St Edmund Hall Magazine 2012-13

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

EDITOR Gillian Powell

St Edmund Hall Oxford OX1 4AR Telephone: 01865 279000 Web: www.seh.ox.ac.uk

Development Office Telephone: 01865 279055 E-mail: development.office@seh.ox.ac.uk FRONT COVER: Photograph by Anna Fowler, Alumni Relations Officer MATRICULATION PICTURE: Photograph by Gillrnan and Soame

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Vol. XVIII No. 4 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2013

COLLEGE LIST ................................................................................................................ 1

TO REPORT From the Principal ....................................................................................................... · 8 From the Senior & Finance Bursar .......................................................................... 12 From the Library Fellow ........................................................................................... 14 From the Home Bursar .............................................................................................. 21 From the Chapel Overseeing Fellow ............................................................................ 22 From the Archivist ....................................................................................................... 24 From The Senior Common Room .......................................................................... 26 Obituaries: Patrick Ewart Garland .......................................................................... 35 John David Hunt FRS ........................................................................ 38 Michael Edward Thomas Stanley ......................................................... 43 The Middle Common Room .................................................................................... 46 The Junior Common Room ...................................................................................... 48 Clubs and Societies ...................................................................................................... 49

THE YEAR IN REVIEW New Fellows .................................................................................................................. 58 Richard Fargher Bursary Trip Report ............................................................................ 67 Music at the Hall ........................................................................................................... 68 Writing at the Hall .......................................................................................................... 69 My Language has no Country ........................................................................................ 73 Winter Rain .................................................................................................................... 74 A 4Jing Indian once told me ... ........................................................................................ 75 English at the Ha/~ in the 'olden dqys' ............................................................................ 76 The Geddes Lecture ........................................................................................................ 77 Artweeks 2013 .................................................................................................................. 79 The A B Emden Lecture ............................................................................................... 79 RememberingJoe Todd ................................................................................................. 80 • The new-style Degree Day ............................................................................................. 81

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FOR THE RECORD Student Numbers .......................................................................................................... 83 Matriculations ................................................................................................................ 83 Visiting Students ............................................................................................................ 89 Awards and Prizes ....................................................................................................... 90 Degree Results 2013 ........................................................................................................ 98 Degree Dates 2013-2014 .............................................................................................. 103

NEWS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE From the Director of Development ............................................................................. 104 Leadership Donors to the Annual Fund .................................................................... 1OS Donors to the College ................................................................................................. 107 Report of the 50th Anniversary Dinner ...................................................................... 117 Report of the Parents' Events ............................................................................ 119 Report of the Carols in the Quad .............................................................................. 120 Report of the 6th Annual Hong Kong Drinks Reception ........................................ 120 Members of the Floreat Aula Society .................................................................... 121

ARTICLES The Hall in the War, by Fred Nicholls ...................................................................... 124 Principal Moore vs Queen's, or How the Hall Was Saved, by Rebecca Shorter .......... 128 Book Review, by Michael Bourdeaux - The Coder Special Archive (Tony Cash and Mike Gerrard (Hodgson Press, 2012) ............................................................ 134 An Aularian Double Agent, by Tony Cash ............................................................. 136

THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION SEHA President's Report ........................................................................................... 141 Officers and Year Representatives ................................................................................. 143 Minutes of the 82nd Annual General Meeting ...................................................... 144 The 72ndLondon Dinner ............................................................................................. 145 The Accounts ................................................................................................................. 149

AULARIAN UPDATES De Fortunis Aularium ................................................................................................. 151 Obituaries ....................................................................................................................... 163

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ST EDMUND HALL 2012- 2013 Visitor The Rt Hon the Lord Fatten of Barnes, CH

Principal Keith Gull, CBE, (BSc PhD DSc (Hon) Lond), FRS, FMedSci Professor of Molecular Microbiology Fellows Venables, Robert, MA (LL M Lond) QC Fellow f:y Special Election Blarney, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow f:y Special Election in Philosopi?J Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S'ton, MA Carob, PhD Leic) Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Geology, and Vice-Principal Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Fellow f:y Special Election in Economics Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Professor of Law and Tutor in Law Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Mane) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, and Tutor for Undergraduates Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, W R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, and Senior Tutor Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Professorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil A C Cooper Fellow, Professor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, RoseMary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, and Tutorfor Visiting Students Naughton,James Duncan, MA (PhD Carob) Fellow f:y Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern History Whittaker, RobertJames, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeograpi?J, Tutor in Geograpi?J, and Dean Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Professor of Russian Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, PhD Carob) Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Professor of PI?Jsics and Tutor in PI?Jsics

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Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) University Reader and Tutor in Engineering Science, and Junior Proctor Matthews, Paul McMahan, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP Professor rif Neurology, Fellow try Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Professor rif Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Tutor in Modern History, and Archive Fellow Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow try Special Election Paxman,Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb) Fellow try Special Election • Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB, ChB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS in Ped Surg Professor rif Paediatric Surgery and Fellow try Special Election Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; PhD Princeton) Professor rif Renaissance Literature, Tutor in English, and Tutor for Graduates Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) University Reader in Management, Fellow try Special Election Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Professor rif Cognitive Neuroscience, Senior Research Fellow Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb) John Harris Memorial Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science Tseng,Jeffrey, MA (BSCIT; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Pf?ysics, and Chapel Overseeing Fellow Wilkins, Robert J, MA, DPhil American Fellow and Tutor in Pf?ysiology, Tutor for Admissions Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil Tutor in Politics Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Parkin, Ernest Johnstone, MA (MA Virginia, PhD Rensselaer) Home Bursar Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (MA, PhD Camb) Professor rif Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, MA, DPhil (BA Yale, MPP Harvard,JD NYU) Fellow try Special Election in Economics Yates,Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Tutor in Materials, and Picture & Chattels Fellow Dupret, David, MSc, PhD Bordeaux Fellow try Special Election Kavanagh, Aileen Prances, MA (BCL MA NUl, Magister Legum Europae Hanover,) DPhil, (Dipl Vienna) Reader in Law and Tutor in Law

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Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex) Fellow f?y Special Election Loenarz, Christoph, Dip! Chem Tuebingen, DPhil William R Miller Junior Research Fellow Abou-El-Fadl, Reem, DPhil Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East Walker, Richard, BA (MSc Leeds, PhD Camb) Tutor in Earth Sciences Stagg, Charlotte Jane, (BSc, MB ChB Bristol), DPhil Glaxo Smith Kline Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Imaging Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff) Fellow f?y Special Election in Surgery (Bone Oncology) Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MA StAnd, MA, PhD Essex) Fellow f?y Special Election in Contemporary Art History & Theory Sykes, Katharine, MA, DPhil (MA York) John Cowdrry Junior Research Fellow in History Costa, Charles Simon Arthur, (BSSc Birm), MA, MPhil Senior & Finance Bursar Schlinzig, Marie Isabel, (BA Viadrina), MSt, DPhil Fellow f?y Special Election Pogge von Strandmann, Philip, MESc, (PhD Open) Junior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences McCartney, David, BMBCh Fellow f?y Special Election Gluenz, Eva, (MSc Bern; PhD Lond) Fellow f?y Special Election Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil Fellow f?y Special Election Aarnio, Outi Marketta, (Lie Abo Akademi), DPhil Fellow f?y Special Election Stambach, Amy Elizabeth, (MA PhD Chicago) Fellow f?y Special Election Palrner, Laura, (BA Colorado State) Fellow f?y Special Election, and Director of Development Willden, Richard Henry James, (MEng PhD Imp) Tutor in Engineering Benson, Roger BernardJames, (BA PhD Camb; MSc Imp) Tutor in Earth Sciences Lozano-Perez, Sergio, (PGCE Seville) DPhil Dip!, (Dip! Seville) Kellry Senior Research Fellow in Materials for Hostile Environments Yi, Xiaoou, (BE Huazhong, MSc Stockholm) CCFE Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors Clark, Gordon Leslie, (BEcon MA Monash) MA DSc (PhD McMaster) Professorial Fellow, Director, Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment

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Prosser, James, BSc PhD OBE FRSE FSA FAAM Visiting Fellow Wiesing, Lambert, (MA PhD Munster) Visiting Fellow Taylor, Jenny Cameron, BA DPhil Fellow f:y Special Election Rothwell, Peter Malcolm, (MB ChB MD PhD Edin) MA, FMedSci Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA MSt DPhil (MA East Ang) Fellow f:y Special Election Goldberg, Leslie Ann, (BA Rice, PhD Edin) Senior Research Fellow Honorary Fellows Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC, BA Harris, Roy, MA, DPhil (PhD Lond), FRSA Tindle, David, MA, RA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, MA (Des-Se. Paris) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robert, CBE, MA Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin) Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, MA Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Jus tin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA Garland, Patrick Ewart, MA * Nazir-Ali, Rt Revd Michae!James, MLitt (BA Karachi; MLitt Camb; PhD NSW) Jones, Terence Graham Parry, MA Roberts, Gareth, MA Crossley-Holland, KevinJohn William, MA, FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Edwards, Steven Lloyd, OBE, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, MA Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil, FRS, FEng Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, DPhil Morsberger, Philip, MA Burnton, the Rt Hon Sir Stanley Jeffrey, PC, MA Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Mane, DPhil Sus) FRS, CChem, FRSC Josipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA

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Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, BA, QC Starmer, Keir Rodney, BCL, QC Shortridge, Sir Jon Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin) Lee, Stewart Graham, BA *Deceased St Edmund Fellows Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Martin Gregory, Kt, MA (MBA Stanford) Cansdale, Michael John, MA Stanton, Paul John, BA Asbrey, William Peter, BA Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario, PhD Duke) Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA,DPhil (LLD Birm), FRSA Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Donaldson, lain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB, ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond) Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, BSc, MA, DPhil, CChem, FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM, BCh, MA Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (PhD Lond) Scargill, David lan, MA, DPhil,JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art) RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dean of Degrees Hunt, John David, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS* Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) Knight, John Beverley, (BA Natal, MA Camb) MA Crampton, Richard John, (BA Dub), MA, (PhD Lond), Dr HonCausa Sofia Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LL B, MA Camb; JD Chicago), QC Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv) Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, AcSS, FRHistS Brasier, Martin David, MA (BSc, PhD Lond) Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, FBA *Deceased

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Lecturers Alien, Roger William, BA BMus Liv, DPhil Oxf Music Ash bourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Pfysics Russian Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA DPhil Oxf Black,JohnJoseph Merrington, MB BS Lond, FRCS, FIMC (Edin), FFAEM Anatomy Mathematics Campos Cordero,Judith, BSc Mexico Mathematics Chad, Benjamin Michael John, MSc Wollongong Spanish Conde,Juan-Carlos, BA PhD Madrid, MA Oxf Cowley, Sally Anne, BA Camb, PhD Lond Molecular Biology Faulkner, Jennifer Louise, BSc PhD Durh Chemistry Frank, Svenja, BA Eichstatt, MA Freiburg Lektorin Music Gant, Andrew John, MA Camb, MMus PhD Lond Biochemistry Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem DPhil Oxf King, Peter John, BPhil DPhil Oxf Philosopfy Leitch, Jessica Roxanne, MEng DPhil Oxf Engineering Littleton, Suellen Marie, BSc California, MBA Lond Management Lloyd, Alexandra Louise, BA PGCE MSt DPhil Oxf German McCabe, Helen, BA MPhil DPhil Oxf Politics Meredith, David, MA DPhil Oxf Biomedical Sciences Mileson, Stephen, BA Warw, MSt DPhil Oxf History Noe, Debrah Pozsonyi, BS PhD Ohio State Finance Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, MA East Ang English Roger, Sarah, BA McMaster, MPhil Oxf Spanish Styles, Elizabeth Anne, BSc Oxford Polytechnic, DPhil PGCE Oxf Psychology Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus, MA Oxf, Barrister-at-law Politics Varnam, Laura, BA Durham, MA Leeds, DPhil Oxf English Wadham, Alastair Jake, BA MPhil Camb, DPhil Oxf French Waters, David John, MA Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Earth Sciences Wilk, James, MA DPhil Oxf Philosopfy Williams, Renee (Mme), MA Oxf French Chaplain Reverend B Kris Kramer Librarian Blanca Trepat-Martin (BA Barcelona, Dip Exe) College Secretary & Registrar Ceri Hunter BA DPhil (BA Camb MA Wales)

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Director of Development Laura Palmer (BA Colorado State) Director of Music Christopher Watson (BA Exe) Head Porter Lionel Knight Decanal Staff Simon, Joanna, BA, (LLB Cape Town, LLM LSE) Springer, David, MEng (BEng Cape Town) Murdock, Adrian, (BSc Curtin) Etrnannski, Tamara, (BA & BSc Calgary) Feyertag,Joseph, MSc (BA York)

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

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TO REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL, KEITH GULL Given the current period of rapid change and emerging challenges in the UK education sector it is not surprising that the Hall also has to embrace change. However, in our case I believe we are changing to protect, maintain and ensure the sustainability of our approach to teaching, learning and scholarship. We must maintain the very essence of what Teddy Hall is - and at the very heart of 'changing to remain the same' is our understanding of the character and distinctive nature of the place. This year's review of activities seems to encompass much greater activity and success coupled with change and innovation.

The students of course remain at the heart of the Hall and a primary focus of Fellows and staff. In the JCR we have seen some superb academic performances over this year and recently in finals 33 students obtained First Class Honours - this represents over 30% of the Hall's undergraduates and is a significant improvement on last year. Our MCR is thriving and it is a delight to see how Teddy Hall students impress by winning scholarships and distinctions for DPhil and Masters theses across all disciplines. We have nearly 200 graduate students in the Hall and 2015 marks the 50th Anniversary of the founding of our MCR- a milestone we are planning for and which we intend to celebrate in some style.

The UK higher education ÂŁ9,000 tuition fee is already a feature of our lives. As I pointed out last year a radical reduction in government funding for Oxford will 'cancel out' any concept of increased income to the Hall. We have spent the year working hard to ensure that the movement from public to private funding will not discourage students from applying to the Hall. We have no quotas and we look for talented and gifted students from wherever; but we have redoubled our widening participation efforts in schools and the Hall currently spends approximately ÂŁ250,000 a year in bursary support for some 108 undergraduates. I worry that the increased fees will deter talented students from continuing to Masters and DPhil studies. I thank the many Aularians for their support of our present and future students via donations, legacy pledges and gifts to the Hall. Support for both undergraduates and graduate students through bursaries and scholarships will be embedded as one of the themes of our forthcoming development campaign.

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In addition, Hall students continue to impress with non-academic activities and this year we have seen an amazing series of performances in music, drama, art, writing and sport. The John Oldham Society recently went on tour to Cameroon where they joined forces with the local volunteer organisation La Liberte, who use interactive theatre to encourage discussion amongst school and community groups on a wide range of topics, from voter apathy to antenatal care. A video of the trip and events can be seen on the Hall website.

Our Hall music programme continues to grow under the leadership of world-renowned tenor Chris Watson, our new Director of Music. A series of lunchtime concerts has been introduced. Superb student performances were enabled by a world class Bechstein piano for the Old Dining Hall, a purchase made possible by a donation from an Aularian. The St Edmund Hall choir has gone from strength to strength: in addition to Chapel commitments members have sung at Aularian gatherings and dinners, and the Choir held a residency at Peterborough Cathedral and this summer has sung at Pontigny Abbey.

As would be expected, sport continues to play a key part in the life of the Hall and 26 Hall students won Blues and represented the University at 17 sports ranging from rugby, association football and hockey to trampolining, from rowing to modern pentathlon and karate. Teddy Hall teams winning Cuppers this academic year include canoe polo, rugby (2 years in a row!) and badminton (3 years in a row!). The Hall continued to be represented in The Varsity Match at Twickenham and so contributed to Oxford's success.

We celebrated and showcased examples of the Hall's students' talents in our biennial Masterclass event with an audience of Aularians. Musicians, actors, singers and athletes from the JCR and MCR come together to say thank you for the support of skills, activities, coaching and training across the arts and sports, made possible by Aularian donations to the Masterclass theme in the Annual Fund.

I have constantly applauded another theme of Teddy Hall student life - the generosity of students who find time in term and vacations to make a personal commitment to charitable and citizenship work. Both JCR and MCR students volunteer time and expertise and raise funds for a bewilderingly diverse set of charities including those local to Oxford as well as national and international charities. From sponsored walks and quizzes to climbing mountains, our students raised funds to support some great causes.

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The Fellowship is always in flux and at the end of this year Hugh Jenkyns retires as the Tutor in Earth Sciences and Vice-Principal. He will be succeeded in the former role by Dr Richard Walker and in the latter role by Professor Stuart Ferguson. Hugh has been the Vice Principal during my four years here and he has worked effectively and hard in this role. I have very much valued his counsel and support during these years when the Hall has been making many changes to its internal organisation and capability. I look forward to working with Stuart as the Hall moves forward with a continuing series of projects and ambitions. We also say goodbye to Dr Reem Abou el-Fadl, the Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East who will be taking up a new post at the University of Durham.

Another long-serving fellow, Mr Martin Slater, retires fully this year from teaching economics. Martin's contributions to the Hall and its students are immense. He has held virtually every position in the Hall as well as being Proctor in the University. He will be remembered as one of the most influential and inspiring of Oxford's teachers and he has changed the lives and ensured the careers of huge numbers of Hall students. We welcome Dr Climent Quintana-Domeque to a new tutorial fellowship in economics that has been secured through the generosity of donations from a number of Aularians, particularly William R Miller whose name this fellowship will carry.

Other new fellows welcomed during the academic year are Xiaoou Yi, Culham Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors; Amy Stambach, Professor of Education at the Dept of Education, and Fellow by Special Election; Peter Rothwell, Professor of Clinical Neurology and Professorial Fellow; Jenny Taylor, Programme Director, Genomic Medicine Theme, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, and Fellow by Special Election; Sergio Lozano-Perez, George Kelley Senior Research Fellow in Materials; Gordon Clark, Director, Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment and Professorial Fellow; Roger Benson, Tutor in Earth Sciences; Richard Willden, Tutor in Engineering Science; Leslie Ann Goldberg, Senior Research Fellow; and Jenni Nuttall, Lecturer in English and Fellow by Special Election.

This year two Visiting Fellows enriched the Fellowship and the intellectual life of Oxford. We welcomed Professor Lambert Wiesing, Director of the Institute for Philosophy who came on sabbatical from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena to visit the Ruskin School. Also, Professor Jim Pro ss er, an environmental microbiologist from the University of Aberdeen spent his sabbatical year in Berkeley, Vienna and then with us in Oxford.

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Recognition for individual Fellows continued this year with Nigel Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Medieval German being recognised with an honorary doctorate by the University of Berne in Switzerland, in recognition of his research on medieval literature in the south-west of the German-speaking lands. In addition, the Italian Geological Society honoured the Vice-Principal, Hugh Jenkyns, by the award of its Capellini Medal.

Aularians were also recognised in both the New Year and Queen's Birthday Honours lists. Martin Smith (1961, Physics), St Edmund Fellow, was awarded a knighthood and Steve Edwards (1976, Physics), Honorary Fellow, was awarded an OBE. Both are advocates for higher education and scholarship and extremely generous philanthropic supporters of British academic life. We have benefited in the Hall from this generosity and it was a delight to see this national recognition.

We were saddened by the loss of Honorary Fellow and alumnus Patrick Garland, the renowned theatre producer and director, who died aged 78; and Professor John Hunt FRS, former Tutor in Metallurgy and Emeritus Fellow, who died last December aged 75. This magazine contains obituaries to both.

Writing has had a great year at the Hall. Lucy Newlyn, Tutorial Fellow in English has created a phenomenal web-based directory celebrating over 100 Hall writers. Moreover, we welcomed many Aularians, present students and friends to a variety of writers' events (again, please look at the Hall's website for podcasts and the directory) .

The Hall hosted some superb lectures during the year and the Indian politician, Cabinet Minister and Aularian, Salman Khurshid, got the series off to a tremendous start when he visited Oxford to speak about Indian Judicial Activism. The Rt Hon Lord Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, our Visitor, and current Chairman of the BBC Trust delivered the 2013 Geddes Lecture entitled "Trust and Free Speech: some reflections". Finally, in Trinity term we were treated to an enthralling Emden lecture from Professor Tom Devine of the University of Edinburgh who spoke on the "Death" and Reinvention of Scotland. These lectures were extremely well attended by Aularians but we now also have transcripts of lectures or podcasts available on our website. I know Aularians who were unable to get to Oxford for the lectures value their availability in this form.

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The Hall changes year to year but an appreciation of its distinctive feel is a theme that runs from current students to Aularians of all ages. As the realities of the new challenges emerging in UK higher education and within Oxford impact on the Hall we have been planning hard during this year.

This planning is for how we place the Hall on a sustainable footing through a major Development Campaign over the years ahead. Planning for how we improve accommodation for our students and bring it up to the standards and availability now pertaining in many other Oxbridge colleges. Planning for how we offer scholarship and bursary support that makes a real difference to gifted and talented students whose finances threaten their studies. Planning for how we maintain the teaching in the Hall via the tutorial system and sustain the individual subjects and disciplines by endowing Fellowships. Finally, how we continue to provide a unique Teddy Hall experience to our students across sport, the arts and other activities. In short, resisting compromise.

FROM THE SENIOR & FINANCE BURSAR, SIMON COSTA The Hall's financial year runs from 1 August to 31 July, and the 2012-13 year is therefore the second full financial year which the College Accountant and I have overseen. I am pleased to report that the Hall continues to make good financial progress.

The Magazine's copy deadline means that the 2012-13 accounts are still three months away from being completed. However, I am confident in saying that the modest budgeted surplus will be exceeded. The 2011-12 accounts, completed during the year, are available on the College website.

As a result of the modest surpluses accumulated over the past few years, and a much-reduced level of debtors in the last two years, we have been able to earmark some of this cash for modest projects around College which don't lend themselves to fund-raising.

In addition, our improving financial strength has enabled us to allow a rent freeze for the coming year, so that Hall students living in College accommodation will not be subject to any increase in the cost of their rooms in 2013-14. In recent times, the Hall has been about the most expensive college where room rents are concerned - since we cannot afford to subsidise these charges - but we are determined to become more competitive, and this rent freeze should help significantly.

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Alumni might remember that last year I mentioned the purchase of the Hall's fifth house on Circus Street, adjoining our Isis Guest House on the Iffley Road.

The Isis is used for student accommodation during most of the year, and for B&B business in the summer. We have made good progress in examining the options for enlarging the Isis, and have now commissioned a formal feasibility study in order to identify its potential. Raising money to extend the Isis will be a major part of the Campaign.

Each year, the Hall makes a case for assistance from the College Contributions Committee, which provides modest grants to poorer colleges, financed by a 'tax' on richer colleges. This year, the Hall was awarded ÂŁ396,000 (to be paid over three years) - the second-highest grant awarded out of a total of ten, and the highest ever awarded to the Hall. This award is specifically to assist us with a comprehensive refurbishment of 26 Norham Gardens- which many alumni will know as Brockhues House - and its garden flats.

The Investment Sub-Committee continues to oversee the management of the Hall's endowment on behalf of the Finance Committee, and during the year we have begun a review of how we might improve our ability to control asset allocation across the entire endowment.

The Remuneration Committee has also continued to advise the Governing Body on Fellows' stipends and allowances, and I am delighted to report that the Hall's Fellows now receive academic, housing and entertainment allowances broadly in line with those of their colleagues in other colleges. In addition, the Home Loan Scheme for Fellows - particularly new appointees - is now in place, and two High Street banks have agreed to be 'preferred mortgage lenders' alongside the Scheme.

Different groups of us keep under review the various Undergraduate and Graduate Awards which the Hall offers each year, by looking at the best ways to leverage the money we have available. This year, the Academic Administrator, College Accountant and I have improved the package of Undergraduate Awards- in part as a result of last year's College Contributions Committee grant- and we continue to maximise the leverage of our Graduate Award money by, for example, funding Clarendon Scholarships which attract significant matching funds from the University.

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The near-term outlook for college funding generally remains uncertain. As the Principal has noted in his report, any increase in college incomes which might otherwise have resulted from the ÂŁ9,000 fee regime are all but negated by reduced HEFCE funding. So, the new fee regime has not materially benefited the Hall- while our students' financial hardships are likely to increase. We of course want to give our students as much financial support as we possibly can, but with an endowment significantly smaller than the recommended minimum for a college of the Hall's size, we do not have the financial firepower to do so.

Accordingly, student support will be a major theme of the Campaign, along with infrastructure projects such as the Isis, mentioned above. The other two broad themes will be the funding of teaching Fellowships and enhancing the student experience in non-academic areas.

The Principal, the Director of Development and I will be travelling extensively, as the Hall moves into the final year of the quiet phase of the Campaign. In the last few months, we have been to New York and Hong Kong, and the generosity of Aularians- whether as donors, sponsors or advocates- is heart-warming.

We look forward to seeing more and more of you over the coming year.

FROM THE LIBRARY FELLOW, NIGEL PALMER The library remains a centre of activity, both on the part of undergraduates, for whom it is a very popular place to study and who are now making more use of the work places in the library than ever, and through the endeavours of the Librarian, Blanca Martin, who has been pressing on with a number of important projects old and new, whilst at the same time planning how we should respond to the changing work patterns of undergraduates. Since January 2013 Blanca has been assisted by Kirsty Braithwaite, who has come to the Hall on secondment from the Balfour Library while Caroline Legg is on maternity leave. Kirsty studied French and Spanish at Heriot-Watt University and first came to Oxford as a trainee at the Bodleian Library. I took up the office of Library Fellow in November 2012, taking over from David Priestland, and this is therefore my first report.

This year new study spaces have been provided on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors of the Library Tower, providing an environment for quiet, undistracted study.

At the same time, in response to the fact that more and more undergraduates come to the library with their own laptops, the computers on the west wall have been removed to allow space for more study desks. In this way we have 14

been able to create eight more new spaces with power points for laptops to meet the increasing undergraduate demand. Another achievement of the past year has been the completion by the Librarian of a complete shelf check, a major undertaking in a library of this size.

The use of the Aularian Room in the upper room of the south porch, which was completely furbished a year ago on the basis of a generous donation, is progressing: it now houses the continuation of the main Aularian Collection, which contains books written by old members, and the new Fellows' library with books written by or contributed to by College Fellows. These are now separated out from the main body of the Aularian Collection. They have all been catalogued on the University of Oxford online catalogue SOLO, which has made them much more easy to find.

Other major developments focus on the Old Library. Early in 2013 we received a valuation of all the college's older books, which means that we can put questions of security and the use of this beautiful space, which goes back to the 1680s, on a new footing. We have continued with the programme of conservation and specialised cleaning, which began a few years ago. Furthermore, it is now planned that the whole of the Old Library collection, hitherto searchable only on an internal database, should be catalogued on SOLO, which will make the College's stock of books visible to scholars all over the world. It is planned that work on the new catalogue will start in the autumn of 2013.

This year the Library has received two major donations, one a gift from Professor Mark Child, Emeritus Fellow of the College, the other made on behalf of his son Richard Matthewman (2004) by Peter Matthewman. These additional funds, for which the library is extremely grateful, will be used to enhance the facilities which are offered to undergraduates, which must necessarily remain the main focus of a college library.

We list over this year's gifts of books and articles, for the Aularian Collection:

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ABNETT,Dan Embedded Angry Robot Books 2011 Salvation's Reach The Black Library 2011 Pariah : Ravenor vs Eisenhorn The Black Library 2012 Dragon Frontier Puffin Books 2013

ABNETT, Dan and Culbard, I N J The New Deadwardians DC Comics 2013 ALEXANDER,J H (ed) Waiter Scott : Anne of Geierstein Edinburgh University Press 2000 Waiter Scott : The Bride of Lammermoor Edinburgh University Press 1995 Waiter Scott: Castle Dangerous Edinburgh University Press 2006 Waiter Scott : Count Robert of Paris Edinburgh University Press 2006

ALEXANDER, J H, Ellis, J B, and Hewitt, David (eds) Waiter Scott : The Betrothed Edinburgh University Press 2009 ALEXANDER, J H, Garside, P D and Lamont, Claire (eds) The Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous Edinburgh University Press 2012 The Magnum Opus : Waverley to A Legend of the Wars of Montrose Edinburgh University Press 2012

ALEXANDER,J Het al (eds) Waiter Scott : Woodstock Edinburgh University Press 2009 ALEXANDER, J H, King, Judy, and Tulloch, Graham (eds) Waiter Scott : The Siege of Malta and Bizarro Edinburgh University Press 2008 ALEXANDER, J H and Wood, G A M (eds) Waiter Scott : Quentin Durward Edinburgh University Press 2001

Waiter Scott : A Legend of the Wars of Montrose Edinburgh University Press 1995

BRIGGS, Adrian The Conflict of Laws Oxford University Press 2013 3rd edition

ALEXANDER, J H and Baker, William (eds) Tales of a Grandfather : the History of France Northern Illinois University Press 1996

BYATT, Sir Ian 'Instinct or analysis: are they choices for Scotland? The Hume Lecrure 2012' David Hume Institute, Paper No 95 (2012)

ALEXANDER,J Het al (eds) Waiter Scott : The Talisman Edinburgh University Press 2009

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COWAN,Jude For the Messengers Donut Press 2011 CRANE, Harold (donor) Crane, Nicholas (author) Nick Crane's Action Sports Oxford Illustrated Press 1989 CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin The Viking Sagas: Scramasax Quercus 2012

GLASER, Eliane Get Real : How to See Through the Hype, Spin and Lies of Modern Life Fourth Estate 2012 GORDON, Keith Guide to the Tax Treatment of Specialist Occupations Bloomsbury Publishing 2012 4th edition Residence: The Definition in Practice 2013-14 Claritax Books 2013

DAVIS, Geoffrey V and SchulzeEngler, Frank (eds) African Literatures Vol3 WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2013

Tax Chamber Hearings: A User's Guide 2013 Edition Claritax Books 2012

DURSTON, Gregory J Whores and Highwaymen : Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis Waterside Press 2012

GORDON, Keith and Manzano, Ximena Montes (eds) Tiley & Collison's UK Tax Guide 201213 LexisNexis 2012

FERGUSON, Stuart J and Nicholls, David G Bioenergetics 4 Elsevier Academic Press 2013 4th edition

HAWKINS,JW Henry Gardner's Trust for the Blind: Formation, Development and Decline Kingston University DPhil Thesis 2012

FIELD, Mark Between the Crashes : Reflections and Insights on UK Politics and Global Economics in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis Bite back Publishing 2013 FOOK-LUN LEUNG, Frankie China is Unlikely to Protect American Intellectual Property Rights Times-Mirror Company 1995

HOLLWEG, Rebecca The Ball That Got Stuck in the Tree Emu Records 2010 HOWARD, Anneli (contributor and donor) Rose, Vivi en, and Bailey, David (eds) Bellamy & Child : European Union Law of Competition Oxford University Press 2013 7th edition

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HOWARD, Anneli (donor) MacNab, Andrew (ed) Bellamy & Child : Materials on European Union Law of Competition Oxford University Press 2013 6th edition HURN, Stan, Martin, Vance and Harris, David Econometric Modelling with Time Series : Specification, Estimation and Testing Cambridge University Press 2013 JOSIPOVICI, Gabriel Four Stories The Menard Press 1977 Everything Passes Carcanet Press 2006 Goldberg : Variations Harper Perennial 2007 Only Joking CB editions 2010 What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Yale University Press 2011

KAHN, Andrew (ed) Lermontov, Mikhail A Hero of Our Time Oxford University Press 2013 KHURSHID, Salman Sons of Babur : A Play in Search of India Rupa Publications 2012 KELLY,JND Hattori, Osamu (translator) Early Christian Creeds 3rd edition Ichibaku Shuppansha Publishing 2011

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KNIGHT, John 'The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China' China Economic Review Vol25 (2013) KNIGHT, John, Ding, Sai, and Guariglia, Alessandra 'Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference?'

Journal of Banking and Finance Vol37 (2013) KOLJONEN, Johanna and Ekstrom, Andreas Framling : En bok om Carola Weyler Forlag 2012 KOLJONEN, Johanna and von Riidiger, Nina Oblivion High Kolik Forlag 2012 KOTT, Matthew 'Rekrutierung der Waffen-SS im Reichskommissariat Ostland: Der Versuch einer schwer fassbaren Synthese' In: Lehmann, Sebastian, Bohn, Robert, and Danker, Uwe (eds) Reichskommissariat Ostland: Tatort und Erinnerungsobjekt Ferdinand Schoningh 2012 KOTT, Matthew and Emberland, Terje Himmlers Norge: Nordmenn i det Storgermanske Prosjekt Aschehoug 2012

LEE, Stewart How I Escaped My Certain Fate : The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian Faber and Faber 2010 LEWIS, PR (donor) Barringer, E E 'Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea' : The Story of 835 Naval Air Squadron in the Second World War Leo Cooper 1995 MALIN, Peter Fragments: Poems 1968-2010 Quaint Device Books 2012 Love and Other Business : Poems and Stories Quaint Device Books 2013

MORTIMORE, Sirnon Company Directors : Duties, Liabilities, and Remedies Oxford University Press 2013 2nd edition NUTTALL, Jenni Troilus and Criseyde : A Reader's Guide Cambridge University Press 2012 PAGE, Martin R (ed) Simmerson, Reg Fighter for Britain's Freedom: Letters to the Press, 1971-98 Sovereignty Publications 2012 PALMER, Nigel F, Mossman, Stephen, and Heinzer, Felix (eds) Schreiben und Lesen in der Stadt : Literaturbetrieb irn Spatrnittelalterlichen Strassburg De Gruyter 2012

SCHLINZIG, Marie lsabel Abschiedsbriefe in Literatur und Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts De Gruyter 2012 SHIPTON, Alyn Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway Oxford University Press 2010 SHIPTON, Alyn (contributor) 'The New Orleans revival in Britain and France' In: Cerchiari, Luca, Cugny, Laurent, and Kerschbaumer, Franz (eds) EuroJazzLand: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts Northeastern University Press 2012 SMRCKA, Lubos The Great Global Crisis and Family Finance: How to Look After Your Property in a World of Catastrophe and Ruin Melrose Books 2013 SPILBERG, Michael Like, Don't Like, Share Ludo Press 2012 THICK, Malcolm 'Garden seeds in England before the eighteenth century: I. Seed growing II. The trade in seeds to 17 60' The Agricultural History Review Vol38 (1990) 'Sir Hugh Plat and the chemistry of Marling' The Agn¡cultural History Review Vol42 (1994)

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THICK, Malcolm (cont'd) 'The eighteenth-century recipe book of Sarah St John' Petits Propos Culinaires Vol91 (2010)

TYTLER, Graeme 'Aesthetic attitudes in Wuthering Heights' Bronte Studies Vol37 (2012)

'Book review: Joan Thirsk, Food in Early Modern England, Hambledon Continuum, London, 2007' Petits Propos Culinaires Vol 83 (2007)

'The workings of memory in Wuthering Heights' Bronte Studies Vol37 (2012)

'Book review: Kenneth James, Escoffier: The King of Chefs, Hambledon and London, 2003' Petits Propos Culinaires Vol 72 (2003) 'An outline of the history of capsicums in England' Petits Propos Culinaires Vol 96 (2012) 'Root crops and the feeding of London's poor in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries' In: Chartres, John and Hey, David (eds) English Rural Society 1500-1800: Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk Cambridge University Press 1990 'Sir Hugh Plat's promotion of pasta as a victual for seamen' Petits Propos Culinaires Vol40 (1992) "Superior vegetables': greens and roots in London 1660-1750' In: Mars, Gerald and Mars, Valerie (eds) Food, Culture & History Vol 1 (1993) 'The supply of seeds, plants and trees to the kitchen garden and orchard, 1600-1800' In: Wilson, C Anne (ed) The Country House Kitchen Garden 1600-1950 The History Press 2010

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As ever there were also many gifts of texts for the Undergraduate Library from Fellows, Aularians and students.

This year donations were received from: Lucy Newlyn, Rob Whittaker, Amy Stambach, Philip Toogood, John E Orton, Geoffrey V Davis, Malcolm Trevor, Johanna Koljonen, Ryan Buckingham, Samuel Burton, Emma Hoiberg, Michael Rundle, Ian Cheong, Diane Ng and Samantha Flattery.

There were also gifts for the Old Library from: Michael Brookes and Oliver Madgwick. We are always very pleased and honoured to receive all your gifts. Thanks to you all for thinking of the Hall Libraries.

FROM THE HOME BURSAR, ERNEST PARKIN Change occurs constantly at the Hall. Sometimes it is rapid, and other times it seems glacial. This year we have benefited from a number of favourable factors- excellent students, fine colleagues, and brilliant support from alumni.

We look forward to building on this year's progress as we prepare to welcome a new cohort of freshers, the matriculation class of 2013, most of whom were born in 1995.

One of the Hall's strengths is its staff, and this year we welcomed 12 new people to the Hall. Andrew Brakes pear joined us as Deputy IT officer, Jen Gib bard as Admissions Administrator and Matt Bell as Schools Liaison Officer. Hayley Goodgame became Buttery Manager, and Sean Pitt became Bar Assistant.

Claire Hooper joined us as Communications Officer and Linzi Brigden joined us as Accommodation Officer. Aneta Palar and Anchan Drewitt became scouts.

