St Edmund Hall Magazine 2015-16

ST EDMUND HALL

MAGAZINE

VOL. XVIII No. 7 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2016 SECTION 1: THE COLLEGE LIST: 2015–16............................................................1

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

FRONT COVER: Women’s Rugby Cuppers-winning team & Men’s Football Cuppers Semi-Finals-winning team MATRICULATION PICTURE: Photograph by Gillman & Soame All photos in this Magazine are from Hall records unless otherwise stated.

SECTION 2: REPORTS ON THE YEAR................................................................. 10 From the Principal........................................................................................................11 News From the Senior Common Room.................................................................. 18 New Fellowship Arrivals.......................................................................................... 40 Obituaries................................................................................................................... 45 From the Senior & Finance Bursar............................................................................47 From the Domestic Bursar.........................................................................................49 From the Library Fellow..............................................................................................51 From the Archive Fellow & the Archivist................................................................ 60 From the Pictures & Chattels Fellow........................................................................ 61 From the Chaplain.......................................................................................................62 From the Director of Music.......................................................................................64 From the Schools Liaison Officer.............................................................................. 65 From the President of the Middle Common Room...............................................67 From the President of the Junior Common Room................................................69 From Student Clubs & Societies................................................................................ 71 SECTION 3:: THE YEAR GONE BY........................................................................82 Awards and Prizes........................................................................................................ 83 Masterclass Fund Awards and Showcase.................................................................86 The Geddes Masterclass 2016....................................................................................87 Chapel Choir Trip to Krakow....................................................................................88 Combined Choir Trip to Pontigny........................................................................... 90 Reaching Out................................................................................................................ 91 Women Inspire: Celebrating Women at the Hall..................................................94 The Gerald Hegarty Room.........................................................................................96 Artweeks 2016...............................................................................................................96 Hall Photography.........................................................................................................97 The Hall From the Air.................................................................................................98 Hall Film-Making.........................................................................................................99 Hall Writing..................................................................................................................99 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Poem 2016...............................................100 The Emden Lecture 2015.......................................................................................... 101 Student Journalism Prizes and the Geddes Memorial Lecture 2016................. 102 Centre for the Creative Brain...................................................................................104 Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP)................................................. 105 iii

Teddy Hall Ball 2016..................................................................................................106 40th Anniversary Dinner...........................................................................................106 Regional Lunches....................................................................................................... 107 US Events..................................................................................................................... 107 Degree Days................................................................................................................108 SECTION 4: FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS..............................109 Student Numbers....................................................................................................... 110 New Students 2015–2016.......................................................................................... 110 Visiting Students 2015–2016......................................................................................116 Student Admissions Exercises..................................................................................117 College Awards, Prizes and Grants..........................................................................118 College and University Bursaries.............................................................................121 University Awards and Prizes................................................................................... 122 College Graduate Awards and Prizes...................................................................... 122 Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes...............................................................123 University Graduate Awards and Prizes................................................................. 124 External Awards......................................................................................................... 124 Degree Results.............................................................................................................125 Degree Day Dates 2016–2017................................................................................... 129

St Edmund Hall Association Accounts.................................................................. 176 The 75th London Dinner............................................................................................ 178 SECTION 8: AULARIAN NEWS..............................................................................181 Aularians of East Anglia............................................................................................ 182 31st Annual New York Dinner................................................................................... 182 De Fortunis Aularium...................................................................................................183 Ave Atque Vale...............................................................................................................195 Obituaries.................................................................................................................... 197 Drawing of the Magnolia grandiflora, by Professor Ewan Anderson................ 218 MATRICULATION PHOTOGRAPH: Michaelmas Term 2015............ end-piece

SECTION 5: DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE............... 130 Reviewing the Year...................................................................................................... 131 Donors to the Hall......................................................................................................134 The Floreat Aula Legacy Society.............................................................................. 142 SECTION 6: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS..............................................................143 A New Hymn for St Edmund................................................................................... 144 Memories of War-Time Oxford................................................................................145 Posing for the Camera: Life at the Hall in 1964.................................................... 146 ‘It Seemed So Approachable’: Recollections of Early Female Undergraduates.......................................................................................................... 149 An Interview With Lucy Newlyn.............................................................................. 153 Bemused!........................................................................................................................157 Impressions of China: Joe Todd Award Report....................................................160 Travels in China: Richard Fargher Bursary Report.............................................. 162 New Art for the Hall: A Tribute to the Magnolia Grandiflora............................ 164 Aularian Publications................................................................................................ 166 SECTION 7: FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION.....................171 The President’s Report.............................................................................................. 172 Executive Committee: January 2016....................................................................... 174 Minutes of the 85th Annual General Meeting of the Association.......................175 iv

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THE COLLEGE LIST: 2015–16 VISITOR The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, MA, DCL (Hon DJur Massachusetts, Birmingham, Bath; Hon DCL Newcastle; Hon DLitt Sydney, Exeter, Ulster; DUniv Keele, Stettin; Hon DBA Kingston; Hon DSc S E Europe, Rep of Macedonia), Hon FRCPE Chancellor of the University PRINCIPAL Keith Gull, CBE (BSc PhD DSc (Hon) Lond), FRS, FMedSci, FRSB Professor of Molecular Microbiology

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FELLOWS Venables, Robert, MA (LLM Lond), QC Fellow by Special Election Blamey, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy, Dean of Degrees Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA, QC (Hon) Barrister, Professor of Private International Law, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow and Tutor in Law Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Vice-Principal Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil Director of the Voltaire Foundation, Professor of French Literature & Lecturer in the History of the Book, Professorial Fellow Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil Professor of English, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language & Literature Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, and Director of Studies for Visiting Students Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Professor of Modern History, Tutor in Modern History Whittaker, Robert James, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography, and Dean (until Hilary term 2016) Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Professor of Russian Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry

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Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) University Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science Matthews, Paul McMahan, OBE, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP, FMedSci Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Professor of Organometallic Chemistry & Catalysis, Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Associate Professor of the History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Tutor in Modern History, Archive Fellow, Dean (from Trinity term 2016) Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow by Special Election Paxman, Jeremy Dickson, (MA Camb) Fellow by Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB ChB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS (Paed Surg), FAAP Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Fellow by Special Election Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Professor of Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Research Centre Principal Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Professor of Materials, Senior Research Fellow Tseng, Jeffrey, MA (BS CalTech; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor in Experimental Particle Physics, Tutor in Physics and Chapel Overseeing Fellow Wilkins, Robert James, MA, DPhil Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology, American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Tutor in Politics and Library Fellow Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (MA, PhD Camb) Professor of Discrete Mathematics, Tutor in Mathematics and Tutor for Undergraduates 2

Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, MA, DPhil (BA Yale; MPP Harvard; JD NYU) Research Lecturer in Economics, Fellow by Special Election in Economics Yates, Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Associate Professor of Materials Modelling and Royal Society Research Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science and Pictures & Chattels Fellow Dupret, David, (MSc, PhD Bordeaux) Fellow by Special Election in Neuroscience Kavanagh, Aileen Frances, MA, DPhil (BCL, MA NUI, Magister Legum Europae Hanover; Dipl Vienna) Associate Professor and University Reader in Law, Tutor in Law Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex) NERC CEH Fellow and Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow by Special Election Loenarz, Christoph, DPhil (Dipl Chem Tuebingen) until March 2015 Fellow by Special Election Walker, Richard, BA (MSc Leeds; PhD Camb) Professor in Earth Sciences and University Research Fellow, Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences Stagg, Charlotte Jane, DPhil (BSc, MB ChB Bristol) Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Fellow by Special Election Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff) Associate Professor of Bone Oncology, Fellow by Special Election in Surgery Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MA St And; MA, PhD Essex) Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History & Theory, Fellow by Special Election Costa, Charles Simon Arthur, MA, MPhil (BSSc Birm) Senior & Finance Bursar McCartney, David, BM BCh Academic Clinical Fellow, Fellow by Special Election Gluenz, Eva, (MSc Bern; PhD Lond) Royal Society University Research Fellow, Fellow by Special Election Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election Aarnio, Outi Marketta, DPhil (Lic Abo Akademi) Fellow by Special Election in Geography Willden, Richard Henry James, (MEng, PhD Imp) Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science and Tutor for Graduates

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Benson, Roger Bernard James, (MA, PhD Camb; MSc Imp) Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Tutor in Earth Sciences and Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs Lozano-Perez, Sergio, DPhil, PGDipTHE (BA, MSci, PGCE Seville), AMInstP, FRMS Professor of Materials Science and George Kelley Associate Professor of Materials, Senior Research Fellow Yi, Xiaoou, (BE Huazhong; MSc Stockholm) until January 2016 Culham Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors Clark, Gordon Leslie, MA, DSc (BEcon, MA Monash; PhD McMaster), FBA Director of the Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment, Professorial Fellow Taylor, Jenny Cameron, BA, DPhil Associate Professor of Translational Genomics, Fellow by Special Election Rothwell, Peter Malcolm, MA (MB ChB, MD, PhD Edin), FMedSci Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA, MSt, DPhil (MA East Ang) Fellow by Special Election in English Goldberg, Leslie Ann, MA (BA Rice; PhD Edin) Professor of Computer Science, Senior Research Fellow Daley, Allison Christine, (BSc Queen’s, Canada; MSc Western Ontario; PhD Uppsala) Research Fellow to the OU Museum of Natural History, Junior Research Fellow Hopkinson, Richard James, MChem, DPhil William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology Nguyen, Luc Le (BSc Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; PhD Rutgers) Associate Professor of Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Tutor in Mathematics Quintana-Domeque, Climent (MA, PhD Princeton) Associate Professor in Economics, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Economics Wolter, James Lewis, (BS Michigan; MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) University Lecturer in Financial Econometrics, Fellow by Special Election Pavord, Ian Douglas, (MB BS Lond; DM Nott), FRCP, FMedSci Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow Bruce, Peter George, (BSc, PhD Aberdeen), FRS Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow Bishara, Dina (BA Massachusetts at Amherst; PhD George Washington) — until July 2015 Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East 4

Dee, Michael, DPhil (BSc Wellington) Junior Research Fellow (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow) Karastergiou, Aris, (PhD Bonn) Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics Karos, Dominik, (Dip Saarland Univ, PhD Maastrict) Career Development Fellow in Economics and Fellow by Special Election Lakhal-Littleton, Samira, DPhil (BSc UCL) Junior Research Fellow (BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow) Rossi Carvalho, Mariana (MSc Sao Paulo; PhD Berlin) Junior Research Fellow Goulart, Paul James (MSc MIT; PhD Camb) Professor in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science Taylor, Jayne (BA Leeds Polytechnic) Fellow by Special Election and Domestic Bursar Lähnemann, Henrike (MA, PhD Bamberg) Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Professorial Fellow Smye, Andrew James, MEarthSc (PhD Camb) Junior Research Fellow (NERC Independent Research Fellow) Finelli, Mattéa, DPhil (BSc, MSc Montpelier; MSc Imperial) J&J Innovation Junior Research Fellow in Neuroscience related to Medicine Pasta, Mauro, (BSc, MSc, PhD Milan) Associate Professor of Materials, Tutor in Materials Chankseliani, Maia, (BA, MA Tbilisi State University; MA Warwick; EdM Harvard; PhD Camb) Associate Professor of Comparative & International Education, Fellow by Special Election Tadié, Alexis, (BA, MA, PhD Paris) Visiting Fellow Winkler, Emily Anne, MSt, DPhil (AB Dartmouth, USA) John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History Zondervan, Krina, DPhil (BA, MSc Leiden) Fellow by Special Election in Obstetrics & Gynaecology HONORARY FELLOWS Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton; Hon DSc Paris, Leicester, Loughborough, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Liverpool, S’ton, Liverpool John Moores, Lingnan Hong Kong, Newcastle, Leeds, Wyoming, St Andrews), FRS, FIC, Hon FIMechE, Hon FCGI, Hon FREng; Officier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France) Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon The Lord BrowneWilkinson, Kt, PC, BA, QC 5

Tindle, David, MA, RA, Hon RSBA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, OC, MA (DSc Paris; Hon DLitt Deakin Australia, Lincolnshire, Humberside, Athabasca Canada, Indira Gandhi Nat Open University India, McGill Canada; Hon DHumLitt Thomas Edison State Coll USA, Richmond Coll London; Hon DSc Royal Military Coll St Jean Canada, Open Univ, Sri Lanka, Paris VI, Univ of Education Winneba Ghana; Hon DEd CNAA, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open Univ Thailand, Open Univ Malaysia; Hon LLD Univ of Waterloo Canada, Wales, Laurentian Canada, Canada West, Ghana; DUni (Aberta Portugal, Anadolu Turkey, Québec, Derby, New Bulgarian, Open Univ, Hong Kong, Stirling, Montreal; Hon DLitt & DPhil South Africa; Hon LittD State Univ NY ), CCMI, Hon FCP; Officier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France) 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, GBE, MA (Hon DSc S’ton, UCL; Hon DBA Kingston), Hon FMedSci Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, DSO, QGM, MA; Comdr, Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur (France) Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA Nazir-Ali, Rt Revd Michael James, MLitt (BA Karachi; PGCTh, MLitt Camb; ThD Aust Coll of Theol, NSW; DHLitt Westminster Coll, Penn; DD Lambeth; Hon DLitt Bath, Greenwich; Hon DD Kent, Nashotah) Jones, Terence Graham Parry, MA Roberts, Gareth, MA Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, MA (DLitt (Hon) Anglia Ruskin; DLitt (Hon) Worcs), FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA, Hon DCL Edwards, Steven Lloyd, OBE, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, Kt, MA, DPhil (Hon DCL UC Dublin, UEA; Hon DSc Cranfield) Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil (Dip Music, MA Open Univ), FRS, FREng, FIMMM, CPhys, FInstP Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, MA, DPhil (DUniv Brunel, Central England; Hon DSc Aston & Birmingham), FCIWEM, FCIPS, CCMI Morsberger, Philip Burgess, MA Burnton, the Rt Hon Sir Stanley Jeffrey, Kt, PC, MA Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Manc; DPhil Sus), CChem, FRS, FRSC Josipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, Kt, BA, QC Starmer, Sir Keir Rodney, KCB, MP, BCL, QC 6

Shortridge, Sir Jon Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin; Hon Doctor of Univ of Glamorgan) Lee, Stewart Graham, BA Khurshid, Salman, BCL (BA St Stephen’s College, Delhi) Samuel Andrew Banks, MA (BA Florida) Hawkesworth, Christopher John, DPhil (BA Trin Coll Dublin; Hon DSc Copenhagen), FRS, FRSE Wainwright, Faith Helen, MBE, BA (Hon DEng Bath), FIStructE, FREng, FICE, FRSA Hollingworth, The Hon Justice Jane Elizabeth, BCL (BJuris, LLB Univ of Western Australia) Fletcher, Amelia, OBE, BA, MPhil, DPhil.

ST EDMUND FELLOWS Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Sir Martin Gregory, Kt, MA (MBA, AM Econ Stanford), Hon FRAM, FRGS Cansdale, Michael John, MA Stanton, Paul John, BCL, MA Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario; PhD Duke) Best, Tony, BA EMERITUS FELLOWS Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin) Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, BSc, MA, DPhil, CChem, FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM BCh, MA Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (PhD Lond) Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) Knight, John Beverley, MA (BA Natal; MA Camb) Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dub; PhD Lond; Dr Hon Causa Sofia) Wells, Christopher Jon, MA 7

Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb; JD Chicago), QC Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv; Hon Dr Budapest University of Technology & Economics), FREng, CEng, FICE, FRSE Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, FAcSS, FRHistS Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, (Hon DPhil Bern), FBA Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S’ton; MA Camb; PhD Leic) Garden Fellow Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Manc) LECTURERS Al-Mossawi, Hussein, MA, BM BCh, MRCP (UK) Medical Sciences Alexeeva, Iana, MSc (BA Calgary) Psychology Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb; PhD Lond) Physics Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Russian Black, John Joseph Merrington, QHP (C), (MB BS Lond), DCH, FRCS (Edin), FIMCRCS (Edin), FCEM Medicine (Anatomy) Bontea, Adriana, (BA, MA, PDSE Bucharest; PhD UC Davis) French Conde, Juan-Carlos, MA (BA, PhD Madrid) Spanish Dhaliwal, Puneet, MPhil (BA Warwick) Politics Foulis, Maia, (Lic. Stendhal Grenoble III) French (Lectrice) Gundle, Roger, MA, BM BCh, D Phil (MA Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS Orth Medicine Held, Christoph, (MA Freie Universität Berlin) German (Lektor) Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem, DPhil Biochemistry Huang, Wei, (BA Qingdao TU; MSc Tsinghua; PhD Sheffield) Environmental Engineering Jones, Ian, (MA St And; PhD London Business School) Management Kareer, Anna, (MEng, PhD Leicester) Materials King, Peter John, BPhil, DPhil Philosophy Laidlaw, Michael, DPhil (MA Camb) Inorganic Chemistry Leger, Marie, (BA Grenoble) French Littleton, Suellen Marie, (BSc California; MBA Lond) Management Lloyd, Alexandra Louise, MA, MSt, DPhil, PGCE German MacDonald, Andrew, MA, BM BCh Neuroanatomy MacFaul, Thomas, DPhil (BA Camb) English (Renaissance Literature) Mala Rihova, Zuzana, (MA, PhD Charles Univ) Czech McCartney, David, BM BCh Systems Medicine Moore, James, (MSci Durham), AMInstP Earth Sciences Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Camb) Earth Sciences and Materials Noe, Debrah Pozsonyi, (BS, PhD Ohio State) Finance 8

Pavord, Sue, (MB ChB Leicester), FRCP, FRCPath Raita, Bogdan, MMath Robinson, Stuart, MA, DPhil Salter, John-Paul, BA (MSc UCL, PGDip RHUL) Shine, Brian, (MB ChB, MD Birmingham; MSc Birkbeck), MRCPath, FRCPath Sun, Bo, (MB BS King’s College London) Wadham, Alastair Jake, DPhil (BA, MPhil Camb) Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb) Wilk, James, MA, DPhil, FCybS Wright, Katherine, MBiochem

Clinical Medicine Pure Mathematics Earth Sciences Politics Biomedical Sciences Clinical Medicine French Earth Sciences Philosophy Biochemistry

CHAPLAIN Donaldson, Revd Will, (MA Camb) LIBRARIAN Trepat-Martin, Blanca, (BA Barcelona; Dip Exe) ARCHIVIST Petre, Robert Douglas, (BA York; MArAd Liverpool) ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR & REGISTRAR Walters, Ashley, MA DIRECTOR OF MUSIC Watson, Christopher, (BA Exe) HEAD PORTER Knight, Lionel DECANAL STAFF Moses, Moustakim, (MChem Leicester) Junior Dean Gartrell, Amber, (BA, MA Warw) Cover Dean Brown, Rebecca, (BA, MA Hull) Sub-Dean (NSE) Willis, Roxana, MSt (LLB Kent; LLM London) Sub-Dean (WRM) Svoboda, Kayla, (BA Beloit) Sub-Dean (Isis)

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

SECTION 2

REPORTS ON THE YEAR

A modern college with its own distinctive values and a distinguished place in Oxford. That statement encapsulates how I feel about the Hall at the end of the 2015–2016 academic year. The Hall has been through many changes in the last five years. It has built an ever stronger community of undergraduate and graduate students and has developed excellent links to the many members of the Senior Common Room — not just the Tutorial Fellows but the many SCR members who teach specialist areas as lecturers, or who are researchers in the various departments of the University and hold Junior Research Fellowships, Career Development Fellowships and Professorial positions at the Hall. Over the past five years we have modernised much of the Hall’s management structures and gained new leadership in the academic, financial, estates and domestic areas alongside the development and alumni relations activities. I believe this huge amount of work — often unseen and ‘below the waterline’ — now places the Hall as a modern outward-looking college within the University. We have changed in order to ensure that the Hall’s intrinsic values, recognised by all students, alumni and friends, are preserved and enabled. The absolute essence of the ‘Hall Spirit’ that you will have known is very much alive and well in the Hall of today. It is, however, not a given. It needs continual energy and support to assure it in the face of the challenges of the tomorrows. In this year’s report I will try to capture the essence of some of the huge diversity of things happening in the Hall and then return at the end to some forthcoming initiatives to meet the upcoming challenges.

The Fellowship saw its normal patterns of arrival, retirements and leavings.

Stuart Ferguson, Professor of Biochemistry, continued as Vice-Principal and Professor Robert Wilkins as Senior Tutor. Professor Rob Whittaker stood down as Dean, having served the Hall in an exemplary manner in this role over many years. Mr Nicholas Davidson was Dean for a period and will hand over to Dr Jeff Tseng for the forthcoming year. Dr Karma Nabulsi became Library Fellow and Dr Roger Benson took over as Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs. In addition, we welcomed to the Fellowship Dr Maia Chankseliani (Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education), Dr Emily Winkler (John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History), Dr Xin Sun (Career Development Fellow in the Political Economy of China), and The Hon Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth and Dr Amelia Fletcher as Honorary Fellows, Professor Krina Zondervan (Professor of Reproductive & Genomic Epidemiology) as a Fellow by Special Election and Professor Alexis Tadié (Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne) as a Visiting Fellow. This year marked a significant change in the Fellowship with the retirement of Professor Lucy Newlyn (A C Cooper Fellow, Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutor in English). Professor Newlyn has been central to the progress of English at the Hall over many years and we wish her well in a, no-doubt, active retirement. Dr Allison Daley (Junior Research Fellow) left Oxford for 11

a permanent post as Associate Professor of Paleontology at the University of Lausanne. Our Junior Research Fellows always speak highly of the Hall and of the support that this association with the College contributes to their success in Oxford. Further specific philanthropic support from alumni, companies and charities is being sought to endow, in a more permanent manner, these JRF positions in the Hall’s Fellowship. Oxford is a great research university and the Hall needs to be in a position to attract the best of these young, independent researchers in Oxford; we provide the additional support and networking that ensures career success.

The talents of the Fellowship were recognised in many ways including Dimitrios Tsomocos’ award of the title of Professor of Financial Economics in the 2016 Oxford University Recognition of Distinction exercise. Drs Jenni Nuttall and Karma Nabulsi were both given awards to recognise the quality of their teaching and mentoring. Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg was awarded a very prestigious Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship to support her research into brain plasticity. Professor Adrian Briggs (Sir Richard Gozney Fellow in Law) received the honour of being appointed Queen’s Counsel honoris causa. The award of an Honorary QC is made to lawyers who have made a major contribution to the law of England & Wales outside practice in the courts.

The excellent 2016 Geddes Lecture, given by Anushka Asthana, Political Editor of The Guardian, and entitled ‘Breaking into the Boys Club: why British politics needs more women’, drew a large audience. Given that this academic year we were marking the admission of our 3000th female student, and celebrating the achievements of those women, the timing and topic of Anushka’s lecture was very fitting. This year Professor Wes Williams (Tutor in Modern Languages) kindly worked with the Trustees and external advisors to choose the talented young Oxford journalists who were awarded Geddes Prizes. We thank all benefactors, trustees and friends for their support of the Geddes Prizes and Lecture. Led by the Chair, Peter Cardwell, we developed a new strand to the Geddes activities by holding a Geddes Masterclass on Law and Journalism in January 2016. The leading London libel lawyer Charlotte Harris conducted a terrific interactive session for over 20 Oxford student journalists. We plan to hold further Geddes Masterclasses each year. The 2015 Emden Lecture delivered by Professor Joanna Bourke of Birkbeck College London on ‘Sadism: A History of Cruelty’ was also much appreciated by students, Aularians, academics and friends.

This academic year has seen some superb academic performances in Finals by members of the JCR. Some 37 students obtained First Class Honours and this year, representing 36% of the year group. Academic quality is the core business of any teaching institution and I am delighted that our students’ hard work and the support of their tutors is seeing such successful outcomes. The continuing theme of Hall students being able to impress with both academic and non-academic 12

activities is mirrored throughout the JCR and MCR. This year we have seen, enjoyed and applauded performances in music, drama, art, writing and sport.

The Choir, and music more generally, goes from strength to strength under the direction of Chris Watson, our Director of Music. Individual recitals and concerts have entertained us. A number of Aularians and friends have responded and provided increased support for choral scholarships and the choir tours.

Success breeds success, and so we have an increasing need for support for instruments and Masterclass funding for coaching and tuition by experts. We thank all Aularians who support in many varied ways this new strength in the Hall’s activities. The Hall’s collaboration, instigated by Lady Elise Becket Smith, with a local orchestra, the Instruments of Time and Truth, continued with a series of coaching days and performances. This year the St Edmund Hall Choir visited France, singing in services at Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy in July. The combined choirs of Teddy Hall, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, St Edmund’s School, Canterbury and St Edmund’s College, Ware met in Pontigny Abbey for a weekend of musical and liturgical celebrations of St Edmund, who died near Pontigny in 1240, and who is buried in the Abbey. The reputation of the Hall’s music and drama was boosted even more in Trinity term when Teddy Hall presented its own musical “BEMUSED!” a play which invited the audience to let their imagination run wild and consider that it might actually be a real being — your unseen other half! Audiences at a series of sold-out evenings were thrilled by a superbly performed musical co-written by a group of Teddy Hall students, co-directed by Teddy Hall students, music composed by Teddy Hall students, produced by Teddy Hall students and acted by Teddy Hall students.

As one would expect, sport continued to play a key part in the life of the Hall and in 2015–2016 Hall women and men won 29 full and half Blues, in 20 different sports. Again this year there were two winners of a Luddington Prize (the magnificent achievement of getting a First and a Blue), rugby and cricket being the sports involved. Interestingly, the women outperformed the men in the number of Blues and half Blues awarded!

Continuing the theme of the successes of Hall women, in this last academic year the 3000th woman matriculated at Teddy Hall. The dynamics of the Hall have changed over the years, and now over a third of our alumni and almost half of our current students are female. To mark this occasion, the Hall focused during this academic year on the achievements and influence of our alumnae, with a number of events and initiatives, led by the Development & Alumni Relations Office, alumni volunteers and current students.

While this year saw the 3000th female student join the Hall since women students were first admitted in 1978, we also celebrated female members of staff, Fellows and friends of the Hall. This coincides with another milestone, the election of Faith Wainwright, MBE FREng (1980, Engineering), the Hon Justice Elizabeth 13

Hollingworth (1984, BCL), and Dr Amelia Fletcher (1985, PPE) as the first female Honorary Fellows of the College. During Michaelmas term 2015 we held the fifth of our ‘Teddy Talks’, which are very popular networking opportunities in London open to all Aularians. Alice Hart-Davis (1982, Modern History) spoke about ‘The Beauty Industry: More than just Lipstick and Lycra’. One of the projects commissioned during the year was a display of portraits of twenty women exhibited in the Wolfson Hall. The resulting ‘Women Inspire’ exhibition, organised by Dr Dianne Gull, was a great success. Thanks must go to her, DARO staff and the 20 women who took part. The exhibition opening was attended by over 100 guests; including 14 of the 20 featured women. The exhibition and its associated brochure have drawn wide and sustained appreciation.

In an initiative stemming from the 3000 Women project, alumna Kay Langdale (1984, DPhil English), working with Sally Smith (Head of DARO), organised a special series of Teddy Talks with the subheading of ‘Now I Know How She Did It’. Students gathered to hear Cecile Reinaud talk about her career as Managing Director and Founder of Séraphine — the high-quality fashion line. It was excellent for our students to hear from such an inspiring entrepreneurial and award-winning woman.

Many alumni visited the Hall last year, but it was a particular pleasure to welcome back Professor David J Brenner (1971, Physics and Philosophy) who was awarded the University’s Weldon Memorial Prize. The prestigious award is given annually “to the person who, in the judgment of the electors, has, in the ten years preceding the date of the award, published the most noteworthy contribution to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in Biology.” David works at the Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, USA. In a rather different vein we welcomed back stand-up comedian, author and TV documentary host Al Murray (1987, Modern History) for a special evening at the College in May 2016. Al gave a presentation to nearly 200 current students about his foray into politics at the 2015 General Election where he challenged Nigel Farage from UKIP in standing in the hotly contested seat of South Thanet against the incumbent Conservative MP. The St Edmund Hall Association London Dinner continues to be one of the oldest and best attended alumni dinners of any Oxford college. Around 150 Aularians and guests attended the 75th dinner at the Royal Over-Seas League on Tuesday 19 January 2016. However, at the request of Aularians around the UK the Development & Alumni Relations Office have also initiated a series of lunches at different venues and different times of the year. An inaugural Aularian Edinburgh Lunch was very successful, with alumni and friends of the Hall hosted by me and alumnus Bill Foy (1965, Philosophy) at The Whisky Society in Leith.

We intend that this event will become an annual tradition. Likewise with a very successful Bath lunch held in June 2016 where we welcomed over 30 alumni and 14

friends, hosted with alumnus Michael Cansdale (1956, Jurisprudence). As I write we look forward to a lunch in October at the Lowry Centre in Manchester. Our hope is that these lunches will enable Aularians to network and hear more of activities at the Hall.

We continue to reach out to alumni overseas. The New York Dinner each November is a long-established tradition. Started over 30 years ago it attracts Aularians of all ages and their partners and guests for a great evening of conversation and networking. This year continued that theme and we thank the group of New York alumni and friends who have provided continuing support to this event. We took the opportunity in April this year to initiate what we hope will become a regular set of West Coast events. We were delighted to meet both old and new friends coming together out of a shared appreciation of the Hall.

I hosted drinks and a dinner in Los Angeles at the California Club, graciously arranged by Aularian Ethan Lipsig (1967, Philosophy). Aularians re-established old connections, and created new ones through the unique networking opportunities these events provide. We followed that with a reception in San Francisco which was equally successful. Moving on to the East Coast we were able to represent the Hall at the Oxford University Alumni Weekend in North America, held in Washington DC for the first time. I was delighted to host a dinner for local Aularians and for those who travelled to Washington DC for the weekend. Congressman Jim Himes (1988, Latin American Studies) gave the afterdinner speech to an audience of 30 Aularians ranging from a 1955 matriculant to a Visiting Student who was at the Hall in 2012. Congressman Himes was also most generous in giving a group of alumni the privilege of a private tour of the Capitol — an altogether extremely memorable alumni event.

In February 2016 we were pleased to welcome the family of St Edmund Hall’s much-loved former Chaplain, the Revd Gerald Hegarty. Gerald first joined the Hall in 1990 and served as Chaplain until 1997. He then made a welcome return to the post in 2004 until his death from cancer in 2011. Gerald is warmly remembered as a kind, thoughtful and very approachable member of the Hall community. The Hall paid tribute to him by renaming a Front Quad room, accessible to all students and used for student peer support and other events, the Hegarty Room.

I was delighted to welcome over 60 alumni and guests to our 2016 Masterclass Showcase; a chance for student beneficiaries of our popular Masterclass Awards to describe what they had spent their funding on, and how it had helped them to excel in their chosen field. The Masterclass Awards help students who are already highly accomplished in an extra-curricular activity to receive advanced coaching sessions to refine and improve their technique and ability. Alumni philanthropy supports the Masterclass Awards, which continue to go from strength to strength and attract highly competitive applications covering diverse aspects of sport, 15

music and drama, etc. These awards add to the Hall’s reputation as a centre of excellence with achievements that extend far beyond the academic. The audience was treated to individual performances of piano and cello, and students gave illustrated talks on their projects ranging from surfing in the arctic, to representing GB at pistol shooting, to theatre production focusing on highlighting mental health and social issues in India. This was a superb opportunity for Aularians to meet the students and celebrate their achievements made possible through the very generous donations to Masterclass Awards. I want to thank all those donors and invite others to donate to this fund as we attempt to build an endowment that will underpin this form of support in perpetuity.

We continue to reach out in our Schools Liaison Programme to schools that do not send many students to Oxford. We run open days and school visits as well as Oxford Apply workshops which are special residential visits to the Hall for Year 12 students from across the College’s link regions. This year was attended by 31 students from schools and colleges in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Leicestershire and the Isle of Wight. I teach every summer in one of the UNIQ Summer Schools where talented and gifted students from schools that send few or no students to Oxford have a residential week at the Hall with lectures and tutorials. I teach on the Biomedical UNIQ Summer School run by our Senior Tutor, Professor Robert Wilkins. We award over £120,000 of bursaries each year to students with limited financial support and an increasing number of Aularians are providing financial support for these bursaries and summer courses. I want to thank all who have provided such support — both large and small — over the past year. This support makes a huge difference to our students. If you would like to hear more about these activities or support us then please write to me.

When one considers the JCR, MCR and Fellows, lecturers and our staff, the Hall is a very diverse and inclusive community. We are home to people from over 40 different countries. Included in that cosmopolitan mix of valued academic and non-academic colleagues are a good number of EU citizens and whatever the national arrangements resulting from the Brexit vote the Hall will continue its tradition of attracting, valuing and supporting talented people from across the world. We will do all in our power to ensure the Hall maintains its welcome for EU citizens and will be proactive in confirming our continuing links with Europe. We continue to develop our links with China and Chinese Universities.

The OXCEP courses on Economics and Entrepreneurship linked to Sichuan University continue, reciprocal visits by Fellows and students have continued and we held our first course in ‘Horizons of Medicine’ for Professors from the West China Center of Medical Sciences at Sichuan University. I co-organised this course with our Medical tutor, Professor Robert Wilkins. We have also initiated a new student programme with Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University in China. The aim is to expand the global vision of students via a programme whereby a small team of students from Lingnan will team up with students from 16

St Edmund Hall to research a particular topic within universal issues such as population, the environment, business ethics and so on. Our students will go to China for a week. We have excellent links to Aularians in Hong Kong that we want to strengthen, but my intention is also to embed in the Hall funded mechanisms whereby students can make links to all the various parts of China.

This year I have continued the progress of last year in fundraising for the variety of projects that form the basis of our ongoing development portfolio. Our fundraising now acknowledges and reflects a perpetual need to make the Hall experience a richer and deeper one for our students, hence our campaigns will be centered on individual projects where need is greatest and value can best be added. Rather than having a single campaign we envisage the Hall’s development work to be a continuous fundraising effort. The major overall task is to raise the endowment to a level that provides surety for the future of the Hall. I want to thank the many Aularians and friends of the Hall who have met us during this year and have supported the Hall and its students via donations, legacy pledges and gifts. We have completed the full endowment of our second Law Fellowship through the benefaction from an anonymous Aularian. Support for the endowment of our Tutorial Fellowships is the best way to ensure the health of the disciplines in perpetuity in the Hall. Support for both undergraduates and graduate students through bursaries and scholarships is also a central target of our endowment fundraising.

Providing excellent accommodation is one of the best ways we can support both undergraduate and graduate students whilst they are at the Hall. Last year, via munificent donations from a group of alumni and using funds from a significant legacy we bought a property immediately adjacent to our other student accommodation in Norham Gardens. The Hall now faces the task of refurbishment of this and adjacent properties, and Aularian fundraising for that will be an immediate priority (with two significant donations pledged if many other Aularians support the venture at whatever level). We hope that many individuals and year groups will follow the lead of some early supporters who have visited the Hall and learned of the project and contributed funds to name rooms.

Improvement of student accommodation is the greatest challenge the Hall faces.

This year we completed the full renovation of the Front Quad. It looks superb.

We are now planning to refurbish each of the major rooms overlooking the Front Quad and a very generous donation of £250,000 has allowed us to start planning the refurbishment and cataloguing of the Old Library which sits above the front of the Chapel. Jayne Taylor, our Domestic Bursar, is working hard on bringing forward plans and costings for the Old Dining Hall and Chapel. I hope that before long, with the continued support of Aularians and Friends, we can have all these historic rooms back to the condition that we all wish for.

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So... a summary of the year that doesn’t even begin to capture all the events and activities of the Hall. But, hopefully it serves to remind us all of the talents of those here and who have been here. Our intention is to ensure that the Hall has a firmly based strategy to ensure the ambitions and activities of those at the Hall in the many tomorrows.

Keith Gull

NEWS FROM THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM In addition to her teaching as a College Lecturer in Physics at Teddy Hall, during this past year Dr Joanna Ashbourn has continued as the Director of the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, which aims not just to focus on chronicling the history of the discipline as a retrospective exercise but also to engage critically with the philosophy and methodologies informing how current research in physics is undertaken. The Centre goes from strength to strength and held three termly fully-booked one-day conferences during 2015– 2016 (‘A History of the Sun, Our Closest Star’, ‘Medieval Physics in Oxford’ and ‘The Nature of Time’), as well as a special lecture on ‘Colliding Worlds — How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art’. Details of these events with videos of all the talks plus forthcoming events for 2016–2017 can currently be seen at www.stx.ox.ac.uk/happ.

Alistair Borthwick, Emeritus Fellow. During the past year, Alistair continued to carry out collaborative research on environmental engineering with colleagues in China and Hungary. In September 2015 he was appointed to guest professorships at Wuhan University and China University of Geosciences, while continuing to work on water-related environmental problems with Peking University. During the visit, he gave an invited lecture on the ‘Marine Renewable Energy Seascape’ at the Global Grand Challenges Summit in Beijing (following will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas who gave a charismatic speech on the ‘Joy of Living’).

As a result of a very long association with Budapest Műegyetem (a.k.a. Budapest University of Technology & Economics, or BME), Alistair was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa in May 2016, “in appreciation of his internationallyreputed activities within the specialized branch of Civil Engineering”. Professor Dr János Józsa, the Rector of BME, has often visited the Hall over the years, and has many fond memories of the microclimate to be found in the Front Quad.

Alistair’s acceptance speech at the award ceremony caused huge surprise by including the rendition of a poem in Hungarian. He reports that several Deans awoke as if from deep slumber, some dreaming that a peculiar form of Ancient Greek was being spoken.

Keith Bowen, Honorary Fellow, once more brought the Kammermusik Chamber Music Workshop for its biennial meeting in the Hall, 29 August–2 September 18

2016. This comprises about 40 amateur chamber musicians, from the USA, UK, Brazil, Portugal, Belgium and Israel. The Workshop was using the Hall’s facilities for the fourth year running and the event continues to be very popular.

Adrian Briggs, Professor of Private International Law, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow and Tutor in Law, became QC (Hon) in February 2016, which involved a certain amount of dressing up and bowing (as traumatic as it was nice). In terms of books and other writings, Private International Law in Myanmar, which had been compiled the year before, was produced (this does not quite mean ‘published’) by the OUP and will soon, no doubt, be the only topic of conversation in Rangoon. Or perhaps not. Still, with that done, the plan then called for two of his books on (English and European) private international law to be brought up to date — but the June 2016 referendum rather put paid to that. The only result was that the work to produce a book on the (Burmese) Contract Act 1872 was the only writing project to have survived, so he will be off to the metaphorical jungle to search for and analyse this marvellous piece of energetic Victoriana. Perhaps when it is all done it will be possible for him to return to private international law. Or perhaps not.

Peter Bruce, Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow. Peter’s year included giving talks and attending public engagements, in the UK and abroad, on some 14 occasions. These included participating in the Royal Society Fellows’ Research Weekend at Chicheley Hall, 23–24 January 2016; and travelling to France, Spain, Japan, China (twice), Israel, and the USA. He was co-author of nine papers published during the year and was recognised as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (December 2015). Peter received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Liversidge Award for 2016.

Sir Stanley Burnton, Honorary Fellow, chaired the working party of Justice that produced a highly-regarded report on Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity. His tenure of the office as Master of Music of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple has been extended for a further three years (which will make nine in all).

As Master of Music he organises concerts in Middle Temple’s 16th-century Hall.

These included a highly-successful performance of Handel’s Messiah in December 2015 by Classical Opera. In November 2015 he was appointed as Interception of Communications Commissioner by the then Prime Minister. In addition, he sits as an arbitrator in commercial arbitrations. Sir Stanley is now President of the Slynn Foundation (which assists foreign countries to improve their legal systems) as well as Chairman of the British and Irish Information Institute.

Sir Ian Byatt, Honorary Fellow, continued with his work on the Public Interest Committee of what was Baker Tilly Audit, now RSM Audit, a medium-size accounting firm catering for clients in the middle market (primarily ownermanaged, private not-for-profit companies, charities, etc). The Committee’s two-fold concerns are to work within RSM Audit to enhance and maintain the quality of audit, and to persuade the Financial Reporting Council (a government 19

organisation) that regulators perform well when regulated entities perform well for their customers, not when they are busy ticking all the boxes set up by the regulators. Audit firms are regulated both by the FRC and the Professional Accounting Institutes in England & Wales and in Scotland: the respective roles of government regulation and regulation by the profession are not entirely clear, but there is a good deal of governmental regulation mission-creep. How this will change when the UK develops a different relationship with the European Union is fascinating, if rather murky, he thinks — depending on the way in which the definition and configuration of the Single Market might evolve. This year Sir Ian has once again lectured on the regulation of the UK water industry, to students attending the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme at the Hall. He finds that these students, who are academic staff at Sichuan University, are a pleasure to talk to, and to listen to.

Maia Chankseliani, Associate Professor of Comparative & International Education, Fellow by Special Election, was awarded three grants this academic year: the Newton-Al-Farabi Researcher Links grant (jointly with Aisi Li of Nazarbayev University) to organise an international workshop in Kazakhstan on student mobility; an OU Department of Education seedcorn grant to undertake research on the UK Higher Education sector’s perspectives of student mobility from Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia to the UK; and a grant from the Fell Fund to undertake a study on ‘(Im)mobility and Global Citizenship: a Comparative Investigation of Student Mobility from Post-Soviet Countries to the EU’. Maia employed a graduate student from St Edmund Hall, Gianna Hessel (2015, MSc in Applied Linguistics), to work with her part-time on the last two of these grants. The successful workshop in Khazakhstan resulted in a larger grant application being submitted to the British Council in June 2016. Maia produced seven publications during the year and gave four conference presentations.

She was one of five nominees from the University’s Social Sciences Division shortlisted in the 2016 OUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards competition for ‘outstanding tutor’.

Peter Collins, Emeritus Fellow. Peter’s research group and seminar remain a focus of his activities. Otherwise, heritage interests have occupied much of his time. In 2016, the UK won more European Union/Europa Nostra cultural heritage prizes than any other country, which has involved Peter, inter alia, in presenting awards to: Prince Charles for the work of his Regeneration Trust at Middlethorpe Pottery; Kate Mavor, Director of English Heritage, for its major improvements at Stonehenge; and Loyd Grossman, Chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, for 80 years’ outstanding work preserving the religious heritage of the nation. Striving for the Campaign to Protect Rural England this year presented an uphill battle against the undemocratic determination of a vast increase in the number of new houses proposed for the Vale of White Horse, not just to provide affordable homes for residents but to meet unrealistic 20

forecasts of growth in the Oxfordshire economy. Five weeks were spent closeted with an Inspector and developers to consider the proposed Local Plan. The only benefits so far have been a decision that to build 1,400 houses in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty could not be justified — and a chance meeting at one session resulting in a request from The Friends of Abingdon, who care for St Edmund’s Abbey, that the Hall should renew the connection that existed when Principal Emden was their vice-president.

Peter hopes that the occasional joint event can be fitted into the Hall calendar.

On wine, his tasting trip at the 2015 Alumni Weekend presented a challenge, as he had chosen a trip down the Danube, a University Travel Programme ‘destination’, as his theme. To know wines is one thing: their availability in the UK quite another. In the end, award-winning Serbian wines made by a New Zealand national ticked one box, whereas a Portuguese merchant in Newcastle provided exquisite Slovenian whites — and all was well.

Now in the fourth year of his extended Presidency of the School Library Association, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Honorary Fellow, spoke and gave readings at many schools, colleges, societies and literary festivals during the year — amongst them, Alderney Literary Festival, Barnes Festival, BookEast’s inaugural festival, the University of Cambridge, the Children’s Bookshow, Exeter School, King’s Lynn Poetry Festival, Le Livre sur les Quais (Morges), Newman University, Oxford Literary Festival, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, Temenos Academy and Vancouver Children’s Festival — and, with Lucy Newlyn, at St Edmund Hall. Kevin published Veering North-Easterly, a small collection of poems and paintings, with his sometime wife Gillian; with the celebrated illustrator Jane Ray a children’s book, Heartsong, turning on the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice; and with Stéphane Jorisch, four-time winner of the Canadian GovernorGeneral’s Award, a teasing picture-book, The Riddlemaster. He also collaborated with the composer Cecilia McDowall, on A Time for All Seasons, commissioned

by Harlow Chorus for its 40th anniversary and first performed in Chelmsford Cathedral in April 2016. And the Brotherton Library at Leeds University has purchased the most recent tranche of his papers — including his publication files and correspondence.

Sir John Daniel, Honorary Fellow, has begun his second three-year term as probono chair of the International Board of the United World Colleges. Four new colleges have been added during his tenure (in Armenia, China, Germany and Thailand), bringing the total to 16. National committees in 150 countries recruit a deliberately diverse student body to these institutions, where most pupils receive substantial bursary support. He also continues to write and speak extensively about open, distance, and online learning, and was involved as co-chair and rapporteur in an international expert meeting that in summer 2016 put out an Advisory Statement on Combating Corruption and Enhancing Integrity in Higher Education around the world.

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Nicholas Davidson, Associate Professor of the History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Tutor in Modern History, Archive Fellow took over as Dean at the Hall in April 2016. His research and writing over the past year have focused on aspects of the institutional and social history of early modern Catholicism. A paper on the creation of the Congregation of the Inquisition in 1542, based on new findings in the archives in Rome, was followed by another on personal and familial links between Orthodox and Latin Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean, and a case-study of the relationship between the seventeenth Earl of Oxford and a Venetian choirboy in the later 16th century. This last work emerged from the funded research project on religion and life-writing in Reformation Europe hosted by Nick’s network at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). He was invited to contribute to a series of workshops and a conference at the University of Chicago in April 2016, and he is now preparing for further international meetings on cardinals, Erasmus, and the Jesuits.

Michael Dee, Junior Research Fellow (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow).

Over the academic year Michael brought one research project to a close and successfully gained funding for another, much larger-scale, piece of work.

The former study centred on whether or not an abrupt climatic event was responsible for the end of the Pyramid Age of Egypt. His chronological analysis of both environmental and archaeological records found no evidence that this was the case. Michael presented these findings at the International Radiocarbon Conference which took place in November 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. While working on that project he began developing a new idea based on recentlydiscovered spikes in the concentration of radiocarbon in the atmosphere: these spikes are caused by intense bursts of radiation from the sun, and he believes that they might allow radiocarbon dating to reach higher levels of precision whilst also providing valuable new information on past solar activity. Michael obtained a small grant from the Fell Fund to conduct a pilot study on this subject early in 2016, and during the Long Vacation he was awarded a major grant by the European Research Council to investigate the matter in detail. This year was the last of his Junior Research Fellowship. Michael writes: “I would like to express my gratitude to the Fellows, staff and students at St Edmund Hall for making my time at the College so tremendously enjoyable and fulfilling.”

An article on Michael’s research, ‘Changing Times’, appeared in the Trinity term 2016 issue of The Aularian newsletter.

David Dupret, Fellow by Special Election in Neuroscience. In 2015–2016 David successfully completed the first year of his research programme as part of the Brain Networks Dynamics Unit funded by the Medical Research Council and launched in April 2015 at the University of Oxford. He and his group made an important scientific breakthrough by reporting that preventing the activity of nerve cells 22

holding a brain representation of the surrounding environment allows a group of quiet nerve cells to emerge and provide an alternative representation of that environment. Researchers from the Dupret laboratory used this observation to successfully re-code the memory representation of an environment paired with drug abuse for a neutral memory, thereby alleviating a maladaptive drugplace behaviour (Trouche et al, Nature Neuroscience, 2016). David presented this work in several universities and research institutes: Copenhagen, Stockholm, Tübingen, Alicante, Budapest, Princeton, Bordeaux and London! He has also been awarded two important grants to carry out additional research projects with the support of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). As in past years, David and his group continued to engage pro-actively with the public during ‘Brain Awareness Week’ as well as the ‘Generating Genius’ and ‘In2Science’ initiatives. David also continued to provide tutorials in System Neuroscience to the Hall’s first-year Biomedical Sciences and second-year Medicine students. In July 2016 he was named a 2016–2020 Scholar of the FENSKavli Network of Excellence, a prestigious grouping of around 30 outstanding early-career neuroscientists who are seeking to shape the future of Neuroscience in Europe and beyond, through providing opportunities for young scientists, influencing policy and facilitating the exchange between science and society.

In April 2016 Steven Edwards, Honorary Fellow, became the first British person to fly a hot-air balloon from the North Pole: he believes that the distance achieved, 42 nautical miles, was much further than any other hot-air balloon has ever got from there. By July 2016 Steve was in Lerwick on his way North as part of an expedition to be the first British sailing-boat to go round the North Pole in one season (and only the third boat ever to accomplish this).

Stuart Ferguson, University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, continued as William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry & Vice-Principal, both of which roles kept him extremely busy. He was pleased to see four Firsts and two good Two-Ones from this year’s Finalists, along with the Part 2 Project Prize going to Owain Jones (who also managed to obtain cricket Blues in all of his years in residence). Stuart made one conference trip, to give a lecture in Nanjing, China, at the 9th International Conference on Porphyrin Biology and Chemistry, which took place in July 2016.

Mattéa Finelli, J&J Innovation Junior Research Fellow in Neuroscience related to Medicine. Mattéa has been continuing her research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative disorders. In particular, she is currently characterising novel proteins — the TLDc proteins — and how they protect neurons against cellular stress. Mattéa was awarded the highlycompetitive Goodger and Schorstein Scholarship, which aims to fund promising young postdoctoral researchers in the Medical Sciences. Thanks to Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s support, she was also able to attend various international 23

conferences: in particular, she presented her exciting new data on TLDc proteins at the biennial conference organised by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies in Copenhagen.

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

by Special Election, reports that this year saw two important developments for Fine Art in the College. During his period as Head of the Ruskin School of Art, Jason secured capital funding for the complete re-development of the School’s Bullingdon Road site in East Oxford: Spratley Studios were appointed as the architects for the new, purpose-designed building, providing expanded studio and workshop spaces, cutting-edge sculpture, printmaking and digital multimedia facilities, as well as a publicly-accessible Project Space for exhibitions and performances. The building, which opened to students at the start of academic year 2015–2016, won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South Award and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize. Fine Art students have benefited greatly from these new facilities, which, for the first time, allowed the Final Degree Show to be held on site. The second important development was the launch of a new Master of Fine Art (MFA) course — a vital link between undergraduate and doctoral provision. Teddy Hall admitted its first MFA student this year and the new programme has proved highly successful.

Jason also found time to travel to China for a short Visiting Professorship at Sichuan University in Chengdu, where he gave lectures and seminars on 18thcentury landscape painting. Jason was a keynote speaker at the Nordic Society of Aesthetics meeting in Uppsala (which included a final conference dinner hosted in Linnaeus’s garden) and gave papers at Fribourg University in Switzerland and at the University of St Andrews — so returning to the department where he took his first degree.

This academic year, Eva Gluenz, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Fellow

by Special Election returned to research after maternity leave for the birth of her second daughter. Since then, together with the three DPhil students in her laboratory (Tom Beneke, Laura Makin and Jessica Valli — all from Teddy Hall), she has developed new methods to edit the genome of microscopic parasites called Leishmania, which are transmitted by blood-feeding sand flies. This exciting work allows Eva’s group to follow up on a study, published in October 2015, reporting the discovery of several hundred new genes and showing how gene expression changes during the parasite’s life cycle. The research can now ask new questions about the biology of these parasites and how they cause disease.

Leslie Ann Goldberg, Professor of Computer Science, Senior Research Fellow, can report a very busy year for research. She was on sabbatical in Hilary and Trinity terms 2016, spending the time as a Visiting Scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, California. During the year, Leslie’s group continued to work on understanding and quantifying the intrinsic difficulty of 24

computational counting problems and on other related problems in theoretical computer science. Their paper ‘Amplifiers for the Moran Process’ won the bestpaper prize for the Algorithms, Automata, Complexity and Games track of the 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming. This paper went on to be presented at the conference in Rome in July 2016. Leslie also became involved in a “public understanding of mathematical computer science” initiative. This included participating in a BBC Four programme entitled ‘The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms’ shown in September 2015, being on Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ in November talking about the famous P vs NP problem, and also giving a talk on this problem at the Hay Festival in May 2016. Leslie has enjoyed the challenge of trying to explain the major open problems in her field to general audiences.

