St Edmund Hall Magazine 2011-12 by St Edmund Hall

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

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Vol. XVIII No. 3 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2012 COLLEGE UST ................................................................................................................ 1 TO REPORT FromthePrincipal .................................................................................................~ ..... 9 From the Senior & Finance Bursar .......................................................................... 13 From the Library Fellow ........................................................................................... 15 From the Home Bursar .............................................................................................. 21 From the Chaplain, and the Chapel Overseeing Fellow ..................................... 23 From the Archivist ....................................................................................................... 25 From The Senior Common Room .......................................................................... 27 Obituaries: Robert (Bob) Hargrave ...................................................................... 42 Anthony (Tony) Marchington ........................................................ 43 Shahira Sarny ......................................................................................... 44 The Middle Common Room .................................................................................... 46 The Junior Common Room ...................................................................................... 47 Clubs and Societies ...................................................................................................... 49 THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows .................................................................................................................. 63 Careers Day ................................................................................................................... 72 Admissions and Access Initiatives ........................................................................... 73 The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture .................................................................... 74 The AB Emden Lecture ............................................................................................ 76 AFestschriftforTerry Jones .................................................................................... 77 Music in the Hall ......................................................................................................... 78 Creative Writing at the Hall ..................................................................................... 80 The Schools Dinner Speech, by the Vice-Principal ............................................... 83 FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers .......................................................................................................... 87 Matriculations ................................................................................................................ 87 Visiting Students ............................................................................................................ 93 Awards and Prizes ....................................................................................................... 94 DegreeResults2012 ..................................................................................................... 100 Degree Dates 2012-2013 .............................................................................................. 106

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NEWS FROM TilE DEVELOPMENT &ALUMNIRELATIONS OFFICE From the Directors of Development ........................................................................ 107 Leadership Donors to the Annual Fund ....................... ..................................... 109 Donors to the College ................................................................................................. 111 Report of the 40th Anniversary Gaudy .................................................................. 121 Report of the Modern Languages Reunion ........................................................... 123 Report of the Olympic Reunion .............................................................................. 125 Report of the Summer London Aularian Drinks ................................................. 125 Members of the Floreat Aula Society .................................................................... 129 Forthcoming Events ................................................................................................. 130 ARTICLES Crossing Magdalen Bridge: from Po W Camp to Oxford University, by Michael Tanner ....................................................................................................... 131 A History of the Hall in Ten Objects, by Nick Davidson .................................. 137 THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION SEHA President's Report ........................................................................................... 142 Officers and Year Representatives ........................................................................... 144 Minutes of the 81st Annual General Meeting ...................................................... 145 The71stLondonDinner ............................................................................................ 146 The Accounts ................................................................................................................. 148 AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ................................................................................................. 150 Obituaries ....................................................................................................................... 157

ST EDMUND HALL 2011 - 2012

Visitor The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH Principal Keith Gull, CBE, (BSc PhD DSc (Hon) Land), FRS, FMedSci Professor of Molecular Microbiology Fellows Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Land) QC Fellow by Special Election Blarney, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S'ton, MA Camb, PhD Leic) Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology, and Vice-Principal Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Fellow by Special Election in Economics Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Mane) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, and Tutor for Undergraduates Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, W R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor Crank, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Professorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil A C Cooper Fellow, Professor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, and Tutor for Visiting Students Naughton, James Duncan, MA (PhD Camb) Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern History, and Library Fellow 1

Whittaker, Robert James, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography, and Dean Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Professor of Russian Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, 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) University Reader and Tutor in Engineering Science, and Junior Proctor Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Professor of Neurology, Fellow by 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 Archive Fellow Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow by Special Election Paxman, Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb) Fellow by Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB, ChB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS in Ped Surg Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Fellow by Special Election Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; PhD Princeton) Professor of Renaissance Literature, Tutor in English, and Tutor for Graduates Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) University Reader in Management, Fellow by Special Election Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow by Special Election/ Senior Research Fellow Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb) John Harris Memorial Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science Tseng, Jeffrey, MA (BSCIT; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Physics

Wilkins, Robert J, MA, DPhil American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Tutor for Admissions Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil Tutor in Politics Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Parkin, Ernest J ohnstone, MA (MA Virginia, PhD Rensselaer) Home Bursar Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (MA, PhD Camb) Professor of Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, MA, DPhil (BA Yale, MPP Harvard, JD NYU) Fellow by Special Election in Economics Yates, Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Tutor in Materials, and Curator of Pictures Dupret, David, MSc, PhD Bordeaux Junior Research Fellow in Neuroscience Kavanagh, Aileen Prances, MA (BCL MA NUl, Magister Legum Europae Hanover,) DPhil, (Dipl Vienna) Reader in Law and Tutor in Law Armstrong, David, MEng, DPhil UKAEA Culham Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors Takriti, Abdel Razzaq, DPhil Junior Research Fellow in Political History Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex) Fellow by Special Election Loenarz, Christoph, Dipl Chem Tuebingen, DPhil William R Miller Junior Research Fellow Abou-El-Fadl, Reem, DPhil Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East Walker, Richard, BA (MSc Leeds, PhD Camb) Fellow by Special Election in Earth Sciences Stagg, Charlotte Jane, (BSc, MB ChB Bristol), DPhil Glaxo Smith Kline Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Imaging Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff) Fellow by Special Election in Surgery (Bone Oncology)

Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MASt And, MA, PhD Essex) Fellow by Special Election in Contemporary Art History & Theory

Sykes, Katharine, MA, DPhil (MA York) John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History

Costa, Charles Simon Arthur, (BSSc Birm), MA, MPhil Senior & Finance Bursar

Schlinzig, Marie Isabel, (BA Viadrina), MSt, DPhil Fellow by Special Election

Pogge von Strandmann, Philip, MESc, (PhD Open) Junior Research Fellow

McCartney, David, BMBCh Fellow by Special Election

Gluenz, Eva, (MSc Bern; PhD Lond) Fellow by Special Election

Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election

Aarnio, Outi Marketta, (Lie Abo Akademi), DPhil Fellow by Special Election

Stambach, Amy Elizabeth, (MA PhD Chicago) Fellow by Special Election

Palmer, Laura, (BA Colorado State) Fellow by Special Election, and Director of Development

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 (D es-Se. Paris) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robert, OBE, MA Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin) Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, MA Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA Garland, Patrick Ewart, MA 4

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 J ames, MA Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil, FRS, FEng Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, DPhil Morsberger, Philip, MA Burnton, Lord Justice Stanley Jeffrey, MA Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Mane, DPhil Sus) FRS, CChem, FRSC J osipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, BA, QC Starmer, Keir Rodney, BCL, QC Shortridge, Sir J on Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin) Lee, Stewart Graham, BA *Deceased St Edmund Fellows Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Martin Gregory, MA (MBA Stanford) Cansdale, Michael John, MA Stanton, Paul John, BA Asbrey, William Peter, BA Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario, PhD Duke) Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA,DPhil (LLD Birm), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB, ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond) 5

Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, BSc, MA, DPhil, CChem, FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM, BCh, MA Warden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (PhD Land) Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art) RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dean of Degrees Hunt, John David, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) Knight, John Beverley, (BA Natal, MA Camb) MA Crampton, Richard John, (BA Dub), MA, (PhD Land), Dr HonCausa Sofia Wells, Christopher J on, MA Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb; JD Chicago), QC Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv) Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, AcSS, FRHistS Brasier, Martin David, MA (BSc, PhD Land) Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, FBA

Lecturers Aarnio, Outi Marketta, Lie Abo Akademi, DPhil Oxf Economics Alien, Roger William, BA BMus Liv, DPhil Oxf Music Ash bourn, J oanna Maria Antonia, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Land Physics Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA DPhil Oxf Russian Black, John Joseph Merrington, MB BS Land, FRCS, FIMC (Edin), Anatomy FFAEM Blattes, Marianne, Lie Grenoble Lectrice Byrne, Sandie, BA Teeside, DPhil Oxf English Chad, Benjamin Michael John, MSc Wollongong Mathematics Cowley, Sally Anne, BA Camb, PhD Land Molecular Biology Faulkner, Jennifer Louise, BSc PhD Durh Chemistry 6

Frank, Svenja, BA Eichstatt, MA Freiburg Lektorin Gant, An drew John, MA Camb, MM us PhD Land Music Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem DPhil Oxf Biochemistry King, Peter John, BPhil DPhil Oxf Philosophy Lee, Wei-Koon, BEng Malaysia, MEng Singapore Engineering Littleton, Suellen Marie, BSc California, MBA Land Management McCabe, Helen, BA MPhil DPhil Oxf Politics McCartney, David Edward, BA BM BCh Oxf Systems Medicine Mileson, Stephen, BA Warw, MSt DPhil Oxf History Noe, Debrah Pozsonyi, BS PhD Ohio State Finance Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, MA East Ang English Roebuck, Thomas, BA DPhil Oxf, MPhil Camb English Roger, Sarah, BA McMaster, MPhil Oxf Spanish Styles, Elizabeth Anne, BSc Oxford Polytechnic, DPhil PGCE Oxf Psychology Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus, MA Oxf, Barrister-at-law Politics Politics Thompson, Maximillian, BA Oxf Varnam, Laura, BA Durham, MA Leeds, DPhil Oxf English Wadham, Alastair Jake, BA MPhil Camb, DPhil Oxf French Waters, DavidJohn, MA Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Earth Sciences Wild, Lorraine Sylvia, MA DPhil Oxf Geography Wilk, James, MA DPhil Oxf Philosophy Wilkinson, Mark, BSc Strathclyde, MASt Camb Mathematics Williams, Renee (Mme), MA Oxf French

Chaplain Reverend J ennifer Brown Reverend B Kris Kramer Librarian Blanca Trapat-Martin (BA Barcelona, Dip Exe) College Secretary & Registrar Philip Palmer BA Ceri Hunter BA DPhil (BA Cantab, MA Wales) Director of Development Yvonne Andrea Rainey (BA, PGCE BelÂ£) Laura Palmer (BA Colorado State) 7

Head Porter Lionel Knight Decanal Staff Stone, Abigail, BA, DPhil (MSc Lon) Simon, Joanna, BA, (LLB Cape Town, LLM LSE) Caruana Galizia, Anton (BA Malta, MA Lond) Trimcev, Eno, (BA Calgary, MSc Lond) Etmannski, Tamara, (BA & BSc Calgary)

Junior Dean Cover Dean Sub-Dean (NSE) Sub-Dean (W'RM) Sub-Dean (Isis)

FROM THE PRINCIPAL, KEITH GULL Each academic year-end marks a transition. This one marks the transition between a funding system in the UK whereby the government paid the major cost of a student's university and college fees, to one where the student will ultimately bear this cost. The freshers who come up to the Hall in October 2012 will be the first to experience the new system. Much has been written about the fees, and many of us felt that the government would have done better to refer to them as a graduate tax with a cap. Unfortunately that would have raised the spectre of a hypothecated tax. There are, of course, some financial safeguards and benefits for students from poorer backgrounds, and the new repayment system has a level of sensitivity to future yearly income. In addition, Oxford has put in place arguably the best bursary system among English universities for students from lower income family backgrounds. The Hall will fund half of the cost of these new undergraduate bursaries, and this contribution will come from a budget that is not significantly eased by the government's new system. Although fees for UK and EU students rise from just over ÂŁ3,000 to ÂŁ9,000, the government is concurrently reducing the amount of funding it gives to universities to support the teaching of these students. In short, the transition is significant for students but the Hall cannot look forward to increased income. A few years ago we estimated that the Oxford system of undergraduate tutorial education costs around ÂŁ16,000 per student to deliver; fees and government funds gave us only half of that amount. The rest comes from income from our endowment, annual fundraising and conferences. Fundraising, or Development as it is termed in the UK education sector, is not the primary purpose of Oxford colleges yet has become vital in maintaining the tutorial education for undergraduates and the collegiate support for graduate students. More of such things later. This Magazine will record some outstanding academic achievements of our students, 26 of whom obtained Firsts. One should note the exceptional results in Biochemistry, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Physics where half of our students obtained Firsts. These academic results have been matched by others as diverse as a talented group of freshers 9

winning drama cuppers and taking their play onto the Edinburgh Fringe, to the winning of rugby cuppers and many individual achievements in writing, music, sport, acting and charitable service. I have maintained my tradition of annual Principal's collections where I meet all undergraduate students in the Hall individually with their tutors. In addition, I meet every graduate student with the Tutor for Graduates. I gain from these meetings an overview of an extremely talented group of students with a bewildering array of interests and achievements. This spectrum of student success is recognised by scholarships, awards and prizes, virtually all of which come from the generosity of alumni and friends, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for this support. It makes a huge difference in the Hall and has a direct effect on our students by enabling their ambitions and recognising their successes. In Trinity term I was delighted to host Fellows and friends of the Hall, including Graham Mather, Trustee of the Philip Geddes Memorial Fund and President of the European Policy Forum, at an event to celebrate the recipients of five of our Hall honours: the Simon & Arpi Simonian Award for Excellence in Leadership, the George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre, the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for Student Journalism, the Peel Award in Fine Art, and the Peel Award in Mathematics & Philosophy. These awards are valued and appreciated by students and I thank all for their support of the Hall through such act1v1t1es. The Fellowship is also always in transition. This year, three members of the Governing Body, Professors David Phillips (Education), Martin Brasier (Earth Sciences) and Nigel Palmer (Modern Languages) retired. We welcomed to the wider Fellowship, as Fellows by Special Election or Junior Research Fellows, Drs Lorraine Wild, David McCartney, Philip Pogge von Strandmann, Eva Gluenz and Outi Aarnio. In addition we welcomed Christopher Armitage as a St Edmund Fellow to recognize his generous support of the Hall over many years. Honorary Fellowships were awarded to four distinguished alumni: the immediate past Director of Public Prosecutions Lord (Ken) Macdonald of River Glaven QC, the present Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, the eminent Civil Servant Sir J on Shortridge, and the acclaimed writer, novelist and entertainer Stewart Lee. 10

Our Fellows continue to receive individual recognition. Professor Philip Mountford has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Frankland Award for 2012, an award given biennially for outstanding contributions to pure and applied research in organometallic chemistry or coordination chemistry. Two Fellows received awards from the Leverhulme Trust: Professor David Phillips was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship and Dr Christoph Loenarz a Career Development Fellowship. We also welcomed our new chaplain Kris Kramer who is now a well recognised figure in all our common rooms. This last year was the Hall's turn to elect a Proctor and I was delighted to present Dr Amy Zavatsky to the University as the Junior Proctor in the annual ceremony. Sadly we record the untimely death of a recent Junior Research Fellow, Dr Shahira Samy. The quality of events at the Hall continues to improve, and alumni, friends and the public were treated to two superb lectures this year. Nearly 200 people packed the University Examination Schools for the annual Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture, given by Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian newspaper. This year's AB Emden Lecture saw an insightful and lively illumination of Russia's defeat of Napoleon, a talk delivered with aplomb by Professor Dominic Lieven, Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Alumni support comes in many forms and one that gave great pleasure throughout the College this year was the donation of over 700 books by actor, writer and Aularian Terry Jones. The former Monty Python star is a medieval scholar and Chaucerian expert, and many of the donated books reflected the extent of his research and studies. As such they are of great value for students, academics and our library. I began this review of the year with the transition of funding arrangements for universities and the implications for our students. It has been clear for many years that the Hall needs to be self-sufficient if we are to ensure that our standards of research and teaching excellence are maintained. An Oxford education is unique and we work hard to deliver that form of personalised education with exacting standards and style. The paramount issue is that our ambition to provide excellent 11

facilities for teaching, learning, accommodation for students and support for Fellows must not be constantly limited by financial restrictions or an inability to withstand interference from outside. There are increasing expectations and comparisons and we all recognise that the Hall has never had the level of endowment that would have enabled it to match the facilities and support that students enjoyed elsewhere. We aim to address this over the years ahead with a major fundraising campaign that is now being planned with the aid of our new Director of Development, Laura Palmer. The Campaign will focus on both the longer- and shorter-term by supporting teaching fellowships, enhancing the academic activities at the Hall by lecture series and visiting scholars, creating better accommodation for students, enhancing the artistic, choral, dramatic, musical and sporting opportunities for students during their time at the Hall, preserving the heritage of the Hall in terms of the buildings of the front quad and library, and supporting our undergraduate and graduate students via scholarships and bursaries. Confidence in the ambition for this campaign has been presaged by two very recent examples of remarkable support from friends and alumni. First, we have been awarded ÂŁ300,000 for graduate scholarships by an Oxford based charitable trust, the EP A Cephalosporin Fund. Second, an Aularian who wishes to remain anonymous has made the most splendid gift of ÂŁ1.2 million in support of the endowment of our teaching fellowships. This award is made with the specific intention of encouraging others to contribute and so secure the endowment of two of our subject fellowships in perpetuity. This is a special place with a rich history and a tradition that has set it apart from many and allowed its students and alumni to flourish. This Magazine illustrates the resulting diversity of talent and events in both the Hall and the alumni year. Support through the generosity and advocacy of alumni, donors and well-wishers will continue to be at the heart of securing the future. I thank you for that interest and support. Floreat Aula!

FROM THE SENIOR & FINANCE BURSAR, SIMON COSTA When I wrote to you last year, I had only recently joined the Hall- or rejoined, 25 years after matriculating here!- as Senior & Finance Bursar. This time, I can report on my first full financial year in the role, and it has indeed been a busy and progressive time. The Hall's financial year runs from 1 August to 31 July, although the College Accountant (the excellent Chris Wood) and I inevitably have to deal with academic, tax and calendar years too - not always a straightforward task. And the timing of the Magazine's copy deadline means that the 2011-12 accounts are still three months away from being completed, signed and published. However, I can report that budgeted surplus for 2011-12 is likely to be modestly exceeded. So, the financial year began with the production of the 2010-11 accounts, which was a major task as, along with all other Oxford colleges, this was the first year of accounting under the new Charities SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice). While the new accounting standard's Statement of Financial Activities might show our sources of funds in more detail, it arguably makes it more difficult to calculate profitability. And naturally, the prior year's accounts needed to be restated for comparison purposes. The 2010-11 financial statements are available on our website. During the year we purchased a house on Circus Street, adjoining our Isis Guest House on the Iffley Road (which is used for student accommodation most of the year and for B&B business during the summer). This is the fifth house which the Hall has bought on that street, and brings us a step closer to greater development opportunities in the future. The Hall made its annual case for assistance from the College Contributions Committee, which is the current mechanism whereby modest funds for specific purposes are redistributed from richer to poorer colleges. This year, we were awardedÂŁ132k (compared withÂŁ120k last year), which will be used for scholarships and various building works. The Investment Sub-Committee (ISC) has added the Vice-Principal to 13

its membership. The ISC reports to the Finance Committee, and advises it on matters relating to the endowment. As such, the ISC plays an important role in ensuring that our endowment portfolios are structured in a manner which matches our needs, and in monitoring our investment managers' performance. I would like particularly to thank the three external members of the ISC, all of whom are Aularians: Philip Broadley, Steve Edwards, and Rupert Ruvigny. The Remuneration Committee, constituted as a direct result of the Hall becoming a registered charity, has continued to meet and make recommendations to the Governing Body. During the year I have formulated the terms of a Home Loan Scheme, designed to help Fellows -particularly new appointees- afford to buy accommodation in Oxford. We hope that this will also make it easier to attract greater numbers of high-quality applicants when the Hall advertises its academic posts. These terms have been approved, and the scheme will now proceed to formal legal documentation. I accompanied the Principal on three visits for alumni relations and fundraising purposes this year: to the US for the New York Dinner in November, to Hong Kong in February, and to New York for the North American Reunion in April. We held a meeting during this most recent trip with an Aularian who wishes to remain anonymous, and as a result I am delighted to report that this alumnus has given the Hall ÂŁ1.2m to be used towards endowing Teaching Fellowships. In addition, a team of us has been reviewing the various graduate awards which the Hall offers each year, and by improving the financial engineering of some of these awards we plan to increase their leverage significantly- for instance, by attracting matching funds. New awards we have won during the year include The Routledge Scholarship in Comparative Education and a grant (secured by the Principal) of ÂŁ300k from the EP A Cephalosporin Fund, which will support research studentships in biomedical, chemical and related sciences. So, what is the short-term outlook? The 2012 intake of undergraduates will be the first group of students paying the increased university fees, and although applications to Oxford and the Hall remain buoyant it is clear that all students will face ever greater challenges in progressing their educations. We need to be in a position to help them. 14

The best intelligence available to finance bursars is that college incomes from fees and grants are likely to remain static over the next few years, although the calculation is an imprecise one. This means that growing the Hall's endowment, and therefore the income from it, is a vital goal. By the University's own calculation, our endowment is significantly short of the minimum recommended amount for a college with our student numbers. While all colleges lose money on their teaching, richer colleges have endowment income to spare for generous support of students and Fellows. The Hall, on the other hand, needs almost all its endowment income to give it the best opportunity to break even. I look forward to working with Laura Palmer, our new Director of Development, on the upcoming major fundraising campaign that will improve our financial position and, more importantly, enhance our ability to assist present and future students. I also look forward to involving as many of you as possible in both the planning and execution of this critical campaign - as advocates, sponsors, and donors.

FROM THE LIBRARY FELLOW This has been a year when various projects have been, or are on the verge of being, brought to fruition, led by Blanca Martin, our Librarian. The Aularian Room was opened on 23 June, as a home for the Library's collection of books authored by Aularians and given to the college. All Old Members are welcome to visit the room. More work has also been done on the conservation and specialised cleaning of the Old Library collection. Plans are also underway to establish additional study spaces on the fifth floor of the Library Tower as there is an urgent need for more desk spaces in the Library. Existing carrels on the third and fourth floors will also be refurbished. Our first edition copy of Hobbes' Leviathan published in London in 1651 was loaned to the T ate Britain in March. The book was on display in an exhibition on the origins of the current economic crisis. The Library was the recipient of two generous donations by two eminent Fellows of the Hall. In May Terry ]ones gave a large number of books to the Hall, and the Library received fifty-eight books selected by various 15

Fellows. The small collection of books honours the medieval scholarship of Terry Jones and his life-long engagement with the Middle Ages in general. In June a donation of fifteen books was received from the private library of Dr Bruce Mitchell thanks to the generosity of his widow Mollie Mitchell. The Library continues to be a very popular study place for students, and usage has increased compared with last year. The peak study periods in the library continue to occur in the two hour period after college meal times. We list below this year's gifts of books and articles, for the Aularian Collection. ALLEN, Geoffrey et al The Poet Sings Stone Records Ltd. 2012 Audio CD BARNES, John Sports and the Law in Canada Butterworth 1996 3rd edition Translation into Japanese by Shuji Nishimura Chapter 1, Kanazawa Law Review Vol53 No 2 (2011) Chapter 2, Kanazawa Law Review Vol54No 1 (2011) Chapter 3, Kanazawa Law Review Vol54 No 2 (2012) BORTHWICK, Alistair G L Book Review: Kottegoda, Nathabandu T & Rosso, Renzo, 'Applied Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers' Wiley-Blackwell2009 Engineering and Computational Mechanics Vol164 (2011)

BORTHWICK, Alistair G Let al 'A Pseudospectral [sigma]Transformation Model of Solitary Waves in a Tank with Uneven Bed' Computers & Fluids Vol49 (2011)

'A Two-Layer Tidal-Exchange Flow' An international conference to honour Professor E F Toro, July 2011 'Measurement and Assessment of Carrying Capacity of the Environment in Ningbo, China' journal ofEnvironmental Management Vol 92 (2011) 'Lattice Boltzmann Method for Variable Density Shallow Water Equations' Computers & Fluids Vol49 (2011) 'Variable Density Bore Interaction with Block Obstacles' International journal ofComputationÂˇ al Fluid Dynamics Vol25 No 4 (2011)

BORTHWICK, Alistair G Let al (cont'd) 'Adaptive Quadtree Simulation of Sediment Transport'

Engineering and Computational Mechanics Vol163 (2010) 'Soil Erosion Assessment Based on Minimum Polygons in theY ellow River Basin, China' Geomorphology Vol 93 (2008) 'Role of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Cosorption of Copper and Phthalate Esters onto Yellow River Sediments' Chemosphere V ol69 (2007) CHILD, John S Jr A Practical Guide to Document Authentication: Legalization of Notarized & Certified Documents West Thomson Reuters 2011 CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin The Mountains of Norfolk: New and Selected Poems Enitharmon Press 2011 The Viking Sagas: Bracelet of Bones Quercus 2011 CUTHBERTSON, Guy and NEWLYN, Lucy (eds) Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition Volume 2: England and Wales Oxford University Press 2011

DEBAX, Jean-Paul (donor) Exchanges and Transformations: The Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Contemporary Reworkings Anglophonia French Journal ofEnglish Studies Vol 29 Presses Universitaires Du Mirail 2011 DENING,Jim Dealing with the Edge Arcade 2011 DENMAN, Hugh (ed) Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and His World Brill2002 DOULTON, Angus Customer Focus, Business Change & Performance Improvement in UK Local Authorities: The EIP Group's Customer Focus Framework CDW & Associates Ltd 2007 F ARRAND, Roger (donor) Sanderson, Arnold (author) Smallpox is Dead FarrandPress 1988 GATRELL, Simon Thomas Hardy Writing Dress Peter Lang 2011 GHEORGHE, Manuela Eugenia Boundaries in Motion: Christian Initiation and Literary Discourse in Vasile Andru's and Daniela Hodrova's Fiction OLOMOUC 2008

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As ever Fellows, alumni, students and also donors outside the college community have been most generous with their gifts to the undergraduate Library. This year we would like to thank the following donors for their gifts of books: Canon Terence Palmer, Yas Ishida, Malcolm Harrison, Simona Aimar, Keith Gull, Peter Willis, Malcolm Trevor, Vicky Harper, Alan Flanders, John E Orton, Angus Doulton, Jenna Edzant, Daniel Wilson. Mention must also be given to the textbooks donated by anonymous students - undergraduate, visiting and graduate. The Library greatly appreciates all your donations.

FROM THE HOME BURSAR, ERNEST PARKIN Diversity is a popular social buzzword today, but its spirit is alive and well at the Hall. The incredible diversity among students, fellows, buildings and disciplines enriches and enlivens the Hall. Of course, nurturing a collegiate spirit in such a setting is a challenge, but it is one to which we are dedicated. The Hall staff is incredibly varied, and we have welcomed several new people this year. TomJohnson andRhys Hodgson joined us as apprentice chefs, and Daniel Davies joined us as General Chef. Magdalena Ostalecka and Renata Szarach joined us as scouts. Mark Saville joined the Hall as Communication Officer, while Sumathy Melville became Assistant Accountant. Peter Kemp and Abid Amine became Hall Butlers, while Alejandra Palau and Liam Webb became Servery Assistants. Sally Smith and Anna Fowler joined the Development Office. The College appointed a new Chaplain, Rev Kris Kramer, and Laura Palmer became the Hall's Director of Development. This summer, Chris Watson was appointed Director of Music, and Rebecca Shorter became the College Archivist. These additions to the Hall family were balanced by departures. J oanna Barker left the Development Office this year, and scouts Lynda Harris and John Thorne retired. IT Assistant Alan Perry and Servery Assistant Christine Kavanagh also left this year. On a happier note, we welcomed four new Aularians into the world this year. Hall Butler Jennean Giles had a baby girl, and scouts Dragana Rnic, Anna Kaminski, and Ula Zyblut all had babies this year. I'm sure you join me in wishing the proud parents all the best. We look with pride at the improvements we have made in our buildings this year, both on the Queen's Lane site and in our other properties. The flagship project of 2011-12 was the replacement of the North Range roof, a four-month project that gives new life to the Front Quad of the College. In the same location we refurbished two Front Quad rooms and removed a quantity of asbestos. In St Peter in-the-East we completed the Aularian Room above the South Porch, installed oak cable trunking on the tables, and put a fire suppression system in the bell tower. 21

In Whitehall we upgraded the fire system, removed a quantity of asbestos and upgraded fire doors, while in Kelly and Emden we upgraded all of the fire doors. The SCR were pleased to see the stair lift removed and the carpet replaced, while the JCR appreciated a new ceiling in their television room. As part of our continuing asbestos abatement programme, a large quantity was removed from the basement of the Besse building. To help the Chef continue serving such excellent meals, we installed two walk-in refrigerators, two ovens, two grills, and two fryers in the main kitchens. We also completed the repainting of the High Street fac;:ade. In NSE we repainted the exterior and installed a new kitchen in 19 Norham Gardens. Flat 2b Crick Road, also at Norham Gardens, underwent extensive renovation. At Isis we replaced a ceiling and improved the bike parking area. In the Circus Street properties we replaced two bathrooms, and are currently finishing the refurbishment of the newly acquired property at 2 Circus Street. We redecorated 7 rooms at the William R Miller Building, and replaced all of the water heaters. Four large projects are scheduled to go ahead this summer. First is the refurbishment of the "Traps", the public toilets below the Old Dining Hall. We will also be moving the Development Office to a suite of four offices on the first floor of Whitehall. In addition, we will create new study workstations in the Library tower. Finally, in cooperation with the Friends of the Boat Club we are planning the refurbishment and extension of the riverside boathouse. Our investment and improvement in our IT infrastructure continues with the expansion of wireless coverage, the replacement of servers and networking equipment, and an increase in staffing in the IT office. This generation of students - with their laptops, tablets, and smart phones put more pressure than ever on our networks, and we are committed to meeting their needs. The jobs above are not only needed; many are long overdue. Doing them, however, is a pleasure. Supporting students as they work, live and play at the Hall is a key part of our mission - the reason we serve 22

the Hall. This ancient institution is alive and well thanks to the efforts of all of its employees and the support of its members and friends.

NEWS FROM THE CHAPEL Transitions of chaplains can be challenging, as so much ministry and welfare work is rooted in trust which comes over time. The Hall owes its gratitude to the Revd J ennifer Brown, who served faithfully through Michaelmas Term. Her interim chaplaincy helped the Hall through its grief at the passing of its long-serving and much loved previous chaplain, the Revd Gerald Hegarty. She arranged and led the memorial service held on 12 November 2011 in the University Church, which was packed out for the occasion with many current and former members of the Hall community, as well as many from the University, Ripon College, and farther afield whom Gerald's ministry touched. From the beautiful singing of the Chapel Choir to heartfelt reflections on his life, it was evident how key - even if many times unseen - a role he played in the life of the Hall. As befitting an important transition embodying past and future, J ennifer arranged a forward-looking chapel series on the theme of new horizons. As she wrote in the term card, "Although associated in many people's minds with tradition, the Christian faith is all about the new: a new relationship with God, a new way of looking at the world, a new way of understanding others. The history of Christianity is full of examples of people inspired by God to do things a new way and changing the world." Sermons covered topics such as "God at pivotal moments in life", "Seeing ourselves as Jesus sees us", "Salvation and all God's creatures", and "Jesus and the outsider". Hilary Term brought us our new Chaplain, the Revd B Kris Kramer, who has had a rich and varied background spanning the UK and US as curate, chaplain, rector, and priest-in-charge in churches, hospitals, and universities. He rapidly became an active and visible presence in the Hall, in his words, "a wonderful parish, where I have been charged to care for all those who pass this way". He often was seen taking meals with students and staff, known to everyone from the rugby team, tourists who happen by, and the Works staff on a boiler room tea break, building relationships across the entire Hall community and, in the process, redefining and 23

more sharply focusing his new role. Of course, parish ministry is different from that of chaplaincy at the Hall, with its challenges of providing encouragement and spiritual guidance in a more pluralistic community, and embracing in a loving and accepting way the various places from where others are coming - challenges he has fully taken on board both as chaplain and Senior Welfare Officer, alongside the College Nurse, Glynis Perry. Chapel services during Hilary Term (kindly arranged in advance by Jennifer), reflecting on the Gospel of Mark, featured current and former members of the Hall community: Fr John O'Connor of Blackfriars, the Revd Canon Hugh Wilcox, the Revd Canon Stephen Coulson, and last year's Assistant Chaplain, the Revd Clare Hayns. Two further Aularians featured in Trinity Term, the Revd Canon Michael Bourdeaux and the Revd Canon David Knight. Kris's wife, the Revd Caroline Kramer, Associate Vicar of All Saints Parish, Wokingham, also preached in Trinity Term. Worship in the chapel was blessed with a choir which has grown and steadily improved in quality over the course of the year, and which has an exciting trajectory heading into the next year. Reflecting on his new "parish", Kris says, "I often find myself walking through the grounds of the Hall imagining St Edmund himself looking at our beautiful flowers or taking in the sight of young eager smiles learning new things and exploring new possibilities. I only hope that my presence will continue to be one of encouragement which cheers the achievement, comforts the weary, and shares the joy of imagination and intellect in full bloom." Kris Kramer (Chaplain) and Jeff Tseng (Chapel Overseeing Fellow)

FROM THE ARCHIVIST, REBECCA SHORTER Allow me to introduce myself as your newly appointed Archivist, working with Nick Davidson, who remains the Hall's Archive Fellow. I have been a professional archivist for eight years, having studied for my postgraduate degree in Archives and Records Management at Liverpool University in 2004. Since qualifying, I have worked in Gloucestershire filling many differing roles, from a standard county record office archivist, to an electronic records manager and a specialist indexer of manorial records. Alongside this, I have worked for Gloucester Diocese as part of their property management team. For those of you asking what's in the archives, they include • benefactors' books recording donations to the Hall, and the Royal charter establishing the Hall in its current form, • minute books of the various committees administering the Hall, • records of the clubs and societies of the Hall, • personal papers of former members and fellows, • financial records dating back to 1685 and much more. We are indebted to the previous Archive Fellows, and to all those who have contributed to the quality and quantity of records now under my care. In particular I want to mention by name three individuals who have contributed the most: former Principals Emden and Kelly, and former Fellow John Cowdrey. Each of them contributed personally to the archives, and traditionally contributed archival and historical reports to the Magazine. I hope to resurrect that tradition, although I cannot hope to challenge their prowess. I also owe thanks to David Smith, who was at the Hall from 1961, for volunteering in 2010-11 to complete a thorough inventory of the archives which my work now builds upon, and for his advice to the Hall in the last few years. I am looking forward to making a lot more of the archives in the life of the Hall. You will see regular entries from me in the Aularian newsletter asking for your help with unidentified archives from the Hall's past, and letting you know about discoveries in the archives. Initially there 25

will be plenty of work to keep me busy describing the archives we have already assembled, repackaging them to help protect them from damage and to make the best use of the space available, answering enquiries, creating a web presence for the archive, and producing displays linked to events at the Hall. During this first year we will also look into the preservation of records which have been created in the computer age. I would be happy to welcome all Aularians to research in the archives, or to visit. Please just contact me for an appointment letting me know any specific interests. If you have records relating to your time at the Hall, I would be very interested to see if these can fill gaps in or otherwise enhance our collections.

