St Edmund Hall Magazine 2000-01

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Nicholas Davidson

St Edmund Hall Oxford OX I 4AR Telephone (0 1865) 279000 Internet: http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/

Development Office Telephone (08165) 279055 E-mail: development.office@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk

COVER ILLUSTRATIONS: The main entrance to the Hall from Queen's Lane (front), and to the Chapel of St Edmund (back), each with the college coat of arms . For much of the academic year 2000-2001 , both doors were hidden because of building work. (Photographs by the Librarian, Deborah Eaton) Printed by the Holywell Press Ltd., 15 to 17 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road, Oxford

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Vol. XVI No. 1 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2001

COLLEGE LIST .............................................................................................. 1 TO REPORT From the Principal ......... ............ .. ...... ... ... ...... ........... ....... .............. ... ...... ..... .8 From the Chaplain ..................................................................................... 12 From the Librarian ..................................................................................... 14 From the Bursar ................................................................. ......................... 24 The Senior Common Room ......................................................................... 28 The Middle Common Room ....... .................................... ........ ........ ... ..... .... .45 The Junior Common Room ........................................................................ .46 Clubs and Societies .................................................................................... .48 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ................................................................................................ 79 St Edmund's Day ........................................................................................ 85 The Emden Lecture ......... .... ..... ............................. ... .... ........ ....... .............. .. 85 Graduate Debates and Seminars .................................................................. 88 Artweek ...................... ......... ................... ................................. ... ...... ..... ..... 88 Music at the Hall .... .......... ...... ......... ........... ....... ........ ...... ...... ...................... 91 Graham ..... ...... ..... ...... ... ......... .. .... .................... .. ........ ..... ........ ..... ...... ... ...... 92 Obituaries ................................................................................................. 105 FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ................................ ... ................... ................................ 113 Matriculations .......................................................................................... 113 Visiting Students ...................................................................................... 117 Degree Results .......... ...................... .. ..... .... .......... .......................... ........... 118 Awards and Prizes ...... .. ........ .................. .... ... ........................................... 122 Degree Days 2001-2003 .. ........... ............................. ...... .. .......................... 126 THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE News .............................................................................. .......... .... ....... ..... 127 Aularian Gatherings ................................................................................. 129 Donors to the Hall .................................................................................... 13 7 THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives .......................................... .... .......... .... .144 Minutes of the 70th Annual General Meeting ........................................... 145 The 60th London Dinner .......................................................................... 146 111

Gifts to the Hall ... ..... ............... ..... ..... ...... ......... ... .. .... ... .. ...... .................... 149 The Accounts ..... .... ........... ... ... .... ..... ... ... ...... .... ................ .... .......... .... .. .... 150 AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ............................................................................... 152 Obituaries ................................................................................................. 156 ARTICLES The Hall 's Chronograms and other Inscriptions ... .. .... .. ........ .. ..... ......... .. ... 160 The Revd William Stone (1614-1685) and the Establishment of Stone's Almshouses ................................................................................ 164 Aularian Connections .. .. .......... ....... .... ........... ..... ......... ....... .... .. ....... ... ...... 165 Impressions from the Oxford Language Race ..... ...................... ................ .168 Why study Einstein and not Mystic Meg? ... ...... .... ....... .... ............... .......... 169 AULARIAN CALENDAR .... .. .. .. .. ...... .... ..... .. .... ....... ..... ..................... ........ 177 ERRATA (1999-2000 MAGAZINE) .... ..... ... ... ................................ .. .. ......... 178

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ST EDMUND HALL 2000-2001 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 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.), FRS 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 and Tutor in Law 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 Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Tutor in Law, and Dean of Chapel

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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.

Professor of Comparative Education and Fellow by Special Election Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, D.Phil.

University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, W.R. Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor Crook, 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, RoseMary Anne, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Newc.)

Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, Tutor for Women, and Tutor for Associated Students Naughton, James Duncan, MA (Ph.D. Camb.)

Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Boume-Taylor, Geoffrey Dennis, MA Bursar Brasier, Martin David, MA (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.)

Reader in Earth Sciences, Tutor in Geology, and Tutor for Undergraduates Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, D.Phil.

Tutor in Modern History and Investment Bursar 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, Tutor in Engineering, and Tutor for Admissions Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; Ph.D. Lond.)

Professor of East European History, Fellow by Special Election, and Archivist Pettifor, David Godfrey, MA (Ph.D. Camb., B.Sc. Witwatersrand), FRS Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy

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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) 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 Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, MD, D.Phil., FRCPC Professor of Neurology and Fellow by Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, D.Phil. (B .Sc. CNAA), C.Chem., FRSC Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb.)

Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Ashboum, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb., Ph.D. S. Bank) Fellow by Special Election Bull, Malcolm Glen, MA (MA Lond.)

Fellow by Special Election in Fine Art Ebers, George Comell, MA (MD Toronto) Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Regional Liaison Director in the University, and Fellow by Special Election Holland, Anna, MA, D.Phil., Fellow by Special Election in French Flanders, Alan B. (BA Old Dominion; MA Hollins; Ph.D. NDU) Fellow by Special Election Alien, James, M.Chem., D.Phil.

William R. Miller Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry Paxman, Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb.)

Fellow by Special Election Screaton, Gavin Robert, MA, BM, B.Ch., D.Phil., MRCP Fellow by Special Election Shaw, James Edric (MA Edin.; Ph.D. EUI) Fellow by Special Election

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Wilhelm, William Jean (BA, MA Wichita; Ph.D. Louisiana) Professor of Management Studies Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB, Ch.B., MD Leic.), FRCS (Eng.), FRCS (Edin.), FRCS (Paed. Surg.)

University Reader in Paediatric Surgery and Fellow by Special Election 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, Emest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (Ph.D. Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt. Hon. Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC, BA Harris, Roy, MA, D.Phil. (Ph.D. Lond.), FRSA Tindle, David, MA, RA 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, Allen 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 Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, MA, FRSL St Edmund Hall Fellows Laing, Ian Michael, MA (M.Sc. LBS) Smith, Martin Gregory, MA (MBA Stanford)

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Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (LLD Birm.), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Ridler, Vivian Hughes, CBE, MA Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, MA (B.Sc., MB, Ch.B. Edin.), MRCP (Lond.), FRCP (Edin.)

Pollock, Norman Charles, B.Litt., MA (BA Cape Town) Ganz, Peter Felix, MA (MA, Ph.D. Lond.)

Alton, Reginald Emest, MC, MA 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.), FRS, FRCP Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, D.Phil., Dean of Degrees Scargill, David lan, MA, D.Phil. , JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA

* Deceased Lecturers Aarnio, Outi Marketta, D.Phil. (Licentiate, Abo) Cannon, Mark Reader, M.Eng., D.Phil. (SM MIT) Jenkyns, Joy, MA (BA Soton; MA Lond.)

Martin, Priscilla Elizabeth, MA (BA, MA, Ph.D. Lond.)

Bailey, Richard (B.Sc. Leic; M.Sc., Ph.D. Lond) Henderson, Scott, M.Sc. (BA Washington and Lee) Wild, Lorraine Sylvia, MA, D.Phil.

Waters, David John, MA, D.Phil. (MA Camb.)

Fowler, Peta Ginette, MA, D.Phil.

Economics Engineering English English Geography Geography Geography Geology Latin

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Adams, John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh.)

Law Knight, Robin William, MA, D.Phil.

Mathematics Lo, Joseph Tzan Hang, M.Math.

Mathematics Raines, Brian Edward (BA Hendrix; M.Sc. Missouri) Mathematics Black, John Joseph Merrington, MB, BS, FRCS Edin.

Medicine Virgincar, Anand, MB, BS, MRCP, MD, DNB Medicine Lear, Pamela Virginia (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.)

Medicine Inkson, Beverley Jane, MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.)

Metallurgy Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.)

Metallurgy Clark, James Gordon, MA, D.Phil. (BA Brist.)

Modern History Leyser, Henrietta, B.Litt., MA Modern History Baines, Jennifer, MA, D.Phil.

Modern Languages (Russian) Florio-Cooper, Clara (Dott. Lett. Turin) Modern Languages (Italian) James, Sara (BA, Ph.D. Birm.)

Modern Languages (French) Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, D.Phil.

Modern Languages (Greek) Mortimer, Geoffrey, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc., M.Sc. Swansea) Modern Languages (German) Southworth, Eric Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Modern Languages (Spanish) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut, MA Modern Languages (German) Williams, Renee, MA 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 Hampshire, James, BA (MA York) Politics Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA Psychology Chaplain The Revd Duncan MacLaren, MA Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA College Secretary Carol McClure Head Porter David Beeching

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Decanal Staff Cardinale, Philip, M.Phil. (BA Georgetown) Junior Dean Yueh, Linda, D.Phil. (BA Yale, MPP Harvard, JD NYU) Cover Dean Witztum, Jonathan (BA Ben-Gurion) Sub-Dean (Isis) Strbac, Maja, BA Sub-Dean (lsis) Joshi, Vibha, M.Phil. (B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil. Delhi) Sub-Dean (NSE)

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TO REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL I finished my introduction to last year's Magazine with the following sentences: 'Can the next academic year possibly be even busier? I do not know, but I doubt if it could be more enjoyable.' Well, the answer to the question is an unequivocal 'yes'. I did not take into account the consequences of being both Principal and Director of Development in an academic year that included the launch of a major fund-raising Campaign.

Firstly, may I welcome those who have joined the Hall during the present academic year? Professor William Wilhelm joined us as Professor in Management Studies from Boston College. Such is the competition in this field, though, that our attempts to elect a Fellow in Management (Finance) failed to attract a candidate who was willing to accept a salary which was less than half that offered in the US. We hope that our current attempts to elect Fellows in English and Geography will prove to be more successful.

We did however elect J ames Shaw, Anna Holland, Alan Flanders, Paul Johnson (Reader in Paediatric Surgery) and Gavin Screaton to Fellowships

by Special Election, and James Alien to a William R. Miller Junior Research Fellowship. Martin Smith ( 1961) and Ian Laing ( 1965), who have both been so active on the Hall'sAdvisory Board and very generous not only with their time but also with their donations to the Campaign, have been elected to St Edmund Hall Fellowships. Jeremy Paxman, the well-known broadcaster and author, was also elected to a Fellowship by Special Election (though I have not to date managed to persuade the junior members to submit a team for University Challenge). Kevin Crossley-Holland (1959) the distinguished writer and poet, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship. Richard Wentworth, a well-known and distinguished sculptor, has accepted the appointment as Ruskin Master, and we look forward to his election as a Fellow next summer.

Judge Franzesca Giannikou of the Supreme Court in Athens was a member of the SCR during the academic year. Unfortunately, we have lost two of our number to appointments in Cambridge Colleges: the many contributions made

by Dr Chris Canon and Dr Nicholas Marston in English and Music respectively will be greatly missed.

Professor John Hunt was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and he also received the 2001 Armourers and Brasiers' Prize of the Royal Society.

Therefore, he has maintained the tradition that every St Edmund Hall Fellow associated with Metallurgy/Materials is also a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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The international standing of Fellows of the Hall has been further demonstrated by the award of Honorary Doctorates to Professor John Knight from the University of Natal, and Professor Richard Crampton from the University of Sofia. In a more parochial fashion, I was fortunate to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sussex in July. Professor Stuart Ferguson received the Keilen Medal from the Biochemical Society at its meeting in Dublin, and Dr Lucy Newlyn was awarded the RoseMary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy for her book Reading, Writing and Romanticism. Sir Peter Hirsch FRS was elected Foreign Associate of the US Academy of Engineering, a very rare distinction for UK engineers; I think that he is the only Foreign Associate from Oxford. The Revd Professor John McManners CBE, FBA was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at All Souls College. The University's Recognition of Distinction exercise led to Dr Marianne Martin and Dr David Phillips being promoted to Professorships in Experimental Psychology and Comparative Education respectively. It is a pleasure also to announce that Anne Ridler was created OBE in the New Year Honours List.

Former Masters of the Ruskin continue to thrive: Philip Morsberger has been appointed Professor Emeritus of Drawing and Painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and Stephen Farthing held an exhibition of his work at Christ Church. Professor Gabriel Josipovici (1958) was elected Fellow of the British Academy. The national elections in June saw four Aularians- Robert Jackson (1965), John Spellar (1966), Paul Farrelly (1981) and Mark Field ( 1984) - elected or re-elected to Parliament. As Minister of Transport, John Spellar has a very important brief, which is likely to affect all our daily lives and will certainly keep him busy.

Professor Richard Evans gave the A.B. Emden Lecture, which was titled 'The Germans in British Public Memory since 1945', on 10 May at the Examination Schools (see page 85 for a full report). The talk included many diverting clips from television comedy series. Prof. Evans dined in college after the lecture, which was also attended by other historians from Oxford and many Aularians.

Michael Cansdale, President of the SEH Association, generated donations from his contemporaries to fund a second round of three Postgraduate Scholarships from October 2000, and the Uyeno Family funded two further Scholarships for 2001 to commemorate Tadeshi Uyeno. The recipients of the Scholarships presented interesting talks on their research projects to the donors and Fellows, and Professor Basil Kouvaritakis maintained an active series of postgraduate lectures and discussions (see page 88 for a full report).

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The generous support of Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election) for our choral activities is, as always, much appreciated, and helps us to maintain a high standard. A service that brought together the choirs of the Hall and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (our sister college) provided a very uplifting evening for a packed congregation in our Chapel. The students were very active in the theatre, too, and with the financial support of Martin and Elise Smith put on a very amusing production of Blithe Spirit (see page 73 for a full report). Other undergraduates were involved in productions outside the Hall of Romeo and Juliet and The Miser. A short film was also directed

by Daniel Cormack and filmed in the Hall. Michael Rudman (1960), who has had a very successful run in the West End with Noel Coward's Fallen Angels, kindly gave the Blithe Spirit director and cast the benefit of his experience. Clara Goldsmith from the Hall won one of the Geddes Prizes this year; the other was awarded to David Milliken of Merton College.

Antony Hawkins (Physics and Philosophy) was awarded the George Series Prize for 2001 (see page 169), and Maria Liakata, a postgraduate in Philology, and Mark Belcher (History and Russian) were winner and runnerup of the first Oxford Language Race (see page 168).

The Hall's sporting achievements continued to yield prizes and awards.

Stacey and I entertained the Women's Rugby Team twice for Cuppers Dinners, and the men's rugby team won Cuppers after a thrilling final against Jesus College. We entertained the successful Sailing Team and Horse Riding Teams at the beginning of the year. The Men's Hockey team also won Cuppers. On the river, the Men's First VIII had the advantage of a new boat purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Boat Club, but unfortunately were placed above some very strong boats this year and our position therefore deteriorated.

Lord Jenkins joined us at the House of Lords for the launch of the Campaign in January and gave a rousing speech capturing the special Hall Spirit that infects all who have been associated with the Hall. General Sir Michael Rose and I were swept along on his coat-tails and made our more modest attempts to encourage all those present to help us improve the financial fortunes of the Hall. I am very pleased to announce that to date we have received pledges and donations which correspond to approximately one-third of our target of ÂŁ7 million.

We marked the 30th Anniversary of the Library Conversion of St Peter-inthe-East with a splendid dinner, but had to forsake the availability of the Old Library for the year because of an incursion of water through the roof. This was only discovered after considerable damage had occurred. Fortunately,

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our own maintenance staff were able to re-roof the Library, and we are now patiently waiting for the books to dry out completely under strictly controlled conditions. Indeed if one thing were to characterise the year it is the presence of builders and scaffolding. The Porters' Lodge has been brought into the 21st century, and the cellars renewed- a task that required the movement of 15,000 bottles of wine. (Yes, I did have plenty of volunteers for storing the bottles, should you ask.) The Porters' Lodge refurbishment involved a major perturbation for all of us, but the result has been really worthwhile, because it now provides an attractive entrance to the Hall and an efficient working space for the porters. It has also resulted in attractive new offices for my PA and the Development Office.

This year some of the staff who have been with us for many years have either moved to other jobs or have decided to retire. We miss Pauline Linieres for her efficient management of events and conferences, and one cannot imagine the College Office without Carol McClure. I also miss Shirley Dawson who guided me through the minefield of responsibilities when I first arrived as Principal. Emma Steane (1985), a second generation Aularian, proved to be a very worthy successor, and I do not think that I would have been able to launch the Campaign without her assistance. She has now taken maternity leave, and I hope that a future Principal will have the pleasure of welcoming a third generation of the family to the Hall in due course. Dr Darnian Atkinson, our very popular Assistant Librarian, is also leaving us in the autumn, and he has been presented with a splendid fob watch by the MCR as a mark of their esteem.

Several events this year recognised that the St Edmund Hall family also includes spouses, partners and children. Stacey and I hosted a Christmas Carol Service in the Chapel on 2 December for the children of all Fellows and staff in the Hall, and this was followed by a party which included a magic show. The Reunion held in July was a more low-key event this year compared to last year's 75th Anniversary Reunion, but nonetheless the dinner was very well attended and very much enjoyed. Reminiscences punctuated by laughter continued well into the night. I was able to meet up with Aularians in Cape Town and Pretoria during my visit to South Africa in April, and I hope to meet up with another group in Chicago in August.

Regrettably, the Hall has lost some of its most influential and well-known members during the year. Sir Robin Day, an Honorary Fellow, died last August and a Memorial Service in his honour was held in London on 8 November. In a remarkable tribute in the same month, he received a posthumous award as 'Outstanding Political Interviewer' from the Political

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Studies Association at their 50th Anniversary Meeting. Although he did not write much about the Hall in his autobiography, he clearly retained a great affection for the college and his presence was always felt. Professor Jack Christian FRS, Emeritus Fellow, had a much more retiring personality, but he died in February - as I think he would have wished, in the laboratory finishing his latest book. He had bravely fought a debilitating illness and a family tragedy in recent years. Professor Bryan Matthews FRCP, Emeritus Fellow, who also died this year, was Professor of Clinical Neurology from 1970 to 1987, having previously had a very distinguished career as a clinician.

Having set the Campaign rolling, and demonstrated that we can produce a sounder financial future for the Hall with the assistance of our faithful alumni, I shall now be stepping back as Director of Development and hope to turn my attention to more academically related problems. We have to offer our undergraduates more accommodation and lower charges if we are to compete effectively with other colleges, and to review our academic portfolio. We get some really talented students coming here, and it is important that we give them the academic, sporting and cultural facilities that they deserve to develop fully.

FROM THE CHAPLAIN In Trinity Term, I embarked on my fifth year at St Edmund Hall, making me feel I am becoming part of the furniture. Given the soft, cedar panelling and rugged, oak pews of the Chapel, I accept this feeling as a compliment.

Certainly, one of the joys of St Edmund Hall, and of the Chapel in particular, is the sense of continuity with the past. However, as the Gospels remind us, we are to bring out of the storeroom 'new treasures as well as old'. There is a creative tension between tradition and exploration.

With this in mind we have sought in the preaching series, this past year, to engage with the contemporary world from a Christian perspective. In Michaelmas Term, our preachers engaged with the theme 'Idols of our Time?'.

Subjects included celebrity, technology, consumerism, sport, nationalism, certainty, and - yes - religion itself. The latter was ably addressed by Dr Margaret Yee, of Nuffield College, a specialist in one of the Hall's former theological luminaries, Austin Farrer. Jim Barker of Friends of the Earth addressed the theme of technology, and a further highlight was our very own Jonathan Gray on sport. Jonathan defects to New College next term to begin his postgraduate teacher training; we wish him well. On 11 November, two new postgraduate students of the Hall were married in Chapel, Maria

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Martinsons and Matthew Kott. This was a truly international celebration, marked by the saying of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian, Swedish and English.

In Hilary, we turned to the familiarly strange Beatitudes. In Fifth Week, Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, addressed the question as to whether one can be poor and 'blessed'. We were also privileged to welcome Vanessa Herrick, the Chaplain ofFitzwilliam College, our sister-college in Cambridge, and many of the Chapel community, for a combined evensong in Sixth Week.

A further highlight of the term, in Second Week, was the visit of Professor Peter Gomes ofHarvard to the University Church to conduct the Chaplains' mission. The choirs of virtually all the colleges combined for a memorable opening service with Richard Harries, and on subsequent nights of the week, Professor Gomes presented a series of thoughtful addresses on the themes of mystery, meaning, conviction, and wonder. Each address was followed by an interrogation by a well-known journalist; these included Roger Bolton and Kate Adie.

These were some of the highlights of the term. It would give a false picture, however, if I failed to record that the term began, sadly, in tragedy. On 21 January, Barrett Mcllhenny, an American student associated with the Hall on the Oxford Study Abroad Programme, died of meningitis, aged 19.

Tragically, he had been in Oxford for only two weeks before his death. A memorial service was held in the Chapel on 9 February, attended by his mother, many of his fellow students, and some from the Hall who had had the chance to meet him.

Over the Easter break, the Chapel and Old Library were encrusted with scaffolding, in a project to replace the roof. This did not daunt the guests at the wedding of two Aularians on 7 April, Thomas Peel and Eva ClarkDarby. Around the same time, the altar received a much-needed face-lift in the form of a new altar-frontal, designed and made by the Cathedral Embroidery Group. The frontal is a simple pale blue, with a golden-yellow, vertical stripe through the centre, which continues (downwards) the yellow from the cross in the Ceri Richards altar-piece above (Supper at Emmaus).

Whether you love or hate the painting (few seem to settle in between), the new frontal has at least provided it with a much needed context. As one visiting preacher aptly commented, 'Now you have Emmaus here'.

The choir has had its ups and downs this year. On the positive side, there has been much dedicated commitment, some fine singing, and a mature willingness to work through issues. The choir has continued ably to assist the worship of the Chapel, and I am reminded weekly of the privilege of being led in worship by 'live' choral music of such quality. It is a tradition of

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which we can be proud, and I look forward to next year when we will welcome some new choral scholars, and (we hope) some new recruits from those poor, bedevilled colleges which lack a Chapel.

Trinity Term opened with the theme of pilgrimage. Our speakers examined some of the journeys we make in life: the journey towards personal wholeness; the journey of career; and the journey towards spiritual maturity. One particular highlight was the visit of Fr Gerard Hughes, an acclaimed writer on spirituality, who has himself walked to Rome on pilgrimage. A number of visitors from local churches joined us in a packed Chapel for the service, in which he pondered the inner meaning of the outer journeys we make. On a personal note, the term was memorable for the birth of my second child, a girl we have named Lindsay. We concluded the term, as last year, with a short pilgrimage to Binsey church, for our end-of-year service. James Bendall preached an enlightening sermon on the theme of the famous 'treacle well' at Binsey. Afterwards, we continued to mature this still-young tradition as we tramped down the lane, through the sweet evening breeze, to the expectant tables of The Perch. Perhaps there, too, in years to come, I will feel equally part of the furniture.

FROM THE LffiRARIAN Causes for celebration in the St Edmund Hall Libraries Whether it was recovering from damage, or marking milestones, or the luck of a chance remark, or Aularians' and others' generosity, the academic year 2000-2001 has given the Hall Libraries many reasons to celebrate.

Celebrating Wet, Wet, Wet becoming Dry, Dry, Dry William Wordsworth wrote in his poem, Resolution and Independence: There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising, calm and bright...

Those of you who read the recent Aularian newsletter will realize that these lines perfectly represent not only the abysmal weather of the last year and more, but also how the Hall responded to the damaging effects on both Libraries. In July of last year the book and paper conservators, Preservation Solutions, pointed out that there was major evidence in the books on which they were working in the Old Library of serious water incursion in both the northeast corner and on the entire south wall. Immediately, the Librarian with the help of two students -removed books from the affected areas, stacking

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them in an approved way in order to avoid any mould or mildew growth.

When finally in January 2001 scaffolding was erected to provide access to the roof and to furnish a canopy to protect the building from the continuing rain, investigation of the roof revealed that both the seals around the leading and the slates themselves had deteriorated to such an extent that water was leaking into the walls and so, by osmosis, into the books.

Inside the Old Library, exploration of the northeast corner uncovered no structural damage. However, when the shelving of the south wall was removed, it was discovered that the plaster was bulging away from the stones and crumbling. The overall work, which is almost complete at the time of writing, needed new lime mortar and plaster on the south wall (illustrated on the next page), a new ceiling, removal of the wallpaper with repair of the walls as needed and their repainting, a thorough cleaning of all fabric and fittings, and 22 months of slow dehumidifying. In September the books will all be vacuum-cleaned by Preservation Solutions, and the water-affected books placed on the floor in such a way that the drying of the fabric will also safely dry out these books.

It is forecast that the Old Library will be open again at the end of November.

Celebrating 30 years as a library, and both beginnings of the new millennium Michaelmas Term 2000 saw the Library marking the advent of the New Millennium with a dinner for the 30th anniversary of the church of St Peterin-the-East as the Hall's undergraduate and graduate library. Invitations were sent out for an anniversary dinner to Aularians from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, to the FloreatAula Society, to the London Branch, to the Association's officers and year reps, to all Fellows, to all current and former Library staff, and to representatives of the Diocese of Oxford. The event was especially noteworthy in that it started off with drinks and madrigals in a full church of 145 people.

The madrigallers, the Corallian Singers, were led by two Aularians, Richard Rednall and Clare Rednall (nee Ashley-Smith), both m. 1989. Many people commented on how appropriate it was to hear music in the church again.

Being a classicist, the Librarian was aware that, as there was no year zero, the New Millennium would really commence on 1 January 2001, and in order to ensure that the Hall Library would celebrate both new millenniums, she volunteered St Peter-in-the-East as the location of the University Librarians' 70th 'Brown Bag Lunch'. So 10 January 2001 saw 50 librarians from every type of library within the University seated in the nave for a lunch catered by the Hall and sponsored by the journal supplier, RoweCom.

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It was notable among such lunches for having the first attendance at a BBL of a Head of House. Principal Mingos attended and took an active part in the proceedings. The librarians toured the main Library areas, the crypt, and some also climbed the Tower for its good and unusual view of the Oxford skyline.

To celebrate or not: The Emden collection Many of you may remember that in last year's Magazine, there was an advertisement for a proposed one-day conference to celebrate the launch of the Emden Collection of Naval, Military and Intelligence History, inviting

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Aularians with an interest in anything nautical to contact the Librarian about their interest in attending or making a presentation. The response to this gave no reason to celebrate, for, sadly, there were only two Aularians who expressed any interest at all. As a result the conference has had to be postponed until sometime in 2002 and its nature changed.

However, there is much cause to celebrate the Librarian's chance comment to Audrey Patterson, who works in the JCR and buttery, about the need for someone to finish off the labelling of the Collection and to put it in its new shelf mark order. 'Oh, my younger son, Lawrence, is mad about World War II naval things. I'll ask him if he'd be interested.' He was, and aims to have the Emden Collection all shipshape and Bristol fashion by the end of August.

Celebrating gifts to the Undergraduate Library Traditionally the report of gifts to the Undergraduate Library consists merely of a list of names. And this has meant that with each new issue of the Magazine the interesting and diverse character of these gifts or of their donors is lost.

For instance this year, Dr Frank Vandenbroucke, m. 1996, donated a copy of the book he developed from his D .Phil. thesis, Social justice and individual ethics in an open society. The Hall Library, besides aiding Dr. Vandenbroucke in his studies, recently helped him win election to the Belgian government by allowing him to film part of his campaign video in St Peter-in-the-East. Or the Catmur connections, where Virginia Catmur, wife of Richard (m. 1972), sister-in-law of James (m. 1979) and mother of Caroline (m. 1999), again gave books to the Library; as did James with a copy of his engineering book, System safety. Or the fact that James Price, m. 1949, who has always given copies of the books his publishing house has produced, insisted when he retired that the firm who bought his company continue this practice. Here is a selection from the 16 titles we received this year: Mary Barker and William Wordsworth, Lines addressed to a noble lord William Blake, A descriptive catalogue Erasmus Darwin, A plan for the conduct offemale education John Keats, Lamia Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, Poems 1795 Percy B ysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion 1821 Mary Wollstonecraft, Original stories from real life 1791 This year also saw a number of gifts to the Emden Collection of Naval, Military and Intelligence History: Darnian Atkinson, Library Assistant: Len Deighton, Blitzkrieg from the rise of Hitler to the fall of Dunkirk

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Kevin Copes take, m. 1972: Niall Ferguson, The pity of war Deborah Hayward Baton, Librarian: Suzan Stark, Female tars Brian Garfield: his own The thousand-mile war in thanks for the opportunity to use the Collection in researching his next book Cyprus Press and Information Service: various books on the conflict in Cyprus And then there are the Finalists who continue the tradition started with the Old Library, that Commoners leaving residence would give the Hall a gift of books: Amirav, Hagit, m. 1996; Beach, Daniel, m. 1997; Burton, Clare, m.

1996; Grout, Benjarnin, m. 1997; Kothari, Suveer, m. 1997; Maukonen, Kullervo, m. 1997; Thomas-Symonds, Nick, m. 1998; Tsikouras, George, m. 1997; Valdya, Milind, m. 1996. Even some of the Visiting Students contributed: Inks, Stephanie C, YAB 2001; Stull, James, YAB 2001; Wiktorowicz, Jozef, Visiting Student 2001.

Finally, of course, there is the broad miscellany from Aularians, Fellows and others: Blacker, Jacquetta, m. 1987; Centre for Humanities Computing; Copestake, Kevin, m. 1972; Davidson, Nicholas (Fellow); Davies, Norman; DeWitt Historical Society; Doulton, Angus, m. 1963; Baton, Deborah (Librarian); Faculty of Theology; Fielding, David, m. 1959; Fitzsimmons, Ben, m. 1999; Fukuda, Arihiro, m. 1989; Gilboa, R.; Kahn, Andrew (Fellow); Lynch, Michael J., m. 1961; Newlyn, Lucy (Fellow); Ogawa, Hiroshi, m.

1976; Science and Health Publishers.

Celebrating the gift to the Old Library of a very special book The Old Library will soon become home for a copy of Thomas Cranmer's An Aunswere... unto a craftier and sophisticall Cavillation ... agaynst the true and godly Doctrine of the most holy Sacrament.... This was originally a gift in 1993 to Graham Midgley from more than 400 Aularians and friends.

Housed lovingly in a maroon box are the book itself and a booklet listing all the subscribers to the gift. The latter's opening page reads: 'For GRAHAM in celebration of his three score years and ten (29. 9.1993) and to thank him for his great contribution to the life of ST EDMUND HALL with the love of all his friends whose names follow' . ¡

Celebrating gifts to the Aularian Collection Following another tradition, which began in the early years of the Old Library, are the gifts of their publications to the Aularian Collection from Aularians, fellows and staff. This year we received:

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ADCOCK, Roger ( 1950) Journal of a quizzical layman in the General Synod of the Church of England 1985-2000 . Exeter: Roger Adcock 2000 ASHBOURN, Jo (Fellow by Special Election) & L. C. Woods 'Creation of magnetic energy in the solar atmosphere' , Physical Review Letters 84, 2000 'On the stability of quiescent solar prorninences' Proceedings of the 9th European Meeting on Solar Physics.

Florence: 1999 BLAIR, Philip ( 1959) Watching for the morning : Global chaos and cosmic hope . Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1999 BLOY, Philip (1938) The call to mission answered: Ted Wickham and the Sheffield industrial mission, ed. Roger Sawtell. Northampton: Disciples Press, 2000 BOURDEAUX, Michael (1954) 'Religion revives in all its variety: Russia's regions today '. Religion, State & Society 28, 2000 BOURNE-JONES, Derek (1951) Words to score of 'Emanuel' . Handwritten score. c. 2000 Words to score of 'Sing gloria' . Handwritten score, c. 2000 CLIFTON, B. V. (1949) Rich and famous ? Yes please!

Wilmslow: Innovcom, 2000 COWDREY, HE J (Emeritus Fellow) 'Pope Gregory VII and martyrdom', in Dei gesta per Francos: Etudes sur les croisades dediees a Jean Richard, ed.

M . Ballard et al. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001 CRONK, Nicholas (Fellow) Etudes sur Le Fits nature[ et Les

Entretiens sur le Fits nature[ de Diderot, ed. N . Cronk. Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2000 CROSSLEY -HOLLAND, Kevin (1959; Honorary Fellow) Different - but oh how like! Reading: Society for Storytelling, 1998 The wuffings. London: Runetree, 1999 Beowulf (in Czech) . Ljubljana: DZS, 1996 The king who was and will be: The world of King Arthur and his knights.

London: Orion, 1998 The new Exeter book of riddles. London: Enitharmon, 1999 Poems from East Anglia. London : Enitharmon, 1998 Short! Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 DAVIS, Geoffrey (1962) 'Conference Report: What is happening in Africa today?' in - Raoul Granqvist and Jurgen Martini (eds.), Preserving the landscape of imagination: Children's literature in Africa.

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'Of "undesirability": the control of theatre in South Africa during the age of apartheid', in New theatre in Francophone and Anglophone Africa, ed. Anne Fuchs. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999 Reviews of four books of plays or on plays in South Africa, in Exile and African literature , ed . Eldred Durosimi Jones. Oxford: James Currey, n.d. "'Good Sir Anthony, write us up well": Trollope als Afrika-Reisender' , in Afrika in den europiiischen Literaturen zwischen 1860 und 1930, ed. Titus Heydenreich and Eberhard Splith .

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Erlangen-Niirnberg, 2000 "'Ther now is in our hands": Innovation and reorientation in post-apartheid South African drama ' , Anglophonia/Caliban 7, 2000 "'Good Sir Anthony, write us up well": Trollope als Afrika-Reisender', in Postcolonia knitting: The art of Jacqueline Bardolph ed. Richard Corballis and Andre Viola.

Palmerston North, NZ: Massey University, 2000 FIELDING, David (1959) Borneo: Jewel in a jade rainbow.

Sabah: KDI, 1998 FRANKIS, John (1948) 'Sidelights on post-conquest Canterbury: Towards a context for an Old Norse runic charm (OR 419)'. Nottingham Medieval Studies 44, 2000 'Lawman and the Scandinavian connection'. Leeds Studies in English 31, 2000 'King Aelle and the conversion of the English: The development of a legend from Bede to Chaucer', in Literary appropriations of the AngloSaxons from the I 3th to the 20th century, ed. Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg. Cambridge: CUP, 2000 FRYER, Jonathan (1969) Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's true love.

London: Constable, 2000 FULLER, Napier Sandford (Year Abroad Programme, 1995) 'Ivory Towers', Washington University at St Louis Magazine (Internet version), 2001 GILLEY, Bruce (1991) Model rebels: The rise and fall of China's richest village . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001 GORDON, Keith (1988)

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' Back to basics - industrial buildings allowances, pts. 1 and 2' . The Tax Journal 5561557, 2000 'Subtle differences' . Taxation 145, 2000 'Identification crises'. Taxation 145, 2000 'Identification crises, part 2'. Taxation 145, 2000 'Advantageous incorporation'. Taxation 145, 2000 'A magical mystery ' . Tolley 's Practical Tax Service 31, 2000 GRAHAM, David (1952) '"Shakespeare in debt" ? English and international insolvency in Tudor England ', pts 1 and 2, Insolvency Intelligence, 2000 HALSTED, Michael (1939) Round the world in forty years: A British Council life. Upton on Severn: Square One, 1999 HEARN, John B. (1970) ASIA level economics . Deddington : Philip Allan Updates, 2000 MATTHEWS, Paul (1977) Trust and estate disputes: Practice and procedure. Birmingham: CLT, 1998 'Judicial review, Jersey and the first Queen Elizabeth'. The Jersey Law Review, 2001 ' English law and the remedial constructive trust' . Trusts and Trustees 4, 1998 'STAR: Big bang or red. dwarf?'. Trust Law International 12, 1998 'Un trust per I'Italiano'. Trust Law International 12, 1998 'New draft Italian trust law ' . Trust Law International 14, 2000 'Trustee exoneration clauses and comparative law'. Trust Law International 14, 2000 'Tracing through the back door? The doctrine of proprietary subrogation' .

Trusts and Trustees 3, I 997 'Developments in the law of equitable compensation' . Trusts and Trustees 3, 1997 'The jurisdiction to award compound interest on equitable compensation'.

Trusts and Trustees 3, I 997 'Italian trust for debenture holders'.

Trust Law International I I, I 997 'How many shams make three?'. Trusts and Trustees 4, I 998 'When is a revenue claim not a revenue claim? A footnote ' . The Jersey Law Review, I 999 'Jersey: the way we were'. Trusts and Trustees 5, 1999 'How to avoid drowning in trust litigation '. Trusts and Trustees 4, 1998 'Attacking and defending asset protection trusts', in Nedim Peter Vogt (ed.), Disputes involving trusts. Helbing : C.H. Beck, I 999 'Nice try : Shame about conversion'.

The Personal Tax Planning Review 5, 199617 'Barring a recovery, and other taxing notations' . The Personal Tax Planning Review 7, 1999 'Coroners' inquests and the Stephen Lawrence inquiry'. New Law Journal, 1999 'Once functus always functus?'. New Law Journal, 2001 'Treasure trove (2)'. The Jersey Law Review, 2001 'Trusts of flawed assets: The liability of trustees'. Trusts and Trustees 4, I 998 'Solvalub again'. The Jersey Law Review, 1999 Trusts: Migration and change ofproper law. London: Key Haven, 1997 ' Trusting on purpose: The trusts (amendment no 3) (Jersey) law,

1996' . The Jersey Law Review, 1997 'No black holes, please, we're Jersey ' .

The Jersey Law Review, I 997 'Still no black holes: Krohn GMBH v Varna Shipyard'. The Jersey Law Review, 1997 'In the land of the blind the one-eyed. salesman is king'. The Jersey Law Review, 1998 'Solvalub strikes again'. The Jersey Law Review, I 998 'Shooting star: The new special trusts regime for the Cayman Islands'. Trust Law International 1I, 1997 'Le rouai, nouot' due'. The Jersey Law Review, 1999 Jervis on coroners (4th supplement to the 11th edition). London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1998 'The dog in the night-time'. The Jersey Law Review, 2000 'When is a revenue claim not a revenue claim? A footnote '. The Jersey Law Review, 2000 'Property and the body: History and context', in Property rights in the human body, ed. Kristina Stem and Pat Walsh. London: King's College Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, 1997 '11 protector nella giurisprudenza'.

Trusts e attivitii fiduciarie , 2000 'Clausola di esonero e negligenza del trustee '. Trusts e attivitii fiduciarie, 2000 'Demised. premises' , in John Furber (ed.), Hill and Redman 's law of landlord and tenant.

London: Butterworths, 2001 'Legal consequences and classification of mistake: Remedies', in Halsbury's laws of England 32 (4th ed. reissue).

