St Edmund Hall Magazine 2008-09

Magazine 2.008-2009

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. 4 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2009

COLLEGE LIST ................................................................................................................ 1 TO REPORT From the Principal ........................................................................................................... 8 From the Chaplain .......................................................................................................... 12 From the Library Fellow ................................................................................................ 13 From the Home Bursar ................................................................................................. 22 The Senior Common Room ......................................................................................... 24 The Middle Common Room ....................................................................................... 33 The Junior Common Room ........................................................................................ 34 Clubs and Societies ......................................................................................................... 36 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows ..................................................................................................................... 50 The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture ........................................................................... 54 Poetry at the Hall The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry ................................................... 56 Wardrobe, by Charlotte Geater ............................................................................. 56 Isis, Second Floor, by Tom Clucas ......................................................................... 57 Contemplation, by Meredith Root-Bemstein ............................................................ 58 The first Geddes Masterclass ......................................................................................... 60 The Philip Geddes Mentor Scheme .............................................................................. 61 The Joe Todd Award ..................................................................................................... 62 Oxford French Law Moot 2009 .............................................................................. 62 The AB Emden Lecture ............................................................................................... 63 Obituaries: Maureen Christian ..................................................................................... 64 Vivian Ridler CBE .................................................................................... 65 Norah Geddes ........................................................................................... 69 FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers ............................................................................................................ 70 Matriculations ................................................................................................................... 70 Visiting Students ............................................................................................................. 75 Degree Results ................................................................................................................. 76 Awards and Prizes .............................................................................................. ............ 82 Degree Dates 2009-2010 ................................................................................................. 88

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THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND ALUMNI NEWS News from the Development Office .......................................................................... 90 The Floreat Aula Society ................................................................................................ 91 Report of the Medics Reunion & Dinner .................................................................... 94 Report of the Annual Gaudy ....................................................................................... 96 Report of the 1958 50th Anniversary Luncheon ......................................................... 98 Report of the New York Dinner ................................................................................. 100 Report of the Friends of the Rugby Club Match & Dinner ...................................... 101 Report of the 40th Anniversary Gaudy ...................................................................... 103 Report of the Summer Reunion 2009 ........................................................................ 107 Donors to the College ................................................................................................... 109 Forthcoming Events (see the "Stay Connected" flyer, enclosed) THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION Officers and Year Representatives ............................................................................. 123 Minutes of the 78th Annual General Meeting ...................................................... 124 The 68th London Dinner ............................................................................................ 125 The Accounts .................................................................................................................. 127 ARTICLES A Chronological Curiosity, by John W Hawkins ....................................................... 129 Hall Life in World War Two, by Dr Derek Rushworth ............................................... 140 Hall Life in World War Two, Mk. 11, by John Grist .................................................... 142 The Ghosts ofMrs Gandhi, by Amitav Ghosh ........................................................ 145 AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ................................................................................................... 161 Obituaries ........................................................................................................................ 166

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ST EDMUND HALL 2008 - 2009

Visitor The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH

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

Fellows Collins, Peter Jack, lvrA, DPhil Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics Venables, Robert, 1vrA (LL M Lond) QC Fellow ry Special Election Blarney, Stephen Richard, BPhil, lvrA, DPhil Fellow ry Special Election in Philosophy and Dean Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, 1vrA (LLB, 1vrA Camb; JD Chicago), QC Barrister, Professor of La1v and Tutor in Law, Vice-Princzpal Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, 1vrA (PhD Leic; lv[A Camb) Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, lvrA, MPhil Tutor in Economics and Finance Bursar Briggs, Adrian, BCL, lvrA Barrister, Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Kouvaritakis, Basil, 1vrA (MSc, PhD Mane) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineen.ng and Tutor for Undergraduates Phillips, David George, lvrA, DPhil, AcSS, FRHistS Professor of Comparative Education, Fellow /::y Special Election and Tutor for Graduates Ferguson, Stuart John, lvrA, DPhil University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, WR Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor Crook, Nicholas Emest, lvrA, DPhil Professor of French uterature, Professorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation

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Newlyn, Lucy Ann, lvlA, DPhil A C Cooper Fellmv, Professor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, and Tutor for Visiting Students · Naughton, James Duncan, MA (PhD Camb) Fell01v ry Special Elettion in Modern Languages (Czech) Brasier, lvlartin David, MA (BSc, PhD Land) Professor of Palaeobiology and Tutor in Geology Priestland, David Rutherford, lvlA, DPhil Tutor in Modern History Whittaker, Robert James, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeography and Tutor in Geography Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv) Professor of Engineering Sciem-e and Tutor in Engineering Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, FBA Professor of German Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA., DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Universiry Reader and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (PhD Camb) Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) Unit·ersiry Reader and Tutor in Engineen"ng Science Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, DPhil (lvfD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Professor of Neurology, Fellow ry Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Tutor in Modern History and Archivist Ebers, George Cornell, MA (lvfD Toronto) Action ReseardJ Professor of Clinical Neurology Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow ry Special Election

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Paxman, J eremy Dickson (MA Camb) Fellow ry Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, lv1A (-NIB, ChB Edin; NlD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS in Ped Surg Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Fellow!!) Special Election Achinstein, Sharon, lv1A (AB Harvard; PhD Princeton) Universiry Reader in English and Tutor in English, Library Fellow Wentworth, Richard, lv1A (MA Royal College of Art) Professorial Fellow, Ruskin Master of Drmu¡ng Tsomocos, Dimitrios, lv1A (MA, :MPhil, PhD Yale) Universiry Reader in Management, Fellow ry Special Election Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Fellow!!) Special Election Roberts, Steven George, lv1A (MA, PhD Camb) John Hams Memon.al Fello11;, Tutor in Materials Science & Tutor for Admissions Tseng, Jeffrey, (BSCIT; lv1A, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Physics Wilkins, Robert J, lv1A, DPhil American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology Nabulsi, Karma, DPhil Tutor in Politics Dicko, cedric, DPhil (Ing Chem Montpellier, France) Fellow ry Special Election Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, lv1A, DPhil Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Galano, Marina Lorena, DPhil (Lie Buenos Aires) Fellow ry Special Election Mayer, Colin Peter, lv1A, DPhil Projesson¡al Fellow, Peter Moores Dean of the Said Business School and Professor of Management Studies Alien, James William Anthony, MChem, DPhil, MRSC, CChem Fellow!!) Special Election Parkin, EmestJohnstone, lv1A Virginia, PhD Rensselaer Home Bursar Niethammer, Barbara, (BSc, Dr phil Bonn) Universiry Reader in Applied Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics Riordan, Oliver Maxim, (MA, PhD Camb) Professor of Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics

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Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, :MA, DPhil (BA Yale, :MPP Harvard, JD NYU) Fellow I!J Spedal Election Samy, Shahira Samir Mahmoud, (Bcom Alexandria; :MA, PhD Exe) Janzs Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East Yates, Jonathan Robert, DPhil (MSci Camb) Tutor in Materials Sam, Katharine Anne, DPhil (MSci Nott) William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology Roger, Sarah Rachelle, :MPhil (BA McMaster) Junior Research Fellow in Spanzsh

Honorary Fellows Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon. The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, :MA (PhD Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon. Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC, BA Harris, Roy, :MA, DPhil (PhD Lond), FRSA Tindle, David, :MA, RA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, :MA (Des-Se. Paris) Smethurst, Richard Good, lv[A. 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,Justin 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) ]ones, Terence Graham Parry, :MA Roberts, Gareth, :MA Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, :MA, FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, :MA Edwards, Steven Lloyd, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, :MA Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, :MA, DPhil, FRS, FEng 4

Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, BA, DPhil Morsberger, Philip, lvlA Burnton, Lord Justice Stanley Jeffrey, lvlA

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

Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, lvlA, DPhil (LLD Birm), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, lvlA Ridler, Vivian Hughes, CBE, lvlA * Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, lvlA (BSc, MB, ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond) Mitchell, Raymond Bruce, lvlA, DPhil, DLitt (lvlA Melbourne) Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, lvlA, DPhil (lvlA, PhD Camb), FRS Cowdrey, The Revd Herbert Edward John, lvlA, DD, FBA Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, BSc, lvlA, DPhil, CChem, FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, lvlA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, lvlA (lvlA, PhD Camb), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM, BCh, lvlA Warden, Alastair Blair, lvlA, DPhil (lvlA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, lvlA (PhD Lond) Scargill, David I an, lvlA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, lvlA (lvlA Royal College of Art) RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, lvlA, DPhil Dean of Degrees Hunt, John David, lvlA, DPhil (lvlA, PhD Camb), FRS Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, lvlA Stone, Nicholas James, lvlA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, lvlA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) Knight, John Beverley, (BA Natal, lvlA Camb,) lvlA Crampton, Richard John, (BA Dub), lvlA, (PhD Lond), Dr HonCausa Sofia Wells, Christopher Jon, lvlA * Deceased 5

Lecturers Aarnio, Outi Marketta, Lie Abo Akademi, DPhil Oxf Economics Allen, Roger William, BA BMus Liv, DPhil Oxf Music Apostolidou, Ilektra-Georgia, MSc Athens Engineering Archer, Michael George, BA Camb, MEd Mane Fine Art Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Physics Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA DPhil Oxf Russian Black, John Joseph Merrington, QHP(C), MB BS Lond, FRCS FIMC (Edinburgh), FFAEM Medicine (Anatomy) Castell, Martin Rolf, BSc Exe, PhD Camb Materials Science Chad, Benjamin Michael John, MSc Wollongong Mathematics Chalker, Jus tin M, BA, BS Pittsburgh Chemistry Chiapusio, Cecile, MA Grenoble French (Lectrice) Cowley, Sally Anne, BA Camb, PhD Lond Medicine (Molecular Biology) Downum, Clark Roberts, BS Tennessee Physics Gant, Andrew John, MA Camb, MMus PhD Lond Music Gwyer, Kirstin Sarah Elizabeth, BA MSt Oxf German Habershon, Scott, l'vfNatSci PhD Birm Chemistry Hermann, Michael, MMath PhD Berlin Mathematics Herring, Neil, lvlA DPhil Oxf, MRCP Medicine (Systems Medicine) Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem DPhil Oxf Biochemistry Keating, Peter Emmett, BA Dub, MSc Oxf Medicine (Neurophysiology) King, Peter J, BPhil DPhil Oxf Philosophy Littleton, Suellen Marie, BSc California, MBA Lond Management Lotay, Jason Dean, MMath, DPhil Oxf Mathematics Malpas, Margaret Ann, MA BLitt Oxf Linguistics Markland, Thomas E, MChem Oxf Chemistry Meyer-Beining, Janna-Liisa, MA Leipzig German (Lektorin) Mileson, Stephen, BA Warw, MSt DPhil Oxf History Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, MA East Ang English Palti, Kathleen Rose, BA Oxf, MA PhD Lond English Papachristodoulou, Antonis, MA MEng Camb, PhD California Engineering Robertson, Stuart Alistair, MB ChB Edin, MRCS (Edinburgh) Medicine (Organisation of the Body) Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth Jane, BA MSt Oxf English Sereni, Damien Charles Louis, BA DPhil Oxf Computer Science

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Styles, Elizabeth Anne, BSc Oxford Polytechnic, PGCE DPhil Oxf Psychology Politics Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus, .MA Oxf, Barrister-at-law Thompson, Benjamin Christopher, l\11A Exe, BA Wisconsin-Madison Politics Wadham, (Alastair) Jake, BA, MPhil Camb, DPhil Oxf French Waters, David John, .MA Camb, .MA DPhil Oxf Earth Sciences Wild, Lorraine Sylvia, .MA DPhil Oxf Geography Wilk, James, .MA DPhil Oxf Philosophy Williams, Renee, .MA Oxf French Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, BA Yale, MPP Harvard, JD New York, DPhil Oxf Economics Zechmann, Gunther, MChem Vienna Chemistry

Chaplain The Revd Gerald Hegarty (BA, BD Belt)

Librarian (Post vacant)

College Secretary & Registrar Joanna Cope, .MA Head Porter Peter Bowles

Decanal Stqff Hird, Alastair, BA (MA Reading) Noterdaeme, Olivier, MEng Bronstein, Raeli, (BA Jerusalem) MSc Gur, Noam, (LLB Jerusalem) BCL MPhil Griebe, Michael Roger, MPhil (BA Texas)

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

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

This will be my last introduction to the Magazine and in some respects d1e hardest to write, because it is difficult to separate the reporting of this year's activities from my thoughts and feelings about the last decade. So let me begin with a brief summary of notable events for the Hall in the current academic year. The Hall was pleased to welcome the following new Fellows during d1e year- Dr Jonad1an Yates joined us from Can1bridge as the second Fellow in Materials, reinforcing our very strong academic tradition in this subject, and Dr Katie San1 was elected as the Willian1 R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences. Sarah Roger and Dr David Dupret were elected to non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships in Spanish and Neurological Sciences respectively, (the latter starting with us in the next academic year). The appointment of young faculty with their enthusiasm and new ideas plays an important part in refreshing the Senior Common Room.

There have also been some significant departures this year. Professor Derrick Wyatt retired this year after spending 31 years at the College as Fellow and Tutor in Modern Law. It is difficult to imagine Law at St Edmund Hall without the Wyatt-Briggs double act and a farewell garden party held in June confirmed that successive generations of law students had benefited greatly from the combination of the complementary personalities and teaching styles of these two Hall characters. With the assistance of donations from Law alumni the Hall will be funding Derrick Wyatt's replacement until the fmancial position of the Law Faculty improves. Dr Aileen Kavanagh, Reader in Law at Leicester University, will join us as d1e new Law Fellow in October. The Hall will miss Derrick's calm common sense and wide ranging legal knowledge, and is also very grateful for his chairing of those meetings of the Governing

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Body during the last year which led to the successful election of the new Principal.

The Hall has always had a strong connection with the Ruskin School and the undergraduates we take in this subject continue to achieve good academic results and contribute more generally to the artistic life of the University. We are sorry to announce that two of the senior academics at the Ruskin School with St Edmund Hall connections have this year decided to resign- Professor Richard Wentworth, who is the Master of the Ruskin, and Dr Michael Archer, the Head of Department, have taken up new and challenging appointments in London. The College also has a long tradition of participating in the Oxfordshire Artweek in May. The standard of the artwork remains very high and the eclectic collection has been greatly appreciated by all the visitors to the exhibition; the College's participation continued this year under the able administration of Carol McClure, the previous College Registrar. Blanca Martin was appointed as the College's Librarian, a job which she has been doing since Deborah Eaton's illness required her to take early retirement.

The Annual Lectures were as successful as usual and the Aularian community ensured that both occasions were well attended. The new Doctorow Hall and the Chough Room proved to be very successful venues for these events.

Lionel Barber, the Editor of the Financial Times, became the first Aularian journalist to present the Geddes Lecture and gave a thought provoking lecture on "W(h)ither Journalism ? The Press and New Media"; Professor Mark Mazower of Columbia University, New York, presented the Emden Lecture on "No Enchanted Palace: The United Nations in History". Both lecturers were able to make their subjects accessible to a general audience and fmished with some testing questions which demonstrated that the audience had found the lectures both timely and thought provoking. In June 2009 a lunch was held in London to mark 25 years of the Geddes Prizes for Journalism and the Geddes Lectures, and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking Christopher Wilson and Graham Mather and their fellow Geddes Trustees for having the vision and determination to establish the Hall as a major centre for journalism within the University.

The College also held a number of alumni events this year - in September there were reunions for students who matriculated between 1977 and 1982.

A very successful London Dinner was held in January at the usual venue -the Royal Overseas Club, and 140 Aularians attended. The greater participation 9

of more recent graduates in the event was welcome and hopefully their youthful enthusiasm and high spirits will become a regular feature of the dinners. Indeed, by the time you read this we will have held a dinner for alumni who have graduated during the last ten years. There was also a Gaudy to celebrate 40 years since matriculation, held in April. Stacey and I attended an enjoyable St Edmund Dinner in New York last November and I hosted a dinner for alumni in San Francisco in April. We also joined the Vice-Chancellor at an alumni event in Bermuda in April and stayed on to meet with the Governor, Sir Peter Grosney, who read Earth Sciences at the Hall before joining the Diplomatic Service.

The event which will remain in our minds for many years was the Summer Reunion held in June. In my last year I was allowed to indulge my passions and so I had a wonderful day playing my last game of cricket for the Bears against the current undergraduates. I was allowed to pick the music for the dancing after a splendid dinner which reflected my tastes and enjoyed as a complete surprise a firework display in the churchyard -and all in the presence of the many friends I have made over the last years. I thank all those who came, and those who were unable to come but who sent warm messages, and the St Edmund Hall Association for the lovely gift of a painting, and most of all I should like to thank Betony Bell and Kate Roessler for organising such a wonderful evening for Stacey and me.

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The College continued to make its presence felt on the College sports fields and those many other sporting and social arenas which result in the award of Blues or Half-Blues. As you will already know the women's 1st VIII stayed Head of the River for the fourth successive year and the men made steady progress in the First Division and also attained blades in Torpids. The men's Second VIII got bumps in Torpids. The Hall men lost Rugby Cuppers in a thrilling and very close fmal against Keble and the Hall won athletics cuppers.

The Mens' Soccer XI won the league.

Many have asked me during the last year whether I was feeling demobhappy. The answer is no, because I have been too busy dealing with the usual pattern of meetings and immediate financial, staffmg and pastoral problems which arise in the normal course of the academic year. I have also spent some time with my successor Professor Keith Gull introducing him to alumni and more generally trying to smooth the transition by discussing my experiences with him. Nevertheless, as the year has progressed there have been an increasing 10

number of occasions when I have become aware that this was the last time I would be performing a particular duty. I have found it a challenging and demanding job and my interactions with the different constituents which make up an Oxford College have proved to be friendly and memorable.

The relationships which have been forged with the Fellowship and the alumni have resulted in the funding and completion of several new buildings, the non-academic staff of the Hall who are remarkably loyal have been unfailingly supportive and of course the students, who are wonderfully talented despite all the talk in the newspapers about the dumbing-down of A-levels, have provided much enjoyment and amusement.

If it has been so enjoyable then why am I retiring early? I suppose it comes from my basic belief that it is preferable to retire when people are mildly surprised rather than greatly relieved. I also believe that when you lead an organisation you have about seven to ten years to solve those problems which you perceived so clearly when you took on the post. If you do not solve those problems then clearly you should move on, and if you have solved them then there are new ones to solve which need a fresh mind. Clearing-out my office in preparation for my successor revealed a whole file of press cuttings from 1998-1999 and some of the headlines are summarised below: "Trouble at t' Hall for Sir Stephen", "Sir Stephen to hang up his gown", ''Academe lacking in good fellows", "Oxford College rebels over the loss of Sir Stephen Tumim", "Pressures of Funding made Tumim resign", "College protest as Tumim is hounded out", "Long Knives hidden in fusty gowns", ''A Matter of one's Principals (Students at an Oxford College are protesting at the loss of their Principal)", "Quad wrangles" (The departure of Stephen Tumim from St Edmund Hall has provoked its students to stage a sit-in. But he is the victim of an archaic college system that the Government should scrap)", "Teddy Hall Blues . . .or how Judge Tumim fell foul of his fellows at a 700-year-old Oxford College". I am pleased to leave without such lurid headlines and in the knowledge that my successor is inheriting a college where the relationships between fellows, students and alumni are constructive and friendly, the fabric of the college is better suited to the twenty-first century and the fmancial health of the college has been significantly improved. Professor Keith Gull will inherit and recognise for himself different problems and I wish him every success in his attempts to solve them. St Edmund Hall is a truly remarkable College with a very long history and it has been an honour to be part of that history for a short period as Principal.

Floreat Aula!

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FROM THE CHAPLAIN It has been an exciting and complex year in chapel. The new organ scholar, Rachael O'Malley, has moved into her stride playing the organ and conducting as well as working with what is now a team of organ scholars: Nick Race, who will carry on during his fourth year; David McCartney, who will be doing some teaching in college next year and so may be able to help from time to time, and David Alien, who has been able to help out. There has been a strong choir this year, with good numbers from the start of the Michaelmas term, and with a good range of voices as well as some outstanding singers we have sustained a high level of musical performance and sung some demanding pieces. At the end of the Trinity term the choir made a short but very effective tour to Prague singing to substantial acclaim in churches there.

There has been the usual wide range of preachers in chapel. They have included the Archdeacon of Buckingham, the Ven Karen Gorham; Paul Cavill, lecturer in Anglo Saxon at Nottingham University and a Reader in the Church of England, and Will Pearson-Gee, a Major in the Coldstream Guards before he was ordained and who spoke on Remembrance Sunday. At the end of the Michaelmas term the College Carol Service was a joyful occasion -with a packed chapel and anti-chapel.

The Hilary term was a more difficult time as the Chaplain was on sick leave.

At short notice we were helped by the Revd Alan Race and the Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley who presided at eucharists while the organ scholars or visiting speakers led evensong. In this term we had a visit from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, our sister college, with their new Chaplain, Tiffany Conlin, and the OICCU, the Oxford Inter Collegiate Christian Union, held their triennial mission and one of their missioners spoke in chapel. One of the most challenging talks heard in chapel was from an old member: Reynaud de la Bat Smith, the Chaplain at Cheltenham College. He raised issues fundamental to our whole understanding of what it is to be a person in light of biological, mathematical and technological advances. His talk continued to provoke responses well into the Trinity term.

The Chaplain was again leading services in chapel in the Trinity term. The support of Prof Paul Johnson in this term was much appreciated as he stood in for Jeff Cheng as acting Chapel Fellow while Jeff was on sabbatical.

Paul also preached in this term, as did Jonathan Lamb, the Director of the 12

Langham Partnership, which trains ministers and pastors throughout the world.

This was also the Principal's last term. Mike .Mingos has taken an active interest in the work of the chapel and the choir and was particularly supportive throughout the Chaplain's illness.

Plans are ahead for next year but before then there is a busy summer. This year we have more weddings in Chapel than before and, significantly, three baptisms and one thanksgiving for the birth of a child. These connections with old, and new, members are invaluable and were brought into a marvellous focus at the 8am communion service in the Crypt of St Peter-in-the-East on 28 June, the Reunion weekend. It was wonderful to be in the ancient space again after the sensitive restoration work. As the sunlight streamed in from the East across the altar onto bowed heads- faith in the risen Lord, the son of righteousness, echoed across the centuries and brought hope for the days to come.

Gerald Hegarty

FROM THE LIBRARY FELLOW

The College Library is the academic heart of the College, the first point of entry for students to study and to find resources for their scholarly pursuits.

It is also a uniquely beautiful building in which students think, imagine and aspire. To enhance that provision, and in consultation with the Principal, the Bursar, and the Senior Tutor, the newly-appointed Library Fellow undertook a review of the College Library during this academic year in the run-up to the appointment of a new College Librarian. With input from College Librarians from Merton, Magdalen and Wadham, who generously offered their time and counsel, the review examined such questions as: the purpose of a College Library, provision and training of staff, allocation of space and hours of opening, links to the Central Library, liaisons with subject tutors, management of the collections, possible future projects, and, in particular, how to deliver best service to students who are increasingly beneficiaries of the digital revolution in research materials. This was a good time to undertake such a review, and a new job description for the new Librarian was created, and the post of Librarian filled. The outcome is that there has been a renewed commitment to the Library. There are imminent plans to hire an Assistant Librarian, and a Library Committee has been mustered, which will include representation from the Governing Body, JCR and MCR. 13

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The exciting news is the appointment of Blanca Martin to the position of College Librarian. Blanca Martin has been a loyal, responsive, and knowledgeable member of the College Library staff since 2003, when she was hired as Assistant Librarian. She has been our Acting Librarian since 2007, and has overseen the management, bibliographic, and reader services of the Library scrupulously. She is well-liked by students and well-regarded by the Fellows. In her new post, Blanca will take up the leadership of the Library, improving on its reader services, working with Old Members and Fellows on improvements to the Library, representing the Library on the Committee of College Librarians and undertaking regular technical training through the Oxford University Library Services. Blanca has long library experience, including work at the Modem Languages Faculty Library at Oxford before coming to St Edmund Hall, where she has been an absolute fixture in the desk at the entrance to the Library. With a triple BA from the Universitat Central Barcelona and a Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Exeter, she is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals. We look forward to Blanca's stewardship of our cherished resource.

It is a pleasure to report that students are still reading books, plenty of them!

The now-complete electronic cataloguing of the Library Collection allows us to examine data regarding loans and book history; there were an impressive 17,200 loans signed out this academic year. In addition, these books are ever more secure as a new 3M security system has been installed to reduce the number of books removed from the Library and not signed out. The new system was supplemented with CCTV cameras, which also help monitor the Library during those wee hours of the night during examination period when the Library is open 24 hours. With the new security system in place and books not disappearing any more it has been possible to start the exercise of replacing very popular books that had gone missing over the past 3 years.

Other changes this year are the consequence of the electronic revolution in library holdings: students are using more materials, especially journals, online, and the Library responded by reviewing its subscriptions, and by updating its computer facilities, extending wireless coverage to the library and installing a new, faster printer in the tower. Most students are now using their laptops in the library so the electronic refit includes additional power points to make provision for their current and future needs.

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Physically, our beautiful Norman building has undergone major improvements this year with a total electrical refit undertaken in 2009. This entailed the closure of the Library over much of the Long Vacation 2009, a period of low use.

Maintaining the high aesthetic standard of the Norman Church and adapting it to modem needs required a balancing act of care and judgment, which director of works Kevin Ward, the Bursar, and the Librarian were solicitous to maintain. Every detail has been given thoughtful attention. All the electrical wiring and the fire alarm system were replaced, with the fitting of appropriate computer cables underneath the floor, a major project requiring costs of ÂŁ110,000. In the works, emergency lighting was fitted in the Tower, heating fans were removed, old cabling removed and new sockets and fixtures put in place. The Library has had the current electrical installation for around forty years, and was due for replacement with the ambitious refit we expect it holding up at least that far into the future . Because of the delicacy of the work, special care was taken to protect the book collection and the fabric of our unique building whilst the entire floor of the Norman Church was temporarily lifted. We invite Aularians to come and view the beautiful fittings : Let there be Light!

Further improvements to the physical beauty and usefulness of the Library are the conversion of the old Librarian's office to house the Aularian Collection, at last to find a proper home for the books generously donated by Old Members of the College. The Aularian Room, with its delightful view, had been temporarily used as an office, but will undergo refurbishment and transformation to allow for the consultation and use of these cherished materials.

Over the year, the College Library was the beneficiary of many gifts, which are listed on the following pages.

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ATHERTON, Carol Defming Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002 Palgrave Macmillan 2005 'The organisation of literary knowledge: the study of English in the late nineteenth century' in The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain OUP, 2005 'A-level English literature and the problem of transition' Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, Volume 5 (1), 2006 'The new English A-Level: contexts, criticism and the nature of literary knowledge' The Use of English, Volume 54 (2), 2003 'What English could do' The Use of English, Volume 58 (1), 2006 'Public intellectuals and the schoolteacher audience: the first ten years of the critical quarterly' English, Volume 58 (220), Spring 2009 'Critical literature? Context and criticism in A level English literature' English Drama Media, Vol 1, 2004 16

ATKINSON, Damian (ed) The Letters of William Emest Henley to Robert Louis Stevenson Rivendale Press 2008 ATKINSON, Damian (contributor) The Edinburgh History of the Book, Volume 4, Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000 Edinburgh University Press 2007 Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism Academia Press 2008

Binney, James & Skinner, David The Physics of Quantum Mechanics Cappella Archive 2008 BLAIR, Philip God's Credentials - Belief and Unbelief in a Troubled World K&M Books 2007 BYATT, Ian (contributor) Climate Change Policy: Challenging the Activists The Institute of Economic Affairs 2008 COGHLIN, Terence et al.

Time Charters (6th ed.)

Informa Law 2008 CRAMPTON, R J Aleksandur Stamboliiski: Bulgaria Haus Publishing 2009

CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin The Exeter Book of Riddles Enitharmon Press 2008 Waterslain Angels Orion Children's Books 2008

DENING, Jim Pebbles, debris and other poems CD James M Dening 2008 DUNBABIN, John 'Le piu importanti svolte scaturite dal 1989' Rivista di Storia dell '800 e del '900. xii no. 2, April 2009 FORSYTH, Alec and Goodwin, MG 'The Development of Employability and Capability for Sustained Workforce Development through Vocational Higher Education' Social Justice and Lifelong Learning: Diversity, Globalisation & Transformation International Conference Proceedings, July 2007 'Quality Assurance for Learning Brokers of HE- An Outline Proposal' Social Justice and Lifelong Learning: Diversity, Globalisation & Transformation International Conference Proceedings, July 2007

'Business Facing Skills Through WBL- An HE Framework for Success' Challenging Isolation: the role of lifelong learning International Conference Proceedings, July 2008 'Geographically Dispersed Workbased learners - a Pedagogical Support Programme' Challenging Isolation: the role of lifelong learning International Conference Proceedings, July 2008

GANZ, Peter 'Die Zeilenaufteilung im Wessobrunner Gebet" Festschrift fur Ingeborg Schrobler zum 65. Geburtstag 'Ms. Junius und die althochdeutsche Tatian-Ubersetzung' Beitrage zur Gschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur vol. 91 no.1, 1969 'Jacob Grimm's conception of German studies' Inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford, 18 May 1973 Oxford Clarendon Press 1973 'Zu 'danne/denne'und 'dannoch/ dennoch' im 'Willehalm' Wolfram-Studien II

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GANZ, Peter (cont'd) 'Politics and policy in the age of Barbarossa' Beitrage zur GsdJichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur vol. 116 no. 2, 1994 'Heinrich der Lowe und sein Hof in Braunschweig' Das Evangeliar Heinrichs des Lowen: Komrnentar zum Faksimile Insel Verlag 'Fortuna bei Frauenlob' Fortuna vitrea 15 Max Niemeyer Verlag Tubingen 'Curialis /hOvesch' Hofische Literatur, Hofgesellschaft, hofische Lebensformen urn 1200 Kolloquium an der Universitat Bielefeld Droste-Verlag 1983 'Hovesch und hovescheit im Mittelhochdeutschen' Curialitas 1990 'Sankt-Rochus-Fest zu Bingen' Oxford German Studies 10 (1979) 'Eduard Sievers' Beitrage zur Gschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur vol. 100 no 1, 1978

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GORDON, Keith (cont'd) British Tax Guide Wolters Kluwer 2008 Guide to the Tax Treatment of Specialist Occupations 3rd edition Tottel Publishing Ltd 2008 'The tax tribunals from April 2009' Tax Digest April 2009 Issue 311 'The preservation and extension of the indexation allowance following the Finance Act 2008' PIPR Volume 12 Issue 2 'Sharkey bites back' Taxation Volume 161, May 2008 'Knock, knock' Taxation Volume 162, August 2008 'That is the answer?'

Taxation Volume 162, September 2008 'Before the knock' Taxation Volume 162, November 2008 'After the knock' Taxation Volume 163, March 2009 'Powerful announcements' Taxation Volume 163, April 2009 'Illegal employments' Tax Adviser, September 2007

GORDON, Keith (cont'd) 'Reasonable request' Tax Adviser, October 2007

GORDON, Keith (cont'd) 'Keeping up with J ones v Gamett' Tax Adviser, February 2009

'Discovery assessments and the burden of proof' Tax Adviser, November 2007

'The income-capital divide' Tax Adtiser, March 2009

'Sense and sensibleness - claims for EIS relief' Tax Adviser, December 2007 'What's the point?'

Tax Adviser, May 2008 'Insufficient disposal' TaxAdviser,June 2008 'The ways to discovery' TaxAdtiser,July 2008 'Revival of domicile' Tax Adviser, August 2008 'Rental income is not enough' Tax Adviser, September 2008 'What is part of a trade?'

Tax Adtiser, October 2008 'The substitution clause' Tax Adtiser, November 2008 'Doing the right thing' Tax Adviser, December 2008 'After closure' Tax Adviser, January 2009

'Construction, employed or selfemployed?'

Tax Adviser, April 2009 'Seeking closure' Tax Adviser, May 2009 'Enigmatic variations' Tax Adtiser, June 2009

GORDON, Keith et al.

Tolley's Taxwise I Lexis Nexis 2008 GORDON, Keith & Johnson, Trevor 'Private Residence Relief: the True Status of the Two-year Rule' Private Client Business, Issue No. 4 2008 GORDON, Keith & Rayney, Peter Corporation Tax Act 2009 Handbook Wolters Kluwer (UK) Limited 2009 GORDON, Keith & Rayney, Peter 'The corporation tax act 2009' Tax Digest March 2009 Issue 310

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GORDON, Keith & Montes Manzano, Ximena Tiley & Collison's UK Tax Guide 2008-09 Lexis Nexis 2008 GOSLING, Justin The Jackdaw in the Jacaranda Athena Press 2008 HARRIS, Peter JF Carbon Nanotube Science Cambridge University Press 2009

LEWIS, Basil Paul Harris in Britain Rotary Club, Recliffe Print and Design 2003 MALIN, Peter AS/ A-Level Student Text Guide: The White Devil by John Webster Philip Allan Updates 2008 AS/ A-Level Student Text Guide: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford Philip Allan Updates 2007

HAWKINS, John Waiter Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Prints of St Edmund Hall and the Church of St Peter-in-the-East 2008

MIQUEU, Christophe 'En-deca de la sujetion: Hobbes et le probleme de la citoyennete' Lumieres No.10 2007

HILL, Kit Professor Pugwash - the Man who Fought Nukes Ryelands 2008

OCKENDEN, Michael The English Reformation and the Parish Church Ashby-de-la-Zouch Museum 2009

KNIGHT, John 'Reform, growth, and inequality in China' Asian Economic Poliry Review (2008) 3, 140-158

RHODE, Eric Axis Mundi Apex One 2008

LAUGHTON, Tony Captain of the Crowd Albert Craig, Cricket and Football Rhymester 1849-1909 Boundary Books 2008

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ROSEWELL, Roger Medieval Wall Paintings in English and Welsh Churches The Boydell Press 2008 SMRCKA, Lubos Rodinny Rozpocet A Spolecnost Spotreby Professional Publishing 2008

SPRAGUE, Elmer Brooklyn Public Monuments Sculpture for Civic Memory and Urban Pride Dog Ear Publishing 2008 STACEY, Nick Nick Stacey and Kent Social Services Don Brand 2008 TAYLOR, Brian Worm's Eye View Lulu.com 2006 Coming Back There Is No Trace Lulu.com 2005 Going Out There Is No Other Lulu.com 199 5 Blondin Lulu.com 2006 Blondin & Other Poems Lulu.com 2006 Oxford Poems Lulu.com 2008

TELLER, Neville One Man's Israel Traffold Publishing 2008 WALMSLEY, John 'Towards a historiography of Ratke's writings in the Englishspeaking world' History of Education, 1987, vol 16, No 1

WELCH, John W The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple Ashgate Publishing Limited 2009 WIJAYADASA, KHJ Betrayal of the Sinhala Nation Dayawansa Jayakody & Company Profitablility and Sustainability of Rice Production in Sri Lanka 2003 Report of the Task Force on the Rationalization of Paddy Purchasing, Processing Marketing and Stockholding in Sri Lanka 2003 Food and Nutrition Policy of Sri Lanka, 2004-2010 2004 The Buddhist Way for a Better World Sri Dalada Maligawa, 2006

WIJAYADASA, KHJ (ed) Harmonising Environment and Development in South Asia South Asia Co-Operative Environment Programme, 1997 WYNNE, Julian Wilmot Jane Austen and Sigmund Freudan interpretation Plume 1998

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FROM THE HOME BURSAR This has been a good year at the Hall, although touched with sadness at the last year of Professor Mingos' principalship.

The sequence of major building projects has paused, but don't think we have been napping. Building projects have been replaced by refurbishment and remodelling, with a particular emphasis on accommodation. Led by Estates Manager Kevin Ward, the refurbishment of Front Quad rooms has commenced and the complete remodelling of the Guest Room in the Emden Tower was completed. As well, extensive redecoration of the Principal's Lodgings is underway in preparation for the arrival of the new Principal in September. The Wolfson Hall servery was refurbished and re-equipped to bring it up to the standard of the remodelled dining hall. In addition, we remodelled several rooms in the Isis Building and refurbished the exterior.

We also completed the fit-out of the eight teaching rooms in the 1v1ingos Suite, and the rooms vacated by Professor Knight and Mr Wells upon their retirements. Rooms vacated by the move to the new rooms added to our stock of student rooms, and enabled us to provide a room for Dr Yueh, who had previously had an office in a College property in Norham Gardens.

Energy conservation projects continued this year and included fitting radiator controls and re-engineering the hot water system in the Besse building. Health and Safety were not overlooked, as we successfully undertook fire alarm upgrades, emergency lighting replacement, and fire door improvements.

Additionally, IT improvement was a major initiative. Led by IT Officer Michael McShane, we expanded wireless coverage at all College sites, and connected the new 1v1ingos Building and Doctorow Hall to the wired network. We also updated computer hardware across the College, so that servers, computers, routers, and printers are reliable and functional.

In July, we began the largest and most cosdy project of the year, the electrical refurbishment of the College library in St Peter-in-the-East. We are replacing the wiring installed in the 1969 conversion of the building from parish church to College library. We're advised that the work we're doing now should give us another 40 years of use. In reading about the church I came upon the following bit of Oxford doggerel:

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At North-Gate and at South-Gate too St lvfichael guards the way.