FROM THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, convened a two-day conference at the Department of Politics in May 2012, entitled 'The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Fortunes'. Amidst the wave of scholarly interest over the past year in the Arab uprisings as a whole, this conference offered a rigorous examination of one country case, understanding the fortunes of the Egyptian revolution as critical to the other Arab uprisings. The conference was timed to allow reflection on the events of the first anniversary in January and February 2012, as well as the projected final months of the 'transitional period'. There were six panels, considering the preludes to the revolution; its participant movements and their mobilisation; discourse in the revolution; its impact on the state; negotiations of public space; and popular visions for foreign policy change. The intention was to occasion a 'first anniversary history' of a broad and interdisciplinary nature. Indeed the conference occasioned a rare gathering of both scholars and activists from across Britain, the Arab world, Europe, and the United States, and featured a memorable special session in which Egyptians who participated in the January protests spoke of their experiences. The conference was reviewed on the Department's 'Politics in Spires' blog, and further details can be found at www .oxfordegyptconference. wordpress.com. Martin Brasier recently returned from the jungles around Corumba, Brazil where he, an undergraduate and a doctoral student searched for early animal life as fossils, in a tale not unlike the adventures of Colonel Fawcett! This summer has also seen the publication of his most recent book, Secret Chambers - the Inside Story of Cells and Complex Life. In another direction, Martin and his team from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in collaboration with the Memorial University of Newfoundland, have discovered the fossilised remains of small rangeomorphs that may have been buried under a Pompeii-like deluge of ash in Newfoundland around 579 million years ago during the mysterious Ediacaran period (635-542 million years ago). Rangeomorphs are bizarre frond-shaped organisms which lived 580-550 million years ago and are unlike any creature alive today. They are often described as 27

'fern-like' and where exactly they fit in the tree of life is unclear. Because they lived deep beneath the ocean where there would have been no light they are not thought to be plants but they may not have had all of the characteristics of animals. The fossilised 'babies' they found are all less than three centimetres long; many times smaller than the 'parent' forms, seen in neighbouring areas, which can reach up to two metres in length. This new discovery comes from the very bottom of the fossil-bearing rocks, making it one of the oldest bedding planes to preserve 'animal' fossils in the whole of the geological record. The team think that, around 579 million years ago, an underwater 'nursery' of baby fronds was overwhelmed, Pompeii-style, by an ash fall from a volcanic eruption on a nearby island that smothered and preserved them for posterity. The find reinforces the idea that 'life got large' around 580 million years ago, with the advent of these frond-like forms. Martin and the team are now exploring even further back in time to try and discover exactly when these mysterious organisms first appeared and learn more about the processes that led to their diversification in an 'Ediacaran explosion' that may have mirrored the profusion of new life forms we see in the Cambrian. The course of lectures given by Adrian Briggs at the Hague Academy of International Law in July 2011 and reported in the last edition of the Hall Magazine was subsequently published, together with a scary photograph, in Volume 354 of the Recueil des Cours. The rest of that summer (mornings, afternoons, evenings, and night-time) was wholly given over to work on a new edition of Dicey, Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws; and the rest of the year was something of a blur. Newly-discovered letters by French author and philosopher Voltaire reveal that he had surprisingly close ties to the aristocracy during his visit to England in the 1720s. Nicholas Cronk, Fellow of St Edmund Hall and the Director of the University of Oxford's Voltaire Foundation, discovered 14 previously unknown letters by the writer during the course of his research. The letters are of particular historical importance as they provide an insight on a previously undocumented period of Voltaire' s life. They reveal how he was influenced by the ideas of English thinkers - ideas that were instrumental in fashioning the basis of the Enlightenment. Professor Cronk, who is also a lecturer in the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty at the University, describes Voltaire as 28

a "brilliant social climber" who "became part of English society" during his two-and-a-half year stay. Kevin Crossley-Holland's new and selected poems , The Mountains of Norfolk, were published by Enitharmon Press last September, and in the following month he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon D Litt) by Anglia Ruskin University. Representing the Poetry Society, he and his wife Linda accompanied London schoolchildren on a trip to a forest outside Oslo to witness the felling of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, and he has spoken at numerous literary festivals (including Edinburgh, where he gave an Amnesty reading of texts by Aung San Suu Kyi), conferences, societies, teacher training colleges and state and private schools. Kevin's 'After the Flood', a meditation on coastal erosion in the east of England, was aired as programme of the day on Radio 4, and Bob Chilcott's beautiful setting of his carols, performed by the Bath and Wells Cathedral choir, have been released by Hyperion. He has just taken over the reins as President of the School Library Association. Sir John Daniel ended his 8-year presidency of the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver in May 2012. For the last year he has directed a joint project with UNESCO to encourage government support for Open Educational Resources (OER) and the principle that educational materials developed with public funds should be made freely available. This culminated in the Paris Declaration of the World OER Congress in Paris in June 2012. He is now Education Master with the Beijing DeTao Masters Academy in China and, from 2013, will chair the International Board of the United World Colleges.

David Dupret, who joined the Hall in October 2009 as a Junior Research Fellow in Neuroscience, was appointed MRC Group Leader in July 2011 (Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford). His proposed research programme aims to understand how brain circuit temporal dynamics contribute to the consolidation of mnemonic information into long-term memory. In May 2012, David was elected by the Governing Body to a Fellowship by Special Election. During 2011/12 Stuart Ferguson has served on an electoral board in Cyprus and attended a far away conference, also in Cyprus. In between times he has been struggling to prepare a new edition of his book to be called Bioenergetics 4. Outside of the direct functions of Principal, Keith Gull continued to run his laboratory at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology on South Parks Road. He continued his study of the trypanosome parasite which is the causal agent of African Sleeping Sickness. This year the lab has focussed on understanding how certain proteins orchestrate major changes in cell morphology within the life cycle. They believe these cell changes are linked to pathogenicity. The Gull Lab's work is supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust, HFSP and BBSRC, and 10 papers have been published this year. Most years, Keith organises and teaches a 10-day course in Africa. This year he organised the course in Tanzania with Dr Eva Gluenz (a Fellow by Special Election at the Hall, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Dunn School). The "One Health" course focussed on the interaction between infectious diseases of animals and humans, and how vaccine development can be facilitated. The course was attended by 20 students from countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Keith also visited Ghana with a Royal Society group to assess a series of Ghana-UK and TanzaniaUK research collaborations. He has little time to accept invitations to give science seminars, but he was able to accept one keynote university lecture in Glasgow on his work with trypanosomes. He also continued to teach a 2-week course on Tropical Medicine and Parasitology to 3rd year Medical students, as well as continuing to teach each summer on the UNIQ summer school programme. The UNIQ summer schools aim to raise aspiration and encourage applications to Oxford from pupils at schools with little or no history of successful applications. The 30

Biomedical Sciences summer school is organised by the SEH Tutor for Admissions, Dr Robert Wilkins (Tutor for Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), and Keith is delighted to contribute each summer. He teaches a module termed "Neglected Tropical Diseases- can science help and do we care?" Hugh Jenkyns is one of a group of five from the Department of Earth Sciences, who has been awarded a grant from Shell to study metal isotopes in sedimentary rocks as a guide to predicting the whereabouts of possible petroleum source rocks. He has also received funding from the Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras to study sediments in Italy and Brazil that might shed light on the origin of oil in the South Atlantic. Heidi Johansen-Berg has spoken at international scientific meetings on human brain imaging in China, USA and Europe. She has given various public talks including a discussion of brain stimulation at the British Science Festival, and a public dialogue on 'Olympic Brains' in London. Her group have produced many interesting papers, including studies of the effects of brain stimulation in stroke and how the brain changes after limb amputation. She is working on a 2nd edition of an edited volume on Diffusion MRI, published by Elsevier. Terry Jones has published three books this year: Trouble on the Heath, Animal Tales, and Evil Machines. He also wrote an opera for the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre called The Doctor's Tale, with composer Anne Dudley. Terry was also presented with a festschrift for his medieval work [see pages 77-8]. Infinity: The Story of a Moment is a new novel by novelist, playwright and critic Gabriel Josipovici, an Honorary Fellow of the College. The book follows the course of a conversation between Tancredo Pavone, a wealthy Sicilian nobleman and avant-garde composer, and his former manservant Massimo. What emerges is a moving portrait of a close bond between two people from utterly different social spheres, and of a complex and vulnerable man who never gave up trying to give voice to the music that he heard within him.

Andrew Kahn is working on multiple projects, including a new history of Russian literature for Oxford University Press. His edition of that

perennial favourite Lermontov's Hero of Our Time, in a new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater (nephew of Boris) will be out early next year in Oxford World's Classics.

John Knight took up an Emeritus Fellowship of the Leverhulme Trust, which enabled him to continue his research on the Chinese economy, exploring for instance some determinants of subjective well-being and the labour market consequences of the Great Leap Forward in higher education that has taken place over the last decade. The growing international interest in China meant that he was much in demand. He contributed papers to workshops at Kings College London and Manchester University (both on challenges to China's continued rapid economic growth), and the Paris School of Economics (subjective well-being and social evaluation), and he spoke at a meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels (China and globalisation). He began a Visiting Professorship at the China Institute of Income Distribution, Beijing Normal University, making visits to Beijing in the autumn and in the spring. He gave several lectures on these visits, including one to a subsidiary of the People's Bank of China, another at the Beijing Forum (both on the theme of challenges to the Chinese economy) and a third at a Policy Forum (on the economic causes and consequences of social instability in China). His book China's Remarkable Economic Growth, was published by OUP in April. It combines economic theory, empirical estimation, and institutional analysis to answer the question: how has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkably high rate? The book also explores the consequences of China's growth, posing questions such as: is the economy running out of unskilled labour; why and how has inequality risen; has economic growth raised happiness; what are the social costs of the overriding priority accorded to growth objectives; and can China continue to grow so rapidly? John continued to chair the editorial board of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Retirement is proving to be no less a challenge for the 'optimisation of time use subject to constraints' than it ever was!

It has not been a particularly easy year for Basil Kouvaritakis because fellow engineer Alistair Borthwick left the Hall after 21 happy years to become the Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University College Cork in Ireland, while colleague Amy Zavatsky was elected by the college to be Junior Proctor for one year from the Easter vacation onwards. Amy will only be away for another 2 terms, so Basil can cope with that (but he does hope that none of our Teddy Hall engineers will encounter her in her disciplinary role as Proctor- much better that they meet her later in a University degree ceremony!) Basil has carried on with his research on robust predictive control and with the collaboration of two brilliant colleagues has eased his way into new ground that got them ever so close (but not quite there) to the holy grail (dynamic programming) which, wonderful as it may be, involves intractable computation.

Though nothing to do with Engineering, Basil is still carrying on with the overseeing of the organization of Art Week, spending several happy hours hanging pictures and agonising about whether exhibition panels have been best placed to catch all the available light without casting shadows. On the music front, after many years (near enough 20), his stint as Senior Member of Music is coming to an end and from now on the interests of music will be looked after by a professional. However, he is still very active and is hoping to carry on helping college with matters musical, and though oflate has not given any recitals, he is hoping to restart in the coming years.

Christoph Loenarz, Junior Research Fellow at the Hall, has been awarded an Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust. Christoph's outstanding work investigating the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to changes in oxygen levels has resulted in the Fellowship, which will encompass a research project entitled "Breathing new life into ribosomes: How does oxygen regulate translation?" The Fellowship furthers Christoph's current research into the identification of novel oxygen-sensitive biochemical pathways across evolution, including in mammals, yeast and bacteria. Research in this area contributes to our understanding of cancer biology, ischaemia, and some cases of congenital malformations.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours Qune 2011) William R Miller was awarded a CBE. In October, he was elected a Fellow of the College of Advocates of St Paul's Cathedral, and earlier this year he founded and was made Chairman of the American Fund for Westminster Abbey. He has been honoured by the British Memorial Garden as its Chairman Emeritus, and was honoured by the Manhattan School of Music at their Annual Gala in May this year. He was delighted to receive a Distinguished Friend of Oxford University Award from the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, during the OU North American Reunion in New York in April. The highlights of David Manolopoulos' year have included co-authoring a paper with Oliver Riordan and spending a thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating two months as a Miller Visiting Professor at Berkeley. It has been a year of change for Paul Matthews. In Oct 2011, he transferred operations of the GSK Clinical Imaging Centre, which he had led over the last 6 years from its development as a partnership with Imperial College, to a new company, Imanova Ltd, set up by the three major London universities and the MRC to pursue advanced imaging for both academic investigators and industry. From 1 April 2012 (a peculiar day on which to start any new venture!), Paul became Head of a new Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial. The Division rather uniquely integrates neuroscience, neurology and mental health research and teaching across the three main medical campuses. He is continuing a smaller role in GSK neurosciences for the development of therapies for multiple sclerosis, his long-standing subspecialty interest in neurology. Throughout the year Paul has had an always stimulating travel schedule with lectures at several interesting places including Harvard, McGill, Case Western, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University of Texas Southwestern, as well as keynote lectures at last year's international ECTRIMS meetings in Amsterdam and the recent American Academy of Neurology in New Orleans, as well as collaborative work with the NIH and UCSF. After eo-organising aJapan-UK Imaging Meeting with the MRC, Wellcome Trust and the Foreign Office in March, Paul is joining an MRC delegation invited by Japan Science and Technology for a visit in early June. He also kept up his interest in the intersection between literature and science as eo-lead for an invited Interdisciplinary Workshop on Literature and Neuroscience held in March of this year

at the Banbury Centre of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories in New York. While this all sounds rather far from Oxford, Paul continues to live in Summertown, maintain an MS clinic at the John Radcliffe and hugely values his association with St Edmund Hall. The recent annual medics' dinner with news of recent accomplishments of the talented Hall medical students strongly reminded him why the Fellowship and College are so important! During the last academic year, Philip Mountford's research has continued to focus on the following areas: reactions of new transition metal hydrazide and alkoxyimide complexes; development of new catalysts and approaches to the synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers; new Ziegler-Natta type olefin polymerisation catalysts. In addition a new project on lanthanide-boryl complexes has furnished the first examples of lanthanide-boron sigma bonds and in another area the first example of a calcium-transition metal bond. Details of the work and the associated publications are given at www.mountfordgroup.org. In addition he has been appointed by the RSC as Chairman of the Editorial Board of Dalton Transactions for 2012-2015. Dalton is one of the leading international journals in the areas of inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. He was also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Frankland Award for 2012. This award is given for outstanding contributions to pure and applied research in organometallic chemistry or coordination chemistry. The citation for the award (which comprises both a medal and cash prize) reads: "awarded for his seminal work on metal-ligand multiple bonding of the early transition elements and applications to the design of new polymerisation catalysts and to novel chemistry of main group and lanthanide compounds".

James Naughton published a revised edition of his textbook Colloquial Slovak (London: Routledge, 2nd edition, 2012). He has also contributed an article on the 'Poetry of Slovakia' for the new edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, due to be published this autumn. Lucy Newlyn had a spell of ill health last year, from which she has thankfully recovered. She is grateful for the support she received from colleagues, friends, Aularians and students during a rather trying time. She completed the final draft of her book on the Wordsworths during sabbatical leave in Michaelmas term, and spent the Summer checking it

so as to submit it to OUP in September. She returned to her teaching in Hilary term, and has enjoyed delving back into Modern Literature and the Romantics with her students. She was invited to read her poetry at the Headingley Literary Festival in March, a nostalgic occasion for her, because it took place in her old school (which has now been converted into an Arts Centre.) She has greatly enjoyed her first year as Literary Editor of the Oxford Magazine, and hopes soon to make some innovations in the kind of material published there (including illustrations, with help from the Master of the Ruskin). David Phillips has recently been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship which will allow him to further his research into educational policy and its implementation in the British Zone of occupied Germany. He first worked on education in the British Zone some thirty years ago; at that time the archives were beginning to become available and it was still possible to interview people who had worked with the Control Commission during the Occupation. The focus of his interest then was university reform, but this Fellowship will enable him to investigate other aspects of educational policy in the Zone, using archives in England, Germany, and the United States. He still hopes that it might be possible to talk to people with first-hand experience of education and related areas in Germany during the period 1945-1949 and he will be very glad to hear from anyone who can suggest such contacts. Anyone who can assist with the research is asked to contact david. phillips@education.ox.ac. uk. David Priestland has given several talks on his history of communism, 7be Red Flag, including one at the Mario Soares Foundation in Lisbon, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the USSR. He is now working on the coming of the market to the Soviet bloc after the fall of communism, and is writing a more general essay on markets and market cultures in the twentieth century. One of Steve Roberts' main areas of research is in very small scale mechanical testing. This is needed for two reasons - first, much of his group's work on irradiation effects on materials involves ion-implanted layers that are at most about 3 microns deep, from which test specimens must be cut; second, even though the neutron-irradiated specimens they are now beginning to work with are irradiated in bulk, they are 36

radioactive, and so to deal with them in a normal laboratory, the specimen size has to be very small. Members of the group are working on testing irradiated materials using methods and analysis techniques developed at Oxford, mostly using focussed-ion-beam machining to cut micron-scale cantilever specimens and a nanoindenter to load them. They also work on understanding the very strong effects that the size of the specimens has on the test results.

Steve Roberts and Dave Armstrong with the high-temperature nanotest system

The group are just beginning to extend these methods to high temperatures appropriate to reactor operation. Though their unique high-temperature nanoindenter was delivered in February 2011, it has taken some time to get it fully into operation. They accepted the machine in February 2012, and are now doing the first series of "real" tests using it; relatively straight-forward high-temperature nanoindentation on iron samples, to study its anomalous high-temperature strength behaviour, linking experiments to modelling performed by their collaborators at CCFE Culham. In September 2012, the group organised a workshop (based at St Edmund Hall) on "Ion Irradiation as Neutron Irradiation Analogue"; this addressed 37

the long-standing problem of how one translates data from the relatively inexpensive and rapid irradiation methods using heavy ions, to the actual radiation damage that will be suffered by materials in a neutron irradiation environment, such as a fission or fusion reactor. Steve Roberts presented the outcomes of the meeting to the international "Expert Group on Structural Materials Integrity" (for nuclear power plants), and as a result a collaborative review of this area is in preparation. In September 2012 they will be organising a workshop on "Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys for Nuclear Applications", and also a repeat of the successful one-week course on nuclear materials that was first held in April 2011. In December 2011, the Universities of Bristol and Oxford launched a collaborative Nuclear Research Centre, the aim of which is to "provide leading edge and innovative research to support the safe operation of current and future generation nuclear systems" (www.nrcuk.net/ ). The NRC encompasses not just research in materials, but in engineering, computer systems, environmental impact and social and economic aspects of nuclear power generation. Steve eo-directs the "advanced research" arm of the NRC, together with Prof Peter Flewitt, of Bristol University. Following a research visit to Miami in 2010 Charlotte Stagg has implemented a novel brain imaging technique in Oxford that she hopes will allow measurement of brain cell damage in patients with a range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, with the long-term aim of developing a non-invasive marker for future drug trials. She has recently demonstrated the promise of this approach in people with Motor Neuron Disease, work which has led to a recent funding award from the MS Society (UK) to utilise the approach in people with MS. In addition, Charlotte has been closely involved in an on-going clinical trial investigating the potential of a novel therapeutic technique transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) - in people recovering after stroke. Interim results suggest that tDCS, which involves passing tiny electric currents through the brain, improves patients' response to physiotherapy, and that these behavioural improvements may last for months. This year has seen the publication of Katharine Sykes' first book, Inventing Sempringham (November 2011), and the birth of her son,

Henry (April2012). She is currently working on articles on the monastic priesthood and late medieval nunneries, as well as an edition and translation of the statutes of the order of Sempringham. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, S G Younis Junior Research Fellow in Political History, has been awarded the 2011 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the British Society for Middle East Studies for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities. This is the most prestigious prize of its kind in the UK. It's an exciting time to study particle physics, with the recent announcement by the experiments ATLAS and CMS (the former of which Jeff Tseng is a member) of what looks like a new particle with the properties of the long-sought "Higgs boson". If it is confirmed as the Higgs boson - or indeed, as one of several such particles - it affirms the continuing and yet somewhat mysterious power of the field's Standard Model. It also throws into sharper relief some of its remaining puzzles, which areJeff's main area of research, such as its relationships with gravity and the elusive "dark matter" which may make up the vast majority of the universe. In other news, computing technology from J eff' s particle physics research underpinned the Australian astronomy computing initiative www.theSkyNet.org which launched publicly in September 2011 and, he maintains, is not related to the computer which destroys civilization in the Terminator movies. It has already run well over a billion computing jobs, and is an element in planning for the world's largest radio telescope, the transcontinental Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Rob Whittaker is continuing his research in island biogeography as part of a network of colleagues from Portugal, Spain, Greece, and France. The group has been successful in gaining funding from the Portuguese government (FCT) for ongoing projects on the theme of 'Predicting extinctions on islands: a multi-scale assessment', and 'Biodiversity on oceanic islands: towards a unified theory', while a third project on reconstructing the palaeoclimate of the Macaronesian island region has been funded through colleagues based in Tenerife, Spain. These projects have a common theme of exploring the impacts of environmental change 39

(habitat loss, climate change, island geological dynamics) on ecological and evolutionary dynamics of island biota. The latest project is based on developing and testing a new theory of island evolutionary dynamics that integrates island geological and evolutionary processes, first published in 2008 (Whittaker et al., in Journal of Biogeography). Rob and his colleagues have provided presentations to wider audiences in Athens, Terceira, Copenhagen, and Lisbon and have published a number of papers on these topics in Journal of Biogeography and the Journal of Insect Conservation. Rob has also continued to publish work on biogeographical responses to climate change in contexts other than islands. See Rob's website for more details of this work (www.geog.ox.ac.uk/ staff/rwhittaker.html). In addition, Rob acted as senior local host for Advances in Biogeography: an early career conference of the International Biogeography Society (IBS), held in Oxford, 23-25 Sept 2011. Rob is current past-President of the IBS, and is due to complete an eight year stint on the IBS board at the end of 2012. During the Oxford meeting he ran a half-day workshop on Research Ethics, Practice and Dissemination in Biogeography drawing on his experience as chief editor of Journal of Biogeography. Robert Wilkins, Course Director of Biomedical Sciences, is the winner of an award for use of WebLearn (the University's Virtual Learning Environment) beyond a single course or group. The Biomedical Sciences degree course has undergone a complete overhaul in the past 18 months and to accompany this re-structure a new portal for students has been created in WebLearn for them bringing together all the resources and tools they need to navigate through the themes and years of the course. The course is truly interdisciplinary in nature, with a number of departments and units contributing teaching, including Biochemistry, Experimental Psychology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, recognising that the interdisciplinary nature of the course presented a number of challenges which use of learning technology could address. Developed by the MSD Learning Technologies team, combining a number of bespoke and existing technologies, the WebLearn 'portal' page for Biomedical Sciences is the key component of success for the course. Derrick Wyatt (retired 2009) is wearing a visiting professor's hat in the Law Faculty and lecturing to graduates on the Law of the EU's Internal 40

Market, a subject which perhaps he alone on the planet finds more entertaining than gardening or Euro 2012. An immensely pleasant four year stint as Senior Member of the Boat Club has taught Derrick that "mens sana in corpore sano" ("the men really do need a sauna at the boathouse"), and that when the Hall's brightest and best are not in the library, you'll find them on the river. It was a great pleasure to hand over to Simon Costa, who is doubly qualified as a former Hall rower, and an avid supporter of SEHBC. Derrick stays on as Senior Member of the Friends of the Boat Club, a dedicated band of Aularians who guarantee that in this college at least rowing may cost you blood, sweat and the occasional tear, but not a hefty (or any) fee to join the Boat Club. Derrick lectured in April at the Inter-University Institute in Dubrovnik, at the invitation of the Zagreb Law Faculty's EU law team, which includes on its strength Aularian Tamara Perisin (M Jur 2003). The location (delightful), weather (glorious), and seafood restaurants (eat your heart out Rick Stein) failed to distract participants from a rigorous academic schedule. As a practising QC Derrick recently represented US airlines in the European Court of Justice in their attempt to block application of the EU's aviation emissions "cap and tax" scheme, and he is currently representing UK subsidiaries of Iranian banks who are challenging the legality of EU moves to freeze their assets. "I am retired," insists Derrick, "because I no longer have to give tutorials, mark essays, or attend Principal's collections. But a little gentle academic endeavour, and the occasional brief, keep my grey cells in trim."

Amy Zavatsky took up her position as Junior Proctor of the University of Oxford in mid-March in a ceremony at Convocation House. Dr Zavatsky will serve in office for one year. She is pictured on page 41 flanked by Hall colleagues Robert Wilkins and Maryanne Martin who join as Pro-Proctors, and the Principal. OBITUARIES Robert Mark Hargrave MA, BPhil, 17 August 2012, aged 63, South Yorkshire. Former Lecturer in Philosophy. Anthony Frank Marchington MA, DPhil, November 2011, aged 55, Derbyshire. Honorary Fellow. Dr Shahira Samir Mahmoud Samy, 21 March 2012, aged 39, Egypt. Former Junior Research Fellow. ROBERT MARK (BOB) HARGRAVE PPEists and other philosophy students of the late 1980s will be saddened to hear of the death of Bob Hargrave, who ran the subject in the Hall for some years during Susan Hurley's absence on research leave. A Yorkshireman, Bob first came to Oxford to read Maths at Univ, followed by the BPhil in philosophy. He combined a prodigious and polymathic intellect with a full-blooded enthusiasm for all the good and bad - things of life, but his laid-back not to say outrageous style ensured he would never be a part of the philosophy establishment, and he never had a permanent university post in Oxford. However he taught for many different colleges, and few students would forget the demanding and confrontational combination of enthusiasm and scepticism, both in and out of tutorials. In recent years he had settled happily at Balliol, where he enjoyed legendary status and amongst several non-philosophic pursuits trained the college bridge team from nothing to county champions in a short space of years. Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer only in Trinity Term, Bob faced his imminent end in typical style: he quietly informed his college, finished his teaching, enjoyed a convivial leaving party and retired to Yorkshire, 42

where he died shortly into the Long Vacation. "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it." Martin Slater Fellow by Special Election in Economics

ANTHONY MARCHINGTON I first met Tony Marchington, a Brasenose man, in 1992, when he was initiated into the Apollo University Lodge. Freemasonry was one of his two great passions. He was later to become Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire. His research became a student's dream as the foundation for Oxford Molecular, which he set up with his supervisor at BNC, Professor Graham Richards. The company went viral and produced a fortune almost overnight- for a few brief years, on paper, Tony became a very rich man. Tony's other passion was steam engines; his grimy face was often to be seen beaming behind the steering gear of a giant traction engine as it rumbled along the country lanes near Oxford. He also assembled, over the years, an Edwardian steam fair. I have the pleasant recollection of the rumpus he caused, during a Teddy Hall Summer Garden Party, when, as a benign Mr Toad, aboard a sparkling asthmatic contraption, he towed a cart-load of children (and their Dads!) up and down the High, while his other fairground gadgetry puffed away in the gardens of St Peter in-the-East. But his most notorious feat was undoubtedly the purchase and refurbishment of the Flying Scotsman. I have a vivid memory of the journey from York, behind the monster, on its ballistic inaugural romp to London. T ony in his element, on the footplate; Peter Butler and me, white-knuckled, in one of McAlpine's Pullman coaches that it drew; there seemed to be waving fans lining the entire route. In the piece I wrote for The Times (Obituary October 29), I managed to include an observation I had made in the SEH magazine at the time, that Marchington and his Leviathan seem to resemble each other in the way that dogs and their owners sometimes do: both were wreathed in steam, smiles, smuts and sweat; accompanying the piece, there was a splendid photograph of him aboard the beast. I know this brought back memories to members of the Lodge, for many of us still have the glass tankards, 43

engraved with the Flying Scotsman, that were presented to all who attended his installation as its Master in 1997. Sadly the bubble burst and he found himself almost penniless. He sold his mansion near Bicester and moved away, but, I understand, managed to hang on to his steam fair, which he kept in an aircraft hangar. He genuinely loved the Hall and became involved in all manner of things, supporting the Boat Club and cricket. Geoffrey Bourne-T aylor (former Domestic Bursar)

SHAHIRA SAMY (1972- 2012) With great sadness, we remember our colleague Shahira Samy, who passed away in Egypt on 21 March 2012 after a long illness. Shahira was J arvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and St Edmund Hall between 2007 and 2010. Her particular focus was on the politics of postconflict reparations and the challenges of displacement in the Middle East. She was a committed member of both the Department and St Edmund Hall, where her friends and colleagues will miss her, and remember her fondly. Before coming to Oxford, Shahira had worked as a refugee status determination officer at the Cairo office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and an intern at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Damascus. From 2001 to 2008, she worked as Assistant Lecturer in the Political Science Department of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Alexandria. During 2006-7, she was a Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the British University in Egypt. She also wrote for Egypt's foremost English-language newspaper, Al-Ahram Weekly. Shahira completed her Bachelors degree at the University of Alexandria and her Masters and doctorate at the University of Exeter in 2006. Her doctoral thesis, 'The Politics of Reparations in the Case of Palestinian Refugees', was awarded an honourable mention by the committee of the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize of the British Society for Middle

Eastern Studies in 2008. She had conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, authoring a number of studies and reports on refugee issues in these countries. At Oxford, Shahira began research on the Iraqi refugee issue, which she discussed at the Middle East Centre under the title 'Is there an Iraqi refugee crisis?' on 27 October 2009. She also acted as a consultant to the UNHCR and published 'Surviving in the city: a review of UNHCR's operation for Iraqi refugees in urban areas of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria', with J eff Crisp, Jose Riera and J ane J anz in 2009. She also consulted for Adam Smith International and the Palestinian Negotiations Support unit, the CARIM Network at the European University Institute in Florence, and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. Shahira went on to publish her doctoral research with Routledge in 2010: Reparations to Palestinian Refugees: A Comparative Perspective. Her book launch was held at the Middle East Centre, Oxford, on 20 May 2010. Also on Palestinian refugees, she published several studies, including the article 'Would sorry repair my loss? Why Palestinian refugees should seek an apology for their displacement,' for the International Journal for Human Rights (14.3) in May 2010. During her time at Oxford, Shahira returned to writing for Al-Ahram Weekly with this piece on two Middle East experts whom she admired at the DPIR, Dr Karma Nabulsi (her mentor at St Edmund Hall) and Professor Avi Shlaim, entitled: 'The Struggle Goes On' (Al-Ahram Weekly, 17-23 September 2009). Shahira's career was devoted to investigating and highlighting the plight and rights of victims of war and displacement in the Middle East, particularly in Palestine and Iraq. Some of her last work was on irregular migration in her own country, Egypt. Slie leaves behind a legacy of important research that will inform future students and scholars in this field, and warm memories with friends and colleagues in Oxford and beyond. Our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time. Reem Abou-el-Fadl Garvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations & Conflict Resolution in the Middle East)

FROM THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM We have had a fantastic year in the Teddy Hall MCR. The graduate common room continues to grow in numbers, and involvement in the MCR events and activities followed suit this year. The MCR has been heavily involved in the Hall's sports scene. Six of the Women's 1st VIII crew, including Suzanne Cole, the captain for the year, were MCR members. They did fantastically well to finish sixth on the river during Summer Eights. The women's 2nd VIII, also consisted of six MCR members, while four graduate students made up the two men's crews. Two Teddy Hall MCR Members, Amy McLennan and Amy Varney, rowed in the Osiris boat this year. In their Varsity race against Cambridge they managed to win by an impressive 3Y2lengths on the Thames at Henley. In addition to rowing achievements, a couple of MCR members were part of the 1st rugby team that won Cuppers in fine style this year in the final against Oriel College, while three MCR members were part of the hockey team that was narrowly beaten in the final of the Mixed Cuppers competition. A number of MCR students are doing exciting trips for their field work this year. Tamara Etmannski spent her summer assessing the best cleanwater solutions in Kolkata, India, while Peter Davis spent his summer on a boat in the High Arctic, measuring the flow of ocean currents from the Arctic to the Atlantic. Elizabeth Green was in South Sudan on the day of their independence during her fieldwork investigating the United Nations' communication strategy within the area of education, and David Springer headed to the townships of Cape Town, South Africa to try and diagnose heart conditions using a mobile phone. When the students weren't working hard, the MCR was a-bustle once again with activities throughout the year. Some highlights in Hilary term were the Burn's Night Dinner, with the traditional piping in of the Haggis, accompanied by an address by the chef. Some other popular events were the Cake and Cocktails party and High Tea, both giving the Hall graduates a chance to kick back in the MCR and enjoy good food and company. The Wine and Cheese evenings, hosted by our very own

William Gunson, were a favourite and the exchange dinners held with Exeter, University and Oriel colleges thoroughly enjoyed and gave graduates a chance to experience dining in other colleges. The MCR also organised two outings to concerts in the Sheldonian Theatre to listen to the Oxford Philomusica perform Bach and Mozart. Trinity Term, while always frantically busy, was also packed with events to keep the graduate students distracted from their hard work. We had

exchange dinners with St Antony's and Pembroke and bar exchanges with Queen's and Magdalen. Trinity Term also saw the College rollerskating around the Wolfson Hall during the Teddy Hall Ball; an event partly organised and well attended by graduate students. The MCR celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by hanging streams of bunting in the College quad and with a BBQ at Norham Gardens including a bouncy castle! The year ended in traditional way with Trinity Dinner and the garden party held in the last week of term, shortly after the new MCR committee were elected. With the vice-president from this year, Christian Beck, taking over as president, I am sure they will do a sterling job and continue to make the Teddy Hall MCR a welcoming and active environment for graduate students. Floreat Aula! David Springer MCR President 2011-12

FROM THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Teddy Hall has had yet another great year with so much success, energy and activity. It has been an honour to be President this year of an immensely talented JCR brimming with endeavour and achievement. This year saw an amazing Teddy Hall Ball with the theme of "1950s Rock and Roll" - a true success. College looked amazing and over 500 students, past and present, danced the night away in style. Congratulations and many thanks to all students and college staff involved.

To the sports fields: Teddy Hall was a force to be reckoned with in nearly all sports! Teddy Hall support at the matches is consistently bigger, better and louder than the oppositions'! The rugby team remains a great asset to the college and achieved the double, winning the league and dominating Oriel in the Cuppers final. This match had huge support from the Hall and was a great spectacle. The seconds (Hilarians) are also very active, although better at drinking the half-time beer than intense game play! Twickenham (with over 27,000 spectators) in December saw six Teddy Hall players on the pitch for the winning 21s and Blues. Karl Outen (2008, Material Science) was named Varsity Man of the Match. The women's touch rugby side won Cuppers this term and is increasingly well supported. The 1st football team reached the Cuppers Finals as did the tennis team and hockey team. Blues and Cuppers success in more eclectic sports is rife: Teddy Hall won modern pentathlon Cuppers, badminton Cuppers, swimming Cuppers (for the first time ever) , to name a few. Overall, sports from basketball to quidditch (yes this does exist!) are dominated by the athletes who are Teddy Hall men and women. Summer Eights was another fantastic week with great rowing on the river and support on the banks. The Men's 1st VIII ended a place higher on the river with many bumps and drama over the four days. Many freshers have become involved and the Boat Club remains very popular. The Drama and Music scene is also very lively with many events throughout the year ranging from Teddy Hall Has Talent to the successful drama Cuppers play. This play - a spoof of Macbeth -was showcased at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, a great reflection of all the talent and ambition involved. St Edmund Hall Artweek 2012 exhibited the variety and extent of artistic talent in the college, with numerous exhibits by students, alumni, Fellows, staff, and friends of the Hall. To combat those "fifth week blues" a blues concert was put on which showcased a wide variety of musical acts including an amusing piece about Hall life written by the Chaplain, Kris Kramer. A vast array of talent and liveliness in Arts and Culture exists in Teddy Hall. Charity and a giving spirit continue to thrive in college. Many students run marathons, jump out of planes and wear tiger outfits to lectures to raise money for worthwhile causes! Teddy Hall's Venus Girls have raised 48

over ÂŁ2,000 for Macmillan Cancer in Trinity term alone which included a very rowdy and successful man auction! The Syndicate ran a hugely popular BBQ at the Summer Eights as well as several events throughout the year to raise money for a range of charitable causes. The Gaza Crisis Scholarship which began two years ago continues to support a student from an area of political crisis. Teddy Hall leads the way with Access schemes ensuring the JCR is diverse and interesting. This whistle-stop tour has not been sufficient to fully show how much has been achieved this year in the Hall. Hall spirit continues to this day and I am truly excited about Teddy Hall's achievements in the future Âˇ and beyond! Angela Dudley JCR President 2012 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

The Association Football Club Men's Captain: Thomas Hobkinson Women's Captain: Victoria Griffin The Men's Captain's Report Teddy Hall 1st XI Football Team had such a Jekyll and Hyde season that at times it seemed as though we were fielding two completely different teams. In Cuppers, SEHAFC were the team to watch with high scoring games and two of the matches going to extra time and penalties. Early on we made a real statement with a 7-0 demolition of Jesus 1st XL James Hilton produced a real captain's performance scoring 4 goals of the highest quality. However, the game of the tournament came in the quarterfinals against Balliol1st XL A rollercoaster match finished 5-5 after extra time and two last minute equalisers. In the penalty shootout, our goalkeeper Tom Harrison played an absolute blinder, saving two, while fresher Sam Henderson showed nerves of steel to step up and score the winner. Unfortunately our luck ended in the semi-final with a defeat on penalties to St Anne's.

