St Edmund Hall Magazine 2005-06 by St Edmund Hall

Magazine 2005 - 2006

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

St Edmund Hall Oxford OX1 4AR Telephone (01865) 279000 Internet: http:/ / www.seh.ox.ac.uk/

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.. Vol. XVII No. 1 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2006

COLLEGE LIST ................................................................................................................. 1 TO REPORT From the Pro-Principal ................................................................................................... 8 From the Chaplain .......................................................................................................... 12 From the Librarian .......................................................................................................... 13 From the Bursar .............................................................................................................. 22 The Senior Common Room ......................................................................................... 27 The Middle Common Room ....................................................................................... 34 The Junior Common Room ........................................................................................ 36 Clubs and Societies ......................................................................................................... 38 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ..................................................................................................................... 50 Inside Old English: a festschrift for Bruce Mitchell ....................................................... 54 The Geddes Lecture ..................................................................................................... 59 Tthe Philip Geddes and Clive Taylor Prizes ................................................................. 61 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry ......................................................... 62 The Ball at the Hall ....................................................................................................... 63 The A B Emden Lecture ............................................................................................... 64 Creative Writing at the Hall ........................................................................................... 65 The George Series Prize ................................................................................................. 68 Mooring 2006 ................................................................................................................ 68 The MCR Seminar Series .............................................................................................. 69 Old and New- an interview of Dr Ernest Parkin, new Home Bursar .................... 70 Obituaries: Norman Charles Pollock .......................................................................... 73 Joseph Derwent Todd ........................................................................... 75 Peter Felix Ganz ..................................................................................... 78

FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ........................................................................................................... 82 Matriculations ................................................................................................................ 82 Visiting Students ........................................................................................................... 87 Degree Results ............................................................................................................... 88 Awards and Prizes ......................................................................................................... 93 Degree Dates 2006-2007 ............................................................................................. 101

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ARTICLES 127 A Journey from the East to the West, by Dr Cuppam Dasarathy My Union Experiences, by Sapana Agrawaloooooooooooooooooooo oooooo oooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooo•oo• 130 The 11th Wife-Carrying World Championships, by Xin- Hui Chan oooooooooooooooooooooooo• 132 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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ST EDMUND HALL 2005 - 2006 Visitor The Rt Hon Chris Patten, CH, MA, EU Commissioner for External Relations Principal David Michael Patrick Mingos, MA (BSc Mane; DPhil Sussex), FRS, CChem, FRSC Professor of Chemistry

Fellows Knight, John Beverley, MA (BA Natal; MA Camb.) Professor of Economics and Tutor in Economics, Vice-Principa4 Academic & Investment Bursar Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Tutor in Modern Languages (Medieval German) Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Land) QC Fellow i?J Special Election Blarney, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow i?J Special Election in Philosopl!J 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 (PhD Leic; MA Camb) Ox burgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Tutor in Economics and Pro-Principal Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (MSc, PhD Mane) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering and Tutor for Graduates Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, AcSS, FRHistS Professor of Comparative Education and Fellow i?J Special Election Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil Universiry Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, WR Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor

Crank, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil University Reader in French Literature, Prrifessorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil A. C. Cooper Fellow, Prrifessor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Prrifessor of Abnormal P.rychology and Tutor in P.rychology Naughton, James Duncan, MA (PhD Camb) Fellow f?y Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Bourne-Taylor, Geoffrey, MA Bursar Brasier, Martin David, MA (BSc, PhD Lond) Prrifessor of Palaeobiology and Tutor in Geology Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern History Whittaker, RobertJames, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Prrifessor of Biogeograpf?y and Tutor in Geograpf?y Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA (BEng, PhD Liv) Prrifessor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering and Dean Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dublin; PhD Lond., Dr HonCausa Sofia) Prrifessor of East European History, Fellow f?y Special Election and Archivist Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS Isaac Wo!fson Prrifessor of Metallurgy Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, FBA Prrifessor of German Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (PhD Camb) University Reader in Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Tutor in Pf?ysics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) Tutor in Engineering Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Prrifessor of Neurology, Fellow f?y Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry

Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Ritcheson Fellow and Tutor in Modern History and Tutor for Admissions Bull, Malcolm Glen, MA (MA Lond) Fellow f?y Special Election in Fine Art Ebers, George Cornell, MA (MD Toronto) Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology Flanders, Alan (BA Old Dominion; MA English-Hollins; DPhil George Washington) Fellow f?y Special Election Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow f?y Special Election Paxman, Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb) 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 Kai:ka, Maria, MA, DPhil (MA NTUA) Tutor in Geography Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; PhD Princeton) Tutor in English Wentworth, Richard, MA (MA Royal College of Art) Professorial Fellow, Ruskin Master of Drawing Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Tutor in Management Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Fellow f?y Special Election Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, PhD Camb) John Harris Memorial Fellow and Tutor in Materials Science Tseng, Jeffrey, (BSCIT; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Physics Griffiths,Jane Elizabeth, MA, MSt, DPhil Fellow f?y Special Election in English Wilkins, RobertJ, MA, DPhil American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology Nabulsi, Karma, DPhil Tutor in Politics Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin, (MPhil, PhD Camb) Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East 3

Dicko, Gdric, DPhil (MSc Aarhus) William R Miller junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology Williams, Christopher Welsley Charles, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Galano, Marina Lorena (Lie Buenos Aires) Fellow f?y Special Election

Honorary Fellows McManners, the Revd John, CBE, MA, DLitt, FAHA, FBA, FRHistS O xburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon. Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC, BA Harris, Roy, MA, DPhil (PhD 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, DPhil (BA Wisconsin) Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, MA Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Jus tin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA Garland, Patrick Ewart, MA Marchington, Anthony Frank, MA, DPhil Nazir-Ali, Rt Revd Michael James, MLitt (BA Karachi; MLitt Camb; PhD NSW) Jones, Terence Graham Parry, MA Roberts, Gareth, MA Crossley-Holland, Kevin J ohn William, MA, FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Edwards, Steven Lloyd, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, MA Doctorow, Jarvis, BA

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, DPhil (LLD Birm.), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Ridler, Vivian Hughes, CBE, MA Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB, ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond) Pollock, Norman Charles, BLitt, MA (BA Cape Town) * Ganz, Peter Felix, MA (MA, PhD Lond) * Mitchell, Raymond Bruce, MA, DPhil, DLitt (MA Melbourne) Todd, Joseph Derwent, MA, DPhil * Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Cowdrey, The Revd Herbert Edward John, MA, DD, FBA Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, BSc, MA, DPhil, CChem, FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM, BCh, MA Warden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (PhD Lond) Newsom-Davis, John Michael, CBE, MA (MA, MD Camb), FRCP, FRS Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art) RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dean of Degrees Hunt, John David, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) *Deceased

Lecturers Oldham, Neil John (BSc, PhD Keele) Chemistry Laidlaw, W Michael, MA, DPhil Chemistry (Inorganic) Gamblin, David Philip, MChem, DPhil Chemistry (Organic) Newcomb, Thomas Christopher, BA, DPhil Computer Science Whittaker, Paul David, MA Computer Science Aarnio, Outi Marketta, DPhil (Licentiate Abo Akademi) Economics Griebe, Michael Roger, MPhil (BA Texas) Economics Povey, Richard, BA, MPhil Economics Little, J Paige (BEng, PhD Queensland) Engineering Papachristodoulou, Antonis (MA, MEng Camb; PhD California) Engineering Salisbury, Stephen Thomas Samuel (BSc Queen's, Kingston) Engineering Dutton, Elisabeth Mary, MA, DPhil (MA Durh) English Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA, MSt, DPhil (MA East Anglia) English Archer, Michael George (BA Camb; MEd Mane) Fine Art Smith, David Edward (BA Mane; PhD Edin) Geography Geology Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb) History Forrest, Ian, DPhil (MA, MPhil Glas) Law Adams, John Douglas Richard (LLB Durh) Materials Science Castell, Martin Rolf (BSc Exe; PhD Camb) Burton, Lucy Melanie, MMath (LL B Land) Mathematics Lotay, Jason Dean, MMath Mathematics Piatkus, Matthew Alexander, MMath Mathematics Black, John (MB, BS Land), FRCS Ed, FIMC RCS Ed, FFAEM Medicine (Anatomy) Teague, Warwick Jonathan (MB BS Adelaide), MRCS Eng, MRCS Glas Medicine (Embryology) Cowley, Sally Anne (BA Camb; PhD Land) Medicine (Molecular Biology) Keating, Peter Emmett (BA Dublin) Medicine (Neurophysiology) Duboc, Lauriane (Maitrise Grenoble) Modern Languages (French) Goddard, Stephen, BA, DPhil Modern Languages (French) McCombie, Elizabeth Alice Anne, MA, MSt, DPhil Modern Languages (French) Modern Languages (French) Williams, Renee, MA Modern Languages (German) Meyer-Beining, Janna-Liisa (MA Leipzig) Modern Languages (German) Ockenden, Raymond Curtis, MA, DPhil Modern Languages (German) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut Modern Languages (Linguistics) Malpas, Margaret Ann, MA, BLitt 6

Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA Vienna; Dr des Basle) Modern Languages (Polish) Baines,Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Modern Languages (Russian) Southworth, Eric, MA Modern Languages (Spanish) Alien, Roger William, DPhil (BA, BMus Liv) Music Wilk, J ames, MA, D Phil Philosophy Politics Fine, SarahJane, MPhil (BA Camb) Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus, MA, Barrister-at-law Politics Styles, Elizabeth Anne, PGCE, DPhil (BSc Oxford Polytechnic) Psychology

Chaplain The Revd Gerald Hegarty (BA, BD BelÂŁ)

Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA

Artist in Residence David Ormerod College Secretary & Registrar J oanna Cope, MA Head Porter David Beeching Decanal Stqff Mandzy, Luba Tamara, MSc, (BA Harvard) Callow, Richard Howard Thomas, MESc Dionne, Steven Scott, BA, MSc (BSc Bentley) Griebe, Michael Roger, MPhil (BA Texas) Tredget, Cara Siobhan, (MSci Bristol)

Junior Dean Cover Dean Sub-Dean (NSE) Sub-Dean (Isis) Sub-Dean (Isis)

FROM THE PRO-PRINCIPAL In last year's Magazine the Principal looked forward to hearing, from his sabbatical, an account this year of the Women's Head of the River celebrations. Alas I cannot fulfll that wish in its entirety, because the major celebration is planned for early Michaelmas Term, but I can report that the sporting success itself was duly accomplished in crushing style. Congratulations to Kerrie Barrett and her Eight, also to their tireless coach Dick Fishlock. Doubtless more on this later in this issue. Next year sees the introduction of a very important innovation in undergraduate life: the new ÂŁ3,000 university fee. There is no doubt about several key facts of life: that universities and colleges need a lot of revenue to support high-quality teaching; that the UK government is unwilling to provide all of this out of the public purse; that the long-term financial benefits to an individual student of an Oxford education are potentially very high. All these lead policy-makers inexorably to the conclusion that students and their families should contribute more. In a perfect financial world (I'm an economist so I know all about perfect worlds!) the only problem is one of timing, and this can be resolved by an income-contingent loan system which avoids the need for up-front payment. In theory nobody should be put off going to university by the new system. However life is more complex than that, and I think there can be equally no doubt that the prospect of large certain debts against an uncertain future will have serious effects on families without significant assets to fall back upon, and on those whose sights are not firmly set on the most lucrative careers. I hope many Aularians will look back with me on the post-war decades in the UK as a period of very beneficial high social mobility fuelled by the availability of high-quality secondary and higher education free at the point of use. The golden years of the Hall's expansion are a great testament to this. But there is a real danger that this will be lost, and the quality of our higher education will be maintained but only at the cost of specialising in an efficient

and well-trained but almost exclusively upper-middle class clientele. The Hall is of course committed to an admission policy wholly on the basis of individual merit, but this cannot be completely effective if some of the appropriate candidates do not even apply. For this reason we know we must commit more financial resources to student support. Several generous old member benefactions have already contributed to this aim, and our new Annual Fund has it as one of its priorities. I do ask old members to support us wholeheartedly in this endeavour. We have talked for some years about the coming need for this, but the time is now clearly upon us. There are few ways in which a donation can have a more immediate beneficial effect than in student financial support. Another concern of the University and the colleges this year has been the continuation of the governance issues noted by the Principal in last year's Magazine. The University's Governance Working Party has now produced a third report. This is clearly the definitive set of proposals which will be considered by Congregation in Michaelmas Term. The proposals have undergone substantial changes as a result of the consultations arising from the first two versions, but there are still issues which will provoke controversy, particularly the role of external members. There are also in the pipeline at various stages several other proposed reforms concerning the internal relationships of the University and colleges, particularly their financial aspects. Fellows in this college and others have strong views in several directions, so Aularians should therefore expect to see continued press interest over the next year, although as always I would counsel healthy scepticism of the press coverage! Academically the Hall's undergraduates have done very well again. 32 undergraduates (out of 116 taking Finals) have achieved First-Class degrees. Noteworthy among these were five Firsts in Engineering, four each in English and Physics, and three in Materials/MEM. As a result the Hall came 13th in this year's official Norrington Table. Nor should we forget the performance of graduates: in the course of the academic year 6 achieved their D Phils; and 30 achieved Masters degrees, several with Distinction. Of graduate lawyers three gained Distinction in the BCL and one in the MJuris. Several Hall students gained University and external prizes. It was a good year for sport too, with a decent haul of successes. I have already mentioned the Women's Eight taking their rightful place at the Head 9

of the River. A similarly momentous event occurred in Football where we achieved the unique double of simultaneous Men's and Women's Cuppers: in this World Cup year it is a sobering thought to be told that the Men's Cuppers trophy is possibly the oldest football trophy in the world still in current use. We were league champions in Cross Country, and the Ladies' Tennis Cuppers and league titles also came to the Hall this year. The year has seen the usual round of old member activities: a Gaudy for the 1956-62 matriculands, and a 40-year Gaudy for the 1966 year, the January London Dinner and the June garden party in Oxford. I attended the New York St Edmund Dinner in November and Mike Mingos was able to attend the big Oxford University New York occasion in March and a Hall dinner on the west coast of the USA. Next year will be rather special, for it marks the 50th anniversary of the grant of the Royal Charter giving full collegiate status to the Hall. Old members of the period will remember the Duke of Edinburgh presenting the Charter officially to the Hall. We are hoping he may be able to renew his visit; certainly next year's June reunion will be a particularly special one and we hope as many Aularians as possible from that era will wish to attend. Our two commemorative public lectures this year went very well. The Emden Lecture given in a Cranmer anniversary year by Prof Diarmaid MacCulloch on "Archbishop Cranmer and his Biographers" was by general agreement a distinguished addition to the already distinguished list of previous Emden Lectures. The Geddes Lecture given by Nick Robinson, Political Editor of the BBC, received much media attention and coincided well with some new University initiatives in journalism. The main Geddes Prize was won by Jack Shenker of Balliol: the specific Hall Prize and the Clive Taylor Prize for sports journalism were both won by Charles Boss (2003, English Language & Literature). We must record our thanks to Professor Richard Crampton who retires as a Geddes Prize judge along with his more general retirement; he has served for 5 years and his efforts have maintained a high standard and a high level of interest in the prize. He will be succeeded by David Priestland. I should also mention a new commemorative prize, the Reggie Alton Prize, funded by the generosity of Reggie's family, awarded for the first time this year, to Sara Crowley-Vigneau (2003, Modern Languages), for a research project into the use of language in concentration camps in the Second World War.

The Fellowship continues to receive welcome injections of new blood. This year we admitted Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Cedric Dicko, Marina Galano and Wes Williams (noted elsewhere). Professor Colin Mayer will also join us next year from Wadham College as Peter Moores Dean of the Sa1d Business School; and Professor John Hirsh from Georgetown University, USA will join us as a visiting Fellow by Special Election in Hilary Term. Ernest Parkin has arrived from the American Foreign Service as new Home Bursar. Professor Keith Bowen FRS, Professor Emeritus at Warwick University and Chief Scientist of Bede plc (1959, Metallurgy) has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship. We are currently hoping to make two appointments in Mathematics to replace Peter Collins. On the other hand we say farewell to Jane Griffiths, Fellow by Special Election in English, who has taken up a post at Edinburgh, and to Geoffrey BourneTaylor and Richard Crampton who are retiring. John Knight has also reached the normal retirement age, but is apparently too indispensable for the University to let go just now, so we have arranged that he will stay with us for a few terms more. Alan Flanders, visiting Fellow by Special Election in Naval History from Old Dominion University, USA, also reaches the end of his term. Sadly there have been losses by death too: Norman Pollock, Emeritus Fellow in Geography, and Joe Todd, Emeritus Fellow in Engineering, both very significant tutorial fellows in the development of the college in the post-war period, and Peter Ganz, very distinguished Emeritus Professor of German only just before our publication deadline. Also, having noted the death of Sir Denis Wright last year, this year we must now sadly record the death of Iona - for so long they were inseparable attenders at Hall celebrations. All will be much missed. There has also been cause for congratulation. Four Fellows, Nicholas Crank, Philip Mountford, Philipp Podsiadlowski, and Steve Roberts, have been accorded the title of Professor by the University, and two, Sharon Achinstein and Amy Zavatsky, have been accorded the title of Reader. Professor Sir Peter Hirsch has been awarded the Lomonosov Large Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Bruce Mitchell was presented by worldwide colleagues in Old English with afestschrift in honour of his monumental achievements in the subject.

I cannot close without offering my thanks to all who have helped me in this year as Pro-Principal. In a college many people play important roles, but I am especially indebted to the college officers, the college staff, and the fellowship in general, and above all to the Principal's Secretary Gill Powell, who has unfailingly kept me pointing in the right direction. So my sincere gratitude all round. Mike Mingos will return refreshed from sabbatical and will take up the reins again in September.

FROM THE CHAPLAIN This year we have again had some notable preachers including the Principal of St Hugh's, Andrew Dilnot, who drew attention to the question of debt in relation to world poverty and what our responsibility might be. This was probably the only time pencils have been given out in Chapel and an informal questionnaire conducted. Several speakers addressed the issue of personal faith, in particular Dr Kevin Kinghorn, who has just published an important book on the subject, The Decision of Faith, while issues of faith and ethics were raised by one of our own Fellows, Mr Paul Johnson. In Trinity term we were able to hear the Roman Catholic Chaplain Fr Jeremy Fairhurst. This was a particularly welcome opportunity since we have a link with the chaplaincy through our organ scholar David Allen who also plays at services there. A memorable and important sermon was preached towards the end of Trinity term by Revd Dr Colin Thompson of St Catherine's College. His sermon on the tower of Babel tackled all the significant exegetical issues but there was also a sub-text for those with "ears to hear" as he described how those with overweening ambition constructed a centralised plan to build a tower to heaven but are frustrated by the Lord who visits upon them catastrophe and confusion. It is good to see how a sermon can provoke reflection on pertinent political issues in the university.

This has been a very encouraging year for the Chapel Choir with a full repertoire of settings for Holy Communion and anthems, often reflecting the English tradition in church music at Evensong. The choir itself has practised hard and been ably led by David McCartney and David Alien. This was David McCartney's last year as Organ Scholar and we have been indebted to his gentle but firm direction of the choir, as well as his fine musical abilities. He will continue with us in an informal way since he is continuing his medical studies as a member of the college. In Hilary term we made our reciprocal 12

trip to Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, where the two college choirs sang together at a service in their splendid modern chapel. Throughout the year we have kept in tune with the rhythm of college life and so in Trinity term, at the beginning of Oxford Art week, we invited the artist, Nicholas Mynheer, to speak in chapel. We live at a time when there is an appropriation of symbol and image to many forms of spirituality. Nicholas' paintings of biblical themes have found a resonance with very many people, including those who would not claim to have a Christian faith. In a very engaging talk he was able to set out his view of art: ''Art should, I think, engender a sense of Hope, it should enrich and uplift. But that does not mean that it always has to be beautiful in the normal sense of the word, or indeed easy ... I have often found works that are the most beautiful are often the most painful too. I think of Grunwald's Crucifixion and Graham Sutherland's Deposition." With renewed conflict and suffering in the Middle East and the continuous cycle of violence in Iraq, it may only be in such works as these that we sense what the meaning of hope may be.

FROM THE LIBRARIAN The academic year 2005-2006 was the 35th anniversary of St Peter-in-theEast as the library of St Edmund Hall. Although this year no celebration was held to mark the date, the Hall Library bravely went where it had not gone before. In all cases resistance to change was futile, but the Library staff, the architect, Robert Montgomery, and the Clerk of Works, Wendy Thorpe, and her maintenance crew responded positively to the various challenges and so the results were of the greatest benefit to the students, to the Library staff, and to the Hall. The projects were all interlinked, but first contact came when the Librarian's office over the church's South Porch- her aerie- was declared unsafe, under the new Health & Safety legislation. Also, at about the same time, the Librarian was declared to be officially disabled. Thus, there were two reasons for building a new Librarian's office on the ground floor for her.

Montgomery Architects, who regularly work with the H all, prepared a design which combined the needs of a Librarian with the needs of a disabled person. This was accepted by the Diocese of Oxford (who still own the building we only have its use in perpetuo). Work began in August 2005 and has only just been completed. Along with this, as part of the modifications needed to accommodate the implementation of the OLIS Circulation system, were the changes that needed to be made to the Library Assistant's work area. This included a book-drop bin for the return of books that reduces the chance of books going missing before they are checked in, especially out of staff hours. As can be seen from the photo below, every step has been taken to maintain the high aesthetic standard of library fittings within the Norman church.

Fig. 1: Assistant's redesigned desk area and entrance to Librarian's new office

As the new o ffice was built in the SW corner of the church-as-library, it required the removal o f 120 book shelves. With the expert library removal skills of Olympic Removals, the Tower shelves were cleared, and then several subjects were transported up into the Tower.

Once the empty shelves were removed on the ground floor to make way for the new office, the remaining ground floor books were relocated into the shelves freed by the removal to the Tower. Never since Nelson's manoeuvres at Trafalgar, 200 years ago, has such precision of movement been required (well, maybe forD-Day). Another major exercise for the Hall Library this year was the implementation of the OLIS Circulation electronic self-issue borrowing of books. As you will remember, as reported last year in both the Aularian Newsletter and the Hall Magazine, the Library has been having all its holdings for student use entered onto the University's libraries database. Enough of this was done by September 2005 for the electronic loan system to go live in the Library. All went smoothly enough despite some faulty barcode scanning equipment and the need to chase students (and Fellows) to return books they had out on paper loans, so that these books might be entered onto the electronic database. The new loan desk, built last academic year behind the card catalogue, was modified to install the barcode swipe pens and the computer screens that made up the hardware needed.

During all of this the Librarian, who was mostly working from home owing to having still no definitive diagnosis for her disability, came into the Library for important meetings. She was supported in her management of all of this activity by Dr David Priestland, the Library Fellow, Blanca Martin, the Library Assistant, and Cathy Scutt, the retroconversion cataloguer. And, as ever, books were ordered, received and processed; loans were taken out and returned; researchers asked to use the special collections; and many gifts were received. The Aularian Collection saw an even wider variety of gifts than usual: from children's books about the Arthurian legend by Kevin Crossley-Holland, through another book celebrating the Dalai Lama by Rajiv Mehrotra, through a speech in honour of the 212th anniversary of the founding of the University of North Carolina by Christopher Armitage, to journal articles on taxation from Keith Gordon. Here is a listing of what was donated this academic year:

ARMITAGE, Christopher 'Chance and change', Chapel Hill, NC:University of North Carolina 2005 BELDEN, Kenneth The hour of the helicopter Yeoville:Linden Hall1992 BORTHWICK, Alastair et al 'A model for outfall plumes using a MultiQuad tree technique', IEMES 2004 - 1st International Exhibition on Materials Equipment and Services for Coastal WWTP Outfalls and Sealines, Catania (I) Sept.27 -Oct.2, 2004 'Aplicacion del Metodo Multi-Quadtree para la solucion de problemas en mecanica de fluidos computacional', Proceedings of Ill International Congress on Coastal and Port Engineering organized by AMIP (Mexican Association of Ports and Marine Engineering), November 2003, Acapulco, Mexico 'Biodegradation of valonia tannin by Endomyces SHQ 14', Journal of the Sociery of Leather Technologists and Chemists, vol.89 'Biosynthesis of valonia tannin hydrolase and hydrolysis of valonia tannin to ellagic acid by Aspergillus SHL 6', Process Biochemistry, 40 (2005) 'Boussinesq modelling of wavegroup propagation over a shallow shoal and the release of second order and higher harmonics', Coastal Engineering Conference, Coastal Engineering 2004, vol.2

'Is the lower Yellow River sustainable?' Sociery of Oxford University Engineers Newsletter Issue 4 2005 'Linear wave propagation on an adaptive quad-tree cut-cell grid', Coastal Engineering Conference, Coastal Engineering 2004, vol.2 'Numerical implementation of the harmonic modified mild-slope equation', Coastal Engineering, 52 (2005) 'Phase inversion and the identification of harmonic structure in coastal engineering experiments', Coastal Engineering Conference, Coastal Engineering 2004, vol.l 'Prediction of solitary wave run-up at an arbitrary plane beach,' Waves 2005 Madrid 2005 'Pseudospectral element model for free surface viscous flows', International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol.15:no.6, 2005 'Two-dimensional wave-current interaction with a locally enriched quadtree grid system', Ocean Engineering 33 (2006) 'Viscous flow simulation using adaptive cut-cell mesh', Hydroelasticiry in Marine Technolo!!J 2003 'Wind-induced chaotic advection in shallow flow geometries. Part I: Circular basins', Journal of Hydraulic Research, vol.44, no.2 (2006)

'Wind-induced chaotic advection in shallow flow geometries. Part 11: Noncircular basins', Journal of Hydraulic Research, vo1.44, no.2 (2006)

BOWEN, Keith and Brian K. Tanner X-ray metrology in semiconductor manufacturing CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006 BROWN, Roger L Reclaiming the wilderness: some aspects of the parochial life and achievements of the Diocese of Llandaff during the nineteenth century Welsh pool, Tair Eglwys Press, 2001 Ten clerical lives: essays relating to the Victorian Church in Wales Welshpool, Tair Eglwys Press, 2005 The letters ofEdward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 1828-1849 Cardiff: South Wales Record Office, 2003

CAMPLING, Christopher I was glad: the memoirs of Christopher Campling London:Janus, 2005 CRAMPTON, Richard A concise history of Bulgaria Cambridge:Cambridge University Press 2005 2nd ed CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin At the crossing-places London:Orion 2001 How many miles to Bethlehem London:Orion 2004

King Arthur's world London:Orion 2004 King of the middle march London:Orion 2003 Light unlocked: Christmas card poems London:Orion 2005 Viking myths of gods and monsters London:Orion 2002

DAVIDSON, Hilary, Canon Choirs, bands and organs: a history of church music in Northamptonshire and Rutland Oxford:PositifPress 2003 DUNBABIN,JPD Motives for mapping the Great Lakes: Upper Canada, 1782-1827', Michigan Historical Review 31:1 (Spring 2005) 'Trends in the financing of British universities in the 19th and 20th centuries', From book: Finanzierungvon Universitat und Wissenschaft in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Herausgegeben von Rainer Christoph Schwinges ; Redaktion: MarieClaude Pfaffen und KathrinJost. Base! :Schwabe Verlag,2005

FRYER, Jonathan Wilde London:Haus, 2005 GORDON, Keith 'A deeming too far', Tax Adviser, August 2005 'A matter of interests on death',

Tax Adviser, January 2006

GORDON, Keith (cont'd) 'A stealth tax introduced by accountants?', The corporate tax review: CTR, vol.5 (2005)

'Did your foot fall off?' Taxation, vol.155:no.4027, 29 September 2005

'Agassi vs Robinson', Tax Adviser, March 2005

'Direct tax avoidance schemes: the finance act 2004 regime', Tax Digest, January 2005

'Anti-avoidance measures [one of a few expert contributions to the Budget 2006)', Taxation, vol.156:no.4050, 23 March 2006

'Gift aid: thanks, but ...', Taxation, vol.156:no.4042, 26 January 2006

'Arctic systems: desperately seeking bounty', Tax Adviser, June 2005

'Hastings-Bass: the application in Jersey', The offshore & international taxation review, vol.11 (2005)

'Around the world but for 80 days', Tax Adviser, November 2005

'How to price half a house', Tax Adviser, December 2004

'Back to the future', Tax Adviser, May 2005 'Bolting gift horses', Taxation, vol.156:no.4031, 27 October 2005

In the Readers' forum the editor suggests that Keith Gordon's article, 'Suits you madam' (Taxation, 15 Apri12004) may be relevant to the letters Taxation, vol. 156:no.4036, 1 December 2005

'Brief fee encounter', Tax Adviser, February 2006

'Income tax', Taxation, March 2005

'CAA 2001, section 240: a slip of the drafter's pen', The corporate tax review: CTR, vol.4 (2005)

