later, who brought depth and clarity to his subject in true Non-Conformist style. The Chapel Committee, established last year, organised an ecumenical service for 4th week, which included creative contributions from Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions. In the latter half of the term, we were pleased to welcome back the Revd Gerald Hegarty to preach. Hilary Term opened with a series on 'Spiritual Writers'. Visiting preachers chose their own subject, and we were treated to a range of writers which included Evelyn Waugh, Henry Vaughan, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Thomas aKempis, and Karl Barth. The choir and congregation of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, visited us in 2nd week, joining their cheerful songs with ours to fill the Chapel both visibly and aurally. We hope to receive a reciprocal invitation to our sister college in the future. Trinity Term focused on a series of 'Divine Metaphors'. Canon John Fenton skilfully handled 'God as Judge', and Canon Michael Bourdeaux spoke of 'God as Trinity' through the famous Rublev icon of that subject. Our Ascension Day service took place in the Crypt, celebrated by more than two dozen people, by candlelight, with the choir beautifully assisting our worship a cappella. A second exodus took place for the End-of-Term Service, held at Binsey Church in glorious weather, and conveniently close to The Perch. The choir has continued to strengthen under Daniel Beach's ambitious leadership. Not only have they sung much new (and some quite challenging) music, they have also 'guested' at Evensong in New College Chapel. We are looking forward to further support from three externally appointed Choral Scholars, who come up in the Autumn, and from the arrival of the new Junior Organ Scholar, Christopher Hampson. The final two Sundays of the year departed from the normal programme. Graham Midgley had been due to preach in 7th week. Instead, the Chaplain read an excerpt on 'Heaven' from John Bunyan's poem on the 'Four Last Things', from the book of poems which Graham edited. 12

In 8th week, the usual service made way for a college memorial service for Guy Crofts, until recently Head Porter. The service was organised by members of the JCR, and provided a fitting tribute among a packed congregation to this unique and much-loved man. As I write, memories of the Summer Reunion are fresh in my mind. At the service of Evensong, the memorial plaque over the ashes of Graham Midgley was unveiled in the Chapel, with many of the 'extended family' of Hall men in attendance. The stone now catches the eye on entering the Chapel, white and unsoiled as it is, and I know I shall be glad of this reminder.

FROM THE LIBRARIAN The Aularian Collection and Gifts to the Libraries This has been a bumper year both for the Aularian Collection of books written by our old members and Fellows, and for the libraries and their special collections. Three magna opera were presented to the Aularian Collection by the Revd Jack McManners, Revd H.E.J . Cowdrey, and Dr Bruce Mitchell. Some of the College's more recently appointed Fellows, Christopher Cannon (English), Nicholas Davidson (History), Christoph Korbmacher (Medicine), Philip Mountford and David Manolopoulos (both Chemistry), and Clara Raposo (Finance), have, after a little arm bending on the Librarian's part, given examples of their work. As, finally, has the senior Engineering Fellow, Basil Kouvaritakis. Current issues are well represented in these areas, among others, by gifts: "the Baltic" by General Sir Michael Rose; "taxation changes" by Keith Gordon, "the situation in China" by Bruce Gilley and Professor John Knight, "Oxford University Press' dropping of its modern poetry list" by the mature undergraduate, Jenny Lewis. And there is more, much, much more: ALLEN, Geoffrey (1945) Autumn, a setting for female voices (SSAA) of the poem by Waiter De la Mare. Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 1996. Leisure, a setting for females voices (SSAA) of the poem by W. H. Davies. Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 1996. Loving in winter, a setting for SATB voices of a poem by Terence Herds. Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 1996. Piano sonatas nos. 3 and 4. Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 1997 . Psalm 100: "0 shout to the Lord in triumph"

for SSAATB choir a nd organ. Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 1997. Serenatella (A little serenade) for piano solo. Perth, W. A.: The Keys Press, 1997. Sonata Espanola: piano sonata no. 2 (1990). Perth, W. A.: The Keys Press, 1996. 'The one I love is gone away' for SATB chorus with optional piano accompaniment. Perth, W. A.: The Keys Press, 1996. 'The currawong suite' for two treble and a tenor recorder; including tenor part, 1st treble part, and 2nd treble part. Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 199 5.

Proc 8th lnt BOSS Conference, 1997. Quadtree and octree grid generation. lnt J Engineering 9, 1996. Quadtree grid finite element solution of low Reynolds number flow past a cylinder. Proc 3rd ACME Con( on Computational Mechanics in the UK, 1995. On the contravariant shallow water equations. Proc 5th lnt Symp on Refined Flow Modelling and Turbulence Measurements. On the use of adaptive hierarchical meshes for numerical simulation of separated flows. lnt ] for Numerical Methods in Fluids 26, 1998. Numerical simulation of jet-(orced flow in a circular reservoir using discrete and random vortex methods. lnt J for Numerical Methods in Fluids 14, 1992. Solution of the non-orthogonal contravariant shallow water equations. Adv in Engineering Fluid Mechanics. Quadtree grid generation: information handling, boundary fitting and CFD applications. Computers & Fluids, 1996.

Three impromptus for piano Perth, W.A.: The Keys Press, 1997. BARBERTON, Gareth (1943) Pioneer spirit. Kettering: G Barberton, 1998. BORTHWICK, Alastair (Fellow) Finite element hierarchical meshes for laminar separated flows. Hydra 2000, 1995. An investigation of standing waves using a fully nonlinear boundary adaptive finite element method. Proc 12th lnt Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, 1997. Computation of flow past a square cylinder using adaptive hierarchical meshes. 1995 OMAE Vol. 1A, Offshore Technology, 1995. River and reservoir flow modelling using the transformed shallow water equations. lnt J for Numerical Methods in Fluids 14, 1992. A moving boundary finite element method for fully nonlinear wave simulations. ] Ship Research 41, 1997. Review of Sumer, B.M . and Fredsoe, J. Hydrodynamics around cylindrical structures (World Scientific). journal of Fluids and Structures 12, 1998. Adaptive hierarchical meshing for localized modelling of shallow flows. Proc 3rd lnt Con( on Fluid Mechanics, 1998. Measurements at a cusped beach in the UKCRF. Coastal Dynamics '97, 1997. Reservoir flow prediction by contra variant shallow water equations. ] Hydraulic Engineering, May 1997. Shallow flow modelling using curvilinear depth-averaged stream function and vorticity transport equations. lnt ] for Numerical Methods in Fluids 17, 1993. Octree-based finite element analysis for threedimensional steep waves. Eleventh I nt Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, 1996. Prediction of nonlinear wave motions by a sigma-transformed potential flow model. Euromech 374, 1998. A non-orthogonal curvilinear systems model of species transport in shallow flow domains. Adv in Water Resources 16, 1993. Adaptive quadtree grids applied to the computation of flow past circular cylinders.

BRYARS, Timothy (1992) Review of R.W. Lamb, Annates Phaedriani 1596-1996. Bookdealer 1394, 1999. CLARK, James (Lecturer) Monachi and magistri : the context and culture of learning at late medieval St Albans. In Joan Greatrex (ed), The vocation of service Brepols, 1998. CLARKE, David (1958) The bright ring of time. Frome: Hippopotamus, 1998. COWDREY, HEJ (Emeritus Fellow) Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Review of The first universities (Pedersen, Olaf). Oxford Rev of Education 24, 1998. Quidam frater Stephanus nomine, anglicus natione. The English background of Stephen Harding. In E.R. Elder (ed). The new monastery. Kalamazoo, M!, 1998. Stephen Harding and Cistercian monasticism. Citeaux fasc 34, 1998. CURRALL, Julian (1970) Sozialvorschriften. In Groeben et al. (eds), Sonderdruck aus Kommentar zum EUEG- Vertrag. BadenBaden: Nomos 1999, 5th ed.

GARRETT, Martin (1975) Greece, a literary companion. London: John Murray, 1994. Traveller's literary companion to Italy. Brighton: In Print, 1998. Sidney: the critical heritage. London: Rourledge, 1996. Massinger: the critical heritage. London: Rourledge, 1991.

DAVIDSON, Nicholas (Fellow) An armed band and the local community on rhe Venerian Terraferma in the sixteenth century. In G. Orralli (ed), Bande armate, banditi, banditissco, e repressione di giustizia negli stati europei de antico regirie. Rome, 1986. Temporal power and the Vicar of Christ: the papal stare from 14501650. Renaissance and Modern Studies 36, 1993. L'inquisizione veneziana come insriruzione: linee per una ricerca. In Renaro Grispo et al. (eds). L'inquisizione Romana in Italia nell'eta moderna: archivi, problemi di metodo e nuove ricerche. Rome: IPZS, 1991. 11 Sant'uffizio e la tutela del culro a Venezia nel '500'. Studi Veneziana VI, 1982. Rome and the Venerian inquisition in the sixteenth century. J Ecclesiastical History 39, 1988. The clergy of Venice in the sixteenth century. Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies 2, 1984. Northern Italy in the 1590s. In P. Clark (ed), The European crisis of the 1590s: essays in comparative history. London, 1985. Unbelief and atheism in Ital y, 1500-1700. In Michael Hunter & David Woorron, Atheism from the Reformation to the enlightenment. Oxford, 1992.

GILLEY, Bruce (1989) Tiger on the brink: jiang Zemin and China's new elite. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. GLOCKLER, Gabriel (199 3) Guide to EU policies. London: Blacksrone, 1998. CORDON, Kcith (1988) Acceptable provisions-!. Taxation 142 (3679), 1998. Acceptable provisions 11. Taxation 142 (3680), 1998. Private residence relief-!. Taxation 141 (3673), 1998. Private residence relief 11. Taxation141 (3674), 1998 . No escape from imposition. Taxation 141 (3663), 1998. Even more complicated! Taxation 141(3662), 1998. Personal taxation. Taxation 142(3697), 1999. Taper tantrums. Tolley's Practical Tax Service 20, 1999. Bedding in the new CGT. Tolley 's Practical Tax Service 20, 1999. A look at loans I. Taxation 142(3698), 1999. A look at loans 11. Taxation 142(3699), 1999.

DAVIDSON, The Revd Canon Hilary (1949) Church organs, their position and construction by Frederick Heathcote Sutton . Oxford: Posirif press, 1998. DOULTON, Angus (1963) Information service & best value. Blerchingdon: COW & Associates, 1998.

HOUGHTON, Philip (1981) The other dark blue. Oxford Today: the University magazine 11, 1999.

DUNBABIN, John (Fellow) Red lines on maps: the impact of cartographical errors on the border between the United States and British North America, 1782-1842. Imago Mundi 50, 1998, FARTHING, Srephcn (Fellow) Instructions for use. Editions Janninink,

]ONES, Lewis (1962) The sacred harp: American shape note hymns cross the Atlantic. English Dance & Song 58, 1996.

Folk songs from the Broadwood Collection. Sutton Coldfiled, 1995. Lucy Erheldred Broadwood: poet and song writer. English Dance & Song 57, 1995. West Gallery choirs: evidence from Lucy Broadwood's letters. West Gallery, 1998.

1998.

GALLIVAN,Joscph (1984) Oi, re(! A novel about love, hate and football. London: Sceptre, 1997.

Glibenclamide inhibits an omwardly rectifying chloride channel in M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct cells. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 5, 1995. Stimulation of a nicotinic Ach receptor causes depolarisation and activation of L-type Ca2+ channels in rat pinealocytes. j Physiology 499(2), 1997. Endothelin increases 1Ca2=Ji in M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct cells by a dual mechanism. Am j Physiology , 1993. cAMP stimulated CFTR-Iike C-1 channels and inhibits amiloridesensitive Na+ channels in mouse CCD cells. Am J Physiology, 1997. Cell swelling activates ATP dependent voltagegated chloride channels on M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct cells. j General Physiology 108, 1996. Mouse cortical collecting duct cells show nonselective cation channel activity and express a gene related to the cGMP-gated rod photoreceptor channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 89, 1992. Hypertonicity activates nonselective cation channels in mouse cortical collecting duct cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 92, 1995. Sodium channels and nonselective cation channels in the cortical collecting duct. Nephrology Dialisis Transplantation 10, 1995.

FOLKNET: an introduction to folk music on the Internet. English Dance and Song, Autumn 1997. Roll over Beethoven, dig that Celtic folk. English Dance and Song, Autumn 1998. Miss Broadwood's delight: folk songs from Sussex and other English counties. Sutton Coldfield: Ferrett Publications, 1998. KELLY, J.N.D. (late Prinicipal) What is catholicism? London: SPCK. Encyklopedia Papiezy. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1997. KING,J. W. (1935) Two Hereford minsters, Transactions of the Woo/hope Naturalists' Field Club, 1995. KNIGHT, John (Fellow) Employment constraints and sub-optimality in Chinese entreprises. Oxford Economic Papers 51, 1999. Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: three perspectives. J Development Studies, 1999. decentralization: incentives, reFiscal distribution and reform in China. Oxford Development Studies 27, 1999. KORBMACHER, C (Fellow) Whole-cell currents in single and confluent M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct cells. J General Physiology 102, 1993. Osmotic shrinkage activates nonselective cation (NSC) channels in various cell types . j Membrane Biology 168, 1999. A calcium-activated and nucleotide-sensitive nonselective cation channel in M 1 mouse cortical collecting duct cells. J Membrane Biology 146, 1995. Amiloride-sensitive sodium channels in confluent M-1 mouse cortical cillecting duct cells. J Membrane Biology 148, 1995. Maitotoxin (MTX) activates a nonselective cation channel in Xenopus laevis oocytes. European J Physiology , 1998. Renal epithelial cells show nonselective cation channel activity and express a gene related to the cGMP gated photoreceptor channel. In D. Siemen and J. Hescheler (eds), Nonselective Cation Channels: pharmacology, physiology and biophysics ed. Basel: Birkhauser, 1993.

KOUVARITAKIS, Basil (Fellow) Fast suboptimal predictive control with guaranteed stability. Systems & Control Letters 35, 1998. Linear quadratic feasible predictive control. Automatica 34, 1998. Robust stable generalized predictive control. Int J Control 67, 1997. Recent developments in generalized predictive control for continuous-time systems. lnt J Control 72, 1999. Constrained multvariable cautious stable predictive control. I EE Proceedings Control Theory Applications 145, 1998. A numerically robust state-space approach to stable-predictive control strategies. Automatica 34, 1998. An algorithm for coprime matrix fraction description using Sylvester matrices. Linear Algebra and its Applicatons 266, 1997.

South Africans: a set of portrait-poems.

Stable generalized predictive control with constraints and bounded disturbances . Automatica 33, 1997. Feasibility and stability results for constrained stable generalized predictive control. Automatica 31, 199 5. Bi-causal eigenvecror sequences and the design of causal commutative controllers. lnt 1 Control 59, 1994. The use of rational eigenvector approximations in commutative controllers. lnt 1 Control 61, 1995. Characterization and use of the degrees of freedom in the H [infinity[ problem. lnt 1 Control 58, 1993. An evaluation of super-optimality as a control tool: a relative stability perspective. lnt 1 Control 57, 1993. A priori stability conditions for an arbitrary number of unsta ble poles. Automatica 32, 1996.

Pietermartizburg: University of Natal Press, 1996. MANOLOPOULOS, David (Fellow) An atlas of fullerenes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 199 5. McMANNERS, John (Honorary Fellow)

Church and society in eighteenth century France. 2 volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. MITCHELL, Bruce (Emeritus Fellow) Beowulf: an edition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998. 'The Dream of the Rood' repunctuated. In P. S. Baker and N. Howe (eds), Words and works.

Studies in medieval English language and literature in honour of Fred C. Robinson. Toronto, 1998. MOUNTFORD, Philip (Fellow) Cycloaddition reactions of titanium and zirconium imido, oxo and hydrazido complexes su pporred by tetraaza macrocyclic ligands. 1 Chem Sac, Dalton Transactions 1999. Theoretical study of the geometric and electronic structures of pseudooctahedral dO imido compounds of titanium: the trans influence in mer-IT 1 (NR)Ciz(NHJlJl (R=Butl C6Hs- or C6H4NOz- 4). 1 Chem Sac, Dalton Transactions, 1999. Synthesis and molecular and electronic structure fo monomeric ITJ(CsHs) (NBut)]. Chem Communications, 1999. Syntheses and structures of a new class of aza and thioether macrocyclic dO imido complexes. Chem Communications 1998. Dibenzotetraaza[14[annulenes: versatile ligands for transition and main group metal chemistry. Chemical Sac Reviews 27, 1998. New titanium imido chemistry. Chemical Communications, 1997. Highly selective trimerisation of MeNC by a novel titanium imido complex containing a tridentate dianionic ligand. Chemical Communications, 1997. Mono- and bi-nuclear titanium imido complexes supported by a ryloxide ligands: fine control by ortho substituents. 1 Chem Soc, Dalton Transactions, 1997.

LAWLESS, Clive (1956) Using concept sorting a nd concept mapping in business and public administration, and in education: an overview. Educational Research 40, 1998. 'Let the wise listen and add ro their lea rning': modern education and an ancient book. In R.S. Hess and G.J. Ennham (eds), Make the Old Testament live, Grand Rapids, Ml: Eerdmans, 1998. LEWIS, Jenny (Jenny Hawksworrh) (1998) The lonely skyscraper. London: Methuen, 1980. When I became an Amazon. North Shields: Iron Press, 1 996. LOVELOCK, Yann (1960) Various poems and translations of poems in Luminous Candle. Madras, 1996. Various poems. Shearsman 32, 1997. The wheel of generation: some notes on the spread of the doctrine of reincarnation. In

The mystical tradition and the Carthusians 5, 1996. Various translations of poems and review of Helen Dorion, The edges of light . Oasis 83, 1997. MANN, Christophcr (1971) The horn of plenty. Grahamsrown: Rhodes University !SEA, 1997.

Cyclopenradienyl, indenyl and bis (cyclopenradienyl) titanium imido compounds. j Chem Soc, Dalton Transa ctions, 1997.

RIDLER, Vivian (Honorary Fellow/printer)

Saint Frideswide, patron of Oxford. Edited a nd introduced by John Blair. Oxford: Perperua Press, 1988. A measure of poetry. By An ne Ridler. Oxford: Perperua Press, 1991.

NAZIR ALl, Michael (1972 Honorary Fellow)

The search for faith and the witness of the church. London: Church House Publishing,

Magnus' saga: the life of St Magnus earl of Orkney 1075-1116. Translated a nd with an

1996.

Mission and design: proclaiming the gospel afresh in every age. London: SPCK, 1995. Citizens and exiles: Christian faith in a plural world. London: SPCK, 1998. From everywhere to everywhere. London:

introduction by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards. Oxford: Perpetua Press, 1987.

Th e graven image by Clare and Robert Gittings. Oxford: Perpetua Press, 1993.

Collins Flame, 1991.

ROSE, General Sir Michael (1960)

Fighting for peace: Bosnia 7994. London:

NIXON, Bruce (1958)

Harvill Press, 1998.

Making a difference. Cambridge: Gi lmour Drummond, 1998.

RUSHWORTH, Derek (1939) Modern language in the comprehensive school. In Geoffrey Richardson (ed), Aspects of

PALMER, Nigel F. (Fellow)

Zisterzienser und ihre bucher .. . Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 1998.

education: a new look at modern language teaching. Hull: University of Hull, 196 7.

PARKER, Paul St John (1969)

SCARGILL, lan (1954; Fellow) The French region : a flawed institution? Regional Studies, December 1998.

Magna Carta to the Constitution: liberty under the law. (Picture Editing). Portland, OR: Magna Ca rta in America, 1986.

The Oxford School of Geography 1899-1 999.

PHILLIPS, David (Fellow ) Aspects o f education and the European Union. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education 5, 1995. Prolegomena to a history of British interest in education in Germany. Comparative Education 2, 1997. Das "Zusa mmenwachsen" Deutschlands im Bereich des Bildungswesens. Perspektiven und Probleme aus britischer Sicht. In

Oxford: School of Geography, 1999. Geography's centenary. Oxford Magazine 164, 1999. SEGAR, Kenneth (Emeritus Fellow) Ludwi g Anzengruber. In Dona ld G. Daviau (ed), Major figures of nineteenthcentury Austrian literature. Riverside, CA, 1998. SHIPTON, Alyn (1972)

Groovin' high: the life of Dizzy Gillespie. NY:

" Bildungseinheir " und "Systemtransformation'' Beitrage zur bildu ngspolitischen Entwick lung in den neuen Bundeslandern und im ostlichen.

Oxford Univers ity Press, 1999.

Buddy Bolden and the last days of Storyville by Danny Barker. London: Cassell, 1998.

Policy borrowing in education. In W.K . Cummings & N.F. McGinn (eds).,

SHUSTERMAN, Ronald (1977) Critique et poesie se/on I. A. Richards: de la

International handbook of education and development. Oxford, 1994.

confiance positiviste au relativisme naissant. Talence: PUB, 1988.

PITTOCK, Joan H. (Hearne Researcher)

SPURR, Barry (1974) Liturgical anachronism in Murder in the Cathedral. Yeats Eliot Review 1998.

Henry Birkhead: founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry. Lampeter: Edwin Mellon, 1999. RAPOSO, Clara (Fellow) Corporate hedging: what have we lea rned so far? Derivatives Quarterly 5, 1999.

SUMMERS, David (1959)

Where to publish in law in Great Britain and Ireland. Cranbrook: Aestival Press, 1998.

TEMPEST, Paul (1956) World petroleum at the crossroads. London: Paul Tempest, 1999. The politics of Middle east oil: the Royaumont Group. London: Graham & Trotman, 1993.

1996 in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, 34-35, 1998. ' Know how ro deciph er a countenance' : physiognomy in Thomas Hardy's fiction . Th e Th omas Hardy Year Book 27, 1998 . WEIR, Colin (1941) Th e history of the Oxford University Association Football Club, 1872-1 998. Ha refield : Yore, 1998.

THICK, Malcolm (1970) The neat house gardens: early market gardening around London. London: Prospect Books, 1998 .

WORSLEY, R.T.C. (1939) On wishing ro be remembered: a contemplation. Private limited printing of 10 lettered copies 1997, no. 2C. From the other side of the hill: being a person al account of an unlooked for occurrence and its consequences. Private limited printing of 25 lettered copies 1997, no. 18.

TRAFFORD, Bernard (1974) Participation, powersharing and school improvement. Nottingham : Educational Heretics Series, 1997. TROMANS,C.J. (1961) Starting point. New Law journal149, 6884. Exit the arbitration. New Law j ournal 149, 6874. The new law on documents. New Law journal149, 6877.

WRIGHT, Sir Denis (Honorary Fellow) On resuming diplomati c relations with Persia. In F. Herrmann and M. Alien (eds), Travellers ' tales. London: Casrlereagh, 1999. Burials and memorials of the British in Persia . Iran XXXVI, 1998.

TYTLER, G. (1954) Review of Claudia Schmiilders (ed) Der Gespriich iiber exzentrische Blick: Physiognomik. Berlin : Akademie Yerlag

The Libraries have been equal in fortune to the Aularian Collection this year. There were many gifts of texts to the undergraduate library from Fellows, students, and visiting American students, and here special mention must be made of the 50+ books from Thomas Drastik, and the third deposit of 100+ books from Honorary Fellow John Cox's partner. When an outside researcher asks for permission to consult one of the books in the Old Library, he or she is asked to send to us a copy of what has been produced from the research. This year we received from Dr Joan Pittock a paper on Thomas Hearne and a book on Henry Birkhead, founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry. A Dutch scholar, Barbara Schoonhoven, working on the art of the Master of Delft, examined the triptych in the Old Library and submitted a report on her findings to us: the triptych is of the Master's school but not by him himself. Mr H.B. Williams was preparing a biographical essay on the Aularian Thomas Wimberley Mossman (1826-86), a High Anglican often teetering towards Rome, and he has given us a copy. One of the Hall's special collections, which has become very important in the last two years and about which there will be a special report next year, is the Emden Collection of Naval, Military, and Intelligence History. We have received gifts to it again from its Aularian founder and principal donor, 19

W.T.C. Worsley, and also from James M. Dening, a publisher of fine facsimile editions, from Dr Alan Flanders of the Atlantic Fleet who is Visiting Emden Researcher, and from the Librarian. The thesis submitted for an M.A. in Information Studies by Mr Keith O'Sullivan, who did the initial database entry of the books in the collection, took the Emden Collection as its basis, and a copy has been given to us by its author. This year's full list of donors follows: Alton, R. (Emeritus Fellow) Atkinson, Damian (Assistant to the Librarian) Bradley, Horace (1941) Brown, Michael (1949) Cannon, Christopher (Fellow) Cardoso Summer Law School (Summer School) Chambers and Partners Publishing Cheng, Belinda (1995) Child, Graham Clark, James (Lecturer) Copestake, C. J. (1972) Cowdrey, H . E. J. (Emeritus Fellow) Cox, John (Honorary Fellow) Crampton, Richard (Fellow) Crank, Nicholas (Fellow) Dening, Ja mes M. (1958) Dickinson, Louise (1994) Drastik, Thomas (1995) Eaton, Deborah (Librarian) Estell, Sruarr (1993) Ferrigan, Mark (Lecturer) Flanders, Alan (Visiting Emden Researcher) Hursr, Steven K. (1968) Kahn, Andrew (Fellow)

Kingsbridge Hi story Society Leach, Rodney Lewis, Jenny (1998) Mavani, P. (1994) O ' Neill, Sarah (1992) O'Sullivan, Keith (former Library Assistant) Phelps, Christopher (Fellow) Philips, David (Fellow) Pirrock, Joan H . (Visiting Hearne Researcher) Policy Studies Institute, RhonePoulenc Rodier, Carole (Lectrice 1997-8) Schoonhover, Barbara Sinfield, Nicole (1994) Symm and Co. Tham, C.H. (1997) Utechin, Patricia Whelan, Lisa (YAB 1997-8) Williams, H. B. Witztum, Jonathan (1996) Worrell, Leah (YAB 1997-8) Worsley, R.T.C. (1939) Wright, Sir Denis (Honorary Fellow) Wyarr, Derrick (Fellow) Yeo, Aaron (1995)

OLD LIBRARY UPDATE "Have you got a few minutes? I'd like to talk with you about the Old Library." Thus former Principal Sir Stephen Tumim greeted me at the end of Michaelmas Term 1996 upon my return from special career development leave. The benefits to the Old Library and its collections from that hour-long few minutes should reach their completion by the end of this summer. Sir Stephen's concerns fell into three areas: security, conservation of the collections, and accuracy in recording the books housed in the Old Library and the form these records should take. As the Domestic Bursar had already installed in the Old Library a triple layer of locks and electronic devices to prevent unauthorised entry, the only 20

improvements needed in security were effected by tweaking the ex1stmg methods for recording the use of the room and for signing out the keys both to the room itself and to the locked grills which protect the main areas of the collections. There has been in place for at least the last 25 years a developing programme of conservation for the Old Library. In the past four years, using both a generous grant from an anonymous institution and the specialist services of Preservation Solutions, this programme has been brought into line with the most up-to-date methods of collection conservation, repair, and stabilisation. Thus, all the books comprising two of the special collections and all of the fine bindings have been fully treated. There was, however, one area of conservation which did need some attention, and that was the environment, specifically the effect on the books of serving meals there using the existing facilities. So, the Librarian, after consultation with the Old Library Fellow and the Superintendent of Works, submitted to the College architects a design concept which would entail the barest minimum of alteration to the room's layout. This would allow greater protection for the books with no diminution in the qualities of the Old Library's architecture and atmosphere. The area in which the most work was needed was the catalogue and accession records for the books located in the Old Library. The existing accession book and card catalogue were neither a complete nor an accurate record of the collections held there. The Librarian herself was well aware of this problem, but there had been no time free to pursue it due to the many other, more pressing, undergraduate library projects underway. When early in January 1997 a shelf check against existing records was undertaken, it revealed that some 750 books were not recorded in any way. As a result, the College undertook to have someone with experience in recording antiquarian books hired to re-catalogue the books in the Old Library, adding the unrecorded ones along the lines set up in the seventeenth century by the Aularian, Thomas Hearne. In order that, after the exercise was complete, every possible format for recording the collection be available for research and administrative purposes, the Librarian composed an antiquarian format for the relational database, MicroSoft Access. This has already proved of inestimable value in helping researchers. Thus, at the end of this millennium, the Old Library of St Edmund Hall is most accurately and effectively recorded, is on its way to being conserved and stabilised, and is as secure as possible.

FROM THE DOMESTIC BURSAR I have reported elsewhere the sad loss of Guy Crofts, our Head Porter: he is succeeded by David Beeching, who is a former detective and who was previously employed by the University Security Service; Mr Beeching lives in Bicester. Another senior staff appointment has been made following the departure of Stuart Dutson, who served the Co llege for many years as Superintendent of Works- Stuart has moved to "better" things, to become the Clerk of Works at Wolfson College- good luck to him (and I mean that!). The post is now held by Mr Andre van Tonder, who formerly worked as Clerk of Works at Pretoria University. Mr van Tonder is moving to Oxford from the West Country with his wife Christa, who is a rheumatologist. I am pleased to report the engagement of Mrs Lori Baker as Assistant Director of Development. Mrs Baker brings high-level administrative skill to this over-worked department, and we hope it will not be long before many Hall alumni have made her acquaintance. This year much activity will go into planning an improved Porters' Lodgenot before time, some might say (I do): building should begin in Hilary Term 2001. The work to restore Brockhues House at 26 Norham Gardens is now complete, and a splendid "new" building has emerged; it is such a shame that Frederick Brockhues, our benefactor, could not be here to see the transformation. Next big item of refurbishment will be the ugly building at

Brockhues House at 26 Norham Gardens.

17, just across the road, due to begin its phased four-year rebuild in 2002. While I am on the subject of buildings, could I ask if there is anyone out there who can lead me to a few million pounds? The Isis Hotel needs enlarging to produce the much-needed extra student rooms that would put us on a par with other colleges and there is also an ambitious project on the drawing board to produce a new JCR, lecture theatre, and lift on the main site - see the artist's impression below. This is, of course, development territory, but I make this plea from the heart, as I would dearly love to see these projects complete before my retirement in seven years time! At the time of going to print, we also had a number of further changes in the Lodge staff. Wally Lewis retired on 20th August 1999 after seven years service; next to go is John Fry, who has been with us for 18 years. John May, another Porter, left for "better things" at another College, too. So, by the time most of our readers next visit the College there will be almost a complete turn-over in staff. We shall miss Wally's articulate judgements of people and situations- always most professional; yet with the twinkling eye of a man-ofthe-world with whom one can trust one's life; a man good in a crisis. John Fry is a cornerstone of the Lodge: there is not a situation with which he is not familiar, and we shall miss his avuncular and dependable qualities - he is

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Plans for new conference facilities and a new ]CR.

married to Julia Johnson-Fry, the Assistant Accountant, so let's hope we shall still see plenty of him. It won't be long before Bill Whitchello is on the move, too, next year we believe; but more about him in the next Magazine! I take this opportunity to welcome two new porters, Barry Finch and Peter Bowles. Finally, some news on the Edmund Bear front: we shall shortly have Teddy Hall silk cummerbunds in stock - the former black and gold chough design and another in green with the Teddy Bear pattern- price will be in the region of ÂŁ25. As these are still in the pipeline, the best plan for those who wish to be first with this cutting-edge fashion accessory, is to drop Mrs Pargeter in the Bursary a line - the green one looks great with a white tuxedo!

THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM During the 1998-9 academic year, Dr Alistair Borthwick presented papers and gave invited lectures on computational hydraulics at Peking University, Moscow State University of Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Technical University of Budapest. While in Moscow, Dr Borthwick experienced a Russian sauna along with beatings by birch twigs, interspersed with tumblers of vodka - suitable preparation for taking on the office of Tutor for Admissions on his return. In Hungary, Dr Borthwick gave an interview to the Kisalfold newspaper on the environmental impact of hydraulic structures on the Upper-Szigetkoz region of the River Danube (an area of special scientific interest). Last May (1998), Professor James Dooge stayed at St Edmund Hall as the guest of Dr Borthwick while visiting Oxford to give the 24th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture in the Department of Engineering Science on "Future Management of the Water Environment". Professor Dooge is an exceptionally distinguished engineering hydrologist, who at one stage in his career combined being Professor of Civil Engineering at University College Dublin with being the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs (The Dooge Committee was responsible for setting up the Single European Act.). Dooge was also Chairman of the Irish Senate, and twice Acting-President of Ireland (again, while retaining his academic job). While at St Edmund Hall, Professor Dooge particularly enjoyed attending part of a service held in the Crypt by The Revd John Cowdrey. Revd Cowdrey reports that this year he read a paper at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds and lectured at Fordham University, New York. The Librarian, Ms Deborah Eaton, was invited to attend the Oxford University Royal Naval Unit's annual dinner and also their annual cocktail party. She also 24

took part in a training exercise out of Portsmouth on the Unit's ship, HMS Tracker. The Ministry of Defence invited her to attend its Blackett Conference in Cambridge. To make the Hall's naval and military collection more available to interested researchers, she has joined the Maritime Information Association. Closer to home, she is a founder member of the Oxford University librarians' Library Building and Design interest group. She reports that Mr David Faulds, who during 1997-8 re-catalogued the Old Library's collection of books, will start in September as an Archive Cataloguer at Yale University in the United States. He has written to thank the Hall for the opportunity of working in the Old Library, which experience he is sure went a long way towards his getting the job at Yale. Or Andrew Kahn, Fellow and Tutor in Russian, marked the bicentennary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin with a number of publications, including 'Pushkin's Wanderer Fantasies', in Re-Reading Russian Poetry (Yale 1999), and an essay in a special number of the Slavic Review. He enjoyed invisible 'media' celebrity with two radio broadcasts on Russia's great poet and is getting worried about the dearth of high-profile anniversaries left in his particular field. As of May, he was looking forward to giving papers on lugubrious topics in Bristol (graveyard poems) and Leiden (tranquillity}, and to a conference he is hosting in Oxford in August. In October 1998, Prof. John Knight took over as Director of the Institute of Economics and Statistics and as the Head-elect of Oxford's new Department of Economics that comes into being in October 1999. In April, he held an international conference in the Hall on "Income Distribution and the Labour Market in China", and in May he presented the keynote paper at a World Bank conference in Beijing on labour market reform in China. His book The Rural-urban Divide. Economic Disparities and Interactions in China, was published in the summer. Congratulations go out to the Hall's senior Fellow in Engineering, Or Basil Kouvaritakis, on his being awarded a Professorship in the recent University Distinction exercise. Or David Manolopoulos gave invited lectures in Oxford, Cambridge, Boulder (Colorado, USA), Perugi (Italy), Taipei (Taiwan) and Okazaki (Japan) during the 1998-9 year. Or R.B. Mitchell visited The Dictionary of Old English in Toronto, for which he continues to act as syntactical advisor, and hosted the AGM of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland, of which he is President, at St 25

Edmund Hall. As threatened, Beowulf: An Edition by Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson (Basil Blackwell) was published in 1998. With R.E. Alton and Christopher Wilson, he has begun work on Graham, a collection of anecdotes in loving memory of Graham Midgley. Or James Naughton published a new (more or less completely rewritten) edition of Colloquial Czech (Routledge 1999). He participated in the 9th Prague Writers' Festival in April as a pseudo-bilingual comper~ for authors from sundry parts of the globe. In May, he gave a paper at a conference in Strakonice, Bohemia, in honour of the bicentenary of the birth of the Czech poet F.L. Celakovsky, who was born there. Strakonice is also famed (as the gentle reader may possibly not know) for its international bagp.ipe festivals, the one-time manufacture of fezzes, and two wooden puppets called Spejbl and Hurvfnek. He stayed in a largish socialist-style hotel, but enjoyed decent local beer and nice walks by the river Otava. Under the imprint of the Perpetua Press, Emeritus Fellow Mr Vivian Ridler and his wife Anne, with Hugo Brunner, recently published Oxford in Verse, a collection of poems chosen and edited by Glyn Pursglove and Alistair Ricketts. It offers 'a representative range of poetic responses to Oxford over a period of four hundred years.' It provides a collection of generally unfamiliar poems, biographies of the poets, and many fascinating glimpses of the social history of Oxford. Or Ian Scargill chaired the centenary celebrations of the Oxford School of Geography. He published a short history of the department (the oldest in the country) and organised a Geographers' Dinner in St Edmund Hall in May which was attended by the Vice-Chancellor. Dr Andrew Steane gave invited a lectures at the following: Pathfinder Conference (Helsinki 1998), Mini-conference on Quantum Computing (Trinity College, Dublin 1998), 2nd workshop on Algorithms in Quantum Information Processing (Chicago 1999), and a plenary lecture 'Atomic Physics and Quantum Information' at ATMOP (Manchester 1999). His most significant news is that he has been appointed to an Oxford University Lecturership in Atomic and Laser Physics and to a Fellowship at Exeter College from October 1999. Mr Robert Venables, along with the Yves Guihannec Foundation and Key Haven Publications PLC, sponsored a Gala Concert in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on 29 May 1999 to mark the installation of the state-ofthe-art digital organ which the Foundation gave to Oxford University. The 26

soloist was Simon Preston, the international recitalist and former organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and Westminster Abbey. The University Orchestra was conducted by Sir Roger Norrington. The proceeds from the concert were donated to CRUSAID, the National Aids Fundraiser, and the University Orchestra. A reception was held after the concert in the Divinity School and the old Chancellor's Court. Sir David Yardley retired as part-time Chairman of Tribunals in September, having served during 1963-82 and 1995-9. He was appointed as External Adjudicator for the Millenium Commission, and has now heard and determined the first formal appeal against the Commission. He served as Chairman of the Oklahoma Oxford Law Programme in July 1999. He continues as Complaints Commissioner for the Financial Services Authority, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust, and Chairman of the Examining Board and of the Awards Panel of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation. He published "The Ombudsman and Human Rights" in Scritti in onore di Serio Galeotti (Rome) and "Ombudsmen in the United Kingdom" in the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law. Or Amy Zavatsky travelled to Anaheim, California, in February 1999 to attend a meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society of the USA. Having received a grant from HEFCE to refurbish her research laboratory at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, Oxford, she has been busy with plans and builders and has now just about finished moving in. She recently took a few weeks off to go hiking in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia, where the clean air in the hills proved a pleasant contrast to the belching buses of Oxford High Street (still congested despite the new traffic regulations!).