In contrast, our form was disappointing in the JCR Premier league. Inconsistent defensive performances and a lack of penetration to our attacks led to us being relegated. It was a sad end to a season that had seen so many positive displays. Our 2nd XI had a fantastic year, winning the JCR Reserves 3rd division and only losing one game all season. Highlights included a 10-0 victory over Balliol2nd XI in which top scorer Josh Coulson scored a hat-trick. Tom Clarke showed great leadership from centre back throughout the season, whilst managing to score 6 goals. The 3rd XI also had a great season, finishing third in the JCR Reserves 4th division, and were only one point short of winning the title. Next year Doug Cooley will be looking to build on the firm foundations left by Grant MeWalter's team. Sadly we now say goodbye to many of the stalwarts of SEHAFC because the finalists, along with students on a year abroad, will not be here next year. Next season will see the rebuilding of the 1st XI squad with our priority being to regain our place in the JCR Premier League.

Tbe Women's Captain's Report The 2011/2012 was a great but frustrating season for the St Edmund Hall Women's Football Club. Currently positioned in the second division, we won three out of five matches. This left us in a comfortable third position, easily avoiding relegation but unfortunately losing the opportunity to take a promotion position after a close defeat to Jesus. In Cuppers, we won two out of three games but were unlucky and missed out on the chance to progress to the quarter-finals due to goal difference. Overall, the team played amazingly throughout the season, producing some great and memorable performances. The highlight of the season was the game against New College in Michaelmas, when against a very strong opposition we dug in and came out with a deserved 1-0 VICtory. I believe an even greater achievement is that our strong team is entirely made up of Hall talent, with most thanks going to the enthusiastic Freshers and the influx of great American players, who we will be sad to see head back over the Atlantic this summer. Furthermore, members of our squad 50

proudly represented Teddy Hall at the University level, giving Lizzie Harkins, Anna Gibson and Michelle Degli Esposti a valid excuse not to attend training on Wednesdays. With a joint captaincy in Alana Lewis and Rosie Baker underway, I am sure that the 2012/2013 season will be even better. Hopefully with the luck on our side!

The Badminton Club Captain: Michael Nairn Hall Badminton has taken off in the last couple of years, and has managed to blend the College's sporting prowess with participation for everyone who wants to get involved. This year over 60 people registered an interest in either playing for the College or playing at a wider University level, and more than 20 people represented the Hall in competitive inter-college matches. The men's team stayed in the second division but unfortunately the women's team were relegated out of the top division on a technicality. Thanks are due to Simon Picot who is leaving at the end of this year, because he has been a stalwart of Hall badminton over a number of years now.

Cuppers 2012: Navamayooran Thavanesan, Alistair Reed, Michael Nairn (c), Ben Whiteley

The Hall currently has 3 people in the University squad with Ben Whiteley and Micky Nairn in the 3rd team. A special mention though has to go to 2nd year Alistair Reed: he was men's 1st team captain this year and led his charges to a convincing 14-1 victory in Varsity. This was part of a comprehensive 48-27 victory with which all three of us were very pleased. The main news from this year is Hall's continued dominance in Cuppers (in which squad members can play) which is the highly competitive form of college badminton compared to the more fun and friendly league. Having won the title in 2011 we set about defending it this year and raced through the early rounds winning 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 and then beat St Hugh's 5-1 in the semi-final. In the final at a packed Iffley we played St John's in an extremely tight match that ended 3 games apiece, but the Hall won on sets to become back-to-back Cuppers champions. We're aiming for a hat-trick next year!

The Basketball Club Captain: Kevin Minors Basketball at Teddy Hall is a very relaxed way to have fun during your time at Oxford. We normally have one game and one practice a week, which makes Teddy Hall basketball very low commitment while still representing the college in the sports arena. The standard of the College Basketball League makes it very easy for both experienced players and beginners to join in and have some fun. This year, the Teddy Hall team received a large number of interested first years and so was able to have its own team, a change from the Teddy Hall I New College basketball team of previous years. The new team chemistry made it vital to take advantage of the practice sessions.

The College League began in Michaelmas on a very high note with the team starting on an eight-game winning streak. We maintained this level of competition well into Hilary term but a few tough games near the end of the regular season left us placed 6th in the College League. College Basketball Cuppers started at the beginning of Trinity. In the group stages, we played four very tough games, two of which we won, and two we lost. The two wins were both by more than 10 points while we lost by fewer than 5 points in the other two. Despite this our win/loss ratio was not enough for the Teddy Hall basketball team to advance to the playoffs. This was a tough end to the season but, as a club, we have developed greatly over the year. We have organized the purchase of a team uniform, thus showing the unity of the SEH team.

The Boat Club Men's Captain: Harry Hodges Women's Captain: Suzanne Cole Men's Captain's Report We started the year with a good turnout for Freshers' Drinks in the Old Dining Hall where we were able to sign up a number of new oarsmen; this was just as well as we did not have as many returning rowers this year as last, leaving us at the beginning of the year with four good oarsmen and an inexperienced cox.

In Autumn Fours we got through to the quarter-finals; and in Christ Church Regatta we entered two novice boats, one of which got through to the Saturday but then unfortunately had to scratch. We entered a IV and an VIII in the Isis Winter League A: the Novice VIII was the fastest with a time of 4:44, the IV also the fastest with 4:50. We also entered two VIIIs in Isis Winter League E. We held our winter training camp in Oxford in January with nine men and a cox, rowing two sessions a day at Abingdon; when Hilary Term started we reverted to rowing during the week on the Isis and continued at Abingdon at weekends. We also hoped to be able to enter a good second VIII for T orpids. 53

As events turned out, the first Torpid dropped three places to finish sixth in Division II whilst two crashes contributed to the second Torpid's demotion into the rowing-on division. We held our summer training camp once again in Mantova in May and this produced substantial progress, confirmed by good performances on the ergs. This good work resulted in our gaining one place in Summer Eights to finish in tenth place in Division I, withstanding a strong challenge mounted by Wadham outside the boathouse on Saturday. Unfortunately the second VIII dropped two places. Throughout the year we have been very fortunate to have had J eremy Ho wick in charge of coaching, helped by Andy W right and J oe Elliott and we are very grateful to them all for their skill and support. We are also very grateful to the Friends of the Boat Club for all their help: without their support we would not be able to afford our training camps and high quality equipment. It was also extremely kind of Sam Griffiths and Rob Harrold, both Friends of the Boat Club, to give us lunch at Leander before Summer Eights.

Women's Captain's Report Teddy Hall women started the year off fantastically well, seeing the novice crew reach the final of Christ Church Regatta in Michaelmas term. They were unfortunately beaten very narrowly by Wadham after many courageous rows, and were left with a desire to carry on and succeed. Our training camps held in Reading in January and Italy in April provided us with invaluable time on the water, especially as the weather conditions in Oxford made the rivers un-rowable for weeks during term time. Richard Fishlock returned to coach the first VIII women, while Sophie Horton did a fantastic job coaching the second VIII. Both crews made huge progress throughout the year but were fairly inexperienced, with only two of the previous year's first VIII staying on. This inexperience was reflected in the racing when it came to Torpids and unfortunately we dropped two places, despite great effort from the entire crew.

We felt more prepared for Summer Eights, but our results don't do us justice. We caught up to the crews we were chasing considerably on all days of racing, except for the Friday when windy conditions resulted in us being blown into the bank off the start. With blades clashing with stones for the first 10 strokes, we were unable to get going properly and were inevitably bumped down one position. We fought back hard on the Saturday and came within a couple of feet of Hertford who had bumped us, but ran out of river before we could make the bump happen. This was frustrating as we were considerably faster than many of the crews out there, but alas, that's the nature of bumps racing. We have many more returning crew members next year, so are set up well to succeed!

The Cricket Club Captain: lain McCann At the start of Trinity term, the Cricket Club was awash with waves of optimism for the coming season. We had a strong squad of players with some bright new talent coming through the ranks. The start of the season however, was an unmitigated disaster. Week after week of torrential rain resulted in cricket being washed out across 55

this success - and at the prompting of one or two English tutors - we decided to take an extended and improved version of the play to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With the unfailing support of the Hall, we secured a prime-time slot to perform at central venue 'The Vault', and with some excellent pre-Fringe press, such as a piece in the Independent on Sunday, we were pleased attract some very positive attention in Edinburgh. As Michaelmas 2012 approaches, the Society's new presidents (Aleks, Efraim and Thomas) hope to maintain the fantastic enthusiasm for theatre that took a hold of the Hall over the last academic year among the next generation of dramatically inclined students, as we plan next year's main John Oldham production. We hope to see you there!

The Lacrosse Team Captain: Lucy Andrew After a triumphant victory in Mixed Lax Cuppers last year, the Teddy Hall team were feeling confident for the season ahead. The mixed lax season consists of the league which takes place in Michaelmas and Hilary, and Cuppers which takes place in Trinity. The team consists of eleven players (no goalie) and 4 of those have to be girls. There is no real positioning in a college game of mixed lax, it's more of a "get the ball, lob it up the pitch and hope someone catches it" sort of format. The team this year consisted of a few golden oldies who always manage to make it to the pitch about a minute before we have to start playing, and a large number of freshers who had never picked up a stick before. The league matches started well and we managed to get through to the second round before being knocked out. Cuppers was slightly more successful. After having to play a man down for the whole tournament, we were still able to get through to the semi-final which we lost in extra time.

The Netball Club Captain: Rachel Zagajewski 2011/2012 saw another successful season for the Teddy Hall netball team. After being promoted to the 2nd division at the end ofT rinity 2011 we faced stiffer competition in the league games but managed to hold our own to finish the season in the top half of the league table.

Similarly, the Hall women displayed a strong performance in the Netball Cuppers tournament, comfortably winning all of the group stage and quarter-finals matches. Unfortunately, in the semi-finals we were drawn to play Worcester College who went on to win the competition, leaving us in a creditable joint 3rd place. In typical Teddy Hall spirit there was great enthusiasm for Mixed Net ball Cuppers, following a series of previous victories in the competition. However, the poor weather resulted in the cancellation of this tournament, preventing us from being able to retain our title. With many of our current players continuing their studies into 2012/ 2013, along with the new Fresher intake, Teddy Hall's prospects for the next academic year look very promising.

Our ability on paper translated very quickly into performances on the pitch. Michaelmas Term saw team after team left on the losing side of often quite substantial score-lines, with tries coming from players in all positions. The only blemish on an unbeaten path to the Michaelmas League Title was a 15 - 15 draw with Christchurch in which we came back from 15 - 0 down at half-time with a severely depleted side. Hilary Term continued in the same vein with more crushing victories over the best teams the rest of the University could muster. Strengthened by numerous players returning from various OURFC sides following victories in their respective Varsity Matches, there was nothing that could stand in the way of Hall claiming its second league title of the season.

The Lacrosse Tearn Captain: Lucy Andrew

After a triumphant victory in Mixed Lax Cuppers last year, the Teddy Hall team were feeling confident for the season ahead. The mixed lax season consists of the league which takes place in Michaelmas and Hilary, and Cuppers which takes place in Trinity. The team consists of eleven players (no goalie) and 4 of those have to be girls. There is no real positioning in a college game of mixed lax, it's more of a "get the ball, lob it up the pitch and hope someone catches it" sort of format. The team this year consisted of a few golden oldies who always manage to make it to the pitch about a minute before we have to start playing, and a large number of freshers who had never picked up a stick before. The league matches started well and we managed to get through to the second round before being knocked out. Cuppers was slightly more successful. After having to play a man down for the whole tournament, we were still able to get through to the semi-final which we lost in extra time.

The Netball Club Captain: Rachel Zagajewski

2011/2012 saw another successful season for the Teddy Hall netball team. After being promoted to the 2nd division at the end of Trinity 2011 we faced stiffer competition in the league games but managed to hold our own to finish the season in the top half of the league table.

Similarly, the Hall women displayed a strong performance in the Netball Cuppers tournament, comfortably winning all of the group stage and quarter-finals matches. Unfortunately, in the semi-finals we were drawn to play Worcester College who went on to win the competition, leaving us in a creditable joint 3rd place. In typical Teddy Hall spirit there was great enthusiasm for Mixed Netball Cuppers, following a series of previous victories in the competition. However, the poor weather resulted in the cancellation of this tournament, preventing us from being able to retain our title. With many of our current players continuing their studies into 2012/ 2013, along with the new Fresher intake, Teddy Hall's prospects for the next academic year look very promising.

The Rugby Club Men's Captain: George Inglis Women's Captain: J essie-J oy Flowers Men's Captain's Report SEHRFC started the 2011/12 season with a good amount of confidence. This was based on a strong season the year before and only a few players being lost to graduation. A good intake of freshers along with a very capable DPhil student added a great deal of quality to the already strong squad. Our ability on paper translated very quickly into performances on the pitch. Michaelmas Term saw team after team left on the losing side of often quite substantial score-lines, with tries coming from players in all positions. The only blemish on an unbeaten path to the Michaelmas League Title was a 15- 15 draw with Christchurch in which we came back from 15- 0 down at half-time with a severely depleted side. Hilary Term continued in the same vein with more crushing victories over the best teams the rest of the University could muster. Strengthened by numerous players returning from various OURFC sides following victories in their respective Varsity Matches, there was nothing that could stand in the way of Hall claiming its second league title of the season.

Going into the Cuppers campaign without having lost a game all year meant there was only ever one target. Comfortable victories in the early rounds saw us quickly reach the latter stages. Despite a long injury list, a battling performance against Catz in the semi-finals booked us a place at Iffley Road Stadium against Oriel, who had overcome Keble in the other semi-final. The final itself was another tense affair with both sides showcasing great quality. Ultimately a dominant performance from the Hall pack proved to be too much for Oriel to handle as we ran out 15 5 winners, securing our 31st Cuppers title and cementing our status as the dominant force in College rugby.

Women's Captain's Report Following last year's touch rugby Cuppers victory, the Teddy Hall women's rugby team were excited at the opportunity to retain the title this Michaelmas. A hardcore group of us trained every Sunday afternoon to progress from passing-catching practice to learning some pretty jazzy dummy switch and loop moves. This, combined with the occasional guest coaching session from various members of SEHRFC, meant that by the time Cuppers arrived we were feeling pretty confident that we could replicate last year's success.

In true Hall spirit, we ended up with 2 teams arriving at the competition. Following some tough competition in the group stage, including our Ateam losing to a feisty St Hugh's side, both of the Hall teams made it through to the final! I would not wish a Hall-Hall final on anyone; it was inevitable that this game would be tense and competitive to say the least! It turned out to be a great match, with team B winning by just one try, and the girls choosing to share the prize and claim a fair overall Teddy Hall victory at the end. This was another thoroughly enjoyable afternoon of women's rugby for the Hall - long may the tradition continue, and bring on next year!

The Squash Club Captain: N eil Morton Squash has been continuing this year with the team promoted into division 1. Some hard-fought matches by Chris Box and Adrian Murdock amongst others helped take us forward in Michaelmas term, but unfortunately we succumbed to some pretty organised teams. However, more and more people are interested in squash at Teddy Hall, and there are some great facilities for us to use hopefully to bolster the team in the

next few years! With some organised training, squash at Teddy Hall can really increase dramatically from its humble beginnings over the last year and a half, so I look to the future for some Teddy Hall talent to make us top of yet another set of sports leagues!

The Tennis Club Women's Captain: Katharine Davenport With a mix of tennis blues and complete novices in college, Hall tennis is for anyone and everyone! When not dodging raindrops the Women's tennis team had another successful year with some very exciting, highquality matches. We finished second in the league and reached the semifinals of Cuppers; unfortunately, despite our best efforts we were unable to reach the final, but with plenty of enthusiastic freshers picking up a racquet this summer, there are high hopes for next year!

THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS

Marie Isabel Schlinzig is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and was made a Fellow by Special Election at the Hall in the summer of 2011. Her main areas of research are modern epistolary culture, focusing on last letters and suicide notes, as well as lifewriting, in particular fictional (auto) biographies. Her current research project explores the significance and functions of fictional and non-fictional letters written before death in German, English, and French from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The aim of her study is to demonstrate how letter-writing in extremis has been shaped by (and was, in some cases, used to influence contemporaries' perceptions o~ socio-cultural developments, historical events, and the emergence of the new media. She laid the foundations for this project in her doctoral thesis, which outlined the history of last letters from antiquity to 1800 and analysed the role they played in the literature and culture of the eighteenth century. The thesis will be published by de Gruyter. Marie Isabel has also worked on the twenty-first century artistic reception of Heinrich von Kleist's (1777-1811) biography; she retains a strong interest in this author's works, life, and 'afterlife' . Marie Isabel was born and raised in Dresden (then the GDR). After studying in Dresden, Minsk, and Frankfurt an der Oder (where she obtained her BA), she came to Oxford as a postgraduate student. During her doctoral studies Marie Isabel began to teach for a number of Oxford colleges; after completing her thesis she worked as a stipendiary lecturer in German (at St Edmund Hall, Somerville College, and Magdalen College) and as assistant to the editors of Oxford German Studies. 63

Lord (Ken) Macdonald of River Glaven QC has had a distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. One of the founders of Matrix Chambers, he was Director of Public Prosecutions from 2003 to 2008. In 2007, he was knighted for services to the law. In July 2010, Ken Macdonald became a Liberal Democrat Peer and a member of the House of Lords, with the title Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC. In January 2011, he became Chair of Reprieve, the human rights charity, in succession to the late Lord Bingham of Cornhill. He read PPE at St Edmund Hall in 1971 and has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship. Lord Macdonald took up the post of Warden of W adham College on 1 September 2012, following the retirement of Sir Neil Chalmers. Keir Starmer has also been elected to .-------._..., an Honorary Fellowship. He was called to the Bar in 1987 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002. He practised from Doughty Street Chambers since its inception in 1990 and was appointed Head of Chambers in 2007. His main areas of practice were human rights, international law, judicial review and criminal law. He has conducted cases at the highest level and all over the world in those fields. He is the author of several leading text books on human rights and criminal law. He was named as QC of the Year in the field of human rights and public law in 2007 by the Chambers & Partners directory

Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work in challenging the dealth penalty throughout the Caribbean and also in Uganda, Kenya and Malawi. From 2003-2008, Keir Starmer was the human rights advisor to the Policing Board in Northern Ireland. In that capacity he worked with the Policing Board to ensure that the Police Service of Northern Ireland fully complied with its obligations under the Human Rights act 1998. He was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008. Since taking up the post of Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir has introduced Core Quality Standards within the CPS and a robust quality assurance framework to ensure that all prosecutors provide a high quality service to the public. Keir also oversaw the merger of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office in 2009/10. A specialist revenue and customs division now operates successfully within the CPS, and significant savings have been made. As DPP, Keir has had to handle a number of complex and sensitive cases including a series of cases about assisted suicide leading to the DPP's guidelines on Assisted Suicide which were issued in February 2010; and the various cases in which members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords have been charged with criminal offences. Between 1999 and 2003 Philip Pogge von Strandmann was an undergraduate studying Earth Sciences at St Edmund Hall. After graduating, he moved on to do his PhD at the Open University in Environmental Geochemistry. Between 2006 and 2011 Philip was a post-doctoral research associate at Bristol University, before moving back to the Earth Science Department in Oxford as a NERC Research Fellow, and a Junior Research Fellow at Teddy Hall. 65

His research aims to understand climate change in the Earth's history, and how episodes of global warming or cooling influence the entire climate system, including ocean chemistry and mass extinctions. This research is important, because past climate change provides the only possible evidence we can get on how the Earth will respond to present and future man-made global warming, which will allow more accurate models and predictions on the consequences of our causing of climate change. Elected to a Fellowship by Special Election, David McCartney has been at St Edmund Hall since 2003. He studied pre-clinical and clinical medicine and after qualifying undertook a post on the Academic Foundation Training Programme. He commenced a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Fellowship in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in August 2011. This post integrates both clinical and research training. His research interests are focused on Cardiovascular Disease. David is particularly interested in risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease and how these might be modified by interventions in a Primary Care setting that will ultimately result in improved health outcomes. He is currently investigating the trends in various social inequalities in Coronary Heart Disease and considering what factors might have influenced the observed trends. He mainly teaches the second year pre-clinical students as part of their 'Systems of the Body' course and also contributes to the teaching of the sixth year students as they prepare for their finals.

Eva Gluenz has been elected to a Fellowship by Special Election. She has a longstanding interest in the biology of protozoan parasites called trypanosomatids, which cause diseases in humans and animals in many of the poorest countries in the world. Leishmania are transmitted by the bite of the sand fly and cause a spectrum of diseases, with symptoms ranging from mild but potentially disfiguring cutaneous lesions to life threatening visceral infections. A population of 350 million people globally are at risk of leishmaniasis, and the WHO estimates that 12 million people are currently infected. In the human body, Leishmania parasites are taken up by macrophages and proliferate within the harsh conditions of the phagolysosome. Eva is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and her laboratory at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is interested in the cellular mechanisms that enable these parasites to go through complex life cycles and cause disease. Her group studies the structure and function of the Leishmania flagellum to discover how it contributes to parasite survival in the macrophage. Christopher Mead Armitage earned a bachelor's degree with honours (1954) and a master's degree (1958) from St Edmund Hall. Chris earned a second master's degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 1964, and a doctorate from Duke University in 1967. He joined the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill faculty in 1967, and specialises in seventeenth- and twentieth-century English and Canadian literature. His lively style and personal interest in his students have earned him several awards for excellent teaching: UNC Board of Governors 67

A ward for career excellence in teaching in 2009, a Tanner A ward for excellence in undergraduate instruction in 2003, his second Bowman and Gordon Gray chair (1986-1989, 2005-2010) for excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduates, the first UNC Professor of Distinguished Teaching in 1995, and the Nicholas Salgo Award in 1981. Since 1970 he has returned annually to St Edmund Hall to conduct a study programme on "Shakespeare in Performance" for three or more weeks for students and alumni. Through the Hall, The Christopher Mead Armitage and Pauline Brooks Armitage Scholarship provides a term at the Hall for an undergraduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been elected a St Edmund Fellow. Newly-elected to a Fellowship by Special Election, Lorraine Wild was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at St Edmund Hall. She has a BA in Geography {1985) and her DPhil research {1990) was based on the effects of the changing legislative framework for land use planning decisions in the F"e~~ rural areas of the UK. Lorraine has been a Lecturer in Geography at St Hilda's College since 1993 and is also a Stipendiary Lecturer at Worcester College. At college level she teaches all aspects of human L-=-~------~~--~--~ geography. In the School of Geography & Environment she teaches the Final Honour School third year option on European Integration. Since 2003 Lorraine has been the academic coordinator of the Undergraduate Course in Geography and has taken a major role in the development of a revised undergraduate course which was taught for the first time in October 2011. She is responsible for overseeing the effective delivery of all aspects of undergraduate course. As part of this role Lorraine also takes the lead in the outreach work undertaken in the department, visiting schools and making links with geography teachers. She has also been centrally involved in the Admissions process within the department over the last ten years and also been a member of the 68

course team delivering the online Admissions and Interviewing Training Course run by the Learning Institute. Since 2010 Lorraine has taken on the role of Programmes Officer in the School of Geography and Environment, responsible for the administration and effective delivery of both the undergraduate and all of the postgraduate courses in the department. As part of this role Lorraine has been involved in the review of the suite of MSc courses delivered in the department. In 2007 Lorraine was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the organisation and administration of teaching. Honorary Fellow Sir Jon Shortridge retired in 2008 following a successful and varied career in the public sector. He worked initially in Whitehall and in local government before joining the Welsh Office in 1984. He was permanent secretary in Wales for over 9 years from 1999 to 2008, and had particular responsibility for establishing the National Assembly for Wales and for helping to make Welsh devolution a success. He returned to the civil service briefly in 2009 as interim permanent secretary first of the Department of Universities, Innovation and Skills -and subsequently of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills. He has a number of non-executive roles which reflect his interest in corporate governance, higher education, and the voluntary sector. He chairs the St Edmund Hall Remuneration Committee, and sits on the College's Development Committee. He is a former President of the St Edmund Hall Association.

Outi Aarnio was an undergraduate at Abo Akademi University, Finland, where she studied MSc in Political Sciences, with Majors in Economics and Statistics, and Minor in Law. She started her postgraduate Economics studies at Abo Akademi, and held positions as teaching and research assistant there (while completing her Licentiate). She came to Oxford initially as visiting post-graduate student and spent a fruitful year at Nuffield College being supervised by Prof Stephen Nickell. This led to her decision to complete her doctoral thesis in Oxford, as a member of Worcester College. Her DPhil research (1993) developed flow approach to explaining equilibrium unemployment to include explicit effects of active labour market policies, and applied this model in explaining Finnish and Swedish unemployment experiences. After gaining her doctorate from Oxford in 1993, Outi was a Lecturer in Economics at Bath University for a short period, and subsequently Stipendiary Lecturer at St Hilda's, Worcester, Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, but has always maintained a close relationship with St Edmund Hall where she was first appointed in Oxford (to joint lectureship with St Hilda's), and where she has been elected a Fellow by Special Election. She now teaches Teddy Hall undergraduate students all aspects of first year courses in Economics, and core courses, especially core Macroeconomics, and an optional course of Economics of Industry taken by students in their Finals. Outi has contributed to University teaching by offering lecture courses for EEM and MEM students, acting as Economics Advisor and Tutor for Foreign Service Programme (during 1995-2006, then under auspices of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford's main institution for Development Studies), and acting as internal examiner and assessor at University examinations. In 2008 Outi was awarded University of Oxford Teaching Excellence A ward in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning in Oxford.

The Fellows had no hesitation in electing Stewart Lee, stand-up comedian, writer, director, novelist, and Aularian, to an Honorary Fellowship. He has carved out a unique career in radio, TV and stage performances since leaving the Hall. His experimental stand-up shows have been performed all over the UK, Australia and North America, attracting larger and larger audiences. Staying resolutely outside mainstream comedy - and, unlike most in the field, writing all his own material - he has had committed devotees since the 1990s. But it is during the last decade in particular that his work has really grown in stature. In December 2011, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle won awards for best male television comedian and best comedy entertainment programme at the British Comedy Awards. And in May of this year it won the BAFTA for best comedy. Laura Palmer joined the college at the beginning of August as Director of Development following Yvonne Rainey's step down from the post. Laura is an alumna of Colorado State University and has worked in fundraising in the charity and educational sectors in both the US and UK for more than 20 years. Laura's most recent post was at City University London whose database numbers 100,000 alumni; there she developed fundraising strategies, ran effective campaigns, and managed all alumni act1v1t1es and marketing/ communications. She has been elected to a Fellowship by Special Election.

CAREERS DAY, 29 OCTOBER A second Careers Day this year was held at the Hall on 29 October in order to move the cycle into Michaelmas Term (the May date interfered too much with revision for Finals). Another very good turnout of students proved just how popular and useful this day is which has become an established part of the college calendar. With gloomy statistics showing that a large number of last year's graduates remain unemployed or doing menial jobs like stacking shelves in supermarkets, it is of some comfort to know that Teddy Hall students for the most part land successful first jobs - and this is due in no small measure to the information and support provided at the Careers Day. Whereas in May we had the opportunity to discover in advance from students what they wanted to hear about, there wasn't time to do this for October; nevertheless, the speakers who gave up their Saturday spoke on a number of careers, ranging from journalism to wealth management, with a quick canter through advertising and the law, pausing only to pick up tips about foreign exchange dealing and management consultancy. The speakers in October were of a younger generation than those in May: this was deliberate, partly so as not to presume too much upon the generosity of the seniors, partly so that younger speakers could tell students just what life is like on that first day in a job. Everyone who has contributed to the Careers Day is very warmly thanked. We who "never had it so good" owe it to current students to help them get their feet firmly on the first rungs of a career ladder: we owe it to ourselves, too, because today's students will be paying our pensions!

If you would like to get involved in speaking at a Careers Day or in giving advice, please contact Anna Fowler, Alumni Relations Officer (anna.fowler@seh.ox.ac. uk). Darrell Barnes President SEHA

ADMISSIONS & ACCESS INITIATIVES Each December, St Edmund Hall considers around 600 applications for its undergraduate courses and makes around 120 offers. Of those 600 applications, half are direct applications, where the student has actively selected the college, with the remainder being from students making an 'open application' who were allocated to the college by the University Admissions Office. Over the last 18 months, the Hall has been expanding its student recruitment activities to improve the profile of the college and increase the number of direct applications it receives. The aim is not to target any particular sector of secondary education, but rather to encourage applications from highly able, motivated students from all walks of life who have an ambition to study here. With the advent of the University's Regionalisation Initiative- which assigned each college to schools in particular UK regions - links have been forged with schools in Hampshire and Leicestershire. These links have increased the number of school parties visiting the college, with at least one school being hosted each week. Over the last year, we have met students at very different stages of their education: some have yet to embark on their GCSE studies, others are about to start A level courses and some are preparing to make their UCAS application. A typical programme for these visits includes presentations about how the University and college relate to each other, studying at Oxford, and the selection process, with the opportunity for prospective applicants to meet current students over lunch in the Wolfson Hall. There has also been an increase in the number of 'road-trips' undertaken by the college, with tutors visiting schools within the college's region to run interview workshops, judge essay prize competitions and enthuse students about the opportunities available at the Hall. These newly-made connections do not mean that the college has abandoned longer-standing relationships with schools outside of our region: we continue to engage with schools both near (Bedford) and far (South Shields). In a joint initiative with the Junior Common Room, the college has also developed Residential Workshops for students from our region. 73

Following on from Open Days, the Workshops provide an intensive introduction to Oxford. Those attending learn about subject choices, student profiles, interviews and student finance, ensuring that they are equipped to make a well-informed, competitive application to the University. In parallel with this, the college has appointed eight 'Student Ambassadors': junior members who will represent the college in Oxford and further afield at student recruitment events. Finally, the college has committed to increase its budget for student recruitment work with the appointment of a Schools Liaison Officer from October 2012. This appointment will enable the college to take the next step forward in its outreach work, providing greater flexibility in the types of activities that we can undertake and the numbers of schools that we can host or visit. At Oxford, five applicants compete for every place. At St Edmund Hall, fewer than three applicants actively apply for our places. Our goal is to increase that number and the work outlined here marks the start of our programme to achieve it. If you would like to discuss our recruitment work or arrange a visit, please do not hesitate to contact me. Robert Wilkins Tutor for Admissions

THE PHILIP GEDDES LECTURE, 2MARCH Every journalist dreams of having a scoop. But Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian, had to swallow hard before taking the risk of publishing vast tracts of formerly classified material made available to the newspaper through Julian Assange ' s outfit Wikileaks. Mr Rusbridger acted out the whole drama of this enterprise for his audience at the Philip Geddes memorial lecture in the Examination Schools on 2 March, as he illustrated his talk with numerous pictures of hacks past and Photo credit: David Levene

present, clips from Hollywood movies and mock-ups of Guardian front pages. Yet the Wikileaks revelations- to which the paper enjoyed aUK exclusive - were just one aspect of what Mr Rusbridger described as an extraordinary year for the Guardian. It was the Guardian which lifted the lid on the murky goings on by sections of Rupert Murdoch' s empire, despite being strongly warned to keep well clear. This in turn led to the Leveson Inquiry, which has revealed the scandalous extent to which some politicians - at the highest level - were prepared to compromise their integrity to cosy up to the Sun and other Murdoch organs. Relations between the media and the police have been shown often to be equally corrupt. Most shocking of all were the revelations of the extent of phone hacking by journalists at the now defunct News of the World, in particular. At the time of the Geddes lecture, Mr Rusbridger estimated that around 5,000 people had had their phones hacked. This claim was much derided in many quarters, but we now know that the true figure was probably even higher. This issue really outraged the nation when it was revealed that News of the World journalists had hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler. The satirical magazine Private Eye often refers to reporters as "reptiles", but in this case the analogy is an insult to amphibians. The converse to the media's disgrace is the bravery of the Guardian in pursuing the hacking story, even after visits to its offices from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Commander Yates of the Yard (the latter now out of the force, but working as a policing advisor to the government of Bahrain). As Alan Rusbridger told us, the fact that no other publication seemed prepared to touch the story with a bargepole gave him sleepless nights. He hardly looks the part of a fearless campaigner; indeed, he got the biggest laugh of the evening when he relayed a friend's description of him as "resembling Harry Potter's lonely uncle". The appearance belies the man within. He gave a stunning performance, striking a nice balance between startling revelation and humour. He may be Editor of a journal that many see as the conscience of the British 75

Left, but Mr Rusbridger is also a magnificent story-teller. His account of the unveiling of the Murdoch scandals was the stuff of television drama. But his final message was sober and in some ways prosaic. The events of the preceding 12 months had highlighted the shortcomings not only of important sectors of the British media but also of the selfregulatory body, the Press Complaints Commission. A new body "with teeth" is needed, he argued. It might be called something like the Press and Media Standards Commission, he suggested. But more important than the name is what it would do. And the very first thing it ought to do, he declared, was to review the fickle phrase "in the public interest". Jonathan Fryer (1969)

THE EMDEN LECTURE, 11 MAY This year's Emden Lecture was given by ProfDominic Lieven of Trinity College Cambridge to a large and appreciative audience of old members, students, fellows and members of the History Faculty, in the Doctorow Hall. ProÂŁ Lieven is an eminent historian of imperial Russia, and the author of Russia against Napoleon. The Battle for Europe, 1807Âˇ1814 (2010). His talk was entitled 'Russia's defeat of Napoleon - How T olstoy Got Things Wrong'. He argued against the tendency of historians (and of Tolstoy's War and Peace) to emphasise the importance of the ill-starred French invasion of Russia in 1812 and the mistakes of Napoleon. Rather, he contended, historians need to understand the strengths of the Russian army as it fought its way to Paris in 1813-14. Alexander I's diplomacy played a role, but more important were the sophistication of the Russian army and the expertise of its aristocratic officer corps. Far from being an outmoded force, this 'ancien regime' army had many advantages over the French force. However, military success bred complacency, and several of the powerful conservative figures who resisted reform in the mid-nineteenth century had won their spurs in the struggles against Napoleon. David Priestland Tutor in History

On 12 May 2012, Terry Jones (St Edmund Hall, 1960) was presented with a festschrift volume, honouring his decades-long contribution, via films, television programmes and scholarly publications, to a better understanding of life and literature during the Middle Ages. The volume, a collection of scholarly essays, reminiscences and a bit of fiction entitled The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry ]ones, was edited by RF Yeager (St Edmund Hall, 1970, MA 1985; Professor of English and Head, Department of English and World Languages, University of West Florida) and Toshiyuki Takamiya, FSA, HonLittD (Sheffield), HonLittD (Glasgow), Professor of English Literature (emeritus), Keio University Qapan).

