St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1997-1998

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ST HUGH'S COLLEGE

CHRONICLE 1997-98 Number 71

Chronicle Addresses

Editor

Mrs Joan Swindells Oak House, Frilford Heath, Abingdon, OX13 5QG Tel/Fax: 01865 390897 E-mail: jswindells@patrol.i-way.co.uk

Assistant Editor (College)

Dr Carolyn Price St Hugh's College Oxford, OX2 6LE Tel: 01865 274937 E-mail: carolyn.price@st-hughs.oxford.ac.uk

Development Manager

Ms Kathleen Miles Development Office St Hugh's College Oxford OX2 6LE Tel: 01865 274958 Fax: 01865 274912 E-mail: development.office@st-hughs.oxford.ac.uk

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Contents The College Foundress, Benefactors 1 2 Visitor, Principal and Fellows Honorary Fellows, Emeritus Fellows 5 Lecturers, Chaplain, Librarian, Research Fellows Administrative and Domestic Staff 6 7 The Principal's Report 1997-98 Record Appointments, Awards and Prizes 13 Degrees Awarded 17 Examinations Final Honours 19 22 Honour Moderations Preliminary Examinations 23 Bachelor of Medicine 24 Post-Graduate Certificate of Education 24 Higher Degrees 25 New Students Graduates 27 Matriculation 29 In Memoriam, St Hugh's Honorary and Emeritus Fellows Dame Mary Cartwright 34 Miss Theodora Cooper 36 Professor Yakov Malkiel 37 Viscount Tonypandy 37 New Honorary Fellow 39 Betty Boothroyd Senior Common Room 41 New Fellows, self-introduction 44 `From Zion Shall Go Forth the Law' Joshua Getzler 'Fresher's Fare' Jerry Gilpin, Chaplain 47 St Hugh's College Archive—Deborah Quare, Librarian 49 Middle Common Room MCR President's report 52 Junior Common Room JCR President's report 54 Sports Report 56 Boat Club 57 Chemistry Society 57 International Forum 58 Katharine Lawrence Society 58 Law Society 59 Modern Languages Society 60 `Life as an Overseas Student in Oxford' Georg Caspary 61 Medical Society 62

The Association of Senior Members The Committee June 1998 Annual Meeting 1998 The ASM President's Report Annual Meeting 1999, Notice Gaudy Dinner A Brief Outline of the ASM Gaudy 1998 A Life in the Media Colloquium 1999 London Informal Dinner, 1999 The Dearing Experience—Ann Kettle ASM Members' News Publications Personal news and appointments Marriages Births Obituaries In Memoriam Nik Birch Reynardson Alison Northover Betsy Rodgers Margaret Rose Patricia Thomson Sarah Wadham St Margaret's House ASM Charitable Trust ASM Network 1998-99 Diary of Events Accommodation in College Development Office St Hugh's College Donors Tinted Section Contents Form to Attend London Informal Dinner ASM Annual Meeting 1999 Forms for News of Senior Members Forms for Giving to ASM Charitable Trust Senior Members Addresses, Addresses Wanted

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St Hugh's College Foundress Elizabeth Wordsworth

Benefactors Marjorie Anderson Bellamy Mary Towerton Dorothea Helen Forbes Gray Mary Alice McNeil Mary Kershaw Margery B Maplethorpe Irene Margaret Sims Dorothy Elizabeth Ackroyd Peter J Placito Joan Silverhow Lumsden Gladys Mary Thomas Frances Winifred Hare Anna Mary Hedley Dorothy Ethel Uglow Pope Phyllis Mary Carlyon Evans Joyce Mary Hawkins Kathleen Mary Evans Joyceline Gledhill Russell Nancy Hobson Hilda Mary Taylor Mary Doreen Lobel Emily Mary Frisby Eva Maria Dresel Evelyn Maud Dunn Marjorie Mary Sweeeting Helen Cecilia Thomson B V Hanss Esther Chawner Elizabeth MacLean C H Wong Eunice Turner

Clara Evelyn Mordan Edward Gay Eliza Mary Thomas Charles Selwyn Awdry Philip Maurice Deneke Mary Gray Allen John Gamble Mary Monica Cunliffe Wills Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco Catherine Yates Elsie Theodora Bazeley Ernest Cassel Hilda Mary Virtue-Tebbs Isabel Stewart Tod Aspin Lottie Rhona Arbuthnot-Lane Cecilia Mary Ady Catherine Fulford William, Viscount Nuffield Dorothy May Lyddon Rippon Marjorie Fowle Theodora Marion Elizabeth Evans Edith Marion Watson Kathleen Emily Babbs Mary Ethel Seaton Annie Hadfield Joan Evans Christine Mary Snow Vivien Brynhild Caroline Foley RhysDavids Olga Delfina Bicldey Dorothy L'Estrange

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Visitor The Right Hon Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC Principal Derek Alexander Wood, QC, CBE, BCL, MA Fellows Avril Gilchrist Bruten, MA (BA Birm; PhD Cantab), Tutor in English Language and Medieval Literature, University Lecturer

Mary Lunn, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Mathematics, University Lecturer, Fellow for Senior Member Relations

Jennifer Clare Green, MA, DPhil, Reader in Chemistry, EPA Cephalosporin Fellow, Tutor in Chemistry

Laetitia Parvin Erna Edwards, MA (MA Cantab; PhD Lond), Dorothea Gray Fellow, Tutor in Classics, University Lecturer, Vice-Principal

Glenys Lilian Luke, MA, DPhil (BA Western Australia), Ida Busbridge Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, University Lecturer

John Frederick Morris, MA (BSc, MB ChB, MD Bristol), Professor of Human Anatomy, Wellcome-Franks Medical Fellow, Tutor in Medicine Henry Colin Gray Matthew, MA, DPhil, FBA, Professorial Fellow, Ad Hominem Professor Margaret Miriam Esiri, MA, DM, MRC Path, Professorial Fellow, Clinical Reader in Neuropathology, Professor of Neuropathology Barbara Anne Kennedy, MA (MA British Columbia; PhD Cantab), Tutor in Geography, University Lecturer, Senior Tutor John Frederick Iles, MA, DPhil, Mary Snow Fellow, Tutor in Zoology, University Lecturer, Custos Hortulorum, Vice-Principal (Development) David Bruce Robertson, MA (PhD Essex), Tutor in Politics, University Lecturer Ian Honeyman, MA (MA Aberdeen), Senior Bursar Philip Allan Charles, MA (BSc, PhD Lond), Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics John Charles Robertson, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Modern History, University Lecturer Ian Zem Mackenzie, MA, DSc (MD Bristol), FRCOG, Professorial Fellow, Clinical Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Lecturer Julian Anthony Jonathan Raby, MA, DPhil, Additional Fellow in Islamic Art and Architecture, University Lecturer Anthony Watts, DSc, MA (BSc, PhD Leeds), Cyril W Maplethorpe Fellow, Professor of Biochemistry, Tutor in Biochemistry Isabel Rivers, MA (MA Cantab; MA, PhD Columbia), Reader in English Language and Literature, Rank Fellow, Tutor in English Literature, University Lecturer Michael Blair Holland, MA, DPhil, Tutor in French, Curator of Pictures, University Lecturer Mary Clapinson, MA, Professorial Fellow, Keeper of Western Manuscripts,

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Bodleian Library

Adrian Llewellyn Harris, DPhil (MB, ChB Liv), FRCP, Professorial Fellow in Clinical Oncology

Adrian William Moore, MA, BPhil, DPhil (MA Cantab), Tutor in Philosophy, University Lecturer

William Rodney Eatock Taylor, MA (MA Cantab; MS, PhD Stanford), FEng, Professorial Fellow in Mechanical Engineering

George Stephen Garnett, MA (PhD Cantab), Tutor in History, University Lecturer, Tutorfor Admissions

Thomas Mark Kuhn, MA, DPhil, Cassel Fellow, Tutor in German, University Lecturer, Library Fellow

John Timothy Chalker, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Physics, University Lecturer, Tutorfor Graduates

Kim Plunkett, MA (BSc Lond; MSc, DPhil Sussex), Tutor in Experimental Psychology, University Lecturer, Dean

Michael B Giles, MA (MA Cantab; PhD Mass), Rolls-Royce Tutor in Computational Fluid Dynamics, University Reader

Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, MA (BSc Madras, PhD, Lond), Senior Research Fellow

Joshua Simon Getzler, MA, DPhil (BA, BL Australian National University), Tutor in Law, University Lecturer Carolyn Susan Price, MA, BPhil, DPhil, Tutor in Philosophy Roger Parker, MA (BMus, MMus, PhD Lond), Tutor in Music, Reader in Music

Luet Lok Wong, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry, University Lecturer Steven Arthur Hill, MA (MA Cantab, PhD Edin), Additional Fellow in Plant Sciences, University Lecturer

Giuseppe Antonio Stellardi, MA (Dott Fil, DipPerFil, Pavia; DEA, Dr Univ Sorbonne), Bickley and Martinengo Cesaresco Fellow, Tutor in Italian, University Lecturer

Mark David Lacy, Tutor in Physics (Astrophysics), University Lecturer, Assistant Dean

Peter John Mitchell, DPhil, MA (MA Cantab), Rhys-David Fellow, Tutor in Archaeology, University Lecturer

Professor Robert Keith O'Nions, MA (BSc Nott, PhD Alberta, MA Cantab), FRS, Professorial Fellow in Physics and Chemistry of Materials Helena Jane Efstathiou, MA (PhD Durham), Tutor in Engineering, University Lecturer, Tutorfor Women, IT Fellow

Lionel D Smith, D, MA, DPhil, (BSc, Toronto, L LB Western Ontario, L LM Cantab), Ann Smart Fellow and Tutor in Law, University Lecturer Peter McDonald, MA DPhil (BA MA, Rhodes), Tutor in English, University Lecturer

John Kim-Ho Quah, MA (BSc, Singapore, PhD, Berkeley), Tutor in Economics, University Lecturer

Andrzej Jan Olechnowicz, MA DPhil, Tutor in Modern History, University 3

Lecturer

Shelagh Vainker, MA (BA London), Additional Fellow and Lecturer in Oriental Studies

Richard Brent, (BSc, DSc, Monash; MS, PhD Stanford), Professorial Fellow in Computing Science and University Lecturer

David Walker, MSc, DPhil, (BSc Glasgow), Fellow and Tutor in Computation, University Lecturer

Honorary Fellows Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, DBE, MA, DPhil, DSc (Hon), DLitt (MA, DSc (Hon) Cantab; LLD(Hon) Edin; DSc (Hon) Leeds, Hull and Wales), FRS, Commander of the Order of the Danneborg The Baroness Castle of Blackburn, DBE, PC, BA The Hon Mrs Miriam Lane, CBE, DSc (Hon), FRS Professor Joan Mervyn Hussey, BLitt, MA (MA Cantab; PhD Lond), FSA, FRHS Professor Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, MA, DPhil Dame Helen Suzman, DBE (Hon), DCL(Hon), (BCom Witwatersrand) Margaret Beryl Chitty, CMG, MA The Baroness Warnock of Weeke in the City of Winchester, DBE, BPhil, MA Jean Ann Monk, MA David Alec George Monk, MA Mme Elisabeth Soderstrom-Olow Marilyn Speers Butler, MA, DPhil Tessa Audrey Hilda Solesby, CMG, MA Marjorie Ethel Reeves, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA Yakov Malkiel, DLitt (Hon) (PhD Humboldt Univ; LHD (Hon) Chicago; LLD(Hon) Illinois) Aung San Suu Kyi, MA, DCL (Hon) Her Honour Judge Monique Viner, QC, CBE, MA Mabel Rachel Trickett, MA Sir Quo-Wei Lee, CBE Jane Alison Glover, MA, DPhil (DLitt (Hon) Exeter) Professor Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, DBE, DPhil, (DLitt (Hon) Tasmania, LLD (Hon) Melbourne, LLD (Hon) Australian National University) FACE, FAHA Bridget Louise Riley, CBE, Hon DLitt (DLitt (Hon) Manchester, Ulster, and Cantab) James Desmond Caldwell McConnell, MA (BSc, MSc Belfast, PhD Cantab) FRS Rebecca Posner, MA, DPhil The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd, PC, DCL (Oxon) 4

Emeritus Fellows Betty Kemp, MA (BA Manc), FSA, FRHistS Madge Gertrude Adam, MA, DPhil, FRAS Pamela Olive Elizabeth Gradon, MA (PhD Lond) Vera Joyce Daniel, MA (BA, PhD Lond) Susan Meriel Wood, BLitt, MA, FRHistS Margaret Jacobs, BLitt, MA, Dean of Degrees Theodora Constance Cooper, MA (MA Cantab) Elizabeth Ann Smart, BCL, MA John Craven Wilkinson, MA, DPhil, DLitt Lecturers Dorothy Ann Wordsworth, BPhil, MA, Lecturer in English Literature Edith Michele Franck McMorran, BLitt (Licence es Lettres, Diplome D'Etudes Superieures, Universite de Paris, Sorbonne), Lecturer in French Simon Rowland Francis Price, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Ancient History Derek Charles Goldrei, MA, Lecturer in Mathematics Edward Hector Burn, BCL, MA, Lecturer in Law Robin W Fiddian (MA, PhD Edin), Lecturer in Spanish Jennifer Kemp, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Biological Sciences Matthew Owen Townend, DPhil, Lecturer in English, Junior Dean Peta Ginette Fowler, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Classics Jaideep Jagdeesh Pandit, MA, BM, BCh, DPhil, Lecturer in Medicine and Physiology, FRCA

Elizabeth Baigent, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Geography Martin T S Holmes, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Politics David J Waters, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Earth Sciences Marcus John Banks (BA, PhD Cantab), Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology

James Robert Ryan (BA Exe, PhD Lond), Lecturer in Geography Alexander P Ljungqvist, MPhil, (MSc Lund), Lecturer in Management Louise E Bird, MA, DPhil, Lecturer in Biochemistry Sharon Curtis, BA, Lecturer in Computation Christina Pope, BA, Lecturer in Spanish Francis John Dolben Pott, MA (BMus, MMus, PhD Lond), Lecturer in Music

Professor Keith Alan McLauchlan, MA (BSc PhD Bristol), Lecturer in Chemistry

Christopher Joseph Schofield, MA DPhil (BSc Manc), Lecturer in Chemistry Jonathan Patrick Whiteley, BA, Lecturer in Mathematics Jordan Christopher Bell, BA BPhil, Lecturer in Philosophy John P Cooper, MA (MA Penn), Lecturer in History John Charles Smith, MA, Lecturer in French Linguistics Suzanne Elizabeth Aspden, MSt (BA, MMus Victoria NZ), Lecturer in Music

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Chaplain Revd Jerry Gilpin Librarian

Deborah Christine Quare (BA, MLitt, Bristol), ALA British Academy Research Fellow

Matthew Townend (BA, DPhil) Lady Wolfson Research Fellow in Engineering

Simukai Utete, MSc (BSc Zimbabwe) Randall Maclver Junior Research Fellow in Archaeology

Anna Holland (BA) Elizabeth Wordsworth Junior Research Fellow

Robert D Goulding (BSc, MA, Canterbury NZ, MA, London) Mary Lunt Junior Research Fellow

Mark Herbert (BSc, MB ChB Bristol MRCP London) Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry

Richard Callaghan (BSc, DPhil Melbourne) Junior Research Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry

Simon James Clarke BA, DPhil Junior Research Fellow in History of the Theatre

David Gowen, MSt (BA Toronto, MFA Calgary) College Staff

College Secretary Admissions Secretary Assistant to the College Secretary Principal's Secretary Tutor's Secretary Development Director Development Manager Development Assistant Finance Officer Assistant Finance Officer Finance Assistant Computing Officer Secretary to the Senior Bursar and to the Dean of Degrees Domestic Administrator Domestic Bursar Head Chef Buildings and Services Manager

Maureen Hamilton Rosslyn Carlisle Ruth Saxton Deborah Gibbs Ria Audley-Miller Stephen Humble Kathleen Miles Trish Carter Neil Beckley Ian Hayes Dot Grafton Martin Hoare Pat Toms Brian Goodfellow Nicky Watson Tony Lyford Ted Barrett 6

Groundsman Assistant Domestic Bursar Dining Hall Superviser SCR Steward Head Porter Secretary to the Domestic Administrator Housekeeper

John Brooke Rebecca Holt Pat Spring Gill Kiefer Martin Wilks Janet Souch Mari Webb

Principal's Report 1997-98 In my Report last year I said that the future health of the Oxford Colleges would depend upon decisions made by the Government in the light of the then recently-published Report of the Dearing Committee, and the University's response to the not-yet published work of the North Commission. In some ways we are more clear and in other ways no more clear than we were a year ago.

The main preoccupation both at Oxford and Cambridge during the last twelve months has been the Government's proposal to remove the ability of Colleges to charge separate fees for tuition, and leave the Colleges dependent for a significant amount of their income on their own resources, whatever inter-collegiate arrangements could be made between the relatively well-off and the relatively less well-off Colleges for cross-subsidisation, and a rear allocation of central resources from the University. A year of intense lobbying and debate ensued. I explained the issues involved in the Newsletter sent to Senior Members in April. What we have achieved is a recognition by Government that Oxford and Cambridge are universities with world-wide reputations which are worth fighting for and deserve special treatment. The College fee will go, and in partial compensation for that the Government will significantly increase the block grant which it makes to the University centrally. But the extra payment will diminish over time, and it will never match what we are losing. But the amount and the timing remain up in the air, and we will have to agree among ourselves over how the central cheque will be distributed among institutions which so far have been self-governing, independent and not locked in negotiation with a central Treasury. It is beyond any doubt that there will be a significant reduction in St Hugh's annual income at the end of the day.

After a long period of gestation the Report of the North Commission was published during the academic year. It recommended sweeping changes in the central administration of the University and the organisation of the Faculties, more executive power for the Vice-Chancellor and four newly created Deputy Vice-Chancellors, one central governing Council and reorganisation of the terms on which senior academic staff are employed both as Lecturers by the University and as College Fellows. Many of the reforms are to be 7

welcomed, but here too one can detect a strong drift towards greater dependence of the Colleges on the central University. We have debated these proposals in some detail at St Hugh's, and do not wish to block reform. But much of the strength and character of the University comes from the diverse and complex lives of the different Colleges and we do not wish to see that steam rollered away.

In the face of all this we have firmly decided to proceed with the implementation of our Master Plan for the College site, which received the blessing of the Royal Fine Arts Commission and planning permission from the City Council at the beginning of 1998. The funding for Phase I has been worked out, and we should start work on site in September. It will take us a year to produce 96 new study-bedrooms and a suite of seminar and conference rooms on the ground floor. The new West garden between this building and the Woodstock Road houses will be laid out at the same time. The College wishes particularly to thank Ilse Kagan for a most generous gift of $30,000 US and other American friends and supporters for generously enabling us to create this new open space. This part of the scheme also includes the creation of a new main entrance to the College from Canterbury Road which will lead right up to the southern end of the new building. Phase II will be the creation of a 250-seat lecture theatre, more student rooms and sports facilities. Major benefactions are being sought to support this part of the work and the general improvement of the fronts of the houses and gardens around the edge of the site. The Plan itself and the decision to proceed with it are based upon a combination of different considerations: student welfare (which is paramount), a business need to maximise our income from other sources in the face of the College fee difficulties, and general agreement that our beautiful grounds and their security can be further enhanced and improved in the context of well-designed new development.

It is sad to report the death of Theo Cooper during the year. Theo had served St Hugh's as Economic Tutor since 1963. She made a distinguished contribution to public economics and worked for a period as economic adviser in Downing Street during the 1960s. She had the distinction of being the first woman Proctor, and the insight which she gained into the running of the University during her year of office equipped her to give constant valuable advice to our Governing Body. She was assiduous in her attention to College business and devoted to St Hugh's, and was Vice-Principal from 1992 to 1995.

She led an extraordinarily varied life and is warmly remembered by numerous ex-pupils. We shall be celebrating that life at her Memorial Service in St Margaret's Church on Saturday 24 October next. Any Senior Member who wishes to attend the Service, but has not yet received details from us, should contact the College Office.

As usual, we have managed to hold a number of good parties during the year. The Speaker of the House of Commons, Miss Betty Boothroyd, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship, and she generously allowed us to mark that event by making her state rooms available in her official apartment on 9 June. The party was attended by our Visitor, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, many 8

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Phase One

Phase Two

Honorary Fellows and Senior Members who play a prominent role in politics and public life. Madam Speaker's election reinforces the College's links with politics, already firmly established through the medium of Barbara Castle, Aung San Suu Kyi, the previous Speaker George Thomas (also an Honorary Fellow), three serving MPs, one serving MEP and members of the Upper House. Earlier in the year the Development Director and I had attended the Oxford North American reunion in New York. With St Anne's we had a wonderful evening party; Senior Members coming from Jamaica and Canada as well as the east coast of the States. Within College, the biennial Bickley Lecture was this year delivered by Professor Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, whose lecture on 'Cycle of frescoes by Lorenzetti in Siena known as the Buon Governo' produced an extremely lively evening.

We have of course maintained our series of Saturday reunions for Senior Members, entertaining those who matriculated between years 1973 & 1976 and between 1968 & 1972. The College's social life ended with an excellent Gaudy in June. The speech after dinner was given by Mrs Edith Morgan, who gave a vivid account of her life as an undergraduate in 1946 to 4-9 and the impact which her education at St Hugh's has had on her subsequent career.

This speech was a faultless description of the College's aims and objectives.

This year we welcomed three new Fellows: Dr David Walker as Fellow in Computation, Professor Robert Brent as Professorial Fellow in Computing Science, and Miss Anna Holland as Randall Maclver Junior Research Fellow.

At the same time a large number of our colleagues have accepted promotions and resigned at the end of the year, leading to a long series of mini-speeches at

Edna Healey (Edmunds), R, with her husband at the gathering hosted by the Speaker in her State Apartments at the Palace of Westminster

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their farewell dinner in Hall: Dr Olechnowizc (Fellow in History), Dr Efstathiou (Fellow in Engineering), Dr Simukai Utete (JRF in Engineering), Dr Sharon Curtis (Lecturer in Computation) and Mr John Cooper (Lecturer in History).

The other retirement which I would like especially to mention is that of Mrs Anne Wordsworth, who has been a College Lecturer in English since 1974.

She has introduced the modern authors to no less than twenty-three generations of St Hugh's undergraduates, powerful ideas lurking behind her quiet tutorial manner. It was typical of Anne that she should insist upon a tea party rather than a dinner to mark her departure. She had deservedly received the warmest thanks from her colleagues and many former pupils for the special contribution which she has made to the academic life of the College.

Two of our Honorary Fellows, Barbara Castle and Aung San Suu Kyi, have received Honorary Doctorates from Cambridge University. Dr Giles and Dr Parker were promoted to Professorships by the University, and Dr Plunkett to a Readership. Antonia Simeonova, a graduate student in Economics, was Proxime to the George Webb Medley Prize.

The College's instrumental prize for first year musicians produced another first this year: Alasdair Trotter proved to be a remarkably serious performer on the Scottish Bagpipes. We had hoped that he would give his prize-winning concert in Trinity Term in the College Garden, especially as he intended to recruit two additional bagpipers plus a drummer to enhance his performance.

Bad weather drove us into the Mordan Hall, where the performance was a tumultuous success. We hope that better weather will attend the remainder of Alasdair's four-year Physics course.

In the Final Honours Schools the College scored 12 Firsts, 66 Upper Seconds, 26 Lower Seconds, 1 Third and 1 Pass. This represents a slight down-turn on last year's performance. Firsts were gained by Ben Sareen (Modern Languages and Philosophy), Nick Percy (PPE) and Guy Ladenburg (English). John Moriarty, Mark Colman, Pauline Curnow and Aneirin Glyn all achieved Firsts in Mathematics. Luiz Costa, who gained a First in Archaeology and Anthropology, was awarded the Meyerstein Prize. Benjamin Parker, who achieved a First in Jurisprudence, was awarded the Richard Butler Prize and was proxime for the Wronker Prize. Simon Dadson achieved a First in Geography and was proxime for the Herbertson Prize. Sophie LunnRockliffe was awarded a Gibbs Book Prize for her First in Modern History, and Matthew Tam gained a First in Physiological Sciences and a Wronker Grant. Paul Bulger and Alvin Tay (Chemistry) were awarded Turbutt Prizes for excellence in practical organic chemistry.

Firsts or Distinctions in their first public examinations were obtained by William Walker-Haworth (Archaeology & Anthropology), David Anderson (Mathematics), Paul Matthews (Mathematics & Computation), Simon Mack (Engineering), Michael Flexer (English Moderations), Tatiana Comerzan (Modern History & Modern Languages [in Italian]) , Helen Lawson (Modern Languages [in French]) , Robert Truswell (Modern Languges [in Linguistics]) , Victoria Hoyle (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry), Naomi Price (Molecular 11

& Cellular Biochemistry), Claudio Rossi (Philosophy & Modern Languages [in Italian]), Adam Cleggett (Physical Sciences). Caspar Graf Von Moy (Physical Sciences), Ruth Buchanan (PPP).

Finally the College has to thank once again the hard work of the Committee of the Association of Senior Members for the assistance and support it provides in enabling us to keep contact with so many Senior Members of the College, and for organising such a successful Gaudy. We are particularly thankful to the outgoing President, Veronica Fraser, who has proved to be such a true and loyal friend of the College and a distinguished and hard-working holder of that office.

