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ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

St Edmund Hall Oxford OX14AR Telephone (01865) 279000 Internet: http:/ /www.seh.ox.ac.uk/

Development Office Telephone (01865) 279055 E-mail: development.office@seh.ox.ac.uk FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION: detail from 'St Edmund Hall, 1951' by Jollll Piper (1903-1992); a gift to the College from A B Emden

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Vol. XVII No. 2 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2007

COLLEGE LIST ................................................................................................................ 1 TO REPORT From the Principal ........................................................................................................... 8 From the Chaplain .......................................................................................................... 12 From the Librarian .......................................................................................................... 13 From the Home Bursar ................................................................................................. 24 The Senior Common Room ......................................................................................... 27 The Middle Common Room ....................................................................................... 31 The Junior Common Room ........................................................................................ 33 Clubs and Societies ......................................................................................................... 35 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ..................................................................................................................... 50 The Charter Celebrations ................................................................................................ 56 Memories of 1957, by Ian Scargill ........................................................................... 57 Charter Lecture 2: "Barbarians" by Terry Jones ....................................................... 62 John Oldham Society's production of Ibsen's Ghosts .......................................... 63 The Charter Ball ......................................................................................................... 66 The Garden Party ...................................................................................................... 68 The Story behind the Statue .................................................................................... 69 The Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism ............................................................... 71 19 56 - A Remarkable Vintage ........................................................................................ 74 The Geddes Lecture ..................................................................................................... 77 Creative Writing at the Hall ........................................................................................... 78 A note to his subconscious, by Tom Clucas ........................................................ 79 Lucia (for James Jqyce), by Aliah O'Neill .................................................................... 80 Approaches to the Sea, by AS Zelman-Doering ........................................................ 81 Music at the Hall ............................................................................................................. 82 The A B Emden Lecture ............................................................................................... 83 College Mooring Competition ...................................................................................... 84 University Challenge ...................................................................................................... 84 A Geographers' Reunion ................................................................................................. 86 Obituaries: Revd Professor John McManners CBE ................................................. 88 Professor John Newsom-Davis FRS CBE ............................................ 92 Professor Susan Lynn Hurley ................................................................. 94

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FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ............................................................................................................ 97 Matriculations ............................................................................................ ....................... 97 Visiting Students ............................................................................................................. 102 Degree Results ................................................................................................................. 103 A wards and Prizes .......................................................................................................... 108 Degree Dates 2007-2008 ................................................................................................. 116 THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND ALUMNI NEWS News from the Development Office .......................................................................... 117 Donors to the St Edmund Hall Annual Fund .................................... ...................... 119 Report of the Annual Gaudy ....................................................................................... 124 Donors to the Charter Scholarship ................................................................................... 126 Report of the 40th Anniversary Gaudy ...................................................................... 127 The Floreat Aula Society.................................................................................................. 130 Forthcoming Events / Aularian Calendar ................................................................... 133 THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives ............................................................................. 134 Minutes of the 76th Annual General Meeting ...................................................... 135 The 66th London Dinner ............................................................................................ 136 The Accounts .................................................................................................................. 138 ARTICLES The Terni Community in Grerni, Georgia, by Xin-Hui Chan .................................. 140 Australian Women's Polo, by Jacqueline Hooper ....................................................... 144 A Yank at St Edmund Hall, by Robert Hennemeyer ................................................. 147 Is there any hope for the people ofNepal?, by Olivia Donnelly ............................... 149 The Hand-Rickshaw ofKolkata: a unique and indispensable informal trade, by Olivia Donnelly ............................. 152 A league apart: a comparison of University sports funding in the UK and USA, by Danielle Fidge ....................................................................... 156 AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ................................................................................................... 160 Obituaries ........................................................................................................................ 165

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ST EDMUND HALL 2006-2007

Visitor The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH

Principal David Michael Patrick Mingos, MA (BSc Mane; DPhil Sussex), FRS, CChem, FRSC Professor of Chemistry

Fellows Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Tutor in Modern Languages (Medieval German) and Vice-Principal Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Lond) QC Fellow f?y Special Election Blarney, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow f?y Special Election in Philosopf?y 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) Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Tutor in Economics and Finance Bursar 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 Undergraduates Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, AcSS, FRHistS Professor of Comparative Education, Fellow f?y Special Election and Tutor for Graduates Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil Universiry Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, WR Miller Fe/l01v and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor Crook, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Professorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation 1

Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil A. C. Cooper Fellow, Prrfessor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Prrfessor of Abnormal Prychology and Tutor in Prychology Naughton, James Duncan, MA (PhD Camb) Fellow ry Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Brasier, Martin David, MA (BSc, PhD Lond) Prrfessor of Palaeobiology and Tutor in Geology Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern History and Library Fellow Whittaker, RobertJames, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeograpf?y and Tutor in Geograpf?y Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering and Dean Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS lsaac Wo!fson Prrfessor of Metallurgy Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, FBA Prrfessor of German Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (PhD Camb) Prrfessor of Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Professor of Pf?ysics and Tutor in Pf?ysics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) Tutor in Engineering Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Prrfessor of Neurology, Fellow ry Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Prrfessor of Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sin clair, MA (MA Camb) Tutor in Modern History and Archivist Ebers, George Cornell, MA (MD Toronto) Action Research Prrfessor of Clinical Neurology Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow ry Special Election Paxman, Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb) Fellow ry Special Election 2

Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB, ChB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS in Ped Surg University Reader in Paediatric Surgery and Fellow I?J Special Election Kaika, Maria, MA, DPhil (MA NTUA) Tutor in Geography Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; PhD Princeton) University Reader in English and Tutor in English Wentworth, Richard, MA (MA Royal College of Art) Professonal Fellow, &skin Master rf Drawing Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Tutor in Management Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Fellow I?J Special Election Roberts, Steven George, MA (MA, PhD Camb) John Hams Memorial Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science & Tutor for Admissions Tseng, Jeffrey, (BSCIT; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Physics Wilkins, Robert J, 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 Dicko, cedric, DPhil (Ing Cheni Montpellier, France) William RMillerJunior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects rf Biology Williams, Christopher Welsley Charles, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Galano, Marina Lorena (Lie Buenos Aires) Fellow I?J Special Election Mayer, Colin Peter, MA, MPhil, DPhil Professorial Fellow, Peter Moores Dean rf the Saiti Business School and Professor rf Management Studies Allen, James William Anthony, MChem, DPhil MRSC CChem Fellow I?J Special Election Parkin, ErnestJohnstone, MA Virginia, PhD Rensselaer Home Bursar Hirsh,John, (MA PhD Lehigh) Fellow I?J Special Election

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Honorary Fellows McManners, the Revd John, CBE, MA, DLitt, FAHA, FBA, FRHistS * Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princetoh), 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 John William, MA, FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Edwards, Steven Lloyd, BA Morris, Sir Derek J ames, MA Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil, FRS, FEng Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, BA, DPhil Morsberger, Philip, MA *Deceased

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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 Pocock, Francis John, MA

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 (Land) Mitchell, Raymond Bruce, MA, DPhil, DLitt (MA Melbourne) 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 Land) 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) Knight, John Beverley, (BA Natal, MA Camb,) MA Crampton, Richard John, (BA Dub), MA, (PhD Land), Dr HonCausa Sofia * Deceased

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Lecturers Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem, DPhil Biochemistry Chemistry (Organic) Gamblin, David Philip, MChem, DPhil Computer Science Newcomb, Thomas Christopher, BA, DPhil Whittaker, Paul David, MA Computer Science Aarnio, Outi Marketta, DPhil (Licentiate Abo Akademi) Economics Economics Knight, John Beverley, (MA Camb) MA Povey, Richard, BA, MPhil Economics Papachristodoulou, Antonis (MA, MEng Camb; PhD California) Engineering English Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA, MSt, DPhil (MA East Anglia) Fine Art Archer, Michael George (BA Camb; MEd Mane) Geology Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb) Mileson, Stephen, (BA Warw), MSt, DPhil History Law Adams, John Douglas Richard (LL B Durh) Castell, Martin Rolf (BSc Exe; PhD Camb) Materials Science Burton, Lucy Melanie, MMath (LL B Lond) Mathematics Mathematics Jenkins, Paul Anthony, MMath Mathematics Lotay,Jason Dean, MMath, DPhil Black, John (MB, BS Lond), FRCS Ed, FIMC RCS Ed, FFAEM Medicine (Anatomy) Cowley, Sally Anne (BA Camb; PhD Lond) Medicine (Molecular Biology) Medicine (Neurophysiology) Keating, Peter Emmett, MSc (BA Dublin) Robertson, Stuart Alistair, (MB ChB MRCS Edin) Medicine (Embryology) McCombie, Elizabeth Alice Anne, MA, MSt, DPhil Modern Languages (French) Modern Languages (French) Vailloud, Clare-Marie, (MA Grenoble) Williams, Renee, MA Modern Languages (French) Modern Languages (German) Meyer-Beining, Janna-Liisa (MA Leipzig) Ockenden, Raymond Curtis, MA, DPhil Modern Languages (German) Wells, Rainhild Dietmut Modern Languages (German) Malpas, Margaret Ann, MA, BLitt Modern Languages (Linguistics) Modern Languages (Russian) Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Southworth, Eric, MA Modern Languages (Spanish) Music Alien, Roger William, DPhil (BA, BMus Liv) Music Gant, Andrew John, (MA Camb) Philosophy Wilk, James, MA, DPhil Physics Newton, William George, MPhys (MSc Tennessee) Physics Ashbourn,JoannaMariaAntonia, MA (MA, PhD Camb) 6

Fine, Sarah Jane, MPhil (BA Camb) Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus, MA, Barrister-at-law Styles, Elizabeth Anne, PGCE, DPhil (BSc CNAA)

Politics Politics Psychology

Chaplain The Revd Gerald Hegarty (BA, BD Belf)

Librarian Deborah Eaton, MA

College Secretary & Registrar J oanna Cope, MA Head Porter David Beeching, and Peter Bowles

Decanal Staff Mandzy, Luba Tamara, MSc (BA Harvard) Callow, Richard Howard Thomas, MESc Griebe, Michael Roger, MPhil (BA Texas) Tredget, Cara Siobhan, (MSci Bristol) Garcia-Hermosa, Isabel, (MSc Las Palmas) Hird, Alastair, BA (MA Reading)

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

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL I returned from my sabbatical leave last September refreshed by visits to China, Japan, Hawaii, California and Germany to find the Hall in excellent condition and heart. Martin Slater did an excellent job as Pro-Principal in my absence and confirmed the old adage that nobody is indispensable. It did not take me long to get back into the comforting rhythms of the regular round of college meetings, but as the Michaelmas Term progressed the pulse began to increase as we realised that we were rapidly approaching 2007, our Golden Jubilee Year as a fully incorporated College of the University. As I recounted in the College's Spring Newsletter the College has made major strides in the last fifty years and there was much to be celebrated.

The College was eager to involve not only its statutory Principal, Fellows and Scholars, but also its staff and its wider extended community of alumni in the celebrations and therefore it was necessary to plan a variety of events throughout the year. The formal celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the granting of the Charter was marked by a dinner for fellows and honoured guests on 15 February. Ian Scargill gave an account of the Hall as it was in 19 57 and brilliantly captured the ethos of the day and the characters who occupied senior positions in the Hall at that time. His speech is reproduced on pages 57-62 of this magazine. The occasion was also used to unveil the portrait of me by Paul Brason RP (see above), which had been commissioned by the Fellows. I am the last person you should ask to comment on its accuracy since I am only familiar with the unsmiling face as a mirror image in the mornings. However, Stacey has confirmed that it is a good likeness and since we celebrated 40 years of marriage this March she should know.

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The Charter events continued with two very well attended lecturers and dinners.

Jeremy Paxman (Fellow by Special Election) spoke about "Royalty", a topic which meshed well with the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Charter granted

by Her Majesty the Queen. It naturally drew extensively on his recent book on this topic. Terry Jones (Honorary Fellow; 1961, English) entertained us with a very animated account of the decline of the Roman Empire and the emergence of the Barbarians, a much maligned group in conventional historical accounts. We hosted a lunch in Eights Week for US Alumni and this was followed by a gentle walk down to the river to see the Women's 1st Eight effortlessly retain their position at the Head of the River. The main Charter celebrations occurred during the weekend of 23 and 24 June and although the weather was unpredictable the rain managed to hold off during the major events. On the Friday evening the students staged a production of Ibsen's Ghosts, a play which was produced in the College in 1957 and directed by John Cox (Honorary Fellow; 1955, English), who went on to become a distinguished opera director. John kindly agreed to give the current producer and director the benefit of his wisdom and expertise. Both sides of this generation gap learned much from the experience of working together on such a serious play and the audience was treated to a very memorable production. The post-production refreshments were enlivened by interesting reminiscences by Patrick Garland, (Honorary Fellow; 1956, English), who had acted in the original production, and John Cox. The Saturday evening saw the college transformed into a suitable environment for a 50s Ball and approximately 200 alumni enjoyed the food and the extensive range of cocktails and soaked up the evocative atmosphere in the company of contemporaries. The very professional demonstrations between courses of the meal by the Oxford University Ballroom Dancing Society encouraged the participants to take to the dance floors in the ODH and in the marquee with some gusto. Stacey and I retired at about 2am, but many were still around for the next few hours. The weekend came to a climax when Lord and Lady Patten joined us at the garden party on the Sunday afternoon and Lord Patten, as Chancellor of the University and Visitor of the College, unveiled the statue of St Edmund which had been commissioned by the St.Edmund Hall Association. Prior to the unveiling Rodney Munday (1967, English) the sculptor described the historical references which had inspired his bronze sculpture. I am sure that the sculpture will become a common feature of many graduation photographs in the future and has already attracted the attention of tourists progressing up Queen's Lane. The Charter events continue into the new academic year and you will be receiving invitations to 9

a lecture by Richard Evans, the author of The Horse Whisperer on 23 November and a musical evening on 30 November. The Charter events have required a great deal of organisation and would not have been possible without all the backroom work done by Betony Griffiths and Rebecca Ting in the Development Office. We all owe them our grateful thanks for all their commitment and skill in mounting such a wide range of interesting events. I should also like to thank the Martin Smith (St Edmund Fellow; 1961, Physics) Arts Trust for its sponsorship of the play and charter lectures.

The College also held a number of alumni events this year; in September there were reunions for students who matriculated between 1963 and 1969.

A very successful London Dinner was held in January at the usual venue- the Royal Over-Seas League, and more than 150 attended including some representatives from the Hall. A Gaudy to celebrate 40 years since matriculation was held in March. Stacey and I also hosted dinners for alumni in Houston and San Francisco in March and attended the enjoyable St Edmund Dinner in New York last November. Alumni are also welcome to attend the Geddes and Emden Lectures and this year we were treated to two thought-provoking lectures by Matthew D'Ancona and Professor Richard Overy. Both lectures finished with some testing questions which demonstrated that alternative interpretations would have been preferred by some in the audience.

On the academic front it was a great pleasure. to write letters of congratulations to the 33 finalists who were awarded First Class Honours Degrees by the examiners this summer. This record number of firsts and the occurrence of no thirds lifted us to 12th position in the Norrington Table. Although the Norrington Table exaggerates the differences between colleges in any specific year it is nevertheless pleasing to figure in the top third regularly. I hope, as part of a future campaign, to generate sufficient monies to endow some prizes which recognise those students who not only obtain a First but also a University Blue and thereby celebrate those outstanding individuals who can combine excellence in sport and study.

We were pleased to welcome the following new Fellows during the Year Ernest Parkin our new Home Bursar, who joined us from the US Diplomatic Service and has already made a significant impact on the culture and fabric of the College. In particular he soon recognised that we had become too . used to the drab grey appearance of the Cotswold stone on the front of the college and persuaded the College and two of our alumni that the front-of10

house could be greatly improved. How right he was - after the remedial cleaning work the college looked magnificent for the June Charter Celebrations. He really has been a very welcome new broom. Colin Mayer, who is the new Dean of the Sai:d Business School, was previously a Fellow at Wadham College, but his presence cements a strong tie with management studies and the Business School. Keith Bowen, Sir Ian Byatt and Philip Morsberger were elected to Honorary Fellowships and Francis Pocock was elected to a St Edmund Fellowship in recognition of his major contributions to the St Edmund Hall Association and also for his successful championing of the statue of St Edmund. J ames Alien, who was until recently the William R Miller Junior Research Fellow, was elected a Fellow by Special Election in recognition of having obtained a prestigious Research Fellowship, and John Hirsh of Georgetown University was elected to a Visiting Fellowship by Special Election for Hilary and Trinity terms. Professors Richard Crampton and John Knight were elected to Emeritus Fellowships.

The College has a long tradition of participating in the Oxfordshire Artweek in May and the artistic life in the College has been amplified this year by several student Art exhibitions. The standard of the work in all the presentations was very high and Artweek reflected the Charter activities in postcards and photographs tracing the college's expansion and development in the 20th Century.

None of the Fellows have retired this year, but Maira Kaika leaves us to take up a Readership in Geography at Manchester University. There have been some significant departures during the year of other staff. Our IT Officer Michael Lakatos has left to take up new opportunities in Vancouver. In a modern college the IT Officer is really a very important post- when the IT system fails work in all the administrative offices halts, the fellows and students can no longer communicate by email and even the meals in the dining hall cannot be charged electronically. Michael was terrific on those occasions and nothing was too much trouble for him. Sue McCarthy is leaving as the Conference Manager to start up a new catering business with her husband.

She has done an excellent job supporting the organisation of events and ensuring that our conference trade was run efficiently and professionally. David Beeching retired after seven and-a-half years as Head Porter and we shall miss his presence as our face to the world. It is very sad to report that Tony Aris from the Maintenance Department who was such a loyal employee of the college died after a very short illness. No job was too small or large for 11

Tony and he would cheerfully bring his considerable carpentry skills to every task he was asked to solve.

The account given above has I hope given a faithful account of life at the Hall during its Charter Year. It has been great fun emphasising SO years of achievements, but it is not a time for complacency - our job is to begin to plan those developments which will form the basis of celebrations at the next major anniversary. In September work will begin on the new lecture theatre and coffee area for the SCR and JCR. Work has started on the landscaping of the gardens behind St Peter's and the Crypt is being made sufficiently stable for visitors to return and events to be held there. Architects are working on plans for the refurbishment of the Wolfson Hall. I hope that with the help of our fellows, staff and alumni we will match the achievements of the last SO years.

FROM THE CHAPLAIN In another busy year we have had some of the best attendances at services for many years and overall good numbers coming particularly to eucharists.

There has been the usual mixture of visiting preachers and among them we have been glad to welcome the Revd Lucy Winkett from St Paul's Cathedral and the Ven. Sheila Watson who moved from her post as Archdeacon of Buckingham to one of the Church's senior archdeacons at Canterbury only a few weeks after preaching for us. It has been a year with a high number of women preachers, including the RevdJutta Brueck, from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in the very successful visit of their chapel community to us. We have also had a number of men preaching including two new heads of house, the Revd Dr Robin Ward, of St Stephen's House, and the Revd Dr Peter L'Estrange of Campion Hall. The largest turn out, however, for either man or woman was on the occasion when the Revd Alan Race, the new organ scholar's father, preached for us a short but compelling sermon reflecting on violence and human community in the light of Christ's message.

The choir has also had a good year with the repertory increased to include Latin and English anthems new to the choir as well as works by our own organ scholars. It is a tribute to the choir and the organ scholars, David Allen and Nick Race, that the choir is singing in Rome at the end of the Trinity term. One of the great services of the year is the Advent Carol Service 12

when the choir performs a variety of music and representatives of all aspects of college life read lessons. This year was an excellent service with perhaps a record crowd crammed into chapel and the anti-chapel with many standing.

The success of the music in chapel over the last two years has largely been down to David Alien who finished at the end of the Trinity term. It has been a delight to see David's ties and to hear the wide variety of music, both sacred and secular, for chapel and college, he has directed, showing a penchant for good anthems and a little Cole Porter. His successor, Nick Race, has already distinguished himself as an excellent organist.

The chapel is not only used for our services and music events, but not so well known is that the College Roman Catholic community usually have a termly mass there and the University Roman catholic Chaplain, Fr Jeremy Fairhurst, usually presides. Fr Jeremy is leaving Oxford for Rome and we wish him well. He has been a good friend to St Edmund Hall and it is good that the church of St Edmund now in her catholic and reformed branches are able to share the same space for worship under the auspices of the risen Christ, in the Emmaus scene, giving his blessing.

FROM THE LIBRARIAN Many of you will remember from last year's Library entry in the Hall Magazine that we were looking forward to a range of changes that would be of great benefit to the building and the students. But for a couple of reasons, some of these have had to be delayed: firstly, Virtua, the university's new server to support OLIS, the database of libraries holdings was delayed for a year. And secondly the new Home Bursar, Dr Ernest Parkin required some time to become familiar with the day-to-day running of the Hall. He inherited a number of library projects which were a good way along to being complete.

This meant that the special shelving in the South Porch took second place; and that the new library security locks for the library doors would have to be put back into the Autumn.

With a sharp and effective learning curve, aided by Kevin Ward, the Clerk of Works, and by Robert Montgomery architects, Ernest has a new library entry key system chosen; and a book security magnetic tag system contracted from 3M. Gifts to the Library are listed overleaf:

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ALLEN, Geoffrey Speaking of the snow. a song cycle to poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2007

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Four songs to poems of Rosemary Dobson Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2006

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Piano sonata No 12 Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2006 Remembered love. Four songs to poems of Geoffrey Grigson Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2005 Rhapsody No 3 for piano Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2006 SoWoquy "Song of the sparrow" for violin and piano Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2005 Trio for violin, violincello and piano Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2006 Trio for violin, violincello and piano (violin) Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2006 Trio for violin, violincello and piano (violincello) Mt Lawley:The Keys Press 2006

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And as ever Aularians and others have been most generous with their gifts to the Undergraduate library: Deborah Eaton, John Hattendorf, Lucy Newlyn, Lucy Reynolds, Ian Scargill, Graham Towl, Rob Whittaker, W S C Williams, Peter Willis.

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FROM THE HOME BURSAR A tee shirt I saw in the High says it all: "Oxferd, Seat of Lurning". This was a year of learning not only for the students of Teddy Hall but also for me as a first-year bursar. There was a lot to learn- buildings, traditions, and above all people. It is not easy to replace an 18-year veteran who knows all the secrets, and I'm still learning.

There were many changes of staff at the Hall this year. Two retirements stand out: John Smith's retirement after 18 years of service to the college and David Beeching's retirement after 7 1/z years as Head Porter. In addition, Admissions Officer Philip Palmer, Porter John Richardson, and IT Officer Mike Latakos left us for new challenges. All five of them will be missed by the hundreds of College members who knew them.

Departures are usually balanced by arrivals, and the Hall added several new faces this year. Kevin Ward replaced Wendy Thorpe in the newly titled job of Estates Manager. Stephen Lloyd replaced John Smith in the new role of Deputy Estates Manager. Peter Bowles, our Assistant Head Porter, stepped smartly into the role of Head Porter,Joe Organ replaced Admissions Officer Philip Palmer, and Mike McShane replaced Mike Latakos as IT Officer. Yvonne Rainey joined the Hall in the role of Director of Development, and Claire Davies joined the Bursary, job-sharing with Leanne Pugh-Jones as Accommodation Officer. Finally, we added three new porters - Ricci, Ian and Lionel - to bring the Lodge up to full strength.

Apart from people, there have been changes in our facilities. In Michaelmas Term we began a program of energy conservation, installing motion activated light controls to turn off lights in unused areas. We engaged a contractor to clean the Queens Lane fa<;:ade (pictured right, midway through the project) and refurbished the boathouse just before Eights Week. In May we committed to buy 7 Circus Street, expanding our site between the Iffley and Cowley Roads which includes the Isis Hotel. In June we installed a replacement for the broken gravestone of Sarah Hounslow, who died on February 31st 1885 [sic]. Then on 24 June we unveiled a statue ofSt Edmund sculpted by Rodney Munday, an old member of the Hall.

We have also improved the College's collection of paintings. We engaged a firm to restore the crucifixion triptych by the Master of Delft, which is 24

presently displayed in the Old Library. Many readers will remember that it graced the altar in the Chapel before the installation of the Ceri Richards painting. The restoration was such a success that we used the same firm to restore the Marc Gertler painting in the SCR. It had become heat damaged over the years and its colours had dimmed. As well, the College commissioned a painting of the Principal and it has been hung in the SCR. Far from resting on our laurels, we have much more to do. Construction of the Lecture Hall on the Upper Quad will begin on 27 August. Work is expected to take six months. This facility will give us the ability to host lectures, plays and concerts in a wonderful new venue. I am sure it will be worth the disruption that construction inevitably causes. In the meantime, we are beginning work this summer on reconfiguring the garden on the north side of St Peter-in-the-East and stabilizing stonework in the Crypt so it can be reopened. We are also installing a state-of-the-art library security system to protect our collection. Finally, design work on the refurbishment of the Wolfson dining hall reached the 30% stage. We are presently planning to complete the design in early 2008 with a view to doing the work after the new Lecture Hall is commissioned.

The safety of College members has been very much on my mind this year.

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Building on past work, we have improved our procedures for testing for legionella and continued the elimination of the last asbestos in our buildings.

We have joined with other colleges and the University to lay down a plan for the possible outbreak of pandemic flu. Finally, we have expanded our participation in first aid and workplace safety training.

The traditional strengths of the college continue to flourish. To me, one of the most striking is the way that Teddy Hall students look out for one another.

This year one of our female students experienced an ugly incident while walking home one evening. The MCR was quick to organise a "Walk-Safe" programme. This involved providing volunteer escorts to accompany people who needed to walk home to off-site accommodation from the main site.

The College supported them with a mobile phone to help the programme, but at the core was an aspect we all value: Teddy Hall students taking care of each other.

Another thriving aspect of life at St Edmund Hall is loyalty to the College.

For me as a "Fresher" that loyalty has been eye-opening. Many of the initiatives that I have been able to launch have been funded by the generosity of Old Members. I would single out the art restorations, the fa<,:ade cleaning, and the statue ofSt Edmund as enhancements to life at the Hall that have been made possible by the support of old members. Works in progress, like the Lecture Hall, crypt and garden, have all been made possible by donations, for which the members and friends of the College are truly grateful. I am honoured to be part of the Teddy Hall family. Floreat aula!

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'J'HE SENIOR COMMON ROOM During the past yea r, Alistair Borthwick visited Peking University and gave seminars on Water Resources Engineering in Beijing and Shenzhen.

He has been putting together a joint programme of research on water and wastewater treatment that links Oxford University, Peking University and the National University of Singapore, and hopefully will bring about 18 graduate students to Oxford. During Trinity term, Alistair was awarded a DSc by the University for his research on environmental flows and their interaction with structures.

Michael Cansdale, who was an undergraduate at the Hall when Prince Philip came in 1957, missed the weekend of the Charter Celebrations at the end of June, being in the Madidi area of Northern Bolivia at the time. He was taking part in the first stage of an Expedition of the Scientific Exploration Society, led by Col. John Blashford-Snell, to investigate a previously unexplored Skm wide crater believed to be the site of the Earth's most recent 'big' meteorite impact.

For Peter Collins, the interplay of his topological research interests with computer science has been the major thrust in his research group's work this year, following on a conference held in his honour in the Mathematical Institute, attended by topologists from 25 countries, to celebrate his 60th birthday. On the wine front, Charter Events in College have provided him with interesting challenges, whilst visits to Alsace have given first-hand experience of how 'complantation' of very different grapes is influencing the traditional varietal products. Heritage work has taken him to Paris, to discuss the ongoing difficulties in Kosovo with UNESCO, and to Stockholm, to try to forge a new and sympathetic maritime policy for the European Union. He ran a conference in Oxford last September, the main theme being the influence of European landscape design on British parks and gardens. Re-elected to Letcombe Regis Parish Council in May and now Chairman, he has found 27

himself fighting developers and buying land, to set up a Village Green.

Sir David Cooksey served as Chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association for 2005/6. He retired as Chairman of Advent Venture Partners in September 2006 but then took on the Chairmanship of London & Continental Railways Ltd on 1 November 2006.

LCR is building the High Speed Rail Link from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel. It owns the UK end of Eurostar and is redeveloping King's Cross/ St Pancras and Stratford as well. He also chaired the Cooksey Review of Health Research Funding for HM Treasury; published in December 2006, it is now being implemented in full. And his last, but by no means least, piece of news is that he was elevated from Knight Batchelor to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the June 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours List (GBE).

In November, Kevin Crossley-Holland launched his Moored Man: Poems of North Norfolk, with watercolours and etchings by Norman Ackroyd, in the Fine Rooms at the Royal Academy. During the same season, he published Catty's Tale, his crossover novel in which a girl travels from Chester to Jerusalem in 1203, and this has already been translated into French, German, Dutch and Danish. His novella Storm, awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1985, was named as one of the medal's 70th Anniversary Top Ten. The public voted for their favourite.

Kevin has just completed The Hidden Roads, his memoir of a Chilterns childhood at the foot of Whiteleaf Cross, and before Christmas he and his wife Linda moved into the barn they have been converting for the past year on another chalky hillside (outside Burnham Market in north Norfolk). He has been elected to the Garrick Club.

John Knight, having retired as a Tutorial Fellow, remains a Lecturer of the Hall while his University post continues. In the course of the year he presented papers at international conferences in Beijing (three times), Shanghai, Tokyo, Nagoya, and Manchester. He continued his research programme on the socioeconomic determinants of happiness in poor countries, and began a new project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on China's remarkable economic growth.

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In January 2007 Sir John Daniel was awarded his 25th honorary doctorate.

He has received similar honours for his work in distance learning and higher education from universities in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, France, Ghana, India, Portugal, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Wales.

Smt Pratibha Patil, Governor of Rajasthan and Chancellor of the Vardhaman 1\<lahaveer Open University, Kota confers an Hon D Lirr on Sir John Daniel.

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III a 10,000 page multi-author account of the recent literature in the area of organometallic chemistry was published in 2007 by Elsevier. The Principal, Michael Mingos was editor-in-chief together with Robert Crabtree of Yale University, and he also contributed a chapter. He also continued in his role as Series Editor of Strttctttre and Bonding for Springer and several volumes in the series were published. During his sabbatical year Mike was fortunate to do some research with a postdoctoral fellow who was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the academic year 2005-2006 and they published a paper jointly in the European Journal of Chemistry entitled Electronic Strttctttre ifLinear!J Coordinated EQ Complexes- A DFT Sttttjy. In the University he continued in his role as Chairman of the Health and Safety Management Committee and the Conflicts of Interest Committee.

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After the excitement of last year (Magazine 2005-06, pp31-2, 54-9), Bruce & Mollie Mitchell have led a quieter life. The seventh edition of A Guide to Old English appeared in 2007 in a handsome maroon cover. Decreasing mobility means that the Hall plays a less prominent part in their lives but the Charter Garden Party and the unveiling of Bruce's sometime pupil Rodney Munday's statue of St Edmund by our Visitor, the Chancellor on Sunday 24 June was a wet and eventful day with many happy reunions. Fforeat Aula!

During the summer of 2006 Philip Mountford presented research lectures at the following conferences: 22nd International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Zaragoza; "Organometallics and their Applications", Cape Town; 15th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Johannesburg. The timings of the two August meetings in South Africa allowed him and his family to integrate a very nice holiday in the "Rainbow Nation" into his schedule. Academic life isn't always all work and no play. During Spring - Summer 2007 Philip presented invited research lectures at the Sackler Prize Symposium, Tel Aviv; Symposium on Olefin Polymerisation Catalysis, University of East Anglia; Gordon Research Conference in Organometallic Chemistry, Newport RI; 17th EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Bulgaria. He also gave a number of research lectures at departmental and industrial venues during 2006-7.

Aspects of his work were published in 13 research articles in 2006. One of particular importance was ''All\1e3 and ZnMe 2 adducts of an imido titanium methyl cation: crys tallographic, spectroscopic and DFT studies". P D Bolton, E Clot, A R Cowley and P Mountford,J. Am. Cbem. Soc., 2006, 128, 1500515018. In July 2006 Philip was named "Professor of Chemistry" in the University's "Recognition of Distinction" exercise. As he wryly puts it: "from my point of view it "recognises" the hard work of my students and the patience and tolerance of my wife and children!"

Nigel Palmer has been awarded the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.

Dimitrios Tsomocos has attended a number of conferences during the academic year in the UK, Athens, Samos, Bogota and Budapest. He has also published 8 articles and, with F H Capie and G E Wood, has contributed a chapter on "Modelling Institutional Change in the Payments System and its Implications for Monetary Policy" in Instittttional Characte1istics, Institutional Change 30

and the Impact of Monetary Policy (Edited by S Schmitz and G E Wood.

Routledge, 2006). He is a member of the Bank of England Expert Panel on Systemic Risk, and in 2006 was a consultant to the Banco de la Republica de Colombia.