From left: Bob Yeager, Terry Jones, David Wallace, Toshiyuki Takamiya (who supplied the photo)

Contributors to the volume include fellow Python Michael Palin, and, along with Yeager and Takamiya, fourteen of the foremost scholars of medieval literature and history: VA Kolve (UCLA, emeritus); Chris Given-Wilson (St Andrews); Nigel Saul (Royal Holloway, London); Derek Pearsall (Harvard, emeritus); Peter Nicholson (Hawaii); John M Bowers (Nevada Las Vegas); Michael Bennett (Tasmania); W Mark 77

Ormrod (Yark); Martha Driver (Pace); William A Quinn (Arkansas); Richard Firth Green (Ohio State); David Wallace (Pennsylvania); Priscilla Martin (Oxford); John J Thompson (Queen's Belfast). The presentation -a surprise to Jones!- was made at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Following a book-signing (accompanied by cake and champagne), bibulous celebration continued into the evening in private rooms at a local restaurant. Bob Yeager (1970) MUSIC AT THE HALL The Hall is delighted to announce that, with the generous financial support of alumni, Christopher Watson was appointed as Director of Music, in September 2012; Christopher read music at Exeter University and for the last 22 years has been singing professionally with some of the finest vocal ensembles in the world. He sang as a Lay Clerk for 14 years, in the choirs of Durham Cathedral, Christ Church, Oxford and Westminster Cathedral, and is a member of the T allis Scholars, with whom he has made nearly 300 appearances. He also sings regularly with T enebrae, Gallicantus, Alamire and Theatre of Voices, and has sung as a soloist for many leading conductors. He has made over 100 recordings, many of which have won international awards, including one Grammy and 8 Gramophone Awards. He also teaches singing at St Edward's School, Oxford. He is eo-founder and director of the Oxford-based chamber choir Sospiri, who regularly give concerts in Oxford and have toured Italy and France. Sospiri have produced 5 recordings, and are currently in the process of commissioning a new series of choral settings of First World War poetry. As Director of Music, Christopher will set about strengthening and widening participation in a wide range of musical activities, including recitals and concerts, whilst supporting the provision of music for weekly chapel services and special occasions such as St Edmund Night and the Charter Dinner. Hugh Jenkyns Vice-Principal

In early May, before Chris Watson was appointed, Teddy Hall welcomed Mr Simon T oyne to the Chapel to lead a workshop for our Chapel Choir. In his time at Oxford, Simon was Organ Scholar of University College. He is currently Director of Music and Assistant Head at Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames where he conducts their world renowned Boys' Choir. Simon is also much in demand as a choral and orchestral conductor nationally and internationally. Thus the Choir was delighted to ensnare him for the morning. Everybody was up bright and early to rehearse at 9:15am on a Saturday. Despite the early hour there was a very promising turnout. Simon arrived at around lO:OOam and the workshop commenced. For many of the choir it was a very new experience. Simon had us scrambling up our voice parts (so that no singers of one voice part were next to each other), singing whilst wandering around the chapel and even singing with our eyes closed. To any casual onlooker we must have presented a rather perturbing sight. However, inside the Chapel Simon's natural ability, sparkling enthusiasm and humour reigned. I myself have never heard the choir sound so good. Gradually, as people overcame their nerves, the sound in the Chapel changed from our usual (and very musical) harmonies to something rather more intimate. Simon showed how a conductor could literally control the choir - not only in their beat and in their dynamic, but in their emotion as well. He showed the Choir how to feel where the conductor was leading them and how to listen to one another. Stanford in C rapidly became the majestic, triumphal evening service that it was meant to be, but was contrasted superbly with the delicate, personal tones of Durufle's Ubi Caritas. Simon had us going through the words and picking out our own individual meaning and emotions. These emotions drove our voices onwards. By the end of the workshop I couldn't see a single unsmiling face in the Choir stalls- Simon's workshop had gone down a storm.

The Choir then treated Simon to a very welcome Teddy Hall brunch. Afterwards a small group of singers assembled in the Chapel for Simon's master-class with the Organ Scholars. Simon took a practical approach to the conducting session with each Organ Scholar focusing on extracts from one piece. To me, it seemed as though the Organ Scholars found a new link with the band of singers in Chapel. Suddenly, eyes began to meet, expressions began to convey music and the conductor and choir really began to work as one. After Simon's departure at around lpm the challenge was to transfer our new skills and ideas to the real thing. On the Sunday afternoon I was delighted to see it really had made a difference. The conducting, the singing and the musical feeling had really begun to change. We' re looking forward to continuing this attitude to our music. Jonathan Cockerill Choral Scholar

CREATIVE WRITING AT THE HALL The academic year has culminated in a wonderful validation of the creative spirit, in the form of Stewart Lee's election to an Honorary Fellowship. Stewart has generously indicated that he wants to engage with students, and we look forward to the moment when he is sworn in. At a time when the Humanities are under threat, his contribution to the community will be tremendous for the morale of undergraduates who face an uncertain future. We have many budding writers here at the Hall, and his example will be inspirational. He has a huge following in Oxford, and will be warmly welcomed whenever he is around. In a recent email exchange with one of my ex-students, this is how the news of his election was greeted: 'How exciting. You know we are all huge fans of his, right? It is a constant point of pride that he is an Aularian.' The Fellows concur. This year the Creative Writing Workshop started up again. It included undergraduates in English from the First and Second years - Archy, Pelia, and Harry- plus two postgraduates, Tom and Judyta, as well as Sandie Byrne (tutor) and myself. The students came along with a mixture of poems and fiction. Harry bravely read us the first pages of his second 80

fantasy novel, which will doubtless be an epic, like the first one (which, he tells us modestly, is sitting in a drawer or file somewhere .... ) They are a talented bunch, writing wonderfully well and giving lively critical feedback. As always it was a pleasure to hear individual creative voices emerge- a quite different experience from reading their academic essays, though the two media have some important things in common. The number of those entering for the Graham Midgley Prize in poetry has, I am happy to say, increased. Amy Bleasdale is the winner, with a lovely villanelle (see overleaf). She brilliantly captures the sound and form of a violin rhapsody with those lengthening lines and haunting refrains; and also tantalises our craving for steady rhythm by moving away from it and back again. Efraim Carlebach was runner up with a poem in free verse which is written deftly and shows great promise. Both writers will I think make their mark as creative writers, in addition to being excellent students. Congratulations to both of them - and good luck to Efraim, who goes to the Edinburgh Festival this summer with his play MacClegg. Many congratulations, also, to Amy Blakemore whose first pamphlet of poetry came out just before she sat finals. It is called Amy's Intra, and is published by Nasty Little Press. Please order your copy from Amazon now. Talking of Hall talent, I am currently compiling a Hall Writers Directory, and I have several plans for Creative Writing at the Hall which I hope to put in place before retiring. It has been a real pleasure to be in touch with so many English graduates while working on these plans during the summer months. The Directory provides evidence of the fantastic range of Aularian writing talent, in all media, that has emerged over the years. When it goes live, I think it will show that SEH is the college for writers! If you have somehow been missed in the long email onslaught, and would like to be included, please send a biog and a photo to lucy.newlyn@seh.ox.ac.uk. I am looking forward to seeing many of you next year, at an event to celebrate Creative Writing at the Hall. Please watch out for mailings about this from the Development office. LucyNewlyn Tutor in English

Rhapsody We are the violin's song. The bow runs smooth across the string, Its unrelenting notes belong. The arching arm is strong, In long low lullaby it soothes the air in the embracing. We are the violin's song. First ascending steadily along The strings, then soaring, racing, back and forth, and balancing. Its unrelenting notes belong. Aching hours have worn away the wrongs, The quivering slides into discord, the minor key, its disenchanted nng. We are the violin's song. Now my curving form is mirrored in the long, Smooth body- you are the sudden bow, the abrupt ricochet, the gentle singing. Its unrelenting notes belong. So the hush, the downbeat's pause, the sudden throng As string and bow collide is the awakening, the warm harmonies into rich roundness bringing. We are the violin's song. Its unrelenting notes belong. Amy Bleasdale

SCHOOLS DINNER SPEECH, BY THE VICE-PRINCIPAL, 19 JUNE Good evening: I imagine you expect me to say that you owe everything you are and ever will be to Oxford and St Edmund Hall. But let's take that as readeven if you did apply to Worcester or Merton! Another advantage you all have - as well as being potential alumni of the College and the University- is that you, most of you, anyway, are native English speakers: English is your mother tongue. And one of the things that I hope Oxford has taught you, with its regular diet of essays, for scientists as well as humanities students, is how to manipulate the language. This exercise is something we all have to do throughout our working life - we all become writers (maybe of novels, plays, poems, reviews, scientific articles), if that is our metier; or, less pleasurably, we all have to generate the ephemera that accompany (or should it be 'accompanies'?) every meeting. But whatever we write, an awareness of language is of paramount importance. For non native-speakers, English may be tolerably easy to read, tolerably easy to write ... nouns don't change with case, the irregular verbs are not too difficult - but it is the very devil to pronounce. Just take words ending in '-ough' and add the second, third and fourth letters of the alphabet and you get three different sounds: I think there are 7 different '-ough' sounds altogether. Have you ever tried to explain, to a non-native speaker, why 'Slough' is pronounced 'Slough' and 'Loughborough' is pronounced 'Loughborough'? In fact, Loughborough can't even manage to make the '-ough' syllable sound the same in the same word! Reason enough not to go there! However, if you ever have any doubts about English grammar, ask someone from Scandinavia. Scandinavians manage to speak our language correctly, virtually without accent. Those characters from Tbe Killing, from Borgen, from the Bridge can break into perfect English without even blinking. What is their secret? They know that the singular of 'criteria' is 'criterion', the singular of 'phenomena' is 'phenomenon', the singular of 'taxa' is 'taxon' , something that a number of my departmental colleagues have yet to grasp. When I became curious as to

how the present subjunctive of the verb 'to be' declines in English (as you do!), it was a Finnish website that explained it. In case you, too, are curious it's: I be, you be, he, she or it be, we be, you (plural) be, they be, as in the sentence: 'I demand that I be, you be, we be, etc, given access to the Wolfson Hall to partake of the Schools Dinner.' And do you say 'data is' (Microsoft Word is happy with that) or 'data are'? Does it matter? Will Bill Gates dictate the evolution of English grammar? I fear so. Is there such a word as 'datums'? I've certainly seen it in scientific literature. In fact, I've seen more and more non-existent English words in scientific literature as publishing houses have fired their copy-editors in a perpetual drive for profit - and published academic text has suffered extreme creative distortion as a result. Perhaps not yet - quite at the level of those wonderful restaurant menus in Greece in the 1980s that, with a simple misplaced vowel, offered such delicacies as 'roast limb', thereby conjuring up unintended images of chopped-up tourist: The Speciality of the House, no doubt. Many of you will know how the poet Philip Larkin's life looked up between the end of the Chatterley Ban and the Beatles' First LP. This takes us back to the 1960s, when the counsel prosecuting Penguin books for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover shot himself spectacularly in the foot with the following patronising remark: 'Ask yourselves the question: would you approve of your young sons, young daughters - because girls can read as well as boys - reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around the house? Is it a book you would wish your wife or servants to read?' And thus began the so-called swinging sixties. But this is by way of being a laboured introduction to a critique of said novel. Think of it as a model answer and an example of the deft use of the English language to deliberately miss the point: This is a review (by Ed Zern) of D H Lawrence's novel as published in the American Magazine Field and Stream. 'Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this pictorial account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehension of poachers, 84

ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour those sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate and, in this reviewer's opinion, the book cannot take the place of J R Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.' Or there is the witty dismissal, which is perhaps an English speciality: witness this from Nicholas Barber in last Sunday's Independent: 'But essentially all [the film] Rock ofAges has to commend it is (Tom) Cruise's out-there cameo as a frazzled rock god who's always three-quarters of the way through a bottle of Scotch. Anyone who sees this film would be advised to be in the same condition.' And more minimalist still, if I remember correctly: Clive James (1975) on the first episode of the BBC production of Poldark, based on Winston Graham's novels: 'Poldark is an anagram of 'old krap': I rest my case.' And then, of course, be aware of this tendency: we native English speakers don't always say exactly what we mean - somewhere there may be a slight logical jump that someone not familiar with the language might miss. Witness this exchange, which occurred in an English court (names have been changed). Counsel to defendant: 'What is your name?' 'Henry Higgins' 'When is your birthday?' 'October 17th' 'Which year?' 'Every year!' It seems to me that the logic of the answer is impeccable. But do be careful when you are writing. Even the humble hyphen can lead you astray, as Lynne Truss points out in Eats Shoots & Leaves. Fast forward a few years and imagine a conversation with your spouse. Do you think there might be a difference of opinion as to the value (??) of extra ... marital sex vs extra-marital sex? I think you will find that there is!!

And what exactly is it about the word order in the following sentence that leads one astray: 'Before giving the baby milk, boil it!' And what about stress on a few key words? Imagined out of the mouth of George Bush referring to his Vice-President: 'remember, if anything should happen to me, that Dick'll be running the country' vs ... remember, if anything should happen to me, that dick'll be running the country'! So, if I have a message for those of you that are leaving - and those of you that are staying and have to write up a 4th-year project, the message is the same -learn to manipulate your mother tongue, learn to recognize elegance in the arrangement of the written word. It will stand you in good stead. As I said at the beginning, we all have to be writers, great and small. And in these days of rapid e-mail communication, when you're tempted to bash out a fiery riposte to someone who has annoyed you, remember this little ditty: Say it in anger Say it in drink But never, never Say it in ink And if, years from now, you pick up an old essay of yours, or a 4thyear project write-up, read it through and think to yourself: 'you know, this is really not too bad, but obviously written by someone more intelligent than me' - you'll be doing fine! And, I should finish, in the time-honoured way, by saying 'benedicto benedicatur' or, to put it another way, 'thank you - and good night!'

FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2012 were 411 undergraduates, 197 post-graduates, and 33 Visiting Students. NEW STUDENTS 2012 (Undergraduates and Post-Graduates) Adelmann, Krista Medical University of Vienna Ahmed, Asfara Independent University, Bangladesh Ahmed, Haaris Leeds Grammar School Ang, Sheng Wei Raffles Junior College Archer, Thomas James Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe Babayev, Elnur Istanbul University Bagley, Hector Guy Welsby Merchant Taylors' School For Boys, Liverpool Bailey, Thomas Henry Lloyd Chesham High School Baird, Graham University of Strathclyde Baker, Rosamund Jane Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith Balaban, Carina University of Cambridge Banfield, Richard Alexander University of Mannheim Bartol-Bibb, Anna Nusa Kings School, Peterborough Bates, Archy Woodrow City of London School Bin Abdul Aziz, Mohammad Firdaus University of Sheffield Barker, Hem Suhas University of Delhi Bowerbank, Jake Matthew East Norfolk Sixth Form College Brandon, James Jeffrey Whitgift School Olchfa Comprehensive School Braunerova, Tessina Brook, Paul Richard University of Leeds Bunker, Edward George Eltham College Burton, Samuel James Newcastle-under-Lyme School Cane, Robert Magdalen College, University of Oxford Carlebach, Efraim Reuven J F S Comprehensive School Carroll, Richard Brainard University of Virginia Carson, Emily J ane Craigmount High School Cary, Michael Joseph Royal Grammar School, Guildford Castellanos Suarez, Felix Andres New York University Cedelle, Olivier Luc Ecole des hautes Etudes commerciales du Nord, Lille 87

Chapman, Henry Judd School Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore Cheam, Zhong Jie Samuel Chen, Wei-Hsin Oriel College, University of Oxford Choi, Myeonggeun Pusan National University Chukwuma, Adanna Deborah Ugochi University of Nigeria Cimpoi, Mircea Union University- School of Computing, Belgrade Cooley, Douglas Blue School Cooper-Parry, David Caterham School Cooper, Charlotte Elizabeth King's College London Cragg, Eleanor June Christ's College, University of Cambridge Cross, Rachael Elizabeth Dame Allan' s School Cvetkovic, Aleksandar Roundwood Park School D'Arcy, Emma Zia University of Gloucestershire Danino, Steffan Robert Mark Gower College Swansea (Coleg Gwyr Abertawe) Davis, J onathan Andrew Ipswich School Davis, Peter University of Southampton Deeming, Alex Stephen University of Birmingham Denham, Eleanor Mary University of Birmingham Dickinson, Hannah Grace Thomas Rotherham College Disney, Yasmin Olivia Adlan Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar, Negeri Sembilan Duggan, Seamus J ames University of Cape Town Economou, Dimitris Stanford University Edwards, Joseph James St Olave's Grammar School Elliott, Delyth Elin University of Reading Emanuel, Gabrielle A viva Dartmouth College Emrich, Mehera Elizabeth Acalanes High School Estrada, J ennifer Liane Amherst College Evans, Nicholas Oliver Laurence University of Warwick Evans, Sian Lianne Walton High School Farhan, Ali Resource Academia, Lahore Fenwick-Sehl, Laura University of Toronto Firth, Mark William John Warner School Fleury, Rodolfo Miguel Nogueira University of Wales, Swansea Foster, Helen Prances Ockbrook School Frodyma, Judyta Julia Worcester College, University of Oxford Fu, Duo Hong Kong Baptist University Gartrell, Amber Clare Harriet University of Warwick Geary, Louis Latymer Upper School 88

Gibson, Anna Katrina Whitworth University Gola, Anita University of Southampton Gurney, Melanie Elle Kingston University Gutierrez, Alexis Theresa Johns Hopkins University Hadidimoud, Sahar St Mary Redcliffe and Temple CE (V A) School Han, Yesol Columbia University Handa, Yashil Birla Institute of Technology and Science Har, Katherine Jihyun King's College London Hawkesford, Alannah Kate Alleyns School Henderson, Douglas Farnborough Sixth Form College Henderson, Samuel Taylor Peter Symonds' College Hessel, Gianna St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Heywood, James Mark Oliver Eton College Hickman-Lewis, Keyron Coleg Gwent Hilton, Thomas Arthur Charles St Paul's School Hobkinson, Thomas Anthony Charterhouse Hodzic, Amar Strathallan School Hoiberg, Emma Louise Queensland University of Technology Hughes, Thomas Abingdon School Ilieva, Albena Georgieva American College of Sofia Infield, Margaret J oan Putney High School Ismail, T aariq King Edward VI Aston School J ayaseelan, Annapoorna National Academy of Legal Studies & Research University, Hyderabad Monmouth School J enkins, Benjamin Mark Greenhead College J ennings, Simon John King Edward VI Grammar School J erram, Matthew University of Sussex J evons, Sarah J ane Steyning Grammar School J ones, Owain Jagiellonian University Kabat, Agnieszka Martyna Tiffin School Kalsi, J asdeep Rhodes University Kenyon, Amy Harvard University Kimura, Stephanie Mitsuko Camden School for Girls Knowles, Elizabeth Gymnasium Dorpsweg, Hamburg Kratschmer, Patrick Esher College Lakin, Rosamund Meryl Henrietta Barnett School Leung, Szi Kay City and Islington Sixth Form College Lewis, Alana Gladys

British School of Rio de Janeiro Lippolis, Nicolas Cherwell School Liu, Qi Llinas Carrizosa, Nicolas University of the Andes Coleg Sir Gar Loeffel, Sheena Worcester College, University of Oxford Lowth, Helen Sara Lum, Evan Tze-Hoong King's School, Canterbury Tennessee State University Lwin, Seint The Su Loughborough University Lyne, Agnese Henrietta Barnett School Lysaght, Maura Kathleen Gleason Williamwood High School Mather, Andrew George Birkenhead School Mathew-Jones, Sophie Victoria Panagiotopoulos School Mavrokefalou, Alkistis Hampton School Maywood, Samuel University of St Andrews McCarthy, Barbara Ann McClelland, Harry-Luke Oliver Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Mclntyre, Alexandra Caryn Ton bridge Grammar School Meadows, F rancis Patrick Daniel Westminster School Meads, Susan Jane Wolverhampton Girls High School Meara, J uliet Renee Chenderit School Mercer, Alexander Michael Bolton School IES Ramiro de Maeztu, Madrid Merchante Gonzalez, Alberta Perse School Meredith, Andrew Colin Mirza, Aliza Masuma Bano King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls Mole, Edward Christopher Charterhouse Morgan, Nicholas Chittenden New York University Mortimer, Samuel Alexander Colyton Grammar School Munday, Callum Perse School Munro, Matilda Anna Szyndler St Andrews Cathedral School Murkett, Kristina Kay Bishops Stortford College Ng, May Huang Min Raffles Junior College N olan, Katherine Anne University College, Dublin O'Donoghue, Alice St Aloysius College O'Neill, Thomas Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Ogilvie, Charles Alexander Howard Royal College of Art, London Ong, Benjamin Joshua Raffles Junior College Ong, Zhongren Konrad Columbia University Ormsby, Cameron Walker Stanford University 90

Page, Ellen J ane Langley Park School for Girls Paik, Adward Min-Hyun Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Pan,Shaozhang U-Link College of International Culture, China Pang, Xu Raffles Junior College Patel, Sheena Northampton School for Boys Pattinson, Nicholas Murray Radley College Queen Elizabeth High School Paxman, Guy John Gray University of Zagreb Perica, Josko Perkins, Sebastian J ames Alexander University College London Petrovicka, Marie Charles University in Prague Pike, Christopher Samuel Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Pilia, Luciana University of Cagliari Pontalti, Kirsten Elise Simon Fraser University Prata, Gemma Susan Monash University Preece, Alys Camilla Christ's Hospital, Horsham Preece, Andrew J ames Poole Grammar School Pullen, Alexandra Charlotte King's High School for Girls, Warwick Qin, Zhendan Oundle School Radin, Elizabeth Moira Harvard University University of Iowa Raidoo, Renugan Wallington High School for Girls Ramjiawan, Rebecca Columbia University Rapaczynski, T essa Sophia Grinnell College Redd, Meghan Exeter College, University of Oxford Reed, Benjamin Edward Reynolds, Nicholas David Leeds Grammar School Riba Monzo, Marti Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya St Paul's School Richardson Banks, Henry Jack Pascal-Gymnasium Munster Rieger, Silke Karin Petra Ton bridge School Roberts, James William Xaverian Sixth Form College Robinson, Anna Elizabeth Roussel, Amelie Marie-Therese University of the Littoral Cote d'Opale St Joseph's RC Comprehensive School Rundle, Michael Trinity College, University of Dublin R yan, Meredith Visveswaraiah Technological University Sahukar Rajanna, Smruthi Winchester College Sale, Richard Donald University of Richmond Sandman, Patrick Phillip Santhosham, Priscilla Beatrice Chelmsford County High School for Girls 91

Schneider, Matthew Michael Lehigh University Seah, Timothy Joseph Hoay-Chi Torquay Boys' Grammar School Silkstone Carter, Theodore J ackaman Rugby School Smith, Jonathan Daniel Saffron Walden County High School Sollberger, Alessandra University of Zurich Stephen, Alan Jacob Sir Thomas Picton School Stuchfield, Lucy Elizabeth Ann Felsted School Sugden, Patrick J ames Greenhead College Surry, Nicholas William Charles Eltham College Tandy, Lara Willway O'Connor St Mary's School T eo, Marsha Poh Gek Island School, Hong Kong Thirukkumar, Tharini Nonsuch High School for Girls Thomas, Abigail Claire Thomas Rotherham College Thomas, Abishai Suzanne Henrietta Barnett School Thompson, Daniel Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford T omono, Keisuke Wartburg College Tricoire, Melissa Andree University of Surrey Roehampton Tully, Claire Maria Trinity College, University of Dublin Tun, Thi Ha McGill University Tyler, Mary Violet St Catherines School, Guildford Varga, Rebecca Runshaw College Varney, Amy Louise Magdalen College, University of Oxford Wadhwa, Anirudh National Law School of India University Waite, John Christopher Cirencester College Wang, Ying University of Warwick Willerton, Kristof Pieter Sir Thomas Rich's School Wills, Hannah Jayne University of New South Wales Wilson, J ames Henry Providence Day School, Charlotte Wingfield, Edward Nicholas Anthony Eton College Wolfowicz, Gary Ecole normale superieure de Cachan Wood, Thomas J ames Kellaway Colchester Royal Grammar School Wright, Alexandra Jane Simon Fraser University Xie, Sha Beijing University of Foreign Studies Xu, Alan University of New South Wales Xu, Chu Shanghai Jiao Tong University Zorab, Robyn Lucy Haberdashers Monmouth Girls School Zuo, Wenxing Beijing University of Foreign Studies

VISITING STUDENTS 2011-2012 Barthel, Margaret Courtenay Smith College Carberry, Caroline Katherine Rice University Chait, Rachel Whitney Vassar College Chen, Yibang Tulane University Cottrell, Jordan Alexandra Bryn Mawr College De Silva, Dasith Tanuja Hardin-Simmons University Demean Dumulesc, Sebastian Vassar College Dewberry, Janosz Walker Vassar College Dinh, Linh Thi Mai Smith College Edzant, J enna Danielle University of California, Los Angeles Evans, Alexandra Vassar College Freeman, Michael University of Richmond W ellesley College Hahn,Jiwon Harkins, Elizabeth Ann College of the Holy Cross Monash University Hughes, Amelia Ruth Western Reserve University J ain, Seema Case Amherst College Kim Goddard, J eehae Kou, Weiye W ellesley College Martinez Llompart, Patricio Gabriel Cornell University Ovca, Kelsi J anssen Vassar College Masaryk University Prudliova, Barbora W ellesley College Salehi, Kia Leila University of Chicago Scarrow, Samuel Barrett Schwager, Tal Cornell University Sheinman, Isabel Anastasia Georgetown University Siegel, Eli Charles Swarthmore College U ndiemi, Antonella Universid degli Studi di Padova Villari, Rachel Katherine The College of W ooster Wagner, William Patrick Cornell University Smith College Wang, Lizhou University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Wilson, Nicholas Bryn Mawr College Xie, Pan Vassar College Xu, Qian Davidson College Yang, Chang American University Yildirim, Neslihan W ellesley College Yust, Paula Kathryn Schutt

COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES

College Scholars J ustin A Alsing Christopher D Box Hermione E Brooks Mark P Carolan Wilson W S Cheung Ming Y C Chung Matthew N Clark Richard A Collins Selena P M Fitzpayne Jessica K Gilbert Anne-Marie Grunig Thomas M Harrison Christabel Hill J ames Holder Philipp P Karkowski Anthony J Kennedy Karolis Leonavicius Camilla V L Metcalf Kevin D Minors Rebecca L Morgan Jaroslaw W Nowak Michael I Pearson Robert W M Robinson Tom E Sanders Jian M Sim Owen M T Thomas Rebecca L Torry-Harris Charlotte Waterman Angus A M Williams

College Organ Scholars Rachel O'Malley Priscilla B Santhosham

Z W Jeremy Ang Bjorn K Bremer Samuel J Camp bell Gregory L Carton Minesh Chotalia J uliana Ciocanea T eodorescu Daniel S Collins Matthew R T Donora J ames M Fleming Max Goettler Sophie C Hale David E Hewitt Till A Hoffman Andrew R Howell Christopher I Kelly George E Lake Alvaro Martin Alhambra Anastasia W M Miller Jaya Mishra Neil T Morton Bronte A Paice N avin B Ramakrishna Stephen M Robinson Mahlaqa Shaukat Paul F Smylie Matteo Tiratelli J essica S Vincent David M Wilkins Ruoyu Wu

College Choral Scholars Samuel P Carbonero Richard A F Holtham Anna M Piotrowski Alice C Quayle College Exhibitioners Lucy E Andrew Emilia Boehm Michelle Degli Esposti Victoria L Fryer Callum C Grant Emily A H Healy Christopher W Kinsley Grant Me Walter Leigh O'Connor Emily H Peck Alistair J M Reed Lilly L Smith Haoyang Sun Laiyi Weng

Jonathan C Cockerill Samuel A Mortimer Katherine P E Plummer Renugan Raidoo Alexander J M Blakes Katherine E A Davenport Dulcie C fforde Maire N Gorman Andrew J P Gray Kyrre 0 Johansen James R Leech Susannah Moss Rebecca E Paisley Katie L Prosser Michael P Roberts BeomS Sohn Martin Tweedie Rachel L Zagajewski

Mingos Charter Scholarship Daniel C Wilson ]arvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship Yesol Han Gosling Postgraduate Scholarship Simona Aimar AlanXu William R Miller Postgraduate Awards Wei-Hsin Chen Amber C H Gartrell Amy K McLennan

Emden-Doctorow Postgraduate Awards Elizabeth M Radin Joanna Simon Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Shakyra SA Campbell Laura Lloyd Emily H Peck Natasha Peel Prances Reed Laura M Welsh Brockhues Graduate Awards Gianna Hessel Mrs Brown Bursary Tamas Szekely Thi Ha Tun Writing-up Bursary Ivor J A Simpson Chengle Wang Cochrane Scholars Katharine E A Davenport Angela Dudley Priscilla B Santhosham Mary V Tyler Jessica S Vincent David I Cox Bursary Katherine E A Davenport Angela Dudley David I Cox prize for Geography Oscar R Valienee

Tony Doyle Bursary Louisa J Coughtrey David E Hewitt Rebecca L Morgan Martin Tweedie Richard Fargher Bursaries Isabel Stokholm Jessica S Vincent Philip Geddes Memorial Prize Ian Z Cheong L ynn Gilbert Bursary Christopher D Box James J M Dargan Ali Farhan Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Helen Burns H Eden W Cottee-J ones Steffan R M Danino Alexander J N Labrom ] R Hughes Prize for Geography Genevieve Wastie Instrumental Bursary Keyron Hickman-Lewis Oliver D Madgwick Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Amy Bleasdale Ogilvie-Thompson Prize Amy Bleasdale Samuel J Burton

Peel Awards For the Professional Practice Programme in Fine Art Jack W Stanton Camille I van Zadelhoff Adam H P Wozniak For Fine Art Stephen M Polatch Charlotte Waterman For Mathematics & Philosophy Grant Me Waiter Michael Pike Fund Award Rose A Michael Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Holly E Harris Teach First Bursary Joshua Coulson UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES

University Graduate Scholarship Elnur Babayev Monika B Studer University Graduate Studentship Graham Baird Mircea Cimpoi Alex S Deeming Harry-Luke 0 McClelland Daniel Thompson Clarendon Fund Bursary Seint T S Lwin

Gianna Hessel Richard Wild

Paul R Brook Peter Davis Helen S Lowth Benjamin E Reed

Clarendon-St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship Esther F Davis Sebastian J Langdell Emma C Lochery Kathleen A Morris Claire H Palmer Michael R Sprague Hem S Borker Hannah J Wills Gemma S Prata Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award Rodolfo M N Fleury Field Fisher Waterhouse Prize in EU Law George A Kanelos Geoffrey Hill Spray Prize in Clinical Biochemistry Navamayooran Thavanesan Gibbs Book Prizes Anthony J Kennedy !MA Prize for excellent performance in Part B FHS Mathematics George E Lake Law Faculty Prize in European Intellectual Property Rights Katherine N olan Materials Science Prize for the best Oxford University Materials 3rd year Team Design Project Sinead Mottishaw Michael I Pearson Organic Chemistry- Part II Thesis Prize Karolis Leonavicius EXTERNAL AWARDS

Caja Madrid Foundation Award Marti Riba Monzo

Commonwealth Scholarship Adrian Timothy Murdock German National Academic Foundation Scholarship Gianna Hessel Fundatia Dinu Patriciu Scholarship Corina Balaban Rhodes Scholarship Isra J Bhatty George Kunnackal John Renugan Raidoo

Gabrielle A Emanuel Mutsawashe D Mutembwa David B Springer

The Swire Educational Trust Wenxing Zuo DEGREE RESULTS Final Honour Schools 2012 Candidates who have agreed to their results being published. Biochemistry Class I Matthew N Clark, Christabel Hill, Neil T Morton Class II i Aaron A Appleyard, Katie L Prosser Chemistry Class I Karolis Leonavicius, David M Wilkins Emily J Barlow Class II i Earth Sciences Class I Daniel S Collins, Thomas M Harrison, Christopher W Kinsley, Kimberley M Pyle Class II i Katie-Louise Bray, Paul G Starr, Erica B Webb Economics & Management Class II i J oseph J M Dargan, Sop hie C Hale, Anna M Piowtrowski Class II ii W eiheng Shi

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Engineering Science Class I Mark P Carolan, J ames M Fleming, Christopher I Kelly Class II i Adam Boulfoul, J ames R Leech, Haoyang Sun, An drew J Woodliffe Class II ii Sean M Brassill Engineering, Economics & Management Class II i Mahlaqa Shaukat English Language & Literature Class I Callum C Grant, Nicholas Marsh Class II i Amy K Blakemore, Harriet L B Clarfelt, Oliver Clark, Lily A Fox, Nicholas E J Higgins, Alice M Pearse Experimental Psychology Class II i Isabel G Wood Fine Art Class I Class II i

Shakyra S A Campbell, Emily H Peck Laura Lloyd, Natasha Peel, Laura M Welsh

Geography Class II i Lucy Arkwright, Hermione E Brooks, Joshua Coulson, Michael B Graham, Adam S Jordan History Class II i

Thomas J Clark, Isabelle R Fraser, Victoria L Fryer, Charlotte J Howell, Georgina Whiteley, Philip Whiting

Jurisprudence Class I Anthony J Kennedy Class II i George A Kanelos, Paul F Smylie Materials, Economics & Management Class II i Karl E G Outen

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Materials Science Class I Christopher D Box Class II i Katherine P E Plummer Class Ill Jan-Karl Conermann Mathematics Class II i Robert W M Robinson, Tegid H Morfett-Jones, Charles H P Wilson Class II ii Matthew A Kennedy, Charles R Millar Medical Sciences Class II i Alice C Quayle, Peter A Swann Class II ii J essie-J oy M Flowers Modern Languages Class II i Peter Hutton, Amelia Jenne, Philippe Panizzon Class II ii Rebecca S A Preece Music Class I Class II i

Samuel P Carbonero Isabel Wick

Philosophy Politics & Economics Class II i Matthew D Bell, J ames Lawson, Alexander J Michie Class II ii Joseph A Bruner, Daniel C Wilson Physics Class I Class II i

Justin A Alsing, Till A Hoffmann Rowan E W Skilbeck, Mark W Godden, Maire N Gorman

Physics & Philosophy Class II i Christopher C Hadnutt Psychology with Philosophy Tom E Sanders Class I

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Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Economics: Richard A Povey Educational Studies: Aisi Li Engineering Science: Keng Wai Chan Experimental Psychology: Sarah C E Chapman

History: Inorganic Chemistry: Materials Science: Mathematics: Modern Languages: Oriental Studies: Politics: Social Work: Theology:

Georgiana Juravle Alexandra M Murray Thomas J Carter Chengle Wang Philip M Butler, Bernard J Seiser Michael Helmers F rancesca M Magnabosco Talal Al-Azem Gabrielle E A M Krapels Israel R Bronstein Thomas A Price

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) European Politics & Society: Jack E Blumenau (Distinction) Modern Languages: William D Gunson (Distinction) Russian & East European Studies: Keely E Bielat

Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) Philosophy: Seungil Lee Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) J ennifer B A yers Samir C A Salih Christopher W atkin

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Master of Science (MSc) Applied Statistics: Mutsawashe D Mutembwa Biodiversity, Conservation & Management: Sarah L Brooks Alexander M Cheesman Henry E W Cottee-J ones (Distinction) Lucy E Erickson (Distinction) Philip R K Jones John C Mittermeier (Distinction) Charles W R Winchester (Distinction) J akub Kwiecinski Biomedical Engineering: David B Springer (Distinction) Child Development & Education: T erri E Motraghi Comparative & International Education: Qianrui Jiang Contemporary India: Charles W Owen (Distinction) Deeqa I J ama Comparative Social Policy: Economics for Development: Nan Jiang Educational Research Methodology: Kimberley J Lindsay Environmental Change & Management: Maya Ben Dror Global Health Science: Ambika Bhushan Vanessa Ford Sylvia W W Kong George Kunnackal John (Distinction) Integrated Immunology: Marie Greyer Law & Finance: Alessandra Sollberger Mathematics & Foundations of Computer Science: Edward J W agstaff Nature, Society & Environmental Policy: Richen H C Choegyal (Distinction) Radiation Biology: Nida Sadique Social Anthropology: Christopher D Joseph Water Science Policy & Management: Leonora S Zoninsein

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Master of Science {MSc) by Research Materials Science: Paul J Kamenski Physical & Theoretical Chemistry: Robert Oag Master of Studies {MSt) English:

Global & Imperial History: US History:

Nicholas C Morgan (Distinction) T essa S Rapaczynski (Distinction) Melissa A T ricoire Yesol Han Roland CA McFall Nicholas 0 L Evans Anna K Gibson Cameron W Ormsby Patrick P Sandman

Master of Business Administration {MBA) Jason Bell Vasudevrao Gupta Gergely A Hamvas (Distinction) Robert J Vollono Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) Biology: Sebastian JA Perkins Chemistry: Agnese Lyne English: Eleanor Cragg Bachelor of Civil Law {BCL) Emma L Hoiberg (Distinction) Katherine A Nolan (Distinction) Anirudh Wadhwa

Postgraduate Certificate {PGCert) Diplomatic Studies: Wenxing Zuo Xiang Chen

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DEGREEDAYDATES2012-2013 The procedure for signing up to a Degree Ceremony is changing from July 2013. Therefore, the remaining ceremonies in 2012 through to the changeover in July 2013, will be prioritised for candidates that finished their degrees in 2011 and 2012 (subject to availability). However, historic graduands (including MAs) can still confer their degree in absentia at any of the ceremonies below if they wish: Michaelmas Term 2012 Saturday 20 October 2012 Saturday 3 November 2012 Saturday 24 November 2012

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Hilary Term 2013 Saturday 19 January 2013 Saturday 2 March 2013 Saturday 9 March 2013 Saturday 18 May 2013 Saturday 8 June 2013

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Full, in absentia only places available places available

Taught course students due to finish their degrees in the 2012/13 academic year will be invited by the Degree Conferrals Office in the Michaelmas Term of their final year to attend the ceremony below which is relevant to their degree. Research students will be contacted with potential degree ceremony dates once they have submitted and will be able to book a ceremony date once they have been granted Leave to Supplicate: Sat 13 July 2013 Sat 27 July 2013 Sat 21 September 2013 Sat 9 November 2013 Sat 8 March 2014

- BMBCH Clinical Medics & BA Medical Sciences -Undergraduates -Nine-month Masters/MPhil and MPhil graduands -Twelve-month Masters graduands - Research students, MA awards, historic graduand and any summer elective Masters.