Ryan Morris joined us in the SCR, and Amber Francis became Deputy Hall Butler and Philippa Machin joined as Development Administrator.

Sadly, these arrivals were balanced by departures. Nigel James and Leanne )ones left after long stays in the Bursary. Mark Saville and Phillip Palmer left as Communications Officer and College Secretary, respectively. Louise Fenn and Callum Meade left their jobs in the Buttery. Scout Marta Sadlowska and JCR Butler Derek Bloomfield left the Hall, and Kirsty Braithwaite left after a stint as maternity cover in the Library. Samantha Caira left the Servery, and Emma Bowler left the Development Office, while Kris Kramer resigned as Chaplain to move to Florida.

There were other changes too. Caroline Legg, Milka Parojic, and Samantha Caira all became new mothers. Ceri Hunter moved from Admissions Officer to Academic Administrator, Liz Brockless moved from Accommodation Officer to HR Administrator, and Servery Assistant Liam Webb added the duties of J CR Butler.

Some of the most appreciated projects we did this year were upgrades to facilities. The unloved "traps" beneath the Old Dining Hall have been converted to bright, clean and modern men's and ladies' toilets. The Pontigny Room next to the JCR has been converted into a multi-purpose art gallery. We moved the Development Office into a suite of newly created offices on the first floor of the Whitehall Building. We also relocated the Nurse's and Chaplain's offices 21

from the Besse Building to the first floor of Whitehall. This year we did significant work in the kitchen, taking down walls and adding ovens and hot cabinets in support of Chef John McGeever's excellent catering. Finally, we did extensive refurbishment of student kitchens at Isis and Norham Gardens to improve their amenities.

This summer we are in the midst of refurbishing shower rooms and student bedrooms in Whitehall, and upgrading fire alarms in Besse. We will also be reroofing Kelly, Emden and Besse. In addition, we are undertaking an extensive plumbing project to replace an aging boiler and associated equipment to ensure modern standards of reliable hot water in student rooms in Kelly, Emden, and Besse. In the public areas at 17 NSE, we also completed the redecoration and relighting with energy efficient systems. Two more building projects -an extension and refurbishment of the College boathouse and a project to upgrade the churchyard - are pending final external approvals as this is written.

I hope this brief report conveys the level of activity and the pride all employees of the Hall take in their efforts to be sure our properties and systems are fit to meet the needs of the College and to provide a positive environment in which to work and study. Our stewardship of the Hall is both a responsibility and a pleasure. The responsibility is to care for the people and properties of the College; the pleasure comes from our affection for the Hall.

NEWS FROM THE CHAPEL The last year has shown how a beautiful and relatively quiet corner of the Hall enlivens the entire community. Sunday services in Chapel are regular and intimate, with their own sense of sacred space and rhythm, but they also anchor a number of wider activities. It is the home of the Chapel Choir, going from strength to strength and ably led by our Organ Scholars Priscilla Santhosham and John Clark-Maxwell, and the new Director of Music, Chris Watson; the Chapel therefore forms a base of operations for music in the Hall. And who is not familiar with our Chaplain Kris Kramer's smiling face in the Common Rooms, the Buttery, and numerous student activities and sport fixtures?

Sermons in the Chapel covered a range of topics and issues, and from diverse Christian perspectives. During the year, the Chapel welcomed, amongst other distinguished guests, the Revd Canon Christopher Irvine, Canon Librarian of Canterbury Cathedral and a former Chaplain of the Hall; the Revd Dr Robert

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Gilbert, Tutorial Fellow in Biochemistry at Magdalen College; the Revd Dr Jenni Williams, Tutor in Old Testament at Wycliffe Hall; and Honorary Fellow the Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali. Particularly challenging sermons engendered much discussion afterwards over sherry and dinner (in this connection, the Chapel Fellow would like to thank the Hall's Sunday diners for their gracious moment of silence for the prayer before the Choir's dinner). Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, visited the Hall in Hilary Term, its Chaplain, the Revd Dr John Munns, preaching, and the first joint service with University College (that is, the one across the High Street) was held in Trinity Term.

After such a successful year, and sending out, armed with teddy bears, a new crop of graduates at a Special Leavers' Service on the last Sunday of Trinity Term, it became the Hall's turn to say goodbye to Kris and his family, who moved back to the United States to take up what promise to be very busy ministries in one of the largest churches in Florida. To quote Kris, "I have loved my time in the Hall. I will ever remember my daily engagement and laughter with the staff, students, and fellows of this place, and pray that the person who follows me can find such warmth in their ministry here. The Hall is a place of vast potential and I wish I could stick around a bit longer to see some of the wonderful developments which are in the pipeline come into fruition.

"Thank you for the privilege of sharing the journey of these days. Let's hope that our chapter together produces growth, for I am certain that it has helped me to grow in both wisdom and love. ''With every blessing, "K+"

Appropriately, Kris departed clutching a teddy bear presented to him by the Hall.

Jeff Tseng (Chapel Overseeing Fellow)

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FROM THE ARCHIVIST, REBECCA SHORTER During this year the Archive has received 47 sets of records of varying sizes and details, from one sheet of paper to six boxes. Amongst these have been records from all the support offices within the Hall, menus from special dinners, and the following highlights: Ace No: 14 Ace No: 19

Ace No: 22 Ace No: 23 Ace No: 25

Ace No: 30

Ace No: 31

Ace No: 39 and 44

Ace No: 43 Ace No: 46 Ace No: 49

Photograph albums of Freshmen Boat club training rules, 1907 and Isis Eights Week magazine, 1947 Deposited by Jack Wheeler, Boat Club Archivist Oxford Rowing Deposited by Jack Wheeler, Boat Club Archivist Memoirs of David Dent of his time at the Hall Deposited by Keith Gull Book presented to Bruce Mitchell on his 70th birthday, Eadmer Historia Novorum Donated by Molly Mitchell, his widow Research papers and photograph album of places related to St Edmund of Stanley Victor Peskett Bequeathed by Stanley Victor Peskett Tragedie of MacClegg - fliers and digital video of one act of performance Deposited by the John Oldham Society JCR suggestion books, minute books, accounts, digital archive of minutes and hustings, and photos and files 1919-2012 Deposited by Margery lnfield,JCR President St Edmund Hall Association records from John Heggadon Deposited by Lawrence Cummings MCR digital constitutions, minutes and other records Deposited by Katherine Har Audio recordings of Creative Writing event held 9 February 2013 Deposited by Claire Hooper, Communications Officer

During this my first year I have been concentrating on creating a detailed hierarchical catalogue of the records held in the Archive. This task is now approximately 90 percent complete, and I am starting to share appropriate parts of these via the Archive webpage. Specialist archival software has been installed allowing the possibility of a fully searchable catalogue in the future.

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Work to improve the packaging and protection of the collection has been undertaken: new archival boxes have been bought to enable better use of the limited available space in the Archive and to protect the documents from damage or loss. There is much more of this work to be completed, including purchasing custom created boxes for our set of Battels books which are very nearly comprehensive and cover the period 1694-1959. Almost all of these books are oversize ledgers measuring over half a metre along the spine.

A crucial set of records of the H_all's life have proven to be the Hall Magazines, which have provided many answers for me as I have started to learn the Hall's history. Work to prepare for a project to scan the full set of College magazines from 1919 onwards looks likely to come to fruition in the next year through the generous assistance of Aularian donor John Bunney and the St Edmund Hall Association. If technology allows we hope to share this with Aularians via ''Aularian Connect".

I have received more than 30 enquiries, including two that have led to family members of deceased Aularians visiting the Hall to view the records of their relatives and sharing their life stories after graduating. I have been delighted and moved on each of these occasions, and I have supplied scanned copies of files to many others.

I have worked to encourage more people to be aware of and to use the archives both in and outside the Hall. I have developed: the webpage, a twitter account and a flickr feed to promote the Archive. I have also been privileged to attend a number of events this year including the Floreat Aula Society Dinner where I gave a talk on Moore and Queen's (see my article in this edition of the Magazine for the story, pages 128-133).

This year has been a happy and fulfilling one for me as your archivist and I look forward with hope and anticipation to the year to come, and to helping the Hall to make plans for many more years thereafter. www. seh.ox.ac. uk/ about -college /hall-archive www.twitter.com/SEHArchives www.flickr.com/SEHArchivist

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FROM THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM On the research side, Sharon Achinstein has been working on her edition of Milton's prose writings for Oxford University Press, and an essay that explores some of the mysteries involved with Milton's illicit printing, entitled 'Who Printed Milton's Tetrachordon (1645)?' was co-authored with Aularian Benjamin Burton and been published in the journal The Library 14:1 (2013). The edition should be published in 2014.

Joe Barclay has been nominated High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire with effect from April next year.

Adrian Briggs had a quietly industrious year. The third edition of Conflict of Laws came out, though this rather predictable event was overshadowed by various judicial citations of various articles (one in particular) in Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, which offer some evidence that this stuff does not go entirely unread. The year ahead will be one of sabbatical leave, during the course of which, and with luck, a monograph on the new Euro-centric rules of private international law which now dominate the subject should be written. Further reports will follow ...

Sir Stanley Burnton retired as a judge of the Court of Appeal on 25 October 2012, on reaching the age of 70. He is now the Master of Music of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, where he is also the Master of the Bench responsible for IT. He gave the 25th Annual Essex University Law Lecture, entitled "The Internationalisation of English Law", and delivered the annual Lionel Cohen Lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on 27 May. Sir Ian Byatt is still paddling in the waters. Finished with the Water Commission in Scotland, delivered his Hume Lecture (Instinct or Analysis; are they Choices for Scotland?) in Edinburgh last October, but continuing with the Advisory Council of the European Policy Forum and working on regulatory matters with Frontier Economics.

He's particularly bothered about the proper appraisal of the Coalition's Growth Projects, especially with the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, which threatens to increase the annual bills of Thames Water's sewerage customers, including those in Oxford, by DO to ÂŁ80 a year in perpetuity.

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to the sewerage network in London, to deal with storm water overflows in combined storm water/ foul sewerage systems. But the costs have snowballed, rising from £1.7 billion to £4.1 billion as government has become closely involved and Thames Water has gold-plated its solution.

The regulatory body, Ofwat, commissioned an engineering study by Jacobs, Babtie, published in 2006, that showed that a mixed solution, involving a combination of retrospective separation of storm water from foul sewerage, improvements to existing sewerage treatment plants (already being paid for by customers), skimming of the Thames to deal with tidal pollution, greater use of sustainable urban drainage solutions, reducing infiltration of ground water into sewers (London's lost rivers) and the use of storm tanks, would reduce costs dramatically, compared with relying on a massive 35Krn tunnel under the Thames, perhaps to half the £1.7 billion original estimate.

Worse still, for the paying customers, Thames Water, owned by the global infrastructure fund, Macquarie, has paid such high dividends to its owners, (£2.2 billion in the last six years) that it has exhausted its credit standing in the capital markets, and has been negotiating special arrangements with the government with the aim of getting a government guarantee for this scheme.

If even half of this sum were put back into Thames's investment programme, and the project redesigned into more localised schemes rather than a huge tunnel, finance would be both easier to find and available on better terms. Yet history shows that governments are always attracted by prestige solutions.

The stakes are high and the ramifications considerable. The project involves engineering, finance and politics. Should it continue in its present form, or should it be re-appraised? Sir Ian and Sirnon Hughes, MP for Bermondsey, wrote their Guy Fawkes article in the Times (''Why should Londoners pour money down the drain?": 5th November 2012) urging an independent study, both of the design of the project and its financing.

So far, their arguments have fallen on government's deaf ears. Yet "growth" projects of this kind risk impoverishing customers, to the benefit of construction companies and finance houses. Far better to go for more costeffective schemes and see some reductions in utility bills; better engineering, cheaper finance and better politics. See next year's Magazine for the next episode.

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John Cox has spent much of his time over the last few years writing the libretto of an opera with an American composer which had its premiere on 27 July at the Santa Fe Festival.

Kevin Crossley-Holland and his Aularian daughter Oenone formed part of the line-up for the Hall literature day on 9 February, and Kevin was back in Oxford for a discussion with Seamus Heaney [pictured below, in the Front Quad], topped and tailed by Chris Patten, at a packed Sheldonian at the end of the following month. He has just been appointed a patron of Oxford's wonderful Story Museum-in-the-making. During the last twelve months he fulfilled many commitments as President of the School Library Association and was able to welcome the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to an SLA Reception at Hay Festival. He worked in schools in Vienna and Istanbul and across the United Kingdom, Bob Chilcott has made memorable settings of four of his carols, and his new and selected poems, The Mountains of Norfolk, was winner of the EDP Poetry Award.

Sir John Daniel contributed to media frenzy about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) with a widely read paper: Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility and is now a Senior Advisor to Academic Partnerships, a company that helps universities around the world to offer degree programmes online. In recognition of the progress that it has achieved 28

by implementing the recommendations of the International Visitation Panel that he chaired in 2007, the University of Ghana conferred an honorary doctorate on him this year. Sir John was especially pleased, as UNESCO's former Assistant Director-General for Education, to receive this award from the Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Mr Kofi Annan, former SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations.

David Dupret has recently published his work on the contribution of inhibitory nerve cells to the dynamic formation of memory patterns in the hippocampus circuit of the brain (Neuron, 2013). This work has been presented this year at the Oxford Symposium in Neuroscience and the international meeting for Brain Codes of Space in Heidelberg. He has also received the Mid-Career Award from the Medical Research Foundation to set up a Behavioural Neurophysiology suite at the Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit in Oxford.

Stuart Ferguson's book Bioenergetics 4 was published in June 2013. Needless to say it is a successor to Bioenergetics 2 and Bioenergetics 3 which some Aularians may remember.

In addition to the role of Principal Keith Gull spent some of this year doing science. His group published eight scientific papers last year on their work on the African trypanosome and pathogenicity of this parasite. After 15 years of service Keith stood down from Chairmanship of the Leverhulme Trust's Research Awards Advisory Committee. In addition his membership of the Council of the Society of Biology came to an end; however, he continues to serve on various Royal Society and Wellcome Trust committees.

Last September Keith gave the Annual Schools Lecture during the British Association meeting in the University of Aberdeen on "The neglected infectious diseases of Africa- do we care and if so, what can we do?". He taught a similar theme in an interactive session over a morning to school students attending the UNIQ Summer School in Oxford.

Keith has agreed to chair a panel organised by many learned societies to revisit and develop the recommendations and conclusions of his 2009 report for the Academy of Medical Sciences "Redressing the balance: the status and valuation of teaching in academic careers in the biomedical sciences".

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In his spare time from his main occupation as a carer, Peter Hirsch has written a number of tributes to Sir Alan Cottrell FRS, who died in February 2012, including a Prelude in the form of a Brief Biography to a Special Issue of the Phzlosophical Magazine in Sir Alan Cottrell's honour, and an original scientific paper published jointly with several other authors in the same issue, on the structure of a particular crystal defect in Gallium Nitride, a technologically important semiconductor. He has also written an Obituary of our Emeritus Fellow Professor John Hunt FRS which appears elsewhere in this Magazine.

In January this year he read a paper at a Symposium celebrating the Centenary of the Bragg Law for Diffraction from Crystals, organised by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, in whose journal Bragg's original paper had been published. He was the only one amongst the speakers at the Symposium who had actually worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in the late 1940s and who had interacted with Sir Lawrence Bragg, who was Cavendish Professor at the time. Bragg gave him his PhD research project in 1946, although day-to-day supervision was provided by Dr W H Taylor, Head of the Crystallography Department in the Cavendish.

On 8 April he opened the 18th International Conference on Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials at St Catherine's College, Oxford. On 12 July this year he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University of York.

Hugh Jenkyns was awarded the 2012 Capellini Medal from the Geological Society of Italy for his widely cited article 'Geochemistry of oceanic anoxic events'. The Capellini Medal is awarded in alternate years to foreign geoscientists for a significant contribution to Italian geology. In July, 2013 he taught at the International Summer School for Palaeoclimatology at the University of Urbino. He is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on a project to study the environmental significance of metal isotopes in sedimentary rocks, funded by Shell, and is also undertaking collaborative work with BP in the Alps and with Petrobras in Brazil.

Terry Jones is currently working on a feature documentary about the Economy called This Time It's Different - a History of Financial Foi!J, using animation, puppets, vintage footage, and songs.

Andrew Kahn has had a busy year on all fronts. Highlights included working with this year's Finalists, another excellent group; organising a well-attended 30

colloquium at the newly founded Ertegun House (Humanities Division) around the question 'Was there a Russian Enlightenment?'; the publication in April of a new edition in Oxford World's Classics of Lermontov's Hero of Our Time- praised in the TLS and given 5 stars in the Independent newspaper. In May he chaired a panel on 'Poetry and Terror' at the Rest Is Noise Festival at the Southbank, pleased to see in the audience Baroness Williams in the front row (apparently a fan of the Russians) as well as some Aularians. Impact is the buzz-word at the moment as university academics gear up for the next round of research assessments. Andrew notes that a front page article in the New York Times addressed the mystery of the unfamiliar third author the Russian authorities have allowed Edward Snowden to read - none other than Nikolai Karamzin, an author on whom AK has written quite a bit and a familiar figure in the syllabus of Oxford's undergraduate Russianists. Getting Snowden to move on to Karamzin's Europhile Letters of a Russian Traveller rather than his nationalist History might be real, if dubious, impact! In any case, that's not Andrew's worry since a round of successful grant applications mean that next year will be spent working on a number of tomes as well as a new digital humanities project.

John Knight continued in his Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, in his Visiting Professorship at the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, and in his chairing of the editorial board of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He visited China in the autumn, and spoke at the Beijing Forum - on the strengths and weaknesses of China's form of capitalism. He gave a public lecture at Glasgow University.

He became the Academic Director of the newly formed Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP), which has entered into an association with the Hall. Its first event (held at the Hall in June) was a well-attended China Policy Forum, at which two academics from Beijing and two from Oxford spoke on policy issues facing the new leadership. John's topic was "The economic causes and cures of social instability in China".

During this academic year, David Manolopoulos has given lectures in Harvard, MIT, the Ecole Normale Superieure and Waterloo (the Roger E Miller lecture), and talks at conferences in sunny places ranging from Telluride to Lausanne. He has also written a comprehensive review of the topic he has been working on for the last ten years with three former members of his research group, all of whom now have academic positions of their own. One 31

of the nicest things about being an ageing academic is watching your former students grow.

Philip Mountford has been appointed as head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory for 5 years from October. Otherwise, research has continued to focus on the following areas: reactions of new transition metal hydrazide and alkoxyimide complexes; development of new catalysts and approaches to the synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers; new ZieglerNatta type olefin polymerisation catalysts. A new project on lanthanide-boryl complexes has furnished the first examples of lanthanide-boron sigma bonds and in another area the first example of a calcium-transition metal bond. Details of the work and the associated publications are given at www. mountfordgroup.org.

Lucy Newlyn has had a very busy and productive year. In addition to her usual teaching and examining duties, she has been supervising a larger than usual number of DPhil students on new topics. She has also seen her OUP book through the copy-editing, proof-reading and indexing stages - work which requires painstaking attention to detail. (Wil/iam and Doroti?J Wordsworth: 'All in Each Other' was published mid-September.) This has also been an exciting year for Hall Writing: much of Lucy's time has been spent organising events, corresponding with Aularians, and taking care of the Hall Writers' Forum (see Writing at the Hall). In a year devoted to forging new connections across various communities, she has immensely enjoyed seeing many of her former students. A personal highlight, in April, was an evening at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Walton Street, when she read her poetry alongside Caleb Klaces at the Oxford launch of his new collection, Bottled Air. (Organised by another former student, Jenny Lewis, this event featured two non-Hall writers, David Shook and Travis Elsborough - but nonetheless had a strongly Aularian flavour!) In June, Lucy had a very brief return of the earlier neurological illness and was at one point considering medical retirement as an option- but she has thought better of this, in view of the excellent prognosis. She sends many thanks to all her Aularian friends and former students for their support and good cheer.

David Priestland's latest book, Merchant, Soldier, Sage. A New History of Power (Alien Lane), was published last autumn, and it was widely reviewed in the national press. He has also given a number of public talks on the book, including at the Hay Literary Festival and the Royal Society of Arts. A paperback

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version will be published this October.

Much of Steve Roberts' time in the last year has been occupied with the setting up of a "National Nuclear User Facility" (NNUF). This arose partly as a response to the Beddington report (''A Review of the Civil Nuclear R&D Landscape in the UK''), and partly because it is something the nuclear materials research community in the UK has wanted for some time. The NNUF will be on three sites - Sellafield, the Dalton Cumbria Facility, and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The Culham part of the facility is entirely new; the equipment being put into place there is based very heavily on the experimental methods that have been developed in his research group for study of nuclear materials (in particular the small-scale mechanics techniques developed by Dave Armstrong, a former JRF at the Hall), but is aimed at working with mediumactivity radioactive materials (the high-level stuff will be dealt with at Sellafield).

The idea is that the equipment at the Culham part of the NNUF will be able to produce specimens for microscopy and testing that are sufficiently small that their radioactivity is low enough that they can be studied in "ordinary" University laboratories. The equipment is now in place, and is already being used on non-active materials to try out techniques - within two years it will be housed in a new building that will enable work on active materials to start.

Martin Smith was privileged to receive a Knighthood in this year's New Year's Honours. He has also been appointed a Governor of the Ditchley Park Foundation, established by Sir David Wills in 1958 to advance international learning and to bring transatlantic and other experts together to discuss international issues.

The last year has been a busy one for Richard Walker's research and fieldwork. He is involved in a five-year project 'Earthquakes without frontiers', which started in 2013 with the dual aims of pinpointing areas of high earthquake hazard in Asia, and to then find out more about the vulnerabilities of particular communities and to communicate all this to policy-makers so they can do something about it. It involves both physical and social scientists, working in collaboration across the whole region. For Richard, this means that he is now leading field research programmes across large parts of Asia, examining the landscape for evidence of historic and prehistoric earthquake ruptures. The past six months have taken him on two visits to China, and at the time of writing Richard was preparing for a summer of field research in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. You can follow

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some of the group's recent activities at http:// ewfproject.wordpress.com/

A photograph taken during Richard's trip to China in late 2012. As well as finding active faults, they also discovered that Inner Mongolia is quite cold in the depths of winter. The thermometer read -23°.

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Robert Wilkins was appointed an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Brisbane.

Linda Yueh's latest book, China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower, was published in April by Oxford University Press and represents the third book in a trilogy of manuscripts on the Chinese economy. The first being: The Economy of China (published in 2010 and reissued in paperback in 2012) that served as an introduction to China's development. The second book, Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Development since 1979, was published in 2011 and focused on the institutional reforms that have shaped the Chinese economy. Finally, this book analyses what has driven China's economic growth and what can sustain it in the future.

OBITUARIES Patrick Ewart Garland MA, DLitt, 20 April 2013, aged 78, West Sussex.

1956, English. Honorary Fellow [page 35] John David Hunt, MA, DPhil, 8 December 2012, aged 75, Oxfordshire.

Emeritus Fellow [page 38] Michael Edward Thomas Stanley BFA, 22 September 2012, aged 37, Oxfordshire. 1993, Fine Art. Member of the Senior Common Room [page 43]

PATRICKEWART GARLAND (1956) The Oxford drama scene in 1958 was marked by the return of graduate Peter Dews, then a director for BBC Midlands, to direct an open-air production of Henry V in the Magdalen College grounds. For the leading role he chose Patrick Garland, a first-year student at St Edmund Hall reading English.

The casting of a novice as the lead was unprecedented at Oxford, but Dews chose wisely: Ken Tynan, writing for the Observer, wrote: "Harry himself, Patrick Garland, conquered lack of inches and facial unimpressiveness by sheer driving intelligence". It was considered an explosive debut; Garland himself described it, almost thirty years later, as "pretty good".

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At the time Garland came up to Oxford in 1956, age 21, he had already completed two years in the National Service, and was an accomplished amateur actor. He was also a skilled poet, whose work had appeared in the prestigious PEN anthology. Garland followed his striking debut as Henry with central roles in an eclectic range of plays: including A Man Has Two Fathers, an original play by the then-unknown John McGarth; Creon in Oedipus at Colonus in the Playhouse in 1958; and the University's first Coriolanus in 1959. Described by Vernon Dobtcheff in ISIS as "the best Oxford actor since goodness knows when", Garland rose to become President of the OUDS (succeeding Ken Loach, a contemporary student and thespian).

After graduating in 1959 Garland spent two years training at the Bristol Old Vie. The technique and stagecraft he was taught prepared him as an actor, but no training could provide for the unpredictable and varied future ahead. In 1969 [sic] he began working for the BBC as a director for the arts programme Monitor and Alan Bennett's comedy series On the Margin. In 1960 he appeared in the principal cast of the TV serial An Age if Kings, which presented all eight of Shakespeare's History Plays (amongst other characters Garland played Prince John in Henry IV Part 2 and Clarence in Richard III';. He continued his poetic development as the Director of Poetry for the RSC, a tenure chiefly marked by his 1963 anthology 'The Rebel', written to celebrate the company's quatercentenary celebrations. In the same year he also set up Poetry International with Ted Hughes, an organisation that publishes the work of poets from around the world.

After the success at the BBC together with Bennett, Garland directed Bennett's first full play Forry Years On, in a 1968 production which premiered at the Apollo Theatre and starred John Gielgud. The resulting acclaim led to Garland also directing Bennett's second play Getting On in 1971. In the same year Garland created a television film called The Snow Goose, which is based on a novella by Paul Gallico. The feature was a major critical success, winning a Golden Globe for best television movie and nominations for both BAFfA and Emmy awards (Garland himself was nominated for the 'Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama' Emmy Award). With these credits to his name Garland returned to Oxford in summer 1973 to direct an open-air Twe!fth Night. Kenneth Tynan described it in his diary as "the most joyful and moving Shakespearean occasion I've attended for years". Jeffrey Hackney, a retired Law Fellow at Wadham [and Emeritus Fellow, SEH], recalled a comical last-minute addition to the play, indicative of Garland's natural humour, when Malvolio accidently fell in the 36

Worcester Lake during rehearsals "and Patrick decided it was so wonderful he decided to incorporate it into the production".

Garland continued his theatrical success as the Artistic Director of the Chichester Festival Theatre (following in the footsteps of Loach again) in 198185 and 1990-94. In eight years he directed a total of twenty-four productions, ranging from Shakespearean texts to musical adaptations (Pickwick opened in 1993) and modern premieres.

Outside of Chichester he directed Eileen Atkins in a 1990 solo performance of A Room if One~ Own and staged two monologues for Simon Callow, playing Charles Dickens, in 2000 and 2010. Garland's position amongst the greats of British culture was consolidated when he directed the 1989 memorial service for Sir Laurence Olivier, a close friend and eo-worker; as well as the 'Fanfare for Elizabeth', a celebration of the Queen's 60th birthday at the Royal Opera House.

Garland attributed a great part of his theatrical success to his time at Oxford (although he later cited his theatrical success as the reason he got a third), and was named an Honorary Fellow by St Edmund Hall in 1997. Years after graduating, he spoke of Oxford student drama as in some ways infinitely preferable to the professional equivalent: ''You rarely get that divine spark in the professional theatre". However, he also insisted that Oxford drama should be seen as a source of enjoyment, rather than an alternative to drama school: ''You shouldn't go to Oxford for that. You should profit from everything else, and do acting as a sideline".

Garland's light-hearted but dedicated approach to Oxford drama proved an excellent start to a strikingly brilliant career. The OUDS, St Edmund Hall and the whole University should be proud to include him amongst our alumni.

Madeleine Perham Š 2013, The Oxford Student

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PROFESSOR JOHN DAVID HUNT FRS Fellow and Tutor in Metallurgy 1968 - 2002, Emeritus Fellow 2002 2012 John Hunt was one of the world's top authorities on the science and technology of the solidification of metals and alloys, and the leading authority of his generation in this country. The structure and composition of the crystals, their morphology, sizes and distribution in an ingot are complex functions of many factors including overall composition and cooling rate from the melt.

The structural patterns are intricate and some very beautiful, similar to the tree-like patterns (dendrites) in snowflakes. The properties of metal products derived from ingots depend sensitively on the microstructure on freezing.

John Hunt made major seminal contributions and has provided great physical insight to our understanding of the complex fundamental processes which take place during solidification, thereby establishing the conditions on which optimisation of the properties of the final product can be based. This is a very important field in Metallurgy.

John Hunt was born on 12 December 1936 in Cheltenham. He grew up on a farm in Dorset and attended Wellington School. After National Service in the RAF, which took him to Germany for a period, he entered Christ's College Cambridge in 1957 to read the Natural Sciences Tripos, specialising in Metallurgy in Part 2, obtaining his BA in 1960. He then carried out postgraduate research with J P Chilton, obtaining his PhD in 1963. The thesis title was "Modification of Eutectics". This introduction to solidification led to his lifelong interest in this field.

John then spent two years (1963 - 1965) at Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the USA. There, together with K A Jackson, he discovered that many of the features of metallic solidification are seen when some transparent organic materials solidify. They used these analogue materials to great advantage, watching them solidifying under controlled conditions to elucidate numerous aspects of the solidification process. This led them to extend greatly the previous theoretical work on the growth of eutectics, where two different phases solidify side by side, giving rise to a characteristic duplex structure, with lamellar or rod-like morphologies. They produced a definitive version of the theoretical model for eutectic growth which is generally accepted and formed the basis for most subsequent research in this field. For this work he was awarded in 1967 the Champion Herbert Mathewson Gold Medal, given

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by the American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers.

On returning to the UK, after a year at the UKAEA at Harwell, John was appointed in 1966 Lecturer in the Department of Materials in Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Metallurgy at the Hall in 1968. He held these substantive posts, with promotions to Reader in 1990 and to Professor in 1996, until his retiring age (2002). John was an outstanding tutor, stimulating his students with his enthusiasm of the subject, producing a steady stream of graduates over the years, and consolidating the Hall's position as one of the key colleges for the teaching of Metallurgy at the undergraduate level. His teaching and mentoring was much appreciated by his undergraduates and research students.

He had the reputation amongst former students for making difficult concepts simple in his tutorials. He was reported to have said that there are three Ages of a College Tutor. In the first Age, the Tutor is like an older brother or sister.

In the second Age, the Tutor is seen as a father figure, rather like the parents against whom his pupils are rebelling! In the third Age, the Tutor becomes a grandfather figure, suspected of senility by his students, who don't pay much attention! Throughout these three Ages, John and his wife, Ann entertained his pupils at their house in North Leigh, where they were treated to homebrewed cider and sometimes salmon smoked up the chimney.

In addition to his tutorial activities, which included admission into the College's School of Metallurgy and the Science of Materials, he served on a number of important College committees on both the academic and bursarial side of College business. He also served one year as Senior Member of Amalgamated Clubs, a diplomatically and administratively demanding post. He helped to make appointments with quiet effectiveness, was careful to read between the lines of references, citing the formula of disrecommendation used in his parent's Dorset farming circles, "I know nothing against him"! He assumed somewhat reluctantly, the Office of Vice-Principal for the year 2000-2001, and gave some of the honorific after-dinner speeches which the position entails. John fitted easily into the SCR, lunching regularly during his time as Tutor, and quite often after his retirement. Although generally quiet, he would suddenly engage in animated conversation, with a smile and often a humorous anecdote.

In the Department of Materials he established a flourishing research group on the fundamental and applied problems in solidification. There are many modes of crystallisation from the melt depending on conditions. Examples are so-called cellular and dendritic growth. He carried out a fundamental

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analysis of these solidification modes and developed powerful numerical models which revealed serious flaws in previous analytical models. His is the first fully consistent cell/ dendrite model which makes predictions on spacing selection and dendrite growth without making arbitrary assumptions. The agreement with experiment was excellent. In the course of his work he made unique measurements of solid-liquid surface energies, diffusion coefficient in liquids, etc, allowing quantitative verification of theories. He also studied experimentally and theoretically another type of solidification - peritectic growth, and developed the first treatment of the growth of the peritectic phase during continuous cooling, in very good agreement with experiment.

In general, John Hunt's work is characterised by a rarely found combination of a profound understanding of the underlying physical processes and a great ingenuity in performing the critical experiments.

His contributions to industrial processes include the explanation of socalled channel segregates in steel castings, the first detailed realistic model of the columnar to equiaxed growth transition, and of porosity formation in aluminium alloys, and the modelling of twin-roll casting of sheet metal from the melt. This latter modelled to predictions of the conditions under which the productivity could be enhanced by a factor of 3 by casting thinner sheets (1 mm instead of the conventional6 mm thickness). He investigated the nature of the so-called "heat line" defects in twin-roll cast sheet, and explained their origin. This work resulted in several new products, and extensive trials were carried out by a number of companies.

The twin-roll casting work was carried out as part of a "Teaching Company Scheme" funded by the Science Research Council. The aim of this scheme was for the academics to work at the collaborating industrial company. In John's case, unusually, the arrangement was reversed: twin-roll casters were installed in the Department of Materials and employees of the collaborating company (Davy McKee, subsequently Kvaerner Metals) worked in the Department.

When the conditions of the equipment and the melt were appropriate, the industrial and academic staff working on the project would run through the Department to the caster to do a "run". This generated interest in the Department, and demonstrated to others that applied science could be exciting and helped to promote more generally an interest in applied research.

One of his last contributions was the development of numerical programmes which predict microstructure under non-equilibrium conditions during

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solidification. These programmes were developed for use by industry and universities, and by the year 2000 some 80 copies of one of the versions had been distributed. He also modelled the traditional Differential Scanning Calorimeter, which measures important thermodynamic data, identified serious problems with the design of commercial instruments and designed a new instrument, which reduces errors substantially, and improves resolution by an order of magnitude.

It is difficult to do justice in this brief summary to the outstanding quality of John's research and its impact. Many of his papers are "classics" in the field. He was given much external recognition for his work: in addition to the Champion Herbert Mathewson Gold Medal in 1967, he received the Institute of Metals Rosenhain Medal and Prize in 1981, the prestigious Bruce Chalmers Award given by the TMS and American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers in 1996, was elected Fellow of The Royal Society in 2001, and received The Royal Society Armourers and Braziers Medal and Prize in the same year. (David Pettifor received the previous Award in 1999. The fact that two Fellows of the College have been honoured in this way is quite unprecedented, and demonstrates the College's distinction in Metallurgy and Materials Science.) In 1996 John was promoted to Professor in Oxford, and was also made an Honorary Professor at the Key Solidification Laboratory of China, North Western Polytechnical University in Xian. A symposium and Dinner was organised in his honour as part of the TMS Spring Meeting in 2006. The citation for John's FRS reads "Distinguished for his wide-ranging and definitive theoretical and experimental research in eutectic and cellular/ dentritic solidification, and for the application of this knowledge to enhance industrial casting processes. His contributions over thirty five years have advanced greatly our understanding of the solidification process".

After his "retirement" in 2002, he carried on collaborative computer modelling work with colleagues at Imperial College, the National Physical Laboratory, and in particular with Professor Fan's group at Brunei University, where he was appointed in 2006 Professor Associate at the Brunei Centre for Advanced Solidification.

John married Ann Carroll, whom he met in 1957 at the first practical at the Chemistry Laboratory in Cambridge. They married in 1961 after graduation, and celebrated their Golden Wedding in 2011. There were three children, David, Helena and James. The latter sadly died in 1984.

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John had grown up in a farm in Dorset, at a time after the war when equipment was in short supply unless you built your own, and he carried this practical bent to his home life. After returning from the US they moved to Blewbury (near Harwell) into an old cottage, which John improved by building a new staircase. In 1968 they moved to North Leigh into an old house which they renovated completely. John built three bathrooms, hiding wiring and piping in thick stone walls. He liked gardening, particularly the vegetable garden, and after his retirement joined the North Leigh Gardening Society. He used to grow impressive tomatoes in his office in the Department of Materials! He also kept geese and sheep at North Leigh. John and Ann were very active in the North Leigh Community, and he got very interested in the local history.

He dated his fireplace by dendrochronology. He wrote an extensive history of North Leigh from historic times to the present, which is published on the Village website. He gave a memorable lecture locally on the history of the area up to about 1200. His next lecture up to the 20th century was being advertised at the time of his death.

John was devoted to his family. He was a man of few words, but what he said was to the point and incisive. He had clear convictions. He had a gentle sense of humour, and never said anything malicious about anyone. He was very modest and did not realise that he had brought great distinction both to the College and the Department of Materials. He bore his final illness stoically, and was active right to the end. John will be sadly missed by his extended family, his many friends and colleagues in the College and the Department of Materials, and in the village community where his home was, and more widely by many friends and scientific colleagues all over the world.

(I am indebted to Ann Hunt, John Dunbabin, George Smith, David Pettifor and John Knight, for valuable information, suggestions and comments for this Obituary).

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MICHAEL EDWARD THOMAS STANLEY (1993) Curator and gallery director who was seen as a rising star in the art world

Michael Stanley, a shooting star in the art galaxy, was at the time of his untimely death, aged only 37, a Turner Prize judge and the Director of Modern Art Oxford. This remarkable institution has fostered the talents of Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery and his brother Andrew Nairne, Director of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. Stanley's brief tenure added lustre to the position, and he was surely destined to mount to the same great heights.

