ST EDMUND HALL
MAGAZINE
EDITOR Nicholas Davidson
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COVER ILLUSTRATION: ' The First Ladies ' : group photograph of the first women among the junior members , who this year celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their matriculation in 1979 Printed by the Holywell Press Ltd., 15 to 17 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road , Oxford
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Vol. XV No. 5
ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE
October 2000
COLLEGEUST ......... ..... .. ... .. .. ............ .. ............ . 1 TO REPORT From the Principal ... ........ .... ...... .. ... .. .... ... ... . .. .... 7 From the Chaplain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 From the Librarian .. ... . ... .... . .... ........ .. ............... . 15 From the Domestic Bursar ...................................... 22 The Senior Common Room . .. ........ .. ... .. ... ... ............ . 27 The Middle Common Room . .. . . ... . ....... .. .... . ...... . . ...... 39 TheJuniorCommonRoom ..................................... 40 Clubs and Societies .. . . ...... . ... . .. ... . ........ ... ........... 42
THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ...................................... . .... . . .. . St Edmund's Day ............................................. The Emden Lecture . .... .. .. . .. .. ... . .. .. ..... ........ ...... .. The Geddes Lecture .......................................... Graduate Seminars ............................................ Art Week ... . .. ..... . .. . . .. ..... ....... .. .. .... ..... ........ Music at the Hall .. ... .. ... . ... ....... . .................. ... . . Dr Ian Scargill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eightieth Birthday Celebrations for Mr Alton and Dr Mitchell .......... Obituary: Dr Richard Fargher .... .... ... . .... . ... .. . ......... ... FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ...................................... . ..... Matricu1ations . .. ... ... . ..... . ......................... . .... Visiting Students ............. .... . . .. ........ .. .... ... .. .. .. Degree Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Awards and Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Degree Days 2000-2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE News ............ .. ... . . ......... .. ....... ... ..... . ... .. .. The Revd Graham Midgley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aularian Gatherings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donors to the Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Floreat Aula Society ...... ................... .... . . .. .....
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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives Minutes of the 68th Annual General Meeting Gifts to the Hall The 59th London Dinner The Accounts Seventieth Birthday Celebrations for Sir David Yardley 0
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ARTICLES The Hall's Chronograms and other Inscriptions Leaving our Femininity at the Porter's Lodge No Way Out? Baltic Cycle Challenge (or A Cycle of Baltic Challenges) Our Chough makes the National News A Concluding Poetic Duel 0
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Visitor The Chancellor of the University The Rt Hon. Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC, DCL Principal 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 and Dean of Chapel Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Reader in Politics, Butterworth Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Modern History; and Library Fellow 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, Tutor in Metallurgy and Science of Materials, and VicePrincipal Stone, Nicholas James, MA, D.Phil. Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Tutor in Modern Languages (German) and Deputy Dean Collins, Peter Jack, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Mathematics Venables, Robert, MA (LLM 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 Barrister, Professor of Law, Tutor in Law and Tutor for Admissions Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (Ph.D. Leic.; MA Camb.) Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, M.Phil. Tutor in Economics and Academic Bursar
Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Tutor in Law, and Tutor for Undergraduates Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (Ph.D. Mane.) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, Tutor for Graduates and Tutor for Music 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, WR. Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor Cronk, Nicholas Emest, MA, D.Phil. Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Besse Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, D.Phil. A.C. Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Newc.) 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) Boume-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, MA (B.Sc. Leeds; Ph.D. Camb.) Fellow by Special Election in Pharmacology Whittaker, Robert James, MA (B.Sc. Hull; M.Sc., Ph.D. Wales) Reader in Biogeography and Tutor in Geography Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA (B.Eng., Ph.D. Liv.) Reader in Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; Ph.D. Lond.) Professor of East European History, Fellow by Special Election, and Archivist
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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 Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, D.Phil. (BA Arnherst, MA Harvard) Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) and Investment Bursar Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) Oxford Molecular Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, and Dean 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 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 Professor of Neurology, and Fellow by Special Election 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. CNAA), 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 Ebers, George Cornell, MA (MD Toronto) Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Regional Liaison Director in the University, and Fellow by Special Election.
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Honorary Fellows Wright, Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth, GCMG, MA Wylie, Norman Russell, The Rt. Hon. Lord Wylie, PC, BA (LLB Glas.) McManners, The Revd John, CBE, MA, D.Litt. , FAHA, FBA, F.R.Hist.S. Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (Ph.D. Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt. Hon. Lord Brow ne-Wilkinson, 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) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robert, OBE, 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
* Deceased Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (LLD Birrn.), 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.) Pollock, Norman Charles, B.Litt., MA (BA Cape Town) Ganz, Peter Felix, MA (MA, Ph.D. Lond.) Alton, Reginald Ernest, MC, MA, Dean of Degrees
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Mitchell, Raymond Bruce, MA, D.Phil., D.Litt. (MA Melbourne) Matthews, Waiter Bryan, MA, DM, FRCP Todd, Joseph Derwent, MA, D.Phil. Hirsch, Sir Peter Bemhard, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), FRS Christian, John Wyrill, MA, D.Phil., FRS Cowdrey, The Revd Herbert Edward John, MA, DD, 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 Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, D.Phil. Lecturers Hulance, Jason, BA Computation Farlow, Andrew, M.Phil. (MA Camb.) Economics Cannon, Mark, M.Eng., D.Phil. (SM MIT) Engineering Jenkyns, Joy, MA (BA Soton; MA Lond.) English Martin, Priscilla Elizabeth, MA (BA, MA, Ph.D. Lond.) English Vance, Sylvia Elizabeth, D.Phil. (BA Alberta) English Waters, David John, MA, D.Phil. (MA Camb.) Geology Adams, John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh.) Law Knight, Robin William, MA, D.Phil. Mathematics Lo, Joseph Tzan Hang, M.Math Mathematics Black, John Joseph Merrington, FRCS Ed., FFAEM (MB, BS Lond.) Medicine Lear, Pamela Virginia (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) Medicine Trevelyan, Andrew James, D.Phil. (MB, B.Ch. Edin.) Medicine Inkson, Beverley Jane, MA status (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Metallurgy Metallurgy Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Modern History Clark, James Gordon, MA, D.Phil. (BA Brist.) Modern History Leyser, Henrietta (Mrs), B.Litt. , MA Baines, Jennifer, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (Russian) Catani, Damian BA Modern Languages (French) Modern Languages (Italian) Florio-Cooper, Clara (Dott. Lett. Turin) Modern Languages (French) Holland, Anna, BA
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Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (Greek) Mortimer, Geoffrey, BA (B.Sc., M.Sc. Swansea) Modern Languages (German) Peyron, Margaret Modern Languages (Lectrice) 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) Marston, Nicholas John, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.) Music Myatt, Gerald, MA (B.Sc. Birm., Ph.D. Liv.) Physics Rikovska-Stone, Jirina, MA (Ph.D. Prague) Physics Wolfe, Douglas Maurice, BA, M.Phil. (BA Toronto) Politics Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA Psychology Chaplain The Revd Duncan MacLaren, MA Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA College Secretary Carol McClure Head Porter David Beeching Decanal Staff David R. Skeet, BA, D.Phil. Junior Dean (MT99) AnaL. Unruh (BS Trinity, Texas) Cover Dean (MT99), Junior Dean (HTOO and TTOO) Philip Cardinale (BA Georgetown) Cover Dean (HTOO and TTOO) John P. O'Doherty (BA Dublin) Sub-Dean (NSE) Jonathan Witztum (BA Ben-Gurion) Sub-Dean (Isis) Gareth A. Fairey, BA Sub-Dean (lsis)
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TO REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL How could a year have passed so quickly? My wife, Stacey, and I moved into The Lodgings on 1 September and I was officially installed as Principal on 7 October 1999. Therefore perhaps it is fitting to start by welcoming others who have joined the Hall during the present academic year. Professor George Ebers joined us from Canada as the Action Research Profe ssor of Clinical Neurology (successor to Professor John Newsom-Davis) and was admitted on the same day as myself. Prof. Ebers delivered his Inaugural Lecture in the Examination The acting Principal hands over the Hall key to the Schools on 'Multiple new Principal Sclerosis - a complex trait paradigm' on 9 May 2000. I was pleased to see that Oxford has managed its Inaugural Lectures more speedily than Imperial College, where often Professors had moved on to a new institution before actually being given the opportunity to define their field in an inaugural lecture. Ian Scargill and Stephen Farthing were elected to Emeritus Fellowships. Ian first came to the Hall in 1954 from Batley Grammar School and has been a mainstay of the Hall ever since. Besides his careful and dedicated teaching to successive generations of undergraduates reading Geography he has undertaken many College Offices with sound common sense and judgement. As a keen cricketer I hope he will not mind my describing him as a safe pair of hands. His sense of fair play and good judgement have also found a suitable outlet as an Oxford City Magistrate. We wish him and Mary a long and interesting retirement. Stephen Farthing ends a very successful tenure as Master of the Ruskin School of Art. He has managed to combine a thriving artistic career with effective management of the School
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- two characteristics which do not often come together in one person. He takes up a new and exciting post as Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art and generously he has already offered to host a fundraising event at his new gallery. Although very committed to the Ruskin he was often seen in the Hall and his many contributions to Hall life will be greatly missed. Joe Barclay (1965) was one of Ian Scargill 's Geography students and has recently been seconded from Barclay's Bank to act as the University's Regional Liaison Director. He was elected as a Fellow by Special Election in December. Alan Flanders and Anna Holland have been elected as Fellows by Special Election from September 2000. The Hall has hosted the following visiting academics during the year: Henk te Velde (University of Groningen, Netherlands); Monika Coghen (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland); Vladimir Novak (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava); and Arihiro Fukuda (University of Tokyo). It is sad to announce the resignation of Dr Clara Raposo from her Fellowship in Management and Economics from 30th September 2000. She is returning to an academic post in Portugal and we shall miss her teaching in Finance and her advice on investment matters. She leaves in a year when our undergraduates in this new School have done particularly well - two out of the three finalists obtained First Class Honours Degrees - and the new Said Business School, located opposite the Railway Station, has had its topping-out ceremony. One of our MBA students, Gerard Milne, was part of a team which obtained the highest score in their division at the MOOT-CORP 2000 Business Plan Convention in Houston, Texas. Douglas Wolfe (Lecturer in Politics) has taken up a Junior Lectureship in Political Theory and a College Lectureship at Christ Church; David Skeet (Junior Dean) was appointed to a post in the Civil Service at GCHQ; and Janet Mead, Visiting Student Administrator, left us after doing much to expand the Year Abroad Programme. Her administrative skills and her pastoral advice to successive groups of foreign students will be missed greatly. It is a pleasure to announce that the Reverend Professor John McManners FBA (Honorary Fellow), now fellow and chaplain of All Souls, was created CBE in the New Year Honours List. The Advisory Board was showered with honours from Buckingham Palace - Bill Miller was awarded an OBE for his work with the English Speaking Union, Ian Byatt was knighted for his services to the water industry and General Sir Michael Rose was made Colonel of his Regiment and took a major role in the Trooping of the Colour. Professor David Pettifor FRS, Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy, received the 1999 Award of the Royal Society and the Brasiers' Company.
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John Cowdrey, who continue~ to publish extensively, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity ft-om the University. The Hall's long association with the Department of rvlaterials was underlined when the University's new Business and Scienc~ Park at Begbroke was opened in June by Lord Sainsbury and two of th-e buildings were named after Professor Sir Peter Hirsch and Professor Jacl<. Christian, who are both Emeritus Fellows. Maureen Christian, Jack's wife.., is currently often featured in the local newspapers as she is Lord Mayor of Oxford. Dr David Manolopoulos was awarded the annual prize of tbe International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and Dr Andrew Steane (Physics 1984), formerly a Fellow by Special Election at the Hall and now a Fellow of Exeter College, was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize in Physics. His wife Emma (nee Palmer, Modern Languages 1985) will be joining us in September as the Principal's Personal Assistant. The University's RecognitiQn of Distinction exercise led to Dr Robert Whittaker being promoted to a Readership in Biogeography and Dr Basil Kouvaritakis to a Professorship in Engineering Science. 80th birthday celebrations for Reggie Alton and Bruce Mitchell were organized on 1 April by Peter Whurr, David Bolton and Fred Farrell (see page 77 for a fuller report) and both were able to hold their former pupils spellbound with their wit and wisdom. The 70th Birthday Celebrations for Sir David Yardley organized by his pupils and held on 13 November attracted former students from all over the world and it was remarkable to hear that two of his former students at the Hall had become Chairmen of the Hong Kong Bar AssociatiQn. Sadly, the death of Arthur Marsh (Emeritus Fellow) reported in last year's Magazine was followed by that of Richard Fargher (Emeritus Fellow) on 30 October (see page 88 for tributes). The memorial services were held at the University Church (11 December) and The Queen's College Chapel (4 March) respectively. A requiem mass for Graham Midgley was held in St Edmund's Chapel on 9 October, and a celebration of his life was organized by friends and former students in the Wolfson Hall on 30 October (see page 121 for a fuller report). All of these occasions were very well attended and the affection with which these Fellows were held by their colleagues, friends and students was plain to see even for someone such as myself who did not know them personally. Graha111 Midgley's presence around the Hall and on the towpath continues to be missed, but the gift of his sculptures to the Hall by Mr Christopher Wilson goes some way to remind those of us in the Senior Common Room of his great influence. Bruce Mitchell and Reggie
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AI ton have edited a book of reminiscences of Graham which will be published in October. Its publication has been delayed by the avalanche of contributions which were submitted. As we went to press, we heard the sad news of the death of Sir Robin Day, who came up to the Hall in 1947 to study Law, and who was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1989. He maintained strong contacts with the college until relatively recently, when ill health prevented his visits. A fuller appreciation will appear in next year's Magazine. A portrait of John Dunbabin by Humphrey Ocean, which captures him precisely with a very economic use of pencil strokes, has been hung in the SCR, and the Fellows have presented him with a rather fine 'sit-up and beg' bicycle (below) in recognition of all that he did whilst he was acting Principal. Martin Slater was admitted as Senior Proctor on 15 March and Stephen Blarney and Andrew Kahn were admitted as Pro-Proctors on the same day. Many Fellows lined-up for the procession down Queen's Lane and
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Fellows after the admission of th e Senior Proctor
attended the ceremony in Convocation House. A celebratory lunch was held in the Wolfson Hall, and the Vice-Chancellor and many other guests attended. Martin follows David Yardley, Justin Gosling and Christopher Wells as previous Proctors and Assessors from the Hall. His knowledge of the workings of the University in the aftermath of the North Report will be invaluable when he returns to the Hall next year. Jeremy Paxman delivered the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture, 'Surviving Spin', in the Examination Schools on 5 May to a very large audience (see the report on page 69 by Dr Newlyn). He also allowed questions for half an hour after his lecture. Fortunately, Michael Howard was not in the audience. The lecture was followed by a reception and a dinner in the Wolfson Hall which was a splendid Hall occasion. The Lecture commemorates Philip Geddes who read English at the Hall and who was tragically killed in the Harrods Bomb explosion in 1983 . This year 's prizes from the Trust were both won by Aularians: Amanda Davies, for her work on sports journalism, and Alison Cook, for her study of the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Uganda. Professor Roy Foster (Fellow of Hertford College) gave the A.B. Emden Lecture, 'Remembering to forget: History and Commemoration in Ireland' , which was in the delivered in the Examination Schools on 1 May (see page 68 for a report by Professor Crampton) . Prof. and Mrs Foster dined in college after the lecture, in the company of other historians from Oxford and many Aularians. In order to improve the intellectual life of postgraduate students within the Hall a new series of postgraduate lectures and discussions was initiated in the Hilary and Trinity Terms. The following contributions attracted good audiences and promoted lively discussions: Prof. Paul Matthews, 'Shake-
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speare on the Brain ' (1 March); the Principal, 'Fraud in the Arts and Sciences' (8 March); Prof. Alan Ryan (Warden of New College), 'An English Ivy League' (17 May) ; Prof. Henk to Velde (University of Groningen, Netherlands), 'Barbarian in Oxford, Historical Anthropologist of Parliament: Two Terms in Teddy Hall?' (23 May); and Prof. Derrick Wyatt, 'European Law and British Autonomy' (7 June). Ian and Caroline Laing have generously contributed to three University/College Postgraduate Scholarships and the holders of these awards gave descriptions of their research plans and results on 23 February. Michael Cansdale has generated donations from his contemporaries to fund a second round of three Postgraduate Scholarships from October 2000 and the Uyeno Family has funded two further Scholarships for 200 I to commemorate Tadeshi Uyeno. Donna Stoering (Artist in Residence) and her daughter, Erin Nolan, gave an excellent concert on 9 March (see the fuller report on page 74). The students al so presented several fine concerts and the Choir continued to achieve new heights. Not only did they produce their first CD (which may be purchased from the Hall Shop), but they are also undertaking a tour in Ireland during the summer. The generous support of Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election) for our choral activities is as always much appreciated. The undergraduates also mounted an excellent production of The Lady's Not For Burning in the Chapel, with a cast composed entirely of members of the Hall (see the fuller report on page 59). The Hall's sporting .achievements have reached unsurpassed breadths. Stacey and I entertained the Women 's Rugby Team twice for Cuppers Dinners, and the Ice Hockey Team once. We look forward at the beginning of next term to a joint dinner for the Sailing Team and Horse Riding Team. The Men's Rugby team were narrowly beaten by Brasenose in the Cuppers Final. We provided the University with several Blues. Two Aularians were in the Isis Boat this year (Hugh Tanner and Mike Broadwith) and beat Goldie in the University Boat Race. The Hall First Eight moved up two places in the First Division on the River and the Second Eight moved up a Division, which may prove to be good augurs for the future. Lord Jenkins joined us at both the St. Edmund's Day Feast and the London Dinner organised by the St Edmund Hall Association which was held at the Royal Overseas Club on 11 January. On both occasions he gave rather rousing speeches which captured the special feeling of Hall Spirit engendered by all who have been associated with the Hall. He also noted that the attendance at the London Dinner, which this year approached 200, was far greater than that which he had observed at the London Dinners of other
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Colleges. The dinner was also enlivened by a particularly witty speech from the Chairman of the Association, Michael Cansdale, and finished with an interesting and well informed insider 's view of rugby from Jack Rowel! (1956). Several events at the Hall this year recognized that the St Edmund Hall family also includes spouses, partners and children. Stacey and I hosted a Christmas Carol Service in the Chapel for the children of all staff in the Hall and this was followed by a party which included the aJTival of Father Christmas, whose presence in the Front Quad was indicated by a jingling of bells. A Father Christmas outfit from Germany and a jovial if somewhat reluctant Fellow completed the illusion for the youngsters. The 75th Anniversary Reunion held on I and 2 July managed to combine events which catered for all members of the family. A formal dinner and the passing of port were balanced by Punch and Judy and Magician's shows. An informal lunch outside the Wolfson Hall accompanied by music from a jazz band was contrasted with a bouncy castle in the front quad and donkey rides in the churchyard. A sedate punt on the Isis was a prelude to a bare knuckle ride on Tony Marchington 's steam engine up and down Headington Hill. At the end of Sunday afternoon approximately 450 adults and children went home tired , but happy in the knowledge that they had been able to share their Hall with their families. Finally Stacey and I were able to appreciate the hospitality of Aularians on the other side of the world when we met up with a group in Auckland in March and had lunch and dinner with a wide spectrum of old members in Hong Kong. I also had the pleasure of sharing a second St Edmund's Feast with the US Aularians, which was hosted by Bill Miller in New York. Their generous support of the Hall 's activities which has resulted in the funding of a Fellowship in Physiology and the siting of computer work stations in the tower of St Peter 's in recent years is a reflection of their affection and great commitment to the Hall. Can the next academjc year possibly be even busier? I do not know, but I doubt if it could be more enjoyable.
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FROM THE CHAPLAIN I concluded last year's report with a brief reflection on Graham Midgley, and find myself, once again, draw n to remember the company of the departed. According to hi s wishes, a Requiem Mass for Graham was conducted in the Chapel on 9 October, led by the Revd John Davis. Arthur Marsh was commemorated in the University Church on 11 December and Richard Fargher in the Chapel of The Queen's College on 4 March. Each of these services reinforced for me the closeness of the family of St Edmund Hall. Also on 4 March the College held a memorial service for Kai Dawson, a uniquely gifted Aularian whose death was tragic and untimely. The Chapel community has benefited this year from the injection of additional talent in the choir through the introduction of external choral awards, which were received by Phillippa Caldicott, Jennifer Pescod and Felicity Alcindor. Furthermore, the new Junior Organ Scholar, Christopher Hampson, has brought hi s own musical talent to bear upon the choir. The choir has grown in strength and confidence, evidenced not only in a Choir Tour to Dublin Cathedral in July 2000, but also in the production of their first CD ( ' They never made a CD in my day ' exclaimed an impressed Bruce Mitchell). This professional-quality CD includes compositions from both Organ Scholars, and is available from the Bursary. Much of the impetus for this has come from our ageing Senior Organ Scholar, Daniel Beach, who leaves us thi s summer and will be sadly mi ssed, especially his light touches in the services such as the playing of the 'Teddy Bear's Fugue' after the service on the feast of St Edmund. Another contributor to the CD who will also be missed is Ian Scargill. His deep, bell-like voice has been immortalized in his reading of John, chapter one, and his retirement this summer means that he steps down as Dean of Chapel, a responsibility he has discharged with unflinching dedication. More routinely, our preaching series this year have explored the media, the nature of hope, issues in science and religion, and the epistle to the Philippians. We have had distinguished speakers including David Cook and David Winter opening up insights and Christian reflections on the world of broadcasting, advertising, programme making, and theatre. In Hilary 2000 we looked forward, on the theme of Hope. Our four visiting preachers were undoubtedly people of hope. In an era of institutional decline, all four are training for ordained ministry in the Church of England. In Trinity, the focus shifted to issues on the relationship between science and religion, while I preached on Philippians.
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Several of the suggestions for this term came from the members of the Chapel Committee, who have continued to pour their inspiration into proceedings. Together we organized a Corporate Communion service, which brought together Christians in College from across the spectrum for a moving and creative service at which Simon Ponsonby, the Oxford Pastorate Chaplain, spoke. A discussion group was also initiated which met in the Well bar, and explored topics including crime, debt, football, consumerism and censorship. The Committee is also discussing ways of reordering the Chapel : a new altar frontal has been designed and is on its way, and there are plans being drawn up to provide the front row of the choir with much needed music rests. (These existed around 1900 - does anyone know what happened to them?) Especial thanks should be recorded to two members of the committee, Jonathan Gray and James Bendall , for their tireless commitment both within their roles as Chapel Wardens and beyond them. Outside the immediate sphere of the Chapel, the high points of the year included a trip to Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge, where our choir joined theirs for a service, and acquaintances from last year's visit to Oxford were renewed at a sumptuous buffet feast. In February, the Christian Union held their triennial mission, led by Paul Weston, a thoughtful and gifted speaker. Teddy Hall welcomed two guests of the CU for the week, one of whom contributed to our preaching series on Hope. The Crypt has continued to be used at least once per term for services, the regular fixtures being All Saints' Day, Ash Wednesday, and Ascension Day. The installation of a door at the foot of the stairs has improved its usefulness all year round. They say that traditions in Oxford take only three years to forge, and the reviving of an old Teddy Hall tradition of an end-of-term walk to Binsey church for a service seems set to stay. This was our second year of doing so, and the romantic and forgotten backwoods of Binsey provided a fulfilling ending to a full year. Jon Gray preached, Daniel Beach played the pedal harmonium until it (or was it he?) expired, and afterwards Bruce Mitchell entertained us with more stories and mirth around the beer-slicked tables of The Perch.
FROM THE LIBRARIAN Millenni-Hall Gifts to the Aularian Collection and to the Library The first year into the new Millennium (pace any Aularians who believe, with me, that it begins in 200 l) saw a wonderful example set for the next 1000 years of the variety of gifts that can be given to the Library and its
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various collections. There were prints of the Hall , given by Mrs Jennifer Legge, from the collection of her late father, John R. Hayston (1929). And books about Aularians: from Sir Den is Wright ( 1929 and Honorary Fellow), a book about Charles Hadfield ( 1928); from Anthony Lynch ( 1950), a book about Jack Preger (1950). A report of the 1999 pilgrimage to Pontigny by the alumni of St. Michael 's College, Vermont, a college founded in 1904 by the Society of St Edmund, was given to the Librarian when she visited the Society there in April (see the account of her visit on page 34). Shelving for the Emden Collection of naval, military and intelligence history was donated by Or Alan Flanders, just elected Fellow by Special Election for three years for his work on the collection (see the notice on page 21 about the conference in September 200 Lcelebrating the Royal Navy, Em den 's involvement and the collection). Parents of Aularians have been generous, too: Mrs Virginia Catmur, whose daughter Caroline matriculated this year, has given the Library seven books on early modern history. Sad moments have also brought bounty to the Library: Richard Fargher has Left ÂŁ2000 for the purchase of Modern Language books; and Arthur Marsh 's library has added to both the Trades Union section and to the Emden Collection. Dr. Damian Atkinson, Assistant to the Librarian, has just had his book The selected letters of WE. Henley published; it has had an excellent reception, and received the lead review, and a most praiseworthy one, from The Times Literary Supplement of August 11 , 2000. Here are the books and articles given to the Aularian Collection: ATKINSON, Damian (Library Assistant) The selected letters of W E. Henley. Aldershot: Ashgate 2000. 23 bibliographical entries in The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, vol. 4, ed. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999.
BORTHWICK, Alastair (Fellow) 'A pseudospectral sigma-transformation model of2-D non linear waves'. Journal of Fluids and Structures 13,
BENBOW, Col in ( 1951) The Teachers' Association of Bermuda ( 1949-/964) : the short history of a small trade union. Bermuda: The Writers' Machine 2000.
BOURDEAUX, Michael ( 1954) The politics of religion in Russia and the new states of Eurasia. Armonk, New York: Sharpe, 1995.
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1999. ' Hierarchical tree-based finite element mesh generation'. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 45, 1999.
Proselytism and orthodoxy in Russia: the new warfor souls. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1999. BOURNE-JONES, Derek ( 1951 ) 'River thoughts at Oxford' [in memory of Richard Fargher]. Privately printed. CHADWICK-JONES, John ( 1948)
Developing a social psychology of monkeys and apes. Hove: Psychology Press, 1998. CLARKE, David ( 1958)
Reflections: poems from two collec¡tions. Sidmouth: Pikestaff, 2000. CORCO RAN, Neil ( 1969)
The song of deeds: a study of The Anathemata of David }ones. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1982.
The chosen ground: essays on the contempormy poetry of Northern Ireland. Bridgend: Seren, 1992. A student's guide to Seamus Heaney.
Ash gate Variorum, 1999.
Popes and church reform in the I 1th century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 'Some types of English pilgrim ', in Piacenza e i pellegrinaggi lungo la Via Francigena. Piacenza: Tip.Le.Co. , 1999. CRAMPTON, Richard (Fellow) ' Politi sc he Systeme. Ill Staaten und Politik ' , in Siidosteuropa:
Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft , Ein Ha ndbuc h , ed. Kultur. Magarditsch Hatsc hikjan and Stefan Troebst. Munich: C. H. Bek Verlag, 1999. Review of Zbynek Zeman, The life of Edvard Benes, / 884- 1948 from Central Europe Review I , no. 22. [ ww w. ce-re view. org/99/2 2/ books22_crampton.html] 'The Balkans, 1914-1918' , in The Oxford
lllustrated History of the First World War, ed. Hew Strachan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
The poeuy of Seamus Heaney: a critical study. London: Faber and Faber, 1998.
English poetry since 1940. London:
CRONK, Nicholas (Fellow)
Etudes sur le Traite sur la tolerance de Voltaire. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000
Longman, 1993.
Poets of modern Ireland. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999.
After Years and Joyce: reading modern Irish literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. COWDREY, H.E.J. (Emeritus Fellow) 'John Norman Davidson Kelly 19091997'. Proceedings of the British Academy I 0 I , 1998.
The Crusades and Latin monasticism, 11th-12th centuries. Aldershot:
DAVIDSON, Nicholas (Fellow) 'Toleration in Enlightenment Italy ', in
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, ed. 0 . Grell and R. Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. " 'As much for its culture as for its arms": the cultural relations of Venice and its dependent cities, 1400-1700', in Medi-
terranean urban culture 1400-1700, ed. Alexander Cowan . Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2000 DOULTON, Angus ( 1963)
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Single access points for public service. Church Stretton: DragonFlair, 1999. EATON, Deborah Hayward (Librarian) ' Information in the stones, a library building as history : St Peter-in-theEast, St Edmund Hall, Oxford ', Library History 15, 1999. FARTHING, Stephen (Fellow) An intelligent persons guide to modern art. London: Duckworth 2000
reprint). When I was a child. Eastcote: PLHS, 1984. Fair enough? ?inner Fair: the last 200 years. Harrow on the Hill: Herga Press, 1993. GORDON, Keith ( 1988) 'Charitable tax' , Taxation 143, 1999. 'Cheap at the price - I', Taxation 143,
1999. 'Cheap at the price- II', Taxation 143 ,
1999. FRANKIS , John ( 1948) 'From saint's life to saga: the fatal walk of Alfred Aetheling, Saint Amphibalus and the Viking Brodir', Saga-Book 25,
1999. FRYER, Jonathan ( 1969) Soho in the fifties and sixties. London: National P01trait Gallery, 1998. Andre & Oscar: Gide, Wilde and the gay art of living. London: Constable, 1997. GATRELL, Simon ( 1965) Thomas Hardy: Under the greenwood tree. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
'Till tax us do part', Taxation 143, 1999. Review of Income Tax 1999/2000; Corporation Tax 1999/2000; Capital Gains Tax 1999!2000 (London: Accountancy Books) from Taxation 144, 2(XX). 'Tax law into the 21st century', Tolley s Practical Tax Service 20, no. 26, 1999. 'Lies, damned lies ... ', Taxation 144, 2000. 'Relief for the serial investor ', Tolley 's Practical Tax Service, 20, no. 12, 1999. 'Perils of PAYE' , Taxation 144,2000. 'Personal taxation ', Taxation 144, 2000. 'The road to incorporation', Tolley's Practical Tax Service 20, no. 13, 1999. 'Strategic business ', Taxation 145, 2000. 'Domestic complexities', Taxation 143 ,
1999. Thomas Hardy: The return of the native. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Thomas Hardy: Tess ofthe d' Urbevilles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Thomas Hardy: Far from the madding crowd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
GOSLING, Justin (Emeritus Fellow) ' Y -a-t'il une forme de l'indetermine?', in Le jelure du plaisir: etudes sur le Philebe de Platon , ed. Monique Dixsaut. Paris: 1. Vrin, 1999.
GOLLAND, James ( 1946) Not Winston, just William? Winston Churchill at Harrow School. Harrow on the Hill : Herga Press, 1988 (1994
HARDING, David (1951) ' The M01timer lordship' , in Ludlow Castle: its history & buildings, ed. R. Shoesmith and A. Johnson. Logaston:
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1999. 'Tax law rewrite', Taxes 115,5 May 2000
Logaston Press, 2000. HEARN, John B. (1970) AS/A-Level economics: markets and market failure. Deddington: Phi lip All an, 2000. AS/A-Level economics: exam revision notes. Deddington: Phi lip All an, 1999. KHAN, Bashir Ahmad ( 1983) 'Financi al markets and economic development in Pakistan: 1947-1995 ', in 50 years of Pakistan s economy, ed. S .R. Khan . Oxford: Oxford University Press,
Wallingford: Symposium Books, 1999. British interest in edu cat ion in Japan: some aspects bearing upon the purposes of comparati ve studies. The UK-Japan Education Forum Monograph no. 4, 1998 . ' Helena Denke and the women of Germany: a note on post-war educational reconstruction' , German L!le and Letters 52, 2000. SCARGILL, lan (Fellow) 'The French census of 1999 ' , To wn and Country Planning, 1999.
1999. KNIGHT, John (Fellow) The rural-urban divide: economic disparities and interactions in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 'The diamond boom, expectations and economic management in Botswana', in Trade shocks in developing countries, vol. I : Africa, ed. Paul Collier et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. LAWLESS, Clive ( 1956) 'Usi ng learning activities in mathematics: workload and study time ', Studies in Higher Education 25, 2000. MITCHELL, Bmce (EmeJitus Fellow) 'Apo Koinou in Old English poetry' . Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 4, C,
1999. PHll.LIPS, David (Fellow) ' Beyond travellers ' tales: some nineteenth-century British commentators on education in Germany ', 04ord Review of Education 26, 2000. Learning from comparing; vol. I: Contexts, classrooms and outcomes.
SCIORTINO, Ian ( 1932) Malta: island fortress or bridge of peace. Oxford: New Cherwell Press, 2000. SPRAGUE, El mer ( 1948) Persons and minds: a philosophical investigation. New York: Westvi ew Press, I 999. SPURR, Bany ( 1974) ' Liturgical anachronism in Murder in the Cathedral'. Yeats Elliot Review 15 1998. TODD, J . D. (Emeritus Fellow) Structures: theory and analvsis. London: Macmillan , 2000. TOVEY, B1ian ( 1944) ' Pontormo and the Cappe ll a Capponi ', Ga ze tt e des Beaux -Arts : La Chronique des Arts 141 , 1999 TROMANS, Christopher ( 1961) ' Service of documents ', New Law Joumall49 , 1999.
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TYTLER, Graeme ( 1954) 'The lines and lights of the human countenance: Physiognomy in George Eliot's fiction', George Eliot- George Henry Lewes Studies 36-3 7, 1999. Review of Der exzen trische Blick. Gespriich iiber Phys iognomik ed. Claudia Schmolders, from History of Psychiatry 9, 1998. URRY, William(lateFellow) Thomas Becket: his last days . Stroud:
Alan Sutton 1999 VENABLES, Robe11 (Fellow by Special Election) Non-resident trusts. London: Key Haven, 1999 (7th ed.). WRJGHT, Den is, (Sir Honorary Fellow) ' Burials and memorials of the British in Persia: further notes and photographs' ,lran37, 1999.
And here are the people and institutions who have given books to the undergraduate and graduate Library: CATMUR, Virginia, motherofCaroline Catmur ( 1999) CHURCHOFSClliNTOLOGY COOK, Alison ( 1997) COOPER, Timothy ( 1997) COWDREY, HE J (Emeritus Fellow) CRONK, Nicholas (Fellow) DAVIDSON, Nicholas (Fellow) DUNBABIN, J.P.D. (Fellow) EATON, Deborah Hayward (Librarian) EMMISON, Simone ( 1989) FARRAND, Roger ( 1955) FLANDERS, Alan (Fellow by Special Election) GOSLING, Justin (Emeritus Fellow) INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOPHYSICAL RESEARCH KIRKWOOD, James ( 1997) KNIGHT, John B. (Fellow) LEAR, Pamela (Lecturer) MARSH, A11hur (Emeritus Fellow) (bequest) MAUKONEN, Y.K. ( 1998) MINGOS , Michael (Principal)
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MITCHELL, Bmce (Eme1itus Fellow) MORTIMER, Geoff ( 1993; Lecturer) MOUNTFORD, Phi lip (Fellow) MUSLIM ACADEMIC TRUST PHELPS, Christopher (Emeritus Fellow) PRJCE, James ( 1949) ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND SCIORTINO, Ian ( 1932) SCOTTISH & NEWCASTLE plc SMITH, David G. ( 1959) SUFITRUST TASSANO, Fabian THE SOClliTY FOR DISTRJBUTING HEBREW SCRJPTURES VENABLES, Ch1is ( 1996) VENABLES, Robe11 (Fellow by Special Election) WHITTAKER, Rob (Fellow) WILLIAM URRY MEMORJAL LECTURE FUND WITZTUM, Jonathan ( 1996) WYATT, Derrick (Fellow)
Coming in September 2001 THE EMDEN NAVAL AND MILITARY ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
Have you a naval , military or intelligence service background or interests? Do you write about or study any of these areas? Is your company's business in any way related to these? Have you practised or studied Admiralty Law ? Or are you just curious about Emden 's naval experiences and the Hall 's continuing involvement with the Senior Service? If so, then mark in your diary mid-September 200 I for the planned conference. It will be an excellent opportunity to meet representatives of the Royal Navy and of the Atlantic Fleet, and scholars from both sides of the Atlantic; and a chance to contact Aularians with similar interests and experiences in these fields. Details and an application form will be distributed with the Summer Reunion 2001 material. Also, if you wish to make a presentation at the Conference, please contact the Librarian by mail or at library@seh.ox.ac.uk.
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FROM THE DOMESTIC BURSAR Will the last staff member to leave please turn out the light? The last year has seen an almost incredible number of staff changes throughout every department: Bursary, Lodge, Administration, Development and Maintenance. Janet Mead left earlier this year for a complete change of scenery: from administration of the College's Year Abroad Programme to the University's Occupational Health Department. Janet served the Hall loyally for over six years and we shall all miss her ubiquitous presence, her jokes, her amusing e-mails and most of all, her innate sensitivity to staff and students alike. She has made the College many friends all over the world. Alice Gibbons became well-known in the Bursary for many years, and later as an assistant in the newly-formed Development Office; her wide knowledge of alumni and the ability to put faces to names from the past were two of the many attributes she utilized for the great benefit of the Hall. We wish her well with husband Charlie (who also worked for the College for a number of the years in the Senior Common Room) in their retirement- it was good to spot them both at a distance in the Stewards' Enclosure at Henley this summer! The praises of Peter Chivers were sung in these pages a few years ago when he was presented with the College long-service Armada Dish : nothing has changed. His retirement has deprived us of the same multitude of skills: his contributions to the Art Week shows over the years, and the visible reminders of his many other skills. There was the bench in the far quadrangle that was made of scrap bicycle parts, still enjoyed by all ; the immaculate repairs to the Chapel floor, including the insertion of the memorial tablet to his great friend , Graham Midgely; the elegant bannister rail at the entrance to the Kelly stairs; the stone repairs to the exterior of the MCR computer room; the stainless steel work in the kitchens; and a host of other careful repairs and gismos throughout the College and its outposts (not forgetting the Isis railings!). The photograph opposite shows Peter and his wife, Brenda, with the Principal at his 'second' retirement at the end of May, Peter having stayed on an extra three months to help us out of a staff crisis. In recognition of his long service to the Hall as stonemason, gardener, deputy Superintendent of Works and master of all trades, the Senior Common Room will be dining Peter and his wife at High Table in Michaelmas Term.
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In the College Office there has been much excitement: Kirstie Fieldhouse, Assistant College Secretary, moved on to Oriel earlier this year and will be much missed not only by the Registrar, Carol McClure, and Berry (whom she regularly walked), but by the Fellows who came to rely on her accurate secretarial skills and computer literacy. Changes to the academic support setup have resulted in the appointment of Penny Alden and Tuija VanttinenNewton, who will be found in the College Office and its neighbouring room. By the time this is printed, the new Principal's personal assistant will be in place. Emma Steane, nee Palmer, a Teddy Hall girl (1985), arrives later this summer to fill the vacancy which will occur when Shirley Dawson retires at Christmas- more on Shirley, after she's gone! No one has been immune to the remarkable transformation that the College Gardens are undergoing: well done, Susan Kasper, our new ' Arts and Crafts' gardener. Susan has already become part of the garden ; she is so happy here and has asked to be planted where she drops, when the time comes! Some time yet, we hope! Susan has already shown her artistic capability with the beautiful handmade paper and books that were exhibited in this year's art show. Another exhibitor was the Bursar's new Secretary, Rachel Cable, who came to us at the beginning of this academic year from Savills. A baptism by fire has left her unscathed and proving to be a very popular and useful member of the Bursary staff.
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The Porters' Lodge has been almost traumatized, one mjght think, during the last year, as every member of the staff retired: Wally Lewis as we went to print last year; John Fry and Bill Whitchelo within weeks of each other after many long years' loyal service to the Hall, the latter receiving his Armada Dish at the time. David Beeching, late of the Thames Valley Police and the University Security Service has now been appointed Head Porter, filling the vacancy left by the sad death of Guy Crofts; and there are four new faces, Peter Bowles, Brian Denninger, Malcom Crook and John Richardson.
John Fry and Wally Lewis, who retired this year
Last, but not least, has been the arrival of Ian Anderson, from the Ministry of Defence at Catterick, who has recently joined us to be the new Superintendent of Works. Ian and hjs wife, Trudi, will be living in the flat at the Isis for the foreseeable future.
A new Lodge for Teddy Hall Remembering that the seventies buildings have their foundations in the site of the old masonic buildings on the High, you could be forgiven for thinking that I had been a little too clever with my headline. I write, in fact, to tell readers that, at long last, I have managed to convince the Governing Body to let me refurbish the Porters' Lodge. The Bursarial Comrillttee has been plannjng this venture for some years now, but there were many financial
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considerations to be considered before getting down to the nitty-gritty. The College has the feel of excitement about it on the brink of a new century, and we now seem to be agreed that an enlarged and improved 'front of house' operation will not only complement the high morale of our Porters, but will also help them deal more efficiently with all the unavoidable redtape that accompanies such nerve-centres: health and safety, fire warning systems, volumes of post that would make you blink, access for the disabled; the list is endless! There is also the conviction that a bright new Lodge will display the right message of confidence from a College that is playing a full part in Oxford life.
The Architect's aerial view of proposals for the new Lodge
Work will begin in earnest after Christmas this year and should be completed by the end of the Easter Vac. Once again, we shall run the College from portakabins in the churchyard, while the messy business of gutting the Lodge, sickbay and wine-cellar entrance is undertaken. The finished product will produce a fine, new, secure Lodge, looking in many respects very similar to the way it does now externally, but inside much more spacious and efficient, and adjacent to a newly-configured secretarial suite that will house the Development and Principalian backup. The College Doctor and
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Nurse will be moved up to the Besse Building, closer to their clientele. There will be ramped access for the disabled, a permanent (though tiny) shop front, commodious pigeon hole facilities for students, and state-of-theart security. Finance? Well, I have to admit that I wish there were a benefactor that would like to be associated with this prestigious project. I have had to save up the money from our provisions for repairs- good housekeeping will just about do it - but it is such a shame to have to do such important work from my repairs budget. Any offers? A hundred thousand or two would go a long way towards a transformation for the entrance to the oldest institution in Oxford.
