St Edmund Hall Magazine 2004-05 by St Edmund Hall

Magazine 2004 - 2005

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

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Vol. XVI No. 5 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2005

COLLEGE LIST ................................................................................................................ I TO REPORT From the Principal ........................................................................................................ 8 From the Chaplain ........................................................................................................ 13 From the Librarian ........................................................................................................ 14 From the Bursar ............................................................................................................. 21 The Senior Common Room ........................................................................................ 23 The Middle Common Room ...................................................................................... 30 The Junior Common Room ........................................................................................ 32 Clubs and Societies ...................................................................................................... 34 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ................................................................................................................... 51 The Geddes Lecture ................................. ..................................................................... 54 Poetry at the Hall ........................................................................................................ 56 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge ................................................................................ 63 The AB Emden Lecture ............................................................................................. 63 The Phi lip Geddes and Clive Taylor Prizes .......................... ................ ................ . 64 Artweek 2005 ................................................................................ ....................... ... 65 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry ................................................ ... 66 Mooting 2005 ................................................................................................................ 67 The George Series Prize ............................................................................................. 68 The Choughs are back! ............................................................................................... 70 FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ........................................................................................................... 72 Matriculations ................................................................................................................ 72 Visiting Students ........................................................................................................... 76 Degree Results ............................................................................................................... 78 Awards and Prizes ......................................................................................................... 83 Degree Dates 2005-2006 ............................................................................................. 90 THEDEVELOPMENTANDALUMNIOFFICE News from the Development Office ......................................................................... 91 Aularian Gatherings ...................................................................................................... 92 The FloreatAula Society.............................................................................................. I0 I Forthcoming Events I Aularian Calendar ............................................................... I04

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives ............................................................................. 105 Minutes of the 74th Annual General Meeting ...................................................... 106 The 64th London Dinner ............................................................................................ 107 The Accounts .................................................................................................................. 109 ARTICLES Spanish for Beginners, by Mike Girling ................................................................. Ill The Boy Done Well, by Geoffrey Boume-Taylor ................................................. 116 St Edmund in Vermont, by Michael Cansdale ........ .............................................. 119 AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ................................................................................................... 124 Obituaries ........................................................................................................................ 130 In Memoriarn .................................................................................................................. 153

ST EDMUND HALL 2004 - 2005 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 Fe flows Knight, John Beverley, MA (BA Natal; MA Camb.) Professor of Economics and Tutor in Economics, Vice-Principa4 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 Fe//ow in Mathematics Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Lond.) QC Fe//ow hy Special Election Blarney, Stephen Richard, B.Phil., MA, D.Phil. Fe//ow hy Special Election in Philosophy and Tutor for Undergraduates Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb.; JD Chicago), QC Barrister, Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (Ph.D. Leic.; MA Camb.) Oxburgh Fe//ow and Tutor in Geology Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, M.Phil. Tutor in Economics Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Professor of Law and 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 Fe//ow and Tutor in Computation Phillips, David George, MA, D.Phil., Ac.S.S., F.R.Hist.S. Professor of Comparative Education and Fe//ow hy Special Election 1

Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, D.Phil. University Reader in Biochemistry, Prifessor if Biochemistry, WR Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry and Senior Tutor Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, D.Phil. University Reader in French Literature, Professorial Fellow; Director if the Voltaire Foundation Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, D.Phil. A. C. Cooper Fellow, Professor if English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Newc.) Professor if Abnormal P!Jchology and Tutor in P!Jchology Naughton, James Duncan, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) Fellow f?y Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Bourne-Taylor, Geoffrey, MA Bursar Brasier, Martin David, MA (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.) Professor if Palaeobiology and Tutor in Geology Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, D.Phil. Tutor in Modern History Whittaker, Robert James, MA (B.Sc. Hull; M.Sc., Ph.D. Wales) Professor if Biogeograpf?y, Tutor in Geograpf?y and Dean Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA (B.Eng., Ph.D. Liv.) Professor if Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering and Dean Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; Ph.D. Lond., Dr Hon. Causa Sofia) Professor if East European History, Fellow f?y Special Election and Archivist Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (Ph.D. Camb.; B.Sc. Witwatersrand), FRS

Isaac Wo!fson Professor if Metallurgy Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, D.Phil., FBA Professor if German Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, D.Phil. (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (Ph.D. Camb.) University Reader in Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (Ph.D. MIT) Tutor in Pf?ysics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. Pennsylvania) Tutor in Engineering

Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, D.Phil. (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Prifessor if Neurology, Fellow f:y Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, D.Phil. (B.Sc. CNAA) C.Chero., FRSC Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Carob.) Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History and Tutor for Admissions Bull, Malcolro Glen, MA (MA Lond.) Fellow f:y Special Election in Fine Art Ebers, George Cornell, MA (MD Toronto) Action Research Prifessor if Clinical Neurology Flanders, Alan (BA Old Dominion; MA English-Hollins; D.Phil. George Washington) Fellow f:y Special Election Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow f:y Special Election Paxroan, Jereroy Dickson (MA Carob.) Fellow f:y Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB, ChB. Edin.; MD Leic.), FRCS, FRCS Ed., FRCS in Ped. Surg. University Reader in Paediatric Surgery and Fellow f:y Special Election Kaika, Maria, MA, D.Phil. (MA NTUA) Tutor in Geograply Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; Ph.D. Princeton) Tutor in English Wentworth, Richard, MA (MA Royal College of Art) Prifessorial Fellow, &skin Master if Drawing Tsoroocos, Dirnitrios, MA (MA, M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale) Tutor in Management . Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, M.Sc., D.Phil. Fellow f:y Special Election Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, Ph.D. Carob.) John Harris Memorial Fellow and Tutor in Materials Science Tseng, Jeffrey, (BSCIT; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Plysics Griffiths, Jane Elizabeth, MA, M.St., D.Phil. Fellow f:y Special Election in English Cordes, Frank, MSc. William RMillerJunior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences

Wilkins, Robert J., MA, D.Phil. American Fellow and Tutor in Pqysiology Nabulsi, Karma, D.Phil. Fellow 0' Special Election Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, M.Chem., D.Phil. Fellow 0' Special Election Cudbird, Terence, (MA Camb.) Fellow 0' Special Election Honorary Fellows Wright, Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth, GCMG, MA * Wylie, Norman Russell, The Rt Hon. Lord Wylie, PC, BA (LLB Glas.) * McManners, the Revd John, CBE, MA, D.Litt., FAHA, FBA, F.R.Hist.S. Oxburgh, 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 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-Ali, Rt Revd Michael James, M.Litt. (BA Karachi; M.Litt. Camb.; Ph.D. NSW) ]ones, 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 Doctorow, Jarvis, BA *Deceased 4

St Edmund Fellows Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Martin Gregory, MA (MBA Stanford) Cansdale, Michael John, MA Stanton, Paul John, BA Asbrey, William Peter, BA

Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA, D.Phil. (LLD Birm.), FRSA Hackney, J effrey, 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.) Mitchell, Raymond Bruce, MA, D.Phil., D.Litt. (MA Melbourne) Todd, Joseph Derwent, MA, D.Phil. Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, 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, Jbhn 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 Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA

Lecturers Chemistry (Inorganic) Laidlaw, William Michael, MA, D.Phil. Chemistry (Organic) Gamblin, David Philip, M.Chem. Chemistry (Organic) Oldham, Neil John (B.Sc.; Ph.D. Keele) Computer Science Newcomb, Thomas Christopher, BA, D.Phil. Computer Science Whittaker, Paul David, MA Economics Aarnio, Outi Marketta, MA, D.Phil. Economics Barber, Catherine (BA Camb,; MPA Harvard) Economics Povey, Richard, BA Engineering Little, J Paige (B.Eng.; Ph.D.) Salisbury, Stephen Thomas Samuel (B.Sc. Queens, Kingston) Engineering English Holton, Amanda, MA, M.St., D.Phil. Fine Art Archer, Michael George (BA Camb.; M.Ed. Mane.) Harrison, Stephan (B.Sc. Leic.; Ph.D. CNAA) Geography Smith, David Edward (BA Mane.; Ph.D. Edin.) Geography Geology Waters, David John, MA, D.Phil. (MA Camb.) History Forrest, Ian, D.Phil. (MA, M.Phil. Glas.) Law Adams,John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh.) Materials Science Cerezo, Alfred, MA, D.Phil. Materials Science Castell, Martin Rolf (B.Sc. Exe.; Ph.D. Camb.) Piatkus, Matthew Alexander, M.Math. Mathematics Smith, Lucy Melanie, M.Math. (LL B Lond.) Mathematics Lotay, Jason Dean, M.Math. Mathematics Black, John Joseph Merrington (MB, BS Lond.), FRCS Ed., FIMC RCS Ed., FFAEM Medicine (Anatomy) Medicine (Embryology) Teague, Warwick Jonathan (MB BS Adelaide) Cowley, Sally Anne (BA Camb.; Ph.D. Lond.) Medicine (Molecular Biology) Craner, Matthew John (MB ChB Bristol; MRCP (UK)) Medicine (Neurophysiology) Williams, Renee, MA Modern Languages (French) Goddard, Stephen, BA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (French) Couffignal-Szymczak, Sarah Modern Languages (French) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut Modern Languages (German) von Lindeiner, Karina (MA Leipzig) Modern Languages (German) Brockmann, Antje (MA Leipzig) Modern Languages (German) Dorigatti, Marco Guido, MA status, D.Phil. (Dott.Lett. Florence) Modern Languages (Italian) 6

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA Vienna; Dr.des. Basle) Modern Languages (Polish) Baines,Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, D.Phil. Modern Languages (Russian) Southworth, Eric Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Modern Languages (Spanish) Griffin, Nigel Howard, MA D.Phil. Modern Languages (Spanish) Alien, Roger William, D.Phil. (BA, B.Mus. Liv.) Music Wilk, James, MA, D.Phil. Philosophy Rikovska-Stone, Jirina (Ing.Dr.Csc.) Physics Segall, Shlomi, D.Phil. (MA Jerusalem) Politics James, Laura, BA, M.Phil. Politics Manasco, Anna Marie, M.Sc. (BA Emory) Politics Styles, Elizabeth Anne, PGCE, D.Phil. (BSc Oxford Polytechnic) Psychology

Chaplain The Revd Gerald Hegarty (BA, BD Belf.) Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA Artist in Residence David Ormerod College S ecretaty & Registrar J oanna Cope, MA Head Porter David Beeching Decanal Staff Mandzy, Luba Tamara, M.Sc., (BA Harvard) Junior Dean Monod-Gayraud, Aymeric Adam, (BA Sussex, M.Phil. Camb.) Cover Dean Dionne, Steven Scott, BA, M.Sc. (B.Sc. Bentley) Sub-Dean (NSE) Wallis, Christopher Daren, (BA University of Rochester, MA University of California at Berkeley) Sub-Dean (Isis) Tredget, Cara Siobhan, (M.Sci. Bristol) Sub-Dean (Isis) 7

FROM THE PRINCIPAL The academic year has been marked by a considerable number of changes in the Hall and the University. For the Hall the opening of the William R Miller Building and the successful completion of the Campaign represented important milestones in its development. The Hall, although still not well endowed, had begun to tackle its accommodation and financial problems in an effective manner. Three Fellows who have been associated with the Hall for a great number of years retired at the end of the academic year and a significant number of new young fellows were elected thereby reinforcing the sense of change. The arrival of the first Vice-Chancellor who was not previously a Head of House or Head of Department at Oxford, also represented a major change for the University and promised a fresh approach. The new Vice-Chancellor, Dr John Hood, arrived to the news that the University was not in a good financial state and that the introduction of the new computer system for management and accounting was not providing the central University administrators and the Heads of Department with the financial information which they required to manage the University's finances. With his previous broad experience of running a major company in New Zealand, and as Vice-Chancellor of Auckland University, the complex and time-consuming decision-making processes involving the Colleges and the University must have appeared strange and ineffective and encouraged him to investigate with the help of a committee the governance of the University. The resulting Green Paper received a lot of attention in the national papers and its recommendations were generally applauded by those who either had experience of running large commercial organisations, or commenting on them as journalists. The reception in Oxford was harsher and many academics resented the possibility that the University's financial affairs would be overseen primarily by outsiders through a Board of Trustees and academic matters would be discussed and resolved in an academic committee which numbered approximately 150 and involved representatives from the Colleges, the central University administration and the Departments. As a result of the opposition mounted against the Green Paper in the Spring, the Governance Committee will review its recommendations and will report back in the Autumn. My own reading of the situation is that there is in Oxford support for some reform and a widespread recognition that if Oxford is to compete effectively with the major US Universities then it will have to redefine the relationship between the central University and Colleges. It has to find a new process of governance which is able to react more quickly and effectively to outside 8

events whilst retaining the strongly democratic nature of the institution. I very much hope that in the second year of the Vice-Chancellor's term of office these issues will find a satisfactory resolution and the University and Colleges will find a way of maintaining the essential character of the institution and its ability to give an undergraduate training which is second to none, but at the same time find the resources and the imagination to compete more effectively in fundamental research with US Universities, which are much better endowed. On the academic side the Hall was unable to repeat the outstanding results which were achieved last year when 33 students achieved First Class Honours Degrees. Nonetheless, this year 22 students achieved First Class Honours Degrees and 82 upper Second Class Honours Degrees. For those Aularians who still recall with some fondness the Fourth Class Degree it will be of interest to note that the Third Class Degree is also approaching extinction and may be described as an endangered species since only 43 students from the whole University were awarded Third Class Honours Degrees. Unfortunately four of those came from the Hall and this, with the reduced number of firsts, adversely affected our position in the Norrington Table this year. On the sporting front the Hall won cuppers in Men's Rugby in an exciting final which was delayed until May. Their eo-finalists, and long time rugby rivals St. Peter's, held the lead until five minutes before the end when the Hall scored the decisive try. The Women's Hockey team also won cuppers, but the outstanding sporting achievement of the year came from the Women's First VIII who not only gained blades in Torpids, but more importantly came within a whisker of going Head of the River in Eights' week. Indeed they were so near that preliminary arrangements were being made for the traditional boat burning in the front quad and the associated bumps supper. It is a long time since the Hall was Head of the River and it would have been very fitting if the Women had achieved this success so soon after celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of women first being admitted to the Hall. However, I am sure that next year they will be able to capitalise on their second place and go Head of the River. The Hall held a number of alumni events this year- in September there were reunions for all students who matriculated up to and including 1955. A very successful London Dinner was held in January at the usual venue - the Royal 9

Overseas Club, which was attended by more than 150 Aularians and representatives from the Hall. Francis Pocock stepped down as President of the St Edmund Hall Association at this time and we are most grateful for all he contributed in his time as President. Most significantly he redefined the role and constitution of the Association and put a great deal of his own time and effort into bringing it into the electronic age. As a result of his efforts we hope to launch Aularian Connect this Autumn which will enable Aularians to up-date their particulars on the website, and also contact other Aularians. We wish his successor Will Hatcher every success for his three year term of office. A Gaudy to celebrate 40 years since matriculation was held in April and the attendees were pleased to announce that they had managed to collectively sponsor a room in the William R Miller Building. We also held a Garden Party and a series of dinners to thank those who had contributed to the successful Campaign and entertained the parents of current students on the Saturday of Eights' Week. The Traditional St Edmund's Day Feast was held on 16 November and our special guests included the Master of Fitzwilliam College, Professor Brian Johnson. Sadly, this was the last occasion that Brian joined us as Master because he retires this academic year. He has been a regular attendee at the feasts and I shall miss him greatly, particularly since as a fellow inorganic chemist our friendship goes back for more than thirty years. We wish him and his wife Christine a very happy retirement. We look forward to welcoming his successor, Professor R D Lethbridge (Professor of French Language and Literature and Director of the British Institute in Paris, University of London) this year. Directly after the St Edmund's Feast Stacey and I flew off to New York to attend the American Aularian Dinner, which had a special significance this year because it was the last dinner organised by Bill Miller. Bill has played a very important role in the recent development of the Hall not only as a major donor, but also as a co-ordinator of Aularian activities in the US. We wish his successor Nick Howard every success in the future. This dinner is always held in New York in the Fall and, realising how difficult it is for those on the West Coast to attend, Stacey and I hope to hold a West Coast Dinner in Los Angeles on Wednesday 14 December and very much hope that many of our alumni from California and the surrounding states will be able to join us. We also encourage alumni to join us for the Geddes and Emden Lectures which are held during the year. This academic year we had excellent lectures 10

from Peter Snow on "Shooting History" on Friday 12 November and Professor Geoffrey Hosking, who is the Leverhulme Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies of London University, on "Trust and Distrust in European Societies" on Friday 13 May. The next Geddes Lecture will be given by Nick Robinson who has recently been appointed as the BBC's Political Editor, and the next Emden Lecture will be given by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch on Tuesday 9 May. The title of the lecture is ''Archbishop Cranmer and his biographers". This year we have seen the retirement of some Fellows who have been associated with the Hall for many years and the appointment of a number of new fellows. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences will acutely feel the retirements of Professor Nicholas Stone, who has been the Physics Tutor since 1968, Dr Peter Collins, who has been the Mathematics Tutor since 1971 and Dr Mike Reed who has been our Computation Fellow since 1986. Nick Stone has reached retirement age, but will remain research active at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. Peter Collins has taken early retirement in order to pursue more fully his wide ranging interests in mathematics and heritage affairs. Dr Mike Reed has also taken early retirement and accepted a new post as Director of a United Nations Computational Institute in Macao. Dr Wes Williams has been appointed as the Fellow in French and therefore represents the direct successor of Nicholas Cronk. He does not have very far to come because he is currently a Fellow at New College and in addition to his academic activities has wide ranging interests in the performing arts. We have also appointed three junior research fellows: Cedric Dicko as the William R Miller Junior Research Fellow has interests in the molecular structures of silk fibres produced by spiders. Marina Galano has been appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship in Materials and will simultaneously hold a Career Development Fellowship in the Department of Materials. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the first holder of the Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellowship in Conflict Resolution Studies and will work closely with Karma Nabulsi who was appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship in Politics last year. William Asbrey and Paul Stanton were appointed as St Edmund Fellows in recognition of their major contributions to the success of the recent Campaign, and Jarvis Doctorow was elected as an Honorary Fellow for supporting the Junior Research Fellowship described above and also for providing the leading donation for the proposed new lecture theatre at the Hall. Mr Terence Cudbird was elected as a Fellow by 11

Special Election earlier in the year in recognition of his contributions as Director of Development to the success of our recent Campaign, but this lapses on his resignation at the end of this academic year. I am delighted to report that David Pettifor, Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy, was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and David Manolopoulos has been accorded the title of Professor. On a sadder note, Sir Denis Wright, our most senior Honorary Fellow and a long-time supporter of the Hall, died in May after a short illness, aged 94. He had a very distinguished career in the Diplomatic Service and had a wealth of stories about his travels and especially of his time in Iran. He managed to retain friendships and make new ones because of his courtesy, curiosity and enthusiasm and hundreds packed into his funeral service at Haddenham Church. Another senior Honorary Fellow, Lord Wylie, died at the beginning of September, aged 81. Lord Wylie joined the Hall in 1946 after serving with the Fleet Air Arm in WWII, and then went on to get the LLB at Glasgow University. He had a very distinguished career as a lawyer and Tory Member of Parliament. Finally, I should note that the Governing Body has kindly agreed to grant me sabbatical leave for the coming year to permit me to renew my scientific interests. I had completed the first draft of a chemistry textbook when I arrived at the Hall six years ago, but with the distractions associated with launching the Campaign and the building projects which I oversaw I have been unable to finish it. Furthermore, I am the co-editor of a 9,000 page multi-author encyclopaedia on Organometallic Chemistry which is scheduled for publication in 2006 and will therefore be busy ensuring that it is published on time and to the required standard. In my absence the Governing Body have elected Martin Slater as Pro-Principal and I am sure that I leave the Hall in good hands. Indeed I look forward to reading his report on the activities within the Hall this time next year and his account of the Head of the River celebrations!

FROM THE CHAPLAIN It has been a fascinating experience to return as chaplain and to notice the small changes in the fabric of college life and major differences such as the new William R Miller Building: but much has remained the same, including the number of those attending Chapel services! Over the last three terms there has been a varied number of Chapel preachers, representing different denominations and interests. The Michaelmas term began with the Master of Campion Hall, Fr Gerry Hughes, giving us some Ignatian reflections on the meaning of Christian discipleship. Later that term the Revd Anne Holmes discussed the relationship between psychiatry, mental health and faith. On Remembrance Sunday the Chaplain of St Edward's School, the Revd David Wippell, preached a fascinating sermon in which he traced the wartime experience of some members of the school who had come up to St Edmund Hall in the 1930s. In the Hilary term Revd Andrew Wingfield-Digby drew a good audience with a talk on Christians and sport, while Dr Ed Newell, the Senior Canon at St. Paul's Cathedral, spoke about the issue of Christians and business life. It was in this term that our sister college, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, visited, augmenting the choir in a lively service at which their chaplain, Simon Perry, preached. A highlight of the Trinity term was the "Celebration of Easter" when the University Church was filled with College choirs and congregations for a special service of readings, music and prayers. Later that term, Brian Leftow, Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, preached a sermon on the Trinity, a challenging talk for some, but others detected a trace of heresy from the Oriel Common Room. This year Duncan MacLaren, my predecessor as chaplain, published Mission Implausible (Paternoster Press) . His book examines the roots of secularisation and its modern manifestation and shows how a new process, which sociologists call 'desecularisation', has already begun. In this new period, people are interested in communities and spiritualities, not necessarily Christian ones, with the aim of finding direction for life and understanding of the world. In the same way much of what we have done this year in Chapel has been about exploring possibilities for new directions. As always, I have been helped by the Organ Scholars, D avid McCartney and David Alien (who came up in the Michaelmas term), and by Ros Armytage, who acted as Chapel Warden for most of the year. With the Chapel Choir and Choral Scholars they have all done a marvellous job, keeping worship lively and presenting a rich and varied diet of music. 13

FROM THE LIBRARIAN This past year has been one of preparation in the Library. As was noted in the last two Aularian Newsletters, the Hall has funded the hiring of two specialist cataloguers for the retroconversion (that is, electronic recording) of all of the main Library holdings onto OLIS, the University's on-line libraries database. This is in anticipation of the introduction in the Hall Library of OLIS Circulation (barcode self-issue of book loans) in September 2005. The first steps in the alteration of the loans area in the Library were also undertaken. A special workbench and cupboards which will house the new electronic loans equipment was installed behind the card catalogue, and the old loans area was removed from the Library Assistant's work station. In liaison with Mike Lakatos, the Hall's IT Officer, final design plans of the Assistant's work area have been made to accommodate the hardware needed by her to interact with the OLIS Circulation system. In order to avoid cutting a trench in the floor of the Library, this will be the first time that radio Ethernet links will be used in the Hall. Because the new office for the Librarian is to be located in the SW corner of the church close to the Assistant's desk, the architects in charge, Montgomery Architects, have worked closely with the builders, Knowles and Sons, to ensure that both areas complement each other and the aesthetics of the church. The JCR has also been closely involved in the devising and implementation of the student loan periods and fines set up in OLIS Circulation for the Hall. Meanwhile the retroconversion cataloguers have been working hard. By the time this Magazine goes to press only the older (ie. pre-1992 purchases) Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics books will be awaiting electronic cataloguing. Therefore, a September start for OLIS Circulation poses no problems. Of course, the ordinary running of the Library has gone on as usual. Part of this is gifts to the Library. The donations to the Aularian Collection were:

ALLEN, Geoffrey Another 9 preludes for piano opus 54 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2003 Bassementos 7 pieces for solo recorder Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2002 A bouquet for Larry: 4 piano pieces for a birthday Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2004 Four mazurkas for piano Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2003 Nine more preludes for piano opus 45 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2002 Peter Piper's pickings for solo alto recorder Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2002 Piano sonata no 10 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2003 Piano sonata no. 11 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2004 Piano sonata no 9 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2003 Piano sonata no 8 Mt Lawley: Keys Press 2002 Postcards from Perth for piano solo Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2004 Reverie for string orchestra opus 30 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2002 Rhapsonata for piano solo Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2003 Sinistral studies four pieces for piano left hand Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2003 Solitaire for solo piano Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2002 Sonata for flute and piano opus 56 Mt Lawley:Keys Press 2004

ANDERSON, Ewan Global geopolitical flashpoints: an atlas of conflict London:TSO 2003 International boundaries - a geophysical atlas London:TSO 2003 ATKINSON, Damian Dictionary of National Biography 2004: entries for Cust,Jerome, Keary, Parker, Payn, Pugh, Warburton Oxford:Oxford University Press 2004 BENBOW, Colin H The 375th anmversary of Parliamentary institutions in Bermuda Bermuda 2004 revised reprinting BORTHWICK, Alistair et al 'Boussinesq modelling of wavegroup propagation over a shallow shoal and the release of second order and higher harmonics', Coastal Engineering 2004 'Chaotic mixing in a basin due to a sinusoidal wind field', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 47 2005 'Finite-volume-type VOF method on dynamically adaptive quadtree grids', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 45 2004 'Kinematics of a focused wave group on a plane beach: physical modeling in the UK Coastal Research Facility', Coastal Structures 2003 'Linear wave propagation on an adaptive quad-tree cut-cell grid', Coastal Engineering 2004 15

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ZIZZO, Franco Die Unikative: G. Maccari Poesie/ Gedichte np:nd ZIZZO, Franco (writing as Ettore Ghibellino) Goethe und Anna Amalia - articles np:nd Goethe und Anna Amalia - including map np:nd More strongly than ever before, the gifts to the main Library have reflected the tenor of the times. As he does each year Professor John HATTENDORF has donated to the Emden Collection of Naval, Military and Intelligence History various US Naval War College Newport Papers, all of which dealt in some way with terrorism and the US Navy's role in policing the seas. The Emden Collection also received Professor Sir Adam ROBERTS' article 'The "War on Terror" in historical perspective', which was taken from his 2004 Emden Lecture. To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II, Aularian A. K. BARTON, who has already given us a fine collection of World War I postcards, added several more. At a time when Africa is much in the news, Ailsa CROFT, a previous

Library Assistant, donated a copy of De Waal's book on food and power in the Sudan. Aularians who have donated to the Library's holdings are Jacquetta BLACKER (medicine and biochemistry), Hilary DAVIES (English literature), Andrew DICKINSON (contract law and international law), ]. P. D. DUNBABIN (history and politics), Deborah EATON (Margery Spring Rice: Working-class wives), Alan FLANDERS (book royalties), Kieran GALLIARD (music and French), John-Paul HOLMES (his own Ouzelsong), D. A. KINSLEY (Smith's book on The Development of organic chemistry at Oxford), Harry LAWSON (various French texts), Michael MINGOS (his yearly gift of Chemistry books), Lucy NEWLYN (English literary criticism), Alan PICKETT (his book of poetry, Relationships), D. A. POSTLES (three large boxes of almost 150 current books on English history and agricultural history), Andrew ROBINSON (several Oxford Chemistry primers), and Renee WILLIAMS (our one missing volume in the series Les grands auteurs francais: LAGARDE XXie siecle). There was in addition a vast array of books given anonymously by students after finishing their exams.

We also received donations from the BRITISH LIBRARY, M. Z. FARRUKH, HERMIT KINGDOM PRESS, Chris NICHOLSON, OXFORD FORUM, the QUEEN'S ENGLISH SOCIETY, the SUFI TRUST, and Graham TOWL.