Derek Wood

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Appointments, Awards and Prizes University and College Appointments and Prizes (Oxford) John Cooper Janet Efstathiou Karen Henson Christine Joynes Adam Levin Ben Tipping Simukai Utete

Geoffrey Westgate

16' Century Research Editor, New Dictionary of National Biography Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church Teaching post at Westminster College Junior Dean at St Cross College Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College Research Assistant in Signal Processing for Real-Time Jet Engine Health Monitoring, Department of Engineering Science Non-Stipendiary Lecturer at St Hugh's College

University Appointments and other Academic Awards (other than Oxford University) Sharon Curtis Bronwen Dalton Nicholas Dew Yusheng Dou Dominic Hughes Charles Morgan Andrzej Olechnowicz

Computer Science Lectureship, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling Lecturer of Korean Studies, University of Technology, Sydney Junior Research Fellow at St Catherine's College, Cambridge Post at Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Computer Science Dept , Stanford University Post at Yale University Tenured Lecturership at Durham University

University Undergraduate and Graduate Awards and Prizes Luiz A Costa Benjamin J Parker Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe Matthew Tam Sonja Marzinzik Paul Bulger Alvin Tay

Meyerstein Prize (Archaeology &Anthropology) Richard Butler Prize (Jurisprudence) Gibbs Book Prize (Modern History) Wronker Grant (Physiological Sciences) Graduate Scholarship at Somerville College Turbutt Prize Turbutt Prize

College Awards and Prizes Undergraduate Exhibitions Clara Mordan

Amir Aussia (Mathematics) 13

Centenary

Antonia Hedley-Dent (Archaeology and Anthropology)

Ethel Seaton Hodgson Irene Shrigley

Jubilee

Nuffield Smith Rippon Theodora Evans

Suzanne Chadwick (Physics) Christopher Warner (Biochemistry) Kevin Donnelly (English) Amal Alamuddin (Law) Mark Colman (Mathematics) Matthew Gretton (Mathematics) Jennifer Smart (Mathematics) Alexandra Chalton (Modern Languages) Laura Chamberlain (History) James Foreman (Mathematics and Philosophy) Diana Magnay (English) Hugh Roberts (Modern Languages and Philosophy) Matthew Peakman (Engineering) Jon Rohrer (Medicine) Daniel Jones (Physics and Philosophy) Tobi Rogner (Modern Languages)

Undergraduate Scholarships

Clara Mordan

Centenary Ethel Seaton

Hodgson Irene Shrigley Jourdain Jubilee

Rachael Button (Mathematics) Rachel Connolly (Mathematics) Jonathon Greenwold (History) Jonathon Kelly (Mathematics) Kok E Lim (Engineering) Sophie Lunn-Rockcliffe (History) Hilary Powell (Fine Arts) Peter Wilson (History) Francis Dowling (PPE) Bryony Reid (Archaeology and Anthropology) Mark Bamber (Physics) Georgia Bedworth (Law) Yui-Justin Chow (Biochemistry) Barry Egan (Physics) Christopher Pooley (Physics) Alison Rothery (Chemistry) Guy Ladenburg (English) Paul Bulger (Chemistry) Alvin Tay (Chemistry) Joanna Keefe (Mathematics and Philosophy) John Moriarty (Mathematics) James Burbidge (Classics) Benjamin Parker (Law) Alexandra Gooden (History) Alexandra Marchant (History) 14

Organ Marjorie Clerk Nuffield Thomas W Fowle

Theodora Evans Ho, Leung, Ho and Lee

Helen Jeffries (Music) George Pounder (Classics) Solomon Lim (Geography) Kate Liddiard (Medicine) Luiz Costa (Archaeology and Anthropology) Paula Curnow (Mathematics) Aneirin Glyn (Mathematics) Nicholas Hackworth (History) Christopher Lane (History) Jonathan Midmer (Modern Languages) Albert Chiu (Mathematics) Yui-Justin Chow (Biochemistry) Pearl Lau (Mathematics and Computation) Koon Hay Li (Engineering)

Prizes Examinations (graduates) Angela Civitella (Law) Andrew Spencer (Mathematics) Michalis Christodoulou (Applied Statistics) Raphaela Schmid (Theology) Collections Jonathan Greenwold (Modern History) Peter Wilson (Modern History) Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (Modern History) Kelly Parreira (Geography) Maya Mehta (Law) Hilary Haworth Amir Aussia (Mathematics) Anna Haxworth Alasdair Trotter (Physics) Hurry Edward Gray (PPE) Jonathan Kelly & Rachel Button (Mathematics) Katherine Lawrence Helen Jeffries (Music) Lorna Limpus Mary Lunt Matthew Buttery & George Wadhams (Biochemistry)

Graduate Scholarships Continuation

Denise Skinner Dorothea Gray Ethel Seaton

Larkinson

Jorge Lago (Chemistry) Alejandro Mira Obrador (Biology) Ben Tipping (Classics) Jeanne-Francoise Roth (Biochemistry) Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Modern Languages) Daniela Colomo (Classics) Bruno Currie (Classics) Adam Smith (Politics) Harris Adam Baker (Materials Science) Abhijit Sarkar (Engineering) Bronwen Dalton (Politics) 15

Mitchell Searle Hodgson Jubilee

Maplethorpe Nuffield Rhys-David Senior Fulford Rawnsley Thomas and Willing Wei Lunn

Yates

Nicholas Dew (History) Dominic Hughes (Mathematics and Computation) Nuzhat Jaleel (English) Abigail Williams (English) Christopher Burnand (Ancient History) Karen Henson (Music) Sarah Knott (History) Paul Stupple (Chemistry) Jon Wilson (History) Jeremy Hill (Experimental Psychology) Richard Bellamy (Medicine) David Price (Medicine) David Wengrow (Archaeology) Christopher Lewis (Mathematics) Barry Dean (Applied Statistics) Jane Keat (Slavonic Studies) Margaret Rigaud-Drayton (Modern Languages) Jeannie Suk (Modern Languages) Ming-Jyh Chern (Engineering) Paul Seidel (Mathematics) Catherine Wilkins (Computer Science) Christine Joynes (Theology)

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Degrees 1997-98 BS Allen, SB Andreyev, RE Ash, S Astbury, S-H Chen, A Collins, Y Dou, AG Green, B Haubold, G Heinert, AB Pirrie, MPV de A Goncalves, A Johnson, DA Middleton, U Natarajan, C Qin, MI Sandri, P Seidel, AC Simpson, J,M Werner, Z Zhang L Chua, DJ Mooljee, U Tappe-Nakata MPhil M Christodoulou, CP Dahm, MJ Hunt, SR Nath, GE Russo, MSc JN Shaya, TM Solulu, AJ Spencer CA Friedmann, CE Joynes, PB Salzman MSt TN Bolick, DN Carter, SK Gandhi, SA McInerney, RC BCL Witzel ST Mammen, MJ Phelan, K Popp, LG Rossi, E Studenny MJur PM Amor, S Astbury, JE Bateman (Hannam), JC Bell, KE MA Briscoe, LFM Burch, RE Burrows (Ireland), GLButler (Galley), R Cockerham, M Colclough, EM Curtis, RCC Downey, EG Eftychiou, GJ Field, EA Gleadhill (Aitken), DP Griffiths, G Heinert, NA Huggett (Chambers), CE Joynes, M-AK Keith, SK Khan, MV Kilfoyle, B Lang, LPLeake, AN Loveday, CS McNeile (Otto-Jones), PJ Morgan, KM Morris, JN Moss, ND Porritt, AE Radford, SA Rae (Roxburgh), GD Rees, SE Russell (Gabe), RMP Saunders, OA Thomas, GYW Tsui, AL Tuson, MR Wilson MBiochem MA Buttery, GH Wadhams, JA Watts KL Kramer, BR Payne MChem SJ Donnelly, MJ Harbottle, KS Thompson, K Wong MEng SE Lewis M Maths NS Cook, SM Fielding, J Goddard MPhys S Allotey, PM Amor, DJ Armitage, PKA Barlow, PJ Bartlett, BA N Beebee, SJ Bond, CE Brown, AC Buttner, WM Calderbank, AR Chakrabortty, CM Crampin, RE Crabtree, RM Crouch, PJW Doyle, AP Dutton, CP Fahy, S Fletcher, DA Gallagher, JR Gee, EA Gleadhill (Aitken), PD Groden, JE Healey, SCS Heine, RJ Hodgskin, CL Holland, SL Horrocks, CH Hunter, K Jamaluddin, IT James, RJ Johnson, MR Jones, SH Jones, S Julka, GG Kingsley, PW Knight, LN Lam, PTM Lau, JA McCullagh, K Macdonald, CS McNeile (Otto-Jones), NRC Mann, JP Manning, DP Mather, SA Miles, IDD Miller, M Minihan, JT Mithcell, Z Myers, EA Nash, MG Paylor, NJ Phillips, JA Preston, M-H Quaradeghini, GD Rees, DJ Richards, BJP Riley, AVI Robbens, TJ Rodda, JD Ross, ET Rowe, SK Roy, GJL Sarjeant, DJ Seager, CH Shackleton, A Shadforth, JW Sherwood, RM Smith, RE Steward EK Stewart, NS Tall, JU DPhil

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Taylor, SR Tuddenham, MEM Turner, M Ullah, MJR Umbers, TJ Walker, GD Walsh, DJ Watson, CM Weaver, D Wengrow, LR Wigney, IC Willetts, JJ Williams, KM Williams (Bell), EMQ Williamson, VC Willson

JCR Members Emma McKenzie (L) and Claire Wallace with warm smiles or Senior Members during the Gaudy Weekend

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Examinations 1998 Final Honour Schools Archaeology & Anthropology Luiz Costa* Class I Class IIi Claire Wallace * Meyerstein Prize Classics & Modern Languages Class III Paul Wilson Computation Class IIii John Kirk Engineering Science, Part I Elizabeth Kaijuka, Koon Li Pass Engineering & Computing Science, Part I Richard Germuska, James Golding, Damien Smith Pass Engineering & Computing Science, Part II Class Hi Andrew Bonello Class IIii Sunil D'Monte, Nicholas Hughes English Language & Literature Class I Guy Ladenburg Kevin Donnelly, Thomas Johnson, Shifa Rahman, Amber Class IIi Rogerson, Sara Wilmer, Anna Wright Stuart Chevalier, Sarah Fendt, Philippa Green, Doyel Maitra Class IIii Fine Art Class IIi

Hilary Powell

Geography Simon Dadson* Class I Nazia Hirjee, Tom Roebuck, Charlotte Sanders, Kerryn Class IIi Young Class IIii Deep Patel *Proxime Herbertson Prize Jurisprudence Benjamin Parker* Class I Daniel French, Jonathan Parker, Clive Smith, Anthony Class IIi Taylor Pass Rebecca Raven *Richard Butler Prize, proxime Wronker Prize 19

Literae Humaniores Class IIi Nicholas Aubury, Susan Harrop, Nathaniel Mumford, Henry Reece Class IIii George Pounder Mathematical Sciences Class I John Moriarty Class Hi Clare Hebden, Howard Piper Class IIii Faisal Naru, Adam Taylor, Jonathan Townsend Mathematics, Part I Pass Donna To Mathematics, Part II Class I Mark Colman, Paula Curnow, Aneirin Glyn Class IIi John Layburn, Sandra Lewis, Benjamin Williams Mathematics & Computation Class IIi Denise Kong, Pearl Lau Mathematics & Philosophy, Part I Class IIi James Foreman, Joanna Keefe Modern History Class I Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe* Class Ili Julia Fea, Alexandra Gooden, Jonathan Greenwold, Paul Hart, Maya Naidoo, Oliver Rochman, Julie Smith Class IIii Helena Keers, Alexandra Marchant, Halima Sarwar, Peter Wilson * Gibbs Book Prize Modern Languages Class IIi Elizabeth Barker*, Juliet Clarke, Eleanor Davey, Jennifer Heak*, Edward OiLoughlin, Toby Smith Class IIii Rachel Blackie, Alice Hunter * Distinction in spoken German Music Class IIi Class III

Christopher Holt, Helen Jeffries, Lucie Middlemiss David Lindup

Natural Science: Biological Sciences Class IIi Rebecca Foster, Veronica Roberts Class IIii Patricia Davis, Timothy Macmillan, William Malcolm

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Natural Science: Chemistry Part I

Pass

Lois Goldstone, Philip James, Yin-Hong Li, Alison Rothery, Kelvin Yeung

Natural Science: Chemistry Part II Mark Bushell, Andrew Hobley, Nicholas Jones Class Hi Natural Science: Geology

Class Hi Edward Lewis Class IIii Stephen Murphy Natural Science: Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry Part I

Pass

Justin Chow, Dominic Higgins, Claire Unstead, Christopher Warner

Natural Science: Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry Part II

Class IIi Class IIii

Thomas Casdagli, Daniel Schutze, Jonathan Sharples Claire Drummie

Natural Science: Physics (Part A)

Pass

Mark Bamber, Suzanne Chadwick, Martin Cooling, David Menezes, April Robson, Vanessa Smart

Natural Science: Physics (Part B)

Class IIi

Samantha Monk, Piotr Schielmann

Natural Science: Physiological Sciences

Class I Matthew Tam* Class IIi James Gagg, Deborah Home *Wronker Grant Oriental Studies

Class IIi

John Clark

Philosophy & Modern Languages Class I Ben Sareen Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I Nicholas Percy

Class Hi Class Ilii

Anish Aggarwal, Martin Coulson, James O' Shaughnessy, Lucy Sheppard, Morten Spenner Audrey Healy, Victoria Stevens

Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology

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Honour Moderations Archaeology & Anthropology William Walker-Haworth Class I Thomas Griffin, Robert Hale, James Hogarth Class IIi Biological Sciences Graham Bentham, Anna Gray, Matthew Hodgkinson, Class II Charlotte Metcalf, Benjamin West, Sally Wetten Classics Class IIi

Mark Dreyer, Christian Giudice, Matthew Jones, Rebecca Smith

English Language & Literature Distinction Michael Flexer Hugh Davies, Gregory Flash, Sian Griffiths, Matthew Pass Howarth, Matthew Howling, Jonathan Morrison, Jenny Pagdin, Jiries Saadeh, Bijan Sheibani, Katherine Shiffner, Alice Spencer Geography Edward Allen, Laura Johnson, William Mudd, Alister Class II Shepherd Daljit Bhurji, Kelly Parreira Class III Law Moderations Amal Alamuddin, Sarah Collins, James Dunldey, Philip Pass Gordon, Katherine Johnson, Neil Jones, Louisa Parker, Nicola Pearce, Davina Weitowitz Mathematics David Anderson Class I James Bushell, Yogendra Patel, Alastair Pickett, Sally Class II Rayment, Garth Wilkinson, Joanna Zhuang Albert Chiu, Frances Sewell Class III Mathematics & Computation Paul Matthews Class I Class II James Hodgson, Matthew Hope Mathematics & Philosophy Sacha Dhamani, Michael van Gelderen Class II

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Modern History Miranda Atkins, Max Baird-Smith, James Bell, Jemma Gabb, Class II Lucy Gazmararian, Marianne Gray, Cara Henderson, Clare Makepeace, Claire McArdle, Laura Morrod, Alexander Trenchard Music Class II

Claire Kidwell, Sarah Mountain

Preliminary Examinations Economics & Management Toby Byrne, Christian Hamilton, Benjamin Wong Pass Engineering Distinction Simon Mack Edward Bowles, Rachel Lindup, Ian Shipley Pass Fine Art

Pas,,

Camilla Balme

Modern History & Modern Languages Pass Tatiana-Maria Comerzan*, Raphael Mokades**, Steffen Thejll-Moller *Distinction in Italian **Distinction in Modern History Modern Languages Pass Sarah Biddle, Finbar Galligan, Catherine Hobbs, Helen Lawson*, Walter Meierjohann, Emma Ross-Thomas, Robert Truswell** *Distinction in French ** Distinction in Linguistics Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry Distinction Victoria Hoyle, Naomi Price Minal Desai, Jonathan Taylor Pass Oriental Studies Pass Elham Saudi Philosophy & Modern Languages Claudio Rossi* Pass *Distinction in Italian 23

Philosophy, Politics & Economics Pass PJ Bartram, Gaurav Gupta, Elizabeth Hodson, Adam Lawrence, Hanna Leicht, Daniel Oates, Matthew Page, Emma Sutcliffe Physical Sciences Distinction Adam Cleggett, Caspar Graf von Moy Pass Laura Ashfield, Celeste Biever, Michael Doran, Jemima Hardman, Alexander Ivison, Steven Mould, Alasdair Trotter Partial Pass Gillian Barbour, James North, Emma Slade Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology Distinction Ruth Buchanan Pass Katherine Bright, Gareth Hollands, Nanna Luneborg Natural Science: Supplementary Subjects Anthropology Pass Kim Hawkins Chemical Pharmacology Pass Guillaume Stewart-Jones Chemistry Distinction Paul Bulger, Alvin Tay Quantum Chemistry: Pass John Guiton, Alvin Tay Bachelor of Medicine First Examination, Part I Pass Edward Danson, Claire Gifford, Martyn Patel Partial Pass Miriam Samuel First Examination, Part II Pass Rasha Al-Lamee, Saira Hameed, Kate Ludgate, Jonathan Rohrer Partial Pass Julia McGill Post-Graduate Certificate in Education Pass

Sarah Challenor, James Knowles, Marie-Helene Quaradeghini, Palak Shah, Sarah Wilkinson, Rachel Wilson

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Higher Degrees BCL

Class II MJur Class II

Thomas Bolick, David Carter, Richard Witzel Silke Mammen, Mary Phelan, Karsten Popp, Luciano Rossi, Eva Studenny

Diploma in Legal Studies

Pass

Elsie Kutsoati

MPhil in English Studies (v)

Pass

Adam Levin

MPhil in General Linguistics & Comparative Philology

Pass

Liang Chua

MPhil in Social Studies Economics

Pass

Antonia Simeonova*

*Proxime George Webb Medley Prize

MPhil in Social Studies Politics

Pass

Adam Smith MSc in Applied Statistics

MSc in Economics for Development

Fail

Shabih A. Mohib

MSc in Sociology

Pass

Gina Russo

MSt in World Archaeology

Distinction David Wengrow The following results came out after the deadline for the 1996-97 Chronicle

MSc in Applied Statistics

Distinction M Christodoulou Pass G Garcia de Jager MSc in Computation

Pass

K Shanthikumaran

MSc in Geometry, Mathematical Physics and Analysis

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Pass

M J Hunt

MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science A J Spencer Pass MSt in Theology Distinction R Schmid

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New Students Graduate Degrees Board of the Faculty of Biological Sciences Prob Res Suzanne Hills, George Wadhams, Jude Watts Board of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine DPhil 2nd BM

Richard Bellamy Gideon Heinert

Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Literature MSt Cornelia Schnelle Prob Res Sangjin Park, Ghil' ad Zuckermann DPhil Jeannie Suk Board of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences MSc Simon Bond, Duncan Brydon, Georgios Constantinou Prob Res Michael Jameson, Andrew Spencer DPhil Dominic Hughes Board of the Faculty of Physical Sciences Prob Res Georgios Constantinou, Tarek Ghaoud, Kwok Hing Albert Kong, Jason Semitecolos DPhil Abhijit Sarkar, Paul Stupple Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature MPhil DPhil

Michael Deibert, Rebecca Pearson, Richard Watkins Abigail Williams

Board of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores DPhil

Christopher Burnand, Daniela Colomo

Board of the Faculty of Law BCL MJur MSt Prob Res

David Carter, Richard Witzel Thomas Bolick, Silke Mammen, Mary Phelan, Karsten Popp, Luciano Rossi, Eva Studenny Isabelle Rorive Joan Small 27

Board of the Faculty of Psychological Studies DPhil

Simon Prince

Board of the Faculty of Social Studies MSc DPhil

Shabih Ali Mohib, Gina Russo Adam Smith

Board of the Committee of Educational Studies MSc

Hussein Hayle Hajir Hassan, Georgia Kalkanis

Board of the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography Prob Res Jens Baumbach, Sonja Marzinzik MSt David Wengrow Board of the Faculty of Theology Prob Res Darren Marks Board of the Faculty of Modern History Andrew Corsham MSc Prob Res Mild Pantos, Sara Roberts DPhil Jon Wilson Graduate Students reading for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education Sarah Challenor James Knowles Sarah Wilkinson

Rufus Green Marie-Helene Quaradeghini Rachel Wilson

Kieran Hickey Palak Shah

Visiting Student (Philosophy) Liena Muskare (University of Latvia) Foreign Service Programme and Taiwan Diplomats Training Course Edith Modisane (Universities of Botswana & Northern Arizona) Ting-Yen (Tim) Kuo (University of Soochow)

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Matriculation 1997 Arabic

Elham Saudi, American School in London Archaeology & Anthropology

Thomas Griffin, Wimbledon College, London Robert Hale, Barton Peveril College James Hogarth, Harrow School Jamie Walker, Haworth Charterhouse, Godalming Biochemistry

Minal Desai, Preston Manor High Vicky Hoyle, Talbot Heath, Bournemouth Naomi Price, Morrison's Academy Jonathan Taylor, Watford Grammar Biological Sciences

Graham Bentham, Old Grammar School, Lewes Anna Gray, Ashford School, Ashford Matthew Hodgkinson, Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham Nanna Liineborg, Marselisborg Gymnasium Arhus, Denmark Jessica Metcalf, Lycee Francais de Tananarive Benjamin West, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Sally Wetten, Ardingly College Chemistry

Laura Ashfield, St Bartholomew's School, Newbury Celeste Biever, Godolphin &Latymer Adam Cleggett, Maidstone Grammar School Michael Doran, St Thomas More School, Blaydon Caspar Graf von Moy, Leopold-Franzens-Universitat, Innsbruck Jemima Hardman, Rydal Penrhos Classics

Annabel Andrewes, Wimbledon High Robert Dale, Harrow School Thomas Edmunds, King's School James Morrist, Wellington College, Crowthorne Emma Musgrave, Withington School, Manchester Sarah Scott, Benenden

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John Quah (R) with Adam Lawrence and his parents at the Freshers' Lunch

Economics & Management

Toby Byrne, Grange School Benjamin Wong, French International School, Hong Kong Engineering Economics & Management (EEM)

Ian Shipley, St Thomas More School, Blaydon Engineering Science

Edward Bowles, Holmes Chapel Comprehensive Rachael Lindup, Yale College, Wrexham Simon Mack, Eltham College, London English

Hugh Davies, Westminster Gregory Flash, Dulwich College, London Michael Flexer, Brighton College Sian Griffiths, Cynffig Comprehensive Matthew Howarth, Sevenoaks Matthew Howling, King Edward VII High School Jonathan Morrison, Stowe Jenny Pagdin, Wycombe High Jiries Saadeh, Highgate Bijan Sheibani, Brighton College 30

Randall Miles

Katherine Shiffner, Fettes College, Edinburgh Alice Spencer, Henrietta Barnett School, London Experimental Psychology

Gareth Hollands, Oldbury Wells Fine Art

Camilla Balme, Camberwell College of Art Geography

Edward Allen, Winchester College Daljit Bhurji, Myton School, Warwick Laura Johnson, King Edward VI School, Lichfield William Mudd, Whitgift School, South Croydon Kelly Parreira, Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School Alister Shepherd, King Edward VI, Edgbaston Geology

Emma Slade, Shrewsbury VI Form College Law

Sarah Collins, Luton VI Form College James Dunldey, Nottingham Bluecoat Philip Gordon, Belfast Royal Academy Katherine Johnson, Theale Green School, Reading Neil Jones, Walton High School, Stafford Robert Lou Louisa Parker, Croydon High Nicola Pearce, Clarendon School Davina Weitowitz, Sevenoaks Mathematics

David Anderson, Kimbolton James Bushell, King Edward VI School, Southampton Albert Chiu, Bedford High Yogendra Patel, St James' Independent Alistair Pickett, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Sally Rayment, John Port, Etwall Frances Sewell, Greenhead College, Huddersfield Garth Wilkinson, Charterhouse, Godalming Joanna Zhuang, Cambridge Seminars Mathematics & Computation

Matthew Hope, Princethorpe College Paul Matthews, Barton Peveril College

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Mathematics & Philosophy Sacha Dhamani, Aylesbury Grammar Michael Van Gelderen, International School Eerde, Ommen

Medicine Edward Danson, Lenzie Academy, Glasgow Claire Gifford, Cotham Grammar Martin Patel, Card! if High School Miriam Samuel, Great Cornard Upper School

Modern History Miranda Atkins, St Clement Dane Max Baird-Smith, St Paul's James Bell, Elliott School, Putney James Brown, Kingswood School, Bath Jemma Gabb, Bryanston Lucy Gazmararian, St Paul's Marianne Gray, British School of Paris Cara Henderson, Glasgow Academy Elizabeth Kennedy, Middlebury College, USA Clare Makepeace, Haberdashers' Aske's School Claire McArdle, St Paul's Laura Morrod, St Benedict's Alexander Trenchard, Eton College

Modern History & Modern Languages Tatiana-Maria Comerzan, Farringtons Raphael Mokades, City of London Steffen Thejll-Moller, Sevenoaks

Modern Languages Sarah Biddle, St Mary's Finbar Galligan, Magdalen College School Helen Lawson, King's High Walter Meierjohann, Hochschule J Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch", Berlin Emma Ross-Thomas, Cheltenham College Robert Truswell, York College Emma Weedon

Modern Languages & Classics Catherine Hobbs, Haberdashers' Aske's School

Modern Languages & Philosophy Claudio Rossi, Millfield School, Street

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Music Claire Kidwell, Peter Symonds' College, Winchester Sarah Mountain, Llantwit Major Physics

Gillian Barbour, Buckhaven High School Alexander Ivison, Broxborne Steven Mould, St Thomas More School, Blaydon James North, Llanidloes High School Alasdair Trotter, Glenalmond College, Perth Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE)

PJ Bartram Gaurav Gupta, Li Po Chun United World College, Shatin Christian Hamilton, King Edward VII School, Lytham St Annes Beth Hodson, Lady Margaret School Adam Lawrence, Solihull High Hanna Leicht, Christianeum, Hamburg Daniel Oates, Cambridge Seminars Matthew Page, Waynflete School Jane-Emma Sutcliffe, Dame Alice Harpur Philosophy, Psychology & Physiology (PPP)

Katherine Bright; Bryanston Ruth Buchanan, Rainham Mark Grammar School, Gillingham

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In Memoriam, St Hugh's Honorary and Emeritus Fellows Dame Mary Cartwright, Honorary Fellow The following article has been reproduced by kind permission of The Times Mary Cartwright's standing in the mathematical world was such that she was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society in 1947, shortly after it was opened to women, and she became the first woman to serve on its council. But she also took a great interest in mathematical teaching in schools and was president of the Mathematical Association in 1951-52. Although her published work is nearly all severely technical, she could also appeal to a wider public as she showed in her James Bryce Memorial Lecture, The Mathematical Mind, given at Somerville College in 1955.