Keith Gull, Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Principal. During the year, apart from his role as Principal and an additional focus working with the Development & Alumni Relations Office on fundraising, Keith continued his research activities in infectious disease. His group published a series of papers on the links between cell shape and motility and pathogenicity in the African trypanosome. They gained two new grants with colleagues: one from the Wellcome Trust to fund work in Keith’s laboratory to tag every one of the 100,000 genes in the trypanosome genome and hence to determine the location of the encoded protein in the cell; the other, from the Medical Research Council, funds collaborative exchanges with laboratories in Brazil. Keith continued to assist university departments in Africa and spent two weeks teaching at the University of Accra, Ghana; he also assisted with a World Bank Programme developing graduate education in West Africa. Amongst other things, Keith awarded degrees at Oxford Brookes University; gave plenary lectures at two international congresses in his field; taught on the Oxford UNIQ course that brings talented students to Oxford from schools without a record of sending students here; chaired the Pirbright Institute Scientific Advisory Committee; and chaired the quinquennial assessment of Dundee University’s Life Science School. Finally, he was asked to join the Trust Board of the Leverhulme Trust. In March 2016 it was announced that Keith is to receive the prestigious Biochemical Society Award next year when he delivers his Medal Lecture at a Society conference.

Jeffrey Hackney, Emeritus Fellow, was back in the Hall during the 2016 Summer Vacation, teaching early English land law to students from the College of Law, Florida State University. Jeffrey has been the Oxford contact for this annual ABAaccredited course ever since he brought it to the Hall in the early 1970s. He is also being re-appointed as one of the University’s pair of Clerks of the Market for 2016–2017 — his fifth successive year in this historical but undemanding office.

Sir Peter Hirsch, Emeritus Fellow, writes: “My wife, Steve, passed away on 15 June 2016 after a long illness. She was 98. Some of the Emeritus Fellows, and the long25

serving Materials Science Fellow, knew her as someone full of spirit and always with a smile. She will be sadly missed by myself, family and friends.” Sir Peter also reports, on a lighter note, that he was interviewed as part of a project run by the British Library on an ‘Oral History of British Science’, which forms part of the National Life Stories Series. The interview will be accessible to the public through the Oral History Section of the British Library website (sounds.bl.uk).

In last year’s Magazine, Sir Peter referred to the publication in the journal Nature Communications of a joint paper with a number of colleagues in the University’s Department of Materials: to their pleasant surprise, the European Microscopy Society voted it to be the outstanding paper in 2015 in the field of Microscopy in Materials Science.

The Hon. Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth, Honorary Fellow, has been sitting full-time as the Deputy Principal Judge of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She has taught judgment writing courses to Australian judges (through the National Judicial College of Australia) and to judges of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Elizabeth has also taught advocacy to prosecutors in Uganda, and legal writing skills to readers at the Victorian Bar. She continues to chair the External Advisory Council of the Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Richard Hopkinson, William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology. Richard’s research aims to understand how organisms minimise and tolerate their exposure to toxic chemicals, particularly the environmental pollutant formaldehyde. Above threshold levels, formaldehyde is proposed to cause and/or propagate diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s, likely by reacting with DNA and proteins. Our mechanistic understanding of these reactions is currently very poor, however. Recent research has shown that formaldehyde is produced within organisms, implying that cells are well adapted to tolerating it. Richard’s recent research has involved studying the biological pathways both producing and metabolising formaldehyde within cells, as well as profiling the many reactions that formaldehyde undergoes with DNA and proteins. A combination of chemical biology and cellular approaches identified multiple novel formaldehyde-forming reactions in cells, suggesting that formaldehyde production is more prevalent than previously perceived. In addition, work on a proposed formaldehyde-metabolising enzyme revealed no evidence of reaction with formaldehyde, implying that its function has been mis-assigned. Studies with DNA and proteins also revealed numerous novel reactions, including many that suggest novel mechanisms for toxicity. The research produced several publications during the course of the year. Richard is now focusing on fully determining how formaldehyde causes disease.

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(FMRIB), a position she took up in May 2015. The Centre, which houses over 100 researchers, continues to make important scientific contributions and to train excellent scientists. Within FMRIB, Heidi’s own research group study brain change in health and disease. For example, this year they published promising new work demonstrating the potential for brain stimulation to accelerate rehabilitation after stroke. Heidi was delighted to be awarded a five-year Principal Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust this year, a grant which will support Heidi and her research staff to study how brain connections change with experience, learning or recovery from damage. During the year Heidi delivered talks in the USA, China and Europe. She was particularly pleased to have the opportunity to represent Teddy Hall on a trip to the University of Sichuan in China last summer, where she delivered a series of lectures and seminars to researchers and students.

An alumna, Heidi was selected as one of the 20 women featured in this year’s ‘Women Inspire’ exhibition (see section 3 of the Magazine).

Paul Johnson, Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Fellow by Special Election, has been appointed Chair of the NHS Steering Group for Pancreatic Islet Transplantation.

He is also a Principal Investigator on a new collaborative Horizon 2020 Grant for 8.5 million euros developing a novel implantable device for transplanting cells without the need for immunosuppression. Paul gave a number of key invited lectures at international meetings during the year and was Visiting Professor at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne in November 2015.

Gabriel Josipovici, Honorary Fellow, published two new books in 2016: Hamlet: Fold on Fold (Yale) and The Teller and the Tale: Essays on Literature and Culture (Carcanet). The French translation of his 2012 novel, Infinity, won the Prix Laure Battaillon in France. An international symposium to celebrate his 75th birthday was held at the University of Sussex in September 2015.

Andrew Kahn, Professor of Russian Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian), had a fulfilling time teaching and working on research projects. The year was memorable for (not run of the mill!) travels, with visits to Cambridge, Columbia, Stanford and Brandeis University to give lectures. For Andrew, the most rewarding and memorable of all were three other visits. The first was to give a public lecture at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on Pushkin: this was hosted by a marvellous charity called Poet in the City. The second visit was much further afield, to Chengdu and Sichuan University as a Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, where he gave four lectures on Russian literature in English and Russian on subjects like ‘The Great Man in Tolstoy’s War and Peace’ (the real thing, not the BBC series!). This was Andrew’s first journey to China and he found the experience amazing — great hospitality, extraordinary sight-seeing (including the bronzes at Sanxindui), and highly-responsive audiences with lovely students. The third memorable visit was a trip to St Petersburg (where he 27

had in fact already gone earlier in the year for work purposes). On this occasion he was invited to talk about Osip Mandelstam at the Museum and Flat of Anna Akhmatova, his great contemporary. Many Russians will know this hallowed place and its remarkable location in the Sheremetev Palace. Andrew’s host, the venerable Tatyana Sergeevna Pozdniakova, one of that wonderful species of Russian devoted to the culture heart and soul, provided the nicest introduction he could ever hope to receive. She said that “no matter what, Andrew never loses his sense of humour and even on the way here was making jokes”. That was before a moment of total panic when they ushered him into Akhmatova’s dining-room and sat him in her chair, the staff crowded round looking very critical and a large public packed in. Perhaps a ‘black joke’, as the Russians say — but Andrew managed to sustain his talk in Russian against a rather dramatic backdrop of sporadic, vociferous interruptions from an elderly lady who (as they had warned before he began) was unstoppable and mad, and who, draped headto-toe in black, looked like an Old Believer. It was an honour and experience which Andrew will never forget.

Aris Karastergiou, Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics, is pleased that we are living in exciting times for astrophysics, and in particular radio-astronomy — with the dawn of the era of the Square Kilometre Array, the most powerful radio telescope ever constructed to study fundamental physics and cosmology. Over the academic year 2015–2016, he spent eight weeks with members of his group in Oxford and Cape Town, working on MeerKAT, the precursor telescope to SKA in South Africa. MeerKAT had its inaugural observations, to international acclaim.

Aris’s group in Oxford are progressing with the algorithmic work needed to discover the Galactic population of radio pulsars — rapidly-rotating neutron stars with extremely high rotation properties — using MeerKAT and SKA. At the same time, he has continued with his students in Oxford and Cape Town his work on understanding the physical processes that determine radio emission from pulsars. MeerKAT will be completed by early 2018, and Aris is working with international colleagues to exploit it scientifically in understanding the physics of pulsars, finding exotic pulsar systems dominated by extreme physical processes, and detecting a population of fast radio bursts (very short-duration radio pulses originating from distant galaxies).

The latest collection of poetry (and some prose) by Peter King, College Lecturer in Philosophy, entitled Adding Colours to the Chameleon has been published by Wisdom’s Bottom Press. This is Peter’s fourth full collection and it includes work spanning 40 years, in a wide variety of styles. The same publisher has produced a book by Aularian Jude Cowan Montague (1982, English), The Wires: 2012. A booklaunch including the works by Peter and Jude was held at the Poetry Café in London’s Covent Garden on 12 August 2016 (to be followed by other launches, including one in Oxford, later in the year).

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Professor John Knight, Emeritus Fellow, was a Visiting Professor at the China Institute for Income Distribution in Beijing Normal University for a month in the autumn of 2015 and again the following spring, and while in China he presented at international conferences and research workshops. John gave a public lecture at Manchester University in May 2016 and also contributed to a workshop there (the former on China’s economic governance and the latter on its rising inequality of wealth). In August 2016, as Academic Director of the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP), he directed two two-week courses at the Hall on Economics and Public Policy for professors from Sichuan University. In September 2016 he retired from his stint on the Hall’s remuneration committee, which oversees Hall salaries, but was pleased that his two former pupils of more than 40 years ago, Jon Shortridge and Peter Johnson, continue to serve.

Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Professorial Fellow, reports that a lot has happened during her first full year in post.

For her, the highlight was delivering her Inaugural Lecture on the ‘Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts’ in January 2016: it started with a procession in which not only the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Proctor accompanied her, but also the central object of the lecture, a newly-acquired manuscript from the Abbey of Medingen — brought in by Bodley’s Librarian and the current Abbess of Medingen in full regalia! This was followed by drinks in the Principal’s Lodgings and a splendid dinner in the Old Dining Hall with representatives from the German Embassy and those institutions which provide funding for Henrike’s Chair. The day closed with a sung Compline in the packed Chapel — especially appropriate, since joining the Chapel Choir has been one of the joys of Henrike’s life at the Hall.

Throughout the year Henrike has welcomed a steady stream of visitors, workshops and conferences (so much so that the expression “a wassail of medievalists” has become a catch-phrase in the SCR). There was medieval carol singing in the Chapel; an international workshop on editing medieval letters financed by a grant which Henrike won from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung; a meeting of graduate students in medieval German studies from Freiburg, Fribourg and Geneva; the annual conference of the large Oxford Graduate Medieval Studies group; a ‘hackathon’ in the Old Library to digitise the ‘Cappelli’ (the seminal Dictionary of Medieval Abbreviations); a visit from the Bonn medieval German studies department; and the first-ever performance of a medieval German mystery play on Pope Joan in England. This performance was linked to a workshop on the Lutheran Reformation, a topic that will dominate much of next year for Henrike (since 31 October 2017 sees the 500th anniversary of the publication of ‘The 95 Theses’ by Martin Luther).

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beginning of July 2016 with the Oxford Bach Soloists; the documentary which came out of this tour will launch on 11 November 2016. Henrike hopes to pick up the theme on different levels in the Hall during 2016–2017.

Alex Lloyd, College Lecturer in German. This year, in addition to her teaching duties, Alex was largely writing on German-language cinema. In September 2015 Oxford German Studies put out a special issue on childhood in German film after 1989, which she co-edited with Dr Ute Woelfel (University of Reading). It included Alex’s article on film adaptations of Erich Kästner’s books for children.

She also published on childhood in the works of Austrian director Michael Haneke (in Modern Language Review) and her study of school essays written by children in East Berlin in 1946 was accepted for publication in a special issue of German Life and Letters. Following the end of Trinity term 2016, Alex spent a week teaching in the German Studies department at the University of Heidelberg as part of the Erasmus+ staff exchange programme. She was also able to develop her academic interest in the relationship between poetry and song this year. Alex coconvened the Oxford Song Network, generously funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), hosting events for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a study day as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival’s Spring Weekend of Song. She has also participated with Professor Henrike Lähnemann in a knowledge-exchange project ‘Music in Monasteries: Recording the Reformation’ involving the Oxford Bach Soloists (of which Alex is a member).

Tom MacFaul, College Lecturer in English (Renaissance Literature), published his fourth monograph this year, Shakespeare and the Natural World, with Cambridge University Press. The book explores Shakespeare’s treatment of the rural world, animals and other matters such as food and medicine, showing how changing religious and scientific beliefs affected his sense of human beings’ relationship with each other and with their environment. Tom also published an article on George Herbert’s poetry, and finished off some work on Caroline drama. He is now busy on a book about representations of space in Romantic period writing, and has been very much enjoying teaching a wide range of literary topics to able and enthusiastic undergraduates.

The highlight of the year for David Manolopoulos, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry, came from a collaboration with Professor Peter Hore and his graduate students Hamish Hiscock and Susannah Worster on how migratory birds detect the Earth’s magnetic field. This may not seem to have much to do with chemistry, but in fact it does: the magnetic compass sense of birds is triggered by a photochemically-induced radical pair reaction in cryptochrome proteins in the avian retina. A theoretical study of this radical pair reaction recently explained how it could give rise to a very precise magnetic compass indeed, one capable (for example) of guiding a bar-tailed godwit in a single non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to New Zealand.

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Intriguingly, the compass needle arises from a purely quantum mechanical phenomenon — an avoided crossing between the quantised energy levels of the electron and nuclear spins in the radical pair — and so it provides a tangible example of how quantum mechanics can be exploited in biology. This work was published as the cover article of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA on 26 April 2016.

David McCartney, Academic Clinical Fellow, Fellow by Special Election. In March 2016, David was extremely pleased to be invited to give a talk on ‘Horizons in Primary Care’ at the inaugural Academic Medicine Conference hosted at the Hall for visitors from Sichuan. He continues with his clinical work alongside academic commitments and in September 2016 started in a new post in Beaumont Street.

Michael Mingos, Honorary Fellow, presented research lectures at the International Conference on Cluster Chemistry held in Rennes, France, and at a Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Chemical Bond at the Royal Society of Chemistry. He also visited the University of the Artic at Tromsø, Norway, where he presented a seminar on nitric oxide complexes. Mike continued as Series Editor for Structure and Bonding published by Springer from Heidelberg, Germany, and oversaw the publication of ten volumes on a range of topics. His own contributions to the journal included a major three-part article on ‘The Chemical Bond — 100 Years Old and Getting Stronger’ as well as editing the 50th Anniversary Issue. Mike was a member of the Royal Society’s Education Committee and a member of its research grants panel.

Philip Mountford, Professor of Organometallic Chemistry & Catalysis, Tutor in Chemistry. During 2015–2016, Philip’s research has focused on the following areas: reactions of new transition metal hydrazide and borylimide complexes; development of new catalysts and approaches to the synthesis of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers; new Ziegler-Natta type olefin polymerisation catalysts; new compounds with unusual metal-metal bonds. Details of this research and the associated publications were made available at www. mountfordgroup.org. Philip’s four-year period of office as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Dalton Transactions has come to an end. On the departmental side, his eight-year stint as Acting Head and then Head of Inorganic Chemistry also came to an end. He hopes to be able to spend more time focusing on research for the next few years. In this respect he spent three weeks this academic year as a Guest Professor and recipient of the Schlenk Lectureship from the University of Tübingen. Philip gave invited, keynote, and plenary lectures at several conferences in Europe and further afield, including Melbourne.

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“innovative contributions in her research …her inspirational teaching in the Department and her College, and her robust championing of student causes”.

Lucy Newlyn’s last year in post as Professor of English, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, was no less busy than usual, with work falling roughly into two categories — the academic and the creative. Following her plenary lecture at the Wordsworth Conference in summer 2015, she published ‘The Wordsworths’ Poetics of Hospitality’ in Essays in Criticism and made revisions to her OUP book on the Wordsworths (scheduled to appear in paperback in September 2016). Her own editing of Edward Thomas for OUP made good progress. Together with Guy Cuthbertson she also oversaw the completion of two further volumes in that series, both of which went through the press this summer. Lucy ran a new series of university classes on Dorothy Wordsworth in Hilary term 2016 as well as enjoying her last series on Wordsworth and Coleridge in Trinity, and her regular tutorial teaching for Prelims and Schools at the Hall.

One academic duty she did not relish, except insofar as she was doing it for the last time, was marking a large run of Finals scripts — but there were some very good ones. On the creative front, Lucy was glad to see to completion a book she has co-edited with Ivor Agyeman-Duah about the campaign to elect Wole Soyinka as Oxford’s Professor of Poetry. (The book, May Their Shadows Never Shrink: Wole Soyinka and the Oxford Professorship of Poetry, is being published by Ayebia Press in August 2016, with a launch at the House of Lords; a further launch will take place in Oxford in autumn 2016.) Lucy organised a number of writing events at the Hall this year, actively participated in the Hall Writers’ Forum, and thoroughly enjoyed convening the weekly Wednesday Workshops (which she will miss). Following the publication in summer 2015 of her poetry collection Earth’s Almanac (selected by Gabriel Josipovici as a TLS Book of the Year), she gave readings from this book at the Hall, the Albion Beatnik Café, and as part of a conference at Wadham College, as well as at a summer school in the University’s Department for Continuing Education. All her ‘spare’ time this year was taken up with preparing a new collection of poems, which she hopes to publish. This is an extended sonnet sequence about the Wordsworths in which she brings the critical, poetic and biographical threads of her work together. Written as a dramatic narrative (almost a verse novel), it received its first airing at the Wordsworth Conference in August 2016.

Lucy was delighted to be guest of honour at a lunch held in June 2016 to mark her retirement. Organised

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Relations Office, the event brought together 50 or so of her former students for lunch and a poetry reading in the afternoon. It was a remarkable occasion — wonderful for her to see so many familiar faces and remember old times together. Warm thanks are due to all who contributed or were involved. Retiring on 30 September 2016, Lucy looks forward to having more time for her research and poetry. She will always be glad to see former students, who should make contact with her by e-mail (using the usual address) if coming to Oxford and in need of nostalgia, lunch, or a cup of tea.

An interview with Lucy Newlyn appears in section 6 of this Magazine.

Jennifer Nuttall, Fellow by Special Election in English, won a University of Oxford Teaching Excellence Award in November 2015 for her teaching of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the set commentary text for Finals. In December 2015 she rediscovered a long-forgotten Middle English verse-translation, the Liber Proverbiorum, commissioned in the mid-15th century by Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI’s queen. Further research linked this translation with several other texts commissioned by Margaret and other noblewomen, and Jenni’s account of this cluster of literary patronage, with an edition of the Liber’s prologue and epilogue, will be published in the Review of English Studies. She has also completed an article on Chaucer’s use of technical poetics terms and formal experiment, for a forthcoming Cambridge University Press collection. Jenni is now trying to learn to say no to things so that she can concentrate for a year or two on finishing her book on poetic terminology and poetic experiment in later Middle English (much of which can be seen as work-in-progress on her blog, stylisticienne.com).

Ian Pavord, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow, was chosen to receive the European Respiratory Society’s Gold Medal in Asthma. The award was presented at the ERS International Congress 2016 held in London in September.

Philipp Podsiadlowski, Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics. In spring 2016, Philipp was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize by the German Humboldt Foundation for his lifelong contributions to theoretical stellar astrophysics, specifically for “shaping the research forefront in the field of late evolutionary stages of stellar binary systems” (from the official laudation, March 2016). This award will allow him to spend a total of 12 months, spread over a couple of years, at the University of Bonn to work with Professor Langer’s group on topics of common interest. In 2015–2016 Philipp spent two months at Bonn supported by this award, a visit that fell in the period just before the announcement of the first discovery of gravitational waves caused by the merger of two black holes — one of the most important discoveries in physics in many years. With his colleagues in Bonn he used this visit to develop a new theory for the origin of such black hole mergers, a topic that undoubtedly will remain a major focus of his work for many years to come. Philipp also continued his various other collaborations and 33

spent one month of his sabbatical in China to further advance his research on the progenitors of supernova explosions of various types.

Climent Quintana-Domeque, Associate Professor in Economics, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Economics, started his third year at the Hall with the excellent news that his teacher, mentor and co-author Professor Angus Deaton from Princeton University was awarded the 2015 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for “his analysis of consumption, welfare and poverty”. Climent, as an associate editor of Economics and Human Biology, wrote an editorial congratulating Professor Deaton on behalf of the journal and its editorial board, and was invited to be the guest editor for a Special Issue of the Review of Economics of the Household in honour of Angus Deaton, which will appear in 2017. In addition to his usual activities in the Hall (tutoring Visiting Students, teaching second-years, reviewing with finalists) and his departmental activities (teaching undergraduates, graduates on the MPhil in Economics course and supervising MPhil theses), Climent has been actively conducting research and presenting his findings at several universities (including the University of Aberdeen, Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics and the University of Warwick) and at conferences (including the Annual Royal Economic Society Meetings 2016 in Brighton and the Barcelona GSE Forum). He was a runner-up for the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs 2016. In terms of academic publications, Climent had a very prolific year, with papers being accepted for publication in several international journals (including Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Demographic Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization).

Steve Roberts, Professor of Materials, Senior Research Fellow, led a team of ten researchers who were awarded a four-year Platform Grant of £1.3m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in June 2016. The award is to maintain and expand the existing Oxford Materials team working on advanced structural materials for applications in nuclear fission and fusion reactors.

Other members of this group include Sergio Lozano-Perez (George Kelley Senior Research Fellow at the Hall) and David Armstrong (formerly a Junior Research Fellow at the Hall, now a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow).

Peter Rothwell, Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow, remained the Director of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit (SPRU) in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience. He has continued his work on the aetiology of stroke and vascular dementia, secondary prevention of major stroke after transient ischaemic attached (TIA) and minor stroke, the link between blood pressure and cerebrovascular disease, and on the effect of aspirin on risk of cancer and other non-vascular outcomes. Peter is in the process of setting up a new Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with particular help from the Wolfson Foundation and the 34

Wellcome Trust. The Oxford Vascular Study, which he runs, recruited its 10,000th participant in 2016, making it the world’s largest prospective population-based cohort of patients with acute vascular events. Peter published some 50 research papers during the year, two of which were picked up by the BBC and so resulted in interviews on the Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme twice in one week in May 2016.

Charlotte Stagg, Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust/ Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Fellow by Special Election. Charlie was on maternity leave for the first half of the academic year after her son, Oliver, was born in July 2015. Her group have been working hard over this time and published work includes a study, performed in collaboration with the Hall’s Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, which was the first to suggest that non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) may lead to long-term behavioural improvements for stroke survivors.

Charlie has recently been awarded £150,000 to set up a new neurophysiological laboratory in Oxford to combine NIBS with advanced neuroimaging, so allowing the group to further explore the physiological basis of stroke recovery. Teddy Hall students continue to work in the laboratory, and this year John Logan (2013, Medical Sciences) very successfully completed his Final Honour School project investigating the relationship between neurochemicals and behaviour.

The Centre for the Creative Brain goes from strength, with an increasing committee of dedicated students and Fellows from across the Hall. Charlotte emphasises that all the events are aimed at a lay audience, are free to attend, and everyone is welcome!

An article on the activities of the Centre for the Creative Brain during 2015–2016 is included in section 3 of this Magazine.

During the course of his year spent as a Visiting Fellow at the Hall, Alexis Tadié was editing a number of volumes which came out of a research programme funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, studying disputes and quarrels of the early Modern period. A number of Oxford-based scholars were involved in the programme, including the Hall’s Professor Wes Williams (who created Dream On! in 2013 as part of this programme). The publications include Ancients and Moderns in Europe: Comparative Perspectives, co-edited with Paddy Bullard (The Voltaire Foundation, 2016); and Querelles et Création à l’époque modern, coedited with Jeanne-Marie Hostiou (Classiques Garnier, forthcoming). La Dispute: Construction d’un territoire épistémique commun, co-edited with Anne-Lise Rey (special issue of the Revue de synthèse, autumn 2016), came out of a couple of symposia organised by the Fondation des Treilles in France and Oxford. Sporting Cultures 1650–1850, co-edited with Daniel O’Quinn (Toronto University Press, forthcoming), was the result of a Franco-Canadian research programme.

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into genomics, as part of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Genomic Medicine Theme, with particular emphasis on the discovery of novel disease genes in rare disease and cancer, and on the translation of novel technologies into the clinic. She was delighted to receive a BRC Principal Fellowship Award in January 2016 to support her research. A highlight of the year was publication of the WGS500 study in Nature Genetics, which aimed to assess the clinical utility of Whole Genome Sequencing. The proof-of-concept study led to Jenny, as Principal Investigator, being awarded £5.3m from the Wellcome Trust and Department of Health to establish a clinical WGS facility in the Oxford University Hospital Trust; the group is now well underway with sequencing genomes for 500 rare disease and cancer patients (with their first urgent cancer patient being reported in the Oxford Mail under the headline “Gene study offers new hope to cancer patients”, as part of a broader Oxford press release covering the group’s contributions to the UK’s Genomics England 100,000 Genomes Project). Jenny has presented this work at conferences in the USA — and closer to home, at the Hall’s very enjoyable ‘Horizons in Academic Medicine’ exchange programme with Sichuan University.

In the past year, Jeff Tseng, Associate Professor in Experimental Particle Physics, Tutor in Physics and Chapel Overseeing Fellow, has started working with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is under construction in Chile and which will survey the southern sky some 1000 times over a ten-year period. His interest, however, will not be quite as much the stars and galaxies themselves but the ‘dark energy’ which seems to keep the universe expanding. He has spearheaded UK collaboration with US and French teams in the telescope’s data management systems (at 15 terabytes per night, there will be a decent amount of data to manage), in parallel with his ongoing leadership roles in SNO+ computing, and building on past efforts on the ATLAS and CDF collider physics experiments. The SNO+ experiment, in the meantime, is getting ready to take data in the coming year, to open up a new chapter in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay.

Dimitrios Tsomocos, Professor of Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election.

A highly productive year for Dimitri included the publication of three refereed articles, three working papers, three items in the popular press (including an article for a Greek newspaper about ‘Brexit’), and participation in conferences and seminars in the UK and abroad (including delivering an honorary lecture at the International College of Economics and Finance SU-HSE, Moscow). The title Professor of Financial Economics was conferred on Dimitri in the University’s annual Recognition of Distinction Exercise, an acknowledgement of his success in teaching both undergraduates and graduates and of the substantial impact of his research on economic Professor Dimitrios Tsomocos 36

policy around the world (in particular, his analysis of issues of contagion, financial fragility, inter-bank linkages and the impact of the Basel Accord and financial regulation in the macroeconomy).

Robert Venables QC, Fellow by Special Election, worked during the year on the 2016 edition of his book Taxation of Trusts and in addition wrote several articles for Key Haven Publications’ Tax Planning Review. He gave many talks on technical matters of tax law at public (and private) seminars. Robert’s main occupation remains as a barrister in private practice, where he specialises in protecting the economically productive members of society against the predations of the state. He rates as his greatest achievement helping to provide to owner-managed businesses the liquidity which they would otherwise be denied by the incompetence of bankers, politicians and civil servants (thus helping the economy in general and preserving the jobs of those employed by those businesses in particular).

It has been a busy year for Richard Walker, Professor in Earth Sciences and University Research Fellow, Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences. Following last summer’s honour of receiving the title of Professor in the University’s annual Recognition of Distinction Exercise, his biggest news over the last twelve months was the arrival of a baby daughter! Research-wise, Richard’s programmes in the Tien Shan and China continued, and in January 2016 he was part of a successful research consortium bid based on earthquake studies in central China as part of the UK Research Councils’ ‘Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards’ theme, with joint funding from the National Science Foundation of China. In November 2015 he hosted a workshop at the Hall on the active tectonics of the Tien Shan, with invited researchers from Kyrgyzstan, Germany, France and across the UK. Richard also remains interested in the construction and application of high-resolution topographic models, and he and his team at the Department of Earth Sciences organised a very successful two-day workshop on this subject, with teaching led

by Austin Elliott (a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford), David Mackenzie (2012, DPhil student in Earth Sciences at the Hall) and Ramon Arrowsmith (who kindly came all the way from Arizona). Richard writes: “I would like to thank the class of 2016 for the lovely card and gift, which I was unable to receive from them in person. I wish all of you the very best in your futures!”

Robert Whittaker, Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography, and Dean (until Hilary term 2016), published around ten articles in international peerreview journals during the year, mostly on themes within Island Biogeography concerning the processes and patterns of island diversity. He continued to collaborate with a network of colleagues from Portugal, Spain, Greece, France, Germany, Denmark and the USA. In November 2015 Rob delivered an invited lecture entitled ‘Scale: a critical macroecological perspective’, within a colloquium series ‘Modern Research in Biodiversity and Ecology’ at 37

Georg-August-University of Göttingen. He subsequently gave a presentation on ‘Advances in the understanding of the species-area relationship’ at the BES Macroecology Conference in Oxford, and a plenary address entitled ‘Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the General Dynamic Model microscope’ at the Island Biology 2016 meeting in Terceira Island (where he was a contributing author on four further oral presentations and two posters). Rob also participated in a workshop on Mountain Biogeography at the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, within the University of Copenhagen, where he holds a part-time professorship.

James Wilk, College Lecturer in Philosophy. During 2015–2016, James has continued his philosophy tutorial teaching at the Hall along with his research in metaphysics, cybernetics, and the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. He also continued teaching his doctoral clinical psychology (DClinPsy) trainees, as Visiting Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology, School of Life & Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. In September 2015 James was appointed to a long-term position as Senior Consultant Psychotherapist and Academic Director of the Institute of Integrated Systemic Therapy, London, an institute now approaching its centenary, where he heads psychoanalytic training, research and development. All this has slowed the completion of his ambitious philosophical treatise in metaphysics, which he continues in every spare moment to prepare for publication.

Robert Wilkins, Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology, American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions. As part of the continuing co-operation between the Hall and Sichuan University in China, Robert visited Chengdu once more during the year, where he delivered lectures to students and Faculty members and discussed future initiatives. His new book, Basic Science for Core Medical Training and the MRCP, co-edited with Neil Herring, was published by OUP in February 2016: it was Highly Commended in the Basic & Clinical Sciences category at the 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony held in September 2016.

Last summer Wes Williams, Professor of French Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages (French), was heavily involved in establishing an innovative cooperation between Ariane Mnouchkine’s world-renowned Théâtre du Soleil on the one hand, and a range of Oxford-based bodies on the other — the Oxford Playhouse, the North Wall, the APRGD, the Maison Française d’Oxford, the Modern Languages Faculty, and Teddy Hall itself. This collaboration made possible the exciting — and for many of those involved, properly life-changing — experiment that was the École Nomade. Those involved hope, in a couple of years’ time, to do something similar again. At a more local level, Wes has been awarded a Humanities Knowledge Exchange Fellowship for 2016–2017. This will enable him to develop his existing partnership with the Pegasus Theatre 38

and also to work with a range of film- and theatre-makers in Oxford, re-visiting early modern dreams of Utopia and their modern realisation — ‘Utopia Storming Utopia [Part Two: Across Europe]’. All being well, this will lead to a number of Hall-site-specific discussions and performances over the course of next year.

This academic year, Emily Winkler, John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History, co-edited a volume entitled Discovering William of Malmesbury, a collection of papers about one of the most prolific and well-educated historians of the 12th century, which will be published with Boydell & Brewer. Her 2016 articles coincided with the 950th anniversary of the Norman Conquest and the millennial anniversary of the Danish Conquest of England: ‘The Norman Conquest of the Classical Past: William of Poitiers, Language and History’ (in the Journal of Medieval History) and ‘Translation, Interpretation of the Danish Conquest of England, 1016’ (in Translation in Times of Disruption, ed. G Iglesias Rogers and D Hook: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting). Emily has several further articles forthcoming in medieval history journals and edited volumes. Her largest project has been completing the revisions of her monograph Royal Responsibility in Anglo-Norman Narratives, slated to be published by the OUP in 2017.

Emily’s outreach activities have included organising a major event commemorating the Danish Conquest, speaking for a local historical association in Aylesbury, and planning for a conference on ‘The Normans in the South: Mediterranean Meetings in the Central Middle Ages’, to take place at the Hall in summer 2017. As Vice-President for the UK and Europe of the Haskins Society (a scholarly organisation devoted to medieval studies c.900–c.1200), she is planning conference sessions on a variety of themes to support the international community of medievalists. A highlight of Emily’s year was the opportunity to visit historic sites, to confer with colleagues and to continue her endeavours as a life-long learner at the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies in summer 2016. This year, the conference took place at Battle Abbey — the very site of William of Normandy’s victory in 1066.

Derrick Wyatt, Emeritus Fellow, reports the following professional ‘highlights’ of his retirement in the last year. In November 2015 he addressed the Durham European Law Institute on the outcome of the Government’s EU re-negotiation/ reform package, and was rewarded with an overnight stay in the historic Bishop’s Suite in Durham Castle. He led seminars for Zagreb Law Faculty on the global impact of the EU’s internal market, and gave a paper at the Dubrovnik Advanced Seminar on European Law on some controversial aspects of the EU Court of Justice’s case law. In both Zagreb and Dubrovnik a leading organiser and participant was Aularian Professor Tamara Perisin. The prospect of Brexit increasingly dominated Derrick’s professional agenda in the course of the year.

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cited at some length in the Committee’s Report. In May 2016 he addressed the Irish Centre for European Law in Dublin on the potential impact of Brexit on the North/South border. Appropriately enough for a legal occasion the event was held in a distillery; and a welcome feature was the attendance of Aularian Brendan Kirwan, who assured Derrick of the presence in spirit (if readers will forgive the pun) of Aularians Stephen Ferguson and John Kettle. In the aftermath of the UK referendum on Brexit, Derrick has briefed the media on some of the legal issues that have arisen in consequence, and he has given lectures to lawyers and bankers on the likely course of future trade negotiations between the UK and the EU. He has found his audiences keen to identify as many as possible of the known and almost known unknowns which inhabit the Brexit landscape.

Derrick expects to be providing more evidence soon to the House of Lords EU Select Committee, on the subject of Parliamentary Scrutiny of Brexit.

Profession Tribunal. Other bodies of which she has been a member include the Public Interest Law Clearing House, the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Evidence Act Monitoring Committee, and the Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys Disciplinary Tribunal.

Linda Yueh, Research Lecturer in Economics, Fellow by Special Election in Economics, is pleased to report that two of her books have been given a new lease of life in terms of readership. A Chinese version of China’s Growth: the Making of an Economic Superpower has been published by CITIC Press in Beijing, working with Linda’s original publisher, OUP. Also, a paperback version of The Future of Asian Trade and Growth was published a few years after the book’s first appearance in hardback. The Routledge Series on Economic Growth and Development, for which Linda is Editor, is coming along nicely and publishing a book per year.

Maia completed her BA in English Philology at Tbilisi State University in her native Georgia. Following a period of teaching and adult education management at a local nonprofit organisation, she moved to the USA to study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Maia later returned to Georgia to lead the vocational education and training sector at the Ministry of Education and Science. Her policy-making career in a developing country context involved close collaborations with education and training providers, professional associations, trade unions, donor communities, and other government agencies, as well as learners of different age groups. Professional experiences of teaching, and working in the non-profit and government sectors, helped Maia realise that academic research and teaching interested her most.

This decision led her to the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD under the supervision of Christopher Colclough, on spatial inequalities in university access in post-Soviet Georgia.

NEW FELLOWSHIP ARRIVALS The Senior Common Room has been delighted to welcome these new Fellows: The Hon. Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth, an alumna, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in the summer of 2015 in recognition of her distinguished career in Law. A graduate of the University of Western Australia (BJuris and LLB degrees), Elizabeth first came to the Hall as a Rhodes Scholar in 1984 to complete a BCL: she has the distinction of being the first Australian woman lawyer to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. During her time as a student she won a Blue for Rowing and a half-Blue for Water Polo, and was Captain of Ladies Boats in 1986.

Following a career in professional practice, Elizabeth was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2004. She is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, the Forensic Leave Panel, the Council of Legal Education, and the Legal 40

As a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Elizabeth has taught on the JD and LLM programmes in its Law School.

Maia Chankseliani became a Fellow by Special Election on 1 September 2015.

She is an Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education in the University’s Department of Education (OUDE), where she teaches a core course entitled Comparative and International Education: an overview of the field and leads sessions in Foundations of Educational Research for students taking the MSc in Education (Comparative and International Education).

At different times Maia has worked on consultancy assignments with nonprofit, for-profit, and international organisations to examine, among other issues, public-private partnerships in Africa, teacher educators’ professional development in Pakistan, labour market demand in Georgia, civil service modernisation in Kazakhstan, and child labour in Ghana.

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excellence in vocational professions, apprenticeship reform, and private training provision.

Alexis Tadié, Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France, came to the Hall as a Visiting Fellow for academic year 2015–2016. He teaches 18th-century literature, and while his research focuses mainly on the Enlightenment, he occasionally branches out into colonial and post-colonial literatures, in particular when these touch on the Indian sub-continent.

Alexis studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Before joining the Sorbonne in 2008 he was a lecturer at the University of Paris-Nanterre and a professor at the University of Paris-Diderot. Between 1996 and 2000, Alexis served as cultural attaché in the French Embassy in Syria and was also director of the French Cultural Centre. These were the last days of Assad the elder’s presidency, when, for a little while, peace in the Middle East was tantalisingly close. In 2003 he became director of the Maison Française in Oxford, where he stayed until 2008.

Recently Alexis developed an interest in the relationship between sport and literature: his Visiting Fellowship has been used to pursue this. He has even participated in a few marathons and triathlons!

Emily Winkler took up the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellowship in History in September 2015. Her research and teaching centre on Europe before 1200. She works primarily on historical writing, political thought and the reception of the classics in the central Middle Ages, and is particularly interested in applying cross-disciplinary approaches to the past. Her book on royal responsibility and conquest narratives in Anglo-Norman historical writing is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her articles have been published in Anglo-Norman Studies, the Haskins Society Journal and the Journal of Medieval History, and she has articles forthcoming in Welsh History Review and the edited volumes Translations in Times of Disruption (Palgrave) and Discovering William of Malmesbury (Boydell). She spent the past year co-editing the latter volume, working with colleagues from around the world. At present, she is co-editing a volume of essays on the rewriting of history in the central Middle Ages, c.900–1200. Current and future projects include comparative studies of historical writing in the British Isles and the Norman impact on visions of the past in the Mediterranean.

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After completing her AB in History and Classics at Dartmouth College, Emily came to England to read for the MSt in Medieval Studies at Jesus College. She went on to earn her doctoral degree from Oxford in 2013 and retained her affiliation with the University’s History Faculty.

In this capacity she designed and teamtaught a new course entitled ‘Writing and Thinking in History’, which encouraged students to consider history and writing at a deeper level. At Oxford, she teaches sequences in the History of the British Isles c.300–c.1700, The Transformation of the Ancient World c.370–900, Medieval European History and Arthurian literature.

In addition, as a Teaching Fellow at University College London since 2014, she teaches undergraduate modules in medieval history and a postgraduate course in medieval Latin.

An article about Emily’s research, ‘Journey Through the Medieval Past’, appeared in the Trinity term 2016 issue of The Aularian newsletter.

Xin Sun is a Career Development Fellow in the Political Economy of China, an appointment which is held jointly at the Hall and the Saïd Business School and which reinforces the Hall’s growing interest in modern China. He received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University, Illinois in 2014, and was an assistant professor in political science at Trinity College, Dublin prior to taking up his Oxford fellowship in Trinity term 2016.

Xin’s research includes comparative politics, political economy, Chinese politics, and research methodology. He is particularly interested in the interplay between formal and informal institutions in authoritarian regimes, and how the two jointly shape economic policy outcomes; this work has resulted in a number of journal articles.

His current research project focuses on land politics in China and analyses how informal political practices affect propertyrights institutions and a variety of land use and regulatory behaviours. In addition, Xin works on topics such as village elections and local governance in China.

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Krina Zondervan is Professor of Reproductive & Genomic Epidemiology and Deputy Head of Department at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (NDOG), with a research group based at both NDOG and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Her research focuses on understanding the causes of women’s health conditions through genomic and epidemiological (large population-based) approaches, in order to inform improved diagnostic and treatment options. Krina has a particular interest in endometriosis — a condition causing pain and infertility in an estimated 1.5 million women in the UK and 180 million worldwide. She is co-Director of the Oxford Endometriosis CaRe centre and leads a number of global collaborative initiatives in the field of endometriosis research (including large-scale studies that have identified genetic variants involved in its development). Krina has taught epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and currently teaches genetic epidemiology on the MSc in Global Health Sciences, Nuffield Department of Population Health. She is also a mentor for early-career scientists within the University’s Medical Sciences Division.

Krina grew up in the Netherlands, where she obtained an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Leiden in 1995.

She first arrived at the Hall in 1993 as an Erasmus exchange student in Biochemistry, then returned in 1995 to read for a DPhil in Epidemiology aided by a William R Miller postgraduate award. This DPhil shaped and focused her research interests in women’s health. Krina subsequently obtained a Medical Research Council research training fellowship in Genetic Epidemiology (2001) and a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship (2007), which allowed her to build her research group. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and in 2013 was recognised as Outstanding Female Scientist (AcademiaNet) by Wellcome Trust nomination.

Krina re-joined the Hall in June 2016 as Fellow by Special Election in Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

Amelia Fletcher OBE was elected to an Honorary Fellowship from 1 July 2016.

She is Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.

She is a Non-Executive Director at the Financial Conduct Authority and at the Payment Systems Regulator and is a member of the Enforcement Decision Panel at Ofgem. Amelia also sits on the Council of the Royal Economic Society, the 44

Advisory Board for the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies, the Advisory Council for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London, and the Oxera Economics Council. She was previously Chief Economist at the Office for Fair Trading (2001–2013), where she also spent time leading the OFT’s Mergers and Competition Policy teams. Prior to this, she was an economic consultant at Frontier Economics (1991–2001) and London Economics (1993–1999).

Amelia matriculated through the Hall in 1985 to read PPE, and after completing her degree went to Nuffield College to take an MPhil in Economics (1991) and a DPhil (1993). She has written and presented widely on competition and consumer policy (it was for services in these areas that she was appointed OBE in 2014).

Amelia’s recent research has focused on vertical restraints, geographical markets definition, and behavioural economics.

OBITUARIES DEBORAH HAYWARD EATON, HALL LIBRARIAN 1990–2008 Aularians were saddened by the death, on 7 December 2015, of the Hall’s former Librarian, Deborah Eaton, aged 69. She passed away in the nursing home to which she had recently moved, having retired on health grounds in June 2008.

Deborah was educated at McGill University, Canada, and after employment with British Leyland and then the Cairns Library at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, she became Assistant Librarian at St Anne’s College. Deborah then took up her post in the Hall Library in 1990. During the ensuing 18 years she developed a close interest in — and devotion to — the Hall and the Library’s readers. As John Dunbabin, Emeritus Fellow, observed when paying tribute to Deborah on her retirement, she “felt the Library exercised a stimulating, but also reassuring, influence on its undergraduate readers, both on those preparing for exams, and on some who were going through personal crises”. Never forgetting that readers are our Library’s raison d’être, Deborah “showed the good Oxford tutor’s concern for, and knowledge and memory of, them; also, on occasion, the firmness needed to complement what is generally a relaxed and self-maintaining internal order” in the Library. Deborah’s standing as the Hall Librarian was recognised when the Junior Common Room awarded her membership: a rare honour for a member of the Hall staff.

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More widely, Deborah started on the development of a comprehensive locational catalogue of the Old Library’s collections (a precursor to dedicated work carried out by Dr Paul W Nash, described in the 2014–15 Magazine) and she took a special interest in the materials on spy, naval and other military history that were donated to the Hall in honour of Principal A B Emden. She succeeded in raising the profile of the Hall and its collections through her publications (which included subjects like Catullus and Roman coins), her contacts with scholars, and her links with institutions as diverse as the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich and the University of North Carolina. Deborah spent a semester at North Carolina in 1996, lecturing in both the School of Information & Library Science and the Classics Department.

Apart from her Hall work, Deborah was a keen horsewoman and also sang with the Hall Choir.

Deborah’s career was regrettably cut short by multiple sclerosis, the cruel disease having become quite advanced by the time it was diagnosed. Her contribution to the Hall during her long tenure of the Librarianship was, and remains, greatly valued.

BFG (with acknowledgement to Dr Damian Atkinson, former Assistant Librarian) MARY BOAK, PRINCIPAL’S SECRETARY 1964–1988 Mary Boak, who sadly died on 10 April 2016, came to the Hall as Principal’s Secretary in 1964. At that time the Principal’s Secretary was also the Senior Tutor’s Secretary, and the Senior Tutor was also in charge of admissions, both graduate and undergraduate. Mary’s office was a small room a few steps down from the Principal’s study, and contained two, or just possibly three, filing cabinets. From here all the academic administration of the College was done. For the Principal’s work, Mary would mount the few steps into the Principal’s study. The Senior Tutor would commonly come to Mary’s office. In the mid-60’s it was decided to separate the oversight of admissions from that of the rest of the academic concerns, and soon after to have a College Office, presided over by a College Secretary, to support the Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions. The Principal’s Secretary was to be a separate post. At this point Mary was offered the post of College Secretary.

I don’t think she really approved of the changes, but she did not like the prospect of overseeing junior staff in the College Office, and chose to remain Principal’s Secretary.

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Mary was not enthusiastic about modern technological advances, and was much attached

to her old manual typewriter. When Sir Ieuan Maddock became Principal in October 1979 he was appalled to see such an antiquity in his office, and insisted on a change to an electric typewriter. Mary complied, but bided her time. As soon as Sir Ieuan retired, the electric typewriter was banished and a manual restored to its proper place. When Mary retired, it was presented to her as a memento.

One of the things Mary was renowned for was her amazing memory — but she always claimed that she had a poor memory, but a good system, which made up for her natural defects. She certainly had one or the other, as she was always able to produce the material required, at very short notice.

Mary had a name for being slightly prim. When I was appointed Principal in the summer of 1982 my wife and I went on a bicycle holiday to Gloucester, staying at various B&B’s, and ending up at a sleazy hotel used to house local council misfits.

When I answered Mary’s question as to whether we had had a nice summer by describing this, she paused with a look of slight disapproval, and said “You were travelling incognito, of course.” On the other hand, some years later, Mary was invited by the JCR to be their guest at the Christmas Dinner. It was a particularly rowdy dinner, with buns flying and wine flowing over the tables — not, I thought, Mary’s scene. The next day I began to apologise to her, but she interrupted me with “Principal, you mustn’t apologise — I have never enjoyed a dinner so much in my life.” I began to wonder whether she acted a part as the prim spinster and enjoyed watching our misapprehension. She certainly, though, had strong views on the proper way in which secretaries should behave, and strongly disapproved of the casual familiarity of the younger generation.

Even when she was not entirely easy with what her Principal was doing, she was firmly loyal and a marvellous person to have as a secretary; and when she was freed of the formalities of that relationship, showed she could move easily to one of friendship. The only thing I discovered which could endanger friendly relations was the faintest suggestion that Cambridge might be a more attractive town than Oxford.

Mary was not unduly tied up in her job: she had wide cultural interests, and was devoted to her sister and her family, despite their closeness to Cambridge. It was one of her sorrows that both her sister and brother-in-law predeceased her. She is survived by her nephew, Steve Weiss.

Justin Gosling (Honorary Fellow)

FROM THE SENIOR & FINANCE BURSAR The Hall continues to make solid financial progress, despite a challenging financial and economic environment — and as always, it is a pleasure to update you on the latest financial and estate matters.

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The timing of the Magazine’s publication means that the 2015–2016 accounts are still three months away from being completed; however, I expect them to show a modest surplus from normal operations (before some significant legacy and donation income), and continued growth in the Hall’s endowment. The 2014– 2015 accounts, completed during the year, are of course available on the College website. At 31 July 2015, our endowment stood at £43.3 million.

Aularians may well be concerned about the implications of Brexit for the Hall, and indeed for the University as a whole. As far as the endowment is concerned, naturally the Investment Sub-Committee, together with our advisors Cambridge Associates, discussed in advance of the referendum whether any action was needed — but we concluded that the endowment was well structured to withstand a Brexit outcome. Since the vote, our fund managers’ views have been reassuring: we have little exposure to small-cap stocks, and where the decline in Sterling could have been a drag on performance, it was well hedged. So overall, at this point there does not seem to be any particular cause for concern. And now that the Hall has an approved Spending Rule in place — 4% per year — we had already positioned ourselves to take this amount from the endowment annually, regardless of market movements or changing yields.

With regard to student fees and consequently the recruitment of students — particularly non-UK students — the implications of Brexit are not so clear.

Similarly, the repercussions for Oxford’s ability to attract academics will require careful assessment by the whole collegiate University. And doubtless there will be consequences for colleges’ abilities to hire non-academic staff. At the Hall, the Principal, Senior Tutor, Domestic Bursar and I will work hard to minimise any adverse effects in all these areas.

As readers may remember, last year the Hall made a significant addition to its estate by purchasing the Victorian house at 24 Norham Gardens, next door to our existing student accommodation at 26 Norham Gardens (also known as Brockhues House). We are now in the midst of making the necessary planning applications for both Nos. 24 and 26, including the garden flats at the back of No. 26, so that we can make the renovations we want and enhance our ‘Norham St Edmund’ accommodations.

Each year, the Hall makes an application to the College Contributions Committee (CCC), which distributes income grants to less wealthy colleges, financed by wealthier colleges. This year, we made a particularly successful bid, and we were awarded £230,000: £60,000 towards the cost of a new Fellow in Management, £60,000 for additional postgraduate scholarships, and £110,000 for assistance with replacing windows in the Besse building. This award brings our total income from the CCC over the past six years to £978,000.

The Investment Sub-Committee oversees the management of the Hall’s endowment on behalf of the Finance Committee, and this year Philip Broadley 48

(1980, PPE) stepped down from its membership. Philip has served the ISC superbly for many years with his incisive analysis and questioning, and witty observations: the Hall, and I personally, owe him a huge debt of thanks.

Lastly, I would like to welcome the Hall’s new College Accountant, Janet Lambert.

Janet is a Chartered Management Accountant, and recently spent three years as the accountant at Green Templeton College. In addition to her higher education experience, she previously worked in both the charity and corporate sectors — so it is no surprise that she has already made such a positive mark in this vital role.

Simon Costa

FROM THE DOMESTIC BURSAR The last year has been a busy one for the Bursary. As well as the day-to-day requirements of the College we have completed a great deal of project work. We continue to invest in our people as they are the key to our success for the future.

Our People Our new Accommodation Manager started in October 2015 and we have been developing this role as a full-time position. This has proved to be a good decision — with Belinda Huse, Accommodation Manager, and Sue McCarthy, Conference & Events Manager, working very well together to ensure that we utilise our accommodation as much as possible throughout the year, using rooms for conference guests when not required by students (see below on ‘Celebrating Success’).

Jennean Pankau, Hall Butler, has welcomed a baby girl, Neveah, to her family and will be returning to work in October 2016. Hayley Goodgame, our Bar Manager, has taken on the role, as well as her own, whilst Jennean has been on maternity leave.

Glynis Perry, our Nurse and Senior Welfare Officer, has decided to retire and enjoy other pursuits and will be leaving at the end of September 2016. Milli Bilic (Scout) and Maryanne Borthwick (Kitchen Assistant) also retired this year. We wish them all well for the future.

We welcomed: Marie Ruffle (HR Manager), Janet Lambert (Accountant), Scarlett Nash (Admissions Officer), Luke Maw (Schools Liaison Officer), Alberto Beiztegui (Jr Chef de Partie), Jonathan Motta (Breakfast Chef), Amanda Cheetham (Scout), Mark Poulton (Scout) and Dawn Jeffs (Scout).