FROM THE BURSAR When people ask, what have we been doing during the past year, I think "Ethos Committee". No, this is not a working party for the philosophers (though Justin Gosling and Stephen Blarney did perk up when it was mentioned- but they soon lost interest!), it is a committee set up to look at various aspects of the way the College presents itself. Not unnaturally, there have been consequences of its deliberations that have impinged upon the College Support Staff. There has been much examination of the ways in which the College could be brought into better shape and, in short, look more spritely. The staff response was, from the outset, helpful and much has been achieved in the little things that make such a difference to the impact that is made upon visitors: the scruffy bike rack outside the College has been removed as has most of the display for College mementoes, to house a montage about the College itself. Plans are being implemented to clean up the gruesome entrance from the High Street and the general unsightly aspect at the rear of the kitchens. In all, we feel that the College has had a "spring clean" , none too early! Turning to staff matters, I regret to report the sad deaths of Ron Hambridge, husband of College Scout, Remy, and the very recent passing of Bursar's Secretary, Rachel Cable's mother. We congratulate Mary Lye from the College Office, on the birth of her daughter, Rosie, and SCR Butler, Sam Green on the arrival of his daughter, Robertha. The Head Porter David Beeching is now back in harness after a couple of months' absence with his heart bypass operation. The Librarian, Deborah Hayward Ea ton, is Âˇslowly recovering her agility after months of painful recuperation following attention to an old back injury. Susan McCarthy has been appointed Functions Manager and will take up this new post at the beginning of the new academic year in October. Mrs McCarthy comes to us with a wealth of relevant experience in the hotel trade; she was formerly Functions Manager at the Four Pillars, a large central Oxford hotel. It has become evident in recent years that such is our critical conference and functions business, that the College now needs to have the vast business overseen by a professionally qualified manager. The new post will be under

the wing of the Assistant Bursar and will embrace functions in and out of term, and new business, including what we hope will be civil weddings, see later. Having tidied-up the High Street frontage, all seems to be safe and sound after the alarming loss of a couple of windows in high winds last year. Unfortunately, the heating in the Wolfson Hall has decided to give up the ghost, so new radiators are to be fitted soon with adjustments to the grilles: doesn't sound much, but actually a fairly high profile job. The Ethos Committee hopes, too, that something may be possible to improve the general appearance of the Hall. By the time the magazine is published, the Librarian's new office will have been constructed in the West end of the Library; work has begun, but, as is always the case with such buildings, much time is spent in actually obtaining the permissions necessary to make any adjustments. The old lovable Librarian's (read that as you will ...) Office was condemned as unsafe from a health and safety point of view, its winding-stair-access being far too tortuous these days. Further afield, in Norham Gardens, the Gunfield flat, (which houses the Resident Fellow for Norham St Edmund) is to undergo long-overdue alterations to produce a teaching room for Maria Kai."ka, Tutorial Fellow in Geography; there are also replacements to bathrooms and the boilers at 17 Norham Gardens.

Getting Married? Try Teddy Hall! The College has recently been granted a Civil Functions Licence- the first to an Oxford College -which will permit civil ceremonies - marriages, naming ceremonies, British nationality ceremonies etc to be carried out in certain key rooms on the main site, the Old Dining Hall, etc. It is to be hoped that this will prove to be a lucrative source of income, for the College is uniquely equipped to provide the whole package: dress hire, flowers, banqueting, overnight accommodation and all. As you can see, great fun was had by all at the recent photo-shoot for the brochure. The College Chapel has always been available, under certain conditions, for the marriage of Aularians, but this facility will widen the possibilities for

those who do not wish to have a religious ceremony. Of course, a Chapel blessing for the ceremony will continue to be an option that the Chaplain is happy to offer.

THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM In October and November 2004, Alistair Borthwick visited China, and attended a conference on river sedimentation at Yichang, and visited Peking and Dalian Universities. A highlight of the visit was a trip to Dandong, on the border with North Korea. In March 2005, Alistair was appointed as Oxford University's representative to the Court of Cranfield University. In July 2005, Alistair presented a paper on tsunami run-up on beaches at the Waves2005 Conference in Madrid. The weather in Madrid was about 40 oc; hotter than the average Governing Body Meeting!

Peter Collins has been conducting his mathematics purely in Oxford this year: no conferences, but colleagues at Monday night buffet suppers in the Senior Common Room have been subjected to seminar visitors from four continents. Travel abroad has been for reasons of heritage- Europa Nostra Council Meetings iri the Hague and Bergen Qune sunset at 1 a.m.)- and of

pleasure. For those wishing to combine the joys of the Viennese classics and alpine walks amongst meadows filled with wild flowers, he recommends the Schubertiade music festival in the Bregenzerwald of western Austria. Though he will continue to run his research group and seminar in the Mathematical Institute, Dr Collins's retirement from College teaching has meant his evacuation of the Front Quad room he has occupied for thirty-seven years: he claims to be shredding for Europe. In addition to reading in the Old Dining Hall, Kevin CrossleyHolland has spoken at the Barbican library, Chelmsford Cathedral (in celebration of Said Cedd), Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Royal Festival Hall (an event interrupted by fans of Beyonce unpersuaded of the virtues of literary translation) and at StoryQuest in the Royal Albert Hall. His overseas speaking engagements have taken him to Belfast, Goteborg, Lisbon and the Serendipity Children's Literature Conference in Vancouver, followed by a tour of Western Canada. He has recorded a selection of his poems for The Poetry Archive (soon to be released on CD) and has been one of the poets featured in Oxford Todqy. He was one of the judges for the Whitbread Prize, (pictured third from left with (back row) Roy Hattersley, Michael Portillo MP, Mariella Frostrup, Sir Trevor McDonald, Hugh Grant and (front row) Joanne Harris, Jenny Colgan and Lavinia Greenlaw). Last October, Kevin and his wife Linda moved a full mile to an unconverted hillside barn outside Burnham Market, in Norfolk. His daughter Oenone has just graduated and informs her father that, one day, her children will become third-generation Aularians! Following the energetic and very dusty evacuation of his room at the top of the Library tower, John Dunbabin embarked on retirement, as did Jean. It has been nice to be able to take fine days off to go on excursions; and he has 24

noticed that he is sleeping more and taking longer over lunch. But as they are both trying to write, retirement has so far been rather like sabbatical leave. It has also been rather North American. They had a splendid visit last summer to the Canadian Rockies, followed by time on Vancouver Island. The continent was MUCH colder in February, when John made a flying visit to the archives in Maine and Washington. And they spent two months this spring at the Newberry Library, Chicago - now a very green city with an attractive combination of skyscrapers, tulips, and Lake. John and Jean hope to take a bicycling and other holiday in northern Italy in late September; and have just booked their tickets to go next January to a 'Rellie Rally' gathering of the Dunbabin clan just outside Hobart, Tasmania.

Justin Gosling has produced an article for a retirement volume for a French professor, which, if intelligible to the editors, should be published next year. Margaret's hopes of returning to local history have been frustrated by a driver who knocked her off her bicycle, causing severe concussion. She should make a full recovery, but it is a slow business. Professor Roy Harris read papers at the third international conference of the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication at the University of Birmingham, and at a workshop in 'The concept of language in the academic disciplines' in Berlin. His book The Semantics rif Science was published in June by continuum. He continues to edit the journal Language & Communication. Having become a liability on the cricket field, he has now taken up bowls and his vocabulary has expanded accordingly.

Sir Peter Hirsch FRS, Professor Emeritus, celebrated his 80th birthday in January at a supposedly "small informal party", organised by Steve Roberts, to which 150 or so turned up in the end! He has also been elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Vice-Principal, Professor John Knight, attended international conferences in Cape Town, Beijing and Hangzhou, and gave a presentation on the Chinese economy in HM Treasury. His book Towards a Labour Market in China was published by Oxford University Press. He entered three oil paintings in the Hall's annual art exhibition, and in an after-dinner talk to the Middle Common Room posed the question: "Will China be the next economic superpower?"

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, Bruce Mitchell's life passes quietly away, undiversified by events, especially since his fall in May. He has, however, contributed to Festschrifts in Japan and USA, has (with Susan Irvine) completed the last supplement to A Critical Bibliograpf?y ofO/d English Syntax, and (with Fred Robinson) is preparing the seventh edition of A guide to Old English. His autobiography will appear in a collection of autobiographies of Old and Middle English scholars to be published shortly in Japan. In June, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali had conferred on him the Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity, widely regarded as one of the highest academic awards in theology. He will also be delivering the Scott Holland Lectures in Oxford later this year, the theme of which will be Theology and World Order. The second volume of Synergies (co-edited by Lucy Newlyn and Jenny Lewis, and featuring poetry by SEH undergraduates reading English) was launched at Blackwell's in the Autumn. Lucy's edition of Edward Thomas's O:xford came out with Signal in time for Christmas. At the end of Hilary term, she eo-organised a conference on "Edward Thomas and contemporary poetry", the proceedings of which will be published by Enitharmon in 2007. The summer term was dominated by examining in the Final Honour School, with little time for writerly diversions. However, in June, her first collection of poems, Ginnel, came out with Carcanet. Following its publication, Lucy has done readings in the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Manchester Public Library. Poems from the collection appeared in The Guardian and The Independent during July; and the book also featured in Woman~ Hour on Radio Four. During Michaelmas term, when she is on sabbatical, Lucy will be working on a scholarly edition of Edward Thomas's prose, and a comparative study of Thomas and Hardy. She has been made an Honorary Professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

David Pettifor received the CBE for services to science in the Queen's Birthday Honours, in June. He is pictured here with his wife, Di Gold, and a colleague from the Physics Department, Professor David Sherrington FRS, at a celebratory party held in the Materials Department.

David Tindle had a one-man show at the Redfern Gallery, Cork Street, London tn February, the subject of which was My Cinderella, and he also exhibited six works tn the Royal Academy Summer Show.

DAVID TINDLE RA b.1932 Portrait of Cinderella

2004 Egg tempera on panel 26.2 x 18 cm Signed, dated and titled on reverse Cinderella Series No

18 (Group 2). Numbered 2

Dimitri Tsomocos has had a productive year in more ways than one. He has had a number of articles refereed: has published "Modelling Institutional Change in the Payments System and its Implications for Monetary Policy", (with FH Capie and GE Wood), in Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Change and the Impact of Monetary Policy, edited by S Schmitz and GE Wood, Routledge, 2005: and has attended the following conferences and seminars- Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; Bank of England, London; Bank of Norway, Oslo; Brown University, Providence; Conference in Honour of Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, LSE, London; 3rd Conference in Research in Econometrics and Economic Theory, Syros; 6th CSAET, Rhodes; ECOMOD-IIOA Conference, Brussels; EEA, Madrid; 57th International Banking Summer School, Kos; LBS-LSE-Oxford Workshop in Corporate 27

Finance, Oxford; Purdue University, Lafayette; Sabanci University, Istanbul; Society of Economic Design Conference, Mallorca; University of Athens, Athens; University of Birmingham, Birmingham; University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Oxford; 1st CARESS-COWLES Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications, Yale University, New Haven; CSAET, Vigo. Most importantly, he and Tatiana celebrated the arrival of their first son, Aris-Panayotis, on 31 January.

Robert Wilkins advises that, in a new initiative, pre-clinical and clinical medical students and tutors have been meeting once a term for speaker evenings, followed by a social gathering. Designed to integrate students at different stages of their medical education, speakers have addressed the opportunities which await post-qualification. Events have been held at the Radcliffe Infirmary, the John Radcliffe Hospital and within St Edmund Hall. In Michaelmas Term, Martin Burton (SEH 1980, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Radcliffe Infirmary) recounted his experiences after leaving St Edmund Hall to illustrate how to establish a successful career in surgery. In Hilary Term John Black, Emergency Medicine Consultant, John Radcliffe Hospital and Lecturer in Anatomy, provided a personal perspective on the role of a military field hospital on an operational deployment. Finally, in Trinity Term the annual Medics' Dinner was preceded by a presentation by Paul Johnson (Reader and Consultant in Paediatric Surgery, Fellow by Special Election) on the challenges of neonatal surgery. In October 2004 Derrick Wyatt presented a paper at a conference held in Zagreb on national constitutional influences in Europe, entitled "Why the Charter of Fundamental Rights is controversial in the United Kingdom". Also in October he represented the United Kingdom in proceedings before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg concerning the disputed application of the European Atomic Energy Treaty to the decommissioning of the naval nuclear reactor "Jason" (the European Court upheld the UK's position). In December 2004 Derrick gave oral evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee on the proposed monitoring of subsidiarity by National Parliaments under the draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe. In February 2005 he was nominated by the Cyprus Government to attend the Foreign Office-organised Wilton Park Conference in Cyprus on the future of Cyprus, and chaired a working group on European legal frameworks for assistance to the north of Cyprus. In early May he gave a Law Faculty Oxford Alumni lecture at the offices of Alien & Overy, the city law firm entitled 28

"Trade, Tax and Take-overs - Can the European Court de-regulate Europe despite resistance from the Council and Parliament?". In late May he addressed the Bar European Group's annual conference, held in Limassol, Cyprus, and presented a paper entitled "Freedom of Movement, Market Access, and Internal Market de-regulation".

Blair Worden spent the spring of this year as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Sir David Yardley presided as Chairman of the Oklahoma Oxford Law Programme, July 2005. He also continued as Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust, and as Chairman of the Examinations and Assessment Board of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation. He has now completed his term as Independent Complaints Reviewer for the Millennium Commission, but was appointed from 1 April 2005, for one year, as Independent Reviewer of complaints to all the UK Lottery Distributors (though he will not deal with complaints against the Heritage Lottery Fund because the Oxford Preservation Trust has contractual relations with the HLF).

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM The 2004-2005 academic year at St Edmund Hall began with the matriculation of a lively, enthusiastic, and international group of post-graduate students. Led by the MCR Committee with Michael Griebe as President, Sarah Fine as Secretary,Jennifer Chung as Steward, Cannon Dear as Welfare Officer, Almut Sprigade as Women's Officer, and Michael's wife, Rebecca Gordon as an equally hardworking albeit unofficial member, Teddy Hall welcomed this bright new group of MCR members. This year's MCR established its supportive nature, cohesion as a unit, and enthusiasm for attending college events from the very beginning. External, internal, and unofficial events enjoyed strong turnouts and legendary memories. Michaelmas Term found us celebrating long-standing traditions such as the Medieval Feast, complete with costumes, juggling, and storytelling. The Christmas Dinner and Bop ended the term with a bang. We also enjoyed new events, for example, a gloriously memorable wine and cheese night in the MCR, a Halloween party, a Dessert Night featuring Principal Mingos, as well as bombarding other colleges for exchange events. Hilary Term's Burns' Night was celebrated with endless bottles of Scotch, Haggis, and a bagpiper, and the annual Hilary Term Bop featured the new D)-in-residence, Cynan Houghton. Meanwhile, we continued to flood other colleges for external events, even triggering feelings of envy from our out-of-college peers, due to our cohesion and enthusiasm. During Trinity Term we had our annual dinner and hop, and hosted a lively Garden Party. Throughout the academic year, High Teas, Formal Halls, and Cake Mornings were always overflowing with people. The extremely supportive and enthusiastic nature of this year's group extended outside the college walls. Birthday and viva celebrations, for example, were always well-attended by a lively group from the MCR. Spontaneous games nights and pizza consumption filled the common room with spirited energy. Students also organised unofficial gatherings amongst themselves, such as Fondue Nights, Thanksgiving Dinners and Easter Brunches. Furthermore, we had many seeking Teddy Hall MCR citizenship. Former members, partners of current members, mature JCR students, and Oxford residents increased the diversity of the group, adding an .even more vivacious element to our already dynamic community.

The MCR, brimming with academic talent, also enjoyed scholarship and prize winning. Most notably, Katherine Lim won many fellowships and awards, both within the University and externally, to add to her already extensive collection. Artistic and musical talent also emanated from our walls. Robyn Carpenter played violin for the University Orchestra. Together with Robyn, cellist Luba Mandzy and violist Rebecca Gordon joined forces with violinist and Tutor for Graduates, Professor Basil Kouvaritakis for string quartet performances. Welfare Officer Cannon Dear sang with the Teddy Hall Choir, and Steward J ennifer Chung also sang with a choir, but uncharacteristically at another college. During Arts Week, the exhibition in the JCR Party Room featured entries from some MCR members. Trista di Genova even made a short ftlm about the annual art show. Athletic talent was much in evidence too: Olivier Noterdaeme held the presidency of the University's Judo Club. The annual Teddy Hall Relays were organised by Patrick Wallace, also the future captain of the University Cross Country Club. Mark Potter, Tom Worth, Cara Krmpotich, Suzy Styles, Marcin Piechocki, and Cynan Houghton all participated in the Relays. Many members also came to support their friends and to help run the relays. The Teddy Hall MCR also had the distinction of having a member in each of the boats for Summer Eights'. Cannon Dear and Davis Cherry rowed for the men's third VIII, Marty Rust in the second boat, and Tom Worth and Mark Potter in the first boat. Cara Krmpotich rowed for the women's third boat, Michelle Manzi and Suzy Styles in the second boat, and Emily WinfieldDigby in the women's first boat. True to form, many MCR members came to the river to support their peers. In addition to hardworking committee members, others put in time and effort to improve both the college and the MCR. Most notably, Cara Krmpotich and Kiran Rajashekariah ran a study to better understand the fmancial needs of Teddy Hall post-graduate students. Rebecca Gordon made an excellent website for the MCR, which hopefully will provide a strong foundation for years to come. The MCR of the 2004-2005 academic year, quite apart from the aforementioned fine achievements and extraordinary events, was simply a warm and welcoming place for St Edmund Hall's post-graduate students. Every day members enjoy~d conversation with our Butler, Julie McCann, cups of tea and coffee, crossword puzzles, and excellent company. Next 31

year's committee consisting of Jennifer Chung as President, Scot Peterson as Secretary, Marty Rust as Steward, Isabel Garcia-Hermosa as Welfare Officer, and Suzy Styles as Women's Officer hope to continue and even improve upon this fantastic year and see both St Edmund Hall and its MCR flourish. We must extend our thanks to Principal Michael Mingos for running our college so well, Professor Basil Kouvaritakis for overseeing our needs as Tutor for Graduates, and Butler Julie McCann for taking such good care of us and making the MCR such a warm and friendly environment.

Floreat Aula! ] ennifer Chung (2004)

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Yet another year is at an end: 20045 has certainly been an exciting and busy year for the J CR. We've had our usual assortment of events in the JCR: the college bops continue to be very popular within the University, particularly so for our "Cartoon Characters" Bop in Hilary Term. Once again, the JCR Social Secretary successfully organised with three other colleges the famous Boat Party in London, particularly attended by the First Years. We held the College Ball, "The Lost Generation" in May, which sold out and was truly a superb evening congratulations for all the hard work put in by the Ball Committee. Nevertheless, the JCR has also been very active, with new ideas: we have now permanently installed a new breakfast system in the Hall, and have organised to sell Fair Trade products in the Grotto. As well, we have created a JCR Oscars Ceremony, with categories such as "Sporting Obsession", "Couch Potato" and "Quote of the Year"! For more serious issues, the JCR recently voted a policy against using Coca-Cola products in all JCR events,

and re-aff1rmed its wish to keep smoking banned in the J CR. Finally, we now own our very own J CR Punt, which I'm sure will bring much enjoyment and delight to future generations of students! The Hall has performed extremely well both artistically and sportingly over the previous year. An acclaimed production of Pygmalion was organised by the John Oldham Drama Society in Michaelmas Term, and a play written and produced by Teddy Hall undergraduates, To Bloom, was performed at the Edinburgh Festival over the Summer. The Music Society has also been working hard, producing various high-quality concerts and recitals performed throughout the year. I would like to congratulate all the sports captains and teams who worked hard to keep the Hall in their rightful place at the top of the sporting pile. The Rugby team continued in their sporting endeavour, coming second in the League, and winning Cuppers in Trinity Term. Women's Hockey also finished triumphantly, winning the Cuppers' Final. Our women's Football team for the first time ever became Cuppers Finalists, only narrowly losing to New College. As well, after a very successful season, the Teddy Hall Men's Cricket Team finished Cuppers Finalists. On the river, the women's 1st crew maintained their high standards from last year, winning blades in Torpids and moving up to the First Division. During Eights', boosted by two returning blues, they bumped up and are now classed second on the river, an historic achievement for the Hall. Alongside this, the women's 2nd crew also won blades taking four bumps before the Gut every day! Thanks to a delightful Garden Party organised by the Development Office, many parents were able to come and experience this triumphant Eights' week firsthand, entertained by the Syndicate, who celebrated their 20 years of dancing tradition; it was great fun to see the return of ex-Syndicate members in costume. Finally, the JCR would like to extent many thanks to all those who have assisted in making this year at the Hall what it has been. We remain very grateful to all the JCR Committee for their hard work and dedication. Also, best wishes to our JCR Butler, Pam, who has taken her final bow. Last but not least, many thanks to the undergraduates leaving Teddy Hall for their many contributions to the community, and we wish them all the best in their future commitments. Floreat Aula! Celine Tricard (2003) 33

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Association Football Club Men~ Captain (1st XI): Jack Merriott Men~ Captain (2nd XI): Andrew Olsen Men~ Captain (Jrd XI): Rory Ashmore Women~ Captain: Joanna Buick The Men~ 1st XI Captain~ Report Emotionally, the football team has run the proverbial gauntlet this season. How does one judge a team which has experienced the initial low of scrounging only 2 points from the first 6 games of the season, one of which was a 9-1 apocalypse at Oriel, the high of a mid-season run of 1 defeat in 8 games, which brought us to within touching distance of promotion, then 2 incomprehensible defeats, and the relegation battle it heralded, and finally the 2 most assured wins of the season, which have confirmed our status in the first division for next season? Mistaken identity has been the major factor; the whole season spent seemingly confused as to whether we are punt-it mavericks making the best of a bad situation or powerful exponents of the beautiful game - misfiring or misunderstood? However, from out of that confusion: catharsis. Every man has grown from the highs and lows we have experienced together and so, whatever the final statistics may say, the bottom line is, 'What price selfknowledge?' Football transcends reality, for what is the value, in real terms, of the blood we sweat for 90 minutes? A season should not necessarily be judged on the material results but on the emotional fallout. If that is the case then we are all winners.

The Men~ 2nd XI Captain~ Report It was always going to be a tough task following the success of the previous season, having tasted the glory of winning promotion to the top flight and winning Cuppers. And this was made particularly tricky by the loss of almost half of that team (apparently they felt that getting a job was more important!?!) However, the new crop of freshers was eager to prove themselves, and it was not long before they were having an impact on the team. Stars included next year's captain Rory Ashmore, the defensive rock that was Russell Martin, and Midfield maestros J ames Hogan, Carl Jones, Jack Furniss and Ed Morse. It was, however, to be a difficult season. After just one win in the opening

five games, it seemed we were destined for a relegation tussle. And it seemed things were not to get much better, as we suffered from a glut of injuries and absences. By Christmas, the team were second from bottom, staring down the barrel of the gun. Things were not all bad however, as, in the meantime, we were producing an exciting Cuppers run in which we saw off the attention of the old rugby rivals St Peter's, and Hertford, before eventually succumbing to the eventual winners Worcester in an extremely close match which ultimately could only be decided by the lottery that is penalties. Worcester, on their way to the final, would not come up against a greater challenge. After Christmas, things took a turn for the better. The valiant cup run led to greater team confidence, and the welcome return of several key players resulted in a small revival. After a draw with Lady Margaret Hall, the team was boosted by the concessions of both Hertford and Worcester. With just two games left it became apparent that one point would be all that was needed to avoid relegation. However, after a disappointing display against Christ Church, it seemed the season would be going down to the wire. With just one point needed against Keble, who were challenging at the top of the league, the team produced one of the best performances of the season, and were unlucky not to go away with all three points after a late goal. In the end however, the Hall spirit shone through and the requisite point was earned. St Edmund Hall 2nd XI lived to fight another season in the top flight.

The Men's Jrd XI Captain's Report What a ride! After a miserable Michaelmas our New Year surge up the table began stunningly with an 11-2 trouncing of Brasenose, Ed Beckett hitting the net four times. It was followed by a convincing 4-1 defeat of Lincoln 11 before our crucial trip to Hertford Ill. Following a blistering first half our 31 lead evaporated and we succumbed disastrously by 4 goals to 3. Our redoubled efforts in the next fixture at Pembroke Ill recorded our first (and only) away victory of the season. A score-line of 5-1 was rounded off by a thunderous spot kick from Andy Keech. Our receipt of a free three points thanks to St. John's II's concession then set up what was, effectively, a promotion play-off against St. Peter's 11. Having started well in this decisive clash, tired legs and our depleted ranks took their toll as we shipped five first-half goals. Still, we regained a lot of pride in a determined second half,

which we won 1-0. Our steely performance, epitomised by the indomitable Ruth Brooker, showed that we could hold our own in a higher division. The Teddy Hall 3rd XI season provided plenty of memories, if not quite the promotion that most of our performances merited. I am making a tearful departure to take over the 2nd XI captaincy next year so I pass on my best wishes to whoever picks up the mantle. Finally and most importantly I would like to say a huge thank you to all those involved in the Thirds under my captaincy. Everyone has played their part. They are as follows: William Stevens, Jack Furniss, Carl J ones, Edward Morse, Niall Howell-Evans, Oliver Wallis, Adedamola Fadipe, Thomas Buttress, Ruth Brooker, Edward Beckett, Mark Dickinson, Inaamul Laher; Adam Peacock, Sarah Filby, Sanjay Shah, Sebastian Pasteiner, Yat 'Teddy' To, Russell Martin, J ames Hogan. Come on Hall!

The Athletics Club Captain: Zoe Barber Once again, the Hall has done well on the Athletics front, with some keen new Freshers adding to our existing talent and ensuring that Teddy Hall is well-represented at university level. James Hogan and Agatha Fox both represented Oxford in the Freshers' Varsity match in Trinity term, in which an athlete can only compete if they have not represented Oxford before. Having only trained for a short time, Agatha ran extremely well in both the 100mH and 400mH, and James ran strongly to win the 800m convincingly, backed up with a 3rd in the 1500m, though sadly he could not compete in the Varsity match due to illness. Danielle Fidge and Zoe Barber continued their successes from last year in the high jump and 800m respectively and competed against Cambridge in an extremely close-fought Varsity match, as well as both competing well at a very wet and windy BUSA Championships in Glasgow. Paddy Wallace also ran in the Varsity Match in one of his first 800m races, stepping up to the team at the last minute. Danielle and Zoe sat on the OUAC committee as Press Secretary and Women's Vice Captain respectively, while Paddy Wallace will be the President of OUCCC for the cormng year.

Our onslaught on the termly Cuppers competitions was sadly not as strong as it could have been due to a last-minute lack of enthusiasm but, along with our rugby team, I'm sure that next year we can take on the mighty Trinity, who once again dominated the competition. We continue to have dedicated athletes who do Teddy Hall proud, and hopefully an intake of enthusiastic Freshers will maintain this next year.

The Badminton Club Mens Captain: Richard Good Women s Captain: Lucy Armitage Badminton may not be a high profile sport at Teddy Hall, but the informal sessions that are held on a weekly basis are always well supported. A wide range of standards is evident but the sessions give the opportunity for a few games to all in college and create a sociable, relaxed atmosphere. The college league and Cuppers displayed mixed results for the ladies' and men's teams. Due to an unfortunate administrative error in the league tables, the men's and ladies' positions were mistaken so that the men's team found themselves in a higher group and the ladies' in a lower division than the previous year's results would have determined. As a result, the men's team struggled and never managed to fulfil its potential, but the ladies enjoyed a succession of triumphs, rightfully finishing top in division two, unbeaten and promoted to division one for next year. In the Cuppers tournament both teams suffered defeat at the hands of Merton-Mansfield; the men bowed out in the early stages and the women were challenged by the University Club Captain in the semi-final having successfully defeated Hertford in the quarterfinal. Both teams finish the year in the divisions they ought to have occupied at the beginning of the year and look forward to some more evenly matched opposition and more exciting games next year.