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THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM This year Dr Alistair Borthwick continued globe-trotting in the interests of water-related research. He presented papers on coastal and offshore engineering at international conferences in New Orleans , Barcelona, Caesarea and Sydney. He was a visiting professor at Peking University during March 2000, where he gave seminars and carried out research into flooding of the Yellow River caused by dyke failure. He also gave an invited seminar on coastal processes at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Korea. Adrian Briggs went out to the Far East in October (officially) to conduct the admissions interviews for lawyers applying to the university and (unofficially) to catch up with former students now making their ways in the legal world and (most unofficially of all) to engage in a spot of intensive tourism. The trip was a great success at all three levels. Closer to home, he was one of the editors of the 13th edition of Dicey and Morris on The Conflict of Laws. He reports that those who never have to encounter the two volumes of this work will increase their chances of dying happy. Dr Christopher Cannon was awarded an additional term of leave by the Arts and Humanities Research Board in order to finish his current book project, The Grounds of English Literature, 1066-1300. He will be taking this leave in Michaelmas Term 2000. Professor Jack Christian was awarded the gold meal of the Japanese Institute of Metals for the year 2000. Jack and his wife went to Japan for the presentation ceremony, after which he delivered a lecture (in English!) to the society. We believe that this is the first occasion on which the medal has been awarded to an Englishman (though it was given to an American, J.W. Cahn, a few years ago). The Revd John Cowdrey lectured in Huesca (Aragon), and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity here in Oxford. Old members of the Hall will be delighted to learn that he is now using John Kelly 's DD robes! Nicholas Davidson gave papers at seminars and conferences in Manchester, York and Cambridge, and travelled further afield as an examiner to Newcastle, Birmingham and Malta. Deborah Hayward Eaton, the Librarian, has been appointed Consultant Librarian for the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art; at the invitation of St Michael 's College, Vermont, and of the Generalate of the Society of St Edmund, she gave a series of three lectures and two seminars there in April. She continued her connection with the University of North Carolina's
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Library School, where she taught in 1996, by attending again the annual reception at the Divinity School for their Oxford Experience intensive fortnight course. Former Principal Justin Gosling and his wife Margaret spent three enjoyable weeks in September in the USA visiting old friends, some of them notable old members of the Hall. They spent a few days with Warne and Doreen Boyce at their beautiful house in Weekapaug, Rhode Island. The hospitality was generous and relaxed as usual and they had the pleasure of meeting Harry Goldsworthy and his wife Alison. Hurricane Floyd added excitement but no damage. Later they were entertained by John Child and his parents in Philadelphia en route to Augusta, Georgia, where Philip and Mary Anne Morsberger completed a most invigorating trip on a cultural high. Professor John Knight became the first Head of the Department of Economics, set up in a new building on Manor Road in the autumn of 1999. This appointment has been renewed for the academic year 2000-2001. Professor Knight's book (with Lina Song) The rural-urban divide: economic disparities and interactions in China was published by OUP in November. He presented a paper at the American Economic Association meeting in Boston in January, gave lectures at Oita and Tokyo Universities in April, and made two research visits to China. Professor Basil Kouvaritakis this year received an EPSR award for ÂŁ140,000 to work on Nonlinear Predictive Control, a subject on which (in addition to his other publications) he is now editing a book for the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He gave a plenary talk at an IFAC conference in Bratislava, and presented a paper at AdChem 2000 in Pisa. He currently has two academic visitors working with him, one from Japan and the other from Holland. During the 1999-2000 academic year Dr David Manolopoulos has given talks at international meetings in Perugia (Italy) and Arcachon (France). He was also awarded the Annual Prize of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (for work done under the age of forty). Dr Priscilla Martin taught a course on Shakespeare in the summer session of the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. She attended the Second International Langland Conference at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in July 1999 and was a respondent in the panel on 'Gestures and Looks in Piers Plowman'. She wrote the Introduction and translated the 'autobiographical episode' for the Wordsworth Classics Piers Plowman, published in summer 1999, and has now written the Introduction to Tyndale's New Testa-
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ment for the same series. She contributed several entries for The Cambridge guide to women 's writing in English, edited by Lama Sage and Gerrnaine Greer and published by CUP in September 1999; she also revised her earlier article on Caroline Blackwood for the Dictionary of literary biography (Third Series): British. novelists since 1960. The Principal, Professor Michael Mingos, was awarded an Honorary D.Sc. from UMIST and an Honorary Fellowship from Keble College. He has also been elected to the Alexander von Humboldt Prize Professorship at the University of Heidelberg, and to a Foundation Visiting Professorship at the University of Auckland. During the academic year 1999-2000 Professor Mingos gave lectures at international conferences in Naples, Kyoto, Biarritz, Edinburgh, Brussels, New Orleans, and Base!, as well as seminars at Auckland, Dunedin, Wellington, Christchurch (New Zealand), and Milan. Dr Bruce Mitchell attended the conference of teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland, of which he has been re-elected President, at Bangor in November, and gave a paper at the XXVII Convegno dell 'Associazione /taliana di Filologia Germanica held at Trieste between 31 May and 2 June on the subject 'The Anglo-Saxons and the first mmennium'. A sixth edition of A Guide to Old English is at press. Dr Philip Mountford presented lectures and seminars at meetings in London, Bath, France, the US and Hong Kong. His research group in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory was awarded a number of grants during the year, most notably one of ÂŁ360,000 from the Foresight LINK Awards Group, with funding from both government and industry. A term's sabbatical leave enabled Dr Lucy Newlyn to put the finishing touches to her new book, Reading, Writing, and Romanticism, which will appear in September 2000 with OUP. She is in the final stages of editing the Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (commissioned by CUP), and has begun writing poetry for the first time in thirty years. In between tutorials and research, she fits in the odd game of hide-and-seek (or, as she calls it, 'hide-and-sneak') with Emma, who will be five in November. Dr Newlyn is gaining an amusing insight into university life by being a ' Proctor's Wife' ; but she has decided against publishing a novel on the subject. (Watch this space, though, for the blank-verse epic). Professor Nigel Palmer spent the academic year 1999-2000 on leave from the university as Visiting Professor of Medieval German at the University of Tiibingen. Professor David Pettifor received the 1999 Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Company Medal. This award was made in recognition of his
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outstanding work in the development of phenomenological structure maps for binary alloys, and for his vision and leadership in setting up the Materials Modelling Laboratory in Oxford. Norman Pollock and his wife spent three months in South Australia, and Adelaide in particular, visiting relations and friends. He gave one or two lectures about Oxford and the Hall to members of the University and the University of the Third Age. This was his tenth visit to Australia in the last twenty years. Some of his drawings and paintings, many on Australia, were exhibited in the College's contribution to Oxford Art Week. For Dr Ian Scargilllife has recently been preparation for retirement, i.e. clearing out his room of over forty years' clutter in the School of Geography. His colleagues at the School gave him a farewell dinner on 11 July at the Hall, arranged by Dr Rob Whittaker. The only retirement job which Dr Scargill has so far accepted is an appointment as a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust (Chairman, Sir David Yardley), but he will continue to sit on the local magistrates' bench, currently struggling with Human Rights' legislation. Professor Nicholas Stone has been on Sabbatical since January 2000 and will return to Oxford in January 200 l. He spent the first four months of his leave at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as a visitor to the Nuclear Theory Group of the Physics Division. Professor Stone and his wife Dr Jirina Rikovska Stone, lecturer in Physics at the Hall, then moved to CERN, the European Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Geneva, where Professor Stone is working as an Associate at the ISOLDE isotope separator facility for the remainder of the year. The projects on which Professor and Dr Stone are working involve basic nuclear theory and the angular properties of emission of protons and neutrons from very unstable isotopes. Dr Rob Whittaker continues to work on the ecology of the Krakatau islands and on the theme of climatic controls on latitudinal gradients in plant diversity (see http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rwhittaker.html). He was last year awarded a Readership in Biogeography by the University. In addition to running the biennial biogeography field course to Tenerife, he has managed to fit into the last few months a visit to the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, and its wonderful environs- including the Chihuanuan desert; an ecology conference at Disney World, Orlando (of all places for a conference of ecologists!); a key note address on the theme ' Islands as natural laboratories: colonization, extinction, and endemism' for an EU workshop on biodiversity held in the Azores (that's more like it!); acting as session leader for a postgraduate workshop in Lund, Sweden; and a course ac-
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creditation visit to the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Greenwich. Always keen to hear how Aularian geographers are getting on , he can be contacted by the internet set on robert. whittaker@ geog.ox.ac.uk. As of 1 October 2000, Douglas Wolfe will be taking up a universi ty lectureship in Politics, based at Christ Church. He would be very happy to hear from any of hi s former students at the following addresses: Christ Church, Oxford OXl lOP, or douglas. wolfe@ socstud.ox.ac. uk . Sir David Yardley continues as Complaints Commissioner for the Financial Services Authority, Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Tmst, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, and Chairman of the Examining Board of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation, and also of the Institute's Performance Awards Panel. He was also Chairman of the Oxford Oklahoma Law Programme at Brasenose College in July 2000.
ART@THE HALL At the end of the Trinity Term I will be resigning my post as Ruskin Master and moving from stephen.farthing@ruskin-school.ox.ac.uk to stephen@nyaa.edu. In my mind thi s new and jazzier e-mail address doesn't simply reflect the different attitudes of the two towns in question, Oxford and New York. It also graphically represents how times have moved on whilst I've been a Professorial Fellow of the Hall. When I came to Oxford ten years ago, during what I have learned to call Noughth Week of what I had formerly called the Winter Term, none of us had guessed that e-mail and the World Wide Web would become a daily part of every Fellow 's life. The most modern piece of equipment we had at the Ruskin School then was a copy camera, which a technician used on Fridays to make stencils for silk screen-printing. There were no computers, not even in the departmental office. Letters were typed on machines that sounded like the tap dancers in a Busby Berkeley movie. Paintings were painted with oil paint on easels, and the drawing studio was black with charcoal dust. Today the School is a very different place, not bigger, but certainly cleaner and brimming with research and new technology. It is a department that scored a 5 in the last RAE, and has an undergraduate course that scored full marks in the recent QAA Subject Review. In 1992, John Updike, who had spent a graduate year at the school in 1955 as a Knox Fellow, described the Ruskin in a letter to a prospective fellow-American applicant as 'a dear quaint little backwater of an art school ';
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but he then perceptively went on to say ' but I'm sure much jazzed-up by now '. He was of course right; but jazzed as we are, still many members of the university, old and new, fail to realize that we exist or understand what we do. There is, however, one college that has shown considerable understanding and given support to both that quaint little backwater and the Ruskin as we stand today, and that's the Hall. With twelve undergraduates currently reading Fine Art (20 per cent of the Ruskin School), the Hall is the leading college in Oxford for the subject both in volume and quality, and certainly not a backwater. An art lover and old member of the Hall once described the business of trying to interest the majority of members of Oxford University in Art as like trying to teach Zulus to make crepes suzette. What he did not make clear, though, was how this observation should be taken. Was he suggesting that the students felt that they were already on a perfectly satisfactory diet and so felt no need to indulge in this extra fancy stuff? Or was it that they were just too daft to understand the value of what was on offer? But our old member was not the first to identify what he saw as a lack of understanding of the visual arts in thi s university. Christ Church can claim a much earlier player in the ' Is Oxford full of Philistines?' game through one of its old members, John Ruskin . He felt so strongly for the subject that he managed to persuade Congregation to accept ÂŁ5 ,323. 17 s. 5d. to secure the post of a Drawing Master in perpetuity. Some will tell you that this has made all the difference; others will view it as money down the drain. The University has in fact been providing tuition in the visual arts since 1871 when Ruski n, the first Slade Professor at Oxford, established his School of Drawing in the University Galleries (now the Ashmolean Museum). Four years later a degree in art was proposed by Professor Ruskin and other dons, but the idea proved much too advanced for its day and died a death until 1978 when the Bachelor of Fine Art was finally approved. The work of the School carried on, however, and during the 1920s and 1930s the teaching staff of the Ruskin (as it came to be known) included such seminal figures in modern British art as Stanley Spencer, his brother Gilbert, and John and Paul Nash. Graham Sutherland and John Piper also taught at the School. During the Second World War, the Slade School moved from London into the Ruskin 's premises in the Ashmolean where the students and staff of the two school s joined to form a combined institution . After the war, when the Slade returned to London, Oxford began to offer a formal studio qualification called the Certificate in Fine Art (CFA). In 1975 the School moved to its present building next to the Examination Schools, and the BFA
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degree was duly established- though it was not until 1992 that it became an honours degree. Since 1990, the school has undergone considerable change but without any substantial increase in student numbers. The undergraduate curriculum has been updated so as to take into consideration both new developments in the subject and the future needs of graduates. Within the course we have invested in new technology and new approaches to fine art practice whilst continuing to offer art hi story, drawing and human anatomy. Today we aim to present all subjects on the curriculum as alive, contemporary and intellectuall y challenging. I like to think that some of the more surpri sing activities going on at the Ruskin would meet with the approval of our founder and benefactor, but I also know that he would have been i1Titated by some of our apparently more traditional pursuits. For example, he would I hope have approved of 'his' art school making increasing good use of new and information technology; he was after all at one point in hi s life a keen supporter of that front runner in Victorian new-tech , photography. But he would almost certainly not have approved of our teaching life drawing , or of our first-year students going off to study human anatomy on Wednesday afternoons. He was clearly unnerved by the naked female form, and his own drawing course, The Elements of Drawing, purposely excluded the human figure on the grounds that it was only relevant to professionals. He provided no Human Anatomy classes either, because he objected to dissection for reasons of morality; in fact he resigned hi s chair as Slade Professor when Congregation agreed to proceed to elect the first Professor of Human Anatomy in Oxford. On the bright side, he would certainly have approved of the considerable investment the General Board has made in the School during the past five years, and of the greatly increased weighting the study of art hi story and theory has taken in the CUITiculum. But most of all I suspect he would have delighted in the considerable support and understanding members of the Hall have demonstrated in their relationship with the Ruskin Master and his students. Stephen Farthing Ruskin Master
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ST EDMUND COMES FULL CIRCLE: THE SOCIETY OF ST EDMUND, ST MICHAEL'S COLLEGE, AND TEDDY HALL Mass was over and the fading light of a New England afternoon splashed gently here and there on the Chapel floor. I waited by the central altar until the celebrants were done tidying up, and then approached, asking, ' Is either of you Father Rainville? I am supposed to meet him after Mass for dinner at the Generalate. ' And so began, only slightly delayed by a late winter blizzard, my visit to the headquarters of the Society of St Edmund and to St Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. Although it really began the summer before when I was intercepted by a woman as I walked across the front quad, 'Are you the Librarian? My name is Ann Kenney and my husband and I are from St Michael 's College in Vermont. We're here to investigate the possibility of closer links with St Edmund Hall. We got your name from your Library Web page, and, when we saw that you are from Wakefield, Mass. , as I am too, we thought that we could best start by talking to you. ' Then the story unfolded complete with background, current situation and future hopes. In 1852, after almost 10 years of consultation with Jesuits and Dominicans, Father Jean-Baptiste Muard and his mission band of diocesan priests, originally set up informally to counter growing secularization in the Department of the Yonne, undertook the Mass of Religious Profession and pronounced their vows to become the Society of the Fathers and Brothers of St Edmund, Oblates of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. (The name the Society of St Edmund was adopted in 1970 for simplicity's sake and to follow custom.) The clashes in France between Church and State at the end of the 19th century became so fierce that in 1891 the Society decided to undertake an apostolate in North America where such religious strife did not exist, and they soon found themselves in Montreal and then just across the border in Vermont. Always concerned with the education of youth, in 1904 they founded St Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, where the Society now have their headquarters. For all of the Society 's continuing vibrancy (see http://www.sse.org for the full story), fewer and fewer young men are choosing to live even in such an open and involved community. Seeing the Society's numbers fall, but anxious to maintain the traditions of the Society and St Edmund, the Dean of St Michael 's College, Dr John Kenney, speculated that contact on a
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regular basis, in one way or another, with St Edmund's English roots, might be an effective way to keep the traditions alive. This resulted in the visit to the Hall in the summer of 1999, where he and his wife were given a tour, and provided with details of our conference and Visiting Student programmes. A chance remark by me about visiting St Mike's sometime led to an unexpected e-mail in the following February inviting me to lecture there in April on topics related to St Edmund or the Hall or Oxford. I was most pleased to accept, offering to talk on all three subjects and on the Latin lyric poet Catullus as well. And so there I was, after Mass, asking for Fr Rainville, in my best Quebequois jouale accent. Unfortunately, the space allowed me here by the editor is too small for me to give full justice to the delights, revelations and consequences of my visit, so I will briefly encapsulate them. On my first day, then, after an excellent lunch in the student cafeteria and a whirlwind tour of the campus and of my full-to-the-brim schedule for the week, I attended the daily afternoon Mass. Fully expecting a traditional Roman Catholic service, even though the Fathers' vestments were of a very modem design, I set myself on automatic mode to worship. But although the congregation started each response with the standard words, only I continued in the traditional way; everyone else proceeded using a most colloquial vocabulary. This welcoming homeliness was continued by the Fathers after Mass, when they offered me the hospitality of their Apostolate. The members of the Society range in age from mid-30 to mid-80, from boisterous jocularity to quiet and dry humour; one Father had even been to St Edmund Hall in the 1970s and had discussed with John Kelly the latter's planned (but sadly never written) life of St Edmund. The remaining four days were like a storm after the calm, but a most enjoyable storm. Each day I lectured or conducted a seminar or both: on the history of the Hall ('Rebels , Reactionaries or just Doing What's Right'), on the conversion of St Peter-in-the-East to a library ('Information in the Stones' ), on Oxford's library system ('All you Want and Much, Much More' ), and twice on Catullus - once for beginners and once tracing his reception through the ages. Then there were breakfasts and lunches and dinners with the President and his wife, with the Dean and his wife, and with faculty and with librarians. And then tours of Middlebury College and of the University of Vermont. And then meetings with the Society of St Edmund's archivist, Dr Tom Geno, and with the author of the college's centenary history, alumnus and Pulitzer Prizewinner, Jeffrey Goode, and with various faculty and librarians.
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The next formal stage in forging our links with St Michael 's College and with the Society of St Edmund comes with the visit to the Hall early in August this year of the President, Dr Marc vanderHeyden and his wife Dana, when details of the next steps in the process will be di scussed. I will report on this and on any other related happenings in the next Magazine. (For further information on St Michael 's College see http://www.smcvt.edu.) Deborah Hayward Eaton Librarian
Earlier this year, Gen. Sir Michael Rose, KCB , CBE, DSO, QGM, ADC, Honorary Fellow, was made Colonel of his Regiment, the Coldstream Guards. Our snapshot shows hjm in the Mall, on his way to take the Colonel's Review at Horse Guards in July. The Colonel's Review is the last major rehearsal of the Sovereign's Birthday Parade (the Trooping the Colour), at which Sir Michael was very evident, just a few paces behind H.M. The Queen. Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Domestic Bursar
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TOBIAS TODHUNTER OF TUTMUR Tobias (familiarly known as Toby) was born on 12 August 1983. Six weeks later he came to live with us, and remained with us until he died in March this year at the age of sixteen and a half. He came from a di sti ngui shed family which had its origins in the Borders, and he was proud of his lineage. As a puppy he received thorough training from Margaret, who risked her reputation for sanity in the process. Day after day she could be seen from a nearby right of way walking up and down the garden crying out from time to time 'Si t! ', 'Stay!', 'Come! '. Since the diminutive Toby was invisible, there was no obvious way to understand her behaviour. The result, however, was a well-disciplined dog who became an influential example in college life. One day, returning from a walk and going into the Lodge to collect mail , I told him firmly to si t, and a nearby undergraduate sat smartly at my feet. For someone connected with the Hall he was notably contemptuous of sport. When taken to watch a match he would sit with hi s back to the game, looking for something interesting to watch. This was a dangerous habit which on one or two occasions brought him close to decapitation, especially when the game was hockey and a player who didn ' t like hi s attitude aimed a shot at him. I remember, one summer day in the Parks, I was watching a University cricket match when Toby saw one of his betes noires, a kite, being flown at the far side of the ground. Ignoring the game, he set off like a bullet, barking wildly. The game stopped, the players tried ineffectually to head him off, the spectators stared in amazement, and I had to creep onto the pitch and retrieve him. Only Toby was unpe1turbed, pleased that he had shown the kite to where to get off. Occasionally he got lost. Especially at the weekend, in the Meadow, he was liable to get attached to the wrong pair of legs and become unable to pick up his owners' scent in the excess of information. Always he would be waiting on the doorstep in Queen 's Lane. We never discovered whether he crossed the High at the proper moment at the traffic lights, or ri sked his and others' lives crossing at more hazardous points. He was not a bellicose dog, but would sometimes recognize another dog as not of the right class and then all hell broke loose. One Saturday of Eights Week we were down by the river when he saw the dog of the Dean of Christ Church. The hostility was mutual and in seconds they were at each others' throats. Margaret and the Dean's wife stared intently at the river while furiously willing their husbands to put an end to the embarrassment. The Dean and I, however, became engaged in a conversation of such depth
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and interest as to he oblivious to what was going on behind us. As soon as the altercation came to an end I put Toby on the lead and distanced myself from the Dean. Toby was well satisfied: he had blood on his coat, but it was not his. He played a full part in the educational life of the college. On one occasion he was interviewed for the undergraduate magazine on the subject of his attitude to philosophy. On another, when the same magazine had a piece about him under the picture of another kind of dog, he was so enraged that I had to write on his behalf to point put that he was a pedigree Border Terrier, and not a common Sealyham. In Toby one met a perceptive and considerate dog. When David Tindle was doing my portrait we relayed to him that a number of the Fellows would like it to contain a portrait of Toby, to give it some interest. He was horrified. Animal portraiture was not his forte. Toby attended most of the sittings, and one day David became worried about an intrusive vertical, the right door jamb. A few minutes later he gave a cry of joy. Toby had moved to sit looking out of the door, presenting his back as an object of portraiture well within the competence of the artist, and at the same time solving the problem of the offensive vertical. He thus earned a place in history while modestly preventing anyone from knowing what he looked like. In his youth he had a quaint run: one, two, three, hop; one, two, three, hop. Sadly this was a presage of arthritis to come. After retirement this caught up with him . Walks became more a duty than a pleasure. He also became increasingly deaf. He was a great friend of Mrs Hutcheon and would often go to stay with her and her family's dog Benjy, a large bearded collie, with hair so thick it could not see. As they got older, they would sit together by the French window and Toby would alert Benjy to any untoward sight, while Benjy would alert Toby to any unexpected noise. Latterly, however, he developed cataracts on both eyes and became practically blind. He frequently bumped into furniture and would often find himself behind a chair in some corner, unsure where he was and unable to extricate himself. He finally reached the stage when meals were his only pleasure and he could no longer stand comfortably to eat them. Sadly, we had to have him put down. He is buried in the garden that he so often and ably defended against marauding cats, squirrels and other vermin. And that, I think, is how he would like to be remembered: not as he was in his latter years, but as he was in his prime, when Caesar's famous sentence could be adapted to his own case, 'Veni, vidi, vociferatus sum': I came, I saw, I gave tongue. Justin Gosling Honorary Fellow
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THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM As Trinity Term draws to a close, the MCR can look back on a successful and enjoyable year. In the somewhat fast-paced and - at times - frenzied life of a graduate student, the MCR remains a constant, acting as our first port of call socially, both in times of difficulty and in times of celebration. The MCR enriches our lives in many ways, providing a friendly and relaxed environment in which graduates can meet and interact. Considering the great individual diversity of its members, drawn from all four corners of the globe, the cohesion of the MCR community is a remarkable achievement. Much of the credit for the warm and welcoming atmosphere in the MCR must go to Julie McCann, the MCR Butler, who is always on hand to provide support or a sympathetic ear. The new academic year began with a number of social events designed to welcome the new graduates into the MCR. Freshers' week started with a barbecue at Norham Gardens, which was highly successful, despite the foul weather. Michaelmas term saw the start of a new tradition: the MCR Tuesday cake morning. This has proved so popular that it has been continued throughout the year, with members taking it in turns to bake for the MCR. One incidental result has been the emergence of a splinter group interested in the various applications of beetroot. Other highlights of Michaelmas Term included the annual St Edmund's Day Feast and the MCR Christmas Dinner and bop, which launched us all merrily into the long winter break. In Hilary Term the MCR enjoyed a packed social calendar, starting with a very well-attended blues and jazz night, eo-hosted by our neighbours from The Queen's College. A wine tasting evening resulted in the formation of factions contesting the superiority of fine wines from various regions in France, including St Julien, Pomerol and Pauillac. Scottish interests were catered for at the traditional Bums' Night Dinner, and few of those who attended will forget Gordon Duncan's impressive rendition of 'Tarn 0' Shanter'. The annual Hearne Dinner gave MCR members an opportunity to entertain their supervisors and provided a fitting end to a successful term. Highlights of Trinity Term have included a formal dessert night in the Old Dining Hall on May Eve, followed by a breakfast of strawberries and champagne early the next morning for the survivors. At the Trinity Term Dinner the outgoing committee was presented with pewter tankards as a token of our gratitude for their hard work during their year in office. Undeterred by
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the rain , MCR members turned up in full force to the Hall Ball , where an enjoyable evening was had by all. As the sporting successes of many members indicate, Teddy Hall MCR is a community of well-rounded individuals, whose talents are not limited to their research areas. Mike Broadwith rowed in the Isis crew which defeated Cambridge 's second boat in thi s year's Boat Race. Craig Wood achieved the impressive di stinction of being selected for the lsis boat despite hav ing been a novice to rowing at the start of the academic year. Jessie Shattuck ran in the London marathon, finishing in a more than respectable time. Sarah Antill and Kim Douglas both played for the University Women 's Rugby team, making a vital contribution to its victory in the crucial match against Cambridge. At college level, Rebecca Beard and Lisa Whel an organised the Women 's Athletics and Women 's Cricket teams respectively. The MCR plays a vital role in the lives of the graduate students at Teddy Hall. Old members who have recently dropped in to the MCR have all been of the same opinion about it, and are in some cases quite jealous of it. Indeed, one of these is my own father (Charles Ritcheson, 1948), who insists that in his time, no such facilities were available and that we should count ourselves as very fortunate. We do, and we and all members of the MCR owe a great deal to the hard work and dedication of last year's committee, Jessie Shattuck, Anne Blonde!, and Mark Thompson, who served as President, Secretary, and Steward respecti vely. Andrew Ritcheson, Stuart Robinson, and Phi! Cardinale have now taken over the reins of leadership from their capable hands, and we hope to ensure that the MCR remains a warm and welcoming place. Andrew Ritcheson MCR President
THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM The JCR of St Edmund Hall remains, as ever, a diverse mix of very talented students who, as a collective, provide the college with a very friendly and interesting student body. The infamous ' Hall Spirit' undoubtedly lives on and is particularly evident within the highly successful college sports teams. The Rugby Club maintains its extremely high standards, reaching the Cuppers final but narrowly mi ssing out to Brasenose this year. The Women 's Rugby Club has joined its male counterparts in achieving a reputation for excellence. Teddy Hall also continues to do well in Hockey, Football , Netball , and
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Darts, to name but a few. The Basketball squad has considerably increased this year and provides a significant challenge to its opponents within the University. In the area of Rowing , Teddy Hall students are still making their mark, most notably the two students who rowed in the triumphant Isis boat in April. Members of the JCR have also, this year, excelled in non-sporting activities. The John Oldham Drama Society enjoyed a revival in Hilary Term with a first-year production ofChristopher Fry 's The Lady's Not For Burning in the crypt chapel, which received very positive reviews from its audiences and the local press. Drama has been a popular activity this year with a number of students also taking part in productions outside college. The musicians in college have also been making their mark in a number of ways. The Music Society put on several successful concerts in the Wolfson Hall throughout the year, in which all students from the college have had the opportunity to perform. The Chapel Choir move from strength to strength, directed by the new organ scholar. The choir not only continues to produce high quality music Sunday after Sunday, but has also managed to fit in the recording of a CD this year. Musicians in college have also been prominent in out-of-college events and groups. Many talented students sing or play in University-wide choirs or orchestras, and a number of second-year students reached second place in a 'Battle of the Bands' competition run by the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU). Debating continues to be a popular student pastime with an unusually large number of our first-year students involved in the Union Society. Students from the college also continue to involve themselves in issues concerning OUSU and in its running. The anti-tuition fees campaign is still something that students at the Hall feel strongly about. The JCR Committee has worked hard this year, introducing a number of new initiatives. In Hilary Term the committee set up a JCR-administered and -financed Access Fund to provide all undergraduates with financial help should they find themselves in hardship. The new Environment Officer has been active in launching a new recycling scheme in an effort to transform the JCR into a 'green' JCR. The Welfare provision continues to be of an extremely high standard at Teddy Hall. This year eleven new students have embarked on the long-running 'student suppmt' training, an eight-week course in which specially selected students are given basic counselling and listening training which they can then use to support their peers. The JCR Welfare Room has proved to be useful , as has the welfare library, which is about to be significantly extended.
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As usual, the JCR has been generous in its donations to charitable causes. At Christmas it organised and held the annual party for children from deprived areas around Oxford, which was typically successful. In Trinity Term we took part in Rag Week, dressing up as characters out of the 'Austin Powers' films at the film-themed parade at the end of the week. A number of Hall students have taken part in individual initiatives to raise money for charity this year, most notably the five students who hitchhiked to Morocco in aid of Link Africa over Easter, and the students who ' bungee-jumped' in aid of the Rag. The JCR maintains its high profile position at University level. Our Bops and entertainment events have become infamous, largely due to the hard work put in by the recent and current JCR Social Secretaries. As ever, the Hall Ball was sold out and enjoyed by all, despite the May rain. The past year has been a good one for the JCR. Professor Mingos has shown his interest in the activities of the undergraduates and is well liked by the students. He has proved to be concerned to see that the Junior members are consulted on decisions which will affect them and the general running of the college. At the advent of the new Millennium, the college remains a happy one. Catherine Daunt JCR President
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The Athletics Club Men 's Captain: Nicholas Hamilton Women 's Captain: Rebecca Beard Men's Captain's Report Before the start of the academic year, two Hall athletes travelled to China and Japan with the Achilles Club (combined Oxbridge past and present). Nick Hamilton ran the 400m and 4 x 400m against Tsing-hua and Peking Universities, finishing third in the individual, just missing out in a blanket finish with two Chinese athletes. In the relay, however, he anchored the team to the only track win of the day against a very strong group of Chinese athletes. Matt Scase was unfortunate to pull a hamstring whilst warming up and although he might have struggled to keep up with the Chinese athletes, who both ran well under eleven seconds, there is no doubt that he would have been the first Achilles athlete home.
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In Japan, Waseda and Keio Universities were even stronger and Nick Hamilton came fifth in the individual 400m out of eight (first Achilles) and ran a leg of the 4 x 200m, which came in third. Both athletes had a fantastic time and are very grateful to the college for the subsidies received. At the start of the year, it was promising to see three Hall athletes competing in the freshers' Varsity match, namely John Crawshaw, Rich Haywood (both llOm hurdlers) and Kat Stone (3000m). However, by Hilary Term when the Cuppers competition was held, there was a distinct lack of interest so that an under-strength team competed, thereby not unleashing the immense potential that the Hall has to offer. Also in Hilary came the Varsity field events and relays. Again, John Crawshaw competed in the 4 x 11 Om hurdles, although this time with less success, as he sustained a nasty injury colliding with a hurdle. Matt Scase jumped in the high jump, his oriental injury still preventing him from running the sprints, his usual forte. Nick Hamilton ran the 4 x 200m and 4 x 400m relays, which Oxford lost and won respectively, the latter being the only track victory of the day for the men's blues. The Varsity match proper was held in Trinity Term and two Hall athletes took part at Iffley Road for the men's blues team. John Crawshaw, recovered from his injury, hurdled extremely well, coming within 0.25 sec. of the blues time of 15.7 sec. to come third. Matt Scase jumped admirably to pick up third in the High Jump. Both were awarded half-blues as Oxford secured victory for the third year in a row.
The Women 's Captain's Report Yes, women have legs too! This year saw the long-awaited arrival of a stunning women 's line-up for college Cuppers. Heading the sprint-squad was almost Olympic-standard Rebecca Beard, who took up athletics 'on a whim' in her fourth year, training with the university squad. She perhaps didn't quite find her form in the 1OOm (4th place), but ran a solid 400m to finish a respectable third. Catherine Garvey and Claire Harper not only fought each other over the right to represent the Hall at the 800m, but also took their grudges out onto the track in an action-packed finish for third and fourth places respectively. A fine display of the Hall fighting spirit! Meanwhile, Helen Nesbitt had the crowds awaiting her appearance at the 1500m start line with bated breath. She did not disappoint, with a praiseworthy fourth place. Team forces were combined in the grand finale of the 4 x 400m relay, the Hall showing its strength in numbers as we powered our way to second place.
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We were a little weaker in the field events, but our star javelin thrower, Lisa Whelan, showed great promise in her introductory lesson, almost managing the 60-yard throw which she had reckoned was within her capabilities. Unfortunately the dodgy javelin which we were given on the day refused to stick. Complaints have been lodged. All in all an excellent performance, with the Hall finishing joint-fourth out of a field of hundreds ... Rebecca Beard ca1Tied the Hall fl ag all the way to Cambridge in the Field Events and Relays match, competing in both the 4 x 200m and the 4 x 400m relays. Whilst the 200m time was nearly a new 400m world record, the 400m was a definite personal best. We hope such a fine di splay of Hall spirit will encourage future generations of Hall women to don their shorts and show their stuff.
The Basketball Club Women 's Captain: Kelly Hogan The SEH Women's Basketball Club made their debut in Cuppers thi s summer. Although inexperienced, they showed true Teddy Hall spirit in every game. Once the season was underway, Teddy Hall improved in leaps and bounds and went on to win their final two matches convincingly. Special mention needs to go to our star player, Luan Ong, who was, admittedly, our only experienced player. Other mentions should go to Charlie Dav is, who played with heart and determination throughout. Jenny Oscroft made a big impression also, and her injury in the second half of the season was a great loss for the team. Alison Marra, Jess Hall and Emily Weinstein must be congratulated on their free-throw averages that turned out to be highly influential. Caroline McGill , Hannah Reichert and Helen Nesbitt mu st be commended on their eternal enthusiasm and bravery to play what can only be described as a 'physical game' , whilst Roz Wall provided the height (and many of the points) that the team needed. Many thanks must go to our coach, Adam Benforado, whose patience and skills led to much improvement during the course of the term. Thanks also go to our 'sub-coaches' Micah Swabb and Ben Kruger who were very supportive. I believe that the Teddy Hall Women 's Basketball team played admirably and maintained a wonderful team spirit (even at early morning practices) and it would be a shame if they did not keep thi s up next year. A final thanks mu st go to Rich Cheng for encouraging and organising a women ' s team and some very trendy hoodies!
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The Boat Club Men's Captain: Geoffrey Lloyd Women's Captains: Kate Hughes and Hannah Reichardt Men 's Captain 's Report This year has seen the men's Boat Club return to the standard that they were once accustomed to. The year started very well with the usual Freshers ' drinks providing a wealth of raw talent. Training for Christ Church Regatta started almost immediately and once the novices realised that it was possible to get up at 6 a.m. two good crews were formed. Under the guidance of Simon Dolan their potential was realised. The men 's novice' A' put in an exceptional performance and reached the final, losing by a canvas to Lincoln. The novice 'B's also did well and were finally beaten in the fourth round. The enthusiasm shown in the Michaelmas Term was carried over the holidays and two crews met early in January to train for Torpids. The 1st Torpid decided to train at Godstow and following several very cold mornings and a lot of cycling a good crew emerged. The aim of the term was to get back some of the ground lost last year. Starting sixth in the second division we felt that we had a good chance of success, even though the majority of the crew were novices. However at the last minute the rains came and Torpids was cancelled. At this point it must be mentioned that two members of the club did get to race at the end of Hilary Term. Mike Broadwith and Hugh Tanner rowed at 5 and 4 respectively in a victorious Isis crew. The Easter Vacation saw the 1st VIII gather for a pre-term training camp. A squad of nine flew out just for 10 days training in the sunny climes of Banyoles, northern Spain. The crew was bolstered by the return of Mike and Hugh fresh from racing, and also of Tommy Doyle who had missed Torpids to gain his boxing Blue, and Jon Moseling, back from a short retirement. The camp was very successful and provided us with some good training while most of southern England was in flood. Thanks must go to the Friends for subsidising us and also to Mark Bleeze who came with us to provide valuable coaching. On our return the river in Oxford was still in flood and so the first week of term saw the Hall training in Wallingford before our return to Godstow. Many sunny evenings later and much coaching provided by Andy Gowans moulded the VIII in to a confident racing crew. Meanwhile, under the direction of Dave Hart the 2nd VIII had been training hard on the Isis and were looking an impressive force . Our return to
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the Isis was greeted by yet another airing of the Red Flag which must almost be worn out after this year. However a gutsy decision by OURC to run Eights regardless finally gave us a chance to race. Day one saw the 1st VIII on the river and our first bump, Christ Church outside the boathouses: a feeling I'm sure none of the crew will ever forget. The next day saw success for the 2nd VIII with a bump on Brasenose on the Green Bank. The 1st VIII were unfortunate to be chasing Jesus who were chasing a poor Brasenose crew. It was essential that we got to Jesus before they got the Nose. However, although we got within a third of a length by the gut Jesus bumped the Nose. A pile up followed, we broke a blade and the race was stopped. We were awarded a technical row-over but our chance of blades had gone. Friday saw a bump on the Nose and the 2nd VIII getting St. Catz. The last day of racing provided mixed emotions. The 2nd VIII bumped Linacre, a 1st VIII, and gained promotion into division 3. The 1st VIII put in their best row of the week but we failed to catch a revitalised Jesus. Although we had not achieved our goal due to the crews around us, it was felt by all involved that the Hall was once again performing well on the Isis. I hope that next year we can build on our success and I wish the incoming committee the best of luck. Special mention must go to Andy Gowans, Mark Bleeze and Chris Jones for providing coaching, and also to the 2nd VIII for the great achievement of three bumps. Several members of the club gained awards for their performances. Hugh Tanner, Rob Harrold and Geoffrey Lloyd were awarded 1st VIII colours. College colours went to Caroline McGill, Dave Hart, Simon Dolan, Mark Cooper and Andy Miller. Jen Oswald (Osiris '00) also won the award for the best coxing during Eights. Men's lst VIII 2000: Geoffrey Lloyd (bow), Craig Wood, Sam Griffiths, Rob Harrold, Hugh Tanner, Tomrny Doyle, Jon Moseling, Mike Broadwith, Jen Oswald (cox)
The Women's Captains ' Report The year started exceptionally well with an unprecedented amount of interest from the new intake of freshers. As a result, we were able to form two novice crews for Christ Church Regatta. Thanks to the immense enthusiasm of the wo~en involved, both crews became solid racing crews giving fine performances. At the start of Hilary Term, both the first and second eights came up to Oxford early to train. Unfortunately, due to exceptionally high river conditions, getting time on the water proved impossible. Not to be put off however, many worthwhile hours were spent in the indoor rowing tank, laying
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the foundations for the rest of term. Red-flag river conditions in seventh week sadly meant that Torpids had to be cancelled at the last minute, a disappointment to both the 1st and 2nd VIII crews who had been looking forward to showing what they were made of! In April, however, ten members of the women's boat club flew to Milan, Italy, for a training camp. There, as last year, they had the opportunity to row on a fantastic stretch of water used in international racing. At the beginning of Trinity Term, river conditions once again threatened to destroy any chances of getting on the water. Fortunately, the I st VIII were able to spend the first three weeks of term training at Wallingford, expertly coached as last year by Kevin McWilliams and Richard Fishlock. The 2nd VIII persevered as far as they were able on the Isis and were coached by Lawton Fage and Dave Ryan . The I st VIII competed at Worcester Regatta, and though they faced some strong competition, they came through in the end to win, taking home some impressive pots at the close of the day. Summer Eights was (by now quite predictably) threatened by high river conditions. This obstacle was ultimately overcome by allowing senior crews to row on Wednesday with lower divisions joining in from Thursday. Unfortunately, Eights Week proved problematic for the I st VIII. They got bumped on three days, by Somerville, Lady Margaret Hall and Merton, and rowed over once. This was a disappointing result and not at all representative of the immense amount of enthusiasm, hard work and talent displayed by all the crew. The 2nd VIII, however, had more success. On their first day of racing they were awarded a technical bump; they then achieved an impressive bump on Merton 11 on the second day, and finished off the week with a strong row-over. College colours this year have been awarded to Leila Aitken, Helen Metson, Lucy Cope, Hanna Erikkson, Hester Finch, Emily Keaney, Margaret Small, Jenna McRae and Olivia Donnelly. Women already in possession of college colours were Hannah Reichardt, Kate Hughes, Jemimah Campbell, Toria Fuller and Amanda Davies. I st VIII colours were awarded to Toria Fuller, Leila Aitken, Emily Keaney and Kate Hughes. Rowers already in possession of 1st VIII colours include Hannah Reichardt, Amanda Davies and Jennifer Oswald. Olivia Donnelly won the Forrest Award for the most improved novice cox, and Hanna Enkkson was awarded ' most improved novice rower'. We would like to mention the achievements of Michelle Dollimore who, during her presidency of Oxford University Women's Lightweight Rowing
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Club this year, won her boat race at Henley. Michelle was a novice when she first anived at Teddy Hall and we would like to offer her our congratulations. We would also like to note the accomplishments of Jennifer Oswald who coxed the OUWBC second boat, Osiris, at Henley and was awarded the honour of best cox in St Edmund Hall Boat Club. We hope that the foundations have been set for great success next year. Kate and Hannah would like to wish the very best of luck to Hester Finch and Lucy Cope who are the new women's captains for the Boat Club.
The Christian Union Representati ves: Peter Williams and Mark Pavey We took over as college CU reps at the start of Trinity Term 1999. Among our aims for the group were to build stronger friendships among members, to encourage Christians in college in their faith , and to make all college members more aware of Jesus ' message of good news: that we can have life and hope because of his death and resurrection. Throughout the year we have held weekly meetings in college and have put on a number of special events. The main event which we organised in Trinity Term was a picnic lunch in the graveyard, where Paul Granger, one of the managers of Harvey's sandwich shops, came to tell us some of the story of hi s life. He told us about his emotionally troubled upbringing, which had led him into taking and dealing drugs; his escape to start a new life in India, which didn't work out; and how eventually, as he lay dying on the streets of Delhi, cursing everyone, including God, Jesus came to him. Thi s encounter initiated the process of putting hi s life back together, this time with Jesus as the centre. Most of the forty or so who had come stayed to di scuss their reactions to Paul 's story. At the start of Michaelmas Term the CU put on a free lunch in freshers' week to help welcome the freshers to college. About half of the freshers came and, we hope, had a good time. We spoke briefly about what the CU does and about the reasons why we think it is worth taking time to investigate Jesus ' claims. In the middle of term we had a weekend away with the CUs from Worcester and St Peter's Colleges. Simon Ponsonby from St Aldate's church came to speak about developing an intimate relationship with God through what Jesus has done for us. Everyone had a lot of fun and met with God through the worship and the talks. At the start of Hilary Term was ' Illumination ' week, a university-wide series of talks and events to provide an opportunity for people to hear more about the Christian message. Marcus Nodder, a trainee vicar, and Claire
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Poulter, a recent Oxford graduate, came to spend the week in college as an extra resource for people interested in finding out more about Jesus. Events which the CU put on in college that week included a showing of 'The Matrix ' and a women's tea with a discussion on ' Is God sexist?' A number of people in college came to the week's events and went on to attend the subsequent 'Forum ' course. As the term came to an end we prepared to hand over to the new reps and we spent time as a group evaluating and discussing the future of the group. The last year has seen a lot of changes in the CU . We have not been fully successful in achieving our initi al a ims but a lot of good things have happened and we believe the group is heading into the future in the right direction.