'ITTOIA 2005: the new income tax code', Tax Adviser, April2005

'Careless drafting costs tax- a criticism of two aspects of the legislation introducing the non-corporate distribution rate', The corporate tax review: CTR, vol.4 (2005) 'Defective IHT advice: the great escape', Tax Adviser, February 2005

'Let your second home be your main residence', TAXIine: the monthly newsletter for members of the Tax Faculty, December 2004 'Main residence relief: the two-year time limit revisited', PTPR: the personal tax planning review, vol.10,2005

GORDON, Keith (cont'd) 'Minor and technical vices', Tax Adviser, October 2005 'Mission from Mars: depreciation', Tax Advzser,July 2005

'The Wolff at the door', Taxation, March 2005

deductible

'More unnecessary convolution', Tax ation, vol.156:no.4034, 17 November 2005 'My unfair revenue', Tax Adviser, March 2006 'Personal capital taxes', Taxation, vol.156:no.4037, 8 December 2005

'With a view to a loss of tax relief', Tax Adviser, September 2005 [as consultant] Tax guide 2005/2006 Sara Williams & Jonquil Lowe [authors]; Vitesse Media, 2005

GORDON, Keith et al. Tolley's taxwise 1, Income tax, national insurance, corporation tax and capital gains tax, 2005-06 Tolley Publications 2005

'Ramsay revisited', Tax Adviser, January 2005

HALLIWELL, Michael (compiler) Operating under Occupation: the life and works of Arthur Clare Halliwell FRCS, Jersey:CIOS 2005

'Setting up multiple payrolls', TAXline: the monthly newsletter for members of the Tax Faculty, February 2005

HARRISON-BRONINSKI, Keith Human interactions: the heart and soul of business process management Tampa, FL:Meghan-Kiffer 2005

'Tax on pre-owned assets', Tax Digest, March 2005

HEWITT,Ian Joint ventures London:Sweet & Maxwell2005

'That gift horse again', Taxation, February 2005 'The interaction of the share identification rules with taper relief', PTPR: the personal tax planning revie1v, vo1.10,2005 'The meaning of reasonable excuse when a tax return is late', Toff!!)' s Practical Tax Neu;sfetter, vol.26:no.25, 2 December 2005

KEMP, Charles A few bites of lemon Market Harboro:Matador 2002 KNIGHT, John and Geeta Kingdon How flexible are wages in response to local unemployment in South Africa?', Industrial & Labor Relations R evieu;, vol.59:issue3 (2006)

KNIGHT, John (cont'd) 'The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high', Labour economics, 13 (2006)

PHILLIPS, David & Kimberley Ochs Educational policy borrowing: historical perspectives Didcot:Symposium 2004

KOGAN, Eugene (pseudo of Yevgenii Tsifrinovich) The war congress: shouldering the responsibilities of a U.S. global role Americans for Democratic Action Education Fund, March 2005

PICKETT, Alan Relationships: a book of love Cranbook, Kent:Fosten Green, 2003

MEHROTRA, Rajiv The essential Dalai Lama NY:Viking 2005 MITCHELL, Bruce 'A many-coloured life: school teacher army officer- businessman- Oxford don and Old English syntactician. An autobiography' in Ak.io Oizumi & Tadao Kubouchi (eds) Medieval English language scholarship. Hildesheim:OLMS 2005 Inside Old English: essays in honour of Bruce Mitchell WALMSLEY,John (ed) Oxford:Blackwell 2006

SHIPTON, Alyn Conversations with thirty jazz pianists London:Equinox, 2004 TEMPEST, Paul (ed) An enduring friendship: 400 years of Anglo-Gulf relations London:Stacey International, 2006 TSOMOCOS, Dimitrios 'Equilibrium analysis, banking and financial instability', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 39 (2003) TSOMOCOS, Dimitrios et al 'A model to analyse financial fragility', Economic Theory, 27 (2006) 'A model to analyse financial fragility:

applications',

MUSKETT, Christine et ai On strong foundations: celebrating two decades of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales London:Lloyds TSB c 2006 NORMAN, Andrew Adolf Hitler: the final analysis Staplehurst:Spellmount, 2005

Journal of Financial Stability, 1 (2004)

'A risk assessment model for banks', of Finance, 1 (2005)

Annals

'E Epirase tu olympiaku pneumatos sten anaptythe ton agorn (in Greek)', np,nd

'Modelling Institutional Change in the payments system and its implications for monetary policy', In Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Change and the Impact of Monetary Policy, Edited by S. Schmitz and G.E. Wood, Routledge, 2006 'Procyclicality and the new Base! Accord banks' choice of loan rating system', Economic Theory, 26 (2005)

TYTLER, Graeme 'Lavater's Influence on Sir Waiter Scott: A Tacit Assumption?' in Physiognomy in Prof!le: Lavater's Impact on European Culture, ed. Melissa Percival & Graeme Tytler, University of Delaware Press 2005, 109-120 YILMAZ, S Harun Rus ya'da devlet merke zli sistem ve burokrasi Istanbul: Versus Kitar 2006

And then there were the gifts to both libraries and to the Emden Collection of Naval, Military and Intelligence History. The latter were both timely and touching. Prof John Hattendorf of the US Naval War College gave us three publications, two of which cover the practicalities and legalities of dealing with international terrorism. Dr Damian Atkinson donated a book commemorating those students who died in World Wars I and II from his school, The Crypt School, Gloucester. The Old Library received a gift from Alyn Shipton, the noted BBC Radio 3 jazz

presenter and author, of Studies in the Poetry of Robert Browning by James Fotheringham (1888) which completes the series of Browning's poetry in the Old Library. Aularians and Fellows as ever were very generous to our undergraduate and graduate Library: CATMUR, Virginia (mother of Caroline Catmur, m. 1999); CLOUGH, Katherine; FYFIELD-SHAYLER, Brian A.; HARKIN, Dan; KAHN, Andrew; MARVEN, L.; MAWER, Nicola; MINGOS, Michael; REYNOLDS, Richard C.; SHIPTON, Alyn Other gifts were received from ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY; HARDILL, Alan; BAMPTON LECTURESHIP; SMITH, David And mention must be given to the great number of text books donated anonymously by various students, undergraduate, visiting, and graduate, and by Aularians (as so we assume they are).

FROM THE BURSAR This has been a year of consolidation, as we have prepared for the building of the Lecture Theatre on the Top Quad. We now have planning permission and, despite the hopes that we might begin work in September, this year, finally resolved to put things back for a year: the schedule was just too tight and it would have been folly to begin even the preliminaries (with their attendant high costs) before we were sure that permission was in the bag. In the event it came through in record time. From the new Home Bursar's point of view, it will be a nightmare of consultation, compromise and construction. There is, not the least the question of the retention of most facilities, especially the busy JCR space during at least two terms, one including the Admissions Exercise; then there is accessibility: just imagine everything being craned-in off the High by a Roe perched on one of the Kelly Towers, while contractors and residents attempt to miss each other through the Forum gate and its enforced security post- a nightmare (glad it's Ernest's problem!) Behind the scenes, plans are being drawn-up for the possibility of an avian 'flu' pandemic; God forbid, but this could be a major crisis right across the Oxford community. In the Spring, the Assistant SCR Butler, Jeannean Skelsey, had a baby boy, Headley, and College Scout, Pruang Shorter became Mrs Stephenson. June Lawrence, in the Kitchens, has retired to Ross-on-Wye and Vi to Campo, one of our Chefs, has taken a prestigious new appointment as Catering Manager at a large school in Oxfordshire. Rakesh Raj is now the deputy butler covering duringJeannean's maternity leave. There are two other changes that I report in more detail. Margaret Pargeter, who joined the Bursary at almost the same time that I did - 1988, has now retired. Margaret started as a temp. in the Bursary and, becoming full-time soon after, has been known to many through her tireless service at the frontend of the Bursary- not the most rewarding job in the College, I feel bound to observe! Margaret, and her husband, Geoff (who never stinted in his own commitment to the College, turning-out frequently just to be helpful), will be particularly remembered for the development of the flourishing sideline in College memorabilia, for the popular and ever-changing annual College Christmas cards and for the bright display in the Lodge. Before the Lodge was rebuilt, the tiny College shop was an amazing success, taking as much as ÂŁ300 a day in the Summer months. One could always find Geoff and

Margaret manning their stall at all the Reunions and Gaudies. Margaret had a packed lunch party (now, there's an important lesson for the uninitiated in the use and non-use of the hyphen ... ) in May to mark her departure, followed by the largest Fellows' collection I have ever overseen. Lyne Morley-Johnson, who takes over Margaret's post in the Bursary, has a hard act to follow. Yet, it looks as if she is going to do just that! More recently we lost Wendy Thorpe, who has been so successful as Superintendent of Works. Wendy had to return to London for personal reasons and I know she will be sorely missed, not the least by the largely male-dominated building trade in Oxford, where she surprised many stickin-the-muds. Wendy was always delighted to be mistaken for an undergraduate when attending Clerks of Works' meetings and other trade gatherings. John Smith, the Superintendent of Outside Properties has stepped into the breach until his retirement next year, thus relieving the Home Bursar of an immediate recruitment crisis. On the conference front, we look set to have a bumper year, with the Isis packed to the gunwales most of the season! AND IT'S GOODBYE FROM HIM . . . Early in Michaelmas Term, 1988, I bumped into an old friend in the High Lord Windlesham (we had worked together in Northern Ireland in the 1970s with Willie Whitelaw): we had both recently been appointed to jobs in Oxford; he as Principal of Brasenose; I to the Domestic Bursarship of Teddy Hall. Soon after, Dennis Trevelyan, another Ulster chum, was appointed Principal of Mansfield. Sir William Nield, an Aularian and former Private Secretary to Whitelaw, was President of the St Edmund Hall Association. Amongst friends: a good start to my new career! Looking back now, over those 18 years at the Hall, I can only declare the experience to have been a wonderful one. At interview, I just knew I didn't have a cat-in-Hell's-chance of being selected and that must have done the trick! Looking round the SCR at an interview panel of twenty or more Governing Body members, I knew that my only chance was an after-dinner speech (something at which I had already earned good money). None of us knew much about computers then, so that was OK and as for the other questions, all seemed to go well. One of the other candidates- saucy blighter - offered me a job, too, but I took this one!

It has been a busy eighteen years, serving three Principals, twice as many Vice Principals, two Pro-Principals and four Senior Bursars, one of them -John Knight - twice. I have signed cheques for literally squillions of pounds and even signed a change in Statute! But I have also been responsible in a very personal way, for the everyday lives of hundreds of staff: that has been a great privilege. I have no need to catalogue what has been achieved: that was why I was appointed and many of those projects have been reported already elsewhere. Apart from the constant pleasure of a beautiful room in the Quadrangle and positively the best food in Oxford, I have enjoyed most the unique experience of being amongst exceptionally clever and often very amusing people; if only some of those donnish one-liners could have been minuted somewhere. "I was almost an extra"- Ken Segar, discussing with me my earlier experience of film making; "Title of your autobiography, Ken?" - Blair Warden's rejoinder from behind a newspaper. The inevitable John Dunbabinism: "Principal, there are just nineteen points, as I see them. One ... ," "The Committee greeted this with an explosion of silent enthusiasm"-John Knight. When one is actually trying to remember them, the best seem to fly into the ether! If I might mention just one or two names, I should start with Jus tin Gosling. He has been, throughout, a man of almost patrician gentility, with the humility of true intellect and ability. Jus tin's wry humour (which nobody ever seemed to get!), his quiet authority and presidency are a delight to look back on. In the aftermath of my heart attacks, which were a bore, it was Justin who turned up weekly to take me off for a stiff walk on the golf links at Tubney, bless him! John Knight was Investment Bursar when I was appointed and, by the strange process of those three-year-cycles, he occupies the same position again, as I retire. John has been a brick and a truly dependable and shrewd colleague. "Can we afford to consider so-and-so?" I would ask and he would always helpfully reply, "It depends how you look at it". Lovable Ken, the peacemaker, I have mentioned; but who could ever forget Francis Rossotti? No Governing Body meeting has been the same since his retirement: Francis would always, always, always back the underdog; Francis would always come up with the point we had missed (or were hoping to miss!) Thank God, he's still with us, too, and still in good form. John Dunbabin was a remarkable cricketer: there is no doubt that the success of the SCR in its match against the MCR was in no small way due to the fact that it was difficult to tell, until

the very last moment before delivery, from which hand the ball would emerge. Perhaps the greatest privilege is to have known John Kelly. I am unable to mimic him as well as some, but remember him for his acerbity, for his mind, razor-sharp to the last, for his encyclopaedic knowledge not only of the early Christian church, but also of every episode of "Minder" and "Morse". Bill Nield was, as I mentioned earlier, my first introduction to a Hall man; we met in Ulster (oddly enough, at a time when a certain Captain Michael Rose was there with the Coldstream); I could recount many of his witticisms; but here's one: "Secretary of State, today, you are to witness the Londonderry Apprentice Boys march. There are three points you might usefully bear in mind: i) they are not boys ii) nor are they apprentices, iii) neither do they come from Londonderry . .. ". No one could miss Farrand Radley and I could not fail to record my personal thanks to Michael Cansdale who has done so much for the Hall. And for special reasons, I mention the friendship of John Heggadon, Peter Butler and John Hawkins. Paul Lewis I shall remember, too, for his devotion to all College events and for his annual treat: lunch at The Perch. And what pride it was to a father to have a son who made it not only to Oxford, but also to become President of OUBC, about which I wrote last year. There is one further great Oxford pleasure I should like to record: the Masonic activity that is unique to the University. When I arrived at the Hall- a freemason of some twenty five years' standing - I was welcomed warmly by Graham Midgley and Harry Irving, Emeritus Fellows, who had both been members of the Apollo University Lodge for many years. In the Masonic world, Apollo is something of a legend; not only is it the oldest of the University clubs, but it has spawned vast numbers of the great and good (like Rhodes) - or, if you're thinking of the not-so-good - Wilde! Its members have included every category from Chancellors to undergraduates, from Public Orators to Heads of House. It is not generally known that College Commemoration Balls of the present are the successors of the great annual Apollo Garden Parties and Balls of the 1870s. I was elected Master of the Lodge, and later appointed Secretary (senior member). It has been through this connection that I have witnessed with great emotion and not a little satisfaction, the 25

.. droves of decent young men who flock to join, as many as fifty a year (most lodges manage one or two). I hope it is appropriate at this point to make a small recognition of those masons (many of them not Hall men) who, to my knowledge, have contributed nigh on a couple of hundred thousand pounds to the Hall's endowment over the years I have been here. As many know, the Wolfson Hall is built on the site of the old Masonic Temple in the High, so, all this has been, to me, so very comforting! The recent newsletter gave a short report of the presentation to my wife and me, kindly simulated at the London Dinner in January; the picture shows the reality and I thank the Association sincerely for the engraved decanter that has now materialized as a memento of the many good times I have had (and hope to continue to have!) with the great family of Aularians. As I look forward to my retirement to Dorset, I find a new life with my dear wife, Carole; plenty of DIY and our half-completed (Oxford) novel, to occupy me. I am hoping to host quarterly pub lunches around the West Country and look forward to keeping up with many old Hall friends regularly. As with every Hall Sort, my sentiments, after a rewarding second career, can be encapsulated in that immortal mantra, "Fioreat Aula!' Thank you, everyone, for everything! Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor

THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Alistair Borthwick made two extended visits to China, one in September 2005, the other in March and April 2006. He collaborated with the Institute of Environmental Engineering at Peking University on the purification of water and wastewater, and the sustainability of large rivers. He also carried out experiments in the large wave basin at Dalian University of Technology on a model of an offshore wind turbine subjected to extreme wave groups. Rumours of Peter Collins' retirement have been grossly exaggerated! He continues to run a research group at the Mathematical Institute: his book, Differential and Integral Equations, appeared with OUP in August. Wine and heritage matters occupy spare moments. As well as looking after College bottles, his quest for Tuscans has taken him deep into Brunello and Montalcino cellars, whilst a Burgundy visit gave an opportunity for observing conservation projects. As a Council member of the European heritage organisation, Europa Nostra, he visited Malta and though deploring excessive building, appreciated baroque monuments, archaeological remains- and the climate. He has made a late entry into politics as Parish Councillor of his village numbering 500 souls. His attempt to retire at 65 having failed, John Cox has continued to direct operas in desirable venues worldwide. Highlights have been a "Tosca" with Pavarotti in London and a "Thais" with Flemming in Chicago. As detox for this fin-de-siecle brew of sex and spirituality there was Samuel Barber's neurasthenic rarity, "Vanessa", in Los Angeles, which provided Dame Kiri te Kanawa with her farewell to the operatic stage. More recently, his venerable production with David Hackney of "The Rake's Progress" (Glyndebourne 197 4) had yet another renaissance, with outings to Holland, Australia and Sweden. Perhaps the most notable development recently however has been the new relationship with Garsington, started in 2004 with "Cosi fan tutte", continued in '05 with "Figaro" and '06 with "The Philosopher's Stone". This last, a totally unknown curiosity by Mozart and four other composers, was recently rediscovered amongst manuscripts looted by the Red Army. It was a salient project of Garsington Opera's founder and presiding genius Leonard Ingrams, whose sudden, early death last year has inevitably raised questions about its future. It is to be hoped that the will and the way can be found, in Oxford and beyond, to secure it.

... With Lawrence Sail, Kevin Crossley-Holland co-edited Light Unlocked, an anthology of poems sent by their authors (including Lucy Newlyn and Jane Griffiths) as Christmas cards. Preceding a performance of his Sea Tongue, set for chorus and orchestra byJanet Wheeler, he read the piece (sans microphone!) to a full house in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. He gave the keynote speech at the Society for Storytelling's annual conference, and has also spoken at Keats House, Ledbury Festival, Worcester cathedral, Wycombe Abbey School and Wyken Hall (with Janet Suzman). Kevin continues as chairman of the annual festival of Poetry-next-the-Sea and has completed work on his medieval pilgrimage novel, Gatry~ Tale. His Aularian daughter, Oenone, has embarked on the strenuous Teach First programme, and is writing fortnightly reports in The Guardian from the battlefront. Steve Edwards has left the computer industry and qualified as a commercial helicopter pilot rated on JetRangers, AS355 (Twin Squirrel) and EC155 helicopters. He has an instrument rating on both AS355 and EC155, and is pictured here with an EC155 outside a French chateau.

The Russian Academy of Sciences awarded Peter Hirsch the Lomonosov Gold Medal for 2005 and he attended their Annual General Meeting in Moscow on 25th May this year to collect it. The Academy awards two of these medals each year, one to a foreigner and one to a Russian. Both medal winners present talks after the award ceremony. His talk was entitled "50 Years of Transmission Electron Microscopy of Dislocations". It turned out that the main business of the Academy's meeting was to elect new Members of the Academy, and the two talks were to fill the gap in the proceedings while the votes were being counted! After the end of the talks the names of the candidates and the votes for and against them were read out, and those elected were announced. At the same meeting he was elected Foreign Member of the Academy. Perhaps if Peter had understood Russian he would have found out how many had voted for and against him! Incidentally, the Academy building is huge; it dates from the days of Leonid Brezhnev, and is architecturally quite interesting. It was a pleasant, if rather short, visit and Peter reports that his hosts looked after him well. They were obviously worried that the medal might be impounded by the customs at the airport, and gave him several papers explaining the origin of the medal. But the customs were not interested.

PaulJohnson attended the official opening of his new state-of-the-art human islet isolationfacility in January, and during this academic year has been visiting Professor in Hong Kong and an invited lecturer in Geneva, Edmonton, and Los Angeles. Paul was also elected to the Research Board of the Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation. Andrew Kahn had a busy year working on Pushkin as editor of a Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, forthcoming later this year, and completing a long book on Pushkin's poetry. He also wrote a number of papers for scholarly conferences on 18th c. topics. Once the G-8 had cleared out of St Petersburg he was looking forward to a September trip to libraries and archives (not to mention museums and the opera). In October John Knight presented a paper on the labour market at a conference, held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, to review problems and progress of the South African economy over the decade of democracy, and in April he delivered some lectures on subjective well-being and its determinants at Beijing Normal University in China. He published ten papers, and continued as Academic and Investment Bursar. In August, he learned that Princeton 29

University awarded his book, Towards a Labour Market in China, the Richard A Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2005. In a scheme funded entirely by lan Laing, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, Oxford's historic buildings are to be lit up in the first phase of a scheme that promises to transform the middle of Oxford by night. Work began with the illumination of Oxford's oldest standing structure, the tower of St Michael at the North Gate. It was followed by Mary Magdalen Church, Exeter College Chapel, and the Wesley Memorial Chapel. It is hoped that Carfax Tower will also get the treatment in a second wave of buildings. Ian is pictured here with his wife, Caroline, and Councillor Maureen Christian.

Despite taking a year's sabbatical from his principalian duties, Mike Mingos oversaw the activities of the Development Office and as Director of Development visited Los Angeles for an alumni dinner in December, and represented the Hall at the biannual Oxford University Alumni Reunion in New York in April. Last October saw Mike in Japan: he visited Os aka University of the Arts for their 60th anniversary celebrations and had the honour of judging the Japanese National Oratorical Contest, and he gave chemistry lectures at Kyoto University and the Toyota Research Centre. He also lectured at the Pacifichem Conference, Honolulu in December. In April, he lectured

at St Michael's College, Vermont as guest of their President, Marc vanderHyden and in June visited Heidelberg University. During the year he was elected a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and was appointed to the Technical Advisory Committee of the Institute of Microwave Power Institute. 2006 sees the completion of his 10 years as Regional Editor of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, but he continues as Managing Editor of Structure & Bonding, published by SpringerVerlag, Berlin. On Saturday 7 January 2006, the day before his eighty-sixth birthday, at a function in the Senior Common Room sponsored by Blackwell Publishing and the Hall, Bruce Mitchell was honoured by the presentation of Inside Old English edited by John Walmsley (Blach.-well Publishing, 2006). It consists of thirteen essays by authors from seven different nations -Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Japan, and USA Foreword and Introduction by John Walmsley, and an appreciation of the honorand by Fred C Robinson of Yale, who has collaborated with Bruce in A Guide to Old English (7th edition at press) and Beowu!fAn Edition (revision at press). Walmsley, who read English at the Hall (m. 1957) and, after a distinguished career, is now Professor of English at the University ofBielefeld, Germany, proposed Bruce's health in a witty and generous speech. In his reply Bruce recalled the words his Commanding Officer Lt Col R E Wade wrote on the glowing report of the distinguished pass he gained in a Tank Wireless Course - 'Lt Mitchell to read, initial, and wear the same sized beret' - and promised to wear the same sized academical cap, although his feelings are still a mixture of humility, pride, happiness, and gratitude. He then expressed his thanks to over fifty friends from England and abroad who were present and those who sent apologies, with special mention of representatives from Blackwells and the Hall, to John Walmsley, to the contributors, to supporters and purchasers, to his pupils - a long stream 31

from whom he drank with profit - and above all to his wife Mollie, who in typing and proof-reading is the only person who has read his Old English Syntax from cover to cover four times. His final flourish was FLOREAT AULA, FLOREAT BLACKWELL PUBUSHING, FLOREAT WALMSLEY, FLOREANT ALL PRESENT TODAY, THANK YOU. And so the way was clear for a buffet lunch in the Chef's best traditions and for a good time together: leod on salum. Bruce adds a postscript: "Whitsunday 2006- With the coming of Spring, the time has come for me to heed the behests of the Editor to report these events for the Magazine. I can but repeat my gratitude to all those who have honoured me, including my friend and collaborator Fred Robinson for the generous appreciation of my contribution to Old English studies he has made in Inside Old English." [see page 54]

The Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, has had another fulfilling year; he delivered the Scott Holland Lectures in Oxford in November last year, saw his book Conviction and Conflict: Islam, Christianity and World Order published by Continuum in March, visited Washington DC for a dialogue of scholars at Georgetown University and addressed groups of US Congress and Senate delegates, and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in May. Lucy Newlyn was on sabbatical leave during Michaelmas term, during which she wrote two articles on Edward Thomas, and successfully negotiated a contract with Oxford University Press for a six-volume edition of Thomas's prose. She is currently bringing to completion a collection of poems and essays, entitled Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry, which emerges from a conference held in St Edmund Hall during 2005. (This will be published by Enitharmon in 2007.) Lucy has given poetry readings in Leeds and Oxford; and during November she also featured as a poet in residence for the Guardian - an exciting opportunity to run an on-line workshop, and give feedback on poems written by people from as far afield as Australia. Ron Oxburgh has had conferred on him an honorary doctorate of Laws by Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

David Phillips was presented with a Festschrift - Cross-national Attraction in Education: accounts from England and Germaf!J, organised and edited by Hubert Ertl (1997, and now Fellow of Linacre), on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes a paper by Nina Arnhold (1995). Vivian Ridler lunches in college less frequently now but thinks of the Hall often and with great affection. He was delighted to receive a review of Anne Ridler's play Cranmersent by Bruce Mitchell. The play was recently performed by a group of Australian students at Australia House, and again at the University Church on the very spot where Cranmer was tried. Sir David Yardley continued as Chairman of The Oxford Preservation Trust. In May, the Trust achieved the culmination of its five-year programme for the restoration of the 11th century Oxford Castle, and especially its heritage wings, when Her Majesty The Queen performed the reopening of the restored Castle. In 2005, he had given a year's notice of his resignation as Chairman of the Examinations and Assessment Board of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation, and in August 2006 he concluded his 12 years as Chairman when he chaired his final meeting of the Board. His term of office as Independent Complaints Reviewer for the UK Lottery Distributors should have ended in March, but it was extended to enable The Lottery Forum to appoint two successors who would begin work in July. David also chaired the Oxford-Oklahoma Law Programme, July 2006. Edmund Chough's pictorial History of Oxford No. 5

St Edmund Hall prepares for an outbreak of Avian Flu

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM The lulling pace of summer gives rise to reflection: it's quieter (apart from all the teenage conference-attenders); it's sunnier (excepting all the haze and the rain); it's more productive (if you ignore the summer blockbusters at the Odeon). It is, in short, for graduates, a balancing act. The stakes may change during the Lo ng Vacation, but the nature of graduate life is relatively consistent: you pour yourself into your work, then you may give that "paper" at that "conference" in Fiji. The Teddy Hall MCR has, it seems, m astered the oft-touted work-hard/ play-hard dynamic of a healthy academic institution. An exceptionally diverse bunch, with almost equal parts new and old and a strong international flare, the MCR this year boasts distinctions, prizes and scholarships in MSts and DPhils galore. Subjects range from the social construction of space by the Yanomami people of Venezuela (Alejandro Reig) to a critical study of Abstinence-based programs for HIV prevention (Kristen Underhill) to Poetics of the Eucharist (Ben Burton) to cutting edge infant research at the Oxford Baby Lab (Suzy Styles). And while most of our time is spent with fingers in books and faces gaping at computer screens, the MCR provides a much needed alternative space. This year has been filled with excellent events: the gloriously sunny, champagny matriculation in October followed by the Medieval Feast, Burns Night, movies and pizza, wine and cheese, the Christmas Dinner (replete with a standingon-the-table rendition of "Teddy Bears' Picnic"), exchange dinners, lazy Sundays reading The New Yorker on the green couches, parties, punting and much more. The MCR is accomplished and involved in myriad ways. Meredith RootBernstein, Francisco Forster Bur6n, and Isabel Garcia-Hermosa all contributed fabulously to Teddy Hall's Art-Week show. Luba Mandzy, Scot Peterson, 34

Kristen Underhill, Alejandro Reig and others presented papers at the MCR/ SCR Seminar nights. Nick Hall continues to take pictures all over the world and was a much-deserved finalist in the UNICEF Images of Children Contest. Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (when she's not neck-deep in her DPhil on the 17th century poet, Lucy Hutchinson) somehow finds time to write reviews for the London Review of Books; Clare Lobb just up and swam the English Channel. Rave em Tahir won a Half-Blue for shooting smallbore in the Varsity A-Team and, in a stunning victory, Anna Heimbichner, Amelia Van Manen and Kathrin Weisspfennig were all members of the Teddy Hall 1st Eight that went Head of the River in Summer Eights in Trinity Term. Next year, Anna will captain the team as an MCR member- a true rarity. It is also my pleasure to announce Cad Saucier-Bouffard's initiation of an MCR global justice project: through the organization PLAN-UK, the Teddy Hall MCR is now the collective sponsor of a child from Malawi, named Daniel. This spring also saw the annual changing of the guard in MCR leadership. I would like to thank the past committee for such a tremendous job done: Jennifer Chung, Marty Rust, Scot Peterson, Suzy Stiles, Isabel Garcia-Hermosa and Rebecca Griebe. The current committee is excited and hard at work preparing a fabulous Freshers week for October. I wish us all luck as we'll no doubt need it with eighty-some new Freshers: Ben Chad, Catherine Blair, Meredith Root-Bernstein and Kristen Underhill. With more change afoot, the Tutor for Graduates, Basil Kouvaritakis, our sorcerer, is stepping down this year. Basil's radical wit and keen sense of what is just and unjust has benefited the MCR invaluably. He has helped to craft the entire MCR institutional memory for the past two decades and his dazzling energy will be missed (but still, we hope, enjoyed from across the quad). In the next breath the MCR welcomes the new Tutor for Graduates and Professor of Comparative Education, David Phillips, with warmest regards. I'd also like to offer an enormous thanks to Julie McCann, our tireless MCR Butler, whose care and patience is considerable. It is worth repeating: the MCR is often funny, often brilliant. They are feisty when they need to be or, sometimes, just when they feel like it. They are proud but not insular. It is, in a very noticeable way for those new or seasoned to the Hall, a very comfortable place. At a time when the whole nature of the graduate system is in subtle and not so subtle flux at the University level with questions about the adequacy of the collegiate system for postgraduates being discussed in tandem with the rapid expansion of graduate courses -

the Teddy Hall MCR does well to maintain this open and warm atmosphere in all the to-ing and fro-ing between the departments and the Hall.