The Boat Club Mens Captain: Richard Callow Women s Captain: Rachael Horton

The Mens Captains Report The men's boat club began the year with the two main aims of continuing our recent rises up the 2nd division in Torpids and consolidating our reputation as one of the top men's crews in Eights'. The unusual combination of a 37

strong influx of novices and mostly dry weather in Michaelmas term helped to build up a strong squad of novices; with two boats competing in Christ Church Regatta at the end of Michaelmas term, the determined "B" crew reached the 2nd round and the fast ''N.' crew made it to the quarter finals before being controversially disqualified having won their race convincingly! The arrival of two experienced American oarsmen as visiting students and the return of several of last year's 1st VIII was a boost to the senior squad, which competed regularly on the Isis and in the Fours Head in London. The luxury of two permanent coaches for the men's boats was essential in the development of the men's squads this year. Former South African international coach, Barry Banks worked throughout the year with the 1st boat to create a lightweight but experienced, determined and aggressive crew. Martin Cooles (from Trinity College) coached the 2nd eight and took a crew of virtual novices to being the 5th highest 2nd eight on the river. A 6-day training camp at the Oratory School near Reading in Oth week of Hilary acted as coaching for novices before the final Torpids were selected. The 1st Torpid trained at Godstow to allow longer outings on quieter water than the Isis, although the frosty starts were unfortunately no more pleasant! Training was the priority of the term but Bedford Head was invaluable race preparation, where despite hitting a bridge, a swan and catching a crab the times were very competitive with Torpids rivals. The start of Torpids brought freezing conditions to Oxford, which persisted for most of the week. Additional coaching from two former Men's Captains gave the crew the aggression and determination they perhaps lacked up until then. Starting Wednesday at 3rd in the 2nd division the crew was confident of catching Univ, although this was not to be. An incident in the gut involving a crab, a tree, a wall and a hole in the bow resulted in the crew being bumped by nine crews. The crew was confident and even a boat repaired using a plastic bottle and duck tape was not going to stop them from making bumps on the next three days! Thursday saw the crew row over in a very damaged boat coming very close to overbumping Merton. Justice was done on Friday when Merton were bumped just after Donnington Bridge. On Saturday the crew produced the row of the week, to excitingly overbump St Peter's when they were partially across the finish line. The 2nd Torpid, rowing in the 4th division rowed strongly throughout the week, but were on the wrong side of several bump disputes (one dispute lasting over 14 hours!), perhaps unfairly

ending the week minus 2. Preparation for Summer Eights began in the Easter vacation with an 8-day training camp to Sabaudia in Italy under the coaching of South African international Lindsay Cretchley. The improvement made during the camp was astounding, with the crew making great strides in both power and technique. The success of the camp was taken back to Godstow. Tom Worth who was in last year's 1st VIII, rowed with the University Lightweights this year but returned to stroke the Hall 1st VIII, adding further speed to the boat. The first regatta of the term was Evesham, where the Hall won both senior 3 and 4 categories. Races in training against Univ and Worcester further showed the potential for Eights' week. Bedford Regatta gave the last race preparation and wins against college opposition left the crew in buoyant mood going into Eights', knowing they had the speed to take on any crew in the 1st division. Starting Eights' week 7th on the river is a challenging position for any crew, especially one which many people had written off after Torpids. Chasing a fast Balliol on Wednesday was a tough challenge, as they bumped New College on the green bank. Lower in the division saw a highly-rated Hertford being bumped in 30 strokes by an impressive Christ Church crew containing 2 Olympians, and a collection of Blues and lightweights. Thursday saw the Christ Church crew starting behind the Hall, whose speed and determination was shown by holding off this crew until the end of the green bank. This was the furthest Christ Church were made to row on their way to blades. On Friday the 1st VIII rowed over as Christ Church again bumped out and left a start behind New College on the Saturday. The crew produced the best row of the entire year to get within half a length of New College and push them hard all the way to the end, but just not quite enough to make the bump. The 1st VIII ended the week 8th on the river, having been bumped only by a crew of blues and Olympians, which shows the benefits of regular coaching and solid race preparation for what was a relatively lightweight, but determined crew. The 2nd VIII had a successful Eights' week starting 2nd in the 4th division. After a row over behind Keble II on Wednesday they bumped Exeter II, New II and Oriel II on the next three days, to leave them 11th in the 3rd division, which is the 5th highest second crew on the river. This great position can hopefully be built on and consolidated in the coming years. The importance

of the 2nd VIII in developing talent for the future was shown this year by the presence of 4 former 2nd VIII rowers now in the top boat. Well done to the 2nd VIII on their success!

1st VIII Stroke: Thomas Worth 7: Michael Streule 6: Richard Callow 5: Michael Lavoie 4: Andrew Smye 3: Joshua Elder 2: Alexander Groves Bow: Mark Potter 2nd VIII Stroke: Michael Kember 7: William Wholey 6: Thomas Farthing 5: Christopher Harding 4: Martin Rust 3: Matthew Moorhead 2: David Allen Bow: Crispian Wilson First Eight colours were awarded to Tom Worth, Alex Groves and Richard Callow. The members of SEHBC would like to thank the Friends of the Boat Club, whose continued support means that SEHBC can continue to provide the highest quality equipment and coaching to ensure that rowing at the Hall will continue to flourish both now and in future years.

The Womens Captains Report This year has once again been very successful for the women rowers of Teddy Hall. A strong intake of freshers at the beginning of Michaelmas brought a lot of new talent and skill to the club and the first term was spent training up and collecting together good crews for the coming year. Michaelmas culminated in Christ Church Regatta, where our novice rowers showed off their hard work. Two crews were entered, the 2nd crew unfortunately being knocked out on the first day in a close race with Worcester 1st crew, and our 1st crew progressing all the way to the Friday. On the back of these successes we ran a training camp in February on the Tideway, London, taking 12 girls with us for a week of intense training in dreadful conditions. Hilary term and Torpids followed. Again, two crews were entered. The 2nds had an exciting competition, bumping on three of the days, being bumped on the other and ending up climbing 4 positions overall and moving up a division. The 1st crew followed last year's success by once again bumping everyday and finally making the transition from the second to the top division. This was a fantastic end to an extremely enjoyable term and I would like to congratulate all involved. As usual, the year had been building towards Eights' week of Trinity term. The term began with a very enjoyable and encouraging training camp which

took place in Sabaudia, Italy. The hard work continued back in Oxford, with three women's boats entered into Eights' from the Hall. All crews did very well. The 3rd crew qualified in a good time, unfortunately getting bumped every day, but performing very well considering they had only been able to train together for a couple of weeks previously. The 2nd crew performed magnificently, bumping everyday before the gut and winning a well deserved set of blades. The first crew, starting 3rd on the river, completed a brilliant set of results by bumping Pembroke on the second day and finishing second on the river after narrowly missing out on the headship, coming within a few feet of New College on the last day. This is the highest an SEH women's crew have been and everyone involved should be very proud of what they achieved. I would like to thank the rowers for their commitment, friendship and good humour throughout the year, I've really enjoyed it. Also, a huge vote of thanks to all who have coached us this year, Niall Haigh for the February training camp, and especially Richard Fishlock and John Robins on for all their work throughout the year and once again producing fantastic results. It's been a great year and I would like to wish the new captains the best of luck for the coming months.

The Choir Organ Scholars: David McCartney and David Alien The past year has been a busy one for the chapel choir, and yet they have performed at a consistently high standard throughout. Starting the year with quite a few fresh faces, we also have had four choral scholars in addition to around 12 other members. Alternating weekly between Evensong and Holy Communion, we were also involved in the special St Edmund's Day celebrations where the choir sang for Evensong and then entertained everyone at dinner, singing a selection of songs ranging from a sixteenth-century madrigal to the hit 'Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat' from 'Guys and Dolls'! On Remembrance Day the choir took part in an evening of poetry and music dedicated to those who have lost their lives in past world conflicts. At this event the choir sang a very moving piece, which was Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen' set to music by last year's organ scholar. The annual Advent service of lessons and carols was another popular evening with the chapel completely full. In Hilary term we were visited by the choir from our sister college in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, and we sang a joint service with a massive 40 voices.

The highlight of the service was the performance of Parry's rousing anthem 'I was Glad'. In Trinity term there was a joint celebration of Easter at the University Church where the choir joined with chapel choirs from throughout the university to sing in an Evensong in the beautiful building of St Mary's on the High Street. There have also been numerous concerts inside and out of college that members of the choir have performed at, including the regular concerts organised by the Music Society. We have exciting plans for next year, which include a visit to Worcester Cathedral where we hope to sing at Evensong. Sadly this year has been the last for a number of our singers, and so we bid them farewell and best wishes in the future - they will be greatly missed.

The Women's Cricket Club Captain: Laura McMullen This year saw the re-establishment of Teddy Hall Women's Cricket team, who enjoyed a surprisingly successful season. Although most of our members had never before picked up a cricket ball, after several practice sessions our reputation as sporting heroines shone through in our first round match against Hertford. The prospect of tanning and teas proved enough to tempt the eleven strong Teddy's girl team who happily participated in the on-field banter. After some tight fielding and wicked bowling Hertford were all out for 63, Kate Leyland and Helen Taylor then took to the wicket for the Hall in a solid partnership to notch up the required runs in a mere 9 overs. The group in which we found ourselves for Cuppers had some strong competition including Keble and Queens- both with a famous reputation in the college cricketing circle so we were lucky to face Hertford as a warm-up match. Following a walkover from Balliol, our third match against Keble proved to be a tougher proposition, requiring 21 overs of unpredictable and somewhat vicious Teddy Hall bowling to get them all out for 71. As Teddy Hall went in to bat opening striker Kate Leyland set the standard by scoring several boundaries before being unluckily bowled by the Keble captain. Captain Laura McMullen came on at number 3 and together with Agatha Fox showed a sturdy innings, winning the match by 10 overs, with 3 wickets in hand. The final match of our group was against Queens. A win against the twice Cuppers champions was essential to secure a place in the semi-finals, so anticipation was high within the Teddy Hall camp. After we opted to field 42

flrst the Queens' strikers looked solid in their approach but Teddy Hall rose to the occasion with some superb bowling and fielding, notably from hockey legend Sarah Sutton. Aside from the occasional upset, in particular their left handed batsmen, the Hall kept morale high and had our rivals bo~led out in no time with a significant, but attainable score of 86. This chase proved harder than originally thought as the experienced Queens' bowlers took several key Hall wickets early on. Agatha Fox displayed some superb defending in an impressive partnership with Kate Leyland who was forced to retire on 30 runs as dictated by the Cuppers rules. Just as our target was in sight we lost our penultimate wicket, resulting in Leyland being brought back on. With some jazzy displays of boundary bashing the required 12 runs were scored with 8 overs to spare, to the delight of the Hall team. Celebratory tea and Pimms was had by all before planning our appearance in the Cuppers semi-flnal the following weekend. Held in conjunction with the Atalantas Women's Sports Society BBQ, the Cuppers semi flnals and flnal day saw Teddy Hall drawn against Lady Margaret Hall. The absence of some of our regular players, combined with the presence of LMH's experienced bowlers, resulted in difficulty for the Teddy Hall bats to replicate the high run rate enjoyed in previous matches. After a brave effort from all involved our flnal score was 70 all out. Despite best efforts of bowling and fielding the luck was with LMH as they successfully chased our total and progressed to the flnal, leaving Teddy Hall in joint 3rd position. Although initially disappointed with the end result, it has been an altogether successful season for Teddy Hall Women's cricket - no-one expected our top-4 place. My thanks extend to Robin Fellerman, Umpire and coach for his commitment and reliability, together with the team for their enthusiasm and dedication and their unrivalled banter. With the return of some impressive players and under the captaincy of Joanna Stumper, 2006 promises to be an exciting season for Hall cricket!

The Cross Country Club Captain: J essica Leitch Although cross-country takes place at university level, St Edmund Hall has been very well represented within OUCCC this year. Our depth and ability have led to successful results in Cuppers and I am certain that the strength of 43

our current team will lead to the Hall's victory next year. Seven Teddy Hall students were selected to represent Oxford in the annual Varsity Match, the greatest number from any single college. A special mention must be made of James Hogan who was awarded a full Blue after competing in the Blues match on Wimbledon Common, an outstanding achievement for a first year undergraduate.

Cross-country Cuppers takes the form of a race in Michaelmas and Hilary term, each contributing to the final Cuppers result. In Michaelmas, Teddy Hall were the clear winners in the women's competition, 32 points ahead of Worcester who trailed in second place. The men came in third behind Worcester and Oriel. The race in Hilary saw victory for the men but unfortunately the women' s team was blighted by injury and failed to live up to its previous form. As a result, Worcester were cross country champions, narrowly beating the Hall who followed in second place. The renowned Teddy Hall relays took place in Hilary term and a special effort was made to ensure that the college was better represented than in

previous years. As a result, Teddy Hall entered seven teams, more than any other college and won prizes for the fastest mixed college team and the fastest women's boat club team. This was a great achievement and the fact that a large number of 'non-runners' were willing to participate emphasised the sporting prowess and college spirit for which the Hall is renowned.

The Hockey Club Men's Captain: Oliver Courtney Women's Captain: Sarah Sutton The Women's Captain's Report 2005 has marked a turning point for women's hockey at Teddy Hall. After years of being close but no cigar in Cuppers, the main challenge for the season was always going to be to overcome our arch-nemeses of Worcester and Queens to win the coveted (if surprisingly diminutive) trophy. In this mammoth task we were greatly helped by a number of new faces, ruthlessly bullied into playing by me and Jess at the Freshers Fair, but who, naturally, came to love wearing the fetching maroon and yellow quarters with time. Among them were, D yer-the-New-SchoolJoanna 'Strumpy' Sumpter; happy clappy Kate Leyland, our hope for the existence of sports for girls other than cheerleading; from across the pond, visiting student Maggie Hepp; the ruthless (stick) tackler Fay Dalby, and Cressy Holmes-Smith- super striker. When combined with the experience, wisdom, and beauty of the rest of the team, it was always going to be a potentially winning combination. Super. Despite an obviously talented and distinguished side, there were some teething troubles, but ultimately, what does the League stand for?! It was decided that at most, it was a warm-up for Cuppers, so our limited success didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. This conclusion was swiftly reached after playing 'where is the magically disappearing goalie (who may or may not be very hungover and still in bed RUTH EVANS)' and going on to lose 5-0 to Worcester, followed by losing 2-0 to arch-rivals Queens, and scraping a 2-1 victory over LMH/Trinity. Not good. However, in our defence it must be said that hectic night-time socialising can take its toll, and fielding teams of 6 without a goalkeeper is not always a recipe for success. Our Cuppers tournament got off to a better start, with a 4-0 win over a St Catz/SPC combined side (their keeper may have been a boy, and was not altogether familiar with the rules of the game, hence a healthy amount of 45

penalty flicks), and rather tighter victories of 1-0 over Magdalen and LMH/ Trinity once more. This led us to the highlight of the year .. . the Cuppers flnal, the pinnacle of sporting achievement, held against Worcester- the architects of our downfall last year. It was a flne day and the Teddy Hall ladies were on top form, welcoming back a long-lost 6th year medic in the shape of Jemma Rooker to help us on our way. It was a tight match, but with a rock solid defence of Jo S,Jo D,Jemma, Maggie and Katherine, a hearty midfleld of Amy, Fe, and Kate Leyland, and the dynamic forwards Jess, Fay, Cressy, Laura, and Rach, a goal eventually came in the second half from a textbook penalty corner, hammered home by none other than Jo Sumpter. Come full time, this made us, after six long years, Cuppers Champions!!! Hurrah!

Back row: jo Dyer, Laura McMullen, Rachel Adams, Jemma Rooker, Jo Sumpter, ]ess Long. Front Rmv: Cresry Holmes-Smith, Kale Leyland, Ftry Dal~, Sarah Sutton, Fe Ronald, Katheri1ze Hawkins Lying Down: Maggie Hepp

And so, it has been a good year for women's hockey, one that, like all good things, has sadly come to an end. As the Captain it has been a pleasure, and I like to think my dutifully prepared oranges at the sideline helped the team on their way to victory in some way. I am sad to say we are losing two of the pillars of the hockey community, Jo D and Jemma, without whom it may have been a very different story. Over to our new Captain, Kate Leyland, and her Deputy, Fay Dalby to build on this year's success - good luck! 46

The John Oldham Society President: J ennifer Rains ford Michaelmas term 2004 rang with the crooning of 'bilious pigeons' as Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion stole the affections of audiences and reviewers from Oxford and beyond. Extensive research into costumes and sets transformed the Old Dining Hall into a glorious parlour, full of the swishing of copious frocks and softly lit furnishings. Pygmalion was a complete sell-out, confirming the status of the newly rejuvenated John Oldham Society as a vital and vibrant college asset. The new President, Secretary and Treasurer embarked on their positions in May. Currently underway are the final preparations of a new play To Bloom, written by St Edmund Hall students Ted Hodgkinson and Jenny Rains ford. Booked for a two week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, To Bloom charts an evening in the life of a paranoid toy designer, nostalgic for the days when toys (and relationships) could be created simply. The play is accompanied by the especially composed music of London band Carmichaelwho join the actors, designers, producer, director, writer and stage manager from St Edmund Hall in their Edinburgh mission.

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a new play by Ted Hodgkinson + Jenny Rainsford

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Michaelmas term awaits more new writing from members of the college, as the John Oldham Society have advertised for the writing of a new play for the end-of-term production. Finally, if Aularians are unable to catch us at the Edinburgh Festival, To Bloom will be performed in the Old Dining Hall for one last time in second week of Michaelmas Term.

The Rugby Football Club Mens Captain: Paul Smith Women s Captain: Madeleine Chandler [Sadly, the Men's Captain did not submit his report for this year's magazine which, given another Cuppers triumph, seems rather baffling. However, for those who weren't at the Iffley Road stadium on 27 April we reproduce below Binyamin Even's report that appeared in Cherwe/1. Ed.]

Teddy Hall 10 St Peter's 7 Teddy Hall won perhaps the most unlikely of their 29 Rugby Cuppers titles last Wednesday. In a scrappy game which showed all the rustiness that could be expected from a match delayed from last term, Teddy Hall ran out 10-7 winners against a St Peter's side that dominated possession, territory and, up to the 78th minute, the scoreboard. The power of the St Peter's pack threatened at times to blow Teddy Hall off the park. They dominated both the scrum and the breakdown, and their explosive driving play repeatedly smashed the Teddy Hall defence backwards. But the St Peter's backs' performance, characterised by dropped passes and conservative play, produced just one dangerous move from the stream of possession sent their way. After an early try St Peter's did not trouble the scorers agrun. Teddy Hall, meanwhile, established a tenacious rear-guard action. They kept themselves in the contest for territory and possession through their safe lineout and the boot of fly half Rob Yates. Though their backs were also struggling with basic skills, they played with much more ambition. Their pace and creative running lines produced a number of exciting counter attacks, and while St Peter's defence was too strong to concede long range tries it was clear that if Teddy Hall pack could get its backline within range they would pose problems. Nevertheless, such was the dominance of the Peter's pack that for most of

the match Teddy Hall had a solitary penalty to show for their efforts. With 78 minutes gone, however, a turnover near the St Peter's 22 finally gave Teddy Hall the combination of quick ball and good midfield position they had craved. Attacking down the blindside, outside centre Louka Travlos sprinted through St Peter's wide defence before passing inside to No 8 Chris Stephens to charge in under the posts for a 10-7 lead. Though the referee played six minutes of injury time, St Peter's never looked like restoring their lead. St Peter's had started much the stronger side. Their solitary try was an outstanding forwards' effort, starting in their own 22, where they won two successive scrum penalties then produced a series of explosive drives to arrive within two yards of the Teddy Hall tryline. When a desperate St Edmund Hall defender tackled scrum half Pierre Lafayeedney from an off side position, Lafayeedney took a quick penalty, drew the defence and offloaded for Rob Mitchell to crash over near the right hand corner. Lock Somerset Pheasant kicked the conversion for a 7-0 lead. It looked like a long afternoon for Hall at that point, but they rose to the challenge posed by SPC; with 15 minutes gone, they created the next clear chance, driving from a lineout to the St Peter's line before being held up. Nevertheless, the intensity of defence and the high error count of both teams meant the best opportunities for each side came from kicks at goal; both Pheasant and Yates, however, missed relatively simple attempts. The second half saw more of the same. The St Peter's pack remained on top, led by giant prop Tobias Burckhardt and No 8 Rob Mitchell, while Teddy Hall full back Graham Robinson, made two strong runs from deep. After 62 minutes, St Edmund Hall finally got on the scoreboard. Teddy Hall pack produced a strong drive from a lineout; as the backs tried to go wide, inside centre Ed Alien was brought down in midfield, but the stretched St Peter's defence conceded a penalty in the ensuing ruck, which Yates duly dispatched between the posts. St Peter's reacted brilliantly, reclaiming their own kick off and attacking down the left flank, but when substitute Jonathan Fraser was hauled down just a few yards out, their last chance was gone. As the final whistle approached, more committed but inaccurate rugby came, and it seemed likely that St Peter's would hold out. But Teddy Hall always looked dangerous, and after 78 minutes their moment of glory came. It was a jubilant Paul Smith who lifted the Cuppers Trophy for his side, and there were further celebrations from the Teddy Hall camp as Yates was named man of the match by Blues' captain Dave Lubans. After the match, Smith 49

admitted "Peter's were on top for long periods", while Travlos said "We were put under a lot of pressure". One could only feel sympathy for the St Peter's captain, right wing Tom Raynor, when he said, "We should have won."

The Women}- Captain}- Report Women's Rugby did not receive as much interest this year as last. With very few returning players, the side for Michaelmas term was almost entirely composed of first years. Several of our existing players are Blues and, as such, were ineligible to play in Cuppers. Despite the lack of experience within the side, we were able to enter a Seven's team into Michaelmas Cuppers which was fairly successful, beating Wadham and losing to St. Anne's. In Hilary term we were unable to produce a Ten's side, so we joined with Lady Margaret Hall with some success, however, we were still hindered by low numbers of girls interested and available to play; a problem with which many other colleges had to contend this year. We were victorious against St. Catherine's in our first match and gained points due to the cancellation of several of our subsequent matches by our opponents. We made it to the semi-finals where we were defeated by an extremely strong Keble side. Despite all the setbacks, we had great fun this season and thoroughly enjoyed the matches that we were able to play. I look forward to a better time for Women's Rugby at Teddy Hall next year.

Pictured: Louise Elliott, Alessandra Prentice, Alison Dale, Maddy Cbandler, Micbelle Sumpter, Katie Smitb (last year~ captain)

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Karma N abulsi was elected to a Fellowship by Special Election in October 2004 and to a full Tutorial Fellowship in Politics with effect from September 2005; she is currently a Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College. This year she is directing a project assessing the civic needs of Palestinian refugees outside the West Bank and Gaza through participatory debates. The project is funded by the European Union's Commission of External Relations. She read the M.Phil in International Relations and then the D.Phil in Politics at Balliol, publishing a book based on her doctoral thesis, Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance, and the Law, O xford University Press, 1999 (paperback edition, 2005). She is presently writing a book for WW Norton, Conspirators for Liberry: The Underground Strugglefor Democrary in 19th century Europe. The archival research for this book, which has taken her to municipal and regional archives all over Europe, is being funded by a two-year Leverhulme Research Grant, which also provides for research assistance. She is also 'Project Leader' of a fouryear British Academy-sponsored international network of academics working on 19th century European democratic movements entitled Republicans without Republics: National and International Networks in the Construction of State in 19th century Europe. This network has brought together a number of political historians and philosophers from different European countries working on republican and democratic groups and movements in 19th century Europe. She is chair of trustees of a new charity in the UK, the Hoping Foundation, which provides grants to grass-roots community organisations working with Palestinian children in refugee camps all over the Middle East. She was specialist adviser to the UK All Party Parliamentary Commission of Enquiry on Palestinian Refugees (Report, 2000) and specialist adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee's Enquiry on Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and its Report, 2005. 51

Dr Kirsty Hewitson, lecturer in Biochemistry, was elected a Fellow by Special Election in recognition of her appointment to a Violette and Samuel Glass tone Research Fellowship. Kirsty graduated from Somerville College in 1997 and, apart from her research interests, is a keen member of the Oxford University Triathlon Club, swimming, running and riding in the Varsity competition in 2004. Terry Cudbird joined St Edmund Hall as Development Director in October 2001. He read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge and subsequently at University College, London. After a spell in the Department of Trade and Industry he joined W. H. Smith where he trained as a buyer and subsequently became Buying and Marketing Director. After twenty-two years with the company he left to run his own bookselling business and serve on the boards of a number of companies. Apart from his work fundraising for the College Terry has an active interest in history, performing in amateur theatricals, longdistance walking and his local church. He has enjoyed organising the Campaign to reach the Dm target and looks forward to supporting more projects for the College in the future. Terry was made a Fellow by Special Election in November 2004. William Asbrey has been elected to a St Edmund Fellowship in recognition of his spontaneous generosity of several gifts of shares to the Hall. He came up to the Hall in 1949 and read Jurisprudence (Law); he subsequently founded W.P. Asbrey Solicitors but is now retired from actively practicing law. He is an enthusiastic follower of Northamptonshire County Cricket, and Conservative party politics. Paul Stanton has also been elected to a St Edmund Fellowship. He was born in Kirkby, Liverpool in 1964. He remained in his hometown and was educated at St Kevin's Comprehensive School. He then came to St Edmund Hall as an undergraduate in 1982 to read Jurisprudence. He graduated in 52

1985, and (temporarily) left Oxford to attend Chester Law School in 1985/ 1986. His absence was short-lived as he returned in 1986 to study for the BCL. He was awarded a BCL in 1987 and then returned to Liverpool to undertake a career as a Solicitor. Having qualified in 1989, he joined a newly established firm with only six other staff, and one partner. As the firm grew, he took partnership in 1991 and since then the firm has (fortunately) grown, and now has over 110 staff. His specialist area is personal injury litigation, and he is an active member of the Law Society Personal Injury Panel, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and the Liverpool Law Society. He is married with a young family. In 1990, he was invited to become a school governor at his old school, which had amalgamated to become All Saints High School. He has also served as a trustee of a well-known local children's charity (KIND) for nine years. During this time, he was active not only in the administration of the charity, but also in fund raising. In his spare time, he enjoys playing golf, and is a member of Caldy Golf Club, and the Liverpool Law Golf Society. He describes himself as being a "competitive 23 handicap". He also holds a full helicopter pilot's licence and is a keen observer of the futures markets. Born in New York State in 1925, Jarvis Doctorow finished high school and, despite having a punctured ear drum (the result of mastoiditis at the age of 8, and which should have disqualified him for active military service), he signed up for the draft in 1943 and saw WWII infantry service in the boot of Italy and the D-day landing in southern France, followed by two years in the Psychological Warfare unit. After Honourable Discharge, he spent two years of radio reporting for Âˇthe French National Radio in Paris. He came to the Hall in 1948 and gained a BA in French, and then returned to the USA and carried away an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1953. For nearly two decades he worked in marketing but then, in 1973, he bought a tiny, three-employee, greetings card publishing company that, nine years' later was sold as a 140employee stationery manufacturer. However, the 230,000 sq.ft. Nash Building 53

in New York into which the company had rapidly expanded was not part of the sale package and Jarvis developed it as an unusual office & light manufacturing mixed occupancy. In November 2004, 25 years after buying the historic site which was once used as the headquarters of the Manhattan Project and where early concept testing was undertaken for Robert Oppenheimer in the development of the first atomic bomb, Jarvis and his wife Connie became trustees of the Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and sold the building to Columbia University. Proceeds from this sale fund the Foundation and endow the three educational establishments that Jarvis attended: in his words "I believe that my various schools helped me become who and what I am - this is my way of helping to make it possible for others to get what I got from SEH". Jarvis Doctorow was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in June 2005, in recognition of his distinguished career and contributions to the Hall.