London: Butterworths, 1999 ' Solvalub and black holes : A post-

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script'. The Jersey Law Review, 1998 Disclosure: Being the second edition of Discovery. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2001 McMANNERS, John (Honorary Fellow) 'Alfred Leslie Rowse, 1903-1997'. Proceedings of the British Academy, 105 MITCHELL, Bruce (Emeritus Fellow) and Fred C. Robinson A guide to Old English (6th ed.). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2001 'Beowulf repunctuated'. Old English Newsletter: Subsidia, 29, 2000 MUSCROFf, Sarah (1987) Children's rights : reality or rhetoric?

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: the first ten years, ed.

Sarah Muscroft. London: Save the Children, 2000 Children's rights, equal rights? Diversity, difference and the issue of discrimination. London: Save the Children, 2000 NEWLYN, Lucy (Fellow) Reading, writing and Romanticism: The anxiety of reception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 NIXON, Bruce (1952) Global forces. Chalford: Management Books, 2000 PETIIFOR, David (Fellow) 'Controversial concepts in alloy theory revisited', in The Science of Alloys for the 21st Century, ed. P. Turchi et al. 2000 'William Hume-Rothery: His life and science' in The Science of Alloys for the 21st Century, ed. P. Turchi et al.

2000 PHILLIPS, David (Fellow) Education in Germany since unification, ed. D. Phillips. Wallingford:

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Symposium, 2000 'The enduring nature of the tripartite system of secondary schooling in Germany: some explanations'. British Journal of Educational Studies 48, 2000 PREBBLE, John (1968) 'New Zealand trusts in international tax planning'. The British Tax Review, 2001 'Can income tax law be simplified?'

New Zealand Journal ofTaxation Law and Policy 2, 1996 'Criminal law, tax evasion, shams, and tax avoidance', pts. 1 and 2. New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy 2, 1996 'Accumulation trusts and double tax conventions'. The British Tax Review, 2001 'Taxation trusts with Australian resident trustees'. The British Tax Review, 2001 SMITH, Rodger Hayward (1962) Jackson 's matrimonial finance and taxation (6th ed. supplement). London: Butterworths, 2000 SPURR, Barry (1974) '"I loved old Tom": David Jones and T. S. Eliot'. Yeats Eliot Review, 2001 'Felicity incarnate: Rediscovering Thomas Traherne', in Discovering and (re)discovering the seventeenth century lyric, ed. Eugene R. Cunnar and Jeffry Johnson. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne, 2001 THICK, Malcolm ( 1970) William Ellis: The country housewife's family companion (1750), ed. M. Thick. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2000 TYTLER, Graeme ( 1954) 'Heathcliff's monomania', in Readings on Wuthering Heights, ed. Hayley R.

Mitchell.

San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1999 [a reprint of 'Heathcliff's monomania: an anachronism in Wuthering Heights', Bronte Society Transactions 20, 1992] 'The Presentation of Herr von S. in Die Judenbuche', The German Quarterly 73 (2000) VENABLES, Robert (Fellow) Non-resident trusts (8th ed.). London:

Key Haven, 2000 Tax planning andfundraising for charities. London: Key Haven, 2000 WARNER, Jonathan (1976) 'North Cyprus: Tourism and the challenge of non-recognition'. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 7, 1999 'Poland: The environment in transition'. The Geographical Journal 165, 1999

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FROM THE BURSAR I wrote in the last Magazine with excitement of the forthcoming refurbishment of the College Lodge, due to begin after Christmas 2000. Well, the job has been done, and very fine it looks, too, as the illustration on the previous page indicates! The space that has been created is stunning, and now the entry to the Hall is almost unrecognizable. Gone are the narrow, poky entrance and the cramped porters' office: now we have SPACE. Come and see it!

The building programme was a nightmare, with the Superintendent of Works and I pulling our hair out: delay after delay, frustration personified; the Bursary stocks of kava kava almost exhausted. Never do I wish to live through such Hell again! But enough of that; the result is a great improvement for everyone. The porters seem delighted, David Beeching, the Head Porter, pronouncing himself 'truly satisfied' . Now we can welcome visitors to the College without embarrassment or excuse for the scruffy entrance.

My second picture below shows the inscription, installed during the building work, to our former Head Porter, Guy Crofts, who left such an impact on all concerned. It was produced by Karim Lahham, a member ofthe MCR, who apart from his law studies, is a professional letter cutter. The inscription is, of course, from the Carmina of Horace: the description of Cerberus

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at the gates of the underworld- most appropriate in Guy's case, and a neat use of the word Aula.

The Old Library has had a new roof since my last report. There was much ingress of rainwater from the earlier roof, which had been very poorly restored with much obvious cutting of corners in the lead-work and slating; I hope the remedial efforts made in-house will give us many years of protection for this very important building. I pay tribute to the Superintendent of Works and his maintenance team, Steve Mackrell, John Grant, Jimmy Carroll and carpenter Tony Aris, who all put in so much hard work (often at weekends) to produce such a fine piece of workmanship. The entire roof was stripped, straightened-up (there were deviances of up to a foot in places), felted and counter-battened (giving better cross ventilation of the roof space).

We used slates from China, at a quarter the cost of mainland supplies, and all the lead-work was replaced. The old roof had little in the way of waterproofing at the gable-ends, so lead soakers and flashing replaced the earlier, inefficient, flaunching, which really is bad practice on such an important building. The lead tray over the pediment was also replaced. One of the problems with lead-work of an earlier vintage is that it was poor quality, laid in sheets that were too large and which folded and cracked with constant temperature changes. Nowadays, better quality, smaller bays are used, laid on an underfelt that allows movement and, thus, no folding. Enough of the technicality! We have the best roof the Old Library has ever had, and at an enormous saving against quotations for inferior work.

At the time of writing, we are having damp problems, from all the rain that falls nowadays, in St Peter-in-the-East. I hope that my redesign of the lead roof, gulley and flashing will prevent this in future. During Michaelmas Term, the lower portion of the Library tower will be repainted: this is quite a complicated job and will involve reassembling one of the buttresses, which has broken away from the north wall.

Turning to staff news, I regret to report the death of Mrs Eileen Smith, who served the Hall for many years as a Scout.

Nigel James joined the Hall as Assistant Bursar in January, following the departure of my former Assistant, Pauline Linieres, for 'better' things as Manciple at All Souls - very posh! We shall all miss Pauline very much: personally, I am grateful for the indomitable and loyal support she gave me from the day of my arrival13 years ago. Her infinite knowledge of all that is Teddy Hall, and her benign, yet firm, oversight of the domestic staff, will be remembered for many years. The present appearance of all College rooms is a tribute to her assiduous attention to their comfort and condition. I shall

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treasure the time I have spent working with her. We wish her the greatest success at that famous place along the High- maybe she will bring conferences to All Souls? (but not ours!)

Nigel James came to us from the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he was Facilities Manager. He came from an NHS career spanning 28 years, during which time he had ' nursed' through the many changes in the NHS. He is currently in at the deep-end, with an almost-full house of conference business. There is another new member of staff in the Bursary, Zoe Flaherty, who joined us in January to cover for sick leave of a staff member, Pauline Anderson, who subsequently retired. Zoe stayed on, and has overseen many traumatic changes as we have computerized the accommodation and conference booking operation. She has also produced some brilliant initiatives in the way invoicing and banqueting is managed, turning her hand to decorating, too, as she and I attempted to reduce the maintenance backlog by painting the bursary walls ourselves.

In the last magazine I mentioned the imminent departure of Shirley Dawson, who was Principal's Secretary from 1988 until last Christmas, when she handed over to Emma Steane. We bade Shirley a fond farewell at the joint college party held for her and Pauline Linieres last December. Shirley was the bedrock upon which so much of our College life rested during those (sometimes) exciting years, quietly beavering away with the essentials: overseeing the decisions of the Governing Body, pampering Principals, and doing all those little things that are so easily forgotten. In short, what should we have done without so stalwart an individual! I have a lot for which to thank Mrs Dawson personally, as we both arrived in this wilderness at the same time. It was to her that I found myself turning for moral support when beleaguered, and it was from her that quiet sympathetic understanding, if not advice, was always forthcoming. Without being a gossip, Shirley was at everybody's street corner and seemed to know so much about everyonethat is the measure of her innate interest in her fellow human beings. I should like to say that we shall miss her, but that has already proved not to be the case. She was very much in evidence at the staff Christmas party, has turned up for a number of other parties in the meantime (a p~y animal, Shirley), was firmly seated half-way down my coach on the trip to Boulogne, and did sterling work facilitating the success of the House of Lords reception.

I reported the arrival of Teddy Hall alumna Emma Steane in the last Magazine: she is now taking maternity leave, her place being filled by Monica Waud. Sam Day, you will remember, has served the Hall for a number of years as Alumni and Events Co-ordinator. Sam has now taken a very smart

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post as fund-raiser for Blue Cross, the animal charity - this is a great stepup and nearer to home! Her place has been filled by Felicity Hampson, daughter of Penny Alden, Tutorial Secretary in the College Office.

A piece of excitement in the Bursary was when Margaret Pargeter's daughter, Alison, was cast in major roles in the Ayckbourn series in Scarborough this year. The trilogy of plays under the title Damsels in Distress is currently receiving rave reviews in the national press and is expected to tour the South, including The Oxford Playhouse, in the New Year. Alison is an old hand, having appeared often on the London stage, in a National tour and in TV bitparts.

My secretary, Rachel Cable, is proving to be more impressive than ever: after many months of assiduous work, she has now gained her Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People qualification. It is a reminder to all of us of our responsibilities to those less able in the community.

Edward Bear enterprises have taken a knock this year because it was not possible to operate the summer shop in the Lodge during renovations; next year the new permanent shop front, incorporated in the Lodge, will rectify the position.

Carry-on up the hypermarket If there has been an episode that will ensure the place of Nigel James, the Assistant Bursar, in the annals of St Edmund Hall, it is the reintroduction of the annual Summer Outing for the Support Staff. Something from a Carry On film had been feared, and that, to some extent, is what it was. 6 a. m. saw the Assistant Bursar rounding up participants, and the departure of two charabancs for Le Shuttle at Folkestone. The first coffee-stop, on the M25, caught out the sleepy ones ('Yes, Bursar, it is similar to England: we are still in England'); but soon, arriving in Northern France, the day began to take on its purpose. Those who hoped to impress, toying with unusual liqueurs, were left behind by the professionals who were already aboard the coaches ready to move on to the next hypermarket. Boulogne turned out to be a more attractive place than had been expected, and we all spent a pleasant few hours discovering the shops and interesting corners of the old Roman city. ¡ Bagatelle-encounters threw us together every few moments, leading to very pleasant lunches with those we had sworn to avoid! We laughed a lot, and gained a lot from the new dimensions of each other that were revealed. The consensus was that the exercise should be repeated soon- maybe a Christmas shopping trip.

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THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM In August 2000, Dr Alistair Borthwick visited Australia and South Korea, giving a presentation at the International Conference on Coastal Engineering in Sydney (with Aularians Ben Rogers and Koo-Yong Park), attending a rugby match between Australia and the All Blacks, and lecturing at Suwon University. He spent ten days in March at Kyushu and Kyoto Universities, discussing collaborative research on floating airports. Afterwards, he travelled to Peking University, where he worked for two weeks as a visiting Professor in the Centre for Environmental Engineering.

Adrian Briggs avoided the bleak and awful early months of 2001 in England by escaping to the air-conditioned and high-tech surroundings of the National University of Singapore, to write the Introduction to The Conflict of Laws for the Clarendon Press, and to conduct first-hand research into whether the claims made for the gastronomic excitements of Singapore are justified. As to the former, the book will come out later in the year, at least if there is a pause in the flood of new legislation which means that what was written yesterday will be almost certainly obsolete tomorrow; and as to the latter, they most certainly are. And it gave him a chance to catch up with the progress made by the Teddy Hall lawyers, who find that they have really only exchanged one authoritarian regime for another.

Professor Richard Crampton made two trips to Bulgaria during the academic year. The first was in October, when he received the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from Bulgaria's oldest institute of higher education, the Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. As part of the ceremony he delivered a lecture, and during his visit he also lectured to an invited audience in the residence of the British Ambassador and at the congress of the Bulgarian-British Studies Association. The ambassador's residence was the venue for one of the two lectures he gave during his second visit in April; the other was given at the American University in Bulgaria in the town of Blagoevgrad near the Macedonian-Bulgarian border. Both lectures were on aspects of the current situation in the Balkans, as viewed by a historian. He also journeyed to Greece as a member of the Board of Eminent Scholars of the Center for Reconciliation and Democracy in South-Eastern Europe (CDRSEE), which aims to bring together young historians from south-eastem Europe in the hope that they will come to view their histories without any distorting nationalist, or other, prisms. In October the CDRSEE held a conference in a modem resort hotel on the Chalkidiki peninsula. The conference itself worked well, though one guidebook suggests that if travellers are

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driving to that particular town and have time to spare, their best bet would be to drive somewhere else. He is also a member of the Advisory Board and of the Balkan section of the Central and East European Book Project, which finances the translation of important books into various central and east European languages, and he travelled to Amsterdam twice to take part in meetings. Closer to home, he gave lectures at the Bulgarian embassy in London and read a paper to a research seminar in Cambridge. The latter dealt with the little-known subject of the allied bombing raids on Bulgaria during the Second World War. John Dunbabin gave a paper on the 1960s as a turning-point in international relations at a workshop in Bologna in April, and another in September on the financing of British universities over the last two centuries to an equally attractively located conference mounted by the University of Berne in Switzerland. In the course of the year, he also acquired a new house, by way of (we hope premature) preparation for a decrepit retirement.

Deborah Eaton, the Librarian, gave an illustrated talk on the Hall's libraries to the University of Cambridge Newcomers Club on their visit to Oxford. She again attended the Oxford University Royal Naval Unit's annual cocktail party, and the University of North Carolina Library School's 'Oxford Experience' reception. She has helped with the design of and illustrations for a website devoted to the German soprano Elizabeth Schumann, and in May she was elected Chairman of the Park Close Management Co. Ltd. Professor Stuart Ferguson has been awarded the Keilin Medal of the Biochemical Society for 2001. The medal is awarded biennially for research achievement into the set of proteins known as cytochromes, and Professor Ferguson received the award for the contribution he and his team have made to our knowledge of the function, structures and biogenesis of bacterial cytochromes. He gave the Keilin Memorial lecture entitled 'Keilin 's cytochromes: how bacteria vary them, use them and make them ' at Trinity College, Dublin, in July.

Sir Peter Hirsch was elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. Election to the N AE is among the highest distinctions accorded an engineer, and no other Oxford engineer is currently a member of this body. Sir Peter's citation honours him 'for experimentally establishing the role of dislocations in plastic flow and of electron rnicroscopy as a tool for materials research'.

Professor John Hunt was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in May; he was also awarded the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers' Company

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Award 'in recognition of his outstanding, wide-ranging and definitive theoretical and experimental research on solidification of materials, and for his contributions to industrial casting processes' .

Professor John Knight continued as head of the Department of Economics. He presented a paper on unemployment in South Africa at an international conference in Johannesburg, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Natal. He presented papers on the Chinese economy at international conferences in Clermont-Ferrand, Beijing, and Xiamen. A workshop on his research project 'The new urban poverty in China' was held in the Hall in July, bringing together scholars from Britain, China, Japan and Australia.

Dr Priscilla Martin attended an international conference on 'The representation of time in literature and the other arts' at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA in June and gave a paper entitled 'Time and The Bell'.

Dr Bruce Mitchell attended the Annual Conference of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland at the University of Nottingham in November. He was honoured by an invitation to address the London Dinner of the Aularian Association on 9 January, and revisited Australia in February.

The year has seen publication inter alia of the sixth edition of A guide to Old English, first published in 1964. Don't wait for the eighth or even the seventh: buy now.

For Dr David Manolopoulos, the highlight of the academic year was spending a delightful two months (September and October) on sabbatical in Berkeley, away from the responsibilities of being Dean (thanks to Chris Wells, who stood in for him). Since then, he has given invited talks at Caltech and at a winter Gordon Conference in California, and before the year is up he will be giving more talks in Italy and the United States.

The Principal, Professor Michael Mingos, gave lectures at conferences in Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Bologna, and Uppsala. He also visited and/or examined at The Open University, UMIST, and the University of Wales, Bangor, the laboratories of Personal Chemistry AB in Sweden, and the Universities of Pretoria, the Western Cape, Fort Hare, Zululand and Cape Town in South Africa. Last year, the University conferred on him the title of Professor of Chemistry; in 2001, he received an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Sussex.

Dr Philip Mountford has given invited lectures this year at the SouthWest Regional Meeting of the Dalton Division of the RSC, Cardiff; the Royal Society of Chemistry, Glasgow and West of Scotland Section; the 34th International Conference in Coordination Chemistry, Edinburgh; the

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4th Anglo-Dutch Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis, in The Netherlands; and the Departments of Chemistry at University College London and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

The academic year began hectically for Dr Lucy Newlyn, who eo-chaired an international conference in the Oxford English Faculty in September, entitled 'The Republic of Letters 2000: The public role of writers and intellectuals'. Her book Reading, Writing and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (OUP) also appeared in September, and was awarded one of two annual RoseMary Crawshay prizes by the British Academy. Set up in 1888, this is the only book prize for female scholars in the UK, and it celebrates 'outstanding published works by women on any subject concerned with English literature' . Second editions of her earlier books, Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion and 'Paradise Lost' and the Romantic Reader, were published in paperback in May. Lucy served this year as Chair of the English Faculty, which meant lots of committee meetings and faculty events. She also edited an anthology of poems about choughs (for which see page 41), due to appear in November. Some of her own verse has been published this year in The Oxford Magazine, and will be included in Oxford Poets 2001, to be published by Carcanet in the autumn.

Dr Rob Whittaker has been appointed acting director of the Environmental Change Institute from April to December 2001 . In September he will be visiting the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, followed by participation in a NCEAS workshop on 'Foundations of Biogeography', to be held in Santa Barbara. He is currently planning a further expedition to the Krakatau Islands, to take place next summer.

Sir David Yardley continued as Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust, Chairman of the Examining Board and of the Awards Panel of the Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation, Independent Adjudicator for the Millennium Commission, Complaints Commissioner for the Financial Services Authority, and Chairman of the Oklahoma Oxford Law Programme at Brasenose College, Summer 2001. He examined in the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, and gave a public lecture in Kuala Lumpur, April 2001. In November 2000, he addressed the Surrey Mayors Association.

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LAST OF THE MOHICANS: RECOLLECTIONS OF NEARLY HALF-A-CENTURY AT THE HALL When I retired as a tutorial fellow in September 2000, the SCR gave my wife and me a great send-off, which included a party, a gift, and for me the ultimate reward: election to an emeritus fellowship. This means that I now have all the social delights of college membership and none of the responsibilities. I was extremely grateful to my colleagues, not only for that reason, but also, as I told them at the time, because I could not imagine life without continuing links with St Edmund Hall, where I have an unbroken association going back to 1954. In the past it was not uncommon for undergraduates to remain as fellows of their college, and the Hall has a number of distinguished retired fellows who did just that. But now it is rare, and I suspect that I am the last of this particular tribe of Mohicans.

I nearly didn't make it to the Hall. My geography schoolmaster had been at St Peter's Hall (as it then was) and wanted me to go there. But the head master recommended St Edmund Hall because, as he said, 'it would suit you'. How right he was. The Hall has special qualities, often summed up in the word 'friendliness', which are quickly recognized by all who come up; and it certainly suited me, a shy grammar-school boy from industrial West Yorkshire. I had entered Batley Grammar School in 1945, a beneficiary of the 1944 Education Act which enabled youngsters from modest backgrounds to go to the local grammar schools without paying fees. I think I am right in saying that when I came up to Oxford, about three-quarters of the intake was from state schools. It fell to around half following the abolition of the direct grant and grammar schools, a fact conveniently overlooked by politicians like Gordon Brown in his ill-judged attack on Oxford over the Laura Spence affair. The grammar schools had devoted and inspired teachers, but of course they were selective, and therefore, the politicians said, socially divisive. It has proved harder to persuade talented boys and girls from the new comprehensives to apply to Oxford despite the considerable efforts made to do this. In my case I used to go around talking to local branches of the Geographical Association, a body that organizes lectures for teachers and sixth-formers, and sometimes applicants to the Hall would tell me that they had had no idea which college to apply to but had chosen SEH because they had seen someone from there who struck them as moderately normal. I take no credit for this; it just underlines the need to make personal contacts, a very time-consuming demand on busy tutors.

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tions of the Hall, I was reluctant to accept, but he was gently persuasive and I gave way despite having no clear idea of what I wanted to say. I am not by temperament one who looks backward to a golden age, and the last thing I would do is to suggest that things are better or worse than they were in the past. But inevitably they are different. In the early fifties the Hall was just emerging from the autocratic rule of A.B . Emden. The number of fellows and undergraduates was growing, and there was a move to democratization of decision-making within the SCR. That trend scarcely applied to admissions, however, and the role of John Kelly and my old tutor, Rowley Gullick, was still important in determining who got in. It was the beginning of the great era of sporting domination, and my recollection of admission interview is of trying to persuade the fellows that I was a long-distance runner. It was not really true, and I never took part in the Teddy Hall Relays, but I somehow got in and came up in one of a group of about 70 freshers who included some very talented sportsmen.

There are those who believe the Hall became too sporty, and indeed there were undergraduates who struggled in the Examination Schools, but sporting excellence did make the Hall known and this was important when it acquired its charter as a full college of the university in 1957. And sport wasn't the only activity of note. Art, drama and music flourished and contributed to the Hall's growing reputation. Looking back, the fifties were distinctive years, and that is apparent from what my contemporaries say when they meet at reunions. When I later became a tutor, the sporting reputation of the Hall had gained a momentum of its own, and some schools were inclined to think we were only looking for sportsmen. That was a bit frustrating at times, although I fully subscribe to the view that university life involves more than simply working for a First. Education at this level involves the nurturing of a range of talents, and it is what the Hall continues to do. For a tutor it is rewarding to see these talents unfold - sporting, cultural, political or whatever- and close contact with undergraduates is what I miss most in retirement.

So far as the student body is concerned, the two biggest changes since the 1950s have been the growth in graduate numbers, and the arrival of women undergraduates in 1979, both welcome changes. I recall at the charter ceremony in 1957 being introduced to the Duke of Edinburgh as 'our graduate'. It was not an entirely accurate description because there were a few of us around, but there was no MCR, and none of that enriching diversity of young graduates that we have now. One of my warmest memories of my early graduate years is of Sunday evening meetings of the Essay Society

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when a group of us, undergraduates as well as graduates, met to hear and then discuss an essay read, either by one of our number or by an invited guest. Serious or funny, on all manner of subjects, some of them even found their way into a small volume. Most of my lasting friendships date from this time and those Sundays after dinner in the Emden Room. As to the arrival of women, it just seemed right, and after a couple of years, as numbers had grown, we had almost forgotten it had been otherwise.

At this time I joined Halifax House, the graduate club, where the headwaitress doubled up as an usherette at the Scala cinema. It was well understood that her young men would buy the cheapest tickets but she would show them into the most expensive seats. Then, in 1959, I was appointed a college lecturer and moved back into college in a quasi-decanal role, eventually finishing up in that extension of Staircase 8 above Tom Crabbe's cycle workshop. There I installed one of the first TV sets in college, thanks to the help of my friend Vivek Nileshwar who was a scientist and knew something about television. The set was old, large, had probably had several owners and later caught fire, but that was not Vivek's fault. During the severe winter of 1963, my last in Hall, most of the college lavatories froze but mine was protected by an electric heater and continued to work, resulting in a steady flow of dons coming through my bedroom to relieve themselves. I don't know what the undergraduates did, but that was when the famous wisteria died, some said as a result of urine poisoning. But we did better than Hertford, which froze up completely and had to send the students home.

I was elected to a tutorial fellowship at the Hall in 1962, a singular compliment since it was two more years before I was appointed university lecturer.

Rowley Gullick was still the senior fellow in Geography and one couldn't have wished for a better mentor. It was to Rowley that I owe my love of France. His other great interest was railway history, and he seemed to know something about every line that had been built in Britain. He had intended devoting his retirement to writing a history of the railway mania in Britain, and it was very sad that illness and his early death robbed us of that book.

After Rowley retired, I had the pleasure of working for many years with Norman Pollock. At one time, we took parties of students on field trips to Yorkshire, usually staying in Whitby, and one of my memories is of us all arriving at our modest hotel - 'The Oxford' I think - to find it still being refurbished, a large hole where the lift should have been, no food, and the proprietor's wife in tears. Norman marched us all round to the largest hotel in Whitby and demanded assistance, saying that the honour of the town was

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at stake. They took us in, at no extra cost.

About 1970, Norman and his wife Joy decided to buy a small cottage in the Dordogne, and they kindly invited Mary and me to join the enterprise.

This was the start of a very happy phase in our lives when each family spent three or four weeks there in the summer. The Common Agricultural Policy had not yet destroyed traditional farming practices in that part of France, and it was a kind of window on the past when small producers were almost self-sufficient. The Nadals, from whom we bought the cottage, were extraordinarily hospitable and would invite us to meals of about ten courses, only the coffee having come from a shop. It was here in the Dordogne that Norman became a legend for his walks, including a 20-mile hike in the middle of the night from Perigueux station to the cottage along roads he had never before walked in his life.

Rob Whittaker has been my colleague for the last ten years, and I greatly valued his support and his understanding of my increasingly old-fashioned ways. It is pleasing that the Hall has been able to appoint a second Geography fellow to succeed me, and I hope that sponsorship may one day be found in order to reduce the financial burden on the college. I must also mention Lorraine Wild, and express my gratitude to her for help both this last year and on other occasions.

College life is what distinguishes Oxford from most other universities, but the tutorial system, committees, and pressure to hold a college office make big demands on one's time from which the younger dons need to be protected. I was fortunate in the early years in only being asked to be Dean of Degrees. Later on, it was a succession of offices: Secretary to the Governing Body, Tutor for Admissions, Vice-Principal, Tutor for Undergraduates [and Editor of the Magazine. Ed.], but these jobs can become more congenial as the race to publish becomes less pressing. Yet times change, and these days one's university work is under scrutiny in ways that were quite unknown 40 years ago. Teaching Quality Assessments and Research Assessment Exercises might have merit; but they are not above question, compartmentalizing academic life in sometimes artificial ways and generally reflecting the mistrust of the teaching profession at all levels that exists in the minds of contemporary politicians.

The need to satisfy these government appraisal schemes makes for a less relaxed approach to teaching and research than existed in my early years, and it has its repercussions on college life where regular dining together in the evening is a thing of the past. But eating habits are also affected by social change. The Wolfson Hall was opened in 1970, soon after the events

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of 1968 when students nationally sought changes to old practices and less formality in the way things were done. In Oxford, the demands included alternatives to formal dining, but I think we went too far in the direction of canteen eating at that time. Wednesday graduate evening aside, Sunday is now the only day of the week when senior and all junior members continue to dine together on a regular basis. Sunday, however, is not a night when the dons dine in, for quite understandable reasons, so that the Chaplain's small party is often the only senior presence at High Table. Happily, the choir fill up High Table and the occasion is usually quite an enjoyable one, but when I found myself, one evening in Trinity Term, the only don at High Table, I did indeed think I was last of the Mohicans.

At reunions I am sometimes asked whether present-day undergraduates are very different from those of the 1950s. 'Yes and no' is a typical donnish answer. They still arrive for tutorials with implausible excuses for not completing their essays on time, but most of them work hard and are rewarding to teach. Academic standards have risen, not least because there is no longer the tail of those who got Fourths, a Pass or nothing at all. But the trend to modular courses at A-level means that many arrive having specialized very narrowly, lacking the broader knowledge that was more common in the past.

With the demise of regional studies, geographers may be familiar with all the theories of global warming or famine, but don't know where places are.

Yet 'they manage to travel to the remoter parts of the world without getting lost, so perhaps it doesn't matter.

We came up in the fifties with county or state scholarships. Modem students, part of a much larger national total, have to find money for fees and maintenance, which often means sizeable debts when they go down. Many of them come from broken homes or experience the trauma of parental separation whilst they are up, and this can become apparent in a range of work and other problems. However some of them bottle it up, not even sharing their concerns with their tutors. The phrase 'moral tutor' has long since disappeared, but there are counselling and support services, unheard of in the past, for those prepared to take advantage of them. And undergraduates do support each other, continuing also to get involved in a host of Oxfordbased schemes and charities to help the deprived and the handicapped in the city at large. They also elect Green councillors to the City Council, a way of expressing their idealism that has replaced the student revolt of yesteryear.

Some of them extend this idealism into the job market, taking positions in the low-paid public sector, but most of them seem to go off to the City.

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those social concerns honed during three years at Teddy Hall.

Narrowing the gap between rich and poor is one of the challenges of our age. The same applies to Oxford colleges. The rich ones are able to buy in extras for their students, and this tends to be reflected in the Norrington Table, the league table of academic results. The same applies to accommodation. Those colleges that can afford to do so are now offering the choice of living-in to all their undergraduates. Most of our second-years still live out, and one of my greatest hopes is to be still around when the Hall can offer accommodation to all its students.

Meanwhile we continue to be grateful for the tremendous financial support given by our old members. The loyalty and commitment of the Hall's old members is the envy of other colleges, and by the time you read this I shall have been a personal recipient of that generosity, a retirement lunch organized for me in September to which all my old pupils who can be contacted have been invited. I must have taught between 350 and 400 Hall geographers over the years, and as I write I am looking forward to meeting many old friends. If you haven't been able to come to the party, please keep in touch in other ways.

Ian Scargill Emeritus Fellow

SIR DENIS WRIGHT In March 2001 , Sir Denis Wright (Honorary Fellow) celebrated his 90th birthday. On 29 May, a special dinner in his honour was held at the Hall at which Mr John Dunbabin, the Senior Fellow, proposed the toast:

'Senior Fellow' I may technically be, but I remain immensely junior to Sir Denis, who came up to the Hall in 1929. It was a different world then.

Applicants filled in not UCAS forms, but special SEH ones, whose final question asked one's 'religious denomination'. The Hall had rather over 100 students. In 1930, they almost all attended an open-air bump supper stretched picturesquely round three sides of the Quad- of 'the Quad', of course, not of 'the Front Quad', for there was really no other; though under the impulse of the dynamic new Principal, A.B . Emden, the process of leasing houses on what is now Whitehall had begun, in a drang nach siiden, to reach the High Street and to provide rooms for the growing Hall population. Denis himself, though, it is interesting to note in the context of our current accommodation debates, spent two years in digs, and one on Staircase 1.

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He took his degree in Modem History in 1932, then had to find employment at the trough of the Great Depression - helped in part by his service in the Cavalry section of the University OTC. His first post was in advertising, at the princely sum of ÂŁ2 a week. And it says much of his devotion to the Hall, and respect for Emden, that he was soon contributing to the Hall Endowment Fund. He also wrote in 1938, on the basis of his professional advertising expertise, to congratulate Emden 'on the excellent Endowment Appeal pamphlet'. I shall recall only one of his many subsequent contributions: the dispatch to Emden in 1946 of a Hall hockey shirt, not, he explained, as a suggestion that the Abe should take up that game, but because undergraduates might find the shirt useful 'in these days of coupons'.

The outbreak of war had found Denis on holiday in Romania. He offered to help the local British Consul, and his services first there and then in Turkey proved too valuable for the Foreign Office to lose. Also in Romania, Denis was joined by Iona Craig, who made her way there, romantically and with some difficulty, to become - as she relates in her autobiography, published in 1997- a Black Sea bride. In 1946, Denis became a 'regular member' of the Foreign Service - though the FO did not conduct any security clearance enquiries at the Hall until 1952, after the Burgess and Maclean affair, as it rather shamefacedly explained to Principal Kelly. Denis's Foreign Office career was meteoric: sent in December 1953 on the ticklish task of re-establishing diplomatic relations with Iran after the Moussadeq affair; later Ambassador to Ethiopia, where he earned much credit by correctly forecasting that the current coup would not dislodge the Emperor; and finally Ambassador to Iran, where he played an important role in inducing it to drop its claim to Bahrain- a precondition for any stability in the area after the British pulled out.

In 1971, Denis reached the statutory retirement age, and was quite rightly laden with honours - ranging from a knighthood from the Queen to a pair of sandals from a Baluchi chief in compensation for the Englishmen his tribe had killed in the past. He was also elected to an Honorary Fellowship at the Hall, in which capacity he has over the years provided constant assistance, advice and support.

Denis has been a maker of history. He is also a writer of it, starting perhaps with war-time researches into the archives of his vice-consulate at Trebizond. From his numerous publications I can here mention only two books, The English among the Persians: During the Qajar period, 17871921 (1977) and The Persians among the English: Episodes in Anglo-Persian history (1985), to one of which I had the good fortune to contribute a

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I therefore call on you to join me in honouring Sir Denis Wright on his 90th birthday, a advertising executive, diplomat, and - like Iona - historian, but above all as friend and Fellow of the Hall, by drinking the health of Denis and Iona Wright.

John Dunbabin Fellow in Politics

PROGRESSION BY DEGREES Professor John Knight was recently awarded an honorary degree from the University of Natal in South Africa. He records his reflections on the occasion: It was fascinating to return to the University from which I had graduated about 40 years ago, and to compare the two situations and occasions.

My first degree had been a formative period for me, both personally and professionally. Personally, because this was the time when the absurd and iniquitous system of Apartheid was being imposed. To give an example, the racial segregation of the universities was being enacted, and most universities were in confrontation with government. It was a time to stand up and be counted. The natural proclivity of students around the world to froth and foam at the foolishness and knavishness of their elders and rulers was fully justified in our case. I vividly recall one occasion when the Prime Minister, the architect of Apartheid, H.F. Verwoerd, came to the city to address a party meeting. As his motor cavalcade drove past the University, it was suddenly thronged by a few hundred young people, who might easily have been mistaken for students, including one youth who might easily have been mistaken for me. A donkey cart suddenly appeared. It bore a coffin, draped with a banner on which was painted the word 'Freedom'. The Prime Minister's car being hemmed in behind it, he proceeded at donkey pace as chief mourner at the funeral of Freedom. Former Proctors reading this will be turning in their proctorial graves. Yet we got away with it. However, the Sharpeville massacre lay just ahead, and that sort of protest would not have been tolerated in later years as the country moved inexorably to a pre-civilwar situation.

Professionally also, it was a formative period for me. One was living in the midst of great poverty and inequality. I decided that, if I were going to be an economist, I would want to address problems of that sort, especially in poor

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societies, in the innocent hope that an economist might do some good. Later, when this University and the Hall offered me the opportunity to stay on in Oxford, I grabbed at it- but not without some pangs of guilt about deserting.

So, over the years, every now and again I have done research on the South African economy. This includes my current research project on the causes and cures of unemployment in South Africa: unemployment which is running at a third of the labour force and is the source of many ills.

Although I have kept myself informed, it was eye-opening on my return this year to observe Natal University operating in the New South Africa.

The graduation ceremony itself was a joyous occasion. There was an altogether higher class of ululation than we hear in the Sheldonian.

I was asked to give the graduation address. To warm them up I started by telling the graduands that, when I had sat in their place, I faced a career choice. My BA majors were in Economics and Law. To explain why the choice was a difficult one, I decided to tell a joke or two against economists.

Then, to be even-handed, I was about to tell some wicked jokes about lawyers. At that point I faltered ... I suddenly recalled that the Chancellor of the University, presiding over the proceedings, is the Vice-President of South Africa's Constitutional Court. But, with a benevolent wave of the hand, he allowed me to continue! The theme of the address was investment in human capital. Talent is no longer wasted as wantonly as in the past, but the country is still very short of well-educated people. I was able to assure the graduands that they had invested wisely. On average, if one holds everything else constant, a first degree doubles lifetime income in South Africa- which is a lot more than it does for graduates in Britain.

Visiting Natal University made me aware that the problems which we, as a university and a college, face are, by comparison, little ones. Let me give examples: • They too have suffered a great financial squeeze to accommodate the expansion of national enrolments. Indeed, it is the University, and not the Government, which runs the essential student loan scheme and suffers from non-repayments. • We know our own difficulties of trying to select according to academic potential, given that there is not a level playing field in the British school system. But in South Africa the difference in the quality of schooling remains enormous, despite the progress in racially integrating the better schools. • Accordingly, many of the black students are ill-prepared for university, and this has produced high failure rates. That in turn may well be the

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underlying cause of the discontent and campus rioting which closed the University for a time not long ago. • And then there is the Government's requirement of affirmative action in staffing policy. I was told in jest - I think it was in jest - that management would like to disable some of the senior, white, male professors_ In that way, more of them could be kept on under the disability quota!

I was impressed by the general enthusiasm and positive attitudes_ People accept the challenge, on the one hand, of meeting the new national priorities and, on the other, of trying hard to maintain high academic standards. But I made a mental note that we in Oxford perhaps fail to realise just ho"VV many blessings there are for us to count.

John Knight Fellow in Economics CHOUGH FRENZY The Cornish chough is a familiar college emblem; but these birds are almost extinct in the British Isles, and very few of us have ever seen a real one. So, when the Principal displayed two stuffed choughs at our St Edmund's feast last year, I was not alone in being surprised by their appearance. They are very different from the small friendly creatures who appear in our college coat of arms. Pitch-black, with red curved beaks and talons, they resemble birds of prey. The moment you see them, you imagine them in motion scavenging for food on the cliff-side, or soaring free.

At our feast-night, the Principal gave an amusing account of the chough's 'acrobatic and over-friendly' antics. Drawing on the bird's heraldic significance for St Edmund of Abingdon, he recited a poem by Dorothy Williams, which pronounced the bird's name in various ways. ('Chuff' is of coil.lrse the correct pronunciation.) After dinner, in the convivial atmosphere of the SCR, I suggested to Michael Cansdale that the Hall might produce a Christmas card commemorating the chough, with a picture and maybe one or "two poems. Soon we found ourselves hatching a plot for a slim volume - to be timed for Christmas 2001, perhaps?- and in any event to be sponS<>red by the SEH Association.

What started as a modest proposal grew more ambitious with time. I approached a number of published poets here in Oxford, to ask if the:>' would 'chough up' for our anthology as a way of supporting the Hall. To my delight, most of them turned out to have first-hand knowledge of choughs, and were glad to contribute. Tom Paulin, best known for his appearances on

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BBC's Late Review, spends every summer on his farm in Donegal. He is familiar with the chough's 'clattery cry'; and has used the bird as a symbol many times in his poetry. A quick composer, he was able to send in a poem almost by return of post. Another Irish poet, Bernard O'Donoghue, knows the chough of old, and his delightfully arch poem 'Chough Dunromin' arrived a few weeks later. David Cons tan tine is not himself Celtic, but it turns out that his father-in-law was a Cornish bard; and to honour him, David contributed two poems gladly. Anne Ridler, who has a long-standing connection with the Hall through her husband Vivian, gave us two haikus which play on the bird's Shakespearean associations. (The chough appears seven times in Shakespeare's plays; and is mentioned in Macbeth as a prophetic bird).

