St Hugh’s College Oxford Magazine 2014

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A message from the Principal 1 I do hope you enjoy this wonderful edition of the St Hugh’s Magazine. Our feature this year focuses on access and outreach, and FEATURE gives an insight into what the College does today to reach out to potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and to support Access and outreach at St Hugh’s 2 current students who may require financial support to complete their studies. We also have all the usual Senior Member news, a fantastic Access and outreach at Oxford 4 guide to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from a Senior Member who lives Supporting student achievement 6 there and lots of news from College. On page 22, I have provided a progress update on our fundraising capital campaign to construct our new building. I am delighted to SENIOR MEMBER NEWS report that we are now at 95% of our target, with several prestigious Remarks 8 spaces still available to name. Thank you to all the Senior Members who have supported this and other appeals from College over the Across the generations 12 last 12 months. The impact of your financial support has been significant and it is an essential part of our financial sustainability. News 16 We are truly grateful. As many of you will now know, after eight years at St Hugh’s, this Travel guide 18 will be my last edition of the magazine as Director of Development, as I have taken up a new role at the University of Exeter. The College DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS has appointed Caroline Kukura as Acting Director of Development until a new Director is officially recruited this summer. Aung San Suu Kyi Summer School 20 Since the news was announced, I have been moved by the large number of messages of congratulations and good luck. It has been an An update on the new building 22 enormous privilege and a genuine pleasure for me to do this job for as long as I have. Through meeting so many of you over the years, I Hong Kong 24 have learned a little bit about you, and about your time at St Hugh’s and how this College affected your lives. Whether it be by giving Donors’ Dinner 25 you intellectual confidence, a wonderful network of friends, a career, or a life partner, your time at St Hugh’s was invariably significant, COLLEGE NEWS occasionally difficult and often transformative. I am leaving with rich memories from my time here, and there Dr Senia Pašeta 26 are many personal highlights for me – too many to mention – but they include: attending and meeting many of you at Gaudies New appointments 28 throughout the years; the 125th Anniversary Celebrations in 2011; Event dates for your diary Back cover the Washington DC weekend of events in 2007 (which attracted one third of our US-based Senior Members); and the University of Oxford European Reunion in Paris, where the sun was shining and we had a large group of St Hugh’s Senior Members present to enjoy a spectacular weekend of events. Other personal highlights include, being part of the process of raising funds for a college which remains a very worthy cause, and witnessing first-hand the impact of your support. Regular participation in our fundraising programme tripled during my time at St Hugh’s and several major projects were completed as a result of your support, including the transformation of Mordan Hall, raising funds to appoint several Career Development Fellowships, and leading the campaign for the new building – it has been a privilege indeed. I am pleased to say that the warm welcome that so many of you showed me from the time when I first arrived did not dissipate over the years and the Cover photograph support you have shown and continue to show your College (in a Student helpers involved in access and outreach activities at St Hugh’s. plethora of different ways) has been continuously inspiring. You (L-R): William Golightly (History, 2011), outgoing have made my time here really wonderful and so I would like to take JCR Access Officer, Kalm Paul-Christian (History, 2013), this opportunity to say thank you once more. a Moritz-Heyman Scholar, and Matthew Shaw (Modern Languages, 2013). Kate Foley, Director of Development (January 2006 – March 2014) © Sally Amberton www.nearlybutnotquite.co.uk

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Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini dbe qc A special community

When I joined St Hugh’s in September 2012 I spoke about our College as a welcoming and inclusive place where academic excellence is celebrated, nurtured and allowed to flourish. This College starts here, in this collection of beautiful buildings and gardens, and spreads far and wide as our students graduate to interesting careers and lives across the world. It is wonderful that so many of you continue to help keep this community as vibrant as it is by keeping in touch, returning for events and helping to inspire a new generation of Senior Members.

As a welcoming and inclusive college, St Hugh’s is doing all it can to encourage and inspire potential students from all backgrounds. I am sure you will enjoy hearing more about this from our Admissions and Outreach Officer, and others, in this edition of the magazine. As part of our efforts to continue to uphold our values of increasing access to those marginalised from university education, we regularly welcome school pupils to St Hugh’s. Helping to increase understanding of all that an Oxford education entails, and hopefully challenging outdated preconceptions about this wonderful University is a crucial part of our outreach programme. Irrespective of background, an Dame Elish visiting BBC Radio 4 to attend a recording as the Oxford interview is probably one of the most challenging castaway on Desert Island Discs. To hear Dame Elish’s interview visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 experiences. School visits and open days help to demystify the admissions process, encourage applications, and by launching a summer school named after its Patron, communicate the academic and social heart of study at which offered six Burmese children a fortnight’s summer Oxford. school at St Hugh’s. I also recently gave a talk to students at Flint High School, a community school in North Only this month we welcomed a group of bright and Wales, encouraging the children to believe in themselves brilliant pupils from King Solomon Academy in London. and to seize the wonderful opportunity that comes with There is a special connection with the College as their education and hard work. Head Teacher, Max Haimendorf (Biological Sciences, 1998), is a St Hugh’s alumnus and a graduate of Teach Possibilities speak so much about the future and there First: an organisation committed to recruiting and training will be much to celebrate for St Hugh’s. The Dickson bright graduates as teachers. We are continuing to develop Poon University of Oxford China Centre building will programmes and talks to widen access to Oxford, and be opened in September 2014. This is a building that our Fellows and tutors often visit schools and meet school has become possible with help from many of our Senior groups visiting the College. In 2012, we appointed our Members and Friends. We are so grateful to you for your first Admissions and Outreach Officer to support this support and I look forward to welcoming many of you work. As part of this effort I also travelled back to the there. Our former Director of Development, Kate Foley, east end of Glasgow with Dr Anne Mullen of St Anne’s was instrumental in leading this fundraising campaign and (who also grew up in Glasgow) to speak to schoolchildren while we will miss her at St Hugh’s we know that she has from five secondary schools there. Following the request a bright future ahead at the University of Exeter. We wish for help from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (PPE, 1964) when her well and know that she will return to visit us, as part she spoke at Encaenia in 2012, the College responded of this special community to which we all belong.

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Access and outreach at St Hugh’s St Hugh’s aims to admit the brightest students, regardless of their educational, social or ethnic background. To support this mission, the College undertakes a range of outreach activities to attract high calibre students from a variety of backgrounds. We asked Laura Murphy to tell us about her role as the College’s Admissions and Outreach Officer, and a typical day in the position. The post of Admissions and Outreach Officer at St Hugh’s was new when I joined the College in September 2012. It was created in order to give greater prominence to St Hugh’s outreach work and to enable the College to do more to encourage applications, particularly from students who may not otherwise consider Oxbridge. I came to the College from a degree in History at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), where I had been involved in University access projects such as the UNIQ Summer Schools and the Oxford Young Ambassadors Programme. I then briefly worked as the Outreach Officer at LMH before beginning the role at St Hugh’s. As I am sure many of you who work with young people are aware, no one day in a job like this looks the same as another and there are always new projects to get involved Laura Murphy, Admissions and Outreach Officer at St Hugh’s, and Dr James Castell from with and new people to meet. Hertford College providing information, advice and guidance to prospective students in Kent. Arriving in the office bright and early, bring a group to have a look around This morning’s visit is a slightly I check that I have no messages or her college. Another email is about unusual one, in that the group is urgent emails. Nothing has come in so exciting new ways to get postgraduate all under eleven. The College was it looks like the school due to visit us students involved in running academic approached by a Teach First School today has left on time and managed to activities for school students, providing in a deprived borough of London brave the motorway with no unusual subject taster sessions in fields ranging to see if we could run a morning for hold-ups. I check with the conference from Oriental Studies to Chemistry. their Year 6 pupils, many of whom office that all the refreshments (biscuits I forward this to our MCR president had never been outside the capital. are an essential for any visit!) are ready to entice our graduate students. There St Hugh’s has a strong connection to go and the rooms are all set up as is also one from a school in India with the Teach First Leadership they should be. I also make sure that asking about bringing a group over Development programme, and offers my trusty student helpers remember to our open day. The open days for bursaries to students embarking on the school visit is today, and that this Oxford are in June and September and the intensive teacher training scheme. fact has not been overshadowed by always see the city buzzing with eager This has the dual benefit of supporting an imminent essay crisis. Once I am applicants from the UK and overseas. our students who go into teaching, reassured I answer a few emails. One Our tutors love to meet prospective and also connecting the College with is from a Senior Member living in students, and it is a great opportunity schools who traditionally may not Oxford about getting more involved to get a personal tour of College. have sent applicants to Oxford. This with the College: she is considering I make a note to discuss this with particular group arrives over-awed and attending one of our alumni events the College’s Senior Tutor, Dr Lizzy excited. We have a great discussion for teachers* and would also like to Emerson. about what university is, who might

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often collaborate on different talks and ventures as we are generally both targeting the same calibre of students, the brightest and most academically interested. We work with a range of different types of school, both state and private, and today’s visit happens to be at a grammar school (Kent still operates an Eleven Plus system). We show a video of an interview, talk through the application process and answer lots of questions. It puts me in mind of my own undergraduate History interview at LMH, which seems a long time ago now. After dinner at the school, it is back to Oxford and the end of another busy day. This is just a snapshot of all the creative and fun activities and projects I get involved with in my role at St Hugh’s. Student helpers assisting on an Open Day at St Hugh’s. Each college has its own outreach officer and we share resources and ideas go there and what kinds of things individually and see what they make and work together on collaborative you might study. Archaeology and of the College. Afterwards the group schemes, as well as supporting Psychology are particularly popular, leaves to explore the city centre and University projects, like the residential having never been studied at school, its dreaming spires. On the way back programme for young carers which and in a very poignant moment one from lunch, I bump into a tutor who St Hugh’s is hosting this year. pupil shares his personal experience has spotted the group; he offers a talk of visiting a psychologist. The group on the Groom of the Stool at Henry *The Admissions and Outreach team have set then has a tour, and the pupils are VIII’s court, which he tells me always up a St Hugh’s Teacher Network to connect current students with Senior Members working convinced they are in ‘Harry Potter’, goes down well with 10-year-olds, and in the profession. If you would like to know before grilling our students about the I make a mental note to take him up more, please email: important things, including ‘Can you on this suggestion next time we have a [email protected] go home at weekends?’ and ‘What is group from a primary school visiting. the food like?’. The student helpers I grab quickly an array of pencils, are fantastic. They really are some of cotton bags, leaflets and prospectuses the best advocates for St Hugh’s and and carry them out to the car. I always bring huge amounts of energy programme the Satnav, pray the M25 and enthusiasm. In the few moments to is clear and set out for Kent. St Hugh’s spare before lunch our student helpers has been linked through the University’s give a crash course in croquet, which outreach regionalisation scheme with causes great amusement. I later hear the Kent region, and it is the focus one of the children saying, ‘When I for much of our contact with schools, come here I really want Michael [the although we also work with Senior croquet captain] to be my friend’. Members and schools linked to the Lunch is, as always, a great chance to College in various other ways. I am chat to the teachers, although I have running an interview workshop for long since learned to avoid Michael Year 12 students, and a more general Gove as a conversation topic. The admissions presentation for those teachers encourage their students to in Years 10 and 11 for a cluster of try new things and the lamb tagine potential applicants from Kent schools,

and couscous is a hit. Lunch is also a with my Cambridge counterpart, Primary School © Our Lady’s great chance to chat to the students Maria from Queens’ College. We A primary school visit to St Hugh’s.