The Cricket Club Men's Captain: Graeme Doran Men's Vice-Captain: Michael Mayer Director of Men's Cricket: Richard Oram Women s Captain: Lisa Whelan The Men 's Captain's Report Premier League Champions. At the beginning of the season I said that we could win the League and Cuppers double, and we very nearly did. With almost our entire bowling attack having moved on from the previous year thi s was a fine achievement, made possible by another talented influx of freshers - Jamie Rogers, Tom Watkins, Tom Harper, Nick Edwards and Jono Venter. The season began brightly with a convincing wins at Lincoln, Keble and Corpus, thanks in no small part to the batting of Rich Oram (97 not out and 86). Our first of two meetings with the old nemesis Worcester did not go well , but our batsmen returned to form against New College, racking up 200 in 30 overs (Oram 110 not out) before the rain came. An under-strength side then took maximum points from 'the real Wadham ' before the Cuppers quarterfinal with Worcester. Despite mi ssing five regular players, we set a demanding total of 168 thanks to fine batting by Tim Johnson (40) and Gerard Milne (58). A brilliant bowling and fielding di splay then reduced Worcester to 70-7 before they drafted in a Blues batsman (straight from an exam) who helped them to 150 before he was dismissed by the flame-haired Eden. Pressure bowling from Ross Wenzel proved too much for the Worcester tail , and they capitulated- much to the disbelief of their home fans. Returning to the League, Queen 's (Russell Korgaonkar 50) and Univ (Tom Harper
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1I l) proved no match for the Hall, but our Cuppers run was halted in the semifinal by a Wadham side fortified by Blues players, who proved too strong for us on the day, despite Gerard Milne's best efforts with the bat and ball. The final game of the season at St. Anne's was to decide the league, and batting first we scored 233-7 (Mike Mayer 55, Ross Wenzel 36). The pitch sprang to life in the second innings, however, and St. Anne's struggled to 50 all out in 20 avers, with Jono Venter and Tom Watkins each picking up a brace of wickets. Although some individuals performed consistently well this season- Rich Oram excelled with the bat, scoring over 400 runs, and Tim Johnson was the leading wicket taker- every player played his part in an enjoyable season. Honourable mentions in dispatches go to Jamie Rogers, Gerard Milne, Tom Harper, Mike Mayer and Russell Korgaonkar, all of whom contributed valuable runs, whilst bowlers Chris Eden, Jono Venter, Tom Watkins and Ross Wenzel were rewarded for their restrictive bowling with valuable wickets. The fielding this year was also of a high standard (thanks, no doubt, to regular practice!) and Mark Thomson, Nick Edwards, Ben Rogers and Rhys Beer provided the buckets in the field (although some became a bit leaky towards the end of the season). Next season we will lose the services of Russell Korgaonkar and Chris Eden, but hopefully the fresher input will again be strong and new captain Jono Venter, and vice-captain Tom Harper, will be able to repeat our league performances, and maybe go one better by winning Cuppers too.
The Women 's Captain 's Report A rainy cricket Cuppers' season all but put a damper on the team spirit of the SEH Women's Cricket team. Although bad weather prevented us from playing any matches, we did have a practice and a couple of in-depth 'teambuilding strategy sessions' in the college bar. Well done to the hard-working and reliable members of the team, especially Kelly Hogan, Sophie Smith, Heidi Durnford, Jessie Shattuck, and Claire Harper. Thanks also to Ben Rogers and Sean Sullivan, our umpires. Hopefully next year will prove a more successful (i.e. less rainy) season for women 's cricket! If anyone is interested in being captain next year (even if you didn ' t play this season), please take the initiative - we've got the equipment! It would be great to keep up the tradition of women's cricket at Teddy Hall.
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The Debating Society The Debating Society followed the predictable pattern - a couple of events in Michaelmas followed by a waning of interest. However, a good audience was drawn for the motion 'This House believes it is better to be a woman' against St Hilda's, where Bjorn Benckert and Robin Rogers bravely spoke against the three proposing females. Despite the venue, Aularians were somewhat outnumbered by the visitors, and unsurprisingly the motion was carried, albeit narrowly. In Hilary Term, attention turned to Oxygen Radio, which has hosted regular debates with members of Teddy Hall and St Hilda's. Issues such as Section 28, Imperialism and the Monarchy provoked passionate exchanges, facilitated by the broad political spectrum of participants. College debating has since ceased, and it must be admitted that the future of the society is considerably less certain than its rather intermittent past. J ames Thomas
The Association Football Club Captain: Adam Whitworth Vice-Captain: Andrew Patterson Secretary and Treasurer: Rhys Beer The season started with a great deal of expectation for both 1st and 2nd XIs, with the seconds scandalously having been relegated last season and the firsts having come third in the top division and looking to improve thi s year as most of that team remained. Interest was again high and we soon witnessed the delights of 'Liquid Football' as the 3rd XI was formed and (sometimes) graced us with their talents; however we still lack a Women's XI. The First XI were bolstered by freshers Dave Williams, rock solid all season at centre-half, Tom Harper, who made an impressive start to the season and was always keen to improve team morale in the showers (dodgy!), David Rawlins, a bit of a tart but a veritable ' live-wire', and Chris Bruce, who made the centre-forward's position his own and never reali sed that coke and water could make you quite that ill. Antony Shackleton again did all that can be asked of a fullback this season. His realisation halfway through the season that he could actually head the ball came as a shock to us all and did wonders to shore up the defence too. Early results boded well for the firsts, but the team had not managed to gel as a unit and after a string of defeats a Barry Fry-style training session ensued as we sought to get back on track. By Christmas, after defeats from Wadham and Worcester, it looked as if staying in the top divi sion was out of
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reach, despite our Cuppers victories, and the potential and undoubted talent of the team were not being done justice. In Hilary Term we suffered a heavy defeat early on and needed a seemingly impossible run of results to stay up. With key players from last year unable to play (Russell, Scase injured as usual!- and Bootle) others were drafted in and convincing league victories were scored over Exeter and St Catz. Patterson in goal looked good when needed and new dynamism was added by mid-fielder Nick Edwards, a real find. Akindele returned to the team too, providing extra danger up front for the crunch Cuppers game against a good Balliol side. The level of commitment, effort and aggression which had been so missing until this game remained with us for the rest of the season, earning us a string of excellent victories, notably turning over title contenders New College, and saw us retain our top flight status. We unluckily lost to Balliol but put in one of our best performances, with the back four as solid as you could ask. Allegedly Doran catches a cricket ball with ease: you would think it would get easier with a larger ball, although later performances by the new goalkeeper were a lot more solid. The season, therefore, ended well and, although lots of players are leaving, we have a good basis for next year. The 2nd XI, bolstered on occasions by players from the I st XI, put in determined performances under their grossly unattractive captain and gained promotion to the first division in third place. Taevere (although very prone to collapse) was influential, as were Andy Radford, Tony Morgan- who should be pushing for a first team place next year - and John Bruce, whose looks rivalled those of the captain, Beer. Bruce also struggled on occasions to remain upright with the ball and again failed to get even near the goal, but it should be said that he did have an excellent season throughout in spite of this. The season was therefore a largely successful one and gives promise for next year. Bootle, Shackleton (whose drinking ability remains highly questionable), Russell and Light leave us, and their talents will be sorely missed. Tsikouras also departs, but he will undoubtedly live in our memories for the farcical LMH Cuppers game involving medical cherryade, baby cows and accusations involving Greek brothels; Shackleton and Bruce of course were at the bottom of this. Teddy Hall entertained visiting Bolton School this season in a closely fought game which we were edged out of, surprisingly given the clinical firepower we had on display, and this fixture looks to be continued next season. The summer five-a-side saw the firsts knocked out in the third round but the second team performed well, going out in the Quarter Finals after some good displays.
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All that remains is for me to thank all the players and to wish Dave Williams and the other captains the very best of luck for next year- I hope the Teddy Hall captaincy jinx doesn' t get you too!
The Rugby Football Club Mens Captain: Ross Hill Vice-Captain: Kayode Akindele Women 's Captain: Holly Jamieson The Men's Captain 's Report SEHRFC has had a successful season but it could have been better. This highlights the depth of talent currently present at the club. This season we had fifty registered members and were capable of fielding two strong teams week in and week out. Our intake of freshers was very good with a number of very capable players, though we still lacked enough players of the stature required to dominate in the forwards. We had an abundance of players with genuine pace and good ball-handling skills, perfect for quick running rugby. The league season started off with the now customary loss to opponents we should have beaten but for overconfidence. We however regrouped and fini shed the first half of the season at the summit of the league after memorably demolishing our red brick imitators (Keble) 21-3. The second half of the season started with high hopes that were soon dashed with our fiercely contested loss to a reinvigorated Jesus side. We struggled in our next matches but managed to secure third place overall with victories over New College and Oriel. In our final match we had the opportunity to send Keble down to the second divi sion but they were hungrier for victory than us and scraped a 24-21 win, albeit after applying the laws of player eligibility to their very limit. We entered the Cuppers campaign quietly confident of our ability to do well and in our first match defeated a surpri singly competitive Mertonl Mansfield side. This game seemed to get rid of our Cuppers cobwebs and in the next two games we unleashed the sort of fifteen-man running rugby we had been threatening in fits and starts all season. Oriel and New College were each blown away by thirty odd points. Our forwards were too mobile for the opposition and their aggressive rucking and support play was excellent. The backs also began to utilize their speed and ball-handling skills . We were playing very good rugby against not excellent but competent opposition (New College had won the League). Our defence remained steely, giving away less than a try a match. We faced the favourites and defending champions Brasenose in the final in an optimistic mood, but their pack who were awesome for a college side steamrollered us. We could not get enough
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possession and when we did we were forced to kick as their back row and centres, using a generous interpretation of the offside line, put our halfbacks under tremendous pressure. Their very quick fullback relished these kicks and launched effective counterattacks time after time. Brasenose were worthy winners but we did ourselves proud by remaining competitive till the end when other teams would have folded. Our Sevens side looked tremendous on paper and proved to be very good during the intercollegiate tournament. We started off well and really came alive during our quarterfinal dismantling of our nemesis from last year, Exeter. We had an abundance of pace with possibly the fastest finisher on display (Nick Hamilton with P.J. not far behind), but we lacked fitness. Our squad also missed certain players because of prior commitments who would have allowed effective rotation of personnel. Key players such as P.J. and Nick were injured in the Exeter clash. We came up against a talented Wadham side in the semis, who we lost to. They won the tournament in the end. In our last tournament (Westminster Sevens), a weakened squad was defeated in a tight quarterfinal by the Oxford University Greyhounds team. Training this season has been haphazard, which meant that we relied too much on individual brilliance and too little on teamwork. This did not matter 70 percent of the time but with the talent we will retain and some serious, structured training next year, we will be a formidable team with an unbeaten season on the cards. The players this year were excellent in talent and commitment. There are too many to highlight all who contributed but some were outstanding in their service to the club. Tom 'Tony the Hitman' Watkins was a rock in defence and deceptively nimble in attack. He was definitely one of the best centres on the circuit. Nick 'Himbo' Hamilton was the fastest wing around and a deadly finisher; he scored a memorable try beating six players in one match. He was our top try scorer. P.J. ' Le Rock' Howard was excellent at number eight; he was strong in defence and had the pace of a wing in attack. Gerald ' Big Horse' Milne played at second row and was exceptional in the lineout as well as winning balls in the loose, where he was very dynamic. James 'Fatman' Oseman was a hooker who played very well at prop for us; he was a dedicated ball-winner and gave us the physical edge in many a confrontation in the forwards. We shall also miss leavers like Will Perry and James Sutherland who gave the club many years of good service. First years like Andy 'L.G.A.' Williams, John 'Chompo' Thompson and Nick 'Scouse' Edwards we did not see enough of either through injury or university rugby commitments, but hopefully they will be able to show what they are capable of next year. Ross 'Hilly' Hill
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our captain was outstanding this year and his return to the Cuppers side after injury and the difference it made showed how important his leadership and aggressive edge was to the team. Player of the season was Tom 'Pieman' Evans. He was a revelation. He was tremendous in all areas, attitude, training, commitment, leadership and playing. He truly deserved the accolade. John 'Chompo' Thompson started for the U-21 s in the Varsity match and was voted their player of the season. Toby 'Pebble' Colegate-Stone also started for the U-21 s in the Varsity match. Next year 's captain is Mark 'Brad ' Wilson who broke his arm early in the season so missed out on a lot of rugby; but in the little we saw he showed he is a gifted player with leadership qualities. The vice-captain will be James 'Fatman' Oseman. We wish them luck next season as the leadership passes from Africa back to England. Chris 'the Accountant' Gourlay the treasurer did not only play well but also brought the club's finances to order. He was very organized (he took over the ananging of training sessions) and worked hard in the club's now annual unfruitful search for sponsorship. Finally we would like to thank the supporters for coming out in strength in all weather conditions. We had almost five times the number of supporters as any other team, home or away, league or Cuppers. This made a difference to us playing. We look forward to another rewarding season.
Women 's Captain 's Report 'Nobody loses on this pitch in these shirts.' This year these wise words of coach Thomas R. Evans were proved prophetic as the women 's rugby team had their best season yet. Temporary transfers of two of our university players to European sides during their year abroad led to the mounting of a furious recruitment campaign. A handful of freshers and visiting students survived our taster session to begin the season with a 'friendly' against Jesus. A Hall side firing on all cylinders and the anival of our secret weapon, Sarah Antill, left the Jesus side in pieces at half time, literally. The highlight of Michaelmas Term was the Cuppers tournament held at the end of November. Fifteen colleges entered teams but we progressed easily to the final , trouncing our opponents with our superior ball handling and impenetrable defence. A nail-biting match against St Anne's followed with both sides tired and equally matched. In the end Teddy Hall won thanks to a great covering tackle by Kim Douglas and a fantastic try by new recruit Rebecca Streatfield.
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The Hilary Term Cuppers tournament ran all term. With Blues excluded from the competition and several players injured, winning this competition was a fantastic squad effort. Our first real obstacle came in the semifinals where a tight match against Ballioi/Somerville was won by a depleted but very determined Teddy Hall side. A storming run by Rebecca Saunders clinched the match just before the final whistle. Previous encounters had warned us that the final against Christ Church would be a challenge and their extravagant pre-match warm-up certainly increased our fears. However once the game was underway the Teddy Hall girls unleashed to become Cuppers champions once again. Lucy Reynolds received woman of the match. SEHRFC has three new players to add to its list of rugby blues. Sarah Antill, Holly Jamieson and Anya Saunders represented Oxford, beating Cambridge 62-0 at Iffley Road. Best of luck for the future to retiring players Kim Douglas, Lucy Reynolds, Anya Saunders and Kirsten Slack. I hope that your time playing rugby for the Hall has prepared you for something! Thanks also to our retiring coaches Thomas Evans, Steve Gough and James Sutherland, as well as to AnnMarie Evans, my vice-captain, who has been great support. Finally, I would like to wish captain Jenny Pescod and her remaining coaching staff, Joseph Hanson and Steve McMahon, a great season next year.
The Hockey Club M en's Captain: P.J. Ho ward Women's Captain: Alice-Louise Gardner The Men's Captain's Report Yet another tremendous Hockey season for Teddy Hall. Having lost several key players from last year we needed some quality first-years to continue the success of the Hall and maintain our rightful reputation as (probably) the best Hockey Team in the University. The arrivals of Mike Harley, Rich Hayward, Andy Westbrook, Dave Rawlins, Jono Venter, and Jamie Rogers made an immediate impact on the team. The first-years have formed the backbone of the side this season, as they will do for years to come. Like every season, the team this year was full of exceptionally talented players but, as usual, our concentration let us down on several occasions. The term 'effortless superiority' was taken a bit too far this year, as on many occasions we dazzled our opponents with lightning skills, such as the infamous two-touch end-to-end Perry-Mayer wonder goal in the quarter-
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final of Cuppers, only to sit back, fall asleep, and watch the inferior opponents scramble their way back into the game. That being said, we had a very successful season and definitely the most enjoyable so far in my years at Oxford. I do feel , however, if we had been more focu sed, then we would have come away with a few more trophies in hand. The league season went to plan, securing our seeding in Cuppers next year. We started off with an awesome 5-3 win against Magdalen (P.J. Howard 5 goals) and continued as we began. We ended up winning 7, drawing 2, and losing 2, leav ing us in 2nd position in the 12-teamed divi sion I. The Cuppers' campaign was directed at securing nothing less than the trophy at the end of it, driven by our unbelievable defeat in the final last year. We swept through the early stages annihilating the opposition with scores of 8-0 and I 0-1 . Champagne Hockey flourished until the semifinal against Queen 's. Missing one of our blues players (Tom Perry) we still felt confident and in true Hall style took the lead early on with a clinical goal from Mike Mayer. However, then the rot set in, and we sat back and let Queen 's crawl back into the game, going on to beat us 2-1 in the dying seconds.
A similar story mars our Mixed Cuppers' campaign. A great set of girls played on the team thi s year with the likes of Jenny Oscroft, Jemma Rooker, Jinny Macgrath, and Caroline Dyer playing every match. Wondrous wins in the early stages confirmed our ability. The quartetfinal against Brasenose was always going to be close, but turned out to be a classic. After full-time
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it was 1-1 , and so we went on to play extra-time with neither side giving way. At the end of an extremely physical game for a mixed competition, with the likes of Neil Taylor ' mowing over' one poor Nose girl, only penalties could decide the winner. After all the men had taken their penalties it was still 4-4, so we moved on to the ladies. Several dolly-drops later, the Hall came off triumphant thanks to a Nose girl who pushed the bail so softly it didn't even make it over the goal-line (still Dave Andrews, our keeper, nearly missed it!). However, our victory stretch was over at the semifinal stage. Unprepared, as always, we took on Worcester College in the rain, snow and large ice-balls. The pitch rapidly turned into a mud bath and after a quod-wrestle of a match, Worcester goal-mouth scrambled to victory. Although the Oxford season was now over, our hockey season had one more fixture: the Dublin Tour. Many of the incidents that took place on this tour will remain with the 35 'hockey' players forever. All I can say is that we got to the semifinals and came across Brasenose, Oxford. Due to unforeseen circumstances our hockey season ended there. This was partly due to a lost Queen's player, Koj, not knowing which side he playing for, and the talents of Chris Jose and Nick Hamilton not living up to expectations. Additionally, I will personally be improving my putting stroke for next year 's tour. I think everyone will agree that this year has been the best Hockey year we've had, not outlined by our results, but by the people that have been involved. I would like to wish farewell to all the finalists who won't be joining us next year, such as Dave Andrews and Neill Taylor. Both have been cornerstones of Hall Hockey and will be greatly missed on and off the field. Neil Taylor, incidentally, claimed the second top-scorer position with 12 goals, losing out to P.J. Howard who accumulated a masterful 26 goals. Finally, I wish good luck to the first years who will be taking over next year, especially Rich Hayward, Mike Harley, and Jamie Rogers, who are in charge of the administrative positions.
The Women's Captain's Report The Women's Hockey Club has had a year of mixed fortunes. After losing two of our major defensive players, we were fortunate enough to have some very talented freshers join us this year. Three of our new members played university hockey. Jemma Rooker, sweeper, playing for the university firsts, was awarded a blue in the varsity match, which was drawn 1-1. Charlie Davies played for the university seconds and Charlie Wong played for the university thirds. At the league stage in Cuppers we wiped the floor,
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coming top of our league and scoring an average of 5 goals a match. However, due to an awkward fixture date, we lost our quarterfinal 3-1 to University College with only 8, instead of 11 players. I would like to thank Anne-Marie Evans for stepping in as goalie and Caroline Dyer for her support. Goodbye and good luck to Caroline, Ginny McGrath, Holly Jarnieson and Catherine Garvey who graduate this year. I leave the team in the capable hands of Jenny Oscroft and with the wealth of talent we have in the team, we have an excellent chance of winning some silverware next year.
The Music Society President: Eleanor Hollingworth Teddy Hall continues to enjoy a wide variety of different musical styles from its members. Our main concert in Hilary saw JCR, MCR and SCR members all come together performing everything from Pergolesi through Beethoven to music composed by one of the performers. The turnout was splendid, showing the Hall's commitment to the arts. Other shorter recitals have also been well received, testifying to the musical talent within college, and brightening up our lunch-hours! Donna Stoering, our artist in residence, has again been kind enough to visit us, performing on the Steinway in the Wolfson - an absolute treat for everyone present!
The John Oldham Society Since the demise of the John Oldham Society a few years ago, Teddy Hall has been without a drama society. With the emphasis of college life being mainly on sport, this has reflected the considerable imbalance between the college's cultural life and its sporting life: students with artistic and cultural interests and hobbies have been largely left to pursue these on their own, while sportsmen and -women are represented by any number of clubs and committees. This year has seen some sign of a change in this situation with the resurrection of the John Oldham Society and the production of two plays in the Trinity Term by teams of students largely based in Teddy Hall. The first, The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry, was put on by an entirely Teddy Hall cast in the Chapel; the second, Ben Johnson's Volpone, took place in Wadham Theatre, and was performed and produced by a cast of both Aularians and students from other colleges.
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The star of both productions was Kuang Liu, a first year History student at the Hall. He played the passionate Thomas Mendip in The Lady 's Not For Burning, and then excelled as Mosca in Volpone. Volpone is a difficult play because the plot varies constantly between farce and tragedy and it requires a large amount of control to prevent it from slipping irrevocably into one while totally forgetting the other. Kuang handled this excellently, supported among others by the Aularians Dave Rawlins , Tim Johnson, Jacquetta Blacker, Steve Ellis , and directors Lorraine Helier and John Pumphrey. Dave Rawlins gave a particularly hilarious and ridiculous performance of the aging Venetian nobleman, Corbaccio. One achievement of both these two dramatic productions, Volpone and The Lady's Not For Burning , has been to introduce a further form of creativity into college life outside sport and academic study. Art and culture have been far too under-represented among Teddy Hall undergraduates in recent years, and it is about time they had another voice. John Pumphrey
The Portia Society President: Catherine Knowles The Portia Society is the society for all Teddy Hall lawyers. 2000 has been another successful year, getting off to a good start with an evening of drinks for freshers. This year our annual dinner was sponsored by Linklaters, and entertaining speeches were given by Professor Wyatt and Mr Briggs. Once again the Teddy Hall lawyers have proved that they' re more than just pretty faces , reaching the semifinals of the inter-college mooting competition and rowing in the summer regatta. You've got to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time!
The Riding Club Captain: Jennifer Tubbs Teddy Hall Riding Team has been successful in its short existence this year. Riding Cuppers took place in Trinity Term at the Oxford Equestrian Centre, and the Hall team, joint with Corpus Christi, won! Rupert Lion joined the team on the premise that if James Bond could ride wild stallions so could he and successfully completed the first clear show jumping round - but on a gelding. 'Big' Steve McMahon proved to be the team's secret weapon, riding the most chilled round of the event. After the rugby boys had ridden , Jen had a speedy round and managed to keep the team total of faults at zero. Catriona, whose verbal insistence to her rather stubborn ride must be
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censored, followed her. But it seemed to work and they had no fences down or refusals. As the only team without faults the win was uncontested. Jen and Catriona were also placed third and second individually, probably owing to their practice as part of the University second team. Hopefully, interest in the sport will persist and bring more success to the Hall, especially if Steve continues to advertise by wearing his rosette to Park End.
The Sailing Club Captain: Stuart Robinson Over the last few years Teddy Hall sailing team has promised much and delivered very little. A succession of balls, bad weather, and hangovers have conspired against us in recent Cuppers competitions, denying us the glories we should have received. However, the year 2000 was to be a turning-point in the fortunes of Hall sailing! Despite the festivities the previous evening at the Hall Ball, a strong Teddy Hall team (containing four members of the University squad), left for Farmoor Reservoir full of confidence that the losses of the last few years would be easily avenged. We started well against a potentially good New College team, converting through to a 1-2-3 by the end of the first beat. This was soon followed by equally comfortable victories over Balliol and a combined Wadham!Hert-
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ford team. Mansfield (the cause of our downfall in 1999) proved to be a walkover, despite their apparent strengths on paper. This left Jesus and St Hugh's/Univ, both of which were doing very well. Jesus had won the 1999 competition with the same team as this year and were confident of repeating this success. A close start left Teddy Hall with some work to do on the first beat but by the time the windward mark was reached, we had converted to a comfortable 1-2-4, which remained unchanged for the remainder of the race. The St Hugh's/Univ team had also been sailing well but, in another close race, it was the Hall which came out on top. The semifinal against New College proved to be a mere formality leading us to a spot in the final against Jesus. Despite trying our best to make it difficult for ourselves through bad starting, the final was always going to be a one-sided affair. A combination of good team racing and quick boat speed meant that we won 2-0 and were crowned Cuppers Champions, having not lost a race all through the event. Despite the low attendance at Cuppers by a lot of the other colleges, it was generally felt that this year's Teddy Hall team was one of the strongest teams from any college in recent years. Teddy Hall students have continued to be highly involved in both University and National organisations. James Dickinson and Nicole Johnson gained their Blues in the 1999 Varsity match. Dominica Lindsey helmed for the University Ladies' team, which reached the final of BUSA Ladies. Stuart Robinson finished as Vice-Commodore of 0 UYC and handed over to J ames Dickinson. Nicole Johnson captained the University lst team and represented BUSA on many occasions. At the BUSA competition, she was the only woman to captain a team in the mixed event and she will be greatly missed when she leaves at the end of this year both by OUYC and Teddy Hall sailing. The winning Cuppers team was Nicole Johnson, Jemma Rooker, Dominica Lindsey, Stuart Robinson, James Dickinson and Alice-Louise Gardener.
The Summer Event Presidents: Emily Keaney; Caroline McGill Treasurer: Tim Johnson
The St Edmund Hall Summer Event took place this year on 20 May. Despite a veritable heatwave in the week prior to The Event, the Hall Ball saw torrential rain throughout the night. Guests enticed by the inspired and professional publicity ofHelen Metson, aided by Andy Radford, waited in a red-carpeted Queen's Lane to pass the security ofTim Court and Jason Linford, and the smooth ticket administra-
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tion of Steve Haywood. Entering through the main gate, they encountered a celebrity reception in the unlikely setting of the front quad, made convincing by Jen Tubbs assisted by Jenna McRae, Hester Finch, Jo Harvey and Kate Wilkinson, and featuring a commissioned sculpture by Leila Aitken. As 'Hallywood' got into full swing, some were dancing in the rain whilst others sought shelter in the Wolfson Hall. Decoration here carried on the cinematic theme, where Alex Singh provided dramatic lighting and projections. Unfortunately, few had the opportunity to sample the bungee run and human table football before they became oversized paddling pools. Forward thinking on the part of Matthew Newnes (Director of Entertainments), and his assistant, Steve McMahon, allowed alternatives in the form of the 'Jaws' surf simulator and the 'Casablanca' casino. This was hosted in a barely recognizable ODH, which became a Moroccan paradise with palm trees, piano, and occasionally a fez-sporting barman. As guests ate, drank, and made merry on the provisions of Kate Long and her trusty helpers Ann-Marie Evans and Doug Reay, we faced our first and only technical hitch. Despite ample and professional technical planning from Andrew Miller and Sam Griffiths, and despite thorough (and irritatingly good) Health and Safety provisions by Dave Cormode, the main stage electrical equipment would not last the flood. At this crucial point, wellrehearsed contingency plans went into action ... we begged. Special thanks goes to 'Salsaddiction' who agreed, with only ten minutes notice, to perform an acoustic set. Credit for this almost seamless, and some say unnoticed, change must go to 'Rich', our fantastic stage manager, provided by our Director of Music, James Stafford (now headhunted by Wadham Ball 2000). The evening was a great success, with the Ball being the first in three years to make a profit, and even managing to provide members willing to do it all again next year! Good luck to next year's Presidents, Andy Radford and Tom Butler.
The Tennis Club Joint Captains: Andrew Patterson and Ben Smith The 1999 tennis season was largely a successful one. After having defeated Jesus convincingly in the first round of Cuppers, our next challenge was New College, the competition favourites and eventual winners. Despite a determined performance from the entire team, Teddy Hall could not match the skill possessed by a side which contained four university players. The performance by newcomer Andrew Patterson and captain Daniel Sokol
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against New College's first pair was notably courageous, and they went down by the narrowest of margins, 6-4, 7-5, in a well-fought contest. After the disappointment of going out of Coppers, the team was left to concentrate on the league campaign. The constant presence of P.J. Howard and Benedict Smith, combined with the injection of new talent in the form of the freshers Andrew Patterson and Rhys Beer, provided a capable and committed pool of players from which captain Sokol could select, with the result that the team went undefeated in all of its matches. However, due to the poor weather and the captain's inability to organise a piss-up in a brewery, the college still finds itself playing in the second division this season. The 2000 season began with disappointment as 'veteran' Howard managed to break his leg. However, the experience provided by Beer, Patterson and Smith, along with the solid tennis of new boys Mark Belcher and Mike Harley, and the flamboyance of Nick Edwards, has ensured that the team remains one of the strongest in the Northern Hemisphere. Hopes for the rest of the season include Edwards running for the ball; Howard actually running; Smith passing his exams; and Belcher to take his tennis a bit more seriously (if that is possible). Good luck team 2000!
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Professor George Ebers took his MD at the University of Toronto in 1970, and served as an intern at the Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University in 1970-1. He completed his Neurology training at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York between 1972 and 1975, and held a post-doctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University from 1975 to 1977. He was subsequently professor at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1999 was appointed Action Research Professor at Oxford, and head of the University's Department of Clinical Neurology. His main research interests have been Multiple Sclerosis and the genetics of neurological diseases; his work has localized genes for a number of diseases, and identified the molecular defect in Thomsen's disease. He and his wife Sharon have two children. He suffers from bibliophilia, is interested in the history of medicine, and is fond of canoeing. He is very pleased to be associated with Teddy Hall and feels that he has been very warmly welcomed in the college.
Joe Barclay returned to St Edmund Hall as a Fellow by Special Election at the end of the Michaelmas Term 1999, having first come up to the college as an undergraduate in 1965. He has recently been appointed by the University to the new role of Regional Liaison Director and to set up a Business Liaison Unit. He is currently on secondment from Barclays Bank. The new unit, which is funded by the Government's new 'Reach-Out' or ' Third Leg' programme, is developing links with local industry in such areas as technology transfer, research , consultancy and continuing education. Prior to rejoining the University, he spent 30 years in Barclay's Bank, holding senior positions in Birmingham, London and Paris; his most recent appointment was as Corporate Director of the Bank's SouthWest Region, based in Bristol. He is also on the Board of the Oxfordshire
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Economic Partnership, a Council Member of the Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. A married man with two daughters (one at St Anne's) and a son, he lives in Buckinghamshire.
The Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, born in 1949, was elected as the 106th Bishop of Rochester in 1994. Born and brought up in Asia, he holds both Pakistani and British citizenship. He read Economics and Sociology at the University of Karachi, and Theology at Fitzwilliam College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. His postgraduate studies at St Edmund Hall, and at Cambridge, Australia and Harvard, spanned comparative literature, the comparative philosophy of religion, and theology. He has taught at universities in the UK, Pakistan and New Zealand, and has been a visiting lecturer in these countries and in Canada, the US and Australia. He is currently Visiting Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Greenwich, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Hall last year. He was ordained deacon in 1974 and priest in 1976. Following a curacy in Cambridge, he worked as a parish priest in a poor urban area of Karachi and on the staff of Karachi Theological College. He was appointed Provost of Lahore Cathedral in 1981, and in 1984 was consecrated the first Bishop of Raiwind. He joined the Archbishop of Canterbury's staff in 1986, and assisted with the planning and preparation of the 1988 Lambeth Conference. From 1989 to 1994, he was General Secretary of the Church Mission Society. Bishop Michael is a director of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and, until recently, was a Director of Christian Aid and a member of the Inter-Faith Consultative Group. He sits on a number of church committees, and in May 1998 he was appointed to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority as the Chair of its Ethics Committee. He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1999. He is the author of a number of books on Christian mission and on inter-faith issues, particularly on Islam. He is married and has two sons. He still enjoys a game of cricket, and his sons are looking for someone who can beat him at table tennis!
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Terry Jones read English at the Hall from 1961 to 1964, and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1999. As an undergraduate, he acted in several productions of the John Oldham Society, and contributed as both writer and actor to the University Theatre Group tour of the Edinburgh Festival in 1963. He also wrote articles and short stories for Isis. After graduating, he moved to London and began a long writing collaboration with Michael Palin, also from Oxford, for the BBC, writing and appearing in programmes such as Do Not Adjust Your Sets, and The Complete and Utter History of Britain. In 1969, he helped to form one of this country's comic institutions, Monty Python, with Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and John Cleese. They wrote and starred in several seasons of Monty Pythons Flying Circus on the BBC, as well as in three feature films in the 1970s and 80s. Terry is also interested in the life of Chaucer and wrote a critical, and critically acclaimed, original assessment of Chaucer's Knight in the Canterbury Tales. Various TV and film projects were made, as well as many children's books written. He is currently planning a feature film, and is at work on a new book called Who Murdered Chaucer? A medieval adventure story, The Lady and the Squire, for teenage readers, is being published in the autumn.
ST EDMUND'S DAY In line with well-established tradition, St Edmund's Day was celebrated on 16 November 1999 by a special service in the Chapel, followed by a Feast in the Wolfson Hall. The Principal presided at the Feast, accompanied by Mrs Stacey Mingos; a large group of Fellows, old members and current junior members attended, along with an invited group of special guests: The Visitor, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; Professor Brian Johnson (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), with Mrs Christine Johnson; Dr Rosemary Horrox (Fitzwilliam College); Lord (Terence) Burns (Economist, Permanent Secretary to H.M. Treasury, 1991-98); Sir Patrick Nairne (Master of St Catherine's College, 1981-8); Mr Godfrey Hodgson (Director of the Reuters Fellowship Programme, Green College); Mr Michael Hamilton ( 1962, City Chapter of St Edmund Hall); Dr Roy Spilling (College Doctor); Mr Humphrey Ocean (Artist).