In her Cambridge career she was not only Mistress of Girton, but for three years president of the Cambridge Association of University Women.

Mary Lucy Cartwright came from a Northamptonshire family with a long tradition of public service. Her two older brothers were killed in action before she went up to St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1919, from the Godolphin School, Salisbury. After leaving Oxford with a first, she taught maths at Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and then at Wycombe Abbey School. But the urge to do further mathematical work was strong and in 1927 she returned to Oxford to work under G H Hardy.

She proceeded to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1930 and was elected to a Yarrow Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge.

There followed a period of great productivity, leading to a readership and her appointment as Girton's director of studies.

In the years preceding and during the Second World War she carried out a very full programme of teaching and research. In particular, she was an excellent supervisor of research students, taking great care in reading and criticising their work, both in content and form, and giving due encouragement.

From 1940 to 1944 she was also commandant of the college's Red Cross detachment.

In July 1948 she was pre-elected Mistress of Girton. She spent part of the year 1948-49 at American universities, including Princeton and Stanford, before taking up office. In 1959 she additionally became a university reader in the theory of functions.

She had become Mistress of Girton soon after women were admitted to full membership of the university, and the demands on her from many university committees was very heavy. She gave long service as chairman of the Cambridge University Women's Appointments Board and the Education Syndicate.

Mary Cartwright's mathematical work ranged over a wide field of classical analysis. The part contained in a long series of papers on integral functions ex-

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ceeded in depth and precision anything that had gone before. The essence of it is in her Cambridge Tract of 1956, which was all she chose to publish of a much larger book she had almost finished when the war began in 1939.

Up to then possibly her best known achievement was in the field of conformal mapping. In 1935 she produced a proof of a certain inequality, after attempts by others had failed. The first of her papers on cluster sets appeared in the following year, and she returned to this field later in collaboration with Sir Edward Collingwood.

In 1938 a note was circulated to mathematicians by the Radio Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The object of the note was "to bring to the notice of mathematicians certain types of non-linear differential equations involved in the technique of radio engineering".

Cartwright was immediately interested in this, and she persuaded Professor J E Littlewood to collaborate with her in what proved to be ground-breaking work making an important contribution to chaos theory.

Although she disclaimed any specialised knowledge in these fields of application, Cartwright could bring her critical faculty to bear on the non-mathematical aspects: she was always stimulated by contact with those working in these subjects.

Although fragile in appearance Mary Cartwright had a fine constitution and could carry a heavy load of different kinds of work. She attended meetings of the International Mathematical Congress from 1932 onwards. From the middle 1930s she was recognised as one of the leading analysts in this country, and her reputation continued to grow both at home and abroad.

In 1956 she was a member of the Royal Society delegation that visited the Soviet Union as guests of the Academy of Sciences. She also visited Moscow University and the Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw and Cracow, as well as taking part in many other mathematical conferences. She received honorary doctorates from the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds, Hull, Wales and—in 1966 from Oxford. From 1961 to 1963 she was president of the London Mathematical Society, which awarded her its de Morgan medal in 1968, to add to the 1964 Sylvester medal of the Royal Society. In 1969 she was appointed DBE. After her retirement from Girton in 1968 she worked at universities in England, America and Poland, before returning to Cambridge, where she was one of the editors of The Collected Papers of G H Hardy.

She was no narrow specialist, being exceptionally well informed on a wide variety of subjects, among them painting and music. Stanley Spencer's portrait of her will convey to future generations at Girton some idea of Dame Mary as scholar and administrator, but they may miss the warm sense of humour and sympathy that her friends knew. In human affairs as in mathematics she had a gift for going to the heart of a matter and for seeing the important point.

She is survived by her brother.

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Miss Theodora Cooper, Emeritus Fellow Theodora Constance Cooper was born in Belfast on 1 November 1934, one of the two children of Mary (nee Gregory) and Ralph Cooper (Reader in Mathematics at Queen's University, Belfast). Her brother was killed in his youth during a climbing exercise, and for the rest of her life she took on the responsibilities of an only child. She was educated at the Strathearn School, Belfast and The Ladies College, Cheltenham. From there she won a place at Girton College, Cambridge where she read Economics. After graduating in 1956 she left for Stockholm on a Swedish Government Scholarship and then returned to Girton as a research student. In 1959 she became a member of the Economic Division of the I. L .0 . in Geneva. In 1960 she was appointed Assistant in the Faculty of Economics and Social Studies at Manchester University. Later in that same year she was appointed Lecturer in Economics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, her field of study being wage development in Britain in the post-war period together with social security and Labour policies in Common Market countries. In 1963 she was appointed Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh's College and University Lecturer, a post she held until her retirement in 1995. In 1965, under the Wilson government, she was asked to act as an Economic consultant to the Cabinet office, work which she greatly enjoyed. In 1980 she was elected Senior Proctor at Oxford and was the first woman to hold this office.

Her contributions to her College, to the University and to the Civil Service give some indication of the range of her abilities, and the confidence that academics, economists and politicians placed in her judgement and her integrity.

In spite of these public responsibilities she was a woman who inspired affection and loyalty as well as respect and admiration. She was devoted to her family (known as Theo to her colleagues she was Dora to her relations), and after her father suffered a severe stroke which left him unable to speak and confined to a wheelchair, she looked after him with great tenderness for many years.

Transparent honesty was one of her most striking characteristics.

Sometimes even an inadvertent cause of embarrassment. For she could not prevent an expression of horror and disbelief crossing her face when a colleague or a pupil made a remark that she found stupid. It did not take long, however, for colleagues or pupils to realise that this was not a sign of contempt but of respect for the intelligence with which she credited them.

In all her many activities she found time to cultivate warm and varied friendships. She loved walking, reading, music especially Opera, and drew her companions to share these enthusiasms Many of her happiest days were spent in the country at her flat in Shipton-under-Wychwood where she entertained generously and widely. Her fight against the cancer which eventually killed her, began before her retirement, but when she returned to Oxford in 1995 she carried on voluntary work in the Citizens Advice Bureau 36

and kept in constant touch with friends in this country and abroad. This she did with a characteristic lack of ostentation. She was essentially a private woman who never neglected private affection and virtues throughout all her public duties and commitments. This was never more vividly shown than at her funeral, attended by family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances from all walks of her life. Theodora Cooper was not only one of the ablest women of her generation, but justly one of the most loved and respected.

Rachel Trickett 1 May 1998

Professor Yakov Malkiel, Honorary Fellow The following has been reproduced by kind permission of the Berkeleyan, UC Berkeley.

Yakov Malkiel, professor emeritus of linguistics and romance philology, died April 24 of a heart attack. He was 83.

Malkiel was born in Kiev in 1914, but civil war forced the family to move to Berlin. As a Jew in prewar Germany, he overcame serious difficulties before he was admitted into Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitat, earning his PhD in Romance linguistics, magna cum laude, in 1938.

In 1940 he emigrated with his parents to the United States, and in 1942 joined Berkeley's faculty as a lecturer. Later he became assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, then professor of romance philology. In 1952 he helped found the Department of Linguistics, and in 1965 became a member of that department, where he taught until his retirement.

In 1948, Malkiel married Maria Rosa Lida, a scholar from Argentina. After her untimely death in 1962, he devoted himself to the completion of her unpublished works.

Malkiel's publications include works on historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, etymology, linguistic typology and Romance linguistics. He published in English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and lectured as well in Russian. In 1946, he founded the international journal "Romance Philology" and was for many years its editor-in-chief.

Malkiel's honorary degree from Salamanca, Spain, made him the first Jew to be honored there since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.

Malkiel is buried beside his wife and parents. Condolences may be sent to Isabel Lida Nirenberg, #6 Oak Drive, Albany, NY 12203.

Viscount Tonypandy, PC, Honorary Fellow Afull obituary appeared in The Times on Tuesday 23 September 1997.Extracts are reproduced here by kind permission of The Times.

One of the best known politicians of his time, George Thomas impressed his 37

personality on the public in a slightly unorthodox way. Never quite a performer in the premier political league, he achieved star quality only after he had hung up his player's boots. It was as a result of sitting in the Speaker's chair in the Commons that he became a national figure.

But it had been a close-run thing The lowest point of Thomas's career occurred when he found himself excluded from the Government that Harold Wilson formed in March 1974. No one had been a more devoted almost slavish—admirer of Wilson's leadership than the former Secretary of State for Wales, and to be repaid in this way hit him very hard.

With typical resourcefulness the new Prime Minister had, however, already devised an alternative plan for him—which was to see to it that, via the chairmanship of the Committee of Ways and Means, he became only the second Labour Speaker in Commons history (the first, Dr Horace King, had not been a great success).

Thomas George Thomas, the son of a Rhondda miner, was born in Port Talbot and educated at Tonypandy Secondary School and University College, Southampton. He joined the Labour Party in 1925 and was a member of Cardiff Co-operative Party. His first political speech was delivered when he was only 18 to the Women's Co-op Guild of Tonypandy, and in 1936 he led a hunger march from that town to Cardiff...

Before coming to the Speakership, he was a firmly committed leftwinger, noted for a natural exuberance and Welsh hwyl. Few people in the South Wales of the 1950s owned the freehold of their homes, a legacy of 19th-century industrial development and the cause of widespread anxiety. Thomas made the campaign for leasehold reform his own. It lasted 15 years, until the Labour Government's Leasehold Enfranchisement Act of 1966, and at one time he took a stall in Cardiff market to publicise the cause.

Of even longer duration was his career as a Methodist lay preacher. This took him to almost every town in Wales and sometimes to the United States.

In 1960 he attained the highest office open to a laymen of his denomination when he became vice-president of the Methodist Conference, the first MP to hold that office. His eventual coat of arms incorporated an open Bible in addition to a miner's lamp, a leek and the Westminster portcullis.

Thomas was Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, 1964-66, Minister of State at the Welsh Office, 1966-67, and at the Commonwealth Office 1967-68. In 1968 he became Secretary of State for Wales and thus for two years sat in a British Cabinet, albeit as a very junior member regarded as part of the Prime Minister's "payroll vote".. .

Thomas opposed devolution at a time when a number of Labour politicians with far flimsier Welsh credentials were jumping on the bandwagon. Along with Leo Abse, he was unhappy about Labour's support for an elected assembly. Although a Welsh speaker himself, he regarded the stridency of Welsh language campaigners as a threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom. . .

The Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969 revealed him as the closet Conservative he had always essentially

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been... As he freely admitted: "It was a great day for me, without snobbery at all, to be riding in the coach with the Prince."... It turned out to be be the foundation of a friendship, with the Prince of Wales inviting him to read the lesson at his marriage service to Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in July 1981. . .

The boy from Rhondda had certainly come a long way. Weary of being chief Opposition spokesman for Welsh affairs when Labour was out of office, he had contemplated retirement from the Commons in 1972. It seems to have been only Harold Wilson's promise that he would assuredly be Secretary of State for Wales again in any future Labour government that kept him soldiering on. But that, of course, made the shock all the greater when he was not given the post in March 1974.. .

So, instead, Thomas was offered the position of Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker. One of the most loquacious of politicians had been invited to become an impassive umpire. Nevertheless, over the next testing two years he furnished convincing proof of his suitability for the role of Speaker. . .

He retired from the Speakership in 1983, and was elevated to the House of Lords, not merely as a life peer but, at Margaret Thatcher's instigation, as the 1st Viscount Tonypandy... Lord Tonypandy also held honorary fellowships and doctorates from several universities, at home and overseas...Thomas's volume of memoirs, George Thomas, Mr Speaker, which appeared in 1985... was roughly handled by reviewers.. .

Yet Thomas was too engaging—some might even have said too ingratiating a character to incur animosities from his colleagues for long. On his 80th birthday, only four years later, the former Speaker drew warm tributes from some at least of those he had handled less than charitably in his book. He wrote a second, much less controversial work, My Wales, in 1986.

His last years were clouded by his battle against throat cancer, but he retained his powers virtually to the end, writing a particularly trenchant letter to The Times against rule from Brussels in 1995. In April 1996 he even appeared on a platform with Sir James Goldsmith in support of his Referendum Party and during last spring's election he had a prominent role in the video that the party produced and widely distributed. He may have started life as a left-wing rebel, but his last vision of himself was certainly as an old-fashioned British patriot.

New Honorary Fellow Betty Boothroyd The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd MP, the first woman to become Speaker of the House of Commons, was elected this year to an Honorary Fellowship at St Hugh's College. In accepting an Honorary Fellowship at St 39

The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd, St Hugh's Honorary Fellow

Hugh's, she follows the precedent set by another famous Speaker, the late Viscount Tonypandy.

On the 9th June, around a hundred guests gathered, at the Speaker's invitation, at her magnificent State Apartments in the Palace of Westminster to celebrate her new association with the College. The guests included many Senior Members, among them Dame Barbara Castle (Betts m. 1929), Baroness Warnock and Edna Healey (Edmunds m. 1936). The Speaker gave a short speech of welcome, and the Principal replied, thanking her for her generous hospitality, and emphasising the long-standing connection between the College and political life. He also took the opportunity to thank Barbara Castle, who had helped to introduce the College to her colleague, for her support. He concluded by presenting the Speaker with a bouquet of flowers; there were flowers too for Edna Healey, who was soon to celebrate her birthday.

Betty Boothroyd has had a long and varied political career. She first held office as a member of the Hammersmith Borough Council, and then became Member of Parliament for West Bromwich. She has also been a member of the European Parliament and has served as a delegate to the North Atlantic Assembly. But she is best known to the public for the firmness, tact and good humour which have characterised her Speakership. She has a strong interest in education: she has been Chancellor of the Open University since 1994, and has been granted honorary degrees by many universities, including both Oxford and Cambridge.

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Senior Common. Room Self-Introduction by New Fellows

Richard P Brent Professor of Computing Science When two people communicate by conversation or in writing the problem of identification is solved by time-honoured means. If the conversation is face to face the two people may know each other's appearance and voice. If they have never met before, they may be introduced by a common acquaintance, or they may produce passports or other trusted documents which show their photograph and signature.

Increasingly we need to communicate electronically with people we have never met. How can we be confident of their identities? If you get an electronic mail message from Tony. Blair@Downing Street, how can you be sure it really came from Tony Blair and not from an impostor? If it really is from Tony Blair, how can you keep your reply confidential when it has to pass through many computer systems en route to Downing Street?

Perhaps of more immediate concern, how can you be confident that no one except you can persuade a cash dispensing machine to disgorge money from your bank account?

Questions like these motivate my interest in topics such as digital signatures, secure communication protocols, and cryptography. Perhaps surprisingly, mathematics and in particular number theory can provide practical solutions.

The key is to find a "one way function"—a well-defined mathematical transformation which can be applied in two directions but is much easier to apply in one direction than the other. For example, it is easy to multiply two prime numbers to find their product. Going in the other direction, from a product (say 2047) to its prime factors (23 and 89), is not generally so easy. A popular method for encryption and digital signatures, called the RSA method after its discoverers (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman), depends for its security on the presumed difficulty of finding the prime factors of a large composite number. To send a confidential message to someone using the RSA method, you have to know his "public key", which is essentially a large composite number.

Reliable lists of public keys are available—these lists are analogous to an electronic telephone book. Corresponding to each public key there is a "secret key", which is essentially the prime factors of the public key.

You can send a confidential electronic message to Tony Blair if you know his public key and electronic mail address. Only someone who knows his secret key (presumably Tony Blair or his trusted secretary) can unscramble the message and read it. Using similar principles in reverse, Tony Blair can sign a message using his secret key, and you can verify his signature with knowledge of his public key. The secret key is usually stored in a computer file which is protected both by a password and by physical means. Thus, it is analogous to a seal which might in times past have been stored in a locked chest.

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dreds of years, although it is only recently that there have been practical "applications" such as cheating people who use the RSA method. The famous mathematician C F Gauss (1777-1855) wrote: The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic...Further, the dignity of science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated (translated from Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, 1801, Art. 329)

Although the methods available have improved greatly since the time of Gauss, so that it is now possible to factor 80-digit numbers in a few hours on a personal computer, it is still very difficult to find the prime factors of a 200digit number unless all but one of the factors are small. Thus, the RSA method is secure in practice if it uses numbers of this size. Of course, these numbers are manipulated by computer programs—you do not have to multiply 100digit numbers by hand in order to sign or encrypt a message.

Thanks to both technological and mathematical progress, the first part of Gauss's problem—"distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers"—is now easy, even for numbers with several thousand digits. No one has ever proved that the second part—"resolving the latter into their prime factors"—is really as difficult as it seems. This may be cause for concern if you depend on the RSA method. Fortunately, there are alternatives. They are rather technical (depending on discrete logarithms and in some cases on elliptic curves), so I will not describe them here. Suffice it to say that they are practical, probably more secure than RSA, and have the advantage of not being patented, so anyone is free to use them.

Many other interesting problems arise from the use of computers to store and process information. For example, we need ways to sort, index, and reliably archive information if it is to be useful and a longterm replacement for records on paper.

Recently, while buying a house in Oxford, I had to find some information about boundaries from the original title. The document was seventy years old and barely legible. However, it was possible to find it and read it. The same can not be said of many computer files which were written on floppy disks, punched cards or paper tape only ten or twenty years ago.

To end on a personal note, my links with Oxford are rather distant. A relative, Sir Nathaniel Brent (1573-1652), was warden of Merton College in the time of Archbishop Laud. I was born in Australia and obtained my doctorate at Stanford University (California) in 1971 before returning to Australia in 1972. My wife and I lived in Canberra for 25 years before moving to Oxford early in 1998. Oxford is an exciting new experience for us, and I hope that my involvement as a Fellow of St Hugh's will be an enjoyable part of that experience.

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David Walker Fellow and Tutor in Computation I joined St Hugh's on the first of April 1998 from the University of Warwick where I was a senior lecturer in computer science. My first term has been a gentle introduction to the ways of the College and of the University, in particular the Computing Laboratory where I hold a University Lectureship.

My main research interest is mathematical theories of discrete interacting systems. As a result of technological developments, interacting systems are now ubiquitous. An evolution which poses particular technical and conceptual challenges is the advent of mobile computing: people, computers and software now move continually among one another. My work involves isolating concepts and developing techniques helpful in understanding mobile systems, and using them to show properties of systems, for instance that they can or cannot—behave in certain ways.

I work mostly on a class of general models known as process calculi. In the It-calculus, a particular mobile-process calculus, the primitive entities are names. Potential for interaction between parts of a system is expressed via sharing of names by the linguistic expressions representing them. Parts of a system may use names to interact, and may pass names to one another by mentioning them in interactions. A part which receives a name may use or mention it in further interactions. It turns out that name-passing is a very expressive primitive; receiving a name can represent for instance acquiring a capability to do something. I am interested also in trying to extend the range of application of the theories, and in development of computer tools to aid their use.

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Joshua Getzler `From Zion Shall Go Forth the Law' Jerusalem is portrayed in the news as a place of national conflict, religious intolerance and unreason. My sabbatical in Jerusalem taught me that this is not the whole story. I spent nearly four months there with my family in the winter of 1998, and we experienced the city as a place of stunning physical beauty, of varied friendships, and of committed and intense intellectual life. Perhaps two visions of Jerusalem are true; the Heavenly City of Peace, the supreme cradle of religions, is also an earthbound town of glaring contradictions and simmering violence.

Everyone told us that we were mad to go to Israel in December 1997. A fresh Gulf crisis was brewing, and the undiplomatic Australian arms inspector Richard Butler had just informed the world that Baghdad had enough anthraxtipped missiles to 'blow away Tel Aviv' . This seemed to have little relevance to our plans. After all, Jerusalem is not Tel Aviv; it is atop a hill on the edge of the Judean desert, and has a population at least one-third Arab. For further protection Jerusalem boasts the mosques of Omar and Al-Aksa, two of Islam's most holy shrines, to say nothing of Israel's unofficial but well-advertised nuclear deterrent. We felt in our bones that no-one was planning World War Three that winter, not Saddam, not Clinton, not Netanyahu. When the crisis reached a peak two months into our stay, there was much news of panic amongst the civilian population; we tried to ignore the tensions and get on with our lives, as did most of our friends. Some bought plastic sheeting and tape for the windows and a lot of long-life milk and tinned food so as not to be sorry afterwards. These gestures seemed futile to us; but we had not lived through the last Gulf crisis when Tel Aviv was rained with missiles.

On arriving in Israel, I, my wife Lucia and our four-month old girl Naomi were greeted at the airport in the still of early morning by an Israeli theatre actor. He was our greeting party and chauffeur, making a few dollars standing in for his friend, an official from the Hebrew University who had better things to do at three in the morning. Naomi sang with excitement as we climbed through Bab-el Wad, the valley path rising from the coastal plain to the Jerusalem hills and lined with burnt out vehicles, left to mark the heroism of the Jewish fighters of 1948. In Jerusalem we settled into a large stone Arab house in Emek Refaim, the Valley of Ghosts, also known as the German Colony, a chic suburb a mile-and-a-half from the Old City walls in south Jerusalem. In a dour and rather poor city, the Emek is haven of insouciant hedonism and cafe life, an intrusion of carefree mediterranean Tel Aviv into stressed-out Jersusalem. The area was settled by German and Greek pilgrims in the late nineteenth century, and owns a multitude of architectural styles with exquisite colonnades and gardens. Hovering over the precinct is the imprint of a lost Arab world, a people and culture defeated and expelled in 1948 but not forgotten. A Valley of Ghosts.

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Some months into my stay I fell ill with a fever resembling meningitis. There was much viral fever going around Jerusalem that winter. I spent a night and day in a casualty ward in Shaare Zedek Hospital undergoing tests. As I went into the ward I prayed that the name of the hospital (Gates of the Righteous) was no augury. With the help of Russian doctors and American nurses I got over my fever, having made friends with half a dozen ill Israelis including mendicants, housewives, kibbutz veterans and yeshiva students.

To celebrate my recovery I went to a gala concert at the new Jerusalem Theatre given by Daniel Barenboim, who had grown up in Israel in the 1950s.

He gave a tremendous rendition of Beethoven and Liszt to a packed-out hall.

At the close he made a moving speech dedicated to his Palestinian friends in the audience, including the PLO activist Professor Edward Said then visiting Israel. Earlier that day Barenboim had called for a generous peace settlement and the recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel. He was received with rapt applause by the Jerusalem audience. Jerusalem is supposedly the most right-wing city in Israel, but it has a strong and articulate liberal intelligentsia, and they were out that night in numbers. After the concert I found myself at a party at the nearby Israel Democracy Institute, a left-wing thinktank. Ehud Olmert, the mayor of Jerusalem, was supposed to be debating Edward Said on the future of Jerusalem into the late evening. Olmert didn't show so Said watched in amazement as the Israelis began fighting each other over the nature of Zionism and the claims of liberalism and religion within their political community. The Palestinian national movement has fought Zionism bitterly for nearly a century, yet there is a strange intimacy and friendship between elites of both movements, a curious mirroring. I spent many hours in the Old City talking with Palestinian youths who had fought in the Intifada and were eager to have me grasp their point of view. Yet they knew I was a Zionist and a Jew, and would have shed no tears had a bomb torn apart my street. The great shame of this war is such intimate, knowing hatred.

It is almost but not quite a civil war, for the ethnic and religious divide between the sides is implacable despite their kinship and shared experience.

There is almost no intermarriage of Arab and Jew in the Holy Land; the taboos dividing the communities are so great that the natural attraction of men and women is completely dammed up. Jew and Arab are not so very distant in language, religion and race; Palestinian and Israel Arabs are often indistinguishable from Sephardi Jewish Israelis. Yet the communities live their familial and social lives hermetically apart, and can only partially recognize the humanity of the other. *

My time in Israel was divided between intensive study of Jewish law, and teaching English common law to graduates at the Hebrew University. I met many brilliant scholars and jurists and was lucky to make some fast friendships.

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enormous technical elan; Israeli law by contrast is an untidy mish-mash of American, English, Turkish, German law. Nonetheless the whole enterprise of Israeli lawmaking is fascinating, surpercharged by incessant debates over civil rights and religion, conflicts that are often resolved in the courtroom. Israeli law is still in its heroic, state-building phase; legal reasoning and legal ethics count enormously in the political and social life of the country. My law classes in the university tipped swiftly from technical constitutional questions to hard-fought struggles over how Jews can live in peace and dignity in a hostile region, without strong traditions of sovereign self-rule to guide them. The secular population feels that the law of the state is the foundation of civility and order, and they fight furiously for their beliefs in liberal rights. Yet the secular courts' record in human rights is patchy at best, constantly deferring to 'national security needs' . The religious sector rabbinical courts and yeshivothave trouble accepting the legitimacy of a secular liberal state of law; but how can they hope to govern Israeli society effectively according to religious law, without massive discrimination and coercions and grievous inefficiency? This kulturkampfis constant, pervasive and inescapable; and for most Israelis the internecine constitutional conflict between Jew and Jew dwarfs the problems of the Israel-Arab conflict.