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Access and outreach at Oxford The effort to support and attract candidates to study at Oxford is a collaborative venture involving the entire collegiate University, with colleges, departments and faculties, the Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach team (UAO) and Oxford University Student Union all contributing time, energy and expertise. Mike Nicholson, Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach at Oxford, explains outreach activities taking place across the University. Broadly speaking the outreach work falls into three areas: Widening access to Oxford: Encouraging and supporting applicants from groups that are under-represented in the Oxford student body. In particular, the University is focusing efforts on engaging with students from backgrounds with high levels of socio-economic disadvantage, and where there is limited prior history of participation in higher education. Supporting teachers and guidance advisers: Teachers are gatekeepers, and will frequently be a key influence

on a student’s progression to © Cheney School study at university. In addition to Dr Nicholas Perkins, Tutorial Fellow in English at St Hugh’s, with local school pupils. providing information and support The best way to illustrate the range present in a pilot phase, results from to teachers across the UK, the and diversity of activity carried out is the first two cohorts of applicants University works with our own to give some examples of some of the show real promise, with almost 50% of graduates who are training to innovative work that the collegiate participating students receiving an offer enter the teaching profession. University is engaged in: from either University, and the other participating students taking places at Widening participation in Target Oxbridge higher education: other highly competitive universities, Particular minorities are under- helping to widen access for under- Encouraging students to consider represented at both Oxford and in represented groups of students. higher education requires support other highly selective universities. and sustained contact over many Oxford has, for the last two years, Teach First years, and the University engages worked with Rare Recruitment, a One of the UK’s largest educational in a range of activities to build London-based firm that specialises in charities and employers of UK confidence and raise aspiration identifying and supporting black and graduates, Teach First collaborates amongst students from an early minority ethnic (BME) candidates to with Oxford in a number of areas. age. Particularly in the local area, apply for high-flying careers. Rare has In addition to contributing expertise Oxford runs a variety of initiatives established an educational charity, to provide briefings and activities for with other higher education Target Oxbridge, that uses a mixture Teach First’s Higher Education Access providers and educational of mentoring and contextualised and Programme for Schools (HEAPS), charities to make students and targeted application information to which supports students in Sixth Forms their parents aware of the value identify and support BME students in from schools with limited experience of further study beyond the age of making applications to Oxford and or success in getting students to enter sixteen. Cambridge. Whilst the scheme is at competitive universities and courses,

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the outreach teams at the museums and collections, are very successful in building confidence and raising aspiration, providing students with challenges that allow them to realise their potential for future study. All three of these examples have a St Hugh’s link and demonstrate how there is scope for linking outreach to the Senior Member community to diversify and develop the Oxford student body. The Target Oxbridge scheme was initiated by Rare’s founder and Managing Director, Raphael Mokades (History, 1997), a previous St Hugh’s JCR President. In addition, one of the initial Target Oxbridge

© King Solomon Academy cohort secured a place at St Hugh’s in Students from King Solomon Academy on a tour of Oxford, organised by St Hugh’s. the last academic year. St Hugh’s was the UAO also runs a briefing session for King Solomon Academy, the first Oxford college to provide Oxford students who are applying for Teach First bursaries to support its Redbridge, London undergraduates who were accepted the Teach First teaching programme. for training by Teach First. The Head Oxford has been the largest source of King Solomon Academy is sponsored Teacher of the King Solomon Academy, successful Teach First teachers over the by the ARK Educational Trust. In Max Haimendorf, studied Biological charity’s eleven years of operation, and March 2013, for the second year in Sciences at St Hugh’s (1998), before participants will a row, they brought joining the Teach First programme, work in some 50 Year 9 students Encouraging students and is the first Teach First teacher to of the most to St Hugh’s for a [from under-represented] become a Head. challenging higher education schools in the groups to consider higher residential taster UK, so it is education requires support course. In addition to important that and sustained contact the activity schedule of our graduates over many years, and lectures, departmental have an the University engages tours, sports and understanding museum trips, as of both the in a range of activities to well as reflection and national build confidence and raise target-setting sessions, and Oxford aspirations… from the pupils put on admissions a young age. a concert to which process, as representatives of the well as an awareness of how they can wider University were best support their students in making invited. The academy requires all of successful and competitive applications their students to learn an orchestral to university. Supporting our own instrument, as a way of taking students students who are entering the teaching outside their comfort zone, developing profession, those doing either Teach resilience, and encouraging teamwork, First or the PGCE course offered by all qualities that are desirable for the University’s Education Department, future study and progression. The ensures that we have over two hundred students then put on a number of potential advocates for the University public performances. These residential © Our Lady’s Primary School. © Our Lady’s entering the teaching profession each activities, hosted by a college, and Pupil from Our Lady’s Primary School playing year. involving Oxford tutors, students and croquet on a visit to St Hugh’s.

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Supporting student achievement The Access and Outreach programme is highly important to the College and the involvement of the academic community and current students through the JCR Committee is vital for attracting students from a variety of backgrounds to apply to the College or the wider University. In this section, we hear from a lecturer involved in outreach activities, a JCR Committee member whose role it is to actively encourage quality applications to St Hugh’s, and a student who tells us how an Oxford education was made possible for him thanks to the University’s scholarship programme for students from low-income backgrounds. The tutor view Dr Malcolm Stewart, Organic Chemistry Lecturer at St Hugh’s, explains his involvement in Chemistry workshops and master-classes aimed at helping school pupils develop confidence in practical laboratory skills. Dr Stewart’s success has led to him being appointed the UK Higher Education representative on the Committee for Schools and Colleges at the Royal Society of Chemistry, helping to shape Chemistry outreach © Dr Malcolm Stewart programmes in the UK. Pupils making indigo and then using it to dye T-shirts at a Chemistry Workshop. excited to work alongside St Hugh’s the annual Chemistry Christmas As well as being the Organic Chemistry College to run an overnight residential Science Lecture at the Natural College Lecturer at St Hugh’s, my role programme for around 40 Lower- History Museum, along with within the Chemistry Department Sixth students from state schools and Dr Fabrice Birembaut. I also present is to manage the organic Chemistry colleges. demonstration lectures at student and teaching labs. Through my interactions public engagement events throughout with students across the University, My initial vision centred on improving the year. I identified recurrent problems with students’ practical skills, but it was their practical lab skills, many of which also important to introduce an As a result of my extensive involvement were a consequence of the lack of element of fun in all the activities, in outreach, I was approached in 2012 practical teaching at school. To help helping to counter misconceptions to become the UK Higher Education rectify this, I initiated an outreach and stereotypes, and to showcase representative on the Royal Society programme of workshops, focusing the University’s strongest assets. In of Chemistry (RSC) Committee for on getting A-level students into labs in addition, to spark the enthusiasm of Schools and Colleges, and have held order to increase their confidence in students and adults alike, I deliver this position since. This committee working with standard apparatus in feeds ideas and policies into the an informal, personable environment. Education Council of the RSC, focusing This aimed to raise aspirations and in particular on the importance of to generate enthusiasm for practical Chemistry outreach and how Chemistry chemistry. should be taught in schools, and helping the RSC to make informed The programme has now been running strategic decisions. successfully for over 10 years and has developed to include sessions for both I hope this goes some way to students and teachers from a range of illustrating some of the passion and schools, including enjoyable practical excitement there is within Chemistry, workshops for younger students, full- and the wider University when it day events and collaborative events © Dr Malcolm Stewart comes to outreach and access. More Dr Stewart performing a liquid nitrogen with other disciplines and colleges. This demonstration at the Annual Chemistry information is available on our website: autumn, the Chemistry Department is Christmas Science Lecture. http://outreach.chem.ox.ac.uk/.

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The JCR view The student view The University of Oxford offers a number of scholarships, fee reductions and bursary packages to encourage the brightest students from low- income backgrounds to apply to the University. One such scholarship available to UK/EU students is thanks to a generous donation by Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Ms Harriet Heyman. The University’s Moritz-Heyman scholarship programme provides assistance with living costs and a reduction in fees. David Vigoureux (Archaeology & Anthropology, © UOImages: PSUnlimited William Golightly (History, 2011), Outgoing JCR Access Officer with Sophie 2012), a Moritz-Heyman scholar, tells us about Ridley (Archaelogy and Anthropology, 2011). his journey to St Hugh’s and the benefits of the We spoke to William Golightly undergraduates, who are a credit scholarship. (History, 2011), the outgoing to the College and its ethos. Being able to study in a beautiful, inspiring Access Officer for the JCR, to I have also visited schools in my college, at undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest find out what his role involved. own locality in the Midlands institutions, I am fully aware of the privileged As Access Officer in the JCR and have encouraged other position I find myself in. Committee, it has been partly undergraduates to do the same. my responsibility to encourage Undergraduates are a huge asset What I am eternally grateful for is the help of high-quality applicants to apply to the Access scheme; being strangers and of groups who appreciate my to St Hugh’s. To do this, I work blessed with the whiff of a position, wanting me to enjoy my time in Oxford closely with the College when social life, as well as the must of and achieve the best of my potential. As a Moritz- we receive visits from schools. libraries and laboratories, they Heyman scholar, the financial aid provided by the I organise a panel of current cumulatively convey the breadth scheme has allowed me to undertake additional fieldwork placements related to my course, and to students to discuss with the and desirability of an Oxford fund internships that may shape my future career. pupils, at an appropriately experience as well as an Oxford Generally, however, the removal of day-to-day pitched level, the application education. financial constraints, which may have limited my process and what life is like Many challenges, of course, choices at University, is crucial. While removing at Oxford. We also give tours still face access to Oxford. A my personal financial barrier, I feel the scheme of the beautiful grounds and slim majority of students who also challenges all forms of society to take action, buildings. come to the University are state whether this be the University, alumni or the Perhaps the most useful thing school educated, yet there is still general public. Such a commitment is beginning to undergraduates do is to dispel a disproportion between state make people rethink University support for every the myths and false pre- and public schools in terms of member, including students such as myself. conceptions that school students outcomes. Thinking about my application to St Hugh’s now, may have about studying at The College, especially Dr Lizzy I know that I was quite unsure whether I would Oxford, especially those from Emerson, Senior Tutor, and ‘fit in’, or even ‘get in’ to the University, for that state schools or whose parents Laura Murphy, Access and matter. Along the way, I was lucky enough to did not attend university. It has Outreach Officer, does a have been supported by current students and always been gratifying to see the fantastic job in attracting schools staff, who were not only informative about what pleasure and confidence with to visit St Hugh’s and visiting an Oxford education was like and the range of which undergraduates relay schools themselves. However, people that undertake it, but helped me to realise anecdotes, dismiss fears, and teachers and parents are just as that I could indeed pass an interview, receive an generally encourage those who important in outreach, because offer and obtain my grades. My first contact with would otherwise feel socially they have the influence to dismiss the University was through Target Schools, an or intellectually unqualified to the damaging pre-conceptions of outreach scheme which allowed me to shadow a apply. You have only to attend Oxford, and to push the positive student for the day. In later visits, such as open these visits to see the genuine aspirations which continue to fill days, I saw the friendliness and atmosphere of the College and its grounds and I knew what decision receptiveness of the visiting this College with such excellent I would be making during the application process. pupils to the warmth of our and diverse undergraduates.

