St Edmund Hall Magazine 2014-15

Magazine ST EDMUND HALL

2014–2015

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ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

VOL. XVIII NO. 6 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2015 SECTION 1: THE COLLEGE LIST 2014–2015......................................................VI

EDITOR: Dr Brian Gasser (1975) With thanks to Claire Hooper magazine.editor@seh.ox.ac.uk St Edmund Hall Oxford OX1 4AR telephone: 01865 279000 web: www.seh.ox.ac.uk aularianconnect@seh.ox.ac.uk twitter: @StEdmundHall facebook: St Edmund Hall

FRONT COVER: Photograph by John Cairns MATRICULATION PICTURE: Photograph by Gillman & Soame All images are from Hall records, unless otherwise stated.

SECTION 2: REPORTS ON THE YEAR...................................................................9 From The Principal...................................................................................................... 10 From the Senior Common Room..............................................................................15 Arrivals in the SCR.....................................................................................................33 SCR Obituaries........................................................................................................... 39 From the Senior & Finance Bursar............................................................................47 From the Domestic Bursar.........................................................................................48 From the Library Fellow..............................................................................................51 Donations 2014–2015................................................................................................ 52 From the Archive Fellow............................................................................................. 56 From the Chaplain....................................................................................................... 57 From the Director of Music....................................................................................... 59 From the Director of Studies for Visiting Students.............................................. 60 From the Schools Liaison Officer.............................................................................. 61 From The President of the Middle Common Room............................................. 63 The Junior Common Room....................................................................................... 65 From Student Clubs and Societies............................................................................ 65 SECTION 3: THE YEAR GONE BY..........................................................................76 Awards and Prizes........................................................................................................ 77 Masterclass Fund Awards...........................................................................................79 Fargher Bursary Trip to Cairo by Taariq Ismail........................................................ 80 Act for Change: Healing Minds by Roxana Willis and Claire Hooper.................. 80 Chapel Choir Trip to France by Lisa Haseldine.........................................................84 Artweeks Exhibition 2015........................................................................................... 85 Hall Photography......................................................................................................... 85 Hall Writing..................................................................................................................86 St Edmund Hall Wren.................................................................................................88 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Poem 2015: ‘The Moon’

by Tabitha Hayward.....................................................................................................89 The Emden Lecture 2014............................................................................................89 Student Journalism Prizes and the Geddes Memorial Lecture 2015................... 91 Research Expo 2015...................................................................................................... 93 St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain....................................................... 95 iii

Remembering Sir David Yardley................................................................................97 Golden Jubilee of the MCR......................................................................................100 1965 Jubilee Bump Supper by Darrell Barnes........................................................... 101 Anniversary Dinners.................................................................................................. 102 Digitisation of the Hall Magazine........................................................................... 103 Virtual 3-D Tours of the Hall....................................................................................104 Degree Days................................................................................................................ 105 SECTION 4: FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS..............................106 Student Numbers....................................................................................................... 107 New Students 2014–2015.......................................................................................... 107 Visiting Students 2014–2015..................................................................................... 110 Student Admissions Exercises.................................................................................. 111 College Awards and Prizes......................................................................................... 111 University Awards and Prizes.................................................................................... 115 College Graduate Awards and Prizes....................................................................... 115 Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes...............................................................116 University Graduate Awards and Prizes..................................................................116 External Awards..........................................................................................................116 Degree Results 2014–2015..........................................................................................117 Degree Day Dates 2015–2016....................................................................................121

SECTION 7: FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION....................167 The President’s Report.............................................................................................. 168 Executive Committee – January 2015..................................................................... 170 Minutes of the 84th Annual General Meeting of the Association.......................171 Income and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended 31 May 2015.................. 172 The 74th London Dinner........................................................................................... 174 SECTION 8: AULARIAN NEWS............................................................................. 177 North American Dinners.......................................................................................... 178 Aularians of Sri Lanka...............................................................................................180 De Fortunis Aularium..................................................................................................180 Ave Atque Vale.............................................................................................................. 197 Obituaries.................................................................................................................... 199 MATRICULATION PHOTOGRAPH: Michaelmas Term 2014............. end-piece

SECTION 5: DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE.........122 Reviewing the Year......................................................................................................123 Donors to the Hall..................................................................................................... 126 The Floreat Aula Society............................................................................................. 135 SECTION 6: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS............................................................. 137 OXCEP and the Hall by John Knight.........................................................................138 Thomas Shaw’s Travels – and its Readers by Elliot Horowitz...............................140 The ‘Wits’ Who Beset Sir Richard Blackmore by Paul W Nash...............................143 Memories of a 1960s Sporting Cosmographer by Michael R Tanner.................... 149 Memories of Teddy Hall 1966–70 by Richard Baker................................................154 Existential Malpractice and an Etherised Discipline: a Soteriological Comment

by Malcolm McDonald...............................................................................................158 An Important Stepping-Stone by Andrew Woodliffe.............................................160 Bursarial Memories by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor......................................................161 Aularians Well Catered For: Senior Chef de Partie Jerry Hogg by Claire Hooper......162 Aularian Publications.................................................................................................165 iv

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THE COLLEGE LIST: 2014–15 VISITOR The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, MA, DCL Chancellor of the University

PRINCIPAL Keith Gull, CBE (BSc PhD DSc (Hon) Lond), FRS, FMedSci, FRSB Professor of Molecular Microbiology

FELLOWS

SECTION 1:

THE COLLEGE LIST 2014–2015

Venables, Robert, MA (LLM Lond), QC Fellow by Special Election Blamey, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy, Dean of Degrees (from Trinity Term 2015) Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Professor of Private International Law, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow and Tutor in Law Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Vice-Principal Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature, Professorial Fellow Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil Professor of English, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, and Director of Studies for Visiting Students Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Professor of Modern History, Tutor in Modern History 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, Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) University Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science 1

Matthews, Paul McMahan, OBE, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP, FMedSci Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Associate Professor of the History of the Renaissance and Reformation, 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, Fellow by Special Election Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) University Reader in Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Research Centre Career Development Fellow, Senior Research Fellow Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Senior Research Fellow Tseng, Jeffrey, MA (BS CalTech; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor in Experimental Particle Physics, Tutor in Physics and Chapel Overseeing Fellow Wilkins, Robert James, MA, DPhil Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology, American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Tutor in Politics Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (MA, PhD Camb) Professor of Discrete Mathematics, Tutor in Mathematics and Tutor for Undergraduates Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, MA, DPhil (BA Yale; MPP Harvard; JD NYU) Research Lecturer in Economics, Fellow by Special Election in Economics Yates, Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Associate Professor of Materials Modelling and Royal Society Research Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science and Pictures & Chattels Fellow Dupret, David, (MSc, PhD Bordeaux) Fellow by Special Election in Neuroscience 2

Kavanagh, Aileen Frances, MA, DPhil (BCL, MA NUI, Magister Legum Europae Hanover; Dipl Vienna) Associate Professor and University Reader in Law, Tutor in Law Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex) NERC CEH Fellow and Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow by Special Election Loenarz, Christoph, DPhil (Dipl Chem Tuebingen) until March 2015 Fellow by Special Election Walker, Richard, BA (MSc Leeds; PhD Camb) Professor in Earth Sciences and University Research Fellow, Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences Stagg, Charlotte Jane, DPhil (BSc, MB ChB Bristol) Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Fellow by Special Election Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff) Associate Professor of Bone Oncology, Fellow by Special Election in Surgery Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MA St And; MA, PhD Essex) Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History & Theory, Fellow by Special Election Costa, Charles Simon Arthur, MA, MPhil (BSSc Birm) Senior & Finance Bursar McCartney, David, BM BCh Academic Clinical Fellow, Fellow by Special Election Gluenz, Eva, (MSc Bern; PhD Lond) Royal Society University Research Fellow, Fellow by Special Election Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election Aarnio, Outi Marketta, DPhil (Lic Abo Akademi) Fellow by Special Election in Geography Palmer, Laura, (BA Colorado State) until January 2015 Fellow by Special Election and Director of Development Willden, Richard Henry James, (MEng, PhD Imp) Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science and Tutor for Graduates Benson, Roger Bernard James, (BA, PhD Camb; MSc Imp) Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Tutor in Earth Sciences Lozano-Perez, Sergio, DPhil, Dipl, (PGCE, Dipl Seville) Professor of Materials Science and George Kelley Associate Professor of Materials, Senior Research Fellow Yi, Xiaoou, (BE Huazhong; MSc Stockholm) Culham Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors 3

Clark, Gordon Leslie, MA, DSc (BEcon, MA Monash; PhD McMaster), FBA Director of the Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment, Professorial Fellow Taylor, Jenny Cameron, BA, DPhil Associate Professor, Fellow by Special Election Rothwell, Peter Malcolm, MA (MB ChB, MD, PhD Edin), FMedSci Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA, MSt, DPhil (MA East Ang) Fellow by Special Election in English Goldberg, Leslie Ann, (BA Rice; PhD Edin) Professor of Computer Science, Senior Research Fellow Daley, Allison Christine, (BSc Queen’s, Canada; MSc Western Ontario; PhD Uppsala) Research Fellow to the OU Museum of Natural History, Junior Research Fellow Hopkinson, Richard James, MChem, DPhil William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology Nguyen, Luc Le (BSc Vietnam National; PhD Rutgers) Associate Professor of Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Tutor in Mathematics Quintana-Domeque, Climent (MA, PhD Princeton) Associate Professor in Economics, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Economics Wolter, James Lewis, (BS Michigan; MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fellow by Special Election Pavord, Ian Douglas, (MB BS Lond; DM Nott), FMedSci Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow Bruce, Peter George, (BSc, PhD Aberdeen), FRS Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow Bishara, Dina (BA Massachusetts at Amherst; PhD George Washington) until July 2015 Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East Dee, Michael, DPhil (BSc Wellington) Junior Research Fellow (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow) Karastergiou, Aris, (PhD Bonn) Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics Karos, Dominik, (Dip Saarland Univ, PhD Maastrict) Career Development Fellow in Economics and Fellow by Special Election Lakhal-Littleton, Samira, DPhil (BSc UCL) Junior Research Fellow (BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow) Rossi Carvalho, Mariana (MSc Sao Paulo; PhD Berlin) Junior Research Fellow 4

Goulart, Paul James (MSc MIT; PhD Camb) Professor in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science Taylor, Jayne (BA Leeds Polytechnic) Fellow by Special Election and Domestic Bursar Lähnemann, Henrike (MA, PhD Bamberg) Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Professorial Fellow Smye, Andrew James, MEarthSc (PhD Camb) Junior Research Fellow (NERC Independent Research Fellow) Finelli, Mattéa, DPhil (BSc, MSc Montpellier; MSc Imperial) J&J Innovation Junior Research Fellow Pasta, Mauro, (BSc, MSc, PhD Milan) Associate Professor, Tutor in Materials [Note: the name of a Visiting Fellow in 2013–14 was inadvertently omitted from last year’s Magazine: Professor Jeffrey Almond, BSc, PhD, FMedSci]

HONORARY FELLOWS Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton; Hon DSc Leeds), FRS, Hon FREng Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon The Lord BrowneWilkinson, PC, BA Harris, Roy, MA, DPhil (PhD Lond), FRSA *deceased Tindle, David, MA, RA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, OC, MA (D ès-Sc. Paris) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robert, CBE, MA (BA Lycoming College; MA, PhD Oregon; DM (Hon) Univ of Southern Denmark) Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin) Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, GBE, MA (DSc (Hon) UCL; DSc (Hon) S’ton), Hon FMedSci Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, DSO,QGM, MA Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA Nazir-Ali, Rt Revd Michael James, MLitt (BA Karachi; MLitt Camb; PhD NSW) Jones, Terence Graham Parry, MA Roberts, Gareth, MA Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, MA (DLitt (Hon) Anglia Ruskin; DLitt (Hon)Worcs), FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA, Hon DCL Edwards, Steven Lloyd, OBE, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, Kt, MA, DPhil (DSc Cran; DCL East Ang; LLD Dublin) 5

Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil, FRS, FREng Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, MA, DPhil Morsberger, Philip Burgess, MA Burnton, the Rt Hon Sir Stanley Jeffrey, PC, MA Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Manc; DPhil Sus), CChem, FRS, FRSC Josipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, Kt, BA, QC Starmer, Sir Keir Rodney, KCB, MP, BCL, QC Shortridge, Sir Jon Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin; Hon Doctor of Univ of Glamorgan) Lee, Stewart Graham, BA Khurshid, Salman, BCL (BA St Stephen’s College, Delhi) Hawkesworth, Christopher John, DPhil (BA Dublin, Hon DSc Copenhagen) Banks, J Andrew, MA (BA Florida) Wainwright, Faith Helen, MBE, BA (Hon DEng Bath), FIStructE, FREng, FICE

ST EDMUND FELLOWS Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Sir Martin Gregory, Kt, MA (MBA, AM Econ Stanford), Hon FRAM, FRGS Cansdale, Michael John, MA Stanton, Paul John, BCL, MA Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario; PhD Duke) Best, Tony, BA

EMERITUS FELLOWS Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond) 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 Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (PhD Lond) Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dean of Degrees (until Michaelmas Term 2014) Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) 6

Knight, John Beverley, MA (BA Natal; MA Camb) Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dub; PhD Lond; Dr Hon Causa Sofia) Wells, Christopher Jon, 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), FREng, FRSE Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, FAcSS, FRHistS Brasier, Martin David, MA (BSc, PhD Lond) *deceased Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, (Hon DPhil Bern), FBA Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S’ton; MA Camb; PhD Leic) Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Manc)

LECTURERS Al-Mossawi, Hussein, MA, BM BCh, MRCP (UK) Medical Sciences Alexeeva, Iana, MSc (BA Calgary) Psychology Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb; PhD Lond) Physics Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Russian Black, John Joseph Merrington, QHP (C), (MB BS Lond), DCH, FRCS(Edin), FIMCRCS (Edin), FCEM Medicine (Anatomy) Bukhari, Nuzhat, MSt, DPhil (BA Warwick) English Chad, Benjamin Michael John, (MSc Wollongong) Mathematics Conde, Juan-Carlos, MA (BA, PhD Madrid) Spanish Gundle, Roger, MA, BM BCh, D Phil (MA Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS Orth

Medicine Held, Christoph, (MA Freie Universität Berlin) German (Lektor) Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem, DPhil Biochemistry Ingham, Stuart, BA Politics (Political Theory) King, Peter John, BPhil, DPhil Philosophy Laidlaw, Michael, DPhil (MA Camb) Inorganic Chemistry Laird, Karl, BCL (LLB London) Law Leger, Marie, (Lience Stendhal Grenoble) French (Lectrice) Littleton, Suellen Marie, (BSc California; MBA Lond) Management Lloyd, Alexandra Louise, MA, MSt, DPhil, PGCE German MacDonald, Andrew, MA, BM BCh Neuroanatomy MacFaul, Thomas, DPhil (BA Camb) English (Renaissance Literature) Mala, Zuzana, (MA, PhD Charles Univ) Czech McCartney, David, BM BCh Systems Medicine Mileson, Stephen, MSt, DPhil (BA Warw) History Moore, James, (MSci Durham), AMInstP Earth Sciences 7

Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Camb) Earth Sciences and Materials Noe, Debrah Pozsonyi, (BS, PhD Ohio State) Finance Phillips, David, MA, DPhil, FAcSS, FRHistS Fine Art Pitz, Max, MSc (BSc TU Munich) Mathematics Robinson, Stuart, MA, DPhil Earth Sciences Salas, Irène, (MA EHESS; MA Paris IV; Maitrise Licence Paris III) French Shine, Brian (MB ChB, MD Birmingham; MSc Birkbeck), MRCPath, FRCPath

Biomedical Sciences Thomas-Symonds, Niklaus, MP, Barrister, MA, FRHistS Politics** Wadham, Alastair Jake, DPhil (BA, MPhil Camb) French Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb) Earth Sciences Wilk, James, MA, DPhil, FCybS Philosophy Williams, Renée, MA French Wright, Katherine, MBiochem Biochemistry ** inadvertently omitted from the list published in the 2013–14 edition of the Magazine

CHAPLAIN Donaldson, Revd Will, (MA Camb)

LIBRARIAN Trepat-Martin, Blanca, (BA Barcelona; Dip Exe)

ARCHIVIST Petre, Robert Douglas, (BA York; MArAd Liverpool)

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR & REGISTRAR Walters, Ashley, MA

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC Watson, Christopher, (BA Exe)

HEAD PORTER Knight, Lionel

DECANAL STAFF Springer, David, MEng (BEng Cape Town) Junior Dean Gartrell, Amber, (BA, MA Warw) Cover Dean Murdock, Adrian, (BSc Curtin) Sub-Dean (NSE) Mostipan, Ilona, (BA American Univiversity, MA UCL) Sub-Dean (WRM) Moustakim, Moses, (MChem Leic) Sub-Dean (Isis)

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SECTION 2:

REPORTS ON THE YEAR

FROM THE PRINCIPAL When I reflect on this academic year, I see it as one of innovation, achievement and great progress in the life of the Hall. It has been a year when many projects and programmes incubated over recent years have come to fruition. The year has seen the intellectual life of the Hall enhanced by events such as the Centre for the Creative Brain, the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme, the Hall Writers’ Day, an inaugural SEH Research Expo, Geddes and Emden Lectures, together with a host of individual student-led projects including the publication of A Gallery, an illustrated book containing a selection of undergraduate art and literature. Sport has continued to flourish – at its best in absolute association with academic excellence. We have enhanced our student facilities with the acquisition of new accommodation and initiated the project to refurbish and renew the Front Quad. More of all of this below.

In last year’s Magazine I focused on the importance of research in the life of the Hall – research conducted by undergraduates in their final year projects and dissertations, postgraduate students of the Middle Common Room and Fellows, especially the growing number of Research Fellows within the Hall’s Fellowship. A number of events during this year have emphasised again how research flourishes in this place. This year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Middle Common Room. Over 150 alumni, present students and Fellows gathered at the Hall at the end of June 2015 to celebrate this anniversary. Amongst the attendees were many past Presidents of the MCR and we started with reflections from across the decades by six of these past Presidents. We continued with talks and events led by current and past MCR members and Fellows, ending with a fabulous meal in the Wolfson Hall. For those who missed the event you can catch a flavour of it on the SEH YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/StEdmundHall.

Traditions in Oxford are important to many, and the Hall has a good number.

But I often comment that traditions appear surprisingly easy to establish: do something well once, and suddenly the whole Hall community believes it to be a tradition! This is definitely the case with the SEH Research Expo held in February 2015. This event resulted from a collaborative effort between SCR Fellows and members of the MCR, with inspirational leadership from a small group of individuals. It comes as a consequence of the meetings I alluded to in last year’s Magazine where I brought together groups to discuss academic and mentoring events that might interconnect the JCR/MCR/SCR membership.

The SEH Research Expo emerged directly from this. It was a celebration of the great diversity of research currently being undertaken at the Hall, and an opportunity for members of all three common rooms and staff to interact and learn about topics across the disciplines. Alumnus and Honorary Fellow, Terry Jones, provided a highlight talk on his research on the Ellesmere Manuscript, 10

a famous 15th Century illuminated manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Six interdisciplinary sessions of short non-specialist talks provided the format of the day together with events in rooms turned into a laboratory, a salon, and an art studio. Here interactive displays, experiments, and exhibitions gave an opportunity for one-to-one discussions with academics and students from across all disciplines. Podcasts of the Expo talks are again available online on the Hall’s YouTube channel and the University’s podcasting site. It was perhaps one of the very best examples in Oxford of how a college can enhance the inter-disciplinary education of all members – from students to Professors. It was a splendid display of intellectual life and élan. It was the Hall at its innovative best!

The SEH Research Expo will no doubt now become a biennial tradition and great thanks are due to those who started this tradition. This vibrancy in the Hall’s activities owes much to the growing number of Junior Research Fellows associated with the Hall. These positions provide career opportunities for young academics and attract the most excellent researchers from across the world to Oxford. Along with the Tutorial Fellows and graduate students they also support the undergraduate disciplines within the Hall. Their success is evident this year by the posts to which past JRF holders have moved on: Christoph Loenarz, William R Miller JRF in Molecular Aspects of Biology, went to Nottingham as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Biology; and Dr Dina Bishara, Jarvis Doctorow JRF in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East, moved to a Research Fellowship at Harvard. We are currently fundraising to increase the Hall’s complement of JRFs: this year alumni donations secured the endowment to continue in perpetuity the John Cowdrey JRF in History, and Dr Mattéa Finelli was appointed to the newly funded J&J Innovation JRF in Neuroscience related to Medicine. Aularian Andrew Smye, a NERC Independent Research Fellow, was elected to a JRF in Earth Sciences. We need to add more endowed JRFs to ensure the Hall is able to support young academics coming to Oxford.

As always, this was a transition year for the Fellowship. Stuart Ferguson, Professor of Biochemistry, continued as Vice-Principal and Professor Rob Whittaker as Dean, with Dr Robert Wilkins becoming Senior Tutor. We were delighted to welcome our new Domestic Bursar, Jayne Taylor, who soon made a most positive impact on all the non-academic aspects of the Hall. In addition we welcomed to the Fellowship Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature & Linguistics); Professors Paul Goulart (Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science) and Mauro Pasta (Tutorial Fellow in Materials Science). Aularians Salman Khurshid, Andrew Banks, Christopher Hawkesworth and Faith Wainwright were elected as Honorary Fellows and Tony Best was elected to a St Edmund Fellowship. Next academic year we look forward to welcoming another distinguished alumna to an Honorary Fellowship: the Hon. Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth. This year Professor Nigel Palmer is stepping down as Library Fellow and Professor Jeff Tseng as Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs. Many thanks to both for their 11

service to the Hall. The research achievements of Fellows at the Hall is emphasised by the number of awards and prizes received. Professor Peter Rothwell won the International Aspirin Award for his research on stroke prevention. Professor Philip Mountford (Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry) was awarded the 2015 Schlenk Lectureship, and Allison Daley (Junior Research Fellow) the Jan Bergström Young Geoscientist Award. Professor Ian Pavord was elected to an Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship, while Sergio Lozano-Perez (Materials Science) and Richard Walker (Earth Sciences) were both awarded Professorships in the 2015 Oxford University Recognition of Distinction exercise. We were saddened by the loss of major figures associated with the Hall. Professor Martin Brasier (Emeritus Fellow, long-time Fellow in Earth Sciences and a distinguished scientist) was tragically killed in a road traffic accident in December 2014, very soon after his retirement.

Professor Roy Harris, Honorary Fellow, died in February 2015: he was described as one of the most radical recent thinkers about language and communication.

Irene Miller, wife of Honorary Fellow William R Miller CBE, one of our most loyal and supportive alumni, died in June 2015. Irene was a lovely, vibrant woman and will be sadly missed by the many Aularians of all ages who knew her.

The 2015 Geddes Lecture ‘Killing the Messenger, and the Message’ was given by Lyse Doucet in March and was an extremely powerful and moving presentation.

The Geddes Lecture continues to be a highlight of the Hall’s year and we thank the Trustees – Graham Mather, Christopher Wilson and Sandra Barwick – for their support of this venture and the Geddes Prizes. This year Professor Wes Williams (Tutor in Modern Languages) kindly worked with the Trustees and external advisors to choose the talented young Oxford journalists who were awarded Geddes Prizes. Graham Mather and Christopher Wilson have now stood down from their trusteeship but will continue to offer support to the new Geddes trustees led by Peter Cardwell. We thank both for their insight, advice and impactful contributions. The 2014 Emden Lecture was delivered by Professor Peter Mandler on ‘The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Education and Democracy in Modern Britain’ to an appreciative audience of students, Aularians, friends and academics.

We have continued to develop links with China and Chinese universities, building on the research connections of individual Fellows with Chinese academics, particularly in the area of economics and development. Through the Oxford China Economy Programme based in the Hall we have developed reciprocal visits to both Sichuan and Peking Universities. During this year a series of visits of SEH Fellows to Sichuan was initiated. My intention is to enable future opportunities for St Edmund Hall Fellows and students in the different regions of China.

The recent end of the 2014–15 academic year has seen some superb academic performances in Finals by members of the JCR. Some 30 students obtained First Class Honours and this year there were six winners of a Luddington Prize, for 12

six different sports (swimming, karate, athletics, football, boxing, lacrosse). Thus, in 2015 an unprecedented number of names will be added to the Luddington Board in one year for the magnificent achievement of getting a First and a Blue whilst at the Hall. This ability of Hall students to impress with academic and non-academic activities is mirrored throughout the JCR and MCR. In 2014–15 we have seen terrific performances in music, drama, art, writing and sport. The Choir and music generally continue to go from strength to strength under the direction of Chris Watson our Director of Music. Individual recitals and concerts have entertained us and, again through Aularian support, we have added a superb new chamber organ for the College Chapel. The Hall has also initiated a collaboration instigated by Lady Elise Becket Smith with a local orchestra, The Instruments of Time and Truth.

Student drama, writing and art have flourished, with too many individual contributions and performances to record here. Great thanks and congratulations to all! The Hall’s drama club, The John Oldham Society, again after a space of a few years, took a play to the Oxford Playhouse. This year The Pillowman was greeted with appreciation and superb reviews, continuing a great tradition of Teddy Hall directing and acting. As would be expected, sport continues to play a key part in the life of the Hall and in 2014–15 twenty-five Hall women and men won Blues and represented the University in over eighteen sports ranging from association football, rugby, cricket and athletics to ice hockey, badminton, lacrosse, and judo. The Teddy Hall team won the Mixed Lacrosse Cuppers. For the fourth year running the men’s rugby team made the Cuppers final but sadly were beaten. They received, however, plenty of Hall support both at the match and afterwards!

This year I have worked with alumni Judith Beresford (1981, English) and Gareth Roberts (1971, Earth Sciences) and the Development Committee members to complete our planning of fundraising projects. Judith has joined us on a formal basis to help us with our developmental strategy. Our fundraising must reflect a perpetual need to make the Hall experience a richer and deeper one for our students: hence our campaigns will be centred on individual projects where need is most and value can be added. Judith works alongside Sally Smith (Deputy Director of Development) at the Hall. I want to thank the many Aularians who have met us and supported the Hall and its students via donations, legacy pledges and gifts. We have been able to make some significant progress during 2015. Donations and support have ranged across the spectrum and all have made an impact. This year Aularians have donated books to the Library, pictures to the picture collection, and commissioned a new sculpture for the Hall. We have secured support for a number of Junior Research Fellowships and graduate scholarships in particular disciplines. Support for both undergraduates and graduate students through bursaries and scholarships is a central theme of our endowment fundraising. Building our independence and capacity to assist 13

all students is of critical importance. Bursaries enable students from less welloff backgrounds to come to the Hall and succeed as they would at any Oxford college. Graduate scholarships enable talented students from the UK and the world to choose Teddy Hall knowing that we can add value to their Masters or DPhil studies and support their living costs.

One extremely pleasurable event during the year was the biennial meeting of the Floreat Aula Society over a weekend in April 2015. Membership of this Society is freely open to individuals who have indicated to the Hall that they intend to leave a legacy beneficial to the Hall in their will. No other details are required. Legacies are a critical feature of the support for the Hall and our hosting of this Society’s members is another way of saying thank you. It also allows Aularians to visit the Hall for a pleasant Saturday of events organised by our Development and Alumni Relations Office, involving talks and entry to some of Oxford’s hidden places and treasures. Please consider joining us at the next event and meeting your friends.

One of the most significant ways that we can assist our students is by ensuring that they have excellent accommodation whilst they are in Oxford. This year, via munificent donations from a group of alumni and using funds from a significant legacy left to the Hall by Floreat Aula Society member William Asbrey (1949, Jurisprudence), we have been able to extend our student accommodation.

We have purchased a property immediately adjacent to our other student accommodation in Norham Gardens. Its sudden appearance on the market was a ‘once in 50 years’ opportunity and we were only able to make the purchase because of this critical support. The Hall now faces the task of refurbishment of this and adjacent properties and hence fundraising for that is an immediate priority. Unlike most Oxford colleges, the Hall’s endowment is just too small to draw down capital in order to make such purchases or refurbishments. Without these timely benefactions a huge opportunity would have been lost.

This project emphasises just how critical it is to gain greater independence and self-sustainability by both growing the endowment and ensuring secure annual giving to the Hall. We are hugely appreciative of the support we get from alumni and are increasing our efforts to explain exactly why projects need funding and how alumni benefactions have made a difference. The development of the Hall’s buildings and student accommodation is something that many Principals have had at the forefront of their minds. During this year we digitised the Hall Magazines so that Aularians can read them online back to their inception in the 1920s. Reading them I am struck by the many references over the last years to building campaigns: Besse, the south side of the Front Quad, Wolfson Hall, Kelly and Emden accommodations, Norham Gardens, the W.R. Miller Building, the Doctorow Hall, etc. The important conclusion is that all were realised and all have brought a huge beneficial effect for our students – past and present. It is now our turn to complete another cycle of such projects for the benefit of Teddy Hall students.

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Finally, to a project that will enhance a face of the Hall recognised by all. The Front Quad is the key space of the Hall. It defines the intimacy of the Hall, providing a space for all, for transit between work and leisure, facilitating conversations, meetings and greetings. As I write it is a no-go area – a veritable building site.

We have initiated a very long overdue refurbishment: many difficulties had accumulated, from old underground pipework, cabling and drains to broken, upwelling concrete, badly patched and mismatched paving. After much planning and consideration we gathered funds to be able to rectify it. As we watch the work developing we realise just how much the Front Quad defines the Hall. We look forward to having it back, refreshed and renewed, in the middle of next term! A quad defines an Oxford college – ours will soon be back to one we are all proud of and will welcome a new set of Freshers, enabling the events of their personal journeys at Teddy Hall.

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FROM THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Christopher Mead Armitage St Edmund Fellow received the 2015 Award for Mentoring Undergraduates from the University of North Carolina faculty’s Carolina Women’s Leadership Council. Christopher was back in residence at the Hall from 4–25 July 2015.

Joanna Ashbourn College Lecturer in Physics. In addition to her teaching at Teddy Hall, during the past year Jo established the St Cross Centre for History and Philosophy in Physics. (She is the Senior Tutor of St Cross.) The new Centre aims not just to focus on chronicling the history of the discipline as a retrospective exercise but also to engage critically with the philosophy and methodologies which inform how current research in Physics is undertaken. The Centre held three one-day conferences during the academic year on ‘Wittgenstein and Physics’, ‘Voltaire and the Newtonian Revolution’, and ‘Physics and the Great War’. Details of these, plus forthcoming events, can be seen at www.stx.ox.ac. uk/HAPP Roger Benson Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Tutor in Earth Sciences. This year Roger has continued field expeditions to Scotland and South Africa, finding remains of some of the earliest fossil mammals and lizards living 165 million years ago. He also participated in a taxonomic study of dinosaurs that ‘resurrected’ the genus Brontosaurus, long thought to be synonymous with the Apatosaurus. In addition to his research activities, Roger developed a new palaeobiology course for the second year of Earth Sciences.

Stephen Blamey Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy, Dean of Degrees writes: “Over the last year I have continued to struggle against the onset of old age, the increasing burdens of teaching administration, and all the other hassles of life 15

(both in and out of college), to find time and energy to get on with some of my own work. A lot of this dates back to material in my doctoral thesis – all those years ago –only a small part of which has so far seen the light of publication.

I have things to say about natural language semantics that have to do with presupposition and ambiguity: when these phenomena are brought together, they become a deal more interesting, I want to urge, than the current literature might suggest. And I have formal techniques – a logical syntax, mathematical semantics, proof of theory, etc – with which to pursue a systematic treatment of these phenomena: that is, non-trivially to ‘analyse’ the kind of propositional content I argue that the phenomena give rise to. My hope is that on retirement in a couple of years I will be sufficiently senile not to have new thoughts intruding all the time and prompting me to recast things – and yet not too senile coherently to write up a definitive account!

“This work combines conceptual (philosophical) issues and technical (mathematical) material; the first has led on to vaguer thoughts I have had about philosophical methodology, and the second has suggested some foundational ideas about ‘logical form’. If there is enough intellectual active life left to me, then I’ll pursue these things too. But I must try to exercise enough self-discipline to get the old stuff written up first!”

Alistair Borthwick Emeritus Fellow has been elected to Fellowships of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In September 2014, he accompanied the Principal, Dr Dianne Gull, Dr Frank Hwang and Ms Helen Chen on their visits to Peking, Tsinghua and Sichuan Universities. One of the highlights of the visit was the singing of ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ at Sichuan University by the Teddy Hall team! Alistair continues to work at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Energy Systems as Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics.

Adrian Briggs Barrister, Professor of Private and International Law, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow and Tutor in Law. The first edition of Adrian’s book Private International Law in English Courts was published late in 2014, and the sixth edition of Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments six months later. He observes that the total, of 2,000-odd pages, represents one person’s attempt to make sense of law whose burgeoning growth is beyond all reason; and even those among one’s colleagues who are disposed to be charitable may be tempted to wonder whether one can have too much of a good thing. A refreshing, if exhausting, change was provided by an intensive teaching stint in September 2014 at universities in Yangon, Myanmar, whose law schools are only now re-engaging with the wider world after decades of isolation and impoverishment. This has led to another book: Private International Law in Myanmar, which is the first and only work on this aspect of Myanmar law. Myanmar may be a lost outpost of the common law, but it turns out that its private international law, dormant for generations, can be patched together from legislation (mostly dating from 16

the British administration), pre-1970 case law (mostly gathering dust in the Bodleian), and much critical reflection. The text was finished in Oxford, and signed off in Yangon, in the spring of 2015 with a view to open access publication on the website of the Oxford-Myanmar/Burma Law Programme, followed by more traditional publication later in the year. Adrian finds that the chance to help revive the common law in Myanmar is completely absorbing; the idea that he might be taking up the challenge in the fourth decade of a career is as surprising to him as it is satisfying.

Peter Bruce Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow continues to research the fundamental materials chemistry and electrochemistry underpinning energy conservation and storage devices. His group is located in newly refurbished laboratories in the Rex Richards building on South Parks Road, which constitute the Wolfson Centre for Energy Science (the new laboratories were supported by a £1 million donation from the Wolfson Foundation).

Inadequate means of storing energy is the barrier to mass market adoption of electric vehicles and will prove to be an increasing barrier to the expansion of renewable electricity generation. Peter and his group are working to discover new materials with new properties for use as electrodes and electrolytes in rechargeable lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and Li-air batteries for energy storage, to understand the relationship between materials structure and function, and to advance energy storage devices.

Peter directs the RCUK SUPERGEN Energy Storage Hub, based in Oxford but involving eight other UK universities; the Hub recently won funding of £4 million. He was part of a successful consortium bid to the Oxford Martin School for funding of more than £1 million, involving a unique collaboration with experts in energy economics, markets and regulation. Peter was presented with the Royal Society of Chemistry Barker Medal in 2014 for his contributions to electrochemistry; and, in February 2015, with the International Medal for Materials Science and Technology by the Materials Research Society of India.

Since the beginning of 2014, Peter and members of his group have been invited to give talks at over 50 international scientific conferences and have published more than a dozen papers.

Sir Ian Byatt Honorary Fellow. During the academic year Sir Ian has completed his work on the finances of Birmingham Cathedral: he is glad and relieved to report that these are in good shape, with a positive current budget balance and with substantial fundraising for essential refurbishment of the fabric, both internal and external. He has also continued his work on the Public Interest Committee (PIC) of Baker Tilly Audit UK. This PIC is a three-person group, chaired by the Ethics Partner, that is responsible for identifying the nature and scope of the public interest (defined objectively) in audit and audit quality. It works closely with the Board of Baker Tilly Audit UK 17

and with the industry regulator, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The PIC has written a paper on the definition and scope of the public interest in audit, which is to be found on the Baker Tilly website (www.bakertilly.co.uk/Publicinterest-paper). The paper is specifically directed to the nature of the public interest in the middle-market sector of the economy, owner-managed firms, and public-not-for-profit bodies such as charities. The PIC is complementing this with a paper on the value of audit to investors, in preparation for a seminar on these issues in London in November 2015.

Sir Ian believes that this work is particularly timely as the European Union and the UK Government are consulting on the regulation of audit: it is most important that these consultations pay proper attention to proportionality in regulation – heavy-handed rules will damage enterprise.

As Director of the Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment (SSEE), Professorial Fellow Gordon L Clark is responsible for the development of the programme in conjunction with the University’s School of Geography & the Environment (SoGE) and Saïd Business School. The SSEE focuses upon the economics of the environment, managing the environment, and the role of finance in facilitating the transformation of the carbon economy to the green economy. Through the past year, Gordon has advised a number of major corporations on their environmental strategies, and he and colleagues have developed a number of related programmes on impact investment, ESG investing, and private equity. He has also been involved in MBA and SoGE teaching on corporate environmental management, especially as regards the increasing premium on the quality and quantity of water available for civil society and private economic agents. On the agenda is a new programme on ‘shared prosperity’, bringing together colleagues across the University and aimed at better understanding what works and doesn’t work in this area.

Peter Collins Emeritus Fellow continues to be involved with his research group.

The annual Seminar had the usual run of speakers, this year from Africa, Australasia, and North and Central America, as well as several from Hungary (which, it is claimed, has the highest percentage of mathematicians in the population of any country).

Heritage concerns were writ large in Rome, Oslo, Tblisi, and Yerevan as well as the fascinating and safe city of Kiev, whilst time with bottles was enjoyed with the Middle Common Room and amongst the vineyards of Châteauneuf-duPape, Gigondas, and Vacqueras. Time off was music with the best interpreters in the classical tradition at the Schubertiade series of concerts in a particularly beautiful area of Austria. Next year’s offerings are already booked!

John Cox Honorary Fellow was with Houston Grand Opera in Texas in November 2014, directing Verdi’s Otello. After the premiere he was honoured to receive the company’s Silver Rose Award for distinguished service (productions 18

going back to the early 1970s). The first of John’s productions, coincidentally, was Rosenkavalier, in which, of course, a silver rose is awarded to the young, virginal heiress rather than the elderly, impecunious reprobate!

Then in February 2015, John attended rehearsals and performances of Theodore Morrison’s new opera, Oscar, for which he collaborated with the composer on the libretto. They made substantial changes from the 2013 creation in Santa Fe, which John thinks were improvements. It was also a plus to be performing in Philadelphia’s beautiful early 19th century opera house, modelled on La Scala, Milan. It is the oldest working opera house in America and very much the kind of theatre in which Wilde would have presented his great comedies in London.

The production, its subject and ethos seemed more at home in the Philadelphia surroundings. Indeed, John wonders how many readers of Wilde realise that The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in Philadelphia.

Kevin Crossley-Holland Honorary Fellow. During the last 12 months, Kevin has published a new collection of poems, The Breaking Hour, and is looking forward to sharing it with a Hall audience during a joint reading with Lucy Newlyn.

Individual poems have been printed in a number of magazines, including Temenos Academy Review and Theology, and have been set to music by Bernard Hughes and Cecilia McDowall.

At this year’s Oxford Literary Festival, Kevin discussed the new Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature with its editor, Daniel Hahn, and was one of the 27 Characters represented in the Story Museum’s highly successful exhibition. His presentation speech at the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation was reprinted in two journals. He has accepted an invitation to remain President of the School Library Association until June 2016.

Kevin recalls his daughter Oenone’s vow that one of her offspring would one day become a third-generation Aularian, and is happy to report that she accomplished the first step by delivering her firstborn, Somerset (a family name), in June 2015.

Allison Daley Research Fellow to the OU Museum of Natural History, Junior Research Fellow was awarded the Jan Bergström Young Geoscientist Award for 2015 by the Geological Society of Sweden for original work which made significant contributions in Earth Sciences. Allie previously carried out her PhD studies in Uppsala, where the late Jan Bergström was a mentor and friend.

Sir John Daniel Honorary Fellow gave the opening address at the University Presidents Forum, held at the Summit of the Americas that saw the historic handshake between Presidents Castro and Obama. His topic was ‘Is Your University Fit for the 21st Century?’ The US National University Technology Network has conferred on him its highest honour, the Distinguished Service Award.

Nicholas Davidson Associate Professor of the History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Tutor in Modern History and Archive Fellow continues to work on the 19

cultural, social, and religious history of early-modern Italy. He was able to spend some time in Roman archives in September 2014 and April 2015, and contributed to international conferences in Berlin, York, and Venice. Back in Oxford, Nick continued to run his research network on early-modern Catholicism at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, ably assisted by a talented group of doctoral and post-doctoral students, including Dr Clare Copeland (2006). This has been funded by the Mellon Foundation and a generous private benefactor. He was also one in a team of tutors in the History Faculty responsible for launching a rewarding (for the tutors, at least) FHS paper on ‘Eurasian Empires between 1450 and 1800’. And from July 2015, he has been involved in a new funded research project on religion and life-writing in Reformation Europe.

Michael Dee Junior Research Fellow (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow). This year has been very much the middle year of both Michael Dee’s Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship and his Junior Research Fellowship at the Hall. His laboratory work has mainly involved analysing samples for his investigation into the impact of a specific climatic event and the civilisation of Ancient Egypt.

Michael also had the opportunity to teach a short course at the University of Arizona relating to his research, and he was invited to give the same programme to a group at Peking University in summer 2015. During last winter, Michael prepared a major grant application for the European Research Council and he will soon be interviewed about his proposed project. Michael’s contribution to academic life at the Hall this year was dominated by the inaugural Research Expo.

He thoroughly enjoyed both participating and helping with the organisation of this event, and was very pleased that it was deemed such a success.

A full report on Research Expo 2015 appears in section 3 of this Magazine.

Jarvis Doctorow Honorary Fellow. Aularian Jarvis Doctorow celebrated his 90th birthday on 5 June 2015. The Principal visited him and his family in New York on this occasion: the Hall had sent him a card, but the Principal was able to supplement this by playing Jarvis a recording of members of the Choir singing Happy Birthday! During the visit, Jarvis (who matriculated in 1948 to read Modern Languages and went on to become a generous benefactor of the Hall) was interested to hear about the Hall and its Jarvis Doctorow celebrates students today. He attributes much of his success in negotiation and business to the Oxford tutorial his 90th birthday system, with its combination of challenge and support such as he found at the Hall.

David Dupret Fellow by Special Election. This year David successfully renewed his research programme as part of the new ‘Brain Network Dynamics Unit’ funded 20

by the Medical Research Council at Oxford. During this five-year programme, David and his group will investigate how co-ordinated activity of nerve cells underlies memory processes in the brain (more information can be found at www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/groups/dupret-group). Of particular importance was work by David’s group which revealed how to prevent memory forgetting, by stimulating the activity of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Dr Charlotte Stagg kindly invited David to present this work during one of the seminars (‘Memory and the Mind’) arranged by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain.

David was also very pleased to contribute to the Hall’s Research Expo in Hilary Term 2015 by co-ordinating the interactive scientific experiments in ‘The Lab’.

Stuart Ferguson University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Vice-Principal. Stuart’s continuing work as Vice-Principal this year, alongside the usual tutorial teaching, has kept him busy to the extent that the only conference he has been to was a two-day event in the beautiful Belgian city of Ghent.

Jason Gaiger Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History & Theory, Fellow

by Special Election has been on sabbatical leave this year, working on a range of projects including a new book The Thread of Recognition which addresses topics in aesthetics. Part of the research was carried out in Germany, where Jason also gave a number of talks and participated in various workshops. A particular highlight was an invitation to speak at a conference organised to mark the 250th anniversary of the publication of Gotthold Lessing’s Laocoön. This was held both at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in the old astronomic observatory at Gőttingen University, the former place of work and residence of Carl Friedrich Gauss, and in the Lessinghaus in Wolfenbűttel, where Lessing lived when he was the director of the magnificent Herzog August library.

Leslie Ann Goldberg Professor of Computer Science, Senior Research Fellow.

Leslie and her group continued to study the complexity of counting. The main highlight of the year was finally visiting the wonderful Chennai Mathematical Institute, where Leslie presented a talk on the complexity of approximating partition functions, attended a very interesting workshop, and enjoyed seeing a bit of Tamil Nadu. One of the papers that the group published in this year’s 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), held in Kyoto, particularly pleased Leslie because it finally settled a question that she had been thinking about (off and on) since 2002. Leslie confesses that she cannot now think of any good reason why it should have taken so long!

Keith Gull Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Principal, continued his research in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology on African trypanosomes, with papers appearing in significant scientific journals. Notable findings included the description of a type of structure new to Biology in the trypanosome parasites’ nucleus responsible for the fidelity of genome segregation, and a demonstration 21

that modulating expression of only one gene caused dramatic shifts in cell form –reminiscent of those that have occurred over evolutionary time. Keith obtained a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award to fund his research (£1.85 million for 4 years). Keith gave plenary talks at international conferences in Prague and Woods Hole, USA. He continued to chair the Scientific Advisory Board of BBSRC’s Pirbright Institute and served on various Royal Society committees.

In that context he attended a Leverhulme Trust/Royal Society Africa Awards meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He continued to support colleagues at the University of Legon, Accra, Ghana, and is chairing two working groups that have enabled the department to win major (up to US$6 million) World Bank and Wellcome Trust funding for its graduate education programmes.

Keith also visited five Chinese universities in a two-week trip to establish academic relations between these institutions and the Hall, for the benefit of our Fellows and students.

In teaching, Keith continued to give lectures, supervisions, and tutorials in Tropical Medicine to second- and third-year medical students. Members of his research group continued to do well this year, with Steve Kelly being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to set up his independent group in Oxford’s Plant Sciences Department, and Richard Wheeler being awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellowship (he will spend one year at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden before returning to Oxford). Keith also continued as Director of the Wellcome Trust four-year doctoral course in ‘Infection, Immunity and Translational Medicine’: many students on this course are registered at the Hall and are leading members of the MCR. Sir Peter Hirsch Emeritus Fellow reached his 90th birthday this year and much appreciated the letter of congratulation sent by the Principal on behalf of the Fellowship. The University’s Department of Materials organised a conference entitled ‘The Theory and Characterisation of Dislocations’ to mark the milestone.

This took place on 14 April 2015 in the Department of Engineering Science, with a dinner for delegates being held in the Hall. To Sir Peter’s surprise, over 100 delegates attended the conference, a number of them from abroad. The event’s theme was his life-long research interest. The quality of the presentations was excellent, and many attendees commented that the conference was very stimulating. Two Fellows of the Hall actually managed to sit through the presentations even though they were not experts in this field! On the evening before the conference there was a dinner for the invited speakers in the Old Library, attended by the Principal.

This was a very pleasant occasion, and both at this dinner and the conference itself, Sir Peter much enjoyed meeting old friends again.

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entitled ‘Imaging screw dislocations at atomic resolution by aberration corrected electron optical sectioning’ (published in the open-access journal Nature Communications). This made him recollect the fact that he published his first paper in Nature in 1950 – which cost the authors nothing! Sir Peter thinks that today’s open-access journals are a racket but that it would be difficult to change the current system.

Hugh Jenkyns Emeritus Fellow has been elected a Foreign Member of the Instituto Lombardo Academia di Scienze e Lettere. This organisation was established in 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte to explore and refine the physical and mathematical sciences, the moral and political sciences, and the arts and literature. Its first president was Alessandro Volta (he of the voltaic cell). Former foreign or corresponding members include Robert Bunsen, Niels Bohr, James Dewar, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Hans Krebs, Lord Kelvin and Louis Pasteur (among others). After the fall of Bonaparte, the Institute passed first to the Austrian Government and, with headquarters in the Brera Palace in Milan, it now operates under the auspices of the Italian Government. Other foreign members of the Instituto Lombardo in Oxford University are John Ball and Dennis Noble.

Heidi Johansen-Berg Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, Senior Research Fellow was appointed Director of the Oxford Centre for Functional MTI of the Brain (FMRIB) in May 2015. This is a multi-disciplinary research facility housing around 100 scientists who use cutting-edge neuroimaging technology to study the brain in health and disease. FMRIB was established in 2008 with Professor Paul Matthews (another Teddy Hall Fellow) as its founding Director. Heidi is proud to be given Professor Heidi Johansenthe opportunity to lead this dynamic unit into its Berg next phase of development. Heidi has also delivered talks in the USA, Australia and Europe this year. She is visiting the University of Sichuan in July 2015 to represent the Hall and deliver a series of lectures and seminars to researchers and students there.

Paul Johnson Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Fellow by Special Election. Director of the Oxford Islet Transplant Programme, Paul has been awarded a €8.9 million Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Consortium Programme Grant to investigate novel biological scaffolds for protecting transplanted pancreatic islet cells from immune destruction. It is hoped that this research will be a major step towards the reality of reversing insulin-dependent diabetes in adults and children, using cell replacement without the need for life-long 23

anti-rejection drugs. During the last year Paul has also served as Immediate Past President of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA).

Andrew Kahn Professor of Russian Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) enjoyed visits to Columbia and Harvard this year, along with research trips to Helsinki, St Petersburg, Berlin and New York (largely to read early Soviet newspapers in which Osip Mandelstam published). He felt very pleased and honoured to see the Introduction to his OUP edition of Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time appear in Russian in the new version of Lermontov criticism published in the Pro et Contra series, the anthology of canonical critical works in classic authors. As Chair of Russian this year, Andrew aimed to improve life in Modern Languages by eliminating committees and meetings. His White Paper earned acclaim (“how very thoughtful”, “just brilliant”) and an invitation to join the Workload and Nominations Committee (another name for ‘Long Grass’, he fears). He believes that the difference between Petrine reforms and the Peter Principle could not have been more clear!

Aris Karastergiou Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics. The 2014–15 academic year ended for Aris with the publication of the conclusions from a 1500-hour survey for Fast Radio Bursts – a type of newly-discovered astrophysical signal – using the LOFAR radio telescope. Despite not finding new events, this work constrains the physical mechanisms that can produce these extremely luminous events which probably originate from distant galaxies to our own. Aris’s group at Astrophysics have made exciting progress towards detecting more of these events at several radio telescopes around the world, including the 305-metre dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. They have also concluded the first stage of the engineering process that will lead to the construction of the Square Kilometre Array, the most sensitive radio telescope, to be built in South Africa and Australia. As part of his work in South Africa, Aris organised the first international workshop on pulsars, in April 2015, in Cape Town. He considers it a real privilege to help in building up a scientific community working on radio astronomy in South Africa. Closer to home, Aris’s DPhil student, Paul Brook (also of Teddy Hall!), successfully submitted and defended his thesis, and after wrapping up his projects in Oxford will be heading off to pastures greener.

John Knight Emeritus Fellow presented a paper ‘The societal cost of China’s rapid growth’ at an Asian Economic Papers conference in Lund, Sweden in June 2015.

He had a busy summer, hosting the conference of the International Consortium for Chinese Studies at the Hall in August and directing two OXCEP economics courses for academic staff from Sichuan University in August-September (see the article ‘OXCEP and the Hall’ in section 6 of the present Magazine). John’s publications added to the Aularian bookshelf were: -‘Inequality in China: an overview’, in World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29, 1: 1–19.

-‘China as a developmental state’, in The World Economy, October 2014, 37, 10: 1335–47.

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-(with Ramani Gunatilaka) ‘Subjective well-being and social evolution: a case study of China’, in Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (eds), Happiness and Economic Growth, Oxford University Press, 2014: 179–213.

Samira Lakhal-Littleton Junior Research Fellow (BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow). A description of Samira’s latest research on the way that heart cells handle iron, and the importance of adequate iron regulation to cardiac function, appeared in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25713362). She was invited to give a plenary lecture at the International BioIron Society (IBIS) Biennial Symposium in China in September 2015. This is the largest and most important gathering of medical scientists in the field of iron regulation.

Sergio Lozano-Perez George Kelley Associate Professor of Materials was awarded the title Professor of Materials Science in the University’s Recognition of Distinction Exercise 2014–15.

David Manolopoulos Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry has given talks during this academic year about his research, at meetings in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and the USA: in Telluride (Colorado) and Squaw Valley (California). The Telluride meeting was especially memorable. It is organised biennially by two former members of his research group (Tom Markland, now a Professor in Stanford; and Scott Habershon, now a Professor in Warwick) and many other former and present members of his group were also there. Telluride is named after the rare element tellurium: this is most often found on Earth in the form of gold telluride minerals, which explains the interest people have in mining it… . The village is six hours’ drive (by Dodge Charger) from Denver, across some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. David finds that there is no better place for a group reunion than this charming old mining village (now a high-class ski resort with fine restaurants) high up in the Colorado Rockies!