While o'er the East and o'er the West St Peter holds his sway.

This refers to the fact that there once was another Oxford church dedicated to St Peter, St Peter le bailey, near the cas de at the west end of the City. Ours is the sole survivor of the two.

In September, two projects of widespread interest will begin. The first is the cleaning of the east range fa<;ade of the front quad. This will be the same technology that was used to successfully clean the Queens Lane fa<;ade, and we are expecting the same excellent result. The second project is the refitting of the archive rooms, partially funded by the St Edmund Hall Association.

This will enable the archivist to review and organize our holdings of both College records, and student files, for better preservation and easier access.

Government regulation has placed an increasing burden on Colleges, and we have spent a great deal of time addressing growing legal requirements. These include documenting a variety of Health and Safety concerns, as well as addressing our provision for disabled students and employees. Finally, this year has seen geometric growth in the number of Freedom of Information requests, all of which require research and replies.

Also this year there have been a number of staff milestones. In the last year we have welcomed Paul Storer and Stefan Cara (Maintenance), Amarbir Sandu, Marta Sadowska and Bosiljka Tetek (Housekeeping), Suneil Gill and Christine Kavanagh (Servery), Alastair Scott and Krzysztof Lege zynski (Kitchen), Alex Lang (College Office), Elaine Scott (Accounts) and Liz Brockless (Bursary). Also, Wendy Mabbitt (Accounts) retired in May of this year.

Eunice Lock (Housekeeping) achieved 25 years service with the College, and still has a smile on her face! Two members of our team at the Outside Properties- Greg Zbylut and Urszula Ostalecka- celebrated their marriage in June. Betony Griffiths (Deputy Director of Development) also got married this year to Adam Bell (SEH 1991) having met him in the course of her work! Many congratulations to both couples.

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There have been 5 births to staff members over the last year: Yvonne Rainey (Director of Development) gave birth to her second daughter in January, Monika Zbylut and Dorota Pietrzycka (both NSE) celebrated the births of their daughters last year; Gurvinder Kaur (Housekeeping) is currently on maternity leave having had a boy in April, and lastly, Kate Swanzy (Conference Manager) had a daughter in June. We have welcomed back Sue McCarthy to cover during Kate's maternity leave.

Finally, on a sad note, we lost one of our most loved scouts, Bridget (Bridie) Kelly when she died suddenly in October. Although she had only been with us for 5 years, she was a character that we all miss. Her friendly manner and love for the College made a mark on us all.

Marking the achievements and personal milestones of these colleagues gives me great pleasure. As St Thomas Aquinas wrote, "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." Or, to put it more succinctly in the words of the Billie Holliday song, "If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing." I feel I can happily conclude this year's report, having linked Thomas Aquinas and Billie Holliday in the same paragraph.

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THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Over the past year, Alistair Borthwick has continued to act as Editor of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, a journal published by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. He visited Peking University in September 2008 and climbed to the top of Mount Tai in Shandong Province.

Mount Tai is one of the five sacred mountains in China. And according to Sima Qian, "Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather." Confucius once wrote "Standing on Tai Mountain, one gets the sense that the world below has become small." A similar effect occurs if one ascends the Tower of St Peter-in-the-East and looks over Queen's College.

For Sir Ian Byatt, the key event of the year has been the opening-up of the water and wastewater industry to competition. In April 2008, the market in Scotland for retail, customer-facing, activities was opened to new suppliers.

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Scottish Water's billing, customer care and value added services- accounting for 11% plus of Scottish Water's activities - are now contestable. Four new businesses and Scottish Water's former retail arm have been licenced to supply all business and public service consumers in Scotland. Scottish Water's retail activities have been separated from the wholesale business in a new ringfenced retail entity, Business Stream. In this, Scotland is leading the world there was a false start to competition in water in England & Wales, and nowhere else have the retail activities of a water business been opened to competition. Devolution of (some) government activities to Scotland has opened up the opportunities. And the experience of the first year has been very encouraging; a third of business and public service customers are now getting a better deal. The environment will also benefit as retailers have incentives to sell services that can help businesses and public services, e.g. hospitals and schools to use water more wisely, rather than more copiously.

For the moment, Scottish Water continues as a monopoly public supplier of wholesale water and collector of used water. But the Water Industry Commission are studying the introduction of further competition in other areas, such as abstraction from rivers and aquifers, discharges into rivers and coastal waters and bulk water trading to alleviate regional shortages. This is path-fmding work, although there is interesting experience from Australia to draw on. The Water Industry Commission have worked with Professor Martin Cave of the Warwick Business School, who was commissioned by the Treasury and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to conduct an independent inquiry into innovation and competition in the water businesses in England & Wales. The Cave Report was published in April 2009, a year after the market opened in Scotland; it recommends, inter alia, the adoption of the Scottish approach to the much bigger markets south of the border. Sir Ian and others contributed to the debate and the development of policy in a pamphlet published by a London-based thinkthank, the European Policy Forum. Innovation, Incentives and Competition; a new dealfor the water industry, February 2009 (fony Ballance, I an Byatt, Martin Cave, Ronan Palmer & Alan Sutherland) is available from the European Policy Forum, 49 Whitehall, SW1A 2 BX (020 3174 3197), on www;epfltd org and in the Hall Library. He has also contributed to the debate on global warming with an article on ''Weighing the present against the future: the choice, and use, of rates of discount in the analysis of climate change" published in Climate Change Poliry: Challenging the Activists, Ed. Colin Robinson. Institute of Economic Affairs, 2008.

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Sir D avid Cooksey has been appointed Ch airman o f UK Financial Inves tments, the body that controls the taxpayers' stakes in the bailed-out banks.

John Cox directed "Thais" by Massenet at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, starring Renee Fleming and Thomas Hampson, in D ecember. This was transmitted to cinemas world-wide by High D efmition Simulcast by the Met as part of their developing policy of wider access to their productions.

Then in June he directed Beethoven's "Fidelio" for the Garsington Festival, Oxford. In Australia John received the Robert Helpmann Award and the G reen Room Award as bes t opera director for "Arabella" by Richard Strauss and "Un Ballo in Maschera" by Verdi.

Kevin Crossley-Holland has published The Hidden Roads, his memoir of a Chilterns childhood, and Waters!ain Angels, a novel for children set m north

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Norfolk during the 1950s. The composers Bernard Hughes, Bob Chilcott and Giles Swayne have made settings of his words, and these have been performed by the BBC Singers, Perfect Harmony and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge. His full roster of speaking engagements included a lecture to the Temenos Academy (New Leaves on an Old Tree: Arthurian Tradition and theArthurTrilogy) and visits to literary festivals at Hay-on-Wye and Isere in France. He was shordisted for the role of Children's Laureate, while his study (previous page) has featured in the Writers' Rooms series in The Guardian newspaper.

The Association of Commonwealth Universities has awarded the Symons Medal to Sir John Daniel for his service to the universities of the Commonwealth. During the year he received honorary doctorates from the Universite de Montreal, Canada West University, and the Open University of Nialaysia.

lain Donaldson is now in his tenth year as Honorary Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, whose magnificent collection of historical medical works provides much of the material for his current work. His recent work includes: A new Wellcome Project Grant to begin in autumn 2009, to support a study of Medical publishing in the first age of Print, 1460-1600 in collaboration with Professor Andrew Pettegree, School of History, University of St Andrews.

This builds on the extensive work of the St Andrews group, led by Andrew Pettegree, on the bibliography of French books published before 1601.

This spring he began an English translation of all the material on printing, type and related topics from the complete French text of the first edition of the Enryclopidie of Diderot & d' Alembert published in digital form by the ARTFL Encyclopedie project at the University of Michigan. These (annotated) translations will form part of the collaborative translation project of the University of Chicago which aims to make available, eventually, a complete English version of the Enryclopidie. The Enryclopidie~articles on the techniques of printing are a principal source for the study of the hand-press period.

Studies continue of the bibliography, typography and details of book construction of early printed medical works, especially from 16th century France. He has been developing methods of using comparison of digital images to study changes in 16th century illustrations, such as the re-working 27

of engraved plates which was not uncommon. Work also continues on early illustrations from woodblocks and engraved copper plates, particularly in renaissance works on anatomy (right).

A continuing project which is now almost complete is Ars anatomica, with Michael Bury and Andrew Grout of the University of Edinburgh, which aims to provide a complete annotated collection of all the pictures in a number of works whose 'Adam & Eve' plate from the Compendiosa of illustrations were ultimately derived from 1l1e 1l1omas Geminus, London, 1545. Copper plate the woodblocks of the Fabrica of Vesalius engraving from the copy in the Royal College of cut in Venice in 1542. It uses very high- PhysicianJ, Edinbu!'J.h. resolution images which are available for study in minute detail through a web interface: www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.ukl A seminar (2008) on some 16th century anatomical illustrations is available at www.rcpe.ac.uklstreamingdemoiEHMG_Donaldson022708llaunch.html A small web exhibition of bibliographic details of a few selected works from the Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh which was made to celebrate 500 years of printing in Scotland in 2008 is now available at: www.rcpe.ac.ukllibrary I exhibitions I print-medicinelindex.php From the 18th century- into which he keeps being dragged- he is working on a number of articles on the examination of Mesmer's 'Animal Magnetism' by the Commission ~ale of 1784 - which included Benjamin Franklin and Lavoisier as well as Dr Guillotin. These include a new complete English translation of the three reports of 1784. Some of this material is published, more is still to be published, on the James Lind Library, a website devoted to studies of tests of efficacy of treatments throughout the ages (www. jameslindlibrary.org).

Stephen Farthing has continued his role as the Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London. He is currently working on A Practical Guide to Drawing for the Tate Gallery Publications. His book, 501 Great Artists has been chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the

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top 25 reference books published last year. Alongside his role as the Chair of Drawing he has been elected Director of the Centre for Drawing at UAL. Whilst continuing his practice as an artist he has completed commissions for Villa Park stadium in Birmingham as well as being involved in exhibitions at The Drawing Gallery and the Hong Kong University. He has an upcoming solo show at Purdy Hicks Gallery in London, November 2009.

Marina Galano has been awarded a Royal Academy ofEngineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship for the project entitled "Development of Aluminium Matrix Complex Nanocomposites for High Strength Applications". This research fellowship has a duration of five years and it will allow her to establish herself as an independent researcher, creating her research group and generating a track record in the field.

Legislative and environmental demands exist that put pressure on transport industries to introduce vehicles with lower weight, greater efficiency, and reduced emission, whilst remaining competitive. Thus, these nanocomposites will aim towards different applications : at high temperature mainly for automotive and aerospace industries, and at room temperature for armour, aerospace and navy. For the development of aluminium complex nancomposites Marina will be combining different matrixes and reinforcements strategies at the nanoscale for ambient and elevated temperature applications.

She will be working on a combination of microstructural, processing and properties characterisation together with modelling to provide a platform of knowledge for designing the right material for each application. Thus, allowing metal matrix complex nanocomposites design along with prediction of mechanical properties for specific applications. Demonstrators of specific chosen metal matrix complex nanocomposites are going to be produced and tested industrially.

The research is to be hosted at the Department of Materials. DPhil and MSc students will be working within the project. She has established collaborations with the most relevant industrial sectors that could profit from this development from pure materials providers (Nanocyl, Niobelcom), materials producers (RSP, Alpoco), modelling consultants (Sim&Tec) and fmally end users (Rolls Royce, lapel, Dstl/MoD) . Also it counts with a net of academic collaborators: Oxford Engineering Department, University of Melbourne, IFW Leibniz Institute Dresden, CNRS Grenoble and University of Buenos Aires.

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Justin Gosling has continued teaching, and sometimes thinking. He has had a volume of poetry published: The Jadedmv in the Jacaranda. He hopes old members will feel an obligation to buy a copy, but without any obligation to read it.

Heidi Johansen-Berg had a second baby daughter in November and so has spent much of the year playing peek-a-boo. The baby will attend her first scientific conference this summer when Heidi is to deliver a keynote lecture at the Human Brain Mapping meeting in San Francisco. In addition to a number of scientific papers, Heidi recently had a book published by Elsevier (Diffusion MRI: From quantitatit:e measurement to in z,z"w neuroanatomy (Eds: JohansenBerg and Behrens)) .

Paul Johnson was awarded a Personal Chair in Paediatric Surgery at the University of Oxford and his Research Team was awarded the Peter-Paul Rickham Prize of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. He is a Visiting Professor to Tokyo University, and was invited to give the Stephen Gans Prestigious Overseas Lecture at the American Academy of Paediatrics.

Terry Jones took part in a panel discussion on the Dating of John Gower's Confessio Amantis at the Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo (2009) and wrote a screenplay: A dam, The Serpent & Eve. He also did a reading from John Gower's Conjessio Amantis for the 1st International John Gower Conference, in Southwark Cathedral, in July 2008.

Professor John Knight greatly appreciated the retirement function held for him at the Hall at the end of September 2008 and the opportunity to meet the many former pupils who attended. He continued with his research projects, one on China's economic growth and another on the economics of happiness.

Over the course of the academic year he gave conference or seminar papers, or delivered lectures, in Beijing,Johannesburg, London, Oslo, San Francisco and Stockholm.

In May of 2009, William (Bill) Miller received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Commercial Science from St Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York. Also in May, he was the honoree at the St Paul's Cathedral Trust in America Gala Dinner at which time he was presented with the Sir Christopher Wren Award from St Paul's Cathedral, London. 11r Miller was the Founder Chairman of St Paul's Cathedral Trust in America and is now 30

Chairman Emeritus. Ivir Miller has also been named Chairman Emeritus of the English-Speaking Union of the United States after having served as its Chairman since 1996.

Bruce Mitchell, Emeritus Fellow, is now preparing to celebrate his 90th birthday. He no longer plans to run a marathon or climb Mount Everest. The seventh edition of A Guide to Old English appeared in 2007 . An Imziation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England was published in 199 5. Both have been reprinted several times. He and Molly spend a happy retirement, together keeping house.

In addition to the exhibitions reported in last year's magazine, Philip Morsberger's work has been exhibited in recent years at the Telfair l\Iuseum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, the Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, O hio and in Gallery 307 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Earlier this year he was one of Eleven Georgia Artists invited to exhibit at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia.

Nigel Palm er was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and inducted at a ceremony in Chicago on 28 1\'Iarch.

Chris Wells is working his way through a stack of crime novels in the Cretan sun, interrupted only by the call of a hoopoe in his neighbour's garden.

Sir David Yardley gave an address at a dinner held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Florida Institute of Technology. He is Chairman of the 2009 Oklahoma Oxford Law Programme, but has resigned the Chairmanship of the Oxford Preservation Trust, having been its Chairman for 20 years.

Linda Yueh has published several articles on China's growth and development this past year in economic and interdisciplinary journals. In addition, she was a Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the interdisciplinary journal, World Development, on 'Law, Finance and Economic Growth in China', which was published in April 2009. In the autumn of 2008, she eo-chaired an international conference on 'The Microeconomic Drivers of Economic Growth in China' at the Hall which was jointly organised with Peking University. Select papers from the conference will be published in a special symposium issue of an economic and business journal dedicated to marking thirty years of reform in China. On that theme celebrating China's market reforms which began in

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1978, Linda was invited to address conferences in Beijing and elsewhere, including a forum organised by the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University, :Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, the Asian Development Bank, and the China Economic Research Centre at the Stockholm School of Economics, as well as take part in a series of seminars organised by the U K Department for International Development (DFID) and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) on '30 years of development success - what lessons for the next 30 years?'. She was honoured to deliver The Edinburgh Lecture at Herriot-Watt University on the theme of China and globalisation. In light of the fmancial crisis, she also started a podcast series on the fmancial crisis and the global recession that is found on the University iTunes website, to track the development of the global economic crisis. Her British Academy research grant continued to fund her research on China's technological capacity for sustaining its growth rate, with initial fmdings presented at Beijing Normal University, among others.

Linda continued to be active in policy circles, serving as a Council Member for the World Economic Forum in Davos and as an advisor to the British government- Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) on a project with HM Treasury on scenarios for the UK economy entitled 'UK Futures: Society and Economy 2030'. She also undertook briefmgs for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Hlvl Treasury prior to the second UKChina summit held in London in May, as well as gave seminars at the Bank of England and the Department for International Development (DFID) on China and the global fmancial crisis. Finally, the appeal for the new China Growth Centre at the Hall for which she is the Director-designate was also launched with some pleasing initial success that will see the Centre become operational in the next academic year, though further support will be sought to enable a full panoply of activities.

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THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM Once again the Teddy Hall MCR has thrived both academicall y and socially. Upon reflection, this year has been packed with many wonderful and exciting events. Events such as the exchange dinners, the highly successful graduate nights at Dr Priestland's house and the legendary MCR parties continued to support the friendly and welcoming community that is the Teddy Hall MCR. Events such as these provide us all with opportunities to mix, interact and learn from one another connecting people from all over the world. These events however would not have taken place if it were not for my amazing committee members who have spent countless hours this year making sure that graduates' time here has been a success.

Thank you team! I would like to wish Shari Levine, next year's lviCR president, and her committee all the best in helping keep Teddy Hall one of the best colleges for graduate students.

This year Teddy Hall said farewell to Principal Mingos. He has always been a great friend to the MCR and I know that he will be dearly missed. Although always a man of importance and autl1ority, he always had the time and energy to show support for his students at sporting events, talents shows, or in academics. His enthusiasm for college life and support in all of our endeavours has been greatly appreciated. On behalf of the MCR I would like to thank him for his support, and everything he has done for us during his time here as our principal. We would like to wish Principal Mingos and his wife a wonderful retirement.

To those graduate students who have finished up this year: congratulations and best ofluck as you embark on your next challenge. May you always look back at your time here at Teddy Hall with fond memories- I know I will!

Courtney Brown MCR President

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THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM As we say a sad goo dbye to Mike Mingos after a decade as Principal, what lies before us now is a more literal new decade wid1 ilie advent of 2010 just a term away. Teddy Hall will soon be able to claim its existence as a fullyfledged college in seven different decades, but railier ilian consider even one of iliese, my task lies wiili reflecting on what makes d1e las t year stand out in ilie grand scheme of iliings. The JCR continues to organise events of increasingly impressive calibre which are en joyed not just b y the undergraduates iliemselves but also by ilie MCR and often by members of ilie SCR. Occasions like our successful ord1ern Lights Ball in l\l[ay boasted just under 800 attendees, ilie majority of whom were Aularians, boili current College members and returning alumni. The inclusion of many Teddy Hall students in ilie night's musical line-up, from jazz to classical to rock musicians, meant it was quite a showcase for d1e College's home-grown talent. Thanks must go to ilie Governing Body for being so cooperative and helpful wiili regards to ilie Ball proposal, and indeed congratulations to Frances RudgeRobinson and Katerina Sounlliova for ilieir success as ball presidents.

On top of such events, iliriving societies like Art Soc and its offspring Alternative Choir, not to mention numerous sports teams, still offer an unparalleled opportunity for bonding between all members of ilie Hall. The strong friendships iliat we enjoy could not be achieved solely d1rough academic endeavours or activities undertaken outside of ilie College. The JCR's continued belief in ilie importance of collegiate extra-curricular pursuits and pride in their success makes for a highly positive working environment and proves iliat ilie unique Hall spirit lives on. Several Cuppers competitions proved victorious for us iliis year while our football team won ilie League for ilie first time in fifteen years.

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Student dynamism this year has been beneficial in important other ways too.

The Venus charity group, for example, led by Sarah Pierce, did incredibly well in organising a Sk Fun Run in Trinity term raising almost ÂŁ2,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. This sits nicely on top of the ÂŁ900 which they raised in lvlichaelmas through their more traditional champagne and chocolates event. The JCR Charities account continues to pay out cheques to worthy causes after each JCR meeting, with charitable giving forming the majority of motions. One of the more significant motions to pass this year was one of a charitable nature, proposing that in the wake of the destruction of the Islamic University of Gaza, it would be great to be able to help international students suffering from the curtailment of their education due to crises out of their control. The proposal suggested establishing a scholarship which would allow one undergraduate from a global conflict zone to study at Teddy Hall for three or four years. A Crisis Scholarship Fund Working Group has been set up in coordination with members of the Senior Common Room, containing around fifteen members in total, and each student from the Junior Common Room will now make a contribution on their battels to such a fund. We have discovered means of securing University-level funding and the next step is to look outside the University for extra fmancial aid.

The JCR is as ever ambitious outside the confmes of the College. This year saw the passions of the undergraduates stirred in fields from politics to journalism, from the environment to debating. Anna Williams achieved the high office of Secretary of the Oxford Union, Max Krahe was made editor of the Isis magazine, Daniel Lowe held the position of Environment and Ethics Officer in the Oxford University Student Union and both the University Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have seen leaders from Teddy Hall this year. Mark lvlills, president of the latter, was impressively also elected councillor of Holywell ward in the local election. The winter Varsity trip, which now takes a record two thousand students away skiing from both Oxford and Cambridge, was lucky enough to have two Teddy Hall students serving on its small eight-person committee- Feargus Murphy and Laurence Whyatt. All these achievements are in addition to the University drama opportunities that were seized and the Blues that were earned in rugby, squash, tennis, hockey, rowing, netball, modern pentathlon and lacrosse to name just a few. Julia Lowis and Edward Mortimore went even further for their sports and undertook captaincy of the University Lawn Tennis and Squash clubs respectively.

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On behalf of the JCR I would like to thank everyone who has served on the JCR Committee this past year for their hard work and bid farewell to all those fmalists who are leaving the College. You will be gready missed! Thanks must also go to the SEH Association for their support of the students, providing events such as career days which in the current recession will only become more helpful. The Principal we thank because he has consistendy been a great friend to the JCR, frequendy attending events important to the undergraduates, from Cuppers' fmals to concerts. More importandy we have been able to rely on him over the years to serve as an astute diplomat and caring confidant on many serious issues. In line with more wide-scale University reform the J CR President is now very much encouraged to attend every Governing Body Meeting and contribute to discussion. The students have had a great deal of cooperation with the Governing Body on a variety of issues this year, from approval of the aforementioned ball to the move to a 24-hour library. We would like to thank its members for all the concerns they have addressed and in particular the Principal, Bursar and Finance Bursar for establishing a separate Charges Committee under which some important reforms are being trialled. And so it only remains to wish Mike and Stacey every happiness in their retirement and to look forward to welcoming the Principal's successor, Professor Keith Gull, the next intake of undergraduates and our new decade.

Floreat Aula!

Charlotte Seymour (2007) JCR President 2009

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES T~

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Men} c;ptain: Nicola Ielpo Women} Captain: Louisa Cantwell Men} Captain} Report SEHAFC can look back proudly on their most successful season in 15 years.

After a 4-0 defeat to St Anne's in the first league game, there was scepticism as to whether the team would be good enough to avoid relegation; what followed exceeded anyone's expectations. A tactical adjustment was made: the 4-5-1 formation was employed to exploit a strong central midfield and 36

striker 'Gary' Southern's physical dominance, and the Hall demolished all opposition to claim 13 consecutive wins and go 10 points clear at the top of the JCR Premier Division. The highlight of the campaign was the 5-1 win over ew College; a clear demonstration. that no other title contender was any match for the Hall. Initially a very physical and efficient team, the maroonand-gold side made great technical improvements throughout the season, putting on brilliant displays of attacking football in the first three Cuppers rounds, to score a total of 12 goals.

Hilary Term's football was fragmented due to a very cold winter, which interrupted the Hall's winning momentum. But building on the very successful 1![i.chaelmas campaign, the boys were nonetheless able to clinch the Premier Division title reasonably comfortably, establishing SEH as the best football college in the university for the first time since 1994. 'A very good cuppers campaign, with the third fmal reached in four years, kept the dream of a glorious league and cup double alive until the las t day o f term . Affected by injuries to crucial players, the Hall battled against a very competitive StJohn's only to lose 2-1 .

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ul timate proof was John Waldron's heroic decision o play the whole 90 minutes of Cuppers ftnal with a torn ACL ligame t. D espite some of the bes t players graduating, expectations for next year are very high: football is establishing itself as a major sport in college and, as socials are becoming ever more popular and more students are prioritizing football over other sports, I am conftdent that next season will be equally successful .

Women} Captain} Report Women's football continued to be incredibly popular at Teddy H all during the 2008/ 2009 season. H aving los t a number of key fmalists at the end of las t year, we were delighted to have our squad reinforced by a considerable number of keen and talented new players. We were especially pleased to fmd a number of accomplished players from across the pond amongs t the visiting students and, with Chris Watkin installed again as our invaluable and enthusiastic coach, the season looked full of promise.

We started well with a convincing 8-0 win over New College, and the winning streak in both the league and early stages of Cuppers continued with wins at Merton /Mansfteld and St Catz/Balliol. A rainy Sunday morning at the end of Michaelmas saw us line up agains t a very strong Keble side in the batde

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for Cuppers qualification. Two goals down at half time and the match looked like a lost cause, but an inspiring team talk from the coaching team turned things around in the second half, with star centre-forward Steph Poulson grabbing a goal back and the gifted US import Susan Weeber scoring a sensational equaliser just minutes from time. Level on points going into the fmal group stage match and needing to fmish top to make the quarter-fmals, we were faced with the prospect of needing to win by eleven goals or more to qualify. On the day we were equal to the challenge and a 13-0 victory over New College saw us through to the Cuppers quarter-fmals.

For the third year running we found ourselves drawn against Christ Church/ Oriel, the team who had knocked us out at the same stage two years running.

Despite a brave and spirited performance from the whole team, we were disappointed to lose 2-1 against a strong team in front of a huge turnout of Hall support. Determined not to end our season on a low, the team put in two strong performances and we were rewarded with wins over Queens and Magdalen/Linacre.

Overall, 2008/9 proved to be a great season for the club, with a number of strong performances and fantastic team spirit seeing us fmishing runners-up in the League, and proud to have reached the quarter-fmals of Cuppers. We will be sorry to lose a number of players who have contributed hugely to Teddy Hall football for years with some legendary performances, notably Ruth Brooker, Blae Quayle, Liz Rayment and Hannah Eyles, and special mention has to go to our Blue, Jane Rudderham. However, with a number of young players, next season looks promising for the squad. I'm delighted to hand over the captaincy to our talented winger Ruth Prenter who has made a huge contribution to the team's success so far, and hopefully will continue to do so next year!

The Athletics Club

Captain: Charlotte Seymour After last year's incredible Cupper's victory, which we won with more than double the number of points of the chasing college, we knew that sec?Jld plaGe would not be an option for this year's SEHAC team! Despite losing potential competitors to Finals and injuries, as ever it looked like we would have a fairly strong team thanks to that enviably large pool of Hall sportsmen and women from a variety of backgrounds who we are always able to draw 39

upon. Clearly what gives the Teddy Hall team its edge, however, is the sheer talent of our athletes with a background specifically in athletics. Indeed the number of competitors that we have had over the year competing for the Millipedes (Oxford University Athletics Club's Women's Seconds Team), for the Blues and for the Oxford and Cambridge University combined Achilles Club is a testament to this.

This year we were lucky to have two particularly talented freshers joining our team, Becca Kueny and Maire Gorman. ÂĽecca won every throwing event she was entered for, which excluded only the hammer. As an athlete who went on to set a new Oxbridge record for the women's javelin throw in the 2009 Athletics Varsity Match, her distances would have been tough ones to beat! Indeed she also represented the Achilles Club over the Easter holiday, touring the United States and taking on the Ivy League universities.

Nevertheless, Courtney Brown easily went on to secure second place for Teddy Hall in the javelin and third in the discus, going on to represent the Millipedes this season. Sarah Piercf, meanwhile, took a revision break to gain valuable points with fourth place m the shot putt. Competing for the men in the field we had Keng:Wai Chan aclrpirably coming 5th out of 12 in the triple jump, and Andy Wright, better known for his Blues rowing, racking up some impressive scores in the shot putt and high jump.

Maire Gorman, a member of Oxford University Cross Country Club, put in a great effort in the 1500m despite suffering from injury all season which meant she had been out of training since late 2008. She won the race by more than a minute and went on to be a huge asset in the women's 4x400m relay which we won. She also went on to compete for the Millipedes. Special mention should also go to Steph Poulson and Laura Groom who took part in numerous track and field events, Steph even opting to do the 2k steeplechase before it was cancelled because she was the only competitor entered! If only they had held the pole vault- this is certainly another event for which Steph would have happily volunteered herself, and she will make a highly enthusiastic captain next year. It wasn't just the number of events that these two competitors took part in that really marked them out, but the quality of performance too. They too went on to compete for the Millipedes in the annual Varsity Match. The pair dominated second and third place in Cuppers long jump and triple jump, and while they also both competed in high jump, Steph impressively coming second, Laura went on to claim fourth place in the hammer. To top it off Steph competed in no fewer than seven track 40

Maire German, Sarah Pierce, Steph Poulson and Charlotte Seymour

events (including three relays!) coming second in both the lOOm and 400m hurdles. The fact that d1e women also won the 400m and BOOm meant that we were racking up points quickly.

The men certainly impressed on the track too. Nicola Ielpo, this year's men's football captain but previously undiscovered running talent, did a great job in the BOOm and even came third in the 200m. Oli Stogdale came third in d1e lOOm, and also helped the men's relay teams along. Representing Oxford at this year's Varsity Match, Oli achieved a Half-Blue for his performance in lOOm hurdles and a full Blue seems easily within sight for next year.

Finally, our team was sorry to be deprived of another incredible Achilles athlete, Richard Hildick-Smith, who has loyally competed for Teddy Hall Athletics Team for the past three years. It was on this year's Achilles Tour that Richard first sustained a tendon injury which took him out of athletics for the res t of the season. Certainly he would have pushed our points total up had he been able to compete, but as it was we had a great team and some truly outstanding individual performances which sealed our Cuppers victory for another year.

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The Boat Club Men's Captain: Joseph Elliott Women's Captain: Charlotte Seymour The Men's Vi,"C-Captain's Report I?J Chnstopher Wood The men's boat club has had a fantastic year in 2008/09 building on the good work that has gone on previously since the arrival ofJeremy Howick as head coach two years ago. In Michaelmas we entered three novice crews into Christ Church regatta, who all rowed admirably getting through the early rounds comfortably. The senior squad had 10 guys training full time, unlike in previous years when we have struggled to field an eight prior to Christmas.

This allowed us to enter into several competitions. Within Oxford we dominated on the Isis, winning Winter League A, Nephthys Head and Nephthys Regatta.The crew also travelled down to Cambridge to compete in the Cambridge Winter Head where we raced twice, coming third and twelfth in the S4 and Student categories respectively. At the end of term the entire squad was split into two teams and we raced each other in a l,OOO,OOOm erg. The dedication shown in this competition illustrated how the Hall spirit is still alive and well- many of the guys were rowing throughout the night to make sure that their team would be the victors.

Over the winter break all members of both senior and novice crews were continuing training following the programme set by Jeremy, which culminated in a week's rowing on the Tideway, from Thames Rowing Club. Thirteen athletes, half of whom were novices,;made the trip and endured the freezing weatller in London The week consisted of two sessions a day, either on the water or in the gym.On the fmal day we raced our VIII against two from TRC, comfortably beating them in all three races despite the rough conditions.

Great credit is due to the novices who raced in that crew. This was the first time in the recent past that we have held a winter training camp outside of Oxford and it proved very successful.

Morale was very high coming back to Oxford in January and we had a large, strong and fit team of guys. Unfortunately due to some atrocious weather conditions the Second and Third VIIIs couldn't get out on the river too often. However they made the most of what river training they did get and made up for the rest in the gym. The First VIII made frequent trips to Abingdon so that they could row outside of the Oxford restrictions, rowing in the snow on occasions to make sure they were fully prepared for Torpids.

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When Torpids did come the Third VIII tied for the last place of qualifying and unfortunately lost in the resulting row-off. The Second VIII were in a fantastic position to move up the river and the crew made the most of this opportunity gaining seven places and promotion. The First VIII had siffiilar success also gaining blades and advancing four places up the river.

Over Easter the squad travelled to the Irish National Rowing Centre near Cork for 10 days of intensive water training. Again thirteen athletes were taken and we spent the time rowing in IVs. As well as the technical training that went on here we also spent a lot of time seat racing oarsmen to see who could make the first VIII. Massive strides were made in our time in Ireland and it allowed us to start Trinity term with two very high quality crews.

The First VIII spent Trinity term rowing out of Gods tow under the coaching of Colin Groshong, and Olympians Jan Herzog and Josh West. Despite initial set backs with some oarsmen not being available the crew came together and was able to produce great boat speed. This was shown when the boat raced in the Putney Town Regatta beating Vesta by over half a lengd1 in the final to win IM3 . On d1e first day of Summer Eights the boat got a very satisfying bump on our nemesis Hertford right outside the Teddy Hall boathouse and bumped again on the Thursday to move up to seventh on the river. Unfortunately we were unable to quite catch Univ for the rest of the week, despite getting very close on d1e Saturday. ~--~~~--==~--~--~

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The Second VIII were being trained by Jeremy Howick on the Isis and through a massive commitment from the whole crew became exceptionally fast for a Second VIII. During Eights they bumped five times, two of whom were college First VIIIs. By the end of Eights week they were the fifthhighest placed Second VIII on the river.

The Third VIII qualified well and moved up one place and would have done more had it not been for some very unfortunate circumstances.

All the members of this year's squad have trained extraordinarily hard and great acclaim should go to them, however some people deserve extra recognition:Although Andrew Wright (previous Blue) did not row for OUBC this year, he brought the commitment needed for this to SEHBC in a role as coach and oarsman. Without his input we could not have enjoyed the success that we did this year.

Ben Smith, Colin Groshong, Jan Herzog and Josh West for providing an excellent standard of coaching throughout the year, helping to transform mediocre oarsmen into a crew that righdy should be pushing the top of Division One. Joe Elliott in his role as captain this year. His leadership drew the squad together to help everyone keep pushing even when times got tough.

A massive thanks to Jeremy Howick who has totally turned the club around since he came. He has provided a programme that has produced great results and in the next few years will see us pushing for Headship.

Finally a huge thanks to our sponsors Jones Day, their support has been hugely appreciated throughout the year.

The Women~ Captain~ Report The Boat Club's year began with a Head of the River Dinner in October to celebrate the retention of the Headship by the Hall women for a second time. This was a great occasion and allowed incoming rowers to get a taste of what rowing for the College is all about, while ex-rowers looked back nostalgically at amateur video footage of Summer VIIIs, which fully captured

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the atmosphere and excitement of the occasion from the roof of the boathouse. And so the precedent was set! Just as it had been for the two previous captains, who took on the role in the wake of a celebratory meal, a harbinger of the pressure, hard work and, one hopes, victory to come! Four years at the Head of the River was what we were now aiming for, three years worth of success put behind us and our attention refocused, from the past to the future.

So with just less than a term's rowing under their belts, three novice crews lined up to tackle Christ Church Regatta, racing boats from across the colleges.

In a four day knock-out competition our women did really very well, the A crew still going on the last day. The majority of this crew went on to join us on our winter training camp in Sabaudia, Italy, and their hard work and talent was evident as we raced the clock and racked up the kilometres. In fact this novice crew went on to form not just the backbone, but pretty much the whole body of our Torpids boat! Come the second term of rowing, we had a crew comprising six novices and given the snowy weather, for a couple of weeks we were lucky to be able to row at all. This weather took its toll in Torpids as well, with regulations implemented in the face of the weather stipulating that we could only have a cox with previous racing experience coxing us. So a week before the race we lost our desired cox and then our only other senior rower due to a family bereavement. 'When the week came we managed to hold onto our fifth place on the river, an achievement of which we were rightly proud.

As usual the Easter training camp saw the return of our Blues, and we started to get pumped for Summer Eights. It is thanks to the Friends of the Boat Club that we are now able to go on such a high calibre camp biannually to this international-level training facility. So far it has certainly paid off come Eights Week. 'What seems clearer in my mind now than the days racing are the evenings beforehand. The anticipation on the Tuesday night when all we knew was that Christ Church were looking 'racy' according to their coach and out for blood. The Wednesday night when we were only tired from the big burst of adrenalin thanks to the race being klaxoned about 45 seconds in, and going home relieved in the knowledge that Christ Church's defmition of 'racy' differed slightly from ours. The worry on Thursday night after a rather too casual row over the course at a comfortable rate of 27, knowing that we couldn't afford to take such risks again, and the subsequent carbo-loading that night! And the Friday night when we could almost taste victory, but 45

faced a new chasing opponent the next day and feared three days of hard work being snatched away. Saturday night is a slight blur, but needless to say we celebrated in great fashion thanks to a successful outcome.

The Women's First VIII, H ead of the River on the final day of Summer E ights

My fmal words should be of thanks, to the Friends of the Boat Club who continue to provide great support, be it fmancial or be it inspirational and motivational - for example, their presence down at the river in Torpids when it is raining and crowd numbers are somewhat limited! Thanks also to every smgle person who subbed in for us over coundess outings, to our head coach Richard Fishlock, and the other high calibre coaches that we were lucky enough to have helping out, especially Colin Groshong, this year's successful Boat Race cox. Emily Barlow will take on the captaincy next year, with Amelia Van Manen as Vice Captain, and I am confident that they will make a great team. Emily has been highly dedicated and earned her place as one of only two novices in this year's 1st VIII, while Amelia is a previous Blue who has served the Women's Boat Club in every successful crew since 2006. Once again the celebratory Head of the River Dinner will kick off their year!