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM "Everything is going to be ok." Whenever busy graduate life becomes too stressful, I think of the wise words offered by my predecessor, Mike Tomko, soon after I assumed the role of MCR President. Of course, he had also just handed in his thesis. But it is true that within the cosy haven that is the Teddy Hall MCR, with a cup of coffee in your hand, a newspaper on the table, and our MCR Butler Julie McCann just around the corner, it can seem that all is right with the world. It was another great year in the Teddy Hall MCR. Graduate freshers were given a friendly welcome by the older members, and the year kicked off with 27

a beautiful sunny day for Matriculation, complete with champagne afterwards in the graveyard. The term progressed with other mellow events, and whether they were designed to relax you, like Blues Night, or to educate you, like our Whisk(e)y Tasting (ably led by our outgoing MCR Steward, Steven Fisher, who guided us through four Scottish malts, one Irish, and one American variety), they were a success all around. The term rounded off with the civilised MCR Christmas Dinner, at which a traditional round of "Teddy Bear's Picnic" was sung with great vigour. The fall also saw a group of MCR members form the Teddy Hall Rowers Society; they were a strong crew that made it through to the third round of Christ Church Regatta, and were destined for greatness in q'orpids and Summer Eights. (And how they managed to evade their destiny, the world will never know ... ) The MCR, as always, boasted a formidable football team, and also included fencers and sailors in its diverse ranks. We salute David Eadie, Captain of the Men's University Hockey Team and University Cricket player, as well as Tracy and Michelle Pratt, both University Netball players. During the cold, dark months of Hilary Term, the MCR amused itself listening to bagpipes and watching our president stab the haggis at the annual Burns Night, and with frequent movie nights and the annual Hearne Dinner, there was more than enough winter cheer to keep us all hanging in there until the glorious lazy days of Trinity Term arrived. With deceptively beautiful weather at the start of term, a few intrepid members made some use of the beloved MCR punt, and others found time to enjoy a traditional game of cricket, or a not-so-traditional game of American baseball. Our second annual May Morning celebration at Freud's was a sell-out success, with people dancing to the early hours of the morning before heading to Magdalen Bridge, and afterwards to the MCR for some festive strawberries and champagne. The Trinity Term Dinner was another lovely evening (despite a few scheduling hitches), and the dance afterwards was a great chance to let off some steam before everyone got down to the serious business of taking exams. The final seasonal events - the South African Braai and the Garden Party - were great fun, and the year ended on a beautiful sunny note. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to last year's committee, Mike Tomko, Steven Fisher, and Monica Oberkofler, who have been of invaluable assistance, offering advice and practical help whenever they were asked; it was their good will more than anything that made the transition between this year's and last year's committee so smooth. Jessie Shattuck, Mark Thomson, and Anne Blonde! will follow in their footsteps, continuing the warm and welcoming tradition of the Teddy Hall MCR. ].S . Shattuck I MCR President 28

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Teddy Hall goes from strength to strength and is increasingly being recognised by other students for what it is, namely the friendliest and most relaxed college in the University which combines an all inclusive atmosphere with great diversity of interests, dedication to various student issues, and rising academic standards. The famou s "Hall Spirit" has thus evolved to suit new circumstances but its essence remains the same and has provided the basis for a year of further successes in all aspects of College life. On the sports field the Hall has once again excelled itself in its traditional strengths, reaching the semi-finals of the Rugby and Hockey Cuppers, while the women won Netball Cuppers yet again, proving themselves the most powerful force in the University. Teddy Hall thus provided players for the University Rugby, Hockey, and Netball teams, including students from the first year, pointing to a bright future for Teddy Hall, while our reputation in Fencing and Water Polo remained untarnished. Our sporting prowess expanded into other activities this year, most noticeably Women's Rugby, who won the Cuppers competition. In addition we enjoyed a glorious run as the Basketball Cuppers underdogs. The Boat Club will sorely miss the Revd Midgley who gave so much support to the college, and this year's Summer Eights saw the gelling together of a new generation of rowers who should do very well next year. The Music Society has maintained its own high standards, as has the choir who performed outstandingly well in the Memorial Service organised by the students for Guy Crofts, our Head Porter, who will be greatly missed. Furthermore, Teddy Hall has witnessed the rejuvenation of other nonsporting societies, notably in art, drama, and debating. The Hall Ball was, as always, totally sold out and a great success. The Front Quad was expertly decorated in a Classical Decadence theme, while the Upper Quad was converted into a fun fair. The music was a diverse combination of Jazz, student bands, and a DJ in the Wolfson Hall. This, combined with a series of excellent bops and entertainment events, has made for a very busy social calendar and has contributed towards making the college a happy and united body. The selection of a new Principal has gone a long way towards solving the issues which arose as a result of the resignation of Sir Stephen. The appointment of an SCR-JCR Liaison Fellow has improved lines of communication, and this has resulted in various joint ventures, ranging from the provision of a student welfare room to an instalments system for the 29

payment of tuition fees. The appointment of Professor Mingos should lead to further fine-tuning in the services provided for students and yet more co-operation and interaction between the various bodies in the college. On a more political level the JCR has been very active, most notably on the issues of access to and the funding of Higher Education. This has led to considerable involvement in the Target Schools Scheme, whereby current students go out to their old schools to challenge some of the old Oxford stereotypes and to encourage those interested in applying. It has also seen the college's involvement in the Oxford Access Scheme, resulting in seven sixthform students from less-privileged areas spending a few days at Teddy Hall shadowing undergraduates studying various subjects. The introduction of tuition fees and abolition of the maintenance grant has led to a nation-wide campaign, which has been especially strong in Oxford, and has received considerable support and involvement from the Teddy Hall JCR. This past year has once again seen the astonishing diversity of interests and activities of the JCR and its members, while as a body it has retained its essential relaxed and open spirit. This has allowed for yet further improvements and undertakings, thus reinforcing the current image of the Teddy Hall JCR as being simultaneously very fluffy and effortlessly superior. B. Sandell I JCR President

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES':Âˇ The Athletics Club Captain: Nicholas S. Hamilton Athletics at SEH remains almost entirely concerned with the University team, and in that sense we have had a commendable year. However, we did not perform as well in the Cuppers competition which took place in Hilary Term. With not enough interest to field a women's team and very few men available due to an unfortunate clash of events, it was not a great event for the Hall. Nevertheless, this did not deter the Teddy Hall contingent of Blues athletes who went to Cambridge to compete in the climax of the athletic calendar, the Varsity Match, in Trinity Term. Sadly, Lucy Johnson, selected to compete in the women's Blues team, had to pull out due to injury. The men's Blues had four Aularians, with the lOOm being an all Teddy Hall affair. Tom Willets and Matt Scase ran well, and it is encouraging that they will both be available next year. Lawrence Smith also competed well in a tough llOm hurdles race. ,. Unless otherwise indicated, reports have been written by club captains/presidents. 30

All three were awarded their Half Blues, as was Nick Hamilton, who managed to stay on his feet to gain second place in the 400m behind Oxford's only Olympic athlete. He also competed in the 4 x 400m as Oxford won the match for another year. The Boat Club Men's Captain: Peter W. Ralph Women's Captain: Jessica S. Shattuck

Men's Captain 's Report This year has proved to be both a turbulent and sad one for the men's crews at St Edmund Hall, with the absence of our Head Coach and the death of our President Graham Midgley, who was the embodiment of the Hall rowing spirit for a generation of oarsmen. His presence on the towpath with Charlie will be greatly missed by all. Unfortunately the year culminated in spoons for both the senior men's crews of which he had been such a loyal supporter. The problems started at the beginning of the year. With only two of the previous year's 1st VIII available to row, both the 1st and 2nd VIII's were heavily dependent on novices. Red flag conditions throughout the first term hampered the training of both novice crews, and it was largely thanks to the efforts of Mike Broadwith that a successful Hall crew was entered in the Christ Church Regatta. Unfortunately we failed to build on this momentum in Hilary Term with an ill-advised transgression of the OURC rules, meaning that the 1st VIII and all experienced oarsmen in the SEH Boat Club were banned from rowing for the duration of the term. This lack of training and racing was to prove very costly. At the start of Trinity Term and with only five weeks to prepare a crew for Eights, the 1st VIII went up to Godstow, with Chris Nielsson joining the crew as Coach, thanks to the efforts of Michael Pelham and the support of the Friends of the Boat Club. He proved to be an outstanding coach and a great asset to the Boat Club, producing a remarkable improvement in the crew despite numerous injuries and setbacks. Throughout Eights week this crew showed great commitment to hold on for so long, other crews having trained and raced frequently throughout the year. The result was particularly disappointing since the crew showed great potential and given greater time to prepare could have achieved great success. Several members of the crew were given special recognition for their contribution both in Eights week and training. 1st VIII Colours were 31

awarded to Jade Martin and Peter Ralph, with Honorary Colours going to Huw O'Callaghan and Boat Club Colours going to Hugh Tanner, who along with Geoff Lloyd will take over as the eo-captains next year. I would like to wish them both the best of luck next year, and I hope that the depth of talent developed this year will result in better fortunes on the river in years to come. The Men's 1st VIII, Summer 1999: Simon Dolan (bow), Samuel Trounce, Robert Harrold, Jonathan Moesling, Peter Ralph, Benjamin Grout, Christopher Armitage, Hugh Tanner (stroke), Jade Martin (cox).

Women's Captain 's Report It has been an exciting year of ups and downs for women's rowj ng at Teddy Hall, as both the 1st and 2nd VIIIs met with one challenge after another. Michaelmas Term saw an enthusiastic group of novice rowers thwarted by red flag conditions on the Isis. However, they persevered and raced in Christ Church Regatta, and made it through to the third round. After a training camp in January, both the 1st and 2nd VIIIs were looking forward to Torpids, but due to more high-stream conditions on the Isis, less rowing was done than could have been hoped. However, the women did successfully race in Torpids: the 1st VIII made one bump, received one bump, and rowed over twice, maintaining their solid position in the second division. Because of continuing red flag conditions, the 2nd VIII only raced on the Saturday of Torpids, making one bump and receiving one bump. In April, ten members of the women's team went for a training camp to Milan, rowing on the international course and staying at the University of Milan Sports Centre. It was a successful week, averaging 20 km of training per day. In the weeks leading up to Summer Eights, the women were once again training at Godstow, coached by Kevin McWilliams, Tim Foster, and Richard Fishlock. The 1st VIII competed at the Bedford Regatta, facing some top Oxford and London crews; though they lost, the races were hard fought and close. In Summer Eights, the women were bumped by a strong Pembroke crew on the first day, and by Wadham on the second day. On the third and the fourth days, the crew rowed over both times, getting to within a half a length of St Catherine's on the last day. It was a difficult four days, but the women were able to keep themselves in the top half of the 1st division (and four places above the men!). While it was a difficult year, next year's prospects are looking up, with several members of the 1st VIII intending to trial for the women's University crews in the fall. The 2nd VIII, ably coached by Michelle Dollimore and Charlie Holden, also had a challenging Summer Eights week, rowing over on the first and the third 32

day, technically bumped on the second day, and bumped by Merton 11 on the last day. Next year, both crews will continue to strive for excellence and move upwards under the new Women's Captain, Hannah Reichardt, and Vice-Captain, Amanda Davies. This year's Captain, Jessie Shattuck, and Vice-Captain, Laura Shallcross, wish them all the best of luck. We would also like to congratulate Michelle Dollimore, a third year who was new to rowing when she came to the Hall, who is the new President of the Oxford Women's Lightweights. In addition, we would like to thank the Friends of the Boat Club for their continuing support. Those receiving College Colours were Amanda Davies, Hannah Reichardt, Kate Hughes, Victoria Fuller, and Jemimah Campbell. Monica Oberkofler is already in possession of College Colours. Those receiving 1st VIII Colours for their contribution within the 1st VIII were Lucy Reynolds, Victoria Forman Hardy, and Jennifer Oswald. Already in possession of 1st VIII Colours were Laura Shallcross, Michelle Dollimore, and Jessie Shattuck. The Women's 1st VIII, Summer 1999: Laura Shallcross (stroke), Michelle Dollimore, Jessie Shattuck, Amanda Davies, Victoria Forman Hardy, Lucy Reynolds, Hannah Reichardt, Monica Oberkofler (bow), Jen Oswald (cox). Jen Oswald also won the Forrest Award for the Most Improved Novice Cox. The Cricket Club Captain: Russell M. Korgaonkar The season began with an overwhelming Cuppers match victory against St Catz. Some fine bowling (Long 5-13 ), fine batting (Doran 67) and, perhaps more surprisingly, some fine weather ensured a very encouraging start. After that, our form very much echoed the Trinity Term weather - some days were great, some days absolutely dismal. Bowling Keble out for 67 (Moss-Gibbons 5-8, and a match-winning 22 not out) can be safely described as a great start to the League. Being beaten by 10 wickets the week after by New College, a dismal follow up. Three League matches against the weakest teams in the League were unfortunately abandoned due to bad weather- including one against Queen's when we needed 30 runs off the last 7 overs before lightning stopped play. The highlight of the season was reaching the semi-finals of Cuppers. A convincing second round match versus Corpus set up a quarter final clash with New. Revenge was on the cards. A poor batting performance meant we had to defend a modest 114. Some special bowling (Moss-Gibbons 3-12, Eden 2-13) and fielding left New needing 5 off the last over, with only one wicket remaining. A heavenly over from Long meant that they fell short by 2 33

runs. Sean Sprattling must be credited for some economical bowling and a valuable 21 not out at the end of our innings. We finished the season coming third in the first division thanks in part to some solid batting by freshers Mike Mayer and Graeme Doran. All this without having a pitch of our own to play on, and thus nowhere to practice, makes this an impressive achievement. This year's team included R Korgaonkar (captain), C Eden (vice-captain), G Doran, M Mayer, T Johnson, J Moss-Gibbons, PJ Howard, S Sprattling, C Hancock, A Shackleton, A White, D Wallace, R Oram, J Mace, and T Long. The Cross-Country Club Captain: Nicholas S. Hamilton As reported in last year's Magazine, there is a distinct lack of cross-country runners at the Hall, with no one, as far as anyone is aware, training regularly with the University team. Again, there was insufficient interest to field a team for Cuppers. Hopefully this situation will be remedied next year. The Fencing Club This year has once again been a successful year for Teddy Hall fencing. Pride of place must go to Eloise Smith's success in the Commonwealth Championships held in Kuala Lumpur last September. Eloise came away with two gold medals, one for the individual foil and one for the team foil. She has also had a successful season since, both nationally and internationally, and should continue to achieve good results for the foreseeable future. The Hall had five University fencers this year, Eloise and Alexandra ShimoBarry in the Women's Foil team, Tamsyn Tremeer in the Women's Epee team, Chris Morris in the Men's Epee team, and John Peterson in the Men's 2nd Foil team. The Varsity Match saw Eloise and Alex gain Full Blues, Chris gain a Half Blue, and John represent the Assassins. Tamsyn was unfortunately away on international duty but should receive a Full Blue next year. Eloise and Alex were instrumental in securing victory for Oxford's women in a very tight match. Unfortunately Chris and John were both on losing teams, but did make up for their lack of scoring in the dinner after the event. The Cuppers event traditionally held in Trinity Term clashed with exams, weakening our team. However, although the final results are not yet in, good performances by John, Tamsyn, and Alex give hope that last year's title might be retained. With Alex and Tamsyn still only first years, hopefully the recent years of success for the Hall will be continued in the future. 34

The Association Football Club Captain: Charles A.A. Light Vice-Captain: Oliver J.M. Bootle Secretary: Anthony ]. Shackleton

It is fair to say that the 1998-9 season finished with a degree of frustration in the team, yet a lot of optimism for next year. The beginning of the season was approached with much caution: we had lost Craig Williams (our Peter Schmeichel), Nigel Sudel (Jaap Stam with a wider waist!), and Jim Probert (an inspirational Paul Scholes) . Having no goalkeeper proved to be an almost mortal blow. We lost our first two League games, leaving the team with little motivation, and a worrying ability to collect yellow cards for reckless, scything challenges (you know who you are!). The lowest point of the season followed with a 9-0 thrashing by New College in the first round of Cuppers. There were genuine relegation fears being felt. Those who had tried to be our 'keeper were not lacking in effort, just an ability to play at the standard required. It was then that Robin Mcpherson suggested we try out the 2nd XI 'keeper. With no other option, we enlisted Mike Broadwith in an attempt to turn the tide. The introduction was fairly successful... we won the remaining seven games of Michaelmas Term! Freshers Adam Whitworth, John Bruce, and Andrew Patterson started to find their feet, and their footballing talent blended well with the more experienced players. We also had Rich Fisher and Rhys Beer providing sound cover on the bench. The loss of Matt Scase with a 'pulled hammy' was offset by the poaching of rugby playing Aki who came in and scored some fine goals. The 1st XI were now genuine title contenders. Hilary Term saw us return knowing that a 100% record in the last six games would hand us the title. Although we were undefeated since October, as a team we had not shown our full potential at all. It was welcoming therefore, that against Wadham we found ourselves 4-0 by half-time, that including my sole goal of the season! The match was slightly marred by Oily Bootle's seemingly harmless challenge on an opposition player that seriously broke the player's leg. A worrying trend was envisaged when I, again innocently, broke a player's ankle in the next match, and Rich Fisher somehow contrived to break his own ankle in one of our rare training sessions! The winter weather was causing postponements everywhere, which didn't help matters, as we registered two dull scoreless draws. The team was unable to play the last two fixtures, one due to weather, and the other - against St Catz - due to their continual pulling out, safe in the knowledge that a draw (awarded if the match is unplayed) would save them from 35

relegation. This proved rather annoying: we finished the League level on points with Corpus/Linacre in third, yet victory in the last two games would have elevated us to second place. The major plus point of the season was the establishment of the Freshers, which has meant now at the end of the season we already have a solid foundation for next year and the departing third years will not be missed as significantly as was the situation twelve months ago. Looking ahead we now have four players - Oily Bootle, Russell Korgaonkar, Anthony Shackleton, and myself- playing or training with the University, and a 'keeper- Graeme Doran - lined up. There is also a planned tour to Dublin which should be enjoyable! All that remains is for me as Captain to wish the new Captain, Adam Whitworth, the best of luck next year, and to thank everyone for the help this season. The Rugby Football Club Vice-Captain: Neil M. Taylor Men's Captain: Thomas R. Evans Secretary: Stephen R. Gough Social Secretary: Joseph Hanson Women's Captain: Rachel ]. Vicary Men's University Honours Blues: Richard M. Governey, P. Bede O'Connor, Richard G. Woodfine Greyhounds: Carl A. Lavin Under 21's: 0.0. Akindele, Patrick Lance Whippets: Ross J. Hill, Nicholas S. Hamilton, Sean P.G. Spratling, Thomas R. Evans

Women 's University Honours: Holly Jamieson, Lucy A. Johnson, Natalie C. Parker, Rachel

Vicary

Men's Club Honours Player of the Year: Stephen R. Gough Fresher of the Year: Ross A. Wenzel Most Improved Player: James A. Sutherland Cuppers Most Valuable Player: Richard M. Governey 2nd XV Player of the Year: Andrew Anderson I Richard C-W. Cheng The Daryl Rattigan Award for Most Valuable Substitute: James J. Allison

Women's Club Honours: Most Valuable Player (Michaelmas Term): Natalie C. Parker Most Valuable Player (Hilary Term): S. Anya Saunders

Men's Captain's Report: The 1998-9 season was somewhat of a curate's egg for SEHRFC with some fine performances and stylish rugby unfortunately mingled with some disappointments. After a successful tour to the glamorous locale of sunny Wolverhampton, the League season got off to a healthy start with a fifty point win over Magdalen. However, the next week brought a heavy loss to Jesus, a team undefeated in over two years in the League. Our talented influx of freshers were now well aware of the challenge ahead and efforts were redoubled to complete a three game winning streak which included another fifty pointer against St Peter's, a nailbiter against St Anne's, and most importantly, a determined and gutsy 15-9 victory over Keble. This left us second at the end of the first 'mini-season' of the League, but the next round started disastrously with a loss to New, followed by the conceding of the return Keble fixture due to the unavailability of eighteen Hall players. Michaelmas Term finished on this disappointing note, leaving our first division status precariously balanced over the Christmas break. Sadly, injury had already struck its first blow against the Hall, with returning boatie Tommy Doyle having his season ended very prematurely by a serious knee injury after having had a successful tour. However, the end of term also gave many Hall players their chance to shine in University colours, with lock Sean Spratling taking the 'Man of the Match' award for the Whippets, Rich Woodfine dazzling a packed Twickenham with his touchline tapdance, and Cad Lavin securing Oxford's only Varsity victory with two tries for the Greyhounds. The large Hall presence amongst the University ranks gave us good reason to relish the forthcoming Cuppers campaign. Cuppers concerns had to be put aside at the beginning of Hilary Term until our presence in the first division was secured . This was duly done thanks to a 3-3 thriller against Jesus in hypothermia-inducing conditions in the Parks, a comfortable win against Oriel and a fine performance against St Anne's that featured the rare sight of Rich Woodfine sporting Hall colours, and the even rarer sight of winger and Blues 400m runner Nick Hamilton being beaten on the outside - by a hooker! A final position of third in the second League competition marked a good turn around from our pre-Christmas position but was disappointing for a team who had provided the only realistic challenge to Jesus. More consistency in our League performances next year should see the League title wrenched away from Turl Street. After an under-par performance against a strong Old Boys side, our Cuppers campaign began in earnest with a 40-17 victory against Balliol in 37

which we welcomed our quartet of Blues, Lavin, O'Connor, Governey, and Woodfine, into the side in addition to scrum-half and Greyhounds Captain Toby Beer. Unfortunately, injury struck twice in this match, with a concussion and a hamstring problem denying us the services of Beer and Woodfine for the rest of the campaign. A re-structured side struggled to recapture the same form against a determined Worcester XV, but another impeccable kicking display from Richie Governey at fly-half, and a try finely crafted by winger Ben Smith for fullback Ross Wenzel was enough to secure a draw and passage to a semi-final against the tournament's form team, Brasenose. This match saw the return of Nick Hamilton to the wing and of Hall stalwart Patrick Lance to the second row. However, a dislocated shoulder kept out our hugely influential Aussie hooker/prop/No. 8 Bede O'Connor. After three years of semi-final defeats, the Hall side were convinced they could upset the odds and break the jinx. Every man played out of his skin, with prop James Sutherland, scrum-half Rich Hardwicke, and flanker Ross Hill all taking on University opposite numbers and gaining the upper hand. The Hall were more than deserving of their 10-0 half-time lead, with 'Stumpy' Governey carving out the try of the season and kicking the points to give us that advantage. However, two second half BNC tries, one converted, and one Governey penalty left the game on a knife-edge deep into stoppage time. The Hall defence was resolute to the last, but, having played what seemed to be an interminable amount of injury time, the referee saw fit to give a controversial offside decision. The conversion of the penalty proved to be the game's final act, and the Hall had been denied again by the narrowest of margins. Despite this final disappointment Teddy Hall players have plenty to be proud of this season. There has been some superb rugby played, and the spirit remains as strong as ever. The emergence of a number of fine players from amongst the ranks of Hall freshers and the success of the SEHRFC 2nd XV under the guidance of Captain Glen Bowman give us grounds for great optimism for the 1999-2000 season. In addition to many experienced finalists who will be competing for places, we have secured the continued services of 'Doctor' Woodfine and also persuaded talismanic hooker Will Perry to sign a one-year 'contract extension'. We are, of course, losing a number of excellent players who will be very difficult to replace, including the legendary locks Lance, Spratling, Murphy, and Herring, the aptly named winger James 'Crazy Legs' Dempsey, the foreign contingent of O'Connor and Governey, artful scrum-half Toby Beer, the quite literally huge centre pairing of Wallace and O'Donoghue, and the man they call 'The Nun', Chris Morris. We wish them 38

all the very best as we do to ex-Captain Car! Lavin who will be, perhaps, hardest to replace after three years as the rock of the SEHRFC pack. The reins of power have now been handed over to the Pan-African coalition of Ross Hill and Aki Akindele who I trust will be able to produce the consistency of performance that will gain the Club next season what it deserved in the season just past - the League and Cuppers double. I would finally like to thank Joe Hanson, Steve Gough, and Neil Taylor, whose efforts in training, organisation, and above all, on the field have been monumental and to wish Ross and Aki every success for the 1999-2000 season.

Women's Captain's Report: Although a women's rugby VII's team was relatively new to Teddy Hall, it enjoyed an excellent year. The Cuppers competition in the Michaelmas Term presented a challenge to the team, the majority of whom had never played before, but who acquitted themselves well, and were in with a chance until Univ ... Still we came back fighting in Hilary Term's Cuppers, thrashing the above adversary in the first round, and recruiting plenty of new members, resulting in a squad of 14 - just about the only college to field two teams. Our superiority was thus demonstrated, winning every match, culminating in a 10-5 victory against Keble (our revenge for the men's team) in the Cuppers final. So what else do we boast? A great team spirit, flashy kit, invitations to SEHRFC do's, and, of course, the advantage of SEH male rugger buggers for coaches. Our thanks and congratulations must go to Tom, Steve, Joe, and last, but not least, our favourite biased referee. Congratulations must also go to Natalie Parker and Holly Jamieson who played for the Blues and were picked for the Panthers Varsity, and to Lucy Johnson who played for the Panthers. For further information please contact Holly Jamieson, next year's Captain. Holly, have a fabulous year, I did! The Golf Club Teddy Hall currently does not have a college golf team, but Nick Stacey played University second-team golf this year. The Divots (Oxford's second team) had a record win against Cambridge at the Prince's in Kent, 13.5 points to 1.5 points. Stacey won both his singles and his foursomes matches and was awarded a "Divot", the golfing equivalent of University second-team colours.

The Hockey Club

Men's Captain: Daniel R. Tonkyn Women's Captain: Caroline H. Dyer Women's Secretary: Holly Jamieson Men's Captain's Report This season has been, in comparison to preceding seasons, one of moderate success. Despite fielding a team largely composed of players from last season's League and Mixed Cuppers winning teams, Teddy Hall's men's team has been unable to repeat these past glories. Largely due to the somewhat limited size of the squad, the team was forced to battle for success in the League, finally finishing fourth at the- end of the season. Mixed Cuppers proved a frustrating campaign, with the team well on course for the knock-out stages of the competition, when a group match scheduled to take place against LMH turned in to an administrative farce, and finally resulted in both sides being ejected from the competition. Men's Cuppers this season again looked promising for us, with hard-fought victories in the early stages setting up a semi-final meeting with Worcester, in which a star-studded Teddy Hall line-up, including four Blues, thrashed them 6-3. The final, however, was a considerably harder-fought affair, when against a Trinity-enhanced Brasenose team, we took the lead, and then suffered a late equaliser, and an even later winner to give Brasenose a ManUnitedesque victory, and leave us runners-up for the second year running. Despite these disappointments, I feel it is necessary to pay tribute to the members of the League, Mixed Cuppers, and Cuppers teams who have turned out so regularly for matches. Dave Andrews had an excellent season in goal, building on last season's performances, and proving invaluable to the team. In defence, James Moss-Gibbons, Rich Cheng, and Matt Parish have been a solid, dependable, and surprisingly flair-filled unit. In midfield, Neil Taylor has been particularly influential, his individual skill earning him a regular place in the University Occasionals team, and Anthony Chilton has again provided us with strength and depth in midfield and attack. Up front, Alistair "Shoes" White, PJ Howard, and Tom Brain have been a force to be reckoned with, scoring an impressive number of goals and proving too much for many opposing teams. I would also like to thank Mark Thomson, who also played for the Occasionals this season, and Tom Perry, Mike Mayer, Tom Matthews, and Dave Eadie, our Blues players, for playing in Cuppers for us. My thanks also go to various others who generously agreed to play for our League team 40

when we were short of players, and (grudgingly) to James Moss-Gibbons for the advice and help he has given me this season. Finally, I wish PJ Howard the best of luck for next season, in the hope that Teddy Hall can regain some of the si lverware which our standard of hockey merits.

Women's Captain's Report The Women's Hockey Club has had a tough , but fun, season. We managed to retain most of last year's team, with the addition of several talented freshers. In Cuppers, we qualified top of our group with some very convincing wins ranging from 7-0 to 11-0. The Final saw us pitted against a strong Trinity/LMH side. It was a closely fought and nail-biting match, as our skills were tested on the University's new Astroturf pitch. After extratime and an excellent goal by Holly Jamieson, the score stood at 1-1. .. and so it went to penalties. And unfortunately the lottery of penalties did not go our way and we lost our Cuppers title. I want to say a big thank you to Amber Prestidge, for doing a grand job in goal, and to Holly Jamieson and Ginny McGrath for providing so many of our spectacular goals, and I leave the team in the capable hands of next year's Captain, Alice-Louise Gardner. Finally, I want to wish Sonya Branch and Claire Jackson the best of luck in the future - our defence will never be the same!!

The SEH Women's Hockey team on Fletcher Field, the Uni versi ty's new international-standard, water-based, Astroturf pitch, located just off Iffley Road behind the Rugby Stadium. 41

The Ice Hockey Club Organiser: Milind Vaidya Ice hockey has been steadily gaining popularity within Teddy Hall over the past few years. Our weekly sessions have been running successfully over the year, the players showing a wide range of ability. This allowed us to put forward three teams for the Michaelmas Term Cuppers match, in which over sixty teams were entered. Our furthest placed second team w~s narrowly defeated in the quarter finals by a strong opposition, and thanks must go to the encouraging support from our Hall spectators. Our sessions ran over Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, with an earlier 11 p.m. slot proving popular during Trinity Term. The !eveÂˇ! of interest shown by the new first-years was encouraging. All college members are welcome to the sessions, and thanks must go to those who kept them alive during the early hours of the morning. The Netball Club Captain: Isabelle M. Cosgrave The Netball Team had a very successful season this year, beating Brasenose 25-4 in the Cuppers Final to win for the second consecutive year. This victory was the culmination of a consistently strong performance in the first division of both the Michaelmas and Hilary Leagues, where we achieved 4th and 5th position respectively, despite unfortunate injuries. Our most difficult challenges in the Leagues came from LMH, Brasenose, and St Anne's, but owing largely to Tracey Pratt's flawless shooting we completely dominated our Cuppers matches, beating our toughest opponents with a convincing score of 10-5. The fresher intake has proved promising, with very competent shooting from Leila Aitken and Charlotte Wilkins, and impressive court play from Rebecca Streatfeild and Esi Eshun, which should help us to maintain the high standard we have achieved. Kelly Hogan, Natalie Parker, and Michelle Pratt produced very solid defence, and we have benefited from active and tactical attacking performances from Olivia Routledge and Ginny McGrath. The addition of Simon Dolan to the team helped us when male competitors took advantage of relaxed umpiring (! ), although Caroline Dyer's energetic play has made her very strong competition for male opponents on occasion! Attempts to hire other college courts have unfortunately been fruitless this year, so we have been unable to hold regular practices, which would have no doubt improved our League results still further, and this will be something we look to change in the coming year. Regular practices would also help the B 42

SEH Women's Netball, Cuppers Champions. Back row: Esi Eshun, Leila Aitken, Caroline Dyer, Olivia Routledge. Front row: Tracey Pratt, Natalie Parker, Charlotte Wilkins, Isabelle Cosgrave, Kelly Hogan, Rebecca Streatfeild, Michelle Pratt.

team, who have struggled for numbers, but have always given their best when possible. Having their own Captain next year will be instrumental in increasing the motivation of this side. Teddy Hall has also been represented in the University Netball team this year, with Michelle Pratt and Tracey Pratt both receiving another Full Blue, and Rebecca Streatfeild gaining Second Team Colours. Good luck to the new Captains, Charlotte Wilkins and Rose Latham, and many thanks for all the hard work (and the devoted support!) that has helped to make this year such a great success!

The Pool Club Captain: Matthew S. Parish Teddy Hall entered three teams into this year's pool Leagues. The first team, featuring Dave Spence, arguably "the most consistent university player this season", did not perform to its full potential and was eventually relegated from the first division after a struggle for points. The second and third teams had consistent seasons and maintained their high League positions. Cupper's was a far more exciting affair. Despite neither the second nor third team progressing past the group stages, the first team topped their group convincingly and went on to beat St John's 7-6 to reach the quarter-final. The next round produced "the best Teddy Hall pool in living memory" as the team pulled off a 7-3 thrashing away at Exeter (League and Cup winners from the previous three seasons). Not even Exeter's four University players had any answer for Teddy Hall's "Champagne Pool" on the big occasion. Unfortunately, the team found it difficult to peak again and narrowly lost 7-5 to LMH II in an unfortunate last-frame decider. This result was made doubly annoying since LMH II eventually won the whole competition losing only one of their early group matches- ironically, to us by a one-sided scoreline of 9-3! This is the second time in consecutive seasons that the team has failed to reach the final by falling at the last hurdle. In singles/doubles Cuppers, there were many creditable performances again this year. Nicole Johnson and Matthew Parish were semi-finalists, whilst Suzanne Weller and Dave Spence won the mixed Cuppers event. Well done! As Captain, I would like to thank everyone who has played this year, and wish good luck to those leaving us: Suzanne Weller, Duncan Wallace, and Jon Hatcher; and especially good luck to next year's Captain, James Stafford.

The Sailing Club Organiser: Stuart Robinson For another successive year, it looked as if the Hall should have achieved so much more than the reality. A strong team was entered for Cuppers and in the early stages of the League, it looked as if we were going to earn ourselves a semi-finals place. St Anne's B, Lincoln, and Wadham were all beaten convincingly. However, following a close defeat by Jesus (eventual winners), the concentration levels slipped against Mansfield and the race was lost. Following the early promise, it was extremely disappointing to not qualify for the semis. However, the future of sailing at the Hall looks bright, and the team next year should be extremely strong. Our presence at the University level is high with Stuart Robinson serving as Vice-Commodore, Nicole Johnson gaining her Blue, and James Dickinson preparing to compete in the Varsity Match. Nicole will also be representing BUSA on the USA tour. The Portia Society President: Philip J. McGhee This year the Portia Society somewhat boldly explored new ground. Apart from the usual social events - such as Freshers' cocktails and the successful annual dinner, complete with entertaining speeches from Mr Briggs, Professor Wyatt and former President Caroline Dyer - some of the first-year lawyers entered a boat in the Oriel Regatta, the "Litig-eight" somewhat unexpectedly reaching the final. Furthermore, the dinner also witnessed John Peterson (BCL) performing the Maori 'haka' in the Front Quad, all of which going to prove that there's more to Teddy Hall lawyers than meets the eye.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Mr Nicholas Davidson is the new Charles R. and Alice L. Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History. After a peripatetic childhood, he took his first degree in History at Queens' College, Cambridge, and did postgraduate work in Italy. He was elected to a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, and then to a Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge. He subsequently became a Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester. He held a Delmas Fellowship in 1983-4, a British Academy Fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1990, and was appointed Director of the Centre for Early-Modern Studies at Leicester in 1996. He took up his new position at Oxford as University Lecturer in the History of the European Renaissance and Reformation in October 1998. His main area of research is the history of Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has worked extensively on the social and religious history of Venice and on the history of Rome and the Papal States. His publications have focused especially on the history of moral and intellectual dissent in Italy, but he is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the past, and he has published a number of essays on the art and literature of the Renaissance. As an occasional break from Italian history, however, he has in addition done research on the religious opinions of the English playwright Christopher Marlowe and on the establishment of Catholic missions in Spanish and Portuguese America . In 1986, he published a study of the CounterReformation, and he is currently completing a book on the Inquisition in Venice during the sixteenth century. His next big project will be to write a new history of Italy from 1500 to 1800, a book commissioned by Oxford University Press.