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THE EMDEN LECTURE The Carroll Professor of Irish History, Roy Foster, delivered the Emden Lecture in the Examination Schools on 10 May 2000. His title was 'Remembering to Forget: history and commemoration in Ireland' . Few will forget the occasion. Professor Foster noted that it had become fashionable to be Irish, or to be thought to be Irish, as has been shown in the recent past by the number of public figures who have rediscovered their Irish heritage. What Professor Foster was anxious to show was how the Irish past is remembered and forgotten. He made great play, and play is the mot juste, with the recent commemorations of the Great Famine of the late 1840s and of the Rebellion of 1798. He contrasted the low-key treatment the 100th anniversary of the Famine received in the late 1940s with the bonanza of the late 1990s, on the occasion of the less important 150th anniversary. Politicians, journalists, pop stars and the ghastly gaggle of the modern media mandarins strutted their emotions before the public. The British (Labour) Prime Minister apologized for the policies of his (Whig) predecessor, whilst in popular discourse, in Professor Foster's words, 'The language of psychotherapy replaced that of historical analysis.' But not for long. The 'Faminist' festival had only a limited run . It was soon shoved off the stage to make way for the next anniversary, the bicentenary of the 1798 rising. There was, Professor Foster admits, some benefit from the beanfeast: decent local histories were written, and a splendid joint exhibition was mounted by the major Museums of Dublin and Belfast. But the spin was far more noticeable than the spin-off. The Irish government laid down a six-point ' Mission Statement on 1798' which was to interpret the rebellion as an all-Ireland affair with no whisper of any sectarian differences, and which was to emphasize the European dimension of the rising's leaders. Furthermore, it was to be stressed that the rising led to closer links with North America and Australia as well as to France; this was good for the tourist industry. So history was ' commodified '. It was also travestied. A bridge commemorating all Europe's republican revolutions included that in England in 1649; Professor Foster observed 'whether it means to or not, it's become the only Irish monument celebrating Cromwell ' . Whilst the spin has been put on some events in Irish history, others have been down-played or neglected. Little is made of the great Daniel O'Connell - was that because he believed the Irish language should be ditched as too outmoded a vehicle to handle the complexities of a modern state, society
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and economy? There were no great celebrations of Parnell's birth or death. Dare one ask whether this was because of his Protestantism, or his fornication, or both? Professor Foster concluded his lecture with a personal anecdote. As a graduate student in the 1970s he interviewed a nonagenarian whose father had been a neighbour and friend of Parnell. The two men had built a sawmm but when they suggested a large beech tree be felled to test the new machinery the workmen refused the job: it would be, they said, 'unlucky'. Imported workers found it not so much unlucky as impossible. The saws they used broke because, it was discovered, the tree was full of lead. Hapless victims of the suppression of the 1798 rising had been tied to the tree and shot. 'The memory persisted, and the taboo; the actual association, the awful actuality, had been suppressed' concluded Professor Foster. Similarly the nonagenarian refused to discuss his part in the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. The memories were too painful and forgetting was less painful than remembering. The lecturer could not but sympathize. He would not, he said, 'go so far as to follow the suggestion that the next commemoration should take the form of raising a monument to Amnesia ... as a historian, I have to be rather shocked by the idea. But as an Irishman I' m rather attracted to it'. His attraction to the idea could not have been greater than the admiration and gratitude felt by the audience for a scintillating lecture. Richard Crampton Archivist
THE PHILIP GEODES MEMORIAL LECTURE Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, journalism was an underrated profession. Even in the last decade or so, when the big-name journalists have started to acquire star-status, their less well-known colleagues remain subject to a recalcitrant prejudice about the hierarchy of genres. 'Original' writing is what poets, novelists, and critics do: even popular bestselling biographers and academics are higher in the pecking-order than newspaper-reporters and freelance 'hacks' . Or so the story goes ... But the tide is turning; and St Edmund Hall is making a strong and increasingly visible contribution to this sea-change. For many years, now, the college has offered a prize for journalism, in memory of Phi lip Geddes, an Aularian whose promising career as a journalist was tragically curtailed by his death in an IRA bomb-attack on Harrods. The prize was originally
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awarded to college members only, but it has been made available more recently to other university members as well; and since then its reputation has grown. A number of outstanding young journalists have won the prize, including Rachel Trethewey, Alison Roberts, and Emma Brockes. Aspiring journalists have begun applying to Teddy Hall because they know of the existence of the prize; and it is fast becoming a feature of which the college can be justly proud. This year we attracted considerable publicity - indeed national presscoverage - when Jeremy Paxman delivered the second in a series of annual 'Philip Geddes Memorial Lectures' to a packed hall in the Examination Schools on 5 May. His subject was 'Spin': the spin given by unscrupulous journalists (often in collusion with the government) to information entering the public domain. He accused Labour's propaganda-machine of becoming so sophisticated that journalists treat as facts events that haven't happened; and he pointed out that spin suits newspaper proprietors because it is cheap. Spin-doctors and their pals are the inevitable accoutrements of democracy in a mass media age, he observed, so we should stop whingeing about them. Nonetheless, it is the job of journalists to remain sceptical, as well as accountable. Yes, but to whom? Ultimately, Paxman argued, to themselves: to their own primitive curiosity, to their instinctive urge to cause trouble, and to their atavistic distrust of anyone in authority. 'In the spin doctor's ideal
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world', he concluded, 'all is managed, smoothed and predictable. In the journalist's ideal world, all is chaos and confusion. It is our duty to bite the hand that feeds us'. Paxman talked anecdotally and humorously on this subject for f01ty minutes, before inviting questions from the floor, which came thick and fast for a further half-hour. It was a bold reversal of roles, and he proved as punchy and incisive an interviewee as he is usually an interviewer. The lecture was preceded by the presentation of two Geddes prizes to this year's winners, Alison Cook and Amanda Davis (both Aularians). Mrs Geddes made the presentation, and the Principal introduced the speaker and presided over the discussion. Later that evening, there was a feast in college, attended by numerous distinguished guests. Celebrating the interface between journalism and the academy, this was a deeply memorable occasion, and can only be described as an unqualified success. Our congratulations and good wishes for their future go to Alison and Amanda; and our thanks to this year 's judges (Christopher Wilson, Rachel Trethewey, Hermione Lee, Stephen Farthing), as well as to Jeremy Paxman himself. Last but not least, we thank Mrs Geddes. Lucy Newlyn Fellow in English
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GRADUATE SEMINARS The possibility of running a programme of Graduate Seminars has been discussed in the Hall for some time now, and we are grateful to our new Principal who took it upon himself to establish the tradition, in his usual efficient way, by running three seminar discussions in Hilary Term. The first of these gave a chance to our three graduate scholars to explain briefly the topic of their individual research. It was gratifying to have had in the audience Ian and Caroline Laing who have generously contributed to these three graduate scholarships. The second was a thought provoking and lively debate on fraud in research, led by the Principal himself; and the last was a presentation by Professor Matthews on 'Shakespeare in the brain', a fascinating bird's-eye view of the brain's various activities, all introduced with a humorous reference to Shakespearean passages. The Graduate Seminars scheme has now been taken over by the Tutor for Graduates, who in Trinity Term organised seminar discussions on 'A British Ivy League', the 'European Community and British Autonomy' and a 'Barbarian in Oxford, Historical Anthropologist of Parliament: Two Terms in Teddy Hall?' led by Professor Alan Ryan (Warden of New College), Professor Wyatt and Professor Henk te Velde (University of Groningen). The experience of this year's programme of seminars has been a very positive one and it is hoped that in future years all MCR members will, at one time or another, reap the benefit. Basil Kouvaritakis Tutor for Graduates
ARTWEEK 2000 Another successful Art and Craft Exhibition was staged in the Party Room during Trinity Term 2000, as part of Oxford Artweek, with contributions from Fellows, staff, students and others connected with Teddy Hall. There were several new contributors to the exhibition this year as well as recent work from our regular contributors. Again the exhibition attracted several hundreds of visitors, some of whom were from the local area and make a point of visiting each year, and others who had travelled long distances. A wide variety of exhibits and talents was on show which again brought many favourable comments from the visitors, and which was reflected in the large number of sales this year. It was very pleasing and satisfying that a number of contributors sold some of their work. To prove the high standard of the Hall's exhibitions, one of our undergraduate contributors from the
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last two years, Tessa Farmer, can be congratulated on having been awarded a First Class in her Bachelor of Fine Art degree this summer. The centrepiece of this year's show (not for sale) was the Bursar's boat "Rich Mabel" - an old rowing boat which he had obtained as a wreck and which he has spent many years repairing and renovating. No-one could have missed this exhibit as it occupied most of the floors pace; in fact it had been a mammoth task for the college maintenance team to move the boat up from the workshop below. At the end of the exhibition the boat was taken to the Thames at Abingdon where it was launched on the river. The Bursar was last seen rowing off into the sunset .... Many thanks to all contributors, invigilators, the maintenance department and all others involved for making the 2000 Exhibition another great success! Julia Johnson-Fry
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Nearly four years ago, I purchased a sorry tub pair from the Bursar at Pembroke: every rib was broken and several planks had rotted away as it mouldered outside their boathouse. 'When are you going to get rid of this heap?' I had asked during a Bursarial Perambulation to our own adjacent boathouse; the reply encouraged me to offer to take it off their hands for a couple of hundred pounds and in hours I had a snip! In due course we managed to get the boat into some spare space near the College workshop and thereafter my every spare lunchtime minute was spent in the refurbishment. Making new ribs was the first skill to be acquired: they are oak, and the grain must run with the profile of the boat to give extra strength to these narrow components- each one riveted-in with a dozen copper nails. The planks are mahogany and shaped to the contour of the boat, too. As the craft's back was broken, the whole plot had to supported throughout the operation. The clinker design of the boat means that the planks were not caulked and had to be a more or less perfect fit, the final varnish providing the waterproofing. I converted the boat to be a double-scull so as to be able to take her out solo, so there was some reconfiguration of the footboards and seats which were also upgraded to double-action on Tufnol runners (Tufnol is an early Bakelite-type material which proved most difficult to locate; then it had to be cut into strips). The stem seat has been re-made from strips of oak floorboard on a mahogany frame, and the ironwork completed with a strip of redundant SEH bannister rail (ex-St.IV!) and a gold lozenge design bearing the Teddy Hall cross florey (no intended gender slight here; a lozenge just looks better than a shield!). The whole has been completed by the provision by Dick Fishlock of four very elegant old-style blades, which are in claret and gold leaf Teddy Hall livery. Since the show, the boat has been floated successfully and I am now planning a matching awning. Watch out for us at Eights Week next year and at the boom opposite the Stewards'; I shall be carrying supplies of bubbly and be happy to paddle passengers up the course. Geoffrey Boume-Taylor Domestic Bursar
MUSIC AT THE HALL This year we were very fortunate to hear Donna Stoering, our Artist in Residence, perform the extremely challenging Rachmaninov Sonata No.l. This sonata is rarely attempted and Donna's performance may well have been an Oxford premier. In her usual energetic and friendly style, Donna
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took some time, just before the concert, to give an informative and entertaining description of the protagonists behind this sonata and gave a vivid illustration of thematic characterizations used by Rachmaninov. She then proceeded to give an inspired performance that made a fiend of piece look so easy. In the same concert we had the pleasure of hearing Erin Nolan's beguiling viola playing with her marvellous tone and impressive bow control. Sadly for us, Erin has now gone to the US to embark on her University education and it may be some time yet before we have the chance to enjoy her playing again at the Hall. There were of course many other musical events in the year, such as the numerous performances of the Choir (whose prowess this year took them as far afield as Southern Ireland), a students' concert with the participation of many talented musicians (including our Librarian), a Mozart evening in which Caroline Catmur played the violin and Hagit Amirav performed on her viola. Sadly, our Assistant College Secretary and accomplished pianist, Kirstie Fieldhouse, has left the Hall but she has not gone far enough to avoid musical invitations; so beware, her lunchtime concert with the Senior Fellow in Music this year will not be her last! Basil Kouvaritakis Tutor for Music
RETIREMENT OF DR IAN SCARGILL To generations of St Edmund Hall students, especially those reading Geography, Ian Scargill must have seemed as permanent a part of the Hall as the front quad, but now the unthinkable is upon us and Ian is about to retire. Indeed, by the time this magazine is distributed he will already have been elevated to that happy band the Emeritus Fellows, who come into lunch during second week and say 'Oh, has term started then' to the considerable irritation of the teaching Fellows. In these days of concern about access to Oxbridge, it is worth noting that Ian was a grammar school product from 'oop north, who arrived in St Edmund Hall in 1954 on an Open Scholarship, graduating with first class honours in 1957. He then went on to become the only graduate student of the School of Geography, completing his D.Phil. thesis on the West Yorkshire conurbation in 1961. His considerable industry is illustrated by the fact that he was appointed in 1959 to both a Departmental Demonstratorship in Geography and a lectureship at the Hall. He was elevated to the Fellowship of the Hall in 1962, with the University playing catch-up in 1964 by appointing him to his University lectureship. In a recent celebration of Ian's career
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organized by the School, the present Head of Department, Professor Col in Clarke, recalled attending Ian 's first lecture series in 1960 on the Economic Geography of France. In fact Ian's interests in both Urban Geography and France have continued throughout his career, as testified by some of his more important publications, such as Economic Geography of France (1968, revised 1972) and The Form of Cities (1979). He has also long had an interest in the Oxford region, on which he has also published (e.g. Oxford and its Countryside (with A. Crosby, 1982), and which he promoted as a major theme of last year's Centenary celebrations of the School of Geography, organized by Ian with great efficiency on behalf of the School. Ian's contribution to the Hall has been as been as distinguished as it has been long, and outside of the confines of Geography Aularians, he will be recalled by countless others through the many important college offices he has held. Early in his Hall career, he served as Pro-Proctor (with Graham Midgley) during Sir David Yardley's Senior Proctorship in 1964-5; in the same year, he was Acting Dean of Degrees. In 1966, he became Dean of Degrees, a post he held for many years. When Justin Gosling was Senior Proctor in 1977-8, Ian again served as Pro-Proctor, and for eight years, between 1986 and 1984, he edited this Maga zine. He was Tutor for Admissions in 1987-8, and more recently also Vice-Principal (1990-3), Tutor for Undergraduates (1993-8), and from 1997 Dean of Chapel, a role he will relinquish only on his retirement this year. But it is probably as a tutor in Geography that he has most influenced students of the Hall. As his colleague over the lasi I 0 years, I have been aware that not only do former pupils who are now teachers encourage their bright-young-things to apply to read Geography under his direction, but several have even encouraged their own offspring to follow in their footsteps . This is because, whatever the fashions of the day in their subject, good tutors make you think, discourage sloppy thinking, and give your week's work the attention it deserves in the weekly tutorial. These things Ian has always done to good effect and his students have consequently admired him as a tutor and mentor. Typical of the affection with which Ian is regarded by his pupils is the following tribute from Olivia Routledge, who graduated this summer: My first memory of Dr Scargill was the letter I received from him before I went up to Oxford - hand-typed on an antique typewriter, something that I will always keep. The fact that he never really got to grips with the wonders of modern technology was just one
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of the many endearing features that made Dr Scargill such a popular figure. To me, he was an inspirational teacher, guiding me through the minefields of my early days in Oxford, encouraging me when I was sure that everyone one around me was doing so much better. Cosmographers' dinners were never complete until he added his own brand of humour to them. Like a kind of academic Nestor he was a father figure to emulate and respect, who saw generations of geography students come and go; and in this way he will long be remembered by those of us privileged enough to have been taught by him. Outside of the college, Ian has contributed significantly to Oxford through his long association with the Oxford Preservation Trust, and through his work as a Magistrate. He was appointed to the Oxford City Bench in 1977 and will continue to serve on the Youth Court in the coming years. Doubtless his experience on the bench has helped him see through the more facile excuses and positions adopted by his undergraduates over the years. And what of the future of Geography in the post-Scargill era? Regrettably, current financial circumstances do not allow the immediate refilling of Ian 's fellowship; but in the interim, we have secured the services of his former postgraduate student, Dr Lorraine Wild, to provide human geography tuition, which is excellent news for our present undergraduates. I am sure that all Aularian Geographers will wish Ian and his wife Mary many happy years of retirement, and will look forward to catching up at future Aularian events with the progress on the book on France that Ian has admitted to be thinking of writing. Robert J. Whittaker Fellow in Geography
80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR MR ALTON AND DR MITCHELL 1 APRIL 2000 'Whan that Aprille with his shoures sate ... ' An invitation to a luncheon party on April Fool's Day is food for thought. English graduates of the Hall between 1952 and 1986 - not at all suspicious in the event- responded enthusiastically. Joined by Fellows past and present, nearly one hundred and fifty gathered for pre-lunch drinks in the Wolfson Hall to congratulate two distinguished Emeritus Fellows.
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Reggie and Bruce, both recently octogenarians, accompanied by their spouses, Jeannine and Mollie, were in splendid form. Following an excellent lunch, the Senior Fellow, Dr Ian Scargill, welcomed the guests and led the tributes in the unavoidable absence of the Principal and Mrs Mingos (in New Zealand) and the Vice-Principal (in the USA). He recalled with wit and feeling the many years of service given by Reggie and Bruce to the academic and social life of the Hall and regretted the sad passing in 1999 of Graham Midgley - the third member of the English triumvirate - who would so much have enjoyed the party. Between them, these three dons had contributed over a hundred years of teaching in the English Faculty. David Bolton (1957) gave a succinct career history of both Reggie and Bruce, carefully researched and embellished structurally in blank verse format, which he compared, somewhat modestly, to the weaker passages in Wordsworth's Prelude or Betjeman's Summoned by Bells (the full text may be found below on page 81). Those present enjoyed a retrospective which traced not only the achievements of the two chief guests but - en passant - the postwar development of an Oxford College. Michael Pike (1968) considered the challenge of teaching. Now a doctor, he had greatly enjoyed his English studies with Reggie and Bruce but spoke from the heart and with a mature experience - based upon his work as a Consultant Child Psychiatrist- about the nature of teaching and learning, of trust and respect. After a soothing musical interlude- Kirstie Fieldhouse played Brahms's Intermezzo Op.118 No.! - Fred Farrell (1956) read messages from (in absentia) Monty Python's Terry J ones (1961) and from Professor Jean-Paul Debax (1957) of the University of Toulouse. Chrissie Bird (1986) recalled with affection the humour and patience of her tutors, their love of literature and language and their ability to share their enthusiasms with undergraduates. Now a Contract Law Solicitor, her memory of Bede's Sparrow, flitting in an out of Hrothgar's hall, was as fresh as ever, a poignant image of the brief span of a human life. Patrick Garland ( 1956) wove an eloquent web of memories in which National Service, undergraduate frivolity, even triviality, were enmeshed. Yet his final tribute to his former tutors was inspired by 'the deep seriousness of everything - of love of literature, love of learning, love of teaching and (pause)... love of us'. Presentations followed - the gift of a case of wine and a framed tribute (marking the occasion) to each of the two chief guests. Of course, Jeannine and Mollie were not forgotten.
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Reggie and Bruce responded, each in his own unique fashion. Reggie 's speech, he warned, would be ' ... short on quips and cranks and long on tears and thanks ... ' He lamented Graham's recent passing - 'nob but a lad, in his own dialect... ' but he was confident that the dirgeful ' Belfast Linen ' would have been sung had Graham been present. How he would have enjoyed the party. 'How many colleges get people out in this strength to do this sort of thing?' he mused. He thanked everyone for their gifts, and the organizers and the Hall staff for their hard work. In a postscript, wit unscathed, he offered a tabloid version of The Battle of Maldon - ' Essex Man Commits Great Military Blunder ' !! Bruce addressed the gathering first in Anglo Saxon. As ever, he courteously translated: 'Thanks be to God for well-wishing, for all his good deeds.' It was a great and moving occasion, he confessed. 'Life has been very good to me and this is just one example of it.' How did he get the job of Lecturer in Old and Middle English way back in the early Fifties? Perhaps it was the half glass of sherry he accepted at interview from the Principal a compromise between his obligation to his host and his loyalty to the Merton Eight in which he was rowing later that day! Bruce then exchanged the 'crude Australian tie, with kangaroos ' he was wearing for one better suited to 'an English gentleman' although this featured Teddy Bears. More seriously, he paid tribute to Mollie, to his colleagues and to his pupils. He was most grateful to those who had arranged such an enjoyable gathering David Bolton, Fred Farrell and Peter Whurr - and deeply thankful for the gifts. 'Flare ant omnes, flare at Aula!' Affectionate applause ensued. There was no more to be said. The personal reunions continued in the Wolfson Hall and across in the Buttery. A shaft of sunlight pierced a dull April day in the Front Quad. A sparrow flitted past the Chapel door. 'Lif bio laene ... ' D.M.W. Bolton (1957) The following attended the Celebration: ( 1935) Mr H. Arthur Farrand Radley; (1953) Mr Ernest P. Fox, Dr David H. Giles with Jean Giles, Mr John F.W. Read with Sophie Read, Mr Geoffrey E.L. Williams with Carolyn Williams; (1954) Mr Douglas S. Botting, Mr Norman M. Isaacs, Mr E. John McLaren with Barbara McLaren, Mr W. Barrie Shaw, Mr J. Brian Shepherd, Mr Keith Suddaby; (1955) Mr John H. Barker, Mr John Billington; (1956) Mr Michael J. Cansdale, Mr Fred J. Farrell with Ann Farrell, Dr Patrick E. Garland, Mr John Gurney with Sally Gurney, Mr B. David Short with Sue Short, Mr Alan D. Titcombe, Mr G. Peter T. Whurr, Mr George E. Wiley, Mr John R.C. Young; (1957) Mr David M.W. Bolton , Mr Roland S.
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MacLeod, Prof. John B. Walmsley with Ursel Walmsley; ( 1958) Mr Geoff P. Fox with Pam Barnard ; ( 1959) Or Ian H. Alexander and Flora Alexander, Mr Frank di Rienzo, Mr John C. Griffin, Mr Tony G.P. McGinn, Mr John S. Rayner; (1960) Mr Derek A. Mon·is with Maureen Ashcroft; (1961 ) Mr Michael J. Lynch with Penny Lynch, Mr Jonathon A. Martin, Mr Richard C. Padfield; (1962) Mr James R. de Rennes with Jane de Rennes ; ( 1963) Mr Angus Doulton, Mr Trevor C. Grove; ( 1965) Mr Richard T. Wycherley with Elizabeth Wycherley ; ( 1966) Mr Nick Fane with Susan Fane, Mr Frank H. Hanbidge; ( 1967) Mr Rodney G.R. Munday with Eleri Munday, Mr Ian C. Robertson, Mr Philip V. Robinson, Mr Mark C. V. Spencer-Ellis with Victoria Love; (1968) Or Michael G . Pike, Mr Michael 0. Spilberg with Henry Spilberg; (1970) Mr Peter Butler with Peggy Butler, Mr Peter S. Malin, Mr Everard J. Meynell with Shirley Meynell , Or Frank Spoon er; ( 1972) Mr Alyn G . Shipton; ( 1973) Mr Douglas J. Beaumont with Hubert Beaumont; ( 1974) Mr Jerry Gray with Inge Gray, Mr Michael W. Hardy ; (1975 ) Mr Alex Davids, Mr Donald J. Farrow, Dr Martin Garrett with Helen Garrett, Or Brian F. Gasser; ( 1979) Mrs Hazel Hale with Roger Hale; (1983) Mr Car) Cunnane with Lesley Cunnane; (1984) Ms B. Louise Rands Silva: ( 1986) Ms Samira Ahmed with Brian Miller, Ms Christina C. Bird with Ciaran McMenamin, Or Hay ley G. Davis with Chris Baldick, Ms E. Emma Williams; Mr John Claringbould, Or Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson, Mr Edward P. Wilson. Representatives of the Hall were: Mr Reginald E. Alton with Jeannine Alton, The Revd H.E. John Cowdry, Prof. Richard J. Crampton with Celia Crampton, Mr Nicholas S. Dav idson, Ms Sam Day, Ms Kirstie Fieldhouse, Mrs Alice Gibbons with Charles Gibbons, Mr Ju stin C.B. Gosling with Margaret Gosl ing, Prof. Roy Han·is with Rita Harris, Prof. Sir Peter B. Hirsch with Lady Hirsch, Mrs P. Joy Jenkyns with Peter Thomas, Or Chri stoph Korbmacher with Sibylle Korbmacher, The Revd Duncan A.S. M ac Laren , Or Tony F. M a rchin g ton , Dr R. Maryanne Martin with Christopher Dawes, Ms Carol McCiure, Dr R. Bruce Mitchell with Mollie Mitchell , Or Lucy A. Newlyn, Prof. Nigel Palmer with Susan Palmer, Or Christopher E. Phelps with Jennifer Phelps, Or Philipp Podsiadlowski, Mr Yivi an H . Ridler with Anne Ridler, Or Franci s J.C. Rossotti , Or D. Ian Scargill , Mr Martin D.E. Slater, Dr Ann G. Taylor, Mr Robert Yenables, Mr Christopher J. Wells with Rainhild Wells, Or Bill S.C. Williams with Renee Willi ams, Prof. Sir David C.M. Yardley.
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Reginald Ernest Alton, MC, MA Our tale begins in nineteen-thirty-eight. An undergraduate at St Edmund Hall, Till Hitler's panzers shattered Europe's calm, Young Reggie left familiar dreaming spires To join his comrades in a bitter war. In Sherwood Foresters at first he served, TransfeiTing later to Eleventh Hussars. Lieutenant Alton - Captain soon - campaigned Across the bloody theatres of the north, With gallantry in Holland recognised The toast of CheiTY Pickers - P.A.O.s. * To post-war Oxford's English School again In nineteen-forty-six. St Edmund Hall, With Emden at the helm, was patiently Reviving peacetime study for degrees. A B.Litt. started, and a noted skill As palaeographer, both augured well. Librarian of the English Faculty Housed then in attics dusty, dark and drear, Located in Examination Schools, All these combined to challenge Reggie ' s flair, But Fortune's fickle, and, in 'fifty-three, A Lecturer in English found himself A Fellow, full-time Bursar, yes, the first! His brief was wise investment for the Hall Together with Domestic Bursar's chores: Bills, Battels, Buttery, Bed and Board! Ah! halycon early years of Kelly's reign! The Fifties! Time so rare! The Alton line Continued in young sons from dear Jeannine As Roger, Angus, flourished and matured,
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And 'Mrs Alton', as we knew her, taught Reluctant undergraduates in French, To pass Prelims and savour Moliere. Tutorials with Reggie at that time Were often interspersed with anxious calls From Incogs or Authentics two men short For fixtures played at Wytham or Ewelm. His County called on Alton's expertise With ball and bat, and Oxfordshire's success Reflected off-spin of a wicked flight. For nearly twenty years 'the Bursar' steered An embryonic College through a maze Of building projects, finance and Appeals. The old Back Quad, Tom Crabbe's acknowledged ground, The Forum Restaurant and the ballroom floor, Masonic buildings, houses on the High, The mystic 'Orient' and the cycle shed, All disappeared as vibrant blocks emerged Entitled 'Emden', 'Kelly', 'Wolfson Hall', And Conferences began to fill the quads. The Fellows, gazing from an SCR Strategically designed beside a wall, Looked out upon New College and its lawns, Revealed in all their verdant symmetry. The crowning jewel - the College Library Transformed, adorned St Peter's-in-the-East. Reggie, throughout these years of constant toil, Pursued and taught (with kindness, humour, wit) The English Language and its Literature. Review of English Studies, in his care As Editor, for eighteen years, attained An academic rigour and renown. Woe be to weary Finalists - he or she If keynote articles remained unread!
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eo-residence received his full support, Enthusiastic champion from the start The Hall's first women undergraduates Arrived at last in nineteen-seventy-nine, Enraptured by their Tutor 's intellect, His old-world courtesy, respect and charm. Collector of fine paintings, Reggie gave As Chairman, wisdom to the Ruskin School Of Drawing and Fine Art, and tutored those Whose talents led them to St. Edmund Hall. Authentics Cricket Club acquired his name As President, attracting more prestige. And in those trendy years of laissez-faire When Sixth Form Studies trailed the latest fad, The English Classics had his voice within The Oxbridge Schools Examination Board, Since sold to Cambridge in a sad affair Five years ago, an action much opposed. Dean of Degrees, an honour still retained Mellifluous in Latin cadences He brought about the end of MA fees , Recalling years ago his generous ways, Extending Battels' credit painlessly. Vice-Principal for five years' lengthy span, This man of many parts in modesty Describes himself as 'dilettante' now. But 'multi-gifted' best describes your skills. So, Happy Birthday, Reggie. With Jeannine, We thank you for a lifetime's generous work, Commitment, dedication, loyalty. This College owes you much, as we ourselves, In years to come, as others gather here, May 'Floreat Aula's richly intertwined Aularian memory bring your name to mind. David Bolton ( 1957)
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Dr Raymond Bruce Mitchell From Melbourne via Merton College came A Mr Mitchell, keen Australian, As Lecturer in English at the Hall, Michaelmas Term, in nineteen fifty four. A Fellowship was his within the year, Impressive prologue to a proud career Encompassing well over thirty years' Devoted teaching and profound research. Bruce Mitchell's early days belied the path Success would later show. At age fifteen School days were over and for several years His dreams of glory had to be confined To first degree, for soon came World War Two. From nineteen forty one to forty six He served as Captain in the A.I.F. * Returning late to postwar studying He entered Melbourne's University As part-time student, part-time labourer, Required to do his reading night or day. A First in English emphasized his skills: Research at Oxford beckoned as a prize And blossoming romance espoused the cause, For Mollie, loveliest of Lowestoft girls, Employed at Melbourne's English Faculty Was destined to return to British shores For marriage at St Peter's-in-the-East To Bruce, December, nineteen fifty two. Old English syntax was his speciality But Anglo-Saxons lived afresh in him As Seafarer and Wanderer sparked a flame In curious and receptive Freshers' minds. His sense of humour, fairness , modesty, Impressed his many scholars, who might shirk
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From 'pa' and 'ponne' or those awkward verbs Whose conjugation never worked out right But revelled in his tales of warriors, Heroic clashes, war chests, hoards of gold, Arts, crafts and poetry, epic battle songs. ' J:>a mapelode Beowulf ... ' we recall, Or ' Lif bio lrene .. .' and its gnomic power. Old English Syntax - Volumes One and Two Revealed a lifetime's scholarship to all Those colleagues and researchers in his field. For over thirty years hi s fame has spread Across the world. In nineteen eighty six Came supplication for a new degree Doctor of Letters, following D.Phil. Awarded years before in Fifty Nine. Such scholarship can be its own reward. Not so in Bruce's kind philosophy. His constant deepest wish has been to share Old English life and literature with all Those English students, general readers too, With minds adept to read, enjoy first hand, Seeking to spurn translation 's 'living dog ' And thus to bring 'dead lions' back to life. A Guide to Old English (nineteen-ninety-two) Now in its Sixth Edition, paved the way For Bruce's masterpiece in 'ninety five Which opened up the Anglo-Saxon world To generations new, for their delight. His title was An Invitation To Old English, Anglo-Saxon England - thus Embracing at a stroke his cherished goal. To see Old English flourish and survive. His Visiting Professorships and talks, Lectures and papers given through the years, Read like a global travelogue today, For scholars worldwide clamoured for his voice. Within the Hall's enlarged community
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His contribution has been far and wide. Tennis revealed his target - not to lose Left-handedly he ground opponents down, In victory, though, unusually polite, And all forgotten o'er a cooling drink! Tutor for Graduates, Junior Dean, such posts, He held with great responsibility, St Edmund Hall his one and only care. Chapel to Bruce was dear and still today His smile of welcome greets us at the door, Reflecting centuries of fellowship. So, let our celebrations spark with joy! The Honour School of English gathered here Salutes you, Bruce and Mollie, on this day For all your years of service to us all. And to our college, dear St Edmund Hall. David Bolton ( 1957)
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A Thank You for 1 April 2000 Freondas gegaderodon feorran ond nean in Halges Eadmundes Healle eadige Reggie and Bruce reordum arian, swresendum ond winum. Swreslice gaderung for twrem esnum eahtatiga geara! Thankiao we prie thoncole cnihtas: David ond Fred dyhtige heahlareowas, Peter se thridda thohtes mechanisces. Thanciath we tham andweardum, tham the sprrecon ond tham the writon swa thegnlice ond freolice. Thanciath we eallum for mregenstrengum winum - mihtigre giefe blodgodendre - ond for blithum myndum cwicodum from geardagum cwetholum sprrecum mid wilsumum winum. To widan feore gemoniath we manige leomeras, pone heanne freolsdreg pres forman Aprelis, fela frema ond fregre deed. FLOREANT OMNES
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Friends from far and near gathered in festive mood in St Edmund Hall to honour Reggie and Bruce with tributes and with good food and wines. A happy get-together it was for two youngsters of eighty! We thank the three who organised it: David and Fred, doughty headmasters, and Peter, of mechanical bent. We thank those who were present, those who spoke and those who wrote, so loyally and generously. We thank everybody for wines of good vintage - a gift powerful for maintaining our blood alcohol level - and for happy memories recalled from days of yore in fluent conversations with valued friends. Always we shall remember the many pupils, that great day of celebration on the first of April, many kindnesses and generous acts. Bruce Mitchell Emeritus Fellow
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OBITUARY Richard Fargher, B.Litt., MA, D.Phil.
1915-1999 Emeritus Fellow
Funeral Address by Dr Bruce Mitchell Wolvercote Cemetery, 8 November 1999 We are met together to say Au Revoir to Richard Fargher, relative, colleague, friend. Richard was born in Liverpool on 18 September 1915 and died peacefully in Oxford on 30 October 1999. The Farghers, of Manx origin, came to Liverpool in the 1830s. Richard 's father, Richard senior, was a printercompositor with the Liverpool firm of Tirlings. A quiet peaceable man of deep religious convictions, he was a prominent figure in the local Anglican church and served as 'Father of the Chapel' at Tirlings. Friends can testify that the father's skill as a proof-reader rubbed off on the son. Richard's mother Lilian Kate (nee Wright) also came of a family which had lived in Liverpool from the early nineteenth century. Family tradition has it that Lilian's father ran away to sea as a boy and, after sailing the oceans, returned to Liverpool and became piermaster. She was an intelligent woman with a firm but quick and lively mind and deep religious convictions who devoted her married life to her home, her husband, and the three children Elsie (a primary school teacher and mother of John Baldwin, whose devoted care of Richard in his last years we all admire), Lilian (unmarried who was a nurse and theatre sister), and Richard the ' baby ' of the family. Richard senior and Lilian were very keen for their children to have a good education. So they scraped and saved to send them to a fee-paying
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primary school. Richard then attended Alsop High School Liverpool and from there won a Scholarship to Queen 's College, Oxford. On hearing the news, Richard senior said to Lilian and hi s son 'This in the proudest moment of my life. ' Richard matriculated in 1934 in a college which had always been sy mpathetic to undergradu ates from the north. Even so he subsequently observed: 'It was when I first aiTived in Oxford that I realized I wasn't English.' However, he soon settled down , read French and Spanish, was placed in the First Class in Schools, was awarded a prestigious Heath HaiTison Scholarship, and completed hi s B.Litt. ( 1939) and D.Phil. (1941) before going off to the war. After initial training, he was posted as a 2nd Lieutenant to the North Staffordshire Regiment in October 1941. In August 1942 he was transferred to the Royal Artillery, promoted Lieutenant, aiTived in North Africa in time for the German suiTender in Cairo, and from there went to Southern Italy, where hi s knowledge of Italian proved useful to the chaplain when he gave the last rites to dying Italian soldiers. Rumour has it that Richard often wore a beret when accompanying a chaplain attired in a Sam Browne belt and was sometimes taken to be the priest. In February 1946 he was promoted Captain on hi s appointment as interpreter at the No.1 Frontier Post at Semmering on the German-Russian border, by virtue of his knowledge of French, Spani sh, Italian, and what has been described by a di stingui shed German scholar as 'tolerably good German'. That he had no Russian beyond a German-Russian phrase book printed in Moscow was apparently not seen as a handicap. But hi s skill in languages was such that he no doubt coped. He left the army in May 1946, with ninety-five days leave and pay due to him. After manying Mary, he took up a lectureship in French and Spanish at University College Southampton, where he remained until hi s appointment as a University Lecturer and a Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund Hall in March 1949. His loss was keenly felt by the Professor of French at Southampton, H. W. Lawton, who wrote inter alia in hi s reference to Principal Emden: ' hi s departure would be a serious blow to my Department. .. the really broad and solid basis on which hi s scholarship rests ... a most successful teacher... clear-headed, fertile in ideas, sensible and well balanced .... As a man he is a sterling fellow ... no ' window-dressing' about him ... great privilege to have him not only as a colleague but as a friend .. . a charming and intelligent wife of whom my wife and I are very fond.' The file on Richard at the Hall contains no CuiTiculum Vitae because, as far as can be gathered, the appointment was not advertised. On 7 February
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1949 Principal Emden invited Richard to an interview. He duly came. After a complicated series of old-boy exchanges in Oxford, he was notified of his appointment by Emden in a letter dated 15 March. Richard was wont to aver that he owed this to the Revd Herbert Livesey, a friend of Emden's whom Richard had met in Southampton. Livesey, consulted by Emden, confirmed the general opinion of Richard and then uttered the words which caused Emden to close the deal: 'Fargher is not interested in money.' Richard and Mary moved into an unfurnished flat at 2 Charlbury Road early in September 1949 and remained there until the house built for them at 30 Blenheim Drive was completed in May 1953. There is a typically incomplete and therefore tantalising correspondence in the Hall files about Richard's attempt to overcome the then-standard delay of two years for the installation of a telephone, in the course of which he wrote to John Kelly: 'I tried the doctor move but that was no good when I was asked if I were an academic one' . What ploy, if any, succeeded and when, we shall never know. In April 1969 Mollie and I moved into 39 Blenheim Drive, right opposite 30, and shared many happy times, including a regular interchange of Christmas dinners over many years. Richard was one of the eleven members of the first governing body established by Royal Charter in February 1957. He served the Hall zealously as tutor and Dean of Degrees. He was devoted to his pupils. They valued him for his robust and testing tutorials, for the clarity and scholarship of his lectures, for his conscientiousness, and for his genuine concern for their wellbeing. Roy Harris (1951) observed in his speech at the heart-warmingly well-attended eighty-second birthday party his pupils gave him at the Hall: 'He was not a three-year tutor'. He went on: I think it is a pity that Richard never published more than he did, because in addition to lecturing with great lucidity he wrote with great lucidity too. But the reason why he didn't write more, we all know. He devoted himself first and foremost to his work with his undergraduates, and to his college duties, because that was what he believed being an Oxford don was all about. In the 1980s Richard was seriously concerned about the very few firsts given in Modern Languages compared to other subjects. The prevailing attitude is exemplified by the well-known interchange between two French examiners: 'I have just read an answer so good that it could be published as it stands with the addition of footnotes.' 'What mark did you give it?' 'B?+ of course.' Richard waited for a year in which SEH got one of the very few firsts awarded and
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then pressed his case, which was eventually accepted. Another manifestation of his concern for the subject and for those reading it. Richard retired in September 1982 and was elected an Emeritus Fellow from 1 October. But he continued to serve the Hall as a Stipendiary Lecturer for 1982-3 while his successor Nicholas Crank was being appointed. The SCR Farewell to Richard and Mary on Thursday 7 October was also the SCR welcome to the new Principal Justin Gosling and his wife Margaret. Richard continued to study and to write until his accident in January 1998. His last article was a contribution to Jack McManners's Festschrift: ' Religious Reactions in Post-Revolutionary French Literature'. Richard and Mary were devoted to each other. Theirs was a happy and enduring marriage. 30 Blenheim Drive was a friendly, welcoming open house for family, colleagues, students, and friends- a happy house which they had to leave in 1994 to move to Ritchie Court because of Mary's Alzheimer's. Richard cared devotedly and unselfishly for her even after his first fight with cancer. In 1997, it was necessary for her to go into Greengates Nursing Home. Richard visited her two or three times a day until the end of January 1998 when he was knocked down by a car on his way to see her. After his partial recovery, he was wheeled to Greengates by his carer where he lunched regularly with her, waiting patiently for those rare occasions when she did recognise him and when, as he poignantly put it, ' we were married again'. Mary's death in 1998 was a great blow but he continued his courageous fight for life until 30 October 1999. Religion was always a challenge for Richard. During his last illness he confided to his nephew John: 'I am an Anglican unbeliever, a loyal Anglican unbeliever who wishes he could believe.' This is very close to the prayer ascribed by St Mark to the father of the child with the dumb spirit: 'I believe. Help thou mine unbelief.' Jesus responded by healing the child. Richard took comfort in this and in Leigh Hunt's poem Abou Ben Adhem, in which Abou, who does not love the Lord but does love his fellow men, finds his name among those whom God has blessed. Richard could justly have claimed - though he never did - to be one of those who loved his fellow men. And they admired and loved him. We have already heard how his pupils felt. Reggie Alton, in the last of the SCR notice-board bulletins in which he and I reported Richard's progress wrote: 'I have visited him on most days since his accident two years ago and have much admired the brave fight he has put up. Indomitable.' ' He had no enemies' said a Faculty colleague. 'He was always prepared to accept human foibles and weaknesses in the full and deliberate acknowledgement
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of hi s own' , wrote another and went on 'Perhaps hi s last two years made him realise the extent to which he had won the affection of a large number of people.' We may all - relatives, colleagues, friends - take comfort in the knowledge that Richard himself became increasi ngly aware of thi s. In hi s last days he confided to his nephew John that the many visitors, letters, and tributes he received led him to realize that people really liked him and that he had many friends - a reali sation which his natural modesty had till then withheld from him. And what shall I more say? Let us give thinks for the life of one known affectionately to some of us as 'Froggie Fargher' and for the privilege of knowing him and of sharing good times with him. Au Revoir, Richard. May you and Mary rest in peace.
Memorial Address by Christopher J. Wells Queen's College, 4 March 2000 Richard Fargher was an undergraduate at the Queen 's College and represents one of a long line of lingui stically gifted northern lads who came to study here - in his case from Alsop High School, Liverpool. So it is fitting that this Memorial Service should be held in one of his two colleges, one to which he was more attached than tact permitted him to say while he was at St Edmund Hall. And certainly his friends and colleagues are very grateful to the Provost and Fellows of Queen 's that we may pay our affectionate respects and remember Richard in the college where hi s academic career began and under whose aegis he wrote his B.Litt. and D.Phil. theses. The Memorial Address constitutes a literary genre in itself, whose conventionality has been in times past, and for some people possibl y still is today, byzantine in its ritualized formality, geared to making the defunct person paradigmatic in their excellence and yet making them conform to typical patterns of humanity. Individuality was not much called for. The stations in a dead career were invested with significance in proportion as they represented manners or conduct to be emulated, to help those remaining follow in similar steps to those now disappearing under the tide of time, steps which appeared to be going in the right ideological direction ... And yet a Memorial Service purports to remember an individual. Richard would
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have smiled at the paradox. And so Richard's life beginning in his Liverpool childhood and compassing his school and university career, his time in the army and, for most of this audience, his life as a tutor, friend and colleague, playing some of the many roles on the University stage, from his beginnings as a junior lead, to the gradual narrowing to character actor, this Oxford life could also be held up as a model. And so it was, a model: even outside the conventions of a Memorial Address there are few who would say a bad thing about Richard Fargher. And that is rare in an Oxford College, that cross, so far as bitchiness is concerned, between a court and a monastery. Of course, the mould has been broken now, and sadly, Richard and Mary had no children of their own: as she once touchingly put it, it was her fault, she couldn't seem to keep them. How typical of them both, that characteristic self-deprecating Fargherian touch! Instead, Richard's many pupils became his children, and like all children they sometimes gave him a hard time, by persisting with ideas which, as he might have said, even he could see were fallacious. Pupils are both less and more ideal than one's own children, of course, but their great advantage over children is that one can disengage from them in their less endearing moments. Richard was, needless to say, not someone who offered more and gave less, and his support to pupils and friends alike - and often they became the same - was not, as far as I know, ever withdrawn. As his pupil Roy Harris put it in his speech for Richard's 82nd birthday: He devoted himself first and foremost to his work with his undergraduates, and to his college duties, because that was what he believed being an Oxford don was all about. And the very large number, and improbable combination of visitors who sought him out in the last two years since his accident reinforces the view of Richard as 'un homme gentil' (he wouldn't have liked the word 'gentleman')- as loyal, likeable, friendly, bonhomous, unthreatening- yet trenchant sometimes, and disconcerting - but above all, as decent to a fault. But here again, a second problem undermines the Memorial Address, and that bears on the nature of the memory - no powers of rhetoric (or none that are being deployed here) can justly conjure up the flavour or even the odour, pheromonically blended, of another person. And yet, the liminal and subliminal elements to memory may be transgressed by some phrase or trick of light, some combination of mood and situation, to make one think of him and in that way to keep him with us. For I do not wish to catalogue again the outlines of his biography as Bruce Mitchell has so judiciously and warmly done, drawing on companionship he and Reggie Alton, Jack McManners
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and John Cowdrey and others shared with Richard for some decades longer than my own. There was always an anarchic streak about Richard, in fact; in 1964 with a characteristic blend of modesty and cussedness he apparently refused to supply a CV to the exasperated University Correspondent of The Times at a time when it was - I quote - 'standard practice' to provide an advance obituary notice. John Kelly calmed the flustered correspondent and noted that he would 'be having a word with him and see if I cannot persuade him to take a more sensible view'. The very next day, not without an element of satisfaction, Kelly wrote again: I pointed out to him that, if anything unforeseen happened to him and there were no obituary prepared in advance, the burden would fall upon me of preparing one at short notice, and probably inaccurately. This argument persuaded him and he has now agreed to have one written. But a Memorial Address is not an obituary either. All I can do is provide, perhaps, a few afterthoughts based on glimpses of Richard's character and disposition which I barely perceived at the time, and- another trick of memory - which seem now more coherent to me than in the situations in which they arose and to which they were concomitant, and which I have of course long since forgotten. Is this a way to address such an audience? Richard was not a conventional man. But he was not a flamboyant man either- in a memorable phrase from the exceptional letter of reference which secured him the post at Oxford: 'there is no "window-dressing" about him'. Richard himself, who had, of course, not seen this reference, used to think that he owed his post at least in part to his being a Queen's man strategically placed by the powerful Faculty politician and Fellow of Queen's Ian McDonald. If so, McDonald got that right - and it was entirely typical of Richard not to claim that his own merits had anything to do with it. In a quiet, understated way Richard was a fiercely individual man, passionate and very self-critical. The humanity came in because he would not judge others by the high intellectual standards he set himself - and even a muttered 'bloody fool' had an affectionate tone to it when uttered by Richard. Fortunately, he could be stubborn, and in 1977 was not above sinking to statistical arguments to prove that the percentage of first-class degrees awarded to candidates reading French sole in the FHS was incommensurately small compared with other subjects, and he implied, indeed perhaps so small that the number of available French examiners might not comprise anyone who had ever seen an alpha performance, let alone produced one them-
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selves. The very next year the number of French-sole firsts went up: in fact it doubled -from one to two, one of whom happens to be my colleague and Richard's successor, Nicholas Cronk. There were Richard's physical habits, those small gestures and mannerisms which fill out and express the whole person- one of the obituaries talks of Richard raising his eyes at some improbable suggestion made by one of us, if not actually rolling them - there was about his eyes a brightness that seemed to increase their prominence, the defiant jut of the head, in later years a quiver of the jowl spreading over the whole person in an attitude of definite and uncompromising disagreement. Difficult- not to be overlooked. His gait was swift and purposeful - but utterly undermined by his turning both feet outwards and walking, at speed, in what I now recognize as a minuet-step. Perhaps, like Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist, proceeding gaily in a direction which he himself had only provisionally determined, each foot - each step was only poised to lead him off at any moment into a new direction- equally valid- which would in turn lead him back to wherever he might have supposed himself to have started from, had he cared about such things. Had he been more crudely certain about where he stood- and where everyone else should go - he might have produced more scholarly works they would not have been as endearing or perhaps enduring as the statements he did force himself to make. At times I suspected him of moving the goal posts - it was difficult to pin him down, since he would often reject the whole terms of the argument out of hand! I realized later that this was a constructive and educative demarcation - he was playing on pitches much larger than the one we had started on, whose stark, over-defined shadows were replaced by distinctions of a more appropriate and delicate dove-grey. This is not to say that his argumentative style was not robust: his prejudices were expressed so forcefully and with such an array of examples, sometimes drawn apparently at random, Richard animatedly shifting his weight from one leg to the other and bouncing up and down, so that the absurdity of his own position (for him this was axiomatic), and moreover his awareness of the absurdity of any other position which anyone, notably his interlocutor, might want to adopt - was indeed adopting - were only too evident. This was disarming. It could also be infuriating, but one's petulance evaporated in the measure as one realized how one's leg was being pulled. At times, though, he could be definite, trenchant even: the pursing of the lips and slight but definite shaking of the head, a raising of the eyebrows, attached as they apparently were to his shoulders, a distracted element of secretly enjoyed mirth, and a firm, clear,
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if to southern ears ever so slightly Liverpudlian 'No!' Richard was also absolutely clear about the inadequacies of essays or proses, opinions or individuals. He was not a person to impose his own views, however, and taught by reticence and implication, rather than by assertion. This again was part of his liberality - generosity of mind and spirit - which sought freedom of thought for others as well as himself. In interviews he was a splendid colleague to have, benevolent and kindly to nervous candidates, but an at times disconcerting interrogator to those who were swinging the lead and not plumbing the depths with it. 'What's the gender of table?' What the Russian prisoners he interrogated after the War must have made of him, one does not know. He probably teiTified them by kindness. But if there ever were a man to look the other way when prisoners in his charge were escaping, or where pupils in a tutorial had painted themselves into a corner, it was Richard .... Others of us would have shot the escapees - only to realize afterwards that they were us. His intellectual curiosity was boundless and he read voraciously and loved pictures. This interest in culture was as genuine as it was private. I was very surprised to find several Modern Greek books among his library including the grammar I also have. Unlike me, Richard had been doing the exercises, in - for him - a remarkably readable Greek hand! From early letters in the files, that hand was once quite legible, indeed regular and attractively formed: but later he seems to have wanted an element of the provisional attached to all his formulations. Whatever he said was not only sibylline, but through his hand- his writing looked as though the writer had been struck by lightning - it was often virtually indecipherable. Unfortunately this was not always the case: I still have an old French prose of mine marked by Richard unmistakably 'Gamma plus' -that from the time when central prose classes were conducted at the Taylorian by Richard and other powerful personalities - Madame Vallette and M. Garabedian. At about this time, Richard once asked the irascible Dr Bostock what he would recommend him, Richard, to read of the works of Goethe. Bostock replied with a presciently modern utilitarianism: 'Do you need it for your job?' To which, on the negative response, he replied: 'Shouldn't bother to read any of them , then. ' Nowhere is the distinction between horny-handed philological preoccupation with the roots of a text and a cultivated desire for enjoying it as literature more apparent. And this extended to food and clothing - Richard dressed carefully, but unostentatiously, usually in suits that seemed so much a part of him that their quality of 'suitiness' was entirely absent to the casual observer. And in the same way, he appreciated good
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food and excellent wines without the least di splay, and he preferred partaking of them in good companionship and even more delicious, abroad, particularly in France. Still, to Bostock's credit, it was he who described Richard as: ' Fargher is bristling with good points', which I take to be a northern compliment. In the same way, Graham Midgley used affectionately to call Richard 'Froggie Fargher' which evidently pleased him, as did Graham's splendid sculpture for him on hi s retirement. Despite the Bostockian advice, Richard did have both the Oxford Book of German Verse and a collection of Goethe's poems won by hi s colleague Roger Barnes as a schoolboy. What Richard 's relationship to Roger was, predates my knowledge, but I am sure it was always supportive, and in fact when Roger fell ill Richard even took a German language class for a time, before he secured the services of a brilliant young graduate, Ken Segar. Richard retained a great affection for Roger 's widow Annie of whom he stood in awe, and whose rigorous Calvini sm and high standards of thought and cond uct clearly terrified him . They would telephon e each other supportively and, as it were, domiciled and doctrinally miles apart, virtually every day for lengthy periods. Richard also loved language and languages, in fact , he could have become a philologist, though- again self-depreciation - professing derision for anything he might add to the discipline. Perhaps the subject's apparent eclecticism found an echo in hi s own habits of reading and research. He liked to dabble in etymology, Celtic, Gae lic and Germanic. His family name has Manx affiliations, and I once discovered when consulting the Isle of Man phone book that it is riddled with Farghers, while the Oxford directory has sadly now lost its sole entry. Richard once etymologized the name for me but modestly di ssented from the standard view that it meant 'excellent fellow ' /'good chap' ! He played with Welsh but had a special sensitivity for the language and reserved the epithet bach as a term of affection for those he fe lt closest to. Richard came to Oxford in 1949 from Southampton, where he had been Lecturer in Spanish and French, at a time when it was held possible to be competent in two languages other than one's mother-tongue. Richard of course, knew that thi s was naive - in fact, nai¡vete is one characteristic which Richard seemed not to possess, but he was not cuttingly shrewd either: he simply stood above such things. And as for the matter of heightwhile he was not intimidating, there was about him such a sense of proportion that one never thought of him as short or little, any more than one thought of him as old. Towards the end of hi s life one of hi s visitors caught
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Richard speaking Spanish to one of his nurses, with the obvious enjoyment of someone revisiting the preoccupations of youth ... and an evident tinge of pleasurable guilt at being caught doing it! And indeed, he retained, even when bedridden, on his better days a kind of eager alertness and a capacity for childlike enjoyment, as though in his imagination he was still setting out on some little adventure. Richard and Mary's house in Blenheim Drive was one of great refinement, if somewhat frozen in a time-warp so far as kitchen gadgets were concerned. A new microwave acquired a temporary if obstinate lining of potTidge which Richard had programmed to cook for one hour. This technological incompetence - better insouciance - did not prevent generations of Richard's pupils being given a homely welcome and excellent food, accompanied by multilingual, indeed, macaronic conversation and good wine which would add an enthusiastic blush to his nose as the evenings wore on. On these occasions Mary and Richard would converse with each other, often on unrelated themes, switching easily between French and German with the odd Italian or Latin thrown in. This could be alarming to those who failed to recognize the intricate harmonies and were uncertain as to whether they were listening to an elaborate duet or to dovetailing but independent arias in simultaneous performance. Later, Richard's devotion to Mary was palpable in his care of her when she was suffering from Alzheimer's. Here was a personal and very private struggle which Richard endured with great dignity and self-awareness. Richard was not particularly addicted to possessions, except perhaps, and inevitably, to books. And then, one suspects, because the better sort of books, even scholarly tomes, let one touch people. He also generously supported the Hall with a number of covenants and gifts, including - improbably - a copy of Mein Kampfwhich he had 'liberated' in the War to prevent it from doing any more harm and which we placed as the only book on the College's Phi-Shelf, since neither of us was in favour of censorship otherwise. After his terrible accident, there were times when visits to the hospital seemed pointless- embarrassing- and then, on his regaining consciousness, comic in an awful way, as the extent of his confusion became apparent Was I his father? Or the unnamed, and it seemed to me, malevolent Cardinal who haunted his conversations for a number of weeks? Because Religion was much in his thoughts, and for those of us unversed in the logic, if not sophistry, of 18th-century abbes, it was difficult to know how to respond. The patient attempts of his friends to communicate with him by squeezing his hand, or by writing or by pointing to words in the newspapers
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gradually brought him back. Then he reached the stage of speaking in French or German - his German would have put some first-year undergraduates to shame! And here he would himself have wanted to thank the very many friends who visited him on so many occasions - some daily - and sadly I have learned that Marjory Booth, a St Anne's colleague and one of Richard's most assiduous visitors died today. Progressively Richard improved as the polyglot linguistic skills of his friends uncovered more and more of his past - until one had to tell him not to expect total recall, since his performance had already eclipsed the memories of some of his visitors, and his confidences were making them feel privileged, but also over-familiar and intrusive! And these frequent visitors included friends from all parts of his life, one of them a very dear friend from his teens. At a Memorial Service all of us can express our sense of loss and the conviction or even promise that, from time to time, we shall think of Richard and remember him, not merely for what he did or said - our memories and our recollections play us tricks - but we shall think of him for what we think he was to us. And for many people here, at different times, that has been a great deal. But the real way to recapture Richard is surely to listen to his own writing and read between his lines because we still know their modulation. Richard had clearly read his way through most of the 18th-century French literary landscape, with excursions down promising routes and byways. His splendid volume Life and Letters in France: The Eighteenth Century, which appeared in 1970, is a skilfully chosen collection of passages distilled over twenty years of teaching which also reveals Richard himself as a moralist thoroughly disinclined to subject himself- or others- to any political infringement of the freedom to explore intellectually or live freely. That seems to me to be the basis of his admiration for the thinkers of the eighteenth century; so Richard's colleague and successor Nicholas Cronk has chosen a passage to remind us of this friend who has joined the swelling band of ghosts we still in unthinking moments think we catch a glimpse of in the Oxford streets - until we realize that they are now part of us, no longer of the outward scene - of us, not among us.
