St Edmund Hall Magazine 2002-03 by St Edmund Hall

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

St Edmund Hall OxfordOXI4AR Telephone(O I865)279000 Internet: http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/

Development Office Telephone(OI865)279055 E-mail: development.office@st-edmund-hall .oxford.ac.uk

FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION: Detail of illustrated text in the Bene facto rs ' Book, in whi ch the earli est dated entry is 1660 (photograph by Michael St Maur Sheil ( 1965)) Printed by the Holywell Press Ltd ., 15 to 17 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Road , Oxford

Vol. XVI No. 3 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October2003

COLLEGE LIST ....... ... ... ..... .......... ........ ........................................ ...... .. ... .... ... ! TO REPORT From the Principal ............ ......... .......... ......... ... ....... .. ..... .......... .... ..... ..... .... ...... .. .. 9 Fr01n the Chaplain ......... ... ............. ... ......... .... ..... ..... ......... .. ....... ......... ................ 14 From the Librarian ....... ..... ... ... ... ... .... ............. ........... ...................... ........... ... .... .. 16 Fr01n the Bursar ........ .............. ..... ...... ...... .... ..... ....... .... .. ... .. ......... .... ... ................ 22 The Senior Common Room ........ .......... ..... ............................................... ... .. ... 24 The Middle Common Room .... .. .. .. ......... .. ... .......................... .. ... ... ...... ...... .. .... .. . 30 The Junior Common Room ..... .............. .. .. ..................... .... ................ .......... ..... . 32 Clubs and Societies ... .. .... ... .... ..... ..... ..... .. ..... ......... .... .... .. ..... ....... ....... ......... ..... .. . 33 Hall Crawl Quiz ......................................... .................................................................. 55 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ............... .. ... .... ...... .......... ...... ........... .. ..... .. ...... ... ... ... ..... ... .... ... 56 The Geddes Lecture ...................... ........ .. ... ... .......... ... ........ .. .............. .. ... Â·60 The Em den Lecture .. .. ... ... ..................................... ... .... ... ... ..... ........... 61 St Edmund's Day .... ........... ...... .. ... ........ ... ........ ... .... ..... ...... ... ... .... .... .... ...... . 61 SEH Summer Event 2003 ..... ...... ... .. ......... .. ... ... ... ... .... ..... ..... .... .... ......... .. .. ........ 62 Poetry at the Hall .... .... ... ......... .............. .. ..... ..... ......................... .... .... .. ..... . 63 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry ..... ..... ... .. ...... .... .. ... .... .... 64 The Phi lip Geddes Prize 2003 ...................... ... .......... ............................................ 65 Oxford Development Abroad .................. .. ... ............... ...... .......... ... .... .................. 66 Obituaries .. .. ... ... ... ..... ..... ... .. ... ........ ... ... ........ .......... .. ... ..... ... ... ....... .. .... .. . 68 In Memoriam- The Lord Jenkins ofHillhead ... ..................................... ..... ........ ... 70 In Memoriam- The Reverend Ronald Frank William Fletcher ...................... ... ... 72 FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ............ ........ ...... ............... ............... ....... ......... .............. 75 Matriculations ....... ...... .......... ............... ..... ...... ...................... ...... .... ...... ... 75 Visiting Students ...... ........... ..... ... ..... ......... .. .. .. .... .............. ...... ........... .. .... 79 Degree Results ..... ................. ....... ....... ..... ... .. .... .... ... ... ...... ....... ...... ......... .. 80 Awards and Prizes ................ ....... .. ......... ........... ..... ..... ............. .......... ... ......... ...... 85 Degree Dates 2003-2004 ....................................... ......... ............... ............. ............ 90

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THEDEVELOPMENTANDALUMNIORRCE News ..... .......... ... ........ .... ....... ..... ...... ..... ........... ... ....... .............. ..... ........... ..... .. 91 Aularian Gatherings ................ ................................... .... .. .... ..... ....... ......... .............. 95 Donors to the Hall ..................................................................................................... 112 Forthcoming Events ................................................................................................. 121 THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives ............ ..... ............ .... . ... ..... .. .... . .. ... .. ..... 122 Minutes of the 72nd Annual General Meeting .. ................. ..... ... .... ...... ..... . 123 The 62nd London Dinner ........................................................................ ................. 124 "Half a Century" ................................ ......................... ............. ............................... 126 Gifts to the Hall ........ ... ... ... .... .... .. ........ ... .......... . ..... . ... ... ... ... ..... ... ............. 126 The Accounts .. . .. ... . .... .. .... . ........ ..... . ...... ..... ..... .... ... ... .. .. ... .. . ........... ..... ..... 127

AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium .. .. .. ... . ... .... ... ... ... ... . ... ...... ... ... . ... .... .... ... .......... ... ...... 129 Obituaries .... .. .. .. ... .. ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ...... ... . .... .. ... ... .. ... .... . ...... ..... ..... ... ... 135 In Memoriam ... ...... ... .. .... ......... ........ ................ ............... ................. ..... ..... ...... 153 ARTICLES Pilgrims' Progress: Searching for Edmundite Roots in England ......... ...... .. .... 157 AULARIAN CALENDAR .. .. ... .. .. .. ... ... .... .. .. ............... ....... ... .... .. ...... .. ...... .. 158

ST EDMUND HALL 2002- 2003 Visitor The Chancellor ofthe University The Rt Hon. Lord Jenkins ofHillhead, OM, PC, DCL * The Rt Hon Chris Patten, CH, MA, EU Commissioner for External Relations

Principal David Michael Patrick Mingos, MA (B.Sc. Mane.; D.Phil. Sussex), FRS, C.Chem., FRSC

Professor of Chemistry 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(BANatal; MACamb.)

Professor of Economics and Tutor in Economics, Vice-Principal, Academic & Investment Bursar Stone, Nicholas James, MA, D.Phil.

Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics Wells, Christopher Jon, MA

Tutor in Modern Languages (Medieval German) Collins, Peter Jack, MA, D.Phil.

Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Lond.) QC

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

Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LL 8, MA Cam b.; JD Chicago), QC

Barrister, Professor ofLaw and Tutor in Law Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (Ph. D. Leic.; MA Camb.)

Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology *Deceased 1

Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, M.Phil. Tutor in Economics and Senior Tutor Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Tutor in Law Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (M.Sc., Ph. D. Mane.) Professor ofEngineering Science, Tutor in Engineering and Tutor for Graduates Reed, George Michael, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc., MS, Ph.D. Auburn) GEC Fellow and Tutor in Computation Phillips, David George, MA, D.Phii. ,Ac.S.S., F.R.Hist.S. Professor of Comparative Education and Fellow by Special Election Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, D.Phil. University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor ofBiochemistry, WR. Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, D.Phil. Professorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, D.Phil. A. C. Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature and Tutorfor We(fare Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Newc.) Professor ofAbnormal Psychology and Tutor in Psychology Naughton, James Duncan, MA (Ph. D. Camb.) Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Bourne-Taylor, Geo:ffrey, MA Bursar Brasier, Martin David, MA(B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) Professor in Palaeobiology and Tutor in Geology Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Modern History Watson, Stephen (B.Sc. Leeds; Ph.D. Camb.) Fellow by Special Election in Pharmacology Whittaker, RobertJames, MA(B.Sc. Hull; M.Sc., Ph.D. Wales) Reader in Biogeography, Tutor in Geography and Dean Borthwick,AiistairGeorge Liam, MA(B.Eng., Ph.D. Liv.) Professor in Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering 2

Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; Ph.D. Lond., Or Hon. Causa Sofia) Professor ofEast European History, Fellow by Special Election and Archivist Pettifor, David Godfrey, MA (Ph. D. Camb.; B.Sc. Witwatersrand), FRS Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, D.Phil., FBA Professor of German Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, D.Phil. (BAAmherst; MA Harvard) Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) and Tutor for Welfare Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (Ph. D. Camb.) Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (Ph. D. M IT) Tutor in Physics Zavatsky,Amy Beth, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Pennsylvania) Tutor in Engineering Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, D.Phil. (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. CNAA) C.Chem., FRSC Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA(MACamb.) Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Ash bourn, Joanna M aria Antonia, MA (MA Cam b.; Ph.D. Lond.) 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 ofClinical Neurology Flanders, Alan (BA Old Dominion; MA English-Hollins; D.Phil. George Washington) Fellow by Special Election Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow by Special Election

Alien, James, M.Chem.

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. Phi!., MRCP

Fellow by Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB, ChB. Edin.; MD Leic.), FRCS, FRCS Ed., FRCS in Ped. Surg.

University Reader in Paediatric Surgery and Fellow by Special Election Kai"ka, Maria, MA, D.Phil. (MA NTUA)

Tutor in Geography Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; Ph.D. Princeton)

Tutor in English Wentworth, Richard, MA (MA Royal College ofArt)

Professorial Fellow, Ruskin Master ofDrawing Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA(MA, M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale)

Tutor in Management Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, M.Sc., D.Phil.

Fellow by Special Election Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, Ph.D. Camb.)

John Harris Memorial Fellow and Tutor in Materials Tseng, Jeffrey, (BSCIT; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins)

Fellow by Special Election and Tutor in Experimental Particle Physics Honorary Fellows Wright, Sir DenisArthur 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. Ox burgh, Emest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Ox burgh, 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 (Des-Se. Paris) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robe11, OBE, MA Kolve, Yerdel Amos, MA, D.Phil. (BA Wisconsin) Read, Alien Walker, B.Litt., D.Litt., (MA Iowa)* Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, MA Rose, General Sir(Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, B. Phi!., MA Garland, Patrick Ewart, MA Marchington,Anthony Frank, MA, D.Phil. Nazir-Ali, 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 Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Edwards, Steven Lloyd, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, MA *Deceased St Edmund Feflows

Laing, !an Michael, MA Smith, Martin Gregory, MA (MBA Stanford) Romain, Michael A. Cansdale, Michael John, MA Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (LLD Birm.), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Ridler, Vivian Hughes, CBE, MA Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, MA (B.Sc., MB, Ch.B. Edin.), MRCP (Lond.) Pollock, Nonnan 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) Todd, Joseph Derwent, MA, D.Phil. Hirsch, Sir Peter Bemhard, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph. D. Camb.), FRS Cowdrey, The Revd Herbert Edward John, MA, DD, FBA 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 , B.Ch. , MA Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph. D. Camb.), FBA Williams, William StanleyCossom, MA(Ph.D. Lond.) Newsom-Davis, John Michae l, CBE, MA (MA, MD Camb.), FRCP, FRS Scargill, David lan, MA, D.Phil. , JP Fatihing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art) RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, D.Phil. Dean ofDegrees Hunt, John David, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph . D. Camb.), FRS

Lecturers Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, M .Chem. , D.Phil. Biochemistry Davis, Benjamin Guy, BA, D.Phil. Chemistry Martin , Priscilla Eli zabeth , MA (MA, Ph. D. Lond.) Classics Aamio, Outi Marketta, D.Phil. (LicentiateAboAkademi) Economics Yueh, Linda, D.Phil. (BA Yale) Economics Griffiths, Jane Elizabeth, MA, M.St. , D.Phil. English Jenkyns, Joy, MA (BA S'ton; MA Lond.) English Geography Harrison, Stephan (B.Sc . Leic .; Ph .D. CNAA) Waters, David John, MA , D.Phil. (MA Camb.) Geology Mann , Gareth, BA, M.St. History Roberts, David Baldock, MA (Ph .D. Cam b.; Fii.Dr. Umea) Human Sciences Fowler, Peta, MA , D.Phil. Latin Adams, John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh.) Law Castell, Martin Rolf(B.Sc. Exe.; Ph . D. Camb.) Materials Science Cerezo, Alfred, MA, D.Phil. Materials Science

Knight, Robin William, MA, D.Phil. Mathematics Lotay, Jason, M.Math. Mathematics Williams, Daniel , M .Math . Mathematics Black, John (MB, BS Lond.), FRCS Ed., FIMC RCS Ed., FFAEM Medicine (Anatomy) Lear, Pamela Virginia (B.Sc., Ph. D. Lond.) Medicine (Cell Biology) Virgincar, Anand (MB, BS Bombay; MD Goa; DNB New Delhi), MRCP Medicine (Neurophysiology) Abouzaid, Myriam Modern Languages (French) Goddard, Stephen, BA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (French) Williams, Renee, MA Modern Languages (French) Mortimer, Geoffrey, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc, M.Sc. Swansea) Modern Languages (German) Toews, Dagmar Modern Languages (German) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut Modern Languages (German) Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (Greek) Dorigatti, Marco Guido, MA status, D.Phil. (Dott.Lett. Florence) Modem Languages (Italian) Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, D.Phil. Modem Languages (Russian) Southworth, Eric Alan, MA (MA Cam b.) Modern Languages (Spanish) Alien, Roger William, D. Phi!. (BA, B.Mus. Liv.) Music Wilk, James, MA, D.Phil. Philosophy Myatt, Gerald, MA (B.Sc. Birm. ; Ph. D. Liv.) Physics Rikovska-Stone, Jirina (lng.Dr.Csc.) Physics Hampshire, James, BA (MA York) Politics Leopold, David, MA (MA Sus.) Politics Munafo, Marcus Robert, BA (M.Sc., Ph.D. S'ton), C.Psychol. Psychology

Chaplain The Revd Duncan MacLaren, MA, PhD Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA

Artists in Residence Donna Stoering, David Ormerod College Secretary & Registrar Joanna Cope, MA Head Porter David Beeching Decanal Staff Junior Dean Slacker, C. Jacquetta, BA Cover Dean Dryburgh, Robert James, BA, M.Sc. Sub-Dean (Isis) Witztum, Jonathan, B.Phil. (BA Ben-Gurion) Cardinale, Philip John, M.Phil. (BA Georgetown) Sub-Dean (Isis) Sub-Dean (NSE) Countouris, Nicola, M.Juris. (M.Sc. Lond.)

TO REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL My introduction to the Hall Magazine provides me with an opportunity to reflect on the year and highlight those events which are either particularly important or provide indications of longer-term trends. In this, my fourth year, it has been very easy to identify the most important event- it is the starting of the new William R. Miller Hall in Dawson Street which will provide 55 additional rooms for undergraduates. St Edmund Hall with four other Oxford colleges provides the least accommodation for its undergraduates and this contrasts with many colleges who are able to provide 100% accommodation for all their students. Two factors have prevented us from following the lead of other colleges; firstly the lack of suitable building land either in the college or on ground owned by the college, and secondly the absence of an endowment to enable us to finance such a project outside college. To current undergraduates the availability of college accommodation is important because it is cheaper than living in houses or flats in Oxford which are rented at market rates. They will therefore preferentially apply to colleges which can provide them with accommodation for the whole of their time in Oxford and thereby reduce the extent of their student loans. Students leave Oxford with loan repayment commitments of approximatelyÂŁ 12,000 on average. The provision of additional accommodation for our undergraduates was a primary objective when I took over the Principalship, but it could only be achieved if a suitable opportunity arose and the necessary funds became available. The development in Dawson Street was made known to us as a joint project between a local building company and the owners of the land in the Spring of 200 I, but without planning permission. Although we had successfully launched our Campaign in January 2001 it had not generated sufficient funds to cover the project at that stage. We are most fortunate in having Bill Miller as an old member of the college, because he has supported the college so generously on so many occasions . Bill had spent all of his three years as an undergraduate living outside the college in digs and therefore he felt a particular attraction tC> the issue of undergraduate accommodation; he agreed in the summer of 200 I to provide the leading donation for this project and enabled us to begin to seek the remaining monies to complete the project. The delays in obtaining planning permission enabled us to raise ÂŁ3 million of

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the £4 million required for the new building - particularly noteworthy were generous donations from an anonymous donor, who was willing to match Bill Miller 's donation if required, significant shareholdings from Willam Asbrey and a major legacy in the will of Ernest Rawlinson. With 75% of the funds pledged the Governing Body agreed to go ahead with the project at the end of last year; building work started in February and we hope to have it completed by June 2004. The William R. Miller Hall will be officially opened next September in time for the 2004 intake of students. We still have to raise the £1 million deficit in the next year, but I am sure that Aularians will ensure that the shortfall is made up. The Wolfson Foundation has recently announced a donation of£ I 00,000 towards the project and we will continue to seek funds from other Foundations. Some Aularians have said that they feel unable to s upport such projects because it is the Government 's responsibility to fund higher education. The Government has never funded new college buildings in Oxford - the buildings which together make up the St Edmund Hall quad which is dearly loved by Aularians have all been funded by subscriptions by old members. You have benefited from their donations and it is now your opportunity to provide future generations with facilities which match those in other colleges. Some Aularians have come together either as year groups or country groups to fund specific rooms in the new building by collectively pledging £25 ,000. Maybe you could follow their example? Moving onto other matters - The Right Honorable Lord Jenkins of Hillhead will be sorely missed as the University 's Chancellor and the Hall's Visitor. He was very supportive when I was first elected as Principal and all of us were particularly grateful for his attendance at the launch of the Campaign at the House of Commons in January 200 I. He had recently undergone major heart surgery and clearly was still recovering, but he nonetheless made a typically robust speech. We welcome Christopher Patten, who made a strong case for increased University funding at his installation ceremony this summer as the new Chancellor and Visitor, and also Or John Hood who will be the first Vice-Chancellor of the University to be chosen from outside. Having made the decision to go outside, Oxford has chosen someone who comes from the most distant part of the worldNew Zealand. We welcome the following new appointments as Fellows of the college: Jeff Tseng (Physics), from the Fermi National Accelerator laboratory in the US, and Dr Steven Roberts (Metallurgy and Science of Materials) who has migrated all the way from St Cross College. JeffTseng has been pre-elected as a successor to Professor Nick Stone, who will be

retiring in 2005. Steven Robert's Fellowship has been funded in part by the Ironmongers, and by Aularians who studied metallurgy at the Hall. Dr Nicholas Crook, who became Director of the Voltaire Foundation last year, was elected to a Professorial Fellowship and therefore continues to give us his valuable advice at Governing Body. We say goodbye to Dr James Alien who has been the William R. Miller Junior Research Fellow for the last three years. He will continue his research on the characterisation of metalloproteins in biology. It is very pleasing to hear that our younger Aularian graduates have gained prestigious appointments at other colleges. Laura Bradley has been appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton, Oliver Daltrop has been awarded a Junior Research Fellowship in Biochemistry at Christ Church, Nicola Countouris has been appointed to a Research Centre Fellowship at St Johns, Linda Yeuh to a Tutorial Fellowship at Pembroke College and Marko Bacic has been appointed to a fixed term Lectureship in the Department of Engineering and a Fellowship at Lincoln College, although he is still only in the Second Year of his D.Phil. Degree studies. Our Emeritus Fellows continue to bring us distinction and we were delighted to hear that Bruce Mitchell was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Jo Barclay survived his South Sea adventures (see page 24 for further details) and on his return was reelected to his Fellowship by Special Election. We welcome Steven Edwards ( 1976, Physics) who with his wife has developed a very successful software company; he has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship. This year I have tried to maintain contacts with Aularians around the world; Stacey and I visited Japan in November and I gave a talk to Aularians and others in the Mori building in Tokyo on "Gold: from Alchemy to Modern Pharmacy" . I met up with an enthusiastic group of German Aularians near Frankfurt in March, and I also attended the annual New York Aularian Dinner just before November 16 111 â&#x20AC;˘ Oxford celebrated the I 00 year anniversary of the Rhodes Foundation in July and at a major event in Westminster Hall in London Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela launched the Rhodes-Mandela Trust and the college hosted a dinner for Aularian Rhodes Scholars. It was fitting that the dinner was hosted by the Vice-Principal, Professor John Knight who is also from South Africa. The Geddes Lecture this year was given by Roger Alton (Reggie's son) and entitled "Is there a Future for Print Journalism?" Since he is a very distinguished Editor of the Observer you will not be surprised to hear that he argued in a very enthusiastic and amusing manner that the answer was probably yes. Christopher Wilson, who has done much to

ensure that the Geddes Prizes are adequately funded and has assisted us in identifying potential Geddes Lecturers, has decide that after 20 years it is time to hand on the baton and we are pleased that Graham Mather who was a European Member of Parliament and is a Fellow at Nuffield College will replace Christopher as Chairman of the Geddes Memorial Trust. This year's main Geddes Prize was awarded to Rodrigo Davies of Wadham College and the St Edmund Hall Prize was awarded to Natalie Toms. The Clive Taylor Prize for sports journalism was awarded to Nicholas Randall ofMerton College. Blair Worden, formerly a Fellow of the college, gave the Emden Lecture on "Theatre and Politics: The Globe, Shakespeare and the Earl of Essex's Rising of 160 I" which provided a valuable insight into an interesting time in English history which impressed fellow academics and yet was amenable to the general audience. The Hall's sporting achievements continue to yield cups and awards. Although Pembroke were able to celebrate for the first time being Head of the River in the men's and women's divisions we achieved once again Cuppers victories in rugby for men and women. We also won cuppers in sailing and lacrosse and reached the semi-finals in soccer, cricket, and hockey. On the river the Men's First Eight gained three bumps and are now placed sixth in the First Division and Scott Frandsen represented the College in the Varsity Boat Race, which Oxford won by the narrowest of margins in living memory. The students continue to be very active in the theatre and put on productions of As You Like it in the Old Dining Hall and two parts of the Norman Conquests at St Hilda's and Wadham. They are also taking a production to the Edinburgh Festival. The college's musical life has been sustained by a very vigorous and enthusiastic choir, and hosted the Fitzwilliam Choir from Cambridge at Chapel. The decision to make David Ormerod an artist in residence, combined with Basil Kouvaritakis' enthusiasm, has done much to give coherence to the musical efforts in college. In a year when the college was exposed to bad publicity which gave the impression that "Brideshead Revisited" was still the norm in Oxford it is pertinent to note that Alex Grouet, the former JCR President, has set up a school in Senegal to prepare young men and women for the "Diplome d' Acess aux Etudes Universitaires", and two of our current students have been commendt'id for their commitment and generosity to the National Mentoring Pilot Programme working with less privileged school children in the Education Action Zone. It is now more than twenty years since the college went mixed and

currently the ratio of men to women undergraduates is close to I: I. Therefore the Tutor for Women's office was thought to have outlived its usefulness and has been replaced by two Tutors for Welfare, one woman and one man. There are more mature students coming into the college, for example Tony Brignull, who had a distinuished career in advertising prior to coming to read English. He recently was awarded the Graham Midgley Prize for Poetry. The last twenty years have also seen the college becoming more and more dependent upon computers, and all the offices and student rooms in college are ethemetted thus enabling the students to use the University's computer network. The dependency was dramatically shown when the college came to a halt when squirrels ate through the cables passing through the northern roof space ofthe front quad. I thank Maria Liakata and Chris Lloyd, our new IT Officer, for getting us all back on-line within 24 hours. I hope that from this report you will recognise that the essential character and spirit of the Hall has been maintained, whilst making provisions for its future successful development and evolution. Floreat Aula! FROM THE CHAPLAIN Another year has flown by. Sitting down to reflect on it provides a welcome opportunity to recollect what happened, and perhaps to ease the sense of passing through time at an accelerating speed. Once again we have been privileged by the range of speakers who have brought their wisdom through their preaching in the Sunday evening services . Michaelmas term explored the theme of 'Sacred Knowledge,' focussing on different aspects of what it means to 'know' God. Hilary tackled the Lord's Prayer, and in Trinity we looked at the ways in which our desires might act as pointers beyond the human. This last series was followed up in a weekly discussion group after dinner on the theme. The choir have continued to work hard and provide music of consistently high quality. Our organ scholars, Kieron Galliard and Richard Holdsworth, have done a tremendous job in playing the organ, and rehearsing and conducting the choir, in among the many other calls upon their talents. Kieron will be missed, along with our other leavers, although there are rumours that he is planning to retreat to a Cotswold village to spend the next sixty years, in which case he will be easy enough to visit.

In February the annual rendezvous between the Chapel communities of St Edmund Hall and our sister college Fitzwilliam in Cambridge took place in Oxford. Apart from packing the Chapel with a vast conjoined choir, this event was a great social success, as Hall spirit merged with whatever is the Cambridge equivalent, and made this the most congenial of these gatherings I can remember. Mercifully I have not had to conduct a memorial service for any students this year, as I have done for the past three years: and, if I am permitted a pagan reference, I will say 'touch wood .' The Hall did, however, learn of the untimely death of a talented former Fellow, Stephen Flood, whose ashes were scattered in the garden beyond the library in July. Elsewhere, the mood has been lighter. Last summer no one married at the Hall: this year there are eight services of marriage or dedication, helped in some measure by the recent relaxation of the Archbishop's ' 5 year rule' which made it difficult for alumni who had left more than five years previously to return to the Hall to marry. Now the way is open for crusty thirty-somethings to marry here. Term ended as always with a walk to the forgotten church at Binsey, beyond Port Meadow. This year it had not been entirely forgotten: a group of about twenty pilgrims from Alabama were already wandering around the churchyard when we arrived, poking around in St Margaret's well, and learning the legend of St Frideswide from their leader, an Episcopal Bishop. The pilgrims graciously joined our service in the tiny church; Kieron preached; the pedal harmonium puffed and droned; the Bishop blessed us; sunlight filtered through the ancient coloured panes; the ring-road hissed in the distance; another year gone

by.

FROM THE LIBRARIAN Here are this year's gifts to the Aularian Collection.

ARMITAGE, Christopher and Ben Witherington Ill The poetry of piety: an annotated anthology of Christian poetry Grand Rapids, MI:Baker Press 2002 ASHBOURN, J. M. A. & L. C. Woods 'Generation of magnetic fields in the solar convection layer', Physics Letters A 299 2002 BECKWITH, Roger T Calendar and chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical, intertestamental and patristic studies, Danvers, MA:Brill 2001 BORTHWICK, Alistair et al 'Integrated approach to determining postreclamation coastlines', Journal of Environmental Engineering 2002 'Harmonized optimal postreclamation coastline for Deep Bay, China ', Journal of Environmental Engineering 2002 [article in Chinese with no translation], Science in China (Series E) 2002 BOURDEAUX, Michael 'The Church in Stalin's web', The Tablet 1 March 2003 'St Petersburg the Great', The Tablet 24 May 2003

CALINESCU, Radu C Architecture-independent loop parallelisation, London:Springer 2000 CLARKE, David Touching on love, Frome: Hippopotamus Press 2002 COWDREY HE J Lanfranc: scholar, monk and archbishop, Oxford:Oxford University Press 2003 ' Christianity and the morality of warfare during the first century of crusading', in Marcus Bull & Norman Housley (eds). The experience of crusading Vol 1. Cambridge:Cambridge CRAMPTON, Richard Europa rasariteana in secolul al XX-Iea ... si dupa, Bucarest:Curtea veche 2002 CRONK, Nicholas The classical sublime : French neoclassicism and the language of literature, Charlottesville, VA:Rookwood Press 2002 Les notes de Voltaire: une ecriture polyphonique, Oxford :Voltaire Foundation 2003 DENING, Jim pebbles, debris, Broadway: Arcade 2003 DUNBABIN, JP D 'Potenza economica, forza militare e strategie egeminiche', Contemporanea V 2002 'The 1831 Dutch arbitration of the Canadian-American boundary dispute: another view', The New

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'Modelling brittle-ductile transitions', Multiscale phenomena in plasticity 2000 SLATER, Martin 'The boundary of the firm', in David 0 Faulkner & Andrew Campbell. The Oxford handbook of strategy Vol. 1 Oxford:Oxford University Press 2003 SPURR, Barry 'The theology of La Corona' , John Donne Journal vol. 20 2001 TREVOR, Malcolm Japan: restless competitor. The pursuit of economic nationalism, Richmond:Japan Library 2001 TSOMOCOS, Dimitrios Equilibrium analysis, banking, contagion and financial fragility, London:Bank of England 2002 'Option values and endogenous uncertainty in ESOPs, MBOs and asset-backed loans', Economic Letters 48 1995 'The transactions cost of money (a strategic market game analysis)', Mathematical Social

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'International finance in general equilibrium ' , Research in Economics 56 2002 E-barter vs. fiat money: will central banks survive ?, London:Bank of England 2003 Procyclicality and the new Base) Accord - banks ' choice of loan rating system, London:Bank of England 2003 WYATT, Derrick 'The relationship between actions for annulment and reference on validity after TWO Deggendorf' in Julian Lonbay and Andrea Biondi. Remedies for breach of EC law, Chichester:John Wiley 1997 And here are the generous gifts that we received for the main Library: From Aularians and Hall members : BROADLEY, Philip, m . 1980; CATMUR, Virginia (mother of Caroline Catmur, m . 1999) ; DAVIDSON , Nick , Fellow; DELCHAR, T, father of Liz Delchar, m. 1999 ; DI GENOVA , Trista, m . 2001 ; EATON , Deborah , Librarian ; KAHN, Andrew, Fellow ; LIU , Kuang , m . 1999 ; MEIGH , J Leslie, m . 1940 ; MILLER , Deborah, m. 2000; MINGOS , Michael, Principal; MORTIMER, Geoff, m . 1993 ; NAJPAL, Shantanu , m. 1990; NEWLYN , Lucy, Fellow; PHILLIPS, David,

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FROM THE BURSAR As will no doubt have been reported elsewhere in the Magazine, at last we are on the way with the building of additional student rooms at the site on the Plain near Magdalen Bridge. Many readers will know the spot that was formerly a garage in Dawson Street, which runs between the London Road ' bus stop and Cowley Road, just a few steps down from the .____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___. roundabout. The building is now out of the ground and already its shape is beginning to reveal itself. There has been much activity during the year as the General Purposes and Bursarial Committee waded through meeting after meeting in its negotiations to purchase the site and building as a ready-made package from builders who had secured the land from the ancient Dawson Trust. First problem was the decontamination of the land, which, over the years had become quite polluted with the usual effluent of a busy garage: a phenomenal ÂŁ100,000 had been allowed for this work, but even this did not prove to be enough - fortunately this cost was down to the vendors! By the end of April, piles were bored and concrete foundations pumped-in; then the ground beams laid and suddenly, it seemed overnight, the brickwork has begun. There are exciting times ahead as the details are pulled together. The style will be Arts and Craft, the manner so successfully employed in our Brockhues Lodge building at Norham Gardens, mimicking the rear ornamentation of our much-coveted and award-winning Gunfield nearby: the green oak framework and herringbone red brick has almost become a house style for college buildings. There is no doubt that the completed building will do much to enhance the neighbourhood as it will dominate Dawson Street in its central position. The resultant 55 en-suite student rooms and ancillary facilities will be much valued by undergraduates and the building will be a useful complement to the 43 other rooms at the college's nearby Isis Hotel in Iffley Road. The college is so lucky to have had the benefit of a number of very handsome benefactions that has enabled us to take advantage of what must have been one of the last useful sites near to the centre of the City.

The college is planning another venture - an extra floor above the Senior Common Room. Out of many irksome meetings of the Committee as it decided how best to repair the badly deteriorating flat roof (well-past its useful life - like the Bursar, some say . .. ), came the novel idea of considering a proper Mansard roof rather than some variety of flat repair; what a Godsend! The idea moved the Committee on to more sensible deliberations and the drawing up of plans that might make possible the building of much-needed space above the S.C.R. Now, all we need is some sponsorship!! The project weighs-in at a very reasonable £150,000 or so, with the complete project, including lift and seating etc., about £400,000. There has been some interest already and Thelma Holt CBE, Lady MacMillan and Natalie Wheen have given some initial support; we are keeping our fingers crossed that this ambition could become a reality! The room would help the college to offer better facilities generally; it would be a theatre primarily, with superb teaching facilities; but additionally, the room and its facilities would translate into much more viability for our large conference trade, which sorely needs such space. The college enjoys a reputation for producing members of the performing arts, particularly the stage and film; it seems appropriate that there might be a theatre facility. During the summer, a new roof is to be installed over our large property at 17 Norham Gardens and there will be the addition of a number of rooms for graduate students, gained from judicious partitioning of two little-used lecture rooms. The Library path has been re-laid and a disability Access Audit undertaken. The college has also put in a bid for a grant from central university dispersal of funds for the improvement of disabled facilities in colleges. The funds are comparatively meagre, but our bid has ranged from ramping into the Library, through teaching facilities to the up-grading of many suitable rooms throughout the main site; costs range from £15,000 to £200,000. "Waiter, more figg y pudding - and make it snappy! " There was a Staff Christmas Lunch last winter which was enjoyed by all - it seemed. All the college support staff sat down to a handsome seasonal blow-out, served by the Principal, Accountant, Registrar, Assistant Bursar and Bursar, all of whom obliged the staff by wearing fancy pinafores and silly hats, the Bursar even digging out his fancy Colonial Police mess kit. Looks as if this will become an annual event!

THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Last October Joe Barclay and Ian Laing went on a fascinating adventure in Ian 's boat "Thalassi" to the Band a Islands and other parts oflndonesia and Timor. Despite some anxious encounters with Indonesia's unpredictable officialdom, they enjoyed memorable dives on coral reefs and wonderful hospitality, and were thankfully well away from Bali when terrorists bombed a crowded nightclub. Subsequently they entertained the King of the Bandas to lunch in the Old Library at SEH. In September 2002, Professor Alistair Borthwick visited Beijing to continue collaboration with Peking University on flood wave prediction, hyper-concentrated sediment-laden flows and wastewater treatment processes. Over the past year, he has been very grateful to Alison Hunt, Ben Weston, and Tim Stallard (all of the MCR) for pushing forward the research front on the modelling of extreme storm-driven waves, tsunamis, beach runup, breakwater overtopping, and fluid loading on cylinders. In June 2003, Alistair was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Dr Peter Collins has been enjoying his re-incarnation as Senior Research Fellow of the Hall. Work in the last year included a plenary talk at a conference in Japan and a period as Visiting Professor at the Universite de Bourgogne at Dijon, which allowed him further to hone his skills in the use of the chardonnay and pinot noir grapes. Heritage and conservation have again taken him abroad - to Rome, Strasbourg and Bruges - as a member of the Council of Europa Nostra. In this capacity also, he took part in the award of medals at the first European Union Heritage Awards Ceremony at the Palais d'Egmont in Bruxelles in May. Orion published the paperback of At the Crossing-Places, the second novel in Kevin Crossley-Holland's trilogy which has now been translated into twenty-one languages. Orion have also published Viking!, a selection of his versions ofthe Norse myths, while Boydell and Brewer have reissued his anthology, The Anglo-Saxon World. Kevin has been elected a patron of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, and of the Society for Storytelling. To his delight, his elder daughter, Oenone, is now in residence at the Hall: she is reading English and has won her colours for rowing. Sir John Daniel has visited some thirty countries in connection with the Education for All campaign that is the focus of his work as Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO. He was awarded honorary

degrees this year by the University of Wales, the University of Stirling and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (India). He also received the Queen's Jubilee Medal (Canada). He has also been licensed as a Reader in the Diocese in Europe to serve at St George's, Paris. John Dunbabin has been on leave throughout 2002-3, partly updating his book on International Relations since 1945 with a view to a 2nd edition, partly working on a projected history of the fixing (between the 18'" and the very early 20'"centuries) of the line of what is now the US-Canadian border and on a more immediate conference paper on Upper Canada's mapping of the Great Lakes (c.l780-1825). In May-June 2003 he worked in Washington and Ottawa on the two latter projects, followed by a fortnight's holiday in Maine & New Brunswick (during which he saw his first wild turkeys). Deborah Hayward Eaton, the Librarian, gave a very well received lecture about and tour of St Peter-in-the-East as part of the OULS Staff Conference "Library Space: the Final Frontier". This year has been academically fallow for Justin Gosling. He and Margaret decided last summer that in Spring 2003 they should sell up and move to something more manageable. Since then they have been dilatorily clearing up 37 years' accumulation of useless but treasured matter, and then engaged in being charming to prospective buyers. It may surprise people to learn that this charm produced an almost instant sale, and they are now installed in minute rented quarters while they hunt at leisure. Justin has been teaching and reviewing articles, the latter being a deplorable example of power without responsibility. Professor Roy Harris spent October 2002 as Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; gave lectures at the universities of Amritsar, Chandigarh, and Delhi, and at the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath. In March this year he published The Necessity of Artspeak. The Language of the Arts in the Western Tradition (London:Continuum). April saw him giving a lecture at the University of Geneva, and in May he lectured at the University of Reading and Dartington College of Arts. Dr Heidi Johansen-Berg has had a busy year travelling to present work at conferences in Prague, Greece, New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. In between trips she has been involved in developing new brain scanning techniques for investigating how different parts of the brain

are connected. This approach is starting to shed light on a number of psychiatric and neurological illnesses. During the last year Paul Johnson has given invited lectures in Vancouver, Melbourne and Duke, as well as being an invited lecturer at the Simpson-Smith Memorial Symposium at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. In addition to presentations at National Meetings, he has presented papers at a number of international scientific conferences including meetings in Cambridge, London, Sydney and Estoril. Over the last year Paul has been appointed Director of the Oxford Islet Transplant Programme, as well as Chairman of the Research Committee of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and Secretary of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association. He has received a number of grants over the year including a grant for ÂŁ1.2 million from the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation. Terry Jones has just finished writing a book Who Murdered Chaucer? which is to be published 25th Oct 2003 . He has also written a screenplay The BFG for Paramount due for production sometime in the next couple of years, and is currently filming an 8-part series for BBC2 Terry ]ones 's Medieval Tales . Dr Andrew Kahn (Fellow in Russian) enjoyed an early summer in Berkeley, California where he was visiting professor in the Comparative Literature and Slavic Departments. He published a number of articles this year in scholarly journals and a book on Nikolai Karamzin, Russia 's greatest Enlightenment thinker - at 600 pages a steal at ÂŁ69 from the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford. Professor John Knight returned refreshed from his sabbatical leave to become both Vice Principal and Senior Bursar. In the course of the year he presented conference papers at Goteborg University (on the evolution of political economy in China), at the American Economic Association Meeting in Washington DC (on the importance of social capital in China), and at the United Nations University in Tokyo (on growing regional inequality in China). He maintained a research team, continuing his research on the formation of a labour market in China, on the failings of the labour market in South Africa, and on the economic determinants of human happiness using microeconomic sample surveys. He interviewed candidates for Oxford undergraduate courses in Singapore and for graduate courses in Beijing. As usual, he contributed to the Hall's art exhibition.

This academic year has been relatively quiet for Dr David Manolopoulos who has given invited talks at international meetings in Nijmegen and Bonn. Part I examining commitments have led him to turn down invitations to meetings in Hungary and Spain, but he hopes to give a much more colourful report next year when he will be on sabbatical for two terms and will be going, among other places, to a meeting in Cuba! The Revd. John McManners has seen two pieces of writing come to fruition- All Souls and the Shipley Case, 1808-1810, Oxford:All Souls College, 112 + v pp, 2002, and Fusilier: Recollections and Reflexions 1939-1945, Norwich:Michael Russell, pp224, 2002. Fusiliers has various references to Teddy Hall, more especially to Principals Emden and Kelly. The Principal presented the opening lecture at an international conference in Nara, and also lectured to students at Nara University. He returned to Japan in the spring to give the opening address to new students at the three campuses of the Osaka University of the Arts. He is currently external examiner in Singapore and the University of Wales, and remains editor of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Structure and Bonding. He has attended scientific board meetings in Sweden for Personal Chemistry, a company which manufactures microwave devices for chemical synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry. He has also visited Heidelberg University twice as part of his duties as a Visiting Professor. In Oxford he sits on many University committees and is Chairman of the University's Health & Safety Management Committee. Dr Bruce Mitchell acted as Opponent in the Public Examination of a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki on 19'h October 2001 and lectured at the University of Turku on 23'ct October. In December he made fleeting appearances in television programmes in England, Holland, and Sweden, connected with the premiere of the latest J.R.R. Tolkien film, in which he discussed Tolkien's life and work without forfeiting his amateur status. He attended the London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association on his 82"ct birthday in January 2002, the Floreat Aula Society Dinner and the Forty Year Gaudy in March. He lectured at the University of Helsinki on 23'ct April and at the State University of St Petersburg on 26'h April. He was privileged to attend numerous Aularian functions including (in 2002) the annual End of Term Service at St Margaret's Binsey, the September

Gaudy, the Philip Geddes Lecture given by Reggie Alton's son Roger, the Emden Lecture, and the St Edmund Day Feast, and (in 2003) the London Dinner, the Benefactors' Dinner, and the Forty Year Gaudy. In November 2002 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Dr Philip Mountford has continued his research into the synthesis and reactivity of organometallic and related complexes. He presented lectures on these topics on a number of occasions in the UK and elsewhere, and has published around a dozen journal and other articles during the academic year 2002/3 . During this year he has also held two visiting professor positions, one at the University of Bordeaux and other at the Institut Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg. In October he was promoted to a Readership in Inorganic Chemistry. As tutor in Czech, Dr James Naughton visited Prague again in April 2003 , taking part once again in the Prague Writers' Festival, where this time he found himself presenting a Korean novelist who spoke very scanty English. As might be reasonably surmised, our tutor knows virtually nothing of Korean literature, not to mention any useful words of the Korean language, so the brief interview took place in a mixture of Korean and Czech, with a Czech interpreter negotiating the various, possibly uncomfortable transitions. An extract from a novel was read out in English, simultaneously translated into Czech for a good part of the audience's benefit, and then performed splendidly by the author in the original Korean. Dr Lucy Newlyn took sabbatical leave during Hilary term, during which she worked on Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice (published in June). She is currently editing Edward Thomas's book on Oxford (1903), and assembling a collection of her own poems. This year Michael Romain has edited for Thelma Holt, The Taming of the Shrew, which is opening in the provinces in September, following which it will enjoy a season in London. He has also been able to effect a number of useful introductions for undergraduates who hope to seek a career in theatre. Michael has also involved himself with the S.E.H. Cricket Club, organising a match with the Royal Opera House Cricket Club at their Mortlake Ground, with a return match to be played on 17'h of August in Oxford; a report of these matches is to be found elsewhere in the magazine. Mr Romain hosted a dinner at the Hall for the Cricket Club when we were fortunate to have as principal guest,

Mihir Bose, the Cricket Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Michael is currently organising a tour to Barbados for next year. Dr lan Scargill still sits on the Oxford Bench and in the Youth Court but the time approaches (2005) when age will force retirement. He is a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust and also chairs an organisation called the Oxford Green Belt Network which represents the interests of the 60 or so parishes in the Oxford Green Belt and tries to protect them from unsuitable development. Much of Martin Smith's time in the last 12 months has been consumed in addressing demanding organisational and financial problems at English National Opera, in his capacity as Chairman. They are in the midst of a ÂŁ41 million restoration of the Coliseum, ENO's home and London's largest theatre, which has also precipitated a review of the entire operation with the usual attendant outraged commentary from the arts press. At the Hall, with much help from Nicholas Davidson, Martin has now launched the St Edmund Hall Arts Trust and made the first four awards. Finally, Martin was delighted to be appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in July. Besides having published a number of articles and books this year, Dr Dimitri Tsomocos has also participated in a number of seminars, talks and conferences in France, India, Greece and London. He is a consultant at the Bank of England (Financial Stability Assessment Division). Sir Denis Wright has contributed three articles to the forthcoming New Dictionary of National Biography. A contributor for some years to Columbia University's (New York) Center for Iranian Studies' Encyclopaedia /ranica he had six articles published in 2002/3 - four short biographies of British involved in Persia (Nathanial Grant, Sir Evelyn Grant Duff, Sir Arthur Hardinge and Lord Charles Hardinge of Penshurst) and two much longer articles, with bibliographies, on AngloPersian relations and British travellers to Persia. Sir David Yardley continued as Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust, and of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation's Examinations & Assessment Board; he also continued as Independent External Reviewer for the Millennium Commission. Additionally, he took on the Chairmanship of the Oklahoma Oxford Law Programme in July 2003, at which date he reached the 50 1h anniversary of his election as a Fellow of St Edmund Hall.

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM Steven Dionne - MCR President As the academic year comes to a close, the MCR welcomes the arrival of its new punt, which has been provided through the generous financial support of the Senior Common Room and the St Edmund Hall Association. Now, as many of us prepare to pack up our belongings and vacate college, for the summer or perhaps for the last time, the punt has provided many with the opportunity to reminisce over relaxing afternoons on the Cherwell with various friends about the memories formed during the course of the year. And what memories! As usual, the year began with the welcome barbeque in the garden at Norham Gardens, where chef Nicola served his culinary delights to old and new graduates alike as old friendships were renewed and new ones formed. Further fun was had by many at the Medieval feast in Michaelmas; and indeed, who could forget the Christmas party, or better yet, Jacquetta and Almut's rendition of a naughty Christmas song. Hilary term witnessed Burns' night, with Revd Duncan's lively performance reciting one of Burns' poems, our annual Hearne dinner in appreciation of our supervisors, as well as the Saturday Night Fever bop, where many Travolta wannabes unleashed themselves onto the dance floor through the early morning hours. We closed out the year with various gatherings in Trinity, including May Morning, with a champagne and strawberry breakfast, the Trinity term dinner, and the annual Garden party. It was not just our key events that created lasting memories for all, but the everyday participation of the members in our MCR. Again, we were all exposed to a variety of tasty delights during the weekly cake mornings, where on certain occasions the Fugu-Cake reappeared. Formal Hall on Sunday evenings proved to be well attended throughout the year, as were many of the women's lunches. Indeed, the MCR's atmosphere this past year was convivial, often characterised by lively conversation, most certainly a reflection of the mix of students resident in Teddy Hall. This diversity was evident in our range of studies, from forced migration to women's political representation, and in our nationalities, from Moldova to Singapore. Despite the extent of our social life, academic distinction was yet another prominent feature of our community this past year. For example, Marina Galano received the Hetherington prize for best 2"d

year D.Phil. presentation in the Materials Department. In addition, many of our graduates were successful in obtaining coveted postdoctoral positions, including Margaret Small at the National Maritime Museum, Laura Bradley at Merton, Nicola Countouris at St. John's, and Marko Bacic at Lincoln. For the rest of the community, we continued to plough ahead with our studies, with some finishing their dissertations, such as Liz Mellings in art and Giacomo Tortora in engineering, and with others finishing their exams, such as Tamara Perisin in law and Slaven Vukasovic in management, and so ready to move on to future careers as academics or professionals. In addition to academic excellence, many members of our community participated in sport this past year with considerable success, at the collegiate and university level. Scott Frandsen and Stephanie Rollins earned Blues for the men's and women's boat clubs, helping each club trounce the Tabs this past spring, while Peter Ralph contributed to the lightweights' victory over Cambridge. Also, the MCR football club, lead by Peter Wohlgemuth, Nimrod Rosenblum and Alex Stratakis, wreaked havoc on the pitch week in and week out, crushing many opponents including St. John's and the MBAs. Meanwhile, our Relay squad, anchored by Paddy Wallace and Lorenz Werndle, although not faring as well as in past years certainly illustrated the sporting spirit of the MCR by fielding four teams. Finally, the MCR would like to extend many thanks to all those who have helped us to have yet another fantastic year at the Hall. Firstly, we would like to thank the previous committee, which consisted of Nicola, Laura, Marko, and Almut, the President, Secretary, Steward, and Welfare officers, respectively, for all their hard work and dedication to the social life of our community over Michaelmas and Hilary terms. Their efforts made our transition seamless. Also, we are, as ever, extremely grateful to Julie, our Butler, for looking after our needs and brightening our day by providing a welcoming MCR. Furthermore, we are extremely grateful to the Tutor for Graduates, Professor Kouvaritakis, who has tirelessly served as our chief advocate on many matters, and thankfully has agreed to carry on in this post. Lastly, we wish all those members leaving Teddy Hall many thanks for their contributions to our community, as well as good fortune and success in their future endeavours. Floreat Aula!

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Oliver Petter - JCR President It is a tribute to the efforts of my predecessors that I have inherited a JCR that is in a very healthy condition. Interest and participation in JCR affairs have been good this year and this was demonstrated by a turnout of over 250 for the Michaelmas term elections and by the fact that over twenty people stood for committee positions in the Hilary term elections. Moreover we continue to enjoy a solid financial position. One of the principle functions of the JCR during such a happily stable period must be to foster the unity and collective spirit that has always been apparent amongst the undergraduates and are qualities that cultivate the welcoming and thriving environment of the Hall. In this respect I feel it is very important that undergraduates are aware of the achievements of their contemporaries. Regular email bulletins and a versatile JCR Website have facilitated a good level of communication but it is an ongoing aim of the JCR to produce a regular newsletter that will add a greater level of permanence to coverage of undergraduate news. There have indeed been many accomplishments that deserve praise during the year. We have again enjoyed success in terms of sport for both women and men, particularly in rugby, rowing, cricket, lacrosse and hockey. Meanwhile there have also been excellent achievements in the Arts. We have represented drama forcefully both on a University scale and through a series of productions that have been driven by members of the Hall. The highlight perhaps was the production of As You Like It in the Old Dining Hall in the Michaelmas term. On a different note, there was an excellent classical concert with numerous performers in the Wolfson Hall in the Hilary term, and when one also considers the impressive choir and the current initiative to create a college orchestra, it is clear that music is also flourishing. The recent publication of Synergies is representative of the strength of poetry and creative writing while journalism has also been very well represented. We have provided editors for each edition of the Isis magazine this year as well as two editors for the Oxford Student newspaper. In order to celebrate and make manifest this breadth of Artistic talent at the Hall, another ongoing aim of the JCR is the founding of a Student Arts Week. There has been admirable involvement in charitable projects by undergraduates this year and I would like to single out two SEH

initiatives that the JCR actively supports. The A Suivre project was set up in Senegal by former JCR President Alex Grouet to give disadvantaged youths a second chance at education . Several undergraduates and recent graduates have already been out to Senegal and all must be commended as the first year has been a great success. A recent JCR auction for A Suivre was magnificently supported and raised over ÂŁ1,000. The Oxford Development Abroad project meanwhile was set up last year by two of our undergraduates and has also enjoyed a successful first year carrying out vital development work in Nepal. Amidst this culture of such vibrant and diverse achievement, the Hall remains a great place to study and I know we are all very proud to be here. I would like finally to thank those that have served on the committee this year for their tremendous efforts and we would all like to thank the SEH association for their support, the college staff for their hard work for us and particularly our JCR butler Audrey for her eternal dedication, humour and wisdom. CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Basketball Club Report (Hall ... erm Globetrotters) Captain: Peter Chapman The Hall. .. erm Globetrotters, Teddy Hall's basketball club, have had by far, one of their most successful campaigns ever this year. After a small hitch at the start to the season, we managed to mould together a fantastic team, winning the College Premier League in Hilary Term, reaching play-off semi-finals and just missing out narrowly on a Cuppers semi-final place by three points in Trinity. This year also saw the inaugural Teddy Hall/Magdalen 2v2 tournament won by our very own Clarke Downum and Pete Chapman who faced the 'Mighty Brians' - also from Teddy Hall - in the final. It was a great success and we hope to run a similar tournament next Trinity term. This years squad has been significantly bolstered by some amazing visiting students - 'Mad' Hiro, 'Texas' Brian, Clarke Downum, Brian Garfield and Shaul 'Smooth Moves' David to name a few. This year also saw the girls getting in on some of the action with Jess Phillips, Tonia Savchenko and Rachel Jacobs all coming along to play. The rest of the team was made up from the ranks of the Teddy Hall homegrown and not-so-home-grown student body including Josh Singer,

Rohan 'not so American' Brown, Twinsen Cui and our new captain Pete Chapman, as well as the lesser-spotted but equally valuable Tom Morgan, Damian Woods and Nick Renshaw. It's also been great to see some new faces at the training sessions too, such as Ryan Ahmad and Dan Abelson who deserve a mention. It seems as though the ranks of the Globetrotters are swelling but we will be losing many of those who have only come for the year and those who are leaving Oxford having completed their finals. This year also saw the Globetrotters go cyber with the beginnings of its own website - www.HallErmGlobetrotters.co.uk. We have also managed to arrange three termly dinners which have been a great way for the players to get to know each other and we hope to have a final drinks evening at the very end of Trinity term to cap off an incredible three terms, but also to say farewell and adieu to those who are departing. We are looking forward to next year and we will be scouting the freshers and visiting students (guys and girls) for sparks of talent, NBA pros or failing that, anyone who wants to have a good time, play a bit of basketball and keep fit!

The Boat Club Men's Captain: William Young Women's Captain: Lisa Watkinson The Men 's Captain's Report With the flooding of Christ Church Meadows over the Christmas break the prospects of rowing on the Isis in Hilary term looked bleak. Not to be dismayed by this the men assembled a crew before the beginning of term and made its way to Dorney Lake near Eton to begin its preterm training. Good progress was made despite fierce crosswinds and two weeks in to term when the Isis returned to 'Green Flag' we were able to field three men's VIIIs. To the delight of the 1'1 Torpid it was decided that to avoid undue interference with academic schedules training would be of the early morning variety. The result being that most weekday mornings we would put on as much kit as possible and make our way down to the river, once off we would briefly marvel at the ice which had formed on our blades before heading into Hall for a heartening breakfast. The tiredness which coincides with mid-term training sessions, when the races are not yet in sight but there is still so much work to be done and enthusiasm wanes slightly did not last a

long time. Racing in the newly formed 'Isis Winter League' - a head race between Donnington Bridge and the bumps finish - placed the 1s i Torpid as one of the fastest crews on the river, a definite encouragement when Torpids was only two weeks away. Torpids week saw a combination of weather, warm and wet, sunny and warm and the odd torrential downpour. On Wednesday the 1s i Torpid, starting from 81h in the 2"d Division, caught Jesus who went on to bump Oriel 11 just after the Gut with an agonisingly long time rowing in their puddles before the bump was made. On Thursday we were chasing a much faster Univ crew. Encouraged by a warming sun the yards between the crews were eaten up, but not quickly enough. In a dramatic finish Univ, on whom we had a quarter length overlap (but on different sides of the river) were able to bump St Peter's immediately outside our boathouse. With Univ having bumped out, the 1st Torpid, realising that they may only be rowing over that day, took a length off St Peter's in two strokes and made definite contact with their stroke side riggers, 20 yards before the finish , a spectacular race not just to be part of but also to watch from the boathouse balcony. Technical debate overnight left us chasing Trinity on the Friday. A bump was made in heavy rain just before the Gut when the Trinity seven man caught a crab. At the finish line we were given the dispiriting news that racing on the Saturday was cancelled, the river having shot up to red flag conditions with the heavy rain. So there was disappointment in the crew, even though we had got 3 bumps and a technical bump, as we had been denied the chance to win blades. The 2"d Torpid had showed their mettle that week with their characteristic lightening start. The first day they bumped St John's 11 before Donnington Bridge, only to be bumped down again the next day when one of the crew caught a crab. With something to prove they again went out on the Friday and bumped the same crew in the first minute, leaving them +1. The 3rd Torpid having successfully qualified for the rowing on divisions had some mixed luck, bumped down on the first day, down again on the second and then bumping up on the third. Sam Griffiths - their cox and stroke of the 1st Torpid - was impressed that they had been able to finish the course with his weight in the stern! With Torpids over our sights naturally turned towards Summer Eights and our preparation for them. Over the Easter vacation the 1st VIII squad spent a week in Oxford training before the Head of the River Race on the Thames where we came 215'h out of 420 boats.

Two weeks later, buoyed up by the excitement of the Boat Race and the Lightweights victory at Henley, we set off for a week of intensive training in Seville with our new coach - Andrew Nelder of the University Lightweights. Work immediately began on what was a very gutsy crew who could row together but were technically not too hot. With a whole new barrage of ideas and comments the crew felt very different to that which raced in Torpids. On our return to Oxford, the crew began to take shape with the addition of Scott Frandsen from the Blue Boat and Montana Butsch who rowed spare pair.

The Men's I st VIII, Summer Eights 2003

Sunday of Eights Week not only saw the return of the Graham Midgley to the Isis but also a return to some very fine weather, if anything it was hotter than comfortable for racing! Chasing Magdalen on the Wednesday, who were a crew stacked with returning university squad members, we knew we had to 'frontload' the race, as our coach put it, and try and get them before they got Lincoln ahead of them. However fortune was not on our side. Having thought that we had over-bumped Balliol (three crews ahead) we found that actually Lincoln had bumped Balliol and Magdalen had been so close behind that they had crashed, leaving three crews stranded on the Greenbank. Knowing that we had gained on Magdalen in the three minutes of racing on Wednesday it was annoying not to get a proper shot at them as they were now chasing a weak Balliol crew. On Thursday we made up four

lengths on Lincoln after Magdalen and Balliol had bumped out. We made fast bump on Balliol on Friday, just after Donnington Bridge. This left us with an attempt on Lincoln on Saturday of Eights. As captain, I was naturally fearful that we would not make the bump having set out to meet or beat the achievements of the 2002 1st VIII, two bumps was the least I would be happy with. In the end our start, and soon after it our bump was cleaner and faster than that on Balliol, surprising the entire crew, apart from our cox.

The St Edmund Hall I st VIII 1st VIII 2003 Bow, Henry (Goose) Bourne, Tom Coke-Smyth , Richard Perrott, Mike Lowry-Corry, Montana Butsch, Sam Griffiths, William Young (c), stroke Scott Frandsen, cox Ruth Lewis. 1st VIII colours awarded to Scott Frandsen, Henry Bourne and William Young. The Men's 2nd VIII were unfortunate to concede a bump on the Friday after they missed a bump on Keble II on Thursday when the division was stopped. The rowed over on both Wednesday and Saturday. The atmosphere by the river was tremendous with the boathouses overflowing and the pontoons from which the crews launch sinking in the water with the weight of people on them. Whilst some people chose to view the racing from river level, others retreated to the relative calm of the Hall boathouse's balcony. An excellent and memorable week. Stop press: we are very proud to record that Scott

Frandsen represented Canada at the World Championships in Milan in August - well done!

The Women's Vice-Captain's Report The year got off to a good start in Michaelmas term with two enthusiastic novice VIII's set to row in Christchurch regatta. Unfortunately the racing was cancelled due to bad weather. A senior IV trained throughout the term and competed in the Evesham Head on 30th November with great success, winning their class. As part of the pre-Hilary term training five days were spent rowing on Dorney Lake, near Windsor. Despite the cold January weather these few days were very beneficial, allowing us to begin our preparation for Torpids and select provisional 1st and 2nd VIII crews. Training continued earnestly throughout Hilary term. The 1st VIII started Torpids in 6th position of division 11. On the first day we gained an overbump on St. John's. There was a setback on the second day when a crab incident meant that we were bumped down four places. We didn't let this throw us however and went on to bump Brasenose on Friday. Saturday's racing was cancelled due to rising stream leaving our final position to be 8th in division 11. The 2nd VIII were very successful in Torpids, qualifying easily and going on to bump before Donnington Bridge every day (Wadham Ill, Corpus Christi 11 and St John's 11). Four Teddy Hall women rowed in the Women 's Eights Head of the River Race on 15th March as part of a composite crew with several Oxford colleges. They completed the course in 23 minutes and 24 seconds, finishing a respectable I 12th out of 270 crews entered. Over the Easter vacation nine of our best rowers spent 10 days in Sabaudia, Italy on the annual training camp abroad. The camp was a great success and proved to be a fantastic opportunity for our crew to really focus on their rowing and the term ahead. Trinity training started with a move up to Godstow to provide a longer and less busy stretch of river. Summer Eights soon approached and the good weather and wealth of training set a great mood for the racing ahead. On the first day the 1st VIII started lOth in division one being chased by a fast Christ Church crew and chasing St. Hilda's who had bumped us outside the Teddy Hall boathouse the previous year. Although over a length was gained on Hilda's, an unfortunate crab meant that Christ Church caught up and bumped.

On the second day all the crews in the lower half division bumped out except Teddy Hall which allowed for a row over. It was on the third day that training paid off with a bump on University College at the Gut and again on the Saturday with a very fast bump on OsierGreen at Donnington Bridge. Therefore the I st VIII finished 9th in division one, a position up from the previous year - this was a great achievement for a crew with six freshers and was testament to the solid training over all three terms. The 2nd VIII had a tough division, getting bumped on the first three days but achieving a row over on the Saturday. Womens 1st VIII 2003: Stroke : Katie Smith 7 : Lisa Watkinson (Captain) 6 : Harriet Kemp (Vice-Captain) 5 : Rachel Adams 4 : Oenone Crossley-Holland 3 : Jo Dyer 2 : Hilary Entwistle Bow : Laura Squire This year the 1st VIII have been coached by Richard Fishlock, a long-standing supporter of women's rowing at Teddy Hall and Fiona Howarth (St. Catherine's College), who rowed in the 2002 Women's Blue boat. The 2nd VIII are coached by Jessie Shattock (SEHBC Captain of Boats 1998-99). We would also like to send our congratulations to Stephanie Rollins (SEH) who rowed at the 7-seat in this year's winning Blue boat.

The Choir Organ Scholars: Kieron Galliard and Richard Holdsworth This year the chapel choir has been run by two organ scholars, Kieron Galliard and Richard Holdsworth, and the number of choral scholars was increased to nine. As a result of this and the hard work and dedication of the other choir members we have had a good year achieving a high standard of singing. Highlights have included the Hall Carol Service in which some old favourites and some less well known carols were performed, and the St Edmund night dinner. The evensong included Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine with a moving cello solo performed by Zach Perry and at the end of dinner the choir 40

sang Pastime with Good Company and a close harmony arrangement of Sit Down you 're rocking the boat from Guys and Dolls. The biggest chapel event of the year was the annual exchange with the choir of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, which saw an assembled 40 singers packed into the chapel and an uplifting service including Parry's anthem I was glad and Bruckner's Ave Maria.

The Christian Union Representatives: Helen Wilkinson, Paul Myatt and Sarah Lee Teddy Hall Christian Union (C.U.) has continued to meet this year to study the Bible, pray, and encourage each other in our Christian faith. C.U. attendance was boosted at the start of the year with an intake of several freshers, who were introduced to the C.U. through the free Fresher's Lunch during Qth week, which was put on by the C.U. During Michaelmas term the C.U. also went on a weekend away to a house party in Ledbury, Gloucestershire, along with C.U.s from Mansfield, Keble, Jesus, Worcester, Pembroke and Brasenose colleges. This was a great opportunity to benefit from both fellowship, which included a quiz night and talent show, and good teaching provided by Neil Powell of City Evangelical Church in Birmingham. One particular highlight of the year was the 'Unconditional' event during Hilary term. This university wide, two week long event allowed people to explore the central claims of Christianity - that Jesus is the Son of God who through his death and substitutional death on the cross has overcome the barrier of sin which separates us from God through an introduction to Mark's Gospel. During the second week the C.U. was also blessed by the visit of two guests: Dave Reid, who works in Oxford, and Leonie Mason, a student worker from St. Helen's, Bishopgate in London. They answered questions from Teddy Hall students about Christianity and Dave spoke at the showing of the 'Big Questions: Big Answers' video which was screened in front of a packed JCR. The video showed college students answering a range of questions such as 'What do you think happens when you die?' During Trinity term the C.U. was privileged to be addressed by Rodney Orr, a missionary who has worked in the Philippines, and is currently based in Birmingham with 'Operation Mobilisation'. Also, a well attended 'Grill a Christian' event was held in the college bar and chaired by JCR President Oily Petter. A panel of five Christians took

questions from the audience about their faith in what proved to be a lively discussion. At Easter Paul Myatt and Helen Wilkinson took over from Tom Collins and Esther Holloway as C.U. representatives, with Sarah Lee replacing Mervyn New as International Rep. Many thanks to Tom, Esther and Mervyn for their sustained service and commitment to the C. U over the past year. At the end of this year we say goodbye to Esther as she goes abroad to continue the third year of her language course and to visiting student Rachel who will be returning to the United States. They will both be sadly missed. We are praying that the college will be blessed with a new intake of Christian Freshers and that the C.U. will continue to bear witness to Jesus Christ in college as it has done over the last year.