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The Hockey Club Men} Captain: Jonathan Baker-Brian The 2008-2009 college hockey season was mostly a disappointing one for Teddy Hall. It started in an ominous manner with a convincing defeat to a very strong Jesus side which went on to win the league. Despite having lost only a couple of players from our successful squad of the previous year, we struggled to fmd the numbers required for a large proportion of the games.

The cancellation of our fmal game of :Michaelmas term, and the points it brought us, were not enough to save us from the drop and so we were relegated on goal difference along with Magdalen.

Hilary Term brought a new league with fresh opponents. Our frustrating struggle for players continued, but in spite of this we played some good hockey against several decent opponents. The penultimate game of the season saw us in a promotion battle with Oriel. I felt this game produced some of the best hockey we played this season; we had numerous attempts on goal, one of which was memorably (for the wrong reasons) and hilariously saved by our own Sam Pearce falling over the opposition's goalkeeper and backheeling the ball away from the net. Our bad fortune was matched only by the quantity of their good luck, with a couple of attacks bringing them two goals, which saw them into the premier league next season.

Trinity term brings mixed cuppers, in which we were victorious last year, and which I hope we can win again this year. Captaining the team has been a great pleasure, albeit a little stressful, and I wish Olly Wright all the best as captain for mixed cuppers and the new season.

The Rugby Football Club Men} Captain: Feargus Murphy SEHRFC has had a turbulent season. During the first league we fmished third, losing only to the traditionally strong Keble and St Peters, but putting big wins in over LMH, St Catz and Pembroke. The second league did not fare so well. Beset by injuries we started with a loss against newly promoted Magdalen. Putting 5 tries past St Peter's gave us hope, but consecutive losses to Christ Church and Keble put us in the relegation zone, which even a fmal win against Pembroke could not pull us out of. However this year's Cuppers campaign has seen Teddy Hall shrug off their league performance and come

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together when it really matters. With the return of a number of university players, including two Blues, our squad had strength in depth, and we put in strong wins against Lincoln, Balliol and St Anne's/StJohn's. In the semi-fmal we came up against University College, with one of the strongest front 8 in Cuppers. But a sensible gameplan and some fantastic defence meant that they could not get anything past us, and a 13-3 win put us in our third Cuppers fmal in 3 years, again against Keble. In the fmal, strong defence and intelligent play from both teams limited the scoring opportunities, and a try and a penalty from both teams led us into half time at 8-8. But Keble pulled ahead in the second half, scoring two tries, to which we could only respond with a penalty. However in the last 10 minutes Teddy Hall showed why we have won this competition so many times before, with Alex Cheesman scoring an unconverted try, leaving us at 22-16. With 80 minutes gone we sat camped in their 22 hitting them with everything we had, but we could not get through and an uncharacteristic knock-on kept the trophy just out of our grasp this year.

Floreat Aula!

Within the team and the college there is a real passion for Teddy Hall rugby, both on and off the field. This is why we are launching Friends of the St Edmund Hall Ruglry Club. The club's purpose will be to inform alumni of our continued successes, to involve them in the club's current activities, and importantly to seek to secure annual funding to ensure that the club can continue to compete successfully against the increasingly professional approach to rugby being taken by other colleges. By donating to 'Friends of the Rugby Club' you will help SEHRFC to achieve the aims detailed above, to continue its successful history, and to make Teddy Hall the first choice for any intelligent and keen rugby players, looking to apply to Oxford. You can be assured that your money will be spent on ensuring that SEHRFC remains the top college rugby team in the university. Friends will receive a term card of fixtures, an email of each result and an annual newsletter update on the season. We will also offer you the chance to purchase alumni memorabilia as it were. These could include rugby shirts, polo shirts and cufflinks, so that you can proudly wear the iconic maroon and gold once again. By becoming a Friend, you will also be eligible to become a member of SEHRFC, an affiliated club to the RFU. This can allow you to apply for personal debentures at Twickenham.

'Friends of the SEH Rugby Club' will help to continue the passion you once felt for SEHRFC. Everybody within the rugby team is very excited about 48

this and we believe that it will help to maintain the College's reputation as the powerhouse of college rugby. We are looking for old members to help run Friends of the Rugry Club. This would be an administratively light job, but would give you a chance to personally ensure the continued success of SEHRFC. If you would like to become a Friend, or you would like to help to run Friends, then please contact me at fea.rgus murphy@seh ox ac uk or Betony Bell, Deputy Director of Development (betonybell@seh ox ac uk).

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Jonathan Yates joined the college

in October 2008 as tutor in Material Science. He holds a University lectureship in Materials Modelling, and a Royal Society research fellowship.

Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge before taking a PhD in physics in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish laboratory. During d1is tin1e he was a Marie Curie funded student at the University of Paris 6.

Following d1is he continued to work in Cambridge and was elected to a Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College. He intermitted his fellowship to spend two years at d1e University of California in Berkeley before moving to Oxford in October 2008.

At Teddy Hall he joins Steve Roberts and Marina Galano in teaching Materials to our undergraduates. This setup means that we can now cover almost all of d1is wide-ranging course "in house", and has allowed us to increase our undergraduate numbers in this subject.

His research is in the prediction of the properties of materials - the idea that d1e basic equations of matter on a small scale (quantum mechanics) can be solved (approxin1ately) to tell us about the materials we see around us. In practice this means writing large computer codes -most of which have been widely distributed, sometin1es as open-source packages or in one case as a commercial product.

Outside of the lab he likes to walk or cycle - the Oxfordshire countryside providing a pleasant change to the flatness of the fens. For many years he has been involved with the Scout movement- having spent the past ten years running a troop in Cambridge. This has taken a backs eat while he settles in to Oxford life - but he hopes to get involved again in d1e coming year.

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Katherine Sam was born in Old Coulsdon in Surrey and attended Coulsdon Church of England Primary School moving on to Woodcote High School for her secondary education.

She went on to do A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Maths at Reigate College and in 1999 began her degree at Nottingham University in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry. She has always had a passion for athletics and during her four years at Nottingham she spent a lot of time training at the Harvey Hadden stadium and competed for the university on many occasions.

After graduating from Nottingham in 2003 she came up to Oxford to begin a DPhil in the Biochemistry department where she worked with Professor Stuart Ferguson studying the catalytic mechanisms of d1e enzyme cytochrome td1 . She was fortunate enough to still have time for athletics during her DPhil and competed in the varsity match on three occasions captaining the women's blues team in 2004/5.

Whilst working on her DPhil K.atie became interested in the field of cytochrome maturation on which some of her colleagues in the Ferguson laboratory were working. When she fmished her DPhil in 2007 she applied for a one year Post Doctoral position to move into this field of research within the Ferguson laboratory and began working on the enzyme heme lyase.

In 2008 she was appointed to the William R Miller Junior Research Fellowship at St Edmund Hall to enable her to extend her research into this litde understood enzyme. At the end of the first year of her fellowship she has some interesting results ald1ough the ultimate characterisation ofheme lyase remains a relatively distant goal.

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Stanley Burn ton, who was elected an Honorary Fellow in October 2008, was born on 25 October 1942 in London.

He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. David Yardley offered him a place at the Hall on the basis of his general paper and his interview, and to his good fortune (for which he is grateful to David) left out of account his poor performance in History and Latin. He justified David's faith in him by graduating in 1964 in Jurisprudence with First Class Honours.

He was called to the Bar in 1965. He practised as a commercial lawyer, took silk in 1982, was a recorder and sat as a deputy High Court judge in the Chancery Division from 1994. In July 2000 he was made a High Court judge and was nominated to the Administrative Court shortly afterwards. As a judge of the Administrative Court he made a number of the early decisions on the European Convention on Human Rights as incorporated into English Law by tl1e Human Rights Act 1998. In April 2008 he was promoted to the Court of Appeal. Until 30 June 2009 he was the Judge in charge of Modernisation, IT and the Estate, and one of the three judicial members of the Board of Her Majesty's Court Service. He is a member of the Civil Justice Council.

Stanley Burnton married Gwen Burnton, nee Castle, who was born and grew up in Australia, in 1971. They have three children and three young grandchildren. They particularly enjoy chamber music, and are members of the Rubinstein Circle of the Wigmore Hall.

Stanley Burnton was knighted in 2000 and is a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council . He became a bencher of Middle Temple in 1991; he is Deputy Treasurer of the l\!G.ddle Temple, and is expected to become Treasurer in 2010.

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Sarah Roger joined St Edmund Hall in October 2008 as the college's first Junior Research Fellow in Spanish. She 1s currently a DPhil candidate studying the influence of Franz Kafka on Jorge Luis Barges.

Hailing from Toronto, Sarah's undergraduate degree is a combined ~-â&#x20AC;˘ Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of ~-to~~ Science (BArtSc Hon) from McMaster 1-A~IIII University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before starting her doctorate, she read for an lvfPhil in European Literature as a Clarendon Scholar at The Queen's College, Oxford. When she is not studying Barges, Sarah's research interests include Latin American literature more broadly and Argentine cultural studies, particularly the use of the gaucho as a symbol for national identity formation. In an effort to bring Spanish to the Hall, Sarah organized a postgraduate conference in Trinity 2009,generously sponsored by the college.

Carol singing in the fro nt Q uad, led by O rgan Scho lar D avid McCartney

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THE PHILIP GEDDES MEMORIAL LECTURE Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, delivered the 2008 Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture, 'W~1)ither Journalism? Reflections on new and old media', to a capacity audience of hi s fellow Aularians in the Jarvis Doctorow Hall on 7 November.

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Barber's career in journalism began after an abortive attempt to get into business; adjudged psychologically unfit to apply for a post at Proctor and Gamble, he decided to try journalism instead, and took a post as a cub reporter on the Thomson regional newspaper training scheme, a career choice he has in common with last year's lecturer, Martha Kearney. His destiny was assured from this point.

According to Barber, journalism in Britain and America is suffering a crisis of confidence. The credit crunch is accelerating a structural shift already underway as the result of the rise of new digital media. Readers and advertising are migrating rapidly online, with 45% of Americans aged 18-34 reading a newspaper a few times a month or less, and 44% of the same group using the internet every day; in 1975, 70% read a daily paper.

The post-Watergate elevation of Woodward and Bernstein to celebrity status, and the subsequent scrabble for status amongst their peers, has led to a sense of identification between senior reporters and the politicians and CEOs they report on. This, combined with a moral obligation to the First Amendment, has crippled innovation in American journalism; however, the recent challenge to the old newspapers and networks from new media and 24-hour news networks has introduced the need for a clear-cut, tabloid representation of events.

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This style is familiar in Britain, where reporters are content to be viewed as hacks. Competition has long overruled any sense of civic responsibility; innovation is necessary to the survival of a newspaper. Fierce competition has fostered greater experimentation with format, design and content, typified by the reinvention of the Independent as a 'viewspaper'; however, whilst the British press draws criticism for lacking seriousness in comparison to its more high-minded American counterparts, Barber observes that British journalists were significantly more critical of the case for war on Iraq.

Professional journalists no longer hold exclusive rights to the news. Barber describes the recent US presidential campaign as 'the YouTube election', in which candidates were granted direct contact with the electorate; he cites the Obama campaign's half-hour YouTube infomercial in the campaign's closing stages as 'the climax of a two-year campaign'. Equally, bloggers, not cardcarrying journalists, broke several major stories, including Obama's remarks about working-class Pennsylvanians and their fondness for 'guns or religion'.

Since bloggers are not bound by editors, it is up to their audience to decide the truth of their posts; blogs are not trusted, infallible intermediaries. As the news audience increasingly draws from multiple sources, including both blogs and newspapers, its tendency to trust the old media will be reduced, a prospect Barber fmds alarming.

Barber has five suggestions for the salvation of the news industry in the face of such troubling times. First, new technologies must be embraced. Second, news organisations will have to open themselves up to outside material, including that produced by consumers. Third, news organisations must continue to charge for content, in order to fund quality, deep and original global reporting that differentiates itself from the explosion of blogs. Fourth, the organisations' owners must be patient, and sustain their commitment if their companies are to survive the next few years. Fifth, organisations must fmd niches and occupy them; branding will lead to a development of expertise in given areas, and a decrease in the supply of 'bad information'. The FT's concentration on business news has done it no harm, and others should follow its lead.

Barber concluded on a note of 'cautious optimism'; the newspaper business seems certain to shrink, but the wider business of news gathering and delivery will continue and diversify; he certainly intends to ensure the continued success of the FT.

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POETRY AT THE HALL The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry This year, the Graham Midgley prize was judged by Professor Lucy Newlyn, Dr Wes Williams, and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. The winner is Charlotte Geater (2008, English) for her poem Wardrobe. The runner-up is Tom Clucas (2006, English) for his poem Isis, Second Floor. Both are reproduced below.

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I caught flu from the boy who sells potatoes on the market so my face was clammy as the kitchen counter and I couldn't leave the house.

Oxfam was calling out my name so I fmally unstuck the doors, counted the rooms, collected piles of books.

I ate vegetarian lasagne for breakfast and grapefruit for dinner. I worked through your fridge using a different system every day. I decided to eat everything that was red: jam, the wax around three babybels, apples, beet-root and strawberry jelly. All your walls were white.

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I decided once the flu left I would give away your coats. I tried on your furs. The most beautiful one had a wolf's head lolling down its back like a tongue and there were photos of you with ears sewn into your hoods, mufflers caught in your eyelashes.

Your cheeks feel so hot in the front room.

Charlotte Geater (2008, English)

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Isis, Second Floor A flock of doves haphazardly align along the roof, before a couple curve in upward flight. As other birds observe them and pursue, their spreading wings incline towards the sunset. Now their feathers shine and almost dazzle, brilliant as they swerve throughout the dusk, till they alone preserve a wreath of light against the day's decline.

Their backs are silver, but their bellies glow with orange warmth still borrowed from the sky; they weave a halo high above the lawn, and circle, till the sun has sunk so low, that darkness forces them to roost nearby, returning with the reddening of dawn.

Tom Clucas (2006, English)

Meredith Root-Bernstein (2004), a former postgraduate student in Zoology, was a founding Editor of the MCR magazine the chough, first published in Michaelmas Term 2007. Whilst at the Hall she was also a recipient of Masterclass funding, one of the projects supported by the Annual Fund which enables SEH students to pursue extra-curricular activities at a high level.

Meredith used the funds to receive coaching from Dr Carmen Bugan, Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College. Besides her poem Hmv to make a fish which appeared in The Aulan"an (Spring 2007, Issue 14), her work has appeared in a range of journals, including the Times Uterary Supplement and The New Yorker - the latter having published her poem Contemplation which we are pleased to reproduce overleaf.

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Contemplation

I saw the fox squirrel sitting on the stand of the sundial with the twig-shaped hand.

He sat still, his tail flung carelessly forward over a shoulder. The make-do tree overlooked bird feeder, lawn, and on this date a flood of snow that seemed to sublimate.

A dim mist huddled by the scraggly wood; I saw it mill about, precess, stir, rise. Could we attribute to our squirrel some notion predicated on, I don't know, image, motion, of the strangeness of this mist above snow, as if the sky were un-snowing from below?

Can we name him some beauty or bewilderment to see the sharp fuzz and the near went, to feel far brittle branches' caress and the press of space nest into the mind? Intuit yes.

He clutches the twig-dial with little hands like a helmsman prefiguring close lands.

His brain must be smaller than a walnut, like his snow-footprints it must course its rut from tree to tree to tree, from space to space, along dip tense liquid pivot up bough, the race and the swell of branch, dense push to earth, paws spread-eagled on a big tree's girth.

Suppose he thinks trees the same way I dress.

God knows I don't conclude the sleeve, less do I have a plan to remove a sweater.

I used to put on shirts, or dresses, better, front to back, so I could seem them just as they would look on me, just as I thrust among their labyrinths. Dimly perplexed, I was too involved in what would come nextwearing the dress-to let one turn its back, to wait, to hold foreknowledge in its track.

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Another thing, when I was very small, at eight after the amber lamp in the hall was switched off, when the night-light shone, I used to feel one of my digits grown massive but weightless, a toe on the loom, waxing, palpitating frontiers of the room.

Then obscurely it would erase, vaguely forgot.

I seem to remember it happening a lot.

I remember doing things I didn't understand, "taking notes" on Marco Polo in Samarkand, clasping hands in prayer in kindergarten.

I heard names-Richelieu and Spartanwith no meaning other than what I felt: a quickening of the pulse, a rufous pelt pinned with the soft gurgle of mother-of-pearl, a brick cathedral, an oil-spill whorl; something else angular and red-yellow, emanating the pre-sound of sounding hollow.

The squirrel sitting on the primitive clock is stuck between no hard place and no rock, he changes and is morphous like the fog, like the sundial he swoops, he has no cog, no pause. He feels his tail hair on his fur, he knows of numbness in his toes, the slur of a breeze by his flank, and the warm instantiatedness of insides. The form of things drifts, particulates, rushes, opaquifies, holds its breath, teeters, blows, hushes.

The squirrel feels out half-assumed stances, tentative conjoined smells, small knit trances.

These sensations come to a head, to nought, and the fox squirrel, innocent of thought, stirs over his strange white domain, impels his tiny realm from now to what now foretells.

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THE FIRST GEDDES MASTERCLASS Slow food, slow living - and now slow journalism. Adopting the latter approach was John Ware's recommendation for undergraduates who are considering making a career in investigative journalism.

Undergraduate journalists packed the room to hear Ware speak at the first ever Philip Geddes Journalism Masterclass, held at the Oxford Union in early March.

They heard that careful research which might take months, in-depth inteviewing of sources, checking and re-checking the notes - in short, taking time to establish the facts and ditch the adjectives is the unglamorous but rewarding work of the investigative journalist.

A journalist's journalist, Ware has won many prizes for his investigative work for the BBC. He was named Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards in 2001 for ''Who Bombed Omagh?", and given the James Cameron award in 2004 for his vision and integrity, amongst many other accolades for a long career.

His long interest in the Northern Irish conflict made him a particularly appropriate speaker for the masterclass, since the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize commemorates a St Edmund Hall graduate killed, aged 24, by the IRA in the 1983 Harrods' bombing.

Ware told his student audience how he once had spent months in the early 80s talking to sources who spelled out some of the then activities of Gerry Adams, strongly suggesting that he was chief strategist for the IRA. He prepared a report full of condemnation and bitter words, only to have the BBC's lawyer, scanning his report before broadcast, ask: ''Why don't you just stick to the facts?"

He learned that day how much more effective undecorated facts can be.

It is hoped that the success of this first masterclass can be built on with further seminars arranged by the Geddes trustees aimed at building student journalists' skills.

Sandra Barwick (Geddes Trustee)

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THE PHILIP GEDDES MENTOR SCHEME To celebrate 25 years of the Philip Geddes Prize for Student Journalism, a luncheon was held at the offices of the Financial Times on Friday 26 June at the kind invitation of the FT Editor Lionel Barber, who gave the most recent Geddes Lecture on the subject of "W(h)ither journalism? The Press and new media" [see page 54 for a full report]. The lunch successfully mingled dozens of previous winners of the prize with former Geddes lecturers and prominent journalists, and some determined networking was observed before, during and after the meal!

The Chair of the Geddes Trustees, Graham Mather, took the opportunity to announce that a new mentoring scheme is to be set up this academic year matching students involved in university journalism with graduate mentors who are or were in the media.

This development is aimed particularly at helping undergraduates without relatives or strong contacts in the trade. Philip Geddes himself, a St Edmund Hall graduate and diary journalist on the Daily Express who died aged 24 in the Harrod's bombing, was one of these.

Alumni of the Hall may have no money spare to give to appeals yet are still willing to give something back: their skills and experience in the media are potentially very valuable in themselves to the new generation of undergraduates.

The aim is that students will have someone to turn to for advice, which might be on stories they are pursuing for student papers ("I've got this tip -I'm sure it's true - how might I stand it up?"), or on which post-graduate journalism courses might be best and even, if the relationship continues, on the vital but tricky business of handling office politics.

The scheme will be trialled first among St Edmund Hall undergraduates.

Anyone who is willing to be a mentor, or would like to know more, should contact the Magazine Editor, Gillian Powell, on email gi.llian powell@seh ox ac uk.

And, of course, anyone who has no time to help but still has some money to contribute to the costs of the scheme (do such journalists still exist?) would be very welcome.

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THE JOE TODD AWARD On Monday 4 August, 2008, Karl Seddon- recipient of the inaugural Joe Todd Award- started work as one of the volunteer members of a care and community project at the Christ Outreach Orphanage in Accra, Ghana. His task for the next five days was to mend broken furniture, plaster, paint, saw, hammer and generally smarten up the orphanage's buildings, photographed enthusiastically (but not necessarily in focus or in shot) by a legion of small children who all knew unerringly how to use his digital camera. The second half of his two-week stint saw him move to the Trinity Orphanage to begin constructing a toilet-shower area that would take him and his fellow volunteers to the end of the project. The team laboured for and worked alongside Ghanaian contractors, but the volunteers got stuck in to their unskilled, and skilled, tasks with enthusiasm and some surprisingly professional results. By the time they had finished on the Friday the original ramshackle and insanitary tin-clad shed had been replaced by a rendered and painted blockwork toilet and shower facility which provided much-needed privacy for teenage orphans and their adult supervisors. Karl was very grateful to the Joe Todd Award committee, and those involved in raising the endowment, for the ÂŁ1,000 prize which he put towards his travel costs and thus enabled him to participate in this African community project.

JULIA LOWIS (2007) IN WINNING TEAM IN OXFORD FRENCH LAW MOOT 2009 The Oxford French Law Moot 2009 took place at St Catherine's College on 6 May. A dozen mooters, both Anglophone and Francophone, argued (in French) over a problem of French law. There were two rounds of mooting, and the presiding judge was Mr Alain Lacabarats from the Cour de Cassation (France's Supreme Court in criminal and civil matters) . Julia Lowis (SEH 2nd year law) was a member of the winning team. Julia is taking Law Course 2, which means that she will spend her third year taking a Licence en droit at the University of Paris, prior to returning in her fourth year to complete her Law Degree. Julia is a Tennis Blue, and has rowed for the College.

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THE A B EMDEN LECTURE Mark Mazower, Professor of H istory at Columbia Unive rsity and au tho r o f a number of historical works, mos t recently, of Hitler's Empire, gave the Emden Lecture on 9 June 2009, in the new lec ture theatre.

His talk was entitled 'No.Enchanted Palace.

The United Nations in H isto ry'. Mark Mazower argued again st an old interpretation of the history of the United Na ti on s, w hi ch saw it as on e of disappointment and decayed ideals. The founding of the United Nations had to be put in its historical context, and always reflected political realities. Its foundation was not driven by advocates of human righ ts, and the United States was not as central as is often thought. Rather, its main proponents were figures like tl1e Soutl1 African leader,Jan Smuts, who saw it as a replacement for the British Empire; it would be run by a small group of wes tern countries, and would continue a 'civilizing mission' in Africa and elsewhere. That vision died when it became dominated by newly independent powers, who entrenched the principle of national self-determination. As a result, the United Nations declined as an institution during the Cold War, as it was unsuited to the pursuit of ideological conflicts by either superpower.

The talk was followed by a lively discussion, and some criticized P ro fessor Mazower for underestimating the role of idealism in the early history of tl1e UN. But all agreed that they had heard an exceptionally interes ting and original talk, and that the speaker was an excellent successor to previous Emden Lecturers, who include John Elliott, Richard Evans, Ray Foster, Quen tin Skinner and Blair Warden.

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OBITUARIES MAUREEN CHRISTIAN Former Oxford Lord Mayor Maureen Christian has died at the age of 82.

Maureen Lena Smith was born in 1926 in Seaham, County Durham, the only daughter of William and Hilda Smith. During the Second World War her family was bombed out and moved to Scarborough, where she met her future husband Jack Oohn Wyrill Christian). In July 1949, Mrs Christian and Jack married and Mrs Christian graduated in English from Durham University.

After their marriage, she moved to Oxford with Jack and took a diploma in education at Oxford University. She taught English for many years at various schools, ending her teaching career with the Beechlawn Academy in Park Town. The couple had three children; Louise, John and Timothy, who predeceased her in 1999.

Jack became a distinguished scientist, a Fellow of St Edmund Hall and professor of materials science at Oxford University. One of Jack's students recalled how "Maureen was always the life of the party, talking about everything and anyone, not fazed in the least by us tongue-tied students".

When Mrs Christian arrived in Oxford she quickly became a driving force in the Oxford University Newcomers Club. Between 1962 and 1963 Mrs Christian and her family lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where Jack was on sabbatical.

Mrs Christian was horrified by the racism of the time, but heartened by President John F Kennedy. She initially joined the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, but spurred on by a friend decided it was too wishy-washy and joined Black Power.

In 1987, Mrs Christian was elected Labour city councillor for Marston and served as chairman of the estates and planning committees before becoming Lord Mayor in 2000. Jack was immensely proud of Mrs Christian's political achievements and he enjoyed playing the role of the Lord Mayor's escort.

He accompanied her at the ceremony at which Morse author Colin Dexter was granted the Freedom of the City in February, 2001. Jack died suddenly the following day.

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When people remarked about her support for Jack, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, Ivlrs Christian said: ''People say that, but it has been as nothing compared with his support for me."

Mrs Christian held the portfolio for culture during her time on the council and was involved with many Oxford organisations for the arts, sitting on the Playhouse board and the advisory council of Oxford Philomusica. Mrs Christian continued work as an active councillor right up to her last admission to hospital on January 22. Š Oxford Mail / Newsquest Media Group

VIVIAN RIDLER CBE Printer to Oxford University from 1958 to 1978 and founder of the Perpetua Press

Vivian Ridler was the printer's printer, master of "the whole art of printing". He began as a boy and ended hi s career as Printer to Oxford University, the last great holder of that office. But beside his distinguished official career, he also ran a private press, whose work, a model of typographic design, included original work, not least that of his wife, the poet Anne Ridler.

He was born, in 1913, in Cardiff, but when he was five his father became superintendent of Avonmouth Docks. Crossing the Severn took him to Bristol Grammar School, but long before that he had become a printer. Seeing an advertisement for an Adana table press, he persuaded his parents to buy it.

With it came a pow1d of type, enough for cards and small leaflets.

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When he went to school he met his lifelong friend David Bland, whose father's vicarage provided more space for the press. A visit to the Bristol printer John Wright produced more type. Thus augmented, they printed a philatelic magazine that they wrote themselves, altering the text if they ran out of letters. The result was oddly spotty, because the type from Wright was different from that supplied with the Adana. From this he learned two lessons that underlie all his work: the need for the right type for any job, and "the interdependence of author and printer".

Leaving school in 1931, he was apprenticed toES & A Robinson, the biggest printing firm in Bristol. There he had the basic grounding in composition (by machine, not hand) and printing, as well as the ways of compositors and printers, before moving on to the counting-house and management.

But the press at the vicarage kept busy; it acquired new and lively clients, Douglas Cleverdon, Eric Waiter White and James Stevens Cox. In Cleverdon's bookshop Ridler met Eric Gill, whose Perpetua type gave the press its name.

Fifteen Old Nursery Rhymes, with illustrations hand-coloured by Biddy Darlow, was chosen as one of the "50 Best Books of the Year" by the First Edition Club in 1935. As the Perpetua Press grew, Robinson's obligingly provided a larger press, which overstretched the power supply so that the street lights went dim.

In 1936, John Johnson, then Printer to Oxford University, lectured at Bristol on jobbing printing (his collection is now at the Bodleian Library). Bland and Ridler went to the lecture; afterwards they asked if they might print it and showed him their work. Nothing came of this, but that winter Johnson wrote to Ridler, offering him a job as his assistant.

Astonished but delighted, Ridler went to Oxford. He got on well with Johnson, but found his bullying treatment of others hard to bear. Bland had gone to Faber & Faber, where Anne Bradby, niece of Sir Humphrey Milford, the Oxford University Press Publisher in London, was also working as TS Eliot's secretary; visiting his old friend, Ridler met her and they fell in love. When their engagement was announced, Ridler was immediately dismissed by Johnson, convinced that he must now be a spy reporting to his rival in London.

They married in 1938, none the less, and fortunately Ridler met Theodore Besterman, the prince of bibliographers, who had set up the Bunhill Press, 66

overlooking Bunhill Fields, to print his own and other works. Besterman asked him to be its manager, and he and Anne set up house in Clerkenwell.

Her first Poems were printed at the Bunhill Press for the Oxford University Press.

They stayed on when the Second World War broke out. Next summer the blitz fell heavily on the City; after a particularly bad raid one night Ridler decided to go and see how the Press was. On the way, he saw a pile of paper in the gutter, stooped to pick it up and found it was a batch of the jackets for Anne's book that they had just finished printing. Fearing the worst he hurried on, to fmd that the press had been blown to pieces.

On the way home, they were stopped by a warden, who said it was dangerous to go on. He expostulated, "But we live here", and they went on, passing already damaged houses. Going upstairs, there was another whoosh and bang and the whole house seemed to rise and settle. They reached the top floor where they lived, and opened the door to fmd everything in place, but dark. They looked up and could see the stars; all the slates from the roof were spread over bed and floor.

After that they moved to the country, and a fortnight later Ridler was called up and went into the RAF. He became an intelligence officer, first in Orkney and then in Nigeria, at Lagos and (more happily) at Kano. When the war ended, he was posted to Germany to supervise de-militarisation in the Ruhr; he found the devastation painful and orders not to "fraternise" absurd how could you talk to Germans all day and not get to like at least some of them?

Demobilised, he returned to London, becoming lecturer on typography at the Royal College of Art and earning a living as a freelance designer for Lund Humphries and others. He became art editor of Contact, the magazine founded

by George Weidenfeld before he set up his own firm . He and Anne were not rich, but happy, with visits to plays and concerts in a London still shabby after the war.

This came to an end in 1948 when Charles Batey, who had succeeded John Johnson at Oxford, invited Ridler to return as Works Manager. He was at first reluctant, with unhappy memories of earlier days there, but Batey was insistent and he eventually agreed; only later did he reflect that the post carried 67

a pension and he would have been mad to turn it down. Later he became Assistant Printer, succeeding Batey as Printer in 1958.

By now he had some substantial achievements to show, notably the Bible he designed, on which the Queen swore the Coronation oath in 1953, the New English Bible in 1961 and a facsimile of The Waste Land that needed twocolour printing to elucidate.

The cares of office were not all so agreeable. I had asked if there were an opening for a beginner at the Press: "How do you think I spend my time?" he asked; dealing with the day's business and then designing books, I suggested. "No, I'll tell you. Half my time is spent arguing with unions and the other half negotiating the purchase of machinery with banks. If you want to design books, go to London and work for a publisher". This was not wholly true: he still found time to design books and jackets, to look for and introduce new machines and working methods and demand and get the highest standards of quality.

In 1968-9 he became President of the British Federation of Master Printers, and was appointed CBE in 1971 . He retired in 1978, the year in which the Press celebrated the quincentenary of printing in Oxford. There was an exhibition of his work in the Divinity School at the Bodleian, and St Edmund Hall -which had made him a professorial fellow in 1966 -elected him to an emeritus fellowship. But his professional life was far from over. The Perpetua Press was revived in the comfortable stone house in Stanley Road where he and Anne continued to live. Over the next 20 years, some 30 books, many if not all set by hand and printed by Ridler, were printed and published.

He began with three books of Anne Ridler's poems. Her edition of The Poems r!f William Austin (1983) drew praise in the TLS for both editor and printer. In 1984 he was joined by Hugo Brunner, then at the Hogarth Press, who brought the first of several books by George Mackay Brown, reviving memories of Orkney. Poetry ancient and modem, tributes to Isaiah Berlin and Aung San Suu Kyi, Anne Ridler's opera libretti, made up a diverse list.

The longest book, too long for Ridler to print himself, was A Victon¡an Famify Postbag, the Bradbys' letters, published to celebrate the golden wedding of Anne and Vivian in 1988.

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a glint of humour behind his spectacles, and he had a vivid turn of speech.

Active and precise, his movements at work were a joy to watch. He set others the same high standards as himself, but was gentle with failure . He made the University Press a happy place to work in, even in difficult times.

Stoical when the university printing house closed in 1989 after three hundred years, he found his stoicism tried to the utmost when Anne died in 2001, ending over 60 years of happy work, by which he as well as she will be remembered.

Christmas and Vivian Ridler were inseparable. A great Father Christmas at countless Ridler family Christmases, he was a notable printer of Christmas cards, with texts by, or chosen by, his wife. Last month, in celebration of his 95th birthday, the Bodleian Library held an exhibition of some of the many cards from fellow artists and printers that the Ridlers had received in return.

Vivian Ridler was there at the opening, surrounded by old friends - and in fme form and voice, even if limited fmally to wheelchair travel.

Vivian Hughes Ridler,printer: born Cardiff 2 October 1913; Works Manager, Universiry Press, Oxford 194849,Assistant Pn'nter 1949-58, Printer to Oxford Universiry 195878; Professorial Fellow, St Edmund Hall1966-78 (Emeritus); President, Bn'tish Federation of Master Printers 1968-69; CBE 1971; married 1938 Anne Bradl(y (died 2001; two sons, two daughters); died Oxford 11 January 2009.

Nicolas Barker Š 2008 Independent News and Media Limited

It is with deep regret that we report the death on 21 April 2009 of Norah Geddes, Philip Geddes' mother who was a regular visitor to the Hall for many years, until the journry from her home in Cumbria became too difficult. The college's acknowledgement of her son, through the Philip Geddes Memorialpn'zes and lectures, meant agreat deal to her.

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FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2009 were 383 undergraduates (217 men, 166 women); 162 post-graduates (92 men, 70 women); and 36 Visiting Students (17 men, 19 women) .

