St Edmund Hall Magazine 2003-04

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MAGAZINE 2003 - 2004

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

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

Development Office Telephone (0 1865) 279055 E-mail: development.office@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk

FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION : Detail of illustrated text in the Benefactors' Book, in which the earliest 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

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Vol. XVI No. 4 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2004

COLLEGE LIST .... ... .. .. ... .......... ... ... .... .... ... .... ... .. ... ... .... .. .. .. ................. .......... . 1 TO REPORT From the Principal ..... ........ .. ......... ................... .. ... .. ......... ..... ... .... ...... .. .. .. .. .......... 9 From the Chaplain .... .... .................. ........... ............... ...................................... .... 14 From the Librarian ...... ... .......... .. ............... ...... ......... ... .......... .................. .... .. ...... 16 From the Bursar ....... ..... .... .............................. ........ .... .. .. ...... ....... .... ... ................ 21 The Senior Common Room .............. ........... .......... ....... ....... .... ...... ......... .......... 26 The Middle Common Room ................. .................................... .......... ................ 34 The Junior Common Room .................... ...... ............. ..... ............... ..................... 36 Clubs and Societies .......................... ..... .... .... ...... ... ... ... .. .... ... ....... ... .. ...... .... .. ...... 38 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ............ ..... ........... ...... .. ..... ... ... ................ ....................... ........ .. 55 The Geddes Lecture .............. ........ ............ ....... .. .... ..... .... ..... ........... ........ 58 St Edmund 's Day ..... ... .. ... ................. .. ..... ............................ .. .. .... .... ... ... .... . 60 The Phi lip Geddes Memorial Prizes 2004 ........... ................................................... 61 Boise Travelling Scholarship ..................................................................................... 62 Intercollegiate Football .................... ... ..... .... ..... ..... ...... ........ ...... .... ... ..... ........ 62 The Emden Lecture .. .. ....... ........... .... ..... .... ..... ..... ... .. ..... ..... ... ... ..... ... .. ..... .... 63 Artweek 2004 ....................................... ......... .........................· ···o •• ••• •• • ••• •• ••• ooo.ooo 64 The 2004 Moot .................oooo• • • o• • o. ooo oo ooo ooo oooo ... o.o •o •o· · · · · ·· o• · ··· ····o·· · · · · · · · · ·o· ··· · ·· · · · o· · · · · · · · · ·· •• 65 SCR vs MCR Cricket Match ................................................................ .................. 67 A Treasured Inheritance ............... .... o. ooooooooooooo ... o... . . .. oo.. oo• oo• ·· · · ·· ·························· 68 The Transit of Venus ..................... o• ••• oo.o ooo oo •o•o•o ooo•o •o•• •o•• o···o·· oo o•o • oooo•o•o· · o· o• o······ ·o· · · · o· . 69 70 The George Series Prize ......................... ...........

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70 The Orphan: Two Poems ...... ... ..... ..... ................................................... ...... ...... 72 Valentine •ooooooo• •o · ·· o··· · · ···· · o· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··· ·o ·· · ··· · ·· ·· · oo oooo oo ooooo oooooooooo oooooo• o•oooooo••o••o·· ··· · ·· ·· ·· · ·· 74 The Sea oooooooo oo·· ·· oooo oooo• ··· o·•o··· ······ ····· ·· ·· oo o•• o.oo •• ooooooooooo ooo oooooo•••ooooo··········· ····· o···· · 74 John Dunbabin's Retirement Luncheon ....... ..... ... ...... .......... ........... .............. .. 76 Oxford Development Abroad: Aid in a Restless Kingdom ............ .. ....... ........ .. .. 78 Nepal on a Shoestring .... ............. ........ ... .. .......... ..... ............ .. ... .. ............... .... . 80 Obituaries: Sir Stephen Turnim .............

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FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ........ ........ .... .... ..... ........ ...... ..... .. ..... ............................... 88 Matriculations ............ ............. .... .......... ....... ............................ ...... ...... .... 88 Visiting Students .. .. ........... ... .. ............. ..... .. .. ............. ... ........................... . 93 Degree Results .. ....... .. .... ...................... ........ .. ....... .. .. .. ... ... .. ... ..... ..... ...... .. . 94 Awards and Prizes ................................. .... .. ..... ....... ............................. .... ............ 99 Degree Dates 2004-2005 ..... .......... ........... ...... ...... .............................................. I08 THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE News oftheCampaign ........... ............ ...... ....... ..... .............................. ... ......... .. 109 Student Careers Advice ........................................ ........ .. ............ .. ..... .. . Ill Aularian Gatherings .......................... .............................................. ........................ 112 Donors to the Hall ...................... .................................................... ........................ 131 Forthcoming Events I Aularian Calendar ............................................................... 145 THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives .................... ......................................... 146 Minutes of the 73rd Annual General Meeting ...................... ............ ......... 147 The63rdLondonDinner ...................................... ................................................... 148 The Aul arian Noon Dial ...................................... .. .......... ................ .... ... !50 The Accounts ... .. ... .............. .. ....... ..... .. .... .. ........ .... .................................... .. ... ... 152 AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ................................................ .. ... .............. .. ........ .. 154 Obitu aries .................. .. ........ .... .... ...... ................................... .. .................. 162

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ST EDMUND HALL 2003 - 2004 Visitor 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 (BA Natal; MA Camb.)

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, DerrickArthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb.; JD Chicago), QC Barrister, Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (Ph.D. Leic.; MA Camb.)

Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, M.Phil.

Tutor in Economics and Senior Tutor Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Tutor in Law

Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (M.Sc., Ph.D. Mane.)

Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering and Tutor for Graduates Reed, George Michael, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc., MS , Ph.D. Auburn) GEC Fellow and Tutor in Computation Phillips, David George, MA, D.Phil., 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 of Biochemistry, W.R. 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 Tutor for Welfare 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, Geoffrey, 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, Robert lames, MA (B.Sc. Hull; M.Sc., Ph.D. Wales) Reader in Biogeography, Tutor in Geography and Dean Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA (B.Eng., Ph.D. Liv.) Professor in Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; Ph.D. Lond., Dr Hon.Causa Sofia) Professor of East European History, Fellow by Special Election and Archivist 2

Pettifor, David Godfrey, MA (Ph.D. Camb.; B.Sc. Witwatersrand), FRS Isaac Wolfson Professor ofMetallurgy Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, D.Phil., FBA Professor of German Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, D.Phil. (BA Arnherst; 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. MIT) 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 (MA Camb.)

Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Ashboum, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb.; 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 of Clinical 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 Paxman, Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb.)

Fellow by Special Election Screaton, Gavin Robert, MA, BM, B.Ch., D.Phil., MRCP Fellow by Special Election

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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 of Art) Professorial Fellow, Ruskin Master of Drawing 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 Griffiths, Jane Elizabeth, MA, M.St. , D.Phil.

Fellow by Special Election in English Cordes, Frank, MSc. William R Miller Junior Research Fellow Wilkins, Robert J., MA, D.Phil.

Tutorial Fellow in Epithelial Physiology Honorary Fellows Wright, Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth, GCMG, MA Wylie, Norman Russell, The Rt Hon. Lord Wylie, PC, BA (LLB Glas.)

McManners, the Revd John, CBE, MA, D.Litt., FAHA, FBA, F.R.Hist.S. Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (Ph.D. Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon. Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC, BA

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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 Robert, OBE, MA Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, D.Phil. (BA Wisconsin) Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, MA Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, B.Phil., MA Garland, Patrick Ewart, MA Marchington, Anthony Frank, MA, D.Phil.

Nazir-Aii, 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 St Edmund Fellows

Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Martin Gregory, MA (MBA Stanford) 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, Norman Charles, B.Litt., MA (BA Cape Town) Ganz, Peter Felix, MA (MA, Ph.D. Lond.)

Alton, Reginald Ernest, MC, MA *

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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 Stanley Cossom, MA (Ph.D. Lond.)

Newsom-Davis, John Michael, CBE, MA (MA, MD Camb.), FRCP, FRS Scargill, David Ian, MA, D.Phil., JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art) RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, D.Phil. Dean of Degrees Hunt, John David, MA, D.Phil. (MA, Ph.D. Camb.), FRS Lecturers Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, M.Chem., D.Phil.

Biochemistry Gamblin, David Philip, M.Chem.

Chemistry (Organic) Chambers, David, M.Chem.

Chemistry (Organic) Martin, Priscilla Elizabeth, MA (MA, Ph.D. Lond.)

Classics Barber, Catherine (BA Camb,; MPA Harvard) Economics Holton, Amanda, MA, M.St., D.Phil.

English Archer, Michael George (BA Camb.; M.Ed. Mane.)

Fine Art Harrison, Stephan (B.Sc. Leic.; Ph.D. CNAA) Geography Waters, David John, MA, D.Phil. (MA Camb.)

Geology Forrest, Ian, D.Phil. (MA, M.Phil. Glas.)

History Roberts, David Baldock, MA (Ph.D. Camb.; Fil.Dr. Umea) Human Sciences Fowler, Peta, MA, D.Phil.

Latin Adams, John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh.)

Law Cerezo, Alfred, MA, D.Phil.

Materials Science Castell, Martin Rolf (B.Sc. Exe.; Ph.D. Camb.) Materials Science

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Piatkus, Matthew Alexander, M.Math.

Mathematics Smith, Lucy Melanie, M.Math. (LLB Lond.)

Mathematics Lotay, Jason, M.Math.

Mathematics Black, John Joseph Merrington (MB, BS Lond.), FRCS Ed., FIMC RCS Ed., FFAEM Medicine (Anatomy) Lear, Pamela Virginia (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) Medicine (Cell Biology) Cowley, Sally Anne (BA Camb.; Ph.D. Lond.)

Medicine (Molecular Biology) Virgincar, Anand (MB, BS Bombay; MD Goa; DNB New Delhi), MRCP Medicine (Neurophysiology) Venouil, Alexia Modem Languages (French) Williams, Renee, MA Modem Languages (French) Goddard, Stephen, BA, D.Phil.

Modem Languages (French) Beard, Rebecca Joanne, BA Modem Languages (German) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut Modem Languages (German) Toews, Dagmar Modem Languages (German) Dorigatti, Marco Guido, MA status, D.Phil. (Dott.Lett. Florence) Modem Languages (Italian) Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA Vienna; Dr.des. Basle) Modem Languages (Polish) Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, D.Phil.

Modem Languages (Russian) Southworth, Eric Alan, MA (MA Camb.)

Modem Languages (Spanish) Alien, Roger William, D.Phil. (BA, B.Mus. Liv.) Music Philosophy Wilk, James, MA, D.Phil.

Rikovska-Stone, Jirina (lng.Dr.Csc.) Physics Segall, Shlomi, D.Phil. (MA Jerusalem) Politics Leopold, David, MA (MA Sus.) Politics Munafo, Marcus Robert, BA (M.Sc., Ph.D. S'ton), C.Psychol.

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Chaplain The Revd Duncan MacLaren, MA, PhD The Revd Gerald Hegarty Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA Artists in Residence Donna Stoering, David Ormerod College Secretary & Registrar Joanna Cope, MA Head Porter David Beeching Decanal Staff Blacker, C. Jacquetta, BA Junior Dean Dryburgh, Robert James, BA, M.Sc. Cover Dean Witztum, Jonathan, B.Phil. (BA Ben-Gurion) Sub-Dean (lsis) Cardinale, Philip John, M.Phil. (BA Georgetown) Sub-Dean (lsis) Sub-Dean (NSE) Dionne, Steven S., BA, M.Sc. (B.Sc. Bentley)

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TO REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL This, my fifth year as Principal, has sped by at an alarming rate, but not too fast to note some very pleasing developments. Most importantly, this year has marked the completion of the William R. Miller Building in Dawson Street, on time and only slightly over budget. The days when it was merely a large hole in the ground and the contractors were worrying that the oil pollution remaining from its days as a garage may be leaking into the Cherwell are a distant memory. It is now a very handsome building and it has improved the ambience of the road greatly. The Chancellor opened the Building on 24th September and the first students take up occupation in October. Older generations of Aularians may raise their eyebrows when informed that all the rooms have en-suite facilities and are connected to the Internet but its multiple and efficient usage require these features. We are most grateful to the donors who made this important development possible and particularly William Miller and his family, and Steve and Ros Edwards. Their timely and leading contributions enabled us to proceed with the contract.

Our thanks also go to those year groups which came together to sponsor some of the rooms - we still have many rooms which are not sponsored and I very much hope that many other year groups will follow their example and mark their happy days at the Hall in this lasting fashion.

This year we have also nearly completed the Campaign which was launched in 2000 and aimed to raise a total of ÂŁ7.0 million in five years. We have reached ÂŁ6.9 million - so we have every confidence that we shall complete the Campaign one year early.

On the academic front it was a great pleasure to write letters of congratulations to the 33 finalists who were awarded First Class Honours Degrees by the examiners this summer. This record number of firsts and the occurrence of only 2 thirds lifted us to 9th position in the Norrington Table. Although the Norrington Table exaggerates the differences between colleges in any specific year it is nevertheless pleasing to figure in the top ten and encourages us to consider how to make it a permanent characteristic. I hope, as part of a future campaign, to generate sufficient monies to endow some prizes which recognise those students who not only obtain a First but also a University Blue and thereby celebrate those outstanding individuals who can combine 9

excellence in sport and study.

This year the College won cuppers in women's badminton and men's soccer. Last year, much to the surprise of the President of the Boat Club, I persuaded the Governing Body to contribute to a new boat for the women's eight, but it failed to arrive in time for this year's rowing events. I am not so sure that it was needed since the women 's first eight obtained blades not only in Torpids but also Eights' Week. Indeed they moved up six positions in Eights' week and are within striking distance of going Head of the River - a first that will indeed be worthy of celebration. It is a shame that it was not achieved this year when we celebrated 25 years of women at the Hall. This occasion was marked by a dinner on 11th September which was attended by approximately 50 women alumni. A panel discussion held earlier in the day brought to light some of the problems that our women alumni had faced in the workplace since graduation - not so much glass ceilings, as sticky floors.

The College held a number of alumni events this year - in September there were reunions for students who matriculated in 1971-4 and 19901997. A very successful London Dinner was held in January at the usual venue - the Royal Overseas Club, and was attended by more than 180 including many representatives from the Hall . A Gaudy to celebrate 40 years since matriculation was held in April. A dinner for past and present medical students was also held in April in the Old Dining Hall and was much enjoyed by the Tutors. The Floreat Aula Society was set up some years ago to recognise those who have made a provision for St Edmund Hall in their Wills. We were pleased to entertain members of the Society to dinner in the Hall in April and, as always, Bill Williams spent a great deal of time ensuring that the arrangements for the dinner and the associated tours of Oxford were perfect. We have also tried to recognise the contributions and sacrifices made by parents of our present students by providing a lunch for those parents who were dropping off their children for the first time in October.

We also held a very successful garden party for all parents on the Saturday of Eights' Week. The Annual Reunion, held jointly with the St Edmund Hall Association also took the form of a Garden Party in 9th week, but unfortunately the weather prevented us from enjoying lunch on the lawns and put a bit of a damper on the tours which had been arranged. For Second Year Students the traditional St Edmund's Day Feast was held on 16th November and they had the pleasure of 10

hearing the first speech given at the Hall by the newly elected Visitor, the Rt. Hon. Christopher Patten. This year I have tried to maintain contacts with Aularians around the world and Stacey and I visited New York in April. I also attended a dinner for Aularians in Hong Kong and in Japan.

Alumni are also welcome to attend the Geddes and Emden Lectures and this year we were treated to two excellent lectures on the war in Iraq and its political consequences. Sir Peter Stothard, a former Editor of the Times, spoke on 'After Hutton: Downing Street and the Media' in his Geddes Lecture and Professor Sir Adam Roberts addressed 'The "War on Terror" in Historical Perspective' in his Emden Lecture.

Approximately 200 attended each of these lectures which were held in the Examination Schools. Our commitment to freedom of the press included awarding a Geddes prize to a young Aularian reporter despite her having been responsible for the article concerning excessive drinking at the Hall which was taken up by the national papers last year and which caused me some grief!

We were pleased to welcome the following new Fellows during the Year:- Frank Cordes as the William R. Miller Junior Research Fellow.

Frank, who graduated in Germany with a degree in Physics has been completing his doctoral Thesis on the X-ray Crystallographic Determinations of Proteins. Dr Jane Griffith, who was elected as a Fellow by Special Election in English has many talents and is a nationally recognised poet. She has also taken on the responsibility for the JCR/SCR Art Fund which I am sure old members will be pleased to hear still operates successfully. I hope that her eye for a good painting will augment the collection of paintings which Reggie Alton and the junior members chose in the 1950s. Dr Robert Wilkins, who was elected as a Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, is no stranger to Oxford and will take responsibility for our students in the medical sciences.

The Fellows' research excellence continues to be recognised by their peers and in this year's distinction exercise Lucy Newlyn, Adrian Briggs and Robert Whittaker were promoted to Professorships, and Nicholas Cronk and David Manolopoulos to Readerships. Besides their innovative research the Fellows have explored alternative ways of making their subject more interesting and amenable to the current generation of students. The two volumes of Synergies have received excellent reviews for introducing creative writing to students studying for a Degree in English which, traditionally, has had a heavy bias 11

towards literary criticism.

It is with some sadness that we note the retirement of John Dunbabin, who has made a very distinguished contribution to College life not only as a Tutor in international relations, but also as Vice-Principal at a difficult time in the College's history. I am personally most grateful for the help and assistance which he gave me when I first arrived at the College. His retirement was marked not only by a lunch in July which was attended by many of his students and colleagues, but also a memorable cricket match against a combined JCR/MCR team . The Senior Common Room also said goodbye to Steve Watson and Joanna Ashbourn at the end of the academic year. Steve has taken up a new post as the British Heart Foundation Professor at the University of Birmingham and we thank him for acting so ably as Medical Tutor when resignations have left us without a tutor in this area. Joanna's contributions as Junior Dean and enthusiastic attendee of Hall events have been appreciated by the junior and senior members of the College.

We also bade farewell to the Chaplain Dr Duncan MacLaren and his wife Jane who have taken up joint responsibility for a parish in Edinburgh. Duncan made many contributions to the spiritual life of the College and I was most appreciative of his caring manner and support when we had to deal jointly with student tragedies over the last few years. The College did review whether it was still appropriate to have a full-time Chaplain and after due consideration of the issues by a sub-committee chaired by Adrian Briggs, and discussions with other comparable colleges, it was decided to proceed with a reappointment. We were delighted that Gerald Hegarty was able to join us again for a second term as Chaplain. He had held the post previously in the early 1990s.

It is very sad to record the death of Reggie Alton MC who was associated with the College as a student, fellow and bursar. The present architecture and atmosphere of the College owe much to his imagination and character. To take one simple example - his interest and knowledge of painting led to the acquisition of the paintings by Lowry and Spencer which do so much to improve the character of the Senior Common Room. Many moving tributes were made at his memorial service in the University Church which was packed. It said much for his character that the details of the bravery which resulted in the award of the MC were only revealed to most of us at the Memorial Service. The previous Principal Sir Stephen Tumim died whilst on 12

holiday in the Galapagos Islands on 81h December 2003. Sir Stephen enjoyed very high esteem in public life and the reforms he introduced as Chief Inspector of Prisons were bold and effective. He was a great supporter of the arts and did much to promote art exhibitions and theatrical productions in prisons. He was only at the College briefly, but his humour and accessibility were greatly appreciated by the students. Sir Stephen had a difficult and ultimately unproductive relationship with the Fellows on the Governing Body and resigned in 1998. The College was represented at his very well attended Memorial Service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

The College has a long tradition of participating in Oxford Artweeks each May, but the artistic life in the College has been amplified this year not only by a student Art Week held in the Michaelmas Term which included an Art Exhibition based on the students' work, but also a fine production of Congreve's The Way of the World in the Old Dining Hall. In another innovation Lucy Newlyn organised fortnightly poetry evenings through the year, which will be continuing this next year and which are open to all alumni. Additionally, three performing arts evenings were held involving music, drama and poetry - "An Armistice Day Poetry Reading" in Michaelmas, "Valentine Celebration" in Hilary and "Midsummer Medley" in the Trinity Term. These events were attended not only by students and fellows, but also alumni and staff. The bistro atmosphere created by round tables, wine bottles and candles and the wide range of poetic and musical contributions made for very memorable evenings.

Those students who have graduated in recent years will be sad to hear that Audrey Paterson has left us and will no longer be able to provide a sympathetic ear and a pragmatic view of life to newer generations of students in the JCR. However, we all wish her well in her new life in New Zealand.

The above account has, I hope, given a faithful account of life as it currently is at the Hall. However, it has also been a year when universities and University funding has been at the centre of the political stage. The Government managed by a very narrow majority to get its legislation on top-up fees passed through Parliament and the Schwartz report has suggested that the admissions procedure be reformed to enable the choice of University to be made after A-level results have been announced. These measures will of course have a profound influence on our future and although they are not planned to take

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effect for several years the rapid passing of time noted in my first sentence means that we have to begin to think about their consequences immediately.

Floreat Aula!

FROM THE CHAPLAIN e. e. cummings called the past a foreign country, and in my case that is now literally true. I left Oxford in April and returned to my native Scotland after an eighteen-year exile, seven of which were spent as Chaplain at the Hall.

These have been exceptionally happy and productive years for me, tainted only by the frenetic pace of Oxford life, and the brute fact of Cornmarket St. I arrived at the Hall two weeks after our first child arrived in the world, with an MA and PhD thesis still to write. I left with two extra degrees and two more children.

Undoubtedly I have received far more from the Hall than I have given. I can hardly imagine a more sublime working environment, whether attending choral evensong in the seventeenth-century Chapel, hearing plain-chant in the twelfth-century crypt, or engaging in lively conversation in the 1970s common room (culturally, my favourite decade), surrounded by fine paintings, port and plums. But what makes a place are its people. When I was interviewed for the post, there were some fine old men still stalking the quad: mythical names such as Kelly, Midgley, Alton, Fargher, and Marsh. That they are no longer with us is a potent symbol of the pace of change. But many more pillars of the collective memory remain, and I have been enriched by knowing them. I have also been enriched by the many students whose paths I have crossed, by the perennial perkiness of the Lodge, and by the wider staff who have shared their joys and their sorrows amidst the daily grind. I also want to record my thanks to Gerald Hegarty, my predecessor as Chaplain, who took over from me for the Trinity term of 2004. cummings also wrote of the past that, like foreign cultures, 'they do things differently there'. This, too, is true in my experience.

Edinburgh drivers are less overtly aggressive, but more self-righteous, than Oxford drivers; Sunday walks along lush, lazy river banks I have had to trade in for dry-slope skiing, and sunbathing on Portobello beach; homely, honeyed Cotswold stone has given way to breathtaking 14

classicism executed in sooty granite; and ' Scots accents' have ceased to exist. It's a trade-off. For every gain there is something I miss dreadfully. And, I say with deep gratitude, many of those 'somethings' I found at the Hall.

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FROM THE LIBRARIAN This has been a year in which I have been more than usually reminded that the Hall Library is located in the Norman church of St Peter-inthe-East, and that we have a tradition of acting responsibly in making available and maintaining its resources as a church.

Researchers and private individuals alike showed a variety of interest in what St Peter's could offer them. An American professor of medieval history wanted a copy of my article, 'Information in the stones, a library building as history: St Peter-in-the-East, St Edmund Hall, Oxford,' which appeared in 1999 in Library History and also information on the height of the church as part of his research prior to writing a murder mystery located in early medieval Oxford. The editor of a Folio Society three volume set on early church art in Europe wanted permission to use one of the Hall's digital pictures of the beakhead and chevron carving around the Norman south entry to the church. An accountant from California wrote to praise the web sites concerned with St Peterin-the-East, saying that they bring to life his memories of his visit to Oxford and the church some years ago. And two former parishioners and their friends came back to the church to celebrate their 501h and 60 1h wedding anniversaries.

Maintaining the "churchness" of St Peter's was carefully ensured when, as was mentioned in the most recent Aularian Newsletter, the laptop desks, which the Library staff prefers to call carrels, in the Lady Chapel and Vestry were designed. This "churchness" will also be maintained when the new loan facility is built at the back of the card catalogue to house the book barcode readers needed when the Hall Library's collection goes live at Easter 2005 on OLIS, the University's on-line database of library holdings. This integration of church and library was praised as "outstanding" by the Brasenose Librarian and Library Fellow when they came to see what we had done in the recent furniture changes and improvements, using the company Knowles and Sons Ltd. And, so that we could have the level of quietness proper to both library and church, in order to decrease the noise coming from the computers at the West Wall, which was amplified by the height of the Nave, we purchased silent keyboards and the IT Officer installed hardware which greatly reduced the PCs' running noise.

A special part of this "churchness" is the way in which the bookcases for the Aularian Collection are reminiscent of a screen between Nave 16

and Chancel. And here is this year's list of books and articles given to the Library for the Aularian Collection.

ACHINSTEIN, Sharon Literature and dissent in Milton ' s England Cambridge:Cambridge University Press 2003 ATKINSON, Damian (ed) The correspondence of John Stephen Farmer and W. E. Henley on their slang dictionary, 1890-1904 Lampeter:Edwin Mellen Press 2003 BORTHWICK, Alastair [article in Chinese] Science in China [Series E] 32 2002 'Numerical wave tank based on a [sigma] transformed finite element inviscid flow solver', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 42 2003 'Water quality in Sepetiba Bay, Brazil' , Marine Environmental Research 55 2003 review of A. P. Bedmar & L. A. Araguas.

Detection and prevention of leaks from dams Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2003 'Gudunov type model of wave induced nearshore currents at a multi cusped beach in the UKCRF', Coastal Engineering 2002 ' Simulation of sloshing motions in fixed and vertically excited containers using a 2 D inviscid [sigma] transformed finite difference solver', Journal of Fluids and Structures Vol 18 2003

'Mathematical balancing of flux gradient and source terms prior to using Roe's approximate Riemann solver' Journal of computational physics 192 2003 'Equilibrium non cohesive sediment bed deformation model', British Geomorphological Research Group 2003 ' Characteristics of hyperconcentrated sediment laden flows ' , Journal of Engineering Mechanics 2003 'Simulation of dike break processes in the Yellow River', Science in China (Series E) Vol45 2002 'Wave structure interaction using coupled structured unstructured finite element meshes', Applied Ocean Research 2003 BOURDEAUX, Michael 'Communist Cuba suffers an unorthodox crisis of faith', The Times, 20 March 2004 COGHLIN, Terence Time charters London:LLP 2003 5th ed COWDREY,HEJ 'Archbishop Thomas I of York and the pallium', The Haskin Society Journal 11 2003 'Pope Gregory VII (1073-85) and the liturgy ' , Journal of Theological Studies NS 55 2004 CRAMPTON, Richard Balkan posle drugog svetskog rata [Serbian translation of The Balkans in the Second World War] Clio 2003 Concise history of Bulgaria [in Japanese] Japan with CUP permission

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DAVIS, Geoffrey 'Voices of justice and reason: apartheid and beyond in South African literature' Cross/Cultures 61 2003 '"Trying to change the molecules of people who came to see our shows" ...', Reflections Vol. 12 "'The critical and the di ss ident, the irreverent and the playful". Drama in the new South Africa' , in Crucible of Cultures Brussels :Peter Lang postscript to Zoe Witcomb. David's story Gottingen :Lamuv Verlag '"The now is in our hands" innovation and reorientation in po st apartheid South Africa,' Anglophonia/Caliban 7 2000 ' "The country we might have been" The experience of war in Canadian and Australian literature' , Cross/Cultures 59 2002 FLANDERS,Alan B Wolf at the door: the World War 11 antisubmarine battle for Hampton Roads, Richmond, VA:Brandylane 2003 FOWLES, John ' Compounding the countermajoritarian difficulty through "plaintiff's diplomacy" .. .' , Brigham Young University Law Review 2003 FRANKIS, John ' Lazamon or the lawman? A question of names , a poet and an unacknowledged legislator', Leeds Studies in English ns XXXIV 2003 GARRETT, Stephen et a!

The East Kent Railway, Volumes I & 2 Usk:Oakwood Press 2003

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GORDON, Keith ' Focus on ... ministers of religion ' , Tolley 's Practical Tax Newsletter 2003 'Taper relief', Tax Digest 2003 HILL, C R et a!

Physical principles of medical ultrasonics Chichester:Wiley 2004 2nd ed HIRST, James et a! ' By George! An entertainment for St George 's Day ' Highclere 2004 KAHN,Andrew Nikolai Karamzin: letters of a Russian traveller Oxford:Voltaire Foundation 2003 KELLY,JND Early Christian creeds 3rd ed 1981 republi shed as Person Education print on demand KNIGHT, John 'Increasing urban wage inequality in China', Economics of Transition 11 2003 'Chinese peasant choices: migration, rural industry or farming', Oxford Development Studies 31 2003 'The role of education in facilitating ri sk taking and innovation in agriculture', Journal of Development Studies v. 39 2003 MALIN, Peter (ed) John Webster: the Duchess of Malf1 Deddington:Philip Alien 2004 MANN, Christopher Heartlands Pietermaritzburg:University of Natal Press 2002 MITCHELL, Bruce 'Some differences between the syntax of Old English prose and of Old English

poetry,' Language and Language Behavior Supplement Vol. 5 2002 NEWLYN, Lucy and Jenny Lewis Synergies: creative writing in academic practice. Volume 1 Oxford:Chough Publications 2003 NIX ON, Bruce

'Speaking plainly- a new agenda for the 21 st century', New Academy Review 2 2003/4 O'CONNOR, John

'Not one of us?'

Internet sermon for Dominican site Torch.op.org 2003 ' Expansive naturalism and the justification of metaphysics in sacramental theology ' , New Blackfriars 84 2003 PALMER, John

Luck on my side: the diaries and reflections of a young wartime sailor 1939-1945 Barnsley 2002 PHILLIPS, David

' Processes of policy borrowing in education: explanatory and analytical devices,' Comparative Education 39 2003 Implementing European Union education and training policy...

Dordrecht:Kluwer 2003 SHIPTON, Alyn

Jazz makers: vanguards of sound Oxford:Oxford University Press 2002 Lullaby ofBirdland: the autobiography of George Shearing London:Continuum 2004

London:Teapot Press 2003 THICK, Malcolm (ed)

William Lawson: A new orchard and garden WITH The country housewifes garden (1618) Totnes:Prospect Books 2003 TSOMOCOS, Dimitri

'Equilibrium analysis, banking and financial instability', Journal of Mathematical Economics 39 2003 'E barter versus fiat money: will central banks survive?'

Bank of England Working Paper 197 2003 WESTON, W. R.

Weston papers. Book 3 Kirkheaton:W R Weston 2003 WILSON, Christopher R

'Nineteenth century musical agogics as an element in Gerald Manley Hopkins' prosody,' Comparative Literature 52 2000 'The idea of "musicality" in Hopkins' verse', The Hopkins Quarterly XXVI 1999 WORDEN, Blair

Roundhead reputations: the English Civil Wars and the passions of posterity Harmondsworth:Penguin 2001 WRIGHT, Denis, Sir

Britain and Iran 1790-1980: collected essays of Sir Denis Wright London:The Iran Society 2003

TEMPEST, Paul

Abu Dhabi 1965-1968: Sir Archie Lamb KBE CMG DFC London:Teapot Press 2003 The Old Lady at play

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And here are the people and institutions who gave books to the Undergraduate Library and to the Emden Collection of Naval, Military and Intelligence History.