Wes Williams is pleased to announce the happy arrival of daughter Elsie Mae last November.

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM If you are reading this as an MCR alumnus/ -a, I hope that you are able to look back fondly on your time spent in the two adjacent rooms on the main quad, be it in the 1970s or the 2000s. We have certainly had a great year: as ever, the MCR continues to provide its members with a place to take a break from work, to drink some coffee, read the papers, make friends in many different subject areas and have animated discussions.

The arrival of 90 lively freshers in October meant that MCR events were very well attended. The termcards presented a huge variety of events: the regulars such as High Tea, Welcome and Farewell Parties, exchange dinners and wine tastings, but also out-of-theordinary evenings such as traditional dancing (thanks to Cad Saucier-Bouffard) and an exclusive piano concert by Meryem Akdenizli (thanks to Alexander Henne for the organisation). In Michaelmas, MCR members were transported back to Medieval Times and the term ended with a lavish Christmas Dinner (including a bop which saw the Principal and some fellows dance along with us). In Hilary Term, Burns Night was a key marker, with haggis, whisky and wonderful renditions of Burns' poetry and songs, followed by an exhausting ceilidh. The term ended well with departmental supervisors joining us at our annual Hearne Dinner. Trinity, the examination and dissertation term, still saw active MCR members at our big summer dinner, May celebrations and Garden party.

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We have been very grateful to both Fellows and Staff for attending our large events. Our particular thanks go to the Principal and his wife for regularly joining us, to David Phillips for his hard work on graduate provision in College, to Dr David Priestland for kindly hosting our termly graduate seminars at the Norham Gardens Site, and to Chris and Rainhild Wells and Gerald and Karen Hegarty for their continued support. And a special round of applause has to go to Julie McCann, our amazing Butler, whose incredible friendliness and tireless work are appreciated by all.

In April it looked as if summer had already arrived and the MCR decided to acquire a new BBQ as well as a shiny croquet set. Thanks to Yuri De Boer the MCR fielded 16 (!) teams of 4 players for the university-wide croquet cuppers competition. Although none of them made it to the final, this should be seen as our practice run before we enter next year's competition as experienced players!

Many of our members achieve incredible things beyond their research. It would be impossible to list them all, but this year's highlights include Andy Wright rowing in the blue boat at this year's Boat Race, Clare Lobb receiving a Blue in Swimming for the second year running and Mehar Velamarthi participating in the RAG skydive and sharing his dancing talent (Indian and Ghanaian) on various occasions in Oxford. Ben Chad organised the 11th Galway Topology Colloquium, Aliza Watters completed her 3-year project as Producer/Editor of a photography book for NY Times photojournalist Taryn Simon (next time you're in a bookshop look out for An American Index of the Hidden & Unfamiliar, Steidl, 2007). Luba Mandzy Herring competed in the Varsity Dancesport Match this year and beautifully played Lady Basildon in the New College production of An Ideal Husband. Ana Malhado, working on environmental change, received various grants for fieldwork in Peru and conferences in China and Tenerife, and Teddy Hall Women's 1st boat is still Head of the River, boasting four of our members: Anna Heimbichner (captain and cox), Kathrin Weisspfennig, Amelia van Manen and Lucy Armitage.

You may be surprised to hear that change is sometimes possible in Oxford: a small group of MCR members worked on a new and more detailed Constitution for the MCR which, it is hoped, will take effect in Michaelmas.

Our biggest thanks this year go to our outgoing President, Aliza Hapgood Watters, who was 100% committed to her responsibilities and worked very

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hard at raising the profile of graduates in the College. I took over as President in Trinity Term, but also had the privilege of serving as Steward this year.

Aisi Li will certainly do a brilliant job as my successor next year, as she has already more than proved her skills as Assistant Steward this past year, eoorganising many of our events.

Ben Chad has been a great asset as our Secretary, keeping all our business going, and I am glad that he will continue in this post for the next academic year.

We welcome Raeli Bronstein and Sarah Chapman into our Committee, as our Welfare Rep and Women's Rep respectively, and thank Kristen Underhill and Meredith Root-Bernstein for sterling work as their predecessors. The MCR has also created the position of IT Representative and Xu Song was elected to this position for the next academic year - first changes to the website have already been introduced!

We are of course sad to see many of our members leave as the year draws to a close, but also very much look forward to the new intake. I am confident that next year will be equally successful as the Teddy Hall spirit continues to thrive! Floreat Aula!

Catherine L Blair MCR President M.Phil in Comparative Social Policy

THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM This year, the 50th anniversary of the college's royal charter, has been suitably exciting for the J CR. Once again Teddy Hall has excelled on the sports-field in a wide array of disciplines, winning cuppers trophies in several events, from rugby sevens, swimming and athletics to mixed lacrosse! However, we are swiftly dispelling the notion that we are only a sporty college. The John Oldham Society has succeeded in repeatedly producing compelling

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contemporary drama within the college walls and at the time of writing our University Challenge team are already through to the second round after soundly beating Durham. Music continues to thrive throughout college and the Venus charity concert in the Old Dining Hall displayed our flourishing talent - most noticeably in the famous Oxonian rapper, Zuby. Teddy Hall seems to build on its strengths every year as a college to which all its students want to contribute, and this landmark year has shown that Hall spirit still remains 50 years on.

This year has seen JCR meetings grow in popularity with the beers, wine and pizza flowing happily amongst the diverse array of motions geared towards enabling the JCR to speak with one voice. This has led to new music equipment, the continuation of last year's phenomenally successful weeklong Fresher period and also the donating of money to many worthy charities.

The students throughout college have also benefited from the inauguration of a new bursar who has been particularly helpful in listening to their domestic needs. He has helped towards great improvements in the standard of food in the hall and has acted as a useful link between SCR and J CR. Obviously we are sad to see our finalists leaving and moving on to bigger and better things; I would like to take this opportunity to wish them the very best in all that they do and I hope that we will see many of them back soon.

To fini sh, I would like to thank bo th the past and present JCR Committee members who have done a superb job these past terms. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time so far and look forward to my final term and to welcoming the new influx of Teddy Hall Freshers. I would also like to thank all of the college staff and fellows who have gone out of their way to help the JCR function and to ensure that our collective voice is heard and responded to.

Special mentions must go to the Principal, Professor Mountford, Professor Newlyn and Professor Kouvaritakis.

Floreat Aula!

Ryan Buckingham JCR President MPhys, Physics

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Association Football Club Men's Captain: Timothy H offmann After returning to the Premiership this season, we set ourselves a rather ambitious target of a top-three finish. There was always a chance that last year's Cuppers success and League promotion may have left us with a hangover season - our first encounter proved otherwise with a fiercely contested draw against rivals New. This game was followed by successive victories, placing us comfortably at the top of the table. However, it seems we may have rested on our laurels a little too comfortably, as a string of poor results followed. On realizing that our stay in the Premiership could end pretty swiftly, a combined push from the team completely turned our season around. After some adjustment to our new opponents and continued squad solidarity, we marched on for a fantastic seven-game unbeaten runtaking 19 out of a possible 21 points. A fifth-placed finish confirmed our deserved position in the Premiership next year. Our generally strong campaign was marred by a mixture of injury and finalists' anxiety, which kept us from the top-3 finish we came so agonizingly close to achieving. With this said, our season ended with one ga me postp o ned against a team we had comprehensively beaten in our previous encounter - and a win would have guaranteed us that elusive third place spot.

One highlight of the season was this year's Old Boys Game. A strong turnout of 50-odd past and present players gracing either the pitch or the bar for the evening's celebrations, proved a fitting end to a thoroughly enjoyable season.

Our end-of-season celebrations also saw mid fielder James 'Tbe H ulk' Hogan taking home the Most Valuable Player award after a year of uncompromising dedication.

As is the norm in university sport, the squad next year will once again evolve into an entirely new beast. With the exit of former captains Buttress and Merriott, the 1st XI will be searching for leadership and new talent. This task is passed on to John Waldron, who will continue Teddy Hall's quest for truly elite status. Having once again established ourselves in the top-flight, next year looks promising for SE HAFC. Thank you and good luck to all our finalists: Ed Blois-Brook, Tom Buttress, Richard Good,James Hogan, Russell Martin, Jack Merriott, Robert Newman, Graham Robinson, Andrew Smye.

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The Boat Club Men's Captain: William Brownscombe Women's Captain: Anna Heimbichner The Men's Captain's Report This year has been a particularly tough one for the Men's half of the Teddy Hall Boat Club. The year began well with a large intake of freshers; training was therefore allowed to be quite rigorous in order to raise the best novice boat. We got together 3 novice crews to participate in Christ Church Regatta.

Unfortunately senior training in Michaelmas term was very limited as only three competent senior rowers were willing to train. There were also no experienced coxes but a (vertically challenged) senior rower gallantly took up the task along with a couple of novices.

All three crews looked strong entering Christ Church Regatta and won their first round. The Cs then proceeded to race two other crews, both A crews, and were knocked out in the third round. Unfortunately the A and B crews, after winning the first round, were not allowed to race again as the regatta was cancelled on the third day. This was a great disappointment to all concerned. A further disappointment was that the novice coxes had not had a chance to race at all due to "blue flag restrictions" on the first two days.

Despite this early set-back, a substantial proportion of the novices did actually continue to row in Hilary Term which was marred by terrible weather and the river remained on red flag and red boards for the vast majority of the term. The first VIII had to train at Abingdon because of restrictions at Godstow but still only managed to get 7 outings over the course of the entire term. Most irritating was the fact many other colleges were still training under red boards due to different insurance arrangements. Due to our comparative lack of preparations, it therefore actually came as a relief when the inevitable happened and Torpids was cancelled due to the flood conditions.

The Easter training camp was held at the National Rowing Centre at Inniscara near Cork. It was decided to depart from the established trip to Italy in order to lower the cost and facilitate taking as many rowers as possible along with smaller boats. The training camp was the point of the year at which our luck changed. The weather was exceptionally fair, with mirror conditions on the elongated lake for the duration of our stay. The camp was enjoyed by all, and made rowing addicts of all those present. Using the four and the pair in

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addition to the eight made a massive difference and the progress made by all the rowers was quite remarkable. In terms of our ability it more than made up for the disastrous term preceding the camp. It was also a great boost to the second VIII as half the boat was also on the camp; hopefully this will assist next year's first VIII. Barry Banks was a fantastic coach and his wife Deanne a brilliant cook who rose spectacularly to the challenge of feeding twelve hungry rowers. A lot of footage was taken to aid coaching and also to provide material with which to entice freshers next year.

We entered Trinity term on a very positive standing. We had arranged to have Andy Nelder as a coach: this boded very well for Summer VIIIs as the OUBC assistant coach has an impeccable record and came on very high recommendation. He was very positive and in Hilary Term agreed to coach us for the summer (as soon as he had checked that his contract with OUBC allowed this); unfortunately, by the time it transpired that he would not be available after all, it was already halfway to Summer VIIIs and we were rather stuck. The preceding two-and-a-half weeks had had to be essentially uncoached, although Kate Hillier Oast year's coach) came up from London for a bank holiday weekend. This was wildly frustrating following the progress made in Ireland. Andy Wright, this year's vice president of OUBC, rose to

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the occasion magnificently and coached the boat well from within it, while rowing at 6-seat and 8-seat. However this was no substitute for coaching from a proper viewpoint.

We participated in Bedford Regatta and our confidence was boosted. We entered both Senior 4 category and the Colleges' event. We beat Abingdon School First VIII in the first round of the S4 which was a pleasant surprise.

We also beat St Peter's College, Oxford, HSBC Rowing Club and Pembroke College, Cambridge. We got to the semi-final of each event and were knocked out by Bedford School and Eton.

In the 2 weeks before Summer VIIIs we were desperately searching for a coach again. We were incredibly lucky to get Josh West to agree to coach us in the run-up to VIIIs. Josh West is currently training in the GB squad and rowing in the VIII in the Rowing World Cup. His coaching was magnificent and we benefited greatly from it. It also became apparent that he was enjoying coaching us as well which came as a surprise to him. He turned things around and we entered VIIIs relatively optimistically.

On the first night of VIIIs we were pursuing Exeter and being chased by New College. We were optimistic about catching Exeter and aimed to catch them over the course; we came to within a quarter of a length of Exeter

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through the Gut but they pulled away again on the Green Bank. Past the boathouses we again came to within a quarter of a length but did not make the bump before the finish line.

On the second night of VIIIs we were again pursuing Exeter and being chased by Keble, the best crew on the river with a boat consisting almost exclusively of Blues and Isis. We knew this race would be over before the Gut and so endeavoured to bump Exeter as quickly as we possibly could.

Coming under Donnington Bridge we took Exeter very much by surprise and made overlap with Keble still half a length off. Unfortunately we did not make the bump and were bumped by Keble just before the Gut. On the third night we were bumped by Hertford: this was unexpected and we were unprepared. It was a bad row partly caused by a lack of morale from the day before.

On the fourth night we were being chased by Worcester who were on for blades: it looked very likely we would go down 3 overall. We gave the race everything we had and they made no gain before the Gut. They made strong gains coming down the Green Bank to within a quarter of a length; we failed to pull away but held our ground. Coming to the Hall boathouse they pushed hard and gained overlap; due to some expert coxing from our novice cox we managed to avoid them and held them with overlap all the way to the finish line. It was spectacularly close and we were proud of giving such an exciting race to watch!

The Men's Seconds bumped St Catz 2 convincingly on the first day and then spent the remaining three days chasing Oriel 2, getting progressively closer every day but never quite making it. The Men's Thirds and the Syndicate failed to qualify.

Videos of Summer VIIIs can be found on www.youtube.com by searching for SEHBC Ml or M2 2007. There is also a video montage of the Ireland training camp which can be found by searching for SEHBC Ireland.

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The Women)- Captain)- Report This past year has had its ups and downs for the women's team, but ended on a high as the First Eight was able to retain the Headship through Eights Week, and as the Second Eight was able to move up one place closer to the head of their division. Coming into Hilary Term we had two eights of eager rowers- the 1st Torpid was hoping to continue its success from the previous three years and go on to win Blades once more; the 2nd Torpid were eager to try their hand at Bumps racing- or indeed any racing, as all were Novices and Christ Church regatta had been cancelled the previous term due to adverse weather. Much to the Boat Club's dismay Torpids was also cancelled as the river was deemed to be unrowable.

Instead of letting this get us down we used all of our land training as a base from which to launch a massive campaign for Summer Eights. The Women's First Eight travelled once again to Sabaudia, where we enjoyed the Italian sun and pasta and lots of quality rowing with our two coaches, Richard Fishlock and John Robinson.

The First Eight returned to the real world of work and exams but soon settled into a solid training programme out at the Godstow stretch of the

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river. The Second Eight, many of whom had been deterred by a serious lack of race experience and huge workloads, came together and began training on the Isis under the watchful eyes of former Captain Rachael Horton and former Vice-Captain Chloe Brindley. In the five short weeks we had in Oxford before Eights, the First Eight was able to make big strides in terms of technique in boat-moving ability. Every member knew the challenges that would face us going into the Wednesday of Eights and everyone was prepared - mentally and physically - to meet those challenges head on. When racing came we knew that we would face fast crews coming up behind us but we kept our confidence in our boat speed, technical ability, and ability to row under pressure to prevail over a Christ Church crew - strengthened by a series of rotations through twelve women instead of keeping to a set line-up - on each of the days. By the Saturday, we left them four lengths behind us gasping for air, and we proved that all of our training had been worth it. The Second Eight had a much different story; after a strong first race which saw a bump within two minutes of racing, the bows were snapped clean off the boat and the coaches were forced to tape the thing back on. Each day after that the Second Eight rowed over, always closing in on the boat in front. We hope to see continued movement up the division from the Second Eight in coming years.

I leave this post in the very capable hands of Helen Taylor, seven seat in this year's First Eight. She has chosen Gina Gosney and Anja McGuiness as her Vice Captains - I wish them the very best of luck. I would like to close by thanking everyone for their support of Women's Rowing at the Hall -it has become a truly incredible programme with your support.

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The Cricket Club Mens Captain: An drew Miller Teddy Hall First Eleven are now proud members of Inter-College Cricket First Division after a successful league campaign in the 2007 season. Beginning in April with an auspicious win over the combined Nuffield/ St Anthony's team, the team recovered from a shock first round exit in Cuppers to record three team scores of over 200 in the succeeding games. The season's top score came from perennial performer Will Stevens with an unbeaten 97 to seal promotion. Good knocks also came from Sajjad Juma with his 85 not out to claim victory early in the season, and put us back on the winning track.

Good support also came in the form of an impressive bunch of first years with John Waldron scoring several 50s, Tom "Soft Hands" Whiteley a fine addition to all areas of the team, Ed Oddy a revelation as a destructive force in the middle order, and Charlie Southern producing some express pace his best bowling figures of 6 for 13 were given stiff competition by Ahmed Bilal's 5 for 7 as the best of the season. As usual the finalists gave good support around their exams with runs from Jack Furniss and wickets from

Rory Ashmore . Finalist Ed Morse has also turned in many excellent performances for the Blues and Academy side, and while Teddy Hall cannot claim credit for his talent, it is always nice to see members of the Hall excel.

All in all, there is much promise at the Hall, with college supporting the team where possible and enthusiasm within the JCR and MCR. A tough season lies 42

in store for 2008 but I am sure as always the Hall will rise to the challenge.

My special thanks go to all those who consistently turned out for the side for little reward- Tim, Dush and Faiz.

The Cross Country Club Captain: Alan Chetwynd 2006-7 was another highly successful season for Teddy Hall's cross country team, with the college retaining the league competition by a comfortable margin, adding to considerable success in Teddy Hall relays. The major cuppers race of the year was held in Michaelmas, and was used by the university cross-country team as the selection race for the varsity competition held later in the term. Unfortunately Teddy H all only managed one runner in the women's race, with talented fresher Marina Johns finishing in a creditable 9th place. The men's race boasted more Teddy Hallers, with university captain Alan Chetwynd finishing second, ex-blue James Hogan coming out of a football-induced retirement to place 9th and strong runs from fresher Leon Chen and stalwarts Paddy Wallace and Nick Scroxton, among others, allowing Teddy Hall to finish narrowly ahead of Brasenose.

Fresher Richard Hildick-Smith (10) and Club Captain Alan Chetwy nd (A) competing at the mile race at Iffley on Thursday 10th 1\'lay, marking the renaming of the track after Sir Roger Banniste r Š Rob Judges

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The Hilary term cuppers race was sparsely attended, allowing Teddy Hall to maintain a narrow lead, leaving everything dependent on the Teddy Hall relays held at the end of Hilary term. The men's quartet of Hogan, Chen, Chetwynd and multi-talented pentathlete Richard Hildick-Smith finished an excellent 9th overall, beating most university teams and finishing more than 90 seconds ahead of the next college. An enthusiastic turnout from across the college ensured that a substantial number of points were also scored by mixed and women's teams, and overall Teddy Hall finished more than 100 points clear of New, the second placed college.

With blues Hogan and Chetwynd leaving this year, Teddy Hall's cross country team will be looking to the likes ofJohns, Hildick-Smith and Chen to continue to train consistently; nonetheless the sporting ethos and enthusiasm characteristic of the college means that the success of recent years has every chance of being maintained.

The Hockey Club Captain: David Puttergill The Teddy Hall Hockey Club has had a chequered season this year, with league performances in Division 2 not being consistent enough to gain promotion to the premier league we left a few years ago. An encouraging fresher intake included the dazzling Tom Whiteley who left many a mid fielder wondering what had happened, and Chris Stafford, the blue's goalkeeper whose quick reactions we were thankful for. However, despite our strong team on paper we lost in the first round of cuppers to a confident Hertford team, as we were unable to capitalise on our possession. Mixed cuppers proved far more successful, with an 8-strong team at the start of the day managing to edge past Hildas on flicks, a tactic which got us to the final where unfortunately we fell short, losing 2-0 to Wadham-Corpus. A merger with Pembroke is in the offing for next year, which should allow us to forge a team capable of entering the Premier division once again.

The Mixed Lacrosse Club Captain: Emma Readman This year proved to be hugely successful for the SEH mixed lax team with victory in both the league and cuppers competitions. As always, a lot of

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people got involved throughout the season with players spanning all three years and even including some post-grad Americans.

League matches were played every other week against other first division teams and successive wins meant we progressed quickly through the rounds to play Worcester in the Finals. They are renowned for fielding a very strong team and year on year have proved to be very tough opposition, boasting a number of university mixed lacrosse players. However, Teddy Hall's combination of skilled blue's lax girls, including the likes of Ruth Evans, Gina Blackwell, Wiz Elliott, Emma Readman and Olivia Valner, and strong, fast, aggressive rugby boys, proved to be too strong for them and the Hall were victorious, winning the overall league competition.

Going into cuppers we were therefore the strong favourites, boosted by the knowledge that victory would guarantee a double win and a photo opportunity for the bar! Each successive match got progressively harder and having stormed through initial rounds, the games became increasingly tighter. The semi finals match against LMH proved to be the most nail biting and went to sudden death. Teddy Hall's traditional fighting spirit prevailed- we eventually won and went through to the finals to face an easier match against New College to ultimately win the whole competition.

As always, the general spirit of the club remained very relaxed and sociable with a lot of newcomers to the sport getting involved, particularly the fresher boys. Let's hope that we can maintain our winning streak next season!

The Pool Team Captain: Ben Toms This year's pool team, although full of potential, failed to deliver the kind of performances that we all know were well within our capabilities. Our form, just like the pool season, can be roughly divided in two.

Michaelmas term sees the start of the pool league, but the less said about this year's performance, the better. We started off optimistically and seemed to have a good team, despite having no blues players (although I'm convinced next year Andrew Keech will make the University team, at the fourth time of trying. This may of course all change if he retires from pool in order to work

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on his 9-dart finish). But to cut a long story about a bad season short, we got demoted.

Hilary term saw a change of captaincy, and with it a change of fortune. The Teddy Hall pool team has always faired well in Cuppers, and this year was no exception. We stormed through the group stage, finishing top of our group and beating some good teams. However it all came to a dismal end in the quarter-finals when we lost 7-6 to Pembroke, a game that in retrospect we really should have won.

Looking to the future, next year will hopefully see a more consistent season as we are not losing many of our regular players, and who knows maybe we will even win the coveted title of Cuppers champions.

The Rugby Football Club Men's Captain: Ryan Buckingham Women's Captains: Alison Dale and Keely Crane The Men's Captain's Report The Hall made an uncharacteristically poor start to the season, and we were severely hampered by the absence of key players away on University duty.

However, our fresh-faced recruits were able to stem the tide and beat perennial rivals St Peter's in the final game of the first league competition. This victory secured the Hall's first division status with the added bonus of sending St Peter's to the second division.

Several key players returned for the second league competition. A revitalised Hall team, characterized by a devastating back line and supported by a mobile and combative pack were the strongest in the league. Keble administered our only defeat. Alas, the league was lost on a controversial technicality.

Next up was cuppers. A full strength Teddy Hall side swept through to the semi-finals where our annihilation of St Peter's would have made many an old boy weep. An absolutely ruthless forwards' display set the platform for our backs to run riot. The conclusion: Hall booked their rightful place at Iffley once again. In the final we struggled for eighty minutes to join the Pantheon of Teddy Hall immortals, but unfortunately, it was not to be. In spite of a valiant comeback, punctuated by an outstanding individual effort

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fmal exchanges of the match, keeping the ball and stifling the Hall's creativity.

The final score was 26-15.

Last up was the traditional season ender: cuppers sevens. Hall truly dominated this event, all the while demonstrating greater levels of skill than any other college outfit could muster. Our dominance was typified by the play of Sam

Humphrey-Baker, our Blues outside centre (pictured above, with the ball). In the final we defeated New 24-12; a fitting end to a roller-coaster season.

The bedrock of this year's team has been a group of wily old campaigners from the third and fourth years. They have been ably supported by an outstanding group of second years and a committed set of freshers. A special mention must go to Andy Godfrey, who made his fiftieth appearance for the Hall midway through the season.

I would like to thank them all. It has been a great pleasure and an honour to have been their captain. Here's to a successful season next year; and the continued defence of our rugby heritage!

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The Womens Captains' Report It has been a busy year for the St Edmund Hall Women's Rugby team, during which we have taken part in the Sevens Touch, Sevens, Tens and Mixed Touch Cuppers tournaments.

The Sevens Touch Cuppers was played fairly early in the Michaelmas term to give those new to rugby (i.e. most people) a chance to play. Despite our inexperience we showed spirit and the beginnings of a talented and enthusiastic team. We reached the final of the Plate in the full-contact Sevens Cuppers, despite facing the two cup-finalists and plate winners in the group stages.

Unfortunately an epic 25min semi-final resulted in a completely exhausted team, resulting in us losing in the Plate final.

The Tens tournament, for which we joined forces with Keble, was very difficult to play because of the extremely wet weather. Our match against St Peters was particularly memorable, playing around extremely deep puddles making it cold, muddy and difficult to tell a team-mate from the opposition!

The Mixed Touch Cuppers allowed a last little bit of rugby fun, this time in bright sunshine. Tedd y Hall progressed to the semi-finals but was controversially beaten in extra time. This marked the end of a fun and fairly successful year of women's rugby at Teddy Hall.

The Skiing Club Captain: Louise Elliott The Teddy Hall skiers began the season on the dry slope, or "plastic" surface as it's otherwise known. This may not be as glamorous as the snow-capped mountains, and for many of the skiers this was their first outing on the more challenging surface. However, the eight Teddy Hall skiers, separated into two teams, quickly adjusted to the plastic for the cupper's competition last autumn.

The A team did particularly well to reach the semi-finals, where we competed head-to-head against the strong force of university skiers from St Hugh's.

However, in a very close race, we were narrowly beaten by the eventual wmners.

The main excitement in the skiing calendar is the annual varsity ski trip, which last December was enjoyed by a record number of 1500 skiers in Les Deux Alpes. Teddy Hall skiers, from beginners to racers, were enthusiastic to be a

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part of this exhausting trip as one skis hard and parties even harder! Teddy Hall entered a couple of teams into the cupper's competition on snow. A large number of teams entered this knock-out competition, and Teddy Hall progressed through the early rounds, battling with the increasingly challenging ruts down the course, and reached the quarter-finals. The team consisted of Laurence Whyatt, Wiz Elliott, James Raeburn Ward and Anna Stewart; both Laurence and Wiz also raced for the Oxford teams in the Varsity Competition, where all Oxford men's and women's teams were victorious.

The Squash Club Captain: J ames Macfarlane The squash club at St Edmund Hall is one of the college's newest sporting societies. Started three years ago, the club is now highly competitive in both the University's League and Cuppers competitions. Any member of the college has regular and free access to two courts located on the Iffley Road at the Cardo Building. The college also provides rackets and balls for players who don't have their own. The next year sees the initiation of the College's first Squash Competition giving both an opportunity for new players to make their mark and older players to stake their claim for a position in the College's ever strengthening team. The Club also lays on training sessions for players wanting to learn the sport and has social opportunities for members to meet each other off court.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Professor David Keith Bowen FREng FRS obtained his MA and DPhil in Metallurgy at Oxford University, working on mechanical properties of metals. He moved to Warwick University UK in 1968 and held various academic positions, culminating in his appointment as Professor of Engineering and Director of the Centre for N anotechnology and Microengineering. He has held visiting professorships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Paris and the University of Denver. He has acted as consultant to several companies including Rolls-Royce and Shell Venture Research and also the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. He has authored over 130 publications on the theory and application of X-ray characterization techniques, theory of dislocations, X-ray interferometry and ultra-precision engineering, including the books High Resolution X-rqy Diffraction and Topograpf?y and X-rqy Metrology in 5 emiconductor Manufacturing with Brian Tanner. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1997 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998, and is also a Fellow of the Institutes of Physics and of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He is now a Visiting Professor in Physics at the University of Durham, Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Warwick and Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, all in the UK. Keith has been a member of numerous policy and funding panels. For the UK Department of Trade and Industry he served on the Management Committee of the LINK Nanotechnology programme (1992-1995) and was project monitor on a number of its largest projects. For the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council he served on the Synchrotron Radiation Facility Committee, the Engineering College, and was the first Chairman of the Nanotechnology Panel (which secured the first UK funding for basic 50

research in nanotechnology). In the USA he was a member of the National Academy of Science Evaluation Panel for the NIST Physics Laboratory and chaired the Atomic Physics/Quantum Metrology subpanel. He also served on NSF grant awarding panels in nanotechnology.

Keith joined Bede Scientific part-time in 1983, and was appointed Engineering Director in 1984. As full-time President of Bede Scientific Incorporated since 1996, he started the US subsidiary of Bede in Denver, leading it to over $4m in annual sales. On flotation of Bede on the London Stock Exchange in 2000 he was appointed Group Director of Technology of Bede plc, returning to England in 2003. Keith Bowen retired from his Directorship in May 2005, but remains Chief Scientist, primarily responsible for research and product development and the strategic development of science and technology in the Group. Since 1995 he has also been Non-Executive Director of AdvanceSis Ltd, a spinout company from the University of Warwick concerned with products based on advanced high-strain epitaxiallayers on silicon.

Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Sai:d Business School, Professor of Management Studies and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Colin has been at the Sai'd Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor - the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies. He has built an international reputation in the field of finance and has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has held visiting fellowships at Stanford, MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance. He is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

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Colin is Chairman of Oxera Holdings Ltd and was instrumental in building the firm into what is now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK. He has consulted for numerous large firms and for governments, regulators and international agencies around the world.

Colin researches in the fields of corporate finance, governance, regulation and taxation. He has worked on international comparisons of financial systems and corporate governance and their effects on the financing and control of corporations.

Dr James Alien rejoined the Hall in October 2006 as a Fellow by Special Election. He also holds a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship in the Oxford University Department of Biochemistry. James graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Oxford in 1997, having studied at The Queen's College and after spending his Part II research year investigating the electrochemistry of proteins containing iron-sulfur clusters. He completed his DPhil in 2000 in the Oxford Biochemistry Department with a thesis on the structure-function relationship of the intricate bacterial respiratory enzyme cytochrome cd1 nitrite reductase. This project consolidated James' interest in proteins that contain functionally important transition metal atoms, in particular iron. James was the William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at the Hall from 2000-2003, exploring the biosynthesis of c-type cytochromes, an important class of respiratory proteins, in bacteria; he continued that work as a postdoctoral researcher from 2003-2006 after which he took up his David Phillips Fellowship. James' laboratory works at the interface of chemistry and biology, researching the mitochondria of trypanosomes. These are parasitic organisms, spread by insect bites, that cause African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease, major hazards to public health and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Mitochondria are 52

cellular power plants where respiration takes place and which generate much of the cells' useful energy. In particular, the lab is investigating the novel and distinct mitochondrial cytochrome c maturation pathway of trypanosomes, and also protein import and redox balance in the mitochondrial intermembrane space. James teaches Biochemistry and Biophysical Chemistry for several colleges. He is married to Kirsty and enjoys cricket, rugby league, quizzes, British history and visiting Scottish islands.

Our new Home Bursar is Dr Ernest Parkin, who was formerly with the US diplomatic service. After postings in Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East, he brings a wealth of management skills to the Hall.

Ernest achieved his PhD in applied linguistics and has a special interest in second language acquisition. He began his career in university teaching and research, but moved into academic administration before joining the US government.

At the Embassies where he served, he gained experience in management and negotiation. Doubtlessly he will need both at Teddy Hall.

During his one posting to Washington, he taught at the US Government's Foreign Service Institute, passing on his hard-won knowledge to a new generation of diplomats. After that he had a final tour of duty in Dublin, which he cut short to join us at the Hall.

Outside of work, he and his wife Carol enjoy choral singing and restoring antiques. They are already members of the Eynsham Choral Society and live near Witney.

John Hirsh is professor of English at Georgetown University, USA. He is an expert in Chaucer and Middle English literature; medieval spirituality; American literature of the 19th and early 20th century, especially realism; medieval culture and gender criticism; and the teaching of reading, particularly to "at risk" primary-age children.

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Selected publications Hirsh has written are: The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Late Medieval Spirituality (1996); Sursum Corda: Teaching Urban Youth to Read (1991); The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystica/ Practices in Late Medieval England (1989); Hope Emi!J A/fen: Medieval Scholarship and Feminism (1988); Bar/am and Josaphat: A Medieval Life of Buddha (1986); Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (1970).

In recognition of his reputation as a researcher and the substantial list of publications to his credit, the Governing Body elected Professor Hirsh to a Visiting Fellowship by Special Election for Hilary and Trinity terms 2007.

Sir Ian Byatt has been Chairman of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland since 2005; he is also a Senior Associate of Frontier Economics and honorary Professor of Birmingham University. He was previously Director General of Water Services (1989-2000) and Deputy Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury (1978-1989).