MATRICULATIONS 2008 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates Alsing, Jus tin Andreas Anayi, Lena Sara Andrews, Samuel Philip Atkinson, Rosie Jean Bewley Badsha, Rubina Ali Barlow, Emily Jane Bertie, Annabel Elizabeth Sarah Bhatty, Isra Javed Boulfoul, Adam Box, Christopher David Brassill, Sean Matthew Bray, Katie-Louise Brown, Felix James Watzek Brown, .Niichael Daniel Brown, Ruth Katharine Bruner, Joseph Alien Calderbank, Tara Ann Campbell, Shakyra Shakeena Arlene Carella, Vincenzo Daniele Carol an, Mark Patrick Carter, James Matthew Oliver Celebi, Sevim Chomnicka, Kinga Konstancja Clark, Matthew Nicolas Clasper, Christopher Duncan Collins, Daniel Steven Collins, Richard Anthony Conermann,Jan-Karl 70

Trinity School, Leamington Spa Cardiff High School Ashby de la Zouch Grammar School King's School, Canterbury University of Peshawar Truro School Chelsea College of Art and Design Yale Law School City and Islington Sixth Form College Kirkham Grammar School, Preston St Ambrose College, Altrincham William Farr School, Lincoln Monmouth Comprehensive School Farnborough Sixth Form College University of Edinburgh Green Hope High School, Cary Stetson University, DeLand Lewisham College Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi St John the Baptist School, Woking University of Leicester City and Islington Sixth Form College Jagiellonian University, Krakow King Edward's School, Bath Berkhamsted Collegiate School King Edward VI College, Stourbridge Rendcomb College, Cirencester Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz

Cox, Sarah Juliet Royal Holloway University of London Creamer, Rebecca Lucy Oldham Sixth Form College Crouch, William David University of Cambridge Dai, Ruyue Communication University of China Daly, Farhana Catherine Marylebone School Warwick School Dargan, James Joseph :Michael Dixon, Kelly Marie Robert Pattinson School, Lincoln du Toit, Adriaan University of Pretoria Eames, Angus Frederick Hugh Tonbridge School Edmonds, Holly Jane University of Edinburgh Edwards, Olivia Jade Kingston Grammar School, Kingston upon Thames Evans, Kathryn Louise Streatham Hill & Clapham High School Fleming, James Matopos Queen Elizabeth VI Form College, Darlington Fox, Henry Harmer Highgate School Freeman, Edward Louis Warwick School Freisinger, Ari Columbia University, New York Fuggle, Rowan Peter Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar Geater, Charlotte Northgate High School, Ipswich Gilbert, William Joseph Colchester Royal Grammar School Godden, Mark William Dulwich College Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham Golton, Stephen Charles Gorman, Maire Neilson Grange Academy, Kilmarnock Gu, Wenchao Peking University Stanwell School, Penarth Hackett, Jack Shrives Hadnutt, Christopher Charles Bournemouth Boys' School La Trobe University Harris, David Ashley St Albans Girls' School Harris, Holly Elizabeth Bolton Boys' School Harrison, Thomas Matthew Sheffield High School Henry, Rosemary Grace Cirencester Tertiary College Hill, Christabel University College, London Hill, Katharine Anne Keio University, Tokyo Hiro, Yuki Robert McQueen High School, Reno Hoffmann, Till Alexis Horton, Sophie Louise St John Fisher RC High School, Newcasde-under-Lyme Hosking, Thomas Shannon Macquarie University, North Ryde Hampton School Humphrys, Oliver Hunt, Julian David University of Nottingham 71

Hutton, Peter Ibe, Carol Nkechi Ishida, Yasuhiro J afar Mohammadi, Bahram Jenne, Amelia Jennings, Freya Rose Emily

Winchester College Georgetown University, Washington Keio University, Tokyo University College, Cork Rugby School School of St Helen & St Katharine, Abingdon

Johal, Gumam Singh Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, London Juravle, Georgina Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich Kamenski, Paul James University of Wisconsin, Madison Kandath, Aditya Mukundan National Institute of Technology Kamataka, Mangalore Kelly, Christopher Ian Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff Kennedy, Matthew Andrew Taunton's College, Southampton Khoo, Jun Yong Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Kinsley, Christopher William Madras College, St Andrews Kueny, Rebecca Anne University of Missouri, Rolla Lam, Pui-Yu University of Hong Kong Lasko, Claire Lord Williams's School, Thame Leach, Helen Clare James Alien's Girls' School, London Lebus, Harriet Rugby School Leech, James Roger Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Leonavicius, Karolis Vilnius University Lester, Martin Mariusz University of Cambridge Leung, Kingsley Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, London Levine, Shari Samantha Hunter College, New York Lim, Jenny Ching Yee Chinese University of Hong Kong Lingscheid, Claudia University of Bonn Lonsdale, Emma Fay St Anthony's Girls School, Sunderland Lookman, Mariah University College, London Lord, Kimberley Joy Parkstone Grammar School, Poole Lowe, Imogen Agnes King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford Lundberg, Karl Viktor Jacob Kaplanskolan, Skeelleftea Manou-Stathopoulou, Sotiria James Alien's Girls' School, London Maughan, Christopher James University of Glasgow May, Lukas Edmund International School of Geneva McFall, Roland Charles Augustus Eton College, Windsor 72

Meek, Rebekah Lynne Kansas State University Meissner, Yasmin St Paul's Girls' School, London Millar, Charles Richard Marlborough College Morfett-Jones, Tegid Henry Bracknell and Wokingham College University of Newcastle Morgan, Bryony Kate Moroski, William Elliot University of California, Davis Morse, Eloise Mary Cheltenham Ladies' College Morton, Neil Thomas Lord Wandsworth Collegem Basingstoke Moyser, Thomas Orland Rednock School, Dursley Murphy, Kathryn Hannah Nottingham High School for Girls Murray, Alexandra Mary University of Sydney Bristol Grammar School Nandha, Tina Cheltenham Ladies' College Negretti, Melissa Gipsy King's School, Macclesfield Nesbitt, Emily Kate Elizabeth Woodford County High School Nicholas, Sarah Cheltenham Ladies' College Nicholas, Sarah Elinor High School of Glasgow O'Leary, Gavin Edward Kings School, Peterborough O'Malley, Rachel University of Edinburgh Oag, Robert Orfanou, Vasiliki University of Patras Outen, Karl Evert Guy Royal Grammar School, Guildford Owen, Charles William Harrow School Panizzon, Philippe Haute Ecole de Theatre de la Suisse Romande, Lausanne Papoutsas, Christos London School of Economics Patel, Hannah Epsom College Pearce,Joanne Elizabeth Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Simon Langton Boys' School, Canterbury Pearce, Samuel Picot, Simon Christopher University of Cambridge Plummer, Katherine Patricia E Guildford High School for Girls Kingsbridge Community College Pope, Thomas Oliver Wolverhampton Girls' High School Preece, Rebecca Sarah Anne Methodist College, Belfast Prenter, Ruth Alice Shrewsbury Sixth Form College Prosser, Katie Laura St Thomas More School, Blaydon-on-Tyne Pyle, Kimberley Megan Greenford School Rashid, Noor Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace No 1, Lodz Redlicki, Bartosz Andrzej Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace No 1, Lodz Redlicki, Jakub Piotr 73

Reeves, James Bryant Reynolds, Francis .Nfichael

Texas Tech University

Westcliff High School for Boys, Westcliff-on-Sea Robinson, David Robert Bolton Boys' School Roth, Lisa Anne Harvard University Chethams School of Music, Manchester Sale, Graham David University of St Andrews Sandeman, J ennifer Elise Sarre, Imogen Downe House School, Newbury King's School, Canterbury Saunders, Asny Faith Wells Cathedral School Sealey, Adam John University of Regensburg Seidl, J ohannes Georgetown University, Washington Shamma, Yasmine Asad Bard College, New York Shapiro, Nicholas Edward Lahore Grammar School Shaukat, Mahlaqa Shaw, Maisie Ruth Helena University of Cambridge University of Southampton Simpson, Ivor James Alexander St Catherine's School, Guildford Slater, Henrietta Elizabeth Soni, Mayank Raffles Junior College, Singapore Rainham Mark Grammar School, Gillingham Starr, Paul Graham Eton College, Windsor Steel, Henry Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls Stout, Katrina Emily Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Sun, Haoyang McGill University, Montreal Supinski, Kristina Eileen University of Durham Szekely, Tamas Horsforth School, Leeds Tatum, Christopher David Eltham College, London Thomas, Owen Matthew Truscott London School of Economics Trimcev, Eno Brighton College Tse, Jason Kwan Lap University of Sydney Valli, Michael James Frederick University of Edinburgh Vuohelainen, Anni Johanna Wang, Chengle University of Science and Technology, Anhui Wang,Hao Nanjing University Winchester College Watkins, Adam Geoffrey Colston Wycombe High School, High Wycombe Webb, Erica Bryony Oxford Brookes University Wells,Anna SEEVIC College, Benfleet Wilkins, David Mark Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Wilson, Charles Henry Peter Wolfson, Rhea Caroline Mearns Castle High School, Glasgow Wood, Isabel Grace Notre Dame High School, Norwich

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Woodliffe, Andrew Joseph Woolley, Moya Rosemary Wright, Oliver James Wright, Timothy Edward Yin, Wenqiang Zhang, Han

Skegness Grammar School Beauchamp College, Leicester King Edward's School, Bath University of Southampton Peking University, Beijing Peking University, Beijing

VISITING STUDENTS 2008-2009 Biederman, William James Brinkmann, Rory Robert Bui, Christine Mai-Anh Bumke, Alison Campbell, Duncan Alan Chang, Olivia Tianjiao Cole, Benjamin Crego, Adam Charles Gace Derry, Sarah Elizabeth Dore, Rebecca Ansley Dudley, Julianne Elizabeth Ehrlich, Gaven Allen Ekinci, Ekim Ekwem, Ugonna Cliff Fixler, Matthew Julian Halpern Gendlerman, Kira Rushing Goodman, Aaron Gorelov, Ilia Green, Elizabeth Mary Halsey, Owen Thomas Hirsh, Jared Alexander Imas, Alexander Ivovic, Sandra Katz, Zachary Aram Kronberger, Alexander V Leblang, Ilana Jill Makda, Meher McEnany, Kayleigh Michelle Mer, Rebecca Malka Orlova, Yuliya Grigoryevna

University of Washington Bowdoin College Yale University Bamard College University of Michigan Duke University Cornell University Brown University Scripps College Wake Forest University Villanova University College of the Holy Cross Rice University Cornell University Vassar College Bryn Mawr College University of Pennsylvania Tufts University College of the Holy Cross Capital University Brandeis University Swarthmore College University of Zagreb Harvard University Brandeis University Cornell University Depauw University Georgetown University Brown University Bryn Mawr College

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Panza, Emily Anne Pietrantoni, Antonio J avier Popescu, Loredana Rommel, Sosa Carolina Song, Harin Christine Soysal, Zeynep Tagarev, Andrey Von Oldershausen, Sara Natasha Weeber, Susan Cooke Winn, Jus tin J oseph

College of the Holy Cross Comell University Colby College Columbia University Comell University Comell University Amherst College Northwestern University Georgetown University College of the Holy Cross

DEGREE RESULTS Final Honour Schools 2009 Biochemistry Class II i Michelle M Barton, Rosalind J Harrison Class II ii Emily S Hooton Chemistry Class I Class II i Class II ii

Michael J Kelly, Michael J Tucker Ian D V Ingram, Elizabeth J Rayment Shiwen Dai

Earth Sciences Class I William Brownscombe, Thomas Jackson Class II i Ruth Brooker, Matthew J Goff, Thomas P Harris, Elizabeth A Home, Blae M Quayle, Nicholas G Scroxton Class Ill Ian A B Randall Economics & Management Class I Jason D Kasler Class II i Henry W Elston, Fleur M Fielding, Thomas E Whiteley Engineering Science Class I Oliver C Gingell, Nassia Inglessis Class II i Timothy R Hoffmann, Rohan Keswani, Anand R Sampat Class II ii Qi An, Christopher R Wood

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English Language & Literature Class I Tom Clucas Class II i Laura M Davis, Jasmine D Fisher, Emily Hoffman, Elizabeth R McDowell, Alix H Robertson, Jonathan Rustin, Charles G Storey Experimental Psychology Class II i Lucy C Macfarlane Fine Art Class I Class II i Geography Class II i

History Class I Class II i

Stephen C-K Rhodes Emily F Vicary

Margery H Broadhead, Patrick G I Cooper, Chloe E Harding, Marina 0 Johns, Philip Satterthwaite, Emily Watson

J ames 0 Macfarlane, Carina McAlinden, Charles W A Southern Sophie E J Brice, Emily V Hellicar Antenen, Edward R Oddy, Alexander RC Trench, I so bel J Whitehom, Olivia J Williams

History and Politics Class II i Harold F Buchanan Jurisprudence Serena H X Lee Class I Edwin Chappell, Edward J Hayes, Qingxiang Li, Class II i Emily K Morton Peter H Claridge Class II ii Materials Science Class I Francis W Herbert, Samuel A Humphry-Baker Class II ii Laurence B Whyatt

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Mathematics Class II ii Yushuang Hao, Sarah R Pierce Mathematics & Computer Science Class I J akub Zavodny Mathematics & Philosophy Class I Leonie B Gutmann Medical Sciences Class II i Jennifer B Ayers, Thomas Moon, Samir CA Salih, Christopher Watkin Modern Languages Class I Alexander V Iosad Class II i Sandamali C Zbyszewski, Victoria Fergusson, Miles Lambie, Peter D Langridge, Paul D Mather Class II ii Lawrence D Bushell, Sophia Lyscom Modern Languages and Linguistics Sophie C Slater Class 11 i Music Class 11 i

Henry H Carter, Nancy C Cole

Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I Maximilian C Krahe, Maximilian Thompson, Andrew G White Class 11 i Stuart Ingham, Samir Juthani, Lara H Green Class 11 ii Thomas Theodore Physics Class I Class 11 i Class 11 ii Class Ill

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Adam R Coates Hannah Eyles, David A Aitken, Matthew J Bray, Ryan M Buckingham, William DC Frass Shalini J Carr, John R Veness, Wei-Yu Wang

Physiological Sciences Class II i Douglas A Sole Physiology with Psychology Class II i Francesca E Perkins Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology Class I Caspar S Le Fanu

HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Astropf?ysic.r: Francisco Forster Biochemistry: David A Clynes Earth Sciences: Richard H T Callow l\llichael J Streule Education: J ennifer H Chung Engineering.

Angela Amphawan M Isabel Garcia-Hermosa LongJiang Seung l\llin Lee Olivier A P Noterdaeme Mark L Potter Xingjian Wu English Literature: Elizabeth J Scott-Baumann Experimental Psychology: Suzy Styles lviarietta Papadatou-Pastou Ana C M Malhado Geograpf?y: Luba T Manzy-Herring Law: Karen M Cooper Materials: Shao-J u Shih Medical Sciences: l\llichael April Thomas Barber Siobhan E McQuaid Sarah-Michelle Orton Medieval and Modern Languages: Undine Bruckner J ames A Partridge

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Pf?ysics: S odal Anthropology: Statistics:

J onathan Flowerdew William G Newton Cara A Krmpotich Paul A Jenkins

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Development Studies: Timothy F Simmons History of S dence, Medidne and Technology: Medical Anthropology: Politics:

Aaron F Mertz Shih-Pei P Hung Andrew MacDonald Fabian B Teichmueller

Russian and East European Studies: Maria Zalewska Matthew T O 'Sullivan (Distinction) S odal Anthropology: Danielle Parkinson Sarah Stefanutti (Distinction)

Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Zoe E Barber David E McCartney

Master of Science (MSc) Applied Statistics: Xing Xiang Biodit¡ersity, Consert¡ation and Management.

Biomedical Engineering

Meredith Root-Bernstein (Distinction) Gursimran S Sahota Habib Baluwala (Distinction) Eleanora Mylonopoulou (Distinction) Tarryn O'Friel Richard Sidebottom

Educational Research Methodology: Alicja Szwelnik Educational Studies: Chun Hong Kim Lisha Liu Setareh Masoumbeiki WeiSun Alexandria Williams Engineering (by Research): Jean M Foster 80

Environmental Change and Management.

Stanzin Tsephel Management Research: Karan Kaushish Rami Khalaf (Distinction) Anton Le Khak Mathematical & Computational Finance: Thomas S Hosking (Distinction) Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science: Thomas Bolton EvanD Innis Nature, Sociery and Environmental Poliry: Fabida Alvarado Daniel Gurdal Psychological Research: Andria Shimi (Distinction) Water Science, Poliry and Management.

Matej Faller Bharat Seth Financial Economics: Vincenzo D Carella Adriaan du Toit Han Zhang Science and Medicine ofAthletic Performance: Courtney K Brown Master of Studies (MSt) Medieval History:

J ames Berrill DianaJeske R Cannon Dear Theology: English: J ames B Reeves Lisa A Roth Christopher J Maughan (Distinction) Medieval and Modern Languages:Claudia Lingscheid (Distinction)

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Andrew Barley (Distinction) Maxim Gerasimenko Hermeet Gill (Distinction) Sam Howard

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Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) J ames M 0 Carter Magister Juris (MJuris)

Johannes Seidel

Postgraduate Diploma in Diplomatic Studies Yin Wenqiong Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) Rebecca L Powderly J ennifer E Sandeman Timothy E Wright

AWARDS AND PRIZES University Awards and Prizes

Armourers' & Brasiers' Company Prize Medal for the best Part I/ Thesis in Materials F William Herbert

Bruker UK Prize for best performance in Chemistry Preliminary Examination Karolis Leonavicius

Burdett-Coutts Prize for the best overall performance in the Jrd year Earth Sdences examination Stefan

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Charterhouse European Bursary LongJiang

Chinese Ministry of Education University of Oxford Scholarship Hao Wang

Clarendon Fund Bursary Nathan W D Fisher Zhen Yu

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Commercial Bar Studentship Noam Gur

Corus Prize for best performance in Part I Materials practical laboratory work Helen Boffey

Department of Physics Commendation for Practical Work in Part B Paul D R Hennin

Department of Politics and International Relations Postgraduate Bursary Gabrielle E A M Krapels

Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award Habib Y Baluwala Proxime accessit for the Gibbs Prize in Chemistry Michael J Tucker

Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in Part I Materials Helen Boffey

GlaxoSmithKline Award in Organic Chemistry Michael Tucker

Hill Foundation Scholarship Alexander V Iosad Victor Spirin

JET Prize for outstanding academic achievement for final year Project in Engineering Nassia Inglessis

Lady Noon Scholarship Rubina A Badsha

Medical Women's Federation Prize Zoe E Barber 83

Nomination for the National Science, Engineering & Technology Annual Award F William Herbert

Nomination for the Quaternary Research Association Undergraduate Dissertation Prize Emily Watson

Paleontological Association Prize for best performance in Palaeontology Sean McMahon

Pre-Clinical Advisor's Scholarship Amelia G T Van Manen

QinetiQ Prize for the best Oxford University Materials third-year team design project Helen Boffey

Quadrant Chambers Prize in International Law Qingxiang Li

Waverly Scholarship Muhammad U sman

Wronker Prize for Trusts Serena Hui Xian Lee

EXTERNAL AWARDS

Chevening Scholarship Sandra Ivovic

Commonwealth Scholarship Alexandra M Murray

Maria Nasiakou Award of the Hellenic Psychological Society Marietta Papadatou-Pastou

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Overseas Research Studentships (ORS Award) Nathan W D Fisher Xu Song Xingjian Wu

Rhodes Scholarship Aaron F Mertz Timothy F Simmons

COLLEGE SCHOLARS Charles A Allen Helen Boffey Tom Clucas Andrew J P Gamer XiaojingGu Daniel C J Henchman Richard A Hildick-Smith Samuel A Humphry-Baker Stefan M Lachowycz Serena Hui Xian Lee J ulia A Lowis David E McCartney Nicholas J Race Victor Spirin Charles G Storey lvL.chael J Tucker Olivia J Williams Jakub Zavodny

Zoe E Barber Ryan M Buckingham Adam R Coates Oliver C Gingell Ahmed B Hameed F William Herbert Yan Ho John Ho Nassia Inglessis Arabella H Lawson Qingxiang Li J ames 0 Macfarlane Feargus E D Murphy Andrej Spielmann Philip S H Stimpson Edward A Swalwell Muhammad U sman Katherine E Wright

COLLEGE ORGAN SCHOLARS David E McCartney Nicholas J Race Rachel O'Malley

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COLLEGE CHORAL SCHOLARS Sophie Olivia Ackroyd Nancy Cecilia Cole Peter David Langridge Sally McLaren Katherine E P Plummer Frances Norah Rudge COLLEGE EXHIBITIONERS Mark A Baker William Brownscombe Alexander M Cheesman Edward C Couchman Tatiana Cutts Laura M Davis Joshua N Fabian-Miller Harry Fisher Matthew J Gaff Kathryn E Gresswell Laura R Groom Leonie B Gutmann Rosalind J Harrison Edward J Hayes Stuart Ingham Alexander V Iosad J as on Daniel Kasler Michael J Kelly Rohan Keswani Maximilian C Krahe Miles Lambie Caspar S Le Fanu Paul D Mather Elizabeth R McDowell Scott R Mclaughlan Joanne McNaught-Davis Robert Pearce Francesca E Perkins Amrik Singh-Thomas Sophie C Slater Maximillian Thompson Navamayooran Thavanesan Sandamali C Zbyszewski Christopher Watkin WILLIAM R MILLER POSTGRADUATE AWARDS William D Crouch Clark Downum Bryony K Morgan EMDEN DOCTOROW SCHOLARS I Raeli Bronstein Gabrielle E A M Krapels ST EDMUND HALL GRADUATE SCHOLARS Klearchos Loukopoulos Thomas J Carter Aaron S B Marcovy Xu Song Aliza H Watters

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OTHER COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES

Beaverbrook Bursaries Charles A Allen William DC Frass Daniel C J Henchman Arabella H Lawson :Nlichael J Tucker

:Nlichelle M Barton Rosalind J Harrison Peter D Langridge Sophie C Slater

Ron and Sheila Best Bursaries Charles A Allen William D C Frass Daniel C J Henchman Arabella H Lawson :Nlichael J Tucker

:Nlichelle M Barton Rosalind J Harrison Peter D Langridge Sophie C Slater Jakub Zavodny

A total of 88 additional undergraduates received the means-tested Oxford Opportunity Bursary. The College component of this bursary was supported

by Aularian Tony Best.

Brockhues Graduate Awards Habib Y Baluwala Alastair THird Daniel J :Nlitchell Sarah Stefanutti

Anton Caruana-Galizia LongJiang J eremy A Rappleye Maria Zalewska

Mrs Brown Bursary J eremy F Heath M Ruth H Shaw

Cochrane Scholars Farhana C Daly Hye-Jeong Lee Claire Poulter

Richard Fargher Bursaries Sky F A Herington Jonathan Fisher Jessica B Moreland 87

Lynn Gilbert Bursary Nicola K Bridge M Ruth H Shaw

Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Lena S Anayi Caroline J Culwick Christos Papoutsas Bartosz A Redlicki Alexandra E Robinson Matthew 0 Smith

Louisa B Cantwell Rose Manley Sarah R Pierce Jakub P Redlicki Pouya Shoolizadeh Heather J Vernon

] R Hughes Prize for Geography Alexander M Cheesman

Instrumental Bursary Maire N Gorman Sophie H F Lawrence Adam J Sealey

Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Charlotte Geater Runner-up: Tom Clucas

Michael Pike Prize Caroline J Culwick Bartosz A Redlicki Jakub P Redlicki

Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Sophie C Slater

DEGREE DATES 2009-2010 Michaelmas Term 2009 Saturday 24 October 2009 (full, in absentia only) Saturday 7 November 2009 (full, in absentia only) Saturday 28 November 2009 (full, in absentia only) 88

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Hilary Term 2010 Saturday 23 January 2010 (in absentia only ceremony) Saturday 6 March 2010 (full, in absentia only)

11.00am

Trinity Term 2010 Saturday 22 May 2010 (full, in absentia only) Saturday 12 June 2010 (full, in absentia only) Saturday 17 July 2010 * Friday 30 July 2010 * Saturday 31 July 2010 *

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Michaelmas Term 2010 Saturday 25 September 2010 * Saturday 23 October 2010 * Saturday 6 November 2010 * Saturday 27 November 2010 (full, in absentia only)

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* These ceremonies will be held in the Examination Schools and only 2 guest tickets will be given to each candidate. At all other 2010 ceremonies the normal 3 guest tickets per candidate will be issued.

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

The University has imposed various quotas on candidates per college on each ceremony, so it cannot be taken for granted that a degree may be taken on a chosen date. The current availability of places for each ceremony can be found on the website. On receipt of the application form, candidates will be informed as to whether it has been possible to enter them for the ceremony in question. The summer ceremonies become booked up extremely quickly.

The quota system does not apply to degrees taken in absentia. It is possible to book in absentia for any ceremony, given three weeks' notice.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE & ALUMNI NEWS Our Director of Development, Yvonne Rainey, is currently on maternity leave and will return to her duties in the middle of September. She gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Isla, in February. So for the third, and definitely last, time during the last ten years I am ftlling in as the Director of Development.

The refurbishment of the Wolfson Dining Hall completed the series of major projects which we initiated two years ago. All of these projects have been funded either totally or partially through the generosity of Aularians. It is a common misconception that small gifts have no impact and this is often one of the reasons why people do not give. However, lots of people giving even £5 or £10 a month can make an enormous difference. Participation is the key to any successful fundraising campaign.

We once again held a very successful telephone campaign in March 2009 and over £300,000 was pledged towards the Annual Fund during the campaign, with 51% of those contacted pledging a gift. The total amount was boosted by a matching gift from an anonymous donor, intended to encourage giving by direct debit, which matched £50,000 of the gifts pledged. Since its inception in 2006 the Annual Fund has raised more than £1,000,000 in total. Thank you to all those who gave up their time to talk to current students. In addition to the Annual Fund, the Hall received several major gifts and some substantial bequests. The critical fmancial situation in the Law Faculty endangered the reappointment of a Law Fellow to replace Professor Derrick Wyatt fortunately under the chairmanship of Sir Stanley Burnton we were able to make up the shortfall by a fundraising round amongst our alumni lawyers, and this has resulted in the election of Dr Aileen Kavanagh from Leicester University as Derrick's replacement.

The membership of the Floreat Aula Society continues to increase thanks to the great efforts of Dr Bill Williams, who incidentally celebrated his 80th birthday in August. Since the creation of the Floreat Aula Society in 1996, the Hall has received just over £1 million in legacies. This is a magnificent achievement and we are extremely grateful to all those Aularians who have remembered the Hall in their wills. The legacies we have received have varied from £100 to several hundred thousand pounds. All are equally important and help the Hall in different ways - from purchasing library books, maintaining the gardens, providing a scholarship or bursary for a student, to 90

helping fund major projects. I shall be signing up myself in the autumn and hope to be the 200th member [at the time of going to print, membership stood at 205- see list overleaf].

Plans for the US Charter Scholarship have progressed well and I am pleased to say that the first student will be joining us in October. We were assisted in identifying this excellent candidate by QuestBridge, a non-profit organisation who identify potential scholarship candidates for top US universities. Please note for your diaries that the 2009 annual New York Dinner, which will be the 25th in the series, will take place on Friday 20 November at the Racquet and Tennis Club on Park Avenue. The new Principal, Professor Keith Gull, and his wife Dianne will be attending for the first time so I hope that you will give them a very warm welcome. I also hope that the West Coast dinners which I have initiated will continue in the spring - I believe that it is Los Angeles' turn in 2010.

Sir Jon Shortridge is very keen to develop "Year Group Leaders" during his time as President of the St Edmund Hall Association, and has already recruited one-third the number required so that the majority of years have a representative. More than 4,400 old members are signed up on Aularian Connect, that is more than half of all our living alumni. I do hope that many of you will continue to log on to www.aularianconnect.com to update your details or to contact a contemporary, or use the site for networking purposes.

Michael Mingos Director of Development

THE FLOREAT AULA SOCIETY

Members of the Floreat Aula Society have pledged to remember the Hall in their Wills. If you would like to join the Society by including the Hall in your Will, please contact the Development Office and we will put you in touch with Dr Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), who runs the Society. The Society holds a biennial dinner, to which all its members and their guests are invited. The next dinner will be held on Friday 16 April2010. Current FAS members are listed on the following three pages: 91

John Akroyd Christopher Amor Jonathan Aptaker Professor Christopher Armitage Colin Atkinson John Ayers Dr Nick Badham Paul Badman FCA Andrew Banks John Barker George Bamer Darrell Bames John Barton Martin Bates Albert Baxter John Bean Stuart Beaty Colin Benbow William Best, BSc, DipEd, CPhys, l'vflnstP, l'vfiOA Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Robert Bishop Dr Robert Bishop Alasdair Blain David Bolton Mark Booker The Revd Canon Dr Michael A Bourdeaux Mrs Hilary Boume-Jones Geoffrey Boume-Taylor Robert Breese Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome MBIM Geoffrey Brown Peter Brown James Bumett-Hitchcock

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Ivor Burt Michael Cansdale Robert Cawthome Stephen Chandler David Clarke Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Mrs J eanette Cockshoot Terence Cook Andrew Cordell Simon Costa John Cotton The Revd Dr John Cowdrey David Cox John Cox John Cunningham Michael Darling Revd Canon Hilary Davidson Arthur Davis FICE MBCS Desmond Day OBE, MA John Dellar Yves Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo Jarvis Doctorow Miss Olivia Donnelly Stewart Douglas-Mann MSI John Dunbabin David Dunsmore Laurence Elliott PeterEvans Roger Farrand Charles Fisher David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot Paul Foote John French FIPD l'vfiMgt Robin French Dr Patrick Garland FRSA Alan Gamett Brian Gibson

David Giles John Gill Dr David Gillett Dr Paul Glover CIMgt FIPD Harold Goldsworthy Michael Goodman-Smith Justin Gosling Paul Goulding QC Alistair Graham Derek Griffm-Smith Dr Philip Haffenden FRHistS Mrs Maureen Haile Ronald Hall David Harding Rex Harrison John Hawkins Dr Malcolm Hawthorne Professor Ian Heggie Charles Hind lvf.A ALA FSA Revd John Hogan Richard Hope Michael Hopkinson TD Keith Hounslow FICE Robert Houston Mrs Ann Hughes MVO Dr Anne Irving Norman Isaacs Peter Janson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David J ohnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher ]ones DerekJones Luke ]ones ACA Dr Andrew Kahn Terence Kelly Roy Kings Antony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee

Paul Lewis CEng John Long Kenneth Lund QC Roland MacLeod lvliss Chris Manby James Markwick FRSA Charles Marriott MIMechE C.Eng Peter Masson Robert Mathews Doug McCallum George McNaught Peter Mercer Jeremy Mew Geoff lvlihell MA ACMA ACIS 'Dusty' lvliller William R lvliller OBE, KStJ, lvf.A Prof lvlichael Mingos FRS Dr Bruce lvlitchell Dr Gareth de Bohun MitfordBarberton Dr Geoffrey Mortimer Charles Murray David Nelson Rodney Offer Andrew Page Kenneth Palk Martin Paterson Frank Pedley Nigel Pegram The Revd Edward Phillips John Phillips Dr Peter Phizackerley David Picksley MIMgt Jack Picton John Pike CBE John Pinnick Dr Francis Pocock Christopher Pope Philip Rabbetts

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Farrand Radley MBE MCIPD FinstAlvf John Reddick Bob Rednall Peter Reynolds The Venerable Raymond Roberts CB Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE CIM CIPM General Sir lvfichael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM Edmund Roskell Dr Francis Rossotti P L Roussel OBE FRSA FRGS Jack Rowel! OBE MA FCA LID Ian Sandles Michael Senter OBE ~'fichael Simmie Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Nfartin Slater Patrick Slocock Martin Smith Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC Emerson Snelling ~'fichael Somers OBE His Honour Judge Sou than

Dr Frank Spooner Alastair Stewart QC David Summers JP OBE Revd Philip Swindells Paul Tempest David Thompson Dr John Thurston Squadron Leader Douglas Tidy Alan Titcombe NoelTonkin Roy Tracey Mrs Carol Tricks Alan Vasa TD John Voigt Professor John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr FRCS James Webster The Revd Canon Hugh Wilcox Dr John Wilkinson G E L Williams Dr J Williams FRCGP Dr Bill Williams Russell Withington Dudley Wood CBE Gordon Woods FRSC Professor Sir David Yardley Bill Yeowart

MEDICS REUNION AND DINNER The fourth Medics' Reunion took place on Saturday, 13 September, 2008.

Thirty-one former and current students, tutors and Fellows were present.

The event commenced with a talk, in the Jarvis Doctorow Hall, given by Dr Sundeep Dhillon (1989) in which he described his most recent mountaineering experiences as climbing leader with "Xtreme-Everest", a major high altitude medical research expedition (2007). Sundeep enthralled his audience with dramatic video footage of the ascent and descent (even trickier!) onvft Everest.

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The climbing team included several consultant physicians whose central aim was to obtain physiological data under conditions of extreme hypoxia - a situation which has clinical relevance in patients undergoing intensive care. A total of ten members of the climbing team reached the summit and returned without mishap under Sundeep's guidance. Heroically, femoral arterial blood samples were obtained from several of these climbers when just below the summit (altitude 8400m), and revealed that their blood oxygen levels were quite astonishingly low by normal clinical standards. These fmdings may have important implications for the care of the critically-ill.

The talk was followed by pre-dinner drinks in the ODH Gallery and an excellent dinner in the Old Dining Hall. Warm congratulations were offered to Paul Matthews and Sundeep Dhillon on their recent awards (OBE and IviBE respectively), and this lively and vety enjoyable evening was brought to a close with nostalgic reminiscences of student days, and d1e telling of many medical tales, over drinks in d1e Buttery.

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(1996), Michael Pike CP (1968), G illian Pottinger (1990), Haseeb Rahman (2007), Steve Ramcharitar (1993), Laura Shallcross (1996), 1\Iiss I\ [irae Shin (2007), Ben Smith (1997), Ann Taylo r, 1\IA, Bl\I, BCh (Em eritu s Fellow), Stephen Watson, Robert Wilkins (Fellow), Grey Woodman (1940)

THE ANNUAL GAUDY 'From the first sip of beer in the front quad on a beautiful S aturdqy emzing to the last glance out of the JJJindmv of Kelly 3:8 OJ/er the misry spires of Oxford on Sundqy morning, it was a really excellmt weekmd. It n;as great to be made to fie! 'at home' once again with the gmerous hospltaliry of all mncerned'.

An annual Gaudy was held on 27 September 200 8 fo r Aul arians who matriculated between 1977 and 1982, and 112 Aularians from these year groups accepted the Hall's invitation to attend. Gues ts arrived in the afternoon and took advantage of the early opening of the Buttery Bar to mee t up with

Divya Nic holls (1982) and Ric hard Luddington (19 78)

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old friends before the evening's festivities began with Evensong followed by drinks in the Quad and dinner in the newly refurbished Wolfson Hall. The evening raced by as quickly as the years since the Aularians present had last all been together at the Hall. The Principal addressed the assembled company after dinner. On behalf of those present, Richard Luddington (1978) responded to the Principal's after-dinner address and reflected on the achievements and events of the period. Notably 1979 saw the advent of the first women Aularians joining the Hall and it was gratifying to have them so well represented on the night by the 36 alumna who accepted the invitation to the gaudy.

After dinner everyone made the most of the clement night air and the Quad and Buttery were packed until late.

The following Aularians and Hall guests accepted the invitation to this event: Neil Adam (1980), Suresh Advani (1977), David Aeron-Thomas MA FCA (1982), Sally Alexander (1982), Revd Peter Baker (1978), Tom Bayne (1981), Andrew Beardmore (1978), Simon Belcher (1978), Anthony Best (1979), Michael Betton (1981), Fiona Bick (1981), Philip Bladen (1978), Alasdair Blain (1981), Stephen Blarney (Fellow), Patrick Brooks (1978), Mark Broughton (1978),Julia Broughton (1980), Andrew A Brown (1977), Peter Buechel (1980), Warren Cabral (1982), Nicholas Caddick (1980), Katharine Chaytor (1979), Tom Christopherson (1982), Sarah Church (2007), Ian Coleman (1978), Peter Collins (1962, Fellow), Kathleen Cooke (1979), David Cooper (1979), Debbie Cooper (1979), Reverend Stephen Coulson (1979), Andrew Curtis (1978), Catherine Dale ACA (1982), Paul Darling QC (1978), Gail Davies (1979), Jonathan Davies (1980), Revd Reynaud de la Bat Smit FRSA (1978), Elizabeth Delacave (1982), Ian Durrans ACA (1977), Davina Dwyer (1979), Mark Earls (1979), Oliver Fear (1980), Simon ffitch (1982), Richard Finch (1976), Katherine Finucane Ivffi.CGP (1980), Elizabeth Flood (1979), Guy Franks ACII (1982), Richard Gale MRCGP (1982), George Gilbert (1978), Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), Richard Grainger ACA (1979), Betony Griffiths (Deputy Director of Development), Nick Haddock, MBE, MA, FRGS (1978), Graeme Hall (1980), Nicholas Hamilton (1977),Jill Harris (1979), Adrian Haxby ACA (1977), Timothy Haywood (1982), David Heaps (1982), Gerald Hegarty (1992) with Karen Hegarty, Alice Hindhaugh (1982), David Hope ACA (1977), Christopher Homer (1977), Simon Inger (1981), Kate Jamieson (1979), Simon Johnson (1978), Terry Jones (1961, Fellow) with Anna Soderstrom, Roger Keeley (1977), Richard Kent (1982), Steve King (1980), Gillian Kinnear (1979), 97

John Knight (Emeritus Fellow), Richard Lambert (1981), Tim Laughton ACA (1982), Daniel Lowe (2006), Richard Luddington (1978), Richard MacAlister MSI (1982), Neil Maidment FCII (1981), Rachel Martel (1980), Sally McLaren (2005), Sally McNish (1982), Nuchae! Mingos (Principal) with Stacey Mingos, Hugo Minney (1980), Richard Morgan (1982), Edgar Mayo (1981), Janet Nevin (1979), Lucy Newlyn (Fellow), Sallie Nicholas (1981), Divya Nicholls (1982),John O'Connell (1980), Mark Owens (1981), Lindsay Page FCA MSI (1977), Ernest Parkin (Home Bursar), Michael Partridge (1980), Gareth Penny (1982), David Preston (1980), Robert Quain (1979) , Yvonne Rainey (Development Director), Simon Ramage (1980), Glyn Redworth (1980), Peter Rhodes (1978), Kate Roessler (Development Assistant), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Peter Rothwell (1978), Rupert Ruvigny FCA (1977), Christopher Samuel ACA (1977), Timothy Sands (1979), Timothy Saunders (1978),Jonathan Scott (1980), Rajeev Shah (1977), SirJon Shortridge (1966), Julian Silkstone (1978), Martin Slater (Fellow), Duncan Smith (1978), Neil Stevenson (1980), N icole Stuart (1979), David Stokes (1981), Brigitte Stollmaier (1980), Frank Strang (1980), Ann Taylor, MA, BM, BCh (Emeritus Fellow), Christine Turner (1981),Jennifer Turner (1981), Stephen Vivian ACII (1977), Annette Volfmg (1982), Faith Wainwright (1980), Mark Waiters (1981), Richard Ward (1979), Andries Wessels (1979), Simon White (1982), Robin Williams MBCS CEng (1978), Linda Yueh (1999, Fellow), David Zwirek (1978).

1958 50TH ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON This special 50th Anniversary Luncheon event, held on 4 October, was attended

by Aularians who had matriculated in 1958, their guests, and the Hall guests headed by the Principal Michael Mingos.

The former students of the Hall gathered convivially around the Well to join the morning college tour, delightfully conducted by a current member of the Hall. The itinerary included visits to the tutorial suite of eight rooms in the Nlingos Buildings, thence into the churchyard of St Peter-in-the-East and the contemplative St Edmund. After visiting the Old Library, Senior Common Room and the Chapel, the party reached the Chough Room to enjoy the pre-luncheon drinks.

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perfec t ve nue for this event, evocative, as ever, o f many warm and memorable celebrations, and indeed a great delight. The afternoon tour concluded a special day.