THE GEDDES LECTURE, 12 NOVEMBER 2004 Fancy sitting on a raffia chair with a hole in it in a grubby office in Gaza City for five days? No, well neither did Jon Snow, the Channel4 news presenter. But he did it in 1994 because he had an appointment to interview Yaser Arafat at 3 p.m. on Tuesday and Arafat chose to turn up at 2 a.m. on Saturday; and in those days journalists had to put up with the rough as well as the smooth. This was one of a number of personal recollections which added such spice and sparkle to ]on Snow's Geddes Memorial Lecture on 'Shooting History', delivered in the Examinations Schools on 12 November. There was, of course, a serious purpose to the anecdote. Mr Snow argued that in his chosen journalistic profession a crossroads had been reached. The journalist is now, he said, under siege from the pressures of time and technology. 54

When he began his career in 1976, he recalled, news crews hugged around massive machines and there were only two trans-Atlantic satellites and none at all linking Africa to the rest of the world. Thirty years ago same-day coverage was the exception rather than the rule. And the result of all this was that there was time for reflection, enquiry, and analysis, even it were gained by sitting on a raffia chair with a hole in it for four days in a hot, fly-infested office. Contrast that with the present when what editors want is not sameday but instant coverage. What is wanted is 'the image' and who cares if the reporter knows what is going on or not? Mr Snow illustrated this point with reference to the famous film of Boris Yeltsin astride a tank which was firing at the 'White House' in Moscow. The film was taken, he told his entranced audience, from the lavatory window of the CNA office in what was then the Soviet capital. No-one in the office - or in the lavatory- knew who was firing at whom nor did they have much idea of what it was all about, but it made hellish good television. And it is much the same in contemporary Iraq. Pictures are sent by Iraqi cameramen over the satellites to the major broadcasters who in turn have reporters on the roofs of American-guarded hotels commentating on the pictures without having a clue about what is going on, except that they may be fed some gen from their editors in London or Atlanta, gen which has been sent there by Iraqis on the ground with mobile phones. The pressure of time, the urge to 'get the news' is to a great degree a factor of technology. The world-wide network of satellites and the internet make instant coverage for twenty-four hours a day a possibility. But this means that an increasing proportion of budgets in the media go towards the new toys which make this possible, rather than to sober reflection and analysis by well-informed reporters. Now, it seems, it is the mechanism rather than the medium which is the message.

Mr Snow developed the argument about the pressure of time in another direction. He confessed he found twenty-four news coverage a 'drug' but he also noted that programmes such as his own Channel 4 news at seven and BBC2's 'Newsnight' were of infinitely better quality because they appeared only once per day and therefore had time to research their material, check its authenticity and to analyse its significance. Similarly, both programmes were longer and could therefore explore issues in more depth, much in contrast to the late-night ITN news programme which had declined in quality because it had been truncated.

The lecture ended with a plea that quality should be retained, that trivialisation and dumbing down should be resisted. Mr Snow believed that this country set itself apart from other developed democracies by the quality of its broadcasting, and especially of its public sector or public-sector subsidised programmes; and here he urged that BBC World Service TV broadcasts should be made available to the domestic viewer. He also argued that the pressures of commercialised, trivialised news coverage could be counteracted, and he rejected the notion that serious news programmes attracted only social groups A and B. We should not, therefore, throw out the baby of serious broadcasting with the bathwater of pandering to mass tastes; we should not let the small lights be eclipsed by the big. We should not be seduced by the latest technological wizardry and we should not forget that 'one pair of eyes', those of the reporter on the spot, can frequently see more than even the most sophisticated gadgetry. Those of us lucky enough to hear the lecture, and the long session of questions and answers which followed it, are unlikely to forget either the content of the lecture or the skill and energy with which it was delivered. Richard Crampton

POETRY AT THE HALL Creative Writing at the Hall continues to thrive, with a packed diary of readings open to old and current Aularians, and talks of various kinds. Poetry is still at the centre of our activities, but other kinds of writing are also involved. During Michaelmas term, contemporary poets George Szirtes, Esther Morgan and Polly Clark gave us readings from published and unpublished works. Terry Jones delivered a hugely informative and entertaining talk on Chaucer to a packed house in the ODH. And novelist Jem Poster held an absorbing workshop on 'Writing a novel: Character, Voice and Place' for undergraduates and visiting students reading English. Later in term, the college commemorated Armistice Day in the chapel with music, prose and poetry on the theme of peace and war. The evening opened with poems selected and read by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, and continued with contributions from Hall members, interspersed with songs from the choir and a moving selection of poems written and read by the poet-critic, John Powell Ward.

Following the success of Synergies Volume One, a second volume was launched at Blackwell's at the end of Michaelmas. This book (edited by Lucy Newlyn and Aularian Jenny Lewis) investigates the usefulness of creative writing as a teaching tool, and features poetry and criticism written by undergraduates reading English. The launch was attended by over 100 members of the university and the public. Christopher Ricks, newly inaugurated as Oxford's Professor of Poetry, opened the evening, and poets Jon Stallworthy and Carmen Bugan gave a warm endorsement of our Synergies method. Contributors (including three graduates, seven undergraduates, and all three Fellows in English) discussed their involvement in the project, and read aloud their work. The evening culminated with the exciting announcement that the University has launched an M.A. in Creative Writing. After a short breather for Christmas, Hilary term began in a different style. Stewart Lee, who read English here in the 1980s, gave a remarkable talk to MCR and JCR members about his involvement in eo-writing and directing the controversial musical, ferry Springer the Opera. He described how a great piece of alternative theatre came together on a shoe-string, and addressed the difficult political and ethical questions raised by the BBC's broadcasting of the show. Also during Hilary, we had a double-bill reading from the well-known poets Jane Draycott and Paul Stubbs (see Jane Griffiths' report on the following page), and an evening of poetry and prose read by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Aularian), the world-renowned poet, children's writer, translator and librettist. The turn-out was good for this memorable occasion, which marked our pleasure in Kevin's Honorary Fellowship. The term ended with two poetry conferences mounted in St Edmund Hall for symbolic reasons. On 5 March, a colloquium (organised by Cedric Barfoot and Robin Healey) celebrated the achievements of Cornish writer and Aularian Geoffrey Grigson, who founded the influential journal New Verse and went on to become a distinguished poet, critic and freelance writer. (Grigson, who was here in the 1920s, applied to the Hall because of the Cornish choughs on the college crest). [See report on page 60]. A week later, on March 12, there was a conference on "Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry". Thomas read history at Lincoln; but St Peter-inthe-East was one of his favourite haunts, and in his O:ifordhe praises it as 'the 57

peacefullest and homeliest of churchyards', a place with a 'great melody'. Academic lectures in the morning were followed in the afternoon by poets reading work of their own indebted to Thomas. It was a great line-up, including some of the UK's most prominent poets - David Constantine, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin. Seamus Heaney, who could not be there in person, wrote a poem especially for the occasion. A hundred delegates attended the Thomas conference from all over the country, and the audience expanded for the poetry reading in the afternoon. The year closed with a couple of poetry evenings in Trinity term. We had a huge turnout for Andrew McNeillie and Jamie McKendrick, whose writing styles are distinct and complementary: McNeillie's incantatory, Welsh, almost Dylan Thomas-esque; and McKendrick's inward, arch, ludic. It was good to see so many young people at this reading, and to sense a buzz of creative excitement in the air. At the end of term, Sharon Achinstein organised a launch for two new publications: Icarus on Earth, Jane Griffiths's second collection of poems, and Ginne4 my first. I felt it a great honour to read alongside such an accomplished poet, and it was delightful to see so many members of the Hall gathered together to celebrate poetry. Lucy Newlyn The second of two poetry readings in Hilary Term was given by two very different, but excitingly complementary poets,Jane Draycott and Paul Stubbs. Jane is an established writer, a freelance tutor both of whose collections, Prince Rupert's Drop (OUP, 1999- the last to be published by the Press before they stopped doing such things) and The Night Tree (Oxford Poets, 2004) are Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She is a verbally exhilarating writer, constantly testing and teasing the set phrase and the cliche, and blurring the boundaries between the literal and the metaphorical. Paul too has been writing for a considerable time; after leaving school at sixteen, he educated himself to become a poet, working at Butlins and in various labouring jobs while working on translations of writers as diverse as Rimbaud and Dante. His first collection, The Theological Museum (Flambard, 2005), shows the influence of his intensive reading and thinking; where Jane challenges the confines of everyday speech, Paul has developed a highly idiosyncratic syntax, full of stops and starts that provide unexpected emphases.

Paul read first both before and after the interval, concentrating primarily on some of his longer theological meditations. These are extraordinary performances, which borrow the imagery of Christianity only in order to reinvent it with intense, witty, and heretical seriousness, as for example when he writes in 'Paradise': For all this, the thing you remember most is on arrival (the moment after you have just died) when you find yourself herded suddenly into a small, yet amazingly bright room. And where in the light you easily locate it, your after-flesh slung like a coat across a chair. Such lines exemplify the way Paul imagines the spiritual in terms of the physical and vice versa; it is not always clear which is tenor and which is vehicle- but his point is precisely that they are indistinguishable. This is the case even in some of his shorter lyric pieces, such as 'Seascape', where the physical cold of a day on a Norfolk beach becomes the image of an inner sense of isolation: I remember when, as a child, I would run back and forth along this beach. Hearing nothing but the flapping of my own shadow, like a weather-beaten canopy in the wind. I would run, until there was no one else but me on the beach, and my mouth like a shutter had begun to bang and clatter on no words. When I spoke, I could not be heard above The collapse of the sea's cold scaffold. Following on from Paul, Jane remarked that his work encouraged her to read a couple of early poems from Prince &pert} Drop which she had previously thought might be too complex for performance. These were first published in Christina the Astonishing (Two Rivers Press, 1998): a sequence of poems on the life, death, resurrection, and second life of a medieval Flemish saint, which 59

Jane co-authored with Lesley Saunders. The first of these, 'The Levitation of St Christina', describing how Christina flew from her open coffin during her own funeral service, shows just how compellingly Jane is able to revive a tired phrase and so startle us into engagement with her subject too: I rise on a wing and a prayer. In the aisles Father Thomas is singing his heart out 0 Lamb of God all shaven and shorn and loud enough to wake the dead. Have mercy upon us. Up here in the gods where anything goes I am Lucifer, born like a swan from a box, striking the light and standing well clear of the tears, of the tar and the feathers, and of the coffin's yawn. She went on to read several more recent poems, including a sequence written during her year as poet in residence at the River and Rowing Museum at Henley-on-Thames which hauntingly invokes the lost fathers and daughters of the Middle English poem Pearl. And to my delight, she also included her elegy 'In Memory of Henry West', killed by a whirlwind on Reading station in 1840: a poem that builds so beautifully towards its final pun on more meanings of 'west' than it is possible to hold in mind simultaneously that it deserves to be quoted in its entirety or not at all. The audience was small but almost ferociously attentive, leaning in to catch the nuances of Paul's rather quiet delivery, and buoyed by Jane's clear, melodic reading. It was altogether a rich evening. Jane Griffiths

White mice running: Geoffrey Grigson at the Hall, 1924- 27 'It was the one remaining medieval hall of the university ... For Cornish reasons I might have preferred Exeter, the gates of which had been barricaded at one time against the wrath of Jonathan Trelawny, of our parish ... and if nothing else but the Hall was possible, it pleased me that that the Hall's coat of arms contained three Cornish choughs ... The place had the attractions of a lilliputian dining hall, a lilliputian chapel and quadrangle; and the drawback of these mentally Iilliputian undergraduates, who were going to either administer the cure of souls or else to teach in grammar schools. At first the Hall looked as if it should really be in a shop window with white mice running about in the model rooms dressed in mortar boards and commoners'

gowns. Many of the mice came from the north. They were cautious, hard working people, who for the wrong reasons suspected the intellectual, or semi or pseudo intellectual, as well as the indolent, temptations of Oxford ... the Hall was very nearly at the bottom of the social and the intellectual and the actual river.. .' Such were the impressions of Geoffrey Grigson, born a century ago, who was to become one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century, and one of its most distinctive poets. He arrived at the Hall in October 1924, a year later than was usual, having survived sadism at his prep school and serious bullying at his public school. To this seventh son of the Vicar of Pelynt in east Cornwall the Hall, though it may have been one of the least fashionable Oxford colleges (two of his brothers had been at Pembroke and Christ Church), had the merit at least of having welcomed him. But he was welcomed on merit. Grigson had been among the top scholars in his year at St John's School, Leatherhead, but he had somehow failed to gain a scholarship. As a result, his three years at the Hall were marked by a conflict between a natural tendency to prodigality following the asperities of school, and guilt at incurring expenses his father could not easily bear. In addition, if his wonderfully frank autobiography, The Crest on the Silver, is to be believed, there were to be hang-ups about girls, resentment at the affluence and social skills of his fellows from expensive public schools and, perhaps more serious, a total disillusionment with the 'despised English' syllabus he felt morally obliged to endure, having switched from Greats. But Crest does not tell the full story. If he did not make friends easily outside his college, he at least made good friends at the Hall. Such contempories as MacNeice, Spender and Auden, whom he was later to publish in his groundbreaking New Verse, he hardly knew while at Oxford, but on his first day in the lilliputian dining hall he met a native of the Shetlands named Sandison with whom he remained friendly for many years. Sandison was one of those who joined him in meetings of the Maker's Society, a literary group which met regularly to read out essays and discuss literary topics. Grigson was also a lively member of the Hall's Essay Society. In fact, this apparently repressed boy from the backwater of Cornwall, sensitive about his social shortcomings, seems to have cut quite a figure in the Hall's social life, so much so, in fact, that at least one of his contemporaries, the literary critic Kenneth Muir, took an active dislike to him. But Grigson's lack of application had its consequences. Like Auden, he left the University with a third, but because he still owed

battels to the Hall, could not formally graduate. Thus until he could pay off his debts he made efforts to curry favour with Emden, the Hall's Vice-Principal, by finding antiquarian books for the Library, mainly from Cornwall, but on joining the Yorkshire Post in London, from stalls on the Farringdon Road. Some of these details of Grigson's time at the Hall were explored in an introductory address given by C C Barfoot at a centenary celebration at the Hall on 5 March. Attending were a number of the Grigson clan, including his eldest daughter Caroline, herself an eminent archaeologist, and his youngest, Sophie, the food writer and broadcaster. Caroline also gave an illuminating talk on her father's topographical associations which was illustrated with slides and recordings of Grigson's own reading of his poetry. Other talks included an entertaining diversion by Valentine Cunningham on Grigson's editorship of New V erse, a recollection by the poet Christopher Martin of the encouragement Grigson had given him, and Glyn Pursglove's exploration of Grigson's fascination with the country of Ronsard, near Vendome, which became his second home from the late fifties and the focus of his brilliantly discursive Notesfrom an odd Country. There were also contributions on Grigson's approach to Gerard Manly Hopkins, on his role in the highbrow debate of the BBC, and on his many enemies in the British literary scene. A 'conversation' between R M Healey and Richard Humphreys of the Tate Gallery, which focus sed on the relationship between Grigson and his hero, Wyndham Lewis, rounded off the afternoon, which formally ended with a toast to the memory of one of Britain's most individual and uncompromising men of letters. RM Healey University of Leiden robHeal@aol.com 01763 837058 The author, who is researching a biography if Grigson, welcomes atry information on his career at Oxford. Please contact him at the above address or f?y phone.

FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE On 21 April, the Principal, Mrs Mingos and Professor Stuart Ferguson travelled to Cambridge to attend the annual Commemoration Dinner at Fitzwilliam College, the Hall's sister college at "the other place". They dined as guests of Professor Brian Johnson FRS (pictured right), professor of Inorganic Chemistry who has been Master of Fitzwilliam since his election on 1 October 1999 but who is retiring this summer. He and his wife, Christine, have attended the St Edmund Feast on several occasions. Brian was the first Fellow of Fitzwilliam to be elected to the Mastership although he was by no means a stranger to members of the college; he was a Fellow from 1970 to 1990 when he became Crum Brown Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Edinburgh University. As President of the College and Vice-Master after the sudden death of Professor Cameron, he played an important part in guiding the College through a difficult period, and was much liked by the junior members of the College during his time in office. He was President of the Fitzwilliam Society in 1991. Professor Johnson returned to Cambridge in 1995, and to a Professorial Fellowship at Fitzwilliam. He lists his favourite recreations as chemistry, walking, cycling and travel, and we wish him and Christine much pleasure indulging these pastimes in his retirement.

THE A B EMDEN LECTURE On 13 May 2005 Professor Geoffrey Hosking, of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, gave the annual history lecture in honour of A B Emden in the Examination Schools. Professor Hosking is a well-known and eminent historian of Russia, but his subject for the lecture was a much broader one: "Trust and distrust in European societies: a historian's perspective". He started by pointing out that trust has been central to political debate in recent years, and many social

commentators have observed a decline in trust, whether in institutions, professionals, or neighbours. However historians have neglected the study of trust, and have tended to over-emphasize the role of elites and power in maintaining social cohesion. Professor Hosking therefore appealed to historians to address the question of trust, to explore the different ways in which it functions, and to explain why social cohesion took the form it did in various societies. He then went on to provide a typology of seven forms of society and the structures of trust that correspond to each. Using an extraordinarily wide range of examples, from Ancient Athens to the world after World War II, Professor Hosking gave the audience a stimulating and provocative account of why some societies have succeeded in promoting trust, while others have not. The lecture was followed by a lively discussion in the hall, which continued during the reception and dinner afterwards.

THE PHILIP GEDDES MEMORIAL PRIZES, AND THE CLIVE TAYLOR PRIZE FOR SPORTS JOURNALISM 2005

This year's judging panel (Professor Richard Cramp ton, SEH; Professor John Kelly, St John's; Ms Sandra Barwick, former Letters Editor, The Daily Telegraph; Mr Graham Mather, President, European Policy Forum) had no hesitation in awarding the annual Philip Geddes Memorial Prize of ÂŁ1,000 to Peter Cardwell of St Hugh's, and Danielle Fidge (SEH, 2003) was awarded the Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism, also worth ÂŁ1,000. The prizes were presented by the Principal and Mr Mather in the Principal's Lodgings over tea on 1 June. Edmund Chough's pictorial History of Oxford No. 4

ARTWEEK 2005 Once again, at the beginning of June, the Party Room was filled with the charming and amazingly eclectic talent which is the Hall's contribution to the Oxford Artweeks. Oils, acrylics, water colours, pencil drawings, pen and ink, photography, sumptuous knitwear, embroidery, applique, pottery, glass engraving, bronzes, cards, plants ... and painted Easter eggs. There were contributions from every conceivable part of the College: current Undergraduates and Postgraduates, Old Members, current Fellows and Lecturers, Emeritus Fellows, the Vice-Principal, the former Principal, the former Librarian, from the Accounts Department, the Bursary, the Works Department, the Library, the Hall Gardener - and everyone's relations! They were mostly amateurs but also included some professionals. Some had exhibited many times before, some for the first time. This rich display of creativity from within a single community is remarkable and moving, and much enjoyed by the large numbers of visitors. "Delightful! I was touched by many of the exhibits" one visitor was minded to write in the visitors' book. Another wrote "proof of civilisation". So there you go! However, someone-else wrote something about rhubarb, in case we get too pleased with ourselves. Many visitors come year after year, many come from abroad -Greece, France, the States, Iraq. A group of Chinese, Japanese and Koreans were persuaded to write their comments in their own script and their entry is a work of art in its own right. Heaven only knows what they said but they were very polite and well-brought-up so we must hope for the best. To pick out individual treasures is invidious and indeed impossible to do. The exhibition is always a real Aladdin's cave and to consider it in its entirety and what it stands for is probably its main charm. Enough to say that there were some exquisite works (and some impressive paintings from the Artist in Residence who is a musician!) Sadly missed were Emeritus Fellow Norman Pollock's charmingly illustrated travel notebooks but he was well-represented by his grandson Daniel Le Mesurier. The prize (most comments in the visitors' book) probably goes to the Housekeeper's daughter, Rachel Broadbent, for ''Alternative Christmas Tree", a stunning Warholesque construction made entirely of white plastic knives, forks and spoons. Carol McClure (former College Secretary)

THE GRAHAM MIDGLEY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR POETRY Through the benefaction of Dr Christopher Wilson, the college is able to offer a prize (value ÂŁ1 00) each year for a single outstanding short poem in English, written by an undergraduate member of the Hall. The prize is in memory of Graham Midgley, formerly Fellow and Tutor in English. The prize is open to any undergraduate in the college; it may be on any subject, and written in any genre or form, but it must be no longer than twenty-five lines. This year's winning entry, The dribbling bqy in the sand, was submitted by Caleb Klaces (2003) and is reproduced below.

The dribbling boy in the sand The girl said:

I am like one of those sticks on a beach that are elephant-skinned from the scraggjy fences bent all wqys and skittish over dunes, holding coarse grass, I am an old stick of hairnet when there were dinnerladies on the beach, one of them holding Simon by the back of his collar.

I am going to sleep, he was saying and scooping a yellow drizzle-pillow collar-hung and scuffed purchase, kicking up, HI eat it. Sand looks like school custard, the boy and girl had pasta with their sand; the bottom of the car is a big scrumpled thought, boot up, wind up, class seven weary, the girl gave up eating hers while looking at her boy and somewhere past his shoulder looking at Simon.

, The bits of dribble come only to stops, stops stops, most especially at the elephant feet of those old sticks that find themselves leaning all at funny angles, plot-skittish, marking something. Caleb Klaces

MOOTING In June 2005, St Edmund Hall played host to the third annual Penningtons St Edmund Hall mooring competition. This year's competition was to be a straight knock-out competition featuring eight teams of two, made up of first and second year lawyers from the College. In the first round, which was judged by the honourable Adrian Briggs LJ, the teams were faced with a contract law problem relating to the issues surrounding offer and acceptance. For many this was their first taste of advocacy, yet this was not evident from the standard of the mooring. All teams produced excellent arguments and performed admirably on the day making the task of judging the competition all the more onerous. In the end four teams went through to fight it out in the semi-finals. In this next round, the teams were faced with a problem relating to tort law. Furthermore, in order to book their place in the final, they would be required to charm a new judge, the honourable Derrick Wyatt LJ. Again, the competition was hard fought, with all four teams almost infallible. In the end however only two teams could go through to the final and after much careful consideration the finalists were chosen. Of the eight teams that entered, two remained - from the first semi-final Miss Elizabeth Purcell and Mr Darren Fodey, and, from the second, Mr Edward Higbee and Mr Raymond Duddy. For the final a new problem was chosen, again relating to tort law - this time in relation to a claim for damages arising out of the Occupier's Liability Act 1957. Each team was given a week to prepare, before presenting their case to a three-person panel including the newly appointed Lord Wyatt, formerly Derrick Wyatt LJ and the venerable Lords Olsen and Wilson. After each counsel had presented their arguments, the case was carefully considered before the judgements were read both in relation to the case and the moot. By a majority of two to one, the appeal was upheld and the moot was granted to the appellants Miss Purcell and Mr Fodey.

Pictured Oeft to right) Lizzie Purcell, Chris Wilson, Derrick Wyatt QC, Andy Olsen, D arren Fodey.

Andrew Olsen (2003) & Christopher Wilson (2003), Masters of the Moot 2005

THE GEORGE SERIES ESSAY PRIZE This year there were two entries to the George Series Essay Prize, one by Augustine Bourne, a previous winner, and one by Steven Wright, both very different in character, but both very deserving. It was therefore decided to split the prize between the two entries.

The Three Generations of the Revolution by Augustine Bourne Augustine presents us with a gripping exposition of the hopes and failures of revolutionary change as exemplified by the Cuban revolution. Three generations representing three phases of the revolutionary process, the grandfather, standing for the hope and the initial drive, providing the vital support for the original revolution, the father for the acceptance of its failure and the disillusionment with the process and the son for the hope of eventual

change and the dream of ultimate freedom and harmony. Written in a Hemrningwayesque style, the piece provides a very thoughtful essay on some of the existentialist forces of human nature that drive human action and ultimately history.

Condemned to be Free by Steven Wright Steven's entry is a bleak confrontation of the tribulations associated with having to fill the freedom of modern life with ultimate meaning and substance. In a self-monologue, the author asks the fundamental question of how to deal with the freedom of individual decision making and how to take the responsibility for the actions resulting from it. In a Kafkaesque manner, the piece continues to run in circles, never providing an answer to the question of dealing with the responsibility of freedom, which is hopefully not a reflection of the author's Oxford experience. Philipp Podsiadlowski

The Choughs are Back! I am pleased to announce a new edition of Chatter of Choughs: an Anthology Celebrating the Return of Cornwall's Legendary Bird, edited by Lucy Newlyn, illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson, with Forewords by Jon Stallworthy and Charles Thomas.

The anthology is to be published in mid-October by the Hypatia Trust, based in Penzance, Cornwall. Costing around ÂŁ25, the hardback will be a deluxe book, on high-quality silk-based paper, with red end-papers, a dust-jacket, and a box. This will be out in good time for Christmas, and will make an excellent present. Paperbacks (price around ÂŁ1 0) will be available after Christmas, assuming sales of the hardback go well. [Pre-publication orders (received by 12 November 2005) will be post-free within the UK- see loose insert with this magazine.] Aularians may remember that in 2001, Signal published the first edition of this book, to honour the College's historical connections with a beautiful bird on the verge of extinction in Cornwall. Now, with its feeding ecology improved and breeding pattern re-established, the chances of the chough's survival are good, and the mood is more up-beat. Fifteen wild birds are regularly spotted on Cornwall's Lizard peninsula.

Following the success of the first edition, the second is designed to celebrate the chough's return to Cornwall, and to appeal to a wider readership. Some of the original contributions have been excluded, because of their specific reference to events and people connected with the Hall. Geoffrey BourneTaylor's cheeky cartoons have made way for over thirty new illustrations in charcoal and pen and ink, by Lucy Wilkinson. A new, six-thousand word introduction by the editor has been added; and additional contributions have been commissioned from well-known writers based in Cornwall- Charles Thomas, Les Merton, Victoria Field, Pol Hodge, Alice Kavounas,John Gurney, Nicholas Round. Their presence in the volume gives it a distinctively Cornish flavour. Some poems in Cornish are also included, with translations. In addition, there are new ornithological contributions by zoologist, Richard Meyer, who has been a key figure in "Operation Chough" (the breeding programme which has re-established these birds in their native habitat); and by Aularian chough-watcher, Bob James, who many years ago took notes for Meyer on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire. Thirty-one of the book's sixty-eight contributors are Hall graduates or teachers; many of them (including the illustrator) read English here. Amongst the new pieces, readers will especially enjoy 'The Unsteady Chough' by Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame; an irreverent poem sending up the Arthurian tourist industry by Stewart Lee (eo-writer and director of ferry Springer the Opera); and a mischievous article by Emma Brockes, the Guardian's main interviewer and 2001 Young Journalist of the Year. There is something here for everyone. To read reviews of the first edition of Chatter of Choughs, visit our poetry web-site www.synergies.org.uk and click on 'Poetry at SEH'. To order a copy of the second edition, please phone Melissa Hardie at the Hypatia Trust, on 01736-366597. Lucy Newlyn Fellow and Tutor in English

FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2005 were 381 undergraduates (209 men, 172 women) and 128 post-graduates (70 men, 58 women).