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the outlying villages, most of which still to Seoul, I thought that I might just Riding solo did not have access to clean water. survive what was to come. This story really starts the January From the cargo terminal at Inchon Philip James (Chemistry, 1995) before, however. I was at home in airport in South Korea, the expedition writes about the challenges he Cornwall with my parents, and my would require me to cross South Korea, faced while following his dream father was spending most of his Siberia, Mongolia, traverse the ‘Stans, of riding around the world on a time poring over his 1970s BMW cross the Caspian and Black Seas and motorbike, and his involvement motorbike. It is a beautiful machine, then through Europe. Other than seas in the relief effort after the one of the classic twin cylinder and oceans, this would be a complete airheads. And the bodywork is just lap of the world – 40,000 kilometers, typhoon hit the Philippines in pristine. I had always wanted to travel solo. November 2013. by motorbike, so I asked my father, Europe was still half the world away. The whine of the engines rose to a “Hey Dad, I am thinking about riding First, I needed to cross Siberia – the roar and the C130 began to bump its around the world one day, can I take world’s largest region, in the world’s way down the runway. This was not a yours for a test spin?”. Ever the realist, largest country. It is not the Amazon commercial flight, there had been no my father laughed and said I should that we need to save the most. It is safety video and few of the typical rules probably focus on passing my test first. the Taiga forest of Siberia. This forest were in force. Some people had entire I did pass my test, and three months covers about one fifth of the world’s cases of water as carry-on luggage, after, on my new BMW adventure landmass, and the trees there provide while others were still using their bike, I left my home in New York, half the planet’s oxygen. Spanning mobile phones. Filled with relief goods, and, fully laden with all I would 10,000 kilometres, I was about to ride there was not much room to sit and need for the coming months, spent a all the way through it. Ostensibly there many of us stood, holding on to cargo month crisscrossing the US. Highways, is a road that winds its way through nets that hung from the bulkhead. byways, hill and dale – I threw myself, the Taiga, from Vladivostok, on the It was 24 November 2013 – two weeks and my bike, into the worst conditions shores of the Sea of Japan, all the way after Typhoon Haiyan tore through the I could find knowing that this was my to Moscow and beyond. ‘Road’ is a Philippines, devastating coastal towns one chance to learn how to handle the generous term, as this winding track and leaving over 6,000 people dead. I machine, and myself, in relative safety. sees so little traffic that portions are was headed to Tacloban with the team Highways are simple, but off-road was being reclaimed continuously by the from Wine to Water, a disaster relief where I needed the skill. Each day I forest. There are stretches, hundreds of charity, and with us were thousands of pushed myself onto steeper and rockier kilometers long, with no civilization. water filters that we were bringing to terrain. Little by little I became less Just trees. And insects. The insects. Doc Hendley, founder of Wine to Water, terrible, and so by the time I arrived Background: Early morning in the foothills of demonstrating a water filter, Tacloban, in Vancouver, ready to ship my bike the Rockies, Wyoming. Philippines. © Philip James © Philip James

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I would have to stop and clean my visor When I got the call from Wine to several times a day, as the layer of bugs Water, it took me just a few seconds would be so thick it would seem as if to decide. The motorcycle trip was night had fallen. Thousands of midges, supposed to be cathartic for me. I had mosquitoes, flies and other buzzing spent the last 10 years building two things would constantly hurl themselves successful wine businesses, and by at me, forcing me to wear my helmet chance was free of both at the same even when off the bike. time. There was another purpose as well. Water. I have supported water as Siberia is massive. Thousands of a charity for years, both through my kilometres would tick by, a week would

© Philip James businesses and personally. Although pass, and then another, and on the map Nomad helping jury-rig the clutch, Gobi I failed to make it quite all the way it would look like I had hardly moved. Desert, Mongolia. around the world, travelling to I would go 10 days without finding flicker on and off randomly. I had left Tacloban with the Wine to Water a human being who could speak a part of my exhaust back in Mongolia, team, helping these villagers get back word of English, and when I did meet and my clutch had worn smooth in the on their feet, and seeing firsthand the someone local I would try to make Gobi. I came undone in Kazakhstan, good work that the money I raised was myself understood by drawing in the in a fall which required two surgeries, doing, felt like an even more perfect dust with a stick. the first, an emergency one out there, end to this lifelong dream of mine. the second, back here in New York, The terrain ultimately took its toll Philip James is back in New York, having on the bike. After 30,000 kilometres to fix the first. I was unable to lift my launched his next wine company, CustomVine. of some of the worst conditions right arm over my head, let alone lift He expects to travel back to Kazakhstan this imaginable, the steering was wonky, my my bike, and it looked like my trip had summer, pick up his bike and ride it the rest of wheels were bent, and the engine would ended there. the way home. Creating a buzz across social media Luke Lewis (English, 1998) is the UK Editor of news and entertainment website BuzzFeed. Digital media is BuzzFeed has been around since 2006, one of our gigs in the Mordan Hall, my life, so it is but we only launched in the UK in I can only apologise. My first proper strange to think March 2013. Thankfully, it has been job was on a guitar magazine, and that when I was a hit. The Sunday Times described us from there I progressed to a series of at St Hugh’s as ‘masters of the social web’, since music magazines – Kerrang!, Q, NME (1998–2002) the the vast majority of our traffic comes – before realising that print journalism internet was not from social media. We specialise in was not exactly the most future- really something creating articles that people want proof profession. I therefore made a we used on to share, especially on Facebook. break for the more promising world a day-to-day Again, it is curious to consider that of digital media, and I am extremely basis. I seem to a behemoth like Facebook – in fact, relieved I did.

© Luke Lewis remember that social media as a whole – did not exist I have not been back to St Hugh’s there were only three computers in the when I was a student. If you wanted since graduating, but I hope to rectify library, and a few more in the Rachel to meet people online and share ideas, that soon. I’m sure it would trigger a Trickett building, but barely any of us all you had were chatrooms, which torrent of delightful memories – and a had PCs in our rooms and those that were uniformly terrible and mostly few not-so-pleasant ones, too: I’m not did could barely do more than check populated by middle-aged men. emails on them, since broadband sure I ever want to relive one of my did not exist. One chap a few doors I studied English, and do not countless Red Bull-fueled all-nighters down from me on the MGA corridor remember leaving University with any in the library. I understand Peter managed to download a film once…it great desire to go into journalism. I McDonald is still tutor in English. took him all term! Meanwhile, I wrote was, however, obsessed with music – Twelve years on, he’s still the smartest all my essays in fountain pen. I have I was in a dreadful band throughout man I’ve ever met. I’m just sorry I’ve never felt as old as I just did writing my time at St Hugh’s, and if there’s forgotten everything he taught me. that sentence. anyone reading this who witnessed I blame the internet for that.

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Learning to have it all Karis McLarty (Law, 1998) writes how St Hugh’s and Oxford shaped her desires for variety in life. I remember mathematician not be a good actor, or I am now Director of Group Legal my time at a lawyer write poetry? and Regulatory Compliance at TUI St Hugh’s Travel PLC, one of the world’s largest I am now a compliance lawyer and so fondly. travel conglomerates and a FTSE 100 business strategist, singer (for a folk

© Karis McLarty I arrived company. We have 320 operating band), writer, civil rights activist and sensitive, proud and rightly terrified of companies and 55,000 employees and occasional media commentator. It is the significance of the next few years. cover 180 jurisdictions. all proudly listed on my CV. These The intensive training that followed various cloaks keep me agile, inspired, When St Hugh’s kindly asked me to shaped my responses to my desires, write this, I knew I could not write found me life-long friends and set my and enriched. Oxford’s unapologetic profusion of opportunities prevented about my career and not mention future career in motion. I am grateful gender. There are not many women to the St Hugh’s financial hardship fund me from being cowed by the stifling stereotyping I faced later in my careers. appointed as FTSE 100 Directors for helping when things got tough. under 35 years old. It has not always I doubt I would be able to afford the It was studying Jurisprudence that been easy. There are many ways fees and living costs to attend now. It cemented a love of Equity and the to undermine a woman subtly in took me five years to pay off my debts Rule of Law. My first jobs in the City a meeting room. But I left Oxford as they were, even matriculating in could not have been more different trained to be an equal, ready to seize 1998. from law as theory. Jobs which actually opportunities and unwilling to accept People mention an Oxbridge sense reflected the any glass ceilings. of entitlement. Ideally, we all should responsibility I left Oxford trained to That meant I have that gift of entitlement. Oxford of protecting frequently butted my encouraged us to believe that we were the vulnerable, be an equal, ready to head on them, as I all ‘entitled’ to explore, expand and or using seize opportunities and was not expecting develop. There persists a rather British, any skills, them to be there. I am Calvinist perception of those who acuity and unwilling to accept any so grateful for that pursue multiple disciplines (who seek legal training glass ceilings training at Oxford, to ‘have it all’, if they are female) as to propose because it gave me contemptible, as ‘Jacks of all Trades’, solutions, to the gumption and the inauthentic or mediocre. In my advise and to serve, were uncommon doggedness to keep going. hometown that sneering was rife, but and oversubscribed, and demanded 13 years after I left St Hugh’s, I am still despite social anxiety I always craved prior experience. So I worked 24-7 in constantly terrified because I am faced variety – to think outside more than City law firms to pay college debts and daily with decisions I have never made one box. So long as we did not sleep worked pro bono for human rights before – challenges whether they be on much, at university we could hare off organisations (including the Medical stage, on screen or in the boardroom. to act in a play, sing in a band, play Foundation for Victims of Torture, But that terror was something my dangerous sports or watch the mist Holloway Women’s Prison, Unltd, the education helped me to embrace, and rise on Port Meadow. Why should a Legal Circle, and Liberty). even to enjoy. © Jen Stedman

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that comes with meritocracy and materialistic consumption. A political scientist might tell you that, as we now live in a stable society with enough food to eat and a guaranteed roof over our heads, we have climbed up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and become post-materialist. And a technologist might agree with all the others, but point out that the shift away Are you stuffocating? from materialism is simply because we can: why have a car when you can use Stuffocation is changing the answer to the most important Zipcar? Why fill your bag with books question you will ever ask, says James Wallman (Classics, 1992). when you can take a Kindle? Probably the most But then something I think each of these reasons is partly important question you will happened. Or, rather, responsible and that none of them is a ever ask yourself is this: lots of things did. And minor blip that will be here this year, how should you, and the then, not only did gone the next. They are all observable, rest of society, live in order materialism not look so observed, long-term trends – like to be happy? shiny anymore, but all insistent storm waves, if you like, that those things added up As you are reading this, will come crashing, again and again, to what I think is the though, chances are, you against our mainstream, materialistic defining problem of our are asking something a culture. That is why the problem generation, a problem I lot less philosophical, of Stuffocation will be the defining

© James Wallman call Stuffocation. something like: what are problem of the 21st century. the people I knew at St Hugh’s up to Stuffocation is about how we have What does all of this mean for you? now? enough and we have had enough of Most important of all, I think it means stuff. There are millions, I believe, Fair enough. I doubt you read the that the answer to that fundamental feeling this way today. After more St Hugh’s Magazine for advice on how human question, the question I than a decade of research, a team of you, or anyone else, should live. But first came across when I studied the anthropologists, ethnographers, and stay with me for a moment, because, in Nicomachean Ethics at St Hugh’s – psychologists at the Los Angeles-based the course of researching and writing how should you live in order to be Center on Everyday Lives of Families my new book, I have come across some happy? – has changed. (CELF) concluded that we are living insights you might find useful. in ‘the most materially rich society in In the 20th century, as we progressed There was a time, of course, when global history, with light-years more from scarcity to abundance, the answer people looked for happiness, as well as possessions than any preceding society’, was materialism. Then, people looked status and meaning, in material goods. that we are at a point of ‘material for happiness, status and meaning in That time was called the 20th century, saturation’, that we are coping with material things. Now, in this time of when the magic of mass production ‘extraordinary clutter’, and that we are abundance, overconsumption and too and mass media combined to create facing a ‘clutter crisis’. much stuff, the answer is what I call a materialistic value system and mass ‘experientialism’. Now, because of all consumption. And the system, in the Why is Stuffocation happening? the reasons causing Stuffocation, you main, worked. It hauled billions out of And why now? are far more likely to find happiness, poverty. It provided them, and us, with If you ask a different expert, you status and meaning in experiences central heating, indoor toilets, colour will get a different emphasis. An instead. Is that where you are looking TVs, Barbies, BMXs, Louboutin shoes, environmentalist will tell you it is for happiness? Is that where the people and a myriad of other consumer knick- because we are worried about landfill, you knew at St Hugh’s are too? knacks. It took society from scarcity carbon footprint and climate change. A ‘Stuffocation’ (2014) by James Wallman is – the condition of 99% of humans psychologist might say that all this stuff published by Crux Publishing and available since the dawn of time – to abundance. is giving us affluenza. A philosopher from Amazon. You can download a free Lucky us. might tell you it is the status anxiety chapter from www.stuffocation.org.