He joined MAO in January 2009, and one of his triumphs, following his Karla Black show, was curating a thrilling, important exhibition of Howard Hodgkin's recent work, "Time and Place". A few months later Stanley showed Thomas Houseago's "What Went Down"; and he won plaudits for the Slovakian artist Roman Ondak's "Time Capsule" in 2011. He showed, too, how catholic his tastes were by mounting an exhibition of "Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World".

His most recent venture was a stunning, highly praised show of paintings by Jenny Saville, and on 28 September he should have opened at MAO a major exhibition of drawings, photographs and glass and bronze sculptures by the celebrated French artist Jean-Luc Moulene. In just over three years Stanley organised 24 shows, supplied MAO's cafe with produce from its own allotment on Rose Hill and arranged for its own-label beer to be brewed.

Stanley's creativity, imagination and ability to make rapid decisions was shown soon after his return to Oxford (he had taken a first at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art), when he was given a hard-hat tour of the Ashmolean redevelopment by its Director, Christopher Brown. From the top floor, Stanley spotted a distant tower and asked what it was. Told it was the James Wyattdesigned 18th century Radcliffe Observatory, he said spontaneously, "I have a project for this building". It was the unforgettable Susan Philipsz's sound piece, ''You are not alone", which can be seen on YouTube.

Stanley came from the industrial town of Widnes in Cheshire, where his father was a construction manager and his mother worked as an administrator in a local college. The middle child between an older and a much younger sister,

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Michael was a lithe, handsome golden boy who excelled academically and was head boy at Ss Fisher and Moore high school. In an interview in the Oxford Mail in 2010 he said he grew up in a small terraced house; his early experience of art came because "I was brought up in a strong Roman Catholic family, so seeing art in churches was inevitable, though in most services I'd be distracted and draw a detail of the Station of the Cross or something on the back of the hymn sheet".

It was on a school trip to Tuscany when he was 14 that, he recalled, "I had my first sight of the 15th century artist, Piero della Francesca's incredible painting of the Resurrection in Borgo San Sepolcro. Soon after, in a tiny chapel on a hillside in Arrezo, I saw his pregnant Madonna. They were such powerful experiences, as vital now as at the time they were made".

Instead of spending his Saturday afternoons on the rugby league terraces, as was normal in Widnes, Stanley used them to make, he said, "the journey between two great northern cities, Liverpool and Manchester," to go to Tate Liverpool or the Walker Art Gallery. At Tate Liverpool he had his first encounter with contemporary art at an exhibition of the great German guru, Joseph Beuys: "The sight of basalt rocks scattered over the floor of the gallery evoked an immediate response - strong, primitive and yet magical," Stanley said. "Beuys was using materials not usually regarded as art materials to symbolically transcend everyday realities and to build his own mythology".

He went to the Ruskin aged only 17. He had real artistic talent, as is shown by the anatomical drawings he did there. He worked in many media, including Super 8 film, as well as lead, bronze and recycled materials, and his degree show was highly acclaimed. At the end of his first year he met and fell in love with Carrie Robson, an art student at Leeds, whom he wooed with wonderful gifts, such as hand-crafted and hand-sewn boxes of chocolates and a conker cast in bronze.

They were both passionate about DH Lawrence, the musician PJ Harvey and Victoriana, and they married in 1998, Carrie in a vintage lace dress and Michael in a 1930s suit, and wrote their own vows. Despite his dazzling rise in the art world, and the many house-moves it entailed, he found plenty of time for their three much-adored young children, and for village activities, including tending two allotments and keeping chickens.

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Starting as Curator of Art at Compton Verney, Stanley was Senior Curator of the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. As director of Milton Keynes Gallery he was responsible for two Turner Prize-nominated shows, by Phil Collins (2005) and Cathy Wilkes (2008), as well as for exhibitions by Marcel Broodthaers, Roger Hions, Gilberto Zorio and James Lee Byars. At Oxford he presided over the creation of a new gallery space and opened up MAO's cafe to the street, as well as initiating joint ventures with other cultural institutions, such as the Ashmolean and the Old Power Station.

Michael Stanley's enthusiasm was infectious; he was full of energy and lovable.

But his verve and vivacity had its drawbacks -he was found dead in a garden in Oxford; the police are not treating his death as suspicious - and this has grieved not only his family and Modern Art Oxford, but also his friends, his village, the city of Oxford and the whole of the art world.

Michae/EdwardThomas Stanlry, curator andgallery director: born Widnes 23 ]u!J 1975; married 1998 Carrie Robson (three children); died O:xford 21 September 2012. Š independent.co.uk It is a delight to a tutor when an undergraduate uses his talent to brilliant effect. Such was my first experience of Michael Stanley. The Ruskin School reported on his vigour as a major force in their studios and their fascination in his work, and it was no surprise that he was awarded a First and a University prize. In just a few years he returned to Oxford as Director of Modern Art Oxford, more recently to be appointed a judge of the Turner Prize, and I was again reminded of his quiet yet cheerful manner, barely hiding an attractive but fierce imagination and ambition. It is a truism, repeated in all obituaries on his life, that he had been destined to rise to great heights in his profession.

Michael's death at an unacceptably young age is a truly sad loss to his family, to the College and to all who knew him.

Peter Collins (Dr Collins was College Adviser in Fine Art, 1983-1996)

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FROM THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM Another great year has passed in the MCR as we continue to show why we're definitely the best and most active graduate community in Oxford, maintaining an excellent raft of events and activities through the year.

MCR events continued to go from strength to strength, starting with freshers' week where the joint MCR/JCR BBQ is fast becoming a particular highlight during a jam-packed week that includes more established events such as the graveyard pizza party and pub golf. Highlights throughout the year have included a joint Ceilidh with LMH; our now legendary termly Old Library wine tastings, which are always hugely oversubscribed; and exchange dinners that have also been particularly popular this year, with our growing reputation as one of the best colleges in which to dine- exchanges with Trinity, New and Hertford perhaps being this year's picks of the bunch.

As always Burns Night with ex-President Springer providing the piping and Chef John's address to the Haggis was a roaring success and the MCR's own Christmas and Trinity dinners also drew the crowds! The traditional mix of high teas and cake mornings continued to keep everyone fuelled for their busy schedules throughout term time and these food & drinks events were also supplemented with a variety of outings, including a wonderful performance of Hamlet in the Bodleian Quad before the year had started; trips to the Sheldonian to watch the Philomusica; and even a black tie outing to the cinema to watch the new Bond instalment SJ;yfa/1. Yoga and Capoeira classes have also become a fixture on the MCR calendar this year providing another outlet for MCR members to work out and relax.

Of course, our MCR members also chose to supplement all this fun with plenty of interesting research work. Many students headed off around the globe on fieldwork relating to their studies or other projects. Some of the more exotic locations visited have included Somalia, Burma and Malaysia. College continues to strongly encourage graduates who wish to undertake such work and we are grateful for this support.

A little closer to home students also took full advantage of what Oxford has to offer. Seint Lewin along with Thiha Tun, as two of Oxford's only four current Burmese students were afforded the opportunity to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi when she finally collected her honorary doctorate at last year's

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Encaenia ceremony. Another highlight of the College and MCR's calendar this year was the return of former MCR member, Rhodes Scholar and NFL Safety, Myron Rolle, to the Hall to talk about his motivational and philanthropic work. It was nice to have such an inspiring MCR alumnus return to talk about his experiences.

Teddy Hall MCR also continued to show its prowess on the sports field with some particularly impressive results this year. Firstly as the only exclusively MCR sports team, huge congratulations must go to the MCR football team, who achieved promotion in only their third season in the league with a 7-11 win-draw-loss record under the captaincy of Diego Munoz Carpintero.

They also reached the quarter finals of Cuppers, narrowly losing out to the 1st division champions. The Isis has also once again been fertile ground for Teddy Hall's MCR rowers. MCR members formed part of every crew and good performances were recorded overall in Torpids and Eights. Big gains were made by the women's 1st Eight, men's 2nd Torpid and men's 3rd Eight, the last of which achieving blades. The women's captaincy has also been returned to the MCR with Gemma Prata. Once again two Teddy Hall MCR members competed in the Varsity races with Amy Varney competing in the victorious Blue boat and Suzanne Cole in OUWLRC, winning by a remarkable 4% lengths. The MCR also contributed Harry McClelland to the victorious rugby Cuppers team and several members to the College hockey and cricket teams amongst others.

The end of the year was reached with mixed emotions. We celebrated the finale of another successful year in the MCR at the farewell garden party, but also remembered Charlotte Coursier, one of our members who sadly passed away in June. Her friends and family continue to be in our thoughts.

The new MCR committee was elected shortly before the end of term, with Charlotte Cooper, this year's Vice-President assuming the role of President.

I wish her and the rest of the newly elected committee great success in the forthcoming year and I'm sure they will continue to make the Hall's MCR the warmest and most welcoming graduate common room in the University!

Floreat Aula!

Christian Beck MCR President 2012-13

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FROM THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Aularians past and present will know two enduring truths about Teddy Hall J CR: first, that we dominate the sporting scene and secondly, that in all battles against Queen's, we triumph. This year has been no different.

At the end of Trinity, College hosted a special formal to celebrate the achievements of our Cuppers champions - the men's rugby team, men's badminton team and mixed canoe polo team. This is the second victory in a row for the rugby boys, and third straight win in badminton - achievements of which the teams should be very proud. Anyone lucky enough to have made it to Iffley Road for the rugby final against old rivals Keble will testify that the atmosphere was simply electric. The Women's 1st VIII also performed extremely well in Eights Week, bumping up three places to finish third on the river, giving them a real opportunity to challenge for the Headship next year.

Also in Trinity, Queen's JCR challenged us to a fundraising contest: the JCR that raised the most money for their runners in the Town and Gown 10k in aid of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign would win the inaugural Superiority Shield. Unsurprisingly, we trounced the opposition, raising ÂŁ2,623 to their ÂŁ1,265, showing definitively that we're not just the superior college when it comes to sport, but also charity!

Our new musical director, Chris Watson, started a series of fortnightly lunchtime concerts which have proved successful, providing a welcome break from the library, and an opportunity to listen to some of the Hall's finest musicians. The brand new upright piano in the Old Dining Hall has been well received by the pianists amongst us. On a similarly cultural note, the John Oldham Society travelled to Cameroon to put on drama workshops for locals with volunteer group La Liberte, culminating in a joint performance in Yaounde to which local dignitaries were invited. The aim of the trip, financed in part by the J CR, was to encourage, through the use of drama, discussion amongst school and community groups on issues important to locals, and also to try and secure future funding for the work of La Liberte. The group has since made a documentary of their trip.

Life in the JCR this year has not always been without controversy. In Hilary, a motion was brought to a JCR meeting to boycott the Sun newspaper until it removes Page 3. Such was the interest in attending the meeting, we had

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to relocate to the Doctorow Hall to fit everyone in! After a heated and long debate, the motion passed, so we no longer buy the Sun as part of the JCR newspaper round.

The JCR also worked alongside the MCR to campaign for a better deal on rent for students- at a time when student loans have increased by just ÂŁ12 in 5 years, inflationary increases on rent were fast becoming unaffordable for us. As a result of our work, College have frozen rent for the upcoming year which is a great result, representing a real-terms saving of around ÂŁ130 for each student living in College.

2012-13 has been another fantastic year in the life of the JCR, and it has been a pleasure to represent so many talented and hard-working students. FloreatAu/a!

Margery Infield JCR President 2013

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The Association Football Club Men} Captain: Thomas Hobkinson Women} Captain: Rosamund Baker Women} Captain} Report The weather this football season was perfect for the set of A Christmas Carol, but was not so appropriate for playing. Three of our five league matches were cancelled but due to our constant readiness and enthusiasm to play, all three were forfeited by the other team.

Our first match, against newly promoted New College, was a 4-0 win. This was a good sign for how our freshers and new visiting students would fit in with the older crowd and we climbed to second in the league.

Our second match was against St John's, who were top of the league on goal difference. Both teams knew that the winner would be promoted, and so the game was tense from the beginning. Teddy Hall went down by one goal but brought it back to 3-2, with St John's attacking until the final whistle, which many will bitterly remember to be many minutes after what most would have called the end of the game.

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This means that we will be playing in the top division next year and hopefully will become a name to be feared, as rumours suggest we have been in second division.

In Cuppers, we began by defeating Osler and Christchurch/Oriel by 7-0 and 9-0 respectively, in the group stage. Winning our first quarter-finals in quite a few years, we demonstrated our development during the season, by, this time, beating New by 7-0.

In a close semi-final against St Catz, we conceded a goal near the start and, despite valiant efforts, were unable to regain ground. So our Cuppers career ended in a 1-0 defeat, but we were comforted by an end-of-season dinner and a remembrance that this season boasts promotion, the fewest goals that SEHWAFC has ever conceded, and the highest scorer in Oxford, with 5 goals in less than 90 minutes.

The Boat Club Mens Captain: Samuel Maywood Women s Captain: Silke Rieger Women s Captains Report The SEHBC Women can look back proudly on a very successful year.

Due to very poor weather conditions in Michaelmas and Hilary term, both recruitment and training of novices was particularly difficult. But thanks to a very successful training camp over the Christmas vacation and a new boat, Wl defied all sceptical rumours and impressively moved up from 4th to 3rd on the river in the 1st division of Torpids after bumping New College on the Friday. They were the only top 8 crew in Torpids to have bumped up at all.

Another successful training camp in Italy and the return of two Blues rowers meant that the first Eight was set up well at the start of Trinity term.

Training conditions and the weather were fortunately much better through Trinity and after battling through a lot of morning outings, Eights Week finally arrived. On the Wednesday, Wl started behind Hertford in position 6 after having been bumped by them very unfortunately the year before. That incident was quickly forgotten since a very good start by the SEHBC crew and a claimed "equipment failure" in the Hertford Eight led to a bump for SEHBC within 22 strokes just before Donnington Bridge.

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Training camp at the "Lago di Sabaudia"

On Thursday, W1 started in the 5th position behind Balliol. SEHBC gained quickly after the start and were a quarter-length off at the beginning of the gut.

Balliol put in a heroic fight through the gut to the beginning of Green Banks, but had to concede eventually to the Hall power just opposite Longbridge's Boat house.

On Friday, the Hall started in 4th position behind Wadham. The wind and some delay in the start gun caused minor problems off the line, but the crew rapidly recovered and started to gain on Wadham, who performed much better than they had on previous days. After holding Wadham steadily through the gut and down Green Banks, Wadham made a decisive push on Pembroke W1 in front and bumped them just opposite Boat House Island. Since the two crews got entangled and did not clear the racing line in time, SEHBC could not avoid a minor collision with the boats, which should have caused the race to be stopped. Unfortunately, this did not happen and Balliol continued to gain on SEHBC whilst the crew was trying to break free of Wadham's stern. After what seemed like an eternity (at least for the rowers), all Eight finally got clear water but at the same time they could see Balliol - trying to use the collision to revenge the bump from the day before - come threateningly close. At this point though, all the race preparation proved worthwhile when the crew moved in an incredible sprint from a standing position to rate 40 in about 4 strokes, leaving Balliol in their wash to finish the race with an impressive distance of at least three lengths of clear water between the two crews.

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On Saturday, the crew was determined to finish with a bump and to fight for it to the very last stroke if necessary. The Hall determination proved too much for Pembroke Wl, who were caught in a textbook bump towards the end of the gut. Thus, Wl finished an amazing Eights Week with a victory row past the Boat Houses after bumping three out of four days and having moved up from 6th to 3rd on the river in the 1st division. It was an incredible and very successful year and the squad is looking forward to building on it next year.

The crew and coaches -very happy at the end of Saturday's racing finishing 3rd on the river in both Torpids and Eights

The Cricket Club Captain: David Cooper-Parry Cricket at St Edmund Hall has a wonderful tradition of camaraderie, enjoyment and streakiness that makes it a favourite activity for players of all levels of experience at the Hall. During a term of exams, cricket provides a brilliant way to relax in the sun for a few hours down by the river and I can only encourage others to get involved in 2014.

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This season represented a mixed bag for the team as we struggled in particular with the dual speed bumps of the great British weather and getting a side out in the face of significant academic pressures. H owever, this didn't prevent us enj oying a brilliant game against Somerville in 7th week in which the H all illustrated its strength o f character, even if our cricket left something to be desired. A cynical Somerville sent us into the fi eld despite being two players down, but p articularly impressive b owling fro m Tom Lambert and l ain McCann, the returning captain, saw us limit Somerville to 150 from their 25 overs - although I must take the blame for placing one Ben Cowley in the slips and allowing their top scorer to edge with impuni ty. With a decent total to meet our backs were to the wall and despite a Man o f the Match-winning 34, Tom Lambert was unable to carry the team to a win. I can only hope that next year brings just as much fun with slightly more by way o f victory.

The Darts Club Captain: G regory Carton After going unbeaten in the 2011 / 2012 season with an impressive 2 wins and 6 draws, SE H darts team was promoted to Division 1. This was a much tougher proposition altogether, not aided by the loss of our star player from the previous year (Patrick Michael Sandman). Our toughest match was away at Worcester where we fought very bravely but eventually lost to a team packed with Blues dartists that proved too much for this young team . We followed this with a series of strong performances back on home "soil" in the bar, where the darts seem to fly a little straighter. In the grand scheme of things, though, the season got away from us and after a few heavy losses, it pains me to say we will not be gracing Division 1 again next season. The team now has a lengthy pre-season schedule planned and I am in no doubt we will hit the ground running come October time.

The Hockey Club Captain: Samuel Burton Women~ Captain: Sophie Mathew-J ones

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Apart from an aberration against Trinity, we gained comfortable victories against New, Exeter and Worcester, as well as a 4-3 thriller against Keble.

Our exploits led to a deciding encounter with St Catz, where a victory by two goals or more would give us the league title on goal difference. Cheered on by the ever-vocal Teddy Hall faithful, we came out 2-1 victors, but sadly we missed out on the title.

Our success in the league was unfortunately not matched in Cuppers, where we were knocked out in the quarter-finals by an extremely strong Magdalen side that fielded no fewer than five Blues. Similar disappointment occurred in the Mixed Cuppers Competition, where a side composed of girls and boys from all years was defeated in the semi-final by Worcester. After normal time ended 2-2, the game went to penalty flicks from which Worcester emerged victorious (by 3 goals to 2).

Women~ Captain~ Report Teddy Hall women's hockey has been very successful of late, storming to league victory and reaching the semi-finals of Cuppers for the past couple of years. We play as a joint team with Keble College (a rival college in most sports but we decided to let them team up with us for hockey so they can actually win something!), which is a great way to socialise and meet with girls from outside the college bubble. We play in the league in Michaelmas term, Cuppers in Hilary and then come Trinity term we team up with the boys and play mixed Cuppers.

College hockey is for anyone, from those who are hockey-mad and would give anything to play a game at 8.30 on a Saturday morning after a heavy night out, to those who maybe haven't played in a couple of years and think it'd be fun to pick up again at a relaxed pace. All abilities are welcome, and everyone can play. We have games most weekends although not all, and it's the best way to run off that hangover and get set up for the day. The games are always finished in time to hit brunch and reward oneself with a hearty "full English".

Recently, we have received funding from the Masterclass fund set up by College, and have started weekly training sessions for those who want them from an experienced coach which has helped all who have attended. These will continue all through this year, and for anyone who wants to play they're a great opportunity - and fun! Again, everyone is welcome to attend these sessions, although they aren't compulsory if you just want to play a couple of games and not take it all too seriously!

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The Lacrosse Club Captain: Lara Tandy The Teddy Hall Mixed Lacrosse Team has enjoyed a successful season this year. The League Tournament played in Michaelrnas term was a great opportunity to train up and attract new players as well as to see some familiar faces. The highlight of the season was undoubtedly reaching the Cuppers Final in Trinity term, which we narrowly lost to Wadham after an intense and well fought game. The level of Lacrosse and the improvements that players have made throughout the year have been hugely impressive, especially since the majority had never picked up a stick before October! We are now really looking forward to next year's Mixed Lacrosse season when hopefully we will bring the Cuppers Trophy home!

The Netball Club Captain: Elizabeth Knowles Teddy Hall's netball team have had a fantastic year playing in the League and in Cuppers. Our new fresher talent and more systemised training enabled us to achieve promotion into Division 1, where we came fourth overall. We had such a fun year bonding as a team with a few socials, and we were very lucky to receive sponsorship from TV Catch up and the Big Bang to purchase some kit. The Cuppers competition started very well with us winning all our matches in the round robin, but unfortunately we lost to Keble in the semifinals, leaving us third overall. Hopefully we will keep up this performance for next year and do even better!

The Rugby Football Club Mens Captain: Hector Bagley Womens Captain: Tessina Braunerova

Mens Captains Report After losing several of the 2011 / 12 Cuppers winning squad we spent a good deal of this season rebuilding a strong team ethos. Although not winning either league, we finished 2nd in the Michaelmas and 3rd in the Hilary which for a side missing 11 due to University commitments is not to be sniffed at.

The return of players from the University set-up bolstered our squad and after putting in several hours' training in the fortress that is Jackdaw we were

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in a strong position going into this year's Cuppers campaign. The added experience and skill level drove the entire squad to up the intensity of both team and personal training. Weight was gained, fitness levels were raised and focus on player-specific roles increased. In our quarter-final we were drawn against our arch rival, Queen's who were dispatched accordingly (hurrah); we notably pushed a scrum over from 1Om out in the opening minute, Matthew Powell and Duncan Littlejohns being our resident rhinos. Our semi-final saw us drawn against a New College side which had beaten us earlier in the Hilary league. Again we started strong and scored 3 tries in the first half and settled to a 17-7 victory.

Heading into the final against Keble we were massive underdogs; they had beaten us 22-5 and 51-17 during the season and we had a huge task ahead of us. We played the final in traditional Hall style and suffocated them upfront through a siege of rolling mauls. Dog-like defence from our backs was also key in shutting out their strike runners, one of whom was Man of the Match in this year's Varsity Game. We went on to win 27-17 and claimed our first back to back Cuppers victory since the 1980s.

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Most promising fresher - Angus Maudslay: despite having little rugby experience before coming to the Hall this man showed that there is no substitute for raw strength and speed. Rumour has it he has been eating six eggs and drinking a gallon of full-fat milk every day in an effort to make the unheard of transition from flanker to loosehead prop - good luck Angus!

Player of the Season-James Heywood: James 'It's not fat, it's power' Heywood was brilliant for us all season. Being a robust man he punched holes in our oppositions and created space for other players running off him. He was also an excellent vice-captain and helped me organise training sessions throughout the year.

All in all my year as captain has been an amazing experience and a memory that I will always cherish when looking back at my time spent at Teddy Hall.

The Tennis Club Captain: James Wilson II The Men's Tennis club has had another successful season to honour the Hall's extensive sporting tradition in tennis. We produced a very solid run in Cuppers, the annual competition between all of Oxford's colleges, ultimately losing a close battle in the semi-finals. The highlight of our Cuppers performance was our scintillatingly close 5-4 victory over St Anne's in the quarter-finals, in which we responded brilliantly to going down 4-2 to come back to win it. We also competed in the top tier of the Men's tennis league, in which we secured a solid mid-table finish . We aim to build on our achievements this year with a strong incoming year of freshers and to challenge for the Cuppers trophy once again next year.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW NEW FELLOWS Richard Willden joined St Edmund Hall as a tutorial fellow in engineering science in October 2012. He is a fluid dynamicist specializing in offshore fluid mechanics problems, most particularly tidal stream energy generation. He principally teaches within these topics and in the wider areas of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

He originally trained as an Aeronautical Engineer at the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, completing his undergraduate studies there in 1998, and staying on for doctoral and post-doctoral studies until2002. Following a one year post-doctoral position at Cambridge he returned to Imperial College as a Royal Academy of Engineering/ EPSRC research fellow to conduct research in the areas of bluff body fluid mechanics and flow-induced vibrations. In 2007 he transferred this fellowship to Oxford and took up position as an RCUK academic fellow in marine renewable energy, later becoming a university lecturer and tutorial fellow at St Edmund Hall in October 2012.

Dr Willden's research interests are broadly in the area of low speed fluid mechanics; in particular bluff body fluid mechanics, marine renewable energy generation, computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction and flowinduced vibrations. He currently leads two large research projects in tidal energy generation and supervises a substantial group in this area. Recent contributions include fundamental analytical work to redefine the upper limits of energy extraction from tidal flows and the development of farm optimisation tools to increase tidal farm energy yields.

Amy Stambach is Professor of Education and a Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall. Before coming to Oxford, she held positions as Faculty Director of Global Studies and as Associate Dean of International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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An anthropologist b y tra1010g, Amy has served as Principal Investigator on projects funded by the US Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Her research and teaching interests focus on theoretical and methodological issues in comparative and international education, theories of social and educational change, and the anthropological study of education.

Her research examines the social value and purposes of education. Interests include the global and comparative dynamics of education; education in East Africa; community efforts to control education in an era of liberalisation; education policy shifts as they reflect new forms of global governance and international relations; and the intersections of religion, education, and secularism. To conduct her research, Amy employs ethnographic field methods, which enable her to analyse the particular cultural ideations that people mobilize to realize their visions of education. This anthropological approach builds on and complements political-economic and sociological orientations by considering how education policies and programs are culturally operationalised in various settings.

Topically, Amy's research has focused on community schools in Tanzania, charter schools in the United States, American evangelical religious groups' educational programming in East Africa and, most recently, Confucius Institutes in the United States and parts of Africa. She is author of Lessons from Mount Kilima'!Jaro: Schooling, Communiry, and Gender in East Africa and Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa. She has guest edited a special section on religion and education for Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, and she has contributed to the 2010 United Nations Institute of Statistics (UNIS) Global Education Forum, led by Nelly Stromquist. With Mark Ginsburg, Emily Hannum, and Aaron Benavot, she serves as co-editor of the Comparative Education Review, under the chief editorship of David Post.

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Roger Benson is a Lecturer in Palaeobiology and tutorial fellow of St Edmund Hall since October 2012. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 2004, having started out studying physical sciences and migrated across geology to a final year in zoology.

From there, he completed a Master's degree in Taxonomy and Biodiversity at Imperial College, London (2005), and a PhD in Earth Sciences, Cambridge. His thesis concerned dinosaur evolution and relationships, focussing on the British Jurassic fossil record. Many of the relevant fossils are held in Oxford. They were collected in the 1800s and were important during the development of Geology and Biology. They are also important today, contributing to our understanding of Mesozoic vertebrate evolution, Pangaean biogeography, and the origin of birds. Roger's research has focussed on two main groups, the theropod dinosaurs and plesiosaurian marine reptiles.

Theropods were the dominant terrestrial predators for 150 million years during the Mesozoic. They include Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor and birds, which are the most diverse living tetrapod class (1 0,000 species). Plesiosaurs are bizarre, long-necked oceanic reptiles with highly variable body plans including very long-necked representatives with up to 76 neck vertebrae. Currently, he is investigating the interactions between fossil biodiversity, climate change, and variation in sedimentary rock deposition and preservation.

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Dr Sergio Lozano-Perez works in the Department of Materials where he currently holds the George Kelley Fellowship. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of St Edmund Hall. In 1998 he obtained a BsC + MsC in Theoretical Physics from the University of Sevilla (Spain). After a short period working for Siemens in Germany, he moved to Oxford where he obtained his DPhil in 2002. In 2004 he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGDipLaTHE) from the University of Oxford, becoming a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a member of the Institute of Physics, Royal Microscopical Society, Materials Research Society (USA) and American Nuclear Society (USA). He leads the NanoAnalysis group in the Department Of Materials, where he supervises over 10 DPhil students and two post-does, and teaches various undergraduate and postgraduate

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courses ranging from Corrosion to Highresolution analytical electron microscopy.

His recent research has put Oxford at the forefront of high resolution microanalysis and characterization of nuclear reactor materials. Over the years, Sergio ha s contributed to the understanding of environmental or irradiation-assisted degradation in various components of fission nuclear reactors including the reactor pressure vessel, the heat exchanger, cooling systems or fuel claddings. As a result, he has developed strong links with the nuclear industry, currently collaborating with Kepco (INSS,Japan), Areva (France), EDF (France), Rolls Royce (UK), Westinghouse (UK) and EPRI (USA). His work is also internationally recognised for applying a multi-technique characterization approach, including (S)TEM, atom-probe tomography and NanoSIMS, to the characterisation of nanoscale features.

Xiaoou Yi completed her first degree in Materials in China at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007. After graduation, she moved on to pursuing an MSc in Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University, where she developed a strong interest in crystallography, diffraction and electron microscopy. She finished her MSc dissertation work at Sandvik Materials Technology, inves tigating the texture evolution in single/ dual phase stainless steels subject to tensile deformation.

In 2009, Xiaoou started her DPhil study at the University of O xford, under the supervision of Prof S G Roberts and Dr M L Jenkins. Her project is to perform transmission electron microscopy experiments on self-ion irradiated tungsten and tungsten-based alloys, a candidate plasma facing material for fusion nuclear 61

power plants. Combining bulk ion implantations with in-situ ion irradiation experiments, Xiaoou has systematically studied the effects of temperature, dose, composition and grain orientation on the radiation damage microstructure of tungsten, and has successfully linked these trends to the observed defect dynamics. Xiaoou started her new post at St Edmund Hall in Hilary Term 2013, as the Culham Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors.

Gordon L Clark DSc (Oxon) FBA is . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment with cross-appointments in the Said Business School and the School of Geography & the Environment at Oxford University and holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is also Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics (Melbourne).

Previous academic appointments have been at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School (Senior Research Associate), the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School and Monash University. Other honours include being An drew M ellon Fellow at the US National Academy of Sciences and Visiting Scholar Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst at the University of Marburg.

Jim Prosser, OBE is Professor in Environmental Microbiology in the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.

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has uncovered novel microbial groups involved in biogeochemical cycling processes, in particular nitrification, which plays a central role in the global nitrogen cycle.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Francis Clark Distinguished Lecturer in Soil Biology 2007, Publications Manager for FEMS Microbiology Ecology and a Director of NCIMB Ltd, a microbiological services spin-out company from the University of Aberdeen.

Jim is currently on sabbatical research leave through a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship and spent Hilary and Trinity terms in Oxford as a Visiting Fellow at the Hall.

Professor Lambert Wiesing joined the college in Trinity Term 2013 as a Visiting Fellow to coincide with the award of a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford, hosted by the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art. Since 2001 he has held the Chair of Image Theory and Phenomenology at the University of Jena, Germany, where he was appointed Head of the Philosophy Department in 2010. He received his Master of Arts and a PhD in Philosophy, both at the University of Munster, and went on to complete his Habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Chemnitz, enabled by a scholarship awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Organisation).

From 1993 to 2003 he was Lector for Philosophy at the Munster Art Academy and College for Visual Arts. In 2005 he was elected to the position of President of the German Society for Aesthetics. He is the author and editor of several books on image theory, phenomenology and the philosophy of pe.rception.

His book Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory has been translated

by Stanford University Press (2010). The Philosopf?y of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory will appear in English in 2013. He has also published widely in academic journals and continues to work across the fields of philosophy, bringing together a range of theoretical, conceptual and historical resources to analyse the specific visual nature and function of images.

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Jenny Taylor read Biochemistry at the Hall from 1985-1989 and went on to study for a DPhil in Molecular Biology based at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. Following this she joined Oxagen, a small start-up biotech company in Oxfordshire, directing programmes in the genetics of common diseases. In 2002, she moved into the field of translational genetics and took up the post of Programme Director for the Oxford Genetics Knowledge Park, a programme based at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and funded by the National Institute of Health Research to translate genetics research discoveries into the clinic. This led to new genetic tests for cardiovascular disease and learning disability and new platforms for investigating genetic abnormalities being adopted in the NHS. The Genetics Knowledge Parks were the forerunner for a more broad-based translational research initiative funded by the NIHR, the Biomedical Research Centres. Jenny is now Programme Director for the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre's Genomic Medicine Theme where the current focus is on translating next generation sequencing technologies into the clinic for diagnosis of inherited conditions and cancer.

Peter Rothwell was recently appointed as the Action Research Professor of Neurology in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford and thus became a Professorial Fellow of the Hall. He qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1987 and after competing his early postgraduate 64

clinical training he moved to Oxford as Clinical Lecturer in Neurology in 1996.

He was awarded an MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship in 1999 and set up the Stroke Prevention Research Unit in 2000, which has subsequently generated 25 doctorates and now employs over 30 staff.

He was awarded an ad hominem Professorship in 2004 and was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008, a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator in 2009 and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator in 2011. He has published over 300 scientific papers and several books. His research interests include primary and secondary prevention of stroke, the causes and consequences of blood pressure variability and the risks and benefits of aspirin. He has received several awards for his research, including the Inaugural British Medical Journal Award for Outstanding Contribution to Clinical Research (2009), the Foulkes Foundation Medal, Academy of Medical Sciences (2009), the World Stroke Organisation Bienniel Award for Outstanding Research (2010) and the Kinmonth Medal, Royal College of Surgeons (2012) .

He remains clinically active, working as an Honorary Consultant Neurologist for the Oxford University Hospitals Trust and contributing to clinical services for general neurology and stroke prevention. His research has been instrumental in improving clinical services for prevention of stroke, particularly after transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke and in selection of patients most likely to benefit from carotid surgery.

Jenni Nuttall has been College Lecturer in English at St Edmund Hall since 2006, teaching Old and Middle English literature as well as introductory language papers. Before becoming a Fellow by Special Election at the Hall, she was a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and she was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. She was an undergraduate and graduate at Magdalen College, with a brief detour to the University of East Anglia for an MA in Creative Writing. Her first book, based on her doctoral research into political poetry written in the reigns of the first two Lancastrian kings, Henry IV and Henry V, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.

Following a period of maternity leave, she now combines family responsibilities with teaching at the Hall, writing and academic research. Her reader's guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Crisryde (the set text for Oxford English Finals) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Following on from her Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at Oxford's 65

Learning Institute, she is especially interested in exploring how students of English literature can develop as learners, both in separate study skills sessions and via activities integrated into weekly teaching. She has a particular interest in the teaching of linguistic and literary commentary-writing, giving Faculty lectures on various set texts and contributing to Faculty Teaching Workshops.

Her experiences teaching the literature of Anglo-Saxon and medieval England to undergraduates at the Hall have inspired her current project, a book on the poetics of medieval English poetry. This book will not only serve as an introduction for new readers of Middle English verse but is also intended as a detailed study of how medieval vernacular poets conceived of, described and executed the techniques and artistry of verse-writing. She also continues her research into the literary history of the early fifteenth century. As well as articles on the form and style of Lancastrian poetry, on Henry IV as a literary patron, and on ballades written for Henry V during the first year of his reign, she is also writing an essay on the Privy Seal clerk and poet Thomas Hoccleve for Oxford University Press's new online resource, Oxford Research Reviews.

Leslie Ann Goldberg is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her research is in the mathematical foundations of the subject. She works primarily in the area of computational complexity, where the aim is to discover which computational problems are feasible, which are inherently infeasible, and how the parar.peters of these problems influence feasibility.

Leslie has recently been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, which will allow her to focus 100% of her time, for five years from early 2014, on her research project "Mapping the Complexity of Counting".

In a computational counting problem, a numerical quantity (a weighted sum) is computed, either exactly or approximately.

Examples include computing (or estimating) an integral, a probability, or the expectation of a random variable. These problems arise in applications from fields such as statistics, statistical physics, information theory, and machine learning. The overall objectives of the project are to map out the landscape of

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computational counting problems, determining which problems are tractable, and which are intractable (quantifying the extent of tractability), and to develop complexity characterisations elucidating the features that make counting problems tractable or intractable.

Leslie grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. She received her BA from Rice University in 1987 and her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1992.

Before coming to Oxford in the summer of 2013, Leslie worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Algorithms and Discrete Maths Department of Sandia National Laboratories in the USA and then as a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor at the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool. Leslie has been elected as a Senior Research Fellow at the Hall.

RICHARD FARGHE R BU RSARY TRIP REPORT: BARCELONA The purpose of the trip to Barcelona that I undertook last summer with the assistance of a Richard Fargher Bursary was two-fold, seeking to improve both my linguistic and my intellectual development in order to assist with the completion of my undergraduate degree. As such, the activities undertaken fall into two distinct categories corresponding to these two key objectives.

For the purpose of my linguistic development, the daily two-hour conversation classes I attended at the Don Quijote language school were invaluable. While the subjects of these classes were valuable in and of themseives in so far as they engaged with the politics and culture of Catalonia, Spain and the wider European community, they were also highly productive as an opportunity to hone pronunciation, learn and deploy new and idiomatic phrases, and apply sophisticated grammatical structures to authentic conversations and scenarios.

The classes also had the benefit of including students for whom English was not their native language, which ensured that I focussed on the authenticity of my expression and avoided mere 'translation' into the target language. As each week progressed, I was aware of the increasing ease with which I was able to express adjectival agreements, verb conjugations and tense choices without hesitation and with minimal errors, and I was gratified by the improved fluency with which I was able to express myself and the complex arguments required of the discussions in which I was engaged. I do not doubt that this linguistic development will be invaluable to my future study and as language teaching for Spanish intensifies in the coming year.