Emden Collection BISHOP, Robert Anthony, FLANDERS, Alan, Dr., HATTENDORF, John, Professor Undergraduate Library AMBASSADOR OF LATVIA; CATMUR, Virginia (mother of Caroline Catmur, m. 2000); COLBURN, Jacqueline; DANIEL, Helen; DE RENNES, James; DUNBABIN, JP D; HAYES, John (friend of John Cox, Honorary Fellow);

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KWOK, Connie; LffiRARIAN, ST CATHERINE'S COLLEGE; MacDERMOTT, Mercia; MITCHELL, Hazel; NEWLYN, Lucy; NINA GIOTTI PUBLISIDNG; PIG NONE, Raffaele; PYEMONT, Antonia; ROMAIN, Michael; ROZIER, Clay; SHIPTON, Alyn; THE SUFI TRUST; WERNER, Lauren; WESTBROOK, Andrew; WILKINS, Frances; WITZTUM, Jonathan; WORDEN, Blair.

FROM THE BURSAR

You will see from the picture that the William R. Miller Building is now complete. I am tempted to leave it at that, for readers will have had enough of my reports over the last couple of years. We really have done well for our money: build-quality is excellent for the budget available and the construction almost shames those nearby! Particularly arresting is the abundance of hardwood second-fix joinery. The plaque recording the generosity of Bill Miller was carved by Fergus Wessel, who was a pupil of Kindersley, (himself taught by Gill) and it shows.

The cutting is exquisite and the inscription and chronogram, by Justin Gosling, in the best Oxford traditions.

Sundial: At last, the refurbishment of the sundial is complete, delayed, unfortunately by my heart attacks. The much-earlier dial in this position was black and white; it was repainted and an inscription added by Principal Kelly, in honour of the Coronation of H.M. The Queen - "Auspice Elizabetha ll horas non numero nisi serenas". The 21

inscription has been updated (help from Justin again!) to mark the Jubilee and reads - "Auspice Elizabetha II, regnum inaugurante MCML/1, MMII decem lustra celebrante, horas non numero nisi serenas". I added the silhouette of a Chough, too, which you may spot in the picture.

The second, (Coronation) dial was discovered under the last dial and this has been sealed beneath the present version. It is amazing how quickly the Oxford blue fades in the sun; both earlier dials were Oxford blue, but had become a shade of Cantab in no time.

This is probably the best birthday the sundial has ever had. It is now protected by lead flashing and supported by wrought iron brackets.

The gold paint has been replaced by gold leaf. A translation of the new inscription is available elsewhere in the magazme.

One other major job has been the new roof on our property at 17 Norham Gardens- a quarter of a million poundsworth! This is the first vital stage of the complete restoration and development of this large building which houses 48 undergraduates.

The General Purposes and Bursarial Committee is currently considering ways in which we can economically develop some of our Norham Gardens properties to produce more graduate accommodation, while Prof. Kouvaritakis is pursuing central university funding possibilities. It is feasible that the former Chapel that was part of the batch of buildings the College purchased from St Stephen's House- it is next door to 17 Norham Gardens - might produce as many as another ten or so rooms. Any interested benefactors out there?

A Teddy Hall Blazer: There have been enquiries for a traditionalstyle Teddy Hall blazer; orders can now be taken, through the Bursary, for this corking new must-have! Made for the College by the firm that produces practically every blazer at Henley, it will be in vertical claret

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and gold stripes, based upon one of the many examples to be found in numerous Hall photographs. The pocket will have an embroidered S.E.H. badge. Let us have your size (e.g. 44 long; 42 medium, etc) and a cheque for ÂŁ200 and the garment will be yours in a few weeks, made to order, for men or women.

There are now S.E.H. silk ladies' scarves available - see separate price list and order form, or call the Hall.

STAFF NEWS: It is with great regret that I report the recent death of Tony Aris's wife, Jean. It seems particularly tragic that Tony only recently retired as College Carpenter to spend more time with her. We send our sincere condolences to Tony and his family.

Earlier this year, the SCR Butler, Sam Green was married, once in Oxford and once again in Mexico.

Since my last report, there have been a number of staff changes: in October Wendy Thorpe became our new Superintendent of Works following the resignation through ill-health, of Ian Anderson. Wendy comes to us from Buckingham Palace where she was Clerk of Works.

The College Accountant, James Hirst, retired in July after 12V2 years service at the Hall. To a packed audience in the Old Dining Hall, a "Bursars' Chorus" (Bourne-Tay lor, Knight, Slater, Dunbabin and Asst Bursar, Nigel James) performed "An accountant's job is such a snappy one" with apologies to W.S. Gilbert, accompanied by James at the piano, whose parting line was, "And now it's time I took a bloody rest! [chorus: "Bloody Rest!"]. There were presentations to him and his wife and most of the staff and Fellows turned out to say farewell. "/ went up to Accounts to try a virement, Try a virement?

To move some cash from one place to the next.

But I found that lames was plotting his retirement, His retirement!

And wand'ring down again, was rather vexed.

Rather vexed .... " The consequence is that Paul Pittaway has been appointed as Accountant; Paul joins us from Dudley College. We look forward to another long attachment to a delightful person in a critical College

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This year has seen another milestone for two senior staff, Maureen Hutcheon and Sue Heath, who were awarded their Silver Armada Dishes to mark 25 years service to the College.

Maureen (pictured left) worked variously as Lodgings' Scout to Margaret and Justin Gosling and later, at the Isis; Sue Heath (right) has spent most of her career as a senior scout at the lsis, too, latterly as Isis Housekeeper. The celebration noticed another possibility; that Sue's daughter, Elaine, who has already clocked up 14 years' service, could actually make it to a double Armada before retirement!

The College bade farewell to two other characters in June ... Brian (predictably known to everyone as, "Tommy") Trinder, left us to move to a new life in St Albans. We shall all miss his (often unexpectedly fearless) quips across the Quad. No respecter of pomposity, yet innately sensitive to the Oxford hierarchy, Tommy is a character we shall miss.

He was proud and even possessive of "his Front Quad" and, for his five years with us, kept it and Queen's Lane immaculate.

Audrey Paterson, who served the College during ten years, latterly as JCR Butler, became materfamilias to those in her care, exercising an almost decanal control over any who entered the Common Room.

With time to run the coffee bar and complete the Telegraph cryptic before she went home each day, Audrey left her mark on hundreds of junior members. We wish her every happiness in her future with Don; as she put it, the man she, "should have married forty-six years earlier".

The important post of JCR Butler has been filled by Pam Cox, who had served the College earlier as a relief porter.

The painting (facing page) was specially produced by the former Ruskin Master of Drawing, Stephen Farthing, R.A., to commemorate the new William R. Miller Building. The overall predominance of the bird motif is a clear reference to wallpaper by Charles Voysey, the well-known Arts and Crafts designer (the eponymous son of a colourful Aularian priest, eventually stripped of his living in 1871 for publishing a radical sermon). The painting in its entirety is a linear depiction from the Jacobean frontage in Queen's Lane, past the Ruskin-inspired 24

Schools Buildings, the Arts and Crafts clock on the Plain, to our own Arts and Crafts pastiche in Dawson Street. Each bird represents a member of the Governing Body (why are they all flying South? Stephen explains, " .. because it is ninth week of Trinity Term and they are all off to conferences"!); the colour scheme is an evocation of natural colours and materials. The painting will be hung at the William R. Miller building against a sample of Voysey's wallpaper. We hope to commission a numbered and signed fac si mile of the painting very soon .

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THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Sharon Achinstein has had her second book published by Cambridge University Press, entitled Literature and Dissent in Milton's England, which concerns the literary and political aftermath of the English revolution. It's a book that explores the transformation of violent religious impulses into literature, a culture of the excluded, and the road to toleration (all timely topics) in the writings of John Milton (Paradise Lost) and other dissidents. She also eo-organised a day conference at St Edmund Hall (sponsored by the English Faculty) on the seventeenth-century writer Andrew Marvell, which drew over 70 local and international scholars. She also gave birth to Alexander Henry Norbrook in December, who joins his big brother Benjamin, now aged three.

Alistair Borthwick held a Visiting Professorship at Peking University this September, during which he travelled to the Lower Yellow River. He saw the 900 year-old thirteen-storey Buddhist Iron Pagoda at Kaifeng whose pinnacle lies below the bed level of the nearby Yellow River.

He also reported having had a truly memorable experience thanks to the father and uncle (pictured here) of one of our graduate students, Yao Yao (2003). On 15'h September he was taken to The Great Hall of the Peoples of China (the Chinese parliament), and given an individual tour of the building, followed by an honorary banquet including shark's fin soup. After returning from Beijing, he almost immediately set off for the International Coastal Engineering Conference in Lisbon, where papers were presented by Dr Alison Hunt (2002) and Ben Weston (2000).

John Cox's most recent productions have taken him around north America and Europe; they include Thai"s by Massenet in Chicago, Mozart's Magic Flute in San Fransisco, Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral in Rome, Werther by Massenet at the Metropolitan in New York, Cosi

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fan Tutte by Mozart in Monte Carlo, Garsington and San Francisco, and Puccini's Tosca at the Royal Opera in Covent Garden .

Peter Collins went to Cahors and Munich on European heritage business, and removed his Visiting Professor's gown in Dijon to enjoy the local grapes in processed form. A highlight was a visit to the Schubertiade festival in western Austria, which can be strongly recommended to all who prefer their music free of Stockhausen and Boulez, and amongst the most beautiful mountain scenery.

Richard Crampton, Fellow by Special Election and University Professor of East European History, gave a key-note lecture on 'Being Nosy : Reading Other People's Diaries and Letters' to the Bulgarian Society for British Studies in Sofia in October. The audience was drawn from English studies associations throughout Europe and as a result Prof Crampton received an invitation to deliver the same lecture in a lecture tour of Germany. This took place in May. The tour began on an interesting note when he found that the plane he had been booked on by the German organisers belonged to a company that had gone into liquidation and had ceased operating ten days before. Unfortunately this meant he did not have the chance to see Dresden, his first lecturing venue; the other venues were Bielefeld, Bonn, Freiburg-im-Breisgau and Bamberg. A Japanese translation of Prof Crampton's A Concise History of Bulgaria was published, as was a Serbian translation of his 'The Balkans since the Second World War'. Prof Crampton also delivered the first Jane lvanovic Memorial Lecture at the University of Kingston.

With the publication of King of Middle March, his fictional account of a sixteen-year-old boy caught up in the disastrous Fourth Crusade, Kevin Crossley-Holland has completed his Arthur trilogy. During the last year, his radio broadcasts _K_~::.:l!!~ have included 'A Good Read' and 'Private Passions', and he was one of the judges for the Whitbread Book Awards 2004. He has travelled abroad to a conference in New England and on several publication tours, while his and Nicola LeFanu's opera, The Green Children was

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directed for Summer Music on Shannon 2004 by another Aularian, Thomas de Mallet Burgess. He worked alongside Cherie Blair in Moscow at a remarkable 'literary festival' for children's librarians, hosted by Mrs Ludmila Putin. Pictured previous page (left to right) are Ludmila Putin, Cherie Blair and Kevin Crossley-Holland.

After three years as Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO in Paris, Sir John Daniel has moved to Vancouver as President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The only Commonwealth agency headquartered outside Britain, COL's mandate is to help Commonwealth countries apply the approaches and technologies of open and distance learning to their economic, social and cultural development.

This last year Justin and Margaret Gosling have been selling a house, looking for a house, buying a house, and settling into a house.

Having survived this, Justin, having persisted with teaching, is contemplating a return to thinking and even writing, and Margaret is hoping to find more time for local history.

Andrew Graham received an Honorary Degree at Encaenia 2003.

Professor Roy Harris gave lectures at the Universities of Geneva and Paris. His book The Linguistics of History was published in April

by Edinburgh University Press, and a second edition of Saussure and his Interpreters.

Heidi Johansen-Berg is spending six months of this year as a visiting researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute. There, she has been developing approaches to studying connections in the brain with new scanning techniques. This year, she has presented her work at meetings in Japan, Hungary, Germany and the USA. Earlier in the year, she was proud to captain the Teddy Hall mixed SCR football team in their bravely fought defeat at the hands of New College.

Paul Johnson has continued an active research programme in the field of islet transplantation with particular interest in the developmental biology of the pancreas and optimisation of human islet isolation. He has given presentations at a number of meetings in the UK and abroad, and at a number of invited lectures including Washington and Great Ormond Street. He was appointed Chairman of the Research Committee for British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. He has established a new organisation, the 'Academic Paediatric Surgeons Group' to try to strengthen academic paediatric surgery in UK, the first meeting having been held in Oxford in November 2003 . He was responsible for

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organising and running the 'Oxford Neonatal Surgery Course' in July 2004 which is aimed at senior trainees in the speciality from UK and mainland Europe, as well as jointly organising the Annual Congress of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons which was also held in Oxford in July this year.

Earlier this year Terry Jones' series Medieval Lives went out on BBC2, while his book Who Murdered Chaucer? was published last October. Currently he's writing a new book to be called The Tyrant & The Squire - part of a series he's writing.

John Knight served as Vice Principal and also as Academic and Investment Bursar. During the course of the year he attended research conferences in France , the United States, Australia and China, presenting papers on his research on the Chinese labour market.

David Manolopoulos was on sabbatical in Michaelmas and Hilary terms. He used this time to change the direction of his research (from gas phase to condensed phase dynamics), and to attend several very enjoyable conferences in Italy and Cuba.

During this past year, William R Miller has de-emphasised his activities in biotechnology companies, resigning from the boards of Isis Pharmaceuticals and Transkaryotic Therapies, but he has continued to be heavily involved in the affairs of ImClone Systems - a company where he has been one of three continuing directors who have steered the company from the depths of depression and scandal into the sunlight. The last year has been much more enjoyable than the previous two! And, they now do have a major colon cancer drug on the U.S. market. Bill continues to be involved in various philanthropic activities and, even though he tries to reduce his commitments, finds it hard to be allowed to leave non-paying jobs! But he continues to try. On the personal front, his wife, Irene, underwent deep brain stimulation surgery in 2003 at The New York Hospital. This is not a cure for Parkinson's Disease - which she has had since 1984 - but it reduces and/or eliminates the diskynesias (irregular body movements) associated with it. So far, they seem to have gone, which has brought a significant improvement in her quality of life and Bill's peace of mind. In April, during the weekend of the Oxford Reunion, Bill hosted a Hall cocktail party in New York at which Mike and Stacey Mingos were the principal guests. Most recently, Bill & Irene were delighted to see so many old friends and acquaintances at the dedication of the William R Miller Building, the new 55-bedroom accommodation block in Dawson Street, 29

Oxford.

This has been another busy year for the Principal, Mike Mingos.

He attended the Camarino Summer School on organometallic chemistry, Italy September 2003; the American Chemical Society Meeting, New York, September 2003; a conference on homogeneous catalysis and editorial meeting, Munich, July 2003; a Summer School and Conference on the chemical applications of microwave dielectric heating, Takamatsu, Japan, July 2004; undertook external examining in Singapore May 2004; and caught up with far-flung Aularians at Alumni events in New York in April 2004 and Hong Kong in May 2004. He also attended final meetings of Harrow Governors and the John Lyon Charity having completing ten years' service, but has continued as a member of the Court of City University. He continues as Regional Editor of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Managing Editor of Structure and Bonding, and has published several papers in chemistry journals. Within the University he has continued as Chairman of the Health and Safety Management Committee, and is member of the Undergraduate Panel, the Joint Committee on Fund Raising, the Standing Committee of Conference of Colleges, the Clarendon Fund, the Conflict of Interests Committee, and is coordinator for Heads of House Meetings.

Bruce Mitchell has once again been glad to enjoy the annual cursus festorum at the Hall, beginning with the Summer Reunion, through the London dinner, ending with Encaenia. His days of overseas travel now being over, he and Mollie have enjoyed holidays by the sea in Dorset and Suffolk. No lectures or seminars required. He has been orchestrating a campaign for the installation of grab rails at points which present hazard for children and the elderly. It is his hope that they will be in place before the 2004 issue of the Magazine goes to press and that, in due course, younger Fellows will be grateful for them. The death of Reggie Alton has been a great blow to him. He is now the sole survivor of the troika of English dons - Graham, Reggie, and Bruce - who together taught English in the Hall for over 100 years - collectively. He was privileged to write an obituary in The Independent and to give a short appreciation of Reggie at the Memorial Service in the University Church on 1'1 May. Early on in the year, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali attended a meeting hosted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the World Bank on the need for faith communities and voluntary 30

organisations to campaign so that the Millennium Development Goals which promise clean water and primary schools, among other things, for the majority of the world's population are met. As in other years, he had the opportunity to lecture at the Royal College of Defence Studies on the role of religion on the International Situation to more than 80 senior defence officers from over 40 countries. At Bradford University, he did a special lecture on relationships between Christians and Muslims - historical and contemporary. In March, he attended the third of the dialogues held between Christian and Muslim scholars in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York. This year the focus was on how each community reads its scripture. The Dialogue was sponsored this year by Georgetown University, Washington DC. The Bishop was very glad to lecture at St George's Medical School, Tooting on moral dilemmas facing practitioners in that area and enjoyed the vigorous exchange of views afterwards. He also much enjoyed preaching on the anniversary of the Tyndale Society at Hertford College - a near neighbour of SEH. He was asked to speak at a Gala Dinner to mark an important milestone in the professional life of the Medical Director of Godden Green Clinic, a prestigious mental health institution in Kent, on why bad things happen to good people, and was also privileged to lead an ecumenical delegation to meet H M the King of Bahrain and to discuss with him matters of mutual interest. In September, he delivered the Mclure Lectures at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and received a degree in recognition of his published work from a related institution. In addition to all this activity, this year the diocese has been celebrating the 14001h anniversary of its foundation. This has produced a plethora of events including exhibitions, concerts, pilgrimages, special lectures, missions and community festivities.

Lucy Newlyn has this year completed her edition of Edward Thomas' Oxford; co-edited with Jenny Lewis a second volume of Synergies; and produced a second edition of Chatter of Choughs (to be published by Hypatia Press). It has also been a busy year for teaching.

She has designed and delivered a new graduate course on Romantic Autobiography, and has enjoyed teaching the Biography option for Finalists alongside Hermione Lee and Roy Foster. Back in the Autumn she was external examiner for the M.A. in English Romanticism at York University; and during the summer term, she delivered a paper at the Hazlitt day school. Her first collection of poems, Ginnel, will appear 31

with Oxford poets/Carcanet in summer 2005.

Jeremy Paxman is in the early stages of writing a book about how monarchies work, which won't be finished for a couple of years. He also reports that he should like to learn the bagpipes.

David Phillips has served on two German education commissions, the principal of which, appointed by the Minister of Higher Education in Baden-Wiirttemberg, had the task of evaluating education as a subject in higher education institutions. Work on the two commissions took him to Germany on some dozen occasions. In January 2004 he relinquished the editorship of the Oxford Review of Education after twenty years as editor.

Norman Pollock, among the many others, exhibited some of his drawings and pictures for ArtWeek, and very much enjoyed the preparation for this annual event. (See also his drawing of St Peter-inthe-East below).

Steve Roberts and David Pettifor (with colleagues from Culham, Belfast, Liverpool, Cambridge and Edinburgh) have been awarded a large grant under the EPSRC "Materials Modelling Initiative" to study materials for fusion power plants. The grant is linked to an experimental

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programme funded by UKAEA Culham. The combined funding for the two grants is -ÂŁ1.8 million. David Pettifor's group will be modelling the interatomic bonding, providing potentials to be used in atomic simulations of radiation damage and dislocations (the crystal defects that control deformation). Results from these simulations will be used

by Steve Roberts' group as inputs for dislocation-based models of deformation and fracture. The results from the models will be compared to experiments, using fracture experiments and transmission microscopy to study the effects of high-energy neutron irradiation.

The project will start in October 2004 and run for 4 years. On a lighter note, Steve qualified to fly cross-country in gliders!

With others, Robert Wilkins has published ten papers in a range of physiological and biochemistry journals, and has also attended conferences in Dublin, Yale and San Francisco. He was also invited to speak at a Gordon Conference in New Hampshire, USA. Blair Worden has been appointed Visiting Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

Sir Denis Wright reports that various papers and articles, both historical and personal, written after his retirement from the Diplomatic Service in 1971, have been published by the Iran Society in a volume entitled BRITAIN and IRAN 1790- 1980. Collected Essays of Sir Denis Wright. The book was launched in London last October at a large gathering of friends and old Middle Eastern hands.

Derrick Wyatt was invited to a conference held in Warsaw in Michaelmas Term and organised by the Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw in conjunction with the Polish Ministry of Justice. The subject matter of the conference concerned various issues connected with the application of the law of the European Union. He gave a paper entitled "Contribution of the provisions on establishment and services to competitiveness in the Member States of the European Union" to an audience of Polish academics, judges and Ministry of Justice officials. In Trinity Term, Derrick accepted an invitation by the Law Faculty of the University of Zagreb to give three lectures on the right of establishment, the freedom to provide services, and recognition of qualifications in the European Union. He also gave a talk in Zagreb hosted by the British Council on national identity and European Citizenship to an audience of Croatians who had studied with British Council support in the UK. While in Zagreb he was invited to attend a conference on the progress of Croatia's application for membership of 33

the European Union, which was addressed by the Prime Minister of Croatia, and Croatia's Minister for European Integration.

Sir David Yardley continued as Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust, as Chairman of the Examinations and Assessment Board of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation, as an Independent External Reviewer for the Millennium Commission, and was Chairman of the Oklahoma Oxford Law Programme in July this year. He and his wife also celebrated their Golden Wedding in July with a mainly family lunch party in the Old Dining Hall.

Amy Zavatsky was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize of ÂŁ50,000 to help further her research in the area of human lower-limb biomechanics. These Prizes are designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding young research scholars of proven achievement, who have made and are continuing to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in their field. The Prizes are normally awarded to scholars under the age of 36 and are for a two-year period.

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM Aram Mikaelian- MCR President Well, another year is at an end, so I guess some reflection on things past is in order. It has been another smoothly running (and smoothly run) year for the well-oiled MCR machine.

We've had our usual assortment of MCR events over the year- the Christmas dinner followed by the bop, the Burns night, which was followed by several artistic renditions of the great Scottish poet's masterpieces; a lovely Easter Brunch with hand-painted Easter eggs, organised by Almut; the Trinity Term dinner; the garden party; and a re-discovered old tradition - the MCR-SCR cricket match, in recognition of John Dunbabin, who retired this summer. Apparently the Principal's innings were cricketing poetry in motion. The punt continues to delight, although like any treasured possession it has its moments, such as floating away from its moorings on the eve of my birthday of all days. But all is well that ends well, and it continues to bring MCR members a lot of enjoyment.

Beside the events, the everyday participation of the MCR - although less than in the previous year - still continued at a lively pace. It's the kind of place you could get stuck in for many hours in the afternoon 34

talking. Cake mornings, High Teas and Formal Halls were invariably enthusiastically attended. The atmosphere was always great, a welcome island of rest among the general buzz of university life. We might as well take this opportunity to wish the next year's committee good luck in ensuring that the above happenings in the MCR will be preserved and enhanced.

You would think, reading this, that we have been having so much fun that the academic side of things never got started! However, that is not the case: Maria Galano has won this year's Niobium Student Research award for her paper and oral presentation on Nb as a refiner and stabilizer of microstructure of new Al-based nanoquasicrystalline alloys . Katherine Lim has won numerous scholarships in History, including a European Commission-funded fellowship which funds eight months' study in Venice. That's not to mention of course numerous people who have completed their DPhil theses over the course of the year.

In addition to academic excellence, a number of MCR members distinguished themselves on the sports field. Alice Freeman's rowing achievements are probably too numerous to list in one paragraph, but rowing in the University I st VIII's record victory against Cambridge and getting blades at both Torpids and summer Eights for the college rank among those. Montana Butsch rowed for the winning Isis boat, whilst Tom Worth rowed in the college 1st VIII in Torpids and Eights, and Tristan Boserup and Matthew Ledbury in the 2nd VIII in the Christchurch Regatta, Torpids and Eights. In other sports, Luba Mandzy earned a half-Blue performing for the University women's Dancesport team, while a team of Matthew Ledbury, Tom Worth, Erica KraemerMbula and Jan Hudson put up a fine showing in the Teddy Hall Relays.

Finally, the MCR would like to extend many thanks to all those who have assisted us in making this year at the Hall what it has been.

Firstly, we would like to thank the previous committee: the President, Steven Dionne, the Steward, Anna Manasco, the Secretary, Felicia Shaw, the Welfare Officer, Matthew Piatkus, and the Women's Officer, Karen Bourrier, for all their hard work and dedication to the social life of our community over Michaelmas, Hilary, and in some cases Trinity, terms. They have set a standard for us and subsequent committees to follow. Also, we are, as ever, extremely grateful to Julie, our Butler, for looking after us diligently, and making sure the MCR is always welcoming, and who brightens our every day. Furthermore, we are 35

extremely grateful to the Tutor for Graduates, Professor Kouvaritakis, who has tirelessly served as our chief advocate on many matters, for years and years.

Last, but not least, we thank all those members leaving Teddy Hall for their contributions to our community, and wish them the best of good fortune and success in their future endeavours.

Floreat Aula!

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Ruth Evans- JCR President 2003-4 has been a diverse, challenging and highly successful year for the Teddy Hall JCR. The JCR elections each term have produced lots of exciting contests, many for new positions, and consequently, more thoroughly enjoyable hustings . I was fortunate enough to be elected from a group of 5 candidates for presidency in what was one of the closest run elections in recent times . Politically, we have faced some potent and even turbulent issues, particularly with smoking being banned from the JCR in Hilary term, by a sizable majority after a fiercely fought debate.

This measure reflects a current movement in the attitudes of numerous college JCRs across the university as a whole.

However, smoke is not the only thing missing from the atmosphere in the JCR; our beloved JCR butler Auds, has also taken her final bow. For 8 years Audrey has comforted, fed and watered the entire student body, tending our weary minds and taking us to the intellectual heights of the daily crossword. However, she was reunited after 40 years, with her longlost love, Don, who has since swept her back to New Zealand this summer.

The JCR organised a fantastic send-off for her in a book full of mementos and messages. Pam has now stepped in to take up Audrey's place in the grotto; we wish her the best of luck!

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Clearly whatever Audrey has been putting in the tea has been working wonders; the Hall have excelled academically, sportingly and artistically in the past year. Our Arts week just before Christmas revealed an array of talents through concerts, recitals, and the show piece The Way of the World by William Congreve, a well-acted college production led by the John Oldham Society.

I would like to congratulate all the sports captains and teams who have worked (and played!) hard to keep the Hall in their rightful place at the top of the sporting pile. Michaelmas term saw the mighty men's rugby team once again victors of the first division in the league, and Cuppers finalists at Iffley Rd. In Hilary term our success was continued by the magnificent efforts of the women's badminton and the men's 2"d XI football team, both winning their respective cuppers finals. On the river, the women's 1'1 crew made an amazing 5 bumps in Torpids, taking blades for the first time in 7 years, a feat considered unmatchable until, boosted by 2 returning blues, they took 6 bumps in Summer VIIIs, an historic achievement for the Hall. Thanks to a delightful lunch organised by the Development Office, many parents were able to come and experience this triumphant VIIIs week firsthand, entertained by the boisterous displays of the Syndicate, whose dancing remains one of the most enjoyable of the great Hall traditions.

This year also saw the return of another Hall institution; the Closet Chronicle mysteriously re-surfaced in Trinity term, to much delight (and some mortification), anonymously working to keep the college well informed on social events and happenings.

Our new accommodation block in Dawson St has now been officially opened, and on time! This will be a brilliant addition to the current college provision, to be used particularly for the 3'd years in their crucial run-up to finals.

Which brings me neatly to the results of this year's finalists and the dreaded Norrington Table. It is a great testament to the hard work and ability of the Hall students that our position has not only kept climbing but literally rocketed up this past year, leaving us placed a highly respectable 9 1h! Congratulations!

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Association Football Club Men's Captain: Fergus Eckersley Women 's Captain: Emma Farge The Men's Captain's Report 2003/2004 was a season of consolidation for the first team. Shorn of several key members of last year's all-capitulating team which suffered the brutal ignominy of relegation from the Premiership, the outlook at the start of the season was undoubtedly bleak. A defeat in the first game at Keble increased the feeling of ominous pessimism. The team were struggling to find rhythm and consistency and it seemed a miracle would be required to avoid another season desperately paddling like a dog in the quicksand of the relegation zone. But then, as the Lord delivered Manna to the Israelites in the Desert of Sin, so Parcelforce delivered a kit to the St Edmund Hall football team in their hour of need. For the first time in 18 months we could stride onto the pitch with our heads held high. And onto the pitch we did stride; we proceeded to devastate a very compliant St Peter's team with a series of mortal thrusts to the jugular which, as we all know, in football is the back of the net. 6-0 was the final score and the hour was celebrated with a well-deserved ale.

But still somehow the season stuttered. We began to realise that we had all the ingredients of a potent broth: at the back, the safe hands of our keeper Richard Good , the cultured defending and visionary distribution of our centre backs Wilson and Simmons, the strong left foot of left back Myatt and the searing pace of right back Robinson; in the centre of the park, we could boast the fleet-footed impishness of Merriot and the rabid tackling of Eckersley, and on the flanks the accurate long-range shooting of Holdsworth, the strength of Neckar and the channelled rage of Blois-Brook; our front two were potentially lethal, a harmonious pairing of Gerard's charm and calm and Eggleton's salmon-like aerial dominance; our bench read like a Who 's Who of college football, with Smye, Kelly, Whitworth, Atkinson, Baker, and of course Hargrave all pushing hard for places. Unfortunately some disappointing results held us back, and it was only at the end of the first term that we started playing well together and tolerating each other's company. A four-match winning streak ended the term, with the peak 38

of this lofty feat coming as we crucified Jesus 4-0. The main dampener on our lively celebrations was the cup defeat at arch rivals Magdalen that saw them take a 3-0 lead at half-time which we hauled back heroically, only to see them snatch a breakaway winner at the very end of the game to crush the little flowers of hope left in our feeble hearts.

The second term followed a similar pattern to the first; we started badly, suffering heavy defeats to St Hugh 's, an unfortunate one to Jesus and a lamentable one to an untalented University side. The skipper, having already blazed two crucial penalties over the bar in the season here made an angry foul in the box for their winner and his empire was crumbling. Seeds of discontent were sprouting with the top goalscorer Gerard in particular, who whilst giving his all on the pitch, was beginning to show a worryingly petulant side to his game.