Floreat Aula! Aliza Hapgood Watters DPhil Student in English Literature Marshall Scholar

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM 2005-2006 has been a diverse year for the JCR; from rowing to rents, sport to singing and baps to balls. Teddy Hall camaraderie is as strong as ever, with Hall spirit seemingly irrepressible. Such unity within the JCR and its "work hard, play hard" attitude has proved an effective formula for success in all aspects of Oxford life. On writing this article around the time of the World Cup, I am reminded of sport at the Hall. As always Teddy Hall remains one of, if not the sportiest of all colleges! Both our women's and men's football teams are Cuppers champions. The women's flrst eight boat took Head of the River with ease, while the women's second boat bumped everyday, rowing their way to blades. In the world of college tennis, Teddy Hall again came out on top, winning both the league and Cuppers tournament. However it is not only the strength of sport within the college that amazes me, but its diversity. This year has seen our flrst women's darts pair, aka "Bandit" and "Ego" crowned Cuppers Queens! While the men's darts pair, aka "The Hair" and "Scouse" reached the semifinals of Cuppers. I would like to congratulate all Sports Captains and Teams for such a brilliant season. I would also like to extend my warm thanks to Teddy Hall for subsidising so many sports, and a big thank you to Dr Philip Mountford for writing so many cheques.

Sport is not the only string to Teddy Hall's bow. The Arts within college is a prominent and enjoyable feature. Michaelmas term saw a week-long festival, organised by the John Oldham Society. The festival celebrated a range of individual and group talents from classical music to poetry. The grand finale proved very agreeable, a superb Cabaret evening, which saw the Old Dining Hall transformed into a luxurious grotto. Such talent and imagination formed the foundations of the Hall's Summer Ball. The college was transformed in the space of only three days from its usual pretty self to an Urban Wonderland. The graveyard became a sitting room, lit by a full moon, while the Wolfson Hall went from dull and drab to daring and dapper! The Ball was a HUGE success! I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Ball Committee, particularly Claire Palmer and Cressida Holmes-Smith for such a fantastic evening. To finish I would like to thank the JCR Committee for all their help and support over the last two terms. At present we are finalising Freshers' Week, which has been extended to Sunday o f Oth week after countless re-drafts to the original plan. Hopefully it will prove to be a fun week, enjoyed by all members of the college community. As a JCR we are sad to be loosing our beloved finalists, however we look forward to welcoming a new bunch o f Teddies, who I'm sure will be bursting with Hall spirit and enthusiasm, guaranteeing another fun year for the JCR. Ruth Brooker (2004)

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Association Football Club Mens Captain (1st XI): Thomas Buttress Womens Captain: Ruth Brooker

The Mens Captains Report [from the incoming Men's Captain] Success, at last. After many years of undefined status, wandering through leagues, St Edmund Hall 1st XI finally established themselves as a force to be ~~:~~~~ reckoned with by returning to the Premiership and more importantly winning the Cuppers trophy that had L._t--111 been eluding their grasp for over 35 years (pictured right). With a wellbalanced team composed of a solid second and third-year core, combined with a strong influx of freshers and the return of 3 key linguists, the season always looked promising. Sights were set high from the beginning. The team gelled quickly, sparking a season that led to an 11-game unbeaten streak coupled with a few 6 or 7-0 annihilations of lesser teams. Teddy Hall's fluid style of play led to a spell that will not be readily forgotten by any of those fortunate enough to have partaken in or witnessed the magic that this audacious team brought to the Oxford football league. The team comprised a solid back-line never willing to shy away from a challenge coupled with an attacking unit with a hint of the European flair that the linguists seemed to bring back with them. This unbeatable combination led to great success and popularity. The debate continues as to whether this was a consequence of our version of the beautiful game or, rather, as a consequence of the intense beauty of the team. Probably the latter. Perhaps the most essential feature of the team this year was the sheer quantity of top-class players vying for spots in the starting squad, giving captain Tom Buttress a tricky task before the big games. Of course the team spirit was second to none, as was the usual support and banter that is so familiar at the Hall. With new kits, our glowing photo proudly posted on the

JCR wall alongside the gteat past and present names of the Hall, and a cup to show for this season, most of the victorious team see this as a springboard for great things to come in the forthcoming years. With the acquisition of a few freshers to fill the void that will be left by the departing finalists, Teddy Hall 1st XI hope to continue this successful run for a few years to come and truly establish St Edmund Hall as the epitome of sporting brilliance in Oxford. Timothy Hoffmann

The Womens Captains Report 2005/06 has proved to be a fantastic season for the St Edmund Hall Women's Football team. After losing out on penalties in last years Cuppers Final to our dreaded rivals, New College, this season provided an opportunity for revenge! This year's squad, a mixture of old hands and new members, in particular a large group of Americans, have progressed immensely. The first training session resembled more of a mothers' meeting, somewhat scaring our new coach, Andy Olsen. However with regular fixtures and training sessions, we were soon whipped into shape. Alan Chetwynd's rigorous fitness regime and Andy's expert advice helped us along a gteat deal. One of our super strikers Cressie HolmesSmith overcame her fear of heading the ball, Ernily Mallam can now kick the ball for miles and Sarah Filby is the left winger that England need! Hard work and the drive to win saw Teddy Hall Ladies in our second Cuppers final, against none other than New College. The game started off slowly, both teams equally as nervous. With a lucky break New College managed to go one ahead. Although this knocked us for six, we battled on and our brilliant mid-fielder, Mouche Pearce hit a blinding right-footed shot which had the goalie rooted to the spot. However by halftime, despite us having the majority of possession, we found ourselves 2-1 down. The second half started much as the first half had ended. However a sliding tackle on New's left winger ten minutes in saw the game brought to a halt. The injured player had jarred her neck on hitting the gtound and had to be taken to hospital. I can report she made a full recovery and we send her our best wishes.

This twenty minute break in play seemed to work wonders; when play resumed we were a different side. Our nerves had disappeared and our centre mid-fielders, Anna Vannuci and Joanne Buick were winning everything in the middle of the park. In the space of fifteen minutes, we had scored two marvellous goals. Mari Tomos, our exceptional striker supplied with super crosses from Carina Dalton, had not hesitated in finding the back of the net. With only five minutes to the final whistle, New College were becoming desperate and managed to win a free kick just outside our box. If it wasn't for the safe hands of our goalie Rachael Horton, the match probably would have gone to extra time. When the final whistle sounded the score was 3-2 to Teddy Hall. Of what I can remember, we all celebrated in true Teddy Hall style, rivalling the Rugby Boys for noise! The squad and I look forward to a new season, in which we intend to retain our Cuppers Champions title.

On behalf of the team I would like to sincerely thank all the Hall supporters who came down and cheered us on! Hall spirit is as strong as ever and is a mighty motivator. I would also like to thank Dr Philip Mountford and the Amalgamated Clubs for all the financial support over the season and for our new kit, which is lovely! I'd also like to thank all of the players who will be leaving us- Carina,Julia, Anna, Callie, Fran, Lucy and Andrea, not forgetting our beloved coach Olsen. We will miss you all loads!

The Boat Club Captain: Holly Duglan Women~ Captain: Kerrie Barrett

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The Men~ Captain~ Report The men's boat club began the year in the difficult position of having very few senior oarsmen able to commit to training. Fortunately we were able to draw in a strong contingent of novice rowers, and dry weather during Hilary term allowed the development of a small but determined 1st Torpid. We rowed over on the first day, but unfortunately could not match the size and strength of several other crews surrounding us, and were bumped the next two days by Magdalen and Merton respectively. However we returned on Saturday to give a brilliant race, on the tail of the Merton crew from the very start and extremely close to a bump when a muscle strain unfortunately stopped the stroke man rowing. We nevertheless managed to get it together and rapidly gained water again on Merton, rowing over closely behind on the finishing line. The 2nd Torpid also gave impressive performances, receiving some bumps but also achieving bumps, including an over-bump against Lincoln, and ultimately maintaining their position. With our sights then set towards Summer Eights, a mixed crew of 1st VIII and 2nd VIII rowers enjoyed a successful training camp in Sabaudia, Italy, under the experienced eye of Barry Banks, former South African International and SEHBC coach 2004-5. Back in Oxford, the crew was bolstered by the addition of Andrew Wright from this year's Isis boat, Harvard lightweight Patrick Haas, and the fantastic coaching of Australians Christina Bursill and Kate Hillier. With consistent and committed training the 1st VIII was a very different crew from the previous term and, despite losing two of our more experienced rowers to illness and injury, hopes were nevertheless high for a successful bumps week. The 2nd VIII had also shown great dedication and enthusiasm throughout the term, but a nasty crash on the first day rather blighted their chances of a successful eights. Meanwhile the first day did not go to plan for the 1sts either, and some poor rowing through the gut meant we were bumped by a fast St Catz crew, with New College narrowly escaping us. We were disappointed to be bumped by University College on Thursday, whilst on the Friday we rowed over the course. On the Saturday, however, we finally came back to spectacularly bump New College as we raced through the gut, finally completing what we started on Wednesday. All in all a year of mixed success, but one which finished on a high! 41

1st VIII: 8: Alexander Groves, 7: Patrick Haas, 6: Andrew Wright, 5: Michael Streule, 4: Richard Callow, 3: Philip Stimpson, 2: William Brownscombe, 1: Mark Potter, Cox: Holly Duglan 2nd VIII: 8: David Alien, 7: Salvatore Ruggiero, 6: Thomas Jackson, 5: Paul Mather, 4: Karl Behrouz, 3: Oliver Gingell, 2: Daniel Townley, 1: Nicholas Scroxton, Cox: Alexander Iosad.

The Women's Captain's Report This year has seen women's rowing at Teddy Hall continuing to flourish. Michaelmas Term saw a large intake of Freshers keen to try their hand at rowing, and with the help of Italian world class rower Andrea Lupini, we were able to train up two crews for Christchurch regatta at the end of term. Despite strong performances, unfortunately neither crew progressed beyond the first day, partly due to extreme weather conditions which resulted in one member of the Novice A crew actually ending up in the river ... The senior squad continued training throughout the term, which culminated in a IV racing well at Wallingford, and a mixture of novices and seniors took part in a successful January training camp on the Tideway in London. The challenging conditions stood us in good stead for our Torpids training, and with the help of coaches Richard Fishlock,John Robinson and Rachel Adams, two crews were entered for Torpids. The 2nd boat met with mixed success, managing to bump on the first day within the first 20 strokes and on the third achieving an epic triple over-bump. Unfortunately they were also bumped by a very strong Pembroke crew, but overall moved up a place to finish 8th in the 4th division. The first crew enjoyed huge success - the first two days saw them bumping within the first 30 strokes, and a further 2 bumps earned them blades for the third year in a row. We are now placed 7th in the 1st division, and have our sights set higher for next year! During the Easter holidays the 1st VIII, joined by our two Blues rowers, took part in a training camp in the idyllic setting of Sabaudia, just south of Rome. In between training sessions we managed to fit in a trip to Rome, as well as sunbathing and swimming in the sea, and, of course, the inevitable 42

pizza and pasta. The week enabled us to make good progress and to come together as a crew, and we were all very sorry to leave. Back in Oxford Rachel Adams once again took over the coaching of the 2nds and 3rds, and both crews were entered for Summer Eights. The 3rds/ Bunny Boat succeeded in qualifying- an impressive achievement, given that about half the crew had stepped into a boat for the first time four weeks before. Unfortunately, however, the more experienced crews around them meant that they were bumped twice and rowed over twice, despite some close races, so dropping two places overall to finish 5th in the 7th division. An extremely strong 2nd crew started Summer Eights 7th in the 4th division: the first day saw them bumping Worcester II within the first 20 strokes, and they repeated this on the second, bumping Lincoln II before Donnington Bridge. Their races on the last two days were klaxoned for safety reasons early on, meaning that all crews had to stop racing, but they were of such a high standard that on both days they had already bumped St John's II and then LMH II before the klaxon was sounded. The girls therefore won blades for the second year in a row in impressive style, not even having to race through the Gut, and are to be congratulated for moving up closer to the 3rd division were they belong! The 1st VIII trained up at Godstow, and were plagued from the start by chicken pox, shingles, tendonitis, broken ribs ... leading us to become known affectionately as Teddy Hall Women's First Aid. We would be starting second in the 1st division, so with the Headship beckoning, and the chance to make up for last year's disappointment, the crew struggled on valiantly, and were able to make it onto the start line on the Wednesday of Summer Eights just about in one piece. Unfortunately for New College, the race was over before we came out of the Gut. We were all thrilled at our achievement, but knew that we would have to remain focused and determined over the next few days in order to maintain our position at the top of the division. The next couple of days saw us crossing the finish line a good four or five boat lengths ahead of the next boat, but knowing the dangers of complacency we lined up on the last day of Summer Eights determined to give it everything and to row a race worthy of a Headship crew. When Pembroke, who were chasing us, were bumped by Christchurch along Greenbank, we knew that we had done it- no-one could take the Headship away from us now. I don't think that any of us will ever forget rowing past the boathouse to deafening cheers of HALL!!! 43

Being the first Teddy Hall women's crew to go Head of the River is a huge achievement, and would not have been possible without the support and generosity of the Friends, and we are all incredibly grateful for everything that they do for us. I would also like to thank Richard Fishlock and John Robinson, whose excellent coaching and commitment to the Boat Club play such a vital part in its success. Lastly, a huge thank-you to all the rowers, who have made the last two years so enjoyable for me, and I wish them the best of luck next year in retaining the Headship!

The Cross Country Club Captain: Alan Chetwynd This year has been an extremely successful one for Teddy Hall cross country, resulting in overall victory in the college league and success at Teddy Hall relays. The first race of the season was Cuppers in Michaelmas term, which doubled as the university's selection race for their varsity match. The Hall provided more competitors in the women's match than any other college, although plenty of enthusiasm wasn't enough to beat the very strong Mansfield team, which won with three in the top six. Zoe Barber, Carina Dalton, Emily Mallam and] o Knights all ran well.

The men's team totally dominated the men's race, with Alan Chetwynd and James Hogan earning a Hall one-two. Good support was given further down the field by Nick Scroxton and the captain of the university club, Paddy Wallace, amongst others. Hilary term's Cuppers was a slightly lower-key affair, although Teddy Hall still had the most entrants. Good runs from Scroxton, Wallace, Will Unsworth and Jess Leitch cemented the Hall's place at the top of the leaderboard. The last race of the season was Teddy Hall relays. Again, the Teddies' enthusiasm was apparent as they entered more teams than any other college. The men's team won comfortably, and the women's and mixed teams both came second in the college rankings. Overall Teddy Hall won with half as many points again as the second-placed college, Oriel. Hopes are high for next year, despite losing three of the college's most committed runners: Paddy Wallace,Jess Leitch and Will Unsworth have given their all to Teddy Hall and Oxford University running over the past four years and have helped create a tradition of success that the college will be looking to build on next year.

The Golf Club Captain: Alastair Wood After four years' absence, Teddy Hall has a golf team once more. Next Michaelmas and Hilary terms we shall be playing some friendlies in order to warm up for the cuppers golf competition, which promises to be a lot of fun. With generous help from Philip Mountford [Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs] we have been able to get the club off the ground, with our regular playing team being able to practice and play at a beautiful course within Cowley.

The Hockey Club Men 1 Captain: Edward Beckett Women 1 Captain: Kate Leyland The Women1 Captain1 Report Coming into this season as Cupper's Champions, and still in the premier league, the pressure was on for us Teddy Hall hockey girls this season.

However, we managed to rise to the challenge and have had another funfilled and successful season, both on and off the pitch! The season started well, with a strong contingent of last year's team strengthened by a keen fresher crop. Team spirits were high, and we launched into our first two league games, and first Cuppers match in Michaelmas. Our first league game was against Worcester, and we were unlucky to lose 2-1 to a side who eventually became league champions. Not deterred though, we stepped up a gear, and had an amazing couple of matches against arch-rivals Queens, and St. Hughes, who we beat 2-0 and 3-0 respectively. Hilary term was frustrating, not least because we had 3 matches cancelled or re-arranged due to poor weather. We continued to do well though; a highlight was beating Jesus away 9-0, which resulted in us become runners-up of the league, a sign of our continually good form throughout the season. We progressed to Cuppers semi-finals, which were unfortunately scheduled early one Sunday after a bop .... needless to say, it wasn't the best game ever! An outstanding goal from Jo Sumpter, and a great game from Laura 'goalie' McMullen, meant that we managed to hold a very strong Univ team to 1-1 by full time. Univ went on to score a golden goal after 10 minutes of us tightly defending our D, a disappointing end to our season. They went on to become Cuppers Champions, but they had better watch out next year - for I have no doubt we shall regain our title! My thanks must go to the whole team, for their commitment, jokes, and high spirits throughout the season. Freshers Flic Auer, Alice Unwin, and Lucinda O'Connor have fitted in well, and have become key members of the squad. Finalists Fi Ronald, Laura McMullen and Sarah Sutton have represented Hall for the last 3 years - thanks to you all for your help and commitment! So good luck to next year's captain Flic, and thanks to Fay Dalby, my trusty Vice-Captain throughout the season.

Mixed Lacrosse Captain: Louise Elliott The mixed lacrosse team became a much greater part of the Teddy Hall sporting life over the last year. With five university women's lacrosse players -Ruth Evans, Wiz Elliott, Gina Blackwell, Emma Readman and Oli Valner - making up the team, Teddy Hall looked set to thrive in the season ahead. 46

We had our team re-entered in the league competition having had a few years off, and had fortnightly matches to play in our group section. The freshers were all really keen to get involved, and despite many members of the team being lacrosse novices the speed of the rugby boys, combined with the agility of the football guys and the coordination of the hockey players, led to a very sporty team who were quick to pick up the skills. This large pool of interested players always enabled Teddy Hall to get a team together for the matches. However, despite being in the lead for the majority of our first match of the season against LMH, they came from behind and finished a goal ahead of us. This match turned out to be crucial as although we had subsequent victories, and only one further loss to St Catz Qast years Cuppers winners), we just missed out on a qualifying position for the league play-offs. However, hope was not lost and focus was turned to the Cuppers tournament that took place on the first weekend of Trinity term. Our rivals Queen's, this year's league finalists, were taken out by Hall's strong side in the first round. Despite a bit of hockey flicking in the ground ball contests, off-the-ball rugby tackles when competitiveness edged in, and broken sticks, we managed to progress successfully to the semi-finals. This was an LMH vs. Hall battle, and due to the hot weather and LMH reaching this spot through a series of byes, our energy levels were severely tested! After a close match, the score did not end in our favour and LMH advanced to become the Cuppers champions. However, the season was a lot of fun and with a few more training sessions next season looks set to be promising.

The Pool Team Captain: Andrew Keech The Pool team had a successful season in 2005/06. The team just missed out on promotion into the second division after a successful campaign but reached the quarter-finals of Cuppers before losing to the eventual champions. The season started with the leagues in Michaelmas term. The team started the year in Division 3B and began with a convincing 7-2 win against OXILP. This was followed by a 5-4 win against StJohns 2nds and a 3-6loss to Univ 2nds. Next up were Harris Manchester away and after falling behind early on, Teddy Hall roared back to take a 4-3 lead only to lose the 8th game and force a deciding singles match between the captains of each side. Teddy Hall prevailed and won a very memorable match, silencing the Harris Manchester faithful. 3 more wins and a loss got us safely into the playoffs where we 47

faced Merton 2nds of Division 3A. Unfortunately over two legs Merton narrowly edged it 10-7 and Teddy Hall missed out on promotion for the second year running. In Cuppers the team comfortably won a relatively weak group, winning all four matches, including a brilliant comeback against Worcester 2nds, from 51 down to win 7-6. A comfortable win against Lincoln 2nds in the last-16 took us into the Quarter Finals where we faced Merton 1sts who won 7-2 before going on to win the competition. In Singles Cuppers the captain, Andrew Keech, had a good run to the semi-finals of the competition, not bad in a draw with a starting field of about 250 entrants. All in all it was a successful and enjoyable season and hopefully next year the team will finally achieve promotion into the 2nd division after missing out in the playoffs for 2 years running.

The Squash Club Captain: Thomas Braithwaite Trinity term has seen the resurrection of the Teddy Hall squash club and ladder after a lengthy absence from the college sporting scene. Open to all members of the college and catering for any ability level, the ladder is accessible from the JCR website. At the time of writing we have 16 players, and hope to increase our size further with the next undergraduate intake in October. Although exam pressures have, for many players, limited the time available for matches, several players have issued challenges, and the first promotions have taken place on the ladder, with a new number one seed at the top as well as considerable movement among the middle-ranking players. The club has also supported efforts to refurbish the Queen's College courts on Iffley Road, so far resulting in the addition of toilets and the possibility of floor replacement on both courts over the summer vacation. Now that club kit has been ordered (thanks to the generosity of the Amalgamated Clubs) we plan to enter two mixed teams in the university leagues at the start of Michaelmas term and will be playing in cuppers, with high hopes!

The Tennis Club Ladies' Captain: Louise Elliott The ladies' tennis team have had an excellent season retaining our title as Cuppers champions and also winning the league competition. With convincing wins in the knockout stages of Cuppers, we met New College in the fmals. We were fortunate to have a first pair of blues university players, and with them setting a high standard of play we won the match without conceding a set. Our league matches presented us with varying degrees of competition, but due to all our team members being of a similar standard, we were successful at winning all of our matches except one. Univ took a 3-1 set victory over us after they were unable to get the required three pairs for our match against them, so we agreed to a shortened match. The winners of the three sections progressed to the semi-finals, and the Teddy Hall ladies qualified for the knockout rounds as best runners-up. We faced Magdalen in the semi finals which, despite battling against a gale passing down the court requiring a change of tactics depending on which end of the court you were playing on, we managed to take a 5-4 set victory to qualify for a position in the finals, where we once again faced Univ. However, after rain caused us to reorganise the match for 9am on Friday of 8th week, apparently the only time their team could all make, the warm-up required was distinctly longer than normal! Nonetheless, the sun was shining and after having won Cuppers the day before, we all had our hearts set on the double victory. With each pair only to play one more couple the score was 3 sets all, their first pair of university players took the next set, but in two very close sets between the other couples Teddy Hall took the score to a 5-4 sets win. The double Cuppers and league victory was ours.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS In the summer of 2005, having attended the interview process in between his post-wedding engagements in Tehran, Arshin AdibMoghaddam was elected to the Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellowship in International Relation~ and Peace Studies in West Asia at St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations. He was born in the Taksim area of Istanbul in 197 4 to Iranian parents whose rather nomadic business life got them from Abadan and Tehran in Iran, to Beirut in Lebanon; Istanbul in Turkey and Hamburg in Germany. The first and second antecedent to his academic endeavours was his Abitur at the Wichern School - an evangelical private institution in Hamburg and his Persian language training at the Imam Ali Mosque in the same city. His academic education began in earnest thereafter at the University of Hamburg where he read Political Science, Psychology and Economics. Before graduating in 2000, Arshin qualified for an international scholarship programme at the American University in Washington DC between 1997 and 1998. In the summer of 2000, a generous scholarship from the Cambridge European Trust enabled him to pursue his academic endeavours at the University of Cambridge. Supervised by Charles ]ones and mentored by Yezid Sayigh, Arshin was awarded an MPhil in late 2001 and a PhD in International Relations in early 2004. Fluent in four languages (Persian, German, English, French) and with an elementary knowledge of Arabic, Arshin has published widely on critical issues in international affairs. He is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gu!f: A Cultural Genealogy published in early 2006 and he is currently working on his second monograph. The recipient of many academic awards, 50

including an honorary fellowship of the Cambridge European Society, Arshin spent the past year in Iran lecturing and eo-directing a project to further peace research in the country. Marina L Galano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has been interested in always multidisciplinary areas; showing passiOn for science, literature and musiC.

She graduated from a bilingual English high school and was awarded with the Honour Diploma granted by the Ministry of Education to outstanding students. She graduated with honours as a "Licenciada" in Physics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and was awarded the fellowship for outstanding students by Fundaci6n Antorchas. It was during her Part 11 Research Work, and subsequently Masters Thesis that she became involved in working with nanostructured materials. At that stage her main focus was on the mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of alloys with structures of nanoscale dimensions. Her interest in research, and strong belief in interdisciplinary work, led her to the Engineering School at the UBA where she was able to manufacture her own materials and subsequently study their properties. From this beginning, she became involved in light weight alloys first on Magnesium alloys as a Research Trainee Student; and later on with Aluminium alloys, as a CONICET Research Fellow. Driven towards attaining a deeper knowledge of the microstructural properties of alloys with nanoscale dimension, she came to Oxford in 2001 to carry out her DPhil in Materials Science. Her thesis work was devoted to the design, manufacture and characterisation of novel Aluminium alloys, and to the eventual manipulation of their properties for industrial applications. During her DPhil Marina was awarded the Hetherington Prize at the Department of Materials and the International Niobium research Award given by Niobium Product Company and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for 51

excellence and innovation in a research project using Nb. Marina has been engaged actively in teaching since early stages of her career starting as an Assistant Lecturer, and afterwards as a Lecturer in Introductory Courses in Physics and Mathematics at the UBA. She has also held industrially related positions; working for a number of years first as a Technic_al Assistant in the Internships Department of the UBA, and later as a Technical Analyst for accreditation of measuring instruments to national or international standards. Throughout her life Marina has been constantly striving to develop in broad areas. While carrying out her studies she achieved a degree in music, and studied amateur drama for four years. She has also a strong devotion to poetry, particularly contemporary latino american authors, and has being awarded prizes in poetry. Marina has been associated with St Edmund Hall since coming to Oxford, and is presently a Career Development Fellow, linked with the College and the Department of Materials and involved in both teaching and research. She will be continuing her work on nanostructured Aluminium alloys containing quasicrystals, devoted to structural characterisation by electron microscopy and diffraction techniques and mechanical properties studies, with the aim to move these novel and promising materials from the laboratory towards an industrial scale.

Cedric Dicko has been appointed as the new William R Miller JRF in Molecular Aspects of Biology 2005. He is currently a researcher at the Zoology Dept, working on the biophysical chemistry of spiders' silk and the molecular mechanism of biopolymer processing. His interest in spiders' silks and their amazing properties started with the need to develop new tools and methodology to study the behaviour of large macromolecules. This quickly 52

evolved into cross-disciplinary issues such as the importance of biological context (animal behaviour and ecophysiology) and evolutionary pressure to understand Nature's structural materials. His research aims for a broader understanding and integration of the different processes of silk-mediated interactions, commencing at the microscopic level with protein structures and ending at the macroscopic level with spiders' and other silk-spinning animals' biology. Cedric was born in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He remained in his hometown until the age of 18 when he moved to France to start his 'Classes Preparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles' in Paris followed by engineering in chemistry at the 'Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier'. In 1998, he went further north to Aarhus University, Denmark, on a one-year exchange student programme to study laser spectroscopy. He stayed for a further two years, during which he was involved in the development and application of photobiology /bio-spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation light. This resulted in another country hop, this time to the UK, in 2001, to start a DPhil on spider silk at Wadham College. During his studies in Cote d'Ivoire, France, Denmark and the UK Cedric has been an active participant in student life, and represented his universities and college in numerous sporting competitions (chess, judo, rugby). He is a flrm believer in the role of non-academic achievement to promote scholarly success. Wes Williams teaches French language and literature, with a particular focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; he also teaches European film, and literary theory.