So far so good! Four distinguished poets had contributed to our volume, and there were more to come. At a dinner in the Principal's Lodgings, just before Christmas, Terry Jones improvised a couplet- 'When I see a foureyed chough I I know that I have had enough'- which later burgeoned into four. After a little chivvying, Kevin Crossley-Holland sent in two poems, one serious and one comic. His appearance in the volume is particularly pleasing, as it marks his election to an Honorary Fellowship at the Hall.

With these famous Aularians as contributors, it was not hard to persuade closet poets inside the college to follow suit. (We all know that Justin Gosling is a great classicist; but did you know he was a poet too? And what about those English scholars, Reggie Alton and Bruce Mitchell? Or Adrian Briggs and Robert Whittaker?) The word soon spread; colleagues and friends joined in; and before long I had collected about a hundred original contributions. Some of the fellows' poems were inspired by the Principal's speech on St Edmund's night; others by the stuffed choughs themselves, which now nest in the Senior Common Room. Arthur Farrand Radley's article in last year's Magazine proved a valuable source of information, as did the website for 'pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax' on the internet.

During Hilary Term, verse in every register, from the reverential to the flippant, poured in. Those who did not want to contribute poetry gave articles or short passages of prose. All sorts of illustration followed. In poetry workshops with my first-year students, we composed haikus and Celtic blessings on the chough theme. (A local television crew even came and filmed us in the throes of composition.) For a while it seemed as though the college had been taken over by choughs. At Artweek in the Trinity term, a very large papier-mache bird (made by me and our daughter Emma, with no help and some disapproval from the Senior Proctor) hung from the JCR party room

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ceiling. Carrying the title Chough Excess, it was surrounded by numerous tiny origami choughs made into a mobile. This was designed by the Bursar, each chough carefully crafted and hand-painted by staff in the bursary. A caricature of my big chough surrounded by little choughs appeared on the front cover of the Artweek catalogue; and a photograph (reproduced below) of the big bird was later taken by one of our MCR members, looking rather spectacularly dead, in the graveyard.

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Our anthology would have run to several volumes had I included everything that was submitted for consideration. As it is, the book has six separate parts, each with its own introduction. The first part (which includes an article by lain Bain on Thomas Bewick's chough) is concerned with the bird's habitat and behaviour, as well as with its status as an endangered species. The second, entitled 'Prophetic Birds', contains poems which play on the bird's literary and symbolic associations. The third, with an introduction by our Junior Dean, Philip Cardinale, explores the chough's connections with Arthurian legend. (Did you know that when King Arthur died, his soul migrated into a chough, and that our once and future king is still around, circling the coastline somewhere in Ireland or Brittany?) The fourth part contains poems written collaboratively by St Edmund Hall students. The fifth is a miscellany of poems, in a wide range of forms and registers. The sixth is devoted to the bird's significance for St Edmund Hall, containing an historical article by Nicholas Davidson and a newly discovered medieval manuscript, edited by Justin Gosling.

The book will be published in November by Signal books, in affordable paperback and more lavish hardback. It contains beautiful illustrations in chalk and pen-and-ink by Lucy Wilkinson, who read English at the Hall in 1997-2000. Geoffrey Bourne-Tay lor has contributed a sequence of amusing comic caricatures in pen-and-ink. There are further illustrations by various members of college; and the cover has been designed by Stephen Farthing RA, former Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing.

Mingling the old and the new, the professional and the amateur, this anthology embodies our famous 'Teddy Hall spirit', and has been great fun for all involved. Its publication is timely; for it coincides with the return of choughs in Cornwall. In June, an article appeared in The Daily Telegraph announcing that five of these birds have been sighted in the wild. For years conservationists have been trying to re-create the right conditions for this bird to thrive; and in Paradise Park, Hay le, they have been training up choughs to release into the wild, in the hope that they might breed. Now there is a possibility that nature has done it all herself!

So, to celebrate the return of choughs to Cornwall, and the ongoing spirit of poetry at Teddy Hall, please buy this book! It would be hard to imagine a more appropriate Christmas present for family and friends.

LucyNewlyn Fellow in English

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THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM As the academic year comes to a close, we look forward to the MCR Garden Party, the final event of Trinity Term. This seems the perfect moment to reminisce about the many days and nights we have enjoyed over the last twelve months.

Michaelmas Term opened in powerful style with the matriculation ceremony, followed by champagne in the Front Quad. Later in the term, the MCR tempted fate with a wine-tasting evening hosted by our outgoing President, Andrew Ritcheson. The term concluded with two traditional favourites, the St. Edmund's Day Feast and the ever-popular MCR Christmas Dinner. New Year's resolutions in Hilary Term were unceremoniously tossed aside as MCR members continued to tuck in at Burns Night and the Medieval Feast.

Graduates seemed equally at home whether sampling haggis whilst listening to bagpipes and renditions of Burns poems, or cleaving off chunks of turkey and blowing froth off beer whilst watching some juggling. The feasting theme for this term was continued with the Hearne Dinner, which rounded off the term in fine culinary style.

Despite all our feasting, the MCR also excelled in the sporting arena. Patrick Wallace led the Teddy Hall MCR Relay Team past the finish line in first place among all graduate squads, after which he then ran in the Varsity match. After the Christ Church Regatta was cancelled following the wettest winter in living memory, Craig Wood and Geoffrey Lloyd rowed for the I st VIII in Torpids and Summer Eights and were strongly supported by Giacomo Tortora, Niko Schultz-Suchting, Harald Braun and Benjarnin Weston in the 2nd VIII. We also recognize the achievements ofValerie Goldstein and Aoife Scannell who helped the Hall become Cuppers champions at Women's Rugby.

This year in addition saw the revival of the MCR Cricket team, which has already become legendary for striking fear into the hearts of any side daring to do battle with us. Congratulations should also go to Maria Liakata for winning the Oxford Language Race over stiff competition by studying Ukrainian intensely for one month and then proving her fluency to a panel of judges (see further on page 168).

In contrast to the wet winter, Trinity Term brought brighter weather ensuring that the MCR punt was in constant use. May Day dawn was toasted with champagne and strawberries and cream, and Trinity Dinner was heartily enjoyed by graduates who subsequently unleashed themselves on to an unsuspecting dance floor with true Aularian flourish. A group of our students from the Far East also organised a night of Japanese cuisine, and exchange

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dinners to Hertford and St Hugh's Colleges rounded out the calendar.

Throughout the year, MCR Dessert Nights in the ODH remained as endearing as ever, and the Tuesday Cake mornings as tasty.

Thanks are due to President Ritcheson, Steward Phil Cardinale, and Secretary Stuart Robinson, who recently concluded their MCR officerships.

Their invaluable support, along with the valued efforts of Almut Sprigade, our recently re-elected Women's/Welfare Officer, has enabled the new committee of Benjarnin Weston, Robert Dry burgh and David Wilkes to make a smooth transition. The MCR's year-in-review would be incomplete, however, without acknowledgement of the hard work and dedication that our Butler, Julie McCann, shows, not only to the MCR as a whole but to each and every individual. We also must extend our sincerest gratitude to Professor Basil Kouvaritakis, who as Tutor for Graduates has vociferously supported and represented the MCR within the wider college community.

Both Professor Kouvaritakis and Hagit Amirav also have entertained us at lunchtime violin recitals. It is with regret that the MCR now bids farewell to a number of valued members as they head on to pastures new. Dr Harald Braun leaves us to take up a position at King's College, London, while Professor Arihiro Fukuda and his wife Yoshiko return to Japan. Honorary MCR member and Assistant College Librarian Dr Darnian Atkinson retires this year.

The MCR could not be the successful and welcoming body that it is today without the enthusiasm and energy of its members, and it is with them that my final gratitude must lie.

Floreat Aula!

Benjarnin Weston MCR President

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Ever since I started in office in the Hilary term, my main aim has been to attempt to make the JCR relevant again, for despite the many worthy efforts of my predecessors, it had lost touch with the majority of the undergraduate students in the college. The first step was obviously to increase the attendance at JCR Meetings, and this has been rather successful: from an average of 30 students per meeting, we are now above 60. This is mostly the result of making meetings more efficient, shorter, and less political, as the aspects of politics that do not affect the students directly are usually not very popular.

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by drinks (mainly wine) for all those who attend. Another thing has been the creation of new positions on the Committee, reflecting the needs of students that had been ignored at this level in the past. On top of the traditional functions, we now have a sports rep, a rep for visiting students, an IT officer, and an accommodations officer to facilitate the room ballot and the second year living out.

The finances of the JCR had also been, for unfortunate reasons, generally bad in the past few years. One of my aims, in order for the JCR to be able to do more things for the students (whether by the funding of JCR members' projects, social events, or better JCR facilities), was to remedy this. By obtaining funds from diverse sources, mainly students (with a levy on battels), we have trebled the annual budget of the JCR. This will be more noticeable in the time of my successor, as we have had to pay off debts accumulated over the years. I am also on the way to getting sponsorship for the JCR and its events from the start-up company Oxbridgejobs.com.

Another thing important to me has been the refurbishment of the JCR itself. Overall, a ÂŁ3,500 fund will have been raised for this, including many contributions from the students and the St Edmund Hall Association, and also from the college. The main wall has been redecorated with a pop-art work done by one of our fine-artists. We will be getting sofas next term, as well as a home-cinema sound system for the television. Finally, we made J.K. Rowling (author of Harry Potter) an Honorary Member of the Hall.

After having contacted her PA several times, and despite the fact that she is (for the moment) too busy to come and speak, we have received a beautiful poster, signed by Mrs Row ling to 'the members of the Teddy Hall JCR of which I am an honoured honorary member' . The poster is being framed and will be displayed from Michaelmas Term in the JCR. Finally, I thought it was important to promote the college at a University level. I have therefore tamed the editors of Cherwell and Oxford Student to ensure that there is an article about Teddy Hall in each issue. When there really is nothing to report, I write a letter to the editor in order for at least the name of the college to be mentioned. Also, I have started the tradition (I hope) of having as guests at JCR meetings those who animate the Oxonian political scene: for instance, in Trinity Term, the President of OUSU. Next term, the President of the Union and the local MP will come to speak and answer questions.

It has all been extremely enjoyable, but none of this could have been achieved without a great JCR Committee and the willingness of the students, as well as the help of the SCR and the generous support and contributions of the

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Alexander Grouet JCR President

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES* The Basketball Club Captain: Tom Morgan

When all's said and done, no one could deny that Teddy Hall's Globetrotters have had a good season. Things bode well for future generations, with young stars like Rohan 'not American' Brown coming up through the ranks and moulding well with the experienced campaigners Joe 'Dr J' Hanson and Rob 'Melee' Marsden. Rohan has not only managed to establish himself as the first-choice small forward, but arguably the season's MVP, and I wish him the best of luck with the captaincy next year.

As was to be expected, our much-loved American cousins contributed in no small way to the team. Dan 'Superfly' Greninger was a great player, when he wasn't gallivanting off to have 'recreational' weekends, and his crazy jumpers were sorely missed when he left us for warmer climes in Hilary. Karthik, Jared and Big Alex were always there when needed, and Chad Quisenberry and Zach Leuschner provided offensive depth among the guards. Our centres, Mike 'Mouth' Jennings, Rob 'Tackleberry' and George Rossides were always up for the inevitable scrap our gritty defensive game produced. Mike was never one to give up on a verbal or physical battle, even when off court and not necessarily even during a game. Rob too was always about when required, and gave that Exeter centre something to think about on his way to surgery, although he failed to take him out comprehensively during the regulation time period. Aris 'Awesome' Papathanos was the quietly effective lynchpin of our game in the paint; his 'no-look' fade-away jumpers and Bryant-esque drives were often simply inspirational. Matt 'Wideboy' Newnes was also one of our more effective inside men and, even if his shooting was sometimes a little erratic, he and Chairman Joe provided us with many an impressive rebound. Our Bosman import, Giles Hayter, came into the team at the Cuppers stage and was a great physical presence with his fantastic rebounding and useful shooting. Finally, Matt 'Wildman' Weilon's combination of rapid driving and slick shooting unsettled oppo-

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nents at every turn. His handling was truly top-notch, and he launched some absolutely crucial threes throughout the season.

The team's performances were always on the edge of something special.

The knockout stages were reached at the end of every term, but then with the inevitable significantly taller teams, they proved to be our stumbling block. Our undoing was indeed height, with Exeter securing our removal from the Cuppers competition at the quarter-finals primarily through aerial supremacy. Pride, however, was never lost and we were not the kind of team to lie down when faced with superior opposition. If we couldn' t beat them we were at least going to ruin their day, by means of our barely legal defensive tactics. Most of all, though, it's been fun , and enjoyment was certainly had by all involved in Teddy Hall basketball. Thanks to everyoneincluding the cheerleaders: you made our season!

The Boat Club Men 's Captain: Mark Cooper From foot and mouth to torrential rain, it wasn't an easy year for the SEHBC. Christ Church Regatta was cancelled, and the Isis flag was red for most of Michaelmas and Hilary. In a desperate effort to escape the monsoons, the Boat Club trekked up to Gloucester at Christmas to prepare for Torpids.

The squad comprised an interesting mix of experienced oarsmen, novices, and Arbers. Each had their own particular style, and each had a different idea about how to move a boat. Despite struggling to agree on a common technique, the crew came together well and on occasions proved surprisingly quick.

For once the promise shown in training was carried into Torpids, with the 1st Torpid over-bumping St Peter's on the first day and then emphatically rowing down Keble and Merton on Thursday and Friday. Despite notching up four bumps, OURC and a stray bung line combined to ensure the 1st Torpid in fact went down two places in the division. OURC's inexplicable inability to interpret their own rules robbed the 1st Torpid of blades and a place at the head of the division. Not satisfied, OURC attempted to intervene again and bumped down the 2nd VIII. A quick 'chat' however convinced them otherwise, and the 2nd VIII came away from Torpids with three solid row overs.

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confident and (with the possible exception of one of the captains) reasonably tanned. Training resumed a week before the start of term, with the 1st VIII rowing at Godstow. Despite some uncertainty about the final line-up, the crew worked hard under the guidance of Andy and new boy Chris van Tulleken. Buoyed by the arrival of the gold gimp suits and a shiny new yellow boat, the crew approached Eights in confident mood, determined to bump a Jesus crew who had only just wriggled away the year before. Like Torpids, however, Eights ended in disappointment, with the crew failing to realize its potential. Rowed down on the first day by a strong Christ Church crew, SEHBC failed to regroup and fell foul of Lincoln the following day.

Friday saw a much more determined performance, with the 1st VIII coming close to bumping Lincoln back. Unfortunately, such determination was not carried forward to Saturday, and the 1st VIII was bumped by a St Catz crew who should not even have got close. In the end the crew suffered because of a lack of race experience, and this showed whenever the pressure was on.

On a more positive note, the 2nd VIII performed well throughout Eights.

They bumped Keble 11 on the first day, rowed over on Thursday, succumbed to a powerful Linacre VIII on Friday, but came back strong to row over again on Saturday.

Three members of the SEHBC trialed with OUBC this year. Sam Griffiths and Craig Wood unfortunately missed out on seats, but Christian Albert was selected to stroke lsis. J. van Tulleken also won a seat in Nepthys.

Finally, the current members of the SEHBC would like to thank all those who helped with the purchase of the new Empacher, the Graham Midgely.

The new boat is a fantastic addition to the club, and means that next year's draft will have no excuses. The Empacher gives the 1st VIII a definite edge, and one which we hope will next year be converted into bumps.

1st VIII: (bow) Geoff Lloyd, Mark Cooper, Craig Wood, Rob Harrold, Sam Griffiths, Olly McGregor, Hugh Tanner, J. van Tulleken, Jen Oswald (cox) 2nd VIII: (bow) Ben Weston, Ben Graham, Andy Robinson, Harald Braun, Malcolm Lee, Niko Schultz-Suchting, Giacomo Tortora, Andy Dickson, Caroline Boon (cox)

Children's Christmas Party Following a long-standing tradition (unless we were all tricked into it under false pretences), Teddy Hall held its annual Christmas Party for 50 children from deprived areas of Oxford, funded by the JCR. As in previous years, we

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arranged for the children to play games, have a party tea, meet Father Christmas, and watch a magician. We are the only college in Oxford to do anything like this, and it's really appreciated by social services, parents and children.

Over fifty Teddy Hall students gave up their last Sunday of the Michaelmas term to look after the children, play games and entertain them, and go on the buses to pick them up and drop them off. The idea of the day was that the students would be guests at the party too. To encourage the kids to remain fairly quiet, and to avoid shepherding and bossing them around on their special day, each was paired with a college student who joined in all the activities with them. The children are mostly on 'priority lists', many with special needs or family problems, but Social Services were unable to tell us which children required special assistance, preferring to leave us to find out on the day ...

With so many unforeseeable events, Helen Drury adopted the strategy of totally over-planning the foreseeable ones, filling pigeon holes with vast quantities of timetables, instructions and forms. Assuming that 50 kids, 50 students, a magician, a party tea, and an afternoon of games can't fail to be memorable and fun, her main goal was to keep some grass on the Front Quad. Emily Bryce took charge of ÂŁ200 and spent a pleasant day in Toys'R'Us with a few friends, which was followed by an evening of present wrapping and mince-pie eating. A huge number of students helped to plan the day, buying and hanging decorations, printing and distributing T-shirts for participating students, and arranging the transport, parental permission and first aid.

Having been picked up at Barton, Blackbird Leys and Cowley, the children were divided into three groups, the Penguins (led by Steffen Deutschenbauer and Zoe Noonan), Polar Bears (led by Robin Rogers and Will Yorkmore), and the Reindeer (led by Tom Harper and Ben Fitzsimmons). The leaders had planned fantastic sessions of silly party games and crafts, which seem to have been enjoyed by the students as much as the kids! The six leaders were all wonderful, although Steffen's elephant impression deserves a special mention. Sausage rolls, pizza, jelly and ice cream were provided by college in copious quantities, and laid out in the Old Dining Hall by a large team of helpful, child-avoiding student elves. The penguins, polar bears and reindeer took turns to eat their party tea, which went surprisingly smoothly.

The structure of the day then began to break down, as children decided to act on their desire to explore (or escape from) college. Despite this challenge, Hannah Chatham ran a popular craft session in the JCR, Ben at-

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tempted to capture everyone's attention with big soft balls, and Kieron Galliard and Zoe made valiant attempts to get all the children singing 'Silent Night' in the Music Room. During this period, accompanied by 'their' students, the children took turns to visit Father 'Mike' Christmas, who had been up all night transforming the college bar into Santa's Grotto. His Chief Elf, James Keenan, worked hard to find the right gift for each child. Crowd control awards to Rachel Koncewicz and Jacquetta Blacker for saving the Front Quad from almost certain death at this point!

Huge sighs of relief were breathed at four o'clock, when the children were shepherded into the ODH, and all discipline and crowd control was handed over to 'Uncle Dave' . As we were all dazed and confused by this time, we have very little memory of the magic show, but the kids were still there at 5.00 p.m., and so was most of the ODH, so he must have been a hit! Jamie Large had made fantastic party bags to be given to each child as they boarded the coach. Having waved them off, and done a 'little bit of clearing up', we all went off to enjoy the Christmas Dinner, knowing we'd given 50 kids a fantastic day to remember.

It is impossible to name everyone who made the day go so well, so sorry to those who haven't been mentioned. But thanks to every member of college for all their help and support, especially those who didn't run and hide!

Helen Drury The Christian Union Representative: Mike Ford

During the last year we have continued to meet weekly to study the Bible, pray, encourage and learn from each other. One of the highlights of the year was the house party held in Gloucestershire with Keble, Balliol and Trinity.

The weekend turned out to be a great opportunity to learn more about God, meet other Christians, and relax away from the hectic lifestyle of Oxford.

Other things we have done include serving free teas and coffees in the front quad on Friday nights after closing time at the bar, and organising an Alpha Course within college.

At Easter I took over as CU rep from Daryl Penny and Dave Newel!.

Many thanks to them for all they did for the CU over the past year.

Unfortunately, as always, we now have to say goodbye to many of our members who have finished their studies here in Oxford and are moving on to new vocations. We pray that God will bless all that they do in the future.

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freshers, and that the CU will continue to serve the college as it has done over the last year.

The Cricket Club Captain: Jonathan Venter After the success of last year, hopes were high for the upcoming season, and it was hoped that an influx of talented freshers would combine well with the tried and tested skills of those returning for another year of Teddy Hall cricket.

However, despite the promise of good things to come, the hoped-for success never actually appeared. Matches that could, and probably would, have been comfortably won were never even played, owing to a combination of bad weather and the unwillingness of other colleges (no doubt scared of Hall might) to play at their own grounds when we were unable to provide a venue.

This meant that after almost half a term, we had played only a single league match, losing to an extremely strong Worcester side who ripped through our still experimental batting line-up. In fact, batting collapses of the style shown by the England team seemed to be our speciality. In the matches we did play, our two opening bowlers, John Murphy and Mike Ford, bowled aggressively, and were well supported by the likes of Jono Venter, Tim Johnson, Tom Watkins, Dan Mendis and Alan Rotsey. However, having quite often restricted our opponents to rather meagre totals, we invariably tried to reach the targets in as few balls as possible, and the players (and particularly their concerned captain) often had to endure nervous breakdowns in the pavilion before the winning runs could be struck.

Cuppers too saw us threaten to, but never quite actually, fulfil our potential. After demolishing Hertford, we faced Keble in the quarter-finals, but a day of bad luck in the fielding and umpiring department saw us fall agonizingly short of pulling down the redbricks. There were nevertheless some quality performances unleashed on the opposition by several of our players.

Alan Rotsey's 75 against Hertford, a superb half-century by Sid Barker against Keble, and some wonderful pinch-hitting by Tom Watkins and Rhys Beer against Lincoln, all spring to mind. Exemplary bowling performances were also easy to find- Jono Venter's 4 for 12 helped to sink Lincoln, while against Oriel, John Murphy turned in 3 for 12 to finish the season in style.

Overall the season doesn't look as impressive as it might otherwise have done, but it must be remembered that in fact we lost only two matches all term, and with a little more luck might have finished a lot higher up the table. A good team spirit was apparent throughout the term, with all the

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players enjoying their cricket when it eventually came around, and under new captain Sid Barker it is hoped that next season will finally see Teddy Hall back at the top of the leader board where they belong.

The Darts Club Captain: Tim Hill Another season, another promotion. Life just seems to get a bit boring for the boys of SEHDC. The last three seasons have seen a rise more meteoric than the Wimbledon side of the late 80s. From the depths of the fourth division, the side has risen to the heady heights of the premier league. This year's triumph has been further embellished by the league title.

So, how was it done? Well, the pre-season looked promising, as with an experienced core, few additions to the team were needed. However, with eight players to a team, some new talent was needed. High hopes were placed in the incoming freshers, but the talent never materialized, only Woods showing some early-season form (unfortunately never to be repeated!) and, of course, the perennial fresher, Harper.

Soon enough, the season was upon us, and the fears of being outclassed were soon dispelled as we dispatched a shambolic St John's side 9-3. However, the next opposition, Keble, proved a tougher test and some frailties in the doubles legs were shown up, to result in a disappointing 6-6 draw. Next up, The Queen's College, a bitter rival if ever there was one! In the early stages, the darts took a back seat to the sledging that is an integral part of college darts. However, some composure, and precision finishing, led to an unassailable 6-2 singles lead, and the 7-5 result was a sweet victory for the Hall. The lack of facilities in the bar proved the trump card in our next fixture, as footie-mad Wadharn conceded the match in favour of watching European football. By now, promotion from the league was being entertained as a reachable goal, and the early-season problems in the doubles were fading. The season then progressed at a canter, with easy wins over early pacesetters Pembroke and the return match against St John's. Then followed a well-earned break for the Christmas vac, eleven points clear at the top.

The new term began too soon for the Hall and our first loss of the campaign was put down to complacency, not to mention some good skills from the Keble opposition. But tougher tests were to come with the away fixture against Queen's. Some admirable darts here by the whole team in the face of both adversity and the intrusive heckling of a drunken Geordie. Special

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mention must go to the inexperienced pair, Tanner and Hamilton, whose final leg sealed the draw, in a match where surely, darts was the only winner.

The final two fixtures were somewhat of a formality, but buoyed by the heroics at Queen's, the visitors were demolished in both cases. So, the league title successfully won, thoughts quickly turned to the cup competition, where we have previously failed to win a match in three attempts. This year was no exception and a confident St Catz side proved too much in a tiebreak. More success was had in the individual and the pairs competitions, with Crawshaw and Hayward bizarrely losing on the toss of coin in the third round and Hill unlucky to lose to a stunning 164 finish in the last sixteen of the singles cup.

Further congratulations must be extended to John 'The Magician ' Crawshaw, whose solid form, and extravagant scoring won him a place in the varsity team, where he performed well to secure a victory over Cambridge. I wish him well for the coming season, and hope that under his captaincy, the dreams of the division I title can be realised and perhaps even the second round of cuppers!

The Association Football Club Captain: David Williams For the Association Football Club, the 2000-2001 season heralded uncharted territory. Following the Houdini-like escape from relegation last season, the 1st XI found themselves thrust into the spotlight of the newly formed college Premiership. Meanwhile, the 2nd XI sought to build on the foundations of yesteryear as they once again established themselves as a formidable outfit under the leadership of East Anglia's pride and joy, Andy Radford. By contrast, the Lesser Spotted 3rd XI returned to exhibit their 'liquid football' every now and then, much to the delight of puzzled spectators, and much to the frustration of groundsmen and college opponents throughout the city.

The loss of several big names to full-time employment last summer augured badly for the 1st XI in early October, and the need for several freshers of good pedigree was keenly felt. Happily, the Club was dealt a favourable hand and a sprinkling of youth blended splendidly with the old-stagers in the opening clashes of the season. An 8-1 destruction of Worcester was followed up two days later with a 6-1 massacre of Merton/Mansfield, and this 'double' rocketed the Hall to the top of the league. Doran had sensibly decided to retire from 1st team action at the end of last year, and his successor in goal, Michael Ford, soon demonstrated to the uninitiated precisely why he

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has been invaluable to the team throughout the season. His reflex reactions and command of the box conjured memories of Yashin in his prime, and overnight, Ford was able to transform himself from goal-tender to goalpoacher as he led the line for the 2nd XI. Newcomer Paul Mudie grew in stature as the season progressed, and matured into an uncompromising centre-half to make the position his own under healthy competition from the live-wire Bailey. In the fullback berths, the stability and experience of the Hall team were to be found. Free from the shackles of responsibility, exCaptain Whitworth blossomed at right back. His poise and calm were priceless, and only injury robbed him of what would have been a remarkable season of consistency. At left back, John Bruce returned to complete a third year of football at the Hall (much to the chagrin of tutors and referees alike). The prosaic Yorkshireman was the model of commitment, the embodiment of humour and a driving force throughout the season; he will be sadly missed next year. Disappointments at home to Wadham, away at New College in the Cup, and at lowly Lincoln, threatened to leave a sour taste in the mouth as Christmas approached. But a Seventh Week display of 'muck and bullets' ensured that 3 points were taken from Balliol and, most satisfyingly, New College in a grudge match which highlighted not only the ability of Knutson to score from anywhere on the pitch, but also the value of the Tom Harper/Dave Rawlins central midfield partnership. The two blonde-haired battlers dominated many a midfield, and laid the foundations for the attacking enterprise of the Hall, as they regularly outclassed opposing University players. Michaelmas Term finished as the college once again played host to Bolton School 1st XI. In a highly entertaining match, the Hall were unlucky to leave their Parks pitch empty-handed, but had displayed to a packed crowd exactly why teams are prepared to travel the length of the country to take on the Burgundy and Gold entertainers.

Hilary Term was always going to be the make-or-break period of the 1st XI season. Brooks, who had earlier been terrorizing opponents with his lyrical football, was effectively ruled out until the end of the season owing to a sore foot; but Chris Bruce returned to more than compensate with his refreshing Corinthian approach to the Hall side. Promisingly placed in the European positions, the 1st XI completed handsome 'doubles' over Worcester, Merton and Balliol. The latter two matches were remarkable only for the presence of Akindele on the goal-sheet. The happy-go-lucky striker was a constant source of derision from team-mates, opponents, referees, and old ladies, and sadly far too often Aki's performances did little to dispel the mystery of his inclusion. A broad-daylight robbery at Wadham deflated the

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Hall as the title seemed to have finally slipped away, and defeat against an all-conquering Magdalen side confirmed this belief. In spite of this, however, and in spite of the injuries which were gradually spreading through the squad like the plague, the Hall continued to display the kind of performances others could only dream of. Redoubtable defence to secure victory against a strong Somerville side was made manifest in some last-ditch tackles which evoked memories of the events of a bygone age at the Alamo. A fourthplaced league finish represents improvement on last year, but it is the Club's disappointment with this position that perhaps illustrates the burning ambition resident amongst the Hall's footballers.

And so a remarkable season drew to a close with a hearty evening of drinks and good food (foreshortened only by the unnecessary and untimely intervention of the Thames Valley Constabulary .. . ), and thoughts meandered to the future. The talismanic Nick Edwards took the Club's Golden Boot by a country mile with some breathtaking displays throughout the season, displaying ruthlessness in front of goal that will be hard to match next season. The Captain took the PFA Player of the Year Award for a second successive year, with Knutson picking up the Award for Most Promising Youngster, and Bruce taking home the Best Retiring Player Prize. Bruce, Whitworth, Akindele and the selfless secretary-cum-treasurer-cum-linesmancum-striker Rhys Beer will depart for pastures new, but the Club remains in good shape as the rest of the squad have signed one-, two- or three-year contract extensions.

The 2nd XI provided a showdown finish to their season as they took on Keble College at Iffley Road in the Cuppers Final, giving Hall members the chance to marvel at the strength in depth in the Football Club. A stirring performance could not prevent the narrowest of 1-0 defeats, but once the disappointment of defeat has passed, Radford's men can look back with pride as, for many of us present, the Hall spirit and dignity in defeat which the 2nd XI displayed will be our abiding memory.

Having improved upon the results of recent years, it is with confidence that I can now declare the Football Club in rude health and hungry for tangible reward, which we all agree is long overdue. In Tom Harper and Tom Morgan, the 1st and 2nd XIs respectively have appointed players of genuine calibre who undoubtedly will take this Club ever onwards, ever upwards. I would finally like to thank the small but hardy band of spectators who came to support the teams in all weathers; and the players of the Club, whose unfailing good humour, incredible loyalty and remarkable sense of fun have made the Association Football Club a pleasure to captain this season.

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The Rugby Football Club Men 's Captain: Mark Wilson Women's Captain: Jennifer Pescod The Men's Captain's Report After an impressive season last year and considering the large number of players who would be available again this year, there were high hopes for the 2000-2001 season. The college still boasts a large number of rugby players, and, while our major rivals such as Keble and Brasenose were finding it hard to put out fifteen men each week, Teddy Hall was fielding a first and second team most weeks. Teddy Hall is still the major player on the college rugby scene. But it had been nearly ten years since the college had won Cuppers (the last occasion was in 1992), and following the disappointing defeat to Brasenose in last year's final, there was a determination to regain some rightful silverware this time round.

The Michaelmas term started well with an easy win over Wadham. The next week, we followed it up with a narrow victory over a very competent Jesus side who pushed us all the way, in front of a respectable crowd at Iffley Road, as a warm up match to the Blues game against Bath. Successive victories over Worcester, New College!fempleton, and an especially pleasing 50-point drubbing against Keble, wrapped up the first half of the league season. The second half of the league is notoriously more difficult, as two sides are promoted and the 'dead wood' is relegated from the top flight.

However, we continued our impressive run of form and followed our five earlier victories with comfortable wins against Oriel (37 -17) and Keble ( 1644).

Following the unbeaten Michaelmas term, we needed three further victories to secure the league title and take us into the Cuppers campaign on a good footing. The first stage of that process was completed against Jesus, who looked likely to be our greatest threat for the Cuppers title later in the term. Despite some dogged resistance and a couple of nasty injuries on their side, we managed to win the game with a rather flattering score line following a rampant late try-fest. Our following fixture was against newly promoted Exeter who were in a similar position to us: unbeaten with two matches to go. The winner would take the league title. In terrible conditions, away from home and against a college who had never once won a league or Cuppers competition in rugby in their long history, we knew that we were never going to get an easy game. Following a concerted poster campaign around Exeter claiming that 'The Hall Must Fall', the Exeter team came out to a huge

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crowd and their players didn't disappoint. Their large pack dominated for much of the match, and at half-time we took in a slender and precarious 5-3 lead. Things got worse in the second half as, after we landed an early penalty to stretch the lead to 8-3, Exeter mounted a concerted effort and breached our defence for only the sixth time during the whole season so far. At 8-8 the game could have gone either way, but with the use of some intelligent kicking out of hand we consolidated territorially and soon the superior experience of the Hall side began to show. As tempers frayed and supporters heckled, the Teddy Hall pack took control up front, and some outstanding 'total' rugby brought a try with fifteen minutes remaining. We managed to retain possession from then on and the game was sewn up- we finished 8-15 winners. With the league won, New College (despite their best efforts) were not about to ruin our quest for the perfect season and they were disposed of in a scrappy match.

With the league season over, we welcomed back those players who had played for the University in various Varsity matches before Christmas. Nick Edwards (Blues bench and Greyhounds standoff), Toby Colgate-Stone (U21s second row), John Thompson (Greyhounds and U-21s centre), Tom Watkins (U-21s centre) and Andy Williams (U-21s scrurnhalf) all returned to the squad for the start of the Cuppers campaign. With the introduction of the rare and indeed novel feature of a little bit of light training to the Cuppers build-up, we were quietly confident of our chances of success this time round.

As University players return to their college sides, and some colleges begin the process of recruiting 'ringers' to their teams, the whole outlook changes from the league season. Jesus, Keble and Exeter all looked good as the opening group matches took place. Merton/Mansfield decided they didn't fancy their first fixture, so we were forced to miss out on the opening round of the campaign; but that was made up for the following week as Wadham were mercilessly slain in an awesome 78-3 trouncing. Our back line gelled and produced in unbelievable fashion, with Ritchie Woodfine (Blue, 1998) scoring five tries from fullback. Our midfield defence was brutal, and Wadham pleaded with the ref. to blow his whistle early. The damage had been done and a semi-final encounter against a strong St. Peter's side beckoned. Whatever was to come in the semi-final, it was always going to disappoint after the Wadham match. Indeed it did, and an uninspired but professional performance saw us qualify for the final winning 23-0.

Jesus had been a well-drilled and complete team during the league season, but with the introduction of the entire Greyhounds front row, a Greyhounds lock, under-21s flanker and the Blues centre, they were a strong team who

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would pose a big threat up front and in the tight. We were confident that if our scrummage was resilient and our defence was organised, then we could counter the threat from their big pack and we would be able to expose them with our incisive back line and fast flowing game. Our worst fear was a repeat of the forward-maintained steam-rollering that we had suffered at the hands of Brasenose last year. It was little more than five minutes into the game before these fears were being realized. After trading penalty goals early on, Jesus struck from a lineout ten yards from our line. A clinical catch and drive saw their hooker pile over for the first try of the match. At 8-3 down, the threat from the Jesus pack had been clearly demonstrated but, unperturbed, we forced them deep into their own territory from the re-start; and, while trying to clear their lines, Nick Edwards (fly-halt) charged down an attempted clearance and followed it up to score under the posts. Ritchie Woodfine converted and we were 10-8 up. The game then settled down, but we were under constant pressure in the scrum as their powerful front row caused persistent problems. Without a steady base to build from up front, our backs were finding it hard to get into the game and we failed to make the most of our possession. The encouraging fact was that, despite their forward dominance and whatever they attempted, our defence was rarely threatened in the first half: Jesus were failing to make their forward domination count.

The second half began as the first did: both sides traded penalty goals, and at 13-11 the game was tight. Ross Hill (flanker) returned to the field from his sin-bin six minutes into the second half, and as our pack was restored to full strength the game began to turn. A combination of determination, cohesion and skill meant that the scrum, where Jesus had dominated and drawn both attacking and defensive strength, was beginning to turn to our advantage. The duelling Welsh duo of Rhys James (Teddy Hall tight head) and Derry Hughes (Jesus loose head) provided a pivotal contest in the match. As the second half developed, Rhys began to dominate and embarrass the much larger and talismanic Hughes. Jesus saw that their greatest strength was being overcome and they were impotent to respond. The Teddy Hall pack began to produce quality ball from the set pieces, and our deadly back-line was beginning to show some of the form of the Wadham encounter. We began to vary the play brilliantly, and as the combinations of phases were strung together, Jesus found it increasingly hard to marshal our expansive game. Intelligent use of the boot kept us intimidatingly deep in the Jesus half, and the ball retention and continuity ensured by our mobile pack and strong midfield meant that the vital score was inevitable. A brief respite in defensive duties for Jesus saw them clear their lines, and Ritchie Woodfine

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(full-back) picked up the ball in our own 22 and began to run it back. Interplay with both wingers, Jono Venter and Olukayode Akindele, and the ball was carried into the Jesus half; a ruck on the left touchline led to John Thompson breaking the mid-field defence before Tom Watkins took the ball on. The forwards recycled the ball, and close interplay between the forwards down the left of the field carried the ball into the Jesus 22. The ball was moved wide to the right quickly from the breakdown, and as the backs streaked through the tattered Jesus midfield, it looked certain that we would score.

Watkins was caught in a last gasp heroic tackle, but somehow he managed to move the ball out of the tackle and, out of nowhere, James 'Fatman' Oseman (hooker and vice-captain) crashed over for what one spectator described as the 'best try ever scored at Iffley Road'(!).

With around twenty minutes still to play, the game was far from over; but we began to take control and played some of our most composed and clinical rugby of the season. The experience and intelligence of Nick Edwards and Woodfine kept our territorial advantage clear, and the ball retention of the Teddy Hall team was most impressive. We consolidated the lead with a penalty after seventy minutes, but at 21-11 there was no room for complacency.

We continued to look for the third try that would surely have sealed the match, but some impressive defending from Jesus meant that, despite the pressure, we were unable to score again. However, the fringe and midfield defence of Teddy Hall was clinical, and Jesus failed to threaten for most of the second half. They attempted to run their powerful forwards off Sammy Adlen (Blues centre) in midfield, but as they were knocked back time and again their game plan altered. They began to attack the fringes, but our organization and determination not to overcommit at the breakdown meant that they found an impenetrable barrier. The second half had been dominated by Teddy Hall: our impressive defence, the reversal of fortunes in the scrum, our ball retention and continuity meant that Jesus were unable to respond after Oseman's try. Edwards had a late try disallowed for a double movement, but it was inconsequential: Teddy Hall had won Cuppers and brought the cup home after nine years.