However, eventually the team showed all the character of a side proud to wear the St Edmund Hall crest, as they finished the season with 5 resounding victories and a noble draw, ultimately only missing out on promotion by the meagre breadth of the captain's torso. His troops were valiant to the last and particular mention must go to the tireless work of the front two, the improvement of every man in the defence, even of the aging Robinson, the wingers' bursts of flair and Merriot's commanding presence and leadership qualities that will serve him well as captain next year.

The 2"ct XI (pictured here) reemerged as an all conqueringforce this season (writes captain Julian Baker), claiming the Cuppers Championship at Iffley Road and gaining promotion back to the top flight. Success was based on the premise that through friendship, hard work and one of the most dazzling kits ever to grace a football pitch, we could compensate for our lack of natural footballing finesse. A backline comprised an eclectic melange of goalkeeping athleticism, Gallic flair, Italian panache and Northern brutality, marshalled eloquently by the vociferous Psycho 39

and Kelly Keeper never saw defeat. The grit and determination which permeated our midfield talent was personified by Shaker, whose undying commitment to the cause provided the perfect foil for the magical left leg of Pixie and the marauding runs of the indomitable Party Boy. With a first touch more akin to that of Lenny rather than Thierry Henry and tactical masterstrokes such as the fabled 'circles' , Olsen, to the astonishment of anyone who has ever seen him kick a ball, finished the season with a massive haul of 30 goals. Rodney, Animal, Smye, Ed BB and Hamill were all a part of the most lethal and rapid forward line in the league, with Leon and Tony slotting in as versatile utility men. We wish every success to our departing veterans and overseas players and hope that under Olsen's captaincy we will extend our nine game winning run well into the next season.

The Women's Captain's Report It may seem peculiar that whilst young ladies launching themselves at other young ladies on the rugby pitch has been generally applauded or more typically, hallowed with the carnal roar of 'HAAAAAAAAALLLLL!' , the image of women and football in college has raised eyebrows. In freshers' week I had tested my talent on the rugby pitch and discovered a stubborn sense of reserve pitted in my stomach - convincing me that oval balls could never satisfy me.

As I was able to find at least ten others with a preference for kicking spherical ones , the first Teddy Hall women's football team was established.

Women's football across the university is bigger than most imagine, with about two-thirds of colleges competing in the two university competitions - league and cuppers. Although 2003-2004 was our first official season, the previous year I and two coaches had found a flock of girls keen to play friendlies . However, interest revolved as much around the dating circuit as the sport. A group of Christ Church boys were so impressed by us that they invited us repeatedly on team dates.

It must be said that although the play was hard and fast, the team was HOT. And, it must be admitted, that since then the team owes its reputation as much to this as our skills on the pitch. (Think Clover 'da hoof' Morey, the glamorous and skilful Sheida and the Oriental beauties, lady Cat and my cousin, Miss Ho). How else if not by these sirens could such dashing young men as Fergus, Darren 'Dazzla' Gerard, Weggs, Tom Morgan, Anthony Morgan, Sir Clement 40

Hutton-Mills, Richard Holdsworth, Dan Abelson and the elusive Mr. Yentob be inveigled into the labours of coaching? At a handful of practices, in fact, we had more coaches than players!

But despite all the fun and flirting, the team is not a hoax and I was thrilled when we advanced into the Cuppers quarter final competition against St. Catz in Hilary, after knocking out a number of teams ranked several leagues above us. We were eliminated at this stage but had managed to conquer the endlessly recurring global problem in girls' football - the irrational compulsion to swarm around the ball like a family of hornets. Although there was one match played in the pouring November rain which began with us huddling together and shivering like wet ponies, for the most part our determination and drive was strong. The low point of the season was, without a doubt, being beaten by a team called the 'Chihuahuas' who began the match with a 'puppy procession' and ended (victoriously) with a canine victory rally in which stuffed chihuahuas were presented to key players. Sickening.

But their team name was appropriate as , like the breed itself, they were yappy and puny and it proved irritatingly difficult to get them away from our ankles. Subsequently, spacing was key to improving our game and footwork grew more deliberate and elegant over the course of the season. I am proud to say that we played a less 'girly' game than most teams.

Next year the awesome Venezuelan Miss Buick will take over from me and Frances Asquith (who kindly agreed to hold the reins in Hilary because of my Finals work load). The returning trooper Catherine Liddiard is likely to be Vice-Captain. With a little bit of luck we will have a batch of skilful, fresh American visiting students eager to play, as well as all the old greats to hold the battalion together. Thank-you to all the girls and coaches for playing and making it such a fun season.

I would also like to extend my warm thanks to Teddy Hall for subsidising some of our expenses.

The Athletics Club Captain: Zoe Barber 2003 has seen a revival of Hall athletics with an intake of keen freshers.

Freshers' cuppers saw all the new athletes battle it out for places on the OUAC team , as well as trying to gain points for each of their colleges. Danielle Fidge and Zoe Barber were lucky enough to be 41

selected and continued the year as part of OUAC, both competing in the Varsity match in May alongside Jonathan Crawshaw.

More importantly, the second cuppers competition was held in Hilary. After trying to get as big a team as possible down to the track, it was somewhat reduced from its predicted size when people realised that there might be effort involved! However, Hall, as usual, managed a fantastic performance, coming 2nd overall, which was pretty impressive considering that we had so few competitors.

So, overall, it's been a good year for Teddy Hall athletes, and hopefully with a new batch of enthusiastic freshers, we should show Queen's what we're made of and beat them next year!

The Boat Club Men's Captain: Ross Parnell-Turner Women's Captain: Rachel Adams The Men's Captain's Report The inevitable wet weather that comes with the beginning of Hilary Term forced the men to kick-start the 2004 Topids campaign with a week of training at Wallingford. A twelve strong squad largely made up of novices made good progress despite strong winds and heavy rain, arriving in Oxford ready to get back on the water. Training on the water was hampered by a continued river closure, so the occasional trip to Eton's windswept Dorney Lake gave the 1'1 Torpid some respite from the boathouse ergometers. A scrappy row at Bedford Head with three weeks to go reflected the lack of time the relatively inexperienced crew had been together, so the re-opening of the Isis was greeted with much relief and a large number of frosty early morning starts. With things looking up for the term, disaster struck with the injury of Liam Hamill, who was forced to hand his seat over to Malcolm Lee with two weeks remaining. As a result, the opportunity to race in the final Isis Winter League of the year was turned down in order to spend more time training, with the 2"ct Torpid representing the Hall well by finishing as the 61h fastest second crew of the day.

Torpids week brought with it some unheralded good weather, and as a result for the first time since 1997 races were able to take place as normal for the full 4 days, with the Hall having three Mens crews competing.

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fast LMH crew who bumped Univ, leaving us to sit on the surprisingly quick Trinity to the finishing line. With the knowledge that Trinity were a threat from behind, we went into Thursday's race knowing that an early bump on Univ was required. Although we took a length out of Univ going into the gut, the race changed dramatically as Trinity mounted a massive push, and were overlapping our stern by the end of the boathouse island; the bump only being avoided by their cox failing to chase across the river after us as we avoided them on the finish line. A truly close call! A change in our race strategy on Friday meant that Trinity were unable to replicate their exploits of the previous day, and we were out of contention by the gut. This left us with the prospect of attacking Brasenose, who were executing a dramatic descent from 81h in Division 1. We made the triple-overbump outside our own boathouse, having quickly reeled in their initial 7-length advantage with what was our best performance of the week. Saturday saw us facing Univ once more, and despite heavily front-loading the race we were unable to get any closer than the half-length we achieved on Thursday.

The 2"ct Torpid began the week in style by bumping a hapless Oriel Ill within 10 strokes, and due to other crashes ahead of them went up 2 places. Inconsistent form on Thursday and Friday saw them bumped

by St Johns 11 and Jesus 11, leaving them with something to prove on Saturday. Being chased by Trinity 11 who were looking for blades, the crew put in a much improved performance, and easily got the better of the opposition on the green bank to achieve a comfortable row over.

The 3'ct Torpid's efforts in rowing on were hampered due to a number of bank and crustacean-related issues, which resulted in their failure to qualify this year.

Preparation for Summer Eights got underway with an intensive training camp held at Wallingford, under the guidance of the University Lightweights coach, Andy Nelder. The extremely steep learning curve inflicted upon the crew paid dividends as technique levels rapidly picked up, and the crew was able to take this momentum into the term's training.

The return to Oxford brought the valuable addition of Montana Butsch, a member of this years' winning Isis crew.

The 1st Eight put in some strong performances at Bedford Regatta where the respective 1st VIIIs of Merton, Lincoln and Univ were disposed of to reach the final of the College event, only to lose out to Oriel by 1 114 lengths. In the Senior 3 category, Lincoln 1st VIII were 43

once again easily disposed of, but a strong schoolboy crew from Bedford got the better of us at the semi-final stage. This put the crew into a buoyant mood going into Eights week.

Wednesday 's racing saw us chasing Christ Church, who we chased down and bumped on the Green Bank, sending the House on their way to spoons. Knowing we would be without Montana on Thursday, we were glad to row over safely behind Exeter in order to mount an assault on Friday with his return to the crew. In a cruel twist of fate, we were denied this chance by the poleman of the bungline ahead of us, who failed to clear his pole out of the river in time, resulting in the man at 2 to lose his blade and break the rigger, allowing New to gain a bump on us within 5 strokes off the start. The mood after Friday's racing was understandably a mixture of anger and frustration, which we knew had to be channeled into a strong performance on the last day. A strong start on Saturday meant that we were within a half length of New, but were caught just out of the gut by Balliol, meaning that Eights week finished on a sour note.

The 2"ct VIII rowed over for the first three days of Eights, holding off successive assaults but failing to make any progress themselves.

Saturday finally saw them break the deadlock, with a well-deserved bump on Lincoln 11, leaving them 2"ct in the 4 1h Division.

Mens 1st VIII bow : Gareth Walliss Liam Hamill Tom Worth Tom Coke-Smyth Alex Groves Malcolm Lee Montana Butsch stroke: Mike Lowry-Corry cox: Ross Parnell-Turner (c)

Mens 2"ct VIII bow: Pete Moreton Ashley Smith Edward Holmes Mike Kember Tristan Boserup Matthew Ledbury Andy Smye stroke: William Wholey

1' 1 VIII colours were awarded to Mike Lowry-Corry, Tom CokeS myth and Montana Butsch.

Finally, the members of SEHBC would like to give their thanks to the Friends of the Boat Club, whose continued support means that the Hall can offer some of the best facilities and coaching for oarsmen, and will continue to flourish in future years.

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The Women's Captain 's Report For the women of the Teddy Hall boat club, this academic year has proved to be an unbelievable triumph and will undoubtedly remain one of the most memorable in the history of rowing at the Hall. Resting at 3'd on the river, the highest ranking the women's 1'1 crew has ever reached, with 11 bumps between Torpids and Summer VIIIs and 2 shiny new blades for the bar, to recount the year is to look back over a season full of challenge, progression, and a lot of hard work!

The year opened in September 2003, as 6 ladies from current and past crews flew over to Todi, Italy, to form part of an Oxford crew pitted against Cambridge, Imperial and two Italian clubs in the TiberThames regatta. Oxford finished second, still with half a length overlap on the winning Imperial boat, and with Cambridge a length behind.

On return however, we faced the chill of Oxford's winter weather and a fresh supply of novices, eager to brave the early morning outings.

Fortunately the rain did not hold back Christchurch regatta this year, and the novice crew performed to a very good standard, narrowly pipped to the post in the third round by Exeter (but winning the more coveted trophy 'fittest crew on the river'). The senior girls, diminished in number from the previous season, trained as a IV and won both Autumn Fours and Nepthys Regatta.

Hilary term began a week early as a group of 11 girls headed off to Putney for training camp, coached by Niall Haigh and Richard Fishlock, in preparation for the term ahead. With coaching continued by John Robinson (Oxford Brookes), and 2"d place in an Isis Winter League to Torpids leaders Merton, the crew went into the bumps races hopeful of good results. The women's 2"d crew qualified with a good time and succeeded in gaining bumps on both Wednesday and Thursday, sadly losing out in the last days, but retaining their position over all. The Wednesday provided the 1st crew with an easy bump, as Balliol crashed and plummeted through the division, leaving us Hertford to catch again on day 2, and then St Johns, who proceeded to bump University in the same race moving us up two places. Saturday left us chasing Worcester; we gained a length on them before the boathouses at which point they secured a bump on Wadham and dropped out, leaving us 2 lengths off Wadham and already on the home straight. Thanks to the inspirational calls of cox Caroline Morecroft, and despite some severely aching muscles, we moved to overlap and Wadham were forced to concede 5 strokes before the finish line, to the rapturous cheers of the Hall 45

supporters.

However, the rest and celebration period was brief, and April saw our return to the Tideway for an Easter training camp, with the additional experience of two blues returning victorious from the Henley races, Alice Freeman (OUWBC) and Claire Weldon (OUWLRC), and the talents of visiting student Anna Heimbichner, to boost our numbers.

Under the watchful eyes of our 3 coaches, the crew began to mould together and removed to Godstow for the term's training. Sadly vicecaptain Laura Squire picked up a wrist injury over the training camp, denying her the chance to both train and race, but she valiantly led the coaching of the 2"ct and 3rct crews, thanks to which the women successfully entered 3 crews to Summer Eights. The 4 1h boat did not manage to qualify but enjoyed plenty of fun on and off the river. The 3'ct boat did exceptionally well, bumping up on 3 days, but were denied blades by a klaxon on the final day. The 2"ct crew al so made three bumps but unluckily were caught by an overbump on the Friday, leaving them back where they started.

For the 151 crew, day 1 would always be a tough proposition, starting 91h on the river behind a Christ Church crew stacked with blues, but spirits remained optimistic .

As we expected , Christ Church bumped out early on St Catz, leaving us with 5-6 lengths to catch on St Hilda ' s.

Grit and determination drove us on for the next two minutes, and St Hilda's could only watch amazed as they were resoundingly bumped, moving us up into 6 1h position, with an overbump in the first ps 111 one yea r as a Fres 1er. division , never before Somethi ng to smile about!

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achieved by Teddy Hall women. The next two days however, were crucial. Thursday saw another chase on Wadham, with Christ Church behind; we pulled away from Christ Church convincingly and Wadham, in their attempts to escape, very nearly caught Merton in front of them but despite reaching overlap, could not finish the bump before we closed in. Day 3 produced a similar situation; Somerville, being slowed by the headship tussle between New and Pembroke, almost enabled Merton to bump out before we reached them, but once again the crew took up the pressure and bumped before the chance faded. Sitting on the start line in 4 1h place, ready to chase Somerville, the occasion and atmosphere of Eights week had never meant so much as to those 9 women, acutely aware of what lay ahead of them .

Deprived of their bikes, all 3 coaches were spaced along the course to provide advice and encouragement, along with numerous supporters from the college. And 3 minutes later, dream became reality, with the crew taking blades through the 11th bump of the year on Somerville, just before the Green bank.

Huge thanks go to the many people who made these experiences possible: the Principal and the college for all their support, the Friends of SEHBC for their advice, commitment and generosity, to the three coaches, Richard Fishlock, Niall Haigh and John Robinson, and especially to all the rowers this year for their commitment, spirit and enthusiasm. Best wishes for the year ahead.

The Blades Crews: Torpids Cox: Stroke 7 6 5 4

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Caroline Morecroft Laura Squire Rachel A dams (c) Rachael Horton Chloe Brindley Christina Emslie Helena Cohen Katie Graham Melanie Savage

Eights Caroline Morecroft Anna Heimbichner Rachel A dams (c) Claire Weldon Alice Freeman Rachael Horton Chloe Brindley Christina Emslie Kimberly Gillingham

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The Choir Organ Scholars: Richard Holdsworth and David McCartney It has been another busy year for the chapel choir which has performed at high level throughout. There are about 15 regular members of the choir including nine Choral Scholars following the appointment of an additional Choral Scholar in November. Along with the regular services, there have been a few special services this year. Our annual Carol Service was once again very successful and well attended - the chapel was packed, with every seat being filled and people enjoyed a mix of readings and carols. In February, the choir travelled to Cambridge for the yearly joint service with the Chapel Choir of Fitzwilliam College, which saw an assembled choir of 40 sing '0 Thou the Central Orb' by Wood and other pieces . The choir was also honoured to be asked to sing at the memorial service for an emeritus fellow of Teddy Hall, Reginald Alton, performing Tallis' 'If ye love me'. In addition to services, the choir have sung at many other occasions. We were again invited to sing at the St Edmund's Feast, where we sang a range of pieces including 'Pastime with Good Company' and 'Teddy Bear's Picnic'! This year there have also been a number of concerts with which the choir has been involved, both on our own and jointly with other colleges. Several times we have sung with the choir of St Hilda's College and our last concert of the year ended with a rousing performance of Handel's 'Zadok the Priest'. Perhaps the most notable performance was that of Bach's 'B Minor Mass', in March, sung with St. Peter's College Chapel Choir and two other colleges . It was performed to a large audience and was a most memorable occasion. It was Richard Holdsworth's final year as Organ Scholar and during his time the choir have produced a very high standard due to his effort and dedication. He, along with the other choir members leaving, will be missed.

The Hearne Society Representative: William Young The annual dinner of the Hearne Society took place in the less than luxurious confines of Jamal's curry house on Walton Street following drinks in the Buttery. The conviviality of the company and the steady consumption of beverages made for a very relaxed and enjoyable 48

evening. Only one speech was attempted, thankfully cut short by the obvious incapacity of the president to string a good sentence together, after which the gathering returned to its relaxed discussions of all and sundry. Particularly happy were the third years who attended: no longer finalists, their relief was tangible. As was (we like to think) the pride of our tutors Nick Davidson and David Priestland, and George Southcombe from Keble College, who had helped and encouraged us over our too few years at Teddy Hall. First and second years, delighted by the return to normal life of the finalists were, in our view, all too preoccupied with exams which for them are far (well, quite far) in the future. Good luck to them even so.

The Hockey Club Men's Captain: Stuart Mees Women's Captain: Amy-Louise Crofton The Men's Captain's Report Like any year, last year we lost many influential players as they came to the end of their time at Oxford, but this year we had an influx of very talented freshers to add to the remaining players. The backbone of the team consisted of Nick Montgomery and college hockey veteran Julian Barker-Danby, two calm, solid defenders. Oliver Courtney, James Murly-Gotto and Jamie Eggleton proved to be three impressively skilful midfielder soldiers. Upfront we were delighted with the pace and touch of Jono Venter and Ashwin Anand.

In the league we showed our ability against the few weaker colleges and respectably held our own against the stronger ones. The poor league position came only due to conceded matches. One notable battle was against a very strong Keble College team where we were at one point 3-1 ahead and in the dying minutes we conceded 3 unlucky goals to lose 4-3. New College turned out to be our nemesis this season -both league meetings with them, in which we were easily the stronger side, ended in draws. Again we were drawn against New College in the second round of Cuppers. After full and extra time the score was again level, and we unluckily went out on penalties ... sorry about my howler, guys .

That was the story of our season really, nearly did so well but didn't quite make it. I like to put it down to our relaxed approach to hockey.

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a full team out all season and the numerous matches we had to concede, our modest middling table position simply shows what potential and talent we really have. I've got a feeling that with newly-appointed, charismatic captain Oliver Courtney and his vice James Murly-Gotto close at his side, next season will be interesting.

The Women's Captain's Report The season started well with the arrival of lots of talented freshers, usefully stocking up the team with university level players in the form of Jess Long, Fi Ronald and Sarah Sutton. League-wise, the results were one convincing win over Jesus and two (also fairly convincing) losses. But the real focus of the year was the cuppers competition which began with a nerve-wrecking match against Magdalen. Without the safe hands and not insubstantial mouth of Ruth Evans in goal we struggled against a surprisingly strong side who seemed intent on hacking down our players, and we were 2-0 down at half time. A team rearrangement allowed Jo Dyer to control the 2"ct half from midfield and Hall snatched a 3-2 victory, with goals from Hannah Barnes, Amy Crofton and Jo herself. A few byes later we played the quarter-final against an unexpectedly weak Merton/Mansfield team. They were despatched 7-0, pretty much the whole Hall team hitting the backboard, with the exception of goalie Ruth who was sitting on it. A massive lack of organisation from some other teams meant Hall then cruised straight to the final against a confident Worcester. Some idiot (sorry everyone) scheduled the match for the morning after the Teddy Hall ball and hence there were several tactical ... (and some not so tactical ...

Jen!) "illnesses" before the match. Despite Hall battling through and playing some fantastic hockey, the final score was 2-1 to Worcester, with Charlie Lamb our only goal scorer in her last match for the Hall.

Cuppers finalists . . . but not winners, yet again. Fingers crossed that new captain Sarah Sutton can go all the way next year.

The John Oldham Drama Society Interim President: Ruth Taylor 2003-2004 has been an eventful year for the John Oldham Drama Society - Jackie Colburn, Ruth Taylor, and Isabella Jones were involved in setting up its official relaunch, complete with constitution and annual elections. Aided by an Arts award, the society put on a 50

production of Congreve's The Way of the World, which was the centrepiece of the Teddy Hall Arts Week in early November. Described by the Cherwell as a 'must-see' production, with roles pushed to their 'full potential,' there was much hilarity for audience and actors alike in the ODH. The cast (pictured above: Jennifer Nicholson, Richard Perrott, Clover Morey, Ruth Taylor, Greg Coulter, Helen Richards, Fiona Clee, Maggie Monsell, Geraint Jones, Robert Marshall, Dominic Smith, Michael Dormandy) was comprised of mainly Hall members, with additions from Worcester, Jesus, and New colleges.

Battling with camouflage netting, chaises longues, and National Theatre Restoration costumes, the cast skilfully laid their course in the intimate and atmospheric setting of the ODH, with the audience caught in the firing line of dialogue, skirts and men in tights and high heels. A few men in Hall can now sympathise with women tottering about in painful shoes!

Expertly directed by Jackie Colburn, the cast were kicked into shape by energetic aerobic classes before performances - you thought men doing aerobics was funny enough, try watching men in breeches! A newly spatially aware, albeit bruised, cast was often the result of our uncoordinated attempts to dance ... but energy on stage was definitely 51

not lacking!

Since the production, the society has been actively involved in the college poetry and drama evenings with contributions through the year from Samuel Duerden, Anthony Kay, Ruth Taylor, Jackie Colburn, Clover Morey, Daniel Harkin and Robert Marshal!. The Valentine's event was heralded by the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene directed

by Sam Duerden (a step ladder attached to the ODH balcony adding extra doses of humour), and was followed by a Victoria Wood sketch of a slow-witted couple, complete with "Pakamacs" and action on the piano. Varied? We like to think so!

Trinity term marked another poetry and drama event, and this time John Oldham Society contributed selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lovers' confusions, brawls and desperations were sprinkled, well sprinted, amidst bistro tables, and overlooked by Titania's beautiful flowery bower.

As to 2004-5, the new committee are now in place (President Sapana Agrawal; Treasurer - Samuel Duerden; Secretary - Elizabeth Watts), and planning to carry on the newly established (as of 2002 with As You Like It) tradition of a November slot in the ODH. Pygmalion is on the agenda, so watch this space! Come and visit the Hall to see their artistic creation .. .

Sundial Translation "Under the leadership of Elizabeth 11, who began her reign in 1952 and in 2002 celebrated fifty years, I count only sunny hours" .

The Netball Club Captain: Alexis Golding Teddy Hall netball team narrowly missed promotion into Division 1 this season, by one goal against St John's, but nevertheless played excellently in their group. I then organised for the netball team to go to Dublin to partake in Doxbridge 2004. Team spirit was great and with hard work we won our first round making it through to the semifinals before being knocked out by a narrow margin. This was still a fantastic achievement as Teddy Hall were the last team from Oxford 52

and Cambridge left in the tournament after St John's had been knocked out in the first round, and Keble in the quarter-finals. An excellent time was had by all who played this season, and I' m sure this will continue into the next when Katie Francis (2003, Geography) takes over the captaincy.

The Rugby Football Club Men's Captain: Frederick Lait Women 's Captain: Madeleine Chandler The Men 's Captain's Report THE RUGBY COMMUNITY in Teddy Hall is large, with both the men's and women's teams recording fantastic results year after year.

2003-04 was no exception. Most of our forwards had played college rugby for many years together and were a formidable strength. However a lot of the previous year's backs had graduated and thus the line was dominated by Freshers. Old and new players soon gelled together forming an extremely good-looking side (pun thoroughly intended).

The games were all momentous, with some of our score lines looking more like cricket scores, than rugby ones. We lost a couple of games in the first league, but were not demoted, thus maintaining our stance as the ONLY college in Oxford never to be out of the 1st division!

We finished Michaelmas term with 12 of the starting line-up injured, winning the league by points difference alone. When we returned in Hilary term, we were far more prepared for Cuppers. Training was increased, to at least one and a half sessions a week, and we had more to eat, so things were looking good!

The lead up to Cuppers was brilliant, and we met some tough competition. We thrashed Queen's which was nice, and found ourselves playing Univ in the final. Here, despite our best efforts and a lot of guts, we were knocked from our podium to 2nd place, by, it must be said, an awesome Univ team made up mostly of 21's and Blues.

Now the social side of SEHRFC I think also deserves a mention, as it is undoubtedly one of the best to be had in Oxford. Meeting in the bar every match day to (hopefully) celebrate our games makes Tuesday nights one of the best in the week (along with the infamous nightclub Filth, which is blessed with our presence every now and then ... ) College spirit still thrives in Teddy Hall, and nowhere is it seen greater than on the playing fields of the University Parks . Whether it be rugby, football 53

or whatever, the hall is fighting hard to be the best!

The Women's Captain's Report This has been another good year for women's rugby at Teddy Hall .

We were able to enter two teams for sevens Cuppers in Michaelmas term and our first team won the plate. The second team did well especially as it was an almost entirely Fresher team and the players showed real promise for future matches. Unfortunately, we were unable to enter a team in the tens Cuppers tournament in Hilary term as so many of our players had to give priority to the university Varsity squads.

This year there were five Teddy Hall girls playing in the Blues and Panthers' Varsity matches on 7'h March. Katie Smith, Sophie Barrett and Laura McMullen were part of the Blues squad that beat Cambridge 10-7, and Genevieve de la Bat Smit vice-captained the Panthers squad, of which Maddy Chandler was also a part, to their 10-0 victory.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS

Frank Cordes has been appointed the W. R. Miller Junior Research Fellow this year. He was born in Berlin in 1976 and stayed in his home city throughout his time at school and for his compulsory year of social service. When it came to starting university in 1996, he was torn between studying medicine or physics, eventually deciding on physics at the Freie Universitat Berlin. The course appealed to his liking of mathematics but his medical interest stayed well alive. After two years, on completing the Vordiplom in Berlin, it led him to come to Oxford for an M.Sc. in Biophysics. Working with Prof Mark San so m and Dr Susan Lea at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, he got a first insight into a field of research that applies techniques derived from physics to problems of medical importance.

After a fascinating year of research work, mostly on computer simulations of proteins from HIV, he left for France to complete his degree in physics. Frank joined the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris for the Magistere Interuniversitaire de Physique, aiming to complete the course requirements for his German physics degree. However, when presented with the decision to either return to Berlin or to Oxford for his D.Phil., he quickly decided in favour of Oxford. Frank went back to Trinity College when he was awarded a 4 year Wellcome Trust D.Phil. studentship in 2000 to work with Dr Susan Lea at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics and Dr. Ariel Blocker at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology on the molecular basis of host-pathogen interactions. This summer he is finishing his thesis on the fundamental virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens, particularly the cell invasion strategy of Shigella, responsible for dysentery, and the immune evasion techniques of Borrelia, the causative agent of Lyme disease.

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R. Miller research fellowship and is looking forward to continuing his research in bio-med-physics.

Jane Griffiths came to St Edmund Hall as a lecturer in English in 2002, becoming a Fellow by Special Election the year after.

Born in Exeter, she lived in Holland between the ages of eight and sixteen, and was - reluctantly - brought up to be bilingual. After returning to England for the Vlth form, she read English at Magdalen College, where she began to develop an interest in poetry. With Giles Scupham, she founded and edited the poetry magazine Owl (probably one of the last small magazines to be produced in part by letterpress), and she was awarded the Newdigate prize in 1989. During her final year she became impatient with the studied impracticality of many academics, and after graduating she trained and worked as a bookbinder in London and Norfolk. However, she remained attached to the Tudor poet John Skelton, and eventually returned to Magdalen as a graduate to complete a doctoral thesis on his work. During this period she continued as a bookbinder, while also becoming an assistant editor on the Oxford English Dictionary, and seeing the publication (by Bloodaxe Books) of her first collection of poetry, A Grip on Thin Air. Since joining St Edmund Hall, she has been slightly surprised to find herself with only one official job title. The simplification has allowed her time to work on a new book, John Skelton and the Matter of Poetic Identity , forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She has recently completed a second book of poems, Icarus on Earth, and writes regularly for Poetry Review. She is also, stealthily, beginning to look for a workshop to revive her bookbinding activity.

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Robert Wilkins graduated in Physiology from University College in 1990. He subsequently undertook a research degree with Professor Clive Ellory in the Laboratory of Physiology, studying the cellular physiology of cartilage . After successfully completing his D.Phil., he was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church . Two fixed-term Fellowships at Trinity and Wadham followed, associated with a Research Fellowship from the Arthritis Research Campaign. In January 2004 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in Epithelial Physiology.

He is responsible for the teaching of the kidney and gastrointestinal system to undergraduate medical and physiology students. At St Edmund Hall, Dr Wilkins holds the American Fellowship in Physiology; as the medical tutor, he overseas the teaching of the four or five preclinical students in each year and provides tutorials covering cellular and systems physiology.

His research, which continues to be funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign, along with grants from the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, seeks to understand the mechanotransduction pathways by which joint use regulates the synthesis and degradation of cartilage.

The activity of the 'housekeeping' processes which cartilage cells use to gain nutrients, lose wastes and maintain an appropriate cellular composition can be altered by mechanical load which is associated with joint movements. The research aims to establish whether responsiveness to mechanical load is altered in cells from patients with osteoarthritis, thereby changing the cells' composition and promoting the degradation of cartilage seen in this disease. The housekeeping systems - proteins which exchange ions and organic solutes across the membrane bounding the cell - are studied at the functional level by fluorescence imaging and with radioactive tracers, while the molecular identity of the proteins is investigated using imunolabelling and molecular biology techniques such as PCR.

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THE GEODES LECTURE For one of my generation and inclination, the words 'After Hutton' might conjure up the response, 'Cyril Washbrook' or 'Peter May' , but Sir Peter Stothard had more serious things than cricket on his mind when he delivered the annual Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture in the Schools on 21st November 2003. Sir Peter, a former editor of The Times and now editor of The Times Literary Supplement, lectured on 'After Hutton: Downing Street and the Media' .

When he decided upon this title Sir Peter, like everyone else, had expected that the Hutton Report on the death of Dr David Kelly would have been published by the time the lecture was given. Sir Peter was therefore forced into speculation rather than reporting, though as he himself admitted, speculation was something in which journalists often indulged with some relish.