Paul Matthews Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election. Paul finds it hard to select highlights from his stimulating and varied year, but believes that one must have been his inaugural lecture as the first Edmond and Lily Safra Chair in Translational Neuroscience at Imperial College London in November 2014. He later was pleased to be named as a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator in the 2015 competition. Paul has received many speaking invitations. He delivered the William Moore Memorial Lecture to the British Chapter of the Society for Magnetic Resonance and the Institute of Physics Plenary Lecture in September 2014; he was keynote speaker (as Honorary President of the London Health Forum) at the UK-Korea Future Health Forum held in Seoul, Korea in March 2015, as part of a UK government delegation; and he is invited to deliver the Presidential Lecture to Royal College of Radiologists in London in September 2015. Between these, he has also delivered lectures in the UK, Holland, Germany, Korea, Japan, Canada and the USA. The Nuffield Council 25

on Bioethics’ Healthcare Data Panel, on which Paul served, delivered its report in January 2015 and he followed up with public presentations (including a day at the Cheltenham Science Festival). However, for him one of the most enjoyable events of 2014 was the first meeting of the Hall’s Centre for the Creative Brain, led by another Fellow, Dr Charlotte Stagg, and jointly organised with Paul and members of the MCR and JCR. David McCartney Fellow by Special Election has been awarded a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Fellowship for a further two years to continue his work on timely identification of Hypertension in adults. David also continues with teaching the Hall’s Clinical Medicine students: his efforts were rewarded by a nomination for ‘Teacher of the Month’ during the 2014–15 academic year.

William R Miller Honorary Fellow. Sadly Bill Miller’s wife, Irene, passed away on 25 June 2015 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She had battled illness for many years with huge dignity. Irene and Bill were married for 40 years and were devoted to one another. A Memorial Service for Irene was held in New York on 16 September.

Michael Mingos Honorary Fellow presented lectures at the International Conference on Co-ordination Chemistry in Singapore as well as seminars at Wurzburg, Strasbourg, and Durham Universities and Queen Mary College on coordination complexes and gold cluster compounds. He continued as Series Editor for Structure and Bonding, published by Springer from Heidelberg, Germany and oversaw the publication of 15 volumes. He was a member of the Royal Society’s Education Committee and a member of its research grants panel. Michael’s 70th birthday has been marked by a special issue of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry which contains 30 papers from his colleagues and students.

Recent publications are: --‘Historical Introduction to Nitrosyl Complexes’, in Structure and Bonding, 2014, 153, 1–42.

--‘Ambivalent Lewis Acids/Bases with Symmetry Signatures and Isolobal Analogies’, in Structure and Bonding, 2014, 154, 1–52.

--‘A Review of Complexes of Ambivalent and Ambiphillic Lewis acid/bases with Symmetry Signatures and An Alternative Notation for these Non-Innocent Ligands’, in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, (2014), 751, 153–173.

--‘A Historical Introduction to Gold Clusters and Colloids’, in Structure and Bonding, 2014, 161, 1–51.

--‘Structural and Bonding Issues in Clusters and Nano-Clusters’, in Structure and Bonding, 2014, 162, 1–66.

--with R Frank, J Howell, R Tirfoin, D Dange, C Jones, and S Aldridge: ‘Circumventing Redox Chemistry: Synthesis of Transition Metal Boryl Complexes from a Boryl Nucleophile by Decarbonylation’, in Journal of the 26

American Chemical Society, 2014, 136(44), 15730–15741.

--‘Structural and Bonding Patterns in Gold Clusters’, in Dalton Transactions, (2015), 44(15), 6680–6695.

--‘A Theoretical Analysis of Ambivalent and Ambiphilic Lewis acid/bases with Symmetry Signatures’, in Coordination Chemistry Reviews, (2015), 293–294, 2–19.

Philip Mountford Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry. During the last academic year, Philip Mountford’s research has focussed on the following areas: reactions of new transition metal hydrazide and borylimide complexes; development of new catalysts and approaches to the synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers; new Ziegler-Natta type olefin polymerisation catalysts; and new compounds with unusual metal-metal bonds. Details of this research and the associated publications are given at www.mountfordgroup.org.

In addition, Philip has continued to serve as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Dalton Transactions. This is one of the leading international journals in the areas of inorganic, organometallic, and bioinorganic chemistry. He was awarded a 2014 Peking University–Eli Lilly Prize Lectureship, and the 2015 Schlenk Lectureship of BASF and the University of Tűbingen (for outstanding research into small-molecule reaction chemistry). Philip gave lectures at a number of national and international meetings. On the departmental side, he has also continued to serve as Head of Inorganic Chemistry.

Lucy Newlyn Professor of English, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature. In addition to being busy with teaching, examining, and co-ordinating the Hall Writers’ Forum and other literary activities, Lucy spent three months leading an international grassroots campaign to get Wole Soyinka elected as the University’s next Professor of Poetry. (Sadly the campaign was unsuccessful, but a firm connection between Soyinka and the Hall has happily emerged in the process.) In July 2015, Lucy published a collection of poems, Earth’s Almanac, with Enitharmon Press; and in August, she delivered a keynote lecture at the International Wordsworth Conference held at Rydal Hall in Cumbria.

Jennifer Nuttall Fellow by Special Election in English continues her research into late medieval English poetics, giving a paper on ‘The techne of Verse-Making’ at the London Chaucer Conference in July 2015. She is one of 12 invited speakers at ‘The Provocative Fifteenth Century’, a two-day symposium to be held in the Huntingdon Library in California in October 2015. Jenni is also writing a chapter on ‘Patronage’ for the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell New Companion to Chaucer. Developing her interest in outreach and access matters, she has joined the editorial board of The English Review, a magazine for sixth-formers studying English Literature, which is published by Hodder Education. She is also involved in a pilot project creating radio podcasts for sixth-formers about closereading poetry. Jenni remains a keen blogger (stylisticienne.com) and tweeter (@Stylisticienne) and she received an honourable mention in the ‘Open Practices’ 27

category in this year’s OxTALENT awards.

Ian Pavord Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow has continued to work with GlaxoSmithKline on the clinical development of Mepolizumab, a promising new monoclonal antibody treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma.

In June 2015, Mepolizumab received FDA approval and it is hoped that the treatment will be available for use in the clinic within a year. He has been the lead author of several studies identifying the blood eosinophil count as a biomarker of the response to inhaled corticosteroids in patients with COPD. This work will allow treatment to be targeted more effectively and, since the blood eosinophil count is a readily-available biomarker, it will have a large impact on clinical practice. Ian was elected as a foundation Fellow of the European Respiratory Society in 2014 and as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2015.

Philipp Podsiadlowski Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics. During the last year Philipp’s research has covered a variety of topics in stellar astrophysics, ranging from the origin of neutron stars in very close binaries, to the physics of binary supernova explosions, to understanding the progenitors of various supernova explosions (including those that have led to the discovery that the Universe is accelerating). This work has produced seven refereed papers co-authored

by Philipp, and the extension of numerous collaborations around the world (in particular Germany, China, South Korea and Australia). He was an invited speaker at eight conferences, for four of which he was a (co-)organiser. Philipp also won a Humboldt Research Prize, a prestigious award from the Humboldt Society in Germany, for his life work.

David Priestland Professor of Modern History, Tutor in Modern History has been continuing with his project on the history of market liberalism since the 1980s.

He gave talks in Amsterdam and Geneva on both that and his earlier work on the history of Communism.

Climent Quintana-Domeque Associate Professor in Economics, William R Miller Fellow in Economics and Tutor in Economics started his second year at the Hall by being appointed Associate Editor of Economics and Human Biology, an academic journal devoted to the exploration of the effect of socio-economic processes on human beings as biological organisms. He went on to be ranked among the top 200 Young Economists (IDEAS-REPEC) in December 2014. In addition to his usual activities in the Hall (tutoring visiting students, teaching second years, reviewing with finalists) and his departmental activities (teaching graduate students in the MSc in Economics for Development and the MPhil in Economics, supervising MPhil theses in Economics), Climent has been actively conducting research. During the year he presented his findings at the University of Essex, University of Sussex, Lund University (Sweden), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (London), the Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (Naples), Royal Economic Society Meetings 2015 (Manchester), 28

Toulouse School of Economics, and Barcelona Forum BGSE (Family Economics).

Climent’s research paper ‘Relative Concerns on Visible Consumption: A Source of Economic Distortions’, co-authored with Dr Francesco Turino (USA), was accepted for publication in The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics in June 2015.

Peter Rothwell Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow remains the Director of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit (SPRU) in the University’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience. He has been continuing his research work on the secondary prevention of major stroke after transient ischaemic attacks (TIA) and minor stroke, on the link between blood pressure and stroke, and on the effect of aspirin on risk of cancer and other non-vascular outcomes. In addition to funding his research group, which has now expanded to about 40 staff, Peter has raised £10 million over the last few years in order to establish in Oxford a new Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, with particular help from the Wolfson Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. Building work will start next year.

Peter received the Senior Science Award from the International Aspirin Foundation in December 2014. This award is made biennially to recognise the achievement of a scientist who has made meritorious contributions to the field of knowledge relevant to the therapeutic and/or prophylactic use of aspirin. Also in December 2014, Peter was given the prestigious annual Princess Margaret Memorial Lectureship, awarded to a UK or international researcher for his or her contribution to stroke research. He delivered his lecture, entitled ‘Improving prevention of stroke in an ageing population’, at the 9th UK Stroke Forum Conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

Martin Slater Emeritus Fellow has been writing a book on the UK’s national debt.

Sir Keir Starmer Honorary Fellow was elected to Parliament as the member for Holborn and St Pancras in the May 2015 General Election.

Nick Stone Emeritus Fellow, now Research Professor at the University of Tennessee and based in the city of Oakridge, Tennessee, continues to combine Physics with pleasure. Professional research and lecturing with his wife Jirina have taken them during the past year or so to China (twice) and to Australia, as well as on shorter visits across the pond to Europe. They combine these ventures with personal vacations: they have visited the tomb of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Karl, on Madeira, and the (vacant) rooms of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet.

Niklaus Thomas-Symonds College Lecturer in Politics was elected to Parliament as the member for his home constituency of Torfaen in the May 2015 General Election.

Jeffrey Tseng Associate Professor in Experimental Particle Physics, Tutor in Physics and Chapel Overseeing Fellow. After 12 years on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Jeff has joined the ‘SNO+’ experiment, which is looking for a phenomenon called ‘neutrinoless double beta decay’ in 29

a detector built in an old mine shaft deep underground in Sudbury, Canada.

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a very rare nuclear decay which, if observed for the first time, could help shed light on the mysterious neutrino particles and how they fit – at present, uneasily – within the Standard Model of particle physics. At the same time, Jeff continues to search, with his ATLAS collaborators, for new particles at the energy frontier recently opened up by the upgraded LHC. Dimitrios Tsomocos University Reader in Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election. Dimitri’s very productive academic year included the publication of the following articles: ‘Monetary Transaction Costs and the Term Premium’ (with R. Espinoza), in Economic Theory, 59: 335–375, 2015; ‘International Monetary Equilibrium with Default’ (with U. Peiris), in Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 56, 47–57, 2015; ‘International Monetary Regimes’ (with C.A.E. Goodhart), in Capitalism and Society, Vol. 9, Iss.2, Art.2, 2014; and ‘Principles with Macroprudential Regulation’ (with A.K.Kashyap and A.P. Vardoulakis), in Banque de France Stability Review, No. 18, 173–182, April 2014.

Dimitri also travelled extensively to give invited talks, seminars, and plenary speeches. These included: the People’s Bank of China, Beijing; the 2014 University of Science and Technology of China Shanghai Financial Summit, Shanghai; the 79th Thessaloniki International Fair, Economic Chamber of Greece, Thessaloniki; ‘Global Stability and Growth and the State of Economics’, International Conference on Economics – Turkish Economic Association and Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Antalya (at which he was an Invited Speaker); the 11th Annual Conference of the Special Edition of EPSE Journal, ‘Changes in Monetary Policy and Central Banking Over the Past Two Decades’, Banco de la Republica, Bogota (at which he was Keynote Speaker); ‘Central Banks and Global Financial Volatility: Macroeconomic Impact and Structural Challenges’, 2014 Money and Banking Conference, Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, Buenos Aires; 2015 ASSA Annual Meeting, AEA, Boston; ‘Leverage and Financial System Efficiency and Stability: Chinese and International Experiences’, 6th Annual International Conference on the Chinese Economy, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, Hong Kong; and the Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen.

macroecology conference in Copenhagen, he presented work undertaken in conjunction with two of his doctoral students, Tom Matthews and Eden CotteeJones, both of whom completed their doctorates at the end of 2014. Eden thereby completed a clean sweep of three degrees at Teddy Hall under Rob’s supervision, which, while nominally in Geography, were actually mostly about birds. His thesis on isolated trees in agricultural landscapes in Assam established that fig trees had a particularly important role as keystone resources for fruit-eating birds and insectivorous birds, essentially acting to connect up isolated pockets of forest. Rob has managed to fit in further visits to two Macaronesian island groups in the last twelve months: a workshop in Madeira and a field course in Tenerife. He has also participated in the International Biogeography Society biennial meeting, held in January 2015 in Bayreuth, where he presented a talk on functional island biogeography as well as leading a student discussion group.

Rob is currently working with colleagues from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of La Laguna (Tenerife), University of Azores (Portugal), and University of Athens (Greece) on themes including the palaeoenvironmental and evolutionary dynamics of island biotas, human influence on islands and habitat islands, theory and pattern of species abundance distributions, and a range of other macroecological topics. This summer he completed his service as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Biogeography, a role he had held since October 2004.

Rob has co-authored 20 scientific papers in international peer review journals published since the start of 2014 and is working on the revision of a text-book on biogeography.

Robert Wilkins Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology, American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions. Robert has visited China twice in the last academic year. In March 2015, he was the guest of Sichuan University where he gave four lectures to Faculty and students about his research and teaching interests. This was as part of the Distinguished Speaker Programme established by the Hall, OXCEP, and Sichuan University. In June, Robert visited Fudan University in Shanghai and Lignan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, where he delivered presentations describing the structure and activities of Oxford colleges.

Richard Walker Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences was awarded the title Professor in Earth Sciences in the University’s Recognition of Distinction Exercise 2014–15. Richard’s research programmes into earthquake hazard in Asia continue (the Trinity Term 2015 issue of The Aularian newsletter included a detailed description of his current research interests and methods).

Renée Williams College Lecturer in French is retiring from the Hall this year, after 37 years’ service. Colleagues marked her retirement and showed their appreciation to Renée at a dinner in the SCR on 24 June 2015, also attended by her husband Dr Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow). Renée very much hopes that former students will keep in contact with her.

Robert Whittaker Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography and Dean. This time last summer, Rob was at an Island Biology meeting in Hawaii, where he presented a paper on recent work from his research group on island biodiversity and the factors that control it across islands and through time. This year, at a

Wes Williams Professor of French Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (French).

Over the past year, within the Hall Wes has been engaging with teaching, as ever, a talented and rewarding group of students across all three years, and with writing and research into a range of aspects of early modern French culture. He has also

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put in some hard work at the coal-face of committees, principally concerned with the restructuring of the Hall’s Bursarial operations and with rethinking our approach to (and regulations concerning) harassment. At the Faculty and Divisional level, this was Wes’s final year (of three) as Director of Graduate Studies in Modern Languages; it was also the final year of his involvement with the International Research Project exploring relations between Cognition and Literature, The Balzan Project on Literature as an Object of Knowledge (of which he was Deputy Director). As a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Wes spent much of Trinity Term 2015 establishing a partnership with Pegasus Theatre in East Oxford, exploring ancient, early modern, and contemporary ideas of Utopia.

In September 2015 he will be part of an exciting new venture, the first ever visit to Oxford of Ariane Mnouchkine’s Théâtre du Soleil, and the establishing of their innovative experiment, the Ecole Nomade. In 2015–16, Wes will be on sabbatical leave, and based in Paris, far from the distractions and excitements of the Hall.

Derrick Wyatt Emeritus Fellow took a few exeats from his retirement in the course of the year. He represented the UK in two European Court cases about Northern Ireland’s over-payment of EU money to its farmers (if law cases were sudokos, these two would have been rated “fiendish”). His evidence on EU reform (referred to in last year’s Magazine) was extensively cited in two Foreign Office reports published just before Christmas 2014. Last April, Derrick lectured at the Inter-University Institute in Dubrovnik on the subject ‘Countering the Risks posed by Rogue Regimes – has Judicial Control undermined EU Sanctions?’

(Derrick thought not). Aularian Professor Dr Tamara Perisin (Chevening Scholar and MJuris 2003) lectured on ‘The Global Effects of EU Risk Regulation’ at the same conference. Since fate and the pursuit of knowledge had placed them on the Balkan Peninsula, Derrick and Joan then moved on to an apartment in Montenegro overlooking the spectacular Bay of Kotor. On their return, Derrick joined a round-table discussion at the Treasury (Chatham House rules) on how to tackle the legal fall-out if the Conservatives won the General Election and set about re-negotiating the UK’s membership of the EU. The Civil Service’s forward planners clearly ignore the opinion polls!

Linda Yueh Fellow by Special Election in Economics is pleased that her latest book, China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower, is being published in Chinese in summer 2015, including a new preface. CITIC Press, a partner of the publisher, OUP, will also be organising book events throughout China later in 2015.

Amy Zavatsky University Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science continued her research on the biomechanics of the lower limb, publishing journal articles with her students and clinical colleagues on ‘turning gait in children’ and on ‘foot posture and flexible flatfoot in children’. She has just begun a six-year stint as a Curator of the University Parks – a site known to many Aularians as an attractive venue for university cricket and college rugby. Readers 32

who want to learn more about the history of the Parks, details of the current tree plantings and the ‘genetic garden’, and evidence of the Bronze Age and RomanoBritish occupation of the site, should see www.parks.ox.ac.uk (a website that also has some excellent photographs of the Parks taken across the seasons).

ARRIVALS IN THE SCR The Senior Common Room has been delighted to welcome the following new members this year.

Tony Best was sworn in as a St Edmund Fellow at the Governing Body’s meeting on 11 March 2015 in recognition of his support of the Hall. Educated at Berkhamsted School, Tony matriculated in 1979 to read PPE here. After leaving Oxford, he pursued a career in the City, first at Simon and Coates as an equity research analyst and from 1985 at JPMorgan as a fixed income salesman. Tony spent four years in New York in the late 1980s and returned to London to join the financial derivatives team. In 1994 he moved Tony Best receiving his into the Emerging Markets business and over the St Edmund Fellowship next 15 years ran a variety of investor sales businesses certificate from the in JPMorgan’s global markets division, becoming Principal Head of Global Sales and a member of the Executive Committee in 2008. In 2010 Tony opted to spend more time with his family and is now involved in a family business in defence and aerospace electronics; he also holds a variety of non-executive positions.

A passionate advocate of wider access to the University of Oxford, Tony has generously supported student bursaries at the Hall for over ten years. He is also providing valuable assistance to the Development and Alumni Relations Office both for the long-term fundraising campaign and alumni relations.

Mattéa Finelli was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship (J&J Innovation JRF in Neuroscience related to Medicine) with effect from 1 June 2015.

After receiving Master’s degrees in Bioengineering from SupAgro (Montpellier, France, 2004–07) and in Biomedical Research from Imperial College, London (2006–07), she completed her DPhil at Oxford (2007–10) supervised by Professor Dame Kay Davies.

Mattéa then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City before returning to Oxford in 2013 to join Dr Peter Oliver’s laboratory in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.

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Mattéa’s main research interest is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative disorders. During her DPhil studies she dissected the mechanisms underlying death of specific neurons in two mouse models of movement disorders. In particular Mattéa researched the novel oxidative resistance (Oxr1) gene – its role in neuronal survival and its protective effect against oxidative stress. Since oxidative stress is an etiological feature of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, she believes that it is crucial to understand how this stress arises and how it can be reduced in neurons. In that context, Mattéa is currently investigating the role of a family of proteins related to Oxr1, all possessing a highly-conserved TLDc domain with a potential neuroprotective function.

Paul Goulart joined Teddy Hall in Michaelmas Term 2014 as a Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science. His teaching focuses mainly on topics in engineering mathematics, electrical engineering, control and signal processing.

He received his SB and MSc degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Following his undergraduate studies he was a software developer in the flight operations centre for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, and later an engineer in the Autonomous Systems research group at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.

In 2003 Paul was selected as a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received a PhD in Control Engineering in 2007. From 2007 to 2011 he was a Lecturer in control systems in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, and from 2011 to 2014 a Senior Researcher in the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. At Oxford he is currently a member of the Control Group in the Department of Engineering Science, where he is a Professor in Engineering Science.

Paul’s research interests are mainly in robust and highspeed optimisation and control, with a wide range of application areas including fluid flows, economics, and traffic networks.

Alumnus Christopher Hawkesworth was admitted as an Honorary Fellow in Trinity Term 2015. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Christopher came to the Hall in 1970 to study for a DPhil in Earth Sciences. His distinguished academic career includes holding professorial appointments at the University of Bristol (where he also became Research Director of the Science Faculty) and the University of St 34

Andrews (where he also became Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal for Research). Christopher’s specialist field is isotope geochemistry, in particular the formation of the continental crust, the nature of the geological record and the extent to which it is biased by sedimentary and tectonic processes, and the development of supercontinents. An FRS and FRSE, he was awarded The Geological Society’s prestigious Wollaston Medal in 2012 and holds an honorary DSc from the University of Copenhagen.

The Hall was delighted to elect Salman Khurshid as an Honorary Fellow in Michaelmas Term 2014.

Salman matriculated through the Hall in 1974 to read for a BA in Jurisprudence, graduating with First Class Honours in 1977. This was followed by a further year of study to gain his BCL degree. While at Oxford he played squash and was in the Hall cricket team. After graduation he lectured in Law at Trinity College, Oxford.

Salman returned to India and started his political career in 1981 as an Officer on Special Duty in the Prime Minister’s Office, during Indira Gandhi’s administration in the early 1980s. He later became Deputy Minister of Commerce in the Government of India, and then, having been elected to the Indian parliament in 1991, Minister of State for External Affairs (1993–1996). He is a member of the Indian National Congress party.

In India’s 2009 General Election, Salman was again elected as a member of parliament and was made Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs. In a cabinet re-shuffle of July 2011, he became Cabinet Minister for Law and Justice, and Minority Affairs.

He is a grandson of the late Dr Zakir Hussain, President of India, and is married to Louise.

Henrike Lähnemann was appointed Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics in January 2015, joining the Hall as Professorial Fellow and Governing Body Fellow. She grew up in three medieval German towns that shaped her interest in medieval literature and religion: Münster, Lüneburg and Nürnberg. She then studied German Literature, History of Art and Theology in Bamberg, Edinburgh, Berlin and Göttingen. Her PhD, supervised by Christoph Huber (Bamberg) and linked with the Graduate School ‘Church and Society in the 15th and 16th Centuries’, explored the late medieval literary network of Nuremberg from the perspective of one 35

of its town clerks, Johannes Vorster, for which she won the dissertation prize from the University of Bamberg. From 1995 to 2006, she worked at the University of Tübingen where she taught a variety of courses on medieval German language and literature ranging from Advanced Gothic to Early Print Culture. During that time she gained a Venia Legendi (the right to lecture) in German Philology for her book on the history of the Book of Judith in the Middle Ages and edited an 11th century bilingual commentary on the Song of Songs by Williram of Ebersberg.

During these years, she spent a year at Oxford on a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working with Professor Nigel F. Palmer (2001–02), held a Visiting Professorship in manuscript studies at the University of Zürich (2005), and received a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (2006). In September 2006, she came to the UK as Chair of German Studies at Newcastle University where her current research projects took shape, situated in the religious landscape of Northern Germany in the 15th/16th centuries, particularly the manuscripts produced by the nuns in the Lüneburg area.

Working at Newcastle also afforded Henrike the opportunity to start shared projects with British German medievalists and the wider field of Modern Languages, e.g. as Chair of Women in German Studies (WIGS).

Her research focus now that she has arrived in Oxford will be the wider area of medieval German literature with a special focus on manuscript studies, the intersection of visual and textual culture, Latin-German bilingual writing and Digital Humanities. As Director of Impact for the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, a special concern of hers is to make humanities research visible and accessible. She has already made good use of the excellent opportunities afforded

by St Edmund Hall for collaboration, building up a website to host the database of the manuscripts she is editing (medingen.seh.ox.ac.uk) and presenting with the other Hall linguists at the Research Expo in Hilary Term 2015. In September 2015, she will be joined at the Hall by a DPhil student, Jennifer Bunselmeier, who is going to work on Latin-Low German dictionaries of the 15th Century.

Henrike’s Inaugural Lecture will take place on Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 5pm in the Taylorian Institute: it will centre around a manuscript which the Bodleian has agreed to buy, written by a nun from Lüneburg, the same place Henrike Lähnemann originally comes from. All welcome to attend!

Mauro Pasta joined the Hall in August 2015 as Tutor in Materials Science. He is also an Associate Professor of Materials at the University.

Born in a small village at the foothills of the Alps in the province of Bergamo, Italy, Mauro received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Milan. Here he started his 36

research journey in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry. He began working on gold nanoparticles as selective aerobic oxidation catalysts, and then became interested in electrochemistry during his doctorate studies on the electrooxidation of glucose. Directly after completing his PhD, he joined the Center for Electrochemical Science of the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) as a Postdoctoral Researcher focusing on electrochemical methods to efficiently desalinate and delithiate seawater. Mauro moved to Stanford University in 2011 as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and began his research on batteries for grid-scale energy storage applications.

His research interests lie in electrochemical energy storage and conversion. In particular: • Energy storage: Li and Na-ion batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors.

• Energy conversion: power from salinity gradients (blue energy), seawater desalination and delithiation.

• Electrocatalysis: organic molecules electroxidation, Oxygen Reduction Reactions and Hydrogen Evolving Reactions, carbon dioxide sequestration and electroreduction.

Mauro has recently focused his attention on grid-scale electrochemical energy storage technologies, working on a new class of materials with an open framework crystal structure that allows for a very long cycle life and high energy efficiency and power output.

Outside of the lab, Mauro is an avid beach volleyball player, cyclist and motorbike hobbyist.

Andrew Smye returned to the Hall in Trinity Term 2015 as a Junior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences.

He completed his undergraduate studies in Earth Sciences in 2007, following which he moved to Magdalene College, Cambridge for his PhD, where he worked on understanding how heat is transported through the Earth’s crust. Since then, he has held postdoctoral appointments in the NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratories at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham; and more recently, at the University of Texas in Austin as a Jackson Research Fellow. He joins the Hall with a NERC Independent Research Fellowship, based at the Oxford Department of Earth Sciences.

Andrew’s research is motivated by understanding the processes controlling the physical evolution of the Earth’s crust and mantle. He combines isotope geochemistry and metamorphic petrology to constrain the rates of critical solid Earth processes, such as mountain belt formation, subduction, and continental breakup. The decay of radiogenic elements like uranium, thorium, and potassium, 37

sequestered within minerals which form deep within the Earth, provides natural ‘clocks’ to measure the progress of these processes. More recently his research has been concerned with understanding the degree to which volatile species, such as water and the noble gases, are exchanged between the Earth’s deep interior and surface reservoirs. Because volatiles play a key role in mediating Earth processes that shape surface habitability, research findings have the potential to change dramatically our current understanding of Earth’s evolution.

the KTN, part of Innovate UK. Passionate about advancing skills and capabilities through collaboration and effective governance, Faith leads Arup’s framework for the ‘Skills Networks’ which are the backbone of technical excellence.

Jayne Taylor joined the Hall in October 2014 as Domestic Bursar and Fellow by Special Election. This move to work in higher education builds on her 25 years’ experience in the commercial sector, where she started her career delivering hospitality services via private contracts in the NHS. After moving to Carnival UK in 1997, she worked on board a variety of ships for the P&O Cruises Fleet, starting as a Junior Purser and leaving the sea after 12 years as a Hotel Manager, responsible for the hotel operations, entertainment, and medical services on board. Jayne then moved to the Carnival UK Head Office in Southampton as a Project Manager for refitting ships, the delivery of new ships, and the development of a Hotel Operations Excellence programme. As Domestic Bursar, she oversees the work of the Bursary team which includes food and beverage services, housekeeping, accommodation, the Lodge, events and conferences, estates, IT and on-site medical services both in the Hall’s main site and the outlying accommodation.

The Hall was greatly saddened by the death of Emeritus Fellow Professor Martin Brasier in a road accident on 16 December 2014. Martin’s untimely loss was all the more poignant for occurring so soon after his receipt of the Lyall Medal earlier in the year (see the 2013–14 edition of the Magazine, pages 18–19) and the event held by the Hall and the University’s Department of Earth Sciences in September 2014 to celebrate his achievements. The following obituary appeared on the Department’s website and is reproduced by kind permission.

Jayne is an alumna of Leeds Polytechnic, where she obtained a BA in Hospitality Management in 1991.

Faith Wainwright was elected as an Honorary Fellow in Trinity Term 2015. She is a director of Arup, a company which she joined after graduating from the Hall in 1983. As a structural engineer, Faith has contributed to many award-winning projects. She became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and is currently Vice-President of the Institution of Structural Engineers. She was awarded an MBE for services to the Built Environment and Engineering Professions in 2012 and an Honorary DEng from Bath University in 2014.

Faith enjoys opportunities to encourage and support the UK’s design and engineering capability and has wide experience in leadership roles including serving on the British Library Advisory Council and the Civil Engineering panel of the REF14 research assessment exercise. She is a Non-executive Director of 38

SCR OBITUARIES MARTIN BRASIER

Martin Brasier (12 April 1947–16 December 2014): A dedicated life to palaeobiology Martin Brasier was one the country’s leading palaeobiologists, a renowned name on the international geological stage, and a vocal protagonist at the centre of many palaeobiological debates contributing to and shaping our understanding of the biosphere at key junctures in Earth history.

He was Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, and tragically met his death in a car accident on 16 December 2014.

The scope of Martin’s research interests was extremely wide, temporally encompassing the entire geological column, and geographically all continents with the exception of Antarctica. However, he was probably best known for his research on the early biosphere, from the origin of life itself, to the emergence in the fossil record of multi-celled animals during the Cambrian explosion event.

Martin’s early research, from 1969 onwards, involved studying the ecology and microhabitats of modern benthic foraminifera, cyanobacterial mats, algae, and sea-grass and mangrove communities of the Caribbean. After the award of his PhD from University College London in 1973, this work blossomed into a mathematical study of foraminiferid skeletal morphospace and its application in mapping the evolution of photosymbioses and sea-grass communities through time. During lectureships at the universities of Reading and Hull, Martin began the first study of cytological interactions in lower Cambrian reef systems, revealing the sponge-like biology of archaeocyathids, and by the late 1970s was attempting a data-based ecological and taphonomic assessment of the Cambrian explosion of skeletal fossils.

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The early 1980s saw Martin, together with his University of Hull colleague John Neale, establish a Master’s course there in Micropalaeontology, and this period included the publication of the first edition of his seminal book, Microfossils. The second edition (co-authored with Howard Armstrong) remains a core textbook used by students of micropalaeontology around the world. At the same time, his study of benthic foraminifera resulted in publications on ecology, and on foraminiferal architecture and evolution, the latter paper appearing in the first volume of the Journal of Micropalaeontology. The foraminiferal architecture and evolution theme was initially developed in a paper published in a special publication (1982) honouring the work of Tom Barnard, Martin’s PhD supervisor.

During the 1970s Martin contributed much to the British Micropalaeontological Society (BMS; subsequently known as the The Micropalaeontological Society), in which he was respectively Foraminifera Group Secretary (1974–1977), BMS Newsletter Editor (1977–1979) and Foraminifera Group Chair (1983–1985). He was proud of his various contributions to the BMS, including disseminating information to members in a pre-computer and email world, and in advancing the development of the society from a national to a well-respected international organisation. In 1981 he was co-editor (with John Neale) of a book on Microfossils from Recent and Fossil Shelf Seas, which detailed contemporary British micropalaeontological research of the time, the format of which was adopted by the BMS for its subsequent occasional publications.

Martin relocated from Hull to Oxford in 1988, and was elected a fellow at St Edmund Hall in the October of that year. The relocation was part of the Thatcher government’s Earth Sciences Review re-organisation of departments and staff.

This review also resulted in the establishment of a dedicated palaeobiology research laboratory in Oxford, situated in the basement of 10 Parks Road (affectionately known as the dungeon by both staff and research students), and this provided a retreat away from the bustle of the main department. In the afternoons, after a morning of undergraduate lecturing, it provided an excellent research environment and fostered discussions of the new geochemical technologies that enabled high-resolution contextual analysis of the Ediacaran and Cambrian evolutionary radiations, and it provided an informal setting for musings on the origins of the major invertebrate groups, or of the nature of Snowball Earth. It was during this time that Martin took a leading role in the International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP), specifically its deliberations regarding the formal definition of the Cambrian and Ediacaran time periods, through use of stratotype sections and the so-called ‘golden spikes’.

During the next 15 years Martin helped revolutionise the study of the earliest biosphere, pioneering a new, critical approach to the assessment of the biogenicity of Earth’s most ancient life, the latter including both microfossils and trace fossils. He quickly realized that to tease out and understand the scarce evidence of life in the early rock record required the assembling of a team, and as leader 40

he would listen intently to both laboratory and field discussions, subsequently incorporating, modifying and refining his and his co-workers’ ideas into a workable hypothesis. Many of the world’s leading palaeobiologists visited Martin in the Parks Road laboratory. However, it was noticeable that he was particularly anxious to impress when visited by his elder brother, Clive, a biologist with the Forestry Commission. On another occasion, in September 2000, at the height of the intense study of the Apex Chert samples from Australia, Andy Knoll recalled visiting Martin in “a quaint Edwardian building off Parks Road, [where] we spent a revealing day examining thin sections of the Warrawoona chert”.

Those present will never forget Martin’s clear reasoning and good humour during the initial Apex Chert debate in San Francisco at the NASA Ames conference of April 2002, when he argued against the notion of organic structures being present in that 3.460 MYr deposit. The fundamental protocols developed for the study of terrains that could support early Achaean life – such as the careful mapping of features and fabrics at various scales, utilizing field observations, and critical interpretation of petrographic thin-sections in the laboratory – were established during this time. Martin was extremely proud of planting the seed of this paradigm shift in the recognition of artifacts previously considered biogenic in origin, and frequently referred to this as his most satisfying research project. Careful field observations supported by the detailed examination of high-quality petrographic polished sections, as undertook in the Apex project, yielded a high scientific return for the modest investment of a quality polarizing microscope and associated imaging system, as Martin always reminded all those who would listen. Martin had benefitted from a classic geological training in field observations, sampling, mapping and laboratory analysis during his undergraduate studies at Chelsea College, London, and it was these core methods that he subsequently employed in his own undergraduate teaching.

Also, he was always quick to embrace new ideas and new technology, right up to his untimely death. For instance, he initiated and self-funded the earliest highresolution digital scanning of the Memorial Crags Precambrian soft-bodied fossil assemblage of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, many years before other research groups appreciated and recognised the value of this approach.

During the past decade, Oxford undergraduates will recall the procedures of Martin on the local field trip to Rock Edge Quarry, Headington. Perched on the second rung of a step-ladder, he would form the students into two rows, representing near-shore and deeper water marine corals, and ask them to move in the direction of an advancing and then retreating sea! Invariably he would pass his hard-hat to a student with the comment “Think of this as a sand grain, you are a coral, so what do you do? Correct, you pass it on to your neighbour.” By such means the concept of transgression and regression and its effect on shifting habitats, was understood.

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Martin had a wonderful ability for storytelling, whether it was during tutorials over the occasional glass of port, or through his notebooks that in part were often works of art. He put this to great effect in his popular science books Darwin’s Lost World and Secret Chambers, bringing the Precambrian to life for a whole new and diverse audience. Martin strongly believed in sharing good ideas and widening access to scientific education and was rightly proud of the impact these books made, and no doubt will continue to make for years to come.

Aberdeen. The family association with geology even led to papers jointly authored

by Martin and Alexander, and also Martin and Cecilia, his wife of more than forty years. He will be very much missed by all who knew him. He is survived by Cecilia, his sons Matthew and Alexander, and daughter Zoe and two grandchildren.

In early 2014 Martin’s contributions to the geological sciences were formally recognised by the award of the prestigious Lyell Medal from the Geological Society of London, an accolade of which he was justifiably proud. His career was celebrated in Oxford on the occasion of his retirement in September 2014, with a day of talks in the Department of Earth Sciences followed by a dinner in St Edmund Hall, where in addition to the Tutorial Fellowship position he held for 25 years, he was responsible for the College paintings, and through his knowledge of Latin, was reserve Dean of Degrees. He once informed a former Vice-Chancellor of the University, John Hood, a native of New Zealand, that he could perhaps, conduct the ceremony in Maori! The most enjoyable occasion of his retirement was attended by colleagues, friends and family from the UK and abroad and the diversity of attendees indicated the wide influence that Martin has had across the geological community, and the warmth with which he was regarded. On his retirement, Martin was ready to open a new chapter in his life, devoting at least part of his energy to new research, now lost to us due to his premature death.

The following obituary was published in Times Higher Education on 12 March 2015, page 22, and is reproduced by kind permission of the magazine, which described Professor Harris as “one of the most radical thinkers about language and communication”.

It may be tempting to consider Martin only as an academic, but to do so would overlook his many other diverse talents and interests. He was a skilled jazz pianist, even building some of his own keyboard instruments. Martin could recite large passages of Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (providing evening entertainment in the field in Western Australia). He had a love of archaeology, amassing an impressive collection of Roman seals and coins, and, when he was in a local Oxfordshire gravel pit, he unearthed a Roman shoe that is now on display in Woodstock Museum.

His fascination with the history of science resulted in his collecting a variety of associated objects, such as a microscope used by the micropalaeontologist Joseph Cushman, and books by Robert Hooke and Charles Darwin.

His nurturing and kind nature was extended to the hundreds of undergraduates he taught and tutored, as well as the many Masters and DPhil students he advised and the postdoctoral colleagues he mentored and collaborated with. In all this, and through a publication record of over 180 papers and his books, he leaves a very substantial scientific legacy, and his intellectual spirit lives on in the research of his former students and co-workers.

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(Written by Owen Green, Derek Siveter, and David Wacey.)

ROY HARRIS

ROY HARRIS, 1931–2015 Roy Harris was born on 24 February 1931 and educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School in Bristol and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

After serving as a lecteur at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (1956–57), he worked as an assistant lecturer (1957–58) and then lecturer (1958– 60) at the University of Leicester before returning to Oxford for most of the rest of his career, notably as professor of the Romance languages (1976–77) and then, from 1978, the University’s first professor of general linguistics, becoming emeritus on retirement. He also took up shorter-term teaching posts in Boston, Hong Kong and Paris, and visiting professorships in New Delhi and New York.

At the heart of Professor Harris’ research was an attack on what he called “the language myth”. This is the seemingly common-sense view that language communities share a uniform code to match mental concepts with words, so that ideas can be transferred direct from one brain to another. In reality, he argued, words and other linguistic units are not freestanding signs with permanent meanings but can be understood in context only by the people using them. Such views, developed into the philosophy of “integrationalism”, were set out in detail in a celebrated trilogy consisting of The Language-Makers (1980), The Language Myth (1981) and The Language Machine (1987).

Building on these foundations, Professor Harris then applied his core ideas to the nature of writing – in The Nature of Writing (1986), La sémiology de l’écriture (1994) and Rethinking Writing (2000) – before adopting a similar approach to art, history, science and psychology. His arguments drew as many critics as admirers, and particularly pained the linguistics establishment, but they are still being pursued and developed by the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication, which he helped found in 1987.

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Professor Harris “approached every linguistic argument with a fearsome forensic ability”, recalled Michael Toolan, professor of English language at the University of Birmingham, yet “in personal relations with students and visitors he was always generous, often charming and witty, and patient with slower brains grappling with the hard ideas in good faith… He was enormously wellread, far beyond linguistics, but this knowledge was never paraded for effect: it was simply there in the background, informing his sometimes disturbingly unorthodox arguments.”

Professor Harris died of cardiovascular problems on 9 February 2015 and is survived by his wife Rita, a daughter and a grandson.

Roy Harris – a personal view The following tribute to Professor Harris is provided by his former colleague Chris Wells, Emeritus Fellow and sometime Tutor in German.

Roy Harris could be combative, but he was also witty and amusing, trenchant and forthright, and humane and thoughtful. These characteristics come across in his many thought-provoking books, which have yet to achieve the recognition they deserve. Roy’s touchiness reflected his extreme sensitivity: a temperament manifested in his interest in art, particularly pottery. Indeed, he pondered deeply upon what art is and how it communicates, and a series of exhibitions currently [April 2015] showing in New York are based on his pamphlet The Great Debate About Art (2010) – published, aptly enough, by the Prickly Paradigm Press!

Roy came to the Hall in 1951 after his National Service, admitted for English, but changing to read French. A pencilled remark on the admissions certificate notes that he was a conscientious objector prepared to do land or hospital work.

Indeed ‘conscientious objector’ sums up much of his career – he rejected the de-humanising linguistic orthodoxies as pseudo-objective, if not amoral – and he always did the ground-work reading. His college tutor Dr Richard Fargher became a great friend. Surviving contemporaries will remember Roy as a cricketer (a canny bowler), a prominent member of the Labour Club, and a member of the editorial staff of Isis. After a splendid performance in the philological papers of the FHS in 1954, his State Scholarship was extended leading to a DPhil in 1958. In the meantime, in 1955, Roy married Rita Shulman who was his helpmeet, critic and reader throughout. Their daughter Laura was born in 1959.

Roy wrote two doctorates, different in scope and character, and held two chairs at Oxford, as Professor of Romance Philology, and then as the first holder of the Chair of General Linguistics in which capacity he inspired and guided many graduate students, including Stephen Farrow, Chris Hutton, Nigel Love and Talbot Taylor. The several and diverse universities where he taught and lectured include University of Hong Kong in the twilight of British rule: he made characteristically direct observations on the quality of English generally 44

spoken and taught there!

Roy’s second PhD, from SOAS, appeared later as his Synonymy and Linguistic Analysis, 1973, in which he asks where ‘the boundary between the linguistic and the nonlinguistic lies’ (p.246). Here he was already engaging with approaches that viewed language as located inside the sanitized head of the ideal speakerhearer. This raised philosophical questions about the nature of language, language acquisition and the differences between the human animal and the others. (Roy was, perhaps, a philosophical linguistician, rather than a linguistic philosopher: he would have eschewed both labels.) While structuralists and transformationalists commonly treated language divorced from complex social and regional varieties, including ritual, and belief-systems, Roy sought to understand the speakers on their own terms, based on their common-sense awareness of what they were doing. It led to work such as that by one of his pupils, Hayley Davis, (herself sometime Junior Dean of the Hall) whose thesis was about informal definitions of the word. However, Roy himself remained sceptical about the model of language as a ‘telementational process’, by which he understood, somewhat idealistically, the coherent, complete and accurate transference of something in one mind to the mind of an interlocutor by speech or writing. This scepticism was to underpin his work on Saussure, on semiology and on language and writing in which he subjected the terms used by Saussure and forerunners, including Plato and Aristotle to rigorous analysis.

His communicational approach to language grew increasingly holistic, incorporating the visual (and ‘artistic’) and the regulated activities of the sportsfield or the chess-board, musical notation and mathematical symbol, in an exciting and stimulating way which made him question the more restrictive orthodoxies.

This ‘integrationist’ approach went far beyond the austerity of an apparently objective and descriptive linguistics which sought to isolate language in order to study it scientifically, distinct from its semiological setting. Roy examined the implicit assumptions of a linguistics that paid lip-service to performed speech and the vagaries of ‘parole’, while in it fact theorised about ‘static’ (and ‘dead’) written forms of language. Moreover, writing itself was both over-prioritised by being treated as a surrogate for the evanescent spoken forms and simultaneously demoted semiologically to being a mere reflection of a dubiously hypostacised language system assumed to lie behind them both. In The Language Makers and The Language Myth, complementary in many ways, Roy discussed the tyranny of such ‘scriptism’, viewed much of linguistics as the spurious invention of scholars who were actually philologists studying written texts, and he sought to return to written signs their rightful independence from speech, a topic he pursued in his other books The Origin of Writing (1986) and Rethinking Writing (2000).

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available for help and advice”.

On his election When colleagues carp, reviewers rant, And doctorates begin to pall, Felix ille quem nominant Hon. Fellow of St Edmund Hall.

Roy could rant himself – as in the epilogue to The Language Machine (1987) – but to compensate, there is his imagined, deliciously surreal, dialogue between Saussure’s twin disembodied heads condemned to engage for ever in a communicative act (a tutorial, perhaps?) on page 27 of the Cours de linguistique where in fact nothing is being said! Beckett’s fin-de-jeu poubelles meet Sartre’s Huis clos!

Roy wrote self-deprecatingly to a principal of his old coll: “This isn’t scholarly stuff – nothing I write ever is – but if it can provoke proper scholars into a bit of a rethink, I think it will have served its purpose.” In many respects, this sums him up: provocative, highly intelligent, intellectually rigorous and uncompromising, awesomely well-read. He was also warm, funny and humane. He had a poet’s sense of synthesis – communication lies at the heart of all his work – yet he was clear-sighted and analytical and all too aware of the idiosyncrasy of the individual use of language and the tyranny of collective linguistic ideologies or orthodoxies which were inevitably political. We shall miss not only his company, but the perpetually provoking questions he fearlessly raised in the face of an at times bleak, but defiantly ironic, presentiment of the human condition.

Chris Wells Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall

MICHAEL JOSEPH MCSHANE, HALL IT MANAGER, 2007–15 News of Mike McShane’s death at the age of 65 greatly saddened the many staff and students who knew him at the Hall and in the University’s Information Technology community more widely.

Mike joined the Hall staff as IT Manager in May 2007, previously having held a variety of posts at organisations such as MODCOMP (where he worked for 19 years between 1981 and 2000), The Institute of Clinical Research, Cisco Systems, BP, and International Computers Limited (ICL), work which involved him in frequent but congenial overseas travel. His career coincided with a huge change in IT systems and technologies: away from the 1970s emphasis on mainframe computers of the kind in which ICL originally specialised, towards people’s requirement to use IT (no longer just ‘computers’) in almost every aspect of their daily lives. Not the least of Mike’s achievement was helping the Hall to cater for the situation in which every student now seems to have an electronic device of some kind (or several) and expects an ‘always on’ connection.

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Sadly, Mike’s final months at the Hall were affected by the chronic illness which led to him passing away on 22 May 2015. His funeral service was held at Wokingham on 12 June. Mike leaves his partner Meryl; his son David; his brother Eugene and wife Maryann; his sister Marylou and husband Trevor. Deep condolences are extended to all these family members on the loss of this talented and convivial man.

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with acknowledgement to Andrew Breakspear

FROM THE SENIOR & FINANCE BURSAR I am pleased to report that the Hall continues to make solid financial progress, despite a challenging environment. In particular, there are a number of important updates on financial and estate matters that I would like to highlight for readers.

The timing of the Magazine’s publication means that the 2014–15 accounts are still three months away from being completed; however, I expect them to show a small surplus from normal operations (before some significant legacy income) and a modest growth in the Hall’s endowment. The 2013–14 accounts, completed during the year, are available on the Hall website.

The Hall has recently made a significant addition to its estate. We have been able to purchase the Victorian house at 24 Norham Gardens, next door to our existing student accommodation at 26 Norham Gardens (also known as Brockhues House). This is truly a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and we were able to cultivate a discussion, which originally centred on possibly buying a section of its garden, into an agreement to purchase the entire property. Fortuitously, we were able to afford this as a result of a hugely generous legacy from William Asbrey and generous donations from Aularians who wish to remain anonymous – so this house is a new addition achieved with new funds. The near-term plan is for the property to provide more student accommodation; however, the house could fulfil a number of uses for the Hall, as our needs might change over the decades ahead.

As part of this purchase, we are in the fortunate position of now being able to look at the refurbishment of 26 Norham Gardens as part of a larger project encompassing both Nos. 24 and 26. Readers might recall that the Hall is in receipt of a grant from the College Contributions Committee (CCC) of £396,000 for this sort of refurbishment, and we have made a significant start on fundraising for these additional monies. Securing the full funds to enable these projects will be a focus for the year ahead.

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colleges, and our application this year was also successful: we have been awarded £50,000 to assist with our IT costs over the next two years.

Looking at the Hall’s estate more broadly, the Domestic Bursar and I have commissioned an extensive buildings and services survey of all the College’s buildings. This is not something that we believe has been done before, and so it’s long overdue. The report details the areas where work needs to be done, categorised by levels of urgency – with cost estimates attached to the works.

This important survey will be the backbone of the capital expenditure budgets over the next several years, and will likely be recommissioned every five years – so that the Hall always has an accurate picture of the state of its infrastructure.

We are actively working on financing alternatives for larger-scale expansion needs – particularly looking at the Isis building on the Iffley Road – and we have formed a working group of Aularians who have expertise in this area in order to progress this formally.

The Investment Sub-Committee (ISC) continues to oversee the management of the Hall’s endowment on behalf of the Finance Committee. After much analysis by the ISC and our advisers over the past 18 months, the Hall has decided to move to a spending rule – whereby we will spend a fixed percentage of the endowment each year, on a smoothed and sustainable basis – and as a result we are moving to total return accounting from 2015–16.

Lastly, I would like to pay tribute to our outstanding college accountant, Chris Wood FCA, who is leaving us after serving for the five years he originally planned. Chris has done a superb job both financially and in managing the Finance Department. He has brought a high degree of professionalism and a much needed no-nonsense approach to this vital role, and we wish him the very best in his future endeavours.

Simon Costa

FROM THE DOMESTIC BURSAR The last year has been a time of change for the Bursary team. Ernest Parkin retired in September 2014 and I arrived in October. It has been a time of intensive learning for me, developing the knowledge needed to ensure that the Bursary continues to deliver the requirements of the Fellows, students and staff. It has also been a time of adjustment for the team as they get to know me.

Our People It is with great sadness that I have to report that we lost two members of the team to cancer this year. Mike McShane, the IT Manager, passed away in May. Mike had been battling cancer for approximately 18 months.

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illness. Zito was originally from East Timor and was able to travel home to see his family before he passed away. Zito was only 40 years of age and was a valued member of the team. The Bursary team and especially his colleagues in the kitchen miss him. We were able to hold a memorial service with the Revd Will Donaldson for Zito in the Chapel for family and friends in the UK who were unable to attend his funeral in East Timor.

We have also seen a number of staff decide to move on from the Hall and pursue other avenues. Rosemary Cameron, Accommodation Officer and Liz Brockless, HR Administrator, have left this year.

Julie McCann, the MCR Butler, has also decided to retire after 25 years of service.

We wish her a long and happy retirement. She will be missed by all.

We welcome: Alison Marshall (HR Manager), Mandy Estall (Senior & Finance Bursar’s PA), Kacper Szymanski (Bar Assistant), Fabricio Caernio (Chef de Partie), Lisa Thomas (Deputy Housekeeper), Maria Silman (Servery) and Rod Thornton (IT Officer).

We also congratulate Daniel Field and Reece Hodgson for completing their chef training course. Both have now been promoted to Junior Chef de Partie.

Melanie Brickell, Academic Administrator, has welcomed a baby girl, Alice, to her family and will be returning to work in October 2015.

The Estates team have been extremely busy completing a number of projects across all our sites, some of which you will have seen and some that have happened “behind the scenes”. Here are just a few of them: • Rear Quad Project – enclosing the entrances to the SCR and Wolfson Hall with glass and a purpose-built access ramp to replace the temporary structure; • ongoing refurbishment of kitchens and rooms in Whitehall; • refurbishment of the Welfare Room, which will be renamed as the Gerald Hegarty Room in recognition of our former Chaplain, and the redecoration of the Buttery; • ongoing programme of asbestos abatement; • ongoing programme of upgrading our fire safety systems; • installation of new heating control systems for the Traps, Staircase I and Library boiler house; • upgrade of heating system at William R Miller building; • the replacement of ageing boilers at external properties; • replacement of high-level access safety system on Kelly and Emden; • refurbishment of the JCR kitchen, installation of stairs to pool table area and the creation of more comfortable communal seating areas in the Kelly building.

This is in conjunction with the large level of general maintenance work that has to be completed on a daily basis to ensure that we maintain services throughout the Hall.

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Preparation and Planning We have also planned a major project for summer 2015, with the repaving of the Front Quad. This commenced at the end of July and will be completed by the middle of December 2015. It will take place during a busy time for the Hall, with a full conference programme being maintained. As we are digging up the Front Quad we will take full advantage of the opportunity and install a new electrical sub-main cable and new fibre-optic cables for the IT infrastructure.

The engraved stones currently in the Front Quad will be removed and handed back to their sponsors, and new stones will be engraved to be repositioned in the Chapel Square, the area surrounding the Magnolia at the back of the Chapel.

The Senior & Finance Bursar and I commissioned a significant buildings and services survey during last Trinity term, which was undertaken by an external Property and Construction Consultancy. They have now produced a comprehensive report that sets out the basis for a ten-year strategy for maintaining the buildings and services across the entire College estate. This will allow us to plan much more effectively, both in terms of time and costs, during the years ahead.

We continue to plan for the refurbishment of 26 Norham Gardens, one of our postgraduate buildings, originally scheduled to commence this summer; we have now postponed this project until the summer of 2016. Importantly, because of alumni support we have been able to purchase the adjacent property and so are now working on an integrated refurbishment plan. We have submitted a first application for planning permission to ensure that we are ready to go once the rescheduled programme is agreed.