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“St Hugh might very well be the patron saint of our family, with five of us spread over three generations studying at his feet, and if it were not for him, several of us would not be here upon this earth.” Susan Scott (Geography, 1964) writes about her family’s experiences at St Hugh’s. My mother, Nora Scott (Shaw), a scholar Charles Hignett who lived geographer, was the first in the family across the landing. When my father to arrive at St Hugh’s College, introduced Nora as his fiancée, the old matriculating in 1934. The daughter of boy looked up and blurted out, “Good impoverished missionaries, she had God, a woman!” trouble scraping together the fees until, An excellent athlete, Nora was proud © Susan Scott grasping at a last straw, she sat for an to earn a cricket blue. In the winter Susan Scott (Geography, 1964) exam set by a London livery company. she played in goal for the University The ensuing scholarship made to my explanation that I had applied hockey team and toured Germany St Hugh’s and Oxford financially for purely academic reasons, that with the team in 1937. Apparently it feasible. St Hugh’s had an excellent reputation was a bellicose series of matches. The for Geography. But eventually that worst was in Hamburg where they telegram came offering me a place and I were pitted against a Hitler Youth snaffled it up. team stuffed with older ringers. She was proud to say Oxford won. “It was To my chagrin, my brother David, who like going to war a little early”, she is 18 months younger than I, went up remembered. to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, at the same time with a scholarship to Jackie Scott (Pool, Classics), my soon- boot. Eventually our younger brother to-be sister-in-law, and I went up to St Mark also went to Corpus to read © The Scott Family Hugh’s in 1964. The previous winter, Modern Languages. W. M. F. (Gerald) Scott and Nora Scott (Shaw, Geography, 1934) in the late 1950s. when we had our interviews, was bitterly cold. I have two memories. The After I arrived in Oxford, it was Nora made a lot of friends, including first was shivering on trains around drawn to my attention that there was Katherine Buxton (Hargreaves, the country selling myself at various a scholarship fund for the children of Classics, 1934) and my godmother impoverished clergymen, particularly universities, and the second was being Ingeborg Hickinbotham (Manger, if they had a link with the West Riding grilled by the Dean of St Hugh’s and Modern Languages, 1933). They were of Yorkshire, where I had attended Geography Tutor, M. M. Sweeting, a a tight-knit group and many of their boarding school for three years. world authority on karst landscapes. activities centred on evangelical student I promptly applied and was awarded organisations. “We’re not like the men’s colleges”, one, although I never bothered with a she greeted me. “We won’t take you scholar’s gown. The friends often went on cycling and just because your mother was here and reading holidays in North Wales, where Jackie, who read Classics, was read Geography too”. It was a terrible one of them owned a primitive cottage. attracted to St Hugh’s because of the start and she did not seem to listen Nora’s bike, which looked as though don, Dorothea Gray, whose particular it was assembled from old towel rails, subject was Homeric archaeology, was christened Atlas because she was which Jackie did as her special subject. somewhat stout in those days. In her social life Jackie was the belle Nora liked to tell the story of an of the ball, in fact many balls. We both encounter just after she was engaged lived in 82 Woodstock Road, where we to our father, W. M. F. (Gerald) Scott, were well looked after by Mrs Atkins, the who was a senior tutor and chaplain at housekeeper, and Phyllis, the scout. Phyllis Hertford College. Gerald had invited lived in Woodstock and the only day off © Jackie Scott her to tea in his rooms. As she was (L-R) Sarah Mudd (Scott) and her son, Kai, I ever recall her taking was to watch Sir leaving, they met the venerable classical David Scott and Jackie Scott (Pool). Winston Churchill’s funeral cortege.

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I went off to Canada, so their courtship W. M. F. (Gerald) Scott Nora Scott (Shaw) (Geography, 1934) was conducted without the beady eye of big sis. They were married in June 1972 and have three children: Susan Scott David Scott Jackie Scott (Pool) Mark Scott (Geography, 1964) (Corpus Christi College) (Classics, 1964) (Corpus Christi College) Elizabeth, who did a BA and then a master’s in History at Oxford Brookes University; Michael another geographer Elizabeth Scott William Mudd Sarah Mudd (Scott) Michael Scott at St Edmund Hall; and, in the middle, (Oxford Brookes) (Geography, 1997) (Classics, 1997) (St Edmund Hall) Sarah, who read Classics at St Hugh’s I thrived vicariously on Jackie’s without the prospect of a re-match. To (1997). escapades. Once, she and her friend, this day no one is sure if they obtained Not only did Sarah work and play Paul, decided to go bowling after one a blue or not. at the College, she met her future of the balls where they had danced Jackie and I both ran for office in the husband, William Mudd (Geography, the night away. Paul was convinced JCR elections and both of us were 1997) there – by that time, the College that there was an alley open 24 hours elected. To my surprise, I was named was accepting men as well as women. at London Airport, so off they drove President. During my term, I got They both chose St Hugh’s because it in his sporty red car. They never did to know and admire the Principal, was one of the few colleges in 1997, find the bowling lanes, so they had the year they matriculated, that gave breakfast at the airport and returned Kathleen Kenyon. A renowned deferred entries. Sarah spent her gap well after sunrise, Jackie still in her ball archaeologist who had worked in gown. the Middle East, notably Jericho, she year exploring ancient South American always took a very commonsensical civilisations, while Will travelled in We were invariably late coming in approach to life and to college matters. South Africa and Australia. at night. When we first went up, the curfew was 10pm, but with your For many years, if we had a male “I knew about the family connections, tutor’s permission you could sign out visitor we had to sign him in. My but I do not think that was the only until later. This often meant a grilling, highest motivator to although Miss Sweeting tended to be achievement apply”, Sarah very liberal. Her mantra was ‘the worst was getting says, also sin is to get caught’. Rather than climb those sign-in citing the large the fence, we discovered it was easier books scrapped gardens and the to bribe the night porter to turn a blind and visiting tennis courts. eye to our transgressions. Bottles of hours extended During her sherry were the currency of exchange. to midnight. four years, she became captain Like my mother, Jackie was an athlete, However, of the College her sports being lacrosse and tennis. this did not © Sarah Mudd © Sarah Mudd tennis team She was captain of the lacrosse team. take care of William Mudd Sarah Mudd (Geography, 1997) (Scott, Classics, 1997) and set up the “In those days it was against the rules the dilemma to throw the ball at anyone’s head”, of what male friends illicitly staying Classics Society, “which was really a says Jackie. One of the Cambridge team overnight should do in the event of a good excuse to have dinners!” inevitably hurled the ball at her head. fire alarm. Should they pile out onto Nora, who died in 1995, now has The umpire promptly called a foul and the lawn in a borrowed nightie trying six great grandchildren, all with a Oxford subsequently won. In fact, to pass themselves off as a member of connection to Oxford. The oldest is Oxford beat Cambridge all four years our student body, or should they stay only primary school age, but as Sarah Jackie was up, and the whole team, put and risk incineration? looks at her two-year-old son, Kai, she bar one, was chosen to play for the Towards the end of my time in Oxford, muses, “Perhaps he will be the fourth combined English universities team. David arrived in my room. He was generation at St Hugh’s”. The day of the Cambridge tennis desperate. He had been stood up and match, Oxford made the tedious cross- had two tickets for a big event. Did I Let us know if you have a similar family country journey in the pouring rain. know anyone who he could ask at the relationship with St Hugh’s and would like When they arrived, it was still raining last minute? “You could try Jackie”, to feature in a future edition of the College and, in the end, the event was cancelled I said. Magazine.

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“Stop conferring, Pelling!” Jeremy Paxman’s exasperated tone rang out across the University Challenge studio. In defence of the rather stern Mr Paxman, Rowan Pelling had been warned, more than once. Undeterred, she giggled with team captain Suzy Klein. It was almost as if she was enjoying it! These were the tense moments watching our team of Senior Members take on the University of Stirling as part of the University Challenge Christmas special. We had sent the team a College scarf each and we were very proud to see them displayed across the iconic TV set. The intrepid individuals who volunteered to represent St Hugh’s were © ITV Studios Limited Dame Liz Forgan (Modern Languages, Our team of Senior Members with Jeremy Paxman. 1963), Suzy Klein (Music, 1993), Alex This University Challenge is a serious comfortably win the challenge. Hibbert (Biological Sciences, 2004) business! Congratulations to them all! and Rowan Pelling (English, 1987). An impressive team but, as Rowan Suzy Klein grabbed the first starter We did feel a little guilty, as the recently wrote in The Telegraph, a team for ten with ‘selfie’: 2013’s word of University of Stirling recently awarded who were a little concerned they might the year. A great start for the team our Principal, The Rt Hon Dame Elish not make it into positive points. The captain, but it was not all about self, Angiolini, an honorary doctorate. green room rumours spoke of ‘another and the excellent teamwork from Alex, However, when it comes to University team’s buzzer practice’, all rather tense. Liz, Rowan and Suzy saw St Hugh’s Challenge it is game-on! Opening St Hugh’s doors As Senior Members of St Hugh’s you’ll be more than familiar with what a special place our College is, but for many of our neighbours, even those close by, we remain something of a mystery. ‘My favourite college garden’. ‘Lovely that St Hugh’s opened its doors. Fascinating to see inside and excellent guided tour’. ‘Wonderful to see behind the doors. Excellent directions and notes’. ‘Deceptively extensive from how you imagine it when viewed outside. Fascinating’. ‘Spacious, lovely gardens, friendly Principal and most welcoming stewards’.

14 WWW.ST-HUGHS.OX.AC.UK St Hugh’s College Magazine SENIOR MEMBER NEWS The Association of Senior Members (ASM) The ASM is made up of everyone who has matriculated at St Hugh’s or studied here for a postgraduate degree or diploma. It works alongside the Development Office to promote continuing contact between the College and its alumni. Its Regional Network organises events around the country to bring alumni together. in the University were a key part of What is the value of a university education? their undergraduate experience. Dame The Association of Senior Members Liz Forgan compared humanities organised this colloquium on graduates to stem cells, capable of 19 October 2013, chaired by Dame infinite development. Dame Helen Elish Angiolini, to discuss the value Ghosh appreciated the ‘groundedness’ of a university education. Most of of former women’s colleges but was today’s St Hugh’s undergraduates will concerned that female academics leave College with debts of £45,000. at Oxford still fail to get adequate The sum will double if they continue recognition. Sarah Kellett talked of to postgraduate study. How is this the need for career planning, even as

affecting access and students’ choice of © Gianetta Corley undergraduates. Jane Ridley suggested subjects? Is humanities teaching under Members of the panel. (L-R) The Rt Hon that the introduction of student loans Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC, Dame Helen has saved private universities, though threat? How will poorer colleges fare? Ghosh and Dame Liz Forgan. only the best of them would survive. Stephen Goss, University Pro Vice Emerson, Senior Tutor, said there were Chancellor, explained what Oxford A lively panel debate stimulated by a concerns about how much fees could was doing to diversify its funding wide range of comments from the floor rise if access was to be maintained. It base and offer support for poorer concluded the day’s discussions in the was agreed that funding difficulties students. Dr Tom Kuhn, Tutorial best tradition of ASM events. threatened ‘minority’ subjects and that Fellow in German, argued that the access to postgraduate education was new funding arrangements risked an area of particular anxiety. The Association of damaging perceptions of the value Senior Members AGM of a university education. Professor Four distinguished Senior Members John Morris, Emeritus Fellow in from varied backgrounds, Dame Liz All Senior Members are cordially Medicine, wanted medical training to Forgan (Modern Languages, 1963), invited to our Annual General remain holistic, rather than narrowly Dame Helen Ghosh (Modern History, Meeting at 3pm on Saturday specialised. Reassuringly, Professor Roy 1973), Sarah Kellett (Modern History, 28 June during the Senior Members’ Westbrook, Deputy Dean of the Saïd 1972) and Professor Jane Ridley Garden Party. The Committee will Business School and Tutorial Fellow at (Modern History, 1971) then reflected propose at the meeting that the St Hugh’s, saw the humanities playing on their time at St Hugh’s. All saw a ASM’s name be changed to ‘The an integral part in business studies. university education as an investment Professor Gillian Gehring, Emeritus for life and recognised that their time St Hugh’s Alumni Association’, Fellow in Physics, thought that while at Oxford, largely funded by the tax- to emphasise that all St Hugh’s Oxford might weather the changes, payer, had been a privilege as well Senior Members are members. other universities would not. Dr Lizzy as a right. Extra-curricular activities Celebrating alumna Emily Wilding Davison Complementing last year’s magazine feature which celebrated the life of alumna Emily Wilding Davison and the suffragettes, the College held a feminism debate and tea party in October 2013. Panellists Laura Bates, Caroline Criado‑Perez, Ceri Goddard, Bonnie Greer OBE, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Sara Khan joined the Principal, the Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC, to debate ‘Have we justified the faith of our suffragette sisters?’ The event drew together an audience of alumni, students, Fellows, staff, school pupils and members of the

© David McFarlane public to celebrate Emily’s life.