The day on which the lecture was delivered was that on which President George W Bush left these shores for Washington. The Bush visit had naturally dominated the news during that week but, said Sir Peter, the Hutton report was far more important and would be far longer-lived. It was, he said, 'Yesterday's story- and tomorrow's'; Sir Peter warned the prime minister that 'A very large lorry with "Hutton" on its side is heading his way' .

When the lorry reaches Downing Street, will it explode? Much will depend, said the lecturer, on the reaction of the opposition and on the 'formidably forensic mind' of its new leader, Michael Howard. But Sir Peter also pointed out some interesting technical aspects of the process in which such events unfold. He drew an important parallel between the Hutton Report and that in 1996 by Lord Justice Scott into the arms for Iraq question. In the latter case the government of the day had the report for a week or more before it was made public , and in the circumstances Mr Major and his colleagues could draw up their defence against its criticisms long before the press and the rest of the media could launch their attacks. Sir Peter doubted very much whether the contents of the Hutton Report would or could be kept under wraps for

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so long. The present administration therefore will have far less opportunity to weight the scales before publication, and this being the case, Sir Peter surmised, a whole range of responses are already being worked out to meet all possible forms of criticism.

As to whether retribution would be taken within the Blair apparat, Sir Peter pointed out that some of the obvious sacrificial lambs had already been slaughtered. Alistair Campbell had departed; the head of MI6 was heading for an ancient university ('Not this one', said Sir Peter, himself a graduate of Trinity, Oxford); and the Prime Minister's foreign policy adviser at the time was now ensconced in that pleasant building on Connecticut Avenue as Her Britannic Majesty's ambassador in Washington; but some did remain and Sir Peter mused on how many might still be there in a month or so.

Sir Peter's predictions on what might happen in Downing Street 'After Hutton' were based not merely on the information which a prominent political journalist or editor might have. During the Iraq war Sir Peter had spent thirty days in Downing Street observing how things worked at the very top of the government machine. His picture of this machine formed the second part of his lecture. His fly-on-thewall experiences had fascinated him, and his recollection of them was equally enthralling for his audience.

Before entering the prime ministerial lair Sir Peter had read that a previous observer had been impressed by the 'tranquillity' and the 'near tangible feeling of the past' which was to be found behind that famous black door. Sir Peter found neither. The tranquillity had been dissipated partly by a very young child, and in the entrance to the house diplomatic bags were less common than those from Sainsbury's; more diapers than documents, it seems. It was a surprisingly informal place, said Sir Peter, where one committee often merged into another and where the keeping of formal minutes seemed rare; for me as a historian this is a cause for some concern and the lecturer thought that this might also be the subject of some comment in the Hutton Report.

As for 'near tangible feeling of the past', unlike Stanley Bald win, Edward Heath or John Major, Tony Blair did not work at the table in the Cabinet Room, and ephemeral details of football matches were more the subject of conversation than the niceties of historical evolution and continuity.

Hardly surprisingly, Sir Peter found the most disciplined section of the whole government-party machine was that run by Alistair Campbell

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whose staff occupied a large area of No.lO. This underlined the lecture's main conclusion: that if Mr Blair and President Bush wish to convince the world of the righteousness of their 'war against terrorism' they would have to convince the public at large that they consistently told the truth. Sir Peter, though admitting that the BBC had made serious errors over the Kelly affair, doubted that the government's credibility would survive the Hutton Report.

In addition to these fascinating insights into the operation of government at a time of great crisis and into the possible outcome of the Hutton Report, Sir Peter had much to say on the journalist's profession. It was a fascinating and a fitting tribute to one of our number who gave his young life in pursuit of that profession.

Professor Richard Crampton ST EDMUND'S DAY Matriculands of 2002, and visiting students and graduates from the 2003 cohort were privileged to be amongst the first in Oxford to hear the new Chancellor, Mr Christopher Patten who, as Visitor, attended The St Edmund's Feast on 161h November, and whose speech in reply to the Principal's one of welcome pledged to support the continuing excellence of this University. Once again, the Chef and his staff produced a wonderful meal for around 230 guests, amongst whom were Mrs Lavender Patten, Revd Canon Or Michael Bourdeaux, Prof Andrew Goudie (Master of St Cross College), Very Rev Christopher Lewis (Dean of Christ Church), Sir Derek Morris (Provost of Oriel College), Prof Bernard Silverman FRS (Master of St Peter's College), Professor Brian Johnson FRS (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), Or Guy Pooley (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), Professor John Furlong (Director, Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University), Mr Nicholas Jarrold (1965, UK Ambassador to Croatia), Mr Graham Mather (President, European Policy Forum) and Mr Kenneth Macdonald QC (1971, Director of Public Prosecutions).

The choir delighted their audience with an a cappella rendition of Teddy Bears' Picnic and other fine pieces, and everyone agreed that the evening had been a great success.

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THE PHILIP GEODES MEMORIAL PRIZES 2004 The Philip Geddes Memorial Prizes , 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 & training, were once again hotly contested in February when the shortlisted applicants were interviewed by the panel of judges comprising Sandra Barwick (Daily Telegraph), Mr Graham Mather (European Policy Forum), John S Kelly (Professor of English Language and Literature, St John's) and Professor Richard Crampton. They were very impressed by the commitment the candidates had shown and by the amount of work and time they were prepared to devote to student journalism. The decision to award the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize to Helen Lewis of St Peter's College, was unanimous . So too was the decision to award the St Edmund Hall prize to Ms Mary Morgan.

Interviews for the Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism were held in May and the judges had very little difficulty in deciding that the winner was Mr Michael Girling of St Edmund Hall. The three winners were subsequently invited to meet the Principal and Graham Mather, Chair of the judging panel for tea and to receive their prize cheques.

Michael Girling, Helen Lewis and Mary Morgan

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In Hilary Term, Amanda Moore, finalist Fine Art (2001) won ÂŁ6,500 from the Boise Travelling Scholarship, overseen by the Slade School of Art, to enable a painter, sculptor or printmaker to study abroad for 12 months- she intends to study robotics in art, and robotics in scientific research in Tokyo, New York and California in 2005. Amanda's degree show featured her singing mechanical horse's head sculpted in steel and glass (pictured); the singing occurred via a small gramophone diaphragm and rubber tube into the head which read an etching as it revolved.

INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL On Monday 22"ct March, a mixed friendly football match was played between the Senior Common Rooms of Teddy Hall and New College at the University astroturf pitch at Iffley Road. Observing the tradition of past successful Oxford teams (e.g. the F.A. cup winning side of 1874), the match was played for almost 90 minutes without tactics, or referee, or even set numbers of players and reserves. Both Teddy Hall and New College teams played with considerable determination and skill, and the result (5-6 to New College) was very close. Teddy Hall contained a number of high calibre players (e.g. Heidi Johansen-Berg, 62

Kirsty Hewitson, and several Fellows' offspring), players of considerable experience (e.g. John Dunbabin and Alistair Borthwick), and players with potentially important medical and theological expertise (Paul Matthews and Duncan MacLaren).

Teddy Hall: Heidi Johansen-Berg (Captain), Kirsty Hewitson, John Dunbabin, Alistair Borthwick, Paul Matthews, Duncan MacLaren, Gerard Borthwick, James Borthwick, Ranald Harding, Ben Matthews and his friends.

THE EMDEN LECTURE

Sir Adam Roberts, Montagu Burton Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Balliol, left his audience in pensive and sober mood after his Emden lecture in the Schools on 71h May. His subject was 'The "War on Terror" in historical perspective'. He began by noting that Emden 's 'piety and curiosity ' had no connection with 'the grim subject of today's lecture'. Sir Adam asked what can history tell us about terrorism, its causes and consequences and, most importantly perhaps, how can it be ended?

There was no hiding the difficulties involved in terrorism where moral absolutes were held to justify acts which most of us would regard as abhorrent. Nor did Sir Adam hide his belief that the present threat from the terrorists was of an unprecedented magnitude; suicide bombers, the planning of acts of violence from a distance, and the massive casualties contemplated and incurred, made qualitative as well as quantitative differences in the scale of the threat facing us.

Such a huge problem requires a sophisticated, intelligent and subtle response. Sir Adam did not think we had seen that. President Bush has insisted, the lecturer noted, that those who are not with us are against us - for ' us' read 'U.S .' - and had demanded the total elimination of all terrorists. This, said Sir Adam, was unrealistic.

Military operations , though they destroyed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, are not the long-term answer to the terrorist threat; they were, as Sir Michael Howard noted, like using a blow-torch to eliminate cancer cells.

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It was here that Sir Adam concentrated on the question of what history could tell us of terrorism and how to end it. History, he said, had indicated a number of factors. One was that in the successful campaigns against terrorism nine-tenths of the work was done not by soldiers in the field but by intelligence officers and the police working quietly and routinely behind the scenes. History also showed that there was a need for sensitivity to the political environment, and Sir Adam noted that the insurgency in Malaya in the early 1950s had collapsed when the British promised to grant the main demand of the terrorists: complete independence for Malaya. Another lesson taught by history was the need to respect the legal framework. A further point, and a telling one on the day on which Donald Rumsfeld was being grilled by members of Congress over the happenings in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, was that the treatment of detainees could be of crucial importance: to create martyrs could be fatal, whereas respect for detainees could in the long-run induce a softening of attitudes on the part of the terrorist leaders.

Sir Adam concluded his lecture by calling for more subtlety and sensitivity on the part of the anti-terrorist forces . He suggested that rather than calling for the 'elimination' of terrorism they should seek its 'reduction', that rather than 'waging war on terrorism' they should conduct a 'campaign' against it. He called for more patience and less petulance, and for more recognition of what history and historians have to tell us about dealing with the terrorist problem. But he did not leave us under any illusions that the task would be anything but difficult, protracted, and painful.

Professor Richard Crampton

ARTWEEK, TRINITY TERM 2004 This year's Artweek exhibition was as successful as usual, including 101 items by members and staff of the Hall and their families. The college prides itself on the range as well as the quality of material submitted - from photographs, sculptures and paintings through to needlework, glass engraving, ceramics and jewellery. It is very much an Arts and Crafts exhibition, expressing the inclusiveness of the Hall's creative spirit.

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sculptures in bronze by Aularian Rodney Munday: an upright Adam and Eve, deep in pre-lapsarian embrace; a fox with enormous bushy tail, interrupted while chasing a rabbit; and a maquette of Europa and the Bull. Rodney has kindly offered to donate his Adam and Eve to the Hall, and we take this opportunity to thank him for his generosity.

There were many other striking features this year, including a selection of photographs by Hazel Rossotti and Luis Costa; two coats

by Rainhild Wells (one in wool, the other in silk, both extraordinary); and Celia Crampton's intricately lovely botanical drawings. Not forgetting exhibits from our faithful regulars, Norman Pollock, Mary Scargill, Sarah Cowdrey, Julia Johnson, Peggy Todd, and many others.

192 visitors were recorded, and a number of very positive responses were made in the Visitors' book. 6 exhibits were sold, for a total of ÂŁ175: this went to the artists. The organisation went even more smoothly this year than last. This was largely due to the efforts of Stacey Mingos, administrator of the Artweek Committee. We were also fortunate to have the help of three undergraduates for picture-hanging; and the committee is grateful to the following invigilators: Sheila Kouvaritakis, Patsy Yardley, Roy Harris, Mary Scargill, Vicki Cronk, Rainhild Wells, Carol McClure, Julia Johnson-Fry, and Susan Kasper.

Lucy Newlyn (Chair of the Artweek Committee in 2004)

THE 2004 MOOT St Edmund Hall has become renowned for grooming the finest calibre mooters in the University. The 2004 competition, sponsored by law firm Penningtons, was a fierce and frenzied battle, for the accolade of St Edmund Hall and Penningtons Mooting Champions.

The competition was organised as a five-week elimination contest, with six teams first mooting against one another in a league system.

The teams consisted of three members, Senior Counsel (selected from the group of second-year lawyers), Junior Counsel (selected from the group of first-year lawyers), and a research aide. The teams were judged on the content of their arguments, each mooter's style, and the researcher's strategy.

The first moot involved a tortious liability problem, concerning the principle of law known as Rylands v. Fletcher. The teams were divided into appellants and respondents, and given a week to prepare their 65

cases. Trial bundles, skeleton outlines, and primary submissions were carefully prepared in this week, with numerous teams taking crash courses from the Cavendish mooting aids, on the proper use of courtroom etiquette.

The teams worked tirelessly in the production of their arguments, conducting research from the works of various academics and commentators, as well as judgements from the Australian High Court and the Privy Council, all of which were used as authority to support their submissions.

On the day of the moot, each team adjusted their arguments to suit the particular trial judge they were facing, one panel of assessors preferring to engage the counsel in a dialogue, and the other preferring a question and answer segment at the end of the speech, that would highlight flaws in counsel's arguments. Arguably, it was the spontaneity of this 'right to respond' that made the arguments so passionate, and allowed the strongest contenders to excel.

The formality of the competition was flawless, and the final epitomised this. Filled to capacity with spectators, the Old Library was temporarily transformed into the House of Lords, with the senior Law tutor Professor Derrick Wyatt QC, and assessors Chetan Behl and Sohail Ali, taking on the role of Law Lords, adjudicating the 90 minute contest.

For the final, the teams had had only five days to prepare. The pressure mounted as carefully worded submissions and debate left the onlookers in awe. The mooters captivated the attention of the Law Lords in their summing up speeches and a climax was reached when the judges, in delivering their verdicts, expressed powerful views and dissents. Such was the articulate nature of both teams' arguments, that the judges could not reach a decision further without deliberation; but the winning team was adjudged to be Eleanor McNulty, Chris Wilson and Andrew Olsen .

The tradition of exceptional St Edmund Hall mooting thus continued, and the 2005 competition is forecast to be just as intense. All are extremely grateful to Penningtons for their generosity in sponsoring all aspects of the competition, as well as their donations to the St Edmund Hall library, which allow the purchase of legal materials.

Chetan Singh Behl, Sohail Ali, Masters of the Moot 2004

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CRICKET MATCH REPORT- SCR vs MCR Sunday 61h June 2004 On a glorious June afternoon the MCR and SCR locked horns (and bats) in order to pay homage to the career of Mr John Dunbabin in anticipation of his upcoming retirement. The match was also witness to the coming together of players who ranged in experience from the 'Blue' to the somewhat bemused, and was a truly cosmopolitan affair that reflected the defining strength of the college - solidarity in diversity.

From Pakistan to Toronto, New Zealand to Liverpool, the idle spectator would be excused for mistaking the sides for World XIs. That is, of course, if they knew little to nothing about cricket.

But then this would be to miss the point - everybody who played, contributed, and the true winner on the day was surely the spirit in which the game was played. Despite this, your correspondent feel s duty bound by his peers to mention that, officially, it was the MCR who carried off the 'Dunbabin Cup' . By posting an imposing total of 163 from 25 overs, the innings of the MCR witnessed several lusty blows and the, some may say, insolent treatment of the SCR bowling attack. Consequently, in a defensive bid Mr Dunbabin resorted to an inverse ' Bodyline ' tactic by bowling the ball underarm along the

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ground, proving that the energy of youth will not always triumph against the wiliness of experience.

In response, the innings of the SCR proceeded at a stately pace, its batsmen coping well with the frequent and imaginative bowling changes. In fact, when the Principal, Professor Mingos, strode to the wicket with five overs to go, a win for the SCR was not out of reach.

Yet despite him surviving a hat-trick ball and a couple of, how shall we put it, 'convincing' appeals, the MCR total was to prove unattainable and at the close of play the SCR were 30-odd runs short.

Thanks must go to those who helped to organise the event so successfully, most notably Felicia Shaw and Anna Manasco. Finally, the MCR wish Mr Dunbabin every health and happiness in his retirement.

Ian S Thistlewood (2002)

A TREASURED INHERITANCE: 600 YEARS OF OXFORD COLLEGE SILVER For the first time in 75 years, Oxford's colleges put their finest silver on display at the Ashmolean Museum this summer, and St Edmund Hall's Guild of Handicraft communion cup (pictured) was one of more than 200 objects exhibited. Representing more than 600 years of the finest craftsmanship, the exhibition was divided into six sections that explored firstly the different types of donor - founders, royalty, aristocrats, diplomats, fellows and students; the connection of many of the objects to the spiritual life of the colleges; drinking & dining and the changing fashions in dining; the connection to local goldsmiths and engravers who worked on and maintained much of the plate; antiquarianism in the eighteenth century which did so much to restore college plate to use, giving it a new value; and lastly there were examples of the most recent commissions by Oxford colleges to prove that the fusion of craftsmanship and patronage still has a future.

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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS The eagerly awaited transit of Venus was observed by staff and students in the Front Quad on Tuesday 8 1h June, at an impromptu observatory set up by Emeritus Fellow Bill Williams at the suggestion of the Bursar 's Secretary, Rachel Cable. Cloudless skies allowed perfect viewing conditions using a telescope projected onto paper, whilst others used special dark glasses to look directly (but safely) at the Sun. Venus is usually the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon, but during the transit it looked black as it crossed the face of the sun.

Transits of Venus are rare and occur in pairs eight years apart. This was the first transit in 122 years and, whilst there will be another in 2012 it will not be visible from northern Europe; the following transit will not be until 2117.

The Transits of Venus have provided some of the most remarkable stories in the history of astronomy. There are famous names and celebrated expeditions: Captain Cook's first voyage around the world was planned so that the 1769 transit could be observed in Tahiti . For the same transit, King George Ill had an observatory specially built so that he could conveniently view the event near London. But there are also touchingly human tales of misfortune. The French astronomer Le Gentil missed the transit of 1761 while aboard ship in the Indian Ocean.

Rather than returning home he stayed on for the 1769 transit, only to have bad weather prevent his observations the second time around.

MUSIC AT THE HALL We have been going from strength to strength and this year in particular the Hall enjoyed a staggering number of high calibre musical events, too many to enumerate. Particular mention however is deserved by the concerts (at least one each term) at the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building that were run jointly with St Hilda's, and the ad hoc musical 69

entertainment that was provided by our students during this year's parents event in May. There is (as always) a plethora of musical talent in the Hall and all it takes is the initiative and energies of a few individual students to act as the catalyst. Many thanks to those who were the prime movers this year and long may this tradition last. Thanks also should be extended to our Artist in Residence, David Ormerod, who played in two lunchtime recitals this year and participated in the students' concerts.

Basil Kouvaritakis, Tutor for Music

THE GEORGE SERIES PRIZE The George Series Prize was created by a bequest from George Series, the first Fellow in Physics at St Edmund Hall. George felt deeply the tendency of undergraduate science courses to play down the importance of the ability to write well on either scientific or non-scientific subjects.

Accordingly he made a bequest to fund an annual prize, open to students in all Natural Science and Biological Science subjects and Mathematics, to be awarded for the best piece of creative writing.

The piece can take any form: story, essay, poem. The subject may be purely fictional, but may also relate to broad discussion of any nonfictional subject not directly included in the regular science curriculum followed by the entrant.

This year the prize was won jointly by Oliver A C Atkinson (2000) and H Augustine K Bourne (2001).

ST EDMUND HALL WRITING EVENTS Poetry is very much on the map at SEH, with an active poetry workshop involving undergraduates and fellows . This year we have had a varied programme of readings, workshops, and events combining poetry with music and drama. Visiting poets for our fortnightly readings have included distinguished local writers such as Jon Stallworthy, Bernard O'Donoghue, Carmen Bugan, Elizabeth Garrett, and David Constantine, as well as figures from further afield, like Peter Scupham, Matthew Hollis, and David Hart. Some of our workshops have been open to all members of the Hall, and have involved visiting experts like the dramatist Roger Stennett.

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Aularians will be pleased to hear that even the Principal has turned his hand to poetry. After giving a PowerPoint presentation on 'The Occurrence of duality in language, art and science from homography to Heisenberg' at one of our sessions, he wrote a collaborative poem which you can read in Volume 11 of Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice, edited by Lucy Newlyn and Jenny Lewis.

Phase Two of the Synergies project is now complete, and the fruits of five separate workshop experiments appear in the same volume.

This project, which attracted funding from the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, is designed to integrate creative writing into the academic study of English. It has featured in a Guardian article, and on the BBC's Online News. Favourable reviews have also been received. We are grateful to an anonymous Aularian donor for the funding which has made Volume 11 possible.

The most popular writing events of the year have been the evenings combining poetry, music and drama, which have taken place in the Old Dining Hall once a term. In Michaelmas we had an Armistice reading; in Hilary a Valentine evening; and in Trinity an evening celebrating midsummer. The events have involved a mix of junior and senior members, who have read aloud, sung, performed, or just listened and watched. The John Oldham Society have delighted us on two occasions with Shakespearian scenes performed with enormous zest and gusto. The obvious one from Romeo and Juliet (for a Valentine celebration) featured Romeo's dramatic ascent of a wobbly and creaking ladder to the ODH balcony. A range of students has read poetry on these occasions, and Justin Gosling wrote a poem specially for each. (His poems are printed below). It has been a great pleasure to hear Kate Wilkinson and Hilary Wilman sing; and Genevieve de la Bat Smit gave soulful renditions of some appropriate jazz numbers, accompanied brilliantly by James Harpham. The crowning performance of the year was from Brian Denninger, Lodge Porter, who composed a song especially for the Midsummer evening, accompanied by guitar, and was greeted with rapturous applause.

Refreshments for the ODH occasions have been paid for by the Development Office. We would be very grateful to any Aularians who felt able to make a donation to help us continue with the same style of event next year. It is remarkable how much talent there is around, and important to foster it.

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The Orphan: Two Poems I

A child, A village, And two severed heads.

They'd burned the village, Topped the parents, And left the child for dead.

Couples came, Childless and romantic, Intent on some good action.

With her facial scars, The missing arm and eye, She lacked attraction.

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A child, A village, And two severed heads.

They'd burned the village, Topped the parents, And left the child for dead.

Couples came, Childless and romantic, Intent on some good action.

With her facial scars, The missing arm and eye, She lacked attraction.

Then two came Looked her over And put her on their list.

Were they mad?

Or heroic?

Or had they seen Some charm the others missed?

Or did they think, With every feature hateful, That given any kindness She would feel bound to be grateful?

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Valentine

I will be your Valentine Just so long as you'll be mine.

Unrequited love is fine For those whose aim in life's to pine, But I find I' m not inclined To send some wimpish lover's whine "Reject me, still I' m ever thine" So just assure me you'll be mine, And I will be your Valentine.

Justin Gosling The Sea

I don't like the sea.

It's too wet, And it mats my hair with salt.

I don't like washing my hair.

When I do want to swim There are these large stretches Of slappy sand, or mud, or knobbly pebbles Which stub and cut my toes, With the sea hiding at the end, And the salty smell of rotting fish between.

When I don't want to swim, There's the sea Edging up to the picnic Daring me to stay put.

And then it's always so far From the car, Especially when it's hot, But also when it's not.

So you set out Down dunes and up dunes and down again Like an overloaded coolie, Carrying:

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Swimming suits and towels; Snorkels, masks and flippers; An inflatable dinghy with two oars and a pump; Four cricket stumps and at least one ball; Two kites, in case the wind should rise; Four badminton rackets and shuttlecocks, In case the wind should fall Which it might well do, once it has put the sand into the sandwiches; A bucket and spade, in case I should want to build a castle; A portable radio for the cricket commentary; A camera, because these times must be recorded; Binoculars for ships, and planes And other things with wings; Two umbrellas, because you never know And anyway they'll double as parasols; Bandages, lotions, potions, Against the many perils of the shore; A windbreak and two beach chairs; And of course the picnic.

Others bring less, But it is hard to see how they manage: There are contingencies for which they are not prepared.

Anyway, At last you reach The beach And find you have forgotten the drinks.

Late afternoon you collect things together Hoping the load will be lighter.

You may have lost a thing or two If you are lucky, But there are always those stones Black streaked with white and blue, quartz, Jasper-coloured, lemon and tangerine All bright and shining in the water, Which once removed dry to dull pebbles.

But they are treasures now, hand picked every one, And must be taken home.

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There's always a windowsill wanting employment.

So you trudge back Up sand-dunes, and down sand-dunes But mostly up At each rise hoping for the car, Which surely can't be far.

But it is.

We regularly took our children to the seaside: It was our summer bonding.

Justin Gosling

JOHN DUNBABIN'S RETIREMENT LUNCHEON Jrd July 2004 This summer Aularian PPEists and Historians from over 40 years gathered in the Churchyard and the Wolfson Hall for a lunch party to mark John Dunbabin's retirement. John Knight paid tribute to John's immense contribution to the college in so many ways, and to his humanity, his erudition, his seemingly inexhaustible fund of knowledge - facets all well-known and loved by generations of undergraduates.

JPDD first came to the Hall in 1963 and John Knight took pleasure in estimating the almost unbelievable number of tutorials given during his Fellowship, a number paling into insignificance only by comparison with the total number of Library Tower steps climbed and descended over the same period.

John was presented with a case of vintage cider; a life membership for himself and Jean (who is also retiring from her Fellowship at St Anne's) of the Landmark Trust, which renovates and maintains historic buildings for short-stay accommodation for members; and a wellprimed account at Blackwell's to maintain his voracious reading well into retirement.

After lunch John invited the multitudes for a refresher visit to his eyrie, complete with clambering up the ladder through the skylight to enjoy the unsurpassed views from the roof of the Tower.

We all wish John and Jean many happy years of retirement and hope to see them in college frequently.

Martin Slater, Tutor in Economics

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Coronation Sundial Rerurbished in 2004 - in scarlet and black

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AID IN A RESTLESS KINGDOM Draped along the heights of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of outstanding scenery, time-worn temples, and some of the best walking trails on earth. With its natural beauty and amazingly rich culture, Nepal has long exerted a pull on the Western imagination. Each year the country attracts thousands of gap year students, back-packers and adventure sports enthusiasts to enjoy the tourist treasures the kingdom provides.

Beyond this however lies a nation in a state of turmoil. As well as being one of the most poor and least developed countries in the world, Nepal has endured a civil conflict since 1996, as the country's Maoist rebels have become increasingly violent in their demands to replace the country's absolute monarchy with a communist republic.

Although the threat of revolutionary communism has been long forgotten in the West, the plight of Nepal's rural poor and the incessant political squabbling between mainstream political parties has prompted the Maoists to take up arms. Going from strength to strength, it is estimated that the rebels now command the support of 10,000-15,000 fighters and have established territorial control over many rural regions across the country. Moreover, few defied Maoist threats when they called a general blockade in Kathmandu this summer, cutting the capital off from the rest of the country as an exercise of their now formidable economic and military strength.

As well as the expected reduction of tourism as a result of this conflict, the Maoists "Peoples War" has had devastating implications for the all-pervasive aid agencies which support the nation's economy.

With the inability of the government to access areas where the Maoists hold sway (areas with the most dire need of social and economic development), and the retraction of many international volunteer organisations, much of the responsibility for the delivery of aid has fallen on the shoulders of national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Nepal.

With the aid of the college, this summer Mike Scott (2001), Lucy Arthur (200 1) and I visited some of the areas in far Eastern Nepal where the student charity Oxford Development Abroad had previously sent volunteers in 2002. We were pleased to see that our projects were still intact and were inspired by the efforts of the local development organisation - The Sungava Club.

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in the Ilam district of Eastern Nepal despite the restrictions placed on their activities due to the conflict. In several of their projects, Sungava have been forced to work with the Maoists in order to reach the most isolated communities, which compromises their standing as a political neutral organisation.

More worrying however was the Maoist attack on Ilam and neighbouring Panchthar which was scheduled during our visit. The Maoists issued a decree for residents to flee the town and amid such threats some 20,000 people left the 2 districts. Many of the town's schools and hospitals closed and with the security forces limiting their presence to their barracks, people were forced to flee their homes. For Sungava evacuation was not an option and we were alarmed to hear that the local hostel for blind children that is sponsored by Sungava would not be evacuated and the children would be at threat during the attack at their premises, which neighbour the police barracks. Fortunately, in the case of Ilam, the Maoist threat subsided with the increased army presence but the possibility of attack still looms over the town and its people.

We visited other aid agencies across Nepal and in each case found a tremendous amount of energy and passion for development among their staff, regardless of the conflict. It is uncertain what the outcome of the conflict will be, but after the Maoists have begun to influence Kathmandu and other regional headquarters the rebels can no longer be considered an idle threat. Although the Maoists do not yet have the strength to win their war, they are too strong to lose it. Until there is substantial social and economic development in many of the rural regions, the insurgency will continue. It is not ideal that the delivery of this development is the task of poorly funded NGOs, but the country is fortunate to have so many driven and ambitious citizens working to improve the plight of their country's poor.

Our visit had confirmed our decision to keep on supporting our partners in Nepal and the communities with which they work. As long as these communities can keep on receiving aid from international donors, their health and education infrastructure will continue to improve through the efforts of Sungava and similar NGOs, who are forced to work around the increasing violence in Nepal.

For more information on the work of Oxford Development Abroad and their partners in Nepal, please visit http://www.odauk.org.

Nick Renshaw (200 1)

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The College is pleased to dispense various travel bursaries and grants each year to facilitate students' travels to the less accessible places in the world, and one such recipient this year was Heather Mack (2003) who writes below of her experiences in Nepal.

NEPAL ON A SHOESTRING Over the Long Vacation a group of twelve Oxford students, including myself, headed to Nepal to spend a month on a volunteer project. The two groups of six were based in Kathmandu valley, and my group worked at Shree Sisnery, a government school. Here, our goal was to improve the infrastructure of the school. The only money which the Nepalese government provides pays for two-thirds of the teachers, leaving a deficit to cover any further costs. Therefore the school relies on charitable contributions from private schools and the community.

Our principal aims were: filling two newly-built classrooms with soil to form the floor; levelling the playground; building a septic tank; constructing a retaining wall; and painting the school. Our project therefore entailed a lot of manual labour, which we found physically demanding. After a first week of shifting soil, largely by ourselves, it was a relief to have the help of the local community and the pupils in the following weeks, because not only did it ease our workload but it meant that we also became more integrated into the community and could practice some of the Nepali that we had been taught in our training week.

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they cook for the family, which can take up to two hours twice daily, and during which they breathe in a lot of smoke produced by their wood-burning stoves, but they also spend the majority of the day working in the fields looking after the family's crops of rice and corn.

Whilst in Nepal I developed an appreciation for the modern conveniences which we have in the developed world, such as washing machines and an efficient transportation system. This is mainly because it took nearly an hour to hand-wash my own clothes which was backbreaking work; and despite our complaints about British transport we do not have to endure potholes the size of craters and washed-out roads that are the norm in Nepal.

Overall I found my time in Nepal a very eye-opening and enlightening experience which made me aware oi the differences that exist between the economically less development countries and the Western world.