We also have initial plans in place to redevelop the area behind the yew trees in the churchyard that is used by Susan Kasper, our Head Gardener, and provide general storage facilities. An insight into the complexities of the Hall’s ancient site is that this has been three years in the planning and has involved the Privy Council – ask me about this long story at some point! We also want to allow for better use of other spaces and for redeveloping our kitchen areas to provide the facilities needed to deliver the large variety of functions we now hold at the Hall.

We are continuing to invest in staff training and have introduced a number of NVQ qualifications for our staff, helping to develop their supervision and management skills. We are looking at various ways to develop internal training capacity to allow us to better utilise training funding with certified courses.

Our catering reputation continues to grow with John McGeever, Head Chef, and Sue McCarthy, Conference Manager, managing a very healthy functions and event calendar.

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FROM THE LIBRARY FELLOW This is my last year as Library Fellow, and thus a moment to look back on what I have learned, working together with our excellent Librarian, Blanca Martin, who must now be one of the most long-serving, loyal College employees, and also to look to the future. Caroline Legg, our permanent Assistant Librarian, has been on maternity leave over the last months, with her second child, and has been replaced during this period by Paul Ivanovic.

The St Edmund Hall Library differs from that of most colleges in that it consists for the most part of one large, rather beautiful – and very silent – space, which even in the electronic age is proving a very popular place for undergraduates to work. It is unusual to have a piece of such striking ‘non-university’ fabric, a 12th century church, so central to the life of a college. The other part of St Edmund Hall Library, the Old Library above the Chapel, is still preserved with its original function (after a period, now slipping into the distant past, when it was the SCR common room and smoking room). This late 17th century space, created only a few decades after the Old Dining Hall, houses the College’s collection of earlymodern books, which are an important record of ‘Aularian’ as well as University history. I am proud, as Library Fellow, to have been involved in establishing the new cataloguing process which is progressing apace through the endeavours of Dr Paul Nash, the expert antiquarian cataloguer whose work will ensure that our older books are properly catalogued on permanent (electronic) record for the future.* Fundraising will continue to be necessary to enable the Library to press forward with this venture, which was kick-started through the generosity of an Old Member. We are grateful to the Development and Alumni Relations Office for giving this project the priority necessary to guarantee the continuity that is essential for the cataloguing work. We have also become aware, as a result of intensive recent discussions, that there is a need to refurbish what is one of the most beautiful historical rooms in College, and it will be an important task for my successor to think of ways of continuing the paramount function of the Old Library as part of the working library, even if separated from the College’s main bookstore across the churchyard in St Peter-in-the-East, with the other uses that the College makes of it (not least as the place where the SCR take dessert after College guest-nights).

As in previous years the Library has continued to receive a most welcome stream of donations, including 31 from Old Members which have been placed in the Aularian Collection. Donations from fellows and tutors include books presented

by Adrian Briggs, Mark Child, Andrew Kahn, John Knight, Henrike Lähnemann and Stephen Mileson for the Fellows Collection, as well as gifts from John Dunbabin, Roger Farrand, Keith Gull, Francesca Mosely and Malcolm Trevor for the Undergraduate Collection. Two items deserve special mention here.

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presented by Thelma Holt in memory of her Aularian husband, Patrick Graucob (1949, PPE), which has been housed in the Old Library. In addition, we received as a gift from Roger Farrand (1955, Modern History) a large and beautiful folio volume by P. Francis Hunt on orchids (Orchidaceae), with colour illustrations by Mary Grierson (published by Bourton Press, 1973) signed by the author and artist.

Nigel Palmer

COGHLIN, Terence et al Time Charters Informa Law from Routledge 2014 7th ed CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin The Breaking Hour Enitharmon Press 2015

*An article by Dr Nash, arising from his work in the Old Library, appears in section 6 of this Magazine.

DAVIS, Geoffrey V (ed) Feuchtwanger und Berlin Peter Lang AG 2015

DONATIONS 2014–2015

DAVIS, Geoffrey V, Devy, G N, and Chakravarty, K K (eds) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance Routledge 2013

We list below this year’s gifts of books and articles, for the Aularian Collection.

ADAMS, Peter, and Suarez, Antoine Is Science Compatible with Free Will? Exploring Free Will and Consciousness in the Light of Quantum Physics and Neuroscience Springer 2013

Knowing Differently: The Cognitive Challenge of the Indigenous Routledge 2014

ATKINSON, Damian (ed) The Letters of William Ernest Henley to Charles Whibley, 1888–1903: Volume I March 9, 1988–June 10, 1892 Queenston Press 2013

EAMES, Ted Between Me and You Cairn Time Press 2014

The Letters of William Ernest Henley to Charles Whibley, 1888–1903: Volume II July 4, 1892–June 23, 1903 Queenston Press 2013 The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell: Poet and Essayist Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013 BRIGGS, Adrian Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Informa Law from Routledge 2015 6th ed Private International Law in English Courts Oxford University Press 2014 CANSDALE, Michael ‘St Edmund: the Forgotten Saint at Wells Cathedral’ In: Friends of Wells Cathedral Journal 2014 CHILD, Mark S Semiclassical Mechanics with Molecular Applications Oxford University Press 2014 2nd ed 52

Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts Routledge 2015

FARRAND, Roger A (donor) Hunt, P Francis Orchidaceae The Bourton Press 1973 GORDON, Keith, and Manzano, Ximena Montes Tiley & Collison’s UK Tax Guide 2013–14 LexisNexis 2013 HOLT, Thelma (donation in memory of Patrick Graucob) Thomas Stanley The History of Philosophy London 1660 KAHN, Andrew (ed) Tolstoy, Leo The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Oxford University Press 2015

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WILKINSON, John C The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa Equinox Publishing Ltd 2015 We are, as ever, grateful for donations received in the undergraduate library from College members past and present. This year gifts were received from: John Dunbabin, Keith Gull, Roger Farrand, Francesca Mosely, and Malcolm Trevor.

FROM THE ARCHIVE FELLOW It was a great pleasure to welcome Rob Petre as our new Archivist in Michaelmas Term 2014. A historian by training, Rob gained his professional qualifications at the University of Liverpool, and was employed at the Cornwall and Bristol Record Offices before moving to Oxford in 2004. Since then, he has been archivist at both Keble and Hertford, and he now divides his time between the Hall and Oriel. He has familiarised himself very quickly with our holdings, and we are already benefiting from his experience and wide knowledge. His commitment to extending an awareness of the importance of the Archive was especially evident in his contribution to the Research Expo on 28 February 2015, for which he organised a display of archival material relating to poetry and literature at the Hall. Items exhibited included works by Ian Serraillier and John Wells; also on show were papers relating to Principal Emden, Principal Kelly and Thomas Hearne, intended to introduce those who may not be familiar with the College’s recent and more distant history to the people after whom some of our buildings and rooms are named.

An important housekeeping task in the Archive this year has been to create more space for our holdings within the rooms we currently occupy. A new cupboard has been placed in the Vestry under the stairs to the organ loft, into which we have placed our collection of photographs and photograph albums. This has allowed us to move the accessions previously stored in the Boiler Room into the Vestry cupboards (much better for them from a conservation point of view).

Further items in the rolling stacks have been re-ordered in archival-standard boxes: this is again better for the records, and enables us to rationalise the use of some of our space more effectively. We have also been re-boxing the student files in the Boiler Room to make better use of the rolling shelving there.

Among the new accessions this year, the gift of papers from the home of the late Professor Sir David Yardley was particularly welcome. The collection has been box-listed in detail, and a comprehensive catalogue, sorted into hierarchies, is in progress. We are very grateful to Lady Yardley and to Adrian Yardley for their generous donation and continuing support. A rather different sort of accession has been a set of recorded conversations with Emeritus Fellows on life at the Hall during the Principalship of Dr John Kelly. This 56

hugely enjoyable project, initiated and ably managed by John Dunbabin, will result in a precious archive of evidence and opinion from which we hope to construct a more detailed history of the College during those crucial years.

We are most grateful to our Emeriti for their willingness to devote so much time and enthusiasm to these discussions.

The Archivist responded to a continuing flow of enquiries from outside the College throughout the year. Two more extended projects are an investigation of the history of the churchyard of St Peter-in-the-East (building on the fascinating work of Dr John Hawkins, 1970), and research on the earliest American students at the Hall.

Nick Davidson

FROM THE CHAPLAIN We have had an encouraging year in all areas. Let me outline some of the main areas for thanksgiving: Firstly, we have had a full and enjoyable year in Chapel. The Choir tour in September 2014 to Pontingy and Reims was a great success, and we even got the opportunity to sing in Reims Cathedral during the main morning service with several hundred people present! Our Choral evensongs through the year have always maintained a high quality of music and thoughtful teaching, with a stimulating range of visiting preachers, and we have had a number of important joint services with other colleges: the annual joint service of all the college chapels at the University Church; choral evensongs with University College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; and Ascension Day Eucharist at Wadham College. We also had a special service of Remembrance in Michaelmas Term 2014 to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Our biggest challenge is how to persuade more people to come and join us; attendance at a normal evensong (including the choir) ranges from 30–40 people each week, but there is room for many more! All ideas welcome.

Secondly, we have supported the wider Hall community by providing a number of evensongs for parents’ evenings and alumni events. These are always well attended and provide a brief moment of reflection, prayer, and thanksgiving at these significant times when they are visiting the Hall. The chapel has also continued to provide a place for alumni to come for weddings, christenings, funerals, and services of blessing after civil marriage, although this has had to be rather restricted this year due to the building works in the Quad. I am also pleased to say that the Chapel has had wider use for concerts, recitals and rehearsals by members of the Hall and OU societies. It is a beautiful space and I am keen that it is used as widely as possible.

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range of welfare issues, with over a 1000 appointments with students and staff this year. Obviously some of these were people who came to see us more than once, and sometimes regularly. These sessions have included medical consultations (including psychiatric referrals and monitoring mental health), pastoral issues (including stress, relational difficulties, and harassment), managing workloads and other pressures, and on-going counselling. Both of us have been liaising with tutors about students experiencing difficulties. We have continued to liaise with outside agencies, especially the University Counselling Service, and this provides a link for students to wider resources.

Fourthly, with the encouragement of the Principal, I have tried to develop the role of the Hall in the wider community of Oxford, in addition to the great initiatives that are supported by the student common rooms. This has resulted in a formal link with Helen & Douglas House, a hospice on the Cowley Road for terminally ill children and teenagers. We had a moving choir outing there in Trinity Term, when we gave a concert and then enjoyed meeting staff and clients, and hearing a presentation about the work of the Hospice. The other initiative has been developing a link with Rose Hill Primary School, with the help of members of the MCR, and we welcomed over 50 pupils for a day of activities and learning on 21 May 2015, giving them a little taste of university life. They loved it all, especially the chance to handle meteorites and fossils, visit the Crypt and enjoy a delicious lunch in the Wolfson Hall. “We want to go to university when we are older!” was their encouraging feed-back. We will be following up both these links in the next academic year.

Finally, my grateful thanks to all who have supported me in my role as Chaplain this year, and most especially Chris Watson, our inspired Director of Music, Professor Jeff Tseng, our Chapel Overseeing Fellow, Susan McCarthy and the Bursary team, Claire Hooper and the Development and Alumni Relations

Office, and the College Choir who have worked hard and sung their hearts out, and brought pleasure to many and worship to God. Revd Will Donaldson

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC We’ve had another year of lovely music-making at the Hall. The Chapel Choir goes from strength to strength, and at the time of typing this report I am finalising the details of our September 2015 tour to Krakow.

We’ve been particularly blessed by the arrival, shortly after Christmas, of a new chamber organ. This was specially commissioned from Jennings Organs last year, and with its cherry-wood casing it makes a beautiful as well as practical addition to the Chapel. The instrument will greatly enhance the singing there. It can’t do everything but it is especially suited to the music that was being written by composers like Henry Purcell and John Blow at the time the Chapel was built in the 1680s. This repertoire gives us a huge wealth of solo opportunities for the choral scholars, as well as the possibility of getting the Hall’s string players into the Chapel, as many of the pieces have instrumental parts as well. There are some photos of the organ in a news article on the College website (26 February 2015). This new instrument in no way replaces the main organ, which is adequate for playing solo pieces by J S Bach but cannot really manage the accompaniments of the popular 19th and 20th century choral repertoire (and which would leave a bride sorely miffed if she wanted to walk out to Widor’s “Toccata”).

Replacing the main organ remains a long-term aim. The purchase of our new instrument was made possible thanks to the generosity of Daphne Brazier-Creagh, who made a donation towards music at the Hall in memory of her aunt, Miss Nancy Platt.

This year’s lunchtime and (new) evening concerts in the Old Dining Hall have showcased a wide range of repertoire. Alumna Kate Fawcett (1994, English & French), a professional musician, came back to the Hall to play one of the Bach suites on her viola and shared the recital with current undergraduate Eve Smith (2012, Biochemistry), who played one of the Bach cello suites. I am particularly grateful to Eve, and to Keyron Hickman-Lewis (2011, Earth Sciences) and Alexis Chevalier (2014, Maths & Philosophy), for providing the bulk of the music in this year’s concerts, and for being unfailingly cheerful and helpful.

Keyron has delighted us both on the piano and the cello, with repertoire Detail of the new organ in the Chapel

Rose Hill School pupils ‘graduating’ at the end of their visit to the Hall 58

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stretching from Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass to Beethoven and Schubert. Alexis has proved himself both as a solo pianist and accompanist, giving recitals of Mozart and Bach, accompanying Dabin Kwon (2014, Physics & Philosophy) in Schubert lieder, and giving a particularly memorable performance of the Cello Sonata

by Frank Bridge with Eve Smith (whose cello playing is simply wonderful). We were also very pleased to welcome the Senior Organ Scholar at Merton, Peter Shepherd, who gave us two excellent piano recitals. Because of the ongoing work in the Front Quad over the next few months we have decided not to have any lunchtime concerts in Michaelmas Term 2015: but they will return in January 2016 and I will be encouraging next year’s Freshers to continue this new tradition of high-class, home-grown music-making.

One date for Magazine readers’ diaries – the Chapel Choir is returning to Pontigny Abbey in July 2016, for our third visit. We will be joined by singers from St Edmund’s College (Ware), St Edmund’s School (Canterbury), and St Edmund’s College (Cambridge) for a concert in the Abbey on Saturday 9 July 2016 and an ecumenical Evensong on Sunday 10 July, in celebration of our joint connection with St Edmund. We are very much hoping that alumni of all four institutions will join us, and we are planning to organise a series of tours and lectures about the Abbey (which was founded in 1114 and is one of the finest Christian churches in the world) and about St Edmund (whose shrine sits above the High Altar).

Pontigny also has the advantage of being a mere ten-minute drive from the town of Chablis, on the off-chance that that is also of interest!

Chris Watson

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF STUDIES FOR VISITING STUDENTS The Hall’s Visiting Student Programme was again very successful in attracting outstanding students. The most popular subjects for majors were Psychology, Mathematics, and Biochemistry. For minors, besides the same subjects taken as majors, English, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature were popular. The visitors came mostly from leading US universities (e.g. Princeton, Duke, Cornell, Brown and North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and colleges (e.g. Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Pomona, Haverford and Vassar).

Integration into college life was encouraged by our two graduate Visiting Student Advisers, Seint Lwin (2011, DPhil in Surgical Sciences) and David Robinson (2008, DPhil in Chemistry), who organised activities such as quizzes and visits to local places of interest, to give an insight into the British way of life. They were also able to help students to adjust quickly to the Oxford system of education, acting perhaps like wise older siblings. The Junior Common Room warmly welcomed the visiting students as members, leading to the formation of many friendships.

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Our visiting students enthusiastically engaged in the college’s social, musical, and sporting activities. The fine dining at the Hall, especially on guest nights, was particularly appreciated, as was the more general opportunity to chat with British undergraduates and our other international students from around the world. This year the opportunity to participate in the Thanksgiving Dinner was for the first time opened to all the students of the College, and accordingly was held in the Wolfson Hall rather than the Old Dining Hall.

At the end of their time here, many of the visiting students were sad to leave the Oxford lifestyle, even though they were looking forward to being re-united with their family and friends back home. Some are indeed intending to apply for graduate work at Oxford, so we are looking forward to welcoming them back, but this time to the Hall’s Middle Common Room.

Maryanne Martin

FROM THE SCHOOLS LIAISON OFFICER The Admissions Office remains perpetually busy, although often many days or weeks pass without me seeing my desk due to our packed calendar of events for prospective applicants.

In 2014–15 we have taken part in 115 outreach events for schools and colleges, 88 of which were organised primarily by us at the Hall. This has brought Teddy Hall staff, students and tutors into contact with around 4,500 students from over 125 different schools and colleges.

Under the University’s regional links programme, St Edmund Hall has principal responsibility for working with schools and colleges of all types in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Leicester, Leicestershire, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Rutland and Southampton, with the majority of our visitors coming from these areas. Each term we host school groups who visit the Hall for an introduction to life at Oxford and a chance to meet students and tutors. I also travel to schools and colleges to give presentations and workshops to students, teachers and parents, and attend Higher Education fairs and UCAS conventions. We aim to meet school students several times over the course of their school careers, providing an introduction to Oxford in Year 10 or 11, in-depth course and college information in Year 12, and support with the application process and interview in Year 13. Teachers receive a termly newsletter and can contact the Hall at any point with specific queries or to arrange a meeting to explore how we can best support them and their students.

The JCR plays a huge role in our work, with the Student Ambassador scheme expanding this year to 21 enthusiastic volunteer helpers. Ambassadors show school groups, families, and individual applicants around the college, contribute to presentations or discussions, and answer endless questions from students 61

during Q&A sessions or lunchtime chats. In the vacations many of them become Open Day helpers or take part in the UNIQ summer schools programme, alongside visiting their former schools or colleges to give advice and support.

The MCR and SCR contribute to the project by providing sample lectures or tutorials for groups, sitting on tutor panels for larger events, or even tweeting and blogging about their experiences of the admissions process.

Some personal highlights of the past year include our three incredibly busy Open Days, our annual residential application workshops, and a hugely enjoyable week touring schools and colleges across Leicester and Leicestershire in November 2014. We recently launched a new, student-written Alternative Prospectus: this was in high demand, with copies from the first print run almost gone before the end of July 2015. Finally, I have taken on a position as a co-ordinator for the Oxford Pathways Programme, an intercollegiate collaboration which puts on large-scale events for students in Years 10–13 each year. The Hall has hosted a large number of these events, most notably subject-specific Study Days for around 400 Year 12 students from schools with little or no history of sending applicants to Oxford.

I look forward to meeting many more talented young people in 2015–16, and am always keen to hear from Aularians now working in schools or colleges.

Claire Hogben On 1 and 2 July 2015 the Hall welcomed around 1,000 prospective Oxford applicants along with their families, friends, and teachers to undergraduate Open Days, as part of the University’s co-ordinated arrangements for all the colleges which accept undergraduate students. A team of 20 current students answered the visitors’ questions and led approximately 400 tours of the site and accommodation facilities over the two days. Subject tutors were also out in force, holding informal meetings with prospective applicants to discuss their courses and the Hall, and how the two together contribute to student life at Oxford. The third Open Day was scheduled to take place on 18 September 2015.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM President: David Severson We have had yet another fantastic year in the St Edmund Hall MCR; one that was more than fitting for its 50th year of existence! This year, the committee worked hard to bring the community the usual schedule of cake mornings, multiple termly parties, and the annual Christmas and Trinity dinners. Additionally, this year the Hall MCR experienced many firsts including the inaugural and highly successful Research Expo, an event largely driven by the members of the St Edmund Hall MCR. Of course, a number of our members have also been active in both Hall and University sporting events.

The year began in early September with a massive turn-out from returning MCR members to attend Liquid Lounge night in the Magdalen MCR bar. Our MCR was definitely eager to begin another exciting year at the Hall! And the excitement continued with several pre-Freshers’ Week barbecues and Hall Buttery nights, which progressively included more and more new faces as incoming students arrived from around the world. These events were a refreshing addition to the typical MCR schedule and gave returning students a much-needed excuse to re-engage in the community after summer months hidden away at home, in research labs, or in libraries.

The fun and energy of pre-Freshers’ events carried forward into the rest of Fresher’s Week and, indeed, the rest of the year. Our committee’s own academic rep, Katherine Hutchinson, assembled a small Expo MCR sub-committee which was instrumental in helping SCR member Michael Dee spearhead the inaugural Teddy Hall Research Expo in February 2015. And while the MCR vice-president, Nicholas Gordan, did not rap another jovial Christmas dinner roast for us this year, he did manage to organise a novel MCR-funded opt-out scholarship for research travel and books in honour of the 50th anniversary! Of course the two stewards are responsible for the whole term card, but Jessica Davidson threw a fantastic barbecue bash at Norham St Edmund as an internal celebration of the 50th anniversary. After we all ate a fantastic smorgasbord and jammed to some groovy live tunes performed by the Peer Review featuring our very own MCR member, James Holder, we sang Happy Birthday to the MCR while former president, Charlotte Cooper, and current president, David Severson, carved up the MCR’s delicious birthday cake.

Outside of the committee-planned activities, the members of the MCR have seen some real successes in their extra-curricular pursuits. An active MCR member, Anja Mizdrak, is the president of the OU Canoe and Kayak Club, which boasts five other Hall MCR members. This year, given the number of participants from our community, the MCR elected to make a contribution to build a Canoe and 63

Kayak Club shed in return for a summer kayaking taster session for the MCR community. Rachel Paterson, a former MCR welfare officer, has helped initiate Oxford’s first Women’s Australian Rules Football team to match the University’s 100-year-old male equivalent. In their first year, the team recruited players from the US, France, the UK, Norway, Italy and Australia, including our own incoming president, Pip Coore. The team had several matches with teams from London and picked up the game quickly, despite being a majority novice team!

MCR members Timothy Donnison and Dallas Clement both achieved Blues in men’s ice hockey after competing in the Varsity match against Cambridge.

Another MCR member, Grace Clements, dabbled in several sports during her PGCE, including netball and parkour, before resolving to compete in the Varsity match, where she represented Oxford in the high jump, triple jump, shot putt, and javelin, thereby earning an Athletics Blue. She also competed in June 2015 for Oxford-Cambridge against Harvard-Yale. Clearly, this year our MCR community was active across the University athletics spectrum.

At the collegiate level, we have extensive membership in the Teddy Hall Boat Club, including an MCR member, Graham Baird, serving as the Boat Club president. Our former treasurer, Joe Feyertag, served as a coach for the men’s lower boats, and several members of the MCR participated in the men’s second and third eights at both Torpids and Summer Eights. With two graduate oarsmen (Graham Baird and Tommy Hilton), the men’s 1st boat went on to have its most successful Summer Eights in decades, with three bumps in the 1st division. While the women’s 1st boat struggled this year, it was only because they had one of the toughest positions on the river, and four graduate rowers (Christina Turner, Mary Zech, Sophie Sagawe, and Caitlin Page) helped the women’s 1st to put up a brave fight at Summer Eights in the face of tough circumstances.

It is difficult to summarise all the splendid achievements and events that have occurred over the past year, but it is clear from this sampling that the MCR is still a vibrant social, academic, and athletic community. And this year we were grateful to have the unique opportunity to interact with alumni celebrating the success of current and former members of the MCR at the college-organised MCR 50th anniversary event in June 2015. Clearly, we have all had a fantastic experience both in our successes and struggles in the 50th year of the MCR, and we are very much looking forward to the first year of the next 50!

Other MCR officers this year were: Harry Clifford (Treasurer), James Sayers and Jessica Davidson (Stewards), Joshua Cox and Laura Makin (Welfare Officers), Toby Barker (IT Officer), and Pip Coore (NSE Rep.).

David Severson (2012, DPhil in Clinical Medicine)

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THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM The senior officers of the JCR this year were: President: Edward Benson Vice-President: James King Treasurer: Alistair Swallow Secretary: Pernia Price (The President did not produce a report for the Magazine.)

FROM STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs, Professor Jeff Tseng, writes: Amalgamated Clubs is the main source of financial support for the Hall’s clubs and sports teams, for equipment, kit, pitch rental, team coaching, fees, insurance, and other expenses. In the last year, Clubs funded activities for 12 sports teams (not including overseas Blues tours), the Norham St Edmund Gym, and yoga and Zumba classes; also seven cultural societies focusing on theatre, film, music, poetry, and the fine arts. It made contributions to the JCR and MCR to keep members in newspapers and periodicals, as well as the Freshers’ Fair and some individual enterprises in the arts and for charity. There was also extra expenditure over the year to renew music equipment and JCR spaces.

When I started as Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs six years ago, I wanted to find out what Hall students get up to in their spare time: and, while a Treasurer’s view is a very particular one, it has been an enlightening one. It was not an infrequent occurrence for me to sit down with a few students to discuss an initiative where a few pounds could enable a fresh approach, or propel it to the next level of ambition or creativity. The energy and talent of our students sometimes are astonishing, and these have made the most enjoyable moments amongst the expense forms and balance sheets. I wish my successor, and all the societies and activities he will oversee, plenty of such moments.

SPORTS CLUBS Basketball Captain: Elizabeth Lee Most Valuable Player: Joshua Bankert Most Improved Player: Ravi Hayer Despite a delayed start in training and practice, the Teddy Hall men’s and women’s basketball teams both showed strong performances in Cuppers. The men’s team started off the season with a poor run of defeats in the League, exposing a severe lack of organisation and management. However, with the inclusion of playercoach Greg Reardon and his tactical expertise, the team quickly picked up form 65

with three blowout wins in the group stages of Cuppers against strong teams such as Wadham. Progressing as group winners, they met a tough and aggressive Mansfield team as their next opponents: consistent scoring from Joshua Bankert and irritating defence from John Stamatopoulos ensured a close victory of 31– 28. In the semi-finals, the team faced the renowned New College/Jesus College side, which featured several half blues and full blues players. In spite of another formidable showing with strong defence and fast break offence, the team narrowly fell to their first defeat by 2 points and so were eliminated from the competition.

Shout-outs to George Pramatarov for providing much-needed size and excelling as a defensive anchor, as well as to Ravi Hayer and Conor Lyster for injecting effort and determination into the team. For the women’s team, the side made a strong showing, with a hard-fought draw against the Saint’s. Special mention goes to Zoe Dunn, who also excelled when representing the University’s 2nd team.

Jason Yun (2014, Medicine) Dancesport Captain: Pola Orlowska This year Teddy Hall was represented by six couples in the Cuppers competition organised by OU Dancesport Club. It is a rule in this competition that each couple has to consist of at least one beginner.

The Hall has a fine tradition in the sport, having won the first four Cuppers titles from 1986 to 1989.

The couples went through crash courses in dancing and learning their choreographies for two weeks before the competition held in Trinity Term 2015.

Three couples were doing Jive (two of these reached Pola Orlowska and Rosie the semi-final); two were doing Cha Cha Cha (one Bailey representing the Hall reached the semi-final); and the couple who danced in Dancesport Cuppers the Quickstep were successful in becoming finalists. (photo by Zoe Dunn) Because of under-representation on the ballroom side (Quickstep and Waltz), we had to amalgamate with St John’s College for this part of the competition. Despite being a little short on numbers, Teddy Hall’s place in Cuppers was a creditable 6th overall, out of 20 colleges.

The couples taking part were Pola Orlowska and Rosie Bailey, Leslie Tetteh and Louise Reilly, Steve Pilley and Noami Polonsky, Konstantin Goncharov and Nadia Bovy, Natalie Stevens and Mark Kelly, Matt Greenwood and Dora Craig.

Pola Orlowska (2013, Economics & Management) Men’s Football At the start of this season expectation was high, thanks to the team winning the top division of JCR football last year. The only missing piece of the puzzle had 66

been Cuppers, in which we were beaten in the quarter finals by the eventual winners, Keble. The new season started in brilliant fashion with an 8–0 rout of Christ Church in the first round of Cuppers. However, the league results failed to reflect this performance and we could only manage four points from three games (a period which included our first league loss for the first team since 28 January 2013). To add to our woes, by the end of Michaelmas Term we had been knocked out of Cuppers in the quarter finals for the third year in a row by a strong Pembroke side.

In Hilary, it was clear that we would be in a scrap for survival in the league; and despite a couple of dramatic wins against St Catz and Keble, too many losses left us with a relegation decider in our last game against Wadham. As expected, the game began incredibly nervy, but in what seemed to be indicative of our season, we failed to finish our chances and eventually succumbed to Wadham 1–0 as they scored with only their second shot of the game.

Arrogance perhaps? Lack of desire? Well, whatever happened this year is sure to be corrected next season: I have full faith in the incoming captain and his colleagues to put the Hall back where it belongs.

Special mention must go to Tom Hobkinson for achieving his second Blue; and to Ed Mole for his superb performance in the Centaurs Varsity match, in which he made three assists.

The 2nd team finished third in the JCR Reserves First Division, and reached the Cuppers Reserve Teams final where they narrowly lost to Worcester 1-2.

Floreat Aula!

Steven Pilley (2013, Biochemistry) Women’s Football Co-Captains: Megan Carter and Louise Reilly This year has been another interesting one for Teddy Hall’s Women’s Football Team, with a few contests showing the importance of having the full contingent of players, and other contests showing the unpredictable nature of a sport in which strength in numbers often trumps levels of skill. That said, the squad did a sterling job in maintaining our position in Division 1 – putting in some spectacular performances to show that Hall teams don’t play anywhere than amongst the best Oxford has to offer.

Notable league performances included the brilliant season finale win against league runners-up Mansfield Road, the 2–1 final score testament to the effort put in by all players and capping off a really enjoyable season with deserved victory. Our Cuppers campaign began with two strong wins against Univ and New, sending us through to the quarter finals as winners of our group. We were eventually knocked out by Foxes (a composite team of players from the various 67

graduate colleges), but it was still a valiant performance given their thirteenplayer team compared to our seven.

Ultimately this season, we demonstrated (despite sometimes lacking in players) that strength of character, determination, and a willingness just to have a good laugh make for a formidable arsenal, especially when fuelled by the hot chocolate and biscuits provided by my ever-generous co-captain Louise Reilly.

With a mixture in skills levels taking part, it was great to get people involved and enthusiastic. I would like to thank everyone who participated and for making my and Louise’s captaincy such good fun. It’s been an eventful year with lots of goals (not necessarily scored by us), some spectacular goal-line saves (mostly by our keeper, though Zara Morgan assures me she understands why this sport is called ‘foot’ball), and ultimately an extraordinarily high level of banter (Louise’s words, not mine). Good luck to Petra Sekhar, who will be taking over as captain next year. Hopefully our numbers will continue to grow as people realise the enjoyment that can be had madly running around after a ball on a Saturday afternoon.

Megan Carter (2013, Materials Science) Men’s Hockey Captain: James Holder This year the Teddy Hall/Pembroke Men’s Hockey team was fortunate to have a strong intake of Freshers whilst retaining our old crop of talent. As a consequence of this we had a successful season, finishing second in the Michaelmas Term 2014 league and winning the Hilary league.

In the Men’s Cuppers competition we made the quarter-finals despite not having any Blues players, but were knocked out by eventual finalists Magdalen College.

This success was mirrored in the Trinity Term Mixed Cuppers competition, where we made it to the semi-final but lost 5–3 to eventual winners Keble. This is especially impressive considering our keeper was unable to play this competition owing to Finals commitments.

We have had a great season, played some very strong hockey, and forged our strength on our bond as a team of friends. I thoroughly enjoyed my time as Captain and look forward to seeing where my successor Alex Savage takes us next season.

James Holder (2009, DPhil in Biology) Women’s Hockey The SEH Women’s Hockey team, joint with Keble College, had a strong season, making it to the Cuppers final for the second year in a row! In the semi-final we played a tough Worcester side: a slick short-corner routine and deflection led to a 2–0 victory, taking us into the final against our well-known rivals Quildas. The 68

battle, as always, was very close, but Keble Hall showed their dominance with an early goal from Bonnie Mappin. Unfortunately, Quildas slotted in a last-minute equalizer, resulting in the final being decided on penalty flicks. Our keeper Dani Huleatt-James, who bravely stepped up at the beginning of the season, had a phenomenal game but sadly we narrowly lost on penalty flicks 4–3. In the league, teams struggled for players, resulting in few games being played this season.

However, notable performances from Sophie Matthew-Jones and Rosie Baker were seen in defence, where we kept very solid, even if numbers were against us. Rosie McEwen-Smith and Sophie Behan were also key in linking the midfield and attacking play, working hard both on and off the ball. I’d like to thank all the girls who played for us from both colleges: team spirit was always high, with improved turnout as the season progressed. Hopefully we will take this forward into next season, where we will once again fight The Women’s Hockey team (photo to be Cuppers champions. provided by Amanda Bacon) Amanda Bacon (2012, Medicine) Mixed Lacrosse On the Saturday of 3rd Week of Trinity Term 2015, Teddy Hall put out a team of predominantly brawn, and a little brain, to give an athletic display on the lacrosse pitch. Having had a few training sessions (the term ‘training’ being used very loosely), all members had a vague grasp of the rules, but an impressive variety of tackling techniques, to go on to the pitch with. Despite starting in a strong group of colleges we won our first match against Exeter. This settled us into the day nicely. Our next match, against Brasenose (and extras), saw questionable substitutions from both sides – until we had an extra four players on for each team! Though very overcrowded, Teddy Hall managed to pull ahead with a generous own goal given to us by Brasenose. This left us at the top of our group, leading us to play Keble in a very competitive semi-final. With Keble having many university players, as well as the Blues captain and coach, we had to pull out all the stops, and with some very solid (in every sense) defence we came ahead to win 2–1. In the final we faced Wadham, against whom we played a great quality game, with the whole team having improved over the day, to finally win 2–1. It was a great day for inter-college rivalry, where Teddy Hall naturally came out on top.

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The Easter vacation provided a perfect opportunity for the club to rally together ahead of the Summer Eights Regatta, one of the biggest sporting events in the country. Aided by a two-week-long training camp in Oxford, the 1st VIII put together one of the strongest performances for the Hall in decades. Climbing three places to stand in 9th position in Division I, the crew finished the season in emphatic style to consolidate our position as one of college rowing’s elite Boat Clubs.

Joe Mackay (2012, Fine Art)

The Mixed Lacrosse team celebrate their victory and Danielle Huleatt-James also played in the second University team, ending the season with a thrilling defeat of Cambridge at Varsity – with a series of challenging saves made by Phoebe. After such a successful season we hope to see a lot of people playing next year, be it competitively or more casually in the League and Cuppers.

Danielle Huleatt-James (2014, Economics & Management) Mixed Netball The team were undefeated in the group stage of Cuppers and went on to beat Magdalen in the semi-finals. Sadly they lost in a close final against Worcester.

Women’s Netball The team reached the Cuppers semi-finals but were beaten by Keble.

Pool The men’s team won all five of their matches and so topped their league.

Men’s Rowing Captain: Joseph Mackay The 2014–15 season was one of the most successful for the men in 40 years. The club enjoyed a successful recruitment campaign at the start of the year, reflected in our large squad of over 28 active members. This allowed us to field three competitive VIIIs throughout the season. Beginners relished participating in Nephthys and Christ Church Regatta, with one of our crews, ‘Iceman’, reaching the quarterfinals of the competition. The club had a difficult Hilary Term 2015, hampered by poor weather conditions and a high stream, reflected by a disappointing Torpids campaign for the 1st VIII. Nevertheless, the M2 were duly rewarded for their diligence in training off the water: they climbed two places to 6th in Division V. 70

Women’s Rowing Captain: Megan Carter It would be easy to think that college rowing is only glamorous for a maximum of eight days a year – and that’s being optimistic about the weather during the days of racing in Torpids and Eights. I acknowledge that sometimes it does rain, that race faces are probably not poses worthy of Vogue, and that occasionally you do have to stumble to the boat house at a ridiculous time in the morning. However, the fact that the women rowers did all these things, and more, shows the true spirit of the Boat Club. Starting with lack of experienced rowers at the beginning of Michaelmas Term meant that our crew for Torpids and Eights would have to rely heavily on new talent being built up from zero rowing experience. That we produced a race-ready eight is testament to the comradery and dedication displayed by the crews; and for that I am extremely grateful. Ultimately we showed that it’s tough at the top, with the first-division boats proving slightly too much for our crew: but I am immensely proud of all those involved in racing this year and the fact that, even after finishing with spoons (and stuck in a tree), everyone kept smiling. There have been some great memories, spanning the weeks in glorious Italy on training camp (the scene of many rower transformations) to the laughs had on an outing. Rowing is one of those sports that isn’t about looking glamorous; it’s about the months of hard work, achievements, and set-backs that lead to you putting your boat in the water on a sunny Saturday of Summer Eights with teems of people from your college there to support you. It’s a special moment and one I know stays with college rowers for a long time. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has given their support to me in my year as captain and also to wish the best of luck (though I doubt she’ll need it) to my successor Caeden Brynie.

Megan Carter (2013, Materials Science) Men’s Rugby Captain: Edward Hart After the absolutely wretched disappointment of losing in the last minute of the Cuppers final last year, SEHRFC was determined to make amends. The loss of club legends such as Duncan Little-Johns, Oscar Vallance, and player of the 71

season Myles Watkiss proved to hit us hard in the early stages of the season, along with an uncharacteristically low Fresher turnout. However, an actual steak dinner this year helped to generate a bit more excitement about the club despite the loss to the Old Boys.

its sporting success. This year the level of sporting displays has been indicative of a very accessible team. We have taken pride in a season where although we have not achieved a single victory, we left every game with a smile on our faces nonetheless.

Early matches in Michaelmas Term 2014 proved difficult simply due to a lack of players – and losses to Keble and New were inflicted on us. However, the team rallied to secure convincing wins over Saints, St Catz, and Jesus. Hilary Term brought the return of some of our University players: we saw off Worcester, St Catz, and Exeter to enter Cuppers in a strong position. Our campaign started off with a veritable thrashing of the Corpus/Somerville mixed team. Next to the chopping block were St Catz: they were duly dispatched with ease. In the semifinals came our toughest test as a team, against a New College side that included Blues at 10, 12, and 13. With 20 minutes to go in the match we found ourselves 17–7 down. After sustained pressure we scored to put ourselves within three points of New with five minutes left. Wave after wave of Hall attack inched us closer to the line: and with no time remaining on the clock, captain Ed Hart crashed through to touchdown and sent the hundred-strong crowd into pandemonium – we had made our fourth final in a row.

This year has seen us implementing a ruthless execution of our fundamental game-plan: to have fun and not take ourselves too seriously! The on-field antics left us and our opposition in fits of laughter. We’ve seen participation from all year-groups and abilities, with lots of players new to the game making a contribution and an encouraging number of Freshers getting involved and keeping the tradition of social rugby at the Hall alive. The fun on and off the pitch with the team is a great addition to life and sport here at Teddy Hall.

The final was played against our old enemies, Keble, on 30 April 2015. After huge build-up to the game, the atmosphere during the match was incredible, with the Iffley Road stand absolutely packed with our fantastic supporters.

However, it was not to be our year.

Keble’s international backs pinned us back with our kicking and we never managed to sustain pressure in their half. The final score was 37–11, but given our ailing start to the season, it was still a year to be proud of. A second Cuppers final loss in a row has been tough to take, but we will come back stronger next year.

The Men’s Rugby Team competing in Floreat Aula!

Cuppers finals Ed Hart (2013, Physics)

Alternative Choir Apart from contributing to Carols in the Quad at the end of Michaelmas Term 2014, the Alternative Choir has been resting this year. The choir looks forward to resuming full activities in 2015–16.

Men’s Rugby – Hilarians Playing for the Hilarians this year has been one of the most rewarding and entertaining experiences of my second year at St Edmund Hall.

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Joe Whittall (2013, Engineering Science) In addition to those reporting above, the Hall’s recognised sports clubs in 2014–15 included Badminton, Cricket, Darts and Tennis.

CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND VOLUNTEERING

Josceline Dunne (2013, Chemistry) Chapel Choir A special event for the Chapel Choir this year, in addition to their regular contribution to Chapel services and Carols in the Quad, was a visit in May 2015 by 11 members to Helen & Douglas House, the pioneering Oxford hospice for terminally-ill children and young people. The Choir sang a short ensemble of musical pieces; their performance was followed by tea, then a presentation by the Hospice staff. Cara Tomaso (Visiting Student, Psychology) commented afterwards: “I genuinely enjoyed singing for the lovely residents and workers of Helen & Douglas House!

Their staff were warm and welcoming.

And it was clear that they felt invested in their work and cared a great deal about the residents. I can’t imagine a better place for children and young Members of the Choir and residents at people to live out their lives to the Helen & Douglas House very fullest.”

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In September 2015, having visited France on their previous two annual trips abroad, the Choir will undertake a five-day tour of Poland to perform a programme consisting of sacred choral pieces, contemporary works, and organ solos.

A report on the Chapel Choir’s September 2014 trip to Pontigny is included in section 3 of this Magazine. The Hall is grateful to Justin Stead (1971, Forestry) for his continued support of the Choir tours.

Christian Union Teddy Hall Christian Union is one of the University’s many college-based groups under the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) banner. We exist in College to give everyone an opportunity to hear and respond to the good news about Jesus. We’re a diverse bunch, ranging from Finalists to Freshers, to Visiting Students. Throughout the year we’ve been involved in some exciting universitywide events, such as the carol service and UNCOVER (a week of talks in the Town Hall engaging in some of the big questions on life and seeing how Jesus answers them).

In College we have also had some great events this year. With an adaptation on the much-loved Text-a-Toastie theme, Text-a-Traybake has been a great success this year! It gives everyone in College the opportunity to ask questions about the Christian faith, Jesus, life, etc., and get a bit of flapjack or rice krispie squares as we discuss the answer together.

manner of other things in between, we take an approach of letting the people choose what they want to watch, ensuring that as far as your interest in cinema goes, there will be something to satisfy and something to challenge as far as you please. It’s a perfect setting to wind down, enjoy free snacks and great cinema in good company. We look forward to people just turning up and being involved!

Connor Fairbairn (2014, Jurisprudence) The John Oldham Society The John Oldham Society took a production to the Oxford Playhouse under the auspices of Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS) and in collaboration with the producing company Rough-Hewn Theatre. Martin McDonagh’s challenging play The Pillowman (2003) was very successfully staged there on 29 October – 1 November 2014, directed by Thomas Bailey (2011, English & French), who went on to win a 2015 Simon and Arpi Simonian Award for Excellence in Leadership.

The play follows Katurian, a writer in a totalitarian state who is arrested and interrogated by two policemen over a series of murders that mimic the content of his stories. The Hall’s Emma D’Arcy (2011, Fine Art) was the Artistic Director and also played the major role of Michal, Katurian’s disabled brother. Other acting and production roles were taken by students from across the University.

Ruth Miller (2014, Fine Art)

Music Society This year’s Lunchtime Concerts Series was opened on 23 October 2014 by ‘The Piano Collective’, performing piano solos ranging from Gershwin to Debussy.

The Collective featured four students, one from each undergraduate year: Naomi Polonsky (2013, French & Russian) began with some Gershwin and Hamilton favourites, followed by Alexis Chevalier (2014, Mathematics & Philosophy) offering a stirring rendition of works by Debussy. In a change of style, Keyron Hickman-Lewis (2011, Earth Sciences) then played Metamorphoses I and II by Philip Glass. The concert closed with Chris Williamson (2012, Mathematics) playing two pieces of film score music by the Japanese composer Hisaishi. Lunchtime concerts continued regularly throughout the year – open to all, and free of charge – and ended with a performance of Schumann lieder sung by soprano Dabin Kwon (2014, Physics & Philosophy) accompanied on the piano by Alexis Chevalier.

Film Society The Teddy Hall Film Society was established this year by Alexis Chevalier, Connor Fairbairn, Gregory Reardon, and Constantinos Savva to bring about a new avenue to explore culture within the Hall. With one eye on keeping it relaxed and accessible, and the other on stimulating films, we have delved into films of many genres and origins. From the brilliance of Herzog, to Japanese animation, and all

As a new venture, evening chamber concerts were also staged on 27 November 2014 and 5 March 2015 in the Old Dining Hall. These offered a varied programme of music designed to showcase the best of the year’s Lunchtime Concerts series and give the Hall’s instrumental scholars an opportunity to perform.

We think it is so important to have Christian solidarity within college, and are really excited to meet all the Freshers and welcome new additions to our CU each October. Reaching out to all members of the College, we aim to be Jesus’s hands and feet: His testimony and witness within Teddy Hall. Fellowship is key to fulfilling this role, so we meet every Wednesday to chat, read the Bible, and pray together, along with all the other evangelistic events that we put on in College.

Our vision for the coming year is to expand the CU, including all Christians of the College, and being increasingly proactive and creative in our witness. We also want our meetings to be a loving environment to which people can bring their Godseeking friends. Having a heart to see God’s kingdom come in Oxford, we want to see the Christian community of Teddy Hall in a new season of inspired serving.

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Alexis Chevalier playing Debussy at the lunchtime concert on 23 October 2014

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AWARDS AND PRIZES The many distinctions and achievements of SCR members, of current students and of Aularians worldwide are reported in sections 2, 4, and 8 of this Magazine.

Here, special mention is made of some awards and prizes won in 2014–15.

Congratulations are offered to Lady Elise Becket Smith, who was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2015 for her services to Music. Elise is a Friend of the Hall, and together with her husband, Aularian Sir Martin Smith (1961, Physics), has been a much-valued supporter of music here.

SECTION 3:

THE YEAR GONE BY

The Joe Todd Award Committee, which disburses the fund set up in honour of former Engineering Science Tutor Dr Joe Todd, made two awards this year: Jack Dolan (2012, Engineering Science) received £1,500 to support a trip to China for teaching and visits to engineering and industrial sites; and Alastair Adams-Cairns (2012, Engineering Science) received £250 to help cover the costs of staying in Oxford over the summer to carry out the project ‘Preliminary Investigation of Mars Entry Radiation’ in the Department of Engineering Science’s Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory. (An article by a previous award-holder, Andrew Woodliffe, appears in section 6 of this Magazine.)

This year, three students received a Simon and Arpi Simonian Award (£500) for Excellence in Leadership, celebrating their achievements in very different student activities. Thomas Bailey (2011, English & French) was recognised for his efforts throughout his time at the Hall as a director, producer and facilitator of student drama. In addition to running the John Oldham Society for two years and directing plays staged in Oxford and Edinburgh, Thomas co-founded the ‘Act for Change’ global forum theatre initiative, ran workshops with the Experimental Theatre Club and OUDS, and led the group of Teddy Hall students who travelled to Cameroon in 2013 as part of Act for Change. The Hall also awarded Thomas a George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre, and he went on to obtain a First in Finals. Men’s Captain of Boats for 2014–15, Joseph Mackay (2012, Fine Art), was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the progress of the Boat Club, in particular through his work in creating a new, multipurpose website and (with support from the Masterclass Fund) qualifying as a British Rowing Coach in order to assist with coaching Hall crews. Sebastian Siersted (2012, Biochemistry) was recognised for his excellent service as President of the JCR for 2013–14, during which he demonstrated particular leadership skills by steering through a number of important initiatives. These included: the establishment of a system in the Hall to provide financial and welfare support for students wishing to visit a Sexual Assault Referral Centre; the creation of a ‘Sports Gaudy’ to invite sports team alumni back to the Hall for a fundraising event; and work to improve the integration of fourth-year undergraduates into the MCR while enabling them to remain active members of the JCR. Outstanding academic and sporting achievement are brought together in the 77

Luddington Prizes, founded by Richard Luddington (1978, History) to recognise those students who obtain both a First and a Blue while at the Hall. There were no fewer than six recipients of the £500 awards in 2015: Xander Alari-Williams (2012) Mathematics and Swimming Simon Chelley (2012) History & Economics and Karate James Heywood (2011) Engineering Science and Athletics Thomas Hobkinson (2011) Engineering Science and Football Conor Husbands (2010) Physics and Boxing Nicholas Pattinson (2011) Engineering Science and Lacrosse.

Elsewhere in sport, world-class champion tumbler Kristof Willerton (2011, Biochemistry), helped the Oxford University team to win their Varsity match this year. Kristof’s international achievement was reported in the 2013–14 Magazine.

As reported in section 2 of the current edition, the Hall’s Mixed Lacrosse team claimed the Cuppers title for 2015, repeating last year’s triumph.

Among this year’s University Examination successes, Ilia Onischenko (2012) was awarded a prestigious Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/TATA Steel Prize for Best Team Design Project in Part I of FHS Materials Science, while Theodore Silkstone Carter (2012) was awarded the Department of Materials Prize for Most Significant Improvement Between Part I and Part II of the FHS. Margaret Chung (2014, Fine Art) won the John Farthing Prize for Outstanding Work in Human Anatomy, and the Law Faculty Prize for Best Performance in Commercial Remedies was awarded to BCL student Rosamund Baker (2011). Of the 30 Firsts awarded to Hall candidates in the Trinity Term 2015 Final Honour Schools, seven went to Engineering Science students, continuing this subject’s particular success of recent years. Taught-course graduate students’ results were notable for the Distinctions achieved by five out of the total of eight MSt candidates in the various disciplines studied.

Micah Coston (2014, DPhil in English) was the first recipient of the Hall’s newlyestablished Bruce Mitchell Graduate Scholarship in English. Micah’s thesis investigates the function of astronomical metaphor in early modern drama.

A Hall student, Emily Pritchett (2012, Biochemistry), was a member of the University’s 12-strong interdisciplinary team of undergraduates awarded a gold medal in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition held in Boston, USA in November 2014. This was the first time that Oxford had entered a team in the synthetic biology competition since it was launched in 2004.

Over summer 2014 Emily and her colleagues developed a project of their own design to tackle an environmental pollution issue, ready to give a presentation in Boston at an international Jamboree. Working with principal investigator Professor Judy Armitage and supervisors Dr George Wadhams and Dr Ciarán Kelly in the University’s Department of Biochemistry, the team developed a novel biosensor and simple waste-disposal unit for the safe degradation of chlorinated 78

Oxford University’s team, including Emily Pritchett (in the centre of the front row), at the iGEM competition (photo provided by Emily) solvents. They called their approach ‘DCMation’. The gold medal was won in competition with 240 teams from around the world.

This year’s Aularian Prize from the St Edmund Hall Association, which is awarded for an exceptional enterprise or voluntary commitment outside established college or university pursuits, went to Kirsten Pontalti (2011, DPhil in International Development). The prize of £300 recognised Kirsten’s work in arranging support and funding for young people from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds in rural Rwanda.

MASTERCLASS FUND AWARDS The Masterclass Fund continues to provide talented students with advanced coaching in extra-curricular activities and, since its launch, has supported nearly 200 students to receive tuition in music, sports and other areas. In this financial year, the Hall supported 30 students in areas ranging from piano, pistol shooting and yachting to iron man triathlons, musical composition and tailoring.

Anja Mizdrak (2014, DPhil in Public Health), who Award-holder Anja this year received funding towards a sea kayaking Mizdrak kayaking (photo intensive training course, said: “I would like to provided by Anja) express my deepest thanks to St Edmund Hall for awarding me the Masterclass Award. My award covered an intensive programme of coaching that has enabled me to develop my kayaking skills further. Due to a knee injury, I was unable to kayak between January and April 2015. The coaching that I received as part of the Masterclass Award has proved immensely beneficial to my rehabilitation.”

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FARGHER BURSARY TRIP TO CAIRO Fourth-year undergraduate Taariq Ismail writes about his three-week visit to Cairo in September 2014 funded by a Fargher Bursary to support language studies. Taariq obtained a First in the FHS of Engineering Science 2015.

Cairo is a vibrant, diverse and bustling city whose residents come from all corners of the earth. The purpose of my trip was to develop my ability in the Arabic language. I took lessons at the Comboni School to develop my grammar, and conversed with as many people as I could to improve my fluency.

My first outing was to Old Cairo. The district provides the perfect example of religious coexistence. A synagogue, many churches, and a mosque stand within a few hundred metres of each other. Whilst in Cairo, I also visited the mosque of Hussein, Al-Azhar University – the oldest Islamic university in the world – the prosperous Gezira Island, and of course, the pyramids and Sphinx of Giza. I then made a short trip to Alexandria, which offered relief from the commotion and severe heat of Cairo. Words cannot describe Alexandria’s magnificent new library, which boasts many art galleries and museums. Coming from Oxford, I didn’t think a library of any kind would impress me – but this one did.

While my Arabic improved drastically, the trip was also a time of introspection. I now know which parts of the language I wish to focus on. Throughout my visit I was humbled by my surroundings and by the people I met. I realised how privileged I am to study in a worryfree environment: the first person The Mosque of Hussein, Cairo (photo I met in Cairo was a Syrian student provided by Taariq Ismail) from Aleppo who was completing his studies in Egypt. Holding back tears, he told me that every month he hears of the death of a friend or a relative.