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Quantitatively, however, a larger part of this trip was dedicated to the extension of my intellectual engagement with the history and culture of Spain, particularly in relation to my study of its literary medieval legacy. Thanks to the award of the Richard Fargher Bursary, the purchase of combined tickets for the Museus d'Historia de Barcelona, as well as the city's art, architecture, music and archaeological museums meant that in the course of an intensive four weeks I was able to experience the very best of what Barcelona has to offer the student of medieval literature and culture, from exquisitely preserved works of religious art and sculpture to concerts of traditional Catalan folksongs evoking the music of the medieval troubadour.

These experiences have had a profound impact on how I am able to interact with and interpret medieval literature, from the Mozarabic songs and the aesthetic that informs them, to the oral tradition of lyric and epic poetry, and the form and nature of devotion evinced by the religious works of the period.

Literature, after all, is but a single art form informed by the interconnected web of art forms that influence it, and with an increased understanding of this web and its forms, I felt significantly better equipped to engage with the intellectual rigours required by the study of medieval literature in my final year.

Jessica Vincent (2009)

MUSIC AT THE HALL It has been a fascinating and rewarding first year as Director of Music at Teddy Hall, and I am extremely grateful to Sir Martin and Lady Smith for their generous gift that enabled the post to be created. There have been some significant changes to the musical facilities in the Hall. The Music Room has been completely renovated and soundproofed, which has allowed an extension of the hours during which music may be played, and it has been re-equipped with a lovely reconditioned Yamaha piano, new music stands and chairs. We have also been very fortunate to have received some other generous donations, which have been used to restock the Chapel Choir library, and to purchase a new piano for the Old Dining Hall- a Bechstein Concert 8, generally considered to be the best upright piano in the world. Along with the world class Steinway in the Wolfson Hall we are now in the fortunate position of owning two of the finest pianos in Oxford.

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in Trinity Term. At the moment there are four concerts a term, and I hope to be able to introduce an occasional evening event. The ODH is a lovely venue for chamber music, and last term's concerts were very well received.

The Chapel Choir has had a very good year. We have increased the number of auditioned Choral Scholars to 8, and in addition have a regular group of volunteers that make the choir numbers up to 26. We visited Peterborough Cathedral in the New Year and sang the services there, and in February the Chapel Choir of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge joined us for our annual joint Evensong. In Trinity Term we held a joint Evensong with the Chapel Choir of University College. The service took place in their chapel and we then crossed the High and dined together in the Wolfson Hall. This was a lovely evening and I hope that it will prove to be the first of many collaborations with our neighbours across the road. This September, with the help of another generous gift from an alumnus, we will be visiting France for a week of rehearsing and recording followed by a performance in Lyon and culminating in a sung Mass in Pontigny Abbey at the Shrine of St Edmund on 9 September.

Next term I will be recording some of the best instrumentalists in the Hall and this will be added to the recording that the choir will make in France to form a CD which will be available in time for Christmas.

I feel very lucky to be working in such a wonderful place, and I am looking forward very much to next year.

Chris Watson

WRITING AT THE HALL It's been an exciting year for Hall Writing. In Michaelmas term we launched the Ha// Writers' Directory, an online resource which I put together over the summer vacation. The Directory contains profiles of 100 professional writers, tracing a strong tradition for Hall writing which goes back as far as the great Geoffrey Grigson in the 1920s. In undertaking the research, it was tremendously heartening to discover a number of distinguished writers whose connection with the Hall I hadn't been aware of; and also to be back in touch with so many of my former students. The Directory celebrates a lively community of talented Aularians, and we are rightly proud of their achievements. Many thanks to everyone who agreed to let me include their profile ... we will build from here.

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On 11 November, we recognised Armistice Day at the Hall with a pair of events, designed to build bridges in the community. At a remembrance service held in chapel, I represented Hall Writers with a reading of Owen's 'The Send-Off', and in a reciprocating gesture Kris Kramer attended a secular evening of poetry, prose, music and drama in the Old Dining Hall. I've organised a number of Remembrance events at the Hall over the years, and they have all been moving- but this was probably my favourite of them all.

We had a tremendous turn-out, and there were varied contributions from all sections of the Hall community. The centrepiece was a highly professional and entertaining performance of a scene from Joan Littlewood's 'Oh What a Lovely War', directed by Tom Bailey and acted by a group of first- and secondyear students. Another memorable highlight was Kris Kramer singing John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I'll never forget listening to his explanation, as a man of the Church, of the appeal in those words - 'and no religion, too'. Thank you Kris - we shall miss you.

Writing events in Hilary term got off to a cracking start when Stewart Lee was admitted as an Honorary Fellow - a highly significant occasion, which we celebrated afterwards with a quiet drink in the bar, joined by a number of current undergraduates. A few days later, we sampled an amazing range of Hall talent at our 'Celebration of writing at the Hall'- a day of talks, readings, performances, and round-table discussions. The event was designed to bring together Hall graduates in English with our current English cohort. Over a hundred Aularian writers were there - from novelists, academics, dramatists and poets through to comedians, journalists, news-writers, memoir-writers, bloggers, and rappers. It would be wrong to pick out highlights: the whole day was a tremendous testimony to the Hall's thriving tradition for writing.

(For further detail, you can read all about the day in detail in the Hall Writers' Directory; and you can access each talk individually on the Hall's YouTube Channel.).

9 February culminated in the launch of our Hall Writers' Forum, an online resource designed to foster creative writing, dialogue, and collaboration amongst students, staff and alumni at the Hall. The Forum caters for all forms of writing, not just those traditionally described as 'creative'. We're particularly keen to encourage new writing, cross-disciplinary discussion, and the exchange of ideas across generations. You can join if you belong to one of the College's three Common Rooms (SCR, MCR,JCR), if you are a member of the Hall's non-academic staff, or if you are one of our many alumni the world over.

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Currently we have a membership of nearly 250, with about 30 members who post material regularly. Many of our members access the site simply to read what's there - but writers need feedback, so the more people who respond the better! Remember that you don't need to be a writer to be a greatly valued contributor. If you are keen on reading, and engaging in debate about literature and culture, you will be welcome to participate fully in our ongoing discussions.

Following the success of our Hall Writers' Day on 9 February, I organised a number of other Hall Writers' events this year - each of which has left a lasting impression. In the summer term, Gabriel Josipovici gave an intellectually stimulating talk to the writers' workshop about his short stories - this was a marvellous opportunity to hear a great practitioner reflecting on his craft, and those who were there will never forget it. We also enjoyed a lively poetry reading from three Hall poets, Jude Cowan-Montague, Amy Blakemore, and Charlotte Geater- very different voices, these, but they went remarkably well together. In May, I invited the whole College to hear Stewart Lee and Dan Abnett - a great double-act - repeat the talks they gave in February, which by mishap had never been recorded. Although the turnout was comparatively modest for the May event, both talks have proved immensely successful as videos, putting Stewart and Dan in the top ten University podcasts for popularity. (You can access the longer versions of these talks on the SEH YouTube channel- Stewart has been clocking up three thousand views every day since the talk got into the news in mid-July.)

In amongst all these events, Writing Workshops at the Hall have really picked up this year, with a small dedicated group gradually expanding to include 15 regular attenders. I ran the workshops in Trinity term as weekly two-hour sessions: anyone was welcome to drop into these, bringing their current work-in-progress. (My sense is that the informal nature of the sessions has proven popular, and I'm gratified by the fact that our writing group includes two historians, a lawyer, a geographer and a number of graduate students as well as undergraduates reading English.)

We also had a visit to one of our workshops from Carol Atherton - Head of English at Bourne Grammar School- who brought three sixth-formers with her. The session was a tremendous success: the sixth-formers had produced some excellent poems, which provoked lively discussion. Several regular Hall workshoppers have commented that this was their favourite writing event of the year; so Carol and I are determined to make a regular exchange between 71

Bourne Grammar and SEH. (You can access all the poems discussed at this workshop on the Hall Writers' Forum, and I recommend them all with great enthusiasm.)

Perhaps unsurprisingly, we had a record number of entries this year for the Graham Midgley Prize; these came from students reading a wide range of subjects, and the quality was outstanding. Congratulations to the winner, Pelia Werth, for her moving poem 'My Language has no Country'; and to the two runners-up for poems that are both original and carefully crafted. All three poems are published here for the first time.

Finally, please watch out on the Hall Writers' Forum for plans as we move forward into the next academic year. You'll see that I'm already cooking up some ideas for National Poetry Day (3 October) and for a writers' day to mark the centenary of the First World War. I also hope to start expanding the Hall Writers' Directory, to include writers in subjects other than English. I envisage this as a compendious interdisciplinary resource, and I imagine it will take years to build. If you would like to help with this, or be involved in anything else I'm organising, please make contact with me by email at lucy.newlyn@ seh.ox.ac.uk. Alternatively, if you have an idea about an event or project oi your own which you'd like to organise, please post your ideas on the forum for everyone to view.

Latin was never my strongest point. But, in celebratory mood, I will risk an adaptation of the Hall's motto:

F/oreant Aulae S criptores!

Lucy Newlyn, Tutor in English

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My Language has no Country My language has no country.

It has clattered over cobblestones, Crossed seas in suitcases, Dropped exhausted on death marches.

My language has no country.

It has stood swaying in synagogues, Bent over cradles, Stroked the faces of lovers.

My language has no country.

It has strode across stages, Rung out from picket lines, Crouched with partisans in pine forests.

My language has no country.

It curls up in black hats, Nestles in the pages of prayer books, Hides in kitchen cupboards.

My language has no country.

It makes its home in snatches of songs, In acidic drops of wit, In the laughter of grandparents, In an endless "what if?"

My language has no country.

Pelia Werth (2010, English & French)

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Winter Rain Oh, winter rain, it's stayed too long, sucking the sleepless air. The train pulls away and out around about a quarter to six, and the sky is wrung with winter rain.

The dark descending days were cold from grey, to blue, to black, and back.

And lime-scale squatted in pans and pots but the fire that bubbled in the dark was old.

With old words found in the crack in the wall, and under the stairs at the back of the hall.

But now; the gurgling firelight rots in sterile light, against the night, and apprehension ends. The hills breathe out, soft, but almost gruff: good riddance to the cold laments, that lingered far too long, but still, not long enough.

Will Searby (2012, History)

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A dying Indian once told me ...

'A dying Indian once told me ... ' was how they all began, Stories from the fisherman's rumbling voice, Which gave way so easily to claps of laughter, Shaking the very lap upon which the little boy sat, As they stared from the cliff out to sea.

That western wild lake calm now as the sun bleeds out, With Ireland just beyond eyes' reach. ' . . . How it all began, with a tiny grain, So heavy it would burn straight through this very hand ... ' Gnarled and blistered, but warm. ' ... And through the wood and stone to unsoundable depths, Before bursting in a shower of suns and moons, And how it will all end, with that great red giant, Swelling and smouldering away the seas.'

But not tonight; he bathes in peace, Up to his waist in this very water, Broken only by the wings of the dolphins.

Bill Webb (2012, French & Spanish)

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NEIL CORCORAN ON ENGLISH AT THE HALL, IN THE 'OLDEN DAYS' ... (a shorter version of this has been published in the Hall Writers' Directory under 'Nei/ Corcoran') I don't remember much my tutors said to me when I was an undergraduate but this is probably because I was so self-absorbed then. I do remember a couple of moments though, vividly.

One was when I read an essay on Virginia Woolf to Graham Midgley. His dog Fred lay in a basket at his feet during tutorials - sometimes disconcertingly - and on this occasion, at the very moment I finished reading, Fred vomited.

'Your best critic, Neil,' said Graham, with characteristic Yorkshire charm. I knew he was only joking, of course. But was he? My dreams have sometimes asked me since.

The other was when I became consumed, as a self-absorbed person might,

by King Lear and wrote an essay which took about 45 minutes to read aloud, this time to Reggie Alton. Pouring a glass of sherry in that elaborate way he had, Reggie said, when I'd got to what Bob Dylan calls 'the final end', 'Sometimes I think, Neil, that the only meaningful reaction to Lear is a long ... GROOOOAAAN'. His pause had an almost Beckettian finesse, and he relishingly articulated the word.

I remember these moments because they're funny, of course, but also because their theatre was surely designed to reduce my self-esteem. This can only have been good for me: as a human being, possibly; as a literary critic, certainly, because I was being made aware that anything I ever had to say about anything really ought to have more to do with the thing itself than with me. It was wise of Graham and Reggie, I've obviously thought since, to let me know this without actually saying it, and without giving offence.

Has the possibility of such responsible tutorial theatre vanished from the world? Today, the dog would probably be outlawed by Health and Safety regulations, and the sherry by the sour puritanism of contemporary manners.

More damagingly, the trust necessary to these exchanges, and the potential for efficacious irony that it enables, seem to me to have become very difficult in the modern university, at least at undergraduate level. Arguably, such things partly depended on circumstances probably no one, and certainly not I, would

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wish to restore: the male camaraderie of single-sex colleges in particular, which excluded so much. Irony is a hard art, it may be, and can be dependent on forms of shared recognition which others might consider prejudice.

Even so, it's worth risking because trustful irony enables a kind of pedagogic wisdom. Irony is hard to sustain in the contemporary university, where the very word 'wisdom' would seem a jaded anachronism were it ever to intrude on an educational discourse larded with the cant of 'outputs', 'transferrable skills', 'exercises' and 'frameworks'. Healthy irony is in grave danger of succumbing to the sham rigour of 'appraisal' and 'assessment', constant anxiety-inducing assessment: of students by teachers; of teachers by students; of teachers by research committees and councils; of departments by committees of 'peers'; of academics by one another, sometimes more competitively than collegially.

Such things leave a gaping chasm in the field of pedagogic, and therefore human, possibility.

Although I have very good reason, personal as well as academic, to be grateful to my tutors, and remember them with high regard (and wish I'd thanked them more than I ever did), I was never an uncritical admirer of the Oxford tutorial system; far from it. Nevertheless, I grieve for this attrition, consoled only by the knowledge that, against all the odds, students of English Literature still seem, many of them, very capable, shrewd ironists. But then, at least English departments still exist.

Neil mcry be pleased to hear that, at Tedcfy Hall, 'healtf?y irotry' is stillgoing strong! (LN)

THE PHILIP GEDDES LECTURE 15FEBRUARY The Philip Geddes Prize for journalism and annual lecture goes from strength to strength. Previous Geddes Prize winners include journalists now working for The Economist, The Times, The Guardian, Dai!J Express, Reuters, ITN and BBC radio and television. Emma Brockes, a journalist and author, recently referenced winning the prize on the inside cover of her newly published book.

Every year more people hear or read the name Philip Geddes. This matters not just because Philip Geddes is a name we should remember. He was a St Edmund Hall educated journalist killed by an IRA bomb whilst investigating a possible story in central London. He was 24 years old. It matters because journalism and good journalists need to be recognised. When you learn that 77

in December 1983 Philip Geddes walked the opposite direction to everyone else into an evacuated Harrods in central London, sensing a story to be had, you can reflect on the sort of tenacity and courage that is often journalistically enmeshed with the very biggest issues facing us all today.

This year's Philip Geddes lecture dealt with big issues. Marking thirty years since Philip Geddes died, Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University and Chairman of the BBC Trust, delivered the lecture. He took as his theme trust and free speech. The Examination Schools was full. There was a buzz in the room and almost palpable sense of anticipation before the lecture began. This was a lecture that could also be driving the next day's news. The BBC had been through months of intense scrutiny as widely reported stories about 'this pervert' Savile were overlaid and mixed up with questions about editorial judgement at the BBC. Inquiries had been established and a Director General resigned. Lord Patten's lecture was only days before the publication of transcripts of oral evidence given to one of the inquiries and it was still unclear how heavily they would be redacted. Questions of trust and free speech seemed particularly resonant.

During the course of his lecture Lord Patten expansively set out why trust matters. Confucius, he told us, had said that three things were needed for government: weapons, food and trust but the most important of them was trust. He went on to develop his theme, noting a collapse in trust across parts of the business world, banking and politics whilst of course something had also gone badly wrong with the role of the press in telling us what is really happening in the world - 'at least something approximating to the truth, however inconvenient'. The big questions were asked: what does freedom mean? Freedom to do what, exactly, and how do you prevent freedom from being abused? The BBC Trust Chairman turned over some of the practicalities of these questions in the context of the BBC as a national institution and its recent experiences before concluding that there have to be some limits on freedom - both freedom of action and freedom of speech - in the pursuit of public trust, responsibility and accountability. He asserted that the core purpose of the BBC remained the pursuit of truth in a way that the public would trust and respect.

The Memorial Prize Trust was privileged to have such a distinguished figure give this year's lecture, marking thirty years since the death of Philip Geddes.

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Geddes Memorial Trust many young men and women have been encouraged and helped to pursue a career in journalism; I am pleased that many of them are here today. Their presence, and the names of the distinguished former lecturers on this occasion, do honour to the memory of a courageous young man."

Ian Valvona (1994) ARTWEEKS 2013 (6-11 MAY) Once again, St Edmund Hall participated in Artweeks, an annual event in Oxfordshire giving artists and crafts people an opportunity to exhibit their work.

The Hall exhibition presents an annual cultural activity which brings together students, current and former staff members, Fellows and alumni. In 2013, we saw exhibits from over 30 participants, ranging from painted porcelain and watercolours to photographs and knitting.

The exhibition attracted around 300 visitors, including current students from the Hall and other Oxford Colleges, local Art enthusiasts and tourists from the UK and abroad. We received many complimentary remarks in the comments book and by visitors from all over the world, including Zimbabwe, California and Japan.

Thanks go to Dr Jonathan Yates (Picture & Chattels Fellow) for his expertise and professionalism in the hanging of the exhibition.

Sally Smith, Deputy Director of Development

THE AB EMDEN LECTURE On 11 June, the Principal had great pleasure in introducing to a large and appreciative audience a friend and colleague of many years, Professor Tom Devine OBE FBA of the University of Edinburgh, who gave this year's history lecture, 'The "Death" and Reinvention of Scotland'. With the 2014 Referendum on Independence uppermost in the minds of many Scots, Prof Devine argued that the 1707 Union had not subjugated the Scottish nation: rather it had produced the conditions that gave birth to the Scottish Enlightenment.

The nation pre-1707 Union was far from the barbarous bunch of savages that Sir Waiter Scott had led us to believe. Contrary to popular myth pre-1 707 Scotland did not suffer fanaticism, intolerance and poverty and certainly did not require civilising by the London parliament's military occupation. The 79

Union was one of consensus between England and Scotland, not conquest.

Scotland continued to run Scotland through the Kirk Sessions and the Borough Councils, headed by professionals such as lawyers and teachers whose grammar school education had demanded the learning of Latin and Greek, with any utterances in the playground in either English or Scottish punished most severely. The Scottish Enlightenment saw these well-educated Scots having a greater influence at home and abroad and whilst England might well have ruled the Empire, it could be said that the Scots ran it.

A video recording of the full lecture is available on the Hall's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/StEdmundHall.

REMEMBERING JOE TODD As many of you will know,Joe Todd was amongst the very first to be appointed to a college fellowship in Engineering which as it happens was held at St Edmund Hall. Throughout his long service as a tutor at the Hall, Joe taught several hundreds of aspiring young men and women and, by all accounts, he was an inspiration to them all. Sadly Joe died in 2006 but his memory is still being carried over through a fund that was set up by the impressive generosity of Joe's past students who expressed their fondness for him and College by donating.

At a meeting that was held in January of 2007 it was decided that to commemorate Joe's contribution to the Hall and its students, awards should be made every two years to engineering students who wished to undertake projects that involve personal development, engineering application/innovation, environmental/ community achievement, enhancement of SEH reputation.

It was also decided to set up an Engineering Dinner to be attended by alumni and students, the hope being that such event, if successful, should be repeated from time to time in the future.

One such dinner has already been held and was judged to be a success and it is my great pleasure to announce that a repeat dinner is planned for Thursday, 6 March, in Hilary 2014. Precise details of the event will be communicated once plans have been finalised, closer to the time. Wide participation is hoped for and the Engineering Fellows look forward to meeting as many of you as can come to make the occasion memorable. None of us is getting any younger and the time is approaching when I will be retiring, so for me this will be a very special event.

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This year was also the year when we invited applications from students for the Todd Awards and we were very pleasantly surprised to receive contributions from no less than seven students. The proposed projects were mostly of a humanitarian nature including participation in the Mongol Rally in a clappedout Nissan Micra to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. There was another that called for living and working alongside recovering addicts in Madrid. There were three involving teaching: of Maths and Sciences to Massai Community Schools; to students in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank; and in schools in Northern Pakistan offering education as a step towards resolving problems of extremism and violence. All projects were judged by a panel to be worthy and all were supported, some attracting only a few hundred pounds but others commanding more substantial sums.

The main purpose of writing is to express my gratitude for the generosity of alumni which is providing support to our engineering students to pursue worthwhile activities. This way we can celebrate the life of Joe and together with it celebrate engineering at the Hall.

Basil Kouvaritakis Saturday 27 July saw the first of the University's new-style Degree Days, at which all the College's undergraduate finalists took theit degrees together. The expanded gowning team, led by former Assistant Bursar Nigel James patiently sorted out the queues of graduands and then just over a hundred of them filed into the College Library to meet the Dean of Degrees, Dr Christopher Phelps and to hear a briefing on the ceremony and who does what, when. The D ean and the Principal then led the procession to the Sheldonian Theatre.

Their departure was the cue for the finishing touches to be made to the lunch tables laid up in the Wolfson Hall, Doctorow Hall and a marquee on the Back Quad- a job which the Hall Servery staff had started a couple of days earlier, such was the scale of the event.

Following the ceremony first a trickle then a steady flow of graduates, with family and friends, made theit way back to College in the bright sunshine, to be greeted with a glass of something cold and fizzy and the first of many requests to pose for photographs in the gloriously beautiful Front Quad.

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times over in each of the rooms, and afterwards remarked what a brilliant day it had been, hugely enjoyed by everyone he had spoken to. It seems we may have a tradition on our hands!

Susan McCarthy, Conference Manager

"first a trickle then a steady flow of graduates, with family and friend s, made their way back to College in the bright sunshine"

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FOR THE RECORD STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2013 were 413 undergraduates, 231 post-graduates, and 28 Visiting Students.

MATRICULANDS 2012-2013 Undergraduates and Post-Graduates Adams-Cairns, Alastair Max Royal Grammar School Guildford Adapa, Lakshrni Manjoosha Jesus College, University of Oxford Alari-Williams, Xander Judd School Alien, Lucy Kingston Grammar School University of Manchester Andreou, Kleopatra Eleni University of York Andrews, Sophie Marie Angelides, Nicholas Harry Rutgers University Arabind, Rohit Redmond High School ENSAE Paristech Arce Munoz, Fernando Ignacio Devonport High School for Boys Argles, Edward Hugh Rashleigh International University Bremen Assmann, Meike Christina Babariya, Dhruti Late Ashok Amity University Chigwell School Bacon, Amanda Jane University of Edinburgh Badin, Antoine-Scott Patrick Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Baeriswyl, Daniel Claude Howard of Effingham School Baker, Edward George Howland University of St Andrews Barca, Benjarnin Lancaster Royal Grammar School Barfoot, Joshua John David Binder, Felix Christoph University of Munich Radley College Binnie, Thomas Andrew James University of Belgrade Bogetic, Ksenija University of Liverpool Boyce, Hannah Esther University of Gloucestershire Brennan, Molly Charlotte Dr Challoners High School Bridges, Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton St Pauls School Bridle, Alexander Mark Briggs, Harriet Phoebette Marlborough College Priestley Sixth Form College Brown, Joseph Mark Saffron Walden County High School Budd, David Alexander Felsted School Butterworth, James Christopher

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University College Cork Cahill, Fiona Prances Down High School Calvert, John Terence Cardinal Newman College Carnell, Oliver To bias Carpenter, Lucie Anne Rachel College International Lycee Franc;:ois Premier Fonta Palmers College Carrick, Liam Stanley Hymers College Carruthers, George James Queen's University Carson, Timothy Alan Stanley Kingswood School Cartwright, Victoria Castellanos Suarez, Felix Andres New York University Cokethorpe School Chan, Jonathan Juan Man St Albans School Chelley, Simon Peter Chen Fang Yew, Nicholas National University of Singapore High School Eton College Cheng, Jeremy Sze Jun Cheng, Yuhan National University of Singapore High School University College London Chomka, Agnieszka Davidson College Clausen, Katherine Anne ¡University of Nottingham Clifford, Harry William SCEGGS Darlinghurst Collee, Lauren Lola Anne The British School AI Khubairat, UAE Conchie, Joseph Kirby Cools, Laurence Maarten Frits Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Coursier, Charlotte Elizabeth University of Edinburgh William Farr Church of England School Culpin, Jack Peter Michael Curtis Hayward,James Girton College, University of Cambridge Dagan, Michal Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Darby,John William David Rugby School Davis, Thomas Rowan Leslie Kingsley College De Laever, Antonin Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France University of Leeds Demharter, Samuel Dobson, Benjamin Luke King Edward VI Five Ways School Dolan, Jack Edward King Edward VI School Dormon, Charlotte Marie St Michael's Catholic High School Dunn, Zoe Patricia Oxford Brookes University Dutta, Manikarnika University of Calcutta Eames, Juliet Amanda Rose Cheltenham Ladies' College Ebimami-Timinimi, Tina University of Leeds Queen's University, Kingston Edmonds, Scott Daniel Eideh, Hind Bryn Mawr College Hampton School Emmett, William Alan 84

Evans, Tegen Morwenna Bedales School Evans, Gareth Lloyd University of Durham Feakins, Benjamin Graham Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Feyertag, Joseph Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Finn, Katherine Mary Cardinal Newman College East Norfolk Sixth Form College Fox, Thomas James Ghosh Dastidar, Biswanath West Bengal University of Health Science, Kolkata Gilkes, Chloe Ruth Victoria Methodist College Goldenberg,Joshua Marc Russell Royal Grammar School Guildford Graham, Katherine Hollie University of Southampton Greenburgh, Anna Westminster School Griffiths, Kathleen Elizabeth Australian National University Hak, William Ellery Malbank Sixth Form Centre Hassan, Khalid Mohamed Ali University of Khartoum, Sudan Kingston University Hawkins, John Waiter Hay, Mark Edward Columbia University Leys School Heathcote, Fraser John Alexander Hegarty, Claire Marie University of Warwick Henglein, Marcus Julius Niels Brock Copenhagen College Texas Tech University Henry, Melissa Ann Hjerrild, Natasha Elaine Cornell University Hollows, Sophie Elizabeth New Hall, University of Cambridge Halt, David Jonathan Zephaniah Heckrnondwike Grammar School Academy Trust University of Edinburgh Holtkamp, Grace Meyrin Brookfield Community School Humphries, Robert John Fortismere School Hunt, Alexander John St John's College Jackson,Josephine Teresa Mary University of Sheffield Jalan, Manisha Rakesh Hertford College, University of Oxford James, Dean University of Manitoba Jones Square, Shoshannah Bryn Jordan, Matthew Simon Lenard Robinson College, University of Cambridge University of Liverpool Joshi, Heman Middlesex County Academy Karri, Samaikya Henley College Kelsey, Benjamin Simeon Lumen Christi Kiely, Conor Dermot

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Kienbacher, Alexander Karl Universitat Konstanz, Germany Strodes College King, Nathan Kenneth University of Massachusetts Kinney-Lang, Shelby Robert Klackenberg, Bo Gunnar Miron Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium-Odenplan Koh, Lisa Yiwen Dulwich College Humboldt University Kressner, Maximillian University of Nottingham Kropholler, Robert Peter University of York Lamb, Philip David Langley, Lucy Charlotte Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Leino, Katre University of York Levy, EdwardJulian Montgomery Cardinal Newman College Lewis, Julia Marie King's College London Lighton, Harry John Hamilton Eton College Liko, Idlir Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich Liu, Amy Mander Portman Woodward Old Palace School Liu, Hui Logue, Georgina Mary St Pauls Catholic College Eltham College Long, David Alien Loughney, William Banchory Academy Sandown High School Lovell, Samuel Thomas Lu, Yang St Francis' College Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Luengas Sierra, Pavel Mackay, Joseph Edward Alexander School of the Arts Loughborough University Mackenzie, David Charles Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge University of Manitoba Magnusson, Erik David Torquay Grammar School for Girls Main, Rhiannon Mary University of St Andrews Martin, Andrew Christopher University College London Mateiro, Antonio Eduardo New York University Mathew, Nithin Philip Maudslay, Angus Charles Rennie Eton College Peter Symonds College McLaren, Emma Elizabeth McMahon, Finn Thomas Christ's Hospital Gymnase de la Cite Miles,Jeremy Anthony Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Mindel, Mark Alan Kingston Grammar School Moran,Jack Nathan University of Munich Muehlbacher, Manuel St Hilda's College, University of Oxford Mumtaz, Mehak

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Nabeebaccus, Muhammad Saad Royal College Port Louis Pembroke College, University of Oxford Nawaz, Muhammad Yasir Neal, Giles Edward Hartgill Bedford School National University of Singapore Ng, Yew Poh Norwood, Tamarin Gabriel Goldsmith's College, University of London Nowak, Fares Magdalene College, University of Cambridge Onischenko, Ilia Royal Grammar School Guildford O'Sullivan, Lydia Ruth The Weald School & Sixth Form College Panjwani, Raja Dilip University of Western Ontario Parrish, Isobel Louise Kings School Paterson, Rachel Louise University of Western Australia Peaple, Mark Donald Sir William Ramsay School Pfeil, Marc-Philipp Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Pg Hj Mumin, Dk Nuramalina Hafizah Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Pinder, Lily Nicole Westminster School Platais, Martin Joseph Forest School Pochmalicki, Lis a-Tiffanie U niversite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) Rhodes University, South Africa Pool, John Robert Francis Pearson Professional Centers-Madrid Spain Poth, Lisa Katharina Prabhakar, Suriya Langley Grammar School Pritchett, Ernily Louise Bournemouth School for Girls Bedford College of Higher Education Pryer, Eleanor Rose The Heritage School Kolkata Rahman, Shayantan Ravichandran, Balaji University of St Andrews St Pauls Girls School Richards, Georgia Lady Eleanor Holies School Richardson, Imogen Claudia University of St Andrews Ridley, Katie Jay The Grange School Roberts, Fiona Mary Alice King Edward VI High School for Girls Russell, Ernily Alice Eton College Sasada, Edward Christopher Ralph Alien School Searby, William Charles Jackson University of Edinburgh Seddon, Callum James Harrison Washington and Lee University Severson, David Tyler London School of Economics & Political Science Shah, Zahra De Ferrers Academy Shaw, Eleanor University of Bristol Siddiky, Abul Hassan Canford School Siersted, Sebastian Nikolaj Alien The School of Oriental & African Studies Simcik-Arese, Nicholas Luca

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University of Surrey Singh, Niru Sismey, George Ewan Bournemouth School Skylakakis, Stefanos Ioannis Moraitis School Smith, Eve Georgia Duarte Chetham's School of Music Soni, Priyanka Queen Mary College, London Spill, George Alexander Cowbridge Comprehensive School Steinkraus, Bruno Richard Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine London School of Economics Stemper, Benjamin Marco Eton College Stopford Sackville, Luke Mordaunt Sudo, Maki Worcester College, University of Oxford Tan, Joshua Hoong Yu Monash University, Australia Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Tang, Chun-Hang Tay, Ting Nuan Fiona Sunway College Taylor, David Gwyn Cherwell School Taylor, Damian University College London Tengaumnuay, Thitinant Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok St Mary Redcliffe Sixth Form Thomas, Catrin Helen Tornley, Freya Katherine Colchester Royal Grammar School Upadhye, Ankita Abhay Gujarat University, India Valentine, Ben Holy Cross College VanSyckel, Hannah Rachel University of South Carolina Ghent University Verbiest, Tom Vu Thi Van, Anh The English College In Prague Waksman, Thomas Graham Chesham Grammar School Concord College Wang, Wenyi Owen Wang, Zhiqiao Shanghai Jiao Tong University Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School Wardle, Gemma Webb, William Edward Shankly Upton-By-Chester High School Ossett School & Sixth Form College Whisker, Benjamin Luke Williamson, Christopher Howard Y sgol Gyfun Gwynllyw St Hilda's College, University of Oxford Willis, Roxana Wilson, Amy Leith School of Art Wiltshire, Thea Jane Daisy Cheltenham Ladies' College Witkowski,Jacek Michal Coventry University Wong, Liang Jing Kilmore International School Petroc Wooley, Sarah Woolf, Tianna Pritti Charlotte Kimbolton School University of Birmingham Worrall, Andrew Ross Gordon

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Hwa Chong Institution Xie, Jiehan Benjamin Yadav, Prateek Tynecastle High School Yeom, Inji Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine London School of Economics & Political Science Yong, Chang Hong Yuan,Man U-Link College of International Culture, South China Normal University Zheng, Wenjin Qingdao Hongguang Foreign Language College Zhu, Jiming Wolfson College, University of Oxford

VISITING STUDENTS 2012-2013 Bai,Jing Michelle Wellesley College Barooshian, Shamiram Ann University of Massachusetts Davidson College Bricker, Noah Quinby Brotankova, Zuzana Masaryk University Brynie, Caeden Lahr Wellesley College The Evergreen State College Cantwell, Lilian Freelove Chaibi, Abraham Gregory Princeton University Chan,Jenng Run Cornell University Chen, Naihan Smith College Dahlberg-Wright, Signe Juliet Smith College Eidson, Mandy Jane University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fixler, Andrew Solomon Halpern Lafayette College Flattery, Samantha Jean Wellesley College Frank, Lauren Molly George Mason University Wellesley College Grab, Elizabeth Ann Guzy-Sprague, Zoe Jean Cornell University Heavin, Tyler Edward Franklin College Huang, Jinglin Smith College Huh,Joanna Cornell University Imhoff, Rachel Kathryn George Mason University Smith College Kelley, Emma Rose Keyes, Timothy James Princeton University Kuhn, Samuel Asher Cornell University Smith College Lawrence, Mary Jessica LeVan Lynch, Molly Elizabeth Holy Cross College The College of Wooster Rotter, Zachary Bryan Lamens Emory University Sokullu, Leyla Nedret Wellesley College Song, Da

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Sridharan, Vinay Ram Steen, Jacob Daniel Teramoto Kimura, Stephanie Yayoi Trada, Rahul J Wang, Bowen Wilson, Taylor Ruth Zaman, Ansha

Northwestern University Gannon University Princeton University New York University Swarthmore College Stonehill College Smith College

COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES College Scholars ZheWJ Ang Samuel J Burton Gregory L Carton Iuliana Ciocanea Teodorescu Emma Z D'Arcy Jessica K Gilbert Anne-Marie Grunig Mircea-Dan Hirlea Thomas A Hughes SungJae Kim QiLiu Jaya Mishra Kristina K Murkett Jaroslaw W Nowak Benjamin J Ong Xu Pang Guy J G Paxman Alexandra C Pullen Stephen M Robinson BeamS Sohn Patrick JSugden Matteo Tiratelli Jessica S Vincent Angus A M Williams College Honorary Scholarship Anthony J Kennedy

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Thomas H L Bailey Samuel J Camp bell Minesh Chotalia Rachel E Cross Selena P M Fitzpayne Max Goettler David E Hewitt James Holder Jasdeep Kalsi George E Lake Alvaro Martin Alhambra Rebecca L Morgan Sui Wei Ng Leigh O'Connor Bronte A Paice Nicholas M Pattinson Michael I Pearson Navin B Ramakrishna Jian Min Sim Jack W Stanton Marsha P G Teo Rebecca L Torry-Harris John C Waite Ruoyu Wu

College Organ Scholar Priscilla B Santhosham College Choral Scholars Samuel P Carbonero Richard A F Holtham Zhendan Qin Renugan Raidoo College Exhibitioners Michael Anderson Anna N Bartol-Bibb Emilia Boehm Wilson W S Cheung Aleksandar Cvetkovic Dulcie C fforde Andrew R Howell Grant McWalter Kevin D Minors Rebecca E Paisley Abigail Pidgen Michael P Roberts Andi Tao Mary V Tyler Charlotte Waterman Robyn L Zorab

Jonathan C Cockerill Samuel A Mortimer Alice C Quayle Katherine E Willett

Lucy E Andrew Alexander J M Blakes Henry Chapman Benjarnin A Clough Ali Farhan Samuel T Henderson Taariq Ismail Anastasia W M Miller Aydin E Osborne Dikerdem Lawrence M E Percival Alistair J M Reed Lilly L Smith Martin Tweedie Simon J Ward-Jones Rachel L Zagajewski

George Barner Prize Aleksandar Cvetkovic Emma Z D'Arcy Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Stephen M Polatch Jack W Stanton Camille I van Zadelhoff

Rosanna M Reed Adam H P Wozniak

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David J Cox prize for Geography Callum Munday Richard Fargher Bursaries Efraim R Carlebach Edward N A Wingfield Philip Geddes Memorial Prize Harry J Hodges Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Benjamin Barca Michael J Cary Gemma Wardle

J R Hughes Prize for Geography Callum Munday Instrumental Award Jinglin Huang J eremy S J Cheng Francesca E M Mosely Richard Luddington Prize James Holder Oscar R Valiance Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Pelia Werth Ogilvie-Thompson Prize Harry J H Lighton Conor D Kiely Peel Awards For the Professional Practice Programme in Fine Art Melanie E Gurney

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For Fine Art Camilla V L Metcalf Rosamund M Lakin For Mathematics & Philosophy Christopher Pike Jasdeep Kalsi Michael Pike Fund Award Keyron Hickman-Lewis Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Alan JStephen Simon and Arpi Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership Joshua S Coulson (2012) Christopher SPike (2013) Teach First Bursary Hannah L Coleridge Christabel Hill Isabel G Wood Joe Todd Award Ali Farhan Thomas A Hobkinson Saleem Lubbad

Angela Dudley Emily F Vicary

James M 0 Heywood David J Z Holt Nicholas M. Pattinson

A total of 102 students received the means-tested Oxford Opportunity Bursary.