The consistency, dedication, enthusiasm and talent of the players should be applauded, and an unbeaten season with league and Cuppers glory was a reflection of the quality of rugby played through the season. The friendships, the memories, and the after-match reflections will always be more important than the rugby, but results are the barometer of success and, fortunately this year, the all-round success of Teddy Hall RFC received the results it deserved.

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We would sincerely like to thank Close Brothers Corporate Finance, and Richard Grainger in particular, for their support throughout the season, and genuinely hope that the relationship may continue and flourish in the future.

At the moment, there are efforts within Teddy Hall RFC to try to establish a database of contacts of old boys from Teddy Hall who played rugby or who were associated with the Club. In the not too distant future we hope to build a website from where newsletters, details of future events, reports, results and lists and contact details of old boys can be displayed. Please could any old boys of the St Edmund Hall Rugby Football Club reading this please send in their details to Mark Wilson at the Hall, ore-mail them to him at marksadventure@hotmail.com.

Cuppers final squad: Joe Hanson, James Oseman, Rhys James, Toby Colgate-Stone, PJ Howard, Steve McMahon, Mark Wilson, Ross Hill; Rich Hardwick, Nick Edwards, Jono Venter, John Thompson, Tom Watkins, Olukayode Akindele, Ritchie Woodfine. Subs: Glen Bowman, Chris Gourlay, Andy Patterson, Tom Harper, Nick Hamilton, Mike Ford, Andy Westbrook.

The Women's Captain's Report Once more the women's rugby team excelled themselves enjoying another excellent and unbeaten season. The one-day tournament of the Michaelmas term proved the first opportunity for much of the team to play a match, other colleges having been somewhat reluctant to play us based on previous reputation. Thus it was that we stepped out in trepidation against Jesus for our first match of the season and the tournament, unsure of the fate that might await us . But in fact we need not have worried. Jesus were comprehensively out-gunned, both by the more experienced among us (we particularly thank Anya Saunders for her delayed graduation), and by some extremely talented new recruits, with Kate Ashbridge in particular showing a natural aptitude for the game. The final score was 45-0. We progressed to the final through the rain and past Keble, to face our old enemies Christ Church in a re-run of the final of the previous season's league. It was a hardfought match, but not without its touches of brilliance, perhaps most notably from team grandma Ann-Marie Evans, hooker in her third season of the game without score, until her try in the closing moments of this final.

The Hilary Cuppers League competition began slowly, with our first opponents, LMH, being hospitalized before the match had even begun (they injured themselves whilst training extra hard). However, two weeks later, with the team bolstered by a battery of able and enthusiastic Americans here for one term only, we took on Merton, the eventual winners of the Plate

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competition. Play was outstanding, with fleet-footed American Lindsay Berlin running rings around the Merton defence, and centre Charlie Davies crashing through their line to help bring the score at half time to a massive 45-0. In the second half, Caren Lerner, Emma Taylor and Valerie Goldstein showed great enthusiasm in the tackle, with the whistle blowing at 60-0.

We now faced stiff competition from St Peter's/BallioVSomerville to reach the final. It was a tough match, with our captain not really helping matters by clashing heads with team-mate Becca Saunders, the irreplaceable scrum/ fly half, putting her out for the rest of the match. Despite this set-back, the team battled on, and at 15-15,just as it seemed that the Ballioville defence might deny us, Lindsay Berlin swept over the line on the whistle.

The final against Keble was billed as one we might not win. Certainly it was again a close and bitterly fought match with both sides sustaining injuries. However, with the aid of secret weapon Sarah Antill, brought on after our tight-head prop broke her nose, and sustained pressure from the whole squad, we remained triumphant: final score 15-5. The Hall was once again secure on the throne of women's rugby, for the fifth time in a row.

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for once again representing the college on the Blues team, and to Ann-Marie Evans who played on the University second XV, the Panthers. Thank you to our coaching staff, Joe Hanson (Director of Rugby), Steve McMahon (head coach), Tom Watkins and Luke Wilkinson, for their energy, enthusiasm and dedication to the team. Special thanks must go to Joe who is leaving, and to whom we award colours for long service. Thank you also to Principal Mingos, and to the college for their continued support. I wish Kate the best of luck with next season's campaign.

The Hockey Club Men's Captains: Mike Harley and Richard Hayward Women 's Captain: Jennifer Oscroft

The Men's Captains ' Report As a team previously described as the 'Juventus' of College hockey, our season's performances outshone the Italian minnows. With a strong backbone remaining from the previous year, as well as four Blues players and five other university players, this team was always destined to do well. The greatest threat to a good season was the loss of Dave Andrews in goal, with no obvious replacement in sight. However, into the limelight leapt Steve 'Smoss' Moss, a former schoolboy keeper with more than schoolboy talent and the most reliable and improved player of the team this season.

First-year intake was high on quality but low on quantity. Julian BarkerDanby, Charlie Ramsay, Luke Wilkinson and others proved useful League players, but few were available often enough to establish a regular place in the team, hampering our efforts in the League. The League season descended almost into farce, with terrible weather conditions (including a mid-match hailstorm) and poor player availability leading to a massive backlog of cancelled and postponed matches, most of which were uncompleted. First Division status however was ensured for next year, including a number of memorable performances along the way such as a 9-0 victory over SPC/Hertford and a 6-2 win against a strong Pembroke side, despite our having only nine players. The contributions of Nick Abrahams, Rhys Beer, Tim Hill, and Tom Harper towards the end of the season were always valuable, showing a great depth of talent in the College.

The most-prized competition of the season is always the Men's Cuppers competition, and this is where we excelled. After a bye in the first round, we took on New College in the second, where a last-minute contribution from an unsuitably attired Tom Perry sealed a 4-2 victory with nine men on a

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swamp of a pitch. This set up a mouth-watering clash against archrivals Queen's, fortunately scheduled to be played on astroturf. Mike Mayer gave us a well-deserved lead from a short-corner strike, only for Queen's to squirm their way back into the game before half-time. Our dominance in the physical side of the game played an important part, and in the second half they were dropping like flies, in the end giving us a more-than-comfortable victory, further goals coming from our St. Hugh's import Jamie MacDonald and a pair from our striking stallion PJ Howard.

Despite such a tough quarter-final draw, there was no respite in the semis, as we were drawn against a much-fancied Brasenose side. After conceding two soft goals early on, first-year Blue Josh Smith netted before the interval to give us a chance in the second half. Despite utter dominance in the second period, with the Hall camped around their 'D', we were unable to make the pressure count, and then proceeded to concede a farcical miss-hit shot-cross of a goal. Throughout the season, the most notable characteristic of the side was its confidence and arrogance that our superiority would eventually show, and nowhere was this more apparent than in the last ten minutes of this semi-final. Goals from Andy Westbrook, Tom Perry and a second from Josh Smith snatched a memorable victory from under the Nose's nose.

There was huge support for the clash with Worcester in the final, the nemesis of Teddy Hall hockey in recent years. Our first-half display cannot be described as anything but awesome, completely playing the opposition off the park, giving us a well-deserved 2-0 half-time lead with goals from Jamie MacDonald and Josh Smith. However, our characteristic complacency was to give rise to one of the most nail-biting and exhilarating finals the competition had ever seen. Playing into a virtual hurricane in the second half, we gave away the crucial early goal, which let Worcester right back into it. An unconscious decision to play out time for a 2-1 victory resulted in too much sitting back, and then the inevitable last-minute equalizer which sent the pitiful Worcester fans into delirium and condemned the Hall to an unnecessary half-hour of extra-time. However, worse was to follow, as team spirit propelled Worcester to heights their skill barely merited, leaving Teddy Hall minutes away from a shock 3-2 defeat. All hell broke loose in the final minutes as we pushed forward like an enraged beast, winning a free-hit on the edge of the 'D' in the final seconds of the match. All piled forward for a goal-mouth scramble, and touches and deflections through the crowd of players ended up with the ball in the back of the net, a hotly disputed goal, and an unknown hero for the Hall. As the game went into penalty-flicks, it was hard to tell who was more drained, the players or the supporters. Andy Westbrook

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(roofed), Josh Smith (nutmegged), Jamie MacDonald (somehow), Mark Thompson (comfortable), helped by a poor miss by an unfortunate and blubbering Worcester striker, piled all the responsibility onto the shoulders of one man. Man-of-the-match Tom Perry, cool as an Antarctic sea-bird, slotted home the winner with suitable flair and panache, and within seconds was the centre of mad celebrations on the pitch.

The Mixed Cuppers competition hit new heights in terms of longevity, beginning early in Michaelmas Term, with the final played on Friday of Eighth Week in Trinity Term. Again unfortunate in terms of draw, we were paired in the group stage with fellow giants Brasenose, Worcester and Magdalen, and the unfortunate minnows of Somerville. Although our girls were no match for our boys in terms of looks, they proved every bit as strong on the pitch. The campaign began with a 7-1 drubbing of Brasenose with a hat-trick from PJ Howard, a brace from Rich Hayward, and one each for Andy Westbrook and Emily Coates. Our hot scoring streak continued with an astonishing 17 (seventeen)-0 demolition of Somerville, with the only onfield battle that day being the fierce race for top-scorer. PJ Howard and Rich Hayward eventually tied with seven each for the day, and a mere hat-trick for Andy Westbrook. After an unfortunate defeat at Worcester we were left requiring victory against Magdalen to guarantee a place in the quarter-finals. Again we dominated without success until striking maverick PJ Howard galloped through their entire team (twice), beginning on the half-way line, before hoofing viciously into the top right -hand corner of the net: indisputably goal of the season, despite intense competition in that area.

For the second time this season, Queen's were unfortunate enough to draw their mighty neighbours in the quarter-finals of Cuppers, and for the second time this season they were sent whimpering away with their tails between their legs. A customary first-half hat-trick from our centre-forward gave us a very comfortable and deserved 3-0 lead against a side which, we must admit, were a little depleted. A brave comeback in the second half never put the result in doubt. Further goals from veteran star Holly Jamieson, and future Blue Andy Westbrook, sent the Hall into another semi-final. Having run out of time, the semi-final and final had to be played on the same day. By our own admission we were not up to our usual standards, and, without the luck you need to win competitions, we crashed to a disappointing 2-0 defeat, doubly disappointing as it proved to be the only game of the season we did not score in.

As champions of Men's Cuppers, we were fortunate enough to be invited to take part in the inaugural Oxbridge Cuppers Winners' Cup. We met Jesus

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College, Cambridge for the prestigious prize, and got off to a good start as the 'injured' Andy Westbrook still managed to race through their defence before rounding the keeper and slotting home. Surprisingly the Tab side was no walkover, and impressed by coming back to steal a 2-1 lead. However, we stepped up the pressure and laid siege to their goal, eventually equalizing through Josh Smith. The best was yet to come, again leaving it late, as honorary Aularian Andrew Kojima showed customary flair with an audacious reverse stick lob from the edge of the 'D' which sailed over the shocked heads of both goalkeeper and defenders into the back of the net. This outstanding Hall side had now achieved the unique status of Double Cuppers Champions: the cream of Oxbridge.

Justice must be done to some of the more unsung heroes of our season, who played every bit as important a part as our equestrian front-line. Mike Harley at the centre of our defence was cool and calm under any pressure, leading by example and adding a perhaps wasted creative touch to the defence, despite failing to net a single goal. Veteran university player Jarnie Rogers battled against injury throughout, and was a solid and dependable member of the back-line, eventually achieving his season-long aim to hit the target and register on the scoresheet. Jono Venter, who added steel to his already impressive collection of attacking qualities, could, along with keeper Steve Moss, comfortably have competed at university level with great success. As well as their goals, the tireless efforts of Andy Westbrook and Rich Hayward in midfield are not to be underestimated in their value to the team.

The latter will be sorely missed next season. Mark Thompson's never-saydie and self-sacrificing attitude was the personification of Hall Spirit, and his irreplaceable status in the team is not to be forgotten. He will be sorely missed. Tom Perry's flair and vision from the back oozed the arrogant quality of this Hall side, playing in behind fellow-Blue Mike May er. Fortunately, the services of Welsh international Josh Smith are secured for the next couple of years, a new recruit of immense value.

The social side to the squad this season was much developed, a factor that surely contributed to an outstanding team-spirit. The now annual Doxbridge tour to Dublin went ahead, despite all sport being put paid to by the footand-mouth epidemic. Again it was great fun and proved a great opportunity for Teddy Hall to bare their non-hockey credentials and prowess to other colleges from Cambridge and Durham. But, like last year, a 'what-happened-in-Dublin-stays-in-Dublin' pact prevents further divulgence of sordid secrets from across the Irish Sea (and even in it).

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entertainment this season has brought us. We would like to thank the great support we received from the College, and would like to wish next year's captains Charlie Ramsay and Luke Wilkinson the very best of luck.

The Women's Captain's Report The Teddy Hall Women's Hockey team took their Cuppers campaign one stage further this year, getting to the semi-finals of the tournament only to be beaten by Keble, whom we had played and beaten earlier in the season. This was a disappointing end to a good season which had seen convincing wins against St Anne's/St John's (7-0), Keble (3-1) and a tough match battled out in the pouring rain in the quarter-finals against New College which was won by the Hall 2-0. Our strength, as ever, lies in the determination of the whole team to chase every ball and make every tackle until the final whistle is blown. This was a quality needed particularly this season, as appalling weather conditions meant that pitches were barely playable and matches often descended into mud baths and wet T-shirt competitions (to the delight of any male spectators). All teams were disadvantaged by a lack of continuity, which resulted from matches being cancelled as a result of the weather. With two teams conceding to us owing to difficulty rescheduling matches, we never really got a chance to get into our stride and develop the confidence for earlier strikes in the 'D'.

Key players this year were Jemrna Rooker and Charlie Davies who formed an almost impenetrable backline, and Anne-Marie Evans who made some awesome saves as our goalie. We were pleased to welcome many fresher hockey players, who will form the backbone of the team next year. In particular, Phil Browne, Emily Coates and Emily Miller showed strength and confidence on the ball, and it is hoped that they will be playing at University level next year. Debut appearances from Dominica Lindsey and Kat Stone meant that we always had a full and enthusiastic team. We will be particularly sad to lose last year's captain Alice Louise Gardner, and also Holly Jamieson whose brutal tackles and awesome strikes on goal will be sorely missed.

I am leaving the Women's Club in the hands ofEmily Coates and Philippa Browne, and am confident that they can take us to the final of Cuppers next year.

Learning Together Teddy Hall has formed an exciting new partnership with Cutteslowe First School, whose pupils are between five and nine years old. Activities so far

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have centred on regular classroom visits by Hall Students to the school, to support class teachers and 'free the teachers to teach'. Seven students from the college have been helping at the school for a full morning or afternoon every week. The student tutors visit the same class once a week, for at least one term, helping not only with normal class work, but also with other activities including one-on-one tuition, sport and music. This new initiative is designed to increase the links between the College and the community, and to enable Hall students to 'give something back' .

Teddy Hall's work with Cutteslowe is part of the activity of a brand new University-wide Society, Learning Together, which has so far matched twenty colleges with local schools. LToxford is a branch of a nationwide programme of student tutoring organised by the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) group, who promote and support community service learning. Sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, who distribute money to English Higher Education Institutions, LToxford covers our volunteers' travel expenses. They are hopeful that Learning Together will become the largest Oxford society to involve students in the local community. All the Teddy Hall volunteers attended training organised by CSV at St John's, during which we discussed the role of the student tutor, and role-played various possible situations. This helped to ensure that we knew what to expect when we started and to give us some ideas as to how we could contribute to the class.

Cutteslowe School's Headteacher, Keith Ponsford, is very supportive of our efforts so far. 'The help and enthusiasm of our student tutors has benefited the school by freeing the teachers to teach, and bringing ideas and enthusiasm into the classroom', he explains. 'They have shown intelligence and sensitivity, and I hope that they have gained an insight into the complexities of teaching today, and will be motivated by this experience to take up teaching in the future.' Although positioned in North Oxford, which is comparatively affluent, Cutteslowe First School is right in the middle of the Cuttleslowe Estate - one of the few areas of council housing in the area.

Many well-off local parents send their children to private schools, although some, who believe in the principle of state education and admire the integration aims of the school, do still enrol their children at Cuttleslowe First School. The Headteacher was keen to tell us about 'the wall', which was built across the road that divided the council homes from the private housing - a real social divide! The wall's long gone, but the school aims to continue 'knocking down the wall' between social groups. About a fifth of the pupils do not speak English as their first language, so extra help is par-

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ticularly appreciated here. The school is also keen to enable disabled children to be integrated into mainstream state education, and has a number of quite severely disabled pupils. We have all been impressed by the high staff:pupil ratio, and the teachers' infectious enthusiasm. They seem very keen to cater for the needs of each individual.

The hope is that we will provide positive role models, as we are closer in age to the pupils than their teachers. There is also a dream that we will help to raise aspirations by breaking down perceived barriers to higher education, though this aim would obviously be easier to fulfil in a middle or upper school. I think we get the best reaction to University when they find out that we have 3 months holiday in the summer- definitely a good reason to get to Oxbridge! The greatest challenge is to get the balance right between helping as much as we can, and not stealing the teacher's thunder. Our aim is to assist pupils individually, help with organization (usually cleaning sinks full of paint pots, and making sure that no-one takes more than their share of paper), and generally float around. The teachers really appreciate having another 'adult' in the classroom, and often plan to hold their most chaotic and exciting lessons for the session when their student tutor will be coming.

The Cutteslowe pupils are very keen to get our attention (as I found out on my second visit, when I had two 7-year-olds clinging to each leg, and a 6year-old on my back!) and seem proud that we're choosing to spend our free time with them.

After a successful first year, there are exciting possibilities to extend the link, perhaps inviting pupils of the school to visit Teddy Hall, or organizing a joint trip for both undergraduates and pupils of the first school. Ultimately the aim is also to break down barriers between local children and the university in varied ways, for example by sharing facilities and resources, departments showing children what they do, and working together to create projects.

Links of this kind have benefits outside the purely academic, bringing the local community closer to the often remote-seeming ivory towers of academia, overcoming divisions between 'town' and 'gown'. Teddy Hall's Learning Together is looking for enthusiastic 'student tutors' to help out at Cutteslowe School during the next academic year, and is also keen to hear any ideas people have for further involvement with the school. For further information, have a look at http://users.ox.ac.uk/-ltoxford, or e-mail LToxford@ herald.ox.ac.uk.

Huge thanks to Mark Mansell, Sahel Mughal, Kelly Lyn Mulvey, Sophie Naish, and Laura Ostapenko, for all their hard work and enthusiasm this year. Special thanks to Andy Robinson, who will be taking over as the Hall

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Representative for 2001-2002. Good luck!

Helen Drury

The John Oldham Society 2000-2001 was another good year for drama at Teddy Hall. The enthusiasm of a sizeable minority of the college's undergraduates to get involved in all aspects of theatre and film has been backed by an increasing commitment of several senior members of the college to provide the encouragement and financial support needed, so that the Hall can be recognized as a prominent college in this area of the arts.

Drama in college got off to a brilliant start in Michaelmas Term. The college was able to enter two productions into the annual Drama Cuppers Festival, which is open only to first-years. In a festival entered by over 40 short plays, both of ours were successful. Mark Howland, the lighting designer for both productions, won the Best Design award for his work on The Unerring Instinct. Heart's Desire, directed by Harriet Hungerford and Alistair Richardson, was even more successful. Reaching the final day, it was placed third overall in the competition, and won the awards for Best Direction and Best Supporting Actress (Emily Coates). It was also nominated for the Best Comedy award.

In Trinity Term, there were two other productions that could fairly be called Teddy Hall productions. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, given a run at the Old Fire Station Theatre by a Teddy Hall production team based around that behind Heart's Desire, enjoyed good reviews. The cast (including the Hall's Cat Ward) and director (Harriet Hungerford) provided an excellent evening's entertainment and, importantly in such a production, enjoyed themselves in doing so. (A full report on this production appears below.) More unusually, Teddy Hall was also the venue for much of the filming of the black comedy Darwinism, this year's University Film Foundation's flagship short film. Daniel Cormack of the Hall directed this project, which is in the editing stage as I write. We look forward to seeing it alongside screenings of previous OUFF short films (including one starring Hugh Grant) next term.

Although a great deal of theatrical activities have been happening within the confines of the Hall, Teddy Hall students also made a great impact this year working on more university-wide productions. In the week following Blithe Spirit, Kuang Liu, already a well-known Oxford thespian, gave an acclaimed performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Kuang will also be seen in a more modem Shakespearean production of Love's Labour's Lost

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when the OUDS tour Japan in July. Cat Ward, James van Tulleken and Dave Rawlins were among the many other Teddy Hall students to pop up regularly in some of the 100 or so student productions which take place in Oxford during the year. Behind the scenes too, our students had a strong influence. Antony Hawkins produced an OUDS production of The Miser by Moliere at the Oxford Playhouse, and takes over as treasurer of the OUDS

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next year. Alex Prideaux, meanwhile, was the Hall's resident techie. Whenever there was a set to be built or destroyed, or lighting rig or plot to be done in Oxford this year, he was never far away The future looks bright as well. One of the main events in the student drama calendar next year will be the triennial Oxford Greek Play (Medea) in Hilary Term at the Oxford Playhouse. Again, Teddy Hall members feature large on the production team, as the play is being produced by the Hall's Alistair Richardson and production-managed by Alex Prideaux.

Antony Hawkins

Blithe Spirit Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit was put on by the newly formed St Edmund Hall Productions in Fifth Week of Trinity Term (21-26 May), at The Old Fire Station Theatre. The decision to do this was partly a consequence of college success in Drama Cuppers in Michaelmas Term, where the Teddy Hall production of Heart 's Desire by Caryl Churchill came third overall, as well as winning the prizes for Best Directing and Best Supporting Actress.

The first step was to find a play. I chose Blithe Spirit because I like its wit and originality, and the unusual balance between the farcical (in the situations it presents) and the serious (in its characters and themes). The main action of the play is centred on a successful Kent author called Charles Condomine, whose comfortable second marriage is disturbed when a local medium accidentally calls back the ghost of his first wife Elvira at a dinner party. It is set before the Second World War in the early 1930s, but Noel Coward wrote it in 1941, a bleak time when German strength was growing fast and the British seemed very weak. Daringly escapist, it was immediately popular. It overcame death by laughing at it, and mocked convention.

It is funny and sturdy enough to be performed in a number of ways, but it is a long play, and would I felt be best sustained by balancing the humour and the poignancy, and making it meaningful by avoiding any recourse to slapstick.

This was the line taken from the beginning of the project. The auditions were held at the end of Hilary, after the Principal had helped us to secure the generous financial backing of Martin Smith (St Edmund Hall Fellow) and Accenture, and the Old Fire Station had accepted our application for a week's use of the theatre. While everyone on the production team was from Teddy Hall, the auditions were open to the whole university. Over forty people auditioned for the seven parts, which were given to James Wilton (LMH), Cat Ward (Teddy Hall), Mary Elvin (Mansfield), Jo Langham (Christ

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Church), Alex Thomas (St Catz), Claudia Renton (Trinity) and Sarah Hargreaves (New College). Many happy rehearsals were held in the JCR Party Room in Teddy Hall, starting in Oth week of Trinity Term. The production team had meetings with The Old Fire Station once a fortnight. Posters and flyers were put up in Third and Fouth Week, and we held successful press previews in Third Week. While all this was going on, Zoe Barwell was designing and building the set, which was put up and painted enthusiastically by Teddy Hall members on the Sunday before the opening night the following Tuesday.

In total there were six performances. Over four hundred people saw the play, and it was well reviewed. We made enough money to give the fifteen members of the cast and crew ÂŁ26 each towards the post-play celebration dinner that we had at Jeeves in Oxford. With this production behind us, we look forward to more Teddy Hall plays and a revival of college drama.

Harriet Hungerford Director The Sailing Club Captain: Stuart Robinson On the back of last year's comprehensive Cuppers victory, Teddy Hall sailing team approached this year's competition full of confidence. The Cuppers format was changed for this year, so that there were now only four people per team as opposed to six. This change ensured that Teddy Hall was able to enter two teams. The Teddy Hall second team, comprised mainly of novices, did well in the blustery conditions, but did not quite have the boat-speed to keep up with some of the more experienced teams in their league.

The first team were definitely strong favourites to retain their title at the start of the competition, owing to the presence of three university sailors, including the Ladies' Captain Dominica Lindsey. For the first time (ever?), sailing Cuppers did not happen the day after the Hall ball, thus ensuring that the team were, for once, feeling good on the day of competition. In the league stage, St Anne's, Lincoln and Balliol were all swept aside with ease, paving the way to a three-way playoff with Keble and New College. Keble were comfortably defeated by Teddy Hall, but put up more of fight against New College, who only managed to get the better of them on the final beat.

So, as last year, Teddy Hall found themselves in the final of Cuppers. In the first race of the final, New College attempted an aggressive start, forcing Teddy Hall to start poorly and find themselves easily pinned up the first

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beat. New College held this position and took the race easily. In the second race, a more focused start led to an easy 1, 2 combination for Teddy Hall up the first beat, which they held impressively all the way round the course.

The deciding race again saw an aggressive start from New College. At the windward mark, they had the upper hand and were able to convert through to a 1, 3. The reach and the run saw some impressive team racing from both sides, but it was New College who had the upper hand by the final reach.

Unfortunately, therefore, the success of last year could not be repeated against a strong New College team that had two University helms.

At the University level, the Hall has been well represented. Dominica Lindsey captained the OUYC Ladies' team, who went on to win the British Universities Sailing Association (BUSA) Ladies' Team Racing championships. James Dickinson has continued to be a stalwart of the Mixed first team, and will be missed greatly next year, whilst Stuart Robinson has recently stepped down as BUSA chairman. With the loss of most of this year's Cuppers team, it is hoped that a good crop of freshers in the new year will help continue the Hall's nautical successes.

The Summer Event Presidents: Tom Butler and Andrew Radford The sun rose magnificently over a sleepy Oxford on Saturday 12 May. A year in coming, months of hard work reaching fruition, finally the day was upon us, and the weather had truly risen to the occasion. Finalists cowered in their rooms, shops opened, birds sang ... and the St Edmund Hall Ball Committee put the finishing touches to the tickets sold the previous day and prepared themselves for the long day ahead. The Hall looked serene and peaceful bathed in the May sun, two dazzling white marquees standing tall and proud over the front and raised quads. It was hard to imagine that in only ten hours over 800 people would arrive ready for the College event of the year.

As the day progressed it all began to take shape. Jonathan McCorrnick coordinated the erection of a huge sound and lighting rig in the Wolfson Hall and Tony Morgan oversaw soundchecks in the front quad. Dave McKeown kept his eyes on the installation of the food vendors while Patrick Williams's team of artists worked against the clock (and the effects of nicotine and alcohol) to perfect their banners before Rosalind Wall fireproofed everything in sight.

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Setting up the marquee for the Summer Event

college as part of our fiendishly complex security system was tended to by Chris Bruce, Rick Strenner and Stuart Reeve. Meanwhile a car-full of committee members rushed around Oxford buying the increasingly important Mars Bar ice creams to cool down the Ball Guests - Nick Abrahams headed the expedition with the help of Andrew Lee. All too soon it was time to clear college at 4.30 p.m. and the Hall began to metamorphosize. Fairground attractions were erected under the marquee on the raised quad, splendidly decorated tables appeared in the front quad, while Joe's Cocktails assembled their bar under the SCR and a shooting range unfolded in the JCR party room. A plethora of fairy lights sparked about the Hall as dusk began to fall and the bars became fully stocked. Suddenly 8.00 p.m. was upon us and the Event began.

Over 800 people (a total sell-out) attended, and the response seems almost unanimous that the 1920s themed event was a thorough success. As the guests wandered through the Hall, sipping at free tequila and admiring the specially made wall hangings and period films projected onto buildings, the atmosphere was relaxed, friendly and brilliant fun . The DJs in the Wolfson turned out quality tune after quality tune, ranging from house and garage to real Oxford cheese; the bands in the front quad (including Lucky Benny and the Producers starring our very own Logistics Director on bass tram-

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bone ... ) thrilled their audiences who never stopped dancing. The fairground games, big prize casino and caricaturist provided light distractions as the seven bars run by Mikey the college barman lubricated the proceedings and a team of huge security guards kept everyone safe. Though the night for most ended at 2.00 a.m., it ended forever at 8.00 a.m. when the last of the committee and their fantastic helpers finished clearing up. We trudged home in the bright light of the morning after, the night already a blur in our memories. It was a long time coming and there are too many people to thank here; but it was a truly amazing night and we succeeded in making a profit for the second year running. Good luck to next year's Committee!

The Tennis Club Captain: Mark Belcher Women's Captain: Emily Coates

The Men's Captain's Report Following on from a solid performance in the 2000 tennis season (Cuppers last 16, undefeated in league division two), this year's men's team reached the dizzy heights of the Cuppers semi-finals. Things looked promising from the very start, when stalwarts Andy Patterson, Mark Belcher (who played for the university second team this year), Nick Edwards and Ben Smith were joined by Hall tennis legend Dan Sokol, returning from a year abroad, and the solid baseline skills of first-year Sahel Mughal. From the first round against St Hugh's, it was clear that the Patterson/Sokol partnership had lost none of its magic, which had seen them challenge the top Blues in the 1999 season. Against St Hugh's, they lost only two games in six sets, helping the team to an easy 8-1 victory.

The second round was a far trickier prospect. St Catherine's lacked the Blues of previous years, but their first pair, comprising two left-handers, managed to hold on to two sets against Patterson/Sokol 7-6, 7-6, putting the rest of the team under severe pressure. However, they responded with true Hall grit. Edwards/Smith became Teddy Hall's answer to the Woodies, as cannonball serves and authoritative net-play replaced sloppy volleys and disastrous overheads. It fell to Belcher and Patterson's younger brother Laurence (who became an honorary member of the college for the duration of the match) to close it out, which they did impressively, saving two breakpoints on the Belcher serve at 5-4, and sealing victory on their first matchpoint with a ferocious Belcher backhand. The match was won by the closest of score lines, ten sets to eight.

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The quarter-final contest with Worcester looked to be an even tougher prospect, but thanks to their captain, whose lack of organizational skills was impressive even for an Oxford undergraduate, not a ball was struck, as Worcester was unable to field a team. This put the Hall into the semi-finals.

However, at this point disaster struck. Sokol had to revise for his finals, and most of the scratch pairings could not cope with the more fluid volleying of the Queen's College team. Patterson/Edwards did muster some resistance, making the score line at least respectable, but it could so easily have been a different story .. .

Never mind. With the influx of talented freshers, allied with the experience of this year's team, the future looks bright for tennis at the Hall.

The Women 's Captain's Report Teddy Hall has had an excellent season on the woman's tennis front. It opened with a strong start in second week with a straight set success over St John's in the League match. Third and fourth weeks provided us with more triumphs, this time over St Hugh's and Jesus in the Cuppers competition, and Exeter and LMH in the League. Kate Ashbridge and Sophie Naish regularly playing second couple were an unstoppable pair, as were Sophie McFarlane and Jemma Rooker, the regular first couple, with a combination of Sophie's consistency and Jemma's fast and furious net game. But the challenge rose in Fifth Week when we met New College, our toughest opponents yet. The match was on grass, which meant a much quicker game requiring fitness and skill. Unfortunately, we were not quite as refined in either as New College, and lost the match. However, the games were close, and the three sets played by each couple took over three hours to run, so theirs was not an easily-won success. The next blow to the Teddy Hall ladies' team came in Seventh Week, when we discovered that the finals of Cuppers, which we had made it to in the first half of term, were to be played against New College again. Unfortunately, owing to exams, interviews, tutorials and collections, we were missing four crucial players, and so again it was a defeat. Victoria Wood and Helen Daniel put up a strong fight as Teddy Hall third couple, taking a few games off the New College second couple, and even more off their third. New College are now champions of both League and Cuppers competitions. But we need to wait only until next season for Teddy Hall to strip them of this title, which we will no doubt do ...

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW

NEW FELLOWS Dr James Alien joined the Hall in October 2000 as the William R. Miller Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry. He studied for his M.Chem. at The Queen's College, and was awarded his D.Phil. this year. His research interests concern proteins containing functionally important centres that use the metal iron. In particular, he is interested in the biological synthesis and properties of a class of proteins known as c-type cytochromes, found in almost all organisms on earth and important for respiration. He is also investigating enzymes involved in the ecologically significant process of denitrification, by which the compounds nitrate (a soil fertilizer and ground-water pollutant), nitrite (a suspected carcinogen), nitric oxide (a contributor to acid rain), nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas) and nitrogen gas, are interconverted. He is married to JoAnn, and is interested in the history of the British Isles and the USA; he also enjoys cricket, rugby league and quizzes.

Kevin Crossley-Holland read English at the Hall from 1959 to 1962, and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 2001. As an undergraduate, he edited poetry for Oxford Opinion, and played tennis, hockey and squash for the Hall. Despite failing Anglo-Saxon prelims first time round, he survived to translate Beowulfand many shorter Anglo-Saxon poems, aided and abetted by Bruce Mitchell.

After graduating, he worked in publishing, first as an editor with Macmillan, then as editorial director for Victor Gollancz. He was Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds from 1969 to 1971, and his work as a poet includes seven volumes and a Selected Poems (2001). A disciple of early European traditional tale, he has retold The Norse Myths (1981), while his many books for children include Storm, which won the Camegie Medal in 1986, British Folk Tales (1987), and the first two legs in his Arthurian trilogy now to be translated into eighteen languages, The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places. His collaborations with composers include two operas with Nicola LeFanu (The Green Children and, for the Aldeburgh Festival, The Wildman), song cycles with Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias and, with Stephen Paul us, a carol for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Car-

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ols at King's College, Camb~idge. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998.

After seven years teaching in Minnesota, first at Saint Olaf College and then at the University of Saint Thomas, where he held the Endowed Chair in the Humanities, he now lives in north Norfolk. He has a Minnesotan wife, two sons and two teenage daughters.

Dr Alan Flanders, a native of Portsmouth, Virginia, received his BA degree in history at Old Dominion University in 1970. After his appointment as history department chair at the Norfolk Academy, he earned his MA in English from Hollins College in 1976. He was then appointed Public Affairs Officer and Historian for the Training Command, US Atlantic Fleet, and subsequently earned his PhD in American history at the National Defense University, with a concentration in World War Iljoint-co-operation between the Royal and the US Navies during the Battle of the Atlantic. In 1997, he was awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen Elizabeth House. In addition to many articles, he has written six books on naval history, including most recently Bluejackets on the Elizabeth, Naval constructor of destiny: A biography of John Luke Porter, and E.A. Jack: Steam Engineer of the Confederate Navy, which all won Best Non-Fiction ofthe Year Awards from the Library of Virginia. His most recent book, Confederate phoenix: The CSS Virginia will be published this autumn. He is also the recipient of two US Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Medals; the first for his role in antiterrorism training, and the second for his management of salvaging the first two Vietnam War Swiftboats (Hulls one and two) and preserving them for the US Museum in Washington, DC. Most recently, he hosted the awardwinning history series Century for the American National Public Television Network.

Paul R.V. Johnson was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, before studying medicine at Leicester University Medical School. He did his medical house jobs at Leicester Royal Infirmary, and in 1989 taught anatomy at the University of Leicester before obtaining the primary FRCS examination in 1990. He did his basic surgical training on the Leicester-Derby rotation, and obtained the full FRCS examination from both London and Edinburgh in 1993. Between 1993 and 1996, he was Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery in the University of Leicester, where he undertook a project on the optimization of the isolation of human islets of Langerhans for pancreatic islet transplantation

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for diabetes mellitus. This started his ongoing interest in the field of islet transplantation and lead to a Doctorate of Medicine; he also was awarded a Hunterian Professorship in 1998. In 1996, he had been appointed to a higher surgical training programme in Paediatric Surgery on the Oxford-London rotation. He spent the first two years at the John Radcliffe Hospital, before being appointed to a Fellowship at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, in 1998. He then spent a year at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, before completing his training back in Oxford. In May 2001, he was appointed to the post of Clinical Reader in Paediatric Surgery in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and was elected to a fellowship at the Hall.

His current clinical interests include upper gastro-intestinal and endocrine surgery together with management of trauma in childhood. His research interests are in pancreatic islet transplantation and upper gastro-intestinal patho-physiology. He is married to Hilary, and they have two children, Thomas aged 7 and Abigail aged 6. He is looking forward to becoming fully involved in life at the Hall.

Ian Laing was born in 1946, and was educated at Bedford School. He read PPE at the Hall, and then took an M.Sc. at the London Business School in 1971 . From 1972 to 1984, he worked for the English Property Corporation plc, initially as general manager of various overseas operations in Australia, Brussels and Paris. From 1979, he was a main board director with responsibility for the group's overseas properties and for the UK industrial portfolio and trading subsidiaries. In 1984, he joined with Nick Cross, a friend from Oxford University who also went to the London Business School, to carry out the partial management buy-in of Lansdown Estates Group Ltd, which owns the Milton Park Estate between Abingdon and Didcot. This former Ordnance Depot has been progressively transformed into Oxfordshire's leading business-park with a particular concentration of science and technologybased businesses. He was managing director from 1984 to 1993, and chairman thereafter.

Together with Nick Cross, he is a founding shareholder and non-executive director of a series of new high-tech businesses, including Oxford Semiconductor Ltd (semiconductor design), Oxagen Ltd (genomics), Doctors.net.uk Ltd (an intemet provider for the medical profession), and (until 2000) Oxford Asymmetry International plc (chiral and combinatorial chemistry). He has also supported other Oxfordshire science and technology-based businesses, and is a non-executive director of Sussex Place Investment Manage-

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ment Ltd and Bamboo Investments plc, both of which specialize in seedcorn and development funding of early-stage companies. He was a non-executive director of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust between 1993 and 1998, and since 1996 has been a Governor of the London Business School, of which he is now joint deputy chairman.

He has a strong interest in the performing and visual arts, and founded a charity called The Discerning Eye in the early 1990s to encourage lesserknown artists. He is also a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

His main sporting interests are sailing and skiing. He is married with three grown-up children, and has lived in Oxford since 1985.

Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire, educated in Worcestershire, and received his degree (in English) from St Catherine's College, Cambridge. For three years in the mid-seventies, he was based in Northern Ireland, where he covered the Troubles for the BBC. In 1977, he joined the Tonight programme, for which he was a roving reporter. This was followed by five years as a reporter on Panorama, whose assignments took him to Beirut, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and throughout Central America, as well as frequently to North America and continental Europe. His investigation into the mysterious death of Roberto Calvi won a Royal Television Society award. In the late eighties, he learned the craft of studio presenting by anchoring Brealifast Time . He began presenting Newsnight in the autumn of 1989, a role he continues to this day. In 1994 he was invited to present University Challenge. He also presents Start the Week on Radio Four. He has received awards from the Royal Television Society ( 1985), the Voice of the Viewer and Listener ( 1993 and 1997), BAFTA (the Richard Dimbleby Award, 1996 and 1999), the Royal Television Society (Interview of the Year 1997 and 1998), the Broadcasting Press Guild ( 1997), and the Variety Club (Media Personality of the Year, 1999).

He has written widely for newspapers and magazines. His books include A higher form of killing: The secret story of gas and germ warfare (with Robert Harris, 1982), Through the volcanoes: A Central American journey (1985), Friends in high places: Who runs Britain? (1990), Fish, fishing and the meaning of life ( 1994), and The English: Portrait ofa people ( 1998).

In his spare time, he goes fly-fishing.

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Dr James Shaw was educated at Leeds Grammar School and studied History at the University of Edinburgh. In 1994 he was awarded first class honours and won the Annabella Kirkpatrick prize for History. He then went to the European University Institute in Florence to carry out doctoral research into the history of early modem Venice. In 1998 he defended his thesis The scales ofjustice: Law and the balance of power in the world ofVenetian guilds, 1550-1700, under the supervision of Professor Olwen Hufton, now a fellow of Merton College. In 1999, he was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, to be held in the Faculty of Modem History at Oxford. He was elected to a fellowship of the Hall by special election in October 2000, and has taught extensively for the college since that date.

He is currently working on a history of justice in the urban economy of early modem Venice. The main focus of this research is to examine the practical meaning of justice in the everyday experience of Venetians. The project aims to bring social, economic and legal history together through an examination of the operation of market justice in practice. As always, however, a number of tangential interests provide distractions from the main work: these include the history of fishmongers, and also of that mass of petty functionaries, clerks, notaries, judges and lawyers, who made their living out of litigation. The quantity of original archive research involved for all these topics necessarily means spending a great deal of time in the archives of Venice. (The sacrifices of academic life!)

Martin Smith left the Hall in 1964 with a degree in theoretical physics, and spent the following summer in Ottawa doing research in acoustics at the National Research Council. He then joined Arthur Guinness Son and Co. in Dublin as a trainee brewer. In 1969, he went to Stanford Business School on a NATO scholarship, where he obtained an MBA, a Masters in economics, and an American wife. On his return to London, he spent two years with consultants Mackinsey, followed by five years with

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Citibank and three as Chairman of Bankers Trust International. In 1983, he and some colleagues formed an investment banking 'boutique' called Phoenix Securities, offering advice to companies in the financial services industry, and venture capital. The firm was sold in 1997 to a major US investment bank called Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (DLJ), and he became Chairman of their European business. Last year, DLJ was itself acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston, and he elected to retire from banking to pursue other business, pro bono and philanthropic interests.

He is currently Deputy Chairman of New Star Asset Management Ltd, a new retail fund management company, and a director of or advisor to a number of other companies. Much of his non-business activity has been in the field of music: he has been Chairman of English National Opera since April this year, and of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment since 1985. He is also a trustee of the Wigmore Hall and of the Science Museum. He is now developing a number of philanthropic interests, one of which is the establishment of a new prizefund to encourage the arts at the Hall. Its first project was a much acclaimed undergraduate production of Blithe Spirit last Trinity Term.

Professor William J. Wilhelm, Jr. was appointed Professor of Management Studies at the Sai"d Business School and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall in March 2001. Before this appointment, he was associate professor of finance at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College, where he began teaching in 1988. Professor Wilhelm has also served as a visiting professor of management studies with the Said Business School since 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Louisiana State University (1988) and an MA (Economics, 1984) and BA (1981) from Wichita State University.

His published research has focused on investment banking and financial market design, and includes several articles on international differences in securities issuance as well as an analysis of the costs and benefits of alternative stock exchange mechanisms. His current research focuses on the technology and organizational structure of the financial services industry. Recent articles in this area deal with the impact of information technology on

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relationship banking, and the Internet and financial market structure. His forthcoming book, entitled Information markets: What businesses can learn from financial innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2001) uses the perspective developed in these articles to examine how the functions of information intermediaries, both within financial markets and in the larger economy, are evolving with advances in information technology.

Professor Wilhelm' s current teaching includes courses on investment banking and venture capital. He has also taught in the areas of commercial banking, investments, and derivatives and risk management. His consulting experience includes the review of design proposals for electronic securities markets and electricity exchanges, as well as developing and teaching an ongoing week-long executive education course in strategic risk management for ING Group.

ST EDMUND'S DAY Following our annual and long-standing tradition, St Edmund's Day was celebrated on 16 November 2000 with its customary service in the Chapel, followed by a Feast in the Wolfson Hall. The Principal presided at the Feast, accompanied by Mrs Stacey Mingos. Numerous fellows, old members and current junior members attended, and they were joined by a group of specially invited guests: Mr William Miller OBE (Honorary Fellow), Sir Peter Williams (Master of St Catherine' s College), Professor Paul Langford (Rector of Lincoln College), Or David Thompson (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), Or Lucy Annett (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), Professor Robert Evans (Regius Professor of Modem History, Oriel College), Professor Thelma Holt, Or Jem Poster, Mr Emst Sillikens, Mr Philip Blackwell, Mr Anthony Fisher, Or Anne Macpherson CBE, Mr Peter Reskinov (Eton College), and Or Robert Henderson (Cambridge).

THE EMDEN LECTURE 'Don't mention the war, don't mention the war!' Who can forget Basil Fawlty's manic injunction as he leapt around and over the bemused guests and staff of his hotel? Richard Evans certainly cannot. The unforgettable scene was one of two video clips which formed part of the Emden lecture, given by the Professor Evans, Professor of Modem History at the University of Cambridge, on 9 May 2001. The other was from Dad's Army, and showed stereotypical British attitudes when Capt. Mainwaring and his stal-

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wart band were confronted with the crew of a German U-boat. These excerpts, together with slides of cartoons, made Professor Evans's lecture on 'The Germans in British public memory since 1945' a lively occasion. But there was serious content too, inevitably so when his subject touched on major political developments in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

Professor Evans began by noting that his lecture would deal with 'public' rather than 'collective' memory, public memory being mainly that expressed in the mass media. He also noted at the beginning of the lecture the sense of puzzlement felt in Germany that British stereotypes of the Germans, alone of Germany's European partners, always derive from the Second World War. Was this, Professor Evans asked, because of British insularity, or was it nostalgia for the war, for the days before Britain's decline as a world power was obvious to all? Or was it the result of frustration arising from the largely unarticulated realization that whilst Britain had won the war, Germany had won the peace?

British public attitudes towards Germany in this period went through three phases. Immediately after the war, attitudes were dominated by the immediate memory of that appalling conflict. The second phase, one of softening and gradual reconciliation, set in with the Berlin airlift in 1948-9, when that city ceased to be a symbol of Prussian militarism and became instead a beacon of democracy embattled. With the Suez crisis of 1956, belief in Britain's world power received a further blow, whilst in 1958 the first visit to Britain by the architect of Germania recidiva, Konrad Adenauer, showed that friendly relations between the two states, and peoples, should be possible. Not everyone in Britain was convinced. Some displays of public hostility accompanied the visit, and throughout the fifties and early sixties, British publishers and producers pumped out books and films which showed how the plucky Brits stuck it to the arrogant Hun in the war. Interestingly, Professor Evans argued that the purpose of these works, particularly the films, was less to show the superiority of the British over the Germans, than the need to prove how the war had been won by the British officer class.

The 1960s changed many things, and British attitudes towards Germany seemed to be one of them. Advances in German industry impressed everyone, a feeling summed up in the adverts of later years extolling Vorsprung durch Technik; and British TV even came up with a comedy series on the lives of British Gastarbeiter in Germany. Then came the unification of Germany in 1990, and we were back almost to square one. Professor Evans gave the impression of a tide of anti-Germanism sweeping through much of

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the country. Mrs Thatcher feared the united Germany would be too powerful within Europe; one of her ministers, Nicholas Ridley, likened contemporary Germans to Nazis, though such nonsense cost him his cabinet seat.

This was depressing stuff, but there was worse to come. The tabloid press sank its slimy teeth into our European partner, especially during the European football championship in 1996. The rhetoric and the stereotyping of the Second World War were back with a vengeance. And there, Professor Evans suggested, things remain. And are likely to col)tinue to do so, not least because of the abysmal knowledge about German affairs amongst British, and primarily English, youth, a condition made no less depressing by the realization that ignorance about other countries, even Britain, is just as great.

(This point was underscored when, driving home the following evening, I heard a young BBC Radio 4 journalist refer to the place where 'Charles 11' had been executed.)

Why, asked Professor Evans, have we seen this regression to pre-1960s attitudes and belligerence? One reason is that as personal memories of the war fade with the passing generations, public memory becomes more important than private recollection, and this is increasingly taking the form of concentration on the concentration camps. These should never be forgotten; but there is more to history, even modem German history, than the Holocaust. A more important cause of this return to hostility in the British media is the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the communist bogey. This has removed the 'negative other' which dominated much of public thought and debate on foreign affairs after 1945. With the Russkies out of the running, who else might threaten Britain? In its ignorance and its insularity, the British public seems to have decided it was a re-unified Germany, even though the unification did more to weaken the Federal Republic politically and economically than to strengthen it.

When a nation's place in the world changes, as Britain's did vis-a-vis Germany, unpleasant things happen. Professor Evans's lecture, presented with great skill, wit and verve, brought this out most clearly. In the long run, it was deeply depressing; but I suppose I should have known. As Vaclav Havel wrote in 1992 of his own country, 'the familiar sewage that in times of historical reversal always wells up from the nether regions of the collective psyche has overflowed into the mass media, especially the gutter press'.

Richard Crampton Archivist

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GRADUATE DEBATES AND SEMINARS The graduate debate programme appears now to be well established, and is enjoyed by the entire Hall community, including members of the SCR and occasionally the JCR. A range of topics was discussed this year, from 'Genetically Modified Food' (addressed by Drs Hill and Lack) to 'The Irish Question' (Dr Mulholland). We tried to make sense of the Balkans (with Professor Crampton), revisited the American elections (with Professor Ellenbogen), and even wondered whether life on Mars exists (with Dr Brasier). All the seminars were very well attended, and our distinguished speakers had to work hard to answer a host of challenging questions from the audience. Special mention should also be made of the Graduate Seminars. It would appear that the good will and generosity of the Hall 's friends know no bounds, and we were able to continue the Postgraduate Scholarships this year and to select a further two outstanding students, Oliver Daltrop (Biochemistry) and Stella Kariuki (Engineering). These freshers were invited to give a short presentation on their proposed research projects to a graduate audience that also included our benefactors. The second-year Graduate Scholars had their chance to give us an update on their achievements, too, and their seminar was attended by Mr and Mrs Laing, who have kindly supported the Graduate Scholarship scheme from last year. It would also appear that Michael Cansdale's tireless devotion to the task of obtaining further support for graduates is bearing fruit, and our community of Graduate Scholars is therefore set to expand further next year.

Basil Kouvaritakis Tutor for Graduates

ARTWEEK 2001 The annual Art and Craft Exhibition, held again in the Party Room during the Oxfordshire Visual Arts Festival, Artweek 200 I, at the end of May, as usual attracted many hundreds of visitors. Although this year there were fewer items on show, the exhibition was less crowded and the exhibits could be displayed better. There were three old members whose work was displayed, alongside that of fellows, students, admin and domestic staff, and of others connected with the Hall. Tony Birks-Hay (m. 1961), a professional artist, displayed some of his sculpture, and Lyon Roussel (m. 1947) showed us some more of his paintings and ceramic toads. Flemming George (former fine art student, m.

1997) also returned with a life-study of one of our current undergraduates.

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Any visitor to the exhibition who had not heard of choughs (Cornish or otherwise), as depicted on the college coat of arms, was in for a surprise! The centrepiece this year was a giant papier-mache chough, cleverly created by Lucy Newlyn (Fellow in English), which was suspended from the ceiling. With its great red beak, long red legs and sharp red claws, it really looked quite fearsome! This was counterpoised by the origami creation by the Bursar and the Bursary staff of the choughs' tea party (an interesting variation on the traditional teddy bears' picnic), which also was suspended from the ceiling. Rumour has it that three more giant choughs are on the way, to promote the eagerly awaited anthology of chough verse to be published later this year. On your next visit to the Hall you may be forgiven for thinking you have trespassed onto the film set for a remake of Hitchcock's The Birds! Lucy's five-year old daughter, Emma, also showed off her artistic talents with a lovely book of drawings of birds and animals illustrating her own poetry.

Margaret Pargeter from the Bursary showed us some more of her fine knitwear, manufactured under her own label, and Rachel Cable, the Bursar's Secretary, again displayed her sewing talents, obviously inherited from her mother, Margaret Cable, whose needlework was also on display. Again, there were very attractive embroidered/applique exhibits from Patsy Yardley, wife of emeritus fellow Sir David Yardley.

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The craft-work was complemented as in previous years by the very skilful glass engraving of Mary Scargill, wife of emeritus fellow Ian Scargill.

It was good to see some new contributors to the exhibition, including Matthew Hegarty, son of the former College Chaplain Gerald Hegarty, and Jeremy Howes, son of College Architect Gilbert Howes. Matthew and Jeremy both contributed colourful, eye-catching paintings in oils. Undergraduates Jemimah Campbell and Jenna McRae (both fine artists) displayed some of their photographic work, and Sophie Smith (PPE) displayed interesting life-studies. Mark Halloran (Medicine) not only contributed an abstract painting, but also invited visitors to listen through headphones to his band's latest CD! Sub-Deans Vibha Joshi and Jon Witztum both displayed photographic art, and Almut Sprigade (postgraduate, educational studies) displayed her sister, Bettina's, clever silk painting as well as her needlework. The new Assistant Bursar, Nigel James, showed us that he and his daughter, Hannah, are also both very artistic, with watercolours and clay modelling, respectively. The College Gardener, Susan Kaspar, who has already made such a great impression on the college gardens and is responsible for the numerous tubs and pots which now adorn the college grounds, also produced some very nice watercolours for the exhibition.

As usual there were many fine paintings by our regular contributors, some of them depicting local landscapes, while there were also paintings of Scotland and of countries abroad. There were portraits and life-studies too. Iona Wright, wife of honorary fellow Sir Denis Wright, Peggy Todd, wife of emeritus fellow Joe Todd, Vicki Crank, mother of Nicholas Crank (Fellow in Modern Languages), Ann Smith, wife of John Smith (superintendent of outside properties), and Julia Johnson all contributed studies in oils. Again there were nature studies by Sarah Cowdrey, daughter of emeritus fellow the Revd John Cowdrey. There were also some very nice watercolours by Sasha Wernberg-M!I)ller, the former librarian, and some imaginative drawings by the present Librarian, Deborah Eaton. We shall certainly miss the intricate architectural drawings of both Steven Johnson (fouth-year chemistry) and of Nicholas Karn (postgraduate, medieval history) who have both been regular contributors but who are expected to have gone down before next year's exhibition. Emeritus Fellow Norman Pollock again produced another illustrated notebook of his travels, along with some more comical cats and an illustrated calendar.

Overall, the exhibition was again a great success, and it is no surprise that by the end of Artweek 2001, a number of contributors had been re-

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warded by a sale of their work. Congratulations to all those who took part and many thanks to all those who assisted in staging the exhibition and the production of the catalogue, and to the invigilators for giving up their spare time.

Julia Johnson-Fry

MUSIC AT THE HALL Music is definitely in the ascendancy at the Hall, and we are currently blessed with a glut of exceptional and gifted musicians, both instrumental and vocal.

Thus we were able to award several Instrumental Bursaries this year, and through Dr Venables's generosity had once again a full complement of Choral Scholars. Over and above the Choir's excellent performances (one of which has been immortalized on a CD), there have been numerous concerts and recitals. These ranged from collective appearances, as in the Music Society's concert where a variety of individuals took it in turn to perform in solos, duets or larger groups, to recitals given for strings and piano. We also had a charming Valentine's Evening of romantic songs (accompanied by an ex-Teddy Hall graduate student), in addition to some lunchtime performances in the Chapel. Sadly, however, Dr Nick Marston, our Music Lecturer, is moving on to pastures greener, and we wish him all the best. In his stead next year we shall have the good services of Dr Roger Allen.

Basil Kouvaritakis Tutor for Music

EMMA BROCKES PICKS UP YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Many of our readers will have already spotted the award of Young Journalist of the Year to Emma Brockes (m. 1994), this being possibly the most believable of the British Press Awards. This year, the tabloids took most of the categories, so The Guardian, for which Emma writes, was naturally delighted to be associated with the award. The British Press Awards are recognised as the newspaper industry's 'Oscars', so the award to Emma is a truly great recognition of her skill and professionalism. At the ceremony at the Hilton in March this year, the Judges praised Emma's writing as 'full of sharp social observations' and 'stunningly accomplished'. She received a ÂŁ5,000 travel bursary as part of the prize. Emma writes regularly for

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The Guardian in its supplement, and it was her pieces on Edward de Bono and another, 'Balaclava Boy' - about the funeral of a young delinquent who had died of a drugs overdose - that contributed to the award. Emma was also awarded a two-month bursary from the paper on full pay, and a case of Scotch.

Many of us at Teddy Hall remember her time here as an English undergraduate. She won the annual Geddes Prize for journalism in 1996. This is awarded every year to an Oxford student journalist, and is made in memory of Philip Geddes, the promising young journalist who was killed by the Harrods bomb blast some years ago. The prize carries great distinction and is considered a distinct advantage to aspiring journalists- clearly the judges then were absolutely right in their choice! I have a personal feeling of gratitude to Emma for the sensible piece she wrote in The Guardian in that awful summer of 1998 when the Hall found itself the brunt of some distinctly unsavoury press comment. Emma Brockes's humorous and pointed piece seemed to be the turning of the tide.

So, we congratulate our dear alumna, Emma Brockes, on the deserved distinction that has been accorded her, and rejoice in the early recognition by the profession of another Teddy Hall journalist on her way to the top!

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Bursar

GRAHAM: St Edmund Hall Oxford 1941-1999 In the St Edmund Hall Magazine last year, we announced the forthcoming publication of this affectionate memoir of the Revd Graham Midgley, whose long association with the Hall began when he came up as an Exhibitioner in 1941. He took a first class in the Final Honour School of English, and later a B.Litt. He was elected to a fellowship at the Hall in 1951, and in 1956 became Dean, an office he held for twenty-two years. He taught English alongside those two other stalwart college men, Bruce Mitchell and Reggie Alton, until1984. He also served the college as Vice-Principal from 1969 to 1978, during the exciting years which saw its expansion into one of the largest colleges in Oxford. Graham took Orders in 1957, and was Chaplain of the Hall from 1978 until 1985. He published two major scholarly monographs: one early in life on Orator Henley, a radical and independent-minded clergyman; the other, three years before he died, on University life in eighteenth-century Oxford. During his long and distinguished academic career, he established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on

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GRAHAM St Edmund Hall Oxford 1941-1999 edited by Bruce Mitchell and Reggie Alton

This volume of contributions by friends and former pupils is dedicated in gratitude and affection to the memory of Graham Midgley, sometime of St Edmund Hall Oxford.

More than I 00 Aularians, colleagues, friends and relations of Graham have contributed to this celebration of his life, several times the expected number, which has made the final version of the book nearly 299 pages long. 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 also includes other sources such as obituaries. Separately some items may seem trivial, others substantial; the whole gives a complete and very moving picture of a remarkable man.

Bruce Mitchell has ordered the diverse contributions into chapters which are immediately recognizable as appropriate: Graham Ave • 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 Since publication last year, the editors and publisher have received an astonishing number of letters from Aularians regaling their pleasure in the book.

Sales have now not only covered costs; they have shown a small surplus which has gone into the funds of the St Edmund Hall Association. Buy a copy now and you will at once enjoy an excellent read and also help fund the Association, which itself contributes increasingly to the Hall.

If you would like to receive your copy of the book, please send a cheque for £20.00 plus £1.00 postage to the Bursar.

ISBN: 1 85083 047 9. Binding: limp. Illustrations: 43. Pages: vi + 190.

Publication, 2000.

Roger Farrand ( 1955)

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John Bunyan. In between teaching, research, and serving as priest at his local parish in South Hinksey, he wrote poems and made powerful, tactile sculptures in wood, marble and stone. He was senior member of numerous college societies, and eo-President until his death of The Friends of the St Edmund Hall Boat Club. The new Hall boat, acquired this year with contributions from the Friends, the Governing Body, and one major donor, bears his name. He died at his home in Hinksey, after a short illness, in 1999.

Bruce Mitchell and Reggie Alton have now brought their editorial labours to a triumphant conclusion, and Graham was published last year by the Farrand Press. (A description of the book appears on page 93.) We now publish an editorial retrospect by Bruce Mitchell, and three reviews of the book, written from different perspectives, by Lucy Newlyn (Fellow in English), Lawrence Cummings (m. 1971), and Christina Bird (m. 1986).

Graham: An Editorial Retrospect To the thanks offered in the book itself to the publisher Roger Farrand and to the contributors, the editors now add their warm gratitude for the generous comments which have been made about it. But at the age of 162 they regret their inability to reply individually. They are also grateful to Lucy Newlyn and to the two Aularians who matriculated in 1971 and 1986, whose reviews of Graham follow at page 99, and to Lucy Newlyn again and her eo-organizers of the buffet dinner in the SCR on Tuesday 6 March to celebrate the publication of the book.

Graham p. 13: 'We have been unable to trace any record of Norman Fry.' Apologies are due to Norman Hillier-Fry (m. 1941). The mystery which the Hall computer records failed to unravel was child's play to Michael Cansdale: a triumph for the human mind over the Brave New World.

Apologies are also due for the inevitable failures in proof reading. One which was happily detected (and which is reproduced in the next page) placed the right photograph and the wrong caption in amusing juxtaposition on p.

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Three responses to a reading of Graham follow : (1) 'With regard top. 153 and the tune of the Vicar of Bray, the words were: In A.B. Emden's golden days Before I got preferment, I kept him in the draughty Quad

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Graham with a backsliding parishioner

To hasten his retirement.

I fed him potatoes, starchy food, To sap his constitution; Resulting, in Michaelmas '51, With principial institution.' (m. 1951) (2) 'Oh lucky English set to have had a tutor who inspired so much love and affection and such happy memories.' (m. 1959) (3) The appeal of the 'trained theologian and casuist' (pp. 160-1) did not fall upon deaf ears. For a full account of 'The Affair of the Lodging of the Provost of Queen's' from one who shared the great adventure with Graham, see the anonymous item entitled 'The Spirit of Modern Architecture in Agony' published below on page 96. This relates how Christmas cards portraying Graham's sculpture were sent to The Queen's College and 'to a category of known sympathizers'.

Another contribution offers a new detail which is probably authentic because it adds a typically Midgleian sting to the tale: the copies of 'the infamous postcard' sent to recipients outside Queen's were ostensibly sent by the Provost and Fellows of Queen's.

And so, to conclude this retrospect:

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Seo boc is gesamnod, seo sagu thinra dreda awriten¡ thin laf licgath hwrer thu woldest in threre leofan moldan.

Thin gemynd lifath Bearme ond in Healles in threm Batgades Theodscipe in Englisce, ealles to late Sreliglice, Graham the gestatholad. leofa, in threm modum lifast ond in threm lifum threm the thu beonne bysna gode ond thara the the weorthiath to wrefersyne ond to freonde.

The book is made, the story of your deeds is told.

Your ashes lie where you wished, in that beloved place.

Your memory will be kept green in the Boat Club Fund and in a Hall Fellowship in English, endowed far too late for you to hold. But you, dear Graham, will joyfully live in the minds and lives of those you influenced for good and who honour you as an example and a friend.

Bruce Mitchell Emeritus Fellow

The Spirit of Modern Architecture in Agony The assault on the newly-built Queen's Provost's Lodgings in summer 1959 (see Graham pp. 159-61; also p. 52) was not entirely an occasion for Graham to work off excess energy. It had a serious side along with a hilarious dimension. Four conspirators besides Graham were involved. Only one of the four was a Hall man, which we thought might give us the advantage, if we were caught, of obscuring the connection to Graham. Another of the four might not even have met Graham or known he was thefons et origo. What drew us together was a sense of disappointment that the singular opportunity to design a building worthy of the site was passed over in favour of a dull pastiche. We could not undo the damage but we felt compelled to register a protest.

Graham of course fashioned the sculpture (papier-macM over wire frame), which represented the spirit of modern architecture in agony. It held a message to the Provost in its hand deploring what Queen's had done to the fabric of Oxford. The moment when the sculpture should be put into position was long debated. The day of the week had to be chosen to avoid a surge of traffic or pedestrians in New College Lane. The hour of the night also presented difficulty. We were not able to discover if either of the rooms adjacent 96

to the niche was an occupied bedroom and we therefore thought that the sound of ringing bells at the time we placed the ladder against the stonework would be an advantage. Our problem was that the maximum bell-noise at midnight was too early and the following, quieter hours provided less protection. I can't remember whether we settled for 2.00 or 3.00 a.m.

The core assault team comprised two members. We and a third member, from a women's college, converged on a room in Great Clarendon Street where we reviewed contingencies and synchronized watches. The woman was dressed as for a party, we in dinner jackets, this to explain our presence and increase our anonymity at such an hour. The core team set off first towards the Hall. Graham had contrived a ladder to be available behind the wall of St Peter-in-the-East (I think he pretended there was a bird's nest he wanted to investigate in the wall above his window; it had to be light so that his frail person could handle it; etc.). I remember it wore tartan socks at both ends. The statue had been lowered by rope from Graham's rooms to the churchyard and lay alongside the ladder behind the wall.

As the moment approached, Graham took up position in the shadow opposite the Hall entrance. His job was to distract anyone who entered Queen's Lane and looked as if they planned to continue northwards, between three minutes to and five minutes past the hour. His female counterpart took up position at the same time at the bend outside New College gateway with similar intent, to inhibit anyone moving southwards. We were confident that Graham would talk anybody to an eight-minute standstill but less confident about the woman, whose story involved a broken heel and a sprained ankle.

The core team fetched the ladder and the statue from over the wall. Each with an article in hand, they hastened up Queen's Lane. They waited for the clocks to strike, placed the end of the ladder against the sill, inserted the statue, jammed it back into the niche, straightened the scroll, and raced back down the Lane. It happened so quickly, in a haze of panic, that it is difficult to remember anything but fear. As the ladder went back over the wall, Graham left the shadow, nodded, and let himself into the Hall; we dispersed.

Around daybreak- we had specified 5.00 a.m. -the fifth conspirator made his contribution. His affiliation to the architectural cause was loose; he was more a friend with his own developing facilities. It was important for him to get photographs before the Queen's authorities became aware of the statue and removed it. He overslept but nevertheless arrived in time to take three postcard-format photographs, of which one is printed on the next page. Two of these photographs were subsequently trimmed and enlarged in different trial versions to produce the full-frontal illustration for a Christmas card.

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The card was sent to a category of known sympathizers as well to the Provost of Queen's. It is known that John Sparrow appreciated his, and some other heads of houses likewise, but the prime offenders, as always, continued unresponsive.

In the post mortem review, I think we agreed that honour had been done. We did not manage to bring down an avalanche of embarrassing publicity; the dull folly still squats heavily. In fact, hardly anyone noticed, and I had almost forgotten the event until I saw it recalled in Graham. I think it was important for him: the jape was not, like so

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many, a solo exercise in self-expression: the cause was sound. A pity, perhaps, that the episode is remembered if at all as a joke, even though we would have been alarmed if a shamed Provost had abandoned his smug building or set fire to it.

I do not reveal identities for a reason you will surely appreciate. One of the dinner-jacketed pair is now a very senior member of a college which shall remain nameless.

A Tribute to Graham Midgley The Revd Graham Midgley will be remembered by generations of Aularians as 'the Dean', who lived in the Front Quad, spoke commandingly down through a loudspeaker, and was rarely to be seeri without his latest golden Iabrador. In the English Faculty and the wider university community, many will recollect him as the plain-spoken northerner who was allied in all matters of importance to Rachel Trickett of St Hugh' s. Along with this formidable and latterly bald Lancastrian, the visual memory of Graham-plus-dog survives as a symbol of the good old days when, to be an authentic don, eccentricity was more or less obligatory. Most Oxford newsagents now stock the famous postcard of Graham and Fred, as carved in aetemum on the tower of St Peter-in-the-East. Turn the card over, and you can read Graham's whimsical and touching epitaph: Beneath this turf the Dean's dog Fred Without his master, goes to Earth, now dead.

But on the tower, stone Dean and Fred together Enjoy the sunshine and endure bad weather.

A vivid description in the Hall's new anthology of recollections, edited by Bruce Mitchell and Reggie Alton, will strike a chord with everyone who knew him: 'Graham of the mellifluous voice, gentle humour, Iabrador dogs, twinkling eye and great humanity and Christianity.' He was a truly remarkable man, and only anecdotes and photographs can now do justice to his extraordinary personality, which was, to say the least, unpredictable. He was that rare thing, a chameleon with a strong identity. Wearing his various hats with style and panache, he had an unerring sense of the theatrical; and whether as don, as dean, as cleric, or as English tutor, he never failed to surprise. Anecdote is a form ideally suited to capturing what is changeable.

It is also a form that Graham analysed, and made his own, in his wonderful book about eighteenth-century Oxford life. Bruce and Reggie, themselves great anecdotalists, were doubtless aware of its generic appropriateness when they planned and put together this delightful collection.

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The quaint archaism in their volume's subtitle - Graham Midgley, sometime of St Edmund Hall Oxford - links its subject-matter back to the eighteenth-century customs of which Graham was so fond.

Some of the memories in this book go way back, recalling Graham's Bradford origins and loyalties ('Always the proud Yorkshireman') . One contributor recalls that when Graham won his Exhibition in 1941, his headmaster was so delighted he gave the whole school a day off. Another, that when Graham phoned home to tell his mother he had got a First, she was despondent (a Fourth, she thought, must be better.) Mostly, though, the book concerns the middle and later parts of Graham's life, which he devoted to the Hall.

The contributors remain anonymous, and Aularians will have fun trying to identify them. Much of the enjoyment in reading comes from the sense that information is teasingly withheld and reputations still at stake. Anecdote, like gossip, is largely mischievous - and doubly so when its subject is so full of mischief. How many people will own up to having been at the rowdy party at which Graham (then Junior Dean) hid behind the door to escape being admonished and fined by the Dean? Whose window did Graham, then Dean himself, creep through, in the early hours of one morning, c. 1970, when he had locked himself out of college? What is the name of the young lady who stood naked and shivering, just out of sight inside her boyfriend's room, while Graham (eyes a-twinkle but not letting on he knew) conducted a lengthy conversation with her boyfriend from outside in the front quad?

And, most important of all, who were the two companions who once sneaked round the corner with Graham to fix a bawdy Priapic statue in the niche of the Provost's lodgings at Queen's?

Many insiders will have answers to these questions; whereas I, a relative latecomer, do not. What I do know, however, is the identity of a colleague in the Hall who writes of Graham: 'He had vision, skill, and above all the dedication, application, and capacity for sheer, concentrated hard labour necessary to metamorphose a lump of stone into the unique work of art lurking within and waiting to be coaxed into the daylight.' That moving description does double service in the volume, working equally well as a metaphor for Graham's sculpture and for his teaching. I also know the name of a colleague in the English Faculty, who describes Graham in these words: 'he made you believe in the humanity of the literary business, that there was some equation between the reading and teaching of literature and humaneness and goodness. He was a good man, in every sense'. I mustn't reveal the names of these contributors here, since one of the points of the book is to

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keep you guessing.

Of the making of anecdotes there is no end. In the spirit of what another dear colleague, Ken Segar, used to call 'anecdotage' (which begins to set in at the age of 45, at least in dons), I shall close this tribute with some memories of my own. You will not find these in Bruce and Reggie's book; for there I chose to record my affection in a poem.

How did it feel in 1984, as a female academic entering an institution that still preserved its all-male ethos, to encounter this weird and wacky don, who made no secret ofthinking women inferior to men? When I first arrived at the Hall, Graham had retired as Tutor in English, but was continuing as Chaplain. I was on a short-term teaching contract, which turned later into a Fellowship. Rooms were scarce in the Hall, then as always, and Graham kindly allowed me to use part of his set for tutorials. He was courteous, but puckish; and I shall never forget the trial-by-disruption he put me through during my first term. Timing his arrival for lunch to coincide with the last five minutes of my morning tutorials, he would clatter up the stairs humming a loud tune, then burst into his room (closely followed by a yelping dog -or was it at that stage two?), and stand by the window conducting a tenminute tutorial on the subject under discussion. He could quote poetry by the yard; and he did so in a ringing baritone voice, with Yorkshire vowels for extra effect.

Somehow we both survived, and our friendship flourished- so much so that when my daughter was born, Graham presided over our SCR party, and came as near as dammit to giving her a christening. (He said at the time we had only chosen him to perform this office because with his white beard he looked like Father Christmas). Graham was the soul of generosity. When my book on Paradise Lost came out, he presented me with a papier-mache snake, winding around a tree towards a single bright green apple. The sculpture was entitled 'There's one left for you' . A more intricate gift followed shortly, again with a literary theme- a woman, imprisoned in a snake, with a quotation from Keats's Lamia. It was never quite clear to me if this was intended to imply that all women were snakes, or if the usual homo-erotic charge came uppermost in Graham's creative process; but it is a beautiful sculpture - which just goes to show that art can transcend ideology. That wasn't the end of the reptilian theme, though. One November morning, fumbling towards my room in semi-darkness, I found a large golden serpent lying in my doorway. Graham up to his tricks again! He had converted a shower attachment by spraying it with gold paint and carving a wooden head for it. The snake positively rippled.

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Now, looking round my room, I see many reminders of Graham. I have, on semi-permanent loan, the scholarly editions of eighteenth-century literature which formed the backbone of his capacious library. Only the other week, in a supervision with one of my graduate students, I opened a volume in the Midgley edition of Bunyan, from which fell a whole archive of reviews and cuttings, happily saving my grateful and awe-struck supervisee many hours of abstruse research. I also have some precious first editions of twentiethcentury poetry, passed on to me by Graham's dear friend Chris Wilson. On the shelves among these books, my more observant students will notice the three snake-sculptures I described earlier. Peaking their heads round corners, they look as though they are trying to get a better view of what goes on in my tutorials. They call to mind another Front Quad room - the one I briefly shared with Graham back in 1984. In those days, on the tidy methodical desk of this eccentric man, there sat a human skull. Through its eyesockets coiled a plastic snake. Thruppence it must have cost him, or nothing at all if he won it at St Giles's fair, but nonetheless it was a graphic and theatrical memento mori.

Graham was out to shock. I shall remember him always as the Lord of Misrule. There has never been anyone like him.

LucyNewlyn Fellow in English The Dean It was with considerable trepidation that I sat down to read, and then review, Graham. Firstly, because my last piece of semi-serious literary criticism was submitted on a golden Saturday morning in June 1975 in Schools (fortunately I was able to turn my attention that afternoon to the first ever Cricket World Cup Final and the contents of bottles and glasses). Secondly, what if the volume failed to do justice to the memory of the man that Aularians of my generation knew simply as 'Dean'? And thirdly, as a mere Modem Linguist, what if I had to challenge the editing talents of those pillars of Hall English, Reggie and Bruce?

The first issue is left to you, the reader, to judge, and your judgement will probably mirror that of Richard Fargher a quarter of a century ago! The second and third, I am glad to report, now cause me no trepidation. The editors have succeeded admirably in capturing the many facets of Graham Midgley, and have also succeeded in achieving a very balanced temporal mix. Each generation of Hall men and women will have its own memories of the Dean, and will have searched this volume for confirmation of the accu-

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racy of their recollection. I believe that very few, if any, will have been disappointed. Certainly, the tales of 'Kelly IV rules the Air' from my era are faithfully reported, as is the 'It was Smith, Dean' hair-raising escapade.

Was anonymity ever so faithfully preserved? Since the perpetrator had previously climbed through the window of my Kelly III eyrie and left his climbing boots and rope in my bed, in my case, not!!

The volume captures beautifully the sheer humanity of the Dean. I remember fondly Freshers' Dinner, our first dinner in Hall, our first introduction to the duo of Principal and Dean (did any gathering of young men ever have such 'characters' to introduce them to the joys of Oxford?). After a brief introduction from John Kelly we were left to the tender mercies of the Dean.

We expected a disciplinary diatribe; it never came. We were allowed to anticipate the joys of being 'not just Oxford men, but Hall men' -the Dean leaving us in no doubt which was the more important. A brief word of warning of the temptations awaiting us - whilst getting the distinct impression that the Dean believed we should sample at least some of them! -and the fateful word that the Porters' Lodge was locked at midnight, but 55 The High was always open for ingress via the depths ofBesse! I am not sure that one could even talk of the iron fist in the velvet glove; the Dean's discipline was always temperate, more concerned with motive than crime, always ready to forgive the occasional aberration; administered with the twinkling eye so lovingly captured in so many of the anecdotes.

In my study of Italian literature (I did not, despite opinions to the contrary, only play rugby and drink beer!), I came upon the work of Pascoli, an Italian poet, whose leitmotif was 'lo spirito infantile' - the child-like spirit. In so many ways, that is what Graham Midgley had and was determined to maintain throughout his life - constant curiosity, a keen sense of fun, large doses of irreverence, loving, caring, loyal. In summary, one can say that the book is a fitting epitaph to a man who touched the lives of thousands, and who survives in the fond memories they have of him.

Lawrence Cumrnings (1971)

Graham I was an undergraduate at Teddy Hall and read English. However, I did not, in fact, know Graham Midgley. I didn't have him as a tutor (I believe that ours was the first year to enter the Hall after his retirement). I didn't row, either, and so I did not get to know him through the Boat Club. I was aware that he had been the third member of the 'triumvirate' which also consisted of Reggie and Bruce (whom I was privileged to have as my

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tutors); but, before reading Graham, I did not know much more about him than that. I certainly wasn't aware how central a role he had played in so many aspects of Hall life, and in how much affection he was and is - held by those with whom he came in contact.