Taariq Ismail (2011, Engineering Science)

ACT FOR CHANGE: HEALING MINDS In September 2014, six Oxford University students travelled to India for three weeks and worked with actors from the National School of Drama in Delhi, using interactive drama and film to encourage open discussion about mental health. As part of this work, the international team developed a travelling play about a family’s struggle with postnatal depression, which was performed for 12 diverse audiences across Goa and Delhi, including the police, university medical students, school students, slum residents and people living in a leprosy society.

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In the final week of the project, a staged performance was held for policymakers and researchers in Delhi, followed by a networking reception hosted by the British High Commissioner at his personal residence. The project had a significant impact, enabling some to talk about their personal experiences of mental health for the first time, and others to imagine the difficulties they might experience if they found their families in similar positions. Following the project’s success, two project partners have applied for a joint five-year Wellcome Trust award in order to extend this work across India.

Roxana Willis (2012, DPhil in Law) planned, oversaw, and participated in the trip, having previously organised the first Act for Change initiative, which saw members of the Hall’s John Oldham Drama Society travel to Cameroon in 2013.

Roxana spoke to Hall Communications Officer, Claire Hooper, about the Healing Minds project.

What sort of preparation was needed ahead of the trip?

It was actually surprising the amount of preparation that went in! We first needed to find project partners, so we contacted the George Institute for Global Health, an Oxford-based research organisation, and then Vikram Patel, who put us in touch with his outstanding organisation, Sangath, based in Goa. We were also fortunate to discover an internationally-renowned forum theatre group based in Bangalore: the Centre for Community Dialogue and Change (CCDC).

Radha Ramaswamy, the Director, expressed enthusiasm about our work from the outset, and CCDC’s support was instrumental for the project’s development.

The University was also helpful in enabling us to make contact with the British High Commission, through the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. It was a particularly unique way to end the project and raise publicity, with a final performance in Delhi and a reception at the High Commissioner’s.

St Edmund Hall’s Emma D’Arcy (2011, Fine Art) and Thomas Bailey (2011, English & French) helped with the organisation, including auditioning and selecting a stellar team of students to take part. Unfortunately, Emma and Tom were unable to join the India activities as we didn’t have all the funding lined up, but they were still an important part of the project.

Why did you choose India?

My brother fell ill when he was travelling in India, which raised my awareness of how underfunded and deprived the mental health service can be in certain parts of the country. He was sent to a ‘lunatic asylum’, which was once a British colonial prison from the Victorian period. Some of the staff at the asylum expressed the belief that if someone is mentally ill, then they did something bad in a past life. So patients are often treated like animals – probably worse than animals – beaten, denied food and water, tied to trees. In fact, a few weeks before our project, local people were being offered reward money for each street ‘lunatic’ they admitted 81

to the asylum, in order to keep them away from the ‘normal’ residents.

India is often described as a country of contrasts, and this is certainly true for mental healthcare. While the project was motivated by a devastating experience, on the other side, we also discovered world-leading mental health work being carried out by Sangath. An initiative that was particularly impressive was Sangath’s efforts to train community women to volunteer as ‘friends’ for pregnant women, enabling the early identification of postnatal depression. It’s the most humane and caring form of mental healthcare I’ve ever seen. Britain could definitely benefit from something like this, and we want to share that information in the documentary we’re making. Therefore, although we were inspired to go to India because of the bad stuff, we found some amazing things going on.

What were the highlights of the trip for you?

The play we made was incredible – Megha’s Story – about postnatal depression.

We had five days of workshops with the Indian actors, sharing stories and really getting to know each other. It’s an interactive form of theatre and there were moving moments when people would come into the performance. One woman in a community performance at the Leprosy Society said: “Look, you have to listen, this is what’s been happening to me” – and it was her first time talking about it.

Even children seemed to understand the play, which was interesting because we weren’t sure how they’d relate to the idea of postnatal depression. But some of them talked about a friend who’d committed suicide and how they now want to set up better support for other students. Another boy said Megha’s struggles helped him to realise the difficulties a mentally disabled student in his school might be experiencing, and how he wanted to help him more. And even the youngest ones answered the question “How can we help Megha?” with “Show her love”, which was powerful and showed that the play hit every level.

What language were you performing in?

The whole play was in Hindi. Radha Ramaswamy, who gave us ten days of advanced forum theatre training before we started and then directed the play, came up with the idea of having our English actors take on movement pieces and become ‘the depressed forces’. They were dressed in black and when, for example, Megha, the main protagonist, would stand up, they would use exaggerated gestures to push her down, acting like weights. We also made use of puppet imagery to illustrate how the depression was beyond her control. It was effective to see the internal struggle, and not just the usual portrayal of how a mentally ill person seems externally.

One of my favourite moments was when a healthcare worker said he would like to replace Megha in the play, and show everyone how she ought to deal with her depression. The Oxford actors were quick to improvise, and each repeated thoughts that were ruminating in Megha’s mind: “I’m a bad mother”, “this is not 82

normal”, “will I ever be happy?”. The healthcare worker said he would deal with one thought at a time, but the actors kept running around him, repeating the thoughts over and over. Eventually, he snapped, and said he couldn’t do it; the ruminations were too much to easily handle. The next day, another healthcare worker in the audience said she was left thinking all night about what she would do in that situation. This was therefore an effective way to show mental illness, and demonstrate that depression isn’t something Megha could “just snap out of”.

The play: Megha’s Story (photo by Tom Rochester)

There were five Indian and five British actors, plus I also got involved in the end too – I never thought I would! I was actually one of the Indian characters, with Hindi lines. It was just a walk-on role but by the end I’d embellished it so much! When the audience come in, they choose which characters they want to replace – and it was a personal victory when someone noticed my character and thought they could do something with it.

What were the biggest challenges?

Initially, it was funding. Mental health isn’t a very attractive thing to fund and it was difficult. We tried Kickstarter but, despite a lot of effort, we didn’t get very far with it, and unfortunately a Wellcome Trust application reached the final stages of funding but didn’t come through. Teddy Hall were brilliant; they were our main source of support through various funds. The Masterclass Award, for example, enabled me to have the advanced forum theatre training, learning how to become both an actor and a facilitator.

Different colleges also contributed smaller amounts, and the Vice-Chancellor was wonderful: when we were in India he helped cover the deficit. I’d had to borrow money, so it was a moment of huge relief!

Organising it on top of work was also very challenging but it was do-able and I had a lot of support.

And once you were in India?

I think everyone adapted well. I thought our group would struggle with the climate and crowds, but they were brilliant. It helped that we were working with such remarkable Indian actors. Everyone made close friendships and we became like a little family early on.

I found Delhi quite hard in terms of the memories of just being there with my brother. And everyone was getting sick, the notorious ‘Delhi belly’, but we managed it.

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police officers. It was quite male-dominated and I think because people were in uniform, they were putting on a strong face. It was difficult to break through the formality and encourage engagement. However, we felt it was a massive step for the police to want to take part in our project, as they’re often the first port of call when someone’s going through a serious mental illness, so that was great.

What’s next for Act for Change?

It’s such a big thing to organise, but there’s the potential to set it up through Oxford University Dramatic Society for students to take on more small-scale projects perhaps, and exchanges. Everyone who came on the project is still involved in trying to raise awareness of mental health issues; I think everyone’s been truly inspired. Some of the students have been back in touch with their schools, for example, to do some work around eating disorders and mental health.

We took loads of video footage and the documentary is in the process of being made. On a personal note, I’m trying to incorporate this method of drama into my research and develop it as a research technique to increase public engagement.

Over in India, Sangath are continuing to work with our Indian partners, the CCDC actors, and are developing a five-year project to carry on this type of work with young people.

This was a special project to be part of, and I am grateful to everyone who made it a reality.

Roxana Willis and Claire Hooper

CHAPEL CHOIR TRIP TO FRANCE Chapel Choir member Lisa Haseldine provides the following account of the September 2014 trip to France.

In early September, the Chapel Choir went on tour to locations associated with St Edmund Hall. During the week we stayed at la Maison de la Mission de France, an idyllic country house only a stone’s throw away from Pontigny Abbey, where St Edmund lies buried above the altar.

With long, sun-drenched days in which temperatures reached the high 20s, singing in the late mornings and afternoons and with evening recitals and services with which to occupy ourselves, we also managed to find time to indulge in the local culture.

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spent relaxing in the gardens with an almost unlimited supply of local delicacies.

Performing three services and two concerts, we prepared a programme of varied choral repertoire, including pieces by Palestrina, Brucker, and Tallis. At the weekend we travelled north to Reims, performing mass and a recital in the city’s beautiful cathedral. Once again, we found time to sample the local culture, exploring the cellar of H G Mumm Champagne house, and in the evening admiring the fantastic lights display on the front of Reims Cathedral.

All in all it was a wonderful trip, led by the brilliance of our choral director, Christopher Watson (the Hall’s Director of Music), and it was a week the whole Choir was very sorry to leave behind. Our thanks go to Paddy Carpenter and Justin Stead, without whom the tour would not have been possible.

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ARTWEEKS EXHIBITION 2015 Once again the Hall participated in the annual Oxfordshire Artweeks, holding an exhibition in the Pontigny Room during 11–16 May 2015, organised by the Deputy Director of Development, Sally Smith. Fellows, staff, alumni, current students, plus Aularian kith and kin, were invited to contribute to the week-long celebration of all things artistic. The work of 27 artists went on display, their talented exhibits including paintings, drawings, etchings, photographs, metal sculptures, handknitted bags, a rag rug, a paperwork installation, woodcarving and porcelain.

The Visitors Book records that over 75 people came to the 2015 Exhibition, mainly hailing from Oxford and Oxfordshire, but also from other parts of England and with a smattering from the USA. A few visitors summed up their experience as “interesting” or “quite interesting” – one thought that the exhibition was “quirky” – but a typical comment was that the works on display were “fascinating”. An aficionado wrote approvingly: “always an excellent show”.

HALL PHOTOGRAPHY The 2015 Hall Life Photography Competition invited entries in four categories: Christmas Card, Hall Space, Hall Life, and A New Perspective.

Entries were judged by St Edmund Hall Association President Lawrence Cummings (1971, Modern Languages), Henrike Lähnemann (Fellow and Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics), Catherine Beswick (Communications Officer, DARO), and Dianne Gull (wife of the Principal). All the submitted photographs are available to view on the Hall’s Flickr site: flickr. com/stedmundhall.

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CHRISTMAS CARD 1st place: Yaki Numata – White Graveyard 2nd place: Sally Smith – St Edmund 3rd place: Theo Silkstone Carter – The Library under Snow

HALL SPACE 1st place: George Lock – Hall Space 1 2nd place: Guy Paxman – High Above the Chimney Tops 3rd place: Theo Silkstone Carter – Hall at Night

HALL LIFE 1st place: George Lock – Hall Spirit 2nd place: Theo Silkstone Carter – Exams Over 3rd place: Marie Wong – Formal Hall

A NEW PERSPECTIVE George Lock’s winning entry: ‘Hall Space 1’

1st place: Marie Wong – Gardens of St Peter-in-theEast 2nd place: Taariq Ismail – Hanging by the Bar 3rd place: Theo Silkstone Carter – Finals are Here

The judges awarded the Best in Show prize to George Lock (2013, PPE) for ‘Hall Space 1’.

HALL WRITING Creative writing at the Hall (and by extension, among Aularians more widely) continued to flourish during 2014–15. Much of this activity was carried out and co-ordinated by Professor Lucy Newlyn (Professor of English, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature).

Professor Newlyn’s 5.30pm Wednesday Workshops for creative writing, open to all current members of the Hall, remained an important feature during term. The workshops were well attended and provided participants with the opportunity to share their writing – whether plays, journalism, short stories or book chapters. A collection born in these workshops, A Gallery, was published by students at the end of Trinity Term 2015 and is reviewed in section 6 of this Magazine. The Gallery editorial team 86

Events this year included the Hall Writers’ Day on 6 November 2014, which took as its theme ‘Commemoration of the First World War’ (see below); and a Poetry Reading on 8 June 2015 by Simon Jarvis (Gorley Putt Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge) along with Hall poets Dan Eltringham (2005, English) and Tom Clucas (2006, English).

Meanwhile the Hall Writers’ Forum entered its third year in February 2015, boasting over 400 members (at the Hall and scattered around the world) and continuing its mission to provide “a friendly and stimulating space for crossdisciplinary discussion and for sharing and encouraging all kinds of creative writing”. Two anthologies were published online: Hall Writers – New Proverbs of Hell (offering proverbs, aphorisms, epigrams, and witticisms) and Than-bauks.

Edited by Darrell Barnes (1963, Modern Languages) and others, the latter offers poems written in the Burmese form which consists of three-line pieces, each line with four syllables, rhymed regularly. Lucy Newlyn also completed the historical ballad which she had been composing in association with the Forum, The Wreck of the Hera. This work was launched at the 2014 Hall Writers’ Day, and is published as a booklet with a CD recording of Stuart Estell (1993, English) singing his setting of the poem (music in three parts, using traditional nautical tunes) accompanied by the concertina.

The Hall Writers’ Directory now includes the profiles of more than 100 writers who over the years have studied English at the Hall.

‘Commemoration of the First World War’ on 6 November proved to be a particularly successful all-day event, presenting talks, panel discussions, poetry and music.

Keynote lectures were given by the irrepressible Jeremy Paxman (Fellow by Special Election) on ‘What World War One Did to Britain’; and by Professor David Priestland (Tutor in Modern History) on ‘World War One: The Aftershocks’. Other sessions included Martin Slater (Emeritus Fellow) talking about ‘John Maynard Keynes and the Financing of the First World War’; professional photographer Mike Sheil (1965, Geography) giving an exclusive view of his outdoor photographic exhibition, ‘Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 14–18’; Jenny Lewis (1998, English) on ‘Finding My Father in Mesopotamia’, based on the book which she published in 2014; and Alexendra Lloyd (College Lecturer in German) and Birgit Mikus (researcher in the University’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) presenting ‘A German Perspective on World War One, with Songs’; and members of the Hall Writers’ Forum contributing poetry readings and musical performances on the theme ‘Remembering the First World War’. For those interested in participating, at the end of the afternoon the Chaplain conducted a short reflective service in the Chapel: this concluded in the Ante-Chapel at the Board of Remembrance commemorating those Aularians killed in the War (see the Principal’s article starting on page 151 of the Magazine for 2013– 14) and the eye-prickling strains of the ‘Last Post’ played on the trumpet by Choral Scholar Matthew Carter (2014, English).

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An exciting development for the future of creative writing at the Hall is the planned appointment of a Writer in Residence. An anonymous donor has generously pledged to pay for the first year of a five-year Writer in Residence scheme, inviting Aularians to give £5,000 a year for the subsequent four years (sums that will then be matched by the donor). At the time of this Magazine going to print, more than half of the target amount for Aularian contributions had already been reached.

Full information about Hall Writing is available on the Hall’s website: www.seh. ox.ac.uk/writing.

ST EDMUND HALL WREN The first version of this poem by Aularian Chris Mann, inspired by a visit to St Peterin-the-East churchyard, was sent to the Hall Writers’ Forum.

St Edmund Hall Wren A chirp, a small splutter of wings through the wraiths of dank mist that ghosted an Oxford graveyard.

You perched on a tombstone and tilting your head, eyed me as I stood beside a dark yew.

Were you a bundle of instincts, a breeding and eating machine monstrous to spider and worm?

Was I a strange-hearted dreamer, to love your pert insouciance and think you sang creation?

You whirred off, beyond the reach of Darwin’s shade in a lab-coat, Saint Francis smiling in his cowl, and sped between the headstones, a feathered speck of the energy out of which the stones were made and life and thoughts still emerge, a sentient chirrup, at home in mist, a mother, soft-landing on a nest.

Chris Mann (1971, English)

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THE GRAHAM MIDGLEY MEMORIAL PRIZE POEM 2015 This year the Graham Midgley Memorial Prize was awarded to Tabitha Hayward (2014, English) for her poem The Moon.

There is a cracked white knuckle in the sky, clenched to a pearl in a black velvet glove, and all the stars, those thousand flashing eyes, see all there is to see. In that above, I string myself a man with killing hands, sketch out the silver girl with wands of corn, forge flesh from fire. Their burning gaze will brand me, as I stand and watch but cannot warn the hare of dogs, the archer’s tautened bow, poised to scatter bones across the black – and that disjointed joint, that precious stone, milked of its whiteness. The bow-string goes slack.

The hare runs on; the girl weeps spangled tears, which fall among those far-off, foreign spheres.

THE EMDEN LECTURE 2014 The Doctorow Hall was full on 25 November 2014 as Aularians and members of the wider University enjoyed the 2014 Emden Lecture, given by Professor Peter Mandler (Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and President of the Royal Historical Society). This Lecture was deferred from Trinity Term 2014 because its original scheduled date clashed with the funeral service held for Professor Sir David Yardley.

Professor Mandler took as his subject The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Education and Democracy in Modern Britain; he set himself the ambitious task of navigating the choppy waters of the development of mass secondary education during the 20th century.

The reforms of the later 19th century, not uncontroversial when introduced, had ensured that Britain, like other major European countries, benefitted from universal primary education – to the extent, as Professor Mandler explained, that by the time of World War II Britain was unusual in requiring as much as nine years’ compulsory education (the minimum school leaving age was then 14). He argued that the drivers for the 1944 Education Act’s development of secondary education were somewhat different, involving two “novel democratic considerations”: the humane (concern for the development of the individual, including religious aspects of a child’s learning) and the “economic or utilitarian”. From a historical overview, Professor Mandler told his audience, the development was from limited secondary education provision benefitting only an elite in the 19th century to a 89

universal system by the mid-20th Century intended for the mass of children.

The key issue was to determine the nature of the secondary education provided.

Not all children could go to high-quality grammar schools (of the fee-paying kind which had already been required by Local Education Authorities (LEAs) since the early 20th Century to make free places available to academically bright children from disadvantaged backgrounds). Professor Mandler described the 1944 Education Act, which obliged LEAs to make free secondary education available to all, as a “compromise” in a number of respects; not least, the discretion to experiment with different types of provision. Hence the creation in most areas of the two-stream arrangement of grammar schools and secondary modern schools, allowing children – separated out by the 11-plus examination – to benefit from a more ‘academic’ education leading to GCE qualifications on the one hand (O- and A-levels, the gateway onward to universities), or on the other hand a more ‘technical’ education leading to the Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE). In Professor Mandler’s account, this selection system to identify “the meritocracy” proved short-lived because it was inherently unstable. Too many parents, especially in the lower middle-class and upper working-class, aspired to grammar school places for their offspring and were disappointed when this ambition could not be achieved. There were demographic pressures on LEAs to build more schools, but despite the major increases in government spending on education in the 1950s it was not always practicable for individual LEAs to provide more of both grammar schools and secondary moderns.

Professor Mandler described how in the last quarter of the 20th century the secondary education system moved towards “comprehensive” schools trying to cater for pupils of all abilities, tested from 1984 onwards by the wider-ranging GCSE examinations – a system in which entrants nevertheless needed to be streamed according to estimated academic potential at the end of their primary education. By the end of the 20th century, the system was also characterised by two further developments: first, increasing centralisation of the curriculum (pressed for by education reformers, contrary to the progressive educational methods of the 1960s) allied with greater accountability (involving scrutiny of standards through inspection and production of ‘league tables’); and second, fragmentation of provision as LEA control was reduced and different types of schools were established specialising in different subjects – which in effect involves selection of applicants on the basis of merit (or at least, on the basis of a child’s estimated ability to benefit from whatever academic or technical emphasis such a school offers). Professor Mandler told his audience that the main political parties still steer clear of the “selection” controversy where possible: but he was confident that the democratic debate will continue vigorously as the UK’s secondary education system develops in the 21st century.

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STUDENT JOURNALISM PRIZES AND THE GEDDES MEMORIAL LECTURE 2015 The four award winners for 2015 received their student journalism prizes at an event held in the Principal’s Lodgings on 6 March 2015.

The Geddes Prize open to students throughout the University went to Robert Walmsley (Balliol College), one of the founders of studentrun website ‘Backbench’, which encourages students to write articles about current affairs and provides a platform for young people potentially looking to pursue a career in journalism to develop their ability The 2015 Geddes Prize-winners with Ms and ideas. Robert will contribute his Lyse Doucet (centre), the Principal, and prize to fund new App platforms on the panel of judges Backbench for the next three years.

Robert’s own journalism was judged to be of high quality, both on news stories and in longer, thoughtful commentary pieces. The Geddes Prize for Hall students was awarded to James Elliott (2013, History). James’s journalistic work had focused on campaigning issues, occupations, the Far Right and cuts: he planned to use the prize money to report on the youthful and more radical elements of the Greek Syriza Party. The new Ronnie Payne Prize for outstanding foreign affairs student journalism was won by Carola Binney of Magdalen College, whose work (described by the judges as “beautifully written, imaginative and thoughtprovoking”) had featured in The Spectator and Daily Telegraph. Carola’s prize will be used to broaden her experience through an internship at The Hindustan Times in New Delhi, working on the English-language newspaper’s online and weekend desks to deal with a wide range of stories from across its newsroom and national network. The Clive Taylor Prize for sports journalism went to the Hall’s Sam Maywood (2011, PPE) for some innovative pieces on rowing in Oxford. In his previous work Sam had drawn attention to Oxford journalism’s lack of interest in rowing and the Boat Race – subjects which, by contrast, attract immense national media coverage. The judges praised Sam’s originality, a quality also seen in his prize-winning project to investigate Anglo-Soviet scientific exchanges of the 1960s. Having previously carried out local paper and BBC-based internships, Sam now plans to complete an internship at a national newspaper.

The Prizes are awarded through the Philip Geddes Memorial Trust, chaired by Graham Mather. This year’s judging panel consisted of Professor Wes Williams (chair), Mr Mather, John Kelly, and Peter Cardwell. Professor Williams writes: “As ever, all active student journalists in the University were e-mailed by the 91

Principal’s PA a few weeks before the submission deadline; notices about all the prizes were also put up on a range of websites. Once again, we had a good range of applications across a broad spectrum of interests; and all the judges agreed we had some distinctly impressive prize winners. Nine candidates were selected by the judges and all were interviewed in the one day.”

The Prizes were presented by Ms Lyse Doucet, the Chief International Correspondent for BBC News. Ms Doucet, who joined the BBC in the same year that Aularian journalist Philip Geddes was killed, 1983, went on to deliver the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture for 2015 in the Examination Schools.

In her powerful and moving lecture entitled ‘Killing the Messenger, and the Message’, Lyse Doucet paid tribute to Philip Geddes, whom she described as a “remarkable young man”, and to those journalists who follow in his footsteps.

She outlined the Geddes family history: Philip was the only son of a Polish-born Holocaust survivor, a father who was hugely proud when Philip matriculated at the Hall in 1977 to read English and who was devastated by Philip’s death just three years after completing his degree. That death came about because Philip, a trainee journalist, happened to be close to Harrods London department store when an IRA bomb detonated; with what Ms Doucet praised as his journalist’s instinct to follow up a story despite staying in harm’s way, Philip went to investigate the explosion and was killed when a second bomb went off. With her long experience of reporting from the world’s trouble-spots, Ms Doucet told the audience frankly that “too many people missed too many friends, too many loved ones”. She went on to recall friends of her own who had experienced attacks – sometimes being killed – while reporting events in places such as Syria, Afghanistan, Ghaza, the Lebanon and Libya. She quoted one of them as saying: “It’s what we do …and must do”.

Ms Doucet also paid tribute to young journalists, especially freelancers, who were trying to make their name and mark in what she called “chaotic front lines” throughout the world, as well as to experienced journalists and others currently braving danger, including the threat of kidnapping, to report from Libya and Syria (currently “the most dangerous place for journalists”). She took pride in the fact that despite nearly 400 murders of journalists during the previous 10 years and the major threat to press freedom which the dangers posed, events continued to be covered and brought to the public’s notice. “Never has it been more important to report in places like the Middle East”, she argued, despite the risks and even the agonising extreme cases where journalists’ families saw them online being put to death.

Ms Doucet urged her audience to honour the memory of Philip Geddes and those who came after him. She said that if he had lived, Philip’s voice as a journalist would have grown stronger. By “running into danger, rather than away from it”, the young Aularian had channelled a fundamental impulse of his profession: to investigate, to ask questions, and to pursue a story wherever it might lead.

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RESEARCH EXPO 2015 In his report for the 2013–14 edition of the Magazine, the Principal emphasised the Hall’s commitment to research and the careers of Oxford’s world-class researchers.

This commitment received a strong practical demonstration in Hilary Term 2015 with the staging of the inaugural St Edmund Hall Research Expo, held throughout the afternoon How good is your heart? Research Expo on Saturday 28 February 2015. The 2015’s ‘The Lab’ multidisciplinary event was designed to celebrate the wealth of the academic research being carried out by members of the Hall and to share this in an accessible way. Most importantly, it was intended to promote interaction between the Junior, Middle, and Senior Common Rooms while encouraging people to venture beyond their disciplinary boundaries. All student and staff members of the Hall were invited to attend.

The title ‘Research Expo’ was decided by the organising committee, which was co-ordinated by Dr Michael Dee (Junior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow). Dr Dee’s representation of the Social Sciences was complemented

by SCR contributors from the University’s other academic Divisions: Dr Mariana Rossi Carvalho (Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences), Dr David Dupret (Medical Sciences), and Dr Jenni Nuttall and Dr Alex Lloyd (Humanities).

The committee also included the President of the MCR (David Severson), the Hall’s two MCR Pontigny Scholars (Wenji Guo and Ross Green), and the JCR’s Academic Reps (Liam Carrick and Zamira Rahim). An MCR sub-committee led by its Academic Rep Kathryn Hutchinson also provided valuable support, not least in helping to select contributions from MCR members through a peerreview process.

The format devised for the event was a combination of short ‘Teddy Talks’ (similar to ‘TED Talks’) by SCR and MCR members on an aspect of their research, a keynote speaker, and three interactive themed rooms. The preparation for and the running of the Research Expo required the assistance of willing volunteers from the Common Rooms and College staff, including Kathryn Hutchinson and Communications Officer Claire Hooper.

The keynote lecture was given in a full Wolfson Hall by Aularian and Honorary Fellow Terry Jones (1961, English), who spoke about his recent Chaucer research: ‘Censorship of the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales’. Terry explained how his close study of the famous 15th century illuminated manuscript led him to conclude that “the pilgrims have been tampered with!”

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The series of ‘Teddy Talks’ enabled 24 Hall speakers to give brief introductions to their work (about twelve minutes each), aimed at non-specialist audiences. The sessions were all booked out in advance, every talk being attended by around 20– 30 people. The talks were grouped into half a dozen interdisciplinary sessions: Talks I (Old Library): Catherine the Great; dinosaurs; debt management; the structure of matter Talks II (Chapel): Seeing the invisible; Shakespeare’s animals; clinical trials data; earthquakes Talks III (Principal’s Drawing Room): Liars; nutrition; structural integrity; colouring-in for adults Talks IV (Old Library): Brain imaging; climate change in the Pyramid Age; Earth’s earliest super-predators; what George Eliot can teach us about HS2 Talks V (Chapel): Computational complexity theory; brain simulation; the body on stage and screen; bone cancer Talks VI (Principal’s Drawing Room): The Eternity Puzzle; who shot ‘Dead Meat’ Thompson?; trade unions and the Arab Spring; the US founding myth.

Ticketing was arranged so that the attendees not only heard four talks within the hour, but also talks that covered four entirely different subjects. This meant that in addition to the ‘vertical’ links made between the Common Rooms, the ‘horizontal’ dimension of interdisciplinarity was added to the event – an approach currently favoured by research funding bodies.

During the afternoon, the Old Dining Hall, the Doctorow Hall, and the Pontigny Room provided the venues for the three interactive themed rooms: respectively, The Salon, The Lab, and The Studio.

In The Salon, highlights included Hall medievalists (Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Charlotte Cooper and Gareth Evans) showcasing the material side of medieval text production and giving visitors an opportunity to try Gothic handwriting; book recommendations for holiday reading; advice on getting published; a game of ‘guess the author’; untranslatable words (to get visitors thinking in a foreign language); a 15th century poetic and historical puzzle; a selection of items relating to poetry, plays, and prominent Aularians, presented by the Hall’s Archivist, Rob Petre; displays of Social Sciences research and of Hall Humanities research from the Library’s Aularian collection. In addition, Professor Lucy Newlyn was available for consultation as the Hall’s specialist Poetry Doctor.

The Lab provided a space full of demonstrations, displays and interactive experiments. These included ‘stimulating minds’ by Dr Charlie Stagg, describing the use of non-invasive brain stimulation methods to drive learning and plasticity in the brain; an explanation by Dr Michael Dee of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit’s radiocarbon dating for archaeological and environmental research (the Unit’s high-profile casework having included the Turin Shroud, 94

the remains of King Richard III, Neanderthals, mammoths and Ancient Egypt); ‘the study of cancer and bone’ by Professor Claire Edwards; ‘brain plasticity in action’ by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, using the study of brain plasticity to understand how lifestyle affects the brain, how it recovers after a stroke, and how it changes after amputation of a limb; ‘exercise, oxygen and the heart’ by Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton, exploring the effects of exercise and hypoxia status on cardiac function.

The Studio contained an exhibition of artworks by members of the JCR: Oliver Bass (painting), Wai Chung (photographs), Maya Gulieva (installation), Joseph Mackay (photographs), Ruth Miller (painting), Eleanor Minney (installation), and Eleanor Pryer (drawing). Contributors stood alongside their pieces and explained them to visitors.

A survey of opinion conducted soon afterwards indicated that the Research Expo had proved to be a success: 64% of respondents agreed that it had achieved its aim of bringing the three Common Rooms together and encouraging interaction between different disciplines, while 97% agreed that it should become a regular feature of the Hall calendar, if possible with greater JCR participation. It is now planned to repeat the Research Expo biennially. Reflecting on the event, the President of the MCR commented: “Today, we have reached a point in academia where the problems have become so complex that specialising, or indeed subspecialising, is requisite for success. But I feel we must remember that the walls between disciplines are artificial, albeit useful, constructions that enable us to tackle those complex problems. I think events like the Research Expo enable us to spend a day breaking down those artificial disciplinary divides.”

At the time of the Magazine going to print, over 20 of the ‘Teddy Talks’ were available as podcasts online at www.youtube.com/StEdmundHall and on Oxford’s iTunesU.

ST EDMUND HALL CENTRE FOR THE CREATIVE BRAIN The Centre for the Creative Brain was launched in October 2014 with the aim of fostering links, dialogue, and collaboration amongst the Hall’s students, staff and friends. Bringing together people from a wide range of disciplines, the new Centre provides a forum to provoke thought and dialogue about how our understanding of neuroscience can impact on all aspects of our lives, and how insights from other fields can enrich the study of neuroscience. This initiative is steered by a cross-common-room interdisciplinary committee, chaired in 2014– 15 by Dr Charlotte Stagg, Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Fellow by Special Election.

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The Centre’s Inaugural Symposium was held at the Hall on 15 November 2014, taking as its theme ‘Music and the Mind’. The event attracted some 80 attendees, who included current students, academics, alumni and the wider public. Speakers approached the theme in a broad range of ways, synthesising science and the arts. The opening session was delivered by Dr Sally Baxendale (Clinical Psychologist, Epilepsy Society Research Centre and University College London), who discussed music and epilepsy; and Dr Julian O’Kelly (Research Fellow, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability), who spoke about music and rehabilitation. The programme included a talk by philosopher and Professor of Medicine, Raymond Tallis, on ‘Was Schubert a musical brain?’: this was complemented by a selection of Schubert lieder performed by the Hall’s Director of Music, Chris Watson. The Centre plans to make the hosting of this kind of symposium an annual feature of its activities, showcasing high-quality international speakers at the interface between neuroscience and literature, fine art, philosophy, ethics, music and sociology.

In Hilary Term 2015, the Centre’s second event, entitled ‘Memory and the Mind’, took place on 12 March. It was led by Dr David Dupret, Fellow by Special Election, who explored the idea that every event in our lives leaves a distinct memory trace in the brain and that such traces can be written and re-written at will – opening up the possibility of implanting someone else’s memories or erasing unwanted memories. This concept has long fascinated film-makers and their audiences: Dr Dupret drew on his recent research to debunk some myths, but he also showed how in certain circumstances Hollywood’s science fiction may not be far removed from the truth.

The Centre completed the academic year with a sell-out evening on the theme ‘Laughter and the Brain’, held in the Doctorow Hall on 15 May 2015. In what was designed as “a great evening of laughter and science”, prestigious speakers discussed why and how we laugh, and whether laughter serves any evolutionary purpose. These included Professor Sophie Scott, Deputy Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London; Professor Gordon Claridge, Emeritus Professor of Abnormal Psychology at Oxford University; Mr Paul Mayhew-Archer, long celebrated for his work in radio and television comedy; Dr Brett Mills, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, who has published widely on comedy and popular television; and Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, a psychiatrist with a research interest Philosopher and Professor of Medicine in the neuroscience behind food Raymond Tallis at the Centre’s Inaugural addiction who, as well as helping to Symposium 96

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REMEMBERING SIR DAVID YARDLEY The pews of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin were packed on the afternoon of 14 November 2014 as family, friends, colleagues and former pupils of the late Sir David Yardley, Emeritus Fellow, came together to celebrate in words, music and prayers his life and achievements across a wide range of interests. During the memorial service, moving tributes were paid by: the Principal; Dr Ian Scargill (Emeritus Fellow and Trustee of the Oxford Green Belt Network); the Right Hon. Sir Stanley Burnton (Honorary Fellow); Dr John Marzillier (a tennis-playing friend); Debbie Dance (Director of the Oxford Preservation Trust); and Richard Yardley (David’s brother). Dr Scargill’s address is reproduced below.

It was 60 years ago, at the start of Michaelmas Term 1954, that I first set eyes on David Yardley. I was a nervous freshman at St Edmund Hall, and he a fairly newly elected Fellow. In fact he had been elected a Fellow in 1953 but a year spent on a Teaching Fellowship in Chicago had delayed his arrival at the Hall and so, on this occasion, we were both dining for the first time in Teddy Hall’s Old Dining Hall, all we had in those days. Little did I appreciate, seeing David amongst the small group of dons at High Table that night, that I would come to know him well and to establish a friendship that I was to value over these many years.

Born near Lichfield in 1929, educated at Ellesmere College in Shropshire and at Birmingham University where he was awarded a First in the Law Faculty in 1949, David went on to do his National Service as a Flying Officer in the RAF before coming up to Lincoln College here in Oxford to work for his D.Phil. That brief account should not conceal the fact that the quality of his work at Birmingham had resulted in the award of the Lady Barber Scholarship which enabled him to come to Oxford, or that he completed his doctorate in two years. The subject ‘Judicial control of administrative tribunals’ laid the foundations of his academic career in administrative law and of his extensive public service, especially in the field of tribunals.

The prospect of taking up his Fellowship at St Edmund Hall did not distract David from more important matters and, earlier in 1954, he and Patsy were married, the start of a long and loving partnership, the diamond anniversary of which they would have celebrated just a few weeks after David died.

At St Edmund Hall, David Yardley was one of the small group of Fellows who, under John Kelly’s leadership, carried forward that transformation of the Hall in the 1950s and 1960s which saw it gain full College status in 1957 and embark on the creation of new buildings appropriate to its enhanced position in the University.

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side where of necessity you had to cover a wide field, but also in administration, and David played a full part in the many College tasks that came his way.

As Senior Member of Amalgamated Clubs, he worked energetically to improve facilities for the Hall’s sports clubs, contributing through this to St Edmund Hall’s legendary sporting prowess at this time. And if this were not sufficient, he was elected the Hall’s first University Proctor in modern times, serving as Senior Proctor in the academic year 1965–66. I had the pleasure of being one of his Pro-Proctors, being sent off to listen to improving University sermons on Sunday mornings and walking the streets at night looking out for undergraduates whose cars did not display the required green lamp. It was more fun than I have made it sound.

After 20 years as a Tutorial Fellow at the Hall, David moved back to Birmingham University as Barber Professor in his old department. Although he retained an affection for the West Midlands throughout his life, I think he missed Oxford, and after a few years in Birmingham he was back at what is now Oxford Brookes University as Head of the Department of Law, Politics and Economics. There followed a spell at the University of Buckingham before he took up the position of Chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England, popularly known as the Local Government Ombudsman.

To this pioneering role he brought not only his knowledge of the law, but also his experience of dealing with injustices and complaints gained through many years of work on tribunals, rent assessment panels, and other like bodies. I believe that all of this stemmed from David’s strong sense of public duty and of a wish to help those experiencing problems in their lives. Perhaps being Senior Proctor was no bad training for the adjudicative role of Ombudsman, and when he retired from the latter position in 1994, his work over 12 years, when he had done much to establish the reputation of the office, was rewarded by his appointment as Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours of that year.

But even when engaged in administrative duties, David never lost his interest in teaching students, and he would find the time to chair a Summer School at the Queen’s College when he would invite friends and colleagues, including myself, to take part and initiate American visitors into the nature of the English legal system, including what to them were the incomprehensible mysteries of the magistracy.

No account of David’s life would be complete without a further mention of Patsy and, of course their four children and then their grandchildren, in all of whose lives he took such pride and pleasure. His marriage to Patsy was a real partnership and he supported her in her work as a local councillor and was proud of her skills as an artist, as well as sharing her love of Burmese cats. A University-appointed city councillor himself for some years, he enjoyed the year when Patsy was Lord Mayor. Disliking titles like ‘escort’ or ‘partner’, he would find amusement in inventing titles for himself such as Lord Mayoress. His 20-year stint as Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust was yet another instance of service to the city that 98

David loved and sought to benefit. This involvement with the Preservation Trust stemmed from a lifelong interest in all forms of wildlife and their environment. It is no surprise that he was also a supporter of the Woodland Trust.

And, finally, one should not overlook his commitment to Mary Magdalen Church which he attended faithfully and where the nature of what we tend to call High Church worship appealed to his sense of order and tradition.

His Christian faith was something that made David what he was, that gave him the will to serve others as well as to excel in his chosen academic discipline. I hope that as they continue to mourn his death, Patsy and the rest of David’s family will find comfort in knowing just how much he achieved and what good he did for those around him.

Ian Scargill Lady Yardley writes: It is hard to sum up my irreplaceable David: not only was he academically bright, conscientious and hard-working but also my loving and super-supportive husband and father to our four children. Having met at a family friend’s party for young teenagers in January 1953 (though we were elderly at 23 and 19) it was “one of those things”; despite David being appointed to a Bigelow teaching scholarship in Chicago and hence abroad from September that year to the following May while I did my final year at art school in Birmingham, relevant advance arrangements were made for us to be married in July 1954. Teddy Hall had in 1953 appointed David to be its first Law Fellow and held the post open for him until his return from the States. Lincoln (where he had completed his DPhil in two years) very kindly rented us their college butler’s house for our first year in Oxford before we went onto the pleasures of paying mortgages for “our own” property, eventually ending up in Belbroughton Road for the last 50 years of David’s life.

Others have reported on David’s writing and other work, including his career as Local Government Ombudsman, based in London. We were enormously touched when his pupils put on a splendid dinner in the Hall to mark his 70th birthday and presented David with a charming and quirky engraved silver cream jug to mark the occasion. Whenever he could, David went “that extra mile” for his students in helping them on to the next stage of their adult lives, and kept in touch with some who needed occasional further help.

We will not forget him.

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GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE MCR Over 150 Aularians, Fellows, and friends took part in an event on 27 June 2015 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hall’s Middle Common Room. The gathering had a distinct international flavour: more than 20 countries were represented, including alumni and current students from Australia, India, Kenya, South Africa, and the USA.

MCR Presidents past and present The Golden Jubilee provided an opportunity for the Hall to reflect on the growth of the MCR, the contribution which graduate students make to its life, and the success which many of them have gone on to achieve in the world. Nowadays, taught-course and research graduates represent about 48% of the University’s total student population; at the Hall, graduate students make up just under 38% of the student body and form the majority of its members from overseas.

The growth in numbers of graduate students across the whole University accelerated in the 1960s, supported by the foundation of graduate-only colleges like Nuffield, St Antony’s, Linacre, St Cross and Wolfson. The longer established colleges played their part by increasing their postgraduate numbers and making special provision for this type of student. It was in this context that the Hall established its Middle Common Room in 1965, in particular to provide a base for what were sometimes quaintly referred to as ‘foreign’ graduates (i.e. those who were admitted to the Hall having previously taken degrees elsewhere in Oxford or the UK, as well as abroad). Eventually each MCR member was assigned a ‘moral tutor’ from within the SCR to oversee academic progress generally and provide pastoral support, this being a precursor to the current ‘College Adviser’ system established by the University to support graduate students.

Participants on 27 June 2015 enjoyed a day of talks and presentations from alumni, SCR members, and current students, looking at the MCR’s past, present and future. After the Principal’s welcoming address, Michael Heal (1968, PGCE History) chaired a panel discussion entitled ‘Reflections on the six decades of the MCR’, for which the speakers were former MCR Presidents: Nick Boucher (1962, DPhil in Metallurgy), Ian Robertson (1967, BLitt in English), Anne Juel (1994, DPhil in Physics), Susan Anderson (1987, MPhil in English), Jennifer Chung (2004, DPhil in Education), and Charlotte Cooper (2012, DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages). These were six of the total of 12 MCR Presidents attending.

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and sporting highlights. The speakers included: Dr Linda Yueh (Fellow by Special Election in Economics and the BBC’s Chief Business Correspondent), who spoke about ‘China: The Making of an Economic Superpower’; current student Roxana Willis (2012, DPhil in Law), who described ‘Artistic Adventures: The Creative Side of Graduate Life at Teddy Hall’; current student Philip Chadwick (2014, DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages), who spoke on ‘If Terrorists Read Dostoevsky’; and Dr Steve Blinkhorn (1969, BA Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology), who shared this thoughts on ‘How to Win a Nobel Prize and Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’.

The day of celebrations included a buffet lunch in the gardens of St Peter-in-theEast and, via Evensong in the Chapel, finished with a four-course dinner in the Wolfson Hall. The Principal spoke after dinner, congratulating the MCR on its anniversary and wishing it well for the future.

In an article published in the Trinity Term 2015 issue of the The Aularian newsletter, the MCR’s first President, Alan Bower (1964, DPhil in English), who unfortunately was unable to attend the Golden Jubilee weekend, wrote about the foundation of the MCR: the national drive to increase the number of students in higher education, including postgraduates, in the wake of the 1963 Robbins Report; Oxford’s Franks Commission, established to address Robbins’ warning that progress from an elite to a more inclusive university system necessitated attention being paid to the collegiate structure; and at Teddy Hall, the decision in 1965 to take a lease from Magdalen College on the house at No. 7 Longwall Street in order to provide the initial physical base for a Common Room before the MCR’s home was moved to the Front Quad. Alan paid tribute to what he described as “the far-sighted support of the Hall’s SCR, in particular Bruce Mitchell and (later Professor Sir) David Yardley”.

Alan’s successor down the line as President in 2014–15, David Seversen, writing in section 2 of the present Magazine, speaks for all in looking forward to the MCR continuing to flourish as it enters its next half-century.

1965 JUBILEE BUMP SUPPER The Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club hadn’t organised a big dinner since the 150th anniversary celebrations in March 2011: what possible excuse could they find to follow that event?

The answer wasn’t hard to find. Fifty years ago the Hall Boat Club enjoyed a remarkable annus mirabilis, rarely (if ever) equalled by any other college in either Oxford or Cambridge. The list of achievements is astonishing: those who participated, and those who didn’t, had to pinch themselves that this catalogue of success wasn’t just a waking dream. Head of the River (in Summer Eights and Torpids); nine crews entered for Summer Eights; winners of the Ladies’ 101

Plate and Visitors’ at Henley; five Blues; three Isis in the first Isis v. Goldie race; members of the winning Thames and Prince Philip crews at Henley; winners of the Long Distance Race at Godstow; the Hall Second VIII in the First Division of Summer Eights….

The richness (and riot) of that record could only be matched by an equally rich (and riotous) 1965 Jubilee Bump Supper which was held in college on 20 March 2015.

Sixty-six rowers attended a champagne reception in the Old Dining Hall, and sat down to a splendid dinner in the Doctorow Hall, accompanied by a magnificent selection of wines including a wonderful award-winning English Schönburger grown and made in Hampshire by the Boat Club’s sponsor, Danebury Vineyards, many of whose wines are currently stocked in the college wine cellar.

We were delighted, as ever, to welcome the Principal and Dr Dianne Gull, and especially Duncan Clegg, Captain of Boats in 1964–65, who presided over the Bump Supper, along with three of his colleagues from that year’s First Eight: Darrell Barnes, Edward Gould and Hugh Thomas.

The dinner was not simply to celebrate what happened fifty years before: it was also an excuse (as if excuse were needed) to mark the achievements of Hall rowing over so many years, from the 1959 Head of the River crew to the present day. It was particularly heartening to see so many young men and women from today’s Boat Club, who, we hope, will be inspired by the achievements of their predecessors: if their ability to drain the bar afterwards was anything to go by, they should have no difficulty in emulating their seniors and rapidly rising to Head of the River.

A surprise at the end of the Bump Supper, skilfully invented by the Principal, was the presentation from the College to Richard Fishlock of a photograph of the 1869 Hall First Eight and a stylish decanter to honour his efforts in support of Hall rowing over so many years.

The Hall was still in one piece the next morning.

Darrell Barnes (1963, Modern Languages)

ANNIVERSARY DINNERS The Hall was pleased to welcome Aularians to a series of anniversary black-tie dinners during the year, providing congenial surroundings and excellent food to assist them in celebrating old times and renewing friendships.

On 20 September 2014, a combined 10th, 20th and 30th Anniversary Dinner was held in the Wolfson Hall for those who matriculated as undergraduates in 2004, 1994 and 1984. This was attended by 78 people, including 31 from the year 2004, 25 from the year 1994, and 18 from the year 1984. There were after-dinner speakers from each year-group.

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The 40th Anniversary Dinner was held on 28 March 2015, for the 1975 matriculands. Forty-five attendees dined in what for them as students were the less familiar surroundings of the Old Dining Hall.

The 50th Anniversary Dinner on 16 April 2015 welcomed 40 attendees, also accommodated in the Old Dining th th th Attendees at the 10 , 20 and 30 Hall (where, as students, all their Anniversary Dinner, 20 September 2014 meals were taken prior to the opening of the Wolfson Hall in 1970). The date of this year’s Dinner was brought forward from the customary September fixture because of the Front Quad re-paving works taking place from summer 2015 onwards.

The Front Quad project also necessitated the postponement of the 10th, 20th and 30th Anniversary Dinner 2015, regrettably – but it will amalgamate with the next year-groups’ reunion. The dates of dinners in 2015–16, open to former graduate students as well as former undergraduates, have been announced as follows: Saturday 26 March 2016: 40th Anniversary Dinner (1976) Saturday 17 September 2016: combined 10th, 20th, and 30th Anniversary Dinner (1985, 1986, 1995, 1996, 2005, 2006) Saturday 24 September 2016: 50th Anniversary Dinner (1966)

DIGITISATION OF THE HALL MAGAZINE For some years now, the text of the annual Hall Magazine has been produced electronically and offered in pdf format to Aularians who prefer not to receive the publication in printed copy. Building on the opportunity that was opening up, during 2014–15 the Hall completed a long-needed project to create a digital archive of all editions of the Magazine since the first one was published for the year 1919–20. This work was made possible through generous support by John Bunney (1964, English) and Dr Frank Hwang (Friend of the Hall). As noted in section 5 of the present edition, the Principal reported on the digitisation project at the March 2015 meeting of the Floreat Aula Society and shared with members a sample of the material that has been made so much From the Magazine more accessible. archive 103

The Editor of the 1919–20 Magazine observed: “With all its impressive length of years, the Hall has lost in the past much that would have been treasurable to future generations by nothing more than lack of simple annals.” The continuing aim of the Magazine over the years has therefore been to provide such annals. Its rich content, in writing, photographs and drawings, recording the Hall during nearly a 100 years, can now be explored more readily: its physical and academic development; the sporting, creative and social activities and events that have marked its progress; milestones such as the foundation of the St Edmund Hall Association, the impact of the Second World War, the award of the Charter which in 1957 enabled the Hall to become a self-standing institution within the family of Oxford’s colleges, the opening of new buildings, the establishment of the Middle Common Room, the admission of women; and perhaps above all, insights into the lives of the numerous individual staff, students and alumni who have been and remain the essence of the place.

The Hall hopes also to be able to digitise other treasurable material in its Archives, such as the photographs held of Aularians, sports teams and Hall events; together with the contents of the Magazine’s much younger cousin, The Aularian newsletter.

The link to the digital archive of copies of the Magazine is www.copydata-ebooks. co.uk/St_Edmund_Hall/archive/htm and the password is Teddy1957.

The virtual tours were made by Greg Harris, Creative Director of the company Tour Dimensional, in a project overseen by Communications Officer Claire Hooper.

These tours can be accessed on the Hall’s website at www.seh.ox.ac.uk/virtualtours.

DEGREE DAYS This year the Hall presented candidates for their degrees at ceremonies held in the Sheldonian Theatre on 8 November 2014, 6 June, 11 July, 25 July and 19 September 2015. MAs were strongly represented at the 8 November and 6 June ceremonies; the 11 July ceremony included the newly-qualified Medics and no fewer than 15 DPhils.

As in recent years, almost half the total number of candidates participated in a college-specific event: this took place on 25 July, when 101 students were admitted to degrees. On that occasion, three graduate students received MPhils, while in what was mainly a year-group graduation for students who had obtained their Finals results in Trinity Term 2015, 66 undergraduates received BAs, four received BFAs, and 28 received ‘undergraduate masters’ degrees in various subjects. The next largest graduation group processed to the Sheldonian on 19 September 2015, largely comprising graduates who had completed nine-month MSts and MScs. All candidates and guests were entertained at the Hall on their Degree Days.

Comment on the Magazine over the years is included in the article by Emeritus Professor Malcolm McDonald in section 6 of the present edition.

Emeritus Fellow Dr Christopher Phelps stood down as the Hall’s Dean of Degrees in Michaelmas Term and was succeeded by Dr Stephen Blamey, Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy.

VIRTUAL 3-D TOURS OF THE HALL

Information from the College Office about arrangements for Degree Days in 2015–16 is given in section 4 of this Magazine.

Thanks to state-of-the-art scanning technology which uses 2-D and 3-D sensors to capture high-dynamic-range images and space geometry, since May 2015 online visitors have been able to explore areas of the Hall that are not normally open to the public. The virtual tours include the Library, the MCR, the Buttery, the Old Dining Hall, the Chapel, and the Old Library.

This means that beautiful buildings where access is usually restricted to members of the Hall can now be shared with visitors in a non-intrusive way. For example, when the College Library was established in the historic 12th century church of St Peter-in-the-East in 1970, many of the building’s interior features were sensitively retained, such as monuments and stained-glass windows, while the striking ceiling was redecorated using paint pigments that would have been available in medieval times. The system of locking the Library doors to prevent casual visitors from viewing the inside had to be introduced in the late 1970s because such visitors were disturbing users. Now the glorious interior of this busy working space is available for wider appreciation.

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STUDENT NUMBERS On the College Register at the start of Trinity Term 2015 were 416 undergraduates, 264 postgraduates, and 38 Visiting Students.