MATRICULATIONS 2004 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates Grey Coat Hospital School, London Afoko, Carys Wen-Nalem Albert, Florian Heinrich Thomas International University, Bremen Alien, David James Ponteland County High School Amphawan, Angela Multimedia University, Malaysia Anson, Nicholas James University of Melbourne Ashmore, Rory James Wilson's School, Wallington Aylward, Daniel Christopher Sir William Borlase's School, Marlow Fine Arts College, London Baker, Natalie Sara Barrett, Elizabeth Kerrie Sian Kent College, Canterbury Barrie, Fathima Shaheeda Mohamed London School of Economics Beckett, Edward Roger James Whitgift School, Croydon Biart, John Philippe Nicolas Marie University of Louvain, Belgium Bjoenness, Marius Alexander Otsvold University College Downe House School Blackwell, Georgina Stirling Bobek, Michal University of Cambridge Braithwaite, Thomas Gregory Eltham College Broadbent, Avery Wolcott Brown University Y sgol Gyfun Emlyn, Carmarthenshire Brooke, Garreth Samuel St Philomena's School, Carshalton Brooker, Ruth Imperial College, London Burkill, Hayley Ann Butler, Helen Jayne Teeside High School, Eaglescliffe Grange Grammar School, Northwich Buttress, Thomas Paul Carpenter, Robyn Mary Birmingham University Carter, Megan Helen King Henry VIII School, Coventry Chan, Wee Lee Raffles Junior College Chan, Xin Hui Supanee Chantharakulpongsa Raffles Junior College Cherry, Davis Rudd Centre College, Danville Thurston Community College Cheyne, Elizabeth Clare Clynes, David Alexander University of Leeds 72

.... Coleman, Judith Claire Millsaps College, J ackson Cookson, Robert Clive St Paul's School, Barnes Cooper, Karen Marie Glasgow University Crouch, Samuel Charles Lambert Sevenoaks School Dalby, Fay Helena Charter house York University, Toronto Danay, Robert Jacob De Paula Hanika, Anna Rebecca Westminster School Dhein, Carolyn Durham University Di Claudio, Eleanore Serena St Brendan's Sixth Form College, Brislington Dickinson, Mark Francis Taunton School Diekamp, Tilman Johannes University of Cologne Donnelly, Sebastian Peter Sumner Eton College Tennessee Technological University Downum, Clark Roberts Edwards, John Michael King Edward VI Camp Hill Boys' School, Birmingham Downe House School Elliott, Louise Elizabeth Ereira, Eleanor The North London Collegiate School Eskinazi, Michelle Henrietta South Hampstead High School Fadipe, Adedamola Oludare The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells Fellerman, Robin Max Leeds Grammar School Filby, Sarah Louise Tiffin Girls' School Fisher, Joshua Oliver King Edward's School, Birmingham Cheltenham Ladies' College Fisher, Louisa Dora Forster, Francisco University of Chile Foulsham, Jean Elizabeth Marlborough College, Wiltshire King's School, Worcester Fulton, Christopher John Chinese University of Hong Kong Fung, Si Yu Furniss, Jack Christopher St Paul's School, Barnes Gallagher, Robert Charles Tiffin School Goh, Teow Kee Hwa Chong Junior College Gong, Ting Hwa Chong Junior College Norre Gymnasium, Denmark Gram, Lu Zhang Hebrew University, Jerusalem Gur, Noam Sofia University Hadjiev, Tchavdar Stoyanov King Edward VI College, Stourbridge Hardy, Stephanie Elizabeth University of Edinburgh Hassall, Beth Suzanne Cullis Hawkins, Katherine Jean University of Sheffield Hampton School, Middlesex Heath, Jeremy Francis 73

Heimburger, Martin Alexander Okumenisches Gymnasium, Bremen Henderson, Catriona Rachael Nottingham High School for Girls Herbert, Susanna Ruth Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I School, Leicester Hickson, Caroline Laura Francis Holland School, London Higbee, Edward George Skinners School, Royal Tunbridge Wells Toot Hill Comprehensive School, Bingham Hill, Katharine Oundle School Hodgkinson, Edward John Hogan, James Wilfred Winchester College Holmes-Smith, Cressida Helen Stokesley School, Middlesborough Howell Evans, Niall Anthony Queen Elizabeth II High School, Peel Idigo, Obianuju Ifejinwa Downe House School Iengar, Sangeetha South Hampstead High School Imhoff,Jenny Wilhelmina Burns Grotefend-Gymnasium, Muenen, Germany University of Edinburgh Ishikawa, Tomonori Headington School Jegede, Osawamoto Calderstones School, Liverpool )ones, Carl Alexander University of Sheffield )ones, Rebecca University of Khartoum Kamil, Allaa Izzeldin St Paul's School, Barnes Kawamoto, Ken University of Dublin Keating, Peter Emmett St Albans School Keech, Andrew Richard Hamdard University, Karachi Khan, Nadeem Ahmad University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Kocmut, Mitja Stockholm University Koljonen, Johanna Henrika University of British Columbia Krmpotich, Cara Ann McGill University, Montreal Lagace, Emilie Bradford Grammar School Laher, Inaamul Haq Wallington High School for Girls Lakin, Catherine Elizabeth University of Copenhagen Larsen, Rasmus Klocker Wycliffe College Le, Yuan University of Toronto Lehmann, Erica Yolanda Becket School, West Bridgford Lesowiec, Helen Katherine Queen's School, Chester Leyland, Kate Jennifer Jewish Free School, London Litvin, Vera University of Bath Liu, Shasha Haberdashers' Aske's Girls' School Man, Pui-Tien Marist College, Poughkeepsie Manzi, Michelle

Martin, Russell James Stephen Wilson's School, Wallington Matthewman, Richard St Mary's Sixth Form College, Blackburn Wells Cathedral School McPake, Sarah Alison Mohan, Suchita Lancaster University Momsen, Felix Momme University of Mannheim Moorhead, Matthew Australian National University Morris, J ames Boston College Hitchin Boys' School Morse, Edward J ames Moss, Fiona Elizabeth Royal Holloway University of London Newman, Robert George Dulwich College Nikolaev, Denis Sergeevich International University of Economics & Finance, Moscow Osei-Bonsu, Alex Finchley Catholic High School Forest School, London Owusu-Sem, Kelvin Emmanuel Palmer, Claire Louise St Paul's Girls' School Pasteiner, Sebastian John Latymer Upper School Peacock, Adam Robert King Henry VIII School, Gwent Peterson, Scat Melvin California University Piechocki, Marcin Karol Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Poland Poole, Rachel Adams College Prentice, Alessandra Marie-Rose King's School, Canterbury Purcell, Elizabeth Niamh Sutton High School Raczynska, Karolina Box Hill School Rainsford, Jennifer Elizabeth Watford Grammar School for Girls Reig Santilli, Alejandro Central University of Venezuela Robinson, Graham Esdaile Seymour King Edward's School, Bath Manchester Grammar School Robinson, James Novella Romenska, Sandra Daniilova University of Warwick Root-Bernstein, Meredith Marie Princeton University Rust, Martin Anthony University of Missouri-Rolla Saleh, David Moussa Royal Grammar School, Guildford Saucier-Bouffard, Carl McGill University Shah, Sanjay Ashok Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School Siewers, Swante Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Sinfield, Sara Louise Waingel's Copse School, Reading Smith, Joanne Caroline Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Soin, Preetma Kaur Farnborough Hill School Stevens, William Oliver St Edward's School Stimpson, Philip St Hill Charterhouse 75

Licensed \Tictuallers' School, Ascot Stimson, Thomas Edward Stone, Heather Brenda King Edward \11 School, Southampton Australian National University Styles, Suzy Jane Sumpter, J oanna Elizabeth Norwich School Bolton School (Girls' Division) Tattersall, Hannah Jayne Taylor, Helen Catherine Ann Thurston Community College Taylor, Jonathan Paul Alastair Repton School Thirunavukarasu, Athavan Westminster School Thomson, lan Stuart St Aidan's School, Ashbrooke To, Yat Lun Bromsgrove School Tomos, Mari Llywarch Ysgol Glan Clwyd, St A saph Travlos, Louka Newcastle-under-Lyme School Wycombe High School Turner, Lindsay Claire Udezue, Nzube Olisabuka Clifton College Silesian University at Opava, Czech Republic Urbanec, Martin California University \Tatakis, Ar~ro \!era Concha, German Eduardo Pontificia Universidad, Chile Wallis, Oliver St John Shrewsbury School London School of Economics Wand, Adam Gregory Hopwood Hall College, Manchester Wang, Chao Nanjing University Wang, Yi Waschkeit, lndre University of Hamburg Wendisch, Tino City University, London Wood, Alastair John King Edward \11 School, Stratford-upon-Avon Ye, Yulin Arren Repton School Yen, Zhao-Yi Winchester College

VISITING STUDENTS 2004-2005 Andres, Lisa Danielle Ballerini, J ane Elaine Bolman, Christopher Borza, Carmen loana Brawley, Anna Benton Campbell, Jared Madison Clay, Alexa Suzanne Crews, Ruth Anne Devine, Christopher John Elder, Joshua Weimer 76

University of North Carolina Connecticut College Boston College Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania Denison University University of Richmond Brown University King College, Bristol Connecticut College University of Pittsburgh

Fagnant, Rachel Theresa Greene, Mary Barclay Gryga, Michele Emily Hall, J ames Brian Hepp, Margaret Alicia Izenstein, Emily Anne Kapral, Andrew Joseph Langdell, Sebastian James Lauderdale, Christopher James Lavoie, Michael Edward Li,Jingyi Macri, Marianna Rose Markowitz, Jeffrey Evan Marrone, Benjamin Kahn Millius, Arthur Robert Monteleone, John Michael Paternoster, Tara Ann Perlmutter, Eric Justin Powell, John James Salzman, Rachel Sarah Schilling, Dorothy Prances Sciuto, Jenna Grace Shapiro, Rachel Simone, Rudolf Francis Spampinato, Erin Alessandra Su, Marina Swetnam, Matthew Robert Szanyi, J ason Michael Tramm, Claire Catherine Vazova, Lilia Borislavova Walsh, Kieran James

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DEGREE RESULTS FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS 2005 Biochemistry Class I H A K Bourne, C G Randall Chemistry Class I J F McGouran Class 11 i P J Augar, N M Davies, C C Harding, G C Pooler, CM S Yau Computer Science Class 11 i D T Irvine, SE M-Y Lee Earth Sciences Class I R H T Callow, M J Streule Class 11 i G V Bennitt, B L Raine, E J Stone Economics & Management Class 11 i C Liddiard, B Murison, S T Offer Engineering Science Class I 0 A P Noterdaeme, G A H Seetal, C J Stephens Class 11 i T D Collins, J E Philp Class 11 ii E Alien Engineering & Computing Science Class 11 ii A Jumpasut Engineering, Economics & Management Class I I K Porter Class 11 i J F Akehurst English & Modern Languages Class I E M Holloway (Distinction in German

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English Language & Literature Class II i R E Adams, M R Bhaskar, D W Brown, 0 J Crossley-Holland, C E Dove, L J J Hamill, I F Jones Experimental Psychology Class II i S E C Chapman, S J Hill, E J Smithson Fine Art Class II i

T B M Farthing, P G Haworth, S Steinitz, S T Winnett

Geography Class I P A J Powis Class II i J M Audsley, S A Barrett, H Y Entwistle, A C Golding, H LT Nevill, K E Pavia Class Ill A M Brown Jurisprudence Class I A C Debattista Class II i S A Ali, C Behl, P M Chapman, P J Cowan, R S Kohli, E S J McNulty, G J Walliss Mathematical Sciences Class I H C Wilkinson Mathematics Class I A M M T Dunbar Class III N A Cliff Mathematics & Computer Science Class II i X J Gao Mathematics & Philosophy Class I R H M Perrott Materials, Economics & Management Class II i S T Parry Materials Science Class I V A Jackson, C W Wilson

Modern History Class I C M J Morecroft Class II i H C Cohen, T R Coke-S myth, K J Coleman, C E Emslie, K L Gillingham, N E Hermitage, M A Morgan, D R Thomas, J J Whelan Modern History & Politics Class II i L P Kelly, A L Smith Modern Languages Class I S Knutson (Distinction in Italian Ora~ Class II i C J Bartlett, J J Hatcher, CH Hutton-Mills (Distinction in French Ora~, C M Miles (Distinction in French Ora~, L N Myson (Distinction in German Ora~ Class II ii E R Law (Distinction in French Ora~, 0 R H Petter L S V Hopkins Class Ill Music Class II i

J M Robertshaw

Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I R M Bader S T Amin, T Andrews, J H Baker, A C Buchan, Class II i A M Dresner, J Y Dyer, G L Hellyer, C F Lee, LW St A Marshall, PT Myatt Class II ii CJ Hogan Physics Class I Class II i Class II ii Class Ill

D R Crick, N S Headings J D Chappell, M de Cates, S T Wright S J Mees KT P Seifert

Physics & Philosophy Class II i M G Gibson

Medical Sciences Class II i J Bolton, I S H Lyons, K B Smith, L C Squire, J T H Thevanayagam Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology Class II i C M J Day PASS SCHOOL Geography K L Wilkinson HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Anatomy Teddy Tjandra Biochemistry Frank S Cordes Jemima J Cordle Janette Hudson Chemistry Almut R Sprigade Educational Studies David J H Wilkes Engineering Timothy J Stallard Philip J Cardinale English Suzanne E Webster Federico Caprotti Geography Ebru C Kurum Materials Margaret A Small Modern History Maria Liakata Philology Master of Philosophy (MPhil) European Literature Thomas F Worth (Distinction) Politics Sarah J Fine Oriental Studies Christina R Flint Christopher D Wallis (Distinction) Economics Richard A Povey Michael R Griebe

Master of Science (MSc) Biodiversity, Conservation & Management Comparative & International Education Economic & Social History Economics for Development Environmental Change & Management Linguistics Psychology Social Anthropology Social Studies

Robert S Foster Sarah Hirsch Hongjie Zhu P L Philip Chiu Wenxin Zheng Matthew Ledbury Emi Hagino Patapia-Maria Tzotzoli Bushra Hassan Kelley I Kasischke

Master of Studies (MSt) English European Literature History Musicology

Judith C Coleman Fiona E Moss (Distinction) Avery W Broadbent Robyn M Carpenter (Dzstinction)

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Dina Y Chen

Master of Fine Art (MFA) HyunNa

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Nicholas J Anson (Distinction) F Shaheeda M Barrie Noam Gur (Distinction) Robert J Danay Adam Wand (Distinction)

Magister Juris (MJuris) John P N M Biart (Distinction) Michal Bobek (Distinction) Tilman J Diekamp Mitja Kocmut Indre Waschkeit

Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Jonathan T Crawshaw Hanna I M Eriksson J emma C Rooker

AWARDS AND PRIZES UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES Laurence Binyon Prize Karolina Raczynska Heath Harrison Junior Scholarship Prances S Asquith Alexis Radisoglou Mineralogical Society Prize for the best 3rd year performance in Mineralogy Ross Parnell-Turner Research Project Prize, Department of Biochemistry Second Prize: H Augustine T Bourne Shell Prize for the best overall performance in the 4th year FHS in Earth Sciences Richard H T Callow Pilkington Prize and Shell Award for the best Engineering (Materials) Economics and Management Project Report Sean T Parry Winter Williams European Business Regulation Prize Michal Bobek

University Blues 2004-5 The Unofficial List Gemma V Bennitt Rohan A B Brown Fay Dalby Carina Dalton Camilla M J Day Graeme Doran J oanna Y Dyer Louise Elliott Danielle M Fidge Alice E Freeman Darren C Gerard James Hogan J essica R Leitch Laura McMullen Matthew C Mandelbaum Edward Morse Olivier A P Noterdaeme Oliver Rees-Jones Oliver Rees-Jones Natalie L Roberts Alan C Rotsey Antonina Savchenko Katherine B Smith Joanna Sumpter Helen E Turnbull Helen E Turnbull Jack Turner Claire E Weldon

Sailing Basketball Tennis Tennis Squash Cricket Hockey Lacrosse Athletics Rowing Cricket Cross-country Cross-country Rugby Judo Cricket Judo Swimming Mod. Pentathlon Ice Hockey Kayaking Basketball Rugby Hockey Tennis Squash Volleyball Rowing (l'wghts)

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.., EXTERNAL AWARDS Chevening Scholarship Carmen I Borza Commonwealth Scholarship Keren A Murray Emilie Lagace F Shaheeda M Barrie Rhodes Scholarship Si Yu Fung Marjorie Shaw International Fellowship Katherine T A Lim

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS Artal Scholarship John P N M Biart Clarendon Fund Bursaries Cara A Krmpotich Anna M Manasco Sarah-Michelle Orton Kiran Rajashekariah Meredith M Root-Bernstein Martin A Rust Suzy J Styles Yao Yao Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award ShashaLiu ]enkins Memorial Scholarship Michal Bobek Lady Noon Scholarship Nadeem A Khan

Michael Wills Scholarship Florian H T Albert

COLLEGE SCHOLARS Rachel Adams RineshAmin Ralf Bader Peter Brice Alan Chetwynd Keely Crane Payel Das Samuel Duerden Richard Good Karen Hodgson AnthonyKay Ian Lyons Nicholas Montgomery Samuel Offer lain Porter Charity Randall Naomi Sharp Michael Streule Elizabeth Watts

David Al-Attar Rosalind Armytage Michael Bhaskar Richard Callow Katherine Clough Amy Crofton Alison Debattista Toby Dunbar Christoph Haltiner John Hogarth Caleb Klaces J oanna McGouran Mary Morgan Ross Parnell-Turner Pollyanna Powis Sophy Ridge Pierre Stallforth Paul Thornton Amy Webb

COLLEGE ORGAN SCHOLARS David Alien David McCartney

COLLEGE CHORAL SCHOLARS Jared M Campbell Madeleine Chandler RuthEvans Fatemah Mafi Joanne Robertshaw

SohailAli Prances Asquith Edward Blois-Brooke Ben Chamberlain Miriam Craik-Horan Sara Crowley-Vigneau Raymond Duddy Jonathan Edge Daisy Hildyard Victoria J ackson Jessica Leitch Agnieszka Mlicka Olivier Noterdaeme Richard Perrott Alexis Radisoglou Adil Seetal Christopher Stephens William Unsworth Crispian Wilson

, COLLEGE EXHIBITIONERS Julian Baker Sarah Chapman Dan Crick Neil Headings Jonathan Lonsdale Laura Squire Helen Wilkinson

Charlie Bartlett Thomas Collins Emma Gabriel Georgina Hellyer Coral Miles Sarah Sutton Alain Yee

James Bolton Oliver Courtney Liam Hamill Catherine Hildyard Sam Neckar Asimina Theodorou

WILLIAM R MILLER POSTGRADUATE AWARDS Ziad Ali Sarah-Michelle Orton Lucy A Reynolds Katarazyna A Zalanowska

ST EDMUND HALL GRADUATE SCHOLARS Paul D Couchman Steven S Dionne Anna M Manasco Mark L Potter Cara S Tredget Yao Yao

OTHER COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES Brockhues Graduate Awards Undine Bruckner Marina Galano Katherine T A Lim Kiran Rajashekariah Elizabeth J Scott-Baumann Argiro Vatakis Mrs Brown Bursary Nadeem A Khan Roberto Scipioni

Cochrane Scholars Tessa Andrews Samuel F H Duerden Christopher C Harding Rose V Hardy Daisy B Hildyard Caleb D H Klaces David Cox Prize Nicholas E C Montgomery Amy F Webb Richard Fargher Bursary ] essica F Long Alexis Radisoglou Gosling Postgraduate Bursary Rachel M Koncewicz Pirita M Paajanen Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Edward Alien Xin-Hui S C Chan Eleanor Ereira Edward J Hodgkinson Anna R de Paula Hanika Christopher] Stephens Nicholas J Rounthwaite Coral M Miles J.R. Hughes Book Prize for Geography Nicholas E C Montgomery Amy F Webb Instrumental Bursaries Robyn M Carpenter Emma H Culik Christopher M Jarrett Jessica R Leitch Chao Wang Luba T Mandzy

Lu Z Gram Ian S H Lyons

... Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Caleb D H Klaces, for his poem The dribbling bf!Y in the sand Ogilvie-Thompson English Prize Rachel E Adams Michael Pike Prize Michael J Streule Thomas G Braithwaite Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Samuel F H Duerden George Series Prize H Augustine K Bourne, for his essay The Three Generations cif the Revolution, and Steven T Wright, for his essay Condemned to be Free Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism Danielle Fidge

DEGREE DATES 2005-2006 Michaelmas Term 2005 Saturday 01 October Saturday 22 October Saturday 05 November Saturday 26 November

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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.

THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE & ALUMNI OFFICE NEWS As indicated in the Principal's introduction, the ÂŁ7 million Campaign for the Hall target was reached a year ahead of schedule at the end of December 2004. The Campaign end was officially announced at the London Dinner on 11 January. Aularians who were able to attend the event, again splendidly organised by Richard Finch, welcomed the news with great gusto. The celebrations and satisfaction at a job well done continued into the year as Aularian donors were acknowledged and thanked for the exceptional part they played in supporting the Campaign. The word 'conclusion' is, of course, a slight simplification. Many Aularians continue to support the Hall on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis. This unsung but regular commitment is tremendously important to the College and will form the backbone of the Hall's plans to develop an Annual Fund. Another way Aularians can support St Edmund Hall's long-term financial stability is by remembering the Hall in their wills. The legators' group, the Floreat Aula Society, continues to be run by Dr Bill Williams with the support of the Development Office. Dr Williams puts considerable effort into ensuring that Floreat Aula Society members are valued and kept informed and invited to Hall events. The next Floreat Aula Dinner will be held in College in March 2006 and, of course, new members would be warmly welcomed. The spirit of the Campaign continues with group fundraising. Since the launch of the William R Miller building in September 2004, more groups of Aularians have undertaken the challenge of raising ÂŁ25,000 to name a room in this new hall of residence. In the past year, three more groups have risen magnificently to the task and plaques to commemorate the USA room, the 1957 room and the Choughs room are now proudly on display in the William R Miller Building. Geoffrey Johnston (1953) has also donated a room and was welcomed back to the Hall in May 2005 to unveil his plaque. The Development activity at the Hall has concentrated on developing plans for the future. We have sought, and will continue to seek, the advice of alumni in formulating future strategy. We are very excited by this new phase of activity and are pleased to announce that the St Edmund Hall Annual Fund will be launched in January 2006, in which all Aularians will be given the 91

opportunity to participate. At the same time, we are sad to report that Terry Cudbird, Fellow by Special Election and formerly Director of Development, left the College at the end of July. Having made a major contribution to the success of the Campaign, Terry felt that it was an appropriate time for him to pursue his other interests. Terry's immense contribution to the Development Office, the St Edmund Hall community and the Oxford Development Forum will not be easily forgotten. His four leaving parties paid testament to his huge personality and popularity! We shall also miss Development Office student intern, Richard Caine who will be taking his year out in Germany. The Principal will continue to supervise the work of the Development Office and will be supported by Ann Lehane, Deputy Director of Development, Betony Griffiths, Alumni Relations and Annual Fund Manager and by an Administrative Assistant, who will be appointed in September. We look forward to meeting, or speaking to as many Aularians as practicable during the forthcoming year.

THE NEW YORK DINNER The 20th Annual New York dinner was hosted by Bill and lrene Miller on 12 November 2004 at the Sky Club. The assembled Hall alumni and guests were delighted that the Principal and his wife Stacey were able to attend. Francis Pocock from the St Edmund Hall Association in the UK also joined us for this memorable evening. The dinner was attended in record numbers. Bill had announced in advance that this was to be the last time that he would be in the chair for this event, and alumni turned out from across the country for this characteristically boisterous, yet civilised event. The Principal gave his annual review of events at the Hall over the previous 12 months. There then followed a series of toasts and votes of thanks for Bill's organisation of this event for these past 20 years and a framed photograph of the College was presented to him for his efforts. The dinner was attended by the following Aularians and Hall guests:- George Barner, Paul Billyard, David Brenner, William Broadbent, Roger Callan, John Child, Yves Desgouttes, Jarvis Doctorow, Leonoard Gibeon, Stephen Graae, David Hicks, James Himes, Nicholas Howard, Kelly Kasischke, William R Miller, Professor Michael Mingos and Mrs Stacey Mingos,Justus O'Brian, Francis Pocock, Larry Pressler, Gareth Roberts, Chris Simmonds, E.A. Simmonds, Simon Simonian, Paul 92

Taylor, Steve Vivian and Robert Yeager. The event was started 20 years ago when Bill and a few Hall alumni decided to have a small get-together around the time of St Edmund's Day. This then blossomed into an annual event that generally was held as a formal dinner at the New York Sky Club. Great friendships developed amongst this band of Aularians and the group also developed as the spearhead of the US alumni fundraising, again led by Bill. Over the years the dinners have been attended by a number of college leaders including the late Graham Midgley and three Principals - Mingos, Tumim, Gosling and also Mr Dunbabin. Over 300 Aularians have attended the event through the years. Steve Vivian has provided the entertainment for the past 10 years. The annual dinner is great fun and an opportunity for Aularians of all ages to meet, greet and socialise. This year's dinner will be held on Friday, 18 November at the Sky Club in Manhattan, New York City. This year we hope to have a few more Aularians joining us from the UK and we will be attempting to round up all recent arrivals to the US. Bill and Irene Miller will be this year's guests of honor (or was it honour?) Once again Bill and Irene - thank you for your service to ,the Hall and to the US Aularians in particular.

Floreat Aula! New arrivals in the U.S. and Aularians who have not attended the New York dinner before, should contact Nick Howard at nhoward@lehman.com. Finally, the annual fundraising meeting will be held in Oscars restaurant, Saturday, 19 November. Nick Howard (1976)

40 YEAR ON GAUDY FOR 1965 MATRICULANDS The 40th anniversary gaudy for 1965 matriculands took place on Friday 8 April. There was a good turnout with a total of 55 Aularians and Hall guests attending the dinner. The evening commenced with Evensong in Chapel, during which the congregation let the organist play the Magnificat solo because they were uncertain when to start singing! Drinks followed in the ODH and then dinner in the Wolfson Hall. The assembled company then repaired to the ODH for an informal dessert in a suitably convivial atmosphere. The Principal welcomed the Aularian guests and painted a picture of life at the 93

Hall in the mid nineteen-sixties. He also thanked all those who had contributed to the appeal to name a room in the new William R Miller building. This has raised ÂŁ25,000. Peter J ohnson replied on behalf of his colleagues from 1965 and congratulated the Principal on his leadership of the College over the last few years. As you can see from the photograph below, a good time was had by all. Any suggestions for the joke that was being told when the photograph was taken, on a postcard please to the Development Office. There will be a prize for the best Aularian joke.