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River Thoughts at Oxford Dedicated to the late Richard Fargher, B.Litt. , MA, D.Phil. So, decades later, here I find myself walking again the dusty towpath where the Isis flows between her crumbling banks in Port Meadow. Here grazing cattle make their lumbering way into the shallows, hock-deep, the sun hot on their heaving flanks. Two herons stand for sentinels. I stand, and let the shoals of minnows nudge my feet. When from the hump-backed bridge, nostalgically, I pan the green expanse to Wolvercote, the river lures me on to Godstow's span just as when I, an undergraduate, sought out its damp tranquillity, and quit the small-talk of the noisy common room, the stress of studies and the anxious thought of Finals which seemed more like nemesis. So, of an evening, I would wander here, or past the boat-houses to Iffley Lock; sometimes along the Cher whose mystery was deepened by the trailing willows there. Then I was quite alone, back in my world where I could be myself, let fancies wing whichever way they would, without restraint, and so resolve my own philosophy. Yet sooner more than late they sought me out, my ghostly poets in whose works I delved, with whom I battled to identify. Villon was with me once, near Donnington, I hear him still whenever I am there, surprising me with all that he had meant by 'snows of yesteryear'. I can forgive myself that I was too naive to know.
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By contrast, Ronsard and Du Bellay froze my twentieth-century soul with their elaborate and courtly elegance, their stylized bas-relief. I told them so, confessed I was more plebeian than peer, more of the people, not at ease among corinthian pillars and peristyles where man behaved as though a demi-god. With what relief, then, Chateaubriand's shade summoned all the Romantics to my side, each one in turn, who suddenly reformed in flesh and blood, with that same pulse as I, assuring me that they existed still. My thoughts, my sensibility, were theirs, Nor did they dwell in that fools ' paradise Which poets through the ages conjure up. True, Lamartine could plunge me to despair, And yet intrigue. Like me they felt the pain And passion of mortality. It was With de Vigny I found affinity Complete. Their spirits walk with me Along the towpath where the tide of men Upon the sparkling yet relentless stream Lends meaning to the movement of my pen. Derek Bourne-Jones ( 1951)
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FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS On the college list during the 1999-2000 academic year were 426 undergraduates (282 men, 144 women) and 102 post-graduates (62 men, 40 women).
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University of Auckland Douglas, Kim Tania Drury, Helen Louise Heathfield Community College Echalier, Fiona Helen Bishop Luffa School International School, Manila Eriksson, Hanna Ida Margareta Edwards, Nicholas John Birkenhead School Enayati Rad, Araz Durham Johnston School Loughborough High School Finch, Hester Beatrice The Alun School Fitzsimmons, Ben University of Toronto Fleck, Trevor Salem College, Germany Gabriel, Goesta Ingvar Wells Cathedral School Galliard, Kieron William Rugby School Gan, Eng-Hann Taunton School Gardham, Andrew Winchester College Geering, Nicholas Redman London School of Economics Ghosh, Indranil J ulian Bolton School Griffiths, Sam Thomas Grouet, Alexander Arent Lycee Henri IV, Paris Bury Grammar School Hampson, Christopher Martin Tonbridge School Harley, Michael John Millfield School Harper, Tom Simon Harris, Christopher Paul Syr Thomas Jones School Harrison, Alastair Robin St Peter's High School Aston University Hart, David Benjamin Weston College Harvey, Joseph Andrew Merchjston Castle School Hawkins, Antony James Winchester College Hayward, Richard Paul Cheltenham Ladies College Jackson, Alexandra Josephine Wurzburg Hochschulef, Germany Jackson, Paula Laurel The J udd School Jones, Barnaby Howard Francis Sophia University, Tokyo Kajiwara, Toru City University Keen, Malcolm Robert St John 's College Keighley, Philippa Theresa St Benedict's School Kennedy-Alexander, Rupert Julian Stanley Charterhouse Kingston, Annabel Elizabeth Clare Holy Cross College Knowles, Catherine Julia Yildiz Technical University, Turkey Kurum, Ebru Can East China Normal University Le, Miao Lee, Andrew Jeffery Brentwood School Technical University of Budapest Lengyel, Andras
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Lindsey, Dominica Ashaya Chelmsford County High School Liu, Kuang Alexander Winchester College West Bridgford School Lomas, Tristan Robert Lo, Miriam Mei Lam Headington School Longstaff, Rachel Victoria Stratford upon Avon College King 's College Lucas, Paul Alexander McCormick, Jonathan William Royal Belfast Academical Institution McKeown, David James St Louis Grammar School McMahon, Stephen Reigate Grammar School McRae, Jenna-Louise Newcastle-under-Lyne College Magrini, Chiara University of Rome Mallett, Leonard Francois European School, Brussels Mann, Robert Charles Scarborough Sixth Form College Mariano, Beatriz Jose Martins Lopes University of York University of Warwick Melior, Dominic Patrick Mikaelian, Aram Haberdashers Askes School Milne, Gerard Bruce University of Western Australia Mok, Sze Xin Raffles Junior College, Singapore Moore, Jessica Mary Cheltenham Ladies College Morgan, Anthony Thomas Eton College Moss, Stephen James Wellington School Nelson, Lianne Dawn Hutton Grammar School Newell, David Timothy Scarborough Sixth Form College St Peters RC Comprehensive College Noonan, Zoe Rita Okuno, Akio University of Tokyo Ong, Luan Tze National Junior College, Singapore Perse School for Girls Oscroft, Jennifer Vivienne Mary Oseman, James Henry Shrewsbury School Papathanos, Aris Athens GCE Tutorial College Partington, James Edward Truro College Pattinson, James Robert Hugh Perse School Pausi na, Monica Pearl University of Otago Worcester Sixth Form College Pearsall, Clare Diana Pearson, Andrew Robert Bede Sixth Form College Pescod, Jennifer Jane Central Newcastle High School Pinchin, Timothy Frederick John Monmouth School Pogge von Strandmann, Philip Arvid Edward European School, Abingdon Pountney, Miranda Mary St Mary's School Prideaux, Alexander Blaise King Edwards School
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Radford, Andrew John Hills Road Sixth Form College Bradfield College Rawlins, David John Reay, Douglas Stewart Oakham School Tunbridge Wells Grammar School Reeve, Stuart Douglas University of Munster, German Rennert, J an Ripley, Oliver Jan Eton College Ritcheson, Andrew Shepherd University of Sussex Katharine Lady Berkeley's School Rockey, J ames Charles Rogers, Jamie Rugby School Rogers, Robin David Applemore College Rooker, Jemma Clare Cheltenham Ladies College Rossides, George English School, Nicosia Rylance, Gareth John Deanery High School Saitoh, Ai Purcell School Savundra, Christopher Rajkumar University of Western Australia Seyler, Helen Grace Phyllis St Augustines School Wellington School Shirley, Isabel Friederike Slack, Joanna Clare James Alien Girls School Small, Margaret Ann University of Victoria, Canada Smith, Sophie Joanna Lincoln Minster School University of Aalborg, Denmark Sondergaard, Bettina Dahn University of Bristol Stevens, Simon Henry John Thomas Hardye School Stone, Katharina Maria Paulina Strenner, Richard Edward Wilhelm Canford School Sullivan, Sean Barry Ewell Castle School Taevere, Artur Tallinn English College Haberdashers Askes School Taitz, Lee National Junior College, Singapore Tan, Yishu Jonatan Thompson, John Allan Eton College Leuven Catholic University, Belgium Van Esbroeck, Kim Gottingen University, Germany Vauth, Sebastian Kings College School Venter, Jonathan James Alien Girls' School Wall, Rosalind Helen Octavia Bedales School Ward, Catriona Isabella Stuart Dame Allans School Watkins, Thomas David Newstead Wood School Watkinson, Lisa Ellen Monmouth School Way, Henry Alexander The Kings School Welford, Christopher John Imperial College Wells, Carl Gawain Rihhart
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Wentworth, Joe Westbrook, Andrew John Whelan, Lisa Marie Willcocks, Samuel Williams, Andrew James Williams, David Lewis Wilson, Mark James Wong, Charlotte Kuan Wood, Craig David Yeo, Alan Hoong Kiat York Moore, William Thomas
Bedales School St Ambrose College Boston College, USA Churchill College King Edwards School Bolton School Oundle School Wisbech Grammar School University of Western Australia Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Malmesbury School
VISITING STUDENTS 1999-2000 OSIIFCO Chevening Scholar Stoyanova, Youliana
Sofia University
Year Abroad Programme Anderson, Kristin Lee Middlebury College Bowdoin College Amold, Samuel Gregory Duke University Au, Joyce Tien Chueh University of California Baer, Peter Graham Yale University Benforado, Adam Forrest Bamard College Bingham, Laura Wesleyan University Bloom, Lauren Yale University Bockstoce, John Grimston Duke University Boyer, William Flint Bowdoin College Breau, Lauren Boston College Carpinelli, Anne Brown University Dewan, Amant Jai Adelphi University Gupta, Suhit Emory University Huang, Pei-Shiu Emory University Hwang, David Yi-Gin Brown University Kruger, Benjamin Evans Indiana University Lehman, Forrest Pitzer College Lewis, Erin Courtney Smith College Marra, Alison Slade University of Virginia Mclnturff, Kevin Robert
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Moran, Kathleen Onody, Laszlo Rakhlin, Alexander Rizvi , Kamran Ali Sepe, Paul Shibata, Tomo Smith, Shawna Song, Hyeseung Sydney, Melissa Erica Tanigawa, Diane Thompson, Patrick Ryan Velandy, Siddhartha Mandhar Weinstein, Emily Yang,Meesun Yeransian, Leslie Ward Yufa, Nataliya
Santa Clara University Bucknell University Cornell University Tulane University Brown University Cornell University University of Kansas Princeton University Johns Hopkins University Boston College Bowdoin College Muhlenberg College Brown University Yale University Smith College Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DEGREE RESULTS Final Honour Schools 2000 Computation Class lli
R.C- W. Cheng
Economics and Management Class I Class llii
S. Kothari, W- Y. Tan M .l. Setlogelo
Engineering and Computing Science, Part I Honours
R.A. Coxon
Engineering and Computing Science, Part 11 Class lli
M.D. Vaidya
Engineering, Economics and Management, Part I Honours
S. Pate!
Engineering and Materials, Part I Honours
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M.H. Lee, l.D. Thatcher
Engineering and Materials, Part 11 Class Ilii
G. Tsikouras
Engineering Science, Part I Honours
T. Abo-El-Nour, N.S. Hamilton, H. Jamieson, M. Printzos, H. Subasi nghe, V.L. Williams
Engineering Science, Part 11 Class IIi Class Ilii Class Ill
J.J. Allison, D.J.S. Andrews, D.J. Clark, K.R. Connor, J.R. Thomas K.W.C. Tarn P. Dimitracopoulos
English Language and Literature Class I Class Ili
L.A. Reynolds T.R. Evans, J. Lewis, S. Meeson, B.N. Prestney, S.A. Saunders, K.D. Slack, L.A. Wilkinson
English and Modern Languages Class Ili
G.I.M. Duncan, J.C. Ingham
Fine Art Class I Class IIi
T.E. Farmer, K.M. Norrie F.J. George, J. Hall, H.Waddington
Geography Class Ili
Class Ilii
R.K. Baxter, S.R. Gough, C.J. Hancock, M.S. Harthan, A.W.L. Hook, V.J. McGrath, OIJ.K. Routledge, A.J. Shackleton Z.E. Griffiths
Jurisprudence (1) Class I Class Ili Class Ilii
C- Y. Chew, S.A. Choudhury, V.S. Forman Hardy, H.E. Simpson C.H. Dyer, D.J. Hall, L. Johnson, J.J. Kim, C.A.A. Light, J.J. Mather, G.W.J. Palmer C.J. Wood, K. Yamaguchi
Jurisprudence (2) Class I
M.H-B . Chu
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Materials, Economics & Mananagement, Partl Honours
R.C. James
Mathematics, Part I Pass
J.M. Hagan, M.J. Welby
Mathematics, Part 11 Class Ili
M. Broadwith, M. S. Parish, M.M. Scase
Mathematical Sciences Class I Class Ili Pass
D.-Y. Yu P.W. Ralph M.E.A. Irish
Mathematics and Computation Class Ilii
C.Eden, N. Ishaq
Modern History Class I Class IIi
T. Cooper N.W. Copsey, L.C. Dolby, A.E.F. Fawcett, P.T. Lavery, R. Macpherson, B. Sandell, J.K-H. Tseng
Modern History and Economics Class IIi
J.A. Sutherland
Modern History and English Class IIi
J.N. von Bixler
Modern Languages Class I Class IIi Class Ilii Class Ill
R.J. Beard, J.R. Fox E.C. Baker, C.L. Burton, C.J. Garvey, S. Pryce, H.J. Skrinar C.A. Valvona R.L.C. Root
Music Class Ilii
D.C. Beach, N. Spiro
Natural Science: Biochemistry, Part I Honours
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J.W. Grimston, P.S. John, M.A.J. Oswald
Natural Science: Biochemistry, Part 11 Class IIi
N.P. McGibbon, F.L. Harman
Natural Science: Chemistry, Part I Honours
C.L. Boyd, C.R.B. Firth, D.R. Grice, S.D. Johnson, S.A. Stenning
Natural Science: Chemistry, Part 11 Class I Class Iii Class Ilii
J. Cookson, G.R. Lloyd C.S. Hamilton, M.S. Key T.A. Doyle
Natural Science: Earth Sciences, Part A and B Pass
G.G. Bowman, M.I. Cheetham, S.P. Dolan, C.D.R. Jose, I. Oglivie, V.L. Peck, A.J. Smith
Natural Science: Geology, Part B Class IIi
K.A. Hogan
Natural Science: Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Part I Honours Pass
R.G. Hardwicke T.S. Prince
Natural Science: Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Part 11 Class I Class Ilii
M.J. Cawkwell, N.B. Johnson, J.D. Mace P.M. Boon
Natural Science: Physics, Part A Pass
J.P. Flowerdew, J. Gray, J. Hanson, D. Penny, M.J. White
Natural Science: Physics, Part B Class I Class Ili Class Ilii Class III
M.R. Korgaonkar W.I. Clarkson, C.Harper, T. Huberman, S. Malu, M. Naylor, W.G. Newton, J.D. Smith M.E. Dollimore T.G. Vassilopoulos
Natural Science: Physiological Sciences Class I Class Ili
A. Chadha, D.P.J. Howard B. Smith
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Philosophy, Politics and Economics Class IIi
Class Ilii Class Ill
M.A. Boffey, O.J.M. Bootle, R.A. Bowell , A.V. Cook, Y. Hayashi , J.A. Kirkland, V.K. Maukonen, A.C. Morris, A. Ramiah, Y.L. Tan, N.M. Taylor, M.S. Xanthopoulou C. Tinson, S.W. Khan B.J. Grout
Psychology: Experimental Class Ili
A.J. Simm
Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology Class Ili
C. Marshall
Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) Biochemistry Clinical Medicine Earth Sciences English English Engineering German History Law Materials Physics Plant Sciences
H. Pan K.T. Zondervan N. Whiteley P. Bianchi C.L. Hutton K. Y. Park G. Mortimer A. Perras S.J. Sch!2)nberg H. Nakamura D. Skeet C.K. Robinson
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) English European Politics and Society
P.J. Cardinale (Distinction) S. Bunse
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Economics for Development Educational Studies History of Science Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science
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T. Fleck, D.P. Melior S.-E. Goh, M. Le J.T. Scheinfeldt J.A. Spelling
Master of Studies (M.St.) L.J. Bradley (Distinction) B.M. Benckert
European Literature Modern Briti sh History
Master of Business Administration (MBA) M. McKinnon, M.R. Murray
Magister Juris (M.Juris) C. Magrini, A. Okuno, J. Rennert Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) C.R. Savundra (Distinction) Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) W.J. Arnall-Culliford, M.S. Bedford
AWARDS AND PRIZES University Prizes 4 Essex Court Prize 2000 for best performance in International Trade in FHS Jurisprudence M.H.-B. Chu Department of Materials Prizes for performance in Part I and Part II P. Boon, N. Johnson Ellerton Theological Essay Prize 2000 H. Amirav Gibbs Prize in Modern Languages (Preliminary Examination) C. Boutieri John Farthing Prize in Human Anatomy in Fine Art (Preliminary Examination) J.-L. McRae Lubbock Prize in FHS Economics and Management W.-Y. Tan
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Slaughter and May Prize 2000 for best performance in the Contract Paper in FHS Jurisprudence C.-Y. Chew Vivien Leigh Prize
T. Farmer Wronker Dissertation Prize in FHS Physiological Sciences D.P.-J. Howard
College Scholars Banister, Lucy Alexis Beard, Rebecca Joanne Beer, Rhys Bowman, Glen Grahame Broadwith, Michael James Cawkwell, Marc Jon Chu, Martyn Ho-Bun Chuenkhum, Songpol Cookson, James Cooper, Timothy Cormode, David Peter Crowther, Lauren Johanna Isabel Ell is, Stephen Daniel Farmer, Tessa Elizabeth Fawcett, Alexandra Firth, Charles Richard Bartholomew Flowerdew, Jonathan Paul Hagan, James Martin Hall, Jessica Hamilton, Nicholas Stewart Johnson, Nichole Bronwen Leo, Chen Ryung Linford, Jason William
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Leo, Chen Ryung Linford, Jason William Lloyd, Geoffrey Lotay, Jason Dean Macpherson, Robin John Allan Norrie, Kirsten Margaret Pavey, Mark Jonathan Piatkus, Matthew Alexander Pumphrey, John Wyllie Francis Ralph, Peter William Rumsey, Michael Scott Scase, Matthew Murray Schartau, Pamela Jutta Smith, Andrew James Elizabeth Foyle Tan, Wem Yuen Thatcher, Ian Daniel Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus Wenzel, Ross Alexander Whitworth, Adam Wilkinson, Emrna Kate Wilkinson, Lucy Arabella Cee Yu, Dan Yun
College Organ Scholars Hampson, Christopher Martin
Beach, Daniel Charles
College Choral Scholars Clark, Naorni Elizabeth Pescod, Jennifer Jane Sutherland, James Alastair
Alcindor, Felicity Anne Caldicott, Philippa Clare Chadha, Ambika
College Honorary Scholars Pratt, Tracey Sharon Waterfall, Alison Marianne Woodfine, Richard Gareth
Bradley, Laura Jennian Rosa Morcom, Shaun Patrick Newcomb, Thomas Christopher
College Exhibitioners Andrews, David James Sumner Baker, Elissa Katherine Brown, Harriet Mary Lancashire Cheetham, Michael Chew, Chin-Yee Choudhury, Sadiya Asghar Clark, David James Connell, Rebecca Louise Crabtree, Stuart Paul Dawson, Kai Dolby, Luke Christian Gardner, Alice Louise Grice, Denise Rachel Hayashi, Yujiro Huberman, Tom Ingham, Jesse Constance Jose, Christopher David Ramsay Kakoty, Gautom Sen
Kirkland, James Andrew Lee, Chin Siang Mace, James Devereux Marsh, Thomas Oliver Maukonen, Ville Kullervo Palmer, George William John Patel, Shoaib Peck, Victoria Louise Saunders, Sarina Anya Stacey, Nicholas Tan, Karen E-Ling Tan, Yin-Li Tseng, Jonathan Kai-Huei Vaidya, Milind Diwakar Waddington, Holly Francesca Welch, David William Yamaguchi, Katsuyuki
University Graduate Scholars Biochemistry Engineering Psychology
Michael-Laurent Cartron Andras Lengyel Catherine H Crane
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Other College Awards and Prizes Brockhues Graduate Awards Anne Blondel, Laura J.R. Bradley, Ruby Lal, Joseph T.-H. Lo, David J. Spence, Maja Strbac Cochrane Scholarship Fund Amanda J. Davies, Victoria C. Fuller, Pamela J. Schartau Gosling Award Philip J. Cardinale Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Russell A. Coxon, Timothy R. Court, Andrew W.L. Hook, Rupert J.E. Lion, Sophie Macfarlane, Daryl Penny, Lucy A. Reynolds, Robin D. Rogers, Mark J. White Instrumental Bursaries Hagit Amirav, Caroline Catmur, Paula Jackson, Aram Mikaelian JR Hughes Book Prize (Geography) Rose S. Lath am Lynn Gilbert Bursary E. Kate Wilkinson Michael Pike Fund Mark Naylor Mrs Brown Bursary VibhaJoshi Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Alison V. Cook Philip Geddes Memorial Prize (St Edmund Hall) Amanda J. Davies Philip Geddes Memorial Prize (University) Alison V. Cook Richard Fargher Bursary Nathaniel W. Copsey, Pamela J. Schartau
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William R Miller Graduate Awards Hagit Amirav, Sarah Antill, Nicholas E. Karn YearAbroad Essay Prize Rebecca Beard
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DEGREE DAYS, 2<:ro-2002
Michaelmas Term 2000 Saturday 30 September Saturday 21 October Saturday 4November Saturday 25November
FULL FULL FULL FULL
2.30 p.m. 11.30 a.m. 11.30 a.m. 11.30 a.m.
Hilary Term 2001 Saturday 20 January Saturday 3 March
In absentia only 11.30a.m.
Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2001 Saturday 28 April Saturday 19 May Saturday 9 June Saturday 14 July Saturday 14 July Saturday 28 July Saturday 29 September
FULL BM, B.Ch. candidates only
11 .30 a.m. 11 .30 a.m. 11.30 a.m. 11 .30 a.m. 10.00 a.m. 11 .30 a.m. 2.30 p.m.
Michaelmas Term 2001 Saturday, 20 October Saturday 3 November Saturday 24 November
11.30a.m. 11.30a.m. 11.30a.m.
Hilary Term 2002 Saturday 19 January Saturday 2 March
In absentia only 11.30a.m.
Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2002 Saturday 27 April Saturday 18 May Saturday 8 June Saturday 13 July Saturday 27 July
11.30a.m. 11.30a.m. 11.30a.m. 11.30a.m. 11.30a.m.
PLEASE APPLY to the College Office for an application form if you would like to take your degree. 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. On receipt of the application form, candidates will be informed as to whether it has been possible to enter them for the ceremony in question. The summer ceremonies become booked up extremely quickly. This does not, of course, apply to degrees taken in absentia.
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE NEWS When I was appointed as Principal I recognised that one of my primary tasks was to improve the Endowment of the Hall by launching a major fund raising campaign. A secure endowment is essential if we are to continue to attract the best students and staff. Students are particularly attracted to those Colleges which are able to offer them four-year accommodation, subsidize their battels, and give them generous book and vacation allowances. The financial aspects have implications also for the access issues which the remarks by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, have highlighted recently. Faculty prefer to be employed by Colleges which give them large housing allowances and research and book grants. Therefore, I decided to take personal responsibility for the Development and Alumni Office at the Hall; Robin Brunner-Ellis left the Hall in February and subsequently found a new role as Deputy Director of Major Gifts at Oxford Brookes University. My fund-raising and alumni-relations team includes Lori Baker (Development Co-ordinator), Samantha Day (Alumni and Events Co-ordinator) and Geoffrey Duke (Database Administrator). Please do not hesitate to contact them if you have any enquiries about events and fund raising - you will always be greeted by a welcoming and friendly voice. During the last year I have been greatly assisted in developing a strategic plan for this Campaign by the Hall 's Advisory Board, chaired by Martin Smith, and the Governing Body. We have decided that we need to raise £7 million over the next five years. The following important components of the Campaign have been identified: •
the funding of tutorial fellowships in Law, Economics and Management, and English (to be named after Graham Midgley) • providing leading-edge study resources for our undergraduates and postgraduates • creating hardship funds for those of our students who face financial difficulties • an expansion of our graduate facilities • promoting all round excellence by encouraging sporting and artistic activities for all Hall members • enhancing the Hall environment and particularly a major refurbishment of the Porters Lodge
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Over the summer we shall be preparing the brochure for the campaign, and we hope to launch the campaign with some fanfare at the end of the year. Even before the launch of the campaign we have been very fortunate to receive significant donations from the following: Harold Shaw, lan and Caroline Laing (for graduate studentships), Sir David Cooksey, John Payne, Duncan Fitzwilliam-Lay (for the John Kelly Fund), Robert Venables and the Yves Guihannec, Columbia and Roberts Foundations, Michael Cansdale and his contemporaries (John Barker, Martin G. Bates, Douglas Beaumont, Geoffrey Brown, Stewart Douglas-Mann, David Henderson, Basil Kingstone, Geoffrey Mihell, Michael Neal, Colin Nichola, Alastair Stewart, Brian Whittaker, Peter Wilson, Gordon Woods: for supporting our graduate studentships), William R. Miller and our US Aularians who have provided excellent Computing facilities for the Library. I thank them all very much. Their donations have not only provided funding for specific activities, but have also done much to raise morale in the Hall. One of the main roles of the Development Office is to maintain contacts with its old members, which number over 7000. The task of keeping the database accurate and up to date is a constant activity. Traditionally this core data was used to produce the St Edmund Hall Directory, but in 1995 this was superseded by the Hall's Who's Who, which was made possible by a generous donation by the Yves Guihannec Foundation. This has proved to be a great success with Aularians, who use it for maintaining contacts. New graduates have found it useful for identifying old members who are willing to give them careers advice. We are in the process of preparing a new edition and are grateful to the 2000 old members who have returned their blue Who 's Who personal records forms which were sent out with the invitation to this year 's Reunion. However, there are clearly many who have either not received the forms or not returned them. I would encourage those of you whose details have changed since 1995 to send us your new address via the post ore-mail (alumni@seh.ox.ac.uk) so that we can send you a form. Unless we can capture more than half the Aularians on the database then we must seriously consider whether it is worth producing a Second Edition of the Who 's Who. The Principal
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THE REVD GRAHAM MIDGLEY (1923-1999) Requiem Mass in Memory of Graham Midgley Following the sad and unexpected death on 7 May 1999 of the Reverend Graham Midgley, B.Litt., MA, Emeritus Fellow, artist, poet, and former Fellow and Tutor in English at the Hall, many Aularians and friends enquired about a memorial service. In his will, 'The Dean' , as he was affectionately known to generations of Aularians, requested that his passing be marked by a Requiem Mass celebrated in the Hall Chapel. This service took place on Saturday 9 October 1999, celebrated by Fr John Davis, Priest-in-Charge, St Laurence, South Hinksey. Many of the guests complimented the choice and quality of the music performed by Daniel Beach (Senior Organ Scholar), Chris Hampson (Junior Organ Scholar), Christopher Wiley (Former Organ Scholar), and a selection of highly talented Choir Singers. In honour of the occasion, Mr Peter Chivers (Acting-Superintendent of Works) installed a flagstone in the Chapel, engraved as a tribute to Graham. Afternoon tea was later served in the Old Dining Hall, where many of Graham's close friends exchanged fond memories of this remarkable man who had been so central to the life of the Hall for many decades.
Celebration of Graham Midgley's Life The size of the Chapel restricted the number of guests and so, in consultation with Graham's family, closest friends and colleagues, it was decided to mark his passing further with a party to celebrate his life, held on Saturday 30 October 1999 in the Wolfson Hall. Refreshments took the form of pre-prandial drinks and a splendid buffet spread. Lunch was followed by a celebration of words, music and reminiscences. The programme included: 'Fanfare for Graham' by James Harpham (1959); Welcome by Reggie Alton (1938); The 'Bilbao Song', sung by Natalie Raybould (1994), now a student at the Royal College of Music; ' Great Gifts', a message from Terry Jones (1961, Honorary Fellow), read by Patrick Garland (1956); 'Tell Me The Truth About Love', sung by Natalie Raybould; 'Midgley the Unexpected', a tribute by Graham's colleague in the English Faculty, Professor Val Cunningham (Fellow in English, Corpus Christi College); 'Scrap Book' a poem by Graham, sung by Natalie Raybould; 'A Chough Remembered' , Graham's memories of childhood, delivered by Nigel Pegram (1962); 'A Tale of Two Presidents' by Or Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow); 'Three Dons: A tribute ' by Or Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow);
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'Coverdale thoughts on being extremely Seventy', Graham's last poem, read by Patrick Garland; 'Winds over Coverdale' by James Harpham. The music for 'Fanfare for Graham', 'Scrap Book', and ' Winds over Coverdale' were composed especially for the occasion by James Harpham as a personal tribute to Graham's memory. Graham's death last year prompted many expressions of grief. Another is nearing completion. It is a book: GRAHAM St Edmund Hall Oxford 1941- 1999: a volume of contributions by friends andfonner pupils dedicated in gratitude and affection to the memory of GRAHAM MIDGLEY. Bruce Mitchell and Reggie Alton have edited contributions from more than one hundred Aularians, colleagues, friends and relations ofGraham. The work is a loose chronicle of Graham's life from childhood well into retirement with particular emphasis on his time at the Hall. This is accomplished by reminiscences, photos and quotations from his own work and other sources including obituaries. Separately some items may seem trivial , others substantial; the whole gives a complete and very moving picture of a remarkable man. This is indeed its prime purpose. A by-product is a feel of what it was like to be at the Hall over more than half a century: social history of which the author of University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford would have approved. Bruce has divided the book into sections: GrahamAve • Graham and his Family • Graham, Undergraduate and Military Man • Graham at Cuddesdon • 'The Dean of Oxford' • Graham in Coverdale • Graham in South Hinksey • Graham, Fellow and Tutor • Graham, Dean and Chaplain • Graham, Legal Expert • Graham and the Boat Club • Graham and the St Edmund Hall Association • Graham and the English Faculty • Graham, Sculptor Writer and Entertainer • Graham in Disgrace • Graham on Safari and Other Tales • Graham Ave atque Vale • List of Contributors Roger Farrand, the publisher has blundered. He assumed sufficient pieces would be submitted to the editors to make a book of some 48 pages, the same size as that charming and affectionate little book with which Aularians celebrated the retirements ofGraham, Reggie, Bruce, and Sarah Olgilvie-Thomson. On this ridiculously modest assumption was based the offer to early subscribers (like bookselling in the eighteenth century) of £10 a copy post free. In the event the work (late because it is so big) will make some 200 glorious pages. So thanks go to the hundreds who sent in£ I 0; their copies will be sent with a penitent note asking for a supplement. Those who have ordered sans payment will be sent copies with a bill for some£ 17.50 plus postage. Only thus will costs be covered; it is unlikely that there will be the hoped for surplus to go to the Association. Farrand will buy Bruce and Reggie the pint which early promotion assumed would come out of proceeds. An order form will be sent to all Aularians when the book is published later this year.
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AULARIAN GATHERINGS 40th Anniversary Gaudy A special 40th Anniversary Gaudy was held on Friday 17 September 1999 for Aularians who matriculated in 1959. The celebrations took the form of a reception in the Library of St-Peter-in-the-East, where a selection of articles and photographs from 1959 were exhibited. A traditional black-tie dinner was later held in the Old Dining Hall, where the enchanting tones of the Anerio Quartet could be heard emanating from the Gallery. Displayed on High Table was a special silver water jug, presented by the St Edmund Hall Association in honour of the Hall going Head of the River in 1959. The dinner was hosted by the Principal, Professor Mike Mingos, and his speech was returned with thanks by Michael Cansdale, President of the St Edmund Hall Association, and Sir David Cooksey (1959 and Honorary Fellow). Guests in attendance were: the Revd John Austin, Canon Dr Frederick Bird, David Braund, Canon Paul Brett, Sir David Cooksey (Honorary Fellow), John Chapman, Dr Anthony Doyle, John Griffin, James Harpham, Christopher Harvey, the Revd Canon Matthew Joy, Graharn Kentfield, James Kerr-Muir, Colin Barrie Mayes, Breton Morris, Alan Row land, David Sellar, Michael Shaw, David Summers, Michael Voisey, Nigel Wallis, Canon Hugh Wilcox, Simon Wilkinson. Representatives of the Hall included: The Principal, Reginald Alton, Daniel Beach, Dr Alistair Borthwick, Robin BrunnerEllis, Michael Cansdale, the Revd Dr John Cowdrey, John Dunbabin, Deborah Hayward Eaton, Paul Lewis, the Revd Duncan MacLaren, Dr Bruce Mitchell, Dr Christopher Phelps, Dr Francis Rossotti, Dr Ian Scargill, Dr Joe Todd, Dr Bill Williams, Sir David Yardley.
The Annual Gaudy Two weeks later, on Saturday October 2 1999, 120 Aularians and Fellows assembled at the Hall for their Annual Gaudy celebrations. This year's event was attended by Old Members who matriculated at the Hall between 1968 and 1972. Invitations were also extended to Aularians living in the Oxfordshire area and our overseas Old Members, irrespective of their matriculation year. Drinks were served in the College Library, where a range of memorabilia relating to the matriculation groups present was on display. Dinner followed in the Wolfson Hall, where guests were formally welcomed by the Principal, Professor Mike Mingos. The Anerio Quartet made another appearance and added to the relaxed atmosphere by interspersing delightful pieces throughout the evening.
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The company included: ( 1968) An drew Barnes, Peter W Brown, Martin Daniels, Brian Henry, Dr David J Hughes, Hugh J Hunt, Alan N Jones, Dr Michael Pike, Chris Saltmarsh, Peter R Sewell, Dr Nigel Shrive, Graham Taylor, Richard Townshend-Smith, David Vickers, Robert T Ward; ( 1969) Brian Battye, Michael J Birks, Stephen Blinkhom, laTl C Busby, Dr Adrian W Butement, Graham J Coates, Dr Ian R Cox, Bryan P Dawson, Steve Dempsey, Paul Dobsen, Ken Dodd, Jonathan Fryer, John Graley, Stephen Groom, Jeremy M Hopwood, Tim S Lavender, Desr11ond Ruszala, Paul F Sadler, Dr Roger Sage, Michael D Shipster, Dr Peter D Smith, Nigel F Strawbridge, James R Whelan, Bruce A Wylie; (1970) Peter Butler, Michael P Dunn, Dr Kevin M Fisher, Peter Harper, John W Hawkins, John M Johnson, John Mallett, John M Naisby, Richard H C Ormerod, Dr John CB Perrott, Dr Frank Spooner, William B Travers, William G Wallis, John Webster; (1971) Paul M Ashley, Dr Mark A Blackbum, John Coloctronis, Nicholas Field-Johnson, Richard J Henshaw, Harry McDonald, Christopher McGrail, Douglas L Robertson, Nicholas Staite, Mark Thomas; ( 1972) Andrew W Ayres, Steve S Chandler, Kevin Copestake, Jeremy R Isbister, Howard G Mason, Paul N Mounsey, Gareth J Price, Robin Stephenson, Stephen C Taylor, Andrew C Wadley, Martin Winter. Guests visiting from overseas: (1958) John F Payne; (1962) Professor Simon Simonion; (1965) Dr Gavin Hitchcock; (1977) Rajeev Shah; (1984) Gazem Alaghbari. Local residents (Oxfordshire) in attendance: (1938) Robert C T J ames; (1942) Ho ward Fuller, Jack R Scarr; (1945) Professor Neville Haile; (1946) T Michael Le Mesurier, John Pike; ( 1952) David Wright; ( 1954) Canon Michael Bourdeaux; (1955) J Christopher Lowe; (1963) Michael Simrnie; (1964) DrTony Lemon; (1967) Jonathan Seccombe; ( 1975) Dr Brian Gasser; ( 1980) Martin J Burton, Dr Glyn Red worth; (1984) Dr An drew Short) and; ( 1988) Dr Steve Ramcharitar; (1991) Simon Chadwick. Those who attended from the College were: The Principal, Dr Joanna Ashboum, Daniel Beach, Dr Alistair Borthwick, Geoffrey Boume-Taylor, Robin Brunner-EIIis, Michael Cansdale, the Revd Dr John Cowdrey, Nick Davidson, John Dunbabin, Deborah Hayward Eaton, Professor Stuart Ferguson, Professor John Knight, Paul Lewis, the Revd Duncan MacLaren, Dr Bruce Mitchell, Dr Ian Scargill, Jessie Shattuck, Martin Slater, Dr Joe Todd, Mr Christopher Wells.