Dr Philip Mountford, our new Fellow in Chemistry, gained a B.Sc. (Hons) degree at Hatfield Polytechnic in 1986 and a D.Phil. degree at the University of Oxford in 1989 under the supervision of Professor M.L.H. Green, FRS. He remained at Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College (1989-92), Departmental Demonstrator at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (1990-2), and Lecturer at Keble College (1990-2). In 1992 he was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Nottingham, and in Michaelmas Term 1998 he

returned to Oxford as a Lecturer at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory and Tutorial Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at St Edmund Hall. In that same year, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Roya l Society of Chemistry; he was also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship in recognition of his research into transition metal organometallic chemistry. His main research interests centre around studies of the synthesis, structure, bonding, and reactivity of organometallic and coordination compounds of the transition metals, and he has published around 100 papers in these and related areas. He is married with two young daughters (aged 1 and 3 years) and lives in Headington. Dr Clara Raposo is the new Fellow and Tutor in Management Studies. After studying economics in Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) as an undergraduate, she pursued an MSc in Economics in London. It was then that she decided to specialise in the field of Financial Economics, receiving her Ph.D. in Finance in 1998 from the London Business School, University of London. Her main area of research is in corporate finance, with a particular focus on corporate use of derivative financial instruments. Most recently she has started work on issues of executive compensation, managerial incentives, and welfare, as well as on corporate financial distress and re-structuring. Her work has been presented at many international conferences. In October 1998, she took up a University Lecturership at Oxford's Said Business School, along with a Tutorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall. Dr Joanna Ashbourn is a Fellow by Special Election in Physics. She studied Chemistry at Oxford as an undergraduate at Christ Church, completing the Part II research year of her degree at the Robert Hooke Institute for Atmospheric and Oceanographic Research with a study of stratospheric ozone depletion over Antarctica. Her Ph.D. was undertaken in Cambridge at the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics under a research scholarship from the Centre for Computer and Mathematical Modelling, South Bank University, on the topic of the kinetics of excited hydrogen-like ions in 48

high-temperature plasmas. She was Junior Dean at St Edmund Hall for two years (1996-8), before taking up a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was recently awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship for four years to study non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions in plasmas and returned to St Edmund Hall as a Fellow in May 1999. Her current research covers both terrestrial plasmas, such as those produced in tokamaks (nuclear fusion devices) and lasers, and astrophysical ones, such as that in the solar corona. The terrestrial strand of her work involves a study of the atomic diagnostics of high-temperature plasmas, in particular that in the COMPASS-D tokamak at Culham Laboratory, outside Oxford. The astrophysical research centres on the sun, where there is a wide range of solar phenomena which depend on the magnetic fields passing through the photosphere and arching up through the chromosphere high into the corona. The stability of quiescent solar prominences is the focus of her current study into mechanisms which might explain their formation and development. Dr Ashbourn teaches mathematics and physics to first-year undergraduates for several Oxford colleges and is the organiser of the annual Oxfordshire Science Writing Competition.

Mr Malcolm Bull, who joined St Edmund Hall as a Fellow by Special Election in Trinity Term 1998, has been a part-time University Lecturer in Fine Art and Head of Art History at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford since 1992. He read Philosophy and Theology at Balliol College, and took an MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute in London in 1986. From 1986 to 1998, he was at Wolfson College, as a Research Fellow. In the late 1980s, he worked chiefly in the sociology of religion, while in the 1990s his research has explored various aspects of cultural history and social theory. Among his publications are Seeking a Sanctuary (joint author, Harper and Row, 1989); Apocalypse Theory (editor, Blackwell, 1995); Seeing Things Hidden (Verso, in press), and numerous articles in specialist journals. A study of classical mythology in High Renaissance and Baroque art is forthcoming from Penguin. At the Ruskin School, where he works alongside practising artists on the staff, his teaching also covers contemporary developments in art and visual culture. He will act as moral tutor to the Fine Arts students at the Hall.

New Honorary Fellow Mr Gareth Roberts was an undergraduate at St Edmund Hall from 1971-4. He was a petroleum geologist for Texaco Production Services Ltd. from 1974-8, working in New Orleans, Houston, and London. In 1978, he joined Murphy Oil in El Dorado, Arkansas, and began evaluating oil and gas fields in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. After a brief stint with Sedco Energy, a company in Dallas working in overseas areas, Mr Roberts started his own company in 1980 to specialise in the application of modern exploration techniques in mature oil fields. After considerable success in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, he founded Denbury Resources Inc. in 1990 so as to continue the philosophy on a larger scale. Today, Denbury has two hundred employees and is quoted on the New York Stock Exchange (DNR). Mr Roberts is currently the President and CEO of the Company. (see also p.97) The Hall's other new Honorary Fellows this year are The Right Revd Michael James Nazir-Ali (SEH 1972, Theology) and Mr Terence Graham Parry (Terry) Jones (SEH 1961, English Literature). Biographies of them will appear in a forthcoming Hall newsletter.

ST EDMUND'S DAY Following a special service in Chapel, a Feast was held in the Wolfson Hall, with the Vice-Principal presiding. In addition to Fellows of all descriptions, old members, and students, a select group of special guests attended: Professor Alan Cuthbert (Master, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), The Revd Ben Quash (Chaplain, Fitzwilliam College), Mr David Holmes (new University Registrar, University Offices), Dr Nicholas Fennell (Head of the Russian Department, Winchester College), Dr Michael Kenworthy-Browne (Oxford University Doctor), and Dr Sundeep Dhillon, (SEH 1989-95; Royal Army Medical Corps, Mountaineer) .

THE ARTWEEK EXHIBITION "Wonderful", "marvellous", "exceptional talent", "better than ever", these were just some of the comments from the hundreds of visitors to this year's Artweek exhibition, the last Teddy Hall Artweek show of this century. The exhibition was again held in the party room during 5th week of Trinity Term. This was the tenth year that Teddy Hall had participated in the annual Oxfordshire Artweek Visual Arts Festival, a countywide event. There were nearly 300 different sites throughout Oxford and Oxfordshire, comprising open studios, art and craft exhibitions, demonstrations and other visual arts events. However, Teddy Hall is one of only a few Oxford colleges to take part, and we have visitors who return regularly each year to see the show. Again there was a wide variety of media on display: watercolours, drawings, oils, engraved glass, woodwork, photography, sculpture, pottery and needlecraft (e.g. Eunice Lock's penguins). There was also a special display of work as a tribute to two of our recently deceased members: woodcarvings by Graham Midgley, former Chaplain, Dean and English tutor, and watercolours by Guy Crofts, Head Porter 1996-9. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who produced something for the exhibition and who made it another great success. Special thanks also to the maintenance department for preparing the exhibition room, to the Domestic Bursar for hanging the exhibition and for producing the catalogue with the help of his secretary, and to all those who invigilated the exhibition so enthusiastically. It is hoped that next year's exhibition for the Millennium will be better than ever! Julia Johnson-Fry

A DEAN'S RETIREMENT

The retirement of Dr Christopher Phelps after nearly thirty years at the Hall was mentioned by the Vice-Principal earlier in the Magazine. In recent years, Dr Phelps has been known to many students simply as 'The Dean'. Here, by special request, Mr Chris Wells- a former Dean himself- takes an amusing look at this particular college office and at Dr Phelps' tenure in it. A Dean steps down. Hard. Deaning is an art perfected only in its exercise, and a task thankless in all its manifestations. If the Governing Body becomes aware of the decanal business being done, only the general depravity and degradation of the student body will ever be commented on. If on the other hand the students are aware of any decanal presence, it will be felt as an intrusion into fundamental freedoms sold out by the older generation long ago in the interests of being paid a salary for just such oppressive practices as those in which a dean apparently delights. Additionally there are other offices and officials with sharp teeth at ankle-level who can carp at the Dean in any position into which they may have driven him and whose calls upon his time and patience and his judgement are persistent and gross, the more so because these carpers and shirkers do not have to bear the responsibility for any social breakdown of which their policies might be the instruments. For the Dean is not allowed to be a mellow, kindly soul, aware of human foibles and indeed susceptible to them. Instead a ruthless professionalism is required, legitimised no doubt by the pressure of would-be aspirants to the job whose own exacting standards, were they permitted the chance of exercising them, would surely combine metaphysics with the penal colony. 52

Otherwise, there are many styles of dean and deanship, although the Hall has yet to experience the deadlier female of the species in its fully developed imago, despite the harrowing magnificence of a whole series of splendid women junior deans, beginning with Sandy Harrison in 1984- a noteworthy date. Each new appointee to the position of Dean of St Edmund Hall can expect a visit from some nervous member of the JCR trying to calibrate his (or her) position on a scale between hanging and flogging and laisser faire. Excessive musical noise out of hours, unsanctioned parties, and the guests and other debris that litter the college in their aftermath are among the more yawningly familiar daily dealings of the Dean, usually refracted through the junior dean who is, from incumbent to incumbent, more or less corruptible, according to complex schemes of favours and informal agreements which will guarantee that an uneasy peace reigns. Various fashions come and go, from Boat-Club rituals to transvestite dining clubs, or the more serious because potentially lifethreatening, architectural mountaineering. Corridor cricket used at one time to be a popular pastime in those parts of the Hall whose corridors were of the required dimensions and where fire-doors did not obstruct the outfield. The Dean customarily kept the score post-hoc, and, after subtraction of ceiling cleaning costs, a tidy sum could be re-directed to the fines a.k.a. slush fund. An additional benefit of this charming game was, evidently, the launching of at least one international sporting career. Christopher Phelps has been a condoning dean, on the whole. In fact he has for many years now followed a hopelessly outmoded canon of rules of engagement to promote a happy and not too obviously regulated mode of existence. Christopher has in the past also combined very appropriately the role of Safety Officer and Chairman of the Amalgamated Clubs - often, as is the way, caring and nurturing those who were in other manifestations the biggest thorns in his side! The legislated and imposed social order of a modern college, tempered by political correctness and high principles (if not always principals) works only when clouded by a judicious myopia. At this Christopher was a past-master - nowhere more evidently than during the famous Christmas Dinner, which under his reign rose progressively from an obscene and sproutridden orgy to a boisterous and raucous, but ritualised tribal jamboree. During his patrolling of the dining hall he managed the tired gait of a man whose expectations had been dulled by too many birthdays with entirely unsuitable presents from hideous maiden aunts. All hopes of aggression subsided in the face of this firm but unconfrontational wisdom. The quieter, subtler exercise of his power behind the scenes in the sanctioning of bops, balls, and knees-ups of one kind and another has not apparently ever seriously ruffled the cordial 53

relationship between the JCR and the SCR. Despite the upset of a period of interregnum, the Hall has not lapsed into anarchy and decline, and this is in some measure due to the careful tightrope-walking of the Dean. But like many a dean before him he has now discovered that the tightrope is anchored to the end of a plank .. . There is no doubt that he will float when he reaches the water, for the boat-club was always one of his interests - he knows his rudder from his rowlocks, and could distinguish cuppers from scuppers, bungee-d~ngling from dongoling or dinghying, and sculling from skullduggery. Visits to the boathouse during Eights also, it has been said, would often enhance his dignified gait by the addition of a charmingly nautical roll. Deanz meanz finez - but, it must be said that this was not a grear fining dean, - no lean and mean extracter of the loot he. Despite Christopher's well-known propensities for hoarding and collecting - stamps, coins, books, and wines - it may be said that he did not generally regard fines as 'collectables'. He was not, either, a great one for taking cash off the miscreants from other colleges caught about their flagrant misdemeanours on our curtilege. Indeed, the Hall has had to employ a Director of Development full time, where a more bloody-minded finer would have kept the Hall afloat without its having to resort to that expediency. In times past, though, more feckless deans have even wasted money by injecting new life into sickly JCR funds by infusions from the decanal 'slush fund' - which used to finance taxis for the halt and lame, limbless, legless, and mindless casualties of university social life. One suspects darkly that Christopher has maintained this profligacy. Still, bellicosity of dean is not the only source of income, and it may be that the mildness and restraint of Christopher's decanal team in recent years contributed to the tameness of college life, so that for sheer boredom the excesses have been conducted on other college's property. Indeed, Christopher is to be congratulated on the fine body of helpers and minders he has hand-picked over the years of his supremacy. To name individuals would be invidious: so here are some who have made the biggest impression, not to say dent, on the criminal fraternity/ sorority that is the undergraduate body: Mark Snell, Jo Ashbourn, Jonathan Witztum, Dave Skeet, Ana Unruh. Somewhere a benefactor should erect a gallery of portraits of this haggard posse of henchpersons - or perhaps even a cyber 'wax-works' to display their sallow and sombre forms in a Quake 5version where they prowl, stalk, slink, stomp, strut, and teeter about their sombre business in the horrid and malodorous chasms of the Hall's derelict accommodation blocks looking for deviants. Nevertheless, this was a fair and kindly dean, with a parent's touching faith in the decency of the young, or at least, of those belonging to other people. His 54

mathematical training and computer-background may also have given him a somewhat rosier picture of 'l'homme machine' than is justifiable, given that even the Great Watchmaker is, so we are told, either deaf or blind, while his own repeated experience must have taught him that, with undergraduates at least, wysiwyg: it is as bad as it is, and one would rather not have any of it. But having now laid down the law for a considerable time the Dean now lays down the office, handing over the baton to his successor with a guileful grace, as he hides the crappy end of it beneath the voluminous sleeve of office ... Of course, most college problems are trivial, but pursuing them is frustrating and time-consuming. Just occasionally, thankfully, rarely, really existential crises do arise - people die, get killed or seriously injured or ill, often parents or relatives - and then the Dean is expected to make the intolerable bearable, to find the right gestures and actions, even to inform the right people in the right order, or to respect adult rights of privacy and self-determination. These are not things that should be aired and publicised in specific terms; they, not the disciplinary actions are, as a rule, the kind of problem which any dean dreads. They are also decanal activities which are not perceived by the majority in College but remain known only to those involved. The next tier of agony is when the law is involved on matters other than petty larceny by outsiders: this is always time-consuming, sometimes stressful. Further twists are added by the press, whether undergraduate, or worse still, the tabloids. Christopher has either not told us,- or paid large bribes to keep the Hall's name out the papers, although it could be that the press have in any case grown tired of our particular laundry, and we can sink back into anonymity. The Hall has every reason to be grateful to Christopher for his services to it, but, of course, it wouldn't be the College that it is if it were. And we should also mention his conventionally patient and long-suffering wife and family who have absorbed the anguish and aggro at home, so that the colleagues and students could have the peace of mind to devise yet more humiliations and surprises. Christopher's patience, tolerance, and a fair measure of critical self-doubt have seen him through these trials, and a natural warmth combined with a degree of professional detachment have, to the outsider, done the business and made sure that a 'right' result was achieved in most cases. Through the conventionality of this particular type of text in this Magazine we, - I speak for the College as a whole, - can therefore properly perform, as the linguists say, the act of thanking Christopher Phelps warmly for having seen the Hall through yet another period of its long history. But the true satisfaction will be his own sense of achievement in having, against all the odds which deans face, managed a fair fist of it, even if in a velvet glove. 55

OBITUARIES The Revd Edward Graham Midgley, B.Litt., MA

1923- 1999 Emeritus Fellow

Obituary by H.E.]. Cowdrey (Reprinted by permission from The Independent, Obituaries, 20 May 1999)

Graham Midgley was a bachelor don of a kind nowadays all too rare who devoted practically all of his working life to the Oxford college, St Edmund Hall, in which he resided. As a tutor in English literature whose interests centred upon Alexander Pope and the Augustans, he belonged to a troika of fellows of the hall, the others being R.E. Alton and R.B. Mitchell, who from the mid-1950s taught the English school together for more than 30 years. They inspired an almost familial loyalty among their pupils. Their complementary gifts and personalities ensured that this loyalty was never divided. Midgley's success as a tutor lay in the fact that he was seen to be more than a tutor. His warmth, approachability, and gift for friendship enabled the exploration of literature to be a joint venture. His pupils found him refreshingly free from academic dogma, so that he encouraged their individual perceptions and at the same time fostered their appreciation of the social and cultural context of literary works. His personal qualities ensured that there was no aspect of college life upon which he did not set his mark. He was dean for over 20 years. His sense of fair play and his good humour especially commended him to the somewhat maturer earlier generations who, like him, had done national service. (He served in the Royal Artillery, latterly in Burma, from 1942 to 1946). He transformed the still highly paternal decanal discipline that he inherited into a pastoral and consensual regime in which, however, collegiate structure was honoured. Such a regime was also to be educational: not the least enduring lesson that many learnt from Midgley was how merited reproofs should be given and received. With the confrontational attitudes of later student protest he had little sympathy. So far as the Hall was concerned, it ended when Midgley countered a procession, mostly not of Aularians, which was intent on occupying the Hall to secure the reinstatement of a rusticated undergraduate; he marshalled the whole body of Hall men to ascend the college wall and chorus a mocking parody of "Auld Lang Syne". No answer was possible except for the demonstrators to disperse. Pastoral motives had led Midgley, whose inner conservatism had been attracted to the Tractarian tradition in the Anglican church, not least by its liturgy and music, to seek ordination on the title of his fellowship. In 1978, he vacated the office of dean and undertook the chaplaincy. Over the years he became the friend of a wide range of undergraduates through dining, essay, and 57

other college clubs. The musical and dramatic societies flourished under his patronage. Though not much of an active sportsman himself, he encouraged all Hall sports. In doing so, he was accompanied by his dog Fred, whom he was able to keep only after sedulously undermining a long college taboo against pets. It delighted the undergraduates, as did his public apprenticeship in the sculpture at which he became proficient. He and his dog were carved in stone on the tower of St Peter in the East, now the college library at St Edmund Hall. He wrote the following epitaph for Fred: Beneath this turf the Dean's dog Fred Without his master, goes to Earth, stone dead. But on the tower, stone Dean and Fred together Enjoy the sunshine and endure bad weather. Midgley's first publication was a much-cited article on the Old English poem "The Wanderer". The poem answered to a noticeable melancholy that underlay Midgley's affability; poetry, like sculpture, existed to articulate such human feelings and it must not be left to the philologists. In 1973, he produced an admirable study bringing to life "Orator" Henley, the eccentric, sometime clergyman whose "gilt tub", is mocked in The Dunciad. Three volumes in the Oxford edition of The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan followed (1980, 1986, 1989). A certain lack of empathy with Bunyan may be suspected. No such deficiency is apparent in his University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford (1996); drawing upon a vast familiarity with the sources, he presented it in a splendidly readable way in the spirit of Pope and Hogarth. He deliberately left on one side the debated question of Oxford's scholarly standards. Without judgement or censure, he set out to exhibit the social life of both junior and senior members- their eating, drinking, wenching, sports, and cultural pleasures; these contributed to a life full of zest, variety, and sometimes violence, but seldom solemn or dull. For all his attachment to Oxford, Graham Midgley retained deep roots in his native Yorkshire. Born in Bradford, he attended the Grange High School before winning an exhibition to St Edmund Hall in 1941. To his Bradfordian loyalty he added the character of a dalesman by acquiring a cottage in the remote hamlet of Horsehouse in Coverdale. He identified with its people in church and in pub, delighting to serve as curate in the one and landlord in the other in the absence of the respective incumbents. He similarly served the church of South Hinksey, near Oxford, where he settled in retirement, serving also as chairman of the parish council. But his devotion to St Edmund Hall and all its members and interests remained undiminished to the end. He was an indefatigable and successful fundraiser. 58

The Funeral Address by Canon Dr Derek Stanesby St Lawrence Church, South Hinksey, 19 May 1999

There are those who maintain that an address should not be given at a funeral. We live our lives and at our death we are entirely in God's hands and at his mercy. It is not for the living to praise or blame but simply to commit the deceased to God's mercy. He alone is our judge. If I subscribed to that view I would not be in this position now. I accepted the invitation to speak at this time, not without trepidation, as an opportunity to honour my friend and yours. If we are created and sustained in God's image and likeness, if God has granted us the greatest gift, of life, then that life is of value. At the death of a friend, a loved one, we naturally look back on the life, the person we knew, to recall it, to savour it, to cherish and relish it. Above all to give thanks for the life to God who endowed the gift in the first place. Even if you do not accept that there is a God, you can be thankful for a life lived and for the joy and privilege of sharing something of that gift in your own life. The death of a loved one is hard to accept and difficult to come to terms with but it simply involves a move from the thought that this wonderful person exists to the thought that this wonderful person has existed. For that we are thankful. That is why we are here now. Family, friends, loved ones, colleagues - all part of Graham's unique life. Unique in the sense that all lives are unique and individual. No two lives are the same. There was and ever will be only one Graham Midgley who, like an individual finger print in the vast arena of creation, can never be repeated or duplicated. He enriched our lives and he contributed to the lives of many others. Doubtless we contributed to his life. This sharing, this give and take between lives, is what makes life so wonderful, so interesting and worthwhile. So let us, for a few moments, indulge our thoughts and sentiments and explore something of that unique life and person, our friend Graham Midgley. Graham was both a Yorkshireman and an Oxford man. Not two people, not one person with two sides, but a subtle and delightful blend of each. My acquaintance with him was born in the Yorkshire dale which was his second home and possibly his first love. He left his mark there as he did in Oxford and a good deal of his creative work in literature and in sculpture was done there in the hamlet of Horsehouse in Coverdale. It was on the strength of his scholarship in English literature that he secured his fellowship at St Edmund Hall to which he devoted so much of his 59

considerable energy and enthusiasm and skills as a teacher, researcher, administrator, priest and promoter of the collegiate life. He endeared himself to generations of students and colleagues alike, many of whom are here now to honour his memory and to thank God for his life. He chose as the subject of his first book a somewhat eccentric and irascible, obscure 18th century priest who succeeded in outraging his would-be patrons and many of his contemporaries. Like Graham's other Âˇ two major publications, on Bunyan and on University life in 18th century Oxford, it is painstakingly researched and written out of interest in the subject rather than for public acclaim. My copy of Orator Henley is inscribed "With love from Graham, another eccentric priest". Partly a boast, but more pertinently an insight into his own character. Graham too could be quite outrageous at times and he revelled in it. His last book, which I read in manuscript in Horsehouse, was originally entitled "Snug in their Mouldy Cells", again carefully researched and in style and content something of a revelation of its author. But only Graham could have conceived and written it, and it will stand as a unique contribution to the history of the University. My other recollection of Graham was as a genial host at High Table (and at his own table) and a generous disperser of wine- at least for a Yorkshireman! There are many others here, far better qualified than I am, to speak of Graham Midgley's contribution to Oxford life and to Teddy Hall in particular over a period of some fifty years. So let me return to our lovely Yorkshire dale. It was there, in an old stone outhouse, that one would hear a steady banging and knocking. It was Graham, chipping away, hour after hour, at a large chunk of wood, with

Some examples of Graham's sculpture on display during Artweek 1999.

mallet and chisel. Gradually, after weeks of labour, a fascinating and intriguing shape would emerge. He delighted in making shocking comments about the anatomy of some of his intricate carvings, but the end result, after more hours of sanding and polishing, could be quite stunning. This creative aspect of Graham was central to his self-expression and essential to his sense of identity and worth and well-being. Observing these pieces develop was a lesson in creativity. The freedom and risk of exploration, the element of surprise, the subtle relationship between man and material and the outcome, a glimpse of Graham in the sense that reveals something of himself in his creation. Those of you who are fortunate enough to possess a piece of Graham's work, in a sense, possess a part of Graham. Graham the scholar and Graham the sculptor provided a fine illustration of the essential relationship between hand and brain. It gives the lie to the false and misleading notion, so damaging in education, that one is either good with one's head or with one's hands. That is a subject for a university lecture, but it provides an insight into our understanding of Graham Midgley who was a more rounded and well-integrated person as a result of this fine balance. In the preface to his book on Orator Henley, Graham expresses his gratitude to his unfailing and uncomplaining companions, Suzie and Fred. These were but two of a series of Yellow Labradors for whom Graham had a special affection. He could be as uninhibited with them as they were in his presence. Here was another essential outlet and expression of the man without and the child within - and of his need for companionship. His need for companionship and his love for people derived from his own early family life, at home in Bradford, with his sisters Joan and Betty. He was sad to lose his sister Joan a year ago, as is his surviving beloved sister Betty at the loss of her dear brother now. Such sadness is shared by his adopted family, Christopher and Christine Wilson and their three young children who affectionately referred to Graham as Grumpy. It is significant that Graham's first book is dedicated to his parents and his last book to his adopted grandchildren, Rebecca, Alex, and Katie. The past and the future . That was Graham. His academic interests took him back to the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries and he brought the fruits of that understanding of human nature, derived from these studies, into his 20th century life. That combined to contribute to a more balanced and realistic outlook on life and people not least to the excesses and absurdities which contribute to the academic condition. All of us, young and old, who came into contact with Graham Midgley have been enriched and enlarged by his influence and for that we are eternally grateful. 61

My last and treasured recollection of Graham was the Easter we celebrated together in our little Church in Horsehouse a few weeks ago. He celebrated the Eucharist and I preached. Here was another aspect of Graham's expansive personality - probably, for him, the most serious and important. Not far below his assumed eccentricity was a man of quiet, determined, firm commitment - not so much to an established Church which we all love to hate, but to the deep faith on which it is founded. He could, thank God, laugh at the Church, not least at those of us, himself included, who are its wayward clergy, as indeed he did in the novel he never managed to finish and as he did in that delightful little sculpted model of a pontiff seated in splendid dignity on his throne but who, from behind, was seated on the lavatory! His deep, unerring devotion and priestly vocation never deserted him. There was a trusting simplicity about Graham's priestly ministry, which he exercised as chaplain in his college and latterly here in this parish at South Hinksey. This was beautifully manifested at our Easter celebration in Horsehouse when, instead of reciting the traditional prayers at the lighting of the paschal candle, he simply but profoundly described the significance of the symbolism. There was none of the old bravado, but rather the touching humility of a man preparing to face his Maker. The five wounds of Christ, representing all human suffering. The date of the year, representing the passing of time and of our own morality. The Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the source and goal of all creation. All that is somehow summed up there with Graham in his coffin. His life was a gift from God and despite his foibles it was a gift that he accepted gratefully and exploited and lived to the full. His death, like the death of Christ, brings home to us the reality of our mortality. And the faith which nurtured him in his life was founded on the recognition that the God who endowed him with the gift of life in the beginning could renew that gift in his own mysterious and inscrutable way at his earthly end. Wishful thinking? Maybe. Certainly not fashionable in our day. But I prefer to see it rather as the renewal of hope in the face of darkness and death. I can think of no better way of finishing this address than by repeating the words which concluded the Easter sermon preached in Graham's presence in Horsehouse this Easter. "When we go from this church out into the dale, into the freshness of spring and new life, let us take a deep breath and resolve to renew our faith in a God who shows himself to us in life and in death, in death and in life, for they are one in the totality of creation. That is the secret of Easter and 62

it is the secret of a living, realistic faith in the crucified, risen Lord who not only rejoices with his creation and suffers and dies with his brethren but who rises above and beyond it, as indeed we can if we keep his company." The Lord be with you, Graham.

Memoir: Graham Midgley and the St Edmund Hall Association by Arthur Farrand Radley St Edmund Hall Chapel, 26 Jun e 1999

Graham was on the Executive Committee of the St Edmund Hall Association from 1956 and President from 1984-6. Indefatigably so. Justin Gosling welcomed him at the London Dinner: 'he had taught a little English with a distinction in General School Certificate Art'. It was the latter, particularly his sculpture, that kept him going to the last; and as for his English, it was always a pleasure to read the Magazine he edited for those two long spells. And he could be very diplomatic to boot. Nikolaus Pevsner in the last of his monumental series on the Buildings of England praised our 'higgledypiggledy' quad as 'delightful', adding that 'to plant and keep that one Robinia close to the range of 1934 was a stroke of genius'. The Oxford Society's journal 'Oxford' went, however, for Pseudacacia, following Emden himself. Graham just put: 'Pseudacacia robinia'. He fostered the Norham St Edmund Appeal in 1984. We all had to dress up as Georgians and dance a Minuet in the Wolfson Hall, after which he sat in the Old Dining Hall, 'the tent of the Covenant', he wrote, to greet any 'who might feel moved by a sense of guilt or just Aularian spirit'. He then launched the 'Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club' after a record total of twelve bumps at Toggers and joined in the hunt for the pre-War Hall Barge which was finally tracked down to Reading as the flagship of the local marina. (It's ours for a snip at ÂŁ300,000). But above all he gave us strong policy. In the special Commemorative Supplement of the Magazine for the 1985 Diamond Jubilee of the Association - at which he incidentally exhibited his full collection of Hall ties - he said it all: 'The values established in the past of the Association - loyalty to the Hall, affection for it as a place, gratitude for what it gave us, friendships which are firm and lasting, service given freely and willingly - these must remain, and our knowledge of this history helps us to recognise 63

them and to carry them forward in a Hall which has changed so much, in buildings and domain, numbers and sex and the social and academic backgrounds of Aularians, both junior and senior; in a world which offers a much wider choice of careers, a world more complex, both in technology and organisation, a more demanding one, which will produce a quite different breed of Old Aularians from those who make up these earlier decades, different because of the different life they have known in the Hall and in Oxford, different also because of the difference of the world and work in the world into which they have moved. How then to carry them forward in this changed world?' â&#x20AC;˘ And he answered: more chance for youth, greater interest from the younger Hall Fellows, new ways of fundraising, more comment from all Aularians: he just knew it. And he had style too: as Chaplain he would from time to time celebrate Holy Communion in the Crypt of St Peter-in-the-East in the 1662 version. An American student has just been turned down for Oxford entry and is suing the University for 64 million dollars. Graham would have loved that: he would have put an even higher value on a Hall education ..

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Arthur Marsh touched life at so many points that no single author or obituary can do justice to all his interests. But he was above all an archetypal practitioner of the art of British industrial relations of the pre-Thatcher era, a strong believer that the law had no role to play, and that industrial relations were rather the product of history and the detailed procedures, relationships, and understandings to which this had given rise. Within this context, Arthur was active at all levels: he was a prolific writer both on trades union history (four published volumes of the Historical Directory of Trades Unions) and individual histories like The Seamen (1989) and on trends in labour organisation (e.g. Managers and shop stewards: shopfloor revolution? (1971)); he also conducted numerous studies of contemporary practice extending from the motor industry (with Sir Jack Scamp) and disputes procedures and checkoff agreements (for the Donovan Commission) in the 1960s, through a 1980 Survey with the CBI on 'Employee Relations Policy and Decision Making', to the London Underground and Peugeot (Coventry) in 1989. 65

Arthur served on the Restaurant and the Dressmaking Wages Councils, and was, from 1965, a Ministry of Labour! ACAS Arbitrator- very conscious that what would stick was what the parties would accept at any given time, but exerting his formidable knowledge, charm, and network of personal relationships to bridge gaps and secure highest common factor settlements on the basis of the highest common factor. Thirdly, Arthur was among the group of people (which included figures like Sir Hugh Clegg and Lord McCarthy) who established industrial relations as a discipline, at once academic and practical. He began as a Staff Tutor at the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, and continued as Senior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (from 1964), from which position he ran an Industrial Relations Research Unit and an annual Industrial Relations Conference. His Employee Relations Bibliography and Abstracts won the Library Association's 1985 Besterman Medal, and has since been regularly updated. Of this side of his achievement, it has been written that his documentation 'and method provided the basis for trade union and other industrial education in this country and world wide ... It was Arthur who brought the Socratic method of teaching to trade unions, at a time when their leaders were a powerful force in the land'. He was still in demand, in his seventies, in helping to establish a new management and industrial relations faculty in Prague from 1995. However his joint study, in the mid-1970s, for the Anglo-German Foundation of Workplace Relations in Britain and Germany produced a complete nonmeeting of minds with his more legalistic German colleagues. And the Thatcher legislation of the 1980s progressively transformed the industrial relations atmosphere Arthur breathed. He was unhappy with many legacies of Thatcherism, not least with what he saw as the decline of decency in the workplace; and to some extent he took refuge in the more historical side of his research. Born in 1922, Arthur came from the Nottinghamshire coal fields, where his family ran a tailor's shop and one of his uncles was a builder. His loyalty to the Nottinghamshire miners was clearly in evidence during the great Scargill strike. He came up to Hertford College on a State and County Scholarship in 1940, initially to read Modern History. This was interrupted by four years in the Royal Artillery and the Intelligence Corps, largely in Iran and Iraq. Then, after a brief spell as a researcher, he became a Tutor with the Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, in which context he initially had much to do with the Workers' Educational Association and communist attempts to penetrate it. From 1954 he lived in Oxford, where he was a Labour Councillor from 1957-60 (in the era when University representation precluded modern party 66

control). In 1964 he came to St Edmund Hall as Senior Research Fellow, funded by the British Motor Corporation which, shocked that the college did not possess one, promptly gave us a photocopier (admittedly a very malodorous one). Later he procured for the college a more substantial donation from the Hoover Foundation. St Edmund Hall was not at the centre of Arthur's work; but he pulled his weight in its running, serving as Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs- in which capacity he ended the eating of steaks as an athletic training prerequisite - and also overseeing the Special Diploma course in Social and Administrative Studies. He also took great pleasure, especially as he got older, in lunch-time conversation, exuding anecdotes, friendship, and a broad smile. He also brought in a string of guests from the wider world, ranging from employers and union leaders to representatives of the Gibraltar Government (for which he was, from 1967-72, a Commissioner on Pay Structure) and, more recently, Korean businessmen. And, through his work for the Oxford A.U.T., Arthur had a wide knowledge of the more peripheral- and, in industrial relations terms, worse- parts of the University; this issued in some splendid stories, but he always resisted suggestions that he publish his memoirs. Arthur had unexpected sides, like his extensive collection on the early history of English sea bathing. Always interested in wood working, he built a boat in his basement; the windows had to be removed to get it out, and it then had to be carried over four garden walls. To the end of his life, he kept a house and boat in Salcombe. Surprisingly, given his background, family connections made him fluent in French, even before this was reinforced by his daughter's marriage and his visits to her in Grenoble. Arthur's services to industrial relations were recognised by an O.B.E. in 1984; a photograph of him and his wife collecting it at Buckingham Palace reposed proudly on his piano. He had married Jess Mersh in 1950, and is survived by her, by his children Alison, Jennifer, Edward and Richard, and by Greta Bailey, the secretary who had firmly organised his work for 28 years. J.P.D. Dunbabin

Guy Crofts, MBE

1945- 1999 H ead Porter

Something broke at Teddy Hall when we heard of Guy's death on lOth May 1999. We knew he had been diagnosed as suffering from cancer, but the chances of recovery improved at every bulletin. We knew that Guy would triumph over that as his iron resolve had triumphed over every other problem he had ever confronted: there was almost an assumption on our part that he would be back, before we knew it, at his corner in the Quad, erect, immaculate, umbrella in hand, whimsical smile playing about his lips, twinkling eyes. "Is there anything we can bring you?" I had stupidly asked him when he first went in to hospital: "AT reg. Range Rover wouldn't go amiss", was the immediate reply that I should really have been expecting. The common thread that has run through all the plaudits that have been offered since his death, has been that no one who had encountered Guy Crofts ("Screw" as he was apparently known in the army) could remain unaffected by the experience. A larger-than-life leader of men in the traditional sense from whom we could all learn; one to whom the troubled heart could pour forth its burden; one in whom the lonely could put their trust. The College was represented at his funeral by many staff and members of the College, but they were, literally swallowed up by the many hundreds of other mourners who filled All Saints' Church, Didcot, to overflowing: its aisles, its chancel, and its churchyard. Even the few who remained composed during the service were not proof against his final goodbye, as a recording of "Always look on the bright side" by Eric Idle of Monty Python, echoed through the church. So, we emerged, glassy-eyed, and made our way to the nearby Sergeants' Mess, where Guy had spent the last few years of his distinguished Army career before retirement and appointments in Oxford. At the service, Brigadier Clive Elderton had spoken amusingly of Screw's antics and bravery in the bomb disposal business and of his service in Northern Ireland which had earned him the MBE and other awards. In the Mess, his widow, Wendy, found it impossible to meet all those who had attended, so great was the number.