The following Aularians and Hall guests accepted the invitation to this event: Chris Alien, Paul Badman,Joe Barclay, Robert Beckham,Jeffrey Creek, Nick Cross, John Dennis, Philip Ebden, Paul Pickling, Simon Forrest, Stephen Garrett, Ian Gillings, Antony Gribbon, Ken Hobbs, Robert Jacks on, Nicholas J arrold, Richard J ennison, Peter J ohnson, I an Laing, Geoffrey Lean, Ronald McDonald, John Morris, Brian North, Christopher Palmer, Billett Potter, Mike Randall, John Rea, Edmund Roskell, John Sayer, Richard Simmonds, Philip Spray, Anthony Charles Stansfield, Frank Webster, Richard Wycherley,

Nicholas Cronk (Fellow), Richard Finch (Honorary Secretary SEHA), Terry Cudbird (Development Fellow), John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Betony Griffiths (Alumni Relations Officer), Will Hatcher (President SEHA), Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain), Heidi Johansen-Berg (Fellow by Special Election), Paul Johnson (Fellow by Special Election), John Knight (Vice-Principal), Ann Lehane (Deputy Director of Development), Paul Matthews (Fellow by Special Election), David McCartney (Organ Scholar), Mike Mingos (Principal), Philip Mountford (Fellow), Mary Smith (Development Office), Ian Scargill (Emeritus Fellow),Jeffrey Tseng (Fellow), Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

PARENTS' LUNCH, 28 MAY 2005 For the second year running, all parents of current 2nd, 3rd and 4th undergraduates were invited to a lunchtime garden party at the Hall. Once again, the event proved extremely popular, with 73 undergraduates and their parents accepting the invitation to the event. Additional family members and friends also accompanied some parents and it was a particular pleasure to have three generations of Aularians represented by the Taylor family with Jonathan (2002), his father Stephen (1972) and his grandfather Charles (1944) all present (pictured overleaf in front of the Chapel). This year differed from last in that the weather was kinder and although it was a little windy, the lunch was held in the churchyard gardens. Basil Kouvaritakis, Professor of Engineering Science, kindly organised a quintet to perform on the afternoon and was accompanied by Keith Bowen, Camilla Day, David Ormerod and Luba Mandzy, who entertained the guests as they enjoyed their buffet meal. Parents were once again given the opportunity to join a guided tour of the College expertly delivered by five current undergraduates, Lizzie Purcell, XinHui Chan, Tom Braithwaite, Ben Raine and Robin Fellerman, who had been well trained by Dr Bill Williams, Emeritus Fellow. After lunch, many parents and students opted to walk down to the river to support the SEH crews on the final day of Summer Eights' Week. The following students and their parents accepted the invitation to this event: Rachel Adams, Jonathan Akehurst, Edward Alien, Lucy Armitage, Laura Ball, Michael Bhaskar, Chloe Brindley, James Bullock, Lawrence Bushell, Richard Callow, Julia Cartwright, Sarah Chapman, Alan Chetwynd, Tom Collins, Oli Courtney, Alison Dale, Carina Dalton, Payel Das, Camilla Day, Charlotte Dove, Asher Dresner, Sam Duerden, Hilary Entwistle, Agatha Fox, 95

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Katie Francis, Emma Gabriel, John Goodey, Matthew Greenhalgh, Joseph Hacker, Christoph Haltiner, Georgina Hellyer, Daisy Hildyard, Lucy Hopkins, Prances J enkins, Isabella J ones, Sarah Khalaf, J essica Leitch, Heather Mack, David McCartney, Laura McMullen, Stuart Mees, James Minshull, Nicholas Montgomery, Sebastian Motraghi, Andrew Olsen, Oliver Petter, Scott Phillips, lain Porter, Sophy Ridge, Joanne Robertshaw, Edward Robinson, Fiona Ronald, Nick Rounthwaite, Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky, Naomi Sharp, Tan Tan Matsumiya, Ashley Smith, Oliver Smith, Paul Smith, Emma Stone, Venothan Suri, Sarah Sutton,Jonathan Taylor, Paul Thorn ton, Celine Tricard, Lucy Wakenshaw, Elizabeth Watts, Claire Weldon, William Wholey, Helen Wilkinson, Crispian Wilson, Steven Wright, Robert Yates.

DONORS' GARDEN PARTY, 25 JUNE 2005 All Aularians who had generously contributed to the highly successful Campaign for the Hall, launched in 2001, were invited to a garden party held to celebrate its successful conclusion. Although the weather was a little gusty, it was generally a fine summer afternoon. Tea was served in a marquee, erected for the occasion in the churchyard. Guests extended numerous compliments to Chef, who excelled himself, providing a delicious assortment of sandwiches and patisserie. Once again, Professor Kouvaritakis kindly orchestrated the presence of a fine quintet to entertain the assembled company and was accompanied by Keith Bowen, Robyn Carpenter, Becky Gordon, and Luba Mandzy. The following Aularians and Hall guests accepted the invitation to the event: Farrand Radley (1935), Peter Payne (1941 ), Bernard Wheeler (1942), William Head (1944), Michael Halliwell (1946),John Pike (1946), Barrie Evans (1947), David Weston (1948), William Asbrey (1949), John Baker (1949), Arnold Grayson (1949), Robert Southan (1949), Roger Adcock (1950), Christopher Arrnitage (1950), Brian Arthur (1950), Derek Bloom (1951), David Davies (1951), Allan Jay (1951), Howard Slack (1951), Peter Brown (1952), Tony Coulson (1952), David Graham (1952), David Jacobs (1952), Michael Ockenden (1952), Neville Teller (1952),John Voigt (1952), David White (1952), Peter Ford (1953), Ian Jackson (1953), Douglas Botting (1954), John Lowe (1954), John Billington (1955), John Cotton (1955), John Cox (1955), Chris Lowe (1955), Michael Cansdale (1956), David Johnson (1956), Peter Machen (1956), Anthony McGinn (1956), John Pinnick (1956), David Short (1956), Alan Titcombe (1956), Gerald Williams (1956), David Bolton (1957), John Smith (1957), Richard Bate (1958), Anthony Goddard (1958), Philip Rabbetts (1958), Michael Oakley (1959), Brian Fyfield-Shayler (1960), Robin Hogg (1960),John Langridge (1960), Yann Lovelock (1960), Francis Pocock (1960), Rex Harrison (1961),John Heggadon (1961), Malcolm Inglis (1961), Peter Irvine (1961),James Marsh (1961), Andrew Rix (1961), Peter Vaughan (1961), Anthony Cosgrave (1962), William Hatcher (1962), Roger Miller (1962), Darrell Barnes (1963), William Dodgson (1963), Philip Hodson (1963),Jeremy Mew (1963),John Taylor (1963), Austin Bennett (1964), Paul Badman (1965),John Dennis (1965),John Sayer (1965), Peter Crystal (1966), Anthony Fisher (1966), Guy Fisher (1966), Robert Davis (1967), Roger Kenworthy (1967),Jim Mosley (1967), David Postles (1967), David Tabraham-Palmer (1967),John Berryman (1968), Michael Pike (1968), Stephen Blinkhorn (1969), Paul Parker (1969), 97

Peter Butler (1970), Frank Spooner (1970), Lawrence Cummings (1971 ), Stephen Rosefield (1971 ), Stephen Chandler (1972), Andrew Peacock (1972), Sean Butler (1973), Nick Owen (1973), Raoul Cerratti (1974), Charles Murray (1974), Gerard Rocks (1974),Jeremy Charles (1975), Christopher Elston (1976), Richard Finch (1976), Andrew A Brown (1977), lan Durrans (1977), Rajeev Shah (1977), Paul Darling (1978), Paul Meadows (1978), Caroline Morgan (1979), Jennifer Turner (1981), Anna Batting (1986), Walter Fraser (1986), David Jordan (1990), James Shelton (1990), Peter Wallace (1991 ), Suzanne Rosier (1992), Melissa Bearchell (1993), Robert Mansley (1993), Damian Yap (1993), Jackie Colburn (2002), Stephen Blarney (Fellow), John Cowdrey (Emeritus Fellow), Terence Cudbird (Development Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), Betony Griffiths (Alumni Relations Officer), Ann Lehane (Deputy Director of Development), Michael Mingos (Principal), David Priestland (Fellow), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Fellow), Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow), Celine Tricard (2003,JCR President), Chris Wells (Fellow), Dr Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), Professor Sir David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

SUMMER REUNION, 25 JUNE 2005 The format of the Summer Reunion alternates annually between a garden party for all alumni and their families and a black tie dinner for Aularians only. This year it was the turn of the black tie dinner and 69 Aularians accepted the invitation to attend this event. Although there were fewer at the Reunion than in some previous years, there was perhaps an even greater sense of conviviality. The evening began with Evensong conducted by Reverend Gerald Hegarty in the chapel. David McCartney (2003), the current organ scholar played and was accompanied by Madeleine Chandler (2003) who sang a beautiful solo piece. Drinks were then served in the marquee in the churchyard allowing Aularians to catch up with old friends before dinner. Dinner was held in Wolfson Hall, where the assembled company was treated to what many said was one of the finest meals they had eaten to date at the Hall. Having already provided a sumptuous tea earlier in the day at the Donors' Garden Party, Chef and his catering team were clearly on a roll! Port and dessert were served in the marquee, which allowed guests the opportunity to catch up with people they had not been seated next to at dinner. The Principal then gave a short address and unveiled the model of the statue of St Edmund by Rodney Munday (1967), which is to be cast in bronze and installed in the churchyard later this year to commemorate the 98

50th anniversary of the college receiving its charter. This was followed by a few words from Will Hatcher (1962) who delivered his maiden speech as President of the Association and was heard to say, "Next time I am not going to use a microphone, as a cox at the Hall I had to meet two criteria to be able to shout loudly and not to be overweight!" As usual, the carousing continued well into the night in the Buttery. Aularians who accepted the invitation to this event were: Derek Rushworth (1939), Bernard Wheeler (1942), William Dunsmore (1943), Eric ]ones (1943), John Durling (1945), Michael Scott (1947), Robert Southan (1949), Roger Adcock (1950), Christopher Armitage (1950), Derek Bloom (1951), Allan Jay (1951), Dudley Wood (1951), David Graham (1952), David Jacobs (1952), Christopher Jones (1952), David White (1952), Peter Ford (1953), David Giles (1953), IanJackson (1953), Christopher GwynJones (1953), Cecil Perry (1953), Raymond Waddington-Jones (1953), Geoffrey Willliams (1953), Brian Howes (1954),John Billington (1955),John Cotton (1955), Michael Cansdale (1956), David Johnson (1956),John Pinnick (1956),John Barrie Evans (1957), John Phillips (1957), Michael Beard (1958), Anthony Goddard, (1958), Keith Bowen (1959), Brian Fyfield-Shayler (1960), Francis Pocock (1960), John Heggadon (1961), Will Hatcher (1962), Philip Hodson (1963), Alan Vasa 99

(1966), Roger Kenworthy (1967), James Mosley (1967), Rodney Munday (1967), Stephen Blinkhorn (1969),Jonathan Fryer (1969),John Philip (1969), Paul Sadler (1969), Frank Spooner (1970), Lawrence Cummings (1971), Stephen Chandler (1972), Alan Banks (1974), Huw Evans (1975), Gordon Hurst (1975), Martin )ones (1975), Stephen Oxenbridge (1975), Brian Den ton (1976), Christopher Elston (1976), Tony Heslop (1976), Mark Hockey (1976), Chris Fidler (1978), Warren Cabral (1982), Guy Franks (1982), Louise Cabral (1986), Waiter Fraser (1986), Luke )ones (1989), Tamir Abo-el-Nour (1997), Michael Printzos (1997), Hasitha Subasinghe (1997). Hall guests who accepted the invitation were: Stephen Blarney (Fellow), Madeleine Chandler (2003), Terry Cudbird (Development Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow),Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Betony Griffiths (Alumni Relations Officer), Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain), Ann Lehane (Deputy Director of Development), Paul Matthews (Fellow), David McCartney (Organ Scholar), Mike Mingos (Principal), Philip Mountford (Fellow), Nigel Palmer (Fellow), Christopher Phelps (Emeritus Fellow), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Fellow),Joe Todd (Emeritus Fellow), Jeffrey Tseng (Fellow), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow), Jo Ashbourn (Fellow, St Cross).

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THE FLOREAT AULA SOCIETY Members of the Floreat Aula Society have pledged to remember the Hall in their Wills. If you would like to join the Society by including the Hall in your Will, please contact the Development Office and we will put you in touch with Dr Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), who runs the Society. The Society holds a biennial dinner, to which all its members and their guests are invited. The next dinner will be held on Friday 31 March 2006. Current FAS members are as follows: John Akroyd Geoffrey Archer DFC Professor Christopher Armitage Colin Atkinson JohnAyers 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 Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Robert A Bishop Dr Robert J Bishop Alasdair Blain

David Bolton Mark Booker Revd Canon Dr Michael A Bourdeaux Mrs Hilary Bourne-J ones Bob Breese Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome Geoffrey Brown James Burnett-Hitchcock Ivor Burt John Cain DSC Michael Cansdale David Clarke 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 R H Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo Dr Michael Dobbyn Jarvis Doctorow David Dunsmore Laurence Elliott Peter Evans Roger Farrand David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot 101

Paul Foote John French Robin French Revd Peter Furness Dr Patrick Garland Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill Dr Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Justin Gosling Derek Griffin-Smith Dr Philip Haffenden Mrs Maureen Haile Ronald Hall David Harding Rex Harrison John Hawkins Dr Malcolm Hawthorne Revd William Head Michael Herbert Charles Hind Derek Hoare Canon Stanley Hoffman Revd John Hogan Michael Hopkinson TD Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Mrs Ann Hughes MVO Dr Anne Irving Norman Isaacs Peter J anson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David J ohnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones Derek C W J ones Prof George Jones 102

LukeJones 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 J ames Markwick Charles Marriott John McElheran George McNaught Jeremy Mew 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 Dr Peter Phizackerley David Picksley John Pike CBE Dr Francis Pocock Christopher Pope John Preston

Philip Rabbetts Farrand Radley MBE John Reddick Bob Rednall Peter Reynolds Prof Charles R Ritcheson Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM 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 Sou than 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 Carol Mary Tricks Major General Anthony Trythall

Alan Vasa TD John C Voigt Prof John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster David Weston Geoffrey E L Williams Dr John H B Williams Dr W S C Williams Dudley Wood CBE Prof Sir David Yardley Bill Yeowart

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SEH Association London Dinner (all Aularians invited), to be held at Royal Overseas League, London (invitation inserted with this magazine) The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture

Tuesday 10 January 2006

Hilary Term (date to be advised)

1966 40th Anniversary Gaudy

Friday 24 March 2006

Floreat Aula Society Dinner

Friday 31 March 2006

The A B Emden Lecture ''Archbishop Cranmer and his biographers" to be given by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch DD, FBA at Spm in the Examination Schools

Tuesday 9 May 2006

Parents' Garden Party

Saturday 27 May 2006

Summer Reunion Garden Party

Saturday 24 June 2006

1963-1969 Annual Gaudy

Saturday 23 September 2006

1956 Golden Jubilee Friday 29 September 2006 Surely a Premier Cru, if not The Grand Cru, of the Vintage Kelly Years of the '50s -the 1956 Year will celebrate its Golden Jubilee with a Dinner in The Old Library on Friday 29 September 2006. Many members last met collectively, two years ago, at a Dinner to launch sponsorship of the room in the New Quad at Dawson Street. But a number were not able to get there on that occasion, and by general request a 50th Anniversary Dinner has now been arranged. It will not be a formal Gaudy, but rather a reunion at which old friendships, many still current, can be refreshed. Invitations with full details will be issued in good time, and every effort will be made to encourage some of those overseas - including Roger Sutton in Australia, Malcolm MacCormack in Argentina, and Basil Kingston in Canada - to make the dinner coincide with a visit to the UK. Will1956 Members please put an early note in their 2006 diaries, for an occasion not to be missed. 104

THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - JANUARY 2005 President William H Hatcher MA (1962) Principal Professor D Michael P Mingos FRS CChem FRSC Immediate Past President Dr Francis J Pocock MA DPhil (1960) Honorary Vice-President Justin CB Gosling BPhil MA Honorary Vice-President R (Bob) J L Breese MA (1949) Honorary Secretary Richard A H Finch MA (1976) Honorary Treasurer Ian W Durrans BA (1977) Up to 1944

HA Farrand Radley MBE MA (1935)

1945-54

A RJohn Lloyd MA (1946) Dudley E Wood CBE MA (1951)

1955-64

Michael J Cansdale MA (1956) John M Heggadon MA BSc (Lond) FCIM FFB (1961) Michael G M Groves DipEconPolSci (1962)

1965-74

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

1975-84

Richard A H Finch MA (1976) Richard S Luddington MA MPhil (1978) Jenny B Turner BA (1981)

1985-94

A (fony) C Greenham BA MSc (1988)

1995-04

Catherine L Cooper BA (1995)

eo-options

Ian Coleman MA (1978) Michael R Griebe BA (2003)

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MINUTES OF THE 74th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION, 11 JANUARY 2005 The 74th 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's Street, London SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 11 January 2005 at 6.15 p.m., Dr F J Pocock presiding. Over 50 members were present. Minutes. The Minutes of the 73rd Meeting, held on 13 January 2004, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising. President's Report. Dr F J Pocock said that he would make his report at the dinner. Principal's Report. Professor D M P Mingos said that he would make his report at the dinner. Honorary Secretary's Report. There were no major items. Honorary Treasurer's Report. I W Durrans said that the audited accounts were as published in the Magazine. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted. Election of President 2005-08. W H Hatcher had been proposed by Dr F J Pocock in writing by the due date seconded by M J Cansdale. As there were no other candidates, W H Hatcher was declared elected amid applause from the meeting. Elections. The following were elected unanimously: R A H Finch Elected for one year Honorary Secretary Honrary Treasurer I W Durrans Re-elected for one year 1945-54 D E Wood Elected for three years 1955-64 M G M Groves Re-elected for three years 1955-64 M J Cansdale Elected for one year 1965-74 L Cummings Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years 1975-84 R S Luddington RA H Finch Elected for one year 1975-84 Re-elected for three years 1985-94 A C Greenham 1995-2004 Miss C L Cooper Re-elected for three years Appointment of Honorary Auditor. L D Page was unanimously reappointed. Valedictory Appreciation. M G M Groves, a member of the Executive Committee, thanked Dr F J Pocock for the hard work he had put in as President. The Meeting endorsed this with warm applause. 106

Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 p.m. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.20 p.m. RA H FINCH, Hon. Secretary THE 64th LONDON DINNER THE 64th LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's on Tuesday, 11 January 2005. Numbers (135) were down on the previous year's record but the occasion was no less spirited, verging at times on the boisterous. The relative lack of younger Aularians may - or may not - explain this! Association President Francis Pocock welcomed the guests (the Principal and Mrs Mingos and the Presidents of the Middle and Junior Common Rooms) before introducing his successor Will Hatcher as twice an Aularian father with undergraduate daughter Jessica present at the Dinner as happy proof. There were cheers too for the victorious 1955 hockey Cuppers team and a party of golfers, such gatherings being the essence of the London Dinner. The loudest cheers were inevitably for Bruce Mitchell who was presented by the President with an inscribed glass bowl to commemorate his 50 years at the Hall. Bruce's response was typically direct and from the heart - he proposed to fill the bowl with champagne and toast the Hall and Mollie, "my Sheila." Old colleagues such as "the Brew" (Young and Old), Hunt, McManners and Fargher were recalled, as of course were pupils and friends. Above all was his "pride" at having been part of Aularian life. It had been "wonderful," said Bruce, and his audience signalled their agreement with a rousing choral tribute. In his speech the Principal paid tribute to the President, remarking on his "boyish enthusiasm" for modernisation and his successful promotion of the Association as a "friend-raising" organisation. An elevated rank in the Norrington Table, an abundance of Blues, the completion of the Campaign, the opening of the Miller Building - it had been another "very good" year. In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1935) Mr HAF Radley, (1939) Mr FD Rushworth, (1942) Dr JD Todd (Emeritus Fellow), (1946) Mr ARJ Lloyd, (194 7) Mr JMH Scott, (1949) Mr WP Asbrey, Mr RJL Breese, Mr TP Kelly, (1950) Mr M Baldwin, Mr J Wheeler, (1951) Mr MJ Kelly, Mr DE Wood, (1952) Mr HW Goldsworthy, Professor SD Graham QC, Mr AJ Harding, Mr DM Jacobs, 107

Mr CJ Jones, Mr NF Lockhart, The Revd EA Simmonds, Mr R Taylor, (1953) Mr JJD Craik, Mr DH Giles, Mr AJ Kember, Mr TH Lee, Mr CW Perry, (1954) Mr CB Benjamin, Mr SR Bilsland, Mr ILR Burt, Mr JCM Casale, Mr AW Laughton, (1955) Mr AJS Cotton, Mr JL Page, Mr RA Farrand, Mr J Owen-Smith, (1956) Mr BE Amor, Mr JD Andrewes, Mr GA Blakeley, Mr MJ Cansdale, Mr SC Douglas-Mann, Mr AF Ham, Mr DHJohnson, Mr GJ Partridge, Professor AWJ Thomson, (1957) Mr RLS Fishlock, Mr JW Harrison, Mr RW Jackson, Mr GR Mihell, (1958) Mr LL Filby, Mr CW Holden, Mr ML Pelham, (1959) Mr JA Collingwood, Mr F Di Rienzo, (1960) Mr JF Adey, Mr CJ G Atkinson, Dr FJ Pocock (President, SEH Association), (1961) Dr WJ Burroughs, Mr EA Fretwell-Downing, Mr JM Heggadon, Mr MG Hornsby, Mr AM Rentoul, (1962) Mr DJL Fitzwilliams, Mr MGM Groves, Mr MJ Hamilton, Mr WH Hatcher, Â·Mr NH Pegram, (1963) DMP Barnes, Mr DJ Cox, Mr RG Hunt, Mr JF Mew, Mr DC Morton, Mr RAS Offer, Mr MS Simmie, (1964) Mr AC Barker, Mr AL Bucknall, Dr M] Clarke, Mr JA Coope, Mr RWF Stoner, (1966) Mr PLD Brown, Mr AB Fisher, Mr PAD Griffiths, Sir Jon Shortridge, (1967) Mr RGR Munday, (1968) Dr DJ Hughes, (1969) Mr MJ Birks, Mr GJ Coates, Mr SW Groom, Mr DJ Parsons, Mr BA Wylie, (1970) Mr WN David, Mr PG Harper, Mr JW Hawkins, (1971) Mr L Cummings, (1972) Mr R Stephenson, (197 4) Mr PA Eggleston, Mr JAB Gray, Mr PP Phillips, Mr PH Tudor, (197 6) Mr RAH Finch, Mr PL Smith, (1977) Mr SS Advani, Mr IW Durrans, Mr AJ Haxby, Mr RFJ Ruvigny, Mr CJL Samuel, (1978) Mr I Coleman, Mr RS Luddington, (1981) Mr W-R Daetz, (1982) Mr DJ Heaps, Mr AJ Sandbach, Mr JJ Williamson, (1986) Dr DA Gillett, DrAT Harrison, (1988) Ms JJ Ensor, Mr JR Peterkin, (1989) Ms GCP Bryceson (Baird), Mr LE Jones, (1991) Ms AC Howard, (2001) Ms JJ Hatcher. The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr SR Blarney, Dr PJ Collins, Mr JPD Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Dr RB Mitchell (Emeritus Fellow), Dr P Podsiadlowski, Mr CJ Wells, Dr RJ Wilkins, Dr WSC Williams (Emeritus Fellow), Mr Terry Cud bird (Development Director), Ms Ann Lehane (Deputy Development Director), Ms Betony Griffiths (Alumni Relations Officer) . Richard Finch (1976)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2005 Year ended 31 May2005

Year ended 31 May2004

9,150 657 75 23

9,116 503 75

9,905

9,694

(1,736) (351) (176)

(8,063) (344) (65)

(8,263)

(8,472)

1,642

1,222

INCOME Subscriptions Bank Interest Emden bequest interest Sundry Income

EXPENDITURE Magazine production, postage & mailing (half) Honorary Secretary's expenses SCRGifts

Income less expenses Less Grants: Dawson Street sundial

(2,000) (2,000)

Surplus transferred to General Fund

(358)

1,222

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 10 January 2006.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY2005 31 May 2005

31 May 2004

8,975 5,700 18,252

5,800 5,700 24,481

32,927

35,981

(8,490)

(11,144)

24,437

24,837

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year 9,337 (358) Surplus from Income Account

8,115

8,979

9,337

15,500 (42)

19,500 (4,000)

15,458

15,500

24,437

24,837

ASSETS Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

Aularian Register Fund at start of year Contribution to costs of new database

1,222

W H Hatcher (President) I W Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2005. 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 2005 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date. 4 Park Village West London NW1 4AE 31July 2005

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SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS, by Mike Girling (2001) In my two terms as the sports editor for the leading university newspaper 'The Oxford Student' I mainly wrote about rugby. This spring I was able to experience a whole new side to sports journalism a long way from the muddy touch-lines of University Parks. When I first submitted a portfolio of my articles for the Clive Taylor award for sports journalism I also had to propose a project that I would pursue should I win the ÂŁ1 ,000 prize. An opportunity to combine three of my passions, sport, travel and politics, presented itself in the Caribbean island of Cuba. There were always going to be difficulties but I was confident I could overcome them. I didn't know much about the national sports of Cuba, Boxing and Baseball, but I could learn more about them. I didn't speak any Spanish, but I could learn the basics before I left. What I didn't account for, however, was the exaggerated inefficiency of the Cuban bureaucracy. From the initial complexities of applying for a journalist visa to arranging interviews through their National Institute of Sport I experienced first-hand the efforts of charming people working within a broken system. Travelling to a country as a journalist where the lack of press freedom, as indexed by 'Reporters Without Borders', is exceeded only by North Korea, was never going to be easy. Having researched both the history and the current stars of Cuban sport I decided to focus upon Cuban boxing as the best example to highlight the special nature of sport in Cuba. Since the revolution in 1959 the achievements of Cuba's amateur boxers have been unparalleled, racking up 55 Olympic medals including 32 Gold. Two of those gold medals belong to the lightweight Mario Kindelan, who beat Britain's Amir Khan in the Olympic final in Athens last year. This fact and the knowledge that he was regarded as one of the best pound-forpound boxers in the world made him my top target to interview. My month in the sun proved just long enough to secure the interview I wanted. A dispute over post-retirement rewards between Kindelan and the authorities meant he didn't surface in Havana until a few days before my 111

departure. In the meantime I conducted extra research by attending a Baseball game complete with obligatory hotdog and a regional volleyball championship. I also visited a small boxing gymnasium in the crumbling back streets of Havana's old town watching the next generation of Cuban champions train. A scheduled match against another gym I turned up to watch was cancelled when the opposing team's bus broke down and there was no other available public transport. Sitting amidst the dilapidated equipment, this example of the nation's material impoverishment made me aware of the adversity against which Cuban athletes have to succeed. The elite boxers at the National training camp, however, no longer face such difficulties. Set in an old farm complex abandoned by its owners after the revolution, it was here, surrounded by fields of banana trees, I finally met Kind elan.

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I fumbled through my notes as the relaxed figure of Kindelan ambled over to greet me. Having previously interviewed high profile sporting figures like Sir Clive Woodward while at Oxford I wasn't too overawed by the occasion. Glimpsing the glittering gold emanating from the team's trophy room, however, reminded me of the rich heritage of Cuban boxing. 112

D espite the unfortunate distance inherent in conversing through a translator (my Spanish never quite progressed from the proficiency required in a bar) I was very pleased with the interview. O n top of this I also talked to the current coach of the national team and his predecessor. H aving endured the tedium of a temporary office job in the months prior to leaving for Cuba I intended to travel through Central America with the money that I'd earned. It was in the heat of southern Mexico, therefore, that I wrote and submitted my article to The Times. It wasn't until the cool highlands of G uatemala, however, that I was informed that my article would be published. I was lucky to experience many other moments of excitement during the rest of my trip, including swimming with sharks and dolphins, watching erupting volcanoes and surviving an earthquake, but I never felt quite as happy as when I saw my name and article on T he Times website. All the work and waiting was very much worth it. [Mike's article is reproduced below. E d.]