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The Anerio Quartet perform at the Annual Gaudy Dinner
Hong Kong Aularians: A Day at the Races On 1 March 2000, Hong Kong Aularians and their guests had a very enjoyable evening together when they met for dinner and a night at the races at Hong Kong ' s Happy Valley Jockey Club. A private box opposite the winning post was very kindly organized by the Hall 's most senior resident in Hong Kong, Mr John Payne. Others present were Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Booth, Mr and Mrs Gavin Nesbitt, Mr Raistlin Lau and the undersigned. A 'pot' for Teddy Hall was collected with winnings earmarked for the Hall. There followed a spirited discussion as to the merits of horse betting relative to investing in internet stocks. No conclusion was reached. After dinner and a few bottles of wine, the pot was looking somewhat bare with just one race remaining. Fmtunately, we won, and a modest cheque was duly despatched to the Hall. A good time was had by all. Rajeev Shah ( 1977) Post Script On 13 April 2000, a dinner was held in Hong Kong in honour of the Principal and his wife who were passing through on their way back from New Zealand. The Hall's resident representative, Geoff Booth, and his gracious wife, Christine, hosted a superb dinner at the Hong Kong Club for what turned out to be a record number of Aularians. By a stroke of luck, Lord and Lady Oxburgh also happened to be in town and were able to join us.
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Lord Ox burgh (now Rector of Imperial College) was of course the Geology Tutor at Hall and continues to have very strong links with the college. A very enjoyable evening was had by all. Present at the dinner were: Professor and Mrs Mingos, Lord and Lady Oxburgh, Mr and Mrs Patrick Lim, Mr John Payne and Miss Sarah Payne, Mr Jean Maurellet and his son, Mr and Mrs Gavin Nesbitt, Mr Wong Siu Lun, Mr Raistlin Lau, Ms Alice Lawson, Ms Vania Cheng, Mr Rajeev Shah, Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Booth.
Summer Reunion 2000 The St Edmund Hall Association - 75 Years and More Although the year 2000 marks the 75th anniversary of the meeting at which the Aularian Association (renamed in 1966 the St Edmund Hall Association) was formed, the concept of a society of Aularians is well over one hundred years old. For in November 1887, the Guild of S. Edmund was founded by Anglican communicants of the Hall with the purpose of binding together past and present generations in the common duty of intercession and thanksgiving, and to aid resident members in the spiritual life. With St Edmund's Day as its festival, it gave the Hall the forerunner of the St Edmund's Day Feast, which was formally instituted by Vice-Principal Ollard at the beginning of the last century. As the Victorian era passed into the less religious Edwardian one, the Guild ceased to meet owing to a lack of interest among the commoners. The present Association grew out of the early Reunions at the Hall after the First World War. On 23 April 1923, 44 priests and 11 laymen met for a service in the Chapel and a dinner afterwards, at which the former Principal, Dr Williams, then Bishop of Carlisle, expressed his firm belief that such gatherings were of the utmost importance to an institution which provided not only the most economical education in Oxford but also strong evidence of the venerable traditions of Church and State. In the following year, the then Vice-Principal, Dr S.L. Ollard, set out the objectives of the Aularian Association as, first, 'to rally round the Hall all old members who wish to uphold and assist the Hall in any way they can' , and second, 'to enable old members to keep in touch with one another and with the Hall, especially by means of the Hall Magazine and Reunions.' * The special sense of community and Hall Spirit, which has been fostered over the years by the St Edmund Hall Association, was celebrated, along with the New Millennium, on the 1 and 2 of July with a Special Summer Reunion Weekend. Combining a traditional Aularian Dinner with a family-
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oriented programme of events, the weekend was attended by more than 450 Aularians, friends and family. Guests were greeted on the Saturday by Sam Day and Lori Baker of the Development Office, and were guided to their rooms by a tireless team of student helpers. The afternoon's activities featured a popular lecture by Dr Bill Williarns, Emeritus Fellow and former Senior Tutorial Fellow in Physics. Guests packed into the Old Dining Hall to listen to Bill's reasoned explanation of the 'Black Holes' phenomenon. The Library of St-Peter-in-the-East was open for exhibits, organised by the Librarian, Deborah Hayward Eaton. The special features included a presentation of this year's Aularian book collection; the Hall antiquarian print collection; and a feature on the connection between the St Edmund Hall Association and St Michael's College in Vermont, which was founded by the Society of St Edmund and where the Edmundite headquarters is located. Dr Bill Williams also recreated part of his exhibition from the Floreat Aula Society Millennium Dinner held earlier in the year, featuring material on St Edmund of Abingdon. Many guests chose to unwind in the Buttery Bar, where the Hall worked its familiar charm in reuniting old friends and introducing new ones. Evensong cemented the occasion's atmosphere of community and family using the modern form of service by the Chaplain, Reverend Duncan MacLaren, which has been greatly praised. On Saturday evening the Reunion took on a more familiar form. Drinks were enjoyed in the quadrangle, and a traditional black tie dinner, hosted by the Principal, Professor Mike Mingos, was held in the Wolfson Hall for approximately 150 Aularians. At the same time, Mrs Stacey Mingos hosted an informal buffet in the College Library for the Aularian family members and their friends. The favourable weather meant that the buffet guests were able to enjoy their splendid spread relaxing in the Library Gardens, with the children playing between the headstones! The close of the evening's events at the Hall was organised to coincide with a procession along the High Street. The parade led up to the grand finale of 'Oxfordshire's Own Millennium Festival' (OOMF!) culminating in a spectacular firework display in the South Park which many of our guests and their families went along to watch . Sunday brought a fun-filled family day with a relaxing buffet lunch. The Punting House at Magdalen Bridge came up trumps and happily accommodated the overwhelming number of guests who opted to take punts out on the Is is. And not a single report of 'bodies-overboard'- a true testament to the sporting prowess of Aularians young and old! Later in the day, rides
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The Senior Proctor chats to Dr Peter Harding and Dr Phi! Richards at the Summer Reunion
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were given on one of Dr Tony Marchington's beautiful vintage traction engines. Dr Marchington (Honorary Fellow) took the driver 's seat, assisted by Peter Butler, former MP for Milton Keynes ( 1970). Groups were thrilled by their surprisingly fast-paced trip along the High Street and up the Headington Hill. Back at the Hall, Professor Paul Matthews, Directorof the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, drew in the crowds with an informative lecture in the Old Dining Hall on 'Shakespeare on the Brain '. Meanwhile, for those who did not want to think too carefully about the 'old grey matter' , a fine selection of wines was on sale from the Hall cellars. Many wines were in fact sampled over lunch, to the relaxing tones of the Dixieland Jazz Band playing in the background.
Throughout the day, the Front Quad was taken over by 'little people', whose infectious energy and enthusiasm created a wonderful and carefree atmosphere. Adults sat around drinking coffee (or their prefetTed alternative!) completely caught up in the spirit of the bouncy castle, the conjuror, the Punch and Judy show, crazy balloons modelled as animals, and the outrageous and colourful face-paintings on children everywhere. The graveyard was buzzing with children queuing for pony rides. Rumour has it that the Principal was also seen to have a go! Please look out for incriminating pictures of the Reunion celebrations at http://seh.ox.ac.uk/Aularian/
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photos.html. If you do not have access to the intemet, you can request a printout of the photographs available from the Development Office. Reprints may be ordered at a cost ofÂŁ 1.00 per picture. Finally, thank you for all your kind letters of appreciation following the weekend's festivities. We are thrilled that the Reunion was, for so many of you, a happy, and hopefully, memorable occasion. Aularians and guests in attendance were: ( 1932) Ian Sciortino; ( 1934) Eric Curtis (with Ire ne), Francis Rawes; ( 1935) Farrand Radley (with Laura); (1936) Victor Peskett (with Prue); (1937) Patrick de Courcy Meade (with Joyce), Denys Salt (with Eva); (1938) Robert James (with Dr Rosetta Plummer); (1939) Dr Derek Rushworth (guests; Midah, Abigail, Maria Nguyo, Diane Mortimer, Asad Kazirn); (1940) Charles Mounsey; (1941) Denis Akehurst (with Grace), Colin Weir; (1942) Howard Fuller, Sidney Swallow, Bemard Wheeler (with Felicity Corbin Wheeler), Eric Williams (guests; Anneke, Jenny, Caroline, Kathy, Nick Johnson, Stephanie, Eleanor, Matthew); (1943) Robert Ford (guests; Jean, Chris, Matthew, Amanda, Nilda, Nick, Clare, Patrick, Elizabeth); (1946) Fred Cosstick (with Mary); ( 1947) the Very Revd Christopher Campling, Dr John Cockshoot, Nigel Grindrod, John Reddick; (1948) the Revd John Hogan, the Revd Peter White, Dr John Williams; (1949) Eric Cunnell, Tony Kinsley (with Jessie), Judge Robert Southan; (1950) Christopher Arrnitage, Michael Baldwin (guests: Gillian, Joel); (1951) Derek Bloom, Desmond Day, John Farrand, Allan Jay, Robert Lunn, Dudley Wood; ( 1952) J.E. Michael Am old (with Rita), the Revd Tony Coulson (guests; Virginia, Florence, Iwan, Beatrice), David Graham, David Jacobs (with Marion), David Wright; (1953) Tony Kember (with Drusilla), Ian Smith (with Penelope), Revd Philip Swindells (with Lama); (1954) Stuart Bilsland, Michael Lewis, John West; (1955) John Billington (with Alison Webb ), Roger Farrand, Ronald Hurren, Paul Lewis (with Patricia); (1956) Michael Cansdale, Paul Tempest, Brian Whittaker; (1957) Michael Archer (with Susan), J. Campbell Pollock (with Mary); (1958) Mike Beard (with Nesta), Philip Rabbetts; (1960) Peter Hayes, John Holmes (with Josephine); (1961) Bob Chard, John Heggadon; (1962), Michael Butler, Mike Gardner (with Jacqui Gardner), Anthony Hawkes, Colin Hewitt (with Susie), Richard Holland; (1963) Philip Hodson (guests; Nancy Beeley, Marcus, Daniel), Michael Simrnie: (1964) Bob Clarke; (1966) Peter Jenkins (guests; Thomas, Freddie); (1967) Dr James Mosley; (1968) Philip Emmott (guests; Josie, Rebecca, Timothy); (1969) Ian Busby, Gillies Dalzell-Payne (with Karen), Roy Marsh (with Silke), David Monkcom; ( 1970) Michael Baker (with Angela Ballard), David Cameron (with Alasdair),
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Andrew Craston, Tony Hallam, John Hearn (with Geraldine), Richard Robinson (guests: Sue, Kate, Tom, Jack): (1971) Lawrence Cummings, Nicholas Field-Johnson (guests; Sarah, Anthony, Ben, Oliver), Malcolm Hawthorne (with Alexandra); (1972) Stephen Chandler (guests; Susan, Christopher, Madeleine), Jeremy Isbister, Howard Mason (with Tish), John Smith (with Joanna), Robin Stephenson (with Duncan); (1973) Sean Butler (guests; Penelope, Philip, Sophie, Florence), Andrew Hope, Christopher Reddick (guests; Michele, S. and A. Reddick, Yvonne, Vivienne); (1974) Alan Banks (with Marianne Gutknecht), Phi! Budden (guests; Margy, Lucy, Peter, Jenny, George), Dr Raoul Cerratti, Dan Jennings (guests ; Jayne, Roland, Freya, Laurence, Harry), Jeremy Nason (guests; Jayne, Katina, Thomas); (1975) Brian Gasser, John Gove (guests; Caroline, Jimmy, Jack, Rupert, Ailsa), Chris Hockey (guests; Rosie, Kelly, Carmen), Gordon Hurst (guests; S. Hurst, M. Hurst, M. Anson), Peter Kane (guests; Ian Evans, Bob and Alba Burger, Suzanna, Chloe, Andina), Alan Lomas (guests; Anna Crinnion, Elizabeth, Adrian), Charles Miller (guests; Mig, Mr & Mrs Lyons), Stephen Oxenbridge (guests; Diane, Oliver, Emma, Max, Sebastian), Roger Peskett (guests; Jo, Ralph, William), Roger Rosewell (guests; Oriel, Jessica), Alan Stansfield (guests; Jay ne, Kim, Toni), Anthony Stopyra; ( 1976) Richard Edwards (guests; Lynne, Clare, Hugo, Nicholas), Chris Elston (guests; Linda, Claire, Rachel), Richard Finch, Mark Hockey (guests; Penny, Emma, Florence), Dr Ed Ilgren, Keith Scott (guests; Diana, Rachel, James), Simon Staite, Ian Taylor (guests; Sally, Katie, Alice, George), Peter Trowles (guests; Julia, Nicholas, Susannah); ( 1978) Chtistopher Fidler (guests; Angel a, Ben, Thomas, Joshua), Simon Heilbron (with Sian); (1979) Caroline Morgan, Bridget Walker; (1980) Nick Caddick (guest, Jenny Turner, 1981 ), Rachel Martel (with Bryony), John O'Connell (guests; Joanna Smith (1980), Phoebe, Michael), Joanna Smith (guests; John O'Connell (1980), Phoebe, Michael), Faith Wainwright (guests; Kieran Glynn, Brian, Eleanor, Findlay); ( 1981) Alasdair Blain (guests; Michaela, Abigail, Ellen), David Leggett (guests; Shelley, Bianca), Edgar Moyo, David Ormerod (guests; Alison, Joel , Hester, Beatrice), Jenny Rees-Tonge (guests; Japser, Pascale, Florence, Alex), Me! Stride (with Angela Bachfeld), Jenny Turner (guest, Nick Caddick, 1980), Jo West (guests; Andy, Alice, Harriet); (1982) Thomas Christopherson (with Katherine), Simon Hart (Nicola Edwards (1982), Emma, James), Nicola Edwards (Simon Hart (1982), Emma, James), Timothy Haywood (guests; Beverley, Katherine), David Heaps (guests ; Micheala, Tom, William), Tim Laughton (guests; Marie, Sarah, Joseph), Debra Massey (guests; David, James), Adrian Sandbach ; (1983) Chris Broad (guests; Susan , Hannah,
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Jeremy, Keren) , Sian Henderson (guests; Peter, Thomas, Finlay); (1984) Andrew Duffy (with Caroline Essame), Miranda Dunlop (guests; Fergus, Ell a), Rafael Russell (guests: Victoria Russell (1984 ), Frederic, Daisy, and Steve, Sue, Rebecca, Ben Williams), Dr Amanda Varnava (guests; Anthony, Oliver); (1985) Betsy Bell (guests; Jack, Emily), Jonathan Gulley, Mark Little (guests; Julia ( 1985), Oliver, Edward), Julia Little (guests; Mark ( 1985), Oliver, Edward), Pernille Rudlin (with Mark Probert), Clive Sentence; ( 1986) Sally Adams, James Charles (guests; Katherine Charles ( 1987), Peter), Michael Evans, Dr David Gillett, Andrew Harrison, Claire Harrison (guests; Peter Horacek, Teresa, Cecilia), Nick Hawton (with Edina Haverk), Helen J uffs (with Dierdre Figueiredo ), Dr Phil Richards; ( 1987) Katherine Charles (guests; James Charles ( 1986), Peter), Mary Harling, AI ice Hutchens; ( 1988) Keith Gordon (guests; Deborah Sacks, Sarah), Dr Giles Sanders, Simon Waters; ( 1989) Dr Richard Rednall (with Clare Rednall, 1989), Clare Rednall (with Dr Richard Rednall, 1989), Ruth Roberts (guests; Alistair, Megan) ; (1996) Timothy Needham; (1997) Gina Clarke, Jessica Natale; WISC Programme, Mary Barr (guests; Christopher Forget, Janet, Margaret, Paula). Those present on behalf of the Hall: The Principal, Mrs Stacey Mingos, Reggie AI ton, Joanna Ashbourn, Lori Baker, Daniel Beach, Stephen Blarney, Alistair Borthwick, Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Peter Butler, John Cowdrey, Nicholas Davidson (guests; Dr Shearer West, Eleanor), Sam Day, John Dunbabin, Deborah Hayward Eaton, Professor Stuart Ferguson (guests; Tina, Robin, George), Justin Gosling, Jonathan Gray, Professor John Hunt, Hugh Jenkyn s (guests ; Evelyn , Marion) , Duncan MacLaren , Tony Marchington, Professor Paul Matthews, Bruce Mitchell (with Mollie), Lucy Newlyn (guest Emma), Francis Rossotti , Ian Scargill, Martin Slater, Joe Todd (with Peggy), Steve Watson (guests; Anne, Callum, Sean), Bill Williams, Sir Denis Wright (with Lady Wright), Sir David Yardley, [Our apologies for any guests who have been omitted- regrettably not all names were given to us.]
* A fuller history of the St Edmund Hall Association, written by Arthur Farrand Radley (1935), can be found in the Commemorative Supplement for the Association's Diamond Jubilee, published with the St Edmund Hall Magazine for 1983-4. We are indebted to Mr Farrand Radley for his research and encouragement. The pre-history of the Association is discussed in the essay by Dr John Cowdrey published in the Magazine for 1998-9.
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SEVENTY-FIFTH GAUDY Everyone's smiling. It's not a ball; it's a family outinga village fete in Teddy Hall, on a midsummer Sunday morning. The place is milling with Aularians, and the sun is shining. On the front-quad lawn, a magician is pulling innumerable batons out of batons innumerable to a captive audience of children. In the middle, where the duck-pond ought to be, the well is overflowing with multicoloured balloons, shaped like parrots, and wearable as crowns. In among the gravestones, under the yew-trees, Punch is hitting Judy (and vice-versa, repeatedly), while at the same time mistaking a large and scary green crocodile for a strokeable kitten. A woman, all in red, with Pre-Raphaelite hair, is walking (she usually runs) in stilettoes to and fro , to and fro , between the pony-trekkers and the bouncy castle (which almost but not quite obscures the chapel). She pauses, now and again, to observe the face-painting: one child is being re-designed as a tiger, another has turned into a red Indian, and is chasing his little sister (who's too young for westerns, and has no more idea of how to be a cowboy than the traction-engine puffing smoke into the lane of how to be a train crossing the frontier.) Over there, near the JCR party-room, it's middle England again. A rather forlorn and elderly brass-band in stripey blazers
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is striking up a tune for a few committed stragglers, while inside the Old Dining Hall, a distinguished scientific Professor is taking great pains to explain some intricate connections between plays by Shakespeare and various compartments of the human brain. Earlier this morning, the Principal not one to stand on ceremony, all smiles and chuckling bonhomie, a Mike and definitely not a Michael queued with the other kids and took a ponyride around the graveyard. We just missed it, so we're waiting for the photograph to see if he was allotted the little pony (out of deference to his preference for all that's small and put-together perfectly, like the Hall), or the larger one, for the sake of safety, and from some kind of misplaced anxiety about heads-of-house and dignity.
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Stacey, meanwhile - whose name chimes conveniently and sympathetically with my multiplying end-rhymesis managing somehow to combine the skills of wife and hostess with those of a (second) magician: vanishing here, reappearing there, conjuring cups of coffee out of thin air, she's simultaneously everywhere, chatting with everyone amiably, but most especially the children. And what's this I see? Is it the Senior Proctor, dressed improperly for the occasion? Straight from a University
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sermon, tricked out in nearly all his finery, hovering close to the bouncy castle and torn between the duty (fatherly) of coaxing his daughter to bounce and the opportunity go on, kick off your shoes of himself bouncing, spontaneously and impulsively, higher and higher and higher, over the top of Kelly tower, into the new millennium. No, it's not a feast, it's not a ball ; I wouldn't even call it a Seventy-Fifth Reunion. It's a bonanza, an extravaganza, a carnival. It's Teddy Hall, finding his/her feet again. Lucy Newlyn
NEW YORK REUNION FRIDAY 31 MARCH - SATURDAY 1 APRIL 2000 Every other year the University and colleges mount a joint celebration of Oxford and reunion in New York. This year, the Principal being in New Zealand by prior commitment, the Hall was represented by the Senior Tutor, Stuart Ferguson, and the former Vice-Principal, John Dunbabin. Proceedings were staged in great magnificence in the Waldorf-Astoria (though Professor Ferguson initially had some difficulty in getting to the hotel, since everything was held up to enable President Clinton to reach his apartment there). On the Friday evening, we were welcomed in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria by the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor. Many Aularians enjoyed this function which was hosted by the University. Later we dined up a sky-scraper with a spectacular city view. On the Saturday we were treated to talks on a variety of current Oxford developments and research projects - very impressive, especially those about which we knew the least. But the real purpose of the visit was to meet Aularians. Nobody visiting New York can fail to be impressed by the warmth of the extended family of
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Aularians, living or working there or simply passing through. Many people have contributed to it, but certainly none more than our Honorary Fellow Bill Miller. Bill and Irene were off for Europe at an unearthly hour on the 2nd; but they nevertheless entertained us to a splendid dinner the previous night in the elegant rooms of the English Speaking Union. We met there, as well as earlier at the Waldorf-Astoria, a mix of Aularians of all ages, old friends and new, former pupils whom we had not seen for years, and people whom we had only just stopped teaching and who are now making their way in the financial capital of the world. It was an impressive, as well as enjoyable, visit; and we are grateful for Bill's energy and generosity, at so many levels, in making it happen. The next New York Reunion at Easter 2001 is eagerly anticipated! John Dunbabin (Library Fellow) and Stuart Ferguson (Senior Tutor)
CITY CHAPTER OF AULARIANS The 'City Careers Day' , organised by the City Chapter of Aularians for junior members in October 1999, was judged by all participants and speakers to be a tremendous success. The 43 students, who travelled to the City of London from Oxford, spent an enjoyable and insightful day hearing from Chapter members about some of the City's professions and members' experiences. The Careers Day gave students a first glimpse of the Aularian community in the City and some of the unique benefits that can be derived from the City Chapter network. The purpose of the City Chapter is to promote networking amongst Au1arians connected with the City of London, and to encourage financial support for the Hall, including corporate sponsorship. The City Chapter holds several social events for its members. If there are any Aularians who would be interested in joining the City Chapter of Au1arians, please e-mail the Development Office: (development.office@ seh.ox.ac. uk) .
INTER-COLLEGIATE GOLF TOURNAMENT The Annual Inter-Collegiate Golf Meeting took place on Friday 14 April 2000 at Frilford Heath Golf Club, Abingdon. The match was followed by a prize-giving and dinner at Merton College. Regrettably, this year we were not able to raise the minimum number of 6 players required for a team. The organizers kindly agreed to give the 3 Teddy Hall stalwarts the opportunity
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to play as 'half a team' . As expected, the Hall finished in l 0 position (4 in 1998), but a gallant effort was clearly made by the Hall players. The results were as follows: 1.
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Best Individual Score: N. Smith (Univ.), 39 points playing off 18 Teddy Hall Players: Peter Wilson (1961), 34 points playing off08; George Marsh (1961 ), 34 points playing off 15; Chris Atkinson (1960), 36 points playing off 12. If you are a ' golf enthusiast' with a recognised handicap and would like to know more about becoming a member of the Teddy Hall team, contact the Development Office for further details. We are desperately short of players .. . so please help if you can!
The cOmmittee to resUrrect the Lacrosse Club On Friday 3 and Saturday 4 March, the Hall was host to a reunion of 34 members of the Oxford University Lacrosse Club teams from the 1970s, including 4 Aularians: Ken Dodd (1969), Rick Henshaw (1971 ), Nick Henshaw (1976), all from the organising committee, and Alan Jones (1969) who captained the OULC team in 1970. Members gathered at the Cafe Boheme on the first evening, before adjourning at 6.45 to Teddy Hall for a reception in the Principal's Dining Room. The champagne began to flow and it was probably as well that the group had to adjourn to the Chapel for a moment of serious sobriety with a photographer. Guests then gathered to enjoy a splendid dinner in the Dining Hall, punctuated by speeches, including Ken Dodd's erudite introduction to the history of the Hall. At 11.30 the College Junior Dean arrived, and the collection of memorabilia which stayed in the Dining Hall overnight, along with the empty bottles, bore testament to a wholehearted and successful
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evening. The following day, there was a splendid buffet lunch in the pavilion in the Parks. Then on to the main event: an unremarkable but solid win for Oxford in the 2000 Varsity match, with most of the visitors having to re learn the rules, not least in order to be able to explain them to their families. Afterwards, back to the pavilion for tea, and at 5.00 p.m., the group began to disperse amid talk of a centenary celebration in three years time, at the end of a whirlwind twenty four hours.
FUND RAISING Library Information Centre St Edmund Hall thanks the following US Aularians for their support for the Library Information Centre, which has enhanced student access to information technology. The donations also allowed for additional shelving to be installed, which was greatly needed. The generosity of Mr William R. Miller's matching scheme has enabled the US Aularians to reach the target to complete the project: Armitage, Professor Christopher Mead Brenner, Dr David Jonathan Brimble, Mr Alan Callan, Revd Roger John Child, Mr John Sowden Clarkson, Mr William Andrew Macbeth Cogar, Dr William Bennett Curtis, Mr Eric George Gibeon, Mr Leonard Graae, Judge Steffen William Guyer, Dr Grant Penney Himes, Mr James Andrew Jones, Dr Richard Keeler, Mr David Ross
Kolve, Professor Verdel Amos Laurence, Ms Elizabeth Sarah Luke, Mr Kenneth Dudley Miller Family Foundation Mulvey, Mr Thomas Vincent Parkin son, Mr Robert Michael Read, Professor Alien Walker Roberts, Mr and Mrs Gareth Schneider, Dr Thomas Jay Shears, Mr David John Smerd, Dr and Mrs Peter Switzer, Mr Charles Step hen Ward, Mr John Owen Warr, Mr Arthur Clive Zeltonoga, Mr William Leo
American Donors' Lunch On Saturday 3 June 2000, a special lunch was held in the Principal's Lodgings in honour of the Old Members and friends of the Hall who had donated to the American Fellowship in Physiology. Last year, the Vice-Principal, John Dunbabin, reported the magnificent news that we had successfully
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reached our target to endow this Fellowship through the generous support of donors in the United States. Drinks and a leisurely lunch were followed by a viewing, in the entrance to the Wolfson Foyer, of the scroll of honour, which bears the names of those who have supported this Fellowship. Deborah Eaton then conducted a tour of the Library of St-Peter-in-the-East, before guests made their way to the river to watch the final afternoon of Eights Week. Guests in attendance were: John (Tuppy) Owen-Smith (1955); Stephen Oxenbridge (1975), Mrs Diane Oxenbridge. Present from the Hall were: the Principal, Mrs Stacey Mingos, Ms Deborah Hayward Eaton, Professor Stuart Ferguson, Mr Justin Gosling, Mrs Margaret Gosling, Dr Christopher Korbmacher, Professor Paul Matthews.
Donors to the Hall The Principal and Fellows of the Hall greatly appreciate the generosity of the following individuals and organisations for their gifts: Adams, Mr John Richard Edward Adey, Mr John Fuller Alexander, Dr John Huston Alun-Jones, Sir John Derek Amor, Mr Brian Emest Anderson, Dr Susan Campbell Armitage, Professor Christopher Mead Audsley, Mr David Laurence Ayton, Mr John Antony Bachher, Mr Kuldip S Badham, Dr John Patrick Nicholas Bailey, Mr Clive Vemon Austin Baker, Mr William Richard Balfour, Mr Richard James Ball, MrTerence Reginald Band, Ms Christa Jane Barker, Mr Andrew David Barker, Mr John Holmes Barn er, Mr George Brenneman Bates, Mr Martin Graves Beaumont, Mr Douglas Joseph Beckley, Mr Robin Piers Ben nett, Mr David Hamish Berger Family Foundation, Inc.
Berryman, Mr John Rodney Betley, Ms Mary Billington, Mr John Bishop, Mr Robert Anthony Blinkhorn, Mr Stephen Frederick Blomfield, Mr Roger Marsh Bloomer, Mr John Michael Blount, Mr Charles John Booth, Mr Geoffrey Nigel Boucher, Mr Nicholas Alan Bourdeaux, Revd Canon Dr Michael Alan Boume-Jones, Mr Derek Frederick Boyce, Mr and Mrs Alfred Wame Breese, Mr Robert John Leigh Brenner, Dr David Jonathan Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc. Brockes, Ms Emma Dulcie Brown, Mr Geoffrey Richard Brown, Dr John Neville Brown, Mr Peter Browning, Mr Marcus James Bullett, Mr Colin Richard Burrough, Bishop John Paul
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Butler, Mr Mark Richard Butler, Dr Sean Christopher Buttler, Mr Michael David Button, Mr Ian David Callan, Revd Roger John Cansdale, Mr Michael John Carpenter, Mr Peter Carver, Mr William James Cater, Mr Julian Charles Chambers, Mr William Robert Chandler, Mr Stephen Selwyn Cheffy, Mr Ian Paul Child, Dr Dumaresq Marner Child, Mr John Sowden Clarke, Mr John Rex Clarkson, Mr William Andrew Macbeth Cogar, Dr William Ben nett Coleman, Mr Ronald Wesley Col tart, Mr Christopher McCallum Columbia Foundation Cooksey, Sir David James Scott Cooper, Mr Andrew James Cotton, Mr Arthur John Stapleton Cowles, Mr Peter Richard Cox, Mr David James Cox , Mr David John Crabtree, Mr Michael Thomas Crawford, Mr Simon Patrick Cross, Mr Nicholas John Cunnane, Mr Carl Currah, Mr Phi lip Anthony Curtis, Mr Eric George Daniels, Mr Martin John Darling, Mr Robert Derek Michael Davies, Mr Kenneth Gwyn Davi s, Mr Robert Day, Mr Desmond John Day, Mr Geoffrey Michael de Rennes, Mr James Robert den Dulk, Mr Hora Reynout Dening, Mr James Morley Doctorow, Mr Jarvis
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Douglas-Mann, Mr Stewart Charles Hamilton Doyle, Dr Anthony James Duffy, Mr Michael Patrick Duquesne Light Company, The Durling, Mr John Edmund Earle, Mr James Foster Ebden, Dr Phi lip Elliott, Mr Laurence Hugh Elston, Mr Christopher John Eluszkiewicz, Mr Janusz Bronislaw Express Newspapers Plc Fang, Ms Min Fargher, Dr Richard Farrand, Mr John Ernest Farrell, Mr Frederick James Faulkner, Mr Basil William Ferera, Mr Leon Nicholas Ferguson, Dr Jonathan lrvine Fidler, Mr Chri stopher Charles Ind Field, Mr Mark Christopher Finch, Mr Francis Henry Heneage Fitzwilliam-Lay, Mr David Hugh Foote, Mr Irwin Paul Fox, Mr Geoffrey Perci val Fretwell-Downing, Mr Edward Alastair Fuller, Mr Howard lrwin Fuller, Napier S Gamble, Mr Neil Walton Garrison, Mr Christopher Sinclair Gasser, Dr Brian Frederick Gibeon, Mr Leonard Gill , Mr John Nichol Gillingwater, Mr Richard Dunnell Girling, Professor Harry Knowles Glynne-Jones, Mr Charles David Godeseth, Mr Torstein Olav Graae, Judge Steffen William Grant, Dr lan Griffiths, Mr Brian Gwilym Grove, Mr Trevor Charles Grundy, Mr Oliver Wil son Guy er, Dr Grant Penney
Haddock, Mr Nicholas John Haddon , Mr Richard Deacon Haile, Professor Neville Seymour Hall , Mr Anthony Joseph Hall, Mr Ronald William Haniff, Sheik Marcellene Anthony Hardacre, Mr Kenneth Hargreaves, Ms Nancy Catherine Harper, Mr Peter George Harrison, Mr David James Harrison, Mr John Womack Hart, Mr Simon Hartshorn, Dr Clive Richard Haslehurst, Mr Stephen Paul Hatcher, Mr William Hugh Hawkesworth, Professor Christopher John Henderson, Mr David Hercod, Ms Deborah Johanna Hester, Canon John Frear Heyman, Mr John Bertjoachim Hicks, Professor David Barry Hillson, Mr Peter James Himes, Mr lames Andrew Hiscocks, Charles Richard Hodgkinson, Heather Jane Hodgson, John Gordon Hodson, Peter Roger Holdsworth, Mr Antony Bernard Holliday, Mr Nicholas Barry Holroyd, Dr Frederick Christie Hooker, Dr Michael Ayerst Houston , Mr Robert Hughes, Mrs Ann M Hunt, Mr Hugh lames Hyde, Mr Martin Andrew Illingworth, Mr Lloyd Jackson, Mr Robert Victor Jaffey, Mr Julian Michael lames , Mr Robert Clabburn Trevenen lames, Mr Wilfrid Russell Jennings, Mr Howard Charles Jennings, Ms Sarah Ann
Johnson, Mr Alan Johnston, Mr Geoffrey Keith Jones, Revd Adebayo Emile Jones, Mr Alan Norman Jones, Dr Richard Lyle Jones, Mr Terence Graham Kapoor, Dr Sudhir Fredric Kaye, Mr Lindsay Neil Keeler, Mr David Ross Keep, Mr Peter Norman Kelly, Revd Dr John Norman Kelly, Mr Peter John Kelly, MrTerence Peter Kendall , Mr John Kerr, Dr Graham Burrell Ketley, Dr Graham Waiter King, Mr John Wickham Kingstone, Professor Basil David Kolve, Professor Verdel Amos Laing, Mr and Mrs Ian Michael Lau, MrChun Laurence, Ms Elizabeth Sarah Lean, Mr Geoffrey Levy, Mr Gordon Henry Lewis, Anthony Meredith Lewis, Michael Graham Lewis, Paul Richard Linford, Jason William Linforth, Mr Richard Oliver Lund, Mr Kenneth Arden Lupson, Mr Ian Francis Machen, Dr Peter Christopher Whitwell Maddocks, Mr Graham Anthony Mandel, Dr Mark Richard Marchington, Dr Tony Marsh & McLennan Company Marsh, Mr & Mrs Marsh, Mr Roy David Martin, Mr Jonathan Arthur Matthews, Professor Waiter Bryan McCann, Mr Stephen Alexander McCarthy, Mr Denis James
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McEwen, Or Ian David McManners, Revd Professor John McWilliam, Mr Paul David Melling, Mr John David Mellon Bank Corporation Mihell , Mr Geoffrey Robert Miller Family Foundation Miller, Mr and Mrs William Robert Mitford-Barberton, Or Gareth de Bohun Mogford, Mr Jeremy Moore, Mr Owen Anthony Morris, Or Derek James Morris, Mr John Colin Mortimer, Or Geoffrey Mourant, Mr Andrew John Mulvey, Mr Thomas Vincent Murphy, Or Ewell Edward Myhill , Mr John Freeth Neal, Mr Michael John Nesbitt, Mr Gavin Paul Neuhaus, Or David Nial, Mr Anthony James Nichola, Mr Colin Camp bell Norman, Or Andrew Gordon Oliver, Mr Rupert James Ormerod, Or David Stephen Orr, Mr Colin Brian Oxford Molecular Pal mer, Sir John Chance Parker, Mr Paul St John Parkin son, Mr Robert Michael Parry, Mr Huw Geraint Paxman, Mr Jeremy Payne, Mr John Fortescue Pearce, Mr Jonathan Kenneth Pelham, Mr Michael Leslie Perrett, Miss Tracey Jane Phillips, Mr Anthony Edward John Phillips, Revd Edward Leigh Pigot, Mr Kenneth Pike, Mr John Pike, Or Michael Graham
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Pinches, Ms Emma Elizabeth Poulteney, Mr Brian Keith Powell, Mr William John Pressler, Senator Larry Lee Price, Mr Edward Geoffrey Proudfoot, Or Christopher George Radley, Mr Herbert Arthur Farrand Rawes, Mr Franc is Roderick Rawlinson, Mr Emest Read, Professor Alien Walker Reddick, Mr John D' Auvergne Hann Reid, Mr John Alexander Rentoul, Mr Anthony Mervyn Rhodes, Mr Christopher James Richardson, Mr Peter Edward Rimmer, Or David Bemard Ritcheson, Professor Charles Ray Roberts Foundation Roberts, Mr and Mrs Gareth Robertson, Mr Douglas Laurence Rogers, Mr Thomas Gordon Parry Roin, Mr All an George Rosen, Or David Leon Rowe, Mr Nicholas Rubin, Professor David Lee Rumbelow, Mr David Vemon Rush worth, Or Frank Derek Saberton, Mr Brian Saeed, Ms Sarah Sarda, Ms Mohini Sayer, Mr John Alexander Schneider, Or Thomas Jay Senechal, Mr Nicholas Phi lip Shah, Mr Rajeev Kishor Shaw, Mr Harold Shears, Mr David John Shergold, Mr Harold Taplin Sherring, Mr Michael John Shipster, Mr Michael David Smerd, Or and Mrs Peter Slack, Mr William Howard Smith, Mr Alan Norman Smith, Mr Anthony John Douglas
Smith, Mr Ian Norton Smith, Mr Michael John Knight Smithkline Beecham Foundation Snelling, Mr John William Emerson Somers, Mr Michael Lawrence Southan, Judge Robert Joseph Spooner, Dr Frank Spray, Mr Phi lip Henry Stevenson, Mr Neil Stewart, Sheriff Alastair Lindsay Thornton, Dr Raymond Eric Thorpe, Mr William Thrower, Professor James Arthur Trethewey, Mi ss Rachel Hetty Ullyatt, Mr Charles Raymond Vadher, Dr Atul Venables, Mr Robert Wainwright, Mr David Henry Wakefield, Mr John Brian Wakelin, Mr Frederick Edward
Walker, Mr William Ward, Mr John Owen Warr, Dr ArthurCiive Watson, Mr Peter Maurice Weir, Mr Col in John West, Mr David Victor Weston , Mr William Ralph Whittaker, Mr Brian John Will cock, Mr Malcolm Williams, Revd Michael John Williams, Mr Richard Henry Wilson, Professor Douglas Brown low Wilson, Dr Peter David Wirsig, Mr Claus Adolph Woods, Mr Gordon Thomas Worthington, Mr Neil James Wylie, Rt Hon Lord Norman Russell Yves Guihannec Foundation, The Zeltonoga, Mr William Leo
The Floreat Aula Society This year we held the Floreat Aula Society Millennium Dinner on 17th March. Fifty members attended, thirty accompanied by a guest. On arrival, members and their guests were welcomed with tea and biscuits in the Junior Common Room. An exhibition was mounted in the JCR Party Room entitled 'Nearly a Thousand Years'. It was an excuse to show some material concerning people famous in the memory of the Hall. Naturally Edmund of Abingdon was represented. We showed pictures of the Chapel at Dover consecrated in 1253 to the honour of St Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the Pilgrimage in 1996 on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of his canonization to the Abbey of Pontigny where he is entombed. We showed representations of many Principals, and of Aularians who went on to be famous. The item which attracted the greatest interest was a collection of the annual photographs of the members of the Hall. We were able to find copies from the period 1934 to 1959. At least one member of the Society expected at the dinner was in each photo. Many of those attending had fun finding themselves and their friends in these photos. Unfortunately we could not find photos including all those members who attended. Emeritus Fellow, and member, Dr John Cowdrey conducted a couple of tours of the
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The impromptu concert by the Choir in the Senior Common Room after dinner
Hall, including a part of the art collection, for those who had not previously had the opportunity to visit some of the less public rooms, and at 6 o'clock the Chaplain officiated at Evensong, assisted by a small choir of volunteer undergraduates. The Principal, Professor Michael Mingos, was the host at the Dinner which was held in the Wolfson Hall. Over one hundred sat down to one of the Chef's excellent dinners. In addition to members and their guests, the Hall was represented at the dinner by members of the JCR and MCR, the Chaplain and Choir, staff from the Development Office, and dons. At reception during the afternoon we had given every member on arrival a singleuse camera with instructions to bring it to the dinner and to snap their neighbours and to be snapped at dinner in a photo session. Unfortunately not all remembered to bring their camera to dinner and other circumstances prevented a photo session developing properly. It had seemed a good way of producing lots of photos for the editor of the magazine to choose from , but it fell a bit flat! After the dinner, many members and their guests congregated in the Senior Common Room. The members of the choir entertained the company to an impromptu concert which was greatly enjoyed. Other members renewed their memories of the Buttery. Most members and their guests stayed overnight at the Hall. The next morning about thirty strolled down towards Magdalen Bridge and joined a specially arranged tour of the Botanic Gardens. Coffee, biscuits and chat was available in the Old Dining Hall for most of that morning.
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The following attended the dinner: Mr Farrand Radley (1935) with Mrs Laura Radley; Mr Robert A Bishop ( 1939) with Ms Anne Bishop; Mr Laurence Elliott ( 1942); Mr Kenneth Palk (1942); Mr Jack Scarr (1943) with Mrs Bea Scarr; Professor Neville Haile (1945) with Mrs Maureen Haile; Mr Frederick W Cosstick (1946) with Mrs Mary Cosstick; Mr David Duns more ( 1946) with Mrs Erica Dunsmore; Mr John Pike ( 1946) with Mrs Elspeth Pike; Dr John V Cockshoot (1947) with Mrs Jeanette Cockshoot; Mr Martin Paterson (1948) with Mrs Marjorie Paterson; Mr Terence Kelly (1949); Mr Robin French (1951); Mr Allan Jay (1951); Mr Robert D.M. Darling (1952); Mr David Fitzwilliam-Lay (1952); Mr Christopher J Jones (1952) with Mrs Marian Jones; Mr John Voigt (1952); Mr David H Giles (1953) with Mrs Jean Giles; Mr David J Picksley (1953) with Mrs Ann Picksley; Mr Robert W Rednall (1953) with Mrs Mary Rednall; Mr Stuart Bilsland (1954) with Mrs Ann Margaret B ilsland; Mr Michael Hopkinson ( 1954); Mr Norman M Isaacs (1954); Mr Anthony W Laughton (1954) with Dr Jane Laughton; Mr John Cotton (1955) with Mrs Elizabeth Cotton; Mr Paul R Lewis (1955) with Mrs Patricia Lewis; Mr Michael Cansdale (1956); Mr David H Johnson (1956) with Mr Anthony Pollard; Mr Andrew Page (1956) with Mrs Mary Page; Mr Alan Titcombe ( 1956) with Mrs Gwendoline Titcombe; Mr Brian J Whittaker (1956); Mr David M.W. Bolton (1957) with George Caldicott; Mr Roland S Macleod (1957); MrGeoffMihell (1957) with Mrs JanetMihell; Mr John L Phillips (1957) with Mrs Jane Phillips; Mr Michael J Senter (1957) with Dr Enid Mayberry; Mr Philip L Rabbetts (1958) with Mrs Dietlinde Rabbetts; Canon Paul Brett (1959); Mr Martin Smith (1961) with Dr Elise Smith; Mr Nigel Pegram (1962) with Ms April Olrich; Mr Jeremy Mew (1963); Mr John Hawkins (1970); Dr Frank Spooner (1970); Dr Malcolm Hawthorne (1971) with Mrs Alexandra Hawthorne; Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams (N/A) with Guest. Hall Representatives: The Principal with Mrs Stacey Mingos; Dr Jo Ashbourn (Fellow); Mrs Lori Baker (Development Co-ordinator) ; Mr Daniel Beach (Organ Scholar); Ms Pippa Caldicott (Choir Singer); Ms Naomi Clark (Choir Singer) ; Ms Alison Cook (JCR Representative); Dr John Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow); Dr Nicholas Crank (Fellow); Ms Sam Day (Alurnni and Events Co-ordinator); Mrs Alice Gibbons (Database Administrator); Mr Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow) with Mrs Margaret Gosling; Mr Chris Hampson (Choir Singer); Ms Deborah Hayward (Librarian); Prof John Hunt (Fellow and Vice-Principal); Dr Andrew Kahn (Fellow); the Revd Duncan MacLaren (Chaplain); Prof Bryan Matthews (Emeritus Fel-
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low) with Mrs Elspeth Cairns; Or Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow); Mr Ambrose Neville (Choir Singer); Or Philipp Podsiadlowski (Fellow); Mr Andrew Ritcheson (MCR President-Elect); Mr Martin Slater (Fellow); Mr Christopher Wells (Fellow) with Mrs Rainhild Wells; Or Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) with Mrs Renee Williams; Prof Sir Oavid Yardley (Emeritus Fellow) with Lady Patricia Yardley.