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He came up to St Edmund Hall from Kirkham Grammar School in 19 52 to read PPE and subsequently went on to Nuffield College and Harvard. He taught at Durham University and London School of Economics and has served in the Government as an economist in the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Environment and the Treasury.

Ian has also served on the Economic Policy Committee of the European Communities, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Board of International Institute of Public Finance, the Council of Royal Economic Society, the Advisory Board of Centre for Management under Regulation, the International Advisory Committee of Public Utilities Research Centre and the Public Services Productivity Panel, H M Treasury. He is Vice-President of the Strategic Planning Society and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

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He is a Freeman of the City of London; an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institutes of Water & Environmental Management and Purchasing & Supply. Ian holds Honorary Doctorates from Brunel (1994), the University of Central England (2000), Aston (2005), and Birmingham (2007). He is also a Fellow of Birkbeck College London, and a Patron of the Holy Cross Centre Trust, Kings Cross, London.

In recognition of this distinguished career and record of public service, the College unanimously elected him an Honorary Fellow in July 2007.

Philip Morsberger (born 1933) is a prolific painter who has worked and held influential teaching positions in America and Britain since the late 1950s.

He trained at the Carnegie Institute and the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford in the 19 50s, when the former was in an abstract expressionist revolt against the more traditional approaches of the latter. He was Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing from 1971 to 1984 - the sixth Master in the school's history and the first American Š Jerry Siege! to be appointed to that position. He was elected to a Professorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall from 1978 to 1984 and his portrait of Principal Ieuan Maddock (1979-1982) hangs in the Old Dining Hall. During his long career Morsberger has never been subservient to any one style of painting; his work has evolved through a number of distinct phases that have embraced realism, abstraction and the American comic-strip tradition. His life and work have recently been the subject of a book by Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures (Merrell Press:New York, 2007). In recognition of his long and distinguished career, the Governing Body elected him to an Honorary Fellowship in July 2007.

Francis John Pocock went to Reading School before coming up to the Hall in 1960 to read Chemistry. After graduating he worked in Dr Rossotti's research group and was awarded a DPhil in 1967. He rowed and played hockey for the college. His career in logistics and manufacturing began at Boots in 55

Nottingham where he became Tablet Manufacturing Manager and produced the very first batch of Nurofen to go on sale. Moving to Gosport in 1971 he was appointed Materials Manager for American Cyanamid. Subsequently he spent 10 years in the brewing industry, initially as Logistics Director for Courage Ltd and later as Operations Director for Watney, Mann & Truman. In 1987 he moved across to the Food Division to become Technical Director of Grand Metropolitan Foods Europe. From 1992 he ran his own company specialising in the recruitment of senior manufacturing managers, until retiring in 2006.

In 2002 Francis was elected President of the St Edmund Hall Association.

He played a major role in the design and launch of Aularian Connect. Together with Rodney Munday and Ernest Parkin he helped manage the project to create and install the commemorative statue of St Edmund. In recognition of his contributions to the College and the St Edmund Hall Association, the Governing Body elected Francis to a St Edmund Fellowship in July 2007.

Happily married to Elizabeth for 40 years, they live near Epsom but spend several weeks a year in Australia where their daughter, Helen, now lives with her young family. Their son Tom and his wife live somewhat nearer in Datchet.

His interests include gardening, walking, and music- in particular playing the clarinet.

THE CHARTER CELEBRATIONS 2007 This year, St Edmund Hall, founded as a Hall at the end of the 13th Century, celebrates the 50th Anniversary of being granted College Status by a Royal Charter signed by the Queen on 15 February 1957. This significant date was marked by a Charter Dinner for Fellows and their distinguished guests, at which lan Scargill gave a witty speech recalling 1957, and which is repro56

duced below. The dinner was the flrst of a programme of events taking place throughout 2007, to celebrate this significant year in the Hall's long history. Jeremy Paxman, Fellow by Special Election and Terry Jones (1961), Honorary Fellow, both contributed to a series of Jubilee Lectures given by notable old members and Fellows. Nicholas Evans (1969) will deliver the third in the series on 23 November.

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh visited the Hall on 6 June 1958 to present the Charter of Incorporation. To mark this anniversary, the College held a Charter Weekend event in June 2007 for its alumni. A full programme of events took place, including a performance of lbsen's Ghosts by the John Oldham Society, a black tie Charter Ball capturing the essence of the 50s and a garden party with family entertainment which also saw the unveiling by the College Visitor, The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, of the statue of St Edmund by Rodney Munday (1967) in the gardens of St Peter-in-the-East. Over 200 Aularians and their families participated in the weekend and joined with the Principal and Fellows of the College in celebrating its Golden Jubilee.

MEMORIES OF 1957, by Ian Scargill I have absolutely no recollection of what I was doing on 15 February 1957, the day that Her Majesty The Queen signed the Royal Charter which turned St Edmund Hall into a College of the University. No doubt there were celebrations in the Senior Common Room that evening but I was a third year undergraduate, more concerned with the approaching Schools than with our new status. But I have very clear memories of what happened around sixteen months later when the Duke of Edinburgh came to present the Charter on 6 June 1958.

We were all crammed into the front quad - there was scarcely anywhere else to go - and I recall the Duke saying in his speech that we seemed to have managed very well as a Hall for 700 years but since we wished to be a College he was happy to hand over the required document. After that he was taken on a short tour, "exchanging good humoured banter" with the undergraduates and was presented with a Teddy Bear tie. Rumour has it that when he was given a more sober tie at University College later in the day he was overheard to say, "Thank God for a tie a gentleman can wear". Proudly 57

sporting my new BA gown and hood I was presented to HRH as "our graduate". It was a slight exaggeration since there were one or two other postgraduates around, but in any case the Duke seemed under-impressed and moved quickly on to more interesting personalities. He was shown a 'typical' room, specially painted for the occasion, and having asked to see an untypical one was taken, I seem to recall, to Michael Cansdale's. After the royal guest had departed there was free food and drink in the quad for everyone and the beer flowed freely until around 11 pm when heavy rain brought an end to a memorable day.

The Hall was a very different place in 1957 from what it is now. Shortage of space was the most obvious difference. The Besse Building had been opened only a few years earlier; otherwise it was just the old quad. The former had lavatories; the quad had none except for the Principal's lodgings and one of the early morning sights was that of Graham Midgley, the Dean, making his way in his scarlet dressing gown to the Orient (because it was east of Chapel) where the loos were. 1957 was notable, however, for the acquisition in that year of the Masonic buildings which included the Forum restaurant. So incorporation as a College coincided with the start of that ambitious scheme which was to bear fruit, thirteen years later in 1970, with the opening of the Dining Hall, Emden and Kelly Buildings and the SCR on this site behind the High Street.

Space for eating was correspondingly limited in 1957. Undergraduate numbers had been growing, reaching around 300 in that year, and dinner in the Old Dining Hall involved two sittings, with serving extending to the balcony and even the Hearne Room behind. Gowns were worn for flrst hall and, of course we all wore ties with our sports jackets or blazers. You will see those on the photographs of the time.

Unless you were very important, like the President of the JCR, you only had one year living in, the flrst year for most people. That meant two years in digs, and longer than that if you stayed on after Schools because there was no graduate accommodation. Digs were very different from the shared houses or apartments of today, and the landladies who let rooms in their homes were a distinctive element of the Oxford population. Some were wives of college servants (using the terminology of the 1950s); others of workers in the local car manufacturing industry where the irregularity of male employment meant that the landlady wife was a valuable source of income in the

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bad times. Over the course of four or five years I lived with four different landladies, all interesting characters. One fed birds with maggots that came by post from the Army and Navy Stores. This was alright except that if she were not up early the birds would tap on the windows, not ideal for late sleepers.

Another was a bit of a snob, never tiring of reminding me -who had never been skiing - of her previous tenant whose skis had been propped up in a prominent position in her front hall. She was a corsetiere and when a valued client was expected I was required to draw my curtains in order to avoid any possible embarrassment. Most landladies provided breakfast but my final one prided herself on giving Sunday lunch too to her young men. Her husband had an allotment off the Botley Road and grew all the vegetables which were very good, but I was not keen on her home-made blancmange. She was inclined to be offended if you had some other engagement and couldn't stay to Sunday lunch.

Living out inevitably meant having a lot of meals in cheap cafes of which there were still a large number. I seem to remember that you could get a very filling meal at Crawfords Cafeteria in Queen Street for three shillings and sixpence, and Francis Rossotti reminds me that if you were really strapped for cash you could do well for about one and sixpence at one of the several British Restaurants around the City. We ate reasonably well but it was noticeable how much taller the American servicemen were whom one saw 1n Cornmarket on a Saturday afternoon.

Admission to the Hall in the 1950s was by written examination. Despite this hurdle it would be true to say that the system was rather more relaxed than it is today, though the story that you got in if you could catch the rugby ball thrown at you by the Principal is entirely fiction. So too I suspect is the story of the undergraduate who turned up for his first tutorial without an essay and was invited by his tutor to read out one of his entrance examination essays which the tutor in question had clearly never read. On hearing it the tutor smiled gently and observed, "You shouldn't really be here, should you?"

Most of those who came up in the 'fifties had done two years' National Service in the armed forces and they were amused by the restrictive rules and regulations which still governed college life, not least the curfew rules that required those living in to be back in Hall by a certain hour. After that the gates were locked but, of course, rules are there to be broken and there was a recognized way of climbing in. In my time it was via the Dean's bedroom 59

from the graveyard of St Peter-in-the-East and the understanding was that you would contribute to one of his charities as you made your way carefully across his room. If he didn't hear the clink of a coin a sleepy voice would remind the entrant of what was expected.

Two years away on National Service meant that some of those coming up found it hard to readjust to academic life and, sadly, a few voluntarily withdrew. The more eccentric of the dons must have appeared very odd compared with the sergeant majors of the previous year or two and donnish foibles were perhaps not always appreciated. The story is told in my faculty of the professor who lectured on famine and related problems in the Third World. He was fond of dramatizing the situation by saying, "Every time I clap my hands somebody in Africa dies." A voice from the back was heard to murmur, "Then stop clapping your hands you daft ...... " Public examinations were another hurdle, especially Prelims for the first years, with compulsory papers in languages for the non-linguists. Oxford was very exam-orientated, though for most undergraduates the second year was delightfully free of them. In Schools I remember writing ten 3-hour papers in six days, with only Sunday for a break, inconceivable these days. But for those who struggled there was not only a Third but also a Fourth Class and, as a last resort, the Pass School with its 'groups' of three papers that could be spread over several terms. But even these expected you to exhibit some foreign language ability.

Colleges were single-sex in the 19 50s and since there were only five women's colleges, there was an overall male bias in the university as a whole. This meant that nurses from the local hospitals were a popular source of girl friends and many a matron must have lamented the steady erosion of their young charges to married life at the end of the third year. The Hall's small Senior Common Room of 11 fellows was all-male but women tutors were quite common. Some were wives of dons who, in later years, would have obtained university and college posts in their own right. Female scouts and other staff were also appearing. So by the time that the Hall, together with a large number of other colleges, finally went mixed in 1979 it all seemed very natural and it was certainly very welcome. Soon the women were playing rugby as enthusiastically as the men.

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dence in 1957 and in that year, for example, the College won the Rugby, Soccer, Tennis and Badminton cups. The University Blue Boat also had two representatives in it from St Edmund Hall. But the myth that the Hall was only interested in sport is just that, a myth, that probably owed something to jealous eyes elsewhere. The Arts undoubtedly flourished in the 19 50s and a glance at the Magazine for that year reveals the existence of a wide range of societies: John Oldham for the actors, Liddon for the theologians, Hearne for the historians, Denton for the lawyers, Quantum for the physicists, and Cosmographers for the geographers, as well as Debating and Essay Societies where verbal and literary skills were practised. The Musical Society was active and who can forget those concerts in the front quad, including memorable contributions from tutors Harry Irving and George Ramsay - duets for four hands and two eyebrows.

All of this suggests that the Hall, despite the restrictions of space and money, was a vibrant and colourful institution in the 1950s, characteristics that are mirrored in the affection with which Old Members of that era hold the College and in the generosity they have shown towards it. Perhaps it is summed up in the phrase we often hear, the 'Hall Spirit'. That spirit has survived the big expansion in numbers and space which has taken place over the past 50 years, a half century that has seen the admission of women, a significant rise up the Norrington Table of Schools results, the arrival and growth of the MCR with all the benefits, academic and cultural, that has flowed from the addition of a graduate community and, not least, an association with Fitzwilliam, our sister college in Cambridge.

I suspect that one reason for the survival of the hall spirit is that undergraduates don't change that much, and they still manage to come up with ingenious excuses for why their essay is late, usually these days something to do with an uncooperative computer. Faced with the question at an Old Members' Reunion about what has happened to undergraduates over the years, one don thought for a while and then replied, "Well they recur." Thank goodness for that.

When the Principal, John Kelly, responded to the Duke of Edinburgh's speech in 1958 he referred to the "great tasks ahead if the College is to flourish".

These tasks have been achieved, but others lie ahead if the Hall is to build on the achievements of the past half century and continue to flourish, as I am sure it will. It has been my personal privilege to enjoy an unbroken association 61

with the Hall since 1954. When my geography schoolmaster advised me to apply to St Edmund hall back in 19 52 he observed, "I think you will be happy there." How right he was. Maybe it is no coincidence that the Cornish chough is our emblem, a bird that was once nearly extinct, like the hall a hundred years ago, but one that has revived and is flourishing. Unlike other members of the crow family, the chough is never dull. Having eaten its fill of dung beetles it tumbles happily around the cliffs of its native Cornwall. It is clever, athletic and at times rather joyfully eccentric. It reflects in its behaviour the spirit of the Hall which we all value and cherish. So onwards confidently to the next half century.

CHARTER LECTURE 2, 20 APRIL: "BARBARIANS" BY TERRY JONES Terry ]ones is the only living Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall . . . . . . .. to have won fame by way of -~~ transvestism. The audience at his Charter Lecture may have had pause to consider the extent of the Hall's influence on ]ones' early career: sallying forth from RGS Guildford as Head of School and Captains of Rugby and Gymnastics, he displayed a marked idleness in sporting matters at Oxford, turning to softer, more theatrical pursuits. His lecture, based on his recent BBC television series, was entitled 'Barbarians'.

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Jones described an ancient world unnervingly similar to our own, with the Roman Empire as the world's only superpower, exhausted by wars and attempts to pacify pockets of resistance. A case-study of the German tribes proved that so-called barbarians could fight smart. The German chieftain Arrninius slaughtered three Roman legions, organising a smoke-screen of feigned petty disputes amongst the local tribes to keep the Romans busy whilst preparations for a major attack were made. Arrninius eventually fell beneath the weight of a massive reinvasion; the parading of his pregnant wife as a trophy in Rome suggests that the Romans were capable of acts of barbarism far outstripping the unenlightened cultures they sought to educate.

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Sensing that the audience wanted men in eyeliner, Jones highlighted the cultural sophistication of barbarian nations. His description of Persian society was particularly fascinating; rather than the psychotic, blood-thirsty sex-addicts of Frank Miller's 'The 300', the Persians emerged as a people who promoted flower-arranging in the education of young boys, and donned makeup before going into battle. Whilst the 'God-kings' of popular imagination did wield a huge amount of power, they did so humanely; Cyrus the Great produced 'the first bill of human rights', as confirmed in Isaiah 45:1.

Jones drove his point home with an examination of the fall of Rome; none of the usual suspects could be held responsible for its decay. The Goths left the ancient city untouched; the poetry-loving Vandals only knocked down old houses, as part of an urban renewal programme; the Huns remained outside the city at the request of the Bishop of Rome. Responsibility for the destruction of ancient Rome lies with the Romans themselves, and with that Bishop, who later became the Pope, rebuilding pagan Rome in a new Christian image.

The lecture was followed by a sumptuous banquet in Wolfson Hall. Preempting any attempts to put Jones' pro-barbaric sentiments into action, forks were provided.

Alastair Hird (2000, English)

THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY,S PRODUCTION OF IBSEN,S GHOSTS, 21 AND 22 JUNE Published in 1881, and addressing issues such as syphilis, euthanasia and how the ghosts of duty and public opinion come to dominate and ruin generations of lives, lbsen's Ghosts may have seemed a strange choice for the launch of the Charter Weekend celebrations.

The undertaking was ambitious from the start. The 1957 Hall Magazine revealed that the play had been produced to great acclaim in the Charter Year, so the John Oldham Society's task was to revive a 126 year-old play in a way that was still valid to a modern audience, and create a polished interpretation that could live up to the plaudits of the 1957 production.

John Cox (1955), the director of the 1957 Ghosts kindly agreed to consult on the production and his frequent trips to the Hall throughout the creative process were an example of true intergenerational Aularian spirit, and much appreciated by the cast and crew.

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Arabella Lawson (2006) captured the forced stiffness of Regina, and was counterbalanced nicely by Robert Gallagher (2004) who rollicked as a loquacious Engstrand. Peter Clapp's 'young Pastor Manders' seemed a little too fresh-faced at times, yet admirably trod a careful line avoiding the too comic portrayal that is regarded as one of the pitfalls of the role.

The audacious casting of Alexandra Zelman (2006) as the leading man, was fully vindicated by a compelling and detailed performance that reveled in the contrast of Oswald's brief buoyant moments with his jaded struggle with the intellectual and moral stagnancy of his hometown.

Yet it was Jennifer Rainsford (2004) as Mrs Alving that stole the show. Her Helen Alving was imperious yet fragile, reflexively wringing her hands while otherwise remaining taut and poised, then melting into a haunting grief and despair - all this the more remarkable for the fact that, until a week before the performance, Jenny had been directing the play and had only stepped in at the last minute when the actress playing the role had had to withdraw for personal reasons.

Jennifer Rainsford (Helen Alving) and Alexandra Zelman (Oswald)

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The Norwegian gloom that suffocates Oswald, and the haunting 'light' of the final scene were well-captured by the set and lighting, and Serena Lee (2006) is to be congratulated for her excellent technical support skills on the night.

Producer Amy McLeod's (2003) realization of the play was both creative and incisive, and her behind-the-scenes management admirable considering the raft of setbacks encountered during rehearsals and production, which continued to bombard her until the very last - it was with great relief that Oswald's final eye-roll was completed before the first strains of the rock band playing at the Queen's College Ball spoiled the moment!

Guests then moved over to the awning in the back quad for a champagne reception to rouse them from their emotionally drained state. For the postshow talk, John Cox was joined by the original leading actor Patrick Garland (19 56) to explain the context and performance heritage of the play and their experiences of producing it fifty years ago, and again in 2007.

The cast and crew would like to thank Martin Smith St Edmund Hall Arts Trust for kindly sponsoring the production.

The following Aularians and Hall guests accepted the invitation to Ghosts: Jeannine Alton (Friend of the Hall), Christopher Armitage (1950), William Asbrey (1949). Darrell Barnes (1963), Hubert Beaumont (1955), Bob Beckham (1965), John Billington (1955), David Bolton (1957), Ian Bowers (1963), Eberhard Burghalter (1979), Ben Burton (2000), Warren Cabral (1982), Tony Cooper (1955), John Cox (1955), Jonathan Crawshaw (1999), Desmond Day (1951), Michael Duffy (1954), Nick Elliott (1963), Roger Farrand (1955), Fred Farrell (1956), Patrick Garland (1956),John Gould (1963), David Harding (1959), Will Hatcher (1963), Michael Hilt (1955), Allan Jay (1951), David Johnson (1956), Michael Le Mesurier (1946), Roddie MacLeod (1953), Roland MacLeod (1957), Silvester Mazzarella (1956), Geoff Mihell (1957), Roger Miller (1962), Mike Mingos (Principal), Graham Morris (1961 ), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Erica Newman (2000), Bruce Nixon (1952), John Phillips (1957), Alan Pickett (1943), Christopher Pope (Friend of the Hall), Mike Randall (1965), Michael Rowan (1957), Jeremy Rycroft (1967), Elizabeth ScottBaumann (2000), Simon Simonian (1962), Howard Slack (1951), Martin Slater (Fellow), Ian Smith (1953), Martin Smith (1961), Paul Tempest (1956), Chris Wells (Fellow), Peter Whurr (1956), Peter Wight (1969), Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow) .

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THE CHARTER BALL, 23 JUNE Standing in the front quad at quarter past six, as the first Aularians started to emerge from their rooms for the 1950s-themed Charter Ball on 23 June, there was a feeling that this was very much the calm before the storm. Fingers had been crossed for days as we pored over the latest Met. Office reports, and as the final preparations for the Champagne reception were interrupted by nebulous shrouds overhead, the American newsreel snippets warning of nuclear apocalypse - part of a striking audio-visual montage in front of the ODH - seemed to have, for a moment, more than just historical relevance. We needn't have worried: the storm clouds parted, the college waited in all its homely splendour, and the guests (matriculands ranging from 1943 to 2004) were welcomed by a quadrangle gleaming in the evening sunshine, a sight matched only by the glamour of the attendees and the sparkle of the glasses.

After Champagne and canapes, our circus moved to the Wolfson Hall for dinner, where Ruth Evans and Ian Lyons (both 2002) chaperoned guests through the feast of 19 50s dishes with a lovingly prepared repertoire of 1950s swing and jazz. Between courses the floor was taken by the OU Dancesport Team, who stopped conversation (and doubtless a number of hearts) with a glorious routine of Latin and Ballroom Dancing, just a taste of what was to come.

Emerging from this amphitheatre of wine, of food, of song and dance, revellers were confronted- not for the first time -with an enviable choice: a jive lesson; a visit to the official ball photographer; hopping to nineteen-piece swing band Swingtime; or a rock 'n' roll revival with The Bash Band? For those seeking more sedate pursuits, the ladies could exchange the nostalgia of a trip to the Traps for the elegance of the Powder Room, while the plush surroundings of the cocktail bar provided a refuge brimming with understated sophistication, and, naturally, some splendid cocktails. A carousel of the above was clearly in order, and by the time the music stopped, and as parties drifted off to bed, we few relicts settled down and wondered where the evening had gone: surely a good sign, and so we extend our thanks to Hugh McManners (1975), lead singer of The Bash Band and Billet Potter (1965) of Lighting and Sound Equipment for their sponsorship, and of course to all the college staff who gave us such an evening to remember.

Richard Caine (2003, German & Linguistics)

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The following Aularians and Hall Guests accepted the invitation to this event: David Alien (2004), David Anderson (1974), Ted Aves (1957), Alan Banks (1974), Bob Beckham (1965), Dave Betterton (1973), Charles Blount (1977), Caroline Boon (2000), Eberhard Burghalter (1979), lan Busby (1969), lan Byatt (1952), Warren Cabral (1982), Louise Cabral (1986), Richard Caine (2003), Raoul Cerratti (197 4), Hannah Chatham (2000), John Chelsom (1980), David Clynes (2004), Emily Coates (2000), Nicholas Cox (1982), Andrew Curtis (1978), Geoffrey de Deney (1951 ), Charles Debattista (1977), Alison Debattista (2002), Clark Downum (2004), Tim Fallowfield (1983), Alison Fallowfield (1984), Robin Fellerman (2004), Roger Fisher (1957), Joshua Fisher (2004), Richard Fishlock (1957), Duncan Fitzwilliams (1962), Angharad Fitzwilliams (1998), Vaughan Flood (197 4), Simon Freethy (1983), Sylvia Garry (2000), Michael Goodfellow (1967), John Harrison (1957), Will Hatchet (1962), Jess Hatchet (2001), Josh Herlihy (1974), Jonathan Hewitt (1958), Ken HinkleySmith (1960), Nick Howard (1976), AllanJay (1951), DavidJohnson (1956), Peter Johnson (1965), Simon Johnson (1994), Tim Johnson (1998), Barry King (1964), Roddie MacLeod (19 53), Pui-Tien Man (2004), Charles Marriott (1957), Maryanne Martin (Fellow), Peter Matthews (1988), Mike Mayer (1998), Paul McLaughlin (1979), Ted Mellish (1957), Emily Miller (2000), Mike Mingos (Principal), Daniel Mitchell (2000), Thomas Morgan (2000), Graham Morris 67

(1961), William Murray (1983), Erica Newman (2000), Monica Oberkofler (1997), Ernest Parkin (Bursar), Mike Pelham (1958),John Phillips (1957), Alan Pickett (1943), Rachel Poole (2004), Christopher Pope (Friend of the Hall), Richard Povey (2000), John Power (1943), Chris Proudfoot (1975), Mike Randall (1965), Martin Reynolds (1956), Ali Richardson (2000), Michael Rowan (1957), Martin Rust (2004), Jeremy Rycroft (1967), Graham Slater (1967), Maho Sato (2006), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (2000), Naomi Sellars (1982), Philip Shaw (1988), Lucy Shaw (1988), Simon Simonian (1962), Jo Smith (2004), Suzy Styles (2004), Christopher Sutton-Mattocks (1970), Hannah Tattersall (2004), Emma Taylor (2000), Peter Tudor (1951), Clive Waddington (1967), Guy Warner (1960), Chris Wells (Fellow), Nicola Wells (1987).

THE GARDEN PARTY, 24 JUNE The weather forecast was for showers but this did not deter 110 Aularians, most accompanied by their spouse or partner, in coming to the Summer Reunion. Some had travelled far to be there, including Simon Simonian from Washington DC and Vivek Katariya from Delhi. The most senior Aularian present was Farrand Radley (1935) who had travelled from London. Nearly 50 children came with their parent and were entertained by one, Olli Gosh, in the Old Dining Hall. Judging by the squeals of delight he did an excellent job modelling balloons, eating fire and performing a miscellany of other entertainment. Rumour has it that those adults present entered into the fun with even more gusto!

Things were a little more sedate in the garden of St Peter-in-the-East where a string quartet played under the leadership of violinist, Basil Kouvaritakis, whose other job is the Hall's Engineering Fellow. Meanwhile in the adjacent marquee, chef had laid on afternoon tea- a magnificent spread with delicate sandwiches, scones and cream, and cakes, which would not have been out of place at the Ritz. Whilst light showers occurred intermittently during the afternoon at 4pm the rain miraculously stopped allowing everyone to gather outside to watch our Visitor, Lord Patten, unveil the commemorative statue of St Edmund. The Principal welcomed Chris Patten and his wife and then the sculptor, Rodney Munday (1967) gave a brief background to his portrayal of Edmund. After a few words from our Visitor the veil was removed.

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Mitchell, his former tutor. And then the rain started again, bringing a natural end to the afternoon, which had allowed so many Aularians to meet friends and to show their families round the place where they spent a very happy time in their youth.

Francis Pocock (1960)

THE STORY BEHIND THE STATUE "Is there any other business?" asked Francis Pocock, at the SEH Association committee meeting in January 2004. "Yes", said the Principal, Mike Mingos, "2007 will be the 50th anniversary of the Hall being granted its Royal Charter.

Would the Association like to commemorate this by donating a piece of art, as it did in 1957 when it commissioned the painting by Ceri Richards for the chapel?" He suggested that an Aularian sculptor, Rodney Munday, might be interested in becoming involved.

Francis met Rodney at his home, where several of his works are displayed in the garden. "I saw that Rodney not only had great talent but also had the experience of creating large statues for outdoor display. We discussed many ideas, and a life-sized bronze statue of St Edmund emerged as the favourite."

Rodney researched the saint's life and came to the following conclusions: "Edmund was an extreme ascetic, who would in consequence have been emaciated. Overburdened by a sense of duty, he often gave way to the importunities of others, but did not do so simply as a matter of course, since he had a strong personality. He was a charismatic preacher and by confronting the king and barons, averted a civil war. He was also a frustrated scholar.

When the Canterbury monks came to ask him to become archbishop, he sent his servant back to them with the message, 'Go away, I'm reading!' Study was almost certainly Edmund's chief enjoyment, but enjoyment was not a priority for him; so I felt I would like to let him read at last, with the cross which he brandished whilst preaching pushed back a litde from the forefront of consciousness, a resting-place for his right hand. I also decided to portray him when he was teaching in Oxford in the parish of St Peter-in-the-East, before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1234."

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By May 2005 Rodney had produced a maquette, which allowed the Principal, the Governing Body and the Association to visualise Rodney's concept for the sculpture.

Two questions remained. How should the bronze statue be displayed and where should it be? "My wife and I were walking up Holmbury Hill in Surrey and came upon a curved metal seat", recalls Francis. "Whilst looking across the Sussex Weald the idea came to me of having Edmund sitting at one end of a curved stone block. This would provide an intimate setting for the statue and a great opportunity for graduation and other photos." Borrowing chairs from the Old Dining Hall, Rodney and Francis found the best position and orientation, which would allow those sitting on the seat to look across the garden, whilst passers-by would be able to see St Edmund through the wrought-iron gates to St Peter-in-the-East.

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Visits to stone masons followed. Woolley Edge Yorkstone was chosen as it colour would blend with existing stonework, it is hard wearing and has beautiful veining. In front of the bench a single row of matching paving stones would complete the statue with the central one being engraved: 'St Edmund of Abingdon'.

In September 2006, work began. Rodney created the statue in clay and a rubber mould was taken by the bronze foundry. Meanwhile, Francis developed a detailed operations plan with the four specialist contractors. In April 2007 construction began, with the new Home Bursar, Ernest Parkin, coordinating activities on site. A skeleton was uncovered during excavation and has now been re-interred under 12 inches of concrete with two tons of stone on top with another half ton of bronze for good measure! The schedule then hit a serious delay as the quarry staff had difficulties in finding such large pieces of stone without geological faults. Eventually they succeeded and their faultless stonework now looks splendid.

Three weeks before the unveiling, Queens Lane was closed for three hours while the two large stones were lifted by crane from the lorry into position.

Two days later the statue was delivered. Rodney made some final 'delicate' adjustments with a hammer, drill and angle grinder before the statue was secured in place with four long stainless steel rods - two under the saint's bottom, one under a foot and the fourth under his outstretched hand. But then a last-minute snag occurred- the paving stones did not fill the length of the bench. They were 65 mm short. With only two weeks to go, what could be done? Ernest donned his boiler suit and lifted the three left-hand stones before the cement had set hard. The stone masons cut a larger middle stone, engraved it and delivered it within a week and it was a perfect fit. With just four days before the garden party, the College staff could at last begin to make good the ground, ready for the unveiling on 24 June.

The ordinary life of college continued amid the welter of Charter events: The Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism is one of three major prizes offered each year by the Geddes Trust to promising student journalists across the University. The Trust is named after Philip Geddes, a member of St Edmund Hall and a journalist of considerable potential. After graduating he 71

joined the staff of the London Evening Standard, then moved to the staff of the Daily Express. In December 1983 he was in Harrods, the Knights bridge store, when orders were issued for the building to be evacuated. Realising there was a story to be had, he went to investigate. He was killed by the blast from a bomb planted by the IRA. Philip Geddes was just 24. The Clive Taylor Prize is named in memory of the distinguished cricket writer. In 2006, Charles Boss was the deserved winner of the Sports Journalism prize and he used his prize money to fund a fact-finding visit to New Zealand:-

REPORT OF CLIVE TAYLOR AWARD EXPEDITION TO NEW ZEALAND In July of 2006, the PIRA (Pacific Island Rugby Association) announced that it would only pick players previously capped by Pacific Island nations for its combined Islanders team to tour Scotland, Wales and Ireland in September.

The motivation behind this announcement was to prevent what has been perceived- particularly in England - the poaching of world class Polynesian players by the All Blacks. The high profile example of Sitiveni Sivivatu, who was one of two players to appear in the last combined tour in 2003 and then play for New Zealand the following year, has created a sense of international resentment against the All Blacks for undermining the rugby unions of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.

Therefore I proposed to travel to New Zealand and to Fiji to establish the facts behind an issue that has perhaps been coloured by intense media speculation- whether the All Blacks were gaining in some way an unfair advantage through recruiting Pacific Islanders into their team.

When I arrived in Auckland on 12 August, I joined up with the All Blacks' media manager, Scott Compton, and the All Blacks' first team selected to play Australia for the Tri-Nations title that weekend. While based with the All Blacks, I was able to meet their entire first fifteen, and conduct individual interviews with three of their most prominent Polynesian stars; Jerry Collins, Rodney So'oialo both of Samoan heritage, and Fijian-descended winger Joe Rokocoko. I was also scheduled to meet Jonah Lomu, the Tongan raised All Black who became rugby's most recognised face after the 1994 and 1998 World Cups. Unfortunately, due to other media commitments, he was unable to find time to honour this appointment.