A memorial service was organised by Junior Members of the College on 13th June 1999, where representatives of the staff and students spoke movingly of their close relationships with Guy. He is gone and the Hall is poorer for that. When the Lodge is rebuilt next year it will be a fitting place for the memorial stone, being at this moment carved by a member of the College: maybe in that small way, we can remember a man who was such an example to us and who was, in every way, to use his own word, "brilliant". All members of the Hall, staff, and the many visitors to the College who knew and loved Guy, will wish to be associated with the sincere condolences extended to Guy's wife and family. G. Bourne-Taylor Two Aularian Wives The wives of two Emeritus Fellows died in 1998 - Patricia Ramsay, wife of George Ramsay (Tutor in Modern History from 1937-74) and Mary Fargher, wife of Richard Fargher (Tutor in French from 1949-82)*. John Cowdrey, Emeritus Fellow, spoke at Patricia's Memorial Service at St Andrew's Church, North Oxford, on Saturday 17 October; John McManners, Honorary Fellow, at Mary's Funeral Service at the Wolvercote Cemetery on Thursday 19 November. Their eulogies follow. R.B. Mitchell

Patricia Ramsay I first met Patricia in 1956, when I was about to join her husband George as a history tutor at St Edmund Hall. I was quickly invited to a meal at 15 Charlbury Road. George and Patricia had been married some four years, and they were already installed, with an increasing family, in the house that was to be theirs throughout their married life, and where Patricia continued to live until her death. My immediate impression in 1956 was one of utterly happy domesticity, and it was one that was reinforced with the passing of the years. We shall all, I think, remember Patricia supremely as wife, mother, and homemaker, for George and her three children, Malcolm, Nigel, and Rosalind, and also for her grandchildren. As such above all, we shall cherish her memory at this time and gather round her family in grateful recognition of the person that she was and of all that she did. Like George, Patricia was a Dubliner, and she came from a professional family background. But unlike him, she was at school and university at home in Dublin. Her educational record there was a distinguished one. A scholarship took her to Trinity College, where in due course she graduated with first-class â&#x20AC;˘Jt is with deep sadness that we report here the death of Emeritus Fellow Dr Richard Fargher on 30 October 1999. An obituary will appear in next year's Magazine.

honours in economics. I should guess that this success tells us more about the determination and application that were always salient features of her character than about her enduring intellectual interests in life. These were, perhaps, more truly reflected in here eventual chosen career as a librarian. She joined the staff of Trinity College Library; besides the usual tasks of a librarian, her duties included what must have been the entirely delightful one of regularly turning the pages of the library's greatest treasure, the Book of Kells. It was not, however, in the groves of academe that George and Patricia met, but on the tennis court. The social context is important. George was the older of the two by some thirteen years, and, with an intermission during the war years, he had been a bachelor fellow of St Edmund Hall since 1937. During the immediately post-war years, the Hall was an austere placed to live, and George confided to his diary the personal loneliness that he increasingly felt. "All I need is friendly company", he wrote, "especially feminine company" . This social need Patricia superabundantly supplied, as well as providing intellectual companionship. An utterly secure and happy home background enabled George to devote himself the more effectively to his pupils and to his part in the development of the Hall. It also enabled him, especially after his retirement, to produce the ever more impressive output of scholarly books that won him international recognition as an authority on early-modern European, as well as British, history. For her part, until her marriage, Patricia had not often visited England. One of her most evident characteristics was and remained her Dubliner's manner of speech. She always loved her holidays in Ireland and her periodic visits to Dublin. The last of them was an eminently happy visit to her sister Daffodil which concluded only days before she died. But she very quickly put down roots in Oxford and in various circles here, and made enduring friendships. The stability of her home and family life in Char! bury Road was, of course, at the heart of it all. But she identified closely with St Edmund Hall, especially in the less austere atmosphere of the Principalship of John Kelly, who incidentally added to her identification with Oxford by solemnising the Ramsay's marriage in Dublin. When I joined the Hall in 1956, the Governing Body had still only a dozen members. With our families, we maintained a close and friendly common social life. Patricia's outward-going and lively personality found a natural place in our society. Equally, her home was ever open to undergraduates, who, as they always do, delighted to observe their tutor in his family surroundings- not least in dealing with his own children! Throughout her years in Oxford, Patricia took part in a wide range of activities customary amongst North Oxford wives. There was the usual progress through the Wives' Fellowship to the scarcely-to-be-admitted promotion to the upper house of the Senior Wives' Fellowship. The Bible Study

she belonged meant much to her and often met at her home. She was a leading member of the Ashmole Club. The Friends of the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society were other major interests, not least for the excursions and visits that, in his retirement, she increasingly shared with George. Those of us who frequent the vicinity of the Bodleian will remember her familiar figure as a guide to parties of visitors to Oxford, for whose benefit she acquired a formidable body of architectural and historical information. It was another aspect of her very deep self-identification with Oxford, and its past as well as its present. It also illustrates her love of meeting and helping other people. Very important indeed to Patricia was her abiding membership of, and loyalty to, this church of St Andrew. Living only a stone's throw from it, she valued it as her parish church at which her attendance was unfailing. For her family in Dublin was a united one, staunch in its own loyalty to its Church of Ireland parish and its activities. Patricia's Christian faith was in no way aggressive or demonstrative. But it was deep, trusting, assured, and (I think) untroubled. Rarely expressed in words, it transparently underlay her whole life and pattern of relationships. It was not without its testing, notably by reason of the severe stroke that she suffered in April 1991, which seriously affected her powers of communication and especially her basic skills of reading and writing. The determination which she had always shown from her schooldays now stood her in good stead. No less did George's patient assistance in the slow process of recovering something of her skills. His assistance added to the tragedy of his own sudden death in 1992. And yet in the long run her faith and determination prevailed. The outward signs were her renewed participation in the activities of such societies as the Friends of the Ashmolean, and most of all the renewed visits to her sister Daffodil in Dublin, with the Aer Lingus flights that they involved. There was a quiet heroism here. I am inexorably drawn to see this occasion as something of a celebration, a celebration of a wonderfully rounded and complete lifetime of a good life well lived. It was written of George that he made no enemies, and that it would have been virtually impossible to have fallen out with him. Just the same may be said of Patricia. Indeed, their capacity for sustained friendship is near the heart of the evident happiness of their lives. They enriched each other, and they enriched us all; and we are grateful. In remembering them both and especially now Patricia, we all offer our deepest sympathy to their family, and we express our gratitude for all that they meant, and will always mean, to their entire circle of friends. H.E.J. Cowdrey

Mary Fargher There are two things that I will always remember about Mary Fargher, two characteristics that define her. Firstly, she had an acute, versatile mind, adapted to handling demanding practicalities, as well as devising imaginative initiatives. Secondly, she was good, with a goodness that shone through her relationships and her life-style. Her family, endowed with intelligence, was ill-endowed with worldly goods, and her father, a station master in Norfolk, was not well-enough off to back her in the cultivation of her varied talents. She was a natural, intuitive artist, capable of striking portraits - witness her study of Richard long ago - though this had the added inspiration of deep affection. But she was skilled, too, at painting landscapes, giving them the individuality of the particular locality, rather than the stamp of uniform technique. But her father, inevitably, thought an artist's career too risky for someone from a family in straightened circumstances, and indeed, art college would have been an expensive gamble. From school, Mary won a scholarship to Girton, but in those days the government did not top up college awards, and the family circumstances never looked like being able to subsidise three years at Cambridge. So she went to Exeter University- which, it is true, was and is excellent. Here she read Modern Languages, French and German, getting a good honours degree and a studentship taking her to the University of Giessen in Germany. Mary then worked as a proof reader in our own Oxford University Press, dealing with the publications coming from this Faculty of Modern Languages. The precision of her linguistic corrections was deadly, but she was also a very good advisor, to those who would listen, on points of style and presentation. To this I can testify, for in checking my books later on she performed notable rescue operations on the French passages, and suggested highly satisfying new formulations in the English. Feeling that copy editing and proof reading for the Press were activities devoid of wider scope, Mary then took the Civil Service examination, coming eighth in all England, and forthwith became a factory inspector, mainly based in Birmingham, but with stays in Edinburgh. In the Potteries, she was loved for her quiet geniality, but feared for her sharp eye for detail; a manager could no more get away with a minor infringement of a safety regulation than an author could have got through the Press a feminine ending for an adjective to a masculine noun. She was once sent post-haste to the fisheries of the far north, in the Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, and the like, to report on a crisis in the industry. The girls who used to go up there in the appropriate season for the fish gutting were staying away. Mary offered the solution from Birmingham for free, but she was still obliged to go north to see those windswept coasts before she 72

could pronounce that, given larger wages and more adequate lunches, the girls would start going back to the isles again. The next change of career came as a result of going with a bien pensant educational study group to the zoo at Whipsnade. Richard was on the bus, and in due course, she became a don's wife, first, briefly, at Southampton, then at Oxford - Oxford in general and Teddy Hall in particular. It is probably too late now to be able to gather the reminiscences and unearth the correspondence that would enable a monograph to be written - supplementary to the history of the University - on the don's wives of old. But we need to find some way of commemorating the best of them, those who entertained all their husband's pupils and provided some of them with advice and, even, a shoulder to cry on. Mary, of course, had the advantage of being a linguistic scholar herself, and able to share fully in the joint intellectual interests of Richard and the young people he taught. There are hundreds of old Aularians who look back with gratitude on the friendships and understanding shown to them by Richard and Mary. Three years ago, Sarah and I met one of them, now retired and living in France with the wife who had been his girlfriend in Oxford days - both remembered the Farghers with affection from so long ago. One still meets some of these expupils when calling on Richard today- there must be few Oxford dons who made so many friends in their lifetime of teaching. Besides being an assiduous and perceptive hostess, Mary also taught a great deal in her own right, and not only students of the Modern Languages Faculty. There were also many historians, for in those golden days, virtually everyone in the History School "did" Tocqueville for Prelims. Mary offered tutorials in Tocqueville- we were in the same line of business, for I gave the lectures. Often, in odd places in Britain and Australia, a prosperous citizen has buttonholed me, saying "You won't know me, but I attended your Tocqueville lectures", and as often as not they would volunteer they had been tutored by Mary Fargher. There are more exotic options floating round the History School now, but I doubt if any of them have the educational value of that slim volume, L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution, or are so well remembered in later years. In these days when political correctness makes "concern" and "caring" obligatory, and hence devalued, "goodness" is an unfashionable concept. I might have used "sweetness" instead to describe Mary, but that is a wholly devalued word with a tinsel halo of artificiality around it. Mary was "good" in that she lived a life that was not self-centred, a life of enthusiastic usefulness, using her talents to be helpful to all around her in whatever milieu she found herself. And she was good in that she was thoughtful about people and generous to them, always careful to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. Here is an example, 73

from my own experience through the years, both of her insistence on being helpful, and of her delicacy of feeling . Soon after we became friends, Richard told me that, since historians always make errors in their use of foreign languages, he hoped that I would let Mary and himself look over everything I wrote for publication. This I have done, to my profit in English prose style as well as in French spelling and usage. But there is a nuance to be recorded. Richard, in a most unexceptionable way, was inwardly and metaphorically raising his hands and eyes to heaven at the sight of my deboires, but Mary was bending over backwards to salve my pride - referring to "an unusual construction", "a slip of the pen", and so on. Mary had a quiet, subtle sense of humour, but she never said a harsh word in the service of wit or entertainment. Indeed, the common device (in Oxford at any rate) of enlivening a story with comic exaggeration or mordant irony was something alien to her- so much so that you might just possibly find yourself being taken seriously and have to beat a hasty retreat. She saw the funny side of people, but was never funny at their expense. Her own anecdotes were constrained by her kindness. Her account of her time as a tutor in the chateau of a French noble family - "all elegance but difficult to get anything to eat" - was a mellow sociological comment on the deficiencies of the aristocratic ethos, rather than a send-up of the count and countess as the heartless snobs they obviously were. A typical joke of hers was the story she told about Madame Hottot, the fierce and diminutive French lady who taught Teddy Hall undergraduates the art of French conversation. Mary described Madame Hottot being congratulated by someone on having been "lucky" to find a house to buy on Plantation Road, and replying "I was not lucky, I was clever!" Her description gives a hint of the Gallic self-satisfaction and linguistic precision, but nothing malicious, producing a vivid and affectionate portrait. Tragically, Mary's latter years were stolen from her by Alzheimer's Disease. She had asked little from life for herself - friendships and love, intelligent conversation and reading. She lost all, save the friendship and love which she herself had given for so long and which for so long had been reciprocated. Richard devotedly sacrificed his own retirement years and all the tranquil serenity that comes with retirement, to look after her; he was struck down [by a car] when he was on one of his twice daily walks to see her. I do not think that any of us knows if Mary was a Christian believer. She did not attend with Richard at Teddy Hall chapel when I was chaplain there, but I do not know more. But she lived the dedicated life of a Christian, and I look forward, if God indeed accepts me, to meeting her gentle, affectionate presence in the kingdom of heaven. J. McManners

FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS On the college list during the 1998-9 academic year were 417 undergraduates (269 men, 148 women) and 101 post-graduates (68 men, 33 women) .

MATRICULATIONS 1998 UNDERGRADUATES & POST-GRADUATES Aitken, Leila Louisa Anne .. .. . ..... . .... .. .Chipping Norton School Akindele, Olukayode Oladipo .. .... .. ... The King's School, Canterbury Aroyo, Mira . . ....... .. .. . .. . ....... .. .University College London Arya, Ashutosh ... . ... .. . .. .... .. ........ London Nautical School Austin, Daniel Paul ......... . ... . ............... Warwick School Banister, Lucy Alexis ... . ..... . .. .. ... .. ...... . .. Aquinas College Beer, Rhys .... . .... . ... . .. . . .. . ... ... .. .. Richard Huish College Bendall, James Stuart ..... . ..... Rydal Penrhos Co-educational Divison Bennett, Thomas Henry ................. University of Wales, Cardiff Berg, Antony Benjamin ... . ............. Manchester Grammar School Bethell, Alexandra Marie ......................... Belvedere School Bird, Michael .. . ..............................Tonbridge School Blacker, Caren Jacquetta . .................James Alien's Girls' School Blonde!, Anne ..... . ... . .. . .. .. . .. ... .. ........ University Paris I Boryshansky, Omer ......... . .. . .. . ........ . .. University of Essex Brock, Victoria Alice ........... . .. .. ....... Heaton Manor School Brown, Harrier Mary Lancashire ............ . . .. .. . .Clifton College Bruce, John Robert ... . ................. . .... Mirfield High School Bulusu, Anita Manju .. . ... . ..... Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls Bunse, Simone ....... . ..... . .. . .............. University of Kent Butticker, Nathanael Awsiya . .. . ................ University of Savoie Campbell, Jemimah Jane .... Central St Martins College of Art and Design Carder, Edward Alexander ............. Upton-by-Chester High School Cardinale, Philip John ................ . ...... Georgetown University Chapple, Kerry Anne . . ................ .. ... Stamford High School Chilton, Robert Anthony ............... . .. University of Cambridge Christopherson, Ella Rose . ............. . ..... St Paul's Girls' School Chuenkhum, Songpol ... . .................. D'Overbroeck's College Clark, Naomi Elizabeth .. . ............. ... . .. .. . ... Alton College 75

Colegate-Stone, Toby James ................. . .King's College School Connell, Rebecca Louise .... . ... .. .. .. .......... Sevenoaks School Cormode, David Peter .................. Maidstone Grammar School Court, Richard William ....... . .. ... .............. Solihull School Court, Timothy Royston ................... Trinity School, Croydon Crabtree, Stuart Paul ......... .. .. .. ...... . .. Rainford High School Croston, Timothy James . .............. Blackpool Sixth Form College Crowther, Lauren Johanna Isabel .......... Harrogate Grammar School Daunt, Catherine Anne .... . .. . ..... St John Rigby Sixth Form College Davies, Amanda Jane ............ .King Edward VI Girls' High School Davis, Thomas Simon . .. . .. . . ... .. . ...... University Coll~ge London Day, Alan Arthur ....................... . .University of Middlesex Dickinson, James Michael . ..... . ............. King's College School Dixon, Richard Thomas ............ Colchester Royal Grammar School Doran, Graeme Paul ........ . ................... Blue Coat School Dunford, Alan Matthew . . . .. . ... . ... . .........Tomlinscote School Ehrig, Christian Malte ... Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn Ellis, Stephen Daniel ........... . ............ . .Winchester College Ertle, Andrea Brigitte ...................... Free University of Berlin Eshun, Esi Addae . .. . .. . . ...... ... . ............. Eltham College Evans, Ann-Marie ............... . ...... . . Monkton House School Fazalur Karim, Musa .... . ...... . ... Raffles Junior College, Singapore Fisher, Richard Mark ...... . ............. University College London Fitt, Jonathan Christopher Michael .... Colchester Royal Grammar School Fitzwilliams, Angharad Elizabeth Anne .........Wycombe Abbey School Foulkes, Mary Rebeccah ........ . .......... Winchester School of Art Fownes, James Edward Roger .......... South Bromsgrove High School Fuller, Victoria Caroline .. .. . ... . .. .. .. .. .. ..... Wellington School Gardner, Alice-Louise ...................... King Edward VI School Gourlay, Christopher Malcolm . .. ... .. ...... Merchiston Castle School Governey, Richard Michael .. .. .. ... . ... . .. University College Dublin Halliwell, John ............... . .........The King's School, Chester Halloran, Mark Timothy . ................... . .. Godalming College Harrold, Robert Stephen ............... Old Swinford Hospital School Hayashi, Yujiro ............ . ................ University of Tokyo Haywood, Steven Philip .... . ... .. ......... .Batley Grammar School Helier, Lorraine .................................. Falcon School 76

Hill, Ross James .. ........... . . .. ....... The Windsor Boys' School Hill, Timothy Llewellyn ................. .. .. . .. Rendcomb College Hirst, Nicholas James ....... .. . . ... Colchester Royal Grammar School Hollingworth, Eleanor Mary Ruth ....... . .. .. ..John Leggott College Hughes, Kathryn .. .......... .. . .. ......... Sir John Lawes School John, Morgan David .. . .... ......... Loughborough Grammar School Johnson, Tim Paul ............... ... .. .. ...... Winchester College Kakoty, Gautom Sen ..... . .. . . .. .................. Rugby School Keaney, Emily Jane ........... . ........ .Camberwell College of Arts Keenan, James Michael ...... . . . ............... St Ambrose College Khan, Sarah Waheed . ................ . ... .. .. . .Punjab University Kim, Hwey-Joon .......... .... .Haberdashers' Aske's School for Boys Knutson, Charles Gary ..... .. ....... ... .. .. University of New York Latham, Rose Susannah .......... . .......... Peter Symonds' College Lee, Chin Siang ..... ........... . .. Victoria Junior College, Singapore Leo, Chen Ryung .................. Raffles Junior College, Singapore Lewis, Jennifer ... Oxford University Department of Continuing Education Linford, Jason William ...........Wallington County Grammar School Lion, Rupert James Elpinstone ............ .. ..... .. .Harrow School Long, Catherine Marie . .. .. .... . .. .. .St Cyres Comprehensive School Lotay, Jason Dean ............................... Bedford School Macfarlane, Sophie .. .................The King's School, Canterbury Malu, Siddharth Savyasachi ..................... University of Delhi Marchewka, Marcin ............... . ... The London Oratory School Marsh, Benjamin James . .. .... . .. . .......... City of London School Marsh, Thomas Oliver .............. Dover Grammar School for Boys Matthews, James Peter Brading ..................... Liskeard School Mayer, Michael David ..... . .. . ..................... Perse School McDermott, Jacqueline Anne ............... Beaulieu Convent School McGhee, Philip James ....... . .. . ....... . ...... Holy Cross College McGill, Caroline ........ .. .... . .......... St Ninian's High School McKinnon, Malcolm ................. University of British Columbia Metson, Helen Louise ........................... Presdales School Michalas, Alexios-Ioannis ............. Athens G.C.E. Tutorial College Miller, Andrew . .... ....................... Sullivan Upper School Modi, Divya ......... London School of Economics and Political Science Murray, Clare Elizabeth . .. .. . ................ Perse School for Girls Murray, Meghan Randolph ................... University of Virginia 77

Nesbitt, Elizabeth Helen ........................ Strathallan School Newnes, Matthew .............. Gravesend Grammar School for Boys Norridge, Philippa Kate ...... .. .. .. .. ..... ... St Paul's Girls' School O'Connor, Peter Bede ........................ University of Sydney Oram, Richard Anthony .. .. ...... . ... .. .......... Epsom College Patterson, Andrew . .. . ......... . ... City of London FreeiJ!en's School Pavey, Mark Jonathan . ..................... Pate's Grammar School Perry, Thomas Oliver Russell . .................... Bryanston School Peterson, John Michael ......................... Victoria University Piatkus, Matthew Alexander ...... Haberdashers' Aske's Scho.ol for Boys Pike, Antony Edward ..... . . ......... St Aelred's Catholic High School Pumphrey, John Wyllie Francis ........ . ........ . .Winchester College Quek, Poh Beng Kenneth .. ......... Temasek Junior College, Singapore Reichardt, Hannah Margaret .......... .. .......... Highfield School Ronaldson, Luke James .............. ... ...... The Oratory School Rumsey, Michael Scott .... .... ... .. ......... New College, Swindon Ryder, James Matthew Stephen . . ... . .. .. ..... . . .. .Blundell's School Saeed, Sarah .. ..... .. .... . ... . ... . ..... .. .. University of Punjab Sarafopoulos, Constantine ............. Athens G.C.E. Tutorial College Sarantis, Alexandra Despina ........... Athens G.C.E. Tutorial College Scheinfeldt, Joseph Thomas . . ......... .. ........ Harvard University Schreiber, Benjamin ... . ............ . .... University College London Shapiro, Ian Philip .... . ......................... Highgate School Sharp, Katherine Elizabeth Clare ... . ............... Oakham School Shattuck, Jessica Susan ........................ Princeton University Shimo-Barry, Alexandra Topaz ................. St Paul's Girls' School Singh, Alexandre Harkrishan Jean ........ Manchester Grammar School Sivamohan, Thurairajah . . ..... .. .. . ......... King's College London Smith, Paul Michael ..... . ........ Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Spaventa, Alessandro .......................... Cornell University Spelling, James Allan .................... University College London Stacey, Nicholas .. .. . ..................... Pate's Grammar School Stafford, James Peter .................. Howard of Effingham School Stockey, Gareth James ............. Bolton Catholic Sixth Form Centre Streatfeild, Rebecca Ellen .................... Bruton School for Girls Tan, E-Ling Karen ................. Victoria Junior College, Singapore Tan, Hock Lai Gary ....... .. ..... . .. .. .. .... . . .. .Yale University 78

Tan, Hsuan Boon .................. Raffles Junior College, Singapore Tanner, Hugh Philip .............................. Clifton College Theben, Judith ........... . ................. Universitat Gottingen Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus .............. St Alban's R.C. High School Tremeer, Tamsyn Charlotte ........................ Millfield School Trounce, Samuel ........................... King's College School Tubbs, Jennifer Clare .................. Newcast!e-under-Lyme School Vallejo Barba, Ana Luisa .... . .. . ... .Matias Romero Institute, Mexico Welch, David William ................ .Upton-by-Chester High School Wenzel, Ross Alexander ................... Reigate Grammar School Whitworth, Adam .... . ................... King Edward VII School Wilkins, Charlotte Sione Gabriel ................... St Mary's School Wilkinson, Ben ......................... Aylesbury Grammar School Wilkinson, Emma Kate ................ St John's School, Marlborough Willetts, Thomas Joseph ..... .. .. City Technology College, Birmingham Williams, Peter David Gabriel ......... . ......... Northwood School Wu, Wei Neng .... . ............... Raffles Junior College, Singapore Yueh, Linda Y ...... .. .................. New York School of Law Incorporation - University of Cambridge Chilton, Robert Anthony Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair Inkson, Beverley Jane

Detail of the Examination Schools, High Street front.

VISITING STUDENTS 1998-9 OSI/FCO Chevening Scholar Spruds, Andris ................................ Latvia University Year Abroad Programme Ahmad, Afshan A ........................ Northwestern University Baran, Elizabeth H ............... .Indiana University of P~nnsylvania Bellos, Alesandra Tomasa ........................ Emory University Bennett, James Daniel ................... College of William & Mary Blake, Kevin Harold ............................ Brown University Braverman, Marla Elaine ................. University of P~nnsylvania Brunet, Michael Starkes .......................Wesleyan University Bushey, Jane Valentine ...................... Georgetown University Carman, Colin Edward ......................... Hamilton College Colayco, Javier L ............................... Amherst College Davis, Philip Charles ........................... Brown University Dembrow, Beth Ann ........................... Cornell University Ellias, H. Katherine .............................. Yale University Feldman, Jason Thomas ........................ Brown University Felker, Lori A ................... .Indiana University of Pennsylvania Ghesquiere, Angela Rosabelle ....................... Smith College Kaarstad, Hilde Prytz .........................University of Bergen Kastrinsky, David Brian ......................... Cornell University Kriesel, James Christopher ..................... Macalester College Lee, Kirsti Larissa ...................... University of Pennsylvania Markovics, Adam Jonathan ...................... Brown University Meresman, Jennifer Ilene ..... Âˇ.....................Vassar College Nesvet, Rebecca Lisa ........................... Bowdoin College Pierce, Catherine Preston ................... Susquehanna University Reichert, Elizabeth Anne ...........................Vassar College Rodoni, Jennifer Carole ..................... Santa Clara University Satterthwaite, Theodore Daniel ....................Williams College Sexton, Jay Jarrett ..........................University of Kansas Smith, Matthew Liam ..................... Northwestern University Suzuki, Erin Maya ............................. Brown University Taylor, Mika Kupris ..............................Vassar College Wilner, Tamar Shulamit .......................Wesleyan University Zelmanov, Elaine Ifat ....................... Georgetown University

DEGREE RESULTS FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS Computation Class Ili

JP Major, TP Needham

Economics and Management Class Ili AV Karir, CA Lavin Engineering Science, Part I Honours JJ Allison, DJS Andrews, DJ Clark, KR Connor, P Dimitracopoulos, CK-W Tarn Engineering Science, Part II Class I DP Berovic, TMR Brain Class Ili JE Moseling Engineering and Computing Science, Part I Honours MD Vaidya Engineering and Computing Science, Part 11 Class Ili NWL Tan Engineering, Economics and Management, Part 11 Class Ili K La u Engineering and Materials, Part I Honours G Tsikouras Engineering and Materials, Part II Class Ili RN Taylor English Language and Literature AL Culley Class I Class Ili B Bandyopadhyay, J Houghton, CM Jackson, M Lam, KH Maxwell, EA Smith Class Ilii DJC Fisher, JC Machin English and Modern Languages Class Ili EF Hardiment, LA Hughes Fine Art Class I Class Ili

E Stravoravdi JL Ireland, RL Simmons

Geography Class I Class Ili Class Ilii

LR Blumenthal JA Herring, PC Lance, CC Saxe, SPG Spratling SF Branch, JTD Moss-Gibbons, RJ O'Donoghue 81

Jurisprudence Class I Class Hi

TH Cheng, GR Wheatley HNV Durnford, J Ewah, C Harvey, P Kouchikali, ]-A Maurellet, LDJ Phillips, HM Roberts, DR Stone, SD Towell Mathematics, Part I Honours MJ Broadwith, MM Scase, MS Parish Mathematics, Part II Class IIi SH Yeo Mathematical Sciences LJ Smith Class I Class IIi A Kyrtsis NP Gillespie Class IIii

Mathematics and Computation Class I TC Newcomb TS Mastura Class Ill Modern History Class I JA Klein WJ Arnall-Culliford, PP Duffield, JW Hatch er, DJ Murphy, Class IIi ZDS Segal, AJW White PJ Kelly Class IIii Modern History and English EC Delchar, KJ Evans Class IIi Modern History and Modern Languages Class I LJR Bradley GMP Nosowska Class IIi Modern Languages CJ Miller Class I Class IIi AS Bermange, MC Cumberland, LE Francis, AR Mattson, AC Pyemont Natural Science: Biochemistry, Part I FL Harman, NP McGibbon Honours Natural Science: Biochemistry, Part II Class IIi C Lad Class IIii GP Madhavan GJK McKinnon Class Ill Natural Science: Chemistry, Part I Honours J Cookson, TA Doyle, CS Hamilton, M-S Key, GR Lloyd 82

Natural Science: Chemistry, Part II Class I MD Pratt, MJ Fletcher Class llii AM Prestidge Natural Science: Geology Class I RG Woodfine Class lli HL Lawrie, DM Wallace Class Ilii GE Bartaby, PE Cooper, DS Lumb Class Ill CE Brandson Natural Science: Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Part I PM Boon, MJ Cawkwell, NB Johnson, JD Mace Honours Natural Science: Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Part 11 Class lli MF Forster, Y-J Shine Class Ill HG Frazer Natural Science: Physics, Part A Pass AG Anderson, W Clarkson, ME Dollimore, CJ Harper, T Huberman, M Naylor, WG Newton, TS Pratt, JD Smith Natural Science: Physics, Part B Class I ML Hart, TS Pratt, AM Waterfall Class lli DJ Fulford, PD Shaw, ND Tranter, SC Weller Natural Science: Physiological Sciences LJF Shallcross Class I RW Partridge, BD Rippin, M Strbac Class lli Philosophy, Politics and Economics Class lli S Das, JA Dempsey, DJ Eadie, M Fang, BH Fox, TA Long, TC Matthews, CJ Morris, PR Reynolds, AE Thomas, A Wahab, EJ Watson Class llii D Gold, CJ Venables Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology Class lli AJ Dittner, RJ Miller, ER Robertson BACHELOR OF MEDICINE First Examination, Part I TJ Colgate-Stone, MT Halloran, RA Oram First Examination, Part 11 A Chadha, DPJ Howard, BS Smith

HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) Archaeology K Konuk ML Brewer Chemistry Computation RC Calinescu, S King AJ Skae Earth Sciences TA Corbett-Clark Engineering SE Breese English German AM Stein Mathematics DL Fearnley, SG. Fisher, P Salvatore Metallurgy AJ Doyle GM Bruun, CL Webb Physics Physiology N Yamazaki FI Vandenbroucke Politics Zoology R Fotheringham Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) Economics European Politics and Society English Studies Master of Letters (M.Litt.) French Master of Science (M.Sc.) Economics for Development

A Finicelli M] Oberkofler MA Tomko SR Johnson D Modi, S Saeed, B Schreiber, A Spaventa, GHTan AR Sprigade, H Ertl CJ Rieger

Educational Studies Engineering Master of Studies (M.St.) European Literature J Theben (Distinction) Legal Research WN Mannens Musicology 0] Dahin Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) EJR Lawson (Distinction), R Sun Magister Juris (M.Juris.) CM Ehrig Class 11 Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) Class I RM Fisher Class 11 0 Boryshansky, JM Peterson Post-Graduate Certificate of Education (P.G.C.E.) Pass CL Graley Special Diploma in Social Studies (Dip.Soc.) Pass RM Governey, PB O'Connor 84

AWARDS AND PRIZES UNIVERSITY PRIZES

Curzon Memorial Prize Ruby La! Gibbs Prize in Geography (Proxime Accessit) Lyssa R. Blumenthal Gibbs Prize in Geology Duncan M . Wallace Gibbs Book Prize in Modern History Laura J.R. Bradley Herbert Hart Prize for Best Performance in the B.C.L. in Jurisprudence and Political Theory Omer Boryshansky Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize (Proxime Accessit) Philip J. Cardinale UNIVERSITY BLUES The Unofficial List Dempsey, James Eadie, David Governey, Richard Hamilton, Nicolas Irish, Matthew Johnson, Nicole Lion, Rupert Matthews, Thomas Mayer, Michael Morris, Christopher O'Connor, Bede Perry, Thomas Pratt, Michelle Pratt, Tracey Scase, Matthew Shimo-Barry, Alexandra Smith, Eloise Smith, Laurence Spence, David

Athletics Half Blue Full Blue Hockey, Cricket Rugby Full Blue Athletics Half Blue Water Polo Full Blue Sailing Full Blue Lacrosse Half Blue Hockey Full Blue Full Blue Hockey Fencing Half Blue Rugby Full Blue Full Blue Hockey Netball Full Blue Full Blue Netball Half Blue Athletics Fencing Full Blue Full Blue Fencing Water Polo, Karate, Athletics Half Blue Half Blue Archery 85

Association Football Rugby Archery Athletics Rugby

Unruh, Ana Vicary, Rachel Weller, Suzanne Willetts, Thomas Woodfine, Richard

Full Blue Full Blue Half Blue Half Blue Full Blue

COLLEGE SCHOLARS Arnall-Culliford, William John Bermange, Alexander Sebastian Berovic, Daniel Philip Bowman, Glen Grahame Bradley, Laura Jennain Rosa Broadwith, Michael James Cawkwell, Marc John Cheng, Tai Heng Chew, Chin-Yee Choudhury, Sadiya Asghar Cookson, James Cooper, Timothy Culley, Amy Louise Dawson, Kai Glyn Engelien Dempsey, James Ambler Dittner, Antonia Jane Fang, Min Farmer, Tessa Elizabeth Fawcett, Alexandra Elizabeth Foyle Firth, Charles Richard Bartholomew Fletcher, Matthew James Edwin Hall, Jessica Hamilton, Nicolas Stewart Hart, Michael Lee Harvey, Caoimhe Huberman, Tom Ireland, James Lindsay Johnson, Nicole Bronwen

Klein, Jacqueline Amanda Lam, Mark Lloyd, Geoffrey Mace, James Devereux â&#x20AC;¢ Macpherson, Robin John Alien Marshall, Craig Hunter Miller, Catherine Jane Miller, Rebecca Jane Needham, Timothy Paul Newcomb, Thomas Christopher Norrie, Kirsten Margaret Palmer, George William John Peck, Victoria Louise Pratt, Michelle Diane Pratt, Tracey Sharon Robertson, Elaine Russell Smith, Laurence James Sokol, Daniel Kenji Tan, Wern Yuen Thatcher, Ian Daniel Vaidya, Milind Diwakar Wahab, Amrah Waterfall, Alison Marianne Wilkinson, Lucy Arabelle Cee Woodfine, Richard Gareth Yu, Dan Yun

COLLEGE ORGAN SCHOLAR Beach, Daniel Charles

COLLEGE HONORARY SCHOLARS Dahin, Oliver Justin Lo, Joseph Tzan-Hang Ghaly, Karim Raouf George Rogers, Benedict David COLLEGE EXHIBITIONERS Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha Reynolds, Paul Richard Brain, Thomas Michael Richard Saunders, Sarina Anya Cheetham, Michael Scase, Matthew Murray Clark, David James Simmons, Rachel Louise Connor, Keith Richard Smith, Andrew James Dolby, Luke Christian Stravoravdi, Erasmia Strbac, Maja Flowerdew, Jonathan Paul Hagan, James Martin Tan, Nigel Jose, Christopher David Ramsay Tseng, Jonathan Kai-Huei Major, James Peter Waddington, Holly Francesca O'Connell, Dean Warren White, Alistair James Warren Pate!, Shoaib White, Mark James Ralph, Peter William Yamaguchi, Katsuyuki Yeo, Sho Hor OTHER COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES Richard Fargher Bursary Geraldine P. Nosowska (Travel to Russia, £250) Lynn Gilbert Bursary Suveer Kothari ].R. Hughes Book Prize (Geography) Anthony J. Shackleton Cochrane Scholarship Fund Alison V. Cook (Work in Uganda, £300) Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Jonathan Gray (Teaching in Namibia, £200) Daryl Penny (Teaching in Namibia, £200) Roland W. Partridge (Climbing in Poland/Romania, £200) Michael Pike Fund Mark Naylor (Climbing in Kenya, £150) George Series Prize William G. Newton (for a prose piece "Tranquility", £100) Siddharth S. Malu (for a poem "The fire came by- the fall of Atlantis", £50) 87

William R. Miller Graduate Awards Nicholas E. Karn, Oliver J. Dahin Muriel Radford Memorial Prize David J. Clark (Artificial Knees, ÂŁ100) Siddharth S. Malu (Academic Study in India, ÂŁ250) On Friday 11 June 1999 the Vice-Principal paid tribute to three winner~ of this prize - D.]. Clark, S.S. Malu, and I. Valvona: the first occasion when more than two winners were gathered in one place. Established in 1985 under the Principalship of Justin Gosling, there have been 14 awards made so far. It would be apt to recall the achievements of some of these. Edith Wainwright froze and sweated through a Raleigh expedition. Joe Carron encouraged explorers in Ellesmere Islal'ld. Ed Rose taught teachers in India. Sundeep Dhillon worked for charities there. Carol Manley laboured for the poor of Liverpool. John Goodman built a church hut in Tanzania. Alice Fowlers strove to heal Belfast's factions. Truly, an ever-widening group of students giving service to humanity at large. Prof. Eric Radford

Brockhues Graduate Awards Harald E. Braun Ruby La! Steven G. Fisher Joseph T.-H. Lo

Monica J. Oberkofler Michael A. Tomko

St Edmund Hall Philip Geddes Memorial Prize Catherine J. Miller Pericles & Pegasus Award Flemming J. George, Jessica Hall (Artistic Study Travel) Mrs Brown Bursary Vibha Joshi Choral Awards C. Jacquetta Blacker Naomi E. Clark

Eleanor M.R. Hollingworth Robin N. Taylor

Instrumental Awards Anita M. Bulusu Isabelle M. Cosgrave

Pamela J. Schartau Matthew Smith

OTHER PRIZES Thouron Award (for study at the University of Pennsylvania) Suzanne E. Webster

Detail of the Examination Schools, High Street front. Top, a viva voce examination. Bottom, the conferment of a Master's degree.