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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND YEAR REPRESENTATIVES President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer Up to 1944
Michael J. Cansdale, MA (1956) Justin C.B. Gosling, B.Phil, MA Paul R. Lewis, MA ( 1955) Ian W. Durrans, BA ( 1977) H. A. Farrand Radley, MBE, MA ( 1935)
1945-54 1945-54 1945-54
A.R. John Lloyd, MA (1946) R.J.L. (Bob) Breese MA (1949) Desmond J. Day, OBE, MA (1951)
1955-64 1955-64
John M. Heggadon, MA, B.Sc. (Lond), FCIM, FFB (1961) Michael G.M. Groves, DipEconPolSci (1962)
1965-74 1965-74 1965-74
Jon D. Shortridge, MA, M.Sc. (1966) Peter Butler, MA (1970) Lawrence Cummings, MA ( 1971)
1975-84 1975-84 1975-84
Richard S. Luddington, MA, M.Phil (1978) Rachel M. Martel, BA (1981) Jenny B. Turner, BA (1981)
1985-94 1985-94 1985-94
Douglas S. McCallum, BA (1985) Jo R. Rainbow, BA, BM, BCh (1987) A.C. (Tony) Greenham BA (1988)
1995-04
Catherine L. Cooper, BA (1995)
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MINUTES OF THE 69TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 11 January 2000
The 69th 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, 11th January 2000 at 6.15 p.m., M.J. Cansdale presiding. 42 members were present. 1. Minutes: The minutes of the last meeting, the 68th, held on 12 January 1999, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.
2. President's Report: M.J. Cansdale said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner. 3. Principal's Report: Professor D.M.P. Mingos 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: LW. Durrans presented the audited accounts; he said we were in good health with plenty of money in the bank. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted. 6. Constitutional Amendment: The Honorary Secretary explained that the Constitution had been adopted in 1981 and had already been amended three times at the Annual General Meetings of 1990, 1991 and 1993. The latest amendment, which had been properly proposed and seconded and submitted by the due date, was non-contentious and was a routine updating. The amendment increased the Honorary Treasurer's single signing power to ÂŁ500, replaced 'his' with 'his or her' in reference to the officers, replaced 'age group' with 'matriculation group', abolished the matriculation group 'Up to 1934' and altered the group' 1935 to 1944' to 'Up to 1944' and made some improvements in grammar and in the sense. The amendment was adopted. The Honorary Secretary said that he would reissue the fully amended version and copies would shortly be available to any member on request; copies would be sent to all members of the Executive Committee.
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6. Elections: The following were elected unanimously: a. Honorary Secretary P.R. Lewis re-elected for one year b. Honqrary Treasurer LW. Durrans re-elected for one year c. 1945-54 A.R.J. Lloyd re-elected for three years d. 1965-74 P. Butler re-elected for three years e. 1975-84 Miss R.M. Martel re-elected for three years f. 1985-94 Dr J .R. Rainbow re-elected for three years 7. Appointment of Honorary Auditor: L.D. Page was unanimously re-appointed Honorary Auditor. 8. Date of Next Meeting: Tuesday, 9 January 2001 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 p.m. There being no further business, the President closed the meeting at 6.23 p.m.
GIFTS TO THE HALL We record our grateful thanks to the Executive Committee of the SEH Association for the following generous gifts to the Hall: up to £500 to the Graham Hamilton Travel Fund up to £500 for music stands for the Chapel Choir up to £1000 for the garden funds
THE 59th LONDON DINNER The 59th London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's, on Tuesday 11 January 2000. No signs whatsoever of 'Millennium fatigue ' in a record attendance of 167; the hubbub and exuberance were vintage Simpson's-in-the-Strand. The President of the Association, Michael Cansdale, opened by welcoming the guests, the Principal and Mrs Mingos, Lord Jenkins, Mr and Mrs Justin Gosling, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Mr Jack Rowell and the President of the Middle Common Room. The Principal in particular was to be reassured that he had come through his first term ('always the worst') even if the mere mention of his sixteen years at Keble still raised an ever so polite hiss among the assembled. Aularian gatherings continued to be as varied and successful as ever but a 'huge gap' had been left by the passing ofGraham Midgley, Richard Fargher and Arthur Marsh. An affectionate tribute as well to Francis Finch, longtime organizer of the Dinner, who had died in November. A loyal and
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committed Aularian, who never missed the second Tuesday in January, Francis had created in 193 7 a Mid-Channel Branch of the Aularian Association at a chance meeting with two similarly fog-bound Hallmen on SS Lorima; cordial greetings had been sent to the Principal, Dr Emden: 'Tarn per mare quam per terram Aula floret.' Lord Jenkins, the Visitor, remarked that in his speech it was 'his pleasure' to be 'very short' and then pleased his audience by highlighting the 'remarkable cohesive spirit' of the Hall and the scale of attendance at the Dinner. The Principal, making his debut at this event, congratulated Reggie Alton and Bruce Mitchell on reaching 80 and thanked John Dunbabin generously not only for carrying the College through recent uncertainties but also for giving us the expression ' ... and ninthly... !' Warm applause greeted his tributes to his wife Stacey and to Margaret Gosling. Mr Jack Rowell expressed 'wonder' at being on the same bill as Lord Jenkins although his ability to 'pull together huge egos' as manager of the England rugby team may have struck a chord with the Visitor in his various roles! Reminiscences ofMidgley and Kelly mingled then with those of Justin Leonard, Brian Moore and our own Stuart Barnes. In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1929) Sir Denis Wright; (1935) Mr H.A.Farrand Radley; (1937) Mr H.D. Eastwood, Sir John Palmer; (1938) Mr R.E. Alton; (1942) Dr J.D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow); (1945) Mr V.T.H. Parry; (1946) Mr F.W. Cosstick, Mr E.M. Goodman-Smith, Mr A.R.J. Lloyd, Mr J. Pike; (1949) Mr R.J.L. Breese, Mr T.P. Kelly; (1950) Mr M. Baldwin, Mr C.D. Griffin-Smith, (1951) Mr D. Bloom, Mr DJ. Day, Mr J.C. Forbes, Mr M.A. Robson, Mr W.H. Slack, Mr C.C.B. Wightwick, Mr Dudley Wood; (1952) Mr P. Brown, Mr S.D. Graham Q.C., Mr D.M. Jacobs, Mr N.F. Lockhart, The Revd E.A. Simmonds; (1953) Mr J.J.D. Craik, Mr E.P. Fox, Mr A.J. Kember; (1954) The Revd Canon M.A. Bourdeaux, Mr I. L.R. Burt, Mr J.C.M. Casale, Mr A.W. Laughton, Sir David Yardley; (1955) Mr R.H.B. De Vere Green, Mr J.L. Fage, Mr R. A. Farrand, Mr P.R. Lewis, Mr N.K. Merry lees, Mr J. Owen-Smith, Mr D. Ward; (1956) Mr B.E. Amor, Mr Michael Cansdale, Mr S.C.H. Douglas-Mann, Mr F.J. Farrell, Mr A.F. Ham, Mr D.H. Johnson, Professor A.W.J. Thomson, Mr B.J. Whittaker, Mr J.R.C. Young; (1957) Mr M.H. Bottomley, Mr R. B. Cook, Mr T.D. Day, Mr J.W. Harrson, Mr J.C. Hemming, Mr R.W. Jackson, Mr G.R. Mihell, Mr J.C. Pollock; (1958) Mr L.L. Filby, Mr R.M. Jarman, Mr J.G. O'Donnell, Mr J.H. Phillips, Mr J.S. Reis; (1959) Mr G.E.A. Kentfield; (1960) Mr C.J.G.
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Atkinson, Mr S.R. Hogg, Mr C.H.L. Long, Dr F.J. Pocock; (1961) Mr R.I. Chard, Mr E.A. Fretwell-Downing, Mr J.M. Heggadon, Mr A.M. Rentoul ; (1962) Mr M.J. Hamilton, Mr N.H. Pegram ; (1963) Mr G.M. Day, Dr M.B. Foxon, Mr R.A.S. Offer, Mr M.S. Simmie; (1964) Mr A.C. Barker, Mr R.W.F. Stoner; (1965) Mr J.G. Barclay, Mr A. St G. Gribbon; (1966) Mr R.T. Baker, Mr M.C. Bonello, Mr P.L.D. Brown, Mr A.B. Fisher, Mr P.A.D. Griffiths, Mr D.A. Hopkins, Mr C.T.W. Humfrey, Mr T.R.P. Irvin, Mr M.C. Warren ; (1967) Mr P.V. Robinson, Mr M.C.V. Spencer-Ellis; (1968) Dr D.J. Hughes, Mr H.J. Hunt; (1969) Mr P.E. Dobsen, Mr J.M. Johnson; (1970) Mr P. Butler, Mr R.H.T. Gozney, Mr P.G. Harper, Mr J.W. Hawkins, Mr L.N. Kaye, Mr G.W.J. Smith, Mr R.C. Wilson; (1971) Mr L. Cumrnings, Mr D. L. Robe11son; ( 1972) Mr A.J. Peacock, Mr R. Stephenson ; (1973) Mr J.J. Tholstrup; (1974) Mr A.R.F. Banks, Mr F.L. Barber, Mr J.A.B. Gray, Mr D.H. Jennings, Mr P.P. Phillips; (1975) Mr E.G. Gray, Mr P.M. Watson; ( 1976) Mr R.A.H. Finch, Dr S.C. Flood, Mr N.J. Worthington; (1977) Mr LW. Durrans, Mr A.J. Haxby, Mr R.K. Shah; (1980) Mr P.A.J. Broadley, Mr J.G. Clark, Mr J. G. Varey; (1981) Mrs J.J. Rees (Tonge), Mr M.C. Waiters; (1985) Mr D.S. McCallum, Mr A.J . Rolfe; (1986) Mr A.T. Harrison; (1987) Mr D.T. Bayley; (1988) Ms S.E. Breese, Ms E. Campbell, Mr K.M. Gordon, Mr A. C. Greenham, Ms C. B. Jardine, Mr R.K. J. Kilgarriff, Ms A. Roberts, Mr J.K. Tabinor, Mr J.M. Williams; (1992) Ms A.C. Clay; (1994) Ms E.C. Clark-Darby, Mr S.A. Luke, Mr G.J. McKeever, Mr T.D. Peel; (1995) Ms C.L. Cooper. The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr J.M .A. Ashbourn, Dr A.G.L. Borthwick, Mr G. Bourne-Taylor, Mr R. Brunner-EIIis, Mr J.P.D. Dunbabin, Ms D. Eaton, Professor G. Ebers, the Revd D. MacLaren, Dr R.B. Mitchell, Dr P. Podsiadlowski, Mr M.D.E. Slater, Dr W.S.C. Williams. R.A.H. Finch
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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2000 Year Ended 31 May 2000
Year ended 31 May 1999
£
£
8,721 1,530 1,1% 82
8,873
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---10,321
INCOME Subscriptions Surplus from 750th celebrations Bank interest Emden bequest interest
11 ,529
1,313 135
EXPENDITURE
Magazine production (half) Magazine postage and mailing (half) Honorary Secretary's expenses Executive Committee meeting expenses Fellow 's retirement party Appointment of the new Principal
(3,632) (3,026) (629) (38) (40)
(179) (7,365)
---(7,675)
4,164
2,646
----
Income less expenditure Less Grants: Gavin Hamilton travel fund Choir desks Garden urn Boathouse flagpole and flag Preservation of manuscript collection
Appropriation to Aularian Register Fund
(4,143) (2,839) (478) (36)
(500) (500) (1,000) (140) (500) ----(2,000)
-----
2,164
---2,006
(2,000)
(2,000)
(640)
-----
Surplus transferred to General Fund
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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2000
ASSETS Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances
Less: Creditors
31 May2000 £
31 May 1999 £
6,017 5,700 32,288
6,122 5,700 22,037
---44,005
--33,859
(20,506)
(12,524)
23,499
21,355 ---
REPRESENIEDBY ACCUMULATED
FUNDS General Fund at start of year Surplus from Income Account
6,835 164
6,829 6 -
Aularian Register Fund at start of year Appropriation this year
M.J . Cansdale (President) LW. Durrans (Honorary Treasurer)
6,999
- -6,835
14,500 2,000
12,500 2,000
-----
16,500
----14,500
23,499
21,355
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----
I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2000. In my opinion the above Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account give respectively a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association at 31 May 2000 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date. 31 July2000 The Coach House, 29a Bennett Park, Blackheath, London SE3 9RA
L.D. Page Honorary Auditor
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70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR SIR DAVID YARDLEY 13 NOVEMBER 1999 There is a happy tradition at the Hall that when an Emeritus Fellow reaches the age of 70, and is by then unashamedly retired and free of teaching duties, former pupils get together to organise a celebratory lunch. David Yardley has always seemed so eternally youthful . . . but even he has reached his 'three score and ten' , and on Saturday 13 November, 1999, the Old Dining Hall was full to overflowing with lawyers and their partners to entertain David and Patsy. More than sixty were there, several of whom had come from parts of Europe, with the longest journeys being made by Malcolm MacCormack (1956) who had flown over from Buenos Aires, John Payne (1958) who had come over specially, with his wife Girlie, from Hong Kong, and David Williams ( 1956) from the West Indies. There was a long list of apologies from those who though unable to attend sent their good wishes and in many cases a contribution to the birthday gift. Judge John Farnworth (1955) elegantly proposed the Toast, to which David replied with a miscellany of anecdotes and much good humour. John Payne brought birthday gifts from Hong Kong: vintage claret from the Two Aularian Ronnies , Ronny Tong ( 1972), current President of the Hong Kong Bar Council , and Ronny Wong (1969) former Bar Council President; and from himself a Chinese Mandarin's Seal, with David's name spelt phonetically in Chinese characters which translate as "Lord Comfort and Courtesy". Michael Cansdale ( 1956), who had acted as coordinator for the party, then presented to David on behalf of all concerned a Silver Jersey Cream Jug, appropriately engraved "David Yardley- with affection- from his former pupils" . Cream, because David like so many of those he had taught, had risen to the top - and Jersey, to remind him of the constitutional and fiscal peculiarities of that island, from which the lawyers present and their clients had gained much advantage. Many tributes were paid to Patsy, who received a large bouquet of flowers. After lunch the party continued well into the afternoon, with much conviviality. The following were present: ( 1952) David Graham, David Wright; ( 1953) Ian Fowler with Gillian Fowler; ( 1954) Tom Lewis-Bowen with Gillian LewisBowen, John Lyndon Morgan with Ann Lyndon Morgan, Antony Suttoin with Christine Sutton; ( 1955) Philip Bevan-Thomas, Roger Carter, John
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Farnworth, John Cotton with Elizabeth Cotton, David Ward; ( 1956) Michael Cansdale with Hilly Cansdale, Tony Ham with Gillian Ham, Malcolm MacCormack, Jim Markwick with Marg Ann Markwick, Ted Mellish with Mignon Mellish, David Williams, John Young; (1957) Ted Aves with Joanna Aves, Bill Budden, Roger Fisher with Arline Fisher; (1958) Michael Cotton with Brenda Cotton, John Payne with Girlie Payne, Anthony Phillips with Jenny Phillips; (1959) Chris Harvey with Penny Harvey, Nicholas Pumphrey; (1961) Stanley Bumton, Peter Newel!, Anthony Rentoul; (1962) Colin Brown with Lesley Brown, Rodger Hayward Smith with Sheila Hayward Smith, Richard Holland; (1964) Michael Darwynne; (1970) Julian Currall; (1971) Douglas Robertson with Sue Robertson; and former Tutors Jeffrey Hackney and John Mowbray (with Sheila Mowbray). Those who attended from the Hall included the Principal, John Dunbabin (with Jean Dunbabin), Bill Williams, John Cowdrey, Francis Rossotti, Geoffrey Boume-Taylor and Robin Brunner-Ellis. Michael Cansdale ( 1956)
Sir David writes: I was most touched by the kindness and generosity of my old pupils, and amazed at how many took the trouble to attend the lunch party- some coming from far-flung parts of the globe. It was also heartening to note how successful they have been, despite the early disadvantage of having me as a tutor. Patsy and I enjoyed ourselves enormously, and we thank them all most sincerely.
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AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium 1930s The Revd Professor John McManners (1935; Honorary Fellow) was made CBE in the New Year Honours List, 2000 John Michael Gregson Halstead (1938) has published a book entitled 'Round the World in Forty Years': A British Council Life (Square One: Upton on Severn, 1999), recalling his work for the Council in eight different countries. 1940s Victor Thomas Henry Parry (1945) is Chairman of the Friends of the University of London Library and also Chairman of the Retired Members' Club of Central Staff Association of that university. He is also Chairman of the Chelsea Bridge Circle. At the September 1999 meeting of the Oxford University Alumni Bridge Association he won the Alumni Cup. Michael Arthur Halliwell (1946) was appointed an Honorary Canon of Winchester in 1996, and on his retirement after 25 years as Rector of St Brelade, Jersey, was appointed Canon Emeritus. William Robert Miller (1949; Honorary Fellow) was made OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, 2000 1950s Derek Richard Chapman (1951) retired to Cyprus, where he is Treasurer of the flourishing Oxford Society and a Director of the Institute of Directors. A former President of the John Oldham Society, Derek is this year directing Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot and acting in Coriolanus in a restored Roman theatre. Ian Byatt (1952) was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, 2000. Philip John Swindells (1953) has been retired for over 21 years and is hoping to pursue inter-faith interests and also write a book on them. John Cox (1955; Honorary Fellow) spent the New Year in Australia producing at the Sydney Opera House. Blake Bromley (1956) has published a memoir of his early childhood in prewar colonial Malaya, his escape from the Japanese to wartime India, his early schooling there and his first impressions of England after the
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war. The book is entitled Opams and Bundu Beetles (The Pentland Press: Bishop Auckland, 2000). Basil David Kingstone (1956) is now Editor of the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies. 1960s General Sir Michael Rose (1960; Honorary Fellow) has been appointed Colonel of the Coldstream Guards. Professor Malvern Van Wyk Smith (1960) has been awarded the ViceChancellor's Distinguished Senior Research Award for 1999 at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. An drew Graham (1961) has been elected Master of Balliol College, where he has been Fellow in Economics since 1969. He will take up office in 2001 . David John Smith (1961) is an Honorary Fellow at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. Richard Powys Meeres (1962) is currently a CBI Councillor for the North East England Region. Professor Simon John Simonian (1962), Director of the Vein Institute and Clinical Professor in the Department of Surgery at Georgetown University Medical Centre, Annandale, Virginia, has been named to the 2000 Millennium editions of Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who s Who in Science and Engineering and Who s Who in Medicine and Healthcare. His biographical records in these publications have set a record for the longest entries for an individual. He was first listed in the first two publications in 1982. Dr Charles Derek Statham (1962) has recently retired from Coming Inc., where he was VP Corporate Development. Joseph Gurney Barclay (1965) has been appointed as Regional Liaison Director at the University of Oxford, on secondment from Barclays Bank where he has worked for the past 30 years. He has also been elected to a Fellowship by Special Election at the Hall. 1970s The Revd Dr John Parr (1971) is now Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral and Continuing Ministerial Education Officer in the Diocese of Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Peter Andrew Osborn (1972) and Sandra have moved their home to the north-east of Scotland, where Peter has opened a new office for his advisory firm The Briars Partnership whilst continuing to
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keep a part-time presence with his clients in the south-east of England. Garden and woodland are reported to be doing well. Edward Hamilton Killen (1973) recently served four years with the US Peace Corps, teaching English to Czech undergraduates for Jihocesky University in the Czech Republic. Thomas Jay Schneider (1973) was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law degree on 26 October 1999 by Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, 'for leadership in the restructuring of industrial relations in the United States of America.' Tom also delivered the occasional address to the graduates of the faculties of Business and Law. Ian Francis Charles Murray (1974) was appointed as a Chartered Accountant in 1981, a Certified Accountant in 1996, and a Justice of the Peace in 1997. Jeremy Harry Nason (1974) began a new job as Director of Operations and Planning at Hitachi Data Systems on 1 January 2000, after five years of working for the company. Pip Philip Phillips (1974) has returned to live in the UK after 20 years spent working in investment banking in the Far East in Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong. In Japan in 1989 he married Sunok Lee, a Korean citizen and they now have two children, J ason (b. 22 June 1991) and Elizabeth (b. 16 July 1998). They live in Barnes, S.W. London. Robin Marius Osterley (1975) has been chief executive of the National Federation of Music Societies since July 1997 and is deputy chairman of the National Music Council. Andrew Brian Wathey (1976) is Professor of Music History, Royal Holloway, University of London. He and Charlotte announce the birth of their daughter Eleanor Jessica Macrnillan Wathey, a sister for William, on 4 August 1999. Along with Dr Margaret Bent of All Souls College, he heads a project (now funded by the AHRB) which aims to create a Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, containing enhanced images of polyphonic music notation in British manuscripts from libraries across the UK and Europe. (Further information can be found at the project Web site: http://www.diarnm.ac.uk.)
1980s Alistair James Graham (1980) announces the arrival of Rory on 19 November 1998 (1 0 lbs - reserve a place in the front row!!). Stephen King (1980) and his wife Clare announce the birth of their daughter Jennifer on 13 October 1999.
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Clare Helen Jack (nee Reece, 1981) married Angus Jack on 6 November 1993. They have two children: Laura (12 August 1995) and Isabel (10 May 1997). Andrew Steane (1984) has been awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum computation and information processing through the development of error correction. Emma Steane (nee Palmer) (1985) has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Principal of the Hall. Andrew Gowans (1986) and his wife Heather (nee Wenlock, 1988) announce the birth of their daughter Tara on 6 April 1999. Tara was baptised in the Chapel by Bishop Paul Burrough (1934) on 29 August 1999. Heather and Andrew were married by Bishop Burrough in the Chapel in 1994. Keith Michael Gordon (1988) announces the birth of his baby daughter, Sarah Katie, on 29 November 1999. David Gerard Murray (1988) married Catherine Field (1990) on 21 August 1999. The reception was held at the Hall.
1990s Julie Rebecca Coulson (1990) and Dennis Andrew Williams (1990) married in 1998. He is now Partner at Alpha-Numeric Developments Ltd, a risk-management consultancy. David John Jordan (1990) moved to the Department of War Studies, King's College London in June 2000. Jane Katharine Penrose (1992) has taken up employment as Development Editor with Offsprey Publishing. Michael Tomko (1997) was engaged to Helena Saward of St John ' s College, Oxford, on Christmas morning, 1999. They will hold the wedding in January 2001 at the Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Oxford.
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OBITUARIES 1920s Ronald Stark Orchard, FlEE. June 2000; New Maiden. Aged 93. Commoner 1925-29; Engineering. Thomas Vernon Nicholson, MA. 20 April 2000; Berwick. Aged 92. Exhibitioner 1926-30; History. Retired Marketing Director. Ernest Rawlinson, BCL, MA. 13 September 1999; Kenton, Devon. Aged 88. Commoner 1928-31 and 1933; Juri sprudence. Retired solicitor. Eric William Sudale, MA. 8 December 1999; Solihull. Aged 79. Commoner 1928-31 ; PPE/History. Retired Assessor, City and Guilds. Richard Basil Pates, BA. 10 April 2000; Singapore. Commoner 1929-32; Mathematics. ERNEST RAWLINSON (1928) Ernest Raw linson died on 13 September 1999. He was born in 1910 in Lancashire, and attended Haslingdon Grammar School. In 1928 he came up to the Hall to read Juri sprudence. In those days there was no resident law tutor at the Hall, and he was farmed out to Theo Tylor, the law don at Balliol, who was not only hi s tutor, but became a lifelong friend. After obtaining hi s degree, Ernest was articled to his uncle who was in practice in Oxford, and duly qualified as a solicitor. His uncle advised him to set up practice on his own, which he did. Times were hard, with the depression, and at that time there could be no touting, no advertising. In the early days when work was sparse, he filled in the time by taking hi s BCL. After some years he had a sufficient practice to marry his wife Margaret, only daughter of the senior partner of a firm of estate agents in Oxford. In 1939 came the war, and Ernest, who had always been interested in flying, joined the RAF. At the age of thirty, he was too old for combat flying, and served the whole war as a flying instructor, both in this country and in Canada. At the end of the war, he returned to what was left of hi s practice, and was soon asked to become a partner in the firm of Henry F. Galpin & Co., later Marshall & Gal pin, of which he became senior partner. He had a wide practice, including acting for Balliol and many of its fellows personally. He was very sociable, being president of one of the Oxford clubs and a founder and president of the Cotswold Flyfishers. He loved country pursuits, theatre, music, and was a regular supporter of his local church. In hi s early seventies he retired to his delightful estate in Devon, where he lived for the remainder of his life. His wife died before him ; they had no children.
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By his will Ernest left a substantial legacy and indeed the residue of his estate to the Hall. David Wright ( 1952) 1930s Francis Henry Heneage Finch, MA, MIPD. 13 November 1999; Weybridge. Aged 88. Commoner 1933-6; French. Retired personnel manager. John Park. 14 July 1999; Horsham. Aged 86. Scholar 1933-7; Modern Languages. Retired teacher . Adrian Philip Lionel Slater, MA. 28 August 1999; Canterbury. Aged 85. Commoner 1933-6; English. Ray Mountain, BA. 24 January 2000; Berkhamstead. Aged 84. Commoner 1934-7, Jurisprudence. Retired Solicitor. Dr David Macbeth Moir Carey, CBE. 21 January 2000; Hampshire. Aged 83. Commoner 1935-8; Jurisprudence. Retired solicitor, and Principal Registrar and Legal Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Revd Philip Bloy, MA. 27 March 2000; Dorset. Aged 80. Commoner 1938-41; History. Retired Canon of Chichester Cathedral. Kenneth Hardacre, MA. 3 January 2000; Southendown Nursing Home. Aged 79. Exhibitioner 1939-42, English. Retired teacher. Richard Russell writes: 'Kenneth Hardacre read English (and came under the spell of Tolkein and C.S. Lewis - lucky man). He was an inspirational teacher (and was featured in the TES) at Cambridge, Blackpool and Bushey. He became a very competent amateur printer.'] FRANCIS HENRY HENEAGE FINCH (1933) Francis ' Bish ' Finch, who died on 13 November 1999 at the age of 88, was a wonderfully loyal supporter of St Edmund Hall. For twenty years until his death he served on the committee of the old members' association, organizing arguably the most successful of annual Oxbridge London reunion dinners. Indeed but for the imminent birth of his only child Richard in 1958 he would have attended every such occasion since the War. The fact that this offspring followed him to the Hall and incidentally as London Dinner organizer gave him understandably the greatest pride and happiness. Otherwise his appetite for matters Aularian was such that he was an early pilgrim to the great Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, last resting place of St Edmund, helped to track down the long-lost College barge to a marina on the Thames
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and based himself in the Hall when he was recruiting generations of prospective chartered accountants on the annual 'milk round!' I was happy to make my acquaintance with Bish at the Hall in 1934 and throughout all of the year 1935. We had close friends such as Empire and Olympic swimmer Mostyn ffrench-Williams (later 'best man ' at Bish' s wedding and godfather to son Richard), Peter Frankcom, Ned Foxton, Gordon Shield and Jack Lee. In addition to our both appearing in the OUDS anniversary year production of Julius Caesar, we even chanced an occasional ' pub crawl' together in Oxford at a time when undergraduates were not permitted access. It was on one of these occasions that Francis was 'appointed' Bishop ofBloemfontein by his fellow revellers and hence the nickname 'Bish' which he carried for a lifetime. It is interesting to note that Or Emden in his very last letter to Bish almost half a century later addressed him 'Dear Quondam Episc. Bloemf. ' During my trips to Great Britain over the years I managed to renew my friendship with Bish by meeting in London and more recently with him and his family in Surrey. In return the Finch family visited with us in Kennebunkport, Maine six times while Bish was in his eighties! He and his charming wife Valerie were my hosts when I was able to attend the London Dinner. Born in Sutton, Surrey, Bish was at preparatory school in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where his parents had a holiday home. Then at Epsom College he made his mark as Head of his House and as a classicist but came to Oxford in 1933 to read French, which he spoke fluently as a result of his frequent travels, not least to Dinard where his grandfather had been Chaplain at the Anglican Church. During the 1939-45 War he saw service as a Captain in the RASC, including an attachment in 1944 to the Royal West African Frontier Force in Nigeria. On release he returned to Imperial Airways which he had joined in 1939 and spent the next six years in traffic intelligence and commercial planning with BEA and BOAC. Dissatisfied with the apparently chaotic nature of the postwar airline industry he opted in 1953 for personnel management in the City of London as Appointments Officer of the Society of Incorporated Accountants, continuing in that capacity with the Institute of Chartered Accountants following its integration. In 1969 he joined what was shortly to become Robson Rhodes as Personnel Manager so that by his retirement in 1976 he had completed virtually a quarter of a century in accountancy recruitment (he was a Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development). For several years after the War Bish was actively involved in politics with Chelsea Conservatives, notably in committee work and arranging dis-
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cussion groups (Chairman of the Association's Political Education Group in 1956). Another abiding interest was genealogy. As his family's historian he did extensive research (he was a member of the Society of Genealogists), wrote a comprehensive profile and served 50 years on the family trust. Eish loved St Edmund Hall and all it stood for. He would have been immensely proud and touched that the College was represented formally at his funeral in Weybridge. With his passing Teddy Hall has lost one of its most loyal and helpful sons. George Earner ( 1935)
JOHN PARK (1933) John Park matriculated at the Hall in 1933, having gained a scholarship from Taunton's School, Southampton to study Modern Languages. Whilst at the Hall he accepted a scholarship for one year at Madrid University but had to leave and return to Oxford on account of civil war breaking out in Spain. At the Hall he served variously as treasurer, secretary and president of OU Spanish Society. After gaining an upper 2nd degree he taught at Hercheston Castle school in Scotland and later at Whitgift Middle School, Croydon, from where he was called up into the army as a private. Soon he obtained a commission in the Intelligence Corps and was stationed in various places including the War Office and was sent to Italy and Austria. He finished with the rank of Captain. After the war he returned to Whitgift Middle School on a temporary basis followed by his permanent job at Collyers School, Horsham until retirement. During his schoolmaster years he also served as Examiner, Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations and Examiner, Cambridge Examination Syndicate. He was married during the war to Grace Maud and they had one child, Mary Ann, whose family resides in Sydney, Australia, where her parents spent their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Aside from travel his recreations included gardening, walking and bird watching. He was a true scholar and highly respected through a lifetime of teaching. He had a quiet, friendly approach which served him well as a dedicated schoolmaster. He died on 14 July, 1999 at the age of 86, survived by both his wife and daughter. George Earner ( 1935)
DAVID CAREY (1935) David Carey, who has died aged 83, was the chief legal adviser to four successive Archbishops of Canterbury: Geoffrey Fisher, Michael Ramsey,
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Donald Coggan and Robert Runcie. These four archbishops differed considerably not only in their personalities but also in their churchrnanship. Carey, however, became a trusted legal secretary to all of them. His duties entailed frequent, often daily, meetings with the archbishop. A particularly thorny question upon which Carey was required to give advice concerned the transfer of powers from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the archbishops of the Anglican Communion in other parts of the world. This was one of the most important constitutional reforms in the history of the Anglican Church. A quiet, disciplined man who never jumped into speech, Carey had a reassuring calmness about him. However pressing the crisis, he could be guaranteed to remain utterly reliable and discreet. He was an astute judge of people as well as of Church matters, so that the advice he gave was shrewd as well as precise. In 1978 Donald Coggan awarded Carey a Lambeth degree in recognition of his legal work. Four years later, at the General Synod, Robert Runcie paid tribute to him as a 'wise counsellor, not only to me but also to a vast number of people - bishops, clergy and laity - who have sought his help in the constitution-writing of the Anglican Communion since the last war' . David Macbeth Moir Carey was born on January 21 1917 at Sherborne, Dorset, the youngest of seven children. His mother, Agnes (nee Milligan), was the daughter of a Moderator of the Church of Scotland. His father, Godfrey, who died when David was 10, had played rugby for England, and as a housemaster at Sherborne had become one of the best known schoolmasters in the country: supposedly he was the model for the housemaster known as The Bull in Alec Waugh's controversial autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth, which was published in 1917. David' s three elder brothers were Kenneth, who became Bishop of Edinburgh, Fraser, a GP, and Lionel, who became Headmaster of Bromsgrove. David was educated at Westminster, where he was a King's Scholar, and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Greats and rowed for the college. He then joined the ecclesiastical solicitors Lee, Bolton & Lee, whose offices at No 1 The Sanctuary share a party wan with Westminster Abbey. During the Second World War, Carey served in the RNVR as secretary to the commanding officer of Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMs) in Bombay. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander, and at the time of the Japanese surrender was busy with preparations for the retaking of Singapore. Carey was admitted a solicitor in 1947 and the next year became a partner at Lee, Bolton and Lee. He would become senior partner in 1975. In
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1953, he became Legal Secretary to the Bishop of Ely, and in 1957 undertook the same responsibilities for the Bishop of Gloucester. The next year he inherited the job of Principal Registrar and Legal Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury. His predecessor in the post was Sir Henry Dash wood, the senior par1ner in his firm , who had served three archbishops since 1913. Carey was sustained by a strong Christian faith . He was a steward at Westminster Abbey from 1948 until 1961 , ultimately as honorary Chief Steward. He was a governor of Westminster School from 1960 to 1992, and chaired the committees which selected the headmasters John Rae and David Summerscale. He was a Gold Staff Officer at the Queen 's Coronation in 1953, and was appointed CBE in 1983. The Carey family owned a house in the Cairngorms, where they spent summer holidays. David Carey loved being out on the hill, or fishing in Glen Feshie. He married, in 1949, Ruth Mills, the daughter of Canon William Mills, founder of Highfield School in Hampshire. They had a daughter and three sons, one of whom died last year in a motor accident. Š The Daily Telegraph, 19 February 2000
1940s Geoffrey John Farrer Brain, MA. 25 May 2000; Reading. Aged 78. Commoner 1940-2; Jurisprudence. George William Henshaw, MA. I December 1999; Leamington Spa. Aged 78. Commoner 1940-1, 1946-7; Theology. Alexander James Duffus, BCL. 12 October 1999. RAF Cadet 1942. Revd Philip Mayo Haynes, MA, RAF. 1 March 2000; Oxford. Aged 75. Commoner, 1943-4 and 1947-9; Theology. Muhammed Salim Hilal El Barwani, BA. 1964; Zanzibar. Commoner 1944-7; PPE. Formerly Director of Education in the government of the last Sultan of Zanzibar. Brian A. Fyfield-Shayler (1960) writes: 'at the time of the revolution [in Zanzibar in 1964], Mu hammed Salim was Director of Education. He was detained in Zanzibar on false charges, and a few months later was one of about 12 prisoners forced to dig their own grave before being shot by the revolutionaries. The Princess [Amal Khalifa] remembers watching from her window as they were led past. He left a widow and at least one son, last heard of in the late 1970s in British Guiana (now Guyana) .... a daughter is said to have married a son of the leader of the revolutionaries.' Michael C. Foster, DFC, MA. 27 February 2000; Farnham. Aged 78. Commoner 1946-8; English. Retired teacher.
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Sir Robin Day, Kt, MA. 7 August 2000. Aged 76. Commoner 1947-51; Law. Journalist and broadcaster. Brian Bigley, BA. February 2000; Harrogate. Aged 70. Commoner 194952; Modem Languages. Waiter Hardy, MA. 22 December 1999; West Midlands. Aged 71. Commoner 1948-51; History. Retired Headteacher. GEORGE WILLIAM HENSHAW (1940) George Henshaw died on 1 December, aged 78, after a long illness which he bore with great fortitude. He was born in Askem, Yorkshire on 12 April 1921, the youngest of four children of a miner. His family moved to likes ton in Derbyshire, and he boarded at Lichfield Cathedral Choir School from the age of 10. He went from there, with the help of a benefactor, to Denstone College, where he excelled both academically and in athletics. In 1940, he went up to St Edmund Hall to read Theology. He played rugby for his college, and for the University second XV. He won the Hall JCR shovehalfpenny championship, winning the 1941 final reputedly without requiring his opponent to take a turn. In 1942, his university career was interrupted when he was called up, and he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, fighting in Burma for much of the war. On his return, George completed his degree, and met his wife, Amy, on a madrigal-singing, walking holiday. He trained for the Anglican ministry, and served his curacy in Stoke-on-Trent (1949-51) and in Wednesbury (1951-54), where he and Amy lived after their marriage in October 1951. In 1954, he became Rector of St. John's Longsight, in Manchester. Richard (1971) was born in Wednesbury, and Nick (1976) in Manchester. In 1962, while still Rector of St John's, George became involved in the setting up of Telephone Samaritans in Manchester, and from 1964 worked for the Samaritans full time, becoming Director of the Manchester branch. He studied psychiatric social work at Manchester University from 1965 to 1966, and by 1970 he was Principal Psychiatric Social Worker in the University Department of Psychiatry at Withington Hospital, where the work included the training of students. From 1971 until his retirement in 1986, he was Student Counsellor at Manchester Polytechnic. In this period, he contributed to the development of training courses for counsellors, and taught on extramural counselling courses. It was said of him that the gift he evinced for teaching counselling was a product of his wide sympathies and his accumulated experience, first as a junior officer responsible for his men in times
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of great stress and danger, and then successively as priest and pastor, and psychiatric social worker. In retirement, he and his wife moved to Leamington Spa, where he soon joined a local choral group, and he sang with them until the beginning oflast year. His funeral took place in Leamington, in St John 's Church, where he and Amy were married 38 years before. Richard Hewnshaw (1971) and T.N. Tookey
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JOHN ALEXANDER NASH (1952) John Alexander Nash died in July this year. He came up to the Hall as a commoner to read Engineering Science in 1952, and graduated with a firstclass degree in 1955. He had a prolific and successful career with IBM, based in New York and Nice as well as the UK. Amongst his other achievements, he spearheaded the development of the computer language PL/1, the mainstay language for mainframe computer systems. But he decided to retire early, to concentrate on more important matters: his beloved wife Una, his charity work for the Wessex Cancer Trust, his sailing, his love of music, and travel (he was particularly fond of the Canal du Midi in southern France). The Hall will be remembered in his estate in recognition of the impact his education had on his life. Henry and Simon Nash
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MICHAEL FFINCH (1954) Michael Ffinch, writer, died of cancer on September 14 aged 65. He was born on March 7, 1934. The highest tribute that Michael Ffinch could bestow on a friend was to rate rum 'a good felawe'. Chaucer's phrase also described rum: he was a genial and witty comparuon who valued the spoken word as highly as the written, and was master of both. A poet, librettist, broadcaster and teacher, Ffinch was in later life a biographer, producing lives of G.K. Chesterton, Cardinal Newman, and Gilbe1t and Sullivan. Born in Kent, the son of a borstal governor, Michael Ffinch spent much of ills boyhood in Suffolk. There, he first developed that sense of place and love of the English landscape wruch permeated ills later poems. His deeprooted sense of Englishness drew him towards Roman Catholicism, for, like G.K. Chesterton, he was convinced that it was impossible to be wholly English without embracing the faith of his ancestors. Given his feeling for rustoric continuity, it was appropriate that Ffinch's last home was in Dodding Green, a recusant house near Kendal with its own chapel, where clandestine masses had once been celebrated. Ffinch's Catholicism was profound, passionate and enHghtened. It gave rum the interior starllina to endure adversity and misfortune and enhanced his natural generosity of spilit. He was educated at Repton and did his National Service as a subaltern in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, serving in Hong Kong. The experience left him with a strong affection for the Norfolks and a repertoire of robust army ballads. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and was tutored for a time by W.H. Auden, who recognized and fostered Ffinch's talents as a poet. Auden was particularly struck by the technical accomplishment of Ffinch's Voices Round a Star, one of his earliest volumes of poetry, which appeared in 1970. By then, the pattern of his life was established. He straddled two worlds. One was conventional, that of the schoolroom, the other was the raffish and exuberant one of that little Boherllia which flourished in Hampstead during the 1960s. A flamboyant figure even in this milieu, he wrote verses and recited them, frequently in pubs. It was a precarious existence and he once ruefully wrote of surviving on fish fingers and tinned tomatoes - a diet he shared with his flatmate, the composer Francis Shaw. Their collaboration resulted in The Selfish Giant (1972), an opera based upon Wilde's story, for which Ffinch won first prize in an international children's opera competition. He was a good-humoured and flexible librettist, and he and Shaw followed this success with The Tin Soldier. Shaw also composed the music
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for the BBC production of the long poem Voices Round a Star, which was first performed at Christmas 1973. Under the auspices of the producer, Sean MacLoughin, Ffinch went on to become a regular broadcaster on Radio 3 and Radio 4. He spoke on other poets and read their verse and his own. The quality of his exposition made him a natural schoolmaster. He had briefly run a prep school in Kent, and taught successively at another in Hampstead, a London comprehensive and at Worth in Sussex. In 1978, after he had abandoned London for a more congenial rural life at Newbigginon-Lune in Westmoreland, he taught English at Casterton and Sedbergh. His eclectic scholarship won respect and his eccentricity of dress and manner delighted pupils if not all of his colleagues. During this period he continued to write poetry and to broadcast, and produced three comprehensive guidebooks to the countryside around his home. His G. K. Chesterton (1986) was short-listed for the Whitbread prize, and understandably so, for as well as being a good storyteller, Ffinch felt an affinity for his subject, who was also sustained by faith and attached to its ancient traditions. Both believed that 'beer is best', although Ffinch would advance a good case for claret and port as lubricants of wit and imagination. His two further biographies followed , but were less well received. Michael Ffinch was first married to Patricia Major, but that ended in divorce. He then married Patricia Kelly, who died a year ago. He is survived by two sons from his first marriage and a son and a daughter from his second. ŠThe Times , 28 September 1999
1960s Paul Francis Alien, BA. 1999; Sheffield. Aged 56. Commoner 1961-65; Classics. Dr Albert Rodney Bingham, D.Phil. May 2000; Cheshire. Aged 57. Commoner 1965 ; Metallurgy. Ivan Wilson, MA. 2 July 1998. Aged 47. Commoner 1969-72; History.