Event attendee. © David McFarlane A-Level students from Chipping Norton School, Oxfordshire.

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1959 1971 1983 Professor Cora Diamond, PPE Professor Lyn Thomas, Modern Languages Miss Tatjana Byrne, Engineering Science Cora writes: ‘An essay of mine on Wittgenstein Lyn is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural In October 2013, Tatjana completed a PhD in and Elizabeth Anscombe (Classics, 1937) Studies at London Metropolitan University, Organisation Studies at Birkbeck, University of appeared in ‘The Oxford Handbook of the and currently has a part-time Professorship at London on: History of Analytic Philosophy’ (OUP Oxford, the University of Sussex, School of Media, Film ‘Critical Discourses of Cultural Policy and 2013) and Music. Artistic Practice: A Comparative Study of the James Conant, Professor of Humanities at the Lyn writes: ‘I continue to work on the French Contemporary Dance Fields in the UK and University of Chicago, and I co-taught the writer Annie Ernaux and am writing a memoir: Germany’ Wittgenstein Summer School in Kirchberg, ‘Clothes Pegs’, which I hope to complete and Tatjana writes: ‘In my next professional role, Austria, in August. publish in 2014. The Oxford chapters – ‘The I hope to draw on the intellectual rigour and I presented a paper on Wittgenstein and Purple Coat’, ‘Kaftans’ and ‘Tweed’ were insight I gained during eight years of research Anscombe at the Wittgenstein Conference in the most enjoyable to write! There is also a to design more effective organisations in Kirchberg and at a Wittgenstein Workshop at piece on my year abroad – ‘Sailor Trousers in the wake of technological, economic and the University of Chicago in November 2013’ Marseille’.’ regulatory upheavals.’

1962 Mrs Gill Smith (Wood), Geography 1985 Mrs Suzanne (Sue) Rudalevige (Harris), Gill writes: “Still working with Inntravel, and Mrs Maggie Steel (Dowling), Theology had a fantastic week walking the Auvergne Modern Languages holiday in early June.” Sue continues to facilitate weekend workshops Maggie writes: ‘I have recently taken up the in the Maine State prisons for Alternatives to 1981 exciting new role of Features Editor at Violence Project, an international programme www.totally4women.com. This innovative new to empower healthy emotional development Dr Annabelle Lever, Modern History online space for ‘women not born yesterday,’ and choice-making. Annabelle writes: ‘2013 was meant to be will be of particular interest to senior members my ‘quiet’ year…wishful thinking! But to who are interested in the authentic voices of Sue writes: ‘I have recently became the women. We do not embellish or adulterate volunteer coordinator of a legal clinic that compensate, I took up qi-gong and started horseback riding again…sheer bliss! stories to sell copy! We publish what you is part of the United Methodist Church’s write. We encourage women to speak up and national Justice For Our Neighbours (JFON) My boys, Gabriel (12) and Francis (11), are out on the issues that matter to them. We help programme, which provides services for thriving and now speak French fluently, and new writers, poets and artists by publishing immigrants. Portland, Maine is the only JFON eagerly correct my mistakes. This does nothing their work. We want to offer a new approach clinic focused entirely on Central African for my confidence, when I have to lecture to representing women in the media. Male or asylum-seekers. in French at the University of Geneva. My female, please support us by joining up. It’s Being retired certainly doesn’t mean being students are remarkably forgiving of what, free!’ inactive!’ frequently, must be unintelligible confusions. Once, I managed to confuse ‘attentats’ 1987 1964 (attacks) in a talk I was giving, with ‘attentes’ (expectations), which was the word I wanted! Mr Jason Hollands, Modern History Dr Vicki Harris (Cohen), I’ve also been busy writing, and last summer I Jason writes: ‘After a decade working in Psychology & Philosophy was asked to contribute to a little symposium the asset management industry, I re-joined Vicki writes: ‘I am retired from full-time work on surveillance in the Philosophers’ Magazine. Bestinvest, the wealth management group in 2012 as Managing Director. We are now in the and now divide my time between sitting on In summer 2014, I will be part of the first process of a Management Buyout backed by regulatory panels (I chair Fitness to Practise British conference on the Philosophy of Race the Permira funds. panels at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal at the University of London. This overlaps Service); hiking and skiing with renewed interest in social epistemology, We have also swapped the City life for in Klosters, where we have perhaps it will be the start of a regular event.’ the country, with a move to the village of a home; visiting our son Horsmonden in the Weald of Kent, where we Ollie Harris (Modern 1982 are busy renovating a Tudor house.’ History, 2000) and his Mrs Tracy McLachlan (Brown), Mathematics family in Israel, where he Mr Robert Forrester, Geography practises law; and enjoying Tracy writes: ‘I had an our nine grandchildren.’ exciting change of In October 2013, at the 18th annual AIM awards dinner in London, Robert picked up Photograph of me hiking career in 2013 when my husband Roger and the Entrepreneur of the Year award, sponsored in Israel with our son Ollie by PwC, for his Gateshead-based Vertu Motors and his family. I bought the former lighthouse-keeper’s company. 1966 accommodation at 1989 Rua Reidh Lighthouse on the north-west coast Ms Dorothy Livingston, Law of Scotland. We run the lighthouse as guest Miss Amanda Loveday, Modern Languages In November 2013, Dorothy Livingston accommodation and a self-catering apartment. Amanda is currently living in the province of received one of the UK’s most prestigious Since our arrival we have been bowled over Huesca, south of the Pyrenees in Spain. She awards for individual lawyers: the City by the wildlife; we have seen orcas, basking teaches English freelance. of London Law Society’s (CLLS) Lifetime sharks, whales, dolphins, sea eagles, otters and Amanda writes: ‘I have started organising Achievement Award. thousands of sea birds from the lighthouse. ‘immersion’ homestays for my students in the Dorothy joined Herbert Smith Freehills We love our new careers as modern-day UK. If you are interested in hosting students for Law Firm in 1970 and was promoted to the ‘lighthouse keepers’!’ one week at a time, please let me know. All are partnership in 1980, becoming Herbert Smith’s www.stayatalighthouse.co.uk well-behaved! second-ever female partner. Best wishes to 1989 and 1990 students!’

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Professor Mark Brown, Zoology 1997 2002 In the summer of 2013, Mark was promoted to Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Mrs Kira King, Law a Personal Chair at Royal Holloway University Modern Languages of London, where he is now Professor of Kira is to marry Dr Karl Norrington Evolutionary Ecology & Conservation. Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann (Modern (Brasenose, 2004) on 29 August 2014 at Languages, 1997) and Qinjie (Jay) Yang Brasenose College Chapel. 1982 (Economics, 1998) are celebrating 7 years of Bridesmaids include Olayemi Lanipekun marriage and 15 years since meeting each other (née Akingbade, Engineering & Computing, Mr Charles Goddard, Classics at Lee House, St Hugh’s College in 1998. 2002) and Hayley Vigil (née Nicholls, Modern In 2013, Charles became a founding partner of They live in Adelaide, Australia, where Ghil’ad Languages, 2002). a new boutique tax law firm, Rosetta Tax LLP, is the Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Mr James Hadley, Modern History in London. Languages. 2013 was a year of firsts for James Dr David Manlove, They have 3 sons: Giulio Hadley. In May, his wife gave Mathematics & Computation Xíngtiãn Yehuda birth to their first daughter David is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Zuckermann (7), Giovanni (Emma) and in October, James Science at the University of Glasgow. Lahav Zhirán Zuckermann published his first book, (4) and Gianluca Gadi ‘Happiness: A New Perspective’ He recently published his book, ‘Algorithmics Yuèyáng Zuckermann (1) of Matching Under Preferences’ (World (Glenmore Publications, 2013). Scientific, 2013) He is thrilled by both, but one has affected his sleep much more than the other! 1999 1994 Ms Laurence Van Wymeersch, Law Mr Simon Fletcher, Mathematics Mr Jason Lever, Comparative Social Policy Laurence is proud to announce Simon writes: ‘Simon Fletcher and Kate Jason writes: ‘2013 has been a very full yet the birth of Henrik Freyr on Fletcher are proud to announce the arrival of fulfilling year on many fronts. Major work March 14, 2013, a brother for a baby brother for James and Matthew. Our milestones were launching the Mayor of Felix Alexander. third son, Thomas Andrew Fletcher, was born London’s ‘London Schools Gold Club’ and Laurence met her husband, on 18 July 2013.’ organising Boris Johnson’s inaugural education Ólafur Jóhannes Einarsson conference for 300 head teachers. (St John’s, 2002) at Oxford while studying for 1996 I have enjoyed volunteering as an independent the MJur. visitor for young adults who are living away Dr Evangelia Sembou, Politics from home in the fantastic St John’s School and 2004 Evangelia has recently published her book, College in Brighton. I have been supporting ‘Modern Theories of Politics’ (Oxford: Peter those with severe learning disabilities and Mrs Kate Walmsley (Flanagan), Economics Lang, 2013) and has edited an anthology behavioural difficulties. Kate Flanagan married entitled, ‘Political Theory: The State of the I have become the Marriage Secretary (the Leon Walmsley at Discipline’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, civil registrar role) at my synagogue and a St Mary Magdalene 2013). lay reader deputising for the Rabbi in taking Church in Clitheroe on Mr Jack Newall, Mathematics Sabbath and High Holyday services. the 13 July 2013. Jack Newall and his wife Samantha are A final highlight was becoming a godparent to Among the 16 bridesmaids were Alexandra pleased to announce the birth of Charles on George, son of Katie and Steve Morris-Stych Hill (Mathematics and Philosophy, 2008), 26 November 2013, a brother for Johnny and (Geography, 1995)’ Emma Dodd (PPE, 2007), Katherine Nolan Matilda. (PPE, 2007) and Julia Sorensen (PPE, 2007). 2001 Miss Maya Mehta, Law 2005 Maya writes: ‘In 2013, over 150 alumni Dr Olga Borymchuk, Modern History Ms Rachel Piercy, English from the University of Oxford and Harvard Sophia Dominika Victoria University came together to exchange ideas as Pfrang was born on 2 March Rachel recently edited the to how we can use business as a force for social 2012 to Olga Borymchuk and ‘Anthology of Motherhood’ change. An exciting new community was born: Christian Pfrang. She is the (The Emma Press, 2014). the Harvard-Oxford Alumni Social Business younger sister to Alexander Leo The Anthology of Motherhood Group. Christian Pfrang, born in 2009. is a nuanced selection of poems Given the powerful range of platforms, which consider motherhood expertise and industry leaders that many of from a variety of perspectives, us have access to, we hope that in our coming exploring the darker shades of parenthood as together new seeds will be planted and a new Mrs Lindsay Williams (Robinson) well as celebrating the more positive aspects of bridge will be formed between the professional Oriental Studies the experience. world and the community, as well as between Fraser Timothy Williams was the alumni of our two institutions, Oxford and born on 31 January 2013 to 2009 Harvard. Thomas Williams and Lindsay Mrs Rosie Chambers (Wells), English If any readers are interested in finding out more Williams.’ they can email Maya at mayamehta@hotmail. Rosie married Dan Chambers com’ on 1 September 2013 at St Hugh’s College.