His main research interests are in the fleld of Renaissance literature: the critical study of genre and of subjectivity; investigations into the politics of literature, experience, and the popular and professional cultures of the early modern period. His fl.rst book- Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: The Undiscovered Country', Clarendon Press (OUP, 1999)- was the flrst full-length study of the place of Christian pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. An exploration of certain interlinking themes - the location, representation, and politics of

the sacred, the experience of the everyday and the extraordinary, religious and secular travel- it concerns the literary formation of the subjective narrative voice, and its relationship to the rituals and practices of pilgrimage. He continues to explore, and to write about, travel narratives of various kinds across the period. He is now completing a book on monsters and their meanings from, roughly, Rabelais to Racine (by way of Montaigne, Titian, Shakespeare and a few others). He is a founder-member and Director of Oxford Amnesty Lectures (see www.oxford-amnesty-lectures.org). Alongside academic work, Wes writes and directs for the theatre. He has eowritten and directed a number of solo shows in collaboration with Emily Woof (Sex II; Sex III; Going, going ... ), Nick Whitfield (Albert Camus, what's the score?; &admovie), and Ed Gaughan (Radioplqy). His most recent show is a double act, with Ed Gaughan and Andy Buckley, entitled Saints and S uperheroes. Wes was born in Rangoon, grew up in India, and moved in his early teens to Croydon. After a first degree in French and German at St John's, Oxford he studied in Germany for two years, in Hamburg and in Berlin, before starting a DPhil in Renaissance French writing back at St John's. He taught as a College Fellow at New College for fifteen years, before moving to a University Lectureship and Fellowship at St Edmund Hall at the start of 2006.

INSIDE OLD ENGLISH A festschrift for Bruce Mitchell Saturday, January 7th witnessed a festive- if unusual- occasion at the Hall: the presentation of a Jestschrift - a volume of collected essays in honour of Fellow Emeritus Bruce Mitchell, who had taught at the Hall since 1955. Bruce, accompanied by his wife Mollie and his Australian niece Ann Kinnear, gathered with guests for drinks in the Senior Common Room around midday, when Martin Slater, Pro-Principal of the Hall, welcomed the guests, and Emma Bennett, of Blackwells Publishing, introduced Professor John Walmsley (English Language & Lit., matric. 1957), editor of the volume Inside Old English. Papers in Honour of Bruce Mitchell (Oxford:Blackwell). 54

The presentation marked the successful close of a project launched almost five years previously, following the celebration of Bruce's Mitchell's eightieth birthday. In this respect, the odyssey experienced by the publication was not unlike the fate of the Seafarer (known to all Bruce's students of Old English). Professor John Walmsley- trying to look suitably wan and grey-haired likened his experience in guiding the course of the publication to that of the Seafarer: yldo him on fareo, gomelfeax gnornao

onsyn blacap,

(Secifarer 91-92) 'old age creeps up on him Grey-haired he mourns ... '

his countenance grows pale / wan,

The Anglo-Saxon poets, it seems, knew all about the trials and tribulations of editors. One of the more harmless pleasures of academic life consists in following the careers of one's students. In Bruce Mitchell's case, the situation is reversed: Bruce's students have been following his career with interest for almost exactly fifty years. This academic career was only slightly affected by retirement. In the thirty years from 1955 to 1985 Bruce Mitchell published over ninety books, articles and reviews, culminating in his majestic Old English Syntax (1985, in two volumes), followed by another fifty publications in the twenty years 1985-2005. A number of these papers were of seminal importance, as the contributions to Inside Old English testify. All in all, 1985 would have been an appropriate occasion for a Jestschrift; the present occasion was thus a long overdue tribute. But presenting a colleague with a festschrift is not a particularly English thing to do. On the other hand, philology, too, is not an exclusively English thing, either. In a predominantly postmodernist climate, where philologists struggle increasingly to maintain and defend their values- striving after truth, a belief in correct (implying the possibility of incorrect) readings and interpretations, and a commitment to objectivity - society is increasingly hard put to say what philology exactly is. For the record, philology is centrally concerned with the understanding and interpretation of texts. It comprises two major 55

disciplines- textual criticism (to establish as accurate a text as possible) and hermeneutics (the art of interpretation). Since as full an understanding of the text as possible is a prerequisite to correct interpretation, grammar and lexicon become indispensable tools in the philological enterprise. The most advanced lexicon of its kind in this area is the Dictionary of Old English Electronic Database currently being prepared by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto. The corresponding grammar is Bruce Mitchell's Old English Syntax, a work of single-handed dedication which is unlikely to be superseded for a very long time. This work has been described by the former Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Camb~idge (and one of the contributors to Inside Old English), Michael Lapidge, as one of the great milestones marking out progress in the discipline. In retrospect one sees the logic of Bruce Mitchell's academic career: syntax, when he arrived in Oxford, constituted a glaring gap in Old English studies, and it has been Bruce Mitchell's destiny to fill that gap with his monumental work Old English Syntax. Inside Old English is in a sense one of the many fruits of Old English Syntax in that most if not all the contributions to the volume make use of it or refer to it. It was a matter of great satisfaction to all concerned that the project launched so long ago had (unlike the Seafarer) arrived successfully at its planned destination. The volume came as a long overdue token of respect, affection and gratitude from colleagues, friends and former students. In his reply Bruce Mitchell, after thanking those concerned with the production of the volume, paid a particular tribute to his wife Mollie for her continuing support over the years. Not only had she turned the whole of Old English Syntax (all one thousand nine hundred pages and exactly four thousand numbered paragraphs of it) from difficult manuscript to immaculate typescript- she was, he said, the only person in the world who had read Old English Syntax in its entirety - four times! After the presentation the gathering adjourned to an excellent buffet lunch laid on by the Hall. In a gathering in which all- Andy Warhol style -were prominent it would be invidious to pick out individuals. But it was a pleasure to see a generous sprinkling of Fellows and Honorary Fellows mingling with friends and some

of Bruce's former students. It was a particularly fortunate circumstance that Ann Kinnear was present to represent Bruce's family in Australia, less fortunate that only two of the contributors to Inside Old English were able to attend Dr Susan Irvine, from University College London, and Professor Michael Lapidge from Cambridge University. However, with contributors to the volume being drawn from all over the world - from Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, Japan and the United States- this was only to be expected. All of them however sent their best wishes, and Professor Walmsley read out a special message of congratulation from Professor Antonette diPaulo Healey, Editor of the Dictionary qf Old English and Angus Cameron Professor of Old English Studies at the University of Toronto. Particular thanks are due to the Principal, the Pro-Principal, the Bursar and Fellows of the Hall for hosting what was described as "a very friendly occasion." John Walmsley

Bruce Mitchell: an appreciation Bruce Mitchell's academic career, both his teaching and his scholarship, has been one of extraordinary accomplishment and distinction. Eminent scholars throughout the world are proud to acknowledge that they are former students of Bruce Mitchell, some as regularly enrolled Oxford students, others as postdoctoral scholars who enjoyed his mentorship while working at Oxford. In the realm of scholarship his impact on Old English studies has been extraordinary. His two-volume Old English Syntax stands as one of the halfdozen most important works of reference in the field. His Guide to Old English, now in its sixth edition, has served as the textbook in hundreds of Old English classes throughout the world, and his Invitation to Old English andAngloSaxon England has introduced large numbers of students and general readers to the study of Old English. For advanced students of the subject he has written sophisticated studies, critical as well as textual; of many Old English works, especially numerous and valuable contributions being made to the understanding of the poem Beowu!f. A series of publications (both books and articles) have made scholars aware of the fundamental problem of punctuating Old English texts and have emphasized how modern punctuation imposed on Old English texts pervasively distorts our understanding of Old English. His Critical Bibliograpi!J q[Oid English IJntax to the End q/1984 followed by a series of Supplements in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen have kept scholars 57

abreast of ongoing developments in this important area of Old English studies. For half a century his essays and reviews have addressed subjects of comprehensive range both within and outside of Old English studies. Some of these are by necessity combative, but all are fair, good-humoured and courteous. Taken all together, his impact on the study of Old English as both teacher and scholar is literally incalculable: one has difficulty imagining how different the study of Old English would be today had Mitchell not become a scholar and teacher of the subject. And yet, those who know him personally tend to agree that Bruce Mitchell is not like other academics. His practicality, his independence of mind, and his hearty, outgoing manner and instant popularity among people of all classes and callings make him something of a rarity in the groves of academe. And this is not surprising when one realizes that academics has been but one of his three careers. Born in Lismore, New South Wales in 1920, he came of age just in time for the Second World War. From 1941 to 1946 he served as lieutenant and then captain in the Australian Imperial Force, having an assignment as Intelligence Officer attat:hed to an armoured unit. After his military career he became a businessman, managing a printing company in Melbourne. Before the War, however, he had for four years been a schoolteacher, and this, he decided, was the career to which he felt most drawn. He therefore left the business world and enrolled as a part-time student at the University of Melbourne, supporting himself by working as a gardener, builder's labourer, and railway porter. Taking a bachelor's degree with First Class Honours in English, he then proceeded to First Class Honours in Comparative Philology in the School of Classical Philology and to a Master's with First Class Honours in English Language and Literature in 1952. In the same year he entered Merton College, Oxford, and in 1959 was made a Doctor of Philosophy. Since 1955 he had been a Fellow and Tutor in English Language in St Edmund Hall. And it was from this point that his illustrious career as teacher and scholar began to unfold. That he has received countless honours in recognition of his work is hardly surprising, but the international scope of this recognition is quite remarkable. He holds the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Letters from Oxford, an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku and has been voted an Honorary Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and an Honorary Member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. He

was a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and holds the British academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Prize for excellence in scholarship. A list of the countries to which he has been invited as a distinguished lecturer reads like a gazetteer of the world. To these and many other impressive honours the contributors to this volume wish to add their own tokens of esteem and appreciation. Fred Robinson Yale University

THE GEDDES LECTURE, 27 JANUARY 2006 An edited extract of Nick Robinson's lecture was posted on the MediaGuardian website, and is reproduced below A relationship on the rocks TV journalists and politicians must learn to trust and respect each other, for the good of democracy Nick Robinson Monday January 30, 2006 The marriage between television and democracy is troubled. Politicians are convinced that the media are obsessed with personality, trivia and divisions while ignoring what matters policy. We retort that they offer only spin, soundbites, or obfuscation. Like any warring couple, we risk boring onlookers with our row about who's to blame. John Lloyd's book, What the Media are Doing to Our Politics, argues that journalism "damages the democratic fabric that we need to support us". This argument needs addressing - that the media are destroying faith in the democratic institutions we claim to be holding to account and undermining the capacity of our society to have a rational debate. Audiences for terrestrial news are in long-term decline. Fewer than 25% of 15-24-year-olds now watch 15 consecutive minutes of BBC TV news in any week. In this competitive world we have to shout louder to get a hearing. The question is how to maintain our values. Politicians are angry that at election time viewers saw and heard more of me, Andrew Marr and Adam Boulton than them. Let's be clear why this came about - as Marr memorably put it, until politicians learn to speak "fluent human" you get us instead. All too

often a two-way - the conversation between presenter and reporter that has become a standard feature of every TV news bulletin - is an excuse to put the word "Live" next to a man who says "As I said in my report ... " who is standing somewhere where something did happen but stopped happening many hours earlier. TV two-ways can forget to tell us the facts and too readily leap straight to speculation - why are they telling us this and what's going to happen next? We should use two-ways m-ore sparingly and think through their purpose. Particular venom is now reserved for interviewers: Paxman and Humphrys - it is alleged - undermine respect for politics. But remember who killed the longform political interview. Tony 131air has avoided Today, On the Record, Panorama, preferring sofa chats, "masochism strategy" punch-ups and Football Focus. We should ensure there is a variety of interviewing styles, and try to find a place where politicians can think aloud more, without us craving a headline for the next day. There should be a place for an analysis interview, and for personality interviews like those in Saturday newspapers. Tony Benn used to demand we focus on "ishoos" and not on "pershunalities", but try telling the story of the past 10 years without saying the word Blair and you'll see how absurd that is. Power is about people and ideas, not one or the other. But we are not good enough at covering ideas. John Birt once pointed out in a speech that most mainstream journalism had failed to spot the rise of ideas now called Thatcherism. Personality disorder I worry when I look back on my time as a political editor that I can recall asking lain Duncan Smith about his wife's office expenses; Tony Blair about his wife's flat; Charles Kennedy about booze. And I worry that many of the stories end up with that word "gate" at the end. The challenge for us is not to ignore personality but to stop seeing all politics through that prism. TV news can exacerbate the problem by allocating stories to specialists. If it's the political correspondent, you can get too much of why and not enough what. If it's the policy specialist you can get all what and no why. Policy is a blend of ideas and political reality and we need to improve the way we convey that. We can learn from the "new readers start here" mentality of news online, Radio 5 Live and newspaper sidebars, or what the Guardian has initiated, called "backstory". There is a strong case for a TV analysis programme with a dedicated team committed to ideas in a

place in the schedule where it does not have to compete with the soaps or reality shows. New technology can help, leading people to more detailed content: nearly 75,000 people watched David Cameron's first PMQs on broadband on the BBC website. My blog gets between 50,000 and 100,000 hits on big days. There is now talk of podcasting Today in Parliament. The challenge for the politicians is to dare to have more of their debates in public. Many politicians have almost given up trying to engage and have a negative, risk-averse attitude. There have been too many denials of stories that turn out to be true. In return, we should admit more readily when we're wrong or at the limits of our knowledge. Thomas Jefferson once suggested that "Perhaps an editor might divide his paper in four chapters heading the first, Truths; the second, Probabilities; the third, Possibilities; the fourth, Lies. The first chapter would be very short." ÂŠ Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

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

2006 Faced with a uniformly high standard of entry to this year's competition, Professor Richard Crampton and fellow judges Professor John Kelly (St John's) and Graham Mather (President, European Policy Forum) had the difficult task of finding a winner, especially since all candidates performed extremely well at interview. Despite this, the interviewers were unanimous in their opinion that the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize should be awarded to Mr Jack Shenker of Balliol, and the Clive Taylor Prize, together with the St Edmund Hall Prize, be awarded to Charles Boss (2003, English Language & Literature). Both winners received their prizes from Graham Mather, Chairman of the Geddes Trust, over a glass of champagne in the Principal's Drawing Room on 7 March 2006.

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, former Fellow and Tutor in English. The prize is open to any undergraduate in the college; it may be on ahy subject, and written in any genre or form, but it must be no longer than twenty-five lines. For the third year in succession, the winning entry is by Caleb Klaces (2003) and is reproduced below.

Boy called Pilet like a small chicken The rabble are pinching old toast from a skip in the field, grabbing crinklable fists of clear plastic to own. Filet's little yellow head is hung over rubbish like a dab of paint, a flaw of light. Inside his head is a yellow chick growing, otiose, and growing, he has the outline in scar of a ladybird on top of his head; every so often it attempts to take off in his throat, or, separately, he walks. Or he smiles, stupidly, outs his top row of teeth hung like the side of a tablecloth like a curtain you could pull aside. Caleb Klaces

THE BALL AT THE HALL, SATURDAY 6 MAY 2006 Part of Teddy Hall's charm as a college lies in its incongruous mix of architectural styles; from the medieval romance of the graveyard to the raw modernism of Kelly and the Wolfson Hall. This diversity is all well and good - one of the reasons I applied, in fact - until you have to come up with a way of linking them together to continue the legacy of legendary summer Balls at the Hall. The 2006 Ball Committee, however, relished the challenge and came up with the theme 'Urban Wonderland', to combine the gritty glamour of Central London with a quintessentially Oxford whimsical gothic decadence. Second year engineer Jonathan Taylor, whose previous experience working in the technical departments of national theatre and television companies brought a wealth of contacts, was the mastermind behind the audio-visual extravaganza, aided and abetted by the artistic vision of Amy McLeod and eo-President Cressida Holmes-Smith. Under a canopy of roses in the Front Quad (Fioreat Aula), the glitz of a swing band and the a cappella Oxford Belles provided a sophisticated start to the evening, which followed through into the graveyard, where headstones were interspersed with sofas, lit by our very own 'moon', an illuminated balloon 30 metres above. Meanwhile, the Wolfson Hall was transformed into a Studio 54 style nightclub, with high class DJ s from the Ministry of Sound offering an eclectic range of dance music. The atmosphere even inspired a few of the Fellows to show off their skills on the dance floor, much to the surprise (and secret admiration) of their students. Emerging under the Senior Common Room, the potent energy of the city gave way to a taste of summer music festivals like Reading and V-Fest (without the mud). Performers discovered during Michaelmas Arts Week brought us a wealth of rock and roll talent from professional Oxford and London bands, but by far the most popular was the Hall's very own Plus Special Guests, who gained special praise from a sound technician more used to the main stage at Glastonbury. But the 2006 Ball was as much about entertaining 800 guests as showing off the enormous range of skills that exist in our student body. The dedication, resourcefulness and team work of the Committee and impromptu helpers proved that the Teddy Hall spirit is alive and well, and that its students are as versatile as the college itself. Oh, and we still throw the best parties in town. Claire Palmer, Ball President 2006

THE A B EMDEN LECTURE Next time you are in church or chapel look carefully at your priest. Is there a beard to be seen? You might not think this a relevant question, and nor would I have done before attending the Emden Lecture in the Examination Schools on Tuesday, 9 May 2006. It was given by Prof Diarmaid MacCulloch of St Cross College, and his subject was 'Archbishop Cranmer and his Biographers'. So what's all this about beards? I hear you are asking. First let me reassure you that it is not some new devilish devious device by diehard deacons of the Anglican church to dish the distaff side and exclude women clergy. According to Prof MacCulloch, in the late seventeenth century beards were seen as an indication of Protestantism, whereas the clean-shaven were thought to be leaning towards Rome. The lecturer illustrated his point by showing two different portraits of Cranmer. One, used by Burnet, showed him hirsute and, said Prof MacCulloch, indicated that the biographer was intending to stress Cranmer's place in the- English Protestant tradition, whereas another biographer, Strype, used an unbearded portrait in a work which attempted to distance Cranmer from that tradition. There was much more than beards and iconography in Prof MacCulloch's lucid, lively, and fascinating presentation. He traced the history of writings on Cranmer, beginning with Foxe's Book of Marryrs first published in Latin in 1559 and in English in 1563. Prof MacCulloch showed how this work had relied heavily on a manuscript by another author, Nevinson, a manuscript which was not discovered until the nineteenth century. Meanwhile, Foxe had been widely read and translated into a number of languages, including Hungarian. The lecturer then outlined the differing uses made of Foxe's seminar work, and of other biographies published in later centuries. He showed how the non-jurors had attacked him for his alleged subservience to the state, how others had portrayed Cranmer as the persecutor rather than Foxe's image of him as the persecuted, and he noted that the Oxford Movement had laid more emphasis than previous writers on Cranrner's authorship of the Book of Common PrC!Jer, they had added, Prof MacCulloch argued 'obfuscation' in order to claim Cranmer as a precursor of their own Anglo-Catholicism.

Not the least of Cranmer's biographers is Prof MacCulloch himself, his Thomas Cranmer: a Life having received ecstatic reviews when published by Yale University Press in 1996. Prof MacCulloch spoke engagingly about his researches. He described how some new archival sources had come to light and how he had coped with the huge volume of published material on his subject. Prof MacCulloch's own interpretation of Cranmer was new and appropriate for his - our - times. He rejects the notion that Cranmer was a typical Anglican; he would not, the lecturer insisted, have liked Choral Evensong and would have been appalled at the notion of a middle way between Canterbury and Rome, between Protestantism and Catholicism. Prof MacCulloch went further. Not only was Cranmer not a typical Anglican, he was not a typical Englishman either. He had a German wife and a Polish pupil; he was the antithesis of the Eurosceptic. He was therefore as much, if not more, a European rather than an English figure, who had a symbiotic relationship with European thought, influencing it as much as it influenced him. The lecture was followed by a lively round of questions and was clearly hugely enjoyed by all present. Richard Crampton

CREATIVE WRITING at the Hall continues to thrive, and some talented writers have emerged over the last few years. For the third year running, English finalist Caleb Klaces has won the Graham Midgley prize for poetry. He also achieved success further afield, with a poem included in The Mqy Anthologies, a journal that publishes the best new writing from Oxford and Cambridge (the equivalent of a writing 'blue'!) Ted Hodgkinson's short story 'the Pillowcase' was also included, so it was a good year for the college in the Mqys- this year guest edited by Jeanette Winterson and Don Patterson. Ted Hodgkinson (second year English) has also been busy running undergraduate writing workshops, and Rob Gallagher organized a highly successful 'open mic' occasion in Michaelmas, featuring talent of all kinds. In Trinity term, Lucy Newlyn and Wes Williams started a fortnightly drop-in workshop, open to all undergraduates. The intention is to provide a regular, un-intimidating, forum for students to share writing of all kinds; and we plan to continue with this next year.

In Hilary term, Michael Schmidt (poet, critic and founder-editor of Carcanet) gave a poetry reading with Manchester poet Grevel Lindop; and this proved to be a stimulating and convivial occasion. And in Trinity term, Christopher Ricks (Warren Professor of Humanities at Boston University, and Oxford's Professor of Poetry) gave a talk entitled 'Friendship for Dylan'. Professor Ricks has published many important books and editions, incl~ding classic works of criticism on Milton, Tennyson and Keats. He was lecturing on Bob Dylan long before the study of popular culture became a feature of university syllabi in the UK; and his fascinating book, Dylan's Visions if Sin, brings together his thinking on this subject over the past thirty years. The theme of friendship is one that Ricks has recently been addressing in his termly public lectures, but with reference to great writers in the canon, such as TS Eliot and Geoffrey Hill. So this was a unique opportunity for undergraduates to hear him discussing some of Dylan's greatest songs. The students turned up in their droves, and many had to sit at his feet. After the lecture, Tom Pinnock, a talented Finalist at Mansfield, sang some more Dylan songs. Daniel Eltringham (first year English) gives his impression of the occasion: Love & Friendship

"The words are all I'm qualified to discuss. A song has three components, but I can only talk about the words". A brief half-bow and Christopher Ricks is gone, leaving in his wake half an hour's analysis of just the one word, friendship. Plucked from Dylan's lyrics and considered in its numerous senses and tones, its use is then meticulously dissected in three of Dylan's lesser known songs, all of which deal with friendship in some way: 'He Was A Friend of Mine', 'Ballad for a Friend' and 'Bob Dylan's Dream'. The first two are fairly low-proftle songs, appearing only on the bootleg series, and the latter is taken from the Freewheelin' album. The Pontigny Room - the posh name for the party room - is packed to hear Ricks speak and, later, Tom Pinnock play, united with their audience through a mutual love of Dylan. What Bob himself would have thought of being institutionalised in a talk by the Oxford Professor of Poetry is uncertain, but what is sure is the love for the man that binds the evening together. However it may jar slightly with Dylan's nonconformist image, Ricks's was an intelligent

and affectionate tribute. It is a love that has driven Ricks to consider friendship, and with a pleasing paradox he begins by telling us how he isn't going to deal with the friendships of intimacy, but with a more prosaic variety of tie, that of friend to friend. As Ricks points out, love tends towards immortality, and friendship is often overlooked by its lack of mythological status. A tension between the two friendship born of love, and a Platonic bond -is maintained throughout the talk, with Ricks speaking insistently about the importance of tone, and different inflexions of the word sung, what he terms the possibilities of a "modulated tone". This ambiguity is between friendship, love and hostility, and in most cases the written word 'friend' can be interpreted through song in at least two of these ways. Despite protestations, Ricks is able to discuss sung voice. Perhaps it's not so far removed from the poetic voice with which he is more accustomed.

Tom Pinnock's interpretations of five Dylan songs followed Ricks, and despite having a difficult task in doing justice to the talk, it's a fine performance showing not a little individual divergence from the album versions. It was odd hearing Dylan songs sung through a much clearer voice, but once this had been got used to Tom's impressive performance on his acoustic is greeted with enthusiasm, bravely tackling and extending 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' with a solo section, and singing the "to the valley below" part of 'One More Cup of Coffee' with an ascending rather than descending vocal, holding the note far longer. Dylan was never one to play his songs 'straight' during live reinterpretations, and he would probably have approved of Tom's experimentation. It was the talk, though, that left people talking. While accusations of overintellectualisation could be levelled at this sort of exercise- Ricks refers often to poets -he also demonstrates his overwhelming knowledge of the subject, frequently interspersing lyrics with his speech, so, "Queen Mary, she's my friend", and "my best friend the doctor" sneak in there almost unnoticed. He also shows pleasing awareness of those nuances which can't be analysed, declaring that the use of "ring them bells" instead of the standard form is too subtle for him to know why it makes a difference, only that it does. 'Friendship' comes out of Ricks's other lectures this year on poetic friendships, but the adaptation to within Dylan's lyrics manages to combine passion with detail. And it all makes sense anyway really, since to tackle the whole of

Dylan's lyrical writings in half an hour wouldn't be to do them justice, and Ricks's focused precision proves just the thing, especially since, as we are surprisingly informed, "seventy of D ylan's songs mention friendship", and presumably around a similar amount of love. Daniel Eltringham (2005)

THE GEORGE SERIES ESSAY PRIZE The George Series Prize was created by a bequest from George Series, the first Fellow in Physics at St Edmund Hall. George felt deeply the t;,endency of undergraduate science courses to play down the importance of the ability to write well on either scientific or non-scientific subjects. Accordingly he made a bequest to fund an annual prize, open to students in all Natural Science and Biological Science subjects and Mathematics, to be awarded for the best piece of creative writing. The piece can take any form: story, essay, poem. The subject may be purely fictional, but may also relate to broad discussion of any non-fictional subject not directly included in the regular science curriculum followed by the entrant. This year's George Series Essay Prize has been awarded to Peter J Moreton (2002, Physics) for his romantic poem "Stampeding Red Horses".

ST EDMUND HALL MOOTING COMPETITION 2006 In Trinity Term, the annual St Edmund Hall Mooring Competition provided an opportunity for undergraduates studying Law at the College to develop their advocacy skills in a mock appellate court. For each round of the knockout competition students researched a hypothetical case and presented their arguments for either the appellant or the respondent to a judge or panel of judges. Mooters were assessed on their research skills, their ability to present legal arguments coherently and eloquently, and their use of the court documents. Each of the four moots in the first round had a different hypothetical case, such that several contentious areas of the law of contract and of tort were argued before the judge, Professor Derrick Wyatt QC. Notwithstanding that one student from each pairing had never mooted before, the standard of

advocacy was excellent and it was extremely difficult to select one team from each moot. The four successful teams proceeded to the second round, with Professor Adrian Briggs as the presiding judge. The quality of mooring was even higher than that displayed in the first round, and once again the judge's task was an unenviable one; ultimately it was decided that the pairings to compete in the final would be Robert Ardern and lnaamul Laher, and J oanna Knights and Eleanore Di Claudio. The hypothetical case for the final was structured as an appeal to the House of Lords, and concerned the judgment in Williams v Roffry Bros. & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd. and the law governing economic duress - a topic which the mooters had not studied in tutorials. Professor Briggs, Darren Fodey and Lizzie Purcell adopted the roles of Law Lords and heard an outstanding moot, for which all four finalists are to be congratulated. After difficult deliberations, the moot was awarded to the appellants Robert Ardern and lnaamul Laher. Many thanks go to the Law Tutors at the College, Professor Wyatt QC and Professor Briggs, for all their help, and also to Darren Fodey for his unstinting support. Lizzie Purcell Mistress of the Moot 2006

THE MCR SEMINAR SERIES has continued this year with great success. The seminars were held once a term in the SCR, giving MCR members a chance to talk about their research with students and fellows of the College. The eight speakers found the opportunity to be beneficial, some using it as practice for an upcoming conference presentation, some using it to get feedback on their research, and others using it to merely have the satisfaction of sharing an interesting topic with their colleagues! A striking point about the seminars was their diversity. The topics presented ranged from the constitutional status of the national churches in Great Britain (Scot Peterson) to the efforts of the Haida First Nation to repatriate their ancestral remains from museums (Cara Krmpotich), and from the industrial process of superplastic forming used in the production of Aston-Martin Vanquish sportscars (Martin Rust) to a critical study of abstinence-based programs for HIV prevention in high-income countries (Kristen Underhill). The other speakers, who are certainly no less noteworthy, were Jennifer Chung, Luba Mandzy, Alejandro Reig and Suzy Styles. The MCR thanks the SCR for

hosting and attending the seminars, and hopes that this tradition will continue in the next academic year. Ben Chad (2005)

OLD AND NEW An interview of Dr Ernest Parkin, the new Home Bursar who took up the post on 1 September 2006, by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, the old one. OLD: Why Teddy Hall; Why now? NEW: When you work for Government, you're not always proud of your employer. I'm proud to be joining Teddy Hall, and it's my hope to contribute by continuing to improve services and build its strength in people and resources. The end of my tour of duty in Ireland was a perfect time to leave the diplomatic service and settle in the U.K. OLD: Is this your last career move? NEW: My fervent hope is that I will serve Teddy Hall until I retire. OLD: Tell us briefly about your other careers. NEW: Immediately after receiving my PhD, I took a job at a teachers' college in Nigeria. I then joined a language institute in Washington, where I headed English language teaching, and opened two branches - one in New England and one in Bahrain. For the last twenty-plus years I've worked in US Embassies in Mali, Kuwait, Malta, UK, Oman, Australia, UAE, and Ireland. In summary, I left the US in 1974, and except for four years, I've lived abroad ever since. OLD: Do you work for the CIA? NEW: Lots of people ask that, but I think they've seen too many Hollywood films. Anyway, I never have and never will. OLD: What are your hobbies? NEW: I enjoy choral singing, furniture making, and antique restoration.