NEW STUDENTS 2014–2015 UNDERGRADUATES AND POSTGRADUATES

SECTION 4:

FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS

Abbas, Maham Abdilahi, Rahma Abouzzohour, Yasmina Addo, Beatrice Ahel, Josip Andresian, Alexander Audsley, Isabella Austin, William Timothy George Banjac, Goran Barba Cancho, Daniel Barnard, Edward Batho, Frederick Thomas Scott Bayliss, Lee Behan, Sophie Clare Louisa Bell, Shannon Bennett, Camerin Berg, Daniel Boath, Rory Scott Bogden, George Brown, Olivia Julia Buckley, Samuel Bull, Kieran Alexander Nicholas Burningham, Anna Roberta Butler, Guy Calvo Jackson, Juan Carlos Carter, Matthew Chadfield, John Chadwick, Philip Chakravarty, Nayan Chan, Amelia Chan, Hok Lun Chan, Ka Hang Chaudri, Karanraj

Chen, Yilin Chen, Yi-Sheng Cheng, Ashley Chevalier, Alexis Chng, Leon Choquet, Pierre-Louis Chung, Wai Tung Margaret Clayton, Alice Joanne Clement, Dallas Clements, Grace Cockerham, Alexander Severyn Cockerill, Matthew Connell, Bethany Conway, Rowena Alexandra May Coore, Philippa Corcuera, Angelica Cosnahan, Thomas Coston, Micah Craig, Isadora Rose Dallas, Andre Davidson, Jessica Davies, Joseph Daniel Degler, Eva DeVoy IV, John Henry Diteepeng, Nichabhat Donnison, Timothy Dyer, Tom Ellerton, Oliver Hill Enoch, Abigail Etgar, Yuval Evans, Benjamin Raymond St John Fairbairn, Connor Fan, Xinyi 107

Fijan, Domagoj Fountain, Christopher French, Sophie Victoria Fuller, Mark Sebastian Fulton, George Edward Holmden Gamero-Vega, Karen Gao, Zhenbo Garforth, Sam Garry, Payashi Geissmann, Anna Gabrielle Ghazaryan, Tigran Gibbs, Thomas Goldman, Carey Grant, Sarah Green, Lawrence Greenfield, Alexandra Gulieva, Maya Gyorffy, Alex Hall, Gen Hamilton, Alexander Hammond, Joshua Hart, Daniel Harvey, Robert Amos Brooks Harvey, William Haseldine, Elizabeth Maria Hayer, Ravinder Hayward, Tabitha Hazucha, Branislav Henderson, Jessica Henson, Samuel Hill, Peter Michael Hoay, Melody Hong Leng Huleatt-James, Danielle Hutchinson, Kathryn Jackson, Lauren Jeon, Han Sol Karsten, Charlie Kary, India Keeley, Kelvin Thomas Keloharju, Roope Patrik Benjamin Khan, Sumayya 108

Khurshid, Zafar Kim, Bradford Kulicke, Corinna Kwan, Yee Kwon, Dabin Lau, Seng Teck Avester Lau, Gary Lee, Elizabeth Frances Lee, Vanessa Li, Zhongyue Liang, Quanzhi Lievonen, Mikko Lim, Christopher Zi Kai Limonov, Nikolay Lin, Jennifer Lock, Daniel James Lokuge, Kusal Lowry-Carter, Carys Lyster, Conor James Maffei, Kathleen Mahir, Joshkun Manners, Daniel James Mapp, Charlotte Amie Martin, Andrew Mckechnie, Charlie McLean, Thomas Mealy, Penelope Messina, Gianfranco Mhlomi, Vuyane Miller, Ruth Mills, Albert Norman Morgan, Thomas Morris, Rachael Muchala, Subhash Mukumoto, Kei Munday, Callum Naritomi, Takeshi Newton, Tamara Nguyen, John Nielsen, Anne Ogembo, Daisy

O’Keefe, Sarah Onnasch, Tycho Klaus Otto Ou, Ningfei Page, Caitlin Pagu, Ana Panizzon, Philippe Pannwitz, Hannah Pargue, Marie Park, Derek Parry, Shula Patricia Stewart Patience, Matthew John Pearce, Henry Christopher Peel, Christopher Pegolo, Valentina Peters, Helge Pflug, Thomas George Pigott, Samuel Porter, James Hugo Preston, Jessica Jane Qian, Matthias Rai, Erin Raine, Elizabeth Rampton, Joshua Read, Frances Reece, Kathryn Jane Ren, Jing Riley, Susanna Elizabeth Sagawe, Sophie Savage, Alexander Savva, Constantinos Schirn, Manon Sekhar, Petra Bhavani Shentu, Yekuan Shi, Haojun Skelton, Lucy Victoria Sloan, Megan Southern, Samantha Stamatopoulos, Ioannis Stellato, Bartolomeo Stevens, William Straker, Joel

Suenaga, Haruna Sutton, Matthew Andrew Sutton, Rebecca Svoboda, Kayla Tang, Yawei Taylor, Trent Thomas, Sophie Annabelle Thomas, Tonia Thompson, Rhiannon Sarah Truch, Julia Tsekhmistrenko, Maria Turner, Christina Tyrrell, Beatrice Unger, Simon van der Erve, Laura van der Watt, Diana Frances van Dissel, Dico Vanhaesebrouck, An Varkouhi, Shahab Vince, Harris Charles von Spreckelsen, Megan Vyvyan, Edward Michael Trevidren Wallis, Elizabeth Wallwork, Olivia Isabella Irwin Wang, Ge Wang, Jiale Wassing, Isabel Welham, Lydia Wester, Linde White, Nadine Margaret Williams, Julianne Willis, Roxana Winfrey, Harriet Winkler, Anderson Woo, Lynus Mason Chi Tung Woods, Benjamin En Dao Xiang Xie, Bowen Yun, Jason Yian Zhu, Tingting Zor, Ceren 109

VISITING STUDENTS 2014–2015

STUDENT ADMISSIONS EXERCISES

Akhmetova, Elizabeth Bankert, Joshua Battat, Sarah Chen, Liqi Chiappone, Rose Faaborg-Andersen, Christian Gray, Margaret Huang, Alice Jia, Wanyi Jia, Kai Jian, Xiaoyi Joung, Andrew Lee, Banghyun Lee, Emily Li, Hui Liebl, Ryan Liston, Alexis Liu, Haonan Long, Yanan Mei, Zhusong Messina, Peter Murphey, Annie Nielsen, Caroline Numata, Yuki Orr, Caroline Park, Jun Prasad, Smriti Qiu, Fanxiao Ratusnik, Rebecca Reardon, Gregory Rosenstein, Jamie Tantipongpipat, Uthaipon Tomaso, Cara Wang, Tianyu Watts, Courtney Witham, Adam Xiang, Jingyun Xu, Yue Yau, Claudia Yu, Dian Zhang, Nancy

In the Undergraduate Admissions exercise 2014, St Edmund Hall received over 680 applications for entry in 2015 and beyond (compared with a total of 673 the previous year). More than 320 of these applicants were invited for interview.

Almost all the interviews were conducted in person in Oxford, the exception being a small number of international applicants who were interviewed via Skype. Following the conclusion of December’s interview period, the Hall made a total of 134 offers of undergraduate places for entry in 2015 (compared with 127 offers the previous year). In addition, two deferred offers of places were made, for entry in Michaelmas Term 2016. The Hall also ‘exported’ a small number of applicants, for offers of places at other colleges.

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Vassar College Stonehill College Princeton University Lawrence University Smith College Georgetown University University of West Florida University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Pomona College Davidson College Princeton University Vassar College Colby College Wellesley College Wellesley College Gustavus Adolphus College Gustavus Adolphus College University of Richmond Colby College George Mason University Gannon University William Jewell College Harvey Mudd College Pomona College University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Pomona College University of Texas at Austin Swarthmore College Smith College Brown University Cornell University University of Richmond Smith College Haverford College University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Hampden-Sydney College Wellesley College Amherst College Wellesley College Amherst College Wellesley College

At the time of the Magazine going to print, this year’s Graduate Admissions exercise had so far seen the Hall consider more than 260 applications. Graduate offer-holders for entry in 2015–16 represent more than 35 nationalities: they will be undertaking a range of taught and research programmes in disciplines from across all four of the University’s academic divisions. The expected eventual intake of new graduate students in Michaelmas Term 2015 is approximately 125.

COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES College Scholars 2014–2015 Xander Alari-Williams Thomas H L Bailey Jake M Bowerbank Cameron J A Brookhouse Oliver T Carnell Emily J Carson Nicholas Chen Fang Yew Kunz Chow Douglas Cooley Rachel Davies Luke W S Dent Judit M Gonzalez Santana William E Hak Samuel T Henderson James M O Heywood Hendrik Hoelzer David J Z Holt Thomas A Hughes Taariq Ismail Jasdeep Kalsi

B Gunnar M Klackenberg Takashi Lawson Qi Liu David A Long Grace F Manley Mark A Mindel Eleanor Minney Jack N Moran Muhammad Saad Nabeebaccus Giles E H Neal Isabel B Ogilvie-Smith Andrew C M Orkney Nicholas M Pattinson Guy J G Paxman Naomi C Polonsky Emily L Pritchett Lucy E Roberts Binxin Ru Emily A Russell Minzhe Tang 111

Tsun Hin Navin Tsung John C Waite Benjamin L Whisker

Christopher H Williamson Liang Jing Wong Mabel Tung Yuet Wong

College Organ Scholars John Clark-Maxwell (student of Balliol College)

David J Cox Prize for Geography James A King

College Choral Scholars Matthew P Carter Josceline Dunne Elizabeth M Haseldine James A King

Samuel T Lovell Samuel A Mortimer Megan D von Spreckelsen

College Exhibitioners Nadia M L Bovy Lucie A R Carpenter Megan R Carter Henry Chapman Katherine G S Cowles John WD Darby Leslie Dickson-Tetteh Mehera E Emrich Ali Farhan Joshua M R Goldenberg George D C Grylls Fraser J A Heathcote Arthur J G Hill Thomas A Hobkinson Alexander J Hunt Conor P Husbands Sung Jae Kim

James A King Xinlei Liu Rhiannon M Main Alberto Merchante Gonzalez Steven E Pilley Martin J Platais Sophie-Marie Price Esther M Rathbone Edward C Sasada Angus D R Steele Patrick J Sugden Chui-Joe Tham William E S Webb Sarah Wooley Prateek Yadav Robyn L Zorab

George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre Thomas H L Bailey Isabel B. Ogilvie-Smith Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Emma Z D’Arcy Zoe P Dunn Joseph Mackay Mark A Mindel Eleanor R Pryer Amy Wilson 112

Cochrane Scholars Thomas H L Bailey Louise C Reilly Zara Morgan

David J. Cox Bursary Louise C Reilly Richard Fargher Bursaries Luke W S Dent George D de C Grylls Philip Geddes Memorial Prize James Elliott Clive Taylor Prize Sam Maywood Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Daniel Berg Bethany M Connell Leslie N O Dickson-Tetteh Jack E Dolan Charlotte M Dormon John P Logan Harry J H Lighton Julianne E Williams Instrumental Award Eve G D Smith Richard Luddington Prize Xander Alari-Willims Simon P Chelley James M O Heywood Connor P Husbands Thomas A Hobkinson Nicholas M Pattinson Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Tabitha R Hayward Ogilvie-Thompson Prize Isobel J Jones Ogilvie-Thompson Prize proxime accessit Amelia A L Lean 113

Peel Awards For the Professional Practice Programme in Fine Art Oliver J W Bass Mariette R Moor For Fine Art Eleanor Minney For Mathematics & Philosophy Sili Shen Natalie J W Stephens Michael Pike Fund Award Emily J Carson Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Bethany M Connell Sebastian N A Siersted Simon and Arpi Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership Thomas H L Bailey Joseph MacKay Sebastian N A Siersted Teach First Bursary Kristina K Murkett Nicholas D Reynolds Joe Todd Award Alastair Adams-Cairns Jack E Dolan Tony Doyle Science Bursary Luke W S Dent Emily L Pritchett Eve G D Smith Christopher H Williamson A total of 63 students received the means-tested Oxford Opportunity Bursary.

The College components of these bursaries were supported by: Aularian Mr Tony Best in honour of his parents Mr and Mrs Ron Best; and Mrs Dorothy Pooley, Mrs Lucy Webber and Mrs Frances Georgel in memory of their father, Aularian Mr Philip Saul.

UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/TATA Steel Prize for Best Team Design Project in Part I Materials Science Ilia Onischenko Department of Materials Prize for Most Significant Improvement between Parts I and II Materials Science Theodore J Silkstone Carter Gibbs Prize (Materials Science) J William D Darby John Farthing Prize for Outstanding Work in Human Anatomy Margaret Chung Special Prize in Chemical Biology Robyn L Zorab

COLLEGE GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Bruce Mitchell Graduate Scholarship Micah Coston Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship Yilin Chen Emden-Doctorow Award Pierre-Louis Choquet E.P.A Cephalosporin Scholarship An E G Vanhaesebrouck Anderson M Winkler Pontigny Scholarship Ross Green Wenji Guo William R Miller Postgraduate Award Sarah A Grant Subhash Muchala Daisy L A Ogembo Roxana Willis Zaharoff-Besse Vanessa Lee Routledge Scholarship Rahma Abdilahi Graduate Writing-up Bursary Hem S Borker

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PARTNERSHIP GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Clarendon Fund and Justin Gosling Scholarship Marta B M Celati Clarendon Fund and St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship Philip J Chadwick (CEELBAS) Wenji Guo Domagoj Fijan Yung-Kang Peng Alexandra Greenfield Nicholas R I Gordon Helge Peters Maria Tsekhmistrenko (NERC) David M Wilkins

DEGREE RESULTS 2014–2015 Candidates who have agreed to their results being published

FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS 2015 Biochemistry Class I: Class II i

Cell and Systems Biology Class II i Oliver T Carnell Chemistry Class I Class II i Class II ii Earth Sciences Class I Class II i

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Amy Mary Preston Read Scholarship Zahra Shah Law Faculty Prize for Best Performance in Commercial Remedies Rosamund J Baker Fulbright Scholarship Bradford Kim Felix Scholarship Aashique A. Iqbal Marshall Scholarship Derek Park Rhodes Scholarship Natasha Chilundika Vuyane Mhlomi

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Mehera E Emrich Thomas A C Hilton, Sung Jae Kim, Kristof P Willerton

Jake M Bowerbank, Robyn L Zorab Sophie V Mathew-Jones James H Wilson II

Photo by Zoe Dunn (2012, Fine Art), taken during her Trinity 2015 Photo Internship at the Hall

Guy J G Paxman Edward Bunker, Emily J Carson, Sian L Evans, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Matthew Jerram, Jonathan D Smith, Patrick J Sugden

Economics & Management Class I Thomas R L Davis Class II i Rohit Arabind, James C Butterworth, Liam Carrick, B Gunnar M Klackenberg, Shayantan Rahman, Freya K Tomley Engineering Science Class I Class II i

Samuel T Henderson, James MO Heywood, Thomas A Hobkinson, Thomas A Hughes, Taariq Ismail, Qi Liu, Nicholas M Pattinson Ali Farhan, Amar Hodzic, Aminoor Rahman

English Language & Literature Class I Harry J H Lighton Class II i Joshua J D Barfoot, Anna N Bartol-Bibb, Tegen M Evans, Katherine M Finn, Conor D Kiely, Jack N Moran, Matilda A S Munro, Ellen J Page, Isobel L Parrish, Martin J Platais, Thea J D Wiltshire English & Modern Languages Class I Thomas H L Bailey Class II i Abigail C Thomas 117

Experimental Psychology Class II i Lucy Allen, William A Emmett, Anna Greenburgh Fine Art Class I Class II i Geography Class I Class II i History Class I Class II i History & Economics Class I Jurisprudence Class I Class II i Class II ii Materials Science Class I Class II i Mathematics Class I Class II ii Medical Sciences Class II i Modern Languages Class I Class II i

Mark A Mindel Emma Z D’Arcy, Zoe P Dunn, Joseph E A Mackay, Eleanor R Pryer Lucy C Langley, Edward J M Levy, Sarah K Wooley Jack P M Culpin, Douglas J Henderson, Fiona M A Roberts William CJ Searby, Benjamin L Whisker Edward H R Argles, Elizabeth Knowles, David A Long Simon P Chelley Lily N Pinder Joseph Brown, Benjamin L Dobson, Amy Liu, Angus C R Maudslay, Rebecca Varga, Jiehan Benjamin Xie Samuel T Lovell Cameron J A Brookhouse Alannah Hawkesford, Benjamin Jenkins, Theodore J Silkstone Carter Xander Alari-Williams, Jasdeep Kalsi Yang Lyu Amanda J Bacon, Alexander J Hunt, Giles E H Neal, Emily A Russell

Class II ii

Edward N A Wingfield Tessina Braunerova, Henry Chapman, Jonathan A B Davis, James Hilton, Susan J Meads, Alice O’Donoghue Thomas Clarke

Neuroscience Class II ii

David A Budd

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Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I Marcus J Henglein Class II i Juliet A R Eames, Robert J Humphries, Samuel Maywood, Luke M Stopford-Sackville, Catrin H Thomas Class II ii Nathan K King Physics Class II i Class II ii

Rebecca Ramjiawan Thomas O’Neill

Physics & Philosophy Class I Class II i

Conor Husbands Alberto Merchante Gonzalez

Psychology & Philosophy Class I Maura K G Lysaght Class II i Sahar Hadidimoud

HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Astrophysics: Paul Brook Chemistry: Bhaskar Bhushan, Alex Deeming, Amy Kolpin, Ying Wang Clinical Medicine: Suzanne Cole Education: Charlotte Clancy Engineering Science: Mona Alinejad, Jan Peter Calliess, Mircea Cimpoi, Diego Munoz Carpintero, Sena Serhadlioglu Experimental Psychology: Tudor Popescu Fine Art: Mariah Lookman Geography and the Environment: Henry E W Cottee-Jones History: Ruth Brown, Andrew Drenas Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine: Joseph J Illingworth, Rosanna McEwen-Smith, Simon Spiro International Relations: Maximillian Thompson Materials Science: Adrian Murdock Mathematics: Alhaji Cherif Medieval & Modern Languages: Claudia Lingscheid, Kathleen Morris Pharmacology: Gengyu Li Politics: Andrew MacDonald Radiation Biology: Selvakumar Anbalagan Social Policy: Joseph Feyertag Surgery: Seint The Su Lwin, Srinivasa Rao Systems Biology: Oliver Britton 119

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Economics: Charlotte M J Friedrichs, Naima Hafeez, Ilona Mostipan International Relations: Nicholas R I Gordon (Merit), Alexandra C Reza (Distinction) Modern British and European History: James A Hollis (Distinction) Politics: Todd N Karhu Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Thomas A Browning Jessie-Joy M Flowers Rachel O’Malley Alice C Quayle (Distinction) Peter A Swann Master of Science (MSc) Applied Statistics: Pinrui Li, Brynne McGarry Biodiversity, Conservation & Management: George Inglis (Distinction) Biomedical Engineering: Khalid Kane (Distinction) Clinical Embryology: Pavinder Gill Comparative & International Education: Alexander Afsahi (Distinction), Laura A Brace, Charleen N Chiong, Naseemah Mohamed (Distinction) Computer Science: Gaurav Bhadra, Sudakshina Das Education – Learning and Technology: Jennifer Lin (Distinction) Engineering Science: Fazriz Sani bin Mohamed Fadzil Environmental Change & Management: Neslihan Yildirim Global Governance and Diplomacy: Yilin Chen (Distinction), Takeshi Naritomi Global Health Science: Natasha Chilundika, Sam Williamson Higher Education: Hillary Reitman History of Science, Medicine and Technology: Manikarnika Dutta Law and Finance: Ashley X Cheng Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing: Julien Vaillant Mathematical & Computational Finance: Jing Ren (Distinction) Mathematics & the Foundation of Computer Science: Stephanie Angus Migration Studies: Eva Marie Degler Nature, Society & Environmental Policy: Andreas Hansen (Distinction) Pharmacology: Zeinab Wakaf (Distinction) Social Science of the Internet: Olga Musayev

US History: Trent D Taylor (Distinction) Women’s Studies: Katherine R Parker-Hay (Distinction) Master of Business Administration (MBA) Fernando B Gentil Jr., Steven J Lundy, Joseph J Nam Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) English: Christopher J S Fountain Geography: Samuel T Buckley, Grace M Clements Modern Languages: Isabella K Audsley, Marie Pargue, Manon Schirn Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Rosamund J Baker Ka Hang Chan Zafar Khurshid Magister Juris (MJuris) Branislav Hazucha

DEGREE DAY DATES 2015–2016 Information about the procedure for signing up to a degree ceremony can be found on the College website www.seh.ox.ac.uk/current-students/degree-ceremonies.

Dates of degree ceremonies in 2015–2016 will be published on this site as and when they are confirmed.

Taught course students who are due to finish their degrees in the 2015–2016 academic year will be invited by the University’s Degree Conferrals Office in Michaelmas Term of their final year to attend the ceremony date relevant to their degree. Research students will be invited to book a ceremony date once they have been granted Leave to Supplicate.

Historic graduands (pre-2016) or those wishing to take their MAs in person will need to request that their name is put on a ‘holding list’ (waiting list) for a ceremony date, and will be contacted should a place become available. Further information detailing the booking process for historic graduands is also available from the college website.

Master of Studies (MSt) Ancient Philosophy: Bradford Kim (Distinction) English & American Studies: Carys Lowry-Carter Film Aesthetics: Alexandra Greenfield (Distinction) History of Art & Visual Culture: Rachael Morris Modern Languages: Ambroise Joffrin, Philippe Panizzon (Distinction) 120

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REVIEWING THE YEAR A report from Sally Smith, the Deputy Director of Development, and Judith Beresford (SEH Development Consultant and Alumna, 1981, English) Challenges And Successes The year 2014–15 has seen a number of challenges and many successes for the Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO), which coordinates all the outreach to our alumni ‘family’.

SECTION 5:

DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE

The DARO team at the Hall continued to broaden and deepen our engagement with alumni at a range of events, some tried and tested and others new ventures, all designed to keep the spirit of the Hall as vibrant as ever. Over the last year we organised 26 events in Oxford, the UK and around the world, attended by over 2,000 alumni and friends. That includes a significant proportion of our alumni, so we thank you for your support wherever you are. Alongside the traditional Gaudies, dinners, sports-related events, Carols, Parents’ Dinners, and general social drinks and networking events, we have also continued our Teddy Talks series in London. These events where a distinguished alumnus gives a short talk about an interesting topic followed by a discussion, have proved very popular.

This year we held two events: Ian Smith (1972, Geography) spoke about ‘The crisis facing the NHS in the UK’ and Andrew Wilson (1980, PPE) spoke about ‘Why Ukraine matters and why the crisis is far from solved’. Thanks to both speakers and the Rt Hon Mark Field MP (1984, Jurisprudence) for hosting the events at Portcullis House.

2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the setting up of the Middle Common Room.

We therefore wanted to mark this important event with a day of celebration of students, remembering some great figures of the MCR over that period (like the two long-serving MCR Butlers, Mrs Brown and Julie McCann), and showcasing some of the academic work that goes on now. We were joined by over a hundred guests, and a panel of some of the past Presidents to share their memories and observations, and ended the day with a very enjoyable dinner.

Teddy Talk ‘The Crisis Facing the NHS’ by Ian Smith, 8 January 2015. Pictured left to right: Sir David Cooksey, Professor Stephen Smith, Rt Hon Mark Field MP, Ian Smith and Simon Costa (Senior & Finance Bursar)

We have also travelled a great deal to meet alumni, inform them of current events at the Hall and thank them for the support they have given us; the US, Hong Kong and China saw Hall events and we visited many alumni individually to share our plans for the future, and will continue to do so.

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It has been doubly important to begin to share our evolving strategic view with alumni. After some staff changes, DARO itself is evolving to meet new challenges for fundraising, as we change to a more project-based philanthropic strategy.

Campaigns imply a finite period with an end in sight. Our efforts for the Hall must be continuous to meet changing needs and the central issue of increasing the endowment of the Hall to enable a self-sustaining future. Our strategy of discrete, focused projects which are individually attractive to specific groups has proved very successful. In addition, development of these projects has been supported by involvement of alumni with particular skills and expertise.

This advice and guidance is much appreciated as well as the ultimate financial support that allows the project to be realised. We are always keen to have input to assist with Hall projects involving property development, financial products as well as subject-specific areas (such as Law, Journalism, or Earth Sciences). We are looking to recruit a nexus of interested and motivated alumni to help us in many areas. Please do not hesitate to mention to us your willingness to assist.

So, it’s been a year of slightly breathless internal change in the way that we develop projects and engage with alumni and friends. The progress in the past year excites us for the future. How are we doing? We always say thank you for every donation that we receive. However, as projects are achieved we are increasingly aware of the need to communicate better with alumni on how their support has impacted on our students and facilities. Likewise, we want to encourage you to share your thoughts and ideas to help the Hall to move forward: we need to position the Hall to meet the challenges of the next 500 years, and not just to enjoy the nostalgia of the last 500.

The year has seen us raise funds for a series of undergraduate bursaries and graduate scholarships. In addition we have added new Junior Research Fellowships in disciplines such as History and Biomedicine. We look forward to endowing more of these over the year ahead. We would like to highlight, however, a few really terrific developments. This year we have raised an amazing £4.2m with generous support for the Annual Fund and ongoing gifts and legacies, and two very notable gifts: a legacy from William Asbrey (1949, Jurisprudence), and also a very significant anonymous donation. These last two have enabled us to extend our property portfolio in Norham Gardens. This will directly benefit our students by extending the Hall’s student accommodation: we are enormously grateful for these enabling donations.

BOARD OF HALL BENEFACTORS This is the third year for the Board of Hall Benefactors (BHB) which was formed to recognise alumni and friends who make a donation of £25,000 and above. The following Aularians have generously given at this level in support of the Hall: Des Anderson (1991) Chris Armitage (1950) 124

Andrew Banks (1976) Bob Breese (1949)

Philip Broadley (1980) Sir Stanley Burnton (1961) Geoffrey Chatas (1986) Ian Durrans (1977) Bob Gaffey (1975) Kari & Liz Hale (1983) John Hawkins (1970) Peter Johnson (1965)

William R Miller (1949) Gareth Roberts (1971) Stephen Rosefield (1971) Ian Smith (1972) Aaron Yeo (1995) Charles Peel Charitable Trust Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund Two anonymous donors

THE ANNUAL FUND The Annual Fund continues to thrive and we thank all alumni who have spoken to current students in the telethon and gave so generously to the Hall. The Annual Fund is absolutely critical to the yearly finances of the Hall since it underpins much of our student-focused activity. The leadership element of the Annual Fund also continues to be successful and we extend our thanks to those who rose to the challenge of giving £1,000 or more to the Annual Fund this year:

LEADERSHIP DONORS 2014–15 Ewell Murphy (1948) Ron Hall (1949) Denys Moylan (1951) Denis McCarthy (1952) John Dellar (1955) John Andrewes (1956) Peter Garvey (1956) Michael Cansdale (1956) Basil Kingstone (1956) Alastair Stewart (1957) David Poole (1957) Michael Voisey (1959) John Walters (1959) Terry Cass (1959) John Adey (1960) David Scharer (1961) Anthony Rentoul (1961) Darrell Barnes (1963) Bob Clarke (1963) Peter Smerd (1964) via The Susan and Peter Smerd Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Jeremy Fox (1964) Cam Brown (1966) Clive Bailey (1968) Steve Dempsey (1969) Richard Balfour (1971) Rick Henshaw (1971) George Bull (1972) Chris Reddick (1973) Martin Hyde (1973) Paul Matthews (1974) Peter Watson (1975) Jeff Keey (1976) David Harding (1977) Mark Adlestone (1978) via Beaverbrooks The Jewellers Paul Meadows (1978) Ian McEwen (1979) Bernard Bewlay (1980) Gary Lawrence (1980) Paul McCarthy (1981) Paul McWilliam (1982) Stuart Worthington (1982) Chris Giles (1984) 125

Clare McKeon (1993) Thye Peng Bernard Teo (1994) Martin Thorneycroft (1995)

Goldman Sachs & Co Luboš Smrcka John P Davidson III and Shirley A Schaeffer

Looking forward And for 2015–16, more, we hope, and even better! This coming year we will be celebrating with a series of events the 3,000th woman to attend the Hall. We hope to see you either at some of these in Oxford or as we visit with you through the year. Can we also take this opportunity to remind people to read the Trinity Term 2015 issue of The Aularian, and to watch out for a new e-newsletter and the Year in Review, which comes out in December 2015. Our aim is to work even more closely with alumni over the next year so that momentum is maintained to change the endowment and so enable a bright future for the Hall and its students. Please come and visit us in the DARO office at the Hall if you can: we would love to welcome you.

Sally Smith and Judith Beresford

DONORS TO THE HALL From 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,145 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. *denotes deceased

DONOR LIST 2014–2015 1935 (50%)

Fred Nicholls* Alan Pickett

Noel McManus

John King*

1937 (100%)

1944 (6%)

1939 (25%)

1946 (22%)

Nicholas Dromgoole Ewell Murphy Roy Tracey 1 anonymous donor

Patrick De Courcy Meade Robbie Bishop

1942 (12%) 2 anonymous donors

1943 (19%, £10,219.78) Philip Haffenden*

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Charles Taylor David Dunsmore John Pike

1947 (44%, £587.50) Christopher Campling Guido Castro David Chewter

1948 (20%, £3,003.69)

1949 (38%, £2,583,804.32) Gordon Allford William Asbrey* Peter Barker Eric Cunnell

Alan Garnett John Gill* Colin Hadley Ron Hall Gerald Insley Tony Kinsley William R. Miller Robert Southan Brian Wicker

Bert Thomas Dick Turner Brian Venner Brian Wakefield

1954 (22%, £3,893.75)

John Congdon Noel Harvey Graham Heddle Raymond Lee David Pollard Ralph Simmons Ray Waddington-Jones Jack Wheeler Michael Williams

Jeremy Cleverley Ian Conolly Michael Duffy Michael Hopkinson Keith Hounslow Brian Howes Tony Laughton Ian Morin Michael Palmer John Phillips Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor David Thomas Ronald Truman

1951 (19%, £5,975.50)

1955(31%, £6,876.86)

1950 (26%, £1,539.36)

Derek Bloom Robin French Andrew Johnston Denys Moylan Michael Robson Dudley Wood

1952 (22%, £4,690.00) Peter Brown Ian Byatt John Claxton Tony Coulson David Fitzwilliam-Lay Frank Lockhart Peter Maxwell Denis McCarthy Bruce Nixon Neville Teller David Thompson

1953 (20%, £73,961.72) Michael Herbert David Picksley John Read Bob Rednall Ian Smith Phillip Swindells

Hubert Beaumont John Billington Tony Cooper John Cotton John Dellar Peter Edmondson Lawton Fage Roger Farrand David Frayne David Hare Michael Hilt Verdel Kolve Michael Martin Brian Masters Neil Merrylees Mike Neal Trevor Nicholson Irving Theaker David Ward Bill Weston Richard Williams 1 anonymous donor

1956(29%, £9,567.87) Brian Amor John Andrewes

Colin Atkinson Michael Cansdale John Dunbabin Bob Emery Fred Farrell John French Peter Garvey David Henderson Michael Hickey Basil Kingstone Chris Machen John Pinnick Martin Reynolds David Short Paul Tempest George Wiley John Young

1957 (26%, £7,168.13) Michael Archer Ted Aves Robin Blackburn David Bolton Blake Bromley Duncan Dormor Anthony Drayton Tony Ford Bob Gilbert John Harrison Ted Mellish Geoff Mihell Colin Nichols David Parfitt David Poole Peter Reynolds Stewart Shepley Alastair Stewart Peter Wilson

1958 (33%, £5,285.06) Chris Alborough Jim Amos Peter Bentley Bob Bishop David Clarke Michael Cotton John Davie Peter Davies

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Jim Dening Michael Duck Geoff Fox Tony Goddard David Harrison OBE John Haydon Tony Holdsworth Ronnie Irving Mike Jarman Richard Linforth Tony Nial Michael Pelham John Phillips Tony Phillips Philip Rabbetts Nevill Swanson Lionel Toole 1 anonymous donor

1959 (26%, £35,405.00) Ian Alexander Hinton Bird Keith Bowen Paul Brett Terry Cass John Chapman D.C. Coleman John Collingwood Kevin Crossley-Holland Frank di Rienzo* Tony Doyle Bas Faulkner Chris Harvey Matthew Joy Graham Kentfield Simon Laurence Culain Morris Mike Oakley Brian Saberton Mike Saltmarsh Michael Voisey Stewart Walduck Ian Walker John Walters 1 anonymous donor

1960 (41%, £13,059.25) John Adey

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Nicolas Alldrit Chris Atkinson David Baines Terence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Tim Cannon Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Keith Dillon Mike Elmitt Ian Evans Jeff Goddard Peter Hayes Kenneth S Heard John Heath* David Henderson Robin Hogg Mike Kerford-Byrnes John Langridge John Law David Mash Roger Plumb Francis Pocock George Ritchie Julian Rogers Patric Sankey-Barker George Smith Roger Sparrow John Thorogood Andrew Tod Guy Warner

1961 (32%, £19,941.49) Bill Bauer Stanley Burnton Barrie England Richard Goddard Mike Grocott Rex Harrison Michael Hornsby Geoff Hunt Malcolm Inglis Ronnie Lamb Nick Lloyd John Long

Jim Marsh Jonathan Martin David McCammon Peter Newell Hugh Redington Anthony Rentoul Andrew Rix David Scharer Roger Smith David Smith John Sutherns David Timms Chris Tromans Peter Vaughan Stephen White

Nicholas Bulmer Bob Clarke David Cox John Crawshaw Edward Gould Michael Harrison Tom Jeffers Rod Offer Richard Oliver Michael Sherratt Clive Sneddon Nigel Thorp Roger Truelove 1 anonymous donor

1962 (24%, £6,511.51)

Mick Boylett Martin Butcher Steve Copley Peter Day Robert Dolman Jeremy Fox Bill Hartley Derek Hawkins Peter Hodson John Hughes Tony Lemon Timothy Machin David Meredith Derek Morris James Pitt Michael Powis David Rumbelow Jake Scott Stephen Sherbourne Peter Smerd via The Susan and Peter Smerd Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Michael Streatfeild David Tearle John Watson

Roger Begy Ian Bennett James Burnett-Hitchcock Peter Collins Norman Cowling Jeff Creek Jim de Rennes Sean Duncan David Goodwin Bill Gulland Handley Hammond Ant Hawkes Arwyn Hughes Neil Jackson Tim Jones Alan McNamee Roger Miller Sean Morris Andrew Norman Nigel Pegram Richard Phillippo Simon Simonian Hugh Thomas John Williams 2 anonymous donors

1963 (18%, £22,673.49) Darrell Barnes David Baxter Bob Brewer Bob Broughton

1964 (22%, £12,956.24)

1965 (24%, £45,248.01) Joe Barclay Robert Beckham Tommy Bedford

Stephen Garrett Derek Harrison Clive Hartshorn Gavin Hitchcock Ken Hobbs Nicholas Jarrold Peter Johnson Andrew Morgan Thomas Mulvey Brian North Billett Potter David Powell Mike Randall John Rea David Reed Ted Roskell John Sayer Philip Spray Chas Stansfield Bill Walker Richard Wycherley

1966 (21%, £7,102.71) David Alder Cam Brown Paul Brown Roger Brown Nicholas Fane Roger Frankland Frank Hanbidge David Hansom Christopher Hird Linn Hobbs Ted Hodgson Carl Mawer Jon Shortridge John Spellar David Stewart Michael Stone Geoffrey Summers George Syrpis Michael Warren 2 anonymous donors

1967 (22%, £19,540.93) Robert Breckles Geoffrey Chandler John Child Jr

Robert Davis Kit Denny Nigel Derrett Chris Harrison Colin Hawksworth Ying Kao Roger Kenworthy Simon Maxwell Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton David Postles Philip Robinson Mark Spencer Ellis Lawrence Toye Keith Walmsley Rob Weinberg Peter Wilson 2 anonymous donors

1968 (21%, £6,353.67) Clive Bailey John Berryman Phil Emmott Brian Griffiths David Hughes James Hunt Steven Hurst Laurence Jackson Alan Jones Stuart Kenner Geoff May John Penfield Michael Pike Ian Ridgwell Graham Salter Jeremy Salter Martin Slater Michael Spilberg Ian Stuart David Theobald 1 anonymous donor

1969 (16%, £8,227.08) John Babb Roger Callan Gordon Cranmer Steve Dempsey

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Paul Dobsen Dick Ford Stephen Groom David Jones Clive Kerridge Roy Marsh David Monkcom Andrew Race Dereck Roberts Michael Shipster Tim Statham Tim Stibbs Jamie Whelan 1 anonymous donor

1970 (12%, £3,189.03) Stephen Bedford Andrew Bethell John Clarkson Andrew Craston Lloyd Curtis Lindsay Kaye Chris Lewis David Morgan Colin Richmond-Watson Thomas Shanahan Paul Silk Chris Sutton-Mattocks Paul Temporal Bill Travers

1971 (22%, £22,987.76) David Audsley Richard Balfour Peter Balmer George Bishop Mark Booker Ian Brimecome Graham Bull Lawrence Cummings David Elstub Gerry Fallon Torstein Godeseth Malcolm Hawthorne Rick Henshaw Craig Laird Dave Leggett Christian McDonaugh

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Guy Mitchell Jonathan Ormond Douglas Robertson Stephen Rosefield Steve Russell Greg Salter John Sloan Nicholas Staite 1 anonymous donor

1972 (18%, £7,506.93) George Bull John Calvert Richard Catmur Steve Chandler Anthony Deakin Andrew Green Peter Kokelaar Andrew Lowenthal Howard Mason Stephen McCann Ross Monro Paul Mounsey Andrew Riley David Rosen Jack Smith Alan Smith Stephen Taylor Malcolm Watson Martin Winter 1 anonymous donor

1973 (22%, £9,375.36) Colin Ashby Christopher Bamber Colin Bullett Sean Butler Robert Cawthorne David Copeland Robert Godden Roger Golland Richard Harandon David Holmes Stephen Hutchinson Martin Hyde Nick Jones Anthony Jordan Dave Knight

Nigel Laing Toby Lucas Ian Midgley Kit Moorhouse Mark Patterson Nic Peeling Chris Reddick Chas Saunders Tom Schneider Mike Wood Simon Yiend

John Mackinnon Ian McIsaac Robin Osterley Roger Rosewell Ces Shaw Nigel Smith Robert Stichbury Anthony Stopyra Peter Watson David Way Michael Wilkins

David Harding Chris Horner Roger Keeley Byron Light Greg McLeen Nick Plater Richard Posgate Peter Rogers John Round David Van Roijen

1974 (18%, £20,725.03)

1976 (26%, £6,837.08)

Mark Adlestone via Beaverbrooks the Jewellers John Armitstead Michael Cheadle Steve Clark Ian Coleman Richard Collins Simon Double Simon Heilbron John Hodgson Ian Hutchinson Lloyd Illingworth Simon Johnson Brian Livesey Andy McCabe Paul Meadows Gideon Nissen Duncan Smith Gary Stratmann Mark Turnham Edgar Wilson David Wright

Phil Budden Raoul Cerratti Peter Desmond Robert Eggar Surrey Garland Charles Hind Michael Hooton Raymond Hui Stephen Hutchinson Paul Matthews Jeremy Nason David Neuhaus John Ormiston Andy Patterson Nicholas Pendry Gerard Rocks John Rose Dick Sands Kim Swain Peter Tudor Graham Wareing John Wharne 1 anonymous donor 1975 (16%, £25,376.16) Robert Adair Jim Bilton Milan Cvetkovic Bob Gaffey Gordon Hurst Paul Ince Andrew Johnston Alan Kerr Graham Ketley Alan Lomas

Kern Alexander Bill Baker, Jr. Robin Beckley John Collingwood Andrew Cooper Hora den Dulk Brian Denton Chris Elston Richard Finch Anson Jack Jeff Keey Chris Latimer Trevor Payne Jonathan Pearce Malcolm Pheby Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Keith Scott Paul Sutton Ian Taylor Stephen Tetley Richard Thomson Peter Trowles Matthew Wald Andrew Wathey 2 anonymous donors

1977 (13%, £4,532.02) David Blakey Charles Blount Andrew Brown Ian Doherty Peter Foster Nick Hamilton

1978 (18%, £6,126.09)

1979 (14%, £9,146.71) Debbie Cooper Elizabeth Flood Richard Grainger Gillian Kinnear Paul Littlechild Ian Lupson Ian McEwen Caroline Morgan Justus O’Brien Rob Quain Michael Robinson Paul Skokowski

Graham Stewart Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum Dick Ward David West Tony Willis

1980 (23%, £27,395.20) John Ayton Bernard Bewlay Philip Broadley Nick Caddick Stephen Chevis Jonathan Davies Timothy Edmonds Anthony Farrand Alistair Graham Jonathan Hofstetter Simon Kelly Gary Lawrence Jonathan Leakey John Madgwick Hugo Minney Tim Mottishaw James Newman John O’Connell David Preston Simon Ramage Jonathan Scott Nick Senechal Joanna Smith Richard Smyth Neil Stevenson Frank Strang Christina Tracey Jon Varey Faith Wainwright

1981 (16%, £4,899.09) Alasdair Blain Andrew Burns Robert Davidson Sandy Findlay Lindsay Francis Gerry Gillen Julian Hammond Phil Knight Richard Lambert

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Jim McAleer Paul McCarthy Andrew Miller Sallie Nicholas Tim Parkinson Maria Queenan Michael Sherring Anthony Stansfield David Stokes Paul Stowers 2 anonymous donors

Max Irwin Bashir Khan Jonathan Larkin Peter Magyar Christine Muskett Denis Mustafa Kevan Rees John Sharples Max Welby Michael Young

1982 (19%, £9,580.06)

Dan Abnett Gazem Alaghbari Khaleq Ian Billing John Bloomer Steve Crummett Alison Fallowfield Steve Geelan Chris Giles Sean Marlow Sean Purdy John Risman Anthony Rossiter Helena Sellars Harvey Wheaton Sarah Wright 1 anonymous donor

David Aeron-Thomas Warren Cabral Maggie Carver Tom Christopherson Catherine Dale Linda Davies (Wise) Simon ffitch Guy Franks Susan Graham Mark Haftke Keith Harrison-Broninski Ian Harvey David Heaps Richard Kent Sally McNish Paul McWilliam Gareth Penny Marco Rimini Kevin Sealy Liz Streeter Shona Tatchell Stuart Worthington 1 anonymous donor

1983 (16%, £8,146.25) Rod Clarke Minal Dhulashia Tim Fallowfield Tarquin Grossman Kari Hale Liz Hale Cathy Halliday Edward Hayes Siân Henderson Mike Iddon

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1984 (12%, £5,237.94)

1985 (14%, £11,405.00) Betsy Bell Deborah Booth Christopher Cole Kevin Cooper Neil Crabb Martin Gorrod Jon Gulley Fiona Houston Mark Little Jeffrey Nutt Nicholas Peacock Pernille Rudlin Clive Sentance Will Shaw Tanya Spilsbury Dane Starbuck Justin Symonds Alison Voyce

Jane Willis Bund Richard Wright 1 anonymous donor

1986 (11%, £4,739.48)

Mary Betley Jim Charles David Denholm Gavin Flook Louise Foister Claire Harrison Andrew Harrison Emma Kennedy Stewart Lee Jonathan Lindsay Iain Mackie Sally McKone Christina McMenamin Neil Midgley Phil Richards Robert Robinson 1 anonymous donor

1987 (12%, £3,325.64) Dan Bayley Andrew Brem Lewis Coghlin Justin Collins Charles Elvin Kevin Holder Helen Hopper Stuart Hopper Andrew Martindale Lisa Mullen Zahid Nawaz Peter O’Connell Mark Sedwill Richard Smalman-Smith Paul Thwaite Mary and Philip Waldner David Waring

1988 (11%, £3,263.26) Lucia Bly James Brace Sundeep Dhillon Leon Ferera James Ferguson

Christopher Garrison Heather Hodgkinson Duncan Holden Jon Kunac-Tabinor James Rudd Giles Sanders Roz Shafran Ingrid Southorn Neil Stinson Mark Wilson 1 anonymous donor

1989 (9%, £2,413.52) Tom Argles Ronan Breen Kate Carpenter Jamie Cattell Alex Hutchinson Andrew La Trobe Duncan Parkinson Ruth Roberts Chris Sawyer Aktar Somalya Terry Spitz Raviv Surpin Chris Vigars

1990 (14%, £5,025.64) Marcus Bailey Stephen Barnett Emma Barnett Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne David Gauke Hans Georgeson Victoria Griffiths-Fisher Graham Hinton Edward Hobart Dan Ison Adrian Jones David Jordan Kevin Knibbs Stephen Noone Gill Pottinger Mark Roberts Rob Salter Simon Schooling Ed Shelton

Kathleen Thompson Craig Vickery Lydia Vitalis Natasha Walker

1991 (11%, £13,239.85) Des Anderson Andrew Armstrong Carol Atherton Duncan Barker Andy Barker Simon Brown Julian Cater Tessa Evans Andy Fielding Alex Fishlock Janine Gough Anneli Howard Nicholas Lane Andrew Lappin Jan Milligan Luke Powell

1992 (11%, £2,845.42) Sarah Byrne Matt Doran Lucy Heaven Ruth Jeffery Jane Mann Nick Osborne Jules Plumstead Nicholas Price Claire Pugh Matt Purcell Gareth Scholey Geraint Thomas Louisa Warfield Matthew Weaver 2 anonymous donors

1993 (10%, £9,040.42) Howard Cazin Adam Cherrett Emma French Melissa Gallagher Nick Gradel Ian Hunter Tim Jackson

Kieren Johnson Rob Mansley Tom McClelland Clare McKeon Lucy Newlove James Owens Amelia Pan Richard Tufft

1994 (11%, £13,961.26) Jonathan Buckmaster Radu Calinescu David Hambler Richard Jackson Naoum Kaytchev Ed Knight Adam Liston Gareth McKeever Michael Morley Harry Oliver Kostas Papadopoulos James Parkin Eva and Tom Peel via the Charles Peel Charitable Trust Piers Prichard Jones Jeremy Robst Thye Peng Bernard Teo Ian Valvona 1 anonymous donor

1995 (9%, £9,189.15) James Brown Raph Cohn Robert Dryburgh Uli Gassner Hugh Miller Sarah O’Neill Stuart Robinson Chris Ruse Sami Sarvilinna Nigel Sudell Martin Thorneycroft Justin Waine Alison Waterfall Aaron Yeo 1 anonymous donor

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1996 (7%, £2,036.98) Edward Davies Benjamin Grout John Houghton Tom Long James Mace Neil McGibbon Henry Mullin Zachary Segal Zoe Stopford Maya Strbac Roman Streitberger

1997 (8%, £1,986.34) David Barker Sadiya Choudhury Nathaniel Copsey Christopher Eden James Hagan PJ Howard Holly Jamieson Steven Johnson Michael Printzos Peter Ralph Justin Sharples Ben Smith Chris Tinson Matthew Welby

1998 (9%, £3,159.06) Kayode Akindele James Bendall Michael Bird Edward Carder David Cormode Alan Dunford Rob Harrold Nick Hirst Tim Johnson Clare Murray Ann-Marie Myhill Alina Sarantis Katy Sharp Ben Wilkinson 2 anonymous donors

1999 (10%, £2,419.23) Jo Alexander

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Bjorn Benckert Mark Bolton-Maggs Lucy Cope Caroline Court Jonathan Crawshaw Oliver Deacon Pippa Hill Catherine Knowles Zoe Noonan Alex Prideaux Hanna Richardson Lisa Watkinson Andrew Westbrook Mark Wilson 1 anonymous donor

2000 (6%, £2,208.55) Melissa Bradshaw Rohan Brown Steven Chambers Rahul Chopra Miles Clapham Simon Dambe Kieron Galliard Malcolm Lee Akira Mitsumasu Hannah Norbury Richard Povey

2001 (7%, £2,911.37) Fiona Hammett Charles Hotham Katie Hutton Clem Hutton-Mills Charlotte Lamb Malte Nuhn Richard Perrott Nick Renshaw Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky Aden Turna Bex Wilkinson Will Young 1 anonymous donor

2002 (4%, £1,060.04) Sohail Ali Tony Brignull Oenone Crossley-Holland

Leon Marshall Paul Myatt Sam Offer Kate Pavia Zadok Prescott Ashley Smith

2003 (5%, £1,106.25)

Nicolai Boserup Jennifer Chung Joe Hacker Robert Hamilton Kelly Christopher Jarrett Heather Mack Nick Montgomery Amy Webb Osamu Yamagata Tatiana Zervos

2004 (6%, £984.07) Tom Braithwaite Avery Broadbent Jared Campbell John Edwards Sarah Filby Noam Gur Stephanie Hardy Martin Heimburger Inaamul Laher Fiona Moss 1 anonymous donor

2005 (4%, £823.06) Will Brownscombe Will Herbert Elizabeth Horne Long Jiang Mike Lavoie Lucinda O’Connor Aliza Watters Laurence Whyatt

2006 (3%, £343.00) Jennifer Ayers Tom Clucas Justin Furuta Robert Pearce Frankie Perkins Douglas Sole

2007 (3%, £584.80) Paul Archer Katherine Davis Josh Fabian-Miller Philip Georgiadis Evan Innis Sarah Mullen Matthew O’Sullivan

2008 (4%, £1,015.27) Adam Crego Mark Godden Katie Hill Thomas Hosking Aditya Kandath Imogen Lowe Joanne Pearce 1 anonymous donor

2009 (1%, £162.50) Romain Benvenuto Anna Piotrowski

2010 (3%, £558.96) Lucy Erickson James Fraczyk William Gunson Georg Heiss Robert Spencer Jackie Thomas Henry Wilkinson

2011 (1%) Rick Carroll Jr Jen Estrada

2012 (2%)

Nigel Tyler Mr Whiting 2 anonymous donors

2013 (4%, £72.93)

Friends of the Hall (£660,350.32)

Tina Ebimami-Timinimi Kate Griffiths Fernando Gentil Jr. Matthew Jacobs Steven Lundy

Bank of America Foundation Cockayne Visiting Students Jose Dent*, wife of David (£215.07) Dent (1940) Daoud Awad Peter Freeman Zuzana Brotankova General Electric Ed Reynolds Foundation Rich Reynolds Harvey and Judith Kass James Yeagle Patricia Kemp, in memory Parent Donors of Robin Kemp (1958) (£23,725.31) Nigel McNeill Lisa Blatch & Francis Eames Mollie Mitchell, in memory Christine Bleasdale of Bruce Mitchell (1952) Adrian and Sharon Buckley OXCEP Oxford Chinese Graham Davenport Economy Programme John P Davidson III and John Smith Shirley A Schaeffer Luboš Smrcka Roger Dudley Ann Spokes Symonds Simon Flowers Taylor & Francis Group Martin and Susan Hadnutt Gwendoline Titcombe, Ian Kelly widow of Alan Titcombe Jeremy Lester (1956) Malcolm and Lynne Reed Patricia Yardley, in memory Robert and Maryanne of Professor Sir David Robinson Yardley (Emeritus Fellow) Jaktar Singh 3 anonymous donors John Skokowski

THE FLOREAT AULA SOCIETY Members of the Floreat Aula Society have pledged to remember the Hall in their wills. Aularians who would like to join the Society by including the Hall in their wills are invited to contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office. There are currently around 240 members.

Joining the Society in 2014–15 were John Adey (1960, Engineering) and Richard Finch (1976, Modern Languages).

The Principal and Fellows were delighted to welcome members and their guests to the Hall on Friday 27 March 2015 for the tenth Floreat Aula Society Weekend.

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toured the Merton and St John’s College libraries, and listened to a fascinating talk on ‘The Application of New Chronological Techniques to Ancient Egypt’ given by Dr Michael Dee, Junior Research Fellow. They were then entertained by one of our talented current students, Keyron Hickman-Lewis (2011, Earth Sciences), who gave a piano recital in the Old Dining Hall, including pieces by Chopin, Schubert and Grieg.

Members enjoyed Evensong, and drinks in the Senior Common Room, followed by a four-course dinner. Many guests stayed at the Hall overnight, and after a hearty breakfast the Principal presented a social history of the Hall from 1920 to the present, utilising the St Edmund Hall Magazine archive. This was recently digitised, allowing Aularians to delve into the past and reflect on memories and changes in the Hall’s rich history.

Dr Jonathan Yates, Tutor in Materials Science and Pictures & Chattels Fellow, described some of the Hall’s silver. Felicity Tholstrup of Hidden Oxford led two tours of Oxford on different themes, one on Oxford and Cambridge, and a second on Oxford Taverns and the Davenant family. The latter was particularly well-received – members visited historic ale houses and were given special access to hidden rooms!

Principal Keith Gull said: “Members of the Floreat Aula Society play a vital role in the continued existence of the Hall, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to thank them.”

The next biennial gathering, for all the Society’s members and their guests, will take place in Spring 2017. Invitations will be sent to members in due course.

Evensong in the College Chapel, led by the Revd Will Donaldson.

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OXCEP AND THE HALL China is a rising power in the world, both in economic terms and more generally.

Although it remains a relatively poor country in its average living standards, the annual rate of growth of real GDP has averaged 10% over three decades, and China is likely to overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world within a very few years. Economic progress in the world as a whole, including Britain, is now intertwined with China’s economic progress. Rapid economic reform and marketization have brought with them serious social ills (including the problems of ‘the greatest migration in human history’, dramatically rising inequality and sense of unfairness, widespread rent-seeking and corruption, and environmental degradation), so posing huge challenges for China’s leaders. The country has begun to flex its muscles in international relations as it aspires to become a superpower. China needs to be taken seriously.

Against this background, in 2013 Dr Frank Hwang, a benefactor living partly in Oxford, and Professor John Knight, Emeritus Fellow in Economics, decided to form the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP). Dr Hwang is the Chair of OXCEP and Professor Knight, having conducted economic research on China for several years (his latest The three who made OXCEP possible: the book is entitled China’s Remarkable Principal, Dr Frank Hwang and Professor Economic Growth, OUP, 2012), is its John Knight at the signing of the Academic Director.

Memorandum of Understanding between It was natural that OXCEP and the Hall and OXCEP its activities should be based at the Hall, and Dr Hwang has become a Friend of the Hall. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Hall and OXCEP, with an agreed programme of activities.