Bud Young and .Jim Dening at the 1958 50th Anniversary Luncheon

The following 1958 Aularians, and Hall guests, attended: James Amos with Johanna Amos, Nuchael Andrews with Janet Andrews, Jo Ashbourn (Fellow, St Cross College), Richard Bate with Judy Bate, John Bean, Nuchael Beard with Nes ta Beard, Tony Beck with Pat Vaughan, Tony Birks-Hay with Leslie Birks-Hay, Bob Bishop with Margie Bishop, Nlichael Cotton with Brenda Cotton, Jim Deningwith Mo Dening, Lloyd Filby,Justin Gosling (Ho norary Fellow), Betony Griffiths (Deputy Director of Development), Edward Hutchinson, Nlike Jarman, D erek )ones with Judy )ones, lvuchael Mingos (Principal) with Stacey Mingos,John O'Donnell, William Patterson, Dick Payn with Jane Payn, Tony Phillips with Jenny Phillips, John Phillips with Janette Phillips, Philip Rabbetts with Linde Rabbetts, Yvonne Rainey (Development Director), John Reis with Sally Reis, Kate Roessler (Development Assistant), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Lionel Toole with Diana Toole, Bud Young with Rosemary Young.

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THE NEW YORK DINNER The 24th New York Dinner was held on Friday 7 November at the Racquet and Tennis Club in Manhattan. As it was my first time at the Teddy Hall New York dinner, I had thought it best to forewarn my guest about raucous Hall nights out and we certainly were not disappointed! 52 people (40 of whom were Aularians, of all ages) attended the dinner, and a good number celebrated late into the night.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a number of familiar faces as soon as I arrived and the dinner went by far too quickly catching up with old classmates.

After dinner, Teddy Hall traditions prevailed: all those attending for the first time introduced themselves whilst Mr Steve Vivian dutifully heckled each one. This process actually lasted a long time, as there were a number of new attendees - a sign of the dinner's ongoing popularity.

This dinner did have a sad note though as it was the Principal's last New York dinner before retirement at the end of the academic year. To thank the Mingos' for their devotion and commitment to the Hall, the New York alumni gave Professor Mingos and Mrs Mingos each retirement gifts. The Principal recounted to us his time at the Hall after which followed several speeches from alumni wishing to acknowledge his huge contribution to the college. I would like to take this opportunity to wish Professor Ivlingos and Mrs Ivlingos all the best in the future- we shall certainly miss you at the Hall.

As is customary, a number of Aularians then moved to the Bull and Bear Bar in the Waldorf Astoria to continue the party into the small hours of the morning. All in all, a most successful and delightful evening! Many thanks to Nick Howard for organising yet another enjoyable and entertaining event.

We look forward to next year! celine Tricard (2003) Present were: Mr & Mrs Bill Miller (1949), David Hicks (1962), Simon Simonian (1962), John Child (1967), Leonard Gibeon (1969), Bruce Lowe (1969), Gareth Roberts (1971), Bob Gaffey (1975), Mr & Mrs Nick Howard (1976), Steve Vivian (1977), Robert Pay (1978), Angus McCallum (1980) and Mihee Coe, Mr&Mrs Bemard Bewlay (1980),Mr&Mrs Chris Simmonds (1981),Andrew Rolfe (1985) and Fabiola Arredondo, Paul Gladen (1985), Michael Bird (1998), 100

Colin Carman (1998) and Brook Cosby,Julien Dusonchet (2000) and Valeska Hernandez, celine Tricard (2003) and Thomas Kimberly, Avery Broadbent (2004), Ingrid Bengtson (2005), Rachel Chang (2005), Marie Connelly (2005), Rachel Laing (2005) and Daniel Rohle, James Edwards (2005), Daniel O'Connor (2005), Salvatore Ruggiero (2005), Ed Reynolds (2005), Rich Reynolds (2005), Michelle Edelman (2005), Alex Lawrence (2006), Giuseppe Cumella (2007),Justin F1oyd (2007), Shannon Walsh (2007) and Nicole Farrell, Mr & Mrs Bill Broadbent, Daoud Awad, Yvonne Rainey (Director of Development), Michaell'v1ingos (Principal) and Stacey l'v1ingos.

FRIENDS OF THE RUGBY CLUB MATCH & DINNER Thanks to the generosity and interest of Christopher Pope, Friend of the Hall, the annual Rugby Match between the Hall and the Old Aularians took place on Saturday 21 March on St Peter's sports ground, followed by a handsome dinner in the ODH at St Edmund Hall . For the first time, Christopher Pope provided and presented a silver cup at that dinner, which he also sponsored. The match itself was impressive, both by the numbers attending and the varying composition of the teams! It says a great deal for the Hall spirit that so many people and their supporters are prepared to turn out after the end of term and put themselves through a challenging and serious game of rugby. The changing facilities were largely dispensed with by many of those arriving late, which lent a picturesque and spontaneous quality to the various stages of undress and the range of team colours on display. I believe the game began with 13 a-side ... While the Old Members showed themselves skilful and at times impressively adroit in their passing and thrusting game, several of them were not quite as fit as they had been, making the current Hall team seem not just lighter, but faster. Scores came quick and fast on both sides, so that it was difficult to keep tally of the result! At the end of the first half, it appeared pretty even to me, - a more physical version of ''Have I got News for You", where the first round scores are almost always equal. At any event, both sides were clearly in their element and enjoying themselves. In the second half, Old Members and the current Hall team intermingled in the two sides to some extent, playing for, as well as against each other. The result, I think, was a win for youth over beauty: the current Hall team proved a match for the Old Members, - at least so far as remembering a plausible version of the final score was concerned. My wife and I withdrew at this point, to return in time for the dinner.

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Rainhild We ll s, Feargus h¡lurphy (2007), Chri stoph er Pope and Chri s We ll s (Vice-Principal)

As it happened, this was the final stage of the Six Nations Cup in which Ireland achieved the Grand Slam, much to the general (if not universal) satisfaction of most of those attending our dinner. Thanks to the considerate indulgence o f the College staff, the beginning of the dinner itself was postponed until the fmal whistle of tl1e Ireland match. Effectively, most of tl1e pre-di.nner drinks were taken watching in the] CR Party Room, where tl1e packed bodies raised the temperature and humidity levels to something approaching a scrummage in a Turkish batl1. Eventually, we all retired to tl1e ODH for a splendid and bonhomous evening presided over by the Captain of Rugby, witl1 mysel f deputising for tl1e Principal who had, regretfully, to be in tl1e USA on tl1is occasion. The Captain of Rugby Feargus Murphy spoke to tl1e company about Hall mgby - and took note of tl1e very limited number of lady members of tl1e women's team present. It was to be hoped that more might turn out in subsequent years. The Captain thanked 1 1r Pope for his generosity in providing the cup and sponsoring tl1e dinner. The VicePrincipal also tl1anked 1¡1r Pope and invited him to present the trophy, which he duly did to general acclaim, hoping that he might be permitted to repeat the occasion next year.

Chris Wells, Vice-Principal Those attending: Edward Allen (2000), Dan Aylward (2004), Sean Brassill (2008), Harold Buchanan (2006),] R Caffall (200 1), N icholas Cartwright (2003), Peter Cay 102

(2005), Ben Chamberlain (2002), Madeleine Chandler (2003), Joe Cooper (2002), Patrick Cooper (2006), Angus Eames (2008), Nicholas Grade! (1993), Thomas Harris (2005), Edward Hobart (1990), Philip Hodson (1963), Ian Hunter (1993), Daniel Ison (1990), Freddie Lait (2002), Car! Lavin (1996), Jack McDonald (2007), Roland McFall (2008), Dan Mendis (2000), Charlie Millar (2008), Simon Morley (1993), Feargus Murphy (2007), Robert Newman (2004), Karl Outen (2008),James Peterkin (1988), Christopher Pope (Friend of the Hall), Graham Robinson (2004), Hugh Samuel (2001), Naomi Sharp (2003), Paul Smith (2003), Stephen Sparrow (1988), Mark Spencer Ellis (1967), Chris Stephens (2001), Ben Tucker (2007), Richard Tufft (1993), Chris Wells (Emeritus Fellow), Rainhild Wells (College Lecturer), Michael Woodfme (1990), Robert Yates (2003).

THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY GAUDY The 40th anniversary gaudy for the matriculants of 1969 must surely rank amongst the social highlights of this academic year. Fifty alumni, well in excess of the previous cohort, it must be said, turned a small group event into a considerable logistical exercise. The precision with which it was carried out spoke volumes for the skills and enthusiasm of the Alumni Office, and it was much appreciated that two of the staff felt able to attend the dinner.

In the late afternoon of 4 April, the bar opened exactly on time, and accompanied the recording of interviews in the Buttery. These were subsequently supported by a collection of photographs, some more telling than others. No names, no pack drill. Evensong in the chapel was conducted by the Rev Ken Boyce, a 69-er, although attendance was not entirely as per guest list. The arcane parking system in Oxford was, to old hands, beyond the pale. Whatever happened to the days when you could leave your saloon outside the lodge gate? Nearby, pre-dinner drinks slowly encouraged the timid of nature to encroach on to the sacred sward without being bellowed at by a man with a golden Labrador. This, of course, meant that the migration of Aularians to the Jarvis Doctorow Hall had a lower index of deviation than would normally have been the case. The return journey several hours' later was understandably a little more unsteady and established an index for next years' cohort to aspire to. Leaving the main quad, it was sad to notice the passing of the Orient, but such is the price of progress.

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Fe ll ow hi storia ns Peter Mayne and Timo thy Stibbs

After an excellent dinner, during which the volume of conversation rose dramatically and almos t required communication by hand signals or electronic means, the Principal rose to his fee t amid enthusiastic applause. The 69-ers were then regaled with stories and anecdotes of the Hall , our good selves and of the principal's changing role in a rapidly changing college. Impending retirement made for an even more telling ambience, to such an extent that some laggards resolved to respond pos itively to the next plea for fund s.

They did not have to wait long. Bus pass culture or not, it was essential to inves t in the next generation or two, so we were informed. Aided by an excellent port, who could res ist this heady mixture of charm and flattery?

(No doubt d1e next edition of the Hall magazine will identify d1ese reprobates.)

The toas t had us all on our feet, waving both our progran1mes and credit cards wid1 infectious generosity.

After the toast- "FioreatAula!" - d1e Principal invited Paul Parker, (formerly J CR Pres ident) to respond on behal f o f d1ose present.

Paul began by d1anking d1e Principal and fellows for d1eir hospitality; Betony Bell and Kate Roessler for all of d1eir work in coordinating the event; and the chef and his excellent team for treating us to a dinner d1e likes of which we had never experienced in our entire time at d1e Hall d1ose 40 years ago.

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He also thanked Ian Busby, our year group leader, for encouraging- indeed inspiring- so many of us to attend the Gaudy. Having offered regrets from others, he then shared the names of those who have died since 1972: Ivan Wilson, Dr Simon Shield, Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, Alasdair McGaw, Dr Brian Keith, David Harrison and David Collins.

Following the Principal's reflections on the ceaselessness of change, Paul recalled how in just three short years we began by dining in the Old Dining Hall, and ended in the New; the library moved from the cramped and smoky Besse block to St Peter-in-the-East; the Bursar's office was handed from Reggie Alton- a don (albeit with an MC awarded by Montgomery) -to Geordie Leslie, a Rear Admiral; and even the British currency changed from LSD to decimal. Change indeed. Coming back, however, we see that our brief time here was nothing exceptional. Under the leadership of :Nfike Mingos, the Hall has acquired numerous new properties and added to the old. Now the college has more women than men, and with its large contingent of overseas students, it offers a diversity of experience that we never dreamed about.

Indeed, in terms of raw statistics alone, regardless of academic ability, over 50% of the class of 69-72 could not have won a place at Oxford under current conditions! So, we consider ourselves very lucky. But what has clearly not changed is the Hall's character: it remains Oxford's most friendly college.

It was, and still appears to be, a place where a young undergraduate has a better than average chance of actually having a really good time!

Paul ended by noting that our generation has indeed entered that point in life when choosing to "give back" is both more meaningful and more possible.

Leaving this comment hanging pregnantly over the fmely wined and dined assembly, he thanked the Principal for all that he has done for the Hall, and wished him much joy in his retirement.

Bruce Lowe, one of three members who had flown from the USA for the occasion, then rose to make a point as yet unaddressed. Stripping away the years, he reminded us all of the essence oflife at the Hall- "the Hall spirit".

Lest anyone be unsure whether he was referring to Bible study meetings on the Bursar's staircase, or late-evening philosophical conversations with the Reverend J N D Kelly in the front quad, he quickly made himself clear.

Speaking from his own experience, Bruce assured us that this was better measured by the (also late-evening) aerial relocation of beer mugs from the buttery to St Peter's churchyard. Hall men, he went on, were never pretentious.

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(Neil Corcoran, ever a stickler for accuracy, interjected "I was.") Undeterred, Bruce insisted that the Hall's reputation for being friendly was not built on polite tea parties. It was firmly founded on having a hell of a good time indeed, the best time of our lives. (At this point, a large segment of those present nodded sagely, while others instinctively looked around for a safe and innocuous escape route, just in case fun were about to break out again) .

But then Bruce, with that exquisite combination of vision and speed that had so distinguished his career at scrum half for the Hall four decades ago, concluded by asking all to rise and toast the Principal, Mike lv1ingos. Which we did, with sincerity, gratitude and admiration.

As the crocodile wend its way back to the buttery, the ravages of time were long since ignored or forgotten. The nature of friendship and camaraderie now assumed great significance, and everybody seemed to remember whose round it was from 1972. Sadly, it turned out to be the same person.

By contrast, breakfast was a quiet affair, and an opportunity to test the old academic memory. The mathematicians discussed Euler's theory for the bridges of Koenigsberg, and the theologians reviewed the success of the Tractarian movement in rural communities whilst the geographers recalled with unabated enthusiasm the attractive new lecturer on fieldwork in Corsica. Equally, though, this was a last opportunity to relive the fights on the lacrosse field, or catching crabs on the river. No-one at all, however, bothered to mention the 30 yard drive that opened the scoring season for the soccer team against Queen's.

Incidentally, he became MCR president five years' later. Perhaps next time, assuming that a 50th gaudy can raise a quorum for the occasion.

St. Edmund Hall - special place, special people, and it showed.

Andrew Maden (MCR President 1974) Paul Parker OCR President 1971) Present were (1969 unless otherwise noted) : Brian Battye, Michael Birks, Stephen Blinkhorn, Reverend Canon K A Boyce, Ian Busby, Adrian Butement, Graham Coates FCA, Neil Corcoran, Ian Cox MRSC CChem, Gillies Dalzell-Payne, Martin Daniels MBCS (1968), Bryan Dawson, Stephen Dempsey, Paul Dixon MA MIBiol, Paul Dobsen, Kenneth Dodd,Jonathan Fryer,Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow), John Graley, Betony Griffiths (Deputy Director of Development), Stephen Groom, Michael 106

Harbron, Jeremy Hopwood, Graham Jenner, David ]ones, Clive Kerridge, John Knight (Emeritus Fellow), Timothy Lavender, Mark Leslie, Bruce Lowe, Andrew 1ifaden, Robert Mathews, Peter Mayne, Nicholas McGuinn, l\luchael Mingos (Principal), David Monkcom, Paul Parker, David Parsons FIA, Andrew Race, Peter Ramell, Kate Roessler (Development Assistant), Francis Rossotti (Emeritus Fellow), Roger Sage, Bruce Spaven, Christopher Stafford, Timothy Statham, Timothy Stibbs, Nigel Strawbridge, Chris Wells (Emeritus Fellow),James Whelan, Peter Wight, Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow), Sir David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow).

SUMMER REUNION 2009 It was a beautiful summer's day as the Old Bears cricket team opened the bowling against the current students at University Club's pitch in Mansfield Road. David Jordan (1990) had picked an 'all star' team including Ian Stuart (1968), who scored an unbeaten half-century, and the Principal whose prowess in bowling (2 wickets for 10 runs) ensured the Old Bears had a comfortable win by 3 wickets. Meanwhile back in Queen's Lane Aularians began to arrive for what proved to be surely one of the most enjoyable summer reunions ever. Over 200 attended, including 8 octogenarians and more than 50 younger Aularians, all of whom had matriculated during the last 10 years.

From 6.30pm men in dinner jackets and ladies in their best party frocks emerged from all corners of the college for a reception in the front quad where The Third Eye trio played some gentle jazz. At 6.45pm the heavens opened and whilst Aularians took shelter wherever they could, Betony Bell and the Hall staff smoothly moved into Plan B. With astonishing speed, trays of canapes, glasses, bottles of champagne and the band disappeared from the quad and reappeared in the Jarvis Doctorow Hall above the Kelly Building.

Every seat in the Wolfson Hall was taken for a celebration dinner to mark the retirement of l\luke Mingos, our Principal since 1999. The Hall Chef produced a splendid meal, which was accompanied by fme wines from the Hall cellars.

Derrick Wyatt, Vice-Principal paid a moving tribute to the contribution which lVIike and Stacey Mingos had made to the College. In particular he mentioned that 'they were always there giving support from the touch line, the river bank and at so many other Hall events.' Each had gained the confidence, respect and affection of the Fellows, students, old members and the Hall staff. On behalf of the SEH Association the President, Sir Jon Shortridge, 107

presented him with an oil painting - 'Lydney' by John Bowes, which for many years had hung in the Principal 's sitting room . H e hoped that this would be one of many happy memories which he and Stacey would have of their time in the Principal's Lodgings. An unexpec ted tribute was the singing of a Hall and1em composed by Richard H oldsword1 (2001) which he had dedicated to l'lfike. The second verse is appropriately: 'Drink and feas t wid1 merry d1rong, strengd1 in heart and heart in song. Whom else would you stand among? Floreat Aula.'

As Aularians drifted back towards d1e quad some gravitated to d1e O ld D ining Hall for dancing to the Finger i\ [ouse rock band, whist others, glasses in hand, gad1ered in small group s in d1e bar, quad or garden. It was indeed n o ti ceable h ow Aularian s of all ages m ingled toge th er in co nve rsa ti o n - but then d1e Hall has d1e reputation o f bemg th e m ost friend ly college in Oxford .

Towa rd s 1 Opm, Be to n y b egan a whispering campaign: "Pass d1e word, d1ere will be firewo rks in th e ga rd en at 10.15pm" . A gradual exodus from the quad began; the statue of St Ed mund was surro und ed b y hi s aco lytes; th e b and stopped playing; the show began. It was a m agnifi ce nt mu l ticoloured di splay o f roc kets and Roman candles and during rl1e 108

Stacey and r-tike r-tingos, en joyi ng the tireworks

ftnal sequence the words 'Floreat Aula' were lit in burning golden fairy lights.

The pre-ftreworks activities resumed; and the party was still going strong at lam when the bar closed. Rumour has it that a few revelers even saw the dawn break!

Thanks are due to Betony Bell and Kate Roessler for all the hard work in organising this event and our heartfelt thanks are due to Mike and Stacey for the warmth of their friendship to Aularians and for their coming to not only this special reunion but also to so many other Aularian gatherings over the years.

Francis Pocock (1960, Chemistry)

DONORS TO THE COLLEGE FROM 1 SEPTEMBER 2008 TO 31 AUGUST 2009 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,270 alumni, parents and Friends of the Hall who have donated to the College during the last year. We record by matriculation date the names of all those who have made a donation to the College's Annual Fund established in 2006 or who continue to fulfu pledges which were made during the Campaign for the Hall 2000-2004.

Kenneth Barton (1929) deceased One anonymous donor (1929) deceased John King (1935) Stanley Hoffman (19 36) deceased Denys Salt (1937) Bob James (1938) deceased Chr:istopher Starey (1938) deceased Robbie Bishop (1939) Derek Rushworth (1939) Alex Smith (1940) deceased Norman Hi.ll.ier-Fry (1941) Peter Carpenter (1942) Philip Eades (1942) Mi.chael Hayes (1942) deceased John Townsend (1942) One anonymous donor from 1942 Ardmr Clark (1943) John Di.xon (194 3) Derek Ellis (194 3) Peter Keep (1943) deceased Gareth Mi.tford-Barberton (1943)

Fred Nicholls (1943) Howard Skinner (1943) Two anonymous donors from 1943 Laurence Langdon (1944) Geoffrey Price (1944) David Shears (1944) Charles Taylor (1944) One anonymous donor from 1945 Patrick Kent (1945) David Dunsmore (1946) Mi.chael Goodman-Smi.th (1946) John Pike (1946) One anonymous donor from 1946 Gui.do Castro (194 7) David Chewter (194 7) Mi.chael Harrison (194 7) John Reddi.ck (1947) One anonymous donor from 1947 J arvis Doctorow (1948) Paul Foote (1948) J oe Graffy (1948)

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J olm Hog an (1948) Ewell Murphy (1948) Two anonymous donors from 1948 Gordon Allford (1949) William Asbrey (1949) Peter Barker (1949) Roger Beckwith (1949) Dennis Fowler (1949) Alan Gamett (1949) Amold Grayson (1949) Colin Hadley (1949) Gerald lnsley (1949) lvLichael J affey (1949) Terence Kelly (1949) N oel McManus (1949) Bill NLiller (1949) via The Miller Family Foundation Stan Pierce (1949) Nlichael Ritchie (1949) David Singleton (1949) Robert Southan (1949) William Thorpe (1949) One anonymous donor from 1949 Brian Arthur (1950) John Elliott (1950) N oel Harvey (1950) Gral1am Heddle (1950) Douglas Heffer (1950) Raymond Lee (19 SO) And10ny Lynch (19 SO) David Pollard (19 SO) Jack Preger in memory of Barry Penn 1950 (1950) John Thomton (19 SO) Robin West (1950) Jack Wheeler (1950) Derek Bloom (1951) Tom Crabtree (1951) Geoffrey de Deney (1951) John Farrand (1951) James Forbes (1951) deceased Derek Hoare (1951) deceased !\'Like Kelly (1951) F rederic Moeton (19 51) Denys Moylan (19 51) David Ogilvie (1951) Alan Poynter (1951) Raymond Roberts (19 51)

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David Shenton (1951) Roy Williams (1951) Nlichael Amold (1952) Patrick Blake (19 52) Peter Brown (19 52) I an Byatt (19 52) John Claxton (1952) Tony Coulson (1952) David Fitzwilliam-Lay (19 52) Ted Henzell (1952) David Keighley (1952) Nicolas Lossky (1952) Peter Maxwell (1952) Denis McCard1y (1952) Nlichael Ockenden (19 52) N eville Teller (19 52) David White (19 52) David Wright (19 52) Mike Burgess (1953) Duncan Craik (1953) Peter Ford (19 53) Ernie Fox (1953) Wilf Fox (1953) I an J ackson (19 53) John Read (1953) lan Smith (1953) Richard Turner (1953) E ric Wmdsor (1953) Roger Wright (1953) One anonymous donor from 1953 Christopher Benjamin (1954) John Casale (1954) Jeremy Cleverley (1954) Tony Crowe (1954) Nlichael Duffy (1954) Roger Gleave (1954) deceased John Heyman (1954) Derek Hooper (1954) Nlichael Hopkinson (19 54) Keith Hounslow (19 54) Brian Howes (1954) Tony Laughton (1954) John Lowe (1954) Shaun MacLoughlin (19 54) Nlichael Palmer (1954) Brian Shepherd (1954) Keid1 Suddaby (19 54) Charles Taylor (1954)

David TI10mpson (1954) Ronald Tnunan (1954) Archie Warr (1954) Michael Webb (1954) John West (1954) One anonymous donor from 19 54 Hubert Beaumont (1955) Tony Cooper (1955) John Cotton (1955) Jolm Dellar (1955) Lawton Fage (1955) John Famworth (1955) Roger Farrand (1955) David Frayne (1955) And10ny Hall (1955) deceased David Hare (1955) Anthony Jones (1955) John Maddison (1955) Michael Martin (1955) Alan Madueson (1955) Neil Merrylees (1955) Ray O'Brien (1955) lrving T11eaker (1955) Bill Weston (1955) Richard Williams (1955) One anonymous donor from 1955 Brian Amor (1956) John Andrewes (1956) Colin Atkinson (1956) lan Briars (1956) Blake Bromley (1956) Michael Cansdale (1956) Maresq Child (1956) Jolm Dunbabin (1956) F red F arrell (19 56) Jolm French (1956) Robert Gillard (1956) David Glynne-Jones (1956) David Henderson (1956) Michael Hickey (1956) David Johnson (1956) Basil Kingstone (1956) Clive Lawless (19 56) Chris Machen (1956) Martin Reynolds (1956) David Short (1956) Peter Slip (1956) Brian Whittaker (1956) deceased

David Williams (1956) Howell Wilson-Price (1956) Jolm Young (1956) One anonymous donor from 1956 Michael Archer (1957) Ted Aves (1957) Robin Blackbum (19 57) Andrew Clarkson (1957) Roger Cook (1957) Peter Croissant (1957) Hugh Denman (1957) Duncan Dormor (1957) Anthony Drayton (19 57) Anthony Fletcher (1957) Tony Ford (1957) John Harrison (19 57) Robert J ackson (1957) Dennis Jesson (1957) Roland MacLeod (1957) John Mander (1957) Charles Marriott (19 57) Dennis Mars den (19 57) Geoff Miliell (19 57) Colin Nichols (1957) David Parfitt (19 57) Keith Please (1957) Peter Reynolds (1957) Michael Rowan (1957) Anthony Ruffhead (19 57) Alas tair Stewart (19 57) John Walmsley (1957) One anonymous donor from 1957 Chris Alborough (1958) Jim Amos (1958) Michael Andrews (1958) Peter Bendey (1958) Chris Bone (19 58) John Davie (1958) Uoyd Filby (1958) Tony Goddard (1958) David Harrison (19 58) John Haydon (1958) J onad1an Hewitt (19 58) John Hibberd (1958) Ronnie lrving (1958) Peter Kite (1958) Henry Kosclutzky (1958) Richard Linford1 (1958)

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Anthony Nial (1958) Roger O'Brien (1958) Bill Patterson (1958) tvlichael Pelham (1958) Tony Phillips (1958) John Phillips (1958) Philip Rabbetts (1958) Nevill Swanson (1958) Montefiore Yeger (1958) One anonymous donor from 1958 I an Alexander (19 59) Frederick Bird (1959) Richard Brake (1959) D.C. Coleman (1959) John Curry (1959) Tony Doyle (1959) Bas Faulkner (1959) Chris Harvey (1959) Gral1am Kentfield (19 59) Richard McCullagh (1959) Joseph McPartlin (1959) Culain Morris (1959) Derek Ritson (1959) Brian Saberton (1959) Stewart Walduck (1959) Roy Walmsley (1959) John Waiters (1959) David Wlison (1959) Three anonymous donors from 1959 John Adey (1960) N icolas Alldrit (1960) Chris Atkinson (1960) David Baines (1960) Terence Bell (1960) David Bolton (1960) Adam Butcher (1960) Tirn Cannon (1960) Robert Clark (1960) Terence Coghlin (1960) J eremy Cook (1960) Robin Crawford (1960) Keith Dillon (1960) Mike Elmitt (1960) I an E vans (1960) Charles Freeman (1960) Jeff Goddard (1960) Peter Hayes (1960) Kenned1 S Heard (1960)

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John Head1 (1960) David Henderson (1960) Ken Hinkley-Smid1 (1960) Robin Hogg (1960) John Langridge (1960) John Law (1960) Chris Long (1960) D avid Mash (1960) Mike Nodey (1960) Roger Plumb (1960) Francis Pocock (1960) George Ritchie (1960) Patric Sankey-Barker (1960) George Smith (1960) Roger Sparrow (1960) John Thorogood (1960) Andrew Tod (1960) Malvern Van Wyk Smith (1960) Guy Warner (1960) Two anonymous donors from 1960 Don Anderson (1961) Bill Bauer (1961) David Brown (1961) Stanley Burnton (1961) Barrie England (1961) Alastair Fretwell-Downing (1961) deceased Mike Grocott (1961) Brian Hardcasde (1961) John Heggadon (1961) tvlichael Homsby (1961) Geoff Hunt (1961) Malcolm Inglis (1961) tvlichael Lynch (1961) George Marsh (1961) David McCarnmon (1961) Richard Padfield (1961) Anthony Rentoul (1961) Andrew Rix (1961) David Scharer (1961) David Smith (1961) Roger Smid1 (1961) Timothy Torrington (1961) Chris Tromans (1961) Five anonymous donors from 1961 Bill Best (1962) Ian Bennett (1962) James Bumett-Hitchcock (1962)

Anthony Cosgrave (1962) Jim de Rennes (1962) Stephen Gell (1962) David Goodwin (1962) Michael Groves (1962) Bill Gulland (1962) John Hall (1962) Handley Hammond (1962) J eff Hill (1962) A.rwyn Hughes (1962) N eil J ackson (1962) Tim J ones (1962) Alan MeN amee (1962) Richard Meeres (1962) Roger Miller (1962) Tony Moore (1962) A.ndrew Norman (1962) Jim North (1962) Nigel Pegram (1962) Richard Phillippo (1962) Hugh Thomas (1962) John Williams (1962) William Zeltonoga (1962) One anonymous donor from 1962 Darrell Bames (1963) David Baxter (1963) Bob Clarke (1963) David Cox (1963) John Crawshaw (1963) Geoff Day (1963) John Haines (1963) Michael Harrison (1963) Tom Jeffers (1963) David Keeler (1963) Terence Palmer (1963) Clive Sneddon (1963) Barrie Stacey (1963) John Taylor (1963) Nigel Thorp (1963) Roger Truelove (1963) Two anonymous donors from 1963 Martin Butcher (1964) Michael Clarke (1964) Peter Day (1964) Robert Dolman (1964) Derek Hawkins (1964) Peter Hodson (1964) Chris Howe (1964)

John Hughes (1964) Timothy Mach.in (1964) David Meredith (1964) Derek Morris (1964) Robert N orcl.iffe (1964) Jack Pie ton (1964) James Pitt (1964) Jolm Powell (1964) Michael Powis (1964) David Rumbelow (1964) Hugh Simpson (1964) Peter Smerd (1964) Peter Steddon (1964) Richard Stoner (1964) Michael Streatfeild (1964) David Teade (1964) One anonymous donor from 1964 Armar Archbold (1965) Paul Badman (1965) J oe Barclay (1965) Tom Bedford (1965) Robert Coke (1965) John Dennis (1965) Simon Forrest (1965) lan Gillings (1965) Clive Hartshorn (1965) Gavin Hitchcock (1965) Ken Hobbs (1965) lan Laing (1965) Ron McDonald (1965) A.ndrew Morgan (1965) Brian Nord1 (1965) Geraint Parry (1965) David Powell (1965) Mike Randall (1965) Jolm Rea (1965) David Reed (1965) John Sayer (1965) Jolm Shneerson (1965) Bill Walker (1965) James Wein (1965) One anonymous donor from 1965 Nick Badl1am (1966) Richard Baker (1966) N igel Blackwell (1966) Cameron Brown (1966) Roger Brown (1966) Peter Crystal (1966)

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Peter Dixon (1966) Tony Fisher (1966) Roger Frankland (1966) Frank Hanbridge (1966) Ian Hewitt (1966) Ted Hodgson (1966) Paul Maison (1966) Andrew Middleton (1966) Patrick Montgomery (1966) J on Shortridge (1966) Ray Slade (1966) John Spellar (1966) Michael Stone (1966) David Turner (1966) One anonymous donor from 1966 Robert Breckles (196 7) Charles Bryant (196 7) John Child (1967) J eremy Cooke (196 7) Robert Davis (1967) N eil Gamble (196 7) Chris Harrison (196 7) Colin Hawksworth (1967) Roger Kenworthy (196 7) Ethan Lipsig (196 7) Jonathan Lovell (1967) Peter Mitchell (1967) Jiro Mosley (1967) John Orton (1967) Philip Robinson (196 7) Graham Salter (196 7) Mark Spencer Ellis In Memory of Canon Michael Spencer Ellis (196 7) Rob Weinberg (1967) Peter Wilson (1967) Georges Zbyszewski (196 7) Four anonymous donors from 1967 Andrew Bames (1968) John Berryman (1968) David Blezard (1968) Martin Daniels (1968) Phil Emmott (1968) Charles Fisher (1968) Brian Griffiths (1968) J ames Hunt (1968) Philip J ames (1968) Alan J ones (1968) Sudhir Kapoor (1968)

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Siroon Kelly (1968) Stuart Kenner (1968) Mark Lobb (1968) Geoff May (1968) Anthony Moore (1968) Jolm Penfield (1968) Michael Pike (1968) Eric Rigg (1968) Jeremy Salter (1968) Peter Scott-Presland (1968) Michael Spilberg (1968) Ian Stuart (1968) Gral1am Taylor (1968) Michael Unsworth (1968) David Vickers (1968) David Boyd (1969) Roger Callan (1969) David Clopet (1969) Gordon Cranmer (1969) Paul Dixon (1969) Dick Ford (1969) Leonard Gibeon (1969) Stephen Groom (1969) Clive Kerridge (1969) Michael Ko (1969) Tiro Lavender (1969) David Lemer (1969) Bruce Lowe (1969) Roy Marsh (1969) Nick McGuinn (1969) David Monkcom (1969) Andrew Race (1969) Peter Smirl1 (1969) Tiro Statham (1969) Tiro Stibbs (1969) David Walker (1969) Jamie Whelan (1969) Peter Wilkinson (1969) Two anonymous donors from 1969 Andrew Bethell (1970) Keith Carby (1970) Andrew Craston (1970) Julian Currall (1970) Christopher Evans (1970) Stephen Fordham (1970) Dorian Haskard (1970) Peter Jones (1970) John Kendall (1970)

Chris Lewis (1970) Richard Miller (1970) Roger Moore (1970) Paul Moran (1970) David Morgan (1970) Colin Richmond-Watson (1970) Thomas Shanahan (1970) Geoffrey Smith (1970) Bill T ravers (1970) Dave Wliton (1970) One anonymous donor from 1970 Richard Balfour (1971) George Bishop (1971) Graham Bull (1971) Jean Chagnon (1971) Roger Chaplin (1971) Lawrence Cummings (1971) John Fazackerley (1971) Torstein Godeseth (1971) Gerard Lally (1971) Dave Leggett (1971) Peter Lever (1971) Robert Liston (1971) Jonathan Ormond (1971) Tim Ream (1971) Merfyn Roberts (1971) Douglas Robertson (1971) Stephen Rosefield (1971) Greg Salter (1971) Nicholas Staite (1971) Christopher Wlison (1971) One anonymous donor from 1971 George Bull (1972) Richard Catmur (1972) Steve Chandler (1972) William Clark (1972) Anthony Deakin (1972) Jonathan Lowe (1972) Andrew Lowend1al (1972) Howard Mason (1972) Ross Monro (1972) Michael Nazir-Ali (1972) Andrew Peacock (1972) Gareth Price (1972) David Rosen (1972) Constantine Sarantis (1972) Trevor Saxby (1972) Alan Smith (1972)

!an Smid1 (1972) Jack Smid1 (1972) Rob Stephenson (1972) Stephen Taylor (1972) John Trotman (1972) Malcolm Watson (1972) Martin Winter (1972) One anonymous donor from 1972 Christopher Bamber (1973) Rudi Breakwell-Bos (1973) Colin Bullett (1973) Sean Buder (1973) Geoff Chamberlain (1973) James Dallas (1973) Robert Godden (1973) David Grice (1973) David Holmes (1973) Dave Knight (1973) Nigel Laing (1973) Mark Mandel (1973) Stephen McNulty (1973) !an Midgley (1973) Charles Oulton (1973) Nick Owen (1973) Mark Patterson (1973) Nic Peeling (1973) Chris Reddick (1973) in memory of Andwny Gane John Roberts (1973) Tom Schneider (1973) Nigel Webb (1973) Three anonymous donors from 1973 Phil Budden (1974) Raoul Cerratti (1974) Stephen Coldicott (1974) Peter Desmond (1974) Jeff Drew (1974) Thomas du Boulay (1974) Steve Edrich (1974) Andy Eggleston (1974) Richard Gillingwater (1974) Andrew Gosling (1974) Brian Green (1974) Lawrence Hall (1974) Frederick Leaf (1974) Paul Matd1ews (1974) Charles Murray (1974) Jeremy N ason (1974)

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David Neuhaus (1974) John Ormiston (1974) Andy Patterson (1974) John Ramsey (1974) Tim Robinson (1974) Gerard Rocks (1974) Johu Rose (1974) Richard Sands (1974) Antony Siopis (197 4) Kim Swain (1974) Peter Tudor (1974) Eric Wareing (1974) Tiuee anonymous donors from 1974 Jeremy Charles (1975) Milan Cvetkovic (1975) Bob Gaffey (1975) Ed Gray (1975) Louis Greig (1975) Gordon Hurst (1975) Andrew Johuston (1975) Alan Kerr (1975) Graham Kedey (1975) Alex King (1975) William Morrison-Bell (1975) Robin Osterley (1975) Stephen Oxenbridge (1975) Justin Samuel (1975) James Senogles (1975) Ces Shaw (1975) N igel Smith (1975) Peter Watson (1975) David Way (1975) Michael Wilkins (1975) One anonymous donor from 1975 Glenn Bates (1976) Robin Beckley (1976) William Cogar (1976) Johu Collingwood (1976) Richard Cook (1976) Andrew Cooper (1976) Hora den Dulk (1976) Brian Denton (1976) Crispin Eley (1976) Chris Elston (1976) Geoffery Farquharson (1976) Mark Hockey (1976) Jeff Keey (1976) Brian Partridge (1976)