Heather Mack (2003)

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OBITUARIES Sir Stephen Thmim 1930-2003 Principal, St Edmund Hall 1996-1998 Sir Stephen Tumim, Principal of the Hall from 1996 to 1998, died aged 73 on 8th December 2003. Sir Stephen enjoyed very high esteem in public life, having served with distinction as a reforming Chief Inspector of Prisons under three Conservative Home Secretaries for some eight years from 1987. His public criticism of the way prisons were run was both bold and effective, and his no-holds-barred reports were awaited with trepidation by those who bore responsibility for the problems he assiduously identified, and with great satisfaction by those arguing for humane reform of a system characterised by some barbarous practices. Among his many lasting achievements was the ending of the ritual of 'slopping out'. He succeeded in raising the profile of prison reform to the extent that it became a frequent topic of discussion in the media, and Sir Stephen quickly became an instantly recognisable and respected public figure.

He was a passionate supporter of the arts and did much to promote theatrical productions in prisons; he was also a knowledgeable collector of paintings and of first editions, especially of comic novels.

No stranger to Oxford - he was educated at St Edward's School and at Worcester College, where he was a scholar and latterly an honorary fellow, and he was active in the Oxford Society - he was elected Principal of St Edmund Hall in 1996. He was popular with junior members and did much entertaining, regularly arranging lunches which brought together students, Fellows, and his London friends. He was also a keen supporter of Hall sports (and especially of the hockey team).

He had difficulties, however, in adapting to the decision-making process in an Oxford college and the management of its affairs between College meetings, and this contributed to his departure in 1998.

He will be remembered as a public servant of rare courage and commitment to the causes which he espoused. A memorial service for Sir Stephen, at which the College was represented, was held on Tuesday 4th May at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

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Reginald Ernest Alton MC 1919-2003 Tutor in English, Bursar, Vice-Principal, Dean of Degrees, Emeritus Fellow Reginald Alton: Lifelong Oxford English don noted for his literary scholarship and world-renowned skills in palaeography The distinguished palaeographer Reginald Alton, who has died in Oxford aged 83, was a fellow and tutor in English at St Edmund Hall from 1953 until his retirement in 1987.

His skills in palaeography were world-renowned, and led to his being consulted over several high-profile authentication controversies, including the CS Lewis diaries, and the apparent suicide notes of Bill Clinton's former White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster in 1993 and the rock star Kurt Cobain (obituary, April 9 1994). He was offered the case of Howard Hughes's will, but refused this one, saying he had no desire for a concrete overcoat.

Less visibly, but with equal effectiveness, Reggie dedicated his life to scholarship, serving for almost two decades as the editor of the Review Of English Studies, one of the most prestigious academic journals in the field.

"It would be difficult to bring to mind a more distinguished period of office, in this or any other major journal," reads the tribute of his successors in 1997. "Distinguished firstly, but also least importantly, on grounds of duration; more profoundly, distinguished for discrimination, insight and shrewdness".

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your adverbs a little closer to the verbs they qualify," he observed kindly but trenchantly, of one young reviewer's prose style.

Reggie Alton was educated at Long Eaton county secondary school, Nottingham, under FE Roberts, formerly of St Edmund Hall (SEH).

Following in his headmaster's footsteps, he himself matriculated to SEH in 1938 to read English language and literature, but his undergraduate career was interrupted by the war. He served in the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (later 112 RAC) from 1939 to 1944, and as lieutenant in the XI Hussars from 1944 to 1946. He won his Military Cross for hand-to-hand combat at Maasbracht in 1945, during a battle involving grenades, Sten guns and revolvers in which four Germans were killed and several wounded.

Reggie wore his MC lightly, and would only ever mention this skirmish in tones of self-disparagement, as "that foolhardy escapade". He was a patriot with the instincts of a pacifist, and the war left him with a profound respect for the protest poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. So much the better for his teaching. He was married to Jeannine Gentis in 1944, and they had two sons, Roger, now editor of the Observer, and Angus.

Reggie played a major role in the Oxford English faculty, where he held numerous offices over the years, including that of faculty chairman and chairman of the faculty board. He was a man of strong opinions, whose impassioned orations at faculty meetings were legendary.

His politics were unpredictable. Championing the cause of women with a mixture of old-fashioned gallantry and deep egalitarianism, he voted in favour of Margaret Thatcher's honorary degree in 1985, not because she was a Tory but because she was "an outstanding woman".

He opposed modishness, and took up a reactionary position during the years when literary theory was steadily advancing.

But he was always on the side of progress and reform when it came to examination procedures. His many years as a member of the Oxford and Cambridge schools examination board led to a highly sophisticated awareness of standards and good practice. He worked steadily to reform the procedures adopted by the English faculty, with an acuity of vision which can be fully appreciated only with hindsight.

Generations of English graduate students will recall with fondness the courteous and eccentric gentleman who taught them how to decipher manuscripts as old as Shakespeare's King Lear, or as recent as Wilfred Owen 's letters. But it is, above all, as an undergraduate 84

tutor that Reggie will be remembered. Famed for his witty remarks, one student recalls him saying to another, in an Old English class, "You might be described as a walking anacoluthon". Another how, during a sleepy, practical criticism class, he picked up the telephone and announced his residence as "Mortuary".

He could quote literature by the yard, and he taught the importance of being passionately opinionated in matters of literary taste. He was the old-style Oxford don, never losing his profound belief in humanism, or the place of literature in life. Well into his retirement, he maintained that the most important channel for scholarship was in teaching the young.

A passionate cricket-lover from childhood, he played with great energy and not a little skill for many years, for, among others, Oxfordshire, the Free Foresters and Henley.

His wife and children all survive him.

Lucy Newlyn Š 2003 Guardian Newspapers Limited

The following address was given at the Memorial Service at the University Church of St Mary on 1st May 2004, by Dr Bruce Mitchell.

REA and SEH in 5 minutes? Some task. But I'll do my best to achieve the impossible.

Reggie was educated at Long Eaton County Secondary School under F.E. Roberts MC, formerly of St Edmund Hall. He matriculated at the Hall in 1938, departed for the war in 1939, and returned as R.E. Alton MC in 1946, having married Jeannine Gentis in 1944. He completed the Honour School of English Language and Literature in 1948. He served the Hall as its only Bursar- Domestic and Investment - from 1952 to 1970, was elected a Fellow and Tutor in 1953, served as Vice-Principal, and on his retirement became a worthily dramatic successor as Dean of Degrees to the former Principal J.N.D. Kelly. His last noteworthy service to the Hall was to act as co-editor with Bruce Mitchell of Graham St Edmund Hall Oxford 1941-1999, a volume of contributions by friends and former pupils of our colleague Graham Midgley.

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treatment of those unable or reluctant to pay their Battels on time are legion. But, as far as I know, he never paid them himself. As Investment Bursar he supervised the building of the Emden and Kelly undergraduate blocks with accommodation for 90 undergraduates - a further substantial increase to the total of 80 rooms available for undergraduates when I became Camerarius in 1956. An enthusiastic advocate of mixed colleges, Reggie played a prominent role in the Hall's transition from a medieval hall to a large and flourishing society of undergraduates and graduates, female and male.

In the Hall, Reggie was, with Graham Midgley and Bruce Mitchell, one of a troika of dons who taught English together for over a hundred years - collectively. He was a polymath in English, teaching everything from Old English through medieval and modern palaeography to the latest literature, with great vigour and enthusiasm. He once drew blood when he stabbed himself with a Biro while dramatically rehearsing a scene from an Old English poem. Two of his obituaries tell how, during a sleepy practical criticism class, he answered the phone with the word 'Mortuary'. This is only half the story. When the caller expostulated, Reggie replied 'Well, I'm surrounded by a sea of dead faces'. It is not difficult to understand why he was admired and loved by his undergraduates; he was a great tutor of the old school.

He had a strong love of drama and of prose and poetry. Michael Bourdeaux speaks of his affection for the King James version of the Bible and recalls his readings in the small chapel of the Hall, especially of Ecclesiastes xii: 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth', he would declaim and then, fixing his eyes on the choir, augmented in those days by ladies from another college, 'and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low'.

His voice transfixed the company of undergraduates ...

He was once inveigled into reading in Chapel a passage from the New English Bible, an experience he could never recall without a shudder.

Reggie's knowledge of and enthusiasm for art is manifested not only in his private collection but also in his involvement with art in the Hall. He played a prominent part in the association of the Ruskin School with the Hall which led to the regular election of the Master to a Fellowship at the Hall. He was Senior Member of the Undergraduate Art Committee, which raised money by voluntary levy for the purchase 86

of works of artists including Lowry, Stanley Spencer, and Ceri Richards, whose Supper at Emmaus hangs in the Chapel, a gift presented by the undergraduates in 1957 to celebrate the fact that the Hall had been granted its charter as a college.

Jeannine, who has been for many years a valued arts critic for The Oxford Times, has a long association with the Hall. She and Reggie were married in the Church of St Peter-in-the-East, now the Hall Library, and their sons, Roger and Angus, were christened there. A gargoyle of Reggie with his money bags now adorns the Tower. Jeannine has cemented this relationship with the Hall by tutoring in French Language and Literature for many years and by making their home a welcoming place for Aularians.

Though always in a hurry - he 'moved at great speed with curiously rapid steps .. . executing a sort of flight . . . like some bird fleeing the wrath to come', as one pupil wrote- Reggie was never too busy to be kind. During the long period of the troika there were differences of opinion but no cross words . His only comment to a scout who had misguidedly tidied his papers was: 'Oh Mrs B., it's marvellous but I can't find a thing'. My last words must be the last sentence of my obituary in The Independent, omitted through pressure of space: 'Dear old Reggie will be sadly missed by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, Aularian and non-Aularian'.

Rest in Peace.

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FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2004 were 395 undergraduates (227 men, 168 women) and 103 post-graduates (57 men, 46 women).

MATRICULATIONS 2003 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates Agrawal, Sapana Mander Portman Woodward Al-Attar, David Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Anand, Ashwin Vivek The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Armitage, Lucy Jane Tarporley Community High School Armytage, Rosalind May Green Atlantic College, Llantwit Major Arnold, Katharine Anne Lempriere McLean Cheltenham Ladies' College St Mary's School, Shaftesbury Asquith, Frances Sophia St Paul's Girls' School, London Bal, Deepti Manpreet Portsmouth Grammar School Ball, Laura Carol Wycombe Abbey School Barber, Zoe Elizabeth Radley College Beardall, Sam Radley College Blois-Brooke, Edward Charles Victoria College, Belfast Boreham, Lindsay Jane University of Copenhagen Boserup, Tristan Nicolai Boss, Charles Henry King Edward's School, Bath Queen's University, Canada Bourrier, Karen Amy Brice, Peter William City of London School Radley College Bridge, Robin Moore Reigate Grammar School Brindley, Chloe Imogen Harrow School Brod, Julian Buick, Joanna Leah Myton School, Warwick Buncher, Nicole Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke Bushell, Lawrence David Oakham School Warwick School Caine, Richard James UWCAD, Duino Caria, Antonio Stefano Cartwright, Nicholas John Haggerston Gadsden St John's School, Leatherhead Silesian University at Opava Cemy, Slavomir Croydon High School Chandler, Madeleine Sarah 88

Chanfreau Martinez, Joel Alfonso ITESM, Mexico Chen, Dina Yanru New York University Chetwynd, Alan Peter Sutton Grammar School Chiu, Pit Lap Philip Cornell University Chung, Jennifer Hyunjung Columbia University Claisse, Simone Leonie St Swithun's School, Winchester Couchman, Paul Derek University of Cambridge Courtney, Oliver Nicholas Exeter School Cowley, Alice Phoebe South Hampstead High School Craik-Horan, Miriam Aisling Meara Harrow College Crane, Keely Anne Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth 11 High School, Peel Crowley-Vigneau, Sara Jane Helen Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux Culik, Emma Helena Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow Dale, Alison Catherine Pocklington School, York Dalton, Carina Louise Tapton School, Sheffield Dawson, Andrew Hannah University of Cambridge de Visser, Marie Corine Babette Francine Maastricht University Dear, Ralph Cannon Princeton Theological Seminary Delph, Michael Christopher St Peter's School, York Duddy, Raymond James Fenton Royal Belfast Academical Institution Duerden, Samuel Frank Hartley Colchester Royal Grammar School Duglan, Holly Bournemouth School for Girls Eardley, Alice Rhiannon Cardiff University Economides, George The Moraitis School, Athens Edge, Jonathan Martin Schadow-Oberschule, Berlin Ejiri, Sumire Surbiton High School Fidge, Danielle Mary Coloma Convent Girls' School, Croydon Fine, Sarah Jane University of Cambridge Flint, Christina Renee Purdue University Fodey, Darren Stuart New College, Swindon Foster, Robert Stater Reed College, Portland Fox, Agatha Grace Lady Eleanor Holies School, Hampton Francis, Katie Alice Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham Freeman, Alice Elizabeth Durham University Garcia-Hermosa, Maria Isabel University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Gentry, Daniel James Cockermouth School

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Ecole Normale Superiore Ghezali, Rabah Bedford Modern School Godfrey, Andrew Paul Shrewsbury School Good, Richard Jonathan Ireland Casterton School, Carnforth Graham, Katie Amelia Green, Hannah Claire King Soloman High School, Ilford Greenhalgh, Matthew John Chase Technology College, Malvern Greenwood, Oliver John King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham Griebe, Michael Roger University of Texas Griffiths, Katie Louise Runshaw College, Leyland Groves, Alexander Stuart Hastings College of Arts & Technology Gutierrez-Caballero, Mario Emilio Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon St Paul's School, London Hacker, Joseph Samuel Sophia University, Tokyo Hagino, Emi Kantonsschule Im Lee Haltiner, Christoph Trinity School, Croydon Hamilton Kelly, Robert Eric Hardy, Rose Victoria Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School, Upminster Quaid-e-Azam University Hassan, Bushra South Hampstead High School Hejazi, Shokofeh Hildyard, Catherine Anne Thoroton St Paul's Girls' School, London Hildyard, Daisy Baptista Bootham School, York University of Bonn Hirsch, Sarah Chelmsford County High School Hodgson, Karen Salesian College, Farnborough Hogarth, John Andrew Holmes, Edward William Blake Eton College Horton, Rachael Ann Kirkham Grammar School, Preston Houlgate, Rebecca Dawn Bay House Sixth Form, Gosport University of Sydney Howison, Holly Louise Hu, Ming Zhejiang University St Edmund's School, Canterbury Huang, Xiaolei Sheffield High School Isherwood, Helen Louise Manchester Grammar School Jarrett, Christopher Michael Hayesfield School, Bath Jenkins, Frances Anne University of Michigan Kasischke, Kellye Ilene University of Tsukuba Kawazoe, Natsuko International School of Basel Kay, Anthony David Backwell School, Bristol Kember, Michael Richard

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Khair, Fahd Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham Khalaf, Sarah Lynne Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls Klaces, Caleb Denis Harry Cadbury College, Birmingham Kraemer Mbula, Erika University of Sussex Ledbury, Matthew University of Sussex Li, Hao Beijing University of Aeronatics & Astronautics Lim, Katherine Teresa Abundo King's College, London Little, Alice Sophia New College, Swindon Long, Jessica Sally Central Newcastle High School Low, Gary Wing Li London School of Economics Maclnerney Zervou, Tatiana Vyroniki The Moraitis School, Athens Mack, Heather Kyles King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham Mallam, Emily Jane The Alice Ottley School, Worcester Marti, Mario Michael University of Berne Matsumiya, Sho Tan Tan Radley College McCartney, David Edward The Minster School, Southwell McLeod, Amy Fleur King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham Merriott, Jack Kenneth Winchester College Mlicka, Agnieszka St Bonifatius College, Utrecht Monod-Gayraud, Aymeric Adam University of Cambridge Montgomery, Nicholas Edward Charles Peter Symonds College, Winchester Magdalen College School, Oxford Motraghi, Sebastian Alexander Eton College Murly-Gotto, James Tulloch University of Melbourne Murray, Keren Anne Hong Ik University, Korea Na, Hyun Eton College Neckar, Sam Alexander Radley College Olsen, Andrew Mark Dickin McMaster University Orton, Sarah-Michelle Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta Panteion University of Political & Social Sciences, Athens Pearce, Bianca-Mouche Lady Eleanor Holies School, Hampton Peterfalvi, Tamas Elte University, Budapest Radisoglou, Alexis Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen Rajashekariah, Kiran Bangalore University Ramos, Christopher Paul Rex Lycee International, St Germain-en-Laye 91

Rees-Jones, Leon Oliver St Michael's School, Llanelli Ridge, Sophy Arabella Tiffin School for Girls, Kingston-upon-Thames Robinson, Edward William Sampson Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames Ronald, Fiona Louise Bradfield College, Reading Rounthwaite, Nicholas lames The Grange School, Hartford Ruehl, Michelle Lancing College Savage, Melanie Dawn Aquinas College, Stockport Sharp, Naomi Ann Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen Smith, Oliver William The King's School, Worcester Smith, Paul Simon Trinity School, Carlisle Smye, Andrew lames Fulford School, York Suri, Venothan Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Sutton, Sarah Kathleen Shrewsbury High School Syed, Makhdumzada Muhammad Ali Abbas Lahore University of Management Sciences Teague, Warwick Jonathan University of Adelaide Tong, Jun Yan Martin Ardingley College, Haywards Heath Toovey, Andrew Ian Biddenham Upper School, Bedford Tredget, Cara Siobhan University of Bristol Tricard, Celine Francoise Paulette Marie Cecile Lycee International, St Germain-en-Laye Turner, Jack Weymouth College Tyrrell, Jessica Shelagh Truro College Tzotzoli, Patapia-Maria University of East London Ulph, Cassandra Rose Robert Pattinson School, Lincoln Wakenshaw, Lucy Elizabeth Greenhead College, Huddersfield Wallis, Christopher Daren University of California at Berkeley Wang, Yujiang Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Watts, Elizabeth Eunice Richard Huish College, Taunton Webb, Amy Francesca Queen Mary's High School, Walsall Weldon, Claire Elizabeth Lady Eleanor Holies School, Hampton Wells, Ella Alexandra Fitzgerald Sir William Perkins's School, Chertsey Whitehouse, Christopher David Farnborough Sixth Form College Wholey, William Andrew Mahtomedi High School, Minnesota Wilson, Christopher Robert Ridge Danyers College, Cheadle Wong, Jacob Yiu Tong University of Hong Kong 92

Worth, Thomas Forbes Yamagata, Osamu Yao, Yao Yates, Robert Andrew Yilmaz, Selahattin Harun Zhang, Yuanchao Zheng, Wenxin Zhu, Hongjie

University of Michigan Epsom College Tsinghua University Clifton College, Bristol Istanbul University The Kilmore International School, Victoria Royal Holloway, University of London South China University of Technology

VISITING STUDENTS 2003-2004 Alfano, Mark Robert Ammann, Eric Michael Ardam, Jacquelyn Wendy Birkland, Katherine Elizabeth Boge, Julia Holder Caron, Sarah Marie Chwialkowska, Sandra Maria Clymer, Anna Louise Adelaide Coble, Aaron Richard Davis, Lauren Denny-Brown, Carrigan Dills, Anne Catherine Donovan, Anna Rogers Emery, Nina Rebecca Ghouse, Nida Heimbichner, Anna Christine Helier, Veronica Rose Jacob, Sushil Kamath, Rahul Kamgar, Leila Klausen, Rebekka Klavon, Evan Laing, Rachel Elizabeth Lalka, Robert Tice Lester, Stephanie Francine Lichtblau, Jennifer Lynne Lukyanova, Anna Mak, Kimberley

Princeton University Amherst College Tufts University Olivet Nazarene University University of Illinois Stonehill College Yale University De Paul University Pennsylvania State University Arcadia University Boston College Brown University Miami University of Ohio Cornell University Tufts University University of California at Berkeley Harvard University Brown University Brown University University of California, Los Angeles Boston College Amherst College University of California, Los Angeles Yale University Princeton University Indiana University St Petersburg State University Harvard University

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McQuerry, Claire Morales, Edgar A Mullenholz, John Christian Nawrocki, Joseph Timothy Rohan, Meghan Dillon Russo, Marco Joseph Sylvester, Natalie Ruth Tang, Stephanie Umana, Brian Veautour, Lindsey Viser, Rebecca Lee White, Elizabeth Yeagle, James Albert Young, Gillian Turner Zaitzeff, Michael Misha

Gonzaga University University of Texas Boston College Holy Cross College Kenyon College Northwestern University University of Richmond Yale University Stanford University Holy Cross College Indiana University Bowdoin College St Olaf College Brown University Brown University

DEGREE RESULTS Final Honour Schools 2004 Biochemistry Class I Class 11 i

J Dusonchet P T Keighley

Chemistry Class I Class 11 i

R A B Brown, R S Martin, D A Moss, A R Robinson J A Large, H J Paisley

Classics & Modern Languages Class 11 i

S A Naish

Computer Science Class 11 i Class Ill

S Barrett Y Gong

Earth Sciences Class I Class 11 i

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J B Antcliffe, C P Atkinson, H V Bramley, C R G Wilson 0 A C Atkinson, H M Chatham, N J Thurston

Economics & Management Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii

C A M Figge J H Maizels, A K Yentob V Mironenko

Engineering Science Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii

M D Ford, D C Mendis J E Barker-Danby, M A Spurr A C Rotsey

Engineering & Computing Science Class I

A R Harrison

Engineering, Economics & Management Class 11 i

M T Lee

English & Modern Languages Class 11 i D A Charles English Language & Literature Class I Class 11 i

D R Harkin M J Beat, L A Berry, C E Bevis, A J Brignull, R M Y Chan, J A Colburn, H E C Hungerford, C E Morey, R G Taylor, H M Wilman, A R Wood

Experimental Psychology Class I

R E Ayres, H M Ng, B R Pleydell-Bouverie

Fine Art Class I Class 11 i

A J Moore, J J Taylor L K Chadwick, M M New

Geography Class I Class 11 i

J R 0 Caffall, N Renshaw E J Coates, N R Copeman, W M F Scott, H E Stevens

Human Sciences Class 11 i

R H Lewis

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Jurisprudence Class I K J Hutton Class 11 i J S Barker, S Davies, F R Gillard, M I J Grimshaw, C J Lamb, K L Ng, J C Nicholson, C M Spencer, J C Sutton, D Y-L Tan, A G Turna, J Yan Law with Law Studies in Europe Class 11 i M S Mughal Mathematical Sciences Class I M C Mandelbaum Class 11 i A Ganguli, R J Stubley Mathematics Class I B T Graham, P A Jenkins, H E Sharpe Mathematics & Philosophy Class I L R Hargrave Class 11 i S J Dambe Materials Science Class I A I Morley Class 11 i S-H Lee Class 11 ii A C Powell Modern History Class I C P Hotham Class 11 i L H Bailhache, PC A Barker, G J-M de la Bat Smit, T C Marsden, C Teasdale,W R Young Modern History & Economics Class 11 i A Nepomniachtchikh Modern History & English Class I E D Farge Modern History & Politics Class I W S W Ong

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Languages Class 11 i T J J Carlisle, 0 J V McGregor, E J Miller, D J Turner ~odern

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W E Hepworth, P 0 Runeland

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R M Holdsworth

Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii

N C K Lim, N R Toms L B Arthur, H S Barnes, M L Girling, M L H L Ho, M T R Nuhn, H J Virta, RA Wilkinson, W N W Yeo A K Proby

Physics Class 11 i Clas s 11 ii Class Ill

T Bateson, L M K Currie, P Garver C J Coombs, H C Samuel K Dookayka

Physics & Philosophy Class 11 i J Wignarajah Class 11 ii D C Fortescue-Webb Physiological Sciences Class 11 i

R N J Ayers, M A Easdale, H I Kemp, H E Turnbull

Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Biochemi stry Computer Science Educational Studies Engineering German Law Modern Hi story Music Philosophy

0 Daltrop M L Cartron T C Newcomb D L Cunningham M Bacic, B P Weston , A C Hunt, SW Kariuki L J R Bradley I J Ghosh, N Countouris J T Scheinfeldt, R J Dryburgh 0 J Dahin J Z Witztum

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Physics Psychology

A M Waterfall CH Crane

Master of Letters (MLitt) Geography

I A Bowles

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Politics Social Anthropology

I Thistlewood J Venter (Distinction)

Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science Economics for Development Environmental Change & Management Environmental Geomorphology Management Research Material Anthroplogy & Museum Ethnography Nature, Society & Environmental Policy Russian & East European Studies Sociology

K Kyriakou, G Yan M Hu, H Li, A A Syed D Lindsey, L Werndle J A Thompson S A Paumen, S Vukasovic P Gordon M Vanko (Distinction) H Yilmaz S-Y S Hsu

Master of Studies (MSt) English Modern History

K A Bourrier (Distinction), A Eardley, E J Scott-Baumann (Distinction) M Palau de Poli

Master of Business Administration (MBA) S Catling (Distinction), S David, D I Griffiths, M C Sorgi Master of Fine Art (MFA) A Jordan

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) H L Howison (Distinction), G W L Lo (Distinction), K A Murray (Distinction)

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Magister Juris (MJuris) T N Boserup, M C B F de Visser (Distinction), R Ghezali, T Peterfalvi, M E Gutierrez-Caballero, M M Marti (Distinction) Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) A H Dawson, A E Freeman Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) C J Blacker, R A Oram AWARDS AND PRIZES University Awards and Prizes

Armourers' - Rolls-Royce Prize for performance in the Materials Science Preliminary Examination Anthony D Kay Burdetts-Coutts Prize for the best overall performance in the Final Honour School of Earth Sciences Richard H T Callow Clifford Chance Prize for the Best Performance in the M]uris Proxime accessit: Marie C B F de Visser Department of Materials Prize Soo-Hee Lee Fozmula Bursary Katherine A Clough Gibbs Prize in Biochemistry Julien Dusonchet Gibbs Prize for Performance in English Language & Literature Moderations (2003) Michael R Bhaskar

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Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in Materials Science Part I Examination Crispian W Wilson

Heath Harrison Junior Scholarship Fergus Eckersley David T Poole

Isaiah Berlin Fund Scholarship Katherine T A Lim

John House Prize for the best performance in Geography Moderations Proxime accessit: Nicholas E C Montgomery Laurence Binyon Memorial Prize Katherine T A Lim

Martin Wronker Prize for the Best Performance in Land Law Katharine J Hutton

Palaeontological Association Prize for the best 3rd year performance in Palaeontology Richard H T Callow

QinetiQ Prize for the best 3rd-year team design project in Materials Science (2003) Soo-Hee Lee Andrew I Morley

QinetiQ Prize for the best 3rd-year team design project in Materials Science (2004) Victoria A Jackson Crispian W Wilson

Ralph Chiles CBE Award in Human Rights Keren A Murray

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Scott Prize for Best Performance in the BA in Physics (2003) Nassim Baiou

Scott Prize for performance in the Teaching and Learning Physics in Schools option (2003) Steven T Wright

Scott Prize for performance in the Teaching and Learning Physics in Schools option (2004) Paye1 Das

Vice Chancellor's Fund Award Marina L Ga1ano

Winter Williams European Business Regulation Prize Marie C B F de Visser

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University Blues The Unofficial List Sailing Gemma V Bennitt Basketball Rohan A B Brown Dominic A Charles Karate Squash Camilla M J Day Camilla M J Day Skiing Hockey J oanna Y Dyer Ruth F Evans Lacrosse Danielle M Fidge Athletics Alice E Freeman Rowing Cricket Darren C Gerard Cross-country Jessica R Leitch Matthew C Mandelbaum Judo Olivier A P Noterdaeme Judo Olivier A P Noterdaeme Judo Ice Hockey Natalie L Roberts Alan C Rotsey Waterpolo Alan C Rotsey Kayaking Basketball Antonina Savchenko Rugby Katherine B Smith Matthew A Spurr Swimming Richard J Stubley Lacrosse Helen E Turnbull Tennis Helen E Turnbull Squash Volleyball Jack Turner Rowing (lightweights) Claire E Weldon Arran K Yentob Football

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External Awards Award of Merit, Institute of Structural Engineers Katherine A Clough Boise Travelling Scholarship Amanda J Moore EC-funded Fellowship in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranenan 'Building on the Past' Katherine T A Lim 11 Circolo Scholarship Katherine T A Lim Niobium Student Research Award Marina L Galano Scatcherd European Scholarship Katherine T A Lim Society for Renaissance Studies Research Travel Fellowship Katherine T A Lim

University Graduate Scholars and Students Chemistry Clinical Medicine Engineering Materials Science Politics Theology

Janette M Hudson Sarah-Michelle Orton Yao Yao Marina Galano Anna M Manasco Thomas A Price

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College Scholars Rachel E Adams Rinesh Amin Peter J Augar Rachael E Ayres Julian E Barker-Danby Clare E Bevis Helen V Bramley J ames R 0 Caffall Katherine A Clough Amy L M Crofton A M M Toby Dunbar Christian A M Figge Abhik Ganguli Laurence R Hargrave Charles P Hotham Paul A Jenkins Ian S H Lyons Thomas C Marsden Daniel C Mendis Andrew I Morley Olivier A P Noterdaeme lain K Porter Andrew R Robinson Pierre Stallforth Paul R Thornton Cian R G Wilson

Sohail A Ali Jonathan B Antcliffe Rachael N J Ayers Jessica S Barker Simon Barrett Michael R Bhaskar Rohan A B Brown Richard H T Callow Thomas D Collins Alison C Debattista J ulien Dusonchet Michael D Ford Benjamin T Graham Alistair R Harrison Katharine J Hutton Nathanael C K Lim Joanna F McGouran Robert S Martin Amanda J Moore D Alexander Moss W S Wilson Ong Pollyanna A J Powis Harry E Sharpe Michael J Streule William P Unsworth CM Simon Yau

College Organ Scholars Richard M Holdsworth David E McCartney

College Choral Scholars Genevieve J-M de la Bat Smit Jennifer J Taylor Hilary M Wilman Fatemah M T Mafi

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Madeleine S Chandler Kate L Wilkinson Ruth F Evans Joanne M Robertshaw

College Exhibitioners Christopher P Atkinson Charles J Bartlett Rita M Y Chan Greg J Coulter Lucy M K Currie Fergus Eckersley Paul Garver Liam J J Hamill Georgina L Hellyer Daniel T Irvine Arin Jumpasut Malcolm T Lee Emily J Miller Hui Min Ng Samuel T Offer Richard H M Perrott Natalie L Roberts Christopher J Stephens Asimina Theodorou Crispian W Wilson

Julian H Baker Martin J Beat Sarah C E Chapman Daniel R Crick Simon J Dambe X Joseph Gao Michael L Girling Natalie Heller Michelle L H L Ho Victoria A Jackson Harriet I Kemp Coral M Miles Mary A Morgan Malte T R Nuhn Ross Parnell-Turner Charity G Randall G Adil H Seetal Jennifer J Taylor Natalie R Toms Alain Y W Yee

College Honorary Scholars Steven S Dionne Hanna I M Eriksson Geoffrey R Lloyd Lucy A Reynolds

Graeme P Doran Jonathan P Flowerdew Aram Mikaelian Elizabeth J Scott-Baumann Adam Whitworth

William R Miller Postgraduate Awards Sarah-Michelle Orton Lucy A Reynolds Katarzyna A Zalanowska

St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholars Federico Caprotti Steven S Dionne Anna Manasco

Paul D Couchman Thomas E Karshan Yao Yao

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Other College Awards and Prizes Brockhues Graduate Awards Marina L Galano Elizabeth J Scott-Baumann Teddy Tjandra Mrs Brown Bursary Ebru Can Kurum Roberto Scipioni Cochrane Scholarship Fund J ames M Audsley David T Poole David Cox Prize Hilary Y Entwistle Richard Fargher Bursary Alice S Little Jessica S Long Philip Geddes Memorial Prize (St Edmund Hall) Mary A Morgan Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism Michael L Girling Gosling Postgraduate Bursary F Eugenio Barrio Madias Pirita M Paajanen Roberto Scipioni Timothy J Stallard Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Thomas D Collins Neil R Copeman Heather K Mack

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Stuart J Mees Nicholas Renshaw

].R. Hughes Book Prize for Geography Pollyanna A J Powis

Instrumental Bursaries Tessa Andrews Laura C Ball Alison C Debattista Alice S Little

Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Winner: Caleb D H Klaces, for his poem Potatoes Runner-up: Anthony J Brignull, for his poem Saturday night at Hornsey Town Hall

Michael Pike Prize Paul G Haworth

Muriel Radford Memorial Prize A Stefano Caria Benjamin P Chamberlain

George Series Prize Oliver A C Atkinson H Augustine K Bourne

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DEGREE DATES 2004-2005 Michaelmas Term 2004 Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday

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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.