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

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UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES AWE Prize in Geophysics Rebecca L Morgan BP Prize Rebecca L Morgan Burdett Coutts Prize Rebecca L Morgan Constitutional Law Prize Lisa K Poth Gibbs Prize Christopher C Hadnutt George E Lake Gibbs Prize for the Best Part B Project in Engineering Science Rose A Michael Saleem Lubbad Gibbs Three Book Prize Robert G Spencer Ironmongers' Company Annual Award for the Best Part 11 Talk Lucy J Durrans ISC Prize 2010 Guy J G Paxman Litdeton Chambers Labour Law Prize lan Z Cheong Robert G Spencer Materials Science Prize for the best Oxford University Materials 3rd year Team Design Project Owen B W Silk Guy Calloway 94

Mirada Medical Best Image Processing and Computer Vision Award Ioana G Nica Proxime Accessit Award for the Herbertson Prize for the Best Human Geography Dissertation Genevieve Wastie Proxime Accessit Award for the Gibbs Prize for First BM Part I Emily A Russell The Head of Department Prize for Excellent Performance in Engineering Science Examinations Jian Min Sim COLLEGE GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Brockhues Graduate Award Nicholas L Simcik-Arese Mrs Brown Bursary Ruth KBrown Wenchao Gu

Tamara R Etmannski Maximillian Thompson

Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship MarkE Hay Emden-Doctorow Postgraduate Awards Henry E W Cottee-Jones Isra J Bhatty Gosling Postgraduate Scholarship Tamarin G Norwood William R Miller Postgraduate Award Karolis Leonavicius Maximillian Thompson Roxana Willis

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Roudedge Scholarship Melissa A Henry Writing-up Bursary Joseph Feyertag Elizabeth M Radin

Claudia Lingscheid Joanna Simon

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Cantemir Institute and History Faculty Scholarship Alexander V Iosad Clarendon-St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship Tamarin G Norwood David M Wilkins Clarendon-Medical Sciences Division Doctoral Training Centre Scholarship Joshua H Y Tan Dulverton Scholarship Ksenija Bogetic Ertegun Scholarship Manuel Muehlbacher Felix Scholarship Biswanath Ghosh Dastidar Jenkins Memorial Scholarship Antonin De Laever News International Scholarship Ksenija Bogetic Rhodes Scholarship Felix C Binder Rachel L Paterson

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EXTERNAL AWARDS Chevening Scholarship Khalid M A Hassan Hoping Foundation Scholarship Hind Eideh Jubilee Scholarship Dhruti LA Babariya Ankita A Upadhye Mexican National Council of Science and Technology Scholarship Pavel Luengas John Monash Scholarship Kathleen E Griffiths Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Scholarship Mehak Mumtaz SingHealth HMDP Fellowship YewPNg Singapore-Peking-Oxford Research Enterprise Scholarship Lakshmi M Adapa Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Scholarship Maximilian Kressner Benjamin M Stemper We wish also to recognise the achievement of the further thirty-six new graduate students who attracted funding from departments, faculties, research councils and external bodies.

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DEGREE RESULTS Final Honour Schools 2013 Candidates who have agreed to their results being published Biochemistry Class I James Holder, Sui Wei Ng, Leigh O'Connor, Michael P Roberts Class 11 i Harriet J Rix Chemistry Class I Class 11 i

Benjamin A Clough, Jessica K Gilbert, Rebecca L Torry-Harris Kar Mun Leong, Katherine E Tonks

Earth Sciences Class I Lawrence M E Percival Class 11 i Helen Burns, Lucy V T Crane, Timothy Culwick, Christopher A G Freeman, Jonathan M Lawrence Class 11 ii Samuel P Andrews Economics & Management Class I Rachel L Zagajewski Class 11 i Michael Anderson, Benjamin G A Cowley, Theadora A Mathias, Thomas J Mullins Engineering Science Class I Jian Min Sim Class 11 i Anthony N Beddows, Ioana G Nica, Octavia G Zorab English Language & Literature Class 11 i Amy Bleasdale, Ruth A Broadbent, Kathryn H G Buckley, Hannah L Coleridge, Kathryn R Gilbert, Madeleine C E Maxwell-Libby, Harry J Tuffs Experimental Psychology Class 11 i Emilia Boehm

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Fine Art Class I Class II i Geography Class I Class II i

History Class I Class II i Class II ii

Stephen M Polatch Rosanna M Reed, Jack W Stanton, Adam HP Wozniak

Oscar R Valiance, Genevieve Wastie Katharine E A Davenport, Harry J Hodges, George R Inglis, Oliver D Madgwick

Beom S Sohn Ann C F Brett, Jonathan C Cockerill, Gabriel May, Lucy C Scott, Georgia R Wells Vikramjeet S Dhillon

History & Politics Class II i Aydin E Osborne Dikerdem Jurisprudence Robert G Spencer Class I Ian Z Cheong, Jeremy Z W Sng, Anna P Stelle Class II i Materials Science Class I Michael I Pearson Class II i Lucy J Durrans, Emily A H Healy, Sinead Mottishaw Mathematics Class I Class II i Class II ii

Ruoyu Wu, Iuliana Ciocanea Teodorescu, George E Lake Louisa J Coughtrey Yifan Shen

Mathematics & Philosophy William 0 Tooth Class II ii Medical Sciences Class I Alexander J M Blakes, Minesh Chotalia

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Modern Languages Class I Lilly L Smith, Selena P M Fitzpayne, Jaya Mishra, Dulcie C fforde, Jessica S Vincent Class II i Adam R King Music Class II i

Andrew J P Gray

Philosophy & Modern Languages Class II ii Henrietta S Wilson Philosophy Politics & Economics Class I Zhe W J Ang Class II i Alexander S J King, Anna A Mertens, Matteo Tiratelli Physics Class I Class II i

Jaroslaw W Nowak Fraser E Davies

Psychology with Philosophy Class II i Adam Fellows, Reubs J Walsh Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Clinical Medicine: Bahram ]afar Mohammadi Economics: Carolina Osorio Buitron, Fitnat B Demir Engineering Science: Julian D Hunt, Habib Y Baluwala, Eleonora Mylonopoulou Geograpi?J & the Environment: Lip Khoon Kho History: Uther E Charlton-Stevens Inorganic Chemistry: Simon C Picot Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre- Engineering: Ivor J A Simpson Materials Science: Michael E Ford Mathematics: Shari S Levine Medieval & Modern Languages: Monika B Studer PI?Jsical & Theoretical Chemistry: Yao Meng PI?Jsics: Ryan M Buckingham, Mohammad R T Ismail Politics: Eno Trimcev 100

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Comparative Social Poliry: Gabrielle A Emanuel Social Anthropology: Renugan Raidoo Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Matthew 0 Smith Navamayooran Thavanesan Amelia G T Van Manen Master of Science (MSc) Applied Statistics: Duo Fu Biomedical Engineering: Yashil Handa, Smruthi Sahukar Rajanna Comparative & International Education: Jennifer L Estrada, Laura Fenwick-Sehl Comparative Social Poliry: Alexandra JWright Economics for Development: Fernando I Arce Munoz (Distinction) Educational Research Methodology: Corina Balaban Richard A Banfield (Distinction), Financial Economics: Marie Petrovicka (Distinction), Nithin P Mathew (Distinction), Chang H Yong (Distinction), Sha Xie, Chu Xu Global Governance & Diplomary: Herrnione E Brooks (Distinction) Adanna DU Chukwuma (Distinction), Global Health Science: Thi Ha Tun Integrated Immunology: Anita Gola Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing: Marti Riba Monzo (Distinction) Russian & East European Studies: Peter E F Hutton WaterS cience, Poliry & Management: Mutsawashe D Mutembwa

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Master of Studies (MSt) Diplomatic 5 tudies: English: English Language: Modern Languages:

Music: Philosophy o/ Physics:

Wenxing Zuo Timothy A S Carson (Distinction), Julia M Lewis Ksenija Bogetic (Distinction) Manuel Muehlbacher (Distinction), Lis a-Tiffanie Pochmalicki (Distinction) Charlotte E Cooper Samuel P Carbonero (Distinction) Raja D Panjwani

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Meghan Redd Richard B Carroll Oliver L Cedelle Matthew M Schneider Dimitris Economou (Distinction) Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) Chemistry: Katie J Ridley English: Molly C Brennan Geograpf?y: Katherine H Graham History: Hannah E Boyce Mathematics: Matthew A Kennedy Modern Languages: Amelie M-T Roussel, Luciana Pilia Pf?ysics: Delyth E Elliott Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Anthony J Kennedy (Distinction) Helen C Leach (Distinction) Magister Juris (MJuris) Thitinant Tengaumuay Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) Diplomatic Studies: Khalid M A Hassan

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DEGREE DAY DATES 2013-14 Information about the procedure for signing up to a degree ceremony can be found on the College website www.seh.ox.ac.uk/ current-students/ degreeceremonies. Dates of degree ceremonies in 2013-14 will be published on this site as and when they are confirmed.

Taught course students who are due to finish their degrees in the 2013/14 academic year will be invited by the Degree Conferrals Office in Michaelmas Term of their final year to attend the ceremony date relevant to their degree.

Research students will be invited to book a ceremony date once they have been granted Leave to Supplicate.

Historic graduands (pre-2014) or those wishing to have their MAs in person at a ceremony will need to request that their name is put on a 'holding list' (waiting list) for a ceremony date, and will be contacted should a place become available. Further information detailing the booking process for historic graduands is also available from the College website.

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NEWS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE This past year the Development and Alumni Relations Office has been in an exciting phase of planning, change and anticipation.

We are planning an ambitious, five-year, £25 million fundraising campaign for the Hall. The campaign will help us achieve our vision of making a step-change across everything we do- so that we attract and retain the best tutors; provide vital bursary and scholarship support for students; maintain our very special historic site; and upgrade student accommodation. For the next 12 months, we will be in the quiet phase of the campaign and we'll be calling on many of you for your insight, advice and support.

At the heart of the campaign is the need to increase the Hall's endowment. Our endowment is currently £33 million compared to the £60 million recommended for an Oxford University College, and affects all of our activity. A strategic plan to reduce that gap is the core goal which drives all of our fundraising efforts. The projects that will be a part of the campaign have been carefully thought through to balance our need for support for our academic endeavours, improvements across our property portfolio and the need to increase our endowment.

We are also embracing a number of changes in preparation for the increased activity that a campaign will bring. In September we transferred to a new database system, the Development and Alumni Relations System ("DARS") which should make it much easier for Aularians to update their details. There have also been some staff changes this past year. Sally Smith was promoted to Deputy Director of Development, Emma Bowler our Development Administrator, has moved on to the central University Development Office and Philippa Machin has been appointed as her successor. As I write this we have begun to recruit a Major Gifts Officer which will round out our team and give us the capacity we need to forge ahead with the campaign.

Whilst we are anticipating the campaign, I am pleased report that on-going support for the Hall continues to be incredibly strong and this year we raised a total of £1.3 million in philanthropic funds. Generous donations from several Aularians, including a major leadership gift, allowed us to secure the endowment of the William R Miller Fellowship in Economics and leverage an additional 104

£800,000 from the University Teaching Fund. This past year we conducted two telethons which were a huge success raising over £500,000 through one-off donations and pledges spread over the next four years. Thanks to all of you who spoke to our student callers and so generously donated to the Hall. The Leadership element of the Annual Fund, in its second year, also continues to be successful and we extend our thanks to those who rose to the challenge:

LEADERSHIP DONORS 2012-2013 George Bull Peter Carpenter 1942 Christopher Reddick William Asbrey 1949 Raymond Hui Alan Brimble 1949 Robert Gaffey Stuart Beaty 1953 Edward Gray Antony Laughton 1954 Jeffrey Keey John Barker 1955 Robert Moore 1955 John Dellar Adrian Haxby Basil D Kingstone 1956 Kazuo Kodama Duncan Dormor 1957 Richard Taylor Michael Voisey 1959 Richard Grainger 1960 John Adey Bernard Bewlay David Bolton 1960 Gary Lawrence Richard Crookes 1962 Paul McCarthy Rodger Hayward Smith 1962 Kari Hale David Keeler 1963 Christopher Giles Peter Day 1964 Clare McKeon (nee Smith) Paul Badman 1965 David Lewis Ian Gillings 1965 Martin Thorneycroft Cameron Brown 1966 Jamie Grimston Chris Harrison 1967 Tino Wendisch Clive Bailey 1968 Lubos Smrcka David Blezard 1968 2 anonymous donors Richard Balfour 1971 Gareth Roberts 1971

1972 1973 1974 1975 1975 1976 1976 1977 1977 1978 1979 1980 1980 1981 1983 1984 1993 1995 1995 1997 2004

This year is also the first for the Board Hall of Benefactors (BHB), formed to recognise alumni and friends of the Hall who make a donation of £25,000 and above. Donors receive invitations to the Charter Dinner (plus partner), lectures, exhibitions, and other events held at the Hall with access to associated receptions. BHB names will be recorded on a commemorative board and will receive a certificate signed by the Principal. Leading the way are this year's 105

BHB members:

William Asbrey (1949) William R Miller (1949) Chris Armitage (1950) Gareth Roberts (1971) Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund 3 anonymous donors Aularians continue to stay connected with the Hall by attending events and this year was no different: we hosted 25 events in the UK and abroad and over 2,200 Aularians attended. Parents' dinners continue to be extremely popular, as are the new world cities breakfast networking series 'Teddy Talks' which feature an Aularian speaker on a current topic of the day and provide an opportunity for alumni to meet and connect. In March over 50 Aularians attended the Floreat Aula Society (FAS) weekend for those alumni who have remembered the Hall in their will.

This past year has also been my first in post and I wish to thank all of you who have extended such a warm welcome to me. I have been overwhelmed by how generous you have been with your time and support. In many years of fundraising I have never seen a group of alumni with such a strong sense of commitment and affinity; it's been a pleasure getting to know you. I look forward to meeting many more of you in the coming year.

Laura Palmer, Director of Development

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DONORS TO THE COLLEGE FROM 1 AUGUST 2012 TO 31 JULY 2013 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,320 alumni, parents of students and Friends of the Hall who have donated in the last year and whose names are recorded on the following pages.

We record by matriculation date the names of all who have made a donation during this period. *denotes deceased

DONOR LIST 2012-2013 1.2.45.

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Norman Barr Patrick Kent * Tony Knight Victor Parry John Paul Malcolm Summerlee

Denys Salt

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Arthur Aldridge Robbie Bishop Derek Rushworth

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David Dunsmore John Pike

12.41 John Ayers Guido Castro David Chewter Michael Harrison

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Peter Carpenter Laurence Elliott * John Townsend

Jarvis Doctorow Joe Graffy John Hogan Elmer Sprague Roy Tracey Peter White

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John Dixon Fred Nicholls Alan Pickett

1.211 David Shears *

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Gordon Allford William Asbrey John Baker Peter Barker Alan Brimble Alan Garnett

1.212. (cont'd) Arnold Grayson Colin Hadley Gerald Insley Terence Kelly Hugh Long William R. Miller Robert Southan William Thorpe

ill.Q Chris Armitage John Elliott Noel Harvey Graham Heddle Raymond Lee David Pollard Jack Preger Ralph Simmons John Thornton Jack Wheeler Michael Williams

1.2.5.1 Derek Bloom Andrew Johnston Kenneth Lund Brian Osgood Martin Plowden-Roberts David Shenton Dudley Wood

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John Barton * Patrick Blake Peter Brown Ian Byatt John Claxton Michael Darling * David Fitzwilliam-Lay Peter Maxwell Denis McCarthy Bruce Nixon Alan Simmonds Neville Teller David Thompson David White

John Barker Hubert Beaumont John Billington John Cotton John Dellar Lawton Fage Roger Farrand Derek Ford David Frayne David Hare Michael Martin Brian Masters Alan Mathieson Neil Merrylees Mike Neal John Roberts Irving Theaker Bill Weston Richard Williams

Andrew Clarkson via the Jeniam Foundation Duncan Dormor Anthony Drayton Tony Ford Bob Gilbert John Harrison Bob Jackson * Dennis Jesson Charles Marriott Ted Mellish Geoff Mihell Colin Nichols David Parfitt Peter Reynolds Alas tair Stewart Peter Wilson

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John Arthure Stuart Beary Ernie Fox Michael Herbert * Alan Johnson John Read Dick Turner Brian Venner Brian Wakefield Eric Windsor

12.51 Chris Benjarnin Douglas Batting Jeremy Cleverley Michael Duffy Michael Hopkinson Keith Hounslow Brian Howes Norman Isaacs Tony Laugh ton John Lowe * Michael Palmer John Phillips John Porter Brian Shepherd Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor Raymond Thornton Ronald Truman Michael Webb John West

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125Q BrianAmor John Andrewes Colin Atkinson Blake Bromley Roy Caddick Fred Farrell John French Peter Garvey Robert Gillard * David Glynne-Jones David Henderson Michael Hickey Basil Kings tone Chris Machen John Macqueen John Pinnick Martin Reynolds David Short Paul Tempest Gerald Williams Howell Wilson-Price

12.51 Michael Archer Ted Aves Robin Blackburn

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Chris Alborough Jim Amos Peter Bentley Bob Bishop Michael Duck John Ellis Roger Garratt Tony Goddard David Harrison John Haydon Ronnie Irving Peter Kite DelKolve Richard Linforth Roger O'Brien Michael Pelham Tony Phillips Philip Rabbetts Nevill Swanson Montefiore Yeger

1.2.52 Ian Alexander Hinton Bird John Collingwood Graham Cooper Kevin Crossley-Holland Frank di Rienzo

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Tony Doyle Graham Kentfield James Kerr-Muir Simon Laurence Joe McPartlin Mike Oakley John Rayner Keith Renshaw Brian Saberton Mike Saltmarsh John Spires Michael Voisey Stewart Walduck Ian Walker Roy Walmsley John Waiters

Francis Pocock George Ritchie Julian Rogers Patric Sankey-Barker George Smith John Thorogood AndrewTod Guy Warner

Rodger Hayward Smith Jeff Hill Richard Holland Arwyn Hughes Hank Lith Alan McNamee Roger Miller Sean Morris Andrew Norman Jim North Roger Norton Nigel Pegram Richard Phillippo Jim Rushton Patrick Slocock * Christopher Spencer Hugh Thomas Roger Wardle John Williams

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John Adey Nicolas Alldrit Chris Atkinson David Baines Terence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Tim Cannon Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Keith Dillon Mike Elmitt Ian Evans Brian Forster Charles Freeman Jeff Goddard Peter ffayes Kenneth S Heard John ffeath Robin Hogg Graham Kerr John Langridge John Law Chris Long Yann Lovelock BEM David Mash Mike Notley * Roger Plumb

12.61 Don Anderson Bill Bauer David Brown Stanley Burn ton Barrie England Richard Goddard Mike Grocott Michaelffornsby Geoff ffunt Malcolm Inglis Nick Lloyd John Long Michael Lynch Jonathan Martin David McCammon Peter Newell Anthony Rentoul Andrew Rix David Scharer Sir Martin Smith via the Martin Smith Foundation David Timms Timothy Torrington Stephen White Anthony Whitton

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Darrell Barnes David Baxter Bob Broughton Nicholas Bulmer David Cox John Crawshaw Geoff Day Chris Erwin Michael Foxon Frederick ffolroyd TomJeffers David Keeler John Reid Michael Sherratt John Taylor

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12.6.1 Mick Boylett Michael Clarke Steve Copley Peter Day Robert Dolman Derek Hawkins Peter Hodson Chris Howe John Hughes

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Mike Kerford-Byrnes Timothy Machin David Mereclith Derek Morris James Pitt Michael Powis David Rumbelow Stephen Sherbourne

Peter Griffiths Ian Hewitt Christopher Hird Linn Hobbs Ted Hodgson Michael Johns John Kilbee Paul Maison Tim Pope Jon Shortridge John Spellar Michael Stone

Stuart Kenner Anthony Moore John Penfield Eric Rigg Mike Roberts Ian Stuart David Theobald

1262 Armar Arch bold Paul Badman Joe Barclay Tommy Bedford Jeff Creek John Dennis Brian Fay Stephen Garrett Ian Gillings Gavin Hitchcock Ken Hobbs Nicholas Jarrold Ron McDonald Thomas Mulvey Humphrey Nicholls Brian N orth Billett Potter David Powell Mike Randall John Rea David Reed Michael Richardson John Sayer Philip Spray Chas Stansfield Michael Tanner Bill Walker James Wein Richard White

.1.261 Steve Allchin Peter Bates John Child Jr Robert Davis Robert Grey Chris Harrison Colin Hawksworth Roger Kenworthy Ethan Lipsig Jonathan Lovell Simon Maxwell Sandy McPherson Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton Dave Postles Philip Robinson Paul Rose Graham Salter Mark Spencer E llis Lawrence Toye Rob Weinberg Peter Wilson Georges Zbyszewski ~

12.6.6 Roger Brown Cameron Brown Peter Crystal Peter Dixon Nicholas Fane Roger Frankland

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Clive Bailey John Berryman David Blezard Phi! Emmott Brian Griffiths Philip James AlanJones

1.2.6.2 John Babb David Boyd Ian Busby Roger Callan David Clopet Gordon Cranmer Bryan Dawson Dick Ford Stephen Groom DavidJones Peter Jones Clive Kerridge Roy Marsh Nick McGuinn Andrew Race Dereck Roberts Michael Shipster Tim Stibbs Robert Unwin Jarnie Whelan 121Q Andrew Bethell John Bradshaw Peter Butler Andrew Craston Lloyd Curtis Christopher Evans Kevin Fisher Richard Gozney Peter Harper John Kendall Roger Moore Paul Moran David Morgan Richard Ormerod Colin Richmond-Watson Geoffrey Sambrook

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Chris Sutton-Mattocks Paul Temporal Bill Travers Bob Wilson

Colin Ashby Christopher Bamber Colin Bullett Sean Butler Robert Cawthorne Geoff Chamberlain James Dallas Robert Godden Roger Golland Sebastien Goodchild NickJones Anthony Jordan Dave Knight Nigel Laing Mark Mandel Ian Midgley Mark Patterson Nic Peeling John Rao Chris Reddick Tom Schneider Jeremy Tinkler Nigel Webb Mike Wood

Kim Swain Eric Wareing

1211 David Audsley Richard Balfour Peter Balmer Graham Bull Roger Chap !in Lawrence Cummings Nicholas Field-Johnson Malcolm Hawthorne Rick Henshaw Dave Leggett Christian McDonaugh Bob McGrath Jonathan Ormond Tim Ream Gareth Roberts Douglas Robertson Stephen Rosefield Greg Salter John Sloan Nicholas Staite Justin Stead

1212 George Bull John Calvert Richard Catmur Steve Chandler William Clark Anthony Deakin Michael Foxton Peter Kokelaar Jonathan Lowe Andrew Lowenthal Paul Mounsey Andrew Peacock Andrew Riley David Rosen Alan Smith Jack Smith Malcolm Watson Martin Winter

1215 Robert Adair Andrew Baldwin Milan Cvetkovic Bob Gaffey Keith Geeslin Ed Gray Gordon Hurst Paul Ince Alan Kerr Graham Ketley Ian Mclsaac Robin Osterley Treepon Riebroicharoen Roger Rosewell Ces Shaw Nigel Smith Robert Stichbury Peter Watson David Way 121.6_

1.214 Keith Albans Keith Auckland Phi! Budden Raoul Cerratti Peter Desmond Thomas du Boulay Robert Eggar Andy Eggleston Surrey Garland Brian Green Andrew Hargreaves Charles Hind Mark Howard Raymond Hui lain MacLeod Paul Matthews David Neuhaus John Ormiston Andy Patterson Clive Penwarden Dick Sands

Kern Alexander Bill Baker Robin Beckley Andrew Boddington Andrew Cooper Hora den Dulk Brian Demon Richard Edwards Chris Elston Richard Finch AnsonJack IanJackson Jeff Keey Chris Latimer Rob Moore Trevor Payne Malcolm Pheby Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Keith Scott Paul Sutton

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lan Taylor Stephen Tetley Richard Thomson Matthew Wald Jeremy Young

Brian Worsfold David Wright

1.211 David Blakey Charles Blount Andrew Brown lan Doherty lan Durrans Peter Foster Oliver Grundy Grant Guyer Nick Hamilton Adrian Haxby Chris Homer Roger Keeley Kazuo Kodama David McKenna GregMcLeen Nick Plater Richard Posgate Peter Rogers John Thurston Tony Watkinson

1212 James Catmur Elizabeth Flood nee Baker Malcolm Goodrich Richard Grainger John Hodgson Elizabeth Lee Paul Littlechild Ian Lupson Ian McEwen Paul McLaughlin Caroline Morgan Rob Quain Michael Robinson Mark Silinsky Nicole Stewart nee Harvey Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum Bridget Walker Kevin Walsh Dick Ward Andries Wessels David West Jeremy Young

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Peter Baker Phillip Bladen lan Coleman Paul Darling Reynaud de la Bat Smit Simon Double Timothy Elliott George Gilbert Simon Heilbron Tim Hill Ian Hutchinson Lloyd Illingworth Simon J ohnson Brian Livesey Paul Meadows Gideon Nissen Gary Stratmann Richard Taylor

John Ayton Tom Bartlett Bernard Bewlay Philip Broadley Peter Buechel Nick Caddick William Carver Stephen Cavalier John Chelsom Stephen Chevis Diana Chitty nee Wright Jonathan Davies Anthony Farrand Katherine Finucane Joe Friggieri Jonathan Hofstetter Simon Kelly Gary Lawrence

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12.!ill (cont'd) John Madgwick Peter McLean-Buechel Hugo Minney Tim Mottishaw James Newman John O'Connell Ashley Pigott David Preston Simon Ramage Jonathan Scott Nick Senechal Neil Stevenson Frank Strang Christina Tracey Peter Walton l2lli Tom Bayne Alasdair Blain Andrew Burns Mark Campbell Robert Davidson Sandy Findlay Joseph Kabari Phi! Knight Richard Lambert Paul McCarthy Fergus McLachlan Sallie Nicholas Richard Oliver Tim Parkinson Michael Sherring David Stokes Paul Stowers Arvind Subramanian

12.82 David Aeron-Thomas Warren Cabral Maggie Carver nee Hall Tom Christopherson Catherine Dale nee Watson Simon ffi.tch Mark Haftke David Heaps DanJohnson Sally McNish nee Jones

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(cont'd) Paul McWilliam Gareth Penny Nigel Purse Marco Rimini Kevin Sealy Liz Streeter nee Bliss Harry Travers Sarah Vickers 12.8}

Helen Atkinson nee Macleod Jennifer Barr RoyBishop Simon Freethy Kari Hale Cathy Halliday nee Brown Edward Hayes Siiin Henderson nee Owen Max Irwin Jo Kent nee Cox Bashir Khan Peter Magyar Andrew Marshall Phi! Moody Christine Muskett Denis Mustafa Kevan Rees John Sharples Andrew Sumnall MaxWelby

12M Dan Abnett John Bloomer Valerie Callender Steve Crummett Alison Fallowfield nee McCorrnick Steve Geelan Chris Giles Charles Hawley Mark Kingstone Tesula Mohindra Sean Purdy John Risman Steve Rose

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Anthony Rossiter Helena Sellars nee French Helen West

Neil Midgley John Myhill Phi! Richards Mike Ryan

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Andy Ashelford Betsy Bell Deborah Booth nee Hercod Christopher Cole Kevin Cooper Sarah Good Martin Gorrod Jon Gulley Fiona Houston Mark Little Nicholas Peacock Pernille Rudlin Clive Sentance Will Shaw Tanya Spilsbury nee Ash by Justin Symonds Anne Ulrich Alison Voyce nee Cooke Richard Wright ~

Alan Akeroyd Mary Betley Jim Charles David Denholm Tim Dudley Gavin Flook Andrew Harrison Claire Harrison Stephen Haslehurst Nei!Jacob Patrick Jennings Emma Kennedy nee Williams Rachel Kiddey nee Trethewey lain Mackie Paolo Mauro Sally McKone nee Adams Christina McMenarnin nee Bird

12E1 Dan Bayley Lewis Coghlin Jus tin Collins Jeremy Harrison Kevin Holder Kevin Johnson Alison Lonsdale nee Luff Andrew Martindale Lisa Mullen Zahid Nawaz Peter O'Connell Mark Sedwill Richard Smalman-Srnith Paul Thwaite Mary Waldner nee Harling Philip Waldner David Waring

l2llii James Brace Will Crerar Sundeep Dhillon Leon Ferera Jonathan Ferguson James Ferguson Stuart Ford Christopher Garrison Heather Gowans Duncan Holden Jon Kunac-Tabinor Peter Matthews Peter Othen Iftikhar Riaz James Rudd Giles Sanders Stephen Sparrow David Stewart Neil Stinson Mark Wilson

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Tom Argles Ronan Breen Kate Carpenter Jamie Cattell Lindsey Davis nee Eburne Anna Hambleton-Cahall Alex Hutchinson LukeJones Ben Miller Duncan Parkinson Ruth Roberts nee Makin Chris Sawyer Chris Vigars

Nicholas Lane Andrew Lappin Michael Morley Luke Powell Francisco Serbena Helen Stephens Lucy Williams nee French

Jonathan Buckmaster David Cullen David Hambler Richard Jackson Naoum Kaytchev Ed Knight Gareth McKeever Caroline Mitchelson nee Coghlin Julia Northcott Harry Oliver Eva Peel (nee ClarkD arby) and Tom Peel via the Charles Peel Charitable Trust Piers Prichard Jones Jeremy Robst Cary Rubinstein Mark Thomson Ian Valvona Caroline Vilar

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Kathryn Asplin nee Vardy E mma Barnett nee Pinches Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne D avid Gauke Andrew Green Graham Hinton Edward Hobart D an Ison Adrian Jones David Jordan Kevin Knibbs Andrew Landon-Green Peter Lee Stephen Noone Ruth Phillips Mark Roberts Simon Schooling Ed Shelton Kathryn Vardy Craig Vickery Andrew Williams

1.2.2.1 Carol Atherton Duncan Barker Andy Barker Simon Brown Julian Cater Stephan Engel Tim Houghton Anneli Howard

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1.222 Adam Cole Matt Doran Xen Gladstone Bill Heaney Lucy Heaven nee Davie Caroline Hough nee Ball Jane Mann nee Penrose Sarah Morrison Sarah O'Neill Jules Plumstead Claire Pugh nee Webb Gareth Scholey David Taylor Geraint Thomas Louisa Warfield nee Turner

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Howard Cazin Stuart Estell Bill Ferguson Emma French Melissa Gallagher nee Bearchell Liz Gibbons Katy Gotch Nick Grade!

Ian Hunter Kieren Johnson Rob Mansley Clare McKeon nee Smith AI Mordaunt Henry Mullin James Owens James Parkin Isabel Pitts Gary Smith Richard Tufft MattWebb

1.2.2.5 James Brown Robert Dryburgh Catherine Hitchcock nee Graley Chet Lad David Lewis Richard Martin Hugh Miller Amanda Minty nee Clapinska Stuart Robinson Chris Ruse Sami Sarvilinna Nigel Sudell Martin Thorneycroft

122.6 Claire Burton Benjamin Grout John Houghton Car! Lavin Hannah Lawrie Tom Long Craig Marshal!

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Liz Mellings Daniel Murphy Richard O'Donoghue David Phillips Heidi Sawtell nee Durnford Zachary Segal Zoe Stopford nee Griffiths Maya Strbac Roman Streitberger Michelle West nee Dollimore Alistair White

Jo Alexander nee Slack Tom Butler Lucy Cope Caroline Court nee Catrnur Jonathan Crawshaw Oliver Deacon Oily Donnelly Nicholas Edwards Kieron Galliard Nick Geering Pippa Hill nee Caldicott Barnaby Jones Catherine Knowles Zoe Noonan Alex Prideaux Bettina Soendergaard Thomas Watkins Lisa Watkinson Andrew Westbrook

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Glen Bowman Ali Cook Nathaniel Copsey Christopher Eden Jarnie Grimston James Hagan Chris Hancock Rhys James Steven Johnson Kullervo Maukonen Peter Ralph Anthony Shackleton Ben Smith Chris Tinson Matthew Welby

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Rohan Brown Steven Chambers Rahul Chopra Miles Clapham John Fowles Malcolm Lee Akira Mitsumasu Hannah Norbury nee Chatham Richard Povey

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Kayode Akindele James Bendall Michael Bird Edward Carder David Cormode Alan Dunford Rob Harrold Nick Hirst Tirn Johnson Jason Linford Clare Murray Alina Saran tis Ben Wilkinson Lucy Wilson nee Banister WeiNengWu

2QQl Simon Barrett Augustine Bourne Helen Devine nee Turnbull Matthew Easdale Rachael Easdale nee Ayers Fiona Hammett nee Gillard Charles Hotham Clem Hutton-Mills Charlotte Lamb Ruth Lewis Clover Morey Malte Nuhn Nick Renshaw

2QQl (cont'd) Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky James Sutton Aden Turna William Young 2QQ2 Ralf Bader Chetan Behl Otilia Bologan-Vieru Tony Brignull Sarah Chapman Fiona Clee Jinyang Cui Katy Cui nee Clough Charlotte Dove Henry Fagg Megan Lehman nee Dively Michael Lukey Paul Myatt Sam Offer Stijn Paumen Kate Pavia Zadok Prescott Felicia Shaw Ashley Smith 2QQ3.

Nicolai Boserup Julian Brad Joe Hacker Christopher Jarrett Celine Kimberly nee Tricard Matthew Led bury Tamas Peterfalvi Maria Queenan Naomi Sharp Sarah Sutton Cara Tredget Beth Watts AmyWebb Tatiana Zervos Elyn Zhang

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2.QlM Carys Afoko Tom Braithwaite John Edwards Sarah Filby Noam Gur Stephanie Hardy Martin Heimburger Ted Hodgkinson Allaa Kamil Andrew Keech Mitja Kocmut Fiona Moss Beth Robertson nee Hassall Sara Sinfield Tino Wendisch 2005_

AngieAn Tom Harris Elizabeth Horne LongJiang Anja McGuiness Natalie McManus Aliki Merika

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Lucinda O'Connor Wei Leong Poh Ed Reynolds Rich Reynolds Lacey Wismer Amanda Wong

Rubina Badsha Adam Boulfoul Katie Hill Kingsley Leung Samuel Pearce Joanne Pearce

.2QQ.G Tom Clucas Eric Cooperman Grace Haley Edward Oddy Charles Talbot-Smith Katherine Wright Zhen Yu

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2QQ1 Florence Brooks Giuseppe Cumella Eoghan Cusack Lydia Heaton Evan Innis Katherine Inzani Sarah Mullen

Stefan Arnold Vicky Fryer Xiao Tan Elena Vasilyeva

2Q1Q William Hancock-Cerutti Georg Heiss 62 anonymous donors

Friends of the Hall Angelyn Bagwell, in memory of EG Price (1944) Doreen Boyce, widow of Warne Boyce (1952) Mark Child To by Far rand, in memory of John Farrand (1951) Ann Hughes, widow of John R Hughes (1938)* Harvey Kass Patricia A Kemp, in memory of Robin Kemp (1958) Lynne Iiska, in memory of Geoffrey Price (1944) Mr Lod.-wood-Jones Gill Lowe, in memory of husband John Lowe (1954) Peter Matthewman, on behalf of son Richard Matthewman Mary Anne Price, in memory of Geoffrey Price (1944) Lubos Smrcka Gwendoline Titcombe, widow of Alan Titcombe (1956) CPR Fund of the Columbia Foundation Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund Gale and David Harding Charitable Fund of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program General Electric (GE) Foundation Meyer & Merle Berger Family Foundation PriceWaterhouseCoopers Services limited 11 anonymous donors

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Parent Donors Ian Adams-Cairns Mrs Ang Christine Bleasdale Adrian Buckley Mark Clarfelt Graham Davenport Roger Dudley Lisa Blatch & Francis Eames Steven Fellows Mr Flowers Stephen Gray

Graham and Louise Healy Mr Hilton Ray Husbands Charles Jenne Ian Kelly Jeremy Lester Mr Littlejohns Graham and Pippa Madgwick Richard Martin Renato Panizzon Mr Phipps-Derkatsch

i'vlr Powell

Mr Pryde Malcolm Reed Robert Robinson Mr Scott Jaktar Singh MrStokholm Stephen Harris and Gillian Torry- Harris MrWhiting MrWright 3 anonymous donors

PRINCIPALS OF SCHOLARSHIP Written ry Roland Oliver and delivered ry him at the 1962 50th Anniversary Dinner on 14 September 2012 No needfor knees to turn to jei!J, I'm not the Reverend Dr Kei!J, Erstwhzle Princeps of this place I don't even know the Latin grace.