The Cricket Club Men 's Captain: Michael Scott Women's Captain: Jen Nicholson The Men's Captain's Report Reflecting on the events of the 2002/2003 season, it can be rightfully concluded that the SEHCC XI played with courage in the face of adversity and dignity amidst the indecency of the opposition sledging tactics . I further justly conclude that we were scandalously cheated out of what should have been a glorious season. Having won most of our games in the college league and scoring more than 2000 runs in the season we came 3'd in the second division. This is despite being top for the majority of the season only to be denied promotion due to resigning a game for work and exam pressures. Nevertheless, legendary batting performances were seen from our newer members Sohail Ali and Liam Kelly. Of course the old dogs, namely Graeme Doran, Mark Cooper-Horse, John Murphy, Mike Ford and Sid Barker stoically bolstered many an innings with composed batting. Our captain, Mike Scott, could often be seen stroking a belligerent and at times bloody-minded innings, dismissing the opposition bowling attack to the four winds. Our bowling attack faired equally as well, with a good mixture of seam and spin attack. True to form John "wickets" Murphy, in combination with Zadok Prescott and Tom "fast" Watkins, installed a sense of hopelessness and dread into our 42

opposition. Indeed it was a sorry sight to see many opposition batsmen feigning inability to escape their fearsome assault. Our seamers were excellently backed up with the canny off spin of Barty PleydellBouverie and the intriguingly deceptive leg spin of Charlie Bartlett. Our Men competed well in the cuppers competition, carving their way through the best Oxford could offer to meet their match in the semi final of cuppers. Batting first, Scotty was out for b****r-all and Sid scored all the runs. However every dog has his day and Sid eventually fell foul of a jaffa, which surprised the bowler as much as the batsman. This unexpected turn of events unsettled the chaps and we found ourselves in the embarrassing position of not having scored enough runs. The situation took a further unpleasant turn, when the seam attack was unjustly warned for unleashing too many verbal bouncers, this resulted in our bowling line-up being unable to dominate the opposition. Even the stout demeanour of Mr. Venter, ever optimistic, could not prevent the unfortunate loss. During the season however the team had a pleasant and friendly encounter with the Royal Opera House Cricket Club at Mortlake, London. Their players included principal pianists, opera singers, lighting and maintenance staff. The match was highlighted by the unique dismissal of our heroic captain Mike Scott. Having crouched for what he believed to be a rising delivery, our Captain was struck a fearful blow on the back of his helmet and was subsequently deemed leg before wicket. With both sides acquitting themselves well in all departments, eventually St Edmund Hall Cricket Team scored their first win in an 'away from Oxford' fixture. A rematch is being played on the 1Th August. There but for the grace of God goes Teddy Hall Men's Cricket Club. With fresh new blood, fantastic team spirit and a splendid new kit. It is an inevitability that the Cricket Club will obtain the results that we were so rudely cheated out of this year. Floreat aula! The Women's Captain's Report This year was only the second year we had taken part in women's cricket cuppers. Last year saw us bow out after the first round and, I am sad to say, so too did this year. The start of Trinity Term did not help our training as the only days we had to practise seemed to be the only days it rained and so many a

practice had to be called off due to bad weather. When we finally did get to practise we looked promising. Our coaches, Zadok Prescott and Gareth Wallis, were very patient with us and we learnt new skills quickly under their guidance . However, nothing they could have taught us would prepare us for the blood bath that was our first match. The first round was comprised of four groups of four teams, the top two teams going through to the quarter-finals. In our group, however, two teams dropped out, leaving only us and what, in the end, was St.Annes/Corpus/Somerville/Worcester (apparently this is not cheating!) And so we set out, one slightly overcast afternoon. Hall won the toss and put the other four colleges into bat. There was some excellent bowling from Jess Hatcher, Gill Pooler (V-C), Ruth Evans and Polly Cowan. Great fielding prowess was also shown by Hall, particularly Vix Jackson and Sophie Barrett. However, the opposition had a strong batting line-up and the Hall bowlers had to work hard to keep their total low. However, just as Ruth Evans had taken her second, glorious wicket, disaster struck as I got hit on the head by the ball. I can' t really remember much that happened after that, just an incredibly impressive amount of blood, an ambulance and four stitches. Hall did well, apparently, after my departure to the hospital, Amy Crofton taking five wickets. However, as I had gone and Jess Hatcher had accompanied me our team was down to only seven and minus the two opening batsmen. Therefore, despite an epic batting performance by Cam Day and sterling work in the crease by the rest of the team, Hall sadly lost their first match. However, hope was still alive: there being only two teams in our group we automatically won a place in the quarter-finals. However, due to what can only be described as unfortunate organisation, I only received an email on the Tuesday of eighth week telling me when the quarter-finals were. They were that day! I had two hours to find 9 girls willing to give up the rest of their day. Sadly this was just too little notice. I complained to the relevant authorities only to be told that we would have to allow the opposition to go through to the next round. And that was the tragic end to Teddy Hall's women's cricket season. Despite all this much fun was had by all (with the exception of my head) and ultimately this is all that matters.

The Darts Club Captain: Richard Hayward After our meteoric rise from fourth to first division in successive seasons we were forced to re group after last season's demotion to division two. This proved considerably more difficult than expected as The Showman, returning from his year abroad, was in fact the only remaining team member. A new generation of Hall darts champions had to be found and unfortunately the first two matches of the season had to be forfeited due to our lack of a team. However, after much persuasion and bribery a number of senior Hall figures were tempted out of retirement for one more shot at the big time. A narrow 7-5 defeat against St Hugh's was an encouraging start for a team of novices with all involved showing an ability to handle the pressure of the oche. Subsequent 7-5 and 8-4 defeats at the hands of Oriel and St John's showed a lot of potential, but we were still missing that all-important first win. Among the positives to be drawn from the opening fixtures was the fact that a team was beginning to take shape. The away fixture with Corpus Christi also heralded the darts debut of the returning Mickey Two Hands, whose scintillating performance inspired the team to a glittering display and that vital first win (8-4 ). It was crucial that we built on this impressive performance at the next match, away against Queens. The match was pulsating with momentum swinging from one side to the other. However, an unfortunate and undeserved 7-5 defeat left our resurgent side staring relegation in the face. Hilary Term arrived and we were left with three matches to perform a great escape. New faces continued to filter in as freshers such as The Mackem and The True Blue made highly impressive starts to what will surely be long and successful Hall darts careers. After a slightly understrength side lost at St Hugh's we were left with the daunting task of winning our remaining two matches to have any hope of avoiding the dreaded drop. Things took a turn for the worse when Corpus took an early 4-2 lead but a strong performance from the lower order spurred us to a memorable 8-4 victory, only our second of the season. Our final match was away at Oriel and although survival was still mathematically possible it soon became a distant hope as we slipped to a bizarre 11-1 defeat. Ironically this was one of out strongest performances of the season with almost every leg decided by a shootout on the doubles; the score-line did little to reflect the immense

progress we had made throughout the season. All in all it was a very enjoyable season. We did eventually get relegated but victory at Queen's in an end-of-season friendly, together with the fact that Queen's will also be joining us in the third division next season, did much to assuage our disappointment. We will be leaving behind us a complete team for next season, one which could well propel us back to the top flight within the next couple of seasons. The man largely responsible for next year's promotion season will be our new captain, The Mackem. Best of luck to him and the rest of the team next season.

The Hockey Club Men's Captain: Stephen Moss Women's Captain: Jennifer Nicholson The Men's Captain's Report After the loss of quite a few of our star players last year and a rather low turnout from the freshers, this hockey year has not really given much to write home about. However, with a few benchmark players in the team, we have held our own even with poor turnout at games and relatively non-existent turnout at practices. League: Played 9, Won 4, Lost 5. No real games of note, but there are a few honourable mentions. My favourite has to be Charlie Bartlett, our venerable Mixed captain, who turned up to our game against St Hugh's 10 minutes late because he had run half the way, but had had to stop for a cigarette to get him in the mood, this while Hugh's were doing team warm ups in their half. Now that's Hall mentality in a nutshell, and we whooped them, 4-2. Nice. We always have had a rather relaxed view of the game and, as it should be, have tried to place less on winning than on enjoying the game. The bleak excuses of the failed perhaps, but still, we love it. I don't actually think we had a full turnout for any of our games, but that shows that our team had much more potential than the results show and I hope that our new defensive star, Stuart Mees can beat the team into the shape that eluded me. Cuppers: Quarter-finals, lost to St Hugh's, how does this happen? Well, with two out of our three Blues unable to play due to injury or the impending Blues match, it was never going to be a storm. Showman will want me to mention one of his goals, but without my glasses I

can't really see what is going on at the other end of the pitch. Still, well done Showman. We'll have to show them how it's done next year. I would like to thank the whole team, and the girlies who helped us out on a couple of occasions, as without players there would be no team. I hope that it will go from strength to strength and repeat our glamorous Cuppers win from 200 I, of which I am still very proud. And remember, a bit of cheating never goes astray as long as no one finds out. The Women's Captain's Report One fine summer's day in Trinity Term 2002, Emily Miller, last year's captain, named me as the successor to her throne. And so it came to pass that on the first day of Freshers week 2002 I began my reign as Teddy Hall's girls hockey captain. However, I had work to do. Although a solid core of last year's players still remained, new blood was desperately needed. And so it was with both hope and anticipation that my lovely vice-captain, Hannah Barnes, and I went in search of new hockey talent at the Freshers Fair. As it happened we were in luck, a veritable bevy of talented first years were keen to join the ranks of what now promised to be a formidable team. Nevertheless, that night when I went home and studied my team sheet, a horrible realisation struck me . ... we had no goalie. Tormented by vivid nightmares of having to play myself in goal, resulting in 200 defeats, I wondered what I was to do. And then I heard it, a whisper, a rumour of.. .could it be? No surely not, not here? But yes, it was true, a Welsh international goalie in our midst in the form of Ruth Evans. And so we were complete. I had a feeling Hall were going to do well this year, the old players gelling well with the new at practices, but even I hadn't realised the ease with which Hall would storm the first round. Not many teams lasted long against the rampant attacking force of Hannah Barnes, Emily Coates, Charlie Lamb and Helen Richards, who between them scored enough goals to make even Van Nistelrooy blush. Of course there were one or two occasions when the opposing team went on the counter offensive, but these foolish attempts only proved one thing; Hall this year had an almost impenetrable defence in the form of the rock that is Jo Dyer, well supported by Jan Hudson and myself, working in harmony with Ruth Evans' no nonsense goal keeping. Naturally it was our hard working, skilful and pacey mid-field of Philly Browne, 47

Amy Crofton and Elly Mcnulty who were responsible for linking the team together. Add to this gutsy performances from Jess Barker, Emilia Law and Polly Cowan who would play wherever they were needed with style, stir in a few cameo appearances from Hazel Mitchell and Cam Day and a couple of spectacular impromptu goals from the likes of Dyer and Crofton and you have a team with unrivalled finesse. This is reflected of course in our first round results which include beating Wadham/Corpus 10-0, St. Annes 14-0, LMH/Trinity 3-0, Oriel 6-0 (despite their having a boy in goal) and Worcester 7-1. And so it was that Hall coasted into the quarterfinals after finishing top of their group. Then, as quickly as Michaelmas had gone, Hilary was upon us and so too were the quarter-finals, against New College. Our team was stronger than ever as our Yoda, Jemma Rooker, once again donned the maroon and gold and joined the ranks of the Hall. The first half was close. Although Hall had the majority of the play, New College's mid-field was excellent and Crofton, Browne and Mcnulty had to work hard to get the ball through to our attack. For the first time Hall's defence was properly challenged, Evans being forced to make two glorious saves. Then, at last it came, a nice ball through to Crofton who drove it into the net making the score 1-0 to Hall just before the half-time whistle. But it wasn't over yet. The second half saw New College come back with a vengeance. Disaster struck when Mcnulty had to come off with an injured leg. However, her substitute, Jessie Barker battled with compelling determination taking no prisoners as the rest of the team doubled their already tremendous efforts. It was still close, we needed another goal and soon. Then, at last, the breakthrough came. Hannah Barnes displayed her virtuous composure by tapping the ball into the net as it was passed across goal. After this Hall played with renewed vigour. Once again Hannah proved her worth as centre forward making the score 3-0 to Hall. The icing on the cake was a dramatic dribble by Rooker culminating in an awe-inspiring goal from the edge of the D. And so the match ended 4-0 to the Hall. It had been our toughest challenge yet. Would Jesus pose even more of a threat in the Semis? Apparently not. After a slow start Hall finally managed to get into the swing of things, Rooker and Dyer cutting open the opposition's defences with ease as they took it in turns to dribble the ball the length of the pitch and take a shot, or passed it cleverly to the mid-field or forwards, all of whom troubled the Jesus backs with class and style. So in the end Hall cruised to a 5-0 victory

taking them through to meet Queen's in the final. Unfortunately the final did not go according to plan. The Queen's team was excellent and I think that their strength took us by surprise. I still remember that gut-wrenching feeling as I watched them score once, twice, three, four times. However, there was still some spirit left in the Hall side. Not ones to go down without a fight, Hall fought back bravely. We managed to steady the ship after that, Richards pulling one back just before half time. Luck, however, was not on Hall's side as both Browne and Crofton had to leave the pitch due to injury and despite 100% effort from all the team and a stunning goal from Charlie Lamb the score finished 6-2 to Queen's. But don't despair! We had a fantastic season. Thank you so much to everyone who played (and umpired - Harry, Jules) and thank you also for the faith you all (mis?) placed in me. And so now I leave you in the capable hands of Amy Crofton (Captain) and Elly Mcnulty (Vicecaptain) who will rule for the next year. So watch out Queen's, get ready to hand over that silver ware! And to those of my team who are reading this: remember, after the words "to be happy," "to play hockey," are the most beautiful in the world.

The John Oldham Society President: Jen Nicholson Teddy Hall drama, which was on the up last year, has really bloomed this year. In Michaelmas Term 2002, college Freshers entered three plays into Drama cuppers, followed by further first-year involvement in several plays, including Greg Coutler's appearance in Black Comedy at the Moser Theatre, Wadham. Michaelmas term also saw Teddy Hall's Richard Holdsworth take the part of 'Action' in the Playhouse production of West Side Story, with Alex Prideaux (our resident tecchie) also working on that show. Closer to home Ruth Taylor and Jen Nicholson decided to produce and direct Shakespeare's As You Like It in the Old Dining Hall. Not only was this production a huge success, receiving excellent reviews, but it also boasted Teddy Hall Thesps in vast quantities, including Mike Scott, whose portrayal of the Elizabethan Minstrel, I'm sure, will go down as one of his finest moments! In Hilary Term the drama continued. In fifth week Ruth Taylor, Richard Holdsworth, Clover Morey, Louise Myson, Richard Perrott, 49

Matt Mandelbaum and Jen Nicholson formed a cast, described by the Ox Stu as 'Uniformly brilliant,' and performed Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound and Ayckbourn's Table Manners, in the Jacqueline Du Pre Theatre. The end of Hilary Term saw Rich Holds worth musically direct Jesus Christ Superstar at the OFS and The Magic Flute at the Apollo. Trinity Term was then upon us. In fifth week the Burton Taylor Theatre played host to The Hepburn Fallacy, written and directed by Teddy Hall's Joyce Wu. In seventh week Louise Myson, Ruth Taylor, Rich Holdsworth and Jen Nicholson once again teamed up to form part of the cast of Ayckbourn's Living Together which was performed in the Moser Theatre, Wadham. Next year looks promising too. Ruth Taylor will be making her directorial debut in fifth week with Congreve's The Way Of the World which will be performed in the ODH with a cast largely comprised of Teddy Hall actors, so make sure you book your seat!

The Mixed Lacrosse Club Captain: Jessica Hatcher The Road to Victory! From my experience, Teddy Hall is a college that is simply very good at winning things. And that is exactly what we did this year. The strength of our mixed lacrosse team was mainly due to three factors. Firstly, the influx of talented lacrosse-playing freshers, including one bona fide England player. Secondly, the enthusiasm and strength of a group of boys, who have the enviable ability to be good at any sport. And thirdly, the stoicism of last year's players whose enthusiasm, in some cases, outweighed any particular talent (!) but who nevertheless made the team what it was. The league, which is played during the Michaelmas and Hilary terms, gave us a chance to build up a slick team, which had both speed and skill and the obvious advantage of all the defence players being at least 6 feet 4 inches tall! Quite a daunting prospect, I can tell you. It was, however, in cuppers in Trinity when we reached our full potential. Fuelled by an enormous picnic, unbeaten throughout the all-day tournament, it culminated in the mighty Hall taking on a collaboration team of 3 colleges. The match went into extra time and we rose to the challenge, scoring 3 goals in as many minutes, thanks to the likes of Rich Stubley and Ruth Evans.

Thanks go to everyone who was involved for their efforts and dedication, and good luck to the defending champions next year!

The Music Society Representative: Richard Holdsworth The Teddy Hall Music Society has this year shown promising steps towards its revival. The appointment of our artist in Residence David Ormerod coupled with the continued and much valued support of Prof. Basil Kouvaritakis brought about the first concert for a couple of years. The concert gave tantalising insight into the wealth and depth of talent residing in the Hall ; the programme ranging from Mozart to 'The Cranberries' . Initiatives instigated by Michael Romain along with string quartets, the chapel choir and various outstanding soloists give an exciting glimpse of events to come, especially with the proposed Teddy Hall 'Arts Week' to come. A project establishing an orchestra with St Hilda's College is currently underway. Watch this space!

The Portia Society Presidents: Gareth Walliss and Peter Chapman In traditional style the year began with Portia drinks, normally a baptism of fire for first-years and a chance for the second and third-year lawyers to meet up with their junior counterparts. However, this year, the freshers added their own particular flair and as a result, attracted the attention of Britain's prestigious national press. No mean feat considering this front page story was published on the eve of the Iraq war. A good time was definitely had by most. .. Portia dinner, an event not to be missed, was held subsequent to the freshers completing their Mods (deserved congratulations must go to Alison and Ali, both of whom obtained distinctions) and was a chance to wine, dine and partake in what is regarded as the highlight of Teddy Hall lawyers' social calendar. Not least because the legendary Mr Briggs and Professor Wyatt unleash their infamous wit on their students, who wait in anticipation to discover who will be the unfortunate victims that year. Luckily, this pleasure usually lies with the second and third years who are battle-hardened to their humour. Mr Briggs was so impressed by the efforts of Jen ' s hairdresser he even suggested he would consider taking his pets to the same place.

The year was wound-up in fine style at Maxwells with Clifford Chance drinks. This was welcomed by all, particularly the third years who, having completed their finals , were making the most of their remaining time in Oxford. It proved to be both a useful and enjoyable evening and a welcome addition to the Portia Society calendar. Thanks must go to our sponsors for this year - Linklaters for the Portia dinner and Clifford Chance for Trinity term drinks. Finally, we must say, farewell, adieu and bon voyage to all our third years. Our very best sentiments go to them and especially Sid in his chosen career as a professional ambulance-chaser!

The Rugby Football Club Men 's Captain: Christopher Stephens Women 's Captain: Sophie Barrett Despite the editorial team's best efforts the Men's Captain's report has not been forthcoming; however, we are able at least to reproduce a report from Oxford Student by our own Michael Girling (200 I) which gives a flavour of Hall's dominance of the men's game this year.

Try-umphant Teddies Cuppers Rugby - Teddy Hall 24, St. Peter's 12 Teddy Hall rugby returned to its spiritual home of Cupper's Champions under the floodlights of Iffley Road earning the club a historic unbeatendouble winning season. The delayed kick-off served to agitate the already hostile crowd, both colleges turning out to support their team against their bitter rivals. St Peter's knocked out the Hall in last year's semi-final only to go on and lose the final, the Hall had beaten St Peter's to secure the Division One title. The vehement enmity between these two conflicting giants of the college game was most evident in the fans present who competed against each other to cheer and shout the loudest. The Teddy Hall contingent had the most to cheer about in the early exchanges as a failed penalty attempt in the first minute instead provided the opportunity for Hall centre Tom Watkins to break through hapless defending to post the first score of the night. This was to prove a catalyst for total Hall domination for the next twenty minutes as Peter's seemed shocked to go behind so quickly.

Fortunately for them, Hall were not able to capitalise, only Captain Chris Stephens adding to their total. Peter's broke out of their paralysis with a well-worked move out wide providing winger Ed Botcherby with the space to cross the line. It was a peculiarity of the game that the normally rampant Peter's pack was subdued by the Teddy Hall forwards, including the Blue's hooker Dai Griffiths, while the usual fluent Hall backs were upstaged by fine handling from the Peter' s opponents. Peter's, however, were never able to regain the initiative, always trailing by more than a score. SPC Full-back Andrew Palmer's try's impact was nullified by a further try from Stephens and a late score from Griffiths that sealed the match. Hall never reached their peak, always simmering beneath the explosive rugby they are capable of, but they were never forced to raise their game. A Dalrymple-deficient Peter's side simply didn't contain the talent to compete with the array of quality in the Hall squad but fought hard to stay in the game for so long. The Women's Captain's Report Women's rugby has had another hugely successful season! We won the 7-aside cuppers tournament in Michaelmas term, the 10-aside cuppers tournament in Hilary term, and we won the Doxbridge rugby tournament in Dublin this Easter which was great fun and provided an excellent end to a brilliant season. Fortunately there are many freshers involved in Teddy Hall rugby, which should ensure the continuing success of this sport once some of our invaluable oldies have left!

The Sailing Club Captain: Gemma Bennitt Teddy Hall has a great record for sailing: having last won Cuppers in 2000 we have reached the final every year since. Being so close to victory we embarked on the 2003 competition with sheer determination, with three out of four members of the team having sailed in the Blues squad this year. The day of the competition brought breezy conditions but this did not prove a problem to the team, whilst others were seen to be floundering around in the water with capsized boats! We stormed through the league to reach the semi-final where we faced Lincoln to

whom we had lost in the final last year. However, the force of the Hall brought us easy victory and so we reached the final against Pembroke. In a best-of-three showdown, Pembroke took the first race but Hall followed by pinching the next two to retake the title of Cuppers Champions. The team (Gemma Bennitt, Polly Cowan, James Dickinson and Chris Harding) worked really well and we look forward to being a dominant force in next year's competition. The Tennis Club Women's Captain: Helen Turnbull The women's tennis team performed very well this year, reaching the semi-finals of Cuppers before succumbing to the overall winners, New College. The Cuppers format was changed this year and this, combined with the amount of rain at the start of term, meant that we did very well to get this far! The league is a more social level of tennis with no Blues allowed to play, and we were one of the few teams that actually managed to produce a full side for every match (although there was some lastminute recruiting/bribing involved). These matches were more enjoyable and we came third in our league. The captain thanks everyone who played and hopes they all enjoyed their sport.

HALL CRAWL QUIZ How well do you remember Hall? (answers on page 126)

THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Steven Edwards was made an Honorary Fellow this year. He graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1979 with an honours degree in physics and joined computer consultancy Logica. In 1982 he moved to Cambridge Interactive Systems, a computer aided design company, where he developed a relational database system with features to support engineering applications . He left Cambridge Interactive Systems in 1989 and founded Geneva Technology and after initially providing consultancy in engineering design systems the company became involved in telecommunications support software in 1993. As Managing Director and, from 1998, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer he refocused the company to specialise in billing systems for the telecommunications , IP/Internet, utilities and on-line services markets. He led the sale of Geneva Technology to Convergys Corporation in April 2001 and he is now a member of Convergys' strategic technology team that looks at the overall direction of the merged companies' business. Steven is also a non-executive director of Image Metrics, a small image analysis company. Steven has many children and now spends considerable time with his family. In his spare time he flies helicopters and walks and climbs in hills and mountains. Sir Derek Morris has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his appointment of Provost-Elect at Oriel College. He is Chairman of the Competition Commission (formerly the Monopolies and Mergers Commission). He first joined the MMC in 1991 as a member, becoming a Deputy Chairman in 1995 and Chairman in 1998. Having studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall (1964-1967), and then for a D.Phil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford, he took up a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Business and Industrial Studies at Warwick University, 1969-1970. Then, from 1970 until 1998 he was Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Oriel College, Oxford. During this time he authored numerous books and articles, primarily in the field of industrial economics. Books included The Economic System in the UK (3 editions); Unquoted Companies; Industrial Economics and Organisation (2 editions); and Chinese State

Owned Enterprises and Economic Reform (these three with D. Hay). Other academic activities included chairmanship of the Economics Sub-faculty and then the Social Studies faculty at Oxford and editorial board responsibilities for the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford Economic Papers etc. Other activities have included three years on secondment as Economic Director of the National Economic Development Council; Chairman of Oxford Economic Forecasting Ltd.; and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He has also been involved for over 20 years in various types of advisory and consultancy work, initially in the field of competition policy but more recently for the Asian Development Bank in helping to design and implement economic reform measures in China and Central Asia. Steve Roberts was born and brought up in Nottingham, going to Nottingham High School and then to Queens' College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences. His original intention was to do Part 2 in Physics, but he found the "Crystalline Materials" lA course fascinating and diverted to Metallurgy and Materials. He did his PhD in ion implantation into ceramics under the excellent teaching of Trevor Page. He came to Oxford in 1981 to do post-doctoral work with Peter Hirsch, on doping effects on mechanical behaviour of crystals. A succession of postdocs and research fellowships followed, all working with Peter Hirsch, looking at how dislocation behaviour controls flow and fracture. After he'd been in Oxford about five years, Steve found myself in charge of a small research group , investigating the mechanical behaviour of semiconductors. The group's research focus has shifted over the years since, and now the principal foci are in surface mechanics of ceramics, ceramic nanocomposites, and experiments and modelling investigating the fundamental processes of fracture. He was appointed to a University Lectureship in 1992, with a Fellowship at St. Cross College (with a "recognition of distinction" boost to a Readership in 2001). He has been a College Lecturer in Materials since the late 1980's, supporting John Hunt. Following John 's retirement, he was elected to the John Harris Memorial Fellowship at SEH. Outside of the day (and evening and night) job, he is a senior

member of the University Cave Club; having started caving as a PhD student he is now coming up towards "25 years under the earth". For some years he was active in the Cave Diving Group. On exploratory expeditions to Spain, Mexico - and South Wales - he has been lucky enough to find several kilometres of impressive cave passage (one section in Ogof Draenen is named St Giles', so Oxford is firmly in the underground atlas) . Last year, his teenage interest in gliding resurfaced; he went solo earlier this year, and is now trying to learn the art of thermalling. Steve is married to Sandra Bailey, librarian at Wadham. They are finding late parenthood an entertaining challenge, with two daughters, Katie (4) who wants to know where Teddy Hall keeps its Teddies, and Alex (2).

Martin Gregory Smith was born in 1943 and educated at St Albans School, followed by St Edmund Hall, where he obtained an MA in Theoretical Physics, and Stanford University, California, where he received an MBA and a Masters degree in Economics. He was elected to a St Edmund Fellowship in 2002. His career has been principally as a merchant banker, most notably as a founding partner and then Chairman of Phoenix Securities Ltd and Chairman of European operations of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. He is currently Chairman of English National Opera and Deputy Chairman of New Star Asset Management. His directorships include Phoenix Private Equity, Bain Capital and Odgers Ray & Berndtson. He also holds a number of other pro bono positions, including Deputy Chairman of The Science Museum, Chairman of the Advisory Board and a member of the Board of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Chairman of the Bath Mozartfest and Trustee of the Wigmore Hall and of IMS Prussia Cove. Martin is in the process of establishing a new trust fund to be called The Smith Arts Trust aimed at making awards to undergraduates

and graduates from the Hall for arts related projects. He is married and has a son and a daughter and lists his interests as music, conducting, equine pursuits, sailing, skiing and golf.

Dr Jeff Tseng is a new Fellow by Special Election in Physics, becoming a Tutorial Fellow in October 2004. Born and raised in California's Silicon Valley, his first avocation was computer science, until he was introduced to the theory of special relativity during his freshman year at Caltech. This introduction became an initiation into the oddity and elegance of the fundamental behaviour of elementary particles , those quarks, leptons, gauge bosons, and who knows what else, which govern the behaviour of all the matter and energy around us. At Caltech, he helped look for L----~-----__j magnetic monopoles , which could explain why all electrons have exactly the same charge. As a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University, he worked on the CDF experiment at Fermilab, where he investigated the properties of matter containing b quarks. His postdoctoral research at MIT has continued his investigations of b quark properties, particularly those illuminating why the universe is made up of matter rather than antimatter. In the meantime, his computing background has come to play a large role in his construction of largescale networked computing and storage facilities, essential tools for modern real-time data acquisition and globally distributed physics analysis . At Oxford, he will be helping push forward these developments and getting ready to search for the elusive Higgs particle - which is connected to why particles have any mass at all - at the Large Hadron Collider currently under construction on the SwissFrench border.

THE GEDDES LECTURE The fourth Geddes Lecture on Friday 151 November was very much a family occasion. The speaker, the editor of the Observer, Roger Alton, is the son of Emeritus Fellow, Reggie Alton, who with Graham Midgeley and Bruce Mitchell formed the famous triumvir who taught generations of English students at the Hall. Mr Alton's lecture was entitled, ' Is there a Future for Print Journalism?' The audience - -- - - ' did not have to wait long for an answer: in short, said the speaker 'I don ' t know '. The reason why it was impossible to give a definitive answer was the very speed of the changes which were taking place in the world in general and in journalism and the media in particular; it was, said Mr Alton in one of his many graphic phrases, like 'trying to map a volcano'. How futile it was to give confident answers Mr Alton illustrated by drawing attention to previous confident announcements which had foretold the death of the newspaper: Bill Gates, for example, had said in 1999 that in five years no-one would read anything in print; more intriguingly, the US print trade journal had predicted in 1927 that the advent of radio condemned the newspaper to oblivion . Mischievously, the lecturer enjoined us to imagine a hundred years hence the discovery of a new material which was light and which could be folded and even printed upon: such a wonderful commodity - paper - would surely spell the end of the computer and the CD. The audience may not have been given a definitive answer to the question asked, but it left with the strong conviction that as long as there were editors such as Roger Alton the newspaper was still in with a pretty good chance of survival.

THE EMDEN LECTURE The esteem in which this year's Emden Lecturer is held was demonstrated by the huge crowd of Aularians, academics, students, and members of the public that gathered in the Examination Schools on 5th November to hear Emeritus Fellow Blair Worden speak on 'Theatre and Politics: The Globe, Shakespeare, and the Earl of Essex's Rising of 1601' . The lecture focused on the curious revolt against Elizabeth I of the Earl of Essex, the Queen's former favourite, on 8th February 1601 , an event that was preceded the previous evening by a specially commissioned performance of a play about the deposition of King Richard 11 at the Globe Theatre. Professor Worden took us through the surviving evidence to show us that the play cannot have been Shakespeare's version of the story, despite its huge popularity at the time, suggesting instead that the players put on a dramatisation of another account by the historian John Hayward. There is no indication that Essex and Hayward were in direct contact with each other; but the deposition of a monarch was a touchy subject in the last days of Elizabeth's reign. Professor Worden completed his lecture with some stimulating remarks about the use historians can make of literary and dramatic sources. The high expectations of the audience in this year's distinguished Lecturer were therefore entirely realised, and the evening was concluded with further discussion during a reception and dinner in the Wolfson Hall. ST EDMUND'S DAY Saturday 16th November 2002 saw Wolfson Hall resplendent in maroon, gold and white for the annual formal St Edmund's Day Feast, presided over by the Principal, accompanied by Mrs Stacey Mingos . Dinner was preceded by Evensong in the Chapel and the choir also entertained the guests during dinner with a lively and varied repertoire. Fellows, representatives of the St Edmund Hall Association, lecturers and current junior members were joined by a number of distinguished guests : Professor Roger Ainsworth (Master of St Catherine's College), Mr Philip Broadley (City Aularians), Professor Brian Johnson (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) and Mrs Christine Johnson, Dr Frances Lannon (Principal of Lady Margaret Hall), Mr James Price QC (1967), Dr Diana Walford (Principal of Mansfield College). 61

Due to the difficulties encountered each year with drawing up the junior member invitation list for the Feast, the Governing Body decided that in future the event would become a dinner for 2"ct year rather than 3'ct year undergraduates/finalists, and so a "Summer St Edmund's Feast" for those who matriculated in 2001 was held on Thursday 81h May 2003. With the Organ Scholar and some of the choir studying hard for their finals it was not possible to celebrate Evensong: nevertheless, the specially invited guests - Mr William Alden (Managing Director of Alden Group Limited), Mr Michael Birks (1969) , Mr Ian Coleman (1978), Mr Christopher Elston (1976), Mr Gerard Evans (Head of Modern Languages, Eton College), Dr Kevin Fisher (1970), Professor Alien Hill, Mr David Naylor (Corus Engineering), Professor Graham Upton (Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University), Mr David Waring (1987) - and Fellows, lecturers and junior members enjoyed an elegant evening in Wolfson Hall.

SEH SUMMER EVENT 2003 Hall of fame On Saturday l01h of May the Hall was transformed into a world of red carpet glamour and glitz ... Guests at this year's summer event entered at the lodge to be ushered into the front quad marquee where they were greeted by the imposing figure of a life-sized Oscar statue. Throughout the college the theme of the world of film was used to create a party atmosphere from the funky '70s disco in the Wolfson to James Bond's casino in the ODH. All space available had been put to good use and even the Raised Quad boasted a bucking bronco which was in high demand all night.