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prepared to meet Auckland in a potentially decisive game in the Air New Zealand Cup. While there I became familiar with the club, and was able to interview prominent Samoan internationals Lome Fa'atua, born in New Zealand, and Mahonri Schwalger, born in Samoa, but whose brother has represented the Junior All Blacks. Furthermore, the Lions' communications manager Sam Rossiter-Stead (formerly with Leicester Tigers, and my host for the week) was able to arrange an extended one-on-one interview with former All Blacks captain- and the only one of Polynesian descent- Tana Umaga, despite Umaga's general refusal to conduct interviews. I was also able to discuss the issues my research has raised with a representative from the New Zealand Rugby Union, its Deputy Chief Executive, Steve Tew, at the NZRU's headquarters in Wellington. Mr Tew is the media spokesman for all issues involving the All Blacks.

In Suva, Fiji, I had arranged to meet with national coach Wayne Pivac. However, due to intense speculation that his contract was about to be terminated for poor performances, he had been forced to change his plans. On that basis, I travelled out to the smaller island of Mana, which I had been informed would provide an opportunity to witness the poverty that has led many immigrants to come to New Zealand. Staying with a Fijian family in a village on the other side on the island from the resort in which many of them work, I saw for myself the dichotomy between the Westernised paradise on one side and the desperate poverty in which the locals lived unobserved.

In talking with the players themselves, and with Mr Tew as an official spokesperson for the union as a whole, I noticed an interesting dichotomy between the NZRU defence against accusations of poaching stars from smaller nations and against those of betraying the country of these players' birth. The official NZRU stance involves quoting statistics (only 30 of the 1070 All Blacks have been born abroad) and deferring to the admittedly admirable record the NZRU has in aiding rugby development in the Pacific Islands. This view, to my mind, has an appearance of glossing over an apparently increasing problem (one third of this 30 have been involved in the All Blacks set-up in 2006). Consequently, it may well have fuelled the mistrust of the All Blacks' selection policy that has coloured media reports of the team in the UK and elsewhere abroad.

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the enormous benefits of a first-world economy to their own and their families' quality of life. Although seemingly obvious, it is a view largely overlooked in the UK, and one that is particular poignant in a country that has a history of embracing immigrants who in turn embrace that country's sporting culture- not least current England rugby union internationals from South Africa and New Zealand.

The experience of having shadowed the All Blacks in the build-up to the match in which they won the 2006 Tri-nations, and meeting rugby's most iconic figure, Tana Umaga, has increased my passion for a career in sports journalism.

Charlie Boss (2003, English)

1956 - A REMARKABLE VINTAGE On an early October evening in 1956, freshmen gathered in the quad before their first supper in Teddy Hall. John Kelly wandered among them, dispensing benign welcome in that inimitable voice none would ever forget. Fifty years later, on 29 September 2006, a goodly proportion of these men returned to the Hall.

But ou sont les neiges d'antan? Going through the front porch in 19 56 the notices referred to "gentlemen" not "students". Dickensian porters knew your name, preceding it with a respectful Mr. Dear Mrs Bucket (not Bouquet) served veal and ham pie and pickled eggs in the Buttery Bar. Chaps in cavalry-twill drainpipes smoked their pipes while downing their pints. Sherry was brought in to tutorials by a white-coated manservant in Graham's elegant rooms. We certainly had shared memories of a very different Oxford.

Most of us had done National Service. For instance David Glynne-Jones led patrols in Malaya; John Gurney was a fighter pilot; Grahame Partridge was on MTBs in the Baltic and on the carrier 'Ocean' in the Med just before Suez.

During the morning, memories were refreshed by interesting and informative guided tours which included the magnificent library in St Peter's (a bold and brilliant acquisition for all time), the atmospheric Old Library and the eclectic collection of paintings in the SCR.

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Fifty years is a long time and some of our erstwhile friends were, sadly, no longer with us. At midday their names were read out at a short, but poignant, act of remembrance led by Colin Atkinson in the chapel: Tom Baker, Derek Brown, Mike Evans, John Featherstone, John Gurney, Mike ]ones, Albert Leary, Murray Maw, Rod Paul, Ian Plant, Duncan Sinclair, Ken Ross, Brian Webb and Brian Whittaker. Sobering for those of us gathered there.

Afterwards 60 of us, including wives, sat down to a splendid lunch in the Wolfson Hall. Being traditionalists we may well have preferred the Old Dining Hall with its gallery and memories of merry dinners in front of a log-fire in the neighbouring Hearne Room. The indefatigable Michael Cansdale, to whom we are most grateful for organising this event, gave a characteristically urbane speech of welcome. He reminded us of some of the great names of the Hall whom we had known. Three of them, Dr Bruce Mitchell, Sir David Yardley and Mrs Jeannine Alton were able to join us as guests.

Bruce Mitchell gave an impromptu speech (with notes!), hoped we had not had too hard a time at Pentonville, and ascribed to us virtues we were surprised to think we could ever have possessed. But it was true, we had won everything on river and field, to the point of embarrassment. You had almost to be an international to get on the XV. Teddy Hall was special and one felt it.

Some other grander colleges were like a morgue to go into, but our welcoming quad always had cheerful friends around the well or in the buttery or playing shavers in the ]CR. David Short, he of the manic look and a CBE to boot, replied and, to show Bruce that his peerless skills as a tutor had not been in vain, quoted the AngloSaxon sentiment that /if is faene. Life may indeed be fleeting but Teddy Hall has a blessed durability. He also announced that plans are afoot for our centennial lunch in 2056, and to put the date in our diaries.

As our meal ended, we rose from our places, and mingled. The embalmers had done a good job. We tried, with some success, to recognise balding men with substantial paunches a:s the slim and hirsute youths of yesteryear, and exchange with them, in five minutes, the history of fifty years. If the men of 1956 were an exceptional vintage, then many of us had undoubtedly acquired the dubious accolade of a grand cru. Finally the Principal, Mike Mingos, greeted us with brief but warm words of salutation and volunteered to refrain from mention of the Development Fund on this occasion.

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We are more than ever conscious of what Oxford has meant to us since 1956. Wherever we found ourselves, in war or peace, in business or politics, in sports or social life, always the fact of Oxford seemed to be there. We make this acknowledgement with grateful hearts.

Grahame Partridge, David Short and John Andrewes Present were: Jeannine Alton, Brian Amor, John and Veronica Andrewes, Colin Atkinson, Ian Briars, Blake Bromley, Michael and Hilly Cansdale, Dumaresq Child, John and Mary Ducker, Fred and Ann Farrell, Ernest Fox, John French, David Glynne-Jones, Tony and Gillian Ham, David Henderson, Mike Highstead, Donald and Jane Hughes, David Johnson, Clive and Sheila Lawless, Jim and Marg Ann Markwick, Silvester Mazzarella, Tony McGinn, Mike and Stacey Mingos, Bruce and Mollie Mitchell,John Moorcroft, Andrew and Mary Page, Grahame and Sheena Partridge, John Pinnick, Michael Rider, David and Sue Short, Peter Slip, Billy Steele, Paul and Jennifer Tempest, Peter Whurr, George and Valerie Wiley, Bill Williams, David and Josie Williams, Gerald Williams, Howell and Maureen Wilson-Price, Gordon Woods, David and Patsy Yardley, John Young and Susan Hall.

The 1956 party continued ... here David Glynne-Jones and Veronica & John Andrewes wind down at The Bear, Woodstock [with apologies for the poor picture quality]

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There had been many apologies, including that of (Prof) Bob Gillard, celebrating his 70th birthday with his wife in Prague, Patrick Garland on holiday in Corsica, Alan Titcombe on holiday in Corfu, and Stewart Douglas-Mann at a board meeting in Boston! Three in New Zealand - (Prof) Andrew Thompson, Neville de Villiers, and Archie Ross; three in South Africa- Theo Lombard,John McQueen and Colin Orr; Roger Sutton (whom several have visited in Australia), (Pro f) Basil K.ingstone in Canada, Malcolm MacCormack in Uruguay, and Bob Emery and Leo Wynne in France (Leo very frail after a road accident). Almost every one of the 1956 vintage (still alive) either attended or sent greetings!

THE GEDDES LECTURE, 27 OCTOBER The 2006 Geddes lecture was delivered

by Matthew D'Ancona under the title of 'Confessions of a Hawkish Hack: the War on Terror and the Media'. The editor of the Spectator began his talk with a declared commitment to speak "unapologetically". He explained that he doesn't mind the neo-con tag, but prefers to be called a hawk. Beginning his discussion with 9/11, he argued that the horrific event defies existing language and intellectual categories, and requires a recognition of four propositions: 1) 9/11 was an act of war; 2) the attacks were driven by the "poisonous cultural phenomenon" of Islamist ideology, reflecting a "worldwide rising-up, primarily of young Muslim men, against the trajectory of world history." 3) Previous forms of conducting politics and responding to security threats are now inadequate and new forms such as the "pre-emptive strike" on Iraq should be always kept as an option; 4) the current conflicts are so new in character that mistakes are inevitable.

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cliplomacy, or by the cessation of America's violent military adventures in the Muslim and Arab world, or through ending the West's deeply unpopular support for Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people. This year's Geddes Lecturer argued instead that terror must be blamed on some mysterious nihilism emerging out of a profound cultural degeneration. Mr D'Ancona clid not pause to reflect on what most other commentators, public intellectuals, and politicians have seen as the real issues of our time: the policies of invasion and occupation, the unrestrained pillage of national resources, the destruction of the livelihoods of millions and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians- indeed these factors were given short shrift in Mr D'Ancona's lecture, which lasted over one hour and ten minutes.

Instead, Mr D'Ancona criticised journalists' recent efforts to report these events, and to hold those responsible for them accountable. He chastized the meclia, charging them with "domesticating" the war, of playing an "internal blamegame" by endlessly criticizing Blair and his aides, as opposed to focussing on the nature of the global Islamic threat, which will long survive the facling Prime Minister. The terrorists aim to clivide the west, we were told, and they gain from it when it is clivided. The meclia must become vigilant to that dangerous threat. Mr D'Ancona delivered exactly what he had promised us: the confessions of a hawkish hack.

Karma Nabulsi

CREATIVE WRITING AT THE HALL It has been another excellent year for writing at the Hall. Lucy Newlyn and Wes Williams have continued to run fortnightly workshops, attended by a group of declicated writers from the JCR and MCR. These informal, lively events have encouraged a wide variety of genres and approaches. Tom Clucas has been refining his skills as a writer of sestinas and villanelles; Alex Zelman's voice has emerged with increasing clarity and maturity in her dramatic lyrics; Matt Nice has experimented with fictional and non-fictional prose; Daniel Eltringham and Sebastian Langdell with short stories. Natalie McManus has been working on a novel, but has also tried her hand at stories compressed into 300 words- a challenging and rewarcling form. Mereclith Root-Bernstein has regularly contributed fluent, icliomatic translations from Spanish; while Rahul D'Silva and Laura Davis have both been producing fine, observant lyrics. It has been a pleasure to see all these gifted writers flourishing.

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The quality of work submitted this year to the Graham Midgley prize was outstanding, and the judges had a hard time choosing the winning entry, by Tom Clucas. The top three poems, all worthy of publication, are printed below. There are two further items of poetry news, relating to Visiting Students in English: Alex Zelman has had some poems accepted for publication in a forthcoming edition of the Oxford Magazine; and Philip Goldfarb has won the Eugene Lee-Hamilton prize, awarded by the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, for the best Petrarchan Sonnet in English submitted by an undergraduate of Oxford or Cambridge.

Lucy Newlyn and Wes Williams A note to his subconscious Will you forgive me now I've seen how cruelly I have hampered you how right you were, how wrong I've been?

I see now that you're not obscene; I've learned the worth of what you do: will you forgive me now I've seen?

You told me not to intervene, or judge what I would misconstrue how right you were; how wrong I've been.

I've learned your power doesn't mean that you're a threat I must subdue: will you forgive me now I've seen?

You urged me not to be so keen to call the commonplace taboo how right you were; how wrong I've been.

The fact my friends look so serene has proved my truths to be untrue: will you forgive me now I've seen how right you were, how wrong I've been?

Tom Clucas (2006, English Lang. & Lit.)

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Lucia (for James Joyce) They said you were like King Lear, tortured, holding his little Cordelia her skirts shifting under your careful arms.

Who were your men?

Women were pieced from the first girl in soft kneesocks pinning her hair in the window, never as frail as the man, his petals brown and curling-never full enough to lose leaves.

But now as this wispy breath falters in the shallows of his palms, for the first time there is a she, there is a whole, an imperfection.

Cradled near his breast is a guilt deeper than authorship.

Aliah O'Neill (2006, English, Philosophy)

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Approaches to the Sea I. If we sqy, attributing anything like Thought to the surrounding, then the overwhelming of the sea by horrible Aquylon sounds like a heartening move played somewhere in tempo.

II. Glinting and grieving at the tide, eight gulls stood a while at a proper distance.

Finally cacaw sought the wind.

It is difficult to laugh, so early in the morning. Impossible almost to turn to the nice thoughts if men, knowing what next to pray.

Neither you nor I have yet forgotten whom we thought better than all things, exceeding estimation.

But we could not help thinking His work would surely have turned us then to peace. And the gulls too, dribbling their way across.

To the blissfulness required and desired if a// things.

In some way bound to the few willful movements of the soul, the sea romping (mentioned by us in passing) would have appeared as a token, found by a hap upon the shore.

AS Zelman-Doering (2006, Visiting Student, English)

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MUSIC AT THE HALL Music in the Hall continues to thrive and it has once again been a busy year.

The college orchestra, which is run jointly with St Hilda's College have given three concerts this year at the Jacqueline Du Pre building, all of which were well attended and very successful. There have also been several memorable recitals in the beautiful setting of the College Chapel. In Hilary term many talented students contributed to an informal Friday Evening recital. There were performances on a variety of instruments and a particular highlight of this recital was a vocal performance by one of the ftrst year music students. A lunchtime recital was given in Trinity Term by the Artist in Residence, the Senior Member in Music and accompanied by one of the organ scholars, which included a performance of a piece specially written for the occasion by the Artist in Residence. On the fmal day of the academic year the students organised an evening of 'Songs from the Shows' which was very enjoyable.

The college quartet performed in the University Church in a memorial service and entertained old members and distinguished guests at one of the jubilee events that ftnished with the unveiling by the Visitor of the statue of St Edmund now gracing the churchyard. The College Chapel Choir continues to be successful and were lucky enough this year to beneftt from a Masterclass from the world famous Swingle Singers (pictured above), thanks to funding provided by the Masterclass Fund supported by Aularians. The year for the 82

Choir culminated in a fabulous tour to Rome, where under the direction of David Alien, they sang at a variety of historic venues.

Basil Kouvaritakis (Senior Member in Music) and David McCartney (2003, Medicine)

THE A B EMDEN LECTURE, 22 MAY Professor Richard Overy of Exeter University, a well-known historian of twentieth-century Germany, Russia and World War II, delivered the Emden History lecture, entitled "A Morbid Age: The 'Crisis of Civilization' between the Wars". He posed an old question: why should so many Europeans in the middle of the twentieth century have been so willing to accept, and even become involved in, extreme violence? And he sought to answer the question by looking not at economic or political questions, but intellectual and cultural ones- and especially popular attitudes towards science.

He traced what he called a 'morbid discourse' - a pessimistic language of civilisational disease and decline - in European thought. Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West and Sigmund Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents are the most famous examples, but his study of press articles, public lectures and discussions- from Women's Institutes to political societies- suggests that this was a concern among many, and not just intellectual elites. And the popular awareness of two scientific fields - biology and genetics - helps to explain this pessimism. In this period the notion that whole populations could be corrupted by defective genes became commonplace; eugenic solutions therefore became popular across the political spectrum. Secondly, psychoanalytic arguments which held that civilisation was threatened by deep, aggressive urges within all men, were widespread. All of these ideas contributed to the common belief that war was inevitable; some even saw it as a positive and necessary phenomenon. Professor Overy concluded his lecture by arguing that similar dangers existed today. Commentators were again declaring that western civilisation was in crisis. We had to be wary of these ideas and their potentially damaging effects.

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COLLEGE MOOTING COMPETITION, SPONSORED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM WHITE AND CASE The mooring competition for all first and second year law students has become an established feature of college life. A moot is a mock trial of competing legal arguments, and teams are assessed by the presentation of a written note of argument and oral advocacy. Each team has a first year student and second year student, with the first year taking the role of lead counsel. Law Tutors Adrian Briggs and Derrick Wyatt do the judging, and this year had the very welcome assistance for the final of a third judge on the bench in the shape of DPhil research student Andrew Rushworth. The overall standard was outstanding, and judging the heats was difficult because teams were so closely matched. The winning team was Benjamin Toms and Serena Lee, and the runner-up team was Jo Knights and Edwin Chappell.

Wu Zhuang Hui was Master of Moots, and Emily Morton was clerk of the court.

The competition was sponsored by international law firm White and Case, and awards were presented to all participants at a celebratory reception b y partner Alistair Graham (SEH 1980 and Head of Alistair Graham presenting a winners Commercial Litigation with White and award to Ben Toms Case). Grateful thanks go to Betony Griffiths and Rebecca Ting (Development Office) for their organisational support. We look forward to another White and Case-sponsored Mooring Competition in 2008.

Derrick Wyatt

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE There is an apocryphal story in the JCR that many years ago a team from Teddy Hall reached the televised rounds of "University Challenge", drank rather a lot before going on TV and answered 'William of Orange' to every question. As a result the college was banned from returning for at least 10 years. Over the years the story has been progressively embellished - some versions say that we even managed to finish with a positive score, others that Jeremy Paxman was made a Fellow so that we would be allowed back on.

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made it onto the televised rounds for many years, certainly not since Paxo became the question-master.

Following trials at College the team of Sophie Brice, Daniel Lowe, Ian Lyons, Sean McMahon and Michael Sopp were selected, sent the application form to Granada Tv, and were subsequently invited for an interview. This is the traditional stumbling block of most would-be contestants, as the show's producers whittle down the 200-odd teams that apply to the 30 that finally make it onto television. A few weeks later we were stunned and pleased to receive a call from Granada inviting us to appear on the show.

In late June, the team travelled up Manchester to fllm the first round of the show, accompanied by a few parents and supporters from college. The match was fllmed at the end of Trinity term, before all the team had finished their exams. Merely getting to Manchester proved a challenge; cancelled trains in the Midlands due to the flash flooding led to the team taking a taxi from Birmingham to get there, whilst some of those coming to watch did not make it at all. Nonetheless the team all managed to arrive, to discover that our opponents were the University of Durham, who had not lost in the first round for many years.

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from oysters and processed meat to genres of Science Fiction literature, all of which we attempted to answer with varying degrees of success. Before the filming begins, you are given some practice questions and despite managing to answer almost every practice question incorrectly, they settled everyone's nerves and we expected to fair better in the match itself. It seemed to work; despite having been 80-30 down ten minutes in, Teddy Hall beat Durham convincingly by 255-120, one of the highest scores in the first round.

The second round brought a vastly different challenge in the form of the previous year's runners-up, Manchester University. The Teddy Hall team were certainly not overawed by either occasion; Daniel even had the audacity to contest an answer. Even better, he was right! We can't divulge the result of the match though it's close and there are only 40 points in it at end. Hopefully there will be many more appearances of the Hall on "University Challenge" and we look forward to seeing a new team attempting to tackle Paxman next year.

Ian Lyons (2005) [By the time this magazine is published the first round match should already have been televised, but readers should keep an eye on TV schedules for the second round match which will be broadcast on BBC2 - but probably not before the end of October at the earliest].

A GEOGRAPHERS' REUNION, 14 JULY A visitor entering the College quad around 3pm on the afternoon of Saturday 14th July would have been greeted by an animated scene. Two groups were having photographs taken. It was a degree day and one was made up of new graduates, proudly sporting their smart gowns and hoods, and arranging themselves in a variety of poses on the well to be photographed by admiring relatives and friends. The other group, much older and a little more sedate, was assembled rather more formally against the backdrop of the chapel. The young graduates, absorbed in distributing themselves artistically, were largely unaware of the older folk; the latter, almost all of them in their early seventies, were keenly aware of the younger ones because they were in SEH to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their own graduation in 1957, and the scene was one to evoke memories of what they themselves had been doing on a similar day half-a-century before. What had been their hopes and expectations then, and had they been realized?

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The occasion for the older people, some 30 of them, was a reunion of Oxford geographers who had taken Schools in 1957. It was the brainchild of David Cooper, who had been an undergraduate at St Peter's Hall (as it then was) and is one of those indefatigable networkers and keepers-in-touch without whom these things tend not to happen. He it was who traced as many of our contemporaries as he could find, quite a feat since geographers were more widely distributed amongst the colleges in the 1950s than they are today. My task was to provide a venue and that is why we were in St Edmund Hall, undoubtedly the best choice since the Hall does these parties so well (so "Call the Hall" if you are interested in organizing an event). People arrived for morning coffee, served in the old JCR well, and we had pre-lunch drinks in the quad, lunch in the Old Dining Hall and, after an interval for photographs and a wander round, tea back in what is now the well of the buttery. It was a beautiful sunny day, rare in the summer of 2007. One had walked no further than from Norham Gardens; one had flown in specially from New South Wales in Australia. The rest had travelled from various parts of the UK. Guests of Honour were Andrew Goudie, once the Hall's Lecturer in Geography, later Professor of Geography in the Oxford School of Geography and now Master of St Cross College, together with his wife Dr Heather Viles, Fellow in Geography at Worcester College. They provided a link be87

tween the Geography of our day which was heavily regional in character, and modern Geography with its emphasis on the environment and its problems such as global warming. Everyone present had copies of the flrst two Schools papers that we wrote in the summer of 1957, a prompt if it were needed for after-lunch reminiscences and nostalgia.

One always approaches this kind of reunion with an element of trepidation.

Shall I recognise those not seen for many years and how will they have changed?

But invariably it turns out well and this was certainly a lively and much-enjoyed occasion. As we watched the youngsters in their BA gowns we wished them every success and hoped that they would be content enough to reassemble in 50 years' time.

Ian Scargill OBITUARIES

THE REV PROFESSOR JOHN MCMANNERS CBE, 1916-2006 Genial and active scholar-priest who compiled a magisterial history of the Church in 18th-century France JOHN McMANNERS, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, will be remembered in scholarly circles for his distinguished contribution to the history of France, her Church and her revolution.

John McManners - known to family and friends as Jack- was born on Christmas Day, 1916, in the coalmining area of Co Durham. His father, Joseph, was a miner who, in 1930, was ordained into the Church of England, ministered to his own people in Ferryhill as curate and vicar, and finished his ministry in York. His mother, Ann, was a schoolteacher.

McManners, who would keep his soft Durham accent all his life, went to the local school at Ferryhill and the Alderman Wraith Grammar School in Spennymoor. In 1935 he went up as a history exhibitioner to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and discovered the excitement of scholarship as he sat at the feet of the medievalist A B Emden, whose tutorials often stretched out into three-hour marathons. He took a flrst in the history school in 1939 and was

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poised for further years of research when the war broke out and he joined up.

He was commissioned into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and served with them through the shifting fortunes of the campaign in the Western Desert.

He was at the siege of Tobruk, commanded a company in the retreat to the Alamein line, and fought through Alamein to the fall of Tunis. After victory, as a major at Cairo GHQ, he served with the 2i0 British Liaison Unit (Greek Mission), and one of his proud possessions was the decoration of the Order of King George II of the Hellenes, awarded him by the King of Greece in 1945.

In 2002 he published Fusilier, a book of recollections about his war service, which was praised as a thoughtful, sensitive depiction of men at arms. It did not romanticise the brutality of war or the harshness of barrack-room life.

Neither did it shy away from the absurd moments of a military campaignthe spirit of Evelyn Waugh's Guy Crouchback was never very far away.

Above all it combined a warm picture of the hard men with whom he served with an attempt at a theological comment on bloodshed and chaos: "You can, almost in despair, turn to the God who suffers with His creation, accepting the burden of sin that arises from human freedom, and taking it on Himself."

The war over, but deeply affected by his experiences, McManners returned to his native county and to his father's vocation. He read theology at St Chad's College, Durham, and was ordained deacon in 1947 and priest in 1948.

After serving a curacy at Leeds Parish Church, he returned to Oxford, to his former college as chaplain and lecturer and, from 1949, as chaplain and Fellow in history.

While teaching a wide range of subjects, he also represented the college, disguised as an undergraduate, in the tennis VI and the second XI hockey team, as well as administering decanal discipline with a mixture of firmness and an understanding of youthful fallen human nature. His carefully prepared puns produced appreciative groans from generations of undergraduates.

In 19 51 he married Sarah Carruthers Errington and they started out on a happy married life. With their first son they lived in married quarters within the college, an unheard-of thing in times of undiluted male society.

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In 1956, after much heart-searching but drawn by a boyhood fascination for Australia, McManners moved to take up the chair of history in the University of Tasmania. He arrived in Hobart to find himself embroiled in an unhappy controversy over the dismissal of the professor of philosophy, Sidney Orr. It was a cause celebre with important implications for university administration in Australia, and McManners's deep belief in justice and fairness forced him, despite his hatred of strife and intrigue, to take sides against the Establishment.

In 19 59, after three years of this unhappy atmosphere, he was relieved to be offered the chair of history at the University of Sydney.

In later years he often talked of his enjoyment in being part of a large, vigorous and experimenting department, and of the beauty of his house on Kangaroo Hill overlooking the bay. A taste of Oxford, when he returned to the UK as visiting Fellow to All Souls in 1965, did not diminish his affection for Australia, and he would happily have remained there if the desire to be nearer his aged parents had not persuaded him to return to England in 1967.

There followed five years as professor of history in the University of Leicester until, in 1972, the Queen appointed him to the Regius Chair of Ecclesiastical History in Oxford and to a canonry in Christ Church. He settled into his splendid lodgings in Tom Quad, continuing his research and writing, and reinforcing the historical importance of his chair, which some historians in the university had come to view with suspicion and unfriendliness.

His first book, in 1960, French Ecclesiastical Society under the Ancien Rigime: a Stuc!J of Angers in the Eighteenth Century had established him at once as one of the foremost scholars in the field of French history, and his subsequent books, especially The French Revolution and the Church (1969) and Church and State in France, 1870-1914 (1972), confirmed this reputation.

McManners's scholarship reflected the qualities which made him popular: humour, a sympathetic understanding of the saintly and of the wicked, and the ability to breathe life into a mass of detail and documentation.

The book on Angers was unusual in many ways in 1960. It examined in detail how church life was organised at a local level and the impact which this ecclesiastical life made on society in a relatively small provincial city. This approach has become increasingly common in the intervening years, particularly in Reformation history, but at the time it was arresting to find an

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early chapter dwelling, say, on the lives of organists and choirboys rather than the political manoeuvrings of lordly prelates. Written with great poise and elegance, it was also marked by a dry humour and a sharp wit.

His Death and the Enlightenment (1981) won the Wolfson Literary Award for history and was hailed by The Times as one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year.

McManners retired from Christ Church in 1984 when All Souls elected him to a fellowship and the college chaplaincy. In his time at All Souls he published several books. The O:>iford Illustrated History of Christianity (1990) was a lavishly illustrated book for the informed general reader which he edited skilfully, bringing together contributions from an extraordinary collection of eminent historians. His introduction was characteristically elegant and humane, ending with a quotation from Flaubert.

French ecclesiastical history remained his first academic love and in 1998 he published Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. This was a lifetime's work distilled into two huge volumes totalling nearly 1,700 pages. In many ways its monumental scale was in itself reminiscent of an earlier era. Reviewers commented that it was Braudelian in scope and in structure.

McManners's command of detail was assured - the notes ran to nearly 200 pages- but he wore his learning lightly. Every couple of pages brought an anecdote or an illustration that could surprise even the best-read expert.

All Souls gave McManners a congenial academic home in retirement. When he stepped down in 2001 he was elected to an honorary fellowship. The college was also the scene of 17 years of unobtrusive and unfussy pastoral ministry with his colleagues and many others beyond the college.

One fruit of his time at All Souls was a slim book, All Souls and the Shiplry Case 1808-1810 (2002). Opening a sealed packet ofletters while researching Bishop Heber, McManners had stumbled across the tale of a scandal surrounding a Fellow of the early 19th century who fell foul of sexual allegations which blighted his later career. The turns and twists of the rather sad story were told gently and yet with the expertise of a born storyteller. The later chapters are worthy of a fine detective story.

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Those who had heard his Oxford inaugural lecture on "The Art of Dying in 18th-Century France", with its beautifully controlled mixture of laughter and sadness, might well have wished that Jack McManners could have written his own obituary. The man and the voice that so many people had known and loved, in the pulpit, in the lecture room, through his books, and in friendship, would have done it so much better.

The Rev Professor John McManners, CBE, historian, was born on December 25, 1916. He died on November 4, 2006, aged 89. Š2006 Times Newspapers Limited JOHN NEWSOM-DAVIS FRS CBE, 1932-2007 John Newsom-Davis, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, was tragically killed in a car accident on 24 August 2007. Following a morning visit to a hospital in Bucharest, he and his wife, Rosemary, left to look at churches and monasteries when the accident occurred. At the time of writing, Rosemary still is recovering from serious injuries sustained in the accident.

John became associated with St Edmund Hall in 1987, when he became the Action Research Chair of Clinical Neurology and a Professorial Fellow, succeeding the distinguished clinician, Brian Matthews. John led the Dept of Clinical Neurology for eleven years. During this time he helped the department develop international leadership in molecular and systems-level neuroscience.

His own field of immune-mediated diseases affecting the brain and neuromuscular system was transformed by his insights and the close links that he fostered between clinical and basic neuroscientists.

Extending his earlier contributions demonstrating that myasthenia gravis (a disorder of signalling between nerves and the muscles they control) occurs when the body "fights itself" with abnormal immune response generating self-directed antibodies, his group (with his long-time colleague, Angela Vincent) demonstrated clearly that two other diseases of the nerve-muscle junction, the Lambert Eaton myasthenic syndrome and acquired neuromyotonia, also were due to antibodies to proteins that control the signalling process. His group (particularly with David Beeson) further showed how genetic disorders affecting the nerve-muscle junction can produce similar syndromes. However, perhaps most importantly, John also led the translation of this new understanding to improved treatments for myasthenia gravis, 92

making Oxford an internationally recognised centre of excellence.

John had a huge commitment to leadership in the clinical neurosciences more generally. With George Radda, Alan Cowey and Paul Matthews (also a fellow of this college), he established the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance of the Brain (FMRIB), a facility which has since become a world-leading centre for advanced research in uses of MRI for understanding brain functions.

He led in many important public bodies. He was extremely active in supporting the Myasthenia Gravis Society in several capacities. He was President of the Biomedical Section of the British Association of the Advancement of Science, President of the Association of British Neurologists, a Founder member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and twice Chair of the MRC Neurosciences Board. In 1997, he became Editor of Brain, one of the two leading neurology journals, which he effortlessly took into the 21st century, helping to transform it into a forum for the latest in clinically-relevant science. He travelled widely, gave superb lectures, and was awarded many prizes and honours including election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992, a rare honour for a clinician.

A CBE followed in 1996, and Foreign Membership of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, USA in 2001.

After John's "retirement", although he and Rosemary moved back to London, he remained very active and closely associated with Oxford. In association with other myasthenia experts in the USA, he took on the huge task of organising and funding (via the National Institutes of Health in the USA) a multicentre trial of thymectomy, a widely used surgical treatment for myasthenia gravis, to determine its true value given the wider range of medical approaches now available. He continued to see patients and was a regular presence in the neuroimmunology laboratory of the Oxford Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine.

While his busy research life kept him in the department primarily, John enjoyed his association with St Edmund Hall. With Alastair Compston, Prof. of Neurology in Cambridge, John started annual Oxbridge Neuroscience meetings that alternate annually between Jesus College, Cambridge and the Hall. John always led his Brain editorial board meetings from the Hall and accompanied the associated dinners with diverting anecdotes of Oxford life for the visiting Americans. He also ensured that he kept up with major functions before his retirement.

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John was a great pleasure to be around. He showed exceptional kindness and was always considerate of those with whom he worked. He took great care to remember names and to inquire after family members. Exceptionally, he carefully memorised the names of all of the medical students who rotated through neurology every year, remembering them ever after! He will be greatly missed by his family and by all of us who had the privilege of knowing him.

John Newsom-Davis was born on October 18, 1932. He died on August 24, 2007 aged 74, survived by his wife and three children.

Paul M Matthews (MA, MD, DPhil, FRCP) & Angela Vincent (MA, MB, (BS, MSc Lond), FRCPath) SUSAN LYNN HURLEY, 1954-2007 Former Fellow in Philosophy, 1985-94 Influential pbilosopber who pioneered tbe union of the cognitive and the social sciences Professor Susan Hurley was a philosopher of international distinction. After holding a chair in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the U niversity of Warwick (1994-2006) she was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She achieved international prominence in two fields - legal philosophy and the philosophy of psychology - and did pioneering work to bring these separate fields into constructive contact.