DEGREE DAYS 1999-2001 Michaelmas Term 1999 Saturday, 23rd October ........ .. .. .. .. .. ............ 11.30 a.m. Saturday, 6th November ............................. 11.30 a.m. Saturday, 27th November . . ..... . ............. . . ..... 11.30 a.m. Hilary Term 2000 Saturday, 22nd January .. .... .. . .. .............. .In absentia only Saturday, 4th March ................................ 11.30 a.m. Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2000 Saturday, 6th May .................................. 11.30 Saturday, 27th May .. . .. . .. . ...... .. ........... . .. .. 11.30 Saturday, 17th June .............. ... ................ 11.30 Saturday, 22nd July ................................. 11.30 Saturday, 5th August ..... . . .. ............. .... . .. .. . 11.30

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Michaelmas Term 2000 Saturday, 21st October .............................. 11.30 a.m. Saturday, 4th November . . .. .. . ..... .. .. .. .. . . ..... .. 11.30 a.m. Saturday, 25th November ......................... . .. 11.30 a.m. Hilary Term 2001 Saturday, 20th January .. . .. . .. .. ......... .... . . .In absentia only Saturday, 3rd March ................................ 11.30 a.m. Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2001 Saturday, 28th April ................ .. .............. 11.30 Saturday, 19th May .............................. .. .11.30 Saturday, 9th June .................................. 11.30 Saturday, 14th July ............ .......... ... . .... ... 11.30 Saturday, 28th July ....... . ... . .................. . .. 11.30

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PLEASE APPLY to the College Office for an application form if you would like

to take your degree. On receipt of the completed application form by the College Office, candidates will be informed as to whether it has been possible to enter them for the ceremony in question. The University has imposed a quota of 18 candidates per College on each ceremony so it cannot be taken for granted that a degree may be taken on a chosen date. The summer ceremonies become booked up extremely quickly. This does not, of course, apply to degrees taken in absentia. 90

THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE NEWS One of our primary roles in the Development Office is to maintain contact between the Hall, its old members, and friends. The task of keeping data on these 8,000 contacts up-to-date and error-free is a constant one. Traditionally this core data was used to produce the St Edmund Hall Directory for old members. In 1995 the Directory was superseded by the Hall's own Who's Who. This has proved an enormous success with Aularians, who use it for keeping in touch with one another, and with more recent graduates, for whom the Who's Who notes those old members willing to offer career counselling. It is now almost five years since that first edition was compiled; many details are now out of date, not to mention the 700 students who have passed through the Hall's portals since then. We have begun the long process of preparing a second edition and we are grateful to the 1,000 old members who returned the blue Who's Who questionnaires sent out with last year's Magazine. I would encourage any of you whose details have changed since 1995 to fill in a blue form (available from the Development Office) so that the new Who's Who can be as up-to-date as possible. To tackle this enormous task, we took delivery of a new database system in March 1999 (to replace one installed in 1993 ). The new system will not only enable us to compile Who's Who 2000 but will also allow us to keep track of Aularian movements around the world and to maintain the Hall's gift records. The advent of new technology has also benefited the Hall's junior members: we have handed on the existing PCs to the JCR Computer Room where they have been put to good use as email stations. The noble pediment of the Hall's Queen's Lane entrance provides a new banner-head for the re-vamped Development Newsletter, re-launched in Hilary Term as The Aularian (Issue 6). The pediment fittingly bears the inscription SANCTUS EDMUNDUS HVIVS AVLAE LVX- "Saint Edmund, Light of this Hall". For more details on this and other inscriptions around the Hall, see the forthcoming issue of The Aularian (No.7). NB. Several old members, seeing "Issue 6" feared that they had missed earlier copies. However, the last issue of the old Newsletter appeared in Summer 1996 as No.5. For anyone who did not receive these issues, copies can be obtained from the Development Office. 91

Those of you who have contacted the Development Office or have attended one of this year's events will have benefited from the continuing care and attention of Sam Day (Development Administrator) who, with the assistance of Alice Gibbons, deals with the daily influx of letters, calls, faxes, and emails. In collaboration with the Hall's bursarial, catering, and domestic staff, their efforts make events such as the Summer Reunion and the Gaudies more memorable for guests. Live musical entertainment and exhibitions displaying nostalgic Hall memorabilia have been introduced to our events. We have also adopted a more personal approach in the form of a welcome desk offering information on the timetable for the event. This exchange presents an opportunity for guests and staff to meet and, in many cases, to put faces to familiar names. We hope our efforts will continue to improve the enjoyment of your visits, and we would welcome any suggestions on further ways to enhance your trips back to the Hall. We are grateful for the help given over the year by the following "temps": Levanti Somogyi, Marc Thomas, Hannah Faust, Elaine Dedicoat, Anne Keene, and Paul Lander, who have focused on checking and cleaning data, whilst also supporting the office's administrative activities. In July 1999 at the very end of the Hall's year, we welcomed Mrs Lori Baker to the development team where she will be Assistant Director of Development. Hailing from Minnesota, Lori brings a professional background in administration, management, and marketing. As Assistant Director she will play a key role in preparing the Development Office to launch the Campaign for St Edmund Hall. Robin Brunner-Ellis

AULARIAN GATHERINGS 40th ANNIVERSARY GAUDY- 18th SEPTEMBER 1998 This Special 40th Anniversary Gaudy was attended by Aularians who matriculated in 1958. Guests were warmly invited to attend by Dr Ian Scargill, Senior Fellow and Tutor in Geography, and himself an Aularian (1954). The former students of the Hall were welcomed on their arrival by the Development Office Administration Staff and quickly settled in with a 'warm brew' from the Buttery - although some chose a more 'traditional' Buttery beverage. Hearty singing followed in Chapel and pre-dinner drinks were enjoyed in the Library of St-Peter-in-the-East. Our thanks go to those guests who contributed to the Library Exhibition, based on photographs and memorabilia relating to 1958, which were on display during the pre-prandials. 92

The Dinner was hosted by Vice-Principal John Dunbabin and attended by the following 1958 Aularians: Jim Amos, Michael Beard, Anthony Birks-Hay, Bob Bishop, Christopher Bone, Peter Collins, Michael Cotton, Jim Dening, Lloyd Filby, John Haydon, Tony Holdsworth, David Idwal-Jones, Ronnie Irving, Mike Jarman, Derek ]ones, Robin Kemp, John O'Donnell, John Payne, Anthony Phillips, John Reis, and Nevill Swanson. Representatives of the Hall were: Reginald Alton, Joanna Ashbourn, Daniel Beach (organ scholar), Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Robin Brunner-Ellis, Deborah Hayward Eaton, Justin Gosling, John Knight, Paul Lewis (Hon. Secretary of the SEH Association), Duncan MacLaren, Arthur Marsh, Graham Midgley, Ian Scargill, Bill Williams, Dudley Wood (President of the SEH Association), and Sir David Yardley. ANNUAL GAUDY- 3rd OCTOBER 1998 The Annual Gaudy, in the form of a traditional black-tie dinner in the Wolfson Hall, was held on Saturday, 3rd October 1998 and was attended by 113 guests. The evening was dedicated to members of the Hall who matriculated between 1963 and 1967. Invitations were also extended to Aularians local to Oxfordshire at that time and to old members residing throughout the rest of Europe irrespective of their year of matriculation. The dinner was hosted by Mr John Dunbabin, Vice-Principal. The following attended the Dinner: (1938) Robert Clabburn James; (1945) Neville Haile; (1946) T. Michael Le Mesurier, John Pike; (1948) Joseph Graffy; (1949) Roger Beckwith; (1951) William Howard Slack; (1954) Canon Dr Michael Bourdeaux; (1956) Brian Whittaker; (1957) John Llewellyn Phillips; (1961) Peter Newell; (1963) Ian Bowers, David Robin Clarke, David Cox, John Crawshaw, Professor John Richard Eiser, Philip Hodson, Jeremy Frederick Mew, Michael Scannell, Clive Roderick Sneddon; (1964) Peter Adams, Robert William Clarke, Peter Hodson, Michael KerfordByrnes, Anthony Lemon, Peter William Liversidge, Antony Martin, Alan Metters, Jack Picton, Hugh Malcolm Forbes Simpson, Richard William Stoner, Mike Streatfield, David James Sudlow; (1965) Joseph Gurney Barclay, Nigel Barak, Jean Clarembaux, Alan Cowell, Rupert Deighton, Bill Foy, Stephen Garrett, Anthony Gribbon, Gavin Hitchcock, Andrew Howard Morgan, John Colin Morris, Humphrey Nicholls, Mike Randall, William John Rea, John Sayer, Mike Sheil, Philip Henry Spray, Mike Tanner; (1966) Richard Baker, Jim Barry, Michael Bonello, Robert Brandwood, David Broadbridge, Paul Brown, Howard Coates, Robert Darby, Nicholas Fane, Tony Fisher, Peter Griffiths, Frank Hanbridge, John Kilbee, Andrew Middleton, Clinton Robinson, Raymond Slade, Alan Vasa, Michael 93

Christopher Warren; (1967) Christopher Harrison, Colin Hawksworth, Roger Kenworthy, Nicholas Lovatt, Peter Masson, Sandy McPherson, Stephen Miller QC, James Mosley, Graham Douglas Salter, Jonathan Seccombe, David John Spiers, David Tabraham-Palmer; (1969) Ian Christopher Busby; (1971) Nigel Gregory; (1974) Raoul Cerratti; (1975) Brian Gasser; (1980) Glyn Redworth; (1985) Elizabeth (Betsy) Bell; (1991) David Liversidge; (1992) Gerald Hegarty, Benjamin Kilmartin, lldiko Taksz; (1994) Duncan ]ones, Julia Dawn White; (1995) John Dennis. Those who attended from the College were: Reginald Alton, Joanna Ashbourn, Daniel Beach (organ scholar), Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Robin Brunner-Ellis, John Cowdrey, Deborah Hayward Eaton, Stuatt Ferguson, John Knight, Paul Lewis (Hon. Secretary of the SEH Association), Duncan MacLaren, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Ian Scargill, Martin Slater, Michael Tomko (MCR President), Bill Williams, Dudley Wood (President of the SEH Association), and Sir David Yardley. GOLF TOURNAMENT- 16th APRIL 1999 The second annual Oxford Alumni Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament was held on Friday, 16th April 1999 at 'The Red Course' of Frilford Heath Golf Club in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. This year's match was organised by Pembroke College and included nine participating teams. The match consisted of an eighteen-hole round before lunch, with a further option of a 'friendly' nine holes after lunch. The day was rounded off with an informal dinner at Oriel College. Team Teddy Hall finished in a very respectable fourth place, for the second year running, under the now experienced captaincy of Peter]. Wilson. The team for the Hall comprised the following players: (1960) Chris Atkinson; (1961) Alexander Georgiadis, Peter Wilson; (1962) Gerald Barber, Michael Groves, Nigel Pegram and (1968) Brian Griffiths. The overall results were as follows: 203 points 1 Trinity College 2 Pembroke College 196 points 195 points 3 St. Catherine's College 4 St Edmund Hall 185 points 183 points 5 Corpus Christi College 6 Wadham College 178 points 171 points 7 Merton College 169 points 8 New College 136 points 9 Oriel Oriel 94

If you are a 'golf enthusiast' and would like to know more about applying for a place on next year's team, please contact the Development Office. Eligibility is based upon being an Aularian with a golf handicap; as a guideline, these ranged from eight to eighteen within this year's team. THE SUMMER REUNION- 26th JUNE 1999 The Summer Reunion, which was held on Saturday 26th June 1999, this year returned to its traditional format of a formal dinner. Invitations were extended to Aularians who matriculated up to and including 1980, as well as to any members of the Hall visiting from overseas or local to Oxfordshire. The 111 Aularian guests were greeted by Sam Day and Alice Gibbons of the Development Office who presented them with an information pack. The weather was exceptionally kind and enabled the guests to gather in the Front Quad for pre-dinner drinks, with the option of retreating to the Buttery Bar for a nostalgic pint if preferred. Many guests explored the College Shop in search of St Edmund Hall memorabilia or browsed through the Aularian book collection in the Library of St-Peter-in-the-East. Evensong, held in the Chapel at 6.15 p.m., was taken by the Reverend Duncan MacLaren, Chaplain of the Hall; an informal tribute was given by Arthur Farrand Radley (1935) in honour of the Reverend Graham Midgley who sadly passed away earlier this year. Guests were called for dinner at 7.15 p.m. in the Wolfson Hall, where they met their host, Professor Mike Mingos, who spoke warmly of his new role as Principal and of the challenges faced by the Hall. Numerous guests enjoyed the post-prandial pleasures of the Buttery and the warm evening air until well after midnight. The following attended the dinner: (1933) Francis Finch; (1935) Arthur Farrand Radley; (1936) Hubert Beales; (1938) Robert Clabburn James, Roy Mdsaac; (1939) F. Derek Rushworth; (1941) Tony Missen, Colin John Weir; (1942) Alan Arthur, Howard Fuller, Sidney Swallow; (1943) William Dunsmore, Robert Ford; (1945) Neville Haile; (1946) Frederick Cosstick, David Sutherland Dunsmore; (1947) The Very Revd Christopher Campling, John Vincent Cockshoot, The Venerable John Barrie Evans, H Nigel Grindrod, J Michael Hopton Scott; (1948) Joseph Charles Graffy, Peter Richard Jones; (1949) Robert Breese, Andrew Dudman, Tony Kinsley, Judge Robert Southan, Canon Robert Strapps; (1950) John Holmes; (1951) Desmond Day, Robin French, Andrew Johnston, W Howard Slack, Dudley Wood; (1952) F Patrick Ferguson, John Frederick Foster, David Michael Jacobs, Christopher John Jones, E Alan Simmonds, John Voight, David Wright; (1953) Ernest Fox, David Henry Giles, Geoffrey Williams; (1954) 95

Mr Francis Finch (1935) and his son Richard (1976) enjoying a pre-dinner drink and a stroll round the college at the Summer Reunion. The Magazine sadly reports that Francis passed away on 13 November 1999. Many will have known him as a loyal Aularian and long-time organiser of the annual London Dinner (a job now done by Richard).

SEH Association President Michael Cansdale (1956) entertains the Reunion guests with an after-dinner speech.

Stuart Bilsland, G Roger Gleave; (1955) John Billington, Paul Richard Lewis; (1956) Michael Cansdale, Frederick Farrell, Anthony Fenton Ham, David Hugh Johnson, Brian Whittaker, G. Peter Whurr; (1957) David Bolton, Geoffrey Mihell, John Llewellyn Phillips; (1958) Michael Beard, Lloyd Filby, Roger Garratt, Richard Haddon, Robin Kemp; (1959) Graham Kentfield; (1960) Robert Clark, Peter Hayes, Christopher Long, Derek Morris, Francis Pocock; (1961) John Heggadon, Graham Morris, Peter Newell, District Judge Christopher Tromans; (1962) Jim de Rennes, Colin Hewitt; (1963) Robin Crawford, E. Alastair Fretwell-Downing, Peter John Webb; (1964) Barry Lawrence King; (1965) Nigel Barak; (1966) David Arthur Hopkins, Patrick Montgomery; (1967) Stephen Allchin, Roger Kenworthy, James Mosley, Alan Shorthose; (1969) Nick Badham, Ian Christopher Busby, Paul Venn Dixon; (1970) Peter Butler, Peter Malin, Frank Spooner; (1971) Peter Balmer, Mark David Booker, Lawrence Cummings, Christopher Wilson; (1972) Stephen Chandler, Kevin Copestake, Ross Monro, Gareth Price, John Blair Smith, Robin Stephenson; (1974) Raoul Cerratti; (1975) Donald Farrow; (1976) Richard Finch; (1978) Paul Darling QC; (1980) Nicholas Caddick, Katherine Finucane, Nigel Holcroft, Rachel Martel; (1981) Jennifer Turner; and (1995) Catherine Cooper. Those who attended on behalf of the Hall were: Reginald Alton, Joanna Ashbourn, Stephen Blarney, Alistair Borthwick, Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Robin Brunner-Ellis, John Cowdrey, John Dunbabin, Deborah Hayward Eaton, Peter Ganz, Justin Gosling, Duncan MacLaren, John McManners, Bruce Mitchell, Christopher Phelps, Clara Raposo, Francis Rossotti, Ian Scargill, Jessie Shattuck (MCR President), Martin Slater, Bill Williams, Sir David Yardley, and Amy Zavatsky.

FUND RAISING INITIATIVES SUPPORT FOR FELLOWSHIPS In a year of dire predictions about the effect of government spending cuts on Oxford's (and the Hall's) financial future, it is indeed wonderful to record the significant enhancement of the Hall's overall endowment by the funding of five Fellowships. Gareth Roberts (1971) and his wife, Gwenna Robinson, have marked the pioneering role played by the Hall in teaching geology at Oxford by endowing the Oxburgh Fellowship in Geology. Sir Ronald Oxburgh was the Hall's Tutorial Fellow in the subject, 1964-78 and is now Rector of Imperial College, London. Gareth Roberts continues to offer undergraduates reading 97

geology at the Hall valuable practical expenence working for his oil exploration company in Dallas, Texas. Dr Tony Marchington, a graduate of Oxford University, has provided funding for the Oxford Molecular Fellowship in Chemistry, named after the company he founded in 1989 which uses computer-aided design to develop tools vital for drug discovery work. The company is currently collaborating with some of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. After a long career as historian, author and academic, as well as a period as Cultural Attache at the US Embassy in London, Professor Charles R Ritcheson (1948) now lives with his wife, Alice, in Paris. Through their generous provision for long-term financial support, the Hall has. been able to create the Charles R and Alice L Ritcheson Fellowship in Early Modern History; its first encumbant, Dr Nicholas Davidson arrived in 1998. A manifold act of generosity brought to a magnificent close a campaign which has been underway in the US: in 1990 American Aularians began raising funds to enlarge the Junior Common Room. With construction costs sharply rising, the focus shifted in 1994 to endowing the Hall's medical Fellowship. By summer 1998 there remained only some $100,000 to complete the campaign. Bill Miller (1949) and Gareth Roberts (1971) stepped in with personal pledges of $25,000 each in the form of a Matching Scheme - for every Aularian gift they would release a matching sum up to a maximum of $50,000. The call was answered by 25 donors and thus at the 14th St Edmund Dinner in New York in November 1998 Bill Miller delightedly announced the sueBill Miller unveilling the list of donors to the cessful completion of this endowAmerican Fellowship in Physiology. ment campaign. Six months later on 28th May Bill Miller unveiled scrolls of honour in the atrium of the Wolfson Hall which record the Hall's gratitude to the 242 donors in recognition of this wonderful example of international support. St Edmund Hall thanks the following donors for their support of the Fellowship in Physiology which has been renamed the American Fellowship in their honour:

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Daft, Ala n Dorfman, M r & Mrs John D Dunlap, S Rhodes Dunn Jr, Mr & Mrs Sydney B Duquesne Light Co. Easby, G G Meade Eluszkiewicz, Janusz B Erasmus, Dr Garvin M Fieve, Ms Vanessa Foxman, Stephen Frank lin Jr, Oliver C Friedman, Ms Lesley K Fu ller, N S Gervin, Ms Gay P Gibeon, Leonard Gold Jr, Mr & Mrs Wi ll iam Buchanan Goldman Sachs Good, Miss Sarah A Graae, His Honor Judge Steffen W Greenfield, Marcus A Grundy, O liver W Hagan, Mr & Mrs Pa trick J Ha ll , Mark J Heggie, !an G Hennemeyer, Consu l General Robert T Henry, Anya C Herald, Dr David M Herre ll , Mr & Mrs Roger W Heuer, Mrs Russell P Heyman, John B Hicks, Professor David Barry High, Mr & Mrs Les lie C Hi mes, James A H ingley, Dr & Mrs Colin G Ho, Ms C hristine M J Hollihan, Mr & Mrs J Rees Houston, Ms Fiona A Howard, Nicholas P Howitt, Professor David G Hunter, Ms Margaret Hyre, Ms Ma rgaret A Ilgren, Dr Edward B Jarvis, David S Jelinek, Eric S Jenkins, Mr & Mrs Richard Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco Johnson & Johnson Inc.

Jones, Professor George H Jone, Dr Richard Lyle Keeler, David R Keithly Jr, The Revd Thomas Kerr, Dr Graham B King, Professor Alexander H King-Wood, Oliver D Klauder, Mr & Mrs Louis T Know, Ms Al ison D Kolve, Professor Verdel A Krech Ill, Professor Shepard Laha ri , Mrs Sukhama y Laird, Craig E Lau rence, Ms E Sarah Lawrence, Gary M Lawto n, H arry Leroux, Mr & Mrs Jacques Liddicoat, Ms Becky V Lipsig, Ethan B Littleton, M r & Mrs John E Litton, George Lohmeyer, Mrs E Phil ips Love ll , Professor Jonathan H Lowe, Ken neth S Lubin, Ms Alice Luke, Kenneth D Lukens, Robert A MacBa in, Ms Ma rgaret Madara, Mrs Edward S Malyan, Richard H Mandel, Dr Mark R Marcham, Frederick G Maroun, Joseph E Mauron, Dr Paolo McCa ll um, Angus W McCall um , Alex McGilchrist, Dr Simon J McGilchrist, Dona ld M McGinn ir, Ms Agnes E Mellon Bank Inc. M iller, William R M iller Family Foundation Miller, Mr & Mrs Roberr W Murphy Jr, Dr Ewell E Mustafa, Mr Denis Naish, Howard F Nesbit, John A Newsum, Fletcher A O'Brien, James D O'Brien, Webster J O'Brien, Justus J

O'Neill, Mr & Mrs Bertram L Orchard, Dr Christopher R Ostroff, Da vid Outhwaite, David Owen-Smith, John Oxenbridge, Stephen R Pan, Ms Amelia Pa Parker, Paul St John Parkinson, Robert M Patterson, William K Pericola, Julius L Perry, Robert Piper, Donald R Plant, John Pomerantz, Mr & Mrs Jerry Pressler, Senator Larry L Price, E Geoffrey Putnam Jr, Mr & Mrs Alfred W Quinn, Mr & Mrs Charles N Rashkow, Mr & Mrs Bruce C Read, Professor Alien Walker Reil y Jr, Mr & Mrs Thomas J Richman, Daniel C Rideout, Mrs M Ritcheson, Prof. Charles R Roberts, Gareth & Gwenna Robinson, Adam Rode, Mr Leif Rolfe, Andrew J Ross, Mr & Mrs Edwin M Rowan, Miss Amanda J Rubenfeld, Joseph E

Rubin, Professor & Mrs Rubinstein, Cary E Saltmarsh, Dr Michael J Samuel, Mr & Mrs C J L Sanderson, Michael 0 Sandrow, Gary Scharer, Dr David H Schneider, Mark D Schneider, Dr Thomas J Scott, Mr & Mrs Robert M Seegers, Ms Sarah Shapiro, Jerome G Shears, David J Silinsky, Mark D Simmons, Prof. Ralph 0 Simonian, Prof. Simon J Sinha, Dr Ashok K Sinnott, Mr & Mrs John P Skillman, Mr & Mrs Henry H Skokowski, Dr Paul G & Mrs Paula E Sliwinski, Mrs Richard J Smale, Dr Alan P Smith, Martin G Smukler, Joseph L Sokol, Margaret M Sondericker, Ms Mary G Sotirovich, William V Spaeth, Karl H Sprague, Prof. Elmer de la Sprole, Frank A St Jude Medical Inc.

Starbuck, Dane C Statham, Dr Charles Stegnjajic, Dr Arsen Stiefel, Jay R Stulb Ill, Mrs Edwin H Switzer, Charles S Tidy, Douglas P Tuman, Professor VS Underkuffler, Fra-nk M Van Roijen, Dr David M Vastine Ill, Mrs Jacob H Vivian, Stephen Von Dreele, Ms Patricia Ward, John 0 Warr, Dr Arthur C Watson, Ms Elizabeth Webb 11, Mr & Mrs Charles J Welde, Mr & Mrs Paul D Welles, The Revd Edward R Westaway, Alan Wheeler, Edward T Whitton, Anthony J Williams, Mrs George P Wilson, Prof. Douglas B Wood Jr, Mr & Mrs John S Wood, Mr & Mrs Roger F Woodfield, Dr & Mrs Dennis Woodman, Dr Grey M Worthington, Stuart J Ysrael, Miss Catherine Z Zeltonoga, William L Zervas, Ioannis

The City Chapter of Aularians has successfully funded the first of their five years' support for the Hall's new Fellowship in Management Studies (Finance) from amongst their number. The Hall wishes to thank the following donors for their active support of this initiative: David Ashworth (1964), Richard T Baker (1966), Philip A.J. Broadley (1980), David Fitzwilliam-Lay (1952), Richard Gillingwater (1974), G.E_A. Kentfield (1959), Richard Luddington (1978), Rodney Offer (1963), Anthony J Rentoul (1961), and Step hen Rosefield ( 1971). NEW BENEFACTIONS TO THE HALL • •

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The Justin Gosling Bursary has been established through the generosity of an anonymous donor who wishes to mark Mr Gosling's Principalship. A capital fund of £21,000 ($34,200) will enable the Hall to provide two awards to postgraduates each year. This joins the Gosling Award which has been funded since 1995 by an anonymous Aularian to provide for hardship or when 'support is most needed and least expected'. Two legacies from old members have further enhanced our endowment: the late David Wainwright who read English at the Hall in 1949, died in January of this year and left a bequest of £35,000. The late Tadashi Uyeno who read Management Studies in 1975, died in Tokyo in April and left the Hall ¥25 million (£10,400) which will form the basis for a Uyeno Graduate Award. The JCR Picture Fund has received a generous bequest of four works of art from the collection of the late John Godden (1951) who died on 28th March 1999. The works comprise two 18th-century etchings, a 20th-century charcoal drawing and an oil painting by John Godden, himself an accomplished local artist of scenes of Hertford and its environs. Mr Godden read English at the Hall. He had been Arts and Recreation Officer for the City of Westminster before becoming Librarian at the Central Office of Information.

DONORS TO THE HALL The Hall is pleased to acknowledge with immense gratitude gifts received during the past year from the following individuals and organisations: Adams, John RE Aitken, Leila L Adey, John F Alexander, Dr Ian Alton, Reginald Alun-Jones, Sir Derek Amor, Brian Andrews, Revd John V Appleton, Matthew Armitstead, John Ashelford, Mark Audsley, David Aukin, David Ayton, John Bailey, Clive VA Baker, Richard T Baldwin, John Ball, Terence

Balmer, Peter Band, Christa Barker, Richard Barker, Andrew Barner, George Barr, Norman Barrlen, Stephen Barton, Arthur K Battye, Brian Bauer, William Beales, Huberr A Beaven, Colin Beckley, Robin Bedford, Thomas P Beery, James R Bennen, Ian H Bennen, David Berryman, John

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Berley, Mary Bianchi, Petra Bick, Fiona Billingron, John Bishop, Roberr A Blake, Revd Patrick J Blomfield, Roger Bloom, Derek Bloomer, John Blounr, Charles Bohm, Friedrich Booth, DJ Borren, Martin Boucher, Nick Bourne-Jones, Derek Boyce, A Warne & Doreen Bream, Martin Brenner, Dr David

Broadley, Philip AJ Brown, Peter Brown, Joanne Brown, John Browning, Marcus Bulbeck, Victor Bullett, Colin Burden, Revd Derek Burditt, Alan Butler, Sean Buttler, Michael Button, !an Byatt, !an Campling, Very Revd Dean Christopher R Carpenter, Peter Cater, J ulian Catmur, James Cawthorne, Robert Chambers, William Chandler, Stephen S Charas, Geoffrey S Cheffy, !an P Child, John, Jr. Christopherson, Thomas Clarke, Robert Clarke, John Clarke, David A Clevely, Adrian Coleman, Christopher Coleman, Ronald Collins, Jus tin Coltart, Christopher Col ton, John Cooksey, Sir David JS Cooper, Andrew Corrigan, Lawrence Cosgrove, David Cotton, John Cotton, Michael J Cowles, Peter Cox, Nicolas Cox, David Crabtree, Michael Craik, John Crawford, Simon Creek, Jeffrey Crerar, William Cross, Nicholas Crystal, Peter Cunnane, Car!

Curtis, Eric Daniels, Martin Darling, Robert Davidson, Revd Canon Charles, H Davie, John Davies, K Davis, Arthur Davis, Robert Day, Desmond J Day, Geoffrey de Rennes, James R Deloitte &Touche LLP den Dulk, Hora Denehy, Timothy di Rienzo, Frank Doctorow, Jarvis Doherty, !an J Duffy, Michael Duquesne Light Durling, John Earle, James Ebden, Dr Philip Eburne, Linsey Elliott, Laurence Elston, Christopher J Evans, Cedric Evans, Jonathan Fallowfield, Timothy Farrand, John Farrell, Frederick Faulkner, Basil Fearnley, David L Ferera, Leon Ferguson, Dr Jonathan Ferguson, Francis P Fidler, Christopher Field, Mark Fielding, David Fitzwilliam-Lay, David H Fitzwilliams, Duncan Foote, Paul Forrest, Brian Fox, Ernest Fox, Geoffrey Fretwell-Downing, Alastair Fuller, Howard I Fuller, Napier S Gamble, Neil Garnett, Alan Garrison, Christopher

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Gasser, Brian Giles, Chrisropher Giles, David Giles, David P Gill, John N Graffy, Joseph Graham, Alistair Gray, Jeremy Griffin-Smith, Derek Griffiths, Brian Groves, Michael GM Grundy, Oliver W Haddock RD Haddon, Richars Haftke, Mark Hagan, David Hall, Anthony Hall, Ronald W Hamilton, Sarah Hamilton, Nicholas Hancock, Stephen Hardy, Michael Hargreaves, Nancy Ha rper, Peter Harrison, Claire Harrison, Dr Michael Harrison, Christopher M Hart, Simon Hartley, James Hartshorn, Dr Clive Harvey, Richard Haslehurst, Stephen Hatcher, William Hawkesworth, Prof Christopher Haxby, Adrian Hayashi, Makoto Hayes, Michael Head, Revd William Hercod, Deborah Hester, John F Hewitt, !an Hewitt, Colin Heyman, John Hicks, David Hillier-Fry, Norman Hillson, Peter Himes, James A Hind, Charles Hinton, Graham Ho, Christine

Hoare, Derek Hobbs, Kenneth Hodgkinson, Heather Hodgson, Susan Hodson, Peter Hoffman, Canon Stanley Hogg, Samuel Holdsworrh, Anrhony Holliday, Nicholas B Holroyd, Dr Frederick Holtby, Very Revd Roberr T Hooker, Michael A Hooton, Revd Michael Houston, Roberr Hughes, Chrisropher Hughes, Dr David J Illingworth, Lloyd Inglis, Malcolm Irving, Ronald Jackson, Nei l Jackson, !an James, Wilfrid R Jennings, Sarah Jennings, Howard Johns, Richard Johnson, Peter Johnson , Alan Johnson, Peter M Johnson, Simon C Johnston, Geoffrey ]ones, Alan ]ones, Eric ]ones, Alan ]ones, Dr Richard, L Kapoor, Dr Sudhir Keeler, David Keeley, Roger Keep, Peter Kelly, Peter Kendall,John Kenner, Sruart Kent, Stephen Kentfield, Graham EA Kerr, Dr Graham Kerr-Muir, James King-Farlow, David Kitching, Nigel Kite, Peter Kusmarasamy, Miriam M Laing, !an, M Larkin, Fiona, M

Lavender, Timothy Law, John Lazenby, Jeremy Levy, Cordon Lewis, Anrhony Lewis-Bowen, Thomas E Linforrh, Richard Lloyd, Alberr J Lowe, Revd Raymond J Luddingron, Richard S Lupson, !an F Machen, Sqn Ldr, Peter Machin, Timoth y Maddocks, Graham Mandel, Mark Mann, Catriona Marsh & McLennan Co. Marsh, Roy D Marshall, Andrew Marrel, Rachel Martin, Jonathan A Mash, David Matthews, Pete r McCann, Stephen McCarthy, Den is J McCormac, Kevin McEwen, Dr !an D Mclsaac, !an Melling, John Mellon Bank Corporation Mendelsohn, Fredric W Meredith, David Mihell, Geoff Miller Family Foundation Miller, William & Irene Milligan, Jan Mitchell, Dr Peter Mirford-Barberron, Dr Gareth de Bohun Moore, Owen M organ, John Morris, Dr Derek Morris, John Moult, Celia Mounsey, Paul Mouranr, Andrew Murphy, Dr Ewell E Muskett, Christine Myhill, John F Neuhaus, Dr David Newsom-Davis, Prof. John M

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Nicholas, Revd Brian O'Brien, Raym ond Offer, Rodney AS Oliver, Ruperr J Orbell, Steven Orchard, Ronald Ormerod, Dr Dav id Osborn, Peter Owsron, Roy Parkinson, Roberr M Parry, H J Paterson, Martin Paxman, Denis J Pearce, Jonathan Pelham, Michael Perrerr, Tracey Phillips, Edward Phillips, Anthony Pigot, Kenneth Pike, John Pinches, Emma Pocock, Dr Francis J Poulteney, Brian Powell, William Press ler, Larry Price, Edward G Proudfoot, Dr Christopher Purcell, Dr Bernadette Rabin , Adam Radley, Farrand Rainbow, Dr Jo Ralph, Michael Ramsay, John. Rea, Dr John Reddick, John Reid, Jo hn Rentoul, Anna L Rhodes, Chrisropher Richards, Dr Philip Richardson, Peter Riley, Andrew Rimmer, Dr David Rix, Andrew Roberts, Gareth Roberrson, Douglas Rocks, Gerard Roin, Alien Rosefield, Stephen M Rosen, Dr David Rossiter, Philip Rowe, Nicholas

Rumbelow, David Smith, Eric Smith, Nigel C Rushworth, Derek Smith, Dorothy Rutherford, Jonathan E Smith, Alan Saberton, Brian Salt, Denys Smith, Michael Sarda, Mohini Smith, !an Smith, Eric M Sarson, Martin Saunders, Dr Martin Smith, Martin G SmithKline Beecham Sayer, John Scott, Dr Jonathan Foundation Scott, Keith R Snelling, John Sealy, Kevin Southan, Judge Robert J Spooner, Dr Frank Sedwill, Mark Senechal, Nicholas Spray, Philip Sharp, Lieut.-Col. Anthony K Stafford, William Shaw, Harold Stewart, Sheriff Alastair LS Shergold, Harold Stibbs, Dr Timothy Stocken, Oliver Sherring, Michael Stokes, Eric Shipster, Michael Summers, Geoffrey Shneerson, John Silkstone, Thomas Sykes, Peter R Skinner, Howard Taylor, Charles Skinner, John Taylor, Dr Richard Slack, Howard Tetley, Stephen Smart, Graham N Thomas, Hugh Smart, Noel Thomas, Warren

Thornton, Dr Ra ymond Thrower, Prof James Tod, Dr Andrew Townsend, Canon John Trafford, Bernard Travers, William Trethewey, Rachel Trevis, Keith Tullett, Jeremy Âˇ Upton, Harry Urquhart, Andrew M Uyeno, Tadashi Vadher, Dr Atul Vandenbroucke,..frank IG Vardy, Kathryn Vivian, Stephen Voyce, Alison Wakefield, John Wakelin, Frederick Walker, William Wallis, Stanley Walmsley, Roy Walmsley, Keith Warr, David Warren, Michael Watson, Peter

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Wattles, Dr Gurdon Weiner, Julia Wells, Antonia Wells, Christopher Welton Foundation West, David Weston, William Wharne, John

Wheaton, Harvey Whitlow, Very Revd Brian W Wilkes, David J Willcock, Malcolm Williams, Richard Williams, Revd Michael J Williamson, Sharon Wills, Revd Herbert

Wilson, Dr Christopher R Witherington, Paul Wolfenden, John Worth, George Wright, Sir Denis Wylie, Rt Hon Lord Young, Robert Bud Zeltonoga, William

THE FLOREAT AULA SOCIETY After the successful Founder Member's Dinner that we held in March 1998 there was a pause in our activities. This was partly due to the long shadow cast by the events of the summer of 1998. But another was due to my own frequent absence from Oxford. As grandfather to an expanding family living in London, your Emeritus Fellow organiser was called to chauffeuring and other duties, in order to lighten the load on his daughter before and after the arrival of her number four. The membership of the Society has risen to 167 and recruiting will resume in September. By that time the new Principal, Professor Michael Mingos, will be fully installed and has promised to help the Society. I am grateful to him for agreeing to meet members and to take the chair at the next dinner of the Society. That is scheduled for March 17th, next. So we shall call it the F.A.S. Millennium Dinner. Members please note, if you have not already received a preliminary announcement. Readers of the Hall Magazine who have not heard about the Society may be interested to know that membership is for Aularians, and non-Aularians, who have arranged a bequest of any kind for the Hall in their wills. So, if you have not yet been invited to join but have arranged a bequest, please let us know and an invitation to join will reach you almost instantly. And then you too can come to the Millennium Dinner! W.S.C. Williams

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Two views of the bench installed in the churchyard of St Peter-in-the-East in memory of Peter Jansen (chairman of the SEH Advisory Board until his sudden death in June 1998).