Historic graduands (pre-2011) or those wishing to confer their MAs in person at a ceremony, will need to contact the College to request that their name is put on a 'holding list' and will be contacted should a place become available at one of the post-July 2013 ceremonies. Further information can be found on the Alumni section of the College website (www.seh.ox.ac.uk), where you can download a form for pre-July 2013 degree ceremonies. Alternatively, please contact the College Office, who will be able to supply you with a form.

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NEWS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE

This is my last report as Director of Development at the Hall. After five years, I am stepping down to spend more time with my young family but I will, however, continue to work with the Hall on a consultancy basis. My successor, Laura Palmer, joins us from City University, where she was the Acting Director of Development. I have no doubt that she will take our fundraising effort to the next level required for our major campaign, which will focus on the both the long- and short-term issues as outlined by the Principal. The new development campaign for the Hall will be ambitious. Every form of support will be needed, and if we can increase the number of Aularians providing that support at whatever level, then the Hall's future will be secure. It is a delight to report an increasing interest in support for the Hall, which received a total of around £2.5m in philanthropic support last year, a most welcome sum in these straitened times. About £350,000 of this was raised through our Annual Fund, the majority of which came from a very successful telephone campaign in March. Our student callers did a magnificent job connecting with Aularians all over the world and well over half of those contacted made a donation, for which we are very grateful. One of our biggest donations in recent years was made in June 2012. An Aularian who wishes to remain anonymous donated £1.2m to support two of our teaching posts/Tutorial Fellowships in Economics and Law. With the new student fee structure being implemented this year we are looking to significantly increase donations to our new bursary scheme. Donations to this fund will have an immediate beneficial impact on our students. Over the course of the year 18% of Aularians made a gift to the Hall, and I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who gave so generously. We hope to increase participation in the coming year to match that of other colleges in Oxford, where up to 30% of alumni give regularly. Support of every size is meaningful, and being able to show 107

strong alumni support has been influential in our discussions with trusts, charities and individuals. Many Aularians enjoy a continuous close connection with us through the Floreat Aula Society, our membership organisation for those who remember the Hall in their will. These legacies are hugely important for us (we received nearly ÂŁ0.5m from various legacy gifts this year) and often come from those who may not be able to make a donation during their lifetime. I would urge anyone who has remembered the Hall in their will or who intends to do so to please get in touch with us. This not only enables us to acknowledge your gift but also to plan ahead for the long-term benefit of the Hall. Unrestricted legacies are usually the most helpful but we are more than happy to discuss how your legacy will make an impact and how the Hall might recognise the donation. The Aularian connection is also maintained and strengthened by attendance at the many alumni events that the team organise, directly or indirectly. This year we were delighted to see many Aularians visiting the Hall, and attending a host of events, including: the 1961 50th Anniversary Gaudy; a Physics, Chemistry & Materials Reunion; the 1995-2000 Gaudy; the Oxford University Alumni Dinner; the New York Dinner; Carols in the Quad; Hong Kong Aularians Drinks; the 1972 Anniversary Dinner*; the inter-collegiate Golf Tournament; a Modern Languages Reunion'~; a Japanese Aularians Dinner; the North American Aularians Reception; an Olympians Dinner\ two drinks receptions for London-based Aularians\ the Summer Garden Party/Annual Reunion; and the Golf Society's AGM and dinner ( a report on those marked with an asterisk can be found on the following pages). We have also connected with parents of the current students at dinners in Michaelmas and Hilary terms, and at a Garden Party to coincide with the Saturday of Summer Eights; and we were pleased to help Robert Pay (1982) make contact with New York Aularians whom he invited to drinks at his NYC home. I am grateful to my team, Anna Fowler, Emma Bowler, Sally Smith and Juliet Corbett for their assistance over the last few years. I have enjoyed my time at the Hall enormously and it has been a privilege to spend time with so many of those connected to it. Yvonne Rainey 108

From the new Director of Development, Laura Palmer I am pleased to be joining the Hall at such an exciting time as we begin to plan a major fundraising campaign. Philanthropic funds in higher education are becoming increasingly important as pressures on government funding force students and universities to look for alternative means of support. The funds we raise give us the flexibility to continue to provide an outstanding education for our students at the Hall which eventually become our history and their legacy. Protecting that legacy and ensuring our continued success will be the main aim of the campaign in years to come. In the planning stages I will be looking to Aularians for their knowledge, advice and help and I'll be getting in touch with many of you personally in the coming months. I look forward to hearing your ideas and moving things forward collaboratively. Please don't hesitate to get in touch to share your ideas or indeed stop into the Development and Alumni Relations office if you are visiting the Hall. I look forward to meeting you all!

Leadership Donors to the Annual Fund This past year marked the first that we asked Friends and Aularians to consider Leadership gifts of ÂŁ1,000 or more a year to the Annual Fund. The response was wonderful and we are grateful to the group of Leadership Donors who stepped up to make this initiative a success. The Annual Fund is vital to the continued existence of our Hall and it allows us to offer financial support for students, the tutorial system, and our highly successful Masterclass awards. LEADERSHIP DONORS 2011-2012 Ewell Murphy William Asbrey Ron Hall William R Miller Denys Moylan John Barker John Dellar Ronald Hurren Basil Kingstone

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Bill Patterson John Reis Michael Voisey John Adey Rodger Hayward Smith David Keeler Ian Gillings Chris Harrison David Hexter

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Ethan Lipsig David Blezard Michael Ko David Monkcom Richard Balfour Martin Hyde Bob Gaffey David Harding J ames Catmur Bernard Bewlay Nicholas Jackson

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1981 Paul McCarthy 1983 Kari Hale 1985 David Firth 1985 Andrew Rolfe 1987 Winnie Foo-Leong Clare McKeon (nee Smith) 1993 Ali Diab 1996 Ray Husbands (Parent Donor) Lubos Smrcka Ann Taylor (nee Hughes Jones, Emeritus Fellow)

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DONORS TO THE COLLEGE FROM 1 AUGUST 2011 TO 31 JULY 2012 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,358 alumni, parents of students and Friends of the Hall who have donated in the last year and whose names are recorded on the following pages. We record by matriculation date the names of all who have made a donation during this period including the participation rate (the percentage of people in each year who have given), and the total amount received per matriculation year. Where there are only one or two donors in a particular year we have not listed the amount given in order to preserve confidentiality. >:·deceased- denotes legacy

DONOR LIST 2011-12 1935 (50%)

1947 (42.9%, £500.00)

1950 (30.6%, £4,724.95)

George Barner John King

Michael Harrison John Reddick * Lyon Roussel *

Brian Arthur John Elliott Noel Harvey Graham Heddle Douglas Heffer John Hughes * Raymond Lee Jack Preger Ralph Simmons Jack Wheeler Michael Williams

1936 (100%)

Geoffrey T othill

1939 (50%)

Robbie Bishop Derek Rushworth 1940 (50%)

2 anonymous donors

1948 (34.8%, £10,289.32)

Derrick Clarke Jarvis Doctorow Paul Foote * Joe Graffy John Hogan Ewell Murphy Roy Tracey 1 anonymous donor

1941 (12.5%)

Norman Hillier-Fry 1942 (6.7%)

John Townsend 1943 (5.9%)

Fred Nicholls 1944 (11.8%)

David Shears Charles Taylor 1945 (4.8%)

Tony Knight 1946 (33.3%, £557.50)

David Dunsmore John Pike 1 anonymous donor

1949 (40%, £43,961.60)

Gordon Allford William Asbrey John Baker Peter Barker Bob Breese Eric Cunnell Alan Garnett Colin Hadley Ron Hall Michael J affey Terence Kelly Noel McManus William R Miller Stan Pierce Robert Southan William Thorpe

1951 (51.5%, £5,835.89)

Colin Benbow Derek Bloom Robin French Andrew Johnston Kenneth Laflin Kenneth Lund lain MacLeay Denys Moylan Brian Osgood Martin Plowden-Roberts Alan Poynter Raymond Roberts David Shenton Howard Slack Bill Sotirovich Peter Tudor Dudley Wood 1 anonymous donor

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1952 {33.3%, £20,785.00) Peter Brown Ian Byatt John Claxton Tony Coulson Michael Darling * David Fitzwilliam-Lay Chris Jones Frank Lockhart Peter Maxwell Denis McCarthy Bruce Nixon N eville Tell er David Thompson David White David Wright 1953 {26. 9%, £2,362.54) John Arthure Ken Bulgin Ernie Fox Alan J ohnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones David Picksley Ian Smith Bert Thomas Dick Turner Brian Venner Brian Wakefield 2 anonymous donors 1954 {29%, £3,943.88) Chris Benjamin Douglas Boning Jeremy Cleverley Michael Duffy Michael Hopkinson Brian Howes Tony Laughton John Lowe Shaun MacLoughlin Ian Morin Michael Palmer John Phillips John Robson Brian Shepherd Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor David Thomas Raymond Thornton Ronald Truman John West

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1955 {38.1%,£9,943.75) John Barker Hubert Beaumont Tony Cooper John Cotton John Dellar Lawton Fage Roger Farrand David Frayne David Hare Michael Hilt Ronald Hurren Michael Martin Brian Masters Alan Mathieson Neil Merrylees Mike Neal Gerald Raftesath John Roberts Irving Theaker Noel Tonkin Stuart W amsley Bill Weston Richard Williams 1 anonymous donor 1956 {34.2%, £7,807.81) Brian Amor Colin Atkinson Godfrey Blakeley Ian Briars Tony Bridgewater Blake Bromley Roy Caddick Dumaresq Child John Ducker Bob Emery John French Peter Garvey Robert Gillard David Glynne-Jones David Henderson Michael Hickey Basil Kingstone Chris Machen Jim Markwick Tony McGinn David Mussell Martin Reynolds David Short Paul Tempest David Williams

1957 {32.4%, £14,129.30) Michael Archer Gerald Blake David Bolton Geoff Brown Andrew Clarkson via The Jeniam Foundation Hugh Denman Anthony Drayton Tony Ford John Harrison Bob Jackson Dennis Jesson John Mander Charles Marriott Dennis Marsden Geoff Mihell Colin Nichols David Parfitt David Poole Peter Reynolds Michael Rowan Alastair Stewart Anthony Williams Peter Wilson 1 anonymous donor 1958 {32.1%, £7,211.24) Chris Alborough Jim Amos Mike Beard Peter Bentley Bob Bishop David Clarke Peter Davies Jim Dening Tony Goddard David Harrison John H aydon Jonathan Hewitt John Hibberd David Idwal Jones Ronnie Irving Peter Kite Richard Linforth Roger O'Brien Bill Patterson Michael Pelham Tony Phillips John Phillips Philip Rabbetts John Reis Nevill Swanson

1959 (35.2%, £11,697.69) Ian Alexander Hinton Bird Richard Brake David Braund John Chapman DC Coleman John Collingwood Giles Conway-Gordon Frank di Rienzo Tony Doyle Bas Faulkner David Harding Chris Harvey Ian Hepburn Matthew Joy Graham Kemfield James Kerr-Muir Simon Laurence Richard McCullagh Malcolm McDonald Joe McPartlin Mike Oakley John Rayner Brian Saberton Mike Saltmarsh John Spires Michael Voisey Stewart Walduck John Waiters Hugh Wilcox David Wilson 1 anonymous donor 1960 (46.6%, £14,518.76) John Adey Nicolas Alldrit Chris Atkinson David Baines T erence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Tim Cannon David Chapallaz Robert Clark T erence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Alec Dawson Keith Dillon Mike Elmitt Ian Evans Brian Forster Charles Freeman

1960 (cont'd) J eff Goddard Peter Hayes Kenneth S Heard John Heath David Henderson Robin Hogg John Langridge John Law Chris Long Yann Lovelock David Mash Melvyn Matthews Mike Notley Roger Plumb Francis Pocock George Ritchie Patric Sankey-Barker George Smith John Thorogood Andrew Tod Guy Warner 2 anonymous donors 1961 (34.9%, £13,908.48) Paul Alien Don Anderson Bill Bauer Robin Bratchley David Brown Martin Buckley Stanley Burnton Barrie England Mike Grocott Rex Harrison John Heggadon * Michael Hornsby Geoff Hunt Malcolm Inglis Nick Lloyd Michael Lynch George Marsh Jonathan Martin David McCammon Glynn Morgan Peter Newell Anthony Rentoul Andrew Rix David Scharer Mike Sproule David Timms Timothy Torrington Stephen White 2 anonymous donors

1962 (22.4%, £5,429.61) James Burnett-Hitchcock Amhony Cosgrave Geoffrey Davis Jim de Rennes Sean Duncan David Goodwin Handley Hammond Rodger Hayward Smith Arwyn Hughes Neil Jackson Tim Jones Alan MeN amee Andrew Norman Jim North Nigel Pegram Richard Phillippo Charlie Switzer Hugh Thomas Roger Wardle John Williams 2 anonymous donors 1963 (22.1%, £7,484.18) Darrell Barnes David Baxter Peter Brennan Bob Broughton David Cox John Crawshaw Geoff Day Edward Gould Michael Harrison Frederick Holroyd Richard Hunt Tom Jeffers David Keeler Richard Oliver Michael Sherratt Stephen Sinsbury John Still John Taylor Nigel Thorp Roger Truelove 1 anonymous donor 1964 (27.2%, £6,858.69) Mick Boylett Michael Clarke Steve Copley Martin Craven Peter Day Robert Dolman

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1964 (cont'd) Alan Graham Bill Hartley Derek Hawkins Peter Hodson Chris Howe John Hughes Mike Kerford-Byrnes Tony Lemon Peter Liversidge Timothy Machin David Meredith Derek Morris Robert Norcliffe David Outhwaite Jack Picton James Pitt Michael Powis Guye Roberts David Rumbelow Hugh Simpson David Tearle Geoffery Turner 1965 (24.8%, £13,345.71) Paul Badman Nigel Barak Joe Barclay Tommy Bedford John Dennis Paul Pickling Simon Forrest Stephen Garrett Ian Gillings Derek Harrison Colin Hewitt Gavin Hitchcock Ken Hobbs Nicholas J arrold Andrew Morgan Thomas Mulvey Brian North Billett Potter David Powell Mike Randall John Rea Michael Richardson John Sayer Philip Spray Bill Walker

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1966 (26.9%, £6,440.51) Cameron Brown Peter Crystal Peter Dixon Donald Easton Nicholas Fane Tony Fisher Roger Frankland Peter Griffiths Frank Hanbridge Ian Hewitt Ted Hodgson Peter Jenkins Michael Johns John Kilbee David Knight Paul Maison Car! Mawer Patrick Montgomery J on Short ridge John Spellar Geoffrey Summers John Tresadern Michael Warren 2 anonymous donors 1967 (30.5%, £21,282.53) Peter Bates Robert Breckles John Child Jr Robert Davis Nigel Derrett Chris Harrison Colin Hawksworth David Hexter Roger Kenworthy David Kirwan Ethan Lipsig J onathan Lovell Peter Masson Simon Maxwell Stephen Miller Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton Norman Pope Philip Robinson Paul Rose Graham Salter Mark Spencer Ellis Lawrence Toye Rob Weinberg Peter Wilson 3 anonymous donors

1968 (25.5%, £7,500.50) John Berryman David Blezard Martin Daniels Phi! Emmott Brian Griffiths Laurence Jackson Alan Jones Sudhir Kapoor Stuart Kenner Thomas King Mark Lobb Howard Makin Anthony Moore John Penfield Michael Pike Eric Rigg Mike Roberts Nigel Shrive Michael Spilberg Ian Stuart David Theobald David Vickers 2 anonymous donors 1969 (20.9%, £7,052.05) John Babb Ian Busby Roger Callan Paul Clemence David Clopet Gordon Cranmer Dick Ford Stephen Groom Michael Harbron David Jones Clive Kerridge Michael Ko Bruce Lowe Roy Marsh David Monkcom Stephen Nuttall Andrew Race Dereck Roberts Michael Shipster OBE Bruce Spaven Chris Stafford Tim Stibbs 1 anonymous donor

1970 (27.8%, £14,291.45) Stephen Bedford Andrew Bethell John Clarkson Nigel Coles Lloyd Curtis Christopher Evans Kevin Fisher Stephen Fordham Peter Harper David Hebditch Simon Hewson Peter ]ones Keith ]ones John Kendall Peter Malin Nigel McCrea Richard Miller Roger Moore Paul Moran David Morgan Richard Ormerod Peter Raspin Colin Richmond-Watson Michael Rohan Geoffrey Sambrook Chris Sutton-Mattocks Paul Temporal Bill Travers Bob Wilson 3 anonymous donors 1971 (26.1%,£9,726.56) David Audsley Richard Balfour Peter Balmer George Bishop Graham Bull Jean Chagnon Lawrence Cummings Torstein Godeseth Malcolm Hawthorne Rick Henshaw Craig Laird Dave Leggett Peter Lever Robert Liston Christopher McGrail Guy Mitchell Jonathan Ormond John Parr Tim Ream Merfyn Roberts

1971 (cont'd) Douglas Robertson Stephen Rosefield Steve Russell Greg Salter Nicholas Staite J ustin Stead Lyn Williams Christopher Wilson 1 anonymous donor 1972 (24%, £5,698.48) George Bull John Calvert Richard Catmur Steve Chandler William Clark Anthony Deakin Michael Foxton Edward Littlechild Jonathan Lowe Andrew Lowenthal Howard Mason Stephen McCann David Miles Ross Monro Mark Mulford Gareth Price David Price Andrew Riley David Rosen Alan Smith Ian Smith Jack Smith Rob Stephenson Malcolm Watson Martin Winter 1973 (23.4%, £6,422.89) Colin Ashby Christopher Bamber Colin Bullett Sean Butler Robert Cawthorne Geoff Chamberlain William Cooke J ames Dallas Robert Godden Roger Golland OBE Stephen Hancock Stephen Hutchinson Martin Hyde Nick ]ones

1973 (cont'd) Dave Knight Nigel Laing Mark Mandel Ian Midgley Kit Moorhouse Mark Patterson Nic Peeling Chas Saunders Jens Tholstrup Mike Wood 1 anonymous donor 1974 (29.3%, £22,454.03) Keith Albans Keith Auckland Phi! Budden Raoul Cerratti Steve Coldicott Peter Desmond Jeff Drew Thomas du Boulay Gerard Dunford Steve Edrich Robert Eggar Rob Fryer Surrey Garland Richard Gillingwater Andrew Gosling Brian Green Lawrence Hall Andrew Hargreaves John Hewitson Charles Hind Raymond Hui Stephen Hutchinson Doug Imeson Paul Matthews David Neuhaus John Ormiston Andy Patterson Clive Penwarden Phi! Phillips John Rose Dick Sands K.im Swain Greg Vanes Eric W areing

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1975 (15.6%, £12,805.17) Andrew Baldwin Paul Boothroyd Milan Cvetkovic Bob Gaffey Keith Geeslin Ed Gray Gordon Hurst Paul Ince Andrew J ohnston Alan Kerr Graham Ketley John Mackinnon lan Mclsaac Robin Osterley Howard Papworth Ces Shaw Nigel Smith Peter Watson David Way 1976 (27.2%, £1,255,827.46) £1.2m from one donor Bill Baker Robin Beckley Robert Birch John Collingwood Andrew Cooper Hora den Dulk Brian Denton Chris Elston Richard Finch Mark Hockey Anson Jack Jeff Keey Brian Partridge Trevor Payne Malcolm Pheby Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Keith Scott Paul Sutton Ian Taylor Richard Thomson Peter Trowles Matthew Wald Richard Waters Neil Worthington Jeremy Young 1 anonymous donor

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1977 {20.7%, £8,296.61) David Blakey Charles Blount Andrew Brown Steve Clark lan Doherty lan Durrans Oliver Grundy Nick Hamilton Marcel Haniff David Harding Adrian Haxby lvan Herbison Chris Homer Roger Keeley lain Maidment Greg McLeen Nick Plater Peter Rogers John Thurston David Van Roijen Steve Vivian Tony Watkinson 1 anonymous donor 1978 (23.9%, £8,330.35) Peter Baker Richard Collins Paul Darling Reynaud de la Bat Smit Simon Double Timothy Elliott Simon Heilbron Tim Hill Ian Hutchinson Lloyd Illingworth Simon J ohnson Jan Levenbach Brian Livesey Richard Luddington Adrian Marsh Andy McCabe Paul Meadows Mark Morrison Gideon Nissen Philip Roseberg Tim Saunders Gary Stratmann Gurdon Wattles Brian Worsfold David Wright Enrique Zapata-Bravo

1979 (22.3%, £41,226.55) Tony Best James Catmur Kit Cooke Debbie Cooper (nee Rees) Stephen Coulson David Cox Elizabeth Flood (nee Baker) Richard Grainger Valerie Grundy (nee Hendry) Jill Harris (nee Gildersleve) John Hodgson Alan Holbrook Gillian Kinnear (nee Thurgood) Elizabeth Lee Paul Littlechild Ian Lupson Ian McEwen Caroline Morgan Justus O'Brien Alison Rae (nee Fell) Michael Robinson Paul Skokowski Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum Bridget Walker Dick Ward Nigel Williams 1980 (25.8%, £25,369.90) John Ayton Tom Bartlett Bernard Bewlay Philip Broadley Julia Broughton (nee Slee) Peter Buechel William Carver John Chelsom Jonathan Davies Tim Edmonds Anthony Farrand Katherine Finucane Alison Girling Graeme Hall J onathan Hofstetter Simon Kelly Jonathan Leakey John Madgwick Tim Mottishaw John O'Connell

1980 (cont'd) Ashley Pigott David Preston Simon Ramage J on athan Scott Nick Senechal Paula Skokowski (nee Foster) Neil Stevenson Frank Strang Christina Tracey Peter Walton 2 anonymous donors 1981 (22.9%, £11,274.26) Tom Bayne Alasdair Blain David Brown Andrew Burns Mark Campbell Robert Davidson David Dees Sandy Findlay Julian Hammond Claire Ivins Nicholas Jackson Phi! Knight Richard Lambert Gillian Leach (nee Cole) Jim McAleer Paul McCarthy Sallie Nicholas Richard Oliver David Ormerod Tim Parkinson Jai Pathak David Pratt Michael Sherring David Stokes Paul Stowers Jessica Wattles (nee Davies) 1 anonymous donor 1982 (23.5%, £9,892.54) David Aeron-Thomas Warren Cabral Maggie Carver (nee Hall) Tom Christopherson Anna Cochrane (nee Bunting) Catherine Dale (nee Watson) Simon Hitch Guy Franks

1982 (cont'd) Mark Haftke Tim Holman Dan Johnson Richard Kent Richard MacAlister Sally McNish (nee Jones) Paul McWilliam Gareth Penny Nigel Purse Marco Rimini David Robb Simon Roberts Kevin Sealy Liz Streeter (nee Bliss) Mark Sykes Harry Travers Sarah Vickers Stuart Worthington 1 anonymous donor 1983 (27.2%, £7,640.14) Chris Coleman Kate Coleman (nee Penney) Bob Collie William Connolley Car! Cunnane Tim Fallowfield Simon Freethy !van Gazidis Marion Geddes (nee Hawkins) Tarquin Grossman Kari Hale Cathy Halliday (nee Brown) Edward Hayes Sian Henderson (nee Owen) Max Irwin Jo Kent (nee Cox) Bashir Khan Fiona Larkin Peter Magyar Andrew Marshall Phi! Moody Christine Muskett Denis Mustafa Jenny Oliver (nee Stirling) Kevan Rees Helen Saunders John Sharples Mark Triggs Max Welby

1983 (cont'd) Belinda Worsfold (nee Markham) Michael Young 1984 (17.9%, £5,396.43) Dan Abnett John Bloomer Y asmin Carim Steve Crummett Julian Day Alison Fallowfield (nee McCormick) Steve Geelan Chris Giles Niall Haigh Charles Hawley Elizabeth Hollingworth Ruth McQuillan Margaret Miller (nee Purcell) Tesula Mohindra Sean Purdy lain Purvis John Risman Anthony Rossiter Helena Sellars (nee French) Alistair Sharp Harvey Wheaton 1 anonymous donor 1985 (21.8%, £9,701.66) Andy Ashelford Deborah Booth (nee Hercod) Christopher Cole Kevin Cooper Rhoda Davidson (nee Tait) Stephen Ferguson David Firth Sarah Good Jon Gulley Fiona Houston Christopher Lee Mark Little Julia Little (nee Canon) Nicholas Peacock Sue Peacock (nee Hodgson) Eileen Perryer Andrew Rolfe Pernille Rudlin Clive Sentance Will Shaw

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1985 (cont'd) Tanya Spilsbury (nee Ashby) J ustin Symonds Anne Ulrich Harry Upton Alison Voyce (nee Cooke) Judith Waring (nee Lacey) Charlotte West (nee Crombie) Jo Willis-Bund 1 anonymous donor 1986 (19.2%, £4,263.06) Mark Bedser Mary Betley Martin Borrett Edmund Caddick Jim Charles Noel Cooke David Denholm Gavin Flook Walter F raser Claire Harrison Andrew Harrison Stephen Haslehurst Neil Jacob Patrick J ennings Emma Kennedy (nee Williams) Rachel Kiddey (nee Trethewey) lain Mackie Paolo Mauro Sally McKone (nee Adams) Neil Midgley John Myhill Phi! Richards Jacqui Thornton 1 anonymous donor 1987 (20.3%, £5,672. 98) Dan Bayley Andrew Betton Andrew Brem Katherine Charles (nee Inglis) J ustin Collins Charles Elvin Richard Evans Winnie Foo-Leong Helen Fox (nee Tite) David Gomez Kevin Holder

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1987 (cant' d) Kevin J ohnson Julian Lipson Alison Lonsdale (nee Luff) Andrew Martindale Lisa Mullen Simon Oakes Peter O'Connell Paul Peard Mark Sedwill Richard Smalman-Smith Sarah Smith Paul Thwaite Mary Waldner (nee Harling) Philip Waldner David Waring Tim Wingfield 1988 (17.2%, £31,630.46) Hugh Adlington John Basnage de Beauval James Brace Will Crerar Lean Ferera Jonathan Ferguson Christopher Garrison Kirsty Garrison (nee Davies) Heather Hodgkinson (nee Parry) Duncan Holden Robert Howe Jon Kunac-Tabinor Peter Matthews J an Milligan Peter Othen James Rudd Giles Sanders Ingrid Southern (nee Gibson) David Stewart Mark Wilson 3 anonymous donors 1989 (7.7%, £1,948.15) Tom Argles Kate Carpenter J amie Cattell Rob de Rennes Luke Jones Ben Miller Ruth Roberts (nee Makin) Chris Sawyer Chris Vigars Anna Whittome (nee Briffett)

1990 (16.1%, £3,937.53) Emma Barnett (nee Pinches) Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne David Gauke Graham Hinton Edward Hobart Dan !son Adrian Jones David Jordan Kevin Knibbs Stephen Noone Mark Roberts Ed Shelton Kathleen Thompson Kathryn Vardy Craig Vickery Benjamin Walker Natasha Walker J osceline Wheatley Andrew Williams Julie Williams (nee Coulson) Su Qing Zhang 1 anonymous donor 1991 (15.4%, £5,009.23) Christopher Ashton Carol Atherton Duncan Barker Simon Brown Julian Cater Jonny Clayton Andy Fielding Alex Fishlock Anneli Howard Nicholas Lane Andrew Lappin Helen Morgan Michael Morley Clare Phillips Luke Powell Anna Rentoul Helen Stephens Anna Vigars (nee Weir) Lucy Williams (nee French) 1 anonymous donor 1992 (15.6%, £4,234.17) Tim Bryars Alice Clay Adam Cole Matt Doran

1992 (cont'd) Tom Farrand Gemma Farrand (nee Seddon) Steven Fisher Xen Gladstone Bill Heaney Lucy Heaven (nee Davie) J ulian J elfs Royan Lam Jane Mann (nee Penrose) Sarah Morrison Sarah O'Neill Jules Plumstead Claire Pugh (nee Webb) Sasi Sanmugaratnam Gareth Scholey David Taylor Geraint Thomas Louisa Warfield (nee Turner) 1 anonymous donor 1993 (19.9%,£10,511.18) N at ash a Ash ton (nee Petassi) Howard Cazin Cathy Donner Stuart Estell Bill Ferguson Emma French Melissa Gallagher (nee Bearchell) Liz Gibbons Katy Gotch Nick Grade! Ian Hunter Kallina J elfs (nee Bird) Kieren J ohnson Luke Kerr Rob Mansley Clare McKeon (nee Smith) AI Mordaunt Henry Mullin James Owens Mariam Owens (nee Ghali) Amelia Pan James Parkin Isabel Pitts Gary Smith Richard Tufft Matt Webb Damian Yap 1 anonymous donor

1994 (15.9%,£10,111.96) Paul Bristow Jonathan Buckmaster Radu Calinescu Manuela Gheorghe Rachel Grinham David Hambler Choon Wai Hui Clare Jackson (nee Ormerod) Richard Jackson Ed Knight Gareth McKeever Caroline Mitchelson (nee Coghlin) James Mushin Lucy Oddy Harry Oliver Kostas Papadopoulos Eva Peel (nee Clark-Darby) and Tom Peel via the Charles Peel Charitable Trust Piers Prichard Jones Jeremy Robst Cary Rubinstein Caroline Vilar 1995 (13.3%, £2,512.27) James Brown Raph Cohn Robert Dryburgh Uli Gassner Catherine Hitchcock (nee Graley) Richard Hitchcock Chet Lad Richard Martin Hugh Miller Amanda Minty (nee Clapinska) Stuart Robinson Chris Ruse Liz Russell Nigel Sudell Martin Thorneycroft Caroline T ufft (nee Martin) Justin Waine 2 anonymous donors

1996 (12%,£4,112.76) Claire Burton Ali Diab Tommy Doyle Benjamin Grout Elissa Guenebaut (nee Baker) John Houghton Car! Lavin Hannah Lawrie James Mace Craig Marshall Richard O'Donoghue David Phillips Heidi Sawtell (nee Durnford) Zachary Segal Zoe Stopford (nee Griffiths) Maya Strbac Duncan Wallace Alistair White 1 anonymous donor 1997 (12.2%, £3,034.49) David Barker Glen Bowman Lucy Bowman (nee Johnson) Ali Cook Nathaniel Copsey Christopher Eden Jamie Grimston Cristobal Gumucio James Hagan Chris Hancock Holly Jamieson Steven Johnson Kullervo Maukonen Dean O'Connell Peter Ralph Anthony Shackleton Ben Smith Chris Tinson Matthew Welby 1998 (12.3%, £2,921.76) J ames Bendall Jane Bushey Edward Carder David Cormode Alan Dunford Ann-Marie Evans Rob Harrold Nick Hirst Tim Johnson

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1998 (cont' d) Hilde Kaarstad Jason Linford Clare Murray Araz Rad Enayati Alina Sarantis Katy Sharp Rebecca Streatfeild Jessica Tamarin {nee Natale) Ben Wilkinson Lucy Wilson {nee Banister) 1 anonymous donor 1999 {10.3%, £8,499.56) J o Alexander {nee Slack) Oliver Deacon Kieron Galliard Pippa Hill {nee Caldicott) Barnaby Jones Catherine Knowles Zoe Noonan Alex Prideaux Sean Sullivan Thomas Watkins Lisa Watkinson David Williams 2 anonymous donors 2000 {5.6%, £1,236.85) Nassim Baiou Caroline Boon Steven Chambers Rahul Chopra Miles Clapham John Fowles Steffan Knutson Matthew Kott Richard Povey 2001 {11 %, £3,561.28) Matthew Easdale Rachael Easdale {nee Ayers) Daniel Harkin Charles Hotham Clem Hutton-Mills Charlotte Lamb Ruth Lewis Clover Morey Malte Nuhn Nick Renshaw Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky Richard Stubley J ames Sutton

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2001 (cont'd) Aden Turna William Young 3 anonymous donors

2007 {1.5%, £562.50) Eoghan Cusack Evan Innis Matthew O'Sullivan

2002 {5.2%, £1,097.49) Chetan Behl Michael Bhaskar Jackie Colburn Charlotte Dove Sam Offer Kate Pavia Zadok Prescott Felicia Shaw Ashley Smith 1 anonymous donor

2008 {1.9%, £337.56) , Katie Hill J oanne Pearce 1 anonymous donor

2003 {3.9%, £1,008.46) Jennifer Chung Joe Hacker Maria Queenan Natalie Sylvester Foy Car a T redget T atiana Zervos Elyn Zhang 1 anonymous donor 2004 {5%, £1,343.75) Sarah Filby Stephanie Hardy Martin Heimburger Caroline Hickson Fiona Moss Scot Peterson Car! Saucier-Bouffard Oliver Wallis Tino Wendisch 2005 {4.8%, £400.17) David Aitken Charles Alien Karl Behrouz Matthew Nice Lucinda O'Connor Ed Reynolds Rich Reynolds Olivia Valner 1 anonymous donor 2006 {1%) Tom Clucas Grace Haley

2009 {1.7%) David Lindsey Xiao Tan 2010 {3.3%, £213.62) Nishant Batsha William Hancock-Cerutti Georg Heiss Friends of the Hall £333,776.59 Daoud Awad Doreen Boyce, widow of Warne Boyce {1952) Martin Evans, in memory of Barrie Evans {1947) Toby Farrand, in memory of John Farrand {1951) Cynthia Graae, in memory of Steffen Graae (1962) Anna Herbert *, m memory of Michael Herbert {1953) Harvey Kass Patricia Kemp, in memory of Robin Kemp {1958) Lynne Liska, in memory of Geoffrey Price {1944) Tony Marchington * {Honorary Fellow) Mary Anne Price, m memory of Geoffrey Price {1944) Dorothy, Frances, George, J ane, Lucy and Thomas Saul, in memory of Philip Saul {1953) Lubos Smrcka Ann Taylor {nee Hughes Jones) Robert Venables {Fellow by Special Election) & The Yves Guihannec Foundation

Friends of the Hall (cont' d) City Chapter of Aularians CPR Fund of the Columbia Foundation Ironmongers' Company 2 anonymous donors

Parent Donors ÂŁ8,447.41 Mark Clarfelt Graham Davenport Roger Dudley Lisa Blatch & Francis Eames Ray Husbands J ere my Lester Mr & Mrs Mortimore

Parent Donors (cont'd) David & Lindsay Ormsby Renato Panizzon Joanna & Malcolm Rustin Kathryn & Paul Silk Raymond Southall Alena & Merfyn T omos 3 anonymous donors

40TH ANNIVERSARY GAUDY, 17 MARCH How many people will turn up? Will I recognise them all? Will we have anything in common after 40 years? These were just some of the questions running through my mind in the run up to the 40th anniversary Gaudy for the 1972 year group. I'm sure that you will not be surprised to hear that any worries I might have had proved to be completely groundless! We met in the Buttery for pre-dinner drinks, in the best Hall tradition and, within minutes, we were back in 1972 recalling old friends and colleagues and some of the memorable events that happened during our student days. It's true to say that I didn't recognise everyone but the Hall spirit of friendship and camaraderie more than made up for that. From the Buttery we moved seamlessly to the gallery, overlooking the Old Dining Hall, for more drinks. This was the first of a number of "firsts" for me. This was the first time that I had visited the gallery and it was the perfect place for pre dinner conversation for the 40+ Aularians assembled for the evening. From there we moved to the Old Dining Hall for dinner. This was my second "first" as all the previous reunions that I have attended have been held in the W olfson Hall. The 0 ld Dining Hall is very atmospheric and I was delighted to see the paintings of the former principals adorning the walls. Those paintings had been in the Wolfson during my time at the Hall and it brought back many memories to see them again. We enjoyed an excellent meal followed by a superb speech from our current Principal, Keith Gull. He talked about some of the events that had occurred during 1972 and brought us up to date with the major issues currently facing the Hall including the perennial problem of funding and building maintenance - more on that in a moment! 121

After more drinking and conversation Keith made a slightly rash offer which he may have regretted later. He invited one individual to have a look at the roof garden above the Principal's lodgings. Unfortunately for Keith a few of us overheard this conversation which resulted in about 20 of us marching through his lodgings up to the garden. The last time I had set foot in this building was back in my student days when John Kelly had been in residence and it was with considerably less trepidation that I made this second visit! Standing on the roof garden was my third "first" of the evening and that also brings me back to the subject of building maintenance. The roof garden provides the perfect vantage point from which to view the new roof on the North side of the front quad. The roof is absolutely stunning and one can see where the money goes. We all thought it was money well spent. Reflecting on the evening, which was all too brief, we received a great welcome, we were entertained superbly and we thank Keith and his team for a memorable reunion. The Hall's commitment to the maintenance of the fabric of the buildings means that we, and future generations, can benefit from all the Hall has to offer and that the Hall spirit, so evident in the first moments of this reunion, will continue to flourish. Floreat Aula! Steve Chandler 1972 Year Group Leader 122

MODERN LANGUAGES REUNION, 24 MARCH Nous Voila! On a balmy Saturday in March (perhaps that was Summer 2012?) Teddy Hall linguists from over the years gathered at the Hall for the first Modern Languages Reunion. After a traditional English tea in the Chough Room, we progressed rapidly to international matters in a panel discussion chaired by Professor Kahn, SEH Fellow and Tutor in Russian literature, on the theme If 'English is global' why learn anything else?