The food area outside the JCR was also packed for much of the event - no surprise as all food was free! Guests were entertained by a variety of music but it was the '50s swing group that really made an impact. With jazz, disco, drum and base and even a live performance of acoustic guitar by a talented fresher, the soundtrack of the evening spanned the last century of film. At 2am all gently dissipated and the committee were left with the mammoth task of cleaning up. When we did finally make it to our beds in the early hours of the morning (a little past sunrise) it was with a feeling of achievement having each played a very special part in creating an enormously successful evening - fabulous!! Fiona Gillard (2001) POETRY AT THE HALL For the last two years, Lucy Newlyn has been running poetry workshops with Aularian poet, Jenny Lewis, involving undergraduates reading English at the Hall. The workshops are designed to integrate creative writing into the academic study of English, filling a notable gap in the university's syllabus. They have attracted funding from The Institute for the Advancement of University Learning. This is being used to publish a book in two volumes, Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice. The first volume was launched on 18th June of this year in the Old Dining Hall. The event was attended by poets, Fellows and undergraduates . (See the Synergies website for more information: http://www.synergies.org.uk/). Last year saw the appointment of two new tutors in English: Sharon Achinstein, a distinguished Miltonist, and Jane Griffiths, a medievalist and prize-winning poet. They both joined the workshop sessions last term. Together, the English Tutors are actively working to make this college a place that fosters writing-talent of all kinds, including journalism, novels, and drama. We are keen to admit students with an interest in becoming writers when they leave university, and already our efforts are being re-paid. In Hilary term, three SEH students reading English appeared in the new university magazine, The Ladder. They were Ben Burton (Third Year), Tony Brignull (Second Year), and Douglas Brown (First Year). 60 or so people across the university sent in work, and no other college had more than one member represented in the issue. Tony Brignull was also the recipient of the college's

Graham Midgley poetry prize, and his poem is printed below. If you are interested in buying a copy of Synergies, please contact Joan.Arthur@english.ox.ac.uk. Price ÂŁ4. The second volume of work will be published next year. THE GRAHAM MIDGLEY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR POETRY Through the benefaction of Dr Christopher Wilson, the college is able to offer a prize (value ÂŁ100) each year for a single outstanding short poem in English, written by an undergraduate member of the Hall. The prize is in memory of Graham Midgley, formerly Fellow and Tutor in English. The prize is open to any undergraduate in the college; it may be on any subject, and written in any genre or form, but it must be no longer than twenty-five lines. This year's winner is Anthony J. Brignull (2002) with 'The Water Colourist', reproduced below. Honourable mention was also given to Alice Wood (2001) for 'Pocket One' (see following page).

The Water Colourist Open a window Though it is autumn And cold today. Hold eyes open Until they water. Look at trees: How colours wash Into each other. When it rains See through wet glass. If you cry, Through wet lashes.

Use less colour Than anemones Or moths' wings Leave on a finger. Dip brush often In clean water. Tip away. Replenish. How colours wash Into each other. Anthony John Brignull (2002)

Pocket One Of all the silky pearly-twirly opals, You the chosen are my pocket one. My private echo, singing of the rolls Of frothed-milk flow that sparkle in the sun. But who are you to promise me the ocean? You the empty; empty pocket, empty shell. At best to leave me sickened by the motion; At worst to leave one bulbous as the swell. And who am I to keep you in my pocket? To snare you in the whispers that you voice? To form with fears and doubts a cutting locket Why do we all entwine ourselves by choice? Yet I know your ridges worn by waves and weather, And it was they that moulded hope we'd wear together. AI ice Wood (200 I)

THE PHILIP GEDDES PRIZE 2003 The Philip Geddes Memorial Prizes are intended to encourage undergraduates who want to pursue a career in journalism by providing them with funds to be used in furtherance of their journalistic education and training. The Prizes were founded in memory of Philip Geddes, journalist and former member of St Edmund Hall, who was killed in

the IRA bombing at Harrods in 1983. There were eleven applications for the prize this year and the judges had the usual difficult task of deciding upon the winners. The main Geddes Prize was awarded to Rodrigo Davies of Wadham College and the St Edmund Hall Prize went to Natalie Toms.

Nicholas Randall, Natalie Toms and Rodrigo Davies

Student journalists who specialise in sports writing were also invited to compete for The Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Writing which, thanks to a generous benefaction, comprised a ÂŁ1,000 special award in memory of the distinguished cricket writer Clive Taylor. This was won by Nicholas Randall of Merton College. All three winners were invited to the Hall on 19th June to receive their prizes from Mr Graham Mather of the European Policy Forum who chairs the Trustees of the Philip Geddes Memorial Fund.

OXFORD DEVELOPMENT ABROAD Oxford Development Abroad is a student charity that was set up in 2002 by 3 Teddy Hall students (Mike Scott, Nick Renshaw and Neil Copeman). The charity recruits enthusiastic and development-conscious volunteers from across the university to work on development projects

in rural areas of the third world. These projects may include basic construction, the introduction of appropriate technologies for village life (such as smoke-less stoves or wells) or education - all of which require a strong partnership between the volunteers and the host community to ensure the success and sustainability of the projects. We have been extremely pleased with the success of this year's project for which Sophie Barrett, Nick Renshaw and Mike Scott all volunteered for the 6 week long placement in 2 villages of Eastern Nepal. Our work included the renovation of 2 classrooms, the re-laying of the village' s water supply, the construction of 2 toilets for the school, the construction of the school fence, as well as additional investments for community initiated projects. Since the summer the charity has recruited 12 more volunteers (including Ruth Evans, SEH) to participate in 2 projects in Western Nepal this summer, which plans to be very successful. In the forthcoming year the charity is aiming to expand the scope of its work and has recruited more Teddy Hall students onto the committee (lsabella Jones, Christina Emslie, Alice Proby and Oenone Crossley-Holland). We will continue our work in Nepal, and will be working in partnership with Alex Grouet's project in Senegal and setting up additional projects in Tanzania and possibly Argentina. Nick Renshaw (2001)

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Principal Taylor burnt at the stake in 1423

OBITUARIES Professor Alien Walker Read 1906- 2002 Honorary Fellow The researches of the lexicographer Alien Walker Read often produced controversial results, but he was widely respected and dealt with all manner of questions about words in an engaging scholarly spirit. He had an impressive breadth of knowledge, and particularly liked to build bridges between Britain and the United States. As one of the forerunners of "dictionary research" (or "metalexicography"), he spoke at conferences with authority, modesty and wit about competing lexicographic traditions or so-called "dictionary wars". He was exceedingly curious about words: where they come from (etymology), what they mean (semantics), how they are formed (lexicology), how they are treated in dictionaries (lexicography), how they relate to place names (onomastics), and how they vary from one social and regional variety to another (sociolinguistics and dialectology) . More than that, he wanted to know how people use words in real situations for various purposes: to amuse themselves (graffiti), to be technical or informal (jargon and slang), to offend (taboo) and to mollify (euphemism). The vocabulary he investigated included expressions such as "the almighty dollar", words such as "blizzard", and names such as Dixie, Rocky Mountains and Podunk. Most famously of all, he traced "OK" back to The Boston Morning Post of 1839, at a time when there was a fad for abbreviations, much as there is today, but preferably rather facetious. OK stood for "orl korrect". Born in 1906 in Winnebago, Minnesota, Alien Walker Read studied at two universities in Iowa, at the University of Missouri, at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar 1928-31), and at the University of Chicago, where William Craigie invited him to assist with the Dictionary of American English between 1932 and 1938. A Guggenheim fellowship then allowed Read to work at the British Museum in London (1938-41), where he started a Dictionary of Briticisms. During the Second World

War he was asked to compile a dictionary of military terms and to do linguistic research for the Army. From 1945 until his retirement in 1974 Read held a chair at Columbia University, New York. There he could take a critical stance on usage and dictionaries, defending what he thought was good (such as Philip Gove's edition of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1961 ), but also showing up shoddy workmanship in some other compilations. Read published more than 300 papers, 26 of which were collected in America: Naming the Country and Its People (2001) and a further 20 in Milestones in the History of English in America (2002). He also edited the journal American Speech, contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and acted as a consultant to a number of American dictionaries, such as Funk & Wagnall's, the American College Dictionary and Random House. His incomplete Dictionary of Briticisms is being completed and prepared for publication by John Algeo. Read was a founding member (and later president) of the Dictionary Society of North America, president of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, president of the American Dialect Society and president of the New York Society of General Semantics. Among the numerous honours conferred upon him was an honorary doctorate from Oxford. Alien Walker Read married Charlotte Schuchardt in 1953. She died in July 2002. Allen Walker Read, linguist and lexicographer, was born on June 2, 1906. He died on October 16, 2002, aged 96. ÂŠ The Times 2002

IN MEMORIAM

The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead Chancellor of the University of Oxford University 1920 - 2003 The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, formerly Mr Roy Jenkins, who died on 51h January 2003 aged 82, was one of the most successful politicians of the post-war years - a notably effective Labour minister, President of the European Commission and the principal begetter of the Social Democratic Party. However, he will be remembered most fondly in Oxford as Chancellor of the University and Visitor of St Edmund Hall since 1987. At a service of thanksgiving for the life and work of the late Chancellor, held on Saturday I st March 2003 in the University Church and attended by approximately 400 members of the University, the Vice-Chancellor Sir Colin Lucas commemorated the Chancellor in his address. He said: '[Roy Jenkins] was above all a man distinguished by his integrity, by his commitment to liberal principles, by a devotion to individual rights, by his humanity. He was an internationalist devoted to Europe and fascinated by America, a man who always looked outwards unlike too many of his contemporaries in British politics. In a speech in 1972, he said that 'in place of the politics of envy, we must put the politics of compassion; in place of the politics of cupidity, the politics of justice; in place of the politics of opportunism, the politics of principle'. That is a fair summary of the man. He was a civilised man both in the sense of cultured and also in the sense that he did not separate liberal intent from civilisation. [... ] 'More particularly, however, Roy Jenkins had a sharp sense of the values that universities stand for; he understood that they are both one of the great heartbeats of a civilised society and that they need protecting. It was Roy Jenkins who inserted into the last Education Act in its passage through the Lords the clause that prevents public funding from being subject to criteria for the admission of students. This was not and is not a parochial concern of this University, but a cause for all universities. [... ] 'Certainly, he stood up for us. But what he gave me, as presumably he gave my predecessors, was access to his range of experience and sound advice about what it is like to be in a government department,

about the imperatives of politics, about what language works and what does not, about how to sense the direction of travel. I cannot imagine a more supportive Chancellor or one more loyal in friendship. Indeed, I must say that I miss him sorely.'

THE REV RONALD FRANK WILLIAM FLETCHER (1890-1950) Former Fellow, Senior Thtor, Chaplain, Trustee and Pioneer in the Teaching of English Literature at the Hall. Inspired by some comments by Arthur Farrand Radley ( 1999-2000, p 175), on the commemorative tablets in the floor of the Chapel, I contributed some personal reminiscences relating to Ronald Fletcher and others to the 2000-2001 edition (pp 162-3) of the present Magazine. After my article appeared several senior Old Aularians were kind enough to write to me with memories of Fletcher, who in his later years tutored Reggie Alton and Graham Midgley (among many others) in English Literature. It is good for those of us who read English after Fletcher's death to learn that he was not only an influential Tutor but the very 'Father' of the Hall English School. Arthur Farrand Radley sent me (3 Nov 2001) a copy of A.B. Emden's obituary of Fletcher (complete with portrait photograph) from the 1950 edition of the Hall Magazine. When Fletcher came up to Lincoln College in 1909 with an open scholarship in History, he was unable to convince his college authorities that English was a suitable subject for 'masculine academic effort', and had to complete a degree in History before they would allow him to indulge himself by taking a First in English . Coming to the Hall in 1923 after a spell as a schoolmaster, Fletcher made the Hall English School 'one of the chief sources of undergraduate support in the University', in Emden's words, tutoring among others women from outside the Hall as I well know, since my mother was one of them. He seems to have been an unassuming but unstoppable workaholic, who could also 'wield a hockey stick to good purpose on behalf of his college' (he was still playing shortly before his death) and who while at the Hall simultaneously served as rector of a small Oxfordshire village for some twelve years. He was happily married, and his one son matriculated at the Hall shortly after his death. Radley remembers him from 1935-8 as 'rather a backroom character but a distinguished presence all the same'. Reggie Alton wrote to me on 27 Oct 200 I : "He was of course my tutor - and a marvellous tutor too. He was an inexhaustible source of new and surprising insights on most of the great figures of English literature, and he never taught, as bad tutors

do, by appearing to listen and then trotting out a prepared spiel which took no real notice of what a pupil had written or said. Ronnie (as we called him) always produced thoughts which grew organically out of one's work, tactfully indicated what might have been better put, and made one think that one ' s essay had been worth listening to. As my own memory began to falter I was reduced to making notes of what I'd heard - trying, of course to emulate Ronnie's method. "He was one of the hardest-working men I knew: whether because the Fellows of St Edmund Hall had to take several jobs in order to survive or because of his own work ethic I don't know, but he taught innumerable hours for several colleges - including St Anne's - he was Secretary of the Oxford Local Examination Board, he was Rector of Broughton Pogis, an indefatigable examiner in the University at all levels and for the various Schools Exam Boards at 0 level, A level and so forth. A tutor for one of the poorer colleges didn't have a very lavish lifestyle. And I shall never forget seeing Ronnie, after a vacation (every vacation) airing his bed. He would prop the mattress so that it stood vertical against a table and aim his miserable gas fire with its flexible pipe and one inadequate bar towards it, himself crouching nearby for personal warmth. I weep still as I remember the clouds of steam that arose from what could have been a lethal source of pneumonia. "He was a man who never gave less than his best [.. .]. I admired him greatly, and I shall always be grateful for everything he did for me - a lot." John Frankis wrote (10 Nov 2001): "I have various non-tutorial memories of Fletcher: of his enthusiastic participation, approaching the age of sixty, in a hockey match (the Essay Society vs the SCR I believe) which left him so stiff that, as he subsequently told me, when he celebrated communion in the Hall chapel the next day he had to remain standing at those points in the service where he would ordinarily have been kneeling; and of his performance in a production by the city operatic society of The Mikado : as far as I remember, he played the role of the Lord High Executioner and his rendering of 'I've got a little list... they'd none of 'em be missed', with the customary insertion of contemporary innuendo, was a delight. "His lectures on Milton's theology were full of solid doctrinal material, and incidentally showed that he belonged more firmly to the

sceptical ' modernist' camp than to the then more fashionable AngloCatholic and evangelical schools of thought. "My main memories, however, are of the summer of 1950. As my Schools approached Fletcher strongly urged me to apply for a grant for Postgraduate study, but in the event my performance in the Schools fell below his expectations and my application was rejected . Fletcher had gone to Scotland on holiday and wrote to me of his pride that he had climbed to the top of Ben Nevis at the age of sixty, but (whether or not because of the exertion) he contracted a lung infection and became quite seriously ill. In spite of this he took up my case and wrote from his sickbed to the Ministry of Education on my behalf. By a coincidence he was spending part of the summer in Devon [... ] and, as there were further aspects of my application still undecided, he invited me to visit Mrs Fletcher and himself. I was a little disconcerted to find that he was still confined to bed, but he was very sprightly, sitting up and reading Trollope, to whom he took rather a condescending attitude. Mrs Fletcher provided refreshments and I enjoyed the visit very much and felt privileged to have been invited. At any rate, his intervention on my behalf was successful, the grant was duly awarded and I returned to the Hall in October to embark on work for the B.Litt.; a day or two after the beginning of term, however, everyone in the Hall was shocked to hear of Mr Fletcher's sudden death. I myself of course was particularly sorry to lose someone to whom I obviously owed so much. "[ ... ] My abiding memory of ' Ronnie' Fletcher is of a man of great personal kindness, of course, and also of great efficiency: as Senior Tutor he was very business-like and always had everything well organised. I am grateful that he was able to get someone as unpromising as myself through the degree course in eight terms and then started on an academic career." I owe my correspondents an apology for not passing on these valuable reminiscences earlier - entirely my own fault for breaking the first rule for a writer and not getting my copy in on time for last year's Magazine. Silvester Mazzarella ( 1956)

FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence in Trinity Term 2003 were 401 undergraduates (246 men, 155 women) and 107 post-graduates (63 men, 44 women). MATRICULATIONS 2002 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates Abu-Omar, Yasir M University of Aberdeen Adams, Rachel Elizabeth Southend High School for Girls Ahmad, Ryan Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham Ali, Sohail Anjum Bradford Grammar School Amin, Rinesh Eton College Andrews, Tessa Repton School Audsley, James Matthew The King's School, Canterbury Bacher, Rahel Susanne University of Tubingen Bader, Ralf Michael Abingdon School Baker, Julian Harry Queen Elizabeth's Boys' School Barrio-Madias, Fernando Eugenio University of Durham Behl, Chetan Kensington Lansdowne College Bhaskar, Michael Raj Hewett School Bologan-Vieru, Otilia State University of Moldova Bolton, James Calday Grange Grammar School Branco da Cunha, Paula Cristina University of Coimbra Brignull, Anthony John Oxford University Department of Continuing Education King Edward's School, Birmingham Brown, Aadam Michael Bournville Secondary School Brown, Douglas William University of Victoria, BC Bruckner, Undine Merchiston Castle School Buchan, Andrew Cameron Westminster School Bullock, James Michael Rex University of Pennsylvania Butsch, Montana Oldbury Wells School Cartwright, Julia Ann Bolton School Chadha, Krishan Singh d'Overbroeck's College Chakravarty, Sudeshna Amrita Tiffin School for Boys Chamberlain, Benjamin Paul Aylesbury Grammar School Chapman, Peter Martin Kent Longsands College Chapman, Sarah Charlotte Elizabeth

Christofis, Varnava Graveney Technical College Clee, Fiona Carys Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls Clough, Katherine Ann Chesham High School Cohen, Helena Clare Watford Grammar School for Girls Coke-Smyth, Thomas Richard King's College School, Wimbledon Colburn, Jacqueline Ann Oxford University Department of Continuing Education Coleman, Kieran Joseph St Mark's Sixth Form College, Hounslow Cooper, Joseph Martin King Edward's School, Stratford-upon-Avon Coulter, Greg James King Edward VII & Queen Mary School, Lytham Cowan, Polly Jane Withington Girls' School Crofton, Amy-Louise Mary Notting Hill & Ealing High School Crossley-Holland, Oenone Joan Gresham's School, Holt Cui, Twinsen Jinyang Merchiston Castle School Das, Payel Notting Hill & Ealing High School David, Shaul Hebrew University, Jerusalem Day, Camilla Mary Johanna Downe House School Debattista, Alison Claire Peter Symonds' College Debreceniova, Janka Matej Bel University, Slovakia Dove, Charlotte Elizabeth City of London School for Girls Dresner, Asher Michael Jews' Free School Dunckley, Paul David University of Bristol Dyer, Joanna Yorke Loughborough High School Easton, Genevieve Anne Cheltenham Ladies' College Eckersley, Fergus Eton College Eggleton, James Edmund Uppingham School Emslie, Christina Elizabeth King James' School, Knaresborough Engels, Kilian Johannes Bonn University Entwistle, Hilary Yvonne Southend High School for Girls Evans, Ruth Prances The Queen's School, Chester Farthing, Thomas Bartholomew McLean Westminster School Frandsen, Scott Arthur University of California Gabriel, Emma Louise The Lady Eleanor Holies School Ganguli, Abhik St Stephen's College, University of Delhi Gao, Xiang Joseph Sir George Monoux College Georgiadis, Ileana Benenden School Gerard, Darren Charles Haileybury College Gillingham, Kimberly Lauren Burgess Hill School for Girls Golding, Alexis Catherine The Lady Eleanor Holies School

Goodey, John Kenneth Bancrofts School Gordon, Peter St George's Hospital Medical School Griffiths, David Ian University of Sydney Haigh Wright, Karen Elizabeth University of Leeds Hamill, Liam John James Durham Sixth Form Centre Haworth, Paul Gregory Lancaster Royal Grammar School Helier, Natalie Falcon School, Nicosia Hellyer, Georgina Lois Downe House School Hermitage, Nicole Elizabeth Cheltenham Ladies' College Hill, Sarah Jane Clifton College Hogan, Cassandra Jane Eveline Kingston Grammar School Holt, David Richard Ossett School & Sixth Form Houlston, Paul Robert University of Nottingham Hsu, Su-Yi Sophia University College, London Huang, Gongsheng Northeastern University, China lrvine, Daniel Thomas The Royal Belfast Academical Institution Jones, Edward Lawrence Bristol University Jones, Isabella Florence Wellington School Jordan, Antionette Winchester School of Art St Bede's College, Manchester Kelly, ÂˇLiam Patrick Kiernan, Jennifer Ann Barnsley College Kohli, Ryan Singh The Glasgow Academy Kyriakou, Katerina Sheffield University Lait, Jonathan Frederick Rendcomb College, Cirencester Lampe, Jurgen University of Gottingen Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Lee, Cher Farn St Angela's & St Bonaventure's Sixth Lee, Sarah Esther May-Yoke Form Centre Leitch, Jessica Roxanne Aberaeron Comprehensive Levy, Madelaine University of Paris, VII Lonsdale, Jonathan Anthony Yarm School Lowry-Corry, Michael Henry Charles Eton College Lukey, Michael James Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Lyons, lan Sajong Hamilton Woodbridge School Mafi, Fatemah Maria Tala Bury Grammar School Manasco, Anna Marie Emory University Marosi, Zoltan Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Marshall, Leon Wayne St Aubyne Dulwich College McNulty, Eleanor Sophia Joy Badminton School, Bristol

Mees, Stuart James Forest School, Snaresbrook Minshull, James Paul Worcester Royal Grammar School Molnar, Gabor Lajos Bristol University Morecroft, Caroline Margaret Joy Bishop Luffa School Moreton, Peter John Wolverhampton Grammar School Morgan, Mary Anne Hayesfield School Technology College Murison, Benjamin Reigate Grammar School Myatt, Jennifer Charlotte St Swithun's School, Winchester Myatt, Paul Thomas Blue Coat Comprehensive School, Walsall Nevill, Hermione Louise Tara The King 's School, Canterbury Newton, David Ryan Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester Offer, Sam Timothy Reading School Palau de Poli, Mirta American University in Cairo Palframan, Matthew James The Salts Grammar School Parnell-Turner, Ross Hereford Cathedral School Paumen, Stijn August Arnhem Business School Pavia, Katherine Elizabeth St Catherine's School, Bramley Peiris, Sonali Dilini The British School in Colombo Perisin, Tamara Zagreb University Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall Perry, Zachary Sion Skegness Grammar School Phillips, Scott Michael Poole, David Thomas Manchester Grammar School Thomas Alleynes High School Powis, Pollyanna Amy Jane St Lawrence College, Ramsgate Prescott, Zadok Michael Auchterrarder High School Rae, Allan James Rankin St John's RC Comprehensive School, Reeves, Edward Paul Gravesend Richards, Helen Veronica Malvern Girls' College Robertshaw, Joanne Marie Dixons City Technology College University of Chicago Roe, Tord Kaare Yale University Rollins, Stephanie Rich Hebrew University, Jerusalem Rosenblum, Nimrod The Maynard School Savchenko, Antonina Imperial College, London Shaw, Felicia Mae Jing Reigate Grammar School Simmons, Robert Keith International School of Geneva Smith, Ashley Laurence Surbiton High School Smith, Katherine Brindle Hopwood Hall Sixth Form College Smithson, Ernily Frances Snuggs, Rupert Tom Sevenoaks School

Sorgi, Mia Catherine University of Cambridge Speke, William Robert Thomas University of Liverpool Squire, Laura Kingsbridge Community College Stallforth, Pierre Paul-Klee Gymnasium Starling, Anya Elizabeth Exeter University Steinitz, Sandra Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford Stewart, John Hamish Watson Harrow School Stratakis, Alexandros Athens University Taylor, Jonathan Mark Sir Thomas Rich's School, Gloucester Theodorou, Asimina American College of Greece Thevanayagam, Jonarthan Toney Hugh St Ignatius College, Enfield Thistlewood, Ian Stewart University of Birmingham Thomas, David Rhys Heolddu Comprehensive School, Bargoed Thornton, Paul Robert Ilford County High School Unsworth, William Paul Runshaw College, Leyland Vanko, Maria Nicollena University of California Vukasovic, Slaven University of Zagreb Walliss, Gareth John Wilson's School, Croydon Welch, Trecia Yelando Seton Hall University Werndle, Lorenz Joseph University of Stellenbosch Whelan, John Joseph Oundle School Wilkinson, Christopher Michael Forrest Bolton School Wilkinson, Helen Claire Parkstone Grammar School, Dorset Williams, Gwyn Robert University of Cambridge Winnett, Sebastian Thomas North Halifax Grammar School Wohlgemuth, Peter Michael University of Konstanz Wong, Cheuk Hang Enoch City University of Hong Kong Wood, Katherine May Putney High School Yan, Gang University of Nottingham Yee, Alain Yue Wai Taylor's College Zalanowska, Kararzyna Anna Warsaw University

VISITING STUDENTS 2002-2003 University of Michigan Abelson, Daniel Joseph Boston College Anderson, Courtney Gray University of Pennsylvania Aslam, Muhammad Bilal Smith College Chon, Sarah Hea-jin Tennessee Technological University Downum, Clark Roberts Indiana University of Pennsylvania Edwards, Karen Ann

Fox, Annie Beth Galalis, Peter Garfield, Brian Klages Gavre, Dana Lauren Goldwasser, Jonathan Hall, Kristin Marie MacKenzie Hardin, Brian Higney, Robert Andrew Hristova, Diana Hristoforova Jacobs, Rachel Hart Jakal, Heidi Marie Juozokas, Adrienne Margaret Kessler, Rachel Chery I Koveos, Lea Maria Lamparello, Marc Lapointe, Amy Singsler Liu, Fangfang Majumdar, Monica Musser, Emily Maegan Nelson, John Canwright Oakes, Patrick William Parachkevov, Asen Phillips, Jessica Marie Racco, Luciano Ray, Jordan Marie Smith, Derek Strauss, Gregg Sundquist, James lan Tabaie, Sheida Wu, Joyce Yoon, Eunsun Joyce

College of the Holy Cross College of the Holy Cross Northwestern University Claremont McKenna College Princeton University Princeton University University of Texas Boston College Harvard University University of Michigan Scripps College Cornell University Kenyon College College of the Holy Cross Boston College College of Santa Fe Claremont McKenna College Columbia University Indiana University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan Boston College Harvard University Connecticut College College of the Holy Cross University of California Swarthmore College Emory University Haverford College University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan Oberlin College

DEGREE RESULTS ERRATA 2001-2002 Page 91: C E Murray (Modern Languages) was awarded a First Class degree with Distinction, not a II.i. We apologise for this error.

Final Honour Schools 2003 Biochemistry Class 11 i Class 11 ii

W T York Moore N E Clark, M D Mayer

Chemistry Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii

G J Rylance C L Dale, T F J Pinchin, A J Westbrook B J Marsh, R D Rogers, Y S J Tan

Earth Sciences Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii

M R Cook, C D Pearsall, H G P Seyler, J C Slack, L E Watkinson J E Partington, P A E Pogge von Strandmann 0 J J Deacon, A Gardham

Economics & Management Class 11 i

R Chopra, P Foo, S J A Smith

Engineering Science Class 11 i Class 11 ii

T B Butler E-H Gan, S J Moss

Engineering & Computing Science Class 11 i

Y-B Au

Engineering, Economics & Management Class 11 i

R C Mann, A Papathanos

English & Modern Languages Class 11 i B I Jones English Language & Literature Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii

B P Burton, P L Mudie, E J Scott-Baumann C L Boon, M J A Bradshaw, D C Milsom S D H Chatfield

Experimental Psychology Class I

H Murray

Fine Art Class I Class 11 i

M J Spurr Z K Barwell, P F A Williams

Geography Class 11 i

P J Browne, H F Daniel, C B Ramsay, J S Savage, E L Taylor, V E L Wood

Jurisprudence Class 11 i

S E Barker, S J Brooks, B Davies, A Dola, R W E Laurie, M Mansell, J G Murphy, E Newman, Y K K Tan

Law with Law Studies in Europe Class 11 i

N J Edwards

Materials, Economics & Management Class I Class 11 i

E K Wilkinson A R Dickson, D T Newell

Mathematics Class I Class 11 i

A Mikaelian, A B Prideaux, L Taitz J W McCormick

Mathematics & Computer Science Class 11 i Class 11 ii

M M Clapham K H Ashbridge

Metallurgy and Science of Materials Class 11 i

S T Griffiths

Modern History Class I Class 11 i

H C Mitchell, M Partridge E J Bryce, S P Chambers, J M Moore, C W R Pitt, A PG Richardson, IN I Toronyi-Lalic, M Trimmer

Modern History & Modern Languages Class 11 i M Belcher Modern Languages Class 11 i K W Galliard, N R Geering, R P Hayward, A J Jackson, AT Morgan Class 11 ii P C Caldicott, 0 Ripley, I F Shirley Philosophy & Modern Languages Class 11 i L F Mallett Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I T 0 R Motgan Class 11 i Z Ang, S D Bailey, N M Condon, C L Harrison, C Y-N Kwok, RA Povey, D R Thomson, C J Warwick-Evans Class 11 ii A V Fairbairn Physics Class I Class 11 i Class Ill

N Baiou, D J Mitchell F H Echalier, A Enyati Rad, C J Welford J MS Ryder

Physics & Philosophy Class 11 i A J Hawkins Physiological Sciences Class I C E Whitwood Class 11 i S F Garry, E C Taylor Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology Class I D J L Woods Class 11 i J S Van Tulleken Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Clinical Medicine R M Price Earth Sciences S A Robinson, R G Woodfine, S J Gough

Engineering History Materials Science Physics Psychology

G Tortora, A Lengyel NE Karn RA Chilton T S Pratt A S Ritcheson

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Economics English

P R Wallace, P W Ralph S Levelt, L A Reynolds (Distinction), SA Saunders

General Linguistics & Comparative Philology M C de Waard Law E-B Laba Social Anthropology J Tanaka

Master of Science (MSc) Comparative Social Policy Computer Science Forced Migration Management Research Politics and International Relations Research Social Anthropology

A Whitworth D Yang (Distinction) T K Roe S S Dionne (Distinction) A M Manasco J Tanaka

Master of Studies (MSt) R S Bacher (Distinction), K Engels (Distinction), M Levy (Distinction) Modern Middle Eastern Studies S R Rollins Women's Studies TT di Genova

European Literature

Master of Business Administration (MBA) A R Cybriwsky, H T Nieuwenhuis, J A Short, S R White

Master of Fine Art (MFA) 0 Alexopoulou

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) N Rosenblum, C H E Wong

Magister Juris (MJuris) 0 Bologan-Vieru, J Debreceniova, Z Marosi, I Michelzon, G L Molnar, T Perisin, A Stratakis, P M Wohlgemuth Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) E L Blyth, E L Jones, W R T Speke, V L Spratling, A E Starling, R E Streatfeild, G R Williams Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) D P J Howard, B S Smith Foreign Service Programme T Y Welch AWARDS AND PRIZES University Awards and Prizes

AWE Prize in Geophysics for Best 3rd Year Performance in Geophysics and Mathematics Helen V Bramley BP Amoco Prize for Best 4th Year Project in Earth Sciences Joanna C Slack Gibbs Prize for the Best Final Honour School Mapping Report Cian R G Wilson Heath Harrison Junior Scholarship Esther M Holloway Clement H Hutton-Mills Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Prize for Economics IT Project Ralf M Bader Shell Prize for Best Overall Performance in the Final Honour School of Earth Sciences Joanna C Slack

College Scholars Jonathan B Antcliffe Peter J Augar Nassim Baiou Jessica S Barker Julian E Barker-Danby Simon Barrett Charles J Bartlett Clare E Bevis Helen V Bramley Emily J Bryce Benjamin P Burton J ames R 0 Caffall Richard H T Callow Miles M Clapham Thomas D Collins Michael R Cook A M M Toby Dunbar Christian A M Figge Michael D Ford Paul Garver Benjamin T Graham Laurence R Hargrave Michelle L H L Ho Katharine J Hutton Nathanael C K Lim Paul A Jenkins Robert S Martin Thomas C Marsden Joanna F McGouran Daniel J Mitchell D Alexander Moss Amanda J Moore Hannah Murray Paul L Mudie W S Wilson Ong Olivier A P Noterdaeme Clare D Pearsall lain K Porter Richard A Povey Alexander B Prideaux Charity G Randall Natalie L Roberts Gareth J Rylance Elizabeth J Scott-Baumann G Adil H Seetal Harry E Sharpe Joanna C Slack Emma J Stone Michael J Streule Lee Taitz Cian R G Wilson Patrick F A Williams Damian J L Woods CM Simon Yau College Organ Scholars Kieron W Galliard Richard M Holdsworth College Choral Scholars Philippa C Caldicott Genevieve J-M de la Bat Smit Jennifer J Taylor Hilary M Wilman Ruth F Evans Fatemah M T Mafi Zachary S Perry Joanne M Robertshaw Kate L Wilkinson

College Honorary Scholars Laura J R Bradley Oliver J Dahin Steven S Dionne Graeme P Doran Hanna I M Eriksson Dominic P J Howard Geoffrey R Lloyd Thomas C Newcomb Tracey S Pratt Lucy A Reynolds Alison M Waterfall Adam Whitworth College Exhibitioners Yiu-Bong Au Martin J Beat Melissa J A Bradshaw Mark Belcher Daniel R Crick Steven P Chambers Julien Dusonchet Simon J Dambe Antony Hawkins Araz Enyati Rad Charles P Hotham Esther M Holloway Victoria A J ackson Arin Jumpasut Malcolm T Lee Robert C Mann Mark Mansell Jonathan W McCormick Daniel C Mendis Aram Mikaelian Coral M Miles Emily J Miller J essica M Moo re Aristeidis Papathanos Sean T Parry Mary Partridge Christopher J Stephens Jennifer J Taylor Harriet E Varcoe Lisa E Watkinson Caroline E Whitwood Crispian W Wilson William York Moore University Graduate Scholars and Students Biochemistry: Oliver Daltrop Michael L Cartron Chemistry: Janette M Hudson Engineering Science: Marko Bacic Stella W Kariuki Andnis Lengyel Geography: Lorenz Werndle Law: Nicola Countouris Materials Science: Marina Galano Catherine H Crane Psychology: Thomas A Price Theology:

Other College Awards and Prizes

Brockhues Graduate Awards Marko Bacic Philip J Cardinale Sjoerd Levelt

Laura J R Bradley Nicola Countouris

Mrs Brown Bursary Lucy A Reynolds Almut R Sprigade

Cochrane Scholarship Fund Coral M Miles Nicholas Renshaw Helen E Stevens

Emily J Miller William M F Scott

David Cox Prize W Michael F Scott

Richard Fargher Bursary Emily J Miller Nicholas Renshaw

Philip Geddes Memorial Prize (St Edmund Hall) N atalie R Toms

Lynn Gilbert Bursary Polin Foo

Gosling Postgraduate Bursary Roberto Scipioni Teddy Tjandra

Graham Hamilton Travel Award Jonathan F Akehurst Paul Garver Connie Y-N Kwok lain K Porter Christopher J Stephens

Henry A K Bourne Harriet I Kemp Olivier A P Noterdaeme Hugh C Samuel

Instrumental Bursaries Camilla M J Day Henry M Fagg

KLegal Scholarship for Law Moderations Alison C Debattista

Michael Pike Prize Gareth J Walliss

Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Paul A Jenkins

William R Miller Graduate Awards Oliver Daltrop Katarzyna A Zalanowska

Thomas E Karshan

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If you would like to collect your degree the application form is downloadable from the Aularians section of the college website (www.seh.ox.ac.uk). Alternatively please contact the College Office, who will be able to supply you with a form.