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Trevor Payne (1976) Jonadlan Reynolds (1976) Jamie Robertson (1976) Martin Saunders (1976) Keith Scott (1976) Paul Simpson (1976) Paul Sutton (1976) lan Taylor (1976) Peter Trowles (1976) Matrl1ew Wald (1976) Jeremy Young (1976) Two anonymous donors from 1976 David Blakey (1977) Charles Blount (1977) Andrew Brown (1977) lan Doherty (1977) lan Durrans (1977) Peter Foster (1977) Nick Hamilton (1977) Marcel Haniff (1977) Adrian Haxby (1977) David Hope (1977) Chris Homer (1977) Roger Keeley (1977) Greg McLeen (1977) David McKenna (1977) Nick Plater (1977) Johu Round (1977) Rupert Ruvigny (1977) Chris Samuel (1977) Mark Schueider (1977) Jeremy Tullett (1977) David Van Roijen (1977) Steve Vivian (1977) Tony Watkinson (1977) Tiuee anonymous donors from 1977 Doug Ansley (1978) John Armitstead (1978) Peter Baker (1978) Simon Belcher (1978) Phillip Bladen (1978) Michael Cheadle (1978) lan Coleman (1978) Richard Collins (1978) Paul Darling (1978) Timothy Elliott (1978) Paul Goulding (1978) Simon Heilbron (1978)

Simon Johnson (1978) J an Levenbach (1978) Brian Livesey (1978) Richard Luddington (1978) Adrian Marsh (1978) Jeremy Mead (1978) Paul Meadows (1978) Mark Morrison (1978) Gideon Nissen (1978) Robert Pay (1978) Gary Stratmann (1978) Richard Taylor (1978) Gurdon Watdes (1978) Robin Williams (1978) Brian Worsfold (1978) Two anonymous donors from 1978 J ames Catmur (1979) Stephen Coulson (1979) Gail Davies (1979) Carole Dominy (1979) Elizabeth Flood (1979) Richard Grainger (1979) John Hodgson (1979) Alan Holbrook (1979) Elizabeth Lee (1979) Ian Lupson (1979) Ian McEwen (1979) Michael Robinson (1979) Nicole Stewart (1979) Duncan Talbert (1979) Robert Vollum (1979) Kevin Walsh (1979) Andries Wessels (1979) David West (1979) Michele Witting (1979) Two anonymous donors from 1979 Judidl Acreman (1980) Sanjeev Agrawal (1980) John Ayton (1980) Bemard Bewlay (1980) Philip Broadley (1980) Peter Buechel (1980) William Carver (1980) John Chelsom (1980) Diana Chitty (1980) Grailam Clempson (1980) lain Cooke (1980) Jonathan Davies (1980)

Buster Ewart (1980) Katherine Finucane (1980) Joe Friggieri (1980) Alistair Grailam (1980) Jonad1an Hofstetter (1980) Simon Kelly (1980) Steve King (1980) Gary Lawrence (1980) J ames Lyle (1980) Hugo Minney (1980) Ray Montague (1980) Tim Mottishaw (1980) David Preston (1980) Simon Ramage (1980) J on athan Scott (1980) Nicholas Senechal (1980) N eil Stevenson (1980) Frank Strang (1980) Christina Tracey (1980) Faith Wainwright (1980) Peter Walton (1980) Three anonymous donors from 1980 Tom Bayne (1981) David Brown (1981) Andrew Bums (1981) Eric Coates (1981) Simon Dowling (1981) Mark Drewell (1981) Sandy Findlay (1981) Gerry Gillen (1981) Matthew Grayson (1981) Julian Hammond (1981) Claire Ivins (1981) Clare Jack (1981) Nicholas Jacksou (1981) Phi! Knight (1981) Richard Lambert (1981) Paul McCarthy (1981) Keith McLeod (1981) Sallie Nicholas (1981) Tim Parkinson (1981) Jai Pathak (1981) Stuart Shaw (1981) Michael Sherring (1981) Sue Sternberg (1981) David Stokes (1981) Paul Stowers (1981) Jessica Watdes (1981)

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Rowena Webster (1981) Jo West (1981) Two anonymous donors from 1981 David Aeron-T110mas (1982) Warren Cabral (1982) Maggie Carver (1982) Tom Christopherson (1982) Catherine Dale (1982) Philip Edwards (1982) Guy Franks (1982) David Heaps (1982) Tiro Holman (1982) Dan J olmson (1982) Richard Kent (1982) Richard MacAlister (1982) Fred Mendelsohn (1982) Gared1 Penny (1982) Nigel Purse (1982) Marco Rimini (1982) Siroon Roberts (1982) Kevin Sealy (1982) Rod Stables (1982) Sarili Vickers (1982) Annette Volfing (1982) Eight anonymous donors from 1982 Stephanie Clifford (1983) Chris Coleman (1983) Kate Coleman (1983) Cad Cunnane (1983) Tiro F allowfield (1983) Siroon Freed1y (1983) Marion Geddes (1983) Tarquin Grossman (1983) Elisabeth Hale (1983) Kari Hale (1983) Cad1y Halliday (1983) and Siroon Halliday Edward Hayes (1983) Max Irwin (1983) Michael Kell (1983) Jo Kent (1983) Bashir Khan (1983) Fiona Larkin (1983) Peter Magyar (1983) Andrew Marshall (1983) Phil Moody (1983) Denis Mustafa (1983) Liz Thomas (1983) Warren Thomas (1983)

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Max Welby (1983) Belinda Worsfold (1983) Dan Abnett (1984) John Bloomer (1984) Neil Clerninson (1984) Steve Crummett (1984) David Davies (1984) Andrew Deamer (1984) Alison Fallowfield (1984) Stephen Geelan (1984) Chris Giles (1984) Charles Hawley (1984) David J ackson (1984) Steve Maw (1984) Nicky McGee (1984) Tesula Mohindra (1984) Sean Purdy (1984) lain Purvis (1984) Anthony Rossiter (1984) Helena Sellars (1984) Andrew Steane (1984) Harvey Wheaton (1984) Sarah Wright (1984) Two anonymous donors from 1984 Deborili Bood1 (1985) Matthew Carter (1985) Kevin Cooper (1985) Rhoda Davidson (1985) Andrew Fogarty (1985) Martin Gorrod (1985) Andrew Gowans (1985) Head1er Gowans (1985) Jon Gulley (1985) Julia Litde (1985) Mark Litde (1985) Nicholas Peacock (1985) Sue Peacock (1985) Andrew Rolfe (1985) Pernille Rudlin (1985) Will Shaw (1985) Emma Steane (1985) Just:i.tl Symonds (1985) Chris Tang (1985) Harry Upton (1985) Judith Waring (1985) Charlotte West (1985) One anonymous donor from 1985 Mary Bedey (1986)

Louise Cabral (1986) Edmnnd Caddick (1986) Charles Carter (1986) Jim Charles (1986) Noel Cooke (1986) Tim Dudley (1986) Waiter Fraser (1986) Andrew Harrison (1986) Claire Harrison (1986) Neil Jacob (1986) Ernrna Kennedy (1986) Rachel Kiddey (1986) lain Mackie (1986) Andrew Martyn (1986) Paolo Mauro (1986) Sally McKone (1986) Neil Midgley (1986) John Myhill (1986) Phil Richards (1986) Jacqui Thomton (1986) Two anonymous donors from 1986 Dan Bayley (1987) Jo Brown (1987) Katherine Charles (1987) Justin Collins (1987) Richard Evans (1987) Vivek Katariya (1987) Uwe Kordes (1987) Julian Lipson (1987) Alison Lonsdale (1987) Andrew Martindale (1987) Brian Matthews (1987) Simon Oakes (1987) Peter O'Connell (1987) N atasha Palmer (1987) Clare Rhodes J ames (1987) Mark Sedwill (1987) Sue Shackleton (1987) Richard Smalman-Smith (1987) Mary Waldner (1987) Philip Waldner (1987) David Waring (1987) One anonymous donor from 1987 John Basnage de Beauval (1988) Lucia Bly (1988) Will Crerar (1988) Lean Ferera (1988) Jonathan Ferguson (1988)

Christopher Garrison (1988) Kirsty Garrison (1988) Keith Gordon (1988) Dnncan Holden (1988) Robert Howe (1988) Jon Knnac-Tabinor (1988) Peter Matthews (1988) Giles Sanders (1988) David Stewart (1988) Michael Whittaker (1988) Mark Wilson (1988) Three anonymous donors from 1988 Tom Argles (1989) Mark Lauder (1989) Ben Miller (1989) Steve Orbell (1989) Edward Rose (1989) Chris Sawyer (1989) Darren Walker (1989) Marcus Bailey (1990) Ernrna Bamett (1990) Paul Brady (1990) Hew Bruce-Gardyne (1990) Carolyn Burroughs (1990) Vanessa Fieve Willett (1990) David Gauke (1990) Graham Hinton (1990) Adrian J ones (1990) David Jordan (1990) Kevin Knibbs (1990) Sarah Laurence (1990) John Newsom (1990) Mark Roberts (1990) Rob Salter (1990) Ed Smith (1990) Kadileen TI10mpson (1990) Craig Vickery (1990) One anonymous donor from 1990 Des Anderson (1991) Carol Atherton (1991) Andy Barker (1991) Dnncan Barker (1991) Simon Brown (1991) Frank Cadiz (1991) J ulian Cater (1991) J onny Clayton (1991) Tessa Evans (1991) Alex Fishlock (1991)

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Bridget Glassey (1991) Anneli Howard (1991) Nicholas Lane (1991) Adam Lester (1991) Lindsay McQuillian (1991) Helen Morgan (1991) Michael Morley (1991) Clare Phillips (1991) Dan Smid1 (1991) Lucy Williams (1991) One anonymous donor from 1991 Ziad Akle (1992) Marc Biver (1992) Alice Clay (1992) Lucy Davie (1992) Tom Farrand (1992) Steven Fisher (1992) Gerald Hegarty (1992) Choon-Kuen Hui (1992) J ulian J elfs (1992) J ane Mann (1992) Aideen O'Neill (1992) Nick Osbome (1992) Jules Plumstead (1992) Claire Pugh (1992) Sasidaran Sanmugaratnam (1992) Gareili Scholey (1992) Geraint Thomas (1992) One anonymous donor from 1992 Howard Cazin (1993) Stuart Estell (1993) Bill Ferguson (1993) Melissa Gallagher (1993) Gavin Henderson (1993) lan Hunter (1993) Kallina Jelfs (1993) Kieren Johnson (1993) Mark Lukmani (1993) Rob Mansley (1993) Clare McKeon (1993) AI Mordaunt (1993) Henry Mullin (1993) Lucy Newlove (1993) James Owens (1993) Mariam Owens (1993) Amelia Pan (1993) James Parkin (1993) lsabel Pitts (1993)

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Caroline Tufft (1995) Richard Tufft (1993) Matt Webb (1993) David Wickes (1993) Claire Wooley (1993) and Stuart Dykes Krina Zondervan (1993) Two anonymous donors from 1993 Ruben Bach (1994) Paul Bristow (1994) Gemma Farrand (1994) Manuela Gheorghe (1994) Clare J ackson (1994) Richard J ackson (1994) Ed Kuight (1994) Garerl1 McKeever (1994) Kate McLeish (1994) Caroline Mitchelson (1994) Julia Norilicott (1994) Harry Oliver (1994) Kostas Papadopoulos (1994) Eva Peel (1994) Thomas Peel (1994) Amy Poole (1994) Piers Prichard )ones (1994) Mark Roberts (1994) Jeremy Robst (1994) lan Valvona (1994) Caroline Vilar (1994) Robert Dryburgh (199 5) Napier Fuller (1995) )onad1an Gush (1995) Cad1erine Hitchcock (1995) Richard Hitchcock (199 5) Richard Martin (1995) Hugh Miller (1995) Stuart Robins on (199 5) Chris Ruse (199 5) Sami Sarvilinna (199 5) Florian Seubert (199 5) Martin Thomeycroft (1995) Alison Waterfall (199 5) Aaron Yeo (1995) Harald Braun (1996) Rebecca Braun (1996) Claire Burton (1996) Benjamin Grout (1996) John Houghton (1996) Cad Lavin (1996)

Hannah Lawrie (1996) Craig Marshall (1996) Fang Min (1996) Richard O'Donoghue (1996) David Phillips (1996) Ben Rippin (1996) Zoe Stopford (1996) Ana Unruh Cohen (1996) One anonymous donor from 1996 Christopher Armitage (1997) Sadiya Choudhury (1997) Ali Cook (1997) N athaniel Copsey (1997) Jamie Grimston (1997) Kirstin Guy (1997) James H agan (1997) PJ Howard (1997) Stefano John (1997) Steven Johnson (1997) Kullervo Maukonen (1997) Daryl Penny (1997) Anthony Shackleton (1997) J ames Sutherland (1997) Gaelle Thuault (1997) Chris Tinson (1997) Joe Wood (1997) Guofang Xiao (1997) Two anonymous donors from 1997 J ames Bend all (1998) Michael Bird (1998) Alan Dunford (1998) Ann-Marie Evans (1998) James Fownes (1998) Angela Ghesquiere (1998) Rob Harrold (1998) Nick Hirst (1998) TimJohnson (1998) Hilde Kaarstad (1998) Helen Metson (1998) Andrew Miller (1998) Richard Oram (1998) Alina Sarantis (1998) Tom Scheinfeldt (1998) Katy Sharp (1998) Paul Smith (1998) Jessica T amarin (1998) Jennifer Tubbs (1998) Ben Wilkinson (1998)

Lucy Wilson (1998) Mark Bolton-Maggs (1999) Oliver Deacon (1999) Oily Donnelly (1999) Kieron Galliard (1999) Kat Howard (1999) Bamaby )ones (1999) Catherine Knowles (1999) Zoe Noonan (1999) J amie Rogers (1999) Bettina Soendergaard (1999) Lisa Watkinson (1999) Andrew Westbrook (1999) Samuel Willcocks (1999) Mark Wilson (1999) Two anonymous donors from 1999 Catrin Astor (2000) Melissa Bradshaw (2000) Hannah Chatham (2000) Rahul Chopra (2000) Miles Clapham (2000) Kamlesh Dookayka (2000) J ulien Dusonchet (2000) John Fowles (2000) Maria Liakata (2000) Hazel Mitchell (2000) Akira Mitsumasu (2000) Thomas Morgan (2000) Four anonymous donors from 2000 Peter Augar (2001) Jenoa Cohn (2001) Matthew Easdale (2001) Christian Figge (2001) Charles Hotham (2001) Charlotte Lamb (2001) Clover Morey (2001) Alevtina Nepomniachtchikh (2001) Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky (2001) Roberto Scipioni (2001) Richard Stubley (2001) J ames Sutton (200 1) Jun Tanaka (2001) Helen Turnbull (2001) Two anonymous donors from 2001 Otilia Bologan-Vieru (2002) J ackie Colbum (2002) Stijn Paumen (2002) Zadok Prescott (2002)

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Felicia Shaw (2002) Alex Stratakis (2002) Asimina Theodorou (2002) Gareth Walliss (2002) One anonymous donor from 2002 Tristan Boserup (2003) Cara Tredget (2003) Two anonymous donors from2003 Sebastian Donnelly (2004) Si Yu Fung (2004) Caroline Hickson (2004) Katharine Hill (2004) Catherine Lakin (2004) Fiona Moss (2004) Jonathan Taylor (2004) Rachel Chang (2005) Paisley Kadison (2005) Georgiana Neill (2005) Matthew Nice (2005) James Raeburn-Ward (2005) Rich Reynolds (2005) Ed Reynolds (2005) Alice Raper (2005) Daniel Gurdak (2007) Nick Heron (2007) Lefu Li (2007) Lisa Spees (2007) Robert Venables (Fellow by Special Election) via The Yves Guihannec Foundation Friends of the Hall

Daoud Awad CPR Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund San Francisco Caroline Godfrey in memory of Paul Godfrey (1976) Patricia Kemp in memory of Robin Kemp (1958) Charles Peel Charitable Trust Harold Shaw and The Shaw Foundation Lubos Smrcka The Ironmongers' Company Virtual Archive Lady Wylie in memory of Norman Wylie (1946) Anonymous Foundation

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Parental Donors

J ennifer Allen David & Lynne John & Julie Bras sill Pat Burke & Dave Skeels Mike & Sue Clasper Nicholas & Gillian Davidson William & Elizabeth Colin & Margaret Frass Paul & Sheila Harris Chris & Gina Heaton AnnHughes Kenneth & Lillian lbbett Clive & Janice Kennedy Peter & Gillian Knowles Mark Le Fanu Murray & Sue Lowe Peter Matthewman Simon Mortimore Sally & Guy Outen Reuato Panizzon Andrew & Atme Robertshaw Denette Robinson Malcolm & Joanna Rustin Merfyn & Alwena Tomos Stuart Ulph Phil & Pam Wood Hugh & Mandy Wooley Two parents who wish to remain anonymous

We apologise for any errors that may appear in this list. Please contmt us ifyou are mvare of arry incorrect details as Jve stn.z:e to be as accurate as possible in respect of the wishes of our donors. We are extremefy grateful to all those donors named above and those who have supported S t Edmund Hall previousfy.

THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - JANUARY 2009 President Principal

Sir Jon Shortridge KCB MA MSc (1966) Professor D Michael P Mingos FRS CChem FRSC Immediate Past President William H Hatcher MA (1962) Honorary Vice-President Justin C B Gosling BPhil MA Honorary Vice-President R (Bob) J L Breese MA (1949) Honorary Secretary Richard A H Finch lvrA (1976) Honorary Treasurer 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 MA BSc (Lond) FCIM FFB (1961) Michael G M Groves DipEconPolSci (1962)

1965-74

Peter Buder MA (1970) Lawrence Cummings MA (1971)

1975- 84

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

1985- 94

A (Tony) C Greenham BA MSc (1988) Dr David J Jordan MA PhD (1990)

1995- 04

Catherine L Cooper BA (1995) Olly M Donnelly BA MSc (1999) Nick Renshaw BA (2001)

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Dr Francis J Pocock MA DPhil (1960)

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MINUTES OF THE 78TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION The 78th 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, 13 January 2009 at 6.15pm, Sir Jon Shortridge presiding.

Over 50 members were present.

1.

Minutes. The Minutes of the 77th Meeting, held on 8 January 2008, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

2. President's Report. Sir Jon Shortridge expressed his intention to develop the Association by aiming to double the current number (25) of yeargroup leaders.

3. Principal's Report. Professor D M P Mingos said that he would make his report at the Dinner.

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

5.

Honorary Treasurer's Report. I W Durrans reported a balance of c ÂŁ15,000 at December 2008. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted.

6.

Elections: The following were elected unanimously: Honorary Secretary R A H Finch Re-elected for one year Honorary Treasurer I W Durrans Re-elected for one year 19 55 - 64 M J Cans dale Re-elected for three years 1965 - 74 P Butler Re-elected for three years 1975- 84 RA H Finch Re-elected for three years 1985- 94 Dr DJ Jordan Elected for three years 199 5 - 2004 Miss 0 M Donnelly Elected for three years

7. Appointment of Honorary Auditor. L D Page was unanimously reappointed.

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8. Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 12 January 2010 at the Royal OverSeas League at 6.15pm.

9.

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

RA H FINCH, Hon Secretary

THE 68TH LONDON DINNER THE 68th LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, StJames's on Tuesday, 13 January 2009.

An impressive turnout of 140 was on a par with recent years and proof (if it were needed) of Aularian spirit defying economic slowdown! Association President Sir Jon Shortridge welcomed the guests (the Principal, Mrs Mingos, Jus tin and Margaret Gosling), sent warm birthday greetings to Bruce Mitchell and happily introduced Chris Wells who gave a handsome tribute to the Principal on his forthcoming retirement. The Association is similarly most appreciative of the Principal's loyalty to the London Dinner and looks forward to welcoming him and Stacey once more as our guests.

The following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1949) Mr WP Asbrey (St Edmund Fellow), Mr RJL Breese; (1950) Mr M Baldwin, Mr J Wheeler; (1952) Mr HW Goldsworthy, Mr AJ Harding, Mr CJ ]ones, Mr NF Lockhart, The Revd EA Simmonds, Mr R Taylor; (1953) Mr AJ Kember; (1954) Mr SR Bilsland; (1955) Mr AJS Cotton, Mr RHB De Vere Green, Mr JL Fage, Mr RA Farrand; (1956) Mr BE Amor, Mr MJ Cansdale (St Edmund Fellow), Mr SC Douglas-Mann, Mr AF Ham, Mr JC Markwick, Mr JRC Young; (1957) Mr 1vfJ Archer, Mr JW Harrison, Mr 1vfJ Rowan; (1958) Mr LL Filby, Mr CW Holden, Mr JH Phillips; (1959) Mr JA Collingwood, Mr DA Harding, Mr F Di Rienzo; (1960) Mr CJG Atkinson, Dr FJ Pocock (St Edmund Fellow), Mr PJR Sankey-Barker, Mr GC Warner; (1961) Mr RI Chard, Mr EA Fretwell-Downing, Mr RG Harrison, Mr JM Heggadon, Mr MG Hornsby, Mr GJ Hunt, Mr JC Long, Mr AM Rentoul, Mr RK Smith; (1962) Mr MGM Groves; (1963) :Nlr DMP Barnes; (1964) Mr DA Ashworth, Dr 1vfJ Clarke, MrJJ Fox, Mr RWF Stoner; (1965) MrJG Barclay (Fellow), Mr RW Beckham, :Nlr SR Garrett, Dr .MRD Randall; (1966) Mr CTW Humfrey, Sir Jon Shortridge (President, SEH Association); (1967) Dr RM Weinberg; (1968) Mr MG Heal, Dr DJ Hughes, Mr AJH Makin, Mr MO Spilberg, Mr I Stuart, :Nlr RT Ward; (1969) Mr 1vfJ Birks, Mr IC Busby, 125

Mr GJ Coates; (1970) Mr WN David, Mr PG Harper, Mr JW Hawkins; (1971) Mr L Cummings, Mr RJ Henshaw; (1974) Mr PP Phillips; (1976) Mr RAH Finch, Mr NJ Worthington; (1977) Mr SS Advani, Mr CJ Blount, Mr IW Durrans, Mr AJ Haxby, Mr R Keeley, Mr RFJH Ruvigny, Mr CJL Samuel; (1978) :N1r RS Luddington; (1979) Mr R Withington; (1980) MrJG Clark, :N1r JG Varey; (1986) :N1r .M] Borrett, Mr AT Harrison, MrJP Lindsay; (1988) Mr JJ Brace, Mr KM Gordon, Mr AC Greenham, Mr JD Holden, Mr AM Hunter, Mr RKJ Kilgarriff, Ms RL Shafran; (1989) Mr AJS Borrie, Mr BMSK Miller, Mr SE Orbell, Mr AH Somalya; (1991) Ms AL Rentoul; (1997) Mr D P-J Howard; (1999) Ms LA Cope, Ms OM Donnelly, Mr .M] Harley, Ms DA Lindsey, Ms IF Shirley, Ms KMP Stone, Mr SB Sullivan, Mr CJR Wells; (2001) Ms JJ Hatcher, Mr CH Hutton-Mills, Ms AK Proby, Mr N Renshaw, Ms RA Wilkinson ; (2002) Ms EL Gabriel, Mr JF Lait, Mr JA Lonsdale, Mr B Murison; (2003) Mr RE Hamilton Kelly, Ms FA Jenkins, Ms L J McMullen, :N1r EWS Robinson, Ms FL Ronald, Ms M Ruehl; (2004) Ms EN Purcell.

The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr PJ Collins (Senior Research Fellow), Mr NS Davidson, Mr JPD Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Dr EJ Parkin (Home Bursar), Dr P Podsiadlowski, Mr MDE Slater, Dr DP Tsomocos, Mr CJ Wells (Emeritus Fellow), Ms Betony Griffiths (Deputy Director of Development), Ms Kate Roessler (Development Assistant), Mr LB Whyatt (2005) (Dev Office Photographer).

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY2009

Year ended 31 May2009

Year ended 31 May2008

£

£

9,831 325

9,782 579

10,156

10,361

(8,100) (69)

(1,085) (7,837) (59)

(8,169)

(8,981)

Income less expenses

1,987

1,380

Grants: Gift to the outgoing Principal Crypt restoration project (including costs of plaque)

(800)

Surplus transferred to General Fund

1.181

INCOME Subscriptions Bank Interest

EXPENDITIJRE St Edmund statue costs Magazine production, postage & mailing Committee expenses

(1,000)

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 12 January 2010.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY2009 31 May2009

31 May2008

£

£

9,256 5,700 4,765

8,576 5,700 9,053

19,721

23,329

(5,529)

(10,324)

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS 11,261 General Fund at start of year 1,187 Surplus from Income Account

10,881 380

12,448

11,261

1,744

1,744

ASSETS Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

Aularian Register Fund

Sir Jon Shortridge (President) IW Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2009. 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 2009 and the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

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LDPage Honorary Auditor 31July 2009

A CHRONOLOGICAL CURIOSITY ry John W HaJJJkins (1970) On average, an undergraduate will spend three years in an Oxford college.

During this period there may be various building works underway, but the structure of the more ancient of the college's buildings is likely to change very little. In fact this is true even for those who spend decades in a college, such as the academic and administrative staff, and it remains the case (at least externally) even when the building works are extensive, such as the conversion of St Peter-in-the-East from parish church to St Edmund Hall library.

Nonetheless, over the centuries changes do occur and in many cases these were noted by contemporary writers or those who kept the accounts for the buildings concerned. More rarely, changes were captured by artists and mapmakers.

ST EDMUND HALL

The Queen's Lane frontage of the Hall was first depicted by David Loggan, engraver to the university, in 1675. The building it shows had been erected in two stages between 1635 and 1639, replacing earlier buildings on I''::e:~::::::.¡' ====-=c:=-:-:==cc==---=-=:;-;:the site. Perhaps its most notable feature is the curious stepped appearance of the north end, closest to the churchyard of St Peter's; lying beyond this (unseen) are the old low buildings then comprising the western end of tl1e north range buildings and it is the gable end that gives rise to this appearance. Also notable is the double oriel window in the Principal's lodgings at the south end of tl1is building. Loggan's view was copied with only minor changes by several otl1er engravers during the 17th century and it appears in works, among others, by Van der Aa and Coronelli.

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The next engraving to depict the Queen's Lane frontage was by William (or Guillam) Williams in 1732. The top half of the print showed the buildings that it was the intention of the Principal to erect on the whole of the north range of the front quadrangle, but

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By 1747 the building work had been riF====~== completed and an engraving of the front quadrangle from a drawing by George Vertue, along with an allegorical scene, was used to illustrate the University Almanack for that year. It was to be almost two hundred years before the Hall again graced the Almanack, but no surprise that it was then again the front quadrangle that was chosen.

The remodelled north end of the Queen's Lane building can just be seen in Pugin's elegant 1805 drawing of St Peter-in-the-East, but we have to wait until 1824 before the whole of the frontage was again depicted, in an engraving

by Slatter (see next page, left). By this time the old building to the immediate south of the Principal's lodgings in Loggan's drawings has been replaced by a new single storey building in Gothic style, with a street entrance to the 130

lodgings. The double oriel of the lodgings has also been replaced by a single oriel in the same Gothic style. By 1836, when Le Keux made his drawing from a similar position, this single storey building had been extended to two floors and more tightly integrated with the older building.

The changes on Queen's Lane to the Principal's lodgings were not the only ones to occur. At around this time a new single oriel was placed in the east wall of the lodgings looking out over the front quadrangle. This can be clearly seen by comparing Nathaniel Whittock's 1829 lithograph of the front

quadrangle with a later unidentified print of almost the same view. The latter is probably an early 20th century photolithograph, since the well-head was not reinstated and Christopher Airay's five storey student lodgings of 1658 replaced with a three storey undergraduate library building until 1927.

There is a little more visual evidence on the early shape of the Hall, but it is most convenient to examine this at the same time as we examine that for tl1e church.

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ST PETER-IN-THE-EAST

The earliest engraving of the church was produced around 1705 by Niichael Burghers, who succeeded David Loggan as engraver to the university and was, for many years, his assistant.

In common with almost every engraving of the church that followed over the next couple of centuries, it was the southern aspect that was depicted, with only a very shallow view of the eastern end. Other artists based their views from as far west as Queen's Lane, but not a single engraving of the north side has been identified. Arguably this is of no great consequence, since all of the major architectural changes to the church had happened earlier. To form any idea of how the church looked before this we need to examine some of the surviving maps or plans of the city. At first sight this may not appear a very fruitful source of information, but there is a peculiarity to the first plans of the city drawn by Agas in 1578, Hollar in 1643 and Loggan in 1675; rather than strict plans (or ichnographies), they are what might be termed bird's-eye views, or more properly bird's flight views, since the perspective changes slightly according to which part of the city is being depicted. The tradition of producing maps or plans in this form was, in fact, very well established even by the 16th century. The surviving copy of the Agas plan in the Bodleian is in very poor condition, but Whittles ea (detail left) produced a reasonably faithful copy in 1728. Copies of Loggan's plan in good condition are in plentiful supply (detail right). The Hollar plan shows relatively mmor differences to that of Agas and we will not reproduce it here. There is one slight irony: all of these plans show the 132

view from the north, so that the south side of the church, including its porch, cannot be seen. In any event, for each of the Agas/Whittlesea and Loggan plans we should focus separately on the Hall and the church.

Agas/Whittlesea St Peter-in-the-East The church is depicted with the original chancel of a lower height than the later nave and without the spirelets at the eastern end. The Lady chapel is shown, but without the vestry to its east or the St Thomas chapel to its west.

The tower is shown with large windows on two levels and no indication of a diminution (or 'batter') as it rises. The eastern boundary wall of the churchyard runs north from the east side of the Lady chapel to the New College wall; on the south it runs from the south-east corner of the church to the St Edmund Hall boundary. A low building is shown slightly to the north and east of the church in approximately the position occupied by the vicarage within the churchyard in at least one later engraving.

S t Edmund Hall The old western end of the north range buildings, in what is now the front quadrangle, is clearly visible. Immediately beyond this is what appears to be a small quadrangle, approximately half the extent of today's front quadrangle.

Loggan St Peter-in-the-East The eastern boundary wall of the churchyard has been pushed further east into New College and now runs more or less north-south from the New College wall to the eastern end of the extended north range of the Hall buildings. The configuration of the tower seems to have changed slightly: the lower windows have been removed entirely and the upper window reduced in size; there is a suggestion that the upper level now diminishes upwards, which is certainly confirmed in the Burghers' print of 1705. (Ingram, in his Memorials of Oxford, suggests that the upper portion of the tower may have been partially rebuilt at some stage.) A small area in the north-east corner of the churchyard is closed off, bounded by the 'original' eastern boundary wall to the west and a new wall running eastwards from the south-east corner of the church to the south; within this is what appears to be a similar building to that in the Agas and Hollar maps, albeit of a slightly different shape. The 133

being paid to the Warden and Fellows of Merton College "for the care of the Vicar of St Peter-in-the-East". As a result of the desire of the parish to extend the church yard, Merton agreed to sell the land "as far as they had the power so to do". Quite why this caveat was introduced is not now known, but it may be related to a possible problem that actually occurred later with a different piece of land, which we shall describe later. The consideration for the sale was to be that sum of 5% stock giving an annual interest equal to the rent, i.e. a nominal amount of ÂŁ210. This is also a little odd in that government stock at the time ('consols') carried an interest rate of only 3%. The purchase was funded by a combination of benefactions and interest free loans, of which details are provided following the memorandum, but unfortunately no details are provided on when the original rental agreement between the parish and Merton (or some predecessor) was entered into.

For reasons that are now unclear, but which do not seem to have been exceptional at the time, certain properties where the beneficial ownership lay with the parish were actually 'owned' by the City of Oxford for safe-keeping and provided to the parish on a 99 year lease. In 1867 these properties comprised two houses in the city and a 'slipe' (or slip) ofland "running from the stone wall of St Mary's [i.e. New] College to the north of the common gate of the church by Edmund Hall". This slip must have been that part of the church yard immediately adjacent to Queen's Lane. The two houses were sub-let by the parish, which thus benefitted from the income on them. It would appear that the lease arrangement in respect of the two houses had been in place since 1665 and since 1405 for the extension to the church yard.

In 1867, when a 99 year lease on these three properties expired, the city initially refused to renew the leases and the parish was forced to take the case to the Court of Chancery, in an action that it eventually won. Thus it was only on the successful conclusion of this case that the parish gained indisputable ownership of the whole of the site that the church and church yard now occuptes.

A vicarage-house opposite the churchyard was recorded in 1378 and one to the east of the church in 1558, but if the Agas map is accurate this was located to the east of the New College boundary wall. According to VCHO, in 1582, 1625 and 1660 it was let to tenants and it is visible in the same position in Loggan's plan of 1675, but with the boundary wall now on its east; from 1727 to 1771 it was used as a workhouse. The vicarage is just visible in (the artist) Thomas Hearne's church view of 1796 (extending further 136

to the south than the building r-::==:===:::.;;;;;;;=::;:;:;::;=:::===:::::=:=-~ shown in the Agas and Loggan plans), but had disappeared by Buckler's view of 1802.

The visual evidence on the relative heights of the roofs of the chancel and nave seem to be at odds with the recent secondary sources. RCHMO has "The walls of the chancel and nave were heightened, perhaps in 1481." If this were true, it does not seem likely that they were then equalised in height. They are clearly different on the Agas plan (the chancel is lower) and a different arrangement again is shown on the Hollar plan, where the centre section (in line with the Lady chapel) is higher than either end. The spirelets were defmitely not visible in 1578, but were present on the Loggan plan of 1675, by which time the whole of the roof was of a single height.

This also seems to argue against the theory ofLyne and others, who supposed that the bricked-up windows in the spirelets were originally used by watchman to survey the eastern approaches to the city around the time the city walls were erected in the late 11th or early 12th century. Notwithstanding the equalisation in height of the two roof sections, the detail of the upper sections of the chancel and nave remain quite distinct (on the south side the chancel has a quatrefoil parapet and the nave a series of grotesques). No reference to these building works has yet been found in the (incomplete) Churchwardens' accounts books.

Similarly, VCHO has: "The south porch, of two storeys, was added in the 15th century, and at the end of that century, probably c 1498, a lean-to north vestry was built against the eastern bay of the chancel, to the east of the Lady chapel. Early in the 16th century, probably in 1524, a small chapel, St Thomas's, was built on the north 137

side of the north aisle, west of the Lady chapel." RCHMO makes a similar statement. Again this is not confirmed by the plans. Agas has no vestry, to the east, and no St Thomas chapel, to the west, of the Lady chapel; Loggan does have the St Thomas chapel, but not the vestry. It is, of course, possible that there had been an earlier lean-to vestry, which had disappeared by 1578 and was replaced after 1675. A vestry was certainly visible in Le Keux's drawing of 1833.

In Wood's Ciry o/ Oxford there is mention in the section on St Peter's of a chantry bequest by Edward Standish, who died in 1533, for a priest to "sing for his soule" in "St Thomas Chapple within this church". At face value this seems fairly incontrovertible, but it does leave the possibility of the chapel, or perhaps only a dedicated altar, then having been elsewhere within the church, or indeed even near to the place where a proper chapel was later built. Another possibility is that the whole of the north aisle was originally dedicated to St Thomas, as suggested by Lyne and others. There are references to altars to St Catherine (or Katherine) and St Andrew within the church around 1500 and Lyne places the former in the chantry between the Lady Chapel and north aisle, as does JR King, a long-serving vicar of St Peter's, in 1888.

Emden's An Oxford Hall contains "A plan of St Edmund Hall and its dependent Halls about the year 1470", drawn by WT Wright, but for which the source is not stated. This clearly shows the St Thomas and Lady chapels, but not the vestry. This seems to be at odds not only with the visual evidence, but also with RCHMO. So were Agas and Loggan both wrong; did they simply not reflect accurately the features of the church? It is too soon to say, but, with this information, a return to the primary sources (e.g. the Churchwarden's accounts and other parish documents) and other early secondary sources with a more critical eye is certainly justifiable. In this respect at least, paying more attention in 0-level Latin classes would certainly have been a good idea. ŠJohn W Hawkins References Carey, C.E., 1862/3. A supposed underground passage from the Crypt of St Peter's in the East. Oxford Architectural & Historical Society (OA&HS) Proceedings NS (i) pp. 178-181 & 223-230.

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Cooper, Janet, 1979. St Peter's in the East. In A History of the County of Oxford: The City of Oxford Victoria County History Vol. IV, edited by Crossley, Alan & Elrington, C.R. Cowdrey, Herbert Edward John, 1993. Building work on the north range of the front quadrangle of St Edmund Hall, 1741-8. Oxoniensa 58 pp. 287-305.

Dyson, Thomas and Kent, Paul Welberry, 1961. St. Peter-in-the-East. Ramsgate: Graham Cumming. 2nd edition.

Emden, Alfred Brothers ton, 1932. An Account of the Chapel and Ubrary Building, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Emden, Alfred Brothers ton, 1954. St Edmund Hall. In A History of the County of Oxford: The University of Oxford Vol. Ill 1994 Victoria County History edited by Salter, H.E. & Lobe!, Mary D. Emden, Alfred Brorl1erston, 1968. An Oxford Hall in Mediaeval Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Emden, Alfred Brorl1erston, 1969. Medieval floor tiles in the church of St Peter's in the East, Oxford. Oxoniensia, 34 p. 29.

Hibbert, Christopher & Hibbert, Edward, 1988. The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. London: Macmi.llan.