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Rio de Janeiro The St Hugh’s Senior Member community spans the length and breadth of the globe. As Rio de Janeiro gets set for global limelight this year with the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and as the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, we asked Luiz Costa (Archaeology & Anthropology, 1995) to give us a local perspective on the city.

then back, missing out on the sites Street in Central Rio. Rio having long been the prototype around the bucolic neighbourhood of of an ‘exotic city’ in the imagination Urca, home to the old (and now closed) of many Europeans, most visitors casino, prominent in the 1930s and will head straight for its most famous 1940s, situated just over Urca beach. landmarks: the Corcovado and the A stroll around the neighbourhood, Christ the Redeemer Statue, the particularly along the promenade, Sugar Loaf, the beaches of Ipanema offers great views of the Bay of and Copacabana and, of course, Guanabara. Overlooking the bay is the the legendary, and newly revamped, traditional Bar da Urca, a restaurant/ Maracanã Stadium. There is much bar that is very popular with locals, more to the city, however, much of it particularly at sunset when it offers just around the corner from some of stunning views. Botanical Gardens in Rio. the main sites. Here are some visits that most Cariocas (as the natives of Rio are Just under the Sugar Loaf there is also known) would recommend. the Pista Cláudio Coutinho, a footpath that straddles the Atlantic Ocean. Very Urca and its surroundings popular with joggers, it is also a great The Sugar Loaf is the larger of two hills (and easily accessed) place to see some in the Urca district of Rio. It can be local wildlife (including birds and accessed by the cable car, which travels macaques). Visitors should be warned, up the Urca Hill and then to the Sugar however, that the path is a dead end, Loaf. But many tourists take a taxi and so however far you decide to walk, straight to the access point and you’ll have to walk back later. Parque Lage Palace with Corcovado in the distance.

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Botanical Gardens, Parque Lage pleasant places to watch the sunset. and the Lagoa Helicopter rides over the city can be The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Gardens, arranged from the heliport, right beside established by John VI of Portugal in the lagoon. 1808, when Brazil was still a colony, Santa Teresa and Central Rio is one of the jewels of the city. More Santa Teresa is a residential than a research institute, it is also used neighbourhood that sits on top of a for recreation. It has a playground hill, one side of which is close to central for young children, the remains of an Rio and the other to the Corcovado. old gunpowder factory that stood on It is renowned for its many beautiful the site, and longer hiking trails that houses, dating from the 19th and lead into the Tijuca National Park, a early 20th centuries, and its winding large conservation unit in the middle streets. Originally a ‘noble district’, of the city, famous for its waterfalls home to affluent Cariocas, Santa Teresa Municipal Theatre of Rio. and gorgeous views. The National has gradually became a bohemian in the 1960s. Particularly notable are its Park can also be accessed from the neighbourhood as wealthier residents many churches, convents, monasteries neighbourhood of Alto da Boa Vista, moved to Copacabana, Ipanema and and palaces, including the 17th century and there are guided walks to the main Leblon. waterfalls and observatories. Paço Imperial (Imperial Palace), which The area of Santa Teresa around the was originally built for the viceroy of Outside the Botanical Gardens, some Largo dos Guimarães is lined with Brazil and later became the formal seat twenty minutes along the Jardim restaurants, bars and art galleries, and of the Brazilian Empire. The area of the Botânico Avenue in the direction of tends to get very full in the afternoon Centro known as Cinelândia contains the Corcovado, sits the Parque Lage. and throughout the night. At the very the National Library, a number of bars The walk can be a bit tiring, and I top of Santa Teresa, the Parque das and restaurants, and the Municipal recommend a stopover at Bibi Sucos, Ruínas contains the remains of the Theatre of Rio, modelled on the Paris one of Rio’s most famous fruit juice palace of an important patron of the Opera. bars. The Parque Lage is a large garden arts during the early twentieth century, Those who want to cap their visit with built around a palace dating from the and hosts a number of events, including samba music should head to Lapa, 1920s that now houses the Parque Lage jazz shows and theatre performances. Visual Arts School. The School often where a range of show houses offer hosts exhibitions from local artists. Santa Teresa’s eastern edge leads into some of the best in Brazilian music. Lapa, Rio’s main nightlife district, and Options include Rio Scenarium, a Across the Jardim Botânico Avenue, from there into the central business gorgeous restaurant/bar decorated there is the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, a district, known in Rio simply as with antiques, the Centro Cultural semi-saline lagoon that borders many of O Centro. The Centro offers a unique Carioca, just off the Praça Tiradentes, the neighbourhoods of the South Zone mix of buildings from all periods of the and Carioca da Gema, which tends to of the city. It is possible to walk around city’s past, having been the centre stage house the best musicians (and does an all seven kilometres of the lagoon, of much of Brazil’s history while Rio excellent caipirinha, a Brazilian cocktail which is lined with a number of bars was the Capital of the Empire and then made from Brazilian rum, cachaça, and restaurants that are particularly the Republic, before Brasília was built lime, ice and sugar).

Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas. © All images Luiz Costa

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Suu agreed to be the Patron of the programme, commenting: “It is my hope that this project will give Burmese pupils the confidence that their educational aspirations need not be limited, and will represent a first step in helping them achieve their academic ambitions.” The Summer School would not have been possible without the generous support of our Senior Members and Friends, whose gifts fully funded the 2013 programme. Our ‘sponsor a pupil’ campaign, led by a gift from Gianetta Corley (Modern Languages, 1958), was a great success, with each pupil paired with a donor whose generosity enabled them to attend the Summer School. We would also like The pupils visiting Blenheim Palace with Jane Blessley (Law, 1971) and Simon McDonagh to thank everyone who assisted the (Human Sciences, 2011). Development Office with the planning In September last year, St Hugh’s “I want to say, thanks you so much to of this project, especially Veronica organised and hosted the very first the college. Now I think my English Lowe (Modern History, 1969), who Aung San Suu Kyi Summer School is improve a lot and now I feel more provided the pupils with their visas. when six Burmese pupils, and their confident. Until now I haven’t change Last but not least, we are so grateful teacher, were resident at the College the Myanmar time in my watch yet. It to all the volunteers who gave their for two weeks of intensive English remind to me to think of the days that I time and expertise to the pupils by language lessons and educational been in Oxford and London. I so happy supervising their extra-curricular extra-curricular activities. The when I am in Oxford and London. And Summer School brought together also give me more knowledge about individuals from across the College everything. If Caroline, Simon and community, with Fellows, students, Emma didn’t help everything to us, we Senior Members and staff all giving couldn’t stand at that time. So I want to their time to the pupils to make their say thanks a lot for everything to them stay as memorable as possible. This and other volunteer also the Principal.” pilot programme was a great success, with everyone involved amazed to see Aung San Suu Kyi: Patron how the pupils’ standard of English of the Summer School and confidence improved. Since the The Aung San Suu Dame Elish learning how to cook Burmese Summer School, the pupils have been Kyi Summer School food with Hay Soe and Nwe Nwe. in touch to let us know how much pays tribute to one it improved their language skills and of St Hugh’s most changed their educational aspirations. distinguished Senior One of the students, Hay Soe, has Members, Aung since been accepted to study Business San Suu Kyi (PPE, Management at Webster University, an 1964). St Hugh’s is American University in Thailand. She extremely proud of Daw Suu’s courage shared this incredible achievement in an and determination in the fight for email to Celia Russell (Physics, 1980), democracy, and the Summer School was who was instrumental in the early initiated in order to honour her desire stages of organising the programme, The pupils learning about the history of the to improve standards of education Bodleian library from Richard Ovenden, the commenting: in her home country of Burma. Daw Bodleian’s Librarian and former St Hugh’s Fellow.

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Ros Russell, donor to the Aung San to Oxford in alternate years. As we Suu Kyi Summer School and friend of look to the future of this special College St Hugh’s College, commented: initiative, we hope that we can continue to count on your support, and we look “Hay Soe and Louise had a fantastic forward to sharing our plans with time at the summer school… you as they develop over the coming Both girls come from very simple months. backgrounds. They have been to a very poorly funded state school, and this was just an incredible experience for them. They felt that they mattered. I think the programme completely surpassed their expectations, and the little things too – like having their own room to share – were really important. I think the Pietro Obertelli and Andrew Ansell, English as experience will inspire them foreign language teachers provided for free by MM Oxford Study Services. to strive academically and professionally in the future.” Teachers, Pietro Obertell and Andrew Ansell, praised the students: St Hugh’s is currently exploring ways to expand this programme in the “What singles [the students] out for A letter from Su Su, one of the pupils, to St Hugh’s College. future, by involving other parts of the particular praise is their maturity. University and sending Oxford students Rarely do we find fifteen to sixteen activities, taking them on trips or to Burma to teach English. By adding year olds who are dedicated and leading lessons. We were so pleased to this exchange element, we plan to make enthusiastic at all times about learning see that the Summer School captured the Summer School at St Hugh’s a English as a foreign language… It has the imagination of so many members biennial event, with students travelling been a pleasure to teach these cheerful, of the College community in so many to Burma and Burmese pupils coming courteous and charming individuals.” different ways.

What do you think the pupils enjoyed Interview with the Aung San Suu Kyi most about the Summer School? Summer School’s Junior Dean Why did you volunteer for the Aung San Suu Kyi Summer School?

Why do you think members of the College community should volunteer for the Aung San Suu Kyi Summer School in the future? ‘I am proud that St Hugh’s was the pioneer of What did you enjoy most about this project’. Simon McDonagh, Junior Dean, volunteering at the Summer School? Aung San Suu Kyi Summer School.