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND YEAR REPRESENTATIVES President . . ....................... Michael J Cansdale, MA (1956) Honorary Vice-President ..............Justin C.B. Gosling, B.Phil, MA Honorary Secretary ..................... Paul R. Lewis, MA (1955) Honorary Treasurer ................... .lan W. Durrans, BA (1977) Up to 1934 ....................... Francis H.H. Finch, MA (1933) 1935-44 ................... H.A. Farrand Radley, MBE, MA (1935) 1935-44 ............ The Revd E. Graham Midgley, B.Litt, MA (1941) 1945-54 ........................... A.R. John Lloyd, MA (1946) 1945-54 ........................ .R.]. L. (Bob) Breese, MA (1949) 1945-54 ....................... Desmond J. Day, OBE, MA (1951) 1955-64 ......John M. Heggadon, MA, B.Sc. (Lond), FCIM, FFB (1961) 1955-64 ............... Michael G.M. Groves, DipEconPolSci (1962) 1965-74 . . ...................Jon D. Shortridge, MA, M.Sc. (1966) 1965-74 ..... . ... .. .................... Peter Butler, MA (1970) 1965-74 ........................ Lawrence Cummings, MA (1971) 1975-84 ................ Richard S. Luddington, MA, M.Phil. (1978) 1975-84 ........................... Rachel M. Martel, BA (1981) 1975-84 .............................JennyB. Turner, BA (1981) 1985-94 ........................ Douglas S. McCallum, BA (1985) 1985-94 .....................Jo R. Rainbow, BA, BM, BCh (1987) 1985-94 ....................... A.C. (Tony) Greenham, BA (1988) 1995-04 ......................... Catherine L. Cooper, BA (1995)

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MINUTES OF THE 67TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 12th JANUARY 1999 The 68th Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in the St Andrew's Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James Street, London SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 12th January 1999 at 6.15 p.m., D.E. Wood presiding. 38 members were present. 1. Minutes: The minutes of the last meeting, the 67th, held on 13th January 1998, having been published in the Magazine and copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. 2. President's Report: D.E. Wood said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner. 3. Vice-Principal's Report: J.P.D. Dunbabin 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: I.W. Durrans presented the audited accounts which had been published in the Magazine; he said we were in good health financially. There were no questions and the accounts were accepted. 6. Election of President 1991-2001: D.E. Wood had proposed M.J. Cansdale as President in writing by the due date, seconded by P.R. Lewis. As there were no other candidates, M.J. Cansdale was declared elected amid applause from the meeting. 7. Elections: The following were elected unanimously: a b c d e g h

Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer 1945-1954 Representative 1955-1964 Representative 1965-1974 Representative 1975-1984 Representative 1985-1994 Representative 1995-2004 Representative

P.R. Lewis LW. Durrans R.J.L. Breese M.G.M. Groves L. Cummings R.S. Luddington A.C. Greenham C.L. Cooper

re-elected for one year re-elected for one year re-elected for three years re-elected for three years re-elected for three years re-elected for three years re-elected for three years re-elected for three years

8. Appointment of Honorary Auditor: L.D. Page was unanimously reappointed Honorary Auditor. 108

Presidency: R.J.L. Breese thanked D.E. Wood for the hard work he had put in as our President for the last three years and this sentiment was endorsed by applause from the meeting. 10. Date of next meeting: Tuesday, 11th January 2000 at the Royal OverSeas League at 6.15 p.m.

There being no further business, the President closed the meeting at 6.22 p.m.

GIFTS TO THE HALL We record our thanks to the Executive Committee of the SEH Association for the gift to the Hall of ÂŁ140 towards a flag and flagpole for the Hall Boathouse. At the summer meeting of the Executive Committee, the President of the Association announced that Bob Breese (1949) had agreed to take over the Chairmanship of the Association's "Grants and Allocations" sub-committee, which Graham Midgley had held.

THE 58TH LONDON DINNER The 58th London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's on Tuesday, 12 January 1999. The attendance was 107. The President of the Association, Dudley Wood, opened by welcoming the guests, the Vice-Principal, Mr Justin Gosling, Mr Nigel Pegram and the President of the Junior Common Room, adding enigmatically that "you get the guests that you deserve!" Good wishes were also extended to his newly-elected successor, Michael Cansdale, and to the pre-War quartet which included George Barner who had flown over specially from an icy Maine. The Vice-Principal, John Dunbabin, may have suggested that Nigel Pegram was a "hard act to precede" but offered a heady mix of Hall achievement over the past year, not least 23 Firsts, ten University prizes, and triumphs in fencing and indoor football. Star of stage, screen, and St Edmund Hall, Nigel Pegram spoke warmly of exotic childhood influences including a journey by sea from Cape Town to Malaya during which he slept in a Chinese jockey's bed. Thence to England, a momentous interview with John Kelly and a readiness to enjoy all aspects of Oxford. An actor's life to follow (it could have been the law). Stories from the "Blue Angel" merged with poetry and cabaret. A virtuoso performance. In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: 109

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Mr J.C. Cain Mr G.B. Barner Mr H.A.F. Radley Sir John Palmer Mr W.N. Hillier-Fry The Revd E.G. Midley Mr J.R. Paul Mr F.W. Cosstick Mr A.R.J. Lloyd Mr J.M.H. Scott Mr R.J. L. Breese Mr R.W. Hall Mr T.P. Kelly Mr J. Wheeler Mr D.J. Day Mr W.H. Slack Mr Dudley Wood Mr H.W. Goldsworthy Mr S.D. Graham QC Mr D.M. Jacobs Mr N .F. Lockhart The Revd E.A. Simmonds Mr J.J.D. Craik Mr A.J. Kember Mr S.R. Bilsland Mr I.L.R. Burr Mr J.C.M. Casale Dr D.l. Scargill Mr R.H.B. De Vere Green Mr J.L. Fage Mr R.A . Farrand Mr R.S. Hurren Mr P.R. Lewis Mr M.J. Cansdale Mr S.C.H. Douglas-Mann Mr A.F. Ham Mr B.J. Whittaker Mr J.R.C. Young Mr J.E. Aves Mr P.G. Croissant Mr R.L.S. Fishlock Mr J.W. Harrison Mr D.E. Mellish Mr L.L. Filby Mr J.F. O'Donnell Mr C.W. Holden Sir David Cooksey

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1969 1970

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1972 1974 1976 1977 1978 1979 1985 1986 1988 1991 1995 1997

Mr J.F. Adey Mr S.R. Hogg Mr C.H.L. Long Dr F.J . Pocock Dr W.J. Burroughs Mr E.A. Fretwell-Downing Mr A.V. Georgiadis Mr J.M. Heggadon Mr A.M. Rentoul Mr M.G. Smith Mr M.G.M. Groves Mr P. Adams Mr D.A. Ashworth Dr D.J. Hughes Mr H.J. Hunt Mr R.T. Ward Mr I.C. Busby Mr P.V. Dixon Mr P. Butler Mr K.A. Carby Mr W.N. David Mr P.G. Harper Mr J.W. Hawkins Mr J.B. Hearn Mr L.N. Kaye Mr L. Cummings Mr D.L. Robertson Mr N .L.T. Williams Mr R. Stephenson Mr J.A.B. Gray Mr R.A.H. Finch Mr N .J. Worthington Mr I.W. Durrans Mr A.J. Haxby Mr P.A. Darling Mr S.K.I. Double Mrs G.R. Harris (Gildersleve) Mr D.S. McCallum Mr A.T. Harrison Mr K.M . Cordon Mr A. C. Greenham Ms A.L. Rentoul Ms V.J . Sangwin Ms C.L. Cooper Ms C.J. Steele Mr H. Nakashima

The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Mr G. Bourne-Taylor, Dr P. Podsiadlowski, Dr P.J. Collins, Mr M.D.E. Slater, The Revd H.E.J. Cowdrey, Dr W.S.C. Williams, Dr R.B. Mitchell, Mr R. BrunnerEllis, Ms D. Eaton, The Revd D. MacLaren. R.A.H. Finch 110

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 1999 Year ended 31 May 1999 £

Year ended 31 May 1998 £

8,873 1,313 135

9,034 1,274 127 25

10,321

10,460

(4,143) (2,839) (478) (36) (179)

(3,645) (1,500) (545) (203)

INCOME Subscriptions Bank interest Emden bequest interest Other EXPENDITURE Magazine production (half) Magazine postage & mailing (half) Honorary Secretary's expenses Executive Committee meeting expenses Appointment of the new Principal 750th Anniversary expenses Former Principal's retirement party

Less Grants: Boathouse flagpole and flag Preservation of manuscript collection Updating and modifying the Midddle Common Room computer systems Further work on restoring and lighting the Crypt Chapel Boat Club

Appropriation to Aularian Register Fund Surplus transferred to General Fund

(31) (296)

(7,675)

(6,220)

2,646

4,240

(140) (500) (500) (750) (100) (385) (640)

(1,735)

2,006

2,505

(2,000)

(2,500)

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 11 January 2000. Ill

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 1999 31 May 1999 £

31 May 1998 £

6,122 5,700 22,037

6,300 5,700 19,343

33,859

31,343

(12,524)

(12,014)

21.33~

19,3,29

6,829 6

6,824

6,835

6,829

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10,000 2,500

14,500

12,500

21,335

19,329

ASSETS Debtors Charities Desposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year Surplus from Income Account

Aularian Register Fund at start of year Appropriation this year

MJ Cansdale (President) IW Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 1999. In my opinion the above Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account give respectively s true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association at 31 May 1999 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date. 31 July 1999 The Coach House 29a Bennett Park Blackheath London SE3 9RA

LD Page Honorary Auditor

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RETIREMENT PARTY FOR DR BILL WILLIAMS

Renee and Bill Williams with Vice-Principal John Dunbabin

A lunch party was held by the St Edmund Hall Association in the Old Dining Hall on 21st March 1999 to mark the retirement of Dr W.S.C. (Bill) Williams. It was attended by many of Bill's former students and colleagues. Bill ruefully pointed out that, so absorbed was he with catching-up with so many of his undergraduates and research students that he did not eat a thing! His wife, Renee, on the other hand, had an excellent time, sampling everything on the buffet and collecting a magnificent bouquet in the bargain. A collection that had been held earlier had resulted in the acquisition of a painting by P. Macmiadhachain which now adorns the Williams' North Oxford sitting room. An amusing presentational speech was made by the Vice-Principal with a reply in the same vein that set the atmosphere for a most enjoyable gathering. Many of us know that although Bill retired as a Tutorial Fellow in 1996, as an Emeritus Fellow, he still haunts the Development Office as he continues to oversee the Floreat Aula Society. Guests who attended the Retirement Buffet Lunch for Dr Williams: 1964 Peter Adams 1967 James Mosley 1969 Adrian Butement and Guest 1970 Peter Harper and Guest John W Hawkings

1973 Colin R Bullett Anthony Jordan Nigel Webb 1982 Mark Waiters and Guest 1984 William J Murray 1985 Jonathan Gulley

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1985 Peter Harding 1986 Simon Hodgson

1990 Stephen C Barnett 1990 David Ryan

Phi! Richards and Guest

Andrew Williams

1988 Manfred Braunsfurth 1989 David A Doran and Guest

1991 Simon Chadwick 1995 Tracy Pratt and Guest

Jennifer Doran (nee Brookes) Those who attended from the College were: Jeannine Alton (Reginald Alton was unable to attend); Alistair Borthwick with Christine Borthwick; Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor; Peter Collins with Margot Collins; John Cowdrey; John Dunbabin (Vice-Principal) with Jean Dunbabin; Justin Gosling with Margaret Gosling; Roy Harris with Rita Harris; Graham Midgley; Bruce Mitchell with Mollie Mitchell; Christopher Phelps with Jenny Phelps; Philipp Podsiadlowski; Vivian H Ridler; Francis Rossotti; Ann Taylor. G. Bourne-Taylor

Bill's comments: I was so busy talking to those whom I had not seen for some years that I missed eating entirely, but Renee assured me that she had an excellent lunch. It was good to hear about careers and personal news. A particular thank you for a generous gift to which so many people absent and present had contributed. It set in motion a search for an artist of whose work we have one example, now in the permanent care of our daughter! We located him in April, visited his studio, and came away with a recent piece of his work. It now hangs in our sitting room and every day I am reminded of the many who endured Physics at Teddy Hall and of their great kindness to me on this occasion. 114

AULARIAN UPDATES DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM 1920s Sir Denis A. H. Wright (1929) has recently written several short biographical articles in the New Dictionary of National Biography (OUP) and Columbia Universities Encyclopedia (NYC). He has also written an article on "British Burials and Memorials in Persia" in the journal of the British Institute of

Persian Studies.

1930s Arthur Farrand Radley (1935), Honorary Secretary Emeritus of the SEH Association, has been pre-elected President of the Friends (Quaker) Historical Society for the year 2000. Gerald H. Thompson OBE (1936), Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photography Society and founder of Oxford Scientific Films, won the 1998 Panda Award for Outstanding Achievement, Wildscreen 1998.

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1940s Thomas A.B. (Tony) Corley (1942) was elected to the management committee of the Jane Austen Society in 1999 and has been appointed an honorary editorial associate of the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) for which he has written about eighty entries. Gareth Mitford-Barberton (1943) published Pioneer Spirit in 1998. After working as an Estimator for a variety of companies since 19B6, Alan W. Shaw (1943) retired in 1999. Jack R. Scarr (1943) and his wife Beatrice (Bea) celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on 5th September 1999. The Very Revd Christopher R. Campling (1947) retired as Dean of Ripon and Chairman of the Council for the Care of Churches in 1995. He recently published The Food of Love, Reflections on Music and Faith (SCM Press, 1997). Professor John K. Chadwick-Jones (1948) published Developing a Social Psychology of Monkeys and Apes (Psychology Press) in 1998. Elmer D. Sprague, Jr (1948) retired in January 1998 as Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, where he had served in all academic ranks for forty-five years; he became a Professor Emeritus at the college on 31st January 1998. His book Persons and Their Minds was published by Westview Press in May 1999. A second edition of the book I Fear No Man, written by Douglas P. (Doug) Tidy (1948) and originally published by Macdonald in 1972, was released by Newton Books in 1998. Alan Brimble (1949) retired in 1998 after ten years working as a Financial Consultant. James N. McManus (1949) retired in 1998 as Administrator for Age Concern, Kingston-upon-Thames, for whom he had worked since 1993.

1950s John C.D. Holmes (1950) was Deputy Mayor of Swanscombe and Greenhithe for 1998. The Revd Canon Raymond J. Lee (1950) became Honorary Curate of Altcar, Lancashire, upon retiring from his position of Priest in Charge in 1998. After twenty years of teaching history in Bermudan schools (1955-76), five as an MP in the Commonwealth's oldest parliament outside the British Isles, and nine as a bank training officer, Colin H. Benbow (1951) is currently curator of the small museum run by the Bermuda Historical Society in Hamilton, where he greets and gives the spiel to some 1,000 tourists a month. His recent publications include: "A Century of Progress: The History of the Bermuda Telephone Company: 1887-1987", "Gladys Morrell and the Women's Suffrage Movement 116

in Bermuda", "Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda", and "Hamilton, Bermuda: City and Capital: 1897-1997". Dudley E. Wood, CBE (1951) became President of the Bedfordshire County Cricket Club in 1998. He recently finished his tenure as President of the SEH Association, a post he held from 1996-9. Bored with retirement, The Revd Nathaniel (Niel) B. Hall (1952) began a twoyear contract with Kathmandu International Christian Congregation in 1998. He is serving the ex-pat community there in company with his wife. Bruce C. Nixon (1952) published Making a Difference- Strategies and Tools for Transforming your Organisation (GDP) in 1998. After twenty-seven years of service as Rector of Oxted, Surrey, The Revd Guy Bennett (1953) retired in 1999. Brian R. Cuzner (1953) retired in December 1998 from his post as Chairman and Managing Director of Wilfrid Smith Ltd., for whom he had worked since 1980. Dr Wilfred N. Fox (1953) retired from his position as a self-employed Petroleum Engineering and Management Consultant in June 1998. After eight years as General Manger of Wind power & Co (UK) Ltd., Hansel J. A. Beechey-Newman (1954) retired in November 1998. The latest biography by Douglas Botting (1954), Gerald Durrell - The Authorised Biography, was published by Harper Collins in March 1999. HRH Princess Anne gave a speech at the launch. The Revd Canon Dr Michael A. Bourdeaux (1954) was in February 1999 awarded the highest honour that Lithuania can give to a living non-citizen, the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas. The Order was established to "honour persons for their contribution to Lithuania, for outstanding earnest and honest civil or public service". It honours Canon Bourdeaux and the Keston Institute, Oxford (http://www.keston.org/), for their work monitoring religious persecution during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, documented in Bordeaux's 1979 book Land of Crosses, and Keston's continuing work monitoring religious freedom in post-communist and communist countries. Canon Bordeaux retired from his position as Director of the Keston Institute in March 1999. Antony W. (Tony) Laughton (1954), Chairman and Managing Director of British Trimmings Ltd., Stockport, since 1987, retired at the end of December 1998. Robin D. Peverett, OBE (1954) has come out of retirement to work as an independent researcher of Hindu and Buddhist bronzes. He has written two articles on the subject, " A 9th Century Anuradhpurna Buddha" in Orientations and "Collecting Buddhist and Hindu Bronzes" in Antique Collecting, both published in 1998. The Revd Stephen Young (1954) retired from Ordained Parochial Ministry on 31st July 1998, after twenty-one years of service. 117

David M. Nelson (1955) retired in 1998 after six years as a freelance Occupational Psychologist. Dr Brian S. Wilks (1955) retired in 1998 from his role as Interim Director of the Western Academy of Beijing, Peoples' Republic of China, and is presently a selfemployed Consultant for International Education. David Henderson (1956) published By the Way (Minerva Press, 1998). After ten years as Director of W.M. Noall Ltd. (Stock & Share Brokers in Australia), Roger M. Sutton (1956) became Director of Johnson Taylor Ltd. (Stockbrokers, also in Australia) in 1998. He was on the Tournament Committee for the President Cup 1998 (USA versus Internationals, excluding Europe), a prestigious golfing event which took place in Decembet" 1998. Gordon Thomas Woods (1956) has retired from his post as Head of Science at Monmouth School. Since retiring as Chairman of MPS Division, European Communication Management Ltd., in June 1998, James E. Aves (1957) has been running a marketing communications consultancy from his home in London. Jeremy J.J. (Jerry) Bell (1957) retired in July 1999 after eight years as General Retail Manager of Logistics, Myer Stores Ltd., Australia . Robin M. Siedle (1957) published two short stories in 1998, "The Farewell" and "A Day and A Life". Anthony J.D. (John) Smith (1957) retired in May 1998 after twenty-eight years as General Manager of G.H. Lee (a branch of the John Lewis partnership). Anthony E. (Tony) Birks-Hay (1958), a self-employed writer, painter, and sculptor has exhibited his work at the Royal Academy since the early 1960's. Subjects have included Canon J.N .D. Kelly, whose portrait was painted in 1960 and shown at 1998 Annual Gaudy. Canon Kelly's portrait can be seen at Mr Birks-Hay's Studio in Somerset by arrangement. David A. Clarke (1958) recently published a book of poetry entitled The Bright Ring of Time (Hippopotamus Press, 1998). Dr Philip H. Blair (1959) published Watching for the Morning: Global Chaos & Cosmic Hope (Lutterworth) in 1999. Patrick D. Frost (1959) is now retired. He is still living in Germany, looking after two Unions, and keeping a few sheep! Graham E.A. Kentfield (1959) retired in December 1998 as Chief Cashier at the Bank of England, where he had worked in a variety of positions since 1963. Dr Terry R.A. Mason (1959) recently published an edition of Calder6n's "La desdicha de la voz" (Liverpool University Press, 1999). After twenty-eight years as Director of Physical Education at the University of Warwick, Michael Ralph (1959) retired in October 1998. 118

David L. Summers (1959) recently completed Where to Publish in Law (Aestival Press, 1998). The Revd Canon Hugh E. Wilcox (1959) became a member of the Archbishops' Council in 1999. THE BOAT CLUB 40th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION DINNER On the Saturday of Eights Week 1959, the Hall went Head of the River for the first time in its history. This was the result of excellent coaching, hard training, encouragement from the Senior Common Room, and that hard-to-define, but ever-present Hall Spirit. The coaching team of Ian Scott and Donald Richards was led by Derek MaysSmith, one of Cambridge's all-time great coaches, and a fine teacher of the principles of the Fairbairn style of rowing. The training programme consisted of a pre-Term camp at Goring, followed by five weeks training on the Isis. The emphasis was on technique, with ratings only rising when technique at a given rate was perfected. A high level of land training improved physical strength. In spite of the odd set-back, the crew developed to plan, and peaked on the Wednesday of Eights Week: when like an arrow released from a bow, it assaulted the rudders of Queens and Merton, then Christ Church to take the Headship; in which position the Hall remained for five of the next seven years. Not to be outdone, the second VIII moved up into the first division with five bumps. Hall Spirit mainfested itself in many ways, from the crew's racing attitude, to the fact that at least two-thirds of the Hall's population turned up at the river to shout the crew Head. As for the SCR, it was unusual not to see a complete turnout at the river during the whole of Eights Week; led by John Kelly, Rowley Gullick, and of course, Graham Midgley. In 1959 the Hall assembled on the Saturday of Eights for a well-deserved Bump Supper. Any rules about not celebrating during Finals were obviously cast aside; or perhaps did not even exist . . The Commemoration Dinner 40 years later was remarkable, as we all sat down to dine, so little seemed to have changed. Rowing in the afternoon for the 1st and 2nd VIII (1959), a photo round the Well for both crews, drinks in the Quad, then in to dine; admittedly in an alien dining hall, but on familiar ground that used to house the infamous Forum; but in spite of this, an exceptional atmosphere where 130 members of the Boat Club, Friends of the Boat Club, and well-wishers enjoyed an excellent meal with some well-chosen wine. The speeches were vintage, too, Ann Taylor as President, the Vice-Principal in the Chair, and Lawton Fage, as the voice of the crews. The '59 Secretary of Boats 119

was Michael Pelham, so it was appropriate that he had to do all the work in planning and making the dinner a reality. He was congratulated for his organisational skills and sheer hard work. Among those present at the Commemorative Dinner were Jessie Shattuck, the first woman to become Captain of Boats, current members of the Men's and Women's 1st boats, together with an intriguing collection of old oarspersons, supporters, Fellows, and Emeritus Fellows. It was appropriate, too, that Pauline Linieres, the Assistant Bursar, and Alice Gibbon from the Development Office were invited as guests. Both have made an outstanding contribution over the years to the welfare of the Boat Club. It was typical of Mike Pelham's magnanimous character that he remembered to include them. Also present were Jurgen Paleit, the Director of Urenco, responsible for effecting that Company's sponsorship of the Boat Club - now in its third year, and extending to another three. Their generous and sympathetic sponsorship has allowed the Friends to provide an excellent fleet of boats for the Hall, and to co-ordinate a coaching and equipment plan. It was hoped that the 1999 crews might have been sufficiently inspired by the occasion to go out and do something spectacular in Eights Week, but obviously there were keeping their powder dry until the 21st Century; and to welcome a new Principal. Sadly Graham Midgley missed the dinner, having been taken ill in Yorkshire at Easter. It was just the kind of occasion in which he would have revelled. He was an admired and much-loved President of the Boat Club, whose quiet dedication and support will be greatly missed by past, present, and future rowers. The final word must be a tribute to Mike Pelham for organising the 40th Anniversary Dinner, raising enough surplus to pay the expenses of a full time coach for the Men's first crew, and bringing together the Boat Club in such a great way. R. Fishlock (1957) For those Aularians who never knew (or cannot remember!) the details of that memorable Eights Week, we reprint the following extract from the Boat Club report in the St. Edmund Hall Magazine 1958-9:

TRINITY TERM Captain: G.C.H. Shakerley Secretary: M.L. Pelham The prospect for Eights Week looked excellent and there seemed a chance of producing three full-time crews. The composition of the First VIII remained uncertain for some time as it was doubtful whether J.L. Fage and S.C.H. Douglas-Mann would be available to row for the Hall after their great achievement against Cambridge in the Boat Race. 120

Dr. Ian Scott of St. Edward's School introduced the crew to the pre-term delights of rowing at Streatley, where they remained for ten days. J.L. Fage came into the boat before it returned to Oxford, and R.H.B. de Vere Green, who had been invited to row for Isis, rowed as a substitute. At the beginning of term the crew moved to Godstow Reach, already showing considerable promise, as a number of individual faults had been corrected and the blades appeared to be well covered through the stroke. Dr. D.H. Richards, who took on the next stage of training, steadily increased the pressure, transforming what had been a collection of individuals into an obviously powerful crew. Unfortunately the otherwise steady progress was interrupted when J.F. Hewitt temporarily succumbed to a bout of flu, and more serious, R.L.S. Fishlock had the misfortune to catch jaundice. It was soon clear that he would not be fit to row again in time and R.C.I. Bate moved up from the Second VIII to take his place. In the meantime, the Rev. J.P. Burrough, recently back from Korea, gallantly stepped into the boat to fill the empty seat. Ten days before Eights Week the crew moved to Henley where Mr. D.H. Mays-Smith rapidly changed them into a most effective racing machine. A friendly race had been arranged with Jesus College, Cambridge to return their hospitality earlier in the year, and this was rowed on the first Saturday. In the morning the Hall was paced by its second crew, who were going well. Conditions during the afternoon were difficult but after a false start the Hall managed to take three-quarters of a length off Jesus in four and a half minutes. This was a most satisfactory day's work. J.H. Ducker rowed as a substitute in the morning and R.H.B. de Vere Green in the afternoon. A week later, conditions were foul, and the crew, instead of rowing a final course, put in some valuable bumping practice with Leander, achieving their bump within one and a half minutes, and later taking three lengths off them in as many minutes. The idea, as far as possible, was to return to the Home Stretch like a bolt from the blue. This was successfully achieved and it soon became obvious that the Hall were the fastest crew, and barring accidents, had a good chance of going Head. It was important, though not vital, that we should bump Merton before they bumped an undoubtedly slow Queen's crew on the first night. The fact that Merton bumped Queen's with only a canvas to spare was a disappointment which was, though, not unexpected. Thursday and Friday nights went more to plan; the Queen's falling by Donnington Bridge and Merton just before the Gut. Christ Church, at the Head, were a powerful crew and could be relied on to take advantage of the smallest mistake but, in the event, the Hall went up on Saturday from the start and steadily overhauled their opponents. A well practised bumping spurt caught Christ Church two-thirds of the way along the Green Bank, a most satisfying finish to a year's rivalry on the river. The Hall had gone Head in a most convincing manner, in spite of the fact that M.G. Sherratt was none too well during the race. The crew rowed into the raft perhaps just a little disbelievingly, to a barrage of well-deserved gunfire ... First VIII: D.S. Dormor (bow), R.C.I. Bate, J.F. Hewitt, M. G. Sherratt, J.L. Fage, M.L. Pelham, S.C.H. Douglas-Mann, C.W. Holden (stroke), P.J. Reynolds (cox). 121

QUITE BY CHANCE It was 1955 and my "Dip.Ed." year was drawing to a close. I had just completed a pleasant term of teaching at Charterhouse where some snivelling young gentlemen, sitting in the front row, had sneezed all over me on the last day of class. This developed into a nasty case of the mumps and necessitated a train ride back to Oxford with a scarf round my neck. _ Back in my lodgings once more, I picked up the pieces of my life which mainly consisted of responses to a slew of job applications that I had sent out to schools within the U.K. and beyond. After four years of reasonably hard work (three of them spent in "digs" up the Iffley Road), I needed to find employ!llent. I was armed with a humble (though "good") degree in History. Two or three times a week I would go into the Hall to check on mail and have a glass of sherry before lunch. So, there I was in the tiny buttery, knowing scarcely a soul in the JCR because almost all the 1951 crowd had gone down the previous year. I had received an envelope that day with an attractive 2 1hd stamp on it that said "Bermuda". I casually turned to others in the crowded room and announced: "Anyone know anything about Bermuda?" The unknown man next to me said: "I come from there." I looked at him in some amazement, believing that Bermuda was a pretty small island somewhere in the Caribbean (which, of course, it isn't!). "Well, then," I said, glancing at the other corner of the envelope, "Know anything about Warwick Academy?" "Yes," said this fellow, "I was educated there." As it turned out, I was speaking with Vaughan Wright, the 1955 Rhodes Scholar from the Colony, who, by chance, had been allocated to St Edmund Hall. Over another drink, he "filled me in" on his old school and beautiful Bermuda. Armed with his information, I accepted the position offered by the Headmaster of Warwick Academy, the island's oldest school, and what appeared to be a threeyear sojourn in mid-Atlantic has turned into a somewhat longer stay. Vaughan and I have crossed paths now and then - at local Aularian events and through working for the same bank. We were at a lunch for retirees a few months ago. Back in 1955, the Island's population must have been about 40,000- most of it Afro-Bermudan- so I've always thought that what transpired that midday in the Teddy Hall buttery was a coincidence that changed the direction of my life.

C.H. Benbow (1951)

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Bird of legend under threat ByAJ Mcllroy

THE Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched an appeal to save the chough - said to be the bird that King Arthur's spirit entered after his death which is threatened by perse· cution and modem farming methods. Britain's rarest crow is extinct in England, has van· Persecuted: the chough ished from other areas and is suffering a dramatic decline pairs in Britain. confined to across most of Europe. the cliffs and islands of West Changes in agriculture have and North Wales. Northern reduced its insect food and the Ireland and some Hebridean bird has fallen \'ictim to nest islands. with a further 86 robbers and illegal shooting pairs on the Isle of Man. despite legal protection. Chris Harbard, spokesman Easily recognised by its for the RSPB, said: "On the purple-black plumage , red island of Islay. a stronghold legs and curved bill, the of the chough, its numbers chough glides. rolls and have nearly halved in 12 soars above cliffs. years, and in Northern Ire· There are now only 250 land only two pairs remain.

The cause of its decline is linked to its specialist feed· ing habits. Choughs need short-cropped grass with good numbers of soil and dung insects to feed on. Year-round grazing, particu· larly by cattle, is needed to create these conditions . "We are appealing for funds to provide artificial nesting shelves and finance investigations into. nest robberies and other illegal persecution. We are also campaigning for Government schemes to reward farmers who maintain habitats for choughs." Peter Newberry, RSPB species policy officer. said: "Our long-term goal is to see choughs return to their haunts along the south-west coast, particularly Cornwall. where it is part of local legend."

1960s Brian A. Fyfield-Shayler (1960) established the Al-Afrar Fund in aid of Mahra and Socotra in 1998. Peter J. Hayes (1960) retired from his position as Chairman of Research International Ltd. in April 1998. Yann R. Lovelock (1960) was elected a corresponding member of La Societe de Langue et de Litterature Wallonnes in 1995. He was presented to its membership in Liege, Belguim, last year and his latest anthology of poetry was feted with an Anglo-Walloon reading. Mr Lovelock assisted in editing the Dutch/Flemish issue of Modern Poetry in Translation, launched from the University of London last year. In addition, he is currently Editor of the Sparkhill Community Newsletter ("Bright Spark"). George L.W. Ritchie (1960) is still working at Freshfields (law firm) in London, although he resigned as their Director of Finance in April 1998. He is a Liveryman of the Saddlers Company. 123

After twenty-eight years, Michael L. Statham (1960) retired as Head of House at Maplewell Hall School in September 1998. He is presently working with special needs students at Loughborough University. Professor Malcolm van Wyk Smith (1960) has recently lectured in Germany and Holland on South African literature. He and his wife Rosemary continue to be engaged in the problems of emerging South Africa, in reconciliation and rebuilding- problems of crime, fraud , education, and the shaping of a new and efficient civil service. Christopher J.G. Atkinson (1961) left his positions as Schoolmaster and Marketing/Fundraising Executive at Stowe School, to take on the role of Chief Executive of the Brian Johnston Memorial Trust, London, in Jantlary 1998. In November of that year, he also became Chairman of Governors at Ashfold School, near Aylesbury. John C. Long (1961) was promoted to the position of Chief Executive at Kitsons (Solicitors), Newton Abbot, in June 1999. Graham R.J. Morris (1961), Head Teacher at Park Community School, Havant, for nine years, took on a new job as Citizenship Development Officer at the Citizenship Foundation, London, in September 1998. Hugh H. Redington (1961) retired at the end of August 1998 due to ill health, after fourteen years as Head of Geography at Norwich High School. He is now working as a self-employed farmer near his home in Norwich. David P. (Peter) Vaughan (1961) retired in February 1998 as Human Resources Consultant for British Airways, where he had worked in a variety of positions since 1969. Dr Geoffrey V. Davis (1962) was awarded with a Dr.Habil. (Habilitation) degree in English Literature at the University of Essen, Germany, in June 1999. Timothy L. (Tim) Jones (1962) was promoted in August 1998 to the position of Director of International Affairs at the University of Bristol, where he has worked in a variety of positions since 1970. Charles D. (Derek) Statham (1962) retired as Vice-President of Corporate Development at Coming Inc., New York, in January 1999 and has taken up the post of President and CEO at Oplink Communications, a small Silicon Valley company. Dr David F. Baxter (1963) retired in September 1996 from his post as a Senior Physicist at Power Magnetics and Electronic Systems. He is a member of the Portland YMCA Red Triangle Club and has joined the Retired Senior Volunteer Program. Rodney A.S. Offer (1963) retired as Executive Director of Warburg Securities Ltd. in March 1998. 124

Dr Timothy S. (Tim) Fell (1964) and his wife Elizabeth announce the birth of their daughter Matilda Isobel on 17th January 1999. Michael J. Richardson (1965) has been since April 1998 the Undersecretary, Director for Employment Policy, at the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), London. Charles T.W. Humfrey, CMG (1966) left his position as Charge d'Affairs at the British Embassy in Tokyo on 12th July 1999 in order to do a Secondment to the private sector in the UK, for at least one year. He was appointed CMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June of this year. Dr David C. Belden (1967), after spending twenty years as a carpenter and novelist, has recently been teaching undergraduates at Marist College. He has written various marketing materials for a large corporation and spends his spare time writing a memoir at his home in New York. Dr R.H. (Bob) Findlay (1968) is currently employed as Assistant Director of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Geological Survey. He is now married to Nguyen Thi Mai Lien, a former Assistant Director of Nursing at Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi. With two children in Australia, his third child, a son Quan Dang, lives with them in PNG. Dr Simon R.A. Kelly (1968) is currently involved in a series of expeditions to Eastern Greenland where he is studying Geology - last year he found he was sharing a tent with four polar bears! Geoffrey V. May (1968), previously a Solicitors Clerk, but unfortunately unable to pursue a career in law due to ill health, became in 1998 Caretaker of Christ Church, Lancashire, where he has many responsibilities including liasing with booking and maintenance of the buildings. Professor John Prebble (1968) was awarded the Butterworths Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, in 1980 and was elected as a continuing Fellow there in 1998. The Editor of the Magazine met Dr Nigel Shrive (1968) at the Third World Congress of Biomechanics in Sapporo, Japan, in August 1998, where Dr Shrive presented his work on the biomechanics of ligaments. Dr Shrive is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary in Canada. Martin G. Bream (1969), Head of the Biology Department at Queen's College, Taunton, was elected Fellow Commoner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in April 1999. Ian C. Busby (1969) and partner Lyn Davies announce the birth of their daughter Siwan on 18th April 1998. Paul E. Dobsen (1969) recently wrote the North Wiltshire Local Plan Inquiry (Inspector's Report, 1998).

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AndrewS. Madden (1969) is lecturing at Stroud College on the teacher training course. Paul F. Sadler (1969), formerly Head Teacher at Beechwood School, Slough, became Head of Education Standards and Assistant Director of Education at Reading Borough Council in April 1998. Nigel F. Strawbridge (1969) was awarded the South West Telecoms Shield for Lympstone Bandsman of the year (1998).