So no need to make apology If you're ignorant of theology.

In fact, it's probably true to say That most of us who're here to-day Regard Church history As a mystery And are not exactly up to speed On the Athanasian Creed Or on doctrinal differences with Rome, Even the life of Saint Jerome (Unless he was the chap who wrote About those three men in a boat).

And several of us are among the dopes Who've never read the Oxford Book of Popes.

But it's not Kelly the patristic scholar Of whose fame we wish to holler Nor the Kelly who following Emden's lead Was the leader who decreed 117

This ancient hall become a college All of that is common knowledge.

No, I think to tell the truth Kelly was an icon of our youth, Teaching that a man was better grounded If he tried to be all-rounded And that only studying hard for Schools Was the prerogative of fools.

He'd wear his academic robes with pride But never saw the need to hide The squash shorts ready underneath Because it was his true belief That work with no play made you dull.

(I hope that's not the only rhyme for Gull.)

He taught us how to hold our sherry, Joined the lads in making merry, Said that it was quite all right To wassail late into the night But also, that was only fine If next day at your desk by nine.

Medieval traditions were respected, especially the plumbing, But innovations would soon be coming.

We didn't mind missing in the least St Peter's library in the east, Not having this large dining hall Hardly troubled us at all.

We didn't need a new abode In Norham Gardens, Iffley Road, But if only we had made a fuss Would he have brought the women in for us?

But let's not shed nostalgic tears, And move us forward fifty years.

A professor of a different ology Is now master of the college, see.

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Not for him the roads to Rome But flagellum and trypanosome.

He doesn't dwell on- Saul of Tarsus But the pathology of Leishmaniasis.

I think that I should make it clear, As the man is sitting here, That he induces sleeping sickness in the laboratory Not in the lecture hall by his oratory.

A mere three weeks from this day's date A new lot will matriculate.

I'm sure they'll grow to love this place, They might even learn the Latin grace.

So let's think about continuity Stretching on in perpetuity And hope that they'll be ready all To forever praise St Teddy Hall.

And let us hope there'll be many who Will gather here next Sixty-Two To remember the days when they were young And college life had just begun.

I'm sure for them it will be said, "Gull's spirit hovers overhead" But for now, with our distinguished host, We all are blessed by Kelly's ghost.

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Whoops! Near!J made a howler.

Mustn't forget the toast. Floreat Aula!

***** Anna Fowler, Alumni Relations Officer reports on some of the very enjoyable events held this past year ...

It's been another highly successful year for parents' events at the Hall. On a rather chilly Friday last October we welcomed back the parents and family members of JCR members in their 2nd, 3rd and final years. The Wolfson Hall was packed, as ever, and a highly enjoyable evening was had by all.

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It was the turn of the Freshers in February, with family members and friends enjoying their first taste of Hall hospitality, on a very cold but snow-free night.

There was an excellent speech, to a sell-out crowd, from the JCR President, Margery Infield, about life at the Hall from a student's perspective.

Through a combination of expert meteorological knowledge and sheer luck, the Parents' Garden Party in May was held on the sunniest day of the month, sandwiched on either side by wind and drizzle. The families of JCR members in their 2nd, 3rd and final years joined us for lunch, cakes, ice cream and, of course, Pimms, in the gardens of St Peter in-the-East. Afterwards, there was the traditional walk down to the river to see the Teddy Hall boats put in a fantastic performance in the 2013 Summer Eights. *****

On Thursday 29 November, lured by the promise of Chef McGeever's ever popular mulled wine and minced pies, around 200 students, alumni and staff braved the cold for Carols in the Quad.

One of the Hall's most popular events, Carols in the Quad brings together the entire College community and marks the end of Michaelmas term. Gathered around the Christmas tree, guests enjoyed classics such as 0 Little Town of Bethlehem and The First Noel by the Teddy Hall Chapel Choir. The Teddy Hall Alternative Choir was also in action, with Gaudete and Mary's Bqy Child, while representatives from across the Hall community gave readings, including the particularly memorable While Shepherds Watch, or 'The Perils of Punctuation" by the SEHA President, Darrell Barnes.

This year's Carols in the Quad will be held on Thursday 5 December. Invitations will be sent out in October and online booking will be available. Be sure to wrap up nice and warm! *****

On Thursday 31 January, Aularians from Hong Kong and beyond gathered for the 6th Annual Hong Kong Drinks Reception. This year's event was held at the Hong Kong Club, generously hosted by Xen Gladstone (1992, History).

Around 25 Aularians and their guests joined the Director of Development, Laura Palmer and the Senior and Finance Bursar, Simon Costa for an opportunity to network and hear all the latest Hall news and developments.

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The 7th Annual Hong Kong Drinks Reception will be held on 28 February 2014, at a time and venue yet to be confirmed. We look forward to seeing you there!

***** Members of the Floreat Aula Society have pledged to remember the Hall in their wills. If you would like to join the Society by including the Hall in your will, please contact the Development Office and you will be put in touch with Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), who runs the Society. The next biennial dinner, to which all the Society's members and their guests are invited, will take place in March 2015, and invitations will be sent to members in due course.

Current members are listed below and on the next page:John Akroyd John Allchurch Brian Amor Prof Christopher Amor Jonathan Aptaker Prof Christopher Armitage William Asbrey David Ashworth Colin Atkinson John Ayers Paul Badman FCA Hilary Baker Andrew Banks Andrew Barker John Barker George Barner Darrell Barnes Martin Bates Olive Baxter John Bean Stuart Beaty Colin Benbow Anthony Best William Best Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Dr Robert Bishop Robert Bishop Alasdair Blain Derek Bloom David Bolton

Mark Booker The Revd Canon Dr Michael A Bourdeaux Hilary Bourne-Jones Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Dr Doreen Boyce Robert Breese The Revd Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome Cameron Brown Geoffrey Brown Peter Brown Peter W Brown George Bull James Burnett-Hitchcock Ivor Burt Michael Cansdale Robert Cawthorne Dr Raoul Cerratti Stephen Chandler Tom Christopherson Bob Clarke David Clarke Gloria Clutton-Williams Jeanette Cockshoot Terence Cook Andrew Cordell Simon Costa John Cotton DavidJ Cox

John Cox Kevin Crossley-Holland Dr Brian Cudmore John Cunningham Alex Davids Revd Canon Hilary Davidson Arthur Davis Desmond Day OBE John Dellar Yves Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo Jarvis Doctorow Olivia Donnelly Stewart Douglas-Mann John Ducker John Dunbabin David Dunsmore Roger Farrand Charles Fisher David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot John French Robin French Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill Dr David Gillett Dr Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Michael Goodman-Smith

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Justin Gosling Paul Goulding QC Alistair Graham Or Philip Haffenden Maureen Haile Graeme Hall Ronald Hall David Harding Christopher Harmer John Harrison Rex Harrison Or John Hawkins Or Malcolm Hawthorne Prof Ian Heggie David Henderson David Hexter Charles Hind Revd John Hogan Richard Hope Michael Hopkinson TO Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Norman lsaacs Peter Janson-Smith AllanJay MBE David Johnson Geoffrey Johnston Christopher Jones DerekJones LukeJones Prof Andrew Kahn Terence Kelly Or Steve King John King Roy Kings Bob Knowles Antony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee Paul Lewis John Long Richard Luddington Kenneth Lund QC James Lyle Chris Manby James Mark-wick Charles Marriott Peter Masson Robert Mathews

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Doug McCallum George McNaught Peter Mercer Jeremy Mew Geoff Mihell Dusty Miller William R Miller CBE Prof Michael Mingos Or Geoffrey Mortimer Charles Murray David Nelson Rodney Offer Andrew Page Kenneth Palk James Parkin Martin Paterson Robert Pay Nigel Pegram The Revd Edward Phillips John Phillips Or Peter Phizackerley David Picksley Jack Picton John Pike CBE John Pinnick Or Francis Pocock Christopher Pope Philip Rabbetts Laura Radley Bob Rednall Anthony Rentoul His Hon Judge Martin Reynolds Peter Reynolds Archdeacon Raymond Roberts CB Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM Edmund Roskell Or Francis Rossorti Or Jack Rowell OBE Ian Rushton lan Sandles Michael Senter OBE Ruth Shaw Stewart Shepley

Michael Simmie Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Martin Slater Martin Smith Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC Emerson Snelling Michael Somers OBE His Honour Judge Sou than Or Frank Spooner Alastair Stewart QC David Summers OBE Nevill Swanson Revd Philip Swindells Richard Taylor Paul Tempest Stephen Tetley David Thompson Or John Thurston Gwen Titcombe Noel Tonkin RoyTracey Carol Tricks Alan Vasa TO Or John C Voigt Professor John Walmsley Or Arthur Warr James Webster The Revd Canon Hugh Wilcox Or John Wilkinson Or Bill Williams Or John Williams FRCGP Geoffrey Williams Keith Wiseman Russell Withington Dudley Wood CBE Gordon Woods FRSC Sruart Worthington Prof Sir David Yardley Bill Yeowart

"We welcomed back the parents and family members of JCR members in their 2nd, 3rd and final years"

"Lunch, cakes, ice cream and, of course, Pirnms, in the gardens of St Peter in-the-East"

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THE HALL IN THE WAR

by Fred Nicholls (1943) It occurred to me the other day that, at the age of 87, I must be one of the few left who were present at the Hall seventy years ago. This is because (touch wood!) I have lasted fairly well, and also because I entered the Hall at the early, not to say callow, age of seventeen, at the start of the Michaelmas term, 1943. My 'career' at the Hall stretched until 1950, with three years in the Navy as an interlude. I came back to Oxford as part of a tsunami of ex-servicemen, and was therefore obliged to take a shortened honours course of only two years.

I doubt whether anyone, in the Hall's long history of scholarship, was worse prepared for membership of it than I was when I entered its dark-tunnelled portal in October 1943, at the start of the Michaelmas term.

I entered the University by the backest of back doors, and my CV at that point could be considered a mess - nothing more. I'd done respectably in School Cert (the 0 Level of the day) in my Canterbury grammar school, and I had a kind headmaster. It was the era of the call-up, and all of us lads knew we'd be in the Armed Forces very soon. Meanwhile, of course, for the same reason, the quads of Oxford were virtually empty places. The powers-that-be therefore decided to offer suitable volunteers for the services two terms at university, such time to be divided between forces training and (very) elementary beginnings of a course in their chosen subjects.

I had left school at sixteen, being an early example of the bolshie teenager.

My father died in 1942, and my mother, understandably, had, with difficulty, persuaded me not to sign on as a crew member of a Whitstable sailing-barge, so I became a cub reporter, slaving in the office of a local newspaper at proofreading, police courts, paternity cases, weddings and funerals, and meetings of village rat and sparrow clubs (yes, honestly!) all for a ludicrous 'wage'. The aforesaid benevolent headmaster had already recommended a very clever friend of mine, Bob Austin -later a housemaster at Winchester, no less- for such a course, and decided, on the strength of my School Certs, that, with the right kind of letter from him, I might just scrape in, so that Bob would have some familiar company. As a result, I did no proper public exam between School Cert at 16 and Final Honours at 23. Beat that!

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After some brief formalities at Chatham Barracks I was taken into the Navy's ample bosom, and became affectionately known as CJX 430765- a name I'll never forget because you had to shout it out every pay-day. So the Hall as I first knew it was largely- though pretty sparsely - populated by 17-year-old denizens, dressed sometimes in sports-coats and baggy flannels, the trendy rig of that day, and sometimes in navy-blue, khaki or light-blue clothes which fitted where they touched. We naval recruits wore body-hugging serge jumpers, thick jerseys, light-blue 'collars' which in fact hung down one's back, and trousers with arcane front openings dating from Nelson's day, outrageously flared bottoms and seven creases which were horizontal, not vertical. And I assure you I am not making any of this up.

There were, of course, other people around in the quad: those excused service on medical grounds, students whose call-up had been deferred, and two (I suppose) refugees from Poland. I remember especially a gifted English chap who could make Chopin sound beautiful, even on the JCR piano. The buildings, the grey, cloister-like rectangle, the well, the trim grass, the geraniums, they were much as you see them now, seventy years later, but truly, then it was another world - quiet, all male, its normal numbers shrunk by the vicious global struggle elsewhere.

As for the dons, they were listed in a ditty sung to the tune of 'Frere Jacques':

A B Emden, A B Emden, Kei!J too, Kei!J too, Ramsry, Fletcher, Irvine, Ramsry, Fletcher, Irvine, And old Brew, and old Brew.

After all these years I remember best the first two and the Rev (Ronnie) Fletcher, who, on my return in '4 7, had the misfortune to be my tutor. The A be, as he was called (and what suitable initials he had for a sailor!) was the enthusiastic commander of the Naval Division, and regularly attended our parades and sessions of instruction held in the (commandeered) Christ Church Boathouse at the confluence of the Cherwell and the Isis. There, elderly and often irascible Petty Officers taught us bends and hitches (you don't say 'knots' in the Navy), and how to propel an 18-foot whaler up and down the Isis with massive 12foot oars. An odd boat, the whaler: it had three oarsmen one side and only two on the other, and if you sat on the port side, your rowlock was on starboard.

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caps, with a black cap-tally, proclaiming us, in gold letters, to be members of the OUND- the Oxford University Naval Division.

Physically, we had to surmount various tests of fitness. The one I remember best was on a warm spring day, when, all togged up in our squarer rig and big black navy boots, we were required to do a five-mile road march in one hour exactly. That, believe me, is going some! In that petrol-less, traffic-less era we did it, marching three files abreast, along the northern bit of the Oxford bypass! If one were mad enough to arrange the same march today, how many hopeful young cadets would survive?

It is perhaps symptomatic of my mediocrity as a scholar that I don't remember the literary half of my time nearly so well. I do recall, though, my introduction to Chaucer, the 'well of English undefiled', to the wonderful smooth craftsmanship of his verse, his cool ironic scepticism and the playful nudging of his ribaldry. I remember too being spellbound by the charm, the wit and the intellect of the great Lord David Cecil and the high, delicate precision of his voice and diction. I recall his words to us tyros on the definition of tragedy: We wead in the paper about a lady being killed by a bus in the Banbuwy Woad, and it is descwibed as a twagedy. Well of course, it was vewy sad, but it wasn't a twagecfy.' Having been almost accidentally converted to English studies

by Maggie, a very jolly lady teacher who was in love with all the Georgian school of poets, and by my random purchase of Milton's Collected Works in a second-hand bookshop in Canterbury, I began to feel the magnitude of my luck in being wafted by fate into a place dedicated to the study and enjoyment of - amongst other things - our heritage of great writers and their books. I was no longer on my own, and I was in my 'kindly stedde'- the OE name for my natural place.

As for the texture of our student lives, it was a world away from what I know of today's equivalent. College food was pretty dull and Spartan, but of course in those days of severe rationing, so was everybody's food, unless you happened to be a farmer or a spiv. Looking back, we were very young (17 +),very innocent (this was before television!), and very poor. I and my circle of friends could not afford alcohol or dining out (except at the homely British Restaurant).

My own family was very hard-up, so that I could not dream of asking for any subsidy from there; in fact, I cannot now remember where any of my funds came from. Even when I came back to the Hall in 1947 my grant was only ÂŁ270 per year. However, the upside of that was that I left University without 126

owing anyone a penny, but my poverty meant that I had to spend every Long Vac labouring on farms. On the other hand, the upside of that was that, when I took up writing fiction, this Zola-esque experience of seeing the world from the bottom of the heap was invaluable; so, incidentally, was the four pounds ten shillings every Friday, dished out over a long kitchen table in a ceremony straight out of Thomas Hardy.

As for our domestic life, Bob and I lived in a very dreary and dusty pair of rooms high up above The High, opposite the Examination Schools, which at that time housed an Army hospital. You reached our tatty eyrie via the back entrance of the quad, a right turn and a great many stairs. The extreme dustiness of our chambers (and they must have been seriously dusty for that to be noticed by teenage youths!) was caused by our aged and leisurely scout Charlie. Once, when I asked him if he ever shook the mats and rugs out of the window, he answered genially: 'Gawd, no! If I done that, I'd have the bloody Fire Brigade turning up.'

When, after three years at sea in trawlers and minesweepers, I finally hung up my reefer jacket with its single wavy gold stripe, I wrote rather nervously to the Vice-Principal, the Rev Kelly, to ask: did he remember me and could I come back to Teddy's, he answered a kindly 'yes' to both questions, so I enjoyed another three years as an Aularian, won my oar in Torpids (it hangs behind me as I type), stroked a Hall coxless four into a Henley semi-final, and even got a degree!

But I still think sometimes, sixty-six years after leaving the Hall: Me, an Oxford graduate? There's surely a bit of chutzpah about tha/o.

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PRINCIPAL MOO RE VS QUEEN'S, OR HOW THE HALL WAS SAVED

by Rebecca Shorter, Hall Archivist One of the first tasks which I undertook following my appointment at the Hall was to read the existing histories of the College by Principals Emden and Kelly. I was immediately interested by the description of the defence of the Hall mounted by Principal Moore in the early 1900s. However I didn't expect to find the treasure trove of records relating to this battle which I discovered a few months in to my time at the Hall. Although not outwardly glamorous, these records give a wonderful glimpse of the battle and the feelings of members of the Hall.

The early history of our relations with Queen's sets the story in context. The Hall is believed to have been formed in the late 13th Century when the property came into the ownership of Osney Abbey. The earliest written record of the Hall on its present site dates to 1317. Queen's College however are clear about the founding of their college on 18 January 1341 when Robert of Eglesfeld, chaplain to Queen Philippa was granted a charter by King Edward Ill for the foundation of a Collegiate Hall to be known as the Hall of the Queen's Scholars of Oxford. Robert bought four shops opposite the Hall prior to this, in 1340, and in 1345 extended these with the purchase of two more to the North. It was probably in the early 1400s that these shops were pulled down and incorporated into Queen's, so that the two institutions were left with only the lane as a buffer. A number of our early Principals were either Fellows of Queen's or had links to Queen's, but it was not until the Reformation that the association was put on a formal footing. With the dissolution of the religious houses in 1539, Osney Abbey was closed and its property was transferred to the Crown. Queen's obtained a lease of the Hall as soon as possible. The Hall's site had been exempted from the transfer of the former Abbey's property to the new Dean and Chapter of Christ Church in 1545, and it was instead sold to private owners. In 1553 the Provost of Queen's, William Denysson, bought the freehold, and in 1557 he transferred the site and building to Queen's as a corporate body. In 1559 the right to appoint the Principal was conferred on Queen's by the University in congregation.

In 1855 an attempt was made by George Hill, a graduate of the Hall, to establish that the members of the Hall should have the right to elect the Principal; the Archive includes a copy of Queen's printed response to this. Hill had demanded 128

that the Hall be allowed to manage itself. This was firmly rebuffed by Queen's, on the grounds that they were the owners of the Hall, both of its buildings and of the right to appoint the Principal. At this date Queen's claims to have in its records deeds of the Hall, including the Deed of Convocation from 1559.

Edward Moore enters the story in 1864 when he was appointed Principal of the Hall. He was known not only as our Principal but as a significant Dante scholar, and during his time as Principal he published detailed works on Dante; he held the post of Barlow Lecturer on Dante at University College twice, and initiated the Oxford Dante Society. He was at the start of this illustrious career, aged just 28, when he took up the position of Principal.

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By 1870 the introduction of an "unattached students" system deprived the remaining Halls of a main justification - their cheapness as places of University education; and Moore viewed the future with pessimism when in 1872 a new Royal Commission was set up. The Statutory Commissioners of 1877 confirmed his fears by providing for the suppression of the other Halls and, with the agreement of Queen's College and the Hebdomadal Council on behalf of the Hall, for the reduction of St Edmund Hall when its Principalship next became vacant to a dependency of Queen's College, with a minimum of twenty-four Exhibitioners.

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In December 1902, Principal Moore was appointed to a residentiary canonry in Canterbury Cathedral, and was expected to resign his Principalship in order to take up this role. A circular was sent out asking for contributions to a testimonial and inviting members to a Dinner [see previous page]. His resignation would have triggered the Commissioners' scheme. Queen's asked the University to enact an amending statute effecting not a partial but a total absorption of the Hall. Only two weeks' notice was given of this.

The Hall community were shaken by this act of perceived hostility. Clement Leeper, the Boat Club captain at the time wrote in the Boat Club log book (R22/21): 'We are all mad!J keen on doing our utmost as most things point to this being our last VIII. The 'Chief' on going to Canterbury willprob resign- If so, Queens want to alter the present Commission to one allowing the complete absorption of the Hall. We are furious!J indignant- Convocation meets on Tues for discussion of this (plot].

The 'Chief' is very excited and swares vengeance. ... added later...

"Best of luck to the last boat under Canon (lj Moore s Principalship- mqy it not prove the last tedcfy boat!"

University opinion rallied in its defence as the last surviving Hall which, under Moore, had shown vigorous life, and argued specifically that the short notice given was not sufficient for proper consideration of the new statute. A later newspaper obituary in The Times, recalled the meeting of Congregation thus: "None who were present willforget the scene. The Provost of Queens spoke first; then the Principal rose. He was not I?J nature a speaker, nor was he speciallY witry or brilliant in debate. But on that qfternoon he made the speech of his life. He delighted the House I?J recording that it was a satiifaction to him to reflect that if Dante had visited Oxford he would have seen St Edmund Hall at work while across the road there were still on!J green fields. " Moore won the day and the proposed statute was rejected.

Following the defeat in Congregation of the amendment, Moore postponed his resignation for ten years to give time for the Hall to develop its own scheme for its future. From 1907 the Hall found a champion in Lord Curzon who, as Chancellor of the University, was ex officio its Visitor. From then on the efforts to promote the Hall's independent future flourished. Included in

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the records are an appeals leaflet to members of the Hall inviting them to a reunion Dinner at the Trocadero at 8 October 1908, and a collection of over 50 responses to the Hall's request for a greater endowment. The Archive also holds a handwritten report and a photograph of the Dinner.

One attendee is quoted as saying "He would add that the Principal has given up a life if ease & retirement sole!J to save the Hall and the sum should therefore be given at once. " In 1910 the campaign to raise a greater endowment was widened to the general public. The case put forward was summarized in the heading: 'A place of residence for Poor Students' (S8/4/28). Between 1911 and 1912 Moore and Queen's collaborated in producing a printed pamphlet about the historic relationship between the Hall and Queen's. It is evident that there was little animosity between the Hall and Queen's by this time. Moore also at this time puts forward the proposal which was to secure the Hall's future and lay the path to our eventual charter.

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In the Plea (SS I 4 I 4) that Moo re wrote for the restoration of the pre 1877 governance he was by this time confident enough in his support and in the possibilities for the continuance of the Hall to ask only for Queen's to acquiesce in the actions which the supporters of the Hall were about to undertake. The plea is made both in terms of the strength of the Hall and on a personal basis. "it is strong in its individuality esprit-de-corps and in the ciffections of its own members. Thefact that these last have collected orpromisedÂŁ 1,500for the endowment of Exhibitions shows that a/though for the mostpart, poor men, thry are prepared to make sacrifices to secure the independence of the institution to which thry belong. "

"My own diminished power of work, and repeated warning of Doctors, make it urgent upon me (now in my 75thyear) to resign as soon aspossiblefrom the arduous post in which I have laboured, come next October, for 45years. Mqy I not earnest!J plead that I mqy be allowed to do so with the know/edge that the Institution with which I have been so long connected will still be suffered to endure, and to carry on its present work at /east so long as it shows no sign of failure in its capacity to do so. " In 1912 a University Statute, approved in 1913 by a Royal Order in Council, provided "for the continuance of the Hall as a place of education, religion and learning separate from the Queen's College, while preserving the right of the College to appoint the Principal of the Hall". Moore could safely resign.

On 2 September 1916 Moore died at the age of 82, and the survival of Teddy Hall was considered by many at the time to be one of his greatest achievements.

Second Benefactors' Book To celebrate the success of this campaign to save the Hall a second benefactors' book was created, continuing a tradition begun in 1682 with the original benefactors' book. This beautiful record of those who gave both financially and personally to ensure the Hall survived is testament to the gratitude of the Hall community.

As these records show, not only was the Hall preserved from the erstwhile ambitions of our neighbours across the lane, but it seems to have solidified the Hall spirit and the desire to support the Hall in later life. Something of the spirit of the fight lives on now, if only in light-hearted banter as shown by this entry from the 2004 JCR suggestion book.

Can we change the name of "Queens Lane" to 'Ha// Lane" immediate!J ... I am distraught i?J the fact I have to walk on Queen's land to get to my College."

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BOOK REVIEW by Michael Bourdeaux (1954) THE CODER SPECIAL ARCHIVE, by Tony Cash and Mike Gerrard (Hodgson Press, 2012) Between leaving Truro School and coming up to the Hall in 19 54 I was engaged in classified work -learning Russian in the RAF during my national service. The fact that we had signed the Official Secrets Act was always a joke: our classes at Cambridge were organised (with supreme efficiency) by the University in the person of the formidable Professor Elizabeth Hill. On several occasions undergraduates, not on our course, took part in our lessons and we could invite anyone we liked to the various houses where we were billeted over the year. At the end of this time we went to Bodmin in Cornwall for the last few months of our service. The nearest we came to doing secret work was to learn the parts of an aeroplane in Russian.

We were the elite- or so we thought. After our first two months of Russian we sat an exam and some were selected to become interpreters. The rest would be trained as translators and would not come to Cambridge with us. We did not wear uniform; they did. The story of our course appeared in print in a lively volume by Geoffrey Elliott and Oxford's Harold Shukman (St Antony's), Secret Classrooms: a Memoir of the Cold War (2002). The joke was in the word 'secret'.

It is only in reading this superb book by Tony Cash (who came up to the Hall when I did and became a friend) and Mike Gerrard that I realized that the translators had the best of the bargain. We had not only missed out on the secrets, but on most of the excitement, too. The Coder Special Archive tells the story in great detail of the training the Coders (non-commissioned sailors on special work) received. Unbeknown to us, while we were rather wasting our last few months, having already learnt the language, the naval translators were drafted abroad to do secret work for their last several months of service, monitoring the airwaves to intercept Soviet conversations between aircraft, ships and their bases. This took them mostly to Germany, to Kiel and Cuxhaven, from where they could spend their leisure time visiting the delights of Hamburg, with its opera and Reeperbahn (not that they had much money to indulge in the offerings of the latter, but the opera was cheap and excellent).

On longer leave they were given railway passes which would take them beyond the frontiers of West Germany, from where they could visit Switzerland and

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Italy. A few were even sent to Cyprus and Turkey to monitor Soviet movements in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. It is hard for today's undergraduates to imagine how exotic these destinations were. The post-war generation of students simply did not have the opportunity - or the money - to travel in the way that is the norm for our successors. To this day I experience a sense of excitement when I board a cross-channel ferry, though similar feelings at airports are now somewhat muted because of all the new security regulations.

The Coders had the additional pleasure of being able to fraternize with the local German citizenry, who made them welcome. They also had the opportunity of learning or improving their German. Tony Cash, a talented jazz clarinetist, was always greeted with special warmth.

The Coders passed on what they gleaned to GCHQ in Cheltbham, though, if truth be told, the feedback was limited indeed. Most of the day-to-day (or night-to-night) work was humdrum, but the authors recount many hilarious incidents, mostly related to "bull", as maintaining kit in pristine condition was called, and the pettifogging regulations operative in the 'Senior Service'. The Navy did not neglect its duty of bringing these shore-based men into contact with the sea. The authors recount some horrendous 'holiday' cruises when conditions were appalling. One storm was so bad that some national service sailors lost their lives, though not any of the Russian translators.

The book is based on the recollections of some 70 national servicemen, representative of the naval personnel among the five thousand or so conscripts who were selected to attend one of the Joint Services Schools for Linguists which operated at various bases in the UK throughout most of the 1950s.

Only recently, with the release of official documents from the period, have they felt themselves able to speak freely of what they did in secret. The authors contacted them by email; their reminiscences are vivid, judiciously selected and make entertaining reading.

The first two thirds of the book, with a languid introduction by Alan Bennett, who was trained as an interpreter with me at Cambridge, describes the course itself. The last part is a mini-history of the later part of the Cold War and its eventual end under Mikhail Gorbachev. [fony has written an article based on a passage from the book, especially for this edition of the Hall Magazine, which immediately follows this review.]

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It is, of course, history with a difference, because it focuses on the role played by some of the former JSSL students, properly highlighting those who had been in the Navy. Who would have thought that my friend and erstwhile tennis partner, the late John Bayliss (also SEH 1954) would have worked for MI5 or MI6 (the book is not clear which)? John had been compromised in a minor way in 1957, the year he graduated, when he visited Moscow to participate in an international youth festival. The Soviet authorities caught him trying to sell a pair of jeans- a priceless commodity in the Soviet Union of the time -let him off punishment for his heinous crime in return for passing information to them. He reported this to the British authorities on his return. John's widow reveals the full story for the first time in the book: "He was effectively recruited by our spooks to feed stories to the Soviets, as well as make occasional visits to foreign countries to check on specified individuals." The majority of us missed so much excitement- but we can all catch up with it in the 400 pages of this entertaining history, liberally illustrated.

Michael graduated from the Hall in Russian, founded a research centre, Keston College, concentrating on communistpoliry towards religion and became an iriformal adviser to La4Y Thatcher on issues if religious liberry.

AN AULARIAN DOUBLE AGENT by Tony Cash John Bayliss and I were among the first alumni 1 of the Joint Services Schools for Linguists to study at Teddy Hall. We came up in September 1954 at the age of 20 having just completed our compulsory two-year stint in the armed forces. The JSSLs had been set up three years earlier to train specially selected national servicemen in the Russian language. By the end of the decade some 4500 soldiers, airmen and sailors had passed through their portals. At the height of the Cold War the government had deemed it necessary to have a cohort of interpreters at the ready in the event of hostilities with the Soviet Union breaking out. However, the majority of kursanry, as course students were called - around three quarters of us - were trained in the dark arts of signals intelligence to listen to, log and record Russian military radio traffic for onward transmission to GCHQ in Cheltenham. Keeping a 24/7 watch on the disposition of Soviet air, land and sea forces would give the West advance warning of any hostile developments - that was the rationale.

Though John and I had served in the Royal Navy at the same time we hadn't known each other. He'd become an interpreter and was commissioned as a

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midshipman. I'd been a 'siginter' with the rank of Leading Coder (Special), the equivalent of an Army or RAF corporal. What brought John and me together at SEH was not so much our naval experience or that we'd both opted to read French and Russian, but our love of jazz, particularly the New Orleans variety.

We enjoyed the same Louis Armstrong,Jelly Roll Morton and BunkJohnson recordings. I played the clarinet, and was very soon a fixture in the Oxford University Jazz Band. John was just beginning to grapple with the trumpet.

He would have been the first to admit, however ruefully, that he was more proficient jiving to the music than actually creating it.

Naturally, John helped me choose the discs for and generally organise my 21st birthday party which fell in November 1954. Lack of funds necessitated our holding it in Hall, which meant in those days that come a certain hour all guests would have to be ushered off the premises. Well before midnight, just as the main gate was closing on the last of them, a large vintage Austin 12 arrived bearing four close friends of mine from Leeds, my home town. John showed them the clandestine route in- via the graveyard of St Peter in-the-East. His bedroom window overlooked the tombstones, and he was in the habit of leaving out a looped hawser, which served as a makeshift ladder. The two late female arrivals proved as adept at climbing in as their male companions.

Had our drinking not carried on further into the night, I doubt I would have had the courage to solve one couple's accommodation problem in the way I did. I suggested they sleep under my bed, where, it was hoped, they would be unobserved if the scout should come in before any of us awoke. Discovery could easily have led to my being sent down. Fortune favoured us. John awoke as early as I did, and was on hand to provide Margaret (I believe that was her name) with a large, British Warm style overcoat and hat. Semi-surrounded by three males she was able to stride manfully through the quad and into Queen's Lane without rousing suspicion.

It wasn't only alcohol that had lulled my inveterate caution. Feeling the need to match John's willingness to take risks had been a factor too. The chancer in him contributed, I've no doubt, to his success at tennis: he played for the University. If rumours were true, this character trait may also have led him to dabble with the Headmaster's daughter, when on graduation he took up a teaching post at Rugby School- a very short-lived one. By this time John had succumbed to the blandishments of the security services, and not just our own.

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In 1957 he inveigled his way into the Soviet Union, one of the first former JSSL students to do so. He tagged along with the Bruce Turner Jazz Band having offered to act as their interpreter at the Moscow International Youth Festival.

It's now generally agreed that this student shindig was the first significant thaw in relations between the USSR and the West since the Cold War began.

Khrushchev wanted the world to believe that the Soviet Union was a changed country after the demise of Stalin whom he had so roundly condemned in a secret speech the previous year. Since most of the 30,000 or more young Festival guests from abroad were fairly carefully vetted before being allowed in, it may be assumed that they were broadly sympathetic to the Soviet cause.

Bruce Turner, a talented reed player, who excelled with the Humphrey Lyttelton Band was himself, at least for a period, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. If John, on the other hand, had political opinions, I never heard him express them: his taste in music apart, all his natural inclinations seemed conservative. In any event, it wasn't anything he said that got him into trouble in Moscow. I vividly recall his account of falling foul of Soviet officialdom. He'd taken up with an attractive young Russian woman, but after the authorities conveyed their disapproval of the relationship they resorted to secret meetings in the Moscow Underground. John let drop hints to me that his dealings with Soviet functionaries had developed beyond his being the passive butt of their displeasure. But I only learned the fuller story in 2011, a decade or so after his death, while I was researching our recently published book- The Coder Special Archive- a history of the Coder Special branch of the Navy. Penny Bayliss, John's widow, revealed to me that he was caught selling a pair of jeans to a young Muscovite, in contravention of a law specifically prohibiting Soviet individuals from any form of private enterprise. Hauled in to account for himself, John was told that if he went along with a certain proposal all charges against him would be dropped. He therefore agreed to supply his interrogators with information from the UK. Returning home he immediately divulged all to the security services, and was effectively recruited by our spooks to feed stories to the Soviets, as well as make occasional visits to foreign countries to check on specified individuals. Penny recalls one such visit to Yugoslavia, possibly in 1968. She claims he was pretty well paid for his trouble.

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whole truth. Yet John could not have been very active as an agent, since for most of his post-graduate life he was in full-time employment as a teacher in public schools, with a final, decades-long stretch as Head of Modern Languages at St Paul's School, London.

Yet John did have one significant break from teaching, when in 1964 he travelled to the Soviet Union with author Douglas Botting, also a Teddy Hall contemporary who had read English. They were there for more than four months, mostly in Siberia, eventually reaching Arctic territory unvisited by free Westerners since 1917. John acted as interpreter and assistant cameraman for the documentary film on Siberia they'd been commissioned to shoot for the BBC. It was transmitted in 1965, the same year which saw the publication of Doug's One Chil/y Siberian Morning, an intriguing, often hilarious account of their journey.

The travelogue reveals no action on the part of Bayliss, or indeed Botting, that could be interpreted as spying, though it's possible John was keeping his eyes peeled to report back in London any signs of military installations. A postcard written jointly by the two men and the reply from London must seriously have perturbed Soviet securocrats, and caused their Russian minder-interpreter, Vadim, a good deal of heart-ache. On 4 June 1964 they heard a cuckoo in the region of the permafrost city Yakutsk, more than 3,000 miles east of Moscow. Believing this to be the bird's first outing that year at latitude 129'E, longitude 62'N, they thought the Editor of The Times should be informed the newspaper's willingness to report these events being such a time-hallowed tradition. Several weeks later, back in Moscow, Vadim confronted them with a letter he said had come to his office for them, and which he'd felt it necessary to open in case there was anything urgent in it. Reading it aloud, he enquired the significance of one passage. It was a slight variation of the standard reject letter from The Times, thanking them for the information, which was of: ... great interest to us and though we will not make immediate use of it, we will keep it on our files for future reference. Please do not hesitate to send us any further information you may obtain.

They tried to explain the joke, but typically Soviet, literal-minded Vadim had great difficulty in understanding why obviously intelligent, highly educated Brits could be engaged in so bizarre an activity. 2

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When I recounted this Siberian episode in The Coder Special Archive last year, I took the cuckoo story at face value. Since then, doubts have crept in. Was Vadim perhaps more perceptive than Doug's anecdote suggests? Maybe a reader can shed light.

The 1954 intake to Teddy Hall was highly unusual: it contained nine freshers who were forces-trained Russian linguists: David Thompson (Army), Michael Bourdeaux (Air Force), Frank Abel, John Bayliss, Tony Cash, Mike Duffy, Brian Feathers tone and Ron Truman (all six Navy), and M H P Webb (Service unknown). Bourdeaux and Webb can be seen on YouTube singing with a choir of former Russian course students at www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEYsHmOKoMA Douglas Batting. One Chii!J Siberian Morning, Hodder and Stoughton, 1965 pp 120-121 and 177-178.