Hurst, Herbert, 1899. Oxford Topography: an esscry. Oxford: Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society, Old Series, No 39.

Kelly, John Norman Davidson, 1989. St Edmund Hall: Almost Seven Hundred Years. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

King, JR., 1870/73/81/88. Church of St Peter's in the East. OA&HS Proceedings NS (i.i) pp.

251-6; (i.ii) pp. 168-9; (iv) pp. 48-50; (v) p. 159.

Lovell, G.F., 1881. St Edmund Hall. OA&HS Proceedings NS (iv) pp. 47-48.

Lyne, Robert Nunez, 1933. St Peter in the East, Oxford. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Stanton, Arrlmr Hemy. Shakespeare Head Press.

Lynham, Charles, 1911. The crypts of St. Peter-in-the-East and St. George widlin rl1e Cas de. Archaeological Journal 68 pp. 203-17.

Mylne, Robert Scott, 1884. Note on churchwarden's accounts of St Peter's in the East dating from 1444. Antiquaries of London Proceedings 10 p. 25-28.

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Peshall, Sir John, 1773. The Antient and Present State of the City of Oxford. London: J. & F. Rivington, London.

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11leobald,James, 1770. Account of St. Peter's Church in rl1e East. Archaeologia 1 pp. 151-5.

Tyssen, Amherst Daniel, 1863. On the churchwarden's accounts books of St Peter's in the East. OA&HS Proceedings NS (i) pp. 286-301.

Westwood, John Obadiall Fonts of St Peter's in rl1e East, Oxford. OA&HS Proceedings NS (v) pp. 295-7.

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HALL LIFE IN WORLD WAR TWO f::y Dr Derek Rushworth (1939) When we matriculands of October 1939 were assigned to our rooms in the Hall, we found there some yellow dusters, a hand-brush and a dust-pan -we were expected to clean our own rooms (a mighty contribution to the wareffort) . We were told that we would be charged a very reasonable ÂŁ4 per week for all meals and accommodation; this was a flat rate throughout the University.

The new war-time ration-books had to be handed in to the Manciple, but this caused no hardship because for several months the only items rationed were tea and sugar. Others, such as marmalade, were in short supply, and oranges, lemons and bananas of course disappeared entirely. Cakes and fruittarts were still available, making tea parties possible - even if the tea was unsweetened.

Everyone ate dinner in Hall - in those days the whole undergraduate body could dine together in the Old Dining Hall, including the balcony. On the first night, a second-year undergraduate asking to sconce 1 another received a brusque reply from the over-worked Head Porter: "I've no time for that nonsense - Sir." Two government-sponsored "British Restaurants" were established in 1941, one at the top of St Aldate's, the other in St Giles', which provided a twocourse meal for one shilling and sixpence (7 1/zp) - greatly appreciated by men living in digs.

A war-time Shortened Honours degree-course was set up, and some form of National Service in one of the University Officer-Cadet Services was obligatory; or the Hall's then numerous ordinands could choose to become Air-Raid Wardens. Daily before-breakfast parades in battle-dress began in Christ Church Meadows. Hair-cuts were strictly controlled by Regular Army 1

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penalty as second object . Formerly said of university and college officials, with reference to fines inflicted for breaches of discipline. Now only of undergraduates when dining in hall : To fine (one of their number) a tankard of ale or the like , as a penalty for some breach of good manners or conventional usage -(OED) .

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Warrant-Officers. Soon, all-day Sunday training on Shotover Hill was added - field-craft, camouflage, tactical exercises. By 1940, a quarter of our active week was spent on military training- a small price to pay for the privilege of being at Oxford, though a claim on our time which our tutors did not always appreciate. The following year, a two-week camp during the Long Vac was introduced at a Territorial Army base.

Not having arrived from one of England's public schools, I found some of the restrictions on my liberty quite unreal: I had been living and studying in Paris, eating chips in Les Halles at 2am if I wished. Now, I had to be in by llpm (it had been midnight before October 1939) and had to pay a small fine if I came in after 9.05pm (when Great Tom stopped striking). If I'd been working after dinner, I couldn't go out after 9pm for a breath of air, I must walk round the front quad instead. And after my unrestricted right to drink what I wanted, when I wanted, I was now under restraint to enter a pub- and could entertain women only within very restricted hours. (I was once hauled over the coals because a young lady - now my wife - came unknowingly into the Hall during the morning). Of course the University catered largely for public-school men, for whom the tiny amount of liberty they now found often went to their heads. Chaps with lots of money, coming up to receive the Oxford hall-mark (no pun intended).

There were lighter moments. We enjoyed singing a round in the JCR to the tune of Hire Jacques, which incorporated the names of the Principal, the V-P and all the Tutors: ''A B Emden (bis) Kelly too (bis), Ramsay, Hunt and Fletcher (bis), And the old Brew (bis)". A farcical incident occurred when police-officers investigated an ironical (but loud) rendering of the nazi Horst Wessel Lied in a room overlooking the High.

In May 1940 came "total war", with the German invasion of Belgium, Holland and France and the threatened invasion of the British Isles. Carrying gasmasks became compulsory and Hall men began serving their country and freedom in real earnest. The inscriptions in the Chapel bear witness to their sacrifice.

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HALL LIFE IN WORLD WAR TWO (MK 11) f?y John Grist (1942) The arrival of The Aulan.an reminded me that it was 67 years since I had arrived at Teddy Hall as an undergraduate aged 17, and 67 years since I had left aged 18 to join the RAF. (fo put this into context it was two years before the retiring Principal was born).

The class of '42 has had little attention. No golden age here. Nobody has ever said it was a good year, or a bad year; come to that, nobody ever mentioned it. In a recent subscription list, contributors from 1942 were limited to three, one of them having chosen to be 'anon'. Obviously still guilty about something after 67 years.

In the summer of 1941 there were advertisements in the papers for men (or boys) to be trained as pilots in the RAF starting with six months at a university.

They would be ordinary undergraduates who would spend a day and a half each week on RAF subjects; the first stages of a pilot training.

The qualification was that one had to have matriculated in the School Certificate (the GCSE equivalent) and pass an interview.

I went to London, to Adastral House, on the corner of Aldwych and Kingsway. I was very frightened and answered some questions about my examination results and what games I played. Then it got serious and the Wing Commander handed me a sheet of paper with Reasons For Wanting To Be An RAF Pilot. In a panic I had trouble focussing on the list which seemed to consist of statements like 'the pay is good', and 'the uniform is smart' when my eye came to number 5 or 6 and I shouted at the Wing Commander, 'To have a crack at the enemy Sir!' He said 'Good lad. That is what we want you for'.

And that is how I became an Oxford Man and an undergraduate of St Edmund Hall.

Most Oxford colleges were taken over for war purposes, but Teddy Hall being one of the smallest had been left alone and could handle a dozen or so of these youths.

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It has to be said that most of us had little regard for the University or our colleges. We were positively Spartan. Our only object in life was to become pilots. Dedication was the word.

I had wanted to be a pilot from the age of eight. Here at 17 the Government was offering me the chance and it seemed that, if it would help to spend 6 months in Oxford, I'd give it a go. We came with no lust for scholarship; our dream was silver wings in the moonlight, not academic glory. Some even regarded the University as a necessary but unwelcome custodial institution.

The University, drab, in the middle of a ghastly war, did not help much. The few full-time undergraduates were either doctors, dentists or divinity students.

The great University did not stir our pragmatic minds. One of our 18 yearold soothsayers opined 'these University people are all pseudo-intellectuals'.

Since most of us did not know what either word meant, we felt comfortable with this explanation.

We did all the right things though: took sherry, the flrst taste of my life, with the great AB Emden. He was a medieval scholar, but we were most impressed because he was responsible for the naval undergraduates like us, or it might even have been the Sea Scouts. We read The Times in the JCR; had three meals a day in Hall; had a Scout who made the bed; rode our bicycles everywhere and wore our short gowns; learned how to climb into college because there was a fme for those who stayed out after 9pm without a chit; learnt how to handle a punt; went to the Union once (all those wordy chaps were 'too clever by half'). Went to the New Theatre to see Margot Fonteyn dance and never got over it. Stood on Magdalen Bridge one cold May morning, and more or less kept the College cricket team going.

Sobriety was the norm; we had no money, which is why we ate every meal in Hall and had no girlfriends except for some 17 year-old English Rose back at home.

I had an attic room looking out on to the High. The draughty bathroom and loos were three flights down the stairs. What I do remember was learning to smoke a pipe without being sick.

There were 120 of us on our course at the University, spread around the colleges that still had accommodation to offer. As an experiment 30 of us 143

were allowed to study History and Geography, rather than Physics and Mathematics, and I was one of the lucky ones chosen for this intellectual chain-gang. I say lucky because the physicists had to go to the labs in the mornings and afternoons, whilst we only had rare academic engagements.

We were farmed out to scholars in North Oxford, some from Europe, and we were too ignorant to know that most of them were very distinguished.

They must have thought, on meeting us, that the barbarians had already taken over. I like to think, although without any evidence, that the idea may have been implanted, as we cycled languidly about Oxford, that there were other things in life besides wanting to fly aeroplanes.

After the war I went to the London School of Economics, avoiding the entry examination because I had been at Oxford. Later I went to the University of Chicago. Both were great institutions, but neither had a quad like Teddy Hall.

The late Sir Robin Day (Hon Fellow 1989) was of the opinion that the short university war time course was not sufficient to rate as a Who's Who entry. I never gave it much thought but now, with the realisation that the class of '42 is disappearing without trace, I have asked the Editor of Who sWho to include in my entry, '1942. RAF Short University Course, St Edmund Hall, Oxford'.

We shall not be forgot.

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Amitav Ghosh was born in Kolkata and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen's College, Delhi; Delhi University; and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology.

Ghosh lives in New York. In 1999, he joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature. He has also been a Visiting Professor to the English Department of Harvard University since 2005. His latest work of fiction is Sea of Poppies (2008), an epic saga set just before the Opium Wars, which encapsulates the colonial history of the East. His other novels are The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1990), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000) and The Hungry Tide (2004). The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary award. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997. Sea of Poppies was short-listed for the 2008 Booker Prize.

Here are his recollections, first published in The New Yorker in 1995 and edited for this publication, to mark the 25th anniversary of the troubles that beset India in 1984.

THE GHOSTS OF MRS GANDHI i:?J Amitav Ghosh (19 78) Nowhere else in the world did the year 1984 fulflll its apocalyptic portents as it did in India.

Separatist violence in the Punjab, the military attack on the great Sikh temple of Amritsar; the assassination of the Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi; riots in several cities; the gas disaster in Bhopal- the events followed relendessly on each other.

There were days in 1984 when it took courage to open the New Delhi papers in the morning.

Of the year's many catastrophes, the [pogroms] following Mrs Gandhi's death had the greatest effect on my life. Looking back, I see that the experiences of that period were profoundly important to my development as a writer; so much so that I have never attempted to write about them until now.

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At that time, I was living in a part of New Delhi called Defence Colony - a neighbourhood oflarge, labyrinthine houses, with little self-contained warrens of servants' rooms tucked away on rooftops and above garages. \Vhen I lived there, those rooms had come to house a floating population of young and straitened journalists, copywriters, minor executives, and university people like myself. We battened upon this wealthy enclave like mites in a honeycomb, spreading from rooftop to rooftop. Our ramshackle lives curtained from our landlords by chiffon-draped washing lines and thickets of TV aerials.

I was twenty-eight. The city I considered home was Calcutta, but New Delhi was where I had spent all my adult life except for a few years in England and Egypt. I had returned to India two years before, upon completing a doctorate at Oxford, and recently found a teaching job at Delhi University. But it was in the privacy of my baking rooftop hutch that my real life was lived. I was writing my first novel, in the classic fashion, perched in garret.

On the morning of October 31, the day of Mrs Gandhi's death, I caught a bus to Delhi University, as usual, at about half past nine. From where I lived, it took an hour and a half; a long commute, but not an exceptional one for New Delhi.

The assassination had occurred shortly before, just a few miles away, but I had no knowledge of this when I boarded the bus. Nor did I notice anything untoward at any point during the ninety minute journey. But the news, travelling by word of mouth, raced my bus to the university. \Vhen I walked onto the grounds, I saw not the usual boisterous, Frisbeethrowing crowd of students, but a small group of people standing intently around a transistor radio. A young man detached himself from one of the huddles and approached me, his mouth twisted into a tight lipped, knowing smile that seems always to accompany the gambit ''Have you heard ... ?"

The campus was humming, he said. No one knew for sure, but it was being said that Mrs Gandhi had been shot. The word was that she had been assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards, in revenge for her having sent troops to raid the Sikhs' Golden Temple in Amritsar earlier that year.

Just before stepping into the lecture room, I heard a report on All India Radio, the national network: Mrs Gandhi had been rushed to hospital after her attempted assassination.

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Nothing stopped: the momentum of the daily routine carried things forward.

I went into a classroom and began my lecture, but not many students had shown up and those who had were distracted and distant; there was a lot of fidgeting.

Halfway through the class, I looked out through the room's single, slit-like window. The sunlight lay bright on the lawn below and on the trees beyond.

It was the time of year when Delhi was at its best, crisp and cool. Its abundant greenery freshly watered by the recently retreated monsoons, its skies washed sparkling clean. By the time I turned back, I had forgotten what I was saying and had to reach for my notes.

My unsteadiness surprised me. I was not an uncritical admirer ofMrs Gandhi.

Her brief period of semi-dictatorial rule in the mid-seventies was still alive in my memory. But the ghastliness of her sudden murder was a reminder of the very real qualities that had been taken for granted: her fortitude, her dignity, her physical courage, her endurance. Yet it was just not grief I felt at the moment. Rather, it was a sense of something loose, of a mooring coming untied somewhat within.

The first reliable report of Mrs Gandhi's death was broadcast from Karachi,

by Pakistan, at around 1.30pm. On All India Radio, regular broadcasts had been replaced by music.

I left the university in the late afternoon with a friend, Hari Sen, who lived at the other end of the city. I needed to make a long-distance call, and he had offered to let me use his family telephone.

To get to Hari's house we had to change buses at Connaught Place, that elegant circular arcade that lies at the geographical heart of Delhi, linking the old city with the new. As the bus swung around the periphery of the arcade, I noticed that the shops, stalls, and eateries were beginning to shut down, even though it was still afternoon.

Our next bus was not quite full, which was unusual. Just as it was pulling out, a man ran out of the office and jumped on. He was middle-aged and dressed in shirt and trousers, evidently an employee in one of the government buildings. He was a Sikh, but I scarcely noticed this at the time.

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He probably jumped on without giving the matter any thought, this being his regular, daily bus. But, as it happened, on this day no choice could have been more unfortunate, for the route of the bus went past the hospital where Indira Gandhi's body then lay. Certain loyalists in her party had begun inciting the crowds gathered there to seek revenge. The motorcade of Giani Zail Singh, the President of the Republic, a Sikh, had already been attacked by a mob.

None of this was known to us then, and we would never have suspected it: violence had never been directed at the Sikhs in Delhi.

As the bus made its way down New Delhi's broad, tree-lined avenues, officiallooking cars, with outriders and escorts, overtook us, speeding toward the hospital. As we drew nearer, it became evident that a large number of people had gathered there. But this was no ordinary crowd: it seemed to consist of red-eyed young men in half-buttoned shirts.

It was now that I noticed that my Sikh fellow-passenger was showing signs of anxiety, sometimes standing up to look out, sometimes glancing out the door. It was too late to get off the bus; thugs were everywhere.

The bands of young men grew more and more menacing as we approached the hospital. There was a watchfulness about them; some were armed with steel rods and bicycle chains; others had fanned out across the busy road and were stopping cars and buses.

A stout woman in a sari sitting across the aisle from me was the first to understand what was going on. Rising to her feet, she gestured urgendy at the Sikh, who was sitting hunched in his seat. She hissed at him in Hindi, telling him to get down and keep out of sight.

The man started in surprise and squeezed himself into the narrow footspace between the seats. Minutes later, our bus was intercepted by a group of young men dressed in bright, sharp synthetics. Several had bicycle chains wrapped around their wrists. They ran along beside the bus as it slowed to a halt. We heard them call out to the driver through the open door, asking if there were any Sikhs in the bus.

The driver shook his head. No, he said, there were no Sikhs in the bus.

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A few rows ahead of me, the crouching turbaned figure had gone completely still.

Outside, some of the young men were jumping up to look through the windows, asking if there were any Sikhs in the bus. There was no anger in their voices; that was the most chilling thing of all.

No, someone said, and immediately other voices picked up the refrain. Soon all the passengers were shaking their heads and saying, no, no, let us go now, we have to get home.

Eventually, the thugs stepped back and waved us through.

Nobody said a word as we sped away down Ring Road.

Hari Sen lived in one of New Delhi's recently developed residential colonies.

It was called Safdarjang Enclave, and it was neatly and solidly middle-class, a neighbourhood of aspirations rather than opulence. Like most such suburbs, the area had a mixed population: Sikhs were well represented.

A long street ran from end to end of the neighbourhood, like the spine of a comb, with parallel side streets running off it. Hari lived at the end of one of those streets, in a fairly typical, big, one-storey bunglow. The house next door, however, was much grander and uncharacteristically daring in design. An angular structure, it was perched rakishly on stilts.

Mr Bawa, the owner, was an elderly Sikh who had spent a long time abroad, working with various international organizations. For several years, he had resided in Southeast Asia; thus the stilts.

Hari lived with his family in a household so large and eccentric that it had come to be known among his friends as Macondo, after Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical village. On this occasion, however, only his mother and teenage sister were at home. I decided to stay over.

It was a bright morning. When I stepped into the sunshine, I came upon a sight that I could never have imagined. In every direction, columns of smoke rose slowly into a limpid sky. Sikh houses and businesses were burning. The fires were so carefully targeted that they created an effect quite different 149

from that of a general conflagration: it was like looking upward into the vault of some vast pillared hall.

The columns of smoke increased in number even as I stood outside watching.

Some fires were burning a short distance away. I spoke to a passerby and learned that several nearby Sikh houses had been looted and set on fire that morning. The mob had started at the far end of the colony and was working its way in our direction. Hindus or Muslims who had sheltered Sikhs were also being attacked; their houses, too, were being looted and burned.

It was still and quiet, eerily so. The usual sounds of rush-hour traffic were absent. But every so often we heard a speeding car or a motorcycle on the main street. Later, we discovered that these mysterious speeding vehicles were instrumental in directing the carnage that was taking place. Protected by certain politicians, "organizers" were zooming around the city, assembling the mobs and transporting them to Sikh-owned houses and shops.

Apparently, the transportation was provided free . A civil-rights report published shortly afterward stated that this phase of violence ''began with the arrival of groups of armed people in Tempo vans, scooters, motorcycles or trucks," and went on to say ...

With cans of petrol they went around the localities and systematically set fire to Sikh houses, shops and gurdwaras ... the targets were primarily young Sikhs. They were dragged out, beaten up and then burned alive ... In all the affected spots, a calculated attempt to terrorize the people was evident in the common tendency among the assailants to burn alive Sikhs on public roads.

Fire was everywhere; it was the day's motif. Throughout the city, Sikh houses were being looted and then set on fire, often with their occupants still inside.

A survivor - a woman who lost her husband and three sons - offered the following account to Veena Das, a Delhi sociologist: Some people, the neighbours, one if my relatives, said it would be better if we hid in an abandoned house nearl:!J. So my husband took our three sons and hid there. We locked the house from outside, but there was treachery in people} hearts. Someone must have told the crowd. Thry baited him to come out. Then thry poured kerosene on that house.

Thry burnt them alive. When I went there that night, the bodies if my sons were on the loft - huddled together.

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Over the next few days, some 2,500 people died in Delhi alone. Thousands more died in other cities. The total death toll will never be known. The dead were overwhelmingly Sikh men. Entire neighbourhoods were gutted; tens of thousands of people were left homeless.

Like many other members of my generation, I grew up believing that mass slaughter of the kind that accompanied the Partition oflndia and Pakistan, in 1947, could never happen again. But that morning in the city of Delhi, the violence had reached the same level of intensity.

As Hari and I stood staring into the smoke-streaked sky, Mrs Sen, Hari's mother, was thinking of matters closer at hand. She was about fifty, a tall, graceful woman with a gentle, soft-spoken manner. In an understated way, she was also deeply religious, a devout Hindu. When she heard what was happening, she picked up the phone and called Mr and Mrs Bawa, the elderly Sikh couple next door, to let them know that they were welcome to come over. She met with an unexpected response: an awkward silence. Mrs Bawa thought she was joking, and wasn't sure whether to be amused or not.

Toward midday, Mrs Sen received a phone call: the mob was now in the immediate neighbourhood, advancing systematically from street to street.

Hari decided that it was time to go over and have a talk with the Bawas. I went along.

Mr Bawa proved to be a small, slight man. Although he was casually dressed, his turban was neatly tied and his beard was carefully dressed. He was puzzled by our visit. After a polite greeting, he asked what he could do for us. It fell to Hari to explain.

Mr Bawa had heard about Indira's assassination, of course, and he knew there had been some trouble . But he could not understand why these "disturbances" should impinge on him or his wife. He had no more sympathy for the Sikh militants than we did; his revulsion at the assassination was, if anything, even greater than ours. Not only was his commitment to India and the Indian state absolute but it was evident from his bearing that he belonged to the country's ruling elite.

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found ourselves faltering. lvfr Bawa could not bring himself to believe that a mob might attack him. By the time we left, it was lv1r Bawa who was mouthing reassurances. He sent us off with jovial pats on our backs. He did not actually say "Buck up," but his manner said it for him.

We were confident that the government would soon act to stop the violence.

In India, there is a drill associated with civil disturbances: a curfew is declared; paramilitary units are deployed; in extreme cases the army marches to the stricken areas. No city in India is better equipped to perform this drill than New Delhi, with its huge security apparatus. We learned later that in some cities- Calcutta, for example, the state authorities did act promptly to prevent violence.

But in New Delhi- and much of North India- hours followed without a response.

Every few minutes we turned to the radio, hoping to hear that the Army had been ordered out. All we heard was mournful music and descriptions of Mrs Gandhi's lying in state; of coming and goings of dignitaries, foreign and national. The bulletins could have been messages from another planet.

As the afternoon progressed, we continued to hear reports of the mob's steady advance. Before long, it had reached the next alley: we could hear the voices; the smoke was everywhere. There was still no sign of Army or police.

Hari again called lv1r Bawa, and now the flames were visible from his windows; he was more receptive. He agreed to come over with his wife, just for a short while. But there was a problem: How? The two properties were separated by a shoulder-high wall, so it was impossible to walk from one house to the other, except along the street.

I spotted a few thugs already at the end of the street. We could hear the occasional motorcycle, cruising slowly up and down. The Bawas could not risk stepping out in the street. They would be seen: the sun had dipped low in the sky, but it was still light. lv1r Bawa balked at the thought of climbing over the wall: it seemed an inseparable obstacle at his age. But eventually Hari persuaded him to try.

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well sheltered from the street. The mob seemed terrifyingly close, the Bawas reckless in their tardiness. A long time appeared before the elderly couple fmally appeared, hurrying towards us.

Mr Bawa had changed before leaving the house: he was nearly dressed, dapper even, in a blazer and cravat. lvfrs Bawa dressed in salwar and kameez. Their cook was with them, and it was with his assistance that they made it over the wall. The cook, who was Hindu, then returned to the house to stand guard.

Hari led the Bawas into the drawing room, where Mrs Sen was waiting, dressed in a chiffon sari. The room was large and well appointed, its walls hung with a rare and beautiful set of miniatures. With the curtains now drawn and the lamps lit, it was warm and welcoming. But all that lay between us and the mob in the street was a row of curtained French windows and a garden wall.

Mrs Sen greeted the elderly couple with folded hands as they came in. The three seated themselves in the intimate circle, and soon a silver tea tray appeared.

Instandy, all constraint evaporated, and, to the tinkling of porcelain, the conversation turned to the staples of New Delhi drawing-room chatter.

I could not bring myself to sit down. I stood in the corridor, distracted, looking outside through the front entrance.

A couple of scouts on motorcycles had drawn up next door. They had dismounted and were inspecting the house, walking in among the concrete stilts, looking up into the house. Somehow, they got wind of the cook's presence and called him out.

The cook was very frightened. He was surrounded by thugs thrusting knives in his face and shouting questions. It was dark, and some were carrying kerosene torches. Wasn't it true, they shouted, that his employers were Sikhs.

Where were they? Were they hiding inside? Who owned the house - Hindus or Sikhs? Hari and I hid behind the wall and listened to the interrogation.

Our fates depended on this lone, frightened man. We had no idea what he would do: of how secure the Bawas were of his loyalties, or whether he might seek revenge for some past slight by revealing their whereabouts. If he did, both houses would bum.

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Although stuttering in terror, the cook held his own. Yes, he said, yes, his employers were Sikhs, but they had left town: there was no one in the house.

No, the house didn't belong to them; they were renting from a Hindu.

He succeeded in persuading most of the thugs, but a few eyed the surrounding houses suspiciously. Some appeared at the steel gates in front of us, rattling the bars.

We went up and positioned ourselves at the gates. I remember a strange sense of disconnection as I walked down the driveway, as though I was watching myself from somewhere very distant.

We took hold of the gates and shouted back: "Get away! You have no business here. There's no one inside! The house is empty!"

To my surprise, they began to drift away, one by one. Just before this, I had stepped into the house to see how Mrs Sen and the Bawas were faring. The thugs were clearly audible in the lamplit drawing room; only a thin curtain shielded the interior from their view.

My memory of what I saw in the drawing room is uncannily vivid. Mrs Sen had a slight smile on her face as she poured a cup of tea for Mr Bawa. Beside her, Mrs Bawa, in a firm, unwavering voice, was comparing the domestichelp situations in New Delhi and Manila.

I was awed by their courage.

The next morning, I heard about a protest that was being organized at the large compound of a relief agency. When I arrived, a meeting was already underway, a gathering of seventy or eighty people.

The mood was sombre. Some of the people spoke of neighbourhoods that had been taken over by vengeful mobs. They described countless murders mainly by setting the victims alight- as well as terrible destruction: the burning of Sikh temples, the looting of Sikh schools, the razing of Sikh homes and shops. The violence was worse than I had imagined. It was decided that the most effective initial tactic would be to march into one of the badly affected neighbourhoods and confront the rioters directly.

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The group had grown to a hundred and fifty men and women, among them Swami Agnivesh, a Hindu ascetic; Ravi Chopra, a scientist and environmentalist; and a handful of opposition politicians, including Chander Sekhar, who became Prime Minister for a brief period several years later.

The group was pitifully small by the standards of a city where crowds of several hundred thousand were routinely mustered for political rallies.

Nevertheless, the members rose to their feet and began to march.

Years before, I had read a passage by VS Naipaul, which had stayed with me ever since. I have never been able to fmd it again, so this account is from memory. In his incomparable prose, Naipaul describes a demonstration. He is in a hotel room, somewhere in Africa or South America; he looks down and sees people marching past. To his surprise, the sight fills him with an obscure longing, a kind of melancholy, he is aware of a wish to go out, to join, to merge his concerns with theirs. Yet he knows he never will; it is simply not in his nature to join crowds.

For many years, I read everything of Naipaul's I could lay my hands on; I couldn't have enough of him. I read him with the intimate, appalled attention that one reserves for one's most skilful interlocutors. It was he who first made it possible for me to think of myself as a writer, working in English.

I remembered the passage because I believed that I, too, was not a joiner, and in Naipaul's pitiless mirror I thought I had seen an aspect of myself rendered visible. Yet as this forlorn little group marched out of the shelter of the compound, I did not hesitate for a moment: without a second thought, I joined.

The march headed first to Lajpat Nagar, a busy commercial area a mile or so away. I knew the area. Though it was in New Delhi, its streets resembled the older parts of the city, where small cramped shops tended to spill out into the footpaths.

We were shouting slogans as we marched: hoary Gandhian staples of peace and brotherhood from half a century before. Then, suddenly, we were confronted with a starkly familiar spectacle, an image of twentieth century urban horror: burned out cars, their ransacked interiors visible through smashed windows; debris and rubble everywhere. Blackened pots had been

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strewn along the street. A cinema had been gutted, and the charred faces of ftlm stars stared out at us from half-burned posters.

As I think back to that march, my memory breaks down, details dissolve. I recently telephoned some friends who had been there. Their memories are similar to mine in only one respect; they, too, clung to one scene while successfully ridding their minds of the rest.

The scene my memory preserved is of a moment when it seemed inevitable that we would be attacked.

Rounding a corner, we found ourselves facing a crowd that was larger and more determined-looking that any other crowds that we had encountered.

On each previous occasion, we had prevailed by marching at the thugs and engaging them directly, in dialogues that turned quickly into extended shouting matches. In every instance, we had succeeded in facing them down. But this particular mob was intent on confrontation. As its members advanced on us, brandishing knives and steel rods, we stopped. Our voices grew louder as they came towards us; a kind of rapture descended on us, exhilaration in anticipation of a climax. We braced for the attack, leaning forward as though into a wind.

And then something happened that I have never completely understood.

Nothing was said; there was no signal, nor was there any break in the rhythm of our chanting. But suddenly all the women in our group - and the women made up more than half of the group's numbers - stepped out and surrounded the men; their saris and kameezes became a thin, fluttering barrier, a wall around us. They turned to face the approaching men, challenging them, daring them to attack.

The thugs took a few more steps toward us and then faltered, confused. A moment later, they were gone.

The march ended at the walled compound where it had started. In the next couple of hours, an organization was created, the Nagrik Ekta Manch, or Citizen's Unity Front, and its work -to bring relief to the injured and the bereft, to shelter the homeless - began the next morning. Food and clothing were needed, and camps had to be established to accommodate the thousands of people with nowhere to sleep. And by the next day we were overwhelmed

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- literally. The large compound was crowded with vanloads of blankets, second-hand clothing, shoes and sacks of flour, sugar and tea. Previously hard-nosed unsentimental businessmen sent cars and trucks. There was barely room to move.

My own role in the Front was slight. For a few weeks, I worked with a team from Delhi University, distributing supplies in the slums and working-class neighbourhoods that had been worst hit by the rioting. Then I returned to my desk.

In time, inevitably, most of the Front's volunteers returned to their everyday lives. But some members- most notably, the women involved in the running of refugee camps - continued to work for years afterward with Sikh women and children who had been rendered homeless. Jaya Jaitley, Lalita Ramdas, Veena Das, Mita Base, Radha Kumar: these women, each one an accomplished professional, gave up years of their time to repair the enormous damage that had been done in a matter of two or three days.

The Front also formed a team to investigate the riots. I briefly considered joining, but then decided that an investigation would be a waste of time because the politicians capable of inciting violence were unlikely to heed a tiny group of concerned citizens.

I was wrong. A document eventually produced by this team- a slim pamphlet entitled Who Are the Guilty?- has become a classic, a searing indictment of the politicians who encouraged the riots and the police who allowed the rioters to have their way.

Over the years, the Indian government has compensated some of the survivors of the 1984 violence and resettled some of the homeless. One gap remains: to this day, no instigator of the riots has been charged. But the pressure on the government has never gone away, and it continues to grow: every year, the nails hammered in by that slim document dig just a little deeper.

That pamphlet and others that followed are testaments to the only humane possibility available to people who live in multi-ethnic, multi-religious societies like those of the Indian sub-continent. Human-rights documents such as Who Are the Guilty? are essential to the process of broadening civil institutions: they are weapons with which society asserts itself against a state that runs criminally amok, as the one did in Delhi in November of 1984.

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It is heartening that sanity prevails today in Punjab. But not elsewhere. In Bombay, local government officials want to stop any public buildings from being painted green - a colour associated with the Muslim religion. And hundreds of the city's Muslims have been deported from the city slums -in at least one case for committing an offence no graver than reading a Bengali newspaper. It is imperative that the government insures that those who instigate mass violence do not go unpunished.

The Bosnian writer Dzevad Karahasan, in a remarkable essay called "Literature and War" (published in 1994 in the collection Sarqjevo, Exodus of a City), makes a startling connection between modem literary aestheticism and the contemporary world's indifference to violence: The decision to perceive literally everything as an aesthetic phenomenoncompletely sidestepping questions about goodness and truth- is an artistic decision. That decision started in the realm of art, and went on to become characteristic of the contemporary world.

When I went back to my desk in November 1984, I found myself confronting decisions about writing that I had never faced before. How was I to write about what I had seen, without reducing it to a mere spectacle?

My next novel was bound to be influenced by my experiences, but I could see no way of writing directly about those events without recreating them as a panorama of violence - "an aesthetic phenomenon," as Karahasan was to call it. At the time, the idea seemed obscene and futile; of much greater importance were factual reports of the testimony of the victims. But these were already being done by people who were, I knew, more competent than I could be.

Within a few months, I started my novel, which I eventually called The Shadow u ¡nes - a book that led me backward in time, to earlier memories of riots, ones witnessed in childhood. It became a book not about any one event, but about the meaning of such events and their effects on the individuals who live through them.

And until now, I have never really written about what I saw in November 1984. I am not alone: several others who took part in that march went on to

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publish books, yet nobody, so far as I know, has ever written about it except in the passing.

There are good reasons for this, not least the politics of the situation, which leave so little room for the writer. The riots were generated by a cycle of violence, involving militants in Punjab on the one hand, and the Indian government on the other. To write carelessly in such a way as to endorse militancy or repression, can add easily to the problem: in such incendiary circumstances, words cost lives, and it is only appropriate that those who deal in words should pay scrupulous attention to what they say. It is only appropriate that they should fmd themselves inhibited.

But there is also a simple explanation. Before I could set down a word, I had to resolve a dilemma, between being a writer and being a citizen. As a writer, I had only obvious subjects: the violence. From the news report, or the latest ftlm or novel, we have come to expect the bloody detail or the elegantly staged conflagration that closes a chapter or effects a climax.

But it is worth asking if the very obviousness of this subject arises out of modern conventions of representations: within the dominant aesthetic of our time- the aesthetic of what Karahasan calls "indifference"- it is all too easy to present violence as an apocalyptic spectacle, while the resistance to it can as easily ftgure as mere sentimentality, or worse, as pathetic or absurd.

Writers don't join crowds - Naipaul and so many others teach us that. But what do you do when the Constitutional authority fails to act? You join and in joining, bear all the responsibility and obligations and guilt that joining represents. My experience of the violence was overwhelming and memorable of the resistance to it. When I think of the women staring down the mob, I am not filled with writerly wonder. I am reminded of my gratitude from being saved from injury.

What I saw at ftrsthand - and not merely on that march but on the bus, in Hari's house, in the huge compound filled with essential goods -was not the horror of violence, but the affirmation of humanity: in each case, I witnessed the risks that perfectly ordinary people were willing to take for one another.

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are largely resigned, I fmd myself asking: is that all there was to it? Or is it possible that the authors of these descriptions failed to fmd a form - or a style or a voice of a plot- that could accommodate both violence and the civilized, willed response to it?

The truth is that the commonest response to violence is one of repugnance, and that a significant number of people everywhere try to oppose it in whatever way they can. That these effects so rarely appear in accounts of violence is not surprising: they are too un-dramatic. For those who participate in them, they are often hard to write about for the very reasons that so long delayed my own account of 1984.

"Let us not fool ourselves," Karahasan writes. "The world is written first the Holy Books say that it was created in words and all that happens in it, happens in language first."

It is when we think of the world the aesthetic of indifference might bring into being that we recognize the urgency of remembering the stories we have not written.

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George Barner celebrated his 100th birthday last December. He was also recognised by the Harvard Alutru1i Association for being the oldest Harvard graduate at Commencement ceremony in June 2009.

Christopher Campling recently published his memoirs I Was Glad Oanus, ISBN 1 85756 615 5), one chapter of which recalls his St Edmund Hall days.

Christopher Armitage received an Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Board of Governors, University of North Carolina.

Philip Currah's Tra,¡king Charles Dickens: A Chronology of his Whereabouts has now been published on the web by the Library of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. The Chronology is accessible on the Library's Special Collections page at: http : I I www.!ib.sfu ea/special-collections /digital-collections. Philip and Marjorie live in Vancouver.

Keith Suddaby has been awarded Fellowship of the British Photographic Exhibitions (500 acceptances including 50 awards) .

He has previously been awarded two Fellowships of the Royal Photographic Society (in Prints and audio-visual) and the Fenton Medal for services to the RPS. Last February, Peter Kite was awarded an MBE for more than 40 years' leadership with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. And in May last year, he married Dr Catherine Hamblin.

Glynne W Roberts is now Head Steward at Lichfield Cathedral, for a three year term of office. He was installed on 8 March 2009 by the Dean of Lichfield.

Brian Taylor has published Bamboo Leaves, Oxford Poems and Basic Buddhism for a World in Trouble.

Ewan Anderson has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for Kurdistan/ Iraq Boundary Delimitation. He also successfully supplicated for his DLitt from the University of Oxford.

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Malcolm McDonald, until recently a Professor and Deputy Director of Cranfield University School of Management, has been appointed Emeritus Professor there. He is also a Visiting Professor at Henley, Warwick, Aston and Bradford University Business Schools. For any friends during his time at the Hall who would like to get in touch, his email address is m.mcdonald@cranfield.ac.uk On 25 May 2008, in London, Simon Downie was presented with a plaque inscribed "Namasagali Old Students Association NOSA INTERNATIONAL REUNION 2008, presented to Mr Simon Downie in recognition of outstanding services to Namasagali College Uganda"- he taught Geography there from 1975 to 2002.