Projects The Estates team have been extremely busy completing a number of projects across all our sites, some of which you will have seen and some that have happened ‘behind the scenes’. Here are just a few of them: 49

The Front Quad This was the biggest project completed during the year. Work commenced at the end of July 2015 in order to replace and upgrade electric and IT cabling. The uneven paving stones are now also a thing of the past, with cleaved York stone used for the pathways and matching cobbles for the edging.

Although the work was expected to take until December, it was successfully completed well ahead of schedule in mid-October 2015. I was delighted with how well the contractors and College staff worked with each other to complete the work, and even though there were occasional surprises along the way — such as the need to replace an ageing gas main — it was an interesting and great project to complete.

We were able to remove all the engraved stones intact and are in the process of creating a Chapel Garden in the space between the Chapel and SCR. The stones will be reproduced on York stone and placed around the Magnolia tree there.

The plan also includes new Donor Boards which will give us the opportunity to commemorate all those who have contributed to the Hall.

The Churchyard Following the change of Church of England law to allow for structures to be built in disused churchyards, we have now been able to progress with the refurbishment of the Gardener’s area. We are hoping that this will be completed over summer 2016 and will include new secure storage areas, working areas and a large greenhouse. It will also improve our bike storage.

Building Strategy Last year I spoke about a significant buildings and services survey that we completed. From this comprehensive report we now have plans in place to complete works on windows, walls and roofs over the next ten years.

A few examples of the work we are doing are: • in June and July we completed the replacement of the main central heating boilers in the basement below the Wolfson Hall; • in May and June we worked on repairing the Grade I listed walls in the Churchyard; and • in July we refurbished the stained glass in the Library.

Electrical Mains Following on from the Front Quad cabling replacement, we have also replaced a number of electrical boards over the whole Queen’s Lane site so that we can continue to replace cabling in all locations. This included the installation of a new sub-main into the College.

It is worth noting that all these projects were above and beyond the significant amount of regular work it takes to maintain all our sites throughout the year!

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Catering Our catering reputation continues to grow, with John McGeever, Head Chef, and Sue McCarthy, Conference Manager, managing a very healthy functions and event calendar. The team worked hard to maintain our high level of service and volume throughout the time of the Front Quad works, for which we are extremely grateful.

The Kitchen and Servery teams produce and serve over 650 meals a day, ranging from self-service meals to formal dinners for students, Fellows, staff, alumni and external visitors. We continue to receive very positive comments about the excellent quality of the food from both students and alumni who attend special events; we continue to work on improving the variety of meals available where possible.

Celebrating Success Each year the Isis accommodation becomes the Isis Guest House. This is open to the public for July, August and September and is available to book by the general public. Each year we are visited by the English Tourist Board to review our facilities and service. Over the last three years we have been able to increase our overall score by 3% and our hospitality scores by 10%. This is an excellent achievement and means that we are consistently getting the highest scores we can for the facilities that are available. Our thanks go to our professional and committed team.

Looking Ahead For next year we are busy planning a significant number of projects. A few examples of what we are looking to achieve are to: • complete student accommodation upgrades; • commence refurbishment work on the Old Library, Chapel and Old Dining Hall; and • replace the dishwashers in the main kitchens.

We are continuing to invest in staff training and have developed a great deal of inhouse material so that we can use our training funds to help develop supervision and management skills for the future.

Jayne Taylor

FROM THE LIBRARY FELLOW While serving as a central hub of academic and student life within the Hall, the Library has continued to preserve and develop the Old Library’s role, raising its profile amongst scholars, specialists, and colleagues, both in College and further afield. Many thanks go to the Librarian, Blanca Martin, for her outstanding job in strengthening the multiple areas of the Library’s work, including the Old Library — with appreciation here for the very fine work of our expert cataloguer 51

of antiquarian books, Dr Paul Nash. Our Assistant Librarian Caroline Legg is warmly thanked too for her dedicated work throughout the year.

coloured to match the originals, and the book is designed to resemble one of Ackermann’s books of the early 19th century.

Along with this year’s remit to educate the new Library Fellow, the Library team has sought to engage and enthuse a nearly new Library Sub-Committee of Fellows, staff, and students with its broader responsibilities. As a result, the committee has made a number of valuable contributions, with especially creative and collegiate suggestions emerging from its student members.

The Library is also very grateful to the following who this year donated to the Fellows’ Collection books which they have authored or edited: John Knight, Adrian Briggs, Robert Wilkins, Nigel Palmer, Tom MacFaul, Basil Kouvaritakis, Geoff Mortimer and Salman Khurshid. Thanks also to our past and present members, as well as the wider academic community for their donations to the undergraduate library: John Dunbabin, Keith Gull, Roger Farrand, Angus Doulton, Samuel Lovell, Mark Booker, Blithe Huang, Bill Dinning, Simon Robinson, Alexandra Braun and Shaun Tan.

One such discussion, at its early stages, is the establishment of a series of scholarly events or seminars, to be convened in the Old Library around its rare collection, each highlighting a particularly noteworthy scientific, geographic, or philosophical text. Indeed, the Old Library is a focus over the coming year with renewed development planning underway. As our former Library Fellow Nigel Palmer noted in last year’s Magazine, the requirements for refurbishment of the Old Library, and especially to complete the important cataloguing of this unique holding, are central to the Hall’s flourishing.

Cataloguing the pre-1701 books is now in its third year, with 336 catalogued to antiquarian standards throughout 2015–2016, and with their records now available through the University’s SOLO catalogue. They comprise a wide range of subject matter, with particular emphasis on History, Theology, Medicine, Classics, and Linguistics, along with a number of Literature, Travel, Philosophy and General Science books, and of course a few ‘curiosities’.

One of the items catalogued this year was the Library’s own first working catalogue, made up of two volumes of the Bodleian’s printed catalogue of 1674 (Catalogus impressorum librorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ in Academia Oxoniensi), bound together and annotated with details of Teddy Hall’s holdings, including books owned by or added to the library between around 1690 and 1710.

The Library itself has received nearly a hundred donations this year (95 to be precise), with a substantive number kindly donated by Old Members for the Aularian Collection, and I would like to highlight just two here. Maureen Haile generously presented us with six 19th-century geology books that had been collected by her geologist husband Neville Haile (1945, Geology). Each is an extremely interesting example from the period when modern geological scholarship was born. Among these, Reliquiædiluvianæ (1824) by William Buckland includes early examples where lithography was used as an illustrative technique for maps, plans, and reproductions of fossil drawings.

Roger Farrand has kindly donated The Regent’s Park Colosseum by Ralph Hyde, from a limited edition of 200 copies. The book is a facsimile of the plates from a very rare book, Graphic Illustrations of the Colosseum (1829), accompanied by a new text with a detailed description of the building. The plates are hand52

Meanwhile, as part of the Library’s development of its outreach service for students, you will also now find us on Facebook!

Karma Nabulsi DONATIONS 2015–2016 Once again we have been fortunate to have had a wide range of donations from Fellows and Old Members for the Aularian collection and the Old Library. The donations acknowledged here are those received before 25 July 2016. Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Magazine.

ALLEN, Geoffrey Berceuses for piano solo GG Allen 2015 Piano sonata no. 16 opus 86 GG Allen 2015 Three Barcarolles for piano solo GG Allen 2015 Three Words: Three songs to poems by Judith Wright for baritone and piano GG Allen 2015 ALLEN, Geoffrey et al Monday’s Child Audio CD Stone Records Ltd 2016 ATKINSON, Damian (ed) The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan: Poet and Novelist Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016 BARNES, John Sports and the Law in Canada Butterworth 1996 3rd edition 53

Translation into Japanese by Shuji Nishimura Chapter 6, Kanazawa Law Review, Vol 58 No 1 (2015) Chapters 7 and 8, Kanazawa Law Review, Vol 58 No 2 (2016)

Butynski, Thomas M, Kingdon, Jonathan, and Kalina, Jan (eds) Mammals of Africa: Volume II Primates Bloomsbury Publishing 2013

BOOKER, Mark (donor) Murray, John (ed) The Letters of Mercurius John Murray (Publishers) Ltd 1970

Happold, David C D (ed) Mammals of Africa: Volume III Rodents, Hares and Rabbits Bloomsbury Publishing 2013

BRIGGS, Adrian Private International Law in Myanmar Ashford Colour Press Ltd 2016 CHAPMAN, William A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation University of Hawaii Press 2013 DENING, Jim Dealing with the Edge Arcade Publishers 2016 2nd edition with corrections Les chemins d’ici: The roads round here Arcade Publishers 2016 FACTOR, Mallory and Factor, Elizabeth (eds) Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution — As Told By the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen Broadside Books 2014 FARRAND, Roger A (donor) (10 donations) Gilmour, Pat Artists at Curwen: a Celebration of the Gift of Artists’ Prints from the Curwen Studio The Tate Gallery 1977 Hyde, Ralph The Regent’s Park Colosseum or “without hyperbole, the wonder of the world”: Being an Account of a Forgotten Pleasure Dome and Its Creators Arthur Ackermann Publishing Ltd 1982 Kingdon, Jonathan et al (eds) Mammals of Africa: Volume I Introductory Chapters and Afrotheria Bloomsbury Publishing 2013

Happold, Meredith, and Happold, David C D (eds) Mammals of Africa: Volume IV Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats Bloomsbury Publishing 2013 Kingdon, Jonathan and Hoffmann, Michael (eds) Mammals of Africa: Volume V Carnivores, Pangolins, Equids and Rhinoceroses Bloomsbury Publishing 2013 Kingdon, Jonathan and Hoffmann, Michael (eds) Mammals of Africa: Volume VI Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer and Bovids Bloomsbury Publishing 2013 Kingdon, Jonathan African Mammal Drawings — The Wellcome Volume Pangolin Prints 1983 Stearn, W T (ed) Wild Flowers of Greece The Goulandris Botanical Museum 1968 FRANKIS, John From Old English to Old Norse: A Study of Old English Texts Translated into Old Norse with an Edition of the English and Norse Versions of Aelfric’s De Falsis Diis The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature 2016 GARRETT, Martin Oxford: InnerCities Cultural Guides Signal Books Limited 2014 GORDON, Keith Residence: The Definition in Practice Claritax Books 2016 3rd edition GORDON, Keith, and Manzano, Ximena Montes (eds) Tiley & Collison’s UK Tax Guide 2014–15 LexisNexis 2014 32nd edition Tiley & Collison’s UK Tax Guide 2015–16 LexisNexis 2015 33rd edition

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GRANT, Jeff B Albatross: The Scent of Honeysuckle Besonian 2015

HAYES, Peter J Fly Fishing Outside the Box: Emerging Heresies Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd 2013

HAILE, Maureen (donor) (6 donations to the Old Library) Buckland, William Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology: Volumes I and II The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God As Manifested in the Creation: Treatise VI William Pickering 1836

HEWITT, Ian From Match Fixing to Murder: 101 Sporting Encounters with the Law Vision Sports Publishing 2015

Buckland, William and Gordon, Elizabeth O The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S., Sometime Dean of Westminster, Twice President of the Geological Society, and First President of the British Association John Murray 1894 Buckland, William Reliquiae Diluvianae, or Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures and Diluvial Gravel and on Other Geological Phenomena Attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge John Murray 1824 2nd edition Phillips, John Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames Clarendon Press 1871 Wilkinson, Robert Atlas Classica: Being a Collection of Maps of the Countries Mentioned by the Ancient Authors, Both Sacred and Profane, with Their Various Subdivisions at Different Periods Hamilton Adams & Co 1830 HARVEY, Noël Snapshots and Memories of Eighty Years WILTON65 2014 HAWKINS, John W Frederick Huth and Company 1809–1936: The Partial History of a City of London Merchant Bank John Walter Hawkins 2015 HAWKINS, John W (ed) Fred: The Collected Letters and Speeches of Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby Volume 2: 1878–1885 Helion & Company 2014 56

HUANG, Blithe (donor) Chang, Houxing A Collection of Watercolor and Oil Paintings from Houxing Chang’s [China]: [s.n.], [2015?]

KHURSHID, Salman At Home in India: The Muslim Saga Hay House Publishers (India) Pvt Ltd 2015 The Other Side of the Mountain Hay House Publishers (India) Pvt Ltd 2016 KNIGHT, John B ‘Inequality in China’ From: Fan, Shenggen, et al (eds) The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China Oxford University Press 2014 ‘The Societal Cost of China’s Rapid Economic Growth’ Asian Economic Papers Vol 15 No 2 (2016) KOUVARITAKIS, Basil, and Cannon, Mark Model Predictive Control: Classical, Robust and Stochastic Springer International Publishing 2016 LEUNG, Frankie Fook-Lun ‘Rule of Law: The Problem of Being Chinese’ Asian Wall Street Journal 2 Jun 1994 Letters to the Editor: ‘Lee Bo’s nationality falls within a grey area’ Financial Times 24 Jan 2010 ‘Chinese lesson’ Financial Times 12 Sept 2014 ‘The future of Hong Kong is going to be unpredictable’ Financial Times 14 Oct 2014 ‘Outcome that would never have been acceptable to China’ Financial Times 15 Oct 2014 57

‘High point reached in China’s handling of Hong Kong’s affairs’ Financial Times 2 Dec 2014 ‘Back to Hong Kong? I would advise against it’ Financial Times 11 May 2015 ‘Chinese academics are adept at steering away from troublesome issues’ Financial Times 22 Jun 2015 ‘Pro-Democracy, but Not Anti-China’ Wall Street Journal 2 Nov 2014 MACFAUL, Tom Shakespeare and the Natural World Cambridge University Press 2015 MESHOULAM, Yair and Friends Textures of Consciousness Tambar Arts Ltd 2015 MORTIMER, Geoff The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 Palgrave Macmillan 2015 NIXON, Bruce The 21st Century Revolution: A Call to Greatness Acorn Independent Press Ltd 2015 PALMER, Nigel, and Hamburger, Jeffrey F The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin: Art-Historical and Literary Introduction with a Conservation Report by Ulrike Bürger Volume 1 Urs Graf 2015 The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin: Reproductions and Critical Edition Volume 2 Urs Graf 2015 PEVERETT, Robin aka PORECKY, Robin RaRa’s Last Fan Dance Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd 2015 PICKETT, Alan Spirituality, Creativity, Sexuality: The Meaning of Life Archive Publishing 2015

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PRESSLER, Larry An Independent Mission: An Innovative Campaign for the U.S. Senate CreateSpace 2015 ROBERTSON, Ian C ‘The Bard and the Minstrel’ In: Scottish Literary Review Vol 8 No 1 (2016) RYE, Howard and Beecroft, Caroline Blues for Francis: The Life and Work of Francis Wilford-Smith Music Mentor Books 2015 SCOTT-PRESLAND, Peter Amiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and Its Times Volume One: A Space to Breathe, 1954–1973 Paradise Press 2015 SMITH, David et al Edward II: His Last Months and His Monument The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaelogical Society and Past Historic 2015 SMRCKA, Luboš, and Placek, Jan Company Control and Takeovers as a Growth Strategy Oxford Tutorials 2015 SPILBERG, Michael FAQs The Ludo Press 2015 SPURR, Barry (donor) Runcie, Catherine A (ed) The Free Mind: Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr Edwin H. Lowe Publishing 2016 TELLER, Neville The Chaos in the Middle East: 2014–2016 Troubador Publishing Ltd 2016 THICK, Malcolm The Garden of Blood: An Historical Murder Mystery CMP 2013 The Root of All Evil: An Historical Detective Story CMP 2015

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TYTLER, Graeme ‘Facets of Time Consciousness in Wuthering Heights’ From: Brontë Studies Vol 40 No 1 (2015) ‘House and Home in Wuthering Heights’ From: Brontë Studies Vol 40 No 3 (2015) WATSON, Chris (donor) Schofield, Nicholas The History of St Edmund’s College The Edmundian Association 2013 WILKINS, Robert, and Herring, Neil (eds) Basic Sciences for the Core Medical Training and the MRCP Oxford University Press 2015 WILKINSON, John C A Passion for Climbing: Climbing Diary 1962–2014 Novoprint S.A. 2015 Wilkinson, Matthew L N A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World: A Philosophy for Success through Education Routledge 2015 Wolfe, Ernie (ed) Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana Dilettante Press 2001 The Library is also grateful to the following Fellows, past and present members and wider academic community for their donations to the undergraduate library: John Dunbabin, Keith Gull, Roger Farrand, Angus Doulton, Samuel Lovell, Mark Booker, Blithe Huang, Bampton Trust, Bill Dinning, Simon Robinson, Alexandra Braun, Shaun Tan, and George Carruthers. Mention must also be made of the number of textbooks donated anonymously by students. Thanks to everyone for your continuous support.

FROM THE ARCHIVE FELLOW & THE ARCHIVIST The most dramatic event in the Archive this year was the flood in the Old Boiler Room in early November 2015. The water entered from under the Front Quad: seven boxes suffered some minor damage, but the student files inside the boxes came through the experience unscathed. De-humidification, and a programme of cleaning and re-painting the floor, prevented any mould outbreak. But the event did reinforce our conviction that conditions in the Old Boiler Room are less than ideal for the long-term storage of the College’s precious student records. And as the 60

number of our records increase, year on year, our shortage of storage space becomes ever more acute. In addition to the latest batch of student records, we received eleven new accessions in the course of the year: ten from within the College, and one from outside. Highlights include digital copies of photographs of Jack Wheeler’s Bugatti, and minutes received from the Academic Office. But the paper accessions have had to be stored in the Library Office, as we have no further space in the Vestry.

The Archivist has now completed re-boxing the student files; and the files of deceased Old Members have been removed from the main alphabetical sequence and re-boxed in a separate sequence. He has also completed the task of renumbering the items included in David Smith’s pioneering shelf-list, in line with the new cataloguing scheme established in 2011. This catalogue is based on each record’s fonds (or creating office): so records relating to the Governing Body, statutes, etc. are listed as GOV [Governance] papers, while records relating to Principals are listed as PRI papers. This makes remote browsing of the catalogue much more intuitive for users. The remaining task is to add index terms and keywords to the catalogue entries.

To an extent, progress in these areas has been hampered by the failure of Adlib, the archives management software we adopted some years ago. The Archivist has been using Excel and Word as stop-gaps. But in late July 2016 we are installing a new cloud-based system called Soutron; full implementation will be complete by the end of September.

We have answered 60 enquiries in the course of the year. 27 of these came from within the College (including Old Members), and 33 from external users.

Some enquiries involved only a single response; but many led to a longer correspondence. One family of six visited the Hall to make use of our material.

The Archivist made two visits to the University Archives to undertake research for the College, and one to the Bodleian Library. And the Archivist and the Archive Fellow spent a very enjoyable morning in April 2016 checking the collection of Hall manuscripts which have been stored for us by the Bodleian for many years, and which are now held in the very secure surroundings of the Weston Library basement, alongside the collections of several other colleges.

Nick Davidson Rob Petre

FROM THE PICTURES & CHATTELS FELLOW Over the year we received a number of gifts, of particular note being a further donation of prints by Roger Farrand (1955, History) and three 17th-century portraits from the Audrey Blackman Trust which have a Teddy Hall connection.

Our pictures’ frames were surveyed by Tim Newbury (the UK’s leading expert in frames). I had not previously given these frames much thought, but their history 61

is quite fascinating. Frames are generally re-used and so our frames are typically much older than the paintings they house. Most of the frames on the 20th-century pictures in the SCR are 19th-century — while the frame on Principal Emden’s portrait (c.1930) dates from the 17th century. Once I have finished transcribing Tim Newbury’s notes I will place a copy in the SCR. I have given tours of the College art to various parties, including our Fine Art students. I have also overseen the hanging of the Artweeks 2016 exhibition and the portraits in the Wolfson Hall connected to the 3000 Women celebrations.

I had hoped to finish cataloguing the college silver this year. This did not prove possible, however, and I now hope to be able to complete the task by the end of summer 2017.

Student involvement has been rather less this year — due in part to the key students having graduated. So a focus for the coming year is to find and motivate some students to promote the Picture Fund within the College.

Jonathan Yates

FROM THE CHAPLAIN It has been a great pleasure to serve within the Teddy Hall community for a third year. My role involves me engaging with people right across the Hall community (staff, Fellows and students) and across the University (meeting regularly with other college chaplains). It is a fascinating, varied and inspiring job (although only part-time!).

Chapel services have happened throughout the academic year, with choral evensong on most Sundays, interspersed with Holy Communion on the rest.

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We have welcomed a range of guest speakers from Oxford and further afield, and the choir have worked really hard at producing a very high standard of choral music. We have also enjoyed worshipping with others on occasions: our annual joint service with other college chapels at the University Church, choral evensong and Ascension Day Eucharist with University College, a joint evensong with Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and another with the choir and staff of St Edmund College, Ware. We have even sung in Christ Church Cathedral this year for the Archdeacon’s Visitation service.

The highlight of our year, however, has been the Choir Trip to Pontigny in July 2016, when we were joined by choirs from St Edmund, Canterbury, St Edmund, Ware and a representative from St Edmund, Cambridge. The classical concert, including Fauré’s Requiem, sung by 80 choristers, accompanied by organ and instrumentalists, on a Saturday evening in the cool, floodlit simplicity of Pontigny Abbey was a foretaste of heaven for the 250 strong audience! It was truly unforgettable, and I was extremely proud to be part of it and extremely grateful to the Hall’s Director of Music, Chris Watson, for organising it.

We have also continued to support the wider Hall community by providing Evensongs for parents’ and alumni events. These are always well-attended and provide a brief moment of reflection, prayer and thanksgiving at these significant times when they are visiting the Hall. I have also conducted weddings, services of blessing after civil marriage and internment of ashes for alumni. I am also pleased to say that the Chapel has had wider use for concerts, poetry recitals, and rehearsals by members of the Hall and OU societies. It is a beautiful space and I am keen that it is used as widely as possible.

Glynis Perry (the College Nurse) and I, as Senior Welfare Officers, have supported students and staff with the usual range of welfare issues, with over 1000 appointments again this year. Obviously some of these were people who came to see us more than once, and sometimes regularly. These sessions have included medical consultations (including psychiatric referrals and monitoring mental health), pastoral issues (including stress, relational difficulties and harassment), managing workloads and other pressures, and ongoing counselling. We have provided welfare input into Freshers’ Week and welfare induction for Visiting Students. We have attended major college events such as Christmas parties, St Edmund’s Feast and Parents’ Dinners. The Chaplain has also attended musical and poetry events, and has been a pastoral presence in the Hall’s communal areas. We have continued to liaise with outside agencies, especially the University Student Counselling Service, and this provides a link for students to wider resources.

I was delighted to be part of the naming ceremony for the Welfare Room, in honour of a former Chaplain who was greatly loved and valued by St Edmund Hall. The Gerald Hegarty Room, as it is now called, is a wonderful quiet space 63

for personal and welfare conversations, and I am delighted that this has become available to members of the Hall for these pastoral purposes.

along to help with the judging that evening, and again it made me proud to see all the home-grown talent we have in College.

We have continued to develop our links with the wider community of Oxford, notably with Helen & Douglas House, the hospice on the Cowley Road for terminally-ill children and teenagers, and with Rose Hill Primary School, giving Year 6 children a little taste of university life, with help from MCR members of the Earth Sciences Department. The children had the chance to handle meteorites and fossils, learn about life on Mars, visit the Crypt, experience a graduation ceremony and enjoy a delicious lunch in the Wolfson Hall.

The baroque coaching days that I organised with the help of Lady Elise Becket Smith have been successful, particularly the one in Hilary term 2016 which ended with a superb concert given by the tutors. The fact that we are able to offer some of our own students coaching of this quality, and invite players from other colleges to share in it, is (I think) a real feather in the College’s cap. I hope that the project will be able to continue next year. I’m currently in the process of organising the next event with the keyboard player who directed this year. I’ve also been talking to Alyn Shipton (1972, English) about a day of jazz coaching, culminating in an evening performance on a Saturday in Michaelmas term 2016, and it would be good if this could also become a regular feature.

I want to thank all who have supported me in my role as Chaplain this year, and most especially Chris Watson, Dr Jeff Tseng, Susan McCarthy and the bursary team, Claire Hooper and the Development & Alumni Relations Office, and — not to forget — the Chapel Choir, who have sung their hearts out in the worship of God. I am very sorry to be losing my two key colleagues, Chris Watson and Glynis Perry: both of them, in different ways, are almost irreplaceable. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.

Revd Will Donaldson

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC I’ve been very pleased with the Chapel Choir this year — they are sounding better than ever, and are an excellent group of people. Starting the year off with the trip to Poland, with thanks to Justin Stead (1971, Forestry) and Amalgamated Clubs for the funding, and finishing with the week in Pontigny has made it all the better.

I am convinced that experiences like these not only improve the Choir’s singing but also provide the students with the memories that will inspire them once they have left the College and made their own way in the world. It was lovely to see Jeff and Carmen Tseng and Will and Ruth Donaldson in Pontigny, and we were also joined by alumni the Revd Canon David Knight (1966, Theology) and Lawrence Cummings (1971, Modern Languages). Several of the students from St Edmund’s College, Ware, and St Edmund’s School, Canterbury, talked to our students and me about applying to Oxford.

The first-ever Hall musical, Bemused!, had a slightly bumpy journey at times, but I think that the eventual result was wonderful. We had tremendous support from the audiences, sold out every night, and a good mixture of students and Fellows. The fact that it was entirely home-grown is something of which we can be proud: every word and note was written specially for it by Teddy Hall students. I’m also grateful that I was able to buy some decent lighting, using the money that had been set aside for musical equipment. It has already saved the College the cost of hiring similar kit for bops, and not only came in useful at the musical but also at the Talent Night. Many thanks to Robert Wilkins for coming 64

There were fewer lunchtime concerts this year, but we are very fortunate to have Alexis Chevalier (2014, Mathematics & Philosophy) and Rachel Carver (2015, History), both of whom played several times. Rachel’s playing features on the new drone-camera film of the College.

The Chapel Choir has been invited back to Pontigny and Sens in two years’ time, with the plan of putting on a couple of performances of Bach’s St John Passion, and I hope that the pattern of a trip to Pontigny every other year will continue.

As ever, I am extremely grateful for the College’s support and particularly the support of music and my position by Sir Martin and Lady Elise Becket Smith OBE. Chris Watson

FROM THE SCHOOLS LIAISON OFFICER There has been lots of change in the Admissions Office, as both the Admissions Officer, Scarlett Nash, and I are new to the Hall. Having started in late March, my calendar has been packed with events for prospective applicants. Since starting, I have hosted 18 visits to the College as well as visits to schools, which brings the total number of schools reached this academic year to 61.

St Edmund Hall works with schools and colleges in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton, Leicestershire, Peterborough, and Luke Maw Rutland through the University’s regional link programme. We are the principal contact for outreach to all schools and colleges in these areas. Given the relative proximity of these regions to Oxford, most schools and colleges engaging with us choose to visit St Edmund Hall as this affords them the opportunity 65

to experience the University first-hand. School groups visiting the Hall are given an introduction to life at Oxford, as well as a chance to meet students and look around the College. In addition to these activities, I have also started offering additional sessions to school groups visiting the College, such as critical thinking and interview workshops, visits to departments and museums, and I plan to include Fellows of the College and members of the MCR in future visits.

Alongside hosting visits to St Edmund Hall, I also travel to schools and colleges in our link regions to attend HE Fairs and UCAS Conferences, as well as giving presentations to students, parents and teachers.

The JCR is an integral part of outreach at St Edmund Hall, with the Student Ambassador Team proving an indispensable resource when hosting visits to the College. I hope to increase the number of ambassadors in the future, with recruitment beginning in early Michaelmas term.

Although I am still in the early stages of my role as a Schools Liaison Officer, some prominent events have already taken place. Despite the fact that the weather was not quite as hoped, the June Undergraduate Open Days were a huge success, supported by a fantastic team of Student Helpers. A personal highlight of my time so far is the Oxford Apply Workshop, a residential for Year 12 students across our link regions, which gave the students an insight into what life is like studying at the University of Oxford, but also gave them a valuable opportunity to get to grips with the whole admissions process at Oxford, ensuring they are as prepared as possible to go into making an application later this year.

Looking to the future, I have been working closely with the JCR Access Officer, Peter Hill, to arrange a roadshow with talks and workshops for schools and colleges within Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton. With four Student Ambassadors alongside me, it will be a fantastic opportunity to bring advantages of a visit to Oxford to schools who might be unable to visit us.

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I look forward to visiting and hosting many more schools and colleges, and am always keen to hear from Aularians now working in teaching.

Luke Maw

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM This year the principal officers of the MCR were: President: Pip Coore Vice-President: Zafar Khurshid Treasurer: Beatrice Tyrrell Stewards: Linde Wester & Alex Blakes The day you become a member of the Teddy Hall Middle Common Room (MCR) is the day your life changes forever. Not only can you escape from the pearlgrey Oxford sky to the cosy MCR for a friendly chat and a warm cup of coffee, you become a member of a community of like-minded individuals all of whom have a thirst for knowledge and strive to reach their individual potential. The international nature of the MCR community continues to be one of its greatest strengths, with representatives from 51 nationalities. As we said goodbye to summer, the new committee welcomed 137 new graduate students in traditional Teddy Hall style to start the new academic year. The committee worked hard to deliver what was a jam-packed Pre-Freshers’ and Freshers’ Week, which included pub nights, a pizza party and a BBQ at Norham Gardens (NSE). Freshers’ Week culminated with the Graduate Freshers’ Dinner in the Wolfson Hall, at which all new students were formally accepted into the College.

This academic year coincided with the 3000th woman to matriculate at the Hall. In celebrating this milestone, the MCR, in conjunction with the JCR, held several events, such as the celebratory Women’s Formal Hall and the launch of the ‘Big Sister Campaign’, which is similar to the College families system but pairs a current MCR female student with a 3rd or 4th year JCR female student to act as mentor. Another event was the ‘Women Inspire’ exhibition of 20 women associated with the Hall, which featured portraits of several MCR women — Pallavi Aiyar (1996, History), Sarah Asplin (1982, BCL), and Julie McCann (former MCR Butler 1995–2015).

On 20 November 2015, I attended the 31st Annual New York Dinner with the Principal, Professor Keith Gull, and Dr Dianne Gull, where I had the privilege of meeting Aularians from America and further afield. I spoke to the guests about these recent events and gave them a snapshot of what life is like at the Hall today.

Michaelmas term 2015 was brought to a close with traditional carols in the Chapel, mince pies, mulled wine and plenty of cheer as guests at the annual black-tie MCR Christmas Dinner sang the Teddy Bears’ Picnic while standing on their chairs. The Stewarding team worked tirelessly to deliver fun-filled Term Cards which featured some new events, including a weekly pub quiz, welfare board game evenings and a weekly MCR dinner in the Wolfson Hall. It is no surprise that exchange dinners continued to be a highlight of each term, 67

particularly as we enjoy showing off Teddy Hall’s amazing food, which, thanks to our chef John McGeever and his staff, has prompted much envy from other colleges. For the first time since its inception, ‘Teddy Hall’s Got Talent’ was a joint MCR and JCR event this year, with three of the four prizes going to MCR members. Our graduate accommodation at NSE was ‘home’ for the majority of our MCR community. Sunday brunch in the NSE Common Room was always a sociable occasion and a chance for the graduate community to catch up on the week’s activities.

After the mysterious disappearance of the MCR punt we purchased a new one, which was named ‘Mrs Brown’, after the lady who was the much-loved MCR Butler for over 25 years. After making its maiden voyage down the River Cherwell, punting became a popular pastime for our students during the summer. Talking of sport, this year saw the establishment of an MCR Sports Representative (Kusal Lokuge), who was busy keeping abreast of the many sporting talents of the MCR community. In Hilary term 2016, our rowers enjoyed their best results in Torpids since the 1960s! On the topic of rowing, a special mention goes to our very own George McKirdy (2015, MSc in Higher Education), who rowed in the Dark Blues Boat (bow), and Graham Baird (2011, DPhil in Mathematics), who rowed in the Lightweight Dark Blues Boat (6 seat) against Cambridge.

The Welfare Officers appointed an ancillary Women’s and Men’s Officer (Ryan Daniels and Kirthi Bellamkonda) to assist them in representing and promoting the wellbeing and interests of the MCR community. The Welfare Team also elected two BME Officers (Nidi Tapoulal and Cherrelle Dacon), who will be responsible for holding one event for students from ethnic minorities each term, as well as ensuring that inclusive MCR events are held throughout the year. This academic year marked the inauguration of Pip Coore with the new MCR punt several welfare initiatives including the Peer Support programme and the flying of the rainbow flag on 1 and 29 February to mark LGTB History Month. The popular weekly yoga and zumba classes and the ‘Fifth-Week-Blues’ massage event gave students the opportunity to unwind during the busy term. Our Academic Representative (Alice Bloch) did a great job in representing the academic interests of the MCR this year. The termly NSE Graduate Seminars, hosted by Professor David Priestland, provided an excellent opportunity for our graduate community to present their research in a less formal setting.

This academic year saw the launch of several new initiatives funded by the MCR community. We introduced an MCR Charity Fund, which enabled us to donate nearly £3000 to charitable organisations, both locally and further 68

afield, including supporting the direct involvement of MCR members in various organisations such as, Oxford Hands-On Science (OxHOS) established by our Treasurer Beatrice Tyrrell (2014, DPhil in Immunology), the British Heart Foundation and GoHelp. Following the MCR 50th Anniversary celebrations last year, we introduced the MCR 50th Anniversary Grant, which has provided additional support for the academic pursuits of our members. This year we have disbursed over £2000, which has supported our students to, among other things, attend conferences, conduct fieldwork and undertake medical electives. The MCR has also begun supporting the Oxford Students Refugee Campaign, which will fund scholarships for refugees and asylum seekers to study at Oxford.

Alongside academic work and sporting endeavours, Trinity 2016 was another eventful term, featuring the Teddy Hall Ball, May Day celebrations, the annual NSE Garden Party, Summer Eights, the election of the new MCR committee, and Trinity Dinner. On 26 May 2016, the JCR and MCR committees hosted the first ever ‘All Staff Morning Tea’ to thank College staff for their hard work and support. I was very pleased to be involved with this inaugural event, which I hope will continue for years to come. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the MCR committee for their dedication and hard work in making this year a success! It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as MCR President — I have loved every minute of it!

Floreat Aula!

Pip Coore (2014, DPhil in Law)

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM This year the principal officers of the JCR were: President: Tom Dyer Vice-President: Tom Morgan Treasurer: Ed Hart Secretary: Bethany Connell The JCR has enjoyed a busy 2016 so far, with many of the classic favourites of Hall life remaining firm features of the social calendar. There have also been a number of changes to life at Teddy Hall, with a more inclusive and representative JCR beginning to emerge.

One of the key aspects of this change has been a few expansions to the JCR committee. This has come in the form of two new officers: the Disabilities Officer position was filled from Hilary term 2016 by Oliver Shasha, and Alexandria Davies became the new Tom Dyer 69

Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) officer. Both of these officers have already started to do excellent work, both keeping Teddy Hall students up to date with wider University issues and identifying areas of improvement within the Hall. The role of welfare officer has also been split into both male- and femalespecific roles. This has been a positive change, enabling the welfare support provided by the JCR to branch out and include things like male mental health and tackling sexual harassment, whilst continuing the old classics of JCR teas and 5th Week blues events.

throughout the Hall has never failed to impress and pleasantly surprise me. I’m very excited for my final term in the job and hope that alongside the rest of the JCR committee we can continue to give Teddy Hall students what I believe to be the best student experience of any Oxford college.

Hilary term saw the re-establishment of an old Teddy Hall society. Teddy Etc has been reinvented to form a discussion group which is open to all and is designed to allow students to talk freely about topical issues ranging from sexism to race and class. The establishment of the group has been led by Alice Jaffe and Rhiannon Thompson, with support from both the JCR and MCR presidents and from welfare officers. Initial prospects for the society look very promising, with 113 members of the JCR and MCR joining on social media and many attending a launch event at the end of Hilary term. The popularity of the group reflects the positive changes occurring within the JCR surrounding equal opportunities for all students.

The incoming Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs, Professor Roger Benson, writes:

As ever, the JCR has continued to play a large part in our students’ social calendar.

The 2016 Teddy Hall Ball was held at the beginning of Trinity term with 750 people descending on the Hall for the Camelot-themed evening. The Ball was one of the most successful in recent memory, with the majority JCR committee being lauded for their work and Ball President Paigan Aspinall receiving a tankard for her input. Furthermore, many of the bands who performed on the night were JCR members, including Ed Vyvyan who is front man of the evening’s headliners, House of Lions.

(See section 6 of this Magazine for a review of Bemused!)

In addition to social events, the Hall’s JCR continues to be one of the strongest sporting competitors in Oxford. This year the football club were particularly successful, reaching the final of Cuppers at the Iffley Road stadium. Unfortunately, they couldn’t quite get over the line, losing to Brasenose on penalties. In addition to this, the Rugby Club were successful in 7s Cuppers and the rowers picked up blades in Torpids. Beyond the more conventional sports, we also entered team competitions from Mixed Lacrosse to Mixed Water Polo.

Looking forward, we are very excited to be hosting the very first Teddy Hall equality week in Michaelmas term 2016. This will consist of student workshops, film nights, guest speakers and even a gallery produced by Teddy Hall students on the subject of equality and diversity. The purpose of this event will be to help students to identify and engage with issues in the University and wider community. This JCR-led event has met with support from the MCR and SCR, and we look forward to working together to make the week a success.

Tom Dyer (2014, Biochemistry)

FROM STUDENT CLUBS & SOCIETIES Amalgamated Clubs is the official College mechanism for supporting the many sports clubs and cultural activities, such as arts and music, in which our students participate. This year I have taken over as Senior Treasurer from Dr Jeff Tseng after his six-year stint. I must say that I am extremely impressed by the diversity of activities undertaken by our students, and the energy with which they commit themselves to these. Alongside our sporting strengths and many other enterprises, this year has also seen the tremendous Teddy Hall musical Bemused!, written by Hall students, and with the entire cast and crew from the Hall also. I look forward to an even better year in 2016–2017!

SPORTS CLUBS Basketball Captain: Jason Yun This year’s Teddy Ballers have enjoyed a solid and consistent season, despite the loss of key players through other commitments and injury. Teddy Hall started strongly, with emphatic wins against Magdalen and Christ ChurchOriel, with the partially American rookie, Sam Scott, living up to his heritage and dictating play when the games went down to the wire. The team continued with narrow losses against St Catherine’s and Queen’s, often with no substitutes and sometimes with one man down, showing the valiant and consistent play of the players.

Ravi Hayer continued his rise on the basketball court, becoming an integral passer of the ball and self-proclaimed ‘best screener’ in the team. Entering the play-offs, a lack of players created severe holes in the team and the Teddy Ballers struggled against Magdalen and New-Jesus. However, with a long break in which to rest up and get healthy, the team will come out fighting strong again next season. Special shout out to Lisa Koh for her consistent scoring, as well as to Ion Stagkos for representing Oxford University 2nd’s.

Jason Yun (2014, Medicine)

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Cricket Captain: Bertie Mills Vice-Captain: Peter Hill Teddy Hall cricket got off to a stunning start this season before steadily tailing off and finishing in our customary mid-table spot. Highlights of the season included a crushing win over Oriel in the League, with Tarquin Stephenson blasting a spectacular 75 and Fergus Neve stroking his way to a sublime 91 in our opening Cuppers win. Sadly this excellence couldn’t be sustained and SEHCC crashed out of Cuppers in the second round at LMH (in a match that clearly should have been called off for rain). However, if there’s one thing that SEHCC really thrived on this year it was flair, with our baggy caps receiving numerous plaudits throughout the season.

Bertie Mills (2014, Materials Science) Darts Captain: Tom Dean When the mind of J K Rowling created Fawkes, Albus Dumbledore’s phoenix, it seems extremely unlikely that she was not thinking of the 2015–2016 season of SEHDC: the awakening of a sleeping golden giant — covered in flames. A metaphor it may seem, but as we have marched from college to college clothed in gold it has led to a year of incredible fun that I think few will forget.

This is no accident: our return to the Premier League alongside a great intake of Freshers, the enlightened interest of numerous Second Years, and a solid base of Finalists must all be credited. Despite our arguable lack of natural talent as a team when it comes to accuracy upon the board, we have attracted crowds of loyal Teddy Hall fans and the weekly darts match has become a reliable source of entertainment. From having our first female players on the team, to playing darts at our first-ever crew date with the university Lacrosse team, to the ‘Benson off’ at St Catz … the list goes on. The 1001 eight-man dart-off at the conclusion of our second match vs Catz was the closest we have ever been to winning as an eight-man side and has been described by some as “the most beautiful thing I ever was a part of”. However, we did see two SEHDC teams claim their first-ever win in the four-man Cuppers format, both on the same night. It was an epic occasion, and special mention goes to Tom Binnie who, in the hope of taking part in a quick darts match, temporarily ran off stage while playing with his band. Respect.

The club has grown so much that I can’t mention everyone. But we do have to say farewell to some notable leavers: Tom Binnie, Wilfred Belsey, Hugo Lucas, Ed Benson, Max Burgin, Arthur Hill, Ed Levy and Will Darby. It will be sad to see all of them leave — and you’re always welcome back. I’m also passing on the captaincy to Chris Sealy, a man who has already proved himself more than 72

capable in the way of the dart. I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has played or come to watch; it has been awesome and I know we’re all looking forward to what is sure to be another great year.

Tom Dean (2013, Chemistry) Men’s Football Captain: Conor Lyster The season began in a disappointing fashion as we lost our first five League matches, leaving us adrift at the bottom of Division 1 and looking like relegation certainties by mid-November. However, this disappointment was offset somewhat by an incredible 5-2 victory in the first round of Cuppers against JCR Premier League heavyweights Keble. The second round of Cuppers came next, an away fixture against another Premier League team, Lincoln, which we won 4-2 thanks to an incredible Ed Molé hat-trick. This game triggered an unbelievable six-game winning streak and 11-match unbeaten run which propelled us to mid-table security –a feat which had seemed improbable not long before. This included a Cuppers quarter-final against the pre-tournament favourites, the star-studded Pembroke. At 1-0 down with ten minutes left, Ed Alun-Jones sent a brilliant free-kick into the top corner of goal from the corner of the box to force extra time. In extra time, Ed scored an even better free kick to give us a 2-1 win and send everyone present into a delirious celebration in what many described as the best game of football they had ever been involved in. The Cuppers semifinal presented Lincoln — who were comfortably dispatched 3-1 at University Parks in front of impressive Teddy Hall support, to set up a shot at SEHAFC’s first Cuppers win for ten years.

And so roll on Friday 29 April 2016 at Iffley Road, and the Cuppers final that no one thought this Teddy Hall side could achieve. In a cagey first half, Brasenose drew first blood with a scrappy goal, the ball rolling past Rory Boath in goal in an accidental fashion from their striker. We then took the impetus, equalising on the stroke of half-time with a glancing header from Ed Molé off an Ed Alun-Jones corner. Come the second half, a Brasenose throw-in was controlled by the same striker involved in their first goal, and with his back to the goal he unleashed a perfect overhead kick which sailed over our keeper and gave the opposition a 2-1 lead. Brasenose kept hanging on, with wave after wave of Teddy Hall attack dissipating due to a general lack of finishing ability or just the onset of fatigue.

But finally, with the last kick of the game, an equaliser from Conor Lyster forced extra time and sent the crowd hysterical. The game finished 2-2 AET, with legs cramping up all over the pitch and penalties to come. Unfortunately, after a monstrous effort from the team, Brasenose took the game 4-3 on penalties and emerged victorious. But the team can still be enormously proud of getting to the final, having gone into every single game in the tournament as underdogs.

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We are all immensely proud of what we achieved in getting to the Cuppers final, but we were devastated by the way in which we lost despite giving all we could over 120 minutes. We look back on the 2015–2016 season with no regret and hope to build on it next year.

Conor Lyster (2014, Biochemistry) Women’s Football Captain: Petra Sekhar Women’s football is a growing sport within the college. Having recently moved up to the top division, and at the same time having lost some of the older, more experienced girls, the team struggled with many of its matches this year.

Nevertheless, we have seen some excellent turnouts and performances from many girls who were complete beginners to the sport. All around, women’s football is an extremely friendly and sociable team that welcomes players of all abilities and encourages everyone to get involved. It is not only a great way to make friends across year groups but also a fun way to get fit: I would highly encourage anyone interested to take part in the team next year.

Petra Sekhar (2014, PPE) Men’s Hockey Captain: Alexander Savage In many ways it turned out to be a disappointing year for hockey at the Hall. In Michaelmas term 2015, difficulties in getting a full team out on a regular basis led us to miss out on winning the League and so competing at college varsity. Both our men’s and mixed Cuppers runs ended in the first round, admittedly against extremely strong opponents and in some of the best matches I have played in college hockey.

However, in spite of this the year has left hockey at the Hall in a much stronger position, with the influx of a number of very talented Freshers, including two men’s players apiece who play or have played for the University Seconds (Eds Sidebottom and Richards) and Thirds (Chris Sealey and Fergus Neave), and a Ladies’ Blue (Sophie Spink). Captaincy of the Men’s team has now passed over to Fergus Neave, which I expect will lead to a far more energised and organised team in the coming year. We are hopeful that with another good crop of Freshers we might be able to push for both League and Cuppers wins next year.

Alex Savage (2014, PPE) Karting On Friday of 7th Week of Hilary term 2016, Teddy Hall’s own fast (James King) and furious (Max Burgin) drivers took part in karting Cuppers. With overwhelming favourites — and clear winners — Balliol so confident that they had printed celebratory t-shirts weeks prior to the event, the Hall’s A team once again proved 74

to be the best of the rest. It was our third consecutive second-place finish (despite the team suffering engine failure 15 minutes from the end of the race). The B team showed impressive spirit in the tricky conditions, finishing 13th after a close battle with LMH. The C team valiantly finished last — but with their heads held high, given their status as newcomers.

Classifications: Teddy Hall A team (James King, Matthew Diffey, Hector van Smirren, Alastair Adams-Cairns): qualified 2nd, finished 2nd.

Teddy Hall B team (Len Grazian, Wilfred Belsey, Max Burgin, Jack Calvert): qualified 8th, finished 13th.

Teddy Hall C team (Josceline Dunne, Conor Lyster, Edward Hart, Haseem Shah): qualified 14th, finished 17th.

Bertie Mills (2014, Materials Science) Mixed Lacrosse Captain: Danielle Huleatt-James For the Cuppers tournament there was a really strong turn-out from across the College, with equal numbers of Freshers, second- and third-years. The day started well with a win and a draw, but sadly we came second in our group and therefore did not progress to the semi-final. However, there was much enthusiasm from everyone, and with a picnic on the side and the sun shining it was a lovely day out for all!

Netball Captains: Sophie Behan & Lizzie Lee Teddy Hall fielded two netball teams this season. The 1sts competed throughout the season in the top division, playing great netball and (when everyone made it to the right place at the right time) really challenging the top college teams. The 2nds played in the Friday LMH League: in true Teddy Hall style everyone, from all sports, mucked in to play the 2nds’ games. The Cuppers tournament was played in one day right at the beginning of Trinity term. Teddy took some hits to the starting line-up due to looming exams and field trips. In spite of this, the team played an impressive tournament, progressing through to the quarter-finals, where they were narrowly beaten by New (who went on to the final). Later in Trinity, the Mixed Netball team made it to LMH one Saturday afternoon; they stormed through the opening rounds easily, with captains Lizzie Lee and Sophie Behan having to be quite imaginative in the circle to get around the lankiest of male defenders. Special mention goes to Sam Scott and Bertie Mills, who found their netball feet with ease. Sadly the team was knocked out in the quarter-finals.

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Pool Captain: Matthew Jerram This year Teddy Hall had just one team entered in the college competitions, but it was clearly our strongest team yet. Michaelmas term 2015 saw the team compete in the League, defending our place in the top division. A bad first few matches resulted in us fighting relegation. After claiming our match against the group favourites (but unresponsive) St Catz, we needed a second victory in our final match to remain in the top division. Cool heads prevailed, securing an early lead which was held throughout the match, with our captain wrapping up the game in style by winning the fifth frame against a drunken stand-in. The second term was all about Cuppers. We were feeling confident of bettering Teddy’s recent run of form, with no team making it further than the group stage for the past ten years. Being in the top division we were certainly the favourites to progress from our group. After a rusty start, we ended up fifth in our pool with two matches to play, and both of these matches were eventually organised for a single evening. In these matches we needed to win 75% of the frames from both to progress: eight players played 24 matches over two hours and won the 18 matches required.

Unfortunately in the next round of Cuppers we came up against Brasenose, a team who had already beaten us twice that year — and we were once again undone.

Next year will see Pete Hill take over the premiership and, after this our best result in ten years, we should be able to battle it out for a high finish in the top League.

Singles Cuppers saw a good turnout in numbers, with Ben Jenkins making it through to the final eight and off to singles night. His run ended there, however, when he lost to the overall runner-up, who had already beaten two Teddies to get to that point.

The 2015–2016 team was: Matthew Jerram (Captain), Peter Hill (Captain-elect), Rory Boath, Jack Dolan, Tom Fox, Ben Jenkins, Ben Kelsey, Conor Lyster, Tom Morgan and John Waite.

Matthew Jerram (2015, DPhil in Earth Sciences) Men’s Rowing Men’s Captain: Alex Cockerham The Men’s side of the Boat Club had a very successful year, both in Torpids and Summer VIIIs, with the M2 crew even winning the Hall’s first set of Blades in over seven years. They were equally as formidable in Summer VIIIs as they held position with some M1 crews at the top of their division. The first boat, on the other hand, had a very successful Torpids campaign: it went up three places in one of the top divisions and narrowly missed out on blades when Pembroke caught St Anne’s just as we closed in to bump them. In the summer, with the addition of George McKirdy (who rowed at bow in this year’s Boat Race), we 76

produced the fastest crew that Teddy Hall has seen in a number of years.

The M1 bumped Trinity within the first minute, and had overlap with Magdalen on the final day just before it was forced to bow out of the race by an exceptionally strong Wadham crew. All in all we were able to hold position, which is not only a feat in itself in Division 1 but also sets us up to do well next year too.

Graham Baird, former SEHBC Torpids M2 crew after winning Blades Captain, raced in the Lightweight Blue Boat against Cambridge on the Henley stretch of the river just before Easter.

Alex Cockerham (2014, Modern Languages) Men’s Rugby Captain: Tom Dyer Vice-Captain: James Porter Secretary: Rob Harvey Social Secretary: Mark Fuller The 2015–2016 season started with a strong turnout for the annual Old Boys match. Once again, SEHRFC demonstrated the support it has both within and beyond the University, with a large number of fans attending the match and the Old Boys bringing a strong squad of players. The match presented an opportunity for SEHRFC to give a run out to many of the year’s new recruits and was fiercely contested, with the students edging it out 27-25, not before the Old Boys had squandered a chance to take the match. The enjoyable day ended with 50 past and present members of the club heading to Vinnie’s to celebrate the club.

The Michaelmas League presented a familiar problem for the club, with our strength being our main weakness and many of our best players unavailable because of OURFC duty. Regardless of this, good wins were picked up against Jesus, CCC-Somerville and St Peter’s, and we fought out a hard-earned 7-7 draw against Keble. Unfortunately, we fell short in our final match to New College, with injuries and availability hitting hard in the run-up to OURFC varsity matches.

Hilary term 2016 saw a renewed focus in the club, with increased training sessions paying dividends on the pitch. The club finished unbeaten in the Hilary League, ending with a 7-7 draw with New College, who were shaping up as serious contenders for Cuppers later that term. Both teams scored early in the first half: however, the conditions worsened into the second and despite both sides having opportunities, neither could break the deadlock. Unfortunately, 77

failure to pick up a bonus point earlier in the term against Balliol College meant SEHRFC were pipped to the League title by New. The club then had a two-week rest period, in which the standard and effort at training were exceptional. The Cuppers campaign began well with a 35-15 win over a Trinity-Wadham side which featured a number of Blues. This set up a quarter-final clash with Cuppers newcomers Osler House, a side featuring three Blues players. The game started poorly, with SEHRFC not adjusting to the early morning kick-off time, and the club fell to a 15-0 deficit in the first half. The Teddy Hall boys rallied to dominate the second half as the supporters from the Hall began to arrive, scoring two unanswered tries to bring the score to 15-12.