Susan Lynn Hurley was born in Santa Barbara, California, in 1954. She graduated from Prince ton University in 1976. After taking a BPhil in Philosophy at Oxford she became the first female Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in January 1981. She also took a doctorate in law from Harvard Law School in 1988. She was a tutorial fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from 1985 to 1994 before taking up chairs at Warwick and, last year, Bristol.

Many philosophers would agree in principle that philosophy can and should find sources of nutrition in other field s of inquiry. But few put this theoretical approval for interdisciplinary work into practice to the extent that Hurley did. Her writing, which covers an extraordinary range of topics, brought an encyclopaedic command of relevant material, from outside philosophy as well as inside it, to the service of a penetrating philosophical intellect and a lawyer's skill in organising an argument. Aspirations to comprehensive understanding came naturally to her. In a less intellectually scrupulous person, this might have led to pretentiousness and hand-waving, but her breadth of 94

ambition was allied to definiteness and scholarly discipline.

In Natura/ Reasons (1989) she argued that practical rationality functions in the context of a multiplicity of values that are, in a metaphysically unthreatening sense, objective. Her extensive defence of this idea exploits reflections not only in the philosophy of mind and language and the philosophy of law, but also in formal decision theory, a subject in which she made herself expert. A running theme of the book is a comparison, reminiscent of the main idea of Plato's Republic, between individual choice by subjects who are susceptible to the pull of conflicting values, and social choice when the polity must take account of the conflicting preferences of different individuals.

Her most influential book, Consciousness in Action (1998), was originally planned under the title (appropriated, in the published version, for the theme-setting introductory chapter) "The Reappearing Self". The book's target was a tendency for thought about mentality to have difficulty in finding a place in the natural world for the self, the conscious mind. Hurley traced the difficulty to the attractions of a picture of consciousness as a point at which perceptual input makes contact with behavioural output. She replaced that picture "the Input-Output Picture"- with one in which, as she put it, "the self does not lurk hidden somewhere between perceptual input and behavioural output, but reappears out in the open, embodied and embedded in the world".

Her resources for this project included not only pure philosophical reflection, starting with Kantian questions about the unity of consciousness and the later Wittgenstein's appeal to the concept of practice, but also empirical findings and empirically responsible theoretical speculation in the physiology and psychology of human, and more generally animal, behaviour.

The rich exploitation of empirical material was not a merely decorative appendage to a purely philosophical argument, but an integral element in a sustained train of thought. This book, together with work that extends its themes, attracted much attention in the active interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies, in which Hurley was a notable figure.

Justice, Luck, and Know/edge (2003) aimed to bring together two trends in recent philosophy that, though they should have been connected, have operated in near isolation from one another. One is the coming to prominence of the idea that distributive justice requires us to correct inequalities grounded in 95

luck while respecting inequalities for which people are responsible. The other is a rethinking of the idea of responsibility.

Philosophical thought about responsibility has moved away, in various directions, from the traditional idea that responsibility for one's actions resides in its having been possible for one to act otherwise than one did.

Hurley magisterially surveyed and intervened in an enormous literature in both these fields. She argued that "opening the black box" that the topic of responsibility has largely been in reflection about justice, reveals unsuspected problems for the luck-neutralising understanding of the basis for egalitarianism.

And she recommended that we should replace neutralising luck with neutralising bias- neutralising influences that distort beliefs about what should be done as the central element in a conception of distributive justice.

Hurley co-edited a two-volume collection of papers on imitation (2005), and a collection of papers on rationality in non-human animals (2006). And between her books, and while she was shaping up to them, she was prolific in conference presentations, anthology contributions and journal articles. She held visiting posts at Berkeley, Princeton, Harvard and Canberra.

She was active nearly to the end. At her death, as at all times in her working life, she had a great range of work planned and work in progress. It would be hard to overstate how great a loss her death is to philosophy and the neighbouring intellectual enterprises in which she was also at home.

She was a memorably lively person with a wide range of interests outside philosophy, including scuba diving, skiing, photography and tango dancing, as well as a love of travel to places as diverse as Italy, China and Hawaii. She reluctantly cancelled a projected trip to Australia and Fiji only a few days before her death.

Hurley is survived by her husband, Professor Nicholas Rawlins, and by their two sons.

Professor Susan Hurley, philosopher, was born on September 16, 1954.

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FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2007 were 365 undergraduates (202 men, 163 women); 157 post-graduates (82 men, 75 women); and 31 Visiting Students (17 men, 14 women).

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Geography Class II i Thomas P Buttress, Kate J Leyland Sarah L Filby, James W Hogan Class II ii Jurisprudence Class I Eleanore S Di Claudio, Adam R Peacock Class II i Raymond J F Duddy, Teoh K Goh, Edward G Higbee, Osawamoto Jegede, Inaamul H Laher, Sara L Sinfield Joanna L Buick Class II ii Materials, Economics & Management Class I Anthony D Kay, Emily J Mallam Materials Science Class II i Nicholas J Rounthwaite Mathematics Class I Edward C Blois-Brooke, Sanjay A Shah Class II i Robin M Feller man, Hannah J Tatters all Mathematics & Computer Science Class I Lu Z Gram Mathematics & Philosophy Class I Christoph Haltiner Medical Sciences Class II i Helen J Butler, Xin Hui S C Chan,Jeremy F Heath, Joanna E Sumpter 104

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Alistair G L Borthwick Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Chemistry: Cara S Tredget Clinical Medicine: Ziad Ali Earth Sciences: Felicia M J Shar Engineering.

Gongsheng Huang, Paul D Couchman English: Lucy A Reynolds History: Matthew Kott Social Studies: Adam Whitworth Master of Literature (MLitt) History of Art: Elizabeth A Mellings Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Comparative Social Poliry: Catherine L Blair Economics: Kathrin Weisspfennig International Relations: Anna C Heimbichner Law: Noam Gur (Distinction) Medical Anthropology: Amelia G T Van Manen Modern European History: Thomas C Marsden (Distinction) Politics: Carl Saucier-Bouffard Social Anthropology: Alejandro Reig Santilli Master of Science (MSc) Applied Statistics: Biodiversity, Conservation & Management.

Comparative & International Education: ComputerScience: Economic & Social History: Economicsfor Development: Environmental Change & Management.

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Evidence-Based Social Work: Financial Economics: Forced Migration: Global H ealth Science: Higher Education: Mathematics & Foundations of Computer Science: Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing.

Nature, Society & Environmental Poliry: Neuroscience: Politics & International Relations Research: Research Methods in P!Jchology: Science & Medicine of Atheletic Performance: Water, Science Poliry & Management.

Jane Lilly Wie Nie, Tsung-Ying Wu, Anne Nierhoff Sara A R Parry Michael April KaiYu Charles Melby-Thompson (Distinction), Dung Nguyen (Distinction) Liya Asner (Distinction), Laurent Montete Alexandros Kallergis Bartholomew Pleydell-Bouverie (Distinction) Florian H T Albert Sarah Chapman Clare J Lobb, Lacey Wismer Erin Spinner

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AWARDS AND PRIZES UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES

BP Prize for the best 4th year Project in the Honour School of Earth Sciences David Al-Attar

Burdett Coutts Prize for the best Field Mapping Report in Finals in the Honours School of Earth Sciences Joanne C Smith

Degussa Prize for the best performance in Chemistry Part lA Michael J Tucker

Gibbs Prize for Performance in English Moderations {2006} Anna R W Stewart

Gibbs Prize for the best performance in the Honour School of Earth Sciences Joanne C Smith

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Hill Foundation Scholarship Alexander V Iosad

Junior Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarships Sara J H Crowley-Vigneau Victoria Fergusson

Johnson-Matthey Annual Prize for highest mark in Prelims 2006/7 in Materials H elen Boffey

JP Morgan Prize for the best performance in the Introduction to Management paper in Economics & Management Prelims J as on D Kasler

Keith Cox Prize 2007 for the best 2nd year Mapping Report in the Honour School of Earth Sciences J oanne C Smith

Martin Wronker Prize for the best performance in Tort in the Honour School ofJurisprudence Adam R Peacock

Maurice Lubbock Prize for performance in the Honour School of Engineering Science Paul R Thornton

Quadrant Chambers Prize for the best performance in International Trade in the Honour School ofJurisprudence Eleanore S Di Claudio

Schlumberger Prize for performance in Geophysics in the Honour School of Earth Sciences Melanie D Savage

Shell Prize for the best performance in the Honour School of Earth Sciences D avid Al-Attar

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Slaughter & May Prize for best performance in Criminal Law Qingxiang Li

The Lucy Oldfield Prize (2nd Prize) by the Institute of Glass Technologists in Part 2 of the Honour Schools in Materials Science {2006} J ames P Minshull

The Scott Prize for performance in the Teaching and Learning Physics in Schools option in the Honour School of Physics Russell J Martin

EXTERNAL AWARDS

Chevening Scholarship Solinn Lim Tena Simonovic Einwalter

Glaxo SmithKlein Bursary Michael J Tucker

Intelsat Communicator Scholarship Thomas E Stimson

Marshall Scholarship Aliza H Watters

Overseas Research Studentships (ORS Award) LongJiang Cara A Krmpotich Ana C M Malhado J eremy Rappleye Meredith M Root-Bernstein Martin A Rust Suzy J Styles

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Rhodes Scholarship Michael D April Clare J Lobb Nicholas M Schmitz

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS

Clarendon Fund Bursaries Nathan W D Fisher Noam Gur LongJiang Cara A Krmpotich Sebastian J Langdell Ana C M Malhado David A Newheiser Hieu Trung Ngo Kiran Rajashekariah Meredith M Root-Bemstein Martin A Rust Suzy J Styles ZhenYu

Karim Rida Said/Oxford Scholarship Lala Demirdjian

MDC Prize Studentship Janet L Kenyan

Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award ShashaLiu

QEH Commonwealth Scholarship Nana K Kufuor

Scatcherd European Scholarship Bjoem A Dueben

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Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship Sourav K Ghosh

Waverley Scholarship Hieu Trung Ngo

COLLEGE SCHOLARS David Al-Attar Rosalind M G Armytage Edward C Blois-Brooke E leanor C Bradley Rachel W Chang Ryan M Buckingham Jonathan M Edge Raymond J F Duddy Robert C Gallagher Oliver C Gingell Lu Zhang Gram Richard J I Good Martin A Heimburger Susanna R Herbert Anthony D Kay Thomas Jackson Michael R Kember Rohan Keswani Emily J ane Mallam David E McCartney M Faiz Nagutha Tatiana Novikova Alexis Radisoglou Helen L Ramsden Joanne C Smith Jessica L F Stevenson Thomas E Stimson Jonathan P A Taylor Olivia N S Valner Jessica S Tyrrell COLLEGE ORGAN SCHOLARS David Allen David McCartney Nicholas J Race COLLEGE CHORAL SCHOLARS Garreth S Brooke Nancy Cole Ruth F Evans Emma MJones Peter D Langridge Sally McLaren

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Prances S Asquith Peter W Brice Adam R Coates Louise E Elliott Matthew John Goff Christoph Haltiner Caroline L Hickson Andrew R Keech Inaamul Haq Laher Pui-Tien Man Adam R Peacock David M Saleh Anna R W Stewart Michael J Tucker J akub Zavodny

COLLEGE EXHIBITIONERS Charles A Allen Robert J Ardern E Kerrie S Barrett Zoe E Barber Alan P Chetwynd Chloe I Brindley Robert C Cookson George Economides F William Herbert Leonie B Gutmann Alexander V Iosad J Amy J ackson Miles Lambie Catherine J Lamb Vera Litvin Sally McLaren David V Puttergill Richard Matthewman Sanjay A Shah Melanie D Savage Anna Ward Andrew J Smye

Laura C Ball Thomas Braithwaite Simone L Claisse Robin M Fellerman Nassia Inglessis Ken Kawamoto Helen K Lesowiec Paul D Mather Karolina Raczynska Sophie C Slater Zhuang Hui Wu

WILLIAM R MILLER POSTGRADUATE AWARDS SarahJ Fine Noam Gur Scot M Peterson ST EDMUND HALL GRADUATE SCHOLARS Cara A Krmpotich Klearchos Loukopoulos Nicola Ayton Mark L Potter Meredith Root-Bernstein Oliver Noterdaeme OTHER COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES

Reggie Alton Prize Amrik Singh-Thomas

Beaverbrook Bursaries Charles A Alien Eleanor C Bradley Rachel S Harris Emma MJones Arabella H Lawson Anand R Sampat Michael J Tucker

Michelle M Barton Rosalyn L Croek Rosalind J Harrison Siriol A J oyner Andrew M Miller Sophie C Slater

Sam C Belcher William D C Frass Daniel C J Henchman Peter D Langridge Matthew G Nice Amanda N Teefey Lee

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Ron and Sheila Best Bursaries Charles A Alien Eleanor C Bradley Rachel S Harris Emma MJones Arabella H Lawson Anand R Sampat Michael J Tucker

Michelle M Barton Rosalyn L Croek Rosalind J Harrison Siriol A J oyner Andrew M Miller Sophie C Slater Jakub Zavodny

Brockhues Graduate Awards Vadim Filimonov Hieu T Ngo Olivier A P Noterdaeme Marietta Papadatou-Pastou J eremy Rappleye Sandra D Romenska

Mrs Brown Bursary Divya Athmanathan B Caidyn Schwartz Wei Wang Xingjian Wu

Cochrane Scholars Victoria Fergusson Rebecca L Powderly Alexander R C Trench

Richard Fargher Bursary Victoria Fergusson Peter D Langridge Paul D Mather Sophie C Slater Alexander R C Trench

Philip Geddes Memorial Prize Robert C Cookson

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Sam C Belcher William DC Frass Daniel C J Henchman Peter D Langridge Matthew G Nice Amanda N Teefey Lee

Lynn Gilbert Bursary Emily J Mallam Wei Wang

Gosling Postgraduate Bursary

Jennifer H Chung Kristen A Underhill

Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Xin-Hui S C Chan Fay H Dalby Victoria Fergusson Sophia Lyscom Rebecca L Powderly Louka Travlos

Instrumental Bursary Samuel C L Crouch Marina 0 J ohns Lucinda O'Connor

Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Tom Clucas, for the poem A note to his subconscious

Michael Pike Prize Jakub Zavodny

Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Xin-Hui S C Chan Fay H Dalby

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DEGREE DATES 2007-2008 Michaelmas Term 2007 Saturday 20 October Saturday 3 November Saturday 24 November

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Michaelmas Term 2008 Saturday 27 September (in Examination Schools) Saturday 25 October (in Examination Schools) Saturday 8 November Saturday 29 November

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If you would like to collect your degree the application form is downloadable from the Aularians section of the college website (wwwseh.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 Having just started as Director of Development at the Hall in June 2007, one of my first tasks was to write a review of the previous year's activities for this Magazine! I am therefore extremely grateful to Betony Griffiths for supplying me with the relevant information.

I have come all the way from the Hertford College Development Office to join the Hall, so although I am not an Oxonian, I am familiar with the delights and vagaries of the College system. I have had a very warm welcome and I must admit that the food is better than at Hertford. The fierce loyalty of Aularians to their College, and also their generosity has impressed me already.

The day-to-day work of the office was managed for the last two years by the Principal with the support of Betony Griffiths and Rebecca Ting, who have done a marvellous job of running the office in the absence of a fulltime Director. In recognition of this hard work, Betony was promoted to Deputy Director of Development in June 2007.

Since its launch, in January 2006, the Annual Fund has secured a total of £387,277 in actual and pledged donations from old members, parents and friends of the College. £121k of this was received in 2006 and the residue of £265.9k will be received in the next five years. A total of 709 alumni, parents and friends have become Annual Fund Donors since the launch.

The Hall conducted another successful telephone campaign in March 2007.

A total of £139,359 was pledged during the campaign, with nearly 50% of those contacted pledging a gift. Thank you to all those who gave up their time to talk to a current student. Whether you donated or not, the Hall is committed to keeping in touch with its Old Members, and welcomes any feedback or updates you have for us. In addition to the Annual Fund, the Hall received several major gifts and some substantial bequests, bringing the combined total raised to just over £1.1 million in the last financial year. This is a great achievement and one I hope to improve on over the next year!

Our US-based Aularians are well on their way to reaching their target of $1 million to endow a 'Charter Scholarship'. The interest from this endowment will be used to provide a scholarship for a US student wishing to study at the

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Work will begin on the Jarvis Doctorow Lecture Theatre in September and work will be completed by Easter 2008. The cost has risen considerably since the initial architect's drawings and we still have to raise ÂŁ400,000 to make the project cost-neutral for the College. The need for a bespoke lecture theatre became transparent during the student production of Ghosts which was held in a marquee. The actors had to compete with aircraft noise, bus traffic on the High, and even a bagpiper from Queen's.

2007 is, of course, a very important year for the Hall. The Principal, Betony and Rebecca have worked extremely hard to organise a number of special events to celebrate the Hall's 50th Anniversary of the granting of its Royal Charter. The highlight was the Charter weekend, from 22-24 June, including a student production of Ibsen's Ghosts, performed by members of the John Oldham Society. John Cox (1955), who directed the play in 1957, returned to advise cast and director. All learned much from the experience. The Charter Ball on Saturday had a 1950s theme and Sunday's Garden Party saw the unveiling of a new statue of St Edmund by our Visitor, the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes. The bronze statue, which was designed and completed

by Rodney Munday (1967), was commissioned and paid for by the St Edmund Hall Association. Particular thanks must go to Will Hatcher (1962) and Francis Pocock (1960) of the Association for all their help.

Other events included a series of Charter lectures by Jeremy Paxman and Terry Jones. In March 2007 we hosted the 1967 matriculation year group for their 40th Anniversary Gaudy and the Principal attended dinners for Aularians in Houston, San Francisco and New York.

Still to come in 2007, we look forward to welcoming many of the 19701976 cohort for a reunion, we have the third Charter lecture by Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer, and an evening of Aularian music, poetry and ftlm. The 2007 annual New York Dinner will take place on Friday 9 November.

I hope that many of you will continue to log on to www.aularianconnect.com to update your details or find a friend. I look forward to meeting or speaking to, as many Aularians as possible over the coming year.

Yvonne Rainey Director of Development

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DONORS TO THE ST EDMUND HALL ANNUAL FUND SINCE 1 SEPTEMBER 2006 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of alumni, parents and friends of the Hall who have donated to the Annual Fund during the last year. A list of donors who have supported the St Edmund Hall Annual Fund, since the publication of the Magazine 2005-2006, is included below: Major Alan Garrett FCA (1941) Anonymous (1942) Mr William Tunley (1942) Mr Robert Austin (1943) Anonymous (1943) Mr Eric J ones (194 3) Revd John O'Halloran (1943) Dr Geoffrey Bennett (1944) Anonymous (1944) Dr Laurence Langdon (1944) Mr Geoffrey Price (1944) Mr David Shears (1944) Anonymous (1944) Mr Gordon Drew (1945) Revd Canon Patrick Kent (1945) Mr Anthony Knight (1945) The Ven Norman McDermid (1945) Mr Victor Parry FLA FRAS FRSA (1945) Mr John Lloyd (1946) Anonymous (1948) Mr J oe Graffy (1948) Dr Ewell Murphy (1948) Revd Peter White (1948) Revd Dr Roger Beckwith (1949) Lt Col Gerald Insley (1949) Mr MichaelJaffey (1949)

Mr William R Miller OBE, KStJ, MA (1949) Mr Stanley Pierce (1949) Mr David Singleton (1949) Mr William Thorpe (1949) Mr Douglas Heffer (1950) Mr Robin West (1950) Mr Andrew Johnston (1951) Mr Kenneth Laflin (19 51) Mr David Ogilvie (1951) Mr Brian Osgood (19 51) Mr David Shenton (19 51) Mr Peter Tudor (1951) Mr Roy Williams (1951) Revd Tony Coulson (19 52) Mr Alan Fen ton (1952) Mr David J acobs (19 52) Mr Bruce Nix on FIPM (19 52) Mr Kenneth Bulgin (1953) Mr Duncan Craik (1953) Mr Peter Ford (1953) Anonymous (1953) Mr Frank Abel (1954) Mr Christopher Benjamin (19 54) Mr John Casale (1954) Mr Jeremy Cleverley (1954) Mr Michael Duffy (19 54) Rt Revd Dr Philip Le Feuvre (1954) MrJohnLowe (1954) Mr Shaun MacLoughlin (19 54) Mr I an Morin (19 54) Mr John Phillips (1954) Mr J oseph Smukler (19 54) Dr Arthur Warr FRCS (1954) MrJohn West (1954) Mr John Dellar (19 55) Mr David Hare (1955) Mr Chris Lowe (19 55) Mr Alan Mathieson (1955) Dr Derek Sturges (1955) Mr David Ward (1955) Professor Douglas Wilson (19 55) Mr Martyn Bird (1956)

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Mr Frederick Farrell FRSA (1956) Mr Charles D Glynne-Jones (1956) Mr Rupert Harvey (1956) Mr Anthony McGinn (1956) MrTedAves (1957) Mr Hugh Denman (1957) The Revd Duncan Dormor (1957) Mr Anthony Ford OBE (1957) Mr Dennis Jesson (1957) Mr Patrick Middleton (1957) Mr Keith Please (1957) Professor John Walmsley (1957) Anonymous (1957) Mr Michael Andrews (1958) Mr Michael Gillett (19 58) DrJohn Hibberd (1958) Mr David IdwalJones (1958) Dr Ronnie Irving (1958) Anonymous (1958) Mr Derek J ones (19 58) Anonymous (1958) Mr Roger O'Brien (1958) Mr Martin 0 ldaker (19 58) Mr Dick Payn (1958) Mr Alan Hedges (1959) Anonymous (1959) Dr Terence Quinn FinstP (1959) Mr Derek Ritson (1959) Mr Timothy Cannon (1960) Dr Step hen Hiscocks (1960) Mr Robin Hogg (1960) Anonymous (1961) Mr Merrick Fall (1961) Mr Alastair Fretwell-Downing (1961) Mr Geoffrey Hunt (1961) Mr An drew Rix (1961) Mr Allan Roin (1961) Dr David Scharer (1961) Mr Roger Smith (1961) Mr David Timms (1961) Mr Michael Eames (1 962) MrJohn Hall (1962) Mr Handley Hammond (1962)

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Mr Colin Hewitt (1962) Dr Neil Jackson (1962) Mr Roger Miller (1 962) Mr Charles Switzer (1962) Mr Stephen Benson (1963) Anonymous (1963) Anonymous (1963) Mr Geoffrey Day MBE MIMechE Ceng (1963)

Mr Edward Gould (1963) Mr John Gould (1963) Mr Robert Mardling FRSA FIL (1963) Mr Stephen Sins bury (1963) Dr Michael Clarke MRCP (1964) Mr John Hughes (1964) Mr Jack Picton (1964) Mr William Powell (1964) The Hon Larry Pressler (1964) Anonymous (1964) Mr M J Strea tfeild (1964) Mr David Tearle (1964) Mr Richard Elms (1965) Mr Simon Forrest (1965) Mr Derek Harrison FRCO (1965) Mr Andrew Morgan (1965) Mr Maurice Pannell (1965) Dr John Rea CEng CGeol Cchem (1965) Mr Richard Simmonds (1965) Mr Richard Wycherley (1965) Mr Richard Baker (1966) Mr Michael Bonello (1966) Mr Philip Bowler (1966) Mr Anthony Fisher FIA MSI (1966) Mr Peter Griffiths (1966) Mr Frank Hanbridge (1966) Anonymous (1966) Revd Robert Breckles (1967) Mr Charles Bryant FCIB (1967) Mr Nigel Derrett (1967) Mr Neil Gamble (1967) Dr Ying-Shih Kao (1967) Anonymous (1967) Mr Ethan Lipsig (1967)

Professor Jonathan Lovell (1967) Mr Christopher Marmont (1967) Mr Edward Os born (1967) Mr Graham Salter (196 7) Mr Christopher Ward (1967) Mr Peter Wilson (1967) Mr Georges Zbyszewski (1967) Dr Sudhir Kapoor (1968) Dr Simon Kelly (1968) Mr Geoffrey May (1968) Mr John Mitson (1968) Dr Michael Pike MRCP (1968) Mr Hugh Price-Richards (1968) Mr Patrick Salter (1968) Mr Michael Spilberg (1968) Mr Gordon Cranmer (1969) Mr Leonard Gibeon (1969) Anonymous (1969) Dr Nicholas McGuinn (1969) Anonymous (1969) Revd Dr Alan Scarfe (1969) Mr Christopher Stafford (1969) Anonymous (1970) Mr Andrew Bethell (1970) Mr John Clarkson (1970) Mr Nigel Coles (1970) Mr Andrew Craston (1970) Mr Stephen Fordham (1970) Mr Barry Gottfried (1970) Professor Dorian Haskard FRCP (1970) Mr Peter J ones (1970) Mr John Kendall (1970) Professor Paul Periton (1970) Mr Peter Raspin (1970) Mr Christopher Sutton-Mattocks (1970) Mr Richard Balfour (1971) Mr George Bishop (1971) Mr M. Roger Chaplin FCA (1971) Mr Yves Desgouttes (1971) Mr John Fazackerley FCA (1971) Mr Richard Henshaw (1971) Mr Gerard Lally (1971) Mr David Leggett (1971)

Mr Jonathan Ormond (1971) Mr Step hen Russell (1971) Mr Martin Cannon (1972) Mr Ronald Moore MIEE C.Eng (1972) Mr Alan Smith (1972) Mr Robin Stephenson (1972) Professor Robert Tait (1972) Mr Christopher Bamber (1973) Mr William Baston (1973) Mr Geoffrey Chamberlain (1973) Mr William Cooke (1973) Mr Timothy Good child (1973) Anonymous (1973) Mr Nicholas Herrod-Taylor (1973) Mr Nigel Laing (1973) Mr Ian Midgley (1973) Mr Charles Oulton (1973) Mr John P Roberts (1973) Dr Tom Schneider (1973) Mr Steven Edrich (1974) Mr An drew Gosling (197 4) Revd Michael Hooton (1974) Mr lain MacLeod (197 4) Mr Andrew Patterson MIMechE CEng (1974) Mr Peter Tudor (1974) Mr Eric Wareing (197 4) Mr Robert Bishop (197 5) Mr Robert Gaffey (197 5) Mr Andrew Johnston FIA (1975) Mr Neil Malcolm (1975) Mr Richard N owak (197 5) Mr David Way (197 5) Mr Michael Wilkins (197 5) Mr Robin Beckley (1976) Mr Christopher Elston CEng MIMechE (1976) Dr Mark Hockey (1976) Dr Edward Ilgren (1976) Mr Anson Jack (197 6) Mr Robert Moo re (197 6) Mr Peter Trowles (197 6) Mr Peter Foster (1977)

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Mr Nicholas Plater (1977) Mr John Round (1977) Mr Mark Schneider (1977) Dr David Van Roijen (1977) Professor Anthony Watkinson FRCS FRCR(1977) Dr Douglas Ansley (1978) Dr Simon J ohnson (1978) Mr Robert Pay (1978) Mr Brian Worsfold (1978) Mrs Katharine Chaytor (1979) Revd Stephen Coulson (1979) Mr Malcolm Goodrich (1979) MrJustus O'Brien (1979) Mr Timothy Sands (1979) Dr Bemard Bewlay (1980) Mr J onathan Davies (1980) Mr J ames Lyle (1980) Dr Hugo Minney (1980) Dr Ray Montague (1980) Mrs Brigitte Stollmaier (1980) Mr Peter Walton ACA (1980) Dr Andrew Burns (1981) Mr Eric Coates (1981) Mr Gerry Gillen (1981) Dr Keith McLeod (1981) Ms Sallie Nicholas (1981) MrJai Pathak (1981) Ms Rowena Webster (1981) MrsJoanna West (1981) Mr Richard MacAlister MSI (1982) Anonymous (1982) Dr Mark Sykes (1982) Mr IoanJones (1983) Mr Andrew Marshall (1983) Anonymous (1983) Dr Belinda Worsfold (1983) Mrs Valerie Callender (1984) Dr Yasmin Carim (1984) Mrs Frances Clemens (1984) Mr Stephen Crummett ACA (1984) Dr Stephen Geelan (1984) MrNeilJames (1984)

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Mr Graham Maddocks (1984) Ms Tesula Mohindra ACA (1984) Mr Sean Purdy (1984) Mrs Helena Sellars (1984) Mrs Deborah Booth (1985) Mr Kevin Cooper (1985) Ms Sarah Good (1985) Ms Fiona Houston (1985) Mr Andrew Rolfe (1985) Mr Harry Up ton (1985) Mrs Charlotte West (1985) Mr Andrew Harrison (1986) Mr Patrick J ennings (1986) Dr Paolo Mauro (1986) Mr Daniel Beard (1987) Miss J oanne Brown (1987) Mr David Gomez (1987) Mr Jinwhi Hong (1987) Dr Uwe Kordes (1987) Ms Clare Rhodes J ames (1987) MrJames Himes (1988) Mr Kynan Massey (1988) Mr Craig Powell (1988) Mr James Carr (1989) Mrs Ruth Roberts (1989) Mr Edward Rose (1989) Ms N P Tydeman (1989) Mr Paul Brady (1990) Dr David Jordan (1990) Mr J ames Linforth (1990) Mr Mark Roberts (1990) Mr An drew Armstrong (1991) Dr A dam Bell (1991) Mr Peter Benbow (1991) Dr Robert Cunliffe (1991) Mr An drew Fielding (1991) Mr Nicholas Lane (1991) Mr A dam Lester (1991) Mr David Liversidge (1991) Ms Anna Rentoul (1991) Mr Daniel Smith (1991) Mr Trevor Willis (1991) Mr Ziad Akle (1992)

Mr Marc Biver (1992) Mrs Caroline Hough (1992) J E 0 V Plumstead (1992) Mr Gavin Henderson (1993) Mrs Louisa Sumner (1993) Mr Matthew Webb (1993) Mr Radu-Constantin Calinescu (1994) Ms Kate McLeish (1994) MrJames Mushin (1994) Mr Mark Roberts (1994) Or Jessica Bolton (1995) Mrs Anya Kompare (1995) Mr Graham Mckinnon (1995) Mr Stuart Robinson (1995) Mr Chris topher Ruse (199 5) Mr Aaron Yeo (1995) Mr Michael Broadwith (1996) Ms Claire Burton (1996) Ms Lyssa McGowan (1996) Mr Richard O'Oonoghue (1996) Anonymous (1996) Ms Sally Pryce (1996) Or Catherine Boyd (1997) Mr James Hagan (1997) Mr S P John (1997) Mr Steven Johnson (1997) Or Monica Oberkofler (1997) Mr Oaryl Penny (1997) Ms K 0 Slack (1997) Ms A R Sprigade (1997) Ms Lisa Whelan (1997) Ms Jemimah Camp bell (199 8) Mr Edward Carder (1998) MrJames Oickinson (1998) Mrs Jessica Flugge (1998) Ms L Helier (1998) Ms Hilde Kaarstad (1998) Anonymous (1998) Mr John Pumphrey (1998) MrJames Ryder (1998) Mrs Jessica Tamarin (1998) Miss Lucy Wilson (1998) Mr Mark Bolton-Maggs (1999)

Mr Kieron Galliard (1999) Anonymous (1999) Mr Stephen McMahon (1999) Miss Jenna McRae (1999) Or Bettina Soendergaard (1999) Anonymous (1999) Mr Andrew Westbrook (1999) Mr Alan Yeo (1999) Anonymous (2000) Anonymous (2000) Miss Philippa Browne (2000) Mr Miles Clapham (2000) Ms Anna Fairbairn (2000) Mr John Brandon F owles (2000) Ms Catrin Harrison (2000) Mr Matthew Kott (2000) Mr Simon Barrett (2001) Mr Christian Figge (2001) Miss Fiona Gillard (2001) Mr Charles Hotham (2001) Miss Charlotte Lamb (2001) Mr Oliver Petter (2001) Mr Richard Stubley (2001) Miss Rebecca Wilkinson (2001) Mr Steven Wright (2001) Miss Jiejun Yan (2001) Mr RalfBader (2002) Mrs Jackie Colburn (2002) Mr Spyros Kallipolitis (2002) Mr Ryan Kohli (2002) Miss Sonali Peiris (2002) Mr Zadok Prescott (2002) Miss Felicia Shaw (2002) Mr Alexandros Strakatis (2002) Mr Gareth Walliss (2002) Mr Christopher Wilkinson (2002) Ms Joyce Wu (2002) Miss Sarah Khalaf (2003) Mrs Natalie Sylvester Foy (2003) Miss Claire Weldon (2003) Ms Tatiana Zervos (2003) Mr John Biart (2004) Miss Si Yu Fung (2004)

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Mr Michael Lavoie (2004) Miss Fiona Moss (2004) Mr Andrew Clark Kerr (2005) Miss Elizabeth Klaczynski (2005) Mr Laurent Montete (2005) Ms J ennifer Alien Mr&MrsJ Cay

Anonymous Mr Richard Herbert MrsLambie Mr Kenny Nice Mr & Mrs Michael Ralph Mr & Mrs Andrew Robertshaw Mr Paul Tucker

ANNUAL GAUDY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2006 The 2006 Annual Gaudy was held for Aularians who matriculated between 1963 and 1969. 75 Aularians accepted the invitation to this event, and enjoyed reminiscing over tea and coffee in the Buttery before Evensong. This was followed by drinks and then dinner in the Wolfson Hall, with many moving back to the Buttery afterwards to bolster themselves for the long walk to their rooms at the top of the Kelly building!