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SEHA PRESIDENT'S REPORT Since this is my last report for the Hall Magazine I thought it might be interesting to review what the Association has achieved over the past two and a half years; whatever those achievements are, they have only been accomplished by the dedication and hard work of very many Aularians.

Today's experiment or innovation may become tomorrow's tradition. One event which started out as an experiment in 2010 and which seems now to be firmly fixed in the College calendar is the welcome given on Matriculation Day on behalf of the Association to those young men and women who are starting out on their Aularian and University careers. I welcomed them last October: no doubt most of what I said passed in one ear and out of the other (they had far more important things to think about) - but there is a distinct possibility that the name and, more significantly, the purpose of the St Edmund Hall Association will stick in their minds later on.

We have just awarded the first ever Aularian Prize to Jian Min Sim (2009, Engineering Science) for developing his Gloobe project which seeks to inform volunteers in the field all over the world on aspects of personal safety. We look forward to receiving many more applications in the next round.

David Waring (1987, Geography), President of the London Aularians chapter, hosted the first of a series of Tedcjy Talks at a hugely over-subscribed Aularian Networking Breakfast on 25 June at which the guest speaker was Lionel Barber (1974, History and Modern Languages), Editor of the Financial Times. In similar vein, Lizzie Purcell (2004, Law) organised a delightfully informal London drinks gathering on 27 June which was attended by a number of Aularians of different shapes, sizes and ages.

The Careers Day which we have held at the Hall for a few years now is undergoing a review: we hope that we will be able to provide current students with more accessible advice, even mentoring, once DARS (Development & Alumni Relations System- the Development Office's powerful new database) is up and running.

The role of Year Group Leaders is also being reviewed and this is in the capable hands of Russell Withington (1979, Physics) working in close collaboration with Anna Fowler in the Development Office.

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Lawrence Cummings (1971, Modern Languages) has delivered a collection of archive material from the late John Heggadon to Rebecca Shorter, College Archivist; to have these papers safely stored and archived will be of invaluable help to future generations of Aularians.

The decision to distribute the Hall Magazine electronically will save a few thousand pounds in subsidy from the Association, funds which we hope to return to the Hall in some form, perhaps for a College project, perhaps for a series of small bursaries; a decision on this has not yet been taken.

What may have been considered by many to have been a self-indulgent whim on the part of the President, namely to pipe in the port at the London Dinner, actually has a serious side to it: it is another forum for a talented musician to display his or her talent (admittedly on a small instrument: I don't think we can yet accommodate a grand piano). This innovation may also become a tradition.

What next? Who knows? Among the privileges and pleasures I have enjoyed as President has been the opportunity to meet so many members of the Senior, Middle and Junior Common Rooms as well as Aularians in the big, wide world.

They all have different furrows to plough but it is remarkable just how much Teddy Hall is admired and respected and, dare I say it, loved.

Darrell Barnes (1963, Modern Languages) President

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE- JANUARY 2013 President Principal Immediate Past President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Vice-President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer Up to 1964

Darrell M P Barnes MA (1963) Professor Keith Gull CBE BSc PhD DSc Land, FRS, FMedSci Sir Jon Shortridge KCB MA MSc (1966) Justin C B Gosling BPhil MA R (Bob) J L Breese MA (1949) Richard A H Finch MA (1976) Ian W Durrans BA (1977) Paul R Lewis MA CEng (1955)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION MINUTES OF THE 82ND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 15 JANUARY 2013 The 82nd Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in Princess Alexandra Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, StJames's Street, London SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 6.15pm, Darrell Barnes presiding.

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Minutes. The Minutes of the 81st Meeting, held on 10 January 2012, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

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President's Report. Darrell Barnes confirmed that the Association was in good heart.

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

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Honorary Treasurer's Report. Ian Durrans presented the audited accounts; he said that the finances were in a healthy position. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted.

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Ian W Durrans Re-elected for three years Paul R Lewis (1955) Elected for three years Proposer: Richard Finch (1976) Seconder: Lawrence Cummings (1971) Russell Withington (1979) Elected for three years Proposer: Rex Harrison (1961) Seconder: John Long (1961) Re-elected for three years Polly J Cowan

7. Appointment of Honorary Auditor. Lindsay Page was unanimously re-appointed.

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Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15pm.

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

RA H FINCH, Hon. Secretary

THE 72nd LONDON DINNER THE 72nd LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James's on Tuesday, 15 January 2013.

Unusually this dinner was held on the third, rather than the second Tuesday in January in order to distance it from the excesses of the New Year.

Before the Chaplain, the Revd Kris Kramer, said grace he told the guests that he had just acquired a relic of St Edmund himself, a minute piece of the saint's flesh off which the guests were fortunate not to have to dine; instead they sat down to smoked salmon roulade, roast lamb and strawberry mousse accompanied by a choice of wine, which for the first time had been included in the price of the ticket, thus avoiding an unseemly scrum before dinner.

The President, Darrell Barnes, announced after dessert that a surprise was in store: this manifested itself in Bruce Mitchell's port being piped in to The Tedqy Bears' Picnic played experdy by David Springer (MCR President 2011/12), a decanter being borne by this year's MCR President, Christian Beck. This display of young Hall talent was loudly cheered by the assembled company, who then toasted Bruce Mitchell for his gift of port in response to the eloquent proposal

by Margery Infield, J CR President.

In welcoming the guests, the President noted with pleasure the record attendance of members of the Senior Common Room, a fact which he ascribed to the opportunity the dinner afforded to Fellows to escape their tutorial cares for an evening. Attending their first London Dinner were Oliver Riordan, Richard Walker and Linda Yueh; and the President could not help remarking that the presence of Maryanne Martin, Professor of Abnormal Psychology, was no doubt due to the opportunity the dinner provided for her to glean rich 145

pickings among the guests.

The President also welcomed Laura Palmer, Director of Development, who rose to say a few words to introduce herself, saying that she had come to this country for love, a love which she now extended to the Hall (gallant gentlemen among the company offered to assist her in her quest in every possible way).

The President thanked the Development Office for all the work they had undertaken on behalf of alumni, a sentiment warmly applauded by all; he then welcomed the Guest of Honour, the Principal, and regretted not to be able to welcome Dianne who had sustained an injury, but expressed the good wishes of all in a hope for a speedy recovery.

The opportunity was taken, after welcoming so many, to pause to remember those who were now no longer with us, in particular John Heggadon, a former President of the Association and long term stalwart supporter of the London Dinner, who had died in July 2012.

The President next announced a coming of age in that this dinner was the twenty-first which Richard Finch had organised, his father before him having organised twelve, and suggested that this Finch contribution of thirty-three years was an unparalleled example of Aularian generosity. To mark the occasion the company agreed nem con that Richard be appointed Honorary Manciple of the St Edmund Hall Association, an appointment marked by an impromptu gift of port from the Principal and a gift from the President, on behalf of the Association's Executive Committee, of Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course (the President added as an aside that the gift of a book by Heston Blumenthal was considered too risky lest next year's dinner consist of fricassee of snail accompanied by prune and garlic sorbet). The newly appointed Honorary Manciple expressed his thanks.

The President mentioned the highlights of the year as being the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, in which Robin de Vere Green (1955) had participated in the River Pageant, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Scott Frandsen (2002) having rowed for Canada, though unluckily not being able to repeat his Beijing silver medal success. But the year had been topped and tailed by rugby successes. Oxford had wiped the smile off the smug faces of the Great Fenland Polytechnic with an unexpected 26-19 victory made all the sweeter for us in that we had a Hall man, Oscar Valiance, wearing the Dark Blue No 11 shirt; and in March, the Hall had won the rugby double, League and Cuppers.

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The President noted that Cuppers in its modern form was 100 years old this season; during that time the tournament had been run 87 times, the Hall being victorious no less than 31 times, far more than any other college.

The President went on to speak about the Careers Day last October, notable for the fact that there were more speakers than students; but this had provided the opportunity to reconsider how this service should be offered in future.

He noted that the advent of DARS, not an acronym for Deadly Aularian Respiratory Syndrome but Development and Alumni Relations System, would make it easier both for students to find and alumni to offer career advice.

The President exhorted alumni to attend Lucy Newlyn's Creative Writing Day at the Hall on 9 February: it was unlikely that anything else remotely interesting could be happening at such a time of year and reminded guests of their latent literary skills by pointing to their flights of fancy when they sat Finals which had persuaded the Examiners and Moderators to place them in the Class Lists.

Before introducing the Principal, the President proposed the college toast, Floreat Aula.

The Principal spoke of the many developments which were taking place at the Hall and of the many achievements, athletic, academic and artistic of Hall students, especially The Tragical/ Historie of McCiegg which had won Freshers' Cuppers for Best Drama and had then been taken to the Edinburgh Fringe to acclaim.

The Principal mentioned the financial challenges facing the college, in particular its modest endowment and contrasted this with that of a richer college like St John's, whose endowment, and income therefrom, was ten times greater. Work was proceeding on embellishing the college facilities, the Traps under the Old Dining Hall being but one example, and plans were under consideration for development of the Isis site.

The Principal concluded his remarks by saying that the Hall was in good heart; whereupon guests proceeded to the bar to record their appreciation.

The following Aularians attended the Dinner: (1947) Mr J M H Scott; (1949) Mr R J L Breese; (1950) Mr J Wheeler; (1951) Mr DJ Day, Mr D E Wood; (1952) Mr H W Goldsworthy, Mr A J Harding, Mr 147

N F Lockhart, Mr R Taylor; (1954) Mr S R Bilsland; (1955) Mr J L Fage, Mr P R Lewis; (1956) Mr B E Amor, Mr M J Cansdale (St Edmund Fellow), Mr S C Douglas-Mann, Mr A F Ham, Mr D HJohnson, MrJ C Markwick,Judge Martin Reynolds; (1957) Mr J EAves, Mr R L S Fishlock, Mr J W Harrison, Mr J L Phillips, Mr M J Rowan; (1958) J W Amos, Mr D C W Jones; (1959) Mr J A Collingwood; (1960) Mr J F Adey; (1961) Mr R G Harrison, Mr M G Horns by, Mr A M Rentoul, Mr R K Smith; (1962) Mr M J Hamilton; (1963) Mr Darrell Barnes (President, SEH Association), Mr D R Clarke, Mr R A S Offer, Mr M S Simmie; (1964) Mr D A Ashworth, Mr A C Barker, Mr R A Dolman; (1965) Mr Joe Barclay (Fellow), Mr N R Jarrold; (1966) Mr C M Brown, Mr D A Hopkins, Sir Jon Shortridge; (1967) Mr P V Robinson, Mr M C V Spencer Ellis; (1968) Mr S H Carleston, Dr DJ Hughes, Mr R T Ward; (1970) Mr W N David, Mr P G Harper, Mr J W Hawkins, Mr L N Kaye; (1971) Mr L Cummings; (1974) Dr R Cerratti; (1976) Mr RA H Finch, Mr P L Smith; (1977) Mr S S Advani, Mr I W Durrans, Mr A J Haxby, Mr R Keeley , Mr R F J H Ruvigny, Mr R K Shah; (1978) Mr R S Luddington; (1979) Mr R Withington; (1981) Mr N P Maidment, Mr M R Owens, Mr MC Walters; (1982) Mr DJ Heaps, Mr A J Sandbach, Mr K J Sealy, Mr M C Walters, Mr J J Williamson; (1984) Mr C M Giles, Mr D M Jackson, Mr H Wheaton; (1986) Mr AD Balfour, Mr Simon Costa (Senior & Finance Bursar), DrAT Harrison, Mr J P Lindsay; (199 5) Dr M J E Fletcher, Mr W R Perry, Mr C J Ruse; (1996) Mr D J Murphy, Mr R J O'Donoghue, Major P C Lance, Mr D M Wallace; (1997) Mr N Ishaq, Ms H Jamieson, Mrs 0 J K Lance (Routledge), Dr LA Reynolds, Ms S A Saunders; (1998) Mrs R E Wallace (Streatfeild); (1999) Ms 0 M Donnelly, Mr C J R Wells; (2001) Mr W M F Scott, Dr T Tjandra; 2004) Ms E N Purcell; (201 0) Ms V Ford The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Mr Nick Davidson, Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), Professor Stuart Ferguson (Senior Tutor), Dr Hugh Jenkyns (Vice Principal), The Revd Kris Kramer (Chaplain), Professor Maryanne Martin, Mrs Laura Palmer (Director of Development), Dr Ernest Parkin (Home Bursar), Professor Oliver Riordan, Dr Fiorangelo Salvatorelli (former Fellow), Mr Richard Walker, Mr Chris Wells (Emeritus Fellow), Dr Linda Yueh, Ms Sally Smith (Development Officer), Ms Anna Fowler (Alumni Relations Officer), Ms Rebecca Shorter (Hall Archivist).

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D Barnes (President) I W Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2013. In my opinion the above Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account give respectively a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association at 31 May 2013 and the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

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Peter Barker would like to inform friends of his publications: Peoples, languages, and religion in Northern Ghana (Ghana Evangelism Committee & Asempa Publishers 1986); Operation Cold Chop: How Nkrumah Fell, The Inside Story (Ghana Publishing Corporation 1969, 1979, Digibooks 2010); Peter Dagadu, Man of God (Asempa Publishers 1983); Changed 0 the Word (Asempa Publishers 2003).

Allan Jay has recently been elected a member of the International Fencing Federation's Hall of Fame and has been invited at its expense to attend its centennial Dinner in Paris this November.

Tony Laughton's hookA Guide to Cricket: a Weekjy Record of the Game was published this year by Christopher Saunders Publications - not a block-buster!

John Cox saw the labour of nine years bear fruit on 27 July, when the world premiere of the opera, Oscar, was given by the Santa Fe Opera, USA, with music by Theodor Morrison to a libretto by Cox and the composer. Concerning the fall, imprisonment and rehabilitation of Oscar Wilde, it was written for the world's leading counter-tenor David Daniels, who created the title role on this occasion. The opera will receive a further series of performances in early 2015 in Philadelphia.

Paul Lewis and wife Pat celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with a lunch for friends and family in the Old Dining Hall, on 2 July.

Roger Sutton is now enjoying retirement at Hope Island- 30 mins South of Brisbane. Hope Island is a golf resort so that is most convenient and he looks out over the 17th green!! He keeps in touch with Ron Hurren and Frank Bishop (both 1955) back in the UK and will be meeting up with Chris Atkinson (1960) at the Vincents 150th Dinner at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday 16 August.

Hugh Denman continues as Honorary Research Fellow in Yiddish in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, but as from October will start teaching Yiddish language once more, this time at the Centra de Linguas of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.

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Alastair Stewart will retire as a judge at the end of November 2013, having reached his 75th birthday and having served as a judge in Scotland for 40 years (31 years as a full-time sheriff and 9 years as a part-time judge in the High Court).

Emeritus Professor Malcolm McDonald MA(Oxon) MSc PhD Dlitt was recently awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the Moscow Plekhanov University of Economics. The only other people to be awarded this honour are Prince Michael, Duke of Kent and Sir Paul Judge.

Ian Beesley was awarded a PhD in History from Queen Mary, University of London, on 16 July this year for a thesis, 'Governing the Ungovernable - Sir John Hunt as Cabinet Secretary 1973-79'.

Terence Daintith returned briefly to Scotland in July from his home in France to receive an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Aberdeen. He continues to escape the end of the European winter each year by teaching his specialist subjects, oil and gas law and energy regulation, in Australia at the Universities of Melbourne and Western Australia.

Peter Hayes has just published F!J Fishing Outside the Box (Coch-yBonddu Books), to favourable reviews. Besides fishing his interests include photography and supporting his wife, Di, in competitive carriage driving. He and Di live near Salisbury and have "two grownup children, one granddaughter, six dogs, two cats, three horses, and a fair number of fish".

As of March 2012, Yann Lovelock has been spending six months of each year at Fo Guang Shan monastery in Taiwan, acting as an assistant editor on the English-language version of their 20-volume Enryclopaedia of Buddhist Art. The target publication date for this is autumn 2014.

Canon Melvyn Matthews has been made a Trustee of the Ammerdown Centre where he was once the Director and is again involved in promoting inter-faith dialogue. He continues to sail a dinghy on the Chew Valley Lake and will celebrate 50 years of marriage to the lovely June, whom he met at Oxford and courted in the Hall gardens, in November. Laus Deo! Alex McCallum marked his 50th anniversary this year as a financial news communicator. In his final year, the OU careers bureau tipped him off to opportunities with Reuters, and he joined the news agency on 6 August 2013. As a Teddy Hall man, he has always felt very

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fortunate to have landed a job there, one of two financial news trainee openings that were offered. The man who hired him, Mike Nelson, went to Magdalen, and so too did his counterpart trainee, David Wright! McCallum left Reuters after 10 years and went into public relations, but with the advent of the internet he returned to journalism and continues to tap out stories on InsuranceAssetManager.com and to moderate MarketForum.com, a message board for futures traders.

He moved to the US many years ago, and lives 50 miles north of Boston in Exeter, New Hampshire. E-mail: alex@marketforum.com.

Dr Cuppam Dadarathy has recent published (as PDFs, online) 'Examples of microstructures of metallic materials', and 'Examples of fractures, failures and rejections of engineering materials' and hopes that by drawing attention to them here will help those engaged in teaching/ research in Material Sciences and Metallurgy.

Jonathan Martin OBE takes relaxed delight in the performances of his son Stewart (1988)'s daughter Beth on the London stage as young Cosette in Les Miserab/es, and his latest racehorse, Strumble Head.

With his tongue firmly in his cheek, Chris Erwin is in the process of having a big book of anecdotes, collected around the world, published. It contains some recollections from his time at the Hall, relating to some of the great characters who were Fellows at the time.

The title will be "Snow on the Pea Soup", reflecting what was served for dinner in Hall on snowy winter days. The food was taken into the Quad, and then up into Hall, resulting in a layer of snow on top when it was snowing (was this the inspiration for Heston's bacon & egg ice cream?). It will be available on amazoom in 2-3 months. As he is using an aggressive, expensive and very professional publisher in the US, the straightforward editorial process is nearly finished, but he yet has to deal with the cover editor, the press release editor, the Frankfurt book fair and airline magazine editor etc. After that it is going forward to a script story compiler and a film script writer to be put on the pre-digested database actually used for Hollywood and TV There's just one slight problem - the most famous book made into a film from this publisher seems to be the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Be ready for the "St Edmund Hall Oxford University Chainsaw Massacre" - perhaps starting: "The legendary Principal JND Kelly had disappeared in mysterious circumstances, and had been succeeded by his brother, the Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly. He was not as hot as his brother on patristics, but he presented a clearly 153

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successful argument to the Fellows at the election meeting for a new Principal, when he drew a large gun, and asked who wanted to be shot first."

Charles Garner retired in 2008 after 41 years conveyancing (the last 25 running his own small practice). He married Lesley in 1983 and they have two children, Tim and Jennifer (')if'); both graduated this summer with a 1st- much brighter than their old Dad! Now in his tenth year of trying to write a short non-fiction book on poverty and hunger.

Richard Hunt is now Website Officer and member of the Executive of the HSBC Bank UK Pensioners' Association.

Following his retirement from full time paid employment in 2003, Alan Metters has become Honorary Secretary of the Norfolk Record Society, a member of the Norfolk Records Committee, Chairman of the Bishop of Norwich's Committee on Books and Documents, a trustee of the Norwich Society, Conference Secretary of the Cambridge History Forum, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia (School of History)- and a grandfather.

The Paris Correspondent- a novel of newspapers then and now by Alan Cowell was published in paperback in the United States and in an Italian language hardback edition in Rome.

David J Powell was awarded MA with distinction in Classics by Birkbeck, University of London, in November 2012. During 2013, he has been working as a volunteer at the Museum of London, categorizing and digitizing Roman hairpins as part of a project to make the Museum's collection of well over 600 bone hairpins accessible online and to create a database for detailed research.

Michael C Bonello has been appointed Chairman of Lombard Bank Malta plc, in addition to his other board positions. So much for a quiet retirement!

Philip Bowler is now living in Jilin, in north-east China.

Cameron Brown has been appointed to the board of Dignity in Dying, the organisation campaigning for a change in the law on assisted suicide, and for the individual's right to choose an assisted death, within up front legal safeguards, and for universal access to endof-life care. He believes that the exercise of free will concerning the end of life, and the timing of the end of life, is an essential human freedom and would ask any Aularians who share this view to look at supporting them (dignityindying.org.uk) or contacting him (email:

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Following his ordination in the United Reformed Church in 1974, Rev Bernie Collins served with the United Church in Papua New Guinea until 1990, the last five years as Bishop of the Highlands Region. 1991 saw him return to the UK where he served as Minister at Winton URC, Bournemouth until 2000. Between 2001 and 2006 he was Development Officer for the URC Yorkshire Synod; and from 2007 until retirement at the end of May 2013, he covered two posts- Ecumenical Officer for Churches Together, North Thames, and Minister of Ickenham URC in West London.

Ian Hewitt is the author of a new, illustrated book on sport entitled

Immortals of British Sport: a celebration of our sporting history through sculpture published in September 2013 by Vision Sports Publishing. The book tells a story of British sport by reference to sportsmen and women (and animals) for whom there are statues or distinctive memorials around the country. This is !an's fourth book on sport. His last book, Wimbledon: Visions of The Championships won the Best Illustrated Book of the year at the British Sports Book Awards 2012.

Rodney Munday has been awarded a public commission by West Sussex Health Authority to produce life-sized sculpture for Chichester and Worthing hospitals in connection with organ donation. The sculptures will be unveiled next April.

Neil Corcoran is now Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His book Shakespeare and the Modern Poet was published in 2010 and Poetry and Responsibility will appear shortly. He is currently working on a study of Shakespeare's sohloquies.

Jonathan Fryer has been commissioned to write the history of the Qatar-based Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GEFC), his 14th book.

Tim Statham retired from being Secretary of City & Guilds six years ago. He now somehow combines being Clerk of a City Livery Company, Worshipful Company of Builders' Merchants, with being Company Secretary of a Sector Skills Council, Skills for Justice; fortunately, both jobs are part-time.

Timothy Stibbs is now Chair of the Association of Research Ethics Committees.

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Basketball up close. He also spent 4 days at the Olympic Stadium during the Paralympics and witnessed many British Goldmedal winning performances including David Weir, Hannah Cockroft and Jonnie Peacock from beside the finishing line. The Paralympics was a truly inspiring experience. He retired a little early in order to participate - an ambition he had had since the day it was announced that London had won the Games.

Peter Malin's most recent L - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . . . 1 publication is "'Entertaining Strangers": 50 Years of Shakespeare's Contemporaries at the Royal Shakespeare Company' in Shakespeare, Vol. 8, Nos: 1-4, (April-December 2012), pp. 219-41.

The Royal Society is due to bring out a special issue of Philosophical Transactions Series A in December, on Future Oil Supply, of which Dr Richard Miller is the guest editor.

Edinburgh Designs Ltd, jointly owned by Douglas Rogers and Matthew Rea, build wave-making machines; these are used mainly as test tanks for ship design, offshore structures, as well as for coastal engineering. Currently under construction are two tanks of major significance: one for Edinburgh University with a novel circular design, due to be operational by the end of the year, and the other to replace the wavemakers in the US Navy's main research facility- this latter installation should be operational by the time this Magazine is published. Their website edesign.co.uk gives more details and photographs.

Colin Bullett has retired from his post as Deputy Chief Executive of Rushcliffe Borough Council and is now a Director and Company Secretary of a new charitable joint venture company set up by the Church Urban Fund and the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.

The aim of the new charity is to alleviate poverty in Nottinghamshire.

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Peace Prize (furhhdl.org). Rajiv recently published his ninth book, Voices in Exile and won his 150th award as a film maker.

Roger Rosewell has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Keith Clouston, theatre composer and musician, was awarded the Falstaff Award in 2010 for Best Original Score for a Shakespeare Production: The Winters Tale, Royal Shakespeare Company. He is currently composer for the RSC'sAIIs Well That Ends Well at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Christopher Till, General Manager - Human Resources at Christchurch City Council in New Zealand, has been admitted as a member of SOLGM (New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers) and has delivered a series of public lectures on staff engagement to New Zealand Local Government and the New Zealand Police force.

Professor Joe Friggieri, former head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Malta, has now been appointed Pro-Rector at the same University.

Joy Hibbins is the founder of Suicide Crisis, a new charity that supports people who are at risk of suicide. The charity also provides services for people who have experienced trauma.

James Rothman was appointed Senior Partner of St James's Place Wealth Management in June this year.

Linda Davies has returned, with her husband, Rupert Wise and their three children, from eight years in the Middle East to live in Suffolk.

Her latest novel, ArkS form- what if you could control the weather?- a Cli Pi thriller, will be published by Tor Books (Macmillan US) in August 2014.

Richard Johns and Lucy Johns have had a third (and final!) son, FrederickJosephJohns, born 25 October 2012.

Bill Murray moved (half time) from Rutherford Lab to a post as Professor of Physics at Warwick University from 1 September.

Physically for the next yeat he will remain at CERN, working on the ATLAS experiment.

Since August 2011 (Audrey) Julia Weiner has been Lecturer in Art History at Regent's College, London which this summer became Regent's University, London.

Dr David Gillett has been appointed Managing Director of Exidor Limited, a subsidiary of Chamberlin plc based in Cannock, Staffordshire.

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John RWD Jones took silk (became a Queen's Counsel, or QC) on 27 March this year.

Sophia Murphy returned to university in September, to embark on a PhD at the University of British Columbia. She joined a department called the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). She has been awarded a Trudeau Scholarship from the Trudeau Foundation, based in Montreal. She will be looking at international trade in agriculture and food security.

For the first time in 26 years, Amy Phenix (Visiting Student) visited the Hall where she has many fond memories of good friends. She now lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two sons (aged 13 and 14).

Building on a career in marketing and communications, she's currently Chief of Staff to the President of the University of Minnesota.

Mark Snelling and wife Jennifer are delighted to announce the arrival of their daughter Abigail Rachel Olave, born on 26 July 2013 at home in Isleworth.

Jacqui Thornton co-authored the General Medical Council's publication The State if Medical Education and Practice in the UK On31May2013,Peter0'Connell ..,...........,....ro-=~ was ordained as a Priest in the Church of England by Bishop Laurie Green, at St Mary de Haura in Shoreham-by-Sea; he will continue as a Curate in Henfield in West Sussex. The rood screen in St Mary's features the Hall crest and name - and if there's anyone reading this who can suggest the reason why, both Peter and the churchwardens would be very interested to know!

Jo Rainbow is still pursuing her career in nominative determinism by being a paediatrician in Orange, NSW. Her surprisingly attractive children have a certain aptitude for ball sports, but it is delightful that her son gets plaudits for dancing and her daughter wins Most Valuable Player in her mixed cricket team. Jo is instigating medical simulation throughout the hospital, which shows that some of us never grow out of playing "Let's pretend" with our dollies. Otherwise, her book

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Emergencies in Paediatrics and Neonato/ogy from OUP is in its 2nd edition, and is recommended as an excellent stocking filler for this Christmas.

Keith Gordon won Tax Writer of the Year at the Taxation Awards evening, held on 23 May at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Attending the same event was David Gauke (1990), Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, who won Tax Personality of the Year in 2011 . Keith's latest book, Residence: the Definition in Practice is now published.

Jason Reese has been appointed to the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. For the last 10 years he has been the Weir Professor of Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics in the University of Strathclyde, and for two years the Head of the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. His research is in next generation fluid dynamics for micro and nano technologies, and he enjoys living in Glasgow with his wife (a Reader in History at the University of Glasgow) and 5-year-old daughter. He is currently learning to speak Gaelic.

Andrew Dickinson has recently moved with his family to Oxford.

From September, he will be a Fellow of St Catherine's College and University Lecturer (Law).

Akaash Maharaj was decorated in Canada's Diamond Jubilee Honours after leading the national equestrian team, as Chief Executive Officer, through its most successful quadrennial cycle of all time. He is now serving as Executive Director of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, a worldwide alliance of democratically-elected legislators. His work focusses on destroying the financial networks that sustain tyrannies and enable them to fund assaults on civilians.

Kathryn Vardy married Jim Asplin on 22 September 2012 at Dorton House, Kent, followed by beer, butties and bad dancing in the Village Hall. The day will be most remembered for being an 'old school' wedding; one of the few sunny days of 2012; and because even Elvis showed up [pictured on next page].

Anneli Howard was sad to miss the last Gaudy due to giving birth to No. 2 on 23 Sept 2010! Since then, No. 3 made a rather prompt arrival in December 2011 and Anneli has been busy juggling three underfours with a new dog and a house renovation project. The impending chaos made her beat a fast retreat to the quiet sanctity of life at the Bar ... Gudges tend to listen more patiently and don't throw toys).

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Giles Shingler won fi.rst (and second) prize in a PhotoShop Class at a local Horticultural Show.

Gabriel Glockler and partner Rossanna Villani are delighted to announce the birth of their son Maximilian Emanuel on 19 October 2012.

James Brown married Sheena Sheikh in the St Edmund Hall Chapel on 29 September 2012. James is now a partner with Curtis Davis Garrard LLP, a law fi.rm specialising in ship and offshore oil and gas construction work.

Teddy Hall metallurgist Paul Boon has come full circle from nanotechnology, through city fi.nance, marketing and food science to become a 'crown' designer with his luxury chocolates company, City Delights. Paul and his team are proud to announce their revolutionary 'Chocolate Tourism: Delivered to you' concept. They collect together the signature bestselling recipes from award-winning master chocolatiers from countries around the world to represent their culture

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and heritage and deliver them to customers worldwide in their luxury boxes, featuring their innovative 'presentation crowns' tray design inside. Their flagship London Collection has been proudly served at prestigious events such as the GREAT British Baby Shower for new royal prince George in New York, European royalty ceremonial dinners, and the British Airways delegation to the G8 Summit and United Nations. More information about their collections and how to buy them is available on their website www.CityDelights.com. They will also be on sale in the premium department stores of London and New York this autumn.

StevenJohnson and Mark Milhofer celebrated their Civil Partnership at the Hall on 26 August 2012.

Sam Prince and his partner Hetty Brown (1998) are celebrating the birth of their first child, Ethan Harry Prince, on 31 July 2013.

Philip Pogge von Strandmann, latterly a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow at the Hall combined with a NERC fellowship at the Earth Sciences Department, has been appointed senior lecturer at UCL and Birkbeck Colleges (combined), from 1 September.

Jonathan Antcliffe got married last October to Dr Allison Daley who was recently sworn in as a new JRF at St Edmund Hall- so both will be returning to Oxford in October 2013 to take up new positions in the University.

Daniel Jon Mitchell will be taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge from October 2013 to October 2016.

Trista di Genova is founder of Lone Wolf Press Oonewolfpress.com), a publishing company that has published Intimate Chinese textbook this year for Intermediate level Mandarin studies, by Prof Michael Hoare.

She has also published a collection of poetry, The War on Sleep, the relentlessly dystopian satire The Great Scroll if Banciao, a philosophical romantic comedy called The Swede in Me, and more recently, Chameleon de Neuii!J about her Paris adventures in the 90s. Trista's online magazine The Wild East (thewildeast.net) has won two Taiwanderful awards.

She currently teaches at a boarding school in northern Taiwan and is writing her Master's thesis at Taipei Medical University on Atayal ethnobotany.

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Olivier Noterdaeme and partner Katrien are delighted to announce the birth of their son Louis on 10 January 2013.

Thomas A Price married Sandra Lerzundy on 1 December 2012, and since March this year their new home has been in Hartford, CT (USA).

Sandamali Zbyszewski married Michael David Sutton in Ekali (Athens), Greece on 20 July 2012- this news having been forwarded by her father George Zbyszewski (1967).

Tara Batista took a job as a Visiting Lecturer at Stetson University School of Business in DeLand, Florida teaching Business Communications and Management for the spring Semester of 2013.

Then, she won a $20,000 American Association of University Women Fellowship to complete her dissertation for her PhD at Columbia University School of Social Work. The fellowship comes with work restrictions of 15 hours per week. Therefore, in the fall of 2013, Tara will return as an adjunct professor where she will teach one section of Professional Communications.

Having proposed on top of the Teddy Hall Library Tower, Jack Blumenau will marry Sarah Linden on 19 October at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds - the theatre in which they met.

Timothy Carson won the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize for Poetry for 2013 from the English Faculty. He graduated in September 2013 on the English Literature 1800-1914 MSt course.

OBITUARIES 1920s James Robertson Ormiston BA, 6 June 1980, aged 71. 1928, Law Ourisprudence) 1930s John Woodman Dowding BA, April 1974, aged 57. 1935, Law Ourisprudence) Stanley Victor Peskett MA, 31 March 2012, aged 93, Norfolk. 1936, English Raymond Illsley CBE, BA, PhD, DSc, 29 May 2013, aged 93, Wiltshire.

1938, PPE/History Anthony Woodhouse Smith MA, Switzerland. 1938, Modern Languages 1940s Geoffrey Sunderland MA, Dip, 3 January 2013, aged 91, Gloucestershire.

1940, Modern Languages John Edis Spence MA, 1 June 2012, aged 88, Devon. 1941, History Derek Albert Ellis MA, 27 October 2010, aged 85, East Sussex. 1943, Modern Languages David John Arthur Shears MA, 20 March 2013, aged 86, Washington DC. 1944, PPE [page 163] John Hilary Oxby Parker BA, 14 December 2012, aged 84, Kent. 1949, English David Graeme Smith FCII MA, 15 January 2013, aged 83, Bristol. 1949, English DAVID JOHN ARTHUR SHEARS (1944) David Shears first came to St Edmund Hall in 1944 for a six-month Royal Navy training short course. As he put it, three days a week in bellbottoms, four days in undergraduate civvies. Two years later, after service in the Pacific and in post-war Hamburg, he enlisted the support of Principal Kelly to return to the Hall.

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honoured a conviction to which he remained true for the rest of his life. And David's casual encounter with a young German hoping to study at Oxford, whom he introduced to his mentor Lionel Curtis (see Letters, O>iford Todqy, Trinity Term 2012), eventually led to the first German student being admitted to St Edmund Hall after World War II [Wolf-Rudiger van Pachelbel-Gehag, whose obituary was printed in the Hall Magazine 2011-12, pp 170].

True to his long interest in international affairs, David set out after Oxford to be a foreign correspondent. For ten years with Reuters and 25 with The Dai!J Telegraph he covered some of the most dramatic events of the time. His career included the 1951 assassination of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali in Rawalpindi, the 1953 floods and concomitant collapse of the Dutch dykes, the 1962 riots in Oxford, Mississippi over the admission of a black student to "Ole Miss" University, the 1963 Kennedy assassination, and the 1972 murder of the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics. While based in Bonn, he wrote The Ugjy Frontier, about the Berlin Wall and the East-West German border. He had retired from his last posting- his third to Washington- by the time that wall came down.

David stayed on to live in the United States, dividing his time between Washington, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and world-wide travels. He wrote a book about North Carolina's Ocracoke Island and, with his son, a guide to paddlesports, and for many years volunteered for international youth programs.

Ursula Shears 1950s Conway Darell Stokes A.rtus BA, 25 September 2012, aged 83, Dorset.

1950, English Anthony Bruce Curry MA, 12 May 2013, aged 82, Cornwall. 1950, Music Charles Christopher Brooke Wightwick MA, 20 March 2013, aged 81, London. 1951, Modern Languages John Barton BA, February 2013, aged 82, Staffordshire. 1952, Geography Thomas Roger Wright MA, BSc (Econ), Hon DLitt, aged 78, Derbyshire. 1953, History [page 166] Hansel Julyan Adrian Beechey-Newman FGA, FRGS, MA, 4 June 2013, aged 79, Cornwall. 1954, Geography John Christopher Lowe BA, MLitt, 26 April2013, aged 78, Oxfordshire.

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John Anthony Rimmer BA, 10 August 2011, aged 77. 1954, Law Ourisprudence) Ian Robert Briars BA, 12June 2013, aged 77, Nottinghamshire. 1956, Mathematics [page 166] Anthony Gordon Bridgewater MA, 18 September 2012, aged 76, Hampshire. 1956, Chemistry Patrick Ewart Garland MA, DLitt, 20 April2013, aged 78, West Sussex.

1956, English [page 35] Robert David Gillard PhD BSC BA, 4 June 2013, aged 76, South Glamorgan. 1956, Chemistry [page 167] Geoffrey Clive Howell Shakerley BA, 11 May 2013, aged 77, Cornwall.

1956, PPE Robert William Jackson BA, Dip, 26 December 2012, aged 75, Essex.

1957, Modern Languages [page 174] Ian David Norton BA, 29 December 2012, aged 75, Essex. 1958, Law Ourisprudence) John Fletcher O'Donnell MA, 17 October 2012, aged 73, Essex. 1958, Law Ourisprudence) Brian Prescott BA, 16 April2013, aged 74, Greater Manchester. 1959, Modern Languages ANTHONY LYNCH BA (1950) (notice of death SEH Magazine 2011-2012,page 170) Anthony Lynch was the first member of his family to go to University.