At the end of my stay I took time off from law and politics and travelled to see the beauty of the Land of Israel, from the Dead Sea in the south to Bethlehem and Judean hills near Jerusalem and up the Jordan valley to the snowclothed Mount Hermon in the north. I visited my old kibbutz on the Lebanon border where I lived in 1982 and felt great nostalgia; no-one I knew from those days was left. I saw crusader ruins scattered across the Upper Galilee, and managed to bump into a posse of Oxford professors by chance atop Nimrod's Castle, a vast Berber fortress on the Syrian foothills. The President of the British Academy was most surprised to see me there; and I him.

My last day in the Holy Land was well-spent. I played a concert of flute music to the Ilan Workshop, a workplace for persons with cerebral palsy in the centre of the Emek Refaim. They liked the Bach but preferred my closing medley of Israeli folk tunes. I embarked for England loaded with puppets and other gifts from the workshop for Naomi, and with much longing to return.

Joshua Getzler Fellow and Tutor in Law

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Fresher's Fare Reflections on the first year of Chaplaincy As an undergraduate, I remember, in the first Christmas vacation, being full of the new experiences which I had to share with my friends from school: the freedom to study what and when (and how long!) one liked; the stimulating discussions over coffee at strange times of day; the eccentricities of one's new friends and tutors. All this and more was on the menu for those who dared to listen!

I've felt very much like a fresher again this year. In fact, it was good to be able to introduce myself to the real freshers as a fellow newcomer in October 1997. The role of Chaplain is one which, because it is is tied in with the very foundation of the college, is seen as a natural part of the institution by those who arrive as freshers; but as the current incumbent, I confess to a degree of anxiety as to what I should actually be doing when I began. In parish ministry, one is often asked what a typical week holds, and the limp old joke is trotted out about only working one day a week. But I found myself asking the same question in September last year.

After all, there is no job description for the Chaplain of St Hugh's. It is assumed, of course, that I will provide the opportunity for worship in Chapel but that really is only one day (actually, one evening) a week. As a part-timer, aiming to spend about 20 hours on college work each week, how would I justify my existence?

I need not have worried. The first term was a blur of meeting people and trying to remember names, both of SCR and JCR members getting to know the majority of the MCR is a much more difficult matter, due to their relatively looser ties with everyday college life. I was greatly helped by being invited to join the Principal at his subject-based drinks parties for the freshers, and by the end of Michaelmas term could feel that I had had some sort of conversation with the majority of first years. Realistically, I am having to build up contacts year by year, and reconcile myself to the fact that I will never know the majority of the current second and third years; but I have been pleasantly surprised at the number whom I have met at various occasions, some of them through Chapel, but many also through pastoral needs.

Each week I spend the majority of Tuesday in and around college, and am committed to being in the chapel for half an hour at midday and in the vestry for an hour at teatime, so that people can consult me if they want to. I was unsure how many would take advantage of this; but I have listened to students talk about, amongst other things, bereavement, course changes, homesickness, exam pressure, and their worries for their friends, as well as a number of directly religious questions. One of the most stimulating things is being with people who are so open and willing to talk about themselves: I always find myself gaining far more than I can give in these conversations.

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made very few links between my studies and my (newly-discovered) Christian faith, despite the presence all around me of opportunities to do so. In small ways I have been trying to enable people to make these links. Members of the SCR have always been very supportive of the Chapel, and a number have spoken there over the years. At present I am trying to build on this tradition by having a regular termly preacher drawn from the SCR to consider some of the links (or conflicts) between his or her academic subject and the Christian faith.

The two contributors so far have caused a good deal of interest in college, and I hope this will continue.

In addition, Anna Holland (Randall Maclver Junior Research Fellow in French) and I have begun a Tuesday lunchtime discussion group, which aims to give a bit of space in the week for members of all three common rooms to discuss issues of general interest: so far, topics have included truth, friendship, democracy, and free will, amongst others. This is not a 'Christian' group in any sense, but all those who come enjoy thinking and talking about the wider implications of their own (and other people's) studies: I hope it will continue to be a useful forum.

In pastoral ministry, as in a number of other roles, there is always more that one could do, and perhaps this feeling is accentuated when one is working in a part-time capacity. But I need not have worried that my time would be empty!

What with the administration and preparation of sermons and so on required for the life of the chapel, the occasional wedding or other service, and events such as the Gaudy, as well as trying to maintain and develop individual contacts, I am no longer worried about what I should be doing. But I intend to remain fresh, even if not a fresher, throughout my time at St Hugh's!

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St Hugh's College Archive The archive now has much more spacious accommodation in the upper area of the Library extension and also offers facilities for readers to consult archival material or rare books in pleasant surroundings but also under more efficient supervision. The material is now taking shape on the shelves and searches no longer resemble an army training course.

There are two main sections to the archive. The first section is very unusual since it consists of the records of the period between 1939-4-5 when St Hugh's was a Military Hospital, dealing with head injuries. All the military records of the patients are included in the archive, from the moment they arrived at the field hospital until they were discharged from St Hugh's or the rehabilitation centre at Middleton Stoney. There is also an on-going archive of patients who still attend the Russell-Cairns Neurological Unit and have been studied in detail by Dr Freda Newcombe. When housing the archive became a problem both for the Cairns Library and for Dr Newcombe, various avenues were explored but there was great reluctance to deposit it in the Public Record Office since the records would then have been closed for 100 years and not available for on-going research. Space has been found in the Rare Book stack in St Hugh's, which can offer appropriate conditions for storage and also for retrieval, and thus enable research to continue and be filed appropriately. Some of the patients have bequeathed their brains to the study and the relevant pathology is carried out by Professor Margaret Esiri, a Fellow of St Hugh's.

The St Hugh's Veterans' Association has been formed and members are encouraged to visit St Hugh's, not only for reunions but also if they happen to be in the area and wish to refresh their memories of St Hugh's.

The second section is typical of a College archive and consists of the records of the College, minute books, photographs, reminiscences and questionnaires done for the Centenary, and the personal papers of various former members of College. This last category received the very welcome addition this year of Margaret Lane's working papers for her books as well as copies of the books themselves, the generous gift of Lady Selina Hastings. This section of the archive is of particular benefit to anyone working on the history of women's education, and has also been used by several researchers writing articles for the New Dictionary of National Biography, the editor of which, Profegsor Colin Matthew, is a Fellow of St Hugh's. A wide variety of queries comes in from all over the world. For one who never grown out of the "'satiable curiosity" that must have driven her family to distraction and who is given a crippling handicap in games of Trivial Pursuit, this is very stimulating. A selection of three of the more unusual items follows: 1. "I am a student at Sussex University, doing some research on Tennyson's The Princess. . . I wonder if you have any information on any performance of the poem (or indeed of Gilbert and Sullivan's satirical version of it, Princess Ida) in the late nineteenth century, or this century, at your College, school, or university..." Nothing apparently in St Hugh's but she was referred to the Uni49

versity Gilbert and Sullivan Society, in particular their version of Princess Ida four years ago, when the ending was changed to be "more in keeping with current educational practices".

2. [from someone in New Jersey] "I am a Fulford descendant and am doing research on all things pertaining to Fulfords. I would very much appreciate any information you would be kind enough to provide concerning the history of the naming of the Fulford Room and any information concerning the history of the individual for whom it was named." The Chronicle is a great help for this since the Principal's report for 1960-61 (Chronicle no. 33) mentions "The late Dame Catherine Fulford, who died in January 1960, left the residue of her estate to be divided between the five Oxford Women's College and New Hall, Cambridge. So far each College has received 1.8,500.00 on account of this bequest. The final settlement of the estate has still to take place. There are no specific conditions attached to the bequest and the College has not yet decided what use it will make of this generous legacy." In Chronicle no. 36 the Librarian, Joycelyne Dickinson, records "The lack of space in the main Library has been a serious problem for some years. This long vacation a major reorganization took place. About a third of the books in the main Library (the Philosophy, Theology, Politics, Economics, Law, Constitutional History and History sections) were moved downstairs to a refurnished Reading Room. This room, refloored in Aformosia wooden blocks, was shelved right round the walls and with two double bookstacks projecting from the east and two from the west wall. The wood used was the Australian walnut of the original work; fluorescent 'natural' tubes were sunk in the tops of the bookstacks, the troughs being painted white to give maximum reflection, and the ceiling painted white for the same reason. The new lighting gives a pleasant diffused light, and the woodwork an interesting contrast in shade and surface. The room, refurnished with part of the Dame Catherine Fulford legacy, has been renamed the Fulford Room. It has its own catalogue, and can seat 16 readers."

3. [an email from the Librarian of the Cory Library for Historical Research, Rhodes University Library] "We have been asked to investigate the colours of St Hugh's College. Would they have been the same in the period ca 18901900? The query comes from a local school (Diocesan School for Girls, Grahamstown, South Africa). The colours of this school are said to have been adopted from those of St Hugh's by an early headmistress who had been a student at St Hugh's in the 1880s. The colours of the DSG are two shades of green and so seem very different from the colours displayed on your web page.

We'd be grateful for any help you can give us." It was little problem to track down the headmistress Edith Adams Owen, daughter of a clergyman from Salisbury, after teaching for two years, came up to St Hugh's aged 23, in Hilary Term 1890, the twentieth student to be recorded in the 'White Register' .

She received a scholarship worth ÂŁ25.00 for Religious Knowledge, given by Miss Wordsworth, and was awarded a second class degree in Modern History in 1893. From St Hugh's she went as an assistant mistress to the High School, Nottingham from 1893-97. In 1897 she was an assistant mistress at Wycombe

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Abbey School and then from February 1899 until April 1904 she was Head Mistress of the Diocesan Girls School, Grahamstown. In 1905 she married Mr Hobhouse and she died in January 1921. The problem came with tracking down a vague memory that, in one of the early Club Papers or, possibly, in the St Hugh's Hall Reports, there was a reference to colours of 'Lincoln Green'.

Most librarians and archivists welcome the chance to sit and read through sections of their stock, for which there is normally insufficient opportunity, despite the popular conception that one sits and reads all day while material finds and reshelves itself, guided, no doubt, by Mary Poppins behind the shelves. It was therefore, no hardship to spend time working through the early records.

There is a tantalising reference to green in St Hugh's Club Paper, 2, January 1899, in the letter from the Senior Student (Miriam Langston) "The Hall has never before been so athletic. All play hockey but one. (It has been rumoured that the fascinating green blouse has done much to help the cause)." Fortunately there are further details in the same issue, in the first part of Miss Moberly' s description of the founding of St Hugh's, "The name of St Hugh was given to the Hall in memory of the great Bishop of Lincoln, who built that Cathedral, and of whose diocese Oxford formed a part. His reverence for women was all the more remarkable from the fact that he belonged to the ascetic Carthusian order. A window in St Giles' Church still bears his name; and his figure, with that of his swan, is to be seen on the north-east pinnacle of St Mary's spire. The swan was adopted as the badge of the Hall, with the motto `Fidelitas' . Lincoln green was chosen for its colour."

Deborah Quare Librarian and Archivist

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Middle Common Room MCR President's Report

This year has been an eventful one for the MCR in St Hugh's. For many graduates, life revolves around their studies and tends not to be as strongly focused on St Hugh's as for undergraduates. With this in mind the MCR provides a social centre for graduates and aims to satisfy their welfare, computing, sporting and recreation needs.

Of the 180 members of St Hugh's MCR, many are from non-UK backgrounds, making for a rich environment with exposure to many different cultures. The whole Oxford experience, with its peculiar traditions and rigid ways of doing things can appear amusing and mystifying to our international students. The relaxed environment of St Hugh's makes it that little bit easier to fit in and still lead the sort of life you choose, unbound by strict traditions.

Most freshers are provided with housing on the College grounds in one of the 56 rooms allocated to graduates. A new building is planned in the middle of the grounds with construction scheduled to begin in the near future. The extra housing will allow the Canterbury Road houses to be renovated with a generous donation from a former St Hugh's member, and made available to graduates. This will double the number of rooms for graduates and ease one of our major concerns. The issue of getting telephones in each room still remains unresolved since 1995-96.

Also planned for the summer is a refurbishment of the 'Comfy room' in the graduate centre. Included in the improvements will be subscriptions to a variety of magazines, new furniture, improved facilities for tea and coffee, and a music system for everyday use. Also part of the improvements was the re-establishment of bar and snack facilities in our TV room. This has proved very popular all year, and was the place of choice to watch the World Cup. This year has seen many social events from our weekly formal hall and numerous exchange dinners, to our black tie dinners and bops at the end of each term. A Latin Dance party in Hilary term was a particular success gauged by the impression it made on undergraduates who had thought the MCR was a sanctuary for the aged. Many of our events were open to all members of college, and the JCR reciprocated with invitations to bops and the Finalists Garden Party. Other MCR events included two trips to Stratford upon Avon to see the Royal Shakespeare Company, a trip to Bath and an evening at the Greyhounds. Trinity term's wonderful summer weather has provided a chance to enjoy St Hugh's magnificent gardens with BBQs and garden parties complete with croquet and champagne.

St Hugh's MCR also entered into the University debate about the value of the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) to graduates. With some doubts about the current OUSU we voted to remain part of the union and also voted to support plans to investigate the possibility of a new Graduate Union.

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graduate union to cater specifically for graduate needs. MCR members were also involved with an OUSU committee to improve access to Oxford for state school students.

Trinity term also saw there-establishment of the SCR /MCR joint seminars where a member of the SCR and a member of the MCR make short presentations on related topics followed by an open discussion. Our first seminar was on 'Science and Reality', where Robert Goulding discussed the Copernican Revolution and I spoke about quantum physics. Also on an academic note were the lively lunchtime discussion groups organised by Anna Holland and the Rev Jerry Gilpin of the SCR, and open to all members of college.

Several of our members were also successful in receiving small grants from College to pursue conference and research opportunities that are often impossible without College's generosity. No doubt St Hugh's will be well represented in academic forums worldwide. Unfortunately members were less successful in winning St Hugh's senior scholarships.

MCR members also participated as part of St Hugh's Boat Club, rowing in all the university events. Mary-Jeanne Phelan distinguished herself playing for the Oxford Women's Ice Hockey team, earning a half blue and defeating Cambridge in the Varsity match.

We also had an aquatic mystery with the MCR punt. After using a punt that our key unlocked on several outings, we were surprised to find the lock had been changed. Beneath layer upon layer of intrigue, careful sleuthing found that it was not in fact our punt we had been using but one of Merton's. Rufus Green is now lifetime honorary punt rep for his role in initiating, propagating and solving the mystery.

The past year provided us with many interesting times, and with the planned improvements to MCR facilities, and a hard-working and creative MCR committee, next year should be better still.

Jason Semitecolos MCR President

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Junior Common Room JCR President's Report Although the past year has in many ways been a difficult and transitional period for St Hugh's JCR, it has also seen many achievements for the JCR and its individual members. Inevitably, in writing an article which attempts to appraise the achievements of the JCR, people will inadvertently be left out who deserve to be included. I apologise in advance for any such omissions, but I hope the following is a reasonably accurate representation of this JCR's achievements over the past year.

St Hugh's has traditionally been very active in journalism in Oxford, and this has continued to be the case this year. Many JCR members, including James Foreman and Camilla Balme have been active in The Oxford Student, and Nick Hackworth and Max Baird-Smith have been involved in the business management of The Word. Stuart Chevalier, the former editor of The Oxford Student is currently engaged in producing an independent arts magazine, which he hopes will come into being in the forthcoming year.

One area in which St Hugh's has excelled to an astonishing degree, is in drama. This year has seen the formation of the St Hugh's Theatre Company.

This company, whose founders are Barry Parsons, Jo Combes, John Cavadino, Kate Joynes and Kim Hawkings, has been tremendously successful.

It has put on three extremely professional, well-reviewed and financially successful productions in the past year: Twelfth Night, A Doll's House, which I am told, broke box office records at the Old Fire Station, and The Duchess ofMalfi.

They intend to put on Cabaret next term. In addition, countless St Hugh's members have been involved in many other productions this past year, the most notable of which have been Blue Jam, Little Malcolm and his Struggle against the Eunuchs, and Dangerous Liaisons. Last, but not least, Rag's production of Guys and Dolls in Hilary term was excellent and thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Performance and production have also involved many JCR members in Oxford University's full-time radio station, Oxygen. In particular, Mark Dreyer who has presented a regular news and sports programme, Andrew Bonello, and Julia Fea deserve praise for their efforts. Politics has remained an area of interest to many JCR members, with Max Baird-Smith and PJ Bartram both being elected to the Secretary's Committee in the Oxford Union. St Hugh's involvement in OUSU has also been substantial, notable being Barry Egan's co-chairing of one of the most significant committees, Health and Welfare.

St Hugh's JCR has improved its welfare facilities this year by providing for two welfare posts on the committee, one male and one female. The welfare officers, have met informally with the college counsellor, the chaplain, the tutor for women and the senior tutor to discuss welfare issues. It is hoped that this informal arrangement will continue to help maintain St Hugh's excellent welfare facilities.

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St Hugh's clubs and societies have continued to grow strongly this year. Especially significant is the formation of the International Forum. This society, set up by Morten Spenner, Maya Mehta and Gaurav Guptal, has put on many excellent and popular events, all broadly concerned with international issues.

The society reflects the high percentage of students of foreign extraction at St Hugh's, and it is hoped that it will continue to raise awareness of international, cultural and religious issues.

In terms of issues that have affected the student body as a whole, most notable are those of the proposed new building and the government's Teaching and Higher Education Act. The year began with the JCR's continuing opposition to the plans for a new building at St Hugh's. It was felt that the location and design of the building was not sympathetic to the existing lay-out and structure of the college. There was also considerable uneasiness in terms of the prospect of losing the much-appreciated open gardens. Since the planning permission has been granted, and the JCR has become increasingly aware of the details of the plans, positive feeling towards the plans has developed. The benefit of being able to provide accommodation for all undergraduates at St Hugh's for their full time at St Hugh's is considerable. Also, the relative luxury and sensitive design of the buildings has been remarked upon. It is recognised that in the changing economic climate in higher education, there is a need for further expansion in conference income which, in the long term will benefit the college as a whole.

No-one in higher education could possibly fail to be aware of the legislation that has recently been passed in parliament. The legislation involves the abolition of the maintenance grant, the introduction of means-tested tuition fees, and includes the possibility of universities charging so-called top-up fees on entry to university. During the past year, St Hugh's JCR has continually been opposed to these plans, and its members have attended marches, demonstrations and rallies to express their dissatisfaction and frustration with the government. It is felt that the government's plans are ill-conceived and will create a two-tier education system in which access to higher education (in particular to universities such as Oxford) will be based on the ability to pay rather than academic ability. This, we believe, is not only unjust and discriminatory, but disastrous for the standards of universities such as Oxford in the long term.

Unfortunately we are now facing the reality of the government's legislation, and it is very difficult to know how to continue our opposition. The JCR's formal policy and plan of action will be decided upon at the beginning of next term, when the upcoming freshers, who are the ones who will directly suffer from the legislation, will be able to help formulate it.

The last year has been a very successful one for St Hugh's JCR as a whole and for many of our members, but in the light of the new legislation, it is impossible to look forward to the forthcoming year with undiluted optimism. It cannot be denied that it is difficult for this JCR to know how best to respond to the changing environment in higher education, and the situation is unlikely to become any easier in the near future. However, I feel confident that what-

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ever the changes that occur in higher education, St Hugh's JCR will retain its commitment to fairness, and equality of opportunity in higher education, and continue to promote the interests of its members.

Tom Startup JCR President Sports Report St Hugh's is having its most successful year of sport ever. Over the past year we have had Cuppers victories, college league champions, blades in rowing and many individual university Blues awarded.

The men's squash team managed to win Cuppers squash which was the first ever Cuppers men's victory in any sport at St Hugh's. The final was played against Pembroke, last year's runners up, which proved to be a highly competitive match that was finally won 3-2. Winning performances came from Andrew Hobley, Matt Peakman and Rob Dale. The victory was put down to a great team spirit throughout the season, training and playing as a team throughout the college leagues and this commitment is now being continued in the summer league. Great credit should go to Naeem Alam who captained the side and has produced such outstanding results.

Women's rowing is also having a great season. During Torpids the women's 1st and 2nd VIII bumped on each of the first three days. It was only due to a flooded river that the fourth day was cancelled, preventing both teams from getting their blades which has not been achieved since our Principal, Mr Wood, joined St Hugh's. The teams were consequently awarded discretionary blades due to these unfortunate circumstances and are looking to go one better in the summer Eights this year where the prospect of double blades is very much on the cards.

Women's tennis last year had the most successful year ever, winning both the college league and the Cuppers competition. The driving force behind this undefeated team came from Fran Dowling, Briony Reid and Alex Chalton.

The team this year, only slightly changed from last year, are still in the Cuppers competition and are doing equally well in the league. High standard tennis is continually admired on the St Hugh's courts which seems to be the breeding ground of the university tennis stars of today.

Many other sports clubs at St Hugh's are also very active. The women's football achieved their first ever win in the college leagues and ended up only one place from promotion. The football team were graced by a keen and talented coach, Jon Rohrer, who added great structure to their game using the experience he gained from football at St Hugh's and Trinity Hall Cambridge and the intellect he displayed on University Challenge the previous year.

Women's cricket are also unbeaten this year brushing aside formidable opponents such as The Queen's College who are renowned for their strength in this field. Other teams such as men's football, badminton and rugby all had very promising seasons.

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This year, the sports club is trying to increase the fitness of the average St Hugh's JCR member by putting on weekly aerobics sessions, organised by Jessie Buscombe, to work off the calories put on in the bar. This is a mere indication of the increase in enthusiasm and positive attitude towards sport within St Hugh's showing that we have great potential in all sports and are a force to be reckoned with.

Matt Peakman JCR Sports Representative The Boat Club This year has proved to be St Hugh's Boat Club's most successful in recent memory, following encouraging performances in 1997. A good start was made in Michaelmas Term with keen freshers filling 5 boats for the novice event Christ Church regatta. Sadly though, their commitment went unrewarded as dangerous river conditions resulted in the cancellation of the regatta. During this term, training for Torpids began, while Jenny Smart and Rachael Button were selected as members of the University Squad. Although they narrowly missed out on selection for the Blue Boat, George Pounder rowed at 7 with the men's Lightweights, the only victors over Cambridge at Henley this year. The training in Hilary Term was tough (5.30 am starts and freezing temperatures!) but bore fruit in Torpids with both women's crews bumping on each day of racing. Although the final day had to be cancelled, again due to dangerous river conditions, they were awarded discretionary blades by the Principal, Dr Lunn and the Captains and given a Bumps Supper in Trinity Term. Eights was also successful with the men's 1st VIII and both women's crews bumping up their divisions. In addition to this a mixed Eight won Oriel regatta and a women's boat gave a courageous performance at Henley. All in all, this year was excellent for St Hugh's rowing and we hope we can build on this in years to come.

Emma McKenzie The Chemistry Society St Hugh's College Chemistry Society began in 1985 and is still active today.

The Society is open to all College chemists and biochemists to provide an opportunity to meet other years and tutors in a relaxed atmosphere. Membership of the Society is free, with money being provided by the JCR Amalgamated Clubs and Societies fund.

There have been two events this year. The first was the annual Christmas dinner which took place at the Bagicha Indian Restaurant in North Parade.

Honorary members, Professors Green and McLaughlan and Alan Howe of the DP laboratory were present and an extremely enjoyable evening was had by all.

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ses. A post-exam drinks and croquet party was organised in the College gardens for all Society members. The weather did its best to drive the event indoors to the Kenyon Common Room, but croquet was still played and fun was had by all!

I've very much enjoyed being responsible for the running of the Society and look forward to the next year of SHUCCS events.

Mark Fischer President

International Forum The International Forum was formed by a group of St Hugh's students in Trinity 1997 with the aim of easing new international students into college life and providing a forum for multicultural social activity. Its membership base has since broadened immensely, encompassing a large number of non-international students too.

We were honoured to welcome as our first guest speaker in Michaelmas Term Dr Michael Aris, Fellow of St Antony' s College and husband of Burmese leader and former St Hugh's student, Aung San Suu Kyi, who gave us an intriguing insight into the problems in Tibet, sharing with us his personal experiences in the region. Miguel Hilario, a member of an indigenous community in the Amazon, spoke to the society about life in the Peruvian rainforest and the difficulties that have been encountered by the indigenous population in South America.

Several successful video evenings have also been held, including a special Valentine's day screening of Romeo andJuliet. We concluded Hilary Term with the popular 'Carnival Cocktails' in the JCR which was followed in Trinity by an 'International Bop' and the sumptuous 'Ho Chi Minh Dinner', a chance to sample various dishes from India and the Far East.

The Society would like to thank Morten Spenner, whose inspiration brought it into existence last year and the Principal, our Senior Member, for his continued support of our activities.

Maya Mehta

The Katharine Lawrence Society After the success of events last year, this year's KLS committee has had a hard act to follow. Our first event of the year was a drinks party to welcome new students and to provide an all too rare opportunity to discuss maths in a social environment! This was followed at the end of Michaelmas term by an informal lunch at Pizza Hut, which was again a popular and enjoyable occasion.

An unnaturally quiet Hilary term saw committee members beavering away behind the scenes in order to organise a mathematical speaker meeting. Eventually our efforts were rewarded with Dr Andrew Hodges of Wadham College agreeing to speak for us early in Trinity Term. Dr Hodges has written a

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biography of the famous mathematician Alan Turing, whose work was instrumental in the cracking of the Enigma code during the Second World War, and who is credited with inventing the computer. Dr Hodges' book Alan Turing: The Enigma was adapted for television and the resulting play, Breaking the Code, was shown by the BBC last year, starring Derek Jacobi. A large crowd of interested people from across the university gathered in the Wordsworth Room for an entertaining and enlightening talk, making the speaker meeting our most successful and well attended event of the year.