Faced with the recent and disheartening decline in numbers of undergraduates reading modern languages at British universities, it was uplifting to hear the lively debate provoked by Andrew's feisty introduction. He opened proceedings by summarising a controversial article by former Harvard University President (legendary for his dismissal of the capacity of the female brain .... ) Lawrence H Summers, in which Professor Summers predicted the ascent of information and data (and with it the rise of the English language) over and in preference to traditional knowledge and learning, with the consequent gradual extinction of certain other disciplines - including languages other than English.

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The panel members were Professor Kahn and Hall alumni Professor David Little of Trinity College Dublin {1961), Clem Hutton-Mills {2001), Darrell Barnes {1963) and Diana Chitty, nee Wright (1980). There were many lively contributions from the floor, including - memorably from the inimitable Chris Wells, SEH German tutor extraordinaire, and it is fair to say that most Hallmen and Hallwomen present vehemently opposed the notion that languages other than English are, or should become, redundant. Speakers commented on the profound understanding of culture, cultural reference, historical context, and even modern day business and legal practice, which is grounded in a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of the language of another nation. Many emphasised the increased depth of relationships which can derive from mutual understanding of the subtleties of a foreign language, and the contrasting naivety of the assumption that communicating in English is an adequate and functional tool of work, which safely permits the speaker to dispense with the learning of any alternative language. Following the panel discussion was a fascinating talk by Dr Wes Williams, SEH Fellow and Tutor in French, with the intriguing title 'Beauty killed the beast': Monsters and their meanings from the Renaissance to King Kong. Dr Williams' lecture was illustrated with dramatic slides of images through the centuries, and reached a rousing climax in a collective viewing of the final scenes of King Kong {1933), the heroine perilously grasped in the hand of the eponymous bestial hero. The lecture was both fun and thought-provoking, and took many of us back to the halcyon days of indulging our deep love of Europe literature (except without the giant gorillas). An exquisite sung evensong in the Hall Chapel was followed by lively drinks in the Jarvis Doctorow Hall and dinner in the W olfson Hall, catching up with old friends and sharing experiences which the study of languages has allowed us to enjoy in a variety of careers and countries in the days since Teddy Hall. The attendees reflected the diversity of careers and life paths taken by Hall linguists, in which languages often formed a fundamental part of our daily working life - investment banking, the oil and gas industries, international law, software systems and development, and journalism, as well as the more traditional professions of teaching, lecturing, publishing, translation and interpreting.

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No doubt all attendees hope that it is "aufWiedersehen" and not goodbye, and that this wholly successful event will be repeated at the Hall in future years. Diana Chitty (1980)

OLYMPIC REUNION, 1 JUNE Friday 1 June saw the bunting up for the Queen's Jubilee, which coincided nicely with a return to the Hall by some of its most distinguished sportsmen. With London 2012 just around the corner, it seemed only fitting to invite Aularians who had competed in the Olympic Games to come back to the Hall for an evening of celebration. Sadly, the full complement of Aularian Olympians (fourteen) could not make it to the event but a small but select band of Aularians and their guests arrived for tea and coffee and cakes in the Principal's drawing room. A tour of the Library and Gardens by the Principal followed, along with the opportunity to enjoy the view of the Hall from the Principal's roof terrace. Afterwards the guests descended to the Old Dining Hall to take part in a Q&A session for current students. In front of a packed Hall, the Olympians discussed their achievements on and off the sporting field and took questions from the floor. After some post Q&A mingling, the evening continued with Formal Hall in the Wolfson Dining Hall. By the time you read this the London 2012 Olympic Games will have passed, hopefully with yet more sporting success for the Hall, as Aularian Scott Frandsen (2002) competes in the coxless pair event for Canada. AnnaFowler Alumni Relations Officer

LONDON AULARIAN DRINKS, 7 JUNE The event, hosted by the London Aularians at the Barrowboy and Banker pub on London Bridge, intended as a social gathering for Aularians young and old to meet up, was very well attended with probably the largest cross-section of Aularians across several generations that we have seen. The London Aularians is the official Teddy Hall society linking together Aularians across the SE of England - its main purpose is to encourage social networking, reconnecting friends and former year groups as well as allowing new relationships across the generations to 125

form. The Principal, Keith Gull gave an inspired update on progress at the Hall, managing to achieve the almost impossible feat of speaking above the noise of a very busy downstairs pub (we will have a private room at our Autumn gathering!) and Darrell Barnes achieved similar decibels with his update on the global Aularian organisation in his capacity as President. A combination of the growing numbers at these events and the feedback you have been providing us shows categorically a strong preference for informal drinks venues in town and everyone enjoying mixing with fellow Aularians and the college senior members. We will therefore be sticking to this formula for our Autumn drinks

Oily Donnelly (1999), Clement Hutton-Mills (2001) & the Principal

- more details will be circulated soon - and would ask those of you who have enjoyed these events, or would like to come along, to spread the word and sign up when we send our next reminder. London Aularians is an organisation which is free to use for all Aularians located in and around London - (visit Aularian Connect to find out more). We are a thriving and growing community whose number one activity is attending social events in London but who also give our time, ideas and where appropriate funding (from personal donations) to the College - an example of the generosity of time giving is the Annual Careers day to undergraduates at the College where for the past 3 years, 20 or so volunteers from a range of different professions have given time and the benefit of their work experience to current students. David Waring (1987)

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Japanese Aularians' Dinner, au Gout duJour Restaurant, Tokyo, 6 April2012

New York Aularians' Drinks at the home of Robert Pay, 31 July 2012

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The Parents' Garden Party, 26 May 2012

The Aularian Golf Society's AGM, 24 August 2012

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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 you will be put in touch with Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), who has taken over the running of the Society from Bill Williams. The next biennial dinner, to which all the Society's members and their guests are invited, will take place on Friday 22 March 2013, and invitations will be sent to members in due course. Current members are listed on the following pages:John Akroyd John Allchurch Brian Amor Christopher Amor Jonathan Aptaker Prof Christopher Armitage William Asbrey Colin Atkinson John Ayers Paul Badman FCA Andrew Banks Andrew Barker John Barker George Barner Darrell Barnes John Barton Martin Bates Olive Baxter John Bean Stua{t Beaty Colin Benbow Anthony Best William Best Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Dr Robert Bishop Robert Bishop Alasdair Blain Derek Bloom David Bolton Mark Booker The Revd Canon Dr Michael A Bourdeaux Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Robert Breese The Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome

Geoffrey Brown Peter Brown J ames Burnett-Hitchcock lvor Burt Michael Cansdale Robert Cawthorne Dr Raoul Cerratti Stephen Chandler Bob Clarke David Clarke Gloria Clutton-Williams J eanette Cockshoot Terence Cook Andrew Cordell Simon Costa John Cotton DavidJ Cox John Cox Kevin Crossley-Holland John Cunningham Alex Davids Revd Canon Hilary Davidson Arthur Davis Desmond Day OBE John Dellar Yves Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo J arvis Doctorow Ms Olivia Donnelly Stewart Douglas-Mann John Ducker John Dunbabin David Dunsmore Roger Farrand Charles Fisher David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot John French Robin French

Dr Patrick Garland Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill Dr David Gillett Dr Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Michael Goodman-Smith Justin Gosling Paul Goulding QC Alistair Graham Dr Philip Haffenden Mrs Maureen Haile Graeme Hall Ronald Hall David Harding Christopher Harmer Rex Harrison John Hawkins Dr Malcolm Hawthorne Professor lan Heggie David Henderson Charles Hind Revd John Hogan Richard Hope Michael Hopkinson TD Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Norman Isaacs Peter Janson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David Johnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones Derek Jones Luke Jones Professor Andrew Kahn Terence Kelly Dr Steve King

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John King Roy Kings Bob Knowles Antony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee Paul Lewis John Long Richard Luddington Kenneth Lund QC James Lyle Miss Chris Manby J ames Markwick Charles Marriott Peter Masson Robert Mathews Doug McCallum George McNaught Peter Mercer Jeremy Mew Geoff Mihell 'Dusty' Miller William R Miller CBE Prof Michael Mingos Dr Geoffrey Mortimer Charles Murray David Nelson Rodney Offer Andrew Page Kenneth Palk James Parkin Martin Paterson Robert Pay Nigel Pegram John Phillips The Revd Edward Phillips

Dr Peter Phizackerley David Picksley Jack Picton John Pike CBE John Pinnick Dr Francis Pocock Christopher Pope Philip Rabbetts Bob Rednall Anthony Rentoul His Honour Judge Martin Reynolds Peter Reynolds Archdeacon Raymond Roberts CB Michael Robson Parry Rogers General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM Edmund Roskell Dr Francis Rossotti Dr Jack Rowell OBE Ian Rushton Ian Sandles Michael Senter OBE Ms Ruth Shaw David Shears Stewart Shepley Michael Simmie Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Martin Slater Martin Smith Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC

Emerson Snelling Michael Somers OBE His Honour Judge Southan Dr Frank Spooner Alastair Stewart QC David Summers OBE Nevill Swanson Revd Philip Swindells Richard Taylor Paul Tempest Stephen Tetley David Thompson Dr John Thurston Noel Tonkin Roy Tracey Mrs Carol Tricks Alan Vasa TD Dr John C Voigt Prof John W almsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster The Revd Canon Hugh Wilcox Dr John Wilkinson Dr Bill Williams Dr John Williams FRCGP Geoffrey Williams Keith Wiseman Russell Withington Dudley Wood CBE Gordon Woods FRSC Stuart Worthington Professor Sir David Yardley Bill Yeo wart

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2012 Saturday, 17 November Thursday, 29 November 2013 Tuesday, 15 January Friday, 22 March Saturday, 23 March Saturday, 21 September

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Masterclass Showcase Carols in the Quad

St Edmund Hall Association London Dinner Floreat Aula Society Dinner 1973 40th Anniversary Dinner 1963 50th Anniversary Dinner

CROSSING MAGDALEN BRIDGE: From PoW Camp to Oxford University By Michael Tanner {1965, Geography)

'I was recently passed a copy of HALL: Memoirs 1920-1980 and couldn't help noticing a paucity of contributions from Aularians of my vintage. This piece (extracted from a lengthy personal memoir) may not be the kind of thing that would've found a niche in such an unabashed rose-tinted volume, but it might serve some meaningful purpose to one or two current students. Don't think that I hated my time at the HalL I didn't But I had demons to overcome. Not least of my pleasures was playing in four successful Cuppers XVs, 1966-69.' I was born into a postwar Britain consumed by an understandable spirit of triumphalism. Yet I grew up on a diet of sugar sandwiches in a nissen hut on a dilapidated camp on the outskirts of Oxford recently vacated by the Italian PaWs who'd been put to work on local farms. Number 26 Magdalen Fields sounds a rather refined address. But Slade Camp bore closer resemblance to its former occupation than any Elysian field: even its perimeter fencing and guardhouse remained. Dirt paths connected the black-painted huts, their doors marked by dustbins and clothes horses, while rock-strewn undergrowth prevailed where there might have been trim flower beds. Our 'house' was fashioned from large sheets of corrugated iron bent over to form a stubby tube whose two open ends were closed with wooden planks. Inside, studded partition walls (over the top of which you could peer if tall enough) created two bedrooms and a kitchen. There was an indoor toilet but no bathroom - a tin bath sufficed. The old circular stove remained at the heart of the hut as the source of heat. When my mother would yearn for central heating my

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father's stock reply was: 'You can't get heating more central than that.' Twenty years later I'd swapped my nissen hut in Slade Camp for the cloisters of the University that seemed much farther away than a tuppenny bus ride down the Cowley Road: it may as well have been on a different planet. But once the number five bus crossed Magdalen Bridge it became obvious to even the youngest passenger that the shabby, carmanufacturing town of Oxford had been superseded by the historic and academic University city of Oxford. Drab and repressive Oxford suddenly mutated into an Oxford promising infinite possibilities. Taking that ride and not coming back, I'd been assured, was a journey for stuck-up toffs who dressed and spoke 'funny' rather than salt-ofthe-earth townies like me. However, I'd been presented with a get-outof-jail card, for I was one of RAB Butler's post war 'baby-boomers' gifted a free grammar school education - plus the aspirations hitherto beyond the wildest expectations of working class children that accompanied it. Littlemore Grammar School was a new institution which opened its doors in 1958 to 70 boys and girls from the villages and council estates of Oxford's south-eastern fringe. By then, I lived on one of the roughest of them, Rose Hill. In its ten-year life LGS overcame want of heritage or leverage to send four pupils to Oxford and Cambridge. In 1965 I was the first of them. In 1968 this vibrant centre of excellence -still developing and with much more to offer - was reduced to the status of a comprehensive school, an act of educational vandalism being replicated throughout the country. By 2005 LGS's replacement was savaged by an Ofsted report relegating it to a place among the country's 638 'failing' secondary schools deemed in need of 'special measures'. Those 'measures' soon became clear. The school's stock had plummeted to such depths that its 50th birthday in 2008 was celebrated by closure. LGS had hummed to the sound of inspirational teachers encouraging us to acquire knowledge as if it were going out of fashion. We disadvantaged children of the concrete jungle began to appreciate that knowledge was not to be scorned - or those who sought it mocked. Leaving school at sixteen to cut trim or wield a paint gun on the Cowley assembly lines wasn't the only way forward. I came to loathe the prospect of that life; 132

saw no virtue in such a dull and miserable existence. And if going to university was the escape mechanism, reasoned my teenage self, why not aim for the best university in the country: our University, Oxford University. However, advancement threatened the accepted order in the working class homes of council-estate Oxford. I did not grow up in an environment lending itself to the academically curious. I wasn't read stories before bed; books were strangers; my parents didn't frequent libraries. There was no history of academic attainment in my family. Both my parents left school at fourteen with the barest of qualifications: my mother to wait on tables; my father to work on a coal lorry. All too many of my forebears were illiterate. My paternal great-grandfather was a market gardener supplying Littlemore and the city; his son pushed a tea trolley around Cowley's 'Motopolis.' I'd no role models to emulate, no lights to follow. One cousin did start a grammar school education but ended it with entirely the wrong qualifications: she fell pregnant. My highbrow aspirations came to dangle over me like the hangman's noose. Nose forever buried in books, wanting to visit castles and museums, made me too grand for the liking of family and relatives, whose reading went no further than the Daily Mirror and whose culture revolved round the pub. Ask the names of three Oxford colleges and the answer stopped at two; whereabouts of the Ashmolean was unknown. I'd ideas above my station. I felt every move made, expression given or remark uttered was scrutinized for an opportunity to criticize, the chance to scoff. I had to be told my place - and confined to it. Put firmly on the defensive, I reacted in the only way I knew: attack. If something was declared unattainable, I redoubled my efforts. I knew nothing of a leatherclad Marlon Brando snarling 'Whaddya got?' to the old-timer asking what he was rebelling against in 7he Wild Ones. Nor had I heardJimmy Porter railing against the world in Look Back In Anger. But we three were kindred spirits. From negativity I drew strength of purpose. Capitulation would consign me to the scrap heap. I clung on by my fingertips until salvation arrived in the shape of a grammar school, its teachers who believed in me, and a modicum of talent for the game of rugby. Only by this alliance did I 133

avoid joining the Cowley line or sitting behind a Cowley desk. I'd prove that boys like me could mix with the toffs on the other side of Magdalen Bridge. I'd make that journey and not come back. Even if it brought the charge of 'class traitor.'

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they regarded me as an oik who'd got lucky and gate-crashed their privileged existence. I couldn't envisage any of them acknowledging I'd likely demonstrated greater industry, intellect and tenacity to win this place than they had. The real me had to be locked away like The Man In The Iron Mask. Talk of nissen huts and sink estates avoided. Survival depended upon my alter ego, the rugby player whose talent lifted him above the herd and equipped him to compete for a Blue. Yet the mask was brittle and transparent. The boy could be taken out of the council estate, but it couldn't be excised from the boy. Town would always triumph over Gown: splitting infinitives in an Oxfordshire drawl peppered with 'ois' and 'ents' saw to that. Later on, bemoaning my predicament, I was told the story of a grammar school contemporary who left Oxford voluntarily after just one year. One of his tormentors asked him why. 'I could take you lot one at a time,' came the reply, 'but too many of you together I found intolerable.' I knew precisely how he felt. I shared his social discomfiture. Less than fluent I knew myself to be in tutorial and small-talk. My lot was to be articulate in a language best expressed on the rugby pitch. I did consider throwing in the towel. But whenever things got tough I'd only to conjure one image: a blue blazer with a crown on the breast pocket above the letters OURFC. Only the holy grail of a rugby Blue kept me going. Just eight weeks later, back among his own during the vacation, the Oxford student turned into the despised 'undergrad' who elicited more suspicion and jealousy than family pride. He was one of them now: a 'stuck-up toff.' Like the Flying Dutchman he'd no port to call home. He'd come to wriggle on a pin of his own making. His sense of injustice would flare with the speed of a struck match. He began to think crossing Magdalen Bridge was a bridge too far, left wondering whether the monotony of five days toiling 'on the line' enlivened by darts of a Wednesday evening and football on Saturday afternoon to the tune of a 'skin-full' in the pub, might've been a preferable option. He realized why it's often said we should beware of what we wish for.

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I crossed Magdalen Bridge as a 'winner.' Four years later I retraced my footsteps burdened with 'failure.' I'd a Third Class degree in a consolation subject; worn the dark blue jersey on numerous occasions but not, as yearned, against Cambridge at Twickenham. And if there's one thing worse than not getting what you want, it's the thought of someone else getting it instead. On the positive side, I'd acquired a taste for wining and dining: I'd sampled my first steak and my first curry; eaten fish other than cod and pilchard; tasted my first red pepper and fresh raspberry; could distinguish claret from chianti; and even stomach coffee. My Oxfordshire accent had faded and my roots loosened to the point of severance so that I could move in any company. I'd gained some social graces: polished my table manners, knew how to write acceptance notes to drinks parties, and mastered the devil's own drinking game that is 'Fizz-Buzz!' I'd learnt how to row in a racing eight, throw a spin-pass off either hand and plant a 30-yard box-kick onto a dustbin lid. And recite the entire dialogue from The Magnificent Seven at the drop of a hat. But I'd never sold my soul in order to fit in. I could never bring myself to sell out Town for Gown. One was the real world, my heritage; the other a dream world, my fantasy. One forged strength and drove me to triumph; the other could bear false witness and harbour disaster. At the same time I was disappointed with myself. After striving so manfully to cross Magdalen Bridge, I'd refused to travel those last few yards. I couldn't bring myself to become one of 'them.' I'd watched others don the trappings, buy the right clothes from Hall Bros in the High, heard the accent aped. But it was not for me. At a stroke I'd cut off an avenue to material and social advancement that an Oxford education opens. I'd fallen on my sword. It was my way or not at all. I was more than disappointed with myself. I was disgusted. I had come to 'meet with Triumph and Disaster' and could not avoid confronting one of life's truest tests: the absolute necessity to treat Kipling's 'two imposters just the same.' Perhaps learning that lesson made crossing Magdalen Bridge worthwhile.

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A HISTORY OF THE HALL IN TEN OBJECTS by Nicholas Davidson, Tutor in History N eil Macgregor' s History of the World in 100 Objects has inspired a host of imitators. The histories of the universe, the future, and Cornwall have now all been told in 100 objects; New York City, Surrey, and the Royal Shakespeare Company required only 50. 12 were enough for Mozart, while London, Leicester, and Berwick-upon-Tweed have had to make do with 10. But the purpose of all these histories is the same: to use a selection of material objects - works of art, buildings, documents, photographs - to draw attention to some of the major developments in the history of a phenomenon, place, institution or person. The history of the Hall involves many more than 10 objects, of course, and despite its title, 21 different objects were used to illustrate my talk at the Reunion last year. Members of the audience subsequently suggested several more, and we hope to make use of those objects, and of others too, at future events. I grouped my selected objects around 10 themes in our history that seemed to me to have some lasting consequence for Aularians today. Each theme, indicated in bold below, was exemplified by one object owned by or associated with the Hall. One or more additional objects were used in each case to fill out the discussion. The first theme had to be Edmund of Abingdon himself, illustrated by Rodney Munday's life-size bronze statue of 2007, placed so effectively in the churchyard. As all Aularians surely know, Edmund lectured in Oxford in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. There is no firm evidence to support the legend that he founded the Hall, but we can be fairly sure that he was a resident of the parish of St Peter in-theEast {the college library since 1970), as he contributed to the costs of building the Lady Chapel on the north side of the church. And even today, he serves as a good model for us: he was a distinguished scholar, and devoted to his students; but he was also actively engaged in the wider society, resolving public disputes and seeking to restrain government mismanagement. It would be nice to think that Edmund lived in a house on Queen's Lane. We know for certain though that the Hall was already on the site of our Front Quad by 1317, for the Cartulary of Oseney Abbey, which 137

then owned the property, records the payment of that year's rent by the Principal, John of Cornwall. The reference in that document to 'Aula Sancti Edmundi' reminds us that we were then, and for several centuries after, a Hall and not a college. That is an important distinction, for it meant that we The Well Bar, Front Quad were governed for most of our history by statutes issued by the University, and that our activities were consequently subject to regular external review to ensure that the Principal was behaving himself and the students were satisfied with their education and living conditions. The University Archives still contain some of the records of those visitations. The report from April 1613, for example, contains confirmation that the students began their day with 'morning prayer .. . in term time between 5 and 6 of the clock', and ate dinner in silence while an improving text was read to them. In 1613, they certainly seemed content with their lot, though they were concerned that 'the bachelors and scholars are negligent in speaking of Latin'. But the Fm~1i[ii~~~~~~~~~~ inspections could have serious consequences: Principal Bowsfield was obliged to resign after the visitation of 1600. One of the other consequences of our status as a Hall was that we were prohibited from owning property or building up an endowment. Throughout its history, therefore, we have been unusually dependent on benefactors for funds both for major developments and for immediate expenses. One of the Hall's most precious possessions is its earliest Benefactors' Book, 138

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initiated by Principal Penton, which records the names of our many donors from 1676 to the nineteenth century. A particularly generous gift was recorded in 1734 from Robert Thomlinson, a student at the Hall in the 1680s and briefly VicePrincipal in 1692, who paid for the rebuilding of the western end of the north range of the Front Supper at Emmaus, by Ceri Richards Quad. Later gifts have been recorded in our modern benefactors' books, including the powerful altarpiece by Ceri Richards given by our students in 1958, and the munificent gifts that have allowed us in recent years to build both the William R Miller Building and the J arvis Doctorow Hall. An earlier example of our benefactors' liberality is the combined Library and Chapel built at the east end of the Front Quad in the 1680s. The Old Library is in fact one of the glories of the Hall: not just because of its place in the history of library design, but also because many of its first holdings were donated by or paid for by our students. The surviving catalogues list many remarkable volumes, including three early English renderings of the Qur'an (one from 1616), works by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Catholic theologians (even though Catholic texts were prohibited by the Aularian statutes), and books by early English scientists such as Robert Hooke and by authors considered radical or dangerous in their time (a first edition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, for instance). Scholarship and dissent were therefore two further themes of the talk. The Hall has throughout its history produced and employed distinguished academics in both the humanities and the sciences: students such as George Bate, one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society who graduated from the Hall in 1626, and Thomas Hearne, a pioneering medievalist who entered the Hall in 1695 and remained here for the rest of his life. More recently, we can point to Principals and Fellows such as AB Emden, John Kelly, John McManners, John Cowdrey, and Blair Worden in the humanities, and no fewer than 9 current Fellows and Emeritus Fellows who are Fellows of the Royal Society. But the Hall also has a history of encouraging dissent. Think of our two Lollard 139

Principals in the early fifteenth century, William Taylor probably the only Oxford Head of House who ended his life at the stake - and his wilier successor Peter Payne, who escaped the English executioner by fleeing to Bohemia; or of the six students expelled by the Proctors in 1768 for Methodist sympathies. They prompted my next theme, student life. Records of the students' experience of life at the Hall are unfortunately rare before the seventeenth century. But we get a glimpse of student finances from the remarkable survival of some buttery bills from the 1690s; and for the last

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and at the end of the nineteenth century the University decided to close down the four remaining medieval halls by amalgamating them with neighbouring colleges. It was only the persistence and longevity of Principal Moore (a distinguished Dante scholar) that prevented our Hall's takeover by Queen's. And in 1957, our independence was finally guaranteed when we were granted our current Charter, establishing the Hall as a full college.

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Historians are often accused, quite rightly, of tokenism when they end their books with a chapter entitled 'Women'. But to end this short history of the Hall with a section on women recognizes not only the fact that the Hall was an all-male institution until1979, but also that the role of women as both fellows and students has been transformative in all aspects of modern college life. A key moment was the decision of the Governing Body in June 1976 to amend the Charter to allow the admission of women as members. The record of that decision is surprisingly brief: line 1 of Clause 3 of the Charter lost the words 'men who are', and Statute I.3 was deleted. Human lives can be revolutionized by such small bureaucratic details. Ten themes, then: my version of the history of the Hall. Every Aularian will no doubt be able construct a different version, making use of a different selection of objects. But as Neil Macgregor has said, we tend to find that our individual histories intersect with each other, so that the final story is one of 'endless connections'. And connections are surely what colleges are all about.

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SEHA PRESIDENT'S REPORT The President's role is really quite impossible: you are supposed to be the representative of thousands of Aularians ranging in age from nineteen to ninety-one, so how are you going to do that? In short, you can't: all you can reasonably hope to do is keep your ear to the ground, attend events, say hello, make everybody feel welcome and also make them feel good about being an Aularian. The London Dinner is a highlight of the Aularian year (but we need to attract younger Aularians to it); so are the Summer Reunion at the Hall and the twice-yearly London drinks gatherings, and all of these events are great opportunities for Aularians to meet one another and make good use of their acquaintance. We want to expand the frequency of Aularian events in other parts of the UK and this is something under active consideration. There are other essential elements of Aularian life which can't be easily measured: examples are as simple - and as important - as cheering from the touchline or shouting from the boathouse or being willing to speak to students about career opportunities. One of the concerns of any organisation is "what next?" It's all very well hoping that things will continue happily chuntering along, but today's students are tomorrow's alumni and their needs are undoubtedly very different from those of us who matriculated in another era, long gone. That is why I believe that a welcome to students from the St Edmund Hall Association on Matriculation Day is important: it demonstrates that there is a continuity of Aularian life from this day until their last and that whatever else may befall them, they will always be part of the Aularian body. But, to be honest, their main concern is tomorrow's tutorial deadline, and I'm not so naive as to think that they will remember all or anything of what I have said. I also realise that modern life and upbringing are very different from my day and that, whether or not you receive an expression of thanks for your efforts, you know that you have done a Good Thing; and let's face it- we adults are not always the most meticulous at minding our Ps and Qs either.