OXCEP’s first event, held at the Hall in Trinity Term 2013, was a well-attended China Policy Forum, at which four academics – two from Beijing and two from Oxford – spoke on policy issues facing the new leadership in China. The issues chosen were policies to reduce poverty in rural areas, policies to enhance innovation performance, policies to cope with a rapidly ageing population, and the economic causes and cures of social instability. The papers of the Forum were subsequently published as a special issue of the journal China and the World Economy.

In Michaelmas Term 2013, OXCEP staged a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at the Hall, given by Professor Richard Easterlin (University of Southern California), who 138

is famous for posing and elucidating the ‘Easterlin paradox’ (that in several countries, living standards have trended upwards but measured satisfaction with life has stagnated).

His subject was ‘Economic growth, transition and life satisfaction: China, Eastern Europe and the World’.

In the summer of 2014, John directed a two-week OXCEP course at the Hall. This course, entitled ‘Economics OXCEP Distinguished Speaker Lecture: and Public Policy’, was put on for Professor Richard Easterlin talking on academics from Sichuan University ‘Life Satisfaction’ who wanted to improve their knowledge of western and modern economics.

Several economics Fellows of the Hall lectured on the course, as did various other Oxford economists. Although several of the ‘students’ were fluent in English, sequential translation was provided throughout. The course was sufficiently successful for Sichuan to ask for a larger programme in 2015.

In Michaelmas Term 2014, OXCEP staged the second Distinguished Speaker lecture at the Hall. Our speaker was Professor Justin Lin from the National School of Development, Peking University (NSD, PKU). He is probably China’s best known economist and was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2008–2012.

His topic was ‘China’s rise and structural transformation in Africa: ideas and opportunities’. The Doctorow Hall was packed out for the occasion by Oxford undergraduate and postgraduate students, staff, and invited guests.

In 2014, as a result of a visit by the Principal and Dr Hwang to the National School of Development (NSD, PKU) – whose brainchild ICCS was – OXCEP became a founder member of the International Consortium for China Studies (ICCS). This is a group of some two dozen centres for China studies in the social sciences, spread across the world. There are two universities from China (the top two universities in the social sciences), two from the Chinese diaspora, five others from Asia (Japan, South Korea, India), five from Australia, seven from Europe (including OXCEP), and four from North America.

The first annual conference of ICCS member institutions was held at NSD, PKU in 2014. It was agreed that the second annual conference of ICCS would be hosted by the Hall and OXCEP on 6 and 7 August 2015, with John chairing the 2015 conference committee. The theme chosen for the conference was ‘Challenges Facing China’. The sub-themes to be covered included: Governance; Technology and innovation; Labour market issues; Inequalities; Drivers and brakes in the reform process; Environmental policy; and China’s international relations.

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courses for faculty members from Sichuan University, with each course being attended by 30 professors and involving some 24 lectures. Among the course lecturers are nine Fellows or Lecturers of the Hall (Outi Aarnio, Ian Byatt, Gordon Clark, Dominik Karos, John Knight, Suellen Littleton, Debrah Noe, Climent Quintana-Domeque and Martin Slater).

In the academic year 2014–15, the Hall and OXCEP entered a Memorandum of Understanding with the National School of Development at Peking University.

This MoU establishes arrangements for the exchange of Visiting Fellows between the Hall and NSD. The first Visiting Fellow from NSD will take up his fellowship of six months at the Hall in the spring of 2016. The Hall was pleased to elect Professor Xiaobo Zhang, who is an outstanding researcher with many publications in the top journals. He will spend his time at the Hall completing a book on industrial spatial clustering (a powerful phenomenon in China) for Oxford University Press.

We took advantage of the visit by the President of Sichuan University in the summer of 2014 to produce a Memorandum of Understanding between the Hall, OXCEP and Sichuan University. This MoU covers the annual economics courses mentioned above but extends beyond Economics. It includes invitations to Fellows of the Hall in all disciplines to visit Sichuan for short periods in order to give lectures and seminars, and it makes provision for Sichuan University to send its top students as Visiting Students of the Hall.

The Hall’s initiative, through OXCEP, helps to improve our academic knowledge and understanding of China and also China’s academic knowledge and understanding of Britain and the West. The activities and plans of OXCEP can be followed on the Hall’s website.

Professor John Knight Emeritus Fellow

THOMAS SHAW’S TRAVELS – AND ITS READERS Modern-day Principals spend a lot of their time globetrotting and in soliciting benefactions: but this is not so new. In the following article Elliott Horowitz, Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow at Balliol and Co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, describes the Eastern travels of an 18th century Aularian and the influence of his published account. After his return to England, the Revd Dr Thomas Shaw, MA, DD, FRS, went on to be appointed Principal of the Hall by The Queen’s College, 1740–51.

According to J.N.D. Kelly in his history, St Edmund Hall (1989), Shaw was “a man of robust and vigorous, even pugnacious personality and exceptionally wide experience and scholarship” (p.58). His Principalship was noted for his success in doubling the Hall’s student intake, extensive reconstruction and refurbishment of Hall buildings, and fundraising from external benefactors.

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In 1738, the Anglican divine, geographer, natural historian and classical scholar Thomas Shaw (1694– 1751) published his Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant. Shortly after its appearance, Shaw’s book was described in that wonderful 18th-century periodical, The History of the Works of the Learned, as “full of remarks no less curious than new”, and its author praised for having presented “such new and happy discoveries in ancient and modern geography, and made such judicious and entertaining observations on the countries he Principal Thomas Shaw has travel’d through, as justly deserves the thanks of (photo of the portrait the learned”. The son of a shearman-dyer, Shaw had hanging in the Old received his BA through Queen’s College, Oxford in Dining Hall) 1716, and eventually became the University’s Regius Professor of Greek, a position he held – in conjunction with the Principalship of St Edmund Hall – until his death in 1751.

In 1720, shortly after having been admitted into holy orders, Shaw was appointed chaplain to the English ‘factory’ – an establishment for traders doing business in a foreign country – at Algiers. During his time based in North Africa he travelled first eastward, to Egypt, Sinai, Cyprus and Palestine (1721–22), and later took more modest excursions to such areas as Tripoli and Tunis. Even before the publication of his Travels Shaw was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his 1729 contribution to its Philosophical Transactions on the geography of Tunisia.

In 1733, having married the widow of his friend and benefactor Edward Holden, the consul at Algiers, Shaw returned to England, where after becoming a Doctor of Divinity he was appointed vicar of Godshill, on the Isle of Wight. He seems to have made good use of the island’s relative isolation to compose his Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, which appeared some four years after his arrival there.

Among the 18th-century scholars who studied Shaw’s Travels with great interest was the Congregationalist minister Thomas Harmer. In his Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture, first published in 1765, Harmer asserted that “examining the narratives of what travellers have observed in the Holy Land” was not only “amusing to the imagination” but also “instructive” , since many ancient customs “remain unaltered, and references to those ancient customs appear every where in the Scriptures”. In Harmer’s view the author who “has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind is the late Dr. Shaw, in that curious and useful book of Travels”. One of the “curious” things that Harmer had learned from Shaw was that the Holy Land and its surrounding countries had remained unaltered since antiquity, thus rendering the observations of contemporary travellers “useful” for shedding light upon “divers passages of scripture”.

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Shaw himself had engaged in such exegetical exercises in his 1738 work, commenting on the women of Tunisia, where he had travelled some 11 years earlier, that “none of these ladies...take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and the edges of their eyelids with the powder of leadore”. The Anglican divine deemed their method of eye adornment as “no doubt of great antiquity”, since it was ostensibly what Queen Jezebel did when she “painted her face” (II Kings 9: 30).

Shaw, then, was under the impression not only that the Middle East had not changed since biblical times, but that customs prevalent in Tunisia during the eighteenth century would have been characteristic of ancient Samaria.

Nonetheless, his use of contemporary Tunisian practice to explain that when Jezebel “painted her face” she actually “set off her eyes with the powder of lead ore”, was cited by several 18th-century scholars, including Joseph Collyer and Daniel Henning in their New System of Geography (1763). Besides providing geographical knowledge, Collyer and Henning were interested in upholding the truth of Scripture, scornfully referring to “our modern unbelievers”, who “have dwelt much on the rocks of Palestine, the barrenness of the country, and the disagreeableness of the climate, in order to invalidate the accounts given in Scripture of the fertility of that land of promise.” The geographers contrasted those unnamed “unbelievers” with their late countryman Thomas Shaw, who “seems to have examined the country [of Palestine] with an uncommon degree of accuracy”, and was also “qualified by the soundest [natural] philosophy to make the most just observations”.

Shaw was also carefully read by the aristocratic Scottish adventurer James Bruce (1730–94), who in 1768 set off on his famous journey down the Nile to Ethiopia. In his five-volume Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile..., first published in 1790, Bruce often mentioned Shaw, whom he considered “in judgement, learning, and candour” equal to “any of those that traveled into Egypt”, and whose Travels (republished posthumously in 1757) he recommended that travellers The title-page of the copy of Shaw’s take with them. Among the Romantic Travels in the Old Library poets who made use of Shaw’s Travels, mention may be made of Robert Southey in his 1801 “Thalaba the Destroyer”, which was ostensibly set in ancient Babylon; and the Irish poet Thomas Moore, whose “Lalla Rookh” first appeared in 1817.

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Lalla, the female protagonist of Moore’s poem, is the daughter of a 17th-century Mughal emperor whose handmaids devote much attention to preparing her toilet: “some bring leaves of Henna, to imbue/ The fingers’ ends with a bright roseate hue”, while “others mix the Kohol’s jetty dye./ to give that long, dark languish to the eye”. In his notes Moore quoted Shaw’s remark concerning the women of Tunis that “none of these ladies...take themselves to be completely dressed till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with lead-ore”.

Just as Shaw could link their practice with that of Queen Jezebel millennia earlier and some 1,500 miles away, so could Moore place it a century earlier but some 3,000 miles away. The notion of an unchanging Orient with unclear borders imagined by the Romantic poets was clearly inherited from such eighteenthcentury travellers as Shaw and Bruce, whose observations had earlier been utilized by bible scholars and geographers. Shaw’s 1738 Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant – which eventually appeared in three editions – thus played a crucial part in the modern construction of the ostensibly unchanging ancient Orient.

Elliott Horowitz

THE ‘WITS’ WHO BESET SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE During the current project to catalogue pre-1701 books in the Old Library at St Edmund Hall, a number of discoveries have been made. Among them, a copy of Commendatory verses, on the author of the two Arthurs and the satyr against wit (London: Printed in the year MDCC) was found to include manuscript attributions for the forty anonymous poems which make up the text. This copy was presented to the Library

by Alfred Brotherston Emden (1888– 1979), Principal of the Hall from 1929 to 1951. Emden was a great benefactor, and champion, of the Library and was interested especially in authors with connections to the college; the Library’s excellent collection of the works of John Oldham (1653–1684), for example, The title page of the copy of owes much to Emden’s generosity. In Commendatory verses in the Old Library the present case, Emden acquired the book because its subject, rather than any of its authors, was an Aularian.

Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729) matriculated in 1669 and proceeded BA in 1674 and MA in 1676, continuing to teach at Teddy Hall for a few years longer.

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practise, becoming one of the physicians to William III in the early 1690s. His great passion, however, was for poetry and he is best remembered today as a prolific versifier of doubtful talent. He published a number of substantial poems, including the epics Prince Arthur (1695) and King Arthur (1697), which were derided for their clumsy prosody and simplistic allegory in support of William III (who rewarded the author with a knighthood in 1697). Apart from his literary failings, Blackmore set himself up for attack by his stance against the immorality he perceived in his fellow authors, who inevitably took pleasure in ridiculing him, both as a meagre poet and a quack. His main opponents were a group of ‘wits’ who gathered at Will’s Coffee House in Russell Street, Covent Garden, where John Dryden was the central figure, surrounded by lesser writers, critics, poets and dilettanti.

In 1696 one of the Coffee House circle, John Dennis (1657–1734), wrote a lengthy, and serious, critique of Prince Arthur, and Blackmore replied to this and other attacks in the preface to King Arthur. In 1699 another of the wits and another medic, Samuel Garth (1661–1719), published The dispensary, a satirical poem which supported the proposal for dispensing free medicines to London’s poor (a plan which Blackmore vehemently opposed) and lampooned various contemporaries, including Blackmore, who responded to this and other criticisms with his poem A satyr against wit (1700). The Satyr was anonymous, but the wits easily recognized Blackmore’s style and themselves as the objects of his attack, and the inevitable result was a riposte, the Commendatory verses published later in 1700.1 This was not quite the end of the paper war. Blackmore put together a series of replies and published them before the end of the year as Discommendatory verses, on those which are truly commendatory (London: Printed in the year, MDCC).

The wits were rallied against Blackmore by Thomas (Tom) Brown (1666–1704), remembered today chiefly for his sentiments about Bishop Fell.2 He edited the Commendatory verses, probably with help from Christopher Codrington (1668– 1710),3 and wrote the foreword (signed ‘O.S.’, standing for Owen Swan, one of Brown’s noms-de-plume). The verses are all anonymous, but there must have been a fairly widespread knowledge of the literary feud at the time, in London, Oxford, and Cambridge (almost all the wits were university men), and many of the authors were known, or supposed, from the first. Indeed, the identification of the poets began at once, with the Discommendatory verses, some of which name, or imply the name of, the writer Blackmore believed to be responsible.

A few years later, a further series of attributions was published in Tom Brown’s See Richard C. Boys, ‘Sir Richard Blackmore and the wits: a study of “Commendatory verses …” (1700)’ in University of Michigan contributions in modern philology, 13 (1949), pp. 1–144. I have followed Boys’ convention of referring to the poems in Commendatory verses as CV1, CV2 etc.

2 ‘I do not love thee Dr Fell | The reason why I cannot tell; | But this I know and know full well, | I do not love thee, Dr Fell’, written around 1680 when Brown was up at Christ Church.

3 See Vincent T. Harlow, Christopher Codrington 1668–1710 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928; reprinted London: Hurst & Co.; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990).

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collected Works. The first volume of 17074 included those poems from the Commendatory verses which the editor/publisher, Samuel Briscoe (ca. 1670– 1727?), believed to be by Brown. In the second edition of the fourth volume, dated 1711,5 Briscoe included all but two of the remaining poems, all but four with attributions to other writers. Though this was a posthumous collection, issued more than a decade after Commendatory verses, the editor evidently had access to Brown’s papers,6 family and friends.

In addition to these two printed sources, other copies of Commendatory verses survive with contemporary, or near-contemporary, manuscript additions naming the authors. Two have been traced for certain (though there may well be others). That at the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney has a series of annotations similar to those in the Teddy Hall copy.7 However, the detail is different, and it looks as if the Fisher Library annotations are largely based upon a careful reading of Discommendatory verses, with the many gaps in the sequence plugged by informed guesswork. The same is true of the other annotated copy, at the British Library.

The Teddy Hall annotations All 40 verses in the Teddy Hall copy are annotated with names, but the first has been heavily scored through and is now illegible, suggesting that the writer changed his mind about the author, or discovered later that the attribution was wrong (it would be interesting indeed to know what name had been written here, but it is neither legible nor complete, the margins of the book having been trimmed by a later binder, cutting away the latter part of the name). Of the remaining thirtynine attributions (some of which have been similarly cropped but remain largely legible), a comparison with the other sources mentioned reveals the following.

Of the 39 attributions, 26 agree with those in Brown’s Works, 18 with those in the British Library copy, 16½ with those in the Fisher Library copy (the half is The works of Mr Thomas Brown (2 volumes, London: Printed for Sam Briscoe and sold by B. Bragg, 1707). The first volume ascribes CV14, 19–23, 28–31, 33, 34 and 38 to Brown. The frontispiece shows an allegorical scene in which Brown’s portrait is paraded by a satyr while a female personification (Fame, perhaps) looks him in the eye and a crouching Blackmore (penning his Satyr against wit) looks angrily askance.

5 The fourth volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown ([2nd edition], London: Printed for Sam Briscoe, and sold by J. Morphew … and Ja. Woodward, 1711). Here attributions are made for CV1–3, 6–12, 15–18, 26, 32, 36, 37 and 39. CV5 is attributed to Samuel Garth only in later editions (from 1730, after Briscoe’s death), while CV4, 13, 27 and 35 are included without any, or a clear, attribution. The first edition of volume IV, published in 1708 and reissued in 1709, includes the poems but not the attributions.

6 Briscoe signs the address to the reader in Brown’s Works (1707), saying that Brown’s manuscripts could be examined at the shop of the bookseller/printer Benjamin Bragg in Paternoster Row. Briscoe was probably friendly with the ‘wits’ and may indeed have been one of them; during 1693 and 1694 he gave the address of his bookshop as ‘over against Will’s Coffee-House’ (and later used other addresses in Russell Street).

7 See W. J. Cameron, ‘The authorship of “Commendatory verses”, 1700’ in Notes & Queries 10:2 (February 1963), pp. 62–66. Cameron concludes that the Fisher copy’s annotations are the most reliable, though this is not wholly borne out by the evidence he presents.

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did, based on his ownership of poems written in Brown’s hand. When Briscoe came to prepare the fourth volume of the Works around 1708, he included almost all the remaining poems from Commendatory verses, as having been ‘collected

by Mr. Brown’, but without having any manuscripts to work from. He printed them in the same sequence, omitting only two (CV24 and 25). The reason for this omission can only be guessed at. Perhaps Briscoe thought these two inferior (though they seem to me no worse than the others). Or perhaps he carelessly turned the page too soon when transcribing the texts from the published volume, omitting everything that fell on page 15, while including the texts from 14 and 16. It was only with the second edition of the fourth volume of Brown’s Works (1711) that the attributions were added. For this edition, Briscoe prepared a new dedication and address to the reader, in which he noted the pains he had taken to acquire texts and the ‘Expence to Purchase many of them of their Proprietors’.

Could the copy of Commendatory verses now at Teddy Hall have been part of the material he acquired, or consulted, at this time?

Pages 22-23 of Commendatory verses showing annotations generated by a double attribution in this copy, which half agrees), and 9 with those in Discommendatory verses (this number, though low, does represent around half of the attributions here, as 21 of the verses are addressed to anonymous or ambiguously-identified writers). The closest agreement is therefore between the Teddy Hall attributions and those in Brown’s Works. There is reason to suppose that the annotations in the Hall copy were made some years before the publication of the Works. The chief evidence for this comes from the fourth poem, which is attributed in the Hall copy to ‘Mr. Boyle’. The Fisher and British Library copies give the same name, and in Discommendatory verses the author is addressed as ‘B--le’. This is no doubt the politician and author Charles Boyle (1674–1731). In 1703 he succeeded to the Earldom of Orrery. Had the attribution been made much after this date one would have expected our writer to call him ‘Orrery’ rather than Boyle. In Brown’s Works (1711) this poem is given only to ‘the Right Honourable the Earl of ------’ which may (or may not) be taken to agree with this attribution, but is certainly not in opposition to it.

This suggests that our writer may have attributed the poems based on personal knowledge of the controversy and the denizens of Will’s Coffee House (or perhaps copied them from another source, as yet untraced). The extensive agreement with attributions printed in the fourth volume of Brown’s Works suggests the intriguing possibility that the editor, Briscoe, took his information from the copy now at Teddy Hall. This is only speculation, but is a possibility worth examining. Suppose Briscoe, having collected Brown’s manuscripts from his heirs, knew which of the Commendatory verses were by Brown, or believed he 146

Looking at the 26 attributions which agree, we find the wording and orthography of the Teddy Hall annotations very similar to those printed in 1711. For example, CV36 is attributed to an otherwise unknown ‘Col. Johnson’ by both sources, while the BL copy attributes the verse to Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) and the Fisher copy’s name is illegible (but seems not to be Johnson). CV2 is given to ‘Ch. Sidley’ in the Teddy Hall copy and to ‘Sr. Charles Sidley’ (1639–1701) by Briscoe, while the Fisher and BL copies name the same man, but use the more common spelling ‘Sedley’. CV6 is attributed to Codrington by both sources, while the BL and Fisher copies follow the reference in Discommendatory verses to one ‘P----ck’ by naming ‘Mr Portlock’, perhaps Benjamin Portlock (fl. 1685–1702). Similar patterns can be found for CV5, 8, 15–18, 22, 23, 28, 33 and 37, with the Teddy Hall and Briscoe attributions agreeing, against the combined forces of the BL and Fisher copies.

What is perhaps more revealing, however, is the relatively few instances where the Teddy Hall annotations and Briscoe’s attributions disagree. The Hall writer gives CV13 and 24 to Tom Brown, but these poems were, respectively, printed without attribution and omitted from Brown’s Works, perhaps because Briscoe knew that they were not among Brown’s manuscripts so could not be safely ascribed to him. Conversely, while the Hall copy gives CV29–31 to Thomas Cheek (ca. 1658–1713?) and CV40 to ‘Dr Smith’, perhaps Thomas Smith (1638– 1710),8 Briscoe attributes all four to Brown, presumably because the manuscripts were among those he had used when compiling volume I of the Works. Of the unattributed or differently attributed poems, this leaves only four which remain unaccounted for. The details are as follows: CV10 is attributed by the Fisher and BL annotators to Anthony Henley (1666?– Boys (see note 1) follows Harlow (note 3) in identifying this writer as the Oxford scholar Thomas Smith, but the attribution remains unproven and ‘Dr Smith’ is a vague enough appellation.

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1711), apparently based on a reading of Discommendatory verses. The Teddy Hall attribution is to Arthur Annesley, fifth Earl of ‘Anglesey’ (1678?–1737), while Briscoe ascribes the text to Codrington. The reason is hard to guess, but perhaps Briscoe had direct knowledge of Codrington’s contributions to the Commendatory verses (in every other case in which he ascribes a verse to Codrington there is agreement with the SEH annotator).

To Place Before thy Door a Brace of Tits.

For Pegasus wou’d ne’re endure the weight Of such a Quibbling, Scribbling, Dribbling Knight: That generous Steed, rather than gaul his Back With a Pedantic Bard, and Nauseous Quack, Would kneel to take a Pedlar and his Pack.9

CV26 is an interesting case, in which Discommendatory verses names ‘C----’, which the Fisher annotator reads as Cheek, while the BL writer suggests ‘Mildmay’, presumably through personal knowledge or guesswork. Briscoe agrees (unusually) with the latter attribution, while the Hall copy names ‘[C]ondon’ (the first letter has been cropped away, but the C is suggested by Discommendatory verses; however, the name could conceivably have been ‘London’ or some other construction).

‘Condon’ has not been identified, but is very likely the same ‘Mr. Condon’ who wrote a pamphlet To the author of The Englishman, addressed to Sir Richard Steele and published around 1714. If he was working from the copy now at Teddy Hall, it is possible that Briscoe ignored this attribution because he could not match it to a known frequenter of Will’s Coffee House.

The second most active author was Brown’s fellow agitator Codrington, who probably wrote five verses, possibly seven. Looking at the other authors in the list one is struck by the fact that, with the sole exception of Henry Blount (to whom two verses have been given), every remaining author has only one verse attributed to them as first choice. Could it be that Brown and Codrington made the simple decision to invite their fellow wits to submit one poem each for the collection?

CV27 is attributed by Briscoe only to ‘Lord ---’, while the Fisher and BL copies suggests Sir Henry Sheeres (1641–1710) and the SEH annotator ‘Mr Andrews’.

Andrews has not been identified, and it is possible that Briscoe ignored this attribution for the same reason suggested above for CV26.

CV35 is ascribed to Henry Blount (1676?–1704) by the Fisher, BL and SEH annotators, but Briscoe published the poem without attribution, perhaps in error, or conceivably because he knew the piece could not be by Blount.

The authors of Commendatory verses Who then were the authors of the Commendatory verses? From the existing evidence, I think we can say only that those verses attributed by Briscoe to Tom Brown are likely to be by him, while the other attributions remain doubtful.

However, there is a weight of evidence from the other sources which may at least be taken as suggestive. On the basis of this, a ‘first choice’ author may be suggested for almost all the 40 verses with, in some cases, a second and third choice following close behind. An index of these authors reveals some interesting patterns. It seems that Brown was responsible for at least 14 of the verses, more than any other writer (as one might expect from the commander-in-chief of the forces against Blackmore and editor-in-chief of Commendatory verses). Brown’s attacks on Blackmore are varied and versatile, and show clear signs of enjoyment of the use of language to belabour his victim. For example, in CV34 he uses the two carved wooden horses which once stood outside Saddler’s Hall (which was evidently adjacent to Blackmore’s residence in London’s Cheapside) as a symbol, concluding: ’Twas kindly done of the good-natur’d Cits 148

Conclusion The copy of Commendatory verses now at Teddy Hall gives every appearance of having been annotated in, or shortly after, 1700 by someone who knew a good deal of the book’s background, and something of the authors who wrote it. The extensive overlap with the Samuel Briscoe’s attributions in the fourth volume of Brown’s Works (1711) raises the possibility that this copy was used by Briscoe to supply the names of the authors, although both writers could have been working from another common source, or perhaps from nothing more than a similarly good knowledge of the book and the circle of wits at Will’s Coffee House. The truth of these ascriptions remains uncertain, but they are suggestive and cast more light than shadow on the authorship of the forty anonymous verses published against Sir Richard Blackmore in 1700. The annotated copy of Commendatory verses in Teddy Hall’s Old Library exemplifies the richness of the collection of early books held there, a collection which is now being catalogued to antiquarian standards, uncovering such treasures for the first time.

Paul W Nash This is an abridged version of an article by Dr Nash which is accessible on the Hall website via www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/old-library

MEMORIES OF A 1960S SPORTING COSMOGRAPHER I came up in 1965 to read Modern History. Yes, essays would be written; lectures and tutorials attended, and a degree and Certificate of Education gained. But if truth be told I came up to the Hall to play rugby.

Attending a small grammar school on the edge of the city ensured I seldom CV34. Commendatory verses (1700), pp. 22–23. A ‘tit’ is of course an inferior or broken-down horse, but Brown was no doubt employing and enjoying another meaning too.

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missed a match at Iffley Road. Each week OURFC seemed loaded with Aularians.

Thus might every aspiring rugby player – or any sportsman for that matter – dream of entering St Edmund Hall.

It’s not fanciful to claim the 1960s saw Hall rugby in its pomp. The number of rugby Blues had climbed steadily during the 1950s thanks to entry policies pursued by the Principal and his Senior Tutor, Rowley Gullick.

Legend had it that a ball was thrown to each applicant at interview: a catch ensured a place; a drop-kick by return merited a scholarship! I can’t verify that. But the first question I fielded Team captain Bob Brewer being chaired was: “I believe you’re a scrum-half?” after the victory over St John’s in the Apparently the Hall was light in the 1966 Rugby Cuppers final at Iffley Road: Michael Tanner is standing on the extreme position. Three number 9s were right (photo provided by Michael Tanner) conspicuous in the 1965 intake!

The first five Varsity matches of the 60s contained no fewer than 27 Aularians; the next five would see 28. There’s been nothing like it, before or since. One had to be near, or of, Blues standard to get into the Hall’s Cuppers XV. During the four successful years I was fortunate to play (1966–69) 34 players were used; all bar two of us wore the dark blue jersey at some time and 15 won their Blue. Those teams featured two future England captains in Tony Bucknall and Peter Dixon; a Springbok skipper in Tom Bedford; plus future Welsh cap and British Lion Mike Roberts. Dixon also represented the Lions, as did England full back Bob Hiller who played in some of our 1966 Cuppers run but missed the final in which we thrashed St John’s. In winning five games we scored 145 points and conceded 9.

The Hall attracted rugby players like The Beatles attracted groupies. When the side for the first match of Michaelmas 1965 was posted, my half-back partner was to be one Phil Spray, a star of the public school circuit having represented Richmond Schools versus London Scottish Schools, which amounted to an England–Scotland international confined to public schoolboys. Short and heavyhipped, he wore thick knee-bandages that belied the totally unexpected burst of speed he unleashed late in the game after playing doggo for the best part of 70 minutes. The half-back partnership of Tanner and Spray became a fixture on Hall team sheets – in time gracing both the ’Hounds and OURFC. Two other members of that Freshers XV left their mark on me: a prop forward called Rupert Deighton, who was as loud as he was aggressive; and a lanky six-feetfour-inch lock forward by the name of John Dennis. Dubbed ‘The Apple Picker’ in deference to one newspaper description of his technique, the latter’s delivery 150

from the line-out nevertheless often left me confronting dangers greater than any faced by Newton beneath his tree. Verbal jousting increased with the seasons and the friendship. He’d denigrate my spin pass by demonstrating the distance and velocity of his own which, owing to the size of his mitts, was impressive. I’d point out he was the only second-row in the University who could stand under a shower and remain dry. However, by the afternoon four years on that we wore the dark blue jersey for what turned out to be the last time, against Stanley’s XV, our understanding had become near telepathic, and a ripe harvest of apples dropped right into the basket despite the wily British Lion (Northampton’s P J Larter) lock in opposition. Indicative of the powerful XVs Stanley’s put out during the 60s was the presence of just one non-capped player in its line-up – the aforementioned Tony Bucknall, who didn’t have long to wait.

Following our first acquaintance with the Parks and its garden-hut changing facilities, the four of us enjoyed a further rite of passage. We repaired to the Buttery presided over by matriarchal custodian, ‘Mrs B’. Mrs Buckett was a true Oxonian whose accent proved a daily reminder of my own roots. She was short and plump with black curly hair, characteristics she’d passed to her son who helped out behind the bar. Mrs B adored a good knees-up. The first cries of “I-Ziggy-Zumba” that heralded a volunteer stripper clambering onto the bar was quite enough to get her giggling and ogling until, left as naked as the day he was born, the exhibitionist was showered with beer.

One of the ‘Zulu Warriors’ boasted an additional skill. Roger Begy was a rubberfaced senior with no playing pretensions whatsoever, but he could down a pint in two seconds. The rim of the pint glass went up to the lips. A tilt of the head.

Down went the beer like dishwater down a plug-hole. ‘Rupe’ boasted his own party trick. After a boozy Cuppers Supper or such like, he’d plonk a golf ball in the centre of the Front Quad and use an iron to send it soaring over the [Old] Dining Hall and across the lane into Queen’s.

Begy ran the Hall’s social XV, the Hilarians. Spray, Dennis, Deighton and I were promptly roped in to play the following Thursday against Hertford Heathens.

Spray and I, however, were paired in the second row of the scrum, while Dennis and Deighton played at half-back. The game ended in a 23–all draw, with tries being scored at opposite ends simultaneously. Welcome to rugby Hilarians style.

Hall Cuppers rugby was a different beast entirely. We were a mean machine.

Especially so in 1966 because the Hall’s winning streak had been broken the previous year. Ties were played on a Monday. The evening before we’d assemble in the Hearne Room for a steak dinner and a team talk while the unprivileged down below had to make mend with plain old roast lamb. In my four Cuppers campaigns the side never came within a mile of defeat. Our pack was a scrumhalf’s dream. In my third Cuppers final, for example, the back-row trio providing me with an armchair ride was Bucknall, Dixon and Bedford. Even in 1969 when 151

my opposite number in the final was All Black legend Chris Laidlaw, the script remained the same. And during that Cup run we posted 170 points against 15.

My career as an Oxford historian lasted four days thanks to an inability to master the school’s linguistic requirements. One seminar for the dozen university Freshers offering German saw to that. We found ourselves sitting round a table to read through the set book we’d been assigned to read and translate during the ten months since acceptance. Our Germanic don reminded me of Dr Strangelove. The crew-cut, steel-grey hair, red waistcoat and checked bow tie were understated symbols of Teutonic intensity. No dash of mystery behind dark glasses, however. The whites of this good doctor’s eyes shone like billiard balls. They must’ve given off some form of white heat because I began suffering a mental meltdown as my new classmates revealed infinite linguistic talent and the good doctor morphed into the manic Peter Sellers character so seamlessly my brain could no longer tell the difference. At any moment I expected to see the right arm of Sellers’s doppelganger spring into the perpendicular.

Suffice to say, four of my colleagues rattled through more chapters in ten minutes than I’d managed in ten months. Drastic measures were called for. A visit to Rowley Gullick was in order. I asked whether I might switch to Geography, his subject. Permission was granted.

I joined Spray and Deighton in the most convivial of Aularian Honours Schools.

It was also one of the more populous. I made the number up to a round dozen.

Freshmen were soon made aware of their social responsibilities by an evening shindig. ‘The Society of Cosmographers’ cocktail party in the Emden Room was a thinly veiled excuse for a monumental booze-up from which tutors diplomatically fled after a quick sherry so that the main event of the evening might proceed: namely the seniors plying the Freshers with alcohol for their personal entertainment.

The instrument of abuse was a drinking game called ‘Buzz!’ that must be familiar to sporting Aularians of every generation. Its aim was to render some ‘victim’ completely legless. Survival depended on quick-thinking, a faculty hardly compatible with rapid and copious alcohol consumption. Consequently, once someone began to suffer the effects he’d never get off the hook. In the end the corpse would be carried out on his shield and not be seen for days. Lasting the course became trickier whenever ‘Buzz!’ was declared too easy and gave way to ‘Fizz-Buzz!’

Still nursing my first Cosmographers hangover I found myself invited for ‘drinks’ with the Gullicks. Their Crick Road parties pre-Sunday lunch were a fixture in the social calendar for every Hall geographer. The gathering was stellar, since the senior geographers included luminaries of every University sport: the group was a living testament to Rowley Gullick’s acceptance strategy. Despite such exalted company, every freshman was made to feel welcome by this kindest of men and his equally generous wife Etta, who’d inherited the poisoned chalice of tutoring 152

me for the Historical Geography paper in Prelims.

During Trinity Term, an Aularian rugby player’s mind wandered toward the river – more so if, like myself, one had never rowed before. I’m enormously glad I put myself through the learning process, but there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s the toughest sporting endeavour I ever undertook. The requisite blend of fitness and technique is fearsome. But on those rare occasions when every member of the Rugby VIII did get it right the feeling was unbelievably satisfying. The boat seemed to glide over the water rather than through it. But this was infrequent in a Rugby VIII where ‘brute force and ignorance’ tended to hold sway.

We could be, and sometimes were, a danger to other river users. In 1968 the boat contained seven Blues. Alas, none of them was for rowing. Four rugby Blues mixed with one boxing, one soccer and one athletics was no guarantor of proficient oarsmanship. One ‘Give-It-Ten!’ practice start below Iffley Lock was interrupted by the sudden presence next to me in the bow seat of a sculler. We’d cleaved his boat as sweetly as the trireme did Ben Hur’s. He was left clinging to my oar as water gushed into his stricken craft. To our misfortune he also happened to be the Hon Sec of OU Boat Club!

One non-sporting pursuit emblematic of the 60s was the ‘Scope Club’. In essence this was just a flimsy excuse for a bunch of loafers to indulge a mutual pastime, namely cinema. The Club had a dozen or so members, referred to as ‘Brethren’: this nomenclature was lifted from the film I’m All Right Jack wherein every Trade Unionist was addressed as ‘Brother’.

The Club convened Monday lunchtime in the Bursar’s study to select the ‘Scope of the Week’ to be attended en bloc that evening. Minutes were recorded by ‘Brother Secretary’ and duly read out and signed by ‘Brother President’, such scribblings merely a vehicle for making sport of the foibles and misdeeds of any ‘Brother’. Fines were imposed if the Club tie was not worn (a vivid sky blue with two bloodshot eyes above a movie camera) or a scope missed. One ‘Brother’ was severely dealt with for absenting himself from a Henry Fonda western at Headington’s Moulin Rouge cinema. He pleaded mitigation, saying he’d been upstairs in the expensive seats with a young lady. His defence was undermined on the basis there was no balcony at the Moulin Rouge!

All College clubs required the patronage of a don: our ‘Senior Brother’ was Reggie Alton – hence the use of the Bursar’s study. Acceptance into the Club was based on ability to drink, give stick and take stick, plus a rigorous viva voce on the Club’s bible and Koran, The Magnificent Seven.

In an action-packed western with minimal dialogue, almost every line is, however, a scriptwriting gem which sounded even better when delivered by laconic screen icons like Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Robert Vaughn.

Standard test questions revolved around reciting particular lines or recreating 153

specific scenes: the number of words uttered by the monosyllabic Coburn character during his establishing knife-fight scene at the railway depot (five) or how many of the three flies Robert Vaughn’s Lee manages to sweep from the table into his hand during his drunken fear-fuelled stupor prior to the climactic gun-fight with Calvera’s Mexican bandits. The answer to the second tester was one. But, like many an Aularian sportsman confronted by fading powers, Lee drawled knowingly: “There was a time when I’d have caught all three…”

It was all rather childish – and acknowledged as such. But our devotion was fanatical. In the pre-video age, catching the Mag 7 in a cinema was a feat akin to catching me in the Bodleian, and any showing was eagerly seized upon. When Brother Dennis heard it was being screened in his local cinema in Richmond a van-load of us bounced and shook our way up to south-west London. This, I’m sure, was the only time we actually viewed the film.

The Club dinner invariably descended into the kind of shambles that reduced those of Buller and Piers Gaveston to the level of vicarage tea parties. Scope Club dinners were a riot with a dinner occasionally breaking out. Rounds of gin-and-tonic ‘Fizz-Buzz!’ prior to being ferried to the unfortunate venue sent out the danger signals. By dessert, the alarm bells – often quite literally – would be ringing. Top of the range hostelries like the Barley Mow at Clifden Hampden and the Dog House at Frilford Heath were ritually put to the fork as gourmet menus were heroically disabused. My first taste of a soufflé was when one hit me full in the face.

This brand of youthful ‘exuberance’ is probably best exemplified by one of McQueen’s homilies from the Mag 7: “Once I jumped into a mess of cactus. A feller asked me why. I replied: ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Come to think of it, McQueen’s punch-line makes a fine credo for legions of us sporting Aularians from the 1960s.

Michael R. Tanner (1965, Geography)

MEMORIES OF TEDDY HALL 1966–70 My arrival at Oxford was probably less well organised than that of most ‘Freshmen’. I had not applied for any university during my upper-sixth year. In August 1965, I learnt that I had passed my A-levels with good grades (A,B,C,D).

When the school saw my grades, the headmaster telephoned my parents and invited them to meet him. I accompanied them.

After welcoming us, the former Cambridge graduate said to my parents: “We would like Richard to return to school to study for the Cambridge entrance exams. Do you have any objections?” My response shocked him somewhat. I told him that I supported Oxford in the Boat Race!

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After sitting the entry exam in my overcoat in the unheated, sports pavilion on a bitterly cold November day, I arrived at Teddy Hall for the all-important interview. Tony Harris, a teacher, advised me to drink a little vodka before facing the interview board to settle my nerves. “It doesn’t smell,” he said.

I must have been relaxed, as I didn’t take his advice. The dons weren’t hostile or friendly, but they looked at me intensely. After some questions – on the French writer Gide: “How do you pronounce ‘Gide’?” and the nature of the benzene ring: “Did the canonical representation ever exist even for a nanosecond?” – it was all over.

A week or so later I received my first ever envelope with the name of the sender on the outside. St Edmund Hall, Oxford, it announced in the top left corner. So smart, I thought. Inside I learned of the Hall’s charges and further details about the course, including a reading list of books: Oxford life (A Handbook to the University of Oxford at 15 shillings) and Chemistry (Hoffmann’s Strange Story of the Quantum at four shillings and sixpence). I also had to study like crazy to obtain Latin O-level by the January 1966 exam time, a feat I could not have achieved without the dedicated help of my school Latin teachers ‘Pup’ Eaglesham and Tom Mellish.

My school days were over; no summer term for me: I had to earn some money.

After working as mushroom delivery-boy to restaurants in London, I was ready for Oxford in October 1966.

I was well prepared for the journey from London to Oxford, which lasted about 90 minutes on the railway. I was completely unprepared for the journey from Bec Schoolboy to St Edmund Hall Freshman, from a terraced London home to a medieval room in the Front Quad of a cosmopolitan Oxford college, from parents to freedom, from lessons to lectures, and from obligations to personal decisions. Everything was fun. I loved it. Friendships made then last today.

The College’s letter announced the charges and conditions for my stay in a college that was ‘founded at some forgotten date in the 13th century as a medieval Hall of the University’. I was to pay for each eight week term: £60 for Board and Lodging, £32 for Hall Dues and Establishments Charges, Gas or Electric Fire £12-0s-9d, Tuition Fees and Laboratory Charges, for the privilege of studying Chemistry, which included the £10 supplement to cover ‘Laboratory Expenses’, amounted to £54! Another £4 was levied to cover the college sports club and the Junior Common Room, home to comfortably worn leather armchairs, daily newspapers and the shove ha’penny board in front of the stone fireplace in the ‘well’, where the extended bar is today. Each term I received a £96-15s grant from London County Council, and my first term’s bill, along with other sundry charges, came to £178-4s-11d. Working during my holidays, I could just make ends meet!

On arriving in the Chemistry school for my first lecture in the Physical Chemical Laboratory where we sat on hard wooden planks in serried rows rising to 155

the back, I found there were about 150 chemists in my year. Many had done Scholarship (‘S’) level and no one seemed to have such a lowly grade as my D! Staring nervously at the 150 or so other chemists in that first lecture, I resolved that there was no way that I was the worst.

(Sir) Jerry Cooke, I helped the Blues to a successful pre-Varsity match season. Those eight Michaelmas Term weeks were a blur as we climbed towards our Cambridge target. All Black Chris Laidlaw sent out the new spinning pass from a pack with two future British Lions, Pete Dixon and Mike Roberts – both Aularians!

Teddy Hall had enrolled four chemists as usual. Bob Brandwood, a blond and handsome young Australian and I were one pair. Bob was an exhibitioner; I was a mere commoner with my shorter black gown. The other pair of Howard Coates and Andy Middleton was both scholars with long flowing gowns. The four of us progressed, and over the next four years, we became chemists! Francis Rossotti and Mark Childs, our patient yet helpful tutors, cannot go unacknowledged.

The big day arrived. A coach with police motorcycle escort took us to the ground where a couple of weeks earlier we had lost to the Harlequins. I think the crowd was about 44,000 strong. But, late on, Cambridge scored a vital try to snatch victory 9–6. So quickly was it over! On 10 December 1968, I had gained my Blue, the high-water mark of my sporting life.

Of course, there were parties and girls – a relatively new experience for me, I’ll admit. Sunday mornings were occasionally spent bemoaning the previous evening’s drinking or lying alongside the most beautiful girl in world. In retrospect the balance was unfairly weighted in favour of the former, but from both I learned lessons!

My first love was Pat Lukover, a beautiful slim girl with smiling eyes and blond hair. I met her first briefly at a party in the Jazz Club. A brief hello and she left.

Later that night we met again at Queen’s College. This good fortune made us friends that evening and good friends ever after. My happiness was complete, for a while, with Pat on arm, cricket on all occasions – the college had 42 matches in the eight-week summer term! My first Oxford summer in full swing.

The Oxford Ball was the pinnacle of the social scene. Unfortunately for a penniless undergraduate like me, it was out of legal reach. Yet, I liked a challenge: and with Pat equally ready to collude, we embarked on series of Ball crashes.

Only for the Hall Ball did I buy a ticket: I couldn’t cheat my own college! That summer, we saw The Rolling Stones at Magdalen, The Who at Pembroke, and many other famous groups. We dined on warm scented evenings in college gardens and danced the night away in white marquees. Pat was gorgeous in her low-cut summer dresses. I was elegant (or so I thought) in Cam Brown’s secondhand white Tuxedo.

A second year soon arrived. Unprepared as usual, I hadn’t found any lodgings.

We were only allowed one year in college, as the College was a large building site.

Yet fortune smiled on me again: one freshman failed to arrive and I was awarded another year in College. The second verse was the same as the first only louder, more rugby, more cricket, more parties and more work.

Rugby right from the outset had been the highlight of college life. In 1966, in awe, I played alongside a back row of Bedford, Bucknell, and Dixon – all three captained their county’s national side. In the first term of my third year (1968) I trained and played for the Blues. At first outside captain and fly half Bob Phillips, then on to the wing outside the craggy Douggie Boyle and the silken Aularian and future judge 156

The 1969 exam season at Oxford was characterised by the newspaper reports of suicides, attempted and successful, and with the fear that I hadn’t done enough work, I declined cricket matches in order to revise.

Soon the appointed day arrived. John Dennis, a chemist who had sat his finals a year earlier, advised that it was better to arrive a little late in a cool and collected manner rather than huddle around the doors of the Examination Schools on the High Street nervously talking about what might be. So each time I sat in the College Library overlooking the Examination Schools awaiting the 9.00 am or 2.00 pm start so that I could arrive two to three minutes late. I would stroll down the aisles of desks where the students in their white bow ties and gowns, heads down and silent, read the questions. I did feel cool! On reaching my folding-table style desk, I opened the small two- or four-page paper and eagerly scanned it for the questions which I could answer.

During the summer holidays, spent delivering mushrooms to hotels and restaurants across London, I received a letter with the news that I had been provisionally awarded a 2nd class honours degree. All that was left was to complete a fourth year of practical research on ‘The Pyrolysis of Methyl Formate’; an interesting problem, I was told.

The final year at Oxford was fun. Exams were finished and only a year’s practical research and a written thesis remained to be completed. I became captain of college rugby and cricket teams, sport before everything. I started in the Blues side but lost my place. At least, I played fly half for the Greyhounds; we beat Cambridge. That season Oxford played the Springboks at Twickenham. I was on the bench but was never needed as Oxford maintained their 6-3 advantage to the final nerve-jangling whistle. Mike Heal, an Aularian, scored two penalties and Oxford did something no other university side had ever done in a hundred years of trying. We had beaten an international touring side!

Oxford even won the Varsity in 1969, a match from which, as a non-playing Blue, I felt embarrassingly distanced.

Before the Hilary term started, I organised, thanks to help from Peter Mullen of the Belfast Telegraph, a St Edmund Hall Northern Ireland tour. Our rugby side, 157

plus one or two reinforcements from the University, were to play a couple of matches in Belfast. This arose partly as a result of the shambles of the Blues tour in the previous year when OURFC were we sent home in disgrace for generally boisterous behaviour in the Protestant, teetotal, Belfast Central Hotel. It had been rather bad planning to send a rugby side on tour to a teetotal hotel! We were exposed in disgrace on the front pages of most national papers at that time. The reception afforded the Hall was terrific, except that the weather hadn’t been told of our arrival. That January in 1970, it snowed and snowed. The first match was cancelled and we only just managed to play the North of Ireland after sweeping the snow from the lines. Nevertheless, we all had a good time.

With the tour behind us, we went on to win Cuppers. It was my fourth consecutive win. Proudly as captain, I sat in the centre front of the photograph with the Iffley Road pavilion behind. Barely ten weeks later the scene was repeated, except the players were in white and the photo was taken outside the pavilion in the Parks.

Suddenly Oxford was over. I had several job offers from the so-called ‘milk round’ of employers and I decided to start my working life in Birmingham at Kemwall, a Foseco subsidiary which made stress-relieving kits for on-site welds. I was ready to start work: the world was full of possibilities.

Richard Baker (1966, Chemistry)

EXISTENTIAL MALPRACTICE AND AN ETHERISED DISCIPLINE: A SOTERIOLOGICAL COMMENT

By Emeritus Professor Malcolm McDonald, MA (Oxon); MSc, PhD, DLitt, DSc, FRSA, FCIM My friends and colleagues at St Edmund Hall may be confused by the title of this short piece written by me. I certainly hope so.

To confound the problem, just cast your eye briefly over the piece below, also written by me.

In undertaking an in-depth perusal of the evolutionary interaction of this acronymic organisational communication, the dual orientation for the analysis paradoxically required an unashamed repositioning of the eclectic conceptual framework amongst the multi-disciplinary body of illuminative speculation in predominantly scholarly bureaucratisation.

Yet, coincidentally, its empirical complexity had to remain relevant to the esoteric realities of postmodern professorial integrative antecedent development trends at appropriately conceptualised and operationallyimplemented meta levels.

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psychometric traditions and to employ confidently the articulatedly-present phenomenological methodologies currently available for polysyllabic paradigm exploration. Unfortunately, the ensuing generalised multifaced model for evaluation (in its specific systems dimension, naturally) had unexpectedly and unexplainably exploded – though not exhaustively. The major administrative atomistic components, suitably enumerated, are now, unfortunately, somewhat hindering the Assessor’s understanding process. However, tabulation analysis of the topography implicitly indicates that comprensive evaluation of the interdeminational micro data has finally exhausted the course Assesor and any further critical, unbiased, postmodernistical review, will just have to wait until he has had a few strong gin and tonics!

I suspect you may not know what this means, but I don’t really care, even if it takes you half an hour to decode it!

I call this sytle ‘anorexia doctoratitis’- an excessive desire to be more and more impressive verbally, leading to mental emaciation and, eventually, death.

The nonsense paper from which the above extract comes* was published in one of our top journals and to this day I still don’t think readers understood that I was taking the mickey out of them!

The point I am trying to make, very badly, is that I belong in the management domain, a discipline I joined after leaving the Hall in 1962 because I needed to pay my substantial debts and could not afford to become a teacher, or a scholar of Anglo-Saxon, or a poet, or indeed anything that would not pay me enough to reduce my debt and start a family.

Throughout the intervening years I have read every edition of our Magazine and never cease to be insanely jealous of the joyous scholarship of my colleagues, such as Kevin Crossley-Holland. How I miss those paeans of civilisation, Graham Midgley and Bruce Mitchell.

I, on the other hand, am a Professor at several of our top Business Schools and at the age of 77 have almost given up trying to persuade my colleagues that management is not a science and that their banal, opaque, confusing outpourings in our scholarly journals are almost totally incomprehensible to practitioners and have alienated the world of practice from the world of academe. No assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, pyrrhic verse, iambic pentameters or the like here – just English twisted into a barely recognisable format.

We do, of course, have our own famous scholars who write impeccable English.

One of them, Shelby D Hunt, wrote: “The intellectual roots of many excellence programmes are often shallow and lie not in the rich soil of management science, but in the distorted, abused and often sloppy concepts of simplistic management fads.”

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But he was wise enough to appreciate that:

Herculean effort to accommodate such unprecedented urbanisation.

“Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.” (Often incorrectly attributed to Einstein rather than to William Bruce Cameron, this is a chiasmus, or antimetabole – but of course you all knew that!)

One of the sad realities of the 20th Century was the alarming devastation that Tokyo had to endure. Japan’s precarious position upon the convergence of the Eurasian, Pacific, and Philippine fault-lines resulted in a major earthquake in 1923, and the onslaught of the American firestorm raids largely decimated any subsequent redevelopment work. However, the sheer extent of the destruction did afford Tokyo the opportunity to completely redesign and reinvent itself with the benefit of advances in urban-planning. This position is hardly an enviable one, but it has undeniably been a major factor in producing the awe-inspiring metropolis we see today. We were studying with a doctoral candidate in Japanese social anthropology, and I found his insight into the subject to be particularly fascinating.

One of my scholarly colleagues, also an English graduate, wrote the following tongue-in-cheek comment about our domain: “Commerce is crass. Profit is poison. Money-grabbing is grotesque. Scrubbers, clerks, mere conveyors of facts.”

Whilst I don’t subscribe to this view, I can understand the sentiment and alas our academic colleagues do not help our cause with their incorrigible scribbling and misuse of the English language. As Johnny Grimmond wrote in the November 2014 issue of The Oldie: “There is more to style than bad grammar, errant apostrophes and dangling participles.

The enemies of good writing are also the enemies of good character and the friends of pomposity, pretentiousness, woolly-mindedness and dishonesty.”

What is my point? It is simply that I will go on cherishing the beautiful, concise, esoteric, yet delightfully understandable English of all who write for or who are featured in the Magazine.

Floreat Aula!

Malcolm McDonald (1959, English) *

published in Journal of Marketing Management, vol 20, no 3–4, April 2004, pp. 387–408

AN IMPORTANT STEPPING-STONE Engineering Science graduate Andrew Woodliffe writes about his trip to Japan funded by a Joe Todd Award, and the experience’s influence on his professional career.

In June 2010 I studied Sustainable Urban Development in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo. The course was a part of the International Association of Research Universities’ (IARU) Global Summer Program, and I so had the privilege of studying with people from Beijing, Hong Kong, Zurich and America.

The course gave a broad overview of the issues associated with urban development in Tokyo. We began with a series of lectures examining the history of the city (from the perspective of urban planning) before progressing to the contemporary challenges presented by such a large metropolis. I found this preliminary study of history to be very helpful in framing the rest of the course. The gradual development of the city from a moderately-sized fishing village in the 16th Century to a major port by the early 19th Century was fascinating by itself, but it seems almost trivial in comparison to the rapid expansion seen in the last century and the 160

The course also gave us the opportunity to survey the various cultural treasures of the locality. The University kindly brought us to Kamakura, the site of an old Buddhist temple in the surrounding forest area. It is a remarkably beautiful place. They also brought us to a traditional tea-house fashioned after the style of the mid-19th Century. Furthermore, we enjoyed the local cuisines – from the standing diners in the heart of the fashionable Shibuya district (where orders are made via vending machine), to the labyrinthine behemoth of the Tokyo fishmarket. Having lived in Asia for almost two years, I have grown accustomed to the wide array of food enjoyed here. Nevertheless, the smorgasbord of gastronomic options offered in Tokyo was beyond compare. I fear that two weeks was quite insufficient time to adapt to the wide variety!