A pre-Mods and Finals barbecue in 5th week of Trinity term was welcomed by all those who needed a break from revision! Plans for the rest of Trinity term include punting, and of course a repeat of last year's victory in the Mathematicians v Rest of College Laser Quest match!

Laura Donelly President

The Law Society The St Hugh's College Law Society aims to provide its members with greater exposure to the legal world in a social context. This past year the Society has endeavoured to continue the balance between practical and academic law that previous Committees have achieved. In so doing we hoped to provide Law undergraduates with an informed base from which to consider a career in the law.

The range of events provided by the Society would not have been possible without the support of our Senior Members. Over the past year the Principal, in particular, has enabled the Society to attract a unique range of speakers whose expertise has been informative and interesting.

Michaelmas term was a busy one for the Junior Members. It began with the traditional Drinks Party, which enabled the lawyers in College to welcome their first year counterparts. A couple of weeks later we were fortunate to be able to attract last year's "Law Firm of the Year", Wragge & Co. of Birmingham, to give a careers presentation. This event offered the Junior Members an alternative perspective to consider: a career outside London. Following quickly on the heels of this came the traditional Trinity Term Mooting Final.

Burges Salmon of Bristol kindly sponsored and provided a judge for the event, and the victors, Claire Watson and Mandesa Anthony, collected a trophy and bottle of champagne in this closely argued contest. To conclude the term we were able to visit one of London's top law firms: Herbert Smith. The day was both informative and enjoyable, and the Society would like to extend its thanks to Dorothy Livingston for her help in arranging the day.

The events of Hilary Term were made difficult by social constraints within College, yet the Society endeavoured to continue its social calendar. The highlight of the term was a speech given by Professor Richard Freedman of the University of Michigan and Jonathan Caplan QC, about the televising of criminal trials and the Louise Woodward case. The evening provided members 59

with a unique opportunity to hear informed debate about controversial aspects of the law. The Society also hosted another mooting competition to enable would-be-barristers to strut their stuff in the heat of legal debate.

Trinity term not only brought the fear of finals for our third years, but also the Right Honourable Mr Justice Keene. Justice Keene spoke about his work as a High Court judge specialising in administrative law. The fascinating evening was perfect revision for the finalists, and provided a new perspective on the subject for the second years who had recently studied this area of the law. Trinity term would not be the same without the first years mooting in contract and tort. Their skill was a fitting testimony to the efforts of the Principal in encouraging the art of advocacy within St Hugh's. The term was brought to an end with the Annual Dinner at a restaurant in Oxford, and provided Junior Members with an opportunity to relax at the end of a hard term.

Over the past year the Law Society has aimed to provide a range of events for its members. It is hoped that in the future that St Hugh's College Law Society will continue its role as social bridge between academic and practical law.

Thomas Tolley Junior President

The Modern Languages Society The major event held by the St Hugh's Modern Languages Society this year was the Goethe Evening taking place on Saturday 2 May. The evening celebrated the life and works of this 'Universal Man of Genius' (1749-1832), and consisted of a selection of poetry set to music, drama and excerpts from Faust.

Four professional actors and musicians performed, and the evening was well received. Not only providing us with a challenge, the Goethe Evening also gave us an insight into the amount of work required, especially that behind the scenes, such as stage preparations and all the administration involved.

During the year, we also held a number of drinks events. 'Introductory Drinks' took place at the start of Michaelmas Term to enable all the linguists from various year groups to meet each other in a social setting. We also staged two pre-bop drinks parties in conjunction with the International Forum—the themes being 'Carnival' and naturally 'International' .

Towards the end of Trinity Term, we showed the Hollywood production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses which remains remarkable faithful to the actual Prelims text.

We rounded off the year with the customary Linguists' meal—shifting our continental palate to that of the Middle East. The evening would not have been complete without a trip to G & D's to savour the various ice-creams, allowing us to perfect our language with the 'bon mot' .

Alles in allem—a thoroughly enjoyable year was had by all!

Nicki Cupman and Ann Hornby

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Life as an overseas student in Oxford Oxford is in many respects an ideal choice for overseas students wanting to study in the UK. The institution has a long tradition of, and hence much experience with, teaching young people from outside Britain, and has adapted to its high percentage of students from abroad by various means, such as by providing induction programmes for overseas students during their first days in Oxford to get to know both each other and the place. Moreover, there is simply a large number of overseas students here, and accordingly there are many people who are in 'the same boat'—certainly an important factor that encourages many overseas students to apply to Oxford. A particularly good opportunity to get to know other overseas students are the various societies in Oxford that usually focus on one country or region and where one has the chance to get actively involved in organising events that can help represent one's own country or culture abroad, which can be a very interesting experience. All this is much facilitated by the help the university provides for these society activities; much of what is going on in the student social calendar would not be possible without for instance the provision of reasonably cheap office space needed by some of the larger societies.

Nevertheless, since my arrival the feeling has never left me that there is something of a divide between many of these overseas students on the one hand and the British students on the other. This situation appears to stem mainly from the fundamentally different positions we find ourselves in: while British students still spend half of the three years during which they are enrolled at Oxford at home (ie due to the eight-week-term system), have the opportunity to go home for weekends and have many of their contacts, friends or even boyfriend or girlfriend still in their hometown a few hours away, the overseas students come here knowing that they are going to live here, have friends and family far away overseas and naturally seek people in similar situations. The gap between British and overseas students may also be precipitated by the fact that members of both groups already know each other from school, the British students from their schools here while many overseas students come from the same international schools such as the United World Colleges.

In light of this fact, the existence of the various societies I referred to earlier on strengthens these trends by being mainly a home for overseas students of the same background or with the same interests. In the same way, the induction programmes for international students foster links between them but not between them and British students. I got to know many of my friends there (as did many overseas students I know), so that many students from abroad spend their time with each other right from the beginning I would not want to be misunderstood: these events and institutions catering for overseas students are important and do play a very positive role. But I feel that they do have their side-effects of which we have to be aware.

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able for overseas students because many of the curricula of the particular subjects clearly look beyond Britain's border more often than this might be the case in other universities inside or outside Britain. For instance, many of the papers I can take in PPE do not only allow for but often even require much 'international' knowledge. Neither am I at a disadvantage with my previous knowledge nor will I have a problem applying anything of what I have learnt at Oxford to anywhere outside Britain. On the whole, then, Oxford is a fascinating place to study for overseas students that bears many of the features one would hope to encounter in one's university of choice when deciding to study abroad.

Georg Caspary

The Medical Society Vaccine Damage

On 16 May 1997, the St Hugh's Medical Society held its annual reunion.

Forty-six people attended including past and present medics. The event was registered for postgraduate training. Coffee was first on the reunion agenda and this was followed by a welcome, and introductory talk by the Mary Lunt Junior Research Fellow, Dr Mark Herbert. The focus of the meeting was the damage caused by vaccines.

The first speaker was Euan Ross, Professor of Community Paediatrics at Kings College Hospital, London, and joint co-ordinator of a pivotal study conducted in the 1970s on the relationship between pertussis vaccination and infantile encephalopathy. He emphasised that it is often extremely difficult to determine whether a rare adverse event associated with a vaccine is due to chance, a casual link, or whether it is causal and a real side effect of immunisation. The parents of a child who develops a rare brain disease in the first year of life often feel that there "must be a cause" and not unnaturally make a connection with traumatic events occurring at the same time, such as vaccination.

Yet stopping an immunisation programme whenever there is a concern is not an easy matter as this may cause resurgence of infection. Anti-vaccine movements in the early 1970s led to a fall in the rates of immunisation against whooping cough (pertussis), to subsequent whooping cough epidemics, and consequent deaths. In the three year National Childhood Encephalopathy Study, Euan Ross visited every infant in the United Kingdom who developed encephalopathy but despite this enormous effort, was unable to demonstrate a link with vaccination. Although in the first analysis the authors concluded that they could not exclude a rare association between vaccination and encephalopathy, with the aid of the law (see below), a final judgement was that there was no such association.

Dr Richard Elliman, consultant community paediatrician at St George's Hospital, London, highlighted that concerns about vaccines dated back to 1801; cows were depicted growing out of humans who had received cowpox vaccination to protect against smallpox. He then focused on the recent con62

troversy surrounding the MMR measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

Authors of an article in The Lancet earlier this year had reported a temporal association between inflammatory bowel (Crohn' s) disease with autism and the MMR vaccination. The article received much media attention and led to a fall in the uptake of the vaccine in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that there was not a proven link and that an editorial in the same edition of the journal refuted the findings. We do not know what effect this scare will have on the reputation of the MMR and other vaccines, but it may well cause a reduction in immunisation rates and lead to resurgence of some disease.

Mr James Badenoch, a leading QC in the area of personal injury and medical negligence, discussed the differences between English and American medicolegal systems and then focused on the law pertaining to vaccine litigation. A major difference between the two countries is that in the United States lawyers can earn huge incomes from successful personal injury settlements. He cited as an example the legal firms who brought an action against tobacco companies, and who between themselves shared winnings of $ 3 billion. English law has more stringent criteria that have to be met before a case can be won: negligence has to be proven by the plaintiff, injury has to be clearly documented and there has to be a distinct causative link between the injury and the negligence.

The burden of proof is on the plaintiff. The law can encourage medical science to be more definitive. In this respect, the case of Loveday v Wellcome, the legal analysis of whether pertussis vaccine caused brain damage, forced a reconsideration of the scientific data of The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study.

The initial conclusion of the study was that vaccine related brain damage could not be excluded. However, the presiding judge, L J Smith, QC, who also held a PhD in Chemistry, concluded after a reanalysis of the data that on the burden of proof argument, pertussis vaccine did not cause encephalopathy.

Lunch followed, after which Dr Richard Nicholson, Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, provided a framework in which to consider immunisation issues. He briefly outlined basic principles of ethics, including deontology, utilitarianism, duties, virtues, conscience and natural law. He discussed the four basic rights of deontology (the science of duty): Justice, Autonomy, Beneficence and Non-maleficence. Although the benefits of vaccination usually far outweigh the risks, immunisation does not always meet with the criterion to above all do no harm. We do not know all the possible harm and so there should, at least, be a duty to have long-term follow-up studies after a vaccine is introduced into an immunisation schedule of a large population. On balance, there should be a duty to do good and not harm. Thirty years ago, the benefit-harm assessment for immunisation was strongly in favour of benefit, but now that (in the UK) the likelihood of acquiring disease is lower, the ratio has changed so that the risks of vaccination are proportionately greater.

The day ended with lively questions directed at a panel of speakers. Ideas for topics for the Medical Society Annual Reunion in 1999 would be most welcome and can be directed either to John Morris or myself at College.

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St Hugh's College Association of Senior Members Committee (June 1998)

President Mary Clapinson (Cook) Corvellon Cottage, Heyford Road, Kirtlington, OX3 5HL Tel: 01869 350616 email: mary.clapinson@bodley.ox.ac.uk Hon. Secretary Helen John (Vincent) Half Cottage, 45 Granville Road Limpsfield Oxted, Surrey RH8 OBY Tel: 01883 713582 email: helen.john@hm-treasury.gov.uk Editor of the Chronicle Joan Swindells (Dukes) Oak House, Frilford Heath, Abingdon, OX13 5QG Tel/Fax: 01865 390897 e-mail: jwindells@patrol.i-way. co. uk

Committee elected to 2000 Olivia Bloomfield (Provis) Gillian Huntrods (Sibley) Carolyn Price, Dr, College Editor, Chronicle

elected to 2002 Sally Allatt, Dr (Jackson) co-opted members

Ann Ridler, Dr (Morris) Helen Ghosh (Kirkby)

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St Hugh's College, Oxford Association of Senior Members The seventy-third Annual Meeting of the Association took place on 27 June 1998, at 2.30 pm, in the Mordan Hall. Fifty-six people were present.

The President, Veronica Fraser, welcomed members to the meeting.

Those present were asked to stand in memory of those who had died during the past year.

The Minutes of the meeting held on 28 June 1997, which had been published in the Chronicle, were signed as correct.

The President's Report As is usual in Gaudy year, your Committee has met four times, in October 1997, in February and May this year and finally this morning. In addition I have had two meetings during the year with the Development Office and administrative staff to discuss the arrangements for this weekend.

Looking back at the Minutes of our last AGM I see several items on which you will like to have further information. Firstly, I am glad to tell you that Brenda Hall sent cheque for £250, the surplus from the Helen Wallis Colloquium which she arranged in April 1997, to the Helen Wallis Memorial Fund at the British Library and we have a letter of appreciation from the Map Librarian, Tony Campbell, who, you will remember, was one of the speakers at the Colloquium.

Then there is the matter of St Margaret's House, in which we all have an interest. I am sure you will have enjoyed, as I did, the lively article in the most recent edition of our Chronicle by the Warden, Tony Hardie. I have been able to tell Olive Chandler, who represented us for so many years on their Council, that Gillian Miles will be replacing her there; if Gillian cannot attend one of the Council meetings, there is an informal arrangement that Rosemary Prior will stand in for her. We are grateful to them and look forward to hearing from them in future years—and to having more bulletins from the St Margaret's House Warden, so that it is kept alive, as it were, in our minds. The Annual Report is available for any Senior Member who would like to see it.

On a less cheerful note, I have to tell you that the London Dinner had to be cancelled through lack of support. Helen John, our Secretary, will be glad to hear from Senior Members who would like this event in 1999: it has been so successful on several occasions.

Finally in what might be called "matters arising" from last year's AGM, I must report to you that at the October Committee meeting we received and approved the Accounts for the year ending 31st August 1997; thanks to Helen John's care they are entirely satisfactory—though I would remind Senior Members (and not just those few who attend the AGM!) that they have the advantage of belonging to an Association which does not ask them for a subscription. We rely on, and are extremely grateful for the considerable help from 65

College in administrative matters, and in shouldering the whole cost of printing and mailing the Chronicle.

Our four Committee meetings this year have followed a regular pattern, with a contribution each time from the Governing Body representative, an item on Publications and a discussion of future plans. The Governing Body representative, Mary Clapinson, has kept us up-to-date with College affairs, not least with the development plans; I know that the Principal will be telling all about these in his Report to you.

Under the heading Publications, we have heard at each meeting from Ann Ridler and Mary Clapinson about their labours to produce a Register of past and present Senior Members a herculean task and I am sure everyone will be grateful to them and to Trish Carter in the Development Office who is in charge of the database. We hope for publication in the year 2001.

I need hardly tell you about the Chronicle; though it comes out only once a year, it is a year-long involvement for Joan Swindells, but an involvement which she clearly enjoys. With the innovations she has brought in, the Chronicle has moved forward and yet retained its traditional flavour which complements the different content and style of the Newsletter published by College. I know that Joan would want me to thank publicly both Carolyn Price and the College administrative staff; it hardly needs to be said that this is another example of how the College and the Association are bound together. Senior Members will be interested to know that this year, for the first time, copies of the Chronicle have been given to all members of both Middle and Junior Common Rooms.

Two other items which appear on our agendas are the Network and the Charitable Trust. We thank Gillian Huntrods for her continuing to run the Network—no sinecure this. There is considerable work involved in keeping the list of contacts up to date and in answering queries from Senior Members when they move, about others in their area.

I remain as Secretary of the Charitable Trust when I retire as your President and will now read the Trustees' Report. (The report of The Charitable Trust appears on page 104.)

In past reports, I have spoken of special occasions. There are now a number arranged for Senior Members by College and these are much enjoyed, for they allow us to meet, over a period of years, both our contemporaries and those who read the same subject as ourselves. But special mention must be made of the official opening of the Library annexe on the 3rd October 1997 by Dr Marjorie Reeves. There are several articles about this in the recent College Newsletter, but I should like to add what a splendidly enjoyable evening this was a sparkling speech from Marjorie Reeves, good music and good food— and, of course, the excitement of touring the Library extension.

Looking forward for your Committee has meant discussing the contents and appearance of a Web page for the Association as part of the College's Website. Joan Swindells has taken this initiative under her wing and we are confident, that with the frequent up-dates which are possible, the Association's activities and news can be more widely accessible.

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A Colloquium is planned for the 18th September 1999 on the history of College in the context of the development of Higher Education for women especially at Oxford. Helen Ghosh, a Senior Member historian living in Oxford, has agreed to organize this for us and we have just co-opted her onto the Committee. This will be an appropriate topic for the Association to present, both as a preliminary to millennium celebrations at St Hugh's and to celebrate the climax of yet another exciting building development.

This weekend is the first opportunity most Senior Members will have had to welcome the new Chaplain, the Reverend Jerry Gilpin, who wears two hats this afternoon at the Garden Party, being there not only in his own right but as the husband of a Senior Member. Those of you who attend any of the three special services he has arranged for us over the Gaudy weekend will be able to thank him personally then, but I do so now formally on behalf of you all, and hope he will have a long and happy relationship with our Association.

Throughout this report I have been thanking people on your behalf; there are many others, in College—more especially the Principal himself, of course, and his now vast administrative staff, too many to name individually, so great is the risk of leaving someone out...our gratitude is no less for appearing impersonal. I have thanked, too, Senior Members who have undertaken specific work on our behalf: some, like Joan Swindells and Gillian Huntrods, are on continuing tasks, others are working on specific projects such as the Register, or the next Colloquium. But all Committee members must be thanked, more especially our Secretary, Helen John who has a demanding career and a family as well as our Minutes to occupy her. And there are three Committee members who retire now. Ann Ridler has been co-opted until the Register has been published and we are so glad that she is prepared to do yet another stint on the Committee, for her knowledge of the Association is extremely valuable. Charlotte Franklin and Yvette Ruggins reach the end of their four year elected service on the Committee and I thank them for their sustained interest and support both in the meetings themselves and in the months in between.

Before I end, as this is my last report to you, Iwant to thank you for the privilege of serving as your President for the last four years. It has been a privilege for one who was a singularly undistinguished undergraduate! I think I can say that I have enjoyed practically all of it; there are many happy memories for me to lay alongside the less rosy ones of over forty years ago. The greatest joy— and one I shall miss—had been the warmth of the welcome Ihave had on my many visits to College in the past four years, from the most important people—the Porters and the Principal—and everyone in between. I have felt at home as a member of the Senior Common Room and altogether I have been much blessed.

When I re-read my past three reports before preparing this one, I thought how much was the same and how much differed from year to year. What better state for the Association to be in, balanced between tradition and progress; I am happy to hand over to my successor such a goodly heritage.

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The Principal's Report (The Principal's Report appears on p. 7)

Elections We have had only one nomination for each of the three officers of the ASM. Hence we do not require a ballot. Some of you will have read the brief details of each nominee available at the back of the room. The nomination for President is Mary Clapinson. Mary has served on the ASM Committee since 1992, and as Governing Body Representative since 1994. She is Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian and a professorial fellow at St Hugh's.

I have been Secretary of the Association for the past two years and am willing to continue in office. Joan Swindells, who took over as Editor of the Chronicle in 1995, is happy to stand for re-election. As there are no further nominations, Mary Clapinson is elected to serve as President. I shall continue as Secretary and Joan Swindells will continue as Editor, each for the next two years.

Under the Constitution, there are three places on the Committee to be elected today. We have one nomination, Dr Sally Allatt, who is unfortunately unable to be here today. Sally combines teaching at the Open University with part-time teaching at Luton Sixth Form College and she is also an A level examiner. She has been an active member of the ASM, attending several London dinners and organising the Harpenden reunion in 1995. Sally Allatt is elected to the Committee for four years until 2002. In addition as the President reported, the Committee is co-opting Dr Alm Ridler, a retiring member of the Committee, who is co-editor of the College Register, and Helen Ghosh, who will be organising next year's Colloquium. Following Mary Clapinson's election as President, College will nominate a fellow for the post of Governing Body Representative shortly.

In addition to the officers and the Governing Body Representative, the new Committee will therefore be: Olivia Bloomfield, Gillian Huntrods and Carolyn Price (each to 2000), Sally Allatt (to 2002), Ann Ridler and Helen Ghosh.

Presentation to the retiring President, Veronica Fraser Today, Veronica Fraser gave her last report as President of the Association of Senior Members. At this point, her successor, Mary Clapinson, presented Veronica with an armful of gloriousJuneflowers in St Hugh's yellow and blue and paid her thefollowing tribute:

I am reliably informed that it was in 1988 that Veronica responded, at a regional meeting in Llandaff, to Penny Griffin's suggestion that the Association should establish a Charitable Trust, to support members who needed financial

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Veronica Fraser at her final Annual Meeting as ASM President receiving a bouquet from Helen John, Hon. Secretary

help. The Chronicle records all that Veronica has done for our Association in the past ten years: first and still for The Charitable Trust; then on the Committee; and since 1994, as our President.

If you read through, as I did last night, Veronica's reports to successive AGMs, you get a clear idea of how much she has done and of how she has guided us through a succession of meetings and events, with enviable skill and efficiency.

Those of you who have been involved in any (or indeed all) of those occasions, will, I'm sure, want to join me in paying tribute not only to Veronica's skill and efficiency, but to something more: something that the formal record doesn't adequately reflect—her tact and tolerance, her good humour and wise counsel—qualities from which the Association has enormously benefited.

Veronica—very many thanks from us all.

Mary Clapinson (Cook)

Other Business No other business was raised and the meeting closed just after 3.30pm.

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Association of Senior Members Annual Meeting 1999 The seventy-fourth Annual Meeting of the Association will take place at St Hugh's College on Saturday 26 June 1999, at 2.30 pm Agenda 1. Minutes of the meeting held on 27 June 1998.

2. Business arising from the Minutes.

3. The President.

4. The College Report.

5. Other business.

Additional items for the Agenda, in writing and bearing the signatures and years of matriculation of at least two members, may be sent by 12 June 1999 to Helen John, ASM Secretary, Half Cottage, 45 Granville Road, Limpsfield, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 OBY. Helen John (Vincent) Hon Secretary

June 1998

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Gaudy Dinner St Hugh's was privileged to have Mrs Edith Morgan OBE (Wilson), who is a past President of the World Federation for Mental Health, propose the toast to the Association.

Extracts follow. . . . Reflecting on what I should say, I decided to offer a personal perspective, hoping it might add a little to the general understanding of what St Hugh's means to its members. I hope also it might encourage others to contribute their personal stories; the individual histories of those who have been connected with it are an important part of the history of the College.

I do not claim to represent mature students but that was how I came to St Hugh's. When I left school at 16, and became a Post Office telegraphist, the notion that I would one day propose a toast to the senior members of an Oxford college would have seemed ludicrous. I was aware that St Hugh's existed, but only as a wartime hospital specialising in brain injuries that had taken over the College. My best friend's husband, who had been wounded in battle, was a patient there for two years so I heard a lot about it. The hospital had the finest medical and nursing staff and the success rate with its 13,000 patients was remarkable. It warms my heart to think of the College being put to such a use and I was moved today to see the small exhibition and the plaque commemorating its work over the library entrance.

When I was awarded a scholarship in 194-6 by the Oxford Delegacy for Extra Mural Studies, to read PPE, it was a coincidence that they had asked St Hugh's to keep a place if they awarded it to a woman. I believe the Delegacy chose St Hugh's because of Miss Gwyer's interests and I have a lasting memory of being interviewed by her, on one of the lovely Oxford spring days we all know, just before she retired. All my ideas about universities and academic women had come from books, mainly novels. I was paralysed by shyness but somehow Miss Gwyer put me at my ease, showed me round the garden and agreed to accept me.

However, the reassurance of that interview had faded by the 11th of October when I travelled to Oxford to start my first term. The railway station was awash with noisy undergraduates - mostly male - greeting each other in shouts and leaping into taxis with a confidence I deeply envied. I was lucky that my admission to St Hugh's coincided with that of some older students who had been in the services...

Looking back, it is not surprising that the initial impact of Oxford and St Hugh's was stressful. What is surprising is how quickly I came to feel part of the College. We owe a lot to our predecessors who established its ethos of egalitarianism. Some students were richer than others and some were cleverer or more talented, but there was no Brideshead elitism. Everyone was valued...

If I were looking for something to criticise it is perhaps ... the relative isolation of Oxford from events in the rest of the world. The period 1946 to 1949, at the end of a long and hideous war, was a time of revolutionary change. It

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cannot have escaped anyone's notice that this is the 50th anniversary of the NHS in the UK, and it is not the only historic anniversary. 1948 also saw the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed, the founding of the World Health Organisation, and - of special interest to me - the World Federation for Mental Health. The State of Israel was created. Czechoslovakia still a far away country about which we knew little - had fallen to Communist rule. The new South African government was establishing apartheid. The Greek civil war continued to rage.

Yet my recollection is that in term time at least we were infinitely more preoccupied by Oxford politics and societies than what was happening outside the University. Once, on Paddington Station, in the middle of hurrying crowds of people, the chastening thought struck me that none of them cared in the least whether the Oxford Labour Club split or not - a threat that had filled a whole term with passionate debate and quarrels.

I am exaggerating, of course. We were not completely indifferent to the world outside. We went to meetings from which Oxfam emerged. We sent food parcels to German people who really were starving. When Indian independence was followed within months by Gandhi's assassination my Indian neighbour retreated into her room for days and we grieved with her. But the ivory tower jibe was too close for comfort.

I wonder what student life feels like today at St Hugh's. The immediacy of television and other technological advances have brought peoples and countries closer together. The spartan conditions we experienced have improved but new anxieties have emerged. Our scholarships and grants may have been small but were not the millstone of loans to be repaid. How does that affect student life? What difference has it made to have men as Fellows and students; to have a man as the seventh Principal of St Hugh's? These are questions that younger members of the Association will have to address at future Gaudies and I hope I shall be around to hear some of the answers . . .