0 LD: Will you be singing to the College? NEW: Only if you play the piano for me. OLD: Do you know the words to the Teddy Bears' Picnic? NEW: With an English wife and three English children, I certainly do. OLD: What was your impression of the College when you first saw it? NEW: I suppose I'm an architectural hobbyist. I like the mix of styles. I love the Quad, but I'm one person who doesn't wince at the sight of Wolfson, Kelly and Emden. They come from an exciting period in 20th Century architecture. If they seem a bit dated, then we have to remember that they are products of a certain moment in time. I've been privileged to have several unique 1960's buildings in my care over the years, including Eero Saarinen's US Embassy in London and John Johansen's US Embassy in Dublin- both gems of 1960's architecture. I hope to be able to restore some of the older buildings, and I eagerly anticipate overseeing the construction of the lecture hall on the upper quad. OLD: Where will you be living? NEW: We plan to rent a house in Cassington for a year, to give ourselves a chance to explore Oxfordshire and choose a house to buy. OLD: Have you given any thought to what you would like to be remembered for at Teddy Hall? NEW: That point is a long way in the future, but my goal is to leave Teddy Hall better than I found it. There's a wonderful foundation on which to build. I'm keen on stewardship, by which I mean leaving a healthy legacy for those who follow me. OLD: What skills do you bring from your last post that will suit the Hall? NEW: I've held a position equivalent to bursar in half a dozen embassies, and so I've learned the value of communication within the

organisation. I work with budgets and finance continuously, and have good skills there. In addition, I have a good knowledge of safety, health and facilities issues. Finally, I do a fabulous job of French Polishing. OLD: In your varied life so far, what is the most memorable event? NEW: There are few thrills that compare with coming into Timbuktu by road after a hot and sandy week in the Southern Sahara. Just the anticipation of a shower and a beer was enough to. make it memorable. OLD: What are the words to "The Fastest Milk cart in the West"? NEW: It wasn't until I married an Englishwoman that I realized the baggage . that went with the name Ernest. My parents only told me about The Importance of Being Ernes!. However, I'll ask you to remember that poor Ernie the milkman was the innocent victim of wicked Twoton Ted from Teddington. Poor Ernie deserves justice. OLD: Thank you and good luck!

OBITUARIES NORMAN CHARLES POLLOCK, 1920 - 2005 Emeritus Fellow The following address was given by lan Scargill at Norman Pollock's funeral:"I flrst met Norman 50 years ago when he returned to Oxford as Lecturer in the School of Geography and tutor here in St Edmund Hall. It was the beginning of a long association as tutor, colleague and, above all, close friend which has given me memories that I shall always treasure. "Norman's roots were in South Africa and it was natural that he should specialize '---in the geography of Africa. His many books and articles testify to his academic standing in this field. But he will be remembered above all in this College as a flne tutor. He was interested in young people and easily established a rapport with them. We often interviewed schoolboy and schoolgirl applicants together. I believe that there are now lessons in interview technique. Nothing like this was needed by Norman who was able to make the most nervous candidate relaxed and at ease. Once those we had admitted came up to College they quickly settled down, not least because of the generous hospitality which Norman and Joy provided at Yarnells Hill. ''Amongst many memories are those of the field trips we took together, usually to Yorkshire. One particular incident comes to mind. We arrived in Whitby late one Saturday afternoon in March with about 30 undergraduates in tow, only to flnd the guest house unprepared for us, no food and the proprietor still carrying out repairs. Norman was incensed, marched us round to Whitby's largest and smartest hotel and demanded refuge to save the honour of the town. It worked. Although still out of season, they let us in and we had a great week there, at no extra cost.

"Norman's interests were not confined to Africa. He was fascinated by archaeology and, like many of Rowley Gullick's old pupils, he had a lifelong love of France. As many of you will know, the Pollocks bought a small cottage in the Dordogne about 1970 and kindly invited Mary and me to share it with them. We had wonderful holidays there and it is little exaggeration to say that Norman was something of a legend in the Dordogne. This is partly because of the great walk. Joy had gone out to the new cowtge by car, full of equipment, and Norman followed by train. Arriving at Perigueux station in the middle of the night he walked, 20 miles in the pitch dark, on unknown roads, to the cottage, arriving as dawn broke. There's a geographer for you. The rest of the Dordogne legend is to do with Norma~ helping with the vendange. He loved that, and he and] oy were held in great affection by the people of Les Bigoussies. '1\nd of course he drew, those lovely colour pencil drawings which we came to admire at Artweek here in College. He used some to illustrate books, including one on the Jericho area of Oxford to which he and Joy retired, but he gave many of them away, something else to treasure. He went on reading in the library and drawing until the cloud of memory loss made this impossible, but I am sure his art was a comfort to him in the final difficult years and he was very proud that his grandson, Daniel, had inherited this artistic mantle. "Norman was a kind and generous man. He liked to live frugally, walking when he could have taken the bus, and with a quite remarkable range of recycling skills that he had developed long before these became fashionable. But what he saved would then be used to help family and friends. "In the Department he was always willing to help when volunteers were needed for examining or other duties. The one thing he didn't like was unnecessary debate at meetings. Perhaps this was because of events in the earlier part of his life. Like many of his age, Norman had fought in the Second World War. He was typically modest about this, but some years ago he was persuaded to write a short book about his experiences at Tobruk. They read like an adventure from a Boys Own magazine, but were very real. '1\nother influence was his encounter with the early years of apartheid in South Africa, seen at first hand at Fort Hare. Together, the war and apartheid - man's inhumanity to man- gave him a perspective on life, a sense of what

was really important, and helped to mould the man whom we all admired. The other influence on his life was his faith. Norman loved this chapel and attended Sunday evening services regularly until a year or two ago. It meant a lot to him and he would be glad that we are met here today. "In remembering Norman and giving thanks for a life that touched all of ours, we offer our love and sympathy to Joy, to Jane and Kathy, Adrian and Roger, and all the family. We hope that memories of a much loved husband, father and friend will be a source of comfort to all of you and brighten the days that are ahead."

JOSEPH DERWENT TODD, 1923 - 2006 Emeritus Fellow The following address was given by former Principal Justin Gosling at Joe Todd's funeral:"The friendship of my wife and myself with Joe and Peggy came through my working with Joe as a colleague at St Edmund Hall from 1960 onwards. I am going to describe three episodes from that time in order to give some flavour of what Joe contributed to St Edmund Hall. I know that that was not by any means all his life, but it was an important part of it, and important to him. "In 19 57 the Hall changed from being a hall to being a college. Before that date there had been about 7 Fellows under a Principal who was obliged by statute to consult the Fellows, but not obliged to take any notice of what they said - though to be fair, he did take notice. They were a small group, and affairs were run by the college officers, consulting as they saw fit. After we became a college, authority lay not with the Principal alone, but with the Governing Body, consisting of the Principal and Fellows, each member having just one vote. Also, with the need to provide tuition over a wide range of subjects, there was a sudden expansion in the number of fellows, from about 75

7 in 1957 to about 26 in 1970. Most of the new fellows were young and most had not been through St Edmund Hall as undergraduates. During the 1960s they began to flex their muscles, wanting a greater say in how things were run. Everything was set up for a classic bitter confrontation between old and new. In fact it didn't happen. The desired changes took place, but by the end we were still on speaking terms and remained a fairly amicable society. "Joe played an important part in ensuring that the disputes did not split the Governing Body. I am not suggesting that he was solely responsible, but he played a significant role. This was because of four facts: firstly, he had an impeccable Hall pedigree; he had been an undergraduate at tne Hall, had been a lecturer there since the early 50s, and then a fellow, and he had an obvious affection for the Hall which stayed with him all his life. Secondly, he was somewhat older than most of the new fellows, nearer in age to those who had been fellows under the old dispensation, with whom of course he had worked for a number of years so that they all knew each other well. Thirdly,Joe exuded an air of calm down-to-earth commonsense, an air which not all academics manage to exude. Finally, he was in sympathy with the changes the newer fellows wanted. The fact that J oe regularly spoke calmly in favour of these changes meant that those on either side of the potential split were unable to see it as a confrontation of old and new, of those familiar with the Hall and its traditions, and those eager to change it into something alien. Joe kept this line through the 60s, to the college's lasting benefit. "That picture of Joe as a person of calm commonsense is, however, only a half-truth. He was certainly very capable of being roused, and it would blow up quite suddenly, taking everyone by surprise. It might start with something like "I think this whole idea is just a nonsense from beginning to end" and develop from there, his exasperation and indignation reverberating through the college. But he was very disappointing. He was quite incapable of developing this into an exciting and long-lasting quarrel. He would rumble on for a day or two, like a volcano settling down after an eruption, and then it was over. He would continue to vote as before, but if you were hoping to develop a quarrel, you would be disappointed. He really wouldn't understand what you were up to. You would be met with his characteristic affability, and any attempts to foster bad feeling would fail in the face of it. "On at least one occasion this ability to be roused stood the college in good stead. Joe always played his full part in the running of things, and in the 70s 76

did a stint as Tutor of Admissions. At that time the Hall's tally of firsts in finals was usually in single figures. In a golden year we broke into double figures, and I think once made fifteen. Joe with others thought that this was at least in part down to the way the information booklet about admissions was laid out, the colleges in their groups being put in order of seniority of foundation as colleges. At 1957 we were low on the list. The theory was that candidates' attention would be caught first by those who came first. One year the Admissions booklet came out and there was no mention of St Edmund Hall. The other colleges all had their two or three pages of information, but St Edmund Hall, just nothing. Well, when he noticed this, Joe was roused. He reached for the phone, and shared with the unfortunate person at the other end his disgust at the way St Edmund Hall had been treated, his views on their level of efficiency and on their competence to run such an operation. He then demanded that they should send to every school that had received the admissions booklet the pages about St Edmund Hall which it should have contained. Some days later this was done, and when it came to the time for candidates to apply, and they came to the information for Oxford, there, separate from the rest of the information, were these special few pages devoted to St Edmund Hall. They must have thought to themselves 'Oh, this must be an important and interesting institution', because that year we were flooded with applications; and not just with applications, but with applications from good candidates. When some four years later most of them sat Finals, 23 of them got firsts, more than double the average, and well ahead of our previous best, thus supplying some evidence for Joe's suspicions. Some old members thought that we had all made a special effort that year to make a farewell present for John Kelly on his retirement. In fact it was due to Joe's ability on occasion to lose his cool. "The final episode I want to mention happened in 1986, when I took two terms' leave, and Joe acted as Principal in my absence. When I returned I was not, to my chagrin, met with cries of joy and sighs of relief that at last things were going to be done efficiently again; but nor was I met with constant grumbles: why couldn't I do things as Joe did, it was so much better and more efficient. It was clear that Joe had decided to do things just as I did, with the consequence that on return I could just slot back in as though I had not been away. This seemed to me a clear example of self-effacing generosity, which was another of his characteristics.

"I must apologize for this woefully inadequate tribute. Anything half adequate would need more people with more time. I hope at least to have given some hint as to why his colleagues thought so highly of Joe, and how he managed to win such wide affection, as evidenced by to-day's turnout. "Finally, if anyone feels that I have been insufficiently solemn for such an occasion, I can only say that J oe was not really at all a solemn perso n- and he was rather fond of laughing."

PETER FELIX GANZ, 1920- 2006 Emeritus Fellow The following valediction was given by Adam Ganz at Peter's funeral in Oxford: "My father died two weeks ago at the age of 85. "He was born in Mainz in Germany to a family who had lived there for over three hundred years and been in business for over a hundred. They were pretty well off, and lived in a large house with a vineyard overlooking the Rhine. As a child, he once told me, he had two ambitions - to live to the year 2000 and to become the cook on a Rhine steamer. "He was thirteen when Hitler came to power. He had to leave school at the age of 16 and on Kristallnacht was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. His parents and grandparents lost a considerable fortune and his grandfather was eventually murdered in Auschwitz. He managed with his parents and brother to come to England where he began studying and was interned on the Isle of Man before working for British intelligence. "He studied German and Spanish at London University, first in the army and then at Kings. Apparently he met my mother during a screening of Nanook of the North. The projector broke down. Peter's reaction was to offer 78

her some chocolate. A reaction which will be familiar to people who knew my father. At any point later in his life at moments of emotional difficulty he would offer some chocolate. So just in case anyone finds the process upsetting you'll be pleased to know that I've got some outside ... "He began teaching in London, first'at Royal Holloway then at Westfield. He moved to Oxford as reader in 1960, as a Fellow of Hertford College. He told me once how pleased he was to get a handwritten letter, only to discover the college didn't have a typewriter. He played a large part in transforming Hertford by changing the profile of the applicants. Its chief claim to fame had been debagging aesthetes and sending down Evelyn Waugh. He toured round the newly formed Comprehensive schools and encouraged people who didn't normally apply to come to Oxford. Hertford shot up the league table and still has a higher percentage of state school students than almost any other Oxford college. He was ahead of his time. "In 1972 he was made Professor of German and moved to St Edmund Hall. He didn't want to move but in the end he was very happy there with good colleagues and friends, some of whom are here today. "He published about the German language and literature, producing definitive editions of Tristan and of course Burckhardt. Much of his work is about the idea of Germanness, whether looking at the influence of English words on German vocabulary and the gender of loan words in German, or in his joint edition of Dukus Horant, an early Yiddish poem written in Hebrew script in the 14th Century, or looking at the whole history and conception of German studies - the subject of his inaugural lecture "Jacob Grimm's conception of German Studies". "He received amongst other honours, an honorary doctorate from the university of Erlangen, where his father had studied and where he first went back to work in Germany. He had an honorary professorship from Gottingen and was an honorary fellow of Hertford College. In 1973 he was awarded the Grosser Verdienstkreuz from the German government, an honour which he shared with his brother Lewis, who became an academic at Stanford. "He moved to Wolfenbuettel to work at the Herzog August bibliothek as Resident Fellow and where 200 years ago one of his forebears taught in the Jewish school there. 79

''After the death of my mother he met and married Nicolette Mout to double the professor count in the family. Since then we've reached five. He didn't offer Nicolette chocolate. He offered to lend her my mother's bicycle. He figured since she was Dutch she would probably want one. After he retired he commuted between Leiden and Oxford enjoying the company and the homes he had in both places. He spent his last few years at Fairfield where he was very happy, and finally at Green Gates where especially Martin looked after him very well. "I was recently told by a colleague at Royal Holloway that he was "One of the greatest Germanists of his generation." She said it whilst he was still alive which would matter a great deal to Peter since he was suspicious of what people said about the dead. More important to my father was that she also told of how welcoming and friendly he had been to her at a conference, when she was just beginning her doctorate and was the least important person there. He cared a lot about students. "Nigel Palmer told me a story of his wife meeting a middle-aged woman who had been expelled from an Oxford women's college for being pregnant. "The only person who stood up for me was Dr Ganz." When we were growing up there were always students around. And some of his former students are still here. "Nicolette has told me how, much later in retirement in Leiden, he still enjoyed the company of her graduate students. "Other things he loved: Cornwall. Haydn. Oxford though he didn't admit it. Wytham Wood. Iffley. Food. Frescoes and Romanesque churches. Ireland. Travelling. The Downs. The University parks. Good Scholarship. Good Art. Chardin. Walking. The sea; he loved the sea in Cornwall and in Holland where I'm told he liked to eat pancakes. Reading. Mainz. Explaining things. Young people's company. Batman. The Cotswolds. Wales. Playing draughts. Nils Lagerlof. The encyclopaedia. "Most family mealtimes involved one or other child returning to the dinner table with the relevant volume. I wonder what he would have made of Google.

"He had a very complicated relationship with the past and rarely spoke of it, to his children anyway. He spoke of his life with distance and rarely with emotion. In the last years he often said he would like to be interviewed about his past. He was, after all a primary source. I sat down to do it several times but we never managed it. Though I never successfully completed an interview he did speak about not speaking. ""When I remember what happened it was so monstrous that I couldn't remember it and still do what I do." "He chose to remain silent. "My father wasn't only a Germanist. He was also a German. He was proud of his British passport and of what this country had offered him, but he remained German in some sense despite what Germany did to him. He continued to respect and teach the best of Germany. It was his life's work."

FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2006 were 376 undergraduates (197 men, 179 women); 142 post-graduates (79 men, 63 women); an~ 24 Visiting Students (12 men, 12 women) .

MATRICULATIONS 2005 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates

Aitken, David Andrew City of London Freemen's School Alessandrini, Jan Luigi University College London Alien, Charles Alexander Clifton College, Bristol An,Qi St Clare's, Oxford April, Michael David United States Military Academy St Ambrose College, Altrincham Ardern, Robert John Arslan, Sadik Anadolu University Asner, Liya Mechinov Odessa State University Auer, Felicity Caroline Angharad James Alien's Girls' School, London Azarchs, Timothy Luke Briarcliff High School "Barber, Thomas Michael University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 13arbu, Andreea Adina Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest 13arton, Michelle Marie Birkenhead Sixth Form College 13ehrouz, Karl Alexander Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet 13elau, Gila Lucia Gymnasium Kaltenkirchen 13elcher, Sam Charles Colchester Royal Grammar School 13lanco, Felipe Duke University Bonsu-Amoako, Nana Ama Agyeman Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology St Albans RC Comprehensive School, Pontypool 13radley, Eleanor Clare 13ray, Matthew John Taunton School 13rett, Elinor Zaida Elizabeth Methodist College, Belfast University of Otago 13rook, Jonathan Philip 13rownscombe, William Truro School 13rzoza, Robert Cracow University of Economics 13uchanan, Grace Eleanor Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree :Buckingham, Ryan Mark Leicester Grammar School Oxford University Department of Continuing Education Caines, Eric

Cay, Peter Steyning Grammar School Chad, Benjamin Michael John University of Wollongong Chang, Rachel Wenqi Raffles Junior College, Singapore Chen, Peng Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing Eton College, Windsor Clarfelt, Maximilian Barnaby David Coates, Adam Ross Colchester Sixth Form College The King's School Ely Cossey, Ben MacAlister Croek, Rosalyn Louise King Solomon High School, Ilford University of Edinburgh Crosfield, Paul Rendcomb College, Cirencester Dai, Shiwen Hereford Cathedral School Deutsch, Christopher John Eltringham, Daniel Paul Tupton Hall School, Chesterfield Enkhbayar, Tsolmon Withington Girls School, Manchester Fergusson, Victoria Stockport Grammar School Frass, William Daniel Colin Plymstock School, Plymouth Eton College, Windsor Frost, Wilfred Paradine St Johns RC Comprehensive School, Gravesend Gillespie, Natalie Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough Gingell, Oliver Charles Gaff, Matthew James Weald 6th Form College Gosney, Georgina St Ivo School, St Ives Green, Lara Helen Winstanley College, Wigan Gutmann, Leonie Beatrice Gymnasium Leopoldinum Detmold Haas, Patrick James Harvard University Hall, Nicholas Geoffrey Richard University of Southampton Barley Grammar School Hao, Yushuang Harris, Rachel Simone St Paul's Girls' School, London Harris, Thomas Patrick Wellingborough School Harrison, Rosalind Jane Trinity School, Carlisle Hassanein, Ahmed Mohamed Dia Eldin American University in Cairo Heimbichner, Anna Christine University of California Herbert, Francis William Winchester College University of Cambridge Herbert, Susannah Alice Jolles Hewavitharana, Harini Chathurika University of London Hill, James Nicholas Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Ho Thi, Nhu Mai Rossall School, Fleetwood Hoffmann, Timothy Ralph Antwerp International School Hooton, Emily Sarah Colchester County High School Home, Elizabeth Anne Lady Eleanor Holies School, Hampton Humphry-Baker, Samuel Arthur Eastbourne College

Hung, Shih-Pei Paula University College London Inglessis, Nassia HAEF Psychico College Ingram, Ian David Victor King Edward's School, Birmingham Iosad, Alexander Vladirnirov Clifton College, Bristol Jackson,Jacqueline Amy Leeds Girls' High School Jackson, Thomas Ecclesbourne Sci:ool, Belper Jiang, Long Tsinghua University )ones, Benjarnin Owen Cirencester College )ones, Emma Margaret Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston upon Thames Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, ~beryswyth Joyner, Siriol Ann Juma, Sajjad Hussein John Lyon School, Harrow Kallergis, Alexandros University of Warwick Beverley Joint Sixth Form Kelly, Michael Jon Keswani, Rohan Harrow School Downe House School, Newbury Knights, Joanna Claire Krebs, Joachim American Community School, Cobham Laing, Rachel Elizabeth University of California, Los Angeles Lama, Kunsang Wangmo The College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth Lamb, Catherine Jane Tewkesbury School Lambie, Miles Radley College, Abingdon Langridge, Peter David St Leonard's RC Comprehensive School, Durham Larach Juliet, Gustavo Ignacio Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Li, Aisi Sichuan University Lilly, Jane Radcliffe Stanford University Cheltenham Ladies' College Lim, Phoebe Pei Xhin Lobb, Clare Joanne University of St Andrews Lynch, Raisin Michaela St Michael's Catholic Grammar School, London Lyscom, Sophia Marlborough College The Arnigos del Coto de Donana Malhado, Ana Claudia Mendes Foundation, Seville Marques, Vitor Manuel Farinha University of Aveiro Marsden, Luke Saffron Walden County High School Mather, Paul David Manchester Grammar School Queensland University of Technology McCafferty, Patrick James Reading Blue Coat School McGuiness, Anja Martha Agnes St Peter's School, York McLaren, Sally Varndean College, Brighton McManus, Natalie Kay University College, Dublin McQuaid, Siobhan Estelle Princeton University Melby-Thompson, Charles Milton

Merika, Aliki Moraitis School, Athens Miller, Andrew Michael Ryton Comprehensive School Miller, Laura Claire Dane Court Grammar School, Broadstairs Montete, Laurent Ecole Centrale Paris Morel, Alexandra Christine Washington University of St Louis Peter Symonds' College, Winchester Mussell, Emma Louise Nagutha, Mohamed Faiz Victoria Junior College. Singapore St Leonards-Mayfield School Neill, Georgiana Challis May Nguyen, Dung Viet Mikey Colby College, Waterville Nice, Matthew Gibson Reading School Nie, Wei Shanghai Jiao Tong University N ovikova, Tatiana Ecole Active Bilingue J Manuel, Paris O'Connor, Lucinda Downe House School, Newbury Ong, Eugene Liat Hui Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen Parassol Girard, Nadege Martine Coune University of Nice Reading School Pearson, Benjamin Joseph Perdikou, Ioanna University of Athens Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University Pereira, Hugo Paulos of Lisbon Phipps, Alexander James Australian National University Poh, Wei Leong National University of Singapore Powderly, Rebecca Louise Stroud High School Puttergill, David Victor Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Quayle, Blae Mylchreest St Ninian's High School, Douglas Raeburn-Ward, James Henry Winchester College Bolton School (Boys' Division) Rainford, Simon Paul Yeovil College Ralph, Simon Paul Ramsden, Helen Lucy Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar Randall, Ian Alexander Bartholomew Eltham College, London Rappleye, Jeremy Adam Yale University Rayment, Elizabeth J ayne Rainham Mark Grammar School, Gillingham St Paul's Girls' School, London Readman, Emma Isabella Robinson, Amy Michelle New York University Raper, Alice Lucy James Alien's Girls' School, London Sampat, Anand Rajendra Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames Scroxton, Nicholas George Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames Shacham, Ben Matan Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet Shafiq, Safia University of the Punjab Shih, Shao-Ju National Taiwan University

Silver, Louise Ellen King's College London Slater, Sophie Christina Central Newcastle High School Sopp, Michael Gerard Westcliff High School for Boys Spinner, Erin Kathleen Tulane University Stevenson, Jessica Lucy Prances Cheltenham Ladies' College Stewart, Anna Rebecca Watson Wycombe Ab~ey School Tandy, Rachel Eleanor University of Sussex Teefey Lee, Amanda Natasha Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam Toms, Benjarnin King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon Rept9 n School Townley, Daniel Mathieson Luton Sixth Form College Tucker, Michael John Turner, Benjarnin William St Paul's School, London Uhrin, Dusan George Watson's College, Edinburgh Queen Margarets School, York Unwin, Alice Louisa Valner, Olivia Nadia Swan St Swithun's School, Winchester Van Hensbergen, Claudine Eloise King's College London van Mulders, Pieter University of Ghent Voronina, Olga Georgievna University of Warwick Ward, Anna Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Watters, Aliza Hapgood Middlebury College Oxford Brookes University Weisspfennig, Kathrin Stefanie Westall, Thomas Michael Alton College Whittle, Chloe Eloise Bablake School, Coventry Whyatt, Laurence Bruce Harrow School Wismer, Lacey Elaine Quinnipiac University Wong, Amanda Man Ting Sherborne School for Girls University of Kent Wong, Jin Sern Wood, Christopher Robert Winstanley College, Wigan Wright, Andrew Arthur M Syracuse University Wu, Tsung-Ying National Central University Taiwan Wu, Zhuang Hui Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Yu, Kai Queen's University, Belfast Zavodny, Jakub Gymnazium Grosslingova 18, Bratislava

VISITING STUDENTS 2005-2006 Beck, Benjamin Shearer University of Vermont Bengtson, Ingrid Kestrel Boston College Bharwani, Sabina Rice University Boston College Bidegaray, Andrea Wittenberg University Brown, Alex John Burke, Liza Marie University of North Carolina, Asheville Connelly, Marie Boston College Cooperman, Eric Ross Swarthmore College Edelman, Michelle Esther Northwestern University Edwards, James Thomas Case Western Reserve University Faron, Katharine Marie Quinnipiac University Freshwater, Annie Christine University of Redlands University of Nebraska at Kearney Fukuda, Naoto Kadison, Paisley Lynne California State University, Los Angeles Kerr, Andrew Clark Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas Klaczynski, Elizabeth Marie Rice University Laager, Richard James University of Minnesota, Crookstron Lai, Victoria Lorlin University of California, Los Angeles Long, David Alexander Kenyon College Manczak, Erika Cornell University Johns Hopkins University Marcus, Mason Mitsuhara, Masatoshi Kyushu University O'Connor, Daniel Patrick College of the Holy Cross Patton, Deleena Claremont McKenna College Gannon University Pryjmak, Renae Christine College of the Holy Cross Quatromoni, Samuel Paul Reynolds, Edward Alexander Boston College Reynolds, Richard Christopher Boston College Ruggiero, Salvatore Anthony Cornell University Sands, Kalika St Michael's College Sigal, Callie Elizabeth Tufts University Thibadeau, Sarah Elizabeth Boston College Uminger, Kristen Michelle Depauw University Vannucci, Anna College of the Holy Cross Weber, Benjamin David Oberlin College

DEGREE RESULTS FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS 2006 Biochemistry Class I Michael J Lukey Scott M Phillips Class II i Chemistry Class I Pierre Stallforth, William P Unsworth Class II i Matthew J Palframan, J Hamish W Stewart Computer Science Class II i Katie L Griffiths, Andrew I Toovey Pass Sebastian A Motraghi Earth Sciences Class I Ross Parnell-Turner, Natalie L Roberts Julia A Cartwright, Robert K Simmons Class II i Economics & Management Class II i Ashwin V Anand, Joseph M Cooper, Prances A Jenkins, Michelle Ruehl, Tatiana Zervos Engineering Science Class I Katherine A Clough, Jessica R Leitch, Asimina Theodorou, Paul R Thornton, Alain Y W Yee Class II i Twinsen J Cui, John K Goodey Class II ii Rupert T Snuggs Varnava Christofis Pass English Language & Literature Class I Oliver N Courtney, Samuel F Duerden, Daisy B Hildyard, Caleb D H Klaces Class II i Charles H Boss, Julian Brod, Fatemah M T Mafi, Bianca-Mouche Pearce, Maria B Queenan, Sophy A Ridge

Experimental Psychology Class I Jack Turner Carina L Dalton, Sarah L Khalaf Class II i Fine Art Class I Class II i Class II ii

Oliver W Smith Alexander S Groves, Agnieszka Mlicka Miriam A M Craik-Horan

Geography Class I Katherine A L M Arnold Class II i Agatha G Fox, Katie A Francis, Nicholas E C Montgomery, James T Murly-Gotto, Edward W S Robinson, Fiona L Ronald, Amy F Webb Jurisprudence Class I Darren S Fodey Lindsay J Boreham, Nicole Buncher, Sudeshna Chakravarty, Class II i Shokofeh Hejazi, Rebecca D Houlgate, Andrew M D Olsen, Lucy E Wakenshaw, Christopher R Wilson Mathematics Class I Emma L Gabriel J Frederick Lait, Jonathan A Lonsdale Class II i Materials, Economics & Management Class I Amy-Louise M Crofton Materials Science Class I James P Minshull, Christopher M F Wilkinson Jonathan M Taylor Class II i Medical Sciences Class I David E McCartney Zoe E Barber, Catherine A T Hildyard Class II i Venothan Suri Class II ii