1970s The Revd Michael J. Arnold (1970) was ordained a Priest in June 1998 and served as Assistant Chaplain at St John's College, Johannesburg, between January and August of that year. He had previously taught at Saint Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa for twenty-six years. In September 1998 he moved back to the UK to become Chaplain at Clayesmore School, Dorset. Ian Brimecome (1971), formerly Managing Director and Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Merrill Lynch, London, transferred to the company's offices in New York, as Managing Director and Head of Cross Border Insurance Practice, in August 1998. He is now living in New Jersey, USA. Lawrence Cummings (1971) and wife Eira happily celebrated twenty years of marriage on 29th December 1998. Dr Christopher M.Z. (Chris) Mann (1971), a Rural Development Administrator since 1993, became a Research Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa, in 1998. Stephen C. (Steve) Burrard-Lucas (1972), moved in December 1998 from Finance Director of British Gas plc's international division to become Treasurer at BG with the (un)enviable task of managing one of the largest debt books in Corporate Britain! Stephen S. Chandler (1972) became Local Government Director at Cornwell Affiliates plc, Surrey, in June 1998. Professor Edward J. (Jonathan) Lowe (1972) recently published The Possibility of Metaphysics (OUP, 1998). Dr Trevor J. Saxby (1972), a teacher of Modern Languages at Denbigh School, Milton Keynes, from 1993-8, is now teaching French and German part-time at Bury Lawn School, whilst also a Pastor at the Jesus Fellowship Church, Milton Keynes. Alyn G. Shipton (1972) presenter of jazz Notes on BBC Radio Three since July 1998, has recently edited the life story of musician Danny Barker, (Cassell, 1998). He has also written Groovin' high-life of Dizzy Gillespie (OUP, 1999). Robin Stephenson (1972) was promoted from Legal Adviser and Deputy Group Secretary to Head of Legal Administration and Company Secretary at PPP Healthcare Medical Trust, London, on 1st June 1998. 126

Charles H. M. Oulton (1973 ), previously a freelance writer and news correspondent for various newspapers (1981-98), qualified as a teacher in the summer of 1999 and has been teaching English at King's School, Somerset, since September of this year. After fifteen years working for Deutsche Morgan Grenfel in Hong Kong, Mark Patterson (1973) became Director and Global Head of Corporate Finance at ANZ Investment Bank, London, in April 1998. He is now living in Surrey. Christopher E.A. (Chris) Reddick (1973), previously a Team Leader at BP Kuwait, has been Resource Development Manager at BP Exploration, Sunbury on Thames, since 1998. He recently wrote Evaluation of Pilot Waterflood Performance in the Maudud Reservoir, North Kuwait (SPE, 1998). (J)

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Dr David L. Rosen (1973 ), for ten years Senior Systems Analyst at Lancaster City Council, became in December 1998 Senior Systems Officer at St Martin's College of Higher Education, Lancaster. John C. (Chas) Saunders (1973) is now an Assistant Solicitor with Phillips & Co. in Salisbury. On 21st November 1995 he married Judith Caroline Norris of Port Antonio, Jamaica, at Tower Isle Church, Ocho Rios, Jamaica. David Anderson (1974), Chief Executive of Yorkshire Building Society since 1996, was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Building Societies Association 1999-2000. 127

Dr Alan G. Crosby (1974), a freelance Historical Research Consultant since 1993, was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. He has written various articles over the years, the most recent being The Chester Archaeological Society: the first one hundred and fifty years 1849-1999 (Chester Archaeological Society, 1999). Jeremy A.B. (Jerry) Gray (1974), who for eight years was Executive Director at NB Selection, Berkshire, was made a Director and Recruitment Consultant at Norman Broadbent International, London, in July 1998. Christopher M. (Chris) Jones (1974) and Charlotte Denny were married in Italy on 21st September 1998. They had a special blessing of their marriage in the chapel of Balliol College and a reception at Rhodes House,. Oxford, in November 1998. John W. Ramsey (1974), previously Head of Operations at NatWest Corporate Banking Services, Hertfordshire, was made Director of Operations and Change Management at the company in London in 1999. Ashley M.R. (Ash) Stone (1974), previously Asset Manager at ARCO British Ltd., Surrey, has since August 1999 been Engineering Manager at EDC (Europe) Ltd., Kent. Keith R. Clouston (1975), a self-employed composer and musician, has recently been on tour to India and Mexico with the RSC's Comedy of Errors and to New York and Brazil with the Natacha Atlas Band. He composed the music for the Cambridge Greek Play Trojan Women: Euripides in 1998. Anthony Robert (Tony) Ellis (1975) moved to Amsterdam in September 1998. He is working with Statkraft, the Norwegian electricity utility, which is setting up a European operation based on the outskirts of Amsterdam. His two children (13 year old Henrik and 10 year old Caroline) are adjusting to life in the Netherlands and tuition in English; they were being brought up in Norway and previously attended Norwegian schools only. Dr Martin Garrett (1975) has written Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Chronology (Macmillan, 1999) and various entries including "Byron", "Corfu", and "Ravenna" in the Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic World (eds. Graham Speake & Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999). Dr Philip Hirsch (1975) published Politics of Environment in SE Asia (Routledge, 1998). Nigel C. Smith (1975) has been Operations Manager at Logica UK plc (Information Technology Security), Surrey, since 1998. Robin Beckley (1976) and his wife Clare announce the birth of their daughter Suzannah on 2nd October 1998. Richard J. Cook (1976) moved from London to Winchester in 1998 to work as a Partner at Shoosmiths Law firm. 128

Christopher J. (Chris) Elston (1976) was promoted in February 1998 from Senior Mechanical Engineer to Engineering Manager at National Power plc, North Yorkshire. National Power's Drax Power Station there is the largest coal-fired power station in Europe (4000 MW) and as a "heat engine" it must have few equals in the world. Paul A. Godfrey (1976) recently wrote Mega Quest - God's Big Plan for the World (Scripture Union, 1999). Keith R. Scott (1976) and his wife Diana announce the birth of their son James Andrew Jack on 25th November 1998. Andrew B. Wathey (1976) was a Visiting Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 1998. He has been Dean of the Graduate School at Royal Holloway College, University of London (1996-8) and Editor of the journal of the Royal Music Association (1994-9). He and his wife Charlotte announce the birth of their daughter Eleanor Jessica Macmillan, a sister for William, on 4th August 1999. Neil J. Worthington (1976), previously a research associate at Hallow University, Sheffield, and a freelance transport consultant, became Northern Regional Manager at Sinclair Knight Merz (Europe) Ltd., Surrey, in February 1999. He published Case Study of New International Facilities in the UK: Report of the WORKFRET Project (European Commission DG JII) in 1999. Christopher S. (Chris) Homer (1977) announces his marriage to Monica Brown on 3rd July 1998. Ian M. Kirk (1977) passed the Certificate d'etudes Juridiques Franfaises et Normandes at the Universite de Caen, Normandie, in June 1998. He was called to the Guernsey Bar in the following month. He is an Advocate and Partner of Collas Day Rowland. Dr Andrew J. (Andy) Calvert (1978), previously an Exploration Geophysicist at Pan Canadian Petroleum, Calgary, was appointed Assistant Professor of Geophysics in the newly established Department of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Canada, in September 1998. Dr Timothy A. (Tim) Hill (1978) and his wife Leena announce the birth of their son Matthew Robert on 21st April 1998. Christopher C.I. (Chris) Fidler (1978) and his wife Angela announce the birth of their son Joshua on 11th November 1998. Felix D.R. Mara (1978), previously an Architect for Foster Asia (Hong Kong) Ltd., has been working as an Architect for Avket Associates, London, since July 1998. Dr Andrew R. (Andy) McCabe (1978) and his wife Sheila announce the birth of their daughter Joanne Claire on 25th September 1998.

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Gideon C. Nissen (1978), previously Associate Partner of Anderson Consulting, London, was made a Partner in Management Consultancy Services at Ernst & Young, London, in July 1998. Robert E. Pay (1978) is pleased to announce his marriage to Susan Steele on 1st August 1998. Philip A. Roseberg (1978) and his wife Sandrine announce the birth of their son Harold on 26th August 1998. The Revd Bryan Rothwell (1978) and his wife Anne-Louise announce the birth of their son Daniel on 7th June 1998. W.J. Games) Simpson (1978) has been appointed Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English in the University of Cambridge. James R. Catmur (1979) married Helen Rosemay Philcox on 28th February 1997. He is now a Principal within Arthur D. Little's European Consulting Division. Advocate Shaughan H. Cole (1979) has established a game ranch near his home at Grahamstown, South Africa, and welcomes fellow Aularians who would like to visit. Ian F. Lupson (1979) and his wife Tracey announce the birth of their son Hugh Francis on 17th November 1998.3 Nicola Mira (1979), a Marketing Manager at Bercoben Spa for eight years, was made Managing Director of Wella-Sistema Espansione, Italy, in April 1998. Christopher J. Till (1979) became Head of Human Resources at QA Grove Ltd., Cirencester, in January 1998.

1980s Philip A.J. Broadley (1980), a partner at Arthur Andersen since 1993, is presently studying for an MBA at Warwick Business School, Warwick University. Alistair J. Graham (1980) and his wife Sophie announce the birth of their son Rory on 19th November 1998. Rachel M. Martel (1980) joined Richard Hagan & Associates (Design and Origination) as a New Business Development Manager in March 1998. Alasdair P. Blain (1981) and his wife Michaela announce the birth of their daughter Ellen Alice Suzanne on 3rd March 1999. Mr Blain, after nine years as a Sales Consultant at Nalco Ltd., became Area Manager at Stockhaven GmbH & Co., Germany, in March 1998. David C. Dees (1981) is pleased to announce his marriage to Alison Harrower on 20th June 1998. Paul Farrelly (1981) and his wife Victoria Perry announce the birth of their son John Josiah Thomas Alexander Farrelly on 2nd February 1999. 130

Dr Paul Gale (1981) recently published "Development of a risk assessment for BSE in the aquatic environment" UAppl Microbiology 84: 467-477, 1998). Joy Hibbins (1981), previously an EFL and dance teacher at Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, has since January 1999 been based in Vienna, teaching immigrant and refugee children from Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Kosovo. Timothy (Tim) Miles (1981), previously an Analyst and Programmer at Datix Business Systems, London, has since March 1998 been doing similar jobs at Charles Taylor & Co. Ltd., London. James D.H.B. Rothman (1981) and his wife Lucy announce the birth of their daughter Emily on 14th January 1998. Dr Colin N. Waters (1981) is happy to announce his marriage to Kerryn Marie Cotton on 5th June 1999. David Aeron-Thomas (1982) and his wife Catherine announce the birth of their daughter Megan Louise on 16th April 1999. Linda A. Davies (1982) and her husband Rupert H.D. St George Wise announce the birth of their son Hugh Glyndwr on 29th July 1998. Linda has recently published a new novel, Into the Fire (Harper Collins, 1999). Simon De Deney (1982) and his wife Dorcas announce the birth of their son Jack Oliver Morgan on 6th November 1998. Timothy P. (Tim) Haywood (1982), previously Finance Director at Swish Products Ltd., has been Group Finance Director at Newey & Eyre Group, Birmingham, since September 1998. Timothy P. L. Holman (1982) and his wife Elizabeth announce the birth of their daughter Criseyde Elianor Audrey on 29th June 1999. Simon J. Roberts (1982) and his wife Frances announce the birth of their son George Harry on 1st December 1998. Kevin J. Sealy (1982) is still consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly Coopers & Lybrand) after eight years, and was promoted to Director on 1st May 1998. Shona M. Tatchell (nee Lees) (1982) and her husband Ian Tatchell (1982) announce the birth of their daughter Catriona Grant Sheila on 16th February 1998. Simon N. Woods (1982) and his wife Jill announce the birth of their daughter Isabella Charlotte on 28th April 1998. Fiona Larkin (1983) and Edward Hayes (1983) were married in 1990. They have two sons, Robert David, born 21st June 1995, and Alexander Michael, born 6th January 1998.

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Peter M.E. Magyar (1983) and his wife Diana announce the birth of their daughter Zsuzsa on 23rd October 1998. Alison C. Fallowfield (nee McCormick) (1984) and her husband Timothy (Tim) Fallowfield (1983) announce the birth of their daughter Kate Olivia on 5th May 1998. Dr Roy H. Sellars (1983) is now an Assistant Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. Jenny E. Oliver (nee Stirling) (1983) and her husband Richard S. Oliver (1981) announce the birth of their son Alexander Simon Richard on 20th May 1999. Mark D. Triggs (1983), Accounts Manager of Key Communications Ltd, London, was promoted to Managing Director on 1st November 1998. Joseph Gallivan (1984) published 'Oi, Re(!': A Novel about Love, Hate and Football (Sceptre, 1998). Christopher M. (Chris) Giles (1984) and his wife Audrey announce the birth of their son Kinglsey on 15th August 1998. Neil A. James (1984) and his wife Victoria announce the birth of their daughter Tamsin on 21st December 1998, sister to Claudia who was born on 12th April 1996. Dr Michael J. (Mick) Jenkins (1984), previously an Actuarial Consultant at Towers Perrin, has been Director at Fifth Quadrant Actuaries and Consultants, South Africa, since 1st April 1998. Murray A. King (1984) and his wife Rachel announce the birth of their son Matthew James Murray on 10th October 1998. Mr King recently published No Touch of State (Practice Manager, 1998). Stephen Maw (1984) is pleased to announce his marriage to Fiona Bangs in November 1998. An Associate at Neal Consulting Engineers Ltd. for ten years, Mr Maw was promoted to the position of Director in 1998. Robert N.P. Macaire (1984) is now in Washington, DC, as First Secretary in the British Embassy (dealing with the Middle East). Emma A. Parsons (1984), previously Head of Marketing at Warwick Castle, took on a similar role at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, in April 1998. Rafael M. Russell (1984), formerl y an Airline Pilot at Jersey European Airways, has since August 1998 been fl ying Boeing 757s and 767s as First Officer for British Airways, Heathrow Airport, London. Victoria L. Russell (1984) has been studying at the University of the West of England, Bristol, for a Post-graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance and expects to complete the course this year. Dr Amanda M.D. Varnava (1984) is pleased to announce her marriage to Anthony Turnbull on 9th July 1998 and the birth of their son Oliver Marcus on 27th September 1998. 132

Andrew J. (Andy) Ashelford (1985), formerly Manager of Employee Services at Rio Tinto Ltd., Melbourne, became Manager of Business Reporting at Comalco Ltd., Brisbane, Australia, in March 1998. Isabel Cole (nee Fry) (1985) and her husband Julian Cole (1984) announce the birth of their son Rowan Patrick on 13th February 1998. Jeremy S. Lai (1985), previously a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been Senior Manager of Forensic Accounting at Pannell Kerr Forster, Sheffield, since September 1998. Julia L. Little (nee Cannon) (1985) and her husband Mark R. Little (1985) announce the birth of their son Edward Henry on 24th October 1998. Catherine V. Mackay (1985), previously Project Manager for Cable Television, has been Executive Vice President of Operations at Pearson Television, New York, since April 1998. Nicholas S. M. (Nick) Prichard (1985) and his wife Veronica announce the birth of their daughter Amelia Grace on 21st February 1998. Nicola Sentance (nee Baldwin) (1985) and her husband Clive Sentance (1985) announce the birth of their daughter Sophie in 1998. Dr Graham A. Worth (1985) and his wife Christiane announce the birth of their son Peter Lewin on 13th February 1999. Charles S.A. (Simon) Costa (1986) has just returned to the UK after nearly ten years in New York. He is now living in London and working as Director of Global Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers International. Sarah J. Croutear (nee Smith) (1986) recently published two books, A Grand Little Secret (Cherrybite, 1998) and Cut (QWF, 1998). Dr David A. Gillett (1986) is now a Fibre Optic Account Manager at Laser 2000 (UK) Ltd. Dr Simon D. Hodgson (1986) was promoted on 1st January 1999 to Managing Partner, Environmental Consulting, at AEA Technology, where he has worked in a variety of positions over the years. Derek S. Hurton (1986), previously Head of the Regeneration and Partnerships Team, has since October 1998 been Head of the New Deal Evaluation Team at the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), London, where he has worked for the last seven years. Neil A. Jacob (1986) was promoted to Head of Information Technology, Commercial and Corporate Procurement in April 1998. He was formerly Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive at British Aerospace plc, Hampshire. Sarah L. Kingslake (nee Thompson) (1986) was promoted from Business Systems Analyst to Business Development Executive at Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd., Hertfordshire, in April 1998.

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Dr Alison Kraus (nee Stark) (1986) is happily settled with her husband Sigurd in Germany, where she has been working since June 1998 as a post-doctoral research fellow, studying lung cancer, at the University of Marburg. Adrian R. J. Maxwell (1986) and his wife Lisa announce the birth of their son Angus Thomas on 19th May 1998. Philip Richards (1986) has recently changed job and is now working as Assistant Director of Information Services at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Kathryn J. (Kathy) Neal (nee Smith) (1986) has temporarily left her position as Regional Corporate Sales Manager of Barclays Bank Plc, to care for her son Christopher Henry, born on 17th July 1998. David J. Southall (1986), previously Senior Reservoir Engineer at Shell Peru, has been Senior Petroleum Engineer at Dansk Shell, Denmark, since 1999. Jacqueline E. (Jacqui) Thornton (1986), a News Reporter for the Sunday Telegraph, has since January 1999 been Health Correspondent. Lieutenant Commander Andrew Betton (1987) and his wife Bettina announce the birth of their son Charles on 23rd June 1998. Katherine E. Charles (nee Inglis) (1987) and her husband James R. (Jim) Charles (1986) announce the birth of their son Peter Edward on 27th January 1998. Delia J. Farrell (nee Hunter) (1987) has since April 1996 been living in Australia where she works as a lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron, a large Sydney firm. In April 1998 she married Scott Farrell, and they now live in Manly. Winnie H.L. Foo (1987) and her husband Ian Y.O. Leong announce the birth of their daughter Frances Leong Jin Yi on 27th March 1998. Vivek Katariya (1987) was promoted from General Manager of Engineering and Micrographies Systems to Director at Methodex Infres Ltd., New Delhi, in April1999. Alice V. Lawson (1987) is pleased to announce her marriage to Richard Hutchens in 1998. Roger G. Nixon (1987) is pleased to announce his marriage to Gwenaelle Vezin on 11th April 1999. Peter David O'Connor (1987) is now working for the Official Receiver in Croydon. Dr Susan Shackleton (1987) is pleased to announce her marriage to Dr Andrew Fry on 9th July 1999. Previously a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, she has since 1998 been happily living and working in Leicester as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Genetics at the University of Leicester. Sarah H. Smith (1987) is pleased to announce her marriage to David D. Yezzi on 4th July 1998. Tim Wingfield (1987) was promoted to Senior Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Accountancy), Cambridge, in November 1998. 134

Adam B. Bell (1988) and his wife Michelle announce the birth of their son James in 1998. Lee E. H. Bond (nee Harvey) (1988) and her husband Ivan announce the birth of their daughter Rosa on 25th February 1999. Mrs Bond has temporarily retired from teaching in order to look after Rosa and brother Nicholas. Keith M. Gordon (1988), previously a Chartered Accountant at Rawlinson & Hunter, has since 1999 been working as a part-time member of the Inland Revenue Tax Law Rewrite, London, and as a Self-employed Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser from his home in London. Kathryn L. (Kate) Hamilton (1988), admitted in 1996 as a Solicitor at Halliwell Landau, has since 1998 been a Solicitor for Pannone & Partners. PeterS. Matthews (1988), previously an Analyst at Goldman Sachs International, has since March 1998 been a Consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants. Julie Penrose (1988) is pleased to announce her marriage to Jeremy Paul Crouch on 6th December 1997. Tracey ]. Perrett (1988), previously an Assistant Solicitor in the Construction Department at Davies Arnold Cooper has since April 1999 been an Assistant Solicitor at Herbert Smith Exchange House, London. Stephen R. Sparrow (1988), previously Commercial Manager at Surrey County Cricket Club, has been Account Manager in the Commercial Department at Stewart Grand Prix, Milton Keynes, since April 1998. Dr Willem Adema (1989) recently published The Growing Role of Private Social Benefits (1998, OECD) and Structural Reform in the Netherlands and New Zealand: Two roads to success in the effects and policy implications of structural adjustment in small open economies (1999, Edwin Elgar). Lindsey E. Davis (nee Eburne) (1989), previously Audit Manager at Deloitte & Touche, was made Group Control Manager at Pearson, London, in May 1998. Simone R. Emmison (1989), previously Marketing Manager for Latin America, AIC Worldwide, Chile, has since September 1998 been Head of the 'Paltex' Program at the Pan American Health Organisation, Chile. Dr Richard J. Grylls (1989), previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ohio State University, USA, was made Lead Engineer of Turbine Airfoils at GE Aircraft Engines, Ohio, in June 1998. Dr Peter R. Lynan (1989) recently published Contexts of the English Organ Concerto (RCO Yearbook, 1999). Robert ].D. McRobbie (1989) was made Assistant Manager at the Hong Kong Police Officers' Club in November 1998.

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Stephen E. (Steve) Orbel (1989) and his wife Jennifer announce the birth of their son James Edward on 9th November 1998. Mark R. Pluck (1989), previously a Chartered Tax Accountant at KPMG, Peat Marwick, has since January 1999 been a Foreign Exchange Controller in the Equity Derivatives Group at JP Morgan Securities Ltd. , London. Ian A.W. Sandles (1989), formerly a Tax Manager at Deloitte & Touche, has been Assistant Tax Director at Barclays Bank plc, London, since 1998: Antonia C. Wells (1989), formerly an Associate at Merrill Lynch International, has since August 1999 been Assistant Director of ABN AMRO, London. She is to be married to Mr Michael Rowan on 4th December 1999.

1990s Catherine Field (1990) and David Murray (1988) are pleased to announce their marriage, which took place in Oxford, with the reception held at Teddy Hall, on 21st August 1999. They are now living in Surrey. Andrew S.L. Green (1990), a member of Tideway Scullers' School Rowing Club, won the 34th Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston (1998), in Club VIIIs. After teaching at Bryanston School, Dorset, for three years, Matthew J. (Matt) Oakman (1990) joined Wellington College, Berkshire, as a History Teacher in 1998. Christopher F.N. Todd (1990), an Attorney at Bowman Gilfillan Inc., South Africa, was promoted to the position of Director in March 1998. Julian C. Cater (1991) has this year begun working as an Equity Analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, London. Ruari B. Macdonald (1991), formerly an Accountant at N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd., is currently being sponsored by British Airways to train as an Airline Pilot and will be based at Oxford Airport for the next year. Helen E. Morgan (1991) spent this past summer in Kenya, as a leader on an expedition with the British Schools Exploring Society carrying out Science work, including an Environmental Impact Study and Bird Ringing at Lake Baringo. Luke Powell (1991) started work as a Teacher (Politics & Economics) at Merchant Taylors' School in September 1999. David R. (Dave) Wilson (1991), having done post-doctoral work in biomechanics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is currently on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School in Boston. In November 1999 he will move to Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, to take up a faculty position in Mechanical Engineering. Holger R. Blenske (1992), a Research Associate and Lecturer in Law in Germany, was a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1999. 136

Alice C. Clay (1992), having served for two years as a History Teacher at Moulsham High School, Essex, was recently (September 1999) appointed as Deputy Head of History at a 'challenging' school in London. She has also started studying, part-time, for an MA at the Institute of Education, London. Stephen C. Cleverley (1992) is pleased to announce his marriage to Catherine Fox on 4th September 1999. Lucy A. Clowes (1992), who started two years ago as a Graduate Marketing Trainee at Boots Company plc, has been working since September 1998 as a Product Manager for the company whilst on a two-year secondment in Madrid. Sarah J. Morrison (1992), after successfully completing a CPE and Legal Practice Course at the BBP Law School, London, has been working as a Trainee Solicitor at Taylor Vinters, Cambridge, since September 1998. Dr Sarah S. O'Neill (1992), previously a Junior Doctor at Trafford General Hospital, has since 1999 been working as a Senior House Officer at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. Radek Pelc (1992), previously a Research Assistant at the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, took up a research post at the Institute of Microbiology, Czech Republic, in 1998. Nicholas J. Price (1992) recently wrote "A Flood Simulation Model for the South Galway Region of Ireland" (Proceedings of the BHS International Conference on Hydrology in a Changing Environment, 1998). Rachel L. Stafford (1992) was promoted from Marketing Officer to Marketing Manager at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, in April 1998. Alan D. Staley (1992), previously a Pilot Officer in the RAF, has been working as an Actuarial Assistant at Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Ltd., Bournemouth, since April1998. Dr Anthony P. Atkinson (1993), a Lecturer in Psychology at King Alfred's College, Hampshire, is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York from July to December 1999. Stewart A. Estell (1993) is now a computer programmer for the NHS. He continues his musical activity with a choir to conduct and a fifty-strong amateur music theatre company to run. Gabriel Glockler (1993) is now working as a European Relations Officer at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. James A. Hook (1993) has since November 1998 been working as a Research Analyst for Analysys Ltd., Cambridge. Stephen (Steve) Jeffery (1993) and Nicole Sinfield (1994) are pleased to announce their marriage, which took place on 17th April 1999.

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Huw Morgan (1993) was promoted to Manager of the Mail Order Department at MDC Classic Music, London, in May 1999. James M.B. Parkin (1993) has been a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy since September 1999. Jeremy N. Badman (1994) has been working as a Finance Consultant for Oliver Wyman & Co. Jonathan J. Buckmaster (1994), after two years as Bar SupervisorÂˇ at the Three Horseshoes Public House, Hertfordshire, became a Junior Consultant at Breakthrough Change Management Ltd., Hertfordshire, in February 1999. Eva C. Clark-Darby (1994) has been working as an Assistant Art Dealer in the Japanese Department at Eskenazi Ltd., London, since January 1998. Sarah-Jane Cuthbert (1994) has been working as a Clinical Data Co-ordinator at Smithkline Beecham since September 1998. Thomas D. Peel (1994) has been working as a Strategic Information Technology Consultant at Agora Professional Services, Surrey, since November 1998. Soprano Natalie Raybould (1994), now studying at the Royal College of Music, returned to SEH in May 1999 to give a recital in the Old Dining Hall. With piano accompanist Anita D' Attellis, she performed works by Handel, Wolf, Berg, Stoker, Poulenc, Duparc, Chabrier, and Strauss. Semi P. Sarvilinna (1994), previously a Trainee District Judge at the District Court of Helsinki, has been working as Special Adviser for the Ministry of Justice, Finland, since January 1998. Ian A. Valvona (1994) started in May 1999 as a researcher for Fulmer West Ltd. (an independent television production company) in Cardiff. Dominic A.J. Walley (1995) has been working as a Strategic Consultant for Steer Davies Gleave (management consultancy), London, since November 1998. Cristobel Gumucio (1997) and his wife Francisca announce the birth of their son Cristobel on 16th November 1998. Hiroyuki Nakashima (1997) has been working in London as a Representative of the Export- Import Bank of Japan since July 1998. Jennifer (Jenny) Lewis (1998) has over the past academic year had several poems printed in the Oxford Magazine.

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OBITUARIES 1920s Thomas Herbert Horsfield, BA. 1981. Aged 80. Commoner 1922-5. Brian Monk Forrest, MA. 3 November 1998; Moulsford, nr Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Aged 90. Exhibitioner 1927-31, Literae Humaniores. Retired Headmaster, Southgate Grammar School, Cockfosters.

1930s William Leslie Herbert, MBE, MA, Dip.Ed. 12 January 1999; Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey; Aged 90. Commoner 1930-3, History. Retired Senior Probation Officer. (see obituary below) Francis Henry Heneage Finch, MA. 13 November 1999; Weybridge, Surrey. Aged 88. 1933-6. Modern Languages. Retired Personnel Consultant and Manager, Robson Rhodes Chartered Accountants. The Revd Roger Bagnall, MA. 31 March 1999; Withernsea, N Humberside. Aged 83. Commoner 1934-7, History. Retired Clerk in Holy Orders. Hugh Charles Marston, BA. 5 October 1998; Abergele, Clwydd. Aged 82. Commoner 1935-9, Chemistry. Retired schoolmaster, Wellington College, Berkshire; Sheep farmer. The Revd Arthur Christopher John Eastwood, MA. 12 May 1999; Yate, Bristol. Aged 81. Commoner 1936-9, Mathematics & Theology. Retired Vicar of St Wilfrid, Cowplain, Portsmouth. Ross Philip Harding, CBE, MA. 30 November 1998; Lower Bemerton, Salisbury; Aged 77. Commoner 1939-41, French & German. Retired RAF, Air Vice Marshal!.

WILLIAM LESLIE HERBERT (1930) Leslie Herbert, well known in Middlesex as a former Senior Probation officer for both Brentford and Feltham, died on 12 January 1999 at the age of 90. He grew up in Nunhead, South East London, where his father was the superintendent of the Christian Band. Leslie played the cornet, and there he met Celia, who was to be his wife for more than sixty years. After taking a History degree at the Hall, followed by a Dip.Ed., Leslie found it difficult to get work in the Depression years. He took a job as assistant Warden with the Mary Ward Settlement in London, and in 1936 became one of London's first Probation Officers. He followed this career until his retirement in 1973, and that year received the MBE for services to probation. In his time at Brentford and Feltham he dealt not only with juvenile offenders, but also with the matrimonial 139

reconciliation and prison aftercare that were part of the much wider remit of the probation service in those days. With a colleague, Fred Jarvis (who went on to become Principal Probation Officer for Leicestershire), he wrote two books which became standard works: A Modern Approach to Marriage Counselling (the first English book on the subject) and Dealing with Delinquents. Even after his retirement he continued both to edit the journal Probation and to advise the young offenders' institution at Latchmere House on Ham Common near his home. Leslie took a great interest in local affairs and was for years a member of Isleworth Rotary Club. A late arrival in Masonry, he was a Past Master of Old Isleworth Lodge. Until recently he was a leading light (and former President) of the Kingston Upon Thames Probus Club. Many residents of the area stretching from Twickenham to Chiswick, and especially Brentford, Feltham, and Isleworth have stories to tell of how their lives were changed- in several cases saved- by Leslie, who devoted his own life to the service of others. One of his success stories was a young man with a talent for painting which Leslie encouraged - Malcolm Morley, who went on to become winner of the most prestigious prize in British art, the Turner Prize. An enthusiastic though never distinguished sportsman, Leslie did not let the handicap of having sight in only one eye (due to a cataract at birth) stand in the way of his enjoyment. In his younger days he played lower-team rugby for Wasps, and he later played local club cricket. Ian Herbert

1940s Peter Charles Swann, MA, FRSA. 25 December 1997; Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; Aged 76. Commoner 1940-41, 1946-51, Oriental Studies. Keeper of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, and Professorial Fellow, St Edmund Hall, 1961-6. Retired Director and Professor of East Asian Studies, Waterloo University, Canada. Horace Bradley, MA. May 1999; Denbigh, North Wales. Aged 76. Commoner 1941-4, French & Spanish. Retired Teacher and Head of Department, Howell's School. The Revd Edward Graham Midgley, B.Litt., MA. 7 May 1999; South Hinksey, Oxford; Aged 75. Exhibitioner 1941, 1946-8, English Language & Literature. Fellow 1951-78. Emeritus Fellow 1978-99. (see obituary on page 57) Cyril Charles (Bill) Mitten. 15 August 1999; Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex; Aged 75. 1942, RAF Course. Geoffrey Louis Hodgson, MA, D.Phil. 1 May 1999; Summertown, Oxford; Aged 81. Commoner 1946-9, Agricultural Science. Retired lecturer. 140

Matthew Austin (Mac) Canning, MA. 11 March 1999; Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear; Aged 69. Commoner 1949-52, PPE. Freelance writer and lecturer. Arthur Roger Douglas, MA. 12 December 1998; Cranbrook, Kent. Aged 70. Exhibitioner, 1949-53, History. Retired teacher.

1950s John Seymour Godden, MA. 28 March 1999; Ware, Hertford; Aged 68. Commoner 1951-4, English. John Edward Bayliss, MA. 1999. Aged 65. Commoner 1954-8, French & Russian. (see obituary below) Malcolm Bruce (Ferdie) Forbes. 12 June 1998; Rolvenden Layne, Kent. Aged 64. Commoner 1954-8, English. (see obituary on page 145) Canon Roger Hardham Hooker, MA. 4 January 1999; Smethwick, Warley, West Midlands; Aged 64. Commoner 1955-8. History. (see obituary on page 146) Roderick Sayers Paul. 19 September 1998; Lower Quinton, Stratford on Avon. Aged 63. Commoner 1956-9, Jurisprudence. Group Chief Executive, Severn Trent plc.

JOHN EDWARD BAYLISS (1954) The death of John Bayliss, who read French and Russian at St Edmund Hall between 1954 and 1958 and was Head of the Modern Languages Department at St Paul's School in the early 1990s, has robbed the Hall of one of its most singular Old Aularians and one of the finest nonRussian teachers of the Russian language in this country. Like nearly all the so-called 'founding brothers' of the first undergraduate intake under John Kelly's era as Principal of the Hall, John Bayliss was a war baby (an evacuee from the London Blitz) who grew up just in time to be called up in the final phase of National Service. John joined the Royal Navy, rising eventually to the rank of

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Lieutenant-Commander in the RNR, and though he never once went to sea, the Navy was to prove an unexpectedly pivotal experience in his life. Having displayed a talent for languages at Emmanuel School, London, he had already been accepted to read French at the Hall when he was posted to the Naval Russian School, probably the best Russian course then available in Western Europe. He emerged from this total immersion in the Russian language not only a fluent Russian speaker but instinctively in tune with traditional Russian culture and mind-set- unusually so in those early Cold War Russophobe times. After a brief flirtation with Engineering at Oxford, and various extracurricular diversions (playing squash, tennis, and rugby for the Hall and trumpet for the O.U. Jazz Club in the Union Cellars), he eventually took ~m Honours Degree in French and Russian, then embarked on a teaching career which took him (via Emmanuel, Rugby, and the Lycee Jean Baptiste de la Salle in Paris) to St Paul's School, London, an inspired appointment on the part of the new High Master, Tom Howarth (later Senior Tutor at Magdalene College, Cambridge). Before taking up this appointment, however, John became involved in an extraordinary venture which threatened to change the course of his life totally. In the summer of 1962 he had attended the Festival of Youth in Moscow as interpreter and back-up trumpeter for a visiting British jazz band. In a Byzantine sequence of events, first in Moscow, later in Paris and London, he established links with both the Soviet KGB and the British Secret Intelligence Service (with whom he was already in dialogue as a potential career officer) . Exploiting other contacts in the Soviet Ministry of Culture, John then dreamed up a spectacular special mission through the length and breadth of a still mainly no-go USSR, recruiting the services of his Hall friend Douglas Botting, then a directorcameraman with BBC TV, as a front man. During six extraordinary months of 1963 the two Hall men travelled from Liverpool Street Station to the Soviet Arctic via the Caspian, Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern Siberia and places where few free Westerners had set foot since the Russian Revolution, producing three BBC television documentaries and a book, as well as covering such historic Cold War events as the Wynne-Penkovski Spy Trial, the First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and the State Visit of Fidel Castro. So perfect was John's Russian accent that most Russians could only tell that he was foreign by his Royal Navy blazer which he always wore like a badge of loyalty. For John, however, his elation at this achievement was negated by his disappointment at being finally turned down by the SIS. He settled back to his new career at St Paul's, where he proved a gifted and dedicated teacher, taking over the Russian department and enthusing countless classes of pupils with a knowledge and passion for both French and Russian 142

language and literature. For a while he also taught Russian at the Imperial College Business School in London. Unconventional, witty, and shrewd, John Bayliss was endowed with a great gift for friendship, humour and the occasional good-natured mayhem. A Russian romantic at heart, bohemian in spirit (his true home was the Quartier Latin of the 50s), iconoclastic in outlook, epigrammatic in speech, comradely in manner, a social mixer who suffered neither fools nor cant nor any isms gladly, a bon viveur who succumbed in the end to a mistaken despair that he had not truly fulfilled his potential, he will be much missed by his many Hall friends, by two generations of pupils, and by his wife Pennie, who stood by him through thick and thin, and his children Charlie and Mandy. Douglas Botting (1954)

BRIAN ROBERT FEATHERSTONE (1954) It is very likely that Brian Featherstone is the only product of a Hall education to have become a high-altitude Alpine shepherd by profession. That was his spring to autumn job, it has to be said, though it was also his true vocation. At other times he was a top United Nations translator and precis writer, usually at highlevel international conferences based mainly in Geneva. It says something for an Oxford education that it was able to nurture such a uniquely gifted man - a skilled linguist, writer and thinker, rural activist, political radical and ex-angry young man, graduate of the French national shepherd school at Rambouillet, doyen stallwart of an old acropolis village in Haute Provence and occasional reclusive inhabitant of a tiny stone hut on a glacial moraine from which he would issue diktats and oracles on anything from Trotskyism and dollar imperialism, Franglais and the Slav mind-set, Thoreau-esque back-to-nature idealism, and 101 ways of dealing with a bot-fly in malingering rams. Born in Somerset in 1933, Brian was educated at Colston's School, Stapleton, Bristol, where his A-levels included Science and Art, and after passing the Hall entrance exam to read French, he learnt Russian in the Royal Navy during National Service. Brian at Oxford in the mid-1950s was more politically driven that most of his college contemporaries, variously working in a refugee camp on a remote frontier and behind enemy lines with British Aid to Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (returning home to his parents' house in Kent with a refugee in his luggage). He later developed into a left-wing activist (and finally a Trotskyist) for whom, as he once put it after participating in the mass street protests in Paris in 1968, 'the stench of police tear gas is like the scent of roses.' He became the moral conscience of the Hall, filling pages of the JCR suggestions book with protestations against what he saw as everyday injustices (over-heavy 143

policing, excessive Bulldog zeal). He was also a passionate adherent of the Ban the Bomb movement and it was cruelly ironic ---· · .. -· ~ ' that a French nuclear missile was later installed virtually next door to his home in ' Provence - an outrage, as he saw it, about which he was to write scathingly in his book A Place in Troubled Times . From 1957 to 1958 he attended the Ecoles des Langues Orientates Vivantes, and after taking his degree in French and· Russian at Oxford, spent a year at Harvard studying Creative Writing on a Rotary Foundation Scholarship, returning to Oxford to do a Slavonic Diploma. Following the shock of the premature death of his father, he went down with TB in both lungs and spent the next year and a half in a French sanatorium on the Swiss border. Never entirely comfortable with English society and the British way of life, the TB episode reinforced his determination to become a resident of France and study animal husbandry. 'The experience was to give me a taste for thinking and looking at mountains, and for life,' he was to write, 'and I remained in France and fell in love with a village in the foothills of the Alps.' This was Simiane-la-Rotonde in Haute Provence. 'I was home,' he was to recall of that defining moment. 'It was a sense of being born, dropping with open eyes into the world.' Simiane remained his home (which he shared with the woman of his life, Martine Cazin, a potter) till his death thirtyfive years later. Greatly influenced by Thoreau's Walden, he strove hard to lead an ideal, simple, self-sufficient rural life in an un-simple world, dividing his time between the English Translation Section of the UN in Geneva (which paid the bills) and shepherding in the Simiane area of Provence (which replenished the spirit). Dislike of flying restricted his travels, but he adored the mountains and on one memorable occasion did a long traverse with his old Hall friend Douglas Botting from the Vanoise Alps into the Gran Paradiso in Italy, his good humour, insight and enthusiasm a source of constant delight to his companion. By the late 70s, Brian's expertise as a shepherd had extended his range to the soaring Queyras Alps, guiding his precious flocks along the precipice tops high up by the snowline with infinite patience and skill. Sadly, cancer in one lung forced him back to