The University has imposed various quotas on candidates per college on each ceremony, so it cannot be taken for granted that a degree may be taken on a chosen date. The current availability of places for each ceremony can be found on the website. On receipt of the application form, candidates will be informed as to whether it has been possible to enter them for the ceremony in question. The summer ceremonies become booked up extremely quickly. The quota system does not apply to degrees taken in absentia. It is possible to book in absentia for any ceremony, given three weeks notice. 90

THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE NEWS I have now been at the college for almost two years and the time has flown by. It has been a pleasure getting involved in the life of the college, meeting so many Aularians and also students. I am very grateful for the support I have received from the Governing Body. Individual members are always interested in what is happening on the development front and ready to offer help and advice. This year the college made a major financial commitment to development by allowing me to recruit an additional member of staff to put greater drive behind the Campaign. Ann Lehane joined us as Deputy Development Director in February having been successful out of a field of 50 applicants. She has worked in important development jobs at both LSE and University College London in the last twelve years. She is in day-to-day charge of the Development Office so that I have more time to get out and meet Aularians both in the UK and overseas, and to seek major gifts. Ann has been concentrating particularly on telephone fundraising and soliciting donations from trusts and foundations. The current fundraising Campaign, which was set up to raise £7 million by the end of 2005, continues to attract much needed support from Aularians and other benefactors of the Hall. The 2003 telephone campaign was a huge success. £150,000 was pledged by Aularians who were telephoned by current Hall students during the two-week campaign in March. We have already received 95 % of pledged funds and are most grateful to Aularians who participated and generously supported the Hall. Of course it is all too easy to judge the success of the telephone campaign solely in financial terms. The student callers join me in thanking alumni for the absorbing and sometimes inspiring conversations that took place during the campaign. The telephone campaign specifically offered Aularians the opportunity to support the John Kelly Fund for Student Hardship and the construction of a much-needed new accommodation building in Dawson Street. Building work at Dawson Street is now well under way and it should be ready for opening in September 2004. We need just under £I m to complete the funding of the 55 additional student rooms the building will provide. Some year groups and country groups

are working together to raise £25,000 to name a room in the new building, and the 1960 year group have already raised enough to name a room between them. It is not such a daunting task to raise significant sums in this way - individual year group members make donations of around £50 to £100 a year each- and other year groups are encouraged to lead similar initiatives. The Development Office would be pleased to help you get off the ground so please do contact me if you would like to show your support in this way.

Matric. Year Pre-1940 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 (*)

Donations to Campaign 2000 by Year (*)% Matric. (*)% Matric. Donating Year Donating Year Donating 7.80 1960 51.35 1981 8.33 8.51 1961 29.66 1982 12.14 12.50 1962 26.12 1983 13.64 12.22 1963 13.18 1984 10.34 9.47 1964 14.69 1985 11.39 8.74 1965 17.29 1986 13.33 14.10 1966 13.11 1987 6.37 27.50 1967 15.75 1988 11.33 11.81 20.51 1968 1989 6.92 27.45 1969 10.64 1990 9.09 32.91 1970 10.14 1991 8.84 19.30 1971 17.24 1992 6.21 28.38 1972 15.07 1993 8.59 13.97 1994 4.17 25.58 1973 1974 21.43 17.02 1995 3.57 16.84 1975 11.35 1996 2.35 23.47 1976 16.94 1997 6.57 35.29 1977 12.84 1998 2.55 16.13 12.60 3.60 1978 1999 13.45 1979 9.59 2000 2.82 17.97 1980 12.50 2001 1.09 lOTAL 14.38 Total number of donors as a percentage of the total number ofAularians who matriculated in a particular year. (*)%

The percentage donating is affected by the number of missing addresses and the number of deceased Aularians notified to the Development Office. Overall the addresses of 20% of Aularians are missing on our database. Excluding Aularians whose addresses are missing, the donation rate is over 20%.

The Hall is indebted to all its individual donors. I should also like to thank Tony Best (1979, PPE) for his generous donation in 2003 in support of student bursaries and also Howard Coates (1966) and the Shaw Foundation for their help with the new building. I would like to thank several Aularian lawyers who have given generous support to the Law Fellowship in the last year. The Wolfson Foundation has also pledged a magnificent ÂŁ100,000 towards 4 rooms at the Dawson Street residence and we are hoping to attract further donations from charitable trusts in the coming year. We would be very interested to hear from you if you have knowledge of any charitable trusts that would be interested in supporting the Hall. I would also like to thank those who help the college with advice and the offer of a variety of services free of charge; these are greatly appreciated and are every bit as valuable as financial support. For instance, many of you help undergraduates with career advice, and it was great to see a high student turn-out at the City Chapter Careers Day in November. An early start for London is not always popular (albeit a valuable lesson in the rigours of a life in the City), but there was the inducement of breakfast on the coach. The Campaign total has now reached ÂŁ5.5 million and over 1,300 Aularians have made a donation. The campaign total has increased by exactly ÂŁ1m compared with the total given in last year's magazine. It is very encouraging that we have reached 78 % of the target already and we are planning the 'final push' over the next eighteen months with anticipation. We hope you will join us in celebrating the final stage of the Campaign. The 2004 telephone campaign will again take place in March. We also plan a small telephone campaign early in October this year. I shall be visiting Aularians across the USA in late October and am looking forward to the experience immensely. I hope to be able to discuss ideas and suggestions for the future of the Hall with a number of US Aularians. As well as the customary programme of Gaudies and Reunions to expect in the coming year, we are also planning some special events . In the last year we have organised some events for lawyers - a dinner for Jeffrey Hackney and a drinks party at Lincolns Inn. In 2004 we will be inviting Physics alumni to attend an evening event at which our new Fellow in Physics, Jeffrey Tseng (MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins) will give a lecture. This will take place at the Royal Society in February.

We will also be inviting all Medics back to the Hall for a reunion in April. We haven ' t forgotten of course, that we have an important milestone to celebrate this academic year - 25 years of women at the Hall! We are planning a suitable celebratory event to commemorate the occasion. Finally, in September, we hope officially to open the residence at Dawson Street. I very much look forward to meeting many more Aularians and donors at these events. Of course, much as we encourage Aularians to attend St Edmund Hall events, or to drop into the Development Office when you are in Oxford, we realise that many of you don't get the opportunity to do so. We are pleased that so many of you are keeping in contact through e-mail and the St Edmund Hall website (www.seh.ox.ac.uk). We recently published a new Email newsletter about events at the Hall and we shall make this a regular feature in future. During the coming year, we will be improving the content and accessibility of our website and by the end of the year, the Development Office is planning to acquire a new database with full web functionality. In real terms, this will make it easier for you to update your details and contact fellow alumni from anywhere in the world as long as you have access to a computer! We have some way to go in the next twelve months before we reach this stage but we are ably supported by Francis Pocock and the St Edmund Hall Association, who should take much of the credit for this initiative. We hope to have the new user-friendly system ready for you by the end of 2004. I would like to thank Aularians everywhere for their continued support and interest in the college. It is essential that we develop this community of interest if the college is to grow and prosper in the 21 ' 1 century. Terence Cudbird Development Director

1992 Re-fresher Lunch 21'' September 2002

The 'Re-fresher' informal lunch to mark 10 years since matriculation was held for the 1992 year group on a beautifully warm and sunny autumn afternoon. Guests were able to enjoy pre-dinner drinks outside in the front quad before tucking in to a hot buffet lunch in the Old Dining Hall. Most guests had booked overnight accommodation in Hall and the Buttery Bar was still doing business at midnight, which can probably be taken as a sign that a good time was had by all! The event was attended by Jessica Beery, Ratna Bhattacharya with Howard Dalton , Caroline Booth , Tim Bryars with Naomi Tinsley, Andrew Calabrese, Anne Caley, Alice Clay, Lucy Clowes, Matthew Doran with Maria Meadows, Steven Fisher, Julia Hamilton, Julian Jelfs, Kallina Bird, Simon McWhirter, Sam Mehta, Ryan Mills with Sally Hackett, Flora Nuttgens with Michael Hordern, Sarah O' Neill, Jane Penrose, Matt Purcell with Vanessa White, Jon Richards, Gareth Scholey, David Skeet, Wayne Smith with Rachel Rowe, Matt Weaver, Claire Webb with Richard Pugh, Chris Whitehouse with Debbie Hofert and Naho Yamazaki.

Annual Gaudy for 1983 - 1989 28'h September 2002 The Annual Gaudy was held for Aularians who matriculated between 1983 and 1989 and was attended by 138 guests, which included 12 married couples (who had met each other at the college), one pair of sisters and one pair of brothers . It was one of the first gaudies the college had held that included as many female guests as male, as all the matriculation years invited were well into the period after the college

began admitting female students in 1979. Guests arrived from 4pm on a warm early autumn afternoon and took advantage of the weather to enjoy drinks from the Buttery Bar in the Front Quad. After the Principal's speech, which included stories and current affairs from the 1980's period, Chris Coltart (1987) gave a speech to thank the college on behalf of the Aularian guests involved and regaled them with some of the wilder escapades of what they had got up to during their student days. The Buttery Bar stayed open till 1a.m. and some guests were still enjoying the event when the sun came up! This year the Gaudy will be held for the youngest group of Aularians who matriculated between 1990 to 1997, and next year we will be inviting everybody who matriculated up to 1950. Aularian guests: Tim Fallowfield (1983), Simon Freethy (1983), Tarquin Grossman (1983), Kari Hale (1983), Liz Hale (nee Maybury, 1983), Max Irwin (1983), Denis Mustafa (1983), Cheng Tan (1983), Mark Triggs (1983), Julian Cole (1984), Stephen Crummett (1984), Julian Day (1984 ), Alison Fallowfield (nee McCormick, 1984 ), Mark Field (1984), Steve Geelan (1984), Chris Giles (1984), Mark Hazlewood (1984), Fergus Heaton (1984), Neil James (1984), Murray King (1984), Bruce Major (1984), Sally Mann (nee Hughes, 1984), Steve Maw (1984 ), Ruth McQuillan (1984 ), Clare Minchington (1984 ), Robert 0' Keeffe (1984 ), Anthony Rossiter (1984 ), Andrew Steane (1984 ), Emma Titchener (nee Parsons, 1984), Amanda Turn bull (nee Varvnava, 1984), Harvey Wheaton ( 1984), Stephen Bartlett ( 1985), Kate Botting ( 1985), Isabel Cole (nee Fry, 1985), Andrew Gowans ( 1985), Jon Gulley (1985), Julia Little (1985), Mark Little (1985), Nick Peacock (1985), Sue Peacock (nee Hodgson, 1985), Clive Sentance (1985), Nicola Sentance (nee Baldwin, 1985), Emma Steane (nee Palmer, 1985), Jenny Taylor (1985), Judith Waring (nee Lacey, 1985), Andrew Watson (1985), Charlotte West (nee Crombie, 1985), Alexander Balfour (1986), Anna Botting ( 1986), Louise Cabral (nee Foister, 1986), Charles Carter (1986), Anthony Chalmers (1986), James Charles (1986), John Day J ones (1986) , Michael Evans (1986), David Gillett (1986), Louise Hardiman ( 1986), An drew Harrison ( 1986), Claire Harrison ( 1986), Stephen Haslehurst (1986), Brian Hepworth (1986), Neil Jacob (1986), Robert Jenkins (1986), David Kassler (1986), Rachel Kiddey (nee Trethewey, 1986), Greg Mott ( 1986), Kathy Neal (nee Smith, 1986), Phi! Richards (1986), Michael Stanislawski (1986), Johnny Waldron (1986), Sharon Williamson (1986), Dan Bayley (1987), Katherine

Charles (nee lnglis, 1987), Chris Col tart ( 1987), David Gomez ( 1987), Mary Harling (1987), Heather McCallum (1987), Peter O'Connell ( 1987), Kate Ralph ( 1987), Clare Rhodes-James ( 1987), David Waring ( 1987), Stefan Wickham ( 1987), Elise Billy (nee Camp bell, 1988), Doug Binks (1988), Manfred Braunsfurth (1988), Marcus Browning (1988), Dominic Devetta (1988), Jo Ensor (1988), James Ferguson (1988), J onathan Ferguson (1988), Christopher Garrison (1988), Kirsty Garrison (nee Davies, 1988), Keith Gordon (1988), Heather Gowans (nee Wenlock, 1988), Tony Greenham ( 1988), Richard Kilgariff ( 1988), Mark Lewis ( 1988), Katy M ann ( 1988), Andreas Mavrikakis ( 1988), Peter Othen ( 1988), Victoria Petersen ( 1988), Giles Saunders ( 1988), David Stewart (1988), Jonathan Tabinor (1988) , Rosie Wade (1988), Jonathan Williams ( 1988), Grania Baird (1989), Rob Barber (1989), Clare Rednall (nee Ash1ey-Smith, 1989), Richard Rednall ( 1989), Antonia Rowan (nee Wells, 1989), Chris Sawyer (1989), Fiona Sawyer (nee Mcdonald, 1989), Justin Wickham (1989) . Hall guests: Reggie Alton (Emeritus Fellow), Joanna Ashbourn (Fellow by Special Election), Mark Child (Emeritus Fellow), Peter Collins (Fellow), Nicola Countouris (MCR President), John Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Nicholas Crank (Fellow), Terry Cudbird (Development Director), John Dunbabin (Fellow) , Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer), Basil Kouvaritakis (Fellow), Paul Lewis (SEHA Honorary Secretary), Bill Miller (1949 and Honorary Fellow), Mike Mingos (Principal), Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Francis Pocock (SEHA President), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Senior Tutor), Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow), Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow) and Steve Watson (Fellow).

SEH City Careers Day 81h November 2002 The City Aularians Careers Day is aimed at giving Teddy Hall students an insight into the wide variety of City professions and careers that are open to bright graduates. An early start from Oxford did not deter 55 SEH students, who attended the day to find out more about the 'good, bad and ugly' of pursuing a career in the City. The event was kindly hosted by Norton Rose at their London offices off Liverpool Street.

The day certainly succeeded in giving students an overview of career options open to them. Students came away from the day with a much clearer idea of what was involved in a city career and how to take the first steps into the profession they were interested in. The Aularian speakers and all the Norton Rose arrangements were organised on behalf of the City Aularians by Donald Anderson ( 1961 ), who also gave the talk on Research and Braking. Thank you also to our other speakers: Ratna Bhattacharya, (1992, Actuarial Profession), lan Coleman, (1978, Accountancy), Simon Roberts, (1982, Fund Management), Bill Robinson, (1961, Consultancy), David Waring, (1987, Investment Banking) and Simon Cox at Norton Rose for giving a session on the legal profession. The New York Aularian Dinner

On November 8th, 2002 the traditional New York Aularian Dinner was again held at the Sky Club. Silence was observed in memory of Warne Boyce, Fletcher Newsum and Alien Walker Read, all of whom had died since the last Dinner. A special welcome was extended to Dr. Doreen Boyce, Honorary Fellow of Somerville College and Warne's widow. We were again delighted to have the Principal attend, together with Francis Pocock, President of the St Edmund Hall Association. Sixteen other Aularians were present: Christopher Ash ton (1991 )*, George Barner (1935), John Child (1967), Clarice Cloutier (2001)*, Jarvis Doctorow (1948), Paul Gladen (1985), David Harding (1977)*, Nick Howard (1976), Ed Ilgren (1976), William R. Miller (1949), Simon Pickard (1991), Gareth Roberts (1971), Peter Smith, Chris Simmonds (1981), Paul Taylor (1971)*, Steve Vivian (1977). *First time attendees. The Principal gave a very interesting update on the Hall's activities academically and in the sporting arena. We are always grateful for this since it keeps those of us "across the pond" better in touch with what is happening in Oxford. On the following morning, a fund-raising breakfast, chaired by Gareth Roberts also took place. We will meet again, for the nineteenth successive year, on November 7th at 6pm - this time at the Knickerbocker Club. Those interested in joining us please call 212/546-4412 or email William_r.miller@ bms. corn. Floreat Aula! William R. Miller

Dinner for Jeffrey Hackney 28 1h November 2002 Jeffrey Hackney, Emeritus Fellow and formerly Tutor in Law from 1964 to 1976, hosted a dinner for some of his past students in the Old Library on 28'h November 2002. 20 alumni attended the event and greatly enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with each other and with Jeffrey himself. Aularian guests: Richard Crookes (1962) , Rodger Hayward Smith (1962), Phi lip Hodson (1963), Keith Wise man (1964 ), Jeffrey Creek (1965), Nick Cross (1965), Ian Hewitt (1966), Michael Johns ( 1966), Jeremy Cooke (1967), Step hen Miller (1967) , Steven Groom (1969), Tim Statham (1969), Step hen Rosefield (1971 ), Tony Downes (1972), Robin Stephenson (1972), Brendan Kelly ( 1973), David Grice (1973), Stephen McNulty (1973) and Edward Gray (1974) .

House of Commons Dinner 2nd December 2002 The House of Commons was the venue for a dinner held on 2nd December for a small group of Aularians, including two of our four Aularian MPs . Amongst other topical subjects, the attitudes of the main political parties towards the funding of higher education were discussed. Guests: Brian Tovey (1944 ), I an Beesley (1960), Anthony Lewis (1960), Andrew Barker (1964), John Spellar MP (1966), Rupert Ruvigny (1977), Paul Farrelly MP (1981), Simon White (1982), Terry Cudbird (Development Director) and Mike Mingos (Principal).

"Mini-Reunion" in Devon On 9'h January 2003, a mini-reunion was held in the home of Mary and Revd Martin Rogers (1948) to which were invited Dr John Williams (1948) and his wife Margaret, Revd David Stephens (1948) and his wife Mary, and Revd Dr Rex Mason (1944) and his wife Audrey. Unfortunately Margaret Williams was not able to be present, but the seven who were had a most enjoyable time and of course toasted Floreat Aula! The four Aularians had known each other when up at Oxford but had not seen one another for 50 years or so. Three of them had been clergymen and John Williams is now a reader.

Pictured clockwise from top left: Martin Rogers, Rex Mason, David Stephens and John Williams

John Williams read Medicine and became a GP, following his Father who was a GP in Reading. Latterly he retired from being Director of Mount Edgecombe Hospice, St Austell. David Stephens was finally Vicar of Newton Abbott, Rex Mason was a Hebrew don at Oxford and Martin Rogers was latterly at Ripon & York College before retiring in 1996.

Campaign 2000: Benefactors' Dinner 71h February 2003 A dinner was held in college on 71h February 2003 to thank everyone who had given gifts of ÂŁ5 ,000 or more to the College since the start of the Campaign . The college is recording these donations in a Benefactors' Book, which is currently being compiled by a calligrapher to the same standard as the previous college Benefactors ' Books that date back to the seventeenth century. The calligrapher, Sylvia Thomas, was kind enough to come to the event and show guests samples of her previous work and her plans for the current book, which will be a more modern interpretation of the traditional manuscripts. Her attendance was much appreciated by all the guests present, who had the opportunity to discuss Sylvia's fascinating work with her. We hope

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the book will be finished next year and we plan to hold another event to mark its completion, to which all the Benefactors of the Campaign will be invited. Aularian benefactors and their guests: Parry Rogers ( 1942) and Juliet Rogers, Bemard Wheeler (1942), John Lloyd (1946) and Margaret Heybum, John Reddick (1947) and Yvonne Reddick, Ron Hall (1949) and Mark Hall, David Graham (1952) and Norman Gerald, David White (1952) and Mary White, David Wright (1952) representing Ernest Rawlinson (1928) and Nicholas Wright, Michael Hopkinson (1954 ), John Barker (1955), Ronald Hurren (1955) and Maureen Hurren, Michael Cansdale (1956), John Young (1956) and Will Young (2001), Alastair Stewart (1957), David Stedman (1959) representing Gamlen Charitable Trust, Michael Voisey (1959) and Penny Voisey, John Adey (1960) and Marianne Adey, Francis Pocock (1960) and Elizabeth Pocock, Michael Hamilton ( 1962) and Irena Hamilton, Mike Randall (1965) and Elisabeth Randall, Stephen Miller (1967) and Lucy Miller, Step hen Rosefield (1971 ), Christopher Reddick (1973) and Michele Reddick, Richard Gillingwater (1974) and Helen Gillingwater, Paul Matthews (1974 and Fellow by Special Election) and Catherine Matthews, Peter Watson ( 1975) and Mandy Watson, Nick Hamilton (1977) and Jane Hamilton, Marcel Haniff (1977), Steve Edwards (1978) and Rosalind Smith, Richard Luddington (1978) and J ane Haddock, Andrew Miller (1981) representing the Miller Family Foundation. Non-Aularian benefactors and their guests: Doreen Boyce (representing the late Warne Boyce, 1952) and Patrick Vaughan, Malcolm Elliot (representing the late Harold Shergold, 1934) and Dorothy Elliot, Celia Ennis (representing the late Bryan Matthews, Emeritus Fellow) and John Ennis, John Newsom-Davis (Emeritus Fellow), Tim Oliver (representing the Ironmongers Court), Michael Romain (SEH Fellow) and Michael Pederson, Rodney Stubblefield (representing the Gamlen Charitable Trust), Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election) and Gary Morris. Hall guests: Peter Collins (Fellow), Nicola Countouris (MCR President), Terry Cudbird (Development Director), John Dunbabin (Fellow), Deborah Eaton (Librarian), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer), John Knight (Vice-Principal), Duncan Maclaren (Chaplain), Mike Mingos (Principal) and Stacey Mingos, Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Oliver Petter (JCR 101

President), Christopher Phelps (Emeritus Fellow), David Phillips (Fellow), Gill Powell (Principal ' s PA) , David Priestland (Fellow), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Senior Tutor) , Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow) , Chris Wells (Fellow) , Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) and David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

Royal Geographical Society Lecture 20'h February 2003 A lecture and buffet dinner, organised by SEH Development Office, were held at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington in order to raise funds for the SEH fundraising campaign and the Hillary Himalayan Trust. Ulli~ Dr Sundeep Dhillon (1988) gave an exciting and gripping lecture entitled 'Climbing Into The Death Zone ' on his hair-raising mountaineering feats. At the age of 28 , he was the youngest person to have climbed the highest peak in every continent in the world and risked his own life to help others reach the summit of Everest in 1996. Sundeep's talk was introduced by General Sir Michael Rose ( 1960) and concluded by George Band, a member of the original Hillary expedition that reached the summit of Everest 50 years ago and a trustee of the Hillary Himalayan Trust. 430 tickets were sold for the lecture to Aularians and RGS members and over lOO Aularians and guests attended a buffet supper following Sundeep's talk. The event was kindly sponsored by Newton Investment Ltd., allowing the charities to benefit from ticket sales profits.

Aularian Law Professionals Drinks Reception London, 6'h March 2003 All Aularians working in the Law profession and living in London and the South East were invited to a drinks evening on 6111 March in The Crypt at Lincoln's Inn, London. The event was intended as a gathering for Aularians in the profession who may already have come across each other but also a chance for Aularians to make new connections in the field. It was also an opportunity to talk about the funding of the

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new Law fellowship. The event was hosted by Sir Stanley Burnton (1960) and Sir Jeremy Cooke (1967) and attended by over I 00 guests including current Law students and past and present Law tutors. Aularian guests: Michael Scott (194 7), Ron Hall (1949), Robert Sou than (1949), Geoffrey de Deney (1951 ), David Graham (1952), David Wright (1952), Alan Johnson (1953), Martin Reynolds (1956), Michael Cotton (1958), Patric Sankey-Barker (1960), Stanley Burnton (1960), Mike Simmie (1963), David MacKie (1964 ), Chris Alien (1965), Ian Hewitt (1966), Peter Irvin (1966), Michael Johns (1966), Jeremy Cooke (1967), Stephen Miller (1967), James Price (1969), Tiro Statham (1969), Peter Butler (1970), Bob Wilson (1970), Mark Booker (1971), Stephen Rosefield (1971), James Boff (1972), Edward Gray (1974), Gavin Hamilton (1975), Cameron Sunter (1975), Richard Cook (1976), Charles Debattista ( 1977), Paul Darling (1978), Paul Goulding (1978), Paul Meadows (1978), Mark Morrison (1978), Kate Jamieson (1979), Richard Ward (1979), Nick Caddick (1980), Jonathan Radcliffe (1980), Jenny Turner (1981), Nicholas Cox (1982), John Snape (1982), Harry Travers (1982), Edward Hayes (1983), Mark Field (1984), John Allison (1986), Lisa Booth (1986), John Day Jones (1986), Philip Waldner (1987), James Brace (1988), Andrew Hunter (1988), Grania Baird ( 1989), Stuart Borrie (1989), Jonathan Cotton (1989), Fiona Macdona1d (1989), Chris Sawyer (1989), Sara Bantges (1990), Andrew Dickinson (1990), David Gauke (1990), Robert Salter (1990), Jason Zemmel (1990), Andrew Barker (1991), Anne1i Howard (1991), David Woodfine (1991), Jon Richards (1992), Geraint Thomas (1992), Martin Goodwin (1993), Alastair Mordaunt (1993), David von Saucken (1993), Harry Oliver (1994), Piers Prichard Jones (1994), Alex ScottGall (1994), Duncan Stone (1996), Lucy Johnson (1997), Charles Light (1997), Joe Wood (1997), Ann-Marie Evans (1998), Kate Hughes (1998), Phillip McGhee (1998), Bjorn Benckert (1999), Gerard Milne (1999), Aoife Scannell (2000). Current Law student guests: Jessica Barker, Simon Barker, Sian Davies, Fiona Gillard, Mark Mansell, Jenny Nicholson, Christine Spencer, Robert Laurie, John Murphy. Hall guests: Nicolas Browne- Wilkinson (Honorary Fellow), Terry Cud bird (Development Director), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer), Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), Mike Mingos (Principal), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election), Derrick Wyatt (Fellow in Law), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow in Law).

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GAS found in Germany The latest boost to Germany's natural gas supplies took place in a small town in the Taunus Hills, not far from Frankfurt. The gas involved was mainly C02 and though no more than one engineer, one physicist and one chemist were present, Aularians made a massive contribution. The first-ever Reunion in Germany on March 22-23 attracted 15 Aularians and the Principal as guest of honour. Although very few of those present had met before, the Hall spirit proved indomitable. Within minutes of the welcoming handshake and several minutes after receiving the first beer (a good gassy draught beer takes a long time in Germany!), the men from the Hall were getting on like a house on fire. Only men, you may wonder? Sadly, the only woman to have booked for the Dinner was forced to cry off for work reasons.

Pictured from left to right: Roman Streitberger, Stuart Worthington (owner of the zebra-striped Porsche!), Paul Boothroyd, a half-hidden Manfred Braunsfurth, the Principal, Gabriel GIOckler, Scott Livermore and Greg Vanes

Roughly half the traceable German-based Aularians attended the Reunion, in itself impressive evidence of the incomparable ties that unite Aularians around the world. Not that age was a barrier, either, with matriculation dates ranging from the late-fifties to the mid-nineties. The evening itself was a great success, as evidenced by the

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spontaneous decision to make the Reunion an annual event - on the first weekend after the official start of spring. Appropriately enough given the way conversation flowed on well into the early hours, somebody suggested the name German Aularians' Society. And GAS it shall be. Besides sharing past Hall memories and present-day work experiences in and around Germany, the Aularians present were delighted to hear the Principal talk about current developments at the Hall, and not least the on-going fund-raising Campaign. German-based Aularians now have the chance to make tax-deductible donations to the Hall via the German Friends of Oxford University, a registered charity. "Gib' Gas fiir die Hall" as the Campaign's German motto? The German Aularians' Society has got off to a promising start and will hopefully draw in many of the untraceables on the Hall's "Germany database" as well as new arrivals in Germany in years to come. Floreat Aula and may the GAS keep flowing! The first-ever German Aularians' Dinner was attended by: The Principal, Ruben Bach (1994 ), Holger Blenske (1992), Paul Boothroyd (1975), Manfred Braunsfurth (1988), Eberhard Burghalter (1979), Andrew Craston ( 1970), Gabriel Glockler ( 1993), Scott Livermore (1993), Geoff Mortimer ( 1993), Florian Seubert (1995), Roman Streitberger (1996), Riidiger Stroh (1986), Greg Vanes (1974), John Walmsley (1957), Stuart Worthington (1982). For further details of GAS and future reunions please contact an drew@ craston.de 40th Anniversary Gaudy - 1963 28th March 2003

The 40th Anniversary Gaudy for the 1963 year group was held on 28th March 2003 and was attended by 32 Aularians and 15 Hall guests . Aularian guests had been asked to supply a synopsis of their life since leaving the Hall and these were compiled, along with scans of the matriculation photo from 1963 and various photos of the college's rowing teams, and handed to guests on their arrival as a memento of the occasion. Pre-dinner drinks were served in the Emden Room and dinner followed in the Old Dining Hall, the same room in which the Aularian guests used to eat their meals as students.