This book gathers together the recollections of many people, and not just from the University, who knew Graham, and the stories they recount span the whole of his life. (Incidentally, one of the anecdotes in the book shows that he did not like people he didn't know calling him Graham from the outset; however, given the affectionate tone of the book, it seems appropriate to do so in this review- I hope he will forgive me). What picture of him does the book portray? Clearly, the role he played in Hall life was only one of many facets of his life and personality. He was also a poet, a sculptor, a Yorkshireman, a horseman, a sometime model (as a child, of his father's knitting patterns!), in addition to those roles for which he was probably more familiar to most at the Hall - Dean, Chaplain, and tutor - and not forgetting dog-owner, of course.

However, these various things do not explain why so many people appear to have had the highest regard for Graham. Taken together, what the contributions make clear is that Graham's pre-eminent qualities were his kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity. He was also tolerant of undergraduates' displays of high spirits (in every sense of those words)- no matter how many times they targeted his car. But Graham was obviously no 'goody goody' -otherwise, the chapter headed 'Graham in Disgrace' would be a short one indeed! Throughout the book, there are a number of anecdotes showing that Graham had a rascally streak to his nature. My favourite is the one about the statue with which Graham decided he would fill a niche above the entrance to the new Lodgings for the Provost of Queen's - that college having thoughtlessly left it empty. It wasn't the sort of statue you'd want to show to your maiden aunt.. .although it seems the Provost's maiden aunt was treated to a viewing!

In recounting their anecdotes about Graham, the contributors also give an insight into Hall life at a time when undergraduates were all male, when they had to be back in college by midnight, and when no female visitors were allowed to remain overnight. I leave to your imagination the sort of stories recounted in the book that are connected to these three factors!

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OBITUARIES Professor Jack Christian, MA, D.Phil., FRS 1926-2001 Emeritus Fellow AN EMINENT metallurgist, Jack Christian was the son of a trawler skipper who had been through hard times in the 1930s, but who ensured that his children were given the best opportunities. He was educated at Scarborough Boys' High School and The Queen's College, Oxford, where he read physics and then joined W. Hume-Rothery in the metallurgical laboratory of the inorganic chemistry department. He took his MA and D.Phil. in 1949. After holding some temporary positions, in 1955 he was appointed lecturer in metallurgy and in 1958 he was elected to the George Kelley Readership in Metallurgy. He became a Fellow of St Edmund Hall in 1963 and was elected to an ad hominem Professorship in Physical Metallurgy in 1967.

After his early work on alloy constitution he collaborated with HumeRothery and with W.B. Pearson in the production of a book entitled Metallurgical Equilibrium Diagrams. But his principal interest soon became the study of the crystallography and mechanisms of martensitic transformations, a subject in which he rapidly established himself internationally as a leading authority. At the age of 25 he published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society a seminal paper on the cobalt transformation. While producing numerous original papers and review articles, he worked simultaneously on a major book called The Theory of Transformations in Metals and Alloys, which first appeared in 1965 and at once became the authoritative work in its field. Part one of an enlarged and revised edition appeared in 1975, the year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Following some early pioneering experiments with Basinski on the flow stress of body centred cubic metals at low temperatures, which provided evidence for the existence of a lattice friction stress in these metals, Christian developed in the 1960s and 1970s the study of the mechanical properties of body centred cubic metals and alloys over a wide range of temperatures, with the aim of elucidating the nature of this resistance of the crystal lattice to plastic deformation.

Christian's international reputation brought him many invitations to conferences and other institutions; among his overseas visiting professorships were spells at MIT and Stanford and he was awarded medals by numerous British and foreign scientific societies. For many years he was editor or

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associate editor of Acta Metallurgica, and editor of Progress in Materials Science, the Journal of the Less Common Metals, and Physics of Metals and Metallography.

A modest and unassuming man, Christian nevertheless played a key role in his department at its inception and during a time of rapid growth. In discussions he was more than fair to those who held views differing from his own, but he never failed to expose weak points in any argument. Flaws in a scientific argument were often exposed by the innocent question, 'are we talking about the same thing?' He combined a capacity for hard work with a sense of humour and an exceptional critical faculty.

He married Maureen Lena Smith in 1949 and had two sons and one daughter.

Theirs was a very happy marriage and they supported each other through good and bad times, including the tragic loss of their youngest son in 1999.

In the late 1970s Christian began to suffer from Parkinson's disease, and although it affected him increasingly physically he bore his illness with the greatest courage and did not allow it to interfere with his work in any way.

He managed to finish the manuscript of the second volume of his book on Phase Transformations, but sadly did not live to see it published. He was very proud when his wife became Lord Mayor of Oxford in 2000, and in spite of his physical disability he escorted her to many of her functions.

He is survived by his wife and by a son and a daughter. ŠThe Times, 22 March 2001

Sir Robin Day, Kt, MA 1923-2000

Honorary Fellow Sir Robin Day, television journalist, was born on October 24, 1923. He died on August 6 2000 aged 76.

Robin Day was one of the outstanding television personalities of his time.

Although he worked in serious current affairs, there was a good deal of showbusiness about him, as his trademark bow-tie and appearances in variety shows at Christmas demonstrated. His readiness to interrupt, his agonised scowl when denied a satisfactory answer, and his dismissiveness of formality made him compulsive viewing- and a gift to impressionists. But he was a dedicated student of politics, and would probably have liked to be a player in the political game himself. He stood for Parliament once, as a Liberal at Hereford in the 1959 general election (this was before he had developed standard right-wing reflexes). But, although he faced a Tory

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majority of only 2,150 (the legacy, admittedly, of a by-election), he was defeated by more than 7,500 votes.

The youngest of three children, Robin Day was the son of a telephone engineer who was a great admirer ofWinston Churchill. He went to a minor public school, Bembridge in the Isle of Wight, and after serving with the Royal Artillery in the latter days of the war and the first 18 months of peace, he went up to Oxford to read law at St Edmund Hall (of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1989). He seemed destined to become a barrister, and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple (which awarded him both a Blackburn and a Harms worth scholarship) in 1952. Perhaps more to the point, he had succeeded in being elected President of the Oxford Union for the Trinity term of 1950, having represented it the previous year with Geoffrey Johnson Smith on a debating tour in America.

Rather surprisingly, he found life at the Bar difficult, despite having gained a place in the chambers of that great common law practitioner F. H. Lawton, later a High Court judge and Lord Justice of Appeal. By the summer of 1953 he had given up the law to take a lowly job with the British Information Services in America. After a year in Washington he returned to London, where he survived for a period of freelance broadcasting and then as a temporary radio producer with the BBC. It was during this frustrating time that a friend drew his attention to an advertisement for a 'newscaster' (in those days a novel term) with Independent Television News, which was then being formed. He had found his vocation. Aidan Crawley, ITN's founding Editor, took a risk. Day had neither conventional good looks nor solid journalistic experience. But Crawley had sensed the formidable presence which prompted a critic to write: 'Hunched forward in close-up, narrowing his eyes behind gleaming spectacles, he delivers the news with such relish that he seems to be daring you to contradict him.' Amid the improvisation of the early ITN, Day seized his chances as a reporter. A growing public adjusted itself with some astonishment to the spectacle of this burly figure thrusting microphones under unsuspecting noses. His temerity, tinged at times with something like menace, caught the imagination of the mass audience, and combined with his occasional readiness to push a delicate question to the verge of embarrassment, it produced the effect that Frankie Howerd summed up as 'those cruel glasses'.

Geoffrey Cox, who succeeded Crawley as Editor of ITN in 1956, was determined to extend the frontiers of television news in various directions, including that of the political interview. This was a sensitive area, which the BBC had approached with exaggerated caution. Cox saw that Day was a

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born cross-examiner, with the forensic facility and the intellectual force to hold the most recalcitrant witness to a given line of inquiry. The collaboration between Cox and Day was fruitful, and two episodes in particular were recognised as benchmarks. In June 1957, with the scars of Suez scarcely healed, Cox briefed Day to go with a camera team to Cairo to interview Colonel Nasser. From this diplomatic minefield Day returned with film showing the Egyptian President responsive under unfettered questioning, and evidently inclined to rebuild bridges . The interview ran for 20 minutes on the screen, and went round the world.

Day was voted Television Personality of the Year. In February 1959 Harold Macmillan, just about to leave for a trip to Moscow, agreed to be interviewed by Day on terms less restrictive than any that his predecessors would have accepted. A question was even admitted, to the disapproval of some of the Prime Minister's advisers, about the sensitive subject of the future of Selwyn Lloyd, whose removal from the post of Foreign Secretary had already been mooted. The result was acclaimed in the press as an advance in political communication, and was so recalled by Macmillan himself in his memoirs. Such encounters are now normal, of course, and although no individual could claim sole responsibility for such a change, Day was certainly among those who brought it about.

Already by 1959 he had made a mark sufficient to attract the BBC. After failing as a candidate in the general election that autumn, he accepted a longstanding invitation to join the BBC's current affairs department, working as a freelance under a contract that was to be renewed at intervals for thirty years. Panorama was in its heyday, and for a decade he worked for it first as a reporter and then, after the death of Richard Dimbleby, as anchorman. Neither he nor anyone else could aspire to Dirnbleby's unmatched position as a national figure, but Day presided with authority. Yet as time went on, he felt increasingly stereotyped. He also failed entirely to get on with Jeremy Isaacs, and played some part in having him removed from the editorship of Panorama in 1965. Never a pliant colleague, and always headstrong under direction, Day felt less and less involved, and in 1972 he not only left Panorama but withdrew from a much-heralded discussion programme about Northern Ireland as a result of a policy disagreement.

His position as interviewer-at-large at the political summit was, however, unassailable. His was a pervasive presence at elections and party conferences, now and then ruffling feelings but respected by leaders of all parties.

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generous about this: 'Day is a fair, honest and sharp interviewer. He's quicker to see the point and ask the right question than anyone; the best political interviewer, always was and always will be.' Sadly, though, there came a time when this was no longer to be true and Day began to flounder in major set-piece interviews, particularly on economics. He seemed especially at sea in an interview with Nigel Lawson as Chancellor in November 1988.

His need for a vehicle of his own was partially met in 1979 when he became the main presenter of Radio 4's fast-moving World at One, where he remained for eight years. The programme had lost its way a bit since the death of William Hardcastle in 1975, and Day- though a trifle breathless (like his illustrious predecessor)- brought a new crisp authority. In the same year he launched BBC1 's Question Time, originally intended as a stopgap, but still going strong after nearly two decades. He was to make this very much his own, and for many viewers it was never the same after he left it in 1989.

That parting of the ways was the result of something of a muddle on the BBC's part. Day had been more than usually prickly about renewing his contract that year, and seems to have felt that it would be improper for him to be involved with the BBC when he published his memoirs (with the somewhat grandiloquent title of Grand Inquisitor). Negotiations collapsed. They were then revived, until John Birt, then the deputy director-general, declared it was too late, because he had just lured Peter Sissons over from ITN, and one of the inducements had been a promise that he could take over Question Time . This was effectively the end of Day's broadcasting. He signed up briefly with British Satellite Broadcasting to do a similar show -but without the invaluable ingredient of an audience- during the company's short-lived career as a rival to Sky, but the magic was gone. Some of Day's final television appearances were in a slot called Elder Statesmen, put out during the BBC's Breakfast News at the time of the 1992 and 1997 elections. He enjoyed the distinguished company he kept, and the shows were a staple of the BBC's election output for four weeks. But it still seemed a sad postscript to the career of a man who had once made the kingdom of political television his own.

The disappointments had begun, however, years before. In 1970 Day had been considered as the next director-general of the IBA - and was rather miffed when the post went instead to a former public school headmaster, Sir Brian Young, who had absolutely no experience of television. Six years later, encouraged (or so he always claimed) by the then Chairman, Sir Michael Swann, he tried for the post of Director-General of the BBC, but once again

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found himself pipped at the post - this time by his old colleague from countless political programmes, Ian Trethowan. At least from the time of that second disappointment, the studio began to lose some of its savour for Day. He found a measure of consolation in writing, though necessarily for a much smaller audience than he could reach on the airwaves. His first book, Television: A Personal Report, was written as long ago as 1961, but, like Day By Day in 1975 it was primarily critical rather than autobiographical. Grand Inquisitor (1989) was a far more egotistical affair and received mixed notices, though it made him a great deal of money (principally through a newspaper serialisation).

All three books reflected his misgivings about the medium which had brought him his fame, as well as expressing his reverence for Parliament, which was also evinced by his chairmanship of the Hansard Society, 1981-83 . He was one of the earliest advocates of televising the Commons, and an unashamed apologist for electoral reform, if only in the moderate shape of the Alternative Vote.

Given at least in his later years to musing on what he saw as his 'failure', Day had terrible maudlin moments. In one such, after his major heart bypass of 1985 (which was followed by a valve replacement in 1996), he described himself as being in 'the departure lounge of life'. Yet such dark moods were never taken very seriously by his friends. They knew that he was first and foremost a performer - and if he could no longer perform in public, then he would perform in private. This sometimes made him a difficult guest, since he was not much disposed to share the limelight, even around a dinner table.

But he was always a social being who retained an interest (sometimes, it has to be said, a boorish one) in attractive young women to the end of his life. At the Garrick Club he was virtually an institution, always lunching at the same table with his chosen companions. Even by those who were not included in that company he was regarded as one of the trophies of the club the only visible successor to Sir Kingsley Amis after his death in 1995.

Day's own knighthood was an unexpected mark of recognition from Margaret Thatcher in 1981. Even so, there were those in his own profession who questioned the wisdom of a working journalist (as he was still at the time) accepting such an honour. But these reservations found little echo in the public mind, and the public were positively delighted when, not long afterwards, the Prime Minister committed the ultimate solecism of persistently calling her interrogator 'Mr Day' in the course of a long Panorama interview. Day himself certainly did not mind, for his guiding principle was a profound belief in the democratic process, as exemplified by the parlia110

mentary system. A total professional, he aimed always to elicit such information as would enable the ordinary citizen better to participate in the business of democratic decision-making. He saw himself as 'counsel for the public' - though his critics came to feel that in his later years he was more like an attorney for the Establishment. It was in trying to adhere to the ideal of true impartiality, sometimes against the grain of fashion, that he made his most characteristic, and most valuable, contribution to British broadcasting.

Robin Day married Katherine Ainslie in 1965. They were divorced in 1986.

He is survived by two sons. ŠThe Times, 8 August 2000

Professor Bryan Matthews, MA, DM, FRCP 1920-2001 Emeritus Fellow IN THE early 1980s the neurologist Bryan Matthews set up a national epidemiological and clinical study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) which was to form the basis for comparison with the human disease possibly associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). As is now known, the human form is a slightly variant clinical condition: vCJD. As well as being one of the leading researchers in this field, he wrote a number of books for patients and researchers alike.

Bryan Matthews was born in London, the third child of W. R. Matthews, Dean of St Paul's, and was educated at Marlborough and then University College, Oxford, where he took his degrees in medicine and surgery in 1943. After three years in the Royal Army Medical Corps he trained in general medicine and then neurology in Oxford, Manchester and London before being appointed a consultant in Derby in 1954. It was the breadth of experience that he gained there - as well as his innate skill which led to his national and international reputation as a superb clinical neurologist. Matthews took an early interest in the rare and then littleknown condition, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and it was from tissue of a patient of his that this disease was first transmitted to a chimpanzee. In 1970 he was appointed to the chair of clinical neurology in Oxford - then one of only four in Britain- which he held until his retirement in 1987.

In addition to his scientific papers, Matthews wrote standard texts for a wide range of interest groups: Practical Neurology ( 1962) for neurologists, Diseases of the Nervous System (with Henry Miller, 1973) for medical stu-

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dents, MS: The Facts (1978) for patients, and MeA/pine's Multiple Sclerosis (ed., 1985) for specialists in that condition. He lectured well, although because of his shyness it was always an effort for him; audiences were fascinated and impressed by what they saw and heard. He had a keen sense of humour - perhaps derived from his first nanny, who was a lion tamer's daughter - and its dryness was encapsulated in the opening of one chapter of Practical Neurology: 'There can be few physicians so dedicated to their art that they do not experience a slight decline in spirits on learning that their patient's complaint is of giddiness.'

Away from neurology he was keen on hill walking, which he often preferred to do alone. In 1943 he married Margaret Forster, for whom he cared devotedly for several years. She survives him, with their son and daughter.

Professor Bryan Matthews, FRCP, neurologist, was born on April 7, 1920.

He died on July 12, 2001, aged 81. ŠThe Times, 31 July 2001

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FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS On the college list during the 2000-2001 academic year were 427 undergraduates (277 men, ISO women) and 83 post-graduates (51 men, 32 women).

MATRICULATIONS 2000 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates Albert, Christian Hugh Methven Alien, Edward Ang, Zhongren Antcliffe, Jonathan Benjamin Ashbridge, Kathryn Helen Atkinson, Christopher Paul Atkinson, Oliver Alan Christopher Bailey, Stuart David Baiou, Nassim Barker, Simon Edward Barker-Danby, Julian Edward Barwell, Zoe Katharine Bateson, Timothy Boon, Caroline Lindsay Bradshaw, Melissa J ane Alice Bramley, Helen Victoria Brooks, Stephen James Brown, Rohan Alan Bruce Browne, Philippa Jane Bryce, Emily Jane Burton, Benjamin Paris Cahill, John Michael Carlisle, Torquil James Jan Castelburg, Marcus Chambers, Steven Peter Charles, Dominic Alexander Chatfield, Samuel David Henry Chatham, Hannah Marie Chopra, Rahul Cizmecioglu, Aygul

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DEGREE RESULTS Final Honour Schools 2001 Computation Class I

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Economics and Management Class I C.R. Leo Class IIi R. Beer Engineering and Computing Science Class Ilii R.A. Coxon Engineering, Economics and Management Class IIi S. Patel Engineering and Materials Class I I.D. Thatcher Class Ilii M.H. Lee Engineering Science Class Ili N.S. Hamilton, V.L. Williams T.I. Abo-El-Nour, H. Jarnieson, H. Subasinghe Class Ilii Class Ill M. Printzos English Language and Literature Class IIi H.M.L. Brown, E.R. Christopherson, R.L. Connell, L.J.I. Crowther, N.J. Hirst, T.C. Tremeer, J.C. Tubbs J.P. Stafford Class Ilii English and Modern Languages Class I N.C. Parker Class IIi I.M. Cosgrave Experimental Psychology T.R. Court, R.J .E. Lion Class IIi

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Jurisprudence Class I J.A. McDermott V.A. Brock, J.R. Bruce, A-M. Evans, A-L. Gardner, K. Class IIi Hughes, K. Lahham, C.M. Long, A. Patterson, H.B. Tan, B. Wilkinson Mathematics Class I Class Ilii

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Earth Sciences N.J.P Whiteley Earth Sciences D.P. Williams Economics D.P. Mushi Education N. Arnhold Education N. Kersh English S.C. Koenig-Wood yard History H.E. Braun History R. Lal J.J. Newton Law Materials H. Dong Materials R. Zugic G.A. Fairey Mathematics C.J. Densham Physics A.J. Markvardsen Physics P.A. Lewis Physiology M.J. Milner Plant Sciences Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)

General Linguistics and Comparative Philology P.A. Lucas (Distinction) International Relations T. Kajiwara Russian & East European StudiesS.P. Morcom (Distinction) Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computation Computation Economic & Social History Economics for Development Educational Research Methodology Educational Studies Educational Studies Industrial Relations Master of Studies (M.St.) European Literature European Literature European Literature

D. Hart J. Moseling R.J. Dry burgh J.M. Cahill

B.D. S!Z)ndergaard P.L. Jackson M.P. Pausina L.M. Whelan

M. Castelberg (Distinction) A. Cizmecioglu (Distinction) J.B. Fowles (Distinction)

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Historical Research Modern History

S. Willcocks C.H.M. Albert

Master of Business Administration (MBA) K.T. Douglas, G.B. Milne (Distinction) Magister Juris (MJuris.)

Q. Cong, N. Countouris (Distinction), M.-C. Frank, E.-B. Laba, E.M.G. Matthys, N. Schultz-Suchting, C.H. Stocker Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) C. Montgomery, A.C. Scannell Bachelor of Medicine (BM, B.Ch.) C. Coghlin, I. Au Yong Diploma in Legal Studies C.B. de Navacelle de Courbertin Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) T.M. Pallut AWARDS AND PRIZES University Awards and Prizes

BOC.Shuftan Prize for Best Project in Chemical Engineering Tarnir Ibrahiem Abo-El-Nour Clifford Chance Prize for Best Performance in M.Juris Nicola Countouris Delon Dotson Prize in FHS Economics and Management Chen Ryung Leo Earth Sciences Prize for Best Field-Mapping Report James Smith Gaisford Dissertation Prize Philip John Cardinale 122

Gibbs Book Prize in FHS Chemistry Part I David Peter Cormode Heath Harrison Junior Travelling Scholarship (Russian) Mark Belcher fan Karten Scholarship David James Spence Pilkington Prize in FHS Engineering, Economics and Management Part 11 Shoaib Patel Turbutt Prize in Practical Inorganic Chemistry Ho ward James Paisley Winner of the University Language Race Maria Liakata College Scholars Au, Yui-Bong Banister, Lucy Alexis Beer, Rhys Boutieri, Charis Brown, Harriet Mary Lancashire Bowman, Glen Grahame Catmur, Caroline Carder, Edward Alexander Cormack, Daniel Alexander Chuenkhum, Songpol Crowther, Lauren Johanna Isabel Cormode, David Peter Enayati Rad, Araz Ellis, Stephen Daniel Firth, Charles Richard Bartholomew Gardner, Alice Louise Hanson, Joseph Hagan, James Martin Leo, Chen Ryung Harvey, Joseph Andrew Lotay, Jason Dean Linford, Jason William Pearsall, Clare Diana Pavey, Mark Jonathan Piatkus, Matthew Alexander Peck, Victoria Louise Rumsey, Michael Scott Prideaux, Alexander Blaise Schartau, Pamela Jutta Rylance, Gareth John Sokol, Daniel Kenji Smith, Andrew James Thatcher, Ian Daniel Stacey, Nicholas Ward, Catriona Isabella Stuart Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus Whitworth, Adam Way, Henry Alexander Wilkinson, Emma Kate

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College Organ Scholar Hampson, Christopher Martin

Bendall, James Stuart Clark, Naorni Elizabeth Pescod, Jennifer Jane

College Choral Scholars Caldicott, Philippa Clare Cosgrave, Isabelle Marie Wilkinson, Kate Louise

College Honorary Scholars Howard, Dorninic Peter James Lloyd, Geoffrey Robert Norrie, Kirsten Margaret College Exhibitioners Bolton-Maggs, Mark Simon Connell, Rebecca Louise Cook, Michael Raymond Court, Timothy Royston Crabtree, Stuart Paul Crawshaw, Jonathan Timothy Eriksson, Hanna Fazalur Karim, Musa Flowerdew, Jonathan Paul Fownes, James Edward Roger Gourlay, Christopher Malcolm Halliwell, John Hamilton, Nicholas Stewart Lee, Chin Siang Lion, Rupert James Elphinstone Lomas, Tristan Robert McDermott, Jacqueline Anne McRae, Jenna-Louise Marsh, Thomas Oliver O'Connell, Dean Warren Ong, Luan Tze Papathanos, Aristeidis Parker, Natalie Catherine Patel, Shoaib Reeve, Stuart Douglas Slack, Joanna Clare Sullivan, Sean Barry Tan, E-Ling Karen Thompson, John Allan Tremeer, Tamsyn Charlotte Watkinson, Lisa Ellen Welch, David William University Graduate Scholars And Students Biochemistry Daltrop, Oliver Engineering Kariuki, Stella Waithiegeni English Cardinale, Philip John

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Other College Awards and Prizes Brockhues Graduate Awards Philip J. Cardinale, Matthew C. Jamison, Nicholas Karn, Joseph Lo, Andrew Ritcheson, Deborah Miller Mrs Brown Bursary Nicola Countouris Richard Fargher Bursary Mark Belcher Philip Geddes Memorial Prize (St Edmund Hall) Clara Goldsmith Lynn Gilbert Bursaries Kamlesh Dookayka, Simon H.J. Stevens Gosling Awards Stuart A. Robinson, Almut R. Sprigade Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Kamlesh Dookayka, Paul Garver Instrumental Bursaries Steffan Knutson (violin), Soo-Hee Lee (piano), Charlie Ramsay (bagpipes), Igor Toronyi-Lalic (violin) KLegal (KPMG) Scholarship for Law Moderations Benjarnin Davies William R Miller Graduate Awards Hagit Amirav, Sarah Antill, Laura J.R. Bradley, Benedict D. Rogers Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Christopher M. Gourlay George Series Prize Anthony Hawkins

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DEGREE DATES 2001-2003

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PLEASE APPLY to the College Office for an application form if you would like to take your degree. The University has imposed variable quotas on the number of candidates presented by colleges at each ceremony (as indicated above), so it cannot be taken for granted that a degree may be taken on a chosen date. Once the application form has been received, candidates will be informed whether it has been possible to enter them for the ceremony requested. The summer ceremonies become booked up extremely quickly. The quotas do not, of course, apply to degrees taken in absentia.

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THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE NEWS Launching the Campaign has meant a busy time this year for all those in the Development Office. The autumn was taken up with preparing the brochure, and I must thank Michael Cansdale, Andrew Craston, Jenny Lewis, Lori Baker and Michael St Maur Shiel for their great assistance in producing an attractive and, I hope, convincing brochure. I am also grateful to Emma Steane and my wife Stacey for helping to arrange the distribution so that Aularians received it with their Christmas post. If you did not receive a brochure and would like a copy, please contact the Development Office. I am also very grateful to Martin Smith (1961) for sponsoring the brochure.

The Campaign Launch has been described in the recent newsletter and therefore I will not repeat the details here, except to thank all those who helped to make it such a successful occasion, and especially the anonymous donor who made my day with his donation of ÂŁ100,000. The major donations from Bill Miller, Martin Smith and Ian Laing when combined with the many smaller donations all contributed to a highly successful launch, and brought us a third of the way to our eventual target of ÂŁ7 million over five years. I am slightly disappointed that only 10% of those who received the brochure have to date made a contribution. I hope that we can persuade you that the Hall does desperately need your support if it is to develop a reputation not only as the friendliest college in Oxford, but also as the place which is trying to improve its financial situation and the facilities it can offer to its students.

The busy workload in the Development Office has been accompanied by a number of staff changes. Lori Baker left us in the autumn to take a post in Norwich where her husband had accepted a new position; Samantha Day has moved to the Blue Cross animal charity located near her home; and Greg Duke returned to the United States to complete his doctorate. Fortunately, the departing staff have been replaced by two very good new appointments. Felicity Hampson is responsible for events, and you will have experienced her friendly and efficient manner if you have attended a recent event at the Hall; and Katerina Nixon is responsible for our database, making sure that it is accurate and that all gifts are recorded and tracked. 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.

Emma Steane has taken maternity leave, and during this time, Monica Waud will be acting as my Personal Assistant. Having taken the major responsibil-

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ity for launching the Campaign, I shall now be turning my attention to other aspects of Hall life, and we hope that the Campaign will be brought to a successful conclusion by a new Campaign Director. We are currently holding interviews for this post, and hope to have someone appointed in the early autumn.

Stacey and I had a wonderful few days in New York at the end of 2000, and a most enjoyable St Edmund's Night Dinner at the Sky Club organised

by Bill Miller and his wife Irene. It was as always a very exuberant and inspiring occasion, and one could literally feel the affection felt towards the Hall. It was a particularly memorable evening this year because we were able to celebrate Bill Miller's OBE. I have also tried to meet up with Aularians on my visits to other parts of the world: this year I had very pleasant evenings in Cape Town, Pretoria and Chicago. One of the main roles of the Development Office is to maintain our contact with old members and to facilitate contacts between them. The task of keeping the database accurate and up-to-date is a constant struggle, but we hope that our new website will facilitate this task, especially for younger Aularians. We are grateful for all those Aularians who have returned their blue Who 's Who personal record forms; if you can provide us with any additional information to help us identify the present locations of others in your year, we would be most grateful. We still hope to publish a new edition of the Who's Who, but only if we can establish accurate information for a substantial fraction of the Aularian community.

The information on the current whereabouts of old members has been invaluable in developing the Bridge to Business Programme this year for our undergraduates, which has been generously sponsored by Ian and Caroline Laing. At the beginning of the long vacation, approximately 20 of our undergraduates attended a two-week course at the Hall on the essentials of management, given by Jonathan Reynolds and colleagues from Templeton College and associated companies. After this course, we arranged 8- to 10week work placements for these undergraduates with companies, in order for them to gain practical experience of the management principles to which they had been introduced. This has proved to be a very successful and imaginative new development for an Oxford College, but it would not have been possible without the help of the Aularian community in arranging the job placements. If your company is interested in participating next year, please do not hesitate to contact us - e-mail messages may be sent to monica.waud@ seh.ox.ac.uk.

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AULARIAN GATHERINGS 40th Anniversary Gaudy The 40th Anniversary Gaudy was held on Friday 15 September 2000 for Aularians who matriculated in 1960. Guests arriving in the late afternoon were able to browse in the College shop and enjoy a drink in the Buttery bar before viewing the commemorative display documenting the 1960 matriculation year-group in the Library of St Peter-in-the-East. The exhibition included individual photographs of the 1960 year-group, and also the Hall Magazine and Oxford University Gazette from that year. Other memorabilia from 1960 included a list of the cost of Hall fees, and photographs of the Fellows, the Freshers and the Principal, John Kelly. The after-dinner speeches were made by the Principal, and the President of the St Edmund Hall Association, Michael Cansdale, and were answered by a strong mutual support from Aularian guests for the Hall Campaign which was then close to being launched.

Guests in attendance at the dinner were: John Adey, the Revd Dr Nicolas Alldrit, Christopher Atkinson, David Baines, Ian Beesley, Alien Blinks, Bob Clark, Terence Coghlin, Gordon Douglas, Angus Erskine, Brian FyfieldShayler, Jeff Goddard, John Heath, Ken Hinkley-Smith, Christopher Long, Yann Lovelock, David Mash, Derek Morris, Humphrey Norvill, the Revd Michael Notley, Dr Francis Pocock, Professor Charles Ritcheson, Dr Ted Rose, Patric Sankey-Barker, Roger Sparrow, Teddy Sykes, Dr Andrew Tod, Guy Warner, Peter Weston and Duncan Worsley. Michael Cansdale and Paul Lewis represented the St Edmund Hall Association. Representatives of the Hall included: The Principal, Dr Joanna Ashboum, the Revd Dr John Cowdrey, Professor Peter Ganz, Justin Gosling, the Revd Duncan MacLaren, Dr Bruce Mitchell, Dr Philipp Podsiadlowski, Norman Pollock, Andrew Ritcheson, Dr Francis Rossotti, Dr Joe Todd, Dr Bill Williams, John Wilson and Professor Sir David Yardley.

The 40th Anniversary Gaudy for Aularians who matriculated in 1961 will be held on 21 September 2001 .

The Annual Gaudy Just over two weeks later, the Annual Gaudy was held on Saturday 30 September for Aularians who matriculated between 1973 and 1977. The gathering, of just under 100 guests, were able to view a display in the Hall library

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The Principal at the Annual Gaudy

of memorabilia from the mid-seventies, including photos of each matriculation year from 1973 to 1977, the entry in the Oxford Calendar for St Edmund Hall in 1973 and 1977, and pictures of the construction at the Hall between 1973 and 1976. Dinner in the Wolfson Hall was followed by speeches by the Principal and the President of the Hall Association, Michael Cansdale. They were answered by Dr Raoul Cerratti who gave an enthusiastic vote of thanks to the Principal on behalf of his fellow Aularians present at the dinner.

Aularian guests in attendance were: Colin Ashby, Alan Banks, Robin Beckley, Keith Baxter, Peter Blakey, Phil Budden, Dr Raoul Cerratti, Geoff Chamberlain, Paul Clipson, Brian Denton, Andy Eggleston, Chris Elston, Richard Finch, Dr Stephen Flood, Christopher Gange, Dr Martin Garrett, Robert Godden, Jeremy Goff, Dr Jerry Gray, Louis Greig, Richard Gretton, David Grice, Gavin Hamilton, Marcel Haniff, Michael Hardy, Dan Hegarty, Tony Heslop, Stephen Hobson, Dr Mark Hockey, Dave Hollomby, Michael Hooton, Andrew Hope, Chris Homer, Gordon Hurst, Dr Ed llgren, Charles Inions, Charles Jarvis, Dan Jennings, Chris Jones, Kevin Jones, the Revd Roger Jupp, Roger Keeley, Brendan Keely, Alan Kerr, Chris Kerrison, Nigel Laing, Christopher Latimer, Peter Livesey, Toby Lucas, Michael Mahon,

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Neil Malcolm, Dr Mark McDermott, David McKenna, Stephen McNulty, Charles 'Dusty' Miller, Ralph Charles Moore, Andrew Mourant, Richard Nowak, John Ormiston, Michael O'Sullivan, Stephen Oxenbridge, Howard Papworth, Chris Pretty, Jeremy Pugh, John Ramsey, Christopher Reddick, Andrew Rigby, Clive Roach, Chas Saunders, Keith Scott, John Smith, Simon Staite, Cameron Sunter, Kim Swain, John Tate, Jens Tholstrup, Professor Andrew Wathey, David Way and Neil Worthington. Michael Cansdale (President) and Paul Lewis (Honorary Secretary) represented the St Edmund Hall Association.

Hall representatives in attendance included: The Principal, Reginald Alton, Dr Joanna Ashboum, Geoffrey Boume-Taylor, Dr Peter Collins, the Revd Dr John Cowdrey, Professor George Ebers, Professor Peter Ganz, Justin Gosling, Chris Hampson, Professor John Hunt, Professor John Knight, the Revd Duncan MacLaren, Dr Lucy Newlyn, Dr Christopher Phelps, Dr Ian Scargill, Martin Slater, Dr Ann Taylor, Dr Joe Todd, Chris Wells, Kate Wilkinson, Dr Bill Williams and Professor Sir David Yardley.

The Annual Gaudy for year-groups who matriculated from 1978 to 1982 will be held on Saturday 29 September 2001.

Report from Australia The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron's premises at Kirribilli, with its impressive views over the famed Harbour to the City skyline, was, by courtesy of Geraid Raftesath, the fitting venue for a gathering of Australia-based Aularians on 30 May 2001 . It would be challenging the dictionary definition to describe the event as a reunion. Only a few of us had met previously. But that was to prove no bar to a most convivial evening for all involved. Clearly the shared experiences of Teddy Hall, and the fond memories they evoke, are the bricks and mortar for a social gathering such as this. Peter Maxwell ably touched on those shared memories in proposing the toast to the Hall- Floreat Aula!

Attending were: Tom (PPE, 1980) and Julia Bartlett; Philip Daley (Law, 1960); Helen Duckworth-Smith (Medicine, 1981) and husband Tim Smith (Geography, 1982); Dougal Henderson (Modem History, 1979), who had flown from Brisbane in order to participate; Nick Johnson (PPE, 1968); Simon Marchant (Geography, 1977); Andrew Martyn (History, 1986); Peter (Geography, 1952) and Pauline Maxwell; Robin Pickover (Modem Languages, 1977); Geraid (Law, 1955) and Prunella Raftesath; Godfrey (Corn-

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puting, 1984) and fiancee Jane Goode; and the convenors, Michael Cranswick (Law, 1958) and Sue Hall.

Apologies, excepting those who stated that they did not wish to be involved in any way, were received from: Cyril Brookes (1961 ); Axel Buchner (Modern Languages, 1953); David Christian (History, 1965), who is now based in San Diego; Delia Farrell (Modern Languages, 1987); Tom Gillard (Modern Languages, 1954); Yujiro Hayashi (PPE, 1998); Philip Hirsch (Geography, 1975); Zdzislaw Sliwowski ( 1942); Barry Spurr (English, 1974 ); Ian Unsworth (Medicine, 1954); Mike Ware (Geography, 1960); and Dave Watson (Modern Languages, 1974), who has recently moved from Armidale in northern New South Wales to Tuggeranong in the Australian Capital Territory. Also received: a late call from David Dee (PPE, 1981). It is hoped that many of these will find it possible to participate in future events.

Acting simply as the convenor of this event, I expressed the hope that the Sydney-based Aularians would, as in other States in due course, take over the organizing of such gatherings in their own State in the future (there are 40 Aularians currently living within NSW and the ACT). For my part, the next steps are to convene similar initial 'reunions': for the 9 Aularians who live in Perth, Western Australia (October 2001); for the 17 Aularians resident in the State of Victoria, but also inviting the 3 who live in South Australia and the 2 who live in Tasmania (March 2002? - I will first contact Patrick Montgomery [SEH, 1966], Secretary of the Oxford Society in Victoria); and for the 10 Aularians who live in Queensland (possibly October 2002).

It is a considerable programme, made rather daunting by Australia's continental land mass. But we will get there!

Michael Cranswick (Law, 1958) The Summer Reunion

To celebrate the successful launch of the new Campaign, and the Hall's flourishing role in the 21st century, all matriculation year-groups were invited to the 2001 Summer Reunion, which took place on Saturday 23 June. Consequently, the guest list, comprising of just under 200 people, covered an almost even spread of matriculation-years spanning 1934 to 1997, with 63 years dividing the matriculation dates of the oldest and youngest Aularian guests. The attendance list also included six father-and-son or -daughter combinations (Brian and Howard Coates, Michael and David Halliwell, Roy and Ian Mclsaac, John and Christopher Reddick, and Colin Weir and Anna Vigars).

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Guests arrived from mid-afternoon onwards, and were able to take a look at the display in the Hall Library on the Campaign and the history of the Hall, before enjoying refreshments from the Buttery Bar. After Evensong, guests in black tie gathered for pre-dinner drinks in the Front Quad, which basked in the glow of the warm summer evening.

Dinner began at 7.15 p.m., and all agreed afterwards that the fantastic five-course dinner was one of the Chef's most impressive yet. An after-dinner speech by the Principal was responded to by Michael Cansdale, President of the St Edmund Hall Association, who on behalf of all the Aularian guests present thanked the Principal, the Chef and the Hall staff for their parts in making the occasion such a happy and memorable one.