J onathan Fryer (1969) writes: The 1960s were another country, remembered with considerable nostalgia by many of the nearly 100 Teddy Hall alumni who gathered at the Hall on the weekend of 23/24 September 2006. Some of us had been activating then about the Vietnam War, while others experimented with various exotic freedoms that were symbolic of the hippy age. Sport was of course high on the agenda for the hearties, especially the rowers. And the Buttery was well patronised (at prices that now make one's eyes water). We were all men then, of course - though many of us had long hair.

The Principal, Mike Mingos, in his after-dinner speech at the gaudy, resurrected some of the athletic and academic heroes of the past from Hall publications and paid tribute to the man who had his job in the 60s and for some time beyond: the patristics scholar, J N D Kelly, who was unforgettable and inimitable (though many do affectionately imitate the late John Kelly's swooping voice and mannerisms). Though an authority in ecclesiastical history, Principal Kelly nonetheless oversaw tremendous changes in the Hall, not least an ambitious building programme, including the new dining hall where the black tie gaudy dinner took place.

However did we all fit into the old hall, we wondered? Maybe we sat in shifts. Memory fades even before senility sets in (or alcohol), but several of the later matriculands of 1963-69 recalled the carnival atmosphere of the 124

opening of the new block, the shock of running water in the rooms, and the challenge of swinging from one to another by the balconies. But for those of us who had work to do (well, I was studying Chinese), the magnificent new library in St Peter-in-the-East would provide a sanctuary that was admired, even envied, by colleagues from other, bigger and brassier colleges.

The following Aularians and Hall Guests accepted the invitation to this event: Ian Bowers (1963), Bob Brewer (1963), Bob Clarke (1963), Philip Hodson (1963), Mike Simmie (1963), Alan Brunskill (1964), John Coope (1964), Roy Corrie (1964), Chris Howe (1964), Mike Kerford-Byrnes (1964), Richard Stonor (1964), Paul Badman (1965), Bob Beckham (1965), Bill Foy (1965), Mike Randall (1965), Michael Richardson (1965), Richard Baker (1966), David Broadbridge (1966), Paul Brown (1966), Tony Fisher (1966), Douglas Slade (1966),John Spellar (1966), Michael Warren (1966), Michael Wosskow (1966), Steve Allchin (1967), Steve Ankers (1967), Lawrence Downey (1967), Duncan Forbes (1967), Roger Kenworthy (1967), John Mabbett (1967), Peter Mass on (1967), Jim Mosley (1967), Rodney Munday (1967), John Orton (1967), Ian Robertson (1967), Philip Robinson (1967), Graham Salter (1967), J onny Seccombe (1967), Mark Spencer-Ellis (1967), David Tabraham-Palmer (1967), Rob Weinberg (1967), Peter Wilson (1967), Malcolm Young (1967), John 125

Berryman (1968), Peter Brown (1968), Phil Emmott (1968), Brian Griffiths (1968), Michael Heal (1968), Brian Henry (1968), David Hughes (1968),James Hunt (1968), Philip James (1968), Sudhir Kapoor (1968), Philip Kelly (1968), John Landaw (1968), Terry Lister (1968), Anthony Moore (1968), John Prebble (1968), Hugh Price-Richards (1968), Ian Stuart (1968), Robert Ward (1968), Brian Battye (1969), Michael Birks (1969), Ian Busby (1969), Graham Coates (1969), Neil Corcoran (1969), Bryan Dawson (1969), Paul Dixon (1969), Paul Dobsen (1969), Adrian Ewart (1969), Jonathan Fryer (1969), John Johnson (1969), Bruce Lowe (1969), Nick McGuinn (1969), David Parsons (1969), Tim Stibbs (1969), Peter Wight (1969), David Alien (2004, Organ Scholar), Stephen Blarney (Fellow), Peter Collins (Senior Research Fellow), Stuart Ferguson (Fellow),Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Betony Griffiths (Alumni Relations), Will Hatcher (SEHA President), Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain), EmmaJones (2005, Choir),John Knight (Emeritus Fellow), Mike Mingos (Principal), Ernest Parkin (Bursar), Rebecca Ting (Alumni Relations), Aliza Watters (MCR President), David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow)

CHARTER SCHOLARSHIP DONORS In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the granting of the Hall's Royal Charter by Her Majesty the Queen, a group of US Aularians suggested that the anniversary should be marked in a permanent fashion by the creation of the Charter Scholarship which would enable a US student to follow an undergraduate degree course in Oxford and thereby share the experiences which so many US alumni have treasured over the years. A list of donors to this scholarship is detailed below. In addition, over 50 additional US alumni are expected to contribute to the scholarship before this year's annual dinner in New York: Mr Geoffrey Price (1944) Professor Simon Simonian (1962) Professor George J ones FRHistS (1947) Mr Nicholas Robertshaw (1963) Mr J arvis O octorow (1948) Or Peter Smerd (1964) Mr Alan Brimble (1949) Mr Ethan Lipsig (1967) Mr William R Miller OBE, KStJ, MA (1949) Professor Jonathan Lovell (1967) Mr William Sotirovich (1951) Mr Gareth Roberts (1971) Mr Michael Chadwick (19 54) Or William Clark (1972) Mr Andrew Clarkson (1957) Or Mark Mandel (1973) Professor V. A. Kolve (19 58) Mr Robert Gaffey (197 5) Mr William Patterson (1958) Mr Keith Geeslin (1975) Or Oavid Scharer (1961) Mr Nick Howard (197 6)

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Mr Peter Foster (1977) Dr David Van Roijen (1977) Mr J ames Lyle (1980) Mr Peter Walton ACA (1980) Dr Mark Sykes (1982) Dr Paolo Mauro (1986) MrJinwhi Hong (1987)

Mr Christopher Ashton (1991) Mr Luke Haynes (1994) Dr Ana U nruh (1996) Mr Michael Brunet (1998) Miss Clare Pearsall (1999) Ms Kelly Henry (2001)

40th ANNIVERSARY GAUDY, 10 MARCH 2007 A selection of memories from those who attended the Gaudy on 10 March:-

'I was initially disappointed at what I thought was a low number of attendees but looking down at the old hall when we were having pre-dinner drinks I thought how glad I was that we could squeeze in there in some comfort, and not be lost in the vastness of the new hall with its terrible acoustic. The meal was good, the wine and conversation flowed freely, and the portraits gazing benevolently down on us brought back the old feelings of awe and privilege at simply being in and belonging to that wonderful institution. For me it's a

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lifelong thing- a little sentimental perhaps but real nevertheless. Speeches were really excellent: the right blend of serious points put with humour.'

'Good to see a good turn out from the PPE year, with the English year probably the most numerous. I really couldn't believe I was dining with two of my tutors, John Knight and John Dunbabin, as if it were yesterday. Salutary to be told we probably wouldn't be able to cope with the change in the subject matter of economics towards a quantitive approach. Memories were exchanged on how we suffered from the building site. Beer in the Eastgate cost about 9p a pint in new money.'

'Everybody there seemed to remember and know each other and we were able to pick up as though we had just lost touch recently. I think that the reason for this was that the 1967 intake was one of the last before the new buildings allowed a greater undergraduate presence in the Hall. When we were there only the first year was in Hall and of course when we were in the Old Dining Hall and the Buttery/JCR you could not avoid rubbing shoulders with others at close quarters. The Principal and the Dean lived in College and were part of that fairly small community.'

'I thought the Gaudy was very thought-provoking. I had been looking forward to it immensely but it was not as I expected, perhaps because I had not kept in contact with others of my year. By the third year my circle tended more to be the University soccer squad, spread across colleges. The evening was tinged with sadness, of course, with 'Harry' Jennings in our thoughts- he really was the 'most popular' boy in the year and a worthy JCR President. As for the living, some appeared much older than their years, and some - like you and me- much younger. Yet, as forty years ago, we all 'rubbed along' well and it brought back many happy memories. My abiding memory of the evening was that it certainly wasn't yesterday but it can't have been forty years ago either!'

'Visiting Oxford from time to time since 1970 has usually meant excited anticipation followed by a sinking feeling, youth gone, friends absent, the stone faces of the colleges unfriendly now .. .. However two Gaudies in six months has overlaid those experiences with present day warmth and laughter that bubbled up naturally thanks to all the hard work, efficiency and charm of our hosts from the Principal to the staff in the Dining Hall.'

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'There were reflections at the Gaudy of the changing nature of the Hall in the time that we were there. Unless I am unduly sensitive, it appeared to me that there was a degree of condemnation aimed at the Hall 'Heavy'. I refrained from speaking at the time since I was not sure that I necessarily qualified as such, but on reflection feel that I should have risen to speak for those who belonged to that brigade.

'What distinguished the Hall, even in 1967, from most other colleges was its sporting prowess but more than that, the fact that individuals at the Hall brought with them something additional to the academic, whether in the field of amateur dramatics or sport or something else. The Hall had a number of true "eccentrics" and a number of "well rounded" individuals.'

'One of my own law tutors, whom I hold in the greatest esteem, was one of the new brigade of dons who was essentially "anti-heavy". He would have preferred non sportsmen to sportsmen. Yet, in each of the three years whilst I was up at the Hall, one person from his Law group got a Blue. It was the same person in each case who got a First. There was a certain irony in that, but the point is illustrative of the ability of the Hall, at the time, to capture people of diverse talents.'

Many thanks for these reflections to Roger Kenworthy, Charles Bryant,John Orton, Colin Hawksworth, John Mabbett, the person whose email address identifies him as 'Cooke, Mr Justice', and also to Jonny Seccombe for the first speech of the night. It was a great evening, and on behalf of us all I'd like to thank the Principal, Fellows, current undergraduates and- above allBetony Griffiths of the Development Office for making it such a pleasure.

A final thought. My spell-check queried 'Eastgate' suggesting that perhaps I had meant 'East Gate'. I had no hesitation in clicking 'Add to Dictionary'.

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Goodfellow, Will Hatcher (SEHA President), Colin Hawksworth, Gerald Hegarty (Chaplain), John Hutt, Roger Kenworthy, John Knight (Emeritus Fellow), John Mabbett, Peter Masson, Simon Maxwell, Mike Mingos (Principal), Jim Mosley, Rodney Munday, John Orton, Simon Porter, Ian Robertson, Philip Robinson, Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Graham Salter,Jonny Seccombe, Mark Spencer-Ellis, David Tabraham-Palmer, Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election), Clive Waddington, Chris Ward, Martin Wilcox, Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), David Yardley (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 Or Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), who runs the Society. The Society holds a biennial dinner, to which all its members and their guests are invited.

The next dinner will be held on Friday 4April2008. Current FAS members are as follows: John Akroyd Christopher Amor J onathan Aptaker Professor Christopher Armitage Colin Atkinson John Ayers Or Nick Badham John Barker George Barner John Barton Martin Bates Albert Baxter John D Bean Stuart Beaty Colin H Benbow Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Robert Bishop Or Robert Bishop Alasdair Blain David Bolton

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MarkBooker Revd Canon Or Michael A Bourdeaux Mrs Hilary Bourne-J ones Bob Breese Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble lan Brimecome Geoffrey Brown Peter Brown James Burnett-Hitchcock lvor Burt John Cain DSC Michael Cansdale Stephen Chandler David Clarke Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Or John Cockshoot Terence Cook Frederick Cosstick Arthur J S Cotton The Revd Or H EJohn Cowdrey David Cox

J ohn Cox J ohn Cunningham Robert Darling Revd Canon Hilary Davidson D esmond Day O BE J ohn Dellar Yves RH D esgouttes Frank di Rienzo Or Michael D obbyn Jarvis D octorow J ohn Dunbabin D avid Dunsmore Laurence Elliott Peter Evans Roger Farrand David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot Paul Foote J ohn French Robin French Revd Peter Furness Or Patrick Garland Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles J ohn Gill Or D avid Gillett Or Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Justin G o sling D erek Griffin-Smith Or Philip Haffenden Mrs Maureen Haile Ronald Hall David Harding Rex Harrison J ohn Hawkins Or Malcolm Hawthorne Prof Ian Heggie Michael Herbert Colin Hewitt Charles Hind D erekHoare

Canon Stanley Ho ffman Revd J ohn Hogan Richard Hope JVIichael Hopkinson TO Keith Hounslow Robert Housto n Mrs Ann Hughes ~1VO Or Anne Irving N orman Isaacs Peter J anson-Smith AllanJ ay MBE David J ohnson Geo ffrey J ohnston Christopher J ones D erek C \XI J ones Pro f George J ones Luke J ones Or Andrew Kahn Peter Kelly Terence Kelly Roy Kings Antony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee Paul Lewis Richard Luddington Kenneth Lund Q C Roland MacLeod James Mark-wick Charles Marriott Peter Masson D oug McCallum George McNaught J eremyMew Geo ff Mihell 'Dusty' Miller William R Miller O BE, KStJ Or Bruce lviitchell Or G areth de Bohun lviitford-Barberton Or G Mortimer Charles Murray D avid N elson Tuppy O wen-Smith Andrew Page

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Kenneth Palk Martin Paterson Frank Pedley Nigel Pegram Revd Edward Phillips John Phillips Dr Peter Phizackerley David Picksley John Pike CBE Dr Francis Pocock Christopher Pope Philip Rabbetts Farrand Radley 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 DSOQGM Edmund Roskell Dr Francis Rossotti P L Roussel OBE Jack Rowell OBE Ian Sandles Michael Senter OBE Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Patrick Slocock Alexander Smith

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Martin Smith Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC Emerson 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 Dr John Thurston Squadron Leader Douglas Tidy Alan Titcombe Noel Tonkin RoyTracey Carol Tricks Alan VasaTD John C Voigt Prof John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster David Weston Geoffrey EL Williams Dr John H B Williams Dr Bill Williams Dudley Wood CBE Gordon Woods Prof Sir David Yardley Bill Yeowart

FORTHCOMING EVENTS The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture, "Radio - medium of the moment" to be given by Martha Kearney, presenter of BBC World at One, and Newsnight Review

Tuesday 30 October 2007

23rd Annual New York Dinner

Friday 9 November 2007

Charter Lecture with Nicholas Evans

Friday 23 November 2007

Charter Music and Poetry Recital

Friday 30 November 2007

Aularian London Drinks

Thursday 13 December 2007

SEH Association London Dinner

Tuesday 8 January 2008

1968 40th Anniversary Gaudy

Saturday 15 March 2008

US West Coast Dinner Floreat Aula Society Dinner

(the) March/ April 2008 Friday 4 April 2008

Summer Reunion Dinner

Saturday 21 June 2008

Annual Golfing Society Meeting and Dinner

Friday 29 August 2008

1977-1982 Annual Gaudy

Saturday 27 September 2008

Details of all events can be obtained by visiting the Events page of the College website at www;seh.ox.ac.uk or by contacting the Alumni Relations & Development Office on +44 (0)1865 289180.

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - JANUARY 2007 President Principal Immediate Past President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer

William H Hatcher MA (1962) Prof D Michael P Mingos FRS CChem FRSC Dr Francis J Pocock MA DPhil (1960) Justin CB Gosling BPhil MA R (Bob) JL Breese MA (1949) Richard AH Finch MA (197 6) Ian W Durrans BA (1977)

Up to 1944

HA Farrand Radley MBE MA (1935)

1945-54 1955- 64

Michael J Cansdale MA (1956) John M Heggadon NlA 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 (1976) Richard S Luddington MA MPhil (1978) Jenny B Turner BA (1981)

1985-94

A (Tony) C Greenham BA MSc (1988)

1995- 04

Catherine L Cooper BA (1995) Nick Renshaw BA (2001)

Co-options

Ian Coleman MA (1978) Aliza Watters BA MSt (2005)

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MINUTES OF THE 76thANNUALGENERALMEETINGOFTHEASSOCIATION 9 JANUARY 2007 The 76th Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in Princess Alexandra Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 6.15pm, WH Hatcher presiding.

Over 50 members were present.

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Minutes. The Minutes of the 75th Meeting, held on 10 January 2006, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

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President's Report. WH Hatcher said that he would make his report at the dinner.

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

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Honorary Secretary's Report. There were no major items.

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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.

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Elections: The following were elected unanimously: Honorary Secretary RAH Finch Re-elected for one year Honorary Treasurer IW Durrans Re-elected for one year Up to 1944 HAF Radley Re-elected for three years 1955-64 JM Heggadon Re-elected for three years 1965-7 4 Sir J on Shortridge Re-elected for three years 1975-84 JB Turner Re-elected for three years 1995-2004 N Renshaw Elected for three years

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Appointment of Honorary Auditor. LD Page was unanimously reappointed.

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Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 8 January 2008 at the Royal OverSeas League at 6.15pm.

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There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.25pm.

RAH FINCH, Hon. Secretary

THE 66th LONDON DINNER THE 66th LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's on Tuesday, 9 January 2007.

The turnout of 137 was once again up to scratch and suitably "inclusive" with representatives from most of the past sixty years or more. Invidious therefore to identify which party was the most exuberant but those from the mid-70s and 2001, along with Chris Atkinson's golfers, come to mind!

Association President Will Hatcher welcomed the guests (the Principal and Mrs Mingos and the Presidents of the Middle and Junior Common Rooms) and then spoke briefly of key projects which the Association had supported, notably Aularian Connect and the proposed statue of St Edmund. His audience was quick to send affectionate greetings to Bruce Mitchell who was disappointed not to be able to attend. In his speech the Principal expressed his own disappointment at missing the previous Dinner by dint of his sabbatical with an assurance (not wholly believed!) that he had indeed "thought of us" while on some mid-Pacific isle! His focus was now on a busy year of Charter celebrations.

In addition to the Association's guests the following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1935) Mr HAF Radley; (1949) Mr WP Asbrey, Mr RJL Breese; (1950) Mr M Baldwin, Mr J Wheeler; (1951) Mr DJ Day, Mr DE Wood; (1952) Mr AJ Harding, Mr DM Jacobs, Mr CJ Jones, Mr NF Lockhart, The Revd EA Simmonds; (1953) Mr AJ Kember; (1954) Mr SR Bilsland, Mr JCM Casale; (1955) Mr RHB De Vere Green, MrJL Fage, Mr RA Farrand; (1956) Mr BE Amor, Mr RH Caddick, Mr MJ Cansdale, Mr AF Ham, Mr MP Reynolds; (1957) Mr MJ Archer, Mr DMW Bolton, Mr JW Harrison, Mr MJ Rowan; (1958) Mr JW Amos, Mr LL Filby, Mr DCW Jones, Mr JH Phillips; (1959) Mr JA Collingwood, Mr TW Cooper, Mr JAH Curry, Mr MS Shaw; (1960) Mr CJG Atkinson, Mr KL Hinkley-Smith, Dr FJ Pocock, Cdr GC Warner; (1961) Mr RI Chard, Mr EA Fretwell-Downing, Mr JM Heggadon, Mr G 136

Marsh, Mr AM Rentoul; (1962) Mr MGM Groves, Mr MJ Hamilton, Mr Will Hatchet (President, SEH Association), Mr AJ Hawkes, Mr NH Pegram; (1963) Mr DMP Barnes, Mr DR Clarke, Mr DC Morton, Mr RAS Offer, Mr MS Simmie; (1964) Mr DA Ashworth, Mr AC Barker, Mr AL Bucknall, Mr JA Coope, Dr GA Metters; (1965) Mr JG Barclay (Fellow), Mr RW Beckham, Mr SR Garrett, Dr MRD Randall; (1966) Mr PLD Brown; (1968) Mr BG Griffiths, Dr DJ Hughes, Mr HJ Hunt, Mr AJH Makin, Mr MO Spilberg, Mr RT Ward; (1970) Mr WN David, Mr PG Harper, Mr JW Hawkins, Mr LN Kaye, Mr DL Morgan; (1971) Mr L Cummings, Mr RJ Henshaw, Mr G Roberts (Hon Fellow); (1972) Mr JC Boff, Mr R Stephenson; (1974) Dr R Cerratti, Mr PA Eggleston, Mr JAB Gray, Mr PP Phillips, Mr PH Tudor; (1976) Mr RAH Finch, Mr PL Smith, Mr RA Wilson, Mr NJ Worthington; (1977) Mr SS Advani, Mr IW Durrans, Mr R Keeley, Mr RFJH Ruvigny, Mr CJL Samuel; (1978) Mr I Coleman, Mr RS Luddington; (1979) Mr AJ Best, Mr BR Withington; (1981) Mr CCR Simmonds; (1982) Mr DJ Heaps, Mr AJ Sandbach, Mr JJ Williamson; (1988) Mr JJ Brace; (1989) Mr AJS Borrie, Mr SE Orbell, Mr EH Rose; (1996) Mr DM Wallace; (1998) Mr N Stacey; (1999) Mr J Ventner; (2000) Mr E Allen, Ms C Liddiard, Mr CWR Pitt; (2001) Ms LB Arthur, Ms LA Berry, Ms JJ Hatchet, Mr CH HuttonMills, Ms RH Lewis, Mr N Renshaw, Mr HC Samuel, Mr CJ Stephens, Ms R Wilkinson; (2002) 2Lt JY Dyer, Mr JF Lait.

The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Mr JPD Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Dr JD Naughton, Dr NF Palmer, Dr EJ Parkin (Home Bursar), Dr AG Taylor (Emeritus Fellow), Mr CJ Wells (Vice-Principal), Ms Betony Griffiths (Annual Fund Manager), Ms Rebecca Ting (Development Assistant), Mr LB Whyatt (2005) (Development Office Photographer).

Richard Finch

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2007

Year ended 31 May2007

Year ended 31 May2006

£

£

27,481 9,709 514 116 200

9,212 532 75

38,020

9,819

INCOME St Edmund statue income Subscriptions Bank Interest Emden bequest interest Sundry Income

EXPENDITURE St Edmund statue costs Magazine production, postage & mailing (half) Committee expenses

Income less expenses Grants: Release of prior year grants St Edmund statue Crypt restoration project Wolfson Hall acoustics project

(22,000) (6,627) (136)

(7,452) (222)

(28,763)

(7,674)

9,257

2,145

9,500 (3,000) (7,500) (8,500)

Surplus transferred to General Fund These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 8 January 2008.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY2007 31 May2007

31 May 2006

£

£

17,486 5,700 24,381

6,021 5,700 9,674

47,567

21,395

(34,942)

(11,527)

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year 8,124 2,757 Surplus/ (deficit) from Income Account

8,979 (855)

10,881

8,124

1,744

15,458 (13,714)

1,744

1,744

ASSETS Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

Aularian Register Fund at start of year Costs of new database

WH Hatcher (President) lW Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2007. 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 2007 and of the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

62 Clifton Hill StJohn's Wood London NW8 OJT

LD Page Honorary Auditor 31 July 2007

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THE TEMI COMMUNITY IN GREMI, GEORGIA f?y Xin-Hui Chan (2004) In the eastern Kakheti region of Georgia, on the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, live a community of 50 people who subsist off the land. In the day, they take turns working on the farm: tending the crops and vineyard, milking the cows and making wine. They practise only biological farming methods- traditional Georgian techniques dating back more than a thousand years. Guests, always welcome, are received with warm homemade bread, cheese and wine, and will be fed until they can eat no more. During the afternoons, having completed their lessons, the children gather in the living room. A woman from the village trained in a Soviet conservatory is at the piano and they sing as she plays old Russian songs. Across a wall in the kitchen, the women laugh as the men talk, over their evening meal, about their day in the fields. Soon, the day fades into twilight and sprightly bebo (grandmother) comes to put the children to bed as the rest of the women hum lullabies. The people, it seems, are happy here.

But this is no ordinary patch of organic paradise. Every single one of the residents here is what the trustees term 'socially disadvantaged'. Most are orphaned or have physical or mental disabilities. Others have come with their mothers who have had to leave their families either because of abuse or the lack of sufficient food to feed two extra mouths. Temi, as this place is called, is their home, and as the staff and residents constantly remind us, it is their family, too - for many, this is the only family they have ever known . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , - , Temi was founded in 1989 by an architect, Nika Kvasheli, so appalled by conditions he had witnessed in Soviet state-run institutions that he was moved to provide an alternative. He abandoned his life in the capital Tbilisi to put everything he owned into the Temi project. The collapse of the Soviet Union since has seen the disintegration of the limited infrastructure which had existed to provide for the under-privileged .

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wealthiest republics in the Soviet Union, at least 50% of Georgian families now live below the poverty line. This failure to regain previous levels of material welfare has severely affected the capacity of the Georgian state to offer access to adequate healthcare and education. Today, Temi continues to offer the socially vulnerable the opportunity to lead active, fulfilling lives.

This summer, I had the privilege of being welcomed into the Temi home in the village of Gremi, the former seat of the ancient Kakhetian kings. The residents live in a large house surrounded by a plot of land on which a dairy herd, vegetable garden and vineyard are sited. There are also workshops in wood, metal and stone.

Conditions are basic: the electricity supply is unstable, water is drawn from tanks in the yard and the nearest phone line is more than an hour away in Telavi, the capital of Kakheti. The landscape, dominated by the majestic Caucasus Mountains, is magnificent; on a hill in the distance, like a castle in a fairy tale, is Gremi church. I would wake up every morning to the sight of the Church of Angels - some days bathed in sunshine and others shrouded in what seemed almost to be an enchanted mist.

I was made to feel a part of the family from the very beginning, sharing almost everything with the children. In the mornings, I would help them with their chores before their lessons; in the afternoons, I would play on the piano for them on days the pianist from the village did not come or when they clamoured for more after she had left. If the weather was fine, the evenings would be spent on excursions to nearby churches or monasteries, a particular treat for wheelchair-bound Dato and the more severely disabled older girls (>21 years) who needed strict supervision at all times. Meals were simple: pasta cooked in milk and oatmeal on most days , occasionally supplemented with vegetable soup. Tolma, a Georgian delicacy of minced pork and rice wrapped with cabbage, was served only on saints' feast days. On E dwati's birthday, we baked him a cobbler with fruit from the garden.

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I was further drawn into the community in ways I had not foreseen, leaping to Dato's defence when the cheeky Petrae pounced on him, taunting him about the legs that dangled uselessly off his chair, crushed years ago when he had fallen as a toddler from a top-floor window. Yet I could hardly bring myself to admonish Petrae. H e had never seen most of his family - his mother had run away from her husband because he had beaten her, and had arrived at Temi pregnant by another man. Then there is 16-year-old Tiko, whose unwillingness to care for her 18-month-old son, Nikusha, is matched only by her obsession with her mobile phone. Tiko had been married off as soon as she had reached puberty, but like Petrae's mother, had been abused by her husband and had escaped at the first opportunity. Her parents were forced to send her away again because they could not afford to feed her. We asked her daily to assume more responsibility for Nikusha's well-being, but her reply was always the same, "Why should I? I hate him because I hate his father." We would take turns cleaning and feeding Nikusha as Tiko disappeared to the next room to text or watch her Russian soaps. I learnt quickly to distinguish between the smell of unwashed child and faeces-soiled clothes which, in the heat of summer, were alarmingly similar. It was not until I was leaving and complimented Tiko on how alike she and Nikusha looked that I finally saw her look at him with anything other than loathingshe picked him up and smiled at him with maternal pride.

It soon became apparent that the self-sufficient way of life at Temi was as much a necessity as an integral part of Nika's vision for the community. It is impossible to run Temi on the litde it receives from the Georgian government.

Producing food and furniture minimises costs, and the income generated from the sale of food products and handicrafts is critical to supplement donations from international organisations and generous individuals, particularly as Temi continues to grow. In addition, central to Temi's philosophy is a belief that each and every human being should be given all possible opportunities to live to their maximum potential. Protecting the environment is a natural extension of this respect for life- the two are as seen as inseparable.

I was struck by the commitment of the staff to these principles. The occupational therapist, Susanna Reinhart is a Swiss citizen who works eight months of the year in Berlin, Germany. Every year, for the last ten years, she has spent her summers living in Temi unpaid, teaching herself Georgian so she can help the children with their lessons, rallying the Swiss and German governments to contribute to Temi's development. Moreover, residents are not defined by their disabilities and their associated limitations - the focus is 142

instead on what each individual is capable of achieving and how we are able to facilitate that. I really should have been less surprised when I discovered some of the 'residents' were in fact the children of Temi's directors! This care without condescension and, most of all, love for the residents are what make Temi far more than an institution - Temi is a family, the realisation of Nika's dream.

I left Temi deeply humbled and inspired, having learnt that charity is not necessaril y about producing tangible, visible change - it is tempting as an Oxonian to assume one can change the world merely with one's presence. Often it is about the little things: cleaning a child who has soiled himself, wiping up a toddler's vomit, and holding a mentally handicapped girl's hand, patiently listening as she tells you again and again how excited she is that her father will be here to visit her today even though you know he is dead and will never come.

This project would not have been possible without the assistance provided by the Muriel Radford Memorial Prize and the Graham Hamilton Travel Award. In particular, I am deeply indebted to the Governing Body and Junior Common Room of St Edmund Hall for their unwavering support for my volunteer work over my three years at the Hall. The generosity of the college has made an enormous difference to the lives of many underprivileged children on three continents -Africa, Asia and Europe. I am proud to be able to call myself an Aularian.

Floreat Aula!

Xin-Hui Chan was a volunteer at the Temi Community in the summer of 2007 For more informatio n, visit http: / /www.temi-community.org

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AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S POLO Ladies' Polo Team Competes in Iran International, l:y Jacque/ine Hooper (1992) In August 2006, for the first time in what is believed to be over 1500 years, women's international polo was again played in Iran when Kanoon Chogan Polo Club, Tehran hosted international women's teams from Australia, Iran and England for a tri-nations tournament.

The tournament witnessed polo truly return to its roots since it was in ancient Persia, now Iran, that the first recorded polo game took place in 600 BC, with women's polo being recorded as early as the 4th Century AD. Iran is also home to the world's oldest known polo field at Naqshe Jahan Square in Isfahan, visited by the teams, where the marble goal posts still stand at each end of the field which dates from the 16th Century AD. The tournament organizers, the Iranian Polo Federation, invited Australia and England to each send a team to compete. The Australian Team was captained

by Jacqueline Hooper (0) from NSW and comprised Justine Henwood (-1) from WA at number 1; Liz Addams Williams (0) from SA at number 2; Jacqueline Hooper at number 3; and Gillian McCall (-2) from NSW at back.

Tex Webster (4) from WA was based at Kanoon Chogan Polo Club over the international and gave the Australian team invaluable coaching support.

The first match saw England, captained by Caroline Giles (0 goals), prevail over Iran by 12 goals to 6 following an exciting game where the Iranian girls cut their teeth and made their international debut. The following day Australia met Iran in the second match. Iran started with a 1Vz goal lead which was surrendered in the first half following goals from Liz Addams Williams, Jacqueline Hooper andJustine Henwood. Both KatayoonJalaie and captain, Ghazaleh Arnir Ebrahirni found the goal in spectacular style for Iran but despite the Iranian team finding their groove and displaying superior team work to the previous day, Australia triumphed by 7 goals to 4Vz. The final witnessed the winning teams from the previous matches, Australia and England, go head-to-head in a fast paced game which had the spectators on the edge of their seats. Jacqueline Hooper quickly scored the first goal adding to Australia's 1/z goal handicap lead already on the board. England however wasted little time in replying and despite strong defensive play from Australia and another goal from J acqueline Hoop er, goals from Caroline 144

Giles (0), Heloise Lorentzen (0) and Anna Williamson (-1) put England in front by half a goal during the second chukka. Australia then suffered a significant blow when] acqueline Hooper had a serious fall, her horse coming down at speed. Despite a broken finger and severe bruisingJacqueline elected to play on, Australia determined to find a win. A further 2 goals from Jacqueline Hooper kept Australia in contention during the second half but sadly despite Australia's consistent team work England closed with a lead of 1Vz goals to win the tournament with a score of 6 goals to Australia's 41/z.

The tournament excited significant interest from the Iranian and international press and was attended by a number of invited VIPs including the ambassadors for both Australia and England. Spectators were evocatively seated on rich Persian carpets in the stands, men and women being seated in separate sections. The tournament also threw a new challenge at the visiting teams in the form of the need to comply with Islamic law, including Islamic dress code. The women were required to remain covered, aside from face and hands, even when on the polo field. The Iranian Polo Federation thoughtfully designed a national strip for each team comprising a tailored, long sleeved, cotton, knee length, over jacket or manteau (in gold for Australia).