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THE DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI OFFICE NEWS Campaign for the Hall At the time of writing the total pledged in the Campaign so far has reached £6.9m. We are therefore only £100,000 short of our target.

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who have given so generously to help us help our students now and in the future. Over a quarter of Aularians, for whom we have contact details, have made a donation. For this happy reason, our traditional Christmas card mailing to donors is proving to be a gargantuan task so all donors, Aularians and friends are asked to accept seasonal greetings in printed form this year!

The second annual St Edmund Hall telethon took place in March 2004. Fifteen of the Hall's most dedicated and ebullient students were chosen to contact their fellow Aularians by 'phone to talk about Teddy Hall past, present and future. The motive for the telethon was twofold.

Firstly - and critically - funds were urgently needed for the completion of the William R Miller building and towards endowing the John Kelly Fund for Student Hardship. A generou s £142,000 was pledged by Aularians, making short shrift of the argument that "my support won't make any difference"- it most certainly has! £135 ,000 has already been received and has been put to good and immediate use. The new hall of residence was opened in September and disbursements can now be made to St Edmund Hall students suffering from real financial hardship. The Governing Body has recently announced details of a college bursary scheme for those from the lowest income homes.

The Principal , Fellows and students are all immensely grateful to the Aularians who decided to participate and contributors will, of course, be kept informed and involved in the positive developments which their support has made possible. We can already share the good news that the College Contributions Committee has offered a challenge grant of up to £275 ,000 if we can raise this amount in donations during 2004. Our telethon supporters can be confident that the proportion of their gifts received this year (future pledges, unfortunately, don't count) will be matched by the College Contributions Committee and that their support will go a long way to securing this significant grant.

Aularians who were called during the telethon will also remember that student callers were also genuinely interested in gathering 109

information and swapping stories of student high jinks with our old members! We are committed to getting to know our alumni as well as possible and we want to make sure that our records are accurate. This is doubly important in 2004 as the Development Office is currently in the process of installing a new interactive alumni database - you will soon be able to check and amend your personal record online and will be able to opt-in to an online St Edmund Hall Who's Who facility (which will replace the old printed Who's Who). Aularians who have been contacted by 'phone will already have had the chance to update their details and others will soon be given the chance to do so.

Please contact the Development Office on 01865 279041 if you have any comments or queries about the telethon or the new database.

If you would like to contribute to the telethon, and have not had the opportunity to do so, Development Office staff can talk you through the projects and discuss the best methods of tax-efficient giving for your personal circumstances.

The Dawson Street residence has now been finished and has been handed over to the college. It was formally opened at a ceremony on Friday September 24'h at which the Chancellor of Oxford, Chris Patten, was present. 55 undergraduates are now occupying the building. We still need ÂŁ250,000 to complete the funding of the building. Some individuals and groups of Aularians have already raised ÂŁ25,000 or more to name a room in the new building and others are working towards this goal. It is not such a daunting task to raise such significant sums. The Development Office would be pleased to help you get off the ground so please do contact us if you would like to show your support in this way.

Terry Cudbird made two trips to the USA in the past year, visiting a number of cities on the East and West coasts and meeting many Aularians. He attended not only the New York Dinner in November 2003 but also two successful dinners in San Francisco and Los Angeles in April 2004. He also much enjoyed the Aularian Cocktail Party in New York in April on the occasion of the University biannual reunion.

He would like to thank Bill Miller for his generous hosting of the New York cocktail party and also for organising the New York Dinner. Bill has said that the dinner this coming November will be the last that he will organise and we hope there will be a good turnout to thank him for his tireless support for this event over many years. Terry would also like to thank David Harding for organising the dinner in San 110

Francisco and Ethan Lipsig for agreeing to work with David on organising regular dinners on the West Coast in future years. Lastly a big thank you to all those Aularians who received Terry so warmly and have given generously to the Hall.

We have already been asked by a number of Aularians what will happen when the Campaign target is achieved. The formal answer is that we will be putting some ideas to Governing Body for their consideration and we will then discuss these with as many Aularians as practicable. It will come as no surprise that we are very unlikely to stop fundraising just because the current Campaign is over. Despite the huge response to our appeal there are still a number of important projects, which are not fully funded e.g. Fellowships in key subjects like Law, Management Studies, Materials Science, English and Physics.

The forthcoming increase in student fees and the continuing shortfalls in government funding will increase the financial pressures on the college and on our students. At the end of the Campaign we will publish a full report setting out what has been achieved and what needs to be done in the long term.

In conclusion we would like to thank Aularians everywhere for their continued support and interest in the college.

Terry Cudbird and Ann Lehane

Student Careers Advice In the last year the Development Office has increased its role in promoting the relationship between current students and alumni in order to help students with career advice and work placements.

Following a mailing last autumn, we were able to compile an up-todate database of alumni who agreed to be contacted by current students for career advice, and we made this database available online to the students from their JCR website. We also held a Careers Day on 9'h November at Deutsche Bank in London, attended by 65 students who heard alumni speakers discuss the pros and cons of their careers in investment banking, journalism, accounting and advertising amongst others.

The Bridge to Business Programme ran for its fourth consecutive year. The 22 students participating in the programme attended a tenday residential business course at the college at the end of Trinity Term.

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from finance and marketing to negotiation and strategy. The students then undertook work placements during the summer in a wide variety of businesses from investment banks and accountancy firms, to publishers and marketing companies. We would like to thank Ian Laing (1965) for funding the programme, Jonathan Reynolds (1976) for organising the course and all our alumni who helped provide a work placement for a student in their company. If you or your company may be able to provide a work placement for a student next summer, please contact the Principal (0 1865 279003).

Annual Gaudy, 27'h September 2003 The Annual Gaudy was held at the college for all matriculation years from 1990 to 1997 inclusive and was attended by 186 guests . Predinner drinks were held in the Front Quad where guests were able to enjoy the Indian summer weather, followed by dinner in the Wolfson Hall. Cathy Cooper (1995) thanked the Principal and College after dinner on behalf of the Aularian guests present.

Aularian guests: Marcus Bailey ( 1990), Sara Bantges ( 1990), Emma Barnett ( 1990), Paul Brady ( 1990), Paul Brandon ( 1990), Jane Brown (1990), Deborah Cochrane (1990), Joanne Corry (1990), Vicky Griffiths (1990), David Jordan (1990), Ryan Law (1990), Chris Manby ( 1990), Rob McBain ( 1990), An drew Penn ( 1990), Gill Pottinger ( 1990), Anna Trigell (1990), Claire White (1990), Nick Byrne (1991 ), Lucy French ( 1991 ), Michael Hordern ( 1991 ), Anneli Howard ( 1991 ), Christian Seymour ( 1991 ), Tatyana Bourmina ( 1992), Alice Clay ( 1992), Catherine Cleverley ( 1992), Steve Cleverley ( 1992), Lucy Davie ( 1992), Samir Mehta ( 1992), Sarah Morrison ( 1992), Flora Nuttgens (1992), Sarah O'Neill (1992), Gareth Scholey (1992), Alan Staley (1992), Ildiko Taksz (1992), Matt Arbour (1993), Melissa Bearchell (1993), Stewart Brown (1993), Cathy Ellott (1993), Emma French (1993), Liz Gibbons (1993), Gabriel Gloeckler (1993), Katrina Gotch (1993), James Hook (1993), Laura Hucks (1993), Rosie Hunter (1993), Scott Livermore (1993), Rob Mansley (1993), Tom McClelland (1993), Jules Mort (1993), John O'Connor (1993), James Parkin (1993), Rakesh Pathak (1993), Isabel Pitts (1993), Bob Skerrett (1993), lain Wilson (1993), Krina Zondervan (1993), Paul Bristow (1994), James Chesher (1994 ), Sara Dickinson (1994 ), Matthew Falconer (1994 ), 112

Mike Grundmann (1994), Robin Holgate (1994), Duncan Jones (1994), Anne Juel (1994), Brendan Kirwan (1994), Rob Marrow (1994), Gareth McKeever (1994), Louise Nan Rasmussen (1994), Gaurav Pate! (1994), Will Pearson (1994 ), Amy Poole (1994 ), Saroop Purewal (1994 ), Mark Roberts (1994 ), J ames Robinson (1994 ), Katy Skerrett ( 1994), Tom Steer (1994 ), Mark Thomson (1994 ), I an Valvona (1994 ), Martyn Williams (1994 ), Ruth Armstrong-Thompson (1995), Yarlini Balarajan (1995), Joe Bamonte (1995), Daniel Berovic (1995), Laura Bradley (1995), Thorn Brain (1995), Harold Braun (1995), Victoria Bream (1995), Cathy Cooper (1995), Catherine Davis (1995), Matthew Fletcher (1995), Dominic Fulford (1995), Michael Hart (1995), Raphael Lebrun (1995), Gerry Nosowska (1995), Rich Oldfield (1995), Tobias Powell (1995), Michelle Pratt (1995), Tracey Pratt (1995), Antonia Pyemont ( 1995), Stuart Robin son ( 1995), Liz Russell ( 1995), Florian Seubert (1995), Dominic Walley (1995), Richard Zugic (1995), Elissa Baker ( 1996), Rebecca Beard ( 1996), Sonya Branch ( 1996), Will Clarkson (1996), James Cookson (1996), Amy Culley (1996), James Dempsey ( 1996), Antonia Dittner ( 1996), Gordon Dun can ( 1996), Chris Hamilton ( 1996), Fiona Harman ( 1996), Caoimhe Harvey ( 1996), James Herring (1996), John Houghton (1996), Tom Huberman (1996), Jesse Ingham (1996), James Ireland (1996), Claire Jackson (1996), Nicole Johnson (1996), Myrto Kothri (1996), Hannah Lawrie (1996), Geoffrey Lloyd (1996), Tom Long (1996), Janine Machin (1996), Liz Manning (1996), Craig Marshall (1996), Tom Matthews (1996), Kate Maxwell (1996), Chris Morris (1996), Daniel Muphy (1996), Timothy Needham (1996), Will Newton (1996), Matthew Parish (1996), Sally Pryce ( 1996), Paul Reynolds ( 1996), Heather Roberts ( 1996), Elaine Robertson (1996), Rosalind Root (1996), Charlotte Saxe (1996), Hannah Skrinar (1996), Eloise Smith (1996), Jonathan Smith (1996), Dun can Wallace ( 1996), Edward Watson ( 1996), Richard Wood fine (1996), Rachel Baxter (1997), Oily Bootle (1997), Ross Bowell (1997), Clara Goldsmith (1997), Nick Hamilton (1997), Joseph Hanson (1997), PJ Howard (1997), Rhys James (1997), Holly Jamieson (1997), Chris Jose (1997), Charles Light (1997), Ginny McGrath (1997), N atalie Parker (1997), Lucy Reynolds (1997), Anya Saunders (1997), Andy Smith (1997), Ben Smith (1997), James Sutherland (1997), Neil Taylor ( 1997), Derval Walsh ( 1997), Lisa Whelan ( 1997), Lucy Wilkinson ( 1997 and Victoria Williams ( 1997).

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Blarney (Fellow), Terry Cudbird (Development Director), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations/Events), John Knight (Fellow and Vice-Principal), Paul Lewis (Secretary SEHA), Mike Mingos (Principal), Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Jim Naughton (Fellow), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Francis Pocock (President SEHA), Martin Slater (Fellow), Steve Watson (Fellow), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow) and David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

The New York Dinner, 7'h November 2003 The US Aularians had their 19'h annual dinner at the Knickerbocker Club, New York on 7th November, 2003; UK guests were Terry Cudbird (Development Director) and Francis Pocock (President, SEHA) and the following US Aularians attended: John Bockstoce, David Brenner, John Child, Jarvis Doctorow, Mark Feeley, Paul Gladen, Nick Howard, Ed Ilgren, James Lyle, Bill Miller, Justus O'Brian, Larry Pressler, Chris Simmonds and Simon Simonian. The twentieth anniversary dinner will be held on 12th November 2004 at The Sky Club; it will be Bill Miller's last year in the chair after which he will hand over the reins to Nick Howard.

40th Anniversary Gaudy, 19'h March 2004 The 40th Anniversary Gaudy for 1964 matriculands had a good turn out of guests, with 50 of the year group attending the event. The dinner itself was held in the Wolfson Hall, with John Coope thanking the Principal and College for the event on behalf of the Aularian guests present. The bar did good business after the dinner with gaudy guests mixing with those undergraduates who were staying up in college during the vacation to take part in the fundraising telethon. Later, some guests and students moved across the road to Merton's to carry on the evening's celebrations.

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ke, John Coope, Roger , Peter Day, Robert Dolman, Jeremy Fox, Tony Georgiadis, David Gilbert, Bill Hartley, Bob Heygate, Peter Hodson, Christopher Howe, Barry King, Tony Lemon, John Lindsay, Peter Liversidge, David Mackie, Antony Martin, Anthony Mayer, Patrick McFarland, John Mclntyre, David Meredith, Derek Morris, Brian Moulds, Rodney Offer, Roger Phillips, Jack Picton, James Pitt (pictured above with Tonia Savchenko (2002) and Darren Gerard (2002)), John Richards, Guye Roberts, David Rumbelow, Jake Scott, Mike Simmie, Hugh Simpson, Richard Stoner, David Tearle, Geoffrey Turner and Andrew Yarrow.

Hall guests: Joe Barclay (Fellow by Special Election (1965)); Peter Collins (Fellow); John Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow); Terry Cudbird (Development Director); John Dunbabin (Fellow); Ruth Evans (JCR President) ; Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer); John Knight (Fellow and Vice Principal); David McCartney (Organ scholar); Maryanne Martin (Fellow) ; Mike Mingos (Principal); Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow); Francis Pocock (President SEHA); Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow); Ian Scargill (Emeritus Fellow); Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow); Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) and David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

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The Floreat Aula Society Dinner, 261h March 2004 The fourth dinner of the Floreat Aula society was held on Friday 261h March. 36 members attended of whom 25 came with a guest of their choice. As usual, an afternoon welcome was organised with tea and biscuits, this year in the Old Dining Hall. During the afternoon we had two tours of college. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of members and guests interested. I think several had been on the same tour on the occasion of the last dinner, in spite of the fact that the Hall has not changed significantly since then! The tours included the Chapel but I suspect I failed to convince some tour members of the power, as a religious painting, of the Ceri Richards' work that hangs above the altar. At 6.00pm the Chaplain, Reverend Duncan MacLaren officiated at evensong in the Chapel. In fact, this was the last service he conducted in the Hall as Chaplain. Duncan has left to take up a joint appointment with his wife, Jane, in Edinburgh. We wish them well.

The Principal and Mrs Mingos were the host and hostess for the reception and dinner in the Wolfson Hall. Seventy-two sat down to another of the Chef's excellent four-course dinners with wine. In addition to the members and their guests, the Hall was represented by several fellows, Duncan and Jane MacLaren, the JCR President, and the MCR Secretary. The Development Director, Terry Cudbird was present as were Felicity Hampson and Katerina Nixon. The last two are in the front-line of the Alumni and Events Office. Many members will have met them on the telephone; now they will know them as faces rather than voices.

In his speech the Principal welcomed members and their guests.

He reported on the academic and sporting achievements of the Hall.

He also reported on the success of the fundraising campaign which has nearly reached its target. This has enabled the Hall to undertake the construction of a building of student accommodation with 55 rooms.

The building is in Dawson Street, just beyond the Plain, and will be ready to receive students arriving in Oxford for the next academic year. The Principal thanked members for their continuing interest in the Hall and for their future support promised by their membership of the Floreat Aula Society. The Principal finished with the traditional toast - Floreat Aula!

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parties and each was given a guided tour of Christ Church. This College has two literary associations well-known to the general public. The first is the connection with Alice and the second is with scenes in a Harry Potter film, shot in the College. The groups were shown many interesting parts of Christ Church, although it was disappointing that the great dining hall had to be viewed from the doorway.

The next Floreat Aula Society Dinner will be held on Friday 31" March 2006. Members should mark it in their diaries, now!

Aularian guests: Hubert Beales ( 1936) with Monica Beales, David Bolton ( 1957) with John Harding, Michael Cansdale ( 1956) with Hilly Cansdale, Gloria Clutton-Williams with Raymond Beckley, John Cockshoot (194 7) with Jeanette Cocks hoot, John Cotton (1955), Michael Darling ( 1952), Desmond Day ( 1951) with Anthony Howick, David Giles (1953) with Jean Giles, Philip Haffenden (1943), Neville Haile ( 1945) with Maureen Haile, John Hogan ( 1948), Keith Hounslow (1954) with Catherine Hounslow, All an Jay (1951 ), David Johnson (1956) with Barbara Etherington, Chris Jones (1952) with Marian Jones, Derek Jones (1958) with Judy Jones, Terence Kelly (1949), Paul Lewis ( 1955) with Patricia Lewis, Roland Macleod ( 1957), Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), John Phillips (1957) with Jane Phillips, David Picksley (1953) with Anna Picksley, John Pike (1946) with Elspeth Pike, Franc is Pocock ( 1960) with Elizabeth Pocock, Phi lip Rabbetts (1958) with Linde Rabbetts, Robert Rednall (1953) with Mary Rednall, Howard Slack (1951 ), Frank Spooner (1970) with Karen Spooner, Alastair Stewart (1957) with Sheila Stewart, Philip Swindells (1953) with Catherine Turnbull, Paul Tempest (1956) with Jennifer Tempest, Anthony Trythall (1944) with Celia Trythall, and John Voigt (1952).

Hall guests: Joanna Ashbourn (Fellow by Special Election), Terry Cudbird (Development Director), Ruth Evans (JCR President), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations/Events Officer), John Knight (Fellow and Vice Principal), Duncan MacLaren (Chaplain) with Jane Maclaren, Mike Mingos (Principal) with Stacey Mingos, Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow and PAS member), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Felicia Shaw (MCR Secretary), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow and PAS member), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow and PAS member) with Lady Yardley.

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Oxford Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament 161h April 2004 90 alumni from ten Oxford colleges participated in the annual Oxford Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament, which was held at its usual venue of Frilford Heath Golf Club near Abingdon. St Edmund Hall has put on a good showing over the previous three years, never finishing lower than a top three position. This year was no exception and the team came a very respectable second, only losing by 11 points to the tournament hosts and winners, New College. Four players from our ten-man team also achieved scores which ranked in the top ten of all individual scores.

The final college scores were as follows : New College, 211; St Edmund Hall, 200; Corpus Christi, 196; Merton, 187; Pembroke, 183; St Catherine's, 183; Trinity, 175; Exeter, 169; University, 167 and Oriel, 142. The dinner following the tournament was hosted by New College, who put on a very fine meal enjoyed by all the guests. The St Edmund Hall team comprised: Chris Atkinson (1960), Frank Bishop (1955), John Crawshaw (1963), Duncan Fitzwilliams (1965), Ken Hinkley-Smith (1960), Arwyn Hughes (1962), Ronald Hurren (1955), Ronald Irving (1958), Mike Simmie (1963) and Guy Warner (1960).

Any alumni with a recognised golf handicap is welcome to join the team.

If you are interested please email: development.office@seh.ox.ac.uk or telephone the Development Office on: 01865 279055.

Medics' Reunion, 241h April 2004 The third Medics' Reunion took place on Saturday, 241h April 2004.

Dinner was preceded by talks on topical medical subjects, of interest to both current and former students. In the first, Paul Johnson FRCS (University Reader in Pediatric Surgery and Fellow by Special Election) discussed the challenges of pancreatic islet cell transplantation and described local initiatives. He was followed by Samir Mehta FRCS ( 1992), currently Specialist Registrar in Surgery who brought the audience up-to-date on impending changes in medical speciality training. The occasion provided an opportunity for former students to meet our new medical Fellows, including Robert Wilkins, the recentlyappointed Fellow and Tutor in Physiology. In the evening, some twenty118

five people - several of whom had escaped from their hospital duties and travelled long distances to attend - enjoyed dinner in the Old Dining Hall. After dinner, consultant psychiatrist Malcolm Hawthorne (1971) offered witty advice on how to succeed in medicine. Paul Matthews (1974, Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election and Clinical Tutor at the Hall) gave an update on the state of the "Medical Students Fund". This fund was set up in order to assist our financially hard-pressed clinical students at the Radcliffe: our five-year goal is to raise a capital sum of ÂŁ25,000 to fund a Clinical Bursary. We are very grateful for the contributions to the Fund received to date, which have provided a promising start to this undertaking.

Dr Ann Taylor

At the end of a hectic week in Singapore and Hong Kong in May, the Principal met up with a small group of Hong Kong Aularians and enjoyed dinner in the panelled dining room of the Hong Kong Football Club, pictured above. He was able to give them the latest news of the Campaign and a report on building progress at the new accommodation block in Dawson Street. Those attending were : The Principal, John Payne (1958), Robin McRobbie (1989), Graeme Hall (1980) and his wife, Vania Cheng ( 1989) and her husband, Alice Hutchens ( 1987) and her husband, Geoffrey Booth ( 1971) and his wife.

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Parents' Lunch, 29 1h May 2004 The college held its first event for parents of undergraduates this year.

The occasion gave parents the opportunity to meet the Principal, the Fellows and other parents, as well as to spend the day with their son or daughter and experience their environment. The day itself was a sellout, with all 375 tickets being sold within the first month of parents receiving their invitation.

The day was centred around a buffet lunch which was meant to be held in the churchyard gardens, but due to heavy showers had to be held in the Wolfson Hall instead. However, the rain did not dampen spirits and parents were serenaded by some of the college's musical groups on their way into lunch. Parents were also given the opportunity to join a tour of the college given by one of our Emeritus Fellows and four of our second year undergraduates (Dr Bill Williams, Dia Chakravarty, Darren Gerard, Leon Marshall and Tonia Savchenko).

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majority of parents and students walked down to the river to watch the rowing, as the event coincided with the final day of Summer Eights week. As the event was such a success it will be held again next year.

We are also in the process of forming a Parents Group to encourage and foster a link between the parents of our students and the College.

The following students and their parents attended the event: Tessa Andrews, Lucy Armitage, Rosalind Armytage, Lucy Arthur, Christopher Atkinson, Oliver Atkinson, Rachel Ayers, Jessica Barker, Peter Barker, Julian Barker-Danby, Hannah Barnes, Simon Barratt, Gemma Bennit, Lucy Berry, Lindsay Boreham, Helen Bramley, Chloe Brindley, Douglas Brown, James Bullock, Lawrence Bushell, James Caffall, Richard Caine, Peter Chapman, Hannah Chatham, Alan Chetwynd, Fiona Clee, Katherine Clough, Helena Cohen, Thomas Coke-Smyth, Neil Copeman, Oliver Courtney, Alice Cowley, Twinsen Cui, Emma Culik, Carina Dalton, Camilla Day, Alison Debattista, Charlotte Dove, Asher Dresner, Samuel Duerden, Holly Dugland, Julian Dusonchet, Joanna Dyer, George Economides, Jonathan Edge, James Eggleston, Christina Emslie, Ruth Evans, Emma Farge, Darren Fodey, Michael Ford, Fiona Gillard, Michael Girling, Alexis Golding, Richard Good, Benjamin Graham, Hannah Green, Alexander Groves, Christopher Harding, Williams Hepworth, Nicole Hermitage, Karen Hodgson, Cassandra Hogan, John Hogarth, Richard Holdsworth, Edward Holmes, Rachel Horton, Rebecca Houlgate, Christopher Jarrett, Isabella Jones, Arin Jumpasut, Anthony Kay, Caleb Klaces, Ryan Kohli, Ruth Lewis, Jessica Long, Ian Lyons, Heather Mack, Lean Marshall, Tom Farthing, Eleanor McNulty, Peter Moreton, Clover Morey, Mary Morgan, Alex Moss, James Murly-Gotto, Samuel Neckar, Hermione Nevill , Jennifer Nicholson, Howard Paisley, Sean Parry, Katherine Pavia, Oily Petter, Scott Philipps, Gillian Pooler, Oliver Rees-Jones, Nick Renshaw, Sophy Ridge, Natalie Roberts, Andrew Robinson, Edward Robinson, Nicholas Rounthwaite, Hugh Samuel, Christopher Ramos, Andrew Smye, Laura Squire, Christopher Stephens, John Stewart, Richard Stubley, Sarah Sutton, David Thomas, Andrew Toovey, Celine Tricard, Aden Turna, Ross Parnell-Turner, William Unsworth, Gareth Walliss, Amy Webb, Ella Wells, John Whelan, Rebecca Wilkinson, Hilary Wilman, Christopher Wilson, Sebastian Winnett.

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Summer Reunion, 26 1h June 2004 This year the Summer Reunion, to which all Aularians are invited, took the format of a daytime garden party for alumni and their families and was attended by 250 guests. In keeping with all the other alumni events held over the summer, the heavens once again opened and the lunch had to be moved inside. However, guests were still able to enjoy a fine buffet lunch provided by the Chef and his staff. Children were entertained by a professional entertainer, whose balloon animals and magic tricks proved very popular, whilst the adults were able to enjoy a privileged look at the college art housed in the SCR, or join general tours of the college given by Dr Bill Williams and three of our undergraduate students. After lunch many of the guests departed on a 'Lighthearted Tour of Oxford' given by official tour guides from the Oxford Information Centre.

The following Aularians and their families attended the event: Farrand Radley (1937), David Johnson (1938), Robert Bishop (1939), Derek Rush worth (1939) , Eric Rhodes (1944 ), Victor Parry ( 1945), John Lloyd (1946), John Allchurch (1950), Christopher Armitage (1950), John Holmes (1950), Michael Jaffey (1950), Desmond Day (1951 ), Howard Slack (1951 ), Tony Coulson (1952), David Jacobs (1952), David Keighley (1952), David Wright (1952), Elgar Jenkins (1953), David Picksley (1953), Paul Lewis (1955), Peter Mercer (1955), David Johnson (1956), Harry Lawton (1957), John Alexander (1959), Francis Pocock (1960), Sidney Donald (1961), John Heggadon (1961), Alastair Fretwell-Downing (1962), Colin Hewitt (1962), Jeffrey Hill (1962), Richard Holland (1962), Alan Brunskill (1964), Peter Hodson (1964 ), Alan Vasa (1966), David Kirwan ( 1967), Rodney Munday (1967), Ian Robertson (1967) , Georges Zbyszewski (1967), Stuart Kenner (1968), Thomas King (1968), Mike May (1968), Ian Busby (1969), Gillies Dalzell-Payne (1969), Jeremy Putley ( 1969), Desmond Ruszala (1969), Lawrence Cummings (1971 ), Step hen Chandler (1972), John Saunders (1973), Raoul Cerratti (1974), Kim Swain (1974), Gordon Hurst (1975), Alan Lomas (1975), Clarke Richards (1975) , Peter Watson (1975), Jeremy Tullett (1977) , Eberhard Burghalter (1979), Paul McLaughlin (1979) , Peter Buechel (1980), Christopher Cheeseman (1980), John Chelsom (1980) , Timothy Mottishaw (1980), Paul Farrelly (1981 ), Edgar Moyo (1981 ), Simon 122

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Hall guests present: Joanna Ashbourn (Fellow by Special Election); Stephen Blarney (Fellow); Alastair Borthwick (Fellow); Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Bursar); Terry Cudbird (Director of Development); Ruth Evans (JCR President); Darren Gerard (student tour guide); Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations & Events Officer); Hugh Jenkyns (Fellow); Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director); Leon Marshall (student tour guide); Mike Mingos (Principal) and Stacey Mingos; Lucy Newlyn (Fellow); Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer); Philipp Podsiadlowski (Fellow); Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow); Tonia Savchenko (student tour guide); Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow); Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow) and Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow).

Women at the Hall - A Reunion Dinner 11th September 2004 As someone who arrived for interview at Teddy Hall on December 13th 1978, (I remember it well and have always thought of the 13th as a lucky number after that occasion), to be greeted by the then gardener "Spike" who told me that unless I played rugby, I hadn't a chance of getting in, I felt that the idea of a reunion of "Women at the Hall" was a terrific idea to celebrate the advent of those pioneers who broke the mould of undergraduates and those who have continued to do so ever since.

This time around I had arranged an earlier meeting in Queen's Lane Coffee Shop with two good friends and contemporaries to catch up on news and 'acclimatise'. The coffee shop is much smarter than it was twenty-five years ago and we remembered with fondness the greasy breakfasts that we used to eat there. The official "get-together" commenced with tea in the buttery after being shown to our rooms by a very nice young man, the son of one of the more recently appointed dons, who showed us how to operate the metal key card, a new thing since our day.

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took tea and speculated on whether the same refreshments would have been served were it an occasion for "Men at the Hall". Others arrived later and joined the audience in the Emden room for a seminar where six Hall women, a distinguished panel, each gave a short presentation on their experience of career, in all its guises.

Their stories were fascinating : Faith Wainwright told of her career in structural engineering, involving projects such as Tate Modern, and becoming a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering whilst juggling life with a husband and three children. Carol Dukes talked about her career in new media consultancy and Samira Ahmed, Channel 4 newsreader, told us stories about being given a lift by Tony Blair before he was PM - in his extremely dirty car. Anneli Howard gave a rather disheartening but realistic view of life as a senior barrister working across Europe in a world dominated by men. Michelle Dollimore described working for several different companies while pursuing success as a world-class rower and Eloise Smith told of her year as a professional fencer before winning a prize in her career in creative advertising.

Then there was time for questions. Though slow to start (perhaps we were shy to ask about matters so personal and so intimately bound up with one's sense of identity), the questions and comments flowed and the hour was gone just as we were warming to the theme. I think we all felt it was a topic we could have plundered more deeply and for much longer. Hugely important themes such as women's opportunities in a male-orientated world of employment, gender relations, work-life balance, the managing of a job and family life, sources of motivation and personal and professional fulfilment were raised.