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Aularian guests: Darrell Barnes, David Baxter, Ian Bowers, Bob Broughton, William Chambers , David Clarke, John Crawshaw, Geoff Day, William Dodgson, Simon Downie, Peter Driscoll, Michael Foxon, Trevor Grove, John Haines, Colin Harding, Philip Hodson, Richard Holdsworth, Richard Hunt, David KingFarlow, Robert Mardling, Jeremy Mew, Douglas Morton, Rodney Offer, Richard Oliver, Terry Palmer, John Reid, Clive Sneddon, John Taylor, Nigel Thorp, Roger Truelove and Peter Webb. Hall guests: Jacquetta Blacker (Junior Dean), John Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Terry Cudbird (Development Director) , Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer), Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), Paul Lewis (SEHA Honorary Secretary), Duncan Maclaren (Chaplain), Mike Mingos (Principal), Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Francis Pocock (SEHA President), Philipp Podsiadlowski (Fellow), Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) and David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow). I l L __ _____,__

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Oxford University Alumni Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament This year the tournament (in which alumni of 10 colleges take part) was organised by St Edmund Hall and took place on 11th April at the usual venue of Frilford Heath Golf Club. 95 Oxford alumni took part in the event and the St Edmund Hall team came in a very respectable third place in the main tournament. We were narrowly beaten out of second place by Merton, whose last player to arrive back in from the course achieved the highest individual score of the tournament and propelled Merton into second place. In the 9 Hole tournament David McCammon ( 1961) and George Marsh (1961) tied for first place with a pairing from St Catherine's.

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David McCammon ( 1961) and Duncan Fitzwilliams ( 1962)

The post-tournament dinner was held at Trinity College and was attended by the majority of alumni involved , their guests and Development Office staff from 10 colleges. The final scores for the main tournament were as follows: Corpus Christi 203, Merton 200, St Edmund Hall 194, University 187, St Catherine's 184, Pembroke 182, New 180, Trinity 178, Exeter 166, Oriel 152. Many thanks to Chris Atkinson (1960) who worked closely with the SEH Development Office to organi se the day and also to our team members: Gerald Barber (1963), Frank Bishop (1955), Terence Coghlin (1960) , Duncan Fitzwilliams (1962), Ken Hinkley-Smith (1960), Arwyn Hughes (1962), Robin Kemp (1958), George Marsh (1961), David McCammon (1961), George Ritchie (1960) and Mike Simmie (1963). Next year the tournament will be organised by New College Development Office. If you are a golf player with a recognised handicap and would like to play in next year's tournament, please contact Felicity Hampson in the Development Office (01865 289 180).

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The Summer Reunion 28'h June 2003

After the family garden party held in 2002, this year the Summer Reunion reverted to the traditional black-tie dinner format, to which all Aularians were invited. Some Aularian guests arrived at lunchtime, to attend the lunch to commemorate Bob Breese's 50 years of SEHA committee membership. The majority of guests arrived for the dinner from around 4pm onwards and as the weather was so beautiful were able to enjoy cold drinks from the Buttery Bar and then pre-dinner drinks in the Front Quad. Dinner, held in the Wolfson Hall, was enjoyed by everyone, largely due to the hard work of the kitchen and servery staff. The meal was followed by speeches by the Principal, who updated guests on the college's news and fundraising projects , and Francis Pocock, president of the SEHA, who thanked the college on behalf of the Aularians present. Aularian guests: Charles Mounsey (1940), Den is Akehurst (1941 ), Colin Weir (1941), Bernard Wheelter (1942), David Goldsmith (1945), Neville Haile (1945), Latimer Tuke (1945), David Dunsmore (1946), Thomas Le Mesurier (1946), John Cockshoot (1947), Michael Dobbyn (1947), Barrie Evans (1947), Peter Barker (1949), Bob Breese (1949), James McManus (1949), Bill Miller (1949 and Honorary Fellow), Robert Southan (1949), Robert Strapps (1949), Roger Adcock (1950), Christopher Armitage (1950), Allan Jay (1951), David Jacobs (1952), 108

Christopher Jones (1952), Alan Simmonds (1952), Ernest Fox (1953), Christopher Jones (1953), William Perry (1953), John Billington (1955), Paul Lewis (1955), Michael Cansdale (1956), Fred Farrell (1956), Derek Hockridge (1956), Paul Tempest (1956), Robin Blackburn (1957), John Phillips (1957), Michael Beard (1958), Roger Garratt (1958), Anthony Phillips (1958), John Collingwood (1959), Brian Robson ( 1959), Stew art Walduck ( 1959), Francis Pocock ( 1960), John Heggadon (1961 ), Jim de Rennes (1962), Will Hatcher (1962), Simon Downie (1963), David Hansom (1966), Stephen Allchin (1967), Roger Kenworthy (1967), James Mosley (1967), Sudhir Kapoor (1968), Ian Busby (1969), Michael Ko (1969), Timothy Stibbs (1969), James Whelan (1969), Peter Butler (1970), Francis Hansom (1970), John Naisby (1970), Lawrence Cummings (1971 ), Ross Monro (1972), Andrew Peacock (1972), Jack Smith (1974), Raoul Cerratti (1974), Peter Desmond (1974), Andrew Eggleston (1974), Jerry Gray (1974), J osh Herlihy (197 4 ), Daniel J ennings (197 4 ), Christopher J ones (1974), Peter Tudor (1974), Gordon Hurst (1975), Alan Lomas (1975), Clarke Richards (1975), Brian Denton (1976), Richard Finch (1976), Robert Head (1976), Jonathan Reynolds (1976), Ces Shaw (1976), Simon Staite (1976), Ian Taylor (1976), Peter Trowles (1976), Jeremy Young (1976), Gareth Robson (1977), John Tate (1977), Chris Fidler ( 1978), David Hollomby (1978), Susanna Berry (1982), David Heaps (1982), William Jones (1982), Adrian Sandbach (1982), Robert Schofield (1982), lvan Gazidis (1983), Emma Walker (1983), Betsy Tyler Bell (1985), Andrew Harrison (1986), Neil Jacob (1986), Phil Richards ( 1986), Sharon Williamson ( 1986), Mary Harling ( 1987), Philip Waldner (1987), James Ferguson (1988), Giles Saunders (1988), Simon Waters (1988) and Napier Fuller (1995). Hall guests: Jacquetta Blacker (Junior Dean), John Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Terry Cudbird (Development Director), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), John Knight (Fellow), Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), Mike Mingos (Principal), Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Philip Mountford (Fellow), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Christopher Phelps (Emeritus Fellow), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Ian Scargill (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Senior Tutor), Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow), Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) and David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

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Rhodes Centenary Celebrations and SEH Scholars' Dinner 2"d to 51h July 2003 All alumni who attended the university as Rhodes scholars were invited by Rhodes House to participate in the British celebrations to mark I 00 years since the establishment of the Rhodes Trust. The centenary had already been marked at events in Cape Town, South Africa from 25'h January to 2"d February 2003. Many alumni travelled from all over the globe to take part in the events in Britain, which ran from 2"d to 5'h July. The celebrations commenced with a Gala Evening at Westminster Hall and the National Portrait Gallery in London and included Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela as guests. Scholars were then invited to Oxford for the next three days where the celebrations continued. Events organised by Rhodes House over this period included lectures, tours, honorary degree ceremonies, class lunches and even a cricket match! Over a third of our total number of Rhodes scholars had joined the centenary events in London and Oxford, many of whom stayed in the college during this time. As part of the celebrations, each college

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held an event for its own alumni and a dinner was held at the college on 4th July for our own scholars and their guests. Aularian guests: Ewell Murphy ( 1948) with Michael Murphy and Megan Murphy, Michael Jaffey (1949), Hugh Long (1949) with Linda Long, Theo Lombard ( 1956) with Lorraine Lombard, William Yeowart (1959), Larry Pressler (1964) with Carol Ann Garrick, Tom Bedford (1965), Humphrey Nicholls (1965) with Angela Nicholls, Michael Stone (1966), Hugh Anderson (1957) with Caroline Anderson, Peter Wilson (1967) with Vera Wilson, Richard Balfour (1971), Peter Lever (1971) with Julia Lever, Robert Tait (1972) with Robyn Tait, Charles Debattista (1977) with Maryann Debattista, Daud Khan (1979) with Mikal Khan and Dario Khan, Warren Cabral ( 1982) with Louise Cabral (1986), Elizabeth Hollingworth (1984) with Jonathan Dobson, James Himes (1988) with Mary Himes, Andrew La Trobe (1989), Richard Zugic (1995) with Myrto Zugic, Ana Unruh (1996) with Clark Cohen. Hall guests: Terry Cudbird (Development Director), Nick Davidson (Fellow), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer), John Knight (Fellow), Basil Kouvaritakis (Fellow), Mike Reed (Fellow), Nick Stone (Fellow) with Jirina Stone and Amy Zavatsky (Fellow).

The City Aularians The City Aularians have two broad aims: to provide both social and work-related occasions for Aularians working in the City to meet each other; and to provide current students with informal opportunities to become better informed about career opportunities in the City. During the last year there have been two gatherings at which college members past and present have spoken about their work. On December 16th, Dr Dimitrios Tsomocos, the Hall's new Tutorial Fellow in Management Studies (Finance), spoke about his research into capital adequacy to a number of City Aularians at Price Waterhouse Coopers in Embankment Place, London. A second event was held on June 4th in the Inner Temple, London, at which Samira Ahmed ( 1986), who presents the Channel 4 News with Jon Snow, spoke about the recent media coverage of the Iraqi war. Her talk was followed by a lively discussion on the subject. On the social side, Angharad FitzwilliamLay (1998) organised a drinks evening in a bar in Liverpool Street on 27th March. The evening was a great success and attended by over 45 of our younger members. We aim to hold a similar event next year.

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On November 8th 55 current Hall students attended the annual Careers Day held at Norton Rose. They heard several presentations from City Aularians who talked about the steps needed to move into their fields and the opportunities open to students who pursue these careers. During the year Ian Coleman (1978), assisted by Philip Broadley ( 1980), has taken over the Chairmanship. Both of them would like to thank everyone who has participated in the programme, and especially Michael Hamilton (1962), the founding chairman, who stepped down last year. Aularians with an interest in the City are very welcome to join us and can either contact Ian directly at ian.coleman@uk.pwcglobal.com or through the Development Office (development.office@seh.ox.ac.uk) who will put you in touch with him.

Donors to "Campaign 2000" since 1st August 2002 Mr John R Adcock ( 1950) Mr Mark I Adlestone (1978) Mr N icholas J Akrill ( 1967) The Late Mr Christian E Albert (1965) Mr John D Andrewes (1956) Mr Michael L Andrews ( 1958) Mr Michael J Archer (1957) Mr Brian C Arthur (1950) Mr Balakumar V Arumugam ( 1991) The Late Revd Thomas E M Ashton (1933) Mr Ian P Asquith ( 1955) Mr Phi lip J Asquith (1975) Ms Carol EAtherton (1991) Mr J Colin Atkinson ( 1956) Reverend John M Austin ( 1959) Mr Paul W Badman ( 1965) Reverend John A Baker ( 1949) Mr Laurence K Baker ( 1960) Mr William R Baker ( 1976) Mr An drew J Baldwin ( 1975) Mr Gerald W P Barber ( 1962) Mr Andrew C Barker (1964)

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Or Dun can J Barker ( 1991) Mr Christian Bamer The Late Mr George B Barn er ( 1935) Mr Darrell M Bames ( 1963) Mr James N Barry (1965) Mr John A Bartram (1972) Mr Brian Battye (1969) Professor William R Bauer ( 1961) Or Melissa C Bearchell ( 1993) Mr Daniel Beard ( 1987) Mr Michael J Beard ( 1958) Reverend Or Roger T Beckwith ( 1949) Mr Step hen J Bedford ( 1970) Or David C Bel den ( 1967) Mr David H Bennett ( 1945) Mrs Aoife M M Bennett-Odlum ( 1982) Mr Anthony J Best ( 1979) Ms Mary Betley ( 1986) Lt Commander Andrew Betton (1987) Miss Elizabeth P A Biagioni ( 1989) Mr James M Bilton ( 1975) Canon Or Frederick H Bird ( 1959) Ms Kallina Bird ( 1993) Mr Mark J Bishop ( 1980)

Professor Gerald H Blake ( 1957) Mr Godfrey A Blakeley (1956) Dr David C Blakey ( 1977) MrJohn Bloomer(l984) Mrs Lucia W Bly ( 1988) Mr James C Boff(l972) Mr David M Bolton (1960) Mrs Lee E H Bond ( 1988) Ms Deborah J Booth ( 1985) Mr Martin J Borrett ( 1986) Mrs Helen M Boy ling ( 1987) Mr Richard J Brake ( 1959) Mr Paul A Brandon ( 1990) Or Harald E Braun ( 1991) Dr Manfred G Braunsfurth ( 1986) Mrs Cheng H Bray ( 1983) Mr !an R Briars ( 1956) Mr Christopher D Broad ( 1983) Mr A Blake Bromley ( 1956) Mr Mark R Broughton ( 1978) MrColin L Brown(l962) Mr Simon A Brown (1991) Mr Martin R Buckley ( 1961) Mr Peter M M Buechel ( 1980) Mr Kenneth A Bulgin (1953) Mr Basil J Bumett-Hitchcock ( 1962) Ms Carolyn S Burroughs ( 1990) Mr Martin J Burton ( 1980) Mr Martin H Butcher ( 1964) Mr Mark K Campbell ( 1981) Mr M ichael J Cansdale ( 1956) Dr Yasmin H Carim ( 1984) Mrs Margaret A M Carver ( 1982) Mr William J L Carver ( 1980) Miss Caroline Catmur ( 1999) Mr Robert E Cawthome ( 1973) Dr Raoul Cerratti (1974) Mr Geoffrey K Chamberlain ( 1973) Mr William R Chambers ( 1963) Mrs Kathryn A Chapman ( 1990) Mrs Katherine A Chaytor ( 1979) Dr John J L Chelsom ( 1980) Mr Step hen W R Chevis ( 1980)

Mr John S Child ( 1967) Mrs Diana L Chitty ( 1980) Mr Thomas G Christopherson ( 1982) Miss Amanda J Clapinska ( 1995) Mr David R Clarke ( 1963) Mr Robert W Clarke (1964) Mr John F Clarkson ( 1970) Mr John F Claxton ( 1952) Mr Martin D Clifford ( 1957) Mr Howard B Coates (1966) Dr William B Cogar (1976) Mr Lewis P Coghlin (1987) Mr Stephen M Coldicott (1974) Dr Julian N Cole ( 1984) Mrs Kathryn J Coleman ( 1983) Mr Nigel C Coles ( 1970) Mr Robert C Collie (1983) Mr John H E Col ton ( 1972) Mr RobertA M Constant (1983) The Hon Mr Justice Cooke (1967) Mr An drew J Cooper ( 1976) Mr John H Cooper-Poole (1956) Mr Phillip V Copley (1970) Mr Lawrence Corrigan ( 1967) Mr C W Brian Costeloe ( 1941) Reverend Tony E F Coulson ( 1952) Mr Peter R Cowles (1964) Dr !an R Cox ( 1969) Mr and Mrs Steven Cox Mr Jeffrey Creek ( 1965) Mr Richard N Crookes ( 1962) Mr Kevin J Crossley-Holland ( 1959) Mr Stephen P Crummett (1984) Mr Eric L Cunnell ( 1949) Mrs Catherine L Dale (1982) Mr Peter Dawes Mr A Alec Dawson (1969) Mr Bryan P Dawson ( 1969) Reverend Dr Reynaud de la Bat Smit (1978) Mr James R de Rennes ( 1962) Mr Anthony G Deakin ( 1972) Or David R Denholm ( 1986)

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Mr John M Dennis ( 1965) Mr Christopher J Dew (1978) Mr An drew J Dickinson ( 1990) Mr John F Dixon ( 1943) Mr Jarvis Doctorow (1948) Reverend Duncan S Dorrnor (1957) Mr Stephen R Douglas (1973) Mr Stewart CH Douglas-Mann (1956) Mr Stanley G Downey (1944) Mr Thomas RH du Boulay (1974) Mr John H Ducker ( 1956) Mr Michael P Duffy ( 1954) Ms Rosalind Duncanson-Hunter (1993) Revd David W Edmondson ( 1971) Mr Christopher J Elston (1976) Mr Robert G Emery ( 1956) Mr Angus J K Erskine ( 1960) Ms Tessa R Evans ( 1991) Mr Huw D Evans-Malliard (1972) Mr Christopher B Ewart ( 1980) Mr J Lawton Fage ( 1955) Or Geoffrey W Farquharson ( 1976) Mr Roger AFarrand (1955) Mr John C Fazackerley ( 1971) Or Katherine A Finucane ( 1980) Mr David J Firth ( 1981) Mr David R Firth ( 1985) Or Kevin M Fisher ( 1970) Or Steven G Fisher ( 1992) Mr David H Fitzwilliam-Lay ( 1952) Mr James C Forbes (1951) Mr John A Ford (1957) Mr J Guy Franks (1982) Mr WaiterS Fraser (1986) Prof Juano J Frausto da Silva ( 1960) Very Reverend David Frayne (1955) Mr RobertA Fryer (1974) Professor David M Galloway ( 1967) Or Martin Garrett (1975) Mr Christopher S Garrison ( 1988) Mr Christopher Gee ( 1985)

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Or Step hen D Geelan ( 1984) Mr Vassos J Georgiadis ( 1992) Professor Robert D Gillard ( 1956) Miss Bridget J G lassey ( 1991) Mr D Charles Glynne-Jones ( 1956) Mr Torstein 0 Godeseth ( 1971) Mr Jeremy C Goff(1973) Ms Sarah A Good ( 1985) Mr Keith M Gordon ( 1988) Or Martin J Gorrod ( 1985) Or John R W Gove ( 1975) Mr Jeremy AB Gray(1974) Mr David W Grice ( 1973) Mr Brian G Griffiths ( 1968) Captain Peter AD Griffiths ( 1966) Mr Michael J Grocott ( 1961) Or Grant P Guy er ( 1977) Mr Richard D Haddon ( 1958) Mrs ElisabethA Hale (1983) Mr Kari A Hale ( 1983) Professor Lawrence J Hall (197 4) Mr David C R Harding ( 1977) Mr David Harrison (1969) Or Michael R Harrison ( 1963) Mr Robert S Harrold ( 1998) Mrs Margaret Harrold Or Clive R Hartshorn ( 1965) Mr Richard W Harvey (1960) Mr Step hen P Haslehurst ( 1986) Mr William H Hatcher (1962) Or Brian Hattersley ( 1961) Mr Michael T Hayes ( 1942) Mr Peter J Ha yes ( 1960) Mr L Harrison Haynes (1994) Mr Rodger Hayward Smith ( 1962) Or Kenneth S Heard (1960) Mr Robert D Heam (1964) Mr R Fergus Heaton (1984) Mr David Henderson ( 1956) Mr R David D Henderson ( 1960) Mr Nicholas R Herrod-Taylor (1973) Or John F Hewitson (1974) Mr J Anthony C Hey ( 1963)

Professor Oavid B Hicks ( 1962) Mr Peter G Hill ( 1974) Mr Peter J Hill son ( 1953) Mr James A Himes ( 1988) Mr Kenneth L Hinkley-Smith ( 1960) Mr Stephen J Hobson ( 1976) Mr Oerek J Hockridge ( 1956) Mr Richard Hodgkins ( 1987) Ms Susan M Hodgkins ( 1987) Mrs Heather J Hodgkinson ( 1988) Mr John G Hodgson ( 1979) Mr Stephen C Hodgson ( 1985) Mr Peter R Hodson ( 1964) Mr John 0 Holden ( 1988) Ms Catrina Holme ( 1989) Mr James A Hook (1993) Reverend Preb Oerek R Hooper (1954) Mr Keith M Homer ( 1943) Mr Brian M Howe ( 1959) Mr Arwyn Hughes (1962) Mr Oonald C Hughes ( 1956) Mr Maxwell R S lrwin ( 1983) Mr Geoffrey S Jackson ( 1941) Mr Laurence A Jackson ( 1968) Mr Neil A Jacob ( 1986) Mr Oavid M Jacobs ( 1952) Mr J Michael Jaffey ( 1949) Mr Neil A James ( 1984) Mrs Catherine A Jamieson ( 1979) Mr RobertAJeavons (1974) Mr Eric S G Jelinek ( 1958) Ms Sarah A Jennings ( 1980) Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco Ms Lucy A Johnson ( 1997) Or Simon A Johnson ( 1978) Mr Alan J G Jones (1949) Mr Barnaby H F Jones ( 1999) Or Christopher G Jones ( 1953) Mr John Kendall ( 1970) Ms E Emma Kennedy ( 1986) Mr Roger A Kenworthy ( 1967)

Or Graham B Kerr ( 1960) Or Bashir A Khan ( 1983) Mr John W King ( 1935) Mr Thomas M King ( 1968) Mrs Gillian Kinnear (1979) Mr Kevin G Knibbs ( 1990) Mr Anthony J Knight ( 1945) Canon Oavid C Knight ( 1966) Mr Michael C Ko ( 1969) Professor Verdel A Kolve ( 1958) Mr Suveer Kothari ( 1997) Mr Shepard Krech (1967) Mr N igel 0 Laing ( 1973) Mr Peter J Lakey (1966) Mr John J Langridge ( 1960) Mr John P A Lark in ( 1983) Mr Christopher S Latimer ( 1976) Mr Simon F Laurence ( 1959) Mr Timothy S Lavender ( 1969) Professor Clive J Lawless ( 1956) Mr Gary M Lawrence ( 1980) Mr Peter 0 Lawrence ( 1950) Mr Jeremy BC Lazenby ( 1972) Mr JonathanA Leakey (1980) Or Thomas J S Learner ( 1984) Ms Elizabeth J Lee ( 1990) Mr Oavid A Leggett ( 1971) Mr Oavid R Lemer ( 1969) Me Peter A Lever ( 1971) Mr Anthony M Lewis ( 1960) Mr John N Lindsay ( 1964) Mr Ian G Lines ( 1984) Mr Mark R Little ( 1985) Mr Kuang Liu ( 1999) Mr N Frank Lockhart ( 1952) Professor Jonathan H Lovell ( 1967) Professor Edward J Lowe ( 1974) Mr John C Lowe ( 1954) Mr James R B Lyle ( 1980) Revd Canon John H J MacLeay ( 1951) Mr Shaun S MacLoughlin ( 1954) Mr John S Madgwick ( 1980) Mr lain N Maidment ( 1977)

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Mr James C Markwick ( 1956) Mr James P Marsh ( 1961) Mr An drew N Marsh all ( 1983) Mr Oavid J Marshallsay ( 1955) Mr Ho ward G Mason ( 1972) Or 8rian C Masters (1955) Professor Paul M Matthews ( 1974) Mr Simon J Maxwell (1967) Mr Alexander McCallum ( 1960) Mr Oenis J McCarthy ( 1952) Mr Nigel G McCrea (1970) Professor Malcolm McOonald ( 1959) Mrs Nicola M McGee (1984) Mr John F Mclntyre (1964) Mr !an C Mclsaac ( 1975) Mr James N McManus ( 1949) Mr Step hen J McNulty ( 1973) Mr Paul A Meadows (1978) Mr 0 Edward H Mellish ( 1957) Mr Oavid M Meredith ( 1964) Mr Geoffrey R Mihell ( 1957) Mr Hugh L Miller (1995) Or Richard G Miller(l970) Mr Step hen M Miller ( 1967) Mr Jan C Milligan ( 1988) Ms Clare Minchington ( 1984) Or Ray F Montague (1980) Mr Graham R J Morris ( 1961) Or Geoffrey Mortimer ( 1993) Mr Patrick L Mortimer ( 1950) Mr Paul N Mounsey ( 1972) Mr Henry E J Mull in (1993) MrThomas V Mulvey (1965) MrNeil RMunz-Jones(l984) Or George M urdoch (I 9 53) Mrs Catherine A Murray ( 1990) Reverend John W Musther ( 1962) Or Oavid Neuhaus (1974) Ms Lucy M New love (1993) Or Paul F Newton ( 1969) Reverend Michael J Notley ( 1960) Mr Richard E Nowak ( 1975) Or Simon CC Oakes ( 1987)

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Mr Michael R Oakley (1959) Mr Justus J 0'8rien (1979) Mr Raymond F 0'8rien (1955) Mr John 0 O'Connor (1993) M r Rodney A S Offer ( 1963) Ms Sachiko Omoi (200 I) MsAideen TO'Neill (1992) Or Sarah S O'Neill (1992) Mr John A Ormiston (1974) Mr Peter A Os born ( 1972) Mr Nicholas G Osbome (1992) Mr& Mrs Michael 0 Palmer(l954) Canon Terence H J Palmer ( 1963) Or Constantinos Papadopoulos ( 1994) Mr Victor T H Parry ( 1945) Mr Charles 8 8 Parse lie ( 1960) Mr An drew J Peacock ( 1972) Mr Nicholas C Peacock ( 1985) Or Nicholas E Peeling (1973) Ms Jane K Penrose ( 1992) Mr Phi lip G Pettigrew (1966) Miss Amy G Phenix ( 1986) Reverend Edward L Phillips ( 1930) Mr Richard L Phillippo ( 1962) Mr John W J Pinnick ( 1956) Mr H Martin Plowden-Roberts ( 1951) Or Francis J Pocock ( 1960) Ms Amy PS I Poole (1994) Mr Oavid J Powell ( 1965) Mr Alan G Poynter ( 1951) Mr Oavid N Pratt (1975) Mr Simon C Preston (1994) Mr James R K Price (1967) Mr Nicholas J Price (1992) Mr Oemetri Psillos ( 1986) Mr Jeremy J R Pugh ( 1976) Mr Phi lip L Rabbetts ( 1958) Mr Andrew A Radcliffe ( 1971) Ms 8evin A Raines (200 1) Mr Hugh H Redington ( 1961) Ms Georgia 0 Redpath ( 1991) Mr Clarke S Richards ( 1975) Mr Timothy R R Richards ( 1960)

Mr Daniel C Richman (1980) Mr Colin W Richmond-Watson (1970) Mr Marco R Rimini (1982) Mr Gareth Roberts ( 1971) Mrs Gwenna Roberts Or P William Robinson ( 1961) Mr Brian Robson ( 1959) Mr Gerard B K Rocks ( 1974) Mr Stepehn M Rosefield ( 1971) Mr Edmund J Roskell ( 1965) Mr George Rossides ( 1999) Mr James D H B Rothman (1981) Or Bryan P Rothwell ( 1977) Ms Pernille W Rudlin (1985) Or David T Ryan ( 1990) Mr Paul F Sadler ( 1969) Mr Gregory D S Salter ( 1971) Mr Jus tin Samuel ( 1975) Ms Alexandra D Sarantis ( 1998) Mr Timothy Saunders ( 1978) Mr David C Savage ( 1985) Mr John A Sayer (1965) Or Thomas J Schneider (1973) Mrs Lucy A Shaw ( 1988) Mr Michael S Shaw ( 1959) Mr Philip H Shaw ( 1988) The Shaw Foundation Mr Ping W Shek ( 1986) OrE F James Shelton ( 1990) Mr J Brian Shepherd (1954) Mr Stewart E Shepley (1957) Mr Charles P Shirkley ( 1962) Mr B David Short ( 1956) MrMalcolm H Sibson (1971) Professor Ralph 0 Simmons ( 1950) Professor William J Simpson ( 1978) Mr John M Skinner ( 1952) Mr Alan N Smith (1972) Mr Eric M Smith (1944) Mr Ian R Smith (1972) Or Clive R Sneddon (1963) Or Christopher J R Sneyd (1968)

Mr David J Southall ( 1986) Judge Robert J Sou than ( 1949) Mr Matthew W Spencer ( 1989) Mr Michael 0 Spilberg (1968) Mr Anthony F Spillane ( 1971) Or Rodney H Stables ( 1982) Mr Barrie Stacey (1963) Mr Michael S Stanislawski ( 1986) Mr Timothy E Statham ( 1969) Or Andrew M Steane (1984) Mrs Emma C Steane ( 1985) Mr Robin Stephenson ( 1972) Mr Graham Stewart ( 1979) Mr David C Stokes ( 1981) Mr W Frank G Strang ( 1980) Mr Keith K Suddaby ( 1954) Or Robert A H Surtees ( 1974) Mr Peter R Sykes (1941) Mr Dun can D Talbert ( 1979) MrMichael R Tanner(l965) Mr Brian F Taylor ( 1958) Mr Graham S Taylor ( 1968) Mr L Paul Tempest ( 1956) Ms Kathleen M Thompson ( 1990) Ms Jacqueline E Thornton ( 1986) Mr John R Thoro good ( 1960) Professor Nigel R Thorp (1963) Or John S Thurston ( 1977) Mr Peter F Tindall ( 1978) District Judge Christopher J Tromans (1961) Mr Roger Truelove ( 1963) Or Ronald W Truman ( 1954) Mr Latimer L Tuke (1945) Mr William J Tunley (1942) Mr Andrew M Urquhart (1933) Ms Francoise A Van Dorp ( 1987) Or David M Van Roijen (1977) Prof Malvern Van Wyk Smith ( 1960) Mr D Peter Vaughan ( 1961) Ms Sarah Vickers (1982) Mr Michael H Wadsworth (1959) Mr J Brian Wakefield ( 1953)

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Mr John Waiters ( 1959) Mr Mark C Waiters ( 1981) Mr Oavid Ward (1955) Mr Robert 0 Warren (1974) Mr Malcolm P Watson (1972) Mr William Watson ( 1945) Mr Oavid 0 H Way ( 1975) Mr Brian T Webb ( 1956) MrColinJ Weir(l941) Mr Timothy F Weiss ( 1992) Mr John W Welch ( 1970) Mr Oavid VS West (1979) Mrs Joanna West ( 1981) Mr John A West (1954) Mr Oavid A A Weston ( 1948) Mr John 0 Whame ( 1974) Mr Jack Wheeler ( 1950) Reverend Peter F White (1948) Mr Simon R T White ( 1982) Mr Step hen R G White ( 1961) Mr Oavid C Whitmarsh ( 1985) Mr Steven P Whittington ( 1989) Or Lorraine S Wild ( 1981) Mr Oavid P Williams ( 1988) Mr Gerald G Williams ( 1956)

Reverend Michael J Williams (1950) Mr Nigel C Williams ( 1979) Or Susan PWilliams (1989) Ms SharonA Williamson (1986) Or Peter 0 Wilson ( 1957) Mr Peter J Wilson ( 1961) Mr Howell J Wilson-Price ( 1956) Mr Eric C Windsor(l953) Mr Martin A S Winter ( 1972) Mr George T Woods ( 1956) The Wolfson Foundation Mr George Worth ( 1934) Mr Neil J Worthington (1976) Mr Emest L Wright (1934) Ms Kathryn G Wroath (1991) Rt Hon Lord N orrnan R Wy Iie ( 1946) Ms Guofang Xiao ( 1997) Mr Katsuyuki Yamaguchi ( 1995) Mr Oamian B S Yap ( 1993) Professor Sir Oavid C M Yardley Mr Jeremy J Young (1976) Mr John RC Young (1956) Or Enrique Zapata-Bravo ( 1978) Mr William L Zeltonoga (1962)

The Floreat Aula Society Members of the Floreat Aula Society have pledged to remember the Hall in their Wills. If you would like to join the Society by including the Hall in your Will, please contact the Development Office and we will put you in touch with Dr Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), who runs the Society. The Society holds a biennial dinner, to which all its members and their guests are invited. The next dinner will be held on Friday 26th March 2004. Current FAS members are as follows: John Akroyd Reginald Alton MC Geoffrey Archer OFC Prof Christopher Armitage John Ayers Nick Badham

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Paul Foote John French Robin French Revd Peter Furness Dr Patrick Garland Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill Dr Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Justin Gosling Derek Griffin-Smith Dr Phi lip Haffenden Prof Neville Haile Ronald Hall Michael Halsted OBE Revd David Harding David Archibald Harding Rex Harrison Carol Harwood (nee Buchanon) John Hawkins Dr Malcolm Hawthorne Revd William Head Michael Herbert CBE Charles Hind DerekHoare Canon Stanley Hoffman Revd John Hogan Dr Michael Hooker Michael Hopkinson TD Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Ann Hughes MVO Dr Anne Irving Norman Isaacs Peter Janson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David Johnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones Derek Jones Prof George Jones

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Luke Jones Dr An drew Kahn Peter Kelly Terence Kelly Revd John King Roy Kings Antony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee Michael Lewis Paul Lewis Richard Luddington Kenneth Lund QC Roland MacLeod James Markwick Charles Marriott John McElheran George McNaught JeremyMew Geoff Mihell Dusty Miller William Miller OBE, KStJ Dr Bruce Mitchell Dr Gareth de Bohun MitfordBarberton Revd David Moor Dr Geoffrey Mortimer Prof Roy Niblett CBE Tuppy Owen-Smith AndrewPage Kenneth Palk Martin Paterson Frank Pedley Nigel Pegram John Phillips David Picksley John Pike CBE Dr Francis Pocock John Preston Philip Rabbetts Farrand Radley MBE John Reddick Bob Rednall Peter Reynolds

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Frank di Rienzo Eric Rhodes Prof Charles Ritcheson Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSOQGM Edmund Roskell Philip Roussel OBE Jack Rowell OBE Revd Samuel Salter Ian Sandles Jack Scarr TD Michael Senter OBE Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Patrick Slocock Alexander Smith Martin Smith Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC John Snelling Michael Somers OBE Judge Robert Southan Dr Frank Spooner Sheriff Alastair Stewart QC David Summers Revd Philip Swindells Paul Tempest David Thompson Douglas Tidy Alan Titcombe Noel Tonkin Roy Tracey Major General Anthony Trythall CB Raymond Ullyatt Alan VasaTD John Voigt Prof John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster David Weston Dr John Williams

Dr Bill Williams Revd Herbert Wills Dudley Wood CBE Leon Wright

Rt Hon Lord Norman Wylie PC QC Prof Sir David Yardley Bill Yeowart

FORTHCOMING EVENTS On November 11th, there will be an Armistice Poetry Reading at the Hall, organised by Lucy Newlyn. Professor Jon Stallworthy (poet, editor and biographer ofWilfred Owen, and expert on the poetry of the First World War) will read a selection of war poems, including some by himself Other poets reading are Peter Scupham, John Powell Ward, Jem Poster, Jane Griffiths and Jenny Lewis. This year's Geddes Memorial Lecture, entitled 'After Hutton: Downing Street and the media', will be given by Sir Peter Stothard, former Editor of The Times on Friday 21st November 2003, at the Examination School, Oxford.