After gaining his Law degree at SEH, he worked for the British Transport Commission whilst taking Articles, qualifying as solicitor in 19 57. He became Additional Assistant Solicitor for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in late 1957, rising to Solicitor in 1968. He subsequently held various board positions. His book Weathering The Storm (Lverpool University Press 1994) details the fortunes of the Port of Liverpool from the mid-20th Century onwards. He left the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company in 1982 after 25 years' service, and moved to Wales to become Chief Executive of the Milford Haven Pilotage Authority, finally retiring in 1989. In retirement he spent his time acquiring degrees and diplomas in subjects that interested him - Biochemistry, Astronomy, Literature, Philosophy and Transport Policy. He also travelled widely - to China, the USSR, the USA, Australia and all over Europe. He always remained grateful for the education and opportunity that SEH offered him.

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THOMAS ROGER WRIGHT (1953) (fhomas) Roger Wright, aged 78, formerly of Yoxall, Burton on Trent, died at home in New Mills, High Peak 11th June, 2013 after a tenacious two-year survival within the aftermath of a massive stroke. Oxford graduate (St Edmund Hall), teacher, scholar, and former Chairman, Staffordshire County Council.

Survived by his wife, Sylvia, his sister, his three children and their partners, and five grandchildren, Roger requested that there be no formal service or recognition; and, wished, if you choose to remember him, that it be only in your thoughts.

IAN ROBERT BRIARS (1956) Ian Briars died aged 77 on 12June 2013 in Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire after suffering over a period of several months from multiple cancer. He was aptly described by one of his Leeds Grammar School colleagues as a "gentleman and a gentle man". Of the many tributes paid to him, including some from Aularians as far away as Queensland, words that keep recurring include "loyalty, commitment, honesty, integrity, enthusiasm, dedication, inspirational teacher, cricket and rugby coach" and so on.

At Teddy Hall, Aularians will remember him as an outwardly serious, reserved, yet very friendly man, with a delightful sense of humour and an infectious laugh.

An 'ever-present' at the dark art of shove-halfpenny in the JCR 'well', he proved to be a fine opening batsman, whose fielding and running between wickets, perhaps never quite matched his stroke play and accomplished accumulation of runs. He enthusiastically graced the 'Choughs' during the winter months, whilst bringing an authoritarian attitude to the field of refereeing, along with a touch of acid humour when his interpretation of an incident differed slightly from that of the perpetrator. He was also pointedly succinct, when large gentlemen in dark blue gear, several with New World accents, bearing gladiatorial lacrosse implements aloft, wandered irritatingly into his path and abruptly interrupted proceedings he was controlling, in the Parks area designated for Association Football. As one of his contemporaries recently remarked at an Aularian AFC reunion, he also managed to fit in a little bit of maths on the side!

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Grammar. He served that venerable institution for 37 years in various guises, including roles as Housemaster, Sports Coach and ultimately Head of Upper School. His sister-in-law,Janet Briars, has received innumerable warm tributes from the Chairman of Governors, his ex-colleagues and former pupils, many of whom contributed greatly to what can only be described as a "joyous" occasion at his funeral, held in the same Methodist Church, where he had many years previously devoted long hours to the cause of Sunday School teaching.

The rousing voices of the congregation at Christ Church Methodist Church in June would have moved the heart of John Wesley himselÂŁ Ian devoted his life to two main fields; teaching and cricket (with quite a bit of rugby thrown in). He had a great gift for successfully explaining the intricacies of mathematics to the innumerate, as well as to more able mathematicians.

His love of cricket was, nevertheless, paramount. The stories from Leeds are legion, where, from his classroom, he was able to keep a very close eye on the 1st XI cricket pitch and the nefarious activities of the Head Groundsman, with whom Ian seemed to have a love/hate relationship akin to that of Wodehouse's Lord Emsworth and his bete-noire gardener McAllister. It appears that it was not uncommon for Ian to interrupt a maths lesson and desert his pupils at speed, muttering dramatically "what on earth is he doing now!" On his retirement, Leeds gifted Ian a Life Membership of his beloved Nottinghamshire CCC, of which he had been a member for over 50 years, thus enabling him to spend many more happy hours absorbing the magic of Trent Bridge, occasionally letting out a low growl of frustration at an inept piece of stroke play.

Ian will be especially remembered for his courteous friendships, his skill as a teacher and particularly for his delightful, if occasionally gruff, humour. He was much loved and will be sorely missed by his close family, as well as his Aularian, Leeds and Nottinghamshire friends.

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ROBERT DAVID GILLARD (1956) Born in London in 1936, Robert won a Surrey County Council scholarship to Mitcham Grammar School (and was 1st in the County list). One school friend writing to his widow, Anne, described him as the 'cleverest person I ever knew' and described how he gave the appearance of effortlessly being top of the class. He gained distinctions in all his 0 levels and in four A-levels. In 1954 he won a State Scholarship in Pure Mathematics to Oxford, subsequently 167

changing his degree to Chemistry.

For his National Service he followed his older brother, Tom, into the RAF as a Pilot Officer. He was a navigator, but wryly confessed navigation may not have been his forte, having once steered an entire squadron, intended for Cyprus, to a successful landing on Malta.

Back on solid earth, Robert followed Tom again (1952) and commenced his degree at St Edmund Hall in 1956. He was a keen and active sportsman, representing the college at both rugby and rowing. However, his sporting ambitions were cut short when, faced with the choice, he decided to focus on his academics. His undergraduate work on 'Conformational effects in complex compounds' became a "Chemical Review" in 1961 - the peerreviewed scientific journal of the American Chemical Society. Studying for his BA under the Vice-Principal of the Hall, Dr Harry Irving, whose work dealt with the development of new chemical substances for the measurement of minute amounts of metals, his 4th year research project in Dr Irving's lab was an early foray into what became a lifetime interest; whether the use of one of the possible 'handednesses' of propanediamine tetra-acetic acid produced a different outcome on the relative stability of its compounds than the use of the other (he concluded it made no odds). It resulted in 1960 in 1st Class Honours.

The Hall's archives still have on file a copy letter from the Principal Dr JND Kelly to Robert acknowledging that it was the first 1st Class Honours degree gained for some years at the College. He followed this in 1961 with an elective Oxford BSc by thesis.

After a brief, frustrating period working in commerce, he was interviewed for an assistant lectureship at Imperial College London by Geoffrey Wilkinson, who was to go on to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973, and who offered him the job on the spot. The following day a letter with a similar offer arrived from his Oxford tutor Irving who had recently moved to a Chair at the University of Leeds- that letter had been re-directed as he had changed address.

Appointed a Warden of Garden Hall at Imperial, he developed an unspeakable recipe for 'Instant Tia Maria', (Nescafe coffee powder mixed in beakers of laboratory alcohol and allowed to mature for thirty or forty seconds)- which fuelled some lively evenings with students - and started his PhD. Professor Wilkinson Oater Sir Geoffrey) was his Supervisor for his London PhD; the 168

external examiner (later Sir) Ronald Nyholm, the Professor of Chemistry at University College London.

In 1964 he went as a Lecturer to the University of Sheffield, then a hot house for British Chemical talent; the Head of Department was George Porter (Nobel Laureate and later Lord Porter) and the Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Ronald Mason.

While at Sheffield he won the Meldola Medal for 1965. In the gift of the (then) Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Society of Maccabaeans, it was a notable prize, highly valued in the Chemical community, awarded to "the British chemist under the age of 30 whose published work shows the most promise."

Robert then went to the University of Kent Canterbury as a Reader, where, despite a heavy teaching programme, he ran a notably happy and productive research group; attributable to the innovative way he ran his research team, and from 1967- 197 5 was Director of the Medical Research Council research group on biological inorganic chemistry.

In 1973, aged 36, he was appointed to the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wales at University College Cardiff (and was Head of Department 1983 to 1988). A heart attack and triple heart bypass led to a premature retirement in 1998.

A major feature of Robert's research was on chirality of inorganic compounds.

Chirality is the 'handedness' of atoms and molecules and arises either out of the bonding arrangement of atoms or of specific symmetry arrangements of molecules or larger structures. A bolt or a wood-screw, for example, is chiral; the direction of the twist of the groove has a particular 'sense' and this has a partner (where the twist is the other way). Although partners and opposites, there is a difference in symmetry and they are not superposable onto their mirror images. These chiral partners, appearing as non-superimposible mirror images of each other, are called 'enantiomers' - another example of these is human hands and chirality is often referred to as 'handedness'. It can be measured because it produces optical activity; a plane of polarised light shone through a chiral molecule will be rotated to an extent, and this rotation provides a method of measurement. Particularly important in biological environments with carbon based molecules, chirality causes many biological molecules such as DNA, enzymes and carbohydrates to be able to differentiate or select

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Curiously, nature has chosen only one of the two possible enantiomers (i.e. a particular handedness) for the majority of biological molecules, the other enantiomer of the same compound is commonly un-recognised in biological systems and has either different or reduced biological activity. There is a scientific debate about how nature's 'choice' of chirality arose, and the study of Inorganic chiral molecules and structures is important in this respect since the property of chirality must have been present before life evolved (and the choice of one enantiomer over another had to have started somewhere).

Professor Gillard's research was aimed at developing a detailed fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical properties that arise from, or are influenced by chirality; necessary for us to be able to explain and understand much of nature and especially biology, from which applications can be developed. A groundbreaking piece of work was his synthesis of totally inorganic optically active compounds within the platinum polysulfides family (compounds containing only platinum and sulfur atoms). This was an early example of a chiral molecular compound that has no carbon within it and his work established that the 'rules' that govern chirality are a general property of matter.

An elegant speaker, and inspirational lecturer, Robert delivered a very popular public lecture on chirality: 'Is God left handed?' Almost all amino acids in nature are laevo-rotatory (left handed) and the discourse examined and discussed the potential origins of this. There are many theories - among them that chirality originated in iron sulfide minerals - but the debate is ongoing.

His work on chirality led to spectroscopy; he was particularly interested in spectroscopic methods for the measurement and study of chirality and, an expert in the technique called 'circular dichroism', his laboratory at Cardiff had one of the earliest mass spectrometers in the UK. Also ground breaking at the time, another remarkably innovative idea was his use of micro-organisms to digest and consequently resolve metal complexes.

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such as pharmaceuticals, for example, where a synthetic strategy might give both enantiomers of a pharmaceutical, but only one has biological activity (because the biological molecules being chiral only interact with one enantiomer of the drug).

As well as chirality and the synthesis of metal complexes another area of interest to him was the chemistry of nitrogen containing aromatic compounds known as pyridines. These are sometimes used as components in dyes and also to bind metal ions in metal based pigments, amongst other classes of compounds. Arising from this, he had significant interaction with the ICI dyestuffs Division for some years. There were other commercial links; he was a consultant to 3M for twenty five years and he personally patented a graffitiresistant paint for post-boxes.

Regarded by colleagues as a Renaissance chemist, an abiding interest stemming from his time with Professor Wilkinson was in Hydrogen-bonding; the electromagnetic attractive interaction between polar molecules in which hydrogen is bound to a highly electronegative atom. Another important area of research; this bonding is very important in influencing the properties of molecules containing (particularly) oxygen-hydrogen bonds or nitrogen hydrogen bonds and has a major influence upon boiling or melting points, electrical conductivity, chemical reactivity, solvation and solvent properties (it is why water is uniquely special as a so called 'universal solvent' amongst other key properties). Hydrogen bonding also makes a major contribution to the structure and function of biological molecules and it is fundamentally important in the way in which biologically important molecules interact and react.

A prolific author, he wrote 405 papers - 20 with Geoffrey Wilkinson - and will be remembered for this body of work; his top ten papers have been cited 1350 times. The output and the original thoughts continued after retirement: 16 papers, also cited, were published between 1998 - 2004, and his interest remained; he continued as an Examiner at many Universities, in the UK and overseas, and was still discussing ideas in Chemistry with former colleagues not long before his death.

Whether in the lecture theatre or in his published work, he brought humour to a dry subject - one paper published in 1984 in Chemistry in Britain was titled 'Stinking Rich- Platinum Polysulphides' and he enjoyed the fact that he had written a paper with de Jesus and Mohamed as co-authors, published in 171

the August 1989 edition of Transition Metal Chemistry. For his own private amusement he wrote a paper on the chemistry in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

His papers range from Classical coordination Chemistry to bio-inorganic chemistry to inorganic archaeology. 'Is God left handed?', from his lecture, was one, another; 'The mineralization of fibres in burial environments'.

This latter reflected his heavy involvement in science based archaeology in the 1980s and 1990s. He was on the Science and Engineering Research Council SBA committee, and was one of two assessors for the appointment of the foundation Professor of SBA at the University of Bradford and an Elector with Professor Rosemary Cramp, from Durham University, a trustee of the British Museum, when the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge set up a new chair in SBA, the Pitt-Rivers Chair, University of Cambridge. He also secured a new lectureship in the subject at Cardiff.

He Chaired the Board administering the Oxford based Radio-carbon accelerator (a dating engine) that had been created by Professor Teddy Hall, Master of the Goldsmiths' Company and another trustee of the British Museum, who he admired greatly. That Radio-carbon accelerator derived an age for the Turin Shroud. (Two other radio-carbon accelerators- Zurich and Arizona- also derived dates.)

A linguist, he was fluent in Portuguese, and spoke German, Italian, French, and Welsh. He could converse in Hungarian and understood Dutch. He attributed this facility to his Oxford exams when every student, regardless of subject, was required to pass an examination in Latin at the end of their first term.

This was an obligation he met with his customary aplomb, and he felt it gave him the linguistic base with which to acquire other languages.

And his influence was international: Academic Visitors came from all over the world (including the then USSR), as did Research fellows and Research Students. Close colleagues and sabbaticals linked him with the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (a sabbatical at the University of Christchurch, holding the Erskine Visiting Professorship), South Africa, the West Indies, Japan, Russia, Israel, Italy, Germany, Portugal (he helped set up the new University at Aveiro), Finland, Holland and Hungary and he was an Advisor to the University of Brunei.

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Professors and Heads of Departments world-wide acknowledge their debt; among Universities where former students and close colleagues hold Chairs are Oxford (Mark Pollard), Liverpool (Brian Heaton), Manchester (Paul O'Brien), Aveiro Oulio de Jesus), Western Sydney (Peter Williams) and Mona UWI (Bob Lancashire). A kind and generous man, his generosity in his collaborations with other distinguished scientists is attested to by the many grateful acknowledgments from them in published texts.

He was notably and permanently honoured in 2007 for his contributions to Inorganic Chemistry, with the naming of Gillardite, a rare Australian mineral, in his honour.

Privately, he was kind, interesting and entertaining company, and he inspired affection - ex students and colleagues flew in from around Europe and all over the UK for his funeral in Cardiff. He had a deep and wide knowledge of Opera (he had a good Tenor voice and sang with the Cwmbach male Voice Choir for many years. Many choir members attended his funeral.)

He was also widely read - in retirement he became an authority on the Edwardian era. A final achievement for him in retirement was to write the biography of a Portuguese diplomat of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods, the Marquis de Soveral, Envoy Extraordinaire and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James's. He had also completed in a first draft a second historical work- an account of the huge popularity of tattoos among both sexes of the Victorian aristocracy.

A Christian, he bore the poor health which continued through his retirement with courage and good spirits.

Robert was married twice; firstly to Diana Laslett, with whom he had three children; Isabelle, Andrew and Duncan. Sadly, Duncan predeceased Robert in 1998. Robert's second marriage was to Anne Howard and they had two children, Fiona and Thomas. Robert's death in June was a shock to his family and he is sorely missed. His brother Tom, summed him up his eulogy: "Bob was a kind and generous man who gave all who knew him more than he ever asked for in exchange".

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ROBERT WILLIAM JACKSON (1957) I first met Bob Jackson at the Freshers' soccer trial in October, 1957. We became good friends - a friendship that was to last well over fifty years. Bob was liked and admired by all who knew him, as a person of integrity with a strong sense of loyalty. A committed Christian, he never paraded his faith but followed his beliefs in a quiet and simple way that earned the respect of others.

Bob left Mitcham County Grammar School- where he played 1st XV rugby - for National Service in the RAF and came up to St Edmund Hall in 1957 to read Modern Languages, gaining a good Second Class Honours degree in 1960. A talented sportsman, Bob was Secretary of the Hall Tennis Club and a regular in the Tennis Cuppers 1st VI but his real love was football. He played in all three soccer Cuppers' Finals, was a Centaur and- in his last year- a Blue, in an Oxford side which might have been better prepared, suffering a heavy defeat by Cambridge (2-6). However, he survived to play for Oxford at Wembley a second time in 1961 (courtesy of a Dip Ed year) in a 2 - 2 draw.

From childhood, he had supported his beloved Aston Villa. When I asked him once ''Why Villa?" he replied "I just loved the name!"

His career as a schoolmaster at Brentwood School is a real "Mr Chips" story but Bob always acknowledged the dedicated support of his wife, Pam, whom he married in July 1961. He remained loyal to Brentwood for his entire teaching career until he retired in 1998 and in the late Sixties he and Pam took over Mill Hill- a school Boarding House- and ran it for nearly fifteen years. Numerous boarders will remember with gratitude the warmth of welcome and the care and concern offered by the Jacksons. The family atmosphere created there was also alive in many happy seaside holidays with Lesley and Heather, their daughters, and later their grandchildren, at Frinton-on-Sea. In spite of many responsibilities in those early years, including coaching the school First Eleven and running school tennis, Bob managed to continue playing for Oxford City until 1968, captaining the side in the later years and earning an England Amateur trial. The City manager, Percy James, Manciple at the Hall, recognised his skills and Bob always acknowledged his improvement as a player under Percy's experienced eye.

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selection), the Old Brentwoods and with Cambridge Occupational Analysts.

This latter work with COA in the field of careers advice was something he greatly enjoyed. When he and Pam finally handed over Mill Hill, they bought their house at Ingrave and developed the lovely garden, enabling them to raise significant annual funds for St Francis Hospice from the sale of produce. But Bob never lost interest in young people and was usually successful with the occasional disaffected teenager. His low-key approach and his achievements in the sporting world were respected at Brentwood, and his appointment as Head of Middle School- a post he held on retirement- was well earned.

The quality of Bob's teaching and the measure of his intellect is reflected in his two published works - his translations of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and of Joris-Karl Huysman's novel En Rade (1887). He enjoyed nineteenth century French literature and this is evident in his notes.

When Bob's illness in 2012 became serious, his family and close friends found it difficult to accept. We had enjoyed a three-day cycling holiday in Norfolk in 1999 and had discussed- among many other topics -prostate cancer. Bob sought medical advice and was quickly treated, successfully on that occasion.

He continued with his sprints (!!), tennis, cycling and daily exercises until last year, when dysphagia-related problems beset him. At our annual soccer Cuppers reunions, which he organised for a number of years, we had always admired his healthy life-style but when we met in Oxford in April this year, Bob was no longer with us. We paid silent homage before dinner to a remarkable and much-loved man.

Bob Jackson died in Basildon Hospital on 3 January 2013. His guiding light was his church community and his life-long love of his wife and family- but close to these came St Edmund Hall and Brentwood School, both institutions dear to his heart.

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Michael Barratt MA, QTS, 19 March 2012, aged 71, Fife. 1963, Education [page 176] Arthur John Gould BA, September 2012, aged 72, East Sussex. 1963, Music [page 178] Michael Graham Neely BA, 21 December 1995, aged 53. 1963, English Martin Grant Craven Dip, 15 January 2013, aged 72, Lothian. 1964, Education Christopher John Clepton Palmer MA, 31 December 2012, aged 66, Devon. 1965, Law Ourisprudence) MICHAEL BARRATT (1963) Michael Barratt was an inspiring headmaster of Rannoch School for 15 years and, under his leadership, the school built on its reputation for outdoor pursuits and embraced the demands of education in the technological age.

Barratt remained true to the aspirations of the three founders of the school in 1959, who had taught at Gordonstoun and modelled Rannoch on Kurt Hahn's principles. Barratt had a vision for Rannoch that reflected his own enthusiastic nature. The school had the highest proportion of Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards of any school in the UK and Barratt increased the entries to Oxford and Cambridge and the Scottish universities.

Barratt was renowned for maintaining a watchful, but never obtrusive, eye on his pupils. He knew everyone's name and checked in with new arrivals after their first week.

"Michael and Valerie were an ideal couple. They often had supper parties which were very relaxed," recalled Kirsty Walker, a former pupil. "They had the ability to put everyone at their ease and he was widely respected - never feared. Michael had a commanding presence but helped all pupils to fulfil and realise their potential."

Michael Barratt was brought up by his mother as his father had died during the war when Michael was just one year old. He attended George Watson's and then Merchiston Castle (1954-59) where he demonstrated a keen interest in sport. He read English at St Andrews University and played rugby for the 1st XV After serving in Royal Naval Reserve (HMS Unicorn), Tay Division Barratt did a Diploma of Education at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and his first 176

posting was at Epsom College (1964 -74).

For a decade Barratt was a housemaster at Strathallan in Perthshire and directed many of the school plays- notably RC Sherriff's Journry's End. In 1982, he was appointed headmaster of Rannoch School, where he set about improving all aspects of the school; an early decision was to go co-educational.

School numbers improved, as did academic standards and the pupils' imaginative use of the nearby hills, lochs and moors. Barratt encouraged such activities as the Buachaille Dash across Rannoch Moor and up the Buachaille Etive Mor mountain, the expansion of the school fire service (manned by the pupils) and local community service.

In the early years the boys had built the chapel and throughout his years Barratt built on such enterprise: improving the infrastructure, societies (from electronics to filmmaking) were encouraged as was Scottish country dancing and the school choir. Barratt particularly enjoyed their visits to sing at St Giles' Cathedral.

The Rev Ladd Fagerson was chaplain at Rannoch for 25 years and recalls Barratt's headmastership with pleasure. "Mike was a strong and enthusiastic leader".

"He encouraged staff and pupils to work as a team for the good of the school.

Exchanges were arranged with other pupils from Round Square schools throughout the world; funds were raised to build classrooms in India and Kenya. Mike was warm, enthusiastic and great fun."

Rannoch's reputation grew under his management and he had a knack of making himself available - his booming voice echoed round the school but it was never used out of malice.

Barratt was a low handicap golfer and much enjoyed playing the eight-hole course with pupils and stafÂŁ The Barratts were showered with compliments and gifts when they left in 1992. A treasured present was a painting of the Dall Burn that runs through the school's grounds. Many recall the warmth and respect that surrounded 177

the Barratts as they left. "He was," said one former pupil, "a renowned and highly esteemed headmaster."

The Barratts retired to Elie, Fife, in 1997. Their house overlooked the Charleton course, and Barratt had been a member of Elie Golf Course for 35 years. He created a beautiful rock garden but his mobility and golfing days were much impaired after a serious stroke.

Nothing typified Barratt's resolve and love of his family more than his determination to walk up the aisle to give his daughter Susannah away at her marriage in 2007.

He had not walked so far for a year but by escorting Susannah that day he exemplified the courage and dedication that he had taught his pupils throughout his career.

Generations of former pupils remember Barratt as the teacher who galvanised and motivated them to achieve the best for themselves. As the Rev Fagerson said in conclusion: "Mike was a man amongst men."

Michael Barratt is survived by his wife Valerie, whom he married in 1970, and their son Chris and daughter Susannah.

Alasdair Steven Š 2013 Johnston Publishing Ltd for The Scotsman

ARTHURJOHN GOULD (1963) The life and career of John Gould, composer, pianist, musical director and performer were celebrated on 2 June, in the Matcham Room, London Hippodrome. The event was attended by 150 of his family, friends and colleagues, and featured audio and video recordings of his work, plus live performances of his songs. Among many delights Michael Palin, Terry ]ones, Annabel Leventon and Nigel Pegram recreated numbers from the celebrated Edinburgh Festival Oxford Review of 1964. Gay Soper, introduced by Julia McKenzie, sang from Gould's masterly settings of poems by Betjeman. And Bob Scott and David Wood relived moments from Four Degrees Over, the revue that transferred from the Edinburgh Festival fringe '66 to the Fortune Theatre in London's West End, where it was directed by John Cox. Clips were shown of John's appearances on Esther Rantzen's BBC TV show, That's Life! His 178

bemused reactions while accompanying guests playing things like a musical saw, a bicycle pump or an array of bathroom plumbing made his face nationally famous. FinallyJohn's sister Wendy spoke movingly of her quirky, idiosyncratic brother, who used to inform her what key she sneezed in.

Gould was born in Cornwall on 1 July 1940. His education began at a small private school in Newquay, where he first started to learn the piano, and then continued at Clifton College. After school he joined his father's accountancy practice- which he hated- until, in 1963, he abandoned the final year exams to take up a place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford to read music. Although it was this move that would eventually lead to his professional career, his path was clearly set long before.

During his accountancy years, he regularly played the organ at the local church.

Also at this time, an active member of the Newquay Amateur Dramatic Society, he devised and directed a Christmas revue, and wrote a musical.

The same pattern of activity continued at Oxford and beyond. Those who worked closely with Gould in the 1960s and 1970s - Annabel Leventon, Diana Quick, Michael Palin and Terry Jones in Oxford revues, Adele Weston, Bob Scott and David Wood in Four Degrees Over- shared extraordinary times, playing the West End, Edinburgh festivals, nightclubs, and touring. Whether accompanying Brighton and Hove Gay Men's Chorus, Maureen Lipman in the original production of Re: Jqyce, or Dawn French and Sheila Hancock in revue, Gould's skill as an accompanist was unrivalled.

Although probably best known to the public at large through his TV and radio work - with Esther Rantzen's That's Ufe! in particular, and his own Radio 4 series Bars of Could- he wrote many stage shows, including a string of pantomimes for the Glasgow Citizens and what was arguably his best score, Beijemania. His lovely tunes beautifully complemented John Betjeman's poems.

Felix Barker in the Evening News called him "the funniest man at the keyboard since Leslie Henson wrecked Rachmaninov". His humour was anarchic but always affectionate, while much of his appeal as a performer lay in his obvious modesty. His accountancy training was not wasted- his production company, with eo-director David Wood, was in operation for 38 years, notably with its children's arm, Whirligig Theatre, and never went bankrupt.

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was out of favour. At the time of his death he was working on a 'lost' musical for which Rattigan had written the book. Š The Stage / David Wood

1970s Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke BA, DPhil, August 2012, aged 59, Devon.

197 5, Politics [page 180] NICHOLAS GOODRICK-CLARKE (1975) It is hard to write an obituary that does justice to someone of the stature, brilliance and manifold human qualities of Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who died of cancer in Torquay, England, on 29 August. To his relatives and many friends he will be remembered for his warmth and generosity, his enormous charm, his humour, his sparkling personality. To the world of learning he will be remembered for his colossal contribution to the field of western esotericism through his many books and through his initiative in setting up the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism at Exeter University (EXESESO) and the corresponding professorship, of which he became the first incumbent.

The programme offered by EXESESO has made it possible for the first time for students all over the world to take a course by distance-learning leading to an MA in the field of Western Esotericism, with the PhD as an additional option. Since the programme began in the autumn of 2005 many students have successfully completed the course and some have gone on to pursue academic careers in the field.

While Nicholas always seemed destined for an academic career, he had a long journey to his professorship. Born in 1953, he was educated at Lancing College and Bristol University, then went on to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he received a doctorate for the thesis that later became his book The Occult Roots of Nazism. The book, first published in 1985, has been continuously in print ever since and has been translated into twelve languages. Initially unable to find a university post, he worked, inter alia, as an inspirational schoolmaster, a banker, and a highly successful fund-raiser for Oxford University. After a brief collaboration with the University of Wales Lampeter, he was appointed to the newly created chair of Western Esotericism at Exeter University in 2005. Meanwhile he was already making an impact as an author. He followed up The Occult Roots of Nazism with two more books on the interface between esotericism and the far right, namely Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu180

Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism (1998) and Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity (2002). An entirely different type of book was his Enchanted City - Arthur Machen and Locality: Scenes from His Ear/y London Years, 1880-85 (1987), reflecting his fascination with topography and history-laden places. He also edited compilations of extracts from the writings of Paracelsus (1999), Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (2004) and (with Clare Goodrick-Clarke) G R S Mead (2005). In addition he translated two books on Swedenborg from German, wrote numerous articles and appeared as a compelling and engaging lecturer in many different settings, including the conferences organized by the New York Open Centre.

In 1985 he married Clare Badham, an English literature scholar working in publishing who went on to become a homoeopathic practitioner and a specialist in the history, symbolism and practice of alchemy, on which she has written two books, Alchemical Medicine for the 21st Century (2010) and The Hermetic Art of Alchemy (forthcoming) and a number of articles. For some years they ran a publishing house together. Then, when EXESESO was founded, she joined the faculty as a lecturer on "The Hermetic Art of Alchemy" and "The Esoteric Body". Nicholas and Clare had a rare marriage of hearts and minds, and their silver wedding in Oxford in 2010 was a moving occasion. Their beautiful home, Magnolia at Teignmouth, was the scene of many delightful gatherings and stimulating conversations that always left one inspired and re-charged.

I am one of those who will miss Nicholas intensely as a dear friend over 29 years. I have a diary entry recording the first time we met in July 1983 when I and four others gathered at the Museum Tavern in Bloomsbury, London, to plan the formation of a society where papers on broadly esoteric subjects would be read and discussed. I remember clearly how struck I was by Nicholas' vitality, charisma, eloquence, humour and loud, infectious laugh. Shortly afterwards we held our first meeting at the Plough in Museum Street, where Nicholas read a paper on Arthur Machen. He later contributed papers on the Gothic revival, which was a major interest of his. We could never agree on a name for our initiative, so we just called it "The Society". Others involved in it included Ellic Howe, Robert A Gilbert, Gerald Suster, the novelist Eric Towers and the masonic scholar John Hamill. Clare, soon to become engaged to Nicholas, was also an active member. We had many very lively and fascinating evenings, and we thought of ourselves as a sort of avant-garde group of scholars of esotericism.

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Those were early days for our discipline. In terms of organized study programmes within academe there was only the lone, pioneering department for the History of Esoteric and Mystical Currents in Modern and Contemporary Europe within the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne, headed

by Antoine Faivre. But things were changing gradually, and a few scholars within academe were already beginning to take a serious interest in esoteric subjects. One of them was Frances Yates at the Warburg Institute, who was coming out with books like Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, The Art if Memory and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. A major break-through came in 1999 with the establishment of the programme at Amsterdam University for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents under Prof Wouter Hanegraaff, followed six years later by the Exeter chair. Another important step was the founding in 2005 of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism with Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke as one of the eo-founders. By then he had become recognized as one of the leading scholars in the field, with a world-wide reputation.

Today esotericism is becoming increasingly firmly established as a field of academic study, with its specialist journals, its conferences, its learned societies and a growing number of university programmes devoted to it. Among those who brought this about, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke stands high. He would be pleased to know that EXESESO is being continued in his spirit. We, his friends and colleagues, owe him an enormous debt, and there are many people throughout the world to whom he will always be an inspiration.

Christopher Mclntosh 1980s Andrew John Gowans MA, LLM, 2 March 2013, aged 46, Oxfordshire.

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ANDREW JOHN GOWANS (1985) Andy arrived at St Edmund Hall in 1985 to study Law (SEH 1985- 1988) and soon became a very loyal and popular member of College. Many will remember him as JCR Vice-President and Steward, President of the Portia Law Society and the AJCR El Presidente.

A talented sportsman, Andy became SEH Captain of Rugby and represented Oxford in Rugby, for which he was awarded a Half-Blue in Rugby League. He switched his focus to rowing following a rugby injury, despite having never rowed before going to Oxford. Andy was quickly hooked as a member of the blade-winning Hilarians Torpid in 1988. He became a member of the SEH men's First VIII, which fired a deep desire to row in the University Boat Race.

On qualifying in Law from the Hall, he joined Freshfields, but put his job on hold for a year while he pursued his rowing dream and studied for an LLM at Cambridge. Andy made the transition to Cambridge with ease. No challenge was too big for him, not least his ambition to go from College oarsman to Boat Race contender in such a short time. He came close to his boat race dream, making the reserve pair for the '91 race, but quickly made his strength and determination available to the (other) Hall, helping both the Trinity Hall Lent and May First VIII crews of 1991 to their blades. Several years later, Andy went back to St Edmund Hall to coach the men's First XIII and he remained a Friend of the SEH Boat Club.

Andy met Heather (SEH 1988-1990), his future wife, in the front Quad of Teddy Hall and they married in the Chapel in 1994. They later settled in Oxfordshire with their two children. Andy spent the majority of his working life as a Partner in his Thames Valley law firm, also working in London, Bristol and for several years as Partner in charge of the firm's Silicon Valley Office in Palo Alto, California. Andy enjoyed travelling to many wonderful places with his family, particularly enjoying the time he spent living with his family in California.

Andy was diagnosed with a brain tumour on the inauspicious day of 9/11, but he set about defying the survival statistics by throwing himself back into ergometer training and cycling, competing in the Etape du Tour just 3 months after a major brain operation. Andy's passion for life and his devotion to a cause were character traits that were to stand him in good stead during his future battle with brain cancer. His refusal to back down was an inspiration 183

to all who witnessed the ensuing and extraordinary 12 year campaign against his cancer, giving him the chance to enjoy fatherhood with his young family.

Andy passed away peacefully at home on 2 March 2013. A small Memorial Service was held for him near his home, conducted by the SEH Chaplain, College friend and members of the Chapel choir and attended by family and friends, many of whom knew Andy from the Hall. Andy made many life-long friends at the Hall and is remembered as being 'likeable and liked, trusting and trustworthy, generous without being flash, fun but not frivolous, serious but not sanctimonious, and resilient in the face of his illness - he was great company, a great person to spend time with'. His fellow Teddy Hailers will picture him 'standing tall and welcoming outside the Buttery, beaming at all who passed through the Quad'.

He leaves Heather and their two children, Tara and Alexander, as well as a great many people who will forever remember an extraordinary man with many exceptional qualities.

Heather Gowans (1988)

1990s Michael Edward Thomas Stanley BFA, 22 September 2012, aged 37, Oxfordshire. 1993, Fine Art [see page 43 for an obituary] 2010s Charlotte Elizabeth Coursier, 10 June 2013, aged 25, Oxfordshire.

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WERNER ZIEGLER College Painter and Decorator c.

1975-1992

Many Fellows and Aularians will remember Werner Ziegler, College Painter for many years until his retirement in about 1992, who could often be heard singing along to Schubert songs and excerpts from Wagner operas, as he painted around the College.

Werner was born in 1926 in the Germanspeaking part of northern Sudetenland (an area in northern Czechoslovakia). In March 1938, Germany was permitted to annexe northern Sudetenland to appease Hitler. But Hitler wanted to take over the whole country and, in March 1939, the rest of Czechoslovakia was invaded by German troops and Sudetenland was initially put under military rule. WW2 commenced later that year when Hitler also invaded Poland. Werner had been forced to join the Hitler Youth, which was virtually compulsory for boys and girls over the age of 10, but somehow Werner managed to get himself expelled! Werner was still a young boy and after leaving school he became an apprentice butcher. But in 1944, when he was 18, Werner was called up to the German Parachute Regiment. Twice he was injured before the end of the war, the second time in Holland in 1945 and he was captured by the British. He was sent to a prisoner of war camp near Manchester and later sent to work on a farm with a number of other POWs. After the war was ended, he and the other POWs were eventually released, the majority of whom returned to Germany. However, Werner's mother advised him not to return to Sudetenland as many families in the Occupied German Zone were being forced to leave their homes and to live in Eastern Germany.

Werner remained in England and managed to find work at Dewhurst's Butchers in Abingdon, where he met his wife, and he was later promoted to branch manager of Dewhurst's in Reading. After a number of years, Werner, his wife and his daughter decided to return to Oxford, and Werner found employment in SEH, in the 1970s, as a painter and decorator.

However the marriage broke up and, after his divorce in the 1980s, Werner was encouraged by the Bursar, Rear Admiral Geordie Leslie, to purchase his 185

own home, and he managed to buy a house in Edgeway Road, in Marston.

After his retirement from SEH, Werner was a frequent visitor to College on a Wednesday to join his former colleagues for staff lunch, as he was permitted to do. Werner became an honorary member of the Marston Branch of the Royal British Legion(!), which he attended regularly and where he made many friends. More recently, Werner had also joined the newly-formed Edgeway Road coffee mornings, where he was fondly regarded by his neighbours. It was Werner's failure to turn up for a coffee morning which led to the Police being called to his house. It would seem that Werner had died very suddenly: he was found, on the evening of 12 March 2013, sitting upright in his chair with a glass of whisky at his side. Werner would have been 87 on 1 April.

Werner's funeral was held at Wolvercote Cemetery. In attendance were about 30 friends from the Royal British Legion and from Edgeway Road, along with several Fellows and former colleagues from SEH. Julia Johnson-Fry (With grateful thanks for assistance received from John Smith, former Head of SEH Outside Properties)

Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed that - in those sports where there are both men's and women's captains - some reports are missing; all sports captains were invited to submit an article, and photos if possible, but the women were more diligent in delivering their text (and, it must be said, in hitting the deadline), proving - if one needs to - that Hall women are a reliable lot.

This is the last Magazine under the current editorship, but this Editor is very grateful to everyone who has taken the time and trouble to write something, be they Fellows, current students, or members of staff (present and past). Most of all she thanks the Aularians whose updates and articles she always enjoys reading and printing: the Magazine is dedicated to them.

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