Unfortunately, in the close the side could not convert their chances to win and went down 15-12 to Osler House (who were the eventual Cuppers champions).

This was a huge disappointment, considering the hard work which had been put in by the whole club over Michaelmas and Hilary terms. However, Trinity term brought with it the chance to still end the season on a high with the Cuppers 7s competition in 3rd Week. We topped our group, beating CCC-Somerville, UOTC, Balliol and St Catz on our way to the semi-finals. This was against New College and the Hall controlled throughout, scoring four tries and eventually progressing to the final with a 22-14 victory. The Hall then met Trinity-Wadham in the final (who had beaten Hertford in their semi-final). Once again, the match was dominated

by SEHRFC throughout. However it was not without a scare, as a late sin bin left the players stretched thin late in the second half. Despite two late tries from the opposition, the early lead taken by the Hall was too much for them and we wound up champions with a 27-10 victory. This proved a well-earned piece of silverware at the end of the season for an incredibly hard-working group of players.

Tom Dyer (2014, Biochemistry) Women’s Rugby Captain: Sophie Behan With the inaugural Women’s Varsity Match at Twickenham, the 2015–2016 season promised to be an exciting one! With two of the Varsity squad coming from Teddy Hall (Carly Smith, captain, playing at scrum half and Sophie Behan at loose-head prop), and many more training with OURFC, the College squad was already looking like a force to be reckoned with! This year saw the first-ever Women’s Rugby contact Cuppers. All the preliminary rounds were played in early Trinity term on 27 April 2016, with the final taking place on ‘Super Saturday’, 7 May, alongside the Men’s Cuppers finals. The preliminary rounds were played as ‘cluster Celebrations after winning teams’ of nine in a round-robin-style tournament.

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and Univ, came away from these rounds as the top team. Captained by Catherine Wilcock (Wadham), they were the favourites going into the final. They did not disappoint on Super Finals day, coming away from the hard-fought match with a 14-10 win over the ‘All Saints’ team (St Anne’s, St John’s, St Hilda’s and St Catz).

This impressive result for the girls puts Teddy Hall in a strong and exciting position for the coming year.

Sophie Behan (2014, Engineering Science) Squash Captain: Lewis Gaul Teddy Hall has had a very successful squash season, with many new additions to the team achieving fantastic results. The commitment from the team allowed us to rise a division each term in the intercollege League, each time finishing second only to our nearest rivals, Queen’s College.

The season began strongly as we all adjusted to our new roles on the team, with a comfortable 5-0 win.

The subsequent results largely followed suit, with Lewis Gaul (left) and Kunz many impressively comfortable wins as well as some Chow playing on Queen’s hard-fought sets won against the tougher opponents. College courts (photo courtesy of Lewis Gaul) It was this fighting spirit within the team that allowed us to be promoted into Division 3. Alongside our Michaelmas term 2015 success in the League, in the second round of Cuppers we unfortunately fell to tough opponents in Brasenose, who had a Blue on their team.

However, we were able to rebound strongly, with another strong showing in the League in Hilary term 2016 pushing us into Division 2. Next year we find ourselves in the mix with some serious opposition, which is exactly where we expect to be, and we hope to continue our upward trend with only one team member leaving — many thanks to Charlie Clarke-Williams for some great wins as our second player.

Lewis Gaul (2013, Mathematics) The Hall’s other sports clubs in 2015–2016 included the Hilarians Rugby team, Tennis, Women’s Hockey and Women’s Rowing.

CULTURAL, SOCIAL & VOLUNTEERING Chapel Choir Organ Scholar: Viraj Alimchandani This year was a busy one for the Chapel Choir, who in addition to their regular Sunday services have sung at several special events both in and out of College.

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there — so instead, a special Carol Service for alumni was sung in 8th Week of Michaelmas term 2015. The Choir also went to sing carols at Helen & Douglas House, the pioneering Oxford hospice for terminally-ill children and young people, continuing their support from last year. There was also a Christmas tour to London, where the Choir busked in London Bridge station (raising £280 for charity) and sang a Carol Service at a local church. Another special event in Michaelmas term was St Edmund’s Feast: the Choir sang a special service and the beautiful College Grace written by Richard H Lloyd, along with several other short pieces, before the Feast began. Hilary term 2016 saw the Freshers’ Parents’ Dinner, at which the Choir sang some short motets. We also said goodbye to the departing Organ Scholar, James Clark-Maxwell, who graduated this year after long and hard work with the Choir. In July 2016 the Choir will return to Pontigny Abbey for a week, to sing several services and a concert with St Edmund’s College (Ware), St Edmund’s School (Canterbury), and St Edmund’s College (Cambridge) — where we hope that alumni from all four institutions will be able to join us!

Viraj Alimchandani (2015, Physics) A report on the July 2016 Pontigny trip appears in section 3 of this Magazine.

we’ve watched a huge variety of fantastic films. From thrillers and sci-fi’s such as The Godfather and Blade Runner, to war films and foreign classics such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Tokyo Story, the Society has covered every genre under the sun. We’ve also managed to invoke interesting discussion after each viewing. The collection of great flicks has drawn a regular audience, with newcomers frequent (though this may just have been a result of the free popcorn we provide!).

Next year we look to continue showing a steady stream of great films and to begin to lend films from our ever-growing collection to members of the College (something which when forming the Society we sought to do eventually).

All in all, a splendid year for the Society.

David Hart (2014, Mathematics) Finance Society President: Kelvin Keeley We held weekly discussions for Teddy Hall students on stock market valuations and fluctuations.

Kelvin Keeley (2014, Economics & Management)

Christian Union Co-Presidents: Ruth Miller & Nadine White This year has been a fairly quiet one for the Christian Union at Teddy Hall, with only a handful of Freshers joining us in Michaelmas term 2015 under the guidance of Ruth Miller and Nadine White. As a result, we have particularly tried to forge strong relationships with other college CUs. Recently we met with Magdalen CU, where one of the founding ‘Eagles’ in Malawi spoke about the strategy and vision behind community development projects in developing countries. Other successful events were the Text-a-Toastie and Dial-a-Donut evenings. We received questions that incited productive inter-belief discussion and helped to continue making Teddy Hall a tolerant and open-minded College.

James Tibbles and James Davies have now taken over the running of the CU. Moving forward we hope to promote ideas of justice and welfare for everyone, as well as to be a support for incoming Freshers who may wrestle with their faith in what can be a very challenging academic environment. Cultivating a supportive community is at the centre of our mission as a CU. James Tibbles (2015, English & Modern Languages) Film Society President: Alexis Chevalier In our first full year, Teddy Hall Film Society has gone from strength to strength.

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Venus Committee Head of the Committee: Erin Rai Teddy Hall’s Venus Committee continued its work for Macmillan Cancer Support this academic year. A team of around 15 students from across all years worked hard to fundraise over £1000! Our annual champagne soirée in College’s Old Dining Hall was an intimate event in Michaelmas term 2015, and we managed to raise over £200. As in previous years, we organised the sending of roses on Valentine’s Day to students in and out of College, and this was again successful.

The majority of our funds, however, came from bop tickets: £2 from each ticket was donated to Macmillan, which meant that almost every student was able to get involved and help a great cause. Hopefully next year will be just as successful, with an inter-collegiate event in collaboration with OxFund in the pipeline. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed and helped us to raise so much for such a deserving cause.

Erin Rai (2014, Modern Languages) The Hall’s other non-sports societies in 2015–2016 included: the Alternative Choir, Arts & Culture, and the John Oldham Society. The Music Society’s main activities are reported in the ‘Hall Music’ article in section 3 of this Magazine.

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AWARDS AND PRIZES Many admirable achievements of SCR members, of current students, and of Aularians worldwide during 2015–2016 are reported in sections 2, 4, and 8 of this Magazine. Here, special mention is made of some of these awards and prizes, and other successes.

SECTION 3:

THE YEAR GONE BY

Particular congratulations are offered to Aularian Michael Senter OBE and his wife, Dr Enid Mayberry, on being presented in September 2015 with the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland for their charitable work as volunteers in that country for over 20 years. The Gold Cross is the highest of the award’s three grades and recognises those who go beyond their call of duty in their work for Poland and society as a whole. Professor Adrian Briggs, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow and Tutor in Law, was awarded the rare distinction of appointment as an Honorary Queen’s Counsel (QC). Meanwhile, John Prebble (1968, BCL) received a similar distinction in New Zealand when in May 2016 he was appointed QC under that country’s Royal Prerogative procedure; he is only the second scholar of tax law to be awarded silk on this basis. Sir Richard Gozney himself (1970, Geology), formerly Governor & Commander-inChief of Bermuda, was appointed the 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from April 2016.

Students’ academic success was celebrated in a number of ways during the year. On 17 February 2016 the Hall held its annual Award-holders Dinner for undergraduates who had been awarded a Scholarship Professor Adrian Briggs (photo or Exhibition. The event was hosted by the Principal courtesy of Oxford University together with the Senior Tutor, Professor Robert Law Faculty) Wilkins, and was attended by around 85 students, Fellows, tutors and lecturers. The Principal gave a congratulatory speech celebrating the achievements and potential of the award-holders. On 16 April 2016, the Hall was delighted to welcome back Tom Peel (1994, Mathematics & Philosophy) to mark the achievements of students who have benefited from Peel Awards. These were generously established by Tom and his wife Eva Peel (1994, Fine Art) to provide financial assistance for deserving students studying Mathematics and Philosophy and Fine Art. A reception was held for awardholders, Fellows, and guests in the Principal’s Drawing Room, celebrating not only the individual students’ success but the strength of their academic disciplines at the Hall.

The Hall’s continuing strength in Fine Art was apparent in this year’s Prize News from the Ruskin School of Art. Not only did Mariette Moor (2013, Fine Art) win the prestigious Vivien Leigh Art Prize for a two-dimensional work of art on paper (thereby following in the footsteps of Aularians Alexandra Pullen in 2014 and Joe 83

Mackay in 2015), but Jessica Heywood (2015, Fine Art) won the John Farthing Prize for outstanding performance in Human Anatomy in the Preliminary Examination in Fine Art. Eleanor Minney (2013, Fine Art) and Mariette Moor jointly received the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Art Award 2015, for commissions to be completed over the Long Vacation and installed during Michaelmas term 2015. The winning work in this competition, which needs to be inspired by research at the Dunn School or by the School’s architecture, is retained by the School for its art collection. Eleanor’s two pieces in the medium of pencil, ink and mixed collage on tracing paper explored the theme of an artist as an outsider struggling to comprehend the complexities of scientific research, while Mariette produced an intricate pencil drawing inspired by images of Jessica’s winning picture ‘Lungs’ the heart, stomach and small intestine.

Women’s teams, we gladly record the award of Luddington Prizes of £500 to Fraser Heathcote (2012, Engineering Science), who obtained Blues in Rugby in 2013 and 2015, then went on to achieve a First this year; and to Owain Jones (2011, Biochemistry) who was awarded a Blue in Cricket in 2012 and has now achieved a First. During the course of the year, no fewer than 29 Hall students (18 women and 11 men) were awarded Blues, half-Blues, and 2nd Team Colours, across some 20 different sports.

Congratulations are offered to David Robinson (2012, DPhil in Chemistry), who was selected for the England pistol shooting team; George McKirdy (2015, MSc in Higher Education), who rowed in the Boat Race; Ryuji Yanase, a Visiting Postgraduate Student working in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, who was a member of the Oxford University Kendo team which triumphed over Cambridge in the Varsity competition in April 2016; Tim Donnison (2014, DPhil in Clinical Medicine), captain of the Oxford Ice Hockey Team which won the National Championships 2016; James King (2013, Geography), Vice-President of the Oxford team which won the 2016 Motorsport Varsity Match; Lulu Wallis (2014, Biochemistry), who captained the University’s Yachting team against Cambridge; and Thomas Fox (2012, Engineering Science), who took part in this year’s Varsity American Football victory (45-0), the most successful result against Cambridge since 1995. Carly Bliss (2013, DPhil in Medicine) achieved fame by captaining the Oxford University Women’s Rugby Union side in the first Women’s Varsity match to be played at Twickenham Stadium on the same day as the Men’s fixture, 10 December 2015.

Third-year Biochemist Mabel Wong was part of the 15-strong Oxford University team who achieved a Gold Medal in the international iGEM competition, held in Boston, USA in September 2015. The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology. Oxford’s team was one of 259 multidisciplinary teams who presented projects in Boston. They decided to target the problem of antibiotic resistance, engineering bacteria to make proteins that could be used as an alternative to antibiotics (specifically in catheter-associated urinary tract infections). Mabel’s contribution was primarily as a member of the wet-lab team, i.e. those carrying out the experiments. She also did some outreach work with local hospitals and the UNIQ summer school, and represented the team in an interview with BBC Radio Oxford.

What is intended to become a new College tradition was launched on Friday of 8th Week of Trinity Term (17 June 2016), when a special Achievements Formal dinner was held in the Wolfson Hall to celebrate a diverse range of student excellence in extra-curricular activities. All current students were given the opportunity to nominate peers whom they considered worthy of recognition for their non-academic achievements. From those nominated, 47 students, a mixture of undergraduates and postgraduates, were selected and invited to attend the Achievements Formal, along with other students. In his welcoming speech to attendees, the Principal said that while academic success is paramount, extra-curricular pursuits are hugely valuable and enriching: interests pursued

by Teddy Hall students alongside their studies make an excellent contribution to the community of the Hall, of Oxford, and often within the UK. Such achievements help to shape a student’s future and have a life-long impact, as many of our very successful alumni have demonstrated. The achievements celebrated at this year’s dinner ranged from charity work to The Achievements Formal Dinner 2016 music and sport.

This academic year saw the award of the first Oxford Chinese Economy Programme Graduate Scholarship. Ilona Mostipan (2013), who successfully completed an MPhil in Economics in 2015, used her OXCEP scholarship to enrol on the DPhil programme in Financial Economics at the Saïd Business School.

She is carrying out research at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance, and explores issues relevant for the Chinese and world economy.

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MASTERCLASS FUND AWARDS AND SHOWCASE

THE GEDDES MASTERCLASS 2016

This year, 29 students received awards from the Masterclass Fund for advanced coaching sessions in an area of extra-curricular interest, aimed at refining and improving their technique and ability. As will be seen from the list below, these awards supported students’ interests in a very wide range of sporting and cultural pastimes.

As well as individuals receiving the Masterclass Awards reported above, student journalists benefited from a group Masterclass held in Hilary term 2016. Final-year undergraduate Alice Jaffe reports:

Alastair Adams-Cairns (2012, Engineering Science) — surfing Viraj Alimchandani (2015, Physics) — organ Rose-Anna Bailey (2013, Economics & Management) — dancesport Graham Baird (2011, DPhil Mathematics) — lightweight rowing Georgina Brett (2015, Jurisprudence) — mediation & negotiation Jack Calvert (2012, Mathematics & Philosophy) — golf Rachel Carver (2015, History) — harp Alexis Chevalier (2014, Mathematics & Philosophy) — piano Bethany Connell (2014, Biomedical Sciences) — Singing Leslie Dickson-Tetteh (2013, Medicine) — performance poetry Rebecca Ipe (2015, MSc Education) — photography visual & narrative William Johnson (2013, Jurisprudence) — judo Isobel Jones (2013, English) — drama Dabin Kwon (2014, Physics & Philosophy) — singing Alex Lindsay-Perez (2013, Medicine) — French Scott Menzies (2015, Economics & Management) — dancesport Anja Mizdrak (2014, DPhil Public Health) — kayaking Mariette Moor (2013, Fine Art) — book-binding Isabel Ogilvie-Smith (2013, English) — dance Derek Park (2014, DPhil Zoology) — pistol shooting Valentina Pegolo (2014, Philosophy, Politics & Economics) — fencing Louise Reilly (2013, Geography) — cheerleading Eve Smith (2012, Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry) — cello Khushna Sulaman-Butt (2013, Fine Art) — mould-making & casting Tonia Thomas (2014, DPhil Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics) — cheerleading Linde Wester (2014, DPhil Computer Science) — wheel gymnastics Joseph Whittall (2013, Engineering Science) — skiing Roxana Willis (2012, DPhil Law) — life writing Inji Yeom (2012, DPhil Mathematics) — sommelier

On 5 March the Principal welcomed over 60 guests to the Hall’s 2016 Masterclass Showcase. This event enabled student beneficiaries of awards to showcase what they had spent their funding on and how the support had helped them to excel in their chosen field. A warm welcome was given by St Edmund Fellow Michael Cansdale (1956, Jurisprudence), who gave participants an introduction to the Masterclass scheme which he helped to found.

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Sunday night in Oxford is usually fairly low key, if anything other than a lastminute library session. The last thing a group of weary-eyed Oxford students expect is to be thrown head-first into a simulated newsroom, handed papers marked ‘top secret’, and given suspicious-looking brown envelopes equipped with dubiously basic Nokia phones. Luckily all of these items were marked ‘fake for teaching purposes’ or else the national press might have had a few scandals on their hands. In between the whispered conversation around the scattered tables, each of which represented a fake ‘newsroom’ of varying moral quality, Charlotte Harris, from Kingsley Napley, asked probing and complicated legal questions.

The purpose of the masterclass on 31 January 2016 was to teach us all the important life lesson of ‘How Not To Get Sued’. Coming from the grotty undergrowth of the Oxford gossip-cough-news that is student journalism, this was a helpful reality check for those of us hoping to approach real-world journalism. Following an hour of tracing, plotting and pitching potential Sunday news headlines to our ‘News Editor’, Charlotte Harris, we were each put in our legal(istic) place and told how the proposed articles would have likely panned out. Where some of our newspapers fared well, others weren’t quite so well received. Fortunately for those of us disheartened by the limitations of libel and defamation, broadcast journalist Peter Cardwell (reporter from ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ programme, Geddes Prize winner in 2005) and his panel of recently-graduated real-world journalists were on hand to clarify that there is still hope. Harry Hodges, who while at Teddy Hall founded The Tab Oxford, had plenty to say about postgraduate life at The Daily Express, while Tim Wigmore (Trinity College) was optimistic in his discussion of niche writing interests, having carved out a successful career as a cricket journalist. Camilla Turner offered insight into more traditional routes to journalism, discussing her graduate scheme and the opportunities offered since.

The final panel member, Alex Dymoke, was winner of the Geddes Prize in 2011, and has since written for City AM, The Evening Standard and The Independent; he is now acting as advisor to Evgeny Lebedev. The panel discussion, led by Peter Cardwell, offered huge insight into the early steps of a career in journalism, providing in-depth information into the smaller stages between graduating and reaching the front page.

The evening concluded in true Teddy Hall spirit, with drinks and a chat with the speakers. One ex-OxStu editor remarked that she went home decidedly drunker than intended, and inquired as to whether the Hall always provided that much alcohol (though perhaps I need to check with Charlotte Harris that I can publish that without permission). As Chairman of the Trustees, Peter Cardwell paid 87

tribute to the merits of the Philip Geddes Trust. The event targeted a gap in the (otherwise management consultancy and banking filled) market of Oxford career information, and offered insight into the journalism industry with the utmost accessibility and clarity.

Alice Jaffe (2013, English)

CHAPEL CHOIR TRIP TO KRAKOW The Chapel Choir’s trip to Krakow, Poland, in September 2015 got off to an explosive start when, after a (very) early flight, we arrived at Katowice Airport to be delayed in the coach park whilst a bomb disposal team dealt with a potential ‘issue’. Once the false alarm had been realised and the situation defused, our coach dropped us off in the sweltering heat of Krakow. The next three days were spent with our base camp at the stylish Hotel Classic, where we would spend the mornings and afternoons rehearsing in the St Jacob Hall of the Franciscan Church, and our free time and evenings exploring this beautiful city. The bustling trams, quaint Polish coffee shops, and busy amber market in the town square were enough to satisfy the Choir’s touristy appetite during the day, and perhaps one or two Polish beers were enjoyed in the evening. Just to be polite, of course…. Our ineffable guide Kate, who looked after us and organised the logistics of the tour, took us each evening to a different Polish restaurant, where we were introduced to Polish cuisine and various traditional meals and delicacies. Thus the first few days were spent perfecting our repertoire and discovering this Polish jewel.

Before the first of our concerts started, however, the majority of the Choir spent the Friday morning on a tour of Auschwitz, the World War II Nazi Concentration and Death Camp. This reporter is still struggling to find a word to aptly convey the experience, but the Choir was guided around the two camps (Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz 2: Birkenau) fully aware of the weight of the past horrors still very much present at the site. It was a sobering and thought-provoking trip as we walked through the very gas chambers so many deceived innocents were killed in, and were confronted by the mountains of glasses, shoes, trunks and even human hair that formed just a fraction of what the Nazis had collected from their prisoners. Many of the Choir were grateful for the exposure to this horrific event, as afterwards it prompted discussion, debate and a greater awareness of the burden of our past. We left with George Santanaya’s quotation inscribed at the beginning of the museum firmly in our thoughts: “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.”

It was thus with slightly sombre hearts that the Choir performed their first concert at the spacious and decorated St Catherine’s Church. After opening with one of Director of Music Chris Watson’s favourite composers, singing Kyrie and two Agnus Dei’s from Palestrina’s Mass setting, the Choir progressed to 88

Macmillan’s A Child’s Prayer, a beautifully delicate close-harmony acapella which grew on the originally sceptical members through the week. The two soprano soloists, Lisa Haseldine and Josceline Dunne, gave an ethereal performance that floated over the haunting lull of the choir harmonies. Organ scholar John ClarkMaxwell then gave a masterful performance of the 1st movement of the Concerto in A minor by Vivaldi, arranged by Bach, followed by Allegri’s famous Miserere, with Chris Watson as the cantor and Josceline Dunne, Lisa Haseldine, Matthew Carter and Sam Mortimer as the quartet. Sung from the back of the church over the heads of the audience, it was a captivating piece, Josceline in particular raising the roof with her top C’s. The Choir branched out this year to incorporate some choreography into their concert, as Chris led them in procession to the front of the church chanting Tavener’s Funeral Ikos, an achingly poignant piece weaving unison chanting and close harmony. John Clark-Maxwell then performed again, Prelude and Fugue in G Major, from the ‘8 Short Preludes and Fugues’, formerly attributed to Bach, showing quiet mastery of his instrument.

Pärt’s Solfreggio, an interwoven acapella building up clashing close chords around the ‘Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do’ scale, followed, a tricky piece that the Choir never fully grew to appreciate, despite Chris’s love for it. The Choir then finished the performance with a Polish favourite, Gorecki’s Totus Tuus, a piece written for a High Mass held by the Polish Pope John Paul II in Victory Square, Warsaw. The resounding chords chanting to the Virgin Mary give way to a quiet, contemplative harmony, inviting tranquil reflection. A tricky one to stay in tune with, the audience were nevertheless extremely appreciative of the concert, prompting an encore performance of Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas, a firm Choir favourite.

It was a good concert with room for improvement, and the next day, after exploring the mountain town of Zakopane, a quick rehearsal beforehand meant the same repertoire was performed with great effect to an extremely impressed and grateful audience at the Holy Cross Church in the mountains, prompting a standing ovation and a bouquet of flowers for Chris. Despite some illness within the Choir at this point, the Choir finished the tour by participating in two Masses, performing the Palestrina, Gjeilo and Gorecki. The morning Mass was sung at the imposing and architecturally brilliant Kosciol Arca The Choir in Holy Cross Church, Zakopane Pana (a church with symbolic importance for Krakow, built by its congregation during the Communist control as a symbol of religious defiance), and the evening Mass from the organ loft of the beautifully ornate and intricate Wawel Cathedral. The Choir then celebrated a highly enjoyable and successful tour with a final dinner and some more touristy activities (with emphasis on the cultural aspect of Polish bars).

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An honourable and thankful mention must go to Paddy Carpenter, who was a most welcome and friendly face at our concerts and throughout the tour, and to the Revd Will Donaldson and his wife Ruth for supporting our concerts.

Moreover, the Choir are particularly grateful to those who financially supported this concert and made it a viable reality, especially Justin Stead [1971, Forestry], without whom we would not have been able to enjoy this incredibly rewarding experience. To Kate, our omniscient guide for the tour, who occasionally had to suffer our appalling time-keeping, and who was unnecessarily delighted and confused when we actually arrived on time. And finally, the Choir is immeasurably thankful to Director of Music Chris Watson, whose time, energy and patience helped forge some incredible music and an unforgettable trip. We look forward to the coming year’s music, and the next Choir tour.

David Knight, Will Shackleton, Justin Stead, James Tibbles, Chris Watson (tenor); George Ash, John Clark-Maxwell, Marcus Field, Ben Kelsey, Samuel Mortimer, Owen Thomas (bass).

Matthew Carter (2014, English)

This year was notable for activities that reached out in a variety of ways within the Hall’s own community, to the local community, and beyond to other people deserving of help and support. The MCR and JCR Presidents refer to several inhouse initiatives in their reports in section 2 of this Magazine.

COMBINED CHOIR TRIP TO PONTIGNY As highlighted in the reports from the Director of Music, Chris Watson, and the Chaplain, the Revd Will Donaldson, in section 2 of this Magazine, a unique event took place in the Long Vacation 2016 — a combined choir tour to St Edmund’s resting-place in Pontigny, France. Taking part during 6–10 July were representatives of four UK educational institutions associated with Edmund of Abingdon: St Edmund’s College, Cambridge; St Edmund’s College, Ware; St Edmund’s School, Canterbury; and of course, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. The Hall contingent was led by Chris Watson (formerly a pupil at St Edmund’s School, Canterbury) and the Revd Will Donaldson.

High points of the tour were a Choral Concert in Pontigny Abbey on Saturday 9 July, when the four choirs united to perform a selection of pieces by Thomas Tallis, Sir John Tavener, William Byrd, Sir John Stainer, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, James MacMillan, and Sir Hubert Hastings Parry — followed by Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. More Fauré was performed during Mass the next morning, and the choirs also contributed to that day’s Evensong.

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The Hall’s singers, who included current students and alumni, were: Bethany Connell, Josceline Dunne, Lisa Haseldine, Megan von Spreckelsen (soprano); Matthew Carter, Alexandra Davis, Claire Farey, Amelia Gabaldoni, Olivia Payne (alto); Viraj Alimchandani, James King,

The Hall allocated funding of £7,500 to support the Choir’s trip. This came from a legacy from the late Peter Masson (1967, Chemistry). Peter was remembered in prayer during the Pontigny trip, as was Paul Lewis (1955, Engineering Science), a past Secretary of the St Edmund Hall Association and notable supporter of the Hall who had visited Pontigny twice with Aularian groups (Paul’s obituary is published in section 8 of this Magazine).

REACHING OUT

Another example was the establishment of a student organisation called Oxford Hands-On Science (OxHOS), operating on a University-wide basis but with a major contribution from Hall students, not least its founder and president, Beatrice Tyrrell (2014, DPhil in Immunology), and its secretary, Corinna Kulicke (2014, DPhil in Medicine). Students involved in OxHOS spread their enthusiasm for science, and their message about its relevance, to children and their families by taking a range of hands-on experiments into schools and public venues, with volunteers explaining the underlying science. An inaugural roadshow was staged throughout Oxfordshire in September 2015, and in Trinity term 2016 OxHOS was central to the very successful visit made to the Hall by Year 6 pupils from the local Rose Hill Primary School to have fun with Earth Sciences, described by the Chaplain in his report in section 2 of this Magazine. The day enabled the Hall to strengthen further its ties with this School. Beatrice was deservedly awarded the Aularian Prize for 2016 in recognition of her OxHOS activities.

Connecting with school pupils in other ways, on 1 March 2016 the Hall was delighted to welcome a group of Year 7 girls from Hoe Valley School in Woking, on a trip organised by one of the ‘Women Inspire’ participants, Lynne O’Reilly (1980, Physics). The pupils were welcomed by Professor Robert Wilkins, Senior Tutor & Tutor for Admissions, who explained the uniqueness of Oxford and the value of an education here. After lunch with the Principal, the visitors took part in a Teddy Hall Scavenger Hunt and the Chough Challenge. By the end of the day, they had the advantage over most Aularians, of knowing the whereabouts of numerous choughs located in the Front Quad alone! The serious purpose of visits of this kind is to demonstrate the Hall’s commitment to opening up the possibility of an Oxford education to anyone and everyone. So in similar vein, 91

the Hall gladly became involved in an initiative started this year by teachers from The Oxford Academy in Littlemore and the John Mason School in Abingdon, ‘Symposium’ — a programme of six fortnightly workshops for ten highachieving pupils from each school, aged 12 and 13, aimed at providing a taste of how literature is taught at university level and helping to raise their aspirations to apply to Oxbridge and other Russell Group universities. One of the staff members behind this initiative is Aularian Lesley Nelson-Addy (2013, PGCE in English), who teaches at The Oxford Academy. ‘Symposium’ concluded with an evening event at the Hall on 19 May 2016 at which each pupil delivered a detailed presentation about his or her favourite topic from the seminars to parents and staff from both schools.

The Hall was also very pleased to host a new three-day residential event in April 2016 for more than 40 state school pupils with African and Caribbean heritage.

During their stay, the Year 12 students were given an introduction to life during and after Oxford, including mentoring from current undergraduates. They took part in academic workshops led by Oxford tutors, as well as visiting laboratories and libraries and meeting alumni to hear about careers after graduation. This event was organised by the University’s Undergraduate Admissions & Outreach Office in partnership with Target Oxbridge (a programme which aims to help school students with African and Caribbean heritage to increase their chances of getting into the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge).

As mentioned in the Schools Liaison Officer’s report in section 2 of this Magazine, a residential event for Year 12 pupils from across the Hall’s link regions took place on 28 June 2016. Entitled the ‘Oxford Apply Workshop’, this was attended by 31 students from schools and colleges in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Leicestershire and the Isle of Wight. They participated in a number of helpful workshops throughout the day, covering topics such as student life, colleges at Oxford, the Oxford admissions process, writing personal statements, and Oxford interviews. The students also attended a tutor panel, in which Hall tutors representing subjects across the arts and sciences were available to answer questions about interviews, tutorials, and course content. Friendly Student Ambassadors were also on hand, to Professor Robert Wilkins (Senior Tutor) leading a share their experiences of Oxford and Q&A session give the visitors a tour of the Hall.

the money having been raised through carol singing, the Hall’s advent carol service, and a contribution of almost £80 from College staff (donations made in lieu of sending Christmas cards). The Choir also raised money, this time over £280, for the charity Children with Cancer UK during its Christmas weekend tour in the London area: following a quick practice at the hostel where members were staying, they sang carols at Tower Bridge Station on 19 December 2015.

The inaugural Charity Formal Hall took place on 26 February 2016, in support of the British Heart Foundation. The introduction of an annual charity Formal Hall which students can bid to organise for their chosen charity, arose out of a proposal from Tonia Thomas (2014, DPhil in Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics), MCR Welfare Officer. At the dinner, a healthier menu was offered, to align with the BHF’s ‘Healthy Heart’ ethos; guests were asked to wear something red; and a raffle was held, for prizes generously donated by local businesses.

The event raised over £660 for the BHF’s research into cardiovascular diseases, and the MCR added £500 from its Hilary term charity fund. (Tonia continued her fundraising efforts for the BHF during the year, including making a trek to Kilimanjaro in September 2016.) And as reported among the Clubs & Societies in section 2 of this Magazine, the students’ Venus Committee was successful in raising over £1000 during the course of the year for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The profits of over £470 from the Trinity term musical Bemused! were donated to the charities Oxford Mind and the White Lodge Rehabilitation Centre.

On 9 May 2016, a new University-wide support scheme for LGBTQ students, Rainbow Peers, was officially launched with a reception at the Hall. Attendees included the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Personnel & Equality (Dr Stephen Goss), the Principal, Peer Support Trainers and Counsellors from the University’s Student Counselling Service, the Rainbow Peers themselves, and a large number of students. The idea for Rainbow Peers resulted from work by the Counselling Service’s Peer Support programme, which identified the welfare importance of including LGBTQ peers among the trained student peer supporters. The Hall’s Josh Rampton (2014, History & Politics) became involved in co-ordinating the initiative: at the time of launch, there were around 35 active Rainbow Peers from a range of different colleges, including several at the Hall in both the JCR and MCR (the Hall was the first college to have a college-based Peer Support team). Financial support for the launch event was provided from the Principal’s Fund.

Obituaries of the disability rights campaigner Sir Douglas Watson (1944, Jurisprudence) and the gay rights campaigner Michael Mason (1965, Jurisprudence) appear in section 8 of this Magazine.

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WOMEN INSPIRE: CELEBRATING WOMEN AT THE HALL An important milestone for the Hall was reached in Michaelmas term 2015, when the total number of women admitted as members passed the 3000 mark. Special events were held throughout the academic year to celebrate their achievements and influence.

The Hall formally opened its doors to women as full members once amendments were approved by the Queen in Council to its charter and statutes on 9 February 1978 removing the provision that “No woman shall be a member of the college.”

For some time previously, the Hall had been appointing female lecturers, and the MCR had provided associate membership for women members of the University’s Department of Education who had been unable to find places at the (then) women’s colleges — but these were not constitutionally members of the college. The legal amendments opened the way for Vivien Mary Jones to become the Hall’s first woman junior research fellow immediately; for Elizabeth Butler to matriculate in 1978 as a graduate research student; for 37 women undergraduates to matriculate in 1979; and for Dr Ann Taylor to be elected as the first woman tutorial fellow, in Physiology, in 1980 (J N D Kelly, St Edmund Hall: Almost Seven Hundred Years (1989), Ch. XI). Now, over a third of the Hall’s alumni and almost half of its students in residence are female.

Recollections of two of the Hall’s early alumnae, who matriculated in 1980, appear in section 6 of this Magazine.

During 2015–2016, the Hall was pleased to welcome: Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College London University, delivering the Emden Lecture; Alice Hart-Davis (1982, Modern History) as the first female speaker in the ‘Teddy Talks’ series, giving a talk on ‘The Beauty Industry: More Than Just Lipstick and Lycra’ in Michaelmas term 2015; and Anushka Asthana, Political Editor of The Guardian, delivering the Geddes Lecture ‘Breaking into the Boys’ Club’ in Hilary term 2016. In addition, Kay Langdale (1984, DPhil English) organised a series of talks for current students by entrepreneurial women, including Cecile Reinaud.

The long overdue election of female Honorary Fellows began, with alumnae Dr Faith Wainwright, the Hon. Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth and Dr Amelia Fletcher joining the SCR. A special Women’s Formal Hall was held on 3 November 2015, when alumnae were invited to join current students and Fellows.

Over the summer of 2015, students, staff and alumni were invited to nominate women connected with the Hall (current students, alumnae, or academic or non-academic staff members) who were particularly inspiring not only through professional achievements but also deserving of recognition for achievements in their personal lives. A panel chaired by Dr Dianne Gull selected 20 of the nominees to be celebrated in portrait photographs. Dr Gull observed that: “A 94

strong sense emerged from the consultations, that students, especially, did not simply want 20 academic high fliers; they wanted some of the nominees to be those who had contributed, to the Hall, to society, or to some section of society in a notable way. In short, just inspirational women! No particular criteria were employed, except that the final 20 need not be representative of disciplines, careers or positions held.”

Portrait photographs of most of the 20 women were taken by John Cairns, an Oxford-based professional photographer who had previously done work for the Hall and who embarked on the ‘Women Inspire’ project with enthusiasm and skill. Others provided their own pictures. The whole collection was unveiled in Hilary term 2016, exhibited in the Wolfson Hall (and made available to view as part of the College’s Artweeks activities). A brochure was produced to accompany the exhibition and for dispatch to Aularians.

Celebrated in the ‘Women Inspire’ project were:

Samira Ahmed (1986, English) Pallavi Aiyar (1996, History) Natasha Ashton (1993, Modern Languages) Sarah Asplin (1982, BCL) Emma Brockes (1994, English) Maggie Carver (1982, Biochemistry) Melanie Cumberland (1995, Modern Languages) Elisabeth Davies (1991, PPE) Olly Donnelly (1999, Geography) Ruth Evans (2002, Geology) Joy Hibbins (1981, Modern Dr Ann Taylor, the Hall’s first female Fellow, Languages) photographed by John Cairns for the ‘Women Inspire’ Heidi Johansen-Berg (1997, exhibition DPhil Neuroscience) Kay Langdale (1984, English) Julie McCann (former MCR Butler) Nada Milkovic (Deputy Hall Butler) Anya Saunders (1997, English) Ann Taylor (Emeritus Fellow) Jenny Taylor (1985, Biochemistry) Faith Wainwright (1980, Engineering Science) Lynne Worton (1980, Physics).

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initiatives, notably a ‘Big Sister’ scheme, which (running on similar lines to the College families system) will pair up MCR students with third- or fourth-year JCR members to act as mentor. The aim is to help women at the Hall to get advice and friendship in all kinds of areas, including further study and job applications.

Well over a hundred people came to the exhibition, including some hailing from as far afield as the USA. Appreciative comments were left in the Visitors’ Book, including the succinct but all-embracing “Amazing Talent!”

THE GERALD HEGARTY ROOM On 26 February 2016, the recently refurbished Welfare Room was re-named after the Hall’s highly-regarded former chaplain, the Revd Gerald Hegarty. This room, previously used as the JCR President’s room, is situated on the Front Quad, where it is accessible to all students and provides a versatile, comfortable space which is regularly used for events such as peer support sessions, meetings, and welfare teas.

Gerald Hegarty joined the Hall in 1990 and served as Chaplain until 1997. He returned to the post in 2004 and served again until his untimely death from cancer in 2011. He is warmly remembered as a kind, thoughtful, very approachable member of the Hall community.

The re-naming ceremony was attended by the Principal and Dr Dianne Gull, members of Gerald’s family (including his widow, Karen, and his children, Charlotte, Matthew, and Richard), the MCR and JCR Presidents (Pip Coore and Tom Dyer), student welfare representatives, the College Nurse (Glynis Perry), the Domestic Bursar (Jayne Taylor), and the current Chaplain (the Revd Will Donaldson). After the Principal had spoken about Gerald and his contribution to the Hall, the Chaplain said a prayer and made a blessing.

Students relaxing in the Hegarty Room

ARTWEEKS 2016 Keeping up the tradition started in 1990, the Hall once again participated in Oxfordshire Artweeks, taking its place among over 450 venues staging exhibitions and events across the county. On display in the Pontigny Room from 9 to 14 May 2016 was a remarkable variety of paintings, etchings, illustrations, photographs, stained glass, pottery, sculpture, embroidery and knitting created mostly by current students, alumni, Fellows, staff, family, and friends of the Hall.

This year’s exhibition was arranged and organised by the Pictures & Chattels Fellow (Dr Jonathan Yates) and Rhys Owens (Development Assistant).

Highlights included the 20 portrait photographs from the ‘Women Inspire’ project (see section 3 of this Magazine); a series of admirable pieces which local sculptor, Dominique Lussier, carved from the wood of the Magnolia grandiflora formerly gracing the Front Quad (see section 6); and the winning entries in the 2015 Hall Photography competition.

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HALL PHOTOGRAPHY Entries for the 2015–2016 Hall Photography Competition were judged

by Lawrence Cummings (President of the SEH Association), Dr Dianne Gull, Pip Coore (President of the MCR) and Sally Smith (Head of the Development & Alumni Relations Office). The winners, by category, announced in Trinity term 2016, were as follows: ‘Pridelands’ by Andre Dallas (2014, Economics & Management)

Christmas Card 1st place: Samuel Mortimer — Snowman A New Perspective 1st place: Theo Silkstone Carter — From Above 2nd place: Sheena Patel — The Old Library 2 3rd place: Marie Wong — Wisteria Hall Life 1st place: Samuel Mortimer — Ball 2nd place: Marie Wong — Hall Christmas Dinner 3rd place: Lynne Morley-Johnson — Annual Duck Visit 4 Hall Space 1st place: Marie Wong — Wolfson Hall 2nd place: Marie Wong — Front Quad 2 3rd place: Sheena Patel — The Pear Tree The Hall’s Photo Intern scheme, which started in Trinity term 2015, successfully continued this year, with four students contributing photographs: Emily Winn (Visiting Student, Maths, Psychology & Philosophy), Susanna O’Brien (2013, Experimental Psychology), Sheena Patel (2014, BM, BCh) and Tony Tang (2015, DPhil in Materials Science). The interns’ remit is wide — to record events and activities at the Hall and capture aspects of student life in Oxford. Subjects photographed this year ranged from matriculation to college accommodation (with the food at the Hall’s formal dinners proving very photogenic too). The interns’ photographs are primarily shared by the College on social media but they are also helping to add to its image library.

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HALL FILM-MAKING In Trinity term 2015 the Hall launched a film-making competition for students.

The first winner, announced at the start of the following Michaelmas term, was Harry Lighton (2012, English).

The brief for competitors was to make a short video (three minutes) aimed at people who are thinking about applying to Oxford, or choosing a college, or trying to find out more about life at St Edmund Hall. Harry chose to make a micro-documentary, talking to members of the College’s housekeeping team, the scouts. While Harry came up with this concept and carried out the filming and editing, he was assisted by Lauren Collee (2012, English & French: Geddes Memorial Prize winner in 2014), who asked the questions.

As reported in the Magazine for 2013–2014, Harry’s previous film-making success had included winning no fewer than four awards at the 2014 Oxford Film Fund Competition with his short film Three Speech.

HALL WRITING Theo Silkstone Carter’s winning entry ‘From Above’

THE HALL FROM THE AIR One of the prize-winners from the 2015–2016 Hall Photography competition, Theo Silkstone Carter (2011, Materials Science), showcased the College from a new angle, through a spectacular aerial video. Theo filmed using a drone, and edited the footage to produce a video showing the historic Queen’s Lane site, the Oxford city skyline, and the Hall’s accommodation at Norham Gardens near the University Parks (his prize-winning picture From Above is reproduced above).

Music for the video was provided by first-year undergraduate Rachel Carver (2015, History), playing ‘La Source’ by Alphonse Hasselmans on harp (the soundtrack was then produced by Lee Francis of the Conscious Audio company).

Theo graduated in 2015 and moved to the University of Southampton to study for an MSc in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Design. He returned to Oxford during the 2016 Easter Vacation to carry out the filming for the video.

The aerial video can currently be seen at seh.ac/aerial.

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Writing is going as strong as ever at the Hall, and we’ve had a number of writing events this year. On 12 November 2015, Chris Mann (1971, English) and his wife Julia Skeen treated us to a moving and memorable occasion in the Old Dining Hall, combining poetry and music written by Chris with Julia’s beautiful illustrations. To warm the audience up, a number of poems were read in the first half by senior and junior members: Tabitha Hayward, last year’s winner of the Graham Midgley Prize, was among these.

Oxford was lucky enough to receive a visit from ‘Quick Fictions’ in Hilary term 2016: this is an initiative organised by Professor Nicholas Royle and colleagues at Sussex University, involving the submission of a short piece of fiction (300 words at the most), and its publication on the ‘Quick Fictions’ app. Selected entries from across this University were read aloud at an event in the Old Dining Hall on 25 February, an event which proved both popular and entertaining.

On 28 April, Kevin Crossley-Holland (1951, English) and I read from our recentlypublished collections in Chapel. There followed an open mic session in the Pontigny Room, at which several undergraduates read their work (along with Chris Mann, Justin Gosling and Peter King.) It was good to have a formal reading followed immediately by an informal one, and the whole evening was wellattended and well-received.

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students), reminded me again of the amazing range of creative talent there is among undergraduates here at the Hall. (Reviews of the anthology and of the musical appear in section 6 of this Magazine.) There were also more entries than there have ever been for the Graham Midgley Prize for Poetry, and the quality was very high. This year’s winner of the prize is Katharina Dixon-Ward (First Year English), a young poet who we will be hearing a great deal about in the future, I’m sure. (The poem appears in section 3 of this Magazine.)

This year, Tom Clucas (2006, English) has been expanding the Hall Writers’ Directory to include writers who did not read English, beginning with those who read Modern Languages. Work on this will hopefully continue, so that the Directory can become even more effective and useful in future. Meanwhile, the Hall Writers’ Forum celebrated its third anniversary, and in addition to daily posts on a wide range of topics we have had numerous popular challenges. The Forum now has a Wole Soyinka Prize of £150, which can be won by any undergraduate at the Hall.

(This competition is open to all HWF members, but the prize only becomes a cash reality if an undergraduate wins.) Having been through two rounds already, the third round has now begun as I write this report, and the challenge is to compose a set of song lyrics on the theme of ‘creativity and destruction’ by 30 September 2016.

Finally, a word about the activity which I have most enjoyed fostering at the Hall over the last 15 years: the Writing Workshops, which have happened weekly.

Attendance this year has greatly increased, with a core group of around ten people coming along on a regular basis; and we’ve had as many as 18 people packed into my room to read and discuss their most recent work. I’ll be retiring on 30 September 2016 and won’t be running these in future: but they have become such a fixture that they look set to continue. Tabitha Hayward has agreed to be the first undergraduate convener, and they will happen in the bar: hopefully this venue will prove even more popular than the last one!

As I slope off into the sunset I’d like to thank everyone at the Hall who encourages writing, and to wish College the best of luck with the project of funding and selecting a Writer in Residence.

Lucy Newlyn An interview with Lucy on her retirement appears in section 6 of this Magazine.

THE GRAHAM MIDGLEY MEMORIAL PRIZE POEM 2016 Clachtoll The place where the wind held stone. There, where the Brahan Seer had stood. A great heaving, 100

steady moving, wave bringing towards you. Yes, you behind the rocks, sand standers, small cowerers. For you, this was always the place of the wind, where it gathered — threatened to drag you under, wind pushed water, thicker than any voice you could have forged.

Clachtoll — cracked rock, you.

How you had fallen, tide hauling, wind pulling. A thunder to tear the laird’s cattle red from their tethers.

And the next day how we circled — mouths sun opened, wondering at how the land could split? (“The natural arch, or ‘Clachtholl,’ near Storehead in Assynt, will fall with a crash so loud as to cause the laird of Leadmore’s cattle, twenty miles away, to break their tethers.” Brahan Seer)

Katharina Dixon-Ward (2015, English)

THE EMDEN LECTURE 2015 This year’s Emden Lecture was given on 13 November 2015 by Professor Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College London University, author of several widely-reviewed books, including The Story of Pain: from Prayer to PainKillers. Her subject was ‘Sadism: A History’, and during her lecture she explored the history of the concept, asking why it has been so popular since the late 19th century.

Professor Bourke explained that the term ‘sadism’ was popularised among scientists by the early psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, in his work Psychopathia Sexualis of 1886: in identifying certain crimes as ‘sadistic’, he linked violence with extreme expressions of male sexuality. However, it became a common term in public, as well as scientific, discourse because of the interest in a number of high-profile sex crimes at the turn of the century (including those of ‘Jack the Ripper’). At the same time it became associated with eugenicist ideas, 101

which associated ‘sadism’ with the alleged problem of racial ‘degeneration’. From the early 20th century, the term was used increasingly widely, to refer to many different types of violence. Yet since the 1960s, the term in its original sense has come under attack from those who argue that it unjustifiably posits a link between normal male sexuality and violence, and indeed suggests that sexual violence is only an extreme manifestation of a natural instinct. Rather critics, whom Professor Bourke agreed with, argue that sex crimes and rape should be associated with questions of power.

In a lively question session afterwards, there was a debate over how far the concept of sadism was culturally constructed, as Professor Bourke was arguing, and how far the behaviour it refers to is related to a real set of psychological disorders. The large audience continued their discussions at a reception following the lecture, and several stayed for a dinner held in the Wolfson Hall.

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STUDENT JOURNALISM PRIZES AND THE GEDDES MEMORIAL LECTURE 2016 In this year’s competition, the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize (£2500) was awarded to Alys Key, a third-year English undergraduate at Somerville College, and the Ronnie Payne Prize for Foreign Reporting (£2000) went to Ella Baron, a secondyear English undergraduate at Merton College. The Geddes Prize for a Hall student journalist and the Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism were not awarded.

Alys Key has been involved in student journalism throughout her time at Oxford and was Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Student newspaper in Hilary Term 2015. She has also written for other Oxford publications and has edited Oxford University Student Union’s Freshers’ Guide and Somerville College’s prospectus.

As her entry for the Geddes Prize, Alys submitted a range of news articles, interviews, and opinion pieces. She planned to use the prize money to create a Student Journalism Handbook, a compilation of interviews and important information about matters like legal issues, aimed at giving student journalists greater confidence when looking after a team.

Ella Baron was recognised for her success in the unusual field of political cartooning. After she first sent in her portfolio, The Cherwell student newspaper gave increasing prominence to her half-page satirical cartoons (29 to date, covering local, national, and international news — including the November 2015 Paris bombings). Ella told the Geddes judging panel that she wanted to volunteer with a humanitarian agency operating in a number of foreign refugee camps: she planned to use some of her prize money for this project’s travelling expenses, but the majority would be spent on creating a platform for her cartoons — “I want people to see them and I want them to care.”

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The awards were presented to Alys and Ella on 4 March 2016 by this year’s guest lecturer, Anushka Asthana.

The Geddes Memorial Lecture 2016 After the prize-giving in the Principal’s Lodgings, proceedings transferred to the faux-baronial splendour of the Milner Hall at Rhodes House. Following a welcoming address by the Principal and introductory remarks by Peter Cardwell (successor to Graham Mather as Chairman of the Philip Geddes Memorial Trust), an audience of some 180 people heard Anushka Asthana — at the end of a busy first week in her new job-share post as The Guardian’s Political Editor — deliver the Geddes Memorial Lecture for 2016 on the subject ‘Breaking into the Boys’ Club: why British politics needs more women’. This subject, of course, reinforced the theme ‘Women Inspire’ that was being developed in the Hall throughout the year.

Ms Asthana began by observing wryly that at the time Philip Geddes was himself in residence, the Hall was only just starting down the path of accepting female students — a venture in which, however, it had proceeded during the next 40 years to surpass the House of Commons in respect of the proportion of women members admitted. She reminded the audience that only about 450 women MPs have ever been elected; and that progress towards gender equality in the Commons remains unacceptably slow. During the question-and-answer session at the Anushka Asthana (photo by end of the lecture, a speaker tellingly pointed out Andrea Southam, BskyB) that the UK came low (48th) in a worldwide ‘league table’ of the proportion of women in national legislatures.

Ms Asthana spoke passionately about the importance of the Commons becoming fully representative of the electorate, and about the success achieved when policy was decided and legislation drafted with a differently “gendered lens”. While welcoming the increasing numbers of women MPs and ministers particularly since the 1987 intake, she argued that the Commons still needs to do more to re-think its procedures (e.g. in terms of its working hours, the introduction of electronic voting) so as to make them more family-friendly — to the benefit of younger male MPs as well as their female counterparts.

If it was proving to be a struggle for women parliamentarians to break into “the boys’ club”, in Ms Asthana’s experience the challenge for women journalists and commentators was no less difficult. She emphasised that it remained unusual for a woman to become part of “the lobby” in Parliament (which had seemed to her to be a cross between “a beery working-men’s club” and “a posh public school”, governed by incomprehensible rules). This was a matter not only of the culture 103

of the place but the current practicalities: it felt like a lot of the real business, when lobbyists spoke to MPs and their political advisers, happened after hours, so making it hard for women to cope and leaving them guilty about missing out on family life. Ms Asthana, newly returned to work after a period of maternity leave, recalled that friends were surprised not only that she had been offered the Political Editor post, but that she had accepted such a highly-pressured job. She said, however, that she had also been surprised and pleased to receive so much support from male colleagues. She regarded the Press lobby as being a “window into the institutions” and was keen to fulfil this role because she was convinced that “more women in the lobby will mean better political journalism and reach”.