Cuba fights to sustain production line Bv MIKE GIRLING Reporting from the island where a revolution led to a steady flow of champions "WHAT is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?" The unscripted response ofTeofilo Stevenson, the three-time Olympic gold medal-winner and boxing legend, to a lucrative offer to take on American rivals in 1972, typifies the spirit of Cuban sport. The sun-soaked Caribbean island , 80 miles south of Florida with a population less than that of Illinois, has enjoyed disproportionate sporting success since the revolution of 1959. Nowhere is this more evident than in amateur boxing- all professional sports were banned in 1962- in which Cuba won five gold medals at the Athens Olympic Games. Sarbelio Fuentes, the trainer of the national team, said that this success is no accident. "We find champions first of all through our social system," he said. "Our physical and medical services mean the trainers at the bottom have everything they need."

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Since the revolution , Fidel Castro, who led the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military rule and headed Cuba's Communist government, has abolished all racial and class barriers to participation and set up a system of specialist sports schools for the gifted. Most athletes study for degrees at special institutes while training , maintaining their amateur status and providing security upon retirement. "Sportsmen who have studied are then distributed at the bottom, teaching other people," Fuentes said . Fuentes's career chronicles the illustrious history of post-revolutionary boxing in Cuba . As a boxer in 1961, he attended a meeting with his fellow professionals at which they were given the opportunity to leave the island to pursue their livelihoods or to stay, but as amateurs. Since that day he has been involved in training some of the world's best boxers, including Stevenson , Adolfo Horta and Felix Sav6n, before succeeding Alcides Sagarra as national coach in 2001. Eligio "Kid Chocolate" Said ana, Cuba 's first world champion in 1931, is evidence that world-beating prowess did not begin with the revolution, but also provides a cautionary tale supporting Cuba's switch to amateurism. Winning all of his 100 amateur bouts, Saldana lived an extravagant life as a professional before slipping into destitution upon retirement. lt was not until the 1970s that Castro, recognising his achievements, put Saldana up in a state-backed mansion . The transition to amateur success was not easy, however. "In 1962 we taught to amateur boxers the mentality of pro boxers," Fuentes said . "As a result, in the 1964 Olympics in Japan, we only won two fights ." Technical and material support followed from other communist countries and, at the next Games, Cuban boxers brought home two silver medals. "That was the first big result in Cuban boxing," Fuentes said . "We were motivated to continue to learn, something we still do- you cannot stop that process." In the succeeding seven Games- Los Angeles and Seoul were boycotted for political reasons- there have been 32 boxing gold medals won by Cubans, 55 medals in total. Nothing happens in Cuba that is not somehow related to its northern neighbour. For each time national pride is boosted by a sporting victory over the United States, there is a corresponding dent for each defection. The most successful Cuban boxer in the professional ranks is Joel Casamayor, the WBA super-featherweight champion, who fled the training camp in Mexico on the eve of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The feelings aroused by defections are understandably strong . Because of the large investment in promoting sport, Cubans feel a real sense of

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collective ownership of their athletes. A defection is more than just an individual rejecting the system, it is felt as a loss for the Cuban people. Cuba 's material impoverishment makes its sporting success seem even more remarkable. Wander the streets of Havana in the late afternoon and you realise, however, that the lack of cars provides hordes of schoolchildren with clear spaces in which to play football or baseball. OffiCials have always claimed that the primary purpose of their sports policy has been mass participation and , with state-organised grandparent exercise classes and abundant sports in all schools, there is some evidence to support this. Mass participation located in the network of small boxing gyms in each town uncover the talent, allowing the national boxing academy to produce the champions. Two such winners- Odlandier Sol is, the heavyweight, and Mario Kindelan, the legendary lightweight who deprived Amir Khan , of Great Britain , of the gold medal in Athens- will be on display when a Cuba team compete in a four-nation championship in Liverpool tomorrow night. The prospective rematch between Kindelan and Khan, now scheduled for May or June , excites Fuentes. "In Athens, Kindelan was the only one who could beat Khan ," he said. "He (Khan) is a great boxer and I think he should go to Beijing (for the 2008 Olympic Games)." The bout with Kindelan, though, is almost certain to be Khan 's last as an amateur. "lt is a very individual decision (to turn professional)," Sagarra said . "Many pro boxers have managed their lives but some amateurs turn pro and then they stop, they become nothing ." Followers of the career of Audley Harrison will agree with the sentiment. While British fans will enjoy the spectacle of the world 's best amateur boxers, Fuentes is aware of the pressure associated with the Cuban reputation and the continuing challenge. "To keep on top is harder than to get to the top and we are working very hard to stay there," he said . "We are working to fulfil the expectation of our people." Can he improve upon five boxing golds in Beijing? "Of course. We are aiming for all13 medals," he said. The potential for change in Cuba in the near future is great, but one constant may be the outstanding performances of its remarkable athletes.

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THE BOY DONE WELL, by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Bursar) I sang along at the top of my voice to the SO's top-twenty repeat that blasted from the radio: outside lane; oblivious: floating on air, almost flying. The needle on 130 mph reminded me that I probably was flying and brought everything into immediate perspective- the last time I had done that was on my Black Shadow in 1957, but it was legal then. This time, my only fragile excuse was elation. When the magazine Editor asked me to write a piece about being a BoatRace-Father, I was reminded of those moments I have just described that followed a message from my son, Robin, that Saturday afternoon in early Spring, 2001, telling me that he had been picked to row in the Boat Race. Despite endless annual pilgrimages to the "Nat. Schools" at Holmepierpoint, Nottingham and Henley, the National and World Championships, Head Races and Regattas seemingly everywhere a river could be found, this was my greatest moment, I have to admit: before, or since. There is something very special about the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race- we all know that, from a parent's point of view, it is so much more pronounced. Since that heady afternoon, there have been many experiences to recall, but February, 2001 had the greatest impact! Being that close to a son on such a training regime is an eye-opener. There is a mantra that to follow a training schedule that tough, while endeavouring to complete a full-time Oxbridge degree course, requires a special kind of commitment. True. It requires a combination of selfish, yet selfless resolve and a phenomenal ability to compartmentalize responsibilities and deal with stress. Maybe it just requires insanity. Gone is a social life of any kind; gone are alcohol and parties; gone are late nights or even just being unwell. These days, gone is any but the simplest medication- endless colds and low resistance to every bug going, as every spare unit of resilience is sacrificed to the aim in view: to thrash the Tabs. There are the early fiXtures in Michaelmas Term, as the men are sorted from the boys, when those who joined for the kit begin to retire to College crews. In December, a first public outing exposes the possible Boat Race crews at the "trial eights" - two composite matched crews, who perform the nearest to a dress rehearsal over the course, for the press. Christmas is spoilt by the prospect of selections early in the New Year, the Pairs Trials and what is 116

known as "seat racing", where contenders for the top boats race to a standstill in fours - a very efficient way of selecting the best at moving a boat. The squad then goes off to Spain for altitude training when, despite the claims on their fitness, those involved have also to think up original excuses for being back in Oxford late at the beginning of Hilary Term! The crews are usually fixed by the end of February, then they must settle down to sort out positions in the boats and the whole gamut of preparations for the big day. I have had the privilege of being a Blue Boat Parent for four Boat Races. It is easy to become blase during each successive year, but I have always enjoyed the warm-up fixtures just a few days before the Boat Race, when the national press begins to gets its eye in. Oxford usually has a fixture with Leander, the premier rowing club that seems to have within its membership, the greatest names in international rowing (and I won't recite them!) The race is a needle match, where one first senses danger in the air. The crews are at a critical pitch. One could be forgiven, following in the launch, for thinking that the sole object is to clash; these are, by now, gladiators, scenting blood. Leander do sometimes seem rather self-confident (forgive me: perhaps they have some justification); Oxford is clearly looking to give them a short, sharp shock. During the final two weeks, the crews go into purdah, holed-up in their house in Putney, completely incommunicado, which can be very frustrating for family, but it is important for them to be away from rumour, speculation and the sheer spitefulness of those last few days before the eerie, cool calm of the start at Putney. My, those minutes before the start are tense! We sit, for what seem like hours, agonized, wrapped up and lucky, in our waterproofs, on the launches that will comprise the accompanying flotilla, while the crews go through the routines that bring them quietly to the stake boats; taut, dangerous minds set on total annihilation of the other boat. The most frequently expressed words from those who are new to this form of transport, are of the absolute shock that is generated by the speed of the start. It is, literally, breathtaking. The bow waves of the enormously powerful umpires' launches surge immediately over most of the passengers; those who are standing, are thrown back onto the bench seats, struggling for their balance, grasping foolishly at others equally unprepared. And the race is on!

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Each of my Boat Races has been a moment in history. The first, an umpire's nightmare: the only time the Boat Race was ever re-started in mid-race. Soon after the start, Oxford, clearly confidently progressing to a win; a clash and the Cambridge bow-man repeating something he had managed some years earlier in a schools' competition, lost his blade. The boats were re-started in a level position on the first bend, putting Oxford, who had been leading at the time, at great disadvantage. The rest is history: a tragic race with much illfeeling in the aftermath. 2002: that first and only race (so far), in which a crew, down on the outside of the last (Barnes) bend, rowed round the opposition to a two thirds of a length win. This was the race when the German Olympic oarsman, Mayer, rowing at three in the Cambridge Boat, collapsed during the final few yards of the race: I recall one of my son's one-liners: "they're saying the Tabs were rowing with seven men: wrong; one man was carrying the other seven, and he couldn't manage it ... " 2003 saw the closest-ever Boat Race win: Oxford; by one foot, achieved against the greatest-ever weight disadvantage- over one stone per man! In 2004, I had a break to relax a little, while Robin rowed for Great Britain at the Olympic Games (a subject about which I have not been invited to write!). What did Oxford do while he was away? Went and lost- forgive me, I'm his Dad! Robin returned to Oxford, as President of Oxford University Boat Club, for the second time- he had been elected President two years earlier, but had stood down to enable Matt Smith to achieve his ambition in 2003. Being the President's father is not an onerous task, but is a great privilege; I had the pleasure of hosting a number of parents to dine in Oxford, just before the Races (remember there are two - the Boat Race and the Isis Goldie Race) and, on the day, to try to ensure that the other parents had a good time and got on the launch. This last year - 2005 -was, strangely, uneventful. Oxford won by two and a half lengths in a race that was famous for the quality of its competitors; there were eight Olympians between the boats, four in the Oxford Boat: Robin had gone off to the Games with a bundle of Oxford Prospectuses under his arm and this was the result! The win was a euphoric moment for all of us in the Oxford flotilla. I had the most exciting trip down ever, being in the coaches' speed boat, which swooped alongside the 118

crews all the way. On the beach, we all danced and wept with joy. Just look at my picture: not many of my colleagues can boast that they have embraced the Vice Chancellor over a jereboam, but that's the Boat Race!

ST EDMUND IN VERMONT, by Michael Cansdale (1956) Students were streaming past a sign pointing to "Saint Edmund's Hall". Why was the word 'Saint' in full and not the usual 'St'? And should there really be an apostrophe before the's'? Or could it have been a different Saint Edmund? No, it was 'our' Edmund, and the Hall was one of the main buildings on the campus of an American College. This was in October 2004, and I was enjoying the warm hospitality of our American cousin, or should one say younger sister, Saint Michael's College in Vermont, celebrating the Centenary of its founding by the Priests of The Society of Saint Edmund. Like most Aularians I knew little about our patron except that Edmund had studied in Paris, taught at Oxford in the early 13th Century, probably on the site of the present Hall, gone to Salisbury Cathedral as Treasurer in 1222, and in 1233 to Canterbury as Archbishop. He died in France on his way to see 119

the Pope in 1240: his body was then taken to Pontigny, and in 1246 he was canonised by the Pope. But I discovered that this was far from the end of the story. The great Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny, after the confusion of the religious wars in France, was largely destroyed during the French Revolution, and the monastery lay in ruins until the middle of the 19th Century. Then a group of priests, who later formed the nucleus of The Society of Saint Edmund (the Edmundites as they are now called), began to restore the Abbey Church and renew its devotion to St Edmund whose body was there. They also went on to Mont-St-Michel in Brittany, to work on restoring the Abbey there; hence the name of Saint Michael for their American college. By the end of the 19th Century anti-clericallaws forced them out of France, and the Order went over to Vermont, where they already had a house of study. At the request of the Bishop of Burlington they set up a college, with just four Edmundite priests, assisted by one lay teacher, and a small group of students. They had no background in American higher education, and still had difficulty with the language. So it was a remarkable achievement that in September 1904, only just over a year after purchasing a farm site at Winooski Park, Burlington, further buildings were added, and the college officially opened, with 10 staff and 35 initial students.

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A hundred years later there is 440-acre campus, with 1,900 under-graduates, nearly 500 post-graduate students, and 150 members of faculty. The high point of many months of Celebrations was the Centennial Convocation on 23 October 2004, which followed a week packed with concerts, theatrical performances, special lectures, parties and receptions. In the late Fall colours of the tree-lined campus the Convocation started with a lengthy academic procession - hoods and gowns of every hue worn by the visiting academics from other Universities and colleges, and the College faculty and staff. The procession was led by Pipers, with Honor Society Flags, Flags of the Nations, Local Mayors, the Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, the Vermont State Governor, the US Congressman and the US Senator, ~nd a host of other dignitaries.

At every stage the priests of the Edmundite Order were prominent, in their distinctive green robes. The opening prayers were by the Edmundite Bishop Moses Anderson. This was followed by a Historical Review given by the Very Rev Richard Myhalyk, Superior General of The Society of Saint Edmund. The Choir sang as an anthem one of Edmund's Prayers, in a setting specially composed for the occasion. The College President, Marc A vanderHeyden, spoke of the challenges for the College, as a Catholic institution, and based his speech on the premise that St Edmund could and should be the inspiration for their second century. The Final Benediction at 121

the Convocation was given by Father Michael Cronogue, Local Superior of the Edmundite Order. Then on the Sunday the huge College chapel was filled for a Centennial Mass celebrated by Bishop Moses and nine of the Edmundite priests. How would one compare these two colleges, in Vermont and Oxford, both of which owe their existence to Edmund of Abingdon? Clearly the numbers are different- theirs is what we would regard as a small university, on a huge site. They have just completed a $52million dollar Appeal -our highly successful Campaign has reached our target of ÂŁ7million. Their curriculum is what they describe as "Liberal Arts", with 29 major fields of study. Ninety-five per cent of the students live on campus, and the aim of their current building programme (as ours in Oxford) is that every student should be able to live in student accommodation. The current under-graduate fee for tuition and residence is just over US$13,000 a year, but more than 80% receive financial help, by scholarship, grant, work-study position or loan. The college is situated on the edge of Burlington, Vermont's largest and most sophisticated city, which has recently been ranked the 4th healthiest and 2nd happiest place to live in the United States! The campus is close to the shore of Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains, and every student is given an all-access pass for skiing and snowboarding on the slopes less than an hour away. Would that Oxford had such facilities on hand .. . Skiing betlveen lectures. The college Iibra!]'

Many of the student societies are similar has a special vestibule for students to park to ours. The College has clubs for Drama, their skis Music, Literature, Dance, and many of the other interests we regard as normal: but they also have a Cheerleading Club, Fire & Rescue (student-run emergency squad), Wilderness Program, Snowboarding Club, Business Club and even an A-Team (for alcohol awareness!) Like us they have a strong sporting tradition, with active clubs for men's and women's rugby, and they also join forces with the 14,000 students in the other colleges and universities in the 122

Burlington area for sport of all kinds, from basketball and ice hockey to skiing. President of the College is Marc vanderHeyden, a dynamic Belgian, fluentin three languages and with a working knowledge of five more. As well as being an administrator he has been a prominent academic, having studied in the Netherlands, France, and Belgium in classics, philosophy and theology, before travelling to the US for a Master's and doctorate in History, Renaissance history being his speciality. His wife Dana, a native of the Czech Republic, was a college dean of admissions in Pennsylvania, and is energetically involved with him in every aspect of college life. And I was greatly impressed to meet many of the academic and administrative staff. Perhaps the most startling difference is that Saint Michael's is still an overtly Catholic College, in a way that is unknown in the UK, even though there is a steadily diminishing percentage of Catholic students, and adherence to the Catholic faith is not required for either students or faculty. The priests of The Society of Saint Edmund have a house on campus and a continuing place in college life, albeit no longer a dominating role. The College President, in his Centennial Address, expressed it clearly: "We are Catholic- not as early colleges in the past century were formed 'in defence of the faith', but as a forward-looking, embracing, autonomous institution of higher learning, where people of all faiths and no faith are welcome in the pursuit of truth and knowledge, with great respect for life and the differences among us." What of the future? The vanderHeydens brought a group of their faculty and some of the Edmundite priests on a heritage trip to Pontigny this July. The extent of their interest in the life and teaching of St Edmund is impressive, and they traced Edmund's last journey in great detail. On their way they spent two days in ÂˇOxford, renewing earlier contact with the Hall, and they met the Principal and Mrs Mingos, and Prof Hugh Lawrence, the leading authority on Edmund. No doubt we shall see and hear more of our American 'cousins'. One of their students, Kalika Sands, is coming to the Hall this year to read English. It is hoped that stronger links can be built between the two colleges, with 'twoway' traffic. I am sure that both colleges have much to gain through the common bond of St Edmund. P.S. You may be interested to look at their web-site: www.smcvt.edu.

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OBITUARIES 1910s Wilfred Russell James, 1919, Classics 1920s John Ladbrooke Tadman, BA, 1 January 1943. 1924, History. Lost as a result of enemy action in 1943 when the ship MV Californian Star was torpedoed off the Azores when he was travelling to the UK on leave from his Colonial Post in Nigeria. Prof William Roy Niblett, CBE, MLitt, 6 May 2005, Gloucestershire, aged 98. 1928, English Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, GCMG, KCMG, CMG, BA, 18 May 2005, Buckinghamshire, aged 94. 1929, History PROFESSOR (WILLIAM) ROY NIBLETT CBE (1928) Roy Niblett, Emeritus Professor of Education of London University, was an active contributor throughout his life to the causes which he held dear. Looking back in his mid-nineties, he inclined to the view that, professionally speaking, the ftrst half had been more rewarding than the second. The judgment implied no lessening of his searching interest in contemporary circumstances, but rather his dear-sighted assessment that much of what he had contended for had come increasingly under pressure as the 20th century proceeded. He was born in Keynsham, near Bristol, into a modest family background. In 1914, his parents moved into the city in the hope, duly fulfilled, that when the time came Roy would pass the scholarship examination for entry to the Merchant Venturers' School. He showed his mettle at an early age, when he persuaded the school to introduce an arts sixth form. With his father taking the view that Oxford University was beyond the reach of a family such as theirs, Roy Niblett read English at Bristol University, financially supported by a grant awarded on the understanding that he would acquire a postgraduate teaching qualification and serve as a teacher; this he did, but not before making it to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, for two years of research for the award of a BLitt degree. Niblett viewed himself ftrst and foremost as a teacher, whether in person or in his writing. He had benefited from teachers who took care to encourage 130

their pupils, students and colleagues, and believed that "to show confidence in others, matters in untold measure". His teaching style was supportive, searching, meticulous in detail, above all engaged in ensuring the best possible outcome to the task in hand. In 1934 he moved into higher education, as a lecturer in Education at King's College, Newcastle, and within a short time his potential abilities as a policy maker and administrator had gained recognition. In the constraining circumstances of the Second World War, he found himself serving for four years as Registrar of the University of Durham. He was appointed to his first professorship in 1945 by Hull University, and his move in 1948 to Leeds, as Professor of Education and Director of the Institute of Education, gave him the opportunity to influence teacher education at an important stage. The implementation of the 1944 McNair Report had established university oversight of the teacher training colleges to meet the challenges of the postwar world, and at Leeds Niblett was in the forefront of developments in both initial and in-service teacher education. It was the happiest time of his professional life. For 10 years, he was a member of the University Grants Committee, and he never ceased to regret losing the battle in that forum, by one vote, on the continuation of ear-marked funding for Institutes of Education. Roy Niblett's appointment as Dean of the University of London Institute of Education in 1960 increased his national and international profile. He enjoyed visiting professorships in the United States, Australia and Japan, and he served as a Vice-President of the World University Service. In 1968 when he was appointed to a chair in higher education at the Institute, the first such professorial designation in the United Kingdom, it was a fitting recognition of his role on the wider university stage. His professorial appointment also fitted well with Niblett's insistence that universities and colleges should not cease to address the question "What is higher education for?", as it became pre-occupied, in his view, by its response to a government-led policy, in which economic considerations increasingly predominated, at the expense of regard for imagination, creativity and personal development. He remained trenchant on the obligation upon higher education to offer challenge and constructive criticism to society, and not to confine itself to an agenda set by others. 131

For these reasons Niblett played a key role in the establishment of the Higher Education Foundation; he lent his weight to the formation of the Society for Research into Higher Education in the 1960s, served as its chair for three years and was awarded a Vice Presidency in 1992. To the end of his life, he was an active advocate of his philosophy of education. His final publication, Life, Education, Discovery, appeared in 2001, and a conference which he had promoted on "Higher Education and Human Good" took place in the last weeks of his life. When he left London for Gloucestershire in the 1970s, retirement was far from his mind, and he remained actively involved in many educational enterprises and much in demand as a member of boards and governing bodies. Invited to serve on the Governing Body of Bristol Polytechnic, he did so gladly, but only for three years, finding its subservience to the Bristol Education Committee "rather alarming", and a clear argument for the withdrawal of the polytechnics from local authority control. Roy Niblett's deeply held religious beliefs, grounded in non-conformity, were a central element in his life from childhood. They were shaped intellectually in the inter-war era of liberal biblical and theological scholarship, among those with a common concern for the application of Christian faith and ethics to society. His contacts were wide-ranging, academically and ecclesiastically, and his conviction that religion is an inescapable dimension of human fullness was lifelong. He was concerned at the rise of fundamentalist approaches, and in his nineties he played the major role in initiating the Severn Theological Forum, which has built up a distinguished reputation. He had married Sheila Taylor in 1938, with whom he shared over 50 years of happiness until her death in 1997. His family was always at the heart of his life, which was also enriched by an abundance of friendships to which he himself contributed in full measure until days before his death. In his later writing, Niblett reflected dispassionately and perceptively on the times through which he had lived, and with typical generosity of spirit, he often drew attention to his own good fortune.

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SIR DENIS (ARTHUR HEPWORTH) WRIGHT GCMG (1929) Sir Denis Wright, who died on Wednesday [18 May 2005] aged 94, was Ambassador in Teheran from 1963 to 1971; the dominant theme of his career is illustrated by the titles of the two books which he published in retirement, The English amongst the Persians (1977) and The Persians amongst the English (1985). Wright probably understood the Persians, their language and their culture better than any British envoy before or since. Throughout his career it was his goal to represent Britain in Iran, and he succeeded - greatly to his own satisfaction, and also to the benefit of Anglo-Iranian relations. He first went to Teheran as Charge d'affaires in December 1953, 14 months after diplomatic relations had been broken off at the time of the Abadan crisis, during Or Mossadeq's Left-wing, anti-British premiership. After the resumption of full diplomatic relations, Wright remained in Teheran as Counsellor until 1955. His appointment as Ambassador in 1963 marked the fulftlment of his ultimate ambition. Wright's knowledge was deep and scholarly, and he travelled throughout the country more widely than any Western diplomat of his generation. Many remote towns and villages retain memories of his visits. It was said that his successors became depressed when following in his footsteps and being shown, in a visitors' book which they had just signed, a verse in elegant Farsi inscribed by Denis Wright on an earlier visit. But Wright was far from being an unworldly scholar. His earlier career in commerce and his experience of economic relations and trade promotion in the Diplomatic Service made his approach to contemporary problems practical and unsentimental and led, after his retirement, to a successful career in business as a director of Shell, the Standard Chartered Bank and Mitchell Coutts. This combination of erudition and pragmatism, together with his personal charm, gained Wright countless friends in Iran. He enjoyed a close and productive relationship with the Shah which did much to keep the traditional Persian suspicions of British policy in check. It also led to his playing a bizarre role during the last months of the Shah's life in exile.

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After his abdication in 1979, the Shah had gained the impression from Margaret Thatcher, then still Leader of the Opposition, that he would be welcome in Britain. The Queen was also reported to believe that Britain should not deny him a refuge in view of the support he had given to British interests in the Middle East over the years. But once in power, Mrs Thatcher accepted the advice of the Foreign Office that to allow the Shah to settle in England would be politically unwise, and would have an adverse effect on British relations with the emerging Islamic republic. Some way of breaking this unwelcome news to the Shah had to be found. Sir Anthony Parsons, himself only recently returned from the Teheran Embassy, was the principal Foreign Office official concerned. He called in Sir Denis Wright and asked him to fly to the Bahamas to talk to the Shah. Sir Denis's reputation as a Persian expert had, if anything, been enhanced since his retirement. Moreover, he had publicly argued against giving the Shah asylum in a recent letter to The Daily Telegraph. He agreed to go, but, since he was at that time a director of Shell, stipulated that he should make the journey in disguise, lest Shell's interests in Iran be damaged. Thus it was that "Mr Edward Wilson", equipped with phoney papers and dark glasses, arrived at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island and, having been frisked by local security guards, was received privately by the Shah. After a long conversation "Mr Wilson" succeeded in persuading the Shah to accept the British Government's decision, though he was not able to dispel the Shah's bitter disappointment. He sent a laconic telegram to London, "Mission accomplished", and reverted to his usual persona. Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright was born on March 23 1911, the son of AE Wright, of Hong Kong. He was educated at Brentwood School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, of which he later became an honorary fellow. In 1935 he joined Gallaher and Company, Tobacco Manufacturers, as assistant advertising manager. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Wright was appointed Vice Consul, economic warfare, in the consulate at Constantza, Romania. He

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spent a large part of the war in Turkey, as Vice-Consul-in-charge at Trebizond, and later as Consul-in-charge at Mersin. His Foreign Office career proper began with his appointment as First Secretary (commercial) in Belgrade. The Foreign Office were wise, and perhaps in advance of the times, in making such use of his business experience, and they continued to profit in this way. In 1949 he was appointed Superintending Trade Consul in Chicago, where he won golden opinions from British exporters and American importers - to whom, at that time, the Foreign Service's connection with trade was a novelty. In 1951 Wright returned to London as head of the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office, an appointment which now seems extremely sensible, but which at the time was a departure from the Service's well-known antipathy to specialisation. Wright's long association with Persia began with his appointment as Charge d'affaires in 1953. He remained in Teheran until 1955 when he became an Assistant Under-Secretary in the Foreign Office. In 1959 he was appointed Ambassador to Ethiopia. He was no stranger to Addis Abba, having visited the country the year before as deputy leader of the British delegation to the inaugural session of the Economic Commission for Africa. In 1960, while Emperor Haile Selassie was on a State Visit to Brazil, there was a military coup in Addis Ababa. Wright got a message through to the Emperor, who returned to crush the rebellion with troops who had remained loyal. When rebel members of the Imperial Bodyguard, who had been placed on duty round the British embassy, lost their nerve, they asked the Ambassador for political asylum. "I said, 'Certainly not'," Wright reported. When the shooting broke out, there were about 900 British subjects in Ethiopia, the majority of them in and around Addis Ababa. Wright threw open the embassy compound to any who wished to take refuge there. Among them- like characters straight from the pages of Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief- were Dame Lesley Whately, director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides, Ruth Tomlinson, vice-president of the International

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Federation of Business and Professional Women, and Freda Gwilym, Colonial Office Adviser 0!1 Women's Affairs. Together these redoubtable ladies kept an African Women's Conference going, unruffled by the bullets, one of which actually whistled through Dame Lesley's skirt. ''A miss is as good as a mile," she said cheerfully. Wright returned to the Foreign Office after three years, and remained there until his next appointment to Teheran in 1963. It is difficult to overestimate the importance and achievements of his period as Ambassador in Teheran. His relationship with the Shah was all important and made possible many diplomatic successes, not the least of which was in persuading Iran to renounce her claim to Bahrain, which was seriously affecting British plans for withdrawal from the Gulf. His appointment as a director of Shell on his retirement in 1971 (he was succeeded in Teheran by Sir Peter Ramsbotham) was a natural outcome of his long experience, particularly of the oil business; and other commercial posts followed rapidly. He retained his connections with Iran by becoming a member of the Council of the British Institute of Persian Studies, of which he became president in 1978, and by serving as chairman of the Iran Society. He was appointed CMG in 1954, KCMG in 1961 and GCMG in 1971. Denis Wright married, in 1939, Iona Craig. There were no children.