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New Building Fundraising Campaign takes another huge leap forward! the study of China is a crucial part of understanding many of the key questions that face the world today, the Chancellor of the University, Lord Patten of Barnes, officially launched the University of Oxford China Centre in May 2008, providing a focal point for the study of China across the University. At the time, the Centre was made up of 45 world-class academics, who were working across a range of academic disciplines (all with a geographic focus on China) but without a dedicated building from which to work. St Hugh’s is fortunate to have a fourteen and a half acre site and already had plans to construct one final accommodation building to enable us © David Morley Architects Architect’s impresssion to provide more student lodgings. In addition, the College has strong links The campaign to raise £21 million to The building will remain an asset of construct a new building has made the College and will be a permanent to benefactors in Hong Kong, dating more great strides over the last few income-generating facility. One third back to the early 1980s through the months. At the time of going to print, of the building will be leased out to funding of the Ho, Leung, Ho and Lee we are delighted to report that we have the University of Oxford China Centre scholarship, which supported many of now raised just under £20 million, (or and a further third will be shared with our Senior Members who originally £19,926,449.93 including Gift Aid, to the China Centre, with one third being came to College from Hong Kong. be precise!) to support the construction exclusively for the use of the College. In 2008, it was agreed between the of this new building. This is nearly The University of Oxford China Centre College and the University that this 95% of our revised £21 million is the largest centre of its kind outside collaboration should go ahead and fundraising goal, meaning that this of North America and is recognised as that the College would construct a fundraising campaign is a global centre of larger building and lease a part of it already, by far, the most academic excellence. to the University of Oxford China successful that St Hugh’s This fundraising campaign The University of Centre, providing the China Centre has ever undertaken and is already, by far, the most Oxford has links with new facilities to support its one of the most successful successful that St Hugh’s with China which work. The global nature of the work across the University. date back to the which will be undertaken within the Building work is due has ever undertaken and 17th century, building has enabled the College to to be completed shortly one of the most successful welcoming its first fundraise from a broader, non-alumni and a series of opening across the University. Chinese visitor in audience, in addition to appealing for events will be scheduled 1684 and acquiring support from our Senior Members for Senior Members its first Chinese and Friends. This has resulted in the and friends from September 2014. manuscript through the Bodleian College securing a series of seven- Some prestigious spaces, like the main Library in 1604. The University and eight-figure gifts, which most Lecture Theatre, are still available to established its first professorship of recently included £3 million from name and our aim is to reach our target Chinese in 1875 and introduced a Mr Henry Chan and £1 million each this year. BA in Chinese in 1939. Realising that from the Verdant Foundation and the

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Wei Lun Foundation. The College October 2012 will be honouring Mr Chan’s gift by naming the building’s library in memory of his father: ‘The Bodleian April 2014 K B Chen Library’. These leadership level gifts, together with support from 196 Senior Members (who have each made a donation to support this project to date), have enabled this venture to go ahead. We are grateful for every donation that we have received and it has been extremely encouraging to see this, the building is on track to receive the level of warmth and support from a ‘very good’ BREEAM rating, from our Senior Members. the world’s foremost environmental The new building will be the final assessment agency. The building will building constructed on our site offer a large lecture theatre (Oxford’s and will enable us to house many only one dedicated to China-related Wordsworth Tea Room’, named after more of our graduates at College, debate), a new library (which will our Foundress, Elizabeth Wordsworth, alongside our undergraduates. house a large part of the Bodleian will offer students, staff and visitors a Environmentally-friendly design and Library’s Chinese collection of books), less formal, yet equally elegant, dining architectural features added with a 40-person language lab, a Chinese experience, while the architect-designed building sustainability in mind have courtyard, a green, eco-friendly roof bedrooms will provide a new standard been a major consideration all the way terrace overlooking the dreaming of accommodation to students in term through the building design process. spires of Oxford, a suite of offices time and to conference visitors and We are delighted that, as a result of and 63 new student bedrooms. ‘The Senior Members outside term time. Dr Dickson Poon receives Elizabeth Wordsworth Fellowship College proudly presents an Elizabeth Wordsworth Fellowship to Dr Dickson Poon CBE SBS in Hong Kong Rt Hon Dame Elish weekend. Honorary Fellow and Chair Angiolini DBE QC, of the China Centre Board, Mrs Jacky in recognition of his Lambert (PPE, 1978), and Dr Poon’s extremely generous family and friends, all attended the gift of £10 million ceremony. to the Dickson A gala dinner for University of Oxford Poon University alumni took place later that evening, of Oxford China with Dr Dickson Poon and his wife Centre building. The Pearl seated beside the Chancellor. Elizabeth Wordsworth Commenting on the Fellowship, © Eric Lee Fellowship is the (L-R) Professor Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University greatest form of Principal Dame Elish Angiolini said: of Oxford; Dr Dickson Poon CBE SBS, Elizabeth Wordsworth “Dickson Poon has a hugely successful Fellow; Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of recognition that the career in business and has chosen to Oxford; the Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC, Principal of College offers to its St Hugh’s; and Mrs Jacky Lambert, Honorary Fellow and Chair of share this success with others, helping major benefactors. the China Centre Board. to support and inspire. St Hugh’s will On Saturday 22 March, St Hugh’s The ceremony was held at the Four be forever grateful for his generosity College awarded a prestigious Elizabeth Seasons Hotel in the presence of which has helped to make the China Wordsworth Fellowship to Hong Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor Centre possible. In awarding him Kong businessman and philanthropist of the University of Oxford, and the this Fellowship we wish to show our Dickson Poon CBE SBS. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, heartfelt thanks and demonstrate Fellowship was presented to Dr Poon Professor Andrew Hamilton, during commitment to our continued by the Principal of St Hugh’s, the the University’s inaugural Asia Alumni friendship”.

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The College caught up with Arnold Wong (Law, 1993) at the St Hugh’s College dinner for Senior Members in Hong Kong in March, during the inaugural University of Oxford Asia Alumni Weekend. Arnold is the co-founder of a Hong Kong-based restaurant group, the Press Room Group, and took time out to share with us the culinary delights of Hong Kong from a local perspective. Hong Kong Tea Houses are steamed pork (G/F, 22 Wun Sha Street, Tai Hang), Let us start with a truly dumplings with a dash where you should try and grab an unique Hong Kong of soup inside. outdoor table for the full experience. For claypot rice, my absolute favourite offering – the tea house – Noodles or what locals call ‘Cha is Kwun Kee (243-245 Des Voeux We take our noodles Chaan Tengs’. I prefer Road West,Western District). Try their rather seriously here, going for breakfast, as the white eel, chicken with mushroom, or even though they food during those hours is minced beef with egg. Don’t forget to are generally cheap the most representative of order a couple of Chinese sausages as street food. Whenever the tea house culture. Try additional toppings. I come back to HK the Hong Kong style milk after an extended My Favourite Restaurants? tea: it is extremely strong © Arnold Wong period away, my For Chinese food, I love The Chairman and deep flavoured, and Arnold Wong biggest craving is (18 Kau U Fong, Central) for its food is supposed to be brewed always a bowl of beef philosophy as much inside a silk stocking! Lan Fong Yuen (2 brisket noodles. For as its delicious old- Gage Street, just off Lyndhurst Terrace some reason, it is one school fare. Most in Central) is apparently where it all dish that nowhere in the of their produce is started some 50 years ago. Try their world comes close to sourced locally. They milk tea and their famous pork chop reproducing. Arguably, also strictly forbid buns. the most talked-about the use of MSG or I normally go to Man Hing (G/F, 2 beef brisket joint is Kau other additives, which Cheong Ming Street, Happy Valley), Kee (21 Gough Street, Corn Fritters at Yardbird. can be a rare virtue where my staple breakfast is milk Central) with its rich and flavourful among Chinese restaurants. Their tea and ham and egg soup base and famous steamed crab in Chinese wine sandwich. decadently fatty with homemade flat rice noodles is beef. My preferred delicious. Perfect with a glass of crisp If you want to experience “Hong Kong is all about choice is Sister Wah dry Riesling. Heaven! The restaurant is a Hong Kong institution its food: the diversity, the (G/F, 13A, Electric always fully booked months in advance and do not mind queuing creativity, the smell and Road, Tin Hau) but I will share a secret with you: if you a little, venture to the which has a lighter walk in on any given night at 9pm, you Kowloon side and try the colours. It sums up broth. will most certainly get a table – their Australia Dairy Company the spirit of Hong Kong customers tend to eat rather early. (G/F, 47-49 Parkes Street, and what makes it such a Hotpots and Jordan). Many people special place” Claypots Finally, Yardbird (33 Bridges Street, think they have the best Two of Hong Central). The irresistible vibe and scrambled eggs in town. Kong’s more quirky energy blend together perfectly with its simple space and concept. Chef-owner Dim Sum and Dumplings food offerings are hotpots and claypot rice. Don’t get confused as they are Matt has taken yakitori to a new level. Maxim’s Palace (3/F, City Hall, 5-7 very different. While both are usually The emphasis here is on using the Edinburgh Place, Central) is how dim dinner offerings, hotpots are when you freshest chicken possible and eating sum should be served. It is large, noisy cook your own food by dipping it into every part of it, from neck, tail, skin and packed! Food is served using a boiling broth, whereas the other is and liver to heart. The restaurant’s no- dim sum trolleys. It is a bit touristy, rice cooked in claypots over a hot open reservations policy means you will most admittedly, but I always enjoy myself fire with a large range of toppings. likely have to wait for your table but there. Go at 11am to avoid the queues For hotpots, I love going to Megan their excellent cocktails and energetic and treat it as a brunch. Kitchen (5/F, Lucky Centre, 165-171 staff will keep you happy. Don’t miss My children’s favourite place is Ding Wan Chai Road, Wan Chai) where they their corn fritters! Tai Fung (Shop 3-9, G/F, 68 Yee Wo serve excellent sliced beef, seafood and Happy eating! Street, Causeway Bay). The restaurant some very tasty and creative broths. Arnold Wong’s restaurants include The Press originated from Taiwan and is For a less luxurious but more authentic Room, The Pawn, Classified and The Principal famed for its xiao long baos, which option, I sometimes go to Chiu Man (www.pressroomgroup.com).

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This year’s Donors’ Dinner was Dr Gianetta Corley (Modern to see the Dining Hall as animated as it held on 1 March 2014, and we were Languages, 1958) reminded our Senior usually is during the Gaudy weekend. delighted to see so many of our Senior Members about the long history of If the dinner continues to be such Members and Friends in our Dining collaboration between St Hugh’s and a success, perhaps next year the Hall. We invited our major donors and Hong Kong, going back to Rachel Development Office could find a legators to this special event. Major Trickett’s time. She vibrantly connected sponsor from one of our valued donors. donors include those who have made those times to our new China Centre Should you wish to become the sponsor gifts over £5,000 in total, and those building. Our Career Development of next year’s Donors’ Dinner, please who have made gifts over £1,000 in Fellow in Experimental Psychology, Dr contact caroline.kukura@st-hughs. the previous calendar year. It was Nadja Althaus, shared her fascinating ox.ac.uk. our largest dinner to date. 100 of our research about how babies acquire valued donors enjoyed a special menu, language; and Andrew Wilson (Physics, musical interludes, great conversation 2010) talked about his motivation for and speeches. giving back to the College very soon after graduation. The Principal spoke at the end of the dinner, thanking everyone for their generosity and encouraged all Senior Members to continue supporting the College. A special trio of St Hugh’s Fellows, Professor Josh Getzler (flute), Dr Nicholas Perkins (violin) and Dr James Martin (electric piano) played three pieces beautifully. The students of the St Hugh’s choir sang ‘Goodnight Sweetheart’ to round off the evening with a heartfelt farewell to our Director St Hugh’s Fellows playing music at the Donors’ of Development, Kate Foley. Thank you All images © Douglas Tenison-Collins (Biological Sciences, 2011) Dinner. to everyone who made their way from (L-R) Caroline Kukura, Acting Director of (L-R) Dr Nicholas Perkins (violin), Dr James Development, Mr Rafael Vieira Pereira, Mrs Martin (electric piano) and Professor Josh all over the country to join us for this Viviane Sevarolli da Silva (Management, 2010) Getzler (flute). tremendous occasion; it was wonderful and Mr Michael Wilson (Management, 2010) Questionnaire results Last year, the Development Office Comments on our communications We were really touched by some of asked our Senior Members for their were also positive, with 93% saying the positive comments we received thoughts and feedback on the Alumni that the College Magazine and from the questionnaire. A couple of Relations Programme at St Hugh’s. Chronicle were good or excellent. examples: We had an overwhelming response, Areas that we are improving include ‘I am delighted that the college keeps with more than 800 getting in touch the online shop experience and the alumni in touch with developments and telling us their views on areas such quarterly e-bulletin. Although 83% and gives us an opportunity to stay as Senior Member events, publications, would use the online shop again, involved with college, without making and e-communications. nearly 30% said that it was simply it feel as if it is just to get donations satisfactory or hard to use. We are Here are some of the highlights from from us’. upgrading our systems and we hope the survey: to see a new, easier-to-use, online shop ‘I think college has improved a lot Our events programme, both in the later this year. recently and am pleased that it appears UK and overseas, received a positive much more welcoming, friendly and Feedback for our quarterly e-bulletins response. 98% of Senior Members helpful now. It is a beautiful place and thought that our programme was was good, yet only 54% of I do find it inspiring and I’d like to quite good, very well organised and respondents said that they receive the make the most of it in the future’. interesting. e-bulletin. We would love to increase this number to let Senior Members Lastly, it remains for us to say a huge There is more demand for subject know about recent news and updates thank you to all those who responded specific and academic events, so we from the College. If you would to the survey. The information, have added events in fields such as like to receive the e-bulletin, please feedback and comments we receive Chemistry, Psycholinguistics and update your details by contacting us: from Senior Members are incredibly English. [email protected] valuable to us.