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CENTRE FOR THE CREATIVE BRAIN The Centre’s programme of events for the year opened on 24 October 2015 with a seminar organised in collaboration with Oxford’s Maison Française, entitled ‘Creativity in Art: a Neuronal Hypothesis’. The lead speaker was Professor JeanPierre Changeux from the Collège de France: one of France’s most distinguished neuroscientists, Professor Changeux was a PhD student of Jacques Monod and Monod’s colleague, François Jacob, with whom he shared a Nobel Prize. His development of a novel model for the way in which neurons communicate was a precursor of Edelman’s ‘neural Darwinism’ theory. A noted collector of French painting of the 18th century, Professor Changeux served for many years as Chair of the French government’s art heritage committee and became a well-known commentator on artistic creativity and its brain origins. This seminar was followed by a round-table discussion with Jason Gaiger (Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History & Theory and Fellow of the Hall by Special Election), Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, Aarhus University and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford), and Andrew Parker (Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford).

The programme continued with the launch of a new satellite series on Neuroscience Imaging Methods. ‘Get to Know the Human Connectome’ took place on 2 December 2015, when Anderson Winkler and Saad Jbabdi, both of the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), spoke about the Human Connectome Project. HCP is a large initiative funded by National Institutes of Health that is using state-of-the-art methods to map brain connections in more than a thousand individuals.

Still aiming at a lay audience, the Centre organised two further events in Hilary term 2016. On 3 March, as part of the Neuroscience of Hollywood occasional series, Dr Claire Sexton of FMRIB talked about ‘The Myths and Realities of Healthy Ageing’, discussing how neuroscience can aid the understanding of both 104

healthy ageing and dementia. Dr Sexton explored how charity-led initiatives like Dementia Friends translate research findings to raise awareness about dementia, the latest research findings examining links between physical activity and ageing, and how community initiatives can inform research practice. On 8 March, Uzay Emir of FMRIB and neurosurgeon Nick de Pennington spoke about ‘Virtual Biopsy: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Brain Surgery’, presenting current and future applications of the technique that probes the chemical make-up of the brain without piercing the skin.

In his talk ‘Perceiving Presence: Theatre, Liveness and the Brain’ on 14 May 2016, Dr Campbell Edinborough (lecturer in the School of Drama, Music & Screen at the University of Hull) discussed how different paradigms of human interiority have shaped the terms of the encounter between performer, space and audience which is at the core of theatre’s ‘liveness’. He outlined some of the ways in which developments in the fields of neuroscience and psychology can be seen to have influenced the aesthetics of theatrical representation and how more recent insights from the field of neuroscience might be used by performers to develop practical skills for engaging with theatre as a live event. Dr Edinborough also spoke about how his approach to making theatre has been shaped by his interest in how the brain co-ordinates action.

OXFORD CHINESE ECONOMY PROGRAMME (OXCEP) The first OXCEP Graduate Scholarship, covering the holder’s fees, was awarded this year, to Ilona Mostipan (2013, MPhil in Economics).

In March 2016 the Hall hosted the first Academic Medicine course organised by OXCEP. Previous academic courses had focused on Economics. Forty academic clinicians from the West China Center of Medical Sciences at Sichuan University arrived at the Hall on 13 March 2016. In addition to their ten-day academic programme of presentations highlighting horizons in medical sciences research and education, delegates had the opportunity to explore Oxford on a walking tour and enjoy many of its cultural attractions (including a viewing of some of the treasures of the Bodleian at the Weston Library, and visits to the University Church of St Mary and the OU Museum of Natural History).

Economics course leaders and delegates

Two two-week courses on Economics and Public Policy for academics from Chinese universities took place at the Hall in August 2016, directed by Professor Knight.

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The Hall is grateful to Dr Frank Hwang for his continuing support of OXCEP. For background information about the establishment of OXCEP, see the article by Professor John Knight in the 2014–2015 edition of the Magazine.

Hall during the 1970s. The guests then enjoyed a four-course dinner in the Old Dining Hall, at the end of which the Principal offered the toast Floreat Aula! and spoke about the many achievements that the Hall can currently boast.

The evening ended with participants repairing to the Buttery Bar in true Hall style.

TEDDY HALL BALL 2016 St George’s Day 2016 saw the medieval-founded Hall transformed into the world of Camelot for a night of festivity, banqueting and dancing. Over 700 current students, Fellows, alumni, and their guests celebrated the time away.

The College setting was re-imagined as an Arthurian castle, complete with full-size suits of armour, a hog roast, and a sword-in-the-stone ice sculpture. There was plentiful entertainment, including medieval folk music, jugglers, knights in battle, a ceilidh, comedy acts, and a roller disco. ‘The Correspondents’ were the Merriment and wisdom (photo copyright Dan headline musical act, while the DJ Grimwood: reproduced with kind permission) headliner was ‘Eton Messy’. Among the funk, jazz and indie bands performing were Oxford University Jazz Orchestra, ‘Danny and the Bailiffs’ (a student band with two Teddy Hall members), ‘Peer Review’ (a Teddy Hall MCR band), ‘The Beatroots’, ‘House of Lions’ (there was one Teddy Hall student in this band), and ‘I Said Yes’. Two student DJs added to the Ball’s success: Teddy Hall’s John Orbell (2015, Materials Science) and Chris Williams from St John’s. Drinks were served from a ‘Round Table’ bar, and participants enjoyed gourmet food.

The hard-working Ball President for 2016 was Paigan Aspinall (2013, Biochemistry) and the 20-strong Committee included Takashi Lawson (2013, Materials Science) as Vice-President for Finance, Lisa Haseldine (2014, Modern Languages) as VicePresident for Experience, and Lottie Mapp (2014, Modern Languages) as VicePresident for Logistics.

40TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER The Principal hosted over 40 Aularians on 19 March 2016 to celebrate the 40th anniversary since they matriculated at the Hall. The guests were joined by Simon Costa (Senior & Finance Bursar) and Professor Robert Wilkins (Senior Tutor & Tutor for Admissions).

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REGIONAL LUNCHES The Principal and alumnus Bill Foy (1965, Philosophy) hosted an Edinburgh Lunch for Aularians and friends of the Hall at The Whisky Society in Leith on 3 October 2015. Eighteen guests, including alumni from all over Scotland and the North of England, enjoyed a three-course lunch followed by a tutored whisky tasting. The idea to hold this event in Scotland was put forward by Bill when attending his 50th Anniversary Dinner at the Hall the previous April.

Participants at The Whisky Society raised a toast to the Hall at this the inaugural lunch in what is intended to become a tradition of informal, regional events which provide an opportunity for groups of Aularians to meet and re-engage with others.

The second Aularian Lunch was held in Bath on 25 June 2016, when the Principal and St Edmund Fellow Michael Cansdale (1956, The Principal, Bill Foy, and guests lunching at Jurisprudence) hosted over 30 lunch The Whisky Society guests at the Martini Restaurant in the city centre. Aularians and friends from all over the South West of England came together to reminisce about their time spent at the Hall and to hear from the Principal about current developments. The Hall is grateful to Michael Cansdale for all his help in organising this event, at which he spoke about his affection for the Hall and how well the place is thriving.

Plans are being made for a regional event at The Lowry in Manchester in October 2016, along with a second event in Edinburgh the same month.

US EVENTS The Principal and Dr Dianne Gull were on the West Coast of the USA during the 2016 Easter Vacation, hosting two very well received events in Los Angeles (30 March) and San Francisco (1 April). It was a pleasure to see some 37 Aularians come together out of a shared love of the Hall, re-establishing old connections as well as creating new ones within the unique networking opportunities provided by these events — events that offered a reminder, if any were needed, of how 107

Aularians of completely different backgrounds, generations or ilk can always find common ground through their shared College.

These West Coast events enabled Aularians in that part of the world to hear about current developments at the Hall and its ambitious plans for the future.

Sincere thanks are recorded to Ethan Lipsig (1967, Philosophy) for organising the Los Angeles reception and dinner at the California Club and producing a most enjoyable evening.

The Hall was also delighted to be represented at the 2016 Oxford University Alumni Weekend in North America, which took place in Washington DC for the first time.

Continuing their travels in the USA, here the Principal, Dr Gull and Sally Smith (Head of DARO) hosted a dinner on 9 April for Aularians based locally and others who had travelled to Washington for the Alumni Weekend. Around 30 Aularians attended the event at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, ranging from members who matriculated in 1955 to a Visiting Student who was at the Hall in 2012.

Congressman Jim Himes (1988, MPhil in Latin American Studies) gave an afterdinner speech about his fascinating experiences as member for Connecticut’s 4th District in the House of Representatives. Next morning he also led a group of alumni on a privileged tour of the Capitol, including a very special visit to the House Chamber. The Hall is very grateful to Jim and his wife, Mary, for their generosity and time over the Alumni Weekend.

A report on this year’s equally successful New York Dinner appears in section 8 of this Magazine.

DEGREE DAYS This year the Hall took part in degree ceremonies on five dates (14 November 2015, 12 March, 16 July, 23 July, 17 September 2016) and was delighted to welcome graduands and their guests on these very enjoyable occasions.

In keeping with the usual arrangements, most graduands — 94 in total — were presented at the Hall’s ‘college-specific’ day, when on 23 July what was mainly the cohort of 2016 Finalists took their BA, BFA, and Undergraduate Master degrees, celebrating their achievements along with six higher degree candidates.

The 17 September ceremony was notable for the conferral of taught postgraduate degrees such as the Master of Studies and Master of Science.

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FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS

STUDENT NUMBERS On the College register at the start of Trinity term 2016 were 420 undergraduates, 307 postgraduates, and 36 Visiting Students.

NEW STUDENTS 2015–2016 UNDERGRADUATES AND POSTGRADUATES Aare, Kristina University of York Acreman, Samuel University of Leicester Adrjan, Pawel University of Oxford Agardh-Tvetman, Henrik School of Oriental and African Studies Aiazzi, Erica Universita degli Studi di Pavia Italy Al Qubaisi, Hamel New York University Alimchandani, Viraj Naresh Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School Allen, Charles King’s College School Anderson, Gregory University of Massachusetts at Amherst Atkinson, Michael Peter Royal Grammar School, Worcestershire Bacon, Amanda University of Oxford Bagshaw, Eleanor Cheltenham Ladies’ College Bakshi, Prerna University of Mumbai Beadle, Natalie Elizabeth Lancaster Girls Grammar School Beauvais, Michael John Salvatore University College London Bedard, Melissa McGill University Behrens, Hannah Jacobs University Bremen Bellamkonda, Kirthi University of Illinois at Chicago Beneke, Tom Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus Bergant, Simon University Ljubljana Slovenia Birt, Irina-Mihaela Liceul de Arte Hans Mattis Teutsch Bloch, Alice University College London Bonilla Brunner, Ileana University of Sheffield Brandt, Martin Eibye Viborg Gymnasium and HF Bremner, Lewis School of Oriental and African Studies Brett, Georgina Marlowe University of Cape Town Bridge, Alexander Frederick Brackenbur Westminster School Brouillaud, Iris École Normale Supérieure Brown, Rebecca University of Hull Brynie, Caeden Wellesley College Bulovsky, Andrew London School of Economics Bunselmeier, Jennifer Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Burdon-Jones, Douglas WLF Academy of Science, Maths & Technology Cai, Xiaosheng Peking University 110

Carroll, John Australian National University Carver, Rachel St Swithun’s School Casey, Brendon James Reading School Caws, Sophie Anisha Cheltenham College Chadwick, Zoe St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Grammar School Chakravarti, Anushka King Edward VI High School for Girls Chen, Siqi River Valley High School Chen, Camilla University of Oxford Chesterton, Douglas Hampton School Chong, Lai Chun Warwick School Clemence, Marianne University of Oxford Cojoianu, Theodor University of Edinburgh Coker Gordon, Nicola Imperial College Coleridge, Benedict University of Oxford Coore, Pip University of Oxford Corlett, Guy University of Cambridge Costain, Alice University of Manchester Crook, Paul Goldsmiths College Crothers, Timothy University of Oxford Czarnecki, Damian Krzysztof XIV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stanisława

Staszica w Warszawie Dacon, Cherrelle University of the West Indies Daniels, Ryan University of Stellenbosch Das, Suchandrima Overseas Master of Science Dass, Nisha Dulwich College, Shanghai Daultry Ball, Nicholas Westminster School Davidson, William DLD College Davies, Charles King’s College School Davies, James Alexander Gordon Havering Sixth Form College Davis, Alexandria Dominique Watford Grammar School for Girls Dawes, Luke Paul Bridgend College Desai, Dhaval Royal Latin School Diver, Poppy Joanne Beacon Community College Dixon-Ward, Katharina Claire Downe House School Dowding, Mitchell Clifton College Edwards, Annabel Eve India King’s College School Elain, Niamh Ysgol Gyfun Bro Myrddin Evans, Jack Imperial College Fijan, Domagoj University of Zagreb Croatia Finicelli, Patrizio LUISS Guido Carli Fischer, Alexander Columbia University Fletcher, Anna Maria Wimbledon High School Foster, Evangeline University College London 111

Fry, Elizabeth Constance King’s School, Worcester Gabaldoni, Amelia Sir John Lawes School Gavin, Jack University of Exeter Gin, Christopher Tonbridge School Glass, William Cardiff University Godwin, Harriet University of Cambridge Goode, Michael William Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire Grennan, Isaac King Edward VI College, Stourbridge Griffiths, Elizabeth Ffion Hellesdon High School Sixth Form Haber, Timo University of Bath Haddock, Sebastian Cranleigh School, Cranleigh Halip, Ana-Casandra Edmundo — A World of Education (The Educativa Group) Hallett, Sadie Truro School Hamm, Idan Barton Peveril College Harrington, Margaret Esther St Davids Catholic College, Penylan Harris, Sophie Woldingham School Harvey, Nicholas University of Cambridge Haywood, Antonella King’s College London Heape, Alexander Aarhus University Henriksson, Johan Uppsala Universitet Sweden Hernandez Chang, Paula Runnymede College Heywood, Jessica Tapton School Higginbottom, James Lewis Wath Comprehensive School Hill-Valler, Jaz University College London Hirt, Daniel London School of Economics Ho, Daven Wei Ren Anglo Chinese Junior College, Singapore Hoberg, Philip Washtenaw Community College Hoeiboe, Hanna NTNU, Norway Holt, Alexander Glyn School Hristov, Hristo University of Oxford Huang, Taowen Jurong Country Garden School (JCGS) Huang, Yu Heriot-Watt University Huang, Chi-Hua San Francisco State University Huggins, Roisin University of Glasgow Hume, Samuel Imperial College Hunt, Alexander University of Oxford Ipe, Rebecca University of Alberta Jakeman, Clare University of Keele Jalleh-Sharples, Grace Ann Bristol Grammar School James, Georgina Canbourne Science & International Academy Jenkins, Benjamin University of Oxford Jensen, Nicholas University of Melbourne Jerram, Matthew University of Oxford 112

Jiang, Jia Zhi Folsom High School Johnson, Jack Bay House School & Sixth Form Johnstone, William Queen Mary and Westfield College Jones, Jennifer Open University Kaisidou, Vasiliki National and Capodistrian University of Athens Kaplan, Alicia South Hampstead High School Kazeem, Jemilat Stowe School Kemsley, Sean Marling School Kerslake, Ellen Concord College Khan, Shoaib Queen Mary and Westfield College Khurshid, Zafar University of Oxford King, Thomas Benedict The Cardinal Vaughan RC School Kittel, Thomas University College London Korman, Zachary University of Edinburgh Kotowski, Mateusz University College London Lau, Yui Ming Mike Renaissance College, Hong Kong Lawrence, Hannah Kathleen Colchester Royal Grammar School Layton, Caleb SUNY at Buffalo Lea, Ryan John Barton Peveril College Lim, Xuxin University of Edinburgh Lindstedt, Samira University of Oxford Liu, Sihui Manchester Grammar School Liu, Shuai University of Warwick Liverpool, Layal University College London Lloyd-Hughes, Hawys Royal College of Surgeons Lopes, Emanuel University of Dundee Lowe, Nathan Blue Coat Church of England School, Oldham Lukauskis, Dominykas The Thomas Deacon Academy Ma, Yiqian McGill University MacLean, Andrew University of Glasgow Makumborenga, Munashe Oxford Brookes University McCormack, Michael James The Art Academy McEwan, Jermaine Tresham College of Further & Higher Education McKirdy, George University of Nottingham McNeil, Lara Anna The Perse School Menon, Sneha University of Mumbai Menz, Alyssa Columbia University Menzies, Scott Hills Road Sixth Form College Molin Cherneski, Kristina University of Alberta Morter, Richard University of Manchester Mostipan, Ilona University of Oxford Mustafa, Jack Michael Builth Wells High School Naidoo, Kalina University of KwaZulu-Natal 113

Nash, Corey Joseph Tonbridge School Neal, Giles University of Oxford Neve, Fergus Samuel Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Ngai, Chiang Reading School Nguyen, Chi Mai The English College, Prague Nishimura, Lauren University of Oxford Obert, David Harvard University Ocak, Sarp Ulas University of Warwick Odone, Hugh Alexander Timothy Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School O’Grady, Hugo Charles Berkhamsted School Oldbury, Jack Edward Skegness Grammar School Orbell, John James The Leys School Padovan, Oliver Humphrey Umberto Radley College Padron Regalado, Eriko King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Pal, Karim Marcellus Magdalen College School, Oxford Pascual, Maria Pompeu Fabra Pavey, Amber Elizabeth Strode College Pereira, Sybilla University College London Perry, Alfred University of London Petersen, Johan University College London Pilkington, Jason David Wirral Grammar School for Boys Pilkington, Benjamin University of Exeter Pinder, Lily University of Oxford Pospisilova, Natalie Czech British School Pradera, Juan University of Warwick Prestwich, James University of Durham Pryer, Olivia Bedford Girls School Qi, Di University of Windsor Ramjiawan, Rebecca University of Oxford Rataj-Mongelous, Noa Helena Washington International School Rattue, Kevin University of Birmingham Richards, Edmund William Duncan Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood Robertson, Elaine Newcastle College Robson, Gemma University of Oxford Ross, Molly Kate Claires Court Schools Russell, Emily University of Oxford Saito, Makoto London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Scharbert, Maren University of St Andrews Scheer, Philine Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munchen, Germany Schuhle-Lewis, Hannah University of Oxford Schulman, Marc University of the Witwatersrand Scott, Samuel Pates Grammar School Sealey, Christopher Edward Dulwich College 114

Selgrad, Julia Rochester Grammar School Sengupta, Ritwika Imperial College Shah, Haseem Ilford County High School, Ilford Shalam, Joseph University College London Shasha, Oliver Nathan City of London School Sidebottom, Edward Uppingham School Sismey, George University of Oxford Sliwinski, Franciszek University of East London Smith, Rebecca Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Smith Rosser, Elizabeth School of Oriental and African Studies Soleti, Roberto Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ Italy Sparks, Tabitha Grace Kirk Barton Peveril College Spiers, Rebecca University of Lincoln Spink, Sophie Marlborough College Stagkos Efstathiadis, Ion HAEF-Athens College/Psychico College Stedman, Nicholas McGill University Stephenson, Tarquin Foster Lyon Radley College Stevens, Ines Sofia St Mary’s School, Ascot Sussmes, Samuel Hugh Havant Sixth Form College Tan, Khai Liang Don Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris Tang, Yuanbo Imperial College Tapoulal, Nidi Imperial College Taylor, Harry Beckfoot School Theocharous, Isabella Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe Thomas, Bedwyr Ab Ion Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr Thomas, Grace University of Oxford Tibbles, James Andrew Balcarras School Tormey, Stanley Trinity College Dublin Toudup, Zoe Beaconsfield High School Trewern, Joanna Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Troensegaard, Margrethe Royal College of Art Trpovski, Martin NOVA International Schools Tucci, Andrea Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele van Smirren, Hector Eton College von Kietzell, Johanna Dunshaughlin Community College, Ireland Waite, John University of Oxford Walsh, Callan Georgetown University Wang, Tuo Imperial College Ward, Alexander Mark Manchester Grammar School Weidlich, Sabine Johann Wolfang Goethe Universität Frankfurt Welchman, Hannah University of Bristol Wheaton, Philippa University of Sydney Whittaker, Amy Jean Aquinas College 115

Williamson, Kate Wills, Adam Xu, Charlotte Kaihua Xu, Zimeng Xu, Jiabao Yao, Jeremy Jie Yao, Qinzhe Zhang, Jingyu Zhong, Yubin

University of Adelaide The Sixth Form College, Farnborough Lancaster Girls Grammar School Caterham School Imperial College Sevenoaks School Singapore Management University (SMU) Zhejiang University Qingdao Hongguang Foreign Language College

VISITING STUDENTS 2015–2016 Bo, Kaung (Ganesh) Bornoe, Aisha Broda, Piotr Buchok, Irina Buckley, Alexander Calvin, Isaac Carrere, Taylor Chan, Kin Yan Chen, Mengqi Chen, Nanding Chen, Yijiao Colin, Guénaëlle Davis, Emma Diem, Thu DiMattia, Lydia Feng, Yujie Gao, Sisi Geng, Yuzhe (Harry) Gifford, Henry Grazian, Leonard Guan, Jun Hamilton, Christine Hamilton, Gregory Huiting, Erin Kanter, Gabrielle Lam, Benny Li, Ho Yu (Ariel) Maharjan, Liza Penn, Jacqueline Sun, Angela Szabo, Marlee 116

University of Redlands Wellesley College Holy Cross College Bryn Mawr College UNC Chapel Hill Columbia University UNC Chapel Hill University of Hong Kong Smith College Bryn Mawr College Davidson College Pomona College Vassar College Franklin & Marshall College Chestnut Hill College Vassar College Sichuan University Colby College University of Pennsylvania Brandeis University Sichuan University Smith College University of Richmond Colgate University University of Redlands Chinese University of Hong Kong Smith College Smith College Franklin & Marshall College Wellesley College Duke University

Tipilman, Denis Virga, Daniel Winn, Emily Wong, Kevin Xu, Mingrui Xu, Yiming Zeng, Yewen Zhu, Chenjia Postgraduate Visiting Student 2015–2016 Yanase, Ryuji

Lehigh University William Jewell College Holy Cross College Princeton University Smith College Sichuan University Bard College Smith College University of Hyogo

STUDENT ADMISSIONS EXERCISES In the Undergraduate Admissions exercise 2015, St Edmund Hall received 572 applications for entry in 2016 and beyond (compared with 680 the previous year).

More than 280 of these applicants were invited to interview. Almost all of the interviews were conducted in person in Oxford, the exception being a small number of international applicants who were interviewed via Skype. Following the conclusion of December’s interview period, the Hall made a total of 133 offers of undergraduate places for entry in 2016 (compared to 134 offers the previous year). Ten of these were open offers. In addition, two deferred offers of places were made, for entry in Michaelmas term 2017. The Hall also ‘exported’ a small number of applicants, for offers of places at other colleges.

Roughly in line with the gender split in the total application numbers, (using rounded figures) 58% of offers of undergraduate places were made to male applicants and 42% to female. The applicants receiving offers comprised 73% UK nationals, 11% nationals of other EU countries, and 16% nationals of nonEU countries. In respect of previous education, 41% of the applicants receiving offers were from state schools, 36% from independent schools, and 23% from other institutions (mainly schools and colleges abroad).

At the time of the Magazine going to print, this year’s Graduate Admissions exercise had so far seen the Hall consider 240 applications. Graduate offerholders for entry in 2016–2017 represent nearly 60 nationalities: they will be undertaking a range of taught and research programmes in disciplines from across all four of the University’s academic divisions. The expected eventual intake of new graduate students in Michaelmas term 2016 is approximately 125.

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COLLEGE AWARDS, PRIZES AND GRANTS College Scholars 2015–2016 Edward Barnard Daniel Berg Kieran A N Bull Anna R Burningham Matthew P Carter Nicholas Chen Fang Yew Alexis L Chevalier Emma Clayton John W D Darby Luke W S Dent George E H Fulton Samuel J Garforth Joshua M R Goldenberg Konstantin Goncharov William E Hak Ravinder S Hayer Fraser J A Heathcote Arthur J G Hill Hendrik Hoelzer David J Z Holt Owain J Jones Roope P B Keloharju James A King Takashi Lawson Daniel J Lock

Eleanor Minney Muhammad S Nabeebaccus Isabel B Ogilvie-Smith Steven E Pilley Naomi C Polonsky Thomas M Pretty Emily L Pritchett Georgia Richards Susanna E Riley Lucy E Roberts Binxin Ru Yekuan Shentu Haojun Shi Sebastian N A Siersted Natalie J W Stephens Shaun E Tan Minzhe Tang Chui-Joe Tham Tsun Hin Navin Tsung Thomas G Waksman Christopher H Williamson Liang Jing Wong Mabel Tung Yuet Wong Benjamin E D X Woods Samuel Wratten

College Organ Scholar Viraj Alimchandani College Choral Scholars Josceline Dunne Amelia Gabaldoni Elizabeth Haseldine James A King College Exhibitioners Wilfred L Belsey Nadia M L Bovy Lucie A R Carpenter Matthew R Carson Megan R Carter 118

Samuel Mortimer James Tibbles Megan von Spreckelsen

Leon Chng Kunz Chow Joseph K Conchie Katherine G S Cowles Connor S Crickmore

Leslie Dickson-Tetteh Judit M G Santana George D de C Grylls Amelia A L Lean Xinlei Liu Hugo D S Lucas Rhiannon M Main Gianfranco Messina Angus M Murdoch Andrew C M Orkney Sophie-Marie Price Progress Prizes 2015–2016 Daniel Berg Kieran Bull Anna Burningham Alexis Chevalier Will Davidson Dhaval Desai James Elliott George Fulton Elizabeth Griffiths Tabitha Hayward Andy Jiang Johanna von Kietzell

Esther M Rathbone Edward Christopher Sasada Constantinos Savva Sili Shen Lucy V Skelton Angus D R Steele William J Stevens Diana F van der Watt William E S Webb Prateek Yadav

Mateusz Kotowski Mike Lau Georgina Logue Jack Mustafa Ana Pagu Valentina Pegolo Erin Rai Susanna Riley Alexander Savage Ioannis Stamatopoulos Martin Trpovski Tsun Tsung

Aularian Prize Beatrice E Tyrrell George Barner Prize Isobel Jones Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Oliver Bass Paul Crook Mariette Moor Chevron Award Lawrence Green Sam Henson Charlie Karsten Avester Lau

Lara Shahnavaz Angus Steele Khushna Sulaman-Butt Ana Pagu Matthew Patience Matt Sutton

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David J Cox Prize for Geography Jessica Preston David J. Cox Bursary Jessica Preston Tony Doyle Award Kieran Bull Emma Clayton

Andrew Orkney Thomas Pretty

Ruth E Miller Tamara Newton For Fine Art Ruth E Miller Tamara Newton For Mathematics & Philosophy Alexis Chevalier

Richard Fargher Bursaries 2014–2015 Luke Dent George Grills

Michael Pike Fund Award Alexandra Lindsay-Perez

2015–2016 Charlotte Mapp Esther Rathbone

St Edmund Hall Association Presidents’ Prize John Logan

Graham Hamilton Travel Award Alex Blakes J R Hughes Book Prize for Geography Edward Vyvyan India Kary Instrumental Award Rachel Carver Alexis Chevalier Eve Smith Richard Luddington Prize for Outstanding Academic and Sporting Achievement Fraser Heathcote Owain Jones

Gareth Roberts Award Judit Gonzalez Santana

Simon and Arpi Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership Graham Baird Tonia Thomas Beatrice E Tyrrell Frontline Bursary Maura Lysaght (alumna) Joe Todd Award Harris Vince Sophie Behan

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BURSARIES

George Series Prize, 2014–2015 Leslie Dickson-Tetteh

A total of 48 students received the income-related Oxford Bursary. The College components of these bursaries were supported by: the generous bequest of Aularian Mr William Asbrey; Aularian Mr Tony Best in honour of his parents Mr and Mrs Ron Best; Aularian Mr Peter Johnson; Mrs Dorothy Pooley, Mrs Lucy Webber and Mrs Frances Georgel in memory of their father, Aularian Mr Philip Saul; and Aularians Mr David and Mrs Judith Waring.

Ogilvie-Thompson Prize Tabitha Hayward

A further 19 students received the University’s income-related BP, HSBC, Lloyds, Man Group, Moritz-Heyman or Reuben Bursaries.

Ogilvie-Thompson Prize proxime accessit William Davidson Margaret Harrington

One current undergraduate student holds a Reach Oxford Scholarship, which is supported by a contribution from the College, as well as through the generosity of undergraduate and postgraduate junior members.

Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Katharina Dixon-Ward

Peel Awards For the Professional Practice Programme in Fine Art Wai T M Chung Maya Gulieva 120

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UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES Department of Chemistry Part II Thesis Prize William Hak Dunn School Art Prize Eleanor Minney Mariette R Moor IoM3 Prize for Best Overall Performance in Part I and Part II William Darby John Farthing Prize for Outstanding Work in Human Anatomy Jessica Heywood Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Part II Research Project Prize Owain Jones Gibbs Prizes 2016 Engineering Science (Team) Matthew P Greenwood Geography (Book Prize) James A King Statistics Christopher Williamson 3 Verulam Buildings Prize in Commercial Law Shaun E Y T Tan Vivien Leigh Art Prize Mariette Moor White & Case Comparative Law Prize Lisa K Poth

COLLEGE GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship Alyssa M Menz Emden-Doctorow Award Philine L Scheer E P A Cephalosporin Scholarship Ileana A Bonilla Brunner An E Vanhaesebrouck Kate D Williamson Anderson M Winkler

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William R Miller Postgraduate Award Lewis Bremner Daisy L A Ogembo Margrethe Troensegaard Bruce Mitchell Graduate Scholarship in English Hannah U Schuhle-Lewis Peel MFA Award Paul Cook Pontigny Scholarship Philippa J Coore Wenji Guo Routledge Scholarship Rebecca M Ipe Student Challenge Fund Award Benjamin M Jenkins Lily N Pinder Zaharoff-Besse Studentship Vanessa Lee Postgraduate Writing-up Grants Sasha Iosad David Robinson David Mackenzie Jiming Zhu Mrs Brown Bursary Dean James Hannah Pannwitz Kayla Svoboda

PARTNERSHIP GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Clarendon Fund and Brockhues Scholarship Makoto Saito Clarendon Fund and Justin Gosling Scholarship Maria B M Celati Clarendon Fund and St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship Domagoj Fijan Tamarin Norwood Wenji Guo Yung-kang Peng Hristo Hristov Helge Peters

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DEGREE RESULTS

CEELBAS-AHRC Doctoral Studentship Philip Chadwick NERC DTP-St Edmund Hall RCUK Partnership Award Maria Tsekhmistrenko

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Law Faculty Family Law Scholarship Philippa J Coore Felix Scholarship Aashique A Iqbal Marshall Scholarship Andrew T Bulovsky

Derek S Park

Rhodes Scholarship Hamel AlQubaisi Cherrelle B C Dacon

David A Obert Rachel L Paterson

Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Scholarship (Saïd Business School) Philippa A Wheaton Zamir Telecom Scholarship (Saïd Business School) Shoaib M Khan

EXTERNAL AWARDS Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) Singapore Scholarship Xuxin Lim Cecil Renaud Overseas Scholarship Kalina Naidoo Commonwealth Scholarship Ryan J Daniels Marc Schulman Rebecca J Sutton CONACYT (Mexican National Council for Science and Technology) Scholarship Eriko Padron Regalado Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) Scholarship Ilona Mostipan Singapore Government Scholarship (Foreign Service) Khai L D Tan

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Candidates who have agreed to their results being published FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS 2016 Biochemistry Class I Class II i

Owain Jones, Emily L Pritchett, Sebastian Siersted, Thomas G Waksman Eve G D Smith

Chemistry Class I Class II i Class II ii

William Hak, Rhiannon M Main Emma E McLaren Alex Mercer

Earth Sciences Class I Class II i

Georgia Richards Edward G H Baker, David Taylor, Gemma Wardle

Economics & Management Class I Maximilian Burgin Class II i Rose-Anna E Bailey, Matthew Diffey, Hendrik Hoelzer Engineering Science Class I Class II i Class II ii

Fraser Heathcote, David J Z Holt, Alastair Adams-Cairns, Joseph K Conchie, Hui Liu Jack Dolan, Thomas Fox, Wenyi Wang

English Language & Literature Class I Isabel Ogilvie-Smith Class II i William Durkin, Isobel J Jones, Amelia A L Lean, Hester M Thompson English & Modern Languages Class I Lauren Collee Experimental Psychology Class I Emily Gray, Susanna O’Brien Fine Art Class I Class II i Geography Class I Class II i

Lara N Shahnavaz, Angus Steele Oliver J W Bass Arthur Hill, James A King, Louise C Reilly, Katherine Robinson Louise A J Favre-Gilly, Alice R Harman

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History Class I Class II i Jurisprudence Class I Class II i Class II ii

Chui-Joe Tham Edward Alun-Jones, James F G Elliott, Pernia Price, Connor J Warden Shaun E Y T Tan Daniel W Goldblatt, William E Johnson, Alys C Preece, Zamira Rahim, Eleanor Thompson Matthew Carson

Jurisprudence (with Law in Europe) Class I Lisa K Poth Materials Science Class I Class II i

William Darby Jeremy A Miles

Mathematics Class I

Douglas Cooley

Mathematics & Philosophy Class II i John Calvert Mathematics & Statistics Class I Christopher Williamson Class II i Joshua Goldenberg, Peter J Graham Medical Sciences Class II i Class II ii

Oliver J D Carlill, Alexandra C Lindsay-Perez Olivia E Payne

Modern Languages Class I Class II i

Georgina Logue, William E S Webb, Suriya Prabhakar, Edward Sasada

Neuroscience Class II i

Charles J Clarke-Williams

Philosophy, Politics & Economics Class I Edward Benson Class II i Wilfred L Belsey, Yiwen Lisa Koh. Hugo Lucas, Samuel Wratten Philosophy & Theology Class I

Samuel A Mortimer

Physics Class I Class II i

Muhammad Saad Nabeebaccus, Prateek Yadav Thomas A J Binnie

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Psychology, Philosophy & Linguistics Class I Natalie Stephens HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Letters (DLitt) Ewan Anderson Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Ancient History: Amber C H Gartrell Atomic & Laser Physics: Felix C Binder Chemical Biology: Xiaomei Ren Biomedical Sciences: Amy L Varney Chemistry: Helen S Billingham Chemical Biology: Jieqiong Qiu Earth Sciences: Peter Davis Education: Hem S Borker, Gianna Hessel English: Gareth L Evans Engineering Science: Rodolfo M N Fleury Adward Min Hyun Paik, David B Springer, Huijuan Wu Fine Art: Damian Taylor Geography: Alex T Gutierrez History of Art: Anne S Grant Infection, Immunology & Translational Medicine: Eleanor M Denham, Amy Kenyon Materials: Harry-Luke O McClelland, Daniel Thompson, Alan Xu Physical & Theoretical Chemistry: David M Wilkins Radiobiology: Sarah J Jevons, Abul H Siddiky Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Economics: Joachim E Mowinckel, Laura M Van Der Erve Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Hannah P A Pannwitz Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) James P Arwyn-Jones, Minesh Chotalia, William J Kerrigan (Distinction), Alistair J M Reed Master of Science (MSc) Biodiversity, Conservation & Management: Frances P Read (Distinction) Child Development & Education: Kei Mukumoto Clinical Neurosciences: Payashi S Garry Comparative & International Education: Rahma Abdilahi, Beatrice Addo, Kathleen M Maffei (Distinction) Criminology & Criminal Justice: Lily N Pinder Engineering: Adward M H Paik Environmental Change & Management: Haruna Suenaga, Dico K Van Dissel 127

Financial Economics: Stanley W Tormey (Distinction) Global Governance & Diplomacy: Prerna Bakshi Higher Education: John Chadfield History of Science, Medicine & Technology: Caitlin R Page Integrated Immunology: Angelica Marie A Corcuera, John Nguyen (Distinction) Law & Finance: Zachary A Korman Mathematical & Computational Finance: Jingyu Zhang Mathematical & Theoretical Physics: Sten Johan Henriksson (Distinction) Mathematics & Foundations of Computer Science: Dallas K Clement (Distinction) Nature, Society & Environmental Policy: Camerin G Bennett, Ningfei Ou Pharmacology: Thomas Mclean Social Science of the Internet: Alexander D Andresian, Shannon M Bell, Olga Musayev Theoretical & Computational Chemistry: Domagoj Fijan (Distinction) Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology: Anne Therese S Nielsen (Distinction) Water Science, Policy & Management: Carey B Goldman Master of Studies (MSt) British & European History 1500–present: Kristina S Molin Cherneski (Distinction) Chinese Studies: Elizabeth S Smith Rosser (Distinction) English: Benjamin Pilkington, Thomas Kittel (Distinction), Samira Lindstedt (Distinction) Legal Research: Li-Kung Chen Modern Languages: Ambroise S Joffrin, Vasiliki Kaisidou, Philippe Panizzon (Distinction)

Diplomatic Studies (PGDip) Khai L D Tan (Distinction)

DEGREE DAY DATES 2016–2017 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 2016–2017 will be published on this site as and when they are confirmed.

Taught-course students who are due to finish their degrees in the 2016–2017 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-2017) 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.

Master of Fine Art (MFA) Paul Crook Master of Business Administration (MBA) Karanraj Singh Chaudri, Tigran A Ghazaryan, Samuel W Pigott Master of Public Policy Natasha Chilundika, Joel Straker Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) Geography: Clare E Jakeman History: Munashe Z Makumborenga Mathematics: Jack L Gavin Modern Languages: Antonella Haywood, Hannah E Welchman Physics: James Prestwich Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) John M Carroll (Distinction), Qinzhe Yao 128

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REVIEWING THE YEAR

by Sally Smith, Head of Development & Alumni Relations Office This past year has again seen challenges and successes for the Development & Alumni Relations Office (DARO), which co-ordinates all outreach to Aularians, parents and friends of the Hall.

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DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE

The Hall has been without a Director of Development since February 2015, but DARO has been led by the Principal and me with great effort and support from Judith Beresford (1981, English Language & Literature), who stepped in as Development Consultant to help with strategic direction and the re-organisation of the office. We will be recruiting for a new Director in the coming months and they will lead the major giving fundraising strategy with the Principal, and the support of the team. I will continue to lead the office and provide direct support to the Principal and new Director.

In order to continue to broaden and deepen our engagement with alumni, we organised 25 events here in Oxford and around the world, attended by over 2000 people. That’s over a quarter of our total number of alumni, so we thank you for your support wherever you are, and for keeping the spirit of the Hall as vibrant as ever! Alongside the traditional Gaudies, dinners, sports-related events, Carols, Parents’ Dinners, and general social drinks and networking events, we also had a Masterclass Showcase for donors to the Hall; a chance for student beneficiaries of our popular Masterclass Awards to showcase what they had spent their funding on, and how it had helped them to excel in their chosen field. This year we were entertained with everything from the piano to surfing, from the harp to pistol shooting, with students pursuing their passions as far afield as the Lofoten Islands in Norway to Goa in India. The event was a great success, and we hope to see more Aularians back in the future to celebrate the fantastic achievements of our extremely talented students, made possible through their very generous donations.

In October 2015, the 3000th female student joined the St Edmund Hall community, and officially became a member of the University at the matriculation ceremony on 17 October. To mark this milestone, the Hall recognised the achievements and influence of our alumnae with a number of events and initiatives throughout the year, led by DARO, alumni volunteers and current students.

In summer 2015, we invited nominations of inspirational women with a connection to St Edmund Hall, who would be represented in a series of portrait photographs. Twenty women, including alumnae and staff, were chosen by a committee of alumni, staff and current students — not only for their professional accolades, but also because of impressive achievements in their personal lives.

These portraits were unveiled in Hilary term and exhibited in the Wolfson Hall for the rest of the year. We would like to give special thanks to Dr Dianne Gull, who led this project and co-ordinated the women and photographer.

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During Michaelmas term 2015, Alice Hart-Davis (1982, Modern History) became the first female speaker in our series of alumni ‘Teddy Talks’. She spoke on the topic of ‘The Beauty Industry: more than just Lipstick and Lycra’. Kay Langdale (1984, DPhil English) also organised a series of talks for current students by entrepreneurial women.

This year we have raised an amazing £3.1m, with generous support for the Annual Fund and ongoing gifts and legacies. Some notable gifts include £250,000 to complete the fundraising for the refurbishment of the Old Library, a pledge of £1.2m from an anonymous donor to complete the £1.6m needed to endow the second Law Fellowship, £50,000 Sally Smith, Cecile Reinaud and Kay Langdale at Cecile for an undergraduate Reinaud’s talk on 3 March 2016 bursary in memory of Professor Sir David Yardley and £7,500 for this year’s Choir trip to Pontigny.

This is the fourth year for the Board of Hall Benefactors (BHB) which was formed to recognise alumni and friends who make a donation of £25,000 and above. The following Aularians have generously given at this level in support of the Hall: Raymond Hui (1974) Peter Johnson (1965) Dan Levy (1981) William R Miller (1949) Gareth Roberts (1971) Stephen Rosefield (1971) Ian Smith (1972) Paul Stanton (1982) Aaron Yeo (1995) Charles Peel Charitable Trust Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund Two Anonymous Donors

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THE ANNUAL FUND The Annual Fund continues to thrive and we thank all alumni who spoke to current students in the telethon and gave so generously to the Hall. The Annual Fund is absolutely critical to the yearly finances of the Hall since it underpins much of our student-focused activity. The leadership element of the Annual Fund also continues to be successful and we extend our thanks to those who rose to the challenge of giving £1000 or more to the Annual Fund this year: LEADERSHIP DONORS 2015–2016 Alan Pickett (1943) Alan Brimble (1949) Denys Moylan (1951) John Heyman (1954) John Barker (1955) John Dellar (1955) John Andrewes (1956) Michael Cansdale (1956) Rupert Harvey (1956) David Poole (1957) Alastair Stewart (1957) Michael Voisey (1959) John Adey (1960) David Scharer (1961) Rod Offer (1963) Peter Day (1964) Jeremy Fox (1964) Armar Archbold (1965) Cam Brown (1966) David Hexter (1967) Clive Bailey (1968) Richard Gozney (1970) Richard Balfour (1971) George Bull (1972) Andrew Watson (1972)

Martin Hyde (1973) Paul Matthews (1974) Keith Geeslin (1975) Peter Watson (1975) Adrian Haxby (1977) Paul Meadows (1978) Ian McEwen (1979) Bernard Bewlay (1980) Gary Lawrence (1980) Paul McCarthy (1981) Jai Pathak (1981) Chris Giles (1984) Christopher Williams (1985) Samira Ahmed (1986) Adrian Jones (1990) Des Anderson (1991) Christopher Ashton (1991) Natasha Ashton (1993) Martin Thorneycroft (1995) Daoud Awad John P Davidson III and Shirley A Schaeffer Hassan Diab GE Foundation Two Anonymous Donors

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DONORS TO THE HALL

Bruce Nixon Neville Teller David Thompson

Tony Cooper John Cotton John Cox John Dellar Peter Edmondson Roger Farrand David Frayne David Hare Verdel Kolve Michael Martin Brian Masters Alan Mathieson Neil Merrylees Mike Neal Trevor Nicholson Irving Theaker Bill Weston Richard Williams 1 anonymous donor

1953 (18%, £1175)

1956 (30%, £20,866)

From 1 August 2015 to 31 July 2016 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1110 alumni, parents of students and Friends of the Hall who have donated in the last year and whose names are recorded on the following pages. We record by matriculation date the names of all who have made a donation during this period including the participation rate (the percentage of people in each year who have given), and the total amount received per matriculation year. Where there are only one or two donors in a particular year we have not listed the amount given in order to preserve confidentiality. *denotes deceased DONOR LIST 2015–2016 1927 (100%)

Brian Forrest*

1939 (33%)

Robbie Bishop

1942 (18%)

Michael Johnson 1 anonymous donor

1943 (18%)

John Dixon Alan Pickett

1945 (14%)

Norman Barr Victor Parry

1946 (40%)

David Dunsmore* John Pike

1947 (43%, £1400) John Ayers Guido Castro Noel McManus

1948 (22%, £674,325) Jarvis Doctorow Nicholas Dromgoole Elmer Sprague 1 anonymous donor

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Arnold Grayson Colin Hadley Terence Kelly* William R. Miller William Thorpe* 1 anonymous donor

1950 (25%, £1314)

Tim Denehy David Pollard Graham Heddle Noel Harvey Jack Wheeler Ralph Simmons Michael Williams Ray Waddington-Jones

1951 (17%, £7418) Derek Bloom Tom Crabtree Andrew Johnston Kenneth Lund Denys Moylan

1952 (28%, £33,078)

Peter Brown Ian Byatt John Claxton Tony Coulson Philip Currah Michael Darling* David Fitzwilliam-Lay Chris Jones* Frank Lockhart Denis McCarthy

John Arthure Ken Bulgin Ian Jackson Patrick Nobes David Picksley Bob Rednall Ian Smith Dick Turner 1 anonymous donor

1954 (22%, £5725) Jeremy Cleverley Ian Conolly Tony Crowe Michael Duffy Brian Easton John Heyman Keith Hounslow Brian Howes Tony Laughton John Morgan Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor Ronald Truman John West

1955 (33%, £7798) John Barker Hubert Beaumont John Billington

Brian Amor John Andrewes Colin Atkinson Roy Caddick Michael Cansdale Maresq Child Bob Emery John French Rupert Harvey David Henderson Michael Hickey Chris Machen Jim Markwick* John Pinnick Martin Reynolds David Short Paul Tempest David Williams John Young

1957 (34%, £7502) Michael Archer Ted Aves Robin Blackburn David Bolton Blake Bromley Geoff Brown Hugh Denman Duncan Dormor Anthony Drayton

Tony Ford Bob Gilbert John Harrison Dennis Jesson Keith Leaver Ted Mellish Geoff Mihell Colin Nichols David Parfitt David Poole Peter Reynolds Stewart Shepley Mike Somers Alastair Stewart

1958 (29%, £4919)

Chris Alborough Jim Amos Peter Bentley Brian Bosworth John Davie Peter Davies Jim Dening Michael Duck Geoff Fox Andrew Garrod Tony Goddard David Harrison OBE Ronnie Irving Mike Jarman Richard Linforth Donald McGilchrist Tony Nial Michael Pelham Tony Phillips Philip Rabbetts Nevill Swanson 1 anonymous donor

1959 (22%, £64,786)

Ian Alexander Keith Bowen David Braund D.C. Coleman Kevin Crossley-Holland John Curry Tony Doyle Chris Harvey Ian Hepburn Matthew Joy Graham Kentfield

James Kerr-Muir Malcolm McDonald Culain Morris Mike Oakley Brian Saberton John Spires Michael Voisey Stewart Walduck Roy Walmsley John Walters

1960 (44%, £12,053) John Adey Nicolas Alldrit Chris Atkinson David Baines Terence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Tim Cannon* Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Terry Daintith Keith Dillon Mike Elmitt Ian Evans Brian Forster Jeff Goddard Peter Hayes Kenneth S Heard John Heath* David Henderson Robin Hogg John Langridge John Law Chris Long Yann Lovelock David Mash Melvyn Matthews Francis Pocock George Ritchie Julian Rogers Patric Sankey-Barker George Smith Roger Sparrow John Thorogood Andrew Tod Guy Warner Alan Wilding

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1961 (24%, £5730)

Don Anderson Bill Bauer David Brown Martin Buckley Mike Grocott Rex Harrison Michael Hornsby Malcolm Inglis Tony Lewin John Long Jim Marsh David McCammon Peter Newell Hugh Redington Anthony Rentoul David Scharer Roger Smith David Timms Chris Tromans Stephen White

1962 (24%, £31,063)

Roger Begy* David Buckingham James Burnett-Hitchcock Michael Buttler Rex Chapman Norman Cowling Jeff Creek Sean Duncan Bill Gulland Handley Hammond Ant Hawkes Jeff Hill Arwyn Hughes Neil Jackson Tim Jones Alan McNamee Roger Miller Sean Morris Andrew Norman Nigel Pegram Richard Phillippo Hugh Thomas Geoffrey Williams John Williams 1 anonymous donor

1963 (20%, £7781) Darrell Barnes 136

David Baxter Bob Brewer Bob Broughton Nicholas Bulmer Anthony Burns-Cox Geoff Day John Dodgson Chris Erwin Michael Foxon Charles Gullick* Michael Harrison Tom Jeffers Rod Offer Michael Sherratt Clive Sneddon John Still Nigel Thorp Roger Truelove 2 anonymous donors

1964 (23%, £19,935) Mick Boylett Alan Burditt Steve Copley Peter Day Robert Dolman Jeremy Fox Bill Hartley Chris Howe John Hughes Tony Lemon Peter Liversidge David Meredith Derek Morris Michael Powis David Rumbelow Jake Scott Stephen Sherbourne Hugh Simpson Peter Smerd Richard Stoner Michael Streatfeild David Tearle John Watson 1 anonymous donor

1965 (25%, £109,370) Armar Archbold Paul Badman Joe Barclay Paul Fickling

Stephen Garrett Ian Gillings Derek Harrison Ken Hobbs Nicholas Jarrold Peter Johnson Ron McDonald Andrew Morgan Thomas Mulvey Maurice Pannell David Powell John Rea David Reed Ted Roskell John Sayer Philip Spray Chas Stansfield Bill Walker Richard White Richard Wycherley 1 anonymous donor

1966 (22%, £8657)

David Alder Cam Brown Paul Brown Roger Brown Nigel Clarke Nicholas Fane Guy Fisher Roger Frankland Frank Hanbidge Christopher Hird Linn Hobbs Ted Hodgson Peter Jenkins David Knight Jon Shortridge John Spellar David Stewart Michael Stone Geoffrey Summers George Syrpis Michael Warren 3 anonymous donors

1967 (26%, £137,465) Robert Breckles Geoffrey Chandler Robert Davis Nigel Derrett

Chris Harrison Colin Hawksworth David Hexter Ying Kao Roger Kenworthy John Knight Shepard Krech III Jonathan Lovell John Mabbett Peter Masson* Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton Dave Postles Philip Robinson Graham Salter Mark Spencer Ellis Lawrence Toye Keith Walmsley Rob Weinberg Peter Wilson Georges Zbyszewski 2 anonymous donors

1968 (16%, £6743) Clive Bailey Andrew Barnes John Berryman Phil Emmott James Hunt Steven Hurst Laurence Jackson Alan Jones Stuart Kenner John Penfield Michael Pike Ian Ridgwell Jeremy Salter Martin Slater Ian Stuart David Theobald

1969 (16%, £15,191) John Babb Mick Birks Steve Blinkhorn David Boyd Roger Callan Gordon Cranmer Robert Davies Dick Ford

Stephen Groom Clive Kerridge Roy Marsh Paul Parker Andrew Race Dereck Roberts Alan Scarfe Tim Statham Tim Stibbs Jamie Whelan

1970 (18%, £4976)

Stephen Bedford John Clarkson Nigel Coles Julian Currall Lloyd Curtis Will David Richard Gozney Chris Hawkesworth Lindsay Kaye Chris Lewis David Morgan Richard Ormerod Peter Raspin Colin Richmond-Watson Thomas Shanahan Chris Sutton-Mattocks Paul Temporal Bill Travers John Tresadern Jack Welch Bob Yeager

1971 (19%, £650)

David Audsley Richard Balfour Peter Balmer Ian Brimecome Lawrence Cummings John Fazackerley Malcolm Hawthorne Rick Henshaw Craig Laird Peter Lever Chris Mann Christian McDonaugh Guy Mitchell Jonathan Ormond Gareth Roberts Douglas Robertson

Stephen Rosefield Greg Salter John Sloan Francis Stoner 1 anonymous donor

1972 (14%, £9991)

George Bull Richard Catmur Steve Chandler William Clark Anthony Deakin Peter Kokelaar Andrew Lowenthal Howard Mason Paul Mounsey David Rosen Ian Smith Jack Smith Stephen Taylor Andrew Watson Malcolm Watson Martin Winter

1973 (21%, £6774)