After a chapel service, drinks were served in the Library, actually St Peter-in-the-East, as the Old Library was occupied by the British Association of Aesthetics - how fitting! The Hall did us proud - fizz to start with and then a very good five-course meal.

Over dinner we talked, among other things, of our experience of being at the Hall. In some ways it was surprising to learn that the Hall still enjoyed its male-dominated, laddish culture. I was amazed that the descriptions of those who had left just a year or so ago seemed very familiar - as if nothing had changed. However, it was great to see Ruth Evans, the current JCR president, at the dinner flying the flag for female students.

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expressed disquiet that a women-only gathering had been arranged.

"Why would you want to get together with only women from the Hall?

The men were fun ... ."

What impressions remain were of a group of talented, modest women, pursuing their own destinies, achieving fulfilment in a variety of different ways; whether barrister or biochemist, mother or merchant banker, all radiated something of the gifts the Hall had fostered in them.

Many thanks to Lucy Newlyn for organizing the event. May she and all female Aularians flourish.

Janet Nevin (1979)

The Opening of the William R Miller Building, 241h September 2004 The college was very pleased to welcome the Chancellor of Oxford University, the Rt. Hon Chris Patten, to open the William R Miller building in Dawson Street on Friday 24 1h September.

The opening event took place in Dawson Street at 5.45pm and was attended by many who had contributed to the construction of the building, and by donors and friends of the Hall. Among the guests were Bill and Irene Miller and Steve and Ros Edwards, major supporters

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of the building, Sir Colin Lucas the former Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. John Hood, the new Vice-Chancellor. We were fortunate that the weather was fine and that our guests could gather in the new quadrangle for the opening.

The Principal, Professor Mike Mingos, formally welcomed the Chancellor. He thanked all those who had been involved in the construction work - the lawyers, architects, surveyors, and builders, as well as the Bursarial team in college. The Chancellor thanked the many benefactors who had made the building possible and particularly Bill Miller, without whose lead gift the project would never have got off the ground. He said that generous benefactions for the colleges and university would be critically important in the years ahead, and he referred to the need for more college accommodation for students in a time of rising rents. He recalled his own lodgings over a hairdresser while at Balliol which cost him the princely sum of 25 shillings a week.

The Chancellor then unveiled the carved stone in the entrance of the building which records in Latin prose Bill Miller's generous benefaction.

After the opening, guests had the opportunity to tour the new building. The building's design and intimate character, in keeping with the spirit of Teddy Hall, impressed everyone. Guests also enjoyed a champagne reception.

The official opening and reception was followed by a dinner for benefactors in the College Library in St Peter-in-the-East. This was attended by 75 guests, who enjoyed an excellent dinner and wines in a splendid setting. The Principal made a brief speech after dinner to thank all the benefactors who had given so generously to the new building. The atmosphere was convivial and guests stayed talking until almost midnight.

Guests: John Adey, Chris Atkinson, Alec Dawson and Francis Pocock (representing the 1960 Year Group); Doreen Boyce (representing the late Warne Boyce, 1952); Alan Brimble ( 1949); Michael Cansdale, David Henderson and Howell Wilson-Price (representing the 1956 Year Group); Howard Coates (1966) with Ernily Coates (2000); John Collingwood (1959); John Cox and Roger Farrand (representing the 1955 Year Group); Steven Edwards (1976) with Rosalind Edwards and their guests Andrew Cooper (1976), Christopher Mayers (1976), Jonathan Nicholls (1976), Simon Parsons (1976), Nigel Wilkes (1976); Dr Victoria Harrison (representing the Wolfson 126

Foundation); William Miller (1949) with Irene Miller and their guests Michael Boyd, Dry den Gilling-Smith ( 1948) with Mai-The GillingSmith, Sir Thomas and Lady Harris, Nicholas Howard (1976) with Derek Howard, Christopher Jones (1952) with Marian Jones, Sir Colin Lucas with Mary Louise Hume, Richard Luddington ( 1978), Rev Canon & Mrs Stephen Maslen, Andrew Miller, Donald Miller with Maureen White, Ian Miller with Kelly Miller, Sheila Miller, Samuel Miller, Tobias Miller, Graham Mitchell with Valerie Mitchell, Alan Simmonds ( 1952) with Mary Simmonds, Sir Richard & Lady Southwood, Robert Strapps (1949) with Anne Strapps, Jane Tierney; The Rt Hon Christopher Patten; Gen Sir Michael Rose (1960); Wolf von Pachelbel-Gehag (1949); John & Ann Hood; Howard Busby; Nick Caldwell and Brian Mortimer (representing Oxford Architects); Michael Crofton-Briggs (representing Oxford City Council Planning Services); Alan Harvey; Len Key (Director of Knowles & Son) with Tim Oseman and Geoff Leach; John Kitto (representing James Styles & Whitlock); Penny MacKinnon (representing Textra Limited); David Stear and David Woodnorth (representing Ridge & Partners); David Wright (1952).

Hall Guests: Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Bursar), Maureen Christian, Peter Collins (Fellow), Terence Cudbird (Development Director), Nicholas Davidson (Fellow), John Dunbabin (Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow) with Margaret Gosling, Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations & Events Officer), Nigel James (Assistant Bursar), Hugh Jenkyns (Fellow), Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), Chris Lloyd (LT. Officer), Mary Anne Martin (Fellow) , Michael Mingos (Principal) and Stacey Mingos , Philip Mountford (Fellow), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), Gill Powell (Principal's PA), Steve Roberts (Fellow), Martin Slater (Fellow), Wendy Thorpe (Superintendent of Works), Dimitri Tsomocos (Fellow), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) .

Sponsored rooms at Dawson Street The new Quad was put into immediate and most satisfactory use the very next morning after its official opening. On Saturday, 2Yh September, a Celebratory Lunch Party was held for three year groups - 1955, '56 and '60- each of which had contributed more than ÂŁ25,000 to endow a room. Some 75 people were in attendance, including the

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Principal, several Emeritus Fellows from those vintage years, and partners and friends of the donors.

Many of those present had stayed overnight to sample the delights of the new rooms, and the "facilities", unimagined in vintage days.

Reminiscences abounded of the contrast with "the Slums", the late night dash to The Orient, or Graham scurrying across the front Quad in his red dressing gown. And for those of us who formerly inhabited the Front Quad, as one old member remarked, no longer the mediaeval traipsing out to the Well or pouring slops into New College Gardens.

An excellent buffet breakfast was served on the Saturday morning, and long lingered-over. Then at 12 noon Aularians met at the Porter's Lodge in Queen's Lane, ably co-ordinated by the Development Office, and the school-type crocodile wound its way down The High and over Magdalen Bridge.

At this stage a word of explanation. The idea of sponsoring a room started with those of the 1960 year, ably encouraged by Francis Pocock.

The challenge was for everyone to contribute ÂŁ1 a week for a period of five years, a total of ÂŁ250, which, it was hoped, would not be impossible for anyone with goodwill for the Hall. This was put in terms of forfeiting for the Hall half a pint of beer each week, though no names were given of pubs still prepared to serve decent beer at that price. Of course not everyone joined in, though in each year the percentage was high. And inevitably there were some who were able to be more generous and contribute the equivalent of a whisky each week, or in some cases even a double.

The idea was taken up by Michael Cansdale for those of the 1956 year, who held a memorable party in the Old Library to launch their sponsorship, and then later with a similar formula by the '55s under Roger Farrand 's enthusiastic, or, should one say, strong-armed leadership.

Back to Dawson Street, and the assembled guests. None of us could work out the Latin inscription, although we guessed that "benefactorum" must have something to do with benefactors, which in a very small way, we all were. We pottered around the rooms in rival gangs, each year group gently bantering with its rivals. Farrand had, of course, chosen the biggest room in the Quad for 1955, and written a short essay on the quality of his vintage year, to be inscribed on the door. 1960 had chosen a room overlooking the main quad area which they thought the best, whereas 1956 had a room looking out 128

over Daw son Street and the roof tops. And we chuckled at the Latinisation of Francis Pocock's name on the noon-dial.

Nigel James had thought of every eventuality in the arrangements to make it an excellent lunch, and chef had excelled himself. There was the inevitable struggle with plate, knife, fork and glass, while trying to peer at name-tags involving much bluff ("Ah, yes, I remember you well ..."). Several said that they had not re-visited the Hall since 1959, and had been delighted to have an excuse to become involved in such a good project. A number of ladies came as guests of the Aularians, and from the Hall side it was particularly good to see Jeannine Alton, Jo Ashbourn, Margaret Gosling, Mollie Mitchell and Peggy Todd, though there were apologies from John Cowdrey who was not too well that day, and David and Patsy Yardley who were in Italy.

All in all a very good occasion. We gather that other year groups of Aularians are thinking on similar lines. And perhaps regional groups, or professional groups as well. Can we encourage others to tackle what is certainly an achievable target? Endowing a room not only helps the Hall, but also gives great pleasure in the renewal of old friendships which, despite lack of cultivation over the years, prove to have withstood well the test of time.

Michael Cansdale and Grahame Partridge ( 1956)

Annual Gaudy 25'h September 2004 This year the Annual Gaudy was held for all matriculation years up to and including 1955. 84 guests attended the event from a range of matriculation years spanning a 16-year period. Evensong held at 6pm was well attended, followed by pre-dinner drinks in the Old Dining Hall and dinner in the Wolfson Hall. The Principal's speech following dinner gave guests a reminder of what their time was like at the Hall and was followed by a few words of thanks to the Principal and the college by Bob Breese on behalf of the Aularian guests present.

Aularian guests: Robbie Bishop (1939), Derek Rushworth (1939), Colin Weir (1941 ), Laurence Elliott (1942), Bernard Wheeler (1942), Sydney Swallow (1942), William Dunsmore (1943), Kenneth Palk (1943), John Power (1943), Tony Trythall (1944 ), David Goldsmith (1945), David Dunsmore (1946), John Cockshoot (1947), Michael Scott (1947), Nicholas Dromgoole (1948), Noel McManus (1949), Ron 129

Hall ( 1949), Bob Breese ( 1949), Robert Sou than ( 1949), Eric Cunnell (1949), Michael Jaffey (1949), Bill Miller (1949), Wolf-Ruediger von Pachelbel (1949), Michael Williams (1950), Mike Kelly (1951), Peter Evans (1951 ), Dudley Wood (1951 ), John Farrand (1951 ), All an Jay (1951), Howard Slack (1951), Desmond Day (1951), David Graham (1952), David Thompson (1952), Michael Darling (1952), Colin Davies (1952), David Fitzwilliam-Lay (1952), Michael Ockenden (1952), Alan Simmonds (1952), Peter Ford (1953), Geoffrey Williams (1953), Ken Bulgin (1953), David Gi1es (1953), Bill Perry (1953), John Read (1953), Bob Rednall (1953), Ian Smith (1953), Philip Swindells (1953), Stuart Bils1and (1954), Michael Bourdeaux (1954), Tony Cash (1954), Jeremy Clever1ey (1954 ), Tony Crowe (1954 ), Roger Gleave (1954 ), Michael Hopkinson (1954), Norman Isaacs (1954), Shaun Macloughlin (1954), Charles Taylor (1954) , John West (1954), John Wilkinson (1954) , Joseph Wright (1954 ), Jesse All en (1955), John Billington (1955) , Roger Farrand (1955), Michael Hilt (1955), David Nelson (1955), David Ward (1955), Robin de vere Green (1955). Hall guests: Stephen Blarney (Fellow), Peter Collins (Fellow), Terry Cudbird (Development Director), Nick Davidson (Fellow), Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations and Events Officer), Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain), Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), David McCartney (Organ Scholar), Michael Mingos (Principal), Bruce Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer), David Priestland (Fellow), Joe Todd (1942 and Emeritus Fellow) and Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow).

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Donors to "Campaign 2000" since 1st August 2003 Mr John RE Adams (1963) Mr Peter Adams ( 1964) Mr John F Adey (1960) Mr Hugh C Adlington ( 1988) Mr Jonathan S Adshead (1993) Ms Samira Ahmed ( 1986) Mr Arthur H Aldridge ( 1939) Dr John H Alexander ( 1959) Mr John R Allchurch (1950) Revd Dr Nicolas S Alldrit ( 1960) Mr Gordon R All ford ( 1949) Mr John G T Almond (1963) The Late Reginald EA !ton ( 1938) Dr Ala'a H AI-Yousuf (1984) Mr Brian E Amor ( 1956) Mr Matthew A Arbour ( 1993) Mr Brian C Arthur ( 1950) Dr John E Arthure (1953) Mr William P Asbrey ( 1949) Mrs Alison F Ash by ( 1983) Mr Ian P Asquith ( 1955) Ms Carol E Atherton (1991) Mr Christopher J G Atkinson (1960) Mr John C Atkinson (1956) Reverend John M Austin (1959) Mr Andrew W Ayres ( 1972) Mr John A C Ayton ( 1980) Dr John P N Badham (1966) Mr Jeremy N Badman (1994) Mr Paul W Badman (1965) Mr John M Bailey (1990) Mr David Baines (1960) Mr Laurence K Baker ( 1960) Mr Richard T Baker ( 1966) MrWilliam R Baker (1976) Mr John A Baldwin ( 1949) Mr John R Baldwin ( 1960) Mr Richard J Balfour ( 1971) Mr Terence R Ball (1957) Mr Peter Balmer ( 1971)

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Mr Paul J Stanton (1982) Mr Timothy E Statham (1969) Mr Andrew G Stedman (1955) Mr Robin Stephenson ( 1972) Sheriff Alastair L Stewart ( 1957) Mr David W A Stewart ( 1988) Mr David C Stokes (1981) Mr Michael S Stone ( 1966) Mr Ian Stuart ( 1968) Mr Arvind Subramanian (1981) Mr Keith L Suddaby (1954) Mr Antony J Sutton (1954) Revd Christopher H Sutton ( 1928) Wg Cdr Paul R Sutton (1976) Revd Philip J Swindells (1953) Mr Charles S Switzer ( 1962) Mr Charles E Sykes ( 1960) Mr David J Tabraham-Palmer ( 1967) Or Ann G Taylor Mr Charles F Taylor (1954) Mr Graham S Taylor ( 1968) Mr John A H Taylor (1963) Mr David J Tear le ( 1964) Mr Neville Teller (1952) Miss Clare M Tempest ( 1989) Mr Leslie P Tempest ( 1956) Mr Frans H Ten Bos (1958) Mr Step hen J Tetley ( 1976) Very Revd David L Thawley (1942) Mr Irving L Theaker (1955) Mr Warren Thomas ( 1983) Mr David N Thompson (1952) Prof Andrew W J Thomson ( 1956) Revd John Thorn ton ( 1950) Mr John R Thorogood ( 1960) ProfNigel R Thorp (1963) Mr William Thorpe ( 1949) Or John S Thurston (1977) Mr Alan D Titcombe (1956) Or Andrew M Tod ( 1960) Mr Noel Tonkin ( 1955) Mr Philip J Toogood (1941) Mr John L Toole (1958)

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Canon John C Townsend (1942) Mr Roy Tracey (1948) Mr Harry A Travers (1982) Mrs Carol M Tricks ( 1990) District Judge Christopher J Tromans (1961) Mr Roger Truelove ( 1963) Or Ronald W Truman ( 1954) Ms Teresa M Tse (1981) Mr Richard J Tufft ( 1993) Mr Jeremy D Tullett ( 1977) Mr David P Turner ( 1966) Mr Mark R Turnham ( 1978) Ms AnaL Unruh ( 1996) Mr Andrew M Urquhart (1933) Mr Kit Van Tulleken Mr Step hen Vivian ( 1977) Mr John C Voigt ( 1952) Or Michael A Voisey (1959) Mr Robert L Vollum ( 1979) Mr John B Wakefield (1953) Mr Stewart E Walduck ( 1959) Mr Peter J Wallace ( 1991) Mr Stanley E Wallis ( 1944) Mr John Waiters ( 1959) Mr David Ward (1955) Mr J ames D Waring ( 1987) Commander Guy C Warner ( 1960) Or Arthur C Warr ( 1954) Mr Robert D Warren (1974) Mr Peter M Watson (1975) Or Gurdon D Wattles ( 1978) Mr David D H Way (1975) Mr Brian T Webb (1956) Ms Rowena E Webster ( 1981) Mr Colin J Weir (1941) Mrs CharlotteS W West (1985) Mrs Joanna West (1981) Mr John A West (1954) Mr William R Weston ( 1955) Mr Harvey M Wheaton (1984) Mr Bernard F Wheeler (1942) Mr Jack Wheeler (1950)

Mr David B White ( 1952) Revd Peter F White ( 1948) Mr Simon R T White ( 1982) Mr David C Whitmarsh ( 1985) Mr Steven P Whittington ( 1989) Mr Step hen C Whyte ( 1982) Mr Brian J Wicker ( 1949) Mr A1an C Wilding ( 1960) Mr Peter J Wilkinson (1969) Dr Brian S Wilks (1955) Mr Gerald G Williams (1956) Mr John F Williams ( 1962) Dr Mark B Williams ( 1976) Prof Douglas B Wil son ( 1955) Mr Peter R B Wilson ( 1967) Mr How ell J Wilson-Price ( 1956) Mr Martin A S Winter ( 1972) Mr Brian R Withington ( 1979) The Wolfson Foundation Mr Andrew H Y Wong ( 1983) Mr Mark R Wood (1985) Ms Susanna M Wood ( 1992) Mr Malcolm I J Woodward (1963) Mr Brian P Worsfold ( 1978) Sir Denis A H Wright ( 1929) Rt Hon Lord Norman R Wylie (1946) Ms Guofang Xiao ( 1997) Mr Damian B S Yap ( 1993) Mr Jeremy J Young ( 1976) Mr John RC Young ( 1956) Dr 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 gue sts are invited. The next dinner will be held on Friday 31 " March 2006. Current FAS members are as follow s: John Akroyd Geoffrey Archer DFC Professor Christopher Arrnitage Colin Atkinson John Ayers Dr Nick Badham John Barker George Barner Kenneth Barton John Barton Martin Bates Hubert B D Beales John D Bean Stuart Beaty Colin H Benbow Phi lip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Robert Bishop Dr Robert Bishop Alasdair Blain David Bolton Mark Booker Revd Canon Dr Michael A Bourdeaux Mrs Hilary Bourne-Jones Bob Breese Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome Geoffrey Brown Tim Brown Ivor Burt John Cain DSC Michael Cansdale David Clarke

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Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Dr John Cockshoot Terence Cook Frederick Cosstick Arthur J S Cotton The Revd Dr H E John Cowdrey David Cox John Cox John Cunningham Eric Curtis Robert Darling Revd Canon Hilary Davidson Desmond Day OBE John Dellar Yves RH Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo Dr Michael Dobbyn Jarvis Doctorow David Dunsmore Laurence Elliott Roger Farrand David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot Paul Foote John French Robin French Revd Peter Fumess Dr Patrick Garland Alan Gamett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill Dr Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Justin Gosling Derek Griffin-Smith Dr Phi lip Haffenden Ronald Hall Michael Halsted OBE David Harding Rex Harrison Carol Mary Harwood John Hawkins

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Dr Malcolm Hawthome Revd William Head Michael Herbert Charles Hind DerekHoare Canon Stanley Hoffman Revd John Hogan Michael Hopkinson TD Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Mrs Ann Hughes MVO Dr Anne Irving Norman Isaacs Peter Janson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David Johnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones Derek C W J ones Prof George Jones Luke Jones Dr Andrew Kahn Peter Kelly Terence Kelly 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 R Miller OBE, KStJ Dr Bruce Mitchell Dr Gareth de Bohun MitfordBarberton

Revd David Moor Dr G Mortimer Prof Roy Niblett CBE Tuppy Owen-Smith Andrew Page 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 Eric Rhodes Prof Charles R Ritcheson Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSOQGM Edmund Roskell Dr Francis Rossotti P L Roussel OBE Jack Rowell OBE Revd Samuel Salter Ian Sandles Michael Senter OBE Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Patrick Slocock Alexander Smith Martin Smith Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC J W E Snelling Michael Somers OBE His Honour R J Southan Dr Frank Spooner

Sheriff Alastair Stewart QC David Summers JP Revd Philip Swindells Paul Tempest David Thompson Squadron Leader Douglas Tidy Alan Titcombe Noel Tonkin Roy Tracey Major General Anthony Trythall AlanVasaTD John C Voigt Prof John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster David Weston Geoffrey E L Williams Dr John H B Williams Dr W (Bill) S C Williams Revd Herbert A P Wills Dudley Wood CBE Rt Hon Lord Wylie PC QC Prof Sir David Yardley Bill Yeowart

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Aularians will know that Reggie Alton died in December 2003.

His Memorial Service on I st May was a moving occasion which gave great comfort to his family. St Mary's Church was packed, generous tributes were paid and the Hall Choir sang splendidly. It was wonderful to be able to greet so many friends and colleagues, old and new.

A booklet of tributes to Reggie was compiled and arrived in time Uust) to be available at the Service.

Anyone who would like a copy should write to the Development Office at SEH. To commemorate Reggie's many contributions to the life of the Hall- as English Fellow, Bursar, Dean of Degrees and picture collector, to name but a few - the Hall proposes to institute a Reggie AI ton Prize, to be awarded annually to undergraduates studying English for the furthering of their work in areas known to be among Reggie's special interests, such as: Shakespeare; the Renaissance; the 19th century novel ; writings of the First and Second World Wars.

The Hall has already received the sum of ÂŁ15 ,000 from Reggie's estate; further donations have brought the total to ÂŁ16,820. Friends, colleagues or pupils wishing to make a contribution should contact the Development Office.

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AULARIAN EVENTS CALENDAR 2004-05

SEH Association London Dinner (all Aularians invited), to be held at Royal Overseas League, London (invitation inserted with this magazine) 40 1h Anniversary Gaudy (for 1965 Year Group), to be held at college, accommodation offered Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament (any alumni with recognised handicap welcome to play) Summer Reunion (all Aularians invited), date and format to be confirmed

11th January 2005

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - JANUARY 2004 President Dr Francis J Pocock, MA, DPhil (1960) Principal Professor D Michael P Mingos FRS, CChem, FRSC Immediate Past President Michael J Cansdale MA (1956) Honorary Vice-President Justin CB Gosling BPhil, MA Honorary Vice President R (Bob) JL Breese, MA ( 1949) Honorary Secretary Paul R Lewis, MA (1955) Honorary Treasurer Ian W Durrans, BA ( 1977) Up to 1944

HA Farrand Radley, MBE, MA (1935)

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AR John Lloyd, MA (1946)

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John M Heggadon, MA, BSc (Lond), FCIM, FFB (1961) Michael GM Groves, DipEconPolSci ( 1962)

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Sir John Shortridge KCB, MA, MSc ( 1966) Peter Butler, MA (1970) Lawrence Cummings, MA (1971)

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Richard S Luddington, MA, MPhil (1978) Rachel M Martel, BA ( 1981) Jenny B Turner, BA (1981)

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MINUTES OF THE 73Ro ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 13T" JANUARY 2004 The 73'd 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 SWlA lLR on Tuesday, 13th January 2004 at 6.15pm, Dr FJ Pocock presiding.

32 members were present.

Minutes: The Minutes of the last meeting, the 72"d, held on 14th January 2003, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

President's Report: Dr FJ Pocock said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner.

Principal's Report: Professor DMP Mingos said he would make his report at the forthcoming dinner.

Honorary Secretary's Report: PR Lewis said he had nothing to report.

Honorary Treasurer's Report: lW Durrans said that the audited accounts were as published in the Magazine; there had been a small excess of income over expenditure, we were in good shape. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted.

Retirements from the Executive Committee: The President reported that during the year, two members of the Executive Committee had resigned, Desmond Day after serving for 43 years and Douglas McCallum after serving for 14 years. The President said that Desmond and Douglas had been regular attendees and had made valuable contributions to the work of the Committee. He thanked them both for their efforts on behalf of the Association. These sentiments were greeted with sustained applause from the meeting.

Election of Honorary Vice-President: The President announced that Bob Breese, who had served on the Executive Committee for 50 years, had been nominated by the Committee for election as an Honorary 147

Vice-President of the Association. This nomination was carried unanimously and with acclamation.

Elections: The following a. Honorary Secretary b. Honorary Treasurer c. Up to 1944 d. 1955 - 64 e. 1965 - 74 f. 1975 - 84

were elected unanimously: PR Lewis re-elected for one year lW Durrans re-elected for one year HAF Radley re-elected for three years JM Heggadon re-elected for three years Sir J on Shortridge re-elected for three years Miss JB Turner re-elected for three years

Appointment of Honorary Auditor: LD Page was unanimously reappointed Honorary Auditor.

Date of Next Meeting: Tuesday 11'h January 2005 at the Royal OverSeas League at 6.15pm.

There being no further business, the President closed the meeting at 6.19pm.

THE 6J•d LONDON DINNER THE 63'd LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St lames ' s on Tuesday, 13'h January 2004 . A record attendance of 175 ensured an exuberant atmosphere, as doubtless did an encouragingly large younger element, more than a quarter of the total coming from the last two decades alone. Top Table was replaced by a more informal Central Table and, as last year, there was no guest speaker which gave greater opportunity for socialising. Association President Francis Pocock welcomed the guests (the Principal and Mrs Mingos, Mr and Mrs Justin Gosling and the Presidents of the Middle and Junior Common Rooms) as well as the return of Farrand Radley who had missed the previous Dinner for the first time in many a year. He then paid affectionate tribute to Reggie Alton, another great supporter of the Dinner, presenting a book on the Newlyn School to Reggie's widow Jeannine. Bruce Mitchell , who collected the book on her behalf, spoke movingly of his old friend and colleague. In his speech the Principal touched on the diversity of Aularian achievement during the year, be it an impressive tally of Firsts, 148

triumph in women's rugby Cuppers, the appointment of Director of Public Prosecutions- or indeed the Hall being named in "The Archers!"

The formalities ended, as only appropriate, with a toast to Reggie.

In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1935) Mr HAF Radley, (1942) Mr SV Swallow, Dr JD Todd (Emeritus Fellow), (1946) Mr ARJ Lloyd, (1947) Mr JMH Scott, (1949) Mr WP Asbrey, Mr RJL Breese, Mr TP Kelly, Mr JN McManus, ( 1950) Mr M Baldwin, (1951) Mr RCM Cooper, Mr DJ Day, Mr DE Wood, ( 1952) Mr HW Goldsworthy, Mr AJ Harding, Mr DM Jacobs, Mr CJ Jones, Mr NF Lockhart, The Revd EA Simmonds, (1953) Mr AJ Kember, (1954) Mr SR Bilsland, Mr ILR Burt, Dr DI Scargill (Emeritus Fellow), (1955) Mr RHB De Vere Green, Mr JL Fage, Mr RA Farrand, Mr PR Lewis, ( 1956) Mr BE Amor, Mr JD Andrewes, Mr GA Blakeley, Mr MJ Cansdale, Mr SCH Douglas-Mann, Mr AF Ham, Mr DH Johnson, Mr GJ Partridge, Mr MP Reynolds, Mr JRC Young, (1957) Mr MJ Archer, Mr JE Aves, Mr DMW Bolton, Mr JW Harrison, Mr RW Jackson, Mr JL Phillips, Mr SE Shepley, Professor JB Walmsley, ( 1958) Mr LL Filby, Mr CW Holden, Mr JH Phillips, ( 1959) Mr F Di Rienzo, Mr MS Shaw, ( 1960) Mr JF Adey, Dr Francis Pocock (President, SEH Association), (1961) Mr DM Brown, Mr EA Fretwell-Downing, Mr JM Heggadon, Mr AM Rentoul, (1962) Mr DJL Fitzwilliams, Mr NH Pegram, (1963) Mr DMP Barnes, Mr RG Hunt, Mr RAS Offer, Mr MS Simmie, (1964) Dr MJ Clarke, Mr JA Coope, (1968) Dr DJ Hughes, Mr HJ Hunt, Mr AJH Makin, Dr MG Pike, Mr MO Spilberg, Mr RT Ward, (1969) Mr MJ Birks, Mr IC Busby, Mr GJ Coates, (1970) Mr WN David, Mr PG Harper, Mr JW Hawkins, Mr LN Kaye, Mr SH Little, (1971) Mr L Cummings, (1972) Mr R Stephenson, (1974) Dr R Cerratti, Mr P Desmond, Mr JR Drew, Mr PA Eggleston, Mr JAB Gray, Mr MJ Howard, Mr CM Jones, Mr PP Phillips, Mr PH Tudor, (1975) Mr A Davids, Dr BF Gasser, Mr GA Gibbs, Mr CJ Jarvis, Dr CG Proudfoot, Mr AJ Senior, Mr PM Watson, (1976) Mr AN Boddington, Mr RAH Finch, Mr PL Smith, Mr NJ Worthington, Dr RMK Young, (1977) Mr SS Advani, Mr lW Durrans, Mr PT Foster, Mr AJ Haxby, Mr RFJH Ruvigny, Mr CJL Samuel, (1978) Mr I Coleman, (1979) Mrs EJ Flood (Baker), Ms CJ Morgan, ( 1981) Ms JB Turner, ( 1982) Mr WW Cabral, ( 1986) Mrs LA Cabral (Foister), Dr DA Gillett, ( 1988) Ms JJ Ensor, Mr KM Gordon, Mr AC Greenham, Mr JR Peterkin, Mr SR Sparrow, (1989) Ms C Bratley (Holme), Mr JR Cattell, Mr JC Cotton, 149

Ms SE Ferguson, Mr LE Jones, Mr TR Leman, Mr MA Lemon, Ms CA Manby, Mr BM Pearson, Ms NP Tydeman (Hugh), Mr JDJ Wickham, (1994) Mr JN Badman, (1995) Mr SJ Hollis, Mr DWM Rattigan, Mr CJ Ruse, Mr MP Thomeycroft, (1996) Ms CL Burton, Ms EC Delchar, Mr JP Houghton, Mr TA Long, Mr CH Marshall, Mr TC Newcomb, Ms S Pryce, Mr P Reynolds, Mr EJ Watson, (1997) Mr NS Hamilton, Ms H Jamieson, (1999) Ms KT Douglas, Mr DB Hart, Mr GB Milne, Mr CR Savundra.

The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Mr A Briggs, The Revd HEJ Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Mr NS Davidson, Mr JPD Dunbabin, Professor CJ Harris (Former Fellow), Dr AS Kahn, Dr RB Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Dr JD Naughton, Dr LA Newlyn, Dr GM Reed, Dr SG Roberts, Dr D Tsomocos, Mr CJ Wells, Dr WSC Williams (Emeritus Fellow), Mr Terry Cudbird (Development Director), Ms Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), Ms Felicity Hampson (Alumni Relations Officer), Ms Katerina Nixon (Alumni Information Officer).

Richard Finch The Aularian Noon Dial To mark the opening of the new building in Dawson Street the St Edmund Hall Association commissioned David Brown (1961) to make a sundial to decorate the south facing wall. The design of this noon dial was chosen for its artistic, decorative and innovative features. A noon dial works in a quite different way to a conventional sundial.