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Note from the ASM Committee The following brief outline of the Association of Senior Members was included in the information pack given to those attending the Gaudy weekend.

The Association of Senior Members dates formally from 1926 but the earliest records show that informal contacts between the Hall and its Old Students were strong from the beginning. The contacts remain strong today.

Membership of the Association includes the Principal, Fellows, MCR and all graduates of St Hugh's.

The ASM is run by a Committee which meets in College three or four times a year and consists of President, Secretary, Committee members and Chronicle Editor in conjunction with an Assistant Editor in College, and a representative from the Governing Body. Elections to the Committee take place at the ASM Annual Meetings which are held in College the weekend of the Gaudy and/or Garden Party. Members pay no subscriptions: Committee members donate their time and ordinary administrative costs are met by College.

Through the years ASM activity changes, reflecting current interests and needs. In the last decade, activities have included several Colloquia, an example of which was the gathering in April last year celebrating the life and work of internationally renowned cartographer, Helen Wallis, a former President of the ASM. The Committee has established a Network of addresses of members, mainly in Britain and some overseas, willing to help Senior Members in their areas keep in touch with each other. Regional meetings are held from time to time for the same purpose and to bring members up to date with what is happening in College. Work is also going ahead to bring out a Register, a St Hugh's College Who's Who. The Associatinq of Senior Members Charitable Trust was set up eight years ago to provide a fund by which a Senior Member with a specific, often unexpected, need could have access to limited financial aid. Details about the Trust and all ASM activities appear in the annual ASM Chronicle , sent free to every Association member and the JCR at the beginning of Michaelmas term.

The Chronicle is the members' record of the St Hugh's academic year. If you have not received a Chronicle recently it may be that the College does not have your current address, in which case, please notify the Development Office at College.

When you receive the Chronicle and the `news' forms in the enclosed tinted

section, take time to let us know your latest news. We will be pleased to hear from you.

ASM Committee Please check from time to time the St Hugh's College website. We are planning to have an ASM page in the nearfuture.

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Gaudy 1998 Many years ago I wrote an article for his entitled 'Nostalgia is my Goddess' , so it is not surprising that I am usually lurking around College at Gaudy weekends. The pleasures of nostalgia, however, are always balanced by appreciation of change and progress. The succession of new buildings, the en-suite rooms and the abundance of good food and wine, which so impress those returning for the first time, mean that one does not merely indulge in a timewarp but feels part of the present lively and growing College.

This year, as always, the administrative and domestic staff had done everything to make us welcome, and were on hand to solve any problem. The College flag flew, the clock was working again and magnificent flowers in the College colours decorated Hall, Chapel and the stairwell. The Wordsworth room provided a meeting place with a constant supply of coffee and newspapers, and there were exhibitions of the new building plans, photographs of recent College events and a showing of pictures by Liz Moon. The new library extension was a great source of interest and admiration and the Librarian had mounted a fascinating display from the archives. The garden was as lovely as ever, and any fears that the proposed new buildings would detract from it are allayed when the site—opened up by the inclusion of Woodstock Road rear gardens is viewed.

A small party had assembled by Friday evening, to dine together, and numbers grew rapidly by lunchtime on Saturday, to give a good attendance at the AGM of the Association of Senior Members. There the retiring President, Veronica Fraser, was warmly thanked for all that she had done over the past fours years, and the charm with which she had done it, and was presented with a fine picture of St Hugh's by the College, and an enormous bouquet from the ASM. So efficient had been the organisation that Veronica only then understood why there was a large plastic bucket in her bathroom. The election of Mary Clapinson as the new President was announced to unanimous approval.

The annual report on the work of the ASM, including plans for a Colloquium on the history of the College in September 1999, appears elsewhere in the Chronicle. So, too, does the Principal's report, which centred on the financial problems arising from the Government's policy on university funding. He ended, however, with an encouraging confidence that College's plans for expansion would go ahead.

In one of the wettest Junes of the century we were fortunate in being able to take tea, wisely served in Hall, into the garden for the traditional Garden Party, where more members and friends of College joined us. It was good to see Miss Trickett there and, of course, her dog, which is acquiring a nobility of years. After the enjoyable combination of strawberries and cream and sunshine it was time to change before Evensong and dinner. This was the second Evensong conducted by the new College Chaplain, Jerry Gilpin, for senior members. That on Friday had inevitably been a matter of two or three gathered together, but there was a large group on Saturday to enjoy some fine organ music, a Prayerbook service and spirited hymns. I sometimes wonder if 74

I am the only member of St Hugh's who cannot sing, and whether I would have been admitted if it had been realised.

The number for the Gaudy dinner this year was lower than usual, about 80, but although this was to be regretted it did mean that the decibel level was markedly lower during the pre-dinner drinks in the Mordan Hall and in Hall itself. This made conversation much easier and indeed interesting, as is always the case when one can hear well enough to make intelligent response instead of working on a nod and a wink basis.

The dinner was a splendid one. Chef, who provided delicious meals throughout the weekend, excelled himself at what will sadly be his last creation for Gaudy. He will be much missed. The toast to the Association was made by Mrs Edith Morgan OBE, (Wilson m. 46), who has followed a very distinguished career in the field of mental health care. She told us how she arrived as a mature student soon after the war, with an apprehension soon dispelled by the friendliness of the College, a quality that happily remains.

Veronica Fraser responded with a brief and graceful speech which, with a Janus touch, ended in the toast to College. The Principal's reply was warm, succinct and witty, as these things should be. More drinks and talk followed in the Mordan Hall, and till late into the night in individual rooms. There had been two British wins at Wimbledon and the lads had done well in the World Cup. All in all one of the better days: I am nostalgic about it already.

Sunday morning began with Holy Communion in Chapel. Then many goodbyes were made over breakfast, but some members remained until lunch, where they were joined by the Principal. It had been a very happy and successful Gaudy. As always there was a wide age range among the members, exemplified by Shirley Smith, who had come from New Zealand, her daughter and her grandson, who is in St Hugh's at present. The celebration of a fifty year jubilee is now becoming a mere interim event. Six members of the year 1938 marked sixty years on, while other had reached a 65th anniversary, and Dr Marjorie Reeves CBE, FBA a 75th. The way these and other of the older members had retained their elegance and vivacity made me consider for the first time that the spartan diet of earlier College years may really have been good for us after all. The 1948 jubilee year was, of course, represented, as were most of the later years, and it was a pleasure to find some of our male senior members attending. People are sometimes reluctant to come to a Gaudy because they fear they will not have any friends there. The probability is that they will when they arrive, the certainty is that they will when they leave.

Gillian Huntrods (Sibley)

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L to R. Sophie and John Iles, Jean Monk and Suzie Iles at the Garden Party

A Life in the Media In February, College invited Senior Members working in the media to speak at a careers event arranged for the benefit of members of the Middle and Junior Common Rooms.

Five graduates of St Hugh's gave a lively and informative series of talks on careers in the media—their own, the different options and how best to gain an entry. Their careers spanned a number of avenues within the media, from broadcasting to journalism, general dogsbody to Managing Director of BBC network radio. Common to them all, however, was their tremendous enthusiasm for their work, which translated itself to all those assembled. Late arrivals, after new stories and missed trains, were testimony to the variety, challenge and unpredictability of life as a journalist or reporter. Although many in the audience might have felt momentarily concerned that they themselves had not been committed to the media since birth, the speakers emphasis on previous experience will probably generate flocks of St Hugh's enthusiasts in the Oxygen, Cherwell and Isis offices as it was made perfectly clear that an Oxford degree won't get you everywhere. Despite the difficulty of actually securing a life in the media, Liz Forgan [Modern Languages, 196366], Simon Dickson [Modern History, 1988-91, Kath Worrall [(Marley) Modern History, 1964-67], Sarah Boseley [(Bradley) English, 1976-79] and Charlotte Hume [English, 1986-89] certainly inspired many who heard them to try.

Diana Magnay Modern History 1996 '

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Colloquium 1999 Celebrating Women's Achievements To mark the close of the 20th Century and the approach of the next Millennium, the Association of Senior Members is organising a Colloquium on Saturday 18 September 1999. The focus of the day will be on the history of St Hugh's in the wider context of developments in the University and in women's education as a whole. It will be an opportunity to celebrate how far women have come in the past 100 years, and to look forward at the challenges for the 21st Century. As well as contributions from distinguished speakers, we hope that as many members as possible (male and female!) will come to add their own views of the past and hopes for the future. Further details will be circulated to ASM members in Spring 1999—but please put the date in your long-term diaries now!

Helen Ghosh (Kirkby)

London Dinner 1999 The ASM is planning to hold a fourth informal dinner in London on Thursday 20 May 1999. The first three dinners were all held at Boulevard Brasserie in Covent Garden, and we shall continue with a central London location.

This is a great opportunity to arrange a get-together with old friends in London, or of course you can come on your own and see who else is there on the night. Guests are welcome.

Monica Kendall (L) and Carolyn Morton-Hooper (Colquhoun) with family and friends at the 1973-76 Year Group Reunion

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Please return the form (in the tinted section at the back of the Chronicle) indicating your interest, together with a SAE, as soon as possible, but by 31 March at the latest to Helen John, ASM Secretary, Half Cottage, 45 Granville Road, Limpsfield, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 OBY. Alternatively, please telephone Helen on 01883 713582 or e-mail her (helen.john@hm-treasury.gov.uk). We shall aim to keep the price at £20—L25.

There will be no obligation at that stage. Helen will send details of the dinner to those expressing an interest, by mid-April, and you are then invited to confirm your booking with a cheque. We look forward to hearing from you.

The Dearing Experience The invitation in late June 1996 to serve on the Scottish Committee, chaired by Sir Ron Garrick, of the National (Dearing) Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education came as a complete surprise. My name might have been known because I had been president of the Association of University Teachers in Scotland and had done some advisory work for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council but I was probably chosen because I was an ordinary academic teaching an abstruse subject, mediaeval history, at Scotland's oldest university who also happened to be a woman. One of the best parts of the Dearing experience was waiting for it all to begin and watching people's reaction to my membership; another was thinking up titles for my Dear[ing] diary: 'A Tale of Two Ronnies' , `My Garrick Year', 'Educating Ron' or 'Waiting for Dearing'. Now that the massive 1,700 page report has been published, the government has reacted and responded to our main recommendations and the dust has begun to settle, it is interesting to re-read my diary and reflect on a hectic year. There is an entry early in November recording a welcome break in the round of committee meetings, conferences and consultations: the History Reunion at St Hugh's. It may be of interest not only to those who attended the History Reunion but also those senior members whose experience of higher education has, like mine, spanned the period between the Robbins and Dearing Reports to hear some personal impressions of the proceedings of the Garrick Committee.

To understand how the Dearing Inquiry operated it is necessary to go back to the Robbins Report. The Robbins Committee was set up in 1961 and reported in 1963. The whole operation cost nearly £129,000, the committee, which was serviced by two secretaries, both of whom broke down and one of whom committed suicide, met 111 times, commissioned a few surveys, received 400 written submissions, held informal discussions and formal interviews, visited institutions and went on visits abroad. The Dearing Inquiry was a much more elaborate exercise which cost about £2.5 million The accelerated pace of Dearing—the massive enterprise was completed in thirteen months— was only made possible by advances in information technology since the I 960s.

The boxed set of reports weighs 6.5 kilograms but it is all contained on one CDROM. On the day of the launch of the Report, it was put on the world wide web and there were a a quarter of a million 'hits' in the first 24 hours.

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As a woman who started her academic career while the Robbins Committee was at work I found it fascinating to begin my work on the Dearing Inquiry by reading the Robbins Report. What struck me first was the language: one `his or her' and after that entirely gender-specific; whatever was said in committee meetings, the language of the Dearing Report is, of course, entirely gender neutral. As an undergraduate in the late 1950s I was certainly aware how few women there were at Oxford but I did not realise how few women went to university in the early 1960s: only 7.3% of the age group (men were 9.8%) and women made up only 28% of those entering higher education (much lower than in Sweden, France and the Soviet Union). The presumption seems to have been that the typical academic was male and probably a fellow of an Oxbridge college; in the section on staffing there is talk of 'the man of ability' but nothing about academic women and under the heading of 'Social Intercourse' it is explained that: The fact that the colleges own many houses in the near neighbourhood makes it possible for a non-resident tutor to dine in the college and be available outside 'office hours' without feeling he is neglecting his wife and family, and he can entertain his students without imposing undue burdens on his wife.

There were two women, Dame Kitty Anderson and Helen Gardner, on the twelve strong Robbins Committee and there were fifteen women out of a total of 61 members of the two main committee and eight working groups of the Dearing Inquiry. There were three other women on the thirteen member Garrick Committee: Joan Stringer, the only female principal of a higher education institution in Scotland, Janet Lowe, the principal of a large further education college and Zoe Heathcote, a former president of Edinburgh University Students' Association. I should like to report that we networked like mad but we were all so busy with such disparate concerns that we did not have time to operate as a group. We did, however, have more in common with each other than with the male members of the committee, we did hold protest meetings in ladies' loos across Scotland and we did work very closely with the mainly female secretariat. I think it did make a difference to have (comparatively) so many women involved and we did have a disproportionate input into the final report.

The Scottish Committee met once a month at first but more frequently towards the end of its existence. At the beginning we were mainly gathering information and there was certainly a great deal of of information to be digested.

We were visited by representatives of various organisations who were predominantly men in suits; I can only recall one or two women, usually silent.

When we commissioned a statistical profile of Scottish higher education I insisted there should be a gender analysis; as expected it showed an explosion of female students in the 1990s, mainly doing business studies, and a dearth of female academics, especially in promoted posts. I went on as many institutional visits as possible to show that women were involved in the Inquiry. We met very few women, even among the representatives of the students. The excep79

tion was the Continuing Education Department of Paisley University where there was only one man among the assembled staff, prompting the remark from Sir Ron Garrick, 'I thought Paisley was supposed to be an Equal Opportunities employer!'

The Dearing experience affected me in various ways. While I am now extremely well-informed about higher education in Scotland, I suspect that the experience has probably ruined what is left of my career. I could manage at first because I had some long awaited research leave; in the New Year it proved to be very difficult to combine committee work and checking the drafts of the Report with teaching and examining and any research was impossible.

In November 1997 the Scottish Committee had a farewell dinner, ironically at the same time as students were protesting in Glasgow at the introduction of tuition fee contributions. We reflected that it was a pity that attention had been so quickly deflected from the useful things in the Report by the government's immediate response to the recommendation on student contributions to tuition fees. We were also concerned that the government had rejected another of our recommendations and had decided to replace maintenance grants with loans. We feared the effect this might have on access to higher education from the lower income groups that we had found were woefully under-represented in Scottish universities and colleges. We also had the distinct impression that some of the people who were talking so authoritatively about our Report had not read it or were reading things into it that we had not said or meant. The conversation with members of the secretariat over a drink after the dinner was even franker. There was a feeling that neither of the Committees had worked as well as they should have done, probably because neither Sir Ron was used to working with committees, especially committees with women on them. There was surprise at the extent of the ignorance of some members of the Committees about higher education, at the way significant decisions were taken, sometimes almost by accident, and at the amount of negotiation that went on behind the scenes. We regretted that there was no time to record the actual processes of the Inquiry and that we did not have longer to do things better, but we felt a certain modest pride in what had been achieved in so short a time.

Ann Kettle (m. 1957) Senior Lecturer in Mediaeval History University of St Andrews

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Publications 1997-98 Books, Conference Proceedings Matric.

Marjorie Reeves. Pursuing the Muses: Female Education and Noncon1923 formist Culture 1700-1900. Cassell, 1997.

194-1 Olive Sayce (Davison). Rudolph von Fenis , Die Lieder, mit Ubersetzung, Kommentar and Glossar. Kiimmerle, 1996.

1944 Margaret Potter (Newman).Just What I Wanted. A short story collection by Anne Melville (pseudonym). Severn House, 1997.

Deirdre Baker (Daniel). Translation from French of Painted 1953 Churches and Rock-Cut Chapels of Lebanon, by Youhanna Sader OAM, Dar Sader, Beirut, 1997.

1954 Bohuslava Bradbrook (Ne&sova). Karel eapek, In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust. Sunset Academic Press, March 1998.

1959 Ann Hamlin. 'The Early Church in County Down to the Twelfth Century' in Down: History and Society, ed L Proudfoot. Geography Publications, Dublin, 1997, pp 47-70. and Kathleen Hughes. The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1997. (New edition of 1977 SPCK book.)

1962 Stephanie Lorenz (Morris). Children with Down's Syndrome. David Fulton, 1998.

Effective In-Class Support. David Fulton, 1998.

The Support Assistant's Survival Guide.

Anne Sutton. I Sing of a Maiden. The Story of the Mercers' Maiden, Mercers' Company, London 1998.

A Merchant Family of Coventry, London and Calais: the Tates, 1450s to 1520s. Mercers' Company, London, 1998.

1968 Angela Ashwin (Bennett). Wait and See. Eagle Publisher, 1997.

Wait and Trust. Eagle Publisher, 1997.

Ruth Chadwick, Main Levitt, Darren Shickle. The Right to Know 1970 and the Right Not to Know. Avebury, Aldershot, 1997.

(Editor in Chief), Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Academic Press, 1997. , Main Levitt. Ethical Issues in Community Health Care. Arnold.

Felicity Lawson, with Stephen Cottrell, Steven Croft, John Finny and Robert Warren. Emmaus: The Way of Faith. Church House Publishing/The Bible Society.

1971 Joyce Hannam (Batemen). Christmas in Prague. Third in a series of English language readers. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rosamund Dalziell (Austin), David Parker and Ian Wright (eds).

1972 Shame and the Modem Self. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1996.

1977 Wendy Scase (Harris), Rita Copeland and David Lawton (eds).

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New Medieval Literature, Volume One, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Wendy Bickmore and J Craig. Chromosome Bands: Patterns in the Genome. Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit. R G Landes Co, Springer-Verlag, Germany, 1997.

Joanna Trevelyan and B Booth. Complementary Medicine for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors. Macmillan, London.

But I Want a Baby. Infertility, Your Options. Headline, London, 1998 The Holistic Home. Quintet, London, 1998.

Katherine Reimann. A Tremor in the Bitter Earth. Tor Books/St Martin's Press, 1998.

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Sheila Ottley. 'The Pride of Barnsley', in Yorkshire Journal, number 19, Autumn 1997, pp 101-104.

Jean Gibbens (Jopling). 'At Barrow Hospital', poem in The Gift of Love, ed Chris Walton, Triumph House, 1995.

Mary Bowen (Fieldsend). 'Not Quite Gentlemen: Victorian Missionaries From the Diocese of Southwell', in East Midlands Historian, Volume 6, 1996.

Ann Hamlin. 'Presenting historic monuments in a divided society: Northern Ireland', in The Museum Archaeologist, 22, 1997. , with Nick Brannon. 'Caring for the built heritage in Northern Ireland' , in The Archaeologist, 27, 1996, pp 18-20.

Elizabeth Pamplin (Webb). 'The Consultant's Role is Anything But Soft' , in People Management, 11 September 1997.

Stephanie Lorenz (Morris), with Cunningham, Glenn, Cuckle and Shepperdson. 'Educational Placement for Children with Down's Syndrome', in European Journal of Special Education, 1998.

Anne Sutton. 'The silent years of London guild history before 1300: the case of the Mercers' , in Historical Research, 71, 1998. `Mercery through four centuries, 1130s to e.1500', in Nottingham Medieval History, 41, 1997. , with L Visser-Fuchs. 'The cult of angels in late 15th century England: an hours of the Guardian Angel', in Women and the Book, ed J Taylor and L Smith, British Library, 1997.

Judith Tucker (Mitchell). 'Crucific Kiss: A Rock 'N' Roll Image of Christ' , in Expository Times, June 1998.

Elizabeth Norman. 'St Paul's Cathedral Library lets in the Sun' , in Dome: the magazine of the Friends of St Paul's Cathedral, number 34, 1996, pp 34-36.

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Ruth Chadwick and Maki Levitt. 'Euroscreen: Ethical and Philosophical Issues of Genetic Screening in Europe', in Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, 7 (6), pp 416-419. `Dimensions of Quality in Genetic Services—an Ethical Comment', in European Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 5, Supplement 2, 1997, pp 22-24. , with Henk Ten Have, Rogeer Hoedemaekers. 'Genetic Screening: A Comparative Analysis of Three Reports', in Journal Of Medical Ethics, 23, 1997, pp 135-141.

Margaret Laing (Caird). 'A Fourteenth-Century Sermon on the Number Seven in Merton College, Oxford, MS 248' , in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 98, 1997, pp 99-134.

Rosamund Dalziell (Austin). 'Religious Experience and the Displaced Child: Autobiographies of Illegitimacy and Adoption', in St Mark's Review, number 170, Winter 1997, pp 30-31.

Caroline Lynas (Newton), D Howe, M Sweeney and M Wagstaff. `Further improvements of t(B; 21) detection by RT-PCR' , in British Journal of Haematology, 94, 1996 pp 422 ff. and D Howe. Additional TCRV/3 primers and minor method modifications improve detection of clonal T-cell populations by RT-PCR' , in Journal of Clinical Pathology; Molecular Biology, number 50, 1997, pp 53-55. `A cheaper and more rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism method for the detection of the HLA-Hgene mutations occurring in Hereditary Haemochromatosis' , in Blood, number 90, 1997.

Pamela Clemit. 'From the Fields of Fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley' s Changing Conception of her Novella' , in Romanticism 3.2, Mary Shelley Bicentenary Issue, guest ed Pamela Clemit, 1997, pp 15469. `Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley', in Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide, ed Michael O'Neill , Oxford University Press, 1998, pp 284-97.

Jason Hollands. 'The Early Bird Argument' , in Investors Chronicle, 18-24 April, 1997. `It's an Ill Windfall that will Blow', in Investment Adviser, 3 June 1997. `Fresh Start for Conservative Youth', in Forward, October 1997.

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News and Appointments of Senior Members Matric.

1923 Marjorie Reeves. Conferred Hon D Litt, London University (Queen Mary and Westfield College), 9 July 1998.

1926 Kathleen Elliott who is an Honorary Alderman, writes to say she is now housebound.

1934 Diana Fearon (McKenna) writes, 'My articles for the Axbridge Local History and the Charlotte M Yonge Fellowship are far too minimal for notice in the College's august archives' .

Josephine Jones (Lane) writes that she enjoys reading the College Spring Newsletter. She says that she is still a keen gardener and walker, but regrets that the seven miles to Shipston on Stour to catch a bus into Oxford and back again makes visiting College rather too difficult.

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years' education. From many applicants, I think I have chosen a very promising young boy.'

Ruth Barbour writes from Abbey Road, London NW8 that she `retired happily into a Residential Home in January 1998.'

Elaine Coggin (Wood) writes to say her husband died in 1990.

Doreen Hollis (Stancliffe)'s four children are married; one is living in New Zealand. She has fourteen grandchildren.

Dora Scott (Bishop) regrets that 'owing to a serious car accident in February 1998, activities (are) somewhat circumscribed for a while' .

Sheila Ottley's article 'The Pride of Barnsley', a short history of the Barnsley linen industry, in Yorkshire Journal, number 19, Autumn 1997, is to be re-printed in The Industrial Heritage Magazine.

Clare Feaver (Harvey), whose husband died in November 1997, is `going to move to Chichester in August to be near friends' .

Isobel Hedges 'retired from being Head of History, Truro High School in 1990, and took the part-time Foundation Course in Fine Art provided by Falmouth College of Art. I then became involved in Carrick District's U3A (University of the Third Age) and was Chairman for two years. Having given that up, I feel I have retired for the second time, but am still involved with the U3A and choral singing and Art classes.'

Hermione Bradbury (Macpherson), Dr, retired from her job as Laboratory Assistant in October 1997.

Jean Gibbens (Jopling) writes a funny, (though too long for Chronicle) letter about her life, family and status as 'Mum' and 'Poorly Gwamma-legs don't work' and ends 'apart from this (see poem in Publications), a London University Diploma in Theology, a little teaching, a little secretarial and deputation work (in a Missionary Society), a lot of writing, a lot of "loving and comforting", of singing to lonely old ladies and showing them how much God loves them, marrying, being widowed 15 years later, bringing up my loving family I've done NOWT!' Deirdre Baker (Daniel) writes, 'I am still in Cyprus and enjoying learning more about the Middle East. I help with editorial research work for an Arabic Youth Magazine and also write some articles for English learners.' In 1997, she visited her daughters, in Delhi, and this year met her son in Melbourne.

Mary Bowen (Fieldsend) writes she 'gained an M Phil in Modern History—not bad for a classicist—at Nottingham University, December 1997' .

Ann Kettle was appointed to The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council from August 1997.

Gillian Butler (Galley), Lady, has returned to Oxford on the retirement from the Civil Service of her husband, Sir Robin Butler, who has been apppointed Master of University College.

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Ann Hamlin received an OBE in the New Year's Honours list 1998 for services to the built heritage in Northern Ireland. She writes, 'I plan to retire (early) at the end of 1998 to give more time to writing and research. I have been elected to a bye-fellowship at Newnham College, Cambridge, from January to June 1999, but plan to continue to live in Northern Ireland after that time in Cambridge.'

Elizabeth Pamplin (Webb) was appointed Chief Executive Liberal Democrats in February 1998.

Ella Bradnum (Cresswell), Canon, was appointed Principal, Wakefied Ministry Scheme from September 1997.