Christopher Bamber Douglas Beaumont Colin Bullett Sean Butler David Copeland Sebastien Goodchild Richard Harandon David Holmes Stephen Hutchinson Martin Hyde Nick Jones Anthony Jordan Dave Knight Nigel Laing Toby Lucas Mark Mandel Ian Midgley Kit Moorhouse Nic Peeling John Roberts Chas Saunders Doug Walters Mike Wood Simon Yiend

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1974 (20%, £10,561) Keith Albans Phil Budden Raoul Cerratti Peter Desmond Jeff Drew Robert Eggar Peter Franklin Andrew Gosling Charles Hind Michael Hooton Stephen Hutchinson Bob Jeavons Paul Matthews Jeremy Nason John Ormiston Andy Patterson Phil Phillips Tim Robinson Gerard Rocks John Rose Dick Sands Kim Swain John Taylor Peter Tudor 1 anonymous donor

1975 (16%, £22,109) Robert Adair Paul Boothroyd Milan Cvetkovic Bob Gaffey Brian Gasser Keith Geeslin Gordon Hurst Andrew Johnston Graham Ketley Alex King John Mackinnon Ian McIsaac Robin Osterley Roger Rosewell Nigel Smith Alan Stansfield Robert Stichbury Anthony Stopyra Peter Watson Michael Wilkins

1976 (29%, £32,036) Kern Alexander 138

Bill Baker, Jr. Robin Beckley John Collingwood Andrew Cooper Stephen Corsham Hora den Dulk Brian Denton Steve Edwards Chris Elston Richard Finch Anson Jack Jeff Keey Chris Latimer Christopher Mayers Rob Moore Trevor Payne Jonathan Pearce Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Keith Scott Simon Staite Ian Taylor Stephen Tetley Richard Thomson Peter Trowles Matthew Wald Trevor Worsfold 1 anonymous donor

1977 (15%, £4902) Philippe Beaufour David Blakey Charles Blount Andrew Brown Ian Doherty Nick Hamilton Marcel Haniff Adrian Haxby Ivan Herbison Chris Horner Roger Keeley Iain Maidment David McKenna Greg McLeen Nick Plater Richard Posgate John Round Mark Schneider

1978 (16%, £10,946)

John Armitstead Phillip Bladen Chris Brown-Humes Hamish Cameron Ian Coleman Richard Collins Reynaud de la Bat Smit Simon Heilbron John Hodgson Lloyd Illingworth Simon Johnson Jan Levenbach Brian Livesey Richard Luddington Paul Meadows Duncan Smith Edgar Wilson David Wright

1979 (15%, £8778)

Kit Cooke David Cox Richard Grainger Valerie Grundy Alan Holbrook Elizabeth Lee Ian Lupson Ian McEwen Caroline Morgan Justus O’Brien Rob Quain Michael Robinson Tim Sands Paul Skokowski Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum David West Christopher Wilson 1 anonymous donor

1980 (25%, £11,392) John Ayton Bernard Bewlay Nick Caddick Stephen Chevis Iain Cooke Jonathan Davies Timothy Edmonds Anthony Farrand Jon French

Joe Friggieri Alistair Graham Jonathan Hofstetter Simon Kelly Gary Lawrence Jonathan Leakey Gordon Levy Hugo Minney Tim Mottishaw James Newman John O’Connell Ashley Pigott David Preston Simon Ramage Jonathan Scott Nick Senechal Richard Smyth Neil Stevenson Brigitte Stollmaier Christina Tracey Jon Varey Faith Wainwright

1981 (17%, £14,550)

Andrew Burns Sandy Findlay Gerry Gillen Caroline Jordan Phil Knight Richard Lambert Dan Levy Jim McAleer Paul McCarthy Sallie Nicholas Richard Oliver Tim Parkinson Jai Pathak Maria Queenan Michael Sherring Sue Sternberg David Stokes Paul Stowers Mark Walters Jessica Wattles 2 anonymous donors

1982 (20%, £5506)

Debbie Brown Warren Cabral Maggie Carver Tom Christopherson

Anna Cochrane Catherine Dale Linda Davies Philip Edwards Richard Gleave Susan Graham Mark Haftke Keith Harrison-Broninski Ian Harvey David Heaps Richard Kent Sally Jones McNish Divya Nicholls Gareth Penny Marco Rimini Kevin Sealy Liz Streeter Shona Tatchell Doug Walmsley 1 anonymous donor

1983 (14%, £5038)

Rod Clarke Stephanie Clifford Tim Fallowfield Tarquin Grossman Cathy Halliday Edward Hayes Siân Henderson Mike Iddon Max Irwin Bashir Khan Jonathan Larkin Peter Magyar Christine Muskett Denis Mustafa Jenny Oliver Kevan Rees John Sharples 1 anonymous donor

1984 (11%, £5833)

Dan Abnett Ian Billing John Bloomer Steve Crummett Alison Fallowfield Steve Geelan Chris Giles Elizabeth Hollingworth Neil James

Sean Marlow Sean Purdy John Risman Anthony Rossiter Harvey Wheaton Paul Williams

1985 (15%, £10,479)

Betsy-Tyler Bell Deborah Booth Andy Brown Christopher Cole Kevin Cooper Neil Crabb Sarah Good Martin Gorrod Ian Grant Jon Gulley Michael Hill Fiona Houston Nicholas Peacock Clive Sentance Will Shaw Tanya Spilsbury Justin Symonds Alison Voyce Judith Waring Christopher Williams Jane Willis Bund Richard Wright

1986 (16%, £7354)

Samira Ahmed Alan Akeroyd Mary Betley Jim Charles Louise Foister Gavin Flook Walter Fraser Claire Harrison Neil Jacob Emma Kennedy Rachel Kiddey Stewart Lee Iain Mackie Paolo Mauro Sally McKone Christina McMenamin Neil Midgley Phil Richards Robert Robinson 139

David Southall Jacqui Thornton Catherine Ysrael-Gomez 1 anonymous donor

1987 (10%, £8606)

Justin Collins Charles Elvin Helen Fox David Gomez Kevin Johnson Andrew Martindale Zahid Nawaz Peter O’Connell Paul Peard Clare Rhodes James Mark Sedwill Richard Smalman-Smith Paul Thwaite Philip Waldner David Waring

1988 (8%, £3152)

Sundeep Dhillon Abi Draper Leon Ferera James Ferguson Stuart Ford Christopher Garrison Heather Hodgkinson Duncan Holden Richard Luckraft Anthony Michaelis Giles Sanders Mark Wilson

1989 (8%, £2716)

Tom Argles Ronan Breen Kate Carpenter Rob de Rennes Alex Hutchinson Andrew La Trobe Alexandra Musson Duncan Parkinson Ruth Roberts Chris Sawyer Raviv Surpin

1990 (14%, £5558) Marcus Bailey Emma Barnett 140

Stephen Barnett Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne Carolyn Drury David Gauke Andrew Green Victoria Griffiths-Fisher Graham Hinton Edward Hobart Dan Ison Adrian Jones David Jordan Kevin Knibbs Gill La Valette Peter Lee Stephen Noone Rob Salter Ed Shelton Kathleen Thompson Craig Vickery Lydia Vitalis

Jules Plumstead Nicholas Price Claire Pugh Matt Purcell Gareth Scholey Geraint Thomas Louisa Warfield Matthew Weaver

Napier Fuller Richard Martin Hugh Miller Stuart Robinson Chris Ruse Martin Thorneycroft Alison Waterfall

Catherine Knowles Alex Prideaux Hanna Richardson Lisa Watkinson Andrew Westbrook Mark Wilson

Jared Campbell John Edwards Sarah Filby Noam Gur Caroline Hickson

1993 (8%, £871)

1996 (5%, £1780)

2000 (4%, £1113)

Edward Davies John Houghton Tom Long James Mace Neil McGibbon Henry Mullin Zachary Segal Roman Streitberger

Steven Chambers Kieron Galliard Malcolm Lee Hannah Norbury Richard Povey Charlie Ramsay

Will Brownscombe Shiwen Dai Will Herbert Ed Reynolds Rich Reynolds Olivia Valner Laurence Whyatt

2001 (7%, £3285)

2006 (4%, £724)

1991 (10%, £19,821)

1994 (14%, £14,785)

Des Anderson Andrew Armstrong Balakumar Arumugam Christopher Ashton Carol Atherton Julian Cater Tessa Evans Andy Fielding Alex Fishlock Samantha Harries Anneli Howard Nicholas Lane Andrew Lappin Luke Powell

1992 (13%, £11,838) Sarah Byrne Thomas Dennis Steven Fisher Thomas Gladstone Lucy Heaven Choon-Kuen Hui Ruth Jeffery Royan Lam Francis Leung Collin Madden Jane Mann Mike Milner

Howard Cazin Emma French Melissa Gallagher Ian Hunter Tim Jackson Kieren Johnson Rob Mansley Tom McClelland Geoff Mortimer Lucy Newlove James Owens Richard Tufft Paul Bristow Jonathan Buckmaster Radu Calinescu David Cullen Luke Haynes Choon Wai Hui Richard Jackson Ed Knight Adam Liston Gareth McKeever Caroline Mitchelson Michael Morley Harry Oliver James Parkin Eva Peel Tom Peel Piers Prichard Jones Mark Roberts Jeremy Robst Helen Shariatmadari Bernard Teo Ian Valvona 1 anonymous donor

1995 (6%, £2718) James Brown Robert Dryburgh

1997 (7%, £2220)

David Barker Sadiya Choudhury Nathaniel Copsey Hassan Diab Christopher Eden PJ Howard Steven Johnson Kullervo Maukonen Peter Ralph Chris Tinson Matthew Welby Guofang Xiao

1998 (5%, £2223)

Kayode Akindele Michael Bird Rob Harrold Nick Hirst Clare Murray Ann-Marie Myhill Katy Sharp Ben Wilkinson

1999 (10%, £2260)

Jo Alexander Bjorn Benckert Mark Bolton-Maggs Lucy Cope Caroline Court Jonathan Crawshaw Oliver Deacon Olly Donnelly Antony Hawkins

Simon Barrett Yannick Carapito Fiona Hammett Charles Hotham Clem Hutton-Mills James Maizels Malte Nuhn Richard Perrott Nick Renshaw Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky Bex Wilkinson 1 anonymous donor

2002 (4%, £813)

Eugenio Barrio Madias Tony Brignull Oenone Crossley-Holland Leon Marshall Rachel Marshall Paul Myatt Sam Offer Zadok Prescott

2003 (5%, £1150)

Nicolai Boserup Jennifer Chung Robert Hamilton Kelly Christopher Jarrett Heather Mack Carina May Nick Montgomery Osamu Yamagata James Yeagle Tatiana Zervos

2004 (3%, £656) Tom Braithwaite

2005 (4%, £620)

Jennifer Ayers Tom Clucas Eric Cooperman Chris Derry Marina Johnson Robert Pearce Douglas Sole

2007 (2%)

Philip Georgiadis Evan Innis William Tooth

2008 (2%, £268) Holly Harris Aditya Kandath Joanne Pearce Ruth Shaw

2009 (3%, £579)

Romain Benvenuto Fraser Davies Jessica Gilbert George Lake Xiao Tan Henrietta Wilson

2010 (5%, £340) Annie Brett James Fraczyk Andrew Gray William Gunson Saleem Lubbad Camilla Metcalf Daniel O’Brien Sam Parkinson Robert Pryde

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Aran Uppal Amy Whetstone 1 anonymous donor

2011 (2%, £1418)

Tom Archer Hannah Dickinson Samuel Maywood Amelie Roussel Michael Rundle

2012 (1%)

2013 (2%)

Fernando Gentil Matthew Jacobs Olivia Loving

2014 (2%)

Grace Clements

Visiting Students Daoud Awad Robert Petry

Vinay Sridharan

Friends of the Hall (£581,546) Shanti Anand, in memory of Nitya Anand (1962) Becky Clark Cockayne Peter Freeman Friends of Medieval Studies, UCONN GE Foundation Google via Benevity Johnson & Johnson Patricia Kemp, in memory of Robin Kemp (1958)

Pat Lewis and friends, in memory of Paul Lewis (1955) Mary Lynch, widow of Anthony Lynch (1950) Microsoft Matching Gifts Mollie Mitchell, in memory of Bruce Mitchell (1952) Shu-Ching Naughton, in memory of Jim Naughton (Fellow) OXCEP Oxford Chinese Economy Programme

Parents (£19,754)

Christine & David Bleasdale Adrian & Sharon Buckley Graham Davenport John P Davidson III & Shirley Schaeffer Lisa Blatch & Francis Eames Simon Flowers Ian Kelly Jeremy Lester Mr Whiting 1 anonymous donor Kathy Palmer, in memory of Terence Palmer (1963) Alan Rudrum Wolfgang Schellmann Sarah Sheridan Taylor & Francis Group Gwendoline Titcombe, in memory of Alan Titcombe (1956) Lady Patricia Yardley, in memory of Professor Sir David Yardley (Emeritus Fellow) 1 anonymous donor

THE FLOREAT AULA LEGACY SOCIETY Members of the Floreat Aula Society (now called the Floreat Aula Legacy Society) have pledged to remember the Hall in their wills. There are currently around 250 members; other Aularians who are interested in joining the Society are invited to contact the Development & Alumni Relations Office.

The Hall was very pleased to welcome the following to the Society’s membership during 2015–2016: John Townsend (1942) Brian Gasser (1975) Campbell Dunford (1964) Chris Cowles (1962) Rupert Harvey (1956) Chris Elston (1976) Tony Fisher (1966) Ian Bowers (1963) Jim Dening (1958) Charlie Ramsay (2000) Philip Robinson (1967) Anthony Bucknall (1964) Timothy Torrington (1961) The date of 31 March 2017 has been set for the next FALS dinner, and invitations will be sent out to members in due course.

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ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

A NEW HYMN FOR ST EDMUND The Chapel service on St Edmund’s Day 2015 was particularly notable for the Choir’s singing of a new version of the Hymnus de Sancto Edmundo. The original Hymn was by the Revd Austin Farrer (Chaplain of the Hall, 1931–1935), written at the suggestion of the then Principal, Dr A B Emden, who was keen for the Hall to have a distinctive piece of work for use on St Edmund’s Day and other important occasions. According to his biographer, it took the author only a few days to compose the seven Latin verses, mainly during a session in his bath!

Stained glass image of St Edmund in the Hall Chapel

Farrer’s successor down the line as Chaplain, the Revd Will Donaldson, raised the possibility of producing a modern version of the Hymn. The first draft was written by Professor Nigel F Palmer, Emeritus Fellow; this was amended by Professorial Fellow Henrike Lähnemann, whose expertise includes medieval music. The final version was produced by alumnus Dr Tom Clucas (2006, English) in response to a ‘challenge’ when the draft translation was circulated on the Hall Writers’ Forum. In keeping with the Hymn’s history, Tom completed the English versification in a matter of just three days.

When introducing the new Hymn for St Edmund during the Chapel service, Professor Lähnemann explained how “Looking at the hymn text and its translation gives us therefore an insight not just into the life of the founding father of the Hall in the 13th century but also activities in the life of the Hall in the last century.”

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Haec est dies quam nobili Christus sacravit gaudio, Edmunde, te fortissimum Donans corona militem.

This is the day that Christ the Lord Has consecrated to delight, To give to Edmund, you the brave, The crown befitting such a knight.

Tu sorte natus diviti Pauper beatus spiritu: Tu supplicanti porrigis Dextram sinistra nescia.

You who were born to this rich fate, More blessed for being poor in spirit, Your right hand gives, and never asks What then the left hand shall inherit.

Tu parvulos contemnere Caves amore sedulo: Quibus ministrans frigidae Potum minister fis Deo.

While some condemn those beaten down You guard them with a zealous love, Becoming as you slake their thirst A minister of God above.

Doctor sapis caelestia Sanctae columbae numine: Praesul gubernas Israel Saccum tegente purpura.

A doctor reading from the skies, You heed the holy dove that calls: You change the cloth for purple robes And as the priest of Israel rise.

Pacem tyranno dicere, Pax nulla cum sit, abnuis: Ad sempiternum cor levans Mali sagittas negligis.

You make no truce with tyranny, Rejecting such a hollow peace, But bear the devil’s arrows still And sue to God for your release.

Das exsul ossa Franciae, Aulam paras Oxoniae; Quae te patrono gaudeat Virtute florens perpeti.

You left your exiled bones to France, Providing Oxford with a Hall, Which now rejoices in your name And flourishes to meet your call.

Praestet Pater piissimus, Patrique compar Unicus Cum Spiritu Paraclito Regnans in omne saeculum.

May God the Father grant us this, And Christ, the Father’s only peer, Together with the Holy Ghost That they might reign forever here.

MEMORIES OF WAR-TIME OXFORD The following reminiscences were contributed by Alan Pickett (1943, History), whose time at the Hall was followed by service in the Royal Air Force and then careers in publishing, farming, industrial consulting, and psychology counselling. Alan became a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, and edited the journal Rubber & Plastics Age. It was so exciting to arrive at St Edmund Hall in 1943, to be interviewed for the RAF Short Course. I went up at the beginning of October that year, aged 18, and was immediately entranced by the magical spell of ‘town and gown’.

One of the best ground-floor rooms overlooking the Front Quad was allocated to me. Time was divided between History lectures, tutorials, and the Oxford University Air Squadron.

When in RAF uniform we were taught how to fly a Tiger Moth, navigation, meteorology, aircraft recognition, the internal combustion engine, and how to dismantle/reassemble a Browning machine gun — with plenty of military drill thrown in for good measure.

We attended excellent productions at the Playhouse Theatre, and we were invited to tea at St Hilda’s.

We dined in Hall and on Sunday attended worship in the wonderful Hall chapel, where I was asked, by Principal John Kelly, to read the lesson: a truly spiritual experience. When occasionally the air-raid sirens sounded, there was the VicePrincipal admonishing us: “Where are your helmets?”!

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As a result of the university Hockey trials, I was selected to play for the first game of the season, much to the Revd Kelly’s delight. I was then dropped, and played only one more game, so I failed to get a Blue. However, together with Queen’s our combined team reached the Cuppers final, under the captaincy of John Long (who has remained a life-long friend).

I felt secure in the warmth of the small community that was war-time SEH, and this warmth is rekindled whenever I revisit Oxford and in particular the Hall. The imprints of tradition, learning, spirituality and fellowship have left a permanent mark on my life — for the rest of my four-score years and ten.

Alan Pickett

POSING FOR THE CAMERA: LIFE AT THE HALL IN 1964 Colin Day, Charles Garner and I had the unusual experience of starring in a photo shoot by the Keystone Press Agency to feature in a photo article on Oxford undergraduate life. As far as we know the article never saw the light of day, but some of the pictures taken have recently been purchased by the Principal and placed in the College archive. Colin’s role as Advertising Manager for Cherwell magazine meant he took the phone call from the Agency that started the whole adventure. Among other Hall undergraduates chosen to spend a day with the Keystone photographer were Richard Exton (1963, English), Nick Bulmer (1963, Physics) and John Reid (1963, Jurisprudence).

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It was a fun day but the ‘typical’ student activities portrayed were heavily influenced by the press photographer. Do pictures ever lie? A cigarette on the go was essential, as were a few beers. I got through more Pall Mall 100s that day than I would normally smoke in a week. Gowns and College scarves had to be worn — not a day-to-day occurrence. Dinner in Hall was thought to be representative of Oxford student life so those of us who only attended for the compulsory once a week minimum (if that!) all happily piled in so that the photo session could reflect this key element of college life.

Are the pictures a true representation of student life in 1964 Oxford? In a curious way — yes. We did as we were asked; we didn’t challenge the preconceptions of the Press Agency; we delivered what was expected; we delighted in the attention focused on us. We didn’t overtly challenge the system or how it was portrayed.

But in some ways we were on the cusp of student radicalisation, in a quiet way; this was ’64 not ’68, and Sorbonne sit-ins and anti-Vietnam War protests were still in the future. But we did have our views on what the University was for and we did debate the pros and cons of the war. We had already been glued on Saturday nights to that ground-breaking, establishment-lampooning TV programme ‘That Was The Week That Was’. Some of us wore donkey jackets and we read Private Eye (then still in its infancy). And some of us preferred to eat in the Minstrels’ Gallery perched above the Old Dining Hall.

Our focus was cultural rather than political. Who would have the greatest lasting musical legacy — John Shirley-Quirk or Bob Dylan?

Did Brahms have deeper emotional impact than Beethoven — or was Chuck Berry right when he told the latter to “Roll Over”? Regular visits to the art-house cinema The Scala and the Municipal Café on The Plain were mandatory. The nearest we got to political involvement was delighting In the Buttery in Tariq Ali’s passionate and eloquent interventions at Oxford Union debates. After which a visit to ‘The Poor Student’ restaurant to explore its menu of Spaghetti, Spaghetti and Spaghetti was recommended if body and soul were to be kept united for another week.

In 1963, my first year at the Hall, student accommodation was so limited that many freshmen had to find digs in the town. In my second year I was fortunate enough to be offered a room in Hall on a staircase overlooking The High. This room became a magnet for fellow 1963 Aularians who — in their second year — were now dispersed to digs all over town, and to some of the 1964 intake also in digs.

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Running an ‘open house’ had its downside. Particularly when one of my friends managed to set fire to the curtains in my room with a neglected cigarette butt. Being asleep in the adjoining bedroom (must have been studying late the night before!), I awoke to pandemonium as many friends dashed back and forth across the landing taking mugs of water from the wash room to quench the blaze. The fact that they ran back and forth past a large fire extinguisher which was totally ignored has always Hard at work led me to have some doubts about the practical nature of an Oxford education. The blaze was successfully doused but not before smoke billowing across The High had led to the attendance of the Fire Brigade. As I surveyed the charred curtains and scorched window frame, a yellow helmet with axe in hand appeared outside the window at the top of an extending ladder. The quote of the day belongs to Graham Taylor who yelled at him “Go away you bugger — we’ve put it out!”

The Dean was sympathy and leniency in equal measure. Expressing concern that I must have been quite shaken up by the incident he suggested that perhaps in future I might like to ensure that I did not leave my room to the unattended mercies of my friends –and that all ashtrays were placed well away from flammable material.

No further action was taken. Would this be the case in 2016? Have we lost the wry tolerance that characterised College life in the early 60s? I suspect we have.

What did the future hold? I followed a career path that I have often described as “driftwood on the river”. I have worked in the private sector; in the public sector as a Senior Civil Servant; as a consultant; and latterly in the charitable and not-forprofit sectors. I refuse to describe myself as retired. Currently I run a small notfor-profit company promoting Community Gardening. Leisure activities revolve around driving ridiculously fast cars, railway modelling and the National Trust.

Charles’s future was more focused. He became a Conveyancing Solicitor, but broke away from conventional practice to run a practice in a different noncombative style. He returned to University to take a Counselling Diploma to better support his clients. His message for those at the Hall today is not that different from mine — don’t worry about the direction you wish to take — life will always find an interesting path for you! Charles recommends The Happenstance Learning Theory by Krumboltz.

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he moved to New York with CUP, then to University of Michigan Press, to publish political science. Then on to the Hong Kong University Press and a stint in Macao. He has edited many books and contributed to others.

One of his children is rooted in the USA whilst the other is married to a Norwegian. Globalisation at its best!

A few final thoughts — none of us ever expected (or wanted) University to be a ‘safe place’. It was scary and challenging — that’s what we were there for. We were often shocked by the views of others but always tried to establish the genesis and rationale behind those views.

Leaving the Rad Cam

I cannot leave this article without my own reading recommendation. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. The ‘Original Scroll’ published by Allen Lane. If only I had read that when I was 21 rather than 65 life might have found some very different paths for me!

David Combie (1963, PPE) With acknowledgement to Colin Day (1963, PPE) & Charles Garner (1963, Jurisprudence) Photos originally taken by the Keystone Press Agency. Regrettably the Magazine has not been able to identify the current copyright owner; if the information comes to light, the Editor will be happy to make acknowledgement in a future edition.

‘IT SEEMED SO APPROACHABLE’: RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES In 1989 the late Alan Jenkins (1932, English), aided by a small group of Aularians, published the book entitled Hall: Memoirs of St Edmund Hall Graduates 1920– 1980 (Farrand Press, London). Since this year we are celebrating the arrival of the Hall’s 3000th female member (and rising), readers of the Magazine may be interested in two of the essays included in this book, by trail-blazing women who matriculated in 1980 and so were well placed to write about their contrasting experiences at the newly mixed-sex College.

Rachel Martel came up to read Modern Languages (French & German). After graduating, she went on to work for a large multinational marketing company and 149

subsequently became the Marketing Manager of Bonar & Flotex Ltd. The following is taken from her contribution to the book, ‘7.5 Boys per Girl’.

From the day of my ‘going up’ St Edmund Hall was home from home. As an eleven-year-old I had visited my older brother there at the end of one Trinity Term. … I vowed that I too would go to Oxford and I prepared for my O-levels with this aim in mind.

In 1980, my dream came true. The Hall was undergoing its second intake of women and many of the dons and other students were still not sure whether or not they liked the idea.

Statistically, there were 7.5 boys per girl and at the Freshers’ Disco it seemed that every young lady was determined to collect her full quota. The initial curiosity and anxious desire to make friends soon settled down as the ‘Freshers’ joined clubs and met people with similar interests. The girls were soon separated into ‘Hearty’ and ‘Trendy’ categories, according to whether they took part in College sports and sank pints in the Buttery afterwards, or acted in Drama Cuppers, sang vaguely in Oxford Bands and followed the latest ‘New Romantic’ fashion of frilly blouses, short skirts and pixie boots. As a general rule, the first group could be taken along to rugby matches, the second group invited to Dinners and Balls.

And should there not be enough trendy women to go around, reinforcements were called in from the John Radcliffe Infirmary and the ‘Ox and Cow’ (Oxford and County) Secretarial College.

I suppose I fell into the ‘Hearty’ group, since I rowed in the Ladies’ VIII, drank ‘Varsity’ and mixed with machine-mad engineers and zany medics who would insist on discussing their dissection class over breakfast (scene of such naïve, bleary-eyed observations as: “I just don’t understand the penis, it’s so hard”; and from a linguist, “I gather Dr Fargher is writing a new Book” — “Oh really, what about?” — “18th Century French letters, I think”).

And so to library, after a rude awakening. My studies of Modern Languages were financed by a full grant and savings from various ‘working holidays’ abroad. (I took a year off between school and university.) I managed to live on this very well indeed and did not forgo any outings to the cinema, theatre or restaurants. The second years, living out of college, gave parties and everyone could afford to bring a bottle.

The physical size of Teddy Hall made it a very close-knit community. Eighty percent of the socialising was conducted amongst Aularians, the other 20 percent being encounters with members of other colleges on the sports field, at the Union Society or at dinners and parties. …

So the ‘Animals from the Hall’ were fairly protective about one another in front of outsiders, but internal gossip was rife. With the advent of women, there were many in-house flings and love affairs, some of which have already resulted in Aularian marriages.

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All this socialising was serious stuff. It was honourable to ‘jack’ or miss a tutorial, despicable to jack on a party or sports match/ training session and the true Hallman was more satisfied with a ‘solid second’ and a Blue than with a First Class degree. What other College has a portrait of an Indian brave complete with feather headdress and tomahawk hanging amongst the paintings of past Principals?

Oronhyatekha Mohawk — a worthless scholar, but a gutsy sportsman. …

Yet, although the Hall was not renowned as an examination machine, it was revered for its ‘bottle’. The Rugby XVs were often short of players for friendly matches — they were all at Iffley Road, training for the University Squad. And it was routine for the 1st XV to be in, if not win, Rugby Cuppers Final. Other events, such as cross-country, were won because the Hall flooded the field with entrants. ‘Chaps Tea’ was regularly attended by mud-spattered, blood-stained and bandaged players. The leading characters spoke their own banter, doled out ‘flak’ and often rather cruel ‘awards’ such as the ‘Mr Obnoxious’ title. (The winner was locked in the stocks and pelted with revolting projectiles — all for charity, of course.)

Thus Teddy Hall could be a weird community, sometimes very hostile, but when hospitable, then extremely so. We were bound by scarves and sweatshirts, cups of coffee, the cryptic crossword, passing the port, Christmas Dinner, free barrels and the Loving Cup at the St Edmund Night Dinner, singing around the Well, revising in the graveyard, racing the swivel chairs in the library and cleaning up grubby children at the Charity Christmas Party. …

Awarded a Hall scholarship, Rebecca Willis read English 1980–1983 and was subsequently appointed as the Travel Editor of Vogue Magazine. Her recollections were recorded in ‘Falling for the Hall’, from which the following extracts are reproduced.

It was almost inevitable … that I should fall for St Edmund Hall: it seemed so approachable, with the homely front quad full of bright window-boxes and the tree which leant out from the Bursary wall at that angle. …

I went up to Teddy Hall a year later after a three-month typing course, three months’ work and three months travelling around India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

As usual, the JCR President had thought it amusing to write telling all the Freshers to bring a cake on their first day — which he and his friends then ate.

For the first year I lived in College, on the first floor of a block called Whitehall that smelt of gymnasiums and had rubber floors to match. If my windows were open the noise of the High Street traffic flooded in, and if the curtains were open I found myself eye to eye with people on the top deck of the passing buses.

However, the room came into its own when Mods began. Schools were directly opposite; instead of waiting outside getting nervous with the unfortunates from far-flung colleges, you could revise, coffee in hand, until the very last minute, and then sprint across the road.

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During the second and third years I lived with five friends in a falling-down house in Jericho. This meant endless hassles about rent, about washing up, and sometimes about money — I remember one girl accusing someone else of eating her potato. When the boiler broke we spent hours on the phone to the Gas Board and endured weeks of cold baths; occasionally a slug appeared in the kitchen, and for ages there was mould on the bathroom floor which nobody cleared up because it looked as though someone had simply spilt a packet of pasta. All this made one appreciate the laid-on facilities of Hall, but for me the privacy and independence of living out was even more valuable.

Being only the second year of girls in a macho male bastion, we were partly treated as a novelty, and partly resented, as if we were crashing a private party that had been quite happily in full swing for some time. Having been to a boys’ school, I like to think this was less of a shock for me than for some others. There seemed to be an unwritten tribal rule that, once intoxicated, the rugger types could carry out a reign of terror and nobody would dare to stop them; I was considered rather daring to put up a fight — albeit of a verbal nature — when one of them put strawberry jam in my hair. At times all this gave the place an oppressive atmosphere, an undercurrent of aggression, but it seemed to diminish over three years. This was because (I think) there was a conscious policy to take people for their mental rather than athletic agility, and because (I would like to think) of the increasing number of women.

There were numerous College dining societies, some of which were so established as to be part of the institution; others were born only to die after one brief dinner, and some limped on from year to year.* The Perquisitors’ Society was one of these last, and invited me to join. The criterion for membership was never clear; it could have been a public school connection, or it could have been a certain hard-headedness in the face of large champagne cocktails. Anyway, it was a good excuse for a couple of parties and a dinner each year, and a string of latenight ‘business meetings’ in the Hearne Room. One year I kept the minutes of these (afterwards rather difficult to decipher), and a motion was passed changing *

Footnote: Rebecca correctly recalled that 1980s women members were not slow in augmenting the Hall spirit. The Magazine for 1981–1982, p. 51, contained the following entry between the Hearne Society and the Christian Union in the Clubs and Societies section: THE LUCRETIA BORGIA SOCIETY President: MAUREEN E WILKS Secretary: LIZ LEE THREE YEARS AGO a trim body of Aulariennes decided, in their infinite and egalitarian wisdom, to create a dining society. Now it publicly avows its existence. Television has portrayed Borgia corruption and indecency. St Edmund Hall disagreed with their interpretation and substituted one far worse. The ‘ladies’ were conspicuous for their figure-hugging gowns, plunging cleavages (well emphasised) and short hemlines revealing expanses of thigh (unfortunately not too well tended). The ‘gentlemen’ were of course immaculately attired in black tie. Some, however, felt that trousers offended the spirit of the evening and instead wore their regular(?) black tights and suspenders. Consequently frilly garters were the envy of both camps. E.A.L.

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my job title from Secretary of the Society to ‘Scribe’, as being less sexist. As well as the Scribe, Treasurer and Chairman, there was an ex-officio position of Duck Billed Platypus. Whoever bore this title was obliged to wear diving flippers and mask to all meetings.

By contrast I sang in a rock band during my first year; I am the first to admit that this required courage rather than talent. Much of the time seemed to be spent trundling trolleys laden with a particularly battered drum kit over endless cobble stones. I saw many beer- and smoke-filled JCRs, and, very occasionally, a free ticket to a May ball. The Teddy Hall Ball was not one of these; even though the Ball Chairman was one of my greatest friends, he wisely did not allow this to cloud his musical judgement. The annual Hall Ball was a night of affordable fun and good entertainment, which — even though every corner of the College was put to use — still had a claustrophobic air. One year I walked into a gravestone in the dining marquee (which for reasons of space had to be erected in the graveyard) and bear the scar to this day.

Some people seemed to socialise mainly within the College, but for me Teddy Hall was a backdrop to a circuit of University parties and dinner parties which at certain times gravitated towards London. Academically, however, it was very much in the foreground: when all else failed it was an emotional, almost familial loyalty to Reggie Alton, Graham Midgley, Bruce Mitchell and Sarah OgilvieThompson that kept one working and working hard. …

AN INTERVIEW WITH LUCY NEWLYN Professor Lucy Newlyn, Fellow and Tutor in English, retired at the end of September 2016 after a formidable stint at St Edmund Hall in which she has significantly developed and reshaped the teaching of English. Over her 32 years at the College, Lucy also made a much wider contribution to the institution, joining the Hall as she did at a time when women were only just beginning to have a say in the running of Oxford’s colleges.

Lucy came to Oxford as an undergraduate, following in her mother’s footsteps to read English at Lady Margaret Hall. She is from an academic background, and her father’s role as a Professor of Economics at Leeds University meant that she spent her childhood partly in Uganda (where her father was advising the government as a development economist) and partly in Yorkshire. Lucy’s parents were keen theatre people and she remembers that every weekend, all four of the Newlyn children were out on the streets shaking collection cans and asking passers-by if they’d like to have a repertory theatre in Leeds. To which people would reply “What’s that, luv?” Eventually, the hard work of campaigners paid off in the building of Leeds Playhouse; and out of that grew the West Yorkshire Playhouse which has a small Newlyn Gallery in honour of Lucy’s parents.

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Lucy was already teaching in the first term after she took her degree, and continued throughout her DPhil. She was appointed to a lectureship at Christ Church but was there for just a year before moving to St Edmund Hall in 1984 as a stipendiary lecturer when Graham Midgley retired as a tutor (he continued as College Chaplain for a further year). “It was very strange coming from Christ Church: a different ethos,” says Lucy, “but I did like it at the Hall, and felt immediately at home.”

“I was appointed to teach poetry only, for the first two years,” Lucy recalls.

“Graham and Reg [Alton] divided the syllabus so that Graham did all the poetry teaching right the way through and Reg did all the prose. I think it was arranged like this so that the students would have four weeks with each tutor per term; it was thought this would keep them on their toes — not a bad idea!” She became a Fellow in 1986, at which point Reg Alton and Bruce Mitchell both retired. “I had already been here for two years by then — doing the job on one occasion without them, as they both went on leave at the same time — so it didn’t feel too bad when they left, although very sad and the ending of an era of course.”

Kate Ward-Perkins came to the Hall to do the Medieval and Renaissance teaching and she also subsequently became a Fellow. When asked whether much had changed about the way English was taught at the Hall in the last 30 years, Lucy observes: “I suppose the big thing for Kate and myself was being women at that point, after English had been run for so long by three very reverend and distinguished men.” When Lucy became a Fellow, there were only three other women on the Governing Body and two of the others, Maryanne Martin and Susan Hurley, were also recent appointments. Ann Taylor had become the first female Fellow in 1980. “My memories of the early days are mostly about all the issues we had to fight in Governing Body. I remember its being embarrassing to explain to the assembled men why it was important that women’s loos should be provided with more loo paper than men’s loos. You’d expect this to be selfevident, but no! There were a lot of ongoing uphill battles like this.”

Despite such challenges, Lucy remembers her early years at the Hall as very happy ones, during which she forged some great friendships. She recalls Ann Taylor as a powerful influence: “I was immensely overawed and respectful of her because I thought her gravitas was amazing and I thought she handled some extremely difficult issues in College with great tact, diplomacy and authority. Until these last two years, there’s never really been a time when I haven’t been fighting some battle or other in College, and that’s what’s fired me: there have always been things I’ve been fighting for.” In her early years, many of these battles concerned the place of women within the College.

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adopt a better approach to the severe but not always immediately visible mental health problems suffered by some students. Not all her battles have been quite so serious. Lucy was also the first Garden Fellow (or ‘Tutor for Flowers’, according to her husband, Martin Slater) and in this capacity influenced the decision to employ a College gardener, rather than relying on contractors.

English as a subject has likewise gone through many changes over the last three decades. “When I first arrived, there was a public-school ethos in the English set at St Edmund Hall. Every single colleague that I’ve worked with has worked very hard with me to try and change that, so we’re now much more state school orientated.” She adds: “I think students’ attitude to work is different recently, because of the introduction of student fees. There’s more sense of the degree being a transaction — so that’s a negative in my view. But much stays the same. I do think there’s a thing about Teddy Hall which is different from other places. It’s something about the smallness of this particular space, the kind of bonding that goes on here. There’s a camaraderie that’s peculiar to this College, and which I hope will always survive.”

The syllabus has undergone a great deal of change. “The biggest difference is that we now teach literature in English, rather than English literature,” explains Lucy. “So, for example, in the Victorians and Romantics papers there’s far more to teach than there was in the past.” The First Year Practical Criticism paper has been replaced by Introduction to Literary Studies, a reform that Lucy in part regrets, despite the obvious advantages. “Putting two poems, or two bits of prose, in front of people and asking them to think and write about them is fundamentally a very good exercise.”

When asked what she will most miss teaching, Lucy reflects: “I absolutely love teaching the Romantics but the thing I think I’m going to miss most is the Victorians and particularly Gerard Manley Hopkins. There’s something tremendously exciting about teaching people who are just coming here after having done A-levels, because they have to turn themselves around in that first term and this is exciting for them, such a complete change from what they’re used to. The tutorial system is not about spoon-feeding; it’s about helping students to be self-determining and independent. Helping students find a critical voice in that first term is such a delight and Hopkins is — linguistically, formally, and doctrinally — very challenging.”

Lucy has always preferred interactive methods of teaching, and one example of this has been the now well-established creative writing workshops, open to all students of any discipline. They first came about in 2000 to 2001 as she sought to enliven Critical Commentary classes with workshops, together with poet Jenny Lewis (1998, English); some of the first poems produced in that setting were published in the anthology A Chatter of Choughs. In 2002 to 2004 Lucy and Jenny piloted some more formal workshops to investigate the effect of teaching 155

in workshops on students’ academic work, which resulted in two well-received volumes, Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice.

The workshops then developed into informal weekly drop-in sessions, hosted by Lucy in her room, “and it’s just stayed like that really. What’s nice about it is that there are no set exercises; the sessions just focus on whatever people want to bring along. And it really has been amazingly successful — sometimes in small groups, sometimes big groups. I’ve never known it as good as this term: 18 people at one point, and on average we were having 12. That’s the biggest thing I think I’ve contributed to College, helping to make creative writing something that is really alive here.” Undergraduate Tabby Haywood will take over the co-ordination of the workshops in Michaelmas term 2016 and plans to run them in the Well side of the bar. “I think will be very good to have them in a public space,” says Lucy, “so that they aren’t so associated with English. The Well is a lovely space, partly enclosed and it gives the opportunity with the balcony at the top for people who aren’t participating to come and listen.”

Lucy herself began to write poetry only in 1999. Her first collection Ginnel was published in 2005, followed by Earth’s Almanac in 2015. “Becoming a poet had a huge effect on everything, including the way I wrote my critical writing. My most recent book, about William and Dorothy Wordsworth, was written as a poet. I think that’s something you can tell from the prose style.” Amongst her greatest influences, which include Professor John Carey, Lucy lists Tom Paulin: “his beautiful, crafted, very lovely plain prose style had a very profound impact on me and helped with emerging from Literary Theory into a more accessible mode.”

Lucy’s plans now are to complete her work on an Edward Thomas edition and to publish a lengthy sonnet sequence on the Wordsworths. She’s editing Thomas’s In Pursuit of Spring and is co-general editor for the six-volume edition. “And then I’ll go on with my research and my poetry, just as if I was in post. It will be just as intense, I’m sure. I will probably pop into the workshops but I thought it was really important to say that I wouldn’t go on running them. They are selfdetermining now.” We also hope that Lucy will continue to be involved in the Hall Writers’ Forum — an online platform for students, staff, alumni and friends of St Edmund Hall founded by Lucy together with Stuart Estell (1993, English) to foster creative writing, dialogue, and collaboration. New members are always welcome to register at forum.seh.ox.ac.uk.

Although Lucy’s retirement officially started at the end of September, she finished her tutorial teaching at the end of Trinity term 2016 and alumnus Tony Brignull (2002, English) organised a celebratory lunch and poetry reading for her on 25 June. More than 50 English alumni (their matriculation years ranging from 1981 to 2011) returned to College for a wonderful event, which involved a poetry reading in the afternoon. “I was so touched by it, and grateful to Tony for organising it,” says Lucy. “Some of the guests were my students in the first year of being at the Hall, and some people I haven’t seen since then, so it was great to catch up and find out what they’ve been up to.”

Lucy has played a huge role at Teddy Hall for more than 30 years, and we wish her all the best for the years ahead. She has been an integral part of the Hall experience for many students and colleagues, and has in particular done a wonderful job of encouraging the tradition of creative writing at the College to continue to flourish.

Claire Hooper

BEMUSED! In a bold and daring project that lasted over six months, five Teddy Hall writers, who go by the names of Matthew Carter, Amelia Gabaldoni, Rebecca Ipe, Corinna Kulicke, and Kalina Naidoo, set out to answer the questions that everyone’s been asking: What is your Imagination? What happens if you lose it? And why is it that nefariously wicked ex-conductors are always stealing muses? Teddy Hall’s new musical project, performed on 5 to 7 May 2016 entirely by Hall students, and overseen by the brave fools Matthew Carter and Amelia Gabaldoni, attempted to find an answer… .

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The project’s aims were grand: to write, compose, direct and perform a new musical, with the input of students from across both the JCR and MCR. The five writers started workshopping ideas at the end of October 2015 — forming characters, fleshing out scenes, and creating a narrative arc — and then went 157

away over the Christmas Vacation to write two scenes each. Returning in Hilary, the scenes were pieced together, revised, rewritten, and by 4th Week a script was completed. Bemused! was born!

The musical was a light-hearted, entertaining and comic romp centred around the idea (influenced by Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series and various classical precedents) that everyone’s creativity or imagination is manifested in a personal muse, who can see you and interact with you, but you (their ‘bemused’) can’t see them. The two main protagonists, twins Peter (a musician) and Ada (a scientist) have been able to see their muses, Calli and Clio, since birth, and as a result have a strong and healthy relationship with their creative energies and activities. Peter struggles to maintain an income as a singing teacher to support his demanding socialite girlfriend Kate, as well as juggling Calli’s disparaging and at times flirty comments. Ada is forging her way to a massive scientific breakthrough whilst attempting to understand relationships. She is helped along by her muse Clio who — suffering an identity crisis and wishing to be a writers’ muse so that she can woo Keith Gull’s muse Athena — attempts to demystify the muse/bemused relationship for Ada. When the nefarious ex-conductor Julian, who is also able to see his muse Cordelia, steals everyone’s muses in an attempt to regain his star status, Ada and Peter must find a way of reconnecting everyone to their source of inspiration. Along the way, Julian’s suppressed muse Cordelia finally controls his wicked designs, and Kate turns her back on her self-centred lifestyle, influenced by her grotesque ‘it-girl’ best friend Millicent, and is reunited with her repressed muse who was quashed due to gruesome childhood experiences of being forced to dance.

After a series of rehearsals, with the music led by our ever-patient and talented Musical Director Viraj Alimchandani, the cast performed to a sold-out audience each night, and provided a thoroughly enjoyable and hilarious evening. James Tibbles as Peter led the cast admirably, with some beautiful vocals and a very confident and professional performance, balanced by the sensuous and at times outrageously flirty Sophie Caws as Calli. Lisa Haseldine provided the perfect counter-balance to James’s control as the extremely geeky Ada, giving one of the greatest comic performances of the show, notable in particular for her laugh like a clogged drain, and forging a beautiful relationship with Elaine Robertson as Clio. Their duet was like a Julie Andrews song, and both of them were extremely funny and enchanting. Ed Vyvyan, in keeping with his character Julian’s intentions, was in danger of stealing the show with his outrageous pantomime 158

performance, swanning across the stage and delivering his lines with perfect, bombastic comic timing; the audience were in stitches, and his grandiose and camp solo brought the roof down. They were all ably supported by an extremely strong ensemble, including a scathingly fierce Ines Stevens as Millicent, and an emotionally astute and varied performance from Jacqueline Penn as Kate. The musical garnered rave reviews, and raised £471.31, which will be split between two charities: Oxford Mind and the White Lodge Rehabilitation Centre.

Thanks must go to Director of Music, Chris Watson, for providing the support and encouragement to undertake such a momentous project, and to Lauren Jackson, for being a thoroughly organised Producer for the show. To Sue McCarthy, for allowing us to use the Old Dining Hall and for helping us with bookings and timings. To Claire Hooper, for her help promoting the event; the College authorities, Dean and Principal, for permitting this project to go ahead; Dr Roger Benson, for the Amalgamated Clubs funding; and Professor Robert Wilkins, for always taking an interest and endeavouring to answer logistical questions for us.

Most of all though, our thanks to all who came out to share their talents on stage or back stage; to the audience for being so supportive and actually coming; and to the College for being so accommodating. It was a wonderful project to be part of, bringing the entire college community together, and really was a testament to and manifestation of Teddy Hall spirit.

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Peter Ada Calli Clio Kate Millicent Julian Cordelia Sebastian Aloysia Psychiatrist/Ensemble Mrs Hall/Ensemble Mr Hall/Ensemble Kate’s Muse/Ensemble Ensemble

DIRECTORS’ TEAM Executive Director Director Producer Musical Director

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James Tibbles Lisa Haseldine Sophie Caws Elaine Robertson Jacqueline Penn Ines Stevens Ed Vyvyan Kate Williamson Alex Blakes Bethany Connell Guy Butler Corinna Kulicke Zafar Khurshid Nicola Coker Gordon Christine Hamilton/Liza Maharjan

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Pianist Costume/Make-up Set Design Lighting/Sound Marketing Stage Manager

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Matthew Carter Amelia Gabaldoni Rebecca Ipe

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IMAGINATION! —

Who We Are (Ada and Clio) — Dancing on Stars Pt.1 —

Muses’ Dirge — Julian’s Opera —

Dancing on Stars Pt. 2 —

Kate’s Dance —

Alexis Chevalier Jess Heywood Victoria Ma Dan Hart Spike McCormack Mike Atkinson

I was able to get to know a lot of the students really well. I taught a lot of mathematics and physics, which involved a large chunk of re-capping from my first-year work. It was great to interact with some of China’s brilliant young minds and to help them to overcome the language barrier that often stands in the way of them being offered a place at somewhere like Oxford. The programme involved some down-time as well and at each school I became Noel Edmonds and delivered a ‘Very British Pub Quiz’ which also involved Pimm’s and lemonade!

Corinna Kulicke Kalina Naidoo

My impression of China was that it seemed to me to be characterised by opposites; opulence and poverty, smog and fresh air, a country throbbing with people yet intensely isolated in places. I worked in three schools. The first was set in a suburban, village-like area, on the outskirts of Guangzhou. It was characterised by a very simple life where the majority of businesses seem to revolve around food. That isn’t to say that they lack any sort of character — the local restaurants introduced me to more new foods than I could have imagined.

Chinese delicacies that became my staple diet included eel, crab, oyster, squid, jellyfish, lobster, pig intestine, Chinese barbeque, mango-wrapped goose liver, chicken feet, puffer fish — to name but a few. The second and third schools were in Shanghai with more of a ‘city centre’ feel to them.

Lyrics and Melody Matthew Carter arr. Viraj Alimchandani Matthew Carter Sam Mortimer, female harmonies by Amelia Gabaldoni Viraj Alimchandani Lyrics and Melody Matthew Carter arr. Viraj Alimchani Sam Mortimer, female harmonies by Amelia Gabaldoni Bethany Connell

Matthew Carter (2014, English) A video of the production can be watched on www.youtube.com/StEdmundHall.

IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA: JOE TODD AWARD REPORT Third-year Engineering Science student Jack Dolan describes his visit to China during the Summer Vacation 2015, supported by a Joe Todd Award.

I would firstly like to extend my thanks to the Joe Todd committee for their exceptionally generous award. As a result of its generosity, I was gifted with arguably the most exciting and eye-opening summer that I’ve ever had. I was able to fully utilise a ten-week stint in China, where I was tasked to work with Chinese sixth-form students with the desire of studying in the UK. This involved a huge range of activities: delivering lectures on research opportunities and careers, developing and teaching a mathematics and physics programme, running engineering workshops, along with a lot of one-on-one mentoring work. I set myself a side goal of taking in as much of China’s engineering as I could, whilst absorbing as much of the culture and country too.

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From an engineering perspective, China seemed to be largely ‘halfbuilt’. A lot of projects run out of money: the amount of unfinished, derelict buildings that I wandered past was amazing. Conversely, travelling into the centre of the cities showed just how China pushes the frontier of civil engineering. I was able to climb the tallest buildings in Guangzhou and Shanghai, the Jack (with Sebastian, another teacher on the second and fifth tallest buildings in programme) in front of the Beijing National the world, respectively. Various parts Stadium — affectionately known as ‘the Bird’s of the Canton Tower in Guangzhou Nest’. Photo courtesy of Jack Dolan had been opened out for public viewing and so it was a great opportunity to see a lot of the engineering behind the project in action such as the active mass dampers that become particularly relevant during typhoons and earthquakes.

I also visited the Port of Guangzhou which gave a new dimension to my understanding of China as being the world’s biggest trader of goods. The size and complexity of the area was phenomenal. I crossed the Sutong Bridge in Shanghai, a state-of-the-art civil engineering megaproject spanning over 1km. I got a 15-hour overnight train to Beijing where I was able to see some of China’s 161

engineering from the past and the present. The Great Wall was possibly the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen — it is incredible to think that even though I could see the wall stretching miles into the distance, at a length of 5,500 miles, what I could see represented just 0.1% of it. I was also able to see Beijing’s signature ‘Bird’s Nest’ and a lot more of the Olympic infrastructure before returning to Shanghai by bullet train (350km/h made the journey time a more acceptable 6 hours and was also a great chance for me to experience high-speed train travel for the first time).

I also managed to squeeze in a brief visit to Hong Kong where I was able to observe the juxtaposition of Chinese and British influence in terms of its culture, architecture and character. It was a truly fascinating place where east and west come together in spectacular fashion. The Hong Kong skyline is breath-taking and it was a brilliant end to my trip. I did run into unexpected difficulties at the border due to a misinterpreted caveat in China’s visa policy. In the guise of a businessman in need of emergency entry into China I was able to secure an emergency visa in time for my flight back to the UK — a particularly stressful ordeal but a story to tell nonetheless!

My time spent in China really was the opportunity of a lifetime. An incredibly valuable experience which served as an excellent reminder as to why I am so drawn to engineering, by providing me with excellent exposure to places that I’d always wanted to visit and engineering that I’d learnt so much about during school and university. Four of my students have also accepted places at Oxford; two physicists and two engineers; news which I have just received and which has filled me with great pride. The Joe Todd award facilitated so many of my experiences in China, contributing to not only everything that I did but also to other costs such as vaccinations and day-to-day expenses. I am therefore incredibly grateful to the committee for their generosity for helping to make my trip so worthwhile.

Jack Dolan

TRAVELS IN CHINA: RICHARD FARGHER BURSARY REPORT I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the funding I received for my travels to China this summer (2015). The trip was an overwhelming success and an incredibly worthwhile experience, giving me numerous skills that I could not have attained otherwise.