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND YEAR REPRESENTATIVES President Immediate Past President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer

Up to 1944

Dr Francis J. Pocock, MA D.Phil. (1960) 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 BSc (Lond) FCIM, FFB (1961) Michael G .M. Groves, Dip.Econ.Poi.Sci. (1962)

1965-74 1965-74 1965-74

Sir Jon Shortridge KCB MA, MSc (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

Douglas S. McCallum, BA (1985) A. (Tony) C. Greenham, BA (1988)

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Catherine L. Cooper, BA (1995)

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 14TH JANUARY 2003 72No

The 72"ct 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 SW lA lLR on Tuesday, 14th January 2003 at 6.15pm, Dr F.J. Pocock presiding. 34 members were present. Minutes: The Minutes of the last meeting, the 71 5\ held on gth January 2002, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising. President's Report: Dr F.J. Pocock said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner. Principal's Report: Professor D.M.P. Mingos said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner. Honorary Secretary's Report: P.R. Lewis said he had nothing to report. Honorary Treasurer's Report: LW. Durrans presented the audited accounts which showed a similar income to last year and strong reserves. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted. 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. 1945-54, A.R.J . Lloyd re-elected for three years d. 1965-74, P. Butler re-elected for three years e. 1975-84, Miss R.M. Martel re-elected for three years Appointment of Honorary Auditor: L.D. Page was unanimously reappointed Honorary Auditor. Date of next Meeting: Tuesday, 13t11 January 2004 at the Royal OverSeas League at 6.15pm.

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There being no further business, the President closed the meeting at 6.20pm.

THE 62"d LONDON DINNER The 62"d London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's on Tuesday, l4 1h January 2003. The turnout (138) was as impressive as ever, as was the lively atmosphere, but for once there was no guest speaker which allowed more time for socialising. Francis Pocock kept his first Dinner speech as Association President duly brief, welcoming the guests (the Principal and Mrs Mingos, Mr and Mrs Justin Gosling, the Steward of the Middle Common Room and the President of the Junior Common Room) while lamenting the absence of "regulars" such as Reggie Alton, Farrand Radley and Lucy Newlyn. Jack Lee, who had died at New Year, was remembered warmly not only as a former President of the Association but for his "First in soccer." In his speech the Principal caught the desire for brevity, threatening to emulate Castro's alleged three-word address "Good night, darling." Thankfully, however, he did pay an affectionate tribute to Roy Jenkins as a "great supporter" of the Hall and the University, recalling the late Chancellor's "doubleact" with President Clinton at the alumni gathering in New York. Aularian achievement during the year ranged from Blues at Twickenham and in the Boat Race to "nearly becoming Archbishop." With an eye on the Campaign, the Principal ended as he began with a three-word exhortation in the style of A.B. Emden: "Make a donation!" In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1942) Mr S.V. Swallow, Or J.D. Todd (Emeritus Fellow), (1946) Mr A.R.J. Lloyd, (1949) Mr W.P. Asbrey, Mr R.J.L. Breese, (1950) Mr M. Baldwin, (1951) Mr D.J. Day, Mr D.E. Wood, (1952) Mr A.J. Harding, Mr D.M. Jacobs, Mr C.J. Jones, Mr N.F. Lockhart, The Revd E.A. Simmonds, (1954) Mr S.R. Bilsland, (1955) Mr R.H.B . De Vere Green, Mr J.L. Fage, Judge J.D. Farnworth, Mr P.R. Lewis, Mr J. OwenSmith, (1956) Mr B.E. Amor, Mr M.J. Cansdale, Mr S.C.H. DouglasMann, Mr A.F. Ham, Mr D.H. Johnson, Mr M.P. Reynolds, Mr J.R.C. Young, (1957) Mr M.J. Archer, Mr D.M.W. Bolton, Mr J.W. Harrison, Mr R.W. Jackson, Mr G.R. Mihell, Mr I.B.H. Murray, Mr J.L. Phillips,

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Mr M.J. Rowan, Mr S.E. Shepley, (1958) Mr L.L. Filby, Mr J.H. Phillips, (1959) Mr J.A. Collingwood, (1960) Mr R.C.S. Clark, Mr C.H.L. Long, Dr Francis Pocock (President, SEH Association), (1961) Dr W.J. Burroughs, Mr E.A. Fretwell-Downing, Mr J.M. Heggadon, Mr A.M. Rentoul, (1962) Mr N.H. Pegram, (1964) Dr M.J. Clarke, (1965) Mr J.G. Barclay (Fellow), Mr P.M. Johnson, Dr M.A. Pannell, Mr M.P. St Maur Sheil, (1966) Mr R.T. Baker, Mr P.L.D. Brown, Mr A.B. Fisher, Sir Jon Shortridge, Mr M.C. Warren, (1967) Mr P.V. Robinson, (1968) Dr D.J. Hughes, Mr H.J. Hunt, Mr A.J.H. Makin, Mr M.O. Spilberg, Mr I. Stuart, Mr R.T. Ward, (1969) Mr I.C. Busby, Mr S.W. Groom, (1970) Mr P. Butler, Mr W.N. David, Mr P.G. Harper, Mr J.W. Hawkins, Mr L.N. Kaye, (1971) Mr L. Cummings, Mr R.J. Henshaw, (1974) Mr P. Desmond, Mr J.A.B. Gray, Mr C.M. Jones, Mr J.W. Ramsey, Mr P.H. Tudor, (1975) Mr R.D. Bishop, Mr C.J. Jarvis, Mr A.J. Senior, Mr P.M. Watson, (1976) Mr R.A.H. Finch, Mr N.J. Worthington, Dr R.M.K. Young, (1977) Mr S.S. Advani, Professor C. Debattista, Mr I.W. Durrans, Mr L.D. Page, Mr R.F.J. Ruvigny, Mr C.J.L. Samuel, (1978) Mr I. Coleman, Mr P.A. Darling Q.C., Mr T.R. Elliott, Mr R.S. Luddington, (1979) Mr A.J. Best, (1981) Ms J.B. Turner, (1982) Mr W.W. Cabral, Mr D.J. Heaps, Mr A.J. Sandbach, Mr J.J. Williamson, (1986) Mrs L.A. Cabral (Foister), Dr D.A. Gillett, Mr A.T. Harrison, Dr P. Richards, (1988) Mr A.C. Greenham, (1991) Ms A.C. Howard, (1996) Mr J. Cookson, Ms A.L. Culley, Ms A .J. Dittner, Mr J.P. Houghton, Ms C.M. Jackson, Ms J.A. Klein, Mr T.A. Long, Mr C.H. Marshall, Mr T.C. Newcomb, Mr P. Reynolds, Ms H.M. Roberts, Mr Z.D.S . Segal, Mr D.R. Stone, Mr E.J. Watson, (1999) Ms L.M. Whelan. The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr J.M.A. Ashbourn, Mr G.D. Bourne-Taylor (Bursar), The Revd H.E.J. Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Professor P.M. Matthews, Dr R.B . Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Mr M.D.E. Slater, Mr C.J. Wells, Dr W.S.C. Williams (Emeritus Fellow), Ms Gillian Powell (Principal's PA), Ms Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations & Events Officer), Ms Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer) Richard Finch

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"HALF A CENTURY" R.J .L. Breese (1949) is to be congratulated on completing 50 years sitting on the Executive Committee of the St Edmund Hall Association. A small lunch was held in the Old Dining Hall in honour of this achievement on 28 1h June. As well as Bob Breese, there was the President Francis Pocock, Justin Gosling, three ex-Presidents and eight members of the present Committee. After lunch, Francis presented Bob with a leather-bound copy of the book Hall, signed by all those present. In reply, Bob recalled some of the major changes he had witnessed and been involved in. At its subsequent meeting, the Executive Committee voted unanimously to recommend to the AGM in January that Bob be elected an Honorary Vice-President of the Association. P.R. Lewis

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 of ÂŁ1,500 to the Middle Common Room of the Hall which, with other grants and the MCR's own fundraising efforts, has enabled the MCR to purchase a new punt.

Answers to Hall Crawl Quiz (page 55) 1 - Chapel capital; 2 - Window to the Crypt; 3 - Gargoyle, south wall, St Peter-in-the-East; 4 - Gargoyle of Justin Gosling, front quad; 5 - Eastern lookout tower, St Peter-in-theEast; 6 - Staircase in Kelly building

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2003

INCOME Subscriptions Bank Interest Emden bequest interest Surplus from the book titled "Graham"

EXPENDITURE Magazine production, postage & mailing (half) Honorary Secretary's expenses Executive Committee meeting expenses

Income less expenditure Less Grants: "Chatter of Choughs" book MCR Punt

Year ended 31 May 2003 £

Year ended 31 May 2002 £

8,510 729 139

8,558 946 82 330

9,378

9,916

(7 ,082) (513)

(6,928) (364) (28)

(7,595)

(7,320)

1,783

2,596

(1 ,000) (1,500) (I ,500)

(1,000)

283

1,596 (1,000)

Appropriation to Aularian Register Fund

Surplus transferred to General Fund

283

596

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 13'h January 2004.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2003

31 May 2003 £

31 May 2002 £

8,539 5,700 28,039

5,778 5,700 36,410

42,278

47,888

(14,663)

(20,556)

REPRESENTEDBYACCUMULATEDFUNDS 7,832 General Fund at start of year 283 Surplus from Income Account

7,236 596

8,115

7,832

19,500

18,500 1,000

19,500

ASSETS Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

Aularian Register Fund at start of year Appropriation this year

F.J. Pocock (President) I. W. Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 ' 1 May 2003. 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 ' 1 May 2003 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date. 4 Park Village West London NWl 4AE 31 ' 1 July 2003

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L.D. Page Honorary Auditor

AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium If you would like your news to appear in this section of next year's edition of the magazine, please send details to the Development Office or email: development.office@seh.ox.ac.uk. (In the list below, the date denotes matriculation year). The College Chaplain, Duncan MacLaren, and his wife Jane happily announce the arrival of Iona Jennifer Grace on 61h March 2003. He successfully submitted and defended his PhD in Sociology of Religion from King's College, London. 1938 This summer, David V. Johnson and his wife, Joan, moved from Wiltshire to Witney, Oxfordshire to share a house with their daughter Liz, son-in-law Colin and grandchildren Charis, Joseph and Ruth. 1938 After 40 years as an impecunious missionary in Africa (chiefly Rhodesia) and a dozen years of alleged retirement at Solihull, Father Arthur R. Lewis and his wife moved in 1999 to The College of St Barnabas, Surrey, a community for retired Anglican priests, their wives and widows. 1938 Frank Pedley was made an honorary life member of the University of The Third age (U3A) in 2001 in recognition of his contribution to its phenomenal success in providing informal education for men and women no longer in full-time employment. He was its National Chairman in 1985-6. 1942 Having succeeded in a long-running battle with local government, Sidney V. Swallow travelled to Japan and Australia to visit an old friend with whom he shared a flat in Paris in the 1940's. 1944 Andrew H. Foot is now chairman of the Oxford Society (Cornwall branch) and of the Cornwall Historic Churches Trust, both of which would welcome more friends: only 4 of the 90 members of the Oxford Society are Aularians - surely there are more lurking in the leafy lanes? 1944 Sir Brian J.M. Tovey is now an independent scholar in the field of Art History; he published Baldinucci's Apologia and Florentine Claims to be cradle of the Renaissance in the December 2002 issue of "Renaissance Studies". His current preoccupation is 129

editing the Pouncey Index of Baldinucci's Notizie . 1944 Major General Anthony J. Trythall has contributed a chapter to Professor Brian Bandi (of King's College, London) Festschrift - The British General Staff, a copy of which the Librarian has placed in the Emden Collection. 1946 Michael Le Mesurier has now retired from local politics but continues as chair of John Hampden Primary School and a local representative for the Red Cross. 1950 In 2003, Professor Christopher Armitage received the Tanner Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates, the fifth such award that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has bestowed on him since he joined the faculty in 1967. 1950 John C.D. Holmes is a school governor for both Swan Valley Community School and Knockhall C.P. School, Kent and, until May 2003, was a local town councillor. 1952 Professor Nicholas Lossky was ordained a deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church in Paris on Christmas Day 2002. 1954 The Revd John D.D. Porter retired from full-time parochial Ministry in June 2003 and is moving to France, but until September 2004 will be giving some assistance in the Parish of Headington Quarry when in England. 1954 Dr Ian P. Unsworth has now retired from Anaesthetic practice in Sydney, and moved to the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales where he has a property and rears alpacas. He was an Emeritus consultant in Hyperberic Medicine in recognition of his 34 years' service in the specialty, on his retirement from the University of New South Wales . 19 57 The Revd Prebendary Dun can S. Dormor retired at the end of June 2003 after fourteen years as Team Rector of Tenbury Wells Team Ministry, and five years as Rural Dean of Ludlow. Around the same time, he and Mary celebrated their Ruby Wedding anniversary. Their new freedom allows them to visit their three children and seven grandchildren, and Duncan's aunt Margaret Dormor, who was Hall Secretary in the early 1950's. 1958 David A. Clarke had a third collection of poems published: Touching on Love (Hippopotamus Press, 2002). 1958 Dr Ronald E. Irving took early retirement as a Reader a couple of years ago, and is now an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. He still teaches one Honours course and super130

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vises a few postgraduates, but no running the Department any longer or doing any admin. duties - a life of luxury! His book Adenauer, Profiles in Power was published earlier this year. Professor Malcolm McDonald, author of thirty-seven books, and currently Deputy Director of Cranfield University School of Management, was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Bradford University. Canon Melvyn Matthews published Nearer than Breathing ... (SPCK, 2002), reissued an earlier book God's Space in You (John Hunt Publishing, 2003) and became Acting Dean of Wells Cathedral in March 2003. Professor Malvern Van Wyk Smith retired from Rhodes University, South Africa on 31 '' December 2002, after 36 years. He celebrated his Ruby Wedding anniversary in July this year having married Rosemary Mitchell in St Peter-in-the-East on 20'h July 1963 followed by a reception in the Hall quad. James R. De Rennes retired in April 2003 after 30 years as Head of English at Tiffin School. His Honour Judge Sean B. Duncan, Circuit Judge at Liverpool Crown Court since 1988, was made President of Council of Her Majesty's Circuit Judges in 2002, and Captain of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in 2003. From 2000-2002, he was President of Liverpool Ramblers A.F.C. Robert W. Beckham was made a C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2003. Alan Cowell, a correspondent in London for The New York Times, published his first novel A Walking Guide (Simon & Schuster) in September 2003. Michael S. Stone attended the Centenary celebrations for the Rhodes Scholar fraternity in Cape Town at the end of January 2003. The programme was both entertaining and inspirational and, while reminding the assembled scholars of the African origin of the Trust funds, and of their moral indebtedness to African resources and labour for their opportunity to study and develop their personalities at Oxford, also highlighted certain areas in which the scholars might assist in building the new South African nation. For many, the Rhodes Scholarships now have a fresh meaning and there is a determination to restore to Africa a modicum of what previously has been taken from it. 131

1966 Dr John R. Bockstoce's tenth book on the arctic regions, High Latitude, North Atlantic: 30,000 miles through cold seas and history, was published by Mystic Seaport Museum in July. 1969 The Revd Alan Scarfe was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Iowa in Des Moines on 5th April 2003. 1970 John C. Lewis celebrated the birth of his first child on 9th July 2001, a daughter named Sarah Esther. He was awarded an MA in Spanish from Central Connecticut State University in December 2002. 1971 Stephen M. Jones is Centre Manager for the Jesus Centre, a worship and care centre sited at the old Cannon Cinema premises in Northampton town centre. Extensive refurbi shments are due to be completed ready for opening at the end of 2003. 1971 Kenneth D.J. Macdonald QC was made Director of Public Prosecutions in August 2003. 1972 Ross Monro and his wife Jackie are delighted to announce the arrival of their first child, a beautiful daughter, Annabelle May. Ross continues to manage the Search and Selection firm, Rutherford Consulting Ltd. He is also a non-executive Director of Directorbank plc and Angela Mortimer plc. 1972 David Piper was seconded from the British Geological Survey at the beginning of 2001 to work with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna. His work concentrates on assisting developing country member states to meet the obligations of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. His many years in Africa have made him the obvious person to assist a number of countries in South and South-East Asia. Any Aularian with more robust claims to fame in the field of chemicals management would make welcome contacts! 1974 Michael J. Wickham has a new book coming out- Ecologia y Cristianismo, co-authored with T.P.H. Wickham. AEE. 197 4 After 23 years working around the world in the Oil Industry, Steven Edrich decided to pursue new interests. After a one-year intensive course in fine furniture making, he moved to France in mid-2001 to set up a workshop. More details can be found on his website http ://steveedrichfurniture .chez.tiscali.fr and he would, of course, be delighted to hear from Aularians passing by, but especially those interested in furniture!

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197 5 In Spring 2002, Dr Nicholas Goodrick-Ciarke had two new books published - Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity (New York University Press, 2002) and a translation of Ernst Benz's Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason (Swedenborg Foundation, 2002). Since January 2002, he has been appointed Research Fellow in the Western Esoteric Tradition at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and has now launched the first MA course in this subject at a British university. 1975 The Revd Roger Jupp, Principal of Newton Theological College, Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea since 2000, was consecrated fourth Bishop of Popondota on 23'd February 2003. 1982 Tom and Sally Alexander (nee Heath) announce the birth of Amy Rose in August 2002, a sister for David Houston, born July 2000. 1984 Andrew and Emma Steane (nee Palmer, 1985) are very pleased to announce the safe arrival of Wilfred Thomas on Wednesday 16th July 2003, a brother for Joseph. 1985 Elizabeth Florence Bell is President of Art in Situ Association, dedicated to encouraging liaison between European visual artists. Formed in 2000, the Association has organised exhibitions in the Drome Valley, France (2001, 2002, 2003) and in Oxford City in 2002. 1985 Having got her PhD in 2001 from the University of Nottingham, Tanya Spilsbury (nee Ashby) is Director of "Maintain our Heritage"; she and Mark also announce the birth of their first son, Arthur George, on pt March 2003. 1986 Channel 4 news presenter Samira Ahmed and her husband Brian Miller celebrated the birth of a daughter, Lakshmi, in December 2001, a sister for their son Arun. 1986 Jim and Katherine Charles (nee lnglis) rather belatedly announce the birth of Joseph Alexander on 13th June 2000 and Martha Elizabeth on 21't February 2003, a brother and sister for Peter. In June 2003 they moved to Bournemouth where Jim will take up the post of Assistant Curate at St Paul's, Throop, having been ordained Deacon on 29th June in Winchester Cathedral. 1986 Stephanie French (nee Moran) and husband Nigel announce the birth of their son, Max, on 22"d June 2002 and had further cause for celebration in October that year when Stephanie re-

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ceived an M.Sc. in Human Nutrition; she is now working as a food and nutrition marketing consultant. Pradeep Kumar Kapur believes he must be one of the few (if not the only) Aularian to serve as an Ambassador of India and is currently enjoying his work in Cambodia thoroughly. Dr Alison C. Kraus (nee Stark) is delighted to announce the birth of a second daughter, Hannah Riann, on 4th December 2002. Jacqui E. Thornton married Russell Pyne in Ashford, North Devon, on 22"d June 2002. Preeti and Vivek Katariya are delighted to announce the birth of Vedaant on 20th July 2003. Alison M. Lonsdale (nee Luff) is pleased to announce the birth of Elo'ise Catherine Alice on 20th June 2003, a sister for Anna Charlotte Elizabeth, born 4th November 2001. Dr Jo Rainbow got fed up with working ridiculous hours in the N.H.S. and went to work in Sydney, Australia in 1997, ostensibly for a year. Six years later she is still there completing her training in Emergency Paediatrics, and is getting married next year. Jenny F.H. Walker married Sqd/Ldr Sam Owen in August 2001 and was last known to be living in the Sultanate of Oman. Andrew and Heather Hodgkinson (nee Parry) announce the birth of a daughter, Lucy Rose Beatrice, on Christmas Day 2002. Despite being born 8 weeks early and weighing 4lb 4oz, Lucy is developing beautifully and is a source of continual delight. David M. Lauder is pleased to announce the arrival of his first son, William Nicholas, on 8th May 2002. David became Housemaster at St Edward 's School, Oxford on pt September 2003, and continues to coach rowing and rugby. Aktar Somalya and his wife Alifia have a new member of the family - Tameem Issah was born on 26th February 2003. Akaash Maharaj was decorated with the Queen's Medal in Canada's Jubilee Honours on 12th November 2002, for "augmenting Canada's standing in the international community" in recognition of his work towards peace in the Middle East, as President and CEO of the Toronto-based Concordis Foundation. For the past five years, Matthew J. Oakman has been teaching history at Wellington College; he is also Master in charge of Hockey and Academic Tutoring.

1991 Julian C. Cater moved to Collins Stewart to work as an Equity Analyst in March 2003 . He married Carol Ann Adam on 19th July 2003 at the English Speaking Union, Dartmouth House, London . 1992 Mark Fisher joined the Virgin Group in 1999, and was appointed Corporate Development Director (Media) in 2000 - the youngest statutory director in Virgin Group at the time of his appointment. He moved to Singapore in February 2002 and is now Chief Operating Officer, Virgin Radio Asia. 1992 Dr Kate Tilling has seen some big changes this year: a new job at Bristol University, a move from London to the West Country, and the birth of daughter Jennifer! 1994 In January this year, Dr Constantinos Papadopoulos left his previous job in the Greek Ministry of Finance and moved to Manchester to work as a Lecturer at UMIST.

OBITUARIES 1920's Henry Joseph Mills, MA 2003, Hampshire, Aged 96. 1924, History. Michael Macnaughton Hawes 1994. 1926, History. 1930's Kenneth David Belden, MA 27th November 2002, Hertfordshire, Aged 90. 1931, History.

Roger George Robert Calvert, M.Phys 11th March 2003, Cornwall. 1931, Physics.

Paul Witherington, MA 6th December 2002, Worcestershire, Aged 89. 1931, Chemistry.

Reverend Thomas Eyre Maunsell Ashton, MA 6th November 2002, London, Aged 89. 1933, PPE.

Jack Lee, MA 1st January 2003, Dorset, Aged 88 . 1933 , Modern Languages.

Bishop John Paul Burrough, MBE 27th January 2003, Oxfordshire, Aged 86. 1934, English.

Brian Reynold Coates, MA, DipEd 12th October 2002, Cumbria, Aged 87. 1934, Modern Languages.

Ken rick William Marshall Christopher, BA 1941, Killed in Duty during the Second World War - RAF pilot. 1935.

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Alec Frederick Finch, BA 5th October 2002, Derbyshire, Aged 86. 1935, History. John Plant, MA 2002, USA, Aged 89. 1935, Theology. Norman James Strachan, BA 20th November 2002, Australia. 1936, Modern Languages. Gerald Harvey Thompson, MA, OBE 22"d August 2002, Oxfordshire, Aged 85. 1936, Forestry. Professor Harry Knowles Girling, MA 2002, Canada, Aged 83. 1937, English. Sir John Chance Palmer, MA, LLD 13th July 2003, Devon, Aged 83. 1937, Modern Languages. Percival Scott Leathart, MA, MBE 1st September 2002, Oxfordshire, Aged 82. 1938, Forestry. Very Reverend Robert Tinsley Holtby, MA, FSE 13th March 2003, North Yorkshire, Aged 82. 1939, History. Dr Robert Thomas Christopher Worsley, MA, DSC 5th November 2002, Canada, Aged 82. 1939, History. JACK LEE (1933) Jack was born in Blackburn in Lancashire in 1914 and came up to Teddy Hall in 1933 to read Modern Languages (French & Spanish). He was always a sportsman and later became a key personnel guru. He was the first to gain three soccer Blues (as centre-forward) and later played as an amateur for his local professional team, Blackburn Rovers, and the top amateur sides Corinthian Casuals and Pegasus, as well as gaining a full amateur international cap. In retirement he also acted as an umpire at Wimbledon including a match with John McEnroe. He had a real way with him in meeting people and it seems natural that, on going down from the Hall in 1936, he should have gravitated towards Personnel Management. He was soon Labour Manager of three consecutive firms, including Humber-Hillman at Coventry, and during this period he married his wife Kay. He was invited to join the Jute Mills Association in India where he pioneered the Indian Institute of Personnel Management, becoming its first President. When he returned to the U.K. in 1950 he joined Shell Petroleum working in the Industrial Relations Department. Here his studies at the Hall were an asset in international policy and visits. This led to his Presidency of the UK Institute of Personnel Management and his appointment to the

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Government's Overseas Labour Consultative Committee. On retiring from Shell in 1970, he worked with Inbucon Management Consultants and founded 'Working Together', an organisation dedicated to healing any rift between employees and employers. He kept up his interest in Hall activities and succeeded Sir Denis Wright as President of the Association 1978-80, during which his wife Kay helped type and distribute the Minutes. He also welcomed the first lady guest at the London Dinner, the Principal's secretary Mary Boak. Sir Denis's tribute to him on vacating the Presidency sums it all up: "He has been an admirable and hard-working President". St Edmund would surely have been proud of him. H.A. Farrand Radley ( 1935)

JOHN PAUL BURROUGH (1934) The Right Reverend Paul Burrough, who died aged 86, was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1968 to 1981 and had the difficult task of leading the Anglican Church in a large part of Rhodesia during the African rebellion against the Smith regime and in the period immediately following the creation of independent Zimbabwe. Burrough's gifts were essentially pastoral and he lacked the political skill which in a situation of acute crisis might have made him a more effective leader. As the Rhodesian crisis developed and bloodshed became widespread, he counselled moderation , without apparently recognising that, in African eyes, the outlawed regime had, for many, made a peaceful settlement impossible. Some of his public statements smacked of paternalism, while his attempt to distinguish between the personal qualities of Ian Smith, whom he admired, and the political policies, which he deplored, in no way matched the mood of the moment. Finally, his support of Bishop Abel Muzorewa in the abortive 1979 election alienated him from those who looked for more dynamic leadership in a new era. Yet throughout the 1970s he ministered bravely in a church which suffered greatly. He protested against the burning of villages by the security forces and was threatened with prosecution for exposing the inhumanity of these forces. On two occasions there were threats against

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his life. During the course of his episcopate Burrough drove his car, often on rough roads and tracks, more than 250,000 miles and in 1975 he marked the centenary of his diocese by walking 470 miles on pastoral visits between Ash Wednesday and Easter. He met the shortage of priests by establishing a part-time training scheme for those who wished to minister while remaining in secular employment, and when he left the diocese in 1981 over one-quarter of the clergy had been thus trained. In the aftermath of the war he also devoted much time to reconstructing the church schools. John Paul Burrough, whose father was a wartime naval chaplain, was born on May 5 1916. He went from St Edward's School, Oxford, to St Edmund Hall to read English, though his academic achievements suffered somewhat because of his commitment to rowing. He was in the Oxford crews that beat Cambridge in the Boat Races of 1937 and 1938 and on coming down from Oxford spent a year as a rowing coach in Buenos Aires. He served in Malaya during the Second World War as a captain in the Royal Corps of Signals, but was taken prisoner in 1942 and spent the next three and a half years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. On his release he was appointed MBE for the leadership he had exercised in the camp. This wartime experience led him to seek ordination and after a year at Ely Theological College he was curate of Aldershot Parish Church from 1946 to 1951. He then felt drawn back to the Far East to serve as a missionary and spent the next eight years in war-torn Korea. For most of this time Burrough was priest-in-charge of the Anglican mission in the market town of Chung-ju, where he travelled about on a motorcycle and arranged medical treatment for lepers. He was also much involved in work among refugees in and around Pusan. On his return to England in 1959 he was invited by Bishop Leonard Wilson, who had also served time in a Japanese prison-camp, to become his chaplain for overseas people in Birmingham. This was one of the earliest attempts by the Church of England to take account of the developing multi-racial character of English society and for the next nine years Burrough played a leading part in encouraging Birmingham churches to welcome immigrants and the city authorities to make adequate provision for their housing and education. He was appointed an Honorary Canon of Birmingham

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Cathedral in 1965 and became a Canon Residentiary in 1967. This strong record led to his election as Bishop of Mashonaland in the following year and if, in the eyes of many, he failed the final test, this was not due to any lack of concern or courage. He resigned from the diocese at 65. From 1981 to 1985 he was an assistant bishop in the diocese of Peterborough, serving also as Rector of Empingham. Burrough married his wife Bess, the widow of S J White, in 1962: she predeceased him and he is survived by his stepdaughter. ÂŠ Telegraph Group Limited 2003

BRIAN REYNOLD COATES (1934) Brian Coates came up to St Edmund Hall in 1934 and read Modern Languages (French and German) from Bradford Grammar School. His year abroad took him to Stuttgart where he taught in two schools, one of which was very strongly anti the regime, though, of course they had to be very careful. He helped several people to leave Germany by claiming them as family friends and giving them an address in the UK. Characteristically he never talked much about this episode. He loved Europe and this was one of the factors behind his decision in 1948 to go to Germany to teach in one of the schools established there to educate the children of the Occupying Forces. It was a golden era for him and he became headmaster of King Alfred School, PIOn in Schleswig-Holstein. On returning to England in 1959 he became head of Kirkby Stephen Grammar School. This was a comprehensive by tradition and geography, being located in the Eden Valley in Cumbria where the low population density meant everyone attended the same school. This suited his belief in meritocracy and his interest in people for what they were not who they were. He was proud of the Hall and delighted that his granddaughter Emily (Coates, 2000) followed his and my footsteps. He was a sportsman and was determined last summer to give Emily's blade (for 4 bumps in the Eights) an extra coat of varnish, which he did. He died after falling asleep in the afternoon while doing the crossword. He had never had to have much help, despite his 87 years, and was active to the end. He died in his home of 40 years. Not bad by any standard. At his funeral, the church at Kirkby Stephen was full - quite rare since it is large. Six pupils, five from Kirkby Stephen and one from

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JOHN CHANCE PALMER (1937) Sir John Palmer, who has died aged 83, had an eventful career in the Navy during the Second World War, recorded in his published diaries Luck On My Side (2002); later he became a prominent solicitor, serving as president of the Law Society in 1978/79. John Chance Palmer, the son of C1audine and Ernest Palmer, for many years the parliamentary correspondent for the News Chronicle, was born on March 21 1920 in Chancery Lane , London, in a flat overlooking the Law Society. From St Paul's he went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Modern Languages, enjoyed political debate at the Oxford Union with contemporaries such as Edward Heath and Robin Day, and gained a Sailing Blue. The boating connection led to his becoming part of the early draft of young men to join the RNVR at the outbreak of war in 1939. As a midshipman he gained early experience in tugs on the Thames estuary, but was soon thrust into action on the corvette Clematis on Atlantic convoy duty. An early taste of action came on Christmas Day 1940 when the convoy they were escorting was attacked by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. After the convoy had scattered, the captain, Commander Yorke Cleeves, had no hesitation in heading straight towards the Hipper, only four miles away. Fortunately for Clematis and her crew, as German records have shown, the Hipper did not want to become involved in a battle so soon. Palmer later took part in the North Africa landings in the frigate Exe, and finally served as navigating officer on the sloop Amethyst. Although he left the Navy before her famous action on the Yangtze, he did take the surrender in the Channel of the first German submarine, which Amethyst escorted into Portland. Fifty years later he met the captain of the submarine again, when invited to attend a crew reunion at Bochum in Germany. It was while serving on convoy duty out of Plymouth that Palmer had met his future wife, Mary Ellyatt, the sister of a fellow officer, who was a boating Wren. On February 2 1945 he sent her a telegram: "Leave