Canon Terry Palmer was able to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of ordination as a priest with a solemn Eucharist at St Teilo's Newport last December, at which he was privileged to have the Archbishop of Canterbury as preacher. Since then Terry has baptised his second grandchild, Tobias Palmer at Tutshill, near Chepstow.

Richard Stoner has stepped down from Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging, the lviRI company he eo-founded in 2001, and now works part-time providing board support to businesses undergoing change.

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Sir Jon Shortridge became interim Permanent Secretary for the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) on 26 May. Philip Robinson has now retired from Brighton College and lives partly in Brighton, and partly in Reilhaguet, France.

With eight children from his two marriages, John Berryman is a local preacher at his Methodist Church and organist. He is a Justice of the Peace and has a number of publications to his name.

Having overseen the complicated ÂŁ250,000 restoration of the organ as Organist and Director of Music at Bolton Parish Church, former Hall Organ Scholar Stephen Carleston retired at Easter to become . . a muste exammer.

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Last September saw the publication of The Wqy Bryond the ShamanBirthing a New Earth Consciousness (0 Books, 2008) by Barry Cottrell.

Rev Dr John Parr married Frances Pope on 28 July 2007 at All Saints, Bury St Edmunds; he returned to the stipendiary ministry of the Church of England in March 2009 when he became Rector of the North Bury Team Ministry in Bury St Edmunds.

Don Farrow wrote a two hour special on the 1970s called "Seventies Fever" which aired in the USA last December on The History Channel.

Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle o/ Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea rif Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy; it was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize last September. His article "The Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi" is reproduced on pages 145-160.

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Paula and David Gillett are delighted to announce the birth of their second child, a daughter Eleanor Bartholomew Miller Bayliss Gillett, on 28 March 2008 - a brother for Henry.

Louise Hardiman and Richard Pinhey are delighted to announce the birth of their son Alexander Francis, on 17 September 2008.

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Matt Mandelbaum married Katie, nee Smith (2003), in May 2009 in Chiddingfold, Surrey. They now live in London where 1\ [att works as an investment consultant for Lane Clark & Peacock LLP and Katie works as a doctor.

Oenone Crossley-Holland has published a book called Hands Up! A Year in the life of an Inner Ciry School Teacher - published by John 1\ [urray.

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ceremony of the Annual Panhellenic Conference on Psychological Research, which took place in Volos in May. She was also given the opportunity to present her thesis, unfortunately in just 15 minutes!

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2004 Meredith Root-Bernstein's poem, Contemplation, has been published in The New Yorker (see pages 58-59).

2004 Helen Taylor was amongst a multi-national elite crew of eight amateur rowers (6 men and 2 women) who set off from Geraldton, Western Australia on the 28 April 2009 in a custom-built 36ft long ocean rowing boat named 'Aud Eamus'; they reached Mauritius, a mammoth 3,132 nautical miles across the Indian Ocean, after just 58 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes at sea, knocking an impressive six days off the previous route record which had remained unbroken for 38 years, for the fastest ever crossing of the Indian Ocean by rowing boat.

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KENNETH RALPH PREBBLE (1933) Kenneth Prebble's life was focused on the church, on his large family, and on the stage. He was born in 1914 in Brockely, Kent, though spent his childhood and youth in Bromley. His father was the London agent of a number of Yorkshire mill owners. He was educated at Winchester House and Hurstpierpoint College, and came up to Oxford in 1933 to read history. Having a vocation for the priesthood he chose St Edmund Hall, which at the time was a focus for prospective theological students. He graduated in 1936 and studied theology at Ripon Hall, coming under the intellectual and doctrinal influence of Henry Major, its charismatic principal.

History was an appropriate focus for Kenneth, who throughout his life had a keen awareness that he was living through extraordinary times. He was a dedicated diarist, faithfully recording events that shaped or even just filled up his life . He embraced successively several leading ethical and religious movements: moral rearmament, Anglo-Catholicism, the charismatic revival, and, eventually, Roman Catholicism. At the same time, he always had a keen interest in political life, with a particular concern for the persecution of the church in the Soviet Union.

Prebble was much influenced by Frank Buchman, the American Lutheran pastor who, after a good deal of groundwork, founded the Moral Rearmament movement in 1938. lVfRA stressed the moral recovery of nations as a forerunner to economic recovery. It gained considerable publicity but little success.

As an undergraduate, Prebble was an active member of Buchman's Oxford Group, the forerunner of Moral Rearmament. The Group encouraged its members to socialise among themselves and to work in small teams to promote moral rearmament and to enlist recruits from the university community, often to the detriment of other activities. In Kenneth's case, to 168

his later regret, commitment to the Group led to graduating with a 3rd (not as uncommon in the 30s as it is today, but a disappointment) and to taking less advantage than he might have of what Oxford had to offer.

He was a good sportsman, but ear trouble made him give up swimming, his major athletic activity. He switched to shooting, a half-blue sport in which he excelled, gaining his half-blue. Later, as a military chaplain, he proved to be the best marksman among the officers of his battalion, but he did not put the skill to practical use, since padres do not carry arms.

Prebble was ordained in 1939 and became curate of Horsham. There, in 1942, he married Mary Hoad, a registered nurse who had just completed her training as a midwife. Shortly afterwards, having reached 28, the minimum age for a military chaplain, he enlisted and went into training for the Normandy invasion. He landed two weeks after D Day as padre to the 5th Dorsets, part of the 43rd Wessex Division. The Division was very quickly in the middle of the Battle of the Odon, one of the fiercest engagements on the Western Front, and took 7,000 casualties between 10 and 22 July 1944. Within a fortnight of landing Prebble was back in England, seriously wounded. He was perhaps lucky: as a corps, chaplains suffered one of the highest casualty rates in the forces . His successor was killed and the Dorsets' next padre was also badly wounded.

In 1948 Kenneth and Mary emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand. They chose New Zealand because they were deeply moved by the country's heavy losses at Monte Cassino and wanted to do what they could to help.

Prebble was Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Northcote, from 1948 to 1954, of St Paul's Symonds Street, in the middle of Auckland, from 1954 to 1974 and of All Saints' Wellsford from 1974 to 1979. He was Archdeacon of Hauraki from 1965 to his retirement.

Prebble's major work was done at St Paul's. In 1954 the parish was badly run down, with a small and dispirited congregation and little prospect of recruiting any growth in membership from the locality, which was largely depopulated.

His plan was to rebuild the church's role as a centre of Anglo-Catholic worship and to draw a congregation from throughout the city. For the next twenty years he did this very successfully. He was a gifted preacher, always working from a Biblical text and never from popular culture.

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In the mid 1960s he embraced the charismatic revival, electrifying half his congregation and electrocuting the other half. His services achieved a blend of Anglo Catholic and charismatic ceremonial that was as elegant as the combination was improbable. There was a great efflorescence of worship in the parish, marked notably by the work and compositions of the St Paul's Singers, a choir that he founded, which achieved international renown. A particularly proud moment in his ministry was to be Vicar of St Paul's when Richard Gillard wrote "The Servant Song", now firmly embedded in the international canon of church music and available on many websites.

Prebble was dear-sighted and sometimes uncompromising in his judgement.

He was too sympathetic and gentlemanly to call a spade a spade, but he left no doubt when spade was what he meant. This quality stood in his way when he was considered for a bishopric.

Prebble retired at 65 after a career characterised by a great love and enthusiasm for his work. He had, however, become disenchanted with developments in Anglicanism and soon after retirement Mary and he were received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was active in the Catholic community until his death.

Having renounced the Church of England he was not called on for the usual locums that occupy retired Anglican clergy. The Catholic Diocese of Auckland was short of priests and made a preliminary proposal to ordain him. (Catholic clerical celibacy is a practical rather than doctrinal rule.) Rather to Kenneth's relief Rome turned the idea down, which left him free to pursue his second major career interest, the stage.

Throughout his life, the theatre was a passion rather than a hobby. He played both Richard Ill and Hamlet at Hurstpierpoint to great acclaim, but preoccupation with the Oxford Group kept him from the stage as an undergraduate. As a parish priest his sense of theatre informed both his preaching and his meticulous drilling of large altar parties, with liturgical spectacles more expected in All Saints Margaret Street than in the remoter reaches of the southern hemisphere. He directed many amateur productions, emphasising Gilbert and Sullivan and mediaeval mystery plays.

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productions, including Hercules and Xena, Warrior Princess, American series about mythological (or invented) Greco-Roman superheroes that were filmed in New Zealand. Kenneth's white beard and noble bearing made him particularly sought after for such roles as Respected Elder and Priest, although he occasionally wound up as Old Slave. He seldom bothered to mention these roles to his family; so his grandchildren were sometimes startled, while absorbed in the escapist fantasy world of television, to see their grandfather on screen, perhaps presiding over the marriage of Hercules and his latest bride. Kenneth was never short of this kind of commercial work, though he exasperated his agent by insisting on reading scripts to "see if they were theologically sound". He declined lucrative offers from American producers to play God. Not wanting to trade on his personal renown in New Zealand he refused advertising work for the local market, but played Old Farmer for one or two commercials for Japan.

Although he usefully supplemented his pension with fees for television acting, Kenneth's first love was the stage. His work with Theatre Corporate and the Mercury included roles in such works as The Crucible and As You Like It. He demonstrated the importance of the theatre to him a few months before his death, when he was very sick from a serious gastrointestinal illness and his extended family had dropped what they had been doing and assembled in Auckland. His response was to compare himself to Chekhov's Uncle Vanya: hardly exact, since Vanya was an attention-seeking hypochondriac whereas Kenneth was not expected to survive.

Both during and after his time as a parish priest, Prebble maintained an active interest in the travails of the church in the Soviet Union, keeping in touch with Bible smugglers and other anti-Soviet subversives. During the Cold War, in an effort to establish liberal credentials the Soviet government employed a kind of religious diplomacy conducted through leaders of the state-sanctioned, and heavily compromised, leadership of the Orthodox Church. They exploited institutions like the World Council of Churches and (where they were sympathetic) the World Council's national branches.

In 1987, Prebble read of a propaganda demarche proposed for 1987: an ecclesiastical progression through New Zealand by a delegation of bishops, archimandrites, and arch-priests, to be sponsored by the New Zealand Council of Churches. Prebble himself was persona non grata with the Council and had to remain in the background, but with only three weeks' notice, and with the 171

help of an unlikely combination of Catholic nuns, Christian fundamentalists, and refugees from Hungary who had fled the Russians in 1953, he organised supporters to attend the delegation's meetings. They were well prepared with information supplied by Canon Dr Michael Bourdeaux, another Hall man and a founder of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism, later Keston College and now the Keston Institute.

The visitors and their sponsoring clergy found question time at meetings increasingly embarrassing. The climax came when Prebble established that an archimandrite in the delegation was none other than the monk Pustusov, whose testimony in 1980 had helped to despatch the persecuted Father Gleb Yakunin to five years in the Gulag, followed by five years' internal exile.

Eventually, the organisers had to cancel without notice what had been planned as the climax of the visit, a triumphal ceremonial meeting in Wellington between the delegation and leaders of the National Council of Churches.

(The story is told in the Keston Institute Newsletter No 6, of 2008 page 12, available on the Institute's website) .

When Kenneth and Mary emigrated to New Zealand they had three children: John, Tom, and Richard. In New Zealand, they added Edward, Mark, and Kate. One would expect a family of eight to fill a vicarage pretty well to bursting, but Kenneth and Mary managed to find room for many other more or less permanent guests, some of whom had come for lunch or dinner and ended up staying some months. A casual visitor to the vicarage would fmd it populated with parishioners, friends and relatives of parishioners, and people parishioners had met once at a party and thought seemed interesting.

Kenneth was immensely proud of his family, which was large. As might be expected of a man with six children, he has many descendants: 27 grandchildren and step-grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren and step-greatgrandchildren. Several of these later generations of Prebbles have followed in Kenneth's footsteps in one way or another: John Prebble followed his father to the Hall, to read for the BCL. He was President of the OU Student Representative Council in 1971 and of the SEH MCR in 1972. Edward Prebble and his daughter Esther Clarke-Prebble, Kenneth's eldest grandchild, are both members of the Anglican clergy. Kenneth's interest in drama has also emerged in the next generation: his grandson Mark Prebble and granddaughter Sophie Prebble are respectively a film and theatre director 172

and a scriptwriter. Another granddaughter, Antonia Prebble, has followed his example more directly and is a television and theatre actress in New Zealand. She was seen for some years on the United Kingdom Channel 5, playing Trudy, an unmarried mother who is a core character in the teenage cult series, The Tribe.

Kenneth suffered a stroke on 11 June 2008 and did not regain consciousness.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Prebble, and his children, Professor John Prebble, (Law, Victoria University of Wellington), Emeritus Professor Thomas Prebble, (Education, Massey University, Palmerston North), the Honourable Richard Prebble, CBE, a l\!Iinister in the Fourth Labour Government, a prime mover in the social reforms that transformed New Zealand society in the 1980s and later Leader of the ACT Party, the Reverend Edward Prebble, Vicar of Otumoetai, Tauranga, Dr Mark Prebble, CNZM, who retired as State Services Commissioner (head of the New Zealand civil service) in 2008, and Dr Catherine Prebble, a registered nurse and historian, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Centre for Mental Health Research, University of Auckland.

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DR CHARLES HERIOT JELLARD MA BM BCH DM FRC PATH (1936) Charles Heriot J ellard was born in Abergavenny in 1916, and came up to St Edmund Hall to read medicine following six years at school down the road at St Edwards. He rowed in the College Eight, which headed the river in Torpids and came 2nd in Eights Week, and was subsequently elected to the Leander Club.

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THE REVEREND JOHN STEWART REYNOLDS MA, B LITT (1938)

John Reynolds died on 5 August 2009 at the age of 89. He had been born in 1919, the son of a Poole Bank Manager, Alfred Reynolds and his wife Beatrice.

He was educated at Bedford School, and whilst he was there, through his attendance at one of the Iweme Minster camps, he came to a strong personal faith in Christ which remained the foundation of all his life thereafter.

In 1938 he came up to the Hall to read theology, and having received a call to the ordained ministry, he trained at Ridley Hall Cambridge, and was ordained deacon in 1944 and priest the following year. He served as curate from 1944-1946 at St elements Church Oxford, and then at All Saints Church in the High, (during this period he was part time Chaplain of Oriel) . In 1950, his first book was published, Evangelicals at Oxford 1735- 1871, and this work formed the basis on which he was granted the degree of B Litt. He was enabled to do this by virtue of a grant from the Aularian Association for the furtherance of scholarly work by members of the Hall. In a later edition he updated this work to the year 1905. He also lectured on church history at Wycliffe Hall from 1971-78.

In 1949 he became the incumbent of the parish of Easton on the Hill in Northamptonshire until 1956 when he moved back to Oxfordshire to be rector of Besselsleigh and Dry Sandford, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. His second major work was the biography of a Rector of St Aldate's Oxford in the nineteenth century, Canon Christopher, published 174

in 1967. He also contributed about fifty articles to the Dittionary of E vangelical Biograpf(y and fourteen articles to the 2005 edition of the Dictionary of National Biograpf(y.

John remained a bachelor until 1969, when to the surprise of many of his friends, he left his single state to marry Dinah Dixon. It was a felicitous change, and they set up home first in Dry Sandford, and after retirement, in East Oxford, where they bought a dilapidated house and proceeded to make it into the Edwardian gendeman's residence it was always intended to be, a home in which they were able to entertain generously their wide circle of friends.

Throughout his ministry, John served on a number of bodies which reflected his conservative evangelical faith and his connection with the city of Oxford enabled him to take a particular interest in the work of the Christian Union in the University. The honour which he received from the Society of Antiquaries reflects his abiding interest in historical matters. Those attending his funeral at the large church of St Clements filled the church, confirmation of the honour and affection in which John was held by so many.

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1949, Modern Languages ALEXANDER (ALEX) PERCIVAL SMITH, MA, FCIS, MIPM (1940) Alex Smith, who died on 21 November, 2008, age 87, enjoyed a distinguished career as an Administrator in the Colonial Service from 1942 to 1960 before joining the Ford Motor Company and eventually becoming Director of Personnel, Sales, Ford of Europe. He retired in 1982.

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but at the end of his first year he fmished next to the bottom of his class and the Headmaster wrote "This report is probably the worst I have ever seen!"

Far from being discouraged by this Alex seems to have been inspired to Herculean efforts. By the time he left school in 1940 he had gained School Colours for 1st XV Rugby, was Captain of Athletics (establishing a record for the Discus which lasted for 9 years), was House Captain and fmally School Captain. He gained an Open Exhibition to St Edmund Hall. That same Headmaster referred on his fmal report to ''Alex's supremely confident 'savoir faire"'.

Alex relished his time in Oxford and his affection for Teddy Hall remained strong throughout his life. He represented the University at athletics, played rugby for the Hall, revelled in drama and politics and debated in the Union.

After four terms in Oxford Alex was awarded his war-time BA and was then called up for army service. He was commissioned in the Black Watch.

However the Government was even more short of administrators in the colonies than they were of young subalterns and Alex opted to join the Colonial Service. So in 1942 he was assigned as Assistant District Officer in a remote area of Northern Nigeria.

At the age of 21, and as the only European in the region, he was responsible for 100,000 people, without the support of any troops or armed police. He operated by indirect rule, through local Moslem Emirs and through pagan chieftains in the wilder, less stable areas. He had to develop a high degree of tact and wisdom at this very early age and he loved the excitement and thrill of the outdoor life, even though for 10 months a year the temperatures were over 100° F in the shade.

Alex married Meg Austin in 1946 and in 1948 they returned from Nigeria to Oxford for a two term refresher course for the Colonial Service. Alex was able to resume his links with Teddy Hall and was able to share with Meg his delight and enthusiasm for life in Oxford.

On his return to Nigeria Alex was given accelerated promotion and at the time of the change to self-government in 1959 he had risen to the rank of Acting Resident in Ilorin.

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Returning to the U Kin 1960 Alex took an appointment with Ford at Warley, Essex, working firstly in the Finance Division, but moving soon to become Director of Personnel, he established a new Department of Management Development where his gift for lateral thinking and innovation found full expression. With the formation of Ford of Europe Alex became Director of Personnel, Sales, having responsibility for all the salaried staff in all the companies in Ford of Europe. He fmally retired in 1982.

Alex and Meg had four children, Patricia, Peter, Catherine and Sarah, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He was a passionately committed family man and at the Service of Thanksgiving held in Fryerning, Essex in December 2008 a large congregation of family and friends gathered to celebrate a character of extraordinary versatility, action and achievement and at the same time a reflective, loving and modest man.

Ernest Fox 1950s Robert Hannay Irvine MA, MBA, Ireland. 1950, Law

Barry Mayson Penn BA, 30 June 1905, aged 78, Hampshire. 1950, PPE James Conway Forbes BA, 21 August 2009, aged 77, Cleveland. 1951, Law

Derek George Graham Hoare MA, 12 January 2008, aged 75, Somerset.

1951, Geography Robert William Metcalfe Thompson MA, 20 May 2009, aged 77, France.

1952, Law The Most Revd Michael Matthew Wright MA, 23 March 2009, aged 77, Avon. 1952, Theology Geoffrey Roger Gleave MSc, Cheshire. 1954, Geography Richard Martin Goodridge MPhil, MBA, 2 July 2007, aged 73, France.

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lan Peter Asquith MA, 26 July 2009, aged 74, North Yorkshire. 1955, French Anthony Joseph Hall MA, 28 February 2009, aged 75, Norfolk. 1955, Law John 'Tuppy' Owen-Smith MA, 19 September 2008, aged 72, Surrey. 1955, Geography Professor Douglas Brownlow Wilson PhD, 4 September 2008, aged 78, USA. 1955, English Mervyn Leo Standish Wynne, 27 November 2006, aged 68, France. 1956, Law Roger John Waldron Fisher MA, 30 September 2008, aged 71, Wiltshire.

1957, Law Roger Cunliffe Holt MA, 12 June 2009, aged 71, Essex. 1957, Modern Languages Christopher John MacDonald-Bennett BA, Glasgow. 1957, Geography Raymond Mizen MA, 18 March 2009, aged 70, Hampshire. 1957, Modern Languages Charles William Holden BA, 15 June 2009, aged 69, Gloucestershire. 1958, History

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ROBERT WILLIAM METCALFE THOMPSON (1952) Robert Thompson was an irrepressible, imaginative and passionate man of principle and of strong convictions. During his time at Abbotsholme School, when the boxing instructor took Robert to task for his reluctance to participate in boxing and invited Robert to hit him, the instructor found himself promptly floored: Robert found boxing morally repugnant - but he threw himself into sports such as rugby, hockey and cross-country running.

(Later, during military service, he was a hockey umpire, and at Teddy Hall he was the cross-country team captain.)

Robert was born in 1931 in Leek, North Staffordshire, into a family with strong local ties: moorland farmers and mill owners on his mother's side, and Anglican clergy on his father's (his grandfather being the Vicar of Leek).

In 1947 Robert welcomed the opportunity to take part in an exchange programme between Abbotsholme and l'Ecole des Roches in Normandy, where he studied for a term. This experience, combined with holidays spent with the Haag family (the brewers of Meteor beers) in Alsace, gave Robert a life-long love of France and French culture. Always a polymath, and a natural linguist, he wished to study Maths, Further Maths, French and Latin in the sixth form, but as Abbotsholme did not allow a mix of Arts and Sciences he settled for French and Latin as main subjects, and German and Greek as subsidiary subjects, gaining a Double Distinction in French in his Higher School Certificate.

On leaving Abbotsholme in 19 50, Robert served his 2 years of military service as a Surveyor in the Royal Artillery. He enjoyed his military service to the extent that he seriously considered the very appealing career he was offered in the army, starting as Assistant Instructor, Gunnery. An offer from St 180

Edmund Hall proved even more alluring, but he was unwilling to forsake army life completely, and on completing his military service he enrolled as a volunteer in the Territorial Army, soon becoming a full sergeant and commissioned. He continued to serve for 8 years, and remained on the TA Reserve of Officers for the following 26 years (until 1986).

Although he had applied to read French and German at St Edmund Hall, this man of many interests decided to switch to reading Law. By electing to include Roman Law in his studies, the amateur historian in Robert was able to indulge his life-long fascination with Roman civilisation; and in choosing law, Robert had truly found his metier. He thoroughly enjoyed his time at Teddy Hall, which provided an environment in which he could thrive; perhaps not surprisingly, his brother David followed Robert to the Hall in 1954 (to read French and Russian). It was while at Oxford that Robert met his wifeto-be, Sheila, whom he married in 1955.

After his Master of Arts degree in Law in 1955, and achieving Honours in the Law Society's Part II examinations, Robert served his Articles with Bowcock & Pursaill, solicitors in Leek. On qualification in 1958 he remained with them. He excelled in all areas, becoming in particular a highly trusted and respected adviser on tax and probate matters and having a particularly keen grasp of agricultural law and planning law. During this time, Robert and Sheila had their first four children: their daughters Abigail, Clare, Deborah and Joanna. Robert remained a keen linguist, becoming in due course a Fellow of the Institute of Linguists.

In 1969, Robert could not resist the offer of an appointment as a director of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, heading up the Legal Group. In this role he was responsible for four commissions (Banking Technique and Practice, International Protection of Industrial Property, Commercial Practice, and International Commercial Arbitration) . He was also the Director in charge of relations with Arab League States, and later of cooperation in legal matters with countries within the Comecon. Travel on behalf of the ICC to Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (as well as India and Pakistan) bred in Robert a passionate interest in Arab culture and politics, to the extent that he regarded the Middle East and Western Europe equally as his ''home zone". He also served with the ICC as Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration, the world's leading 181

international commercial arbitration centre. In 1973, Robert and Sheila's fifth child, their son Bernard, was born in France, and in the following year Robert acquired French nationality.

The tug of war between England and France entered another phase in 1977, when Robert returned to England to serve as Agent Consulaire de France at Dover (the busiest and largest French Consulate in the UK), and also resumed practice as a solicitor. But his love for France was to prove too strong, and in 1991 he returned to France to practise as a ConseilJuridique and in 1992 he became an Avocat at the Boulogne bar. This gave Robert the freedom to indulge fully his love of advocacy, for which he had an exceptional talent which he deployed to particularly good effect in defending serious criminal cases. He retired late (in 2000), remaining an Avocat Honoraire au Barreau de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Religion was always an integral part of Robert's life. His exposure to Catholicism during holidays in France in the late 1940s was the start of a spiritual journey that led to Robert's reception into the Catholic Church in May 1952 at St Peter's Church, Woolwich by Father Adlem. Throughout this process, Robert had the full support of the three Anglican vicars in his family: his grandfather and two of his uncles. Robert even very seriously considered ordination as a Roman Catholic priest. He always characterised himself as "a committed practising Catholic Christian".

Robert had an intense interest in politics and international affairs throughout his life, and when his friend Stephen Jakobi founded Fair Trials International, Robert served as the organisation's representative on the continent for many years, becoming a patron on retirement. Retirement did nothing to stem Robert's insatiable appetite for knowledge, and this encyclopaedic man never stopped studying and reflecting on many aspects of international law. True to his adoptive homeland, Robert held "Liberty, Equality and Brotherly love" to be paramount, and he used the Internet as a vehicle to express his trenchant support for Arab issues in general, and for Palestinian causes in particular. He wrote a column, "Letters from France", for axisoflogic.com, and his articles were re-published on a number of Arab sites.

Robert's achievements came despite increasingly severe physical challenges.

The loss of his right knee cap in a road accident in 1960 proved to be very minor in comparison with later problems: in his late 30s, he was diagnosed 182

with ankylosing spondylitis, which caused him to be increasingly incapacitated, and in 2003, when already seriously disabled, he began a long, tough and distressing battle with cancer that he fmally lost 6 years later. Robert faced up to these challenges with immense courage and determination, and this background of pain and physical constraint makes his achievements all the more remarkable.

Robert now rests in a beautiful and peaceful setting by the exquisite little church at Tramecourt, a short distance from the battlefield at Agincourt. A dearly loved and very loving husband, father and grandfather, Robert is sorely missed.

Deborah Thompson-Bray

THE MOST REVEREND MICHAEL WRIGHT (1952) The Most Reverend Michael Wright, who has died aged 77, was an Army chaplain for 31 years, serving in Britain, Germany and sundry imperial trouble spots before leaving the Church of England for the Anglican Catholic Church; he was also a talented artist.

His postings included the British Army of the Rhine, Nato at Shape, near Mons, and Hong Kong. When in Aden he was regularly flown by helicopter to take Communion services in the Radfan region of Yemen, using ammunition boxes for an altar.

He was serving in Cyprus when the 1974 coup occurred. Returning to his rectory there, he found a convoy of cars, bringing some 1,000 refugees from Nicosia and Famagusta.

For almost a fortnight Wright and his wife slept in their sitting room while feeding the guests allotted to them on unchanging "compo" rations and explaining the gravity of the situation to exasperated, bikini-clad tourists.

Afterwards he and his wife were bemused to fmd that a large sports field nearby had been used as a car park and was now left with one vehicle- a Rolls-Royce.

After returning home to Woolwich, he was woken from his bed to attend the victims of the bombing of the King's Arms there in 1974. But the posting also gave him time to paint a large picture of the barracks and church in 183

acrylic. It was gready admired when exhibited - one general judged it a mixture of LS Lowry and Canaletto - but Wright refused to sell, though some miniature copies were made. His other works included a large picture, Christ in Glory, at a church in Monchengladbach, western Germany, which he painted on his study floor over several months before it was mounted on a wooden frame and placed over a window to give the impression of stained glass. Another commission, produced in fibreglass for the new garrison church at Bovington, Dorset, was a sculpture with golden-coloured angels holding the shields of different regiments. This was placed in the sanctuary.

The son of an Eton cricket coach, Michael Mat Wright was born on January 13 1932. He was educated at St George's, Windsor, where he started to paint in watercolour, and then at Cranleigh, before going on to read Theology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He studied for the priesthood at Wells theological college.

Following six years as a curate in Oxford diocese, Wright joined the Royal Army Chaplains' Department. One of his first postings was to the junior leaders' regiment of the Royal Corps of Transport, whose members called him "BG" (short for "Big Grin'').

After 30 years Wright had become increasingly unhappy with what he saw as the liberal drift of the Church of England. He set up the Anglican Catholic Fellowship for those seeking guidance after the introduction of women priests, and after retiring from the Army immediately joined the Anglican Catholic Church, which appointed him archdeacon of the United Kingdom.

This communion, which has existed since the late 19th century, aims to return to the beliefs of the undivided Church of the first millennium. It has a small number of members in Britain but more in the United States, as well as two large dioceses in Colombia and South Africa. From 1998 he visited the latter country regularly, buying his own car in order to visit parishes.

Two years later he was appointed the Church's metropolitan in South Africa, and he returned regularly to train clergy and lay readers for ordination while producing a series of teaching icons in the Ethiopian style. His ministry culminated in the promulgation of the booming diocese of Umzi wase Tiyopiya, outside Port Elizabeth, and the consecration of its first bishop. He paid a fmal visit in January this year.

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JOHN (TUPPY) OWEN-SMITH (1955) Tuppy, born in Broken Hill in Northern Rhodesia, was one of quite a few from the Dark Continent at the Hall in the 1950s. At the age of seven a solo three-day train trip took him from hunting, swimming with hippos and crocs in the Zambezi to Diocesan

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College (Bishops), Cape Town, where he ultimately served as head boy. Then, in 1955, this innocent was lodged in the stews of the Besse block where most of his fellow undergraduates were two years older than he, hard men, or so they saw themselves, having done National Service. Some of their worldliness had clearly brushed off on him by his second year, when he could not only declare the great advantage of being Sacristan, since the post got him an extra year in Hall, but complain that it demanded he leave a warm bed before 8am to take the sacrament.

Tuppy played wing forward, swam and played water polo for the Hall; he accurately calculated how much geography to read to get a degree. When not in the Buttery or listening to the Goon Show, he played the odd end of shove ha'penny. He showed great courage in the summer of '56, riding through the Alps to Italy on the back of a Vespa driven by Pearson. In short he was the archetypal 1955 man whose greatest talent was for friendship.

After coming down Tuppy taught English to Swedish girls (in Sweden) for a year's work experience; thus he described it. Then he went to the University of Maryland to do some research, but was side-tracked into teaching Geography as an Associate Professor for a year. Returned to the UK he joined BP, and was sent to far-away, taxing places such as Liberia and Nigeria.

Back in London, in a pub, his fortunes improved: he was stood up by that 185

then model of exotic beauty: an air hostess. Near the empty seat was a very pretty and, as it turned out, much more dependable woman who gave her name as Sheila. Her attempts to rebuff him, fortunately, failed. They married after seven months, he promising to take her to California. That they got only as far as New York (where Tuppy joined Mobil for several years) did not seem a betrayal. Not only was Sheila charming and a brilliant cook, she bore him two delightful children. These three were for years dragged from New York to Nigeria, to The Netherlands (not Holland he would have you know), to Japan, to Nigeria (again) as Tuppy rose through the ranks of Mobil to a series of very senior positions, regaling his contemporaries the while with the most diverting of Christmas letters, the embodiment of the genre. Many have been the grateful encomia of Mobil colleagues whose careers he has fostered. His success in the harsh world of the international oil business owed as much to affability as ability; the trait we knew so consistently at the Hall.

Tuppy showed great fortitude and casual courage when he was alert enough to face up to Alzheimer's; fortitude later became Sheila's defming character.

He was a great friend, amusing, reliable, popular, a very decent man, sympathetic to everyone's troubles, liked by all. Owen-Smith personified "the good Hall man." He was just there, and one was privileged to have his company. Betjeman put it well: " ... those we miss the most/ Are those we take for granted."

Roger Farrand (1955)

DOUGLAS BROWNLOW WILSON (1955) Douglas Brownlow Wilson, a beloved husband and father, died suddenly at his home in Boulder, Colorado, on September 4th 2008. He was 78.

Born in 1930 to Scottish ranchers in Cimarron, New Mexico, he was married to Diana de Armas Wilson for 52 years. He is survived by four loving daughters, AntoniaJoy Wilson, Andrea Nightingale, Fiona Theodoredis, and Miranda Ravin, as well as three grandchildren, Amalia Theodoredis, Emmanuel Theodoredis, and Juliana Ravin.

After graduating from Williams College in 1952, Douglas served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force for three years in Korea and Japan.

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where he studied at St Edmund Hall from 1955-58. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1967. He taught at Williams College and at the University ofDenver until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1998. He published many essays on the English Romantic poets and a book on Wordsworth entitled The Romantic Dream. He gave invited academic talks in England, Spain, Costa Rica, and the USA. He and his wife travelled often to Europe, and with their children to Bohemia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, and India. Besides his family, his great loves were woodworking and trout fishing. He was a life member of Trout Unlimited.

RAYMOND MIZEN (1957) Raymond Mizen had been ill for many months and died peacefully in Alton Community Hospital. He had been married to Linda for 47 years and had two children and three grandchildren. At Teddy Hall he rowed and read French and Spanish. He retained a strong attachment to Teddy Hall and a room in the Besse building bears his name.

He had a very successful career as a businessman and he was in his spare time a creative landscape gardener and arborist. He was also deeply interested in and knowledgeable about church architecture and travelled widely throughout Europe and France in particular to pursue his interest. One of his most satisfying experiences in recent years was visiting the shrine of St Edmund at Pontigny. He will be greatly missed by his family and many friends.

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(EDWARD) ALASTAIR FRETWELL-DOWNING (1961) I first remember Alastair quietly coming up to me after a Friends of the Boat Club dinner, and saying how much he admired what was going on with Teddy Hall Women's rowing; how he had listened to what I had said at the dinner, and how he and one other Friend of the Boat Club would like to give the programme their support.

That was some years back, and true to his word he supported the annual training camp every year from that day on.

Alastair really enjoyed being part of the Friends of the Boat Club, and he rarely missed any social or on-the-river occasion, when he would usually be seen, camera in hand, taking the most marvellous pictures. I have kept many of these, and propose to exhibit them one day soon in his memory. He has recorded a hugely important part of the life of the Boat Club.

I enjoyed his wit, his love oflife, his fantastic and highly colourful enthusiasm.

I am sorry he has gone. The Boat Club has lost a good Friend.

Richard Fishlock (1957) Chairman, Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club 1970s Paul Frederick Howell MA, 20 September 2008, aged 57. 1970, Agricultural Economics

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ST EDMUND HALL Matriculation 2008 Tara Calderbank. Tina Nandha. Maria Lookman. Pui- Ya Lam. Yasmine Shamma. Vasiliki Orfanou. Katie Bray. Georgiana Juravle. Claudia Lingscheid. Maire German. Eloise Morse. Rosie Atkinson. Rhea Wolfson. Farhana Daly. Isabel Wood. Han Zhang. Rebekah Meek Hao Wang. Michael Brown. Charloue Geater. Andrew Woodliffe. Gavin O'Leary. Owen Thomas. Carol !be. Maisie Shaw. David Wilkins. Robert Oag. Sarah Nicholas. Amelia Jenne. Rebecca Preece. lmogen Lowe. Lena Anay i. Kinberley Lord. Ruth Prenter. Rosemary Henry Joseph Bruner. Adam Watkins. Jun Yon Khoo. Isra Bhatty. Samuel Pearce. Emily Barlow. Sean Brassill. Claire Lasko. Katie Presser. Noor Rashid. Tegid Morfett-Jones. Edward Freeman. Shakyra Campbell. Sevim Celebi. Kimberley Pyle.Joanne Pearce. Bryony Morgan. Lisa Roth. Shari Levine Oliver Wright. Olivia Edwards. lmogen Sarre. Sotiria Manou-Stathopoulou. Holly Harris. Rebecca Creamer. Mahlaqa Shaukat. Emma Lonsdale. Frey2. Jennings. Hannah Pate!. Helen Leach. Annabel Bertie. Henrietta Slater. Harriet Lebus. Melissa Negretti.Kelly Dixon. Rachel O'MaJiey. Moya Woolley Francis Reynolds. Paul Starr. Oliver Humphrys. Christopher Kelly. Charles Wilson. Neil Morton. Christopher Box. William Gilbert. Sophie Horton. Christabel Hill. Justin Alsing. Till Hoffmann. Thomas Pope. Rowan Fuggle. Erica Webb. Matthew Clark. Katrina Stout. Jason Kwan Lap Tse. Emily Nesbitt Ruyue Dai. Stephen Golton. Adam Boulfoul. Daniel Collins. James Fleming. Sarah Cox. Kathryn Evans. Jennifer Sandeman. Timothy Wright. Karl Lundberg. Philippe Panizzon. Christopher Maughan. Gumam Johal. Martin Lester. Holly Edmonds. Anni Vuohelainen. Yasmin Meissner. Jenny Lim Paul Kamen ski. Johannes Seidl. Alexandra Murray. Kinga Chomnicka. Eno Trimcev. Christopher Kinsley. Amy Saunders. Katharine Hill. Adriaan du Toit. Nicholas Shapiro. Aditya Kandath. Kingsley Leung. Wenqiang Yin. Julian Hunt. James Carter. Chengle Wang.

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