The first five weeks of the trip I spent at the renowned Tsinghua University in Beijing, researching the steels used for nuclear reactors, particularly the effects of neutron irradiation on reactor pressure vessel steels. Under normal conditions, there is a brittle to ductile transition of any steel when it is tested, as the 162

temperature at which the sample is tested increases. The terms brittle or ductile denote the mode of failure when the sample is tested. When the sample is impact tested, brittle materials will absorb less energy upon failure, as they break easily in a similar manner to glass, whereas ductile materials absorb a greater amount of energy, as the material flows with the hammer during the testing, in a manner more similar to plasticine. It was found that after neutron irradiation, this brittle to ductile transition temperature was shifted to a higher temperature, with the amount of energy absorbed during ductile fracture lower after irradiation. This signifies that steel as a structural material in nuclear reactors can withstand lower loads than when it is used as a structural material in everyday use, such as in a skyscraper.

Spending this time at the University also allowed me to gradually learn some Mandarin using a self-study guide, and then testing it on the research students in the lab whilst waiting for the experiments to run, and over lunch and dinner. It became evident how important the ‘tones’ of Luke Dent at Tsinghua University (photo Mandarin are. These are similar to the courtesy of Luke Dent) accents you get on vowels in French or Spanish, but there are five, and they can completely change the meaning of a word if you were to pronounce it incorrectly. As I frequently discovered! These five weeks were my proving ground, allowing me to learn to speak the language to a reasonable level so that I was comfortable asking directions, ordering food in a restaurant, paying in a shop and negotiating with market traders without coming across as an incompetent tourist.

I found written Mandarin symbols very difficult to read and use, only being able to pick out every other symbol to give a rough meaning: however, the presence of Pinyin (Chinese symbols phonetically translated into the Latin alphabet) was a life saver. This means you could sound out the Mandarin, and work out the meaning. The five-week period was also useful to ask difficult questions of the students about Chinese culture, traditions and governance.

At the end of these five weeks, I went travelling around China using overnight, or ‘sleeper’, trains, meaning that I could travel whilst sleeping, in effect allowing me to make the most of the limited time I had to travel this vast country. My initial plans had been to travel to Tibet, Xi’an, Chengdu, Yiling, Shanghai and Nanjing. However, I discovered that Chinese trains book up far in advance of the departure, especially during my three-week break, as it was the equivalent of the peak summer holiday season in China. Unfortunately this meant that 163

visits to Tibet and Yiling became impossible, but I was able to visit Hong Kong in addition on my way home at the end of the trip.

Whilst allowing me to see the famous sites of China, such as the Terracotta Warriors and Giant Pandas, the remaining five cities were a real eye-opener to Chinese culture and the speed of development and modernisation in the largest country (population-wise) in the world.

I would, once again, like to say thank you for the generosity of the Richard Fargher Bursary Scheme — for the opportunities, experiences and skills it has provided me.

Luke Dent (2013, Materials Science)

NEW ART FOR THE HALL: A TRIBUTE TO THE MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA During the summer of 2015 the Hall’s iconic Front Quad was thoroughly renovated, with underground pipework and cabling, lawns and paving all renewed. Unfortunately, the tree in the corner between the Chapel and MCR — a Magnolia grandiflora — had to be removed as part of this work. Although much admired, it was planted too close to the buildings for its size and its extending roots were forcing up paving stones and causing the entrance to Staircase IV to rise by several inches, creating a safety hazard that could not be ignored. Expert advice was taken and drastic surgery was considered, as well as other palliative measures. Eventually, these were ruled out on the grounds that any action taken would simply delay the inevitable and could easily have resulted in the death of the tree anyway.

The Principal and the Domestic Bursar, Jayne Taylor, sought to preserve the memory and legacy of the Magnolia by commissioning a local sculptor, Dominique Lussier, to create a lasting memorial from its wood. Dominique advised on how best to cut the wood for carving and four huge pieces of timber were delivered to him in August 2015. “These were so heavy,” said Dominique, “that three men could not carry them to my work-bench. Their weight was such because of the huge amount of fluid trapped inside; the tree was cut down in July, when sap is in full flow.”

Working with a natural material such as wood presents unique challenges, as Dominique explained: “My initial drawings for the sculptures were prevented from being carried out by what I found inside the timber. Long metal rods had been put in place years ago to secure the tree to the adjacent stone wall and had been hidden by its growth over the years. However, this constraint gave a new direction to my thoughts in terms of shaping the pieces.

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“Two comments are in order. First, it is rewarding to know that the sculptures were produced out of a tree that was doomed, that needed to be felled, and that the memory of it will live on in another form. I like to think that this is significantly different from a tree being used specifically for artistic purposes.

Second, as a sculptor in wood, I am not the sole participant in the creative process.

It is not a collective work, in the way of cinema, yet I know that I can never be in complete control; I depend on the state of the wood, and nature is stronger than me. At every stage of the carving process lurks the unexpected, compelling me to move in directions other than those I had in mind. The relationship with the material in this case is obviously more dynamic than the one a painter, say, has with a canvas; the freedom of the sculptor is less, but the end result can be quite gratifying precisely for that reason.”

The result of Dominique’s work is a collection of beautiful sculptures, unveiled as part of the College’s annual Artweeks exhibition in May 2016. They now join our collection of artworks, and will be displayed around the Hall for many years to come.

Claire Hooper The Magnolia grandiflora is also commemorated in the drawing by Professor Ewan Anderson which appears after section 8 of this Magazine.

AULARIAN PUBLICATIONS The list of works generously donated by Aularians to the Library during the year is recorded in section 2 of this Magazine. The following Aularian publications have been drawn particularly to the Magazine’s attention.

The 21st Century Revolution: A Call to Greatness, by Bruce Nixon (1952, PPE). Acorn Independent Press Ltd, 2015.

For Bruce Nixon, veteran change agent, writer, and speaker on matters environmental, economic, political, and spiritual, the time is well and truly out of joint — as argued by his latest book, it has become progressively more so during the past 35 years because of the baleful impact of Neoliberalism in the West in general and the UK in particular. He devotes Part One of the work to a “whole system analysis of the situation we are in”, notably the challenges of Climate Chaos, destruction of the habitat provided for us by Mother Earth, poverty and growing inequality, the deep failures of current economic and political systems.

Most politicians are taken to task for economic illiteracy and short-termism, with the honourable exceptions of a few giants of the past like Clement Attlee (and in modern times, Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds, lately College Lecturer in Politics at the Hall and now the Member of Parliament for Torfaen).

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However, Mr Nixon believes that the situation can be retrieved. In Part Two he presents a multi-faceted case for an urgent, determined — but peaceful — revolution. “If humanity is to survive, we have to give up short-sighted and competitive nationalist policies. Governments need to collaborate and work together; political parties need to do the same; we need to be internationalists.

Prosperity needs to be redefined as the wellbeing of all.” He says that the way forward includes an “Ecocide Law” placing a primary duty of care on the directors of corporations, and other measures to enforce socially responsible charters on major corporations and make them responsible to stakeholders (broadly defined), not just shareholders. In the UK, a “Green New Deal” would provide a £50bn annual programme to boost real economic activity, provide good-quality jobs on a living wage in every community, and reduce the country’s overall ecological impact: the funding would be obtained through measures such as ending tax evasion and avoidance, and introducing a form of “Green Quantitative Easing”.

In this vision, a new social settlement would address the problems of widening social inequalities, accelerating threats to the natural environment, and the accumulation of power by wealthy elites. The all-important rebalancing of power would include reform of the first-past-the-post electoral system, introduction of an elected senate to replace the House of Lords, enforcing fair representation of women and ethnic minorities among parliamentarians, and greater use of electronic systems to enable members of the electorate to bring their views to their representatives’ notice.

Mr Nixon concludes by challenging readers to dare to be great and gives information about over 60 activists and campaigning organisations whose work may provide further inspiration.

BFG Trembling on the Edge of Eternity: Monsignor Augustine Hoey Obl. OSB — A Biographical Memoir, by Anthony Pinchin & Graeme Jolly. 2nd (revised) edition, Saint Michael’s Abbey Press, 2016.

The then Kenneth Hoey matriculated at the Hall in 1935 and took his BA in Modern History in 1938. The following Michaelmas term he moved to Pusey House, then trained at Cuddesdon College, 1939–1940, for ordination in the Anglican priesthood. He went on to serve both in the UK and Africa (where he witnessed the tightening grip of apartheid in South Africa) before converting to Roman Catholicism in the 1990s. As Father Augustine Hoey he worked as a confessor, spiritual guide and preacher based at Westminster Cathedral. At the age of 98, he moved to Walsingham in Norfolk, thus fulfilling the vocation which he felt many years before as an undergraduate on his first visit to the Shrine of Our Lady there.

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This biography by Anthony Pinchin and Graeme Jolly has been updated and reissued to mark Father Augustine’s 100th birthday, celebrated on 22 December 2015. The book describes him as “a Catholic priest with his roots in the missionary tradition of Anglo-Catholicism” and draws on Father Augustine’s personal recollections and writings, along with impressions from those who met him.

The Hall Writers and Artists Gallery 2016: Draft, edited-in-chief by Alice Jaffe (2013, English). St Edmund Hall Publications, 2016.

This is the second annual volume in Hall students’ Gallery series. As Alice Jaffe explains in her editorial Epilogue, the collection “aims to exhibit and engage literature in the same way one would with visual art, and vice versa. The theme ‘draft’ touches on the processes that lead to a finished work of art. It exploits our connection to the virtual, referring to ‘unsent’ messages, or texts that are still in progress. The theme of the incomplete certainly permeates this book, yet, as with other examples of exhibitions and texts that have attempted to do this, it still offers work that is pleasingly complete, asking the reader or viewer to search for the ‘draft’ that might as well have disappeared.” Presented are over fifty pieces of work, verbal in poetry and prose, visual in photographs, paintings and drawings, which together demonstrate an extraordinary variety of talent.

As Professor Lucy Newlyn, herself a creative writer and inspirer of creativity in others, points out in her Preface, the contributors “explore and celebrate creative process” and “embrace wholeheartedly the idea that words (or any marks made

by pen, pencil or brush) are ‘mortal, alterable, displaceable at pleasure’” — before they submit to the paradox that “they have had to call a halt to this process of flux in order to contribute at all”.

Thus in the section entitled ‘Jottings’, Matthew Carter (2014, English) reflects on his study of English Literature in general and pursuit of Wordsworth in particular, that: I am forever writing and re-writing, writing constant drafts, But never Writing.

Should I go on, down our Well-trodden path?

Meanwhile Joshkun Mahir (2014, History) muses about “the thing I can’t describe”: And though I can’t find a way to do it now, Maybe I’ll get lucky in the edit.

The section entitled ‘Excerpts’ in fact offers a self-contained, fanciful short story

by Katty Cowles (2013, English & Modern Languages), which opens with a cynical portrayal of the successful writer’s art: “‘I’m dead,’ he said, and with that the man could write. … His decision to die had been well-informed and largely promoted by extensive research into successful literary practice.”

It is also illuminating to hear the student contributors’ insights into the process of their artistic creativity, as when Lauren Jackson (2014, English) explains that in the play String, performed at the Burton Taylor Theatre in Michaelmas term 2015 and turning on a giant interactive sculpture made of string that acts as a metaphor, “The internet is a thing which never exists in a fixed state; the way that it is constantly in process is integral to what it is, and this is also true (in my opinion) of art and of theatre”. Valentina Pegolo (2014, PPE) introduces her striking photographs by pointing out how “reality presents itself as a draft to the lens of the camera”, for the photographer to fashion into two-dimensional shape. And Anna Geissmann (2014, Modern Languages) tells us that her aptlynamed piece “Dissatisfaction” is a canvas on which she has painted at least five different things over two years, the end result constantly failing to satisfy her and so requiring re-working until it turns out the way she eventually wants.

BFG Albatross: the scent of honeysuckle, by Jeff B Grant (1958, English). Besonian, 2015.

Following a career in the film industry, Jeff Grant now lives and writes in London. He has dedicated this novel to his father, “whom I recall only dimly when I was a very young child and whose absence from the remainder of my life has been the inspiration for this book”. The story has multiple settings (ranging

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from the deserts of North Africa to what are presented as some of the urban and rural wastelands of England), multiple chronologies (as it switches between characters in different periods of time), and, interestingly, multiple voices (changing from the omnipresent narrator to the main character’s first-person account of what is happening). This protagonist is a complex man who has lived through various identities: Bernat Gyorgy Horvat-Marshal as a boy; Barney Marshal, a.k.a. Al Marshal and Georgie Marshal, as a young man after going down from Oxford (in his own words, “the cowboy, the tosspot, the delinquent”); and Barnaby Mareshal into his sixties, an MP who seems curiously detached from the electorate and so unaware of the condition of much of England. The product of an unhappy marriage, Barney’s own first marriage breaks down and he leaves behind his wife and son; after 16 years of a solid but childless second marriage, Barney (“wounded by a lot of things in his past”) suddenly decides to abandon the comfortable but empty life that he has made and devote himself to trying to find his now-adult son.

This quest becomes an obsession from which Barney cannot escape. It takes him through a variety of landscapes (well visualised for the reader, perhaps courtesy of the film producer in Jeff Grant), the bleakness of some of these matching the protagonist’s mood; and it brings him into contact with a diversity of people from his own life and his son’s. Although at points Barney introspectively denies this to himself, what he is searching for is “the real me” — and of course, that is something which is very hard to find.

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FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

THE PRESIDENT’S REPORT I completed my second year as President of the St Edmund Hall Association in January 2016, and presided over my second AGM and London Dinner. The attendance at the Dinner was the third-highest on record, and I paid tribute to the Aularian Family Finch (father the late Francis Finch [1933, French] and son Richard [1976, Modern Languages]) who between them have helped the Hall to organise over half the 75 London Dinners — this being our 75th London Dinner — and next year will be Richard’s 25th. My three-year term as President ends at the AGM in January 2017.

I again addressed the Hall’s matriculands in October 2015 — the Association seeks to catch ’em early and catch ’em young — to introduce them to the Association and the Aularian community. This is an incredibly diverse — and increasingly numerous — community of undergraduates and graduates from a vast range of nationalities. We have embarked upon a project, led by SEHA Executive Committee member Stuart Hopper (1987, Jurisprudence) to explore ways of making the Association more relevant to the needs of an increasingly international and tech-savvy alumni community; all ideas welcome!

The Teddy Talks series continued this year with a fascinating networking reception addressed by Alice Hart-Davis (1982, Modern History), on the subject of ‘The Beauty Industry — more than just Lipstick and Lycra’. And no, the attendance was not exclusively female, as some brave males sought to understand the kind of astronomic figures quoted by Alice as the amounts spent on cosmetics and skincare annually. Alice was also present at a special Women’s Formal Hall, one of the events organised as part of the Hall’s celebration of the 3000 Women to matriculate at the Hall. A few brave Aularian males, including your President, insinuated themselves into a predominantly female attendance!

The Association continues to support the Hall in material ways. Funds released (by the increasing digitisation of the Hall Magazine) from the Association’s subsidy of the Magazine’s distribution costs have been ‘diverted’ to fund the Hall Archivist’s post for the next three years. We continue also to support the costs of the production of the Magazine. We make an annual grant to the Hall via the Principal, to be used as he sees fit, for a variety of student purposes. The Aularian Prize for 2016 was awarded to Beatrice Tyrrell (2014, DPhil in Immunology) for her work as Founder and President of Oxford Hands-On Science (OxHOS), a new student-run society at the University of Oxford, aiming to spread enthusiasm and engagement with science to young people and their families. This was a compelling proposal, explaining how OxHOS was started from scratch, and it won by the proverbial landslide. The Prize is awarded for an exceptional enterprise or voluntary commitment which falls outside of established College or University pursuits.

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The SEHA also assists with judging the Masterclass Fund, an inspirational showcase for the multifarious non-academic talents of the student population.

Latest awards ranged from surfing in the Norwegian islands north of the Arctic Circle (an Aularian, during the Q&A session at the Masterclass Showcase, merely asked “Why?”), through to classical piano, harp and cello, ballroom dancing and pistol shooting.

A major item on the agenda remains, of course, fundraising. Recent changes in the Development & Alumni Relations Office have led to an important change of tack; the realisation that project-driven fundraising must become a permanent integral part of the Hall’s agenda. This is headed up by DARO and supported by the Development Committee, on which a number of the members of your Committee, along with many fellow Aularians, serve with me. As the fundraising becomes increasingly project-driven, the Hall needs input and expertise from Aularians with knowledge and experience in a number of project disciplines, and DARO will welcome all offers of help with open arms!

2016 was also a ‘Golden Jubilee’ for the Association, to go alongside the Queen’s 90th birthday. In 1966 the Association adopted a new constitution which, inter alia, called for the election of an Aularian President: up until then, the Principal of St Edmund Hall acted, ex officio, as President of the Association. I am the 18th Aularian President, but not one of the several Knights of the Realm to have held this august position — although I am, as described above, a successor to Emden and Kelly!

Your Association is in good heart and in a strong financial position. The project, mentioned above, led by Stuart Hopper, will ensure that the SEHA remains both relevant and invaluable to the Hall and to Aularians the world over. We look to the future with confidence.

Floreat Aula!

Lawrence Cummings (1971, Modern Languages)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: JANUARY 2016

MINUTES OF THE 85TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

President

Lawrence Cummings MA (1971)

Principal

Professor Keith Gull CBE, BSc, PhD, DSc(Hon)Lond, FRS, FMedSci, FRSB

Immediate Past President

Darrell M.P. Barnes MA (1963)

Honorary Vice-President

Justin C.B. Gosling BPhil MA

19TH JANUARY 2016 The 85th Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in Princess Alexandra Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 6.45 p.m., Lawrence Cummings presiding.

Honorary Vice-President

R. (Bob) J.L. Breese MA (1949)

Over 50 members were present.

Honorary Secretary

Richard A.H. Finch MA (1976)

Honorary Treasurer

Ian W. Durrans BA (1977)

Up to 1965

Paul R. Lewis MA CEng (1955)* Darrell M.P. Barnes MA (1963)

1965–74

Sir Jon Shortridge KCB MA MSc (1966) Lawrence Cummings MA (1971)

1975–84

Richard A.H. Finch MA (1976) Richard S. Luddington MA MPhil (1978) Russell Withington MA MIET MIRSE MInstP (1979)

1985–94

Stuart M. Hopper MA (1987) Dr David J. Jordan MA PhD (1990)

1995–04

Catherine L. Cooper BA (1995) Olly M. Donnelly BA MSc (1999) Polly J. Cowan BA (2002)

2005–14

Dr Nicola Filippini DPhil (2006) Kate E. Gresswell-Bandeira BA (2007)

Ex officio

London Aularians President — J. David Waring MA (1987) MCR President — Pip Coore BJourn, BComn, LLB (Hons) (2014) JCR President — Tom Dyer (2014) Alumni Relations Manager — Kate Townsend

1. Minutes. The Minutes of the 84th Meeting, held on 20 January 2015, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

2. President’s Report. Lawrence Cummings confirmed that the Association was in good heart.

3. Principal’s Report. Professor Keith Gull said that he would make his report at the Dinner.

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

5. Honorary Treasurer’s Report. 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.

6. Elections: The following, who had been nominated by the Executive Committee, were elected unanimously: Hon. Treasurer Up to 1964 1965–74 1975–84 1995–2004

Ian W. Durrans Paul R. Lewis* Sir Jon Shortridge Russell Withington Polly J. Cowan

Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years Re-elected for three years

7. Appointment of Honorary Auditor. Lindsay Page was unanimously reappointed.

8. Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.30 p.m.

9. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 7 p.m.

R A H FINCH, Hon. Secretary

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2016

BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2016

Year ended 31 May 2016 £

Year ended 31 May 2015 £

Subscriptions

13,038

12,700

Bank interest

19

24

13,057

12,724

INCOME

Committee expenses

Income less expenses

(8,500)

(8,500)

(94)

(94)

(8,594)

(8,594)

4,463

4,130

Grants:

(1,000)

(1,000)

Aularian Prize

(300)

(300)

Surplus transferred to General Fund

3,163

2,830

St Edmund Hall Association Principal’s Fund

Debtors

4,240

4,248

Charities Deposit Fund

5,700

5,700

35,920

23,257

45,860

33,205

(14,424)

(4,932)

31,436

28,273

26,529

23,699

3,163

2,830

29,692

26,529

1,744

1,744

31,436

28,273

Bank balances

Less: Creditors

EXPENDITURE Magazine production, postage & mailing

ASSETS

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 17 January 2017.

31 May 2016 31 May 2015 £ £

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year Surplus from Income Account

Aularian Register Fund

L Cummings (President) I W Durrans (Honorary Treasurer) I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2016. 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 2016 and the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

L D Page Honorary Auditor 31 July 2016

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THE 75TH LONDON DINNER THE 75th LONDON DINNER of the St Edmund Hall Association was held at the Royal Over-Seas League, St James’s on Tuesday, 19 January 2016. Association President Lawrence Cummings presided, welcoming the guests (the Principal, Dr Gull and the MCR and JCR Presidents) and the highest turnout (154) since 2008.

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Over the past 86 years the ‘second Tuesday in January’ (now the third in order to distance it from the excesses of the New Year) has become a by-word for renewing friendships and fostering the Hall spirit. On occasion the weather or transport strikes conspire against, but this only compounds the sense of achievement for those who make it. From its origins in ‘unambitious hostelries’ in and around Soho to the rather grander Simpson’s after the War and now the Royal Over-Seas League, the London Dinner of the St Edmund Hall Association has retained an informality suited to those coming straight from work (in contrast to one early event when members were summoned by the Principal at dessert to stand for a roll-call!). It is also successfully ‘inclusive’, with representatives invariably from each of the past 60 years and more including the current Presidents of the JCR and MCR. Key to the Dinner’s longevity is meeting the wishes of all friends who ask to sit together and placing others next to contemporaries.

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This accent on socialising is intended to keep formal speeches in check — in theory, at least! Yet notable guest speakers have included Sir Robin Day (a selfstyled “dormant volcano”), Sir Michael Rose, Patrick Garland and Terry Jones.

Most affecting arguably are the impromptu reflections of much-loved Hall figures.

How not to recall Bruce Mitchell, “a grasshopper with a ragbag of memories,” whose very personal journey we were privileged to share and who acknowledged thunderous applause with “Anybody would think I had gone Head of the River all by myself!” The serving of ‘A Round on Bruce’, his generous bequest of an annual Dinner toast, ensures that we continue to remember him. Or indeed John Kelly, who entertained at 40 Dinners and whose annual despatch of “affectionate wishes” upon retirement would spur the inevitable chorus of “Hall.”

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As our late Visitor Lord Jenkins remarked, the Hall’s London Dinner has no equal in any Oxbridge College — either for scale of attendance or for what he described as “the remarkable spirit” which is found when Aularians meet. Principal Emden was right to be confident when he wrote of that first Dinner in 1930 for 19 members and the Chaplain at the Rendezvous Restaurant, Dean Street: “it is to be hoped that this gathering will form a precedent.”

Next year the third Tuesday in January is the 17th.

The following Aularians attended the Dinner: 1949 Mr R.J.L. Breese 1950 Mr J. Wheeler 1951 Mr D.J. Day 178

1952 Mr B.C. Nixon 1956 Mr B.E. Amor Mr A.F. Ham

1959 1960

1961

1962 1963

1965

1966

1967

1968

Judge Martin Reynolds Mr L.P. Tempest Mr A.D.O. Williams Mr D.M.W. Bolton Mr J.W. Harrison Mr M.J. Rowan Mr J.W. Amos Mr D.C.W. Jones Mr J.A. Collingwood Mr J.F. Adey Mr C.J.G. Atkinson Dr F.J. Pocock (St Edmund Fellow) Mr R.G. Harrison Mr M.G. Hornsby Mr G. Marsh Mr A.M. Rentoul Mr R.K. Smith Mr M.J. Hamilton Mr D.M.P. Barnes Mr M.S. Simmie Mr D.A. Ashworth Dr M.J. Clarke Mr Joe Barclay (Fellow) Mr R.W. Beckham Mr S.R. Garrett Mr R.T. Baker Mr F.H. Hanbidge Mr C.T.W. Humfrey Mr P.S. Jenkins Mr A.S. Maden Sir Jon Shortridge (Hon. Fellow) Mr A. Vasa Mr M.C. Warren Sir Jeremy Cooke Mr P.V. Robinson Mr G. D. Salter Dr R.M. Weinberg Mr M.R. Brooks Mr M.J. Daniels Mr B.G. Griffiths Mr M.G. Heal Dr D.J. Hughes Mr H.J. Hunt Mr I. Stuart Mr R.T. Ward

1969 Mr P.E. Ramell 1970 Mr W.N. David Sir Richard Gozney Mr P.G. Harper Dr J.W. Hawkins Mr L.N. Kaye Mr G.W.J. Smith 1971 Mr R.J. Balfour Mr Lawrence Cummings (President, SEH Association) Mr R.J. Henshaw Mr P.A. Lever 1972 Mr R. Stephenson Mr M.A.S. Winter 1973 Mr N.D. Laing Mr T.R. Lucas Mr M. Patterson Mr J.C. Saunders 1974 Dr R. Cerratti Mr J.S. Herlihy Professor Paul Matthews (Fellow) Mr C.A. Penwarden 1975 Dr B.F. Gasser Mr A.C. Kerr Mr S.R. Oxenbridge Mr C.S. Shaw 1976 Mr R.A.H. Finch

Mr R.M. Head

Mr J.J. Young 1977 Mr I.W. Durrans Mr A.J. Haxby Mr D.J. Hope Mr C.S. Horner Mr R. Keeley Mr L.D. Page Mr R.F.J.H. Ruvigny 1978 Mr I. Coleman Mr S.K.I. Double Mr T.R. Elliott Mr R.S. Luddington The Revd Dr J.H. McCabe Mr P.S. Rhodes 1979 Mr A.J. Best (St Edmund Fellow) Ms G.R. Harris (Gildersleve) Mr R. Withington 179

1980 Mr P.A.J. Broadley Mr R.G.P. Ellis Mr J.G. Varey 1982 Mr W.R. Bristowe Ms E.S. Delacave (Tuck) Mr I.J. Harvey Ms A. Hindhaugh (Hart-Davis) Ms N.S.J. McNish (Jones) Mr G.P. Penny 1982 Mr K.J. Sealy Mr I.S. Tatchell Ms S.M. Tatchell (Lees) Mr S.R.T. White Ms L.A. Wise (Davies) 1983 Mr M.R.S. Irwin 1984 Mr C.M. Giles Mr D.M. Jackson Ms S.A. Mann (Hughes)

Ms E.A. Titchener (Parsons)

Mr H.M. Wheaton 1986 Mr Simon Costa (Senior & Finance Bursar)

1987 1990

1991 1992 1993

1994 1995 1996 1999 2004 2006 2011

Mr J.D. Waring Ms C.S. Drury (Burroughs) Mr D.S. Guha Mr R.M. Salter Ms L.C.H. Vitalis (Harrison) Mr L.J. Powell Dr S.G. Fisher Mr M. Appleton Mr N.H. Gradel Mr R.J. Mansley Mr T.I. McClelland Mr J.J.S. Mort Mr M.A. Thomson Mr C.K. Robinson Mr T. Huberman Mr J.D. Smith Ms O.M. Donnelly Mr C.J.R. Wells Ms E.N. Purcell Mr O.S. Wallis Ms A. Fazal Ms W. Kou

The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Professor Keith Bowen (Honorary Fellow) Professor Nick Davidson Professor Stuart Ferguson (Vice-Principal) Dr Fiorangelo Salvatorelli (former Fellow) Ms Jayne Taylor (Domestic Bursar) Dr Dimitri Tsomocos Mr Chris Wells (Emeritus Fellow) Dr Emily Winkler Dr Blair Worden (Emeritus Fellow) Ms Sally Smith (Head of Development & Alumni Relations Office) Ms Kate Townsend (Alumni Relations Manager) Mr Rhys Owens (Development Assistant) R A H Finch (Hon. Secretary)

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AULARIANÂ NEWS

AULARIANS OF EAST ANGLIA

DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM

What Gareth Roberts (1971, Geology) described as the “East Anglian Alumni (Lowestoft chapter) inaugural (and only?) meeting” took place on Saturday 20 February 2016 at Lowestoft Town Football Club’s Crown Meadow ground. The occasion was a match between ‘the Trawlerboys’ and visitors Bradford (Park Avenue) FC in the Vanarama National League North, sponsored by Richard Ellis (1980, History).

1940s 1948 John Frankis has recently published From Old English to Old Norse, a copy of which is lodged in the Hall Library.

Pictured (l to r) are: Richard Ward (1979, Law), Richard Luddington (1978, History), Nick Gandon (1978, PGCE), Gareth Roberts, Linda Wise (née Davies: 1982, PPE), and Richard Ellis.

To Gareth’s chagrin, his Yorkshire team were beaten 3-0.

31ST ANNUAL NEW YORK DINNER On 20 November 2015, over 60 alumni, friends of the Hall and guests gathered at the Racquet and Tennis Club for the 31st annual New York Dinner. Those attending came from all over the USA, including newcomers as well as many regulars. The Principal and Dr Dianne Gull travelled out in order to take part. Since this year the Hall was celebrating the matriculation of the 3000th female member, MCR President Pip Coore (2014, DPhil in Law) was also invited to attend: Pip talked to Aularians about this milestone and what life at the Hall is like now.

As always, the Dinner provided a useful opportunity for Aularians to network and socialise.

Many thanks are offered to Bill Broadbent, Bob Gaffey (1975, Jurisprudence) and Nick Howard (1976, Jurisprudence) for all their work in making sure that the New York Dinner stays a success year after year.

For more information about this annual Dinner, please contact the Alumni Relations Manager: kate. townsend@seh.ox.ac.uk Andrew Banks, MCR President Pip Coore, and the Principal at the 2015 NY Dinner

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1950s 1950 In June 2016, Raymond Lee and his wife Janet celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary. In September, the pair will also be celebrating the 60th anniversary of Raymond’s ordination. Raymond has spent the whole of his ministry as a parish priest, and has been based in Liverpool since 1970.

1951 Grotius’ Universe: Divine Law and a Quest for Harmony has run into its second edition. The work, by William Sotirovich, explores the ideas of the 17th-century Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, who wrote about the nature and relationship of man with his fellow man, of nations with other nations and of all to the Creator.

1951 Michael Robson is a distinguished writer whose works, displayed in the Hall Library, include the novels The Bean Garden and Holocaust 2000, the screenplay for the 1978 film The Water Babies, the dramas Time After Rain, Sundown on the Dispossessed and A Choice of Evils, a biography of thalidomide survivor Terry Wiles entitled On Giant’s Shoulders, and the historical study QEII and the Cunard Line.

1952 Bruce Nixon’s latest book, The 21st Century Revolution: A Call to Greatness was published by Acorn Independent Press in 2015. (A review appears in section 6 of this Magazine.)

1952 In 2016 Neville Teller was appointed Middle East correspondent for the online journal Eurasia Review. His new book, The Chaos in the Middle East: 2014–2016 was published on 28 August 2016. A copy has been lodged in the Hall Library.

1957 In the past year Lewis Chester has published two books. Unreasonable Behaviour: The Updated Autobiography is a revised edition of the 1990 work on leading war photographer Don McCullin, who also co-wrote the book. Making Waves: the Journalism of Murray Sayle is part biography and part selected journalism of the late foreign correspondent, alongside whom Lewis worked at the Sunday Times prior to 1981.

1957 David Pearce has published a volume of poetry entitled The Street through Amazon, which sets out the recesses of the mind after a terminal cancer diagnosis. Since his own diagnosis, David has exceeded the expectations of his doctors, and was presented to the Queen who had come to Berkhamstead to unveil memorials to both Queen Elizabeth I and to Her 183

Majesty’s own Diamond Jubilee. He has also celebrated the 475th anniversary of the school where he taught for 34 years, and is looking forward to the 18th annual International Graham Greene Festival in Berkhamstead, which runs from 22–25 September and which he helped to found.

1957 Michael Senter OBE and his wife Dr Enid Mayberry were presented with the highly prestigious Gold Cross of Merit in September 2015 for their charitable work as volunteers in Poland for over 20 years.

1958 Leading Matters — How to enjoy and lead a walk in ten easy steps, has recently been Michael Senter (photo courtesy released by Peter Davies and published by of Michael Senter) Grosvenor House.

1958 In July 2016, Jim Dening read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Earlier in the year he published a revised edition of his poetry collection Dealing with the Edge, and a new collection of poems in French and English in parallel text, Les chemins d’ici/ The Roads Round Here. These volumes, as well as an earlier collection, pebbles, debris, are in the Hall Library.

1958 Jeff Grant’s novel Albatross: the scent of honeysuckle was published by Besonian. (A review appears in section 6 of this Magazine.)

1959 The University of Oxford has given Ewan Anderson leave to supplicate for the degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of his research and publications in the field of Geopolitics.

1960s 1960 Having retired from paid employment, Brian Forster is now a volunteer guide for the National Trust at Tredegar House, a Restoration mansion near Newport, Gwent. Brian also assists the Trust with volunteer recruitment and training.

1960 Derek Morris and his wife Maureen are approaching their 38th year together, and were married on 5 July 2003. They continue to spend five months of the winter season at their Florida home, and enjoy six children and nine grandchildren.

1960 Melvyn Matthews has moved back to Wells where he was previously chancellor of the Cathedral until his retirement in 2005. He regularly sails his dinghy (Gull 2866) on nearby Chew Valley Lake. His son and fellow Aularian Mark (1986, Modern Languages) is Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, whilst his grandchildren Tom and Arabella attend Wells Cathedral School and the Collège du Léman in Geneva respectively.

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1961 Barrie England has been awarded an Open University degree with first class honours in Linguistics, Latin & Greek.

1962 In 2015, David Hicks published his latest book, Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor, through Routledge.

1962 In a recent production of Richard II presented in the Members’ Dining Room of the House of Commons, Roland Oliver took on the parts of John of Gaunt and the Bishop of Carlisle. The production was to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and was subsequently performed at the Arcola Theatre. More importantly, Roland also became a grandfather for the first time. Otis was born in Sallanches, France on New Year’s Eve 2015.

1962 The World Future Summit Conference ran in Washington, D.C. from 22–24 July 2016. Simon Simonian addressed the gathering on the Global Union Age, when the 195 countries of the world united can evolve into a reformed ethical global family. Simon also addressed the FAME church congregation at a memorial service for the victims of the Charleston church shooting, attended by Congresswoman Diane Watson and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. He also shared a platform with Mayor Garcetti in the wake of the San Bernardino attack. Simon and Arpi are looking forward to the publication of ‘A Healthy Lifestyle’, a chapter of the book Building Cultures of Peace currently in preparation with Simon as co-author. Simon’s previous work involving the eradication of smallpox has been documented in a piece for the Palisadian Post newspaper, and he has this year called for the mandatory vaccination of all children against preventable diseases, a requirement now written into Californian State Law. 1964 Keith Wiseman has retired at the age of 70 from his long-held judicial office as Senior Coroner for Southampton and New Forest, and part-time immigration appeal judge.

1965 In April, Jacana Media published Permanent Removal, the latest novel from Alan Cowell, which explores the ramifications of an apartheid-era killing for a group of people in Nelson Mandela’s ‘rainbow nation’. It is his third novel after A Walking Guide and The Paris Correspondent. Alan’s nonfiction publications include The Terminal Spy, a definitive account of the life and death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, murdered in London in 2006.

1966 In his retirement, David Knight is honorary Chaplain of Christ Church and Cathedral Steward, as well as the Chair of Oxford Diocesan Retired Clergy. He sang in the Hall Chapel Choir’s visit to Pontigny this year.

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1966 August 2016 sees the publication of military historian Robin Cross’s latest book, Tanks: 100 Years of Armoured Warfare, by Carlton in association with the Tank Museum, Bovington.

1966 Since May 2016, Cameron Brown has been treasurer of Dignity in Dying, the organisation campaigning for a change in the law on assisted dying for mentally-competent terminally-ill people within six months of death.

He has been a board member since 2013.

1967 Peter Burnell has been awarded a 2:1 BA (Hons) in History from the Open University.

1967 In May 2016, David Hexter and Ilaria Benucci celebrated their marriage.

That month, David was awarded a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London for his thesis ‘A Critique of the Political Doctrines of Michael Oakeshott’. In February, David was appointed member of the board of Piraeus Bank, the largest bank in Greece, and became chair of the audit committee in July.

1967 St Edmund now has a foot in both camps as a further casting of the sculpture by Rodney Munday has recently taken up residence in St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. A statue of St Andrew casting a net to form an arch across the pillars which connect Plymouth Minster with the city is an ongoing project for this year, while Rodney awaits the outcome of an application for an Arts Council grant to determine whether it can be produced in bronze rather than bronze resin. An exhibition of his work will be held in the Galérie Gabriel Fauré in Foix, France, in autumn 2016 alongside the English painter David Saunders. The gallery is linked to Les Abattoires, the Museum of Modern Art in Toulouse. Rodney’s son William has for the second year running become Welsh under-16 slalom champion, skiing in the Alps.

1967 Steve Radcliffe formally retired from the nuclear power industry in 2014, although he continues to do small jobs for select clients. He abandoned two wheels for four legs many years ago, and can still be found hacking quietly around South Gloucestershire and the Stroud Valleys.

1968 John Prebble of the Victoria University of Wellington was appointed QC in May 2016 and called to the inner bar in August. John’s appointment was under the New Zealand Royal Prerogative procedure, which corresponds to the UK QC (Hons) appointment. He is only the second scholar of tax law to be awarded silk on this basis.

1968 The first volume of Peter Scott-Presland’s history of the campaign for homosexual equality, Amiable Warriors, was published in 2015 and he is now working on the remaining two planned volumes.

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1969 Jonathan Fryer has published a new book, Eccles Cakes. It is a childhood memoir recounting his years of growing up in Manchester as the adopted child of an abusive father, before leaving for the Vietnam War as a teenage cub reporter for the Manchester Evening News and later taking up an Open Exhibition award to St Edmund Hall. Michael Bloch has described the work as “beautifully written, poignantly touching, disarmingly frank”.

1969 The Hall was very pleased to welcome back Bishop Alan Scarfe to preside at a Communion Service in the Chapel on 28 February 2016. Alan became Bishop of Iowa in 2003.

1970s 1970 Sir Richard Gozney has become the 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, four years after formally retiring from the Foreign Office.

1970 Peter Malin has directed Friend or Foe?, a triple bill of forgotten plays from the First World War, which were performed in Stratford, Birmingham and Hatfield in March and April 2016. The final performance at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury featured as part of the University of Kent conference ‘Pack Up Your Troubles: Performance Cultures in the First World War’. Peter has also contributed a chapter to A Spanish Tragedy: A Critical Reader entitled ‘Look on this Spectacle: The Spanish Tragedy in Performance’. In the piece, he alludes to Neville Coghill’s 1937 production in the Front Quad in which Hall member Brian Cave-Brown-Cave played Hieronimo. He also mentions the 1997 RSC production, in which the role was taken by Aularian Peter Wight (1969).

1970 Having completed four years as the Chief Officer for Judicial Administration and Court Administrator in the Cayman Islands, Kevin McCormac has now returned to the UK. He continues to sit as a judge of the First Tier Tribunal and edits two practitioner text books.

1971 David Brenner was awarded Oxford University’s Weldon Memorial Prize for his noteworthy contribution over the last decade to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to Biology. David delivered his Prize Lecture, entitled ‘When Data Are Not Enough — Methods for Understanding the Risks Associated with Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation’ on 2 November 2015 at the Department of Zoology.

1971 Jonathan Ormond has recently completed an MSc in Maths with the Open University.

1972 Edwin Rankin’s new book, The Jesus Identity, describes the Jesus identity as seen and imitated by Christians of the 1st and 2nd centuries. It tackles many of the problems of the Catholic Church and suggests reforms to make this an imitation of Christ fit for the 21st century. The work is 187

available on Amazon Kindle and through distributors Apple, Nook, Kobo, Scribd, 24 Symbols and Inktera.

Steve still works for Shell as Vice-President Production Excellence for the integrated gas business.

1972 Despite stepping down as UK senior partner, Martin Winter continues as a private equity transactions partner in international law firm Taylor Wessing LLP, largely in order to finance his year-round waterski habit. This passion was rudely disrupted for a time due to a waterski accident that ended in a ruptured patella tendon, causing Martin to slip down the British rankings in slalom. He is committed to addressing this lapse, despite the fact that all his immediate family are now better water-skiers than him. He continues as chair of the Jane Bubear Sport Foundation which he set up in 2010 to provide sports kit to young people in communities under challenge, and is a frequent visitor to Zimbabwe to organise an annual run in Dete, near Hwange National Park. He serves on the board of the British Water-ski Federation, and is always delighted to be in touch with Aularians despite his difficulty with Facebook.

1974 Barry Spurr retired from the University of Sydney in 2015 as Australia’s first Professor of Poetry & Poetics. Colleagues from around the world (including several Oxonians) combined to produce a Festschrift for him, entitled The Free Mind: Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr (edited

by Catherine A Runcie: Edwin H Lowe Publishing).

1972 The Hall was delighted to share in the celebration of the marriage of Andy Wadley and Shona Goulds in the Old Dining Hall on 9 April 2016.

In addition to his two sons, Adam and Alex, Andy has also become the proud stepfather of Jamie and Connor. The ceremony consisted of 35 friends and family in an excellent venue, with good food and wine and a great atmosphere. Andy is also an independent professional trustee of a dozen pension schemes looking after £4 billion in assets and operating through two companies of which he is either part or full owner.

1974 Peter Desmond graduated with distinction from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University with an MA in Globalisation, Business and Development. His dissertation on the circular economy involved researching the recycling of mobile phones in South Africa.

Along with colleagues in Cape Town he has now founded the African Circular Economy Network with the aim of encouraging the sharing of good practice in circular thinking between the global south and global north. This is in addition to his part-time day job as Chief Financial Officer for Vision for a Nation Foundation which runs primary eye-care programmes in Rwanda.

1974 Jerry Gray has moved to Lane End, Bucks, in a move described as traumatic after 27 years in one house. The move even required him to throw away his old English essays. Aularians are welcome to get in touch with Jerry about visiting his villa in Kalkan, Turkey. He is sorry to report that he has been forced to retire from football, aged 60.

1974 Steve Johnson has recently returned to the UK after eight years in Qatar working on Shell’s Pearl Gas to Liquids project. His wife Jackie and he are looking forward to settling in to their new home in Northumberland.

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1975 In 2014, Andrew Baldwin relocated with his wife to Turkey to help in a programme of basic theological training for the Turkish Protestant churches. They are based in Istanbul, but travel extensively throughout the country. They are very thankful to have emerged unscathed from the July 2016 coup, as they live very close to one of the hotspots.

1975 After 15 successful years, Milan Cvetkovic has decided to leave full-time employment as MD of Vescom UK Ltd. Not wishing to retire completely, he has set up a specialist consultancy focusing on the specification-led commercial interiors sector, called GreyHammer Consulting Ltd. Milan is happy to report that he has already acquired a number of notable industry clients. He has been made a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, and has also been granted the Freedom of the City of London. He remains chair of the British Contract Furnishing Association, the trade body for the industry.

1975 Robin Osterley has been made Chief Executive of the Charity Retail Association, and has been in post since November 2015. He continues to conduct both the Stevenage Choral Society and the Alyth Choral Society, and has four children and two grandchildren.

1975 On 15 September 2016, Jolyon Trimingham will be releasing his book Understanding Time, which explores the subject of time by combining the perspectives of modern science with those of the arts, religion, psychology, anthropology and history.

1976 Ian Taylor continues to head inexorably, yet willingly, towards retirement in a few years’ time, but for now continues to work for MasterCard, leading the company’s business with governments, the public sector and NGOs across Europe from Iceland to Azerbaijan. Having worked since 1979 around the world in countries such as Singapore, Thailand and Canada, Ian thinks it would be nice to work closer to home in Oxford.

1977 In 2012, Peter Foster qualified for and finished the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii. He claims to have not been fitter before or since.

1977 Iain Maidment married Lilian Tan in Singapore on 23 July 2016. They will be having a blessing and reception at the Hall on 4 September which 189

some of Iain’s contemporaries will also be attending (Miles Holford, Dave Muckersie, Mark McDermott and Neil Edwards from SEH, Keith Hudson from Keble), along with Iain’s Aularian brother, Neil.

1978 Paul Goulding produced the 3rd edition of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave, which was published by Oxford University Press in March 2016. Paul continues to practise employment law and sports law at Blackstone Chambers in London.

1979 This year, Michael Hooton has published three books: Four Gospels, One Christ: The Public Ministry of Jesus; The Crib, the Cross and the Crown: Reflections on the Stories of the First Christmas and Easter and The Extended Family: Why are there so many Different Churches? All can be obtained directly from the publisher Wipf and Stock, from Amazon, from Christian bookshops, on Kindle, or directly from the author at michaeljhooton@yahoo.com.

1980s 1981 Stuart Shaw has, over the past two years, published Validity in Educational and Psychological Assessment (2014) with Paul Newton; Language Rich: Insights from Multilingual Schools (2015) with Helen Imam and Sarah Hughes, and Special Issue Validity: Assessment in Education: Principle, Policies and Practice (2016), also with Paul Newton.

1981 Martin Ridal continues to work for Bombardier Transportation in Derby, helping to keep Bombardier’s trains on the UK rail network safe. He and Sue still live in Sutton Coldfield, in an otherwise empty house as the children, having grown up, now live in Nottingham and Durham.

1981 Andrew Wathey was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours 2016 for services to higher education.

1982 Linda Wise’s latest book, Longbow Girl, was published in the UK in 2015 and in the USA this year. It draws heavily on her childhood growing up in Tylagarw near Llantrisant in South Wales.

1983 Martin Glen has been appointed Investment Director at Parkwalk Advisors. Parkwalk is an investment company which backs high-growth technology spinouts from UK universities and also manages EIS alumni funds on behalf of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol. As a result of his work, Martin has interacted with some of the academics at his old lab and across the University, which has given him a fascinating insight into some of the amazing developments ongoing at Oxford and elsewhere.

1983 Singer-songwriter Rebecca Hollweg released her third album of original melodic songs, Country Girl, in 2015. The album was well received by the music press and was played on BBC Radio 2 by Jamie Cullum and Janice Long, as well as on the BBC World Service. Rebecca performed 190

at Glastonbury Festival in 2016, to thunderous amounts of mud, and continues to tour in the UK, France and Germany with her bass-player husband and, occasionally, their daughter Ruby. Further information can be found at www.rebeccahollweg.com.

1983 On 1 July 2016, Bashir Khan was appointed professor and founding dean of the new School of Business and Management at the Information Technology University in Lahore, Pakistan.

1984 Kay Langdale hosted and organised the talk given at the Hall on 2 March 2016 by entrepreneur Cecile Reinaud (Managing Director and Founder of the Séraphine clothing line) as part of the ‘3000 Women’ celebrations.

1984 The second edition of The Reluctant Networker by Neil Munz-Jones has been published, and is available from www.reluctantnetworker.com. The book has been featured on BBC Radio, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and other leading publications. Since publishing the first edition in 2010, Neil has become a regular speaker on networking, and has given inspirational talks for organisations such as Philips and Barclaycard.

1987 Wing Commander Dan Beard was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours List for services to the RAF. 1987 Stage and TV comic Al Murray submitted to being interviewed for an article published in the Trinity term 2016 issue of The Aularian. This interview was carried out by Alice Bloch (2015, DPhil in Social Policy).

1987 On 7 June 2016, Peter O’Connell was installed as the Rector of Godstone and Blindley Heath in the Diocese of Southwark. The job includes becoming governor of a school, and the trustee of some almhouses.

1988 The documentary film The Thinking Garden has been co-written and produced by Elizabeth Vibert, Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria. The film tells the story of three generations of older women in a village in South Africa who came together in the dying days of apartheid to create a community garden. More than two decades later the garden is thriving, helping to confront the challenges of drought, climate change, poverty, and HIV/AIDS, and creating hope and a measure of food security in the community. Elizabeth has two children, and would welcome news of old friends: www.facebook.com/sathinkinggarden.

1989 Natalie and Steve Whittington welcomed the arrival of Harry James Drake, brother to Annabel, on June 6 2016. He’s a smiling, happy little chap who doesn’t mind being smothered by his attentive older sister.

Early signs are that his large hands may just be able to grasp an oar handle.

1989 Emma Jane Kirby has written her first book, The Optician of Lampedusa, to be published by Penguin Allen Lane at the end of September 2016. The 191

book is narrative non-fiction and is based on a radio report of the same title which won the International Prix Bayeux in October 2015. Originally commissioned in France, this book has been bought by publishers in the UK, US, Germany and Italy. The story tells the tale of an ordinary man who took a boating holiday out at sea with his wife and six friends. Awoken by what he thought were seagulls, he followed the curious noise to find the sea boiling with hundreds of shipwrecked migrant men, women and children who were all drowning, but there was no room in his boat. It is a story of one man’s humanitarian, moral and political conscience.

1990s 1990 In 2015, Maharaj Akaash addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on NATO’s response to the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern provinces. He subsequently led the inter-parliamentary discussions between legislators from NATO states and members of the Russian Federal Assembly, under the auspices of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption.

1993 Ian Wilson worked at Ricardo Consulting Engineers Ltd until 1999.

He graduated in Medicine from the University of Nottingham in 2004, achieved MRCS in 2006 and FRCR in 2011. He was appointed Consultant Interventional Radiologist at the University Hospital Southampton in 2012, specialising in liver-directed therapies and treatment of vascular anomalies, and utilising his engineering knowledge in research and product development. Ian is married with three sons.

1994 Mike Grundmann has announced the birth of his second daughter, Milagrosa Dolores (known as Mili), who arrived in summer 2016. His first daughter, Sofia Carmen, was born last year. Mike has taken early retirement and settled in Spain.

1994 James Parkin has been promoted to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy, being given command of the Fleet Amphibious Flagship HMS Bulwark at the end of 2015. James joined the Navy after graduation and previously held appointments on HMS Berkeley, HMS Manchester, HMS Ranger and HMS Somerset before becoming Staff Operations Officer of Commander UK Task Force; after commanding HMS Montrose he was assigned to the Naval Staff Strategy Team.

1995 An article has recently been published by Capt James Parkin (photo Shaun Morcom in the leading British journal courtesy of the MoD) Europe-Asia Studies. ‘Enforcing Stalinist 192

Discipline in the Early Years of Post-War Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945–1948’ is available for free at www.tandfonline.com.

1996 Jose Antonio Maurellet took silk on 11 June 2016 in Hong Kong.

1997 Ambika Chadha has recently been awarded two fellowships by the Royal College of Surgeons. She is the first person in the 400-year history of the RCS to be awarded both the Faculty of Dental Surgery RCS Research Fellowship and the One Year Research Fellowship for Medics in the same year.

1997 MacGillivray, the pen name of Aularian Kirsten Norrie, will be publishing two works in 2016. The second American edition of The Last Wolf of Scotland will be published by Redhen Press in Los Angeles in October, whilst The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless will be published by Bloodaxe during the same month.

1998 Timothy and Caroline Court (1999, née Catmur) are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter Beatrice, who arrived on 19 June 2016.

1998 Ben Wilkinson has been made a partner at White and Case LLP. 1999 Shivia, a charity founded by Olly Donnelly, has been short-listed for Charity Times International Charity of the Year 2016.

1999 Jessica Hatcher-Moore married Philip Moore on 20 February 2016 at Ellesmere College, Shropshire.

1999 Philip Pogge Van Strandmann has been awarded the 2016 Max Hey Medal by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. It is given “to recognise existing and ongoing research of excellence carried out by young workers, within the fields of Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrology or Geochemistry”. The award was founded in 1993 and named in honour of the eminent British mineralogist Dr M H Hey (1904–1984).