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One way to promote an association with the Hall is through Year Group Leaders (there must be a better name, surely?). The role that these people do is currently under review: at present one is a Year Group Leader for life without hope of parole or remission for good conduct, which is a hard ask of anyone. We' re also very lucky to have a network of Aularian Ambassadors around the world who do much good work in fostering association between Aularians in their constituencies. The St Edmund Hall Association is there for the long term. Little dribs and drabs of effort and support from alumni will bear fruit: we are preparing a fine tilth into which seeds are now being sown, though we may not see the result for a while. Darrell Barnes (1963)

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- JANUARY 2012 President Principal Immediate Past President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer

Darrell MP Barnes MA {1963) Professor Keith Gull CBE, BSc PhD DSc Lond, FRS, FMedSci Sir Jon Shortridge KCB MA MSc (1966) Justin CB Gosling BPhil MA R (Bob) J L Breese MA (1949) Richard A H Finch MA {1976) Ian W Durrans BA {1977)

Up to 1964

John M Heggadon MA BSc (Lond) FCIM FFB {1961)

1965-74

Lawrence Cummings MA {1971)

1975- 84

Richard A H Finch MA {1976) Richard S Luddington MA MPhil {1978)

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) Polly J Cowan BA {2002)

2005- 14

Charlie W A Southern BA {2006)

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J David Waring MA {1987) David Springer {2010) Angela Dudley {2010)

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MINUTES OF THE 81ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION, 10 JANUARY 2012 The 81st 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 lLR on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 at 6.15pm, Darrell Barnes presiding. Over 50 members were present. 1. Minutes. The Minutes of the 80th Meeting, held on 11 January 2011, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

2. Proposed amendment of Constitution. The text of the new Constitution, which had been properly seconded and proposed and submitted by the due date, was adopted nem con. 3. President's Report. Darrell Barnes confirmed that the Association was in good heart. 4. Principal's Report. Professor Keith Gull said that he would make his report at the Dinner. 5. Honorary Secretary's Report. There were no major items. 6. Honorary Treasurer's Report. Ian Durrans presented the audited accounts; he said that the finances were in a healthy position. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted. 7. Elections: The following were elected unanimously: Honorary Secretary Richard A H Finch Re-elected Honorary Treasurer Ian W Durrans Re-elected 1975 - 84 Richard A H Finch Re-elected 1985- 94 Dr David J Jordan Re-elected 1995-2004 Olly M Donnelly Re-elected

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9. Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 pm. 10. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.25pm. RA H FINCH, Hon. Secretary THE 71st LONDON DINNER THE 71st LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's on Tuesday, 10 January 2012. Once again there was a decent turnout (124), confirming the popularity and resilience of the event in difficult times. Equally creditable, the standout year was 1977, arguably now the beating heart of the London Dinner! Aularians are very much encouraged to match this enthusiasm by making up their own parties of friends, such gatherings being the essence of the evening. Association President Darrell Barnes welcomed the guests, the Principal, Dr Gull, the MCR Vice-President and the JCR President, who had just eloquently introduced the serving of "A Round on Bruce," the second year of Bruce Mitchell's generous bequest of a toast at the London Dinner. The President then enthused variously and with characteristic passion about Association and Hall matters, not least the continuing success of the Careers Day, which highlights the Association's commitment to help current students. The Principal's reply was similarly vigorous and expansive, ranging from an introduction of the new Chaplain as a basketball coach of the highest order to likely renewed Aularian involvement in the Olympics. Please note that the next London Dinner will be on 15 January, 2013 owing to the proximity to the holidays of our traditional second Tuesday in January. The following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1947) Mr J M H Scott; (1949) Mr R J L Breese; (1950) Mr J Wheeler; (1951) Mr DJ Day, Mr DE Wood; (1952) Mr HW Goldsworthy, Mr D M Jacobs, Mr N F Lockhart, The Revd EA Simmonds; (1954) Mr S R Bilsland; (1955) Mr RH B De Vere Green, Mr J L Fage, Mr P R Lewis; (1956) Mr BE Amor, Mr S C Douglas-Mann, Mr A F Ham, Mr J C Markwick, Judge Martin Reynolds; (1957) Mr D MW Bolton, Mr 146

J W Harrison, Mr R W Jackson, Mr M J Rowan; (1958) Mr L L Filby; (1959) Mr MS Shaw; (1960) Mr C J G Atkinson, Mr T R R Richards, General Sir Michael Rose (Honorary Fellow), Mr P J R Sankey-Barker, Mr GC Warner; (1961) Mr R G Harrison, Mr M G Hornsby, Mr A M Rentoul, Mr R K Smith; (1962) Judge Sean Duncan, Mr M J Hamilton; (1963) Mr Darrell Barnes (President, SEH Association), Mr D R Clarke, Mr J C W Crawshaw, Mr MS Simmie; (1964) Mr D A Ashworth, Mr A C Barker, Mr J H Bunney, Dr MJ Clarke, Mr J A Coope; (1965) Mr Joe Barclay (Fellow), Mr R W Beckham, Mr S R Garrett, Mr D C Jackson; (1966) Mr CM Brown, Mr P L D Brown, Mr PM Crystal, Mr AB Fisher, Mr C T W Humfrey, Sir Jon Shortridge, Mr M C Warren; (1967) Mr P V Robinson, Mr MC V Spencer Ellis; (1968) Mr B G Griffiths, Dr D J Hughes, Mr H J Hunt, Mr I Stuart, Mr R T Ward; (1969) Mr PE Ramell; (1970) Mr W N David, Mr PG Harper, Mr J W Hawkins, Mr L N Kaye; (1971) Mr L Cummings, Mr G Roberts (Honorary Fellow); (1972) Mr J R Isbister; (1973) Mr G K Chamberlain, Mr T R Lucas; (1974) Dr R Cerratti; (1976) Mr RA H Finch, Mr P L Smith; (1977) Mr SS Advani, Mr C J Blount, Mr I J V Doherty, Mr I W Durrans, Mr A J Haxby, Mr DJ Hope, Mr R Keeley, Mr L D Page, Mr M F Rogers, Mr R F J H Ruvigny, Mr C J L Samuel; (1978) Mr I Coleman, Mr T R Elliott, Mr R S Luddington; (1979) Mr R Withington; (1980) Dr I C Cooke; (1982) Mr D J Heaps, Mr A J Sandbach, Mr K J Sealy; (1986) Mr M J Borrett, Mr Simon Costa (Senior & Finance Bursar), Mr T P Dudley, Dr A T Harrison, Mr J P Lindsay, Mr M J Matthews; (1987) Mr J D Waring; (1999) Mr J RH Pattinson, Mr C J R Wells; (2002) Ms P J Cowan, Ms A M Crofton, Ms G L Hellyer, Mr R K Simmons, Mr A L Smith; (2005) Mr E A Reynolds, Mr R C Reynolds, Ms K A Sands. The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Dr Peter Collins, Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Dr Hugh Jenkyns (Vice-Principal), The Revd Kris Kramer (Chaplain), Professor Lucy Newlyn, Dr Ernest Parkin (Home Bursar), Mr Chris Wells (Emeritus Fellow), Ms Sally Smith (Deputy Director of Development), Ms Emma Bowler (Development Administrator). Richard Finch (1976)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2012

Year ended 31May2012

Year ended 31 May 2011

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10,485

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INCOME Subscriptions Bank Interest Other Income

EXPENDITURE Magazine production, postage & mailing Committee expenses

Income less expenses Grants: St Edmund Hall Association Principal's Fund

Surplus transferred to General Fund

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 15 January 2013.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY2012 31 May 2012

31 May 2011

5,192 5,700 22,393

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23,063

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(5,857)

17,483

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Less: Creditors

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Aularian Register Fund

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14,147 1,315

15,739

15,462

1,744

Darrell Barnes (President) IW Durrans (Honorary Treasurer)

I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2012. 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 2012 and the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date. 62 Clifton Hill StJohn's Wood London NW8 OJT

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AULARIAN UPDATES De fortunis Aularium 1942 Peter Carpenter was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours 2012 as Honorary Executive Secretary of the University of Cambridge Kurt Hahn Trust, for services to Anglo-German relations and to Higher Education. 1944 Andrew Foot is still chairman of the Oxford University Society, Cornwall with 190 members. The Society has just founded a small bursary for undergraduates whose homes are in Cornwall and are short of money for vacation projects. For information about joining the society or enquiries about the bursary, contact Andrew at andrewhfoot@yahoo.co.uk. 1950 Edward H B Williams has published his memoirs - Building Bridges, Crossing Cultures: A Life Shaped by India and by Inner City Birmingham -Memoirs ofa Physicist, Missionary and Minister -which give a first-hand account of his work in India during the closing years of the 'missionary era' there; the book also covers his life in Britain, including reflections on his ministry in Sparkbrook, Birmingham and in the market town of Alcester. 1951 William Sotirovich has taught in the California and New Y ark state school systems, has worked for the American Bar Association, for the City of New York and for the National Council of Churches, and has published Grotius Universe: Divine Law and a Quest for Harmony. His chief spheres of interest are the Atlantic Community, European Unification and patterns of alliance in Southeastern Europe. He is currently involved in organizing "the USA Space Program and the Return to the Moon Committee". Believing in the extreme importance of education William and his wife Dr Moira L Franklin-Sotirovich, a long-time physician, established a Scholarship at St Vladimir Orthodox Seminary and also a Scholarship Fund at Yale University for the study of law or medicine. Both Scholarships are dedicated to the memory of their parents, Col Milan and Ljubica Sotirovich, and Joseph and Lilian Franklin. 1952 Bruce Nixon's new book A better world is possible- what needs to be done and how we can make it happen was published last November. His new website is also up and running with the new 150

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book cover prominently displayed - a nearby wood in spring that represents harmony (www.brucenixon.com/index.html). The New Economics Foundation kindly published a new article of his, titled The Economics of Wellbeing as a blog (www .neweconomics.org/blog/2011/11/04/the-economics-ofwellbeing). Bruce says "I hope that, together with my new website, the book will be a really useful resource for people who want a fundamental change in the way capitalism works, so that it benefits everyone in the world. That's why I wrote it, to help us change things for the better." Neville Teller and his wife retired to Israel on 4 July 2011. His latest book One year in the History of Israel and Palestine was published on 1 June 2011. Rt Revd Dr Philip Le Feuvre is working with young adults from the Cape Town townships who have suffered physical or sexual abuse during childhood or early adolescence. The object is to improve their chances in the job-market and to train them in Christian business ethics. Hugh Denman edited lsaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and His World, Leiden/Boston: Brill, and a copy will shortly be available in the Hall Library. On 30 September 2002 he retired from his lectureship at UCL and became an Honorary Research Fellow in Yiddish while remaining active in research, publishing and teaching. He then became a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies. He spent one month as a Visiting Lecturer at the Katedra J udaistyki, J agiellonian University, Cracow in 2005, and again lectured for a month abroad in 2006 at the Eotvos Lod.nd Tudomanyi Egyetem, Budapest. In the autumn of 2006, he moved to Portugal and on 22 October 2011 married Maria Joao Violante Branco, lecturer in Portuguese Medieval History, Universidade Nova, Lisbon. Dr Peter Wilson's novel Garstein's Legacy has been published electronically at www.smashwords.com/books/view/65434 with links to collections of short stories, one-act plays and two film scnpts. Yann Lovelock has been made a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire for services to Community Cohesion and to InterFaith Relations in the West Midlands.

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1961 Michael Lynch has now fully retired from his Employment Law consultancy and is editing a book on Dracula. 1963 Canon Terry Palmer unfortunately has had to step down for the ensuing year from his newly appointed position of Chaplain to the Mayor of the City of Newport, due to indifferent health. 1966 Michael C Bonello would like his Hall friends to know that in June 2011 he retired from active service after 41 years. His most recent position was that of Governor of the Central Bank of Malta, a post he had held for the past 12 years. Prior to that he served as a senior economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCT AD) in Geneva. He can be contacted on mcb@onvol.net. 1968 Robert Findlay is currently Director and Principal Geologist of Montagu Minerals Mapping Pty Ltd, consulting in the Pacific rim and Asia for the mining industry. 1968 After more than 30 years working in the European Parliament and European Commission in Brussels, Steven Hurst has taken early retirement and returned to live in Wigan. 1969 Reverend Alistair MacKichan was remarried in June 2012 to Deborah. Alistair is a member of the Ayr Yacht Club and Blackness Yacht Club. 1969 After 16 years as principal of Paston Sixth Form College, North Walsham, Norfolk, Peter Mayne retired at the end of August; he will continue to "keep his hand in", as it were, by working part-time as an educational consultant with Alps (A-level Performance System), a well-known provider of value-added analysis to colleges, schools and local authorities. 1970 Sir Richard Gozney KCMG CVO retired after 39 years as a diplomat, most recently British Ambassador to Indonesia, British High Commissioner to Nigeria and then Governor of Bermuda. 1970 Kevin McCormac OBE retired from the Ministry of Justice in October 2010. Since then he has been teaching criminal law on an undergraduate course in London, sitting part-time as a Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal, and has been involved in international projects on behalf of the Ministry of Justice and Foreign Office in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has continued as general Editor of Wilkinson 's Road Traffic Offences and as a contributing editor to Archbold Magistrates' Courts Practice and Procedure. In May 2012, he took up a post as Court Administrator in the Cayman Islands. 152

1970 Geoff Sambrook has just had his latest novel published by Twenty First Century Publishers. It is a thriller called Czar Rising, set against the background of the Russian resource industry in the aftermath of the break-up of the Soviet Union. Lots of dirty deeds, murder and double-dealing, from gangsters, industrialists and politicians, Russian and British. 1971 John Parr has been appointed Director of Ministry, Education and Training in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich from September 2012. 1972 David Cockerill is a member of the CMS team at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), Geneva that finally observed a new particle consistent with a Higgs boson in July this year. The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass. 1972 J ulian Goater's new book Tbe Art ofRunning Faster (co-authored with Don Melvin) was published by Human Kinetics in April 2012. 1972 John Trotman retired in August 2011, moved to the Isle ofWight and married Mel. 1972 Martin Winter is the UK senior partner of international law firm T aylor Wessing. He also chairs the J ane Bubear Foundation which is a charitable trust providing sports kit to young people in communities under challenge (www.janebubearsport.co.uk). He waterskis every weekend with his family, and though he has two UK slalom titles to his name (admittedly in the 45-55 age group) he has now been greatly outclassed by all of them. 1973 David Holmes retired from teaching in Dec 2011. He is now a freelance photographer for Waking News and Mail, and volunteers for Care for Guildford charity. David is also Club Photographer at Waking Football Club in the Blue Square Premier League. 1973 Nick Jones' most recent book, Tbe Salmon of Knowledge: Stories for Work, Life, the Dark Shadow and Oneself, was published in 2009. 1974 Steve Edrich has been working as Head of Strategy for Bathbased renewables energy company 20C Limited since the beginning of 2010. The company uses innovative turbine technology to generate electricity at pressure reduction stations in gas pipelines. "It has been exciting for me to work in the field of renewable energy (after an earlier career in oil and gas). Happy to hear from any Aularians who are also working in this field." 153

1974 Jerry Gray is still awaiting a publisher for the novel which will take the business world by storm! J erry has returned to work as managing director of search and interim management firm Veredus. "I've finally acquired the motorbike of my dreams: a Ducati 749S. Does anyone have any spare tyres?" 1975 Anthony McCarthy is working as a temporary management trainer at AirBus (an EU consortium aircraft manufacturer) in Hamburg, Germany. 1978 In 2011, OUP published the 2nd edition of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave by Paul Goulding QC of Blackstone Chambers. Paul also contributed a chapter to a new book published in 2010 under the auspices of the American Bar Association, Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets in Employment Law: An International Survey. Paul was also elected as a Bencher of Middle Temple in February 2011. 1978 Dr Tim Hill was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in January 2012. 1984 Lesley Rosenthal is excited about the warm reception to her new book Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits published by John Wiley & Sons this year. It has been used as a training guide for lawyers, board members and executives at NGOs. 1986 Louise Hardiman and Richard Pinhey were married in a civil ceremony at Clandon Park, Surrey, on 21 October 2011. Several Aularians were among the guests. 1987 Peter O'Connell is pleased to announce the birth of Alice in October 2011, and his ordination as Deacon at Chichester Cathedral on 30 June 2012; he will be working in the parishes of Henfield and W oodmancote in West Sussex. 1987 Richard Smalman-Smith's life has changed little since reading engineering and doing a lot of rowing for the Hall and University. He has spent almost 20 years teaching maths (and some physics) and doing a lot of rowing coaching (and a bit of racing himself) at various independent schools. As a mid-career break, he took some unpaid leave and took part in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, in a double with his wife Helena (Pembroke, 1986). They left the Canaries last December along with 17 other boats: although 6 boats didn't make it, Richard and Helena reached Barbados in 75 days, 1 hour and 29 minutes. 154

1994 Natalie Raybould married Ivan Cox in College on 23 March 2012. 1999 Hannah Erickson married J oe Richardson in College on 21 July 2012. 1999 Robin Rogers and Dr Helen Drury of the same year recently got engaged and intend to marry in 2012. 2000 Raveem Ismail and his wife Khadija are pleased to announce Natalie Raybould and Ivan Cox the birth of Solomon R Ismail on 29 March 2012, at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. 2003 Alison Dale married David Barker on 25 June 2011. 2003 Claire Weldon married Dr Paul Rogers (Keble) on 2 July 2011 in Keble College. 2004 Helen Lesowiec and James Neville were married in College on 27 July 2012. 2004 Dr Sandra Romenska and Nitin Aggarwal {2006) are delighted to announce the arrival of their son Marko Aggarwal on 27 September 2011. 2008 Tara Batista published Measuring Implementation fidelity in independent living programs for youth leaving care: a systematic review of the literature in Oxford University Research Archive, and received a Masters in Philosophy in Social Work in September 2011. 2008 In July 2012, Jun Yong Khoo attended the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, a forum for scientific exchange between Laureates and young researchers from around the world. Attendees are nominated by national bodies and selected by an international panel. Highlights included lectures by Nobel Laureates, discussions with individual Nobel Laureates, as well as masterclasses conducted by individual Nobel Laureates, in which selected participants gave short presentations and discussed problems and perspectives with the Laureate and a small group of fellow young researchers. Jun Yong will be attending the Perimeter Scholar International (PSI) program in the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics starting August this year and 155

will subsequently pursue his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in fall2013. 2011 In mid-July, Kristof Willerton managed to retain his Senior British tumbling title, winning it for the third year in a row, whilst during the Easter holidays he went to Russia for the European championships where he won the Bronze medal individually. Kristof was also invited to take part in the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies in London this year.

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OBITUARIES 1920s Owen Collingwood Trimby BA, July 1961, Australia. 1924, Engineering. 1930s James Oldaker Donnison CEng MA, 16 August 2012, aged 95, Essex. 1936, Engineering. Martin Sansome Preston BA, 28 May 1940, France. 1936, Classics. Killed in action, World War II. Stanley Claude Woodger BA, 4 May 2012, aged 93, Canada. 1938, Chemistry. [Page 157] STANLEY CLAUDE WOODGER (1938) Passed away in his 94th year at Saugeen Valley Nursing Centre, Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada on Friday May 4th, 2012. Born in 1919 in Stafford, UK to Claude W oodger and Hilda (Waddington) Woodger. An Oxford University graduate and WW II veteran, his first job was with ICI Chemicals where he remained for 20 years until moving to Canada in 1967. There he was employed as a chemist at the Domtar Research Centre in Senneville, Quebec. He retired at the age of 67 and ended up in Mount Forest in 1997. Beloved husband of J oan (Stanley) Woodger. Loved father of Nigel Woodger of England and Jane Woodger and husband Jim Florence of Mount Forest. Loved father-in-law of Christine Hayes of Quebec. Loving grandfather to Lesa, Karl and wife Helen, Suzie, Stephanie and Anthony. Loving great-grandfather to Kurgan, Heather, Kirstie and Sydney-Alicia. Predeceased by his parents and youngest son David Woodger. An avid postage stamp collector and supporter of The War Amps of Canada and 157

the Salvation Army. In keeping with his scientific mindset, Stanley donated his body for study to the University of Western Ontario. J ane W oodger 1940s Christopher Norman Gowing MA, 30 October 2011, aged 88, Buckinghamshire. 1941, History, PPE, Education. Gerald Louis Nation-Tellery BA, May 2012, aged 89, Nottinghamshire. 1941, Law Gurisprudence). [Page 159] Colin John Weir MA, 5 April2012, aged 89, Cumbria. 1941, History. [Page 159] Roger Marsh Blomfield BA, 20 March 2012, aged 86, Shropshire. 1944, History. Edward Geoffrey Price MA, Dip, 6 July 2012, aged 86, USA. 1944, Modern Languages. [Page 162] Michael Patrick Kent BA, 29 January 2012, aged 84, Durham. 1945, Theology. Albert Richard John Lloyd MA, 16 March 2012, aged 89, Surrey. 1946, PPE. [Page 164] Geoffrey Ivor Needham MA, Dip, 17 October 2011, aged 86, Buckinghamshire. 1947, English. John D'Auvergne Hann Reddick MA, 10 December 2011, aged 85, Surrey. 1947, Mathematics. Laurie Edward Baragwanath BPhil, 04 October 2011, aged 88, Australia. 1948, Economics. Gordon Dryden Gilling-Smith MA, EDP2, 31 August 2011, aged 84, Surrey. 1948, English. Charles Ray Ritcheson DPhil, 8 August 2011, aged 86, USA. 1948, History. Derek Bruce Coltman BA, January 2012, France. 1949, Modern Languages. [Page 167] Wolfgang Rudiger Von Pachelbel BA, October 2011, aged 85, Germany. 1949, PPE. [Page 170]

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GERALD LOUIS NATION-TELLERY (1941) My father maintained a deep affection for the Hall, having gone up in 1941 and finally graduating in 1948; he served with the Royal Armoured Corps in WWII from August 1942 and was invalided out with the rank of lieutenant in 1946. As a family we have always had close connections with Oxford and Teddy Hall. Graham Midgley and Reggie Alton were my godfathers and my parents' Ruby Wedding Anniversary was held in Hall in September 1992 with an enormous gathering of family and friends where Uncle Graham gave the "Oration". Our last visit was for Reggie's Memorial Service since when, sadly, my father has been unable to make any lengthy journeys as he became progressively frail. Our intention is to return his ashes to Oxford during the coming summer, as it was whilst at Teddy Hall that he met my mother and the majority of his life-long friends (indeed Reggie Alton saved my father's life when badly wounded after the D-Day landings), which speaks volumes for their time in Oxford. We know he would want it to be his final resting place. Dr Susie Davidson

COLIN JOHN WEIR (1941) Colin grew up in a small village in Essex in the 1920s. He could recall being taught football and cricket by his father in the garden as a very small boy, thus beginning a life-long love of those sports. Evidently he was so confused by the simultaneous introduction of the two sports that he was not sure whether to run to the other end of the pitch after kicking the ball or shout howzat. After prep school, his education continued at Forest School where he quickly made a name for himself as an outstanding academic and talented all round athlete. He won many prizes including Victor Ludorum for prowess in athletics and was deputy Head Boy.

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He succeeded in winning a place at St Edmund Hall in Oxford to read History and began his studies in the midst of war-torn Britain in 1941. However like many young men at university who sacrificed their careers and their education in order to serve the country in its time of need he decided to take up a commission with The Royal Artillery. The transition from Oxford undergraduate to an officer in charge of gun emplacements in Hyde Park during the blitz was profound. Colin's only comment on this period that he was 'a rotten awful shot' as when trying to hit an enemy aircraft he winged the top of a church tower on the Bayswater Road. As the war progressed Colin's unit was preparing for service in the Far East. They were on the point of embarkation when the surrender of the Japanese was announced. In 1946 he was able to return to Oxford to complete his degree. Here he once more immersed himself in the sporting life of the university. He captained the University Football XI in 1947 and won four blues against Cambridge. In those days Oxford had an impressive fixture list playing such clubs as Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers. The match against Arsenal that year was the first ever to be televised by the BBC. Not content with playing football he won a fifth blue, this time for athletics where he represented Oxford in the 440 yards. There then followed a succession of appointments teaching at Lancing College in Sussex, a year at Sedbergh School in 1956 and several years teaching English as a foreign language at Oxford. It was whilst doing this that he was persuaded to take up a post as Housemaster at Sebright School near Kidderminster - a job he really enjoyed. Sebright was at that time the smallest HMC school in the country and indeed within five years had suffered serious financial difficulties and in 1970 had to close. This was a huge disappointment to Colin but there was one enormous salvation as in 1969 Colin married Angela Lavers, a girl he had had his eye on for many years and the daughter of family friends. Colin took up a position to teach history at Sedbergh School in 1970, the beginning of a long and happy career on the staff. During this time first Anna and then Becky was born.

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Colin was an outstanding teacher of History and there are many Sedberghians who have cause to be grateful to him - his meticulous preparation, insistence that marking should always be returned the next day and wonderful knowledge of his subject was inspiring to his pupils. He revived the School Debating Society and chaired its meetings throughout the 70s; he founded the archaeological section of The Sedgwick Society, coached cricket and squash and presided over the common room as senior master. In 1975 he was appointed Second Master, a position in which he was held with great respect where his wise advice, skills of diplomacy and tact and his enormous charm won him great admiration. After retiring from the Second Mastership in 1983 Colin remained teaching part time and acted as School Admissions Officer. By now Anna and Becky were growing up and he was justifiably proud of his daughters, Anna, of course, following Colin to St Edmund Hall at Oxford to read History, and Becky to Edinburgh to study medicine. It was also of enormous pleasure to him that his grandson, Ben, seems to have inherited some of the cricketing genes! In retirement Colin remained immensely active. He wrote many articles on the history of Sedbergh school and assisted in organising the archives. He became secretary of the Sedbergh branch of The Royal British Legion and immediately set about increasing the membership. In 1996 he set about writing the definitive history of Oxford University Association Football Club. This was a prestigious feat of dedicated research necessitating hours of scrutiny of press cuttings, scrap books, photographs and minutes books as well as countless conversations with Old Blues and Oxford colleagues. Nothing like this had ever been done before and the book is valued as an important publication in its own right. Not content with this in 2004 he published an equivalent volume on the history of Cambridge University Football club. If anything this was an even bigger undertaking as the material going back over 100 years was not so readily obtainable. These two books represented a quite extraordinary historical ability to select and present vast amounts of data, all done in that impeccable hand written style that never changed

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throughout his life, and present information in a cogent and articulate fashion. It was a huge achievement. All those who knew Colin were struck by his integrity, charm, and fairness. He was always courteous and polite, a man of great physical stature but also of intellectual acumen, chivalrous and modest. There has never been a more upright, honest, and thoroughly compassionate man. Colin was always associated with patience, wisdom and quiet self effacement. He was an advocate of justice and fair play, always standing up for what was right. A man who took his responsibilities seriously and was utterly selfless in his demands. John Morris EDWARD GEOFFREY PRICE (1944) Edward Geoffrey "Geoff" Price, 86, died on Friday, July 6, 2012, in Tallahassee, at Big Bend Hospice House. Born in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England, on April 1, 1926, to Edward Price and Eliza Hipkiss Price, Geoff graduated from Halesowen Grammar School, and then entered St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, in England. He served in the British Army, Worcestershire Regiment, from 1945 to 1948, serving primarily in the Middle East and Cyprus from 1946-1948, ending with the rank of Captain. During his time in Cyprus, he commanded a specialized camp staff of other officers and 45 other ranks, eventually taking on the position of Adjutant of a group of camp staffs of some 35 officers and 300 other ranks, ministering to the needs of about 25,000 Jewish immigrants making their way to Palestine (Israel) from displaced persons camps in Europe after 1945. After the war, Geoff returned to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he received a BA (1950) in French language and literature, and MA (1951), both with honours, and a Diploma of Education (1951). During his undergraduate time, he lived for nearly a year in the Tours, France, area, in order to hone his language skills. Since he spent a great deal of time in France both in professional and holiday pursuits, he considered himself to be a "near-native speaker" of the language. 162

Geoff valued his participation in sports and played both rugby football and cricket at school, in the Army, and at university and club level. He captained his college (St Edmund Hall, Oxford) at both sports. He represented the Army and Combined Services, Middle East, at rugby, a Birmingham (England) League XI at cricket, and occasionally Oxford University at both via the Oxford University Greyhounds XV and Authentics cricket XL After graduation from Oxford, Geoff' s career was spent in education, ending with his position as Headmaster of Chesterfield School in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, where he served from 1968 to his retirement in 1991. Chesterfield School, founded in 1594, had 850 boys during his tenure. Geoff felt that travel enriched his outlook, and as Headmaster of Chesterfield School, forged links with schools in Orange Park and Tallahassee, Florida (Maclay in Tallahassee) through soccer competitions. He also forged academic links with schools in France and Germany, which allowed him to study in some depth their educational systems. That love for travel continued into his retirement and life in the United States. After the death of his wife of 40 years, Jean Townsend Price, in 1993, Geoff met and married Mary Anne J ohnson McMullen, now Price, and moved to Tallahassee, where he has lived for the past 17 years. Geoff is survived by his wife, Mary Anne Price, of Tallahassee, Florida; his daughters Wendy Kelly, of Neston, Cheshire, England, and Sara Atkinson (husband, Dave), of Old Tupton, Derbyshire, England; and his grandchildren: Jennifer and Andrew Kelly, and Matthew, Katie, and Lucy Atkinson, all of England. ÂŠ Tallahassee Democrat 2012

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(ALBERT RICHARD) JOHN LLOYD (1946) John Lloyd was born in Haslar Royal Naval Navy Hospital, in Gosport, Hampshire on 1 February 1923. When John was five years old, his father left the Royal Navy and the family moved to Manchester. John attended Burnage High School where he loved studying English, especially poetry; his favourite poets were Keats, Shelley, Matthew Arnold and Wordsworth. He was good at Maths and a great swimmer. He also loved acting in school plays. The War broke out in the winter of 1939 as John left school and started work in the Treasurer's department of Manchester Town Hall. He joined the Home Guard in the autumn of 1940, but on his 18th birthday he volunteered for military service, specifying the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, as a pilot or observer. His training was undertaken in the West Indies and then in January 1943 John was posted to the "stooge" squadron at Machrihanish Fleet Air Arm airport and then after a few weeks, 835 Squadron. He finished the war with the rank of lieutenant. After the war, John studied PPE at St Edmund Hall, and he persuaded his friend from the Navy, Norman Wylie, who was John's best man and later became Solicitor General for Scotland and then Lord Advocate in Ted Heath's government, to come to Teddy Hall too. He became good friends with fellow Aularians John King and Tom Luke. Whilst up at Oxford, John met Bodil (mother to Janet and me), a beautiful, young girl of 19 from Denmark who was studying there for a year. Subsequently, John visited Bodil's home in Denmark and they were married 1 September 1951. They lived in the north of England in Blackburn, Dewsbury, West Hartlepool and Nunthorpe, near Middlesbrough, moving because of John's work, and then moved south to Godalming on the day of the 1966 World Cup Final. John couldn't get the removal men to work as 164

they were all excited about the match so he put the television on, having unloaded it from the van with chairs, poured beers for everyone and then sat down with them to watch England defeat Germany. The removal men were so grateful and couldn't do enough for him afterwards. John joined Urwick, Orr and Partners Limited, a firm of management consultants, in London in 1953. In 1970 a young woman called Margaret joined the company and she and John formed a strong partnership which was to continue for the next 40 years, growing from a professional friendship to a loving relationship after Bodil's death in 1998. John was deemed to be one of the best consultants in U rwick Orr with a strong work ethic and an innate ability to put people at their ease, getting them talking through any issues they had and bringing his forensic mind to bear to seek a solution. If he had a failing it was his time-keeping, once being introduced at a meeting as "the late Mr Lloyd". He sold assignments to some of the most prestigious companies of the time, including The Milk Marketing Board, United Biscuits, the Mars Group, Pedigree Petfoods, and Whitbread, making many life-long friends of the executives in those companies. At the end of 1977 John was turning his mind to leaving the comfort of Urwick Orr and setting up his own management consultancy practice. On February 1st 1978, John's 55th birthday, John Lloyd & Partners was formed. By 1979 John had persuaded some ex-colleagues from Urwick, Orr & Partners Limited to join him, namely John Howard andJim Easton, and John Lloyd & Partners became a Limited Liability company and they moved offices to St James's Street, in the heart of Mayfair. His specialisms were In-Company Management Training and Industrial Relations but he was being asked more and more by his clients if he could help with recruitment and outplacement counselling. And so in 1986 St J ames' s Management Recruitment Limited was born and Malcolm Campbell and David Sears joined to complete the team. John always had an open-door policy, no matter what he was doing his philosophy was if someone needed his advice or guidance they needed it there and then, not in an hour's time when it might have suited him better. He 165

would always listen, offer advice and, annoyingly some might say, would re-write their reports for them. He would always say the right thing to boost people's morale and always made whoever he was with feel special. He always wanted more for people and it gave him the greatest pleasure to be able to make that happen. John Lloyd & Partners Limited and St J ames' s Management Recruitment Limited both became very successful companies but because of the advancing ages of the directors it was decided to wind them up in 1996. It was no great surprise that John didn't retire, continuing outplacement counselling and taking offices in Old Bond Street where Margaret reverted to working for him at evenings and weekends, collecting post for him on days when he couldn't get up to London. After Bodil's death, Margaret and John shared their love of the theatre and cinema, which they often attended. They also enjoyed sporting events, going to horse-racing and football matches and John, having been a lifelong supporter of Manchester City Football Club since early childhood and more recently a member of their Supporters' Club, took Margaret along to cheer them on. They went to the Boat Race, where, of course, they both supported Oxford, and to cricket matches at Lords. Margaret and John had many happy holidays together and, interspersed with the overseas travel, they undertook a tour of all the places where John had lived! Right up to the week before John went into hospital, Margaret, a constant in John's life for 40 years, a memory prompt, sharing both work and family environments and thus able to recall almost every aspect of his life, was still going out for dinners with John at weekends. They loved each other deeply and J an et and I are so appreciative of the important part Margaret has played in making John's life so happy and rich in the final years. To sum up, John was an extremely generous man, both with his money and his time. He loved holding parties at Parley Cottage and made the role of host his own! He enjoyed horse-racing, had a love of comedy and word-play, and adored the satire of the 1960s that lampooned the establishment. He was a lover and supporter of the arts, and was as happy listening to classical as popular music, with a particular fondness 166

for musicals. John was a born optimist. His cup was half full. He always looked on the bright side of life, enjoying Monty Python's The Life of Brian, for that very reason! He loved films and was passionate about poetry, particularly reading it aloud. He was a most articulate man. He wrote and spoke beautifully as did the poets he revered. I finish with an uplifting picture of John: a man of integrity, warm, compassionate, exuberant, with a razor sharp wit, astute, fun and totally engaged with the world around him. This is how we want to and should remember him. He would approve, wholeheartedly! F rances Hickman

DEREK BRUCE COLTMAN (1949} Derek was esteemed by his peers at Oxford and throughout his life as a person wise and truly humane. His lifelong loves were the theatre and French mediaeval poetry. After taking his First, he could have continued an academic career at Oxford, but he chose a course of study at the Sorbonne. Before tabulating very briefly some salient features of Derek's career before he found his true centre in his 'forties, a single anecdote from his time at the Sorbonne illustrates how he was very much his own man, when the chips were down. During his first year he was not impressed by the lecturers or the crowded seminars or the threadbare (as he saw it} dialogue with the academic staff. It all seemed to be endless taking of notes (fiches}. He also had persistent trouble with his teeth and frequent inexplicable temperatures. Crossing the Pont Neuf one morning, he halted and looked down into the Seine. "Fiches should be in their native element," he muttered as he emptied his satchel into the water. He never returned to his studies at that university. Next he took up the first Rockefeller Fellowship in Drama at Bristol University. [The Tribune Magazine archive yields a brief report from November 1955 that Derek Coltman was Britain's first playwriting Fellow, subsidised by Bristol University with money from the Rockefeller Foundation. Ed] He had directed two successful productions (Edward I!, and The Cenci) as an undergraduate and his next move was to join a theatrical company touring the West Country.

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In these early years there were the usual short-lived bread-and-butter jobs. He wrote at least one play, The Evesham Killings, but I cannot find that it was staged or broadcast. He also spent about two years acting and directing in the United States, but again I have no details. The man who became is lifelong friend, Michael Meacham, had been appointed Artistic Director at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre. Derek joined the company as Dramaturge, choosing and commissioning plays both new and old, for several years. Meacham eventually became a prizewinning director of plays in Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel, and took up residence along with Derek in West Central France where together they created a magnificent English Garden. While Meacham directed in Israel, Derek pursued a career as translator from the French, across a wide spectrum of texts ranging from the works of novelist Violette le Due to a philosophical treatise by Le Corbusier. Derek was not content to confine himself to the required text, but conducted wide-ranging enquiries into the life of the author and into the subject matter. As well as being an inspired gardener, Derek was completely at home in the natural world: knowledgeable or expert in all branches of natural history, especially botany. Over and above his Renaissance-fresh enthusiasm for knowledge per se, what drew people to him was his spontaneous, wide-eyed transparency of purpose: which was to see clearly, to understand and to be a friend wherever friendship was needed. Clive S Cullerne-Bown (1949) ALAN JAMES GREENFIELD JONES (1949) (notice of death SEH Magazine 2010-11, page 171)

Alan J Jones and I were at Teddy Hall together in the early fifties. (He was a year senior to me; I was there 1950-3). We both applied for the Overseas Civil Service, the old Colonial Service, he a year ahead of me. He went to Tanganyika, as it was then known, I to Malawi (then N yasaland). Alan was a delightful man, a good JCR member and a keen sportsman with a puckish sense of humour. He told me that when he sat his final

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interview for the OCS he felt the Board members were a bit pompous, so when they asked him how he would fare if he found himself in a remote station on his own he told them he would get his station hands to construct him a golf course and play by himself. Whey they asked him, as a Welshman, what would be the capital of Wales if it were made independent from the rest of Britain, he replied "Well, knowing Welsh politicians, probably Hereford". He was accepted nevertheless and I heard no more of him for ten years until I returned to the UK after Nyasaland became independent Malawi. I then joined the BBC, initially as a Personnel trainee, and quickly found that Alan had once again got a year ahead of me, since Tanganyika became Tanzania a year before Malawi won its independence. He was to be found in the African Service. We ran into each other at Bush House from time to time, although I was mainly in a different part of the BBC, and he was always exactly the same - hard-working, convivial and humorous. An obituary for him in the BBC's retired staff magazine, Prospero, recalls Alan's 28 years with the Corporation; after the African Service he went next to Sport and then ran the main production department for World Service in English where his skills, not only in production and writing, but in leadership quickly became apparent. It seems people liked working for and with Alan, admired his at times alarming intelligence and wit, and came cheerfully to ignore his unnecessary but entirely genuine tendency to self-deprecation. For many years he wrote beautiful, witty, stylish scripts for the World Service weekly 'Letter Box'. Later he moved to become head of the Transcription Service at Kensington House. Lastly he ran Central Talks and Features back at Bush House, where his capacity to stimulate and then motivate writing talent was once again marked. He enjoyed a very happy retirement with his wife Monica and their three daughters in Dorset where, totally unsurprisingly, he quickly found himself writing a highly entertaining weekly column for his local paper and then becoming Assistant Secretary and match announcer for Dorset County Cricket Club. Noel Harvey (1950)

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WOLF-RUDIGER VON PACHELBEL-GEHAG (1949) Wolf-Ri.idiger von Pachelbel-Gehag, German diplomat, and the first postwar German undergraduate to study at Oxford, died on 27 October 2011, aged 85. Descended from Pomeranian nobility, he studied at Hamburg University and then (with a scholarship organised by Lionel Curtis) St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, was President of the (Euro-enthusiast) Oxford Strasbourg Club, and was among the group which welcomed Konrad Adenauer to Oxford in 1951. After graduating in 1952 he spent some time at Harvard before joining the German diplomatic service. He was press spokesman in London from 1958 to 1963, and later ambassador to Lebanon, Ethiopia, Greece, and Denmark. After retiring in 1991 he divided his time between Munich and a hilltop fortress in Tuscany.