Vasudha Dhagamwar, Dr, went 'yet again' to Pakistan in February 1997 as an Election Observer with a SAARC non-governmental team, 'and actually visited Mohenjodaro, city of the dead'. She writes that she was invited in October 1997 to a reception given by British High Commission in honour of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. She was presented to the Duke who admonished her and others like her who work with women—`Teach them to have fewer children!' In November, she went to Israel where on a visit to Jericho the guide astounded her by saying that the city had been discovered by 'a famous archaeologist called Kathleen Kenyon.' She astounded him by exclaiming, `Ah, my Principal! She was the Principal of my college!' Recovering fast the guide said 'See! Eet ees a smoll vorld. ' Jane Robinson (Piachaud) writes that her younger daughter Francoise (m. 1992) travelled for 6 months in South America and worked for the latter 3 months in a Cheshire Home for the disabled in N W Argentina.

Ruth Wintle, the Revd Canon, retired on 31 December 1997 from part-time post as Worcester Diocesan Adviser in Women's Ministry and member of Bishop's Staff. She writes that she is 'now "fully" retired, and able to give more time to Church Army Board; MU Chaplaincy; Chair Of Li Tim-Di Foundation; Malvern College Council and various other working parties etc, as well as leading Retreats, preaching and speaking.'

Kate Price (Glover) writes, 'I continue to teach (TEFL), act and write plays. My last play was inspired by the life of William Penn, and entitled A Passionate Englishman (which he was!). The play was performed on the London Fringe in June 1997 with a cast of nine.'

Elizabeth Norman is Assistant Librarian, St Paul's Cathedral. She writes, 'I am kept busy at the Cathedral (St Paul's) with the creation of an online database with images for storing information about bibliographic items and all manner of objets d'art in the care of the Dean and Chapter. My own musical activities continue (singing with 'ad

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hoc' chamber choirs and giving piano recitals—as soloist, duettist or accompanist) as time permits. There are few "spare" moments!'

Eileen Shearer has been appointed Regional Director, NSPCC in South West Region—covering Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Gloucestershire, plus the Channel Islands. In December 1996, she received a Master of Business Administration from Durham University Business School.

Ruth Chadwick, Prof, sends the following list of appointments.

From June 1995, Head of Centre of Professional Ethics; 1995—, Member of Human Genome Organisation's Ethics Committee; 1995 , Member of BMA's Genetic Steering Group; 1996-97, Member of MRC's Expert Working Group on Behavioural Genetics; 1997—, Member of the Scottish Higher Council's Research Grant Development Panel; 1997—, Member of the Independent Council for Ethical Standards in Food and Agriculture.

Kathy Davies (Conolly) has been apppointed Director of Teaching, Learning and Research at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, near Stroud.

Elizabeth Thomas-Hope wrote from the Department of Geography and Geology, the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica, her regrets at not being able to attend the St Hugh's North American reunion to be held on 28 March, 1998. 'Unfortunately, I will be leaving the Island on the 25th to attend a meeting in Uganda.'

Judi Geary (Conner) Her friend Joyce Hannam writes that Judi regrets being out of touch with the Association of Senior Members but finds that bringing up two small boys and a career change, which has involved moving from the media itself (BBC) to talking about the media (lecturing in Media Studies), has not left her with much spare time.

Joyce Hannam (Bateman) received an MA in English Studies in Education (broadly speaking, sociolinguistics with an EFL slant') from the University of Leeds in September 1997. She has also written three English language readers published by Oxford University Press.

Gill Wood (Mrs Smith) writes that she has more time now her children are away at school. 'I am still working in Causeway (the company we set up a couple of years ago) which is doing well and expanding. I am still on the Parish Council and have been persuaded to return to Guiding as the local District Commissioner!'

Rosamund Dalziell (Austin), Dr, reports her doctorate in English Literature from the Australian National University was conferred on 30 September 1996.

Corinna Honan was promoted Assistant Editor of the Daily Telegraph on 1 April 1997.

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BT, having returned to work part-time after Daniel was born. This shows how attitudes are beginning to change as part-time working as a manager in BT was unthinkable when my daughter was a baby five years earlier.'

Caroline Lynas (Newton), Dr, writes, 'I am still working as "the molecular Biology Unit" at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth while my husband commutes weekly to London for his new, but limited term post as "Archbishops' Officer for the Millennium".'

Diana Macnaughton (Sawkins), the Revd, will be ordained deacon on 27 September 1998 and will be serving as NSM curate at All Saints', Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Jane Paxman was seconded at the end of last year from BP in London to work for the British Embassy in Washington DC to cover environmental issues. She writes, 'Inevitably, at the moment, this includes representing UK and EU positions on climate change and reporting on US policy.'

Susan Adcock (Prince) has been Head of Programmes and Budgets at the Royal Air Force School of Aviation Medicine since January 1995. She writes, 'For the past two years I have been participating, as an aircrew subject, in the flight test programme of the life support system and flying clothing for Eurofighter, using our Hawk aircraft.'

Iona Brown has started training as a Psychotherapist at Salford University.

Benny Gye (Walker) was appointed in 1997 Board Member of Shaftesbury Housing Group; Deputy Chairman of Banbury Homes Housing Association ; Board Member of Kingsmead Homes, Hackney.

Sarah Dixon became Company Innovation Manager for Van der Bergh Foods in September 1996. She ran in the 1998 London Marathon.

Barbara Govan (married name Bader) writes, 'I seem to have taken root at Yorkshire TV since 1986 but in quite a variety of jobs from news and programme presentation to documentary making recent credits include "3D", "The Time, the Place", "Babewatch" (about the real life of the catwalk model), all for ITV. A part-time job has been created for me recently so I can spend more time with my girls. Since they were born, I've been lucky enough to have been "sent" to Australia, Cuba and the USA on various filming projects.'

Tessa Harris (Pennell) combines parenthood and being a freelance interiors journalist, working for several national newspapers and magazines.

Gillian Rollings is an Operations Support Analyst with Mpct Solutions. She writes, 'The job title sounds imposing but in effect I'm the front-line person on the internal help desk.'

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Joanna Trevelyan reports that she left her post of deputy editor of Nursing Times at the end of 1995 and has been working as a freelance journalist and writer since then.

Christin Hopkins (Finlan) who gives her previous married name as Bloomfield, wrote in May that she was 'currently on maternity leave from my part-time (job share) post as Head of the Junior Doctors Division at the British Medical Association.'

Mary Ann Frost (Thomas) is Software Manager at Nortel working on the development of the Fixed Wireless Access Telecom system.

Arabella Di Iorio (married name Sandwith Hornett) is working as an attorney with Appleby, Spurling & Kempe in Bermuda.

Helen John (Vincent) is now working part-time at HM Treasury, following the birth of her daughter last summer, in the Treasury's first job-share at her level.

Mary Whitworth is Head of the Religious Education Department, Marshalls Park Secondary School, Romford, Essex.

Pamela Clemit, Dr, will be Reader in English Studies, University of Durham from October 1998 and Leverhulme Research Fellow from October 1998 to June 1999.

Helen Wagner (Alexander) was appointed Executive Secretary to the General Council of the Bar (Professional Standards) from 5 January 1998.

Jason Hollands was Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Easington in May 1997; appointed Editor of Forward magazine, July 1997; National Young Conservative Chairman 1996-97; Director Best Investment Brokers PLC and Director, Best Investment Research Ltd. Wang Beitian was made Assistant Manager for Technical Services, Hong Kong United Dockyard Ltd, 1 July 1997.

Francoise Robinson. See Jane Robinson, m. 1961.

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Judith Ramage (Thorley) to Patrick Magill on 21 June 1997 Anna Chisman (Fletcher) to Gilbert Hunt on 5 July 1997 Stephanie Brand to David Lewis on 4 October 1997 Barbara Govan to Paul Bader on 10 April 1992 Deborah Hollis to Thomas Marik on 15 May 1998

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Births Matric.

1972 Sarah Scarfe (Sworn)—on 27 July 1994, a son (Daniel Edward) brother to Rachel 1974 Jacqueline Sanjana (Whitby)—on 9 October 1997, a son (Antony Alexander) brother to Francesca, Edward, Helena, Georgina and Richard Elizabeth Wood (Johnson)—on 3 September 1996, a daughter (Josephine Miranda) 1977 Elizabeth Baigent—on 5 March 1997, a son (Charlie) brother to Bertie, born 26 , March 1995 Felicity Kendall Hickman (Kendall)—on 10 August 1997, a son (Thomas), brother to Philip, born 20 December 1993 1978 Barbara Govan (married name Bader) on 10 October 1994, a daughter (Alice), sister to Ruth, born 11 May 1992 Tessa Harris (Pennell)—in August 1997, a daughter (Sophie), sister to Charlie, born 1992 Gill Rollings—on 8 November 1996, a son (Bryn Dominic McGlashan) Melanie Sharpe (Clark)—on 3 October 1997, a son (Edward James), brother to Hannah Anthea Simmons (Knight)—on 29 February 1996, a son (Henry Torquil Douglas) 1979 Alex Blattner (Day)—on 28 December 1996, a son (Jonathon Luke), brother to Samuel Ross, born 7 October 1993 Toni Bovill—on 24 November 1996, a daughter (Ellis Frances King)

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Obituaries 1997-98 Honorary and Emeritus Fellows 1919 Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, on 3 April 1998, aged 97 Miss Theodora Cooper, on 17 February 1998, aged 63 Professor Yakov Malkiel, on 24 April 1998 Viscount Tonypandy, on 22 September 1997, aged 88

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In Memoriam Nik Birch Reynardson (Humphreys) The following has been reproduced by kind permission of The Times Nik Birch Reynardson, former Oxford county councillor and president of the Henley Conservative Association since 1993, died on August 6 aged 74. She was born on June 15, 1923.

A tireless figure dedicated to the service of the county in which she lived for nearly 38 years, Nik Birch Reynardson could at first sight have been mistaken for a conventional product of the British class system. But that would have been to do her a great deal less than justice. The brisk, courageous determination she brought to every aspect of living was originally reflected in the way as a child she tackled the challenge of tuberculosis.

The elder daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Humphreys, Nik Humphreys (as she was until her marriage) spent her early years in India, where her father was serving at the time. At the age of six, as result of a riding accident, she contracted tuberculosis and, having returned to England, spent the next seven years lying on her back encased in plaster from head to toe.

She was first sent to a TB sanatorium, where a governess gave her a good general educational grounding. But academic salvation came with her arrival at the home of two maiden aunts living in Kent (her parents were still in India).

One of them had beds made up for both herself and her niece in the diningroom and there she taught Nik an almost complete syllabus of subjects ranging from botany to history, languages to geography, music to mathematics.

So well did she do her job that at the age of 13—though still on crutches the young daughter of the Empire passed easily into St Mary's, Wantage, where she spent the next four years, even playing hockey on crutches in goal.

Finally, however, she came to manage simply with the made-up shoe that she wore for the rest of her life in order to cope with a faulty hip-bone.

Fortune then once again took a turn with her future. One school holidays the local MP came to call at her aunts' home and—struck by her determination and ability—insisted that she should be sent to a crammers to learn Ancient Greek. This she duly did, going up to Oxford in 1942 with an exhibition from St Hugh's College, where she took a good second in Philosophy Politics and Economics.

With the Second World War over, she then cast about for a job. It was typical of her lifelong concern for others that the one she chose should have been looking after Displaced Persons in Germany. After that came 12 months in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, serving on the staff of the Governor—where the atmosphere in those palmy, post-war days was presumably rather different from refugee camps in Germany. Her spell in Southern Rhodesia proved, however, to be her last paid job as in 1950 she married a friend she had made 93

at university, Bill Birch Reynardson, a maritime lawyer, who lived near Thame in Oxfordshire.

But the energy that might have gone into a career was now merely diverted into raising her family and into a powerful amount of voluntary work. In 1967 she founded the South Oxfordshire Conservative Women's Advisory Committee, later being elected first for Chinnor and Tetsworth and then for Thame onto the Oxfordshire County Council. A strong supporter of her local MP, the former Deputy Prime Minister, Michael Heseltine, she eventually became president of the Henley Conservative Association, having served for many years as chairman of its Tetsworth branch. She was, in turn, a member of the Oxfordshire District Health Authority and of the Oxford Regional Health Authority, subsequently becoming a trustee of the Nuffield Medical Trust.

She was a passionate Tory. But she also possessed a gift of listening, and her interest in other people always lay in what they wanted to say rather than in what she felt they ought to be told.

She and her husband lived in a lovely country house which they made into a welcoming family home surrounded by a beautiful garden on which for almost 40 years she lavished great affection.

She is survived by her husband Bill and a son and two daughters.

Alison Northover (Gee) Alison's funeral service on 31 July 1997 was conducted by College Chaplain, the Revd Bill Fosdike. David Vaisey, the Bodleian Librarian Emeritus, delivered the address at the memorial service on 4 October 1997. It is reprinted here with his kind permission.

The sense of shock and grief that settled upon the Bodleian Library and many other parts of the University Library System when we heard of Alison's death on 23 July was palpable. None of us, a week later at her funeral service, could have given an address in a firm voice and without the risk of having to stop. It was as much as we could do to express our sympathy to her family and most especially to Peter, while admiring their calmness and fortitude at that terrible time.

In this respect memorial services are a blessing. We are calmer now and, on this occasion, we can celebrate Alison's life at a distance, albeit a short distance, from the immediate tragedy of her death.

That life was cruelly cut short just a few weeks before her 49th birthday. It was a life 24 years of which had been spent in Oxford: three as an undergraduate reading history at St Hugh's, one as a trainee in the Bodleian, two as sublibrarian back at her old College, and the last eighteen in the Reader Services Division of the Bodleian Library. It was an Oxford library career, broken only by the one-year postgraduate course at University College London where she

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Throughout Alison's career I, too, was in Oxford and I watched it develop.

I did so with a particular interest because our paths had crossed before. When I finished my training year as an archivist at the Bodleian in 1960 I went to work in the Staffordshire Record Office and became involved in the local history scene in Stafford. There I soon ran into the Headmaster of the Secondary School at Gnosall. His name was Stanley Gee and he was researching the history of canals in the area, and was also one of the pillars of a local history group called the Old Stafford Society. To us young whipper-snappers most of the members of this group seemed very senior, if not elderly, and we were accustomed to leaving out the name of the town from the Society's title, referring to it simply as the Old Society. Mr Gee, however, was not old, and he had three young children, one of whom, aged 12, was Alison. Maybe she heard me take my first faltering steps in public speaking at meetings of the Old Stafford Society; but I would claim no credit (which must belong to her father) for her lifelong interest in history and in particular for local history and family history.

I do remember the pride, however, with which her father wrote to me when in 1966 (three years after I had returned to the Bodleian) Alison won a place to come to St Hugh's to read history. She did not come up, however, until 1967, and what did she do in what we would now call her 'gap year'? She went to work in the Staffordshire County Library. Already a librarian was in the making.

This is not the place to chronicle the progress of Alison's library career, but her three years as an undergraduate reading history at St Hugh's were clearly very formative ones in framing her approach to her chosen profession. All those who were taught by that renowned St Hugh's history tutor Miss Betty Kemp speak of the way in which they learned to analyse a mass of conflicting evidence, and how to cut their way in short order through large numbers of texts and documents. In many aspects of her subsequent library work this key ability remained one of Alison's greatest fortes. It was one to be envied and it was put at the disposal of colleagues, through the medium of committees and working parties both inside the Bodleian Library and in the wider Oxford library world. To this was added great conscientiousness and a capacity for hard work which at times seemed as if it might damage her health. If one spoke to her of this she would 'pooh pooh' it. If things were to be done, new methods and new skills to be learned, how could one ask others to see them into being if one were not oneself master of them? This was the spirit that led her to undertake, part-time, the M Lib in library management from Aberystwyth in the 1980s, and to take a lead in bringing into the very traditional reading rooms of the Bodleian new tools for learning to sit alongside the manuscripts and the books; microforms to start with and then all the electronic media now available.

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these qualities in others did not go unrecognised. She was constantly encouraging to those below her. She championed their cause and argued their case strongly with those above her. This she did especially when she felt that the increasing workload which the coming of the electronic catalogue was placing on her staff in reader services was being taken for granted. If she was sympathetic and encouraging to those below her in these circumstances she was often critical of those above her for not taking alleviating measures. In this I speak from experience. Throughout Alison's entire Bodleian career I was always at the next level of management up from her, and so, particularly during the last decade of rapid change when as Bodley's Librarian 'the buck stopped with me': the buck often took the form of Alison coming to see me with a well-directed and uncomfortable critical message. I welcomed these occasions: how else did someone in my position get to hear some uncomfortable truths? And Alison was a reasonable person: these were rarely what one might call 'pistols for two, and coffee for one' situations; but if she felt things had to be said she would not shrink from saying them. Too many people take the opposite course of action and then complain that nothing is being done.

Above all, Alison believed that libraries were in the end about readers. To be sure libraries like the Bodleian were also about acquisitions, and cataloguing systems, and conservation but Alison stood fair and square for the view that the needs of the readers should be the principal drivers of the really good library; and she fought hard for this view in a library which has often in the past been portrayed as one whose buildings, catalogues, book delivery systems, and attitudes were designed with the librarian in mind rather than the reader.

Many of our discussions over the past decade were about this; and she would argue that the very large sums being spent on producing electronic catalogues might well, unless matched by equally large sums to be spent on the delivery of the service from those catalogues, lead to the breakdown of the service given to readers in closed access libraries like the Bodleian. She, of course, could see that money for the 'regular' side of library life was not easy to find; and it gave her no pleasure at all when her predictions were almost proved right two summers ago. In all her work Alison was keen to see the user's point of view put forward. She was keen to see User Groups formed and to take part in them and, of course, she very much took the lead in University-wide discussions on the introduction of what we now call Induction Week.

Those behind the scenes' activities will be greatly missed by us who were her colleagues and (unknowingly, perhaps) by many who did not realise that they were benefiting from her efforts.

This short address has concentrated on Alison the librarian, because this was the Alison whom I knew. In many respects Alison kept her activities in discrete compartments. She was a very private person whose deep sense of humour could sometimes be difficult to reach. But it was there, nevertheless, and it would come to the surface, as would glimpses of her non-library interests, as one sat over a cup of coffee with her at mid-morning. Local history and family history I have mentioned; the history of metals and their uses as one

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would expect from someone married to an expert in that field; a love of travel, and especially travel on the American continent; and, most surprisingly of all, perhaps to those with a more casual acquaintance of her, a passion for railways.

Three times Alison applied for and was granted one of the Library's annual Barbara Pym Awards: each of these was to see reader-service developments in American libraries, and at the same time to attend conferences on areas of her archaeological and metallurgical interests. But twice at least the US visits were designed to take advantage of very long train journeys. And when, in her meticulous way, she presented for the panel a detailed report on the activities aided by the Award, that part covering the railway journey ascended to a level which might almost be described as lyrical. Details on cataloguing and networking methods used in Los Angeles on one side of the American continent and those used at Yale on the other were linked by descriptions of trans-continental train journeys through desert, prairies, and the Rockies: with comments on the Santa Fe trail, the spectacular scenery on the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania or the landscape of northern Vermont emerging from winter.

One of her reports I remember contained a description of how a young woman in a train kept everyone enthralled if not entertained during a day of unrelieved rain with a detailed and over-meticulous description of her job as a plucker of chickens!

We will all have these little memories of Alison Northover and we will all miss her greatly. None of us, of course, has felt the loss suffered by her husband, Peter, and her family. To them goes all our sympathy. We cannot ever really share in another's grief; but we can be grateful to be able to share with them the pleasure of having known and worked alongside such a good, able and conscientious person whose professional life was dedicated pretty well exclusively to the benefit of others.

Betsy Rodgers (Aikin-Sneath) The following has been reproduced by kind permission of The Independent

Always self-effacing and tremendously loyal to her husband, a Conservative MP, founder of the magazine History Today and later chairman of Radio Luxembourg, Betsy Rodgers managed to remain a free spirit in spite of being born in an era which so often denied women the right to their own fulfilment.

Born in 1907 and brought up in Gloucestershire into what she always described as the "rural bourgeoisie", she acquired many of the characteristics of her background, retaining thoughout her life an old-fashioned courtesy, a great love and deep knowledge of the countryside, gardens, dogs and horses—especially the latter. She continued to hunt until she was 75. However her independent character together with a high intelligence led her to reject many of the conventional values of her class. She was to achieve intellectual distinction and develop a deep social conscience and concern for 97

the welfare of people. It is for these that she will be remembered.

Betsy Aikin-Sneath, her maiden name, was the only girl to pass the University Entrance from her school in Eastbourne and went up to Oxford, to St Hugh's College, in 1926, somewhat to her father's dismay. There she read French and German—also unlikely to have pleased her father, who disliked the Germans. She became fluent in French, German and Spanish and later gained a Ph D from London University. Her thesis was published by the Clarendon Press in 1936, as Comedy in Germnay in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. Later she confessed to having doubts about the significance of her chosen subject.

While at Oxford she met and married John Rodgers, a penniless, idealistic fellow undergraduate from Yorkshire, whose father had been a railway clerk.

She also joined the Labour Party; yet another blow to her parent. On going down from Keble her husband went to work for the Mary Ward Settlement in London and then briefly became a university teacher. Soon however he exchanged social work for commerce, by joining the advertising agency J Walter Thompson. Throughout his life his ambitions were fuelled by the fear of reliving the poverty of his childhood.

In 1939 Betsy was adopted Labour candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Chelsea. However the Second World War intervened and she never had the chance to fight an election. Instead she spent the war years as a County Welfare Officer, bringing up her two sons, while her husband worked in the Ministry of Information.

After the war John Rodgers was adopted as Conservative candidate for Sevenoaks—the constituency he represented from 1950 to 1979—and Betsy became a Tory wife. She was able to be reconciled to this as her husband's conservatism was of the "liberal" and "One Nation" variety which did not inhibit her concern for social reform or threaten the Welfare State. She became a respected, hard-working figure in his consituency and a magistrate, and also kept up her academic work.

She published two more books of social history, Cloak of Charity: studies in eighteenth- century philanthropy (1949) and Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and herfamily (1958), centring on a kinswoman, the miscellaneous writer and dissenting radical Anna Letitia Barbaud, nee Aikin. These works revealed her deep commitment to her subject and she regarded them as her most important achievement.

She was also the unacknowledged researcher and part-time author of her husband's three books for Batsford, The Old Public Schools of England (1938), The English Woodland (1941) and English Rivers (1948). She passed her love of reading on to her two sons, the elder of whom, Tobias, was an antiquarian bookdealer who, tragically, died one year before her.

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Margaret Rose I met Margaret at number 3 St Margaret's Road in October 1935 and we became friends under the eye of Miss Procter in the History School, learning together both the geography of Oxford and the subjects for Pass Mods. It was at this time that the first great building project for the expansion of St Hugh's was in progress, and we were eventually to enjoy rooms in the new wing and work in the library there. In 1938 we parted—she going on to teacher training in Oxford, and I to 'the other place'. We both qualified just in time for the beginning of World War II. Margaret's life was dominated by the effects of WWI which had shattered her father. I had not realised when I visited her family the tragedy which marked her early years. Her poetry, published this year posthumously under the title The Colour of Rain, reflects the underlying sadness which permeates her work.

But Margaret was not all sadness and sobriety. Outwardly serene and contemplative, she had a keen sense of humour and an ability to poke gentle fun at pomposity or winsomeness. During the war Margaret served for some time at Bletchley Park but I never discovered what exactly she did there, which is not surprising as the work was secret. But her main work became focussed on Adult Education in which field she was notably successful, particularly in London where she became Head of Humanities at the City Literary Institute. She encouraged her students to write, and several had their work published. After she retired she moved to Hastings where she founded "Pickpockets", a series of little books on interesting subjects from acting to crime. She took an active part in the Arts Council and her home became a focal point for artists of all kinds. She was particularly interested in poetry and encouraged others to develop their abilities in the subject.

She will be sadly missed by all who knew her. Margaret was one who loved well, was not puffed up, sought not her own but rejoiced in the truth. She died of cancer on 25 October 1996. Her published work may be obtained from Mrs M Cook, her friend and editor at 25 St Mary's Terrace, Hastings, TN34 3LS Dorothy N Walton (Lovegrove)

Patricia Thomson Pat came from an academic family and more specifically from a medical family. Her father was a professor of medicine and her brother is also a doctor with long experience in tropical medicine. Some uncles were also doctors. But her mother obtained an MA in English—not very common for a woman in those days—and in 1940 Pat went up to Oxford, to St Hugh's, to read English and in 1943 duly gained a good first. It was no longer the Oxford of Brideshead, but it was the Oxford of Tolkien, Lord David Cecil and C S Lewis, with whom she had tutorials—a smaller and probably a more tightly-knit faculty. She never 99

had any doubt that Oxford was the home of real scholarship and that English at Oxford was better than English elsewhere. She retained a healthy respect for the text and a belief that good criticism was impossible without proper texts to build on.

Her academic progress was interrupted after her degree by a spell of national service. She always spoke quite affectionately about this. Perhaps, like many of us, she remembered the better parts and let the less attractive aspects slip out of mind At any rate it was different.

Her first teaching post was at the University of Sheffield where, at various times, she served with three outstanding Renaissance scholars, Geoffrey Bullough, John Danby and LC Knights. She had already begun her own research and publication, on Wyatt and Shakespeare especially. This was to culminate in three books on Wyatt (Sir Thomas Wyatt and His Background, Wyatt: the Critical Heritage, and (with Kenneth Muir) Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt) together with articles on Petrarchanism in English Tudor poetry and several on Shakespeare. She grew to like Sheffield and the no-nonsense North—sometimes, perhaps, a welcome antidote to Renaissance exuberance.