In conclusion, I would like to thank the members of the Joe Todd Award Committee for their kind generosity towards me. Visiting Japan was my second time abroad (my first time was in Italy two months prior) and my first visit to Asia. I now live and work in Asia and will likely remain here for considerable time. Regrettably, I do not think that the programme has substantially aided my future as an engineer: I currently work as a Maths lecturer in Kuala Lumpur.

However, it introduced me to a region that I have grown to love – and a love of all that is foreign and alien to me. For this, I am very grateful.

Andrew Woodliffe (2008, Engineering Science)

BURSARIAL MEMORIES When I received news of the splendid new paving to be installed in the Front Quad during the 2015 Long Vacation, I thought “Not before time”. It reminded me of our earlier piecemeal attempt to replace the flags and Derrick Wyatt’s insistence that, as his name featured a number of times in the Quad already, I could not persuade him to subscribe to one. Indeed, in each of the cast iron manhole covers that traced the conduit beneath the path outside the Bursary, can be found the manufacturer’s name: ‘Wyatt’. (1) 161

Some of my colleagues will remember the diminutive plumber we employed on the maintenance staff, ‘Spike’ Lambert. Spike was a cheeky blighter: when I arrived at the Hall in 1988, I gave the staff my spiel about participative management (at interview, Blair Worden was shrewd enough to ask me what I meant by it), (2) explaining that we could all, in a small way, share in the management of the College (meaning, of course, consultation rather). The following day I found Spike’s car on the Bursar’s parking slot in the Lane.

But Spike sticks in my mind for something much braver than a whimsical stand for the proletariat: I stood witness to his lifting one of those manhole covers and slithering into the conduit below to effect some minor maintenance. His mates had seen him do it before, in Geordie Lesley’s time,(3) but I confess, I spent Cartoon drawn by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor a nerve-wracking ten minutes or so, waiting for him to re-appear farther down the Quad. It was an incredible performance that I would not credit even to Houdini. Had Spike not emerged at the other end, I fear the paving might have had to have been replaced (or at least lifted) earlier. Let’s hope that the new layout will preclude the possibility of any re-enactment of that reptilian feat. Or, indeed, reveal the remains of any of Spike’s competitors.

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Retired Bursar 1

Professor Derrick Wyatt, now Emeritus Fellow, was senior Tutor in Law at the time.

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Professor Blair Worden, now Emeritus Fellow, was Tutor in History at the time.

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The late Rear-Admiral George Cunningham Leslie OBE, CB, known as ‘Geordie’, was Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor’s predecessor as Domestic Bursar, 1970–1988.

AULARIANS WELL CATERED FOR: SENIOR CHEF DE PARTIE JERRY HOGG Jerry Hogg came to the Hall as an apprentice in 1968 and has worked here ever since.

In this interview with Communications Officer Claire Hooper, he looks back on his long experience of catering for Aularians.

How did you come to work at Teddy Hall?

I did my O-Levels and was going to go back to school, but then I did a summer in a hotel in North Oxford, enjoyed it and got used to having a bit of money in my pocket. The job as an apprentice came up here, and I applied for it.

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then I was second chef for about 25 years, and then I stepped down for about a month. After that I was offered a new shift pattern with fewer hours, just five days a week, so I’ve been doing that for several years now.

How have things changed from when you first started?

When I first started, the kitchen was under the Lodge with a ‘dumb waiter’ Senior Chef de Partie Jerry Hogg running underneath the Old Dining Hall. We did three meals a day, with two sittings of 50 to 60 each and they were all served. The first couple of services I did, I worked with an old fellow, who told me that if any of the students asked for anything, I should call them ‘sir’. The only people I called ‘sir’ were my school masters, not 18-year-olds! But there was a lot of that when I started.

What’s your role now?

General dogsbody, or Senior Chef de Partie. As a chef de partie, you’re supposed to be able to run a section (the vegetables, main course, sauce, etc), but we don’t individualise that much except for Barry who does the pastry and Stuart who looks after the veg during the mornings. The rest of us all muck in and do everything together. There has to be good team work; you’re dependent on each other, all down the line.

Did you ever imagine you’d stay this long?

No! The main reason I’m still here is the people – I mean, I’ve worked with Barry and Cliff for 30 years. I don’t say we always get on, but you know that if you fall out today, you’re going to see them tomorrow morning, so you can’t let it linger!

People ask me why on earth I’m still in one job, but it’s all sorts of strange circumstances. When I got married, I went to see the then Bursar and said that I was going to move jobs as I couldn’t afford a mortgage or private rent. Other colleges would offer accommodation. He told me not to be hasty and they bought me a house. It wasn’t a mansion, but we were there four years and it gave us time to save for a mortgage. Also, when my son was born he was very ill; he had a serious heart condition and the College supported me. Geordie Leslie [the Domestic Bursar] told me not to worry about the job, to take the time off that I needed to sort out my family. It was things like that.

Is the style of cooking very different these days?

Completely! Back then, it was butler service or silver service. We would prepare the food, put it on flats and it would go. Now, unless it’s lunch, which is cafeteriastyle, or a buffet, we plate all the food. So it’s no longer a question of service time 163

and it’s gone. We have to be involved at every stage now.

AULARIAN PUBLICATIONS

John McGeever [current Head Chef] brought a different way of working. It was a challenge at first because we’d all been here years and we were thinking that’s not our job, we don’t put it on plates! The kitchen has a different dynamic now, much more relaxed. You haven’t got somebody watching over you all the time.

We had an important lunch last Sunday for example – and John will ask if you need help, but he’s happy to let you do it and trusts you to get on with your job.

The list of works generously donated by Aularians to the Library during the year is given in section 2 of this Magazine. The following Aularian publications have been drawn particularly to the Magazine’s attention.

Do you have any memories that stand out from your time here?

We’ve had various characters working here, some of whom were very memorable.

One year, we were doing a barbecue for a summer ball and people were queueing for food along the path that runs up the side of the graveyard. One of our porters – old Harry, nicknamed ‘Nodder’ – ran along with a tray of potatoes, tripped on the guy rope and they went all over the crowd!

In a departure from writing novels about the worlds of international finance and espionage, Linda Davies has published a true account of her kidnap by Iranian military forces in 2005. Linda and her husband, Rupert Wise (a Cambridge Arabist), were living in Dubai at the time and unwittingly ventured into contested waters in the Strait of Hormuz during their new catamaran’s maiden voyage. Hostage tells the stranger-than-fiction story of their two weeks’ captivity and eventual release.

There was another time when the then Domestic Bursar, Geordie Leslie, got a load of pheasants from a contact in Scotland and we had to pluck and draw them – hundreds of them. One of the boys took a couple of the heads (which we’d chopped off) and put them in Nodder’s pockets, so Nodder got on the bus at Queen’s Lane, went to get his bus pass out and there were all these pheasants’ heads on the bus floor. They used to tease him, but he did get his own back as well.

What’s the most difficult thing you’ve ever had to cook?

The last JCR Christmas Dinner was a challenge. It was a Sunday night and I came in that morning and found we had no gas. I’d tried the resets and then got Maintenance out and it turned out that some big fuse box had blown and they didn’t have a spare. So, we were faced with cooking for 380 with no gas! We’re lucky because we’ve got combi-ovens. They’re electric ovens but they do produce steam if you want them to, so everything had to be done through that and in microwaves. And we got it out in the end; it wasn’t too bad.

The summer balls were also a challenge. They’d normally be the Saturday of 8th Week, so we were still cooking as normal but also trying to prepare everything for the ball. One year we had to make 1,400 lamb shish kebabs! By the time you’ve done a couple of hundred, you’re starting to miss with the skewers and banging them into your fingers all the time.

How much longer do you think you’ll stay?

I’m going to retire next year. I’ve done nearly 50 years – I think that’s long enough.

Claire Hooper

Hostage: Kidnapped on the High Seas, by Linda Davies (1982, PPE). Published by Vigliano Books, 2014.

Oxford (InnerCities Cultural Guides), by Dr Martin Garrett (1975, English).

Published by Signal Books, 2015.

Martin Garrett’s eclectic cultural guide to Oxford makes for fascinating reading by anyone who thinks they know the city. Full of surprising, sometimes obscure facts and detailed insights, it also provides a comprehensive guide for those who seek to explore Oxford in depth, in which case judicious use of the extensive index is strongly recommended. The book has 12 clearly themed chapters – Contours, The Urban Map, Landmarks, Rulers and Ruled, The Written Word, Sound and Image, Leisure and Pleasure, Faith in the City, Privilege and Progress, The Oxford Brand, The Dark Side, and Surroundings – each of which is further subdivided with the page numbers clearly designated.

This helps to make the book ideal for dipping into, especially if one is keen to discover more about the history of the city, the University and the surrounding area. For a typical example of the detail and facts covered in the book, one only needs to turn to the section on St Edmund Hall, which appears in the ‘Faith in the City’ chapter. Although surely every Aularian knows that the Hall achieved full collegiate status only in 1957, they may not realise that the Library in St Peter-in-the-East, now so much an integral part of College life, has only been functional since 1970, or that the nickname, “Teddy Hall”, goes back at least to the 1850s. For someone new to the Hall, though, the section succinctly covers its history, architecture and works of art. The book is enhanced by numerous illustrations, including an inset section of colour photographs. Although this guide is surely too detailed for the casual tourist, any admirer of Oxford will benefit from frequent casual rummaging through and re-reading it.

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St Edmund Hall: A Gallery – The Body, ed. Jack Moran (2012, English) et al.

Published by Chough Publications, 2015.

Written and drawn mostly by Hall students, and designed, edited and published entirely by students, this admirable, confident collection of more than 50 works of poetry, prose, art and photographs presents a Gallery celebrating the enormous talent found at the Hall. Not only is the sheer joy of creative writing captured on page after page – not least in the poem “Hand-Written” by Courtney Watts (Visiting Student, English) And it will be with satisfactionIt will be infinite, creativeWhen ink meets page – but the reader is also given valuable insight into the creative process, as in the ‘conversation’ with Maya Guileva (2014, Fine Art) about ‘Body, Material and Artistic Process’ which precedes the illustration of her wax on tissue paper artwork. In his Foreword, Jack Moran praises Professor Lucy Newlyn’s “tireless efforts over a decade and a half” with the Hall Writers’ Forum and other activities: “It is her work that has facilitated an environment conducive to a project of this kind.”

BFG Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London, by Olivia Williams (2006, Modern History). Published by Headline Co., 2014 After completing her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Hall (collecting along the way the Rupert Murdoch Scholarship for student journalism), Olivia Williams worked as a trainee journalist at the Daily Mail. Her debut book, Gin Glorious Gin, is a cultural history of London over three centuries, taking the reader from the Gin Craze of the Georgian city, through the Empire era, to the emergence of cocktail bars in the West End – and the current resurgence of the drink in the ‘Ginaissance’. Olivia describes how and why gin has become shorthand for metropolitan glamour and alcoholic squalor alike, moving in and out of both legality and popularity. Her book is quirky and informative. It is full of famous faces, from Dickens to Churchill, Hogarth to Dr Johnson, but also introduces many previously unknown Londoners who, though hidden from history, have helped to shape the city and its signature drink.

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FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

THE PRESIDENT’S REPORT I completed my first year as President of the St Edmund Hall Association in January 2015, and presided over my first AGM and London Dinner. I thank all those who attended for moderating their heckling!

I addressed the Hall’s matriculands in October 2014 – the Association seeks to catch ’em early and catch ’em young – to introduce them to the Association and the Aularian community. The Aularian population becomes ever younger and ever more diverse: Michaelmas 2015 will see the matriculation of the 3,000th woman at the Hall since it “went mixed” SEHA President Lawrence in 1978. We try to reflect this diversity on your Cummings committee, which now has four female members.

The Teddy Talks series continued in June with a well-attended Networking Reception addressed by Andrew Wilson (1980, PPE), who sensibly kept his presentation short (on ‘Why Ukraine Matters and Why the Crisis is Far from Solved’) and sweet to allow for a most lively and stimulating Question and Answer session which ranged from gas to spooks! Our thanks go to Mark Field (1984, Law), MP for the Cities of London and Westminster (fortunately for us re-elected just weeks before the event), for hosting the event at Portcullis House, a most interesting Parliamentary venue. We were, appropriately, in the Macmillan Room: Harold Macmillan (Earl of Stockton) was Chancellor of the University and Visitor to the Hall, and spoke most memorably at St Edmund’s Feast in my final year.

The 50th anniversary of the MCR was celebrated at the end of June. As an MCR Member in 1974–75 on my return from my year abroad, I was able to attend in a bona-fide, non-Presidential capacity. An opening session looking back to the beginnings of the MCR in Longwall Street then charted its history through the subsequent decades; our guides were Past Presidents of the MCR – the first President, the first female President, etc, right up to the present decade.

An excellent buffet lunch in a sunlit churchyard was followed by a series of talks given by Aularian MCR members about their interests, careers, history, and nostalgia for the days of Mrs Brown.1 Drinks in a still sunlit Front Quad were followed by the kind of sumptuous dinner we have now come to expect from John McGeever and his team. It was still warm enough for post-prandial tinctures to be taken in the Quad.

extremely glad of the shaded, open-air terrace where a goodly number of alumni enjoyed an evening of Aularian networking.

The Association continues to support the Hall in material ways; funds released (by the increasing digitisation of the Hall Magazine) from the Association’s subsidy of the Magazine’s distribution costs have been ‘diverted’ to fund the Hall Archivist’s post for the next three years. We continue also to support the costs of the production of the Magazine. We make an annual grant to the Hall via the Principal, to be used as he sees fit, for a variety of student purposes. We awarded the third Aularian Prize to Kirsten Pontalti (2011, DPhil in International Development). Kirsten’s account of arranging support and funding for young people from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds in rural Rwanda, enabling them to return to school, transfer to boarding school or set up a business, clearly struck a chord with the judges and obtained 75% of the votes cast. This prize is awarded for an exceptional enterprise or voluntary commitment which falls outside established College or University pursuits, and Kirsten clearly ticked all the boxes.

The SEHA also assists with judging the Masterclass Fund, an inspirational showcase for the multifarious non-academic talents of the student population.

Latest awards range from Ladies’ Rugby Union through Pistol Shooting and Yachting, to Tailoring, Photography, Piano and Cello.

Following a period of change in the Development Office, we saw a change of tack, with previous emphasis on a one-off Campaign giving way to the realisation that fundraising has to be, in the current climate, more or less permanent. A number of the members of your Committee, along with many fellow Aularians, serve with me on the Development Committee, or in the various working groups which are seeking to assist with fundraising.

Your Association is in good heart and in a strong financial position. We look to the future with confidence.

Floreat Aula!

Lawrence Cummings (1971, Modern Languages)

Aularian Summer Drinks took place once again at The Truscott Arms in Maida Vale on 30 June 2015, one of the hottest days of the year. We were therefore 1

Long-serving and affectionately-remembered MCR Butler. After her death, a fund was established in Mrs Brown’s memory to provide bursaries for graduate students who are writing-up (four awards were made from this fund in 2014–15).

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – JANUARY 2015

MINUTES OF THE 84TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

President

Lawrence Cummings MA (1971)

Principal

Professor Keith Gull CBE BSc PhD DSc Lond, FRS, FMedSci

Immediate Past President

Darrell M.P. Barnes MA (1963)

Honorary Vice-President

Justin C.B. Gosling BPhil MA

Honorary Vice-President

R. (Bob) J.L. Breese MA (1949)

Honorary Secretary

Richard A.H. Finch MA (1976)

Honorary Treasurer

Ian W. Durrans BA (1977)

Up to 1964

Paul R. Lewis MA CEng (1955) Darrell M.P. Barnes MA (1963)

1965 – 74

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

1975 – 84

Richard A.H. Finch MA (1976) Richard S. Luddington MA MPhil (1978) Russell Withington MA MIET MIRSE MInstP (1979)

1985 – 94

Stuart M. Hopper MA (1987) 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

Dr Nicola Filippini DPhil (2006) Kate E. Gresswell-Bandeira BA (2007)

Ex officio

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London Aularians President – J. David Waring MA (1987) MCR President – David T. Severson BA BSc (2012) JCR President – Edward P. Benson (2013) Alumni Relations Officer – Kate Townsend

20TH JANUARY 2015 The 84th Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in Princess Alexandra Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London, SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at 6.15 p.m., Lawrence Cummings presiding.

Over 50 members were present.

1. Minutes. The Minutes of the 83rd Meeting, held on 21 January 2014, 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 amendment, copies being available, had been properly seconded and proposed and submitted by the due date and was adopted nem con.

3. President’s Report. Lawrence Cummings 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. In the absence of the Honorary Treasurer the President 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, who had been nominated by the Executive Committee, were elected unanimously: Hon. Secretary 1975–84 1985–94 1995–2004 2005–14

Richard A.H. Finch Richard A.H. Finch Dr David J. Jordan Stuart M. Hopper Olly M. Donnelly Dr Nicola Filippini Kate E. Gresswell-Bandeira

Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years Elected for two years Re-elected for three years Elected for three years Elected for two years

8. Appointment of Honorary Auditor. Lindsay Page was unanimously reappointed.

9. Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 p.m.

10. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.30 p.m.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2015

BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2015

Year ended 31 May 2015 £

Year ended 31 May 2014 £

Subscriptions

12,700

12,100

Bank interest

24

25

12,724

12,125

INCOME

Committee expenses

Income less expenses

31 May 2014 £

Debtors

4,248

3,400

Charities Deposit Fund

5,700

5,700

Bank balances

23,257

25,828

33,205

34,928

(4,932)

(9,485)

28,273

25,433

23,699

17,934

2,830

5,765

26,529

23,699

1,744

1,744

28,273

25,443

ASSETS

Less: Creditors

EXPENDITURE Magazine production, postage & mailing

31 May 2015 £

(8,500)

(5,000)

(94)

(60)

(8,594)

(5,060)

4,130

7,065

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year Surplus from Income Account

Grants: St Edmund Hall Association Principal’s Fund Aularian Prize Surplus transferred to General Fund

(1,000)

(1,000)

(300)

(300)

Aularian Register Fund

L Cummings (President) 2,830

5,765

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 19 January 2016.

I W Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2015. 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 2015 and the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

L D Page Honorary Auditor 31 July 2015

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THE 74TH LONDON DINNER The 74th London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James’s on Tuesday, 20 January 2015 in keeping with its new tradition of the third, rather than the second, Tuesday in January in order to distance it from the excesses of the New Year. The turnout (142) was the highest since 2009, boosted by ‘the younger element’ (40% from 1980s onwards), which is encouraging. Association President Lawrence Cummings welcomed the guests (the Principal, Dr Gull, and the MCR and JCR Presidents) before paying a warm tribute to his predecessor Darrell Barnes, not least for his continuing greatly-appreciated endeavours for the Friends of the Boat Club.

He also thanked contemporary and fellow Yorkshireman Gareth Roberts for his commitment to the Campaign. Indeed the White Rose was well to the fore as following the treasured round of port on Bruce (Mitchell) and a lusty “Hall!” chorus, the Principal, endowed by his own admission with “broad vowels,” took the floor. While, as ever, he did not pull punches about the challenges facing the Hall, he was quick to reassure about current strengths, notably a superiority to Queen’s in the Norrington Table and the award of thirty Blues in a bewildering array of sports (“not just rugby!”).

1969 1970

The Association looks forward to celebrating the 75th London Dinner on Tuesday, 19 January 2016.

1977

1971

1972 1973 1974 1975 1976

The following Aularians attended the Dinner: 1949 1950 1951 1952

1955 1956

1957 1958

1960 1961

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Mr R.J.L. Breese Mr J. Wheeler Mr D.J. Day Mr H.W. Goldsworthy Mr A.J. Harding Mr R. Taylor Mr P.R. Lewis Mr B.E. Amor Mr M.J. Cansdale (St Edmund Fellow) Mr A.F. Ham Judge Martin Reynolds Mr J.W. Harrison Mr M.J. Rowan Mr J.W. Amos Mr D.C.W. Jones Mr J.H. Phillips Mr J.F. Adey Mr C.J.G. Atkinson Mr R.G. Harrison Mr M.G. Hornsby

1962 1963

1964 1965

1966 1967

1968

Mr G. Marsh Mr A.M. Rentoul Mr R.K. Smith Mr M.R. Page Mr Darrell Barnes Mr D.R. Clarke Mr R.A.S. Offer Mr M.S. Simmie Mr J.H. Bunney Mr R.W. Beckham Mr S.R. Garrett Mr P.M. Johnson Dr M.R.D. Randall Mr F.H. Hanbridge Sir Jeremy Cooke Mr P.V. Robinson Mr P.M.A. Rose Mr G.D. Salter Mr D.J. Tabraham-Palmer Dr D.J. Hughes Mr H.J. Hunt

1978

1979

1980

Mr R.T. Ward Mr P.E. Ramell Mr W.N. David Mr P.G. Harper Mr J.W. Hawkins Mr J.B. Hearn Mr L.N. Kaye Mr L. Cummings (President, SEH Association) Mr G. Roberts (Honorary Fellow) Mr J.R. Isbister Mr D.P. Walters Dr R. Cerratti Dr B.F. Gasser Mr S.G. Catchpole Mr R.A.H. Finch Mr J.J.R. Pugh Mr S.A. Staite Mr I.M. Taylor Mr S.S. Advani Mr C.J. Blount Mr I.J.V. Doherty Mr A.J. Haxby Mr D.J. Hope Mr R. Keeley Mr L.D. Page Mr R.F.J.H. Ruvigny Mr C.J.L. Samuel Mr S.K.I. Double Mr R.J. Durrans Mr T.R. Elliott Mr R.S. Luddington Mr A.J. Best Mr R.S. Grainger Ms G.R. Harris (Gildersleve) Mr R. Withington Mr M.J. Bishop Mr N. Caddick Mr S. Cavalier Mr A.J. Graham Mr J.R. O’Connell Mr P.S. Parker Mr A.R. Pigott Mr S.L. Ramage

1981

1982

1986

1987

1988 1992 1997 1999

2002

2007 2010 2012

Ms J.M. Smith Dr A.L. Wilson Ms J.P. Beresford Mr P.M. Drewell Mr A.C. Findlay Ms C.H. Jack (Reece) Mr N.P. Jackson Mr D. Aaron-Thomas Ms M.A.M. Carver (Hall) Ms E.S. Delacave (Tuck) Mr D.J. Heaps Ms A. Hindhaugh (Hart-Davis) Ms N.S.J. McNish (Jones) Ms D. Nicholls (Bhatia) Mr S.R.T. White Mr Simon Costa (Senior & Finance Bursar) Dr A.T. Harrison Dr P. Richards Mr D.T. Bayley Mr J.P. Collins Ms L. Gray (Hall) Ms H.J. Hopper (Dibell) Mr S.M. Hopper Mr C.J. Tilbrook Ms K.A. Ward (Ralph) Mr A.C. Greenham Dr S.G. Fisher Ms H. Bristow (Jamieson) Dr B.S. Smith Ms O.M. Donnelly Mr M.J. Harley Ms J.V.M. Oscroft Mr C.J.R. Wells Mr M.J. Wilson Mr P. Chapman Mr R.S. Kohli Mr G.J. Walliss Ms A.C. Wood (Debattista) Ms K.E. Gresswell-Bandeira (Gresswell) Mr V. Gupta Mr G.A. Hamwas Mr S.D. Edmonds

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The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Mr Nick Davidson Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow) Professor Stuart Ferguson (Vice-Principal) Professor Henrike Lähnemann Professor Paul Matthews Professor Oliver Riordan Dr Fiorangelo Salvatorelli (former Fellow) The Revd Will Donaldson (Chaplain) Ms Sally Smith (Deputy Director of Development) Ms Kate Townsend (Alumni Relations Officer) Ms Gail Williams (Senior Development Officer) Richard Finch

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NORTH AMERICAN DINNERS Aularians organised dinners in Canada and the USA around the time of St Edmund’s Day 2014. Reports on these are given below.

TORONTO Gareth Roberts and Nick Howard co-hosted our first-ever Aularian dinner in Toronto on 14 November 2014. We had a great turn-out and the food at the Canoe restaurant was outstanding, particularly the Albertan moose steak. It was great for me personally to catch up with Andrew Banks, who matriculated with me in 1976. Andrew’s son and family live in Toronto and we made a note to coordinate future dinners.

Gareth Roberts gave a brief overview of the fundraising effort that is underway and encouraged everyone to participate.

It was a good first dinner and we will repeat in 2015, when Saskatchewan salmon will be on the menu. By the end of the evening the toast of Floreat Aula! drowned out the other diners in the restaurant.

Nick Howard (1976, Jurisprudence)

NEW YORK On 21 November 2014, Aularians from around North America – and elsewhere – gathered for our annual New York Dinner. Once again we convened for a terrific meal and exceptionally good company at one of New York City’s best venues, The Racquet and Tennis Club, courtesy of stalwart Hall supporter Bill Broadbent.

The dinner was of course attended by many of the usual suspects. For example, sightings were had of Bill Miller (our Dinner founder, accompanied by the wonderful Irene*), Nick Howard (our long-time Dinner chair, accompanied by the lovely Donna), and Steve Vivian (this year curiously sedate and accompanied by his Aularian son Alexander, both good signs for the future of our gathering).

In a new North American twist, the chair was handed over this year by Nick Howard to Bob Gaffey, an American, and thus quite talkative, Aularian. It is worthy of note, however, that Mr Howard, well known to be a compulsive organiser and apparently unwilling to let go of the reins entirely, had recently flown back from Toronto, where he had co-hosted a Canadian Hall dinner a few nights before.

The Principal was on very good form, starting out by noting that this was the 30th anniversary of the New York Dinner and then following a very interesting theme of other anniversaries. He also brought us up to date on activities at the Hall, describing truly outstanding accomplishments. Just by way of example – this report being far too truncated to capture them all – the Principal also told us that a full one-third of our finalists took First Class degrees, gave multiple 178

examples of rampant music and arts talent showing itself over and over again, and, notably, pointed out that the Rugby Club may have lost the Cuppers final this year but only because two colleges had to combine their sides to beat the Hall (thus proving that no one college is capable of doing so). Our younger attendees seemed to take the Principal’s report in stride, as if it were SEH business as usual – and perhaps these days it is. But the older ones among us took Principal Gull’s report as a sign that either (i) Aularians have gotten a lot smarter and more accomplished over the years or (ii) the elders among us are admirably modest in our recollections of our talents back in the day.

This year, we elected to forgo naming an individual honoree, deciding instead that our real honoree had to be the Hall itself. This turned out to be a very good excuse to talk a bit more openly than we have in the past about the sometimes awkward topic of fundraising. To that end, Gareth Roberts, the Hall Campaign Chair, addressed the group about the progress and goals of the Campaign and the exciting prospects it offers for SEH to prosper. Some materials were distributed at our tables to give us all more detail about the Campaign’s ambitious, but achievable, targets and purposes. This, of course, caused some murmuring among the alumni present, to the effect that everyone should give; and one hopes that the murmurings turn to action in the coming year.

Following Gareth, Nick Howard read messages from absent friends, with one Aularian having so many honorifics after his name that these took longer to read than the message itself, causing many in the room to marvel at how large his business card must be to carry it all. Nick was followed by Jim Himes, our own Teddy Hall representative in the United States Congress, who treated us to a brief report from Washington and reminisced about old days at the Hall. His talk caused all of us to hope that Jim is a pioneer and that Aularian seats in Congress (now numbering one) will increase in the coming years, bringing talent and some degree of bonhomie to the bickering halls of the United States Congress.

The highlight of the evening came, as always, when newcomers to the Dinner were invited to introduce themselves and talk about why Teddy Hall is special to them. There was no shortage of stories, from Aularians recent and ancient.

Anyone from the dinner would no doubt pick out their own favourite, although one that seemed to have significant currency was the tale from two young Aularians describing precisely who was responsible for crashing their rental car on the way to New York, with each bravely claiming the credit. This was followed closely by the young Aularian who, first, let us know she had driven in without incident and, then, described her graduate work in witchcraft.

We concluded, of course, with a toast of Floreat Aula!, delivered by the redoubtable Bill Miller. Then we repaired to the Bull & Bear at the Waldorf, where tall stories got taller as the drinks flowed, old friendships were rekindled, and new friendships were made.

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With nearly 80 attendees, this was our largest gathering ever and all expressed the hope that next year our group grows even larger.

Bob Gaffey (1975, Jurisprudence) *sadly, Irene Miller passed away on 15 June 2015

AULARIANS OF SRI LANKA Shantanu Nagpal (1991, PPE) moved to Sri Lanka in 2012 and, with help from the Development and Alumni Relations Office, set about tracking down Aularians on the tropical island.

He hosted a few of them at his home on 13 June 2015 and they vowed to come back with more Aularians (yes, there are more than three!) for the next gathering in September 2015. Shantanu hopes that this is the beginning of a much-awaited Pictured left to right are Shantanu Aularian awakening not only in Sri Nagpal, Shaheeda Barrie (2004, BCL) Lanka, but also on the sub-continent. and Amrah Wahab (1996, PPE). Photo provided by Shantanu Nagpal.

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DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM 1940s 1948 On 4 September 2015, John Chadwick-Jones and Araceli celebrated their 50th Anniversary. They were married in 1965 at the Iglesia de San Jerónimo el Real, Paseo del Prado, Madrid. Earlier this year, his article ‘Welsh: the Romano-British Language’ was published in Cambria, Vol 14, No 2.

1949 Dennis Fowler is still alive and kicking at 86. Echoes of Africa was published on 29 July 2015, written by Dennis and his wife Ena (LMH, 1949). It is a memoir of their adventures as missionaries in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015 for services to botanical research and the preservation of the Ila people’s culture. Dennis recalls that he first began writing on ethnobotany and malaria plant-cures on his retirement in the 1990s, and Teddy Hall sent him £50 (a considerable sum then) to help in the research costs. He remains grateful to the Old Place for getting him started.

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1950s 1954 Michael Bourdeaux has been doing a lot of journalism over the past year, trying to keep the public aware of developments in the field of religion in Russia. His two most important articles were in The Guardian, an obituary of Fr Gleb Yakunin, and The Times, on Putin and Patriarch Kirill.

1954 In March Richard Norburn received the High Sheriff of Suffolk’s award for lifetime achievement for his work with St Nicholas Hospice Care (of which he is founder and President) and other community involvement.

The Hospice has now been working for 31 years!

1954 After 11 years living in France, where he was at first Chaplain to the Anglicans, working closely with the War Graves Commission burying the remains of the soldiers which are still being found, and assisting with Anglican and Roman Catholic services, John Porter returned to the UK at the end of July 2015.

1955 David Nelson married Nancy Warren in 2006 and has now moved with her to Asheville, North Carolina.

1956 Paul Tempest, former Chief Executive of the Windsor Energy Group, remains Secretary of its International Panel. The 50-person group assembles for a three-day annual meeting and consultation with London Ambassadors inside Windsor Castle each March. He remains (since 1985) Chairman of the Bank of England’s alumni organisation, The Threadneedle Club, and is currently assembling material contributed by members for Volume Three of the Bank of England Bedside Book, to be published in 2016 under the title The Bank of England Now (2010–2015) and Then (1960–1965) – Diamonds (from the annual, Threadneedle) and Pearls (from the quarterly The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street). His Volume One (2008, Stacey International) was titled A Thread of Gold –Adventures, Escapades and Memories 1694–2008 and Volume Two (2011, Medina Publishing) The Future of the Bank of England – A Silver Lining/ (2007–2015). As a member of the Floreat Aula Society and St Edmund Hall Association, Paul can be consulted on tempest40@btinternet. com on global (not UK national) energy issues, the Middle East (excluding Arab/Israeli matters), offshore sailing, Greenwich and the London River, and the accumulated wit and Dr John Walmsley (right) wisdom of the Bank of England. after being presented with 1957 John Walmsley was awarded the the Federal Service Cross Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Band (Federal by the Mayor of Bielefeld Service Cross, with ribbon) by the President (photo supplied by Dr of the Federal Republic of Germany, Herr Walmsley) 181

Gauck, for services to the community. The presentation was made by the Mayor at a private ceremony in Bielefeld Town Hall on 14 November 2014. John and a colleague were recognised for their work founding in 1987 a society called BiBiS which helps refugees and non-native German speaking students and children to develop their language skills.

Rose (also matriculated 1960) who gave a stimulating talk on the challenges of global peacekeeping, which was very well attended by club members and their guests, comprising a dozen different nationalities.

Jeremy Cook (matriculated in the same year) also attended the event.

Floreat Aula in Helvetia!

1959 Professor Ewan Anderson was Artist in Residence at the Nature in Art Museum and Gallery from 21 until 26 July 2015. Located in a beautiful country mansion at Twigworth, near Gloucester, this is a unique establishment comprising several galleries of natural history shown in many art forms from paintings to ceramics. There will be an exhibition of Ewan’s tree drawings throughout January and February 2016 in the Undercroft of Durham Cathedral.

1960 In July 2014 David Mash was made an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, for services to the College, and to education in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.

1959 A company set up by Tony Doyle, Doyle and Tratt Products Ltd (VARILIGHT), was named a winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2015. The company previously won this prestigious Award in 2006.

1959 Gabriel Josipovici talked about his novel Infinity in Basle and Freiburg and at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School (its protagonist is based on the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi who is undergoing something of a revival in new music circles) and in September he will be leading a book group talking about his most recent novel, Hotel Andromeda at the Royal Academy, to coincide with their Joseph Cornell exhibition (he features in the book). He was also invited to Barcelona to talk on ‘Why Write Fiction?’ at the celebrations for the 400th issue of the Catalan Cultural journal, L’Avenc.

1959 The second edition of Robert White’s book Understanding Vineyard Soils was published by Oxford University Press, New York in February this year.

It is a follow-up to the first edition published in 2009 and his book Soils for Fine Wines, published by the same company in 2003.

1960s 1960 Ian Beesley was awarded a PhD degree in History from Queen Mary, University of London, in 2013 for a thesis on ‘Sir John Hunt, Cabinet Secretary 1973–79’. Ian is currently working on the Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries for the Cabinet Office. He has also been appointed Secretary-General of the European Chiropractic Union – a grouping of 22 countries’ national chiropractic associations, representing some 3,500 practitioners ranging from Norway to Cyprus, Ireland to Estonia.

1960 Gordon Douglas spends much of his time in Switzerland and is currently Co-President of the Montreux International Business Club (www. montreuxinternationalbusinessclub.ch). At one of the club’s monthly luncheons, on 23 March 2015, the guest speaker was General Sir Michael 182

1961 Bob Chard works self-employed as a climate change consultant/activist.

He specialises in aspects of climate change which are important but being overlooked, such as technologies to reduce GHG emissions in the surface transportation sector of the UK economy (which is the worst-performing sector and is making little progress on reducing emissions). He is a director of two micro companies specialising in Ultra Light Rail and also represents the Ultra Light Rail (ULR) Group of seven companies at the industry body UK Tram (www.uktram.co.uk).

1961 During over two decades or so of his involvement as a visiting lecturer at various British and overseas universities to students of Materials Sciences and Materials Engineering at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels, Cuppam Dasarathy has used several examples of slides and illustrations of microstructures and fractures of metallic materials.

Recently, he has put them all together and made them available on the internet, should anyone be interested. These two compilations can be accessed on the Google/ Wikimedia by inserting the following details: Name – Cuppam Dasarathy; Title 1. Examples of microstructures of metallic materials; Title 2. Examples of fractures, failures and rejections of engineering materials.

1961 Mike Lynch and Penny have now moved to the Cambridge area. Their new address is: 11 Saberton Close, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9QW, tel. 01223 863 946.

1962 Steve Burgess and Brian Hardcastle (1961) were both selected for the England Over-70 Squash team to play in the Home Internationals in May 2015 against Scotland, Wales and Ireland. They were successful in all their games. Neither of them was a squash player while at the Hall. Brian was captain of the Blues soccer team in the 1963–64 season and Steve was captain of Hall soccer in 1964–65: they played together in the Cuppers-winning sides in both those seasons. Their appearance in the England Squash team was the first time in fifty years that they had played together again!

1962 Simon J. Simonian was interviewed for International Epoch Times on 18 June 2015 (www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1399149-medical-pioneer-sets183

sights-on-global-concerns). The publication shows that he is a Nobel Prize nominee; since 2010, he holds the record for the largest-sized contemporary autobiographies in Marquis world’s gold standard Who’s Who directories for betterment of contemporary culture and society in America, World, Science and Medicine; he holds the record for eradication of the first major disease smallpox, in the history of medicine; holds the record for the record number of 70 million contemporary lives saved since 1977 and growing at a record number of two million lives that will be saved each year in perpetuity; he is co-publishing a book on ‘Building Cultures of Peace’; he has seven Simonian prizes awarded each year, at the Hall (one) and Harvard University, Boston, USA (six) in perpetuity; he celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary on 11 July 2015; he is the father of three sons and three daughters-in-law, and grandfather of eight grandchildren; he is the co-author of 300 articles and four books; he served as Surgeon-in-Chief to Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America visiting Detroit in 1988; also, to George H. W. Bush, President of the USA visiting Detroit in 1989; he is a citizen of the UK and USA. 1962 Nigel Thomas recently retired from his position as Consultant ENT surgeon to the Guy’s and St Thomas’, and King’s NHS Trusts. In his retirement he is involved with the two museums at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, providing a clinical input. He is also President of the Hunterian Society: dating back to 1824, it is dedicated to the anatomist and surgeon John Hunter, and matters both historical and relating to his influence on the development of surgery up to the present day. Nigel was married in 1968 to Gerda in the College Chapel by the Dean Graham Midgley and they have three adult children Kirsten, Katrin, and Christian, who were all christened there by the Dean. He is enjoying seeing his two grandchildren, Sophie and Emma, having missed out so much on seeing his own children grow up because of work commitments. Nigel would welcome contact with other medics who were at the Hall. “We were rare birds in those days.”

1963 David Combie has just welcomed his fourth grandchild into the world.

He is the Chair of Grow Sheffield Ltd; Chair of the Sheffield Good Food Trust; and a Director of Heeley City Farm. Any spare time is devoted to driving fast cars and railway modelling.

1963 Although retired back in the USA since 2011, Colin Day’s connections with Hong Kong and Macao continue. Many of his photos illustrated the book Macao: People and Places, Past and Present by Jason Wordie (Angsana, 2013). He also researched and edited The Lone Flag (Hong Kong University Press, 2014), the memoir of the British Consul in Macao during WWII. In addition, he serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Hong Kong 184

Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

1963 Philip Hodson had to retire as a Part-Time Tribunal Judge, after 20 years’ service, on reaching the age of 70.

1964 John Powell, having been widowed in 2007, married Dr Lynn Garrett in Sussex on 28 August 2014. Allegedly retired, John continues to work with the Independent Schools Inspectorate, while Lynn, an historian, is extending her understanding of the islands of the North Atlantic Rim with the University of the Highlands and Islands in Kirkwall.

1964 Larry Pressler is a former US Senator now practising law in New York, Washington DC, and South Dakota. He is also a recent Fulbright Professor at Sciences Po University in Paris and University of Bologna.

1964 Richard Stoner was pleasantly surprised to learn that a business he founded in 2001, Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging, is one of only two recipients this year of both the Queen’s Award for Innovation and the Queen’s Award for Exports.

1965 Howard Rye co-wrote Black Europe (Hambergen, Germany 2013), two books and 44 CDs documenting the sounds and images of black people in Europe before 1927, and was a contributor to Jason Toynbee et al (eds) Black British Jazz (Ashgate, 2014). Further details are at www.black-europe.com.

1966 John Spellar was re-elected as the MP for Warley in the May 2015 General Election.

1967 Having retired from his full-time role as Head of Environment for East Sussex County Council a few years ago, Steve Ankers still works parttime as Policy Officer for the South Downs Society, the ‘Friends’ group for the newest of England’s national parks. He also serves in a voluntary capacity on the National Trust’s Regional Advisory Board for London and the South East. Having co-authored two satires of the town planning system – ‘The Grotton Papers’ and ‘Grotton Revisited’ – he recently had published his none-too-serious account of his life surrounded by vets, It’s a Dog’s Life for the Other Half, for which Aularian Terry Jones very kindly supplied a cover endorsement. He also blogs on travel, environment and other stuff, with the occasional political rant thrown in.

1967 Rob Grey has retired from his General Manager post in the Bahrain National Insurance company and is back in the UK, now looking into NonExecutive Director posts. His daughter Laura was married in July 2014.

1967 Rodney Munday has been selected for a commission to produce a sculpture to adorn the pillars outside the Minster Church in Plymouth which link the church with the city (see www.artattheminster.org). He has also been commissioned to produce a bust of the founder of his old school (Richard 185

Hale, formerly Hertford Grammar School) to celebrate the quartercentenary of its foundation in 1617, and to produce a further casting of St Edmund for St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, which will be unveiled in September 2015. He and his wife Eleri continue to run painting holidays and gite rental from their house in the Pyrenees. In the Alps this year, their 14-year-old son William became the Welsh Under-16 slalom champion.

1967 John Orton is the author of The Five Stone Steps, which tells of life in 1920’s South Shields through the eyes of a Bobby on the beat. Based on the memoirs of Sergeant Thomas ‘Jock’ Gordon, who joined the Shields Police Force fresh from the trenches, it tells of a time when folk stuck together through poverty and hardship. Illustrated with photos supplied by South Tyneside Local History Library, the stories intertwine fact with fiction to bring to life the character and characters of the town as it was a century ago.

1969 Alistair and Debbie MacKichan have moved to The Wyld, Horndean, Berwickshire, TD15 1XJ, where they are renovating a period cottage.

Alistair retires from Parish Ministry in the Church of Scotland in autumn 2015 with further good intentions to finish the novel he began last century.

1970s 1970 Michael Berry left Glenhuron Bank Limited at the end of 2013 and since 1 January 2014 has been President & Principal of Pencarrek Limited, The Beach House, St. James, Barbados. Pencarrek manages assets worth over one billion US dollars and has a staff complement of four. The company is licensed by the Financial Securities Commission (Barbados) as an Investment Adviser.

1970 Peter Malin attended the conference ‘John Fletcher: A Critical Reappraisal’ at Canterbury Christ Church University in June 2015, where he gave a paper on Fletcher’s comedy, The Chances.

1970 Paul Temporal, currently an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School and at Green Templeton College, was appointed a Visiting Professor at Peking University HSBC Business School in China in March 2015. His 16th and latest book was also published in 2015, entitled Branding for the Public Sector: Creating, Building and Managing Brands That People Will Value.

1972 Robin Stephenson was selected, and approved by the Lord Chancellor, in 2013 for appointment as an Employment Judge.

1972 After 25 years with the British Geological Survey, half spent in Africa, and 13 years with the UN, including four years as Deputy Director, Chemicals Branch, UN Environment Programme, David Piper retired in early 2014, when he and his wife moved to the ‘French Cotswolds’ of Northern Burgundy.

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in August 2015, after 40 years of teaching. He is delighted to be the grandfather, in May 2015, of Juno Rose Alison Price.

1973 Stephen Douglas’ new novel, Annabel Poppy by Michael Robards, a scurrilous confection of banking, sex and murder, was published by Stergiou Media and Publications. It is available as an ebook on Amazon.

1973 Paul Gent has retired from The Daily Telegraph, where he was arts editor for many years.

1973 David Holmes continues to hugely enjoy retirement, grandchildren, and travel, having visited Australia, New Zealand, and Dubai this year. A pity the England cricket team couldn’t muster the same enthusiasm for their participation in the World Cup, which he travelled to see!

1974 Peter Desmond is coming to the end of a two-year part-time MA in Globalisation Business and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University. He is hoping to change the world in 10,000 words through his final dissertation: ‘Towards a Circular Economy in South Africa – what are the constraints to the recycling of mobile phones?’

1975 Martin Garrett’s latest book, Oxford, was published in the InnerCities Cultural Guides series at the end of 2014 (see review in Aularian Publications in section 6 of this Magazine).

1975 Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive of The Alzheimer’s Society, was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015 for services to Older People.

1975 Ces and Sandy Shaw, who met at the Hall in 1976, would like to announce the birth of their first grandson, Rufus Drummer Shaw, who was born in Bristol on 20 May 2015. His parents, Robbie Shaw, a USA international rugby player, and Kitty Spicer Shaw, are delighted with their first child.

1976 Samuel Kern Alexander published two books regarding education in the United States: Financing Public Schools: Theory, Policy, and Practice, co-authored with Richard G Salmon, and F King Alexander (Routledge, 2015) 485 pages; and The Law of Schools, Students and Teachers, 5th Edition, co-authored with M David Alexander (West Academics, 2015) 731 pages.

1976 Andrew Banks, Rhodes Scholar and President of the MCR in 1978, was enrolled in the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors in October 2014. Now a Rhodes Trustee, Andrew has also been a generous supporter of the Hall (including a major benefaction to endow the

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Sir Richard Gozney Fellowship in Law currently held by Professor Adrian Briggs).

1978 Mark Adlestone was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015, for Business and Charity in the North of England. He also won the Leadership Award in the 2015 Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For. 1978 Paul Darling was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015, for services to Safety at Sports Grounds and to Horseracing. He is Chair of the Sports Ground Safety Authority.

1978 John Hamilton McCabe was awarded a PhD by the University of Chester, having successfully defended his thesis entitled ‘Bonhoeffer: Responsible Work · A diachronic approach to a synchronic theme: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology of work’. His thesis attempts to highlight in a new way the importance of work to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, both in what he wrote and how he lived, and draws upon history, biography, and theology.

1979 Mark Silinsky published The Taliban: Afghanistan’s Most Lethal Insurgent Group, on Praeger Press, 265 pages, in 2014.

1979 Dan Thompson is currently undertaking a challenge called ‘Run the World’, to run 10km in every country in the world to raise money for cancer research and to promote the importance of physical activity in our lives. He ran with an Aularian in Singapore and says that it would be great to hear from Aularians around the world who might like to join him on runs or support the challenge / cancer research in any way. In June 2016 he will be putting on the Gold Games & Festival of Sport, a unique combination of a ‘mini Olympics’ for corporates and a fun-packed festival in the stunning setting of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its iconic venues – the Aquatics Centre and the Lee Valley VeloPark and Velodrome. The Festival will feature opportunities to experience a range of sports – including timed events in ‘Olympic conditions’ – family entertainment, live music, and an exciting selection of food and drinks. Thanks to corporate partners, the Festival will be free to the local community and they will be able to support community heathy living and physical activity programmes throughout the year. Dan would love to hear from anyone who might want to enter a company team or who is involved with increasing participation in sports and physical activity. He can be contacted at dan.thompson@blueyonder.co.uk.

1980s 1980 Graeme Hall left the world of patent law to pursue a long-held ambition to be a writer. His short story ‘The Cormorant Fishers’ was runner-up in the 2014 Leeds Writers’ Circle Short Story Competition, while ‘The Faraday Cage’ was short-listed in the 2014 Black Pear Press Short Story Competition 188

and included in the Black Pear Press anthology Seaglass And Other Stories (www.blackpear.net). His writing has also been published online by Litro Magazine (www.litro.co.uk) and is available at Alfie Dog Fiction (www. alfiedog.com). Currently writing his first novel, Graeme also writes and blogs on music at www.dongraeme.blogspot.co.uk. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife Anne and a wooden dog.

1980 Charles Penn has lived in Northumberland since 1999 and is Marketing Director of a leading law firm in the region. He is married to Claire, a teaching assistant; their two oldest children work in international trade and in recruitment in London and Newcastle respectively. Their two younger children are not far off going to university. After leaving SEH, Charles joined Procter & Gamble and then Deloitte Haskins & Sells Management Consultants, working in marketing and strategy in London and Nairobi. He is delighted that a good friend’s two children, Angus Eames (2008–11) and Juliet Eames (2012–15), both loved their time at SEH recently. To his regret he never made it to dine on High Table during their time at the Hall, but hopes to do better for his niece and nephew (Amanda and Edward Thomas) now both up at Merton to his delight – though with some sadness, naturally, about them not being fortunate enough to be Aularians.

1981 Paul Farrelly was re-elected as the Labour Party MP for Newcastle-underLyme in the May 2015 General Election.

1981 Paul Sharples, whose late wife Emma (née Gibbins) died on 5 November 2003, is marrying Julia Graham at Elmore Court, Gloucestershire, on 30 August 2015. His twin sons, Charles and Jack, are to be his best men.

1981 Mel Stride was re-elected as the MP for Central Devon in the May 2015 General Election.

1982 Maggie Carver has retired as Chairman of ITN and has taken up new appointments as Chairman of the Racecourse Association, ViceChairman of the British Board of Film Classification, and as a member of the Horserace Betting Levy Board.

1982 Textures of Consciousness by Yair Meshoulam and friends will be published in September 2015. It contains images, poetry and essays with contributions by Ruth Fainlight, Robert Silman, Karl-Heinz Pantke, Mark Fielding, and Jacques Naoum. Visit www.textureofconsciousness.com.

1982 With apologies to all those who tried to drum Engineering Science into him in the 1980s, Simon Woods abandoned the subject several years ago to become a wine writer (and speaker and consultant). Since then, he has edited five editions of the Which? Wine Guide, has judged at wine competitions on four continents and has been a columnist for the Financial Times’ ‘The Business’ section (now alas no more). His latest 189

book, and the first he’s published himself, is called The World’s Shortest Wine Book. He’s been told it doesn’t live up to its name – apparently there are slimmer volumes – but it did prompt The Independent to call it “just about the best introduction to wine available”, and include it in its Books of the Year for 2014. It’s available through his website simonwoods.com, and is also stocked by several UK wine merchants and by Amazon (there’s also a Kindle version). And in the near future, he will be releasing a new edition of his Champagne Lanson Award-winning I Don’t Know Much About Wine But I Know What I Like.

1983 Thomas (de Mallet) Burgess is now living in Perth, WA with his wife Fiona and two daughters, Iseult and Beatrice. He is Artistic Director of Lost & Found Opera, a company he founded in 2013 with a mission to rediscover lost operas and present them in found spaces that speak to the resonance of the work. The company’s recent and critically-acclaimed productions have included Poulenc’s The Human Voice, performed for an audience of 15 at a time in a hotel room; The Emperor of Atlantis, written in a Nazi concentration camp, staged in the Perth Hebrew Congregation Synagogue; In the Shadow of Venus (2015 Winner West Australian Arts Editor Award) at Perth Institute Contemporary Arts; and Milhaud’s Médée in a re-claimed space at Fremantle Arts Centre containing a cell from the building’s past history as an insane asylum and women’s home.

This concept has attracted national and international attention for future performances and collaborations.

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John Clark held an exhibition in Cambridge called ‘The Sleep of Reason’, bringing together a body of 50 paintings that have only previously been exhibited in separate shows in New York, Stockholm, and London as part of a collaboration with Eton Shirts. www.etonshirts.com/uk/john-clarkcollaboration-of-the-season

1983 Whilst still an audit partner at Deloitte, Kari Hale has also just been appointed a non-executive member of the Financial Reporting Council’s audit and assurance council.

1984 Mark Field was re-elected as the MP for the Cities of London and Westminster in the May 2015 General Election.

1984 Professor Andrew Shortland is married to Anja, née Graupe (Keble, 1991) and has two children – Henry (nine) and Elisabeth (seven). He is based in Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham, where he leads a group that specialises in a variety of subjects including forensic archaeology and the analysis of historical objects and art for museums and auction houses. He has published six books and numerous papers in academic journals and is a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Geological Society of London.

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1985 Elizabeth Bell finished a book about an art association she founded in France, Art In Situ, which is about to be printed with a limited edition. It began with an invitation to a group of 12 Oxford artists in 2000 to come and work in France for three weeks in 2001, and during the ten years of its activities it developed into an inter-European forum for artists meetings, workshops, and exhibitions. The book is a large-format A3 landscape size and is an illustrated chronicle in English and French with 124 pages including 47 colour plates.

1985 Tanya Spilsbury is a surveyor specialising in finding new uses for listed buildings. She has recently won two awards for the conversion of Darley Abbey Stables in Derby to a pilates studio and offices. She won the George Rennie award for conservation from Derby City Council and the Derby Civic Society’s George Larkin Brighter City Best Restoration award. The project was also nominated for Excellence in Design at the East Midlands Business Link Bricks Awards. The project has brought new life to these listed buildings in the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site. The buildings had been derelict for over forty years before Tanya took them on. Tanya can be contacted via her website www.darleyabbeystables.co.uk or on LinkedIn. 1985 Chris Woods recently saw his book Sudden Justice (Hurst/ OUP) published – a history of armed drone use since 9/11. He has also taken up a Visiting Fellowship at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. Chris is also Director of Airwars.org, a research organisation monitoring the international war against Islamic State.