2000s 2001 Clement Hutton-Mills was married in April 2016. He was also named as one of the Top 40 Under 40 by Private Asset Managers. The award recognises the rising stars of the private client wealth management world in the UK and UK offshore.

2003 Fiona and Ed Robinson are delighted to welcome Felix Robinson into the world. He was born on 25 August 2015. Fiona and Ed both read Geography at the Hall, and were married in 2012.

2003 Katharine Arnold married Boris Olujic on 18 June 2016 at the Chelsea Old Town Hall.

2004 Michal Bobek has been appointed Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, after being Professor of European Law at 193

the College of Law in Bruges and a Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute of European & Comparative Law. 2004 Helen Neville (née Lesowiec) and her husband James (Magdalen, 2004) are delighted to announce the birth of their first child, William David Neville, born on 28 March 2016. William was named in honour of his grandfather and great-grandfather. Helen and James celebrated their wedding reception at the Hall in 2012 and have made their home in Cardiff.

2004 Margaret Harrison has joined Ingram Content Group as the Director of Product Metadata.

2006 In July 2016, Divya Athmanathan was appointed as a visiting faculty member in the humanities department at the Indian Institute of Information and Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, India. She contributed a chapter to Place, Progress and Personhood in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell entitled ‘Hybrid Spaces, Identities and Homes in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855)’ in 2015. Prior to this Divya worked as a postdoctoral teaching assistant at the Singapore University of Design and Technology, where she taught the ‘World Civilisation and Texts’ course. She was awarded her PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2014. In April 2015, she married in the ancient south-Indian city of Madurai, and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, who does not hesitate to smile hugely at every new face, in January 2016.

2006 Stefan Lachowycz has received a Fulbright-Lloyd’s of London Scholar Award for 2016–2017, to conduct research in the USA. He will spend his scholarship year at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, investigating temporal changes in volcanic hazards and risk by statistical analysis of data from monitoring of active volcanoes.

2007 Christian Clark and his wife Katherine welcomed their son Henry J Clark into the world in December 2015. In May 2016, Christian graduated from Harvard Law School.

2007 A baby girl was born to Setareh Masoumbeiki on 23 March 2016 in Toronto, Canada.

2010s 2010 Madeleine Maxwell-Libby won the Roundhouse Poetry Slam in June 2016.

She is a comedy writer/performer and also performs the spoken word.

2014 Trent Taylor has written an article with Alan Keeso for The Canadian Encyclopaedia, in conjunction with Historica Canada, on the history of the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club (for which Trent is the Club Historian).

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AVE ATQUE VALE We record with sadness the passing of fellow Aularians, and salute them.

1930s James Patrick de Courcy Meade OBE BA, 26 January 2016, aged 97, Gloucestershire. 1937, Modern Languages* David Victor Johnson BA, 5 February 2016, aged 95, Oxfordshire. 1938, French and German Arthur Harold Aldridge DFC & Bar, BA, 20 December 2015, aged 95, Worcestershire. 1939, Modern Languages* 1940s John Peter Janson-Smith BA, 15 April 2016, aged 93, London. 1941, English Alan Arthur BA, 4 July 2016, aged 91, Worcestershire. 1942, Jurisprudence Dr Laurence Langdon DPhil, 23 November 2015, aged 89, Hampshire. 1944, Astronomy Sir Duncan Amos Watson CBE BA, 21 April 2015, aged 88, London. 1944, Jurisprudence* James Colin Garforth Halley OBE BA, 14 September 2015, aged 87, Angus. 1945, PPE Oliver Piercy Snow BA, 14 November 2014, aged 89, Herefordshire. 1945, Jurisprudence Malcolm James Summerlee BA PGDip, 26 January 2016, aged 88, Ontario, Canada. 1945, Geography William Watson RAF Course, 29 November 2015, aged 89, Cheshire. 1945 David Sutherland Dunsmore BA, 24 June 2016, aged 94, Somerset. 1946, English Roy Downing BA PGCE, 8 September 2015, aged 87, Cumbria. 1948, History The Revd Peter Geoffrey Blake Barker BA Dip, 18 May 2016, aged 87, Surrey.

1949, History His Honour Judge Robert Joseph Southan BA, 7 October 2015, aged 87, London.

1949, Jurisprudence William Thorpe BA, 25 April 2016, aged 86, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. 1949, History* Sir Brian John Maynard Tovey KCMG BA, 23 December 2015, aged 89, Oxfordshire. 1949, History* 1950s Colin Hamilton Benbow BA PGCE, 27 May 2016, aged 85, Warwick, Bermuda.

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Hugh Martin Plowden-Roberts BA, 8 April 2016, aged 83, West Sussex. 1951, English

Scotland. 1973, Engineering Science*

Christopher John Jones BA, 4 September 2015, aged 84, Devonshire. 1952, Modern Languages

Keith Nigel Reed MSc, 2014, aged 62, London. 1975, Social Studies

David Russell White BA, 14 October 2015, aged 83, Devonshire. 1952, Engineering Science The Revd Philip John Swindells BA, 15 March 2016, aged 82, Cambridgeshire.

1953, Theology Ivor Leonard Rees Burt BA, 2016, aged 86, London. 1954, Jurisprudence Paul Richard Lewis BA, 28 January 2016, aged 80, Kent. 1955, Engineering Science* Terence Gabriel Cook BA, 6 August 2016, aged 80, Yorkshire. 1956, Modern Languages Nicholas Gray MA, 2016, aged 79. 1957, History John Fortescue Payne BA, 21 February 2016, aged 77, Hong Kong. 1958, Jurisprudence* John Harridge Phillips MA, 23 June 2016, aged 76, London. 1958, PPE Frans Herman Ten Bos BA, 31 August 2016, aged 79, Angus. 1958, Geography Valentine Arthur Wordsworth Nylander, 27 November 2015, aged 85, London.

1959 1960s Timothy John Cowburn Cannon BA PGDip, 8 August 2015, aged 73, Malaga, Spain. 1960, Geography John David Vaughan BA, 6 July 2016, aged 75, London. 1962, Agriculture Dr Charles John Montgomery Rowley Gullick DPhil, 10 February 2016, aged 71, County Durham. 1963, Ethnology* The Revd Canon Terence Henry James Palmer FRSA BA, 24 March 2016, aged 81, Gwent. 1963, Theology Stephen Richard Garrett BA, 15 February 2016, aged 70, London. 1965, Jurisprudence Bruce Anthony Wylie MPhys, 14 August 2015, aged 65, Cumbria. 1969, Physics 1970s Dr Ronald Dasrat Seegobin MD, 26 April 2015, aged 65, Ontario, Canada. 1971, Medicine Christopher Edmund Antony Reddick MA, 8 August 2015, aged 60, Fort William, 196

Keith Howard Auckland BA, 1 March 2016, aged 61, Devon. 1974, History* Andrew James Senior BA, 17 February 2016, aged 59, London. 1975, Engineering Science* 1980s Professor Shaun Neil Fisher MPhys, 4 January 2015, aged 47, Nottinghamshire.

1985, Physics John Richard William Day Jones QC MA, 18 April 2016, aged 48, Surrey. 1986, PPE *obituaries for these Aularians are published below

OBITUARIES MICHAEL DENISON PALMER (1954) The death of Michael Palmer was recorded in last year’s Magazine. The following obituary has been provided by his Aularian daughter, Emma (1985, Modern Languages & Linguistics).

Michael Denison Palmer was born on 23 September 1933 in Bowen, North Queensland, Australia, the third child of Frederick and Elsie Palmer. He grew up in Brixton, south-east London, where his father served as vicar at St John’s, Angell Town. During the war he was evacuated with his brother and sister to Kent, Somerset and Haywards Heath, attending seven different schools in three years before going to Ardingly College, West Sussex with his brother Tony. Having finished school and been offered a place at Teddy Hall, Michael first had to complete two years’ National Service with the Royal Engineers in Holland and Germany, during which he undertook bridge building and bomb disposal. Matriculating in 1954, he studied History under George Ramsay, Jack McManners and a young John Cowdrey. Michael made the most of his time at Teddy Hall, playing football for the First XI, singing in the Bach Choir and enjoying a Heath Harrison Scholarship, canoeing from Besançon to Strasbourg.

He was also made President of the Hearne Society and Chairman of the Picture Committee. It was during this time that he got permission from the JCR to commission a new painting, using the whole £200 annual budget to buy a painting from Stanley Spencer. He and David Thomas (1954, English) went to meet the artist in Cookham and chose a drawing from one of his sketch books to be made into a painting. The painting, which depicts a congregation in a pew at Cookham Church, was exhibited for safety in the SCR and still hangs there today, valued currently at rather more than £200!

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After Teddy Hall, Michael entered the teaching profession, doing a PGCE at the Institute of Education in London where he met his future wife, Margaret. He started his teaching career in the independent sector at Aldenham School, but thereafter was committed to state education, progressing from History Teacher (Leicester City Boys Grammar) to Head of History (Rickmansworth School) to Deputy Headteacher (Littlehampton School) and finally Headteacher at De Burgh School, Tadworth, where he served from 1977 to 1989.

Throughout his teaching career Michael spent his summer and spare time writing history books for Batsford’s past-into-present series and marking O-level and A-level exam scripts. He spent a term at Christ Church, Oxford in February 1970 when he was granted a Schoolmaster Fellowship and the opportunity to write Henry VIII. The book, which belonged to Longman’s Seminar Studies in History series, became a popular A-level set text. When De Burgh School closed in 1989, Michael was redeployed as the County Archive Officer for Surrey County Council and went on to write many historical booklets for use in primary and secondary schools.

After retirement, Michael continued to lead an extremely full life, serving as a school governor, continuing to do exam marking, learning to become a proficient water-colour painter and pursuing his life-long interests in butterflies, theatre, music, gardening and foreign travel. He was a committed member of the Anglican Church and was still active as a lay reader in his local church, narrowly missing a half-century of service.

Michael was predeceased by his much loved wife Margaret in 2008. In his autobiography (written for his family) Michael wrote that both he and Margaret would have agreed that their main achievement was their children and grandchildren. Still living life to the full, Michael died unexpectedly and peacefully at home on 8 September 2015. He is survived by his three children and many grandchildren.

Emma Steane (née Palmer) MICHAEL AIDAN MASON (1965) Last year’s Magazine reported Michael Mason’s death on 1 February 2015. The following obituary has been provided by Peter Scott-Presland (1968, English).

Michael Mason, born on 5 March 1947, was one of the most important and influential figures in the Gay Rights and Gay Liberation movements of the 1970s to 1990s. After a cheerful and guilt-free promiscuity at Lancing College, he went up to Teddy Hall to read Jurisprudence, aided by an IBM bursary. He had to work for the company after graduation, and as a result Michael was computer-aware decades before most of us.

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all its forms. Its first public demonstration in Highbury in November 1970 was covered by The Times, and Michael went along to a weekly meeting in January 1971. Still a member of the Young Conservatives and in a pin-stripe suit, he was horrified at the wilder elements of hippies, Marxists and West End lowlife who also attended. However, Michael soon lowered his guard, aided by a new boyfriend, Carl Hill, who was to remain his partner for the next ten years.

Michael also contributed to the Manifesto Group which wrote the ‘founding document’ for Gay Liberation, the GLF Manifesto (October 1971).

Michael was highly intelligent, intensely literary, and well aware of contradictions, which he played on with a fine sense of style. Compering at the first gay rights demonstration in August 1971, he could still be seen in suit and tie, and was also known to turn out in boater and blazer.

Gay Liberation Front split into broadly three factions: the radical drag queens; the Marxists; and the ‘practical wing’, concerned with getting out newsletters, organising talks and visits — and, in 1972, with founding Gay News. Michael and others were conscious of the thunderous silence in the mainstream press about all things queer. It was a simple concept: a fortnightly paper of news and features which lesbians and gay men might want to read. It was also an instrument of political education: not only did campaigners demand basic human rights from society, they also had to persuade homosexuals themselves that they deserved to have rights.

Gay News played a major part in that, and in the ‘normalisation’ of homosexuality.

Michael started as the paper’s Opera Critic and business manager, before becoming a news reporter and then News Editor in 1974. When in 1976 Gay News published James Kirkup’s poem The Love That Dares to Speak its Name, at the insistence of editor Denis Lemon, Michael rather disapproved of its maudlin sentimentality and archness. Mary Whitehouse launched a private prosecution for blasphemous libel in a case which lasted for five years and ended in fines of £1500 and a nine-month suspended prison sentence for Lemon, by the end broken in spirit and health. Lemon’s absence left Michael in charge, and I was lucky enough to have the advantage of an editor who allowed me to act as an out-of-London theatre critic as well as contributing satires on the commercial Pink Pound which Lemon had been assiduous in cultivating. Michael’s idea of a paper was a generous broad church (a term which would have raised his atheistic eyebrow), which could encompass all shades of opinion.

Between times he shared his skills generously, lecturing in Journalism at the London College of Printing. Books were in his blood — his father ran a publishing house — so he presented a literary radio programme, ‘Bookshelf’, on LBC. He also ran media workshops and produced manuals on using the media for the benefit of activists in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE).

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for London, Capital Gay. It would have politics, but would also treat the newlyemergent commercial gay scene with respect. Almost immediately it ran into distribution problems, and Graham and Michael quickly realised that the collection of takings for newspapers was more trouble than it was worth.

In 1981–1982, the great worry was about Hepatitis C, which was rife in the community, and Capital Gay ran a series of informative articles. So when reports started to emerge of a mysterious “killer virus” infecting gay men in New York and San Francisco, Capital Gay was well placed to appoint a medical correspondent, Julian Meldrum, to cover all aspects of the phenomenon. It not only scooped the mainstream press and many scientific journals in its coverage, but hammered home the message that using condoms was a good idea when this was not something that its readership wanted to hear (the OED credits Capital Gay as the first publication to use the term HIV). There is no doubt that Capital Gay contributed to a degree of preparedness which significantly reduced the impact of the virus on London homosexuals compared with those in some American cities.

Just after HIV education and prevention had become accepted into the mainstream, the gay community faced a new threat. In 1987 Tory MP Dame Jill Knight tabled a last-minute amendment to a local government bill, which would stop local authorities ‘promoting homosexuality’, as a ‘pretended family relationship’ (‘Section 28’, as it became known). This was right at the end of a session, just before Christmas, and the sponsors of the Clause clearly thought it would slip in unnoticed. However, two days later Capital Gay ran a full-page editorial, penned by Michael, on page 1, “The Most Serious Attack on our rights since male homosexuality was outlawed more than 100 years ago.” As a result, the grapevine went into overdrive over Christmas and 10,000 came out for a demonstration on 9 January 1988. It was the start of a huge, angry campaign which, while it had little immediate effect on Parliament, alerted many opinionformers and legislators to the continuing need for legislative protection and equal rights. The fruit of this was a series of bills passed under the Blair government.

By the 1990s Capital Gay was running out of energy and beginning to lose advertising revenue to rivals. Its new offices in Brixton were burgled so often that the insurance company refused to renew insurance. So one more burglary killed the paper off.

Michael went back to using his legal training, becoming a legal secretary at Wesley Gryk Solicitors, which specialised in LGBT immigration cases. The wheel was turning full circle, because his partner Carl Hill was refused entry to the United States in the late 1970s, and Michael and Carl were the figureheads for a campaign to change US immigration regulations. Michael described heading the 1979 San Francisco Pride March as the proudest moment of his life.

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and throat. Michael’s last days were lightened by tender but unsentimental farewells from numerous friends, lots of choral music, which he adored, and contemplation of the stunning sunsets over the sea.

Peter Scott-Presland JAMES PATRICK DE COURCY MEADE, OBE (1937) Patrick was born (22 September 1918) in Northenden, Cheshire (now part of Greater Manchester) and attended Altrincham Grammar School. From there he went to St Edmund Hall in 1937, reading Medieval & Modern Languages. He rowed for the Hall and particularly enjoyed Torpids. In 1938, along with others he spent two months at Heidelberg University: they were given a grandstand view of a special event when Hitler visited the city — Patrick thought of it as a lost opportunity, but said that his only ammunition would have been a flower pot!

On the outbreak of war in 1939, Patrick applied to join the Royal Army Service Corps. However, when it was his turn to be interviewed at the Recruitment Office, the Medical Officer tore up the papers and told him to complete his degree and apply again. A year later he did volunteer, but becoming frustrated at the delay he replied to an ad in the Telegraph suggesting that those with foreign languages might like to apply to a box number for “interesting work”. This resulted in him joining the Field Security Police, which soon became the Intelligence Corps, in Winchester. He carried out basic training at the Rifle Brigade Headquarters and after a few weeks was sent first to Harpenden (a small outpost of GCHQ) and then on to Bletchley Park. Patrick stayed there for about two and a half years, working in Hut 6. He claimed only to have done mundane work: whatever he really did, he kept to himself. He always believed that a very small group of cryptographers were the real power-house of Bletchley Park.

When the Americans came into the war, Patrick was sent by MI8 to be British Liaison Officer to the US Army Signal Intelligence Unit — the first of its kind to arrive in the UK and based in General Eisenhower’s HQ at 20 Grosvenor Square, with Signal Troops at Tidworth in Wiltshire. In 1943 the Signal Intelligence Service was sent to Algiers, vaguely to Allied Forces HQ: Patrick went too. From there they moved to Caserta in Italy. Just before the war in Europe ended, he was transferred to the British Army’s Wireless Intelligence Unit, a sort of outstation for Bletchley Park, then working outside Ancona. After VE Day in May 1945 they all moved to the Middle East (to Sarafand, in Palestine) and from there Patrick was subsequently demobbed.

He returned to Oxford and took a Diploma in Social & Public Administration, finding the whole experience exhilarating.

Patrick’s first peacetime employment was with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

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Electrical Industries as Chief Training Adviser. Here they did some interesting experimental work in Management Development.

In 1960 he joined, as Head, a firm known as Training Advisory Services.

This was a new organisation set up under government auspices: it included representatives from employers’ organisations, the TUC, and the Ministry of Labour. By 1964 he had 40 consultants under him. On the whole, Industry was unsympathetic to government-sponsored training at this time so Patrick, whilst keeping the same members of the Board, established the ITS as an independent organisation and looked overseas: in Columbia, Peru and Equador he soon found work which grew steadily.

He was awarded an OBE in 1968.

Patrick was a member of the SEH Association Committee during the 1980s and 1990s. He was well remembered in those days for his contribution to the Pontigny visits. We went to many of the villages associated with St Edmund and Patrick, speaking in French, responded to numerous vins d’honneur given by our hosts. It was a splendid display of his aptitude for dealing with the unexpected and the great variety of people we met (many of whom spoke not a word of English).

Always a good listener, Patrick drew out of others both the good and the less good.

He loved gardening and the country; it was typical that he became President and then Trustee of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club. He was a most generous host. He loved a game of bridge with friends and he enjoyed nothing more than good conversation across his dining table. Patrick was a ‘giver’, not a ‘taker’ — a good friend of Teddy Hall.

Patrick passed away on 26 January 2016, aged 97. He is survived by his wife, Joyce.

Bob Breese (1949, Modern History) ARTHUR HAROLD ALDRIDGE (1939) In his autobiography, The Last Torpedo Flyers (2013), Arthur Aldridge looked back on his time at the Hall with great affection: indeed, he seemed to regard his five years’ war service as an unfortunate but unavoidable interruption to his studies and Oxford life.

He was born in 1920 near Florence, Italy, the only child of a former Army chaplain father, Harold, and part-Italian mother, Melita. After living in Italy for the first five years of his life, and then for four years in Switzerland (the climate eased his father’s lung problems), Arthur’s family moved to England — to West Malling in Kent, where his father served as vicar. He attended St Lawrence College in Ramsgate, developing a liking for cricket and classical music and enrolling in the school’s Combined Cadet Force. The youngster’s academic forte was foreign languages: he was accepted by the Hall to read Modern Languages (French and German), matriculating in October 1939.

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By the time Arthur arrived in Oxford, World War II had broken out. At Teddy Hall he found “a small college with a beautiful inner quad, full of very friendly people and wonderful staff”. He recalled: “I’d just turned nineteen, I was happy, and everything would have been perfect — had Britain not gone to war with Germany.

We all knew deep down there’d be dark times ahead. At Oxford we ‘freshers’ enjoyed the place while we could, but monitored events in the wider world, to see how they would unfold” (The Last Torpedo Flyers, Ch. 1). Arthur’s conclusion during his first academic year was that his country’s situation was deteriorating and so, to Principal Emden’s disapproval, he volunteered to join the war effort rather than wait to be called up. He successfully applied for a commission in the Royal Air Force (where he mistakenly hoped to escape the experience of drilling, which he had found tiresome as a school cadet). As it turned out, the country did not need Arthur until 1 July 1940, so he was able to complete his Prelims and suspend studies at a convenient point in the Modern Languages course.

Arthur’s remarkable experiences as a war pilot, particularly while flying Bristol Beaufort bombers and then Beaufighters in 217 Squadron, are recorded in the autobiography published towards the end of his life. His exploits included successful attacks on enemy shipping and taking part in the defence of Malta: they earned him both a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bar to this decoration, and he attained the rank of Squadron Leader. A considerate RAF agreed to expedite his demobilisation at the end of hostilities so that he could return to Oxford in time for Michaelmas term 1945 and Year 2 of his course. “Still Principal of St Edmund Hall, it appeared that The ABE didn’t object to me coming back as much as he had objected to me leaving. He even invited me to sit at the top table for a college dinner, which was quite a privilege at the time” (The Last Torpedo Flyers, Ch. 23).

According to his own account, Arthur found little difficulty in settling back into civilian life. Before completing his degree, he met Beryl Jones (Somerville College), also a second-year Modern Languages student, whom he married in 1948 (they went on to have three children, including a son, Geoffrey, who matriculated at the Hall in 1970 to read Chemistry). Arthur was so reluctant to leave the peace and beauty of Oxford that he stayed on for an additional year in order to take an Education Diploma (“This condemned me to teach for the rest of my life!”).

Arthur’s teaching career in Modern Languages comprised appointments at Glasgow Academy and, notably, for 26 years at King’s School, Worcester. He reflected: “To teach people to communicate better, that will help prevent a few wars. I hope I’ve done my bit, having taught French and German to British children for more than thirty years.” He spent his retirement in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Arthur Aldridge died on 20 December 2015, aged 95, having been predeceased by his wife and daughter. Sincere condolences are offered to both sons on Arthur’s death.

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SIR DUNCAN AMOS WATSON, CBE (1944) The death of Sir Duncan Watson on 21 April 2015, aged 88, marked the loss of yet another of that select group of Aularians who were in residence during the Second World War and became high achievers: in Duncan’s case, as a solicitor, senior civil servant, and internationally-recognised campaigner for the rights of people who, like himself, were disabled.

Duncan was born in the town of Boldon Colliery, Co. Durham in 1926 and afterwards moved with his family to Sheffield. Suffering progressive sight loss, from 1939 he enrolled at Worcester College for the Blind, where he became a prefect and College Captain for chess; he also did some rowing. When recommending Duncan to the Hall, his headmaster described him as someone who was “a first rate worker and should, I think, do well both in Schools and in ordinary College life”. Principal Emden offered Duncan a place to read Jurisprudence and he matriculated in 1944. In joining the Hall, Duncan was following another pupil from the same specialist institution, the late William John Stafford (matric. 1942, also reading Jurisprudence).

Duncan’s studies and special needs were supported by the (then) National Institute for the Blind (in association with the Gardner’s Trust for the Blind) and The Clothworkers’ Company (which administered the Fawcett Memorial Scholarship). From academic year 1945–1946 onwards, he received a grant from the City of Sheffield Education Committee. This LEA award included funding for a Braille reader. Duncan had also been making use of ‘Talking Books’ since his mid teens. Despite his disability, he completed the Honour School of Jurisprudence in the normal three years, taking Finals in Trinity Term 1947. The Hall was charged one pound and ten shillings by OUP for brailling his ten examination papers.

Beyond his academic work, Duncan continued his enjoyment of chess (playing for the OU Chess Club against Cambridge in 1945) and served on the Hall Dance Committee, 1945–1947. He maintained links with the Hall after going down, corresponding with Principal Kelly and taking an interest in the Boat Club.

After first working as a solicitor in private practice, Duncan moved into the civil service. He rose to the position of Principal Assistant Treasury Solicitor, Common Law in 1978 and was appointed CBE on his retirement in 1986. During this distinguished legal career he also became increasingly active in organisations which supported blind people, serving as President of the National Federation of the Blind (1965–1968), Vice-President and subsequently (1975–1990) Chairman of the RNIB. In retirement he was President of the World Blind Union (1988–1992) and Chairman of the Access Committee for England (1989–1993).

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and himself a prominent disability rights campaigner), Duncan “played a critical role in bringing about a massive increase in the representation of blind people on the RNIB Council…he helped to shift the balance from simply providing services towards campaigning on behalf of blind people” (article published on the EBU website). Writing in The Guardian jointly with Professor Ian Bruce (formerly Chief Executive of the RNIB), Lord Low recorded that Duncan Watson “probably did more than anyone else to emancipate blind people, helping them participate fully in the life of Britain, and removing the barriers and constraints they face, both publicly and privately. He was one of the foremost leaders of blind people on the international stage during the 1980s and 1990s” (20 May 2015). In 1992, Duncan’s eminence was recognised through an invitation to address the UN’s General Assembly at the conclusion of the UN Decade of Disabled Persons. He was knighted the following year.

Duncan married Mercia in 1954; she died in 2002. He re-married in 2007 and is survived by his second wife, Anthea, to whom deepest condolences are offered on her loss.

BFG Sarah Pierce (2006, Mathematics) worked in banking for six years in the City of London after graduating in 2009, winning the Woman of the Future Professional Award in 2013. She is currently developing her own tech company, Sohi World. A close friend of Duncan all her life, Sarah writes: When I was just months old my mother asked the couple living opposite our flat in Bloomsbury whether they would look after me while she brought my older brother to nursery each day. The couple were Sir Duncan and Mercia Watson, and, not having had any children of their own, they soon treated me as a surrogate granddaughter. Duncan & Mercia’s kindness, joyful enthusiasm for life and strength of character proved to have a huge influence on me. As a child I enjoyed making up adventure stories with Duncan, watching him type them up in braille and seeing him feel the pages to read them back to me. Then when I was a teenager, Duncan’s sense of ambition for me and my education encouraged me to set my sights high and overcome any struggles that came my way. I followed in his steps and went to Teddy Hall 62 years after he had attended, which gave him huge delight. I felt it was as much an honour for him as it was for me.

WILLIAM (BILL) THORPE (1949) The following obituary has been provided by Mrs Joyce Thorpe, to whom, along with her family, the Magazine offers deep condolences on their loss.

William (Bill) Thorpe, who died on 25 April 2016, was a keen sportsman and dedicated freemason. He was born in September 1929 in Wakefield, Yorkshire to Irish parents living in England. After leaving Wakefield Grammar School, he joined the RAF police for his National Service. He went up to St Edmund Hall 205

in 1949 to read History and graduated in 1952. At both school and university Bill was an enthusiastic sportsman and played a number of sports including football, rugby, golf and hockey. He continued playing hockey for various clubs for many years, following in the footsteps of his father. When he could no longer play he was a keen spectator and in particular was a keen supporter of Wakefield Trinity Rugby League Club.

From university he joined Mobil Oil, initially as a salesman, and had a variety of jobs around the country before managing operations at the Coryton refinery, taking on the role of managing director of one of Mobil’s subsidiaries and finally managing Mobil’s operations at Heathrow. He retired in 1985 and moved to Dorset where he was able to devote more of his attention and time to golf and his freemasonry. He became a founder member of one lodge and was active in others.

He was very much a family man and he and his wife Joyce had two children, Lesley and Richard. Sadly, Richard predeceased Bill, leaving two grandchildren of whom both Bill and Joyce were very proud. Bill and Joyce celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in October 2015 with family and friends.

Bill had an abiding love for his roots in Ireland and so he and Joyce moved there in 1997, buying a house near Kilkenny where he spent the remaining years of his life. He continued with his freemasonry and linked this with his abiding passion for history by giving many lectures on the history of freemasonry. Turning his attention to more personal history, he traced his Irish roots back into the 18th century. He was a stalwart of the local bridge club and will be remembered fondly as a talented player who won numerous prizes.

Over the years Bill gained many good friends from all walks of life and he was generous in his relationships; he enjoyed nothing more than hosting convivial dinners or barbecues at which good food, wine and conversation flowed. He will be missed deeply by his many friends and family.

Bill is survived by his wife Joyce, daughter Lesley and grandchildren Robert and David.

Joyce Thorpe SIR BRIAN JOHN MAYNARD TOVEY (1944) Brian Tovey matriculated through the Hall in 1944 as an Exhibitioner reading History. His studies were cut short when he left for military service (he was called up for training in the Royal Navy in 1945, but completed his National Service in the Army), and when he returned to university it was to complete a BA degree in Modern Chinese at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. His death on 23 December 2015 was marked by a number of obituaries, including a news release on 31 December 2015

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“his effective grasp of a wide range of Sigint production and planning matters, and an ability to work with outside departments, particularly the armed forces and industry”.

In later life Sir Brian and his wife Mary moved to Oxford, where he continued to pursue his passion for the history of art (especially 16th-century Italian). He became a Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of Florence, giving lectures and classes there. He was a Friend of the SEH Boat Club. The following obituary by Sir Brian’s daughter, Professor Helen Fulton, was published by The Guardian on 4 January 2016 and is reproduced with his family’s kind permission.

My father, Sir Brian Tovey, a former Director of GCHQ, who has died aged 89, had a flair for languages that led directly to his recruitment in 1950 by the recentlyformed government communications centre in Cheltenham. He worked there until 1983, serving as Director for the final five years.

On retiring from GCHQ, Brian embarked on a second career as a company director, in partnership with his wife, Mary (née Lane), whom he met in Cheltenham in 1979 and married in 1989. Together they provided political consultancy services to a number of organisations and also co-founded the Learning Skills Foundation and the charity Learning Skills Research, which support the application of neuroscientific research to education methods, for the benefit of teachers and students alike.

Powered by his energy and intellectual engagement, Brian developed a third career late in life as an art historian, applying his longstanding love of Italy and his encyclopaedic knowledge of renaissance Italian art to the writing of books and regular book reviews for the Art Newspaper. His work on Filippo Baldinucci’s Notizie, based on Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, led to his publication in 2005 of an edition of Philip Pouncey’s Index of Baldinucci’s biographies.

This labour of love made him a familiar presence in the Warburg Institute library in London.

After he and Mary moved to Oxford in 2010, Brian continued to work in the University’s Sackler Library Sir Brian Tovey (photo on a biography of Baldinucci, which he completed provided by his family) shortly before he died.

The only child of an Anglican vicar, Collett Tovey, and his wife, Catherine (née Maynard), Brian was born in London in 1926 and educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where he completed a degree in Chinese.

He knew Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and Vietnamese in their written forms, and also spoke Italian.

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A warm, affectionate and gentle man, a brilliant strategist and a natural leader, Brian received his knighthood [KCMG], of which he was immensely proud, in 1980. His romantic idealism, which ensured his total loyalty to GCHQ, also helps to explain his four marriages and his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1995.

Brian’s eldest daughter, Anne, died in 2012. He is survived by his first wife, Elizabeth Christopher, with whom he had four children; by his fourth wife, Mary; by his children Dominic, Cathy and me; and by ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Helen Fulton COLIN HAMILTON BENBOW (1951) The following obituary was provided by Colin’s wife, Moyra, to whom, along with his family, the Magazine offers deep condolences on their loss.

Born in London in 1931 and educated at Bradfield College, Colin Hamilton Benbow was a junior Middlesex squash player and a 2nd Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment at eighteen. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1955 to read History, after having completed his National Service. He had been elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London before arriving in Bermuda in 1955 to join G G Lamacraft’s staff at Warwick Academy, Bermuda’s oldest school. He took his MA degree in 1958 and was granted local status in 1963.

Colin was made a Fellow of the Bermuda College in 2006.

For 20 years he taught at all levels, being instrumental in formulating for his school the GCE O-level course in American History that became a worldwide offering from the London University Examining Board. In 1971, he instructed this course over local television with excellent results.

Colin helped to start the Academic VIth Form Centre (1967) and, later, was the Bermuda College’s first History Tutor (1974–76). For 30 years he lectured on early American history for the University of Maryland’s extension programme on the US base; he was granted Assistant Professor status in 1983.

An author and TV presenter, and keeper of exotic pets, Colin was also an active soccer referee for 15 years. In 1956 he ran the Bermuda Day marathon from Somerset to Court Street, Hamilton, coming fifth out of 13 competitors!

Elected to the House of Assembly for the 1976–1980 Parliament, he was appointed annually to the panel of Chairmen and represented Bermuda at Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conferences in Westminster (and the Isle of Man), and in Trinidad. In all, he was head of the Board of Public Works, Agriculture & Fisheries for six years and served on the Archives Advisory Council. He was often Chairman of the Agricultural Show during that period.

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Bermuda Historical Society, Audubon Society and the Teachers’ Association of Bermuda. He was a workers’ representative on the first Labour Relations Advisory Council (1963–68).

An avid collector of Bermuda stamps of the 20th century, Colin put together a fine collection of covers sent to and by the Boer prisoners of war during the South African War of 1899–1902. This collection was displayed at the offices of the Corporation of Hamilton from 1983 until 2011, when it was transferred to the National Museum of Bermuda.

Colin was a prolific writer, principally about Bermuda history. His most iconic and lasting book was a prize-winning essay for Bermuda’s 350th anniversary in 1959, entitled Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda. This work, now in its fourth publication, has become the definitive authority on the subject.

He was curator of the small ‘Par-la-Ville’ Museum in Hamilton which, run by the Bermuda Historical Society, attracts over 1000 visitors a month in the high season.

Colin died aged 86. He is survived by his children, Jan, Katie and Pippa, and by his wife, Moyra, who was Manager of Bermuda Riding for the Disabled at Windreach Recreational Village, and taught at the Roger B Chaffee School on the US Base for 25 years.

Moyra Benbow PAUL RICHARD LEWIS (1955) The following obituary is based mainly on information kindly provided by Paul’s widow, Pat, to whom, along with their son Henry and daughter Joanna, the Magazine offers deep condolences.

Paul was born in Fareham, Hampshire, on 16 June 1935 and was educated at Price’s School there, 1946–1954. After A-levels he joined the Royal Air Force as a University Cadet. A year at the RAF Technical College, Henlow, followed, where he won the Mathematics prize. The RAF proposed him as a candidate for admission to St Edmund Hall (a slightly unusual step, as at that time most RAF University Cadetships were held at Cambridge colleges). Paul was interviewed by Principal Kelly and subject tutors, and he matriculated in Michaelmas term 1955 to study Engineering Science.

At the Hall he was able to develop his love of badminton, eventually becoming Captain of the College’s badminton club and of OU Woodpeckers, for whom he represented the University twice; he also founded and coached OU Ladies Badminton Club. Paul served as President of the Hall’s Debating Society. He completed his degree in 1958 and resumed a full-time RAF career.

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subsequently moved to RAF Bruggen in Germany. While there, in addition to engineering duties, he played a full part in RAF Germany badminton, acted as prosecuting and defending officer in courts martial, and was a member of several Boards of Enquiry. Their son Henry was born shortly before the family returned to UK. Paul had postings to the Headquarters Bomber Command (during which time their daughter Joanna was born), as Adjutant of the East Midlands Universities Air Squadron, and as Officer Commanding the Armament Engineering Squadron at RAF Leuchars. In 1975 he was posted to the Royal Armament Research & Development Establishment at Fort Halstead, where he served until 1981. Pat and Paul liked living in Halstead, and bought a house there: this meant that their children could be educated locally, and Paul could travel from home to further postings to Strike Command Headquarters at High Wycombe, working in connection with the Ordnance Board and as Staff Officer to the Assistant Director.

about anything and everything; he was a keen member of the Debating Society.

Chapel was important to him, and I know that in later life he was a keen supporter of his local church in Kent.

Paul played a full part in Halstead village life and enjoyed bridge, Scouts, the Parent-Teachers Association, music, numismatics, and Neighbourhood Engineers; he taught chess and bridge to younger people; he was a member of the Parochial Church Council, and sang in St Margaret’s Church choir and at St Mary’s, Westerham. After retiring from the Air Force in 1988 he went into secondary school teaching for a few years. Paul became Hon. Secretary of the charity Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association for Tonbridge & Malling (later taking on Tunbridge Wells too, when their Secretary retired), and he eventually led a team of caseworkers for West Kent, helping former service personnel and their families who had fallen on hard times. His successor at SSAFA described him as a “quiet, very private unsung hero [who] touched so many people’s lives”.

John was born on 2 March 1938, in Leamington Spa, and attended Warwick School before coming up to the Hall to read Jurisprudence. His Tutor was David Yardley. He had shown himself to be a talented artist at Warwick, won a tennis competition in Stratford and continued boxing at the University, where one of his sparring partners was the Rhodes Scholar, future actor, singer and boxing Blue, Kris Kristofferson.

Alongside his many other interests, Paul renewed his ties with St Edmund Hall, serving as an indefatigable Hon. Secretary of the SEH Association from 1991 to 2004 and re-joining the Committee in 2013. He was throughout meticulous in recording and supporting Hall events (which notably included careful monitoring of the Honours Lists to avoid missing any Aularian who had achieved distinction!).

Paul retired from his SSAFA work in the summer of 2015. He was admitted to hospital in December and came home on 27 January 2016, optimistic about making a good recovery. Sadly, Paul died in his sleep on 28 January, aged 80.

BFG with acknowledgement to Richard Finch A tribute to Paul Lewis from Michael Cansdale (1956, Jurisprudence), St Edmund Fellow: Paul was someone who seemed to know everyone, and whom everyone knew!

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JOHN FORTESCUE PAYNE (1958) The writer of this obituary would like to thank John Payne’s daughter, Sarah Payne, who provided him with much helpful information.

John Payne was a figure larger than life and lived it to the full. Remarkably modest about his talents, he was reluctant to accept praise, in particular with regard to his work. He was known throughout the profession in Hong Kong as having one of the finest legal minds in the region. He maintained fond memories of the Hall, regarding his time here an idyllic phase of his life, kept in touch with contemporaries and contributed generously to College coffers.

After graduating, he was articled at Greenwoods in Peterborough and became a solicitor with Allen & Overy in London, before taking an opportunity to go to Hong Kong in 1966, where he remained for the rest of his life. From 1974 he was a Partner in the leading Hong Kong law firm, Johnson Stokes and Master (JSM), specialising in banking, shipping, and company and commercial matters.

He advised both lenders and borrowers in respect of numerous major Hong Kong and international loans and restructuring of debt. In 1977 he acted for a syndicate of banks which made the first Eurodollar loan to India and for another which made the first Eurodollar loan to Burma. At the time of his retirement in 1989, he was Head of JSM’s Company and Commercial department but remained with the firm as a consultant, hardly missing a single day in the office. His insight and dedication were widely thought to be major reasons why JSM maintained its high position amongst Hong Kong lawyers. He was voted a Leading Lawyer in Banking by Asia Law in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

In 1977 John married Asuncion Abella (always known as Gurley). They had three children: James, Sylvia and Sarah: all survive him. Gurley and the family gave John devoted care during periods of illness. In JSM he was known as ‘The Terminator’, i.e. indestructible!

At various times John held a pilot’s licence, was co-owner of a jazz club, arrested a ship, survived the Cresta Run and was co-owner of the world’s largest manufacturer of wall-mounted TV brackets. He was known for his phenomenal punctuality and an unrivalled tolerance of spicy food. Those of us who joined 211

him and his family at their second home in Highgate for Chinese New Year celebrations or sailed with him on a junk in Hong Kong waters came to appreciate his very generous hospitality.

That John enjoyed a glass of fine wine is one of the world’s great truisms. He was known amongst friends and colleagues for ‘The TBL’ — the two-bottle lunch — which contributed to his reputation as ‘a legend in his own lunchtime’. An old friend, David Shaw, captures the essential John: “He was a big man, not just physically, but in every way and showed great generosity, warmth and kindness. Always good company, any time with him was an occasion for humour and laughter. An amazingly funny raconteur of incidents and scrapes he had been involved in, with a great turn of phrase and a strong disregard John Payne (photo courtesy of his family) for political correctness. An exceptionally good lawyer with great integrity and sound judgement, he inspired the utmost respect from other lawyers.”

Reluctant recipient of praise or not, this would surely have pleased him.

Peter Collins (Emeritus Fellow) CHARLES JOHN MONTGOMERY ROWLEY GULLICK (1963) Charles Gullick, 1944–2016: a commemoration by Dr Clive Sneddon Charles and I were contemporaries in Hall, arriving in October 1963. He was reading Geology, I was reading Modern Languages. We rapidly formed a friendship that lasted the rest of our lives, and included the historian Chris Erwin, who became best man successively to both of us. Unlike the rest of us, Charles was already familiar with Oxford, his father being the College’s then Senior Tutor and Fellow in Geography, and his mother involved in various ways with church communities, including the Greek and Russian Orthodox communities in Canterbury Road. I discovered later on that his maternal grandmother was from St Andrews, where I joined the University French Department in 1974.

When in the summer of 1964 Charles had a slight difference of opinion with his Mods examiners, he soon found a much more interesting subject in a Diploma in Anthropology, which led to his lifelong study of acculturation, which we pursued together in our final year in Manchester College, then still a nonUniversity training ground for Unitarian ministers which rented rooms to other students. We both went on to do DPhils, in Charles’s case on the black Caribs of St Vincent, where he lived for a year. Marriage to Mary Canning followed, and then an academic post in Durham, where he spent the rest of his life, bringing up two sons. Islands were important to him, as he also studied acculturation in 212

Malta: Charles and Mary bought a probably mediaeval house in a working town there and stayed frequently.

Charles and I had always shared a particular sense of humour, which others had to endure when we were together. In our working lives we were both too busy to meet as often as either of us would have wished, but when we did it was as if we had never been apart. His collections of science fiction and intriguing art works remained in my memory, the latter reinforced by his inventive presents for his Sneddon god-daughter. His quizzical enthusiasm for the wonders of church politics in a cathedral city remained undimmed. Our two most recent meetings were in 2015, the first in Malta and the second in Edinburgh at a Hall reunion lunch. We had promised to meet again in the spring this year, but sadly an unexpected stroke took Charles away from us on 10 February 2016. Those who knew him will remember him well.

Clive Sneddon (1963, Modern Languages) CHRISTOPHER EDMUND ANTHONY REDDICK (1973) The following obituary is based on material provided by Chris’s wife, Michele, and their two daughters, Yvonne and Vivienne, together with information from an article written by Chris himself, for the Department of Engineering Science News in 2012.

Chris was born in 1954, the second of four children. His family moved first to Venezuela, then to Holland, where his father John (SEH, 1947) worked in the oil industry with Shell. Chris returned to England to attend Copthorne School, from where he won a place at The King’s School, Canterbury. He later became a Senior King’s Scholar, Head of Walpole House and then Captain of the School.

Chris matriculated in 1973, having been awarded an Exhibition to read Engineering Science under the tutelage of Joe Todd. He made many lifelong friends both at the Hall and within the Department of Engineering Science, where his cheerful, upbeat personality and mischievous sense of humour, combined with his helpful and generous nature, made even the most turgid Fluids practical session seem bearable.

He was an active member of both the Hall’s Hockey Club and the Rowing Club.

He often alluded to being the heaviest cox on the river, though it was generally agreed that his dubious exhortation of “Longer! Harder! Deeper! Stronger!” seldom had the desired effect of unifying his Eight’s erratic rhythm.

Leaving Oxford in 1976, Chris began his career in the oil industry with Shell, first in the North Sea, then in Oman. Joining Britoil, in 1986, he returned, again, to the North Sea. Then, following Britoil’s acquisition by BP, he joined the BP team supporting developments in Abu Dhabi and Vietnam. In 1995 he was seconded to the Kuwait Oil Company as Team Leader for the giant North Kuwait oil fields.

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Strangely, he considered establishing BP’s expat hockey team in Kuwait to be one of his finest achievements — despite them winning only one of their 60 matches!

In 1998 he returned to London as Team Leader of BP’s Azerbaijan Business Unit. Then, in 2002, he was made responsible for upstream modelling: BP’s core business of finding, measuring and extracting oil and gas reserves. In 2008, Chris was promoted to Vice-President Pushing Reservoir Limits — the fundamental science of unravelling what really goes on in the complex pore-space of a reservoir — and Field of the Future was born. Subsequently he was Vice-President of Enhanced Oil Recovery. He was a very highly regarded petroleum engineer, chartered engineer and an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Institute of Minerals & Mining. He retired from BP in 2013, after which he started his own consultancy company.

Latterly, through some of his collaborative work within the Oxford-BP partnership, Chris was introduced to Oxford’s Industry-Focussed Mathematical Modelling (InFoMM) programme. He collaborated with Professors Chris Breward, Colin Please and staff, and was inspired by their infectious enthusiasm.

He became instrumental in helping to gain funding for the Mathematical Institute’s Centre for Doctoral Training. He also agreed to take on the role of Chair of the Industrial Engagement Committee, acting as an industrial champion for the University. In conjunction with the Mathematical Institute his achievements are today evidenced by the active membership of an abundance of industrial partners who are global leaders in their respective technologies.

Chris was above all a family man, warm-hearted, generous, supportive and a truly devoted husband and father with a wonderful sense of humour. He is sadly missed by all his family.

O, ask not what tomorrow will bring, But count whatever gifts Fortune gives you As a daily blessing, and remember to savour The sweetness and joys of life. (Horace) Martin Hyde (1973, Engineering Science) KEITH HOWARD AUCKLAND (1974) The following obituary has been provided by Keith’s daughter, Cressida Auckland, to whom, along with all Keith’s family, the Magazine offers deep condolences.

Keith was born on 3 February 1955, in Chelmsford, Essex. The eldest of three children, he was educated at Oundle School, where he excelled at just about everything.

Representing the school in almost every sport (Sports Day was described as being “more productive for Keith than birthdays”), he still managed to pass his Oxbridge entrance exam, and spend the long school holidays packing frozen peas.

Throughout his career, Chris retained a deep fondness for both the Hall and the University. At the 40th Anniversary Dinner, in 2013, he gave the Aularians’ response to the Principal’s speech, providing a hilarious contrast between the rigour and work-ethic of the Hall now and then. He reflected upon how, during one of his second-year Collections, Joe Todd had lambasted him, declaring that he was “… in danger of failing to achieve even an Upper-Third in Finals!”. With perfect timing, Chris mused, “After that, receiving a First came as a most pleasant surprise!”

After he left Oundle, Keith travelled for a year in Australia before starting at Oxford in 1974. Although he was at Teddy Hall to study Modern History, his great love was always sport. He played many sports but his real passion was rugby. He shone in the Hall XV, winning Cuppers several times. Long after he left, he would keep a keen eye on how they were doing in the annual Cuppers competition, and could always tell you how many Teddy Hall players had made it into Oxford’s team for the Varsity match (which he never missed in 42 years).

Keith also enjoyed a hard game of squash, and after taking up rowing in his first year, formed part of the legendary ‘Mean Machine’, a boat that bumped its way up the river for three years. In later years, Keith would often regale his children with one of his great tragedies: a disastrous incident involving a longboat, which he claimed denied him his blades!

Chris met Michele in 1978 when she was completing her PhD in Microbiology and they were married in 1981. They have two daughters of whom Chris was extremely proud, Yvonne (BA, MA, PhD) and Vivienne (BA, MSc), who have both chosen to follow their own passions within Literature and Modern Languages.

Many of Keith’s happiest days were spent at Teddy Hall. Off the sports pitch, he developed a keen interest in history that continued throughout his life, as well as gaining many life-long friends, only too clear from the array of college scarves, ties and cufflinks present at his funeral. It was also at the Teddy Hall Ball in 1974 that he met Ambra, whom he eventually married in the College Chapel in 1990.

They had two children together.

Tragically, on 8 August 2015, during a family holiday in Aviemore, Chris died whilst walking in the Grey Corries mountain range near Fort William. He was a passionate hillwalker, and had previously climbed 166 of the Munros — Scottish mountains higher than 3000 feet.

On leaving Oxford, Keith joined Pricewaterhouse. He later left along with three colleagues to set up Auckland Goddard Hampson and Swain, which was eventually absorbed by Grant Thornton. Shortly after this, he and his family moved to Dorset, where he set up Auckland and Associates Ltd. Accountancy was always, however, something of a means to an end, which is perhaps why he

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was so thrilled when both his children followed their passions: Tom to become a professional sailor, and Cressida to a DPhil at Merton College, Oxford.

had to call out a repair man in 33 years of marriage — there was nothing Andrew couldn’t mend.

Outside the office, he had a great talent for carpentry and cooking. Many of his happiest hours were whiled away in his workshop. Entire days would be devoted to preparing the perfect curry. His passion for sport never ceased. After leaving Oxford he played rugby for Wasps. He avidly supported his adopted local team, the Exeter Chiefs, as they made the journey from obscurity to the top of the Premiership, reaching the final just two months after he died. Countless weekends were spent watching his children on the sports pitch, often in driving rain.

Andrew had developed a love of the outdoors during his time at Oundle School where he was taught by the inspirational educator, Johnny Lee. He had adventures in Wales and Scotland, the Alps and the Andes. Later he climbed the Old Man of Hoy, various mid-grade Alpine peaks; and the sunny week we once spent in Snowdonia climbing Welsh rock classics remains one of my best mountain memories.

Described by his friend (and fellow Aularian) Jeremy Ibbotson as “steadfast, good humoured, always welcoming and kind-hearted”, he will be remembered for his ever-infectious smile and insightful quips.

Keith died on 1 March 2016, aged 61. The family scattered his ashes at Teddy Hall on 26 May. Cressida Auckland ANDREW JAMES SENIOR (1975) Andrew Senior died on 17 February 2016 within a few weeks of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

Andrew read Engineering at SEH between 1975 and 1978. I first met him on OU Mountaineering Club weekend trips. He was usually the driver of the minivan, or his own incredibly unreliable Mark 1 Land Rover, ‘Crusher’, thus combining in a weekend two of his passions, climbing and the driving and upkeep of motor vehicles.

After Oxford, Andrew joined Coopers and Lybrand. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked for Barclays and then Rabobank where he became head of tax, building his department from scratch. He became an expert in such complexities as the taxation of foreign exchange differences and debt instruments.

On long journeys he would sometimes entertain me with a description of the problems of determining, say, tax liabilities on inter-jurisdictional derivative swaps. I was lost within seconds, but Andrew was in his element. I think what appealed to him about tax was its certainty and rules — he liked things to be fair; and it played to his huge strength of problem solving — he could take anything apart, from a compressor to a complex financial instrument, see how it worked and reassemble it, working better than before.

Andrew and I climbed and skied together for the last 20 years. He was a fantastic partner on our trips together, enthusiastic and capable, good fun and tolerant. I always felt very safe in difficult situations with him, as he was calm in a crisis and such a good technician one felt that nothing was going to go wrong.

He was a man of huge enthusiasms and boundless energy for them. Most involved machines or equipment and speed: windsurfing, karting and Caterhams, off-road motor biking (broken ankle), ski-touring and fast downhill skiing (broken neck, but not too badly), motor boats, lawn mowers, power tools and, incongruously, sun-bathing at his house on the beach in southern Spain. I loved being driven

by Andrew — always very quick, but always in complete control. One evening we were lost following a day’s climbing in Catalunya and were careering down a mountain road, with Andrew at the wheel of a suffering hire-car. I said to him “Does Jane let you drive this fast?” He replied “That’s not fast. Now this is fast…” .

In 2013 Andrew left Rabobank, planning, I think, to drift into an active retirement.

He was soon sought out by Sumitomo Banking Corporation to head their European Tax Department and was clearly really enjoying a late career flourish.

This was sadly cut short by the illness which he faced with realism and bravery.

He is greatly missed by all who knew him, especially, of course, by his beloved wife Jane and his children Philip and Vivien, of whom he was immensely proud.

Nigel Richardson (1977, English)

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Drawing of the Magnolia grandiflora formerly growing in the Front Quad, by Professor Ewan Anderson (1959, Geography).

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