When the sun shines, a spot of light is projected through the small hole in the centre of the gilded St Edmund cross on to the slate noon dial, which has the date scale engraved as a gilded analemma, shaped like figure of eight. At noon GMT, or 1 p.m. BST, on each day this spot of light crosses the date scale.

The most significant dates on the solar calendar are the equinoxes and the solstices. The straight line across the centre, cutting the date scale at 21 s i March and 22"ct September, is the equinoctial line, and is marked with the zodiac signs of Aries for the spring equinox on the left, and with Libra on the right for the autumnal equinox. On the equinoxes the point of light moves along this line from left to right.

On the summer solstice, around 21 si June, the spot of light will move along the curved line at the bottom, the sun being at its highest noon position on this day. This curve is marked with the zodiac sign of 150

Cancer. At the winter solstice, around 21 51 December, the spot moves along the curved line at the top of the dial, marked with the zodiac sign for Capricorn.

The grey vertical line denotes Oxford local time - 5 minutes behind GMT. Many Oxonians will recall that the bell of Tom Tower tolls nine o'clock at 9.05 p.m. every evening. David has also made a sundial for the gardens of Christ Church.

The Association would like to express its thanks to David for donating his time in designing, making and erecting the Aularian noon dial .

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2004

INCOME Subscriptions Bank Interest Emden bequest interest

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

Income less expenses Less Grants: MCR Punt

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9,116 503 75

8,510 729 139

9,694

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(7,082) (513)

(8,472)

(7,595)

1,222

1,783

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Surplus transferred to General Fund These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on ll th January 2005.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2004 31 May 2004 £

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REPRESENTEDBYACCUMULATEDFUNDS General Fund at start of year 8,115 1,222 Surplus from Income Account

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F.J. Pocock (President) I. W. Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 •• May 2004. In my opinion the above Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account give respectively a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association at 31 " May 2004 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

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In his own words, Michael Howard is still alive -just! -but, apart from Bob James, all his old pals have faded away.

Robert A Bishop is organiser of Opera in the Orchard which this year saw a performance of Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti at his home in Wickham Bishops, Essex.

Colin J Weir has just published The History of the Cambridge University Association Football Club, 1872 to 2003 as a companion volume to his The History of the Oxford University Association Football Club, 1872 - 1998 published in 1998.

Alan J Pickett published Relationships: A Book of Love in November 2003.

Dr Rex Mason was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity

by Oxford on 81h May 2004.

David S Dunsmore has become involved with his local branch of the Royal British Legion.

Dr John Cockshoot should always be pleased to meet any Aularians of approximately his vintage when in or passing through Oxford with time to spare.

John HO Parker is suffering from cerebro-vascular disease and is now seriously disabled, but likes to be kept in touch with the Hall.

John Allchurch advises that he is in touch with Philip Snoxall in Australia and visits whenever he is "down under". Philip and Rosalie, his wife, (with a combined height of 13') have produced a family of giants - married to "high people".

Fortunately for the RFU they don't play the game.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded Professor Christopher Armitage a Bowman and Gordon Gray Chair for Excellence in Teaching. This is the second of these five-year chairs and the sixth Teaching Award he has received from the University.

The Revd Anthony B Curry splits his time between Cornwall and France, although only the summer months are now spent in France (the felling of trees and sawing logs proved too demanding physically!)

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Philosophy group, at the University of the 3'd Age, Colchester.

Colin H Benbow retired in 2004 as Curator of the Bermuda Historical Society Museum after 10 years, and was also elected an Honorary Fellow of the Bermuda College.

Kenneth A Lund is now retired and so can be, inter alia, with his wife, Mary, a bird watcher. Apparently, they identified 155 different kinds of birds in the spring migration over southern Ontario and thrilled at the sight of a field of 200 Black Bellied plovers diligently feeding before taking off to complete their flight to the artic.

Professor S David Graham QC has recently been appointed Visiting Professor, Faculty of Business, Centre for Insolvency Law and Policy, Kingston University.

During 2003-4, Revd Canon Dr Michael Bourdeaux has been continuing to edit the Encyclopaedia on Religion in Russia Today; so far this is in Russian only. He has now published in Moscow the introductory volume plus vols 1-2; vols 3-6 are due to come by the end of 2005.

After one year assisting in the parish of Headington Quarry, Oxford Revd John Porter and family are moving full-time to France. The Bishop in Europe has invited him to take pastoral care of the four Anglican congregations in the Pas-de-Calais (his third post-retirement job!)

The Very Revd David Frayne retired in 2002, having previously (in 2000) become the first Provost of an English Cathedral to be made Dean under the 1999 Cathedral's Measure. It was from St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol that he went to Blackburn Cathedral in 1992 - where his ministry involved the complete rebuilding of its distinctive Lantern Tower.

Between 1994 and 1999 he served as a Church Commissioner and was also a member of the Church of England Pensions' Board. His retirement interests include learning the cello!

The Revd Canon John V Roberts retired at the end of June 2002 after twenty-two years as Rector of St Peter's, Woolton, Liverpool and seventeen years as Area Dean of Liverpool South (1983-2000). He and Jean continue to live in south Liverpool near their family and where John helps out in vacant parishes as well as spending a day a week in the Cathedral 'welcoming' visitors. During 2003 they spent two months in Europe engaged 155

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in chaplaincy work and also led pilgrimages in Greece and Turkey. Needless to say they are enjoying retirement!

In June this year, Clive Lawless was made an Emeritus Professor of the Open University.

At a ceremony in Gdansk on 9th September 2003, Mr Jan Ryszard Kurylczyk, Governor of the Province of Pomerania, presented awards to Mr Michael Senter, OBE, Chairman, the English-Speaking Union and his wife, Dr Enid Mayberry, founder and director of the Anglo-American-Polish Association, to acknowledge their contribution to the cultural, academic and social life of the Province.

David Clarke has a sequence of poems - A Sunlit Mirror (Hippopotamus Press, 2004) - coming to print this summer.

Roger D Garratt is still very pleased he obtained early retirement from the London Borough of Barnet Social Services in 1995. He currently has a stall at Camden Lock selling "jewellery" in pursuit of his current career as a sculptor/ metalsmith.

Now in his second term as Tutor of Jazz Singing at the Jazz Factory (a Wiltshire music centre in Bradford-upon-Avon), James SM Harpham has found a new lease of life providing piano accompaniment for silent films - two features performed already to wild applause and a third, a Buster Keaton, next on the list. They're not busked either - each is a special score created from music composed at the time of the film's production or before.

Terry Quinn retired at the end of December 2003 from his post as Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Sevres on the outskirts of Paris, a post he had held since 1988. Among his responsibilities as Director of this institution was that of being responsible for the international prototype of the kilogram and the production of coordinated Universal time, UTC. One of his retirement activities is editing the Royal Society journal of the history of science Notes and Records of the Royal Society for which he would welcome contributions from Aularians!

The Revd Canon Melvyn W Matthews has been Acting Dean of Wells Cathedral for the last 18 months.

Derek AG Morris married Maureen Ashcroft on 5th July 2003

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after many happy years together. The wedding was attended by all six of their combined children, two of whom flew in from the USA. He and Maureen live in Sarasota, Florida from October to April each year and would be glad to see a Teddy Hall face if any Aularians are in the area - their telephone number there is (941) 953 2451.

David E Timms continues to teach French at the John Cooper School in Texas, now in its 171h year of existence. He is one of two remaining pioneers! His own two children are in southern California: the oldest, Elizabeth, is teaching History at Chadwick School and Alison is in her final year at the University of Redlands.

The Revd Garth Turner has retired, and is living at Southwell in Nottinghamshire.

Dr Stuart Hannabuss has been elected a Governor of The Robert Gordon University and continues teaching management and law at the Aberdeen Business School.

Darrell Barnes has been elected a Governor of the Royal Hospital for Nemo-disability in Putney in its 1501h Anniversary Year.

Alan Brunskill took early retirement in January 2004 and returned to the UK after 10 years in Malaysia.

Following the conclusion of Nicholas R Jarrold's tour as Ambassador to Croatia in March 2004, he retired from the Diplomatic Service and in September took up a new position as the Director of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe.

Michael C Bonello was re-appointed as Governor of the Central Bank of Malta with effect from 1st October 2003 for a period of five years.

Peter Crystal celebrated 25 years of being with Memery Crystal, the solicitors' firm he founded in 1978. With his wife Jacqui he is also enjoying his new family of Carla aged 4 (Peter's third daughter) and Philip William George aged 1 (first son).

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banking, including six years with SWIFT, the Brussels-based banking network.

After eight years of working for multinational corporations, and twenty-five years of teaching international business at the University of Cape Town, Dr Vie Razis has retired from the university to go into business on his own account. He is now the CEO of NetMark Business & Computer Consultants, a company which handles everything from encrypting ecommerce to make communications secure, to opening up new markets for selected clients around the world.

Professor Neil D Corcoran was appointed to the King Alfred Chair of English in the University of Liverpool from September 2004. His new book, Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return was published by the Clarendon Press, also in September.

Michael D Shipster was awarded the CMG in the Iraq Campaign Honours List last October, and was appointed to the British Embassy, Washington in July 2004.

Professor Nuri Durlu presently is the president of Kirikkale University in Turkey. He is also a member of Ankara University, Science Faculty, Physics Department.

In the first half of 2004, Richard Gozney finished as British Ambassador in Indonesia and started as British High Commissioner in Nigeria.

Having dabbled in the arcane world of airline cargo handling for a year, Lawrence Cummings returned to freight forwarding in May 2004 with French company Geodis at their UK headquarters in High Wycombe.

With a team of twelve City bankers, Dr Nicholas A FieldJohnson has acquired Robert Fraser Corporate Finance, a 65year old merchant bank, to finance growth companies and service the UK small to middle market.

Douglas L Robertson began training for the ordained ministry in the Church of England in September, at the South East Institute for Theological Education in Southwark. The course is for three years, during which time he will continue to practice as a solicitor.

Anthony G Deakin obtained his PhD in Computer Science (Genetic Programming) at the University of Liverpool in July 2003.

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For the past eight years, James Hogan has been a partner of Brunswick where he leads the Telecommunications, Media and Technology practice. Prior to Brunswick he was a director of a Selec TV PLC subsidiary and Managing Director of a Zenith Productions subsidiary. Before that he worked for BBC News & Current Affairs where he was in charge of Question Time, elections and documentaries.

Mark Patterson left Australia & New Zealand Bank earlier in 2004, where he was Head of International Corporate Finance, and has now joined Standard Chartered Bank in London.

Dr John F Hewitson retired from teaching in August 2003 and now works as the Website Manager for Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS). lain MacLeod was appointed Deputy Managing Partner of Thomas Eggar Solicitors on 1st May 2004.

Dr Martin Garrett's recent publications include Mary Shelley (British Library, 2002) and Cambridge: a Cultural and Literary History (Signal Books, 2004). He is also the author of several entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography.

Howard Papworth joined Intergraph in May 2003, managing the Western Europe operation. (They sell and install emergency response systems for Police, Fire, Ambulance etc.) He's using French and Spanish on a regular basis - so having read Modern Languages at the Hall, he's putting them to good use. His wife, Lucy, is in the process of qualifying as a Primary School Teacher.

Simon KI Double has had a somewhat unusual career, having been involved in multifarious activities including pianist at a dancing school, researcher for an international newsfilm agency, market researcher and question writer for television. He has recently gone into business with the recently retired 11-times former champion flat jockey, Pat Eddery to form PAT EDDERY RACING LTD, a racehorse syndication company. He has been largely responsible for creating the company's website, orchestrating a publicity campaign surrounding Pat's retirement last June and is now running the business.

Mark B Earls has published Welcome to the Creative Age Bananas, Business and the Death of Marketing (Willy & Co. 2002), co-edited (with M. Baskin) Brand New Brand Thinking 159

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Tim J Edmonds lives with his wife and two daughters (aged 8 and 6) in Hampshire. He works as a freelance IT consultant and continues to sail and sing.

As well as being a part-time lecturer, Joy Hibbins is an adviser for young people from ethnic minority groups at an advice centre, working with overseas students, asylum seekers and refugees. She is also working on a research project on street begging.

Martin Ridal continues to work as a principal safety engineer at Alstom Transport Ltd., Birmingham. He, Sue, Alison and David live in Sutton Coldfield.

Simon P Ashberry now works for Orange, responsible for film content and services on its multi-media portal. His daughter, Lulu Rose, was born on 23'd January 2004, and he has published a book on the history of Boston Town Football Club in June this year.

The Honourable Justice Elizabeth J Hollingworth was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 25 1h May 2004.

Jane Moody has just been appointed to a Professorship of English Literature at the University of York. Having got her BA and DPhil in English at St Edmund Hall, she then went off to Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Girton, and thence to York.

Catharine Snow is married with a one-year old daughter (Jocelyn) and is Sales & Marketing Director for Conran Octopus Publishing in London.

Dr David Gillett recently married Paula Jane Bartholomew, a management consultant and graduate of Gonville and Caius' College, Cambridge. They were married at the Church of Our Lady & the English Martyrs, Cambridge.

Nick Hawton is currently the BBC Correspondent for Bosnia but also writes for The Times. In June, he and his wife Edina celebrated the birth of their first child, a baby girl. They live in Sarajevo.

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Caroline M Bruce (nee Reger) is now married to Simon, has two children, teaches yoga and works as a Spiritual Healer.

Alice Hutchens (nee Lawson) and husband Richard belatedly announce the birth of a lovely daughter in November 2002.

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Philip Waldner and Mary Darling got married on 161h August 2003 at Elvetham hall, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire.

On 61h April 2004, Lydia CH Vitalis (nee Harrison) gave birth to her first child, a healthy daughter, Anastasia Ellen Hope Vitalis.

Amelia Charlotte was born on 61h October 2002 to proud parents Matthew and Claire White (nee Cosgrave).

Cathy F Ellott (nee Unwin) celebrated the birth of a son, Gabriel Richard Francis Ellott, on 18 1h May 2004, weighing 7lb 6oz.

Alastair Mordaunt and his wife Helen have twin boys, William and 01iver, born on 20 1h October 2003.

Early Modern Military History, 1450- 1815, edited by Dr Geoff Mortimer, was published in August (Basingstoke: Pal grave MacMillan, 2004) Dr Hubert Ertl has been appointed to a University Lecturership in Higher Education and to a Fellowship at Linacre College, with effect from l ' 1 October 2004. Hubert completed his doctorate at the University of Munich, where he held an academic post, and has latterly been teaching at the University of Paderborn.

2nd Lt Michael J Harley was commissioned from Sandhurst in April 2004, and joined the Household Cavalry. In May and June 2004, he sailed the leg from Portsmouth to Rio de Janeiro in a round-the-world sailing trip.

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OBITUARIES 1920's Peter Lissen Jacob Westcott BA, 1988, Australia, 1926, History.

1930's Oliver David Coleridge William King- Wood MA, 2"d September 2003, USA, aged 89. 1932, Modern Languages.

Oswald Timothy Brown MA, 19th May 2004, Scotland. 1933, Classics.

Very Rev Brian William ~hitlow MA, Canada, 15 August 2004, aged 89. 1933, English & Theology.

George Worth MA, 23'd October 2003, Middlesex, aged 87. 1934, Classics.

Ernest Leon Wright MA, 29th January 2004, Kent, aged 88. 1934, Modern Languages.

Jack Shipwright MA, 13th December 2003, Hampshire, aged 86. 1936, Modern Languages .

Donald Erskine MA, 8th July 2004. 1937, German.

Reginald Ernest Alton MA MC, 15th December 2003, Oxfordshire, aged 84. 1938, English.

John Roy Hugh Merifield, 1960, Died in a Helicopter Crash whilst serving as a Group Captain in the RAF. 1938.

Eric George Stokes MA DFC, 11th October 2003, Hampshire, aged 84. 1938, Geography.

John Anthony Gibb D.Phil, 2004, New Zealand. 1938, Law (Jurisprudence).

1940's Donald Watkin Everton BA, 9th June 2004, Staffordshire, aged 82.

1940, History.

Roland Hugh Slemeck, August 1983. 1940.

Benjamin Noel Young Vaughan MA, 5th August 2003, Swansea, aged 85. 1940, Theology.

Michael Ayerst Hooker Ph.D, 26th January 2004, East Sussex, aged 81. 1941, History.

Robert Andrews Huskisson CBE, 16th June 2004, Essex, aged 81.

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Michael Albert Wetz, 2002. 1941, RAF Course.

John Frederic Chadderton MA, 20'h October 2003, Leicestershire, aged 79. 1942, History.

Charles Roy Owston, 2002, North Yorkshire. 1942, PPE & History.

Robert Eric Ford MA Dip Ed, 12'h November 2003, Essex, aged 78.

1943, Modern Languages; Education.

Jack Renforth Scarr MA TD, 19'h February 2004, Oxfordshire, aged 88. 1943, Modern Languages.

Roger Francis Moss, 8'h August 2003. 1944, RAF Course.

Neville Seymour Haile D.Phil DSC, 20'h June 2004, Oxfordshire, aged 76. 1945, Geology.

James Auguste Jerman BA Dip Ed, 7'h May 2004, Leicestershire, aged 83. 1945, Modern Languages.

John Michael Stuart King MA, 12'h October 2003, Lincolnshire, aged 81. 1945.

Francis Rawdon Crozier BA, 23'd December 2003, Suffolk, aged 81.

1946, History.

Arthur Clifford Darlow, 2004, Oxfordshire. 1946, PPE. His Honour Maurice John Peter Macnair BA, 2003, London. 1946, Law (Jurisprudence).

John Alexander Gordon Charles Law, Canada, 17'h August 2004, aged 81. 1947, Law (Jurisprudence).

David Leonard Stevens MA, 2004, Devon. 1948, History.

John Edward Gillman BA, November 2000, Surrey, aged 70. 1949, Modern Languages.

Charles Raymond Ullyatt MA, 30'h July 2004, Montreal, Canada, aged 80. 1949, Modern Languages.

MICHAEL AYERST HOOKER (1941) Michael Hooker, who has died aged 81, revolutionised the way money is raised for good causes in this country by applying American techniques, identifying and profiling target donors, and tailoring appeals accordingly. Like a good dentist, he understood the importance of making a painless extraction, and made full use of deposited covenants, trusts and legacies.

Hooker maintained a secret list of "VRPs" - very rich people - on whom he would draw for both professional and private cases . The institutional beneficiaries of his methods included schools, medical 163

charities and 13 cathedrals; but although by no means a wealthy man, he also aided out of hi s own pocket widows with school fees, found work for former convicts or arranged holidays for children from poor homes."There are no unemployed people in the South of England," he would say. "There are only the workshy and the unemployables".

A descendant of the Elizabethan theologian Richard Hooker, Michael Ayerst Hooker was born on January 22 1923 and educated at Marlborough and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where fellow undergraduates expected him to become a priest.

He had already settled into the comfortable High Anglicanism which was to animate the rest of his life; and he went on to the University of the Witwatersrand to complete a doctorate on Bishop Colenso of Natal, who questioned the literal truth of the Bible in the 19th century.

Hooker spent two years with the British Council, and worked briefly as a schoolmaster in Britain and South Africa. From 1956 to 1957 he learned about fund-raising while working for the American Wells Organisation in Britain and New Zealand. This led him then to set up the first institutional fund-raising consultancy in Britain with the late Lord Craigmyle. He was managing director of Hooker, Craigmyle & Co from 1959 to 1972, and of his own company for a further seven years.

During this period, he modernised and professionalised charitable appeals in Britain. Yet, unlike some charity professionals, he never lost sight of the human stories on which his work rested.

He was a lifelong friend of the McWhirter twins, Ross and Norris, his contemporaries at Marlborough and Oxford. After Ross was murdered by the IRA, he established, together with Viscount Boyd of Merton and Lord Harris of High Cross, the Ross McWhirter Foundation, which makes annual awards for acts of courage and leadership by private citizens that have failed to receive official recognition.

In 1985, Hooker and others set up the Police Convalescent and Rehabilitation Trust, whose centre in Oxfordshire helps injured officers return to duty.

He took a particular interest in education. He often used to complain that, while there were ample specialist facilities for children with learning difficulties, there was nothing on offer for the unusually gifted.

Accordingly, in 1991, he helped to found Newton Prep, a coeducational school at Battersea with special provision for highly intelligent children. But his philanthropy never became soggy.

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Whenever bishops, of whose company he was fond, equated compassion with higher taxes, he would politely try to set them right.

He was a high Tory, one of the first chairmen of the Federation of Conservative Students, and he fought the unwinnable seat of Coventry East in 1955. Conservative politicians were regular guests at his table, along with churchmen, academics and headmasters - and, as often as not, a rehabilitated young offender to act as waiter.

Although he never married, Hooker's flat on the Brighton sea-front pullulated with friends, widows of friends and innumerable godchildren. He made his many guests accompany him to church on Sundays, but was deeply ecumenical, running, among other things, a centre which brought together Christians and Shintoists.

He refused to contemplate retirement, and worked on steadily until he went into hospital for the series of operations which led to his death on January 26. Š Telegraph Group Limited 2003

NEVILLE SEYMOUR HAILE (1945) Neville was born in Bognor Regis, the second child of Richard Haile, a well-known photographer and Amelia Haile who ran a gift-shop.

From an early age he was interested in geology and struck up an early friendship with the curator of the Bognor Regis Museum. Together they collected fossils from the London Clay that is exposed at low-tide on Bognor Beach. Neville ignored his headmaster's advice to join the Palestinian Police Force, and would have gone straight to university at the age of 16, but was told by Oxford to go away for a year and learn Latin.

Neville graduated in geology at Oxford University (St Edmund Hall) in 1948, with the top 1st Class Degree. He then joined the Overseas Geological Service in 1949, having chosen Asia as he had always been intrigued by the Chinese newspaper that wrapped his mother's imported Chinese crafts.

Over the next 15 years he was engaged in surveying previously unmapped areas of Sarawak and Sabah, investigating mineral deposits and also published a field guide to Bornean snakes. His outstanding contributions to our geological knowledge of Borneo began in 1954 with the publication of his Memoir 1 on the Strap and Sadong Valleys, followed in 1957 by his Memoir 7 on the Lupar and Saribas Valleys, 165

and in 1962 Memoir 13 on the Suai-Baram area of Sarawak. These three memoirs were published by the Geological Survey Department, British Territories in Borneo. In 1965 he published Memoir 16 of the Geological Survey, Borneo Region, Malaysia, on the Dent Peninsula of Sabah. These memoirs, and their geological maps, continue to be our primary source of information on these regions, all now unfortunately out-of-print.

The inaugural professor Charles Pichamuthu had retired in 1961, and his successor T.H.F. Klompe died in office after only a short tenure of the chair. Neville was appointed the third professor of geology in 1964 (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur). He spent the next 14 years as Head of Department, during which time it flourished into a well established academic institution. Neville was thrust into administration almost from the beginning. He became Dean of Science and made good use of the office to plan and approve a new geology building that continues to this day to be the pride of the campus. Neville collaborated closely with the director of the Geological Survey in Kuching, and there followed a very fruitful period of research by university staff on many fundamental aspects of Sabah geology. He carried out research and published on the tectonics of Southeast Asia and engaged in fieldwork in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. His rapport with staff of GRDC in Bandung led to his active participation on research cruises to Natuna, Tambelan and the islands of the Banda Sea. He set up the first laboratory for the study of palaeomagnetism in the department and carried out and published the first results on Southeast Asian rocks.

Upon retirement from the University of Malaya, Neville was a consultant for the United Nations from 1980 to 1982 attached to the C.C.O.P. office in Bangkok. This was followed by attachment to Robertson Research in North Wales from 1982 to 1991 as senior consultant involved in worldwide petroleum assessments. Whilst there, and in collaboration with Russian colleagues, he produced a Palaeogeographic Atlas of the Shelf Regions of Eurasia for the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

He then returned to Kuala Lumpur from 1991-1992 as advisor to the Petronas Research Laboratory in Ulu Klang, before moving to Oxford, where he was a visiting professor in geology at Oxford Brookes University from 1994 to 1999.

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to be involved in many activities: he was Chairman of the Oxford branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society; he gave occasional lectures to the "University of the Third Age"; was actively involved in the RIGS conservation group (Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Sites); was a member of the local mineral and lapidary club; was a member of HOGG (History of Geology Group of the Geological Society of London), specializing in Victorian Geologists, especially William Buckland.

Neville was a talented amateur actor, taking on major roles in many plays in the Town Hall and British Council in Kuala Lumpur. He also gave very entertaining performances in the Malaysian TV and comedy series 'Jangan Ketawa'.

He was the driving force in the founding of the Geological Society of Malaysia and was its first president. Later he was appointed an honorary member of the society. He was a fellow of the Geological Society of London, member of the Geologists Association, fellow of the Gemmological Association, and member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.

He did suddenly in Oxford on Sunday 20th June and is survived by his wife Maureen, their son James and two grand-children.

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NEVILLE HAILE Neville and I both arrived at the Hall in October 1945 straight from school at the age of 17/18. There were, I recollect, fewer than a dozen freshers of our age - most were ex-servicemen in their mid or upper 20s with vastly more maturity and experience of life. They were in many respects difficult days - food rationing was more severe than during the darkest years of the war, even bread and cakes were virtually unobtainable in the shops. There were constant power cuts and fuel shortages - the winter of 194617 still ranks as one of the coldest in memory.

But whenever Neville was around there was fun, laughter and practical jokes. Those of us lucky enough to be in his circle were never bored or frustrated. His personality radiated in the JCR, and his ready wit and good humour enlivened us all. Everyone liked him and I can't remember ever hearing him condemn anyone behind his back 167

- he was so sincere and good natured - generous to an extreme.

Yes, we knew that he worked hard but I don't think any of us realised then just how able he was and how much time he must have spent on his studies. I believe he obtained the highest marks in the whole University when he achieved his 1st Class Honours Degree in Geology.

In his splendid contribution in Memoirs of St Edmund Hall graduates 1920-1980 Neville gives us many amusing anecdotes of our years as undergraduates. I still play the E major Piano Concerto - but without the gas fire! Yes , we wasted such a lot of our time playing shove ha' penny - or was it really a waste of time? We even had special ties designed and produced for us (only two of course!) A few years ago I lent mine to Graham Midgley for a Hall Exhibition - and never saw it again! But I now possess Neville's tie and I treasure it greatly.

He will be terribly missed by so many people - not least of course his family. I keep on wishing that I had seen more of him after we left Oxford, but at least in recent years we always met for the annual Aularian dinner in the Hall in July, and we invariably used to go together on a pilgrimage into the JCR and make humble obeisance at the spot where the Shove Ha'penny table used to rest. At the recent Gaudy in September (two months after Neville died), I went alone to the same spot and shed a tear. Later during dinner a few of us stood and drank a toast to him. At his funeral a good family friend in his address said "When I think of Neville, I thank God for eternal life so that we shall see him again".

David F Goldsmith ( 1945)

RAYMOND ULLYATT (1949) Aged 80 years , Raymond Ullyatt passed away on Friday 30 1h July 2004 in Montreal, Canada. Born in Chesterfield, England, he was the son of the late George Charles Ullyatt and the late Eva (Hardy) Ullyatt.

After his service in the Royal Corps of Signals in Italy, he graduated from Oxford University (St Edmund Hall) and joined the foreign staff of J & P Coats, working in several countries until he came to Canada in 1956. He became President of J &P Coats (Canada) in 1962, holding directorships in various associated companies and trade associations.

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his connection with Westmount Public Library, its rejuvenation and renovation. He is survived by his loving wife, Janet Susan Matthews, his children Louise of Beaconsfield, Katharine of Sanibel, Florida, and John of Edmonton, Alberta, as well as by 4 precious grandchildren, his sister Eileen of London, England, six nieces and several grandnephews and grandnieces.

1950's David Anthony Lillicrap BM BCH FRCP, 11'h January 2004, Kent, aged 73. 1950, Physiological Science I Medicine.

David Anthony Harding MPhil, J3'h January 2004, Gloucestershire, aged 73. 1951, History.

Francis Patrick Ferguson MA, 16'h October 2003, Merseyside, aged 71. 1952, Geography.

Michael John Whittingham Higgins BA, yct December 2003, West Sussex, aged 70. 1953, English.

Sqd Ldr Thomas Harrold Hackett MA, February 2003, Hertfordshire, aged 71. 1954, English.

William Ian Plant MA PGCE, 2003, New Zealand, aged 67. 1956, Modern Languages.

Michael Herbert Bottomley MA ACIS MBIM, 4'h April 2000, Surrey, aged 67. 1957, Geography.

William Waiter Budden BA , 24'h February 2004, Gloucestershire, aged 63 . 1957, Law (Jurisprudence).

Timothy David Day BA, I'' June 2004, Essex, aged 66. 1957, History.

John Charles Hemming MA, 19'h February 2004, Kent, aged 67. 1957, Geography.

Peter Charles Burns BA, 1999, Lancashire, aged 59. 1958, Modern Languages.

Michael Anthony Cranswick MA LLB , IO'h June 2003, Australia, aged 65. 1958, Law (Jurisprudence) .

Robin Kemp MA MBA , 26'h April 2004, Buckinghamshire, aged 66.

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1960's Timothy Edward Brand Dip Ed, 22"d November 2003, Scotland, aged 62. 1963, Geology.

David Maurice Bray, 18'h January 2004, USA, aged 62. 1963, PPE. Richard William Clark MA FCA, 9'h August 2003, Scotland, aged 58 . 1964, Geography.

Trevor Phelps BA PGCE, 2003, aged 59. 1964, PPP; Education.

Lawrence Irving Armstrong BA, 1966, Mathematics.

Alan John Thompson BA, 2004, West Midlands. 1968, History; Education.

Anthony Thomas Sherlock MA FCA, 1999, West Midlands, aged 50.

1970, History.

1970's Keith Alexander Ford BA, 3rd February 2003, Oxfordshire, aged 47.

1973, Chemistry.

1980's Elizabeth Alison McAtee BA, May 2001, USA, aged 37. 1983, History.

Arihiro Fukuda M.Litt, 16'h November 2003, Japan, aged 39. 1989, Modern History.

1990's David Thomas Ryan D.Phil, 30'h June 2004, USA, aged 32. 1990, Physics.

Rebekah Mary Price D.Phil, 21 SI January 2004, Scotland, aged 27.

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DAVID THOMAS RYAN (1990) David Ryan, who was a research student, then post-doe, in the Clarendon Laboratory between 1993 and 1998, was killed in a road accident while he was cycling in Saratoga County, New York, USA on 301h June 2004. He was 32 years old. David was an undergraduate at St. Edmund Hall and graduated in Physics with the top first of his year (he was joint Scott Prize winner). He then did his D.Phil., with me in the Magnet Group, between 1993 and 1997. In 1998 he joined Oxford Instruments and, after being vigorously head-hunted, in 2001 joined the R&D division of General Electric in Niskayuna, NY, where he continued his very promising career in superconductivity. He was one of the brightest young physicists this university and department have ever produced. Those of us who knew him are deeply shocked by this untimely death. Our thoughts go out to his mother and father, Anne and Tom, and his younger brother Anthony, who live in North Yorkshire.

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