1986 Indy Bedi married Preya Sharma last year on 18 April 2014, and they would like to announce the birth of their first child, Gia Bedi, born on 4 June 2015.

1986 Louise Hardiman has completed a part-time PhD in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and is embarking upon a second career as a writer, lecturer, and consultant specialising in Russian art.

1987 Danny O’Brien is currently International Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in San Francisco. His commissioned non-fiction guide to combating procrastination is now 10 years late for publication (true).

1988 Lucia Bly (née Gillham) is married to Dan Bly with four children, Rafaela, Alexander, Xavier, and Sebastian. They live in South Devon and run a holiday property called ‘Swallows’ Flight’ – see www.swallowsflight.co.uk.

They welcome guests from all over the world to their beautiful corner of South Devon, particularly Aularians!

1988 Stuart Ford is still the Los Angeles-based Founder and CEO of IM Global, one of Hollywood’s most prolific independent film, TV, and music studios. He and the company were feted with Variety Magazine’s prestigious Achievement in International Film Award. They have several 191

the face of Britain today. Good for Nothing is a growing community of thinkers, doers, makers, and tinkerers, finding time to gift their skills and energy to help accelerate the impact of grassroots social innovators, change-makers and epic projects of social good. There are now over 30 Good for Nothing ‘chapters’ in cities across four continents, and the community has supported over 80 social projects and given the equivalent of £1m of time to those projects, for nothing. www.goodfornothing.com

upcoming releases in the UK including ‘Secret In Their Eyes’ starring Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman and ‘Collide’ starring Nic Hoult, Felicity Jones, Sir Anthony Hopkins, and Sir Ben Kingsley.

1988 After five years at the New Economics Foundation, Tony Greenham is joining the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) as Director of Economy, Enterprise and Manufacturing, to lead a programme of action research on fostering a more creative and sustainable economy.

Stuart Ford with his Achievement in International Film award (photo provided by Stuart Ford)

1989 Professor Patrick Leman has been appointed Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College, London.

1989 Steve Whittington and his wife Natalie would like to announce the birth of their daughter Annabel Rose Whittington on 15 April 2014. She is thriving, sleeping and feeding – with promising early signs of developing into a fine oarswoman.

1990s 1990 David Gauke was re-elected as the MP for South-West Hertfordshire in the May 2015 General Election.

1990 Akaash Maharaj addressed the United Nations in his role as CEO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), on GOPAC’s work to prosecute kleptocrats through international tribunals.

He also launched GOPAC’s new regional chapter in the Balkans, which brings together parliamentarians from the states that emerged from the disintegration of Yugoslavia. In the coming year, he will lead GOPAC’s talks between Russian and Ukrainian parliamentarians, to support efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine’s eastern region.

1991 Tim Houghton’s first young-adult novel, Songs of Seraphina, was published on 30 June 2015, by Tenebris Books. His second novel, Autonomy, an adult science-fiction book, is being published at the end of 2015 by Kristell Ink. He is writing under a pen name, Jude Houghton, so that his work life and writing life do not become confused.

1992 Tom Farrand’s venture Good for Nothing (co-founded in 2010) was voted into the 50 New Radicals by The Observer/Nesta in late 2014. The New Radicals Awards celebrate and support exciting new projects and organisations making a real difference in communities and changing 192

1994 Emma Brockes welcomed twin daughters born on New Year’s Eve, 2014: Elizabeth Dulcie and Nora Jane (the elder by two minutes) Brockes.

1994 In May 2015, Rachel Grinham was selected to play for Australia Over-35s Hockey team in a tri-series against New Zealand. The tournament was held in Melbourne, Rachel’s home town since she moved to Australia in 2001. Having played hockey for Victoria for over four years, Rachel has been a national champion twice and in 2014 was named player of the final at the Women’s National Championships in Darwin, following Victoria’s 2-1 win over New South Wales.

1994 Lukas Haynes was appointed Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Fund (NY) in January 2015. He serves on the board of Protect Our Winters (CA) and the Center for Climate and Security (Washington, DC). With his wife, Maura, and their son, Jimmy, he is also a trustee of Lulu’s Fund, named after their daughter who died in 2014, and providing need-based financial aid to pre-school children in New Jersey.

1994 Tomas Llewellyn was appointed Technical Director Sports Presentation for RWC 2015. This means he is responsible for all the equipment, technology and crew used to put on the pre-match entertainment as well as the in-stadia big screen productions. He is overseeing all 13 venues across the UK including Twickenham, Wembley, Millennium, and the redesigned Olympic Stadium.

1997 Peter Casterton’s article pulling together the tragic threads and events leading to the execution of the West Indies cricketer Leslie Hylton was the lead feature in the March 2015 edition of the Cricketer magazine.

Peter also won the Wisden 2015 cricket writing competition. His fictional account of Captain L B Woodman overcoming his WWI wounds to play cricket for England was published in this year’s Almanac. Peter writes and blogs about cricket as @Tregaskis1.

1998 Jacquetta Blacker married Dr Charles Patman Lewis on 8 November 2014 at Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas. They continue to work together in the department of Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic.

1998 Alice Gardner was promoted to Partner in the corporate team at law firm TLT LLP on 1 May 2015 (www.tltsolicitors.com).

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1998 Ann-Marie Myhill (née Evans) had a son, James, in August 2014 with her husband David.

by the 15th-century German spiritual writer Dorothea von Hof) at the Hall in the Old Library on 29 May 2015, and the official book launch with the publisher in Germany on 23 June 2015.

1998 Jessica Tamarin had her first child on 29 January 2015 – Bronson Scott Tamarin.

1999 Olly Donnelly was awarded the ‘Women of the Future, Community Spirits 2014’ award in November 2014 for her work with Shivia (www.shivia.com).

1999 Paula Jackson got married on 8 December 2014 to Volker Adler and is now mother to a beautiful little baby girl named Dara Kahlina, who was born on 26 October 2014. Her edu-tainment company Kiddify.com (where she is the CEO and founder), received funding from a social venture fund in Germany – Tenlgemann Social Ventures. It is their aim to connect young individuals around the world through skill-sharing.

1999 Catriona Ward’s first novel, Rawblood, is being published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson on 24 September 2015. For more information see www. rcwlitagency.com/authors/ward-catriona.

2000s 2000 Raveem Ismail was chosen by the Royal Society as one of their scientists for the Westminster Pairing Scheme in December 2013. He was partnered with Dr Nick Walton from DSTL, mirroring his analytical work in the (re)insurance market on war and terrorism. “This scheme builds bridges between parliamentarians, civil servants and some of the best research scientists in the UK.” You can read more about the scheme at royalsociety. org/training/pairing-scheme.

2001 Trista di Genova is graduating in medical anthropology from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan. Her seminal research is on indigenous use of plants by Taiwan Aborigines, Atayal tribe, which will be published in a book What’s Growing in an Aboriginal Garden? In the past 10 years, she has written several books, and founded Lone Wolf Press (lonewolfpress. com) to assist other authors in getting their work to print and optimise international distribution. She runs the award-winning site, the Wild East Magazine (thewildeast.net). This summer she will be performing her work around Ireland and Scotland. This year, she also showed her artwork in a two-woman show in Taipei, with Megan Angele, ‘Sexy Cityscapes’.

2001 Michele Ledesma completed Pediatric Residency at St Barnabas Hospital, New York, and was appointed Clinical Fellow, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital.

2001 Emma Stone married Neil Stuart Headings on 7 December 2013 at St Michael’s Church, Bristol. (They met at Teddy Hall!)

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Undine Bruckner at the book launch of her thesis in the Old Library

2002 Sarah and Rupert Snuggs welcomed their second son, Hugo, into the world on 1 September 2014, younger brother to Wilfred.

2003 Zoe Barber was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship – a national award which will take her to America (LA) to work with the charity Project Angel Food, who provide 10,000 free meals every week to the terminally ill. No such initiative exists in the UK, so her plan is to set up a UK-based similar charity on her return. She will be taking a year out of her training as a surgical registrar to do this.

2003 Sara Crowley-Vigneau is taking over as Senior Editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s publishing programme in Asia Pacific, and will be running it from Shanghai in China. The BRICS (she works across Latin America, Africa, China, India, the Middle East, and Russia) are key partners for both the publishing industry’s development and that of international scholarly debate.

2003 Richard Good will be marrying Jennifer Thorpe on 31 October 2015 at St Michael’s Church, Pontefract.

2003 Michael and Rebecca Griebe welcomed the birth of their second son, Isaac William Griebe, on 25 June 2014. Their first son was born on 22 August 2012: his name is Henry Edmund Griebe.

2003 Alice Little will be returning to Oxford in October 2015 to begin her DPhil at the Music Faculty, for which St Cross College has awarded her the Hélène La Rue Scholarship in Music. Her return coincides with the publication of her article, ‘Percy Manning, Henry Balfour, Thomas Carter, and the Collecting of Traditional English Musical Instruments’, in the 2016 issue of Folk Music Journal.

2003 Christopher Wilson and Simone Wilson (née Claisse) were married at the Hall in 2013 and their daughter (Matilda Imogen Wilson) was born in March 2015. A true Teddy Hall baby!

2004 Adam Wand has been appointed the Group Lead for Global Public Policy, at Visa Inc., the world’s largest electronic payments technology company.

Adam, who was previously Visa’s Asia-Pacific Head of Government Affairs, has relocated to Visa’s global headquarters in San Francisco, California, where he will be building a global public policy think-tank for the company.

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2005 Arshin Adib-Moghaddam has been appointed to the Chair of Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London.

His work has earned him an international reputation as one of the foremost thinkers and commentators on the Middle East and Muslim world, Islamophobia, Orientalism, and critical and postcolonial theory.

He is also Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute.

2005 Grace Buchanan and Benjamin Toms were married in September 2015 in London, almost ten years since they met on the first day of Freshers’ Week. Although they were not an item whilst at SEH, the College certainly brought them together!

2007 Sam Adcock moved to Manila, Philippines where he set up a service helping UK firms sell to the C-Suite in SE Asia. Get in touch to find out more: sja@ortus.solutions.

2007 Since November 2013 Jonny Fisher has been working as Script Editor on the ‘Lewis’ series for ITV. He has enjoyed the filming in and around Oxford.

2007 Christopher Pigott and Angela Gu were married at Teddy Hall on 2 August 2014. They were both members of the college for their undergraduate degrees and were married by Will Donaldson, College Chaplain, in the Chapel, with a reception in the Old Dining Hall. It was a wonderful day and it was very special to have it at the Hall and the place they first met each other.

2008 Carol Ibe was awarded the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for a PhD in Plant Science at the University of Cambridge, starting on 1 October 2015. She did her Masters in Clinical Embryology at Oxford from 2008 to 2009, and recently founded a company (JR Biotek) that provides quality life science education, training, and laboratory capacity building to students, educators and scientists in Africa.

in a happy ceremony in the church of his hometown, Bellaterra, Catalonia.

2012 Nick Angelides will be starting a PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) at UC-Berkeley in the autumn of 2015. He will be working with Dr Ming Hsu in the Berkeley Neuroeconomics Lab, studying the neuroscience of economic and social decision-making.

AVE ATQUE VALE We record with sadness the passing of fellow Aularians, and salute them.

1930s Denys Geoffrey Crossley Salt MA, 21 December 2014, aged 96, Graz, Austria.

1937, Modern Languages* The Revd Michael Heathfield Tupper MA, 10 December 2014, aged 94, Shropshire. 1938, Theology John Stuart McAdam BA, 1939 1940s Richard Candlin MA, 7 October 2014, aged 90, Oxfordshire. 1942, Physics Frederick Francis Nicholls MA, 14 January 2015, aged 88, Pembrokeshire. 1943, English* John Ringrose Bates BA, 25 February 2015, aged 88, Nottinghamshire. 1944, Modern Languages* The Venerable Norman George Lloyd Roberts McDermid MA, 30 September 2014, aged 87, North Yorkshire. 1945, English Michael George Ward MA, January 2014, aged 84, South Yorkshire. 1949, Jurisprudence

2008 On 8 August 2014, Sandra Modh re-married with a Nepalese man named Gokarna Pandey, an MSc Chemistry student in Nepal. Their wedding was held in Kathmandu.

Stanley Bernard Pierce MA, 28 April 2015, aged 86, Merseyside. 1949, Modern Languages*

2010s 2010 Vanessa Ford and her partner Johan Schiller welcomed their son Easton Schiller Ford on 19 June 2015 at Chelsea Westminster Hospital in London.

1950s Ronald Cecil MacLeod Cooper MA, 7 August 2014, aged 83, Buckinghamshire.

1951, History

2011 Rosamund Lakin, who graduated in Fine Art in 2014, was one of the 40 artists featured in The Caitlin Guide 2015: New Artists in the UK. This annual publication selects artists for the ambition, skill, and integrity demonstrated in work shown in the most recent series of undergraduate and postgraduate final exhibitions.

The Revd Prebendary Patrick John Blake MA, 9 April 2015, aged 84, Somerset.

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John Nichol Gill MA, 27 February 2015, aged 84, Derbyshire. 1949, Jurisprudence

Michael Denison Palmer BA, 9 September 2015, aged 81, Surrey. 1954, History Dr Jeremy Simmonds Scott Whiting DPhil, 23 July 2015, aged 80, North Yorkshire. 1954, Physics 197

Brian Keith Poulteney MA, 3 May 2015, aged 81, Kent. 1955, Geography*

Frank di Rienzo BA, August 2014, aged 77, London. 1959, English

The Magazine also regrets to have to record the passing of an Aularian who was a member of the Hall’s pre-Charter Fellowship. Francis Alan Roscoe Bennion died in Devonshire on 28 January 2015, aged 92. Born in Cheshire, he served in the RAF during World War 2, then read Jurisprudence at Balliol College. He became Lecturer and Tutor in Law at the Hall in 1951, a position which he held until 1953.

Francis went on to practise at the Bar in common law and human rights cases, and served for 14 years in the Parliamentary Counsel Office at Westminster, drafting Acts of Parliament. His work included secondments to Pakistan (1956) and Ghana (1960), helping to draft the constitutions of those countries. Francis enjoyed a long professional legal career and afterwards remained active as a writer and academic. He is survived by his wife, Mary.

1960s John Rilstone Heath MA, 16 April 2015, aged 74, Cornwall. 1960, Physics*

OBITUARIES

James Charles Markwick MA, 28 April 2015, aged 79, London. 1956, Jurisprudence* Graham John Partridge MA, 14 November 2014, aged 79, Devon. 1956, English Professor Andrew William John Thomson BA, 26 December 2014, aged 78, Paihia, New Zealand. 1956, PPE* Robert William Winstanley BA, 12 January 2015, aged 78, Buckinghamshire.

1956, History Dr Anthony Edward Stubbs MA, 2014, Hampshire. 1958, Modern Languages

John Andrew Hall MA, 30 May 2014, aged 72, Florida. 1962, English* David Patric Carmine Cremona MA, March 2015, aged 76, St Paul’s Bay, Malta.

1962, English Dr Sidney Leeman DPhil, November 2014, aged 73, Middlesex. 1963, Physics Graeme Marshall, 7 January 2015. Recognised Student Michael Aidan Mason MA, 1 February 2015, aged 67, East Sussex. 1965, Jurisprudence Peter John Ridgley Masson BA, 26 December 2014, aged 66, Kent. 1967, Chemistry* Frank Kendall Perkins PGCE, 15 October 2014, aged 85, Massachusetts, USA. 1968, PGCE* 1970s Dr Ernest Allan Freeman, 10 January 2015, aged 82, Oxfordshire. 1973 Anthony John Heslop MA, 13 January 2015, aged 57, Merseyside. 1976, Modern Languages * 1980s Christopher John Roy Barron MA, 9 March 2015, aged 52, Gloucestershire. 1981, Physics Helen Susan West BA, 4 August 2014, aged 48, East Sussex. 1984, PPE* *obituaries for these Aularians are published below. Obituaries for SCR members Professor Martin Brasier and Professor Roy Harris are included in section 2 of this Magazine.

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PHILIP SPENCER HAFFENDEN (1943) The death of Dr Philip S Haffenden, FRHistS on 8 June 2014, aged 88, was recorded in last year’s Magazine. Although war service and then ill-health prevented him from completing his History degree at Oxford, Philip continued to think very highly of the Hall and left a bequest. Philip’s daughter, Ann-Michele Hinton, who generously donated some of his books to the Hall Library, has provided the following obituary.

My father was born and grew up in Eastbourne, East Sussex. His father ran a small farm and dairy, while his mother owned a grocery shop. The youngest of ten children, he was the first of his family to attend the local grammar school and the first to benefit from a university education.

His interest in History came from story-telling and local legends. His early childhood was dominated by learning about the British Empire. He read voraciously and developed a love of language that stayed with him his whole life.

He believed from early childhood that America’s Eastern Seaboard should have remained with the UK. The advent of World War Two diverted and limited my father’s education. He was evacuated in 1940 when Eastbourne Grammar School re-located to rural Hertfordshire. He nevertheless gained a place at St Edmund Hall, matriculating in 1943 to read History. Later, he described a ‘ration’ of just two wartime terms.

Oxford gave him the opportunity to study British imperial history, particularly the work of Paul Knaplund which stimulated a more critical view of British performance overseas.

He joined the Royal Navy towards the end of the war and worked on a minelaying cruiser and a destroyer in the North Sea. He was stationed in Germany after the war. Sadly he became ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and needed to be cared for in hospital at home.

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Continued ill-health prevented a return to Oxford, so my father instead completed an external London University degree, with support from nearby Brighton Technical College. This meant study at home in the back garden: twenty-four-hour fresh air was then the treatment for TB! The award of his BA degree in 1952 was followed by an unexpected offer of a postgraduate studentship at King’s College, London. He had not considered becoming a professional historian prior to this and did not think that he had the qualities to make an academic. My father stated that he regarded himself as no real antiquarian but rather an avowed pragmatist harbouring a visionary. This was the real drive. He said that as a student he developed a profound cynicism concerning much of the creative activity of the past. It seemed to him that men stumbled upon the best achievements rather than planned them. From History he wished to understand why men destroyed politically.

After finishing his PhD, my father developed a deep interest in American colonial history. A Commonwealth Fellowship held at Princeton University increased his understanding of the American Republic’s history. As a British specialist in this colonial field he felt something of a rarity. An academic year at Toronto University followed, after which he took up a lectureship in Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Aberdeen. He stated that after the Suez Crisis in 1956, interest in the Empire faded fast: he proposed writing a history of the United States. Aberdeen went on to become the first university in Britain to make the study of US History a compulsory part of its History syllabus.

The University of Southampton welcomed a proposal to include an American Revolution component, and with the co-operation of the departments of English and Politics made possible an MA degree in American Studies. My father went to Southampton as a Lecturer in 1962, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1970 and Reader in United States History in 1979. He retired in 1985.

He was an active member and Treasurer of the British Association of American Studies.

He described the mid-1960s to 1970s as his most fruitful years. In 1967 my father tutored for a term in US Constitutional History at New College, Oxford, followed by a period at Ann Arbor University in Michigan as a Visiting Professor to instruct postgraduates and senior students in ‘the American Revolution’. That year finished with a fellowship at John Carter Brown Library in Rhode Island. His most important book, New England in the English Nation 1689–1713, in which he examined some of the cohesive forces affecting the relationship between Old and New England, was published by Oxford University Press in 1974. He contributed a chapter on the first two Anglo-French Wars to the Cambridge Modern History.

Much of the next decade was spent gathering material for a study of the War of 1812, an event which he had long wished to investigate. The work exists as a manuscript but was never published. In a piece written for the William and 200

Mary Quarterly Magazine he commented that “historical forces are dominated by heroes, manipulated by the less resourceful. A tragedy for the Anglo-American relationship before 1776 was there were no heroes”.

My father said that research and publication achievements brought more doubts than teaching. He loved being a lecturer and thought that making students laugh helped them to learn.

When he retired he kept in touch with academic life. For him, History had no meaning unless passed on and discussed with another person. He later turned his talent to combine two great passions, History and golf, by writing The History of Willington Golf Club 1898–1998. There was a wonderful balance to my father’s life in retirement, during which he had about 24 active years. He maintained an interest in History and wrote book reviews. He loved gardening and kept an allotment. He also worked for the Citizens’ Advice Bureau. He travelled extensively. He wrote stories and poems and was a keen woodworker. He was a true craftsman. Whether a poet, historian, or story-teller, he researched and developed his ideas and then sculpted his final piece.

Ann-Michele Hinton

DENYS GEOFFREY CROSSLEY SALT (1937) Born in 1918, Denys Salt came up to the Hall from Cheltenham College in 1937 to read French and German for a degree in Medieval and Modern Languages.

In 1939, on the outbreak of World War Two, he, along with most contemporaries, volunteered for the British Army. But the recruiting officer told them all to return to their colleges and continue their studies.

Denys completed his degree course in 1940 and was awarded a Second Class Honours degree. He volunteered again for the Army, was accepted and entered the Special Forces Unit. He served in Egypt, Italy, and Austria. He was awarded the Golden Medal of Honour, the Austrian Government’s highest award for foreigners, for his contribution to that country’s reconstruction after the war.

He was also an active member of the Anglo-Albanian Society.

On demobilisation in 1947, Denys joined the BBC Appointments Department and worked there for 28 years, finally retiring in 1975.

In 1989, Denys married Eva Kiesling of Graz, and during their married life they commuted between London and Graz (finally settling in Graz). Eva died in 2010 and Denys then spent more time in the UK. He took an increasing interest in the family firm, Salts of Saltaire, founded in Yorkshire by his grandfather Sir Titus Salt.

Throughout his life, Denys took a great interest in choral music and when in London sang in the Bach Choir. Later on he developed an interest in Sudoku 201

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in the Welsh team for ‘Round Britain Quiz’ on BBC Radio 4 for several years.

Denys died in Graz on 21 December 2014 and was cremated there. His nephew, Jonathan Salt, and niece, Miranda Mansell, the children of his younger brother Hubert, brought his ashes back to England and they were interred in the family grave in Cheltenham Cemetery on Friday 13 February 2015. His family arranged a memorial service on that day, followed by a large gathering of relations and friends at the Royal Oak Hotel, Cheltenham.

He died unexpectedly in his sleep on 14 January 2015. He is survived by his wife Ann, and his two daughters, two step-daughters, and a total of eight grandchildren.

Patrick De Courcy Meade (1937, Modern Languages)

FREDERICK FRANCIS NICHOLLS (1943) The following obituary has been provided by Fred’s daughter, Sarah Elliott née Nicholls (Somerville 1975–79).

Fred Nicholls matriculated at St Edmund Hall in 1943. He studied a Naval Short Course in English from October 1943 to March 1944, then left for the Navy. He returned to the Hall in 1947 and graduated with his BA in October 1949. Between 1949 and 1950 he completed a Diploma in Education. He loved sharing memories of his time at Oxford. Readers of this Magazine may recall his article, ‘The Hall in The War’, published in the 2012–13 edition.

Fred Nicholls (picture provided by Sarah Elliott)

Born on 20 February 1926, he was brought up near Canterbury with his sister and two brothers. He went to Simon Langton Boys’ School.

His first teaching post took him to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. Here he met his first wife Mary Candy and they married in 1952. They had two daughters, Sarah and Jane. Mary died in 1977 and after a period on his own, he married Ann Singh. He moved to Newport in North Pembrokeshire after early retirement in 1981 from being Head of English at Tasker Milward School.

His experience in the Navy and love of the sea inspired much of his writing. His first novel, The Log of the Sardis, was published in 1962. This was followed in 1967

by The Free Traders, about south-coast smuggling; and in 1973 by a non-fiction book about smugglers – Honest Thieves.

After retirement he had two short fiction books published in 1990. Into the Fire, re-living his experience of wartime Canterbury; and The Lobster Pirates, based in Wales. He then returned to ships and the sea: Master Under God was published in 2004 and its sequel The Dark Ocean and the Light in 2009.

Fred’s broad general knowledge took him to the semi-finals of both ‘Brain of Britain’ and ‘Mastermind’ – he appeared on the first-ever series in 1972. He was 202

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JOHN RINGROSE BATES (1944) The following obituary is based on the eulogy given by John’s younger son Richard at his funeral, provided to the Magazine by courtesy of John’s elder son, Peter Bates.

John Ringrose Bates was born in Hessle on 10 December 1926. His father was a fish merchant at Hull docks and his mother was a schoolteacher (there are now three generations of teachers in the family). John attended the local Sunday School and was in the Crusaders children’s group. He enjoyed singing and his favourite song was “I am H A P P Y”: this became a major theme throughout his 88 years.

John’s first school was Weir Private School; he then passed his examinations to attend Hymers College from 1935–1939. When the Second World War broke out, children began to be evacuated away from areas of Hull that were in danger of being bombed: because his father did not want him to go as far away as other evacuees, to Scotland, John attended Beverley Grammar School (1939–1944).

During the summer holidays he went with some school friends to work on a farm collecting the harvest. He loved it so much that he went back year after year. John was made a prefect; he captained both the football and cricket First Elevens and won the school’s Victor Ludorum prize for best all-round sportsman.

He also joined the army cadets.

John went to St Edmund Hall in 1944 to read Spanish and French. At the Hall he played football, rugby, and cricket. However, he was called up for Army service in May 1945. ‘Victory in Europe’ was secured almost immediately! After training at Catterick he entered the Intelligence Corps and was posted overseas, to Cyprus, Palestine, and Egypt. While in Egypt helping to protect the Suez Canal, John learned how to ride a motorbike: this provided the first taste of the motoring that became such a big enjoyment in his life. On leaving the Army in 1948, John decided – much to his father’s disappointment – that after so many years away from education he did not want to finish his degree at Oxford.

His first job was as a clerical officer with the recently-created NHS. He worked there for two years before joining HM Customs & Excise, where he remained for the rest of his career.

John played for various cricket teams, as a stylish and text-book batsman in the first division of the very strong Yorkshire Leagues. He appeared for Hessle, YPI, Hull, Doncaster, and the Customs & Excise team. He met his future wife, Maureen, a primary school teacher, at the local Wesleyan Hall badminton club.

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and 1959 respectively. Following a move to Doncaster after his marriage, John continued to play cricket and developed a new interest in golf, making many friends at the Wheatley Golf Club.

Promotion in 1975 took John and his family to Newark in Nottinghamshire, where he joined the Newark Golf Club and Collingham Cricket Club (he was the membership secretary for many years). He enjoyed the village lifestyle, along with family holidays in the Mediterranean sun.

John retired in 1986 after carrying his bat for 36 years’ loyal service to HM Customs & Excise and attaining the position of Surveyor. Retirement meant that he and Maureen could spend more time together and get more involved in village life: they joined a Bridge Club and also Collingham Croquet Club (where John became a very active committee member). In addition to following the fortunes of Hull City Football Club and Doncaster Rovers, John joined Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and regularly travelled to Trent Bridge to watch county and international matches.

Maureen’s death in March 1999 opened up the saddest time for John. He never really got over her death and found life a lot more difficult.

A very organised person, John liked his routines. He continued to play golf and croquet and travelled abroad to support his beloved England in Ashes cricket matches. He would also spend many happy hours in his chair watching sport on TV with his cat, Hector, sat on his lap. John was a keen gardener: his pride and joy was his immaculate lawn, and, being a lover of statistics, he chalked up on the garage wall the number of times the grass was cut each year since 1975, including the dates of the first and last cut.

John’s abiding passion after his wife and sport was motoring. He enjoyed driving and loved his cars (which always had to be in immaculate condition, inside and out). He kept a book in his glove box with how much petrol he had put in the car, how much the petrol cost, how many miles he had travelled, and what miles per gallon he had done.

A True Gentleman and Sportsman, a great role model and mentor, John was devoted to and loved Maureen and was the proud grandfather of two granddaughters and two grandsons. He loved his family, he loved to talk, he loved to write, he loved his car, he loved his garden, he loved his sport, and he loved life.

John passed away on 25 February 2015; his funeral took place on 17 March.

daughter Elizabeth and husband Jens, his son Richard and wife Elizabeth, and granddaughter Sophie.

Stan was born on 20 September 1928 and grew up in Anfield, Liverpool. At the age of 12, he was evacuated to Boddlewyddan, North Wales but returned to Liverpool (for educational purposes) just in time for the worst of the 1940 Blitz.

Stan won a scholarship to the Liverpool Institute, a benefit of being a choirboy at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. He gained excellent qualifications that helped him secure a place at St Edmund Hall.

Stan read French and Latin from 1949–1952 and began a life-long love of languages, culture, travel and learning. In 2004, Stan returned to Oxford with his family (including granddaughter Sophie) and visited St Edmund Hall.

Stan taught French for many years and eventually became Deputy Head at Woodchurch High School on the Wirral. When he retired and his daughter Elizabeth moved to America, Stan and Anne spent many happy holidays in the United States where he discovered his love of American history. In later years he enjoyed spending time with Richard and Elizabeth in Chester, quiz nights and travelling.

Stan will be remembered as a caring husband, father, father-in-law, and grandfather. His sense of humour and sharp wit will be missed. He had a great love for his family and friends and enjoyed learning new languages such as Greek and Italian even in his latter years.

Stan was indeed a true Anfield Legend.

Elizabeth Gregor

BRIAN KEITH POULTENEY (1955) Brian Poulteney, born in 1934 near Faversham, Kent, sadly died on 3 May 2015 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. He read Geography at the Hall during 1955–58 after a successful grammar school education and a two-year National Service commission in the RAF. He was a keen student and always enthusiastic to share his views on any geographical subject – particularly the origins of landscapes and weather formations.

Brian was a commanding centre-half for the Hall’s Cuppers-winning football team and also played for the University’s Centaurs. In the summer he played tennis and during the Long Vacations had much pleasure in sailing in the Thames estuary and off the South coast.

Richard Bates

He taught Geography in Brighton and Colchester before returning to the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Faversham where, with him as Head of Geography, his department consistently achieved good results over 27 years.

The following obituary was provided by Stan’s daughter, Elizabeth Gregor née Pierce.

Brian was a talented watercolourist and an accomplished pianist. He followed his father by playing the organ at Ospinge and Eastling parish churches.

STANLEY BERNARD (STAN) PIERCE (1949) Stanley Bernard Pierce passed away on 28 April 2015 after a short illness. He was 86 years old. Stan was preceded in death by his wife, Anne, and is survived by his 204

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He leaves his wife Philippa, two sons Mark and Nicholas, daughter Sarah, and six grandchildren.

R S Hurren (1955, Geography)

JAMES CHARLES (JIM) MARKWICK, FRSA (1956) The following is an abridged version of the obituary by Peter Preston which appeared in The Guardian on 30 April 2015: the material is reproduced by kind permission of Guardian News & Media Ltd as the copyright owner.

Jim Markwick was, almost literally, a lifelong Guardian man. The paper was part of his family history: his father was its mighty chief engineer in Manchester.

He was born in Sutton, which was then in Surrey, on 30 January 1936, before his father, Charles, and mother, Hilda (née Clack), moved north. Jim was brought up in Southport and went to Wrekin College, Shropshire. National Service took him to Germany, and after his studies at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (where he read Jurisprudence, 1956–59), he got a job in London with the paper company Bowater. He married Marg Ann Gemmell in 1960.

Jim first came to editorial notice in the early 60s as the chief of The Guardian’s little New York office, which mainly supervised subscriptions to the Guardian Weekly but also handled the expenses of correspondents there, including Hella Pick, Richard Scott, and a notoriously elusive Alistair Cooke. The great Guardian crisis of 1966 – with the eventual refusal of the paper’s owners to follow Laurence Scott’s wishes and merge the paper with The Times – put a new management team in place. Jim was back from America, initially as company secretary, often tasked with solving special problems: for instance, buying an entire composing room from the second-hand warehouses as fast and as cheaply as possible when The Guardian moved to new headquarters in Farringdon Road. He joined in the long annual pay negotiations with the journalists’ union. He was also an all-purpose, very resourceful Mr Fixit, habitually handed the role – sometimes the hospital pass – of overseeing production and labour relations when some crisis broke.

Perhaps Jim did not always seem chained to the daily rota of newspaper production. Golf and cricket also featured on his agenda: he was a notably speedy bowler. And there was more than a passing interest in politics. Jim was a devoted Conservative –and Margaret Thatcher’s defeated standard-bearer in Salford West in the 1979 general election. He was a free spirit, sometimes becalmed, always cheerfully social, who worked best in bursts, especially when able to exercise his own initiative.

Jim worked as number two to successive managing directors of The Guardian: Gerry Taylor until 1985 and Peter Gibbings until 1988, during the torrent of labour troubles that engulfed Fleet Street just before Rupert Murdoch’s clash with the print unions at Wapping and the development of computerised typesetting.

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Then Jim had his own show, The Guardian show, to run.

He was now continually busy and engaged through years of progress and change.

He devised a whole new way of printing and distributing copies across Europe.

He was always ready to help if synergetic opportunity knocked, becoming chairman of Fourth Estate publishing when Victoria Barnsley’s much-admired independent house had early financial problems. He helped rescue the Mail and Guardian, struggling successor to the Rand Daily Mail, and gave it the kiss of continuing life as the Guardian Weekly’s main distribution arm in South Africa, underpinning its independent, liberal role through the perilous early years after apartheid collapsed – a role that Nelson Mandela saluted. He was a driving force behind The Guardian’s purchase of The Observer in 1993.

Jim, in short, was no managerial conservative. Indeed, his time as managing director coincided with years of expansion, success and profitability for a paper always pushing into new areas and trying new things. He chose to retire in 1997.

Long a keen member of the RAC Club in Pall Mall, Jim was invited to become RAC vice-chairman: he helped to mastermind the sale of the motoring services and steer the remaining two clubs (town and country) into a fresh era. He stayed closely in touch with Guardian progress, quick to praise and to hope for more success.

Tall, slim and full of pinstriped elegance, he seemed a slightly unlikely exponent of Guardian values and traditions. There was nothing stereotypical about him, though. His politics were serious and Eurosceptic, but argued with an open mind and a smile (especially when debating with his beloved Canadian-born wife, a far more natural Guardian reader). He was, he said when we discussed it only a few weeks ago, “a generalist”. He’d done a bit of everything in newspapers and enjoyed it all, including his time with journalists. He dismantled barriers rather than erecting them. He preferred to make friends, not enemies: and, long after this editor and this managing director had moved to do other things, we remained firmly in touch.

Jim died on 28 April 2015. He is survived by Marg Ann, their three children, Steve, Sandy and Lindsay, three granddaughters and four grandsons.

In a letter published by The Guardian on 7 May 2015, Jim’s longstanding friend Roger Alton (newspaper editor and son of the Hall’s celebrated English tutor Reggie Alton) paid tribute to ‘Jim Markwick the sportsman’, recalling affectionately their shared interest in mountaineering and cricket – “Jim was a great life force, with whom it was a privilege to have spent time”. While in residence at the Hall, Jim played squash, athletics, and Eton Fives as well as cricket.

ANDREW WILLIAM JOHN THOMSON, OBE (1956) The following is based on an obituary written by Andrew’s son, Christen Thomson.

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Andrew Thomson, who died aged 78, was a leading figure in post-war British management education and history. He strove tirelessly to improve the quality of British management and was awarded the OBE in 1993 for his efforts.

In later years he noted that while management had become widely studied, comparatively little research had been undertaken into the evolution of the practice and the profession of management. He helped to set up the Management History Research Group with Edward Brech in 1994 to rectify this and was Secretary of it until he retired.

He also became a leading historian of management. His 2001 work Changing Patterns of Management Development, with various co-authors, was considered the definitive overview of the key themes and trends in management development. The Making of Modern Management (2006) with John Wilson was the first book to examine British management in a historical perspective. He also authored biographies of management greats like Lyndall Urwick (2010) and John Bolton, which he finished shortly before his death and which was published posthumously in the summer of 2015.

In his biography of Urwick, Thomson described him as a man of many parts. He would have been too modest to say so, but that was also surely true of him too.

Born in Stockton, the son of a Scottish engineer, he was educated at St Bees School in Cumberland. He served in the Royal Artillery during his National Service, when he famously managed to “lose a golf course” with a fellow officer, John Wakeham, now Baron Wakeham, a former Leader of the House of Lords. He would later also serve as a Lieutenant in the Parachute Regiment in the Territorial Army.

After reading PPE at St Edmund Hall in 1956–59 and doing a Masters in Industrial Relations at Cornell, he worked as a brand manager for Lever Brothers, where he launched the wildly popular fad of free plastic flowers being given away with packets of washing powder. He then made the decision to become an academic, returning to Cornell to do his PhD between 1965 and 1968 at the Industrial and Labor Relations School.

A lifelong believer in social justice, he was very active in the Labour Party in the 1960s and 1970s; he met his first wife, Joan, while canvassing for the party in Hampstead. While working at Glasgow University in the 1970s he became good friends with many of the leading lights of the Scottish Labour Party including Donald Dewar, who would become the inaugural First Minister of the Scottish Parliament after devolution. He also got George Robertson, later Lord Robertson and NATO Secretary-General, to join the Labour Party.

His academic career developed rapidly at Glasgow, with promotions from lecturer to senior lecturer and then reader before being appointed Professor of Business Policy at the recently-formed Department of Management Studies in 1978.

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Chairman of the Industry and Employment Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 1983 to 1985 and Chairman of the Joint Committee of the ESRC and the Science and Engineering Research Council. He also became a founder member of the British Academy of Management in 1987, and then its second Chairman from 1990 to 1993. In a non-academic capacity, he was a Director of the Scottish Transport Group from 1977 until 1984 and a Member of the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board from 1985 until 1999, taking a keen interest in Scottish agricultural and transport issues.

He became the first Dean of the School of Management at The Open University in 1988 and directed a rapid expansion, including the launch of the MBA and a foray into international markets. When the Berlin Wall fell he took the School into Central and Eastern Europe by bartering management education for stocks of Hungarian wine! While at the OU he also published, with his second wife Rosie, one of the definitive works on management education, Managing People (1993). He suffered a personal tragedy when she died of an asthma attack in 1998.

On retiring in 2001 he moved to New Zealand to be with his third wife, Angela.

In his retirement there Andrew put into practice, at a local level, what he believed so passionately about the importance of people helping each other and working together. He devoted himself ceaselessly to the community in the small town of Paihia in the Bay of Islands. He took great pride in his adopted homeland of New Zealand and was delighted when it was declared best country in the world in a new international social progress index. There he was able to find expression for his passionate interest in other people and their welfare and could display the deep kindness and goodness which was the essence of the man.

Andrew died on Boxing Day 2014, having suffered a sudden blood clot in his lungs. He is survived by his two sons Christen and Jack, his wife Angela, and four grandsons.

JOHN RILSTONE HEATH (1960) John Heath died on 16 April 2015. He was 74. Always a proud Cornishman, he was born in Perranporth, where his father had a hardware business. John was educated at Truro School and played rugby for the School and for Cornwall Schoolboys – an excellent pedigree for coming up to the Hall in 1960 to read Physics. He duly played rugby for the Hall, always at tight-head prop, with fellow physicist Bob Hopley or Roger Sparrow at loose head and Derek Morris hooking. He was, of course, a stalwart supporter of the Hilarians, both on the pitch and in the Buttery! John didn’t stand any nonsense from the opposition. In an incident captured by the local press, David Baines (1960) levered himself off John’s shoulder to get more height in a line-out – then illegal, but which John would have condoned had David warned him. However, John thought it was an opposition hand and David had a bruise on his chest from his elbow which 209

lasted for the rest of term! John’s housemates in Iffley Road included Robin Hogg, Captain of Rugby, and John Adey, who rowed in the Hall’s First VIII. It is not surprising then that his loyalties were split and he was seduced into rowing in a serious boat, thus avoiding the perils of the Rugger VIII!! However, his real love was the sea. He was a powerful sea swimmer and surfer, owned boats throughout his life and was a keen diver. He was proud to be a founder member of the Perranporth Surf Life Saving Club and honed his body-boarding skills in the powerful surf along Perranporth Beach.

It was on this beach at the age of 15 that he met Janet. They married soon after graduating, with Roger Sparrow still with John in the ‘front row’ as Best Man. John and Janet moved to Cardiff where he worked firstly for GKN and later as a consultant for AIC. Five years later, and with a growing family, they took a courageous and life-changing decision to return to Cornwall, where John took over the family business. His love of surfing inspired him to research innovations in America and Australia and he saw the opportunities for Cornwall. Gradually the shop transformed into Piran Surf, selling state-of-the-art surfing and skateboard equipment and clothing. He designed and manufactured surf boards, which were successively improved though extensive trials by him and his customers.

Piran Surf became the North Cornwall destination for surfing enthusiasts not only to buy their equipment but to learn from John’s encyclopedic knowledge of the sport. He was truly a pioneer for Cornish surfing and the sport in general, and Perranporth owes much to his vision and hard work.

John gave much time to his local community: as chairman of the Perranporth Garden Trustees, instrumental in setting up the Women’s Refuge in Truro and, later, accompanying blind and partially-sighted people on sailing expeditions, in particular to Truro School. He was Chairman of Governors for ten years and he made certain that all the staff were valued for their contribution, whether they were gardeners, cleaners, or senior members of the teaching staff. He had a gift for communicating with and extending his hand of friendship to many – and his support for young people was legendary. As a Hall contemporary commented: “I remember him as one of those who made Teddy Hall a warm and welcoming place.” His family was at the centre of his life. He loved Janet, their three sons and eight grandchildren dearly and was immensely proud of their achievements.

They were great hosts, and friends were always warmly welcomed at their home.

The high regard in which John was held was reflected at his memorial service in St Piran’s Church, Perranzabuloe, which was full to overflowing with family and friends. The Hall was represented by Roger Sparrow, John Adey, Francis Pocock and their wives. They, like so many others, felt that they had lost a real friend.

Roger Sparrow (1960, Geography)

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JOHN ANDREW HALL (1962) The following obituary was provided by John’s nephew, Mark J Hall (1981, Geography), in association with John’s contemporaries Tony Hawkes (1962, History) and Mike Simmie (1963, Geography).

John died from cancer in the Michael Sobell Hospice in Oxford on 30 May 2015 at the age of 72. He read English at the Hall 1962–65 under the tutelage of the set of brilliant English tutors of that time, Graham Midgley, Bruce Mitchell, and Reggie Alton. He particularly studied Thomas Hardy, and perhaps little else. At that time, English scholars not only did three years of Anglo-Saxon but were examined in Latin in Prelims. John found that he could keep a crib in the fold of his gown during tutorials (which worked well until he turned over two pages at once).

How John got into the Hall is a mystery, but Principal John Kelly’s instinct to admit him was proved right: inter alia, he made friends across the board with his camaraderie and ready chuckle. John’s brother Ron preceded him at the Hall, and John was followed by his nephew Mark.

John spent much time playing for the Hall in various sports, apparently without ever breaking sweat. He played for both the Cuppers XI and for the Choughs; he played centre-half in the Cuppers-winning teams in 1964 and 1965, and was Secretary for the 1964–65 season. He was particularly adept at attempting – and often succeeding – to influence the referee. Impeccably dressed on the pitch, mud rarely dared to besmirch his well-tailored shorts. He was a member of the notso-successful College tennis team. And, very proudly, as a rowing novice, he won his oar in the Third Torpid in 1964. He was an all-rounder very typical of the Hall undergraduates of the day, although he never graced the Iffley Road athletics track.

None of his contemporaries could match his good looks and elegance.

John maintained contact with the Hall over the years, and attended many reunions, keeping alive friendships he had so easily made during his undergraduate years – a true Hall man.

Mark J Hall

PETER JOHN RIDGLEY MASSON (1967) The following tribute was provided on behalf of Peter’s family by his sister-in-law, Jane Masson.

Peter Masson, the oldest son of Joyce and David, was born in October 1948 after his parents’ return from Singapore where they had been stationed after the war. They set up residence in Chislehurst and in short order a second son, Tim, arrived, followed a while later by Judith.

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pupils so that he sat his O-Levels at 14 years and his A-Levels at 16. A more enlightened age would recognise this as detrimental to acquiring some necessary social skills: and indeed Oxford did recommend that he delay his entrance in order to mature.

He matriculated in 1967 to study Chemistry at St Edmund Hall. Whilst there, he resided at Pusey House. He maintained a lifelong association with these institutions. After graduation he found employment in teaching Chemistry, but he was temperamentally unsuited to this vocation and from this time devoted his life to public service in various forms.

Peter left his entire estate to be divided between those charities that meant so much to him. His family knew very little of his life and have found it a privilege to witness the high regard in which he was held by so many.

There have been many personal acknowledgements of Peter, including this (a favourite of the family’s) from the Ven. Simon Burton-Jones: “I will always remember Peter with gratitude. He was a deeply faithful, wise, and insightful Christian with a love of the Church of England in all its oddities. As a treasurer, his painstaking attention to detail bore fruit and was allied to a sense of vision which ensured his observations were infused with the necessary perspective.

Peter was an expert at compartmentalising his life. How many of his acquaintances knew that his hobby, bordering on an obsession, was railway timetables? In his early years he shone at chess, playing junior tournaments for Kent. His skill at tabulating numbers was employed as scorer for the West Kent Cricket Club. In fact his gift for numbers, entabulature, encyclopaedic knowledge of rules, laws, practices, and codes made him very popular with a vast number of organisations, for whom a totally reliable and dedicated Treasurer is always welcomed. There are indeed too many charities to list which have benefited from his expertise.

“I first worked with him in the Deanery Synod, when we still attended separate churches, and it was here I learned of his panoramic grasp of the laws and customs of the Anglican Church: a forensic enthusiasm which made me think of him as the John Motson of the Church of England. This attention to detail was to save me on several occasions and I still wish I had him by my side every day.

Over the last years his life fell into two distinct parts. In 1977 he moved to New Ash Green and there his service to the local community encompassed variously the chairmanship of the Village Association, the Residents’ Association, and the Council of Management. He was heavily involved in the setting-up of the Youth Centre, was the Health Walk Leader, and as a member of the Parish Council was the expert on finance, planning, all things ‘legal’, and the unpopular task of drafting the much-dreaded codes of practice. He was the person who answered all queries, he absorbed the facts, applied his intellect and accepted responsibility.

Peter was never a bold person but he was tenacious and brave right up to the end. These words, spoken at his funeral, capture him for us: “A lovely humble Christian man and we are the beneficiaries of his presence among us.”

Peter’s ‘other life’ was centred on the Anglican Church, specifically St Nicholas’ in Chislehurst which he and his family had attended since childhood. This remained his spiritual home and he worshipped there all his life. Every Sunday his quiet presence in the church was witnessed and he took on responsibilities in the Parochial Church Council (as its Treasurer) and in the Bromley Deanery and the Diocese of Rochester (where he became a valued member of the Bishop’s Council).

Tribute was paid to his perceptiveness and original thought: but it was noted that whilst various committees would miss his qualities, the meetings would be shorter!

Peter was a conscientious godparent, uncle, and great-uncle. He undertook the care of his mother and father as their health failed, care for which his family will always be grateful.

He had always lived frugally, giving generously and never spending on himself.

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“I remain thankful I knew him; his kindness and gentle manner made its subtle but lasting mark.”

Jane Masson

FRANK KENDALL PERKINS, JR (1968) The following obituary is based on material provided by Frank’s brother, Charles A Perkins.

Frank passed away on 15 October 2014 after a long illness. The eldest son of Frank K Perkins (noted Boston Herald & Traveler’s Bridge Expert) and B’deau Perkins, he was born on 1 December 1926 and was raised in Newton Corner (where he lived for over 70 years).

Frank Jr graduated from Newton High School in 1945. He enlisted in the US Navy and was stationed on the USS Pasadena in the Pacific. After his discharge he attended Boston University General College, then Harvard University from where he graduated with a BA in 1951; this was followed by a Master’s (Education) degree in 1952. Having obtained a Master’s in English at Boston College, he later went to St Edmund Hall in 1968 to take a PCGE and also spent a year at Cambridge University. He was always proud that he was able to attend some of the finest universities in the world.

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years. When the USMA was relocated to Virginia, he returned to Newton and began a long career at Quincey College, where he was the head of the English Department. He retired in the late 1990s as a Professor Emeritus.

After his retirement, Frank Jr lived at the River Bay Club in Quincy for about ten years, and for the last two years of his life at Renaissance Gardens.

He leaves a brother, Charles A Perkins, and sister, Anne Gangi, together with many nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews. A Memorial Trust in Frank Jr’s name has been set up at Quincy College.

ANTHONY JOHN PETER (TONY) HESLOP (1976) Tony Heslop died at home in Crosby, Merseyside, on 13 January 2015, aged 57. He was interred in a cemetery near his home on 23 January.

Tony joined Teddy Hall in 1976 to read French and Spanish. French was under the tutorship of Dr Richard Fargher. After graduating, Tony went Tony Heslop, far right of the picture into secondary-school teaching as (photo provided by Anthony McCarthy) a teacher of Modern Languages. He taught in Roman Catholic schools on Merseyside, some of which were quite challenging. That challenge was part of his religious faith. He went on to teach adults on community projects and in evening classes.

Apart from teaching, Tony was a great supporter of English Premier League side Everton FC. He was on various committees: the Shareholders’ Committee; Charity committees; the ‘Ruleteros’ Committee. The latter was a liaison committee between fans in England and Chile (Tony of course spoke fluent Spanish). The above photograph shows the flag of Chile in the background.

The funeral was staggering: the Church was packed to the rafters. That is a measure of how many people Tony knew and befriended. Two Everton players took time off to attend. The coffin was draped in an Everton-Chile type flag.

parents, Brian and Jean, and younger siblings, Louise and Michael, all of whom survive her.

Helen matriculated in 1984 to read PPE. She looked back on her time at the Hall with great fondness. She made lifelong friendships and took full advantage of the cultural opportunities on offer, cultivating an enduring interest in, and appreciation of, art and art history. She loved PPE, with tutorials on Plato with Justin Gosling standing out as a particular highlight. Always highly organised, she was a key member of the Hall Ball committee. She was part of an intrepid philosophy reading-party organised by Kathy Wilkes and Roger Scruton in Poland in 1986, when Poland was still ‘behind the Iron Curtain’. Empathetic and compassionate, it was also during her time at the Hall that Helen became involved with NightLine, giving up her time to counsel and support distressed and vulnerable students.

On leaving Oxford, Helen studied for an MA in Art History in London and then completed a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW) at Kent University. She would later collect a further Master’s degree in Criminal Justice Management from Birmingham University.

Helen was a woman with very strong principles and a belief in public service.

She started her career as a social worker in Dartford in 1992 before deciding to become a Probation Officer, with early postings to Cookham Wood Prison and Maidstone Crown Court. She moved to Hastings and was quickly promoted to Senior Probation Officer. She became an Assistant Chief Officer in 2003 and was seconded to the National Probation Directorate in London in 2005. After a short senior role in Bedfordshire, she was appointed as the interim Chief Executive of Kent Probation in 2010, and then as the Chief Executive of the Leicestershire & Rutland Probation Trust in 2011.

Helen married Tarquin (1983, Maths) in 1991. They moved to India for a year, living at a school in Dehra Dun in what was then Uttar Pradesh, and subsequently travelling across the country, before flying round the world on their way home.

Helen came to love travelling and further extensive trips would ensue for the rest of her life.

Anthony McCarthy (1975, Modern Languages)

Helen and Tarquin separated in 2002. She married Ben Emm in 2003. Their son Reuben was sadly stillborn later that year and Helen was then diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer in 2004. After two major operations and a gruelling regimen of chemotherapy, stoically borne, she returned to full health a year later and resumed her career with great gusto.

Helen Susan West was born in Redhill, Surrey on 21 October 1965, but spent the early years of her life in Sydney, Australia. She grew up in a loving family with

Throughout her life, Helen derived much pleasure from spending time with her family, visiting friends up and down the country, continuing to take brilliant holidays, and collecting ceramics. She also adored being an aunt to her three nieces and two nephews. She was a committed vegetarian and supported many

Tony has left behind a wife, Angela, whom he married 32 years ago, and actually met 40 years ago.

Wherever he is, I am sure he is cheering on Everton and wishing us all happy lives.

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charities and social justice causes.

In April 2013, Helen was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer and given just a few months to live. With the love and support of Ben, she focused all her strength on defining what quality of life was going to mean to her. And over the next amazing sixteen months she saw more of Ben, her friends and family than she had ever done before. She made it to two family holidays in Scotland, and she and Ben enjoyed many nights away across the UK. Helen lived her last months in the way that she had lived the rest of her life – remaining true to her principles, with spirit, with insight into herself and others, openness, and a sense of humour. It was one of the happiest – and saddest – times of her life.

Helen eventually died peacefully at the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth Garden City on 4 August 2014, surrounded by Ben and her immediate family.

They, and we, miss her deeply and will love her always.

Ruth McQuillan (1984, PPE), Mark Hazelwood (1984, PPE), Alison McCormick (1984, Law)

Carols in the Quad, Michaelmas Term 2014

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