1950s Anthony Lynch BA, 9 July 2012, aged 81, Merseyside. 1950, Law Gurisprudence). John David Stuart Purves BA, July 2012, Buckinghamshire. 1950, Law Gurisprudence). Maurice Bould BA, 08 April 2012, aged 80, Staffordshire. 1951, Modern Languages. Michael John Kelly MPhys, 23 July 2012, aged 80, Surrey. 1951, Physics. Roy Maurice Williams MA, 17 May 2011, aged 81, West Midlands. 1951, Chemistry. [Page 172] Peter Frank Fenton BA, 26 October 2011, aged 79, Cornwall. 1953, Law Gurisprudence). John Malcolm Mander MA, Dip, May 2012, aged 73. 1957, Geography.

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JOHN ERNEST FARRAND VRD (1951} (notice of death SEH Magazine 2010-11 , page 179} It was more likely proximity than the fact that a family member was on the teaching staff that took John to Westgate Elementary School, Warwick. The Misses Stocker, Welsh and Palfreman taught John well and his 11 + marks earned him a place (paid for by Warwickshire County Council) at the excellent Warwick School.

The War Cabinet recognised that brains would make a nation triumph (the bouncing bomb, radar, penicillin, code breaking}, hence the Butler Education Act. It was a time of idealism (Atlee's great government}: teachers were men back from the war, wanting to build a new country. They worked hard, as did their pupils. John demonstrated a sufficient smattering of French and German to be offered a place at St Edmund Hall to read Modern Languages. Warwickshire County Council once again chipped in with a grant. For his National Service, John was commissioned as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. On a refresher weekend his engine failed, he crashed and was badly burned. John's unwise participation in some horseplay in the JCR resulted in him splitting his scar tissue; he bled copiously and so finally the Dean was summoned; Graham Midgley never forgot the incident and twitted John whenever they met "You bleeder". John came back from France suffering from quite leg-pullable francophilia. No morsel would pass his lips unless it could be given a fancy French name. Thus chicken and rice were gladly eaten as Coq au Vin. He was insistent that the butter with his morning croissant and brioche should be churned in Normandy. John was a very good breaststroke swimmer but being too self-conscious about his scar tissue, he didn't swim for the Hall. However, he gave a tankard (probably still in the Buttery} but only the winner of a race from the bridge to the boathouse may sup from it. The late Tuppy Owen-Smith was the last such trophy-holder. John did, however, play for the Hall 1st XV; being of slight build he was annoyed after some particularly noticeable play in the field to be barracked by a spectator "come on titch". 171

His job selling Airbus and Concorde took him to Paris. He also worked hard for the Liberal Democrats; he treasured a letter from Paddy Ash down congratulating him for a well deserved victory in solidly Tory South Manchester. Another of his enthusiasms was his membership of the Royal Naval Reserve. In 1969 he was pleased to be promoted to Commander on HMS President. Here he was always good for a horse's neck [brandy and ginger ale for the uninitiated. Ed] and lunch overlooking a busy stretch of the Thames under Tower Bridge. Age brought frailty: he fell at home, fell again in hospital and his dicky heart packed up. Roger A Farrand (1955) ROY MAURICE WILLIAMS (1951) Roy Williams, a beloved husband and father passed away at his home in Stourbridge in the West Midlands on 17 May 2011 after an 18-month battle with cancer. Roy grew up in the great recession of the 1930s and memories of this affected him all of his life. His father was a turner and fitter who was unemployed until 1937 when the re-armament drive enabled him to find work with GKN. Roy did not have a privileged childhood and what few possessions he had were lost when his grandparents' house was destroyed in the blitz. Worse still his grandparents were sheltering in the cellar of the house and his grandfather was killed, his grandmother dying shortly afterwards of the effects of the blast. He passed the 11-plus and won a scholarship to the George Dixon Grammar school in Birmingham. He did well at school throwing himself into both his studies and sport - sometimes a bit too enthusiastically as he broke both his arms playing rugby when he was 15. Roy went on to win a scholarship to read chemistry at St Edmund Hall after spending 18 months doing national service in the RAF as an educational instructor. He graduated in 1955 and always looked back on his four years at Oxford as amongst the best of his life.

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On graduating he was fortunate to be offered eight positions and he went to work for Lucas initially, before moving to Albright and Wilson's, an international chemical company based at Oldbury in the West Midlands to work as a plant manager. He rapidly rose to become first deputy works manager and then a works manager before moving to Cheshire to take on the Merseyside area manager's role. From there he served in various corporate roles, finally becoming the corporate manager for production co-ordination. He also found time to serve on various Chemical Industries Association and HSE committees as well as being president of the British Fire Services Association for many years. He retired from Albright and Wilson in 1987. There followed a long and happy retirement and for the first 14 years of this served on the Kinver parish council. He also joined Probus and the Halebridge investment club and through these made many new friends. Roy andJeanne, his wife of 55 years spent many happy days in Sidmouth where they had had a holiday apartment after his retirement. He had lots of interests including big band and jazz music, walking along the banks of the river Severn in earshot of the steam trains on the Severn Valley railway, and investing. He was invariably cheerful and despite his illness remained positive up until the last few weeks of his life. He is survived by his wife J eanne and his two children, N eal and Angela as well as four loving grandchildren, J ames Sinnott, Michael Sinnott, Chloe Williams and Alexander Williams. Dr Neal Williams (son)

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(notice of death SEH Magazine 2010-11, page 180) It was typical of Peter to be one of the moving spirits behind 'Hall', the 1989 collection of undergraduate memoirs. There he records his non-academic interests at college as sport, women, the arts, and long conversations, and suggests that he let political and intellectual pursuits pass him by. A man of enormous energy and drive, in later life he found time for all of this and more, in addition to a full and busy career. How did he fit it all in?

Peter often said he owed the opportunities in life that he was able to seize to the 1944 Education Act, which improved access to good secondary education for bright working class children. Certainly, the City of Bath Boys' School not only set him on his way to college, but provided the chance to play competitive sport, a lasting enthusiasm of his, and the resulting competitions introduced him to athletes from other countries, which led to some lifelong friendships. After college, Peter began his working life in the finance department of Ford in Dagenham. He was distressed to find that in this first job, with no particular expertise, his degree meant he was bringing home more money than his father, a man with much greater experience of life and industry. The sense of social injustice ran deep and never left him. Ford provided him with accountancy training but Peter always found people much more fascinating than money. A move from finance into personnel and then industrial relations suited him and he flourished even in the atmosphere of serious industrial conflict of the early 60s. Though some procedures and practices chafed, in later life he reflected that a dose of organisation la Ford would have served many other companies well. Five years were enough, all the same, and a spell at the Institute of Personnel Management (now the CIPD) running courses and conferences saw him bringing together people from many countries

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and all sides of commercial life at a time of industry-wide agreements and active government involvement. He relished the variety of human interaction at every level, whether from those seeking training in filing systems or from government ministers and trade union leaders. This role provided him with many an instructive and entertaining anecdote in later years: his love of conversation never declined. Anxious again for front-line involvement and for direct responsibility, he went to Northern Ireland in the late 60s to help set up a new plant for a US company as head of personnel. This first-hand experience of the de facto discrimination and divisions within that community, both petty and serious, made a lasting impression. A US multinational was not Peter's natural environment, however, and he returned to England to join an executive search consultancy, Personnel Placement Services. This was where he found his metier: his conversational ability and facility in empathising with almost anyone led him to forge personal relationships with clients in many industries and enabled him to match their needs with those of a huge range of potential candidates. He became a director of PPS and, after a series of takeovers, eventually the sole owner, operating it until his retirement. On a business trip to Madrid in the time of Franco, Peter noticed that everyone disembarking from the plane was photographed. His perturbation at the implications of this incident triggered an active involvement in Amnesty International, which became a large part of his life. As well as undertaking extensive campaigning work on refugees, and in Latin America, specifically Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay, he threw himself into fundraising activities, most memorably the first Secret Policeman's Ball (A Poke in The Eye). As an active and vocal member of the British Section Council, during the late 70s and early 80s, he acted as a bridge between the Section and the International Secretariat and was a steadying hand during Amnesty's organisational troubles of that period. Working for himself gave Peter the flexibility and scope to fit in a huge number of other interests. Whether it was organising the MGA car register and its newsletter, following Bath City, setting up and running his own small publishing house (Snowball Press), acting as music impresario for concerts in aid of Amnesty, or the challenging work of 175

prison visiting at Broadmoor, Peter pursued it with characteristic intelligence, vigour and perseverance. Perhaps his greatest passion was one he inherited from his father: a love of horse-racing. His own racehorse was not a great success in the record books but brought him endless interest and enjoyment. He had a talent for friendship and kept in contact with a wide variety of people met through all these activities. Retirement brought the opportunity for some quieter pursuits: his allotments and more formal study of languages, literature and art history. For many years he was active within his Quaker community in a variety of pastoral and practical roles, finding an outlet for his innate empathy with people and his managerial and financial ability. Latterly, he was delighted to discover a talent for drawing and watercolour painting, which enriched the last months of his life. Peter is survived by his wife, Doreen, his first wife, Anne and their two children, Rod and Rachel, and four grandchildren. Doreen Osborne 1960s Michael Anthony Roberts MA, 25 December 2011, aged 73. 1960, Physics. [Page 177] John Martin Heggadon FCIM, MA, BSc, 10 July 2012, aged 73, Berkshire. 1961, Geology. [Page 179] Richard Charles Padfield MA, Dip, 14 April2012, aged 70, Gloucestershire. 1961, English. [Page 180] Allan George Roin, 24 August 2011, aged 74, USA. 1961. Jurisprudence. Michael George Fossey MEng, May 2011, aged 67, Surrey. 1962, Engineering Science. Patrick Henry Slocock MA, Dip, 2 July 2011, aged 70, Malaysia. 1962, Theology. William Leo Zeltonoga MA, JD, 4 December 2011, aged 70, USA. 1962, PPE. [Page 181] Brian Gillespie O'Dwyer BA, 22 August 2012, aged 66, Portugal. 1965, Agriculture. Martin Paul Littleton BA 24 December 2011, aged 64, North Yorkshire. 1966, Geography. [Page 185] John Crispin Flock Dip, 29 August 2010, aged 64, Staffordshire. 1967, Geochemistry. 176

MICHAEL ANTHONY ROBERTS (1960) Michael was born on 26 August 1938 at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. An only child, he was brought up in Enfield, a north London suburb, in a close, two household family, with his cousin Anne, also an only child and more like a sister, as the families were always in each others' homes. After starting primary school in the War, Michael went to Enfield Grammar School. It was there he first developed his lifelong love of classical music -perhaps surprising given a school contemporary was one Harry Webb ... later better known as Cliff Richard. At the suggestion of an Enfield teacher, Michael's devoted parents entered him - successfully - for Mill Hill's entrance exams, a nearby public school. There Michael did well academically and in their three major sports of Hockey, Cricket and Rugby, representing the first team at all three and recorded in Wisden as topping the bowling averages. It is perhaps worth noting that cousin Anne became a county standard sprinter, able to show Michael a clean pair of heels when necessary. Given a certain lack of pace on Michael's part, he overcame this by developing technical sporting skills instead, notably hockey stick work. One of the last group to do National Service, having briefly tried accountancy and decided it was not for him, Michael became a Second Lieutenant in the 41st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He spent much of the time in Germany, learning pretty good German while further developing his sporting prowess. He played divisional cricket and hockey plus regimental rugby. After National Service Michael took his place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford to read physics ... and possibly play some sport, Teddy Hall being something of a sporting college ... well, rather more than something. We met there, the left wing pairing of the hockey league team. He also played some more 'recreational'- ifMichael could approach any sporting activity as 'recreational' -rugby and cricket, but it was hockey at which he excelled. Michael gained not one but two hockey blues against Cambridge, in 1962 and 1963, vintage years for varsity hockey. Nor was he wholly inactive on the academic front - indeed, Michael was awarded a rare and 177

coveted fourth class honours degree in physics, indicating a masterful balancing act of undergraduate life skills deployment. This combination stood him in good stead to land a post teaching physics, maths and sports at Warwick School, followed by a longer stint at Bishops Stortford College. His hockey career continued after Oxford, too. Playing for Southgate, Michael was a first team regular in one of the best club teams in the country- the Manchester United equivalent of the time. He also played for the East, one level below an England trial - Michael was a very good hockey player. He became Southgate's club secretary, with his time consuming input in this key role greatly appreciated. In 1968 Michael met Prances through a Southgate ski group and they married in 1971. By now Michael had moved from teaching into the fast growing world of computing, joining IBM, where he stayed 23 years, mainly in sales support and training. Michael and Prances initially lived in Sheen, south west London, before moving in 1976 to Shamley Green, near Guildford, into a country residence with a huge garden. It was there first William, in 1978, and then Eleanor, in 1981 were born, both the apples of Michael's and Prances's eyes, bringing them such great joy. Eventually Michael moved on from IBM, returning to teaching maths for physics - and hockey - at Cranleigh School for 5 years, a new lease of autumn life that he greatly enjoyed, before finally retiring. By now Michael had revived his long-standing love of bridge and its social interaction, also honing his considerable- shall we say, 'debating' - skills. After finishing playing hockey with a few years at Guildford where he also made many friends - the cut and thrust of a good debate as well as competitive bridge were the perfect, more sedentary, replacements. Many a time an ever-so-slightly contentious throwaway comment expressed within a wider conversation would be picked up instantly by Michael, for forensic examination and detailed debate. One was caught out every time ... but, then, we will all miss those 'Michael discussions' ... . It was bridge that played a part in the Roberts's choosing the Wellington area when they decided to move after 26 years in Shamley Green. Apart

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from it being such a nice area, Michael had quietly done his research, unbeknown to Prances, checking that there was good bridge round here. So, in 2003, the family moved to Clayhidon and the rest, as they say, is more modern history. Michael often said how much he was enjoying his time here, so it is especially sad it was cut cruelly short. It was a great privilege to know Michael. He was a very special friend, someone who had such love for his family and also considerable regard for and genuine interest in everyone he came across. He was, indeed, a real character, with a wry sense of humour; a good, talented, but unassuming, man and a valued friend of so many people. Robert CS Clark (1960)

JOHN MARTIN HEGGADON (1961) John Heggadon entered St Edmund Hall, having obtained his BA in Geography at Kings College London, in 1961 to take a post graduate MA in Geology. It is sad to report that he died in July after a long struggle with internal complications following a straight-forward operation in the Royal Berkshire Hospital in January 2011. He made his mark on life in College with colleagues, in those days before a Middle Common Room existed. All mucked in together in the JCR. John played rugby for the Hall and also for teams in the OURFC. In his year he became a Hilaryan, he played cricket for the Teddy Bears and he found time to row in the Hall Rugby VIII! During a career in the building industry and its associated manufacturers he also played Rugby for the Saracens and in 1973 he was appointed Captain of the Saracens First XV. After retirement from the playing field he took an active part in the administration of the Club and was a keen supporter. He was President of the Saracens from 1991 to 1993. He was also active in local affairs in Grazeley [near Reading, Berkshire] and played a significant part in the fight to prevent the village from being converted into another new town of 5,000 plus new houses! At least for the time being that is not to be. John was elected President of the St Edmund Association in 1990 and after his 3 years as President remained a member of the Association's 179

Committee. He is affectionately remembered by many alumni and Fellows for the Pilgrimages which he organised and led to Pontigny in 1996 to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the canonisation of St Edmund of Abingdon. John had a gift for organising an involved programme and for handling somewhat disorganised groups of alumni and their French hosts! All went very well without any damage to the entente cordiale. Speaking of John at his funeral, the Revd Beatrice Pearson concluded her tribute with words which echo the thoughts of all of those who knew him at Teddy Hall: "We have lost a friend, someone of integrity, fairness, determination, clear thinking, passion and intelligence. He had a strong sense of duty, of using his many gifts to do good, it has been a privilege to know him." He is survived be his wife, Cristina and his two children. Robert J L Breese (1949)

RICHARD CHARLES PADFIELD (1961) Born to farming parents, Richard's early life was spent in Luckington, near Malmesbury. He began his education at the village school, but at the age of 8 was sent as a boarder to Dean Close School, Cheltenham. His association with that school was to continue for the rest of his life, as he progressed from Junior to Senior school, thence to St Edmund Hall and a Dip Ed in Oxford, a short spell teaching at Dauntsey's, then back to Dean Close for the rest of his career as a teacher of English Qatterly with responsibility for those with Dyslexia) and a much-loved Housemaster for 13 years, and afterwards variously as Registrar, Chairman and President of the Old Decanian Society. Richard played hockey and cricket for the Hall and was a hockey Blue in the sides of Mike Elmitt, Chris Atkinson and Peter Wilson. After some years of illness, Richard died of cancer, peacefully and at home, in April, 2012. There were many Old Aularians at his funeral at Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire, where he was Churchwarden. He is survived by Sue (nee Morgan, St Hilda's 1962-6) whom he married in 1966, two sons, the elder of whom achieved a (Cambridge) Hockey Blue in 1994, and five grandchildren. Sue Padfield 180

WILLIAM LEO "Z" ZELTONOGA (1962) William "Z" Zeltonoga was one of the most fascinating, wonderful people I have ever known. When I matriculated at St Edmund Hall at Oxford in 1964 he was already a "larger-than-life" personality throughout Oxford University.

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Z died of cancer on December 4, 2011. He and I had four overlapping experiences. The first at St Edmund Hall, Oxford as fellow Rhodes Scholars; the second as soldiers in the US Army in Vietnam; the third at Harvard Law School; and finally as lawyers and political compatriots. Z was a most unusual Rhodes Scholar (1962) in that he received three "blues" at Oxford for boxing. Bill was the Captain of the Oxford Boxing Team in 1965, the first American to be so honoured. Z was a member of the exclusive "Vincent's", an elite sporting club made up primarily of Oxford blues. The three "blues" Bill received in boxing is the Oxford analogue to an American varsity letter and was awarded for selection to represent Oxford against Cambridge in the annual boxing match. Z had previously been a four-year letterman on the wrestling team at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He had worked his way through UCLA and had also supported his mother and his brother. He was an example of a state university Rhodes Scholar without very much money - and that cemented my identification with him. His dear friend Roland Oliver of St Edmund Hall (1962) recently sent me an email describing Bill's colourful boxing career at Oxford. Roland wrote, "Bill took up boxing when he came to Oxford and, in each of his three years, represented the university in its annual match with 181

Cambridge, fighting the same opponent each time. The first year he lost on a cut eye and Oxford also lost. The second year, he pursued his opponent with relentless aggression all-round the ring and won convincingly on points. Oxford won. In his final year, he was captain and desperate to lead his team to victory. Realizing that his bout was key to the outcome, he stormed after the Cambridge man for every second of the three rounds ... and lost ... narrowly on points. Bill, of course, accepted his and Oxford's defeat in sportsmanlike fashion, but could not understand why similar tactics to the previous years had not led to a win. He idly debated, if only in theory, whether a submission to the Supreme Court would bring any redress until I bravely pointed out that, despite his undoubted attacking zeal, he had consistently omitted to actually hit his opponent. Well, they say Oxford is the home of lost causes." His roommate at St Edmund Hall, Canadian Rhodes Scholar Bill Megill (1962), was kind enough to send me an email describing Bill's boxing career at Oxford, "Z's real spirit, though, was best demonstrated when he decided that he wanted to represent the university in some sport or another. He was a wrestler, as I recall, but didn't want to do the same thing in Oxford as he had done in the States, so he decided to take up boxing. He tried out for the team, was strong enough to get on, and proved he could take a punch as well as give them out. However, the team wanted him to box at a weight that was about a stone less than he normally weighed, and about twenty pounds less than he weighed after a couple of months on our study routine. He only had a month to lose the weight, and he didn't want to lose strength with it, so there was no question of starvation dieting. His solution was to get a couple of boxes of green garbage bags, and when he went out for his daily run he would cut the appropriate holes in the garbage bags and go for five miles or so. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't even sensible in my book, but it worked. I reckon it worked only because once Z had decided to do something, he just kept at it until it was done. He made the weight, but I seem to remember that he lost the fight at Cambridge to a better boxer. That's the kind of spirit I remember, and we could certainly use more of it." Other activities that Bill participated in in Oxford were the Experimental Theatre Club, Essay Society, Poetry Club, and the Oxford Union. Longtime St Edmund Hall tutor John Dunbabin sent me a wonderful 182

statement upon hearing of Bill Zeltonoga' s death. It reminded me that Bill was also famous as a gourmet cook at Oxford and he organized a dinning club called Amici Aulae Santci Edmundi. Mr Dunbabin, now retired from St Edmund Hall, sent me the following: "Dear Larry- I was sorry to hear of Bill Zeltanoga's death. As you say, he was a larger-than-life figure, and I remember him well. Herewith one of the memories: T awards the end of my first year as Politics tutor at St Edmund Hall, Bill (and a number of my other pupils) kindly invited my wife and myself to dinner at his flat. We went expecting a pleasant conversational, but not culinary, time. The first course turned out to be rather tasty, and we ate a lot, believing it was the whole meal. To our surprise, it was then followed by a main dish - remarkably good, with a creative use of honey. For, Bill said, he had learnt to cook, obviously very well, from his mother. We went home feeling distinctly full. But nearly fifty years later we still remember the evening with much pleasure." Upon graduating from Oxford in PPE, Z went to Harvard Law School and took the California Bar in 1968; Z became associated with the firm of Wyman, Bautzer where he got his feet wet in litigation, corporate law and other areas. Taking a two-year leave of absence during 1969 and 1970, Z fulfilled his military commitment as an armor officer with the US Army. I shall always recall the conversation I had with Bill just before he went to Vietnam with the US Army. In those days our draft laws were so loosely constructed that a skilled lawyer could have gotten himself assigned to the Pentagon and totally avoided being drafted to Vietnam. Bill felt that since his brother was already in Vietnam and that if he didn't go someone poorer than he would have to go, that he would just "bite the bullet" and go to Vietnam. Bill's concern that he did not force someone less fortunate to go in his place reflected his great character. Z spent the year of 1970 in the Republic of Vietnam. During the first quarter he was a "New Life Development" officer in the Go Cong Province in the Mekong Delta. His activities included economic and refugee relief, education advising, local construction and self-development and defence.

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At the end of his tour, Bill's awards included the American Bronze Star and Joint Staff Commendation Medal and the Vietnamese Rural Development Medal. Upon mustering out the army he returned to the Wyman firm where he remained until the middle of 1972 when he started his own practice in Beverly Hills. As a general practitioner, Bill's professional activities include litigation, corporate, probate, family law, business and tax, personal injury, and immigration matters. His law and business partner Richard Ross said, "Having worked many cases with Z, it is clear to me that he was as good a lawyer as one can be, but more than that, he was also a counselor. His range of advice exceeded that of just winning a lawsuit. His decency was even greater. Often he provided pro bono services and would devote time to concerns or to friends, even if not compensated. What made him unique in his profession was that his integrity was never compromised by his advocacy, however zealous it might be." Bill served on the Selection Committee of the California Rhodes Scholars Committee twice. Later in his career his professional colleague and good friend Gary Storer summed up Z with this quote, "The man touched many lives and what was frequently said is that Bill was always there if you needed him." Z was first a philosopher, and he helped me so much with our at least twice a year in-depth talks about the meaning of life and I will miss him so much. I had the privilege of seeing Z at least twice a year throughout his life. He contributed to every political campaign I entered and helped me with Senate floor speeches on three or four occasions. He was a dear friend. Cecil Rhodes and Oxford should be so proud of him. Z, we miss you so. Sen. Larry Pressler (ret.) {1964)

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MARTIN PAUL LITTLETON (1966) Martin attended Richmond School, Yorkshire where he was awarded a scholarship to St Edmund Hall in 1966. The family were delighted as he was following in the footsteps of his father Arthur, who came up to the Hall from Nelson Tomlinson School, Wigton in 1931. Martin was born on 24 January 1947 at Headingley, Leeds. Apart from his three years at Oxford, he lived in West and North Yorkshire for almost all his life. Before his marriage to Joan in 1972, he lived with the family at Croft-on-Tees in the former home of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carrell), another Oxford alumnus. Martin left Oxford with a degree in Geography and took up a position with the Royal Insurance Group as a graduate trainee. He quickly picked up further qualifications which took him to a higher level with Chandler Hargreaves in Bedale, where a solid client base was laid. With partners Peter Atkinson and David Carter he set up Bedale Insurance Brokers. The success of the new company led to expansion and the move to Darlington where a larger office was required to accommodate the growing workforce. On his retirement through ill-health, BIB (Darlington) Limited employed some 80 staff. As Managing Director, Martin was an astute and successful businessman, gaining a number of local and national business awards. His commitment to the firm has left a lasting legacy. Martin was an enthusiastic and very knowledgeable gardener. He spent many hours in his garden and greenhouse and had that special touch and natural instinct for getting the best out of plants. His garden in his beloved Wensleydale was his pride and joy. Martin was a keen rugby player at school, University and Darlington RUFC. He continued to take a great interest in the game once his playing

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days were over, and was a supporter of England Rugby, relishing trips to Twickenham. He became a great Francophile and many happy holidays were spent in a number of regions of France. He was a studied lover of fine wines with a discerning taste. He was a close family man: a family built on a strong marriage to Joan of almost 40 years. He leaves his wife Joan, children Paul, Thomas and Amy, and grandson James. He died on Christmas Eve after a long struggle with cancer. At a Memorial and Thanksgiving Service at St Peter's Church, Crofton-Tees, a large crowd of family, friends, business associates and clients gathered to remember his outgoing personality and sense of humour. He had a great gift of being able to communicate with people and making them feel at ease. He was respected and trusted, and touched the lives of many people. Andrew Littleton

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Mark was born in Camberley, Surrey, and attended the Skinners' school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. From there he went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, to read chemistry, and later jurisprudence, graduating in 1975. He then trained and worked as a barrister at Middle Temple before, in 1978, accepting a position with the merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson. By this stage he had already gained recognition as a precocious scholar of early medieval numismatics. Mark came to it at a dynamic and exciting time, sharing in a collective surge of scholarship on Anglo-Saxon and related coinages that had begun in the 1950s under the aegis of figures including Michael Dolley, Christopher Blunt, Stewart Lyon and Michael Metcalf. Mark quickly became their trusted colleague and staunch friend, showing already the openness and personable nature that stood him in just as good stead as his rare combination of academic qualities: respect for attention to detail, a strong sense of purpose and efficiency, and a knack for perceiving the broader implications of his research. In 1982 Philip Grierson, the leading scholar of early medieval numismatics at that time and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was looking for a research assistant to help him publish his gargantuan collection of medieval European coins, as well as those in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Mark made the life-changing decision to take up the post, even though it came with no permanent prospects. However, he thrived, and nine years later was appointed keeper of coins and medals at the Fitzwilliam- a post which he held for 20 years. Mark turned the Fitzwilliam's coin room into a world leader in numismatic research. It became a focal point for the field, calm and congenial yet also constantly humming with activity. Students, collectors and scholars alike were all welcome visitors, and Mark built up the collection considerably by securing major bequests and acquisitions. A superb manager and organiser, he loved to be kept occupied. He taught in the university's department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, where he was reader in numismatics and monetary history; was a fellow of Gonville and Caius from 2005; served as president of the British Numismatic Society (2004-08); and was the driving force behind several major publishing and research projects.

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Though his interests ranged as far afield as the coins of Vietnam and Japan, the subject he made his own was the coinage of the British Isles and Scandinavia in the centuries between the fall of Rome and the end of the Viking age in the 12th century. Mark's work ranged widely across this period, from Spain in the seventh century to Viking Norway, Norman England and the Viking settlements in Britain. He excelled in the techniques needed to derive historical conclusions from a seemingly unpromising mass of gold and silver coins. Quick to recognise the potential importance of new finds of coins brought to light by metal-detectorists from the 1970s onwards, Mark was one of the first scholars to collect information from detector-users, and pioneered the analysis and publication of their finds. Most of these are individual strays which slipped out of someone's hand or pocket more than 1,000 years ago, presenting a more or less random cross-section of the currency. He used this information to reveal a completely new aspect of the economy of Anglo-Saxon England, including a peak in monetisation in the decades around 700 which would not be surpassed until the late 1100s. Communicating these conclusions to a wider audience was always an important concern. Mark was a great exponent of the virtues of numismatic evidence, and in 1997 he oversaw the digitisation of a huge collection of coin-find data as the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds. Still going strong from a base at the Fitzwilliam, it has set the benchmark for projects of its kind. He is survived by his wife, Fiona, and his children, Molly, Hal and Will. Mark Alistair Sinclair Blackburn, numismatist, born 5 January 1953; died 1 September 2011 ÂŠ

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JOHN NORMAN VERNON (1977} John Vern on had a Rolls Royce mind ,.--.-------------. which was interested in everything and ~ quietly purred along in the fast lane, whatever the subject. He was a lucid writer of prose, a determined debater, a history 'junkie' (his word), a lover of classical music, a solid student of science, an animated teacher, an astute business E.',~•"'·'·· man, a fluent speaker and writer of Japanese, a fine poet and brilliant at mathematics. And in the last few months of his life he turned out to be something of a water colour artist, using all his many pill pots to mix the different colours. John was a voracious reader. Looking back at his teenage years he wrote, 'Books and the knowledge that gushed from them were my passion.' That passion never left him. He was usually reading about six titles at the same time, and these were not light novels. But while he was most certainly bookish, he also enthused over the ordinary gifts of life: the English spring; his stray tortoise; long walks in the country-side with his brother; visits to cathedrals, a concert, proper beer (it had to come from the barrel} and above all his friends and family. To his family he was devoted; to his many friends he was excellent company: warm, humorous, ready to give advice when asked, quite happy to take apart a woolly argument, and very loyal. During his sickness John's friends and family came to appreciate his character even more. Though he most certainly suffered, there was no wallowing in self pity, but stoicism, good humour, and a factual account of the situation. So one tweet said, 'The diagnosis is Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. The treatment is heavy Chemotherapy.' Unfortunately this Leukaemia had developed from his fairly rare condition of Myelofibrosis, which is a disorder of the bone marrow. At his boarding school, St Lawrence College, John was easily the brightest boy in his year, if not the school. He was always winning most of the 189

academic prizes. So it wasn't much of a surprise when he was awarded an Exhibition Scholarship to study English Literature at St Edmund Hall. He went up in the autumn of 1977. John respected his tutors, Reggie Alton, Graham Midgley, and Bruce Mitchell and especially enjoyed the lectures of John Carey who, 'did not espouse any particular -ism or fad and conveyed his personal knowledge and interpretation of what he had read'. He also went to hear the Marxist Terry Eaglet on, 'because of his fame'. John listened, but 'rejected his provocative and pointed views. They were not much help in the exam, and not much use in the development of my mind.' Probably John's two closest friends at Teddy Hall were Andrew Goring, whose friendly knock on his door when he was a fresher 'easily persuaded' him to join the college Christian Union and Phil Geddes who had 'a warm, romantic, and ardent nature.' Though Phil spent more time socialising than him at the Oxford Union, the two remained firm friends and would meet up in the holidays. John was devastated and very angry when Phil was blown up by the IRA bomb at Harrods in December 1983. Many years later he made a point of returning to Oxford to attend a lecture given in Phil's honour. At Oxford John was an active Christian. He took over the leadership of the Christian Union in Teddy Hall; became the editor of the Christian magazine, 'Kerygma' and was a regular at St Aldates where he admired the preaching of Michael Green: 'He was eloquent and intelligent, striking the right note of passion without being crazy.' John really could have chosen any career. In his last year he nearly signed on to become a lawyer, but then applied to teach English in Japan. Law school could easily wait a few years, but this chance to immerse himself in an exotic country in the Far East would not come again. He took it and had a great time. He became fluent in the language- and fell in love with Atsuko T akeshima whom he married. When the English teaching came to an end, John's next move came as a surprise to some. It was easy to see him as a lawyer or an academic, not so easy to see him as the international banker. Maybe the clarity and beauty of his spoken and written words had hidden his love for the purity of numbers and his brilliance at mathematics. John worked for 190

several international banks - both in the UK and Japan (where he operated in Japanese) before moving into the field of teaching bankers. John started his own company, 'Renaissance Training' and was very successful. He was animated and confident in front of his demanding students, and the thoroughness of his preparation meant he kept them fully engaged throughout the day. One colleague looked at his notes and assumed that one page of the highly complex material would have taken John about a day to write. When asked, John replied, 'About half an hour'. John could have easily been a published writer on history or literature- but the book he did write is 'The Fundamentals Of Banking'. It deserves a very wide readership. There was standing room only at his funeral. John's daughter, Erica, spoke with great poignancy, and his father, Peter, with great dignity. Fittingly Peter ended his eulogy for his son with a line from Hamlet, a play John loved. 'Good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.' We Oxford friends say good night too. Tom Hawksley (Balliol)

1980s Jane Sarah Moody BA, MA, DPhil, 28 October 2011, aged 44, York. 1985, English. [Page 191] JANE SARAH MOODY (1985) Professor Jane Moody, Director of the Humanities Research Centre and Professor of English at the University of York, died peacefully at home surrounded by her family on 28 October 2011.

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to the initial treatment. When the illness returned in 2010, Jane decided to keep the news very quiet until the very end. This allowed her to focus on making the most of her time at work and at home, and we can only marvel at the courage, intensity and sense of pleasure she brought to life during her last year. J ane was not only the Founding Director of the HRC but also its guiding force: much of what we most value about the distinctive building and the thriving community it houses we owe to Jane's vision, drive and attention to detail. She was rarely seen without a Moody Master Plan (sometimes stretching to many pages), and was always willing to do battle over the lighting in the lecture hall or the taps in the loos; but she was a gifted listener and patient advisor, with great warmth of character and a spontaneous, even mischievous, charm. From the first blueprints to an impressive footprint in the University and beyond, Jane has fostered the kind of environment that postgraduates want to work in and scholars love to visit. Jane was particularly proud of the famous purple HRC bags, with their slogan borrowed (with blessings) from Martha Nussbaum, 'Democracy needs the humanities'. The award-winning buildingJane helped to design, along with her prize-winning scholarship, will serve as her abiding legacy and an ongoing reminder of why letters and learning matter. J ane came to York in 1997 from a research fellowship at Girt on College Cambridge, having earned her BA and PhD from Oxford. She had a great passion for 18th- and 19th-century theatre: her acclaimed study of Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1830 was followed by The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830. She co-edited a collection on Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1600-2000, and her general interest in the relationship between literature and the market led to her innovative undergraduate module, 'The Culture Business'. She was appointed to a personal chair in 2004 and served as the Research Chair in the Department of English & Related Literature, where she was in charge of the submission to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The Department's top ranking in the country was due in no small part to Jane's strategic intelligence, and her gift for helping other people to make the most of their research.

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Jane's career at the University culminated in her role at the HRC, where she quickly earned the faith of the Vice-Chancellor and the gratitude of her students (for whom Thursday afternoons are now forever associated with cake). Both inside and outside the University, Jane used the HRC to demonstrate the public value of humanities research. She led several projects in this area, including York's inaugural Festival of Ideas in June 2011. Jane believed that a University can contribute to the place it is located, not just economically, but socially and culturally, and it took very little time for someone of Jane's persuasive powers to bring the Museums Trust, York Theatre Royal and the National Centre for Early Music on board as partners for the inaugural festival. Jane's long-term vision was to develop a festival that would rival Edinburgh and the team who worked with her to deliver the inaugural festival are determined to honour Jane's ambition. J ane also made regular appearances on radio and television, including Radio 3's culture programme Nightwaves, the TV series Who Do You Think You Are?, and the documentary Rude Britannia; and she served on a number of local and national boards (including the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council). All of J ane's qualities- her wit, style, love of theatre, meticulous planning and delight in surprise - were on display in the first Merchant Adventurers' Arts Discovery Event. On 9 November 2010 Jane treated a large audience from both university and city to a memorable lecture on 'Pantomime Before Berwick Kaler', (with a star turn by Yark's most famous pantomime dame). Professor Bill Sherman University of York 1990s James Edward Martin MPhys, 26 July 2012, aged 41, Ceredigion. 1990, Physics.

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