The manteau was worn by the players with flowing white head scarves to cover their hair under the polo hats. Despite the soaring temperatures which were still in the 30's Celsius even at Spm when the matches were played, the players quickly adapted to their new polo garb and rapidly forgot about it once distracted by play. If anything it added colour to the scene and the teams' experiences.

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The hospitality shown to the teams by the Polo Federation of Iran, in particular its president Mr Hamzeh Ilkhanizadeh, his wife Pari and son Siamack, together with the Polo Federation Secretary, Mr Houman Bagheri was overwhelming.

The Ilkhanizadeh family who founded Kanoon Chogan Polo Club mounted all 3 teams from its string. No mean feat as it required pooling something in the region of 40 ponies to mount the players and umpires. The players were given the freedom of the grounds of the club with its world class facilities throughout their stay. The teams were accommodated in the Ilkhanizadeh's home at the club, purpose built to accommodate a number of polo teams at any one time in their own luxurious suites. Each evening the Ilkhanizadehs and their world-class chef showcased Iranian gastronomic delights for the players, whether at an intimate buffet for the teams or at one of the many parties thrown by the Polo Federation.

The Polo Federation also arranged for the players to see an enormous amount of cultural interest during their stay both in Tehran and Isfahan. Isfahan struck a particular resonance being the home of the historic polo field at Naqshe Jahan Square. Isfahan, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is considered to offer one of the most beautiful cityscapes in the world, a claim the veracity of which the players can now attest to. The history of the city is steeped in polo or "chogan" as it known in Iran. The artisans of Isfahan, famous for their ceramics, metal work and miniature paintings, draw mainly on historic scenes of polo played in the Naqshe Jahan Square for their inspiration. This provided the opportunity for the players to truly blow their luggage limit, travelling home with stick bags bursting with "chogan" objets d'art.

The tournament was truly special in so many ways, not least because it illustrated the ability of the sport of polo and the players' love of it to reach across political barriers and engender a strong spirit of cooperation at what was a time of escalated strife and unrest in the Middle East. The tournament forged friendships between the teams and their hosts and memories for the teams that will last a lifetime. The image of the women retiring from the field at dusk to the sounds of the call to prayer echoing across the ground from the nearby mosque is one that will stay with everyone for some years to come.

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A YANK AT ST EDMUND HALL

By Robert Hennemryer (Ambassador, retired), (1960) Early in 1960, I was a mid-level Foreign Service Officer working on the West Africa desk of the newly-established Bureau of African Affairs at the State Department, when the "colonial attache" at the British Embassy came into my office and asked whether I would like to be a "Yank at Oxford"? There were very few opportunities in the US for the academic study of Africa, and the Colonial Office and the Department had arranged for 2 FSOs involved in African matters to have a post-graduate year at ' - ---"---'--Oxford. Our instructions were to attend as many lectures on Africa as possible and do a research paper on an African topic.

In due course, I received an information packet from the University administration informing me that I would be a member of St Edmund Hall, my US degrees would not be recognized, I should wear a short gown, I could not marry, would live within one mile of Carfax and my bicycle should have a blue light. In August 1960, I disembarked at Southampton with my wife, our five-year-old son and a two-year-old Mercedes.

Since this was a first-time experiment, I had no idea how to begin. Fortunately, someone told me to consult that fount of all wisdom - the Hall porter. He arranged for me to call on the Principal, Rev John Kelly, who received me graciously and served me sherry, but was clearly somewhat perplexed by this unusual undergraduate. During our discussion, I mentioned that I had been an instructor at Chicago City College, which Rev Kelly seemed to find of special interest, and asked me to call again the following week. I did so, and found his mood quite changed as he told me that I had been elected to the Senior Common Room, would dine at High Table and should wear a long gown. It was only later that I really understood what a kind and generous gesture he had made.

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In the meantime, I found a house in Bladon for my family (which increased by another son that December) and absorbed much wisdom concerning Africa from the likes of Margery Perham, George Bennett, Vincent Harlow, Thomas Hodgkins and others. We enjoyed Oxford and St Edmund Hall immensely. I wrote my paper on "The Rise of Nationalism in Tanganyika" and, in the summer of 1961, was assigned to the Consulate General (soon to be embassy) in Dares Salaam, which was unusual since by that time I actually knew quite a bit about the country and had begun to study Swahili at Oxford.

All in all, it was a great experience for which I remain grateful to the University and St Edmund Hall.

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In June this year, Olivia Donnelly gave a personal insight into conditions in Nepal and Kolkata (Calcutta). After leaving the Hall, Oily took her MSc at Oxford and then moved to the World Bank in Washington DC. She then spent some time back in India and Nepal and in August 2006 joined Accenture strategy consulting on a flexible one year contract which allowed her to continue her development work.

Oily also works for several charities in India with which she has been involved for the last ten years - principally Familia Home in West Bengal which is afoster home for abused and abandoned children. They now run outreach development programmes to the surrounding villages - mobile health clinics, women empowerment etc.

IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEPAL? 1!J OI!J Donnei!J (1999) On 13 February 1996, the Maoist insurgents (the ultra-leftist Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist) launched their "People's War" by attacking Holeri police post in the hills of South Roilpa, Mid-West Nepal. Their main aim was to establish a Republic and change the Constitution of Nepal. This marked the start of Nepal's decade-long violent insurgency which has killed up to 13,000 people and has spread to 73/75 districts. The root causes of this conflict lie in deep-seated political, economic and social exclusion of large parts of the population, based on class, caste, gender, ethnicity, religion, language and geographical isolation. The 75 point manifesto released by the Maoists in 2001 listed several other aims, including the distribution of land to poor and landless people, equal treatment for all castes and languages, and equal rights for women.

Ten years after the first attack, on Friday 16 June 2006, formal meetings took place, for the first time, in Kathmandu between Maoist leader Prachandra and Prime Minister Girija. King Gyanendra's role was effectively reduced to a ceremonial one and an interim government was set up to include the Maoists as an 8th party. Under this agreement, the Maoists agreed to dismantle their "People's government" and by November 2006, they had signed an agreement supposedly ending the decade-long war.

The question remains whether this move to include the Maoists as an official party really is the beginning of the end to Nepal's tragic ten year insurgency -the elections were meant to occur on 20 June this year but have now been postponed until November 2007. The conflict has undoubtedly intensified over the last six years since Crown Prince Dipendra allegedly killed his father 149

I<ing Birendra and most members of his immediate family, including himself.

His uncle, Gyanendra, succeeded him to the throne. Since that event Maoists have twice pulled out of peace talks. This, coupled with the performance of previously elected governments, offers little real hope about what is to come.

However, there is a striking difference which is that protests and demonstrations by ordinary Nepalis in the run up to I<ing Gyanendra's capitulation on April 24th 2006 showed that there is now huge pressure from the people for peace, democracy and change. The masses which have taken to the streets on a regular basis, especially youth, are fighting for democracy as well as an end to the abject poverty that affects so much of the country.

As it stands, the Maoists are in control of most of rural Nepal. It is thought that the movement's "hard core" consists of up to 15,000 well-trained rebel fighters with approximately 50,000 "militia" fighting alongside them. They have frequently bombed government related buildings and enforced blockades of major towns, showing that they have the strength and power to paralyse the economy as and when they choose. The Asian Development Bank has estimated that economic growth slowed to an average of 1.9% over the FY2002-4 period compared with 4.9% in the decade preceding that. Some of this can be attributed to the Maoists. Physical infrastructure has been destroyed, 400,000 rural families have been internally displaced, thousands have fled to India and development expenditures, which Nepal heavily depends on, have declined sharply even though this is now changing again. The slowdown in development aid, along with the ever dwindling tourist trade, is particularly crucial to Nepal since the country remains one of the poorest in the world with a GDP per capita of only $270, and 31% of the population living below the poverty line. Many more suffer from poor access to basic social services, especially in rural areas.

It is the rural families who are therefore most affected by the conflict yet at the same time they are the most removed from the decision-making process.

Most have heard through radio and word-of-mouth that the situation has recently improved yet former vibrant villages and towns are now inactive at dusk and there are regular demonstrations and "bandhs" (strikes). Many have been forced into joining the rebels and others do not know what the Maoists are fighting for or why their families were targeted victims. One indigenous Tharu lady said:

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"I do not kno1v 1vfy tbe Maoists killed nry husband. Thry came into the house, beat me, abducted him, stripped him of his clothes and shot him in front of me and JJ()' five year old son. I 1vas told tbe Maoists JJJere figbtingfor our rights. I think tbry had heard be 1vas a messengerfor tbe army even tbough he JJJas not".

One of the groups most affected by this conflict is the Dalits who make up 13% of the Nepalese population. Nepal's caste system was ftrst formalized into law by "Muluki Ain", the Nepalese Country Code in 1854. Dalits remain at the very bottom of this hierarchy, facing discrimination at all levels- social, political and economic. Even though Nepal abolished caste-based discrimination in 1963, it still exists in reality and is most entrenched in the Mid- and Far-western regions, where the deepest conflict is found. Their representation in executive bodies of political parties remains very low and in all this political change, they have essentially been left to fend for themselves.

One Dalit village chief pointed to a hand-pump outside his house and explained:

"The bigl1e1¡ castes do not let us use this band-pump. We have to 1va/k miles eve1y dqy to find JJJater JJJbicb is particular!J' difficult in coriflict situations JJJhen JJJe are told not to go mryJJJbere.... ".

The Dalit population has been targeted by the Maoists in their "People's War", even though the Maoists have not disclosed the actual proportion of their cadres by ethnicity and caste. The rallying point has been elimination of this overt caste-based discrimination and the lack of services and opportunities for the Dalits. Amongst the Maoists themselves, Dalit and non-Dalit Maoists live and eat together - those Dalits who have joined the Maoists are treated equally to non-Dalit cadres; they are not denied entry to houses or temples, have access to water sources, do not have to wash their own dishes, and are addressed respectfully. On the surface, this treatment seems attractive to the Dalits who are illiterate and disadvantaged but the reality is that they have little alternative economically and cannot say no if targeted. One Dalit lady explained:

"The Maoists came, insisted thry stqy JJJith us and tbat JJJe feed tbem. Thry then told nry husband that he had to join them. Out offear he saidyes, othenJJise thry JJJottld kill them. I don't kno1v JJJhere he is nom This is a story JJJhich most of us poor Dalits face".

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With a ceasefire in place and re-scheduled elections, both the Nepali people and the international community do have reason for some optimism but the harsh reality remains that the majority of people, the rural poor, will continue to be the least politically engaged and the most affected by the decade-long conflict. It will take years for the country to recover economically and more poignantly for the individuals to overcome their traumas of typical conflict atrocities: rape, torture, psychological trauma and the loss of their loved ones and homes.

THE HAND-RICKSHAW OF KOLKATA: A UNIQUE AND INDISPENSABLE INFORMAL TRADE f?y OI!J Donnei!J (1999) I have come to Calcutta for a variety of reasons, one of which is my continued work over the last 8 years with the hand-rickshaw trade, a unique but indispensable trade in Calcutta.

India as an economic power is booming and until recently, Kolkata resembled a faded colonial empire and was renowned for bureaucratic delays, protests, trade unionism and "bandhs" (strikes). Buddhadev Bhattacharya became Chief Minister of West Bengal's "Left Front", headed by the Communist Party of India, CPI(M), in 2000 and introduced a sea of change: new capitalist policies prioritizing sectors such as IT, bio-technology, agri-business and urban infrastructure instead of traditionally strong industries such as jute, iron and steel, metals and engineering. Both real estate and investments are now booming and the West Bengal economy is the third fastest growing economy in India but people think of Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay) and Bangalore as the epicenters of this change - probably rightly so at face value.

However, as well as the drive for Kolkata to become a centre for both national and foreign direct investment, the government is keen to get rid of the negative image associated with the city and is investing in infrastructure right, left and centre with new roads and shopping malls appearing all over the shop. When Bhattarcharya came to power, he announced that the handrickshaw, an "inhumane trade" where "man pulls man", would be removed from the city by the end of 2005 yet last night, when driving from the airport to central Kolkata, they seemed as visible as ever.

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A similar announcement was made by the Transport Minister, Subhas Chakravarty, a decade ago when he declared that hand-rickshaws would be banned by the beginning of 1997. Manash Ghosh, Senior Editor of The Statesman newspaper and now a great friend of mine who I write articles for when here, last June said to me: "Since the CPI(M) came to power in 1977, there have been periodic announcements to restrict or ban the rickshaw yet they are still numerous. Kolkata depends heavily on the hand-rickshaw trade and thousands of wallahs and their dependents earn a livelihood from this informal economy. It would be impossible to simply get rid of them. The only option is to find an alternative but this is unlikely and unrealistic."

The hand-rickshaw was introduced to Kolkata in 1900 primarily as a goods carriage by the city's Chinese community. In 1914 it became a mode of passenger transport and despite disappearing from every other city in the world, it has become a trade mark of Kolkata. (Interestingly, when I was in Japan in February, there were some hand-rickshaws operating but as a tourist attraction only). In Kolkata, the hand-rickshaws operate within the jurisdiction of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), an area covering 185km 2 and with a daytime population of approximately 6 million. Within the KMC, there are restrictions about where the hand-rickshaws can ply at specific times.

The hand-rickshaws offer a range of services in the wholesale markets of North Kolkata, the retail markets and Central Business District of Central Kolkata, and in the predominantly residential areas of South Kolkata. They are used for carrying goods to and from markets, commuting, social-travel, locally significant trips to hospitals and schools, and most importantly during the monsoon when the streets are flooded and no other modes of transport can operate. This is especially true in the unplanned North where there are many narrow by-lanes and a collapsed drainage system. In Kolkata, where private car ownership is low at 13/1000 compared with over 300/1000 in Washington DC, the hand-rickshaw is cheaper than taxis for middle and low income people and there are at least 700,000 one-way passenger trips every day. The rickshaw is also environmentally friendly which is important for Kolkata where air quality is extremely low.

The trade employs approximately 85,000 people: rickshaw owners, "sadars" (middlemen), garage workers and the wallahs themselves, in turn supporting up to 650,000 dependents, mostly from the poor, rural neighboring state of Bihar which has little else to offer and is suffering from "global warming" and land-right reformations. The hand-rickshaw is known to be the largest 153

informal trade in Kolkata, providing some kind of livelihood for seasonal migrants who come to the city in search of work, only returning to the countryside for occasional family visits, harvest time in March and April and/ or Durja Pujas in October. The wallahs usually work one or two shifts per day and are charged 12Rs/shift to rent their rickshaws, depending on the owner. They tend to negotiate a rate with their client although the standardized rate is 1ORs/km, meaning a day's work totals around 80Rs/ day in North Kolkata, 115Rs/ day in Central Kolkata and 130Rs/ day in South Kolkata (Today, 1 pound = approx 77Rs). Despite squalid living conditions and a meagre income, most of which is sent home as remittance, whenever announcements are made to ban the trade, there are demonstrations and protests against the Left Front government, usually organized by the All Bengal Rickshaw Union and/ or the wallahs themselves.

Under simple laws of economics, if demand for rickshaws decreases then they will die out with evolution, but as people have not discarded them, and the wallahs earn a livelihood from the trade, they cannot simply be eliminated on an administrative decree. The irony is that it is the Communist government which is threatening to ban the trade in its drive to promote capitalist policies, yet the reality is that the CPI(M) has not actually done anything to finally remove the rickshaws from the streets. When Chakravarty announced that "all rickshaws and hand-cart pullers should return to their native state" and that hand-rickshaws would no longer operate by 1997, the KMC denied any responsibility to abolish the rickshaw because it is an informal economy, not officially under their jurisdiction. Unless there is a proper drive to remove the Kolkatan rickshaws as well as an alternative for the illiterate, unskilled wallahs and the citizens who depend on the trade, it seems to me that the rickshaws will continue to ply and government announcements, in the name of modernisation, will remain meaningless.

On a more personal note, one of my greatest friends here, Deepak, has been a wallah for forty years now and is proud to be one. Whenever I have dinner with him and his friends in their "Khotal" (owner's shed where ten of them live), they tell me about the true reality of being a rickshaw wallah. Since they are illiterate, they cannot read the signs telling them where they can ply and where they cannot. The police therefore extort bribes from them to let them off prison sentences for "crimes" they do not realise they have committed.

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and then see tourists handing out 1OORs notes to beggars (who are usually in turn employed) when they take home, after rent of their rickshaw, fines and subsistence, an average of 70Rs/ day. It is a harsh reality but at the end of the day most are proud to be wallahs. The alternatives are bleak - either to return home to no employment or to resort to begging or rag picking. It is hard for them to become cycle rickshaw wallahs, the most obvious alternative for example, as this is a trade saturated by the Bengalis who see themselves above the hand-rickshaw trade, run by "outsiders". But the hand-rickshaw wallahs have no skills to do anything else.

So the challenge is to work with the hand-rickshaw wallah union and necessary people to force the government, if they are serious in the latest drive to ban them, to provide alternative employment rather than sending them home, or at the very least to assist and train them to find other forms of existing employment. A tough call I know but let's see - with contacts and persistence in this city, a lot can be achieved.

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A LEAGUE APART: A COMPARISON OF UNIVERSITY SPORTS FUNDING IN THE UK AND USA f:y Danielle Fidge (2003)

In 2005, I was lucky enough to win the Clive Taylor Prize for sports journalism and was generously offered ÂŁ1000 towards a project about which I was asked to write a report. Throughout my time as an Oxford undergraduate, I had been involved in student sport and journalism so this prize seemed well suited to me. Joumalistically I was Sports Editor of Cherwell newspaper for two terms (having been a keen contributor and deputy editor before that). As Jar as sport was concerned, I was a member of Oxford University Athletics Club and had represented the university in every Varsity match while I was a student, achieving a Blue in the process. It seemed natural, therefore, to combine my two passions and use my prize money to fund a trip to the Ivy League universities as part of the Achilles Athletics Club America's Match. The match, inaugurated in 1894, involves the captains of the Oxford and Cambridge Athletics Clubs choosing a combined team to compete in the 'Transatlantic Series', the world's oldest international athletics match series. We had two matches -one against a combined Penn and Comell team, hosted at Cornell, and another against a combined Harvard and Yale team, fought out at Harvard.

The trip consisted of spending a couple ofdays exploring New York, before moving onto Cornell University where we were billeted with students for a couple ofdays of training and exploration before our first competition. After the match there, we visited Yale University, again staying with students in order to get the fullest experience possible of Ivy League student life. Most of our time there was spent training hard and partying hard- the frat parties were like stepping into an American teen movie! Our final stop was Harvard University where we got to explore Boston and Cambridge before our final competition. Visiting three Ivy League universities was an eye-opening experience, particularly in terms of the attitude towards sport and investment in it, and especially in terms of training facilities. The contrast with my experiences as an athlete at Oxford prompted me to write an article about my observations.

Oxbridge versus Ivy League is a battle that has been fought on many fronts by many armies. My visit to Cornell, Yale and Harvard as part of the Achilles Athletics Club's 'Transatlantic Series' tour bought the sports aspect of this debate to the forefront of my mind. Athletes from Oxford and Cambridge Universities joined together to spend two weeks touring three of the Ivy League universities, competing against a joint Penn and Cornell team on the first weekend and a joint Harvard and Yale team on the second weekend.

During our stay at Cornell and Yale, we were billeted with students so we got a full experience of university life - accommodation, food, sporting

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facilities and the legendary frat parties! Although we stayed in a hotel at Harvard, we still enjoyed full use of their athletic facilities. The contrast between the facilities at Oxford University and our American counterparts' was staggering.

When we arrived at Cornell, we were ushered into their indoor track and the flrst major difference in sporting facilities became obvious. You could count on one hand the number of indoor 200m running tracks in Great Britain which results in Oxford students having to travel to Birmingham for the nearest one. However, an indoor running track is common at an Ivy League university. Cornell's boasts eight lanes, which is very rare, along with indoor facilities for all other athletic events except javelin. Yale's is housed in a building with a 26,000 sq ft skylight, considered to be one of the largest structures of its kind in the world. At Harvard, the indoor facilities are . . even more 1mpress1Ve the y have a six -lane banked oval track with an adjacent 80-yard sprint straight, two long and triple jump pits, Yale's indoor track facilities multiple high jump fans, two indoor throwing circles and a weight lifting cage. Special devices also allow hammer, discus, and javelin practice indoors. In Oxford, the modest sports hall is the preserve of sports that require indoor space like boxing and dance sport, and the athletics club battle to keep their weekly hour and a half session for circuit training.

The outdoor facilities in America were similarly impressive. Although Oxford is blessed with a newly resurfaced running track steeped in history as the location of the first sub-four minute mile by Roger Bannister in 19 54, there is currently no cage for h ammer throwing and the infleld is often out of bounds for athletes in order to

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preserve the grass for football matches. I could not see any evidence of such problems in America. Every sport seemed very well endowed as the Yale Bowl stadium (capacity 64,269), Cornell's Newman Arena for basketball (capacity 4,473) and Harvard's Bright Ice Hockey Centre (capacity 2,850) testify.

Moreover, the students at these Ivy League universities can access these facilities for free. When I broached the subject with some Corn ell students, they laughed when I told them that Oxford students cannot use the university swimming pool or gym unless they pay the annual fee of £65 or £45 respectively. As we discussed these differences, it became clear that such facilities come at a rather hefty price for Ivy League students. According to figures published by The Times, pursuing a degree course at Harvard costs $43,016 (£21,700) and at Yale, $45,850 (£23,000). They estimate that an Oxford degree sets students back only £8,700 by comparison (prior to the introduction of top-up fees, of course). In terms of learning, I got the impression that you were far more likely to sit opposite a leading academic in your field in a tutorial as an undergraduate at Oxford than at Harvard or Yale. At American universities, the top professors rarely teach undergraduates and students are most commonly taught in classes by graduate students and through lectures.

Therefore, the extra costs of attending an Ivy League university seem to manifest themselves in the facilities, sporting and otherwise. During my visit, I found out that at Yale Law School, the library is open and staffed 24 hours a day during term time!

However, I got the impression that although gaining an Ivy League education was undoubtedly expensive, financial aid is much more readily available than in England. At Yale, for example, if a student's annual family income is less than $45,000 (£22,911), parents are not expected to make any financial contribution. Likewise, Harvard boasts an endowment worth £14 billion which equates to around £700,000 per student. The contrast between the Ivy League and Oxbridge in this respect can be explained largely by the fact that the Americans are far better at exploiting their alumni and have a far more developed culture of philanthropy. Virtually every building bears the name of an alumnus. Yale indoor track where we spent a couple of days training on the tour was named after Charles Edmund Coxe, a Yale hammer thrower.

According to legend, he was responsible for raising funds for the new facility but decided to save himself the effort by donating the necessary $300,000 himself with the condition that the facility be named after him. The financial 158

support of another alumnus, Donald Roberts, in 2005 enabled major renovations to take place including the installation of a banked Mondo track and a digital scoreboard. By contrast, when Oxford University Athletics Club was asked to raise ÂŁ20,000 towards the recent resurfacing of the track at Iffley Road, the efforts required to generate this money exposed the rudimentary nature of the alumni network.

Perhaps it is unsurprising that the Ivy League universities invest so extensively in sporting facilities since the Ivy League began as an athletics conference of the eight key universities of north-eastern United States. They have been competing in sports for as long as intercollegiate sports have existed in America. The fl.rst sporting event between Harvard and Yale was the boat race of 1852. The Ivy League also has its roots as an amateur intercollegiate football league, fl.rst won by Yale in 1900. However, sporting rivalry has existed between Oxford and Cambridge for far longer and Oxbridge would perhaps benefit from watching how the Americans raise money if we wish to remain competitive outside of the academic sphere. In our competitions against Penn and Cornell, the American women were victorious and the men's match ended in a draw, and against Harvard and Yale, both Oxbridge teams were defeated. Despite our defeat, it was an experience of a lifetime that I will never forget and it was encouraging that we remained competitive in all of the athletics events. In true American "supersize" style, the trip was bigger and better than I could have imagined.

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AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium 1944 Andrew Foot, Chairman of the Oxford University Society, Cornwall Branch, reports that Lord Patten of Barnes came and talked to the Society last January, and Lord Tyler will address them this year.

Membership has doubled in the last year, and any Aularians living in Cornwall who have still not joined may write to him c/ o the Editor of this magazine.

1950 Professor Christopher Armitage has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Peace, War, and Defense. (He also continues as Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of English, but unfortunately there's no salary increase!)

1950 Patrick L Mortimer has been a member of Stony Stratford Town Council since 1999.

1952 In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2006, Neville Teller was awarded an MBE "for services to broadcasting and to drama". 2006 happened to mark exactly 50 years since he started contributing to BBC radio his first credit in Radio Times was in February 1956, six months after coming down. Although he subsequently had a varied career in marketing, publishing, the Civil Service and a national cancer charity, he continued writing freelance for BBC radio throughout.

1956 Silvester T J Mazzarella was shortlisted in 2006 for the Oxford Weidenfeld Literary Translation Prize for a translation from Swedish of the novel Imago by Eva-Marie Liffner.

1956 Andrew W J Thomson was awarded an Emeritus Professorship by the Open University in May 2006. He also published The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective (OUP, 2006) and is president of the Rotary Club of Bay of Islands (2006-07).

1959 Dr Philip H Blair, Associate Professor of English at the University of Balamand, Lebanon, has had his third book published this year: God's Credentials: Belief and Unbelief in a Troubled World, K&M Books, 2007 (distributed by Tentmaker Publications- www.tentmaker.org.uk).

1960 This autumn will see Ian Beesley start his PhD studies at Queen Mary College London, the subject of his thesis being the Cabinet Secretaries 1945-1980. But he is also pleased to report that he has also been appointed by the Prime Minister to write the Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries 1945-2002, necessitating access to closed flies.

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1961 Michael J Lynch is now a qualified Mediator and a panel member of the ADR Group, a national mediation service. He is now developing his business so as to offer mediation as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution.

1965 Michael St Maur Shell's exhibition of photographs of the Messines Ridge and Passchendaele, commissioned by The Passchendaele Memorial Museum 1917, will be on display until 11 November at Passendale Church near Ypres.

1969 Sir Nicholas Pumfrey has been appointed a Lord Justice in The Court of Appeal, with effect from September 2007.

1970 Parkinson's disease unfortunately forced Michael P Dunn to take illhealth retirement from teaching in 2005.

1970 Knighted in 2006, Richard Gosney is due to finish 31/ 2 years as British High Commissioner to Nigeria in November 2007, and to start as Governor of Bermuda in December.

1970 Peter S Malin completed his PhD at Birmingham University's Shakespeare Institute in February; the tide of his thesis was "'Entertaining Strangers': Shakespeare's Contemporaries at the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1960-2003".

1972 Sahity Ratna (Honoris causa) was conferred on Sankar Basu-Mallik by the Sanskrit Scholars Association, Howrah for his research in Mythologiques.

1975 Dr Martin Garrett's recent publications include Cambridge: a Cultural and Literary History (Oxford: Signal, 2004), Provence: a Cultural History (Oxford: Signal, 2006), a revised edition of Venice: a Cultural and Literary History (2006; first published 2001), and an introduction and notes to Marc Hudson's translation of Beowu!f (2007) . His Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron is due to appear in 2008.

1976 Dr Ed Ilgren has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists on the basis of his published works.

1978 Andrew M J Curtis exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 2006, and featured in an article in the August 2006 edition of The Artist.

1981 P Mark Drewell celebrated the birth of his fourth child on 15 May 2006.

1989 He kept his parents, Caroline and Willem Adema, waiting a while, but it was worth it. Samuel arrived at 15.20 hrs on 1 March 2007 and weighed in at 3.25kg and 48 centimetres; excellent particulars for a loosehead prop. His mother is absolutely thrilled to bits with him; his 161

brothers are longing to play with him, while his father is simply delighted, if only because just after birth his curious eyes were already searching for that bass vibrating through the room.

1989 A J Stuart Borrie and his wife Celia are delighted to announce the birth of a fine son, James Henry Roderick, on 2 May 2007, a brother for William.

1990 Dr David J Jordan married Alison on 26 August 2006, at a wedding service/ ceremony conducted by the Chaplain, Revd Gerald Hegart)' in the St Edmund Hall Chapel. Akaash Maharaj (1990) was the best man, and the guests included three other Aularians - Chris Vigars (1989),Anna Vigars (nee Weir) (1991) and Chris Manby (1990). Akaash's attempt to knock himself unconscious on a pew minutes before the wedding began failed, despite his having practiced the same move at the rehearsal the night before.

Back Row (left to right) Chris Vigars (1989), Ann a Vigars (1991 ), Chris Man by (1990); Front Row (left to right) Akaas h Maharaj (1990), Alison Jordan, David Jordan (1990).

1990 Akaash Maharaj tempted the gods of irony by being appointed to the SCR of Massey College, a postgraduate college of the University 162

of Toronto, as an Eminent Professional in Peace and International Conflict Resolution. He also represented his country as captain of UNICEF Team Canada, the national equestrian skill-at-arms team, at the world championships held this year in the Sultanate of Oman.

1991 Chris and Anastasia Ashton (nee Petassi, 1993) are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Benjarnin Zachary who was born in Philadelphia on 11 Feb 2007, weighing 8lbs 7 oz, pictured here.

1992 Chris and Alys Farley (nee Jackson) are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Alexander Christopher, on 7 November 2006.

1992 While at the Hall Jacqueline Hooper (nee Broughton) captained the Oxford University Polo Team and earned an extraordinary full Blue, assisted by the fact that she had represented England in the past. J acqueline migrated to Sydney in 2001 where she works as a lawyer, specialising in Intellectual Property and IT. She has always kept up her polo and becoming an Australian citizen last year has enabled her to represent her new country as Captain of the Australian Women's Polo Team. She captained the team in two notable internationals last year, one vs England and Iran in Tehran in July 2006 [see Jacgueline's account of this match on pages 144-6] and another against New Zealand in Sydney in November. [Pictured here are Jacqueline Hooper (no. 2) and her Australian Polo team-mates].

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1992 Tim Bryars has been elected to the Council of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, the senior body for the rare book trade. His antiquarian book and map shop in Cecil Court, London, has now been open for three years. In August he married Miss Rupinder Kaur, of the Poetry Book Society, and the reception was held in the suitably literary surroundings of Dr Johnson's House in Gough Square, London.

1999 Daniel Cormack directed and authored Make Me A Tory, a Channel 4 documentary which was part of the New Shoots documentary series, broadcast on Channel4 on Sunday 13 May 2007. In the making of his programme, Daniel travelled the country to find out exactly what it is that modern Conservatives believe and how they see the future of the UK. 1999 Dr Margaret Small is delighted to have been appointed to a permanent lectureship in History at the University of Birmingham, starting in September, having previously held a fixed-term lectureship atKeele.

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OBITUARIES 1920s .Arthur Kenneth Barton MA, 28 June 2007, aged 97, Staffordshire. 1929, English

ARTHUR KENNETH BARTON (1929) Jake, as he was known to friends, was a student of C S Lewis's in the late 1920s/ early 1930s. His entire career, with the exception of his service in the Air Force, was spent as an English master at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School in Staffordshire, and he spent a long retirement, sadly for the most part without his wife Doris, coaching friends' children and - as even this became difficult - enjoying the company of numerous visitors, many (including myself) regularly over a period of years. He had published several books including collections of his own limericks, and a compilation of short mystery stories for use in schools.

Jake was admitted to hospital after a fall, and was awaiting a transfer to a residential nursing home, when regrettably his health worsened rapidly and he passed away while still in the hospital elderly care ward.

He will be much missed. Lewis's words from his inaugural Cambridge lecture are most apt; "One thing I know; I would give a great deal to hear any ancient Athenian ... talking about Greek tragedy. He would know in his bones much that we seek in vain. At any moment some chance phrase might, unknown to him, show us where modern scholarship had been on the wrong track for years .... If a live dinosaur dragged its slow length into the laboratory, would we not all look back as we fled? ... Speaking not only for myself but for all other Old Western men whom you may meet, I would say, use your specimens while you can. There are not going to be many more dinosaurs."

I have met my ancient Athenian, my Old Western man; I have not fled, but sat comfortably listening to my dinosaur talk of 'wonderful things'. I count it an honour and a privilege to have been able to spend time with Jake, who embodied for me much that I admire but cannot hope to aspire to; those days are past.