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lower altitudes, but he remained active in local affairs, enormously respected for his devotion to the community and land of his adoption. He wrote all his life- poetry, fiction, book manuscripts, articles on rural affairs, a daily journal, voluminous correspondence - but he published little, which pained him. At his best his writing could be both simple and elegant, engaged and quietly emotive. His sudden death from cardiac arrest while discussing his latest project in a neighbouring village was perhaps a blessing, for it was difficult to see this strider of hills as infirm or bed-bound. Brian Featherstone's death was commemorated by a wide spectrum of mourners. His friends at UNESCO held a lunch in his honour as a collective leave-taking, praising 'the flair, accuracy and style of his translation, his kindness and his intellect.' Norman Isaacs, who read French with him at the Hall, recalled his 'resolute romanticism, generosity of spirit, and Lebenslust, his wide range of valiant causes - very much a mould never to be repeated. At times it was difficult to believe he was actually an Anglo-Saxon who had once been a British naval officer!' Melvyn Bragg spoke of 'his committment to the things that matter in life,' and his devoted sister Jennifer recalled 'his dreams and determination - so often seen as eccentric and impossible.' He lies at peace in his beloved Simiane beneath a rough hewn block of limestone from his adored Proven~al hills. Douglas Botting (1954)

MALCOLM BRUCE (FERDIE) FORBES (1954) 'Ferdie' was the much-loved husband of Joy and the father of Simon and Mark. He matriculated at SEH in 1954, having arrived after National Service from Haberdashers' Aske's, Hatcham, where he was School Captain in 1951-2. He went on to become Captain of the Old Askean Rugby Club for four seasons in 1957-8, 1958-9, 1959-60, and finally, 1962-3. He was a founder member of the Etceteras Rugby Football Club, a Barbarian-style invitation side drawn from the best players of local clubs in Kent, who had to be socially minded post match. Originally hailing from Arbroath in North East Scotland, 'Ferdie' arrived at Aske's in 1947 and during his time there participated in a wide range of activities. He played oboe in the School Orchestra, acted in many dramatic productions, was a leading light in the Lit & Deb Society, but above all was a brilliant sprinter and a top class rugby wing three-quarter. National Service followed with Malcolm joining the RAF and becoming commissioned as a Pilot Officer at Jurby in the Isle of Man. He then came up to Oxford in 1954 to read English and during his time at the Hall played several matches for the Greyhounds and once for the full University side, scoring a try against Gloucester. He was also a keen member of the Boat Club. 145

After gaining his degree he joined the pharmaceutical company Pfizer at their headquarters in Sandwich in Kent but after a while changed his employer, becoming a director of Cameron's, a commercial cleaning organisation based in Cheshire who held the entire maintenance contract for the Ford Motor Company's Halewood plant near Liverpool. He took early retirement from Cameron's and fulfilled a long standing ambition, shared by many Aularians, of buying a pub, The Wheel Inn at Burwash Weald in Sussex. He proved a wonderful host and developed the pub well but the arthritis from which he suffered for a number of years was getting worse and forced him to sell up and move to Rolvenden Layne near Tenterden in Kent. Here, although in considerable pain, he developed other skills, those of proof reading and~riting freelance articles. According to his wife, his one big regret was that he did not make this his career rather than industry. During his lifetime 'Ferdie' provided an inspiration for many, including the writer of this obituary, who followed his school and rugby captain to the Hall, thus re-establishing an Aske's tradition that had lapsed in the seven-year period between them. John Heggadon (1961)

CANON ROGER HOOKER (1955) Roger Hooker was a dedicated and experienced missionary, a noted theologian, and a man whose expertise in the field of inter-faith relations was invaluable to the Church of England. He was an acknowledged authority on Hinduism, being fluent in both Hindi and Urdu. He was probably the only Anglican priest to have a degree from the Sanskrit University of Benares. He served most recently as advisor on inter-faith relations to the Bishop of Birmingham, Mark Santer, but was also a former advisor on Hinduism to the Archbishop of Canterbury and a former secretary of Birmingham's inter-faith council. His book, Love the Stranger, co-authored with Canon Christopher Lamb, is regarded as the definitive work on ministry in multifaith areas in Britain. His other books include Outside the Camp, Journey into Varanasi, Voices of Varanasi, a Hindi Commentary on the Prophets and Themes in Hinduism and Christianity. Roger Hardham Hooker trained for the ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and served as a curate in Stockton-on-Tees before going to India in 1965 with his wife Pat as Church Missionary Society partners. He studied on arrival at a missionary language school and then became warden of a boys' hostel in Agra. He went on to join the staff of the North India Theological College in Bareilly, teaching in the Hindi language. A key figure at this period of his life was his father-in-law, Max Warren, a 146

former general secretary of the Church Missionary Society, who had become a canon of Westminster Abbey. Their correspondence, conducted weekly over 12 years, shaped Hooker's entire understanding of Christian mission; his own influence on Warren was no less profound. Returning to Britain with his wife in 1978, Hooker joined the staff of the CMS college, Crowther Hall, in Birmingham. He was appointed to the bishop's staff in 1995. He had become an honorary canon of Birmingham in 1989. In Birmingham, he developed and maintained extensive connections with synagogues, temples, and mosques, helping to develop the firm foundations of trust between the different faith communities of the West Midlands. He also took a Ph.D., supervised from Cambridge, with a thesis on three Hindi novels. To the surprise of some of his friends, he was recently elected chairman of the Birmingham branch of the Council of Christians and Jews. This was a reflection of his growing interest in Middle East affairs. He was particularly exercised by issues surrounding the land of Israel and by the interaction between religion and politics. Working with the Jewish community in Birmingham, he had recently set up a series of Jewish-Christian study days. Roger Hooker, who had died suddenly just a few months before he was due to retire, is survived by his wife and their son and daughter. ÂŠ The Times, 23rd January 1999

ANTHONY JOHN FEATHERSTONE (1956) John Featherstone, who died on 9 July 1998, came up to the Hall after his national service, where he had been commissioned in the Royal Artillery. He read English, played a full part in Hall sport, and met Beth, his future wife, who was working at St Hilda's. John began his teaching career at Cheltenham Grammar School and after subsequent posts at Culford and at Warwick School, became head of English and later a house-master at Bishop Stortford College. As well as being highly effective and warmly appreciated in both these roles, John regularly undertook the main drama production of the year, and coached rugby, hockey, and athletics. He was supportive and encouraging to colleagues and pupils alike, his natural courtesy invariably eliciting courtesy and respect in return. John was 52 when, ten years ago, the first indications of his illness manifested themselves. Though he taught for a further six months after the diagnosis of motor neurone disease was confirmed, he then took early retirement, and, while he could, exercised his considerable practical skills in, among lesser tasks, fitting out a horse-box, making a rowing-boat, and renovating a cottage! Even when such physically demanding tasks became impossible for him, John's enterprise 147

found other expression: he joined local W.E.A. classes, he helped set up a North Herts branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, and, with friends' support in gaining access to libraries and county archives, he embarked on (and brought virtually to completion before his death) a biography of Sir William Waad, a local lord of the manor whose family was close to the centre of power in Tudor and early Stuart times. John's illness could not keep him from coming regularly to Hall reunions and, with the College's help, overcoming the attendant problems. Indeed over the ten years of his illness, John's spirit and courage were remarkable, sustained in no small part, as he acknowledged, by the love and care of Beth and their five children. John was a devotee of Chaucer, and it was entirely fitting that\vith words from Chaucer's description of his knight, a former colleague of John's should have concluded his valedictory address: He never yet a boorish thing had said In all his life to any, come what might He was a true, a perfect gentle knight.

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1960s John Keith Brockbank, MA, BM, BCh, MRCPsych. 27 April1999; Windermere, Cumbria. Aged 56. Commoner 1961-5, Medicine. Consultant psychiatrist. Nitya Anand, B.Sc., DipAgrEcon, D.Phil. 31 July 1998; Oxford. Aged 68. Commoner 1962-3, 1968-70, Agricultural Economics, Colonial Welfare & Development Scholar. Retired Senior Research Officer, Overseas Development Administration, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Mark Howard Jennings, MA. 26 May 1998, on his way down from the summit of Mt. Everest. Aged 49. Commoner 1967-70, Engineering. (see obituary on page 149) Simon John Morton-Clark. February 1999; in a car accident. Aged 49. Commoner 1968-71, Metallurgy.

1970s Tadashi Ueno, B.Phil. 1 April 1999. Aged 48. Commoner 1975-7, Management Studies. Managing Director.

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MARK HOWARD JENNINGS (1967) Mark Jennings died on the descent from the summit of Mount Everest on 26 May 1998. Universally known as "Harry", he came up to the Hall in 1967, where he proceeded to study Engineering Science whilst pursuing his real passion for living life to the full, with a zest for new experience and a fascination for technological gadgetry, thus setting the pattern for his later life. Whilst he distinguished himself in conventional ways, captaining the Hall soccer team (at a time when the Hall dominated O.U. sport), playing for O.U. Centaurs and being elected JCR President in 1969, many of his experiences were less conventional. These included launching himself out of his window above the High Street, sailing down attached to the fire escape friction rope and pulley, scrambling over the rooftops of the buildings to Longwall Street and beyond, and packing his Mini with revellers to drive overnight to view the sunrise on Brecon Beacons. After a brief and unrewarding attempt at a normal career in the offices of Zisman Bowyer, Consulting Engineers, his yearning for adventure found an outlet in joining Schlumberger Inc., the international oil exploration company in who's employ he then travelled extensively, working and living in the Far East, South Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. Though this employment satisfied the need for new experience, his need for adventure was not fulfilled until his discovery of mountain climbing, where he found the combination of testing his physical and mental endurance with the aid of inventive technology a perfect challenge. During climbing vacations in Nepal he joined two exhibitions to climb Everest, only to be thwarted on both occasions. During a break between a change of jobs he took a third opportunity to make the climb. He reached the summit of Everest at 12.15 on 25 May 1998. After spending the night at Camp 3 at 8300m, he attempted to continue his descent before sitting down and quietly passing away. Mark Jennings lived a full and eventful life and made many friends in many places. A remembrance service was held at Chappelle Saint Pierre des Metz, Jouyen-Josas on Saturday 20 June 1998, the packed church being a testament to the bonds of friendship forged in his life. He is survived by his wife Nicole, son Gregory and daughter Natalie. J.E. Hutt (1967)

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ARTICLES COMMEMORATIONS AND APPEALS H.E.J. Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow) No doubt we shall all be celebrating the year 2000 because it has been deemed to be the Millennium. Aularians will also mark it because of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the constituent meeting of the Aularian Association, which in 1966 was renamed the St Edmund Hall Association. It may be of interest to say a little about the pre- and early history of the Association, with some regard also to the major events of the Aularian year and to the appeals to provide buildings and endowment which were so successful a feature of the first half of the twentieth century. The first steps towards an Association were taken in the later 1880s. Given the strongly Tractarian ethos of the Hall since H.P. Liddon was VicePrincipal, it is not surprising that the due commemoration of St Edmund was a stimulus. Undergraduates provided the initiative; with Victorian earnestness they looked to the chapel rather than to the dining hall. Thus, on 16 November 1887, the undergraduate Charles Fullmer wrote in his diary: Wed. St. Edmund's Day ... By petitioning the Chief [Principal Moore] we had an early Communion (19 members of the Hall attended) and the Litany at 8.30 a.m. The evening service was well attended. I was in Hall. The same month (November 1887- witnessed the foundation of a Guild of S. Edmund as a society of members of the Hall who were Anglican communicants. Its declared purpose was to bind together past and present generations in the common duty of intercession and thanksgiving, and to aid resident members in the spiritual life. St Edmund's Day was to be its festival and all resident members should communicate; non-resident members were to communicate within the octave. Thus began the regular observance of St Edmund's Day on 16 November. A Minute Book for the years 1896 to 1909 survives. It testifies to the regularity of the Guild's open and devotional meetings. The difference between its agenda and those of the later Association does not need to be spelt out. But it foreshadowed the Association by linking Aularians to the Hall for life; in 1906, for example, ninety-eight non-resident members were listed with their addresses. A printed annual report fulfilled at least some of the functions of the later Magazine by keeping Aularians in touch and informed. 151

The Guild was wound up in 1909, the victim, apparently, of its own too exclusively pious purposes. The society of Edwardian England was different from that of the Victorian past. For the most part, the Aularians who directed the remarkable developments of the 1900s had been Guild members, and they continued to honour its pieties. But the pleasures of this world, and especially of the dinner table, played a much larger part, amongst both resident undergraduates and the non-residents who were increasingly cal1ed upon to support the Hall by their cheque-books as well as by their intercessions. In his book St Edmund Hall: Almost Seven Hundred Years, John Kelly splendidly explained how, from this time, the Hall escaped from the threat of being swallowed up by Queen's College and embarked upon its course to collegiate status. There is no need to retell the story here; but the availability now of the Book of Benefactors 1909-1936 (for which see last year's Magazine) and items in the archives that were not available to Kelly make it possible to add some details and colour. The tempo of life discernibly quickened early in 1903, when Principal Moore accepted a canonry at Canterbury and expected to resign the Principalship. On 28 May, a dinner was held in Oxford which was the firstever reunion of past and present members of the Hall. Little more is known of the dinner, save that the president was an Aularian, the Rt. Revd. A.T. Lloyd, Bishop of Thetford and designate of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and that the cost per head, exclusive of wine, was four shillings. A complete list, in manuscript, of the names and addresses of all Aularians survives which was evidently compiled now or soon after; it is the forerunner of later Aularian Directories. Moore soon realised that, if he wished to save the Hall, he could not yet resign the Principalship. In the new Book of Benefactors, Emden was careful to record the names of those who, during the next ten years, 'by their exertions bore the foremost part' in averting the danger of absorption into Queen's: Lord Curzon of Kedleston as Visitor, Principal Moore himself, and the Vice-Principal, S.L. Ollard. The Hall archives reveal the remarkable efforts of these three men and also of a very wide circle of Aularians and outside well-wishers until war broke out in 1914. Their efforts were well attuned to the Edwardian era. It appears to have been owing to Ollard that St Edmund's Day (16 November) began to be observed as a Hall feast in a more this-worldly manner than that secured by Charles Fullmer and his friends. Beginning with the year 1905, there survives a run of menus and toast lists which suggests that, whatever the poverty and precariousness of the Hall, there was no lack of confidence or joie-de-vivre. The menu in 1905 was as follows: 152

Potage Creme de Riz Poisson Filets de Sole a la Maltre d'Hotel Entree Cotelettes de Mouton a la Jardiniere Re/eve Aloyau de Boeuf Roti Dindon Bouilli, Sauce Celeri Entremet Pouding aux Cerises Dessert Liqueurs

Wines are not mentioned, but they cannot have been in short supply in order to provide for the Toast List of thirteen items, beginning with Church and King and ending with Floreat Aula Sancti Edmundi. A photograph in the Archives of a patriarchal Principal Moore presiding over a dinner in the Forum Restaurant was perhaps taken on some such occasion. The evening came to be rounded off with a Gaudy as then understood- a concert of music and song in which the undergraduates displayed their talents. On 15 November 1906, there was held what may be regarded as the first London Dinner. Intended for both past and present Aularians, its energetic organizer was the Revd. C.A. Peacock, who operated from the Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks, of which he was the chaplain. Where it took place does not emerge, but it elicited many letters of warm support for the Hall. True to the traditions of the Guild of S. Edmund, Peacock also celebrated the Eucharist in the Guards Chapel at 10.30 a.m. on St Edmund's Day. Much more important was an occasion on 8 October 1908 which was described on its menu as a Reunion Dinner of Past and Present Members of S. Edmund Hall, Oxford, at the Oak Rooms, Trocadero Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus. It seems to have played a critical part in the consolidation of support for the Hall's future. It was organised by the Revd. H.E. Gunson, assisted by F.N. Sargeant. Gunson worked indefatigably for the Hall. Then the chaplain of the Middlesex Hospital, he became a chaplain to the forces in the Great War and was killed on active service; we should remember him.

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Predictably, Gunson's letters to Aularians elicited the occasional sour reply: Oxton Vicarge, South well. yd Sept. 08. Dear Sir, I have so many pressing calls on my purse that I cannot add this to them. Also I am in favour with amalgamation with Queen's College. I remain, Yours truly, wm Laycock

But almost all replies were in the positive vein, for example: Sep. 17. 1908. S. Stephen's House Robert's Street Grimsby Dear Gunson, Your circular found me on my holiday. Hence delay. I rejoice to see that something practical is being attempted. Just now I am in a precarious financial condition & have no right to pledge myself beyond the enclosed modest guarantee. If you get ÂŁ2,000 out of old Teddy men mostly parsons of no private means like myself it will speak volumes to all who know the circumstances. I am more than sorry that the date of the dinner clashes with an engagement here which I cannot break. I shall be most anxious to hear how things go & it would be refreshing to meet the keen Teddy men who will turn up from far and near. My love to all old friends, Yrs sincerely, T.G. le Mesurier

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The price per head was five shillings, which equals twenty-five new pence, less than the cost now of a first-class letter stamp! A full manuscript record of the Dinner survives. Principal Moore spoke at length and with reassuring optimism about the future: Those whom he could see before him were aware of the admirable & prosperous condition the Hall was at present in and the cause of that he attributed to his friend on his right [Ollard]. It is an object lesson to our neighbours as to what the Hall can do, and now we must first of all guarantee something ourselves and then ask the outside public to help. Perhaps with an eye to the terminally ailing Guild of S. Edmund, Moore hinted at the need to broaden the basis of the Hall: 'It is not he thought advisable to lay too much stress on the theological character of the Hall as it might be a source of danger to the scheme and might stir up opposition in other quarters.' Ollard, in reply, spoke of support already promised and also of less realistic suggestions, like that of Mr Bennett, who 'hopes to contribute his mite, & who is anxious to know if he should write to Mr. Carnegie'. More solidly, Ollard reminded his hearers that 'You have been asked to guarantee sums which have amounted to over ÂŁ1000, and the Principal has guaranteed ten times more than anyone else.' With some hesitation, Ollard proposed that Lord Curzon should be approached about heading an appeal. In an atmosphere of post-prandial euphoria, further too-hopeful possibilities were aired, such as when Mr Gull reported that 'he had been in communication with a Capitalist, an old Cambridge man and before long he 155

may be able to state that this gentleman will guarantee a certain amount to place the Hall on a proper footing'. More usefully, the evening ended with the organization of an appeal structure of which Moore was head and Gunson a member. Curzon's warm support ensured the goodwill of the university. During the previous summer, Ollard had prepared the ground and had elicited advice and interest in the right quarters. This is illustrated by an encouraging letter written to him by the Revd. H.L. Wild, a former VicePrincipal and future bishop of Newcastle: St. Edmund Hall House Oxford June 4rh 1908. Dear Ollard, I am very sorry that I cannot be at your meeting on Thursday, but you have my heartiest sympathy in your desire to maintain the Hall as a separate society in the University. I have long felt that the work which the Hall has done, is doing, & is capable of doing ought to commend your aims to all lovers of education. I am sure, on the other hand, that we need to impress upon all members of the Hall, past & present, that there is no via media: either we must procure means for endowment & maintenance as a separate society or we must suffer absorption, destined ultimately to be final & complete, in Queen's College. The endowment fund will have to be not less than ÂŁ10,000, & would, of course, be vested in a governing body like that of Keble College or a delegacy of the University: personally I should favour the latter plan. To have this endowment there must be a clear unanimity & keenness shown among members of the Hall, showing that the preservation of the Hall means a great deal to them, followed by an earnest appeal to the public. I am sure that we have no time to lose, & with all good wishes, I am Yours sincerely

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Such preparatory work and the success of the Trocadero Dinner bore fruit in subsequent appeals. The new Book of Benefactors opens with lists of donations in response to appeals made under Principal Moore in 1909 and 1913 'when the independence of St Edmund Hall was in danger': in all, ten nonmembers of the Hall and thirty-three members gave a total of about ÂŁ400. In 1913, Moore at last felt at liberty to resign the Principalship. His successor, H.H. Williams, lost no time in making a public appeal for endowment. It is !56

a tribute to his energy that, before the outbreak of war in August 1914 supervened, seventy donors had contributed £1,083. A conspicuous feature of the list of donations is the support of the colleges: Queen's, New College, Christ Church, St John's, Brasenose, and Magdalen each subscribed £100 and Hertford £50. There was a remarkably wide response from the great and the good in the University and beyond, including the Archbishop of Canterbury. The money thus raised showed what might be hoped for when peace returned. More important, the endeavours of the pre-war years registered the Hall's invincible will despite its small size and its many problems to survive, adapt, and develop. No less important, within the University and in the country at large, it was indelibly registered that the Hall had a future before it by reason of which it was worthy of strong support. So much good leadership, good corporate action, and good food had served to achieve. After the war ended in November 1918, the Hall was quick to build upon the foundation that had been laid. In 1920, Williams left to become Bishop of Carlisle, from where he took a benevolent interest in the Hall during the rest of his life. Of the utmost importance for the future was Williams's having recruited for the Hall in 1919 the recently demobilised able seaman, A.B. Emden, who at first was Bursar and Tutor, then Vice-Principal, and ultimately (from 1929) Principal. As soon as November 1920 there began to appear annually the St Edmund Hall Magazine, with Emden's hand writ large upon it; thereafter it was, as it remains, the indispensable link between the Hall and its members. In 1923, the Reunion was revived; it took place on 23 April with the intention that there should be annual dinners. In 1924, it was proposed that an Aularian Association should be formed, and a constitution was drawn up. Its two stated objectives were (i) to rally round the Hall all old members who wish to uphold and assist the Hall in every way they can, and (ii) to enable old members to keep in touch with each other and with the Hall, especially by means of the Hall Magazine and Reunions. On 21 April 1925, the constituent meeting of the Association was held at the Hall. The Reunion Dinners continued to be held in Oxford with the exception of 1929, when the venue was the Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington. The idea of a London Dinner was evidently thought to be a good one, for in each year from 1933 to 1939 such an event took place in the still today customary month of January. The Dinner in 1933 was held at the Griffin Tavern in Villiers Street; in 1934 it was at the Boulogne Restaurant, and from 1935 to 1939 at the Florence Restaurant. From 1930, and so from the start of Emden's principalship, the Reunion was moved from April to after the Summer Term, where it still remains. 157

By such steps the familiar pattern of the Aularian year took shape. The new Book of Benefactors provides evidence year by year of the concurrent energy and success of the Aularian community in raising and applying benefactions to make possible the development of the Hall. This is not the place to list all the purposes that were served, but the three principal ones may be noticed. The first was the acquisition and rebuilding of the so-called Airay's, or Link, Lodgings on the south of the Quadrangle and to the east of the Principal's Lodgings. This had a long association with the Hall, especially in the late seventeenth century when it was leased at times when numbers demanded. But in the 1920s there were those who remembered its deterioration into a common lodging house known at Sots' Hole, until in 1891 it had..to be pulled down to the ground floor; what remained was used as an apothecary's store. In 1925, the Hall was able to acquire the freehold from Magdalen College, and in the following year a three-storey building was constructed which may be recognised by the date 1926 on the drainage. In 1927, it was opened by the Visitor, Lord Cave; this was the first occasion on which a Visitor officially visited the Hall. To the east of Airay's Lodgings was a shrubbery which failed to conceal the unsightly rear of Minty's furniture repository. The accumulation of a new buildings fund made possible in the early 1930s the construction of the Canterbury Building which now houses the Bursary. Again, freeholds had to be purchased, this time mainly from Queen's, but, again, a small plot from Magdalen. The furniture repository was replaced by a building in keeping with the general character of the quadrangle. Its opening in 1934 happily coincided with the 700th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of St Edmund of Abingdon. It was, therefore, appropriate that Edmund's successor as Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, should perform the opening ceremony and bless the building. With the buildings of the Quadrangle almost complete, attention could be concentrated upon the Endowment and Extension Fund, which had been established in 1932; donations to it year by year fill the pages of the Book of Benefactors until its entries cease in 1936. On St Edmund's Day 1937, Emden launched an ambitious new endowment appeal. Two years later, in 1939, another world war had broken out. But during the inter-war period the advances made by the Hall were momentous. Culminating in the first steps towards full independence of Queen's and eventual collegiate status, they leave Aularians with plenty to remember and to celebrate when the St Edmund Hall Association next year reaches the seventy-fifth anniversary of its constituent meeting. 158

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF AN ENGINEERING DON Basil Kouvaritakis (Fellow) The academic year has been yet another frenetic and enjoyable year. It sounds like the beginning of a self-indulgent speech, but I hope it will instead be read as a testimony to the many facets of the life of a Fellow in the Hall. Apart from the usual endless pleasure of teaching three dozen recalcitrant students, there were copious amounts of administration to transact. Hard battles were fought in the Department to maintain standards and defend mathematics, ending up with the reward of overseeing the launch of a brand new 4th year course in Advanced Engineering Mathematics. Unmitigated excitement on the other hand was had by us all in the Hall in the shape of endless [Principalian] pre-election meetings, which as it turned out were well worth it. Looking after the Hall's graduate students had its challenges and it was most gratifying to secure (with the generous support of friends of the college) association of St Edmund Hall with no less than three graduate scholarships, one in Biochemistry, one in Engineering, and one in Psychology. And then there was research, and more research. Able colleagues and many Academic Visitors turned the group into a cosmopolitan hive of activity. If I got an invitation from each of these colleagues who spent time here in Oxford learning about our work, I could easily spend the next academic year globetrotting: Korea, Denmark, China, and Tenerife. As it is research work has already taken me to San Diego, where I got sunburnt for a change, and will take me to China and Bratislava. It has been a good year with several coauthored articles submitted to top journals and the lEE Heavyside prize for a paper that I did with Anthony Rossiter, whom some may remember from his student days at the Hall. And there was music, glorious music, with all its allures. A lunchtime recital of the passionate but fiendishly difficult Franck Violin Sonata in Chapel, played with Kirstie Fieldhouse (at the piano) whose virtuosity and delicacy of touch made the occasion so enjoyable; I mean I enjoyed the occasion as the violinist, but I hope the audience found something in our performance that pleased them too. Soon we will start work on a Brahms Sonata, another beast of a piece, with the prospect of several hours hard practice plus rehearsals. I think the maintenance staff and the piano tuner will be utterly fed up with our moving of the piano around the Chapel. And then there were the quartets in idyllic Bletchingdon which we played in College Secretary Carol McClure's fairy-tale English garden to raise money for the bell tower of the nearby village church. The occasion would have been nothing without the freshness of a little late June rain followed by a !59

capricious but benevolent breeze that kept turning the pages of our music at random times. I also had the privilege to enjoy music played/sung by the many talented instrumentalists/singers and to join them in duets. In conclusion I may have reason to grumble about being overworked and underpaid, but certainly cannot complain about being bored. I just hope that three weeks in Corfu this summer will give me the boost I need to return fiercer for the next academic year. Uncharacteristically I will choose to conclude on a sad note which has no direct connection with Engineering, or Graduate students, or Music, but which nonetheless weighs heavily with us all and this is to remember our much loved and admired colleague Graham. His loss was a great blow and his greater-thanlife presence will be sorely missed.

SOCCER AT THE HALL Arthur Farrand Radley (SEH 1935) University Soccer may not be what it once was in the public's image: Rugger can now fill an enlarged Twickenham for its annual Varsity Match, whereas Soccer left Wembley in 1987 after 35 years of never-capacity crowds which had by then dwindled so drastically that a move to Craven Cottage, home of Fulham FC, became inevitable. But at least it gave it a view of the Boat Race and prompted a former Fulham player and sometime coach to the OUAFC, Jimmy Hill OBE, the TV commentator, to write the forward to Colin Weir's recent The History of Oxford University Association Football Club 18721998 in which the Hall's record is given its due full prominence. Weir was an all-round athlete- and an Exhibitioner to boot- in 1941-2 and, as a revenant 1945-7, Captain of Hall Soccer and Cricket and a University Half-Blue for Athletics, as well as his other exploits below. He ended up teaching at Sedbergh and after a gruelling five years of research (not helped initially by the absence of the OUAFC minute books from 1883 to 1945) he has assembled the first comprehensive picture of Oxford Soccer. There is a wealth of detail and from it emerges the consistent contribution of the Hall since A.L. Corbett won the first Blue in 1899 in the 27th year of the competition and in the days when the tiny membership allegedly turned out every day in a different discipline. I write this as SEHAFC's Honorary Secretary 1937-8, who can claim to have done relatively well in that he only once contrived to invite two different oppositions to converge at the same time and the same place. I could also put on my c.v. what was strictly true, 'Elected Captain', although I never took it 160

up since my planned fourth year for a Dip.Ed. was converted into a Sorbonne Diploma and the job fell to an infinitely better player altogether, Jack McManners, who naturally went on to a Regius Professorship. The hero of our day was Jack Lee, who scored a goal as centre-forward in each of his second and third appearances for Oxford and later played as an amateur for the professional club Blackburn Rovers and scored twice for the North against the South in an England Amateur International Trial in 1936; Colin Weir is convinced that he was indeed unlucky not to have had an England cap. He nevertheless became President of the St Edmund Hall Association for 1978-80! But it was left to Colin Weir to make the second highest number of appearances. J.L. Deal of Exeter turned out eight times in the WWII biannual matches for which no actual Blues were awarded- only membership of what is now the reserves, the Centaurs, but Weir did two turns in goal under this regime, followed after the War by three on the full basis ending up as Captain - so five in all. And this is part of the surely remarkable story of Hall Soccer since 1899. We have had fifty-six Hall men appear in one Varsity Match each; seventeen men, two each; nine, three each; two, four each; and of course Weir five times: a total of 130 appearances in all (with nine captaincies), an average turnout of one per match since we started. And since you only get a Blue formally for the first turnout the Hall has notched up 68 of them altogether so far, putting us ahead of the whole University, the nearest behind being Oriel 67, BNC 55 and Hertford 45. And as for numbers in the Oxford XI we have had one in twentyfour matches, two in 14, three in 8, four in 8 again, and five just once. But in 1970 we had seven! Another four and Oxford might even have won ... This year- 1999 -will see the centenary of the first Hall Soccer Blue; let us all hope for a repeat. The History of Oxford University Association Football Club 1872-1998 by Colin Weir was published by Yore Publications in July 1998. Copies can be ordered by Aularians direct from C.J. Weir, Cloughdale, Farfield, Sedbergh, Cumbria LAlO 5LW. Price £11.95 plus post and packing (£1.50 UK, £2.60 Europe, £5.50 worldwide). £3.00 from each copy sold to Aularians will benefit the new Kelly Fund for Sport & the Arts.

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NEWS FROM THE FOOT PLATE Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Fellow) The restoration of the "Flying Scotsman" was much-trumpeted in the press during the early summer and some readers will have realised that the enthusiastic owner of this beast, Dr Tony Marchington, Chief Executive of Oxford Molecular, is an Honorary Fellow of the College and perhaps betterknown to us for the generous benefaction made by his company to fund one of the Hall's Chemistry Fellowships. The photo below shows the splendidly restored train in full steam. I was lucky enough to make it on thE!' return trip from York to London on 11th July. Having travelled up earlier that day in one of McAlpine's Pullman carriages, most of the day was spent visiting the Railway Museum at York, where one realised the awesome power of locomotives such as we were about to experience.

The "Flying Scotsman".

An hour or so before departure the platform was a Victorian bustle: breaking pompously through the crowds of train spotters unfortunately not travelling on the "Scotsman", I found Tony, Peter Butler (SEH 1973), the Lord Mayor, and Uncle-Tom-Cobbly-and-all fluttering around the Green Giant, already sweating in anticipation of its ballistic progress to London. 162

In the way that dogs resemble their owners, so there was a resemblance in this respect between Marchington and Monster: larger than life, glistening, wreathed in smiles. Flashing bulbs, flashing smiles, Ascot ladies emerging from acrid steam clouds, genuflecting train spotters, eyes a-popping, busy stewards and their well-honed repartee, the green flag and whistle, and away we puffed, accelerating to over 80 mph in what seemed to be no time! Well, by then I had become a different being; the affable cocktail party person: a gracious wave to the audience that lined almost every yard of the journey; chortling with good humour with my fellow travellers. The ubiquitous Peter Butler professionally networking the entire train, we enjoyed the attention of his charming family, enjoying an occasional light-hearted exchange with the man-that-had-made-this-possible (as one does). The trip was a dream. NOT just a trip down memory lane: it was a feast of enjoyment and to be recommended to almost anyone, but particularly to those of my generation who miss those leviathans of yesteryear. For those who want to celebrate the millennium in style, why not rush to book yourself on the overnight Scotsman to Edinburgh; but by the time you read this, you may be too late! Thanks again, Tony, for a fantastic day out.

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An aerial view of the Hall. Taken October 23rd, 1939. (from St. Edmund Hall Magazine, 1939)

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AULARIAN CALENDAR CITY CHAPTER OF AULARIANS RECEPTION Thursday, 28th October 1999 CITY CHAPTER OF AULARIANS "CAREER'S DAY" Friday, 29th October 1999 For junior members. CELEBRATION OF GRAHAM MIDGLEY'S LIFE Saturday, 30th October 1999 70th BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR SIR DAVID YARDLEY Saturday,13th November 1999 ST EDMUND'S DAY Tuesday, 16th November 1999 ST EDMUND DINNER - NEW YORK Friday,19th November 1999 THE LONDON DINNER Tuesday, 11th January 2000 *

Further details of the following events will be announced in due course.

FLOREAT AULA SOCIETY MILLENNIUM DINNER Friday, 17th March 2000 OXFORD UNIVERSITY NORTH AMERICAN REUNION 31st March & 1st April 2000 80th BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR BRUCE MITCHELL & REGGIE ALTON Saturday, 1st April 2000 GEDDES LECTURE Friday, 5th May 2000 Speaker: Mr ]eremy Paxman. THE A.B. EMDEN LECTURE Wednesday, lOth May 2000 Speaker: Professor Roy Foster (Hertford College) 165

AMERICAN DONOR EVENT Saturday, 3rd June 2000 SUMMER REUNION 1st & 2nd July 2000 For all Aularians. 40th ANNIVERSARY GAUDY Friday, 15th September 2000 For Aularians who matriculated in 1960. ANNUAL GAUDY Saturday, 30th September 2000 For Aularians who matriculated between 1973 and 1977.

AULARIAN eLINKS For the growing number of you who are now on email, the Hall has set up a new email address to improve the speed with which we can process Aularian information for the De Fortunis Aularium pages of the Hall Magazine:

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ERRATA 1997-8 MAGAZINE Page 73:

The li st of University Prizes should have included the Gibbs Prize in Music, awarded to Oliver J. Dahin.

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At the bottom of the page and under the heading "Fundraising Initiatives", the reference to Or M.G. Pike should have been to his father, John Pike ( 1946).

Page 110: The entry for Wilson (1987) should have read: "Dr Jonathan W. Wilson (1987) and Sinead Smith (1985) were married in 1997 ."

The Editor wishes to thank everyone who contributed to the 1998-9 issue of the St Edmund Hall Magazine, especially those Aularians (over 1,000!) who returned last year's blue "update form". Thank you all for keeping in touch. Floreat Aula!

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ST EDMUND HALL Matriculation 1998 Back row:

P Quek, A Vallejo Barba, G Xiao, K Chapple, A Bulusu, J Blacker, C Sarafopoulos, K Tan , H-B Tan, J Spelling.

8th row:

L Crowther, H Brown, D Modi, S Bunse, J Lewis, E Carder, W-N Wu, A Sarantis, S Malu , M McKinnon, J Stafford, A-L Gardner, 0 Boryshansky, P Williams, HLG Tan, L Bannister, C McGill, E Nesbitt.

7th row:

R Fisher, M Murray, J Peterson, J Theben, M Aroyo, R Chilton, Y Hayashi , K Wilkinson, P Norridge, E Eshun, R Streatfeild, H Reichardt, C Long, T Court, A-M Evans, B Wi lkinson, T Sivamohan, A Berg.

6th row:

M Piatkus, R Leo, C Lee, P Cardinale, B Schreiber, J Scheinfeldt, S Khan , B O' Connor, S Saeed, T Davis, H-J Kim, S Ellis, A Dunford, J Bendall, A Whitworth, S Chuenkhum, A Ertle, C Ehrig, J Shattuck.

5th row:

E Christopherson, A Singh, M Newnes, P Smith, C Gourlay, R Governey, C Knutson, A Blonde!, N Butticker, J Pumphrey, V Brock, G Kakoty, J McDermott, S Crabtree, R Connell, K Sharp, C Murray, A Spaventa.

4th row:

M Myers, T Perry, K Hughes, J Campbell, R Lion , S Haywood, A Patterson, R Wenzel , J Linford, A Pike, N Clark, C Daunt, E Hollingworth, M Foulkes, L Aitken, J Tubbs, E Keaney, R Latham, N Hirst.

3rd row:

R Harrold, J Lotay, L Ronaldson, M Marchewka, S Trounce, T Tremeer, R Beer, A Bethell, L Helier, I Shapiro, J Matthews, J Dickinson, A Day, J Fitt, M Rumsey, A Fitzwilliams, S MacFarland, A Davies.

2nd row:

A Miller, N Stacey, T Johnson, A-1 Michalas, V Fuller, T Hill , P McGhee, C Wilkins, B Marsh, M John, J Halliwell, H Tanner, G Stockey, T Colegate-Stone, H Metson, T Willetts, A Arya, M Fazalur Karim, R Oran.

Front row:

G Doran, D Austin , J Ryder, T Croston, D Welch , N Thomas-Symonds, D Cormode, T Marsh, M Tornko (MCR President), Mr R Alton (Dean of Degrees), J Houghton (JCR President), J Keenan, M Bird, J Bruce, R Court, M Pavey, R Dixon, M Halloran, J Fownes.