Modern History Class I Sam A Neckar, Celine FP M Tricard Deepti M Bal, Holly Duglan, Sumire Ejiri, Danielle M Fidge, Class 11 i Robert E Hamilton Kelly, Alice S Little, Ella A F Wells Madeleine S Chandler Class 11 ii Modern History & Modern Languages Class 11 i Antonina Savchenko Modern History & Politics Class 11 i Sarah K Sutton Modern Languages Class I Fergus Eckersley Greg K Coulter, Genevieve A Easton, James E Eggleton, Class 11 i Darren C Gerard, Claire M Lindley, David T Poole Class 11 ii Helen V Richards, Patrick A Schneider-Sikorsky Philosophy & Modern Languages Class 11 i Ileana Georgiadis, Natalie Helier Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I A Stefano Caria, Elizabeth E Watts Si Yu Fung, Sonali D Peiris, Christopher P R Ramos, Class 11 i Paul S Smith, Robert A Yates, Yuanchao Zhang Class 11 ii J oseph S Hacker Physics Class I Class 11 i Class Ill

Payel Das, Daniel J Gentry, Peter J Moreton, Claire E Weld on J ames M R Bullock, Krishan S Chadha, Benjamin P Chamberlain, Fiona C Clee Leon 0 Rees-J ones

Physics & Philosophy Class 11 i Rinesh Amin Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology Class 11 i Laura J McMullen, Naomi A Sharp

HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Anatomy Chemistry Materials Mathematics Modern Languages Politics

Paul D Dunckley Geoffrey R Lloyd Marina L Galano Pirita M Paajanen Manuela E Gheorghe Anna M Manasco

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Economics Law

Felix M Momsen Keren A Murray

Master of Science (MSc) Applied & Computational Mathematics Tino Wendisch Biodiversity, Conservation & Management Katherine J Hawkins (Distinction) Rasmus K Larsen Comparative & International Education Michelle Manzi Yi Wang Computer Science Marius A Bjoeness Allaa I Kamil (Distinction) Suchita Mohan Educational Research Methodology Nadeem Khan Financial Economics Wie Nie Tsung-Ying Wu Management Research Denis S Nikolaev (Distinction) Materials Engineering Roberto Scipioni Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing Alexander B Prideaux (Distinction) Cian R G Wilson Nature, Society & Environmental Policy Davis R Cherry Neuroscience Peter E Keating (Distinction) Kerri L Smith Russian & East European Studies Rachel E Tandy Water Science Policy & Management Emilie Lagace

Master of Studies (MSt) English Olga G Voronina Aliza H Watters European Literature J an Luigi Alessandrini (Distinction) Ruth Ludlam (Distinction) History Caroline M J Morecroft (Distinction) Master of Business Administration (MBA) Tomonori Ishikawa J ames Morris GermanE Vera Concha (Distinction) Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Jonathan P Brook (Distinction) Patrick J McCafferty Alexander J Phipps (Distinction) Adam D Rushworth (Distinction) Magister Juris (MJuris) A Adina Barbu (Distinction) Marcin K Piechocki Pieter van Mulders Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Ernily C Adams David W Beard Megan H Carter Hayley A Burkhill Carolyn Dhein Daniel R Fox Charles P Hotham Beth S Hassall Rebecca JJones Steven T Wright Certificate in Diplomatic Studies Sadik Arslan

AWARDS AND PRIZES UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES A WE Prize in Geophysics David Al-Attar Clifford Chance M]ur Prize Proxime Accessit Andreea Adina Barbu Andrew Colin Prize for the best performance in Russian in Modern Languages Preliminary Examination Tatiana Novikova Burdett Coutts Prize for Best Overall Performance in Third Year Earth Sciences David Al-Attar Chemistry Prize for Performance in the Preliminary Examination Michael J Tucker Keith Cox Prize for the Best Second- Year Mapping Exercise in Earth Sciences Andrew J Smye Cunliffe Prize Karolina Raczynska Edgell Sheppee Prize for excellent performance in Engineering Science Katherine A Clough Funnel Vision Prize J Amy Jackson Gibbs Book Prize in Biochemistry Michael J Lukey Gibbs Prize for the best Part I Project in Engineering Science Matthew J Greenhalgh

Dan Gowler Prize for the Best Dissertation in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management Denis Nikolaev Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship Cressida H Holmes-Smith Hill Foundation Scholarship Alexander V Iosad

Vivien Leigh Prize Oliver W Smith Mineralogical Society Prize for the Best Third-Year Performance in Mineralogy Rosalind M G Armytage Prize for Best Performance in the MSc in Computer Science Allaa I Karnil QinetiQ Prize for Best Third-Year Team Design Project in Materials Amy-Louise M Crofton (2005) James P Minshull (2005) Nicholas J Rounthwaite (2006) Radcliffe Infirmary Essay Prize in Pathology Helen E Turnbull Geoffrey Rhoades Commemorative Prize J Amy J ackson Society of Oxford University Engineers: Poster Prizes Katherine A Clough TwinsenJ Cui Alain Y W Yee Winter Williams International Economic Law Prize Adam D Rushworth

EXTERNAL AWARDS Chevening Scholarship PengChen Alexander J Phipps Glaxo SmithKlein Bursary Michael J Tucker Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre: Student Award 2006 Katherine A Clough Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Departmental Prize for outstanding performance in a Materials-related Honour School Crispian W Wilson Intelsat Communicator Scholarship Thomas E Stimson Rhodes Scholarship Michael D April Si Yu Fung Clare J Lobb Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Poster Prize M Isabel Garcia-Hermosa

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS Clarendon Fund Bursaries LongJiang Ana C M Malhado Kiran Rajashekariah Meredith M Root-Bernstein Suzy J Styles

Cara A Krmpotich Sarah-Michelle Orton J eremy A Rappleye Martin A Rust Yao Yao

Commercial Bar Studentship Noam Gur MDC Prize Studentship Janet L Kenyon Michael Foster Scholarship Florian H T Albert Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award ShashaLiu Shell Centenary Scholarship Wei Leong Poh

COLLEGE SCHOLARS David Al-Attar Edward C Blois-Brooke Alan P Chetwynd Miriam A M Craik-Horan Amy-Louise M Crofton Samuel F H Duerden Louise E Elliott Robert C Gallagher Lu Zhang Gram Daisy B Hildyard John A Hogarth Johanna H Koljonen Michael J Lukey J ames P Minshull Adam R Peacock Melanie D Savage Pierre Stallforth Asirnina Theodorou William P Unsworth Christopher M F Wilkinson

Rosalind M G Armytage Peter W Brice Katherine A Clough Keely A E Crane Payel Das Jonathan M Edge Si Yu Fung Richard J I Good Christoph Haltiner Karen Hodgson Caleb D H Klaces Jessica R Leitch Pui-Tien Man Agnieszka Mlicka Sophy A Ridge Joanne C Smith Jonathan P A Taylor Paul R Thornton Elizabeth E Watts Alain Yue Wai Yee

COLLEGE ORGAN SCHOLARS David Alien David McCartney

COLLEGE CHORAL SCHOLARS Garreth S Brooke Ruth F Evans Peter D Langridge Fatemah M T Mafi

Madeleine S Chandler Emma MJones Sally McLaren Jonathan M Taylor

COLLEGE EXHIBITIONERS RineshAmin Benjamin P Chamberlain Greg J Coulter Fergus Eckersley Daniel J Gentry Jeremy F ffeath Susanna R fferbert Catherine A T ffildyard Andrew R Keech Vera Litvin Laura J McMullen Sam A Neckar Natalie L Roberts Sanjay A Shah Thomas E Stimson Jonathan M Taylor

E Kerrie S Barrett Simone L Claisse Oliver N Courtney Emma L Gabriel Ting Gong Natalie ffeller Caroline L ffickson Ken Kawamoto Michael R Kember Jonathan A Lonsdale Peter J Moreton Ross Parnell-Turner David M Saleh Naomi A Sharp Sarah K Sutton

WILLIAM R MILLER POSTGRADUATE AWARDS Ziad Ali SarahJ Fine Scot M Peterson

ST EDMUND HALL GRADUATE SCHOLARS Paul D Couchman Mark L Potter Cara S Tredget

Cara A Krmpotich Meredith Root-Bernstein Yao Yao

OTHER COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES Reggie Alton Prize Sara J H Crowley-Vigneau Beaverbrook Bursaries Charles A Alien Karl A Behrouz Rosalyn L Croek Rachel S Harris Emma MJones Peter D Langridge Matthew G Nice Sophie C Slater Michael J Tucker

Michelle M Barton Sam C Belcher William Frass Rosalind J Harrison Siriol A J oyner Andrew M Miller Anand R Sampat Amanda N Teefey Lee

Ron and Sheila Best Bursaries Charles A Alien Karl A Behrouz Rosalyn L Croek Rachel S Harris Emma MJones Peter D Langridge Matthew G Nice Sophie C Slater Michael J Tucker

Michelle M Barton Sam C Belcher William Frass Rosalind J Harrison Siriol A Joyner Andrew M Miller Anand R Sampat Amanda N Teefey Lee

Brockhues Graduate Awards Undine Bruckner Katherine T A Lim Kiran Rajashekariah Suzy J Styles

Richard H T Callow Marietta Papadatou-Pastou Meredith Root-Bernstein

Mrs Brown Bursary Noam Gur Carl Saucier-Bouffard Cochrane Scholars Daniel J Mitchell Cressida H Holmes-Smith

Jennifer E Rainsford Karolina Raczynska

Richard Fargher Bursary Sebastian P S Donnelly Cressida H Holmes-Smith Philip Geddes Memorial Prize Charles H Boss Lynn Gilbert Bursary Lara H Green Gosling Postgraduate Bursary J ennifer H Chung Sandra D Romenska Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Rinesh Amin Xin-Hui S Chan Katharine Hill J ennifer E Rains ford Alice S Little J oanne C Smith J.R. Hughes Book Prize for Geography Joshua 0 Fisher Instrumental Bursary Jonathan M Taylor Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Caleb D H Klaces Michael Pike Prize Xin-Hui S Chan

Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Xin-Hui S Chan George Series Prize Peter J Moreton Peter Smerd Bursary Fahd Khair Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism Charles H Boss

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

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

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THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND ALUMNI NEWS The continued involvement and support of the Aularian community does much to enrich life at the College and in turn, the work of the Development Office is extremely rewarding through the contact it makes with a diverse body of over 7,000 alumni worldwide. Our year so far has be~n eventful commencing with the eagerly awaited launch of Aularian Connect, the new on-line alumni database. The Development Office worked closely with Will Hatcher (1962) and Francis Pocock (1960) of the SEHA to launch it and communicate its existence to all Aularians. Over 4,200 of you are pow registered on the site, which represents a huge achievement on the part of the SEHA, and in particular, of Francis Pocock, former President of the SEHA, whose tireless efforts guaranteed Aularian Connect's success. The website now makes it much easier for alumni to keep in touch with each other and the College. If you are not yet registered, do log on to www.aularianconnect.com or contact the Development Office. The alumni section of the College web site (www.seh.ox.ac.uk) is also a good source of information on College news and events. A paper-based directory will be published later in the year for those alumni who do not have access to the internet. This year also brought the launch of the new St Edmund Hall Annual Fund. To date the Fund has already received nearly 400 donations. Overseen by a committee of Aularians, undergraduates, postgraduates and Fellows, the fund has been established to provide direct and immediate funding for specific projects. Many of you will have received the Annual Fund pack in the post, which outlined the aims and ambitions of the campaign and in March this year some of you will have received a telephone call from one of the 18 current undergraduates who participated in this year's telephone campaign. This is the third time the College has run a telephone campaign and, as in previous years, it was extremely successful and surprisingly enjoyable for both the old members and the students involved. The College has already received many of the donations arising from this activity, which amounted to a pledged total of just over ÂŁ161,000 by the end of the two-week campaign. The Annual Fund Committee will meet later this year to agree how all the donations received from alumni to-date should be disbursed and subsequently donors to the Annual Fund will receive a newsletter informing them of the impact of their donations on the College and its community. The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the continued 102

support of the College by existing donors who supported the Campaign for the Hall and also to those who, this year, have made their first donation to the College. A list of Annual Fund donors follows this report. The letters which the Development Office received from alumni together with their donations were particularly touching and heartening with one old member writing, 'I am well aware of how much I owe to the Hall and I have often said one should plan one's life as if one were going to live forever, but live it as if one were going to die tomorrow. So there seemed no harm in looking at my present bank balance and making a donation.' Another alumnus wrote,' My thanks too, for a pleasant conversation; it brought back memories of things that I haven't called to mind in years ... when memories of the Hall come back to the surface, it's as if the last ten years haven't really happened; happy times.' We are always pleased to see alumni back at the Hall and we hope to welcome many of you back at College events next year. This year the Principal held twelve dinners, which brought together alumni and current students. The dinners were followed by very informative discussions of topics of current interest, which resulted in a greater understanding of the problems the College faces. In March 2007 we are looking forward to seeing the 1967 matriculation year group for their 40th Anniversary Gaudy and in September, we look forward to welcoming many of the 1970-197 6 cohort for a reunion. 2007 will also be the year the College celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the granting of its Charter and we hope to see you at events, which are currently being planned, to celebrate this. The annually held New York Dinner will take place on Friday 17th November for US Aularians, and we also hope to arrange a West Coast Dinner in March 2007. Mike Mingos, the Principal, continues to lead on Development work for the College, supported by Betony Griffiths, Annual Fund Manager and Rebecca Ting who joined the Development Office in October 2005 as Development Assistant. Please do feel free to contact any of us if you have any queries or suggestions regarding alumni activity and events. If you ever come to Oxford and would like to visit the College, please do let us know, as we would be very happy to welcome you back and show you the latest and planned developments. If you feel that you would like to participate more actively in the College's fundraising activity then do not hesitate to contact the Principal. We are looking forward to meeting and speaking to many of you over the forthcoming year. 103

DONORS TO THE ST EDMUND HALL ANNUAL FUND SINCE 1 JANUARY 2006 Mr Denis Orton (1934) Revd Prebendary Gerald Rainbow (1934) Mr Farrand Radley MBE MCIPD FinstAM (1935) Revd Prebendary John Squire (1935) Mr James Donnison CEng (1936) Dr Charles Jellard (1936) Mr Denys Salt (1937) Mr Gerald Nation-Tellery (1941) Mr Peter Carpenter (1942) Mr Philip Eades (1942) Anonymous (1942) Canon John Townsend (1942) Mr William Tunley (1942) Mr Robert Austin (1943) Mr John Dixon FCA (1943) Honorary Alderman Derek Ellis (1943) Mr Derek Glyn ]ones (1943) Dr Philip Haffenden FRHistS (1943) Mr Eric ]ones (1943) Dr Gareth de Bohun Mitford-Barberton (1943) Revd John O'Halloran (1943) Mr Alan Pickett (1943) Mr Gordon Downey (1944) Air Commodore John Greenhill (1944) Mr Eric Smith ACIB (1944) Anonymous (1944) Mr Geoffrey Alien (1945) Mr Norman Barr FRSA (1945) Mr Arthur Dews (Deceased) (1945) Canon John Hester (1945) The Ven NGLR McDerrnid (1945) Revd Brian Nicholas (1945) Mr J WE Snelling (1945) Mr. E Goodman-Srnith (1946) Anonymous (1946) Mr Michael Le Mesurier (1946) Mr Albert Baxter (194 7) Very Revd Christopher Campling (1947)

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The Ven Barrie Evans (1947) Anonymous (1948) Revd Nicholas Stacey (1948) Revd Peter White (1948) Anonymous (1948) Mr Gordon Allford (1949) Revd Dr Roger Beckwith (1949) Mr Bob Breese (1949) Revd Derek Burden (1949) Mr Eric Cunnell (1949) Revd Peter Furness (1949) Anonymous (1949) Mr Michael J affey (1949) Mr Alan J ones (1949) Dr Tony Kinsley (1949) Mr John Parker (1949) Mr Michael Parkin (1949) His Honour Robert Sou than (1949) Mr William Thorpe (1949) Mr John Elliott (1950) Mr Graham Heddle (19 50) Mr Anthony Lynch (1950) MrJohnAkroyd (1951) Mr Colin Benbow (19 51) Mr Michael Crabtree (1951) Mr Desmond Day (1951) MrJames Forbes (1951) Mr AllanJay MBE (1951) Ven Archdeacon Raymond Roberts CB (1951) Mr David Shenton (19 51) Mr Peter Tudor (19 51) Revd Tony Coulson (1952) Mr Michael Darling (19 52) Mr DavidJacobs (1952) ProfEmeritus Nicolas Lossky (1952) Dr Michael Ockenden (1952) Mr John Skinner (1952) Mr Kenneth Bulgin (1953) Mr John Craik (1953)

Dr Wilfrid Fox (19 53) Mr I an J ackson (19 53) Mr Derek Lomas (19 53) Mr Roger Wright (19 53) MrJohn Casale (1954) Mr Jeremy Cleverley (1954) Mr John Lowe (1954) Mr Michael Palmer (1954) Mr Brian Shepherd CBE (1954) Dr I an U nsworth (19 54) Mr Michael Webb (1954) Mr John Barker (1955) Mr John Dellar (19 55) Mr Anthony Hall (1955) Anonymous (1955) Mr Michael Martin M.InstP C.Phys (1955) Mr Gerald Raftesath (19 55) Mr Andrew Stedman (1955) Mr IrvingTheaker (1955) Mr Blake Bromley MICE (1956) Dr Dumaresq Child (19 56) Anonymous (1956) Mr Charles D Glynne-Jones (1956) Mr David Henderson (1956) Anonymous (1956) Mr Anthony McGinn (1956) Mr Michael Rider (1956) Mr George Wiley (1956) Mr Patrick Youell (1956) Mr Ronald Colem an (19 57) Mr Roger Cook (1957) The Revd Duncan Dormor (1957) Mr Anthony Ford OBE (1957) Mr John Harrison (19 57) Mr Dennis Marsden (1957) MrGeoffMihellMAACMAACIS (1957) Prof John Walmsley (1957) Mr Christopher Alborough (1958) Mr Michael Andrews (19 58) Mr Christopher Bone (1958) Mr James M Dening (1958) Mr Roger Garratt (1958) DrJohn Haydon (1958)

Mr Antony Holdsworth (1958) Mr David IdwalJones (1958) Mr Philip Rabbetts (19 58) Mr Brian Taylor (1958) Dr Ian Alexander (1959) Dr Frederick Bird (1959) Mr John Chap man (19 59) Mr Graham Cooper (19 59) Mr Michael Oakley FRTPI (1959) MrJohn Walters (1959) Mr Alec Dawson (1960) Mr Roger Plumb (1960) Anonymous (1961) Mr David M Brown (1961) Mr Barrie England LVO (1961) Mr Mike Grocott (1961) MrJohn Heggadon FCIM (1961) Mr Geoffrey Hunt (1961) MrJohn Long (1961) Mr David McCammon (1961) Mr Anthony Rentoul (1961) Mr An drew Rix (1961) Mr Roger Smith (1961) MrStephen White (1961) Revd Canon Rex Chapman (1962) Mr Arthur Davis FICE MBCS (1962) Mr J ames de Rennes (1962) Mr David Goodwin (1962) Mr Michael Groves (1962) Mr William Gulland MIEE (1962) Mr Handley Hammond (1962) Mr Colin Hewitt (1962) Mr Roger Miller (1962) Mr Owen Moore (1962) Mr Darrell Barnes (1963) Mr David Clarke (1963) Mr Geoffrey Day MBE MIMechE Ceng (1963) Dr Michael Foxon FIMechE CEng (1963) Dr Clive Sneddon OBE (1963) Mr Bill Hardey FCA (1964) Mr Peter Hodson (1964) Mr Christopher Howe (1964)

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Mr Mark Hall (1981) Mr Nicholas Jackson (1981) Mr Richard Lambert (1981) Anonymous (1981) Ms Sallie Nicholas (1981) MrJames Rothman (1981) MrJohn Stephen CEng (1981) Mr David Stokes (1981) Mr Paul Stowers (1981) Mr Tom Christopherson (1982) Mr Simon de Deney (1982) Mr Simon Hitch (1982) Mr Tim Laugh ton ACA (1982) Mr Yair Meshoulam (1982) Mrs Divya Nicholls (1982) Mr Nigel Purse (1982) Mr Marco Rimini (1982) Mr Simon Roberts (1982) Ms J ulie Sheard 1982) Dr Rodney Stables TD MRCP (1982) Dr Annette Volfing (1982) Mr Stuart Worthington (1982) Mrs Helen Bray (1983) Mr Car! Cunnane (1983) Mr Tarquin Grossman (1983) Mr loan J ones (1983) Dr Philip Moody (1983) Miss Christine Muskett (1983) Mr Roger Sawyer (1983) Mr Warren Thomas ACA (1983) Mrs Elizabeth Thomas (1983) Mr Michael Young (1983) Mr Step hen Crummett ACA (1984) Anonymous (1984) Mr Graham Maddocks (1984) Ms Nicola McGee (1984) Dr Michael McNamee (1984) Ms Louise Rands Silva (1984) Revd Alistair Sharp (1984) Dr Rebecca Surender (1984) Mrs Deborah Booth (1985) Mr Kevin Cooper (1985) Mr Luke Goss (1985)

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Mr Royan Lam (1992) Ms Aideen O'Neill (1992) Mr Matthew Purcell (1992) Mr Stuart Estell (1993) Dr Emma French (1993) Mr Gavin Henderson (1993) Mr Clive J effery (1993) Dr Geoffrey Mortimer (1993) MrJames Parkin (1993) Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard (1994) Dr Caroline Mitchelson (1991) Mr J ames Mushin (1994) Dr Kostas Papadopoulos (1994) Mr Ian Valvona (1994) Mrs Catherine Hitchcock (1995) Mr Jus tin Newton (1996) Mr Christopher Arrnitage (1997) Mr Nathaniel Copsey (1997) MrJames Kirkland (1997) Ms Guofang Xiao (1997) Mr Leon Ferera (1998) Ms Alexandra Sarantis (1998) Mr Oli Deacon (1999) Miss Catherine Knowles (1999) Mr Mark Wilson (1999) Mr Rahul Chopra (2000) Mr Daiko Tachi (2000) Anonymous (2001) MrsJackie Colburn (2002) Professor David Rubin Dr Bruce Mitchell Prof Sir David Yardley Mr & Mrs Ashmore Anonymous Mr & Mrs Eskinazi Dr Christine Evans Mr & Mrs Groves Mr & Mrs Heimburger Mr & Mrs Howell Evans Mr & Mrs Morse Mr Milo Purcell Mr & Mrs Tomos Mr&MrsUlph

ANNUAL GAUDY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2005 The Annual Gaudy was held for Aularians who matriculated between 19561962. 82 Aularians from these year groups accepted the invitation to this event. Guests arrived from 4pm and took advantage of the early opening of the Buttery Bar to meet up with old friends before the evening's festivities began and also to peruse the matriculation photos from these years which were pinned to a notice board in the front quad. Some guests expressed concern that they would not recognise old friends after 40 years; however the happy smiles of recognition as people started to arrive soon indicated that this would not prove too great a problem and as always the name badges helped where the memory failed! The evening flew by as people reminisced over drinks and dinner and culminated at the end of the night in speeches in Wolfson Hall. Martin Slater, Pro-Principal, addressed the group after dinner and highlighted the key academic and sporting achievements of this period. He also touched, very lightly, upon the need to fundraise for the College, including raising financial support for the College library amongst other areas. Will Hatcher (1962), who was J CR President in 1964, responded to Martin's address on behalf of those present and said that in his day many of his contemporaries had never managed to locate the whereabouts of the library! He reflected on the diverse nature of the assembled company and the fact that amongst them were broadcasters, diplomats, financiers, educationalists and, sadly, a large number of lawyers of which he himself was one! The high turn out for this event was testament, he felt, to the particular cohesion and sense of community that was prevalent at the College during these years. The College was preeminent in the University and the successes and achievements of the 19561962 cohort helped to establish the strong identity of the College and the Hall spirit, which endures to this day. The following Aularians and Hall guests accepted the invitation to this event: Ernest Fox (1953), Brian Amor (1956), Paul Clayson (1956), Frederick Farrell (1956) Grahame Partridge (1956), Martin Reynolds (1956), Paul Tempest (1956), Alan Titcombe (1956), George Wiley (1956), John Young (1956), Michael Archer (1957), Ted Aves (1957), Geoffrey Brown (1957), Peter Croissant (1957), Roger Fisher (1957),John Harrison (1957), Robert Jackson (1957), David Mellish (1957), Geoff Mihell (1957), Alastair Stewart (1957), James Amos (1958), Christopher Bone (1958), Lloyd Filby (1958), Roger 109

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40TH ANNIVERSARY GAUDY, 24 MARCH 2006 Celebrations began with a nostalgic gathering for pre-dinner drinks in the Old Dining Room. Everyone scanned everyone else and was reassured to see not only that time had aged us all about equally but also that much of the sparkle remained in place - with each face eager to greet old friends and catch up with their news. The dinner itself was a splendid testament to the Hall kitchen and it was reassuring to note that the wine cellar was maintained in good order! The Pro-Principal, Martin Slater, welcomed the assembled company and went on to remind us of many of the circumstances and developments that surrounded us in the late 60s. Martin painted a picture to which his audience easily related. There were many reminders of the domination of Cuppers achieved by Hall teams in the late 60s and of some of the resulting 110

'celebrations' that took place in and around the Quad! Martin noted that as a generation the 1966 matriculation year group had very much been living on a building site as Kelly, Emden and White Hall were all being built for which he extended the retrospective apologies of the College. Reference to the noise that emanated from building works in those days reminded us how we unluckily missed out from enjoying the relative comforts of the new accommodation block, the William R Miller Building on Dawson Street. In responding to the Pro-Principal, Michael Ridley embarked upon a series of hilarious recollections with many references to the main characters of Hall life. He also recalled occasions when students of our day encountered acerbic tutor comments relating to their efforts and, in some cases, intelligence! However, this was more than offset by the fact that the 1966 vintage did manage to combine academic success with exceptional sporting achievements and so we all reflected on our collective genius as the dinner concluded and those still thirsty headed for the Buttery Bar (.... just like old times!) Tony Fisher (1966) The following Aularians and Hall guests accepted the invitation to this event:: David Alder, Richard Baker, Nigel Blackwell, Michael Bonello, Robert Brandwood, David Broadbridge, Cameron Brown, Paul Brown, Howard Coates, Bernard Collins, Peter Crystal, Bob Darby, Anthony Fisher, Peter Griffiths, David Hansom, David Hopkins, Thomas Irvin, Peter Jenkins, David Kiernan, Martin Littleton, Nicholas Lovatt, MD, DPhil, FRCP, Cad Mawer, Andrew Middleton, Michael Ridley, Clinton Robinson, David Saunders, Jon Shortridge, Douglas Slade, Ray Slade, Rodney Speed, John Spellar, David Stewart, Michael Stone, Geoffrey Summers, Alan Vasa, Michael Warren, Maddie Chandler (2003, Choir), Peter Collins (Senior Research Fellow), Richard Crampton (Fellow), John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow), Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain), Paul Matthews MA (Fellow), David McCartney (2003, Organ Scholar), Christopher Phelps (Emeritus Fellow), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Pro-Principal), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

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THE FLOREAT AULA SOCIETY DINNER The fifth dinner of the Floreat Aula Society took place on Friday, 31 March 2006. The format was similar to that at previous dinners. The Members and their guests began arriving mid-afternoon and, after registration and finding their rooms, were free to take tea in the Middle Common Room. As usual, tours of the Hall were conducted by Bill Williams and included visits to the Old and New Libraries, the Chapel and to see the pictures in the Senior Common Room. One interesting place, the crypt to the Church, is presently out-of-bounds for reasons of safety. In addition, the stonework, ir; particular some carvings on the columns, is crumbling and that process is accelerated by the effects of breathing by visitors! The opinion was expressed that it might be better to keep the carvings on view until they disappear rather than allowing them to crumble unseen in the dark. So we hope that at the next dinner, the safety problems will have been solved and the crypt put on view. Evensong in the Chapel was conducted by the Chaplain, the Reverend Gerald Hegarty, assisted by an organist and small choir. This was the first time Gerald has conducted this service for a Floreat Aula Society Dinner. He was Chaplain of the Hall until 1997 and it was his successor Duncan McLaren who conducted evensong at the first four dinners. Duncan left in April 2004, and we welcome Gerald on his return to the Hall. The reception and dinner took place in the Wolfson Hall. Our Principal, Professor Mingos, is on sabbatical leave and the occasion was hosted by the Pro-Principal, Martin Slater. Eighty-nine people sat down to another of the Chef's excellent four-course dinners with wine. In addition to members and their guests, the Hall was represented by several fellows, the MCR President, the Chaplain with Mrs Hegarty, and the choir. The SEH Association was represented by President Will Hatcher with Mrs Hatcher, and by Secretary Richard Finch. Betony Griffiths and Rebecca Ting, the Annual Fund Manager and Development Assistant respectively, were also present. They are the frontline of the Development Office. They did the major part of the organisation of this event, received members and their guests at registration, and provided support throughout. Thank you, Betony and Rebecca. In his speech, the Pro-Principal welcomed members and their guests and reported on the many academic and sporting successes of the Hall. Of particular note was the Women's first eight earning Blades at Torpids. He also 112

thanked members of the Society for their interest in the Hall and for their continuing support. He finished with the traditional toast- Floreat Aula! The dinner formally ended with a recital of songs by the choir, including Locus Iste by Bruckner and a solo sung by Madeleine Chandler. The next morning a party of 21 members and guests assembled in the Old Dining Hall and, after coffee, set out for a tour of the Botanic Gardens (picture below). Fortunately the sun was shining and our guide, a member of the gardening staff, gave an enthusiastic commentary on many of the plants to be seen, both in the open and in the glasshouses.