Aularian guests in attendance were: Brian Coates (1934), Arthur Farrand Radley (1935), Denys Salt (1958), Bob James (1938), Roy Mclsaac (1938), Derek Rushworth (1939), Colin Weir (1941), Howard Fuller (1942), Sidney Swallow ( 1942), Bernard Wheeler ( 1942), William Dunsmore ( 1943), David Dunsmore ( 1946), Michael Halliwell ( 1946), John Lloyd ( 1946), Christopher Campling (1947), John Cockshoot (1947), John Reddick (1947), Robert Southan (1949), Robert Strapps (1949), John Holmes (1950), Colin Davies (1951), John Farrand (1951), Bob Lunn (1951), RoyWilliams (1951), Dudley Wood (1951), John Foster (1952), David Graham (1952), David Jacobs (1952), John West (1952), David Wright (1952), Elgar Jenkins (1953), Ian Smith (1953), Stuart Bilsland (1954), Michael Bourdeaux (1954), Roger Gleave (1954), John Lowe (1954), Shaun MacLoughlin (1954), Michael Palmer (1954), John Preston (1954), Ronald Truman (1954), Tony Cooper (1973), Paul Lewis (1955), Michael Cansdale (1956), Derek Hockridge (1956), David Johnson (1956), Alan Titcombe (1956), Brian Whittaker ( 1956), GeoffBrown ( 1957), John Phillips ( 1957), Campbell Pollock ( 1957), Mike Beard (1958), Michael Cotton (1958), Lloyd Filby (1958), Roger Garratt ( 1958), Tony Phillips (1958), Bill Yeowart ( 1959), Francis Pocock ( 1960), Michael Rose ( 1960), Sidney Donald ( 1961 ), Barrie England ( 1961 ), Alistair Fretwell-Downing (1961), John Hall (1961), Rex Harrison (1961), John Heggadon (1961), Ian Heggie (1961), John Long (1961), Jim Marsh (1961), Peter Vaughan (1961), John Gormally (1961), Anthony Hawkes (1961), Terry Palmer (1961), Mike Simmie (1961), Peter Webb (1961), Howard Coates (1966), Norman Pope (1967), Jeremy Rycroft (1967), Peter Brown (1968), lan Busby (1969), Neil Corcoran (1969), John Graley (1969), Nicholas Pumfrey (1969), Desmond Ruszala (1969), Kevin Fisher (1970), Richard Hatt (1970), Richard Ormerod ( 1970), Frank Spooner ( 1970), Geoff

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Sir Michael Rose and others at the Annual Reunion

Booth (1971), Lawrence Cummings (1971), Douglas Robertson (1971), Steve Chandler (1972), Jeremy lsbister (1972), Ross Monro (1972), Kevin Bromboszcz (1973), Geoff Chamberlain (1973), Andrew Hope (1973), Toby Lucas (1973), Stephen McNulty (1973), Chris Reddick (1973), Jack Smith (1973), Peter Desmond (1974), Philip Congdon (1974), Brian Gasser (1975), Chris Hockey (1975), Gordon Hurst (1975), Ian Mclsaac (1975), Howard Papworth (1975), Richard Finch (1976), Ed Ilgren (1976), Stephen Tetley (1976), Charles Debattista (1977), Ian Durrans (1977), Roger Keeley (1977), Ian Coleman (1978), Chris Fidler (1978), Les Folds (1978), Peter Rothwell (1978), Duncan Smith (1978), Kate Bulgin (1979), David Cooper (1979), Jill Gildersleve (1979), Janet Nevin (1979), Deborah Rees (1979), David Clayton (1980), Buster Ewart (1980), Rachel Martel (1980), Divya Bhatia (1982), Guy Franks (1982), Alice Hart-Davis (1982), David Heaps (1982), Timothy Holman (1982), Sally Jones (1982), Tarquin Grossman (1983), Helen West (1984), Jon Gulley (1985), Waiter Fraser (1986), David Gillet (1986), Andrew Harrison (1986), Neil Jacob (1986), Phil Richards (1986), Mary Harling (1987), Philip Waldner (1987), Marcus Browning (1988), David Halliwell (1988), Giles Sanders (1988), David

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Stewart (1988), Jamie Catell (1989), Luke Jones (1989), Mark Jordan ( 1989), Peter Schulze ( 1989), Sara Bantges ( 1990), Paul Brady ( 1990), Paul Brandon (1990), Christine Manby (1990), Robert McBain (1990), Julia Simner (1990), Mark Wigmore (1990), Anneli Howard (1991 ), Anna Vigars (1991 ), Michael Milner (1992), Cathy Cooper (1995), Elizabeth Russell (1995), Ali Diab (1996), and Nauman Ishaq (1997).

Representatives of the Hall included: Reginald Alton ( 1938), Dr Joanna Ash bourn, Dr Stephen Blarney, Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Phil Cardinale, the Revd Dr John Cowdrey, Deborah Baton, Chris Hampson (1999), Professor John Hunt, the Revd Duncan MacLaren, Carol McClure, the Principal, Dr Lucy Newlyn, Dr Christopher Phelps, Dr Philipp Podsiadlowski, Dr Francis Rossotti, Dr Ian Scargill ( 1954), Martin Slater, Dr J oe Todd ( 1942), Ben Weston (2000), Dr Bill Williams, Sir David Yardley, and Dr Amy Zavatsky.

Choir: James Bendall, Jacquetta Blacker ( 1998), Rachel Koncewicz ( 1997), Louise Mullan, Margaret Rose.

CITY CHAPTER OF AULARIANS The City Chapter during the last academic year had, by its standards, an active year. No sooner had members returned from their holidays, when they were presented in early September with the opportunity of a bird's eye view of the metropolis by way of a voyage on the London Eye. Two pods were reserved for the City Chapter, which proved quite sufficient for the thirty members or so that turned up. Although drinks were not served in the pods, this was shortly remedied on our return to land by a short walk across Hungerford Bridge to the offices ofPricewaterhouseCoopers where a splendid reception was laid on. Our thanks for their considerable generosity go to Ian Coleman and his fellow Partners.

In what is now becoming an event, we trust, in the Hall's academic year, the Careers Day was once again held at the end of October. Norton Rose, through David Ashworth and his Partners, provided, again, the venue and Graham Kentfield the organization, which made the day a great success.

Twenty-four undergraduates managed to rise before dawn cracked in Oxford so that they arrived by chartered coach in time for a full day of presentations from old Aularians, regarding life in the City. The feedback we have received via the Principal, whose presence that day we were grateful to have, is most positive and we need now to build on this. Graham Kentfield has advised that he wishes to pass on the organization of this event and I should

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like to thank him for his great support for inaugurating and then continuing with the Careers Day. In addition to the City Chapter's involvement with the Fund Raising launch at the House of Lords in January, we had our own reception at the London Capital Club on 13 June. For the thirty-five or so members who attended it was a most enjoyable opportunity to chat with old friends and meet Aularians of all ages who are working in, or connected to, the City. The Principal brought us up to date with 'The State of The Hall' and many appreciated the chance to discuss with Sir Michael Rose a wide variety of topics, including the Fund Raising Campaign.

Now in its fifth year, the City Chapter flourishes with eighty-four members. At its last meeting the Committee decided to extend the scope of the Chapter to include professionals working in the West End or other parts of London, so any such Aularians who are interested to join should contact the Development Office or me for membership material. As always, we are very keen to have those new Aularians who have recently 'come down' join us. Nancy Hargreaves who has been Treasurer since the inception of the City Chapter has decided to stand down and we thank her very much for her wonderful support. It has been greatly appreciated. Lindsay Page has kindly offered to fill this role and we are grateful to him for this.

The programme for next year has not yet been agreed, other than the Careers Day at the end of October. We hope to have the programme finalized by the end of September and members will be advised accordingly. Needless to say, it would be most welcome if more members turned up at the City Chapter events. They are put on for the mutual benefit of all the members.

Michael Hamilton (Chairman)

INTER-COLLEGIATE GOLF TOURNAMENT Victory for Teddy Hall!

The annual Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament for alumni of Oxford University took place on 6 April 2001 at the usual venue of Frilford Heath Golf Club, Abingdon. The Aularian side had a lot to prove this year, after a disappointing result in the 2000 tournament when the team finished in last place. This was partly because the Hall's team then consisted of only three brave players, whereas each team in the tournament is allowed ten players, the best six of whose scores are taken into account. However, this year there was an enthusiastic response from Aularians who wanted to take part, and a full team was put together. The other nine colleges taking part were no match

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for a Teddy Hall side at full strength, and the team went on to win the tournament convincingly!

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The whole event, including the prize giving and dinner held at Merton, was a great success, and despite the weather forecast, not a drop of rain fell until 4 p.m., by which time most players had finished their rounds. Congratulations to all 10 of the victorious Teddy Hall team: Christopher Atkinson (1960), Fran.t< Bishop (1955), Brian Griffiths (1968), Ken Hinkley-Smith (1960), Ron Hurren (1955), George Marsh (1961 ), David McCammon (1961), Peter Newell (1961), George Ritchie (1960) and Peter Wilson (1961). The Hall offers particular congratulations to Ron Hurren, who with his excellent score of 42 points playing off 15, became the highest scorer in the Teddy Hall team and also the individual tournament winner.

If you are encouraged by the team's victory, have a recognised golf handicap and would be interested in joining the event in the future, please contact Felicity Hampson in the Development Office for further details.

FUND RAISING Campaign Donors, 2000-2001 The Principal and Fellows of the Hall greatly appreciate the generosity of the following individuals and organizations for their contributions to the Campaign: Ackroyd, John Alexander, Dr John Huston

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Ayers, John Gilbert Baldwin, John Ball, Terence Barker, Andrew Barner, George Brenneman Barwick, Sandra Baxter, Dr David Beaumont, Douglas Bendhem, Thomas Benson, Steven George Bishop Ill, George W. Blinkhom, Steve Bockstoce, John Boume-Jones, Derek Boyce, Wame and Doreen Breese, Robert Brett, The Revd Canon Paul The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Bromley, A.B. Brown, Geoffrey Bum, James Burrough, Paul Bushey, Jane V. Cabral, Mr and Mrs Cansdale, Michael Casswell, Thomas lvor Cater, Julian Chapman, Rex Anthony Child, Jr. John Clark, Arthur T. Clarke, Neil Roderick Cleaver, Geoffrey Coles, Nigel Columbia Foundation Cooper, Anthony Cosstick, Frederick Craik, John Cuzner, Brian Darling, Paul A. Deloitte & Touche Denton, Adrian Doctorow, Jarvis Dormor, Duncan Stephen

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Badman, Paul Woodland Balfour, Richard J Barclay, Joseph Barker, John Holmes Bamett, Emma Baxter, Albert Beaty, Chrichton Stuart Benbow, Colin Benoy, Timothy John Berryman, John Rodney Blackwell, Nigel Bloom, Derek Booker, Mark Boume-Jones, Hilary Brain, Geoffrey Brenner, Dr David Brimecome, Ian Broadley, Phillip Brown, Cameron Budden, William Bumton, Stanley Jeffrey Burt, lvor Byatt, Ian Campling, Christopher Russell Carpenter, Peter Castro, Guido Chandler, Stephen Charles, Jeremy Child, Prof. Mark Clarke, David R. Clay, Alice Clare Coleman, Ian Collins, Richard Cooke, Jeremy Cooper, Deborah Ann Cowdrey, The Revd Dr H.E.J. Crawshaw, J C. Darby, Robert Davies, Linda Dempsey, James Dickinson, Andrew James Donald, Sidney Doyle, Anthony James

Drew, Jeffery Dunsmore, David Durrans, Ian W. Eames, Michael John Eaton, Deborah Ellis, Derek Albert Evans, The Venerable John Barrie Farrand, John Ernest Farrell, Frederick Fickling, Paul Fisher, Guy Foote, Irwin Paul Freeman, Charles Brian Furness, The Revd Peter Garnett, Douglas Alan Ghaly, Karim Gillingwater, Richard Gleave, Geoffrey Goldman Sachs and Co. Gould, Edward Graham, Stewart David Griffin-Smith, Christopher Grist, John Gulley, Dr Jonathon Haile, Dr Neville Halstead, John Hamilton, Nicholas Haniff, Marcellene Harper, Claire Harrison, Christopher Malcolm Harrison, Rex Hawkins, John Haxby, Adrian, John Heggie, Ian Hicks, David Himes, James Hinton, Graham Hoare, Derek Hooker, Dr Michael Hughes, Ann Mary Hurd, Paul A Hutchinson, Alexandra llgren, Edward B.

Dunbabin, John P. Duquesne Light Eades, Robert Michael Eastwood, Herbert D. Elliott, Timothy Elston, Christopher Farmer, Tessa Farrand, Roger A. Ferera, Leon Nicholas Fisher, Anthony Flood, Stephen Charles Forbes-Simpson, Hugh French, John Gordon Gaffey, Robert W. Gasser, Dr Brian Gillard, Robert Girling, Harry Gleave, Geoffrey Good, Sarah Graae, Stephen W. Grahan, The Revd Alan Grindrod, Harold Nigel Gulland, William George Hadley, Colin George Hall, Ronald Hamilton, Michael Hanbridge, Frank Henry Harding, David Harris, Roy Harrison, Clare Harwood, Carol Hawthorne, Malcolm E. Head, William Heppel, Michael Hillier-Fry, William Hinkley-Smith, Kenneth Hirsch, Prof. P. Holland, Joan Howard, Anneli Hughes, Dudley J Hurren, Ronald S. llgren, Edward Inglis, Malcolm

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Jackson, Dr Neil Jones, Alan Norman Jones, N.M.K. Kapoor, Sudhir Fredric Kelly, Terrance Peter Kentfield, G.E.A. Kersh, Natasha King, John Wickham Kite, Peter V Kolve, V.A. Laird, Craig Laughton, Anthony Lawson, Richard M.A. Lee, Christopher Lewis, Paul Lipsig, Ethan Lovell, Jonathon Lowe, The Revd Raymond Luddington, R.S. Mackie, David Maidment, lain Nicholas Marckwick, James Charles Martin, Michael Matthews, Paul McMahon Maxwell, Peter Barnes McCorrnick, Alison McKenna, David Frederick McNamee, Alan Miller Family Foundation Miller, Roger Missen, Dr George Monro, Ross Stewart Morrison, Mark Mounsey, Charles Murphy, Ewell Natale, Jessica Nazir Ali, The Rt Revd Dr Michael Newsom-Davis, Prof. J. Nichols, Colin Campbell Orr, Colin Palmer, Mr and Mrs M.D. Palmer, Sir John Parkinson, Timothy

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Jay, Allan Jones, Derek Jones, Terence Keep, Peter Kenner, Stuart Kerr, Graham Kiddey, Rachel Kingstone, Basil Ko, Michael C Laing, lan Michael Lam, Royan Lavender, John Franklin Lee, Canon Raymond Lewis, Jennifer Linforth, Richard Little, David George Prof.

Lowe, John Christopher Lucas, T Lunn, Robert Mackie, lain Marchington, Anthony Marsh, Arthur lvor Mash, David Beresford Matthews, Peter McCarthy, Denis James McGilchrist, Donald M. Mcleen, Gregory Meyer & Merle I Smerd, P. Miller, Peter Miller, William R. Mitchell, Raymond Bruce and Mollie Morris, Derek Mosley, Dr James Mulvey, Thomas Muskett, Christine Naylor, Mark Neal, Mike Niblett, Professor Ockenden, Dr Michael Owen-Srnith, John Palmer, The Revd Canon Terence Papadopoulos, Constantinos Paterson, Martin

Paul, John R. Peacock, Andrew Pegram, Nigel H. Pike, John Pitt, lames M. B. The Posgate Charitable Trust Price, Edward G. Prosser, Kevin Radley, A. Farrand Randall, Michael Read, Alien Walker Reddick, Christopher Edmund Anthony Rednall, Robert William Macgregor Richards, W. Graham Ritcheson, Charles R. Roberts, Simon The Rothermere Foundation Rutherford, Jonathon Saberton, Brian Sandles, Ian Anthony W. Saunders, Martin Richard Scarr, Jack Renforth Shackleton, Anthony Shaw Foundation Shears, David J.A. Silinsky, Mark Skinner, Howard Smith, Martin Snell, Patrick Southan, Judge Robert Spooner, Frank Stafford, William Stephen, John Stephenson, Robin Stott, Peter Sunderland, The Revd Prebendary Switzer, Charles Tearle, David John Thomas, Warren Thorpe, William Todd, Joseph Derwent Toogood, Philip J. Townsend, Canon

Payne, Peter Peel, Thomas and Eva Peskett, Stephen V. Pike, Michael Pocock, Francis Powell, The Revd R.M.W. Price, James Rabbetts, Phillip Lynton Ralph, Michael Rawes, Francis Roderick Read, John F.W. Reddick, John Reynolds, Peter J. Riden, Philip Rix, Andrew Guy Rogers, Thomas Parry Rubin, David Lee Rycroft, Jeremy John Roland Salt, Denys Sankey-Barker, Patric Scargill, David Schneider, Thomas Shah, Rajeev Shaw, William J. Short, Bemard Simmonds, The Revd E.A. Smith, David 1 H Smith, Peter LaBrecque Somalya, A.H. Spellar, John Francis Sprague, Elmer Starkie, Raymond Stephens, Simon Stewart, Alistair Lindsay Sultoon, J.A. Sutton, Wing Commander Paul Taylor, Ann Gaynor Theaker, Irving Leslie Thompson, Paul Titcombe, Alan David Tornko, Michael Toole, John Lionel Trythall, Anthony John

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Tse, Teresa Man-Ming Turl, Michael Vassilopoulos, Thernistocles Vivian, Stephen Wallis, Stanley Warr, Arthur C. Watson, Peter M. Weir, Colin Weston, William R. White, David Bird White, Simon Whittaker, Brian Wilson, Christopher Wilson, Douglas Wirsig, Claus Wood, C. Joe Worsley, Robert Wright, David The Yves Guihannec Foundation

Tullett, Jeremy Turner, Jennifer Venables, Robert Voisey, Dr Michael Ward, Christopher Watson, Peter M. Webster, James The Welton Foundation Wheeler, Bemard Frederick White, Peter F. Whitlow, Brian Williams, Edward John Martin Wilson, David Wilson, Peter D. Witherington, Paul Wood, Mark Worth, George Wright, Sir Denis Zeltonoga, William L.

Campaign Fund Totals, 2001 The list below records the sums raised to date for those funds within the Campaign that have already received over £6000 each. This money has been raised primarily from donations following the distribution of the brochure and the launch of the fund-raising Campaign in January 2001. If you would like to donate a gift to the Hall, please contact the Development Office. We can inform you of the various funds to which you can donate, and the method of giving most suitable for you. Any gift, however small, will be gratefully received by the Hall in our bid to achieve our £7 million Campaign target.

Development Fund Tutorial Fellowships: Law Bridging Programme John Kelly Memorial Fund Philip Geddes Memorial Fund Sporting Activities Acting, the Arts and Journalism

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TOTAL £598,703.10 £133,448.73 £50,000.00 £37,231.66 £12,835.39 £12,357.69 £11,717.94

Tutorial Fellowship: Materials Science Tutorial Fellowship: English Campaign Launch expenses Tutorial Fellowship: general Tutorial Fellowship: Medieval History Postgraduate Awards Scheme Graham Midgley Coaching Fund

£11,538.46 £11,317.96 £9,825.00 £9,256.42 £8,333.34 £7,166.32 £6,794.87

Donations from North America: AFO and ATFO In the past year Americans for Oxford and the American Trust for Oxford have been persistently active in encouraging US-based alumni to donate to the Campaign, and the Hall has received extremely generous donations from US alurnni through these organizations. The areas that have been specifically targeted with these funds have been the Library Information Centre (which is now fully operational), and the expansion of the Hall website. The new-look website will be up and running from mid-autumn. The Hall is now planning a new building fund-raising programme for student accommodation. US Aularians, at a meeting in New York last year, generously agreed to launch a drive to raise $750,000 to provide the refurbishment costs.

Thank you to all US Aularians who have donated to the Hall for your continued and much appreciated support!

A reunion for all US alurnni will be held in New York from 15 to 16 March 2002.

PERSONAL DETAILS UPDATE FACILITY ON THE HALL WEB SITE We are pleased to announce that within the next few months there will be a facility available from the St Edmund Hall web-site (www.seh.ox.ac.uk) for you to amend or update your personal details held on the alurnni database. You will also be able to give your consent to join the Who's Who project if you have not done already.

Once you have corrected or amended your personal information, the click of a button will send the information to the Development Office. Staff there will then be able to check over the amendments that have been made before another click transfers all the data electronically to the alurnni database.

All alumni will be notified when this on-line facility goes live in the autumn.

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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, Dip.Econ.Pol.Sci. (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 70TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 9 January 2001 The 70th 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 9 January 2001 at 6.15 p.m., M.J. Cansdale presiding.

29 members were present.

1. Minutes: The minutes of the last meeting, the 69th, held on 11 January 2000, 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 reported on the Memorial Service for Sir Robin Day (1947) in the Temple Church in November. As well as many representatives from the legal profession, politics and the media, both the Hall and the Association had been strongly represented.

5. Honorary Treasurer's Report: LW. Durrans had telephoned to say that he might be delayed by urgent business and that little had changed since June and the Association was in a healthy position. As there were no questions, the President recommended that the accounts be adopted and this was agreed.

6. Elections: The following were elected unanimously: a. Honorary Secretary: P.R. Lewis re-elected for one year b. Honorary Treasurer: I. W. Durrans re-elected for one year c. Up to 1944: H.A.F. Radley re-elected for three years d. 1945-54: DJ. Day re-elected for three years e. 1955-64: J.M. Heggadon re-elected for three years f. 1965-74: J.D. Shortridge re-elected for three years

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g. 1975-84: Miss J.B . Turner re-elected for three years h. 1985-94 D.S. McCallum re-elected for three years 7. Appointment of Honorary Auditor: L.D. Page was unanimously reappointed Honorary Auditor.

8. Date of Next Meeting: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 p.m.

There being no further business, the President closed the meeting at 6.21 p.m.

THE 60th LONDON DINNER The 60th London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St lames's, on Tuesday 9 January 2001. Not to be outdone by a lunar eclipse halfway through the main course, this proved to be one of those vintage Oxonian occasions of camaraderie and reminiscence, boosted in no small way by the popularity of guest speaker Dr Bruce Mitchell and his wife Mollie. An attendance of 150 was once again well up to scratch.

The Principal and Mrs Mingos, Mr and Mrs Justin Gosling and the Presidents of the Middle and Junior Common Rooms were as ever very welcome guests. The President of the Association, Michael Cansdale, spoke briefly of the Aularian year, in particular the passing of Sir Robin Day. More happily, there were 80th birthday wishes to the Visitor, an affectionate reference to Reggie Alton, and congratulations to Farrand Radley for his 65 years as an 'honorary gadfly'! The Principal's speech was as wide-ranging as his recent travels ... from stuffed choughs to the significance of Latin for 'modern-day' Principals and the contribution of 'new chemicals' to future Boat Club success! A sense of humour is apparently very much a prerequisite for a Principal.

Bruce Mitchell's opening plea of 'Floreat haec oratio' was to be handsomely rewarded. By his own admission there was no set theme; instead he was a 'grasshopper with a ragbag of memories' and he would not risk the 'inspired exhalations' of John Kelly (regrettably, not recorded). 'Where to begin?!' First, there was to be no belittling of academic achievements (he was after all a 'serious scholar' himself). To quote an Australian Professor of English, 'we done good in them days.' Fourths were prized, rounded men with varied interests. By contrast, mention of a surfeit of sporting tri-

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umphs 'risked arousing our baser passions'. Aularians may have ventured successfully into most areas of human activity, but Bruce regretted that the second Aularian Archbishop of Canterbury is still awaited.

So-called 'stray memories' included the Midgley 'Ballad of William Bloat' in the Front Quad, a South African rugby team fencing with candelabra 'before soup' in the Old Dining Hall, and the loving cups of 16 November, napkin-bedecked and filled with Cyril's mulled wine.

Since 1954 there had of course been major changes: the Wolfson Dining Hall (and cafeteria service), St Peter-in-the-East, the foundation of the MCR, the admission of women, new accommodation, the widening of the fellowship. 'I do not say that things are better, I do not say that things are worse, but they are different.' Key figures throughout this exciting period were 'JNDK and Graham' . How can we now 'pass on the torch?' Characteristically perhaps, this personal journey ended with an expression of thanks to Aularians far and wide for 'helping Mollie to give him the happiest years of his life' . To the very warmest applause, Bruce pointed out modestly that 'anybody would think that he had gone Head of the River all by himself!'

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In addition to the Association's guests, the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1935) Mr H.A. Farrand Radley; (1937) Sir John Palmer; (1938) Mr R.E. Alton (Emeritus Fellow); (1942) Dr J.D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow); (1946) Mr A.R.J. Lloyd; (1949) Mr W.P. Asbrey, Mr R.J.L. Breese, Mr T.P. Kelly; (1951) Mr D. Bloom, Mr D.J. Day, Sir Geoffrey de Deney, Mr W.H. Slack; (1952) Mr S.D. Graham QC, Mr D.M. Jacobs, Mr C.J. Jones, Mr N.F. Lockhart, The Revd E.A. Simmonds, Mr D.J.V. Wright; (1953) Dr C.G. Jones, Mr A.J. Kember, Mr I.N. Smith; (1954) Mr S.R. Bilsland, Mr I.L.R. Burt, Mr J.C.M. Casale, Dr D.I. Scargill (Emeritus Fellow), Mr W.B. Shaw; (1955) Mr J.H. Barker, Mr E.A.V. Casale, Mr R.H.B. De Vere Green, Mr J.L. Fage, Mr R.A. Farrand, Mr P.R. Lewis, Mr J. Owen-Smith; (1956) Mr G.A. Blakeley, Mr Michael Cansdale (President, SEH Association), Mr S.C.H. Douglas-Mann, Mr F.J. Farrell, Mr A.F. Ham, Mr D.H. Johnson, Mr J.C. Markwick, Mr A. Page, Mr L.P. Tempest, Mr B.J. Whittaker, Mr G.P.T. Whurr, Mr J.R.C. Young; (1957) Mr J.E. Aves, Mr P.G. Croissant, Mr J.W. Harrison, Mr J.C. Hemming, Mr G.R. Mihell, Mr J.C. Pollock; (1958) Mr P.J. Bentley, Mr R.M. Jarman, Mr J.F. O'Donnell; (1959) Mr T.W. Cooper, Mr D.H. Fielding, Mr M.S. Shaw, Mr J. Waiters; (1960) Mr J.F. Adey, General Sir Michael Rose (Honorary Fellow), Mr P.J.R. Sankey-Barker, Commander G.C. Warner; (1961) Mr E.A. Fretwell-Downing, Mr J.M .

Heggadon, Mr J.A. Martin, Mr A.M. Rentoul; (1964) Dr M.J. Clarke; (1965) Mr J.G. Barclay (Fellow by Special Election), Mr A. St G. Gribbon, Mr M.A. Pannell, Dr W.J. Rea; (1966) Mr R.T. Baker, Mr A.B . Fisher, Mr J.D. Shortridge; (1967) Mr P.V. Robinson; (1968) Dr D.J. Hughes, Mr M.O. Spilberg, Mr R.T. Ward; (1969) Mr S.J. Dempsey, Mr T.E. Statham; (1970) Mr P. Butler, Mr W.N. David, Mr P.G. Harper, Mr J.W. Hawkins, Mr L.N. Kaye; (1971) Mr L. Cummings; (1972) Mr J.R. Isbister; (1973) Mr T.R. Lucas; (1974) Mr P.P. Phillips; (1975) Dr B.F. Gasser; (1976) Mr R.A.H. Finch, Dr S.C. Flood; (1977) Mr I.W. Durrans, Mr L.D. Page; (1978) Mr P.A. Darling QC, Mr R.S. Luddington; (1981) Mr M.R. Owens, Miss J.B. Turner, Mr M.C. Waiters; (1982) Mr S.K. Ffitch, Mr D.J. Heaps, Mr P.D. McWilliam, Mr P.J. Murray, Mr A.J. Sandbach, Mr D.J. Walmsley, Mr M.C. Waiters, Mr S.R.T. White; (1983) Mr R.C. Collie; (1986) Miss S.A. Adams, Mr M.W. Bedser, Mrs N.C. Hargreaves (nee Inman), Mr A.T. Harrison; (1988) Mr A.C. Greenham, Mr R.K.J. Kilgarriff, Mr S.J.E. Martin, Miss A. Roberts; ( 1991) Miss A.L. Rentoul; ( 1995) Miss L.J .R. Bradley, Miss C.L. Cooper, Miss E.A.C. Russell, Miss C.J. Steele; (1996) MissAL.

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Culley, Mr J.A. Dempsey, Mr P.P. Duffield, Mr J.P. Houghton, Mr C.H. Marshall, Mr T.C. Newcomb, Mr P. Reynolds, Miss H.M. Roberts , Mr Z.D.S . Segal, Mr E.J. Watson; (1998) Mr P.J. Cardinale (Junior Dean).

The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr J.M.A. Ashbourn, Mr G. Bourne-Taylor (Bursar), The Revd H.E.J. Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Mr N.S. Davidson, Mr J.P.D. Dunbabin, Dr L.A. Newlyn, Dr P. Podsiadlowski , Mr M.D.E. Slater, Dr S. Watson, Mr C.J. Wells, Dr W.S.C. Williams (Emeritus Fellow), The Revd D. MacLaren (Chaplain).

R.A.H. Finch

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION: GIFTS TO THE HALL We record our grateful thanks to the Executive Committee of the SEH Association for the generous gift to the Hall of funds for the refurbishment of the Common Rooms, and in particular for new chairs for the MCR and video recorders for the JCR and the MCR.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2001

Year ended 31 May 2001

Year ended 31 May 2000

£

£

8,249

8,721 1,530 1,196 82

INCOME Subscriptions Surplus from 750th celebrations Bank interest Emden bequest interest Surplus from the book titled Graham

I, 108 82 805 10,244

11,529

EXPENDITURE (3,639) Magazine production (half) (3,405) Magazine postage & mailing (half) (413) Honorary Secretary's expenses Executive Committee meeting expenses Fellow's retirement party

(3,632) (3,026) (629) (38) (40)

(7,457)

(7,365)

2,787

4,164

Income less expenditure Less Grants: Chairs and video player for the MCR Two video players for the JCR Gavin Hamilton travel fund Choir desks Garden urn

(350) (200) (500) (500) (1,000) (550)

(2,000)

2,237

2,164

Appropriation to Aularian Register Fund (2,000)

(2,000)

Surplus transferred to General Fund These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 8 January 2002.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2001 31 May 2001 £

31 May 2000 £

8,461 5,700 24,743

6,017 5,700 32,288

38,904

44,005

(13,168)

(20,506)

ASSETS Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year 6,999 Surplus from Income Account 237

Aularian Register Fund at start of year Appropriation this year

6,835 164

7,236

6,999

16,500 2,000

14,500 2,000

18,500

16,500

MJ Cansdale (President) lW Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2001. 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 2001 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date .

31 July 2001 4 Park Village West

London NWl 4AE

LD Page Honorary Auditor

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AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium 1920s Professor Alien Walker Read (1928) is awaiting the publication of two books of collected papers in 2001. The first publication is America: Naming the country and its people, edited by Leonard Ashley, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press. The second is Milestones in the history of English in America, edited by Richard Bailey, to be published by Duke University Press.

1930s Francis Rawlings (1934) and his wife Dorothy, who met while Francis was studying at the Hall in 1937, celebrated their Diamond (60th) Wedding Anniversary in July 2000.

The Revd Professor John McManners, CBE, FBA (1935; Emeritus Fellow) has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship at All Souls College 1940s Eric Maunder Smith (1944) and his wife, Mary, celebrated their Golden (50th) Wedding Anniversary on 31 March 2001, along with their three sons, three daughters-in-law, three grandchildren and other family and friends. Eric had a long and successful career working for Lloyds Bank and retired in 1986. He has remained particularly active with his local church, having only recently relinquished responsibilities as church warden and treasurer.

1950s Bruce Nixon (1952) is an independent consultant in organization transformation and learning, and has published two books in the past year: Global forces: A guide for enlightened leaders. What companies and individuals can do; and a revised edition of his Making a difference: Strategies and tools for transforming your organisation (both Chalford: Management Books 2000).

Dr Graeme Tytler (1954) gave a paper entitled 'Lavater's influence on Sir Waiter Scott: A valid assumption?' at a conference held at the University of Exeter (19-21 July 2001) to commemorate the bicentenary of the death of the Swiss physiognomist Johann Cas par Lavater ( 1741-1801 ).

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Professor Gabriel Josipovici (1958), Professor of English at the University of Sussex, was elected Fellow of the British Academy on 5 July. He has recently published A Life (London: European Jewish Publications Society).

Dr Philip Blair (1959) is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. He has recently published Watching for the morning: Global chaos and cosmic hope (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press).

Professor Kevin Crossley-Holland (1959) has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship at the Hall.

1960s Paul Alien (1961) has presented Night Waves on Radio 3 since 1998. Recent pleasures have included interviewing his old Teddy Hall Ancient History tutor, Oswyn Murray. Previously, he had presented Kaleidoscope on BBC Radio 4 for almost 20 years. He has written a couple of dozen plays for theatre and radio; the most recent was a stage adaptation of the film Brassed Off, which opened at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, went to the Royal National Theatre, and toured the country in 1999. He has also written the first biography of Sir Alan Ayckbourn, to be entitled Grinning at the Edge and due for publication by Methuen in September 2001, and has edited a book of' Artists' Diaries' for the Gulbenkian Foundation, also due out in 2001. In addition to writing, journalism and broadcasting, he has been teaching a course in the badly neglected subject of dramaturgy as a visiting lecturer at the University of Sheffield, and is the proud recipient of an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.

Sir John Daniel (1961; Honorary Fellow) has resigned as Vice-Chancellor of the Open University after 10 years in post in order to take up a new appointment as Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO in Paris.

Professor Ian Heggie (1961) was named International Road Federation Man of the Year 2001. He is only the second British person to have received this award. He holds a Visiting Honorary Professorship at the School of Civil Engineering in the University of Birmingham, and has recently served as chairman of the Global Road Safety Partnership.

Martin Smith (1961) has been elected to a St Edmund Hall Fellowship at the Hall.

Roger Begy (1962) was given a four-year appointment as Chair of the Learning and Skills Council for Lincolnshire and Rutland in October 2000.

Professor Simon Simonian (1962) has been elected a Foreign Mem-

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ber of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, an Honorary Member of the International Forum for Minisurgery of Varicose Veins, President of the American Society of Lymphology, and PresidentElect of the American Society of Phlebectomy.

Simon Downie (1963) now lives and works in Kamuli, Uganda. He was appointed as Administrator, Namasagali University, Managing Director, Namasagali University Ltd and Headmaster of Namasagali College on 14 December 2000.

Robert Jackson (1965) was re-elected Member of Parliament for Wantage at the General Election. lan Laing (1965) has been elected to a St Edmund Hall Fellowship at the Hall.

John Spellar (1966) was re-elected Member of Parliament for Warley at the General Election. Before the election, he was Minister of State for the Armed Forces; on 8 June, he was appointed Minister for Transport, and now attends Cabinet as a non-voting member.

Rodney Munday (1967) and his wife Eleri announce the birth of their son William Edward Hugh on 19 July 2000.

Dr Simon Kelly (1968) has been awarded the Polar Medal for contributions to Polar Palaeontology. He received his medal from HRH Prince Charles at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 2 March. Between 1973 and 2000 he participated in twelve high-latitude expeditions including three with the British Antarctic Survey to Alexander Island, Antarctica, and eight with CASP (Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme) to Svalbard and Greenland. He has recently been preparing for another CASP expedition to East Greenland this summer. He is a palaeontological consultant specializing in Jurassic and Cretaceous molluscan macrofossils and biostratigraphy. He has recently published on discoveries of giant bivalves from Cretaceous seep limestones in Greenland and on the first Carboniferous marine macrofaunas from Antarctica.

1970s Professor Lars Scholl (1970), historian at the German Maritime Museum, took up a new post as Professor of Maritime History at the University of Hamburg in November 2000. He now divides his time between the two institutions.

Ross Monro (1972) sold his company Teaker, Monro and Newman in May 1999, and he has just accepted a non-executive directorship of an on-line recruitment firm, Directorbank. He has also recently formed a small man-

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agement consultancy company called Rutherford Consultancy Ltd. Daniel Jennings (1974) was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Wcities.com Ltd in September 2000.

The Revd Roger Jupp (1975) has been appointed Principal of Newton Theological College, the seminary for the Anglican Province of Papua New Guinea. He took up the post in November 2000.

Dr Peter Hess (1978) and his wife Viviane announce the birth of their second son Robert Simon Francis on 15 November 1999.

The Revd John McCabe (1978) was ordained as deacon of St Luke's with the Church of the Holy Spirit, Burpham, Surrey on 1 July 2001.

1980s Paul Farrelly (1981) was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastleunder-Lyme at the General Election.

Timothy Holman (1982) and his wife Elizabeth announce the birth of their second daughter lseult Hilda Jessie on 5 March 2001, sister to Ralph (b.

1996) and Criseyde (b. 1999). He has also been made head of patents for Pharmaceutical Development at the Novartis company in Switzerland.

Mark Field (1984) was elected Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster at the General Election.

Amanda Thmbull (nee Vamava, 1984) and husband Anthony announce the birth oftheir daughter Isabella on 23 October 2000, sister to Oliver (b.

27 September 1998).

Hester Barrington-Ward (1987) married Craig MacMillan on 4 December 1999. The Hall was represented at the wedding by Geoffrey BourneTaylor and David Gomez. Hester and Craig have since moved to Australia, and announce the birth of their son Evario Robin born on 4 September 2000.

Emma Katherine McCartney (nee Field, 1988) and husband Tony announce the birth of their daughter Caitlin Emily on 24 September 2000.

1990s Maharaj Akaash (1990) has recently been named President and CEO of Concordis, a foundation for peace and international conflict resolution, after a career in management consulting.

Natalie Raybould (1994) received special praise in reviews for her performance in the London Royal Schools Opera production of Rossini's ll Signor Bruschino of 1813.

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OBITUARIES 1920s Gordon Scott Bessey, CBE, MA, Dip.Ed. 2 April 2001; Hampshire.

Aged 90. Commoner 1929-1933; History/Education.

1930s Hubert Newman Savory, MA, D.Phil. February 2001. Aged 89. Senior exhibitioner, 1930-1938.

The Revd Percival Halliwell Rogers, MBE, MA, Dip.Ed. 24 April 2001; Oxford. Aged 88. Commoner 1932-1936; English.

John Park, BA, Dip.Ed â&#x20AC;˘. 14 July 1999, West Sussex. Aged 85. Scholar, 1933-1937. Retired schoolmaster.

Harold Taplin Shergold, OBE, CMG, BA. 25 December 2000; Richmond.

Commoner 1934-1937; Modem Languages.

The Revd Canon Vorley Michael Spencer Ellis, MA. 11 September 2000; Chistlehurst. Aged 84. Commoner 1934-1938, 1941; Classicsffheology.

Father of Mark Spencer Ellis (m. 1967).

William Henry Huntington, BA. 8 March 2000; Belgium. Commoner 19351939; Modem Languages.

The Revd Arthur Christopher John Eastwood, MA. 12 May 1999; Bristol. Aged 81. Commoner 1936; Mathematicsffheology.