Tom Cooke BA (London), MPhil (Cantab), BA (Manchester)

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1930s Ian Tweedy, 12 March 2007, aged 95, Canada. 1930 Leslie Gordon Holmes MA, 29 October 2006, aged 92, Somerset. 1932, Classics Richard Mervyn Alexander Lawson MA, 19 September 2006, aged 91, Berkshire. 1935, History The Rev Professor John McManners DLitt, MA, 4 November 2006, aged 89, Oxford. 1935, History [see Obituary, page 88] Jonathan Evan Rutherford BA, aged 90, East Sussex. 1935, Mathematics Hubert Beaupre Day Beales MPhys, MA, 10 November 2006, aged 92, Oxford. 1936, Physics Peter Guy Smart BA, 27 September 2006, aged 85, Cardiff. 1939, Geography

HUBERT BEAUPRE DAY BEALES (1936) I think my father was always grateful for his place at Teddy Hall because he had not originally been able to go up to university when he left school, and was becoming very worried about his career prospects in the 1930s without a degree.

He was offered a place at Cambridge in 1932, but could not afford to go as his parents had just lost most of their money in South America as a result of the depression in the 1930s (they had previously been sheep farming in Patagonia and had returned to England shortly before he was born). He therefore became a prep-school master for 4 years, attempted to study for a degree by correspondence course, but found it too time-consuming with a full time job. Eventually in 1936 Henry Kendall, warden of St Edwards School, Oxford, and Principal AB Emden rescued him with a part-time job at St Edwards and a place at Teddy Hall to read physics. I think the college 166

were probably fairly accommodating in allowing him the time to meet his other commitments.

I think it probably helped that he had already met the Principal at Henry Kendall's holiday cottage in Mevagissey, Cornwall!

I was very pleased to be able to follow in his footsteps many years later.

H A (fony) Beales (1970)

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Philip Michael Kirk MA, London. 1940, History Denis Burn Akehurst BA, LLB, 1 March 2007, aged 83, Warwickshire.

1941, English Geoffrey Ernest Charles Archer DFC, AMJET, 6 November 2006, aged 83, Boondal, Australia. 1941, Engineering The Rev John Gilbert Mortimer Scott MA, 9 July 2007, aged 81, Devon. 1943, History William Weir MA, 25 March 2007, aged 81, Kent. 1943, Modern Languages John Bartlett Day BA, 13th August 2007, aged 81, Surrey. 1944, English Cecil Haselden Mallorie Coleman BA, 18 June 2007, aged 82, Greece.

1944, Modern Languages Sir John Moreton Nicholls KCB CBE DFC AFC, 17 May 2007, aged 80, Norfolk. 1944, RAF Short Course Major General Anthony John Trythall CB, MA, DipEd, 2 December 2006, aged 79, Devon.1944, History Michael Turl MA, 7 August 2006, aged 80, East Sussex. 1944, Modern Languages 167

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1945, English Thomas Edmund Dowman MA, 6 December 2006, aged 79, Nottinghamshire. 1948, Modern Languages David Arthur Astley Weston MA, DipEd, 3 April 2007, aged 82, London. 1948, Modern Languages The Rev Derek Burden BA, DipEd, 9 November 2006, aged 77, Wiltshire. 1949, Modern Languages GEOFFREY (ERNEST CHARLES) ARCHER, DFC (1941) Geoffrey Archer had two great themes to his public life, aviation and visual art. He came to St Edmund Hall in early 1941 to study Engineering, matriculating in Trinity Term as an RAF Probationer. He is in the College photo that appeared in the issue of the Hall Magazine which reported the college activities of 1941. He must always have wanted to fly and became a member of the University Air Squadron. By the time that issue of the magazine went to press late in 1941, the editor was able to report that he was a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve cadet training in the USA. The magazine issued a year later reported that he had become a commissioned Pilot Officer, RAFVR and was stationed in the Midlands. By 1943 he was in Bomber Command.

The Art part of his life had always been active. He painted "Nose Art" on a Stirling Bomber. This he claimed enabled him to have his first international exhibition of his artwork as a result of the bomber's regular visits to Europe, albeit under the cover of darkness! He received the Distinguished Flying Cross. This is awarded for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".

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After the war he spent three years, 1947-50 with the regular army in Burma.

He returned to the UK but he had to return to flying and by 1957 he was in Australia. He was a commercial pilot working ftrst for Connellan Airways (1957-61) and then for the Snowy Mountain Hydroelectric Authority (196168). Then he became an Air Safety Investigator with the Department of Civil Aviation. Although he retired in 1986 he continued to fly into his 70's.

Retirement enabled him to devote more time to his watercolour and oil painting. His subjects varied greatly and included flying machines and birds in flight, Australian scenes and people. The sea in particular caught his interest.

Three of his paintings are now at St Edmund Hall and two were exhibited at the Hall's Oxford Artweek Exhibition held in May this year.

His time at the Hall was short. He wanted to fly and being a member of the Hall and of the University Air Squadron must have given him the opportunity to volunteer early for active duty. But he remembered the Hall and Oxford with pride and affection. He was pleased to be in the Hall's Whos Who published in 1996, he corresponded with the Hall, and bequeathed to the Hall two of his paintings. He was a resourceful and adventurous man.

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REVD PREB JOHN GILBERT MORTIMER SCOTT MA (1943) The parish church of St Mary, Totnes, South Devon, was full for the funeral of retired Devon vicar the Rev John Scott, who died in Torbay Hospital after an illness, aged 81.

A remarkable man in many ways, he managed to combine his pastoral duties as a parish priest with surveying work as Exeter diocesan adviser on church towers, bells and clocks.

Over a period of more than 50 years, he amassed a vast archive of information and this resulted in a book, a monumental two-volume history entitled Tmvers & Bells o/ Devon, written with the help of co-authors, Frank Mack and James Clarke. It was launched on January 5 in St Petrock's Church, Exeter.

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John had a long association with the Guild of Devonshire Ringers and just a week before he died was taken by his son, also called John, to ring at South Brent.

The Rev John Gilbert Mortimer Scott, MA, was the son of the King's Harbourmaster at Plymouth. He served in the Royal Navy and later studied history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and as an undergraduate learnt to ring.

From Oxford he went to theological college at Cheshunt and, after being ordained, served as a curate at St Thomas, Exeter, and at Wolborough, Newton Abbot.

In 19 58 he became Vicar of Clawton and Rector of Tetcott with Luffincott, before moving on in 1966 to become Vicar of Newton St Cyres, near Crediton. Here he served as a school governor, kept bees in the vicarage garden, helped restore the 18th-century church clock and edited the Newton Wonder, an impressive community magazine named after the famous apple.

He moved on in 1984 to become Vicar of Bampton and, in addition, had charge of three other parishes. He retired in 1991.

As diocesan adviser he visited hundreds of church towers and, in the process, clambered up numerous winding stairways and ladders. He kept meticulous notes and compiled very thorough reports. In addition to writing a number of pamphlets and papers on such subjects as the Bells of Exeter Cathedral, he was co-author of a book on the Clocks and Clockmakers of Tiverton, first published in 1977 and subsequently reprinted.

One of his co-authors on this project was Clive Ponsford, who recalls going with John on a tower inspection. It was necessary to toll one of the bells and when this was done, at around noon, a number of villagers hastened to the church to find out what was going on. They feared that the bells were being rung because the Queen was dead!

The book came about after John reassembled- for the then curator W P Authers (the third co-author) - two turret clocks which were in bits on the floor at Tiverton Museum.

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John was a large, friendly man and a popular figure, welcome wherever he went. His many interests ranged from architecture and music to woodwork.

Sailing was a lifelong passion.

He was a prebendary of Exeter Cathedral and while living in retirement at Totnes took services where needed. His wife Claire died in 1998. He is survived by children Rebecca, John and J oe.

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MAJOR-GENERAL A J TRYTHALL CB (1944) As an author, an educationist and a publisher, TonyTrythall threw himself body and soul into everything he undertook.

He was a vigorous debater, whether addressing a point of history or current policy, and occasionally left broken crockery behind him. His career in the Royal Army Education Corps (RAEC), of which he became director, was unusually varied and productive. He fought hard to retain its ability to function to its full range, despite intense pressure for scarce financial resources from elsewhere. Outside the Army, he will be chiefly remembered for his scholarship and enterprise as managing director of Brassey's.

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National Service in the Middle East and started teaching at a Coventry secondary school. He turned again to the Army on discovering it was difficult to live as a married man on D per week. The Army welcomed him with a regular commission in 1953.

His first assignment was a three-year secondment to the Federation of Malaya's Military College at Port Dickson on the coast of Negeri Sembilan, beginning what became an abiding interest in the education of aspiring officers.

Five years in the education directorate, Stanmore, was the price exacted for three years' teaching English and history in the sun, yet he made his mark in the formation of education policy in a National Service army deployed in Germany, the Middle and Far East. Command of an RAEC group in Germany followed, overseeing the presentation of current affairs to junior ranks and instruction of regular NCOs to qualify for the education certificates required for qualification for promotion to warrant officer.

In 1968-69 he went to King's College London to take his MA in war studies, concentrating on Clausewitz and the writings of the British early exponent of armoured warfare, Colonel J F C Fuller. He declined command of the School of Preliminary Education, pointing out that it would be a waste of his year at King's, and went instead as education adviser to the Regular Commissions Board, allowing him to develop further his interest in officer education. This led to his being asked to set up an officers' education branch.

He travelled widely abroad, lecturing on international affairs and for the staff college and promotion examinations.

His first book, Bonry Fuller: The Intellectual General (1977), was written having consulted 18 boxes of Fuller's papers left with Rutgers University in New Jersey.

He also took advantage of doors opened by Sir Basil Liddell Hart's widow, Kathleen. In 1978 he and Brian Bond gave the first Fuller-Liddell Hart Lecture.

His The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha in the Second World War came out in 1982.

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had to be channelled into defending the elements of his corps' task that he considered vital to its continuance, but he also managed some proactive measures.

Six months before his retirement from the Army in 1984, he was offered the post of managing director of Brassey's Defence Publishers, which he accepted on the understanding that he would have complete editorial freedom. He and Jenny Shaw, who became joint managing director when Trythall also became deputy chairman, turned a moribund company into a well-respected publishing house that produced some 250 books between 1984 and 1995.

These included a treatise on strategy, Race to the Swift, an autobiography of Alexander Stahlberg who had been ADC to Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, many other biographies and The Chiefs, the authoritative survey of Britain's Service chiefs of staff and the politicians with whom they dealt between 1868 and 1990, written by Field Marshal Lord Bramall and General Sir William Jackson.

His relationship with Brassey's owners, Pergamon, were seldom easy and he had difficulties with the Ministry of Defence over Brassey's quarterly listing for the defence industry of the names and telephone numbers of officers and officials concerned with defence procurement. When Pergamon was in administration in 1991-92, Brassey's was effectively owned by Price Waterhouse. Brassey's survived for a time, largely thanks to Trythall, but interest in books on defence matters fell away with the end of the Cold War. He retired for a second time in 1995 to become the chairman of governors of a girls' independent school. He was appointed CB in 1983 . . He is survived by his wife, Celia, two sons and a daughter.

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PROFESSOR HENRY SILTON HARRIS (1945) Henry Silton Harris was born in Brighton in 1926; his father was a farmer.

He attended Hove County School from 1938 to 1943, when he transferred to Lancing College. He was called up in November 1944, but was discharged the following summer as medically unfit for military service, and was thus able to enter the Hall in Michaelmas Term 1945 to study Greats. His housemaster at Lancing had commented in a reference that he was already very well read while at school, and fond of music, and he played an important role in the literary and cultural life of the Hall as an undergraduate. His friends there included the philosopher Peter Winch (1947-9) and the East Asian specialist Peter Swann (1940-1, 1945-9).

After graduation in 1949, he stayed in Oxford for one year to train as a secondary school teacher; but in 1950 he took up a post-graduate fellowship at Northwestern University in the US to study modern Italian philosophy. In the following year, he transferred to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, where he met and married Ruth Koski, a graduate student in Biochemistry, with whom he was to have four children. He secured his doctorate with a thesis on the social philosophy of Giovanni Gentile after a viva in the autumn of 1953, and subsequently taught at Ohio State University, before appointment to the Philosophy Department at the recently founded York University, Toronto, in 1962. Here he made contact with Harry Girling (19379, 1945-8), who taught in the English Department. In his years at York he established a formidable academic reputation as a scholar not only of modern Italian philosophy, but especially of Hegel, on whom he wrote several major studies, in the process fully justifying Principal Emden's assessment, in 1950, that 'he has it in him to make a quite definite contribution to philosophical studies'. He was awarded the title of Distinguished Research Professor at York in 1984, and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada in 1988. In 2001, York awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. But he was a dedicated and humane teacher as well as a leading scholar, and he served as Academic Dean of York's Glendon College between 1967 and 1969. He retired in 1996, and spent his remaining years in Victoria, BC, where he died on 13 March, 2007. He continued writing even in retirement; a selection of his unpublished papers is now available on the York University website.

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In all his years in Canada, however, he never forgot his time at the Hall: one of his books is dedicated 'To the members of St Edmund Hall, where it was my good fortune to be taught'. He made regular donations to the Development Fund, and continued to visit Oxford even in retirement for meetings of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, of which he was the honorary president. An appreciation of his life and work will be given at the 2007 AGM of the Society, to be held at the Hall in September.

N. Davidson (Archivist), with assistance from Professor Harris's former student and good friend, Mr Jim Devin From things he said, I believe that Henry Harris may have been the first in his family to go to university. His father was, I believe, a farmer, and the praise that Henry got from him, and treasured all his life was that Henry could hoe a row from one end to another without pausing to rest. That early evidence of tenacity characterized his intellectual life as well. At school his talent for languages became evident and in his last year the master separated him from the rest of the form and let him work on Greek texts by himself.

Henry was of slight build and walked with a bit of a limp that was I think congenital. When we were both on in years, I once hesitated at the top of an escalator and remarked to Henry that the older I got the more I feared falling. He replied 'I've been afraid of falling all my life'. I last saw him 7 or 8 years ago. He was the genial star of a symposium on his Hegel expositions, learnedly but humorously responding to criticisms of his work. His white hair was long and flowing all over the place and he had a long white beard to match. He was delighted when I told him he'd become a flt subject for Julia Margaret Cameron.

I was at the Hall when both Henry Harris and Peter Winch were up. Harris became a renowned Hegelian and Winch an eminent Wittgensteinian, a contrast that never ceases to amaze and amuse me. The meagre philosophical tuition the Hall grudgingly provided in our time did litde to fetter the intellect; these great minds were left to flnd their own way with the brilliant success that each achieved. It was my luck to know them both, and I miss them.

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1958, English Austin Peter Wilson BA, 19 April2006, aged 68, West Yorkshire. 1958, History The Rt Rev John Michael Austin, OBE, BA, 17 August 2007, aged 68, Suffolk. 1959, PPE IAN DAVID TAYLOR (1957) Ian (ID) Taylor entered St Edmund's Senior School, Canterbury in 1951 after 4 years in the Junior School. When he left in December 1956 he was regarded as probably the best all-round sportsman that the school had produced. He was captain of each of the three major sports, spending five years in the Football 1st XI, mainly as an outstanding right half; four years in the Hockey 1st XI, as a prolific scoring centre forward; and four years in the Cricket 1st XI, in three of which he headed the batting averages- and scored three centuries. In Athletics he held the school record in the 100 yards, 220 yards and 440 yards and also won the 880 yards and Long Jump in each of 176

his last two years at school, as well as holding Under 16 records in four of these events. He was 1st and 3rd in the inter-house Cross Country race in his last two years and was a star performer in Swimming, Golf and Shooting.

He was House Captain, Vice Captain of School, spent 8 years in the Choir, 6 years in the Orchestra and was a committee member of the History, Geography and Debating Societies, as well as being a member of the Dramatic Society and a Sergeant in the CCF. In October 1957 Taylor went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He could probably have obtained his 'Blue' in any of half a dozen sports, but he concentrated his efforts on Hockey and Athletics. His great speed saw him moved from centre forward to outside right in Hockey. He gained his 'Blue' in four successive years and was captain in his last year. Whilst at university he played for England B, toured South Africa with England, and gained 11 Great Britain caps, including playing at the Rome Olympics in 1960. He continued to play for the South and for England until 1962. In Athletics he gained his 'Blue' in the sprints in 1958 and 1959, in which year he also represented British Universities. Taylor and John ORC) Young, a fellow undergraduate at St Edmund Hall who was the AAA sprint champion and a Rugby 'Blue' and England wing-threequarter, came first and second in the sprints in all the university's athletics matches in these years. Injury and business commitments ended his major sporting activity after 1962.

For most of his life Taylor lived abroad: even whilst at school his home was in Mexico. After leaving Oxford he worked for Balfour Williamson from 1961-2, Tracey & Cia, Bogota, Colombia from 1962-8, and then for the Hunter Douglas Corporation which took him to Hong Kong, Japan, Costa Rica and Canada. He spent his last 13 years before retirement with Illinois Tool Works Inc. before finally settling down in Dawsonville, Georgia. He had kept in touch with friends from his schooldays, including Robin Hawkins and the late Adair Roche, and last visited the school in 2003. He was killed in a truck and car accident, in which the trucker was at fault, in the United States on 4 June, and leaves a widow, Paula, and a son (David), daughter (Laura) and three grandsons. He was 69.

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RT REV JOHN MICHAEL AUSTIN, OBE (1959) Bishop of Aston whose inspired leadership transformed interfaith relations and drove forward urban regeneration The Right Rev John Austin was Bishop of Aston, Birmingham, from 1992 to 2005 and later an assistant Bishop for Leicester. Committed to urban redevelopment and inter-faith relations he made an indelible contribution to city life.

As right-hand man to the Bishop of Birmingham, he had a pivotal role, and was an indispensable aide to former bishops the Right Rev Mark Santer and the Most Rev John Sentamu- now Archbishop of York.

In his ftrst year he was chair of Birmingham's City Challenge Board, and was responsible for spending ÂŁ37.5 million over ftve years in the Newtown and South Aston area. In the following years he nurtured a concern for inner and outer estate parishes, working closely with clergy and church workers.

Possessing a gentle nature and an imaginative wit, he soon won the respect of other faith leaders in the city.

Austin became chairman of St Basil's Homeless Project in 2000, developing it into a leading charity for helping young people off the streets. He was also the Archbishop of Canterbury's Episcopal Link with the China Christian Council, a post he passed to the present Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev David Urquhart.

Born in 1939, Austin was educated at Worksop College before going up to Oxford in 1959 to study PPE. He completed his Anglican training at St Stephen's House Theological College, 1962-64, before serving his title at St John the Evangelist in East Dulwich, 1964-68.

In 1968 he went to St James Cathedral, Chicago, as an assistant priest before returning to be priest-in-charge of St Christopher's, Pembroke College mission in Inner London, 1969-76. From 1976 he was social responsibility adviser in St Alban's diocese, and he formed Church Action on Poverty in 1981. He was director of the London Diocesan Board for social responsibility for eight years before becoming bishop in 1992. In recognition of his interfaith work, he became a member of the General Synod's Committee for Minority 178

Ethnic Anglican Concerns and in 2003 a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Team of Bishops with particular responsibilty for Muslim relations in England.

Celebrating the centenary of the Birmingham diocese, he walked throughout the area covering 348 miles in 37 days with Bishop Sentamu, an event that forged their friendship.

He retired from the Birmingham diocese in 2005 when he became assistant bishop in the Leicester diocese, serving until his health no longer permitted.

He was appointed OBE in 2006.

He is survived by his wife, Rosemary, and by two sons and a daughter.

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1960, Geography Professor John Proctor DPhil, DSc, MA, 20 August 2006, aged 62, Lancashire. 1962, Botany Patrick Francis Congreve Gordon MA, aged 58, West Yorkshire. 1968, PPE Robin Tudor Wilmer BA, aged 57, Devon. 1968, English & History

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PROFESSOR JOHN PROCTOR (1962) Pioneer of tropical forest ecology

John Proctor, biologist: born Accrington, Lancashire 1 February 1944; Lecturer in Biology, Stirling University 1911-79, Senior Lecturer, then Reader 1919-96, Professor 1996-2005; married 1913 Sue Fogden (one daughter; marriage dissolved), 2006 Dorotf?y Tqylor; died Blackburn, Lancashire 20 August 2006.

Over the last four decades, John Proctor established himself as an expert on the ecology and conservation of tropical forests and through his work helped secure a better future for these rapidly dwindling and productive ecosystems.

During a remarkable series of expeditions, to Central and South America, Indomalaya and Africa, he achieved a great deal in the way of data and scientific publications, despite a "shoestring" approach to research funding.

Proctor was chief scientist in the field of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Mulu expedition to Sarakwak, Malaysia in 1977-78 and led the Forest Regeneration Group of the RGS to Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil, in 198788. Between 1994 and 2006, he was the chief forest ecological adviser to Project Barito Ulu, a rainforest conservation project in central Indonesian Borneo. His many publications included the classic Mineral Nutrients in Tropical Forest and Savanna Ecorystems (1989).

Proctor was also the acknowledged authority on the vegetation of serpentinised areas. Serpentinites are magnesium-rich rocks which often have serpent-like colours and patterns and are toxic to many plants. The flora of serpentinised areas, such as parts of Shetland and the Lizard peninsula of Cornwall, is very specialised. Proctor's The Ecology of Areas with Serpentinized Rocks: a world view (1992, with B Roberts) and four edited conference volumes (published between 1991 and 2003) are benchmark publications on this fascinating habitat.

Born in Accrington, Lancashire, in 1944, Proctor was educated at St Mary's College, Blackburn, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from where he graduated with a First in Botany in 1965, and was awarded his doctorate in 1968 and later, in recognition of his outstanding scientific activities, a DSc in 1994.

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in 1979 Proctor became Lecturer in Biology at Stirling University, where he was appointed Professor in 1996 and remained until his retirement last year.

A council member of the British Ecological Society, 1982-85, Proctor served as secretary of the society's Tropical Group and was eo-founder of its Scottish Tropical Group. He served on the editorial board of scientific journals including Plant Ecology and the journal of the Botanical Society of Scotland.

He was President of the Botanical Society of Scotland, 1996-98, during which time he organised the most important botanical conference in Scotland in the last 40 years, published in a 500-page symposium volume.

John Proctor was a colourful, engaging, sometimes laconic, and often utterly hilarious, companion. His renditions of Winston Churchill's speeches were joyous to behold, especially when Proctor crumpled in laughter as he reached the climax of a rather long piece. By his own and frequent admission he was a quite dreadful lecturer, yet his students were captivated by his charisma and expert knowledge.

He adored vintage cars and motor-bikes as long as they were British; a Black Shadow once adorned the hallway of his flat for months.

Proctor had contracted a tropical disease during an expedition, and this made his last years difficult. He died just a fortnight before two conference meetings were to be held in Edinburgh and Oxford in appreciation of his life's work.

He was honoured that many of his ex-students were to lecture on research stimulated by him, with the results to be published next year in a Festschrift issue of the journal Plant Ecology.

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2000s Kathryn Helen Ashbridge BA, 15 May 2007, aged 25, London. 2000, Mathematics & Computation Joanna Yorke Dyer BA, 5 April 2007, aged 24, Iraq. 2002, PPE Andrew Hannah Dawson BA, 27 January 2007, aged 27, Oxford. 2003, P GCE KATHRYN HELEN ASHBRIDGE (2000) When we all began our careers at Teddy Hall everyone looked to Kate with a degree of trepidation.

She appeared so together, mature and confident, and always radiated elegance. Yet, somehow, she managed to balance this with playing rugby, a combination few of us have ever been able to get our heads round.

It was only after a few evenings watcrung Kate on the local dance floors that the image of permanent composure was shattered, and suddenly she became bubbly and a _ ___ ____. warm friend you couldn't help but love. Kate was as skilful with a yard of ale as any member of the men's rugby team. For many of us the first memory of Kate is her leading the girls of the Hall in a pint-downing competition against the St Peter's girls in the Turf, merely hours after matriculation. Needless to say, Kate and her team defeated what I shall over generously describe as the competition.

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Kate matriculated in 2000 after taking a gap year working with Quest Overseas, helping educate disadvantaged children in South America. During that gap year, Kate met her long term boyfriend Ed, who became something of a feature of her three years at Teddy hall and subsequently. Ed was utterly devoted to Kate, and Kate to Ed. Surrounded by humanities students, Kate, the mathematician, used her calm rationality to full effect. In marked contrast to her friends Kate was not prone to unnecessary verbosity. Kate had a sharpness of tongue and acerbic wit that could puncture pomposity at a hundred paces. In a mark so characteristic of Kate, that sharpness of tongue was only ever deployed in defence of her friends, of whom she was fiercely loyal.

Kate embodied the spirit of the Hall. Never one to get overly bogged down in the niceties of her degree, Kate showed true commitment to the important aspects of college life, be it rugby, the women's third eight, Neighbours in the JCR at lunchtime, or the choir.

After leaving University Kate joined the London office of Watson Wyatt, training to be an actuary, and continued to pursue her love of rugby, singing and spending time with her friends - old and new.

Kate will be missed dearly by all who knew her but we can take comfort from the fact that she achieved so much in her young life and brought happiness and laughter to our lives.

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JOANNA YORKE DYER (2002)

A Service of Thanksgiving was held at The S heldonian Theatre, Oxford at mzddqy on Saturdqy 21 Ju!J 2007. The Service, led l!J the Chaplain, &vd Gerald Hegar!J, celebrated through music, poetry and personal riflections l!J friends andfami!J the differentperiods of ]oanna Dyer's life. Tzvo friends in particular remember Jo 's time at Oxford and in the Army, and their reminiscences are reproduced below:

"I speak as one of Jo's closest friends: a housemate; an Aularian; a fellow rower and a fellow member of the Women's Institute.

"Jo was a founding member of our WI -I think it was she who coined the tide for our small circle of girl friends. And it was Jo who came up with our club motto 'Semper Cashmere, Aliquando Lycra': Always Cashmere, Occasionally Lycra. Many of the clubs in Oxford require elaborate inductions; our required none; but there was a ritual we took part in, and it's a memory that I know the WI share. Going full-pelt on our fleet of bicycles down Queen's Lane, across Broad St and through the streets of Oxford, with Jo leading and harmonising, we would sing out Julie Andrews' classic from The Sound of Music, "Doe a deer" at the tops of our voices.

"This memory seems symbolic of our friendships with Jo: jubilant, active, funny, tender, life-loving.

"My university memories are a montage of memories of Jo. I remember how she laughed as she recounted stories of our rowing coach. In the Easter holidays of our first year we trained out on a lake in Italy. Our coach would shout instructions that we couldn't hear, would watch us take a few more strokes and then call out "good, good, that's it, you've got it". Always alert, Jo delighted in the ridiculous. I remember revising for our finals, tucked away in a corner of Teddy Hall library, sitting beside each other, writing

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notes, being disruptive, realising we were too hyper or too tired to work, and so taking long naps and laying our heads on our desks.

"Looking back on our three years at Oxford and the years since I see how insignificant incidents became hilarious because Jo was there: because of the way she phrased her quick sentences, because of her ruthlessness and spark.

"I feel as if Jo blazed her way across my life and the lives of the many, many friends and admirers she had here. I know that Jo did have a more fragile side - but very close friend though I was, this was a side of her I rarely saw.

It was Jo's strength that bowled me over. I remember she told me to be content when things were good because you never knew what was going to happen next. Jo's advice to me, as a friend, would be to deal with any situation with strength- and because it was Jo, this word, "strength", became a motto between us.

"]o leaves behind her an amazing legacy. When I asked myself how I and so many of Jo's friends can honour her memory and her life, I feel what we must do, is to continue living each of our lives with a little more determination, more courage, more spark, and strength."

Oenone Crossley-Holland (2002)

"In early March Jo was posted to become part of the Intelligence cell for the 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Battle group, stationed in the Contingency Operations Base, on the outskirts of southwest Basra, [Iraq].

As well as her routine intelligence cell tasks collating and processing any information brought in, she was also able to go out with the patrols as the female searcher during various search and arrest operations. She was, of course, there to do what the soldiers of an all-male infantry Battalion couldn't, under cultural constraints. A rose among the thorns would be a very easy analogy to apply, but the truth I suspect is somewhat different. Having witnessed Ocdt D yer, during a Sandhurst Exercise, subdue a number of large Fijian soldiers with some fairly colourful language and a posture any All Black would be proud of, I am inclined to think she would have had little trouble holding her ground among her boys.

"From what Jo wrote in a letter back from Iraq it seems she had become fond of the soldiers she was working with. The Kingo's, as the soldiers of

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2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment are colloquially known, she affectionately described as 'very northern, very light-fingered and very laid back'. They weren't used to having women around and Jo found herself something of a novelty when she first arrived. Jo must have made a good first impression, as it did not take long before the boys had made a number of acquisitions in her favour. Before long as if by magic a desk had appeared in her empty office space and soon after, during a trip around camp, her Land Rover screeched to a halt, out jumped a Kingo and in came a chair.

"As with everything she did, the enthusiasm Jo had for her military life rarely wavered. She of course had moments of unhappiness and was sometimes in situations that were very frightening. But more often when she wrote her letters or emails were full of exclamation marks, excited anecdotes and phrases like 'outrageously cool'. She took the work she was doing in Iraq very seriously and admitted that whenever she heard the guys slag off the information they were given, her ears would prick up, and she would promise herself not to make the same mistake when she did the job.

"Ironically perhaps, for those of us who had been lucky enough to know J o throughout her military career, since that miserable first day at Sandhurst in January 2006, the memories are predominantly of Jo when she was not in green. Her inspired dress sense and love of fancy dress, of her aerobics demonstration in the pouring rain, her choice of bikini in Cyprus, of her witty bluntness or of her ludicrous dancing on so many occasions."

WillHarris

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ANDREW HANNAH DAWSON (2003) Andrew Dawson, a popular teacher at Matth ew Arno ld School, Oxford collapsed during a club rugby match and died of a suspected heart attack. Friends, work colleagues and team-mates paid tribute to the 27-year-old as an "unassuming, dedicated and selfless man".

Andrew, a geography, citizenship and PSHE (personal, social and health education) teacher who had a history of heart trouble, collapsed and died during a game between Oxford Harlequins second team and High Wycombe second team in North Hinkse y, O xford on _._____ _, Saturday 27 January 2007.

Andrew had joined Matthew Arnold School in July 2004, having completed his geography degree at Cambridge University and his postgraduate teachertraining at St Edmund Hall. He was passionate about teaching from the very beginning of his career. His enthusiasm for his subjects and respect for his students was apparent in all he did. He was highly professional and his headteacher, Katherine Ryan, felt Matthew Arnold School were privileged to have him as a teacher.

Andrew was a highly respected and well-liked teacher and colleague. Many tributes reflecting the impact that he had on those who knew him were made both at the school and via the Oxford Mail's tribute site. Andrew was a courteous, unassuming man who had a clear sense of purpose and great strength of character. Many of his ¡students commented on his ready smile and good humour, and the support and encouragement that he gave to so many individuals.

An active sportsman and excellent teacher, Andrew Dawson was a man of many qualities.

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Non-Aularians:

Peggy Todd, wife of Joe (former Emeritus Fellow), December 2006, Oxford Shirley Dawson, former secretary to several Principals of the Hall 19872000, 24 August 2007, aged 67, Oxford

The Editor once again thanks all contributors for their news, articles and photographs; at 192 pages this is the largest magazine over which she has presided, and reflects the Aularian community's amazingly diverse range of interests and talents. Floreat Aula!

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ST EDMUND HALL Matriculation 2006 Ali na Fazal. Divya Athrnanathan. Siobhan Chaprnan. Yu Liu. Emily Watson. Emma Enderby. Claire Standley. La! a Demirdjian. Lean Chen. Elisa Hilliard. Lulu Jiang. Emily MacGregor. Elizabeth McDowell. Sara Parry. Sarah Tresman. Isobel Whitehom. Carina McAiinden. Caroline Hobbs. Serena Lee Fleu r Fielding. Ch loe Harding. Arabell a Lawson. Sandmali Zbyszewski. Nicola Bridge. Sophie Reid. Sophie Brice. Hannah Eyles. Lili Carr. Justin Furuta. Harry Fisher. Maira Reimao. Mai Nielsen. Sophie Adwic k. Jean Foster. Emi ly Hoffman. Joanna Skeels. Grace Haley. Rufus Veness. Sourav Ghosh Yadi m Filimonov. Andrew White. Joseph Ammoun . Tom Clucas. Alex Trench. Olivia Williams. Qingxiang Li. Ahmed Hameed. Hieu Ngo. Andrej Spielmann. Katie Dawkins. Katherine Wrighl. Peter Claridge. Edward Oddy. Jenni fer Ayers. Tatiana Cutts. Marina Johns. Lucy Macfarlane. Jamie McFarlane Edward Couchman. Francesca Perkins. Laura Davis. Wei Wang. Elitsa Baklova. Yiqun Cao. Suyu Liu. Sze Kong. Faryal Sadiq . Caitlyn Schwanz. Tena Simonovic Einwalter. Machi Sato. Solinn Lim. Laura Groom. Jutta Riikonen. Sabine Wahl. Katie Glencross. Emily Hellicar Antenen.

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