The College was particularly pleased to welcome two new members to their first FAS dinner, and is also gratified that in the last year an additional 10 Aularians have joined the Floreat Aula Society. If you would like to join their number please contact Bill Williams via the Development Office. The next dinner of the Society is scheduled for Friday 4 April 2008. FAS members should mark the day in their diaries now! Aularian guests: Hubert Beales (1936),John Billington (1955), Stuart Bilsland (1954) with Ann Bilsland, David Bolton (1957) with Colin Flewitt, Michael Bourdeaux (1954) with Lorna Bourdeaux, Bob Breese (1949), Geoff Brown (1957), Stephen Chandler (1972) with Susan Chandler, Gloria Clutton-Williams with Suzanne McCrimmon, John Cockshoot (194 7) with J eanette Cockshoot, John Cotton (1955) with Elizabeth Cotton, David Cox (1963), Frank di Rienzo (1959), David Dunsmore (1946) with Erica Dunsmore, Laurence Elliott (1942), David Giles (1953) with Jean Giles, Maureen Haile, David Harding(1959),RexHarrison(1961),ColinHewitt (1962) with Susan 113

Hewitt, Michael Hopkinson (1954), AllanJay (1951), DavidJohnson (1956) with Barbara Etherington, Derek J ones (19 58) with Judith Jones, Christopher Jones (1952), Raymond Lee (1950) with John Parr (1971), Roland MacLeod (1957), David Picksley (1953) with Anna Picksley, Christopher Pope with Kathy Pope, Robert Rednall (1953) with Mary Rednall, Alan Simmonds (1952) with Mary Simmonds, Frank Spooner (1970) with Karen Spooner, Alastair Stewart (1957), Philip Swindells (1953) with Jean Barrett, Paul Tempest (1956) with Jennifer Tempest, Alan Titcombe (1956) with Gwen Titcombe, John Voigt (1952), Geoffrey Williams (1953) with Carolyn Williams,John Williams (1948) with Margaret Williams. Hall guests: Joanna Ashbourn (Former Fellow), Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Bursar) with Carole Bourne-Taylor, Garreth Brooke (Choir), Madeleine Chandler (Choir), Peter Collins (Senior Reseach Fellow) with Margot Collins, Richard Finch (SEHA Secretary), Justin Gosling (Emeritus Fellow and FAS member) with Margaret Gosling, Betony Griffiths (Annual Fund Manager), Will Hatcher (SEHA President) with Karen Hatcher, Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain) with Karen Hegarty, Heidi Johansen-Berg (Fellow), Doug Jordan (Choir), Peter Langridge (Choir), David McCartney (Organ Scholar), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow and FAS member), Martin Slater (Pro-Principal), Rebecca Ting (Alumni Relations), Jeff Tseng (Fellow) with Carmen Tseng, Gareth Walliss (2002), Aliza Watters (MCR President), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow and FAS member).

PARENTS' LUNCH, 27 MAY 2005 It was a pleasure for the College to welcome the parents and families of current 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students to the third annual Parents' Lunch. The College welcomes the active involvement of parents in College activities and is extremely grateful to those who have joined Aularians in supporting the new St Edmund Hall Annual Fund. Sadly, the onset of a persistent drizzle forced the contingency venues to be used, with the buffet laid out in the Wolfson Hall, and registration and drinks in the ODH. Nonetheless, there was a good turn out, with parents coming from great distances to attend- most notably the Yen family from Singapore! The string quartet braved the elements, and though damp air and stringed instruments is a notoriously off-pitched combination, their music was both tuneful and heartening to guests arriving in the wet front quad. 114

Dr Bill Williams was ably assisted in College tours by a group of current students including Lizzie Purcell, Xin-Hui Chan, Iris Li, Wei Leong Poh, Ruth Ludlam and Jennifer Chung. Despite the rain, many parents (and even some students seeking to learn more about the history of the Hall) took tours around College under cover of umbrellas. For the first time, a selection of St Edmund Hall memorabilia was available at the event, and many parents were keen to buy a memento of their visit. Particularly popular were rosettes in Hall colours, which parents and students wore to the river to watch a number of successful College crews on the final day of Summer Eights. The following students and their parents accepted the invitation to this event: David Allen, Daniel Aylward, Kerrie Barrett, Edward Beckett, Lindsay Boreham, Tom Braithwaite, Garreth Brooke,James Bullock, Krishan Chadha, Alan Chetwynd, Elizabeth Cheyne, Ollie Courtney, Amy Crofton, Samuel Crouch, Carina Dalton, Anna De Paula Hanika, Eleanore Diclaudio, Louise Elliot, Eleanor Ereira, Michelle Eskinazi, Ruth Evans, Robin Fellerman, Sarah Filby, Jeannie Foulsham, Chris Fulton, Andrew Godfrey, John Goodey, Matthew Greenhalgh, Alexander Groves, Stephanie Hardy, Natalie Helier, Susanna Herbert, Peter Hickson, Daisy Hildyard, Katharine Hill, Ted Hodgkinson, Sarah Khalaf, Caleb Klaces, Catherine Lakin, Kate Leyland, Laura McMullen, Sarah McPake, Edward Morse, Claire Palmer, Rachel Poole, Lizzie Purcell, Jenny Rainsford, Sophy Ridge, Graham Robinson, Nick Rounthwaite, David Saleh, Tonia Savchenko, Patrick Schneider-Sikovsky, Sara Sinfield, Jo Smith, Rupert Snuggs, Tom Stimson, Hannah Tattersall, Helen Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, Mari Tomos, Louka Travlos, Lindsay Turner, Cassandra Ulph, Oliver Wallis, Ella Wells, Alastair Wood, Zhao-Yi Yen.

SUMMER REUNION, 24 JUNE 2006 This year, the annual Summer Reunion took the format of a garden party to which all Aularians and their families were invited, and on the day we had a company of 170. Fortunately, the weather was fair and by 12:30, the gardens of St Peter in-the-East were buzzing with guests drawn to the buffet tables and Professor Kouvaritakis' string quartet. Guests dispersed around the churchyard to eat and talk, whilst a roving magician performed tricks and illusions for their further amusement. Some 115

also opted to join Dr Peter Collins, College Cellarer, for a wine-tasting in the Old Library, and Dr Bill Williams headed up a programme of College tours ably assisted by a group of current students. Entertainment for younger family members was provided courtesy of Oli Gosh who awed his audience with egg-juggling, fire-eating, and balloon-modelling. Children were then invited to join treasure hunts around College. The Pro-Principal, Martin Slater, and Will Hatcher (SEH Association President) made brief speeches summarising the recent achievements of the Hall, and thanking Aularians for supporting the event. As the Pro-Principal pointed out, the strength of the garden party reunion is the diversity of Aularians across the generations that it attracts, and how family-friendly the Hall atmosphere is on such occasions. It is hoped that given its success this year, the garden party format of the Summer Reunion will be made an annual event, coupled with a dinner biannually. Aularians who accepted the invitation to this event were: Farrand Radley (1935), Gordon Downey (1944), John Durling (1945), Michael Harrison (1947), WilliamAsbrey (1949), Peter Smith (1950),John Arnold (1952), David Wright (1952), Ian Smith (1953), Richard Turner (1953), Brian Shepherd (1954), Hubert Beaumont (1955), David Johnson (1956), Lewis Chester (1957), Anthony Ruffhead (1957), Glynne Roberts (1958), David Harding (1959), David Harding (1959), Stewart Walduck (1959), John Heggadon (1961), Will Hatch er (1962), Alexander Kirk-Wilson (1963), Step hen Copley (1964), Peter Liversidge (1964), Alan Cowell (1965), Alan Vasa (1966), lan Robertson (1967), Graham Slater (1967), Marcus Lobb (1968), lan Busby (1969), Gillies Dalzell Payne (1969), Everard Meynell (1970), Lawrence Cummings (1971), John Saunders (1973), Raoul Cerratti (1974), Andrew Johnston (1975), Alan Stansfield (1975), Peter Blakey (1976), Richard Finch (1976), Trevor Payne (1976), Martin Saunders (1976), Mark McDermott (1977), Russell Withington (1979),Jonathan Hofstetter (1980), Ray Montague (1980), David Heaps (1982), Michael Davis (1985), Jon Gulley (1985), Jim Charles (1986), Phil Richards (1986), Katherine Charles (1987), David Jordan (1990), David Taylor (1992), Emma French (1993), Sam White (1994), Richard Zugic (1995), Claire Lobb (2000).

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Hall guests who accepted this invitation were: Stephen Blarney (Fellow), Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor (Bursar), Garreth Brooke (2004), Peter Collins (Senior Research Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow),Justin Gosling (Emeritus Fellow), Betony Griffiths (Development Office), John Knight (Fellow), Basil Kouvaritakis (Fellow), Aisi Li (2005),James Naughton (Fellow), Nigel Palmer (Fellow), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Martin Slater (Pro-Principal), Rebecca Ting (Development Office), Gareth Walliss (2002), Aliza Watters (MCR President), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow).

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 will be held on Friday 4 April 2008). Current FAS members are as follows:John Akroyd Christopher Amor Geoffrey Archer DFC Prof Christopher Armitage Colin Atkinson John Ayers Or Nick Badham John Barker George Barner Kenneth Barton John Barton Martin Bates Albert Baxter Hubert B 0 Beales John 0 Bean Stuart Beaty Colin H Benbow Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Robert Bishop Or Robert Bishop

Alasdair Blain David Bolton MarkBooker Revd Canon Or Michael A Bourdeaux Mrs Hilary Bourne-J ones BobBreese Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome Geoffrey Brown Peter Brown James Burnett-Hitchcock Ivor Burt John Cain DSC Michael Cansdale Step hen Chandler David Clarke Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Or John Cockshoot Terence Cook Frederick Cosstick Arthur J S Cotton 117

The Revd Dr H E John Cowdrey DavidCox John Cox John Cunningham Robert Darling Revd Canon Hilary Davidson Desmond Day OBE John Dellar Yves RH Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo Or Michael Dobbyn Jarvis Doctorow John Dunbabin David Dunsmore Laurence Elliott PeterEvans Roger Farrand David Fitzwilliam-Lay AndrewFoot PaulFoote John French Robin French Revd Peter Furness Or Patrick Garland Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill David Gillett Or Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Justin Gosling Derek Griffin-Smith Or Philip Haffenden Mrs Maureen Haile Ronald Hall David Harding Rex Harrison John Hawkins Or Malcolm Hawthorne Prof Ian Heggie Michael Herbert Colin Hewitt

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Charles Hind DerekHoare Canon Stanley Hoffman RevdJohn Hogan Michael Hopkinson TO Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Mrs Ann Hughes MVO Or Anne lrving Norman Isaacs Peter J anson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David Johnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones Derek C W J ones Prof George Jones Luke Jones Or Andrew Kahn Peter Kelly Terence Kelly Roy Kings Antony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee PaulLewis Richard Luddington Kenneth Lund QC Roland MacLeod J ames Markwick Charles Marriott Doug McCallum George McNaught JeremyMew Geoff Mihell 'Dusty' Miller William R Miller OBE, KStJ Or Bruce Mitchell Or Gareth de Bohun Mitford-Barberton Or G Mortimer Charles Murray Tuppy Owen-Smith AndrewPage Kenneth Palk

Martin Paterson Frank Peclley Nigel Pegram Revd Edward Phillips John Phillips Dr Peter Phizackerley David Picksley John Pike CBE Dr Francis Pocock Christopher Pope Philip Rabbetts Farrand Raclley MBE John Reddick Bob Rednall Peter Reynolds Prof Charles R Ritcheson Ven Archdeacon Raymond Roberts Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM Edmund Roskell Dr Francis Rossotti P L Rous se! OBE Jack Rowell OBE Ian Sandles :Nlichael 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 RoyTracey Mrs Carol Tricks Major General Anthony Trythall AlanVasa TD John C Voigt Prof John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster David Weston Geoffrey EL Williams Dr John H B Williams Dr W (Bill) S C Williams Dudley Wood CBE Prof Sir David Yarclley Bill Yeowart

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture To be given by Matthew D'Ancona, Editor of The Spectator, at Spm in the Examination Schools. "Confessions of a hawkish hack: the war on terror and the media" US Annual New York Dinner SEH Association London Dinner (all Aularians invited), to be held at Royal Overseas League, London (invitation inserted with this magazine)

Friday 27 October 2006

Friday 17 Noverpber 2006 Tuesday 9 January 2007

1967 40th Anniversary Gaudy

Friday 10 March 2007

US West Coast Dinner

(date the) March 2007

Parents' Garden Party

Saturday 26 May 2007

Summer Reunion Garden Party

Saturday 23 June 2007

1963-1969 Annual Gaudy

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - JANUARY 2006 President Pro-Principal Immediate Past President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer

William H Hatcher MA (1962) Martin DE Slater MA MPhil Dr Francis J Pocock MA DPhil (1960) Justin CB Gosling BPhil MA R (Bob) JL Breese MA (1949) Richard AH Finch MA (1976) lan W Durrans BA (1977)

Up to 1944

HA Farrand Radley MBE MA (1935)

1945- 54

Dudley E Wood CBE MA (1951)

1955- 64

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

1965-74

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

1975-84

Richard AH Finch MA (197 6) Richard S Luddington MA MPhil (1978) Jenny B Turner BA (1981)

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MINUTES OF THE 75th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 10 JANUARY 2006 The 75th Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in Princess Alexandra Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House,_Park Place, StJames's Street, London SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 6.15 pm, WH Hatcher presiding. Over 50 members were present.

Minutes. The Minutes of the 74th Meeting, held on 11 January 2005, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising. President's Report. WH Hatcher said that he would make his report at the dinner. Pro-Principal's Report. MDE Slater said that he would make his report at the dinner. Honorary Secretary's Report. There were no major items. Honorary Treasurer's Report. IW Durrans said that the audited accounts were as published in the Magazine. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted. Elections. The following were elected unanimously: Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer 1955-64 1965-74 1975-84

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Appointment of Honorary Auditor. LD Page was unanimously reappointed. Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 pm. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.25 pm. RAH FINCH, Hon. Secretary

THE 65th LONDON DINNER THE 65th LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, StJames's on Tuesday, 10 January 2006. St Andrew's Hall, where members assembled, had been strikingly refurbished, with improved lighting and acoustic and a new name (Princess Alexandra). Upstairs the dinner venue proved to be its customary boisterous self, belying the dip in attendance (still a highly respectable 113). Will Hatcher kept his first Dinner speech as Association President duly brief, welcoming the guests (the Pro-Principal, Jus tin Gosling, Geoffrey and Carole Bourne-Taylor and the Presidents of the Middle and Junior Common Rooms) and praising the class of 2001 for their particular success in forming a large party, such gatherings being the essence of the London Dinner. The Pro-Principal's address was similarly upbeat, culminating with a "Wish I were with you!" message from Bruce Mitchell, which the audience knew to be heartfelt and acknowledged with the most rousing of cheers. Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor was then presented by the President with a "virtual" engraved decanter to mark his retirement. In response the retiring Bursar was at his least retiring, indeed he positively dazzled with a relay of witticisms he had enjoyed in his eighteen years in the SCR. Unsurprisingly, his key sources included John Kelly,Justin Gosling and Ken Segar. As for the future, he hinted teasingly that his move to Dorset with a "young, broody French wife" could be complemented by further additions to the next generation of Bourne-Taylors. In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1935) Mr HAF Radley, (1939) Mr FD Rushworth, (1949) Mr WP Asbrey, Mr RJL Breese, (1950) Mr M Baldwin, (1951) Mr DJ Day, Mr DE Wood, (1952) Mr AJ Harding, Mr DM Jacobs, Mr NF Lockhart, The Revd EA Simmonds, (1953) Mr AJ Kember, (1954) Mr OA Alakija, Mr SR Bilsland, 123

Mr ILR Burt, (1955) Mr AJS Cotton, Mr JL Page, Mr RA Farrand, Mr RH Williams, (1956) Mr MJ Cansdale, Dr RD Gillard, Mr AF Ham, Mr DH Johnson, (1957) Mr JW Harrison, Mr JL Phillips, Mr JC Pollock, Mr MJ Rowan, (1958) Mr LL Filby, (1959) Mr JA Collingwood, Mr JAH Curry, (1960) Dr FJ Pocock, (1961) Mr EA Fretwell-Downing, Mr JM Heggadon, Mr AM Rentoul, (1962) Mr MGM Groves, Mr MJ Hamilton, Mr W~ Hatcher (President, SEH Association), Mr NH Pegram, (1963) Mr DMP Barnes, Mr RG Hunt, Mr RAS Offer, Mr MS Simrnie, (1964) Mr A Brunskill, Mr JH Bunney, Dr MJ Clarke, Mr BE Moulds, (1965) Mr J G Barclay (Fellow), (1966) Dr JPN Badham, Sir Jon Shortridge, (1968) Dr DJ Hughes, Mr HJ Hunt, Mr AJH Makin, Mr MO Spilberg, (1969) Mr MJ Birks, Mr GJ Coates, (1970) Mr WN David, Mr PG Harper, Mr JW Hawkins, (1971) Mr L Cumrnings, (1972) Mr R Stephenson, (1974) Mr KH Auckland, Mr ARF Banks, Dr R Cerratti, Mr JAB Gray, Mr PA Eggleston, Mr PH Tudor, (1976) Mr RAH Finch, Mr RM Head, Mr PL Smith, Mr JJ Young, (1977) Mr SS Advani, Mr IW Durrans, Mr AJ Haxby, Mr LD Page, Mr RFJH Ruvigny, Mr RK Shah, (1978) Mr I Coleman, Mr RS Luddington, (1980) Mr ND Caddick, (1981) MsJB Turner, (1982) Mr DJ Heaps, Mr AJ Sandbach, (1983) Mr RL Johns, (1987) Mr AJH Murray, Mr SCC Oakes, (1991) Ms AL Rentoul, (2000) Mr CWR Pitt, (2001) Ms LB Arthur, Ms LA Berry, Ms JJ Hatcher, Mr CH Hutton-Mills, Ms RH Lewis, Ms S Omoi, Mr N Renshaw, Mr HC Samuel, Ms R Wilkinson, Mr WR Young. The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr SR Blarney, Dr PJ Collins, Professor SJ Ferguson, Professor JB Knight, Dr JD Naughton, Mr CJ Wells (Vice-Principal), DrAB Zavatsky, Ms Betony Griffiths (Annual Fund Manager), Ms Rebecca Ting (Development Assistant). Richard Finch

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2006 Year ended 31 May2006

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WH Hatcher (President) IW Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2006. 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 2006 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date. 4 Park Village West London NW1 4AE 31July 2006

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A JOURNEY FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, by Dr Cuppam Dasarathy (1961) On 8 December 1958, I started work as a Senior Scientific Assistant at the National Metallurgical Laboratory of India, one of several state-of-the-art centres for research and development which Nehru's government had decided the country needed following independence from the British. By 1961, with the encouragement and support of Dr V B (Vie) Nileshwar who had come briefly to NML after taking his PhD in metallurgy at Sheffield (and who all too swiftly went on to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford), I applied for two research openings: one at the University of Illinois, and the other with Professor Hume-Rothery at the University of Oxford. After weeks of no word from either, I received an overseas cable from each of them on subsequent days, both inviting me to their respective establishments. Although in a state of blissful ignorance of Oxford's scholarly and academic reputation, and Hume-Rothery's world-class distinction, I was swung in favour of accepting his offer because my aunt and uncle, both doctors in Medicine, had been to the UK and had enjoyed their stay. Several weeks of frantic planning and fund-raising followed (the latter being only moderately successful) and on 21 September 1961 I began a three-week voyage by train and ship which took me from Madras in the south of India via Aden, the Suez Canal, Messina, and Naples to Genoa aboard a vessel called "Australia", run by an Italian shipping line. Travelling on a student ticket confined me to dormitories that were two levels below the main deck, furnished with three-tier bunk beds and in which no daylight was seen. Many of us were students travelling to Europe for the first time and sea-sickness got the better of most of us, but when our appetites returned we learnt the new skill of eating the spaghetti which was served with every meal. Having travelled onwards from Genoa by train, I eventually reached my lodgings in Parks Road, Oxford on a surprisingly dark afternoon in late October (the clocks already having been put back) and was relieved when sleep overcame the sadness, loneliness, cold, hunger and home-sickness that had engulfed me. The next morning I had my first meeting with Professor Hume-Rothery and after putting me at my ease, enquiring about my journey and accommodation in Oxford, he outlined my DPhil project and introduced me to Dr R A (Bob) Buckley who would be my mentor and who became my constant 127

source of help and advice. On emerging from my meeting, I was delighted to discover that Vie was waiting for me - my old friend from NML and the catalyst who had set this amazing chain of events in motion. It quickly became apparent that my cotton clothes were inadequate for

England in October and Vie took me shopping; somehow we managed to buy some essential items of warm clothing with the meagre ÂŁ20 I -had raised before I left India. Since H-R was a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, most of his DPhil students were automatically affiliated with this college and I soon made aÂˇ visit; Vie was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the college and he helped me to find my feet. Unreserved praise and thanks, though, must go to the staff of both the Department of Metallurgy and the Hall for helping us foreign students settle in; sherry evenings seemed to be a particularly popular way of doing this and having been raised in India as a teetotaller I found sips of sherry to be pleasantly intoxicating. Indeed, sherry seemed to play a major part in Oxford's life; in a much-needed push to earn some money in the run-up to Christmas 1961, I began work at a local Post Office, sorting and delivering Christmas mail. As Christmas Day approached the hospitality that greeted me at virtually every door consisted of a small glass of sherry and sometimes a gift. I was unable to cope with this intake of sherry and, having sung a few carols with a group of revellers and with a large part of the post still in my bag, I sat on the pavement and leaned against a letter box. Word must have reached the Post Office as, in a matter of minutes, a van drew up and whisked me away. Back at the office, after some harsh words, I was confined to in-house mail sorting and my delivery days were over. I still recall the kindness of fellow Aularian Robert Castleton who was also working for his DPhil with H-R. Robert asked me to spend Christmas 1961 with his family in Kent and those with a good memory will recall how bitterly cold and snowy it was that winter. Having been brought up as a Hindu I had no idea how Christians celebrated this festival, and I certainly had no experience of walking over snow which I found to be devilishly tricky, but Robert and his family made me warm and welcome. Those who had met Graham Midgley will testify as to his sense of humour, kindness and helpfulness, all of which were much in evidence when he enquired whether I had a means of transport to get me to and from the Metallurgy 128

Department. On hearing that I had none, he took me to the old bike shed at the back of the Front Quad; from amongst a heap of bikes in various states of disrepair he put together bits from here and there and, in a little over an hour, produced what looked like a passable bike. We both tried it out, it seemed adequate for my purpose, and I was immediately instructed to go to the ironmonger on Broad Street, purchase a brush and a pot of paint and, without delay, paint in bold capitals the letters 'SEH' on the front and back of the bike. Off I rode, leant the bike in front of the ironmonger's, went in, bought the items and rushed back out - but there was no bike, it had been stolen! Crest-fallen, I walked back to the college where Graham was waiting for me; on hearing my account he laughed and advised "That is Oxford for you". Being 'locked in' or 'locked out' can often happen to students. One warm summer afternoon, I strolled through Christ Church gardens and meadows in the company of a pretty lady. Enjoying the walk and each other's company we were blissfully unaware of the time until we discovered our exit barred by a tall spiked gate. We were eventually freed by a parks official. Being 'locked out' of college was quite another matter: after a pleasant evening out I arrived back at the Hall quite late to find the doors shut and the Porter's Lodge all in darkness. I had heard, however, of a solution to just such a dilemma; a quick survey from High Street revealed a window deliberately left open. I had to wait for a loitering police constable to head off, and for a leg-up from a 'Guardian Angel' on his way to Magdalen College, but eventually dropped into a darkened room from the depths of which a ghostly voice startled me with a request that I "leave a sixpence at the door". Duly complying I left the room and, after more stumbling and tripping in the darkness, managed to negotiate the spiral staircase to my second-floor room in the Front Quad. A much happier memory is the one with which I will finish: on 7 December 1963, I married the young lady mentioned earlier at Abingdon Registry Office, followed by a Blessing conducted by Rev Midgley in the College Chapel which was witnessed by Prof and Mrs Hume-Rothery, other academics and friends from the Hall and the Metallurgy Department. We had our wedding Reception in the Old Dining Hall - a truly crowning moment of my days at St Edmund Hall.

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MY UNION EXPERIENCES ... , by Sapana Agrawal (2003) ... having the opportunity to drink coffee with Benazir Bhutto at Starbucks on Cornmarket, do a human rights project in Botswana accompanied by _the High Commissioner, and listen to Rebecca Loos support the motion 'All publicity is good publicity' ...

The O:xford Union- JVhere else? I return to Teddy Hall this coming Michaelmas for my finals having deferred last year in order to be Hilary term President of the Union. That's the Oxford Union -the private members' club that focuses on stimulating the minds and passions of the students via debate, inspirational speeches and original social events. Some of you will be members of the Union, some of you would have been involved but I assume that an overwhelming majority of readers had very little if any contact with the institution. Just because we all waste our gym membership does not mean that this membership should be wasted ... exercise for the mind is surely more fun then sweating it out on the treadmill? Yes, the majority of Unionites are overweight! In the two years that I have been involved I have had the privilege of being Secretary (organising balls and other social events), Librarian/vice-president (inviting and hosting individual speakers) and most recently President (arranging and chairing debates and committee meetings, running the buildings, staff and budget). Having this range of posts has guaranteed a wealth of weird and wonderful experiences. The Union gives all its members a unique opportunity to meet and discuss almost anything with people that we are unlikely to come into contact with in normal life. I have been left amazed, amused and bemused with guests with personalities ranging from Geri Halliwell, FW de Klerk, Vivienne Westwood, Pharrell Williams, Nasser Hussain, David Trimble and Richard Dreyfuss to name but a few.

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My involvement in the Union has been a rich education in many things: the highs and lows of student politics; the necessity of diplomacy; that small talk is an art; how to diffuse or encourage heated discussion. I've learnt how to unite a divided team over a common goal, and how to cope with being insanely busy (writing two essays a week, helping 17 people run for election, running for election yourself, hosting 3 speakers a week, attending debates and committee meetings, and trying to keep your friends and family happy). And I've learnt how to politely ask speakers to leave the union if I thought that they had had too much to drink .... I got involved in the society to test my existing skills and acquire new ones and to be involved with something that looked fun and interesting. I continued participating on a committee level in order to play my part in demystifying the institution and to encourage diversity of background, social grouping, interests and personalities of those taking part in the Union. I believe my contribution helped bring a group of people through the doors of the Union who perhaps would not have done so otherwise. Being at the helm of a society that is steeped in history and significance is a difficult position to be in - you want to respect the traditions and quirks of the society whilst also changing rules and practices that are simply archaic or constraining. I hope I achieved a productive balance. When I joined as a fresher everything to do with the Union seemed intangible ... looking back on the last two years I think the Union is absolutely wonderful but utterly surreal! More importantly than meeting speakers or arranging balls, I have had the privilege of working alongside some incredibly bright and wonderful Oxford students through the society. I have enjoyed my involvement with the Union immensely and encourage all of you still at Oxford to use your membership fully!

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THE 11TH WIFE-CARRYING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, by Xin-Hui Chan (2004) On 1 July 2006, Xin-Hui Chan, a 2nd year medical student at the Hall, and her partner PJ Thum of Hertford College became the first Singaporeans and Oxford students to participate in the Wife-Carrying World ChaJ:?pionships in Sonkajarvi, Finland. The pair completed the course in a time of 1 minute and 37.7 seconds, beating teams from Australia, Estonia, Finland, Britain, France and Germany to emerge Australian/ Asian Champions and 29th overall.