Revd Philip Penrose Bloy, MA. 27 March 2000; Dorset. Aged 80. Commoner 1938-9, 1946-8; History. Retired Canon of Chichester Cathedral.

Kenneth Pigot, MA. 12 May 2001; Somerset. Commoner 1938; Jurispru. dence.

Arthur Martin Reid, BA. 11 September 2000; Watford. Commoner 1938.

The Revd Harvey William Hinds, MA. 1 September 2000. Aged 80. Commoner 1939; PPE. Graham Harper King, MA, Dip Ed. 2000; Harrogate, Aged 81. Commoner 1939-1942; Classics.

PHILIP PENROSE BLOY (1938) The Revd Philip Penrose Bloy, who died on 27 March 2000, was in many ways remarkable. In 1938 he came up to the Hall to read Modem History from Blundells where he had already played county cricket for Devon. He bowled a fastish buzzing legspin, unplayable when he was pitching it, and was the only man I saw take two 'devils hat-tricks' in the same season in a

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decent class of cricket. He was the complete and natural all-round sportsman, an athlete who was elected to the Centaurs, to the Authentics and to Vincent's, but it is probable that he valued his membership of the SCM as highly as he did these sporting honours, for, after the war had seen him serve in corvettes on the hazardous Atlantic convoy escort he was ordained priest and became a devoted member of the industrial chaplaincy movement. He was Industrial Missioner at Sheffield from 1951 to 1960, worked in a copper mine in Africa, and was Secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches from 1963 to 1969. He was a highly successful chaplain at Gatwick Airport from 1973 to 1988, and was appointed an Honorary Canon of Chichester in 1986. His life at all times was of unrelieved austerity.

Reginald Alton Emeritus Fellow Philip Bloy, who died on 27 March 2000 aged 80,was a Canon of Chichester Cathedral but never used the title nor mentioned it to his many friends.

He served in the Navy from 1941 to 1945, on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, and this experience led him to train for the priesthood at Wells Theological College, from where he was ordained in 1950. He never married, nor did he own a TV set. An ascetic, self-effacing man, beyond the call of Christian obedience, shortly before he died he dictated the following paragraph and asked that nothing else be said about him at his funeral: His mission was in industry in Sheffield in the 1950s, as urban and industrial secretary to the All-Africa Conference of Churches in the 1960s, and as first Anglican chaplain at Gatwick Airport from 1973 to 1988 when he retired.

This was his ministry in a nutshell, but it omits as much as it tells, as he would have wished. For example, wanting to be 'at the rockface' rather than talking on the periphery, he spent time underground in the copper mines of Zambia and possessed a 'Blasting Certificate' . After retirement Philip felt free to become more radical and took part in protest marches in London at an age when many of his contemporaries were putting their feet up in front of the fire. Although remaining a firm believer all his life, he also began to attend Quaker meetings for worship and had some doubts about Anglican theology. Which of us can say otherwise? The story is told that, taking a service at a village church in Dorset, he asked permission of the congregation to omit the reciting of the Creed because 'there are one or two sentences that I am not too sure about'. The congregation agreed! A measure of his intellectual honesty, typical of Philip.

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. His time in Sheffield had been of particular importance to him, and Ted Wickham, charismatic leader of the Sheffield Industrial Mission during the 1950s and subsequently Bishop of Middleton, was his mentor. Before Wickham died in 1994, he entrusted some of his papers to Philip who undertook the daunting task of preparing a book about this seminal mission to industry and the later work which emanated from it. He spent much of his retirement patiently struggling with this assignment, and it was completed only after Philip's death by the present writer. The book is not only an eye-witness account of an important piece of twentieth-century church history, but also a reminder of Philip Bloy, good friend, quiet man of integrity and humility.

Roger Sawtell 1940s Derek Peter Jones, MA, Dip.Ed. 1997; Burton-on-Trent, Aged 73. Commoner 1942-9; Geography/Education.

David Eric Parker, BA. 2000, Oxfordshire. Commoner 1942; History.

Ian Poole Rigby Smith, MA, Dip.Ed. 6 April 2001; Northamptonshire.

Aged 76. Commoner 1942-9; English/Education.

Roger Buckland Bluett. 25 October 2000; London. Aged 75. 1943; Royal Naval Course. Oriental art and antique dealer.

John Sinclair, MA, Dip.Ed. 29 December 2000; Loughborough. Aged 75.

Commoner 1943-50; Modem Languages.

Cyril Alfred Morgan, MA. 31 March 2001; Surrey. Aged 73. Commoner 1944-8; Chemistry.

Tlie Revd George Alfred Roderick Swannell, MA. 6 April200 1; Tunbridge Wells. Aged 80. Commoner 1944-1947; Historyffheology.

Francis Adrian Samuel Roche, MA. 23 May 2001; Hereford. Aged 88.

Commoner 1945-1948; PPE. Peter Rodney Stott, MA. 5 February 2001; Liverpool. Aged 73. Commoner 1945-1950; English.

The Revd Raymond Charles Austin, MA. 31 August 2000; Chepstow, Gwent. Aged 76. Commoner 1946-1948; Theology.

Philip Lawrence Poel, MA. 22 November 2000; Norfolk. Aged 78. Commoner 1946.

His Honour Donald Murray Forster, BA. 2000; Carlisle, Aged 71. Scholar 1949-1952; Jurisprudence.

John Owen Ward, MA. 31 December 2000; USA. Aged 81. Commoner 1949-1953; Modern Languages .

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1950s Michael James Poynter Lancaster, BA. September 2000; Dorset. Aged 80. Commoner 1950-1953; Geography.

Christopher John Douglas Saunders-Griffiths, MA. 12 June 2001; Spain.

Aged 72. Commoner 1950-1953; History.

Derek Frederick Bourne-Jones, MA.7 June 2001; Eastbourne. Aged 72.

Commoner 1951-1955; Modern Languages/Education.

John Gurney, BA. November 2000; East Sussex. Commoner 1956-1959; English. Retired teacher, senior lecturer and writer.

John David Gurney, MA. 2000. Aged 62. Commoner 1959; History.

Derek John Ritson, BA. 2000. Aged 64. Commoner 1959; PPE. John Christopher Sherratt, BA, Dip Ed. 1999; High Wycombe. Commoner 1959; Education.

1960s Graham Steven Taylor, MA. 1999; Hertfordshire. Aged 50. Commoner 1968-1971; Metallurgy.

1970s The Revd Peter John Bevan, MA. Summer 2000; Somerset. Aged 46.

Commoner 1976-1979; Theology.

1990s Clare Maria Grimley (nee Underwood), BA. 3 April 2001; Leicestershire. Aged 25. Commoner 1993-1996; Psychology. lnmemoriam Peter Young, MA (1925). The St Edmund Hall Magazine for 1948 reported the death of Mr Young in an aircraft accident in the Andes.

Mr Young had read English at the Hall, and among other achievements, had been president of the John Oldham Society. After graduating, he worked for the Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd, serving (as Principal Emden observed in his obituary notice) as 'a notable example of the good success in the world of business that can be achieved by a university trained man whose interests and study have previously lain in the field of literature'. No trace of the unfortunate plane or its occupants was found at the time; but Mr Peter Le Pelley (m. 1944) has now informed us that the wreckage of the plane was rediscovered by climbers last year on the Tupungato peak in Argentina.

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ARTICLES THE HALL'S CHRONOGRAMS AND OTHER INSCRIPTIONS In the St Edmund Hall Magazine 1999-2000, we printed an article by Mr Arthur Farrand Radley (m. 1935) on 'The Hall's Chronograms and other Inscriptions' (pp. 171-8). Several Aularians have subsequently told us of their delight at reading this careful piece of research, and some have sent us important further information. We print here three further contributions.

The Sundial I would like to throw a little light on the inscription on the sundial, nicely illustrated on page 86 of last year's edition, that replaced an earlier one of similar dimensions which, in the Trinity Term of 1953 at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, was showing signs of rot and some illegibility. I would like to stake my little claim to the choice of that part of the Latin inscription which is attributable, not to Dr Kelly as Mr Farrand Radley's article suggests, but to an article by William Hazlitt in the New Monthly Magazine of October 1827. I quote: 'Horas non numero nisi serenas is the motto of a sun-dial near Venice'. It was I who proposed the motto and it was Dr Kelly who prefaced it by adding Auspice Elizabetha II. There had been some discussion- I think largely through the vehicle of the Junior Common Room Day Book- on the subject of an appropriate commemoration of the Coronation. If the Trinity Term 1953 book is still extant somewhere in the Hall's archives, you will find an entry over my signature proposing that the replacement of the dilapidated sundial- suitably reinscribed - would be appropriate for the occasion. I seem to recall that my entry was supported by a good crop of signatures from other members of the Common Room. I also recall that I proposed using the motto discovered by Hazlitt in Italy.

I had myself discovered Hazlitt when, as a young subaltern in the Indian Army in 1946, I found myself in Agra. Bored and conscious of a very depleted wartime education, I got permission to use the facilities of St John's University and found I could purchase books which at that time were set texts in the English Literature Faculty. Hazlitt's English Comic Writers was one of several in the Everyman's Library I acquired, and with which I improved my mind 'on long train journeys across India or lying sweating under punkas dreaming of England and the future', to quote from a note pencilled in the back cover. I have this book beside me as I write. If readers want to

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know where precisely Hazlitt found the inscription they must study the first paragraph of the article: As I rode along the Brenta, while the sun shone hot upon its sluggish, slimy waves, my sensations were far from comfortable; but the reading of this inscription on the side of a glaring wall in an instant restored me to myself; and still, whenever I think of or repeat it, it has the power of wafting me into the region of pure and blissful abstraction. I cannot help fancying it to be the legend of Popish superstition.

Some monk of the dark ages must have invented and bequeathed it to us, who, loitering in trim gardens and watching the silent march of time, as his fruits ripened in the sun or his flowers scented the balmy air, felt a mild languor pervade his senses, and having little to do or to care for, determined (in imitation of his sun-dial) to efface that little from his thoughts or draw a veil over it, making of his life one long dream of quiet! Horas non numero nisi serenas - he might repeat, when the heavens were overcast and the gathering storm scattered the falling leaves, and turn to his books and wrap himself in his golden studies! Out of some such mood of mind, indolent, elegant, thoughtful, this exquisite device (speaking volumes) must have originated.

So, vide Hazlitt, the origin of this 'exquisite device' is some papist monk of the Dark Ages. May present-day Aularians, loitering in their trim garden and watching the silent march oftime on the sun-dial's radiant face, turn to their books and wrap themselves in golden studies.

Floreat Aula!

David Weston (m. 1948) Of a further Principalian Chronogram Mr Peter Le Pelley (m. 1944) has sent a cutting from the summer edition of Oxford, 1943 (pp. 16-17), which records the establishment of the Oxford University Naval Division in the previous year. Lieut.-Comdr. A.B. Emden, RNVR, was its commanding officer. By April 1943, 'the total complement of the Division rose to over 250 ratings under training for service in the Navy, the Fleet Air Arm, or the Marines' .

Principal Emden devised a chronogram 'recording the advent of the Navy to the Isis in 1942', whose numerical significance has again been interpreted for us by Mr Farrand Radley:

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Isls DEHINC IN PRINCIPIO DlsCIPLINAE NAVALis sCHOLARES OXONIENSES ARTIBVS NEPTVNI PVGNAQVE VIV ACITER EXERCET QV ARE CAVEAT AXIs

1+1 500+1+100 1+1+100+1+1 500+1+100+1+50+1+5+50+1 100+50+10+1 1+5+5+1+5+5 5+1+5+100+1+10+100 5+ 100+5+ 10+ 1

The figures in the right-hand column added together make up the required total of 1942 (2+601+104+709+161+22+222+121).

Floor-tablets in the Chapel: A personal view I was unexpectedly moved when I read Arthur Farrand Radley's article 'The Hall's Chronograms and Other Inscriptions' in the Magazine for 1999-2000.

What struck me was the reproduction on page 175 of the inscriptions to A.B. Emden, Ronald Fletcher, John Kelly and Graharn Midgley in the AnteChapel floor. A.B . Emden was an old boy of my own school, King's Canterbury, and kept up a long-standing link between King's and the Hall, later maintained by John Kelly and the school's charismatic Old Aularian headmaster John Shirley, which is no doubt one reason I became an Aularian rather than applying for entry to some other Oxford college. My mother was herself an Oxford graduate in the twenties at St Anne's, then known as 'Oxford Home Students'. (I remember her telling me that the basic Oxford male chat-up opening in those days was not so much 'Do you come here often?' as 'May I pump up your tyres for you?') I followed her in reading English, and it was very useful to me that she had not only kept most of her Oxford books, but that thirty years after her time as an undergraduate most of them were still on the reading list. She and I used to quarrel about their contents and significance, but that's another story. When I started my career at the Hall she told me that she used to go there for tutorials with a young tutor called Ronald Fletcher, and went on: 'One day he got down on his knees and asked me to marry him. I said no, but he wouldn't give up, and even wanted to meet my parents. But he wasn't my type.' Then one day, in Chapel for Communion, I noticed Fletcher's tablet in the floor and of course told my mother, who had no idea that he was dead. When she next came up to Oxford to see me we stood before the tablet together. It was a strange feeling: my mother entirely alive, Ronald Fletcher entirely dead. You can hardly

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seem deader than when there's a stone tablet commemorating you in a chapel floor.

Now we move forward more than a year to November 1958. One dark evening I was playing shove-halfpenny (my favourite way of wasting time) in the anteroom to the JCR when I was told that John Kelly, then of course Principal, wanted to see me in the Lodgings. He received me in his drawing room, looking grave and uncomfortable. 'I've just had a phone call from a hospital in Canterbury,' he said, and went on to tell me that my mother had inoperable cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a few weeks. He offered me the use of his phone to make a few necessary calls. Then I went back to the warmth, light and cheerful noise of the JCR, said nothing to anyone, and continued to play shove-halfpenny as a way of letting the news sink in gradually before going back to my digs. After that unforgettable evening, I had very little contact with John Kelly until the autumn of 1996, a few months before his own death. Indefatigable as ever, he was in Blackwell's looking for a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Rightly assuming he wouldn't remember me, I introduced myself and we chatted pleasantly for a while. Something impelled me to remind him of the evening he told me my mother was dying. 'I hope I was tactful,' he said, with a gentle smile. I assured him that he had been, at the same time remembering his unease. Perhaps he was a man for whom that kind of thing, difficult for us all, was exceptionally painful. I'm sure he was sensitive and caring but it could be that, having cultivated an urbane public manner, he had felt less than adequate in his days as Principal when something more personal was required, especially with someone he did not know well.

It's only now, looking at the dates on the tablets, that I realize that Graham Midgley was Ronald Fletcher's direct successor as Fellow in English Literature at the Hall. Also, when an undergraduate at the Hall, Graham must have had Fletcher as his Tutor. I find it difficult to understand now why I never tried to find out more about Fletcher after my mother told me about his proposal and I found his tablet in the Chapel floor. Graham Midgley was my Tutor, together with Bruce Mitchell and Reggie Alton. I could so easily have asked him to tell me something about Fletcher and related my mother's story, perhaps reporting back to her afterwards. I could even have talked to John Kelly about it, particularly since I still had two terms at the Hall after my mother died. But it's too late now, and I can only contemplate the four tablets in the Chapel floor. Though I'd still be interested to hear from anyone who remembers Ronald Fletcher.

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THE REVD WIILLIAM STONE (1614-1685) AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STONE'S ALMSHOUSES The Reverend William Stone was born in Wimborne, Dorset, in late 1614 or early 1615, one of the two sons of the principal schoolmaster there. There is no record of him matriculating in the University, but as a member of the Hall he was registered for admission to the Bachelor of Jurisprudence course (BCL) in January 1630, when he would have been just fifteen years old, and he was granted the degree in December 1632. His memorial tablet in St Michael at the North Gate in Cornmarket states that 'he was precocious beyond belief'.

In 1639 Stone became deacon, and in 1641 he was appointed to preside over the church of Wimborne Minster. He was caught up in the Civil War troubles, when the Minster was desecrated by the Parliamentarians, as, according to his memorial tablet, he was 'exposed to the outrages inflicted by the rebels, and joined the Royal Army'. He joined the King's army and 'fought for him as long as there was any hope for his cause'. He made his way to Oxford to fight for the King, and he may have been involved in the battle of Naseby and other skirmishes, probably as a foot soldier; the tablet says 'he strenuously performed his duty amidst many hardships, losses, and dangers' . He then had a period on the continent, and was admitted to the University of Padua in 1652. By 1661 he had returned to Wimborne to become First Minister at a salary of ÂŁ50 per annum, and he set about restoring the Minster. In 1663 he was back in Oxford, becoming Principal of New Inn Hall where he remained until his retirement in 1684.

He was said to be an excellent preacher as well as being expert in canon law. He was buried in St Michael at the North Gate, where the plaque commemorating him is in the south aisle.

Although he did not leave writings of his own, he did leave two legacies for posterity: first, a remarkable collection of books which is now housed in Wimborne Minster and which became the foundation of the Wimborne Chained Library, still in existence today. And secondly, in his will, he left the residue of his estate in trust for such charitable purposes as his executor should direct. Obviously, he would have discussed this with his executor, and his wish was to found a hospital in Oxford, similar to one in Wimborne, for ' the sick and sore' , probably consequent upon an epidemic in the city shortly before his death, in which many poor people had died partly through want of help. This resulted in the building of Stone's Almshouses in St Clement's, opened

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in 1700, still a familiar sight as you travel along St Clement's, and since added to by the erection of two further blocks. There are now 23 residents, and a Warden, the Clerk of the Charity being another Aularian, David Wright, a retired solicitor in Oxford. Thus it was that in the summer of 2000, a celebration was held of three hundred years since Stone's benefaction was instituted, in the presence of the vice-chancellor, the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord Mayor, and other dignitaries.

David Wright (1952) AULARIAN CONNECTIONS There are connections between the subjects of the two photos opposite other than what might have been an accident of the name Rut/and. Here is the cast of characters: Sir William Davenant: born in Oxford 1606, died London in 1668; son of an innkeeper, but rumoured to be a natural son of Shakespeare Percy Alfred Scholes: born in Leeds 1877, died in Vevey, Switzerland, 1958; matriculated from the Hall as a mature student in 1906, taking the degree of B.Mus. in 1908; elected an Honorary Fellow 1947 John Owen Ward: born 1919, died in New York 2000; matriculated from the Hall in 1950 (another mature student); studied for the Pass BA in French, German and Italian; MA, 1956 A.B. Emden Rutland: the smallest county in England By 1938 Scholes was living in Switzerland, and had already prepared the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Music, and other books on music.

During the Second World War he returned to Oxford. But by 1949 he was back in Switzerland, living at Clarens. There he hired John Ward as his secretary. Ward was already 30 years old. He had been an antiquarian music dealer, and had served for over six years in the Royal Artillery during the war. Scholes's income came from the UK, and when the British Government devalued the pound he faced a catastrophic reduction in his income in Swiss francs. In the spring of 1950 he returned once again to Oxford, bringing John Ward with him, and installing himself in the house that he bought in Davenant Road. Ward lodged at an address in Capel Close, and later on Woodstock Road. Scholes wanted his secretary to go through the academic mill. His friend the Abe was very pleased to oblige with a place for Ward at the Hall. Ward worked full-time for Scholes (at the house in North Oxford) and worked for his degree at the same time. In addition, he played a

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The number and nameplate of a house in North Oxford

A view near the Aldersgate in London

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very active part in the musical life of the Hall and University. He left for NewYork in 1956. He prepared the lOth edition of The Companion (the first after Scholes's death in 1958), and continued editing this and other Scholes books until 1977, while working first for OUP in New York and then for Boosey and Hawkes, the music publishers. He wrote the entry for Scholes in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Of course, the nameplate in the top picture is on the front porch of Scholes's house, 41 Davenant Road. But why Rutland House? A few weeks ago I was sitting at my desk at 48 Davenant Road, the house directly opposite number 41. From my desk I can see the nameplate. I had reason to look for something to do with opera in my copy of The Companion (1Oth edition) when the name Sir William Davenant caught my eye (1993 reprint, p. 710, col. 1). In 1656, he had staged 'what is always considered to be the first real opera in England, The Siege of Rhodes'. The performances took place in 'Rutland-house in the upper end of AldersgateStreet.' (plate 116. 1, opposite p. 689.) Sometime during his time at 41 Davenant Road, Percy Scholes must have wanted to give his house a name rather than a number. His thesis at Lausanne University, on the Puritans and music, written and examined in French and published in English in 1934, had made him very familiar with Sir William Davenant.

Rutland House was Davenant's London home. These circumstances gave Scholes the allusion he needed for naming his own house.

I then consulted an A-Z street map of London. At the top end of Aldersgate, the map shows a Rutland Place and, on the largest scale version, a Rutland Court. A visit to the area was made. The Court has disappeared under the recent construction of a hotel. Rutland Place is about 50 metres long and is the road leading from Charterhouse Square to an extensive site concerned with the teaching and research of one of the London Hospitals.

Enquiries among doorkeepers at various buildings revealed no memory of a Rutland House - not surprising after more than 300 years, a great fire and a great bombing, as well as continuous development.

Rutland House in Oxford has been used until recently as a halfway hostel for young people returning to the community after in-patient treatment in a psychiatric hospital. But it is now vacant and for sale.

The site is very large, and it will probably be bought for development.

The result will be the demolition of the existing building, and the construction of several new houses or a large block of flats.

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Sources: Dictionary of National Biography (entries for Scholes and Davenant); obituary for Scholes in the St Edmund Hall Magazine, 1958-9; J.O. Ward (m. 1950), 'Apprenticed to Dr Scholes', in Hall, ed. A. Jenkyns (Farrand Press); P.A. Scholes, The Oxford Companion to Music (lOth ed., reprinted 1993); J.V. Cockshoot (m. 1947), private communication.

IMPRESSIONS FROM THE OXFORD LANGUAGE RACE

When I first heard about the Oxford Language Race, organized by the University Language Centre, I thought 'This is my kind of thing!'. I have always enjoyed the challenge of learning and trying to communicate in a language other than my mother tongue (Greek), and thought that the Language Race would be a unique opportunity. I would be assigned a language out of five, which I would choose from a pool of twenty minority European languages (Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian and Serbian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Gaelic, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Welsh). From then onwards, during a period of four weeks, that language would be my sole focus; I would try to learn as much as possible, have the chance to discover my own teaching methods and experiment with my learning pace.

At the opening ceremony it was announced which language each candidate would learn, and each of us was given a learning pack such as the Teach Yourself series or the Colloquial series, and a notebook to keep a diary in. Ukrainian struck me as half a shock, half a joy. We were also given instructions as to what was expected from us at the end of the four weeks. We were to hold a conversation with a native speaker about an every-day situation, and recite a poem of our choice by heart and discuss it.

That evening I went back to my room a bit puzzled, and listened to the tape included in the pack. I tried first to familiarize myself with the sounds of the language, then the Cyrillic alphabet. The following day I went to the Language Centre and explored the resources available (tapes, grammar books, dictionaries). I then proceeded to write frantic e-mails all over Oxford, trying to find a native speaker of Ukrainian who would be willing to become my coach for the duration of the Race. I finally managed to discover an 18 year-old student at St Clare's, Alyona Ilyinska. I met with Alyona two or three times a week, and she

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helped me with questions regarding vocabulary, grammar and whatever I hadn't understood in the book. She grasped the nature of the Race very quickly, and made very useful and constructive comments. I really enjoyed interacting with her. On my part, I was very persistent, and studied at least three hours of Ukrainian every day. By the end of the second week, we would communicate only in Ukrainian. This was very important, as I was 'forced' to use the language generatively and creatively. I picked up my poem early on, at the middle of the second week. From the very start, I would write small paragraphs on various simple topics (e.g. my family, my room, what I did today, what I will do tomorrow, simple dialogues). It was very rewarding, and fun to realize that I was actually making progress from one day to the other.

I was slowly conquering the language. This increased my motivation and kept me going throughout the four weeks. Naturally, there were a few lows during the four-week period. I got a bad cold, which lasted two weeks, and then I felt slightly disappointed after starting communicating in Ukrainian: fluency seemed such a distant dream.

But I didn't give up.

In the meantime, the organizers of the Race kept in touch with us.

They held lunches for us every Wednesday. I attended all of them, and I think this had a very positive effect as it enabled me to see that I was not alone in this process: people were there to give us advice and support. Also, I had the chance to discuss with other competitors, see what difficulties they were facing, and become more realistic about my goals.

On the day of the test I was very nervous. However, as soon as I met my assessor I thought: 'Right, this is the time for me to try my Ukrainian for real'. I did not hesitate at all: my brain was working at full speed. If you can believe this, I actually enjoyed the test. At the end of it, I had a very positive feeling. Did I expect to win first prize? To be honest, no. I thought I should be one of the winners, because I knew I had done well. However, Oxford is full of talented young people, and I didn't want to have illusions. At the Awards ceremony I kept telling myself that I didn't mind if I didn't win first prize because I knew I had done my best. I had no regrets: I had reached my limits. It was with great joy, though, that I was named winner of the Race. My final word of advice (something I always tell myself, and what kept me going) is the following: 'Neither a winner nor a loser be: be a fighter! ' Maria Liakata (2000)

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WHY STUDY EINSTEIN AND NOT MYSTIC MEG? The following essay is based on a talk given during the St Edmund Hall 'Talking Physics' series in the final week of Hilary Term. The talk was intended as an introductory discussion of one of the central questions in the philosophy of science: whether or not science is rational. It was subsequently awarded the George Series Prize for 2001.

Whenever, in a conversation, the topic of what subject I study at university comes up, and I tell my conversant that I study 'Physics and Philosophy', their reaction is almost invariably something along the lines of 'That's a strange combination'. However, the two subjects, at least in the early part of their modern history, grew alongside each other. In this essay I plan to introduce a central topic in the philosophy of science, which has an important bearing on study in all of the sciences. I shall consider the question 'Is scientific method rational?' I will not try to draw my own conclusions; instead I shall try to introduce the main arguments in a way understandable to those with no experience in the study of philosophy. We shall see that if science turns out not to be a rational activity, there may be no reason to study Einstein rather than Mystic Meg. If we're going to discuss whether scientific investigation is rational or not, we must first define which conditions our scientific investigations must satisfy if they are to be considered rational. For science to be a rational activity, it is generally thought by philosophers that it needs to satisfy two conditions.

First, science must aim at a goal. There are many possible goals that science could aim at - for example, the production of true theories, or the production of theories with ever increasing problem-solving power. The second condition scientific investigation must satisfy if it is to be considered a rational activity is that it must proceed with a method that we can reasonably expect, if it is used correctly, will be able to reach that goal.

Broadly speaking, philosophers of science can be split into two sets on the issue of whether scientific investigation is a rational activity: rationalists and (strangely enough) non-rationalists. A rationalist will have a certain picture of what our current scientific method is, and will think that it meets the two criteria I just mentioned and that, as a result, scientific investigation is a rational activity. A non-rationalist thinks that our scientific investigations fail to meet one or other or both of the criteria above, and hence doesn't think that science is rational. Moreover, many non-rationalists claim that there are reasons why scientific investigation cannot be carried out in such a

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way as to make it a rational procedure. In this essay, I'm going to focus on one version of each theory. The rationalist theory I'll talk about was put forward in the 1920s by Karl Popper. It's generally called Popper's 'theory of falsification'. The non-rationalist theory I'll consider will be the theory put forward by Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (first published in 1962). At the end of the essay, I'll look at some of the possible consequences of accepting a non-rationalist position.

Rationalists and non-rationalists both talk about whether our scientific investigations follow a rational procedure or not, so in order to decide whether scientific method is rational, we must find out exactly what our procedure is when we do science. The investigation of our scientific procedure is a question that has occupied many philosophers during the past century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the study of scientific method was at a very primitive stage. During the nineteenth century, philosophy had departed sharply from considerations about the validity of scientific method. Instead, many philosophers built metaphysical systems. (Metaphysics is the study of the way the world is; metaphysicians study questions that cannot be solved by physics or the other sciences, such as 'What are causes?' or 'what are properties?') At the beginning of the 20th century, it was tacitly assumed that science worked as follows. Scientists would perform a series of experiments, or would record a series of observations regarding a particular phenomenon. If a pattern resulted from doing this, scientists might formulate a law (such as one in the form 'whenever event A occurs, event B follows').

Each new observation of B following A would then lend further support to the theory, making it more likely to be true.

In fact, the philosopher David Hume had already, in the mid-18th century, produced a serious objection to this method of doing science. The style of argument used above, that new observations fitting a theory lend support to that theory, is known as an inductive argument. However, according to Hume, we have no reason to expect that, just because a certain chain of events has occurred on every relevant occasion in the past, it will occur again in the future. For example, in the past it was believed that all swans were white.

All swans that had been seen so far had been white, so the induction was made that all swans that we might find in the future would be white. However, in the 19th century, explorers voyaging in the South Pacific discovered black swans. This example seems to show that Hume was right: we can't just accept a scientific theory because it has always worked in the past.

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beginning to be considered important again by philosophers. Karl Popper developed Hume's rejection of induction in a book called The Logic of Scientific Discovery (first published in German in 1935).

Popper agreed with Hume that inducing theories to be true on the basis of a limited number of observations does not produce a justified, rational scientific method. Karl Popper was a rationalist and so, in his book, he proposed that scientific discovery occurs in a different way to that proposed above. His method as known as the method of falsification. The main reason Popper gives for rejecting the inductive method is that he is extremely worried about allowing various activities he terms as 'pseudo-sciences' to be called science. Popper gives some examples of the type of activities he calls pseudo-sciences. These examples include Marx's theory of communism, and Freud and Adler's theories of psychology. According to Popper, there has to be something about the procedure followed by science that distinguishes it from these pseudo-sciences.

The distinction that Popper found between the methods of scientific investigation and of pseudo-scientific investigation is this. In science, when we have a law, we subject it to various tests, and try to find situations in which it fails . If an experiment comes up with results that don 't agree with our law, then we reject it, and come up with a new law that fits the results of all the tests the old law passed and also the results of the test that the old law failed. Scientific theories according to Popper are thus falsifiable. They are scientific because we can conceive of tests for them about which we can say 'if this theory fails this test, we shall say that it is incorrect.' In pseudoscience, this is impossible. The problem Popper has with the Freudian or Adlerian is that the Freudian or Adlerian has an answer for everything. Popper tells of a time when he spoke to Adler, asking him to explain in terms of Adlerian psychology the case of a certain child. Popper writes: I reported to him a case which to me did not seem particularly Adlerian, but which he found no difficulty in analysing in terms of his theory of inferiority feelings , although he had not even seen the child. Slightly shocked, I asked him how he could be so sure. 'Because of my thousandfold experience', he replied; whereupon I could not help saying 'And with this new case, I suppose, your experience has become thousand-and-one fold.'

The pseudo-scientist sees every instance as confirming his theory. If an instance appears not to fit his theory, he will just reinterpret his theory in order to fit the evidence. In addition to this, the pseudo-science sees each

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confirmation of his theory as an occurrence that increases the probability that his theory is true. In other words, the pseudo-scientist makes an induction saying that because his theory has been confirmed in all cases where it has been tested so far, it is likely that his theory will be confirmed in any possible future tests it faces.

To sum up: Popper's interpretation of what scientific method should be is this. When scientists notice a pattern, for example of certain events following other events, they may make a theory saying that such events always occur together. However, they will not accept this theory as being true. Instead they will devise tests to attempt to falsify it. If it passes these tests, we can continue to use it, but we cannot accept it as true, as there will still be more tests we can devise that might falsify it.

If we once again consider the two conditions that a rational procedure for scientific investigation must follow, we might ask whether Popper's theory makes it difficult for him to remain a rationalist. Earlier, I noted that if scientific investigation is to be said to be a rational activity, then science must aim at some particular goal and its method must be able to help it reach that goal. Surely though, the goal of science, if it has one, is the production of true theories. However, Popper says that we can never say that the theory we are currently using is certainly true, because to do that, we would have to make an induction, which Popper, as we have seen, doesn't think we can be rationally justified in doing. How does Popper get out of this fix? Well, he realizes that his characterization of scientific method can't aim at the truth, because, even if it did help us get there, we would have no way of knowing that we had got to the truth. All we can know, according to Popper is that with the acceptance of each successive scientific theory over a rejected theory, we get closer to the truth. The goal of science is to get ever closer to the truth.

That is a rough outline of Popper's theory of falsification. There are one or two problems with it that I shall now consider. The first of these problems is this: how can we rationally use Popper's scientific method to aim at closeness to the truth? Popper attempts to give an answer to this problem in another book, Conjectures and Refutations (1963), in which he says this: If we not only assume that there is a real world but also that this world is by and large more similar to the way modem theories describe it than to the way superseded theories describe it, on this basis we can argue that it would be a highly improbable coincidence if a theory like Einstein's could correctly predict very precise measurements not predicted by its predecessors unless there is some truth in it.

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The problem is that Popper here says that we know we are getting closer to the truth because our modern theories pass more tests and make better predictions than our old ones. The problem with saying that for Popper is that he has already told us that just because a theory passes a test it doesn't mean we have any more reason to think it won't be proven false in the future. Unless he uses induction to say that current theories are closer to the truth, which he has said he cannot do rationally, he cannot connect his method to his goal. Therefore, if Popper wishes to hold on to the idea that scientific investigation is a rational procedure, he must either accept that induction is a rational procedure, or he must admit that if science follows his falsificational model, it is not a rational activity. A second major problem is that Popper's falsificational model of scientific method just isn't how we do science. If a theory fails a test, we don't just reject it immediately: we look at our instruments, we look at the rest of the theories that are involved in the test, we conduct more tests and then perhaps we reject the theory.

So, Popper's rationalism doesn't work. We can't assume from this that no rationalism will ever work: there are other rationalist theories, which give science different goals and attribute to it different methods. Popper's rationalism is just an important example.

We've looked at a rationalist theory; now let's look at a non-rationalist one. The one I'm going to consider is Thomas Kuhn's, presented in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. A great asset of Kuhn's book is the depth it goes into in characterising scientific method. Kuhn spends quite a bit of time talking about how science has developed historically. He says that the history of any era of science can be characterized as having periods of calm followed by periods of revolution. During a period of calm in an area of science, we have a set of theories that we call a 'paradigm' that we're pretty happy with. This theory is able to help us invent new things and make new discoveries. That doesn't mean everything is fine. There are still things in science that we can't seem to explain using this theory, and during a period of calm we try to make minor adjustments to the theory or formalize it in a simpler way to improve it. We also invent lots of new tests we can perform to test the accuracy of the theory. An example of a paradigm going through a period of calm would be Newtonian mechanics in the 19th century, or quantum mechanics about 40 years or so ago. However, if we keep on testing a theory long enough, we often find that in certain conditions it either stops working or turns out to be inconsistent with one of our other theories.

If we find that we can't explain this using our old theories, as happened with

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classical mechanics at the end of the 19th century, we have what Kuhn calls a crisis. In a crisis, the initial scientific theory is challenged by one or more new theories that claim to explain the facts better than the failing theory. A revolution then occurs if we drop our old theory or paradigm, and replace it with a new one. Kuhn calls this a 'paradigm shift'.

Now, in all this we can see a number of differences between how Popper characterized science, and how Kuhn characterizes it. Popper said that a theory is falsified if it fails just one test. Kuhn is more liberal. He says that if a theory fails a test, we can't know without testing it further whether it is wrong, whether another theory, whose correctness we had assumed in our test of the theory, is wrong, or whether our measuring instruments are wrong.

What's more, Kuhn says that our final decision on which one we say is wrong is not even rational. Kuhn gives several reasons why our theory choice is not rational. His reasons include, first, his claim that theory choice has historically been influenced by certain social, economic and psychological conditions. Second, he argues that you just can't compare theories rationally: they are incommensurable. For example, Kuhn says that Newtonian mechanics can' t actually be compared with special relativity. This is because they both talk about different worlds. In Newton's world, mass was invariant, but for Einstein the mass of a particle can vary depending on its energy.

If we can't compare theories, how can we tell which one is right? According to Kuhn, we can't, so science is non-rational. This seems to cause real problems because, obviously, if you can't compare theories, you can never say that a particular theory is false, and so you can't have a goal in science of getting closer to the truth or of obtaining the truth. Kuhn doesn't think this means that we have to give up hope on science, though. Science does have a goal and that is to solve problems. When we drop one theory in place of another, it is by and large for the reason that the new one solves problems better than the old one. Thus the goal of science according to Kuhn is to increase in problem-solving ability. It might appear that this goal is a perfectly rational one, and that Kuhn's method can link rationally to this new goal.

Kuhn disagrees that this is the case, however. According to Kuhn, our choice of which of two competing theories has greater problem-solving ability will depend in part on how we weight the importance of the problems we want the theory to solve. This problem-weighting cannot, according to Kuhn, be rational. Instead, the problems will be weighted according to social and economic factors.

So, where does Mystic Meg come into all of this? Well, if science is nonrational, there are some philosophers who say 'Okay, science has solved lots

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of problems, but it doesn't follow a rational method. Why shouldn't we expect that enterprises like astrology would solve problems equally well if we put as much money and effort into developing them as we have into science?' The person mainly responsible for posing this question is Paul Feyerabend, in a book called Against Method, published in 1975. Feyerabend, as I've said, is a non-rationalist, so he thinks the belief that science has a special rational method that makes it more likely to lead to great discoveries is a fairy-tale. In Against Method, he says: Scientists have deceived themselves and everyone else about their business, but without any real disadvantage: they have more money, more authority, more sex appeal than they deserve, and the most stupid procedures and the most laughable results in their domain are surrounded with an aura of excellence.

The scientist's reply to Feyerabend is 'Okay, so we've got money, and authority, and yes sex appeal too, but we don' t have more than we deserve.

We got all that because, back in the time of Newton and Galileo, our method was used to produce novel and brilliant results that helped us to understand more about the world.' Feyerabend denies this. He says that the science of Newton and Galileo was heavily reliant on the methods of non-scientific practices like alchemy. Newton was careful to check that his theories did not contravene biblical statements before he accepted them. It was merely fortunate for science that scientists chose to follow the scientific procedures of Newton, rather than following him in his religious considerations.

The question remains, then, why study Einstein instead of Mystic Meg? Feyerabend's theory may seem a bit far-fetched, but it isn't all that obvious how we are to argue against it. I'm not going to try to do that here. I think there are reasons for supposing that scientific method can be modelled as rational, which would mean that we wouldn't have to worry about Feyerabend; but that is for another occasion. I hope though that in this essay, I have managed to show that it isn't entirely obvious why science is rational, and that we shouldn't take the rationality of science for granted.

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