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starting today, suggest wedding Monday." After a three-day honeymoon it was straight back to convoy duties. After the war, Palmer was articled to become a solicitor with Anstey and Thompson in Exeter and admitted in 1948. From 1948 to 1950 he worked for Mowll and Mowll in Canterbury, but lack of prospects there decided his move to Tiverton. He practised there as a partner in Penny and Harwood, later to become Ashford, Sparks and Harwood. In 1960 Palmer was selected as the Conservative candidate for Tiverton when Derick Heathcoat Amory, Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Macmillan Government, was created the 1st Viscount Amory. But Palmer chose to continue concentrating his energy on the legal profession, although he was for many years chairman of the Tiverton and District Conservative Association. Palmer was a guiding light in the development of his firm , and played an important part in turning it into the leading West Country practice it has now become. He retired in 1985 prior to the formation of Bevan Ashford. Although in many ways a traditional country solicitor, some of his greatest friends were eminent barristers, City solicitors and judges. His many associates amongst the judiciary included Lord Denning, who became a close friend. Palmer was president of the Devon and Exeter Law Society and was later elected a council member of the Law Society of England and Wales, of which he became president in 1978. In this capacity, he travelled extensively, representing his profession in Australia, Nigeria, the United States and Canada; he was made an honorary member of the American and Canadian Bar Association. During his presidency he established particularly strong links between solicitors, the Bar and the government. For his service to the Law Society he was knighted in 1979. He later served on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (1981-92) and as chairman of the governors of Blundell's School, Tiverton. Palmer's bond with the sea remained, and he was chairman of trustees for the London Sailing Project and a trustee of the James Myatt Memorial Trust. He was also an early member of the Tiverton Sea Cadet Unit (TS Hermes), which he served as chairman, as well as for many years being president of Shaldon Regatta, the small village in South Devon where he was married. He was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Royal Naval Sailing Association, as well as the Shaldon Sailing Club and Teign 141

Corinthian Yacht Club. Whatever he was involved in, he used his natural ability and sense of humour to get on with people from all walks of life. As honorary secretary of the Society for the Protection of Animals in North Africa (Spana) he went back to North Africa for the first time since the war during his time on Exe . Palmer was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1984, and became Vice Lord-Lieutenant in 1992, retiring in 1995. In 2000 he was made a Freeman of the City of London. John Palmer died on July 13. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary, and their four sons, two of whom are solicitors. ÂŠ Telegraph Group Limited 2003

ROBERT TINSLEY HOLTBY (1939) The Very Reverend Robert Holtby, who died on l3 1h March aged 82, was Dean of Chichester from 1977-89 and had all the gifts required of a cathedral Dean; he was a scholar, a musician, a fine preacher and a highly competent administrator. Before going to Chichester Holtby had spent 10 years at Church House, Westminster, in charge of the Church of England's educational work as General Secretary of the National Society and of the newly formed Board of Education. The administrative skill which he had demonstrated there proved to be of particular value when he moved to Chichester. His predecessor, Waiter Hussey, had exercised a remarkable ministry among the leading British artists of his day and made Chichester Cathedral the foremost location of contemporary religious art. But he was neither a pastor nor an administrator and his links with the civic life of Sussex were not strong. Holtby, by dint of hard work and quiet personal encounter, restored the balance and also put the cathedral's finances in sound order. The Yorkshireman's combination of a warm heart, blunt speech and interest in money was just what was needed. In the realm of education, which Holtby inhabited for a quarter of a century, his acute mind and determination greatly assisted the Church in its dealings with government over church schools and colleges of education, and in its encouraging of the parishes to recognise the importance of religious education for people of all ages. Robert Tinsley Holtby was born at Thornton-le-Dale in North Yorkshire on February 25 1921. He became a chorister at York Minster

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under Sir Edward Bairstow and at 13 moved from the choir school to Scarborough College. He graduated in Modern History from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and, having felt drawn to Holy Orders, began his ordination training at Cuddesdon Theological College. Soon he moved to Cambridge as a choral scholar of King's, where he read Theology. Simultaneously, he attended Westcott House, Cambridge, and then became a curate at the Yorkshire parish of Pocklington. This was followed by four years as an Army chaplain- first with the 14th/20th King's Hussars at Catterick, and then in Singapore. On his return to civilian life in 1952 he was for a short time acting chaplain at King's College, Cambridge, then became Chaplain and Assistant Master at Malvern College. Two years later he moved to Oxford as Chaplain and Assistant Master of St Edward's School. In 1957 he was awarded an Oxford BD. From 1959-67 Holtby was a Canon Residentiary of Carlisle Cathedral and Diocesan Director of Education . There was a minor kerfuffle after he presided over a unilateralist meeting there in 1961 , and the Dean and Chapter then refused permission for a public meeting in favour of Hugh Gaitskell's policy. During this period, Holtby also became chairman of Cumberland Council of Social Service and wrote a book on Daniel Waterland, an important but much neglected 18th century Anglican theologian. This was published in 1966. In the same year he also published a monograph on the Carlisle Cathedral Library and Records and in 1967 a biography of his late father-in-law, Eric Graham, who had been a notable Bishop of Brechin. Holtby's appointment to Church House, Westminster, in 1967 came at a critical point in the Church of England's history. The movement towards synodical government, due to be implemented in 1970, required the re-organisation of all the central boards and councils, and none was more complex than those relating to education. It was Holtby's task, working in close collaboration with his chairman, Robert Stopford, the then Bishop of London, to co-ordinate and rationalise the diverse segments of the education department and at the same time to maintain negotiations with the government. After 10 years of hard labour in this field he was ready for a change and, although he would have made a fine Dean of York, had this post been vacant, he was more than happy to move to Chichester.

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He soon discovered, however, that his powers there were limited and at various times he had problems with other members of the Chapter, but under his leadership the cathedral's life was generally strengthened and developed. Music in particular was raised to new heights of excellence. On his retirement in 1989, his head was carved above the west porch of the cathedral. In 1980 he wrote a popular history of Chichester Cathedral, and in 1988 a biography of Bishop Stopford. This was followed in 1989 and 1991 with biographies of Bishop William Otter, a noted Bishop of Chichester in the 1830s, and Eric Milner-White, a distinguished Dean of King's College, Cambridge, who later became Dean of York. His History of the Minster School, York came out in 1994. Holtby became an FSA in 1990 and from 1990-93 was a Visiting Fellow of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education. He relaxed with music and, until his last years, by walking. He also lectured on Swan Hellenic cruises, which afforded an opportunity for travel and visiting historical sites, which he relished. He married, in 1947, Mary Graham, who survives him with their son and two daughters. ÂŠ Telegraph Group Limited 2003

DR ROBERT THOMAS CHRISTOPHER WORSLEY (1939) Christopher Worsley had intended to go up to St Edmund Hall in October 1939 to read Modern History. However, when war was declared on 3'd September 1939, he felt it was his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy, the service of his choice. However, his Father took a different view and pointed out that, as Worsley would in any case be called-up in the normal course of events, he doubted whether his son would really benefit very much by pre-empting the inevitable. Worsley followed his father's advice and matriculated as planned that October. It was during this year that the then Principal A. B. Emden, himself a Navy man and soon to be Commandant of the Oxford Royal Naval Division, helped Worsley by getting his call-up delayed until the end of the academic year so that Worsley could get a full year's study 144

under his belt before he left for service. In 1940 the inevitable call-up came and it was to the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve. In 1942 Worsley took part in the ill-fated raid on St Nazaire for which he was awarded a DSC. After the war he studied to become a medical doctor, practising as a hospital doctor in Bristol from 1955-1964. He emigrated to Alberta, Canada in 1964 where he entered general practice from 1964-1984. He was a member of both the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the Royal College of Surgeons in England. He suffered a stroke soon after his retirement, and from then on his health deteriorated, until on November 5'h, 2002 he died peacefully in his sleep. As the result of the many times at both the Hall and then during his naval service that Worsley was helped by Principal Emden and because of their shared high regard for the Royal Navy, unknown to the Hall, Worsley started a collection of books in Emden's name focussing on naval, military and intelligence history. When Worsley emigrated he approached the Hall to receive the collection which it most willingly did. From then until his death Worsley continued to add to the Emden Collection which now numbers some 1900 volumes and which is used by scholars from around the world. Deborah Hayward Eaton, Librarian 1940's Professor Geoffrey Derek West, MA 23'd October 2002 . 1940, Modern Languages. Anthony Thomas George Pocock, BA, OBE 14'h February 2003, London, Aged 80. 1941, English. Eric Lloyd Williams, BA 2002, Surrey, Aged 77 . 1942, Modern Languages. Alan William Shaw, MA 28'h January 2002, South Africa, Aged 75. 1943, Modern Languages. Michael Peter Langley, MIB 14'h September 2002, West Sussex, Aged 76. 1944, English. Frederick Edward Wakelin, MA, OBE 17'h June 2003, Wirral, Aged 76. 1944, Modern Languages. Donald Ernest Geatrell, BA 2001, Hertfordshire. 1945, Royal Naval Course. James William Mitchell, MA 15th September 2002, Tyneside. 1945, English.

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Group Captain Kenneth Ernest Richardson, 29th March 2002. 1945, RAF Course. Reverend Robert Henry Faulkner, MA 2002, Oxfordshire, Aged 82. 1946, History. James Stafford Golland, MA, DipEd 3Qth May 2002, Middlesex, Aged 79. 1946, English. Denis John Roy Thomas, BA 7th January 2003, Kent, Aged 80. 1946, English. Harold Nigel Grindrod, MA 2"ct May 2003, Surrey, Aged 80. 1947, Geography. Edwin John Morgan, BA 5th September 2002, Hampshire, Aged 75. 1948, Modern Languages. Lloyd Edward Bath, MA June 2002, Australia, Aged 78. 1949, English. John Rodney Moss, MA 20th August 2002, Surrey, Aged 73. 1949, Law (Jurisprudence). John Anthony Mudge, MA 2002, Malaysia. 1949, History. TONY POCOCK OBE (1941) Tony Pocock was one of the most influential figures in British publishing since the Second World War. As sales director at Oxford University Press and later at Faber, he energetically pursued reforms in the highly traditional book trade, and made a great contribution to the expansion of overseas markets. Anthony Thomas George Pocock was born in 1922 in Bombay, where his father worked as a chartered accountant for the Bombay Company; his mother had met his father while she was working in the book department at Harrods. After prep school in England he went to Marlborough College, where his growing interest in books and publishing developed, thanks to the school printing press. In 1941 he joined the Royal Marines before winning a scholarship to read for a wartime degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and played against Cambridge in the university hockey match. He saw action at the invasion of Sicily and in the D-Day landings. While serving in the Far East he had charge of a camp for Japanese prisoners of war and was one of the officers who commanded the guard of honour which took the formal surrender of the Japanese to Mountbatten. After the war he worked for a period as films officer for the British

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Council in Amsterdam, returning to England to spend two years editing film books for the Rank Organisation and this led to his taking an editorial post with Oxford University Press in 1951, to work on the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia. On completion of the encyclopaedia in 1955, he moved to the press's London office as sales manager, in which role he soon recognised the urgent need to improve the relationship with booksellers. But it was when Pocock turned his attention to export markets that the publishing trade felt most keenly the benefit of his zeal and vision . While steadily building Oxford University Press's sales in established areas, he made inroads into the hitherto less well-served countries of Eastern Europe and then much further afield in the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, the Far East and Latin America. He was driven constantly by a conviction that there were new markets to be conquered, not just by Oxford but by British publishing in general. In 1972 he was appointed OBE in recognition of his work promoting book exports. Pocock's essential foreign trips tended felicitously to coincide with some alluring sporting or cultural event, and he raised this traditional publishing practice to a fine art. A young Oxford rep in Germany received a characteristic cable : "Arriving Diisseldorf Hauptbahnhof 1600 hours stop strongly suggest we make for Bochum where rarity awaits us stop regards Pocock". The rarity was an obscure German opera, and its place in Pocock's itinerary was typical of his unquenchable enthusiasm for the new and unusual. He could be discriminating to the point of eccentricity, attending a concert to hear just one piece, for instance, and departing as soon as it was over. He displayed a similar eccentricity in his passion for sport, keenly following rugby league when this northern working-class code was far from fashionable. For many years he was a director of Charlton Athletic, and would surely have described himself as "vexed" not to have presided over this once unglamorous club's elevation to the Premiership. He was also a passionate follower of rugby union and closely involved with Hampshire County Cricket Club. Among his most notable legacies to the book trade were the Charter Group, the initiative linking improved bookselling standards to increased publishers' discounts, and the formation of University Bookshops (Oxford), a partnership with Blackwell's which in some ways prefigured today's bookshop chains. He served as eo-chairman

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with Toby Blackwell of the book trade working party, whose report in 1972 paved the way for major changes in the shape and practice of the trade. In 1975 Pocock left Oxford University Press to take up the position of sales director at Faber & Faber, where he later became vice-chairman under Matthew (now Lord) Evans. Here he pursued his passion for developing export markets with characteristic energy, and was able to widen his professional remit to embrace his other great obsessions, sitting on the board of Faber Music and commissioning and editing sports books for the general list. On his retirement from Faber in 1987 he found the perfect role for a man of his huge experience and enthusiasms, joining Kingswood Press, an imprint of Methuen within the Reed Group, as "sweeper" (his term) to the editorial director Derek Wyatt. This happy linking of professional and personal interests lasted until Methuen was sold by Reed in 1995. Tony Pocock is survived by his wife Kate, and by a son and daughter from his first marriage to Jetteke Estourgie. Tony Pocock, OBE, publisher, was born in Bombay on October 3, 1922. He died in London on February 14, 2003, aged 80. ÂŠ The Times, 8 March 2003

JAMES WILLIAM MITCHELL (1945) James Mitchell, the Tyneside writer who has died aged 76, was the author of more than 70 books but was best known as the creator of Callan and When The Boat Comes In, two of the most popular, if controversial, television drama series of the 1960s and 1970s. Callan, the title character of the first series, made his debut in 1967 in an ABC Television Armchair Theatre play A Magnum for Schneider, which was so successful it was "spun off' into four series of hour-long episodes shown on ABC (and later Thames) Television between 1969 and 1972. Callan (played by Edward Woodward) is a moody and embittered ex-con turned government assassin who pursues his violent calling with ruthless efficiency, but is partly redeemed by his attempts to commit himself to the decencies of life; this struggle is exemplified in his relationship with Lonely (played by Russell Hunter), a frightened petty criminal with a personal hygiene problem, whom Callan tyrannises,

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but for whom he is prepared to risk his life. Callan was gritty and realistic in its style, totally lacking the glamour typical of spy series of the time, and some found its uncompromising brutality impossible to enjoy. The show's 52 episodes made a star of Edward Woodward and, at the end of the 1969 run when his character appeared to have been written off, viewers flooded Thames Television with protests. A few months later, Callan made a Shedock Holmesstyle come-back in a new series. Following on from his tremendous success with Callan, James Mitchell's next full-series project was a decidedly different affair which drew on his own roots in working-class South Shields. When The Boat Comes In, first aired on BBC 1 in January 1976, follows the fortunes of a ruthlessly ambitious jack-the-lad, Jack Ford (played by James Bolam), charting his struggles to survive in postGreat War Tyneside. Jack's ruthless drive is offset by the patient stoicism of the Seaton family, whose daughter Jessie (Susan Jameson) finds him disturbing and eventually succumbs to his charms. The show, screened in 1976-77, with a fourth series in 1981 , ran for 51 hour-long episodes and won a regular audience of more than 15 million viewers. It also became something of an institution among media bien pensants for giving dignified dramatic standing to the proletariat. But, as some of the more observant critics remarked, the militant political message was not as uncompromising as it at first appeared, for the working-class hero of the early series hardens into one of the most illiberal, dogmatic and thoroughly detestable characters in British television. James Mitchell was born at South Shields on March 12 1926 into a world of heavy boots, cloth caps, back-to-back housing and the dole. There were craft classes for the unemployed in a local hall where, during the Depression, young James and his father spent their days. His father was an able man, self-educated and well-versed in the 19th century classics and in labour relations and local government law. Off the dole, he was a shipyard fitter, and became a shop steward and later organiser for the Amalgamated Engineering Union; later he was a Labour councillor and, in 1947, Mayor of South Shields. An old-fashioned radical, he refused to wear a dinner jacket to the annual civic ball, although his wife wore a formal evening dress. James Mitchell won a scholarship to South Shields Grammar School and another to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After graduation, he

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tried his hand at several jobs, working variously as a repertory actor, civil servant, shipyard worker and travel agent before settling down to life as a teacher "in almost every kind of institution from secondary modern school to college of art". In 1957 he wrote his first novel, Here's a Villain, a strongly autobiographical social comedy about the life and loves of a mildly eccentric working-class schoolmaster; another two novels followed in quick succession. In 1960 Sydney Newman, then head of drama at ABC Television, telephoned him out of the blue and asked him to write a television version of his third novel, a fast-moving spy thriller entitled A Way Back. Televised as A Flight from Treason, it concerns a man with a Communist past who tries to bury himself in a Tyneside foundry, but is discovered and blackmailed by his former comrades into helping them to steal the blueprints of a new bomb he is making. The play won a favourable critical reception and brought Mitchell further commissions; in 1965 he gave up teaching and moved to London to concentrate on writing full-time. As a thriller writer, Mitchell wrote both under his own name and under the pseudonym James Munro, and was once spoken about as a successor to Eric Ambler. He also wrote several stage plays, but it was for his work for television that he became best known. He wrote more than 100 television scripts, and in 1970 won the Screen writers' Guild screenwriter of the year award. Towards the end of his life, Mitchell returned to his roots to live at Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. He died in the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, on Sunday. He was twice married. His first marriage was dissolved, and he married secondly, in 1968, Delia McCoy, who died in 1990. He is survived by two sons of his first marriage. ÂŠ Telegraph Group Limited 2003

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Anthony John Waters, MA 4'h January 2003, Belgium, Aged 70. 1952, English. John Richard Fuller Curry, MA 25'h December 2002, London, Aged 69. 1954, History. Dr Roger Augustus Dunbier, MA 1998. Aged 64. 1955, Geography. Peter Humphris, MA October 2002, North Yorkshire, Aged 69. 1955, English. Graham Noel Johnston Smart, 2"d March 2003, Scotland, Aged 63 . 1957, Geography. Dr Alfred John Alcock, D.Phil 6'h July 2003, Canada, Aged 65. 1959, Engineering. Nigel Arthur Mayhew Wallis, MA 6'h July 2003, North Yorkshire, Aged 63. 1959, Physics. Clive Barry Wilkinson, DipEd 2003, South Africa, Aged 68. 1959, Education. ANTHONY JOHN WATERS (1952) Anthony John Waters worked for BP Chemicals before retiring in 1990. He then became the Vice President, Methanol for an American chemical trade publication and entered the Consultancy business. In 1995 he became Director Secretary for the International Methanol Producers and Consumers Organisation (IMPCA), an industrial organisation based in Brussels which he eo-founded in 1987 becoming the second President in 1989. This involved amongst other activities arranging international conferences and extensive travel which he very much enjoyed. Cancer was diagnosed in Spain in 1999 but he remained positive and ever optimistic and never let it affect his life or activities. Following a final retirement at the end of 2001 he enjoyed last year travelling with his wife Mary, in particular to South Africa joining the Blue Train in Pretoria for Cape Town - a lifelong ambition. They returned to the UK on board the QE2 in December. He underwent a planned surgical procedure a few days later which was successful but complications set in and he died peacefully in Southampton Hospital on 4'h January 2003. He always supported the Hall and was a regular attendee at reunions. Simon A.J. Waters (1988)

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IN MEMORIAM JACK LEE (1933) My mother and I attended the funeral of Jack Lee at Guildford Crematorium. There were about 40 at the service (there is to be a Thanksgiving Service in the spring at which the St Edmund Hall Association will be formally represented). A comprehensive address, compiled by Jack's son Michael and delivered by his son-in-law, paid tribute to his time at the Hall where he was apparently the first soccer player at the University to be awarded three consecutive Blues (Francis Pocock referred at the London Dinner to his "First in Soccer!"). At a reception afterwards I was given a copy of the Address for the Association; on display were some fascinating memorabilia of Jack's life (photos, press cuttings, speeches etc) as well as fulsome tributes which were greatly appreciated. My father, who was an exact contemporary and fellow linguist, had kept up with Jack and his family since they became near neighbours in the 50's. Indeed it was Jack who "persuaded" my father to become London Dinner Secretary in 1980 when he was President of the Association - so I suppose I should be grateful for that inheritance! Jack's cheerful manner and ability to see the best in people are lasting memories (he was after all very proud that he had qualified in retirement as a Wimbledon umpire and exercised his qualities of mediation in some of the most fractious tennis matches!). He was the genuine allrounder. Richard Finch (1976)

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JOSEPH LESLIE MEIGH (1940) Leslie Meigh was the first of a number of boys from Dauntsey's School to come to the Hall. Followers were Donald Year (1943), John Pike ( 1946), Michael Pike ( 1948) and Teddy M organ ( 1948 - see pages 146 and 155). As an Exhibitioner in Modern Languages, he arrived in 1940 and spent a year at the Hall before joining the Royal Artillery. As a Gunner, and once commissioned, his talent for teaching meant that he was kept on as an Instructor and only with difficulty escaped for parachute training, eventually going as an F.O.O. with the Guards Armoured Division to Nijmegen as part of Operation Market Garden ("A Bridge Too Far") and then with the Paras to Norway, where he met his wife Gerd, and thence to India preparatory to the parachute drop on Malaya which happily was cancelled following Hiroshima and the Japanese surrender. Leslie returned to Oxford in early 1946 to complete his degree, consolidating his knowledge of French and German and adding Russian, which became his particular specialism for what was to be a long and devoted teaching career at, inter alia, Bristol Grammar School, the University of Bath and Didsbury Teacher Training College in Manchester. Leslie's commitment as a dedicated teacher meant, as another Dauntsey's contemporary has said, that "Leslie was only interested in doing a good job as a teacher, not in career advancement, and anybody who had the good fortune to be taught by him can count themselves jolly lucky" . Shortly before he died Leslie was able to arrange for his very substantial collection of books in French, German and Russian to be donated to the Hall Library; he was very touched to receive as a gesture of appreciation from the Library a plant from the front quad of the Hall. John Pike CBE (1946)

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EDWIN JOHN MORGAN (1948) The following address was given at the Service of Thanksgiving at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin on l4 1h November 2002, by Paul Foote (1948). Teddy Morgan and I came up to St Edmund Hall in the same year 1948. We both read Modern Languages, though, since we had no common language of study, our academic paths remained separate. Those early post-war years were a good time to be an undergraduate. With very few exceptions, all were ex-servicemen. Our seniors were hoary veterans who had campaigned in Africa and Europe, carried bombs to Berlin, and so on. The younger of us had done three or four years in the services in different places - Teddy was three and a half years in the army and had served in military intelligence in the Middle East. Everyone was glad to be in Oxford, to be free of restriction, and to be able to continue their interrupted studies. The undergraduates of Teddy Hall at that time were a well-bonded, cheerful community of diverse, but kindred spirits: all 'good chaps' - and Teddy was of the best. He was, in a phrase which is less heard these days, 'a good college man', always around, always genial, playing his part in college life in sport he played 2"ct XV rugby and on the intellectual side (there was one) he was a keen member and some-time president of the Essay Society. In 1951 Teddy got a First in Schools - very much in his stride; I remember someone remarking that he had achieved this distinction 'without going peculiar'. He became a Senior Scholar of the Hall and registered as a BLitt (and subsequently DPhil) student under the supervision of Professor Seznec, the Marshal Foche Professor of French. His research topic was the writer Anatole France. I saw much of him in our first post-graduate year - indeed, for some time we shared digs, a double bed-sit in the Banbury Road - anyone who has done it will know that sharing digs is the supreme test of friendship and congeniality. Despite some difference in our levels of ebullience, Teddy passed that test - again with First Class honours. In 1952 he was appointed lecteur in English at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, a prestigious appointment in which, while instructing the budding high-fliers of the French establishment, he was able to carry on with his research. He did not, in fact, return to residence

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in Oxford, since at the end of his year in Paris he was appointed to an Assistant Lectureship in French at the University of Glasgow. It was a good appointment to get. The Glasgow French Department was a strong one, and, though it may be a parochial yardstick, one can point to the two-way traffic of eminent scholars between Oxford and Glasgow at that time: a lecturer from Glasgow appointed as French tutor at Christ Church and the French tutor of Magdalen taking up the Chair of French in Glasgow. Teddy spent four years in Glasgow before deciding to quit academic life. I did not see him in those years and can only guess why he decided to move on. He would have much enjoyed teaching, for he loved to communicate, to dispute, and to put ideas - not least those of others - into shape. It is likely that he found less attraction in the life of the patient scholar ploughing a lonely furrow in the field of research. He was a man of great and, one might say, 'impatient' vigour, keener on action than contemplation. He doubtless felt the need for a wider outlet, a larger institution that offered him more scope, defined objectives, and the possibility of achieving results that mattered to the larger world. All that he clearly found in his new career in the Civil Service. It is good that we remember him today - he was a very memorable man.

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PILGRIMS' PROGRESS: SEARCHING FOR EDMUNDITE ROOTS IN ENGLAND In July 1998, Saint Michael's College, Winooski Park, Vermont, began its Edmundite heritage tours to France; as a consequence of these ventures there grew an interest in St Edmund himself and so in the summer of 2002, as part of a wider retracing of the footsteps of St Edmund, 13 Saint Michael's pilgrims, including Edmundites, trustees, faculty, staff and friends, spent three days at the ISIS Guest House in Oxford from where firstly they visited Abingdon, birthplace of St Edmund in around 1175. Later that first day, they enjoyed dinner in the Old Dining Hall of college, hosted by the Librarian, Deborah Hayward Baton.

Abingdon: Dean John and Ann Kenney of St Michael 's College, Vermont with Mr Justin Gosling, past Principal, St Edmund Hall

The following day the pilgrims travelled to Salisbury where, in 1222, Edmund was named treasurer of the cathedral, then under construction. After brief stops at Stonehenge and Silbury Hill the group travelled to Calne, 30 miles north of Salisbury, where Edmund's church

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stood in the 13th century. Their final day in England saw the group travel to Canterbury where Edmund served as Archbishop during the last seven years of his life. They also visited the tiny St Edmund's Chapel in Dover, thought to be the smallest consecrated church in England still used for services. One of the pilgrims, Fr. Richard Berube led a Vespers ceremony in the chapel - a fitting way to celebrate the end of a journey that connected the modern world with 12th century England.

AULARIAN EVENTS CALENDAR 2003-2004 Reunion Dinner for 1971 - 1974 Annual Gaudy Dinner 1990- 1997 Friends of the Boat Club Dinner

20th September 2003 27th September 2003 3'ct October 2003

Armistice Day Poetry Reading

11th November 2003

St Edmund's Day Feast

16th November 2003

Geddes Memorial Lecture

21't November 2003

SEH Association London Dinner Royal Society Physics Evening

13th January 2004 12th February 2004

40th Anniversary Gaudy for 1964

19th March 2004

Floreat Aula Society Dinner

26th March 2004

Inter-Collegiate Alumni Golf Tournament

16th April 2004

Medics' Reunion

24th April 2004

Summer Reunion

26th June 2004

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VISITING STUDENTS 2002-3: (From left, standing) Rachel Kessler, John Nelson, Asen Parachkevov, Kristin Hall, Sarah Chon, Daniel Abelson, Annie Fox, Lou Racco, Robert Higney, Heidi Jakal , Brian Hard in, Clark Downum, Phi I Cardinale (VS Jr Advisor), Peter Galalis, Dr. Priestland (History Tutor), Brian Garfield, Patrick Oakes, Martin Slater (Senior Tutor), Jessica Phillips, Joyce Wu, Emily Musser, Ben Weston (VS Jr Advisor) . (Sitting, from left) Monica Majumdar, Sheida Tabaie, Michael Mingos (Principal), Lea Koveos, Courtney Anderson

ST EDMUND HALL Matriculation 2002 Paula Branco da Cunha. Poll yanna Powi s. Asimina Theodorou. Jessica Leitch. Sonali Peiris. Cher Lee. Caro line Morecroft. Katherine Clough. Elcanor McNuhy. Undine Bruckner. Fatemah Mafi . Sarah Lee Sarah Chon. Stuart Mees. Jennifer Kieman. Alison Debattista. Ju li a Canwright. Georgi na He ll yer. Fe licia Shaw. Pall y Cowan. Katherine Smith. Sarah Hill. Emily Smithson. Sudeshna Chakravarty. Payel Das. Ch ristina Emslie. Rahel Bacher. Madelaine Levy. Antoi neue Jordan Edward Jones. Su-Vi Hsu. Maria Vanko. Anya Starling. Daniel lrvine. Man hew Palframan. Julian Baker. Ross Pamell -Tumer. Ryan Johli. James Bullock. David Newton. Alain Yee. Kieran Coleman. Joanne Robertshaw. Cazzie Haigh Wright. Tamara Perisin. Jacqueline Col bum. Hermione Nevi ll lleana Georgiad is. Helen Richards. Amy Crofton. Genevieve Easton. Paul Haworth. Kilian Enge ls. Cheuk Hang Enoch Wong. Christopher Wilki nson. Douglas Brown. Hilary Entwistle. Vamava Christofi s. Paul Thomton. Michael Mukey. Janka Debreceniova. Oti lia Bologan-Vieru . Zohon Marosi. Anna Manasco Peter Moreton. Jonarthan Thevanayagam. Ashley Smith. Sarah Chapman. lan Lyons. Cam illa Day. Emma Gabriel. Twinscn Cui . Ralf Bader. Aadam Brown. Helena Cohen. Darrcn Gerard. Alexis Golding. James Eggleton. Isabe lla Jones. Fiona Clee. Katherine Pavia. Laura Squire Katerina Kyriakou. Jenn ifer Myatt. Charlotte Dove. Rachel Adams. Sebastian Winnctl. Tho mas Farthing. John Whclan. Fergus Eckcrsley. Leon Marshall . Nimrod Rosenblum. Lorenz Wemd le. Stijn Pau7men. Slavcn Vukasovic. Wi ll iam Speke. Jonathan Lonsdale. Stephanie Rollin s. Cassandra Hogan Greg Cou her. Michael Bhaskar. Thomas Coke-Smyth. Ruth Evans. Jamcs Bolton. Kimberly Gillingham. Mary Morgan. Zachary Perry. Joanna Dyer. Rupert Snuggs. Oenone Crossley- Holland. Katherine Wood. Benjamin Chamberlain. Asher Dresner. Tessa Andrews. Sam Offer. Liam Ham ill. Alexandros Stratakis Natalie He lier. Michael Lowry-Corry. Tord Roe. David Hoh. Scou Phi lli ps. Benjamin Muri son. Gabor Molnar. Sandra Stei nitz. James Audsley. Paul Myatt. Robert Simmons. Rinesh Amin. John Goodey. Gareth Walli ss. Nicole Hermitage. Helcn Wilkinson. Mia Sorgi Jonathan Lai1. Peter Gordon. Shau l David. Krishan Chad ha. Andrew Buchan. Paul Houl ston. David Thomas. Wi ll iam Unsworth . Joscph Cooper. Zadok Prescot l. Jamcs Minshull . Pierre Stall forth. Peter Wohlgemuth . Montana Butsch. Edwards Reeves. Jonathan Taylor. Anton ina Savchenko. Ian Thi st lewood Gongsheng Huan g. Gang Yan. David Griffiths. Ryan Ahmad. Xiang Gao. All an Rae. David Poole. Nicola Countouris MC R President Or Jo Ashboum Acting Dean of Degrees. Alistair Richardson JCR President. Abhik Gangula. Anmthony Brignull. Sohail Ali. Liam Kelly. Chetan Beh l. John Stcwart. Peter Chapman

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FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION Detail of illustrated text in the Benefactors ' Boo k, in w hich the earliest dated entry is 1660 (photograph by Michael St Maur Sheil (1965))