The Sport of Wife-Carrying Wife-carrying as a sport is unique to Sonkajarvi - its origins date to the 1800s, where there was said to be a local brigand called Rosvo-Ronkainen who accepted as troops only men who had proven their worth on the wifecarrying track. In those days, it was common practice to steal women from neighbouring villages for such manly purposes. Today, participants have to run the length of 253.5 metres on the official track which has two dry obstacles and a water obstacle about 1.3 metres deep. Carriers have to ensure that their 'wives' remain above the ground at all times - wife dropping is heavily penalised. The 'wife' to be carried can be the male partner's very own, the neighbour's or one found farther afield; she must, however, be over 17 years of age. Apart from age restrictions, she has to weigh a minimum of 49 kg. Should she weigh any less, she is burdened with a heavy rucksack such that the total weight of her and the rucksack is 49 kg. Competitors run the race two pairs at a time, with each heat being a competition in itself. The winners are the couple that complete the course in the shortest time, receiving the equivalent of the wife's weight in beer. The Finnish see this sport as the embodiment of an attitude towards life. Wife-carrying, according to them, calls for physical and mental endurance in equal measure. Other essential ingredients are a good sense of rhythm, surefootedness- and a robust sense of humour. Even the rules of the competition support this, stating that all competitors should have fun. The Finns describe their philosophy best:

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"Wives and wife-carriers are not afraid o/ challenges or burdens, pushing their wqy persistent!J fonvard, holding tight!J with a twinkle in their ryes" 5 eeking a W ijC' PJ first came across the sport of wife-carrying in a 2005 article by ESPN journalist Jim Caple. Interest piqued, further reading about the philosophy of the sport strengthened his desire to participate in the 2006 World Championships. What he needed next, was to find a woman with the gumption and endurance to withstand the demands of training and competition. Several months later, he chanced upon a fellow Singaporean in Oxford Xin-Hui, a medic who had spent her summer volunteering in a rural Kenyan village, and despite illness, had managed to go on to climb the highest mountain on the African continent, Mt Kilimanjaro. Not only did she appear to possess the tenacity for such an endeavour, she was small enough to be carried with relative ease. They recognised a mutual spirit of adventure and excitement in each other, and partnered for a hitchhike from Oxford to Morocco for charity in April 2006. Shortly after that, preparations began for the WifeCarrying Championships.

Training Their training began with experimentation with different carrying styles. Four styles are customarily employed: the traditional piggyback, upside down, thrown over the shoulder, or crosswise on the carrier's shoulders. It was the upside down 'Estonian carry', favoured by the world record holder, Margo Uusorg of Estonia, which they chose. They trained at the University Sports Centre on Iffley Road, starting each session separately in the gym before coming together for laps around the track. Things looked promising as the competition edged closer - they had refined their position to achieve synchronised motion and creative sartorial additions were beginning to reduce the number of bruises they sustained at the end of each combined training session. Two days before they were due to leave for Finland, on their final turn around the Iffley track, PJ felt a sudden shearing pain across his knee. It was a worried pair that departed for Helsinki on 28 June. The Competition After resting injuries for a day after arrival, it was back to training for both of them. The day before the competition, they attempted the water hazard

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for the first time. The ambient temperature that day was 17 degrees, the water far colder. PJ lost his footing in the water, falling backwards with XinHui on his back. Xin-Hui plunged headfirst into the water, and unable to bear the cold, passed out. Her distraught partner fished her out. To make matters worse, his cruciate ligament injury began to flare up again. They ended their training session, uncertain whether they would be able to co~pete the following day. The day arrived with PJ's knee showing few signs of improvement. As they nervously warmed up by the starting line, the results o f the dra": for their heats were announced: they were to be pitted against the North American Champions, Ehrin and April Armstrong- it was going to be tough, but they were definitely not going to go down without a fight. They fell behind in the initial stretch, but their practice on the water hazard paid off as PJ passed through it with ease and caught up on the Americans. It was close down the

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middle straight with the crowd roaring in excitement. However, Ehrin's height and longer legs proved an advantage as he passed over the obstacles with greater ease to pull away and win decisively. PJ and Xin-Hui went on to finish in their best time ever of 1 minute and 37.7 seconds. Xin-Hui is grateful for the support of all at the Hall, particularly for the award from the Michael Pike Fund - this trip would not have been possible without it. She is proud to have been granted the opportunity to carry on the Hall traditions of sporting endeavour and a subtle appreciation of good old-fashioned fun.

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Tony Corley (pictured right) received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Reading Business School at last December's Graduation ceremonies. He began his career in Reading in 1962 as a lecturer in what was then called the Department of Political Economy. He was eo-founder of the Department of Economics in 1964 and, by the mid-1980s, was recognised as one of Britain's leading business historians. Amongst his many writings, he published in 1972 a history of Reading's most influential business, Huntley & Palmers, entitled Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits. More recently he has made over 90 contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biograpf?y. On behalf of the Oxford Society (Cornwall), Andrew Foot is conducting a drive to persuade Oxonians living in the county to join them. The first response has come from The Revd Anthony Curry (1950) - another coup for the Hall! Dr Catherine Lorigan is the honorary secretary, so Aularians virtually run the society. The honorary treasurer was at Queen's, just across the lane, so good influences are contagious. The society can be useful to those who come fresh to the county- and they try to do interesting things. Lord Patten of Barnes was their guest at a New Year lunch at Rick Stein's Restaurant in Padstow. As a New College man, Rick offers them a relatively low price! Professor Elmer Sprague contributed on "Gilbert Ryle" in the Dictionary of 20th Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes 2005. Sir Ian Byatt has been appointed as Chairman of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, from July 2006. Bruce C Nixon is relieved that, after a printing delay, his new book UVING SYSTEM - making sense of sustainabiliry is available. It is about sustainability in the broadest sense - the planet and all life upon it and global social and economic justice. David Nelson married N ancy Warren on 29 June 2006, in

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Edinburgh. Nancy lives in California. Decisions about where finally to live are still pending. Paul Tempest edited An Enduring Friendship - 400 years of AngloGu!f Relations and The Arabists of Shemlan - MECAS memoirs 19441978 which were published by Stacey International, London in March and April respectively. In March this year, Aurum Press published Lewis A Chester's 20th non-fiction book, The Troublemaker: Michael Scott and his lone!J struggle against injustice, co-authored by Anne Yates. The 2006 Queen's Award for Enterprise : Innovation, was awarded to Dr Anthony J Doyle's co mpany, Doyle & Tratt Products Lltd. Retired schoolmaster Martin D Clifford is currently chairman of the Canterbury Society of Art. I an G Heggie was awarded a Doctor of Engineering degree, honoris causa, by Birmingham University in July 2006 "for making the buses in the Third World run on time, for his commitment to our School of Engineering where he taught part of the MSc course in Highway Management & Engineering, for developing the careers of literally thousands of mostly young budding highway managers and engineers who have attended the University's world-renowned senior road executive program which he created and helps to run, for making Stratford-upon-Avon - hi s adopted home and home to the University's Shakespeare Institute- a better place." David J Mills participated in a 40th anniversary reunion of the famous [winning] 1965 Oxford Boat Race crew - KREW OF STEEL - on the Tideway to coincide with the Boat Race of 2005 . All original nine crew members took to the water, except cox Michael Leigh. Simon C Downie is continuing his educational career (teacher in secondary school, university lecturer, university administrator) as The Warden at Namasagali (College and University), 1Â°N 33Â°E on the banks of the Victoria Nile, Uganda. Pictured here are some of the pupils from Namasagali College Staff's Children's Primary School. 137

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Robin M Crawford continues to serve post-retirement on the main board of the De Beers group of diamond companies with particular responsibilities as chairman of the company's Safety, Health & Environment Committee and member of the Audit Committee. He also serves as chair of the De Beers Pension fund in South Africa. Professor J E (Ted) Chamberlin has published If This I~ Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground (Manchester:Carcanet, 2006) Geoffrey D Summers retired from NHS management in 2003. Michael 0 Spilberg has been head now for over 20 y~ars of the same small Prep School in Hampstead- a Mr Chips-like record of devotion to the Common Entrance exam, most unlikely to those that knew him as an undergraduate. Equally improbable, he is now the proud grandfather of no less than six! Dr Christopher R Wilson's Music in Shakespeare: A Dictionary was published in December 2005 by continuum Publishing Group, London and New York. The Rt Revd Roger A Jupp resigned as Bishop of Popondota in Papua New Guinea and returned to the UK in 2005 following a triple heart bypass operation. He is now parish priest of Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea and an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the diocese of Chichester. Martin Ridalleft ALSTOM Transport Ltd in September 2005 when train building on the Washwood Heath site (Birmingham) ceased. After an enjoyable 6 week break from employment he started work as a Principal Safety Engineer within the London Underground Projects Division of Bombardier Transportation Ltd, based in Derby. He continues to live in Sutton Coldfield with wife Sue, and children Alison and David. Andrew and Emma Steane (nee Palmer, 1985) have been blessed with a daughter, Elsie Margaret, who arrived on 3 March 2006. Dr David A Gillett and wife Paula are pleased to announce the birth of their son Henry Bartholomew Bateson-Kirby Gillett in Cambridge, on 23 September 2005. After almost 20 years, Kathy Neal (nee Smith) has finally left Oxford (although not the county). She has succumbed to teaching languages at the Kings School, Witney so is getting to grips with GCSEs and the bits of German grammar that she ignored the first time round!

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1920s Randall John Hamlyn BA, MA, 1 January 1982. 1925 1930s Colonel Eric Edward Lowe CBE, BA, MA, DipEd, 6 July 2006, aged 93, North Yorkshire. 1931, Modern Languages

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In 1947 he joined the staff at Sedbergh, Cumbria, as a geographer and soon after was made a housemaster. It was entirely in character that he resigned on an issue of principle and was quite unwilling to reconsider his position. In 1955 he was chosen from a long list of applicants for the headship at The Hall school, Hampstead, London. Cooper was just the man to sustain the school's progressive tradition, developing both curriculum anÂˇd teaching methods and inaugurating a process of building development. Though a geographer, he taught French, introduced the Nuffield science scheme and exploited the school's location to widen and deepen the boys' intellectual experience. Supported by his talented, artistic wife, Ninette, he was respected and admired by all. But his achievements over some 21 years in developing the school were more than matched by his claims to fame outside it. Apart from serving on the council of the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools, during which, in 1970, he was its chairman, he instigated the creation of significant charities. The Aberfan Trust was set up after the tragedy of the destruction of the school there in 1966, and money raised in prep schools nationally was used to help the children and their families and provide for joint summer camps. Cooper was also behind the creation of the Joint Educational Trust GET), which enables funds to be available for pupils with serious need for boarding. As important was his inspiration in creating the lAPS Orchestra, which provides annual residential training courses for talented children up to 14. Cooper retired in 1976 and retired to Shaftesbury, Dorset, where he continued to work for JET and wrote his wartime memoirs. His wife died two years ago, and he is survived by a son and two daughters. Raymond Cooper, MC, headmaster, was born on February 18, 1912. He died on December 18, 2005, aged 93. ÂŠTimes Newspapers Limited 2005

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Raymond Cooper won a Blue representing Oxford at the Varsity Rugby Match in 1937, before which he and his team-mates were presented to the I<:ing at Twickenham (pictured above). He played as hooker alongside captain Johnnie Brett and the famous Obolensky at wing three-quarter. Despite being underdogs Oxford won that day, 17-4. As an indication of just how famous was their victory, his younger daughter, Norn remembers visiting Oxford with her father in 1975, when he was 63 years' old. They went to a sports outfitter's to purchase a jumper, and as her father walked in an elderly shop assistant approached and said, to her amazement, '~h, Raymond Cooper .. . ", cited his position, which team, the year and the result, finishing with his size! It is sobering to learn however that, of his team-mates at Twickenham that day, one was killed on the first day of the War, another a week after the war ended when his returning ship hit a sea mine, and only one member survived unscathed. After the War Raymond married Ninette in St Peter-inthe-East and taught at Sedbergh School in Yorkshire, and then was headmaster of The Hall School in Hampstead, London for 21 years.

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EVIC LESLIE MOOR (1937) A native of Wigan, Leslie Moor came up to the Hall in 1937 having been awarded an Exhibition to read Greats. He became a teacher and subsequently joined the staff at Reading School in 1949, where he became Head of Classics in 1965. He retired in 1979 to live in Wensleydale, Yorkshire. It grieved him to see Greek and Advanced Level Latin disappear from the schoof timetable, but to what was left of classical studies he brought a real devotion. He knew that not every boy liked, or was good at, Latin, but he never stopped expecting a high standard. He established the school library believing in the importance of books and in letting boys have easy access to them. Leslie wasÂˇ President of the Reading and District Branch of the Classical Association for 1972-3; and Honorary Secretary of the School Library Association from 1967 to 72. Although a skilled pianist he did not just play musical instruments, he made them: harpsichord, clavichord and lutes. E L Moor died on 8th January 2006. His widow Vivian survives him. ÂŠReading School Magazine (Extract)

THE REVD PROFESSOR DOUGLAS RA WLINSON JONES (1938) The Reverend Professor Douglas Jones, who died on November 24 aged 86, was for more than 30 years a leading figure at Durham University's faculty of theology, and also played a significant part in the life of Durham Cathedral and diocese, as well as in that of the wider church. He was a sound Old Testament scholar and a gifted teacher who was able to enthuse his students and help them to relate the message of the Bible to contemporary issues. A fine preacher, his sermons were much appreciated by the congregation at the cathedral, where he was a residentiary canon, and in the diocese, where he was always ready to accept invitations to preach at special local occasions. Douglas Rawlinson Jones was born in Bristol on November 11 1919. He attended the city's Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school and went from there to St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, as Squire Scholar. A second in Theology was not thought to reflect his true ability and, after a curacy at Windmill Hill, Bristol, from 1942 to 1945, he returned as a lecturer to Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, where he had prepared for Holy Orders. 144

He now became deeply involved in the training of the large number of exservice ordination candidates who had been attracted by Wycliffe Hall's moderate evangelical tradition, and combined his teaching there with the chaplaincy of Wadham College. In 1948 his Old Testament expertise was recognised by appointment as a university lecturer in Divinity. Three years later, however, he moved to Durham as a lecturer, becoming a senior lecturer in 1963, and in the following year Lightfoot Professor of Divinity. He was by now a highly regarded figure in the university and in the field of Old Testament studies, being a regular contributor to German as well as British journals. A commentary on the books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, published in 1962, was followed by another on Trito-Isaiah and Joel in 1964. He also contributed to the revised editions of Peake's Commentary on the Bible (1962), Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible (1963) and the Cambridge Dictionary of the Bible (1963). In 1970 ]ones was elected as a universities' representative to the newly-formed General Synod of the Church of England. The minutiae of Church government was of little interest to him, but he was concerned about all the issues which had theological implications, and his contributions to debates were always heard with great respect. After 10 years in the Synod, the last five of which included service as Prolocutor of the Convocation of York, he decided to stand down, but was pressed to return in 1982 in order to serve as chairman of the Liturgical Commission. The Commission had completed its primary task of Prayer Book revision with the appearance of the Revised Services Book two years earlier, so it now entered a relatively quiet period while the new book went into experimental use in the parishes. Jones was an ideal chairman during this period since he had no special liturgical expertise and was therefore able to encourage the evaluation of the local churches' responses to the new book from a broad and practical point of view. When he retired from the Commission and the General Synod in 1985 he was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate in Divinity. In the same year he also retired from Durham, going to live near Edinburgh, where he assisted in local parishes and completed a well-received commentary on the prophet Jeremiah (1992). He is survived by his wife, Hazel, and by three sons and two daughters.

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Mr Alan Victor Pollock, North Yorkshire. 1946 Martin Grimsdick Sarson MA, 18 September 2005, aged 85, London. 1946, English Professor Denis King Britton MA, CBE, 12 October 2005, Kent. 1948 The Rev Martin Stephen Rogers BA, 19 July 2006, aged 78, Devon. 1948, English Mr Geoffrey Frost BA, 21 December 2005, Derbyshire. 1949, Modern Languages Mr John McElheran MA, 14 September 2005, aged 76, North Yorkshire. 1949, English and Education CHARLES MOUNSEY (1940) Charles Mounsey was born and brought up in the village of Ousby, nestling under Cross Fell in the Pennine hills east of Penrith. He attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith and, encouraged to apply to the Hall by a former rector of Ousby, A M Murray, he was admitted in 1940 to read Geography. Like many undergraduates at the time he was called up for war service after just one year, serving in the RAF in India, engaged on the interpretation of aerial reconnaissance photographs. He returned to the Hall to complete his degree and take a PGCE. A keen footballer, he served as secretary of the AFC. His first teaching post was at Mitcham Grammar School. Charles married Jennie Longstaff, a fellow geography teacher whom he had met on a field trip to Switzerland, in 1952 and that same year he took up the position of H ead of Geography at Hull Grammar School. While there he completed an M. Ed. degree, his dissertation being on the subject of Religious Education in English Schools. In 1958 he moved into tertiary education as Lecturer in Geography at Eaton Hall Training College, Nottinghamshire, where he remained until the college was closed in 1980, retiring with the position of Vice-Principal. 147

Retirement took Charles and Jennie first to Kent then in 1996 to Warrington, close to their two grandchildren. As befits geographers they were great travellers and visited many parts of the world. Jennie's death in 2005 was a hard blow but he seemed to be coping well, and was recovering from an operation when he suffered a stroke which he did not survive. He died on 26 February. His ashes are to be interred at Ousby later this year. Charles maintained links with the Hall and was a regular attender at Reunions and other events, where he enjoyed catching up with his contemporaries from the 1940s. He had many tales of undergraduate life from .those days. He was a quietly spoken man with a strong and straight-forward Christian belief. He took a great interest in his students and their welfare, keeping in touch with many of them, and will be remembered fondly as a kind and Paul Mounsey (1972) wise gentlemen and friend.

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SHAH MAHMOUD ZAHIR (1968) The son of former Afghan king Mohammed Zahir Shah was buried in the capital on Thursday [1 7 December 2002] at a memorial service in which the frail ex-monarch made a rare public appearance. Afghan President Hamid Karzai also attended the burial ceremony for Shah Mahmoud Zahir at a special hilltop cemetery in southwest Kabul named for the king's father, Nadir Shah. The casket was draped in a traditional green cloth inscribed with verses from the Qur'an. Shah Mahmoud Zahir died Saturday of cancer in Rome, Italy at the age of 56, said his brother, Mir Wais. "I'm very thankful for all these people who are here to express their condolences to us," Wais said. One of eight children of the former king, Zahir is survived by five siblings. He graduated from Britain's Oxford University and worked in the foreign ministry in Kabul while his father was king, Wais said. He spent much of the last several decades as a private businessman. The king was overthrown in a palace coup and spent three decades in exile in Italy before returning to Afghanistan in April. The 88-year-old former monarch convened a national grand council, or loya jirga, in June, where it was decided that he would be allowed to reside in his former mansion. He was given the ceremonial duties of convening the next parliament and constitutional commission. ÂŠ Associated Press

Richard Coates (1967) remembers that "as a post-grad, I was asked to be a personal tutor in politics to Mahmoud and had a fascinating time of it. He arrived at Hall in 1968, the rather shy son of the then King of Afghanistan. Fortunately my academic knowledge was greater than his, but his ability to refer to the time that JFK came to visit (not to mention a host of other then world leaders) meant that his first-hand experience significantly exceeded that of the lad from rural Norfolk. He was a charming man with an equally charming Iranian wife. I remember them coming to a party at my flat and participating in a very relaxed manner. Invitations to Afghan National Day 150

celebrations at their Embassy were also an early taste of multicultural life. Given his lineage, I thought that Google might reveal his current whereabouts - I had heard that he was in Rome with others of the Royal family. Sadly, I turned up the report of his funeral."

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IN MEMORIAM Andrew Foot (1944) has written in with some gentle reminiscences of Hall contemporaries Nicholas Broome (1943), Patrick E M Holmes (1946) and John A G CLaw (1947); his thoughts are noted here, in the hope that others of the same era will recall equally fond memories. "Nick, some may remember, owned a wonderful old Bentley with its bonnet held down by a wide leathern strap. He had to ask permission from the proctors to have it in Oxford and he printed their reply all the way round it: "The Proctors regard the arrival of this car with grave apprehension." Nick was a member of that Aularian hockey team, captained, I think, by El Barwani who was murdered in the Zanzibar revolution. We used to go out to the George at Dorchester in the Bentley and sometimes had to climb in via St Peter in-the-East churchyard. (Lorna and I were married in St Peter in-theEast in 1951 and held our reception in the quadrangle). "Pat Holmes was a distinguished and dedicated cricketer - he captained the SEH XI in 1949 - the year before I did. Much the same side toured Sussex and it included such great players as John Law (who ought to have kept wicket for the University), my brother-in-law, Phillip Bloy and the inimitable Reg Alton. We still have a photograph of Reg and John going out to bat at Lewes, followed by a curly-haired future editor of the Observer, then known as the Jumbly. I think Reg and John Law put on over 200 for the first wicket and I don't think John was out during the whole tour, tho' Lorna (nee Bloy), my wife, did bowl him in the nets."

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Derek Rushworth (1939) recalls Sydney V Swallow (1942): "I'm sorry to say that I do not recall Sydney at Huddersfield College at all. I remember him only when we met at a Hall dinner (in 1998, I think). He was with a Hall contemporary of his, Bill Tunley (1942), in the Front Quad. I was looking for Tunley, whose name was on the guest list, because we had been colleagues for some years at Tottenham Grammar School, until 1958, and I had met him a few times since. I spotted him in the Front Quad and accosted him. He greeted me with some surprise, and turned to Sydney saying: "This is a school-friend of yours". Sydney said to me: "Do you know Derek Rushworth?" and I made the obvious reply. It was from him that I learned he had followed me as editor of the school magazine, and then to SEH. (I had won an Open Scholarship at the Hall in March 1939 - then called Exhibitions because they were worth only ÂŁ40 pa, but they carried the gown and privileges of scholars). This set something of a fashion at Huddersfield College - I was followed by (Peter) Raoul Sykes and then Sydney, all of us reading Modern Languages. Of course, once we had met, we exchanged warm reminiscences of our former teachers. "Sydney's whole life bears witness to his fortitude and determination to overcome the lousy hand Fate dealt him, not least his decision to learn to fly after becoming a glider pilot, and then to try to fly to Australia. On one of the Hall lunch days, he walked all the way to the river to cheer the boat on. He never mentioned Bletchley to me, or spoke of learning Japanese!"

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ROBIN G COSGROVE 1972-2004 Remembering Robin: the Robin Cosgrove Prize for Innovative Ideas for Ethics in Finance A new international competition was launched in September 2006 to promote greater awareness among young people in the banking and related industries of the benefits of ethics in finance. The Robin Cosgrove Prize is open to young people, aged 35 years or young er, from throughout the world. It will be awarded for creative, analytical papers setting out projects or proposals for innovative ways to promote ethics in finance and banking, especially in emerging markets. The Robin Cosgrove Prize honours the vision of Robin, who studied Japanese and Economics at St Edmund Hall, graduating in 1996. He was a bright young investment banker, working mainly in Japan. He died in the summer of 2004, aged 31, while hiking in the Alps. He believed passionately that a major barrier to economic development was the absence of integrity and often the lack of ethical practice in banking and financial systems. "How can a country prosper", he would ask, "if people cannot trust their banks or financial institutions?" Robin was an enthusiastic student at Teddy Hall and participated in the Oxford University Japan Society. He was a keen sportsman and an inveterate traveller, trekking in the Himalayas, running with the bulls, climbing Mount Fuji at night, snow-boarding on Mount Kilimanjaro, and surfing near Santa Monica. As a professional, Robin was committed to excellence in everything that he did. He was uncompromising in his demands of himself, and of his friends, and passionate in maintaining frequent contact with them. Following his untimely death, his family and friends decided to try, at least in part, to implement his vision of setting up a foundation to encourage young professionals in finance to be more aware of the need to strengthen the sustainability of ethics in finance.

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The Robin Cosgrove Prize is under the supervision of the Observatoire de la Finance/International Finance Observatory, which is a Swiss not-for-profit foundation based in Geneva (www.obsfin.ch). The Observatoire, working in cooperation with Dr Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Robin's mother and a former director in the United Nations in Geneva, has set up a distinguished international Jury to evaluate the papers submitted for the Prize. Entries for the competition for the prize are invited to address the subject of Innovative Ideasfor Ethics in Finance. The papers must be submitted electronically to the Observatoire before the deadline of, 28 February 2007. The entries may be written in English or in French. Prizes to the value of $20,000 will be awarded for the best entries. Further details on the prize, Robin's vision, the international jury, and the terms and conditions for submitting papers for the 2006-7 prize are at www.robincosgroveprize.org

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The Editor wishes to thank everyone who has contributed to this year's magazine. It is especially pleasing to feature news and articles submitted spontaneously by Aularians living all around the world, demonstrating that the "Hall spirit" is not diminished by time or distance. Floreat Aula!

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ST EDMUND HALL Matriculation 2005 Rohan Keswan i. David Puttergil l. Miles Lambie. Thomas Harris. Mauhcw Goff. Peter Cay. Jonathan Brook. Christopher Deutsch. Patrick Haas. Alistair Hird. Wilfred Frost Alexander Phipps. Andrew Wright. Jcrcmy Rappleye. Adam Coates. Eric Caines. Maximilian Clarfeh. Ben Cossey. Benjamin Turner. Charles Alien. Daniel Townlcy. James Ward. Patrick McCaffcrty. Bcnjamin Chad. Robcrt Ardcm. Simon Rai nford. Peter Langridge. Laurencc Whyau. Karl Behrouz. Georgina Gosney. Natalic McManus. Hannah Evans. Claudine van Hensbcrgc n. Jan Alcssandrini. Jane Lilly. Nassia lnglessis. Willi am Brownscombe. Mi chac l Tucker. Jan lngram. Benjamin Pearson. Ryan Mark Buck ingham. Sophia Lyscom. Samuel Humphry Baker. Sajjad Juma. William Herben. Laura Miller. Benjamin Toms. Ian Randall. Thomas Westall. Sam Belcher. Alexandros Kallergis. Felipe Blanco. Paul Crosfield. Gustavo Larach-Juliet. James Hill. Michael Sopp. Charles Mclby Thompson. Laurcnt Montctc. Al iki Merika. Olivcr Gingell. Chri s10pher Wood. Pau l Mather. Timothy Hoffmann. Danie l Ehringham . Joachim Krebs. Euge ne Ong. Dung Nguyen. Kathrin Wc isspfc nnig. Wei Poh. Jin Wong. Kai Yu. Hu go Pereira. Wei Nie. Feli city Auer. Emma Rcadman . Robert Brzoza. Nicholas Hall. Alexandra More!. Nana Bonsu Amoako. Michael April. Tsung Ying Wu. Long Jiang. Shao-Ju Shih. Michac l Ke ll y. Thomas Jackson. Lacey Wi smer. Olga Voronina. Joann.1 Perd ikou. Li ya Asner. Rachcl Tandy. Amy Robinson. Rachel Laing. Susannah He rben . Anna Heimbichner. Vitor Marques. Ali za Wattcrs. Clare Lobb. Anja McGu incss. Rache l Harris. Jakub Zavod ny. Luke Marsden. El inor Brett. Sophie Slater. Sally McLaren. Jacqueline Am y Jackson. Em ma Jones. Gila Lucia Belau. Qi An. Luci nda O 'Connor. Grace Buchanan. Chloc Whittl e. Olivia Valner. Jess ica Stcvenson. Helen Ramsden. Nicholas Scrox ton. Si mon Ralph. Michelle Banon. Rosal ind Harri son. Dusan Uhrin . Matthew Nice. Ben Shacham. Andreea Barbu. Shih-Pei Paula Hung. Peng Chen. Willi am Fras. Benjamin Jones. Eli zabeth Raymenl. Emily Hooton. Shiwen Dai. Blae Quayle. Amanda Tedcy Lee. David Aitkcn. Matthew Bray. Erin Spinner. Rebecca Powdcrl y. Aisi Li. Kunsang Lama. Anna Ward. Gcorgiana Ncill. Victoria Fergusson. Rachel Chang. Yush uang Hao. Andrcw Miller. Zhuang Hui Wu. Siriol Joyner. Mohamed Nagutha. Timothy Azarchs. Catherine Lamb. Rais in Lync h. Natalie Gillespie. Tsolmon Enkhbayar. Lconi e Beatrice Gutmann . Anna Stcwart. AI ice Unwin. Phocbe Lim. Sad ik Ars lan. Pictcr van Mulders. AIice Raper. Rosalyn Crock. Alexander losad. Safia Shafi z. Nadcge Girard. Elizabeth Home. Anand Sampal. Luba Mandzy (Junior Dean). Doc tor C E Phclps. Ce li ne Tricard (JCR President). Elcanor Bradlcy. Loui sc Sil ver. Ana Malhado. Harini Hewitharana. Amanda Wong . Lara Green. Joanna Knights. Tmiana Novikova. Nhu Mai Ho Thi . Emma Mussel!.

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