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Professor Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford, hails the publication of Dr Senia Pašeta’s major new history title; ‘Irish Nationalist Women 1900–1918’ as ‘a benchmark, both for the history of Irish women and for Irish history in general’. Professor Foster continues to explain that ‘it illuminates the period leading up to the Irish revolution like nothing else: thoughtful, nuanced, empathetic but never sentimental. The book uses an extraordinary range of archival sources to reconstruct personal lives as well as political organisations, weaving the theme of the campaign for women’s suffrage through the myriad of other causes which galvanised politically-minded women in early twentieth-century Ireland. A great subject has found the perfect historian to illuminate it.’ Kate Foley, former Director of in the development of a Development, asks Dr Senia Pašeta, new interest in the history Fellow and Tutor in History at St of St Hugh’s. It has been Hugh’s College, a few questions: a real pleasure to be involved in that. Dr Pašeta, first of all, congratulations on the publication of your new book – Your book demonstrates a clear link between a book that many are already saying women’s involvement with will become the standard work on the Irish nationalism and the subject. As an Irish woman myself, it is suffrage movement. Can a particular pleasure for me to be able you tell us a bit more about to ask you a few questions about your this? findings and the process of writing the This is at the heart of the book. Dr Pašeta, please tell us a bit book. I suspected that it about yourself and your background might be, but I was surprised before coming to St Hugh’s. to see quite how strongly Why did you choose to focus your I grew up in Australia and was the two movements were connected. research on this area? educated there until I spent time as If one thinks of them as two of the This book began as a study of Irish most important challenges to the a graduate student in Dublin, before women in politics generally about five constitution, certainly the most serious coming to Oxford. In Oxford, I was years ago. I hoped to cover unionism, since 1832, the way they interacted the Irish Government Senior Scholar labour politics, education campaigning at Hertford, before taking up a JRF at begins to look if not inevitable, then at least consistent. Irish nationalists and women’s suffrage, as well as Merton. and feminists borrowed language and nationalism and a number of other How long have you been at the College tactics from each other. This was most types of women’s political activity. and what do you enjoy most about clearly seen in the Proclamation of Having been presented with a very long draft chapter on nationalism, one of your role/the College? Independence of 1916, which explicitly and unambiguously enfranchised the readers at Cambridge University I have been at St Hugh’s since 2000 and Irish women and equalised the rights Press suggested, quite rightly, that what I have seen a lot of changes in that time. and obligations of all citizens, male I proposed to do would best be done In common with most academics, I and female. The fact that this was over two books. I then worked almost could easily live without administration a strikingly progressive document exclusively on the nationalism book, and there seems to be more and more was not lost on Irish feminists who before turning once more to the other of this. But I enjoy teaching and have understood it as a vindication of their types of politics I wanted to cover. They been pleased to see how much interest demands. Unfortunately, this did seem were of course, all related and this is in women’s history has grown over the to be lost on politicians and religious a theme that will be brought out more last few years. That has been reflected figures in the decades that followed. clearly in the next book.

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You have used lots of memoirs, difficult it could be for women to reminiscences, letters and diaries. access public space and how seriously What were the most moving/funny/ this restricted their ability to work, to inspiring things that your research campaign and even to walk the streets uncovered? comfortably. It is not easy to choose one, as many How long did the research/ writing and of the women I studied were brilliant editing process take? writers and acerbic critics. There I have been working on this off and on was one woman, however, Elizabeth for about six years. I was lucky enough Somers, known as Eilis Lasairfhiona in radical Irish circles, whose daring stood to have a period of two full years for out. She and her mother were charged, research and writing, made possible under the Defence of the Realm Act, by the Leverhulme Trust. Most of the with distributing seditious literature research was done in the first year but through the post office in which they I have continued to go backwards and both worked. She made such a forwards between Oxford and Dublin compelling case to the Irish Under- since then. The longest part of the Secretary, Matthew Nathan, about the process was dissecting a very long draft. hardship that dismissal would bring to What was the most challenging thing her family, that he attempted to secure about this process for you? employment for her. Given how deeply Probably in common with a lot of she was involved in the republican working parents and academics, getting movement and how clearly the case had the time to work on it and organising been made to Nathan, it is difficult not periods away from Oxford. There is to admire her bravado. never enough time! © Agnieszka Badger Photography Did the writings of any particular Dr Senia Pašeta Presumably, you set out with a strong women really stand out for you and, if Has your research opened new so, why? awareness of what your research was going to cover and what issues your questions for you? What next? Many did, but I was especially moved analysis of this period in Irish history I am now putting the finishing touches by some of the quieter activists whose was going to raise, but were there any to the next book on Irish women and work was done in the shadow of some surprising findings that your research politics. After that, I want to finish an of the more spectacular campaigns and uncovered? If so, what were they? has not perhaps had the recognition article I have been working on about it deserved as a result. Sarah ‘Celia’ I was very clear from the outset that I the Irish Question in suffrage politics. Harrison was one of the most energetic was going to cover a broad swathe of This will involve revisiting Dangerfield’s women I encountered. A talented artist, nationalist activity which ranged from thesis and suggesting that he was more she was also the first woman member republicanism to constitutionalism. correct than he knew, but perhaps not The latter has been largely ignored of the Dublin Corporation. She was in the way he thought. I’m looking by historians because it was eclipsed involved in everything, but I suspect forward to it! that of all her campaigns the one to over the 1912–22 period, but I was surprised to find how centrally have decent lavatories for women Dr Senia Pašeta is a Fellow and Tutor women were involved in the decline of established around Dublin and within in History at St Hugh’s College. Her constitutionalism. This was particularly the Corporation Building probably had previous publications include ‘Before the largest impact on women’s lives. To true in 1918 when Sinn Fein virtually the Revolution: Nationalism, Social secure these, she and other women had decimated the Irish Parliamentary Change and Ireland’s Catholic Elite, to overcome the resistance of a number Party at the general election. Historians 1879–1922’ (1999), ‘Modern Ireland: of business leaders who objected to have often wondered how and why A Very Short Introduction’ (2003) and ‘public facilities’ – where prostitutes Sinn Fein’s victory was quite so ‘Thomas Kettle’ (2008). Her new work, often worked – being established near comprehensive and my research ‘Irish Nationalist Women’ is now their shops. Looking at that campaign suggested that women, as voters and available to buy in all good bookstores made me think again about how campaigners, were crucial to this. and on Amazon.

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Dr Michael Subialka College News Powys Roberts Research Fellow St Hugh’s Fellow appointed as in European Literature Bodleian Librarian in the first decades of the 20th century. These changes coincide with the reception of ideas from German philosophers of the 19th century (like Schopenhauer) and the development of new artistic media (photography and film). That is the rich background for my inquiry into how writers like the Nobel prizewinner, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), relate to and transform both previous social models and the modernist production of their European contemporaries. © Bodleian Labraries, University of Oxford © Michael Subialka One of the main reasons that I was Mr Richard Ovenden, St Hugh’s Fellow, I joined St Hugh’s in October drawn to work on this project at has been appointed as Bodleian Librarian. 2013, coming from Turkey, St Hugh’s is the vibrant combination Richard has worked at the Bodleian since where I taught at Bilkent of intellectual and social community 2003 and has held the position of Interim University in Ankara. Prior to at the college. Even when I came Librarian since August 2013. He will assume his new role immediately. Previous that I taught at the University to visit for my interview, I could sense the friendly, welcoming, and posts were held at the House of Lords, of Chicago, where I received collegial atmosphere here. And I the National Library of Scotland and the my PhD from the Committee have certainly not been disappointed. University of Edinburgh. on Social Thought and from My colleagues working on Modern As head of the Bodleian Libraries, he will the Department of Romance Languages offer excellent intellectual take on the stewardship of combined Languages and Literatures. support and new perspectives; collections numbering more than 11 likewise, the College provides a million printed items, in addition to While my post is in European flourishing community of scholars, 50,000 e-journals and a vast quantity of literature, my focus is on Italian both young and seasoned, who live other materials. literature and its link to philosophy and work together. For me, this is and social thought. I want to an ideal place to think and work as St Hugh’s welcomes Financial refine our understanding of how I develop my ideas and begin my philosophical ideas relate to and academic career. Strategy students to the are modified by literary and artistic Of course, it does not hurt that we College community form. My research therefore explores also have lovely gardens to walk This January, the College admitted its questions about how a society through as I mull over those ideas second cohort of students reading for the develops and changes, and the role – or even just on my way to one of Diploma in Financial Strategy, a course that the artistic representation of the weekly formal dinners where run by the Saïd Business School. Diploma ideas plays in these transformations. good fun and good conversation so courses do not require their students to At present, I am examining wonderfully coincide. The tradition hold college membership, but St Hugh’s these issues in the context of the and beauty of Oxford are both agreed to offer Associate Membership in radical social and cultural changes present in St Hugh’s, but in a way response to a desire among these students happening between the unification that I find particularly approachable for involvement in the life of college of Italy in the 1860s and the and affirming. It is a pleasure to be communities. flourishing of Italian modernism here with you!

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A St Hugh’s favourite Rosemary Crème Brûlée Andrew Sheridan, Catering Manager at St Hugh’s, shares one of his favourite dishes for our summer menus. ‘Using herbs from the St Hugh’s herb garden (outside the library) and local free range eggs, we love creating this delicious and popular sweet’.

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16 breakout rooms, private dining rooms and small meeting spaces

Picture showing Dickson Poon China Centre Builindg Lecture Theatre A and B For more information please contact the For Senior Members, we are pleased to offer Conference and Events Team a discount of up to15%* for conference bookings. [email protected] 01865 274424 * 15% discount during term time or 10% discount during vacation periods Terms and Conditions apply Event dates for your diary

Wednesday 4 June – Academic Lecture Sunday 21 September – Jubilee Lunches Hamlet and Hunting A special reunion lunch for Senior Members who matriculated in Dr Rhodri Lewis, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English 1944, 1954 and 1964 Location: St Hugh’s College Location: St Hugh’s College Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Time: 12pm for 12.30pm Cost: £9.50 No cost Saturday 28 June – Garden Party with ASM AGM Saturday 4 October – Opening Event for Donors to the New Building A family-friendly garden party with children’s entertainment Location: St Hugh’s College Location: China Centre, St Hugh’s College Time: 2pm – 5pm Time: 5pm – 7.30pm No cost Date TBC – Law Society AGM and Dinner Friday 19 – Sunday 21 September – Oxford Alumni Weekend Location: TBC Saturday 20 September – Gaudy Time: TBC Evensong, drinks on terrace (weather permitting), and dinner in Thursday 13 November – Mok Lecture the Dining Hall. Priority will be given to those who matriculated in the following years, although everyone is welcome to attend: Location: St Hugh’s College up to and including 1953; Jubilee years: 1944,1954, 1964; plus Time: TBC 1967, 1968, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Sunday 30 November – Carol Service Time: 7pm for 7.30pm Carol Service in Mordan Hall followed by supper in the Dining Hall Cost: £45 Time: 6.15pm

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