In 1954 (which was when I first met her) she moved back south to become a senior lecturer, soon Reader, in English at Queen Mary College, as it then was, a very different QMC from the Queen Mary and Westfield College of today. Head of Department was Professor Jack Isaacs. Other established members of the English staff were Norman Callan, Benno Timmer, Marjorie Thompson and (rather later) Charles Peake. All these, of course, are now dead, so it would be easy to see Pat as coming at the end of an era. But this is not really true since Peter Dixon, Eric Stanley and David Mills are happily still with us. QMC, like Sheffield, was an honest, sensible institution, down the Mile End Road, not so far from the Docks or the barrows of Whitechapel. Although it had long since been fully incorporated into the Universityof London, it perhaps still recalled its beginnings as the East London College where you got your learning and then perhaps went next door to the People's Palace— years before New Labour but with the second-largest stage in London for your entertainment. She was a good teacher as well as a good researcher. It is surprising how many students of English at QMC when asked, years later, what they remember of their undergraduate days, will say, 'Well, I remember Miss Thomson' . But not all that surprising really. Grumble about them as we may, students can usually recognize good scholarship and good teaching and begin to respond to it. Without conforming to a Leavisite idea of the Great Tradition, she believed that there was an established canon of English Literature in which Bleak House was neither too long nor Milton too difficult (and anyway, what are long vacations for?). And, as well as teaching her own specialism, she taught elsewhere in the syllabus, especially in the nineteenth century.

I left in 1966 to help colonize the North (the reverse of Pat's progress) and she stayed on until retirement. In retirement she enjoyed the good things the Renaissance offered—art, music and Italy—although, once again, she by no

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means limited herself to that period. She also took up the serious study of Greek and, being Pat, quickly and quietly got an A grade at A-level. She now had more time for an immense circle of friends and acquaintances and also added new ones. We remained regularly in touch from Lancaster and she would always visit at Easter to see Wordsworthian daffodils in the Lakes.

Pat died alone, which is sad, but as a committed Christian she knew that there is a deeper sense in which none of us dies alone. I sometimes think the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (her period) were much more sensible about death than we have become: they no doubt saw more of it at close hand.

We have done our best to sanitize it and are almost resentful that we cannot drive it away. They, on the contrary, knew that it was inevitable, quite ordinary, and often surprisingly dignified. She would have agreed with Jeremy Taylor that, once you take away the needless pomp and paraphernalia of death: 'then to die is easy, ready and quitted from troublesome circumstances' . She did not make a fuss herself and would have wanted no fuss made.

She would be very content to be remembered (as is true) as a good academic, teacher and most generous of friends.

Stanley Hussey

Sarah Wadham In his moving funeral address Sir Roger Parker described Sarah as a child with her mass of curly brown hair, and her sparkling eyes. When she arrived at St Hugh's in 1968 the description still fitted perfectly. We became friends instantly and for our first year at least formed a bit of a 'double act' , climbing in and and out of colleges, and with the assurance of youth, cooking dinner parties for ten on a Baby Belling which Sarah somehow managed to secrete under her bed!

Sarah came to St Hugh's from the Holy Child Convent at Mayfield, one of the youngest of her year, to read Oriental Studies, taking Hebrew and Akkadian. Through both her work and her friendships she developed a lifelong interest in the Middle East, and after graduating went as an archaeological assistant on a dig in North Western Iran. Members of the dig recall teasing her for her enthusiasm, as a linguist, to find some tablets. She did unearth a pot which still resides in the Teheran Museum, complete with acknowledgment to her, and she is remembered as a very able student by those who worked with her.

After marrying Fritz Zimmerman, Sarah moved with him to London and decided to study for the Bar. Although she took the course by correspondence, she came out with top marks. Interestingly most of Sarah's friends never knew of this achievement until her funeral. However the discovery came as little surprise, as everyone who knew Sarah was aware of her acute mind and exceptional intelligence.

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delighted. She loved the city, and it was disappointing when the situation there became so dangerous that they had to leave. Back in Oxford she had two children, Felix and Julia, whom she adored, but sadly suffered a serious bout of depression when the marriage did not work out. Despite this she decided to give her life a new direction by pursuing her legal career, a move which required considerable courage at that time.

After doing her pupillage, Sarah started work as a law reporter in 1984, and she was made an Appointed Reporter in 1987. She reported in Chancery Division and in the Vice-Chancellor's Court for the Law Reports, and also reported for The Times Law Reports, Solicitor'sJournal and Law Society Gazette. As in everything she did Sarah was very highly regarded by her colleagues, having a gift for penetrating analysis, and bringing a perfectionist's thoroughness to her work.

Meanwhile she had organised her domestic life into a routine that all who knew her admired her for. During the week she lived and worked in London while Felix and Julia lived with their father, and at weekends she returned to her flat in Oxford where the children joined her. This enabled her to give them an upbringing that was both stable and vibrant. She loved to entertain informally, and entertaining was where Sarah was in her element. Her family evenings were immense fun for both parents and children, and she was always full of ideas for expeditions and holidays, which she researched and arranged with her usual diligence. In London too she had a wide circle of friends, and carried on with her singing, an interest which had taken root when we sang with the Kodaly Choir as undergraduates.

Last summer she decided that with Felix at Edinburgh University, and Julia shortly to go up to Cambridge, she should move her life on by giving up the Oxford flat, and living permanently in London. Sadly, no-one anticipated the effect this was to have on her, least of all herself. The equilibrium she had striven so hard to achieve was upset, and she suffered another severe bout of depression, which culminated in her suicide on 2 March 1998.

The intense distress of her family, and many friends and colleagues was palpable at her very moving funeral. The huge number of people that had travelled up to Newmarket,where she was buried near her parents' home, was a tribute in itself to the very special relationship she had with so many people.

Sarah was fun and funny, she enlivened every gathering, and enriched every conversation. She adored her children, was a woman of great integrity and a deeply loyal friend. Whatever she set her mind to do she always did it to perfection, and she was incredibly brave in the face of the recurring depressive illness which haunted her. It is a cruel irony that someone who was loved so much and so genuinely by her friends and family temporarily lost sight of her own worth. Our hearts go out to her family and especially to her children. We all miss those sparkling eyes so much.

Anthea Forbes (Cann) with Hilary Maxwell-Hyslop

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Some of Sarah's work colleagues are setting up the Sarah Wadham Memorial Fund which will be administered by the Denning Trust. Its purpose is to provide a fund for Lincoln's Inn to give a prize or award to a law student in Sarah's name. Anyone wishing to make a contribution should send their donation c/o Robert Williams or Harriet Dutton at the Law Reports, 9-13 Cursitor Street, London EC4A 1LL. Cheques should be made payable to the Sarah Wadham Memorial Fund. Further information about the award can be obtained from Harriet or Robert at this address, or by telephone on 0171 831 6664.

St Margaret's House Veronica Fraser has spoken of St Margaret's House in her report to the ASM annual meeting, which is recorded elsewhere in Chronicle. Gillian Miles (m.

1956) who teaches social work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London, has kindly agreed to act as the St Hugh's representative at St Margaret's House, taking over from Olive Chandler (m.1929) who served for many years and has now moved from London. Gillian has a keen interest in community work and was impressed by her initial visit to St Margaret's House and her meeting with Tony Hardie, the Director. She wishes to learn as much as she can from Olive about her experience during her long association with the Settlement and looks forward to keeping that association very much alive.

At the Gaudy, the Annual Report of St Margaret's House, a bright glossy production which was produced by the Settlement on its own premises, was on display with the latest edition of the St Margaret's House bulletin. The lively tone of the reports and the wide range of the welfare organisations which featured in them proved interesting reading for those attending the Gaudy weekend.

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Association of Senior Members Charitable Trust Report for 1997 / 98 The Charitable Trust was formed eight years ago: the Trustees would like to remind Senior Members of its stated purpose, registered in the original Trust Deed. It is for 'the relief of financial need' of anySenior Member. Over the past eight years, a number of requests have been made to the Trustees, and most have been granted. So far the amounts granted have been between £100 and £200—for travel, for books, for the repair of a vital musical instrument.

Any Senior Member may apply direct, in confidence, to the Secretary or to one of the Trustees or may ask another Senior Member to apply on his/her behalf: each request is considered on its merits. At present the Trustees meet each February, but requests can be considered at other times of year. It is disappointing that no grants have been made in 1997/98—because Trustees have received no requests.

The Trust's accounting year is August to August. In the year which ended on 31st August 1997, the capital invested by the Trustees in charitable investment funds managed by Mercury Asset Management, grew to approximately £6000. A number of single donations came in throughout the year and there were several generous covenants; despite there having been no requests for grants recently, we continue to seek donations in order to build the Trust's resources for the future. A full set of accounts may be inspected in the Treasurer's Office.

In February Mrs Sue Clear became a Trustee, and Professor Margaret Esiri indicated that she would be resigning as a Trustee at the end of the academic year. Trustees were reminded that when the Secretary's term of office as ASM President ends in June 1998, the newly elected President, by convention, will be proposed for appointment as a Trustee during her term of office. Miss Francesca Barnes, Mrs Jeanette Cockshoot and Mrs Jean Monk continue as Trustees.

Ian Honeyman, Treasurer Veronica Fraser, Secretary

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ASM Network The network of Senior Members exists to offer introductions, social meetings or a sympathetic ear where needed. We are very grateful to those named below, who act as local contacts, and would like to see the list extended, particularly by the addition of some male Senior Members. If you would like to help in this way, please tell Gillian Huntrods, whose address is among those listed.

Mrs Mary Lide Clayton (Lomer 1951) Chytan Cottage, Trethurgy, St Austell, Cornwall PL26 8YE tel: 01726 850531 Mrs J Cockshoot (Johnson 1944) Gateways, Harcourt Hill, North Hinksey, Oxford OX2 9AS tel: 01865 241269 Mrs C Coppin (Stock 1952) 135 Coast Drive, Lydd on Sea, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29 9NS tel: 01797 320258 Miss E Cosnett (1955) 34 Meadway, Wavertree, Liverpool L15 7LZ tel: 0151 722 2909 Miss L David (1946) 7 Heol-y-Pavin, Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 2EG tel: 01222 553786 Mrs J Donajgrodzki (Dodd 1963) Paradise Cottage, Pateley Bridge, N Yorkshire HG3 5J0 tel: 01423 711024 Mrs W M Down (Davies 1967) Amberley, 2 The Farmhouse, Mill Road, Little Melton, Norwich NR9 3NT Mrs M Duncan (Mogford 1947) 116 Herrick Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 2BLI tel: 01509 214259 Miss E Fairless (1970) 63 Broom Park, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9RR tel: 0181 977 6890 Miss V Fraser (1952) Timbers, Upper Churchfields, Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. WR13 5LJ tel: 01886 880676 Mrs B Hall (Henderson 1945) Hopedene, 15 High Street, Elie, Leven, fife, Scotland KY9 1BY tel: 01333 330216 Miss J Higham (1943) 6 Delves Way, Ringmer, E Sussex BN8 5JU tel: 01273 812326 Mrs G Huntrods (Sibley 1947) White Gables, Harker Marsh, Broughton Moor, Cumbria CA15 7RL tel: 01900 817044 Mrs S Hutton (Vaughan 1983) 26 Artillery Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4NW tel: 01483 505331 Mrs J Johnson (Lancaster 1978) 33 Amner Road, Clapham, London SW11 6AA tel: 0171 207 1003 Miss C Jones (1953) 7 Regency Court, Park Road, Surbiton, Surrey KT5 8UQ tel 0181 399 4475 105

Mrs D Knight (Sherwood 1933) The Coach House, Bothenhampton, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4BT tel: 01308 424909 Mrs S Knight (Jones 1952) Magnolia Cottage, Cage End, Hatfield Broad Oak, Bishops Stortford, Herts. CM22 7HT tel: 01279 718650 Miss L Lewenz (1943) Calvert's House, Westhorpe, Southwell, Notts. NG25 ONG tel: 01636 813631 Mrs N Little (Smith 1947) Newbold Pacey Hall, Warwick, Warks. CV35 9DP tel: 01926 651 270 Mrs M Matthews (Henderson 1969) 12 Valleyview, Delgany, Co. Wicklow, Eire tel: 01 876 787 Reverend Mrs R Matthews (Vinson 1962) 34 Lavender Grove, Walnut Tree, Milton Keynes MK7 7DB tel: 01908 667122 Mrs S Newby (Manes 1961) 9 Merrytree Close, West Wellow, Romsey, Hants. 5051 6 RB tel: 01794 322993 Mrs M Phillips (Pritchard 1940) Taliesin, Llanungar Lane, Solva, Haverfordwest, Dyfed SA62 6LIA tel: 01437 721414 Mrs A Round (Le Vin 1956) flat 12, The Woodlands, 39 Shore Lane, Sheffield S10 3BU tel: 0114 268 3570 Mrs A Sanders (yokes 1982) 30 Thorpe Lea Road, Peterborough, Cambs.

PE3 6BZ tel: 01733 60821 Mrs A Sanders (Tolansky 1957) 29 Averill Close, Priory Fields, Broadway, Worcs. WR12 7RA tel: 01386 852854 Mrs E Savidge (Hadrill 1963) 228 Combe Lane, W. Wimbledon, London SW20 OGT tel: 0181 241 8533 Miss E Shearer (1969) 1 Malt Cottage, Preston Bowyer, Milverton, Taunton, Somerset TA4 1PJ Mrs Gill Smith (Wood 1971) Brook House, Gilling East, York, North Yorkshire YO6 4JJ tel: 01439 788385 Mrs S Strawbridge (Hassid 1942) 222 North Allington, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5EF tel: 01308 423117 Mrs J Tozer (Morland 1941) 17 Hyland Grove, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol BS9 3NR tel: 01179 503665 Mrs E Wake (Kirkpatrick 1963) 78 Pereira Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9JN tel: 0121 426 3882 Mrs A Webb (Nugent 1947) 102 Circe Circle, Dalkeith, Western Australia 6009 tel: 0061 9 3814 118 Mrs J Williams (Hackney 1944) 5 The Glebe, London Road, Wheatley, Oxon. OX33 1 YN tel: 01865 874055

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Diary of Events 1998-99 1998 25th September

Lawyers Dinner

15th November

Lunch for the Families of Freshers

21st November

Locals Lunch Party

1999 18th Feb

Careers Event

8th May

1991-1995 Year Group Reunion

16th May

Medical Society Reunion Event — Medicine for the Millennium

20th May

London Dinner

5th June

Year Group Reunion for years 1945 and earlier

26th June

1949 Year Group Reunion

26th June

Garden Party

21st August

Northern Event in Durham

18th September

Colloquium — History of Women's Education

14th Nov

Lunch for the Families of Freshers

20th Nov

Locals Lunch party

1 1 th Dec

Donors Dinner

Further particulars will be sent in due course. Senior Members will be notified of any additional events.

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Accommodation in College Senior Members who would like to take advantage of Bed and Breakfast accommodation at the College may wish to note the following: Guest Rooms

Senior Members are welcome to apply to Nicky Watson, Domestic Bursar (01865 274908) for use of a Guest Room at any time when College is open.

There is one single Guest Room available during term. The charges for 1998 are: Sunday to Thursday night inclusive (bed and breakfast)

—1,23 per night

Friday and Saturday night (room only)

—1,20 per night

NB We regret that a Saturday and Sunday breakfast service is not available Other Accommodation

During vacations, should the Guest Room be booked, it may be possible to offer accommodation in vacated undergraduate rooms. Depending upon the room allocated, cost of accommodation would not be more than the rates shown above and might be less. Requests to Domestic Bursar please.

Finally, for one month during the Easter Vacation and for three months during the Summer Vacation numbers 10, 11, 12 and 13 Canterbury Road provide 18 single and 18 twin-bedded rooms which offer bed and continental breakfast accommodation. Costs range from 1,15 to £19 per person per night depending upon the location of the room occupied. This accommodation may be booked in advance through the Domestic Bursar or at short notice during the Easter and Summer Vacations directly with the Canterbury Road booking office on 01865 554642.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Brian H Goodfellow Domestic Administrator

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Development Office Senior Members continue to show their appreciation of the College by tangible donations in the form of gifts in cash or in kind. This past year we have had donations ranging from a major donation from a Senior Member in the US for the creation of a new west garden and a significant legacy enabling us to complete the refurbishment of rooms in the main building, through to a suite of computers for the library as well as many valuable additions of books. Senior Members can benefit from tax breaks, and so can the College, if they plan their giving by means of covenants or gift aid. The Development Office can give you advice on this: St Hugh's College, Oxford OX2 6LE; tel: 01865 274958; fax: 01865 274912; e-mail: development. office@st-hughs . oxford . ac .uk.

Our current programme includes the new residential building; refurbishing student rooms in the Mary Gray Allen building; the endowment of fellowships in law, mathematics, engineering and IT; the student hardship fund; and improvements to the garden and terrace.

We run an active events programme throughout the year. Besides year group and subject reunions, this year we organised a careers event chaired by Liz Forgan, a Senior Member and formerly Managing Director of BBC Radio.

This involved other Senior Members working in the media, talking to students interested in following the same career path. We held a party in the Speaker's State Rooms, courtesy of the Speaker, to celebrate her Honorary Fellowship of the College. In all this, I am grateful to Kathleen Miles and Trish Carter who do all the background work in the Development Office.

None of this would be possible without the support of Senior Members whom we like see at reunions and calling individually to see us in College. We are eager to hear about you and what you are doing. Please keep us in touch with your news.

Dr Stephen Humble Development Director

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Professor Ruth Dean Miss Olive Chandler Mrs Nancy Burton (Salinger) Mrs Winifred Charlesworth (Hesketh-Wright) Miss Hannah Buchan Mrs Lorna Fisher (Symonds) Mrs Pauline Pelham (Brentnall) Mrs Katherine Buxton (Hargreaves) Mrs Josephine Jones (Lane) 109

Miss Eileen MacKinlay Miss Doris Thornton 1935 Miss Elizabeth Mitchison Miss Joan Pye Miss Freda Bramley 1937 Mrs Barbara Ennis (Tyler) 1938 Mrs Marlin Hargrave (Davis) Mrs Margaret John (Dowler) Miss Freda Lloyd Mrs Janine Rosenzweig (Chappat) 1940 Dr June Stevenson (Rigby) 1941 Mrs Marjorie Thresher (Davies) 1942 Mrs Audrey Bowring (Fisher) Mrs Jocelyn Hemming (Fortescue-Foulkes) Mrs Mary Isserlis (Laurie) Miss Margaret Jacobs Mrs Shelagh Meade (Lugard) Mrs Audrey Parry (Dockerill) Mrs Olwen Redgrave (Lyon) Mrs Stella Strawbridge (Hassid) Dr Sula Wolff FRCP FRCPsych 1943 Mrs Susan Ashmore (Hodgson) Mrs Patricia Crampton (Wood) Miss Muriel Easter MBE Mrs Cynthia Eyre (Werner) Mrs Julia Gilbey (Trinder) Mrs Heather Hawkins (Martin) Mrs Glenys Ilett (Parry) Mrs Patricia Nichols (Robertson) Mrs Shirley Sampson (Robinson) 1944 Miss Beryl Blomfield Mrs Jeanette Cockshoot (Johnson) Dr Penelope Griffin (Peters) Miss Jane Langton CVO Mrs Yvonne Lothian (Mead) Mrs Margaret Lyddon (Wilkinson) Mrs Marjorie Lyle (Watt) Mrs Margaret Potter (Newman) Miss Muriel Rees Mrs Cynthia Short (Hill) Her Honour Judge Monique Viner CBE QC Mrs Jean Williams (Hackney) 110

Mrs Ann Burton (Oakshott) Mrs Brenda Hall (Henderson) Mrs Merril Sylvester (Brady) Mrs Barbara Turner (Harris) 1946 Mrs Patricia Behr MBE MVO (Duke) Mrs Charlotte Franklin (Hajnal-Konyi) Mrs Ilse Kagan (Echt) Mrs Audrey Parker (Mayall) Mrs Pauline Procter (Green) Ms Gilda Roberts Mrs Pella Rye (Shields) Mrs Jean Tchakarov (Floyd) 1947 Professor Hazel Carter (Wilkinson) Mrs Stefanie Dawson (Bailhache) Miss Gwynneth Matthews Mrs Mary Meyer (Kirk) Mrs Marion Porter (Farson) Mrs Margaret Protherough (Feeney) Mrs use Ryder (Stein) Lady Thorne (Pery) Miss Elizabeth Ziman 1948 Mrs Mary Wolton (Seton) 1949 Mrs Margaret Arnold Thomas (Bird) Mrs Cecilia Barton (Green) Mrs Mary Dickinson (Blanchard) Mrs Elizabeth Price (Jones) 1950 Dr Barbara Levick Mrs Anne Mead (Brewin) 1951 Dr Sheila Bradbury (Macpherson) Miss Tessa Solesby CMG 1952 Mrs Pamela Bushing (Moore) Miss Veronica Fraser Mrs Elizabeth Sagle (Blanchard) 1953 Mrs Bulbul Howard (Batra) Mrs Noel Lovatt (Blindell) Dr Anne Maddocks Mrs Tess Nind (Willan) Dr Ann Ridler FRSA (Morris) 1954 Mrs Sarah Curtis (Myers) Mrs Adele Vincent (Bagnall) 1955 Mrs Janet Burke (Phillips) Mrs Christine Sarbanes (Dunbar) 1945

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Mrs Pat Slatter (Foster) Ms Grace Stamper (Hoyland) 1956 Sister Yvonne Gabell Mrs Alison Houghton (Rashleigh) 1957 Mrs Jean Beeden (Riach) Professor Anne Hudson FBA Miss Felicity Murdin 1958 Professor Margaret Esiri FRCPath (Evans) 1960 Dr Jennifer Green (Bilham) Dr Elizabeth Haslam (Newton) Miss Elizabeth Hannay 1961 Professor Mary Kinnear (Preston) Mrs Jane Robinson (Piachaud) 1962 Mrs Ros Keating (Blundell Jones) Mrs Judith Pitchers JP (Stevenson) Mrs Suzanne Rudalevige (Harris) Mrs Gillian Townsend (Wickson) Mrs Mary Clapinson (Cook) 1963 Mrs Mary Burnard (Morgan) 1964 Her Honour Judge Gayle Hallon Miss Mary Kempe Mrs Jackie Scott (Pool) 1966 Ms Diana Barrett 1967 Mrs Susan Clear (Russell Vick) Mrs Sally Kenealy (Littlejohns) Mrs Averell Kingston (Wainwright) Mrs Madeline Fyans (Ashworth) 1968 Dr Helen Goldie Miss Patricia Thomas Ms Sarah Wadham 1969 Miss Anne Thompson Miss Kitty Warnock 1970 Professor Kathleen Burk FRHistS Mrs Maryvonne Hands (Sells) Ms Elizabeth Lunt Dr Jennifer Shields Dr Trudy Welton Mrs Mary Whittaker (Seabume-May) 1971 Mrs Alice Few (Palmer) Dr Margaret Laing (Caird) Mrs Ruth Macdonald (Wood) Mrs Susan Ratcliffe (Hazelden) 112

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Dr Mary Rees Dr Helen Spencer (Caudwell) Ms Lynn Earnshaw Mrs Carol Petersen (Wrighting) Mrs Pamela Williams (Strong) Ms Debby Guthrie Miss Jane Paxman Mrs Susan Adcock (Prince) Mrs Davina Freeland (Salisbury) Miss Francesca Barnes Mrs Ann Fisher (Spilsbury) Ms Christina Herman (Cobourn) Ms Jane Winspear Mrs Olivia Bloomfield (Provis) Ms Andrea Crosby Dr Anna Lemos Ms Elizabeth Oberle-Robertson (Oberle) Mrs Katharine Gaine (Smalman-Smith) Miss Carolyn Barr Mrs Rachel Maclean (Cooke) Ms Charlotte Hume Miss Clare McGinn Mrs Megan Wittingham (Camsey) Mrs Helen Salmon (Jessup) Mr Lennox Honychurch

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Miss Cecilia Goodenough Lady Nancy Hobson (Penhale) Miss Mary Halmshaw Miss Olive Sweeting Mrs Eunice Turner (Duthoit) Mrs Cecilia James (Todd) Miss Elizabeth MacLean Miss Barbara Fielding Mr William James

Fellows and College Staff Mrs Mary Clapinson (m 1963) Miss Theo Cooper Professor Rodney Eatock Taylor Professor Margaret Esiri (m 1960) 113

Dr George Garnett Mr Derek Goldrei Dr Jennifer Green (m 1960) Dr Stephen Humble Miss Margaret Jacobs (m 1942) Dr Barbara Kennedy Dr Tom Kuhn Dr Glenys Luke Dr Mary Lunn Professor Colin Matthew FBA Dr Adrian Moore Emeritus Professor Rebecca Posner Dr David Robertson Dr John Robertson Dr Lionel Smith Miss Rachel Trickett Dr John Wilkinson Mr Derek Wood CBE QC Mrs Susan Wood Other Friends and Supporters

Joseph and Nancy Burton Charitable Trust Sir Ernest Cassel Trust Cummins Engine Foundation Dr N Aubertin-Potter His Honour Judge Anthony Babington Mr Gerald & Mrs Elizabeth Barry Dr Arthur Beeden Dr M Beets Mr Andrew Bloomfield Mr Anthony Burke Mr Richard Burnard P Calvert Professor Alain Enthoven Mr Frederick Fisher Mr Rowan Freeland Professor Richard Friedman Mr Ian Groden The Reverend Professor Stuart Hall Mr Peter Haxworth Mr & Mrs Holmes Mr Roger Hostin 114

Mr William Lovatt Mr Donald Macdonald G Melrose Mr Christopher Niebuhr Mr Richard Robinson Alexandra Stone Mr Edward Swanson Mr Michael Townsend Mr R Williams & Mrs S Williams Mr Paul Williams P R Wood

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