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ALEXANDER JASON BOAG (1988) Alexander Jason Boag came up to the Hall as a scholar in 1988 to read Engineering, Economics and Management. While at the Hall, he played for the University 's Under-21 rugby XV, and represented the college in the First XV and the football Second XI; he also rowed and played lacrosse. In 1990, he captained the Teddy Bears Cricket Club, and as a batsman, he contributed significantly to their continued success into his final year. He graduated with a first-class degree in June 1992. He subsequently studied for a Masters degree in Management at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, Chicago, and after a two-year course, he was awarded his Master of Management with Distinction on 19 June 1998. He was also selected for membership of the Northwestern University Chapter of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society in recognition of the high academic standards he had achieved there, despite having three major operations and four different chemo programmes during his course. He died on 4 November 1998 in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. He was awarded his Oxford MA posthumously on 30 September 2000, at the same ceremony as a number of his friends and contemporaries, and in the presence of his parents and immediate family.
1990s Kai Glyn Engelien Dawson. 12 February 2000; Oxford. Aged 21. Commoner 1997, Metallurgy and Science of Materials.
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ARTICLES THE HALL'S CHRONOGRAMS AND OTHER INSCRIPTIONS The Hall's Queen's Lane entrance dates from 1659 when Principal Thomas Tulle rebuilt the dilapidated refectory into what is now the Old Dining Hall. In 1928, the then Vice-Principal, A.B. Emden (Principal 1929-51) had the coat of arms refurbished and composed the inscription on the lintel in the form of a chronogram, which was regilded in 1960. The device of a chronogram, known since 1575 at least, has some letters in larger face than the others and these, read as Roman numerals, add up to a date. The text reads: SANCTVS EDMVNDVS HVIVs A VLAE LVX St Edmund, Light of this Hall Not all the eligible letters (e.g. D, 500) are selected here. But those that are, taken individually, translate as follows:C 100
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Added together, these figures add up to 1246, the year of St Edmund's canonization. The earliest of all Hall inscriptions, however, is found above the entrance to the Chapel: DEO OPT. MAX. Capellam hanc sumtu Suo, et Amicorum, posuit STEPHANUS PENFON S.T.B. istius Aulae Principalis ANNO DOMINI M DC LXXXII
To God, the Best and Greatest, Stephen Penton, Bachelor of Theology, Principal of this Hall, Built this Chapel at his own expense and that of his friends AD 1682 Besides putting the chronogram over the Hall's entrance, A.B. Emden was responsible for putting the Latin inscription around the well-head in the Front Quad when it was restored in 1926:
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HA VRIETIS AQV AS IN GA VDIO DE FONTIBVS SAL V ATORIS
With joy shall you draw water out of the wells of the Saviour (/sa. XII, 3) These were the words that St Edmund is said to have uttered when kissing the cross during his extreme unction. There are no chronograms in the two inscriptions above, nor indeed on the tablet on the Canterbury Building, whose text was composed by the then Chaplain, Revd A.M. Farrer, signalling the seven hundredth anniversary of St Edmund as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1234. He was the first Oxonian to hold this office: HOC EXSTRVCTVM EST AEDIFICIVM ANNIS POST SEPTINGENTIS QV AM SANCTVS EDMVNDVS DE ABENDONIA PRIMVS IPSE OXONIENSIVM ARCHIEPISCOPVS CANTV ARIENSIS EST CONSECRA TVS MCCXXXIV + MCMXXXIX
This building was constructed seven hundred years after the consecration of St Edmund of Abingdon as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first Oxonian to hold this office. 1234 - 1934 The device of a chronogram reappeared in a variant devised by our sometime Principal, Justin Gosling, in the tablet on the Brockhues Building which in 1996 completed the Front Quad: PER MUNIFICENTIAM EXCELLENTEM VIRI LIBERALISSIMI FREDERICK BROCKHUES LITTERARUM HUIUS AULIE FAUTORIS, ORPHANOTROPHI UNIQUE GENTIUM NOTI, EXSTRUCTUM EST NOBIS HOC IEDIFICIUM
This building has been erected for us through the outstanding generosity of that most open-handed man, Frederick Brockhues, a sponsor of learning at this Hall and a patron of orphans known everywhere in the world. Here selected letters are translated in the order needed for the desired date, with some groupings, i.e.:
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Added together, these figures add up to 1996, the year of this opening. The Crypt Chapel of St Peter-in-the-East Here are the texts of the two plaques which are designed to feature outside and inside the crypt of St Peter-in-the-East when discussions on its futurenow being held at the College by John Heggadon, Past President of the Association, the Domestic Bursar, and the diocesan officials- are finalized. Justin Gosling has composed a variant-type chronogram for display outside the Crypt:
ANNO SEPTINGENTISSIMO ET QVINQVAGESIMO POST EDMVNDVM IN ALTISSIMAS SANCTORVM COHORTES EXORTVM CELEBRATIONE VIVID A COMPLETO, MONVMENTVM HOC TAM EXCELLENTIS VIRI AVLAE HVIVS ALVMNORVM SODALITAS PONENDVM CVRAVIT The 750th year after Edmund rose into the lofty cohorts of the saints having been completed with lively celebration, the association of old members of this Hall caused this monument of so excellent a man to be set up MCC 1200
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Added together, these figures add up to 1246 and 1996. The English inscription, for display inside the Crypt, is as follows, the historical details at the foot being contributed by Professor C.H. Lawrence, the historian of St Edmund: THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE RENOVATION OF THIS CRYPT CHAPEL THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION AND ITS RE-ORDERING FOR WORSHIP AS INAUGURATED ON 16 DECEMBER 1996, THE 750TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANONIZATION OF ST EDMUND OF ABINGDON, REGENT MASTER IN ARTS AT
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OXFORD c.1195-1201, DOCTOR AND REGENT IN THEOLOGY c.1214-1222, TREASURER AND CANON OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL 1222-1234, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 1234-1240 The Chapel
Rolls of Honour: There are twenty names recorded of those who died between 1915 and 1918 during the First World War, and one in 1920, all on one plaque on the wall of the Ante-Chapel. A second plaque is inscribed as follows: IN PIAM MEMORIAM ALVMNORVM A VLAE SANCTI EDMVNDI QVI ANIMAS SV AS PRO PATRIA PROFVDERVNT QVORVM EXITVM INTVENTES IMIT AMINI FIDEM
In dutiful memory of the alumni of St Edmund Hall who laid down their lives for their country. In mindfulness of their passing may we imitate their fidelity. There are sixty-two names recorded of those who died between 1940 and 1945 in the Second World War, all on one plaque with the inscription, in lower case: Obsecramus Te, Domine JESU, ut alumnos Aulae nostrae bello peremptos in Aulam caelestem misericors ducas. We beseech you, Lord Jesus, that of your mercy you may lead into the heavenly hall the alumni of our Hall who were killed in the War
Memorial lozenges set in the floor: Principal Anthony Grayson DD could have set a fashion, centred in the actual nave, with his inscription: ANTONIUS GRAYSON S.T.P. PRINCIPALIS OB: 6. 0 DIE SEPTEMBRIS A.D. 1843 AET70
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But no succeeding Principal followed his initiative in that key position and the two tablets to twentieth-century Principals are more modestly displayed, in symmetry left and right, in the Ante-Chapel, and in English to boot: ALFRED BROTHERSTON EMDEN 1888-1979 PRINCIPAL 1929-1951
JOHN NORMAN DAVIDSON KELLY 1908-1987 PRINCIPAL 1951-1979
It took a distinguished Chaplain and Senior Tutor to follow Gray son in the nave, and in Latin. It was to the left side this time, and a great recent loss, also a Chaplain in his time, completed the symmetrical pattern to the right, though once more in English: RONALDUS FRANCUS WILLELMUS FLETCHER A.M. SOCIUS ET TUTOR SENIOR OB: 13 DIE OCTOBRIS A.D. 1950 JET: 60
THE REV. GRAHAM MIDGLEY M.A., B.LITT. 1923-1999 FELLOW, TUTOR IN ENGLISH 1951-84 CHAPLAIN, DEAN AND VICE-PRINCIPAL
A tribute in the Back Quad The penultimate Domestic Bursar is commemorated by a tree surrounded by a stone ring hard by the Kelly Water Tower: This Scotch Pine (Pinus Silvestris) was planted on 17 January 1990 in memory of REAR-ADMIRAL GEORGE CUNNINGHAM LESLIE CB OBE MA Fellow and Domestic Bursar 1970-88 The Sundial The inscription on the outer ring reads: AUSPICE ELIZABETHA 11 HORAS NON NUMERO NISI SERENAS
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With Elizabeth II giving augury I count only cloudless hours This was composed by John Kelly, as Principal, for the Coronation in 1953, when, as he wrote in the 1953 Magazine, an entirely new sundial, 'painted in rich and splendid colours' replaced its decaying predecessor (although he didn't give any date for its original installation and research still continues). The inspiration for the text is understood to have emanated from a small Italian church seen on holiday, and he concludes that it 'happily combines reverence for the Throne with a practical recognition of a sundial's limitations'. On the inner rim are the twelve signs of the zodiac. The Domestic Bursar keeps constant watch on those colours. The Old Dining Hall In 1921, when A.B. Emden was Vice-Principal, the Dining Hall, as it was then, was reconstituted. Mr Harold S. Rogers was reported in the 1922 Magazine as having dsesigned a new shield of the Hall arms displayed at the far end above the High Table and two panels affixed to the underside of a new gallery over the entrance end. One displays four shields in uniform shape linked by an artistic device, the other, below, the text: SI EDMVNDI DVLCIS AMOR TE PERCELLAT PROCVL CLAMOR ESTO AC MJESTITIA
If the gentle love of Edmund impels you, far be lamentation and sorrow! The translation, as elsewhere here, is by the Revd Dr John Cowdrey and the poem was by Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (1802-65), the Anglo-Irish priest born in Seville who became the first Archbishop of Westminster in 1850. It is of thirty verses designed for reading ten a day for a three-day run-up (Triduum) to St Edmund's Feast in 1863, when he presented St Edmund's College, Ware, with a relic - St Edmund's fibula, given him by the Archbishop of Sens near Pontigny where the Saint rests , and now kept, suitably bedecked, in the shrine chapel at Ware. (It was processed by the late Cardinal Hume round the cathedral of Westminster for the two recent ceremonies commemorating the 750th anniversary of the Saint's death in 1240 and his canonization in 1246.) It is a bit of a mystery to me as to how an Anglican Hall full of Anglican ordinands could have stomached such a tribute to another denomination in those days, but presumably someone liked the poem!
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The choice of the four shields in the top panel also poses problems. Two bear representations of the then current arms of the University and The Queen's College, still (until 1937) with the right to appoint our Principal. One has the putative arms of the Abbey of St Mary, Oseney, dissolved by Henry VIII but the first owner of our site. And the last is presumably for St Edmund himself and his Hall, but doesn ' t show the accepted arms as over the main entrance and the Chapel, rather the so-called 'alternative arms ' described in the Magazine as 'the proper arms of St Edmund' with the three suns in spendour based on a medieval Salisbury seal, favoured by St Edmund's College, Ware, and later by St Edmund's School, Canterbury (formerly the Anglican Clergy Orphans). Another mystery for you! Inscribed paving stones A recent scheme has provided for Aularians to contribute to the Emdowment Appeal by having a paving stone inscribed with a dedication to friends, quick or dead, laid as part of the paths, initially round the Front Quad. The text can be varied as follows: IN HONOREM (if alive) I IN MEMORIAM (if not) Name(s) DONO DEDIT I DEDERUNT Name(s) Matriculation and other date(s) in Latin A Whodunnit to end on Some of the inscriptions on the numerous monuments on the Library walls, installed when it was still a parish church, are described in detail in the Magazine of 1989-90 and 1990-1. But no reference is made to one inscription, in English, on the east wall of the sometime Lady Chapel of St Peter's which was added on to the original Norman nave in the thirteenth century and is now the Law section of the Library: The University of Oxford in its petition for the canonisation of Master Edmund of Abingdon acclaimed his piety in devoting his lecture fees to the building of this chapel to the honour of the Blessed Virgin in the parish where his Hall lay. St Edmund was canonised on the 16th December 1246. The late Sometime Principal, Canon Dr J.N.D. Kelly, in his 1989 St Edmund Hall: Almost Seven Hundred Years makes no reference to this plaque but regards the petition as supporting his statement that 'it is about as certain as it can be that Edmund lived in the parish of St-Peter-in-the-East when he
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was lecturing in arts in Oxford' (c. 1195-1201). Following Dr Emden, he continues that ' in the time of Anthony Wood, the celebrated Oxford antiquary and historian (1632-95)' the building so funded 'was generally held to be none other than the Lady Chapel at the north-east corner of St-Peter-inthe-East, and this identification is borne out both by the architecture, which exactly fits the dates of Edmund's residence, and by the fact that no other parish church in Oxford has a lady chapel which can be plausibly attributed to him'. One Latinist has said, however, that the author of the inscription has exercised 'tendentious freedom ' in his translation of the Oxford petition. 'Capellam' (a chapel) becomes 'this chapel' and 'in parochia in qua tunc habitabat' (in the pruish in which he was then residing) ' in the parish where his Hall/ay'. Who, pray, would do such a thing? We don't know the author or even the date, and an immediate Hon.D.Litt. is for the taking by any scholar who can solve this. Arthur Farrand Radley ( 1935) Honorary Secrtru¡y Emeritus, St Edmund Hall Association
LEAVING OUR FEMININITY AT THE PORTER'S LODGE I would need hypnosis to retrieve a coherent narrative about my time at Teddy Hall, so what follows is a series of memory fragments , some of them mine, others borrowed for the occasion. One of the first things I had to get used to as a new 'Hallman' were the paroxysms of laughter and camp incredulity that greeted me every time I answered that Freshers' staple, ' which college are you at?' How many times was I able to enjoy the anecdote about entry qualifications to St Edmund Hall : ' At interview, they throw a rugby ball at you. If you catch it, you get in, and if you pass it on, you get a Scholru¡ship!' Even years later, I still can't think of a witty response to that one. The college reputation in 1979 seemed largely centred on its sporting prowess on rugby field and river, as well as the legendary size and capacity of the players. I suppose if you're expecting a seven-foot rugby player quaffing pints (apparently it's just like drinking, only you spill more), then a size eight (God, it was a long time ago ... ) redhead wearing a tracksuit made out of an old velvet curtain might make you look twice. Although pint-quaffing rugby players were probably in a statistical minority, they were certainly a dominant force, whether emerging incongruously from tiny arched doorways into a distinctly girlie quad or crammed into the Buttery - a bar which had the dimensions of a telephone
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box. For some of the smaller women, a quiet drink in the Buttery could be a distinctly intimate experience, as you were squashed into areas of male anatomy that made conversation difficult and possibly unwise. Did women fit into the Hall? Certainly, but it was sometimes a bit of a squash. As the first cohort of women at the Hall, I expect we were the subject of a bit of interest and speculation prior to our arrival, and were no doubt seen as rather curious creatures by some of the staff and students. I remember being faintly amused at attempts to capture the women's vote by promises of sewing machines and subscriptions to Vogue, which did suggest a rather hazy grasp of the priorities of eighteen-year-old girls. Feminine hygiene seemed to play a disproportionate role in the male imagination, and was for many years an apparently insuperable barrier to admitting us at all. Despite the major concessions that were undoubtedly made in this area, women were forced to stand on chairs to peer into mirrors too high and too dark for us to see ourselves at all, while those who lived in the front quad had to traipse over to the bathrooms in their dressing gowns. I know from a source at Mansfield that the undergraduates there looked forward to the arrival of their first cohort of women with a mixture of eager anticipation and a sinking intuition that life would never be the same again, and I wonder if some of the same qualms were felt before we came. Far from Hall life being irreparably contaminated by our exotic femininity, one of my correspondents writes of 'being a Hallman rather than a woman at Hall', and of ' leaving her femininity at the porter 's lodge'. She notes, too, that some of the Third Years vowed not to speak to us in protest at the college going mixed, adding 'but I did not even notice until they gave up and told us what they had thought.' A number of us did 'go native' , in fact many of us had chosen to attend a predominantly male college because we imagined we would prefer a male environment over what another contributor calls 'an environment of anorexic, neurotic, over-intellectual nymphomaniac females' which was how she viewed the women's colleges at the time. The same correspondent described how she came to choose the college in the first place: When deciding which college to choose, I deliberately went for a college taking women for the first time because I assumed that they would be careful to select girls who would cope with the predominantly male environment, NOT girls who would die of fright at the sight of a half naked rugby player emerging from the showers, or girls who felt so deprived of male attention that they were now going to fling themselves at every man in sight and besmirch the
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reputation of the college. As a fairly robust young woman from a comprehensive school with plenty of mundane exposure to members of the opposite sex, I thought I stood a reasonable chance of selection on those criteria! I did contribute inadvertently to the creeping feminization of the Hall when I used the communal washing machine to dye my clothes a vibrant red. They came out a girlie pink instead, which was fine for me, but less so for the bloke who used the machine after me. I have never admitted this before, and it has weighed on my conscience for years. Whoever you were, I am so sorry about your sports kit. And the underwear... Undoubtedly we were treated differently from the other undergraduates and certainly enjoyed privileged access to the Ladies' sports teams. This is the only way I could ever have been accepted into the rowing eight, and I remember jogging down to the river at six a.m. on some mornings, before applying all the strength and endurance of a marshmallow to manoeuvring the boat along the river. At the time, it did not occur to me to question our allocation of vessel, but now I do wonder why ours was the heaviest, leakiest and most sluggish in the boat house, squatting malevolently amongst the gleaming fibreglass hulls of the male eights' boats. As with much else, we were so delighted with everything that we hardly noticed these little anomalies. In fact, I found being a vegetarian more of an alienating experience than being a woman, which after all was hardly a matter of choice. As a recent convert to vegetarianism and all-round obsessive character I was unwilling to compromise and eat nothing but the accompanying vegetables for three years, so I was sent to interview the cook. Faced with the prospect of cooking 379 meat dishes and one vegetarian alternative, he embarked on a war of attrition by offering me a series of food combinations that occasionally bordered on the perverse. Even to someone experimenting with a diet of cider vinegar and Bonios at the time (sorry to those who shared the cooking facilities with me: it was a steep learning curve), his cooking did seem a little eccentric. A special favourite was a plate of spaghetti topped with a fried egg. No sauce, no oil, no Parmesan. Just a fried egg. I became increasingly nervous about going down for dinner, especially as I was often left marooned without a plate until everyone else was practically finished, allowing them to watch me eat my bizarre meals in fascinated silence. One Sunday, however, I was unexpectedly presented with a wonderful portion of cauliflower cheese, hardly an exotic dish even at that time, but the first proper food I'd seen in weeks. I had barely had time to eat my first forkful, when the flustered
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waitress tried to retrieve it. There had been a mix-up, apparently, and she had given me the dish intended for a vegetarian guest at high table. I still wonder whether that important guest actually did get the meal intended for me, and whether it was the spaghetti and fried egg that evening ... Like all my correspondents, I had a wonderful time at college. All of us look back on their time at Teddy Hall with great affection and at least one of us married a Hallman (a real one), despite the distinctly unromantic atmosphere. At the beginning of our college careers, we sat in candlelight with shining eyes and new gowns and listened to a welcome speech in which we were told that 'man embraces woman' in the grammatical sense - which basically meant that no-one could be bothered to say 'she' as well as 'he' - but there was precious little embracing in any other sense. One person whom I would have liked to embrace was my favourite tutor, who used to make me giggle girlishly by sitting with his feet higher than his head in tutorials, and was very kind to me on one occasion when I got carried away by Cartesian logic and claimed to have proved that I was the creator of all things. Luckily he was able to point out gently a fundamental flaw in my reasoning, which was probably just as well. Coming back to the college in my fourth year, I noticed that the atmosphere had indeed changed as the gender balance evened out and women made their mark on the social and academic scene. Returning in 1997 to collect my MA, about twelve years late and heavily pregnant beneath my gown, I felt like the Ancient Mariner as I regaled a graduate of a much more recent vintage with exaggerated tales from the old days and watched her eyes first widen and then glaze over as she assured me that things were very different now. I feel that I am a better person for having been one of the first female 'Hallmen', and have a sneaking suspicion that it has affected my life more fundamentally than I would like to admit. On the one hand, it robbed me of any residual delusions that men were intellectually superior to or more rational than women: having been present during Hustings when the front row were being showered in tray loads of hot coffee, while a candidate attempted to tell a joke in Hungarian, I think I know a thing or two about testosterone in the raw. On the other hand, I do feel strangely comfortable in predominantly male gatherings, accepting invitations to speak at Armistice Day celebrations with positively indecent eagerness. Also, when reading Harry Potter to my children (actually, waiting for them to fall asleep so that I can steal the book and read on), I can ' t help conflating the descriptions of feasts in the Great Hall at Hogwarts with Christmas meals at Teddy Hall.
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Having spent my college years studying a curriculum which ignored the existence of women, under male tutors who- in the main - thankfully did not, I seem to have spent my subsequent career filling in the other side of the story and finding out what the women were doing while the men were out writing poems, waging wars and generally making history. Looking at the struggle German women faced to gain admission to university in the first place, I can't help feeling that the concerns of the 1890s were pretty similar to those of the 1970s; the fear that admitting women would force men to change their natural habits, stop the wenching and drinking and become civilized. One prospect that they rarely faced, in either century, was that the women might want to join in. Ingrid Sharp, with thanks to Janet Nevin,Linda Raabe and Debbie Rees (alll979).
NO WAY OUT? I first became involved with the Center for Humanitarian Aid two years ago, during my year abroad in Russia. I heard that this organization provided free meals to the city's homeless, and I volunteered to help distribute food and clothing. I also helped to set up a street newspaper called 'There is a way out', which the homeless sell to earn money. After finishing my degree, I decided to go back to Moscow, and spent five months working as a fulltime volunteer for the Center, thanks to sponsorship from its British partner organization, Contact, and to the Richard Fargher Bursary which I received from college. The CHA was set up four years ago by a group of Russians and foreigners who wanted to help the crowds of homeless people that can be seen around every railway station in Moscow. They started by serving lunches twice a week, and, by the time I arrived in January, the Center was providing meals every day to 200 people, as well as running other programmes - clothing distribution, medical help, legal advice and classes for children. The charity is relatively small; there is a 6 man Management Board of Russian and American volunteers, 3 Russian members of staff, and approximately 30 other volunteers. My original job description was 'Research and Development Officer' and I was supposed to oversee plans to find a permanent indoor site for the feeding programme and for the Center's other activities. However, two weeks after I arrived the Center was evicted from the church yard where we had a ramshackle office, kitchen and an area for handing out food, and we were left without means for carrying out any of our programmes. The
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reason for the eviction was ongoing hostility from the church authorities who objected to our policy of allowing allcomers to receive lunch, regardless of their condition; and, more particularly, to plans by the Ministry of Communications to build a hotel near the site. Hotel guests would be bound to complain at the view of scruffy, unwashed, miserable and, sometimes, drunk people. It took us a month to find a new site for the programme. After two weeks we simply started feeding on the street, but within a week we had been closed down by the police. Finally we were offered some land by another church and were able, with them, to get permission from the local government to continue. The attitude of the authorities to the homeless often seems harsh. According to the government such people do not exist. There cannot be any homeless people because everyone has a stamp in their passport stating where they live. So what happens if they lose their passport, or their home? Well, if they are a Muscovite they can restore their passport. Restoring a flat is more problematic, but there are shelters for Muscovites without homes, the 'official' homeless of the city. If you come from Siberia, however, and your passport is stolen, then you have to go back to Siberia to replace it. Unfortunately you're not allowed on a train without a passport. Last week the Center put a pregnant woman and her two toddlers on a train home to Krasnoyarsk. She had been in Moscow for four years living in the waiting room at Paveletsky station. She couldn't go home to restore her documents, partly because of the train fare , mainly because she had no documents to travel with. Even with a letter from the charity declaring who she was and where she was from, we had to argue with the station administrator to let her have a ticket. The majority of people who come to the Center are those who have come to Moscow to look for work and can't afford to go home, or those who have lost their documents. Without a passport in Russia you are not a citizen. You can be asked for your passport at any time, and failure to show it means arrest. Sometimes it is the authorities who are responsible for the loss of documents. One man who had just come out of prison told me that when he left the police tore up his release papers and sent him away without any identification. Another man said that, on leaving prison, the police had taken his passport and demanded I 00 roubles from him; of course he couldn't pay this. A significant number of people lose their flats through fraud ; they swap for a better property which turns out to be non-existent. Others sell their flat to pay for drugs or alcohol and then find themselves with nothing. Whatever the reason, these people are considered unsightly and detrimental to the
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capital 's dignity. They are regularly cleared out of the stations, often violently, and periodically removed from the city. Two years ago, when I was last in Moscow, the city hosted the student games. In its honour, bus loads of people without resident permits were taken beyond the city limits and dumped. Some of them were too weak to make it back to the city. Once the feeding programme began to look more stable, we started to concentrate on getting a property where we could have classes and activities for the street children. Around forty children of all ages come to the lunches; some are with a parent or grandparent, others have run away from home or state institutions. One family, who have spent the last two months living in the waiting room of Paveletsky station, consists of a mother, grandmother and six children aged between six months and fifteen years. They have no papers and no money for a fl at. They sleep on the hard chairs with the constant noi se of train announcements. The eldest daughter, aged thirteen, sells flowers on the metro, sometimes until I a.m. The nine year old can't even write hi s name. They used to live with the grandmother, but when she lost her job she lost the flat as well , and they were left on the street. Another boy, Sergei, ran away from hi s parents in Moscow. They are both alcoholics and regularly beat him ; all the money was spent on drink and he was half starved. If children are picked up on the streets by the police, they are put in a holding centre for up to three weeks while it is established where they should go. Then they are either sent back to their parents or to the institute which they ran away from. It takes an extremely bad situation to cause children to live on the street rather than in their lawful homes, but such situations do occur. State institution s are understaffed and lack resources; poor conditions and abuse often go unreported. Setting up an educational programme for these children was problematic, in that no child can, officially, be homeless. Without permjss ion, a centre for street children could be shut down in a day. It took us three months to find a local authority who were prepared to let us use a building for thi s project. However, we now have use of a little wooden house in a park in the centre of Moscow. The children enthusiastically helped to paint and renovate the room s, and we moved in donated furniture , toys, books, art materials, computers and a televi sion . Now these children have a place where they can come every day and learn and play in safety, a place which belongs to them. We have school classes, music, art, English lessons, computer lessons and trips. Last week we took eleven children to the zoo; amazingly none of them got lost or eaten, despite being bent on climbing into or onto everything. Hopefully, with the new President, the situation in Moscow for those left
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without homes will improve. The public attitude is gradually changing: where once the majority considered that the homeless were idle and shiftless and that the state should deal with the problem, now more people are aware that homelessness can happen to anyone and can happen with frightening suddenness, and participation in charitable activity is increasing. There are several organizations committed to de-institutionalization and keeping children out of orphanages, and to improving existing institutions. The CHA is fulfilling a vital need, but one that shouldn ' t exist. The people who come to the Center have nowhere else to go for help; hopefully soon they will have. For more information , visit our website at www.cfha.ru. Geraldine Nosowska ( 1996)
BALTIC CYCLE CHALLENGE (or A Cycle of Baltic Challenges) A world record circumnavigation of the Baltic Sea by bicycle was completed this summer by fifteen students from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, King's and Sheffield, in aid of the British Heart Foundation. The expedition, organized by Roland Partridge ( 1996) began and finished in Hamburg and passed through eight countries: across Central Europe, through the Baltic States, and around the Gulf of Bothnia, via Finland and Scandinavia. To cover the 3,200 miles, a relay system was planned involving two teams , each on duty on alternate days, maintaining a continuous 'rolling relay ' with one cyclist on the road at all times. Each team had a support vehicle carrying relief cyclists, food , bicycles, and equipment. (Geraldine Nosowska ( 1996) also went on the trip and drove one of the support vehicles.) Inevitably, things did not go entirely to plan. Following the loss of some essential documents on the first day, an urgent detour was made by one team to the British Consulate in Di.isseldorf. Meanwhile, the team on duty suffered a major breakdown to their vehicle, necessitating a nine-hour wait in a German garage. They also witnessed a night-time fatal road accident, which led to the decision to abandon the continuous relay, and to cycle only between dawn and dusk. Even so, in an average 17 hour shift, a team could cover up to 300 miles. After the somewhat turbulent start, things went smoothly until the Lithuanian!Latvian border was reached, where the absence of certain car documents prevented further progress. It took 29 hours, considerable argument and the intervention of the British Embassy in Yilnius before the vehicles
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were allowed to proceed. Owing to the delay and the expectation of further border hassles, it was decided not to continue via Russia, but to take the fen¡y across the Gulf of Finland from Tall inn to Helsinki. Once on Finnish roads, with almost 24 hour daylight, lost time was quickly recovered. On one 24-hour shift, a team of four cyclists and two support crew covered 417 miles; thanks to this, it was possible to make a 100 mile detour up to the Arctic Circle. The challenge was finished in style - on the final day the team on duty crossed from Sweden, via the road bridge, to Copenhagen; and then by ferry from South Denmark to Germany, arriving in Hamburg exactly thirteen days after leaving it This success was made possible by various sponsors, especially The Perry Group PLC, Rocar Morres Landrover, P&O Stena Line, Giant Bicycles and Waterstone's. So far, over £5,000 has been raised for the British Heart Foundation; anyone interested in supporting the appeal should contact Roland Partridge (tel.: 0131 447 7184; email: roland.partridge@hotmail.com). Roland Partridge (1996) and Geraldine Nosowska (1996)
OUR CHOUGH MAKES THE NATIONAL NEWS ' Cornish chough returns to cliffs' proclaimed The Times of 21 May 2000, quoting David Woolcock , curator of the Rare and Endangered Bird Breeding Centre at Paradise Park, Hayle, near St Ives. Last recorded in 1973, 'it was wiped out by a combination of agricultural changes and a succession of hard winters which made it difficult for them to find food'. The Association has been one of the Centre's 'Friends of the Chough' for ten years now and is glad to hear that it is working in harness with the National Trust (with which we are kept in touch by Peggy Todd, wife of sometime Vice-Principal Joe), the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and other local interested parties, and that all these have recently held a joint policy conference. So what does the chough mean for Aularians? Basically, I suppose, it is heraldry. Only four Oxford Colleges and the eponymous St Edmund's at Cambridge quote the names of birds in their blazons or descriptions, and three of these - University, Worcester and St Edmund's - have martlets, the heraldic name for the swift, displayed as footless since they only land to breed. Christ Church has two choughs derived through the founder Wolsey from St Thomas, a pun on being red ' leggit and beckit' . And that leaves our four, prominent above the main
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entrance, the Chapel door, and in all manner of emblems on letterheads, menus, badges, ties - all covered in articles in the Magazines of 1991-2 and 1997-8. But I submit that the chough itself has become part of the Hall's mystique and that its future is a matter of concern for all Aularians everywhere. The greatest recent chough man was of course the Abe, Dr Alfred Brotherston Emden. John Kelly always attributed this to deference to the first and second of our identified Principals, John and Robert Luc de Cornubia from 1319 to 1324. He steadfastly claimed 'long usage' for our shield, blazoned 'Or a cross patonce gules can toned by four Cornish choughs', an invention of Archbishop Parker for his compendium of archbishops, in 1572. This was based on the shield at Abingdon Abbey and when I was rash enough to suggest that the birds there looked compellingly like martlets he responded immediately: 'they be undoubted choughs - and if you opt, now, for martlets I shall shoot them down with my bow and arrow'. All I could do was to offer him: Martlets for Aula? A terrible howler. Enough of this stuff! Just say 'Floreat chough'. And what exactly are choughs? Well, they are crows (Corvidae), part of the order of perching birds (Passeriformes). Pliny called them pyrrhocorax (fire-ravens), the corax onomatopoeically from their call 'kyaa'. Chaucer knew their ways too: in the Parlement ofFowls we have 'the thief, the chough, and eke the janglynge pye'. Shakespeare has them thrice: in Macbeth III.iv, King Lear IV. vi, and Midsummer Night's Dream III.i. All choughs have black plumage and scimitar-like beaks, but Linnaeus in 1758 divided them into two quite distinct species: Pyrrhocora.x graculus (Pliny again, onomatopoeically from their call 'gra gra gra'), with yellow bills and feet; the alpine chough. This flourishes still in mountainous regions from the Atlas, Pyrenees, and Alps to Tibet and the Himalayas, where John Hunt spotted some at 26,250 feet over Everest in 1953. Py rrhocorax pyrrhocorax, ours with red bills and feet. 'On the ground' wrote the specialist T.O. Darke in 1972, 'it walks, runs, and hops, flicking its wings and tail when it calls, progressing ordinarily by a succession of flaps, and glides- though it can perform aerobatics over cliffs, and frequently soars'.
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He attributes its decline over the last hundred years to a variety of reasons: shooting for the pot, predators after eggs, and above all diet. Apart from grain and crustacea and earthworms (which can be fatally indigestible) they are mainly insectivorous- beetle larvae, crane-flies, ordinary flies, and whatever they can pick up from dungpats. It is this last which is particularly affected by the decline in Cornish tin-mining, since miners who were also crofters grazed their stock on the chough's favourite habitat, the clifftops. Add to that another factor peculiar to Cornwall as distinct from Wales, Ireland and Brittany, where they still prosper - the absence of offshore islands where the very isolation provides protection, an almost inexplicable preference for confining themselves to their own territory at all seasons, and an apparent failure just to want to breed. So how can we get them back to Cornwall? This is what that conference was all about. The National Trust, which owns 40% of the Cornish coastline, aims at attracting the chough to return from Wales, Ireland or Brittany by getting grazing back to much of the cliff land with short herb-rich grass swards and heathland to encourage many of the invertebrates the chough lives on, improving the dung fauna and banning the use of the veterinary medicine Avermectine which kills beneficial insects. The Centre, on the other hand, wants to train up successors to their captive birds and release them to the wild to breed there. The National Trust rather fear that this may end up as the most successful method! But whatever happens we Aularians must surely help in the revivification of our emblematic bird. At the least, we owe it to John de Cornubia and that Cornish hero, King Arthur, whose spirit, legend has it, entered the bird after his death. And not to mention that most recent of Chough heroes King Alfred, the Abe. Arthur Farrand Radley ( 1935) Honorary Secretary Emeritus, St Edmund Hall Association
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Last year, our Fellow in English, Dr Lucy Newlyn, becoming increasingly absorbed by the pigeon that regularly cooed on the high branches of the mock acacia in the Quad, and wrote a verse about it to the bursar:
THE PIGEON AND THE WOODPECKER From my room in the front quad I can see an acacia; and nearly on its topmost branch, cooing contentedly through my tutorials, a plump pigeon sits, all day long, scarcely ruffling a featherso placid, so replete, so spherical, that for a while I thought it must be artificial, one of the domestic bursar 's cunning devices for concealing a camera. I don ' t see anything like that from my study at home, but twice-running from our kitchen window last winter, we saw a woodpecker. Eyes alert, head tilted, his cap a fiery blaze of red, he stabbed about for a while on our back lawn, distracted, then zipped up a pear-tree, tap-tap-tapping as he went, a perfect vertical. I've watched out for him many times since then, hoping he'd returnour coloutful guest, our noisy republican visitor. And now that winter's turned to summer I've begun to wonder if I'd trade the pigeon in for him ... Or perhaps they should swap places? -the pigeon a contented background noise
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at home; the woodpecker a steady reminder at work that toil is virtue (tap-tap-tap) that for a healthy body-politic the rotten wood must fall (tap-tap-tap) and towers be razed (tap-tap) and proud men humbled. It sometimes feels untidy, after all, that private and public spheres have become so jumbled. Woodpeckers are citizens and workers, free to move to and fro as they please, whereas a pigeon's domesticbelongs in the back garden. So this college-pigeon-thing is a bit of a tease. Of course, the ideal solution would be a woodpecker-pigeon: hybrid-bird, happy and busy in both trees. But although tidy, viable, and easily imaginable such a conclusion (even in parable) isn't likely to be achieved tidily, viably, or with ease. The Bursar's simple reply and illustration confirmed her worst fears: When the cooing (or the tapping) stops You'll wonder with dread Whether it was a John Cleese Who had clambered with ease To the top of your fake tree, To perch the ex-pigeon Now silentDead? Its last inertia, Just incasia Thought it serendipity,
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Is photo-fecundity: Who has the black Cylindrical Egg That captured all from the pigeon'specker's Magnetic eye?
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AULARIAN CALENDAR CITY CHAPTER OF AULARIANS RECEPTION
4 September 2000
Including trip on the London Eye MEDICS' DINNER 40th ANNIVERSARY GAUDY
9 September 2000 15 September 2000
For Aularians who matriculated in 1960 ANNUAL BOAT CLUB DINNER
22 September 2000
ANNUAL GAUDY
30 September 2000
For Aularians who matriculated between 1973 & 1977 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBRARY,STPETER-IN-THE-EAST
26 October 2000
CITY CHAPTER OF AULARIANS CAREERS DAY
27 October 2000
For 2nd-year undergraduates NORTH AMERICAN REUNION 2000
I 0-1 I November 2000
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16 November 2000
RECEPTION AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS
19 December 2000
Further details to be advised LONDON DINNER
9January2001
Preceded by the AGM of the SEH Association INTER-COLLEGEGOLFTOURNAMENT SUMMER REUNION
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Dates for the following events are awaiting confirmation: NORTH AMERICAN SPRING REUNION A. B. EM DEN LECTURE May 200 I: Professor Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College PHILIPGEDDES MEMORIAL LECTURE
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ERRATA 1998-9 Page 149: We apologise for our typographical error on line 17, where 'who 's' should of course have read ' whose ' . As Mr Peter Lawrence ( 1950), one of Graham Midgley's first group of students, has observed: When you confuse A "whose" with a "who 's" You may be Aularian But hardly Grammarian.
Who's Who Directory If you have not completed the Who s Who Personal Record Form, please contact the Development Office, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, OX 1 4AR. Telephone: (0 1865) 279055 orE-mail: alumni @seh.ox.ac.uk
The Editor wishes to thank everyone who has contributed to the 19992000 edition of the St Edmund Hall Maga zine, and especially hi s Assistant Editor, Laura Bradley, who collected and prepared much of the text, and the Hall 's IT Manager, James Partridge, who identified and resolved all our computing problems. Floreat Aula!
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ST EDMUND HALL Matriculation 1999 Caroline Catmur. Ai Saitoh Sarah Hirschman. K.athrina Stone. Sze Xin Mok. Stoyanova Youl iana. Bouticri Charis. Jcssica Moore. Bentriz Mariano. Mirimn Li. Felicity Alcindor. Clare Pearsall. Ivnn Tze. Pippa Caldicott. C lare Dale. Fiona Echalicr. Sophic Smith. Julian Ghosh Susie Henley. Bettina Dahl S0ndcrgaard. Margaret Small. Tn.."Vor Fleck. Araz Enayati. Andrew Gardham. William York Moorc. Arthur Taeverc. Nicholas Abmhams. Simon Stevcns. Alexander Prideaux. Jonathan Yis Hu Tan. Eng-Hann Gan. Paula Jackson. Miao Le. Helen Drury. Miranda Powuey. Joanna Slack Mark Bedford. Lias Whelan. Paul Lucas. Laurn Bmdley. K.iri van Esbroock . Andy Williams. Nick Edwards. Mcshal Al-Mansour. Kim Douglas. Bjorn Benckert. Ben Fitzsimons. Akio Okuno. Tom Kajiwura. Alan Yeo. Andras Lcngyel. Rcbckah Price. Monica Pausina Mark Bolton-Maggs. Michael Cook. Samuel Willocks. Malcolm Keen. Christophcr Sawndra. Andrcw Ritchcson. Nathnnial Stevcnson. Christopber Harris. JoSt..1>h Harvey. Annabel Kingston. Charlotte Wong. Catherine K.nowles. Liannc Nelson. Philippa Keighley. Dominica Lindscy. Charlotte Davies. Jenuna Rocker Tim Pinchin. Gosta Gabricl. Sebastian Vauth. Richard Ha)~vard. Alex Jackson. Jenny Oscroft. Tom Harper. Jenny Pcscod. Andrew Radford. Andrew Pearson. Christopher Wclford. Christopher Hampson. Kjeron Galliard. David McKoown. Robin Rogers. Gareth Rylancc Tom Watkins. Rachcl Longstail. Mark Wilson. Stcphen Moss. Jonathan Venter. Kuang Li u. James Pattison. David Rawlins. Michael Harley. Dominic Melior. Catriona Ward. Hester Finch. Jenna McRae. Joanna Cave. Lucy Cope. Lisa Watkinson. Helcn Seylcr. Zoe Noonan Craig Wood. Nicholas Geering. Antony Hawkins. RusseU Davidson. Stephen McMahon. ·1nomas Newcombe. 1-Ianna Eriksson. Rosalind Wall. Sarah Deacon. Thomas BuUcr. AJexander Groucl Jan Rennert. Joe Went worth. Arcn M ikaelian. Alastair Hamison. Andrew Dickson. Mark Bclchcr Oliver Ripley. St:uart Reeve. Henry Way. Jonathan Rawshaw. Robert MatUl. Gerard Milnc. P hi lip Poggc von Strandmann. David Williams. Jonathan McConn.ick. Sam Grifliths. Christophcr Bruce. Steffcn Deutschcnbauer. Michael Carton. Tritn.n Lomas. Mark Cooper. Douglas Rcay. John Bockstoce. David Hart Andrew Lee. Da....vid Ncwell. Jamic Rogt.TS. Aris Papathanos. Adrian Braun. Neil AJistoun. Yiu-Bong Au. Anthony Morgan. Jessica Shattuck. AJton Reginald . Bamey Sandell . Jamcs Partington. Scan Sullivan. Lconard Mallett. Bamaby Jones. Richard Strcnner. Andrew Wesbrook. Jamcs Rockey. George Rossides