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Lyth was obliged to put a price on the head of one particular bandit, who retaliated by putting one on Lyth's head - a threat finally lifted when the bandit was captured, tried and executed. In 1954 Lyth returned to Britain with his family, which by then included their four children. He attended Oak Hill Theological College before his ordination in 1957. He was sent to Cumbria and his first parish, Arthuret. But the lure of Africa could not be resisted for long, and in 1959 he moved to Uganda to be headmaster of a secondary school. There he also set up the Christian Rural Service to train young men and women in practical skills. The organisation became the blueprint for rural development agencies across Uganda. In 1967 Lyth was appointed Bishop of Kigezi, a diocese in south-western Uganda. He recorded in his diary how Idi Arnin, who had seized control of the country in 1971, came to open the new Kigezi High School: "He still calls me Major," Lyth noted, observing that he was one of the few people whom Arnin would allow to stand behind him - because he knew Lyth would not put a bullet or a knife into his back. Lyth's physical health could not keep pace with his spiritual energy and he returned to Britain for the last time in 1972. He served as curate of St Andrew's Church, Chorleywood, until1981, when he retired to Lindfield, West Sussex. He is survived by his wife and their four children. The Right Rev Richard Lyth, soldier, teacher and Bishop of Kigezi, Uganda, 1967-72, was born on November 27, 1916. He died on February 18, 2005, aged 88. ÂŠTimes Newspapers Limited 2005

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1940s Dudley Owen Butlin, BA, 13 January 1945, 1940. Lt Dudley Owen Butlin was KIA at Arakan, Burma (Myanmar) and is buried in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), Taukkyan War Cemetery (Grave Reference: Coil. grave 12. A. 5-18). Henry Lewis Backhouse, BA, 4 July 2005, aged 82, Cambridgeshire. 1941, Medicine Sidney Vernon Swallow, BA, 23 April 2005, aged 84, Hampshire. 1942, Modern Languages The Rev Eric Basil Wood, BA, 10 October 2004, aged 79, Worcestershire. 1943, History The Rev Herbert Ashton Peter Wills, BA, 16 September 2004, aged 80. 1943, PPE Nicholas Sedgwick Broome, BA, 17 January 2005, aged 80. Buckinghamshire. 1943, PPE Eric Rhodes, BA, 30 October 2004, aged 78. 1944, Modern Languages Michael Charles Maclaurin Euan-Smith, 1 February 1986. 1944, RAF Course Maj General lan Helstrip Baker, CBE, MBE, BA, 28 July 2005, aged 77, Hampshire. 1945, Mathematics/Physics Patrick Emra Marcus Holmes, BA, aged 86. 1946, Geography The Rev Samuel Salter, MA, 24 May 2005, aged 83, Lincolnshire. 1946, Theology Lord Norman Russell Wylie QC, PC, 7 September 2005, aged 81, Edinburgh. 1946, History. SIDNEY VERNON SWALLOW (1942) WHEN Sidney Swallow was 11 years old he arrived home not feeling well after swimming in Ramsden Street baths, Huddersfield. "Get to bed," his mother ordered. He collapsed halfway up the stairs of their home in Towning Row, off Trinity Street. "I woke up 13 weeks later in an allwhite room in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary," Sidney recalls. "There was a 139

hideous pain. I put my hand down to feel where the pain was, and it fell off the end. The leg had been removed." Sidney had osteomyolitis. Ten years on and he could have been treated with penicillin. In 1932 surgeons saw no other course but to remove his other leg. Sidney's mother,Jane, refused to let them. "If he is going to die he is going to die at home," she said. "So began a 10 year battle with death," says Sidney. A battle in which he gained a triumphant victory. At the age of 65 he crowned a life of astonishing achievements by setting out to fly solo to Australia. A couple of days after being released from HRI his mother and one of her friends took him by car to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He was operated on more than 40 times. "I remember not the suffering but the splendour of the people who looked after me." When not in St Bart's, where he chatted to Queen Mary when she visited the hospital, he studied at Huddersfield College, editing the school magazine. When he was 20, as his condition improved, he went up to Oxford to read modern languages at St Edmund's College [sic]. He became cox of the St Edmund's boat, competing against other colleges. "I weighed less than eight stones when I left my artificial leg on shore." On one occasion he had to hop for a mile-and-a-half along the river bank. He left Oxford during the war to work at Bletchley Park, the top-secret establishment where the Germans' Enigma code was broken. Sidney took a crash course in Japanese then translated military signals. After the war he lived in Paris, working for an agent dealing in Austin cars and translating books. He shared a flat in Paris with Donald Munro, who went on to a career as a singer, establishing New Zealand's first opera company. Back in England Sidney worked in the city of London then stayed in the commercial field, working at a senior level for firms which made, among other things, electronic instruments, machinery for the ice cream and tobacco industries and fork-lift trucks. He married a speech therapist, the daughter of a Southampton doctor. They lived in Andover for a time but the marriage was eventually dissolved.

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In his 30s Sidney went with a friend to an air show at Luton. He, paid for a joy ride in a glider and was instantly hooked on flying. He took gliding lessons at Lasham airfield, flying solo after two weeks. "I had the Icarus dream. I was inspired by Douglas Bader, the one-legged RAF wartime ace. "I slept in a bunkhouse, flew every day and started driving the winch machines which launch gliders. I was very much in demand as a winch driver because I could give pilots an extra 220ft of altitude." He qualified as a glider pilot in six weeks, going on to become chairman of the Surrey and Hampshire Gliding Club at Lasham and was also controller of the National Gliding Championships. He flew more than 70 different types of glider. When he was 46 he qualified to fly powered aircraft and bought his own plane. His call sign was Golf India Lima Echo Golf. With the I in India representing one, his call sign was One Leg. Not all his flying was incident free. "I once made an idiot of myself," he admits. "I landed without putting the wheels down." He was unhurt, but there's a twisted propeller in his home in Stockbridge, Hampshire. In 1987, with sponsorship from Shell, he embarked on a solo flight to Australia. Flying over France he detected "a sad note" in the engine. There was bad weather over the Apennines and he was cleared for an emergency landing at Pisa. The extraordinary adventure, which attracted huge TV attention in Italy, ended in Brindisi when the aircraft's engine failed. While preparing for the flight he met the late King Hussein of Jordan in this country. The King was wearing a Saville Row suit. Sidney wore Arab costume, "The coolest garments when flying." He treasures a BBC ftlm recording his encounter with the King. Sidney's late brother Jeffrey lived in Lepton. His nephew Peter lives in Marsh and another nephew John lives in Scarborough. ÂŠ Trinity Mirror plc 2005 This interview with Sidney appeared in The Huddersfield Dai!J Examiner in July 2002. Subsequently, Sidney was awarded the Freedom of Bletchley Park and, if passing through Stockbridge, Hampshire, Aularians may wish to drop in at the Grosvenor Hotel, where a caricature by a local artist and Sidney's much-prized Teddy Hall rowing cap stand as an affectionate memorial.

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THE REVD (HERBERT ASHTON) PETER WILLS (1943) The Revd Peter Wills, who died on 16 September, aged 80, was a quintessential chaplain: with an extraordinary gift for lasting friendships, he opened his priestly heart to generations of students, who remained friends for life. Born in Sheffield, he came under the influence of two outstanding parish priests, Douglas Hopkins and Oliver Tomkins (later Bishop of Bristol), at Holy Trinity, Millhouses, where he began to explore his sense of vocation. Peter's eyesight was too poor for him to serve in the forces; so he went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1943, to read PPE. Leaving for the personnel department of Cadbury's in Birmingham, his human sympathies and pastoral potential soon became visible. Many lifelong friendships were formed. After Queen's College, Birmingham, Peter was ordained in 1960, to a title in his beloved Sheffield under Randolph Wise; but it was his appointment as Chaplain of Repton, in 1964, that revealed his outstanding gifts in the educational sphere. The impact of his ministry there led a significant number to offer for ordination in their turn. His discovery of this vocation led to appointments in higher education, first as Chaplain and Lecturer at the College of St Matthias in Bristol from 1969 to 1978, and then to a period of service in the Chaplaincy of the University of Sheffield. Here his gift for relating to young people, for identifying and assisting those who needed support and guidance, and his immense capacity for friendship, were the hallmarks of his ministry. With deep convictions himself, he did not need to agonise: his well-spring was the celebration of the eucharist, and this warmed the faith and imagination of the communities he served. In the interstices of a more than full-time ministry at St Matthias's, he made time to come to help this inexperienced chaplain at Clifton College, which was the start of our friendship. While his instinctive human sympathy encouraged others to share their doubts and anxieties, both staff and students knew that they were valued and respected, and this affirmation enabled them to grow and develop. His many friends (and their children) delighted in his company at meal times, and the hilarious conversation his presence always generated. 142

A bachelor, he took great and generous delight in his nephews, his numerous godchildren, and many other young friends who gathered round him so readily. From 1984 till his retirement in 1992, Peter was Rector of Flax Bourton and Vicar of Barrow Gurney on the edge of Bristol. Although his strengths as a chaplain readily translated back into parish life, and his parishioners treasured his ministry, his retirement to Cheltenham brought an unexpected and welcome bonus in a further period of chaplaincy: the College took him to its heart, and his nearby flat welcomed a steady stream of students and staff. Peter deeply appreciated music, art, and literature; he enjoyed the British countryside and European travel in equal measure, and they gave space to his intensely demanding ministry. It was a great sadness that the serious deterioration in his health made it difficult for his many friends to maintain contact with him in his last years. He died after a mercifully brief period of acute illness. Peter would have been delighted to see colleagues and friends from every period of his ministry who came to his funeral in Cheltenham College Chapel, at which the Revd Ernest Marvin, a colleague and friend from the days of his chaplaincy in Sheffield, presided. ÂŠ Church Times

MICHAEL (CHARLES MACLAURIN) EUAN-SMITH (1944) My father wasn't actually at Oxford very long- only a matter of months, I believe. I understand he came up to St Edmund Hall as an RAC Probationer preparatory to joining the army (this was during the war, of course, and he was sent out to India) - and passing that course meant he had the option of taking up a place at the university once the war was over. He didn't take it up, and I believe he very much regretted it. He loved the army, and carried on in the TA for many years. In the 1970s he became secretary of the English-Speaking Union in London, and I'm told he did an excellent job in sorting out their problems- so much so that eventually they didn't need him any more! He then rejoined the army on the admin side, with his wartime rank of Captain.

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He was born on 13 October 1925 and died of cancer on 2 February 1986. His first marriage, to my late mother, Anne, was the longest-lasting of his three marriages (they married in 1948, separated in 1969 and divorced in 1970) and the only one to produce any issue (I was born in 1949 and my brother, Timothy, in 1952). He is survived by both sons and two granddaughters. Simon Euan-Smith

MAJOR-GENERAL IAN (HELSTRIP) BAKER CBE (1945) ON OCCASION lan Baker's unrelenting enthusiasm could have a disconcerting effect on less-energetic people around him. Yet nothing deterred or slowed him down; and he had much to show for his efforts. He could laugh at his enthusiasms too and would tell the story of how the dynamic leadership of his tank squadron along a German highway necessitated extensive and expensive repairs. lan Helstrip Baker was the son of Captain H H Baker, who, after enlisting underage with a group of schoolfriends, fought with E Battalion of the Tank Corps at Cambrai in November 1917. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and attended the short wartime course at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, before joining the first postwar intake at RMA Sandhurst. There he was quick to make his mark and, in the absence of any cadet hierarchy from more senior terms, commanded one of the four companies on parade for the presentation of academy colours by King George VI in June 1947. He was also considered a strong runner for the Sword of Honour, and it came as a surprise to many that the award went elsewhere. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in July 1948 and served with the 10th Field Regiment and then 2nd Royal Horse Artillery in the Army of the Rhine before transferring to the Royal Tank Regiment in 1955. He attended the Staff College, Camberley, in 19 59 and went to Malaya to join the staff of HQ 17th Gurkha Division for the final year of the communist insurrection. On return, he was given the challenging command of the only parachutedelivered squadron of the Royal Armoured Corps. This was an experimental enterprise intended to provide newly landed parachute troops with a heavier and longer range anti-tank capability than was available within the infantry. The Malkara guided-weapons system launchers were dropped on platforms 144

each sustained by four 66ft parachutes, while the operators descended using the customary one. As may be imagined, there were plenty of difficulties to be overcome but Baker had the unit operational on schedule and was appointed MBE for his pains. He returned to Camberley as a member of the directing staff in 1965 and was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel after a year, giving him a status in the Army above his regimental peers, then going to the Ministry of Defence to join the Chiefs of Staff Secretariat, where inter-service conflicts of interest could be seen at first hand. Command of 1st Royal Tank Regiment, a stint as Regimental Colonel and command of 7th Armoured Brigade in the Army of the Rhine followed in rapid succession. While in the latter post, he instituted an experiment entitled Square Rat, from the brigade's Desert Rats nickname, to test the "square brigade" structure. This was a move away from the three squadron and three company organisations of armoured regiments and mechanised infantry battalions, that constrained tactics and impaired performance after casualties, by substituting a four and four structure. Results proved the effectiveness of Baker's proposals decisively; his recommendations were sent to the MoD by his divisional commander, Major-General Oater Field Marshal Lord) Bramall, and were eventually accepted as standard practice. After a year at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, he went to HQ UK Land Forces at Wilton as Brigadier General Staff, for which service he was advanced to CBE. He left before completion of tenure to undertake a short service fellowship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was promoted to major-general in 1978 to become Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements) responsible for the Army's programme for the acquisition of new weapons and equipment. This was an immensely important and indeed difficult task to undertake with success, presenting as it did a constant conflict between needs and financial resources. Baker tackled it with his customary vigour, undertaking and directing detailed research into each project to achieve a timely result. Inevitably, given the slow pace of development of new systems, it was left to his successors to reap the benefit of his efforts. In 1980 he returned to York as GOC of the extensive North-East District 145

stretching from the Borders south to the Humber. While he was there, a strike by prison officers called for the deployment of regular troops to ensure prison security. This was a most unpopular task, not least because the pay of striking prison staff was significantly greater than that of the troops substituted for them. Baker visited every prison daily where his troops were on duty, giving forthright briefings to the press clamouring around each site with a force and passion seldom heard in such circumstances. Nothing escaped his notice or comment, with the result that the Army received much favourable coverage. As his record suggested that further advancement may have been on the cards, his retirement at 54 came as a surprise to some of his contemporaries. Yet, no doubt with happy recollections of his two brief experiences of university life, he applied for and was selected as secretary and head of administration of University College London. There followed nine of possibly the most rewarding years of his active life. His involvement with all aspects of life at UCL and with individuals of all ages and disciplines set an example that brought widespread admiration. The visit of the Queen to open the work designed by Sir Hugh Casson for completion of the Front Quad in 1985 found him in his element, insisting on meticulous timing and a full dress rehearsal by every member of staff involved, without exception, on the previous day. On leaving UCL, he undertook a degree course in modern history at the Open University, graduating with a first in 1995. He had been a Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment from 1981 to 1986 but latterly he gave much of his time to regimental affairs and history. He was proud to be a Rotarian and worked tirelessly to help to raise money for local and international charities. He married Susan (Sally) Lock in 1956. She survives him with a son and daughter. Their elder son predeceased him. Major-General I H Baker, CBE, GOC North East District, 1980-82, was born on November 26, 1927. He died on July 28, 2005 aged 77. ÂŠ2005 Times Newspapers Limited 146

THE RT HON LORD NORMAN RUSSELL WYLIE QC, PC There are lawyers who are primarily politicians, and Members of Parliament who are primarily lawyers. Norman Wylie was very defmitely in the latter category. He was a lawyer first of all and secondly, very secondly, a politician. He was extremely highly regarded by his legal contemporaries, which is a rather rare accolade among lawyers who go to the House of Commons and particularly those who use the law as the stepping stone to a political career. As a Member of Parliament who had a great deal to do with Wylie during his decade as Conservative MP for the Pentlands division of Edinburgh, 1964-74, I can say at first-hand that he was superbly conscientious and helpful in dealing with delicate constituency cases, in his capacity as head of the Crown Office. Norman Wylie was born in 1923 into a professional legal family in Renfrewshire and went to the rigorously academic Paisley Grammar School. As an 18-year- old, he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm and learned to fly in Swordfish aircraft and in Catalinas on patrol over the Atlantic. After the Second World War, he was a very active member of the Royal Naval Reserve and reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander in 1954. Taking up his entrance to Oxford, he studied English Law at St Edmund Hall and was delighted to be made an Honorary Fellow of the college in 1975. Like many talented Scots, having been to Oxbridge, he acquired his legal training for a career in Scotland at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, obtaining an LRB from Glasgow in 1951. Admitted to the faculty of advocates in 1952, he was appointed Counsel to the Air Ministry in Scotland in 1956 and an advocate depute in 1959. Owing to the shortage of lawyers among Conservative Scottish Members of Parliament, he became Solicitor-General in April 1964 before becoming the anointed successor of the Conservative Minister of Works in the Pentlands division of Edinburgh. In a tightly fought election, he beat Magnus Williamson, a prominent member Âˇo f the Press Council and president of the NUJ, by 20,181 votes to 17,794, with the liberal, Charles Abernethy, a distinguished civil engineer, taking 5,862 votes. Wylie was to hold this seat by a whisker in 1966.

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During the years of the Labour government, Wylie was most effective in opposition, combining with talented Conservative contemporaries, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Hector Munro and George Younger. Among the issues on which Wylie led during Scottish debates were the Criminal Procedure in Scotland Bill of 1964, the Employers' Insurance Bill, the Evidence (Road Traffic) Scotland Bill, the Highland Development Scotland Bill, the Protection from Eviction Bill and several Law Commission Bills. Wylie was one of those parliamentary workhorses who are invaluable. They do not get publicity or public acclaim but they are crucial to the working of democracy. In July 1965, there was the contentious issue of the Judges' Remuneration Bill, aUK measure. Wylie was most effective in countering cheap jibes against the judges, many of whom had given up the greater advantages of lucrative legal practice in order to serve on the bench. He said, I want the Minister of State to answer this question. Why has the opportunity not been taken to increase the establishment of the Scottish bench? The Honourable Gentleman will have expected me to raise this question. He knows as well as I do that, in the last 17 years, the establishment of the Scottish bench has been raised by only three. Since 1948, three additional judges have been appointed, one under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956, one under the Criminal Justice Act of 1963 and one under the Resale Prices Act of 1964. This brings the Scottish establishment at present up to 18. On each of these occasions, the legislation imposed further duties and obligations on the courts. Wylie's championing of the Scottish bench was fully justified and adverse comment at the time that he was simply pleasing a body of which he would inevitably become a member was wholly unjustified. As Lord Advocate in Ted Heath's government, 1970-74, Wylie played a prominent part in domestic legislation in Scotland and was most helpful to those of his English colleagues, such as Sir Geoffrey Howe (now Lord Howe), who had the responsibility of tackling the legal problems associated with their prime minister's drive to enter the European Community. Wylie told me that, because of his wartime experiences and passionate belief that there must never, ever again be a European war, he was absolutely committed to the European vision. As one of those Labour MPs who, on 28 October 1971, went into the same lobby as Ted Heath and Norman Wylie, I talked to him about many of the legal knots of European entry. I was deeply impressed at his painstaking scholarship. Wylie left the House of Commons of his own volition in February 1974, 148

amicably allowing a young candidate by the name of Malcolm Rifkind to inherit the Conservative candidature. Unlike every Lord Advocate other than one Oohn Wheatley), he did not appoint himself to a position of Lord Justice Clerk or Lord President of the Council but simply as a Senator in the outer house. This reflects well on his decency and modesty. On the Scottish bench, he earned the total confidence of his colleagues and was thought by those who appeared before him as one of the most courteous and yet shrewd judges. His distinguished colleague Lord Prosser, says, 'One could always be absolutely confident that Norman would be fair and balanced in his approach and conclusions on the bench.' On retirement, Norman Wylie became a member of the Parole Board for Scotland and a Justice of Appeal for the Republic of Botswana. For 20 years, he was a trustee of the Carnegie Trust for universities in Scotland and, as the present Rector of Edinburgh University, I am in a position to know of the huge debt that Scottish universities owe to the Carnegie Trust, much of whose confidence in donating large sums to Scottish universities is due to Wylie's work. Wylie had a deep interest in the Commonwealth and was chairman of the Scottish national committee of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth. Norman Russell Wylie, lawyer and politician: born Elderslie, Renfrewshire 26 October 1923; QC 1964; MP (Conservative) for Pentlands Division of Edinburgh 1964-7 4; PC 1970; Lord Advocate 1970-7 4; a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland 1974-90; Member, Parole Board for Scotland 1991- 93; Justice of Appeal, Republic of Botswana 1994-96; married 1963 Gillian Verney (three sons); died Edinburgh 7 September 2005. Tarn Dalyell ÂŠIndependent Newspapers (UK) Limited 2005

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1950s John William Gregory Ridd BA, 10 May 2005, aged 73, East Sussex. 1951, Modern Languages. Dr George Murdoch MBE, PhD, MA, 15 April 2005, aged 75, Wigtownshire. 1953, Soil Science John Philip Lloyd, OBE, TD, MA, Colonel RWF, 30 September 2004, aged 72. 1953, Law Qurisprudence) Peter James Hillson, BA, West Midlands. 1953, English Edward Jackson, BA, 13 January 2005, Humberside. 1954, History Robert Michael Eades, BA, 9 December 2004, aged 70, Cheshire. 1955, Geography Derek Barkley Brown, BA, 1 October 2004, aged 69. 1956, History DavidJohn Playle, BA, 16 March 2005, aged 68. 1958, Modern Languages

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1970s Neil McLaren Ribeiro, BA, 31 March 2005, aged 54, Berkshire. 1970, Modern Languages

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NEIL PETER GILLESPIE (1995) Neil joined Teddy Hall in 1995 and studied Mathematics and Philosophy. A quiet but confident character, he made many friends across the college and was wellliked by everyone. He was a positive and outgoing person who would always make time for a drink or a chat, and his company was highly appreciated by his peers. A talented footballer, Neil played in central midfield for the college 1st XI. As with everything he did, he wore his heart on his sleeve and would always give his all for the team. His finest hour came when Teddy Hall won the Cuppers final 4-0 at the Blues' pitch off Iffley road, with most of the college cheering them on in the pouring rain. Neil himself was a fan of all sports, and would regularly be seen supporting friends in the rugby and hockey teams up in the parks. After settling in and establishing himself within different circles across the college, Neil was elected to join the JCR committee as Charities Officer. His work on behalf of the college was much appreciated by both fellow members of the committee and the rest of the JCR. He enjoyed participating fully in college life on all fronts, either getting involved in organising events or supporting those arranged by others. Neilloved music and the movies. His extensive CD collection included some by lesser-known artists such as the Sultans of Ping (famous for the classic track "Where's me jumper?") - he jokingly admitted that he became an avid fan of the Sultans when he was at school and you had to find the most obscure band to be into, in order to be cool and get away from 'mainstream stuff'. In his final year at college, Neillanded a lead role in a short movie for a competition - he would spend hours perfecting a trick with his Zippo lighter, which was to be the hallmark of his on-screen character. A life-long supporter of Nottingham Forest FC, Neil was never slow to point out to Manchester United fans that Forest had won two European 151

Cups to their one -particularly after he had regrettably invited friends up to the City Ground to watch a Premiership encounter, in which Forest suffered a heavy defeat. If you ever referred to his team as 'Notts Forest', Neil would quickly correct you, explaining that 'Notts' was reserved for their dirty rivals - Notts County. After finishing his studies in 1999, Neil spent some time working in London as a writer for a magazine. Subsequently, he decided to take the opportunity to travel and experience a new culture by teaching English in Japan for two years. When he returned home to catch up with his family and friends, he would have engaging stories to tell about the life he had built out there, and of the new friends he had made among fellow teachers and the local community. Neil will be remembered by his college friends as a very genuine, quickwitted and fun-loving person who gave a lot to the people around him. We all feel privileged to have shared some great times with him and have some priceless memories. Neil Gillespie, 27, died in Nottingham on 10 January 2005. Thomas M R Brain (1995)

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IN MEMORIAM Cyclists celebrate the life of David Ryan

In the early morning of Sunday 26 June, 250 cyclists from all over the south of England convened in the village of Yarnton near Oxford to take part in the inaugural David Ryan Challenge Ride. This 1 00-mile 'Circuit of the Cotswolds' ride was organised by friends of David from Oxford University Cycling Club, and marked the first anniversary of his tragic death at the age of 32. David, who had been an undergraduate and postgraduate member of St Edmund Hall (1990-97), was killed by the teenage driver of a speeding car while training on his bike in the USA last year. During his time in Oxford, David had proved himself a world-class scientist. He won the top first of his year in Physics (a result which mathematically put him in the top 0.5 % of the top 1% of all physicists in Great Britain that year) and for this the Scott Prize. His tutor, Prof. Nick Stone, had written to him with his results, saying: "Words fail me. Fantastically well done." David went on to gain his DPhil under the supervision of Harry Jones in the 'Magnets Group' at the Clarendon Laboratory. He then worked for Oxford Instruments, before being headhunted to the USA by General Electric to develop the next generation of MRI cancer scanners. David was also a gifted athlete. A racing cyclist and rower, he would push up the pace to ensure a prompt return from his Sunday club-runs with Oxford University Cycling Club so that he could go training on the river with Teddy Hall First VIII that same afternoon. 153

In his cycling, David was a true 'hard rider' who loved long gruelling rides on tough terrain. He would turn up for a club ride whatever the weather, and had a particular affection for the Cotswold hills. Recalling the cycling that David most enjoyed, the 26 June event combined 100 miles with 2,200 metres of ascent and stunningly beautiful scenery. Proceeds of nearly ÂŁ3,000 went to Yorkshire Cancer Research, reflecting David's pride in his Yorkshire roots and his recent work on cancer scanners. The number of entries to the event exceeded all expectation, and judging by the deluge of post-event feedback, riders have been captivated by the challenge, by the beauty of the Cotswolds and by the spirit of the cause. The David Ryan Challenge Ride will be held again next year, and has a website at: www.circuitofthecotswolds.org Eleanor Williamson (OUCC 1996-9)

The Editor thanks all those who, with only a small amount of persuasion, have contributed to the 2004-5 edition of The Hall Magazine. However, this publication is about Aularians, for Aularians which without news of their activities both in and out of Hall - would be a very skinny affair. Aularian update news is always welcome, at any point in the year, and Aularians are encouraged to keep in touch by post, telephone or email - contact details can be found on page (ii) at the front of this edition.

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